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Originally Posted by honeybarbara
6) don't freak out when someone calls me on my shit. I need a partner who does this and can do in a way I can hear them.
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"can do in a way I can hear them" cannot be overstated! Constructive criticism and correction are always appreciated, but too often in my (officially and admittedly and notoriously f@cked up) past, these "opportunities for growth" have been appropriated by my partners as "opportunities for putting me in my place."
if you kindly suggest an alternative method of doing something in the future- that is wonderful...if you contemptuously sneer at my "fail," that is about your need to make me feel "less than"