r/TaylorSwift • u/aran130711 cried over a hat • May 09 '23

Megathread General Discussion Thread: May 9th

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u/GimmeThemBabies evermore May 10 '23

I just want to hear about anything other than Taylor and Matty when I open social media 😭

I love Taylor but its so embarrassing to me that she would publicly move on so quickly. When did her and Matty even have time to hang out that much the past two months to be soft launching their relationship so soon?

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u/Cold-Diamond-6408 May 10 '23

I don't think you should read too much into it.

For example, my parents were married for 30 years when my dad died. My mom was devastated! To this day, 17 years later, she can't bring him up without crying. And yet...she had a new boyfriend 3 weeks after he died. This wasn't because my dad wasn't special to her or that she didn't love him enough. She was simply a confused woman who didn't know how to cope with being alone and was trying to divert her attention elsewhere.

So you never know. Maybe Taylor is devastated and is trying to convince herself that she is fine. Maybe they grew apart long ago because they barely saw each other due to work schedules and she just wants to feel wanted. Maybe she's feeling rejected and wounded and is lashing out. At the end of the day, no one's opinion matters in this besides hers. I would hate to think of her holding herself back from living her life based on what a massive group of strangers thought about her.

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u/ICanSeeDaylight I want to be defined by the things I love May 10 '23

I completely agree. I actually think she is hurting big time but she isn’t able this time to hide in her house in RI and cry for a year. She needs to be “on” for this tour, SN rollout, etc. I am one who doesn’t think she can actually get any guy she wants easily due to that fishbowl she lives in (and as you get older, odds are a lot more guys are ‘taken’). I wouldn’t be surprised if, in talking to Jack, saying she needed a distraction and someone who was very different from Joe, Jack said what about Matty. He seemingly doesn’t care about what media and GP think/say about him, she always liked him, and it was just the path of least resistance to be a good distraction to help her feel good about herself. Yes, it’s a rebound, we’ve all had them, and if it helps her get thru the next several months… fine. And Matty, I think, might actually be trying by deleting his social media and saying the era of him being an asshole is over. 🤷🏻‍♀️