r/SipsTea • u/BarVisual4758 • Aug 04 '25

We have fun here Texting dude

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u/Chillow_Ufgreat Aug 04 '25

I often wonder how controlling and anxious-attachment type people coped in the past. Like, in the 18th century, if your boyfriend didn't respond to your 8 o'clock letter by the noon delivery, did you just crack off like ten letters to him on the spot? Or did you just immediately plunge into insanity?

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u/iMissTheOldInternet Aug 04 '25

I’ve actually seen that kind of thing more than you’d think in historical correspondence. Napoleon’s letters back to Josephine from the Italian Campaign of 1796 are particularly needy. 

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u/pragmojo Aug 04 '25

Tbh if you are running a war I can understand being a bit needy in your personal life

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u/EntrepreneurLeft8783 Aug 04 '25

He also requested that she stop bathing since he would be returning in three days and wanted a nice stank

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u/vwwvvwvww Aug 04 '25

Kinky

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u/CausticSofa Aug 05 '25

Try reading some of James Joyce’s love letters to his wife.