My husband and I are currently in a long-distance relationship. We are over 17,000 kilometers away from each other. He works in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and I work in Beijing. Thanks to instant messaging apps, it’s like he merely works overtime everyday and doesn’t get home in time to give me a goodnight kiss.
However, his increasingly slow response puts me on edge. A search online yields hundreds of similarly upset minds, all asking why people delay responding to messages and how to properly handle such a situation.
After three minutes, the girl concludes that he may be busy. After five, she begins to wonder if she did something wrong. After 10, she panics and starts to imagine him with another girl. After 15 minutes, it starts all over again, as she tries to reassure herself that he is simply too busy. After 20 to 30 minutes, she gets angry and decides never to message him ever.
Almost 1,000 netizens commented on it, saying that they felt the same way.
差不多1000名网友发表了评论,表示说自己感觉一模一样。
At first, I felt relieved. There were people like me; it was an assurance that I was not the troublemaker in this case. Then page after page, I saw some whining ladies making a fuss about nothing, as my husband would say.
It looked like women complained more about being neglected by their partners. In my case, I think what drags me down is probably a lack of confidence.
看起来女性在被伴侣忽视之后抱怨得更多。而在这件事情中,我认为让我怀揣不安的原因可能是缺少自信。
Women make more money now, and according to the World Economic Forum, China has realized 67.6 percent gender equality, just shy of the world average of 68.
Therefore, I don’t think this phenomenon is the result of a financial problem.
因此我认为此现象并不是经济问题的结果。
Instead, Chinese women are still culturally inclined to revolve their lives around their husbands. It looks like there’s a lack of independence and pursuit of individual happiness.
A couple chooses to stay together because they want more fun, not more pain. So, if your partner does not reply to your what-are-you-doing messages, go find something else that pleases you. There is more to life than your man.