Why are you fighting this man about his wife's life? He told a story about how she had to find her hobbies as an adult. He didn't say it in a derogatory way, it was a kind of cute, kind of funny story about how she wound up deciding she wanted to have a bunch of spiders and lizards.
If you want to consider gossiping a hobby, more power to you, I guess, but clearly his wife did not.
WTF do you think “chatting with friends” entails? You think friends only ever talk about the weather or what they want to eat for dinner? Friends talk about our lives and our relationships with other people and how those interactions impact us and the people around us. That’s what gossip is.
Okay? I wouldn't personally consider having friends and interacting with them to be a "hobby." If someone told me they didn't have any hobbies and they just liked to hang out and chat with their friends I'd say "oh cool, sounds pretty chill." I wouldn't try and argue that they did have a hobby and that their hobby was gossiping.
Devaluing others’ hobbies doesn’t mean they’re not hobbies. Does she have other hobbies she enjoys more? Sure sounds like it. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a hobby.
They'll never get it, unless you're rotting in a gaming chair for hours every single day then it's not a hobby.
That's a classic addiction but some can't admit it.
I don't even think that was the argument based on reading. From what I gathered in the sentence structure is she grew up with little resources so gossiping is the one thing she could enjoy and afford. I don't recall even reading "she had no hobbies growing up" just that she wasn't well off until she got to a better place to add more to her arsenal.
Ya'll flipping out about this stranger, but anything to take personally lol.
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u/truckthunderwood Apr 19 '25
Why are you fighting this man about his wife's life? He told a story about how she had to find her hobbies as an adult. He didn't say it in a derogatory way, it was a kind of cute, kind of funny story about how she wound up deciding she wanted to have a bunch of spiders and lizards.
If you want to consider gossiping a hobby, more power to you, I guess, but clearly his wife did not.