radio silence
I've gotten used to it over the years, but I'm starting to get annoyed.
I have a few friends, long-term friends for years, who regard me with silence -- they talk about themselves at length and have nothing to offer me. I don't expect much, just courtesy. When I say I have a problem, talk to me like a friend, don't brush me off. Maybe I shouldn't consider them friends so much anymore... but why am I always the crying shoulder, the listening ear? Why do I give advice?
You treasure everyone but me, I get it.
But I don't. I don't understand it at all. Maybe it's because my problems are so different and out there. I try my personal hardest to be involved even when I'm in conversations I'm not especially invested in just because it's polite. I'd think these people were trying to hint that they don't want to talk to me, except they always initiate it. It doesn't make sense to contact someone and not care about what they have to say.
What the hell? Should I just block them? Or is this a side-effect of being acquaintances? I thought acquaintance-ship didn't last eight years or was decent whatsoever.
I have a few friends, long-term friends for years, who regard me with silence -- they talk about themselves at length and have nothing to offer me. I don't expect much, just courtesy. When I say I have a problem, talk to me like a friend, don't brush me off. Maybe I shouldn't consider them friends so much anymore... but why am I always the crying shoulder, the listening ear? Why do I give advice?
You treasure everyone but me, I get it.
But I don't. I don't understand it at all. Maybe it's because my problems are so different and out there. I try my personal hardest to be involved even when I'm in conversations I'm not especially invested in just because it's polite. I'd think these people were trying to hint that they don't want to talk to me, except they always initiate it. It doesn't make sense to contact someone and not care about what they have to say.
What the hell? Should I just block them? Or is this a side-effect of being acquaintances? I thought acquaintance-ship didn't last eight years or was decent whatsoever.