I'm (27/m) an extremely defensive individual according to my gf (26/f) and I don't know how to fix it.

So for example, the other day we were talking about how some people need to be fake in front of others and express false emotions because they don't want to come off rude and might have some use for that person in the future. She said that she's fake when it comes to interacting with people she wouldn't normally talk to just to build networking to which I said that's great if it works for you, I personally don't like to be fake because I can't fake it, I will talk to the other person without expressing a lot of fake emotions because they're not natural to me. To which she said you're being defensive and started saying you don't think there's anything wrong with you and you're absolutely perfect aren't you? It's things like these.

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