Decline an invitation to an event letter

https://meetchopz.medium.com/10-bad-typography-habits-that-scream-amateur-8bac07f9c041
A short, helpful article with visuals. Not written by me.
If your website is filled with center-aligned text, understand that it's generally a bad practice to do that in most cases and project descriptions are one of those cases. There's a reason the author of the article made it his #1 bad typography habit.
Center-aligned text is generally wrong because it's harder to read, as the reader's eye has to find a new starting point for each line. Because of this, it's considered to be a bad practice, so professional designers trained in typography avoid center-aligning text – except, as someone recently pointed out here on the sub, for some special cases like wedding invitations and wine bottles, as their teacher told them.
If your portfolio descriptions are center-aligned, anyone reviewing it who's trained in typography – which will be most people – is likely to see that as a lack of training in typography or a lack of following any training the designer has had. So if you want a better chance of getting hired for a design role, left-align your project descriptions.
The other two critical issues I see violated on portfolios submitted here on this sub are Line Length and Justification.
The maximum recommended line length, and this is not just for portfolios but for any project you create, print or digital, is 75 characters per line. Once you go beyond that, the viewer struggles to read the full text and will often skim or skip paragraphs completely.
Justification is when each line of text is forced to end at the same point on the right. I don't see many portfolios themselves using justification (probably because it's not a default), I do see it done in many projects, and done poorly.
Justification can work well, but it works best with longer blocks of text, and I often see it used on very narrow text columns in 3- and 4-column layouts on LetteA4 sized pages intended for print. And in addition to justifying wider columns of text, the settings that I see used most often only add space between each word, not each character, which gives amateurish results. Again, likely the default setting being used without question.
There's nothing wrong with having a ragged right block of text (this is the term for an irregular right margin), and in many, probably most instances, it's preferred.
Also, to be clear, there's no such thing as Left Justification and Right Justification. It's Left Aligned, Right Aligned, Center Aligned, and Justified. The terms are often used incorrectly, but Justified means it's described to mean above.
What I often see is people following the defaults of whichever program or platform they're using and not questioning those defaults, which in my view is a bigger concern than any of the specific issues mentioned above. As designers, we're responsible for every element we put into our work so there's no justification (lame joke) for including elements that weren't given consideration.
Don't include images in your design without thinking about how they might be color adjusted, or cropped, or rotated, or modified in any other way to improve the results in whichever context they're being used.
Don't place a logo on a background that doesn't give good contrast without thinking about how you can modify the logo and/or the background to improve results. Maybe the background needs an overlay to make it slightly darker, or lighter, or less saturated. Maybe the logo should be all white, or all black, or all some other color, or it should get a subtle drop shadow or outer glow. Try different things and see which works best.
And don't just dump text into a program without looking at it objectively and considering how it can be modified to improve results – typeface, leading, tracking, alignment, margins, etc. If you don't know any of those terms, you should be looking them up immediately.
Typography is the core of graphic design – you can create a functional design with only type – and because of this, the use of typography in design is viewed more critically than any other element. If you follow best practices, you'll be in better shape to get hired for a design job, to get freelance clients, and to generally be viewed as a professional.

Hello again! Just here to drop a fresh post about the discord as we have new stuff going on. Almost at 400 members from all platforms!

• Since my last post, you can now involve yourself in an AOT gaming/show human curated QOTD!
• You can show off your CAC in Character Zone
• You can request help in a Joint Development channel
• Ask any question at all about either game and veterans of the games will answer in Advice Center
• Most importantly, participate in events!

Currently we're running an event for fastest to reach an S rank on Titans Among The Tree's (AOT2, TRM, Wall Maria southern area) without touching the ground! Previously we've done things like character contests, time trials, choose your own adventure books & much more.
If events like this and what I've mentioned above interests you, check the comments on the post for the invite link! We hope to see you there!

For a bit of background, I (21m) have been with my boyfriend (19m) for over a year now. He moved in with me last July, and we have been nothing but content with one another since. It started kind of slow, with us talking to each other December 2022, and our relationship went crazy from there. I love this man with my whole heart, and he loves me. But we are totally different, he is the sweetest, kindest guy who will try to do anything to appease anyone. I am the opposite (I'm not mean by any means, but I'm blunt). I don't sugarcoat anything, I am straight to the point, and I try not to beat around the bush.
Since he has moved in with me, his mom has made snarky, harsh comments on my livelihood, my personality and who I am as a person. Lately, this has been getting much worse since his mom just met someone back in November and literally married her Friday. The first interaction I had with his mom was her calling at 3pm (at the time, my boyfriend was working night shift, not getting home til 4am), so naturally he chose to sleep in. I was woken up to her screaming and cussing him out on the phone for sleeping in... And this was a slight argument between her and me because she woke me up too, and she had no right to call her son screaming and cursing him out for sleeping in.
Moving on to a month after that interaction, she started showing up out of nowhere (his family lives 2 hours away from us, so she was making an appoint to come up on his days off without notice to see him - wrecking any plans we had). Eventually, him and I got tired of it and when we confronted her about at least giving us a notice, she started threatening to kill herself...
Fast-forward to January, my boyfriend and I went on a trip with my family to Florida. It was completely paid for by my grandmother and my aunt, and his mom had nothing good to say about it. She insisted that I'm spoiled rotten and I get everything I want (I don't, this was literally a treat). We went to Florida because my aunt and grandfather passed away just a little bit before and left her and my aunt everything they owned, so in remembrance of them - we took a trip which I invited my boyfriend.
When we got back from our trip, I decided to take off from work since I have saved up a lot of money to pay my way through school to get my accounting degree.... And oh boy did his mom not like this.. Ever since I chose not to work to instead take on 5-6 classes, she has been nothing but nasty to me and about me. For the past few months she has said that I have been using her son for money, I'm a mooch, I'm lazy, I don't work worth of shit, I'm terrible, I'm abusive, etc. You name it, any insult under the sun she's said about me to him. I've tried to keep my cool about it, venting to him about how much his mom hates me and what she says isn't right. Did she forget he is living under my roof?! I door dash on the side for extra income, but I've said money since high school so I could go to college. It's always been my dream to focus on my education and studies and not worry about working a crappy dead end job.... I've told him to tell her numerous times that I don't use him for money, if anything he still owes me over a grand for me covering his expenses when he moved in with me!
Last month, she and her new fiance decided to invite him, and only him, out to lunch. I ended up getting so upset over this because I wasn't invited to an event that should've included me, and I have been with my boyfriend much longer than she's even known this woman. I ended up asking her if she has a problem with me because I wasn't invited, and she just assumed I knew I was invited (I think she deliberately didn't invite me because she doesn't like me...) It's not just the lunch invite that says this, it's the fact she's only says negative things about me, she tells him I am abusive, if she contacts me it's because she wants something from me. God forbid she texts him wanting something, she's told her son that she would kill herself if he didn't send her money.... What kind of mother.... Anyways, onto yesterday.
It got bad yesterday. I decided to try to call, and I was responded with voicemail. I wasn't mad at this point, her wife (they got married the day after I mentioned I am going to propose to my boyfriend, it's like she was trying to one up me?!) said to me that I need to work and focus on school, and I told her, "what I need to do is do what I want to do and what's best for me, not what you and his mom keep saying for me to do!" I ended up telling her if they don't fk finance or feed me than they need to stop trying to have a vote in my life because I have done nothing but support and help their son, and they have done nothing but talk crap about me... Oh this went so bad. After saying that (which, no I did not cuss her out. The only curse word I said was that saying of fk feed finance), she went ballistic. She started cursing me out, going off on me. I have never ever read so many curse words, but after she said they don't say "shit" about me this is when I got mad. After all the cursing and name calling she did, I said "say it with your fking chest." It ended up with her going off on me even more, and I told her wife to go fk herself, I don't have to put up with this. Blocked her. His mom started calling him, screaming and cursing at him that I cursed her wife out and that I'm abusive, he needs to break up with me and get out of this "toxic" relationship. I tried to call his mom once I cooled down, and I sent my boyfriend the messages because that isn't what happened whatsoever!! I texted his mom saying she needs to get her facts right, and if she's going to talk shit about me she needs to have something other than lies to stand behind. It didn't go over to well with her, and no I didn't curse her out either (because why would I? I have more self respect than to drop to their level of petty and hurtfulness!!) I have been trying so hard to be good to his mom, but I have absolutely had it with the bashing and name calling and everything else she has been putting me through....
Tonight, when he got off of work, we talked about what was happening. He agrees with me, and is going to be distancing her out of his life for a little bit... I told him that she is only hurting herself and her relationship with her son.... And that I have the final say in what she gets to be apart of, hell she won't be invited to our wedding if she doesn't apologize and make this right. And I have every right to exclude her from any events with her son because it's him and me, and she isn't going to treat me like a 2nd class citizen....
I don't know what's going to happen, but I have tried so hard to be sweet and kind to his mom. After a certain point, I can't take it anymore. I am just glad I had the texts of her and her wife cussing me out and calling me all those terrible names! And after all that, they told him I better apologize. This is such a mess, but if he loves me he'll stand by my side. And if he doesn't, I'll help him pack his bags to go home. But I'm not going to be treated like garbage, and I shouldn't have to put up with the insults, the harassment, the petty comments, all the bs she has been dishing out at me this past year.... I'm done.
Would I be the asshole if I want him to have an ultimatum with how his mother treats me? I feel that I am getting to the point of not being able to handle this anymore.

This post will be addressing Grusch’s ICIG whistleblower complaint, submitted May 2022. I feel there’s a lot of misinformation out there regarding the nature of that subsequent investigation, and it’s important to get to the actual substance of this stuff.
II’ll start with breaking down this post: * The limited jurisdiction of ICIG * How the ICIG responds to UAP claims * Confirmed statements from officials * Breaking down what Grusch has said.
The Jurisdiction & Function of the ICIG
To investigate complaints with relation to serious or flagrant problem, abuse, violation of the law or Executive order, or deficiency relating to the funding, administration, or operation of an intelligence activity..
We can refer to the ICIG statement of 12/08/2015 regarding their specific functions:

• To prevent problems and deficiencies related to the administration of programs and activities.
  
• Prohibitations [to ref ICIG’s jurisdictions] relate to such activities themselves to protect the security interests of the United States.
  

You can go through to the publications section of the ICIG website - Pages 3 & 4.
This means the core purpose of the ICIG is to investigate the professional and operational nature of intelligence programs. It’s a matter of administrative auditing, and ethical behaviour. They would not be investigating the veracity of Grusch’s whistleblower claims. It’s just not their function.
You can even go to their semi-annual reports as well where they are required to disclose or unclassify all cases.
“The ICIG shall, not later than October 21 and April 30 of each year, prepare and submit *unclassified** semi-annual reports summarizing their findings of all investigations.” Again, go to the publications section of the ICIG site.*
Even for ongoing investigations they disclose all findings to date. None of the cases summarized in any of the reporting so far verify Grusch’s claims.
Here’s an example of the March Semi-Annual 2023 report. Go down to “Reprisal Investigations”.
What officials say on Grusch’s NHI complaint in relation to the ICIG
02/08/24 Senator Marco Rubio - Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee:
Matt Laslo: ”Are we gonna hear from those people whistleblowers within the senate?”
Marco Rubio: ”There’s a whistleblower complaint filed by one of them, and, ultimately, I mean, we haven’t spent a tremendous amount of time on it lately but I was hoping that’s what AARO would”. Source
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12/04/24 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand - Chairs the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. Also sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Matt Laslo: ” Laslo asked Gillibrand, "Have you met with David Grusch yet?".
Kristen Gillibrand: ”No. We invited him to come, and I was supposed to meet with him and Dr. Kirkpatrick together. But they ultimately declined that meeting." Source.
Further.
Kristen Gillibrand: "But I can't assess them unless AARO can talk to them, because AARO knows what they know and what they've seen and what they've been shown." Source
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The ICIG vs AARO
As much as people hate on AARO here, there’s a reason why they came to be in the first place. There was a gap with regards to investigating these sorts of claims, and that was understood following the 2017 NYTimes article on Elizondo. AARO’s and the UAPTF’s function wouldn’t be a necessity if the ICIG covered this area already. There was a gap concerning UAPs that precipitated the formation of subsequent investigative bodies. AARO’s responsibility covers the matter of UAPs by the historical review legislative language of the NDAA FY23. Both the ICIG and DoDIG have deferred to them in this area already. This is specifically why the actual chairs and participants of the Intelligence Committee (Rubio & Gillibrand) have deferred to them as well. I’ll refer right back to the ICIG website where you can read for yourselves. See the following:
2023 CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
They outsource specific matters of UAPs and NHI’s via AARO’s reporting pipeline. Finally, under this particular point, I which to emphasize that there are no direct records from ICIG officials stating Grusch’s NHI findings are “urgent and credible”. As a matter of fact, it’s hard to find the Inspector General comment on the veracity of his direct claims himself. The sources for this claim come from Grusch’s associates themselves. Not direct from the ICIG.
It is true that as a matter of policy they find all complaints urgent and credible, but that is a general measure as a matter of employment misconduct. What has Grusch said on this matter
I’ll be honest, that while looking into this my automatic instinct was to blame Grusch for misleading on this matter. With that said, there are no direct statements where Grusch actually says the ICIG found his NHI claims credible. He never stated any such thing. As somebody who has experienced being misquoted, I can understand the same thing happening to Dave. Dare i say it he’s probably innocent, and we’re misquoting.
Here’s a particular quote: ”I trust in the investigative and law enforcement/criminal referral authorities ICIG has independent of DoD oversight."
Where does that leave the investigation?
I refer back to the Congressional Transcripts of the 07/26/24 Hearing. This was in relation to Grusch’s response to Anne Paula Luna:
Grusch: "I had a classified conversation [with Sean Kirkpatrick] in April 2022 before he took over AARO in July 2022 and I provided him some concerns I had....I was happy to give sage counsel to him on where to look when he took the helm of AARO."

Scriptbin
Note: This script is fine for the recorder to monetize and edit genders or other words. I will only ask for script credit, thank you!
() is for sound effects or actions
\Italics** are for emphasis/tone when speaking
... is for a pause, usually when it's the listener's turn to "reply" to a line.
Summary: You invite your rich best friend to a picnic. She is pretty reluctant at first, but after a moment bonding together, it convinces you to go out with her in an actual relationship.
Script Below:
(Speaker knocks on door)
Open up, it’s me.
(Listener opens door)
What was so important that you couldn’t go to my place? My hou- I mean, my mansion has everything you could possibly need. And don’t give me some silly excuse like your place is “homey” so you prefer it. I’ve heard it all before, and it never makes any sense.
…
You want to bond with me? As in, you’re finally asking me out after all this time? I was worried for some time that you wouldn’t, since most boys are completely head over heels for me. I’m glad you’ve finally succumbed to your urges. So do you have a love letter for me to read or did you already mail it?
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That look of confusion on your face is quite romantic, too. Oh wait, you’re not confessing to me at all, you’re actually just confused. Forget what I said, then. What do you have me doing here?
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\mocking laugh** Honestly, I think you’ve finally lost your mind. Why would I go on a picnic with you? That’s so… archaic.
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Mhm, you’re very traditional. Good for you. But that doesn’t mean you have to rope me into it.
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Because wealth means that I don’t need to be traditional. I can do whatever I want, however I want. I can take any approach I want and succeed.
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Well, my approach to bonding would start with it being like… fun? Cooking isn’t fun. It’s some chore that people have been doing since the Stone Age. I prefer sleeping, or reading books, or playing games, or literally anything other than cooking. I believe it’s boring since I have a chef. You’ve met him. Five star meals all the time. Basically anything you can imagine, he can make.
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Stop talking, you sound ridiculous. It’s food… What could possibly be fun about that? There’s not much to it aside from eating. Setting up a picnic doesn’t sound entertaining at all. It’s beneath me.
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Getting my hands ‘dirty,’ as you say, is weird to even think about. If I cut my finger in an accident, then I have to begin a lawsuit with the knife manufacturer. I’d win, of course, since my family’s lawyers are always worked to the bone on cases, but it’d be such a hassle.
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So what if cooking is a life skill? I’m rich, remember? Fine, look. I’ll try my best to assist you with this, but then we’re going to my place. Deal?
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Good. Now, where do we start?
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I don’t really know how to make sandwiches… You’re going to have to teach me.
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It’s not funny, don’t laugh at me. I never learned how to make food. I never needed to learn. If my personal chef isn’t around, those are usually the days I ask to hang out with you. You’re like a pack of rations to me.
…
Wait, I didn’t mean that in a bad way. I meant like… you’re always there when I need you. You’re basically my go-to for anything I might have trouble with. Right now, for example, I’m having trouble making a sandwich, so you’re going to show me how to make one.
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Okay, let me check the fridge. Hm? What kind of bread is this? This isn’t like the stuff I have at my house.
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It’s… normal bread? If you say so. What else do we need? Lettuce, tomatoes, meat, and some cheese. Oh, are you going vegan, by the way? I could remove some stuff if you don’t want it. I think I saw some tofu back here.
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Alright then, so here’s everything we need. It’s actually simpler than I thought to put this together.
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Wait, can I slice the sandwich? I saw this cooking show in my personal theater the other day, and they always cut their sandwiches in half. It looked more presentable, you know?
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No, I don’t just watch cooking shows because I’m jealous of their skills. They’re only a little interesting, that’s all. Like, have you ever watched Iron Chef and thought; “hey, this would be fun to make?” That’s how I feel sometimes. I know my chef would make it, but I don’t know, it feels better when you’ve gotten inspired from a show.
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Hm? I’m not rambling. Not every word I say is nonsense, you should know that better than anyone.
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Let’s finish up these sandwiches and put them in the picnic basket.
(Brief pause, listener is teaching speaker how to use a knife)
And here it is. Two decent sandwiches, evenly cut. Thanks for teaching me how to use a knife, by the way. I know I don’t say that often, but I really do appreciate your kindness. Sometimes I feel like I should say nicer things to you, but my pride gets in the way.
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Just because I’m rich doesn’t mean I understand how people feel. I thought that was obvious when you first met me. I was such a moron. I don’t know why I thought I could tease you by flaunting my net worth. But, at least it’s in the past. I’m much more comfortable to be with you now.
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Anyway, before this gets any more embarrassing for me to talk about, I’m going to put in some snacks and drinks. What else do you think we should add to this basket?
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I haven’t had fruit salad in a while. Don’t make the whole thing without me though, I want to help.
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Alright, making a picnic basket is a little fun, I’ll give you that. I thought it’d be far less interesting. I’m a bit impressed with how low-budget this can be, too. I can’t believe picnics can be this cheap to set up.
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W-well yeah, I know not everything needs to be expensive. Duh. I’m just not used to it being… not expensive at the same time. That doesn’t make me spoiled, by the way. I simply haven’t gotten the time to be as cultured or whatever as you are. I think it’s because you’re really cute, so it helps me learn faster.
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What’s wrong? I’m just telling you how I feel. I did say that I should start trying to say nicer things to you. You’re cute, so I ended up admitting it!
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I don’t know why your cheeks are all red, but at least we’re done with the fruit salad. Is it alright if we go to the picnic spot? For once, I don’t feel like calling up my chauffeur. If it’s close, maybe we can walk together.
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Oh, good, it’s just down the street. You’re carrying the basket, though. I can’t be seen touching such a thing in public.
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Wait, hold on. Don’t be upset with me. I don’t want to cancel this picnic. I’ll carry it, alright? God…
(Brief pause, listener and speaker are walking)
Out of all the picnic baskets you could buy, why’d you pick this color? It’s so embarrassing. Did you see that old lady call me “princess” on the way here? I feel really awkward for once.
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Shush. It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t “adorable” either. I feel like I lost some of my confidence.
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That’s-that’s not a good thing! Please just help me set everything up on the picnic blanket instead of taunting me. Thank you.
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So… are you happy now? You convinced me to actually hang out here with you. The scenery is a little romantic, and it’s at least up to my standards. \sigh** I’d love to get a boyfriend to see this kind of place with.
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Mm, finding the right person is hard. They can’t be a complete idiot for starters. They need to be charming, and pretty, and a lot of other stuff. Rich girls like me have a lot of preferences. It'd be great if they were someone like you. It’s so annoying that you’re not into me, though. If you were, I’d be all over you, and this could be a date.
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Of course I want you. I’d give up every bit of money I had just to be closer to you! What made you think I wasn’t in love? I know sometimes I can give off mixed signals, but I still was hoping that you’d be willing to… court me?
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If this means you’d give me a chance, then yes. I promise to be a bit more humble from now on. That means more picnic dates like this, right? Or that one time you wanted to go to the museum with me but I declined. I’m up for things like that now. I might like them as much as I enjoyed being out here today.
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Now, can we go to my mansion? There’s this new film we got for the theater that I’d really love for you to watch with me…

Hey
So I’m a surgical nurse. Sometimes my schedule is awesome and sometimes it can get busy. It’s a part of the job haha.
Anyways,it haven’t really affected much about our relationship so far. I attend all her family events and gatherings I get invited to. And we spend a lot of time together during the week or weekend both. I always find time to be with her.
Now next weekend is her parents birthday party on Saturday. I’ve been working a lot these past two weeks but that’s mainly because I asked for a couple days off during that weekend and on Friday too so we can help with prep if needed.
Today I woke up to a call from my boss. My coworker’s mom suddenly died. I’m 28 this coworker is around 30. Her mom was still a young healthy woman. But they were out by a swimming pool and she had a heart attack if I understood it correctly. They did CPR on her with paramedics for an hour but unfortunately it didn’t help. My boss asked me to come in this Wednesday in stead of this coworker. I said yes of course that’s not an issue give her all the time she needs to grief. This coworker also has a Sunday shift. And I said in case no one can take that shift (we are seriously understaffed) I can come in but I’ll be after the party so maybe a bit tired hah. It could work, I’d just have to leave the party early which starts in the afternoon. Like I would leave around midnight to get a couple hours of sleep.
But since that call my gf was cold to me. Telling me there’s no way I’m taking Sunday shift etc. I tried to explain there’s only a very minimal chance I will have to. But in case I have to I will obviously cover for this person. This coworker is one of the few people that always helped me when I needed help.
Whole morning was terrible. She was angry and I told her she’s being selfish. That stuff like this happens and we need be at least a bit empathetic. Then she went off at me saying my boss isn’t stupid for doing what she can to keep me from leaving for a different hospital. Because I’m always ready to come in work and I’m always doing all the work that has to be done at work without complaining etc. Basically calling me a pushover. Which I’m very far from I’m pretty well respected by all the senior doctors because I speak my mind always and stand up for myself and others. After listening to this and arguing about me helping someone whose mom just died, I got angry too. Told her I got enough of this selfish behavior. This isn’t the first time she’s like this. For example we only been to two events on my family side. And both times I saw my brothers after a long time and we would be having fun and she’d keep hurrying me to go home. And then she would make a scene in front of my family because at 6 pm I wanted to stay an hour longer.
Then she went to leave my place. And so I just said okay I’m done dealing with this. And let her leave. I haven’t been responding to her texts since but she’s saying she feels like anything she does is always bad in my eyes etc. And I was just thinking, did I overreact?
TLDR: AITAH for calling her selfish after she got mad I said I will cover a shift for a coworker whose mom died unexpectedly ? Did I overreact?

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I live in El SalvadoCanada/Colombia/USA, why are you posting on a Saturday?!
Because I'm writing this from Europe in the future where it's already Sunday. Timezones be crazy.
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Because the Tabletop games category on Kickstarter includes anything remotely related to board games and sometimes things slip through my filters.
Why is this future award winning board game and literal saviour of humanity missing from your list?
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Name	Description	Backers	Pledged	Ends	Information	Tags	BGG
Rebirth: Limited Edition	A brand new, tile-laying game from Reiner Knizia, set in a lush and hopeful future.	5552	€265,854.00 (1329%) in 19 days	2024-06-12	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 45-60 min.	🎉💰🔥🌳	BGG
Feudum	Game-of-the-year winner, Feudum is back with the 7th anniversary collector's edition featuring an exclusive clockwork behemoth! Grrrrrrrrrr.	2679	$354,257.05 (1417%) in 26 days	2024-06-14	💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑5 players ⏱️ 150 min. Area Control	💰🌱
Hex Effects: A Spellbinding Card Game	Hex Effects is a “take that” card game that involves beautiful artwork and easy-to-pick-up gameplay. From the makers of Side Effects!	1413	$55,457.00 (462%) in 24 days	2024-06-14	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑8 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 20-40 min.	🎉💰	BGG
How to Save a World	Three desperate plans. One small chance... to save a world.	1216	CA$114,038.00 (190%) in 19 days	2024-06-13	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 60-90 min.	🎉💰🌳	BGG
Village Pillage: Big Box + New Expansion	Magic makes its way to Village Pillage in the fourth and final expansion to the critically acclaimed game!	1090	$60,172.00 (301%) in 19 days	2024-06-15	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑5 players ⏱️ 15-30 min.	💰🌳	BGG
BERSERKERS : Chaos Extension by Alone Editions	Berserkers is Back !	972	€26,872.00 (413%) in 24 days	⚠️ 2024-06-09	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌳
Big Sur, Grand Central Skyport, Sand Art, & Wine Cellar	Mix and match your pledge from four new games across a variety of styles, themes, and player counts to elevate your next game night.	893	$42,936.00 (429%) in 12 days	2024-06-14	💸 Kickstarter	🎉💰🌳
🍁 Masters of Maple Syrup & Downstream 🛶	Manage a maple farm and explore the riverbank in these cozy, pocket-sized games for two!	835	CA$47,616.00 (595%) in 19 days	2024-06-10	💸 Kickstarter	💰
Greenlight	A game for people who will never make it in Hollywood.	829	$45,269.00 (453%) in 33 days	2024-06-10	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌱
Thorgal: The card game	Thorgal: Card Game, where strategy meets destiny in a thrilling card-based adventure	761	€40,864.00 (409%) in 19 days	2024-06-11	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 45-90 min.	💰	BGG
The Big Bad Wolf	Based on The 3 Little Pigs! Secretly pass the "Big Bad Wolf" then Entice & Persuade players into flipping it, to Blow Down their house!	570	$12,768.00 (365%) in 26 days	2024-06-13	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 15-35 min.	🎉💰🌱	BGG
Catstronauts: The Board Game	The cooperative boardgame based on the hit graphic novels!	492	$31,506.00 (630%) in 26 days	2024-06-14	💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 8+ ⏱️ 30 min.	💰🌳	BGG
TOOTHEAD	Let's Get Ready To Rumble!!! Sneaky moves and a lot of fighting in an innocent setting. A family-friendly game, also great for parties!	448	€29,744.00 (372%) in 33 days	2024-06-10	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑8 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 40-180 min.	🎉💰🌱	BGG
Amsterdam Board Game Design - season 1	Three fun card games by different members of ABGD: Bable, Grachtenpand, & TimeZoo. May this be the first season of many!	419	€11,900.00 (397%) in 27 days	2024-06-13	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌱
Guns of the Old West	Players compete in solo/co-op play or as a team with over 100 campaign paths. Each playthrough is a unique cinematic experience offering endless replayability. Players make strategic decisions and interact with each other to achieve their group and secret individual objectives, some of which involve…	299	£53,400.50 (107%) in 26 days	2024-06-11	💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑8 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 45-90 min. Card Game Wargame Dice Game Area Control Cooperative	💰🌱	BGG
DVG - Mustang Leader	The WWII Air War Over Europe Solitaire Game!	284	$54,294.00 (271%) in 19 days	2024-06-12	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌳
GotchaCards: a rock-paper-scissors card game!	a thrilling RPS dueling card game for all ages by Pat Casao & pabloKM	278	$15,972.00 (86%) in 31 days	2024-06-15	💸 Kickstarter	🌱
EXPENDABLE EMPLOYEES	A Cooperative Miniature Skirmish-Extraction Game Inspired by Lethal Company, Content Warning & Helldivers 2!	269	CA$6,390.00 (256%) in 24 days	2024-06-15	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌳
Dabba Walla	The famous Dabba Walla invite everyone to join them on their daily journey through Mumbai!	250	$14,400.00 (288%) in 5 days	2024-06-13	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 8+ ⏱️ 30-45 min.	🎉💰🌳	BGG
The Thinning Veil Cormac Mac Airt on the Other Side of Midnight	A solo dungeon crawl now featuring a 2 player mode set in the world of The Thinning Veil, and featuring Cormac Mac Airt, High King of Inis Fael! This game is the first in the Thinning Veil line and the Cormac series.	243	£34,126.74 (1706%) in 26 days	2024-06-11	💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑2 players ⏱️ 90 min. Dice Game	💰
Freak War: A Card Game	A fun and simple pick-up-and-play card game—with unhinged rules and a hidden layer of intense strategy.	227	$15,544.00 (155%) in 26 days	2024-06-13	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 6+ ⏱️ 15-60 min.	🎉💰	BGG
Dice Tales: Knight's Adventures	Become mighty Knight, live exciting adventures in this solo sandbox print and play roll and write board game with a dose of strategy.	226	€3,030.00 (3030%) in 10 days	2024-06-13	💸 Kickstarter 👥 1 player 👶 10+ ⏱️ 20-30 min.	💰🌱	BGG
One Hour World War II	A fast playing game of all of World War II for 2 players. Actions and Reactions drive the game. Plays in....wait for it.....1 hour.	224	$20,955.00 (1080%) in 8 days	2024-06-15	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌳
The 7 Seas: A New Start	Embark on a thrilling adventure in the world of The 7 Seas. Explore, trade, and fight to become a legend!	218	€20,600.20 (206%) in 24 days	⚠️ 2024-06-09	💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑5 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 30-90 min.	💰	BGG
The Dream of Gods: An Interactive Mystery Game	Speak with gods. Solve puzzles. Uncover secrets. An interactive mystery book with audio, puzzles and visuals.	201	€12,151.00 (608%) in 25 days	2024-06-14	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌱
Of Popes & Plagues	The Game of Plague & Pestilence in the Middle Ages	183	$7,890.00 (158%) in 33 days	⚠️ 2024-06-09	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑6 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 20-60 min.	💰🌱	BGG
Scare BnB - Spooky family fun for all ages!	Help guests flee from a Bed and Breakfast run by monsters!	142	$2,938.00 (94%) in 19 days	2024-06-11	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 5+ ⏱️ 15-30 min.	🌱	BGG
El Camino de Belén (The Journey to Bethlehem)	The game that brings families together. Up to 4 teams, the first to get to Bethlehem wins! The game comes in English and Spanish.	111	$10,384.00 (103%) in 30 days	⚠️ 2024-06-09	💸 Kickstarter	💰
WARLINE x Dragons War	Design the battlefield. Design your army. Design custom tactics. Craft your own path to victory in this sandbox fantasy warfare game. Now, Warline's head-to-head "Strategicraft" gameplay is bolstered with the new solo or cooperative army-versus-dragon expansion—Dragons War.	99	$10,085.15 (81%) in 10 days	2024-06-16	💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑4 players ⏱️ 45 min. Wargame Cooperative

New this week (28)

Name	Description	Backers	Pledged	Ends	Information	Tags	BGG
Grimcoven	Discover our new boss battler game for 1-4 players, set in a dark Victorian universe where only the hunt matters. In the unique tactical gameplay of Grimcoven, you take up the role of a hunter fueled by Lament.	9366	$1,795,810.67 (3592%) in 3 days	2024-06-27	💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 90-270 min. Cooperative	💰🔥🌳	BGG
RETURN TO THE 7th CITADEL. Explore, build, YOU are the hero!	Get ready for new adventures in the Collapsing Lands! 1000+ minutes of exploration and adventure for 1 to 4 slave-gardeners.	8031	€837,720.00 (1077%) in 5 days	2024-06-19	💸 Kickstarter	🎉💰🔥
🧁 Apothebakery - The Culinary Alchemists	Forage resources, brew elixirs and bake cakes of salvation to heal adventurers on the brink of doom in this game for 1 – 4 players.	3870	£286,958.00 (820%) in 5 days	2024-06-28	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60-90 min.	🎉💰🔥🌱	BGG
Mythic Battles: Isfet	Explore Ancient Egypt or Norse Mythology, commanding gods, heroes, monsters and troops in this 2-4 player skirmish adventure game!	3288	€627,108.00 (314%) in 5 days	2024-06-21	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 60-90 min.	🎉💰🔥🌳	BGG
Mine Turtle: It’s a blast!	An explosive game of truth or dare.	2655	£98,122.00 (981%) in 6 days	2024-07-03	💸 Kickstarter	🎉💰🔥
Secret Villages & Santa's Workshop (+Related Story Puzzles!)	The first expansion to Merchants of the Dark Road, plus a deluxe edition of Santa's Workshop and our first two story-driven puzzles!	2289	$146,525.00 (488%) in 5 days	2024-06-22	💸 Kickstarter	💰🔥🌳
Agemonia Reprint + New Heroes!	From the publisher of Eclipse, a fully co-operative board game with challenging moral choices, set in an epic campaign for 1-4 players!	1924	€161,398.00 (461%) in 5 days	2024-06-21	💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 60-120 min.	🎉💰🔥	BGG
Yokai Septet Pocket Edition	Fan favorite trick-taking game is back with a smaller footprint and an official inclusion of 2-player mode!	945	$15,535.00 (518%) in 5 days	2024-06-21	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌳
Port Royal	A Miniature Skirmish Game set in the Searover's Caribbean	558	$72,324.00 (482%) in 4 days	2024-07-05	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌳
Pillars of Heracles - Awaken the Legends!	Lead your city-state through a monumental adventure in Ancient Greece in this epic civilization board game for 1-4 players.	517	$42,151.00 (211%) in 5 days	2024-06-24	💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 90-120 min.	💰	BGG
Imperfect Crimes: Pop-Up Escape Book	Solve an immersive, 3D PopUp Book crime escape game. Find clues, solve puzzles and explore each crime scene filled with hidden secrets.	463	€44,896.00 (180%) in 4 days	2024-07-08	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌳
Operation Barclay	Operation Barclay is a two-player game of low/medium complexity about the intelligence war between the Allies and their Abwehr counterparts in the Mediterranean theater in 1942-1943.	461	€15,244.85 (191%) in 3 days	2024-07-04	💸 Gamefound 👥 2 players 👶 10+ ⏱️ 25-40 min. Card Game	💰🌳	BGG
2GM Tactics 🔥 France & Total War	2GM Tactics series expansions. Fight in World War II! And become the best General.	368	€20,878.00 (418%) in 5 days	2024-06-28	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌳
Fluffy Dragons	A bluffing game, where you'll use the force of the elements to fight your Fluffiest enemies to collect the most gems!	357	$16,827.00 (224%) in 5 days	2024-06-29	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌱
Bunny Boom	Bunny Boom is a strategic game of bunny infestation! Manage actions, place cards, and pass the bunnies to your opponents to end the game with the fewest bunnies! 🐰💥	310	CA$28,728.43 (144%) in 5 days	2024-06-27	💸 Gamefound 👥 2‑4 players 👶 12+ ⏱️ 15-45 min. Card Game	💰	BGG
Cyberpunk RED: Combat Zone™ - RePrint and Vehicle MAYHEM	An introduction of vehicles to the Combat Zone featuring the Zetatech Herakles, sleek cyber-bikes, and more!	310	$83,971.00 (280%) in 4 days	2024-06-28	💸 Kickstarter	🎉💰🌳
Clash - D-Day Special edition	Get ready for an immersive World War II experience, during the D-Day landings in Normandy, 1944. 'Clash - D-Day Special edition' is an accessible, turn-based, tile-laying board game for 2 players. You and your opponent will have to fight for every beachhead to win this war. This special 80th commem…	308	€25,105.99 (279%) in 6 days	2024-07-03	💸 Gamefound 👥 2 players ⏱️ 45 min. Wargame Area Control	💰🌱
The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow for Liminal Horror	The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow is a sandbox investigation for Liminal Horror.	285	$12,340.00 (123%) in 5 days	2024-07-05	💸 Backerkit	💰
Dabba Walla	The famous Dabba Walla invite everyone to join them on their daily journey through Mumbai!	250	$14,400.00 (288%) in 5 days	2024-06-13	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 8+ ⏱️ 30-45 min.	🎉💰🌳	BGG
CASSETTE DUNGEONS!	A compact rogue-like dungeon crawl board game through a realm of metal and madness packed in a cassette tape case!	196	$2,955.00 (197%) in 6 days	2024-07-03	💸 Kickstarter 👥 1 player 👶 13+ ⏱️ 5-45 min.	💰🌱	BGG
X: Seekers of Fortune | An Action-Packed Adventure Card Game	Hunt for lost relics and legendary sites while performing heroic feats to outfox your rivals in this tcg-like strategy card game.	191	$12,328.00 (123%) in 5 days	2024-07-01	💸 Kickstarter 👥 2‑4 players 👶 14+ ⏱️ 20-40 min.	🎉💰🌱	BGG
NAWALLI: The Aztec Card Game (Second Edition)	A strategic lane battle game based on Aztec mythology - become a Nawalli Sorcerer summoning Nawals and Spells to dominate the Arena!	129	$8,198.00 (410%) in 3 days	2024-07-06	💸 Kickstarter	💰
Paw of Duty	Command a kitty squad to regain control of a war-torn city.	102	$2,832.00 (189%) in 5 days	2024-07-04	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌱
TomeBound	The Game of Strategic Sorcery	77	$4,686.00 (134%) in 2 days	2024-07-07	💸 Kickstarter	💰🌱
Order of the Day: Normandy	A boardgame of the D-Day invasion, June 6, 1944, playable by inexperienced or veteran boardgamers.	60	$2,744.00 (62%) in 3 days	2024-07-06	💸 Kickstarter 👥 1‑2 players 👶 12+ ⏱️ 45-120 min.	🌳	BGG
Wrestling Cubes	A unique abstract strategy game about pinning your opponent's cubes.	51	$2,102.00 (42%) in 2 days	2024-07-07	💸 Kickstarter
Fantasy Adventure Game LIGHT AND DARKNESS	Embark on a journey full of dangers, random locations, random encounters, watch out for traps, hunt animals, heal the sick, pay for services, trade. Enter the darkness and explore ruins, caves, or undergrounds. Keep your team in mind and meet their basic needs of thirst, craving, and sleep.	19	PLN 5,227.50 (7%) in 6 days	2024-08-03	💸 Gamefound 👥 1‑3 players ⏱️ 180 min.	🌱
Top Line Hockey	A fast paced table top hockey game that fits on a piece of paper.	18	$605.00 (151%) in 1 days	2024-07-08	💸 Kickstarter	💰

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Name	Description	Backers	Pledged	Ends	Information	Tags
DC20	The Next Great Evolution in Fantasy TTRPGs: A Fresh System with Epic Combat, Intuitive Gameplay, and Characters as Unique as Your Group	10643	$1,109,228.00 (5546%) in 5 days	2024-07-02	💸 Kickstarter	🎉💰🔥
Blade Runner RPG: Replicant Rebellion & Asset Pack	Fight back against Replicant oppression in this major expansion to the award-winning BLADE RUNNER RPG from Free League Publishing.	4134	SEK 3,612,769.00 (1445%) in 12 days	2024-06-13	💸 Kickstarter	🎉💰🔥🌳
Mörderin by John Blanche	John Blanche presents a new range of 32mm grimdark femmes miniatures based upon his artwork.	1733	£53,911.00 (2696%) in 4 days	2024-06-12	💸 Kickstarter	💰🔥🌱
Mörk Borg Action Figure w/ Zine by Stockholm Kartell	Dread Risen - A fully articulated Mörk Borg Action Figure w/ Zine by Johan and Pelle of Stockholm Kartell	1199	$104,799.00 (210%) in 40 days	2024-06-11	💸 Kickstarter	🎉💰🌳

For a bit of background, I (21m) have been with my boyfriend (19m) for over a year now. He moved in with me last July, and we have been nothing but content with one another since. It started kind of slow, with us talking to each other December 2022, and our relationship went crazy from there. I love this man with my whole heart, and he loves me. But we are totally different, he is the sweetest, kindest guy who will try to do anything to appease anyone. I am the opposite (I'm not mean by any means, but I'm blunt). I don't sugarcoat anything, I am straight to the point, and I try not to beat around the bush.
Since he has moved in with me, his mom has made snarky, harsh comments on my livelihood, my personality and who I am as a person. Lately, this has been getting much worse since his mom just met someone back in November and literally married her Friday. The first interaction I had with his mom was her calling at 3pm (at the time, my boyfriend was working night shift, not getting home til 4am), so naturally he chose to sleep in. I was woken up to her screaming and cussing him out on the phone for sleeping in... And this was a slight argument between her and me because she woke me up too, and she had no right to call her son screaming and cursing him out for sleeping in.
Moving on to a month after that interaction, she started showing up out of nowhere (his family lives 2 hours away from us, so she was making an appoint to come up on his days off without notice to see him - wrecking any plans we had). Eventually, him and I got tired of it and when we confronted her about at least giving us a notice, she started threatening to kill herself...
Fast-forward to January, my boyfriend and I went on a trip with my family to Florida. It was completely paid for by my grandmother and my aunt, and his mom had nothing good to say about it. She insisted that I'm spoiled rotten and I get everything I want (I don't, this was literally a treat). We went to Florida because my aunt and grandfather passed away just a little bit before and left her and my aunt everything they owned, so in remembrance of them - we took a trip which I invited my boyfriend.
When we got back from our trip, I decided to take off from work since I have saved up a lot of money to pay my way through school to get my accounting degree.... And oh boy did his mom not like this.. Ever since I chose not to work to instead take on 5-6 classes, she has been nothing but nasty to me and about me. For the past few months she has said that I have been using her son for money, I'm a mooch, I'm lazy, I don't work worth of shit, I'm terrible, I'm abusive, etc. You name it, any insult under the sun she's said about me to him. I've tried to keep my cool about it, venting to him about how much his mom hates me and what she says isn't right. Did she forget he is living under my roof?! I door dash on the side for extra income, but I've said money since high school so I could go to college. It's always been my dream to focus on my education and studies and not worry about working a crappy dead end job.... I've told him to tell her numerous times that I don't use him for money, if anything he still owes me over a grand for me covering his expenses when he moved in with me!
Last month, she and her new fiance decided to invite him, and only him, out to lunch. I ended up getting so upset over this because I wasn't invited to an event that should've included me, and I have been with my boyfriend much longer than she's even known this woman. I ended up asking her if she has a problem with me because I wasn't invited, and she just assumed I knew I was invited (I think she deliberately didn't invite me because she doesn't like me...) It's not just the lunch invite that says this, it's the fact she's only says negative things about me, she tells him I am abusive, if she contacts me it's because she wants something from me. God forbid she texts him wanting something, she's told her son that she would kill herself if he didn't send her money.... What kind of mother.... Anyways, onto yesterday.
It got bad yesterday. I decided to try to call, and I was responded with voicemail. I wasn't mad at this point, her wife (they got married the day after I mentioned I am going to propose to my boyfriend, it's like she was trying to one up me?!) said to me that I need to work and focus on school, and I told her, "what I need to do is do what I want to do and what's best for me, not what you and his mom keep saying for me to do!" I ended up telling her if they don't fk finance or feed me than they need to stop trying to have a vote in my life because I have done nothing but support and help their son, and they have done nothing but talk crap about me... Oh this went so bad. After saying that (which, no I did not cuss her out. The only curse word I said was that saying of fk feed finance), she went ballistic. She started cursing me out, going off on me. I have never ever read so many curse words, but after she said they don't say "shit" about me this is when I got mad. After all the cursing and name calling she did, I said "say it with your fking chest." It ended up with her going off on me even more, and I told her wife to go fk herself, I don't have to put up with this. Blocked her. His mom started calling him, screaming and cursing at him that I cursed her wife out and that I'm abusive, he needs to break up with me and get out of this "toxic" relationship. I tried to call his mom once I cooled down, and I sent my boyfriend the messages because that isn't what happened whatsoever!! I texted his mom saying she needs to get her facts right, and if she's going to talk shit about me she needs to have something other than lies to stand behind. It didn't go over to well with her, and no I didn't curse her out either (because why would I? I have more self respect than to drop to their level of petty and hurtfulness!!) I have been trying so hard to be good to his mom, but I have absolutely had it with the bashing and name calling and everything else she has been putting me through....
Tonight, when he got off of work, we talked about what was happening. He agrees with me, and is going to be distancing her out of his life for a little bit... I told him that she is only hurting herself and her relationship with her son.... And that I have the final say in what she gets to be apart of, hell she won't be invited to our wedding if she doesn't apologize and make this right. And I have every right to exclude her from any events with her son because it's him and me, and she isn't going to treat me like a 2nd class citizen....
I don't know what's going to happen, but I have tried so hard to be sweet and kind to his mom. After a certain point, I can't take it anymore. I am just glad I had the texts of her and her wife cussing me out and calling me all those terrible names! And after all they told him I better apologize. This is such a mess, but if he loves me he'll stand by my side. And if he doesn't, I'll help him back his bags to go home. But I'm not going to be treated like garbage, and I shouldn't have to put up with the insults, the harassment, the petty comments, all the bs she has been dishing out at me this past year.... I'm done.

So the story goes like this: My ex best friend F31 asked me F23 to come stay with her because she lives closer to where we had our internship although i had my space well equipped .and i did , and during that time i was going with my bfM32 from back then, things went wrong we broke up and i wanted to recover my belongings from his space , he didn't care even after many times s i asked him ,so one day he did agree ro bring em to me and i was having a walk by the beach with my exfriend , he came drunk and his friend was drunk,and before we knew that we had to get in the car because he was in the middle of the road, my ex friend nd had to call her dude M32 to come save us from this weird situation before we get SAed . He came and kept on asking me about the dude and i was very responsive because i felt like he hd the right to know since he saved us . He drove us back at her place i thanked him and he and went first to let them have a private convo . 5minutes later she joined me saying that he had something to do and he went . And for the records this guy is her ex . She already has a bf that lives thats was back then in a different country so it was our only option . The next 2 days , he kept asking her about me alot like crazy and she only mentioned that without telling me her responses. And i didn't give it much thoughts because she was my friend and i trusted her . Afew days later we got an invitation to an event 3 hours away from our city and we (girls) didn't feel safe to go alone so we thought we should bring with us someone(a guy) from the same field to keep an eye on us and it was my suggestion to call him since he was very protective and handled the situation well he seemed decent and worked where we had the internship. She talked to him(via messages ) and didn't wanna sound desperate trying to find reasons to call so she asked me to him -she said that i wanted to tell him something i talked to him(in a call) in front of her told him exactly just about the event and she took the phone went to the kitchen and finished talking . She came back saying he said he will see his shifts and will let us know asap . Again she said i dont want him texting me ,i already took his consent to share his number . Send him a message to tell him it's u so he will let u know if he is going or not . That conversation happened but it didn't end there he kept having a conversation about random stuff while my ex friend had access to the conversation and told me what to answer sometimes, at a certain level she said from now on i don't wanna know your conversation anymore yall seem very compatible and im just gonna tell u (me) this from a friend to another , he is a bad person manipulator ...telling me all the bad things he is , and that she's only warning me because im her friend and she cares about me. I was like girl do u have feelings for him and she went like no im just scared for you he knows how to talk . I had this conversation with her 10 times exactly and each and every time she was like know to me he is trash knowing that she is already with someone.
Now is where the weird behavior started , she started talking less with me , avoiding eye contact but she has always had a similar phase where she just hates u for no reason so i was like it must be it ignored her behavior until one day i told her that i wanted to check on my house it has been more than a month and i decided to sleep at my place ,texted her the morning im on my way to your house so we can go together to work like we do every day and she was like didn't sleep at my place just go without me . I did and then she started telling me about an aunt and how she met her cousins and stuff and she had fun while i know she has no aunt in the city ,i didn't wanna go hard on her and acted like i believed ed it . After we finished the shift i asked her about going to her place to recover some papers i had there and again she was like im going to have lunch with my aunt ,im not gonna be at home but ill be that at this hour if you want to come pick the things you need , i understood that she no longer wanted me there but maybe it's because of her room mates maybe she is running low on money maybe she just want some alone time although i wasn't intending to stay this long at her place she begged me every single le time to stay and not go and that i had nothing to fo there alone , i passed by a day later to take some of my stuff i couldn't nt take everything ng because i dont have a car and thanked her for her hospitality and left . During all of this time i was still talking to the dude very casually until ill one day he was like don't disappear for a long period of time and from that day on we had a continuous conversation but still very decent . Until one day we have met and he was like i can sense that we are not going to be just friend but u (me) keep lying to urself, nothing happened but we did agree that being friend is not enough for how much we are compatible in an implicit way nothing was directly said . I kept my relationship with her very normal when i met her at work because im not a fan of drama at work but she is so the next thing after kicking me out of her house is causing me problems with the supervisor complaining to him about how i just waste time and dont work and when i confronted her about it was all manipulative answers like u shouldn't have this much of a reaction don't raise your hands while talking i just left the argument because i didn't t wanna cause a scene at work .
Things with the dude are going slow and healthy she was right about some stuff but the majority was wrong not that it didn't happen between thembut because they didn't match it was always them fighting over the tiniest details .
Later on the dude started asking me about when did my parents get divorced and my financial crisis thing thats were never mentioned before in front on of me and no one took my consent to share -so basically she was telling everyone at work , him and her roommates that i was going through tough times and that i had to stay with her because she is helping me financially- and speaking about my parents they have divorced when i was 2 i was used to having my mom only and she did a great job providing like he didn't even have a space im my memory or my brain idk why she decided to mention that and make me look petty . She has also said that im in a huge fight with my older sister which is not true . I had to explain everything to the dude Also he asked me about how i feel now that we are going out out together knowing that she was my friend and stuff i also explained to him how i talked to her about this and how does she feel ,and he interrupted me saying we have only met a couple of times in the car we never went in a date. she is not my ex and it could be possible that she has feeling for me.
Me and the dude are having a stable relationship rn and idk how to feel about it please give ne ur analysis of this situation !

Hi, A guy ghosted me for 13 months which hurt since I am new in this country and have few friends. Recently, I run into him and confronted him. He apologized explaining that he felt I was organizing romantic events while he was only interested in a friendship. He offered a diner to apologize for events he cancelled.
The next day I run into him again and he was a bit flirty. I told him that he should avoid doing this given the context and to ask Veronica ( his female friend). I also told him that I want to invite a common male friend (A) to join us for the dinner. He looked puzzled and said he expected the dinner to be just the two of us to rekinkle. I explained it was the best decision for the best of us and told him to ask Veronica . He said there is nothing between Veronica and him. he suddenly got extremely angry and told me I should apologize because bringing Veronica is rude and if I do not apologize he will cancel the dinner. I tried to explain calmly that there was nothing rude there and I am sorry if I hurt him even though that was not the intention. And then he said I should apologize to both Veronica and him. I suggest bringing our friend A to the dinner so we can sort it out since he is an unbiased person. Then he said he is not interested to hang out with me and to be my friend if we have to bring other people to this situation. He added he is no longer interested in the dinner and will be available to chat in 2 weeks. I made him realize that he is mad at me bringing X because he thinks it implies that he or X might be in love of each other but he thought that I was in love with him and ghosted me without even giving me the chance to answer. Wasn’t I a friend too ? Then he answered : may be we were friends at one point but he is not interested to be my friend or hang out with me if this is the way I talk or if I can not act like a normal person. I thanked him and once I left , I cancelled the dinner and sent a last message saying that it became quite clear that he never considered me a friend and is not interested in behaving like one. I then blocked him.
My rationales for blocking him were: 1. He presumed something about me, acted on it and hurt me without even giving me the chance to know why. But he is hurt and ready to end a friendship once someone impies the same with him. 2. His overreaction and The condescending tone were revealing. It felt like he was saying : you need more this dinner or this friendship than I do so even if I treat you like shit you’re going to remain 3. I felt like it became a matter of self-respect. I felt that keeping being friend or friendly will only portray me as someone who does not respect herself. I block him to move on and to take my power back.
I called our male friend A because I wanted to talk to someone and A told me he asked to call him as well. Why calling A if he does not want to bring someone else to the conversation?
Anyway, he is the first friend I blocked in my life. So I feel a bit guilty. Was I right ? What to do from here ? (2/2)

So the story goes like this: My ex best friend F31 asked me F23 to come stay with her because she lives closer to where we had our internship although i had my space well equipped .and i did , and during that time i was going with my bfM32 from back then, things went wrong we broke up and i wanted to recover my belongings from his space , he didn't care even after many times s i asked him ,so one day he did agree ro bring em to me and i was having a walk by the beach with my exfriend , he came drunk and his friend was drunk,and before we knew that we had to get in the car because he was in the middle of the road, my ex friend nd had to call her dude M32 to come save us from this weird situation before we get SAed . He came and kept on asking me about the dude and i was very responsive because i felt like he hd the right to know since he saved us . He drove us back at her place i thanked him and he and went first to let them have a private convo . 5minutes later she joined me saying that he had something to do and he went . And for the records this guy is her ex . She already has a bf that lives thats was back then in a different country so it was our only option . The next 2 days , he kept asking her about me alot like crazy and she only mentioned that without telling me her responses. And i didn't give it much thoughts because she was my friend and i trusted her . Afew days later we got an invitation to an event 3 hours away from our city and we (girls) didn't feel safe to go alone so we thought we should bring with us someone(a guy) from the same field to keep an eye on us and it was my suggestion to call him since he was very protective and handled the situation well he seemed decent and worked where we had the internship. She talked to him(via messages ) and didn't wanna sound desperate trying to find reasons to call so she asked me to him -she said that i wanted to tell him something i talked to him(in a call) in front of her told him exactly just about the event and she took the phone went to the kitchen and finished talking . She came back saying he said he will see his shifts and will let us know asap . Again she said i dont want him texting me ,i already took his consent to share his number . Send him a message to tell him it's u so he will let u know if he is going or not . That conversation happened but it didn't end there he kept having a conversation about random stuff while my ex friend had access to the conversation and told me what to answer sometimes, at a certain level she said from now on i don't wanna know your conversation anymore yall seem very compatible and im just gonna tell u (me) this from a friend to another , he is a bad person manipulator ...telling me all the bad things he is , and that she's only warning me because im her friend and she cares about me. I was like girl do u have feelings for him and she went like no im just scared for you he knows how to talk . I had this conversation with her 10 times exactly and each and every time she was like know to me he is trash knowing that she is already with someone.
Now is where the weird behavior started , she started talking less with me , avoiding eye contact but she has always had a similar phase where she just hates u for no reason so i was like it must be it ignored her behavior until one day i told her that i wanted to check on my house it has been more than a month and i decided to sleep at my place ,texted her the morning im on my way to your house so we can go together to work like we do every day and she was like didn't sleep at my place just go without me . I did and then she started telling me about an aunt and how she met her cousins and stuff and she had fun while i know she has no aunt in the city ,i didn't wanna go hard on her and acted like i believed ed it . After we finished the shift i asked her about going to her place to recover some papers i had there and again she was like im going to have lunch with my aunt ,im not gonna be at home but ill be that at this hour if you want to come pick the things you need , i understood that she no longer wanted me there but maybe it's because of her room mates maybe she is running low on money maybe she just want some alone time although i wasn't intending to stay this long at her place she begged me every single le time to stay and not go and that i had nothing to fo there alone , i passed by a day later to take some of my stuff i couldn't nt take everything ng because i dont have a car and thanked her for her hospitality and left . During all of this time i was still talking to the dude very casually until ill one day he was like don't disappear for a long period of time and from that day on we had a continuous conversation but still very decent . Until one day we have met and he was like i can sense that we are not going to be just friend but u (me) keep lying to urself, nothing happened but we did agree that being friend is not enough for how much we are compatible in an implicit way nothing was directly said . I kept my relationship with her very normal when i met her at work because im not a fan of drama at work but she is so the next thing after kicking me out of her house is causing me problems with the supervisor complaining to him about how i just waste time and dont work and when i confronted her about it was all manipulative answers like u shouldn't have this much of a reaction don't raise your hands while talking i just left the argument because i didn't t wanna cause a scene at work .
Things with the dude are going slow and healthy she was right about some stuff but the majority was wrong not that it didn't happen between thembut because they didn't match it was always them fighting over the tiniest details .
Later on the dude started asking me about when did my parents get divorced and my financial crisis thing thats were never mentioned before in front on of me and no one took my consent to share -so basically she was telling everyone at work , him and her roommates that i was going through tough times and that i had to stay with her because she is helping me financially- and speaking about my parents they have divorced when i was 2 i was used to having my mom only and she did a great job providing like he didn't even have a space im my memory or my brain idk why she decided to mention that and make me look petty . She has also said that im in a huge fight with my older sister which is not true . I had to explain everything to the dude Also he asked me about how i feel now that we are going out out together knowing that she was my friend and stuff i also explained to him how i talked to her about this and how does she feel ,and he interrupted me saying we have only met a couple of times in the car we never went in a date. she is not my ex and it could be possible that she has feeling for me.
Me and the dude are having a stable relationship rn and idk how to feel about it please give ne ur analysis of this situation !

So the story goes like this: My ex best friend F31 asked me F23 to come stay with her because she lives closer to where we had our internship although i had my space well equipped .and i did , and during that time i was going with my bfM32 from back then, things went wrong we broke up and i wanted to recover my belongings from his space , he didn't care even after many times s i asked him ,so one day he did agree ro bring em to me and i was having a walk by the beach with my exfriend , he came drunk and his friend was drunk,and before we knew that we had to get in the car because he was in the middle of the road, my ex friend nd had to call her dude M32 to come save us from this weird situation before we get SAed . He came and kept on asking me about the dude and i was very responsive because i felt like he hd the right to know since he saved us . He drove us back at her place i thanked him and he and went first to let them have a private convo . 5minutes later she joined me saying that he had something to do and he went . And for the records this guy is her ex . She already has a bf that lives thats was back then in a different country so it was our only option . The next 2 days , he kept asking her about me alot like crazy and she only mentioned that without telling me her responses. And i didn't give it much thoughts because she was my friend and i trusted her . Afew days later we got an invitation to an event 3 hours away from our city and we (girls) didn't feel safe to go alone so we thought we should bring with us someone(a guy) from the same field to keep an eye on us and it was my suggestion to call him since he was very protective and handled the situation well he seemed decent and worked where we had the internship. She talked to him(via messages ) and didn't wanna sound desperate trying to find reasons to call so she asked me to him -she said that i wanted to tell him something i talked to him(in a call) in front of her told him exactly just about the event and she took the phone went to the kitchen and finished talking . She came back saying he said he will see his shifts and will let us know asap . Again she said i dont want him texting me ,i already took his consent to share his number . Send him a message to tell him it's u so he will let u know if he is going or not . That conversation happened but it didn't end there he kept having a conversation about random stuff while my ex friend had access to the conversation and told me what to answer sometimes, at a certain level she said from now on i don't wanna know your conversation anymore yall seem very compatible and im just gonna tell u (me) this from a friend to another , he is a bad person manipulator ...telling me all the bad things he is , and that she's only warning me because im her friend and she cares about me. I was like girl do u have feelings for him and she went like no im just scared for you he knows how to talk . I had this conversation with her 10 times exactly and each and every time she was like know to me he is trash knowing that she is already with someone.
Now is where the weird behavior started , she started talking less with me , avoiding eye contact but she has always had a similar phase where she just hates u for no reason so i was like it must be it ignored her behavior until one day i told her that i wanted to check on my house it has been more than a month and i decided to sleep at my place ,texted her the morning im on my way to your house so we can go together to work like we do every day and she was like didn't sleep at my place just go without me . I did and then she started telling me about an aunt and how she met her cousins and stuff and she had fun while i know she has no aunt in the city ,i didn't wanna go hard on her and acted like i believed ed it . After we finished the shift i asked her about going to her place to recover some papers i had there and again she was like im going to have lunch with my aunt ,im not gonna be at home but ill be that at this hour if you want to come pick the things you need , i understood that she no longer wanted me there but maybe it's because of her room mates maybe she is running low on money maybe she just want some alone time although i wasn't intending to stay this long at her place she begged me every single le time to stay and not go and that i had nothing to fo there alone , i passed by a day later to take some of my stuff i couldn't nt take everything ng because i dont have a car and thanked her for her hospitality and left . During all of this time i was still talking to the dude very casually until ill one day he was like don't disappear for a long period of time and from that day on we had a continuous conversation but still very decent . Until one day we have met and he was like i can sense that we are not going to be just friend but u (me) keep lying to urself, nothing happened but we did agree that being friend is not enough for how much we are compatible in an implicit way nothing was directly said . I kept my relationship with her very normal when i met her at work because im not a fan of drama at work but she is so the next thing after kicking me out of her house is causing me problems with the supervisor complaining to him about how i just waste time and dont work and when i confronted her about it was all manipulative answers like u shouldn't have this much of a reaction don't raise your hands while talking i just left the argument because i didn't t wanna cause a scene at work .
Things with the dude are going slow and healthy she was right about some stuff but the majority was wrong not that it didn't happen between thembut because they didn't match it was always them fighting over the tiniest details .
Later on the dude started asking me about when did my parents get divorced and my financial crisis thing thats were never mentioned before in front on of me and no one took my consent to share -so basically she was telling everyone at work , him and her roommates that i was going through tough times and that i had to stay with her because she is helping me financially- and speaking about my parents they have divorced when i was 2 i was used to having my mom only and she did a great job providing like he didn't even have a space im my memory or my brain idk why she decided to mention that and make me look petty . She has also said that im in a huge fight with my older sister which is not true . I had to explain everything to the dude Also he asked me about how i feel now that we are going out out together knowing that she was my friend and stuff i also explained to him how i talked to her about this and how does she feel ,and he interrupted me saying we have only met a couple of times in the car we never went in a date. she is not my ex and it could be possible that she has feeling for me.
Me and the dude are having a stable relationship rn and idk how to feel about it please give ne ur analysis of this situation !

My mom (F65) has always been slightly unstable (not that she would say she is) which is something that has always had an effect on me. This has got worse over the years, specially since I moved out - I moved to a different country in my early 20s and I am now in my early 30s, so it's been 10 years now.
In the past few years I've noticed a decline in her mental health caused by different things. Over Christmas she seemed quite down, often crying about minimal stuff, so I suggested to her she should go talk to a therapist, a friend of mine recommended me one and I told her I'd pay for it, I just want her to be better but also to open her eyes to her situation and what she does. She agreed to it and started going, at first I thought it was ok, but then she'd call me after every session to tell me about it and it all started following the pattern of the therapist says I am a great mom and you don't love me (this is also a recurring topic with her). After one session, she called me to tell me the therapist told her she had to tell me I had to call her every day, I didn't do it and she got annoyed, I told her I wanted to speak with the therapist and she gave me her number (she told me after her first session the therapist would like to eventually talk to me, so this wasn't really out of the blue), all I wanted was to understand why it was all revolving around me. I messaged the therapist and agreed to talk. After just messaging the therapist, my mom would ask me every day whether I had spoken to her, then she started telling me how much money it was costing (I told her I'd give her the money in person when I visited) which I said it was fine, I'd pay for it anyway, and finally she told she was going to quit as the therapist was always 5 minutes late to the session. I never spoke to the therapist in person, but via a few messages, she told me my mom would not engage on anything, the therapist invited her to join some group sessions and she wouldn't do it, she also didn't like the idea of me talking to her and it looks like the therapist was trying to encourage my mom to give me freedom.
I am now so so disappointed, I feel like everything I do to help her doesn't matter because she doesn't want to change and doesn't think there's a problem. I try to set up boundaries but she won't respect them and my dad's only argument is "she's your mom" so I am really alone in this and always end up feel bad. I try to come from a place of compassion, but I think my own mental health is suffering due to this. This disappointment is pushing me even further away from her to the point I don't want to talk to her, or see her. AITA for feeling like this?

TLDR: Four months ago, I (27F) hosted a Super Bowl party and invited a man (23M) I was seeing. My friends (22-30) mistakenly thought his electrician company shirt supported Blue Lives Matter. He had no idea what it was and disagreed with its principles once informed. Despite my friends urging me to break up with him, I continued dating him. Now, my friends still judge him harshly. When he tried to befriend my best friend’s partner, they demanded an apology for the shirt, which he agreed to, but it was rejected as "defensive." A few weeks later I brought him to a picnic without informing the group, leading to my friends ending our friendship over this. Despite my attempts to clarify and apologize, my best friend refused to reconcile. Am I the asshole for this? Should a lifelong friendship have ended over this misunderstanding? Curious for Reddit’s opinion.
Whole version: About four months ago I (a 27yo Female) hosted a Super Bowl party. My friends (ages 22-30) came over and I invited a man (23yo Male) I was seeing at the time to join us. A few minutes in, my friends noticed his work shirt, for an electrician company, looked oddly similar to a blue lives matter shirt—however it was not. It was his company shirt with an American flag and blue electricity bolt. Instead of asking him about what it was, or why he was wearing it, they automatically assumed that he was supporting that movement, when in fact he had no clue what Blue Lives Matter even was. Once he found out, he felt strongly his beliefs didn’t align with that, since the organization normalizes police brutality and stifles police accountability. But my friends didn’t care to ask about my dates job, and how the blue bolt signified a type of electricity that electricians like to talk about. His shirt was so offensive to my friends, that my friends told me to break up with him and that I shouldn’t date someone so ignorant. I didn’t listen. Instead, I saw it from my dates perspective— he wasn’t educated and he didn’t know. He had no intent to harm anyone and after learning about it, he got rid of the shirt. I respected that. A few months go by and this man is now my boyfriend and I have fallen for him, but my friends continue not to give him a chance since that occurrence. Finally they allowed me to bring him out and they all seemed to get along. But my best friends partner still didn’t meet him and my boyfriend wanted to be friends with him. He asked my bestie if they could connect and they (they’re nonbinary) said they’d get back to me—which ended in them telling me that he wouldn’t be his friend unless he apologized for wearing the shirt and understood the harm. At first my boyfriend felt confused because he felt that being so angry at him for his lack of education was unfair. He was sorry and he didn’t want to hurt someone, but he genuinely meant no harm. He was hesitant at first because he felt attacked. But eventually after a few text exchanges back and fourth I let my bestie know that he agreed to apologize and understood why his actions do have impact. And then she responded that her partner didn’t want to accept the apology anymore because it was “defensive.” But anyways, I thought this would certainly not be a friendship ending event. At least not between me and my bestie. Fast forward a couple weeks and I brought my boyfriend to a picnic to meet my up friends. I didn’t put in the chat that I was bringing him because I honestly forgot and didn’t think anything of it. When they showed up they told me I was a horrible person for bringing him due to him refusing to apologize (which was not true), and then told me they no longer wanted to be my friend because of how horrible it was that I brought him. I left the picnic crying, heartbroken, and deeply confused that a friendship since childhood could end over a miscommunication, a shirt, and someone’s lack of education. However, after the incident, I messaged my friend apologizing for the miscommunication and was sorry I brought him without asking, and I even highlighted the texts from a few days ago where my boyfriend agreed to apologize. My friend replied with contention and told me they didn’t want to be my friend anymore. Am I the asshole for this incident? Should a whole lifelong friendship have ended over this? I’m curious what the Reddit community thinks on this one.

High fantasy / sword-&-sorcery.
A group/circle of childhood friends. A boy is the "Leader" of the group, a novice with a sword but he has an appreciation for ice magic. He is "The Protagonist" who hitched a ride with traveling merchants to fulfill a calling, to be a hero like the legends and epics.
However, he mysteriously disappeared in the outside world with no trace, letters, or news. Nobody knows what could've happened to him for a couple of years (let's say 4 years just to gauge).
The circle grew old enough to get jobs, so they traveled as a group to find their missing friend and to explore the world. Along the way, they pick up missions and quests that'll fund their survival and travels, meeting a variety of people (humans, fairies, even gargoyles) and undergoing many events and adventures.
They'll ask around for any signs of their missing friend, only to end up with either nothing, a mislead ("I'm not sure he's your friend, but we've seen a guy who can do ice magic"), or maybe an outdated information.
Amnesia accident is too easy (and in some ways lazy/bad), kidnapped by the Big Bad needs a reason/benefit that would include the boy. Not sure how well other ideas will work like being ostracized from society or in a secret mission that requires him to be dead-silent.
What do you think? What else is possible? What could be reasons for a character to be "unheard of" even after years of being out in the magical world trying to be famous? How plausible is amnesia or being kidnapped by the Big Bad? Are there other ways to write his disappearance?
Thanks in advance!

The Onion can confirm that contrary to popular belief, the Liberal Democrats DID NOT attend last week's D-Day 80 commemorative service in Normandy, at the direct instruction of Emmanuel Macron himself.
An official statement from Lib Dem HQ, appeared to indicate the Leader of the Opposition, who we can confirm may or not be called Waffel, was allowed to give a speech about how good the Liberal Democrats are and how much better they are than everybody else at the ceremony. However, much to the relief of international diplomats everywhere, we can confirm that D-Day veterans did not have to face such a monumental setback.
It now appears that the Liberal Democrats rocked up to the Normandy services at 10pm, by which time everyone had gone home. Live CCTV footage of the scene, which The Onion cannot legally display due to GDPR guidelines, definitively shows Waffel stood on a stage alone, with some very bemused SpAds the only other officials in attendance. Rumour has it that to spare their blushes, Liberal Democrat HQ provided an urgent cash donation, so that the Lib Dem ensemble could party the night away in Normandy's finest karaoke bar, "Billy Conquerors' Bayeux Tapehouse". It is also believed that Lib Dem leadership's preferred karaoke song is Donna Summer's 70s disco classic, "Hot Stuff", although our strongest fact checkers were not able to assess the veracity of these claims.
What was the reason for this? Tardiness? Overworked special advisors, having typed up their 923rd bill of the parliamentary term at gunpoint? Jo Swinson was starting the Easter Egg raffle early? In fact, it appears that Mr Macron himself had given the plucky yellow compromisers the wrong date and time, supposedly to avoid having contact with anyone who may share his own ideology in the first place!
Sources close to the French President claim, "Dear old Manu was so taken aback by the 570-item legislative document concerning the introduction of new regulations to Morris Dancing, sent by mistake in lieu of a genuine request to attend the commemorations, that 'Big Macca' immediately told them to rock up at a time where everything had commenced and everyone had gone home, to avoid the embarrassment of remembering that he once shared a European Parliamentary party with anyone from the British Isles, let alone the Lib Dems!"
Never fear, Lib Dems, Britain was well represented enough. Prime Minister, ARichTeaBiscuit, who sources claim camped out at the ceremony for two weeks bingewatching the 2005 Champions League final prior to the commemorative service, had the good sense to invite popular comedian Peter Kay to represent the opposition in your place, to ensure that there would be some comic relief at the event in spite of your absence!
The Model Onion is political satire and therefore should be regarded as fact.

I have always been to Finland to visit my grandparents during my vacation, but this year? I went alone. Usually, I'd have my family to keep me company, but as I was alone, I got bored rather quickly and set a small goal of making some kind of acquaintance or friend.
One day, I decided to tag along to my grandpa's band practice. I was a little surprised to see a younger guy but didn't think much of it because, to me, he looked over 18. My grandad then tells me that he is the same age as me. I'm obviously interested now and wondering if I can get a friend out of this after all, but every Friday we would just glance at each other and I never managed to approach him.
As the last few days of being able to see each other are coming to an end, I'm panicking and wondering how I can start a conversation and leave it with a way to stay in touch. And then this weird stuff happens, maybe my crush-addled brain was reading too much into it but, another guy around our age calls out his name and wiggles his brows and then my crush calls out to my grandad and asks if they can hitch a ride back home. We're all squashed into the backseat, I'm dying on the inside.
We follow each other on Instagram and I start the conversation using language practice and friendship as an excuse. He's interested in getting to know me too so we start chatting, but it's incredibly slow because he hardly uses his phone.
During the week, he sort of invites me to an open graduation his school is hosting and I'm interested in going anyway, to get to know Finnish culture better. I go, expect some sort of conversation but he's performing and has to leave immediately so yeah. He sent me a text a little later, saying that he was sorry we couldn't talk because he had to go perform at three other events and he just sent his phone number so that I could contact him anytime??
After that, we both clarified that a face-to-face meet-up is a lot more fun compared to texting so he just schedules a meet-up at a cafe. It's only a day before I fly back home. But yeah, we meet up, get comfortable, talk about a lot of stuff and whoosh an hour goes by. We continue texting, but it's not a lot cause he's busy and I'm busier as well.
There are two things I'd like to know, is he interested in me the same way and how do I manage to get to know him better over text when we live in different continents and can't meet up-

Hi, a guy I know ghosted me for 13 months which hurt since I am new in this country and have few friends. Recently, I run into him and confronted him. He apologized explaining that he felt I was organizing romantic events and was only interested in a friendship. He offered a diner to apologize for events he cancelled.
The next day I run into him again and he was a bit flirty. I told him that he should avoid doing this given the context and to ask X ( his female friend). I also told him that I want to invite a common friend (A) to join us for the dinner. He looked puzzled and said he expected the dinner to be just the two of us to rekinkle. I explained it was the best decision for the best of us and told him to ask X . He said there is nothing between x and him. then, he suddenly got extremely angry and told me I should apologize because bringing X is rude and if I do not apologize he will cancel the dinner. I tried to explain calmly that there was nothing rude there and I am sorry if I hurt him even though that was not the ideas. And then he said I should apologize to both X and him. I suggest I bring our friend A to the dinner and we can sort it out since he is an unbiased person. Then he said he is not interested to hang out with me and to be my friend if we have to bring other people to this situation. He added he is no longer interested in the dinner and will be available to chat in 2 weeks. I made him realize that he is mad at me bringing X because he thinks it implies that he or X might be in love of each other but he thought that I was in love with him and ghosted me without even giving me the chance to answer. Wasn’t I a friend too ? Then he answered : may be we were friends at one point but he is not interested to be my friend or hang out with me if this is the way I talk or if I can not act like a normal person. I thanked him and once I left , I cancelled the dinner and sent a last message saying that it became quite clear that he never considered me a friend and is not interested in behaving like one. I then blocked him.
My rationales for blocking him were: 1. He presumed something about me, acted on it and hurt me without even giving me the chance to know why. But he is 2. His overreaction and The condescending tone were revealing. It felt like he was saying : you need more this dinner or this friendship than I do so even if I treat you like shit you’re going to remain 3. I felt like it became a matter of self-respect. I felt that keeping being friend or friendly will only portray me as someone who does not respect herself. I block him to move on and to take my power back.
I called our male friend A because I wanted to talk to someone and A told me he asked to call him as well. Why calling A if he does not want to bring someone else to the conversation?
Anyway, he is the first friend I blocked in my life. So I feel a bit guilty. Was I right ? What to do from here ?

I failed a few classes due to a surgery and declining mental health. I now need to write an SAP Appeal Letter. Wondering if anyone has an experience with this and can offer any advice?
Thank you!