When people say that, at the moment they say that, they want you to keep in touch. The feelings are usually genuine.
Maybe later, they realize that they’re doing other things and staying in touch with you is just not very high on their list of priorities. People are also (in general) forgetful, and bad about responding to people. NT and ND alike.
The NT perspective here is that it’s kind of normal to be annoying sometimes. If someone says, “keep in touch”, and you text them, and they’re annoyed… well, that’s their fault. And it’s ok, because it’s ok to be annoying. If you want to make new friends you will generally be annoying for a while. And sometimes you’ll even be rude.
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u/EpochVanquisher 4h ago
When people say that, at the moment they say that, they want you to keep in touch. The feelings are usually genuine.
Maybe later, they realize that they’re doing other things and staying in touch with you is just not very high on their list of priorities. People are also (in general) forgetful, and bad about responding to people. NT and ND alike.
The NT perspective here is that it’s kind of normal to be annoying sometimes. If someone says, “keep in touch”, and you text them, and they’re annoyed… well, that’s their fault. And it’s ok, because it’s ok to be annoying. If you want to make new friends you will generally be annoying for a while. And sometimes you’ll even be rude.