I put other.
I think we have blindspots and my T has worked with me long enough that he picks up on them. Then he points them out and I'm like GAH! It's like when I was saying something to my H and he was like, "You're doing that to avoid X" and I was like, "Uh. Wait. Yeah. Dang it."
I don't think it's possible to understand someone better than they understand themselves because I don't think most people have that much info. That's why relationships of different sorts are a thing. We know some stuff. Someone else knows some stuff. We meet up and we swap notes.
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“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of.” ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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