Whenever I get friendly with someone and they open up to me,I have the urge to text them whatever I see or happens to me that I find even slightly amusing. But this makes them talk to me less as if I were less desirable. However when I withdrawn from everyone during a depressed period and have not initiated conversations people reached out to me more.
I am not overly spammy but even the people who rant to me almost daily would only give short replies if I did the same to them.
>how to avoid being beta in friend/relationships?
>>18100466
I have the same problem, I sort of fixed it by not giving a fuck and cutting the kinds of people out of my life, that only needed an emotional tampon.
>>18100489
This happens with everybody though. Even to my less talkative friends whom I mostly initiate contact with. During times I message them more often, their replies get shorter.
If it is with people who initiate conversation (mostly for using me as an emotional tampon (kek)) they also become less talkative/initiative when I open their messages faster.
Why the fuck do I have to wait and pretend I haven't seen the notification immediately?
I don't want to cut more people, I would have nobody. Even minimal friendly contact is better than having nobody. I'd start to feel purposeless.