>phone starts ringing
>immediately put in a shit mood
When my cell rings it's either robospam or boomer family members who are too impatient to be left on read for more than two minutes. I think years of this has actually conditioned a negative pavlovian response into my psyche. Fuck phone calls, they should've been left in the late 00s where they were last relevant as a communication medium.
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i think your problem might be that you have an unhealthy relationship with codependent family members that do not respect your autonomy or personal space
i dont think this has anything to do with phone calls
Same thing happens to me with my work phone. Hearing my ringtone or the hangouts sound effect puts me in a bad mood
Take a break from them, bro.
If you cant make yourself to turn it off, do what I did.
I once didnt pay phone bill for 3 months so they disconnected me untill I paid. Had a few weeks break.
Shit was cash.
the only reason you did that was because youre a broke bitch and couldnt afford the bill.
It's the fault of your family, to be fair, not of the phone. I have the same thing though.
On the other hand if being rude to family members wasn't an issue even taking the calls would be fine. Not answering isn't really a solution.
stop answering it. thats what I did.
make your answering machine message say "I dont answer my phone so leave a message or send a text". problem solved
>on read
oh i had to look this up, yeah, you're definitely dealing with codependent family members that see facebook and imessage's 'read message' functionality as a window into your personal life that didn't use to be there, and enroach on that boundary because they don't respect that you might have something more pertinent to be doing than giving them attention
Same fucking kill me
I have the same exact shit only in my case I am in a shit mood when I get more then 3 messages in 10 seconds because I know my family is having a stroke again. And while it's a Pavlovian response it's mostly just what said. Unhealthy codependent family.