Dear LFTP: the husband who demands instant replies
- My husband demands I always be instantly available by phone and leaves nasty messages when I'm not — what's your opinion?
The host addressed as Mike (speaker-2) reads a listener letter from a woman whose husband is obsessed with her instant availability by phone — leaving nasty messages when she cannot answer at work or in the bathroom. The hosts call the husband a schmuck/jerk and selfish, suggest grace plus a quick 'got it' acknowledgment (or a disingenuous-looking auto-reply, or Facebook Messenger read receipts), and note he may just be worried but expresses it as anger. The 'secular' answer says to ignore his nasty comments like an immature, demanding child — which the hosts say is the wrong response to childish behavior.
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