Ok, does that make my statement less valid?

As a person who unintentionally does this habitually, I can say sometimes it’s not the intent of the re-speaker to “one-up” but to try to share in the positive environment being created in front of them.

I find myself in situations where no one asks me for my achievements or goals reached - a lot - and I unconsciously compensate for lack of asking by overly telling when (perceivably) we’re now sharing achievements.

Bad idea. Context matters and a robot can’t be taught the difference in intent vs awareness vs a+b=c.

But stress comes from the change possibly becoming worse