I will warn against “if only I knew the warning signs” in situations where you actually cannot reasonably predict or it isn’t reasonable to take initiative in p

I will warn against “if only I knew the warning signs” in situations where you actually cannot reasonably predict or it isn’t reasonable to take initiative in preventing. This is common with anxiety where something awkward or weird happens and, at some point in the past it might’ve spun out (especially in childhood where children also don’t have the capacity to gracefully handle another awkward kid), but generally most people can laugh it off and promptly forget it— treating small awkward moments as warning signs a friendship is over isn’t actually true for most friendships. (This also happens about more serious circumstances like domestic abuse, where most partners aren’t abusive but due to experiencing abuse in the past suddenly normal things are warning signs of oncoming harm that isn’t actually happening.)