Why do I push people away? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Jay Watts

Every day millions of internet users ask Google life's most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries

There are few things as difficult to navigate as the space between ourselves and others. Get too close, and we feel suffocated; move too far apart, and we feel abandoned.

Pushing people away takes many forms. It might involve being verbally or physically aggressive, or, just as destructively, shutting them out emotionally. Pushing people away shows someone still matters to us. Indifference, after all, is a greater form of insult.

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