Karen

Thanks for that. I'm sometimes like a bull in a china shop in conversations. I get excited and happy over little things really quickly. So I love to share things that make me happy. Which might include my kids or my dh's successes. Or my own. When I share, I want to share the "happy". I'm not comparing or making any comment on the other person. Read it at face value.

I find it hard to be sensitive that another person is not in a place to be able to join in my happy. Means I have to squish my happy. This makes me anxious that I for some reason have different social rules and for some reason it's not ok to be rejoicing in lifes little joys. I just want to share the feeling.

For this reason, I tend to stick with a few close friends. I don't "get" the social rules of larger groups of women.

Very gently, crankin, your interogation comment might be difficult to hear from our community members who are connected to the military.