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"Hey, how's it going?"
"Good, you?"
Honesty about our emotional state (with people who aren't trusted friends / partners) is programmed out of us by social norms.
Start telling people the truth to that question and watch them flee
You'll separate your friends from your good friends.
Or find out that you don't have any true friends
I sometimes tell people "it's complicated" to test the waters if I want to be truly honest it not.
Like the joke the mother tells around the dinner table in Good Fellas. The punchline was something like, "Shut up, you're always talking."
<Rotates head 720 degrees.>