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Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

mind the walrus posted:



"I'm about to tank a casual relationship. Wanna watch?"

Always :swoon:

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Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
Exclusive FWB is my favorite thing

It means one person wants a relationship and the other is willing to pretend they are only banging one person

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
Some women would also find that hot and not a turn off :ninja:

(No one should find the "daddy's cummies" thing anything but horrifying though)

Jumping right into that kind of dirty talk without testing the waters is amateurish and dumb, though, and the porn talk is a symptom of idiocy and not the cause

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
I have a 17 year old kid that responds better to criticism about filth (aka marginally at best) than that manchild, and even she drives me crazy the difference being that she is a child

Also it she used my card to spent $700 I would absolutely lose it at her. Tell the parents, big sis.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Panfilo posted:

Engaged people really need to see how their partner lives before they get married and be realistic about how much one person is going to change about it before making a long term commitment. Because I doubt most people that are slobs are going to do a total 180 about it, even through ~luv~

I disagree because if people broke up over fundamental incompatibility I wouldn't have anything to laugh at on the internet

Seriously, how miserable is being single to these people that they'd rather chain themselves to toddlers and abusers than chill at home alone and hit up tinder for the occasional thrill

Like, you aren't going to find true love if you marry the man-toddler, at least being single keeps hope alive

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:

Hey here's some more crazy

He (28M) was very drunk at the bar, and I (25F) was waiting to walk out with him - instead he left through the super sketchy back and drove away, wouldn't even text me he was ok? Now I'm going crazy.
:byodame:

He's banging the chick who left first, nobody can possibly be this dense.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Pick posted:

I just have no patience for that complaint because if you read my posts in this thread they don't support your argument that I hate all men, considering it's almost all "you have to give people a chance" and "dick size isn't important." Like it's cool to imagine manhater Pick but I wouldn't have had the experiences of all these bad dates if I weren't giving a lot of people a fair shake. But that comes with the fact that a lot of times it didn't go well. I mean you've obviously made a trap, where it's wrong if you don't give people a chance, but if they do and it goes poorly you aren't allowed to discuss it if it conflicts with some rando's views? Give me a break.

Tbf you strike me as extremely crazy

corn on the cop posted:

stop the presses

Bateman costume

This strikes me as extremely hilarious

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Pick posted:

I know you've said I was nuts for not caring about dicks. We've got really different POVs on how we do relationship stuff, Mocking Bird.

I don't remember that exchange at all but I'm willing to stand by whatever drunken thing I probably wrote about dicks being good and important

I'm more referring to your posting about men being in a constant state of oppressing/victimizing women. It's based in reality but then veers off into weird tumblr land. It's a downer even in a downer thread.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Gaunab posted:

Boyfriend wants someone better, how do I look past this and settle anyway?

This reminds me of the one girl who told her fiancé that he wasn't her soulmate and she would leave him if she found that soulmate (plot twist: she believes her ex is that soulmate)

How do people not have the self respect to leave relationships where they aren't valued? Being told that someone settled for you has got to be one of the most crushing things, but then to be told that it's maybe temporary until they find someone better? Just get the hell out and find someone who feels lucky to be with you

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
Chubby chasers get so much less infuriating once they hit 30 and stop hating themselves and the women they're attracted to so much

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Dirtbag Diva posted:



It's hosed up but kids are human and some are good, some are bad and some don't have the faculties to realize the impact their actions might have long-term.


Also, this.

As a child protection social worker and a foster parent I can verify this. My teen daughter told me yesterday that if I don't let her do independent study next semester she'll go live somewhere else (she loves it here) :rolleyes: it was meant to manipulate my emotions, but she also doesn't understand the impact of saying stuff like that, or even why it's manipulative. Kids just say whatever they think will get their needs met.

It's a result of internalizing stress and household discord. For younger kids depression/anxiety often looks like stomach aches and headaches because of that. It's a way of reaching out for comfort from someone - "I'm hurt/they hate me, please love me" - not necessarily an indictment of their parents care for them.

Also kids really do believe the grass is greener on the other side with their whole being.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Charles Get-Out posted:

Yo hold up, I'm not suggesting that at all. It's part of the post from r/relationships, the kid reached out to his bio mom and ended his letter with the assertion that his current guardians felt that way. After bio mom pointed this out to guardian mom she claimed he was manipulative and good at getting people to feel sorry for him.

I'm speaking to the post and in the context of the post. The question was also a flat question, is it normal to do what the guardian mom did and dismiss her kids statement to the bio mom as manipulative?

I do hear the point from other posters that this is likely a reflection of the state of the marriage.

It's not ideal for a parent to describe their child that way but I can verify that sometimes that's how it feels when a child is trying to get emotional needs met by any means necessary in a time of stress

I hope they can get some family counseling, since the "solution" to a child being manipulative is consistency and boundaries with a ton of love and affection and reframing by the parent. "I hate you!" from a child should he responded to with "I know you're upset, I am too, but I love you and we will figure this out" and NOT "stop lying"

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Adam Vegas posted:

Her boyfriend is definitely a massive bellend but I'm loving her use of the phrase 'hard drugs' like he and his buddies are shooting heroin in the toilets.

They're probably doing a bit of coke which does qualify as a 'hard drug' but it's still a hilarious phrase to use.

If you have a history of drug use/OD in your family cocaine and amphetamines stop being "fun occasional party drugs" and become very scary. I think calling it a hard drug is fair, especially if they planned to use to the point they were going to be so high it would make their sober buddy uncomfortable.

I don't mind people who party but I have a thing about people pretending that cocaine isn't dangerous v:shobon:v

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
Ugh, that gives me serious anxiety to read her description of feeling trapped and restrained.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
Maybe that girl should have been nicer to her little brother before he got rich if she wants him to buy her stuff

Sorry, there are no lovely parent reparations and they certainly wouldn't come from your sibling if there were

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Tears In A Vial posted:


We're only known each other for 4 months, dating for 2. All of it has been LDR. We have been talking on skype and texting every single day though, and we have talked for hours and hours about everything and nothing at all. Finally, after months of counting down the days, I met him for the first time in person at Dragoncon and he proposed the same day.


They're 21 apparently.

Nothing warms my heart more than the doomed dreams of dumb kids.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
As a CPS social worker, the onus was on this social worker to not place a child with sexualized behaviors in the home of a single man if that was a significant concern. Now that she's there, and the social worker doesn't seem to be asking to move her, she needs to get on board with supportive services like in-home therapy and support. If she's worried the girl will be molested but can't prove anything, the best thing she can do is put more eyes and ears on the situation rather than berate the dad, because if he's a predator that just lets him know you're watching and if he's not you're alienating the only person helping this girl.

Her behavior isn't atypical, my seventeen year old foster daughter is sometimes more like an eight or nine year old than a high school senior.

The locking door concerns me, though. Hopefully he means that she locks the door from the inside and it's a flimsy knob lock, because it's illegal (in my state and hopefully all states) to lock your foster child in a room from the outside and you should be able to respond to emergencies in their rooms without being slowed down (aka that guy better be ready to kick in a door).

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Pussy Quipped posted:

I know the exact smell their apartment has.

Thank god I wasn't the only one who immediately thought of that :shudder: ugh.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
Maybe I should convert to Christianity :parrot:

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
I thought the best part was that he thought a cute girl in his office a) was into him and b) would consider being a side piece to his main relationship and c) wouldn't make poo poo weird at work

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
I was taking care of a fifteen year old girl for a few days who happened to be my clothing size and I sent her back to her foster mom with two bags of neon leggings and awful threadless tshirts and cutesy print tank tops I had hiding in the back of my closet

Sorry that girls foster mom who now has to look at her

Bonzo posted:

Welp, you wanted funny ones. Bolding is mine

My girlfriend [22F] of 5 years performed at an amateur night at the strip club without telling me [21M] beforehand

This is hilarious and it really depends on your sibling relationship whether it's creepy and weird or not. My step sister and I met as teen/young adult and I'm much more relaxed with her about this stuff than I am with my sibling I was raised with. Poor dude probably just wanted to watch.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Zelder posted:

my friend I'm gonna introduce you to this thing called "societal/cultural norms" and the pressure that can arise when you go up against them

Exactly. I know an upsetting amount of people who feel like once they hit 25 or 30 they have to double down on their current partner, no matter how lovely their relationship is, because it's "too late" to start over

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
I like video games because they immobilize whoever I'm dating so I can nuzzle and pet them while also doing whatever I want on my phone without them getting pissy I'm not paying attention to Netflix or whatever

I'm basically that Reddit girl except I break up with people who don't respect me or have any social skills

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
I think it's a worthy addition, much like anything that makes me dry retch

Maybe more got the PYF awkward ugly gross thread tho

:stonk:

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

54 40 or gently caress posted:

How could you be so tone deaf in a relationship that you think it's remotely okay to spend that relatively small amount because it was all she asked for and still think it's fair to expect all your decadent gifts be bought? I can't fathom how selfish this guy is.

Well....

quote:

He works as a manager at a software company

Fuckin tech bros man

I know several friends with socially and emotionally juvenile partners like this and tech seems to sing a sirens call to them

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Zzulu posted:

i wish dorky awkward girls would buy me expensive gifts in the hopes of getting my dick

imagine all the cool stuff you could get

It's less fun when you have to give it all back to completely sever and get them to leave you the gently caress alone

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
CPS (with some exceptions for terrible mismanagement) doesn't detain children into foster care without reasonable suspicion of abuse or neglect combined with imminent risk of reoccurrence. A judge has to approve it, as well. We don't use foster care during investigations the way it's being framed, though parents who have their kids taken tell their families that all the time.

That dude should consider what about his girlfriend has CPS seriously worried she's a drug addict to the point she is neglecting her child.

Signed, a CPS social worker.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
lol

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Pick posted:

When he went out to his parents' vacation home last year, which is in a really romantic spot, I offered to stop by in case he "wanted some company" but he said he did not want to be interrupted while re-watching Fawlty Towels.

You were more interesting when you weren't just a boring stereotype of an angry independent women who actually just craves the validation of some lovely dude

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Pick posted:

It's just rich coming from Mocking Bird, who tries to act "empowered" about the fact that exactly the same thing happened to her, except at least I was only making low-grade mistakes for myself and placing the appropriate blame on his shoulders, as opposed to trying to pretend I became a stronger woman by nearly moving in with someone who just wanted a silent live-in gently caress hole who would almost certainly make a play for her foster daughter considering how the rest of their open relationship went.

Do you have me confused with another poster? I dumped my ex for not wanting to be monogamous, not because of any of that stuff. He wasn't pedo and nor did we live together or plan to live together.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
That sure is a generic sad breakup over mental health. Alas.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
So my mistake all this time has been working hard and being kind when truly I should have just been working on my Russian pussy game :argh:

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

blarzgh posted:

Save extreme examples on either end of the spectrum (something like child protective services, where you either can't deal with the horrors of human depravity, or you feel rewarded for making a difference where you can) whether or not you enjoy your job is 45% your attitude and 45% the people you work with/work for, and 10% what you're actually doing.

I work in child protective services and to be honest those ratios still apply, coworkers and supervisors can make or break any job.

Sometimes it's sad but sometimes you get to do a good thing for someone who doesn't totally hate you :unsmith:

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

fruit on the bottom posted:

I have a friend who's an au pair in one of those Scandinavian countries and she seems to be doing fine. Maybe you just have to avoid those swarthy Italians.

Wasn't the other au pair nightmare story about an Italian preteen peeping at the nanny through the curtains the parents installed on the OUTSIDE of her bedroom door?

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

duz posted:

I'm surprised this made the news instead of showing up on r/relationships first.

I didn't know my ex was in Texas

RIP iPhone 4 he destroyed because I was texting during Steven Universe

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

maskenfreiheit posted:


I'd consider it more line an allergy IUD rather than an allergy vasectomy.

This is an extremely good turn of phrase

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

Pick posted:

I loved him so much :smith:

Sometimes I feel a glimmer of empathy for you because I threw a ton of emotional energy at my autistic ex who wasn't capable of having feelings and I know how much that hurts, but then I remember you got mad and tried to imply he was a pedophile I was allowing to have access to my daughter so

Maybe :therapy: and no, you're not too smart to benefit from it, hardly anyone is

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
Guys, I work for CPS and read this thread to get away from my problems what are you doing

Also, alternative take, someone who interprets an 8 year old as a sexual threat and as coming on to their boyfriend may indeed be the one that was super molested because she sees a child as having sexual agency and as manipulative

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

therobit posted:

She's totally a dong addict. Why else would she risk spending time with such an insufferable dork if not an addiction to his dong.

good dick will imprison u

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Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
OP held her sister in laws new baby while naked and it tried to suck on her nipple (which happened while SIL wasn't there) and now SIL doesn't want any of these crazy nude women to hold her baby because GROSS

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