• aeiou@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    I think fully half of the fights with my mom growing up was due to her telling me to do a thing, in the most naggy, demanding tone, as I was doing it

    • Azura The Spellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      22 hours ago

      Worse: This, but with a fiancée… “Eurgh, you never do any household work!” “Seriously? Sure we can have that discussion, but like… literally while I’m vacuuming?!”

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        19 hours ago

        Urgh yeah, the absolute social misplay of using someone’s decision to be productive as an excuse to badger them about how rarely they are productive.

        Like, this is human interaction 101, don’t punish good behaviour, bite your tongue and enjoy the win, save the discussion for when they aren’t being productive!

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      18 hours ago

      A lot of mine were me just returning from a different room, and the process of sitting down, and she says shit like “oh while you’re up” or asks if I could get her something from the room I just returned from