Syncopated posted:

Thought the dude would be like 50 or something, but this, who cares??

Thin Privilege posted:

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11) nobody cared how awesome my baby name suggestions were even though I did literally hours of work making lists because I love linguistics. They chose dumb names. Part of me thinks I say slightly different versions of their babies names on purpose to spite their terrible decision to not choose from my list of awesome names.

Griefor posted:

Thin Privilege posted:

from r/childfree but still batshit.

bolding is from the OP




again, bolding is from the OP

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My [25/M] sister's [25/F] boyfriend [23/M] came onto me last night and now he's begging me not to tell her.

We were all out having drinks. My sister had a little too much, and I was sober by the end of the night, so I drove her home. Her boyfriend tagged along. They still live separately so after I drove her home safely, I drove him home too. When I pulled to the curb of his apartment building, he turned his head towards me and tried to kiss me.

I shoved him off, stared at him like he was a maniac and asked what the hell he was doing, and in that second I guess it quickly clicked for him, what he had done and the magnitude of it. He begged me not to say anything and then jumped out of my car.

My sister and I are twins but we don't look that much alike, so there's no way he was so drunk that he thought I was her. He deliberately came onto me knowing I'm his girlfriend's brother, and then he sent me a string of texts begging me not to tell her. "Please don't tell her. I'm not gay. I don't know why I did it. I'm straight. Please don't say anything."

To my knowledge, he knows I'm straight. I don't date much because of my job. No time. There's a chance he might think I'm gay. Even if I were, he's still in the wrong for trying to cheat on my sister ... WITH ME. How hosed up does someone have to be to initiate something like that with their SO's sibling of all people?

Anyway, I shot my sister a text after and told her we need to talk. She replied this afternoon saying she is super hungover and has a bunch of work to catch up on, asking me if we can talk later this week. I told her it's urgent. I'm not sure if it's my place to out the guy, but due to his actions he doesn't deserve to be protected. Least of all by me. Whether he's in the closet or not, he's a cheater. My sister deserves to know the truth. She's coming over in about an hour. We're twins, she knows I wouldn't lie to her. I'm not worried about whether she'll believe he tried to cheat on her, but the part about him trying to cheat on her with me might be difficult to process.

How should I say it? Also should I give the guy a heads up? Or maybe the chance for him to tell her the truth himself? I haven't replied to a single text he's sent since last night. Given how frantic he is, I'm worried he might lie to her about what happened. My sister knows I'm not particularly fond of her boyfriend to begin with, and although I trust her not to believe whatever lies he might spin, I don't want to risk it. I have all the texts for proof. He's basically done. I just want to make sure my twin's okay and that she won't blame herself the way some people do when they find out their partner has cheated. She has a history of dating guys who cheat and do awful things. And I know she carries it with her. I would text it to her straight away but this is probably a conversation we should have in person so she can see in my eyes I'm not lying.

So how should I handle this?

TL;DR - He tried to kiss me after a night of drinking at the pub with everyone. Then he begged me not to tell her. I'm going to tell her. She's on her way over soon. I'd text it to her straight away but she has a history of dealing with cheating, so I want to be extra careful and show her I'm not lying by talking to her face to face. How do I break it to her?

Thin Privilege posted:

from r/childfree but still batshit.

bolding is from the OP




again, bolding is from the OP

Strong Christian male posted:

Hi all, I'll try to keep this short and to the point.
I'm a 27-year-old guy who grew up in church (still go and still consider myself a strong Christian). Apparently all of the "save yourself for marriage" stuff really stuck with me, because even though I eventually started to drink alcohol and loosen up a bit on my religious self-regulations, for whatever reason this one always appealed to me as something I wanted to pursue anyway. I always just pictured myself (and my future wife) saving ourselves for marriage.
Well, for whatever reason I ALSO always pictured myself finding a good church girl in college and getting married soon after... or something like that. Which obviously didn't happen.
A couple of years ago I saw a statistic about how many people actually wait for marriage to have sex (it's only something like 1 in 50 Americans). I panicked a little bit at the time, but I told myself "I'm different, I'm still going to do this anyway. It's important to me."
I've dated a handful of girls. Mostly the type of girls that wouldn't be expecting sex super quickly, but also a few that did. I just tried to explain to them honestly that saving myself was something important to me. Sometimes that ended things awkwardly, sometimes it wasn't as big of a deal.
But here I am at 27, and still not married. I still consider myself a strong Christian with strong morals, but I'm starting to think this whole waiting for sex thing was a terrible idea. I feel like, at this point, being a virgin at27 even for intentional reasons is a serious social taboo and would only serve as a detriment to any relationships I might have moving forward.
At this point, I'm not against having sex before marriage. It's just whatever to me at this point. In fact, the thought of just going ahead and getting that out of the way and then starting to work more toward getting used to it sounds pretty good. But I'm afraid a 27-year-old male virgin would scare almost any girl away at this point.
I really don't know what I should do. Should I:
-Do whatever it takes to go ahead and get laid, and try to work my way through it being brutally obvious that I have zero experience here? In that scenario, would I tell them ahead of time I'm a virgin? I feel like it would be fairly obvious either way.
-Should I be brutally honest with a close female friend that I trust and ask them to try to help me out, asking them if they can teach me a thing or two and help me get more used to this process?
-Should I just wait for the right girl that I'm dating, and then whenever the moment comes, be honest and tell them the truth, and see if they are OK with that situation and willing to be patient with me and work with me?
-Something else?
I'm a little confused and having a bit of a crisis about this, because I just don't have the slightest idea how to proceed.
Was wanting to see if anyone out there had any thoughts, ideas, tips, suggestions, advice, etc.
Thanks.
tldr: Am a 27 year virgin for religious reasons. Starting to think that was a bad idea and wonder how to proceed from here. Please read the full post for context.

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My [27/F] bf [30/M] of 4 years hit me for the first time yesterday because of politics.

Wall of text!

We have been living together for all of our relationship. He is currently very passionate about politics and he knows I do not agree with him. I told him I do not want to talk about politics whenever we're together because he tends to rant and says snarky comments about people who oppose the current government.

So yesterday, as we we're quietly spending our evening browsing Facebook he suddenly starts ranting about politics out of the blue. I told him to stop talking because I'm not engaging in this conversation.

Suddenly he began throwing things: my phone (which hit my face), his phone, my computer mouse (because I was just continuing on browsing the internet) and then he punched the floor and the wall. He started yelling at my face, punched my knee (I was sitting on the bed), threatened to punch my face and told me to listen to his opinions.

I was not having any of it so I just continued to tell him to stop until he sat in a corner and played games on his phone.

I am surprised and alarmed by this behaviour. I asked him if he will continue doing violent outbursts and he said, "Probably. We'll see. If you continue on not listening. You're such a worthless person. I just wanted you to listen."

I asked one of his friends for their advise and they just said to let him rant, I should just listen to him and give him another chance because it's only the first time anyway.

I know that staying would only give him another chance to hit me but I don't know where to go if I should leave. Advice is appreciated. Thanks for reading.

TLDR: My bf hit me for the first time yesterday because I didn't want to listen to his opinion on politics.

Update: He has called for at least 10 times today. None of which I entertained. I have found a transient room I can stay in for the week until I find a better place near my work. I figured I can't involve any friends because they're basically his friends as well. The hard part is later when I tell him I'm leaving. I'll continue on updating you guys..

Thin Privilege posted:

from r/childfree but still batshit.

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I asked one of his friends for their advise and they just said to let him rant, I should just listen to him and give him another chance because it's only the first time anyway.

corn on the cop posted:

"So, when did you realize you married an idiot?"

Malkof posted:

Yes childfree is filled to the brim with sad brains that moved far beyond "I do not want kids" into "I wish that kid was dead" territory.

I wish I could find one from a few months ago that a lady was asking if she should sever with her boyfriend. The issue: she gave him an ultimatum of staying with her or attending his 12 year old sister's birthday party. The thread was all on board.

corn on the cop posted:

"So, when did you realize you married an idiot?"

Gaunab posted:

Tender Bender posted:

You know, I don't agree with the husband that it's "morally wrong" or spoiling students, but after hearing him out it might not be a bad idea to extend the discount to anyone say, 18-22? Would be cool and possibly good business for the same reason the student discount is.

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My mom is a lovely lady who grew up with femininity being shoved down her throat. Her mother was like that and grandmother was like that. I swear she owns so many loving beauty products it's EXHAUSTING. Not because she owns it, but because I grew up being her barbie doll.

I didn't mind it back then to be honest, although now that I look back it was very unhealthy. She owns so many beauty magazines and she's the type of woman who reads Cosmo, wears heels and is very "girly". I don't know if I should that word to refer to my 57 year old mom but she's a walking stereotype of women in romantic comedies and she thinks it's bomb.

Anyway, when I turned a teenager it was like her peak. She was so excited to talk to me about tampons, for example. Which I don't mind, it's actually necessary to talk about that. But the tampon talk was less educative and more vain. She told me to use SCENTED TAMPONS. I calmly explained that it's unhealthy and your vagina isn't supposed to smell like flowers (which was something my gyno told me), but she's obsessed with looking good and smelling good and being feminine.

She bought so many dresses and skirts and heels. She bought me earrings and jewelry and makeup. Lots of makeup. And hair products. High school was HELL. She has always spoke with the valley girl voice and thinks she was sooooooooo tuned with today's youth. NO MOM. NO. DON'T OFFER ME CONDOMS IN FRONT OF THE GUY I LIKE MOM.

I wish it would stop at how vain she is but it doesn't. She wants me to act feminine too. I was trying to ask a guy out once because I thought he was lovely and she pushed me away and said "nooooooooo! you're supposed to flirt with him, give him the signs". What. Signs. For. God's. Sake. I'm not walking traffic lights. I don't give signals. But she insists on the bullshit she reads on Cosmo while hanging out with her batshit crazy friends.

I love my mom. I do. But whenever we're going out, literally anywhere, I have to be dressed up with red lipstick and high heels. If I'm not dolled up, we're not going out. It gets tiring. She threatened to disown me once because I said I didn't want to do my hair on Thanksgiving. This is loving awful. And she also shows me off to her friends as if I'm such a good girl! Such beautiful! Much happiness! I'M DONE. Reddit, pls help me. Thank you.

TL;DR: my mother thinks I'm her barbie doll, I have to get dressed up everytime we go out and things have always been like this. I want her to stop. Any advice?

Virigoth posted:

Lots of shoutouts to Jesus in the comments here. Less spiteful nerd hate than I expected.
edit: forgot the bold.

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My [28M] gf [25F] of 4 yrs wants to have cosmetic surgery because of me

My gf is very talented, smart and gorgeous. We make each other very happy and I want to spend the rest of my life with her.

I watch porn like most guys and Amy never had a problem with this as our sex life is great. Last month she said she wanted us to try watching porn during sex and see how it goes.

I'm game. She wants to go through my collection to pick one. Sure. We look at it together and she starts asking what type of porn I watch, we watch few previews together and she soon gets that theres a pattern to my porn.

I watch purely women with very very large boobs and I like watching guys do things with these boobs (without getting too graphic).

Amy has a large D cups. There more then enough for me and Im happy about them. But Ive never suggested to her the things I was watching. So she asks why I hadnt suggested it if I was into it. Which I didnt think much of because I dont actually care about doing these things, its just something I watch.

She suggests we try it and see if I like it as much as I like watching it.

Well... her boobs weren't big enough to achieve this (half of my "thing" was still exposed and it just felt weird. she was lying on her back Im pretty sure that contributed to it but she started feeling bad that she couldnt "satisfy my fantasies".

I tried reassuring her and told her how what I watch means nothing. I wouldnt actually be attracted to such large tits, its just something I watch.

Shes not convinced. She wants to see a surgeon to talk about breast enlargement because she now thinks shes inadequate ! She says its her decision to make and that I should be supportive

I dont want her to have surgery! I most certainly dont want someone with large watermelons on her chest. Her breasts are amazing as they are but she wont believe me, she says if that was true then Id be watching regular women which I don't seem to have a single video of in my collection.

How do I talk to her about this ? please help!

tl;dr: gf wants surgery because she feels inadequate after watching videos from my porn collection

Doflamingo posted:

I've been reading that subreddit for a while now and find it hard to believe it was that clear-cut, honestly. Most of the people on there seem more logical than what you're describing.

Gaunab posted:

HardDiskD posted:

who the hell has a porn collection these days?

HardDiskD posted:

who the hell has a porn collection these days?

Charles Get-Out posted:

just lol if you don't have a collection of thousands of picks of buck angel smdh

loquacius posted:

The idea of my girlfriend getting very visible, noticeable cosmetic surgery to please me makes me intensely uncomfortable

especially if other people notice and ask why and she says it's because I wanted it

On the other hand if her reaction to feeling inadequate next to porn is to insist on getting cosmetic surgery rather than making him delete the porn, the girl herself is probably a keeper. She definitely shouldn't do it and he's right to want to stop her, but I admire her problem-solving attitude and can-do spirit.

Unless this is all a mind-game to get him to delete the porn without outright asking him to do it, which is not out of the realm of possibility. Maybe she's playing chicken with her boobs.

Chomp8645 posted:

Nightmare endgame scenario: She gets the operation. All the boobs in the porn were natural. He hates fake boobs.

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Well... her boobs weren't big enough to achieve this (half of my "thing" was still exposed and it just felt weird. she was lying on her back Im pretty sure that contributed to it but she started feeling bad that she couldnt "satisfy my fantasies". 

Charles Get-Out posted:

I wonder how she would react if his porn was all girls who looked like her. I guess the real lesson is to diversify your buck angel pics collection a little bit.

ravenkult posted:

Wait so what kind of boob porn is he watching where D cups are too small to work for him?