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Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by eru on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:17AM (#38059359)
IRL relationships still involve a lot of imagination. We can't directly experience other people, we have to rely on our fallible and low bandwidth senses.
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Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by lazide on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:24AM (#38059414)
Real life is orders of magnitude more bandwidth than anything online. Online allows a lot more/easier maladaptive disconnection.

But yes, many (most?) in person relationships are also ‘imagination’ driven. Some very pathologically so (NPD, BPD, DID, etc.).

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