Am I the Asshole - A Brief Relationship

About three weeks ago, I downloaded the reddit app on my phone so I could read Am I the Asshole posts, and for the first time in my life, I got sucked into a social media sinkhole. Now, I never created a reddit account (and thus never commented) but reading about all these people’s awful lives was so incredibly addictive. Wives dealing with abusive and controlling and boundary-defying mother-in-laws, stepchildren ignored or emotionally abused by their parent’s new partner and stepsiblings, significant others (okay, almost always the boyfriend) taking weaponized incompetence to ICBM-levels, bridezilllas thinking nothing of asking invitees (not even members of their bridal party) to cut or color their hair so they wouldn’t be outshone on their special day, and a million other examples of the petty terribleness of humanity.

At first, it was amusing - the schadenfreude was strong, but after a while, it was just sad. And then depressing. I felt my mental health take a deep nosedive.

This morning, I deleted the app from my devices and erased the reddit bookmark from my browser. The world is shitty enough without drowning in other people’s petty bad choices.

(reposted from my tumblr)