I have a friend
who expresses extreme irritation
whenever I call or contact her.
So I don’t call or contact her.
I wait for her
to call or contact me.
She told me
recently
our friendship is one-sided.
She always does the reaching out.
Of course, she does
the reaching out.
She has trained me
to not reach out to her.
(And it isn’t one-sided
because I almost always
accept her calls.)
How you react to people
trains them
and changes your future interactions
with them.
If you don’t like
your current interactions,
consider
changing the way
you react.