There's no such thing as "too much" eye contact. Your friend had probably noticed you a lot of times making eye contact with basically everybody. One will only tell that you've had too much eye contact when they've observed it in the first place. Otherwise, eye contact isn't noticed much.
Some tips:
When talking, make gestures if possible and applicable so that your eyes would dart around different directions besides your listener's eyes.
Don't make eye contact sort of like a staring contest. Make eye contact "intervals" by occasionally blinking or looking at the ceiling (indoors)/ sky (outdoors), then back at your listener's eyes again.
I know what you mean. I've had managers who hate me because they feel like I'm "hostile" towards them with my "insubordinate " eye contact and it's coming off as "aggressive". Try lookin at their mouths. Make a triangle between their mouths and the eyes and tie or piece of paper that you're holding. Try not to hold eye contact for longer than five seconds without glancing somewhere else. I also use looking out the window, pretend to watch someone walking past the store
i dont want to have eyes boring into me everytime i look up
I have seen people who never loose eye contact with people in a one to one situation. They look completely natural at all time because they have been trained to have completely full time eye contact. Bruce Lee used to say , " Never loose eye contact with your enemy while in a fighting situation. All emotions are in the eye. I am a fan of Bruce Lee and I maintain complete eye contact while talking to people. Still people find me quite interesting. Nobody hates me or tries to get away from me because of eye contact.
Don't give less, it only intimidates people who can't handle it! Eye contact is important, it different circumstances it can show respect, love, worry, care but most of all it shows you're engaging in listening to what they are saying instead of looking around and focusing on something else!
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I don't think that should be a problem as long as it feels natural to you. I think that only socially awkward people might suffer from if they force themselves to keep eye contact and then it might feel like they are trying to stare you down or something.
When you stare for an hours
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maintaining eye contact is polite, but there's no harm glancing away every 5 seconds or so otherwise it can look like you are staring them down.
No such thing, Your friend is probably just insecure about something, ur not the problem, she just needs to work on her problem
I don't know, but I don't have enough eye contact. It makes me feel embarrassed
lol most people struggle with maintaining eye contact and you ask how to have less?
ı can't talk without keeping an eye contact
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