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Engaging in near-constant, low-stakes squabbling that functions less as conflict and more as a private language of closeness.
Read full entry →The compulsive act of digging through old texts to re-analyse a comment whose meaning has suddenly become unclear.
Read full entry →Habitually characterising every past partner as unreasonable, without acknowledging any personal responsibility whatsoever.
Read full entry →A considerate, unprompted heads-up sent ahead of an unavoidable delay, sparing the other person any needless anxiety.
Read full entry →A physical giveaway of suppressed anger, expressed through unusually aggressive household chores rather than words.
Read full entry →Having spent an unreasonable amount of time drafting a single text, only to send a version you're still not happy with.
Read full entry →An unspoken, simultaneous decision by two people on a date that it should end well before the planned hour is up.
Read full entry →The last-minute, exam-style revision of a date's dating profile to avoid asking a question they've already answered.
Read full entry →Announcing an intention for mindfulness or focus while simultaneously demonstrating the exact opposite behaviour in real time.
Read full entry →A rare, appreciated instance where a promised financial reward from an employer arrives exactly when expected.
Read full entry →Providing far more personal travel detail in an automated email response than any recipient actually needs or wants.
Read full entry →A short-lived, genuinely joyful shift in mood triggered by the year's first significant snowfall.
Read full entry →Claiming full comprehension of a lengthy message chain while having actually absorbed almost none of the content.
Read full entry →Excessively committed to prolonged, unnecessary pyrotechnic celebration well beyond the appropriate occasion window.
Read full entry →A meeting labelled as brief and informal that ends up being neither short nor conducted on one's feet.
Read full entry →A rare, seamless video conference completed entirely without technical interruption or audio confusion.
Read full entry →Habitually enabling captions on video content regardless of audio clarity, purely out of comfort or habit.
Read full entry →Caught in an unavoidable social scheduling conflict during the busiest weeks of the festive calendar.
Read full entry →An aggressively upbeat closing phrase deployed with total disregard for the actual tone or content of the preceding message.
Read full entry →A rare, satisfying discovery that a festive market drink stall has genuinely made the effort with spices and warmth.
Read full entry →Overstating the length or completion of a health-related January challenge that was, in reality, abandoned early.
Read full entry →An unwelcome scheduling collision between a work-mandated bonding activity and genuinely anticipated social plans.
Read full entry →Claiming a false resilience to deadlines that collapses entirely the instant a real deadline actually arrives.
Read full entry →A sudden overwhelming backlog of messages and app alerts discovered the morning after midnight celebrations.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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