Not sure why everyone is hammering me on that one, since I don't think of relationships as transactional and I was just continuing the language of the analogy p

Not sure why everyone is hammering me on that one, since I don't think of relationships as transactional and I was just continuing the language of the analogy presented in the article. Conversations however, which are almost ubiquitously a prerequisite for friendship and connection, ARE heavily transactional on a fundamental level. I do think that it is important to consider what you look like to other people though. Are you offering them positivity, wit, humor, etc.?