13/03/2025
Do you know yourself to be a receptive heart centered person, who wants to come closer, yet what is being served doesn’t taste right?
trust your body.
There’s a palpable difference between being vulnerable and using vulnerability as a tool. Genuine vulnerability is a bridge—it connects, levels, and fosters intimacy. It softens a space, making relationships feel closer, more reciprocal, and mutually understood.
But vulnerability, when weaponized, serves an entirely different function. It’s a power play—a method of control that introduces discord rather than unity. This kind of forced or performative disclosure isn’t about deepening trust; it’s about commanding attention, deflecting accountability, or offloading emotional weight onto others without consent. It’s the difference between being with a present truth, and manipulation.
Oversharing and exploitative drama masquerade as honesty but are often self-protective mechanisms. They create an illusion of intimacy while actually enforcing distance, as the receiver is put in a position of forced emotional labor. Instead of fostering closeness, this dynamic can feel invasive, even violent—an intrusion that demands something from you rather than offering anything meaningful.
When we’re on the receiving end of these disclosures—whether it’s a jarring social media post, a relentless stream of texts, or an out-of-nowhere confession—we naturally have reactions. Sometimes, it’s simply that we weren’t prepared to hold the weight of what was shared. Maybe we’re already in a raw space, maybe it brushed against something tender or unresolved within us. In those cases, the discomfort isn’t necessarily about the act of sharing itself, but about our own readiness to receive.
But most of the time—let’s say 85% of the time—when something lands with that distinct ick, when it repels rather than resonates, when it leaves you feeling drained or disturbed, it’s because your body has picked up on something deeper: the why behind the disclosure. The motivation beneath the words.
Your intuition registers more than your mind can immediately articulate. If something feels manipulative, off, or extractive—it probably is.