Pick posted:

When he went out to his parents' vacation home last year, which is in a really romantic spot, I offered to stop by in case he "wanted some company" but he said he did not want to be interrupted while re-watching Fawlty Towels.

Mocking Bird posted:

You were more interesting when you weren't just a boring stereotype of an angry independent women who actually just craves the validation of some lovely dude

Pick posted:

Why, because that's your gimmick?

Pick posted:

It's just rich coming from Mocking Bird, who tries to act "empowered" about the fact that exactly the same thing happened to her, except at least I was only making low-grade mistakes for myself and placing the appropriate blame on his shoulders, as opposed to trying to pretend I became a stronger woman by nearly moving in with someone who just wanted a silent live-in gently caress hole who would almost certainly make a play for her foster daughter considering how the rest of their open relationship went.

Khazar-khum posted:

What--you have a daughter???

Pick posted:

Like, it's fun to whine, but tbh so he threw away some cupcakes. At this point it's just another story that people either think is funny or don't, but I'm not really out anything just because I hung out with a rude friend for a while.

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

Cupcakes are p much garbage once you lick the frosting off of them anyways so..

Pick posted:

It's just rich coming from Mocking Bird, who tries to act "empowered" about the fact that exactly the same thing happened to her, except at least I was only making low-grade mistakes for myself and placing the appropriate blame on his shoulders, as opposed to trying to pretend I became a stronger woman by nearly moving in with someone who just wanted a silent live-in gently caress hole who would almost certainly make a play for her foster daughter considering how the rest of their open relationship went.

Mocking Bird posted:

My boyfriend and I broke up on Thursday. We have known each other for six years, dating on and off through all of it. We had decided to make a real go of it the last six months.

He was dishonest about his mental health, and had been suffering in silence a lot. He resented me when our interactions caused him minor stress, and I was blissfully unaware that he was incapable of handling it.

I have a foster daughter and a very domestic life, and it started to trigger his anxiety when I began to talk to him about how he fits into my life. Concurrently, his OCD worsened and he wasn't even able to spend the night at my house or bear to see me more than once or twice a week.

He's a kind, gentle person who works very hard to make my life better, but I couldn't bear the idea of me being a source of stress and resentment for him. So I broke up with him and he cried and asked me to still be his friend because he does care deeply about me and we have six years of friendship and mutual support together.

I feel pretty hollow about it. I feel angry that he let me convince him to do something he wasn't willing to commit to. I feel sad because it's another rejection. I feel kind of worthless and burdensome. I feel embarrassed that I will have to explain this to my 17 year old daughter who adores him.

Mocking Bird posted:

He hasn't even tried to message me

That makes not talking to him easier but also kind of twists the knife by showing how much I was the one that motivated all of our contact

One of the last things he said to me was how relieved he felt

Shithouse Dave posted:

i've never known pick to let the truth get in the way of a good queen-bee put-down

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I'm really stuck here reddit. I need help. 13 year old brother here needing some advice on how to strengthen the relationship with my sister (10). Please help me.

Okay I know I'm just a kid and I probably shouldn't be on reddit but i really need help here. When my sister was born I was kinda a bully to her being 3 years older. I never wanted her in my life at the time and she thought the same for me. Now I'm 13 and she's 10 and I understand I made lots of mistakes in my relationship with her. I am trying to get our relationship back together but it's like she doesn't want me in this world anymore. I really truly regret being such a bad brother to her in her early years and I really hope this hasn't made her hate me so much nowadays. since she learned to speak she has been absolutely terrible to me both emotionally and physically. She will constantly attack me whenever she gets the chance to. I try not to attack her back because I am extremely afraid I will hurt her seriously(she is very fragile) or get caught by my father or mother. We get into fights almost every day and it results in her crying and running off to her room saying "i hate you" or "why are you even alive" and most of the time its about something so idiotic you wouldn't even believe. Here's an example: Just today as I was on the computer playing some Minecraft she walked into the room I was in (guest room) told me I was worthless kicked the chair and told me I had to get off the computer so her and her friend could play a game while they video chat on their iPods I told her in a firm voice that I was on the computer and I wouldn't get off at the time she screamed at me (note that we have a laptop that works perfectly) and told me to get on the laptop. Again I said I would not at the time. She got like super pissed off when I said this. She ran to my father (sleeping because of an injury) woke him up and told him to get me off the computer. Knowing that my father gets really hurt when he gets up out of bed I got off to tend to him and relax on my iPad for a bit. She knows I'm soft when my mother or father are involved and she knows that she can blackmail anything against me. I don't let her beat me up or anything(I'm not weak psychically at all just emotionally) but she will get really horrid sometimes. Just imagine that annoying Facebook girl that always posts those "lame" statuses, mix it with a drama queen, and then take every idiot face on f7u12 and then you have my sister. I really was not trying to be harsh there but that is really what she acts like around me. Yes, she has been good sometimes. Yes, she isn't always bad and devilish. But really, I love her a lot and want her to have a good relationship with me. I admit I really have been a real bitch to her (pardon my language, I know I shouldn't have said that) but I want that to change. I want a loving sister who will care about me. I don't even care if she says she cares I just really want her to love me as a brother. I want to be there for her and protect her and be a friend to her all the time. Please reddit you are the only hope I've got to brining this relationship together.

Mocking Bird posted:

That sure is a generic sad breakup over mental health. Alas.

Pick posted:

The story gets a life of its own for internet amusement, but if you look through the original content in particular, he's an old friend who has gotten withdrawn and was bad at being punctual. We never never a couple. I'd bake stuff for work and drop some of it off on my way home since he happened to live by my workplace. We went camping and he crawled under a truck, and that part is still pretty funny.

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WARNING: Spoilers for the current season of The Big Bang Theory
It's not very often that a tv show prompts me to post a rant online about it but goddamnit, I'm angry and I need to vent!

Sooo, after a long stint of not watching the newer episodes due to being distracted by my other fandoms (Sherlock, Elementry, Supernatural, etc], the last TBBT episode I watched was the one where Leonard and Penny get married before friends and family with the ceromony conducted by Bernadette. So, yes, missed quite a few episodes.

Still, I managed to catch up with the repeats on E4 but to my shock and horror, I am dismayed at how they threw away some perfectly good character development over the last 9 seasons and turned Sheldon into a baby-obsessed idiot.

FOR FUCKSAKE, LORRE!

I've watched this show since the beginning. I found myself identifying with Sheldon as time went on, largely because according to several interviews with the actor Jim Parsons, he plays the character as if he has Asperger's Syndrome even though this is denied by the show creators. (Great for visability, Mr. Lorre. sarcasm)

As a person on the spectrum herself, I could relate to Sheldon as a character- how he was both puzzled and exasperated by social conventions that a typical person wouldn't think twice about, his use of logic, reason and need for evidence-based confirmation of truth instead of blind faith and how he never really seemed all that interested in the physical side of human affection.

When they introduced the character of Amy Farrah Fowler, I was a bit wary. "Please don't turn him into a sex-crazed horndog!" I quietly thought as their romance played out before me. Fortunately, up to the point where Sheldon matured and developed as a character willing to commit himself to giving Amy his virginity, the romance was quite well-written in my honest opinion.

I watched the "Coitus" episode squealing quietly over the subtle and sensitive way it was portrayed, realisticly even, as both Sheldon and Amy voiced their nervousness and fears before supporting each other through a very personal journey.

All aboard the Shamy train!

So far, so good. Yet due to a number of reasons, I fell out of favor of watching the show. I wasn't exactly thrilled with the notion of Bernadette being pregnant to begin with as I always feel that adding a baby to a sitcom usually results in a downslide of quality that one brilliant user on this forum described as Jumping The Uterus.

It happened to Grey's Anatomy. It happened to Bones and I'm sure there are countless other shows ruined or at least reduced in quality by the advent of Baby Rabies.

It happened to Friends too. I wasn't too put out by Ross's lesbian wife getting pregant as at the time I was young and believed that making babies is just what married people do. The surrogacy storyline with Phoebe was also met with a similar view but I was dismayed when, towards the end, she expressed views to keep one of the brats.

Then, accidental pregnancy for Rachel! Honestly, look back, Rachel always kinda struck me as a woman who, if faced with an unplanned pregnancy, would probably have gone for an abortion. Think about it: she's so career orientated and ambitious that it seems out of place for me to consider her having any maternal feelings whatsoever.

But no. That show truly jumped the uterus.

But back to the main subject of my rant: How Chuck Lorre reduced my favorite character to a jibbering daddict in the making.

I was watching one of the newer episodes of the 10th season on E4 catch-up the other night and in it, Sheldon and Amy were conducting a biological experiment which involved combining their respective DNA to produce a result.

The experiment was a success and Amy comments "I wonder what the next step is." or something to that effect, to which Sheldon replies: "I know what it is. WE MAKE A BAAAAYBEEE!"

Um, WHAT?!

Hold the loving phone. I knew Sheldon had expressed a desire to spawn in previous seasons, wanting to "gift humanity with his superior progeny" but I honestly thought this was just his arrogance talking.
Amy rightly rebuffed him, shocked, and told him "I'm just not ready for a baby right now."
BUT SHELDON WOULDN'T ACCEPT THAT.

Nope. Throughout the course of the episode, he kept trying to seduce Amy through a series of ridiculous acts that culminated in him standing in Leonard and Penny's apartment doing some kind of bizarre chicken dance/flaminco in a bid to inflame Amy's lust.

It was disgusting for me to see. I was like "Geez, scrape your dignity off the floor and stop this madness!"
I had to turn it off at that point. I'm so angry with Chuck Lorre (and Bill Prady. No doubt he also had a hand in this) right now.

WHY does ever character I enjoy have to be inevitably stricken with loving Baby Fever?

I honestly expected, after Howard and Bernadette popped one out, that Leonard and Penny would be next on the chopping block but to turn Sheldon-a character who always felt reasonably childfree to me- into a raging wannabe Daddict?

No. No. No. Nope.

I'm officially done with this show.

Thanks a lot, Chuck, you bastard. Thanks for destroying the one sitcom character I could relate to.

And breathe.

TL:DR: The Big Bang Theory jumps the uterus but not in the way I expected.

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My [M35] soon to be ex wife [F36] is sending our friends letters detailing all the things she hates about them and then pretending it wasn't her who sent them.[new]
submitted 1 day ago by WeirdWifeWeirdness

My [M35] wife [F36] and I have been separated for two years, the divorce will be final within a few weeks. While I would say that our friends during our marriage were "mutual" friends (as in we all seemed to get along as couples), as I'm looking back it's clear the deeper and longer term relationships were mine.
"Joanie" tends to have very intense relationships at first, but over time she focuses on more and more petty things and suddenly there's some dramatic breakup (not unlike how our marriage went down). While I certainly have fewer friends, my relationships have lasted longer and are definitely stronger, and now without me there I think she's seeing her link to some of these couples we did things with fade.
Anyway, on to the actual question... After the separation, Joanie still wanted to be a part of our friends group. That was fine by me, but it became pretty obvious pretty quickly that it wasn't really comfortable for everyone. For example, she insisted on going to the Outer Banks with the two couples we always vacationed there with in the summer. She came back complaining that they wanted to do couples activities and she was left feeling like a third wheel. Our friends, while polite about it, suggested that they'd rather she had not spent the entire time complaining about me. She took that personally, I haven't heard the end of it yet.
Apparently, neither have they: over the past two or three weeks, nearly every single one of our mutual acquaintances has received a letter from Joaine detailing how they're bad friends and people. The letter has her return address on it and is mailed from her postal code, all typed save for a signature that supposedly kinda sorta but not really looks like hers. She claims it's faked, I think she just signed differently than normal.
Joanie has been then calling or emailing the people who received these and has sworn up and down that it's me sending them to make her look bad. Why I believe it's actually her is twofold: one, the things these letters contain are things she's told me, and are not things someone else that wasn't Joanie would know anyway. Second, she sent an email "explanation" and "so sorry it wasn't me!" to a friend who hadn't even gotten the letter yet, much less made mention of anything like it.
Most of our friends don't believe that it's me, most of them do think it's Joanie or maybe her somewhat nutty mom (whole 'nother story there), but I feel like I should still be explaining/apologizing. I feel like I somehow put my friends in the middle of my divorce.
How do I navigate this and/or talk to them about it? Do I even need to do anything or just let our friendship speak for itself? How do I approach Joanie?
tl;dr: My [M35] soon to be ex wife [F36] is, I believe, sending notes to all of our friends complaining about them and insulting them. She then claims it's me who sent them as an attempt to discredit/embarrass her. While I don't think my friends actually believe it's me, I still feel like I should say or do something? And how do I address Joanie?

Shithouse Dave posted:

Drunk Nerds posted:

how is this still under the radar? is this just a cheeky english phrase i dont know about, or something?

rat-born cock posted:

My absolute favorite post in this thread was the story about a kid whose older brothers told him "mom's gonna kill you!!" and made him a little grave. Kids are loving hilarious as long as they're other people's.

ArbitraryC posted:

There was also that 20 year old who dumped his gf for suggesting they open up their relationship specifically so she could bang a mutual friend.

Gloryhold It! posted:

Eagle boyfriend is still rad as gently caress

Chill Nazi Frog posted:

sometimes i still think about the one where the girlfriend wanted to open the relationship so she could gently caress her coworker(?) guilt-free and the boyfriend said "let me sleep on it" and the next day shut it down categorically and the gf was like, SHOCKED that he had the spine to say no unequivocally. can't find it for the life of me, but i'm glad some people are standing up for themselves in a thread full of losers and doormats.

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

See that's bullshit. If they were real lovers it should be "hey I wanna gently caress my coworker do you want to gently caress them with me? No? Alright well I'm gonna go ahead and gently caress them then" "oh ok then don't fall in love you stupid oval office" "thanks babe I won't I just think it's gonna be really hot".