Honesty and emotional attachment

There is an inverse relationship between honesty and emotional attachment. The more emotionally attached you are to someone, the less honest you are, because your desire to be honest is replaced with your desire not to hurt feelings.

Because there’s the fear that if you’re too honest, you could loose the one you’re emotionally attached to. The less emotional attachment there is to a person, the less fear there is of loosing that person, and therefore, the more honest you are.

But the inverse relationship between honesty and emotional attachment can become a direct relationship if honesty is on a timed release. That is to say, you can be more honest after enough emotional attachment has been accumulated over time.