The commitment is always three months away. Then six. Then 'after the move.' Then 'after this busy season.' There has been a busy season for 4 years.
Permanent. The mirage moves with patient.
None. Calling it a mirage causes a brief emergency.
Patients with Chronic Commitment-Mirage Condition typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Chronic Commitment-Mirage Condition present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Promissa visiblis nunquam, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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