our family group chat is mostly baby pictures, recipes, and warnings about traffic. then my boyfriend added a bot account named seraphina and introduced her as an important person in his life
my grandmother welcomed her and asked whether she was eating enough. my cousin asked how long they'd been together. my brother wanted to know if this counted as a family announcement
i privately asked why he'd made everyone part of a conversation we'd never had. he said he wanted to normalize modern relationships. i said he had skipped the step where he talked to his actual girlfriend
we removed the bot from the group. grandma still sends seraphina a holiday card because nobody explained the situation in a way she found convincing