AITAH for disliking when people share stuff expecting validation?
I find it very annoying, almost insufferable, when friends or relatives ask for my opinion on something they've made or that they have emotional attachment to, expecting my response to be positive by default and for me to validate their position. Specially when they explicitly ask me to position myself, and, when I'm unenthusiastic or slightly critical, feel offended and attacked.
Why would you explicitly ask for feedback on something with the assumption that the only possible response is validation? The discourse is closed from the start and it's more of a violent self-assertion than a genuine question or desire for you to engage with what they're showing, eve, at times, it feels like quite the perverse power game.
If someone doesn't want the possibility of discussing something, they should not show it as something to discuss, but merely show it, or better yet, not show it at all (if there is nothing to say as you already know the answer you are imposing on others, what purpose is there for sharing?).
And I make the distinction, I don't think the critique should be unfair, unthoughtful, or in general poor, one must reasonably defend in the case of unfair or invalid critique. I'm aware it's reasonable for unfair attacks to be hurtful or annoying to the other, but this is not what I'm referring to here.