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    Over Explaining: When Being Clear Turns Into Begging

    I have always considered myself a pretty clear person. No tap-dancing around an issue or request, but not brutally clear either, Iโ€™m not the kind of person who walks into a room, drops a verbal grenade, and then calls it โ€œwell, Iโ€™m just being honest.โ€ I literally canโ€™t stand the way some deliver that response. Thereโ€™s a difference between being direct and being downright disrespectful. But I also donโ€™t think you should need to channel a psychic, decode ancient hieroglyphics, or hire a professional translator to figure out what I mean. Iโ€™m pretty sure if I say something, I have actually said something. With words and in English. Wild concept, I know.…