Some people recharge around others and some recharge alone. Neither one is broken.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Both of these are ordinary wiring and neither needs fixing. Trouble starts in the comparison: if the people around you refuel differently, your normal need looks like a problem to them and theirs looks baffling to you. Then advice gets handed over that was never going to work. Knowing your own setting lets you stop apologising for it and start planning around it.

Say plainly what yours is to the people you live with. Then meet in the middle on purpose: the party and then a quiet morning, or a quiet afternoon and then company for dinner. Both of you keep more of your week that way.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

After a draining day, do you seek people or quiet?

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