Someone called me out on doing teacher mode. He was commenting on the whole "dating thing" and I sort of tried to "set him straight" about the definition of dating. He asked "Is this the teacher mode?" Ha! Touche.
One new insight regarding that: It's a defense strategy. Yeah. When I don't want to get into emotions - either someone else's or mine. That is, it can be a defense strategy. Sometimes I feel passionate about a subject and want to explain some aspect of it - in that case it's cool.
In any case, I really appreciate him calling me out on it. He could just as easily, having felt turned off by it, which I am sure he did, ignored it and stopped communicating altogether.
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