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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a little hard to tell if the idea is that they at some point realize this will be a running joke between them but both agree that they no longer really believe it, or if each time they say it, it's because they truly don't want to commit to advancing the relationship.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Or because they are traumatized from childhood of abandonment and have learned to take the option of being abandoned into their own hands as a self defense mechanism.

I mean not that I’d know from experience.