Really? What would make you feel that way?
“”Sometimes a discussion (read: argument) goes on and on and I wish people would stop posting to me, but having started the discussion I feel I have to continue answering them, like I’m responsible or something.””
Tell everyone how you feel, something such as, you aren’t changing your mind, but that you feel a little beat down at the moment, and you are going to drop out of the argument for a while.
Just tell them what ever is going on, you don’t have to back down, but I think we all understand that someone can get tired of hosting a long battle, and may want to go off and do something else, including shift gears by going to a different thread.
The thread lives on without our own obsessed devotion to it, we aren’t paid representatives of our points of view, if you are bored with a topic, or a particular poster, just let it go, ponder what you have learned, and pick it up on a future thread.
Codependency? ;)
“Really? What would make you feel that way?”
Because I think I have to clean up all the loose ideas and thread hijacks with my rhetoric broom.