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The "Door Slam"

dudemanbro

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Hi there,

A door slam is a term that gained popularity in online MBTI circles in the mid to late 2000s. It is the act of ending a relationship abruptly and never looking back. This is usually done by person one because person two is being a significant emotional drain, and abuser, or any other sort of toxic relation. Inappropriate use of a door slam is due to person one being immature, the reaction being overkill even though person two may have been in the wrong.

Has anyone here experienced a "door slam"? Were you the door slammer or were you on the receiving end? How did it make you feel?

I'll post my experience if your interested, but I'm primarily here to read of your experience.

Thanks!
-dudemanbro
 
I have doorslammed people. I did it when I was younger and less aware of myself. I cut out two friends who seemed to really like making me feel bad about myself. I regret doorslamming them. I was like 13 or 14...but I was happy to not feel bad about myself anymore.

I have doorslammed some people recently. People from my old church. Mostly because of one particular person I have learned about Narcissism from. I suspected she was a Narcissist. She was taken out of my life by the grace of I believe to be God, and once she left I took that opportunity to distance myself and get away altogether.

I don't want to do this to people, but I feel like it's part of my survival. My brother says that people are temporary and that's a fact of life he has come to accept. I agree with him to a certain extent. I don't wish for life to be this way, but it just seems like people really show horrible behavior and destroy trust in so many ways that you just want them out of your life for good.

I have never been doorslammed, myself; but I have never really "hurt" any of my friends either...I consciously go out of my way to show that I am trustworthy...it's like I pride myself on it or something...so ppl tend to either not want to be my friend (from the beginning) altogether or they become my friend (but end up a*holes and I am the one who cuts them off) so..
 
I've been a door-slammer and I've been door slammed. I'm sure everyone has been on either end of the door slam some time in their life, but I remember googling this a while back and noticed that it's very common that INFJ's slam the door on others.

There was this girl I was teasing back in high school, I wasn't trying to insult her or make her feel bad, I was just joking around (she was an INFJ) and she ended up getting super pissed and spazzing out. She didn't speak to me for months, she made me feel awful. I really felt like shit, she made me feel pathetic. It really took four month's for her to speak to me. It was an awful experience, but I've been doing a lot of door slams recently, and as I'm writing this post, I'm beginning to feel bad about the people I've wronged.
 
I did it. Zero regrets.
 
I've doorslammed people because they were either a negative influence in my life, or they really added nothing significant to my life. My decision to do that had no significant influence on their lives (at least not in a way they could acknowledge).

The word 'doorslamming' feels really negative, as if there is tons of anger and spite involved. I prefer to call it 'cutting ties' and to me it is a completely calculated and well thought-out decision that I do not take lightly. It is done when moving on feels like the most sensible course of action.

I've also been on the receiving end of doorslamming that was irrational and immature. Ironically, the person was older than me. Of course it feels bad when there's no possibility for a closure.
 
I wouldn't say that I specifically slam doors, but more wait until they're looking somewhere else, tiptoe to the door, and slip out as quietly as possible. Doorslamming, by the name, just sounds very dramatic and explosive, which are things I try very hard to avoid. However, I also don't like the idea of having to convince someone that a relationship is bad, and so let them down gently. So, yeah, I have ended several friendships by just slipping out of their life and not saying anything. Then I vent at friends, and have my hypothetical monologues not to the offending person.

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I chased a girl whom I found completely amazing for about three years. It all culminated very quietly as I was approaching age nineteen. I couldn't maintain composure around her, and I understood that she was purposefully distancing herself. The mixed signals were too much for me to handle and I "spilled my spaghetti," which is a way of saying that. I let my emotions all out on the telephone in a way that was totally, totally, totally cringe-inducing. At the time it seemed natural, considering all of the spontaneous poetry we sent back and fourth, the way we finished each other's sentences, and simply how connected we seemed to be, to me anyway. I have not heard from her since, but I know vie her brother that she's married a pretty good guy. And I trust that he is more mature than I could have been, especially since he is six years older. Anyway, it usually doesn't bother me but, when I made this thread I had awoken from a dream without a scene, just the feeling of emptiness, and awakened with a gaping chasm deep in my guts. Those are the worst.

Being on the receiving end of a "doorslam," really shattered my ego. It never fully recovered, for better and worse. In the end, I am happy that she did this. If I look at it objectively, this really was the best way; as much as I still think of her, I would not want to receive a letter from her anytime soon!

I really did learn a lot about myself and humanity through that relationship, and I don't mean this in a bad way at all.

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Let's have some more dark and personal shit. Validate my need to vent and whine.
 
It's kind of silly that this is a thing that people discuss when it's common sense. When you're the type of person who gets attached to people and has a hard time walking away, a door slam is an effective and efficient remove yourself from an unhealthy relationship or a person who does not serve you. Out of sight, out of mind... sooner or later.

If you're on the receiving end, it probably means that the person saw no other choice but to detach themselves completely. Holding onto something longer than necessary is an evil thing.

I should know.
 
Honey please, I have honed the door slam to a fine art. I no longer slam the door, I 360 no scope it.

On a serious note, yeah I have door slammed many people, and I only regret doing it to a few. It really is a matter of self preservation. For those that have done it to me, I understand their reasons and I respect their desire to be left alone. As for stories... nah.
 
I've door slammed people before and I really regret it. :eek:hwell: I've grown up... a little bit! :rolleyes:
 
Unlike the INFJ doorslam... the INTJ one is like this: I pretend there's no one standing at the door in the first place :D Not even kidding! I'm not even sure if "pretend" is the right word. It's more like, I don't see the person standing at the door. This person has in an instant become invisible. How can I possibly feel bad if I'm slamming the door at empty space? But I do feel bad. There was once someone important in that empty space. The ghosts in my memories will always hunt me.
 
I don't slam doors so much as shake my head and wisp away. I rarely find doorslamming worth the tension and energy required. If someone was very important to me, I might leave a note of some kind, though I usually don't because it feels unfair and avoidant.
 
Let's have some more dark and personal shit. Validate my need to vent and whine.

This woman I started talking to through Okcupid and I went to Pride. Now to give you a bit of context, this is how we started talking: I emailed her telling her she was an idiot of liking the show Weeds. She emailed me back, seemingly taking my abuse with a smile, asked me why I thought she was an idiot. I had just finished watching the 7th season, or rather tried to begin it, and just couldn't take how psychopathic Nancy had become and how the writer had made her this sweet fun idiot in the first three seasons then flipped a switch in the next and somehow tried to explain that Nancy was always this way. I told this woman, Sophia, that liking Weeds was like telling every idiot watching that being a horrible person is fun and entertaining so lets all do it. And I tied in Weeds to somehow making people ok with being shitty to each other. She took my abuse with an internet smile and I thanked her for it. She called me opinionated and we went on our way till we started talking more.

Fast forward to Pride, she had told me she was volunteering and that it'd be the best way to meet chicks and I agreed so we did that together. Now this bitch, aside from email she has a real communication problem in that she will not shut the fuck up, not at any given time for more than less than a minute. For the life of me I cannot figure out why she can't just stop talking. It's noise, constantly, in my ear through a megaphone and I'm an introvert, and I will not talk unless I know I can safely complete a thought in speech. To say the least I don't talk when she's around at all; I never get a chance to.

We do pride festival and that whole thing, then we walk back to her neighbors house because I am exhausted and mentally drained, she of course does not understand this because she doesn't give me one second to answer her question, "Are you ok?" in fact she answers it away for me. Have you ever had someone talk at you, then ask you a question and answer it for you? This was that. I literally didn't have to do anything but be there, maybe look up every ten minutes. She pretty well had 'our' conversation by herself. We get back to her neighbors and my new favorite gay boy is there who truly has a beautiful soul and made my time there a lot less horrendous. He sensed I was tired, laid me on his bed, rubbed my feet(!!!), and told me to rest. All the while Sophia is yapping away asking me about whoever the fuck at the festival and if I remembered them. At the same time the other neighbor who talks almost as much as Sophia goes about repeating, "Shut the fuck up Sophia! Let her rest!" This went on for about thirty minutes -_- So she's yapping, the neighbors yelling REPEATEDLY the exact same thing and I'm getting my feet rubbed. Soo in love with gay boy right now :3

Then I get a bunch of texts, none of which make me look at my phone so Sophia -who is sending the texts- says, "Damn girl, someone be blowing you up!" And I know it's this idiot so I look at my phone, still mentally dead, and read something like, "I'm sorry I never told you how much I appreciate you and how beautiful you are-" blah blah blah. And granted, there were hints throughout the day, like her trying to coax me into making out with her while there was a group of people yelling we were all going to hell and genuinely being pissed when I declined, but by now I had really just hoped it into nothingness and brushed all dreaded signs away.

So I'm laying on the bed consoling gay boy because he was planning this party for Pride. He had all these big ideas but no drive to make them happen. He was laying on my stomach and I was rubbing his ear lobe because his face was itchy; wondering to myself how it feels to get your ear lobe rubbed *ponders* I'd think it'd feel weird o_O and I would ask him questions which of course he couldn't answer because Sophia was asking us in the loudest tone, "What are you all talking about?! Do you remember this girl!?" By this time the other neighbor had left the room to take a shower so no one was there to constantly tell Sophia to SHUT THE FUCK UP which is when I did. Got no where in doing it, just like the neighbor -_- Then she gets cranky, throws a little tantrum, starts crying and the female neighbor, done with her shower, takes her out of the room to calm her shit. But before she gets out of the room and leaves me in bliss with gay boy she asks me, "Can we talk later?" guh -_-

Pass an hour or so, I have to leave gay boys room because it is fucking freezing and my shoes are off and my toes are frozen so on my way out Sophia and the female woman neighbor are out in the TV room by the front door and Sophia says something snarky like, "Guess we're not talking." To which I reply in the bitchiest of tones, "Do you wanna talk?!" I tell her I will talk with her, she says she needs to get beer or something and there is no time to adjust her thinking, tells me she's going to buy me a Guro which quickly turns into a hamburger, the neighbor saying that Guro's cost ten bucks, Sophia saying, "She's worth it" in a dreamy way like she's professing her love for me by buying me food, and me saying, "Just get me the fucking hamburger." Can't buy my love, bitch.

So I go to her apartment to let her dog out and walk him so he can piss. Now this dog is the least loved dog ever. Like this chicks just not... human, really *look of disgust* she's like a robot whose speech programming is broken, forever set at 'Ramble' x.x So I give love to this dog and he's shaking and licking and climbing he loves me so much and then she comes back -_- Hands me my burger, goes on about nothing important and then says, again in a snarky teenager attitude -this bitch is 24 btw- "Guess we're never going to talk" So I ask her what the hell it is she wanted to talk about and she continues her stupidity in ways of communication and says, "What do you think Melissa?" In the breathiest not-on-purpose reenactment of Napoleon Dynamite. Gahd! And I'm eating, trying to relax, still kinda not mentally there and all together not wanting to say, "You want a relationship from me" so that when I do say it it takes me about five minutes to get the words out all in caution with a question mark at the end: "You... want a relationship, from me??" Though a lot less puppy dog than that sounded in my head. I'm tired during it so read that in a tired worn out voice. "You want a relationship from me?" -_- <--There we go!

So she goes on to ramble about how she has no one, her mother is dead -her mother who hates her btw- her other mother who is her aunt who actually cared for her is telling her -supposedly telling her- that she's going to hell for being gay. Now everything this bitch says I take with a grain of salt because she back-peddles five times in one sentence, run on sentence of course but sentence none the less. So she'll say one thing in the sternest of ways, her own personal opinion with is atrocious and unfounded, then she'll be told that her opinion is stupid and why it is stupid, and then she'll try her best to talk her way out of it claiming that whatever opinion was never hers. This is what I listened to the entire 8 hours I was there, her back-peddling. Bitch should be a politician. So she goes on telling me she has no one, that she spends Thanksgiving alone and she's so different from everyone else, bitch please! *rolls eyes* And she's pretty well pleading with me to stick around, all very pathetic. And to top it all off she goes on, repeating to herself mostly, that her telling me about her feelings was 'very brave' of her, the fuck? *smh* And sometime in the beginning, or middle, or end... it's all a delirious blur this ramble of hers, sometime she goes about telling me the exact time during that day when she knew she had feelings for me: "We were in front of the stage listening to that guy sing, and you know I'm an artist and I do all this *insert five minutes worth of completely irrelevant information about her artistry here* and it was raining, and your hair was wet and you shook her head and you ran your hands through your hair and I leaned in and I wanted to kiss you and I was like, holy fuck??" And she tells me this, and in my head I'm thinking, "Ok, so I reminded you of a porno and all of a sudden you and I need to be together? Uh uh chick." *shakes head* Nope.

I tell her that she can't like me because she doesn't know a thing about me because she wont shut the fuck up long enough to listen. This gets repeated once every five minutes. She again tells herself she is very brave for saying how she felt -_- and then asks me if I want to shower. By this time I've shut down; I truly am not there. I'm like a blow up doll she talks to *nods* it's horrible being a blow up doll :(. I told her I was not going to take a shower in her bath room and this is where her sexual advances get more prominent. There are no doors in her apartment aside from the bathroom and closet and she tells me that she's going to take a shower of course trying to flaunt her body in front of me which is when I know this chick is delusional as she has a pretty unattractive body. Can't tell if she's high or just blind. So I'm laying there under a blanket thinking to myself, "This is not going to get better any time ever and I don't understand why I've stayed this long." So that is when I told her I'm going to go. No reason, just that I'm going to go on repeat. She tells me that she feels like if I leave she'll never hear from me again and I tell her that I'll text her when I get home, genuinely thinking that I would, that all of this was not a big deal. Then I drove home for an hour and thought about how pissed I was and got home and thought more about how atrocious that whole experience was and how this bitch could not SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! Which was now on repeat in my head. I never called her, I never texted her, in fact I blocked her from my phone. I slammed that door without a word. She had had enough words for the both of us.
 
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