https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)
In psychology, reactance is an unpleasant motivational reaction to offers, persons, rules, regulations, advice, recommendations, information, nudges, and messages that are perceived to threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms. Reactance occurs when an individual feels that an agent is attempting to limit one’s choice of response and/or range of alternatives.
“Could you wash the dishes?” will get an “already on it” out of me.
But if they go with “You still haven’t washed the dishes?” then yeah, the dishes are gonna stay there till they learn to walk.Get a wife and she’ll remind you to do the dishes WHILE YOU’RE FUCKING DOING THE DISHES.
I have a wife. Luckily we’re both adults who love and communicate with each other, so I don’t get to experience all those “wife bad” memes.
You appear to be pretty mad at your wife over this. Have you spoken to her about it? It might help.
Perfect answer
Apparently I have a lot of this term I’d never heard before
Also makes me think of pathological demand avoidance
Dammit, don’t you dare tell me to do something I’m already doing.
I love Alzward comics. They’re always VERY relatable. I especially like his newer style. The other colors are great. I’m a huge fan of the Scientist, myself. Purple is probably my second favorite.
I get this. My dream existence is just doing things as I feel they need to be done with no reason to need to seek income.
I have an unconscious gift of telling people (mostly my wife) to do stuff just as she’s about to do it. She hates it lol
This is funnier if you read it manga-style.
Flatshares that have to do this are doomed to fail.
I usually say if you have time can you do XYZ? That way if they don’t want to, it’s assumed that they didn’t have time which is fine. They always have a way out
