[ SECRET POST #2347 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2347 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Jay from Red Letter Media]


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03.
[Bob's Burgers]


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[CL from 2NE1]


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[Moriarty/Sherlock Holmes]


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06.
[Of Monsters and Men and Glitch (game)]


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07.
[After Man: A Zoology of the Future]


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08.
[Hetalia]


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09.
[Bubble Guppies]


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Comments

Dear Obsessively Clingy Friend,

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Obsessively Clingy Friend,

I am sorry you are having trouble at work but I can't fix it for you. I can't drop everything I'm doing to console you several times a day when you can't handle the stress of your job. It's also difficult for me to not point out to you that you're the one in the wrong every single time you've told me about work dramas.

You're a good person but you are not capable of handling the pressure that comes with your job. And I don't like it when you text me saying you demand I calm you down or distract or cheer you up. Maybe you're joking when you use the word demand but your incessant text messages are a demand in and of themselves. I'm emotionally drained most days because of you and don't have any energy left over for my own life. When that happens, I sometimes wish we'd never become friends.

I think you need a job with fewer responsibilities. I think you need therapy so you can learn how to deal with minor stresses. I think you need to start taking responsibility for your actions and recognizing your faults. I think you need to stop blaming others for your mistakes. I think you need to start acting like the adult you say you are.

Sincerely,
Emotionally Drained

Re: Dear Obsessively Clingy Friend,

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry you had to go through that. And I think that you've got it exactly right here: "I think you need a job with fewer responsibilities." I hope your friend can eventually see that for themselves.

If a job isn't making you happy, if you're too stressed to do it, then quit and find something else. Life's too short, and stress can make you sick.

Re: Dear Obsessively Clingy Friend,

[tabaqui]

So copy this and email it to them. Seriously. Their emotional well-being is not your job, especially when it's screwing with yours.

Tell 'em this, and stop responding to their 'demands'. You need to think about yourself, here.

Re: Dear Obsessively Clingy Friend,

[lunabee34]

I completely agree.

Re: Dear Obsessively Clingy Friend,

[lynx]

This is a good advice.

Re: Dear Obsessively Clingy Friend,

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. This is as politely and gentle as such a message can be delivered, and the friend sounds like she desperately needs the wake up call. Whether she listens or not, is another thing entirely, but it needs to be said or the relationship will crumble anyway. At least this way there is a chance of the relationship becoming healthy.