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loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

So exactly how common is it to be told that breaking up with someone is emotionally abusive anyway? I'm seeing a bit of a trend.

Theokotos posted:

Pete and Eagle Boyfriend deserve their own call in radio show/podcast where they solve romantic queries and quandaries. Also mysteries.

I'm imagining Eagle Boyfriend as Birdperson from Rick & Morty

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loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

People on the Internet always tell you to sever no matter what

Multiple goons in E/N once told me I needed to break off my engagement because my fiancee and I would sometimes argue about where we were going to live in five years

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Jerry: She sent you a clown picture?
George: A clown picture, Jerry!
Elaine: What's wrong with clowns? I like clowns.
George: Well ya wouldn't like this one!
Jerry: Okay, so what's the big deal? Tell her you didn't like the clown picture, move on with your life.
George: You don't get it! I can't sleep anymore, Jerry! I turn off the lights and all I can see is that bulbous bald head, that little wave thing, the extended pinky... I can't live like this!
Jerry: Hey, Elaine, didn't you date a clown once?
Elaine: Oh yeah, Bonzo. I couldn't sleep around him either. He wouldn't stop honking the little bike horn.
*KRAMER bursts through the door, in full clown makeup. APPLAUSE.*

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Nazzadan posted:

Me [58 M] with my son [23 M] who's starting to become a loser?


100% fake, but pretty funny

please don't doxx my d--

Dial-a-Dog posted:

The shame, to be doxxed and find out my dad is a redditor in the space of just one post

dammit :argh:

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Why would you post about it in E/N? Huge red flag imo

This remains the biggest blunder of the entire engagement period, because it led to me reading some bad posts :(

Unsurprisingly the winning solution, rather than anything they said, turned out to be "postpone the decision again and let life solve the issue for you, in the form of most of her immediate family moving out of her home state for unrelated reasons, which makes her want to move there less"

These days she's even talking about leaving her job to get another one closer to my work so we can buy a house out here and both have easy commutes. Everything's comin up loq :cool:

e:

Pick posted:

I want to know where these incredible men are whose only flaw is that they listen to a singer I don't really like.

what if they also sent you scary clown gifs though

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Pick posted:

I think that's a little presumptuous, maybe they should try opening up the relationship

I am open to this idea but I think we should probably have some babies first

y'know, to keep us grounded

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Pick posted:

with each other? because think of what an amazing gesture of trust it would be for us to be having these children with others but raising them together :3:

oh poo poo you're right :aaaaa:

I know just the people we should have our trustbabies with, too: her narcissistic drug-addicted abusive ex, and her best friend! This is assuming neither of us is expecting after we have the customary month of nightly unprotected Tinder hookups natch. That'd move the timetable up a little bit, but with help from our friends The Internet I'm sure we'd be just fine :)

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Regulation Size posted:

You couldn't be more wrong, my dude

Do you really not understand "jokes" or something

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

I've been to one third wedding, it was my aunt's and it was held at the Knights of Columbus hall with a cash bar and a normal white dress because my aunt is not a crazy person

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Is it really that hard to say "I am self-conscious about this, please do not make jokes about it"

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

sucked my twin off posted:

My [13M] sister [20F] is rich. Is it ok to ask her for money for headphones so I don't hear mom & her boyfriend

Honestly if she worked this story into her Youtube videos the headphones would pay for themselves

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Yeah either he's gay or his friend is not being entirely honest with him about "what guys do"

including watching porn together

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Tolkien minority posted:

My husband [25M]'s desire for a better job is causing me worry, given the nature of the work. Am I [24F] wrong to worry?


i like when you can tell the op and their spouse are both monumentally stupid and deserve each other. her responses are good too
https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/564jqa/my_husband_25ms_desire_for_a_better_job_is/

I found the husband's headshots

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

The more I think about the Tobias Funke comparison the more relevant it sounds. OP should probably just agree that they can start looking into properties out West, but in the meantime there's this really funny show she's heard about called Arrested Development and they should totally watch it. The rest would work itself out.

e: aww :(

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

WampaLord posted:

That girlfriend is setting herself up to be super loving haunted.

Seriously, that whole story feels like a Witcher 3 sidequest

Some kind of hag ghost haunts the house, and to get rid of it she has to break the curse by going on a vacation wearing the diamond

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

bone app the teeth posted:

the followup thread is even worse:

https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/3gh3a2/update_my_35m_girlfriend_31f_uncomfortable_with/

:sever:

anyone who tells someone else how to grieve is a flaming pile of poo poo

Share with the class :colbert:

quote:

An update for this who asked. Thanks again for all the support, I was only expecting a few responses and was really shocked with how many people took the time to write to me. I really appreciate it.

OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/3g747t/my_35m_girlfriend_21f_uncomfortable_with_my_wifes/

We met up on Saturday. There was a lot of dialogue between us, but I'm going to try to keep it short and paraphrase what we said.

I know many of you said to give M time to cool off but I just couldn't spend my whole weekend knowing she was unhappy. I invited her over for dinner and spent the day cooking her favorite meal. I took the ring over to my mom's house (because I know it being in the house made her uncomfortable) and bought her some flowers. I really wanted to show her that she has no competition - that I love HER.

When she comes over, the first thing she says is, "Is it still in the house?" When I assure her it's not she comes in and sits down. I start by apologizing, explaining that I never meant to lie to her or hurt her but that I now realize I was lying by omission and it wasn't fair to her. I apologized again and said I hope she didn't loose all the trust she had in me.

I then told her how much I love Her. I explained how much she means to me and how easily I could see myself spending my life with her. I go on and on about how happy she makes me, blah blah blah.

She likes all this lovey/apologetic talk and is smiling and holding my hand, telling me it's okay and that she loves me too.

I then say "it's time to talk bout the ring" and she changes right before my eyes. She lets go of my hand, and her happy face is replaced by one of anger. She said something along the lines of "I thought you got rid of it." and I told her that I never said that, I simply said it wasn't currently in the house. She got angry but I asked her to listen to me before she said anything. I explained that when my wife died I didn't have the heart to bury her, and having her remains around felt odd to me - so the ring seemed like the best option. At this point she's crying, with her face in her hands. I ask if she would be okay with me keeping it at my mom's place or in a safety deposit box. She's silent, then cries "Why couldn't you just bury her like a normal person?" Now I'm crying and I say that I'm sorry, that I respect my wife's memory but I wish it didn't disrupt our relationship because I love you (M).

Anyway, we cried. She said that she wishes the ring didn't bug her as much as it does, but that she's just not sure if she can be with me. She says making your wife a ring isn't what "normal people" do, and it's making her question about my character. I asked her what she want's me to do with the ring, what her idea of "get rid of it" is, hoping we could compromise. She said she doesn't know what I should do with it she just wish it never existed. She said she loves me, but she's just not sure about the relationship anymore. Told me she needs to think on it. Left without even eating her dinner. :(

I haven't heard from her since. I'm not quite sure what to do or what we are at this point. We have stuff at each other's places and both have keys. I love this girl, and I don't want to easily give up on us. But I'm hesitant to reach out to her again. I'm thinking of giving it some time and hoping she reaches out to me. I don't know. The thought of losing M breaks my heart.

EDIT: I want to add that I really don't think this is about being insecure or jealous of my wife. I really think M is freaked out by the fact that I had my wife cremated and turned into a stone. I think even if I had her in an urn M would still be freaked out. M hasn't had ANY experience with death, but I think she was raised with the idea that when somebody dies they go into the ground. The fact that my wife isn't buried somewhere freaks her out.

tl;dr: Tried to make amends with M and assure her that there is no competition. She is uneasy by the fact that I made the ring in the first place and isn't sure if it's a deal breaker or not. We haven't talked since.

tl;dr: girlfriend apparently has never known someone who died and is just squicked out by the idea of him keeping a corpse around in gem form

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

DOMDOM posted:

quote:

Tell her you'll make her remains into a ring too if she doesn't settle down

*opens jewelry box full of intricate rings, necklaces, bracelets, and earrings, each adorned with a beautiful diamond which seems to glow faintly in the evening gloom* And these are all my other wives. :geno:

e: Say hello to them. They are your sisters now.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

WampaLord posted:

"What if they had shot me or my sons?"

Lady, if they wanted to, you'd all be dead. Life isn't an action movie, he couldn't have done anything other than add another corpse.

WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:

lol that dude saw an opening and took it

Way To Go Wampa, you should totally follow WampaLord around and agree with all of his posts, this was fun

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

I mean, if she doesn't care, and she looks good in the heels, then it's on you to buy some dress shoes that make you a little taller and then get over yourself

Ofc if she's wearing like 5-inchers or something then you might be SOL on the first point since they don't really make 3-inch platform shoes for guys since the 70s ended, but that just makes point #2 more crucial

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

How does the kind of guy who gets divorced over cheating 5 times in his life manage to find 6 women who are willing to marry him

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

china bot posted:

I like shoes that make life more difficult, and that's why I invented Puma's new Iron Maiden line

One of my wife's high school friends had a story from college where she put on some of those bondage heels with the padlocks on them and lost the key

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

P much everybody goes to college in America these days, though. There is no way that kid is "too dumb" to go to college. He'd have a point if what he said was "going to college is a waste of time and lots and lots of money unless you go to a good school and pick your major well and get a scholarship, so let's choose your applications carefully" but that's not what he said.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

pushpins posted:

If you have a girlfriend wearing 5-inch heels all the time you should have nothing to complain about

I'm short and I would date Sofia Vergara and let her wear whatever shoes she wanted

My actual wife doesn't wear heels, because she is a millennial, but I'm trying to get her to wear 1- or 2-inchers every once in a while and I think that's reasonable

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008


I wonder which site that might be :iiam:

sucked my twin off posted:

A 13/14 yr old used the word implacable? What teen goes around saying "implacable"?

tbf they weren't using it right, they p obviously meant "incapable" (efb)

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:

what exactly is a sfw nude? Like underwear/swimsuit?

Probably covering her boobs with her hands and like a side-on view of the butt or something

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Chomp8645 posted:

You can totally do this you just have to have an easy major.

Sorry engineers. Either pass classes or have fun, not both.

I got like a 3.3 in computer science at a tough school and also had a social life for the first time ever, through the magic of (a) taking at least one humanities class per semester that gave no assignments other than like four papers total and never doing the reading for it unless I was currently writing one of said papers, and (b) doing very little sleeping

It helps that the school was tough enough that everybody had the same struggle

e:

Pelvic Floor Wax posted:

In the comments she made it sound like waist up. "No clothes, nipples upwards. Shows my face."

As for what nipples upwards means... I can't help.

Ah, it's probably a topless shot that ends right before the nips

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008


Gotta wonder where she got that "most couples have an arrangement like this" if she didn't just make it up out of whole cloth

If I had to guess I'd say that both of her parents are miserable

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

My initial reaction to the wedding one was "uhhh just tell your fiancee you want to pick your own bridal party and wear a dress problem solved" but if she was really looking forward to helping plan poo poo that doesn't help much and the whole "seeing her as a guy" thing is a whole separate conversation

e: holy poo poo the date is in 2018, why do they have invitations printed up already, and why are the colors pink and orange, is it a Dunkin Donuts themed wedding :psyduck:


poo poo like this is what happens when you don't :sever: after someone cheats

He'll never trust her again and she'll never have fun again, they really need to just throw in the towel and move on with their lives

loquacius fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Oct 12, 2016

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Phyzzle posted:

They just ordered a cake for 2018?

I had a long engagement too and the entire point of it was that you didn't have to plan wedding poo poo for like a year

I guess nice venues fill up quick so you generally want to pick your date and book a venue early but other than that yeah there's no point. Even if the invitations weren't misspelled, they're gonna be sitting on the loving things for another year and a half (you're supposed to send them out three months in advance). Who knows which friends they'll have gained or lost touch with by then? It's either fake or the dumbest thing ever.

(source: got married two months ago)

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Yeah we booked our venue a year and a half in advance and our first-choice date was already taken. After we took care of that and picked our photographer (for our engagement photo session; if it was just for the wedding we wouldn't have had to do that so early) we did basically nothing for like a year.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

How do you even ask someone to be your fiancee's groomsman, that sounds super awkward/confusing

and if you did why would you not pick their siblings. Even the traditionalist gender split thing doesn't explain that, my sister was one of my wife's bridesmaids because she deserved to be in the party (but my wife still asked her herself)

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Antivehicular posted:

I can only assume the fiancee is shooting for a Miss Havisham theme wedding and needs to age the cake.

I also really like the bit where the fiancee has done all this elaborate planning and yet blanked on the one thing the OP actually wanted her to do (order the OP's wedding jewelry as they'd agreed). It's like the perfect touch of "I really don't care what you want" on top of the general "gently caress you, this is my special day, and if I have to make you a dude to fulfill my dreams, so be it."

Yeah, I was in a hurry when I read that the first time and just now saw the part about the public proposal. This lady's fiancee is a classic bridezilla who happens to be marrying a woman. The poster should probably insist on making some changes to reflect her actual desires, both for the obvious reasons and because now that the entire thing is basically planned out already her fiancee is gonna tear her hair out with no wedding to plan for another two years.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Also I think most people who are gay with an exception just settle on "queer" as a label for themselves after a while, although I know admittedly little about how the average lesbian social circle would respond to this

Like, people who are straight with an exception have "mostly straight" to use as a label these days but I dunno if I've ever heard of anyone calling themselves "mostly gay"

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Thread mashup concept: My fiance planned our entire wedding without consulting me, and has already decided on a cuck theme

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Do they at least hook up with women, I've heard that's a common bi thing (hooking up with same gender, dating other gender)

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

china bot posted:

unfortunately there are some people - it is called satyriasis in men, nymphomania in women - who engage in sex compulsively and without joy. these unfortunate souls cannot love in the true sense of the word. Our mutual acquaintance GF (43 F) is one of these.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

CharlestonJew posted:

her bf got trashed and indirectly caused the death of another person trying to assault them over some (probably) trivial poo poo from the past. I'd be pissed too if I were her

I think it's a stretch to blame a drunk driver getting in an accident on a guy he'd been fighting personally

I dunno even if you rightly think your boyfriend is an idiot it still seems like the "done" thing to show up at the hospital and tell him so in person, he's gotta be going through some rough poo poo right now

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

I think the alcohol probably did more

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGbgAisf6_c

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loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Dial-a-Dog posted:

Vaseline on the floor of the tub honestly sounds like a low rent assassin's kind of move

I'm a huge baby bitch and I've been kind of paranoid about slipping in the shower ever since seeing a Final Destination trailer so that sounded especially hosed-up to me yeah

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