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The Quiet Urge to Explain Everything It usually starts small. A simple message. A harmless boundary. A harmless opinion. And then something tightens. A sentence becomes a paragraph. The paragraph becomes a justification. The justification becomes a pre-defense against arguments that haven’t even happened. By the time the message is sent, it feels less like communication and more like evidence submitted to a jury. No one asked for a trial. But the defense showed up anyway. There’