Bringing My Socially-Anxious Partner On My Family Vacation
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Julia Austin
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Being helpful and acknowledged
It’s very important to my partner that he not feel like a lazy mooch in those situations. So he was constantly trying to do something helpful—clean dishes, take out the trash, help someone work the TV—and then, later, he’d regularly ask me if he’d been helpful enough and worry that people hadn’t noticed him helping.
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