It's like if all women have turned to psychic vampires or something. 5 minutes with such a girl can tire me to death and I have no idea what to do about it.
I have felt this, for a variety of reasons.
What is it about them that makes YOU have this effect on yourself?
Are you too giving of your energy?
Are you expending a lot of energy trying to talk to them?
It is something in you that is letting this happen, in my view.
Very insightful Peregrinus, I find I feel this way exactly like you said, either when I'm *trying* to make the conversation go good ("make an impression") as opposed to let what happens happen, or when I compromise what it is that I
truly wanted to be doing in that moment.
I get this same feeling whenever I'm at a social event with my superiors from work.