A short motivational/self-help YouTube monologue by Rebeccah Silence urging viewers to be more honest with partners about needs and wants. The speaker frames withholding truth as equivalent to withholding love and encourages taking steps—even briefly—to practice candid communication to improve relationships.
Are you honest? Are you willing to be? Here's what's not working. Here's what would work instead. Are you willing to work with me on this? How often are you having those conversations in your relationships? And if you're not, no shame, no judgment. Let's just take on, even if it's just for today or just this week, it's time to get more honest. It's time to get more honest about what it is that you need and want. And for a lot of people, they're very clear about what they don't want and what's not working. And often what I've seen is they just don't want to rock the boat. They don't want to make things worse. They don't want to upset anyone or drive a wedge between themselves and someone they love. So they just don't speak up. But you not speaking up, the worst thing, the worst thing you can do in relationship is withhold love. And your truth is just one version of love.