Social Censure is Literally Death
Why does rejection feel so damn bad?
6 min readJun 5, 2020
Your girlfriend is mad at you.
You can tell. She hasn’t said anything yet, but you can tell. The hug she gave you when you came in was halfhearted, and she’s been trying to ignore you while you’ve been trying to start a conversation all night long. Every time you throw out a topic and she shrugs and turns away, you feel…
