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Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:34AM (#31098440)
Tunneling isn't the problem. This isn't a tunneling story. It would be similar if the tunnel were a ski mountain, an office or a drug den.

This is a story of escalating isolation. He's isolating from society, from people who care about him and whom, we presume, he cares about. (Or maybe not. Maybe he gets along fine at work and at church, and is simply uninterested in his SO.)

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Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? by sn0wtrooper on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:41AM (#31098574)
Another brick in the wall? Or another meter deep into the tunnel?
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Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? by jessriedel on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:03PM (#31098947)
I'd say this is about his girlfriend not liking that he's isolating from society. (Which, of course, is a perfectly valid preference of hers.) There's lots wrong with society; the choice to mostly disconnect from it is a reasonable one for many people.
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