A relationship can feel generous because neither person has to perform being fine.

A lot of ordinary company runs on a quiet tax: keeping your face arranged, giving the acceptable answer, not letting anyone see the week you are actually having. With a few people that tax disappears, and what feels like generosity is mostly the absence of that effort. Nothing is being handed over except permission to be as you are.

Notice which people you leave feeling lighter than when you arrived, and notice what you did not have to hide with them. Offer the same in return by letting a plain answer stand without rushing to fix it.