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Salty Josh
Jul 13, 2016

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.
Nap Ghost
Seems like the problems in these relationships are getting more and more petty.

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Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum

This was many pages back now but:

quote:

"Weeks before I went to Tableaux, I had coffee in Manhattan with Leon Feingold, an exceptionally tall, friendly polyamorist, eager to talk about his high IQ and his sexual philosophies"

quote:

"[he] believes polyamory reflects high intelligence. He told me it was illogical for me not to be polyamorous. “Why depend on just one person for all your needs?” he asked."
:rolleyes:

quote:

"[she] describes polyamorous politics as a mixture of socialism—a respect for a non-hierarchical society that values collective, community decision-making"

quote:

"Jessica and other polyamorists I speak with say there’s very little discussion about the right for polyamorous marriage, because few in today’s poly community believe government recognition of a union is a worthwhile goal."

This article just reinforces every stereotype I have about poly folks.

The only winner here is this kid with a poly mum, when asked about having so many adults in the house:

quote:

“When I was in preschool, I came home one day and was like, ‘Mom, did you know that some people stop dating after they get married?’” Elise tells me when I visit her home in March. She’s naturally upbeat, wearing a blue t-shirt emblazoned with flying cats, and highlighter-pink hair held back with a bandana. She switches easily between the quintessentially teenage modes of self-deprecation and flippancy, the latter of which she applies to the many adults in the house: “Do you know how much money I can mooch off these people?” she asks me wryly.

Xik fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Dec 23, 2018

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Salty Josh posted:

Seems like the problems in these relationships are getting more and more petty.

Holiday weekend, they are reloading.

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep

Xik posted:

This was many pages back now but:


:rolleyes:



This article just reinforces every stereotype I have about poly folks.

The only winner here is this kid with a poly mum, when asked about having so many adults in the house:

This kid loving owns. Take them to the cleaners.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Pick posted:

there's a lot going on here

Sounds like the problem for her is that there’s a lot that isn’t going on.

Incoherence
May 22, 2004

POYO AND TEAR

Salty Josh posted:

Seems like the problems in these relationships are getting more and more petty.
There's always been the two poles of /r/relationships (and, before it, E/N):
Category A: "My SO is great but they listen to Nickelback"
Category B: "My SO is great but they get upset when I leave the house at all"

Switchback
Jul 23, 2001

It’s normal to struggle with the loss of your relative social value because your looks decline. Women can be “fuckable” or they can be “sweet grandmas” but if you’re neither of those things, society treats you pretty bad. Even if you’re smart.

Being jealous of your Sister though, that’s toxic Disney-villain territory. OP should be proud that even if she can’t have Mr Darcy, her genetic stock can.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Mother, Maiden, Crone, or Temptress. Pick one, ladies or you don't get to star in my dashing life's story where I go to the grocery store for more hot pockets.

13Pandora13
Nov 5, 2008

I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle




Barudak posted:

Mother, Maiden, Crone, or Temptress. Pick one, ladies or you don't get to star in my dashing life's story where I go to the grocery store for more hot pockets.

This is bullshit where is "swamp hag imbued with dark dick shrinking magic"

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

Brother was in Car Wreck with an Off-Duty Police Officer - We Believe the Investigation is being Mishandled

Yesterday, my brother (MB) was in an accident with an off-duty police officer. The officer was turning right on red and is claiming that MB ran a red light. MB is saying that he did not run the light. When the wreck happened, MB got out of the vehicle and began to look around it and wanted to take pictures. The officer did not identify himself as a police officer, but instead told MB to sit on the curb. MB said no and the he wanted to look at the vehicle, at this point the officer lifted his shirt showing his badge and said get on the curb.

Additional police officers showed up after a short time where MB was still not allowed to look at the vehicle. The newly arriving officers told him to stay there while the original officer involved in the wreck was allowed to look around the vehicles and take pictures.

They also refused to give MB any information on the other officer. No name, phone number, insurance information or anything. The police ended up giving my brother a ticket for running a red light (again, we believe by only word of mouth by the original officer).

Our insurance company told us that if the officer involved in the wreck was a police officer of the city where the accident took place, they should have called another surrounding city to come and investigate the accident. We do not know if the city of the involved police officer due to them not giving us any information.

Any advice on how to handle this?

Edit: location is Texas

13Pandora13
Nov 5, 2008

I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle




Smirking_Serpent posted:

Brother was in Car Wreck with an Off-Duty Police Officer - We Believe the Investigation is being Mishandled

Yesterday, my brother (MB) was in an accident with an off-duty police officer. The officer was turning right on red and is claiming that MB ran a red light. MB is saying that he did not run the light. When the wreck happened, MB got out of the vehicle and began to look around it and wanted to take pictures. The officer did not identify himself as a police officer, but instead told MB to sit on the curb. MB said no and the he wanted to look at the vehicle, at this point the officer lifted his shirt showing his badge and said get on the curb.

Additional police officers showed up after a short time where MB was still not allowed to look at the vehicle. The newly arriving officers told him to stay there while the original officer involved in the wreck was allowed to look around the vehicles and take pictures.

They also refused to give MB any information on the other officer. No name, phone number, insurance information or anything. The police ended up giving my brother a ticket for running a red light (again, we believe by only word of mouth by the original officer).

Our insurance company told us that if the officer involved in the wreck was a police officer of the city where the accident took place, they should have called another surrounding city to come and investigate the accident. We do not know if the city of the involved police officer due to them not giving us any information.

Any advice on how to handle this?

Edit: location is Texas

Cops in r/legaladvice running in to tell him his brother is probably lying and there's nothing illegal or an act of misconduct about a cop calling his cop friend coworkers to make sure he doesn't get in trouble in 3, 2, 1...

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

I'm strong. And a giant penguin. Please don't eat me. No, really. Don't try.

13Pandora13 posted:

This is bullshit where is "swamp hag imbued with dark dick shrinking magic"

that's just a subtype of crone

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

I entered my hotel room at 10pm and found a stranger pooping in my bathroom...after a very awkward confrontation (who are you and wtf are you doing in my bathroom?!), he left and I complained to management. They suggested a partial refund if I promised not to post a review on Expedia.

The TLDR is the title of this post. If you want to read a book, here's the full story:

I booked a cabin through Expedia for a little 2 night getaway with my wife and 11 month old son. Their “front desk” (a remote building miles away from the cabins) is only open until 7pm. We wouldn’t be able to arrive until much later so they suggested that they could just give me the combination to the door lock over the phone the day of arrival and I could formally check in the next morning. This seemed reasonable so we got the code and drove out there.

We arrived around 10pm and I had my wife stay in the car with our son. I wanted to make sure we had the right cabin and that the code worked before waking my son up and carrying him out of the car in 30 degree weather.

When I walked in to the cabin all of the lights were off except for the bathroom...I could see light under the crack in the door. I assumed the cleaning crew just left the lights on in there. Then I got closer and heard someone was clearly on the toilet. To my surprise, my immediate reaction wasn’t fear or surprise or even just a general “wtf”...I was just trying to figure out how to handle the situation. Do I knock on the door? Do I say something loudly from the living room? Do I wait for him to finish and walk out on his own? This was certainly a first for me...

I decided to turn on all of the lights, get a good sense of the floor plan and layout, and see if anyone else was in the cabin. It appeared that everything in the rooms was untouched and it was just the one guy in the bathroom, so I just got prepared to confront him when he got out. I wasn’t expecting a physical altercation but I made sure I knew where anything was that I could trip on, anything that could be used as a weapon, etc. In hind sight, I probably should have just left the cabin and called the front desk and/or the police, but it didn’t seem necessary in the moment.

The mystery pooper (or “MP” for short) walked out of the bathroom and was pretty shocked to see me standing there.

“Who are you and how did you get in here?” I said, firmly.

MP: “Uh...um...I thought this was our unit. Sorry...”

Me: “This is not your unit. Again, how did you get in here?”

MP: “Uh...”

Me: “What is the code to the door?”

MP: “XXXX”

Me: “How did you get that code?”

MP: “The guy at the front desk gave it to me.”

Me: “Why did he give you the code to my cabin, and if you thought this was your unit, where’s all of your stuff?”

MP: “Uh...umm...”

Me: “OK, I don’t even care at this point. You need to leave, now. Do not come back in this cabin again or I will call the police.”

MP: “Ohhh oh ohkay, sorry.”

I then watched him leave my cabin, walk 30 feet away and walk straight in to the cabin next door where a group of 3 of his friends were drinking and playing beer pong. “Oooookay then...time to call management” I thought to myself.

I found the 24/7 support number on the fridge and called. The person who answered had no clue where I was staying and didn’t recognize the name of the cabin I was staying in. Clearly the 24/7 support was outsourced to another company unrelated to the group that owns the 20 or so cabins. After much back and forth, she figured it out and connected me with the person responsible for the cabins.

Me: “I just arrived at cabin #X and a strange man was using my bathroom.”

Manager: “What?”

Me: “I’m in cabin #X and a stranger was just in my bathroom. He said you gave him the code to my cabin.”

Manager: “Oh, that must have been the guys next door. There was a mixup earlier and I gave them your cabin number and code...but we moved them to the correct cabin. It’s all good now.”

Me: “You gave them my code and then didn’t change it? You need to come change the code immediately, that is completely unacceptable.”

Manager: “I mean we told them that wasn’t their cabin, they shouldn’t have gone in there. Maybe they thought it was vacant since you arrived so late.”

Me: “So how do I lock my door if these guys can just come unlock it at any time with the code? That is a huge safety concern.”

Manager: “Well now that they know you’re there I doubt they’d come back.”

Me: “Are you ****ing serious right now? You need to come change this code.”

Manager: “There’s nothing I can do tonight, I can have the manager call you in the morning.”

Me: “So you’re not the manager?”

Fake Manager: “No.”

Me: “This needs to be rectified first thing in the morning. I don’t have a choice, it’s freezing outside and my son needs to sleep so we’re going to stay here tonight. But this is completely unacceptable.”

Fake Manager: “I’m sorry. The manager will call you in the morning. I will also call the guests next door and make sure they understand not to come back.”



I brought our stuff in from the car and got everyone settled. To make things extra fun, the entire cabin smelled like ****, so I went in to the bathroom to find that the fan was broken. Opening the window and letting in 30 degree air was also not an option. Awesome.

We went to bed and I’m happy to report that our neighbors didn’t come back and steal anything or murder my family. In fact, my son slept amazingly well. Yay!

The next morning the real manager called me and asked how I was doing. I told him we were OK but that he needed to come change the code and rectify the situation. He then asked if he had to come right away or if he could come change the code in the early afternoon. I was in disbelief. He then followed up saying “I doubt they’re going to come back, we already spoke with them. Are you in the cabin now or do you have valuables you left in there?”

WTF? I told him that I was out eating breakfast with my family and that he needed to get to the cabin ASAP and change the code as it was a major privacy and safety concern. He reluctantly agreed. Then we started to discuss how he would make things right.

Manager: “I can offer you a free night on a future stay for the inconvenience. When would you like to come back?”

He was on speaker phone and my wife and I looked at each other like “is this guy ****ing serious right now?”

Me: "No, thanks. I'm going to need a refund for last night, not a credit for a future stay."

Manager: "OK, let me see...I can refund you $XX.XX for Thursday night. Is that OK?"

Me: "No, that's not even close to the full amount we paid for Thursday night. Are you not including Thursday's portion (half) of the cleaning fee? That cleaning fee is more than Thursday's rate by itself."

Manager: "Well the cleaning fee isn't per night, it's for the entire stay."

Me: "If I'm paying a cleaning fee, I'd expect that my room would be clean when I check in. Instead, I checked in to a room where someone pooped in my bathroom, used my soap and towels, and smelled up my entire cabin. By the way, did I mention the bathroom fan doesn't work?"

Manager: "I see. I can refund you half of the cleaning fee. In total the refund would be $XXX.XX.”

Me: "OK, I booked through Expedia. Are you going to refund them and they'll refund me, or how does that work?"

Manager: "Oh, no. Refunding through Expedia is way too complicated and would take hours. We will just refund you directly. Do you have a PayPal account?"

Me: "Yes."

Manager: "OK, if I send you PayPal can you promise to write us a good review on Expedia?"

Me: "I can write an honest review on Expedia and say that you eventually took care of things properly and provided me with an appropriate refund."

Manager: "OK, umm...how about you don't waste your time and I send you the refund if you agree to just not write a review on Expedia at all?"

I look at my wife and we're both thinking "WTF?" and not sure if we should laugh or not.

Me: "OK, that's fine."

Manager: "Alright, I'll send you a text asking you to agree not to post a review. Please reply with your PayPal and state 'I agree' in the text. I'll send the refund immediately."

Me: "OK. Bye."



He then proceeded to send the text (which I screenshotted) and it reads:

"Hello.

It is good to talk to you today.

If you agree to NOT write any review on Expedia, I will refund you $XXX via PayPal.

Please reply agree and your PayPal email.

Thanks a lot

<name of manager> <address>"

I replied to the text and he sent me the money. I just wanted to make sure we'd get something. While I doubt the text message is legally binding (and maybe it is, since a transaction was paired with it) I only agreed not to post on Expedia. He said nothing about every other travel site, reddit, or social media.

I'm not sure if I should try to post (a much shorter version of) this on the various travel sites to warn potential future guests. Anyway, at the very least, it seemed like an appropriate story for this sub.

Edit: According to legaladvice, the text message is legally binding and posting on other travel sites or having someone else post it would be acting in bad faith. The plot thickens...anyway, I’ll update the post once we figure out what we’re doing.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

I'm not reading this incredibly tedious story of you getting so bested in negotiations you are now legally a child of Donald Trump.

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib
Should've posted that email to Expedia once you got it along with the review.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
I dunno if this was posted, but in other, totally non-enraging news:

quote:

[20/m] Would it be wrong if i contact a girl i used to pick on (20/f) with the intent of hitting on her? (self.relationship_advice)

submitted 3 days ago by BrettTheBeast

So, in middle school, there was this girl i used to pick on because she was fat. I called her horrible names, stole her things, put a picture of her head on the picture of a pig and put it on her locker, and i gave her a nickname that followed her all around school, and was just awful to her. She always ended up crying and she actually transferred to another school (either because of me or her parents just moved. I heard 2 stories.)

Now look, i KNOW I WAS AN rear end in a top hat for that. But i was 12 and my family has a very negative view of overweight people. I feel horrible about it. But what i want judgement on is this.

But, i discovered her on Facebook again and she's actually pretty drat hot now. She dropped all her baby fat and has grown up to be quite doable. The only fat on her now is her breasts (seriously, she's, like, an F cup.)

And, i got to thinking. There's something i want to do. I want to add her as a friend and send her a message to "apologize". I do feel guilty, but i have somewhat of an ulterior motive. I want to apologize and ask her to meet up for coffee with her. While there, i want to make a move on her. I was thinking i apoligize and start complimenting her on how beautiful she's become and maybe make a move on her. Just rub her leg or something.

I haven't talked to her yet, she probably doesn't even remember me.

Would this be scummy of me? Would i be an rear end in a top hat if i hit up this girl with the intent of trying to seduce her?

:vd:

Jack-Off Lantern
Mar 2, 2012

quote:


My fiance [29m] might have an utterly bizarre habit and I [25f] have no idea what to do.


Obviously using a throwaway for this. I've been with my bf for 4 years, we've been living together for 2 and he proposed coming up to 5 months ago now. I have been absolutely deliriously happy for that time. We met through mixed basketball at uni (I'm doing a PhD in applied behavioural science) and he graduated a few years ago and is working very successfully in a small law firm. I know all his friends and they are lovely. His sister is one of my best friends. His parents are alternative, hippy types and I think he has rebelled a little against them but there is nothing that strange I can tell about his family at all.



So to the first weird thing that happened – we had a house party to celebrate our engagement, with lots of friends and family. Quite early in the night, one of my friends came up and told me I better have a look in the bathroom. I did so and there was a perfectly formed turd just sitting in the bath. No more than 2m away from the perfectly functioning toilet. I cleaned it up and spent the rest of the night wondering who the hell could possibly have done such a thing. My fiancé just looked baffled when I told him and we just couldn’t work it out. No-one was that drunk. It was barely 8:30. All our friends are respectable professional types. No-one was on drugs. There was no vengeful ex in attendance. The weirdest thing is that the turd formation seemed to have a certain artistry, for want of a better word, as if the unknown shitter had taken exceptional pride and care. I kept looking at everyone all night just wondering, and it really put an uneasy vibe on the whole evening. I suppose I never really forgot about that incident, but it was just so puzzling that I had to put it out of mind as just one of those inexplicable mysteries of life.



Fast forward a couple of months and I’m in the front garden, and I see something sitting on the painted brick wall at the front of our house. On closer inspection, it’s another perfectly formed turd. There was absolutely no doubt about its human origin, given it was poised perfectly right on top of a wall only 20 cm thick. Someone must have gone to exceptional trouble to clamber up, squat there in full view of the street, and complete their nasty business. Unbelievable. When my fiancé came home, he was again a perfect picture of bafflement, turning into anger. We thought about getting security cameras but that never happened – again perhaps because it was just so weird that it was easier not to think about it.



Fast forward to last night. We’re out to dinner with a few of my fiance’s friends from uni (they had been overseas and hadn’t been to the engagement) and the husband starts recounting the story of the elusive and mysterious Night Shitter from their residential college – the same attended by my fiancé. Apparently over a period of three years, every few weeks, mysterious perfectly formed turds appeared around the college. On the lawn, in the middle of the corridor, in the library, in the driveway, even on a table in the middle of the dining hall. There was a massive witch hunt but the culprit was never caught. They were also called the Bowel Artist because what always stood out was how perfectly crafted the shits were: a delicate but fulsome spiral, always elegantly formed and complete. Then the shitter went mysteriously silent. During this story they were all laughing about except me. Then I realised something.



In all the years we have lived together, not once have I ever known my fiancé to use the toilet for #2s. Not once. Not ever. I couldn’t believe that I'd never noticed it before. I stared at him across the table but he betrayed zero sign – he was just laughing at the story with everyone else. He caught my eye and didn’t even seem fazed. As we walked home I confronted him – I said straight out: I think you’re the Bowel Artist. He thought it was the funniest thing he’d ever heard, then as he realised I was serious, he looked me straight in the eye and denied it. I said you’ve never done a #2 in our house. He insisted that he had, but said he usually went at work after his morning coffee. Next he was laughing about it again. He was totally convincing and I let it go but the more I think about it, the evidence just seems too compelling. I’m 90% sure it’s him. I have hunted through my psych texts and this behaviour just seems impossible for someone so otherwise grounded and successful. Our sex life is fabulous, I can’t see anything else wrong with him. But if this is true, how can I marry him? I’m at a complete loss.



Tl;dr: My fiance might be the unknown Night Shitter from his college days, and seems to be at it again.



Metis of the Chat Thread
Aug 1, 2014


My (31F) sister (33F) won't allow my parents to spend Christmas with me and my kids

quote:

I'm basically looking for insight as to whether I'm out of line or she is (as I'm inclined to believe). Also I'm on my phone so please excuse any format or other errors.

So a bit of background to what our Christmas usually looks like. We usually all go to my sister's, we'll call her Samantha, Christmas eve night for appies and drinks after Christmas eve mass. Then my husband and I take our two boys (3 And 10 months) home to bed and spend Christmas morning alone just the 4 of us. While Samantha has my mom and dad ( who live with her) her 4 children and sometimes our other sister who's single and childless sleep at her house and spend Christmas morning together.

Two Christmases (2015) ago I requested we maybe take turns, one year my mom and dad spend Christmas morning with them, and the next year they spend it with my family. My mom and dad agreed that it sounded fair and that they would spend the following Christmas morning (2016) with my family. Once Samantha got wind of this plan she lost it. I was called selfish, accused of not wanting her or her kids around. I attempted to offer compromises but she wouldn't have it. I wasn't allowed to "take her parents away from her on Christmas". She was unwilling to budge any of her usual Christmas plans to make this work for me and refused to even acknowledge that it was a valid request.

My argument is this. We have a big family. I'm one of four kids. My brother (35m) has 5 kids of his own and managed to set his own traditions a few years ago after several years of our whole family sleeping at his house and having Christmas morning as one big happy family. But our family has grown considerably since then. He has 5 kids, Samantha has 4 And my husband and I have our 2 boys. It's not realistic to have us all sleep under the same roof anymore. Also my mom and dad live with Samantha, so her kids get endless time with our parents. I want a small piece of that for my kids. I want them to have a chance to make some memories with their grandparents without having to compete for attention with my sisters 4 energetic kids. Is this unfair? Am I the unreasonable one here? Last year it grew into a huge argument that resulted in tears almost every day for over a week and Samantha still got her way. It's taken everything I have to not allow the argument to affect my relationship with my sister long term. Please, any advice or insight is appreciated.

Tl;dr Sister won't allow Christmas to change to allow my family some one on one time with my parents.

blarzgh
Apr 14, 2009

SNITCHIN' RANDY
Grimey Drawer

Aw hell yeah

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

this story has physical abuse:



I [24f] had an affair on my boyfriend [24m] of 5 years , 2 years ago. He wants me now to get his name tattooed on my butt, in addition to other compromises. As a way to salvage our relationship and repair his trust in me.

Hello reddit ,

I apologize beforehand for my erratic writing .

I had an affair on my boyfriend of 5 years , 2 years ago . The affair lasted a little over a month and was with a stranger I met at a bar. The reasons for my affair were extremely selfish and stupid and I deeply regret it. After my affair I took some stupid advice and didn’t tell my partner, instead I never did again and tried to improve our relationship. I realized I loved my partner and I should cherish him instead. This was incredibly self centered of me , as I also realized I should of told my partner sooner.

Recently I had a traumatic event happen to me and I confessed to my boyfriend I had an affair . My boyfriend broke up with me briefly (1 day) then contacted me that he still loved me and wanted to work things through. However , he told me he didn’t trust me and I had to “make up for it” through certain activities and requests .

The first time we had sex after “we made up” it was extremely violent , he slapped me , bruised me, and choked me. I allowed it because I felt that he needed to release his anger on me and I deserved it. I felt extremely disgusting especially after what happened to me . But I so desperately want to fix what I did, I feel like my emotions and body don’t matter. Since then my boyfriend has always rubbed what I have done in my face by reminding me of what I did to him.

He reminds me that he could be spiteful and hurt me in many ways, like being with as much women as he wants . He instead feels like I should be grateful for this chance. Now my boyfriend wants me to get his name tatted on my butt and I already made the appointment.

Reddit , I am at a loss at what to do. He feels like I use what happened to me as a way to get an easy pass and I should face my consequences. I also understand his emotions of hurt , rage , and betrayal . I destroyed his trust and his pride as a man .

I have already told my family what I have done and apologized to his family for what I did . I am also going to start therapy for learning how to cope with the event that happened to me , but I want to desperately fix my relationship . I just feel so shameful, dirty, and every day is becoming harder for me to cope . Please help me .

TLDR : I had an affair on my boyfriend of 5 years . He wants to work things through but wants me to tattoo my butt in addition to other demeaning things. I feel dirty and shameful especially after a traumatic event, at a loss of what to do.

Edit 1 : I just wanted to note that my boyfriend has not choked nor hit me since that incident.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

This is fuckin' hilarious

Sai-kun
Feb 6, 2011

Is it ever going to be enough, to love another and be loved?

Holy gently caress this has me howling. I sincerely pray we get an end to this.

Switchback
Jul 23, 2001

Gluten Freeman posted:

My (31F) sister (33F) won't allow my parents to spend Christmas with me and my kids

Australia has all these cute shorthands and they are so amusing. Bottlo, servo, arvo, brekkie, pressies, barbie, choccy biccy. Adorable.

But say appies and it’s murder time.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Hm inspired by a classic greentext.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

My [20M] ex gf [20F] broke up with me [2 months] because I can't clean, now she comes clean my apartment sometimes.


She and I met when starting college. It was a nice first year, then she moved in with me in my apartment, and was a nicer second year. I thought for some months we were going strong. Serious. We were welcome to each others' families, and I was supposed to go to her family's Thanksgiving and she to mine's Christmas.

Two months ago, she broke up with me. Apparently that was because I leave my apartment dirty and I never cleaned. It's true that I didn't exactly bother myself with that. Obviously the reason why my apartment was livable by normal persons' standards, is because she was the one cleaning it. So, yeah, that sucks. Something that bothers me to a point, is that she never complained, never asked, let me stay oblivious and stupid. It looks to me like she moved in with me, and beside the rest of her life she was sitting in a corner, silently observing how I lived and judging the worth that gives me as a partner. And, given how I did not know how to clean, I was a bit of a hoarder, and possibly sort of immature, she reached the conclusion that I am not a good partner so she broke up with me. I guess fundamentally everyone will do relationships their way and this way is fine, but I was taken by surprise. I sort of expected we had reached a more serious milestone in our relationship and regardless of how as an adult I was supposed to do better she would still communicate and point out our problems instead of just deciding it's not worth working on it. Anyway, that expectation was unfounded, she made her decisions her way, and I really can't object to her reasons. I took an afternoon to absorb the shock, I admit I cried for a couple hours, and the night I went back to some fun I had to drop when I was with her. Taking a mental note that I should work on being more like an adult in prevision for next time I'll be in a relationship. I was going to move on and learn from this.

We had merged our circles of friends and it's not like we hated each other, so we would often be at the same gatherings. I thought it would be fine and we'd just need to ignore each other on anything more than small talk for some time to heal, then we'd be back as well functioning friends. But she was initiating more conversations than I was comfortable with, and I often had to repeat to her that I needed some time uninvolved before we'd be back as true friends.

Then some very weird things started to happen. Like horror movies like weird behavior. I had a party at my place where I invited all our friends, and her too because regardless of how I feel personally, to the group a party is not a true party without her. After the party died out and everyone had left, I found her on the first floor in the gaming room, with a broom. She just said she was cleaning. She didn't look like her normal drunk. I never saw her high so maybe that was that. I told her she had cleaned my place enough and she didn't need to anymore. (It would be one thing if she was selfless enough to help clean after the party, but no one had come to the gaming room. Also it was late and not the time to clean.) She asked to stay the night and normally I'd give her the bed while I sleep on the couch, but I was not working yet on bettering myself and my room and bed were filthy disgusting, so I told her she needed to take the couch. When I woke up in the morning she had cleaned most of my room. Demonstrated again how much of a loving heavy sleeper I am. Believe that means she did a lot of work. And she wanted to change the sheets now that was awake. I told her thanks, and that I'll live without someone to clean for me or if someone cleans for me I'll pay them for it, and that she needs to go home and have fun.

There is more. Broken up or not I don't particularly distrust her and I hadn't paid much of a thought about the fact that I didn't ask for her key back to my apartment. Well some nights I went out for fun and coming home late, I found her here in my apartment. With only one room lit. Cleaning that room. Brooming, vacuuming, or cleaning the installations. All the explanations I get is "I just thought I'd come and clean." Then she wants to stay the night because it's late. She gets the bed since she made it clean enough.

I just can't wrap my head around it. There's reason to find that behavior mindboggingly creepy, but on the other hands, if we look at the facts, she's just volunteering to come and provide unsolicited, but nevertheless very generous, help. I'm starting to think this warrants talking to her parents about a possible metal illness she'd have and that would need to be addressed. But on the other hand I can't imagine I have much credibility to them. I tried talking to a close friend of hers and she told me it's just nice to come clean for me and I could try and seduce her. Yeah, thing is I already seduced her once and we didn't work out and I don't want to be the stalking ex who can't move on. Hence why I'm starting to think true adults would be better here. But again, problem of credibility here.

tl;dr: Ex girlfriend who lived with me broke up with me because I can't clean. She moved out, but she tries to be friendly at gatherings when I need time without talking to her to move on. And she sometimes come in my apartment while I'm not there and starts randomly cleaning, while she doesn't even live there anymore. She is not, like, bothering me. That is generous of her. But I think this behavior is good reasons to be concerned for her.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

[NSFW] [24F]Wife and [25M]I had group sex with another [21F-24M]couple, found out the male is abusing the female, already considering going to the police but need more advice.

tl;dr at the bottom

My wife and I decided to experience something new and managed to find a hookup with a girl (C) about an hour away from us with the intent of a threesome, but later she mentioned that she had a boyfriend (R) and he had to be included.

My wife really didn't want him included, the touch of another man really disgusts her but she wanted to try with C and was hoping she might like it more with R than she actually did end up enjoying it. So after some persuading and some back and forth arranging we got all set up for a fun night. We drove out to pick them up, tested the waters with them, and then proceeded to have our way with each other. Everything was fine until it came time for R to make some moves on my wife. Honestly, the only reason it bothered me (and I later discovered it really bothered her too) was that he was being extremely sensual. Rather than thinking it was a sort of fling for us to all try to have some fun and try something new R seemed to be taking it as something... more. More enough, in fact, that he tried to get us to switch SOs for the night. Considering one of our basic rules was absolutely no sexual interaction unless we are all present, R was the only one pleased with the suggestion.

She still had sex with him but later told me how miserable it made her feel and at first I thought she had enjoyed it but she later confided in me that most of the intercourse was an act to get him to finish sooner so she could be done. The next day we all, my wife included, decided to try again (at this time my wife hadn't informed them of her issue). I was hesitant to let her pursue the actions further due to what she had told me, but she insisted. When it came time, however, she couldn't do it. She stopped and left and obviously this hurt him and it's been tense since. Fortunately we all talked and remained rational and decided that it just wasn't going to work for us.

Since then, once my wife opened up to C about the problem, C has started opening up to her. And honestly, it's pretty horrifying. Frankly I don't know how much of her stories are true but if they are we are genuinely scared for her. We are planning to contact the police in the event that anything starts happening further but we are all trying to discuss what the best option would be while R is not around. Honestly the things that have been said are pretty gruesome in my opinion such as essentially forced prostitution and minor to slightly higher grades of physical abuse (as far as can be disguised as sexual acts).



My wife managed to get some time with C away from R and C told her more stories and pretty much begged her to help get away. However, due to R's history in drugs and history with violence (which was hidden from us until that point essentially), I'm worried about the repercussions intruding on this is. I cannot just ignore this and hope it goes away, but I don't want to put my family at risk.

Both of them are still currently in our house and the plans had been for them to stay until tomorrow. From what we have been told, R doesn't work so he is at their house constantly. C has no chance to talk with anyone without R present and even less chance to try to pack some things and leave quietly. I'm also kinda hesitant to get involved due to the fact that I've only known about this stuff for a few hours and I have no idea if she is telling the complete truth or if I'm being a sucker but I'm too worried about leaving it be to just leave it be. My wife says when she got C separated from R to talk (which spurred an argument and a well played act to later get C away from R) she nearly broke down crying and essentially begging for help. My wife believes she is genuine.

Any and all help would really be appreciated, thanks everyone. I'm not trying to make this sound worse than it is, the claims of abuse, while I don't want to discredit them, currently don't have proof. I feel stupid for not picking the obvious "Call the cops and get her some help!" but I really am concerned about putting everyone in harms way if this is handled in such a way.

​**tl;dr**: Wife and I hooked up with another couple for some spicy fun time, find out that the woman is getting abused by the man and she wants help. I personally haven't seen it yet, but I'm scared for her and don't want to discredit it. How can I proceed to help without making a giant scene and potentially putting my family in the sights of someone with an established record?

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

I [19M] end up dating girls who are into Kpop, and it doesn’t end well.

Well first, I’m asian. My previous significant others all were obsessed at Kpop at some point and I am completely the opposite. I like sports (hockey and competitive paintball), I listen to rock music (Muse, RATM, etc), and I don’t like anime. Even though I tried to take interest in their hobbies, one ex even said that they did not find anything interesting about my hobbies. And it eventually leads to problems and breakups.

I don’t know if there is a way to avoid girls who just want to hookup with me for half a year and a year just because I am asian/cute. I just feel kind of not respected for who I am and what I like. I am 5’11”, athletic build, and I go to the gym and am on my university’s paintball team.

In the future, should I just avoid girls that like Kpop? Because even though I told myself my most recent partner was not like that (we broke up after 1yr 3months), they ended up liking someone else... :( Help.

TLDR: I’m asian and girls who date me like or have liked Kpop. I don’t like Kpop or anime. When they get to know me they then want to breakup after I already have strong feelings for them. What do I do. I never found a girl who likes me for who I am.

Khazar-khum
Oct 22, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
2nd Battalion

Smirking_Serpent posted:

I [19M] end up dating girls who are into Kpop, and it doesn’t end well.

Well first, I’m asian. My previous significant others all were obsessed at Kpop at some point and I am completely the opposite. I like sports (hockey and competitive paintball), I listen to rock music (Muse, RATM, etc), and I don’t like anime. Even though I tried to take interest in their hobbies, one ex even said that they did not find anything interesting about my hobbies. And it eventually leads to problems and breakups.

I don’t know if there is a way to avoid girls who just want to hookup with me for half a year and a year just because I am asian/cute. I just feel kind of not respected for who I am and what I like. I am 5’11”, athletic build, and I go to the gym and am on my university’s paintball team.

In the future, should I just avoid girls that like Kpop? Because even though I told myself my most recent partner was not like that (we broke up after 1yr 3months), they ended up liking someone else... :( Help.

TLDR: I’m asian and girls who date me like or have liked Kpop. I don’t like Kpop or anime. When they get to know me they then want to breakup after I already have strong feelings for them. What do I do. I never found a girl who likes me for who I am.

That's so kawaii!

Veni Vidi Ameche!
Nov 2, 2017

by Fluffdaddy

Smirking_Serpent posted:

My [20M] ex gf [20F] broke up with me [2 months] because I can't clean, now she comes clean my apartment sometimes.

He converted his bang maid into a regular maid, lol. What a garbage trade.

CheesyDog
Jul 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
r/confessions•Posted byu/Twizzels
9 hours ago

I got mad at my girlfriend today and opened her MacBook Air I had wrapped under the tree and rewrapped it and addressed it to my son.

quote:

Girlfriend and I got into an argument over our kids Christmas spending budget. We both have a kid from a previous relationship. Her daughter and my Son. We have an agreed budget of $1000 for each kid. We have met that budget for both kids last week.

Today she tells me she wants to get her daughter a phone and wants to buy her an iPhone XS Max easily putting her daughter close to $1200 over our agreed Christmas budget.

We have a shared bank account so it’s not quite the “it’s her daughter and her money so what’s the deal” kinda thing.. we argued for three days over the issue, we couldn’t afford to spend another $1200 on my son to even out the budgets again at a ludicrous $2200 each.. my son would have never if know we spent an extra money on her but that’s not the point.. it’s unfair and in my opinion it’s favoritisms..

After another very heated argument over the issue. I walked over to the tree, grabbed her present. Opened it in front of her, and then rewrapped it and addressed it to my son. Now the budgets are mostly equal again give or take $100...

Marry Christmas.... Bitch

P.S the MacBook was purchased on my personal Credit card so she wouldn’t have known about it.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
I blame Apple for this. No drat phone should be a goddamn thousand dollars.

blarzgh
Apr 14, 2009

SNITCHIN' RANDY
Grimey Drawer

Power Khan posted:

Hm inspired by a classic greentext.

"Jesus Khan, give it a rest.

It's it's Christmas"

- Your family probably

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Sry for ruining your immersion, but listen,

it could be a person bringing this classic piece of postmodern internet culture to life.

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

Smirking_Serpent posted:

I just feel kind of not respected for who I am and what I like. I am [...] on my university’s paintball team.

I think I found your problem, buddy

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
yeah, lol at going to university in the year 2018

Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

My (39F) Husband (45M) is suddenly addicted to video games and I don't know what to do.Relationships
submitted 22 minutes ago by orltmtyurr8

quote:

I've been married for 11 years. My husband suddenly got a gift for his birthday from his friend, a playstation. We thought it was a bit silly, neither of us played video games! My husband basically never played them in his life. But the friend insisted to play the games he got us, two games, one of them was a spiderman game, and the other was a game called red dead redemption (im sure you have heard of it, there are posters for it all over).



He started with red dead, and he played with his friend while his friend showed him how to play. I swear to god, it was like his whole outlook on life changed that day. He was telling me, almost in hysterics, how amazing it all was and that it was like a real life cowboy game and that the story was great and that it was just amazing. I was happy for him, and it did look like fun but I couldn't get into it. It was too confusing and kind of boring to me, although swinging around new york as spiderman was a blast.



It got worrying when the next day, he literally played the game for almost the entire day as well. Then the next day he played for a lot too.



By the next week, he had played easily 50 hours in total on the playstation, maybe even more. I was telling him, you are playing way too much, its taking up all your time in the day, you aren't being productive etc. And he agreed, but he still played a lot. I thought it would end, that the phase would end. But it didn't. I went to go to florida to visit my mom (he couldn't come because of work) and when I came back, he was playing the game again. I googled how to check total time played for his games, and I checked... he had played nearly 100 hours in those two weeks I was in florida. It was like it was consuming his life.

Its been a while now, almost two months. He isn't playing as much as he did those first few weeks, but still way, way more than he should. Sometimes he will just cave in for an entire weekend playing. He now has Gods of war, another game, and I think he got another game too but I dont know what it is. We have gotten into arguments about this, but I always feel slightly bad about it, like I am intruding on a hobby of his. I also feel bad because he has been sort of depressed for the past year and this seems to be a major source of happiness for him. But its unhealthy, and its cutting into his time he spent on other things. He isn't exercising as much, he isn't socializing as much, he isn't doing stuff with me as much. He has a lot of friends, and we used to go out with them a lot and go to brunch etc, now he barely even contacts them, which sort of leaves me socially abandoned as well because I don't really have many friends on my end, his friends are my friends mostly. One thing which frustrated me was he had a cold, a pretty minor one, and he took *two days* off of work. Now, that isn't a big deal, but previously he would go to work no matter what conditions he has. He used to love work. Now he is taking two entire days off from work without worry just to stay home and play those games. I dont care about the two days, but I do care about his changing mindset in that regard.



Not sure what to do. I am just sad over this now. Its depressing to witness. What should I do?



TL;DR - - Husband is addicted to video games.

Commenters are, of course, assuring her this is a totally normal and reasonable use of time, a valid "hobby" and that things will work out in a few more months.

Collapsing Farts
Jun 29, 2018

💀
who the gently caress gives a game console with multiple games away as a gift

are these jokers rich

Tsietisin
Jul 2, 2004

Time passes quickly on the weekend.

Gluten Freeman posted:

My (31F) sister (33F) won't allow my parents to spend Christmas with me and my kids

I'm going through similar at the moment.

My mother is dying of terminal cancer and has a few weeks to live. I'm the only member of family she has left so I obviously want to spend this last Christmas with her.

My wife's mother wants us at hers for Christmas. My wife wants to stay with me to support me through all of this. This decision by my wife has my MIL crying down there phone, saying his it's only a few days and my mother can go without seeing me for a few days. We have been to the mother in law's place every Christmas for the past 10 years and she cannot understand why I might want to remain here.

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



Gluten Freeman posted:

My (31F) sister (33F) won't allow my parents to spend Christmas with me and my kids

quote:

appies

Jesus, there's more than one person that calls appetizers 'appies'?!

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The Ferret King
Nov 23, 2003

cluck cluck

Tsietisin posted:

I'm going through similar at the moment.

My mother is dying of terminal cancer and has a few weeks to live. I'm the only member of family she has left so I obviously want to spend this last Christmas with her.

My wife's mother wants us at hers for Christmas. My wife wants to stay with me to support me through all of this. This decision by my wife has my MIL crying down there phone, saying his it's only a few days and my mother can go without seeing me for a few days. We have been to the mother in law's place every Christmas for the past 10 years and she cannot understand why I might want to remain here.

Jesus loving Christ I'm so sorry. I don't know how you're handling that with any sort of restraint. I'd have gone off on the MIL. There's just no loving way.

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