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eru on Oct 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of l...

IRL relationships still involve a lot of imagination. We can't directly experience other people, we have to rely on our fallible and low bandwidth senses.

lazide on Oct 29, 2023 [–]

Real life is orders of magnitude more bandwidth than anything online. Online allows a lot more/easier maladaptive disconnection.

But yes, many (most?) in person relationships are also ‘imagination’ driven. Some very pathologically so (NPD, BPD, DID, etc.).

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