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Let Them Be Disappointed for One Whole Minute
Someone can be briefly disappointed and still love you by dinner, because you are not required to perform emergency repairs on every feeling that passes through the room. Let the awkward minute be awkward, and breathe through it without offering your weekend, your wallet, and your last nerve as compensation. A relationship that only works when you never say no is not closeness at all. It is a very polite hostage arrangement.