• socsa@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    My mother still does the recreational phone call thing and I seriously don’t fucking get it. Are the people she is calling endlessly just too polite to tell her to chill out? For decades on end?

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      I would sometimes sit in the next room and listen to her, and she was in the very old saying “threshing old straw”, going over fights and arguments and insults and such she had had years before. Like clearly what she needed was therapy.