Dr. Micaela

And so now that I've reflected on that, that gives me the opportunity to call or text my friend and be like, hey...

I realized that you kind of dropped a huge bomb and then I smothered it with me.

And so what I really want to do is check in with you again.

Do you want to talk about it now or do you want to hang out again soon?

And I promise this is going to be dedicated to you because you're important to me, right?

It's never about being perfect.

I know I already said that, but like, let me say that again.

No strategy is ever gonna get you to perfection.

It's about recognizing when you did something that you actually want to apologize for or that you actually feel like you fucked up on and then recovering from it or making amends or addressing the issue.

So yeah, I missed it the first time you brought it up, but I didn't miss it all the way.

And what I'm saying now to you is you're really important to me and I wanna make sure that you have time and space for this if this was a big deal for you.

Um, and maybe your friend is like, oh yeah, no, it's not a big deal.

We got into a big fight about the remote control before I left.

And so I was really angry, but like he found it and he was like, oh my God, I'm such a dick.

Um, so everything's fine.

Right.

And maybe they're

Covering something up bigger.

I don't know.

But also maybe it wasn't that big of a deal.