I think with social media everyone feels inadequate if they don't have 5,000 people confessing their inferiority to you commenting and liking a picture of leftover spaghetti. Attention, like everything in life, gets annoying if it's all you know.

Emotional stamina is bullshit, you shouldn't have to be forced into being a different person for someone else's enjoyment unless you're getting paid, you little slut. Save that stamina for self-improvement by your standards alone and if you let that be your guiding principle then you have a leg up on a good number of people going into 2018. Also, an equal relationship and it's underlying foundational conversations are usually a 50 50 expectation of effort. If something goes awkward, and you're being honest with yourself, it's a good chance the other person is being a fuckwit and not carrying their part of the bargain. If you happen to make the other person adjust to you instead of you always adjusting to them, you get to save that "emotional stamina", post a picture of spaghetti, and have people try to talk to you instead of the other way around. You may be trying to carry too much shit someone else should be picking up.

The reason why people with successful personal relationships make it look so easy is because it is really that easy to them, they self-improve naturally and don't self-sabotage and freak out when a conversation isn't 100% perfect because they know if they're bringing their 50 percent to the table, it's all that's really needed, even preferred.