The difference is not simply confidence, chemistry, or conventional attractiveness. Attention may feel welcome when it leaves room for a person’s agency—and burdensome when it turns their response into a debt.

Intimacy
When Attention Feels Like Desire—and When It Feels Like Pressure
The difference is not simply confidence, chemistry, or conventional attractiveness. Attention may feel welcome when it leaves room for a person’s agency—and burdensome when it turns their response into a debt.
