Hi all! My friend (22F) sends me (21F) HOURS of voice notes. Like, average time of one is 20+ minutes, and she’ll send maybe 4 of those a day, every day. She’s American and I’m British, we met at uni, so they started last year when she went back to the US for the summer. She’d send them when she drove to and from work, sat around at home, on her break at work, genuinely every spare moment she has. We lived together the next academic year and I still received them, although slightly less granted. Now we’ve both graduated, I’ve moved home with my parents for now & she’s stayed in our uni city with her boyfriend, so they’ve started again in full force I can’t cope with it, i literally can’t tell you how much I hate them LMAO. I find them so overwhelming, and they’re not even about anything important, they’re about random waffle that would take 1.5 minutes max to tell me in person but somehow takes 25 minutes to explain in a vn. She doesn’t speak to me any other way, though, so if I don’t listen (I can’t 2x speed them or anything), I don’t know what’s going on with her and I feel really bad I brought it up last summer and it turned into a nasty argument, so I’m scared to again bc it 100% would again and she gets really really nasty and angry in arguments. She’s said she thinks she’s addicted to them kinda in the same way you would be scrolling tiktok or something It means we barely talk anymore because I feel bad texting and ignoring the 2h of stuff ive got listen to - but it makes me feel like an asshole