Why We Dread (and Ditch) Our Own Social Plans, Plus 3 Tools to Try

Other people hold off entirely from starting on important projects or embarking on intimate relationships in the first place because they can’t bear the anxiety of having committed themselves to something that might or might not work out happily in practice.

If you dreaded school, you were told it was good for you. If you dreaded a task, you were informed it would make you a better person. Now, as an adult, if you dread doing something, you might tell yourself you are being weak.