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Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

QuarkJets posted:

The guy's girlfriend mentioned it, but the guy said that he was the one put off by it. Not her. The only person in that story being made uncomfortable by a woman bringing makeup on the trip is a dude

Exactly, and we don't even know why she brought it up. But some certain people in the thread decided a woman mentioning it meant she has a problem with it, therefore "hey, a woman agrees with me that it's odd."

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FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

Let's go do some hero shit!


QuarkJets posted:

Christianity and American conservatism have done a real number on millions of youths. No one in their right mind should want to be a single parent unless you're "well I guess I can afford to retire right now while still supporting a kid" wealthy, but for whatever reason people still decide that nah it's cool to not only gently caress up your own life but also your future child's life, no need to wait

There's always the single mothers who couldn't get a legal abortion and had to follow through, because all lives are special except for the ones that threaten our government.


Ghost Leviathan posted:

It's going to have to get in line.

Oh I'm not saying it's the defining factor, but it's becoming increasingly accessible and normalized...it's become acceptable to read porn in public and some people even watch it in public too.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
AITA for calling my pregnant cousin a breeder?

quote:

Okay so a little context, I’m 23 in a serious relationship and have a whole host of medical issues. I’ve never wanted a kid, even at age 5 I found the idea of baby dolls etc just ugh. This idea evolved and changed as I did and eventually developed into where I am now which is even if I wanted one having one with my medical issues would just be dumb and dangerous for everyone involved.

My cousin is the eldest of us all and has always been a family woman (honest to god I see nothing wrong with that, it’s just not for me) she’s happily married and is expecting her first. And so the family has gone into a bit of a baby craze.

I live quite far so I’ve avoided most of the madness, but I went to see them all last weekend with a knitted blanket I’d made for her as a gift. This started the comments: “you’re obviously very mummsie think of what you could make for your own” “you’d be a great mum” “it’s what you were born to do” “oh your opinion will change when you’re older” To all of this I just laughed and made jokes just trying to get past the awkward but it’s a full 4 hours of these little gripes till my cousin says: “Honestly [my name] you’re so stubborn, believe me in a few years all your “opinions” will change then that job of yours won’t matter. I just hope it’s not to late and you don’t end up alone and bitter. Honestly having a kid is the best thing a woman can do and nothing can compare”

This really angered me so I (somewhat tipsy and just kinda very done) snapped back “well sorry I have more ambition than being a breeder, have fun with a wrecked vagina” she broke down crying and that pretty much put an end to the family gathering.

I feel horrid about it all and I really didn’t mean it. She’s always wanted a family and I’m so happy for her but I’ve felt like I’ve always respected her choices and she’s never respected mine and it kinda popped at the worst moment. I really want to say sorry but she’s now posting these really pathetic and snide fb posts and i really am just kinda tired.

Small note: my cousin and that side of the family knows about my medical conditions, I even brought them up to point out how unsafe it would be. But they still continued. I know that doesn’t excuse what I did but I hope it explains why I got so angry.

TDLR: at a family gathering and got crap for not wanting children, I snapped at my pregnant cousin and now she’s posting all of this stuff on fb and I just want the whole ordeal to be over.

FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

Let's go do some hero shit!


Haifisch posted:

AITA for calling my pregnant cousin a breeder?

Yes, you're an rear end in a top hat when you group your cousin in with people that you actively look for reasons to hate.

Then again I am assuming you found that on r/childfree

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

My parents always said they dont like “gay people shoving it in our face” even though i'm gay. (14f) It made me mad enough to say it back about straight couples, and now im in trouble


ok so i’m gay and i came out to my parents a few years ago, and they always said this one thing I absolutely hate, how “gay people don’t have to shove it in our faces”… Like if they see a couple in public, or on tv or whatever. They’ll call it gross or not good to do in public. They also think the GSA club I’m in at school is unnecessary and tacky and for people who want to “push it in your face” I got really mad about it recently, and for the last couple weeks I’ve been saying “ew, you don’t have to shove that nasty straight poo poo in my face” all the time. Or “ew that’s not something I wanna see in public” if I see other people who are obviosly straight in public. there's a lot of them haha.

Basically, when my parents kiss or hold hands or say sappy things to each other, or when someone introduces someone else as their husband or wife, or when I see a couple on a date… Or if I see a couple holding hands. Or if there’s a relationship on TV. I'll start saying the same stuff my parents said nasty stuff about, regarding gay couples. Not because i really mean it or hate anyone, I just thought they'd see how nasty it was to say, once it was turnt around on them.

And they’ve started to get really mad because it comes up a lot, like every time we leave the house a few times. And I decided for myself to not stop till my parents agree they’ll not say that poo poo about me or my friends or anyone else again… But its not really worked like that, they’re furious at me for disrespecting people in public and disrespecting them and the fact that it’s disrespectful for me to do, so it must also be disrespectful for them to do has just missed them???

IDK I’m grounded now and I can’t go see my friends after school or do theater or GSA club this spring and IDK if I should apologize even though I don’t mean it or what. it makes me so mad to be in trouble for doing the SAME EXACT THING they’ve done for years. Like I literally quote the things they said word for word, but replace the word "gay" or "lesbian" with "straight"

Also my brother got annoyed at me enough that he hit me and my parents were cool with that and he’s not even in trouble, and its so crappy he gets away with every drat thing.

TLDR - Ive started to say “ew straight people shoving it in my face” as a response to how my parents always said that about gay people and me and my friends. I’m in trouble and IDK if I should apologize even if I don’t mean it.

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Haifisch posted:

AITA for calling my pregnant cousin a breeder?

You are both the rear end in a top hat, but it was still a pretty good burn.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender

FireWorksWell posted:

Yes, you're an rear end in a top hat when you group your cousin in with people that you actively look for reasons to hate.

Then again I am assuming you found that on r/childfree
Nope, it's r/AmItheAsshole. And OP hasn't posted in r/childfree as far as I can tell.

Although her post history shows OP has some...pre-existing issues:
I want a better relationship with my sister. (self.Advice)

quote:

So it’s just the two of us and I’m the oldest by 5 years. We have never really had a great relationship as we’ve always been into different things and she’s never been an open person and full disclosure I’ve been an awful sister. I was a teachers pet at secondary school so she always got compared to me and I got really sick and became disabled when I was 16 which took a lot of attention away from her.

Our relationship now is... violent and rocky, we get into physical fights about the stupidest of things. we both have anger problems and I’ve spent the last two years trying to fix mine and be a better person. I want to fix our relationship and apologise for the lovely things I’ve done and for just not being there for her but I don’t know how. She’s just turned 18 and going off to uni, she’s super closed off and secretive and won’t ever really have an open conversation plus if I get her on a bad day she can get angry and confrontational. I don’t know what to do or how to approach her or even what to say without her walking away or just yelling at me. Honestly I’m close to just getting drunk together and then trying it. Please any advice would be useful.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!

FireWorksWell posted:

'He doesn't watch it while I'm in the room anymore thanks to an incident on Christmas eve'

Glad we have no context on this, but we know how soon you visit facebook after your boyfriend leaves. That's the exact kind of poo poo that would help give perspective, not that it's needed. As a general rule, if you don't want to suck your boyfriend's dick, want him to do all the work and he's addicted to pornography, he's gonna go with with his right-hand man. Path of least resistance.

Really though, when all's said and done pornography is gonna ruin our future generations.

On the contrary pornography helps separate the wheat from the chaff in so many ways, it's a real godsend.

Not only does it make it easier to identify the weirdo losers but it also lets dudes figure out what bizarre kinks their into early on, so you don't get situations like the one where after a year the husband is like "I can only get erect if I'm stuffing your face full of food, and I don't believe in divorce"

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

[US/MA] My ex has been blackmailing me to be a shut-in for years.

Oldest daughter: 14 Youngest daughter: 11

So, I totally hosed up my life.

Fourteen years ago I met a woman with a 4 month old daughter. We started dating and were together for 10 years. During that time they moved in with me and a few years into the relationship we had another daughter.

Our relationship was never good, but I was dealing with depression and social issues and this was my first real relationship, so I didn't want to give up on it. After my youngest daughter was born, I was kicked out the bedroom to sleep in the semi-finished basement. This is where I stayed sleeping for the next six years.

After trying couples counseling for over a year, I eventually decided that there was no salvaging this. Unfortunately, during the 10 years of our relationship she never worked. She was in school going for her masters, so she was unable to support herself or the kids in any way. She had absolutely no income and refused to get a job while she went to school.

So she and the girls got to live in the house I owned while I went back to live with my parents down the street. This was supposed to be only temporary until she got her Masters and could find a job. Well, she decided that if I want to have any contact with our oldest daughter (who isn't biologically mine), that she got to continue living there rent free for as long as she wants. I pay child support for both girls and I pay for the mortgage and all her living expenses.

Over the last three years, new rules for my behavior have been added.

I'm not allowed to date
I'm not allowed to socialize
I'm not allowed to be anywhere outside of the house if it isn't for a reason relating to the girls
Breaking these rules results in access to my oldest daughter being revoked. Pushing things further results in her mentally and emotionally torturing the girls to the point where she's pushed my oldest to self-harm.

Meanwhile she's gotten a job in her field. She's a social worker for DSS. So if I attempt to change any of this or report her or anything, she already has things in place with her friends in DSS to make sure I get hosed.

So yeah, I'm a bit depressed. I work from home, so aside from the days I do have my girls, I don't have any contact with anyone.

I've met with lawyers, multiple of them. In this state, I have absolutely ZERO rights as far as my oldest is concerned. She can withhold visitation any time she likes.

At this point, I've pretty much given up on fixing this or changing anything. My only hope at this point is to get through the next 7 years somewhat sane and with healthy semi-well adjusted daughters.

tldr; crazy ex, blackmailing me to be a shut-in

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Smirking_Serpent posted:

My parents always said they dont like “gay people shoving it in our face” even though i'm gay. (14f) It made me mad enough to say it back about straight couples, and now im in trouble


ok so i’m gay and i came out to my parents a few years ago, and they always said this one thing I absolutely hate, how “gay people don’t have to shove it in our faces”… Like if they see a couple in public, or on tv or whatever. They’ll call it gross or not good to do in public. They also think the GSA club I’m in at school is unnecessary and tacky and for people who want to “push it in your face” I got really mad about it recently, and for the last couple weeks I’ve been saying “ew, you don’t have to shove that nasty straight poo poo in my face” all the time. Or “ew that’s not something I wanna see in public” if I see other people who are obviosly straight in public. there's a lot of them haha.

Basically, when my parents kiss or hold hands or say sappy things to each other, or when someone introduces someone else as their husband or wife, or when I see a couple on a date… Or if I see a couple holding hands. Or if there’s a relationship on TV. I'll start saying the same stuff my parents said nasty stuff about, regarding gay couples. Not because i really mean it or hate anyone, I just thought they'd see how nasty it was to say, once it was turnt around on them.

And they’ve started to get really mad because it comes up a lot, like every time we leave the house a few times. And I decided for myself to not stop till my parents agree they’ll not say that poo poo about me or my friends or anyone else again… But its not really worked like that, they’re furious at me for disrespecting people in public and disrespecting them and the fact that it’s disrespectful for me to do, so it must also be disrespectful for them to do has just missed them???

IDK I’m grounded now and I can’t go see my friends after school or do theater or GSA club this spring and IDK if I should apologize even though I don’t mean it or what. it makes me so mad to be in trouble for doing the SAME EXACT THING they’ve done for years. Like I literally quote the things they said word for word, but replace the word "gay" or "lesbian" with "straight"

Also my brother got annoyed at me enough that he hit me and my parents were cool with that and he’s not even in trouble, and its so crappy he gets away with every drat thing.

TLDR - Ive started to say “ew straight people shoving it in my face” as a response to how my parents always said that about gay people and me and my friends. I’m in trouble and IDK if I should apologize even if I don’t mean it.

This is just sad.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!

Haifisch posted:

AITA for calling my pregnant cousin a breeder?

no further reading necessary, using the term "breeder" unironically makes you a smug rear end in a top hat

FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

Let's go do some hero shit!


Smirking_Serpent posted:

My parents always said they dont like “gay people shoving it in our face” even though i'm gay. (14f) It made me mad enough to say it back about straight couples, and now im in trouble


ok so i’m gay and i came out to my parents a few years ago, and they always said this one thing I absolutely hate, how “gay people don’t have to shove it in our faces”… Like if they see a couple in public, or on tv or whatever. They’ll call it gross or not good to do in public. They also think the GSA club I’m in at school is unnecessary and tacky and for people who want to “push it in your face” I got really mad about it recently, and for the last couple weeks I’ve been saying “ew, you don’t have to shove that nasty straight poo poo in my face” all the time. Or “ew that’s not something I wanna see in public” if I see other people who are obviosly straight in public. there's a lot of them haha.

Basically, when my parents kiss or hold hands or say sappy things to each other, or when someone introduces someone else as their husband or wife, or when I see a couple on a date… Or if I see a couple holding hands. Or if there’s a relationship on TV. I'll start saying the same stuff my parents said nasty stuff about, regarding gay couples. Not because i really mean it or hate anyone, I just thought they'd see how nasty it was to say, once it was turnt around on them.

And they’ve started to get really mad because it comes up a lot, like every time we leave the house a few times. And I decided for myself to not stop till my parents agree they’ll not say that poo poo about me or my friends or anyone else again… But its not really worked like that, they’re furious at me for disrespecting people in public and disrespecting them and the fact that it’s disrespectful for me to do, so it must also be disrespectful for them to do has just missed them???

IDK I’m grounded now and I can’t go see my friends after school or do theater or GSA club this spring and IDK if I should apologize even though I don’t mean it or what. it makes me so mad to be in trouble for doing the SAME EXACT THING they’ve done for years. Like I literally quote the things they said word for word, but replace the word "gay" or "lesbian" with "straight"

Also my brother got annoyed at me enough that he hit me and my parents were cool with that and he’s not even in trouble, and its so crappy he gets away with every drat thing.

TLDR - Ive started to say “ew straight people shoving it in my face” as a response to how my parents always said that about gay people and me and my friends. I’m in trouble and IDK if I should apologize even if I don’t mean it.

My lord, I hope she can get help and work on these anger issues. It's always the people who CAPITALIZE for emphasis that seem to say so little in so many words.

Gay or straight, any sane human being would probably stay away from the girl who gets angry and commentates on every single PDA between straight people.

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words

QuarkJets posted:

On the contrary pornography helps separate the wheat from the chaff in so many ways, it's a real godsend.

Not only does it make it easier to identify the weirdo losers but it also lets dudes figure out what bizarre kinks their into early on, so you don't get situations like the one where after a year the husband is like "I can only get erect if I'm stuffing your face full of food, and I don't believe in divorce"
It makes them develop these baroque kinks earlier but that doesn't do anything to help relationships. The guy in that story didn't suddenly discover his kink. He had had it and known about it forever, he just waited until the honeymoon to reveal it so she was stuck.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

FireWorksWell posted:

'He doesn't watch it while I'm in the room anymore thanks to an incident on Christmas eve'

Glad we have no context on this, but we know how soon you visit facebook after your boyfriend leaves. That's the exact kind of poo poo that would help give perspective, not that it's needed. As a general rule, if you don't want to suck your boyfriend's dick, want him to do all the work and he's addicted to pornography, he's gonna go with with his right-hand man. Path of least resistance.

Really though, when all's said and done pornography is gonna ruin our future generations.

With luck, ubiquitous porn and advanced sextoys will lead to nobody having sex any more and fertility rates plummetting until the earth is devoid of human life.

FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

Let's go do some hero shit!


QuarkJets posted:

On the contrary pornography helps separate the wheat from the chaff in so many ways, it's a real godsend.

Not only does it make it easier to identify the weirdo losers but it also lets dudes figure out what bizarre kinks their into early on, so you don't get situations like the one where after a year the husband is like "I can only get erect if I'm stuffing your face full of food, and I don't believe in divorce"

When you put it that way, you're right, stimulation only works on people who are inclined to seek it out. On the other hand, with how easy it is to find and discuss porn online, it's becoming easier than ever for children to become prey for the real deviants out there.

Ever since I discovered deviantArt I've had this fear of inflation fetishism becoming the norm in our society.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!

Anne Whateley posted:

It makes them develop these baroque kinks earlier but that doesn't do anything to help relationships. The guy in that story didn't suddenly discover his kink. He had had it and known about it forever, he just waited until the honeymoon to reveal it so she was stuck.

Are we sure that's how it went? I'm recalling a couple that was married for some time and then the husband read some poo poo on the internet and was like "oh, yeah that's what I'm into"

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

FireWorksWell posted:

Yes, you're an rear end in a top hat when you group your cousin in with people that you actively look for reasons to hate.

Then again I am assuming you found that on r/childfree

otoh

quote:

“Honestly [my name] you’re so stubborn, believe me in a few years all your “opinions” will change then that job of yours won’t matter. I just hope it’s not to late and you don’t end up alone and bitter. Honestly having a kid is the best thing a woman can do and nothing can compare”

is one of the most condescending things I've seen itt and I dunno if i would consider someone an rear end in a top hat for literally beating the person who said that to death. Like that's not some sort of mundane extended family asking when you're gonna have kids things that's literally disparaging your entire career and saying you'd be better off with your hips up in stirrups shooting out some kids. It's so bad it feels too (hopefully) on the nose stdh level of sexism.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

FireWorksWell posted:

My lord, I hope she can get help and work on these anger issues. It's always the people who CAPITALIZE for emphasis that seem to say so little in so many words.

Gay or straight, any sane human being would probably stay away from the girl who gets angry and commentates on every single PDA between straight people.

no the girl is cool and it is a shame her parents are bigots

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



Dienes posted:

I'm mad at this man for making me side with someone who's into ~*~organic~*~*~ food.

Hell, even if she is Earth-Mother level organic, once he first said 'our food budget's still the same' I wouldn't have cared if she ate poached dodo eggs every day.

She footed 100%+ (and his car payments) for him, now he's at ~70% and maybe can't buy Kingdom Hearts 3 on release.

We know who the true victim is here :sora:

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words

QuarkJets posted:

Are we sure that's how it went? I'm recalling a couple that was married for some time and then the husband read some poo poo on the internet and was like "oh, yeah that's what I'm into"
I'm sure that's happened plenty, but the mashed potato feeder honeymoon guy was notable for the honeymoon aspect

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Smirking_Serpent posted:

My parents always said they dont like “gay people shoving it in our face” even though i'm gay. (14f) It made me mad enough to say it back about straight couples, and now im in trouble


ok so i’m gay and i came out to my parents a few years ago, and they always said this one thing I absolutely hate, how “gay people don’t have to shove it in our faces”… Like if they see a couple in public, or on tv or whatever. They’ll call it gross or not good to do in public. They also think the GSA club I’m in at school is unnecessary and tacky and for people who want to “push it in your face” I got really mad about it recently, and for the last couple weeks I’ve been saying “ew, you don’t have to shove that nasty straight poo poo in my face” all the time. Or “ew that’s not something I wanna see in public” if I see other people who are obviosly straight in public. there's a lot of them haha.

Basically, when my parents kiss or hold hands or say sappy things to each other, or when someone introduces someone else as their husband or wife, or when I see a couple on a date… Or if I see a couple holding hands. Or if there’s a relationship on TV. I'll start saying the same stuff my parents said nasty stuff about, regarding gay couples. Not because i really mean it or hate anyone, I just thought they'd see how nasty it was to say, once it was turnt around on them.

And they’ve started to get really mad because it comes up a lot, like every time we leave the house a few times. And I decided for myself to not stop till my parents agree they’ll not say that poo poo about me or my friends or anyone else again… But its not really worked like that, they’re furious at me for disrespecting people in public and disrespecting them and the fact that it’s disrespectful for me to do, so it must also be disrespectful for them to do has just missed them???

IDK I’m grounded now and I can’t go see my friends after school or do theater or GSA club this spring and IDK if I should apologize even though I don’t mean it or what. it makes me so mad to be in trouble for doing the SAME EXACT THING they’ve done for years. Like I literally quote the things they said word for word, but replace the word "gay" or "lesbian" with "straight"

Also my brother got annoyed at me enough that he hit me and my parents were cool with that and he’s not even in trouble, and its so crappy he gets away with every drat thing.

TLDR - Ive started to say “ew straight people shoving it in my face” as a response to how my parents always said that about gay people and me and my friends. I’m in trouble and IDK if I should apologize even if I don’t mean it.

Not really cool to say poo poo to unrelated parties but gently caress those parents and when it is just them and you then no, you are not the rear end in a top hat.

FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

Let's go do some hero shit!


ArbitraryC posted:

otoh


is one of the most condescending things I've seen itt and I dunno if i would consider someone an rear end in a top hat for literally beating the person who said that to death. Like that's not some sort of mundane extended family asking when you're gonna have kids things that's literally disparaging your entire career and saying you'd be better off with your hips up in stirrups shooting out some kids. It's so bad it feels too (hopefully) on the nose stdh level of sexism.

This just comes off as two assholes trying to convince each other their poo poo doesn't stink. They can argue and argue but the real issue isn't about kids, it's that two people are insufferable and one person can dish it out worse.

JFairfax posted:

no the girl is cool and it is a shame her parents are bigots

I agree about the latter but she needs to learn better coping skills quickly, because she's gonna became a hardcore heterophobe (is that even a term yet?)

therobit posted:

Not really cool to say poo poo to unrelated parties but gently caress those parents and when it is just them and you then no, you are not the rear end in a top hat.

Yeah, I agree with this, she believes it's okay to project her anger at her parents towards strangers and it's easy to get stuck in that mindset.

FireWorksWell fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Jan 23, 2019

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Smirking_Serpent posted:

[US/MA] My ex has been blackmailing me to be a shut-in for years.

Oldest daughter: 14 Youngest daughter: 11

So, I totally hosed up my life.

Fourteen years ago I met a woman with a 4 month old daughter. We started dating and were together for 10 years. During that time they moved in with me and a few years into the relationship we had another daughter.

Our relationship was never good, but I was dealing with depression and social issues and this was my first real relationship, so I didn't want to give up on it. After my youngest daughter was born, I was kicked out the bedroom to sleep in the semi-finished basement. This is where I stayed sleeping for the next six years.

After trying couples counseling for over a year, I eventually decided that there was no salvaging this. Unfortunately, during the 10 years of our relationship she never worked. She was in school going for her masters, so she was unable to support herself or the kids in any way. She had absolutely no income and refused to get a job while she went to school.

So she and the girls got to live in the house I owned while I went back to live with my parents down the street. This was supposed to be only temporary until she got her Masters and could find a job. Well, she decided that if I want to have any contact with our oldest daughter (who isn't biologically mine), that she got to continue living there rent free for as long as she wants. I pay child support for both girls and I pay for the mortgage and all her living expenses.

Over the last three years, new rules for my behavior have been added.

I'm not allowed to date
I'm not allowed to socialize
I'm not allowed to be anywhere outside of the house if it isn't for a reason relating to the girls
Breaking these rules results in access to my oldest daughter being revoked. Pushing things further results in her mentally and emotionally torturing the girls to the point where she's pushed my oldest to self-harm.

Meanwhile she's gotten a job in her field. She's a social worker for DSS. So if I attempt to change any of this or report her or anything, she already has things in place with her friends in DSS to make sure I get hosed.

So yeah, I'm a bit depressed. I work from home, so aside from the days I do have my girls, I don't have any contact with anyone.

I've met with lawyers, multiple of them. In this state, I have absolutely ZERO rights as far as my oldest is concerned. She can withhold visitation any time she likes.

At this point, I've pretty much given up on fixing this or changing anything. My only hope at this point is to get through the next 7 years somewhat sane and with healthy semi-well adjusted daughters.

tldr; crazy ex, blackmailing me to be a shut-in

Murder.

wizardofloneliness
Dec 30, 2008

QuarkJets posted:

Are we sure that's how it went? I'm recalling a couple that was married for some time and then the husband read some poo poo on the internet and was like "oh, yeah that's what I'm into"

The story I’m thinking of was where the couple waited until they got married to have sex. Then the husband immediately starts bringing cake and chicken legs into bed and the woman’s just like “I didn’t know it would be like this :(“ But there’s probably endless variations of this situation.

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

Anne Whateley posted:

I'm sure that's happened plenty, but the mashed potato feeder honeymoon guy was notable for the honeymoon aspect
yeah that dude for sure knew what he was into and intentionally withheld it. IIRC the original post included him immediately making an ultimatum that their sex life would include it. You don't reach that point without some forethought.

FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

Let's go do some hero shit!



But then the daughters won't have any parental figures because the father will be in jail

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

FireWorksWell posted:

This just comes off as two assholes trying to convince each other their poo poo doesn't stink. They can argue and argue but the real issue isn't about kids, it's that two people are insufferable and one person can dish it out worse.
I mean we can argue about the truthfulness of the childfree OP which is prolly fair considering the background of reddit but if what she said was accurate I'd honestly be in support of her if she folded up a steel chair and went to town wwf style.

FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

Let's go do some hero shit!


ArbitraryC posted:

I mean we can argue about the truthfulness of the childfree OP which is prolly fair considering the background of reddit but if what she said was accurate I'd honestly be in support of her if she folded up a steel chair and went to town wwf style.

That seems like an overreaction to me

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
I feel bad for No Eskimo Sisters woman from a page back, who’s probably Icelandic or something, but might just have to get used to the idea that dudes she meets have already been with other women she knows.

Fuck Your Website
Nov 29, 2003
FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUR WEBSITE

chitoryu12 posted:

I [21M] want to ask my really good friend [21F] to take my virginity.

I had a friend who told me and my then-wife that he was going to do this exact thing, only he was 24 at the time. We both knew the girl he was going to ask and we both told him in no uncertain terms that we both thought it was a bad idea.

He immediately got super defensive and accusatory, saying we didn’t know what we were talking about, that we didn’t know how she’d react, that etc etc etc

As anyone who is on page 400X of this thread already knows, he did ask her and it did not go well. I don’t think we ever again hung out with the two of them at the same time.

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words

FireWorksWell posted:

That seems like an overreaction to me
Saying "having kids is the best thing a woman can do," not just to a woman who doesn't want kids, but to a woman whose disability means she physically can't have kids? Chair time

FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

Let's go do some hero shit!


Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Husband[30M] broke the new bathtub while on acid. He somewhat buried it in the backyard, bought a new one, and is trying to cover it up.

been together 5 years

I went out of town for the weekend and my husband has some buddies over. They decided to trip without anyone to watch them.

I got home and immediately noticed there was a different tub in our bathroom. I asked husband and he claims it's the same one. He tried to play it off but he's a bad liar. At first I thought that maybe I was imagining things or misremembering because I couldn't imagine why there would be a different tub

I was later in the backyard and noticed an area in the trees that had been disturbed. I kicked the dirt and quickly discovered our old tub was there, broken. Had been buried half-assed

I confronted my husband and he claims he has no idea what I'm talking about. I showed him the piece of the tub and he said "hmm that's weird" and walked away.

I don't know where to go from here. I know he did it. I know how he did it--his friend posted a video of it on snapchat. He knows I know. I don't understand.

that sounds like one hell of a weekend.

also I love the idea of this guy trying to gaslight her over a tub, which she must have seen at least three times a day.


Anne Whateley posted:

Saying "having kids is the best thing a woman can do," not just to a woman who doesn't want kids, but to a woman whose disability means she physically can't have kids? Chair time

I missed the part about her medical issues, that's horrible...yeah, cousin can get a chair the face or gut.

FireWorksWell fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Jan 23, 2019

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!

ArbitraryC posted:

otoh


is one of the most condescending things I've seen itt and I dunno if i would consider someone an rear end in a top hat for literally beating the person who said that to death. Like that's not some sort of mundane extended family asking when you're gonna have kids things that's literally disparaging your entire career and saying you'd be better off with your hips up in stirrups shooting out some kids. It's so bad it feels too (hopefully) on the nose stdh level of sexism.

otoh someone who uses the term "breeder" may be an unreliable narrator

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!

Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:

The story I’m thinking of was where the couple waited until they got married to have sex. Then the husband immediately starts bringing cake and chicken legs into bed and the woman’s just like “I didn’t know it would be like this :(“ But there’s probably endless variations of this situation.

oh man that's even worse, all of that buildup and now you either live out the rest of your days unfulfilled or give up your core christian beliefs

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
I see the bathtub post is an old one but that’s loving amazing

DeadMansSuspenders
Jan 10, 2012

I wanna be your left hand man

Me [29 M] with my girlfriend [27 F] of 6 months, I snooped and found flirty text she sent to another guy during our island vacation.

quote:

I need help coming to terms with this situation. I'm totally in love with this woman and very tempted to forgive her. Is that the right move?

We dated for about 6 weeks starting in October before becoming official on Thanksgiving Nov. 26th. She told me she had gone on a date with another person during that dating period and they kissed, but that was OK because we had not laid out any rules on exclusivity.

However, I snooped in her iMessage out of pure curiosity and found a different story. She had pictures with herself and another man from November 25th and lots of sexual texts during the week prior to us becoming official. They had slept together while she was on a work trip to Miami that week. There wasn't much activity after that until January.

Early-January, the guy she had slept with the week prior to us becoming official, texted her a naked picture OF herself from the weekend they slept together in November. She immediately asked him to delete it. It looks like they spoke a few times during that period (and she has told me that it was b/c she was asking him to delete the picture).

Late-January my GF and I were on an unbelievably romantic vacation to an Island in the Caribbean. It was the most amazing week of my life. Pure love like I've never felt before. However, I have found that she texted him during that trip "Happy Birthday!!!" and sent him kind of a flirty GIF. They sent about 8 messages back-and-forth during that exchange. Not overtly sexual, but a touch flirty.

There hasn't been any contact since then. But I can't stop thinking about how she was texting another man during our romantic vacation. She says she was being cordial with him because he has this naked picture of her, and she is worried he'll use it against her somehow. There have been no texts since then about 2 months ago.

I was very angry when I confronted her about these texts. She was heart-broken sad, but also said she felt some relief that I finally knew, because she felt so bad about lying. I have taken her back for now, but I can't stop thinking about it. Is her betrayal as bad as it is in my head when I'm alone? Or is it as trivial as when I'm with her in person, lying in bed, completely in love?

TL;DR GF texted a man she has slept with on our romantic vacation. Is this cheating?

FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

Let's go do some hero shit!


Pirate Radar posted:

I see the bathtub post is an old one but that’s loving amazing

The only thing that could have possibly made it better was if they managed to get the old tub on the roof of the house, and the girlfriend found out while using Google Earth or whatever for shits and giggles.

Edit for old-new content:

Haifisch posted:

Me [16 F] with my boyfriend [21 M] of 5 months, he's always had some odd quirks, but this one is just plain stupid

I played soccer for three years, my brother plays football and I've gone to tons of games to support him, played basketball for a year back in middle school, and I'm not oblivious about other sports either, but I act like I am whenever they come up. My boyfriend doesn't like it when I try to join the conversations he and his friends have. So even though I like some sports I kind of just act like I don't know what they're talking about if someone says something to me.

Another thing is he doesn't like it when I read a lot. I don't mean like at all, he's fine with manga and magazines, and he actually buys me lots of cool subscriptions like seventeen and cosmo which is really nice and he got me the entire English release of the the Skip Beat volumes which was basically the best birthday gift ever, It's just books that bug him for whatever reason. I was reading Paper Towns a while back and he told me I shouldn't be reading and to just wait for the movie.

He also gets annoyed when I type out full sentences and punctuation in texts. I guess it makes sense, shortening makes stuff quicker, but it's kind of silly how he gets sooooo annoyed just cause I type out full words!
Those are three things he gets way too annoyed about, but I got used to it all, cause it's not like I don't have stupid things that annoy me, you know? Been with him for 5 months, and it's all no big deal.

But recently (late October) he's started getting annoyed about my glasses and that's kind of been a problem. He said I should stop wearing them, so I asked my mom to take me and get some contacts, but then a few days after I got them he told me I shouldn't wear them anymore either because he doesn't feel like they're safe to use and could injure my eyes. I sort of feel the same way, and said I'd go back to wearing glasses, but he said I should just not wear either. And it's so stupid that he's telling me "hey, I don't like how those look so stop being able to see." I mean it's not like I NEED them to survive. I can see, I just can't make out words from too far away. Road signs, front of the room at school, the time on a clock across the room, that sort of thing. I decided to just ride the bus since he drives me everywhere else anyway and honestly it does save some money, and school wasn't really too big of a deal not being able to see as much, but telling me not to wear my glasses seriously just feels like a stupid request and I want to start wearing them again. I told him that too but he said no and told me not to talk to him again until I'd decided what to do about my glasses

What should I do??? :/ Besides this everything is PERFECT we never fight about anything and he's always there when I need him and everything! But like I said before, this is just plain stupid you know? I think I'm just going to deal with it unless someone has a better idea :/

tl;dr: bf wants me to stop wearing glasses for no good reason and I don't want to

Special Mention comment posted:

I'll just throw this in here, even of it gets downvoted.
I'm originally from Michigan, where age of consent is 16. When I was 21(M), I dated a 17(F) year old. I wasn't looking for someone I could control. I was simply looking for someone I could have fun with, who didn't have all the problems that come with adulthood.

If there was an '/r/relationships' bingo, Free Space would be "Besides __, he/she's perfect!"

FireWorksWell fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Jan 23, 2019

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

FireWorksWell posted:

My lord, I hope she can get help and work on these anger issues. It's always the people who CAPITALIZE for emphasis that seem to say so little in so many words.

Gay or straight, any sane human being would probably stay away from the girl who gets angry and commentates on every single PDA between straight people.

She's 14.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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

quote:

Q: 1. People only ask me about the ducks I work with

I’m in the lower-middle level of food service establishment with a couple hundred employees. Last year, I started a side project where I got us a small flock of ducks for fresh eggs and general merriment.

Ever since, folks only ask me about the ducks. I have brief interactions with at least a dozen people a day and 90% of the conversations start with, or completely consist of, “how are the ducks?”

The ducks are darling and entertaining and I love working with them, but they are a small part of my job and not the only interesting thing about my role or personality. I’m getting increasingly cranky and desperate for more diverse conversations. The ducks are always fine. If anything big happened with them, I’d let folks know. They are literally out the back door and anybody could go look at them if they wanted.

Is there any way I can get out of having this same insubstantial conversation 10 times a day for the foreseeable future? Especially since any one person probably won’t ask me about them more than twice a week, so it seems unreasonable to ask an individual to stop? I want to be friendly and gracious but seriously enough with the ducks for one second.

——————
A:

I feel guilty because I really want to ask you for a picture of the ducks.

This is going to be tough because lots of people are going to find it amazing to have ducks at work, and they are going to think of it every time they see you and feel jealous that you work with the ducks and will want to ask about it. It’s easily the biggest conversation starter that people who don’t know you well will remember. (In fact, I bet that the people who know you really well / work with you most closely don’t do this nearly as much, right?) They’re also probably not accounting for the fact that everyone else is asking about the same thing all day long.

You could put up a sign that says, “The ducks are great! They are right out that door if you want to see them” with an arrow and a picture of the ducks …
and that will probably cut down on some of the inquiries, although not all.

You could also cheerfully respond to inquiries with, “Everyone asks me about the ducks!” As long as you say it cheerfully and not resentfully, that’s a polite way to nudge more perceptive people into realizing that it’s probably too much.

But that might be the best you can do, unfortunately. You have ducks at work! It’s going to be a thing. (Although it will probably become less of a thing in time, when the novelty has worn off a little.)

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FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

Let's go do some hero shit!


He should duck away from small talk with passerby for a bit.

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