A person who can admit a mixed motive is often easier to understand than someone claiming perfect intentions.

Nobody acts from a single clean reason. You can want to help a friend and want to be seen helping; you can take the job for the work and for the money. Someone who says both parts out loud has handed you a map you can actually navigate by. The person insisting on purely good intentions has not removed the second motive, only hidden it, which leaves you guessing at what is steering them.

Try naming your own second reason once this week. It usually lands better than you fear. When someone else admits a mixed motive, treat it as candor rather than a confession to hold against them.