> Someone would need a nice long conversational warmup before they’d feel comfortable enough to be ready to talk about something more uncomfortable.
We kinda-in-the-spectrum fathers of young girls are something else. Finding out at your 40s-ish that sometimes people wants to talk to "just talk" is kind of embarrassing.
The problem is the assumption that I'm obliged to endure such long pointless conversation. I'll need a very strong reason (e.g. you're literally my daughter), or I'd just leave.
We kinda-in-the-spectrum fathers of young girls are something else. Finding out at your 40s-ish that sometimes people wants to talk to "just talk" is kind of embarrassing.
The problem is the assumption that I'm obliged to endure such long pointless conversation. I'll need a very strong reason (e.g. you're literally my daughter), or I'd just leave.