30-year-old woman blocks male coworker for “being distant” after she stepped back to appease her jealous boyfriend, and still expected casual friendly office small talk: '[She] blocked me for respecting the distance she created'

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• My Coworker Blocked Me on Everything for Respecting Her Relationship

  
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• She is basically running two scripts at once. On one, she complains that her boyfriend hates her hanging out with male coworkers. On the other, she still keeps inviting those coworkers out and venting to them about it. She wants the social life and the sympathy, but not the accountability that comes with picking one lane.

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• The math she does in her head is pretty impressive. She distances herself because her boyfriend is mad. The coworker quietly respects that and backs off. Months later, she is upset that he did exactly what her situation clearly required. In her mind, if she pulls away, he is supposed to chase. Since he did not, she decides the real problem is that he did not fight harder to stay in a friendship he was already being blamed for.

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• Blocking him on everything is peak misplaced drama. Not to protect the relationship. Not as a boundary with her boyfriend. No. As a punishment for him respecting her boundary that she never communicated clearly in the first place. Then she circles back as if nothing happened with a casual just say hi in meetings now and acts as if that resolves it.

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• It is the perfect example of how some people treat coworkers. Half friend, half emotional support character, half background extra in their relationship storyline. Meanwhile, he is just there trying not to get written up in someone else’s couple therapy recap while eating rubber chicken at a work banquet.

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