I unfortunately felt this way for much of my life. I recognize now however that much of it was my making assumptions about them. I was constantly concerned about being accepted. Not bending over backwards to show acceptance or gratitude in any encounter was equated to them not approving of me. I would then go over a mental checklist of all that they could possibly be thinking until I arrived at that which to me was most likely that they were thinking.

It is a lot easier now