This may overlap with some of the other issues listed, but I think it comes from a slightly different place mentally/emotionally: They’re purposefully trying to disengage early rather than getting into a fight about who has the “last word” on the subject, e.g., on some level they may want to respond or even to “win” the exchange, but they’re purposefully telling themselves to step away from the computer.
This may overlap with some of the other issues listed, but I think it comes from a slightly different place mentally/emotionally: They’re purposefully trying to disengage early rather than getting into a fight about who has the “last word” on the subject, e.g., on some level they may want to respond or even to “win” the exchange, but they’re purposefully telling themselves to step away from the computer.
I have consciously done this before. Especially growing up, I was always obsessed with “being right”.