Somewhere around her mid-sixties, my aunt started saying a sentence that scandalized the whole family: “No, I don’t think I will.” No apology attached. No elaborate excuse. Not hostile — she’d say it pleasantly, the way you’d decline a second helping. But the family reeled anyway, because this was the woman who had hosted every… The post Psychology says people who become harder to be around as they get older aren’t becoming mean — they’re becoming less willing to absorb other people’s discomfort at the expense of their own, and that’s a skill most people mistake for bitterness appeared first on The Blog Herald.