The Overlooked Role of Tempo in Relationships

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A friendship got me thinking about tempo.

Well, if you could call it a friendship. For a while, I had felt that something was keeping the other person and me from getting closer. Something was off, but I wasn’t quite sure how to describe it.

For example, she preferred moving our friendship forward by throwing big, open-ended questions my way via text. I, on…