Show notes
Do some people really want to be alone?Or do they want connection without obligation?In this episode of You’re Probably Right, MCM gives a deep, direct, and uncomfortable breakdown of modern aloneness, controlled connection, and the way some people say they want peace, space, and independence while still wanting access to other people when it benefits them.This is not an episode attacking solitude.Solitude can be healthy. Prayer can require solitude. Reflection can require solitude. Sometimes a person really does need quiet, space, and time alone.But this episode asks a different question.What if some people do not actually want to eliminate relationships?What if they want to eliminate reciprocity?MCM explores how people can want affection, attention, help, emotional support, gifts, sexual access, protection, conversation, and availability, while also resisting the responsibility, consistency, accountability, compromise, and inconvenience that real relationships require.The conversation moves through loneliness, isolation, Genesis 2:18, technology, phones, group chats, social media, dating, boundaries, controlled proximity, relationship responsibility, modern independence, and the painful difference between someone wanting you close enough to reach but not close enough to make claims on them.This episode also looks at what happens when one person keeps reducing the title of the relationship while continuing to collect the benefits of the old one.If you have ever been told someone wants space, wants less, is not ready, does not want a relationship, or just wants to be alone, while they still expected your emotional labour, your money, your attention, your body, your availability, or your support, this episode is for you.Maybe they did not want to be alone.Maybe they wanted people without reciprocity.And once you see it, you start seeing it everywhere.Episode 371You’re Probably Right with MCMEntertainment first. Everything else is just bonus opinions.Connect: [email protected] on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/youre-probably-right/id1551574121Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1L65QCDAGp1h5Vca5zwE7X