Social Anxiety

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

Not to get too therapuetic in a public forum, but could tell me a bit about your belief that "it's sad" in regards to those things that make you happy?

Good point. We tend to assume that extroversion is a good thing and introversion isn't. Who really cares? It's about what makes us happy (with the acknowledgement that some extroversion traits like networking inevitably lead to more career opportunities).

My wife and I have some similar interests and some different ones. As we enter our third decade of marriage, we've figured out that we don't have to do everything together. She's much more social than I am, so sometimes she goes to theater events or parties without me. I like travel more than she does, so sometimes I'll wander off on a trip without her. We have enough common interests that we still do things together, but we've decided that we can do things separately and be just fine. It keeps one partner from dragging the other to a non-enjoyable thing, and feeling guilty doing so.