I'm not usually afraid that people online are angry at me; it's almost always people I see IRL. My English friend kind of crosses that line; we originally met online but he and his wife came to visit me last fall, and I've been trying to help them buy vacation property here in Florida. I was actually supposed to go look at some properties for them, until I broke my foot. I can't drive until my right foot heals, so I can't go downstate as soon as I was supposed to. They're not mad at me about it though; it's not like I injured my feet on purpose or anything.
But I tend to get convinced that my boyfriend or my family or my friends IRL are mad at me, when they're usually not. Often, if someone is having a bad day and I can tell from their demeanor or tone of voice or whatever, I start wondering what I did to piss them off, and usually it's that they had a bad day at work or they're arguing with someone else in their life or something that has nothing to do with me. But I blame myself for other people's bad moods.
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Date: 2006-07-15 02:55 am (UTC)I'm not usually afraid that people online are angry at me; it's almost always people I see IRL. My English friend kind of crosses that line; we originally met online but he and his wife came to visit me last fall, and I've been trying to help them buy vacation property here in Florida. I was actually supposed to go look at some properties for them, until I broke my foot. I can't drive until my right foot heals, so I can't go downstate as soon as I was supposed to. They're not mad at me about it though; it's not like I injured my feet on purpose or anything.
But I tend to get convinced that my boyfriend or my family or my friends IRL are mad at me, when they're usually not. Often, if someone is having a bad day and I can tell from their demeanor or tone of voice or whatever, I start wondering what I did to piss them off, and usually it's that they had a bad day at work or they're arguing with someone else in their life or something that has nothing to do with me. But I blame myself for other people's bad moods.
It's weird.
Thanks again.