• JayBeeTX@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It is a good tool to introduce levity into an otherwise normal or even embarrassing situation.

    “Didn’t you say you were going to do dishes?”

    “…uh, that was Linda. But since she spaced on it I’ll take care of them now.”

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      22 hours ago

      I wouldn’t take it so literally. Linda is a placeholder for the wife’s grievances over her husband. She is claiming that he might as well have a different hypothetical partner who is willing to put up with his antics and not get upset about it.

      When people use their dreams as an excuse to express frustration, they don’t mean that what happened in their dream is real. They mean that the outcome of the dream is congruent with their grievances that they are unable to express without a device.

      I don’t think this is a particularly healthy way of dealing with it, but just trying to give people some insight before dismissing their partners as crazy.

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        4 hours ago

        Sounds like a lot of hoops to jump through to avoid talking about your problems like an adult.

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          3 hours ago

          If talking about your problems like adults were easy, therapists wouldn’t have jobs.