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is it because I’m worried about external circumstances that I’m unable to control (like bad WiFi causing my audio to lag)
- maybe I can tell the person I’m talking to “if at any moment something gets cut off from what I’m saying, please cut me off so that I can be reassured that everything that I’m ”
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or is it because I don’t trust myself in these situations?
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neither
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I think I found the root cause: I’m still scared of silence in conversations
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I haven’t tested that theory out but I really think it would help:
- whenever we both are in the call, we take like 5-10 seconds of just having a deep breath and being comfortable with the silence
- by doing this, I would train myself to remain in control of my emotions and also make it a ‘norm’ for us to be silent and not needing to blurt something out