Smart people rationalize red flags as complexity because your intelligence creates sophisticated explanations for simple truths. Please take this in. When someone shows you who they are through their actions, your brain writes beautiful stories about why their behavior actually means something else. You transform emotional unavailability into depth or mystery. Inconsistency into passion. And manipulation into complicated communication style. Your analytical mind finds psychological reasons for w

When humans do not have knowledge about dog psychology, we witness the behavior of our dogs and rationalize their behavior based on human psychology. That's where most people get confused and create stories in their mind about why their dog behaves the way it does. In this situation, we're talking about a nervous dog who didn't get exposure to dogs, humans have left leadership position vacant, and now reacts on leash when they see another dog to keep that dog away from themselves and their owner