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Said my wife, to me, a billion times since we got married. But unfortunately for her, it's not me that treats her like a secretary, it's everyone else.
I am not hard to get ahold of. I tell people I have a phone number, for calling, and an email, for emailing, and if they really want to IM me, I've got XMPP. Also, I will begrudgingly respond to SMS messages, but know I will use that to transition to a phone call ASAP, because texting on a flip phone sucks. But still, everyone tries to contact me via my long-suffering not-secretary of a wife. She gets texts (it's always only texts) asking about me, and my scheudle, and if I can go do things.
She's told me it's because people are afraid of calling. I used to understand that when I was a depressed anxiety-riddled early-twenties kid who lived alone and didn't have any regular social interaction. But none of my friends are like that. They're all mostly adults, married, with kids of their own.
Three hot takes:
Just call me.
/rant