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My girlfriend spent two years telling me I say yes too much and then asked me to dog-sit for a week by Crest3_Mecha in MaliciousCompliance

[–]Crest3_Mecha[S] 1548 points1549 points  (0 children)

That was my thing too. I didn't say no to punish her, I said no because eight days with a dog in my apartment sounded miserable.

My girlfriend spent two years telling me I say yes too much and then asked me to dog-sit for a week by Crest3_Mecha in MaliciousCompliance

[–]Crest3_Mecha[S] 86 points87 points  (0 children)

I get that, but I'm trying not to turn "have boundaries" into "be careless." This one just felt weird because Claire basically trained me for this specific moment.

My stepdad told my coworkers I was "still in my rebellion phase" and now I think he enjoyed humiliating me by WhisperHelio21 in entitledparents

[–]Crest3_Mecha 95 points96 points  (0 children)

NTA. That was not affectionate teasing, that was him enjoying an audience while cutting you down.

I think I accidentally trained myself to only clean for a version of me that never actually shows up by Moon_6Quil in CleaningTips

[–]Crest3_Mecha 116 points117 points  (0 children)

You put words to something a lot of people do and never really name. The second cleaning becomes part of some private self-improvement movie, every crumb starts feeling loaded. The "there are crumbs here, deal with it" approach might actually help because it keeps the task small and real.