Re:Bail – Get out of your plans, guilt free
by ravenstine on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:08PM
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> Telling a friend you want to cancel is hard, and depressing, and so you oftentimes go just to not bail on them. And hate it.
Holy cow, just how disempowered are people that they can't be honest with their friends?
OMG, I don't want to eat at McDonald's today, but what if Marco gets super disappointed that I won't meet him at McDonald's and eat fries with him! He'll be so depressed. I'm so depressed! .... I really hope he bails before I do.
As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I don't think that products like this help anyone. It might seem harmless, and maybe it will be, but only if few end up using it. Otherwise, it's not going to help people expand their social abilities, their sense of self value, etc.
A friendship based on withheld communication is dysfunctional.
Holy cow, just how disempowered are people that they can't be honest with their friends?
OMG, I don't want to eat at McDonald's today, but what if Marco gets super disappointed that I won't meet him at McDonald's and eat fries with him! He'll be so depressed. I'm so depressed! .... I really hope he bails before I do.
As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I don't think that products like this help anyone. It might seem harmless, and maybe it will be, but only if few end up using it. Otherwise, it's not going to help people expand their social abilities, their sense of self value, etc.
A friendship based on withheld communication is dysfunctional.