Some people just haven't done the therapy/self help work necessary to be in touch with how they feel in the moment.

And sometimes, expressing true feelings leaves others open to vulnerability.

I know, have worked with, a woman who is the sweetest woman. Yet, there is a certain 'fakeness' about it. Not that it's fake in a sense that she's trying to be something she's not. Just fake in the sense, that, HEY! Let go of the façade for a moment. We won't not like you for it, if anything, it's more, if you let go of that façade, maybe the bosses won't ask you to do more than you need to! In her 'niceness', personally, I'd love to see her be assertive. She'd still be nice, underneath it all, but that is the type of fakeness that leads to others walking all over you.

Be vulnerable, you'd be surprised how accepted you'd be for it!!