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| | | Q | | What have you felt pressured to do in life? | | | | A | | "When I was younger, I felt pressure to maximize my time and jump on tasks right away. It's the 'If there's time to lean, there's time to clean' mentality I had learned working my first retail job. Now I remind myself that rest is not a luxury — it's essential to my physical and mental health."
— Chrissie Moore, editorial director
"I used to feel a lot of pressure to take on a fixer or caretaker role in my relationships. I would drop everything to help my friends and partners, even if I knew I didn't have the capacity myself. I also felt like I couldn't confide in them the same way out of fear of feeling like a burden. This made me pretty resentful, and I lost a lot of relationships this way.
"I've always struggled with asking for help and saying no, but leaning on my people more has prevented me from growing this resentment without them knowing. Even something as small as letting my boyfriend take over a chore for me is progress!" — Sarah Choi, engagement editor
"I've felt pressure to say 'yes' to people, events, and things, even if I didn't want to. Maybe to avoid disappointing someone, or maybe it was fear of being left out, I don't know, but I used to say yes pretty often without factoring in my own wants and needs. Now, after a lot of practice and therapy work, I feel confident hitting pause to reflect, then saying 'no' when something doesn't align, and I rarely feel bad about it." — Morgan Mandriota, newsletter editor
"I used to feel pressure to hide my emotions. It only worked for so long, and it took many years to learn emotional regulation once I opened the floodgates. I'm a strong advocate of 'feeling all the feels' now. Emotions are part of the human experience. We're not robots." — Samantha Costa, editor
"I've felt pressured to drink alcohol. I was in a sorority and was often known as the 'sober one.' Then, after graduating, my dad pressured me to drink with him, too. Like many others here, I've learned 'no' is a complete sentence."
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