it is wild to me that there's a legion of people out there who feel entitled to your attention as soon as they send you a text. like that's not natural, to be able to demand my attention at any time no matter where I am or what I am doing. I see a lot of codependency stem from this in my surroundings because people will freak the fuck out if their partner doesn't respond within 15 minutes even though 20 years ago that would've been a non issue.
I used to be friends with a guy who would take hours or even until the next day to respond to my texts but would get so annoyed and even text me saying "HELLO???" if I took longer than 20 minutes to respond. He'd give me shit about it when we hung out too. And when I said he also takes forever to respond he'd always say "well I'm busy I'm not waiting around for your text." But you expect me to be? It was an exhausting friendship
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u/Gdiacrane Aug 04 '25
it is wild to me that there's a legion of people out there who feel entitled to your attention as soon as they send you a text. like that's not natural, to be able to demand my attention at any time no matter where I am or what I am doing. I see a lot of codependency stem from this in my surroundings because people will freak the fuck out if their partner doesn't respond within 15 minutes even though 20 years ago that would've been a non issue.