"What Do You Want?" "I Don't Know, What Do You Want?"
The exhaustion that comes not from making a decision, but from the negotiation that precedes it.
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes not from making a decision, but from the negotiation that precedes it. Someone asks what the other wants for dinner. The other person genuinely doesn't know, or doesn't want to be the one to say. Suddenly two adults who are both hungry are standing in a kitchen accomplishing nothing.