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t3_h89u3 | loseit | Okay loseit, I think I need some assistence. | For the past two months I've been training for my 5k. I've accomplished that goal and found a new love for running! Whch is great, but I haven't lost any weight really, maybe toned up a little not not much weight at all. I'm at the point now where I want to lose weight so I can run better...
As a poor college student I've been living off panera bread sandwiches and subs, which I guess could be worse... But never the less I need to fix my diet! Right now I'm trying to do protein shakes, fruits and nuts for two meals a day. But my final meal of the day (typically lunch) tends to be high in carbs and fat. What are your favorite EASY meals to eat at home and to eat out? And I LOVE Korean food, anyone have any recommendations in that department? (its that damned white rice that gets me every time...) | EASY meal ideas for at home and eating out (I do not have access to a stove or oven in my current residence, long story...) |
t3_t9t4q | AskReddit | I lost my cat a decade ago to a pitbull fighter and busted him. What kind of people have you put in jail? | This was about ten years ago, when I was six. We had a habit of naming our pets after Disney animals. One cat, lovingly named Tigger, was on his normal habit, we watched him go outside, hunt some bluebirds to munch on. After a while, we went inside, allowing him to do his own thing. Normally, when he hunts, he comes back soon. We walk outside later, and hear our neighbor's pitbulls barking, and hear a cat screech. Scared, me and my brother ran to his house, we sneaked into the backyard, mortified by what we saw; A cage made out of fence, with a roof, and our cat in the interior of the cage, dead, its flesh being ripped out by a pitbull. My brother ran to our house to get the video camera and recorded this being done to other cats we promptly run back to the house, with the camera, and promptly call the police. The asshole got 40 years in jail (He was 55 years old). Our other cat, named simba, died of old age last year. | Cat went missing, heard cat screech and dogs bark, ran over, record the dogs with camera, busted a pitbull fighter for 40 years |
t3_4kru1i | relationships | My BF [26/M] gets a little physical with me [20/F] during arguments | hi all, so yeah as title reads my bf (of two years) has a habit of getting physical with me during arguments (including petty ones) - and by physical i mean he physically restrains me from leaving the room to get some air/space. his means of restraining me are not gentle; he generally forcibly grabs me, throws me on the bed/ground and places all his weight on top of me whilst squeezing me to the point of near-suffocation so that i can't talk. i am a 46 kg (100 lbs) girl and he is a 6'3 guy double my size so it hurts and makes me very uncomfortable. but regardless of how i feel i'm unsure if i'm overreacting.
i guess what he does doesn't really fall into the realm of 'abuse' i suppose. to be honest i feel really uncomfortable just writing this anonymously to a forum of strangers, idk why, maybe because i don't know if i'm just overreacting. i'm not sure how i should feel about his actions and am very confused. he tells me that anyone would act as he does in his situation. but i never ever come at him, threaten or hit him or anything first. all i do is get up and make maybe two steps towards the door and he's got me. please advise me honestly as to whether this is normal in relationships, i'm very confused | bf physically restrains me in a not-so gentle manner whenever we have an argument; is this normal y/no |
t3_14bxvw | relationships | She [F16] just told me [M16] that she's bi-curious. Where do i go from here? | Some Details:
We have been together for a year and a half now, and she has been my best friend since we were 9.
2.We rarely get to see each other outside of school for various reasons, but mainly because her Mum doesn't us and GCSE's take up most of our free time.
3.We are both virgins, but we haven't kept it family friendly.
4.I am uncomfortable with her being involved with other people sexually.
Now, all i want to do is help her, but i really have no idea where to start. I am okay with her being bi-curious, i have no hang ups about homosexuality, but i really don't like imagining her with other people, male or female. What if she wants to experiment? How am i supposed to cope with that when i would consider it cheating? Any advice from people who have been in this situation before would be great, and if i could hear from someone who has been in her position before it would be even better. | Girlfriend just told me she's Bi-curious, how should i handle this? |
t3_46mvug | relationships | 25 M crushing on 22 F Coworker | 25 M crushing on 22 F Coworker, what do I do?
I work on an elementary school as a TA and at the start of the school year a new girl started. Right from the get go I was interested in her but was recently out of a relationship and also I do try to avoid shitting where I eat.
Fast forward through the year, we have been talking and texting outside of work and at get along great. With that comfort came my desire to ask her. So much so that all I can think about since the 1st of the year is her.
I am unsure of mutual feelings just because I'm terrible at picking up signals but she is very comfortable around me. .
My question I guess is what would y'all do? I'm really digging this woman and I can't get her off my mind. Should I ask her out and if so how should I go about doing it? Or no? My group of friends tell me to go for it, what do I have to loose they say.
Also, I'm a divorced single father, do you think that effect things too? | crushing on a coworker, unsure how to proceed. |
t3_1t39tz | relationships | should i visit her or not? difficult situation in LDR | Hey guys,
My gf (19) is in africa for 10 month, 8 remaining and i (19/m) am in germany. I have the opportunity to visit her in april for 2 weeks together with her parents. My gf often tells me that it is very different and complicated over there, we could not be alone in a room together or kiss each other when i would live at her place (a church with many nuns) but we would be able to kiss when we travel around.
She describes it like she would not advise me to come despite of the costs and the trouble. And the longer i think about it the more uncertain i get. What if we need a lot of time to get used to each others again but have these handicaps? What if we have fights because of this and i have to leave then? I know i only see the negative aspect and it could be so wonderful to travel through africa with her.
But Would it be better to wait until she comes back in july to take as much time and intimacy as we need to get used to each other again?
I really dont know what the right decision is, please help me with your opinion.thanks so much! | my gf is in africa for a gap year and i dont know whether to visit her or not, because we could not kiss or be together very often because of cultural differences. |
t3_3k19nl | tifu | TIFU:By making the same grammatical mistake over the course of 16 years. | Hey Reddit, let me start this off by saying that English is in fact my first language, today I learned that I've been speaking it like it's my 2nd. So about 20 minutes ago I see a post on Facebook from Humans of New York, for those of you who don't know basically a guy goes around talking to people in NYC and taking their picture. Well to make a long story short I see 2 words on a post, these two words are "Boys' home", obviously meaning the home of the boys. I see "boys' home" and notice that the apostrophe is after the s, I think to my self, huh that's interesting, I wonder of that is a certain writing technique. So I Google it, only to realize that it the proper way to say that, and not just a funny writing trick. The proper way, to say the home of the boys is "boys' home". Now here's the fuck up, ever since I could speak, I've been saying plural possessives as "boys's" HOW THE FUCK has it never occurred to me that I have never once in my fucking life seen the fucking word "boys's" written, I've never seen that word written or said for that fucking matter because it doesn't fucking exist and I'm a fucking idiot. And to make it worse, I just realized that I've been saying "Boys's and girls's and dogs's" as "boyses and girlses and dogses" and that shit's wrong too! How the fuck has nobody corrected me on this? Has the whole world just said "Should we tell him?" "No of course not! look! he's obviously special, just let him live his fantasy" while I say shit like "My dogs's houses are cold at night so I have to bring them inside the house" | My grammars's mistakes made me realize my brains's ability to speak English might be broken. |
t3_2lcodb | offmychest | Spent way too much money... | So I don't know if any of you have seen but there's a shit storm going on in the archeage forums. It has basically become a realization that this game is just a cash-grab.
All well and good, except I 'invested' quite a bit of money into this game. I won't say exactly how much (people I know would laugh at me and make snide remarks :( ) but it was enough to go toward christmas presents, possibly a new tattoo or just something nice for the house.
I wouldn't mind this if the game wasn't a cash grab, because I would have invested in something lasting. But the way its going with terrible customer service and shitty connections and whatnot, I have basically just blown a shit ton of money on a game that I will no longer be playing (if they don't magically get their act together overnight).
So. I'm in need of a new outlet. Black Desert looks like fun but won't be coming out for quite some time. Any suggestions into a game (not necessarily free to play) to get into? Preferably MMORPG with some sort of housing? | I wasted a lot of money on a game I probably won't be playing any more. I feel sad :( |
t3_qdchc | AskReddit | I found my dad on Facebook, who doesn't know I exist.. I dont know what to do? | So I was the result of a "one night stand". My mother's favourite mistake, to put it nicely. I spent most of my childhood just thinking I didn't have a daddy, and was born out of thin air. I only found out more information about my dad last year when my mum told me his name, and the whole backstory on how I was conceived. So, naturally as soon as I found out his name I done a bit of internet searching, and found nothing, and slowly began to forget about it. Roll on nearly a full year and I got a bit curious again, and I ended up finding him on Facebook, along with my 5 brothers and sisters, none of which know i exist. Im really contemplating adding him, and letting him know he has a 19 year old daughter, but I dont imagine that would go down too well seeing as he hasn't heard from my mother since the night they made me. It is also definitely him as I showed my mum and she has confirmed it. Has anyone else went through something similar and what was the reaction of this person finding out they had a daughter/son they didn't know about? I'm afraid of rejection, even though technically I have nothing to lose. | I have found my father who doesn't know I exist, should I let him know risking rejection, or just leave it? |
t3_26ntxh | relationships | Me [29 M] and in need of some heartbreak advice | I'm suffering from a severely broken heart right now. A lot of it was my own fault and I just can't seem to get over it. Its been three months and I still can't find any motivation to do all the things that I loved and was succeeding at before the heartbreak. I need some good advice hopefully from someone who has had a problem with motivation after a relationship. Nothing appeals to me anymore, but sitting around on the internet and drinking. I know its a problem, but every time I try to do the things I need to do it feels like I have no willpower to actually follow through with it. I just get sad. I need help. | After a relationship ended I have no motivation anymore. What can I do? |
t3_1mrfa8 | pettyrevenge | Goof around and I'll get you in trouble without you knowing. | I work at a private high school, in maintenance. This private school has a fairly strict uniform policy; school color polo with school logo, Khaki pants, Khaki skirts for the ladies, and natural color leather shoes.
So, one day, I went to a store fairly close to the school, shopping for myself before my shift starts in a few hours. As I'm walking up to checkout, I see these two jackass boys, wearing the schools uniform, riding in store provided mobility scooters through the busy aisle between checkout and the sales floor. It pisses me off to see idiots jack around on those while a grandma is using a Walker to get around the store. The kids don't recognize me, and after I just stare at them, extremely pissed off, they pass me and start busting out laughing. I had half a mind to drag them to the side and scold them. But, I thought of something even better.
I text the Academic Dean of the school, explaining what I had just seen.
Later that day at work, I, having the keys to everywhere, looked through the student schedules. I found out that there were all of 5 students who didn't have class at the time of the incident. One was a girl, two were boys who I knew, and the other two were boys. I looked in the yearbook and confirmed that they were the culprits. I informed the Dean of who the kids were, and they got a nice talking to and detentions about goofing around while representing the school. All of this happened without them knowing it was me. | Kids were hooning in the store, I got them in trouble while they thought they got away scotch free. |
t3_ylsx7 | AskReddit | How do I end a friendship for no real reason? | To clarify: I have been friends with this girl for about 3 years. We met at work and became friends but in the last year have begun hanging out more. There isn't a real reason to tell her to hit the bricks; i.e. she hasn't slept with my boyfriend, called me the c-word, or damaged any of my property. She's just plain ugly to people and I don't want to be friends with someone like her. Here are some examples:
-She will invite me out because she is "bored and doesn't want to be home alone".
-She loves to burp and blow it in my face and after repeatedly asking her not to, she still does it and laughs.
-She constantly calls her mom a bitch and yells at her mom but always accepts the money her parents give her.
-She always talks shit about her friends and is probably talking shit about me.
-If a guy hits on me instead of her, the night is over. It's time to go and she's in a bad mood.
The list goes on and on but these are the major issues.
So the point is, she is not fun to be around but having given her a chance to show she's a nice person, she really isn't. I have no problem pointing all these faults out to her but I'd rather break it to her gently. I'm just not that type of person. | I'm friends with a rude cry baby and need to end the friendship. How? |
t3_3v7vt9 | relationships | I love the romance of relationships with another person, but find that the reality of relationships are unstable in reality.[23F] | So, I'm kind of a shitty person, to be frank. Since I was 18, I've never lived in a place more than a year or so at a time. Usually, this is under the premise of work and school.
In a context of relationships, this means talking, flirting and casual relationships work well (Netflix and chill anyone?) but when I've tried relationships I get either too emotional and even clingy or I'm a brick wall and don't feel emotions towards the other person.
It also means colleagues or friends lament that we never got together, and we flirt shamelessly long distance. The actual give and take of relationships don't tend to work out because I value my independence, and struggle to be with someone and still maintain a sense of self.
Advice on how not to be a shitty person? Thanks Reddit. | Face to face relationships fall apart so I rely on flings and long distance flirting |
t3_4go5v3 | tifu | TIFU by playing along with a joke | This happened last year.
I was sitting with my friends in a DVC (Design and Visual Communication) class where we had to do work like bisecting angles and other precision stuff that required us to use a compass, we had those kind of old fashion compasses with a ring on top of them. We were kind of bored and my friend jokingly asked me if I could fit my finger through the ring which he was able to do because he had very thin fingers. Being the idiot that I am I tried fitting each one of my fingers through the ring until finally with some effort I was able to fit my ring finger of my left hand in it. I suspected it would get stuck and everyone from my group told me it would, but after examining my fingers I figured it wouldn't be a huge challenge to get it off... Oh boy was I wrong. After about 5-10 minutes of twisting and pulling all I got was scratch marks on my finger Thankfully I did it at the end of the class before the 40 minute interval which gave me all the time in the world to get the damn compass of my finger, as the period was coming to an end my friends suggested I tell the teacher because my finger was getting visibly bigger and redder which I at firs disagreed with but then realised I had no choice. Even the teacher to laughed at what an idiot I was to get my finger stuck in a compass, he even took a picture of it (I allowed it because even I was laughing at it) he suggested I should go to the nurse or the bathroom to put some soap on it I chose the bathroom. This was now happening during lunch time so everyone could see me with a compass on my finger hopefully I was able to hide it in my pocket while I walked to the bathroom. After I got to the bathroom I was able to put some liquid soap on my finger and to my surprise it worked perfectly. | played along with a friends joke and got my finger stuck in a compass |
t3_wv4bk | AskReddit | Can someone tell me how to cope with the possibility of a family member dying... | Here's the story of what's happening, my mom went to the doctor to get a check up as she always does (she's 50). After coming home, the doctor called us and told her that her "liver number is high and is going to pass away soon" ( the reason why i put " there is because i'm not exactly sure what the doctor said). Since my mom was healthy 2 months earlier, the doctor said they'll re do the blood test(?) on monday. My mom said it was probably a false reading but I can tell my mom is suffering from some sort of pain. She would also tell me from time to time to take good care of myself when she's gone. This is making it difficult for me to do any of my daily activities without thinking that my mom is going to pass away soon (probably this year).
Can anyone here describe to me in detail what a "High number liver" means and the possibility of dying from that? Honestly, i haven't even graduated Highschool (2 more years) yet and i don't want my mom to die. My parents are divorced and both my sisters already graduated college and are living in New York so practically she's the only family i have here in Canada.
I also need to know how to cope with this. It's so frustrating to see my mom in pain, yet can't do anything about it. She's mostly tired everyday and sleeps a lot. It's so painful to see this and it's more painful thinking of the memories of her and i when she was perfectly healthy and we would play together.
I will be deleting this post after i get the answers i want because i don't want my friends to find this post and talk to me about this in real life. (Yes my friends do know my Reddit name) | My mom is dying and i need to know how to cope with this situation. |
t3_1px7qz | relationships | I (21 f) strongly dislike my sister-in-law (28 f). | It all started a few years ago. My brother knocked her up, and they got married. They didn't know she was pregnant until after the wedding arrangements, supposedly. They frequently came here to his home state, he is in the military and is based elsewhere, and it was all fine and peachy.
We see how much my brother loves her, and how he treats her. But, I honestly think it's getting to her head and it really upsets me. He went on deployment, and she came here by herself. She seemed fine. After that, getting them to come here was like pulling teeth. It was excuse after excuse. Whatever, they're starting their life together.
So, I went on vacation there. I seen how she treats my brother. After a 12 hour shift on watch, he had to unload the dishwasher when he got home because she was too busy all day. And by busy, I mean doing a load of laundry and facebooking. Not my place to say anything, so I just let it happen and continued on.
They fought the next night about who was going to drive home. She hates driving at night, and my brothers seizures came back. So, she yelled at him. That was it. When she took me to the airport I let her have it, I didn't care if I hurt her feelings she was being a bitch.
This past week, my brother has been really sick. She found out her grandma is dying. Today she left my brother to go to her dying grandma.
Should I say something considering he isn't in good shape, and none of my family can take care of him? Or should I just let it pass? | my sister in law is a spoiled brat, and left my sick brother high and dry to go visit her dying grandma. |
t3_4pf376 | offmychest | Do your job, so I can start mine | I graduated in December with a degree in Nursing. I have passed my NCLEX and I'm supposed to start in July (yay!). My school was helpful enough that they had us all submit our applications for licenses before we graduated so we would be able to take our exams earlier. Some of the required paperwork is being fingerprinted, which get sent to the state and to the national level. Well, I had some issues with being hired earlier, but now I have a set start date and my future employer is concerned I don't have a license number still. This is months after I've graduated and passed... I have been run ragged from trying to chase my states board of nursing and catch the appropriate person to whom to speak. So I finally get a hold of someone and they said I don't have a number because my fingerprints never came through. Odd. I have a receipt proving I was, so I called that local office. Turns out they never sent them, because they lost them. They lost my fingerprints, taken on a machine. How does that even happen? I'm just praying this serious mess up doesn't impact my start date and employment. Thanks for reading. | gradated, passed exam- waited for months to receive a license. Government lost my fingerprints, hoping they get things accomplished on time |
t3_24k9qd | running | Finished my third half-marathon. Next one is in late September. Do I spend a few months working on my 5k or 10k times before I switch back to half-marathon training? | I live in Montreal and our marathon event is in late September every year. I've run it for the past two years and just this past week I ran another half-marathon that takes place in April.
My times were:
* 1:42:36 in Sept 2012
* 1:41:33 in Sept 2013
* 1:39:03 in Apr 2014
I would like to get a much faster half-marathon time and would love to break under 1:30. I figured I can switch to 5k or 10k training until mid-June and then switch back to half-marathon training.
My best 5k time I ever recorded was 22:17. I never officially timed msyelf in a 10k but during a training run last year I clocked 44:xx for a 10k. FWIW, I started last week's half quicker than I intended and reached the 5k at a little over 23:xx and 10k at 46:xx.
My idea is to work at either the 5k or 10k training and get better times in both. I would love to get sub-20 for the 5k. Or maybe just stick to half-marathon training?
I use Adidas' miCoach training programs and have been very successful with them. | Will start training for my next half-marathon in mid-June. In the meantime should I train for a faster 5k, 10k or stick to half-marathon training? |
t3_13sy06 | tifu | TIFU eating chicken wings. | Actually a few days ago but whatever. So I went to Smoke Eater's with some friends who convinced me to do the Hellfire Challenge with them. Mistake. You're supposed to eat 12 of their hottest wings in 10 minutes without water or napkins, then wait 5 minutes to let the burn really sink in. I pussied out after 3 wings. The spice was horrific, my body was literally going numb. What followed was about two hours of throwing up in the bathroom and intense stomach pain. Later that night was torture Hellfire doesn't just describe the wings going in, but going out too. I actually thought I had a chance at doing it. As Marcellus Wallace once said, fuck pride. | Tried to eat extremely spicy chicken wings, ended up with a crushed ego and a destroyed butthole. |
t3_34vum3 | personalfinance | Moving without job offer | I'm miserable in my current job and I've been applying/phone interviewing for the past few months. I've only been out of uni 3 years, and have 3 years of experience at this job in a business analyst/project management job. One thing I've realized is that companies aren't really in the business of relocating people that don't have so much experience.
I'm in the middle of Alabama and want to move to Atlanta and "move first, apply like mad when i get there"
I have 15k in the bank and have found a nice apartment that would be ~$900 a month. I'm not a spender at all but do you personalfinancers think this is a feasible move? | Want to quit job and move, afraid of time it will take to find something else because of limited experience |
t3_10cngt | AskReddit | [NSFW-ish] What's the scariest you've ever acted towards another human being? | Now, let me begin this story with 'he was *totally* asking for it'. *Begging* for it, even. This happened not even a half hour ago, as I'm typing this from an airport terminal with my heart still pounding and a grin on my face. Before I passed through the checking I decided to take a bathroom break. Number two. Inside the stall there was a distinct lack of hooks so I instead draped my jacket over the door and thought nothing of it. Now, I was just wiping up when I *felt* somebody enter the bathroom. Then I heard a pair of feet walk in front of my stall. Then I saw someone peek under the door. My legs snapped closed but the face was gone as soon as it was there. Then my jacket was gone as well. The man had pulled it from the door. Now, had it just been my jacket, I might have cursed the guy to seven hells, finished my shit and reported the offense. But my boarding ticket was in the pocket. This changed the game completely. Pants still around my ankles, was up in a second and shouldering the door open in even less time. The door caught the thief on either the back of the legs or the ass, no matter which one, he stumbled into the sink. I followed suit and caught him around the neck with one arm, the other reaching over his shoulder to snatch at my jacket. He was wearing gym shorts. I was wearing no shorts. My dick was flopped against the back of his leg. We seemed to both realize this at the same time, but I reacted first. Taking a gamble that could have resulted in myself using the female restroom from that point on, I neither retreated nor adjusted, instead squashing myself against the guy all the more and, mouth very close to his ear, began shouting **"YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS."** over and over again. He choked out the bastard child of "what the fuck" and "jesus christ", cast my jacket upon the floor and tried to shake me off. His hostage free from harm, I allowed him to do so and he ran out. I managed to retain my decency before anyone else came in and, half an hour later, here I am. | humped a would-be thief's leg into submission. |
t3_4yif8o | tifu | TIFU swinging across a stream | Obligatory didn't happen today - happened last week.
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Was on a camping trip with my brothers. We were on a walk in the forest when we came across a stream with a few rope swings and a bank to jump from. Of course we thought it was a great idea to give it a go, even though it was on a bouncy, rotting branch.
In true fashion my brothers made it across fine and dry. I however wasn't so lucky. My legs clipped the roots around the bank, and I somehow positioned my feet perfectly into a position to scoop water directly into my face and ass, soaking me completely with stinky water.
This was around 5 minutes before eating lunch at a fairly nice restaurant, dripping wet and smelling of rotting leaves for the rest of the day. | Swung across a river, fucked up and scooped water into my face, soaking me. |
t3_25wnz6 | relationships | Me [17 M] with my ex girlfriend [17 F] of a few months, broke up with me and started dating my best friend two weeks later | Sorry if this is kind of a rant, but i'm pretty upset. A little back story first, my ex and I are in the same mutual friend group before we started dating along with said best friend. We are all in our third year of high school.
2 weeks ago my girlfriend broke up with me 3 days before my birthday. I was a pretty upset, but I was handling it. One of our mutual friends invited my over her house along with a few other people, so i said sure, why not? It turns out she also invited my ex, but that was fine because we were all still pretty good friends. But, about an hour after I show up my friend and her are holding hand and at one point his hand is in her back pocket which just made me really uncomfortable, so I go home. I talk to him about it the next day and told him how it made me really uncomfortable, but he gets mad and says "You had your chance with her".
I'm pretty upset and I don't know what to do because I don't want to hang out with the two of them together but i'm also afraid of losing my friend and the rest of that group. I just feel really lost and am looking for someone to help me. | My girlfriend left me for my best friend after 2 weeks and now I feel like i'm losing everybody and need some advice. |
t3_jp9oh | AskReddit | can't tell if GF said somithing good or bad.. | Lets start from the begging..
She doesn't like sex. Period.
At the beginning of the relationship we would do it sometimes, but know it's rare and we don't inovate. I have so many fetiches to try.. The sex is good, but I know she just does it because of me..
Today we were talking and she said to get a girl for sex. Honestly I had thought of that idea before, but I couldn't really see me doing it. But hearing her telling me that. She said it in a joking way, but then I asked again and I think she was talking serious.
What can I think of this? Is my GF drifting away from me, to the point were one of the most intimate thing that a couple can have she is saying to make it with another girl? Or is she thinking about me, and my pleasure?
I can't know if it's good or bad.. And if she was talking the truth, am I being a bad BF doing sex with another girl? | GF gave me permission to have sex with another girl.. |
t3_3zrc9g | tifu | TIFU by accidentally tasting dog urine | This happened last night. I feel like a real fucking idiot. Not even a throwaway because fuck it.
I spent most of my day yesterday running errands, and every time I parked and got out of my car I could smell antifreeze as if it was leaking somewhere. I had a leak about 6 months ago that sent my car to the shop but it has been fine since. Every time I checked I didn't see anything on the ground so I assumed it was fine. Even checked it under the hood once and the reservoir was almost full.
About 9pm I took a 45 minute drive to pick up a friend. Parked the car and went inside for a few minutes, and when we were about to leave I noticed a puddle of water (what I immediately thought was antifreeze) on the ground.
My first instinct was to touch it with my finger and taste it, something my dad taught me since antifreeze has a sweet taste and it was pretty dark outside. It didn't really taste like anything so I popped the hood and got my flashlight out to see if I could spot the leak. Everything was bone dry.
About that time, my friend bursts into a fit of uncontrollable laughter. When he finally catches his breath, he says that they had just let his dog out to do his business.
So yeah. At least my radiator isn't leaking I guess. | I thought my car was leaking antifreeze, but actually a dog just pissed on my front tire. |
t3_nwfc0 | needadvice | I am incapable of connecting with adult men. Please help? | I'm a f(19) and, as the title suggests, I basically can't connect with adult males. I'm talking about guys in their late 20s/early 30s and on. I have no problem with guys my age or younger; my brother (17) and I are very close, and I have a wonderful boyfriend (also 17) who I've been dating for a year and a half.
This probably stems from a lack of positive male role models while I was growing up. My dad was an abusive alcoholic who I rarely saw (parents divorced when I was five) and he died when I was 12. His father and 2 of his 3 brothers are also alcoholics. The one that's not an alcoholic travels all over for his job, so I only see him every few years anyway. My maternal grandfather is the only adult male that has always been the epitome of a gentleman, but I didn't seem him more than every few months while I was growing up.
This aversion to men is causing some problems in my life. My mom has been dating a really great guy for a year. He's kind, smart, loving, etc. Though I am friendly with him, I am distant/removed, which is something that he has picked up on and taken as a signal that I don't like him (not true). This has also affected my relationship with my boyfriend because I don't like his dad. His dad can be a fantastic guy, but he also works long hours at a very high-stress job, meaning that he's more prone to yelling and overreacting. This makes me feel on edge and just reinforces why I don't feel comfortable around men. There are so many more example of how my issue with men affects me (professors, tour guides, etc.) but I will leave it for now.
So I turn to you, Reddit, to see if anyone can help me get over this. It's only gotten worse as time goes on, and I don't want to keep on living with this aversion. Any advise or input is appreciated greatly. | I have a hard time connecting with adult men (age 30+) and it's affecting my life in negative ways. I need advise on how to get over it. |
t3_1mafwj | dating_advice | I've had feelings for a girl for years | Throwaway because friends know my account. Okay so I had a crush on this girl since middle school, in my freshman year I tried to make my move and unfortunately she said no. We are always friendly though and have good laughs. It's out senior year now and I've obviously been around with other women but there's some different about her. I have a class with her now but I've had on and off feelings for her from middle school since now, which is something I've never felt with ANY girl; just her. I don't want to let her go though, I've never had feelings like this for someone before, but just my gut feeling is she wouldn't give it a chance, what should I do? | I've had feelings for a girl who denied me for years, what should I do? |
t3_yl5p3 | AskReddit | I am generally, calm, collected and slightly introverted. I have a close group of around 6 friends, and this is not okay with my Mother. | My Mother is exactly the opposite of me. She is bubbly, talks extremely loud, tries to be friends with everyone and is pushy to the point of being "creepy" when it comes to social matters. I am nothing like this, and my Mother is exceedingly unhappy with this. She insists I entirely alter the very foundations of my personality to be more like her and her side of the family. My Father (by the way, I am a guy), on the other hand, is *just* like me. I want to become a Software Engineer, and she thinks this is a bad idea because I will be using a computer too much, and she thinks I will become a failure because I am an engineer (she holds a huge amount of dislike/contempt for/against all engineers because they are generally not social). So, reddit, how do I tell my mother, **politely**, to fuck the fuck off when she starts the "you should change to be more like me" rant? | My mother is a ridiculous person with ridiculous ideals and thinks I should change the very fabric of my personality to be like her. |
t3_27at1i | relationships | Me [36M/F] with my boyfriend [44 M/F] few weeks, married woman at work is flirting with him | we all work together and as adults decided that we were going to keep our relationship private.
I went out to HH with this married girl and she talks a lot about how she is heading for divorce. I just sat and listened to it.
He told me my BF (which at the time was not dating me) invited her out for a game and was almost like a brother to her. She also told me she suspected him of being gay (he is not)
Few weeks later, BF and I started dating and spent most of our time together.
Last nite he told me that after I went home she came to his work space and started flirting with him. She is still married btw. I told him he needs to let her know he has a gf now. not to tell her is me, but that he needs to convey he is taken.
I am really really kind of upset about this. Am I being irrational? | married lady at work flirts with my bf and pisses me out. |
t3_2t4e8e | Advice | How can i deal with these thoughts, or are they a common occurence. | Reddit, this is a serious question. I view myself as an average guy. I'm athletic, educated , enjoy the company of beautiful ladies, etc. Lately though, I have been having some sick and twisted thoughts, and when I say dark and twisted, I mean I wouldn't mention them. I don't have any desire to carry these these thoughts out and turn them into actions, but the fact that there in my mind means something right? As a child, my greatest fear was growing up to be a psychopath, pedophile, or rapist of some sort, my thought process being that anyone can turn into these things. I know this isn't the case and some of the ideas sicken, especially those who carry them out. Now being a little older, these thoughts, feel forced as if I see something and my twisted my just produces them. Is there something wrong with me? If not, how do I take ahold of my thoughts and change them?
I would like for you all to give it a read but for those like me.... | Having weird and perverted/ bad thoughts, is there something wrong, if not how do I change this. |
t3_4hl8jo | relationships | My (29/F) husband (27/F) told his work buddy the name of our unborn child before we even tell anyone in our families. Do I have a right to be mad, or is it the hormones raging? | He doesn't think it's a big deal that he told his friend the name of our daughter before we've even had a chance to tell our families. We just agreed on it officially earlier today after 5 months of trying to decide. My parents are out of state so they never get to hear news first. Even when we went to our first sonogram appointment, when I was going over my medical information with the nurse, he used that time to send a mass text out to his family about the appointment. It's bad enough that I can't be with my family or friends while I'm pregnant. It makes it worse when everyone gets to know about our child before I get a chance to tell my parents. Should I be angry? | Husband tells his work friends the name of our unborn child before we tell any of our family. Do I have a right to be mad, or is it the hormones raging? |
t3_4mx3tz | relationships | My (22f) friend (21m) of 8 years backed out on donating sperm and I no longer wish to be friends for unrelated reasons. | Alt because he knows my main.
Dan and I became friends in middle school. When I came out as a lesbian he said he would be my donor someday. My wife and I are ready for children. He is scared and changed his mind. We are totally okay with that.
Through his backing out, I realized there were a lot of things I was willing to tolerate from Dan for his sperm. He is racist and sexist and just a jerk in a lot of ways. When he figured out my main username he told me and promised not to go through it. He did anyway and then asked me questions about things I had posted that I didn't wish to discuss with him.
Between the huge breach of trust and the hatred, I see no reason to continue the friendship. I just don't want him to think it's because he backed out. | sperm donor backed out and turns out to e hateful; don't want him to think I hate him for backing out. |
t3_25y6dt | relationships | Me [22 M] with my girlfriend [20 F] 6 months, help get her to forgive me for lying. | I have been dating my girlfriend for 6 months now and everything was going great until about 6 weeks ago when we started bickering a lot. She has been away for home most of this time and contact from her has been lacking, due to the fact that she works all day and then has to work into the evenings.
I am quite insecure an although I understood this I still struggled with the lack of contact. I have come to terms with her working a lot now but my insecurities at the start lead to a discussion about 'us' where everything was out on the table. I may have said too much and she now doesn't know how to forgive me.
At the start of the relationship she told me how many men she had slept with and it bothered me, played on my mind. At the time I told her that I wasn't bothered because its not her problem but my problem with insecurity. I overcame this a while ago and stopped thinking about it... until I brought up that it used to bother me and now she is angry that I kept it from her and lied at the start.
The only way that relationship will work is if she forgives me and resolutely soon as she says she cant carry on like this. How do I get her to forgive me so that I can work on getting the relationship back on track without her being frustrated at me all the time.
I'm lost on what to do! | Lied to my girlfriend about being bothered by the number of men she has slept with and now she is angry with me. How do I get her to forgive me? |
t3_1akuf7 | relationships | My (21f) bf(21m) of 3 years says he will never do long distance. | We've been in a relationship for about 3 years now and we have gone through a bit of long distance in the past (about 4 hours away from each other for the first 8 months.) We are not doing long distance now, but it has come up in conversation before that he will not do long distance ever again. Even if I am gone for a summer (2-4 months) he wants to break up and when I come back if we still love each other/things haven't changed then we'll just get back together. I've always viewed this topic as if you truely love the person, you would be willing/want to be with them even when they are far away and especially if they are coming back in the near future. Is this a normal view of long distance relationships? Or relationships in general? | boyfriend of 3 years will not do long distance ever. |
t3_2x0kh7 | tifu | TIFU by trying to tell "just a sec" to my female colleague | This TIFU happened today.
At my work place, an IT company, we communicate through Gtalk of company's mail service. Day was normal, things were going as usual untill my fuckup happened.
My female colleague asked me to give her some documents over the chat, my chat client was open when her message popped up and just to acknowledge her request, I wrote "just a sec" except that I pressed 'x' instead of 'c' in the sentence (A big Fucking typo). When I hit enter, I could see world falling apart, it was like slow motion thing, exactly like in movies, you just so wanna undo it and you just can't. My face got red and I immediately apologized to her 2 times explaining that I was gonna write "sec".
Fortunately, she believed me and told me it's okay. | Asked colleague for sex over chat |
t3_4zpsrp | jobs | I decided to try out this theory and it worked, I got called back twice...didn't mention when they'd get back to me or how much would they pay. | And then they said they'd get back to me quickly about the final answer.
I figure they'll get back to me when they do, if they do...so there's no point in really asking it...
I swear those two questions:
When will you get back to me?
and
How much will you pay?
are the two questions that screw me over. This is the only interview I didn't mention those two things and they called me in again. They know all that I have and can do so I hope they offer me a decent pay with the set amount of skills that I have.
I figure they know I won't come back for a minimum wage job. The only way I would accept the minimum wage is if they have decent benefits to go along with it.
Since they're having me do a variety of tasks, I hope they compensate for the pay. That's the only thing I'm uncertain of, how much they're going to offer me.
The other position they offered was for $15/hr, then they called me back in for a different position. | I hope this is a good sign that I'm going to get hired, especially when they told me of a different position. Has someone ever been called back twice and not been hired? |
t3_tcmwh | AskReddit | What is the most painful, or "1 in a million chance of happening" injury you have experienced? (Or someone you know PERSONALLY. Not "I had a friend who had a cousin, who chopped off his arm with a butter knife). | 2nd Grade. Ten or so 8 year olds on the basketball court. I ended up getting my tooth embedded in my best friends forehead.
Me and Reed both jumped for the ball as it bounced off the back-board. We're both jumping towards the ball, when suddenly we see that we're barreling towards each other, and we can't do anything about it, because we're in mid-air.
I manage to open my mouth to say "OH SHI-" and then we slam into each other.
We both fall onto the court, my chest hurts like hell, and Reed's screaming bloody fucking hell.
Everyone runs to Reed, and when we roll him over, we see a white dot on his forehead. All of a sudden one of the other kids shouts "That's a tooth, guys! Vomit_Comet bit Reed's head!"
That's when I taste the blood in my mouth, and the pain hits me. I fall on the ground, and just hold my mouth moaning.
Me and Reed are just laying on the ground moaning, screaming, and crying, while our companions just stand there with their mouths gaping open.
Eventually one of the teachers notice, and run over. We both go to the Nurse's office, but Reed has to go to the hospital to get the tooth extracted and clean the wound.
Reed still has a scar on his forehead. Oh the joys of childhood. | I accidentally bite my friends forehead, breaking off one of my front teeth into his forehead. |
t3_s653r | AskReddit | What is the most awkward/awesome first meeting you've had with your SO's parents? | **What is the most awkward/awesome first meeting you've had with your SO's parents?**
I'll start. Some relevant background information: I met him on the internet, we lived in different countries. He came to visit me two or three times before it was my turn to go visit him. He had his own apartment which I came to live in with him. He made plans for one night for when I'd first meet his mother. It all sounded great. *Sounded great*.
Now, we get to the Thai restaurant where we'd meet her. Bf mentions that his mother invited some friends of his family to the dinner as well. *Sounded ok*.
Now, long story short: His mother was a superficial, botox-injected, plastic surgery etc. etc. old woman. All she did was fakesmiling. The family she had invited was a Dutch family. They were all dressed as if they were going to a prom or royal wedding or something, and there I came in jeans and converse shoes feeling incredibly misplaced and awkward. They talked Dutch the entire dinner. There I sat, silent, not understand a word, during the 5 hour long dinner. | Met my now ex-bf's mother on a restaurant. Was one of the most awkward evenings of my life. |
t3_4ib058 | relationships | Me [24 M] with my GF [24F] of 8 months, still hasn't cut the cord with her ex LTR bf. | I have been dating this girl for a while now and everything is going well except for the fact she still talks to her ex. I am not sure what to make of it. They were separated for about 2 months and then he tried to start getting back with her. I was in the picture at this point and she told me she needed time to think. I wanted a relationship but she turned me down the first time because she was to confused.
So eventually I asked her again this time she said yes and we began being exclusive. however she still finds time to talk with her ex here and there during the week. since we started dating exclusively and said it was just meeting up to chat and what not. She refuses to talk with him on weekend as I have come to learn but will occasionally respond to his requests to hang out on week days. Who is in the wrong here? Is this relationship just a festering pimple ready to pop? | My gf of 8 months still occasionally hangs out with her ex on week days to catch up. Is this going to hurt our relationship long term? |
t3_pj9pz | relationships | How do I stop myself from being paranoid that my long-distance girlfriend is going to break up with me? | Me and my girlfriend (me: 21,M her: 20,F) have been going out for 6 months now, she goes to a uni 2 hours train ride away, and I see her maybe once a week and we have sex maybe one night every two or three weeks.
I think that the relationship is going reasonably well, but I sometimes feel, normally either because she's in a bad mood with me or because we haven't spoken in a while, that she is about to break up with me.
Obviously it hasn't happened yet and I don't feel I've done anything wrong that would mean I deserve to be dumped. But being in a relationship where I don't see my girlfriend often, and where we seem to get into bad moods with each other quite regularly, makes me paranoid about it not lasting. | I'm looking for advice that will stop me from thinking my girlfriend is about to break up with me (which could be a self-fulfilling prophecy) during the periods of time where I don't see her. Thanks |
t3_2vbltl | tifu | TIFU by asking a blind girl what her favorite color was. | This happened a few years back. Just a typical day in my sophomore year of high school. My first class of the day, Spanish 2, is just getting started. We start going over our new subject material which happens to be asking people their favorite things. Our teacher has us counting off numbers to put us in our groups. Me and the blind girl are the only group of two, which I didn't mind because she was probably the smartest of the class! Anyways, our teacher drew a random card only that the student could see. Mine read "¿Cuál es tu color favorito?" Which of course translates to "What is your favorite color?" As soon as I read the card to her, silence. As I slowly looked up at me teacher, The whole class slowly turned and stared at me. Of course the blind girl did not have an answer and started crying. I sincerely apologized and went home for the rest of the day. Our teacher never let us be partners again after that day. | Spanish teacher set me up. |
t3_181ohh | AskReddit | Reddit what was your worst rejection? | Valentine's day is almost a week away so for you guys and girls tell about the one(or more) rejections who may have had.
Ill start:
It was in 7th grade for me a couple of days before the Valentine's day dance. there was this girl I really liked that i wanted to ask out for a while. she was beautiful(9/10) but she was one of those somewhat popular girls.My friends gave me advice on how to ask her out and then the big day came: Valentine's day. the dance was that night on that Friday. I planned to give her some chocolates and some roses at the dance. After the bell rang after 7th period, every one that was going to the dance went to the gym. I saw the girl and tried go toward her but she was engulfed by her friends and I did not want her friends to criticize me for asking her out. During the dance, she was all alone getting a soda. Now was my chance! I went toward her and when she saw me she just started walking away from me.I thought it was strange but I thought that she was going toward her friends. I finally caught up to her only to hear this:
Me: hey (insert name)
Her: No
Me: what are you talking about?
Her: I know that you're going to ask me out
Me: Yeah is there a problem?
Her: Yeah there is. I don't want to date you
Me: why? (my heart partly shattered)
Her: Because I don't want to be in a relationship and just go away and never talk to me again!
Her friends overheard. They started to laugh at me. My entire heart was destroyed. I threw the chocolates at her feet and the roses i broke in half and threw it away. I ran out of the gym. One of her friends follow me out. I sat on a curb outside the gym when her friend joined me. She only said one thing: "you deserved it". I just left and walked a mile home trying to keep my tears in. On Monday my friend told me that the girl i asked out had gotten into a relationship with a Jock at our school. | asks out girl, rejected badly, her friends laugh at me, one of her friends say that I deserved it. |
t3_3eg77f | relationships | my boyfriend [28/m] is ignoring me for a week after I [24/f] miss a call from him. Been dating 1 1/2 years. | My bf called me last Friday and i had gone to bed early and didnt wake up when it rang. I texted him when i woke up around 530 and told him i was sorry i missed his call and had gone to sleep early. He texted back "not buying it." He has avoided all my calls this week and only texted me twice, once "hi" on tuesday and "yeah i'm ok" after i texted him i was worried about him since he didnt call me back. I know he has trust issues, and im sure he thinks im lying to him about going to bed. (my girlfriend is in town visiting so he probably thinks we went out or something).
I've texted him asking if hes broken up with me, no responce, ive asked him to talk about why hes mad, no responce, and ive told him how much hes hurting me by ignoring me, and still nothing. He gets very angry if i miss his calls but hes never ignored me for a week straight. I told him im not going to talk or text him until he decides to talk to me. He always gets angry and tells me to leave him alone or come get my shit if he is breaking up with me. (we've broken up a few times in the past year and a half) What do I do? | Boyfriend is ignoring me for a week after I sleep through one of his calls by mistake. He gets mad at me for missing calls but never this long. |
t3_qem1s | AskReddit | I'm desperate reddit.. Is there any way to NOT go to college/trade school but still have a job paying $20 an hour or more? | I'm 21 years old, I graduated high school and made it through about a semester and a half of college. School has never been my thing, i'm extremely horrible at retaining information of any kind that im not interested in. In high school I failed the math part of the H.S.P.A. (if your not sure what this is, google!) on 3 different occasions and actually had to be put into a remedial math course. Thankfully my teacher was extemely helpful, and on my 4th try I finally passed, but that was with a lot of help from the teacher. I don't want to be a bum and I don't want to have to work 3 different jobs to survive. I'm not asking for donald trump sallary but isn't there something else I could do? Some other route I could go to at least make enough to live in a nice apartment, opay bills, and still have some money left over?
P.S. : i'm currently living in New Jersey but plan to move to California within the next few years. I'm also employed at Petsmart as a Pet Care Associate and really enjoy my job (honestly lol). If anyone knows of any jobs similar to what I do now but with more pay please feel free to mention. | I'm horrible at retaining any kind of info a teacher throws at me. I want to be happy in life and I know that requires at least some money money so is there anything else besides college that could land me a job making $20 an hour or more? |
t3_pxcto | AskReddit | Have you ever considered losing your job so you could punch a customer in the face? | I've had this happen quite a few times working at a grocery store, I'm sure there are a lot better stories than mine. I was born without fully developed fingers on one of my hands, and I get questioned a lot about it. Doesn't bother me too much, people are naturally curious and if they go about it in a nice manner it doesn't bother me.
I had a woman come through my line once and she demanded double plastic bags inside of paper bags, wanted a carry out, kept asking me if everything was ringing up correctly, etc. Her order took longer than usual due to her high demands. She kept telling me to hurry up because she was late somewhere, and kept yelling at the bagger for not doing what she wanted. Also note, I am one of the fastest cashiers in the store despite missing fingers, when you're born with something you learn to work with it.
The bagger I had was mentally challenged but still able to perform the task, the place I work purposely hires these and old people since they are unable to find jobs elsewhere, and reasonable people don't take grocery shopping super srs. She then turns to the woman in line behind her and complains about how the only help she can get are from freaks and retarded people, and proceeds to go to our service counter and speak to a manager about it. Still don't know what he told her. It took all of the will power to not smash her cheap bottle of wine over her head. | Bitch lady complains about handicapped people working at a grocery store. Rage ensues. |
t3_2jzv8u | tifu | TIFU by making a joke about drinking girl virgin blood while my crush was biking by (Slightly [NSFW]) | Warning: some people might be offended because its kind of rascist
Backstory: i and 5 other friends meet eachother daily and we always have like a stand-up comedy 30 minutes because we all enjoy comedy
we get some role assigned chosen by the everyone but the person who has to do it like 30 minutes before we have to do it
What was i assigned as?
A Anti-Muslim Russian soldier with a Thick accent who used to raid towns in the Turkemestani countryside. (Sorry if anyone is offended by this)
(Yeah, its gennerally a think of the craziest role you can think of-game)
So i got the message on my phone while biking down the street and got a idea for a joke. I like to talk to myself on my bike so i said the random joke out loud i thought of(again no offense): "in mother Russia, to clean your throath you need to use virgin blood of young muslim girls"
However, meanwhile i was saying it my crush biked by (just my luck) and was saying "hi" i only noticed after saying the joke and saw her face plummit and she biked away in a fast pace.
I was too much in the mode of: "what the fuck just happened" to follow her
And now im standing here, having so much regret..
Oh well... | was thinking of a incredibly rascist joke, said it outloud, crush was somehow biking behind me and next to me while i said it, she natturely didnt find it funny and raced forwards.. |
t3_uwjhr | AskReddit | Today I tried to ask out a guy, only to become the butt of a joke for about 30 people. What are your terrible admissions of affection stories? | The story: I fancy a guy who works at my university. He is only three years older than I (I'm 20, he is 23), but apparently he sees me as a 14 year old fan girl. He, and the other workers in his area, knew that I was interested in him, and was kind to me, so I couldn't tell if he was just being nice for the sake of not being rude, or being nice, because he, too, was interested in getting to know each other better. After talking to another worker (Alex), they convinced me to just go up and ask him for frozen yoghurt or something casual, because the guy whom I liked seems a bit shy, and may not want to ask me. So, today, I was determined I would do exactly that. I was so focused on asking him, that when I approached him, I didn't even pay attention that he was talking to someone else. So, terrible start, as I interrupted him, and then stood there like a doofus while he tried to resume his previous conversation. When he finally realises that I am mentally incapable of reading social situations and won't leave until he talks to me, he turns to me, and we exchange the usual pleasantries. I finally decide to ask, and after I got the question out, his face morphs into an expression of complete surprise. The following conversation:
"Hannahjoy33, I thought I made it clear that I'm not interested in you"
"I'm sorry"?
"I told Alex to tell you that I'm not interested, and that I would like you to stop bothering me"
I look over to see Alex and his friends sniggering at the current situation. Alex thought it would be funny to lead me to believe that I had a chance, and see how far I would go with said illusion | tricked into believing I had a chance with guy, embarassment ensued |
t3_2vps30 | relationships | How do I (21m) make the first move on (21f)? | There's this girl I've had a huge crush on since high school that I barely ever talked too but we're not strangers by any means. Somehow my friend got us hanging out with her at her friends apartment for a project.
So there's 5 of us just hanging out working on this project having a good time. She's down to earth and we like a lot of the same music so it's easy to talk to her. At one point when we were talking one on one she wouldn't stop pushing her hair back behind her ears like she was nervous talking to me.(which she didn't do when talking to anyone else) And when she showed me a video she made and I told her it was really good she got a big smile on her face, had no idea what to say and then muttered a thank you.
Then she invited me and my friend to a party her and/or her friend we're having this weekend. I wanna let her know I'm into her but I know she probably won't show a huge sign that she likes me first. I know she acted nervous around guys she liked into high school so I'm hoping it's the case here too. Should I be straight up with her or take it slow? | girl I have a thing for acted nervous around me and invited me to a party. How should I make my first move ? |
t3_2vx10v | tifu | TIFU by laughing to hard | So, I was sitting in a call, playing some games with friends and I just decide to say 'back to school tomorrow' and one of my friends says 'no' and I lose my shit. I fall off my chair start rolling on the floor and begin frothing from the mouth, it looked like I was having a rabies-induced seizure. I touch my face and loads of blood comes off, I've cut my face from rolling and falling. I try to compose myself and stand up but at this point my mic of my headset has ended up in my mouth and I now puke when I stand, it goes all over my computer and floor and I fall over laughing again. This time, I pass out. I wake up 3 hours later, in the hospital, with cracked ribs, a broken finger (luckily not typing fingers) and a disfigured nose. My housemate had found me like this and immediately got me to the hospital. I'm gonna be here for the next couple of days. | literally rolled on the floor laughing, ended up with a broken computer, body and soul. |
t3_3ekr4z | tifu | TIFU by believing that my son had farted | This happened a couple of days ago. I spent the at the beach with my 2 year old and his cousins. It was quite breezy, and didn't feel too hot, so I didn't think to put any sun block on him until the later part of the day, and didn't bother to put any on myself.
By the time we got home he had a little bit of sunburn on his arms, and I was quite badly burnt, so I did a bit of research and found out that putting porridge oats (or oatmeal, as our American friends call it) in a cool bath was a good remedy.
So I ran him a bath with some porridge in, and rinsed it over him.
About halfway through the bath I heard a few little bubbles. He said, "Ooh. Fart", in his customary way. I thought nothing of it.
I then decided that it might be a good idea to rub a bit of the water on my burns, so I scooped some up in the bucket he had been playing with and poured it over my arms. I then got some in my hands and rubbed it all over my face. I was thinking how great all this nourishing oaty goodness would be for my skin, so I did it a few more times and really massaged it in.
Then: the horror. Out from between my son's legs (he always crouches in the bath, he hates sitting down in it) floats a huge brown flaky poo, surrounded by murky brown water; the very water that at that moment was dripping down my lips, into my mouth.
I scooped my son up out of the bath, scooped up his poo in the bucket and threw it down the toilet, then spent a while scrubbing my poor burnt face with antibacterial soap. To make matters worse, I am left with my son chanting "poo water, poo water" at me every so often, in an obvious attempt to traumatise me further. | I gave myself a fecal facial. |
t3_28lt8q | personalfinance | I have a $7500(before-tax) bonus coming up soon with no savings and some debt, where do I put it? | I apologize if this question is against the rules but I just wanted to give some background.
I have 12.5k in student loans, 3.2k I owe my brother, and 1k I owe my parents.
Just from moving and repairs to my car I already have around 750 dollars in credit card debt but I have no interest accumulating for 15 cycles. It's a Chase Freedom card so I will have a cash back bonus of 200 dollars that I can put towards the balance in the next few months.
My credit score is 735.
My plan is to pay off my brother by November, my parents by March, and to pay off my loans as aggressively as I can. I don't like the student loan debt even if I could potentially earn more by investing while making minimum payments.
At worst I estimate I lose 50% of my bonus? I have no idea what the taxes are like.
I'm making around 2300 dollars bi-weekly so I estimate I have about 3000 dollars a month when it's all said and done.
My plan is to kickstart an emergency fund with the bonus so I want to choose a high yield savings or money market account to store it in.
I'm looking at Everbank, Ally, Capital One 360, and Synchrony Bank.
Bank of America has terrible returns unless I have a ton of money invested with them. | Which high yield savings account should I use to start an emergency fund? How much of my bonus can I expect to keep? |
t3_1hknou | relationship_advice | (24/m) Told (23/f) I wanted to open up & express my appreciation for our friendship. It's not going well. | I told my (f/23) friend I wanted to talk to her and open up about a few things. She asked about what and I mentioned I wanted to be direct and honest and share my appreciation for her as one of my closest friends. I was trying to be clear I wanted to do it in person.
I've lost some good friends in the past because I took them for granted and never told them how important they were directly and we slowly grew apart. I thought it'd be a good idea to try and change that with this one before the same thing happens. That's how important it is.
So I told her I wanted to open up and explain some things and she asked again what about. I then went against my own advice and sent a fairly long text message highlighting part of what I wanted to say and about how I wished I had done this with some friends who had moved away. She didn't respond to any of it all evening last night.
I woke up this morning and apologized by sending another long text (again not what I wanted) trying to simplify what I was trying to say. Now I'm sitting here all day losing my mind. I never got a response as of this post.
Is it selfish to want to cement a friendship like that?
I'm paranoid that she thinks I am developing feelings, but knowing her for years, I've avoided ever crossing that line. I just need to get a chance to explain it & with her going silent, I have no idea what to do. | I told my close friend I wanted to talk and open up about things, it was important for my friendship due to past experiences. She hasn't responded to any of it and I am not sure how to handle it. |
t3_1v4isb | relationships | Me [F21] bought a small gift for a "friend" [M21], should I still give it? | (first of all please excuse my English, at all! Thank you.)
I have known my friend T for several years now, and we fully respect each other and care of each other's wellbeing, really normal friendship as it can get. However, I've always had strong attraction to him and I didn't reveal it until last year (thought he had the right to know, it was the first time we were both single at the same time, my other friends encouraged me to at least "try", etc).
Obviously it didn't work, there was just nothing beyond my attraction to him and our mutual contentment for one another. lol I sound like an old person, but I guess we've been "mature" in that we're fairly open about communications and I always make sure to never make him feel uncomfortable.
Which is why I'm doubting this scarf I got him, which I thought to buy because I remembered his struggles with his hoodies to warm his head. But I only bought for like $4 (January sales ftw), and I've always given him gifts for Christmas and Birthdays. This is completely out of the blue though, and just something I guess "thoughtful" that I bought as a friend (which I do all the time with other friends, if I see something I know someone might like I go and get it provided it's not too expensive. I'm that friend who randomly buys for you for no good reason other then that I think you like it -_- )
Will this make him feel uncomfortable anyway? Again, it's not for a special occassion after all, although it wasn't expensive and I do this to other friends.... but it's still a scarf, which has that romantic connotation? Maybe not? I don't know. Any help very appreciated! Thank you. | Should I give small gift to a friend who knows I like him? |
t3_3e434a | relationships | My [14 M] Son and I, [37 M] are very close, wife mentioned she sees me with him more than my other 3 kids. | Basically, I am a father to 2 boys (14 and 4) and 2 girls, (10 and 6). I have always really connected with my 14 year old, it's really that general father-son take him hunting/fishing, teach him about women, trust him to take care of our ladies and be a man kind of thing.
I obviously I love them all the same, but is it okay that he's usually the one I pay the most attention to/am closest to? He really looks up to me and trusts me way more than I did my dad, and I know my other kids don't notice it, (I asked them if it bothered them when I took their brother out to hunt or fish, and my girls said no, they like staying home and playing with their dolls or going to a friend's. I do know my kids. If they have a problem, they ALWAYS tell their mother. Poor woman could write a book on their complaints.) but I'm still concerned as my wife mentioned it the other day.
It's not deliberate, it's just the fact that he has more interest in me. Yesterday I spent about an hour and a half explaining to my 10 year old how a diesel engine works because she was interested in how daddy's truck worked. But I just noticed the difference in me telling her and my son under the truck helping me fix it.
For reference, I do have a lot of friends inside and outside the workplace, so I'm not just a lonely asshole. Thanks guys. | I spend a lot of time bonding with my 14 year old son and since my wife brought it up, I'm concerned I'm not being a good father to the rest of my kids. |
t3_1vor8n | relationships | I [22M] can't seem to love anymore. | I used to be a hopeless romantic. If I'm allowed to say so myself, I was fairly sweet, loving and caring. Well I'm still caring to an extent I guess, but I can't seem to love anymore.
To give some background. I was in a committed long term relationship (1 year 2 months) with a absolute goddess. She [23F] was the epitome of humanity and had everything I've ever looked for in a partner. She was beautiful, funny, and charming. She shared so many of the same interests I had. I loved her to no end. She always brought a smile to my face even through the toughest of times.
She has passed away some time ago. I'd like to say I've come to terms with her passing. She would have wanted me to be happy and to live on right? Well there's a problem. I've always been interested in romance. But since she's passed I can't seem to find myself to be interested in romance anymore. Romance doesn't appeal to me as it once did before. Before when I was interested in a girl, I would think of taking her out in meaningful dates and such. Now when I'm interested in a girl, I just think of what she would look like naked. I don't know how to love and I would like to be how I once used to be. | I used to be a fairly romantic guy, but after my SO passed away, so did my romantic side. |
t3_3q9qqa | relationships | My [27F] partner has broken up with me [25F] after 5 year break up. | So I met her when I was 20 years old at university and we were very happy together a long time ago. She then moved back home, and we began a LDR for a short period and then I moved up to the nearest city, got a job and proceeded to see her once a week where she would never stay over mine but to return home.
She hasn't been honest with her parents, she always lies where she is going, and they are about 75 years old. I have never even met them in person as she is scared to tell them about me, as well as being a lesbian.
She now proceeds to tell me she cannot simply do this anymore and doesn't want to. Roughly 4 months ago I was considering a break up because I felt daft, I felt that there was no passion and that she did not simply care for me as a girlfriend.
Within that 4 months there was a spark, feelings exchanged - I felt hope that she saw a future for me.
As previously, I felt neglected from her; She tells me she loves me but she also tells me that she doesn't want a commitment. I do feel like my sadness and that I have burdened her life has pushed her away.
In other views, I believe that it was because she never saw me as a partner for her future whereas I did see that in her.
I am not sure how to deal with it. Everyday I feel all anxious because of the way I am feeling. I cannot talk to her about it because she doesn't know what to say to me, which she tells me that.
Was it even worth the 5 years because I felt like I tried so hard for it to work on my part. I provided emotional support when she needed it - I felt that she wasn't able to be 100% committed since of her parents but I thought I would have been worth more for her to tell her family about it. | Lesbian Relationship, Girlfriend doesn't want to commit and gives space but hurts. Not sure If I should cut her off |
t3_1hdl8m | relationships | Me [21M] with my gf [19f] of three months, how do I get over the fact she hooked up with another guy when we weren't serious? | Me and my gf have been serious for about three months now and have been hooking up for around five, after about two months of hookin up we decided to get more serious but around this time she made out and slept over at another guys house ( they isn't have sex) after that she told me about that and was deeply apologetic. She told me it happened because of a nagging urge to remain single and not get too attached. We talked a lot and I forgave her and since then we have gotten really serious and things have gone great. Unfortunately I still have the occasional thought about this event and it still hurts me tht it happened. What are some coping strategies that will help me move on and live in the present? | gf hooked up with another guy when we weren't as serious. How do completely move on? |
t3_pwt9b | AskReddit | How do I propose a threesome with my two best friends? | Not sure if this is the right subreddit for this, but here goes.
About a month ago I broke up with my girlfriend, whom I had been dating since I was 18 (I am a 21 year old male). I've never so much as kissed anyone else and consider myself straight.
I have two best friends, a guy and a girl. He's bi and she's straight. They've been friends with benefits for a while (she told me but he doesn't know I know). Every night the three of us hang out and watch movies or play videogames at one of their houses, and at the end of the night I drive home while they spend the night together (I guess SSM is surprisingly erotic to some people).
Ever since breaking up with my girlfriend, I've been fantasizing about having a threesome with them. Maybe it's just because I've been missing having someone to sleep with and haven't had sex in over a month (since having it daily for almost 4 years), but I really want to not have to drive home one night so I can stay behind and join in their fun.
I want to explore my sexuality but I still think I am 90% straight, so this would really be ideal. I'd love it if we could become a casual throuple, but at the very least I want to have sex with them once.
However, I obviously don't want to ruin our friendship. If we had a threesome one time and didn't like it and it never happened again, that would be fine. But what I'm worried about is that merely proposing it will be too awkward and they'll be totally uninterested. They aren't super attracted to each other and are just fucking out of convenience, so I feel like they would be interested. Plus, whenever the three of us hang out I feel like there's some massive sexual tension. But of course this might just be because they have sex whenever I'm not around, and in any case I have practically zero experience with girls so I don't trust my instincts in these matters at all. | My two best friends have frequent sex and I want to join them; how do I propose this without ruining our friendship? |
t3_2pjmso | tifu | TIFU by proving my girlfriend wrong. | Happened earlier today. I just moved in with my girlfriend and I brought a bigger TV from my place. The lady decided that she wants my TV on top on this unstable bookcase in a sitting room that doesn't have a television. I told her "There is no way that this television is going to sit on top of that rickety book shelf" to which she responds "Fine, do whatever you want with it" and it was on. I hoisted the TV on top of this 5.5 foot tall book shelf and set it down. To my surprise the TV stayed just fine and it looked like I was going to be eating my own foot for dinner. Fast forward 35 minutes and I hear a loud crash from the other side of the house and immediately yell "I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO!" to which I hear a faint rebuttal and then silence. I walked into the sitting room to find my TV in pieces on the floor and my girlfriend crying about how I didn't have to be such a jerk and how awful I made her feel. Now I will likely be spending my first night in this house on the couch, not watching TV. | Tried to spitefully prove to my girlfriend that a large flat screen wouldn't be stable on a bookcase. Ended up with a broken TV and a night spent on the couch. |
t3_33bcwl | Advice | My apartment building caught fire. Reddit, how does renters insurance work? | So, my apartment was involved in a fire! The building is condemned, and an awful lot of my stuff was destroyed, either by smoke, heat, water, or physical force. (they made entry through my apartment to reach the floor below us, it looked like chaos.) Luckily, I have renters insurance! Unfortunately, my nerves are sky high! How does this stuff work? A lot of things were lost and destroyed, and the building is now condemned. I salvaged what I could, took pictures of what I could (and likely didn't photograph everything I should have.) Has anyone else ever had a similar experience? Or can anyone tell me how a claims process works? I am filing the claim completely online and conducting my own inventory. Are they taking my word for the values I've determined, or will they constantly be seeking proof of possession and ownership? I have no clue! What happens?! | Had a fire, lost many possessions, will renters insurance try to leave me with less compensation than desired? |
t3_46yv8x | relationships | Me [19M] with my ex of 5 months [18F], over reacting whats going on with her? | Hey Guys,
My ex and I broke up about 5 months ago now, and like most breakups we had our ups and downs. Ie. Sleeping with eachother after the breakup, then having lots of fights about things (ie her sleeping with a guy when we were at the same party only a few weeks after we broke up.)
She was a big trigger for my anxiety after we broke up (I'm seeing a psychiatrist for this and its mostly gone now.) Under recommendation from my psych I deleted her off snapchat, (she used to always send me photos of her with guys/partying and drinking) When she found out that I deleted her off it she got pretty pissed off started demanding answers for it. I said that she shouldn't need a reason for me deleting her and if she did then it was for me to move on (which she seemed quite keen for me to do).
Few weeks later I got a new job which she somehow found out about and she congratulated me on it. (Understandably I'm in a no contact period with her so i ignored it) She went off to spain and while she was over there (about another week and a half later she messaged me asking why I deleted her off snapchat again. I calmly told her that I haven't had her on it in months and we had this discussion about the same discussion about a month ago. Gave me the 'whatever I don't even care anyway' response and then sent this message about a water park event she was invited to "Then why was I uninvited from the water park day? Very civil of you. Congratulations" Again I calmly told her that I didn't have anything to do with it and gave her some explanations as to why she couldn't see the event anymore.
To top it all off when I was with a friend yesterday he started saying how she messaged him asking for him to come to a bar party that she was going to be at. (He declined the invite because he was going on a date)
My question is this, why is she acting so immaturely and why is she blowing up over things that are so small when I'm not trying to contact her or be a part of her life currently? | Ex girlfriend is acting crazy, any thoughts on why shes doing the things she is? |
t3_1qmekj | relationships | Worried my BF [22] has a crush on a new friend in his class. Should I be worried? | I'm new to reddit and am looking for some advice (sorry if I do something wrong). My boyfriend [m 22] and I [f 23] have been together for two years and have been living together for one. I was his first, and
even though we are very serious, I guess I have always been a little concerned he would wonder what else is out there. He started a new program this year and has met this girl [19 I think] who is very flirtatious with him and he seems interested. He says she isn't flirting when she clearly is and multiple times I have walked in on him looking at pictures of her online. Am I overreacting? | Boyfriend [m 22] seems interested in new female friend. Am I overreacting?. |
t3_2waofd | relationships | [23f]Went into [23m] boyfriend's account, saw plans of cheating, he denies everything | (4 year relationship)
I was scrolling through my boyfriend's Facebook messages not looking to find anything, just killing time. I see a message to his best friend asking for advice. My boy asks what the friend thinks of cheating. The friend says he is against it, agrees that long distance is hard but he should maybe consider an open relationship. My bf says he is against that as he can't share me, but wants to get laid and sleep with other girls.
I confront him and he says he was just letting off stream because we were having a rough patch. That he'd never consider it but it was just cathartic to write. I feel like an idiot for wanting to believe him. | I pretty undeniably caught my boyfriend planning planning to cheat and might get talked into believing its not true. |
t3_2bo7d7 | relationships | I [21 M] cannot figure out what I am doing wrong when it comes to girls? Please help! | I haven't been in a relationship since the beginning of my senior year of high school. Right now, I'm in my senior year of college and fixing to graduate in the Fall....
I have been looking for a relationship for a while now, but I certainly do not make that readily obvious and I am not going to rush into one if I don't feel comfortable.
I have tried OKCupid, Tinder, and going out to college bars every weekend to try to meet girls. There have been several times when I have a great conversation with a girl, get her number, and never here from her again. There have also been times when a girl and myself text back and forth for a few weeks and as soon as I attempt to arrange a meeting, I get blown off.
I don't mean to sound vain, but I've been told that I'm pretty handsome by both genders. I exercise regularly, groom myself properly, and have a pretty good sense of humor.
My biggest problem is that I get discouraged easily when I'm turned down by a girl I'm attracted to. It happens so often that I'm beginning to lose hope in every having a relationship, or even sex.
I welcome any advice on the matter. Thanks in advance! | I get blown off by every attractive girl I meet/talk to. Am I the problem or they? What should I do? |
t3_2j2opg | pettyrevenge | I send my son to his dad's house wearing "I 'heart' mom" shirts. | Back story-
My ex and I split up about 7 months ago, and we have a 1.5 year old son. 'Father' has never taken interest in our son, even while we were together. Spends more time on his Iphone than interacting with the little guy, never changes his diaper, doesn't feed him adequate meals, sits him in front of the TV while he games, and his home is not safe. Son comes home dirty, covered in animal hair (son has pet allergies), usually smells like cat urine as well, He is often sick for a few days, usually is constipated, and has even eaten COINS while there. Overall, he's a shitty parent.
I may also mention that son is terrified of his dad. He kicks screams, cries, everything when his dad shows up. But legally, he has to see his dad.
After a court battle, I won custody, and 'dad' stated he did not want to take the son for more than 24 hours a month (every other weekend from Saturday 6:00pm- Sunday 10:00am).
In that time he must supply everything for son. I only supply clothes for the weekend, nothing more. Those clothes, are usually clothes that I don't mind getting ruined. And every one of them say "I 'heart' mom", "bananas over mommy", My mom's the best!", "my mom rocks!", etc. His Pajamas, His shirts, Undershirts, even his socks. He complains that I never send him in other clothes, but I tell him that I just don't want the good ones to get dirty. | my way of saying 'fuck you', to a shitty excuse for a parent. |
t3_39mc72 | books | Just finished "This Side of Paradise." | I have read "The Great Gatsby" three times now and each time I felt like my age and personal experiences made it better and better so I wanted to finally try some of his other work, so I figured why not try his first. I gotta say that was some book. It's short but it switches it's tone so many times and the way he writes just seems so reckless but in a good way!
I don't even know how to describe it right now, I am still digesting it all but just had to share this with someone, or someone(s), who might have read it and up where I live that is very hard to find. At times it made me wish I could live in that time at Princeton or any of the Ivy League schools but then other times it made me so happy to be in today's world without all of Amory's issues even if they are self-inflicted. | Liked "Gatsby", read "This Side of Paradise", having lots of feels that I had to write to someone |
t3_3ed4og | relationships | Me [25F] with my Boss [60? M] just found my job being advertised online, and I think he is lining things up to fire/replace me behind mine and the companies back. How do I handle this professionally? | So yeah,
I was sent a link by my friend who is unemployed and found a posting for my EXACT job. Same company, same title position (of which I am the only one to hold that title within the company), job description and my bosses email is the contact info.
In my country (not US or Canada) he is legally allowed fire me without cause for the first year of employment. I am here 9 months. I am not looking for legal advise, I already got it and I actually can't prevent it from happening. I am certain he is abusing the law to avoid salary increase.
I am going to get fired, for no reason, yes I make mistakes at work (who doesn't?) but its not more than anyone else or as bad as anyone else, but he will list the petty human errors as the reason when the time comes and paint me as incompetent/unfit to the CEO or others within the higher levels of the company to justify it.
I have not contacted anyone in the company yet (CEO or boss in question) about this. So advise on how/if to approach this with boss or CEO would be amazing.
But mostly; How do I navigate it with my head held high and my dignity intact? | gonna get fired, found my job posted online. How do I handle this information at work and with the people involved and remain a professional? |
t3_2dava7 | relationships | I (f 20) don't know how to take my bf (22m) talking to other women. | So my bf and I live together, been dating for quite a while (years). I know he has friends outside of me, but the thing is, I know all of the ones he regularly hangs out with because they usually end up crashing at our place after going out.
Tonight, I was browsing through Snapchat and found that my bf's "best friends" on there were me, rando chick one and rando chick two. After some research, I found he's Facebook friends with them and they live in the area. I've also seen him hiding his phone while he's texting and caught glimpses of female names on his phone. (Not snooping, just whenever it comes into my line of sight.)
I know I have no reason to not trust him, but I also know that if he found me talking to guys he didn't know, he would be pretty mad. I've brought up the issue before, but I'm really bad at putting my feelings into words and I just end up being frustrated and crying which makes him frustrated too since he can't fix what's wrong.
I feel sick, mad at myself, just mad at everything. I want to talk to him like a normal person would, but I just don't know where to start.
Thank you, Reddit. Sorry if this was a bit scattered, please ask questions if I'm not clear enough. =] | Bf is texting/snapchatting girls I do not know. I know if it were me doing so he would be angry. I just don't know how to say how I feel without making him feel accused. |
t3_pt3c8 | AskReddit | What is the evidence that reduced vaccine uptake increases disease? Xpost Health and AskReddit and AskScience | Hey Reddit! I need your help!
I got in an argument with anti-vaccine people. I got mad, and I they started to talk down to me, probably because they think I'm a stupid blonde. Basically, the argument boiled down to whether people stopping taking vaccines is bad. I said that more children are dying because of anti-vacinationists (I heard it somewhere, and read about Jenny McCarthy having a number of deaths attributed to her campaigning) but they started a whole "where is the evidence" argument. So I said I would find out and get back to them. I was SO mad, because I know they are wrong, I'm just not smart enough to show it.
But I don't know where to start! Reddit can you help me out with, like, strong evidence/research/data that shows (in an unbiased fashion) that decreased vaccine uptake is associated with increased sickness? I want to go back to them with the most POW in your face, how do you like THEM apples argument ever.
Help me obi-wan-reddobi, you're my only hope! | Argument with anti-vaccination sexist douches, need help because I'm not smart |
t3_4ijzoh | relationships | Boyfriend [26m] wants me to go on the pill, I [25f] don't. | It is as simple as it gets, he wants me to, I don't.
Previously I wasn't sure if I would so told him that once we move in together and spend more time (were in a LDR before) we could consider it. We have been living together for 7 months and together for almost 3 years, this is the first time he brought it up again, I am now fairly sure it is not something I want to do.
Has this happened to somebody else? How did the whole thing end up? How did it affect the relationship if it didn't break it?
[ | ] Boyfriend wants me to go on the pill, I don't want to. What is people's experience in situations like these? |
t3_gnicd | AskReddit | My libido keeps me awake at night. | Sorry for the throw away but my girlfriend is a redditor and, being a woman, might take my words and form false beliefs based on them.
Basically my plight is this: I have an enormous, unsatisfiable libido. Since I was maybe 7 or 8, I have been masturbating – I am twenty-one now. I masturbate about two-three times a day, with most of them coming (excuse the pun) before bed. Always having trouble sleeping, and I find that by doing this, I am better able to rest.
I have a beautiful girlfriend of six years that helps me (we have sex three-four times a week), yet I feel as though she cannot keep up. I have exceptional stamina and when I climax, I am usually looking for more within five to ten minutes. Although this is a problem, it is by no means an excuse to get rid of her. Any replies concerned with me ending the relationship will be ignored; I love her very much and I don't believe that my level of arousal is grounding enough to do so.
That said, it has gotten to the point where I lie in bed for about three hours before falling asleep (she has the "bed hit pillow = unconscious gift"). I masturbate beside her, before sleeping yet I harbour feelings of sadness be it because I have a woman beside me while doing so, or because I have to do this in order to get any rest).
I admit I get extremely frustrated sometimes when she does not feel like putting out – and we've had our little spats about it, but I understand that I am not very ordinary in my wants and ultimately it is my fault.
Is this simply some sort of conditioned response due to my many years of masturbating – and thus there's no hope for my eternal boner, or is there an underlying cause to all of this? Help reddit, you're my only hope. | I **ALWAYS** want sex. If I don't get it, I need to masturbate in order to sleep. |
t3_30pj3m | weddingplanning | Vendor Communication - what's reasonable? | This is the scoop:
I booked Vendor A last fall and Vendor A said they would send a few other vendors for potential Vendor B.
8/29 - I sent an email asking for the list of Vendor Bs and didn't receive a response.
9/22 - No response yet, so I followed up to re-ask for the list.
9/29 - Response received with one potential Vendor B and a commitment to send additional possible Vendor Bs.
I look into Vendor B and it appears they are closely related, possibly even siblings. I ask a couple of other people what they think. They also say they appear to be siblings. Looking at their businesses online they appear to have personal photos of each other on their business pages. There was no disclosure about potential relationship.
It makes me feel a little funny so I email Vendor A to ask about Vendor B as well as potential other Vendors and to inquire about the relationship. I never received a response.
I already submitted a partial deposit, but its really starting to make me nervous. Like, a lot nervous. Its getting down to be five months and the lack of communication and transparency is just giving me anxiety.
I've already booked other Vendor Bs, but I'm wondering if I should go ahead and book another vendor A as well and cut my losses with the deposit.
Anyone? Advice? Am I being a bridezilla here? I think 72 hours is a fair time for turnaround. Disclosure about certain things? | Vendor A recommended only one Vendor B that is possibly their sibling and their communication has been really spotty. Am I being unreasonable? |
t3_27v7tr | relationships | My [22 M] gf [21 F] of 5 years wants a temporary relationship while she is working abroad. Need advice. | So I am currently in college and my gf of 5 years went to study abroad last August and will be returning this September. Recently she told me she's been having struggles with the physical aspects of the relationship, and told me that she met another man who made her "feel the same way" that I make her feel.
She wants to go into a relationship with him for 3(ish) months, aka until she comes back to the U.S. and acknowledges that it is temporary. I am unsure what I should do. Initially I figured that I should let her do this, but she recently started comparing me to other people, saying that I am unworldly, and overall making it seem to me that she does not think I am enough for her.
I feel like these statements stem from the distance and time we've spent apart. She's a really sweet and considerate person, and this kind of behavior is very unlike her, which she acknowledges. I need some 3rd party advice. Should I break up with her? Should I allow her to pursue this relationship? What boundaries should there be if I do? | girlfriend wants to pursue temporary relationship. unsure of what to do. |
t3_153p45 | relationships | [Update] 21[f] good friend lead me on because he [23] was confused. What do I do for the best now? | [link to original post](
So, after messing around and making loads of excuses for him and for why I couldn't walk away just then (it's nearly Christmas, I'm going through a difficult time in other aspects and need a friend, I don't want to hurt him etc) I realised these were all the excuses he was using for not telling his girlfriend, or breaking up with her. And making excuses for myself is just pathetic.
So, it's all done. My brother has made it so I can't get access to my facebook. My phone is turned off and in a drawer. I don't use any other form of connecting to people so that's ok. We were meant to be seeing each other this holiday but I'm hoping a lack of communication means he'll get the picture. It's a bit drastic to cut off everyone else but I don't really trust myself to contact people selectively, and it's good for my revision for exams anyway.
Thank you for the necessarily blunt advice, whenever I feel myself slipping I'll think of it to help keep my resolve. I can only hope he does what's right by his girlfriend now, but I'm going to leave that up to him.
I think in all of this the worst part is that I have no one to talk to about it. Because I am that bitch who slept with someone else's boyfriend, however unintentionally, and I can't make it right. If nothing else, at least he was the only one who could accept that. Now I just feel completely alone! Thanks anyway reddit, and thank you for not making me feel more guilty than I already did. Hopefully this is all for the best now. | Cutting out friend who used me to cheat on his girlfriend, as suggested. |
t3_gpccx | AskReddit | So I need reddit's help to make a badass gift for my friend | Hi reddit. I'm tashtrac and I've been a long time lurker, recently created and account, motivated by a Y U NO (have an account) comic. I've never been an active reddit user, I just lurk like a mad bitch and upboat every here and there. What I have noticed is redditors seem to be pretty awesome when it comes to helping people. And oh boy, do I need some help.
My friend's name is Wero and her birthday is in almost 3 months but I've already started to gather some ideas, because her Bday gift has to be one badass muthaphuckin' gift, yaknowwhatimean? So one part of it consist of photos. Preferably shitload of photos from people all over the world. Preferably holding a sing or something like that with the following written on it:
**Happy birthday Wero!** (in your own language)
**Wszystkiego najlepszego Wero!** (that's in Polish, my/hers language)
**Joyeux anniversaire Wero!** (that in French [I hope :D] because she's majored in French)
That's the easy part. But there is a little more into it. She's into Garfield. Like, really, really into Garfield. Like having a Garfield sheets, Garfield mugs and Garfield garfield-shit all over her place. So what I need on the photos is anything that would be connected to [this guy]
She's also a buddhist so a picture of buddhist monk with some garfiled prop, holding a "Happy birthday Wero!" sign would be gold. Of course I don't plan on being THAT lucky by hey, who knows ;)
So reddit - will you help me? If so, hook me up with pictures on [email protected] . Thanks [alot] ! | Grab some paper or something you can write on, |
t3_2wi0wm | relationships | Me [20 M] has never had a relationship | I am going to be as blunt and to the point as I can. I am twenty years old, in college and never had a relationship. I've never had sex nor have I had the comfort of a woman.
I see myself as an attractive man and confident around the opposite sex. At times I look around and look deep inside myself and wonder why it has twenty years and I have yet to find someone to share part of myself with. Maybe I don't take the initiatives or maybe I'm too nice. It could be my sensitiveness or my simple nature....Whatever it is, I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME. I talk to women, I am friendly with them, many women know me, but there is a barrier that prevents me from forming a relationship. Is there a flaw in my personality? I want to find love, but I don't know how or where to look. Part of me is tired of trying. | I see myself a great guy, but cannot seem to find a female:( |
t3_abjms | relationship_advice | What do you do when your family hates your S.O.? | Okay, reddit. I could use some advice from your collective wisdom.
I've been with a man about 2 years now. I'm 28 and he's 25. When we met, we instantly felt like best friends; it was hard not to throw ourselves into it completely. We dated, fell in love, moved in together. We're talking about getting married next year. The foundation of the relationship is strong, we definitely love each other, and we want the same general things in our futures so I have every reason to believe this could be the one.
Unfortunately, he has been struggling, particularly in the last year, with psychological and emotional problems (specifically anxiety and anger management). He used to take these out on me a lot. I eventually threatened to leave, and we went into couples' counseling; things turned around, and even though he still struggles with those problems he NEVER directs his anger or pain at me.
I did make a choice to stay with him, mostly because I believe that he wants to change, and *can* change with the help of regular counseling. But my family does not approve of this choice. They see him as emotionally unstable and abusive; even though I feel that is behind us now, he's not welcome at family events and I take regular flak for being involved with him. My brother won't even speak to him and "never wants to see him again." (Sadly my brother has only seen the worst of him, and felt personally offended by the way he behaved.)
Is this reasonable? Of course I would not even consider giving the relationship a chance unless I really loved him and believed he was worth the effort. But I'm close to my family and I trust them. The way they see him makes me constantly second-guess my choice to stay with him. Some part of me is wondering "Are they right...? Am I just oblivious to how bad it is?"
I'm also afraid that if we got married, it would drive a wedge between me and my family, something I don't think I could live with. Is it naive to hope this will get better? | My boyfriend made some mistakes, I forgave him but my family didn't. Now I'm confused and feeling really torn between them. Help! |
t3_4zl75n | relationships | I'm sure this girl [21/F] where I work has a crush on me [22/M] but I find her really hard to read - is it serious? | Yo.
Throwaway account for this question. Pretty much I work for a broadband provider as a broadband remote support engineer. Comes Friday and I'm called by the service team to investigate an engineer attending a site out of nowhere. I find out what happens, call the girl on service who asked me to investigate to explain what happened and she starts asking me questions about my age/ where I went to school etc. She explains that one of the account managers [21/F mentioned in title] was listening in on the conversation and asking the questions. I avoid the questions, and they then call one of the billing team members to ask instead (funnily enough they don't know my age either)
Anyway. Monday rolls around. 9:30 AM, I get a phone call from said account manager. I answer with "How did I know you'd be the first person to bother me this morning?" to a response of "It's because I haven't spoken to you all weekend" while laughing.
Tuesday: Again she directly calls me at the end of the day to begin a random conversation. Hangs up to answer another call, then calls back to continue conversation. At the end of said conversation when she tells me she has to go, I leave it as "that's a shame" to get a response of "you just made it awkward".
Wednesday: I come back off my lunch break to a call (again) directly to me; with a "I was waiting for you for ages", and when I ask whether it was waiting to talk to me or ask me to do something she tells me "all of it, everything". A little later she asks me to provide a quote on some work.
Since then it's been all quiet. Heard nothing today. I can't tell if she's being serious or not about all of this. I'm genuinely terrible when it comes to talking to girls and relationships - so any advice would be appreciated! | Girl seems to flirt with me, but I can't tell if she's being serious or not because she's so hard to read. |
t3_2nf5vb | relationships | What does it mean if a girl wraps her leg around your leg? | Ok so I am in second year university (19 yr old male) have dated before but today something happened that caught me off guard. There's this girl who I've known since first year. I think she's the hottest girl in my year because she has everything which is rare.
I always thought she liked me because she hit on me before but idk if she was being a tease. I didn't really like her and avoided bc always considered her "out of my league". I saw her on campus, was sitting on a sofa writing an essay. I sat beside her and we talked. She was having a hard time writing. I put my hand on her forehead, told her to close her eyes, and type EVERYTHING and then edit which she did and it worked.
I didn't even realize or know when this happened but she was wearing short shorts and had her right leg wrapped around my left leg as I was sitting to the right of her. I don't know why she did this or what it meant. As a typical guy I thought she wanted to hook up but I thought I should use a little more subtlety lol. I eventually unwrapped her leg, got up and left. | A female friend I know was sitting on a sofa. I went and sat to the right of her and started talking. She wrapped her right leg around my left leg. I had to go to class so I unwrapped it and left eventually. What the hell was that? |
t3_3m5qrv | relationships | I [18 M] might be leaving my GF [18F] and family to join the military. Advice? | Hey guys,
So since June I've been going through the process of applying to join the Canadian Military. Today I had my medical and interview. They're processing my through for the infantry.
If I get accepted there's a possibility I can get stationed across the country (My family is in Alberta. Infantry units are stationed in Ontario, Manitoba, or about 3 hours away from me in Alberta).
My Dad clearly disapproves of my decision (which is fucking infuriating, but another story), and my mom is all sentimental and hard to talk to about it, and was asking if I'm okay leaving my girlfriend (super close friends for 3 years, and have been dating for nearly 3 months). I haven't really talked to her about it yet, and am not looking forward to the coversation.
I guess I'm looking for advice and opinions about this. What is everyone thinking?
I'm not reconsidering joining the military, but now that there's a decent possibility of it actually happening, I'm really thinking about these things. | Might be laving GF and family for military, need advice. |
t3_v50v2 | AskReddit | My parents just got me a VW Jetta and told me they have ways of finding out if i break rules. Any ideas on how? | So my parents got me a car, a 2010 VW Jetta. After they gave it to me my mom said that if i drove anyone but myself in the car, they would find out and i would lose the car. I'm trying to figure out if this is a bluff or if there actually is technology offered to give this information. Same thing with a speed monitor and GPS and all the gadgets that overly protective parents would put into a car to watch their kid at all times. If you do know if this exists, do you know where in the car I could find it? (I'm not planning on breaking any laws, but i don't feel too comfortable having Big Brother following me everywhere i go.) | If it exists, where in my car could I find a gadget that monitors the cars passengers or contents, as well as speed and location. |
t3_37c4j9 | relationships | Me [21 M] with my ex gf [19 F] been 2 years, talking to me again | We dated for a year of my senior year in highschool, were very close friends in highschool as we participated in the same sport, many mutual friends. She is my first, and I am hers also. We broke up because we both didn't want long distance because I was graduating and the plan was to move 4 states away for college. I never moved away, and stayed and I'm attending school by commuting to downtown college.
After we broke up, it was very messy. very messy for both of us. We have been in no contact, and two weeks ago she messaged me via tumblr, than I received a text saying hey how are you? We have been talking almost everyday, last week she texted asking if it was weird if she came over, I replied no and she came over to my house and we just talked for 2-3 hours. It was nice, we caught up and such.
I noticed while talking she brings up "us" often. Our past relationship, which was very good, and the "what if" if we still were dating. This past memorial day weekend, I went to a house party with her on Saturday night. For a couple hours we just talked and played games. She than told me she has actually been dating a guy that lives a couple hours away, but never mentioned it before. ( i dont have her added on social media yet). At the party I was with another friend of mine, and she asked me why my ex was talking about her and I so much. For example I mentioned some colleges I'm looking at transferring too. Since shes moving to Ohio in two weeks, and attending school there, and not staying in Texas where we live. I mentioned i'm looking at Michigan State University, and she just lit up, saying thats only an hour from me..
She randomly texted me yesterday asking if I thought of her as a friend, and I said yes.
I'm very confused on what shes feeling, and I have asked why she keeps mentioning "us" but she avoids the question. | ex from 2 years ago, we are eachothers first, started talking again, we hangout and talk everyday. find out shes been dating a guy for a while now that lives some distance away. confused as she mentions "us" quite often, in front of others as well. |
t3_hi88k | AskReddit | I'm quitting snorting Roxicodone. How often must I take Oxycodone 10 mg (percocet) to stave off withdrawals, and when can I stop completely? | I have been snorting between 30 and 60 mg a day of Roxicodone for about 6 months. I want to stop completely because it's just a complete waste of money and all I do is take them now just to have any semblance of fun. I have access to a limited number of 10 mg Perocets which I figure I can use to wean myself off of opiates altogether. I had the last of the Roxis on Saturday morning, had 10 mg of Percocet saturday, 10 mg of Percocet and beers on Sunday, had 10 mg this morning and still feel crappy. I'll probably have 10 mg tonight and try to work out a schedule to decrease rapidly. How far apart can I take doses to make sure I am detoxing as fast as possible without bad side effects? | Want to quit abusing opiates, how rapidly can I reduce my dosage to stop completely? |
t3_4jhehl | running | Racing Heart Rate?; Concerned about High HR | Ran the Helsinki City Run yesterday (Half Marathon), and pushed it hard, hoping for a PR. However, I didn't look closely at the course, which was fairly flat until mile 10, when a bunch of nasty hills appeared for the rest of the race.
I'm 34, have run a marathon, three HMs, (all in last 2 years) and run for about ten years.
I (was really pissed about those unexpected hills and) pushed it as hard as I could (within seconds of PR!), and was a little concerned to see my HR after the race- an average of 178 BPM, with a high of 195; The last 5K (during those hills) was north of 182 (my Max HR, as I had previously calculated it..).
This scared me a little bit, as my long runs have me about 150, and my racing max (for short period) is about 185 to date; During this race I held about 185 for thirty minutes at the end of the race. For reference, my recent marathon and half marathons averaged 168 and 172 bpm, respectively.
So the questions is, is this dangerous?
I had some caffeine gels to go with it, and I love getting PRs, but I don't particularly want to move into risky territory.
I recognize the answer is very subjective (and I should get a stress test done just to be safe), but I'm curious: What percentage of max HR are your marathon, half marathon, 10k, 5k etc....?
Do any of you have the same concerns that you might damage your heart or drop dead at the finish line? | I'm fairly experienced, but worried my heart rate was dangerously high throughout a HM; Have you ever had these same concerns, and where do you keep your HR during these races? |
t3_2ex9g4 | relationships | My [20M] girlfriend [20F] of 3 months was a crazy drunk lastnight. Red flag? | Lastnight I had a few people over for casual drinks & hot-tubbing. My girlfriend, whom I love (we're moving fast and it's amazing) had 4 or 5 drinks. After everyone left, she started to get a little crazy. She was saying how I'm not going to be a good, caring nurse (and then immediately took it back, saying that's not how she meant it), kept calling herself messed up, and kept saying how she wants to kill herself and end the pain.
This went on for about two hours; at one point she grabbed vodka and tried to chug the bottle. I had to hide all of the alcohol from her. She tried to leave several times, saying I didn't care about her and that I deserve better, she's too messed up for me, etc. She also said that this is how she is, and if I can't handle that I should leave her.
This morning she apologized profusely, and feels like crap about the entire situation. I told her I'm not strong enough to be able to handle this, and if this is how our relationship is going to progress I don't want to be a part of it anymore. I'm going to her house for a family BBQ today, but I'm not sure if I want to be with her anymore. She's leaving for school in a few days (we planned on doing long distance, and moving in together at the end of the year. Like I said, we moved fast.) I'm worried when she's away, this is going to happen and I'll be getting phone-calls, etc, constantly worrying. Am I overreacting, is this a red flag? What should I do? | Girlfriend got drunk lastnight; insulted me, threatened suicide, insulted our relationship, etc. Apologized the next morning. What do I do? |
t3_2l21bk | offmychest | tfw guy u like has gf | recently became friends with a guy i'd sort of known previously. we've been hanging out with our larger group of friends a bunch and i'm finding myself increasingly attracted to him which is a problem since he's happily in a relationship. i can feel myself liking this person more and more and it's pissing me off because i know nothing good can come out of it for me, but i can't stop wanting to flirt and draw myself ever ever closer (figuratively, literally, physically) to him when we're together... what kills me is i feel like he never really shies away from me either so it just feels like we're edging on this invisible line of mutual attraction where we can't/won't do anything but pretend like everything's chill as if there's not this simmering vibe b/w us
not really looking for advice, just annoyed at him for being such a great likeable person, annoyed at myself for not being able to pull myself away, annoyed @ the world for always sending me boys who are completely unavailable. also feelin shitty because if i were his gf i would probably hate on me so hard, which is fair, but i can't help my feelings | heavy sighs bc this dude is taken and i have no chance but i'm still here like |
t3_40w1so | relationships | I [22/F] and hooking up with a guy [24/M] that has a girlfriend of 10 years. What do I do, I am insane? | I know I am crazy, and stupid messing with him. & I know that there's no good reason for me to be messing with him, but right now I feel so lonely, and he makes me feel wanted, and happy.
He takes me out on dates, and we have amazing sex. I honestly think he is bored of his whiny and jealous girlfriend. I kinda want them to break up, but at the same time, I know I do not want him to be my boyfriend because I know that will just never work out. I will just be paranoid all the time. If he could cheat on her, he would definitely cheat on me...
But I don't want to stop seeing him. I don't want to stop flirting and going on dates with him. I do not want to stop having sex with him.. | With a guy that has a girlfriend of 10 years... my mind is conflicting whether or not I should leave.. help my crazy mind? |
t3_p79ka | AskReddit | Reddit, who are you? | Hi everyone! After spending some time reading an upbeat thread that made me really think about how many people there are in the world, and how different we all are, and how the chances of us meeting to share a common interest on this website is so ridiculously small, and yet here we are. So I'd like to take a moment to introduce myself, and put myself into your mind as a more tangible person instead of hiding behind brothersbutler. (Feel free to share as much or as little as you like, and feel free to use throwaways if you must) | Introduce yourself! |
t3_2xn19d | relationship_advice | My (24/M) semi-girlfriend (20/f) is having pregnancy symptoms,and I have a question about the time period. | So I started seeing this girl exactly 2 weeks ago,we've known each other for a few years were just never single at the same time. A little over a month ago, she broke up with her ex boyfriend, lets say the last time they had sex was 31 days ago. The past I dont know, week or so she has been having a lot of pregnancy symptoms. We had sex for the first time 10 days ago, and maybe 6 times since then in those 10 days. She has the morning sickness,nausea, food aversion, painful breasts, she is always feeling bad and has thorwn up multiple times. And of course the big one, she missed her period. What is the time frame for these things? She (we) are worried that if she is pregnant, theres a chance it would have been from her ex a month ago and the symptoms are coming now. Does that sound right, or does it sound like its more possible this might have happened during one of the early times we had sex, first being like I said, 10,maybe 11 days ago. A little fun fact to add in is that I was about 9 days into my first ever /r/nofap journey the first time we had sex and though I have never intentionally finished in her, i'm sure that build up caused some to get out before I had a chance to. Thanks in advance for your time/comments. | Dating new girl, might be pregnant, had sex with ex 1 month ago,me 10 days ago, wondering who would more likely be the father. |
t3_xqgqd | Dogtraining | Thinking of adopting a cat but already have Pit Terrier. | Some background first. Last year a couple of my friends found a stray Pit Terrier that had wandered into their neighbor's yard. So as any 5 college guys would do they decided to keep the dog (his name is Snoop). It's an awesome dog, friendly energetic but not too aggressive. Here is what I'm worried about. One of my friends (now my roommate) had a pet parakeet. Snoop was fucking obsessed with the bird from the time it came into the house and wanted to get it any way he could. One day I'm not entirely sure how but Snoop manage to catch the bird and he fucking ate it. I understood it as animal instinct and wasn't too worried about it, but I was thinking of adopting a cat and my only worry is that Snoop and the cat won't get along or Snoop will fucking kill the cat. So what do you guys think? Would it be safe for me to bring a cat into the house? | Already have a Pit Terrier that has killed a pet Parakeet before.Want to adopt a cat but afraid that my Pit Terrier will not get along with the cat. Thoughts? |
t3_v7op5 | AskReddit | Whats the funniest thing thats ever happened to you? | Ill start,
So I couldnt eat. I have many, but small disorders that are re-occuring, usually fear or confusion. Anyways, I hadnt eaten in about a week and I was really hungry but I was almost scared to eat.
So my neighbour, she is unbelievably pretty, you would think shes all duck facey and whoretastic, but no. She only hangs around me. So she has a literal POUND of weed and I NEVER do it unless im with her, so we do as we do and go through about half of it.
I end up being a hungry little hippo and I eat all I can in my house. We go to hers and I eat more.
After a couple games of SSBB I stand up and I swear my ass was suddenly washed with draino. I said ill be back and I sprinted to my house and locked myself in the bathroom. I proceeded to shit. Not liquid or anything, it was the smooth shit that usually youre proud of.
However, It didnt stop. It broke from the strand once and a while, but it pretty much filled up the bowl. So my friend is back and she opens the door, not sure how. So she sees it and instantly goes red, cries and starts laughing. By now we were affected by the stuff badly and we were stupid as shit (get it) so she says "We gotta get that outta there, itll jam" so we proceed to get little toy shovels and shovel it into a bucket.
I flushed the rest. We then got the bucket and went to the no dogs park and poured it all at the base of the no dogs sign.
We went home and laughed for a good hour.
Note: Sorry for talking about drugs, I know some are uncomfortable about it, as am I. I just am really close with this friend.
Note 2: I PROMISE. This shit was legit. | Didnt eat for a while, got high, ate a ton of food. Shat the smoothest, biggest line of shit and put it in a no dogs park. |
t3_43wq5n | relationships | Why do i find it hard to start a relationship? [22 M] When I really want spend time with someone. | New to reddit, so forgive any mistakes in the format.
So, my last relationship was 3 years ago (bad breakup, she was a bitch basically).
i've been on dates since then, but it never seemed like any of the women i dated were 'right' for me. I don't sleep around...
I'm not a drinker so find it hard to socialise at this age and meet people. Tinder is the best option I guess... anyway, over the years i've lost a lot of confidence in meeting people.
Am i being stupid to think that by not drinking that wouldn't be appealing to women? When dates are going well, I will nearly always back out of seeing the person again.
I'm speaking to someone on tinder right now who i really like, but i am afraid it will be the same thing again... me backing down when getting to know her more.
Any advice on how to gain more confidence and as to why i seem to avoid relationships even though I do really want to see someone?
Thanks Reddit. | 22 (M) non-drinker struggling to gain confidence to start relationships with (F's). When everything is going well getting to know them, I back down and pull away from it. |
t3_1pznfx | relationships | I'm starting to like someone that isn't my boyfriend | We have been together for 3 years, and good friends for a few more. He (m19) and I (f19) both are going on 20 in a few months. We live together.
I don't love him anymore, atleast I don't think I do. I hate going home sometimes because I don't want to be irritated with him, which has been very easy lately. I used to feel so safe around him, like he wouldn't let anything hurt me. Now I have to open gatorade for him.
I don't want to hurt him, he's done nothing bad to me, I've just... fallen out of love with him. I've told him a few times that I am not happy, things would change for a week or two, then go back to how they are. Sorry, but I don't want to do that for the rest of my life.
I'm not really good at talking to people about stuff like that. I feel like a shitty person because I'm really starting to like a friend of mine, but I don't know how he feels. I don't know what I'm asking, if anything I just needed to vent I guess. And sorry if this is not the right place for this. | No longer happy in relationship, feel bad about it, starting to like someone else. |
t3_3lqndd | tifu | TIFU by taking a sick day | So, I work for IRD, the equivalent of IRS in the United States, and I have 30 sick days a year. I haven't taken any sick days in the past 2 years of me working there. I thought, "Hey, why not?" So I decided to have a day off.
I had a great sleep in, and I thought it would be a nice idea to smoke some pot. I smoked multiple bongs and got a strange call, from my fucking boss.
She asked my why I wasn't at work, and out of quick & stoned thinking. I came up with the conclusion that I should say I have bronchitis.
But instead, the words that came out of my mouth were, "I'm in bed, I have brontosaurus."
I now have to attend a disciplinary meeting, this Wednesday. | I took a day off and now I'm in a disciplinary meeting. |
t3_3el5u1 | relationships | Me [21 M]. Just to get over after a great/boring relationship | I, just can't handle myself. Two months ago i broke up with my almost 4 year relationship girlfriend, the last months before that we argued a lot but we knew we loved each other.
One day she got upset because i told her i don't make plans for the future i like to life the moment - we're really young but she had plans to marry after both finished school-, but the main reason i didn't like to do any future plans with her was because:
A) I did not see her as my future wife
B) 2 years ago she broke my heart really really bad, she didn't cheat on me, but broke up to hang with another guy, did my best to got her back.
Anyway, i broke up with her, but i thought that the brake up was mutual, but she told me she wanted to fix things up (again). We kept in touch a little bit after that, she wanted me to think all again and be lovers once again, but in my mind, it was never a choice, it's not like i wanted to be with another girl right away, just not with her.
But the past friday i saw her with another guy who's one year younger than us (we live in a rather small city so it's not that hard to find someone in the streets or restaurants/bars) and it really crushed me, made me really sad.
Since then i've having thoughts about coming back with her, but i know it's just my ego being mean to me, and the thing that the guy is a year younger makes it worse. I asked her via FB if he was her boyfriend, replied yes and since then no more talking to her.
I just need something to not fall again. | Not worried about kind ex, saw her with another guy, my ego wants her back |
t3_2g597c | relationship_advice | [32/M] My Girlfriend's [35/F] past relationship seriously bothers me. | Hi All, so I'm recently started dating the love of my life. She is an amazing person, and I love her with all of my heart. Anyway, I feel as if our relationship is a little rocky due to her stressful situation (changing job, and some health issues).
I have known her for a long time (6+ years) and we've always been friends. A few months ago she confessed that she has always loved me, and I confessed the same thing. Things progressed quickly between us, and then we hit a rough patch. I had a bout of depression and her stress level with changing jobs and health went up as well.
Anyway, I know of her past relationship where she was "head over heals" with her 'ex.' She told me that she would do anything to be around him, and they would have sex constantly. Our relationship is really good, however, I feel that she doesn't have the same drive with me. I'm having a hard time to get over the fact that she was with an ex that was toxic (her words).
Sometimes I feel as if I've taken a backseat in her life, since she is nearly always high stress and anxious. I'm trying to be nice and fair, but do not know how to approach my concerns with her about her ex. | Girlfriend's past relationship details are constantly on my mind. |
t3_1ngd4y | relationships | My(35f) ex(35f) (4 yr relationship) dropped her dog off at my house this morning without asking. I get a terse text that says... | "Hey- hope you don't mind I dropped the dog off. Landlord coming by today." So a little background- just found out that she's been secretly seeing someone and kept cuddling me until they were exclusive. I'm infuriated and used (she had me dogsit 2 weeks ago) but incredibly hurt, I still love her, and want to play it cool. The last time I saw her she said she could do basically anything and I'd still love her, and that I was obviously still hanging out with her because I wanted her still. I told her that wasn't true and she said "really?" and was actually surpriised so I repeated myself. She's always joked that way throughout the whole relationship, that I'd love her no matter what she did or said or looked like or acted.
So I want to establish a boundary about dogsitting and basically being used in general while she fucks someone she thinks is hotter, but also not let her think it bothers me. I want to play it so cool that she is a little sad I'm leaving her finally. To her text this morning I replied "well good morning to you to!" and she wrote back about how excited the dog was to run up to my door. I want to write back "I'm sure she was! When are you coming to get her? I don't really think I'm the person to dogsit for you anymore, sorry!" but I don't REALLY want it to be over, I still want the connection, and I certainly don't want the new person living in her house while she's on travel, and keeping thee dog. But I want her to respect me, and NOT think I'm needing space because I'm so torn up over her. Catch 22!! What do I do? If there would ever be any hope of reconcilliation? | My ex and I were together 4 years and I do love her dog. But I want to establish boundaries and not be used anymore. But I don't want her to know I'm weak and upset and still hung up on her. What to do? |
t3_x9ohb | AskReddit | Reddit, my boss makes me and my coworkers hate our job, yet we still find a way to enjoy our day. What awesome things do you do at work to take your mind off of your scumbag boss? | At work, in our department, we have 2 bathrooms, one men's and one women's. There are a total of 5 guys and 1 woman. 4 out of 5 of us decided it would be entertaining to do a colon cleanse at the same time. Well as you can imagine, there have been some rough times fighting for the bathrooms.
This morning one of the guys, let's call him Alex steps into the bathroom and steps right back out, and is wondering wtf happened in there. Someone took a crap and it was as if someone sprayed it all over the inside of the toilet. After some investigation we found out it was Jonathan, who is now called Jonathan super soaker 2000 'smith'( not real last name) anytime we call for him. | 4/5 guys from work decided to do a colon cleanse even though we have 1 bathroom. Guy takes a crazy dump and earns the name super soaker 2000. |
t3_3dbbeo | relationships | Me [20 M] with my sister [24 F] these last few years, I feel so hopeless to get my self out of this situation | My sister "Sarah" is a 24 year old, who in the last 2 years has gotten herself into some real bad drugs. Cocaine, pills, and now recently within the last 6 months or so crack/meth. I live with her and my mother. My mother is not the most perfect person, but she has a decent job, loves us and lets us stay here rent free while we go to college. Basically my mom can't kick my sister out of her new dream home she just bought 2 years ago, because my mom is a bit of a pushover and my sister is very manipulative and abusive to her. Even though my sister steals from us, brings random people over at late at night while my mother and I have work in the morning, does hard drugs (my mom and I smoke weed that's it) like crack and stays up for days cleaning. And as I type this she comes in asking to use my car ( I said no cause she has a suspended license) and yells at me and starts crying cause I said no.
I just want to leave since I cant convince my mother to kick her out, but I only have a part time job and dont have enough money to move out and I'm going back to college in 1 month full time. I still have 2 more years of college until im graduated with my Finance degree, but my head explodes every time I'm near her or hear her voice because she acts like she is 10. At this point in my life I just ignore her because I know she'll start telling me how much of a bad person I am because I won't do something for her.
I have a great relationship with my other sister, mother and 2 brothers. But Sarah seems to be slowly destroying her connection with each of us by how she acts. My sister "Brindi"comes over a lot and is basically Sarah's best friends, but "Brindi" is getting tired of her not growing up and wants to move on with her life, like me. And my brothers are too busy started their own families.
What can I do to get myself on my own way and away from my sister, Sarah, that I want nothing to do with? | drug-fused, stealing, no job 24 year old sister making everyone around her feel terrible all the time and angry(SO MUCH SOOO GOD). Don't have funds to move out, but have a job and almost done with college. |
t3_1hv19o | tifu | TIFU by doing the wrong thing in the right place. | This was actually about 4 years ago, but I think it qualifies as a fuck up. So anyway, I was sick with the flu or something, I had been home sick for a good week. I go to the bathroom to puke. What happened next, was pretty much one of the dumbest things I have done. I was trying to puke into the toilet since I felt like I had to puke, but I also felt a fart coming on. Now I thought it was just a fart, WRONG. I ended up shitting into my pajama pants right there on the floor. To make it worse, I can't seem to remember puking, so it could have been fucking avoided.
I then got into the shower and cleaned up, twice. | Fuck you, read. |
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