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I always assumed that going on a trip with someone who isn't your SO, that your SO knew about, would be a terrible time to cheat because it's suspicious, but it turns out some people, yeah, they just don't even try to hide cheating, they assume things work like a court of law and that you have to prove it 100% beyond the shadow of a doubt or it's illegal to break up with them...

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Now that you have the background, let's go on to the actual issue.

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LMFAO. I love Coheed and Cambria but holy poo poo yeah, most of their first two albums fit right in with this thread.

"Me [25M] with father [dead] who won't quit making fun of me:

Okay, so I was dating this super hot girl I obsessed over for years, and we were on an awesome date, but I got home a little late and found that my entire house was covered in gore and all of my siblings were horribly murdered. Then I was attacked by a monster and turned invisible before hiding out on a slave planet for several years. Since escaping, I've been watching my girlfriend through her house window at night while I'm invisible, and that BITCH WHORE has a NEW BOYFRIEND and it just BURNS ME UP when I watch her, calling her phone and breathing heavily into the receiver.

Anyway like I said, my ghost dad keeps interrupting me when I'm doing this and calling me a loser. What do I do?"

Poor Claudio Sanchez, it really seems like he's matured as a person since getting married and having a kid but everyone just keeps pushing him to write more Amory Wars stuff.

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What the hell? ? ?

This is the funniest post yet found. Nothing can top this.

Is this the female mra (wra?) equivalent of The Door? Going to do this to my wife the next time I feel unappreciated loving lol

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I (26m) just found out my fiance (27f--together 3 years) has most likely been intentionally sabotaging my relationship with my family and our business and may have stolen from us. If it weren't for our son (2m) I'd be history but I'm lost.

Hello everyone, welcome to my own personal hell...

Quick backstory. I come from a very tight knit family. When my grandfather died 8 years ago my brother and took our inheritance and started a ski/snowboard/mountain biking shop which was an incredible amount of work (first few years I worked 20 hours a day, literally sleeping on the couch in the shop trying to get caught up on bike or board repairs) and reasonable successful. It was the type of business where I'll never be rich but when things aren't crazy busy, I get hang around with my friends all day.

I met my fiance when she applied to work for us. We hit it off instantly and were dating before we know it. She's a hard worker and at first was a huge asset to the shop. After being together for about a year, she got pregnant. I planned on marrying her anyways so I felt like our plans just accelerated a bit.

When Jeremiah was born things changed instantly. She quit working altogether which was fine for a while but her being gone from the shop meant I had longer hours. I really didn't mind and since it's like a second home to me, I thought it was cool if we had dinners there, bathed Jerry there...whatever it was all good.

Somehow or another she got the idea that my brother wasn't pulling his fair share since we were spending so much time at the shop. My brother has his own family and doesn't enjoy hanging around as much as I do...but no big deal. We still split everything down the middle. But she openly chewed him out once and called him a "lazy piece of poo poo" and accused his wife of being a whore.

Things didn't get really crazy until we had an $10,000 dollar bike just get flat out stolen from the store. Whoever took it knew how to evade our cameras, knew our routine, knew everything. Initially I blamed my brother because he had moved the bike from where I could see wherever I was in the front shop to a place in the window where even the cameras didn't have a good shot. But again he had his reasons, it was our marquis product and we didn't necessarily have it to sell, rather to bring people in the door.

Well my fiance started putting a bug in my ear that it was actually my brother who stole it. I was the one doing all the insurance and police work so her account actually began to make some sense to me and I openly accused him. This caused a massive rift as you can imagine with the entire family pretty much coming down on his side. He actually has his share of the shop up for sale, he hates me so bad right now and is claiming he will never speak to me again.

I was content with that until I was up at our local ski area last week and saw THE loving bike on someones bike rack. I immediately checked the serial numbers and sure enough, while some of the components had been changed out, the frame and most of it was the one that had been in our shop.

I called the sheriff's office an after a really short investigation it turns out the person who had bought it in the next town over. From there it had been fenced twice and it is VERY likely that the person who stole it is a guy who grew up as my fiance's neighbor who has been in trouble since he was little. She, his brother and this dude were actually in trouble many times together for stealing from liquor stores, Wal Mart, etc... so there's a history for sure. He is telling the cops that my fiance put him up to it and gave him all the info on how to get it out the door. My fiance denies everything of course but we now have the sheriff asking as lot of questions and have advised that she hire a lawyer. Our insurance is now hosed because it's looking like an inside job and we are out the wholesale money for this bike while we try to recover it (maybe eventually, it's evidence now) and with out the insurance pay out, we are going to have a hard time covering inventory costs for the ski/snowboard season unless we have an amazing January and February (all depends on the weather).

Now my brother is all over this story and thinks that I was involved too as a way to get him out of the business. He's threatening to hire a lawyer and PI to investigate.

What do I believe? That my fiance had something to do with this...but we live in a fairly small town and I have a kid with her and I can't just up and leave. I want half a second to talk with my brother but if I stay with her, there's no way he'll ever trust me in the business again so in addition to everything else, I might be out of a job and lose everything I worked so hard for.

I'm freaking lost and don't know what to do. I don't even know if this makes sense. but I would love ANY advice.

tl;dr: I own a business with my brother. We had a very expensive bike get stolen. My fiance blamed my brother in an apparent attempt to drive a wedge between us, but our county sheriff has advised she hire a lawyer because an old fried of hers has accused her of being involved. If it weren't for my son, I would dump her in a heartbeat but if I don't it's very likely that my family and business are now destroyed.

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I'm (22F) struggling to help my husband (26M) cope with having no teeth.

So my husband has smoked since he was 12 and the majority of his family has lost all thier teeth at an early age so whether it be the tobacco or genetics or whatever, his teeth were and have always been bad. So little by little I've had to take him to the dentist and have them pulled and finally, within the last month he had the last 11 taken out (minus his front four bottom ones that they're leaving in until the day his dentures come in.) He won't be able to get dentures for several months while his mouth heals from all the teeth extractions.

My husband has been taking this very hard despite my best efforts to assist him. He won't hardly eat because he's tired of the effort he has to put into physically tearing up foods and he gets fed up with the soft foods. I've been baking him muffins, fixing him salmon, mashed and baked potatoes, etc basically sneaking in a few things he really enjoys because he's really depressed about not being able to eat the foods he loves and he's also struggling with feeling like he's old and unattractive because of his predicament. I've covered a lot of the basics but it's also hard for me to figure out what he can and can't eat without him telling me and he's only getting more upset when I try something that doesn't work out as well as he'd like.

I'm worried about his mental state. He's getting where even if I fix things he can eat he won't hardly eat them, he acts like he's kind of giving up on it. He has been sluggish around the house and doesn't want to go out all that much compared to how much he use to. I've been trying to talk to him about his depression but nothing seems to cheer him up and it's breaking my heart watching him struggle with this. I give him back massages and flirt with him and go out of my way to reinforce that he's still handsome to me and I tell him that if he can just get through this little rough patch he's gonna have pretty dentures and can eat again that he just needs to be a bit patient but it doesnt seem to help. How can I get my husband to survive these few months, emotionally and physically?

TLDR; Husband had to have all his teeth removed, struggling with not being able to hardly eat anything (while awaiting dentures) and feeling old/unattractive for losing them at young age. Having trouble helping him through his depression. What do?

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Lol he needs to get the gently caress over it and try to eat things. I can eat loving steak and all sorts of crazy poo poo.

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My [20F] with my boyfriend [20M] of almost 2 years, has been lacking in personal hygiene and its affecting our sex life.

Hi everyone, ill try and make this pretty short.

I've been with my boyfriend for almost 2 years now and I am quite sure he is the love of my life and the person I want to spend forever with. He is kind, sweet, funny, gentle, and has all the characteristics I look for in a significant other. That being said, his personal hygiene has been not so good lately.

When I first met him, he obviously kept up his appearances; wore cologne, hair was nice and neat...he just overall looked (and smelled) nice. But as we got more comfortable with each other, we both started to maybe not try so hard regarding our appearances. I know I like to wear much more comfier clothes and just overall be pretty lax about things. But with him, its almost as if he doesn't wear deodorant at all, or brush his teeth...ever. In the 2 years that we've been dating, I have never seen him brush his teeth, ever. We don't live together, but I have spent consecutive nights with him on some vacations and such. It just completely grosses me out, his breath smells, his teeth look awful, and he just has this lingering odor from not wearing deodorant. I know he showers because we often do together, and when we're texting he'll mention he's about to take one.

But his stink is ruining any sexual attraction I have towards him. I don't want to smell his icky breath or kiss him when he doesnt brush his teeth for god knows how long. So how do I tell him this? I'm so not a confrontational person help!!!!

tldr boyfriend has stopped brushing his teeth and wearing deodorant, im losing sexual attraction to him.

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why are people like this

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Nah this is very common. Having to subsist on mush can make people depressed. I saw it happen with my grandfather when he was recovering from a stroke.

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my [21 F] close friend [22 F] of 15 years has finally gotten into major trouble for shoplifting $1300 worth of makeup. She has been shoplifting on an off since 6th grade. She wants me to write her a character letter. I'm not sure if I should.Non-Romantic
submitted 4 months ago * by lightfingered_friend
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Hi reddit. This situation has left me very confused and it would be nice to have some outside input. Long story short, Marissa and I have been friends for almost 16 years. In most of grade school we didn't really like each other, mostly due to our competitive natures. Eventually we became close friends, and attended the same high school and now a big 10 college. Neither of us are perfect, and she started telling me of shoplifting excursions starting when we were both in 6th grade. I'd go over to her house and she'd show me her vast collection of beauty supplies, and kind of brag about "I bought that... stole that... oh yeah, that too" etc. It bothered me, but she didn't get caught so it never became a problem in her life. Her parents got divorced around 9th grade, not sure if that's applicable but it might be?

This apparently continued through to high school as well. I believe I remember her telling me about a time where her and her younger friend Lana got caught at a Walgreens one day shoplifting together but she said they got a slap on the wrist from the cop and a ban from that Walgreens. Later in high school I didn't really go over to her house as much so I didn't see any more stolen stuff or she just didn't tell me about it.

Flash forward to this year. Earlier this year, sometime around March, I get a call from Marissa. She's in tears because she was caught taking about $15 worth of food from a dining hall. She was caught by the manager and was afraid she was going to get kicked out of school, and this was happening on top of her issues with going off depression and anxiety medication, or changing the dosage. She's a fun person to be around and I was aware of her depression issues, as she was aware of my own issues. We shared a lot of secrets which is probably why she felt comfortable enough to let me know that this had happened. Nothing really bad happened after she was caught, only Marissa told me she did this a lot. As in, stealing food from the dining halls. It was very hard for me to understand why, as she had over $1000 on her account for money (her parents are lawyers and very well off). She just ended up going to mandatory meetings a few times about trying to prevent shoplifting and trying to be a better member of our campus. I don't even think it went on a permanent record.

Now, in the past few days, she again called me crying, saying she'd been arrested after going to the mall to the local Lush store and stealing about $1300 worth of stuff. Marissa was read her rights and given a court date after telling the officers that yes, she did take the stuff. She was calling lawyers and planning not to tell her dad. She was terrified that she was going to be convicted of a felony. I can't imagine how she must have felt. She did end up telling her parents because she called her therapist and the therapist told her she probably should. Her dad got so angry apparently, and called her a "criminal" and that he could never trust her again. He was going to cut her off completely, (probably after the school incident she was given a final warning) but was convinced to keep paying for college. Marissa was scared he just meant tuition and not housing or food. She still doesn't know and was not planning on getting a job because she needs to hunker down and study (as her grades have been less than stellar), as she was going to get a degree with all the premed requirements (unrelated to her degree, think about getting a psych degree and the premed requirements) and didn't want to get a job in the middle of all that. Marissa has no savings as she spends a lot of her money on shopping. She thinks, and I agree, that she has Kleptomania (none of us are qualified to diagnose her, but the way she described her compulsion to steal sounds right).

She eventually got a hold of a lawyer and that's where my question comes in. Marissa wants me, and a few of her friends and maybe a professor, to write her a letter of character to show at the court date, and since I've known her the longest, she really wants mine. I have a lot of reservations about doing this, for a few reasons. First, she told me she's done this three times this summer and gotten away with it. Similar amounts of stuff. THREE TIMES. I just got home from a summer internship out east a few days ago, and if it wasn't for a plane delay I was going to go shopping with her. To the same store she got caught at. She denies it but I'm scared Marissa would have taken the stuff from Lush if I had been there and I would have gotten into trouble too.

Second, last time this happened (ie stealing from the dining halls) Marissa promised to get help and stop doing it (though that sounds like an impossible promise from someone with kleptomania). She always blames her problems on her meds or her parents or her schoolwork and never seems to want to take responsibility. Somewhere deep down I feel like this is a good thing, that maybe she'll start taking her health seriously now.
Finally, and this will be the worst sounding one, I'm not sure if I should write her a letter of character because I'm not sure I can vouch for her character. Even when we were little she'd always try to be the center of attention and manipulate people. I remember one time she got mad at me and drew red lines on her arm with a red pen and pretended to hide it when I saw, like she had cut herself. Marissa constantly brings up "wrongs" that people have done to her in the past and follows them up with "but it's no big deal now", even for stuff that happened when we were in first grade!! It's hard to feel sympathetic towards someone who never seems to want to take responsibility for their actions. She sounds like she has some serious ideas now for taking control of her life back, and that's awesome!!! But I am so skeptical they'll actually happen. Marissa feels super lovely that she keeps doing this and says she wants to stop.

I'm just not sure what to do reddit. Not even sure if I should stay friends with her. She doesn't really have any other close friends and none of my friends really like her. I guess what I'm asking is, should I write the letter? How do I go about praising someone I believe needs help and who isn't in a praiseworthy spot right now? Am I a huge raging rear end in a top hat who just needs to help out a friend?? Thank you for your help Sorry for textwall!!

TL;DR: Friend from elementary school stole $1300 worth of stuff from a big cosmetics store. This isn't the first time and she's been doing it for years. She was arrested and wants me to write a character letter for the judge. Not sure if I should do it or am rear end in a top hat.

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Me [27F] with my Fiance[30M] claims he can't cook, not even a grilled cheese.Relationships
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precooked frozen shrimp

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My (29M) fiancee (29F) likes cuddling with her stuffed animals more than meRelationships
submitted 1 year ago by Replacedbycthulu

Throwaway for obvious reasons. This is going to seem strange but please read because I really do need some advice on this.

I’ve been with my fiancee for three and a half years and we’ll be getting married in the next few months. We honestly have never had any issues worth mentioning until last September, when we took a trip to a scifi/fantasy convention and ended up coming back with a gigantic (think large beach ball-sized) Cthulu plushie. At first we thought it was funny/cute, we even named it (Kevin, if you’re curious) and made up a funny voice that it would use. Over the course of the next few weeks, however, she began to take it all much farther.

She started to come up with a backstory for it. She would hide it throughout the apartment to try to freak me out. Over time she really started to refer to it in the way you’d talk about your pet or something, even to the point of scolding it for various mischief that she’d accuse it of. She’s now started to do the same with other gigantic stuffed animals (a manatee named Horace a duck named Anthony). Initially I thought this was just some silliness but I’m worried that she’s taking it too far. I’ve mentioned in passing many many times how strange it is that we are treating stuffed animals like people but I am only met with silence followed by insistence that “they ARE little people”.

A couple weeks ago this all came to a head when I’ve started to have nightmares about these things. My most vivid one involved the Cthulu taking over people’s minds and forcing them to paint their worst fears. I woke up in a cold sweat, and I was so confused that I actually googled the doll to make sure that there wasn’t anything weird about it. Anyway, I told her about it…again in the conext of how dumb it all was and she got MAD that I would accuse “Kevin” of doing such a thing. I think that she’s actually gotten mad enough that she’s shutting me out; when she lies down on the couch for a nap she grabs the doll but pushes me away when I try to lie down with her.

Things are fine when we’re out and about but when we come home she’s always going back to the drat doll. I’ve thought about throwing it away but I honestly don’t think she’d ever forgive me, I just wish she could see what this drat thing is doing to us when we’re at home together. Does anyone have any ideas of what to do?

Tl;dr Girlfriend bought a Cthulu doll, she’s starting to treat it like it’s real, it’s haunting my dreams, and it’s banished me from the couch

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My (29M) fiancee (29F) likes cuddling with her stuffed animals more than me [Update]Updates
submitted 9 months ago by Replacedbycthulu

I posted this a few months ago and I have finally built up the courage for an update.

I confronted her about the doll, trying to find out if it was a sign of something else going on at work or at home. She admitted she had been really really stressed out and the Cthulu thing was a fun fantasy she could dive into. She agreed she would try to cut down and focus more of her attention on me. And she did...for about a month.

As a Christmas gift "to me" I ended up getting...a smaller version of "Kevin." She named it Kyle, and said it would be a chance for Kevin and I to bond over something. She even started to develop political (!) personas for these things. Kevin is a Donald Trump fan and Kyle is a bleeding heart, a Bernie voter. If you can believe it, that wasn't the end though.

She bought one of those disney things, with the long body and stubby legs, for Boba Fett. I was like ok, I like Star Wars, this is a cute thing and all. But then it all came back to Kevin: she would have Boba Fett "fly" around the apartment and hunt Kevin, though in her mind he'll never succeed because Kevin is just too smart. The most extreme angle she's taken so far is that she has now bought a tiny shrimp cat toy as "Kevin's pet." For those keeping track that is a pet for a stuffed cthulu doll.

I still love her to death and the relationship is otherwise going great. She still cuddles Kevin but she gives more time to me. I have resigned myself to the fact that, while I will never understand why she creates these elaborate fantasies, if I want to stay with her I'll just have to adjust. I've started to pitch in more and more to the storylines...I even grab Kevin and have him "hop up and down" when the news is playing something or other about Donald Trump. I'm not sure how things got to this point in my life, but she's worth it.

tl;dr: Fiancee started treating a stuffed Cthulu doll like its a person and cuddled with it more often than me. Now that has reversed but the fantasies have gotten more complex and I am now a willing-ish participant for the sake of our impending marriage.

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I mean unless she's stolen from the OP or the OP has had their life negatively impacted, yeah write the drat letter

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My [20f] brother [21m] took videos of me getting undressed

I got my first smart phone in 2010, a Motorola Droid X. It got passed down to my brother once I got a new phone. He ended up losing it maybe 6 months after that.

I was clearing out some hardcore clutter last week, and I found the phone. I charged it up and played around with it a little, since I remember being so impressed with it 7 years ago. When I looked at the camera roll, there were 3 videos that my brother had taken of me, naked, after I had gotten out of the shower. The bathroom was set up in such a way that he could sort of sneak up on me, so I had no idea. They were from 2013, taken a couple months apart. We were 16.

Just skimming through the videos made me want to throw up. One of them was 3 minutes long. It makes me feel so torn up inside to find out that someone I love and trust did that to me. We’ve always been pretty close, and we still are (were?). I really don’t think he would do anything like this to anyone now, but I can’t help thinking less of him.

I don’t think I’m majorly traumatized by this, but it keeps popping into my head. It upset me today to the point that I cried a little on the way back from class today. And I don’t cry much.

I really don’t know if I should do anything with this information. Confront him? Show my mom the videos? Talk to my psychiatrist? Keep it to myself and vent on reddit? Delete them? I just wish I didn’t find that phone.

tl;dr: Found my brother's old phone, along with videos he had taken of me right after I'd gotten out of the shower.

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My [29M] cousin [29M] is like a brother to me and is the godfather to my sons, but he is divorcing his wife for not getting a scar removed and this is ruining our relationship Non-Romantic

submitted 4 months ago by relationshipadvice18

My [29M] cousin [29M] is like a brother to me. We have the same birthday and we lived next door to each other as kids and went to the same school. We were the best man at each other’s weddings and he is the godfather to my sons [4M] [3M] [2M]. He’s doing something now that’s affecting his relationship with our whole family and making me lose so much respect for him.

In December of 2014 his wife [29F] had a mole that turned out to be skin cancer. She was lucky and it got caught early before it spread anywhere beyond her skin. To be safe they removed the skin around the mole and not just the mole itself. She needed stitches but the surgery was the only thing the doctors did for treatment. The mole was on her stomach and she ended up with a scar from the surgery. I know it’s against the rule to post a picture here but if you put your thumb on your navel and your index finger on your hip bone the scar would be in the exact center. It’s about 2 inches long (the length of the short side of a credit card or driver’s license)

My cousin filed for divorce a year after her surgery because she refused to get the scar removed with laser treatment. He said it was ugly and he hated it. He filed in December of 2015 on their seventh wedding anniversary. He keeps saying it’s not just about the scar but the fact that she doesn’t respect him enough to stay attractive for him, whatever that means. He also says if she had a big accident or was disfigured or something he wouldn’t automatically leave her because those injuries could be serious but the scar she has now would be so easy to have removed. I have lost a lot of respect for him since he did this. He said he didn’t cheat or use this as an excuse for something else because I sure thought that was what he was doing. His wife told my wife [25F] that she had no reason to think he cheated and his phone records and online activity provided as part of the divorce proceedings don’t show that. He is living alone and isn’t seeing anyone and he says there wasn’t another woman or anything else. I don’t know why he would file over such a stupid reason and I am upset that he’s being so moronic and throwing away a good marriage over a scar. Our other relatives feel the same way and no one wants to be around him because he insists that he is right and that the scar was ugly. It’s really driven a wedge in my relationship with him and we don’t even spend time together like we used to. The divorce will be final in a few months. He insists I would do the same thing in his shoes but I would not. My wife has been pregnant three times and I didn’t leave her when her body changed (all aside that I love my wife as a person and not just for her body). I don’t know what to do now or if our relationship can be repaired. What should I do to try and fix things between us?

tl;dr: My cousin, like a brother to me and the godfather to my sons, is divorcing his wife because of a 2 inch scar on her stomach from skin cancer surgery that she won’t get removed with laser treatment. He insists he is right and that I would do the same thing (I wouldn’t) and it’s driving a wedge in our relationship and I’m not sure how to fix things.

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I thought that's what this was but as far as I know it's not. He has not accused his wife of cheating on him, abusing him, stealing from him or anything like that. She told my wife she didn't think he cheated and her lawyer even hired a PI because he didn't believe the reason he filed and there was no evidence of an affair. She also said that he never abused or neglected her. They both have jobs, access to money and no debt and neither of them use alcohol or drugs. There is no other reason and that's the part that is making me lose so much respect for him.

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