From the author: apparently, it’s boiling))) It’s still more pleasant to catch a little aggressive marketing from strangers than from nice people. When you tell strangers, you say in your head, “You’re a fool,” and everything falls into place. And having received an unexpected “left hook” from a cute person, you walk around and worry, not understanding: “Why is she doing this to me?” I don’t really understand marketing, but it seems to me that I’m pretty good at understanding what I like and what’s useful, and that - no. A very nice friend suddenly invites me to a psychological event for very beginners. “Okay,” I answer, “I can join in her management.” “No,” they answer me. “I need participants.” Great, but what does this have to do with me, a Gestalt therapist with decent experience? I expected that the person would remember at least something about me. It's a shame. A friend, fascinated by online healthy lifestyleists and without a hint of nutritionist education, says that I have a lack of protein in my body. “Listen,” I timidly share what I’ve been thinking about for a long time. “After all, I feed a baby with milk, probably my body has special needs?” But no, past the cash register. After all, online healthy lifestyleists, without a doubt, know everything better than anyone else and about everyone, where am I with my doubts. I don’t like unfounded (for me) categorical statements from a person who is unlikely to know much better about the topic than I do. (And by the way, I love my girlfriend!) A VK friend (absolutely unknown to me either offline or online, the very first phrase after the mutual exchange was “accept friendship”) writes: “I’m going to a concert by so-and-so (unknown to anyone) musical group, do you want to join me?" I don’t even want to receive messages from you after this, to be honest. Aggressive marketing is fashionable these days. And, perhaps, it doesn’t matter what emotions the brand evokes - perhaps for sales growth it is only important that the emotions be strong. But all this is unpleasant to me. And, I believe, one must have sufficiently strict boundaries (hard or insensitive) not to notice the deception in such treatment. We seemed to be establishing a relationship... and as a result, it turns out that the most interesting thing I can invest in this relationship is a few pieces of paper signed “forgery of government tickets is prosecuted by law.” And anger in these cases is very appropriate, I think. Still, “he’s a fool himself,” perhaps. At least in this thread. And also a little sadness and a little more caution so as not to get into trouble next time. And under no circumstances agree that this is normal treatment of me. The normal thing is to add a little human touch to business. And not to use sympathy as a reason to lure money out of me for some useless thing for me personally... yes, yes, her very thing. With all due respect. Emotions change to emotions. And services are for services (or their equivalent, money). This is normal. ps. Taking this opportunity, I say hello to my friend: I mentioned you as an example and only because the impression from our conversation today is much fresher than other similar ones. Of course, I believe in your reciprocity, promote your healthy lifestyleists as much as you like, since they are your weakness))