I really, really don’t like the phrase “you make me feel happy/sad/angry/etc”. Saying that someone else “made me feel” something puts the responsibility for my feeling on that someone else. They didn’t conjure that feeling and beam it into my awareness for me feel. My feelings are a response to a stimulus, primarily a product of my own interpretive appa…
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