it’s quite clear to me that me prioritizing my personal life over work made them insecure about themselves. Not listening to their forced, unasked and unwanted advice made them insecure about themselves. Working in a way that made sense to myself made them insecure about themselves.

When someone defies another person’s personal truth or reality, that has the potential to cause the other person to feel insecure about themselves.

With those people, I end up giving them short and vague responses until they leave me alone. They don’t deserve anything more.

holy shit, leaving was the correct decision. I always felt I didn’t fit in because they expected me to be one of them, always subordinate to them, a useful idiot who would only work as they wanted.

I’m also glad I left. godspeed!