So for the sake of this post I would like to remain anonymous but there’s a lot to this situation but I am posting to hopefully get unbiased feedback so I 21f and my fiancé also 21m got together a little under three years ago and when we got together life was amazing he was the perfect guy I followed the three month rule and we had a tough situation unfortunately before we had gotten together his mom was ill and needed a caregiver I didn’t want to be involved (bc healthcare you never treat family) so I tried my best to avoid it but in the end they needed a caregiver and I am a stay at home mom so when they had no other option I moved in with them and took ok that role of his moms caregiver and took on some household chores because his father wouldn’t clean up after dinner and to take care of her I had to clean up the kitchen to make her meals. Everything went ok it was a pretty toxic environment his dad was narcissistic and controlling and wanted us to clean up his house along w the camper we stayed in living there and maintain the whole property or pay 800$ in extra rent on top of the 450 we paid already (keep in mind to take care of his mom and do housekeeping I only got paid 200$ a month to take care of her full time so he could work full time so at least 40-45 hour weeks) so this starts affecting my daughter negatively she was scared to be in the house bc of how his dad treated us so we left and it blew up we cut contact with his dad after some more petty drama after his mom passed a few months after she passed we found out we were having a baby and I have hg which is all the time morning sickness I couldn’t drink water without getting sick in and out of the hospital just for iv fluids and I couldn’t keep up with the house work and it ended up being I couldn’t depend on him at all to take care of my kid or the house bc he worked a 40 hour week so we keep dealing with this problem and he is a good guy he doesn’t cheat or hit me we’re financially ok but it’s gotten worse since time has gone on I had the baby and he slept untill I was 8cm dialted no epidural I tried waking him up for support and he picked a fight with me I stayed awake the first three days i had the baby total of 6 hours of sleep the first 72 hours of the babies life meanwhile he got plenty of sleep I’m so tired and I have so much cleaning to do bc of him not keeping up even neglecting animals I just there hasn’t been a spark and it got rly dark for me and someone from my past came back in and made me feel heard emotionally and I haven’t had that in forever in this relationship I’m in now and I cheated in a weak moment I know I’m shitty for it and nothing will make it right but i couldn’t say no when it felt so good to finally be desired by someone and so now to save my relationship the person my close friend who did get me through a lot I have to ghost and he revealed he loves me and will wait for me . I know I’ve been all over the place this is sooooo detailed I barely cover all the hurt and disappointment i go through but being ignored in labor and while I’m crying bc he needs sleep he’ll fall asleep all the time without even realizing it and fight me and be angry and take it out on the kids when he wakes up in the middle of of sleeping I just feel like he’s turning into his dad and how toxic he was I just I’m so lost here and need help to be honest hopefully someone will listen to my nonsense I’ll update or give me context if asked thanks if you got this far

Hi All,
As said in the heading, I am a foreign trained attorney. Have failed the NY Bar twice. I want to shift to another UBE Jx. to give the exam next and was thinking about shifting my papers to Utah. I know that Texas allows you to register (if you are qualified for NY), I was wondering if I could do the same for Utah?
Thanks in advance.
A person desperately waiting to be an Esq.

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Author’s note : Everything’s free to use and monetize or paywall as you wish, just remember to credit me please. As I’m not a native English speaker, you can feel free to make slight changes to make it better, as long as it doesn’t change the whole story of course.
Summary, listener’s perspective : Your partner went grocery shopping a long time ago and you’re calling them to check up on them. Apparently a lot of things happened and stressed them a little too much, but they got help and they’ll finish it to prove to you they can handle it.
[ ] = stage directions
** = sound effects
[The speaker is at the supermarket wandering around, feel free to put crowd sounds, riding the cart etc… through all the script]
*Phone ringing\*
Uhm… Hello? Who is this?
You should be mistaken, I don’t have a girlfriend.
Yes. That’s my name. How… Oh. Wait. Did I… ?
Ah fuck…
Yes, we’re fine Ma’am. Don’t sound so worried.
I understand but…
Ma’am…
Oh! Shut up for a minute!
Too many questions. So, I don’t know. I guess we’re shopping since I have a cart in front of me and we seem to be… In a supermarket..
Yeah, so why are you asking if you already know we were supposed to go grocery shopping!
Whatever… No, I don’t know which one… They’re all the same honestly… Let me walk around to see if I can identify something…
[Speaker is walking around for a few second without saying anything]
…
[Speaker is stopping, they tone changed]
Hello?
Hi baby!! How are you doing? Why are you calling? Or did I call you?
Oh you did? Why?
Yes, it’s me. What’s wrong?
Oh… Really?
I’m sorry. But it’s fine, I promise.
I know baby but…
Why do you want to come? I can do this!
No I mean alone! I prepared a list and all, I can’t forget anything!
Uhm… wait.. Let me search for it…
[Speaker is searching in their bag]
Where did I put it…
Damn..
[Speaker is getting quieter]
…
[Back to the first tone of voice]
Ok. Ma’am. I don’t know where we are, really.. But it’ll be fine. We’re just going to finish this and go back home.
A list? Yes, I have one in my hand, it’s alright, please calm down.
I know, I can sense them around, they’re not far. It’s alright.
Oh god…
Ok… Toilet paper… Sexy…
Where is that…
[Speaker is walking again, searching for the stuff on the list]
Uhm… Ok, there we are… That’s done and then some soap…
Well, I’m staying with you on the phone because you seem completely panicked. So I’m showing you we got this.
Look… I don’t know what exactly happened that triggered it… But we’re alone in a big space full of strangers. Doing something important. I’m guessing that it’s a lot of stress for them and they needed me… It’ll be alright though.
Yeah, of course they’ll tell you they can do it. I’m sure they believe they can. And I’m sure they wanted to impress you and make you proud. But sometimes it’s fine to ask for help too.
Not like that! You don’t have to come, I’m here now. I got this. You don’t even know where we are. And you’re not going to come with your car. Have you not seen the price for gas?
I might not be around often but I keep an eye on the news.
Why do we need so many strawberries?
Uhm… I’m taking bananas too, I like that better.
[Speaker is getting quiet again, just walking]
…
[Change of tone, back to the partner one]
Baby? Are you here?
Yes, it’s me, I’m back. How did the cart fill itself?
Who?
Ohhh… But.. I could have.. I can do it!
I… There was this lady… She was searching for something and asked me. I didn’t know… I don’t know this place very well…
I don’t know why I didn’t go to the usual place!
Oh wait… They were out of gas! To put on the car. Did you see the price now?!
Oh… ok…
They might have seen it then… Yeah… I guess.. It was stressful because I didn’t know what to do. Where to go.. To get it.
Oh. I continued driving for a while… Because I… kinda froze. And I couldn’t park to look with the gps where to go… Well.. I could have! But.. Brain was silly and I couldn’t do it..
After a while I saw a sign for another supermarket and I followed it. I guess that’s where I am now.
What’s that noise?
Baby! It’s alright! You don’t have to come! I can do it! Especially if I’m not alone anymore. I mean.. I have help, we’ll do this!
I swear! There are not many more things on the list anyway. We can do this!
Wait… Why are there bananas here? I don’t like them. I’m going to put it back.
[Speaker is walking back to the fruits to put the bananas back!]
Alright. That’s done. So what’s left?
Some juices… It's on the other way. What else? Eggs, butter…
Ok! Let’s go!
It should be around here… Yes, got it! Then… That shouldn’t be far…
[Speaker is switching again]
…
Uhm… What the hell… Why am I here… What’s on the list? Eggs… How many… Hey! Ma’am? Still here?
Good, how many eggs do you want?
Alright, I got them.. What’s left? Juices… It’s on the other side… Wait! Where are my bananas!
I don’t care if they don’t like them! I do! I front sometimes! I can have things I like too! That’s not cool to only think of themselves!
I mean… That’s a fair point… But… I can’t know when I’ll be here! I’m here now.. And I want bananas…
What if I just took 1 or 2? Not too much, won’t be expensive!
Thank you, you’re kind. Crazy. But kind.
Have you not seen how you reacted earlier?! You *are* crazy!
I told you we’re fine. I bet they told you too. Have a little faith in us.
Yeah yeah… I understand… But honestly, we’ll tell you if it was that bad. We’re handling it quite well so far. Yes, a moment was overwhelming. And I had to come. But now we’re doing well.
Oh by the way! How do we pay? By card?
Do you know the code? In case that’s me in front when we’re at the checkout…
Alright, noted.
No not really, like in my head.
Really girl… I can memorize 4 digits!
Alright, alright… Give me a minute..
[Searching in the bag to get a pen and a piece of paper]
…
[Back to the partner tone]
I’m listening…
Uhm…. Baby, I know the code of my own card… Why do you want me to write it down?
Oh… Well, I just have the juices to get now. I think it’ll be fine.
Yeah… I’ll write it down anyway, just in case. I’m putting it on my right pocket, ok? You’ll tell them if they’re here and search for it?
Thank you baby. And…. I’m sorry about this… I wanted to do this…
I don’t know… To prove I’m capable..
I know. I am but it was just… A little too much I guess… I don’t think it would have happened if I could have gone to our usual place…
It’s alright though! I’ve got the juices! I have everything now. I’m going to the checkout and I’m coming home.
I’ll have to hang up while I’m paying.
Yes, I’ll call you back right after.
I promise. You’re the one who will call me if I don’t anyway!
Yeah, if you have to that means it’s probably not me on the other end…
But I’m not far away, baby, I’m not leaving. It was just too much for one time…
Oh yes, I’d love that! Thank you!
Yes yes! I’ll hurry up!
Love you too baby!

My mom has been trying to order a replacement title for a few months but she keeps running into issues.
Back in 2011, my grandma transferred her car to my mom after my grandma had a stroke. The title was with my mom after my grandma died in 2012. She and my dad moved houses in 2021, and haven't been able to find the original title.
My mom has gone to the DMV multiple times, filling out the forms they give her, but each time she finishes they find another problem. This latest time it's because the car has a lien on it from the original purchase. The DMV can't issue a replacement title until the lien holder and original owner sign off the paperwork. There are a few issues with that.

1. My grandma has been dead since 2012. My mom has brought the death certificate to the DMV, but apparently they still need her signature.
   
2. We don't know how to get in contact with the lien holder. The lien has almost certainly been paid off by now, and I'm not sure if the lien holder even has the paperwork still, given how long it's been (the car was purchased back in 2006).
   

My mom is at a standstill on what to do. She's searching through every box she can to try and find the original title, but she's having no luck.
The whole process has been incredibly frustrating and any advice on how to navigate this would be very much appreciated!

I’m here to vent. I am 24f. I was in an abusive relationship from 16-21 with someone who was way older than me. He physically abused me, raped me, cheated on me, and mentally abused me. I ended up contracting herpes from him. I was too naive and insecure to leave. My parents didn’t give a shit enough to guide me, the fact they allowed this knowing what was happening has hurt me in unexplainable ways. I’ll never forget before it got really bad, he held me at gun point, pistol whipped me, and kept me awake and hostage for 24 hours. I finally got away and begged my mom to take me to the police station and she told me I would regret it… I regret not going myself but I was at my lowest and even my own mother told me not to. Not too long after trying to peacefully wean him away, I ended up getting away and he was a wanted fugitive and he found out where I was 2 months later while having the police actively chasing him he showed up to where I was while actively running from the cops and they arrested me too for harboring. These charges got dropped after I proved my innocence, but how embarrassing to have that known about me in a small town, it feels like it haunts me, it’s still on the internet.. I feel ruined I feel like my young years are tarnished and my future life is too. I don’t have problems meeting new people, but I don’t let them too close to find out everything I’ve been through, the trauma is one thing and then the fact I have herpes so young. No one would want me, only for eye candy maybe but that’s it. I just want to be in a love that makes me feel like a kid again. This happened 3 years ago and I’m still struggling.

Based on your experiences and wisdom internet strangers, how should I approach this because I have feelings for her? Should I tell her, or back off?
TL;DR is that I think I might be getting hints and clues that this girl I know may have feelings for me, but graduation is in a few weeks, and the parting of ways is inevitable.
There is this girl who I have recently, in the past year and a half or so, gotten to know well. I live in a town across the valley from hers, and we are both 18, being seniors in separate high schools. We have been texting each other for what almost felt like daily or multiple times a week well since the beginning of the summer before our senior year, and have not lost any momentum. I don’t always initiate conversation, as she likes to spark conversations through texting, whether it’s the most recent adventure, anecdote, or cake she baked, I’m not talking to a wall. We also talk in person whenever we can. When we see each other at weekly church meetings, she always tries to sit next to me, or does so when she can, and since I tried out track this year, each meet our schools are both at, we both without asking each other, watch each others events and cheer each other on, and we talk just about anything and everything. I think her parents and family like me pretty well, and I have a good relationship with them, and my family adores her. The problem is where I think I stand with her.
That problem is exemplified by the fact that our graduations our quickly creeping up on us, and we’re going to be parting ways as I’m moving to a bordering state in the middle of the summer, and not too long after will be serving a 2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints all the way down in Mexico in late August. However, I’d be surprised to be “Dear John’d” as she is also going to serve a mission for our church before going to university, and is waiting to have her finished papers submitted. The timing would be perfect, as by the time she gets done with her mission, I’d be back home from mine oddly enough. We are also thinking about different universities which we both got accepted to, for me, USU and BYU Provo, for her BYU-I. The nice thing about the mission is that it’s like a 2 year gap-year, so if anything were to happen and be set into motion, we could try to go to the same school after. But I’m wondering if the fact that we are thinking about different schools and that I’m moving will make her fret if she does feel anything for me.
Some final preface is that we’ve been to homecoming together our junior year and that’s when our relationship kind of started. I also asked her to my senior prom in a fun, personal way for her, and she wasn’t weird about it, and was genuinely excited for it, saying yes, and that she was suspecting that I would ask her. We had a great time together and with the group we were with. When we took pictures with everyone, the photographer who was a mom asked our group to walk towards her for some cool shots, and for the couples to hold hands while doing so. Me being unsure and shy, didn’t grab her hand, but she sure grabbed mine and totally locked fingers with me (Mormon first base lol). At the dance, we slow danced to every song we could, when she wanted to, and I tried my best to match her energy the whole time (as a person who can’t dance, and is kind of introverted in stark comparison to her extroverted extreme nature). I later learned from my mom from her mom that she noticed and made mention of that, how I matched her energy intentionally. Afterwards, when it was time to go home and drop her off, I walked her to the door and she gave me what I can only describe in my mind as an intimate hug, which has happened between us before as well.
I’m leaning on the edge of her liking me back (rare glass half full view for me personally) because of a bunch of specific instances that blur the line of friendship between us, making it feel like we are more than just friends, and I’ll share a few key ones: (Sorry for making it look like a police report, that’s just the way my mind operates)
Exhibit A: On prom, I told her about the fact that I was moving in the middle of the summer because I needed to tell her in person, and it needed to come from me (weird time to tell someone that), but if I didn’t, she would’ve found out otherwise through town and church gossip. I was met with an immediate sad response, but that was quickly washed away and we had fun at the dance. What’s interesting is what she texted me after the fact: “What if we never see each other again…Sorry this is just crazy I'm going crazy I hate change and not sleeping so guna go to bed before this becomes a what if I die moments.”
Exhibit B: There are instances where I think she is trying to flirt with me, one of them being a response to me saying that I’m going to be somewhere where she thinks she’s going. The response in question was “I’m going now for sure [winky emoji, laughing emoji]”
Exhibit C: I have received 3 hugs from her that have stuck with me, and we’re all pretty intimate. Once after I gave her a meaningful gift after one of her favorite livestock she was taking care of died, which was pure luck and chance as I got a hat for her with a gag signature from my uncle called “the pig whisperer” which I was planning to give to her not as a cheering up gift, because I didn’t know her animal died. And once after I got my mission call, and once after dropping her off back at her house after Prom as mentioned before.
I don’t want to ruin our relationship because I value her a lot as a friend, but I think I’m seeing something more, and I don’t want to regret not doing anything.
Sorry for the long story, just looking for experienced insights. I don’t want to be “…falling in love as she’s walking away,” haha. Thank you for reading through my plight, and for those of you who respond.

A lot of this stuff may have already been covered but I just want to give my two cents.

1) We need female ai and player enemies. To be honest I didn’t check the character creator enough to verify, but all I ever see is dudes on the game. I would really enjoy having a ‘cartel muscle mommy’ as a n enemy boss.

Good now I have your attention…

2) The AI are super broken. We all know it. The aimbot hip fire kills across a zone of interest are starting to get on my nerve. Like I get 5 seconds of continuous arm stamina to pull off maybe one or two headshots on stationary AI while I’m stationary, and the ai is just like, ‘React, Spin, Hipfire Kill.’ And it seems like it’s only gotten worse since ai reach level 29.

3) The suppressors have to actually do something for the ai for me to use them. From what I can tell, the ai is aggravated regardless of the use of suppressors. The ai should become suspicious, not immediately activated by the sound of the suppressor unless they were hit or they were in direct eye line of another enemy ai. The ai should aggro even more if they find a body. At this point the only thing the suppressors do is alert enemy players that I am in the area. I know because that’s what I do against the enemies.

4) LZ camping. Easy fixes include random placements within a certain area with smoke discharge from helicopter.

5) Fratricide. My proposed fix is after two instances of friendly fire (does not have to result in kill could just injure, i.e. if a total of 200 friendly HP damage - assume each player has a total of 100HP is dealt within a single life) the player is now marked as AWOL. A bounty is placed on the AWOL allowing all friendlies to hunt. At the same time a group of guard AI from the base get into a helicopter and fly to the nearest LZ to eliminate the AWOL. The guards are killable and only one helicopter of guard AI will be sent out.

6) Base Raids. They should be more fun and flushed out. There should be an ability to initiate an official raid on an enemy base after having trekked from a preexisting LZ. When the raid is initiated (either by flare, task, timed event, etc) two friendly LZs should spawn in proximity to either the enemy starting town or base. These LZs will remain active for the use of 3 to 5 reinforcement helicopters each and one exfil chopper from each of the newly spawned LZs.

7) General bug fixed and optimization. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been killed by an ai that’s stuff in a wall, floor, or ceiling and can shoot through it.

8) Gear FeaEconomy/Loot Pool. It’s too easy to get gear. Maybe that’ll change with the introduction of new lootable items and gear. I don’t think I’ve dipped below 200k since level 7.

9) AI health and seeming invincibility. Maybe it’s a server issue, but holy cow… you dump a full 60rd M855A1 into an unarmored skinny and they’ll still spin around and one tap you. That NEEDS TO BE FIXED.

10) Faction ID. We need to be able to better distinguish teammates. Optional armbands would be a start. Also dog tags would be awesome for tasks or collection.

11) More task variety. I’m level 29 (~100hrs) and I still haven’t gotten any specifically PVP missions.

12) Stamina. Give me some way to improve my stamina without having to take the in game drugs

13) Helicopter Speed/redirection. The meta is already to switch servers if waiting for a pick up takes just as long as finding a new server. Speed it the heck up or give more chopper. Also give us the option to redirect the helicopter when on the helicopter. Also to see where a chopper is heading to prior to it landing at base camp.

14) Coma. Allow me to activate a beacon friendly visible within 250m so that as a solo I don’t always waste my Coma state.

15) Logs, Roots, twigs & pebbles, need a rework so that I’m not getting caught on every single thing while walking in the forests .

These are the things that irk me right now. Feel free to add in the comments.

This is a random sample of my book I’ve been working on and I was just wondering if anyone thought it was worth it or if I should give up on this one, romance isn’t my thing but I gave it a shot. 🫣
They were in New York together. She was meeting with publishers for her new book, scared to face the big apple by herself she invited him. They arrived at the hotel after a crazy day at the busy airport, thankfully they had no complications. They walked in to be greeted with two beds and a beautiful balcony. She sighed flipping down on one the beds, kicking her shoes off on the floor below her.

“Hey, imma go grab a shower it’s been a long day.” That was the first time he’d spoke since they arrived, his nerves shot from flying for the first time. She sat up and simply nodded, agreeing that a shower sounds like a great idea. While she waited for her turn she took this time to unpack her luggage into the dresser, leaving out her night clothes neatly folded on the top of the dresser. Just as she shut the drawer her best friend walked out with only a towel around his waist, water droplets glistening on his dark skin. Her eyes scanned his slightly toned body before he cleared his throat. She quickly averted her eyes looking anywhere but in his direction. They had been friends for years, FRIENDS, she had almost never thought of him as more. There was one time she thought he might like her but she was proven wrong. “Yeah, I’ll just head to the shower…” The air now thick and slightly awkward for the two, she slid her wad past him and into the bathroom locking the door behind her. She reached only for the cold water nob, her skin was hot she needed to cool down. She quickly was in and out of the shower, stepping out she dried off and brush her teeth. Slipping into her silk matching pajamas, she slowing excited the bathroom. He was sat with her back against the head board reading her book. “So she’s an alien and an also a princess?” He looked up at her. She nodded “It’s not that simple but yes.” She giggled sitting down beside him. “I didn’t know you were interested in my book?” “Well it’s simple really, I’m interested in everything you do.” 

Hi,
Many years ago before my now husband and I were married, he told me a deep and dark secret while crying if I remember it correctly. The secret was that his aunts husband (moms sister) touched him inappropriately and sexually when he was just a child, probably 4-5 years old. It happened more than once I believe. He made me promise that no one on earth can ever know and that he trusts me with this secret.
When he told me, I was shocked but kept my cool somehow. Now 7 years later, I haven’t recently been unable to let this go. When I see my husband, I feel heartbroken for him. I feel so enraged and angry at the disgusting adult person that did this to a little child, barely made it out toddler phase.
I’m not sure why a few years ago it didn’t even cross my mind, but recently it’s all I think about. How my now husband was wronged and abused and broken as a child. I guess because it’s affected our sexual life in a way, at least that’s what I think. He’s not very sexual and never has been. When I want intimacy, he will do his part but he hardly ever initiates it and I can’t help but think it’s because he was sexually abused as a child. It breaks my heart and I cry thinking of it. I’m crying as I write this actually.
It’s not intimacy that I’m looking for, but almost like revenge for him. He’s such a good man and I’m gutted that someone in his family did this and that person isn’t held accountable because no one knows!!! Is he or has he done it to other kids? His kids? It’s just horrifying think about it.
I wish my husband let me tell it to his family so his mom can give her a piece of her mind to her sisters husband. I know they’d be so hurt by it, but I also don’t want to disappoint my husband and expose his secret.
I’ve asked him if he feels comfortable to tell his mom at least since she has communication with her sister and the husband, but he says absolutely not. He doesn’t even think it’s important to address and that it’s the past.
I know for a fact he doesn’t feel comfortable because he wants to hide from the pain and force himself to move on. But deep down, it has affected him subconsciously and he doesn’t even realize it (or does he but is afraid to admit it?)…
Help me please. My chest hurts for him. My soul hurts for him. No child ever deserves this and he deserves his justice. He deserves to at least get his family to cut ties with this disgusting monster that did this to him.

Mom70 Dad 72 Bro 31 Me 28 Sis 27 My parents are retired modestly wealthy. They worked their whole lives, saved, and played the stock market well. All my siblings were made to go to college. I am the odd one out because I took longer, even though I had the highest SAt/ACT scores, better grades, more scholarships. I just didn’t like college, it was the worst experience, I mean when I say I finished college so my parents can shut up. When I was 18 I moved out, I was on my own for 7 years, I came back home after a horrible break up.
My parents like to call me the prodigal child(the child that ran away and came home or whatever). I pay my own things, besides my rent as my parents says they don’t want me to. My sister also lives at home, however she stayed home for college, she’s the baby, she was given her car, she has no bills, but mounting credit card debt (I never told my parents this, never will) my brother married a rich woman, living his best life, also never worked in his life,( and never been a good big brother, for example if a man wanted to beat me, I wouldn’t call my brother) and now he become so boujee I barely know him anymore. I am in the process of moving, everything is so costly, however I am doing it. My car had problems, my parents paid the 2,500$ to fix it, I am going to pay them back. However my siblings kind of went off on me , saying how I make mom and dad sad, how my life turned out, how I don’t have a job with my degree, how I went to live on my own and was broke most the time. My sister said “you need to be better, like you are so disappointing, I remember how smart you were in high school”
This is another thing my family loves to bring up my past accomplishments. It literally makes me want to end my life when they do that.
I am thankful for my parents helping me, however I feel like I’m in a jail sentence. With this constantly hanging over my head. I am going to pay them back, but my brother and sister judement and how they think of me, hurts me.
If I didn’t have my dog, idk what I would do honestly I feel like such a piece of shit Yes I am the middle child.

i’ve noticed more and more now claudia tries to push that her and her family are so close. calls kennedy her baby sister and how she loves her mom sooo much - wants to buy all this stuff and provide for her mom. it all seems like such a ruse and so ingenuine? she posted a tiktok and kennedy giving their mom that hug just seemed so off to me. in their content like their podcast they are so rude to their mom and so rude to one another. kennedy and claudia seemed like they just reccently started to be close. i feel like claudia especially tries to portray like her and her family are normal and so close bc she’s trying to push a certain ‘family oriented - house wife, american family’ type narrative? when in reality jesse’s family seems so cute and actually close with actual values and decent parents. and the way he talks about his older sister is extremely genuine. claudia just seems soo fake and is def trying wayyy to hard to be all “my family is my everything”

When I was in my last year of high school, I rode the bus and I had like this feeling on the back of my head that was hot so I put my hand back there and I pulled out of hair and it was burnt. I was so freaked out because I had no idea what was happening. I got to my bus stop and I told the bus driver hey my hair has been burned and showed him the hair I got off went home and called my mom who at the time was a bus driver so she talked to the people that do the videos and stuff on the bus. they looked through it. The girl put a lot behind me put a lighter to my head five or six times . the next day at school I still had no idea what happened and they took me back to the principal office. I thought they were going. We were gonna talk about it with the principal, the vice, principal counselor and like they had her do apology and it look like she had crocodile ears and was like rubbing her eyes and, I accept the apology but they’re gonna have the day gonna have the parents come and do like a big apology. I talked to my mom and the people at dispatch and I heard what happened and had a good talk with my mom. We decided we were gonna go to the police and press charges. I usually put a bunch of stuff in my hair to style it and on that day, I was just like not feeling it and decided not to and if I did, that stuff is highly flammable, my head would’ve been a big ball of fire. I couldn’t really ride the bus anymore and since I do have the autism decide to put on I have no idea why she did. The school wasn’t too happy because I said that I was OK with doing the apology, but I don’t think I was wrong because of how scary the situation was, am I the asshole?

Listening to today’s podcast, Holly, Bridget, and Marston all seemed to cast doubt on how Crystal earned enough money to purchase 8 Los Angeles properties while living at the mansion.
They criticized her presenting herself as a “girl boss” and “building an empire” and seemed to imply that the money came straight from Hef.
I don’t like Crystal at all, but I had an issue with this. I don’t think it’s all that mysterious how Crystal built her property portfolio or earned money.
To me, it seemed like all 3 of them- Holly, Bridget, and Marston, were just jealous of Crystal possibly making wise financial investments that grew her portfolio, and maybe bitter about their own perceived lack of financial success.
When Crystal was on the Bethenny Frankel podcast, Bethenny was astounded that Crystal managed to become a millionaire while living with Hef. Bethenny said something like “I need you to explain exactly how you did that, step by step!”
So Crystal explained. She seemed very uncomfortable but she explained, and gave numbers.
She said that she got a job DJ’ing once per week in Vegas and that she was paid $7,500 per gig. She said that she promoted detox teas on Instagram, once or twice a week. She said she was paid thousands per post, and quoted the $7,500 figure again. She said Hef had no idea she was making money from Instagram and she hid it from him.
She said before on a couple different podcasts that the allowance was originally $1k per week but that it was raised to $2k per week and then raised again. I don’t remember her giving a number for what it was raised to at its highest, she seemed evasive about that.
I believe that unlike Holly and Bridget, but similar to Kendra, Crystal was in fact allowed to do club appearances for money. I don’t know how much she made from those so I’m not even going to include that in the calculations.
But even just with those 3 income streams- $2k per week allowance, $7.5k per week DJ’ing, $7.5k per week Instagram sponsorships- that is $17k per week!!! This is $884,000 per year, and presumably she would have been earning this for at least several years. She was at the mansion for a long time. She wouldn’t have been earning this much every year, but she could have for a few years.
This is absolutely enough money to purchase multiple LA homes, one at a time, over several years! Furthermore, I believe Crystal’s mother was a real estate agent long before the mansion. I remember seeing on a website Crystal said that she also got her real estate license. I don’t know if this is true but this is what she claims. I don’t think Crystal was selling homes to clients or anything but I can believe she had some knowledge of real estate.
Holly said in the episode “I took a class in real estate investment at UCLA, and I know she wouldn’t have been able to buy those properties herself, blah blah blah.” I know Holly brings up this online class constantly and fancies herself a real estate expert, but she is not the only person who knows about real estate! If both Crystal and her mom had real estate licenses, presumably they also knew a thing or two.
Holly purchased her first investment property after a few years of living at the mansion. She bought a property in her hometown in small town Oregon. Crystal’s first property was in Los Angeles. Obviously a Los Angeles property is going to appreciate much faster than a property in a small town in Oregon. Presumably the house could have increased in value by several hundred thousand dollars in just a few years.
I’m just saying- it’s not that far fetched that Crystal could have built a property empire through her own good decisions. I agree with a LOT of the criticisms of Crystal, but not this one.
By the way, Bridget bought a Los Angeles house after moving out of the mansion, lived there for many years, and eventually sold it at a loss. This was surprising to me. You’d think after that 10+ years it would have gone up in value, especially in a city like Los Angeles, but apparently she bought high and sold low. I don’t think Bridget has real estate savvy, so it’s obviously easy for her to criticize Crystal and downplay her achievement.

I use a sony wh-ch520 right now for about 6 months until i noticed the sound quality deteriorated a while back. and it doesnt really have good build quality imo. so i need to get a new headphone under 440 dollars. my requirements are

• Noise Cancelling: I am pretty sensitive to loud sounds while traveling to alot of places. my current headphones have NOTHING. making me anxious thus making my relatives or friends become disturbed or annoyed.
• Something that can still work against airplane travel: some experiences i have with noise cancel headphones is that they will NOT cancel against air.
• Still being able to hear stuff from outside of the headphones: i'd guess like some feature that can make me hear if someone is talking to me. this also includes announcements incase an accident happened cause i couldnt hear anything.
• Comfortable: using my current headphones is a pain to my ears. it has a strong force attacking my head making it having no breathing room for my ears and still giving me a headache.
• Strong and clear audio: this isnt really a problem currently but the audio feels like its now full of echoes.
• I've also picked two headphones, The Bose QC ultra and the sony WH-1000XM4. If there is any alternatives or you can put your opinion, it'd be great.