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quote:The world's least observant OP: Here we are, in a world with televisions, cinema, streaming services and online videos, social media, sports, theatre and travel, newspapers and blogs, an endless torrent of content and entertainment. Yet people still try to explain to their partner that they joined a dating app "for a joke", "as a gag", "because they were bored" 
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Congratulations, ApplesandOranges! You found a post that finally hits incredibly uncomfortably close to home for me  Most of the situations on r/r are so fantastic (or straightforward situations turned weird by the participants) that I can't identify. But this one also reminded me of the two year period in which two different women would repeatedly drop into my life, vaguely speculate about us going out "but not right now" and then fade right out again. Only consolation was their total confusion when I realized what I was doing to myself and started treating them like the distant but platonic acquaintances they were.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think a lot still makes sense when you realise these people think of themselves as protagonists of reality, and other people not as people but as supporting cast, and they are not talking to a person who has their own life but bringing back an old fan favourite character to salvage the ratings. That would explain the utter shock and amazement some of the characters in these stories show when others don't just hand over houses / dye their hair and dress differently for a wedding / change travel dates / etc.
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Apr 3, 2024 11:10
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Deformed Church posted:The stress of cheating on my wife is making me ill – but I can no longer suppress who I am Just from the style, I can tell this is from Pamela Stephenson-Conolly. Her answers are always the same: very short, very generic, "work through it with therapy"
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Apr 24, 2024 06:47
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mystes posted:The thing that's the worst about this is that even though he says he has a "plan" it doesn't seem like there's a specific thing like having to work a ton of overtime at work for the foreseeable future. It just seems like he thinks that if he doesn't have to do housework he'll magically be able to do better work and get promoted. Adulthood sucks in many ways, because we have to take care of things, do admin, pay bills. It's boring but it has to be done. But there are people who just don't want to do it, who get resentful about it. Sometimes they live alone and their house is always a mess, there's a constant trickle of unpaid bills, a car that's always broken down, and they complain about their bad luck and how other people are so unreasonable. And sometimes they live with someone and they get to be really good at being bad at cleaning, finding other things to do, or passing off duties with "I'll get to that later / I'm busy right now, can you do it / but you're so good at cleaning ..."
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Blue Moonlight posted:How has it been literal pages without anyone commenting “That sure beats Super Mario Bros.!”? I did read it and think "Fellas, is it gay to explore your homosexual fantasies with your bros?"
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May 2, 2024 01:23
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Ensign Expendable posted:How dare you propose during my birthday month, you selfish monster? Somewhere, way back in a previous version of this thread, there was a story about a woman dating a widower. He would get upset if she suggested doing anything on the day or in the week of the anniversary of his wife dying, of him marrying his wife, his wife's birthday, Mother's Day, their first date ... to the point that he'd excluded about half the year. I think he also was hanging on to the exact furniture and decorations in the exact locations his wife had put them, years ago. Anytime remember that one?
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Mx. posted:people from the UK need to form opinions on important things instead, like the acceptability of knock-off colin caterpillars People have this incredible amount of affection and enthusiasm for Colin Caterpillar, Percy Pig etc. for them being such generic confectionary with no distinctive qualities at all.
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PizzaProwler posted:I guarantee this dude is an engineer It's an unfortunate truism of so many r/r posts, such that the actual challenge is deciding what type of engineer they are. And it's not just about relationships. I have quite a few engineers in my social circle and most are lovely but a few are constantly busting out with "I don't know why you / the government / society / etc. don't solve X like this, it's simple", where X can be systemic unemployment, epidemiology, labyrinthine and decades-old ethnic conflicts ...
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