Nobody tells me what I’m going to do or where I will be going and when that happens

I am open to invitations or requests or suggestions where my involvement is desired or ostensibly necesary for somone else. But I will never respond to this as a statement of fact or in the form of a threat

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 months ago

    The fundamental error in my opinion is this notion of anyone being entitled and owed YOUR

    • time
    • attention
    • resources

    Like obviously if you make a committment to someone or there is an implied non-opt-outtable one that still has the color of your consent or legal liabillity for etc, thats different.

    Simplest rule I do is

    If I generally come away feeling worse and not respected after we interface, there won’t be another encounter to the greatest extent I am able to openly prevent (not just avoid or evade) that