Why are you on reddit instead of talking to friends or family about things you post on here?
October 4, 2025
Why are you on reddit instead of talking to friends or family about things you post on here?
48 comments
Well, my parents and siblings are physically and psychologically abusive. I cut them all off in September. Anything I would tell them would be used against me. I also don’t have close enough friends to reveal such personal secrets.
Sometimes it’s easier to talk to strangers 🤷🏼♀️
My family consists of men. though I do tell their wives about the women issues. I’ve felt dismissed by friends when I ask some questions hoping that they can pass some knowledge on from their mothers. My mom passed before she went through peri. I don’t know what to expect. And everyone is still married, they don’t understand divorce.
Because I’m sick of people telling me how they think I should feel or what I should do based on the context of a situation.
Sometimes having a random stranger say ‘you’re doing the right thing, it’s going to be ok’ means infinitely more than a friend or relative doing the ‘it’s what they would have wanted’ type stuff.
i really don’t have anyone in my real life. those i tried to talk to don’t listen
Because people in real life tend to say they have bigger problems than me whenever I go to them with a problem. On Reddit, it’s easier to share because people are not jumping to share too much about them unless asked.
Plus easier to share anything with strangers due to anonymity!
I’m NC with my blood family. And I don’t want to burden my friends too much.
There’s only so much my friends and family want to hear about my chronic illnesses, boring life, worries, and knitting.
It’s nice to have an unbiased source. If I’m being an a-hole, I can count on the Internet to call me out on it.
Also, my friends will always have my back. I love them for that. But sometimes I really do need an outside perspective.
They aren’t interested in the things that I’m in
I kinda do both, just try not to talk to them too much about the negative things
This platform is anonymous and many here give great advice
Because they either don’t care or they’ll invalidate me because they don’t understand the seriousness of what I’m dealing with. Though to be fair, internet randos are only marginally better.
Because I know what they will tell me if I will ask their opinion. I find it healthy to hear perspectives I would never even think of. If I’m just commenting it’s because it’s my downtime and I just want to relax and forget about my own problems and read about other people’s issues 😅.
Writers gotta write
I can be me without judgements.
I don’t talk to anyone but i like the perspective of different walks of life
Why are you posting here then…
Because I don’t really have family…
I doubt theh want to know I’m into femboys.
Joking… Because my parents are the type of people who never talk about emotions or anything similar. Basically I’m used to avoid talking about anything too person with them. Why not my friends? I just assume people don’t care enough/I see myself as being an annoyance to them.
My family is part of the problem. Though it’ll be addressed eventually…
I’m on Reddit because it’s my little break from my very busy life as a mom of a teenager and kitties, and a wife to a husband who travels a lot! And because Ive been stressed out over the health of a person that’s the dearest to me yet I couldn’t freely express my thoughts to family members so I came to Reddit to get distraction.
(First to only see cute animals, then it’s a rabbit hole….)
Because I have no one else to talk to.
I post a lot about loneliness and being single not by choice because almost all my friends are partnered and clearly feel awkward on the rare occasions I bring it up.
I do both. Plus my family isn’t gonna be able to answer obscure questions about a random food I remember but don’t know the name of. Thats what Reddit is for lol
I tell them too
Because they don’t exist nor would they want to hear it
I read posts to my wife constantly. We discuss them and laugh our asses off.
Because mostly I spend time in my bump groups and my husband is the only one I know with kids born in the same month (our kids). When I venture to other areas it’s stuff I would talk to my husband, brother, friends, whoever about anyway. .
Bold of you to assume I have friends
I’m no-contact with my family members, and I don’t have any friends. I have a partner, but it’s not their job to be my therapist and listen to all of my bullshit non-stop. I’ve also tried to establish with a therapist and failed multiple times.
There’s a certain intimacy of strangers… some things you just can’t admit unto your family members…
Because talk therapy and reassurance from people who are bias like your friends and family who’s delivery is super judge mental isn’t enough lol sometimes reddit tells you what you want to hear and doesn’t want to hear because we’re all strangers hiding behind a device so the feedback good or bad hurts less than it would coming from someone you know in real life
They are judgmental and their hobby is gossiping. Easier to share with strangers.
Because it’s rude to call Call at 3 AM, the time I’m usually up with insomnia.
I don’t talk to my family…
Because they maybe don’t have the same experience or sometimes things are embarrassing
Cause I hate them with every fiber of my being
Because they all have spouses and kids and jobs and lives – they’re all too busy to listen to me. And even if they weren’t, they don’t understand and/or minimize my feelings.
If you knew my family, you also wouldn’t want to talk to them. And my friends are busy living their lives, they don’t want to talk to me at 5 am when I can’t sleep.
My friends and family won’t understand and would find me difficult and problematic. Source: already happened growing up in my upbringing.
because no one wants to hear that i want to kill myself and am depressed. reddit can cause no one from my normal life knows me here.
Because I don’t have friends, and my family would either be completely dismissive of me, downplay how much things affected and still affect me and insist I just move on, and/or use it against me later.
Bold of you to assume that I don’t talk to them about these things
Sometimes it’s nice to get an outsider’s perspective and Reddit is nice because there’s variety.
Shame about my past decisions
not everyone has friends and family, but often it’s a matter of wanting to be anonymous and being in a somewhat judgement free zone
My family isn’t interested in the things that interest me. 99% of the conversations we have are about things they’ve done or people they know.
I work with horses and my family is not horsey at all so I can’t really discuss anything about my life with them. They don’t care because they don’t know what I’m talking about.
48 comments
Well, my parents and siblings are physically and psychologically abusive. I cut them all off in September. Anything I would tell them would be used against me. I also don’t have close enough friends to reveal such personal secrets.
Sometimes it’s easier to talk to strangers 🤷🏼♀️
My family consists of men. though I do tell their wives about the women issues. I’ve felt dismissed by friends when I ask some questions hoping that they can pass some knowledge on from their mothers. My mom passed before she went through peri. I don’t know what to expect. And everyone is still married, they don’t understand divorce.
Because I’m sick of people telling me how they think I should feel or what I should do based on the context of a situation.
Sometimes having a random stranger say ‘you’re doing the right thing, it’s going to be ok’ means infinitely more than a friend or relative doing the ‘it’s what they would have wanted’ type stuff.
i really don’t have anyone in my real life. those i tried to talk to don’t listen
Because people in real life tend to say they have bigger problems than me whenever I go to them with a problem. On Reddit, it’s easier to share because people are not jumping to share too much about them unless asked.
Plus easier to share anything with strangers due to anonymity!
I’m NC with my blood family. And I don’t want to burden my friends too much.
There’s only so much my friends and family want to hear about my chronic illnesses, boring life, worries, and knitting.
It’s nice to have an unbiased source. If I’m being an a-hole, I can count on the Internet to call me out on it.
Also, my friends will always have my back. I love them for that. But sometimes I really do need an outside perspective.
They aren’t interested in the things that I’m in
I kinda do both, just try not to talk to them too much about the negative things
This platform is anonymous and many here give great advice
Because they either don’t care or they’ll invalidate me because they don’t understand the seriousness of what I’m dealing with. Though to be fair, internet randos are only marginally better.
Because I know what they will tell me if I will ask their opinion. I find it healthy to hear perspectives I would never even think of. If I’m just commenting it’s because it’s my downtime and I just want to relax and forget about my own problems and read about other people’s issues 😅.
Writers gotta write
I can be me without judgements.
I don’t talk to anyone but i like the perspective of different walks of life
Why are you posting here then…
Because I don’t really have family…
I doubt theh want to know I’m into femboys.
Joking… Because my parents are the type of people who never talk about emotions or anything similar. Basically I’m used to avoid talking about anything too person with them. Why not my friends? I just assume people don’t care enough/I see myself as being an annoyance to them.
My family is part of the problem. Though it’ll be addressed eventually…
I’m on Reddit because it’s my little break from my very busy life as a mom of a teenager and kitties, and a wife to a husband who travels a lot! And because Ive been stressed out over the health of a person that’s the dearest to me yet I couldn’t freely express my thoughts to family members so I came to Reddit to get distraction.
(First to only see cute animals, then it’s a rabbit hole….)
Because I have no one else to talk to.
I post a lot about loneliness and being single not by choice because almost all my friends are partnered and clearly feel awkward on the rare occasions I bring it up.
I do both. Plus my family isn’t gonna be able to answer obscure questions about a random food I remember but don’t know the name of. Thats what Reddit is for lol
I tell them too
Because they don’t exist nor would they want to hear it
I read posts to my wife constantly. We discuss them and laugh our asses off.
Because mostly I spend time in my bump groups and my husband is the only one I know with kids born in the same month (our kids). When I venture to other areas it’s stuff I would talk to my husband, brother, friends, whoever about anyway. .
Bold of you to assume I have friends
I’m no-contact with my family members, and I don’t have any friends. I have a partner, but it’s not their job to be my therapist and listen to all of my bullshit non-stop. I’ve also tried to establish with a therapist and failed multiple times.
There’s a certain intimacy of strangers… some things you just can’t admit unto your family members…
Because talk therapy and reassurance from people who are bias like your friends and family who’s delivery is super judge mental isn’t enough lol sometimes reddit tells you what you want to hear and doesn’t want to hear because we’re all strangers hiding behind a device so the feedback good or bad hurts less than it would coming from someone you know in real life
They are judgmental and their hobby is gossiping. Easier to share with strangers.
Because it’s rude to call Call at 3 AM, the time I’m usually up with insomnia.
I don’t talk to my family…
Because they maybe don’t have the same experience or sometimes things are embarrassing
Cause I hate them with every fiber of my being
Because they all have spouses and kids and jobs and lives – they’re all too busy to listen to me. And even if they weren’t, they don’t understand and/or minimize my feelings.
If you knew my family, you also wouldn’t want to talk to them. And my friends are busy living their lives, they don’t want to talk to me at 5 am when I can’t sleep.
My friends and family won’t understand and would find me difficult and problematic. Source: already happened growing up in my upbringing.
because no one wants to hear that i want to kill myself and am depressed. reddit can cause no one from my normal life knows me here.
Because I don’t have friends, and my family would either be completely dismissive of me, downplay how much things affected and still affect me and insist I just move on, and/or use it against me later.
Bold of you to assume that I don’t talk to them about these things
Sometimes it’s nice to get an outsider’s perspective and Reddit is nice because there’s variety.
Shame about my past decisions
not everyone has friends and family, but often it’s a matter of wanting to be anonymous and being in a somewhat judgement free zone
My family isn’t interested in the things that interest me. 99% of the conversations we have are about things they’ve done or people they know.
I work with horses and my family is not horsey at all so I can’t really discuss anything about my life with them. They don’t care because they don’t know what I’m talking about.