Does being a mom (or a woman) just automatically mean people rely on you to figure everything out for them? Why does my husband send me random texts like, “do you know why such and such is happening to my computer?” Umm… nope. Google it. Because all I am going to do is Google it and send you the instructions I find, which you could do yourself, and which I would do for myself if I was in the same predicament.

Co-workers text asking, “do you know how to do this,” or “any idea how to fix that?” Nope. Figure it out. That’s what I would do if I was in your shoes. “Can you help so and so with….?” NOPE. YOU DO IT! (These are the replies I want to send, but instead I just internally groan or mutter curse words out loud to myself, but then I help anyway.)

Maybe I’m just having a day, but I would like to make it through one day (I would take half of a day, or even literally a few HOURS) without someone asking me to help them figure something out that they should be able to figure out on their own.

Why are people so dependent? So co-dependent? Have I made the people around me this way? Is it because I fix it for them, instead of saying figure it out yourself, since I struggle to say nope when that’s what I really want to say.

Glad thing I have this space to vent.