I'm currently 24 and lived the majority of the last few years thinking I was on a journey of constant self improvement. I'm struggling to figure out where I sit on the scale of attractiveness. Previously I thought I was a lot higher on that scale, but now I've come to terms with the harsh reality that I am conventionally unnatractive
I'm a 5'8 male with the physique of an ifbb pro off season bodybuilder. I have heard numerous times in my life that when ever I go anywhere everyone stares at me, i literally turn heads, and I don't really notice it but occasionally I'll catch someone staring out the corner of my eye. Previously I mistook it for positive association thinking girls thought I looked good and guys were admiring/jealous, but realistically I think it's how you would look at someone with an obvious deformity, or something that stands out that isn't normal
Ive had absolutely 0 success at online dating and my self esteem is so low there's no chance I can even picture asking a girl out in person. Most of my friends are in relationships now so I don't really have anyone to go out with on weekends. I've been out alone before but clubs/bars aren't really my scene. I don't drink/do drugs and I kind of just sat in the corner awkwardly just feeling anxiety, no fun at all.
I think the only type of girls that may be into me are the ones I see at the gym every day. But if I can teven match with a girl who online who also has a lot of unnatractive qualities, it's hard to imagine these fit girls with thousands of followers on social media, actually being interested.
I don't really know how to deal with this situation. If all the evidence in your life points towards you having low SMV, how can you be confident in yourself. I don't want to date a girl who I'm not attracted to even if society would suggest we are in the same league. Its hard to deal with the fact that I'm probably a 2-3/10 when previously I thought I was a 7-8

I've been looking for a long term relationship for a while. I think it's a combination of difficulty getting to know new people, me being too picky about personallity, and also not the most attractive guy either that I haven't really found anything.
I guess that all the single woman I know personally just arnt really my type and have too different of ideas on how we went to spend the rest of our lives as well as having different morals and beliefs. I've tried meeting a new pool of people via online dating but my experience has just made me feel like a free meal ticket. The couple of pleasant encountere I've had where i felt a genuine connection (rare) never went anywhere because of various different reasons outside of my control.
I've always hated being single, but I also don't want to "settle". I want to find someone who I can look in the eye and genuinely tell them that I love every part of them including their flaws which ofc we all have. Maybe my standards are too high. I don't know but honestly kind of tired, and feel like throwing in the towel.
Maybe life will have someone good in store for me and maybe not. I'm just tired of Actively trying. Is this the wrong mentality to have? Is there something wrong with me?

I'm looking for advice on how to spend more time with boyfriend and become a permanent resident in Australia.
My boyfriend (26m) and I (18f) met each other through an online dating app in April 2024, Nepal, he extended his stay and we have been regularly seeing each other over the course of 1-2 months.
We felt a great connection instantly and have deepened our love for each other over this time and have genuine intentions to live together and get married. He is an Australian citizen and lived in Australia all his life despite being born in Nepal.
The most appropriate way to become a PR would be the 300 Prospective Marriage Visa since we can't meet the requirements for any of the partner visas; however, since there is a long processing time for the 300, we would still like to see each other in the interim.
He is now returning to Australia for his job and contemplating when he might come visit me next. This is all dependant on his work, holidays, etc. It's difficult for him to move here as we have lower wages and he would like to advance in his career which is easier back home. Of course, the other option to spend time with each other is if I visit him in Australia on the 600 tourist visa.
My question is how difficult would it be for someone like me to gain either the 300 or 600 visa? It is looking like quite a dire venture with the recent crack down from immigration.
More context in relation to myself: - 1st year University student (not enjoying the course wanting to leave) - Working < 3 months as an art teacher at a school - Working < 6 months as a receptionist at a tattoo studio - Working < 6 months as a tattoo artist at the same studio - Living at my mother's home with my sister
The wages I earn here are less than $400 a month and most of it I give to my mom anyway as she has been providing me with my living expenses.
Due to this, I'm having to be quite dependant on my partner and if I decide to visit him on a tourist visa, he'll be sponsoring me/paying for flights + visa and I'll be living with him while I'm there.
If I apply for the 300 and while waiting for it to process, apply for a 600 to visit, will the 600 be more or less likely to be approved? If I don't get granted for the 600, does that immediately invalidate the 300?
What should we do?

Me (30) and my bestfriend Mary (31) have been friends for 8 years, during this friendship, Mary was aware that cheating on a relationship is a big no-no for me (as all decent people should). Even when I find out celebrities, colleagues or even people I don't know break up because of cheating, I get this bitter taste in my mouth. It's all because, all my life, my dad is a serial cheater and even now even after 34 years - he still is. It started when Mary and I worked together on a cruise ship for the first time in our years of working on different contracts - we finally got the same ship and same contract dates. She is already engaged by this time and will be married in a few months, so almost all the preparations are done. And since we are on a cruise ship and far away from our country, Mary and her fiance Mark (36) are on a long distance relationship. I can only imagine planning a wedding apart from your partner. I know it's been hard on her. Over the course of our 6 month contract together, she developed a lot of guy friends within the crew (people who work onboard the ship) since there are more guys who hangout on crew bars at night after our shift. I on the other hand don't drink so I just sleep early since I work 11 hrs a day everyday. Oftentimes, she goes back to our cabin drunk or sometimes with her new friends in the middle of the night, sometimes it will wake me, sometimes not, which being a crew member for a few years living with different kinds of roommates, i am used to it.
But one night, I cannot fall asleep because my partner and I had a fight and I was waiting for him to reply, i heard someone open the door and I heard a man's voice snickering(obviously trying to not make a noise) and Mary's shushing noise followed him. For context we live on a cabin with a bunk bed and I'm top bunk and I have curtains for privacy. Obviously they won't be able to tell if i'm awake or not. I then heard kissing noises and felt movements soon after - they were doing the deed. My gut fell and I wanted to be a mean nosy bitch and go down and ask them what they think they are doing but I just stopped myself, telling myself it's none of my business and that I can deal with her tomorrow.
The next day came and I talked to her - to cut the story short, she's been feeling sad and she's having cold feet. She felt loved and seen by this "guy" and when they talk he just makes her feel everything she will be giving up when she gets married. For context again, Mark is her first boyfriend and they'd been together for 10 years. She just feels that she has been missing out being with him for so long and said she "wanted to try some new things". I argued with her, that if this was the case, she should break up with Mark instead of sleeping around and cheating. I told her that if she gets married with these thoughts in her head, she would end up hurting Mark (plus there's no divorce in our country, only an annulment and it's hell to pay - not that it's an excuse just a sidenote haha). She said she would think about it and wait for the right time, but apparently - her thinking about it means she'll still sleep around with this guy.
I hate every bit of it, but she asked me not to say anything and to not ruin anything I am not a part of. I've known this guy as much as I know her, Mark, my boyfriend and I bond on music and biking and he is practically like a big brother to me. But, I also want to respect Mary's life and her decisions. I continue to be there for her, on her mental breakdowns and her bad days when she feels really bad with the things she has been doing. I advise her to do the right thing and tell him. But ishe asked me to promise not to tell, inside I feel so bad, because this is not what my convictions are telling me. I know I have to be honest and I feel that I'm betraying Mark by not telling him. And in a weird way, i feel that the trauma I had growing up with a father that cheats, now with a bestfriend who does the same thing is taking a toll on me. I actually got so anxious with this situation that I often zone-out, had no appetite and I actually lost a lot of weight.
Our contracts pass and we're about to go home in a few weeks and she's still sleeping with the guy and some others, still "thinking about it", still not letting go of Mark and still going through with the wedding preps. And she still begs me not to say anything. I cannot tell you how many times I drafted a message on my notepad composing what I will tell Mark. There were also times Mark messaged me and asked me why Mary seems so distant lately. The urge to say the truth is really hard to supress but because I love Mary so much I try to be understanding and wanted her to tell it directly to him so as not to humiliate their 10 year relationship.
Fast forward, I came home a week before her. Being back to the Philippines and seeing my mom waiting for me in the airport - so beautiful and kind and yet knowing how much she feels unloved by my dad made me snap. On that day I came home I sent a whatsapp message to Mary, "I'm telling Mark" and turned off my phone. I met up with Mark that same night and told him everything. He was dumbfounded, he was crying and we spent 5 hours on that coffee shop talking and just him on a roller coaster of anger, sadness and just plain pity on himself really. He really does love her. So much. My boyfriend and I took him home. He was just staring into space on the car ride home and I feel so bad and i had this lingering feeling that I know i did the right thing but i also caused pain.
When I woke up and turned on my phone I had a hundred of texts, missed calls and even emails saying that i answer the phone, that i'm an ungrateful friend, a backstabber, i am stupid and that i just wanted to see her fall because I'm jealous of her. She said she was planning to go home and confess to him directly so that she can reason with him to continue with the wedding despite the circumstance. She said that she had never seen this evil side of me and she pity me because there's nothing interesting going on in my life that I had to cause drama in other people's lives.
I felt worse. I haven't replied to her and it has been 3 weeks from then to today as of writing. I deactivated all my socials because i heard from a friend that she has been posting cryptic status online. They called it off and informed everybody on the guest list. I still receive e-mails from her to this day saying 'I hope you are happy' and 'You're not a hero, you're a villain.' Mark had messaged me saying thanks but thats about it. I think he is also off the grid and not talking to anyone. I feel so so bad and the way she reacted to me made me feel that I'm an asshole for telling, so am i?
P.S Sorry for the long story, I'm just really writing the way I feel about it as it is still so fresh.
And if you were able to read this Charlotte, just wanted to let you know that you have a lot of fans from the Philippines. <3 Keep up being such a great youtuber you are such a great company specially at times like this.

You had been liking and commenting on each others pictures and memes. This is a pandemic afterall ! You were openly flirting with me online and I kinda liked the attention . You know I’m a feminist , of the balanced variety , but you staking a claim , publicly , was such a turn on . We bonded over having a similar pattern of never actually dating people that were truly good for us . Our conversation first took place in a comment on a meme about the very subject . We had agreed that the people that were our age, all had children and were single parents or were already taken . I wasn’t sure if I wanted to have kids . You weren’t ready . I messaged you first though . “Who hurt you best friend?” And You told me about your most recent ex cheating on you not once , but twice (that you knew of) . You thought she was the one , so you agreed to take her back but she just couldn’t stop talking to him . I told you that I had you beat — I was going through a divorce , had just recently gotten out of a year long rebound relationship, and a situationship with someone that I truly cared about , but we both knew from high school . You told me you knew because of how public it was . Well good — you knew . I didn’t have to explain it . We messaged like that ALL evening . I kept looking at your picture popping up on my phone and it made my heart skip a beat . You were sweet and honest . You asked questions and follow ups and I got to know you better . When we realized we were always just a little outside of each other’s orbit , we were amazed at how many things we had in common and how many times we COULD have and even SHOULD have hung out . It was like Deja vu. I felt like I already knew you

BUT was having all STRUGGLES. NOT even dating YET. just in a phase of getting to know. N ALL THE TOXICITY blurt OUT everywhere.
However the SADDEST part is. One human is FOR THE PEOPLE THE UNDERPRIVILEGED PEOPLE who actually STRUGGLING n innocent. The other human is also for the people. BUT the ONLINE influencers. The Yappers. The using wording like KAREN to talk w the ONLY human that give him her OWN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FOR FREE. for a year now. WITHOUT ASKING anything back. Also PROTECTING him out off danger situation while he caused some much trouble NOT just for himself. BUT FOR OTHERS. including women young children n elders. Literally anyone in NEW YORYCITY in May 26, 27/ 2024. N NOW when she come to CONFRONT him. He tried to MUTE her or THREATENING TO MUTE her.
N her partner is SUPPORTING or PAYING this dude. Knowing that his Actions will GET NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL. he is NOT convicted fault by his own. But his conviction has REAL CONSEQUENCES FOR ALL OTHER NEW YORKERS.
WHAT ABOUT THIS? AM I WRONG? OR RIGHT? N IF two people in a relationship or TRYING TO PICK UP the relationship forward. BUT have completely POV like this. Also always in struggle back n forth. Non stop bc of the OUTSIDERS. HOW CAN THIS EVEN HAPPEN?
This is the reason WHY U DON'T VIBE your employees TOGETHER. IF THAT IS YOUR EMPLOYEES than your partner have NO say in it. N vice versa. IF it is your partner employees than u have zero say in it. But this is already WRONG from the get go. Mess up. Completely.
N the SHOOTING above my head last two night was totally WORTHLESS USELESS for a human I think he CARES for me as a boss n a teacher. Than a KAREN as he stated n tried to MUTE. U MUTE ppl when they SAY TRUTHS. BC UR SCARED OF ALL YOUR CORRUPTION LIES N COWARDICE BEING EXPOSED FOR ALL NEW YORKERS TO KNOW N SEE. bc your actions is HARMING not just u but blurted out to ALL OTHER NEW YORKERS. TWO NIGHTS AGO NOW. N u still keep your straight POKER Face Being ONLINE N TALK LIKE THAT without any REMORSE. IF a human DID WRONG n his actions has ZERO CONSEQUENCES. That is how n WHEN he will KEEP doing that. Keep doing WRONG BEHAVIORS. that is how BAD EXAMPLE for society will be SPREADING much more. Like a normalizing the bad actions n behaviors. That is WHEN all society go DOWNHILL.

I went nc with my sister years ago for a multitude of reasons. One of the reasons being that she had mental health issues and claimed she was getting help but no one (including her then husband) was allowed to know what she was diagnosed with, what the treatment was, etc. No one was allowed to know what her physical medical diagnoses were and what meds they were being treated with. It started with random things like she was on a medication that requires her to take (per her…there is no proof she was willing to show proving what she said) 6 pills at once. She claims she asked her then teenage daughter to give her six of these pills while she was driving. (It was for a fever blister supposedly.) But her daughter gave her the wrong pills and she didn’t notice bc she was driving. I could understand a mix up (we do have SALAD drugs. Sound alike look alike drugs) but that wasn’t the case. Think of the meds being named something completely like shrimp vs chicken. The pills didn’t even look similar or have similar sizes. She ended up in ICU bc she overdosed since apparently her daughter gave her the wrong drug. BUT no one was allowed to ask said daughter bc (per sister) she was devastated and felt guilty. Once the initial shock wore off…my husband and I realized things didn’t add up. Then a few months later she randomly took FMLA from her job and left the state to do a 6 week in house mental health clinic. they wanted her to stay for 12 weeks but she would only agree to 8 weeks. After she came back she would only talk about movies (she tried to equate movies to every situation in life and it was exhausting), religion which was strange bc I never could tell if she would be 110% pro religion or thinking it was all an elaborate scheme, politics where she was in the far far far left (people should have a right to demolish anything if it made them uncomfortable. At one point I told her the sheer size of her house made me uncomfortable so I should have a right to demolish it…totally never would. I don’t think I have that kind of rights. To which she fought back that was her home and I had no right. I just looked at her and said…so people don’t have a right to demolish something bc it makes them uncomfortable or is it only your things that rule applies to), and jobs (at my then 3yo’s birthday she kept bringing the convo back to a client of hers who had been SA and how she had to teach the client what that meant and what intercourse was and what that situation was bad. People kept redirecting the convo but she kept going back to it). At that party I finally reached my breaking point and sent the kids outside to play and yelled. I yelled a lot, kicked her out of the house, and went nc. I did apologize to the other adults for losing my temper. She sent me a long crazy message about how I needed help bc I was mentally unstable.
Recently I read a post on Reddit and it made me curious…I looked her court records up online. I expected maybe another cc that went into the system bc it was 15k plus that she stopped paying on. (Not the first time or even second that would have happened.) Boy was I wrong. She had traffic violations for 15-24 over the speed limit. She had failure to yield tickets. She had a couple tickets for no tags. A warrant out for one of the vehicle tickets. And…a violation for a trashed yard due to excessive rubbish which also had a warrant out on her.
I don’t know if she has custody of her kids at this point. They are all older. One is a legal adult. I know she convinced my parents after all was said and done that I went to court and testified against her. I’m still left confused over that one bc…my parents were at court with her for the divorce. They were in the court room with her. I was never there. I didn’t even know when the court date was. I asked my mom if she remembered seeing me on the stand but she would never answer. Golden child can’t be questioned when holes appear!!! Must defend golden child!!! (We are no contact with my parents now for a multitude of reasons.) my parents defend her so much and all I can think is…you’re enabling her to be a total and utter mess.
Part of me wants to contact her to see if she’s ok. I feel the need to make sure she’s not on the verge of doing something bad. Just know she’s ok on some level. I won’t bc I’m not going down that sewer pipe. I just feel so bad for her. I want to wrap her up in a warm blanket and give her hot chocolate telling her it will be ok. I hoped the court records would have been empty. I hope and pray she’s moving on in her life and thriving. Instead it just feels like she’s getting worse. I feel horrible for my nibblings who are experiencing all of that and in all honesty I don’t even know if they have contact with her now. Ex BIL may have stepped in for the health and safety of the kids. I don’t know.
But yeah I feel total guilt. I remember when I told my BIL about the birthday party event (in case the kids said something to him I didn’t want to be the crazy person and he deserved the right to know what was going on) he told me I needed to find a way to fix the relationship with my sister bc she needed me now more than she realized. He was more right than anyone could have imagined. She has/had two best friends. Best friends for 25ish years. All lived in the same town. Neither were willing to show up and testify in her defense. One agreed to but then gave a bs answer to back out at the last minute. The other couldn’t bc she couldn’t get off work rofl. She didn’t even write a character reference letter to the judge. Who would have thought they would have abandoned her.
I know it’s safer for me and my kids (mentally, physically and emotionally) to stay away from all of them but I still feel guilty. What’s the best way to handle the guilt?

ok so i (18m) have had the WORST time trying to get a boyfriend and at this point i feel like something is wrong with me.
i come from a small town so not really many options there or in the surrounding areas, so i have to resort to online. ive tried it but it wasnt the best, they either break up with me bc of the time zones or idek what. however, the stick that broke the camels back was i was talking to this guy (18m) for about a year (we talking abt dating and all that stuff), but out of the blue he stops responding to me. i found his new insta (im guessing he blocked me?) and his first story was a “happy two month” post with his bf.
that was a few months ago and ive been spiraling ever since, like is it me or my personality or something? idk, but just wondering all you beautiful people with boyfriends/girlfriends/significant others what is the secret?

How long is the whole counselling process? I have to give BITSAT and comedk is my back-up option & since the counselling process has already started I want to know when do they release round 1/2/3 seat allotment results. Suppose I get a seat allotted in comedk and get a good score in BITSAT so will I not be able to drop it(seat)?
Also, the total fee under reject & upgrade is very confusing, am I supposed to pay the total fee both the college (accepted & rejected)??
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Hello! I need some help with an GE T2280A radio I inherited from my late great grandfather (who I never got to know). This radio works great... except it is extremely quiet. I think something is wrong with the antenna, as the volume is turned up to its maximum and I can barely hear anything. I have really good radio in my area, usually crystal clear with no trouble tuning, but this radio is extremely distorted and quiet. I used this radio briefly a few years ago to test, and it sounded fine and was not exhibiting any of the issues I described above. I have no familiarity with radio equipment, but I want to keep this alive and with me for as long as I live. Please let me know if you know anything about this radio, as I have struggled to find any information online. And if there are any cheap fixes or tune-ups that you can suggest, please do! I want to restore this to the best of my ability.
This is the sticker on the base of the radio, shows the model information. Date code is 1027 if that means anything to anyone!
Here's the front of the radio!
The power cord also comes out of the bottom, and is not angled. I make this distinction because I have seen images of this with a cord that comes out the back and connects at a right angle to the wall.
Let me know if there is anything else I should share! Thank you.

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Here’s the deal- you can make money selling on Amazon.
You can make money dropshipping
You can make money on Tik Tok shop
You can literally make money doing almost anything online.
But here’s the PROBLEM-
MOST PEOPLE DON’T!
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The question is, is Rainmakers responsible for the failures of their students?
My answer would be yes, because of the misleading marketing, the lack of up-to-date, Amazon strategy or someone to be successful. They are teaching an outdated method and it looks like they are trying to bring an experts, but the path to success is not clear and is a bunch of chaos and people throwing strategies at the wall! With Amazon started changing Rainmakers should have invested into figuring out a bulletproof system how to be successful with Amazon.
The Rainmaker course is not bulletproof at all, and the fact that so many people have followed it step-by-step, and have failed miserably file bankruptcy, and destroy their financial future should scream that this course is not working!
They are targeting vulnerable people who believe the lies that Rainmakers will solve their financial problems. People are taking a major financial risk because of the manipulation and sales tactics that Rainmakers is clearly an expert at.
Since I have been made aware that Stephen reads this Reddit, I want him to ask himself, how can I sleep at night knowing I am destroying families lives all over the world because of my program? Is it really worth here and their success stories, and even those success stories are usually, short term, success stories, and then those people find themselves in debt just a few months or years later? Truly, how can you be OK with this? Go through your own course on your own, don’t use any of your resources or help and try to launch successful product using the methods that your course teaches.

Now I don't mean not talking about important things like issues with a relationship or asking if we're alright after something bad happened etc etc.
I'm talking about trying to keep a conversation going for as long as possible and when that one ends they try to (almost) immediately start a new one just to continue conversation. Is it wrong for me to think that I don't like/want that in a relationship?
For context: My GF (27F) and me (24M) have a long distance relationship together where we both live across the country so in-person visits are very difficult. As a result we talk to each other via text or call but mainly text. She has a ton of anxiety and almost always feels nervous about our relationship, if I love her, and if other people hate her. (Basically she is socially paranoid 24/7)
While at first I had a load of time to talk with her and would respond as quickly as possible and try to respond to everything she would send but as the relationship went on I just started to feel really fatigued about it. Since we first met through friends in an MMO we mainly just had conversations in-game and then started having them through text (mind you we continued conversations after logging off). After we started dating and I was taking a break from games, we continued to talk through text and call. As time goes on it seems like the only thing my gf can do to really entertain herself is talk to me. She texts me in the morning and sends me a bunch of funny images and the like. When we're working she'll send me more images and have conversations during her break. After work she send me more texts and images. At night she wants conversations and will continue to chat with me until its almost 5 AM unless I break it off first.
If a conversation ends or there's not much left to talk about, less than 10 minutes later she sends me a twitter post or image (if not several). The same thing happens with regular conversations too.
After I started gaming again, even if we talked in the morning for an hour or two as well as the afternoon, she'll log on and try to find me and start another conversation in game if I'm also online until I decide to log off or do something else.
TL;DR for the the above section: My gf wants to talk with me all the time unless I stop talking first or she has an important matter where she can't text me
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I feel very confused and my brain is telling me its wrong to not want to talk with her, especially when I wanna just game alone to recuperate after a long day. I can't tell her that I had a long day or that I don't wanna talk because I know for a fact that she'll then get sad/depressed about it even if she says its ok.
I understand that for some relationships, texting all the time, texting all day, and being excited for it is the norm but I've been learning that I just don't really enjoy that kind of experience. Is that wrong for me to think?
I want to bring this up with her but I worry that it'll make her spiral into a panic attack because she'll assume I don't want to talk to her because I don't love her as much anymore. (And yes I assume this because it has happened before and I wasn't even the one who was talking to her)
This isn't also me saying I don't like her or anything, I really enjoy her company and love how much we share in common together but I just am not good with the level of texting and conversation she wants from me.
tbh idk where I'm going with all this, I feel like I'm just ranting but I'm just feeling fatigued from conversation.
TL;DR for the entire post: I love my gf but she texts and messages me so much from morning to night that I just feel so fatigued from it. I want to have less communication overall in the relationship but I feel wrong for thinking so.

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So this is my story , I honestly need advice and for someone to understand me. Here goes nothing ! Back in 2013 I was in a relationship with a guy (Jake ) & he had a child’s mother ( Layla ) . At first I was cordial with Layla because Jake lived with me. However Jake turned out to be a HUGE whore. Well more of a bum . So a bummy whore. Layla wanted her family with him which I understood however he was my boyfriend. She would use the baby to get him to be with her while I was at work. Layla would purposefully post like they were in a relationship knowing that he lived with me . I would attempt to break up with him , he would just beg and tell me lies. I was 20 and stupid. I stayed until one day I was fed up of the back and forth and explained to Jake I was done with the back and forth between Layla & I. At that moment he put a play in action to get me pregnant. He succeeded. I was completely mortified at the fact I was now stuck with this situation. When I posted my pregnancy my car window was busted out . This is where the stalking started. I noticed every hair style I wore she would copy & the outfits , my poses for pictures. Even vacations I took with my kids . I found messages between Layla & Jake . She asked him “what is it about Sophie? That you won’t leave her alone.” My mind was blown that’s not normal for me . After I left Jake for good it didn’t matter . Layla & her friends would watch all of my social media platforms. They constantly bullied me online . Called my phone and told me they hoped my baby would be mentally challenged. Layla had her brother shoot at my new car. She told people she would come to the hospital and punch me off of the hospital bed after I gave birth. The whole time this is taking place . She’s filing restraining orders on me lying to the police trying to have me put in jail. I moved 45 minutes away to get some peace. However that didn’t last they couldn’t physically drive past my house but used social media to harass me. Any guy I was seen with Layla tried to date or even sleep with. I started dating another guy and thought I was free aside from the shade being thrown on the internet. Well that didn’t last for long because once the new guy Rick’s ex Patty caught wind they became a task force bullying me everyday. I had moved back to my town however no one knew where. One day I got fed up and beat Patty up & took her phone 🫣. What I found inside was messages talking about me , pictures of me & my house. Talking about my children and trying to get me fired from my job . Layla was telling Patty my phone number . They said they were going to bully me until I unalived myself. I broke it off with Rick after the gang came to my house and busted my windows out !
I moved on & got pregnant. I thought it was over until one day I realized it wasn’t. Layla at this point spent 6 years studying my online persona. She would tell anyone she meets I’m obsessed with her while she talked , dressed & acted like me. I gained so much weight that I got a butt she went and bought one. Layla moved 10 blocks away from me & then proceeded to move her business 5 minutes away from my house . I started seeing her a the local stores & she would pull up to the pump next to me & sit in her car watching me. After doing this 7 times & reaching out to my mother who I have no relationship with . I was served with a restraining order. I went to court & she admitted in open court that in the last year i did none of the things she stated in the paperwork which got me served in the first place . The cases was dismissed. This happened in 2023 . In 2024 , 7 months later she text me asking to meet up to talk . I did thinking finally she is ready to be an adult & let this shit go ! I was WRONG AF ! She told me I was obsessed with her and I’m crazy ! She said you think about me so much your business wouldn’t be failing if you stopped caring about me . Layla then stated she doesn’t think Is “Sophie wearing panties or a bra.” She brought up my kids and how I’m struggling. Said that she wants to know what wrong with me & “are you in a competition with me”. Brought up my daughter who she’s never seen or met in real life. She knew me & my daughter’s dad wasn’t together.
I don’t want to keep going because it’s way more ! I am scared because how long does it take for someone to move on ! Advice please!!!

I wanted to preface this by saying this occurred 7-8 years ago, when I was a sophomore in high school, and im a much different person now and not proud of who I was. Even so, the events of that semester haunt me even today, to the point that it occasionally keeps me up at night, I feel like if I get some impartial judgement on the situation I may be able to resolve some of the lingering grief. I feel like all things considered my actions were justified, but of course you will always be the protagonist fighting off the antagonists in your own story.
So it started in February 2017. I entered into an alternative high school program in my county designed to give students who couldn't otherwise function in normal schools a second chance. I had missed a few weeks due to a hospitalization earlier that year, and while my teachers had been lenient, I was having a difficult time catching back up and it was decided by my school counselors that I would be an excellent candidate for transfer.
It started off really well, I immediately was making new friends, I felt refreshed and hopeful about my new school, I really liked all my teachers, things finally felt right for the first time in awhile. Then I met a boy who i'll call "T", he was pretty cool, easy to talk to, very friendly, overall welcoming and we became friends right off the bat. I decided to get involved in extracurriculars, and T was part of the schools forensics club, which I had an interest in, so I joined up. On the trip we exchanged phone numbers, and ended up flirting over text over the next couple weeks. Eventually he asked me out and I accepted, this is where it started going downhill.
I figured dating this guy meant we would spend more time together, so we could really get to know each other, I was mistaken. I asked him to eat lunch with me, he wasn't interested, he wouldn't walk me to class or really interact with me outside of the classroom and texting. On top of this I learned some information about him over text that I will still not share because this story is still recognizable by those involved but lets just say it was a major turn off for me, I ended the relationship quickly. After that "J" and "A" his two female besties, quickly entered the scene to make my life a living hell. The initial accusation was that I led T on, and that I was trying to control him by forcing him to eat lunch with me, the truth is, I just wanted something different than what he was offering. I even told him we could still be friends. Meanwhile I was in my promiscuous phase and had many non serious flings and sugar daddy's and whatnot, this was just a run of the mill whelp that didn't work out moment for me, I was ready to move on immediately. They were not.
Rumors quickly spread about me, about me being a slut, apparently I was a prostitute and everyone seemed to know except me, and honestly I was unbothered by this. The prostitute thing was untrue, though I absolutely accepted gifts from people I talked to online, and I kinda was a slut, to be fair. Though I feel like what I do with my free time is my business, as long as im not hurting anyone, which I wasn't, not exactly the reputation I wanted but things could be much worse. I still had my friends, and I poured myself into my studies and ignited a love for STEM that I still have today.
Then one by one my friends disappeared. I would see them talking with A or J or one of their misc. associates. I was confused, because I hadn't done anything to them. I tried to talk to them, but I was blocked or laughed at, the more I was mocked and ridiculed the less confident about that whole thing I became. It wasn't just my current friends though, A kept tabs on who I was trying to befriend and snatched them up before I could clear the air. This happened with a couple people, but one in particular really hurt, i'll come back to him in a bit. I still had my best friend "M" who I had known years prior to coming to the school, she stuck around the longest, but eventually she started dating a guy from that clique, I was completely alone.
Meanwhile I was getting sneered at and laughed at, and whispered about, I would see girls I didn't know except through association with A and J who would point at me when they thought I couldn't see, and they'd lean into their friends to quitely gossip behind their hands. I tried not to see it, I found myself staring at the floor a lot.
I ended up talking to A and J and asking them to stop, I told them they were being immature (which in hindsight fanned the flames) there was no ceasefire. I ended up going to the school counselor who basically told us to be nice and did nothing to help. I talked to her 1 to 1 and explained the situation and she shrugged it off. I was growing increasingly desperate for support I wasn't receiving. I started to notice an impact to my grades, I was depressed, I couldn't focus, I was randomly tearful. I started eating lunch in a random corridor away from my peers. I wish I could have disappeared completely.
Then one day a boy transferred in from another school, a teacher asked for a volunteer to give him a tour of the building, I was chosen. His name was S. Talking to him was like a breath of fresh air, we hit it off quickly, I was so relieved to finally made a friend. We connected over history, he was a nerd like me and funny too. I went home that day and cried joyful tears, I was so excited to see him again the next day in first period, and when I walked into the room and saw A, J and him sitting together, my stomach hit the floor, we made eye contact and he just frowned and shook his head. I went to my desk and just put my head down and cried. At this point I didn't care if I was seen or not. This is the one that really got me.
A few weeks passed by, I was quietly working in biology class and I heard a dude call my name across the room, he said "OP, "D" thinks your cute!" and the group of guys laughed, I motioned the guy over, and gave him my number, I didn't have any interest in dating the guy but I really really wanted someone to talk to me. It wasn't even two hours before he was hitting it off with A.
At lunch time I went to a different counselor, one who showed more empathy to my situation. She told me I could stay in her office the rest of the day. 4th period came around and I was reeling in my head, I felt like I was a cornered animal, I was desperate for something to change. When she stepped out for a meeting I marched myself up to Spanish class, Which I shared with A, J, T, and S. I cracked the door and asked if I could speak with A in the hallway. I had the perfect speech planned, I had rehearsed a million times, that teacher said no. I told her it was incredibly important, she told me no and to get out. I looked at her, I looked at A, I stepped toward her and before I knew it she had a fist full of my hair, she was hitting me in the head while J grabbed my arms, I broke free and shoved J hard, and started punching A back but couldn't gather the momentum to do any damage as she still had my hair. The teacher who was 6 months pregnant tried to step in, I was so disoriented I shoved her away with my elbow. A male teacher came in and pulled us apart. I looked around at several cameras, faces of disgust. Sam looked at me and said "what the fuck is wrong with you?" I took my bags, and ran out into the hallway, down the stairs and was almost out of the building when the principal stopped me. I was suspended for a week.
My mom picked me up and I told her everything. We decided I would be withdrawn and I would be homeschooled the rest of high school. I eventually got my GED. I mellowed out, met my husband, and now we have a sweet baby boy. For some reason though, my heart can't handle what happened, even still it plays on a loop in my head. Everything I never got to say is still in my throat and has been since that day. Im hoping sharing this will finally put all that to rest. I want to move on, truly.
AITA?

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I just realized I made a stupid mistake and misread the USCIS guidance on Premium Processing - apparently I could of add this option - and just needed to attach the Premium Processing request form (I-907) along with a payment form - and have them process my request in 1 month.
Is it too late for me? I read on the USCIS that adding the online option for PP is not for my type of request, and it says there that the printed version should of been sent along with the I-765