Delaying
What is Delaying?
Creating reasons to wait. You're buying time you may not need.
When you might feel delaying
Delaying is a specific form of procrastinating, which itself is a type of avoiding. You might experience this feeling in situations where avoiding is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define delaying.
Emotional Hierarchy
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Pushing the decision into the future. Later always seems better than now....
Actively preventing progress toward a decision. Movement feels dangerous....
Trying to make it someone else's decision. You don't want the responsibility....
Waiting for external validation or authority to choose for you....
Attempting to hand off the decision. You want to escape the burden....
Pretending the decision doesn't need to be made. Avoidance through denial....