"The food was awful." I don't know why but it seems like for every good Italian place there are four or five bad ones.
I think we are kind of conditioned to say yes all the time. It is hard to break that. You seem to be aware of this so that goes a long way to stopping yourself in the future.
Yeah, this is one of my biggest struggles, aside from focusing on the negative, I have spent years trying not to rock the boat in little interactions and making myself sick over it.
Working on it!
It takes time and we all slip every now and then but you will get there.