Bridget Callahan is Your Best Friend

Everyone knows the old cliche about guys not wanting to talk about their feelings. Well, did you know that people think you're an asshole when you don't want to talk? Or they assume you have nothing to say that they don't already know, which usually means you're an asshole too. In fact, generally speaking, people are going to think you're an asshole whether or not you tell them what you're thinking. If you're in a relationship, then the other person already knows what is on your mind, and they just want you to talk so they can convince you otherwise, or argue you into an emotional scene that has a far greater chance of leading to unreconciled reconciliation than the current state of stoic silence. In fact, this is true outside of a relationship too. People just want to get a rise out of you, because that's the faster way of winning.

So yay you! Let's all not talk about anything ever again. Let's just keep our fucking mouths shut and talk about non-personal things, like the drought in Georgia or the elections in Pakistan. Let's be English, or Chinese, or any other kind of person other than what we are right now. Talking does not solve anything on an interpersonal level. It only serves to make muddled what is already quite clear.

Talking sucks.