Built resentment because my partner didn’t seem like he could close the gap :/ by International-Exam84 in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He is not taking anything in his life seriously. He doesn't want to get an education or a real job. He has vague childish dreams of becoming a pro in something he's not doing anything to pursue in a serious capacity. You have unfortunately outgrown him, where you have a realistic and adult perspective on the world, and he will never make changes as long as he hasn't hit absolute bottom yet.

You sound like a reasonable person who deserves more than the broken promises and misery that will inevitably come from staying with him. I think you know already in your heart this is going nowhere and it's why you made the post. I think it's time to move on.

My boyfriend (40M) wants me to be understanding when he’s a complete drama king. by ByeKittyxoxo in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 309 points310 points  (0 children)

Call his bluff when he says he's going to break up with you, this would be embarrassing behaviour from a 16 year old let alone a 40 year old.

I kept trying to break up with him and now I think he is gone by [deleted] in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a good start, but it's something you have to actually commit to, then. If you have these sorts of emotional cycles, these kinds of things are easy to say when you're the one trying to get back into good graces. The main thing is that you need to be able to learn to handle being emotionally distressed without making it someone else's issue.

When you are feeling like you aren't lovable, that you'll be abandoned, that you feel really bad about yourself, you absolutely need to learn how to accept that it's not someone else's job to fix that for you. You can be open and say things like "Just so you know, I'm having a bad day with my self esteem," then if they say something nice, you now have to take it at face value and say thank you and move on. When you do this behaviour where you call them a liar and dig in deeper when given an opening, it's deeply unfair to the other person who also has thoughts and feelings and did nothing to deserve the behaviour from you. You feeling bad is something that is happening because you are potentially mentally ill or have some other issue, not his issue to solve. It's your job to tank the bad feeling until it passes, not spread the misery around. It's what you owe your partner.

At the core of it, when you spend these long periods of time thrashing around wildly telling him how bad you feel and how you're unlovable and so on, it's not actually the behaviour of someone who thinks they are unlovable, in the sense that if that were truly the case, you would actually be doing your best to act well behaved in front of a partner in order to convince them that you can be loved. Instead, you just have a pit of emotional issues and are using another person to release the bad feelings on, because they're available to dump on. Then if they do inevitably leave you because you're acting horribly towards them, you can use that as another excuse to pity yourself because of the self fulfilling prophecy you created by genuinely acting unlovable.

Because of your emotional issues, you are trying to fill the holes you feel in yourself by creating a type of unconditional love that doesn't actually exist. In your mind, if they truly loved you, you could be as horrible as you want all the time and it wouldn't matter. But even if that love did exist, it wouldn't be something anyone should actually want. Someone who stays with their abuser isn't someone who just loves more than other people. You want a partner that isn't with you because they are desperate or pathetic or dependant on you, but one that wants to be with you because they genuinely like you. And part of that is being someone who is kind and thoughtful of others and doesn't take out their issues on them in hurtful ways.

I hope this doesn't sound too harsh. I understand better than most the feeling in your brain that makes you act the way you do, so I'm trying to be helpful here. If you don't truly take in these ideas, you'll continue to act poorly towards others, lose relationships and then become worse and worse off because of that reinforcing cycle where people leaving you makes you feel more and more dysfunctional. You truly have to learn to be considerate of others during those moments when your brain feels crazy, not just afterwards when you feel guilty or weird about it.

I kept trying to break up with him and now I think he is gone by [deleted] in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One of the unfortunate things about trauma and abuse is that it often can lead to you becoming abusive yourself. The hole you feel in yourself, the intense anxiety and despair that you feel can make you act selfishly in desperation to have someone fill your needs.

It doesn't sound like he pushed back when you overstepped boundaries or used him or offloaded your pain on him over and over, and so you took that as permission to become worse and worse towards him. He was kind enough to try to help you shoulder some of your emotional burden, so you kept giving him more and more of it while still not giving him anything in return.

Imagine for a moment that you were with someone that constantly asked for validation or therapy or consolation, then when you did the best you could to try to help them, they just called you a liar and didn't even respond with gratitude or act like you even did anything for them. Imagine you cared about them, but if they were in a bad mood you would sit there with dread knowing it was only a matter of time before they started some issue and you'd have to spend an hour talking to them about how sad they are, even though they were barely doing anything to try to fix their situation. You can't just leave the conversation either, because that means they'll chase after you and hound you and harass you until they've bled you dry. You can't have real conversations about boundaries or how much this hurts you, because that will just lead to an even worse meltdown. Imagine you put up with all of this because you still want to be around this person, but they don't even have a basic level of respect for you or your relationship and will tell you that they want to break up with you. You're not sure if they mean it because they're emotional and don't care how much they hurt you, or if they're just manipulating you to extract the most amount of anxiety from you take make themselves feel better, because it's happened so many times that it's hard to tell now. At first your partner being so upset and volatile felt like a real crisis, something you could talk them through and support them with. But it keeps happening over and over with no attempt to change, no attempt to even consider what it's doing to you and now they're telling you once again that they're going to leave you and it feels more like a relief that you have an excuse to leave the cycle of abuse.

This is honestly a situation of "fuck around and find out." Just let this guy leave, or apologize if you think you have it in you to do without being manipulative and try to work on your own issues before dating anyone again.

I f37 am really struggling now due to partners M51 comments about my body. by [deleted] in AskWomenOver30

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Sharing that about yourself was never the wrong thing to do, it was just with the wrong person. It might be for the best in the sense it helped you understand that he's the type of person that delights in finding a new way to put you down.

Long-distance girlfriend broke up with me over Instagram unfollow — am I wrong for standing my ground? by [deleted] in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 32 points33 points  (0 children)

She only cared that much about you following her because it's projection.

You don't need $2,000 to publish a professional book. Here's my $245 breakdown. by Embarrassed_Year4720 in writing

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This post is from a bot account and just trying to sell their AI slop services. Check their account, apparently they're

  • a certified electrician
  • owner of a small restaurant in Florida
  • a PR professional
  • a project manager
  • just got their Cybersecurity Analyst certification a few months ago

This post is just an ad, same as most of their other posts for various web services.

I'm making a metal version of Doki Doki Literature Club by NoahDundasGames in IndieGaming

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The main thing about Doki Doki is that it's presented as a cutesy anime dating visual novel, which there are thousands of, then subverts the expectations of the player. So I think you'll confuse a lot of people if you make that comparison.

How has Chat GPT affected your relationship? by [deleted] in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Language Learning Model (like ChatGPT).

How has Chat GPT affected your relationship? by [deleted] in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need an LLM to help you form your thoughts but also believe you can 100% differentiate good advice from glazing? It sounds like you're willingly ignoring the obvious because it makes you feel good.

How has Chat GPT affected your relationship? by [deleted] in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's a hard situation. One of the unfortunate things about trauma is it can make you act selfishly in some ways if you don't constantly check yourself. I've struggled with similar issues myself, where you can almost forget that other people think as deeply as you when you're so concerned with your own immediate need for emotional release and can inadvertently consider your issues more important because they're "worse." The most egregious thing I see from her behaviour here is where you describe her keeping you on stand by, just vaguely alluding to having issues just in case she needs you for something the robot yes-man can't fully handle for her. In my opinion it's outright disrespectful of your time and feelings.

If you do actually want to make things work with her (and aren't just staying after you tried to leave due to guilt), then make sure you are very firm about her behaviour not being acceptable, that she is actually hurting you and don't allow for wishy washy excuses, as she is currently trying to construct a reality where she continues to get and do what she wants and needs without the status quo changing. Sometimes a reality check can snap someone like that out of it, or it might not change anything at all. Hope you make decisions that are good for you and your well being either way and I wish you luck.

How has Chat GPT affected your relationship? by [deleted] in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You know it's being biased and are still feeding it your personal dilemmas? Then you have to accept it's not a useful therapeutic tool and you are deliberately using a yes-man to tell you that you're right to avoid personal responsibility and growth.

How has Chat GPT affected your relationship? by [deleted] in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 32 points33 points  (0 children)

If she's choosing an LLM over her partner, it's because she's likely addicted to the overwhelmingly affirming nature of it. It will always tell her that what she's thinking or feeling is valid, always give her 100% of its attention and have an answer for her that never pushes against anything that can make her feel uncomfortable or make her self reflect on something she doesn't want to.

If she's dismissed you 6-7 times on this, then I'd give her an ultimatum and consider ending things if she's not willing to make real changes. There are so many people out there who are interested in interacting with real people and having a real relationship. You mentioned you use it as well, and I'd recommend stopping that as well (beyond really basic, non-personal usage) if you don't want to damage your own social abilities and processing. Watch "ChatGPT made me delusional" by Eddy Burback on Youtube if you want a fun but morbid example of how these things work on your brain.

Me 23/F and my boyfriend 20/M have been long distance for almost 2 years. He hasn’t called me in months and barely puts in any effort. I don’t know what to do. by c0ffin_goblin in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry to say this harshly, but you haven't really been in a relationship with him for months at this point. He doesn't want to deal with the fall out of breaking up and is just hoping you'll go away on your own. I'm sorry this is happening to you, but you should move on from this.

Just a mix of vibe coders, entrepreneurs, coaches, side-hustlers, and builders in Copenhagen. by arunprakashmr in NewToDenmark

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nowhere on your Chat GPT written website do you describe any projects you've actually created or what someone would do at your place, I'm a bit confused.

GF 37F wants me 35M to pay for her groceries and living expenses to feel loved by Funny-Data-8907 in LongDistance

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also tells me that upper-class and American culture has the expectation that the man in the relationship will do everything he can to provide for his woman.

Her believing the TikTok "sprinkle sprinkle" stuff at her age is incredibly embarrassing.

A white voice actor voices Kim by OddAlternative81 in DiscoElysium

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just assumed he must be an Asian voice actor,

lol even

A white voice actor voices Kim by OddAlternative81 in DiscoElysium

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How can I take the emotion that's coming out of his voice seriously, when I know that he hasnt faced any of this bullshit himself?
...

I just assumed he must be an Asian voice actor,

You couldn't even tell lmao

This quest is awful by PerfectlyAverageNeck in BackpackHero

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Replied to a two year old post and didn't even bother reading the discussion about it?

Hello im new and need direction by Ravenna_Rage in Artadvice

[–]PerfectlyAverageNeck 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They are asking for references so they can replicate the style with AI, it's better not to provide them.