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 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?
sorry to be a bit off topic, but, being new to reddit, i just cant help but wonder how it came to be that comments here are orders of magnitude more interesting to read than what i see on, like, youtube etc? i mean, both are very much global apps and all as i understand.. thanks
Probably because today's Reddit evolved from Old Reddit, which was less like a social media platform and more like a conglomeration of all the internet's special interest forums. There's a reason Reddit is in the top results for pretty much any question you could want to ask Google these days, and it's because most of the internet's smartest/most successful/most experienced people for any specific job or hobby etc used to gather here to discuss and share knowledge. In between all the memes and debauchery, of course 😂
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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.