Question to ask a new boyfriend

Hopefully this example better presents my question, versus how I may butcher asking it.
You're designing a rigid arm (essentially a lever), one side is fastened to a fixed object. The other side will hold a static weight, no motion, we'll say 10kg.
If you decide to run some kind of simulation on the model, topology optimization, static study, etc. You set fixtures, and define loads/forces.
The supported mass isn't being dropped, thrown, tossed, it's fastened to the arm. So how is force in Newtons calculated? I know F=ma. Would acceleration be gravity? How many Newtons would the 10kg load apply?

TL;DR: My boyfriend (26M) and I (27F) met online and started a long-distance relationship before I moved to his hometown. His large, close-knit family lives nearby, and I'm introverted and recently diagnosed with autism. I want to tell them about my diagnosis, but he's hesitant. Living here is affecting my mental health, but he's reluctant to move. I feel stuck and unsure if I should keep trying to make him understand or if it's time to give up.
My boyfriend (m26) and I (f27) met online through mutual friends and started talking on nightly on the phone for about a year before we met in person, started a long-distance exclusive relationship, and then he convinced me to move away from my family and rural town all the way to his hometown right outside of one of the largest cities in America. So my family is 7 hours away and I don't have any friends or anyone I personally know nearby.
His family is very large and tight-knit and most of them live a few minutes from the house we rent so any one of his many siblings, his parents, uncles and aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews, and his friends could show up at any given moment. We run into them almost every time we go out.
The thing is, I'm pretty introverted and recently learned that I am autistic. My boyfriend's psychologist also thinks he may be on the spectrum too.
We've been learning about masking and how it's awful for mental health and tonight I asked if maybe I could disclose to his immediate family (parents and siblings) about my diagnosis so they know when I'm being distant that it's not anything to do with them, I'm just overstimulated and autistic and sometimes cannot attend every social event or gathering.
My boyfriend says he has already told his family that he's most likely on the spectrum and he claims they were accepting but when I asked if I could possibly open up and let his family know he reacted oddly and essentially kept bringing up how his dad would not understand and would probably make fun of me....
He said his dad and a few of his brothers are immature and wouldn't understand and that just made me feel even more abnormal and broken.
I told him that living here is taking a toll on my mental health, that I'm growing depressed and suicidal, that I feel lonely and isolated and like I can't step outside without fear of running into his family or friends and having to mask constantly is ruining my sense of self. I told him that knowing they wouldn't accept me just makes that so much worse and impossible for me to relax when going to the grocery store or even grab a coffee because no matter what one of his family members will engage with me and expect me to always be perfectly social and friendly.
He doesn't really want to move away from his hometown but he gets emotional and says he doesn't want to lose me. I asked if he could break out of his comfort zone and consider moving even 30mins away and eventually he agreed but he has such a negative attitude about it.
The whole conversation resulting in my crying and locking myself in the guest room because it's impossible to talk to him without feeling like I'm not worth him giving me the same energy I've given him.
I gave up job opportunities, friendship and family, and the safe rural environment I knew. I am not asking him to cut out his family, I'm not asking him for move near mine, I'm just asking we don't live in such close proximity that they're always around everywhere I go.
He really insists that he loves me, says he wants to get engaged and married, constantly talks about our future children, and yet he cannot give me a clear plan or show actual steps towards making life comfortable for the both of us.
I don't know what to do. I haven't told anyone I know because I don't want them to view him poorly or just convince me to leave. How do I help him understand? Is it worth trying? Or should I just give up?

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Just a little heads up, this will get pretty long. So I (19f) grew up in a strict Christian household with two younger siblings. In my opinion, my parents were too controlling during my childhood. Of course I understand kids aren’t always going to like their parents’ rules, but I seriously think they took it to a whole other level. For example, we weren’t allowed to read or watch anything that had magic like Harry Potter and Sofia the first because it was demonic. We couldn’t close our bedroom doors because if we did, it meant we were trying to do something we weren’t supposed to. We never got to go hang out with friends around town like other teens because they were scared for our safety. They were also the strict no boys type and we’d get in trouble if they even found texts from guy friends. I remember one specific day where my parents found my text thread with a guy friend from school, strictly platonic, and my parents threatened to take away ALL of my little privileges if they found out I was talking to anymore boys. And to put a cherry on all this, my mom (who was the more Christian parent) would always weaponize God when we miss behaved to make us feel guilty and fall back in line.
Don’t get me wrong, we had a good childhood, my parents provided everything for us and more, and always express how much they love us. But, it was just things like this that made me want to distance myself. Early my freshman year of college, I met a guy who eventually became my amazing loving boyfriend. We’ve been dating for a year and three months now and I moved in with him fairly early into the relationship. My parents of course were not happy about this and the days leading up to them finding out was absolute torture for my anxiety. They believe that moving in and premarital sex is a huge shame and sin, and that my boyfriend is “stringing me along.”
It’s so frustrating when my mom says this to me when she’s met him on several occasions and appears to get along with him well. She said that if he loves me enough to live with me, he should love me enough to put a ring on my finger and make it right in God’s eyes. As I’ve mentioned… I’m 19 years old and am in college. I study full time while also working full time in order to pay for my education. I also have other bills like car note, insurance, etc. My boyfriend pays for the rent and our necessities and I help with groceries. We’ve only been dating for a year and some change and are still learning so much about ourselves and each other. That being said, we are in no financial position to get married. I want my wedding to be a celebration, a big day where all of my family come together to celebrate my marriage. I explained this to my mom and she said I don’t have to get a fancy ring and that a marriage license is less than $100…. Completely missing the point!
I told her I don’t want to just throw something together just to say I’m married and that I envisioned something different for my life. The she just blatantly said “So would you want to stand before God and tell him that or live with the man you love without having to lie to people?” By lying to people she means I don’t share with my family that I live with my boyfriend. She thinks I’m embarrassed but I’d just prefer to avoid family judgments. I openly share it with friends and others and no one bats an eye. At that point in the conversation, I just gave up gave mom the answers she wanted to end the conversation. She said she felt so much lighter now that the tension between us was gone, but I was feeling very dissatisfied.
I called my boyfriend and told him about the conversation and he told me that what my mom said was disrespectful to our relationship and future marriage. He expressed that I should go back and tell her how her last comment made me feel. So I sent my mom this: “Hey mom this comment honestly left a really bad taste in my mouth. It feels like God was weaponized during this conversation and it makes me feel like I should rush into a marriage to keep God and my family happy rather than for my own happiness. I’m not embarrassed to say I live with T, I just don’t want the negative judgement that I know will come with it. I want to get married when me and my partner are ready, not when society deems I should be married. Like I said me and T have the same ideas for what we want our wedding/marriage to be like. I have never once felt used by T and don’t feel “strung along” at all. I really wish this wasn’t brought up every time I bring up T…”
I sent this a few days ago and she hasn’t responded at all. She’s never ignored me like this and she knows that I’m an overthinker so why would she do something to make me overthink? She still reacts to the texts I send in the family group chat but she hasn’t said anything back to my private text. Why is she ignoring me? Why does she want her 19 year old daughter to rush into a marriage rather than wait and get to know her partner? Should I text her again and ask why she hasn’t responded? I don’t know if this is actually abuse or if I’m just blowing things out of proportion. Please give me your opinions and advice.

You guys remember those IG lives scar did recently where he played a bunch of songs?? And they were all pretty much done?? And he claimed to have 70+ tracks in the vault or something??? Of course you probably remember that because you’re in this sub. Anyways the point I’m getting at is he’s been starving us of new material. I think we can all agree that it was very enjoyable to have 2 tapes per year for a time. I get that he wants to give us the best of the best or whatever but this is ridiculous. It would be great if he released one 20 song tape and a well put together experimental album per year. Sadly that doesn’t seem to be the world we live in. Perhaps he’s just been touring around too much to flesh out a project. Maybe it’s because Gina’s OF is doing really good and scar likes pleasing her more than us now idfk lol. We know it isn’t because he fell off his grind but shiiii Gina might be grinding on him too much for him to grind on what’s important which is us.. For music releases of course!! (okay that’s the last one I swear.) Either way he should really release something soon. I swear on the Gucci gang if it’s another 10 or less track album pack it just won’t do the trick just because of how long it’s been. Especially since it was a 30min 9 pack we got after a 9 month wait and now it’s nearing a year. Ehh I got bright eyes to keep me musically satisfied right now anyways. Nothing like Conor’s unmatched poetry to keep me questioning what made him so sad. Just like how I question how scar is always so genuinely pissed. I’m fine with wondering why he’s that way even though he has a Pstar cock, a very attractive GF, big house, lots of fans, fame, money, 10/10 genetics, super ripped/muscular, cars, his own clothing brand, unlimited gin, ect. I just don’t want to be questioning when the next drop is for this long. Anyways what do you guys think about scar cheating on us with some other thing?? Is he still invited to our birthday parties? Are our moms just going to be hitting on him the whole time? Or he is going to be acting all dark and mysterious in the corner? Or is it not even worth inviting him because he’s just going to make the same excuse as always which is “nah guys sorry I can’t hangout. My mom’s eating dinner tonight.”Should we still even allow him to play air soft with us in the woods? He always starts covering himself in blood and starts running around while not calling hits. What about our bowling get togethers? He’s always acting like he’s rolling someone’s severed head down the lane… hmm I can’t stay mad at him because all those things are what makes him our buddy, yippee! 🥳

Hey, sorry if the escort thing is not loved but the posts that I searched on here didn't have enough information. I was visiting Costa Rica and as part of a guys trip, wanted to get a hooker. I had a few questions. Where do I find them in San Jose? Will they come back to my AirBNB? What is the estimated cost?
I was also planning on visiting some beach towns but not staying overnight. If I wanted to have sex during the day, then do I have to rent a hotel room? Is there a cheap way to have sex without the overhead of needing a hotel room in that new city?

Here’s the short of it: I’m finishing up my P1 year and doing 2-day rotations at different pharmacies in the area to essentially shadow the pharmacist and get familiar with how they do things. I had a great rotation at my first one and learned a lot. My second rotation was a compounding pharmacy. I had my first day in which I waited for a while to meet with the pharmacist, she showed me around, led me to their back room to where I made stock capsules for about 6 hours with little supervision. I have no training in that at all, and asked tons of questions to which I felt like the staff was annoyed. The pharmacist didn’t communicate with me the rest of the day. Granted they were busy, but I feel like I made errors and brought it up to the other techs and the pharmacist and they said it was fine. I don’t feel confident going in tomorrow for the exact same thing. Previous students told me they got to leave an hour or two into it, and I was used almost the whole day. Am I being used for free labor? What do I say tomorrow? I am so uncomfortable with it all
Any advice would be great -Frank

Nightmare of a customer came through the shop today. Out of state, obviously worried about being swindled, refused to let any work be done out of her sight. Came in at about 10:30 for 4 tires, chose a discontinued style that we didn't have in her size anyway, was offered the updated style in the same brand that is the same price point. Said she'd shop around, came back an hour later and agreed to the 4 we had, appointment set for 3pm as it was by this time only a few minutes before the shop closed for lunch and we had other tickets scheduled for the afternoon. She sits in the parking lot the whole time. 1 ticket canceled at 2 so the manager walks out and let's her know that we can get her in early. And at this point the insanity begins. We, as a policy, use footmats and seat protectors to keep clean. She demands we triple layer them, and clean our shoes, but that also she will drive the vehicle up to the bay, she will only allow us to drive the last car length. Also we are not to touch anything other than the steering wheel, gear shift, and keys, she will be watching us from in the parking lot the whole time. She will open the trunk, and hold up the carpet so you can crank down the spare too (4 new use best for new spare, best had 0/32nds.) It only gets worse however as you need to use new gloves to work on the tires, also she wants to keep the old valve stem, core, and cap; and why did you replace those without asking (store policy, no charge) and what pressure are they at, and why 30 doesn't the sidewall have something to say, don't open my door without asking, why does the sticker not match the sidewall that doesn't make sense. Get to balancing and a new level of insane begins where she tries to demand I reuse the old wheel weights, and it doesn't make sense that the new tires wouldn't balance the same as the old. Have to try and explain that stick-on weights are not reusable, and that a new multi-mile matrix RS2 tire has no reason to weigh the same as a Michelin defender made 5 years ago. Finally get that explained but she still insists I reuse the hammer on weights for the inside edge. At this point I'm an hour and a half into this nonsense and over it so I oblige her insanity and do my best, somehow it worked. Get all her tires put back on the car. Get the spare put back under, somehow? managed to talk her into letting me use new valve cores. And let her drive away around front to pay. I step away to take care of another customer who has been waiting almost an hour at this point for a task only im certified to do. About 6 minutes into that my coworker shows up and informs me she has changed her mind and wants her old tires reinstalled, because we are a bunch of lying cheating criminals taking advantage of her, she didn't want to buy the RS2s she wanted the discontinued tires we don't have, and that we told her as such at 1030 in the morning. So cue it all beginning again. Somehow at the crack of quitting time I managed to have her out of the shop, and hopefully out of my life with a blown out spare tire, two fronts with cords showing across the outer half of the tire, and rears at 0/32nds. But the customers right, and all the workers upset. So if one of you poor souls in central illinois winds up with a turn of the century toyota rav 4 with blown tires, washington plates, and that smells like rancid lettuce, be ye warned, turn it away.

Hey, sorry if the escort thing is not loved but the posts that I searched on here didn't have enough information. I was visiting Costa Rica and as part of a guys trip, wanted to get a hooker. I had a few questions. Where do I find them in San Jose? Will they come back to my AirBNB? What is the estimated cost?
I was also planning on visiting some beach towns but not staying overnight. If I wanted to have sex during the day, then do I have to rent a hotel room? Is there a cheap way to have sex without the overhead of needing a hotel room in that new city?

I was always the unassuming type. I could finish a day without speaking to anyone and the world could go on nonchalant. It was alright till I hit the teens. It was difficult to understand the hormones and the new sense of feelings that it kicked within me. Suddenly from a boy, I was a man. Only, nobody seems to notice. I had to make sense of this new waves of sensations that hits me very often especially when a girl walks past - her growing bosom, the widening hips. It was making sense somewhere but didnt know where. After the initial few years, it was amply clear to me that I am not among the preferred list of boys for girls to giggle or gossip about. I was another chap - decent in studies, helpful when asked.
Adulthood was no different. Once the resignation to a life of solitude was internalized, it seemed seemingly easy to walk past the hot chicks while maintaining a stoic face; only if they looked below they would have seen how much my penis failed me. Porn was a relief to start with. A cope up mechanism and even before I realized, it was an addiction. Imaginations ran wild as I stroked myself to pleasure again after again - at times upto 4 to 6 times a day. As my body aged faster than my mind was growing, it was the only solace. With time, the stoking became mechanical and the pleasure sensations seem to go unnoticed even for me.
As I near 40, it was time to change. Time to grab the life by its neck and chock till it squirmed the way I wanted. In Feb I started hitting the gym. I started losing fat. My jawlines started shaping. My confidence started building. My arms, my chests and my legs - all of them started showing a defined muscles. I feel younger. My confidence building up. The beast in me started wagging its tail, licking its lips.
One of the prominent fantasy I have is to be with a women who wears a saree below her navel. If she has good cleavage then jannat. I have always admired a woman in a saree. The many teleseries with women in saree have made be obsessed with this fantasy. I want to unleash the beast within me. Take her down. Grope her. Squeeze her melons. Suck her nipples. Take her from behind. Make her boobs swing with every thrust. Choke her with my arms as I ride her like no tomorrow. Pleasure will only be mine. The beast needs its prey. I want her to moan; to shout my name with every thrust. To scream in lust, to cry in ecstasy. I want to feel the warmth of releasing my jism inside her. Feel my penis pulse as it ejaculates in her fertile pussy. Sense her breath; the panting. Smell her sweat. I want to be the beast that I am within.
The fantasy has become an obsession now. It is unproductive and hinders my thoughts. I lose my focus and gives me a boner each time I think of a woman in a saree - oh! her tantalizing navel fluttering beneath the saree as the pallu swings with the breeze. The beast in me sighs loudly. Determined. It needs its release.

I am debating on putting in an application for an Office Associate/ Customer Service Lead. My concern is the current CSM has been with FL for only one year. She came previously from Harris TeeteKroger after working there three years.
My concern is that since she went from a higher end grocery store to a lower end/mid range store she might try to force HT procedures on her staff.
The reason I am asking these questions is because I worked for HT previously on the FE in 2007-2008 pre merger.
Can a CSM refuse to follow FL policies because she does not want to and decide to follow HT policies because she preferred them?
I do not want to walk into a situation where I have a CSM that refuses to follow corporate policies from the get go.

Quick question (for women). Say you meet someone from a dating app, and they were nice people, but you realise that you guys won't be anything more than friends, if even that. Would you be okay if the guy asked you to set him up with someone more his type?
(Backdrop you may ignore) I don't have a lot of social interactions because of work and hobbies. My friends are all in different countries, etc. I have not been able to find my type of a girl anywhere. So i try to increase my friend count from dating apps. Yeah it doesn't work most of the time, cuz people have expectations there. But recently i thought I'll be open with my dates and tell them that it will not work after meeting once and that we should be continue to be friends. After that I would ask them to introduce me to their friends who fit my type.
Is this a bad idea? Thoughts

I’m asking about this on behalf of a fellow crew member.
They submitted a transfer request over a month ago for a store in a different state, talked to the captain, and the captain expressed that they had room and couldn’t wait to meet them.
Following this they of course secured housing and planned for their move to happen in two weeks from now. They were counting on this transfer, they’ve had these plans for a month.
The “hiring manager” called them yesterday and told them that they could no longer take them because they hired a ton of new employees and didn’t have an open position anymore. Their move is already in progress. They called all of the nearby TJ’s locations, they’ve spoken to our captain, they don’t know what to do next.
It also sounds like the captain and/or mates at the store they were going to transfer to have been pretty disrespectful to them throughout the whole process.
Any advice? Has anyone been through something like this? What are their options?
Thank you in advance!

So I will cut to the chase. I work for a package delivery company and while I am delivering packages I sometimes listen to Distractible. Also before you ask no I have not crashed the delivery truck while listening to Distractible.
Recently after getting through all of GO! My favorite sports team and Distractible and still being to lazy to redownload all the brain leaks episodes again after getting a new phone I decided to go back and listen to older episodes.
I have realized that Mr.Baldy McBald pants himself has noticeably gotten less funny when hosting episodes in the past year. Sure he has had a few gems every month or so but gets to serious with his topics!
Bob's fridge? Funny because raging Bob. Most episodes with Mark in them? Funny because Markiplier. Most Wade episodes within the past year? UNFUNNY! Wade! You need to get funnier! You need less philosophy, and more angry Wade! Get funny bald man!
(Long story short, this was all in good fun but I think that the king of Baldtown, Ohio, Wade needs to tone it back with the philosophy and tone it up on the amount of light hearted and funny topics)

I'm (18M) not used to men calling me babe unless we have a romantic bond. I met him (M age unknown) at the gym a few weeks ago because my brother (17M) is friends with him. Today I saw him at the gym this time my brother wasn't with me. We had talked about religion and relationships and stayed after closing because he's friends with the manager. I went to the lockers and then when I was about to leave I said bye to him with a fist bump and he said "see you later babe". He compliments me a lot whenever we see eachother saying "your physique is insane" "you have a nice body" "you're a good looking girl whoever doesn't want to date you is gay". I also told him a few weeks ago I just got out a relationship because my ex boyfriend had cheated since he had asked about my relationship status. Am I over thinking this? Is it friendly or romantic? It's cool and all that he calls me babe it's sweet but I don't know his motive since I don't like him more than a friend. I barely know him. Since we barely know each other I feel that he's just being friendly but I've never met a guy who calls me "babe" unless they are attracted to me.
TL;DR : My male gym friend called me babe. Platonic/friendly or romantic?

So I'm 15 (Female) and recently (By this I mean a good 4-5 months) I've been in two relationships that have really caused me to question my sexuality, Up until then I thought I was straight. Me being queer in any shape or form didn't really seem to be an option, I always just assumed that one day I'd start being attracted to people and wanting to have sex and be super touchy. My issue is I've always been told that its like a switch in your brain that makes you want to have sex and be all PDA 24/7. I don't think I've ever wanted to kiss someone or have sex with someone and I don't know how to feel about that? The first boy I dated asked me to a dance and we 'dated' for three weeks, I ended up breaking it off because I didn't feel anything. I was indifferent and didn't care, we went on a date and he tried to make out with me and it really freaked me out and made me feel super grossed out and disgusted. (which sounds really bad to say out loud) But I ended up breaking up with him because he kept being all attached and trying to hug and touch me all the time and I just didn't want to do it anymore and I felt bad because he kept being super weird and told me he loved me and I was indifferent and it was a 3 week relationship and he spread rumors about me afterwards for 6 weeks until I snapped and told his mom. So I was like oh maybe its that great intj intuition, yay it was a gut feeling, that's why everything was awful. So then I move on and stuff start talking to a guy, and I don't want to do anything sexual or really touch him (this is a guy whose in the grade ahead of me and who I've known vaguely since 5th grade even though we never really talked he seemed pretty funny) I don't really know what makes you have a crush on someone, like what do you mean you had a crush on Aladin, I think he's someone I'd like to hangout with and be around but like why would I want to kiss or touch him? So anyways we're currently together but I wouldn't care if he called and told me he wanted to break up? And to be honest i'd much rather be around my best friend? and I'm ok with touching and holding hands with her and stuff and I love her to death and I'd be totally chill with marrying her but I don't want to have sex with her and I don't know if that means im in love with her or not? I was trying to figure it out and all the questions were like do you want to kiss them and I was like "No?? maybe on the cheek???" and then it was like "would you ever consider them your sister" and I was like "NO absolutely not that just feels wrong" (she's Bi, btw) and then i started thinking about that and I asked some of my adultish friends who are in college E and B, (E is Gay, and B is Lesbian) and I told them about stuff and talked to them about my best friend and they both kinda looked at me and went "that's kinda gay" and I haven't really talked to either of them about me not wanting to have sex and stuff but I don't really know how to ask without admitting that I might not be straight and I'm currently in a kinda relationship and he went and signed up for the same program as me for next year at school, which was really annoying because that's a year long commitment and I feel like that's trapping me into that relationship and im really just trying to figure stuff out and it was a baking class and he didn't tell me he was going to sign up and he did it a day after we 'got together', and so we're going to be in the same program all year. but I really don't want to tell anyone that I'm asexual and then turn around and be like ha jk i was just being weird and so I'm just kinda here and choosing not to think about it, But when i've looked around and expressed what i've been feeling touch repulsed and asexual, maybe aroace, have seemed to fit. If anyone has any advice or needs clarification please comment something.

tried to keep my post as spoiler free as possible, in case you haven't played it. It was honestly still a pretty good game despite its flaws , and I recommend you guys try it before reading much farther.
So I just finished The Chant, and although I enjoyed the game a decent amount, what was up with the ending?
I got what turned out to be the "Mind" ending. I was confused how to get the other endings and so looked it up (trying just to read articles and not watch videos.) Unfortunately, the other endings were spoiled for me. The questions I have still remain: why such an incomplete ending? Are either of the other endings better? Is it worth playing the whole game over again just to try and get a new ending, or should I just watch a video online? Is there a canon ending? And is the DLC worth playing? Because although I liked the game, the ending was so lackluster that I'm now unsure if I want to put more hours into the game. Especially if it doesn't continue right from where the main game left off. Does the DLC have more of a "complete" ending?
What were you're thoughts on the game? How did you initially feel after getting your first ending? Which ending did you get?

I hate humans most of them are horrible and more things happen or that i learn thing it just reinforce my thought of human being horrible like for example if anyone has the situation of peepz on tiktok everybody supported her cuz she stood for men on one vid related on the question with a men and a bear and then when they realized she was trans they all started hating on her just for that even if she was one of their only few supporter and now she prefers the bear. Theres not only things about other just my personal experience make me realized it even more i have almost no friends and the one i have are fake friends so it even harder cuz im lonely but one time someone asked if i was really trans(cuz one of my “friend” told him this one stopped talking to me when i came out to them) and i said yes then he said “please be normal again” and this just make me hate others even more in addition of already hating myself,being depressed and dysphoria its just horrible and this combination makes it even harder to make dysphoria go away cuz of all this i have huge lack of motivation and i cant do anything. all that i do is playing game to try to distract me from my own toughts and trying to not feel completely shitty

Shorter post since I'm on my phone this evening... But I've got a couple previous posts you can read if you want to catch up on the story thus far! (And to answer a question I was asked in a chat... No, I'm not an actual scientist. But sometimes I feel like I fit the "mad science" trope)
I just turned 40, and all my energies and focus go towards my job, my cats, or my many varied hobbies and interests. Up to this point, I would like to think that I've done pretty well for myself - I'm not very dissatisfied with my life so far. But I know that there's one thing that would be nice to have, and that's someone to share it with.
Now, I'll be the first to admit that my experience with relationships is fairly low, and I can count the number of total relationships I've been in on one hand. But I'm a fast learner and believe in good communication and working together. And I know that, if I meet the right person, they'll be the focus of my attention in a good way.
I'm looking for someone to talk to who shares some interests and is interested in seeing if we would be a good fit for each other. While Tennessee is preferred, online in the US is fine if you're fine with long distance to start with. I'm comfortable with talking to people around my age, but can go younger as well. It's more about the personality and the life experiences than a number.
Chances are, if you message or chat me tonight, I'll respond in the morning. I do like a good night's sleep. :) And if you do message or chat me, tell me something that makes you unique or special... Or what you found interesting enough about this post, or me, to send me a note! I'll exchange pics if we seem to hit it off well.
Last, as forewarning, be prepared for conversation if you message me. I want to get to know you, and I'm hopeful that you want to get to know me!
I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon.