Things to text a boyfriend

After a few babies and some time hanging out in this sub, I’ve compiled a few answers to common questions/posts I see floating around here. Nothing too serious, enjoy!

• “That’s quite a rude and inappropriate thing to say.” is a powerful response to some of the most daft and void of thought things people will say to you.
  
• Stand your ground, yes your MIL is going too far and it’s unacceptable, don’t feel bad for having boundaries
  
• Wear the dang maternity clothes! 5 weeks, 10 weeks, whenever! You are pregnant, and it will be so much more comfortable. Just do it!
  
• FTM on this sub is usually shorthand for First Time Mom, not transgender folks
  
• Baby essentials are just diapers, wipes, diaper cream, some clothes, and a basinnet/pack n play. Maybe a swaddle or two and a pacifier. Perhaps a thermometer just in case. Anything else is a nice to have, not a need to have and varied based on your preferences and your baby’s preferences.
  
• On a similar note, L&D essentials: you don’t need much more than a phone charger, toothpaste/toothbrush, and a going home outfit for you and baby. The hospital will provide you with so much; pads, disposable underwear, water bottle, food, diapers, soap, etc. Anything else you may want to bring is up to you. Popular recommendations are some personal hygiene things like deodorant, hair ties, and a hairbrush, and snacks. Plus, you can always tour or call the department beforehand and note what will be provided, and plan from there just to be sure.
  
• One or two conversations about weight with your doctor are ok if it’s a real concern. But it need not be the center of your pregnancy. And no one else needs to be giving you any input. (Refer to point number one!) You are creating a baby and you can worry about your figure after you’re done sharing your body with another human!
  
• Gender disappointment is ok. You are allowed to feel sad. You still love your baby, and the more time you spend with them the more you will know they are perfect and can’t imagine them being anyone else than who they are. On the other hand, it is absolutely NOT ok for anyone else to make hard headed comments about what the sex of your baby is or what they would have wanted for you. (Refer to point number one in this case!)
  
• It is up to you and your SO to decide when to have visitors. No one else. If anyone is too pushy about this, tell the hospital absolutely no visitors outside of xyz. Another great tip I’ve seen is to tell people a later due date/induction than reality so you have some more time before the barrage begins.
  
• “No the baby isn’t here yet, I’ll be sure to let you know when we’re ready to!” And ignore any other texts. They will get over it! Alternatively, you can designate one close trusted person if they are willing to be the communication liaison between you and the rest of your family. That way everyone gets to be informed but you get your rest and privacy.
  
• Similarly, it is totally up to you when you are ready to announce your pregnancy. Some people do immediately, others wait until 2nd trimester, others will wait until after the baby is already here if they can get away with it!
  

What am I missing? Any one else have any catch all advice to add?

Hi yall! I was a regular on this page when my boyfriend at the time was suffering with what we thought was psychosis. I was under the account u/spooky_plants1. I broke up with him two weeks ago and i genuinely believe he may have been a narcissist and faked his psychosis, including hallucinations, all in order to punish me. He was hospitalized but for paranoia, i believe one doctor may have said he had psychosis from what he described. I also believe he wasn't taking his medication.
Now i'm not here to discuss narcissism, but to understand like how you guys have experienced auditory and visual hallucinations. His hallucinations were very specific and directed towards me, he fully believed I was cheating, and having sex with others while on facetime with him. We were often arguing for hours upon hours of him threatening to break up with me and calling me horrible things unless i confessed. He was hearing "women's" voices, someone "eating me out" and doors closing in my room, also "shuffling around" sometimes, ALL of this was while we were on facetime, nothing IRL and with any other person. His one "visual" hallucination was of me while i was walking out of the room, he claimed was a different woman with a different body than mine (it was me), then that entire night he held a gun to his head threatening to kill himself unless i confessed. That was it, he never had any other hallucinations related to anyone, just me, and it always devolved into aggression and violence. He was incredibly mean and manipulative. He did start to become very paranoid to his coworkers and at his job, claimed the government and his boss was after was after him.
I'm just kind of asking, how did your hallucinations and delusions work and did it sound anything like this? I'm genuinely second guessing myself at this point and would never like to claim someone doesn't have an illness, but now its sounds weird. Psychotic people aren't manipulative and liars like this. I spent a lot of time on here to understand this illness, and my heart goes out to you guys. Thank you for your time you've taken to read this.

Hello everyone and welcome to my post. In the following few paragraphs, you'll learn a few basics about myself as well as what I'm looking for in a partner. If any of it interests you, please don't hesitate to message me or start a chat. I look forward to hearing from all of you!
To begin with a little about myself, I'm 24M and currently living in NoVA for just over 1.5 years. Before that, I spent most of my life in Massachusetts but eventually ran out of new things to do there. Now, I work in AI research and spend most of my free time either playing board games or exploring nature. I also love to travel and see the world whenever possible. My last trip was to Portugal (pictures available) which was such a beautiful country with such delicious food. Next up in May is Croatia where I plan to visit tons of national parks, especially the Plitvice Lakes (google it, they're gorgeous). Also, one cool and unique facts about me is that I have aphantasia which means I can't see images in my head. Oh and physically, I'm 5'8 with an average build and dark brown hair and eyes.
As for what I'm looking for, I really don't have many expectations in terms of appearance. By far the most important thing to me is that we are able to share each other's hobbies and enjoy time together. For example, I'd love someone I can take on hikes before ending off the day with a board game night at home. And, of course, I'd be interested in sharing and trying your hobbies as well. I also really value communication and people who can keep a conversation going in person and over text.
If you're still interested and made it this far, I've got a LIMITED TIME OFFER for you. In exchange for three unique facts about yourself, I will reply with three pet pictures. These pictures are guaranteed to be extra adorable and come with a 100% money-back guarantee if they don't make you smile.

AITA for going off on an old friend after her newest bf disrespected me and my sister, which led to her being blocked after she claimed we were going after her for his actions?
I, 21F, and my sister, 22F, had a friend who I’ll call ‘H’. H had recently gotten a new guy to ‘speak’ to at the time that neither of us liked due to how he treated her. During a night of gaming, he started spouting off at the mouth and being disrespectful by calling us ‘trashy players’ and that he was better then we are. We both were over level 100, while she and him were under lvl 50. I went off on him for the disrespect and so did my sister, while H didn’t say anything. I understand the fear of confrontation that H has as I have the same thing. However, H called me an my sister family and, did not defend us or tell him to stop, but allowed his toxic behavior to continue. After the match my sister and I got off for the night as that had completely ruined the mood. Come morning, H texts us in a group asking to talk about what happened. We spoke for a while about it and explained our POVs. After a while it did become charged as my sister and I expected it would. She claimed we were battling with her about it and that she was upest. However, when we told her we were not going after her over his actions, H then ghosted the chat. A few hours later, H came back and said she believed in the “confront in private” aspect of relationships. To add context, the two hadn’t been dating more than a week, and we had just met him that night. H said that he apologized to her, and my sister pointed out that it didn’t really matter if he apologized to her about it, but that it mattered if he apologized to me as he came after me the most. The conversation ended there as H said she was done with the conversation after I pointed out how she said we were her sisters too yet allowed this behavior. I then removed and blocked her on everything, with proof. She has since manipulated the story to make us seem like the bad guys. So, AITA?

Hello everyone and welcome to my post. In the following few paragraphs, you'll learn a few basics about myself as well as what I'm looking for in a partner. If any of it interests you, please don't hesitate to message me or start a chat. I look forward to hearing from all of you!
To begin with a little about myself, I'm 24M and currently living in NoVA for just over 1.5 years. Before that, I spent most of my life in Massachusetts but eventually ran out of new things to do there. Now, I work in AI research and spend most of my free time either playing board games or exploring nature. I also love to travel and see the world whenever possible. My last trip was to Portugal (pictures available) which was such a beautiful country with such delicious food. Next up in May is Croatia where I plan to visit tons of national parks, especially the Plitvice Lakes (google it, they're gorgeous). Also, one cool and unique facts about me is that I have aphantasia which means I can't see images in my head. Oh and physically, I'm 5'8 with an average build and dark brown hair and eyes.
As for what I'm looking for, I really don't have many expectations in terms of appearance. By far the most important thing to me is that we are able to share each other's hobbies and enjoy time together. For example, I'd love someone I can take on hikes before ending off the day with a board game night at home. And, of course, I'd be interested in sharing and trying your hobbies as well. I also really value communication and people who can keep a conversation going in person and over text.
If you're still interested and made it this far, I've got a LIMITED TIME OFFER for you. In exchange for three unique facts about yourself, I will reply with three pet pictures. These pictures are guaranteed to be extra adorable and come with a 100% money-back guarantee if they don't make you smile.

My boyfriend (23 M) and I (24 F) have been together for 5 years. I caught him exchanging flirtatious messages with a girl (22 F) he knew from school early on in our relationship and had forgiven him for it. Over the span of our relationship, I struggled to trust him again but he kept reassuring me it was a one time mistake and he would never do it again. Despite the lack of trust, I always felt loved and taken care of by him. He did everything I asked for, constantly told me he loved me, and we spent all our free time together. He was the one who always wanted to work things out and stay together. We were planning on getting married and spending our lives together. Yesterday, a girl (23 F) he was friends with in high school messaged me and told me he asked for her number and continued pursuing her after she said she had a boyfriend. He was messaging her while on the way to pick me up and refused to admit that he cheated until I showed him the evidence. I broke up with him immediately and he cried and begged for forgiveness. He said this is the worst mistake he’s ever made and he still loves me and can’t live without me. He said he cheats when he feels bad about himself and wants attention. This is the second time I’ve caught him being unfaithful, and I can’t stop thinking about what he would’ve done if I never caught him. I haven’t been able to eat, drink, or sleep since I found out. I love him so much still but I am beyond devastated. He said he will get help to become a better person and will wait for me forever. What should I do?

I have been away with work for a few days at a conference. Before I left my cat had been unwell and his side was slightly swollen, I had taken him to the vet but they had no cause for concern just yet, gave me pain meds and told me to keep an eye on him.
I had to go away with work for a conference and explained to my boyfriend who was to look after him that I was worried to leave, but I was reassured he would keep an eye on him, give him meds and promised to take him to the vet if he didnt seem better.
I text everyday asking how the cat was, and he reassured me he seemed better and was doing well.
I arrive home at 10pm straight off a flight after being out since 8am, of course the first thing I do is check the cat as id been so worried.
His side was still really swollen and he seemed in pain. I was furious but I tried to keep my cool and I said “his sides still really swollen did you not notice, i have to admit im pretty disappointed as you had been telling me he was fine?”
He takes this as blame blame blame, and goes upstairs, then rings an uber to go home… so essentially knows im upset, leaves because he thinks i need space and doesnt want things to get worse…
He says I should have asked about how he was first as allegdly he had been fine and it just has so happened to reswell? I really just don’t believe that.
Please advise where do i go from here, I don’t think my annoyance was unreasonable considering it was the one thing id asked him to keep an eye on.
Ps. Im taking the cat to the vet first thing in the morning

So, last year I moved into a house with 3 girls. This main girl C kind of set the precedent that she cares A LOT about birthdays and celebrations - on her birthday she asked us to plan a bunch of things for her (a picnic, a beach day, decorating, cake, blah blah). I kind of did it cus I felt forced to. But it was so expensive, almost $200.
So, my birthday came around in January and she did the same thing. It was very sweet, but honestly I don’t even feel like we have that close of a relationship.
Well, she is moving out in 3 weeks with her boyfriend. I maybe see her like once or twice a month because she is always at his place. The issue is her birthday is next week… am I expected to do anything? I’d say we’re like casual friends, but I’ve barely talked to her in these last two weeks for example. I’m also assuming her bf will take care of her birthday this year so I’m not sure what the expectations are here. Any advice?
And honestly, if I’m being frank I don’t like her and feel like the last 6 months our relationship has completely gone downhill. Ever since she got a bf I’ve barely seen her and she barely talks to anyone anymore. There’s also lots of weird cliques going on in the house - like she’s a lot closer with one other girl and apparently they already went out for her bday last week without inviting me… stuff like that.

Ok, so, let's assume I am following a guide for fast leveling, and that guide says to use domination scarabs with breach and beyond.
When I spawn into the map it will have spawned several breaches, sulphite deposits, eldritch altars, and shrines, plus strongboxes, barrels/pots/crates/chests etc. I start the breach and things start dying. Now I have clasped hands and loot also on screen. Whatever, I can toggle it all off with the Z key right? Except now I can't see the clasped hands, or eldritch altars, or tell what boxes I've interacted with already, or which sulphite veins are active... And so on.
I would like to see an update where we basically get a menu in game to pick and choose what gets hidden when we toggle the ootion to hide things on the ground. So we can optionally turn on and off annoying things at our own discretion. Then we can hide loot, while still being able to see clasped hands. Or hide annoying strongbox mod text boxes while we sift through the loot on the ground or while hunting for a corpse.
With so much content in maps at once it's incredibly easy to lose track of what is where, and it can be annoying to see loot while trying to also dodge a million attacks and projectiles or evade ground effects while also trying to figure out if you just stepped on a clasped hand, or accidentally triggered an abyss in the confusion.
Also, lesser request, let me toggle ground effects. I don't mean turn OFF the ground effects, just disable the animations so my PC doesn't sound like it's trying to launch itself into space when I'm in a delrium mirror, breach, and have beyond monsters all spawning at once. Seriously, 5 years ago my janky outdated PC had no issue running the game at max settings, but today my PC that is only a couple years old that can run ither high end games can BARELY keep up with whatever you guys are doing. I don't play thisngame for the graphical fidelity.

Came to rant slightly, but also to celebrate the closing of a chapter.
I made the mistake of signing on to a 1 year lease with someone I had only one, 10 minute FaceTime call with who is 3 years younger than me and had never lived on her own before.
In this FaceTime call she not only blatantly lied to me, she also failed to disclose several serious details.

1. She told me she had a car. Upon her moving in I not only discovered that she didn’t have a car, this girl didn’t even have a license, nor any sort of desire to obtain one.

We moved into a neighborhood that absolutely requires one to have a car to be able to navigate. It’s isolated and anything but walkable. We have a bus stop by our house but she had also never done a long list of basic things, like stepping foot on any form of public transport.

1. She failed to disclose until the lease was signed and we were moved in that she has (self diagnosed) agoraphobia. If you don’t know what that is, it’s basically a crippling fear of everything beyond the front door, where a person is terrified and intensely avoids public places and most people so much they avoid going out all together.
   
2. Neither of those things would’ve mattered to me but she also lied to me about being consistent in working and going to school. She premised us moving in together by telling me she had active hobbies, spent the majority of her time outside of the house working and going to classes. Leading me to believe I was moving in with someone who had a similar lifestyle to me. = alls to say she is a shut in. She’s been employed maybe 5 months of the time we’ve lived together and besides work leaves the house for nothing. Has stopped going to her classes even literally never leaves the house.
   

I quickly discovered that she does not function like a normal person and is a textbook hermit. She’s paranoid of everything, smokes weed every day and is unexposed to basic things in society. Things like calling our maintenance company or having a friendly conversation with our neighbors were out of the question. Her rude, paranoid and closed off conversations with our neighbors caused all of our neighbors to basically hate us.
She didn’t once take initiative in the apartment, I’ve had to explain VERY basic cleaning and maintenance things to her which she received as ludicrous and condescending.
She’s called me bossy and stubborn meanwhile begging me to direct her to basic household duties.
The first few months when I tried to befriend her she shot down every single one of my invitations, attempts to connect or hang out and then later accused ME of lying upon move in when I said I was also hoping to be friends with my roommate. She went months without asking me a single personal question as she used me as her own sounding board to spill her fears/ complaints and paranoia to since the only people she actively speaks to are me and her boyfriend. Then she accused me of being judgemental and critical when I offered her constructive advice on very basic complaints she’d come to me every single day with. She later explained that she wasn’t ever looking for advice but for someone to say boo hoo poor you.
She is a prisoner of her own mind and exploited me as 1/2 of her only inmate visitors.
I’ve sat down for hours, on several occasions trying to help her find / access a therapist some sort of help despite how she treats me and she’s come up with every single excuse in the book as to why she will not pursue therapy (she is studying to become a therapist, yet doesn’t believe it is going to help her situation). I’ve tried to offer her help, guidance and friendship but have been rejected at every turn.
She’s ignored me for weeks at a time despite the two of us sharing apartment together then pointed her finger at ME for not being friendly.
She has walked by me at school WHILE texting me and avoided speaking to me. Almost exclusively texts me from her room while we our both home and my door is wide open.
All I have to say now as I’m moving out and breaking my lease early is I’m so damn excited to leave this person behind. She will learn that others will not be nearly as easy to live with and hopefully she learns the hard way.
None of these things are inherently problematic but if you live with someone else should be disclosed upon move in. She lied so hard, both explicitly and by omission of these critical lifestyle details. I have never cared about how others choose to live their life but when it conflicts with mine in a shared environment, that is when it becomes a problem for me.
I’m so damn excited to live with someone who is friendly, communicative and occasionally leaves their room to engage with the outside world! Including me!

Hello everyone! I have decided to leave my thoughts here, so whatever happens, happens, I just feel like I should do it somewhere. Oh my, I typed a lot, I'm not even confident enough that this will be read, but hey I've got nothing to lose. So, I'm a guy who just recently hit 20 and the ways I think and feel are changing and I am having difficulties because of that. This will be related to my feelings, thoughts and my wishes, the last part is something I'm not used to having. The main problem will be my father who is not supporting that. However I wouldn't say it's just some "disagreement" or anything, but something bigger. So I will leave some stuff I've been through and how I felt at those times. I hope someone can help or anything
Before school: I would be super talkative with the family and neighborhood kids, just being annoying and putting out some childlike opinions and just being a little loud burden when I'm comfortable. When I'm not, I'd just be the quiet kid I've been taught to be, not nice bothering grownups, they're scary
Elementary school: As a kid I never had too many friends, I always attached to that one person and was connected with them the most and it was enough for me. However I happened to have some silly luck where whenever I'd get attached to someone they would magically appear to move out of the country and I'd find a new friend and repeat the same cycle. Definitely didn't hang out with multiple people at once. Wasn't aware this was doing something to me. A lot of them were friends that played a lot of video games and I got into playing video games too. A bit too much perhaps because it would happen to delay everything, including my knowledge of everything till this very day. Both in elementary and high school I was a straight A, "gifted kid" and all that nerd stuff. Of course I did it all because I feared the reaction of my parents if I wasn't doing as good as I was supposed to. My mom was more understanding than my dad. I could always ask her things like "Would you still love me if I wasn't getting As?" and she would comfort me and all the good stuff. I was always afraid of my dad so I never had deeper talks with him. Even today, I have deep talks with my mom and love spending time with her but I can end up being all day alone with my dad and we share 20 words. But now not that much because of fear but because of habit I guess. My whole life goal at this stage was just not making him angry. I didn't have any hobbies, just burning through games and school books. When it was time to go to highschool, I picked some random school not directed into anything, (uhh I don't know the words, gymnasium? the school that has a little bit of everything, nothing specific, English is not my native language) it was kinda directed to coding but not really, I picked it because, hey I like games, this should be fun, I could make games.
Highschool: My habits have hit me, and I realized I'm not really engaging in healthy human activities so I have been so afraid of not being able to make friends. Because I usually spent my social time with one friend in my house or their house I didn't really know anything about my town or places or activities or whatever at the age of 15. I was scared of simply being too far behind on everything and that I couldn't make friends. However I happened to find some kid who was just like me and I clicked with him. Oh my, repeating the cycle, am I not? However I didn't want to repeat the cycle. And I wanted to go meet more friends from the class and see what's up, I'm tired of feeling like an outcast. I've been lucky and I've met some great guys where I've seen what it means to have self-respect, self-love, a backbone, goals, how you can rebel against things you find ridiculous and all the most insane of them all, ~confidence~. Thanks to being in that group of 5 friends, I've been taught so many things I should have known ages ago and I was able to feel okay around people, start going to the gym, going out in town, advancing even as far as going to different towns and trying out things I didn't feel comfortable thinking about before. Was able to talk to girls on a deeper level and had an embarrassingly late realization of "hey, they're human too!". Things I did were nothing too crazy ever, I still had my dad's ideals hanging over my head, so I never felt comfortable engaging in some things like drinking or going to parties out late (well, he wouldn't allow me to leave the house late anyways). Eventually I figured out I can just lie to him to make things less complicated by twisting the story a little bit, that's how I ended up going to another town. The first time I confronted him about something bigger, is when I wanted to go to another country on my own so I could meet up with my girlfriend at that time and I was tired of him not allowing me stuff and I just dropped my first ever assertive-ish sentence to him. "I want to ask you something but I don't want your answer to be no". He allowed me to, was taken aback though. That trip was one of the most beautiful experiences I've ever had in my life. I think he allowed me to only because it was a girl in question, and I wasn't really having girl friends in highschool, was scared because of all the generalization I've heard from my father and the relationship between my parents, and I truly wasn't excited about the whole idea of marriage. My dad is very traditional and he loves being in control of my life because he believes that a man should fully provide for his family, that he should simply deal with this deal with that, that a wife must obey him, that parents are most important no matter how they act yadda yadda. A lot of old thinking I never agreed with but couldn't do much about it anyways so let's just live I guess. However one thing I did continue in highschool is my addiction to video games. But then I stopped because I felt guilty for not studying and felt guilty for not learning about music or town areas all my friends know. So I started listen to music properly and I got hooked to it. This has grown into a bigger problem now and I'll go in the final stage of my life because I feel like this is so much text.
University: (if I say uni/college, I'm talking about the same thing, I don't know if there's a difference between the two words) Oh well, you remember how I said that the addiction is gonna make a problem? Well, I started studying engineering. Thanks to my high grades and me doing the entrance exam relatively well, I got into the "toughest college in the country". Now, the fun part is that now that I have to detach from listening to music for multiple hours a day and absolutely doing stupid dances and releasing my energy outside because I don't know what to do with it, I realized I never thought about what I loved... And, well let's just say I don't really know if engineering, nor coding was the way to go. Crisis time. However I don't like anything, what do I do I'm gonna lose my mind. Well, let's just try having friends? I met some of the most beautiful souls ever on this university and I have reached the point of being able to "be myself" and show the world my weirdness and all the goofy opinions and statements my mind creates. I go to that college sometimes just to see all those beautiful people again and again. They're serious about what they're doing and about their studies, I wish them the best, I really hope I don't negatively affect them. However, I tried to research a bit on what I might actually truly love. And after stumbling through life this last year while pretending everything's okay when dad asked, and telling the truth to my mom, I stumbled onto psychology. And well I have went to that college, to see the lessons and classes and wow, studying can be fun? So I'm thinking about finally taking a wrong turn on this path I was always meant to take from the beginning of my life, and follow this, just to see what's gonna happen. What's the purpose of pushing software engineering when I know I'll feel about it like any other job. I'm not money hungry anyways, I'm hungry for being fulfilled. I've confronted my dad about wanting to change my career, to which I've been called many names, been extremely judged for my choices and I've been told to cut off my hair and stop going to the gym as punishment (I'm not planning on listening to this). I've never been physically abused by my dad, but I'm scared if he's insane enough to do something to me now because he set me a timer of 7 days to cut off my hair. Oh yes btw, I always wanted to have long hair and he never agreed, I was too scared to ever do it. Recently I've changed my mind and he hates it so now he wants it gone. I'm genuinely concerned if he's gonna launch on me with scissors or something ridiculous. You see, even now I am so easily manipulated and controlled by fear and I'm sick and tired of that. That's probably the reason I never got out of religion, my fear is just too strong for me to do it. I dislike that, I wish I could transfer fear into love, I have never learned how to do that though. Will I always be like this? Will I always be a coward and just say "yessir" to everything? I don't want to anymore. I'm tired of being a puppet. I'm tired of having to prove I'm smart or capable or hardworking. I just want to have something with which I can say "I did this on my own, I committed to this, I wanted this" not "well it was good for me". I want to start following my heart and throw my brain out of the window. And now I'm scared of things like "what if I was wrong all along and he was right", "what if I don't find any jobs in this country because of this", "what if he throws me out of the house or starts abusing me". Well I don't know, but I feel like I want to commit to psychology, and I'm gonna do it, I'll be on my own, no ideals from other people, just me, and my wishes. But these words and all the things affect me a lot and they always have. And I get demotivated and stop caring about everything, which just makes my addiction to blasting music on my headphones and badly dancing even stronger. I'm scared of it happening again. But I've never been this sick of it all, I feel like I won't go down without a fight anymore. So I ask in the text once more, can I truly be broken beyond repair, or can I break all the chains tying me down? Because I want to know if I should just abandon all hope and embrace the tradition and insanity along with it, or just run and not look back.
If you have read all of this, I am very grateful to you, hopefully I have been collected enough to construct sentences that make sense, or that it all makes sense overall. Anything is appreciated. I love you all and wish you the best <3

Graphics: 3D, low-poly, "Made In Unity"-esque? It starts off of these stock forest areas from Unity and everything looked cheap with terrible shading. Gore-y graphics looked cheap too but they were memorable enough.
Character: big-headed bald sackboy thing, likely with stitches, that had rectangular stubby arms.
Story: there was likely some text before and during beginning sequence and then we had to go down a path in the forest which leads straight to the meat grinder which our main character quickly jumps into and gets shredded starting from legs. Then it gets teleported to some red, scribbly realm, likely Hell or some Meat World. Probably there were some quests or enemies, and the story itself's likely was not that long.
I just remember seeing this game in some Youtuber's review of the worst android games back in 2020 but it got completely lost and I forgot everything except the doll MC grinding scene. There were pine trees surrounding the doll in that cutscene likely standing in the distance and everything there looked peaceful until it didn't.

Well, you know those reels where there is a completely unrelated video in the background, like certain crafts or play dough stuff or just cutting stuff and meanwhile a voice is telling either a joke or something completely unrelated... Most times I just forget to listen to what's being told or read the texts/subtitles because I'm too distracted by the video playing. Then mid-reel I realize that I forgot to listen, and have to re-watch it this time only focusing on the sound or text.
Is it an adhd thing, or am I just dumb?

Does anyone else just feel overwhelmed at night, before going to bed. It's like I can carry the weight of my life during the day and focus on certain things while fighting moods or fatigue but then night comes and the thoughts, the anxiety... The insomnia...
I was here finally being able to read my book and someone I've created some distance with texts me, sort of crossing over a boundary I was creating and I found myself restless and then I see random news articles and my brain starts bringing up all new and scary information I've gotten from the big things in the world to the smaller serious things and now I'm not ok. Urgh.

Hi Reddit, throwaway because my fiancé uses Reddit loads. I am hopelessly in love with my boyfriend. We have been together for coming up to two years this summer. I love this man more than anything and I know he loves me the same. But I have lots of little “problems” and I’m terrified they’re going to eventually add up to too many for him, and he’ll decide I’m not worth the effort, or heartache.
My problems my boyfriend wants me to work on: 1. Procrastinate. Often say I’ll do something then procrastinate it. Because of this I’ve missed out on a couple of job opportunities as I missed the deadlines. I don’t know why I do this as I was so excited for the jobs for example but I did. It’s like even though my brain is telling me to do it my body doesn’t follow. I have improved on this, I joined a class and have kept up with it regularly and I am better at completing chores before bed or in manageable chunks but I still procrastinate in other areas. My boyfriend tells me I’m going to miss out on life goals and get left behind compared to him and my peers. He’s very successful and recently got a promotion at work and he also puts things off but it’s different things that usually cost money like visiting the doctor for something he’s had for a while. 2. Late. My boyfriend is very timely as is his whole family. I tend to be late a lot as do my family. My boyfriend and I will agree to leave the house at 5pm for a dinner for example, but I’m not ready by 5.10pm and it causes an argument or he’ll not want to go at all. He is very strict about this but even over two years I still struggle with being on time. I do feel a little defeated as I think 10 minutes isn’t so bad but it’s something hugely important to him and minor to me so I figure I should be the one who compromises here and I do try, I just struggle to. I do feel like I am on time for him more often than he thinks as he says I’m always late and rarely on time. 3. Uncontrolled emotions. Whenever I get upset I don’t just step away or get a small amount of upset. I get massively upset, crying, panicky breathing, I put my foot in my mouth and go overboard and say things I wish I hadn’t. My boyfriend tells me I’m being emotional and he’ll return to the convo when I’m calmer but this makes it worse as I’m convinced he’s gonna break up with me. Then I make him angrier by not listening and keeping going on and then he gets madder because he says I’m not listening to him and if I actually cared I would try in the first place instead of arguing after suffering the consequences (like above when he cancelled our dinner and I got mad and upset and he said it was because I was late one time too many and this was the result and that I obviously don’t care about trying for his sake). Then I got mad and said he’s trying to change me and he said if I don’t want to change one minor thing that is big for him I clearly don’t love him very much.
I do love him very much. We have different cultural backgrounds so that’s been tough to navigate but we have managed it together. We live together and mostly we get along well but when these above things go wrong it’s always a huge deal. I feel like I make it a huge deal by how I react instead of taking responsibility for it.
He has his own problems too. He tells me off a lot in an angry tone for lots of little things. Like if I’m being too slow to tidy a room or if I take a corner too fast. He says I’m being careless. If I argue back he says I’m acting like a kid.
Writing it all out like this makes it seem like he’s a jerk and sometimes I think that too, and wonder why he won’t be softer or less strict about these things. Then I wonder if it’s just because I lack good boundaries but he has strong ones. I go with the flow but on the inside there are things I expect too, I just don’t voice them or stick to them very well. So then all our arguments seem one-sided as I don’t bring up my own issues until we’re in a fight.
I know it’s not healthy and I am in therapy to work on my problems but recently we got in a huge fight and now he’s asked for space and I think he might break up with me. I feel like there is only so many times I will say I will do better before he stops believing me. Even though I am genuinely trying and since we first met I have gotten much better.
In exchange I feel like his short temper is exactly the same as always and he hasn’t gone to therapy for it he says he’s dealing with it. He also has a habit of when we argue and I spiral to say “I would have taken you out today, I would have said sorry first but you said X thing and ruined” which makes me feel guilty and self-hate for ruining his attempt to reach out. He also is the type who asks for space vs me who wants to hash it out then and there. Everytime he says “I need to think” I am certain he will decide that he doesn’t love me enough and will break up.
I also feel like because he is a really good speaker (he has to be for his job) he wins every argument and even if I come into it feeling like I justified for feeling sad I leave it feeling like an idiot or that I just said sorry for everything and he said sorry for nothing even if he was harsh about me.
This is a rambling post, but my head and thoughts are messy. Please ask any questions so I can make things clearer.
And because this post is about our problems is sounds like our relationship is bad, but it’s more like, our relationship is great until a problem happens and it’s usually my fault and it usually ends up huge. But when we don’t have these problems we are super close and affectionate and loving.
I guess I’m just tired of feeling like a failure. I’m tired of doing things and regretting them. I’m tired of trying my best and still when push comes to shove, repeating old bad habits.
If anyone has advice on how to improve these but mainly how to demonstrate to my boyfriend that I am a work in progress but that doesn’t mean I don’t love him or care about him, please help!

Sorry if my English is bad, it's not my main language.
So I (26f) am not a person who likes conflicts, if my snack comes wrong I will probably tell you that it came wrong but I will eat it anyway and still be grateful, I have improved about this over the years, but I still hate creating conflicts.
Yet for a few years now I've been feeling fed up with nosy people or people who like to make nasty comments about people, so in a passive aggressive way I often rebut a comment in a way that can make them feel embarrassed. I will give some examples:
One time a friend of a friend saw my leg tattoo and made a joke about how ridiculous it was and what a tattoo it must have meant (I have a cat with glasses on my leg), I turned to him pretending to cry and said I got this tattoo with a friend of mine who unfortunately passed away, that was her cat (a lie, I got that tattoo in a flash), he apologized and walked away. Or another time a co-worker made a comment about my blouse being tacky and I said it was the only thing my grandmother left me after she left (she's still alive).
You must have already understood, so last Saturday I went out with friends of mine and a friend's boyfriend was with us, in my opinion he is Your Majesty the king of assholes, he loves to make derogatory comments, no one in the group likes him and we always avoid him, We didn't know he was coming, it didn't take long and he started talking about everyone's appearance, how much my friend had gained weight, he made fun of our friend who was cheated on by his girlfriend saying that his little friend should be small, he humiliated his girlfriend by saying how ugly she was and today she got better, and it was like that all night. But then he got to me, I normally accept the comments and stay quiet while he laughs to himself, but that day I was tired, so he talked about my short haircut saying that I looked like a man, so I sighed deeply, I looked to him and said it was due to the chemotherapy. We were in a public place and he was silent and stopped laughing, people were giving him dirty looks and for the first time that night he shut up, I said everything was fine and changed the subject, two minutes later he left alone.
As soon as he went, some of my friends started laughing, since many of them already know this side of me, to the others it was explained that as soon as they understood they laughed a lot, but his girlfriend got angry and called me an idiot, saying it's cruel Embarrassing people, it made me think, am I wrong by having these attitudes?

This is so frustrating for me. In relationships I will know exactly what i want to say but its like theres a mental barrier stopping me from saying it. Its like anxiety. Even if I know something is safe to say, I cant get the words out. I usually resort to typing it in a message instead which feels so immature. Partners get frustrated at me and beg me to speak and I cant. The more time that goes along without me saying something the harder it gets to say.
The earliest memory I have of this is asking my parents to go to friends houses. Any time I’d be invited somewhere or want to ask them something Id text my mum instead. My mum I can talk to her about anything and I’m very open with her and trust her. I know she isn’t going to shout at me or anything and will probably say yes to going to a friends house but there’s just something there stopping me?
With boyfriends I will want to go somewhere or do something but again, I cant say it. & I overthink and get so ashamed of not being able to talk which makes it worse. I sort of shut down like i’m giving silent treatment.
Thing is I’m a very (overly) open outgoing person usually so I dont understand. I’m not worried about the response. I want to fix this problem as it ends up me crying out of frustration and embarrassment. Help please does anyone else have this and why?

I’m 19 living in Alberta. For added context, I was best friends with this girl for about 10 years. Slowly she just became meaner and a more toxic friend. It all came to a head when we moved in together last January. Long story short I realized my worth as a person and went no contact after I moved out end of September.
Since then she’s made a point of stalking my socials and if I’m in the same bar as her, she’ll text me to “pull up and talk shit” to her face or saying I’m “pussying out” for avoiding her. Last Saturday she cornered me at the bar and went off, I just kinda left after that and she posted about it.
Next thing I hear from a former mutual friend of hers is that she and another girl have planned to show up to my workplace and just be there while I’m there as some type of intimidation. I’ve let my manager know and he said I have full support and ability to kick them out. We also have a foot patrol near the business I can call if need be.
I’m just wondering what my rights are in this case. If I were to call foot patrol and tell them people are in my workplace with intent to intimidate and harass would they take it seriously?
I’m moving in 4 months for uni. I’m really not wanting to draw this out. I’m just trying to live my life and I want to move one. I don’t know what she thinks I owe her, we were friends and now we’re not. That’s it.

Hi! First time posting on Reddit so bear with me if I'm overstepping any protocols here. I think what I'm sharing is allowed since I'm not buying/selling anything and am just seeking advice.
I've been looking for Taylor Swift tickets on StubHub and found 1 that would be doable for me. I actually messaged the seller on a separate social platform to suss out if they seemed like a bot or not, and they seem normal enough. They also shared a screenshot of their initial order confirmation email.
A few things that stand out to me:

1. I know better than to ever fully trust a screenshot but there's only so much verification that can be provided. Just trying to strike a reasonable balance between scam vs. real.
2. This person is a "trader" on StubHub and seems to operate through their own LTD company. I guess that's semi-comforting but also... is it? Feel like there are loopholes regardless of whether it's an individual seller or a "ticketing business".
3. The screenshot attached is clearly of a Ticketmaster resale ticket, but I'm not too concerned with that aspect. Seems like a slim chance for one of the fan-to-fan resales to be fake.
4. Where I started to hesitate is the VIP information included in the body of the email. There's no VIP noted on the ticket listing in StubHub, and I thought that Taylor's VIP packages had very specific names in the UK - "Karma Is My Boyfriend" etc. Wouldn't that be listed here somewhere?

Super curious what y'all think!
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It is my biggest trigger. My (32F) partner (31M) have been together for almost 9 years with some rough patches, break ups. Im diagnosed with ADHD, form of autism and more recently body dysmorphia, which Im getting treatment for.
My previous relationship was highly toxic and this one has some bad aspects too, Im not the most easy lover. Partly due to me being how I am and my past experience. Porn has always made me extreme insecure, but its like its increasing now Im getting older and the porn actress seem to have everything I want bodily wise. Even m
My boyfriend only watches it like once a week or less, when Im not around to have sex with.He assured me like a 100 times its only to get off, he doesnt compare me and he thinks Im super hot and his number 1, he even said one time getting jealous about a porn actress is like getting jealous at a superman movie bc you can't fly-he knows its fake. I get so anxious, anger and full panic when he has watched it. Every time I go crazy to him like WHY DO YOU CHOOSE PORN OVER ME? WHAT DID YOU WATCH, SHE IS SO PERFECT! I WANT TO GET PLASTIC SURGERY etc and I cry and want him to. ' prove' that he still gets horny from me. But screaming or sending crazy texts is not making him horny and I go like 'SEE YOU LIKE PORN GIRLS WAY MORE, I understand you since my body looks so weird.'
the think is also, why he gets so angry at my freak out, Ive cheated on him 1 time, we worked lot on it, i did everything to make it up, couples counseling and he also admitted he made mistakes to me. But me getting a freak out about porn, he is NOT having that , he wants to break up with me in a moment like that. How dare I get angry at a movie.and I completely understand and I feel so ashamed of my reactiob. Both my therapist and boyfriend have said If I just say what my fear is in a calm proper way after I learn he watched porn, I can get the re-assurement that I need so badly. But I get triggered so badly, its like I go to another world for a moment.
How do other people with body dysmorphia go about porn their partner consumed??? How do deal with the feelings? How to react calm??? Any advice or similar stories are welcome

This happened earlier today and I'm still cringing hard. I had just finished a long boring meeting with my boss and some clients. Wanting to vent and be a bit flirty, I started texting my girlfriend about how much more fun her 'meetings' are, with some suggestive emojis. I hit send without really looking and went to grab lunch.
15 minutes later I glance at my phone and my heart drops. The text I thought I sent to my GF actually went to my boss, since she was the last person I texted. Even worse, she REPLIED saying 'I think you have the wrong number. Let's keep things professional. See you at 2pm to discuss the Q3 budget.'
I'm supposed to go meet with her in an hour and I have no idea how I'm going to look her in the eye. I'm praying she has a good sense of humor. Maybe I can convince her it was just a prank text? FML, I'm an idiot. At least I didn't include any pictures… Update to come, assuming I still have a job.
TL;DR: I accidentally sexted my boss and now I want to die.

Because I’m planning on moving in October my therapist said we should focus on trauma based therapy so I can have the bed chance I can at being healthy and ready for the move.
I actually didn’t even know I was getting diagnosed when she started the questionnaire/assessment. We did two sessions of that and she casually mentioned that I qualified for ptsd. Then I started my homework, but first I had to identify my most traumatic experiences and then pick the worst one to focus homework on. I don’t even know if what we picked was my most traumatic one because it’s CPTSD. There were a million things with multiple individuals that were pretty bad and so now we are focus on this one thing that I find upsetting but there’s so many things I find upsetting that it’s confusing.
And it’s only been four or five weeks. So I’m not that far into it. Only two or three session where we are actually talking about homework, but I am SO drained. Hard to go to work. Disassociating again. Wanting to drink again. All my old coping skills are coming back. Over eating. Bad dreams.
I don’t know if I can do this. I sabotaged a new relationship I was in because I felt him pulling away, which was actually just him asking for normal things. And when he asked if I was self sabotaging because I had a rough week in therapy (I don’t tell him what I talked about just that it was hard) I was livid. So I broke up with him. Now I’m miserable and alone.
I have waited so long to fix these things about me. And I know you have to get worse before you get better—but I guess when they tell you that there really is no way to quantify how bad.
That’s all. I am struggling. I am sad. I miss my boyfriend, he was so kind.