These words by Matheus Lima are about career growth, but apply to many other areas in life, including personal relationships:

People confuse wanting something with working toward it. Like the thought itself is progress. But a desire you keep to yourself has no surface area. Nobody can react to it, build on it, or help you with it. It just sits there, not happening.

When people know what you want, they can help you get it (so obvious, and yet…).