How to Avoid the Core Pain of Rejection

In order to avoid the pain of rejection, you work hard to maintain friendships. Since you've seen that it is possible to get rejected even by friends, you are going to work harder and harder to do. Notice you are no longer focused directly on rejection. Now it's about your clothes, how you walk or what you drive. You've gone another layer further away from the core pain. Each layer is attached to the original pain. This is why simple everyday interactions can affect you so much.