I used ChatGPT to apologise to my wife.
I was in the dog-box (again).
Nothing out of the ordinary, but I was naturally on the wrong side of a typical domestic tiff with my wife.
I was on the train and on the receiving end of my wife’s usual elongated whatsapp messages.
I openly refer to them as her War & Peace texts.
In my generalised bloke attitude all I’m needing is short, dot points of where I’m at fault.
Then let me asses.
Granted, I take most domestics on the chin.
Happy wife, happy life, right?
I’ve learned some arguments are not worth the fight.
It’s exhausting, especially at 7:12am on a bus heading to work.
By now, my wife knows me well enough to know I don’t thoroughly read everything she sends.
I skim read. The gist.
She’s now got into the habit of phoning me not to talk it over, but to make sure I HAD READ HER MESSAGE!
Of course I said I would, but I really I didn’t.
I skim read.
She was expecting a prompt reply and to be fair, if that’s all it would take to simmer the situation down then I’d glady oblige.
I stared at my screen for 5 minutes mulling over where to start but too exhausted to even type.
Frankly I couldn’t be bothered to even press a key.
I was still waking up and hadn’t had my large flat white yet.
Then it struck me like a flying DeLorean.
The future was here. Where we’re going we don’t need to think, especially before work.
AI baby (Yes, I’m riding the AI chatter wave).
I had a brainwave.
What if I copy and pasted my wife’s text in CHATGPT and asked it to write a heartfelt reply?
In the words of Doc Brown, “Great Scott!”
The first few attempts were fairly formal, and made me sound like Lady Chatterly’s lover, but after a few casual tries and a bit of brevity I had a paragraph that was workable.
I copy and pasted and hit reply.
She immediately replied back and told me she needs actions not words.
Sure I’d work on whatever I needed to work on, but right in that moment I had something better working for me.
In the words of CHATGPT:
“I messed up big time with my words earlier, and I’m truly sorry. You work just as hard as I do, and I should have acknowledged that. I want to change and be a better partner and parent. Let’s talk and figure out how to make things better. I love you.”
I love you to too CHATGPT.
