The Excuses We Make to Avoid Being Vulnerable
“Vulnerability minus boundaries is not vulnerability.” ~Brené Brown
It’s ten at night, and I’m sprawled on the couch at the end of a long day, messaging an old friend from grad school. My wife is already in the slow process of heading to bed, the kids are asleep, and the house is quiet enough for a conversation to feel easy.
This isn’t something that happens often, but it isn’t unusual either.
The beginning is fun, like it always is. What’s going on with my family, how work is treating me, how life is in general. Then the same from her …
