So... Suppose y'all know that, as a kid, when you like someone you're supposed to say you don't. The more you like another kid, the more you keep on stating you hate them.

I started wondering where that comes from. Does anyone know? Kids are mean, I know... But that "not liking" thing starts even before anyone tells you "you're not good enough". So where does it start and why?
I couldn't help but wonder especially because it seems to affect us as grownups, leading to that cat and mouse game (and to people being shy).


So the more you hurt someone the more they'll like you.

Your opinions on that?

Hope it wasn't posted before.
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Fear of rejection, or being ridiculed I imagine?
One of the very first things I learnt in this cruel hard world was to keep my feelings to myself cuz there's always some bastard out there waiting to find the chink in your armour to bring you down.
But that would explain why I don't wear my heart on my sleeve, I don't like a person more, the more they hurt me.....just the opposite.

Yea but fear of rejection or being ridiculed coming from where? I remember saying I hate someone when I liked them lots even before ever being rejected or ridiculed...
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Thats what's known as self preservation ........... not saying, or admiting how you really feel .......... doesn;t make it so real ........... and then if nothing happens, your not so hurt ................ x

Shyness starts as a kid and some people never grow out of it. As you said kids can be mean so rather than admit to their friends that they like someone it’s much easier to say that they don’t and avoid the ridicule and having fun made of them. As adults I guess its pretty much the same thing but instead of ridicule it’s fear of rejection and the lose of self esteem that follows

then it must be a lesson for life... Maybe it ain't invented after all and we're supposed to tell the people we love we hate them.
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but hate is the other side of the coin to love. if somebody ever told you they love you then you broke up with them, then they tell you they hate you....the love becomes hate. cant have love without hate existing because they are the ying and yang. it doesnt answer your question, but a love that feels it cannot be expressed maybe internalized and suppressed only to be interpreted as hate to those who cannot understand it??

i am waffling a bit