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Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


lemon-lyme disease posted:

Wait. How is it like russian roulette? Is there a randomized sex partner number ladies have (that I guess has to be greater than or equal to two, counting yourself) and if you’re that number you instantly die upon penetrating her?

Because that’s loving awesome. I’d read a book based on that premise.
I don't know if reading a redpill textbook would be that exciting.

Milotic posted:

This is depressing.

I'm [34F] pregnant with my boyfriend [35M] of 10 years' baby, and we want it, but my emetophobia makes me not want to continue the pregnancy
This lady should get another and this time real CBT therapy for her phobia. This poo poo isn't a death sentence. If she doesn't even know how to react to panic attacks properly it means her therapy was complete garbage. It's depressing to read only because it's another person sacrificing important things in life because they received bad treatment and don't know any better.

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Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Anyway, something for the new page:

I [22M and Jewish] am uncomfortable with what GF’s European parents said about Hitler. Not sure how to discuss it with GF.

quote:

I [22M and Jewish] am in a long distance relationship and currently visiting my girlfriend. She lives in a European country that has a 500 year history of kicking out or murdering Jews living in the country. My GF’s parents don’t really know many Jewish people and her extended family still asks questions like why my family doesn’t celebrate Christmas just because we are Jewish. They aren’t overtly anti-Semitic. In fact, they wanted me to bring a menorah and dreidel so we could celebrate hanukah together this year. But they are sometimes really ignorant about Judaism.

Within a few hours of arriving in my GF’s country, I had dinner with her family and her mother brought up a documentary she watched about how Hitler’s Germany was dependent on advances in train technology. They all spent a few minutes marveling over the efficiency and successes of Nazi Germany, including Hilter’s political acumen and German engineering abilities. I was shocked because I had never really heard anyone praise Nazi Germany for all its advances that were directly responsible for the Nazi’s ability to kill so many Jews. I am a guest in their house so I didn’t want to make an issue or be rude. I just remained silent for the entire conversation

I tried to ignore it, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that within a few hours of seeing them, her family literally praised the process that killed off half my grandmother’s family. I brought up the issue with my GF and framed it as something that made me feel like an outsider in her family. I think she was trying to make me feel better but proceeded to defend her parents and say they were just impressed by some of the Nazi’s accomplishments and that I should admit the Nazi’s did accomplish some incredible things.

I feel a little crazy and I am starting to second guess myself. Am I being overly sensitive? How do I express to my GF that I am not okay with what her family said without making her feel attacked? I don’t necessarily want her to confront her family, I just want her to understand why I was so upset.

tl;dr: GF and her family kind of praised Hitler/Am I over reacting? How can I express my discomfort to my GF?

burial
Sep 13, 2002

actually, that won't be necessary.

Palpek posted:

I don't know if reading a redpill textbook would be that exciting.

I had the premise wrong anyway? but I really didn’t mean THAT kind of book. I was thinking speculative fiction. There are a lot of ways to approach it, but I see now that nearly all of them would be bad.

“I really love Beth, but she’s been with four men. There are only so many bullets in that gun.”

“Would you take one for her?”

“You know what? yes. I would.”

“Even if she won’t sign the pre-nup?”

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

Palpek posted:

Anyway, something for the new page:

I [22M and Jewish] am uncomfortable with what GF’s European parents said about Hitler. Not sure how to discuss it with GF.

I mean it's weird (and probably intentionally inflammatory of them) to discuss that sort of thing as casual dinner conversation but opening with " She lives in a European country that has a 500 year history of kicking out or murdering Jews living in the country." is pretty lol.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


There are too many new good ones:

I [22F] started seeing this guy [31m] and I’m having second thoughts. What are some early red flags to look for in a relationship?

quote:

Started dating this guy, in general he is a cool dude. We like the same music, same shows, we like to read and learn various things. We’ve been friends for about 5 years. I deleted all my social media last year so I recently got back into contact with him. We talked about a relationship and clearly I rushed into this. He told me on the 1st week of talking that I should be with him and that he “can tell I’m going to stick around”. Wtf does that mean? Some kind of manipulation?

He is 31 and doesn’t have his drivers license, still lives at home, works a minimum wage job, laughs at inappropriate jokes and toilet humor, plays video games all day, sleeps until 5pm, doesn’t text me back for days at a time. He also smokes a lot of pot (which is fine because plenty of people smoke pot and can function, however he CANNOT), his grammar is terrible, can’t even form a proper sentence. Example: “I can see that happen in certain future events sometimes eventually.” Like what??

He talks about himself constantly, there’s a difference between having a two way conversation and just talking and talking without giving room for a person to respond.

We have only had sex once because quite honestly, it was terrible. He didn’t know what he was doing, couldn’t even find my vagina. Then told me at the end (of course I didn’t finish) that he’s sorry that he is so advanced sexually. He wants to try BDSM but I am not comfortable with that sort of thing at all. I told him this and he didn’t say anything.

I’m just feeling a bit frustrated because I don’t want to be dating someone who won’t text me back for 24+ hours. I understand people are busy, I have a full time job as well. But why can’t he just tell me that he’s busy and will get back to me when he can? Instead I get “sorry I just woke up.” at 6:00 in the evening.

Also when I go to his house to hang out, he doesn’t bring me inside all the time. I’ve met his family before, so I’m not sure what it has to do with. The other night it was below freezing and I was shivering and he asked me if I needed a blanket. Like why can’t we just go inside?

I feel like the reasons I am attracted to him are shallow (looks, common interest, sense of humor) and now that we are in a relationship I’m starting to see how this person really is. Obviously there needs to be another reason to date somebody other than the fact that he is a “cool person” lol. I feel so confused.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this before? Am I overreacting or is there a definite issue here already? Should I just wait to see where this goes?

TLDR; my boyfriend seems immature but it may be too early on to decide

Hmmm, red flags, what red flags?

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

:10bux: says that dude lost his virginity to her

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Found Out That My (Ex?-)Boyfriend [21 M] Uses Facebook As a Porn Site

quote:

I just found out that my (ex?-)boyfriend masturbates to every girl he has ever seen or knows. And he goes on facebook and searches a bunch of girls to masturbate to. We were having a "talk" about our relationship these past days and he was masturbating to them the entire time. It really disturbs me that he's basically using Facebook as PornHub. He just sees their profile picture and other innocent pictures they post for friends to see, and masturbates to them! I don't know what to think anymore...

Also every move he watches, without fail, he'll masturbate to the actresses.

tl;dr: Boyfriend uses FaceBook to look up females he knows and masturbates to all of them.

quote:

We live an hour away and we only see each other once a week. So our talk was over text. And today he finally told me the entire truth and that's how I just found out he masturbates to every girl on facebook (and freaking uses facebook instead of regular porn sites), that he masturbates to every actress in every movie he sees, and he did it while we were having our talk.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

ArbitraryC posted:

I mean it's weird (and probably intentionally inflammatory of them) to discuss that sort of thing as casual dinner conversation but opening with " She lives in a European country that has a 500 year history of kicking out or murdering Jews living in the country." is pretty lol.

"Which one?"

But seriously, that sounds like eastern europe. Totally normal to casually drop some good old antisemitism and antiziganism in a conversation.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Help, I'm living in a romantic novel and can do nothing about it, my hands are tied really (except when I'm tickling a 25 year old):

I [35M] need advice to deal with strong, unwanted feelings for my SIL[25F], been married 10 years

quote:

I have been tormented by this for a year. I haven't had a day of rest from anxiety or guilt. I'm exhausted, sad, hurt, longing, and I can't talk to anybody bc the attraction is to my wife's sister. I don't have anyone that would stomach that or be ok with me if it ever does pass. What do I do?

I'll start the story with my wife. I love and adore her. We have a great marriage. We are both good to eachother, caring, supportive, playful. She is drop dead gorgeous and the sex is great. She is fantastic to me, so completely smitten after all these years, still stares at me all Googly eyed, calls me dreamy, swears she still has butterflies.

This is all important bc I don't feel anything is missing from my marriage. No negativity, no distancing, or fear of inadequacy. Most importantly, I only want feelings for my wife, and I want to make these other feelings go.

Onto the SIL. She is relatively new to my life. I met her sister 5-6 times until a little over a year ago. She is now working with me and living in the same town. It was almost instantly that I reacted to her once she became a permanent fixture in my life. I have these natural, pure, raw responses to her that I never experienced before. Real physical reactions like racing heart, empty pit, this type of euphoric calm and joy when interacting.

We have never flirted, joked with innuendos or hinted at anything, but we certainly have our own relationship and connection away from being an extension of my wife and we are buddies. We laugh so loving much together, have similar sense of humor, inside jokes, share looks quite often to see how the other is going to react. We were just at TG diner, where I made food fall out of her mouth laughing just off of a look at the table. I've never had that intuneness before. Hell I have had the same bestfriend since pre-k, and we don't communicate like that. And I love the sound of her laugh it just sounds like pure joy.

I was trying to create some distance before TG, but sharing family that's never really going to work, and might blow up to make things more awkward. I was already getting some joking texts about where's my buddy, and a big hey stranger hug when we got to dinner. Once around eachother everything just comes naturally without thinking about it. We share food and have fed eachother before like it was a reflex, and only thinking about it after causes pause. Then our hugs aren't like everyone else's.

She was laying on the couch and said something to me, my reply made her laugh so hard she was crying, so I leaned over and tickled her, she started flailing and screaming how she was going to pee, this just made the 2 of us hysterical till we are both belly aching and no one else was in on our fun. It's always like that. We laugh much more at eachother than anyone else around.

When she hugs me, it's really tight, her fingers dig in my back, and she always buries her face in my chest. She disarms me a lot, I didn't even notice the first time she hugged my like this till it lingered, but I don't like being touched normally. I've seen some poo poo, I work an ugly job, and I just never really like being touched.

She is like this innocent, pure, ball of light, and this tiny frame, it makes me just want to scoop her up. She is stoic and tough all the time, but so emotional and tender underneath; she fights her own battles and I respect the hell out of that. We've had a couple convos where I hit on something and tears just started coming.

She does not realize how much of an amazing catch she is, thinks she is plain, or unlikable. It just kills me, bc I know how highly she thinks of me, brags about me, made comments like I'll never marry as good as my sister, and I can't tell her that I would've picked her over any of all the options she thinks I had. I mean once when she was down, I told her I thought she was beautiful and she cried her eyes out and couldn't believe a guy like me thinks she is.

She is broken up right now over this little dweeb hipster deuche and it's so hard seeing her hurt, seeing her thinks that's the level she Is stuck at, and feeling like I could do something about, but it's all just so wrong that I could.

Love is an action. I love my wife and family. The things I do for them and would choose to do, act on, trumps everything else. I'll never be at a point where I act on something over my wife and kids, but there is this other worldly, instinctual side of emotions that I never believed in or felt and am going through those feelings now.

It sucks and it's tearing me up. I felt hurt every day for a year now. I've had the attention of pretty girls a bit since being married, and I've always ignored it.

This isn't just a tickle of getting some strange attention, that's come often enough, and it really is this new encompassing attraction.

I've always been very aware of other women, enjoyed beauty, but for the past year I can't get eyes for anyone else. I have watched more porn this last year than ever, just looking for anything else to catch my attention and it's nothing. Like bored to death of porn, no eyes for it, no interest in seeing the woman's next pic or finishing the video. Everything that isn't her is blah and I have never felt that in my life.

I want to feel that for my wife and certainly not her sister. I even started going to church and I used to be an atheist. I know this is a long meandering mess, but I am broken right now. I want to be a good husband and I am failing.

I was commitment shy is my 20s, bc I thought the worst feeling would have to be meeting the person you wanted after being with someone else already. And now it happened 10 fold bc I have kids and it's my wife's sister. I am not even saying I love her bc I don't, I have no clue what I would do for her, and not calling it that is the only thing letting me stomach putting these words out into the real world, but god I know I feel something fierce that I want explained away.

Anyone heard of a similar situation? What could be done?

tl;dr My wife's sister moved to town and started working with me a year ago. I have been living with strong feelings for her since and she seems to have some kind of connection going the other way that makes it grow. Some of these feelings, especially physical sensations, I have never felt before. But I don't want any of this. I feel awful with guilt. I want to not feel like this, be happy with my wife, and give her everything she deserves. How can I knock this?

andrew smash
Jun 26, 2006

smooth soul

Milotic posted:

And the whooping cough vaccination can make you projectile vomit.

Where do people hear this poo poo? No it doesn't.

FabioClone
Oct 3, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

andrew smash posted:

Where do people hear this poo poo? No it doesn't.

if you drink enough of it, it can

abigserve
Sep 13, 2009

this is a better avatar than what I had before

The Letter A posted:

My [F19] boyfriend [M20] is angry at me because I said I only date guys over 6' tall. Am I in the wrong?

Do these people really exist? I can imagine someone who is that superficial but does it on the sly but to straight up admit to it in a public setting that's fuckin cold

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


What's with these loving stories today, :wtc:

Me [26 M] with my girlfriend [26 F] of 3 years

quote:

Please don't judge me or call me a scumbag as I am speaking my mind and looking for unbiased opinions.

My situation is that I am a 26 year old male and have been dating my girlfriend for 3 years. Prior to being in this relationship, I have only been with 16 partners whereas my girlfriend has been with about double the partners.

This has been a bit of a hard pill to swallow from the beginning of the relationship but at the end of the day there are more pros in staying in the relationship than cons.

One of my personal mental issues is jealousy and trust due to knowing the past of my partner. However it is infrequent and most of it is manageable. One solution that i have contemplated for some time but not have acted on is sleeping with other partners until our number of sexual partners is equivalent.

What are your thoughts?

TLDR: My gf has a higher number of sexual partners, I think it would be fair to sleep with others behind her back to equalize the number of partners.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Open the relationship and have a race to 100 partners. I'm sure you'll win, dude.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

abigserve posted:

Do these people really exist? I can imagine someone who is that superficial but does it on the sly but to straight up admit to it in a public setting that's fuckin cold

Some people certainly put stuff like that on their online dating profiles. Just like men put stuff like 'no fat chicks'.

fins
May 31, 2011

Floss Finder
Between the 6 foot + one and the rich guy with the numbers issue, it's smells like the r/incels people have come back out of the woodwork to try and prove something.

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

Palpek posted:

Found Out That My (Ex?-)Boyfriend [21 M] Uses Facebook As a Porn Site

Lol if you aren't literally jerking it at all times to women, trees, firearms, animals, food, everything in existence

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


fins posted:

Between the 6 foot + one and the rich guy with the numbers issue, it's smells like the r/incels people have come back out of the woodwork to try and prove something.

I am a shallow person with no interest in dating people I am not physically attracted to.

Buzkashi
Feb 4, 2003
College Slice

La Brea Carpet posted:

Me (24M) just got called a Minion by my crush (23F)



Should have offered to show her his banana

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


I [29 M] can't Get over my girlfriend's [29 F] past Sex life. 3 month Relationship.

quote:

We've been together for 3 months and we consider ourselves introverts with small social groups.

I was a virgin before we met. She has had 4 sexual partners in her life (me included). The first was her 4 year relationship with her Ex. The second was a one-night stand, the third she described as "friends with benefits" relationship which lasted for 6 months (they tried literally everything). The last two happened just before we met.

Here's what drives me crazy , and even made me cry last weekend when I was with her:
  • She has memories of other men, and have brought them up from time to time.
  • She has something to compare me against. The more men my girlfriend has slept with, the greater number of lovers to which she can compare my skills and my physical features.
  • The image in my head that she is having fun, laughing and is completely relaxed while being caressed and making love with another man, just like we have done.
  • There are some things in sex I can't perform with her, but she has performed with other men and she enjoyed (Reasons: my short height, my lack of strength, my smaller penis).
This just makes me feel inadequate, but I fully understand that at my age, I can't expect my partner to be a virgin.

We've talked about this issue multiple times, because it pops into my head randomly from small things she mentions about her past life. She said that I would get over it much more easily if only I had my own past sexual partners.

While I cried, she did tell me that she doesn't miss anyone else, and that I am her best sexual partner because of how much she can trust me.

After crying for a few hours, I bluntly said that I'm glad I can go to work the next morning so that I don't have to think about this. In that moment I also said harshly that I no longer feel anything. Then she started crying because she didn't want to lose me, and didn't mean to hurt me.

I know the problem is entirely in my head and physical features. She can't change her past. How do I get over it?

tl;dr: I was a virgin before we met, but my partner has had many sexual partners, and thinking about it makes me feel inadequate. How do I fix this?
Bets on what sexual acts they can't perform because of his physical features.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
That has to be a fakepost lol

Khorne
May 1, 2002

Three Olives posted:

To be fair I don't know this is so much a "ugh, what a poor" thing and more jesus christ this guy is trainwreck financially that just does not have his poo poo together and I'm afraid he is going to be expecting me to support him.

Like there is a difference between not making as much money as your boyfriend and your boyfriend being such a fuckup financially that it strains the relationship
Yeah. Pretty much. Severance pay being 2x his salary normally means he blew an entire month's pay in a week and a half. That's financial fuckup territory. Especially when you've lost your job and then can't pay bills. That means on top of doing that, he has no emergency fund or assets/investments. He does have a financial drain of a vehicle, though! Oh boy!

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

Palpek posted:

I [29 M] can't Get over my girlfriend's [29 F] past Sex life. 3 month Relationship.

Bets on what sexual acts they can't perform because of his physical features.

Penetrative vaginal sex?

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Zzulu posted:

That has to be a fakepost lol

He's ticking all the boxes:

quote:

I lived with my parents, spent the last 10 years playing video games, and didn't leave the house. Not a single weekend. I did go to school thought and got a higher degree. Then I moved to another city and met the girl.

I never even kissed a girl or held hands before I met her. Never before had the courage to talk to a girl.

I'm atheist/agnostic.

I was bullied in school when I was 15-19 years old. I was the smallest kid. I went to a club/bar two times.
My job is programming. No contact with women.

I describe myself as someone who lost 10 years of my life. The best years. But I know how to draw, paint and play video games.

I have no specific view on society. I'm just trying to get by. I hate all the competition and the fact I need to earn a living. I wonder if life was easier in the stone ages when all you needed to do was kill animals and feed yourself.
The least competitive time to survive for a man: the stone age :hai:

Blade Runner
Aug 14, 2015

Ah yes, the stone age, where short and physically mediocre at best computer touchers were dominant

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


The good part about the stone age was that all of the things you worried about made total sense, all worrying about whether or not you will find food tomorrow instead of all the complicated anxieties that wear modern people down

Also that was the only good thing, there's a reason we bailed on it literally as soon as anyone thought of something better

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
He'd be used as bait or a cocksleeve

Life was harsh back then and cocksleeve was an honorable direction to take in life

The Letter A
Nov 8, 2002

Palpek posted:

I [29 M] can't Get over my girlfriend's [29 F] past Sex life. 3 month Relationship.

Bets on what sexual acts they can't perform because of his physical features.
Providing incriminating information about Nixon to Washington Post reporters

blarzgh
Apr 14, 2009

SNITCHIN' RANDY
Grimey Drawer

Milotic posted:

Me [31 F] with my boyfriend [37 M] 2 years, Boyfriend wants a prenup and I'm offended at the reason why.


Well that’s a new one to me.

If you don't know someone well enough to know that they believe these things or something like them, how do you know that well enough to marry them?

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

quote:

. If a hamster was kind and generous would you marry it? No. You want a human. The same way that I want a guy over 6'

You heard it here first, people of GBS. Manlets aren't human :smug:

almightyerin
Apr 16, 2007

The one the only. Accept no substitutes.
My siblings [27F & 24M] and I [26F] just found out my mom [49F] is having a baby in less than three months! She confessed that she has been going through fertility treatments and lied to us about it for over two years. How can we come to terms with her betrayal?

quote:

Two days ago my pregnant sister called me practically screaming about how my mom was also pregnant and now my brother won't answer the phone and she's worried about him. The whole family is in "shambles" and she wants me to come home. She was in absolute hysterics.
I am currently in another country (almost 15,000 km away) with my husband for work. We will be here until at least April if not May. It is not currently an option for me to fly home. I did try my best to calm her down and figure out what actually happened.
The family all went for dinner on Sunday to celebrate my brother's recent engagement. The people who were there were:
My brother, his fiancée [25F], her parents [late 40's] and her two younger brothers [early 20's]
My sister, her fiancé [30M] and their one year old daughter
My dad [54M]
My grandma (dad's mom) [71F]
My mom and her husband [37M]
My aunt (mom's sister) [45F]
My step-mom [51F] and step-siblings [26M & 24F] do not go to events where my mom is (my mom won't speak in their presence and makes us all uncomfortable) so they didn't come. They would have been invited if things were different. My siblings and I all have a good relationship with our step-mom and step-siblings.
Anyway, my brother and his fiancée were telling a story about something and she made a joke about him being the baby of the family. Apparently my mom's husband said "not for long" to my aunt. Well he isn't exactly the most subtle of people and everyone at the table heard.
To make a long story short my mom admitted she was expecting a baby in February and that she had been struggling with infertility for "years". My mom always told us that we were all she ever wanted. She calls us her "three musketeers" and we even have a running joke about people who have kids when they are old enough to be grandparents. She married her husband back in 2011 and she always promised us that she wouldn't have any more kids and that she was "too old" and "finally free". This is incredibly shocking to us all.
Once she said all this at first nobody at the table was really speaking. My dad, my grandma, my brother's fiancée and her family all tried to lighten the mood and change the topic a bit and make things less awkward. My sister admitted to me that both her and our brother were "quietly fuming" and neither of them were acting very mature. They were both absolutely shocked. My mom was also sitting there in silence until she started crying and making a scene. She was apparently "wailing" things like "I knew you would react like this” "why can't you just be supportive?” and "don't be selfish".
My sister said she was couldn't speak because she was beyond words so my grandma tried to intervene to calm things down. She was telling my mom to give them a bit of time to take it all in but my mom kept making a scene. Crying louder and louder and saying more things like "you don't love me" "you're breaking my heart" "aren't you going to love this baby?” and "why can't you support my decision?”.
Then my brother (who is the chillest person I know and normally very calm, cool and collected) apparently quietly but effectively "destroyed" my mom with words. My sister said that he said the following things:
You are the most selfish person I have ever met.
You ruined my senior year of high school and my grad.
You made my University convocation a loving nightmare (my mom acted like a child because my step-mom was there).
You expect us to be supportive of your lovely selfish decisions but I will not.
I am sick of tip-toeing around you.
I wish "step-mom" was here tonight instead of you because she actually cares about my well-being.
You are not coming to our wedding as you will just ruin that too.
Don't expect me to be in this baby's life.
I have zero interest in having another sibling.
He then said something that caused my mom to run out of the restaurant:
"I feel so bad for this kid you are selfishly bringing into this world. What's it going to be like to have a grandma as your mom? Are you even going to live long enough to see it graduate high school?"
Now I don't agree that what he said was right and neither does my sister. But I can understand why he lashed out at her. And quite frankly I am worried about this kid too. My mom isn't the most stable of people and I think my siblings and I only made it out okay because we had each other and our dad.
My mom's husband isn't much better. We all think he is only with my mom because she pays for his lifestyle. He doesn't work (he says he's a book dealer but he really just hoards books from garage sales) and my mom financially supports them both.
I can't even imagine how awkward this was for every person at that table. Apparently after my mom left her husband and my aunt chased after her. My sister said she felt like she was in a state of shock and everyone else started leaving shortly after. Including my brother who apologized to everyone for his reaction before he left.
At the end it was just my dad and my sister. Apparently my dad tried to comfort my sister by saying that her daughter and her new baby (she is due in May) will have a "cousin like figure" to be friends with and that everything will work out. My dad has a way of making bad things seem way less bad and my sister said, although she was still angry, that she felt a bit less despair about the situation.
They tried to call my brother to see if he was okay but he wouldn't answer the phone. My sister ended up texting his fiancée who told her that he was okay but he didn't want to talk to anyone. Apparently my mom's husband had called him after they left and told him that he made my mom's "high risk pregnancy" even more "high risk" because he was a "selfish child". His fiancée texted my sister that he just needed some time to cool down.
I ended up texting my brother after my sister and I spoke and I know why he is so angry. I am really angry too. He is just at his wit's end with all of this. He feels like she ruined a special night for him and I agree.
I guess the hardest part for the three of us is that my mom made our lives a living hell when my dad re-married. He married someone with two kids that were similar in age to us. We got along with our step-siblings (my brothers are actually a lot closer to each other than they are with any of us girls) and my step-mom is a really nice person who we all love.
My mom was especially hard on my brother for being basically best friends with our step-brother. She would say things like "What about your realsisters? Don't you want to stay with them?" whenever he wanted to stay at my dad's house. It was just a nightmare at times.
My mom has always said things to us about our dad's "replacement kids" that have made us feel uncomfortable over the years. When we were younger, even though we liked them, it was really distressing to think that they were living with our dad 24/7 and playing with our toys at our dad's house while we weren't there. As we got older we learned to ignore my mom and her comments as they were just meant to hurt us and our dad.
I'm not ready to speak to my mom yet. My sister is definitely not ready and I doubt my brother will want to speak to her for a long time. I'm just looking for some advice on how to not be so mad at her. We all feel so much anger and hurt.
tl;dr:
My mom is having a baby in less than three months. She confessed that she has been going through fertility treatments and lied about it for over two years. She always told us that she did not want any more kids.
She made our lives so difficult after my dad re-married. She freaked out when the three of us accepted my Dad's marriage over 15 years ago. We actually liked his new wife and our step-siblings and that was something she never let us live down. She has made our relationship with them so complicated. She always goes on about how "selfish" my dad was for having "replacement kids" at his house when we weren't there.
Now that she's pregnant she expects us to support her and her own replacement kid. She's acting like such a hypocrite and the three of us are very angry. What are some ways we can accept this new baby and forgive our mom?

Wowee.

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

almightyerin posted:

My siblings [27F & 24M] and I [26F] just found out my mom [49F] is having a baby in less than three months! She confessed that she has been going through fertility treatments and lied to us about it for over two years. How can we come to terms with her betrayal?


Wowee.

Stay in the country thousands of km away and never return to any of this

That poor child.

Arturia
Jan 24, 2017

Can't stop clicking circles

Palpek posted:

There are too many new good ones:

I [22F] started seeing this guy [31m] and I’m having second thoughts. What are some early red flags to look for in a relationship?


Hmmm, red flags, what red flags?

It sounds like she knows the answer already but just wants other people to tell her she's right.

The Letter A
Nov 8, 2002

Sounds like the mom has a history of making other peoples' special days all about her, but am I alone in thinking the tantrums about having a new baby in the family from a bunch of grown-rear end adults are a little over the top?

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

The Letter A posted:

Sounds like the mom has a history of making other peoples' special days all about her, but am I alone in thinking the tantrums about having a new baby in the family from a bunch of grown-rear end adults are a little over the top?

On its own, sure, but in the context of all of her previous behavior, her remarriage to This loving Guy, and the complete surprise of the whole thing...oh I fully understand.

Arturia
Jan 24, 2017

Can't stop clicking circles

almightyerin posted:

My siblings [27F & 24M] and I [26F] just found out my mom [49F] is having a baby in less than three months! She confessed that she has been going through fertility treatments and lied to us about it for over two years. How can we come to terms with her betrayal?


Wowee.

Just sit back, relax, grab some popcorn and watch the fireworks. Sounds like the dad and step-mom are cool so everyone has some sort of family support, it's time to just watch mom do her own thing from afar.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

The Letter A posted:

Sounds like the mom has a history of making other peoples' special days all about her, but am I alone in thinking the tantrums about having a new baby in the family from a bunch of grown-rear end adults are a little over the top?

I think theyre upset because for years she was extremely vitriolic to her ex husband and his new family for daring to exist and now at 49 is having a kid.

Im actually not sure, there were a lot of words and the story was really boring and all the people involved sounded like they had the means to cleanly separate if desired so I got bored and went back to thinking about that post where a dude told his fiance he wanted a prenup because she wasnt a virgin.

Blade Runner
Aug 14, 2015

It was basically just a story of the brother power dunking the bitch mom into the stratosphere

Jeza
Feb 13, 2011

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
At first I was like, that's a bit OTT. But then you sort of a get an impression of what she's like, the sense of hypocrisy and years of pent up resentment boiling over and it sort of makes sense. Seems more like a trigger than truly hating the idea of her having another baby. I mean what kind of relationship do they think they'll realistically have with this kid? They all sound like they're all settling down with families of their own. They'll be mid-30s by the time the kid is 10.

Lots of people are staggeringly hypocritical and that's just life. They should have distanced themselves from their mother until she grew up enough to respect their dad's new family rather than capitulating to her childish attitude. Well, now they're burning that bridge (or some of them are) and that's probably for the best.

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TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.
That poor kid is going to have an insane mom, a dad they won't realize isn't worth a drat until they're well into adulthood, and have a massive inferiority complex over its siblings' complete refusal to have any interest in its life. Not even born yet and already turbofucked.

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