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PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Xenocides posted:

I[35M] have a few borderline personality disorders, and because of of that dating is impossible. I am thinking of using a mail order bride service and wanted to know if it was a serviceable idea.

I have never had a lasting relationship. It isn't because I am bad looking or because of anything they did, it is because I am suffering from multiple "borderline personality disorders". I don't posses or process emotions the way most people do, and i also have an inability to make attachments to anything. I also seem to lack empathy.

Because of this, starting and maintaining relationships has been all but impossible. I have been in therapy for these things for the better part of 30 years, and I have learned to "fake it" for the most part. I have found that faking it with a person that you are supposed to care about is impossible at least for me.

The lack of attachments has made me fairly successful in my chosen field, and has afforded me the use of professionals whenever my sexual needs had to be met. I have also used professionals for company functions and weddings and other things that I needed to attend where attending alone would be a problem.

For the last 5 or so years, aquaintences at work, and family have been asking why it is that I have not attempted to start a family, and i am lacking a suitable answer.

I have been doing research on "mail order brides". The signup process isn't that difficult. It would also seem to solve the problem of hiring people to attend social functions and the like. I don't know if this idea is a good one, but it seems to solve the issues that I am having at the moment. What do you think?

TL;DR I have borderline personality disorder and I cannot stay in a relationship. So I am thinking of signing up for a mail order bride for longterm companionship. Is this a good idea?
That's not what BPD does. My rough understanding is BPD people do just fine forming attachments, they struggle to moderate their emotions and can flip from intense extremes aimed at the same subject. Is he trying to say that he has multiple personality disorders to a lesser/borderline degree??

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The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Xenocides posted:

I[35M] have a few borderline personality disorders, and because of of that dating is impossible. I am thinking of using a mail order bride service and wanted to know if it was a serviceable idea.

I have never had a lasting relationship. It isn't because I am bad looking or because of anything they did, it is because I am suffering from multiple "borderline personality disorders". I don't posses or process emotions the way most people do, and i also have an inability to make attachments to anything. I also seem to lack empathy.

Because of this, starting and maintaining relationships has been all but impossible. I have been in therapy for these things for the better part of 30 years, and I have learned to "fake it" for the most part. I have found that faking it with a person that you are supposed to care about is impossible at least for me.

The lack of attachments has made me fairly successful in my chosen field, and has afforded me the use of professionals whenever my sexual needs had to be met. I have also used professionals for company functions and weddings and other things that I needed to attend where attending alone would be a problem.

For the last 5 or so years, aquaintences at work, and family have been asking why it is that I have not attempted to start a family, and i am lacking a suitable answer.

I have been doing research on "mail order brides". The signup process isn't that difficult. It would also seem to solve the problem of hiring people to attend social functions and the like. I don't know if this idea is a good one, but it seems to solve the issues that I am having at the moment. What do you think?

TL;DR I have borderline personality disorder and I cannot stay in a relationship. So I am thinking of signing up for a mail order bride for longterm companionship. Is this a good idea?

this certainly won't end with some woman tolerating captain sperg here just long enough to get permanent residency and then divorcing him and taking half of his poo poo

do it

Xenocides
Jan 14, 2008

This world looks very scary....


PetraCore posted:

That's not what BPD does. My rough understanding is BPD people do just fine forming attachments, they struggle to moderate their emotions and can flip from intense extremes aimed at the same subject. Is he trying to say that he has multiple personality disorders to a lesser/borderline degree??

I have no idea. Just like I have no idea why he put borderline in there with a strikethrough. I am guessing he is more of a sociopath.

Xenocides
Jan 14, 2008

This world looks very scary....


Maybe he washes his rear end though and has a leg up?


How can my husband[32M] and I[22F] best explain to his brother[35M] why he can't find a girlfriend?

My brother in law can't find a girlfriend and he's starting to become really bitter about it. He goes on about how it's not fair that my husband is married and younger than him.

He's even asked me if any of my friends from back home(I'm not from the US) would be willing to marry him for a green card or money.

There's a reason no one wants to be with him. He's an alcoholic with a beer belly that only talks about sports and rents a room from a family, he shares his bathroom with the families kids. That's just not attractive. If my friends wanted a pale,pudgy alcoholic they'd stay where they are!

How can we explain this to him without ripping him to shreds?

tl;dr: My BIL can't get a girlfriend and wants me to get him a mail order bride. He doesn't realize that the fact that he can't get a girl is his own fault.


Best comment comes from poster MAXIMUM FARTING with reasonable advice pointing out to him that he is worthless.

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe
AITA for telling my GF to gently caress off trying to change me?

quote:

So, me and my girlfriend have been together for a year. We love each other but now my girlfriend seems to be fed up by something. She has not been able to sleep for a couple of days due to my snoring and loud breathing during sleep. She didn't sleep anything today. Of course when I wake up we have a talk about this because that bothered her so she brought it up and asked me to "please go to the doctor and sort it out, I want to be able to cuddle you and sleep next to you but you breath so loud and snore when you're asleep, if you care about me and this relationship do something about it". She has previously slept in the bathtub due to my snoring, lol. (she can't sleep on our sofa since its my parents house and they don't allow that). I woke up once with her sleeping in the bathtub. She is telling me to seek help. But this is who i am and i snore, she has to deal with it and don't ask me to change.

There are other stuff that she has been moaning about. I don't brush my teeth regularly due to the minty taste of the toothpaste, and whenever we go to bed she tells me to go brush my teeth as if she is my mother. I'm a 21 year old adult who can decide for himself. When we discussed the sleep thing I told her to gently caress off and now she is sad.

EDIT: she didn't use to bring this up in the beginning of the relationship, I asked her why and she said because she was too shy to bring it up. now all of a sudden she is making a huge deal about it. she even threw out an ultimatum of "this can affect our relationship and do something or else I'll have to leave".

AITA?

The snoring's bad enough, but not brushing his teeth regularly? Eugh.

Pinecone Sample
Oct 12, 2010

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kimbo305 posted:

She drove herself over. This might have been avoided if she were just more direct, but probably not since the bf seems inattentive.
"So I was staying over at my boyfriend’s place and I made it very clear to him that I was pretty hungry."
"Anyways, before I agreed earlier in the day to drive over around 8 pm, I made it very apparent that I hadn't eaten since 11 am and was very hungry/needed to eat."

Just add... "got anything in the fridge for me?"

I don't know who tf would want to eat a few bites of a burrito that someone else noshed on, put away, and was noshing on again, even if you make out with that person everyday

I have a bad history of girlfriends asking for a bite of something such as a burrito and having it just completely falling apart in their hands

On either side, I would have offered and accepted the frozen tacos first anyway

Xenocides
Jan 14, 2008

This world looks very scary....


Can’t use toothpaste due to minty taste? Does he not know other toothpastes exist?

duck trucker
Oct 14, 2017

YOSPOS

Toothpaste too minty. Cant brush

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

DaveWoo posted:

AITA for telling my GF to gently caress off trying to change me?


The snoring's bad enough, but not brushing his teeth regularly? Eugh.

"I don't brush my teeth regularly due to the minty taste of the toothpaste"

I guess that settles it. There surely some people out there who don't wipe their butts, because the paper is too papery, or water is too wet.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
Someone needs to make a toothpaste that tastes like an unbrushed mouth.

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


he needs to get that orange flavored toothpaste my mom used to get for me when I was a little kid, that stuff ruled

it won't fix his atrocious personality but at least his teeth will be healthier

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

I usually get Marvis toothpaste in the jasmine mint flavor. It's a lot milder than something like Crest.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Yeah I don't like strong toothpaste flavors but somehow I manage to make do, and even using a toothpaste I dislike feels better than unbrushed teeth.

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


I don't have dental insurance and I have less than 500 dollars in savings at any given time, you better believe I brush AND floss

since this guy is living with his parents, I would think that would heavily incentivize him to take care of his teeth, the one thing even european socialized healthcare tends to be really lovely about

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

The cool thing about stuff like hygiene and clothes is that you don't need to buy needlessly expensive stuff, but if you just pay slightly more than the cheap Walmart brand of everything you can likely get something that's far better and solves whatever problems you may have with it. It's like saving up for the $80 sneakers that will last for 5+ years instead of buying a pair of $10 sneakers that get holes in them and need to be replaced every 6 months. If you don't like your harsh cheap toothpaste, just buy the stuff that costs $10 a tube instead of $3 and it immediately solves that problem!

Peaceful Anarchy
Sep 18, 2005
sXe
I am the math man.

I wonder if there are "no toothpaste" people like the no shampoo or no soap people, arguing that the mouth is actually self cleaning and you only get plaque because you've accustomed your mouth to harsh chemicals, and just rinsing with water is perfectly fine and normal and actually better for your teeth.

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.
What the gently caress kind of advice is that? Nobody needs $10 toothpaste; in fact brushing with just water is nearly as effective.

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

Leon Einstein posted:

... in fact brushing with just water is nearly as effective.

Brushing with morning waters even more so.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Peaceful Anarchy posted:

I wonder if there are "no toothpaste" people like the no shampoo or no soap people, arguing that the mouth is actually self cleaning and you only get plaque because you've accustomed your mouth to harsh chemicals, and just rinsing with water is perfectly fine and normal and actually better for your teeth.

Leon Einstein posted:

What the gently caress kind of advice is that? Nobody needs $10 toothpaste; in fact brushing with just water is nearly as effective.

Not even a minute passed.

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Peaceful Anarchy posted:

I wonder if there are "no toothpaste" people like the no shampoo or no soap people, arguing that the mouth is actually self cleaning and you only get plaque because you've accustomed your mouth to harsh chemicals, and just rinsing with water is perfectly fine and normal and actually better for your teeth.

paleolithic human skulls had good teeth because they didn't cultivate grains, and therefore didn't really give the bad mouth bacteria those delicious carbs that turbocharge their growth

I suppose I could see some health nutter believe their keto diet means they don't got to brush their teeth, but even cavemen used chewsticks

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦

Peaceful Anarchy posted:

I wonder if there are "no toothpaste" people like the no shampoo or no soap people, arguing that the mouth is actually self cleaning and you only get plaque because you've accustomed your mouth to harsh chemicals, and just rinsing with water is perfectly fine and normal and actually better for your teeth.

Not exactly related to this but isn't there supposedly a tooth decay vaccine under development?

Which is a wild concept to begin with frankly.

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Remember, when buying an investment grade dildo or vibrator (S&P's BBB, Moody's BAA) that usage is tracked in hours, not miles, like you would expect. Just like with jet skis.

Xenocides posted:

The lack of attachments has made me fairly successful in my chosen field, and has afforded me the use of professionals whenever my sexual needs had to be met. I have also used professionals for company functions and weddings and other things that I needed to attend where attending alone would be a problem.

Yeah, don't bring escorts to company events. Someone is going to recognize them.

Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.

DaveWoo posted:

AITA for telling my GF to gently caress off trying to change me?


The snoring's bad enough, but not brushing his teeth regularly? Eugh.

wow a 21 year old adult, huh?

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

chitoryu12 posted:

Not even a minute passed.

I'm not saying that brushing is optional.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Leon Einstein posted:

I'm not saying that brushing is optional.
Honestly it probably depends on the person, too. I brush regularly with toothpaste and my teeth have always been a mess, someone with a different diet and stronger enamel could probably have better dental health relying mostly on water brushing and flossing, supplimented by toothpaste or mouthwash when needed.

Nastyman
Jul 11, 2007

There they sit
at the foot of the mountain
Taking hits
of the sacred smoke
Fire rips at their lungs
Holy mountain take us away

PetraCore posted:

That's not what BPD does. My rough understanding is BPD people do just fine forming attachments, they struggle to moderate their emotions and can flip from intense extremes aimed at the same subject. Is he trying to say that he has multiple personality disorders to a lesser/borderline degree??

Pretty sure he just doesn't know what the words "borderline" "personality" and "disorder" mean when they appear next to eachother.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

cumshitter posted:

Remember, when buying an investment grade dildo or vibrator (S&P's BBB, Moody's BAA) that usage is tracked in hours, not miles, like you would expect. Just like with jet skis.

Real talk tho don’t skimp on things you stick inside yourself sexually. Your orifices will thank you.

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Someone repost the story about the guy who didn't brush because the feeling of the toothbrush annoyed him, and how he changed his entire diet and would just scratch at his teeth with his fingernails to clean them. The one where he changes every aspect of his life to avoid brushing and then ends by saying "I don't let this control my life."

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

teen witch posted:

Real talk tho don’t skimp on things you stick inside yourself sexually. Your orifices will thank you.


Who is sticking a Hitachi inside of them?!

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood

Leon Einstein posted:

Who is sticking a Hitachi inside of them?!

Your mom.

big dyke energy
Jul 29, 2006

Football? Yaaaay
I wonder if there are people who only brush their teeth the old style way like with soot and a boar bristle brush or something. Tooth cleaning hipsters.

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


big dyke energy posted:

I wonder if there are people who only brush their teeth the old style way like with soot and a boar bristle brush or something. Tooth cleaning hipsters.

I sometimes see facebook ads for dentifrice powder

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Leon Einstein posted:

Who is sticking a Hitachi inside of them?!

Inside, around, up or out of. I don’t judge.

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

big dyke energy posted:

I wonder if there are people who only brush their teeth the old style way like with soot and a boar bristle brush or something. Tooth cleaning hipsters.

People definitely brush with charcoal still.

Brother Tadger
Feb 15, 2012

I'm accidentally a suicide bomber!

Leon Einstein posted:

Who is sticking a Hitachi inside of them?!

Prude

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib
African chew sticks are making a big come back apparently. Hipsters will do anything if you make it sound exotic.

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

Peaceful Anarchy posted:

I wonder if there are "no toothpaste" people like the no shampoo or no soap people, arguing that the mouth is actually self cleaning and you only get plaque because you've accustomed your mouth to harsh chemicals, and just rinsing with water is perfectly fine and normal and actually better for your teeth.

I felt that way for a while without really articulating it that deeply. I too hated mint toothpaste and as a result didn't brush my teeth regularly for 17 years, and no dentist for the last 10 of those. Dated and got married during that time.

When I started seeing a dentist again I had 3 cavities that weren't too severe. Got an electric toothbrush and my taste buds had dulled enough to tolerate toothpaste. Still only floss when I have bad breath or the week before the dentist.

Ironically I stopped using shampoo at around the same time, which made my head stop being so itchy.

I use antibacterial deodorant instead of antiperspirant and stopped sweating as much.

And fine, I'll cop to being the guy who doesn't use soap. I haven't used soap in 6 years now and no one has noticed. If my MiL hasn't gleefully pounced on the fact that I smell, I guarantee that I don't.

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood
i got one of those huge plastic turtle sandbox that i fill with fine grained Saharan sand and i bathe by taking off the untailored satin sheet i wrap around my luxurious curves and roll around in that dusty sumbitch like a gently caress-hungry chinchilla. then i anoint my hair with olive oil from olives i squeeze between my thighs, and by this time i am such a profoundly gritty greasy mess that legally i qualify as a clam fritter, so

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

i got one of those huge plastic turtle sandbox that i fill with fine grained Saharan sand and i bathe by taking off the untailored satin sheet i wrap around my luxurious curves and roll around in that dusty sumbitch like a gently caress-hungry chinchilla. then i anoint my hair with olive oil from olives i squeeze between my thighs, and by this time i am such a profoundly gritty greasy mess that legally i qualify as a clam fritter, so

Finally a pearl of wisdom.

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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

PetraCore posted:

That's not what BPD does. My rough understanding is BPD people do just fine forming attachments, they struggle to moderate their emotions and can flip from intense extremes aimed at the same subject. Is he trying to say that he has multiple personality disorders to a lesser/borderline degree??

If he lacks empathy and can't form attachments, it could be anything from autism to sociopathy. People with BPD have many symptoms, but the ones relevant to this case is that they:

1. Have great difficulty moderating their emotions (especially anger)

2. Suffer from a fear of abandonment, often to an exaggerated degree

3. Have "black and white thinking" where they can't hold contradictory beliefs, usually in the sense of having difficulty comprehending a complex person as something more than "good" or "bad"

This causes them to have extreme difficulty in their relationships. BPD is most commonly seen in people who suffered an abusive childhood and many of the symptoms are recognizable as coping methods or defense mechanisms; classifying a person as wholly bad because they did a bad thing allows them to immediately cut off someone harmful, which is useful in extreme situations but not a good way to handle adult conflict.

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