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A friend is hyper-competitive because she feels inadequate.
If you know she's worked very hard on something or that there's something she feels inadequate or self-conscious about, you can try complimenting her on that.
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The issue was my dismissal of my wife's insecurities as irrational, my failure to empathize when she felt inadequate, my inability to, as she put it, "get down behind my eyeballs".
I think she felt inadequate toward everyone because of her education and because of her communication skills.
It is likely she felt inadequate in many ways and based her sense of identity on her perfectionism as a homemaker.
She felt inadequate in her ability to write about soldiers and military scenes; initial reviewers agreed, finding her writing unconvincing and improbable, though subsequent reviewers have been considerably kinder.
The trips to New York add double anxiety to Kate's life as she already feels inadequate as a wife and mother.
Whenever Kelly goes through a bad patch, and feels she cannot cope, or feels inadequate, Georgia pops up – and the course of action she advocates for Kelly is entirely detrimental.
She looks at the Mexican owner's daughter dancing, and feels inadequate.
It could be that Trump feels inadequate when it comes to making hard decisions about war.
Thank you for mustering up the words to say something when saying anything feels inadequate.
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