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 They are teaching an outdated method and it looks like they are trying to bring an experts, but the path to success is not clear and is a bunch of chaos and people throwing strategies at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

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

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

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

Last week I applied for a I-765 EAD based on my approved I-140 (my priority date is not current yet, I applied based on (c)(35) - compelling circumstances.) I sent it all via mail - according to the mail service - they received it today.
I just realized I made a stupid mistake and misread the USCIS guidance on Premium Processing - apparently I could of add this option - and just needed to attach the Premium Processing request form (I-907) along with a payment form - and have them process my request in 1 month.
Is it too late for me? I read on the USCIS that adding the online option for PP is not for my type of request, and it says there that the printed version should of been sent along with the I-765

Last week I applied for a I-765 EAD based on my approved I-140 (my priority date is not current yet, I applied based on (c)(35) - compelling circumstances.) I sent it all via mail - according to the mail service - they received it today.
I just realized I made a stupid mistake and misread the USCIS guidance on Premium Processing - apparently I could of add this option - and just needed to attach the Premium Processing request form (I-907) along with a payment form - and have them process my request in 1 month.
Is it too late for me? I read on the USCIS that adding the online option for PP is not for my type of request, and it says there that the printed version should of been sent along with the I-765

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At my work we have had a a Vantage Pro 2 Plus for a number of years sending the station data from the console to a PC using WeatherLink 6.05 software and then uploading it to our website for the general public (ie our customers - local sailors, kiters, windsurfers etc.) to view. Looking online at the Davis site it looks like the data logger DIY website option isn't really supported anymore in favor of a Weatherlink.com subscription.
The graphics and such of our site are pretty dated looking and our marketing and IT want a change. They are not willing to assist me beyond having a link on our new website site so I can't count on them helping with any design or coding.
We have also been sharing our data with the Citizen Weather Observer Program but just linking to that data online doesn't seem like the best option as I don't like the format any better.
Are there any options similar to what I have been doing to display on a website through the WeatherLink data logger that maybe would have an updated look of the data? And more importantly, how difficult would it be to set up? I was able to set up the current site lo these many years ago from the template supplied with the software but I've likely forgotten most of what little basic HTML skills I once had so I don't have much skill to bring to the table (and the company is not willing to let me pay someone to do the coding so that simple solution is out).
Are there any other options I might consider for sharing our weather data with the public before just going with the Weatherlink.com Pro+ pricing plan?

I just read a post about how Eunchae should be protected more, and I could not agree more in that the vitriol towards her has gotten way out of hand.
In that post, I noticed that people kinda brushed passed the controversy of her teasing high school students as a non-issue (which, don't get me wrong, it definitely is), but I'd like to provide some cultural context because it was this specific moment that garnered the most hate for her among Korean kpop stans. Coachella doesn't even come close.
I want to explain why her comments generated so much outrage, and in particular, how her words were taken out of context and purposely made to sound so much worse.
The Situation (and the context)
On a 3/17 Weverse ~11min, Eunchae made a bit of a joke where poked fun at students having to get up early, saying that "That must be hard~ I had to do that too at one point too~~" and the conversation then continues onward with the other members about how difficult it was to get up that early during their student days.
This was combined with another live on 9/07 ~27min (though the context starts a few minutes prior) with Kkura. In it, the two of the discuss conversations with their non-celebrity friends. Boomer Kkura tends to just talk or text, which surprises Eunchae, since she almost always prefers to facetime instead (don't worry Kkura, same). Kkura mentions that the first thing she asks her friends are, "you haven't gotten married yet right?" whereas Eunchae says that her friends have been recently talking about becoming high school seniors. That topic closes with Eunchae talking about a recent conversation she had video call she had with her close friend, who complained that she had to get up early, upon which Eunchae teased her and says, "I start at 11 tomorrow! Hella lucky~"
Maybe a bit of a crass joke in the first clip, but nothing too major, right?
The Attack (and the twisting of facts)
This is where the usual suspects come in: Twitter.
Disclaimer: I'm going to be completely honest here. I don't follow Pann or FMKorea or all the other niche online communities except since the HYBE/MHJ situatio, but while researching this topic, I searched Eunchae's name on both sites to see how the situation unfolded (I can't really search theqoo very well because that site has the worst user-friendliness I've ever seen).
The situation blew up on March 15th (as far back as I can find), with this Twitter post blowing up and a Pann post (now deleted, restored w/ Wayback).
(Note, regarding the deleted Pann post, it was referenced in this YouTube video by one of those trash drama Youtubers and had 150k+ views at the time of their video)
There were also some pretty weird posts on Pann around this time, nitpicking her response in an EASY interview to say she thinks LSF was successful and spreading twitter posts of private documents to prove that she didn't get accepted to Hanlim (I will not be sharing this one.) Many comments at that point on Pann are still quite sympathetic to Eunchae, with the top comments defending her and telling the twitter bitches to go away (although the doxxing post still got 600+ upvotes and 300k+ views)
After this though, the narrative began to change, combining the clips above and turning it from Eunchae teasing students, to Eunchae teasing High School Seniors. And things began to take a huge shift.
After this began to spread, March 23rd, comments started to become more negative (example posts on March 17th and March 23rd).
Alright, I can hear you saying, students, high school students, so what?
Korean Seniors and the Suneung
If you're at all familiar with Korean culture, you know where I'm going with this.
The Suneung is the Korean equivalent of the American SAT, except it is so much more than that. If I had to explain it, the Suneung is your entire life. Imagine your college application, except screw your class grades, your extracurriculars, your letters of rec, your essay. The only thing that really matters is your SAT score.
It is a huge deal. The entire nation BBC article falls silent on the day of the Suneung. Stores close, construction stops, traffic is redirected, the stock market opens late. On the day of the Suneung, there are no flights.
It happens 1 time a year. Just once. If you miss it or get a bad grade, you repeat a year just to get a chance to retake it.
And high school seniors carry all of that stress. They are studying for a test that is the culmination of their entire education and determines their entire future. There are many, many stories of students falling into deep depression, even after doing well on the Suneung, because studying for that test consumed them to the point that they don't know what to do after it's over. These students study in excess of 15 hours a day, from 7am to 10pm.
You do not touch high school seniors, ever. There is a saying that even parents tiptoe around their kids once the test date nears.
Also, keep in mind that the primary demographic for kpop are young adults. People that are in school, preparing for this test that they will eventually have to overcome. Some of those people might be repeating a year (or two or three or four) while studying for that test.
And so, when the narrative shifted from Eunchae teasing a close friend about having to get up early to Eunchae making fun of High School Seniors for having to get up early, things turned ugly quick.
And then Coachella happened. And then MHJ opened her big mouth. And you guys know the rest.
So that's my little story. I hope this provided some insight as to why it seems like the hate for Eunchae seemed so particularly loud on the Korean side, and how she suddenly switched from nearly universally loved to the opposite.
In conclusion, fuck Twitter yo.
P.S. Is this post worth posting on the kpopthoughts subreddit? I'm split because it provides context, but also this has kinda flown by international eyes and I don't really want to accidentally add fuel to the flame. LSF and Eunchae have it hard enough as it is.
P.P.S. Sorry mods, I noticed the other post was removed. If this post breaks the rules, feel free to remove and I'll repost it in the weekly thread or something.

There's this girl I thought was really pretty all year, but I was always too scared to say anything. Since it's summer now and I don't hafta run into her if she rejects me I slid into her dms.
Surprisingly, it's actually going really well! So well that I wanna go on a date with her. The only problem is that I'm very awkward at first in person, especially if I got to someone online.
What are some tips to help me not screw this up with my awkwardness? I found out we had some mutual friends all along, so I was thinking I bring one of them for the first time we hang out before going on an actual date.

... have any of you ever made a real effort to connect with someone new and form a friendship or even a relationship? What were your reasons for doing so and were you successful? Would you try again? Edit: I'm speaking of in-person only, not LDor online.
I've been suffering from Sz Dilemma lately and have been fantasizing about various scenarios where I become close to someone again. I feel like I want it very much but maybe it's just a fantasy and I also can't shake the negative history I've had in those situations. But nevertheless. I haven't dated in 10yrs or really had a regular social group of friends in 5yrs and am somewhat apprehensive about even trying for fear of awkwardness or potentially hurting them in an emotional sense.

When I look around my university what do I see, the same type of guys with girls. I see a lot of fucking ugly guys like me all alone. I kind of suspected it but when I was taking biology we learned about how mating works and that looks is just part of evolution. It makes perfect sense. If you are an ugly guy why would a girl ever like you. I’ve listened to girls talk about how their boy friends mis treat them and cheated and yet they were still into these men. It’s because they were attractive and tall. I don’t see the point in becoming a servant to a women who’s never going to be attracted to me. The last girl I seriously talked to did like my personality and then she would keep making remarks about how I’m too short and all that. She’d tell me she liked me and then keep making remarks how she thinks I’m too ugly to date. Of course people will say you don’t want to date someone like this anyways. Which is true, but they are almost all like this everyone is shallow. I also can’t stand how easy girls can enjoy the dating world. They can be autistic they can be fat they can be so inept they can’t decide what restaurant to go to. None of this stops them from dating men. They can fall have relationships decide to dump the guy on a whim and get into another relationship even with a guy who is fit and normal and they are not. I’m supposed to think they have life so much harder when they have a whole giant aspect opened wide open for them to enjoy.
I’m not fat and I don’t dress like a hobo or whatever weird shit you’d assume. What am I supposed to think when I’m continually rejected for being myself. That I’m a terrible person and this is why? That’s what I see online when I search about the subject. Maybe the world is just fucked. Maybe everyone is shallow. Maybe dating dynamics are fucked and they have the privilege. The only people who wanted me were old gay men because I was young. Idk why I exist if I’m just a genetic dead end. I work I study what’s the point. No one to enjoy it with. I’m wrong to be resentful when I see people who have nothing but good looks succeed and find love? And then my girl “friends” will make fun of me for being single and call me ugly. They clearly don’t give a fuck about guys like me. Yet if I were 6’2 and had a symmetrical face it would be different.

i was really nervous to see an old friend today and ended up noticing the following angels in chronological order, all in one day:
111 on my gas mileage as i texted him that i was on the way 222 on a street corner i drove past 3:33 as my ETA to meet with him 4:44 on my clock while i was with him 555 on a video i came across online once i got home
it was a really fun day getting to know him again! not exactly a date, but i think there was a moment where he might've tried to make a move but i realized it after i already left....
any advice for a newbie to the spiritual side of things? my usual angel number that i see is 111 but maybe i'm blatantly ignoring something big
thank you :)

I’m being hopeful that I’m young and still have more experiences to come ahead of me. But I just feel like I’ll be left behind on things. How do people find others to date, besides online it just seems so dire. I’m gonna try being happy on my own for a while, though I sadly am feeling weird not having someone.

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I'm (22F) an international student so I haven't spent my birthday at home in a long time (~8 years). I also haven't received a birthday gift from my parents in a long time. I know my parents love me, and we're not a huge gift-giving family so I've been ok with it. As background that could be potentially relevant, in the recent year I've really began to comprehend the significance of growing up away from my family for a significant portion of my teenage/adult years, and I felt robbed. I've been trying to communicate this to my parents (55M/F) to work through issues and they're trying to be kind and to help me feel more connected to them, which I really appreciate.
So this year for my birthday, after not having received a gift from them for many years, my mom ordered a gift for me online. She also wrote me a very thoughtful message which was very sweet of her. The problem: the gift was a heart-shaped necklace with the first letter of my bf's name in the center of it. I just felt really weirded out because 1) this is the first gift she's given me in years 2) I've only been dating my bf for about a year. Obviously I love him and he's awesome, but a year is not an eternity. Also, to my mom I should be her daughter first, you know?? and I'm a complex person and far from "my only personality is my bf" so it just makes me feel like she really doesn't know me. She could've given me literally anything else but this.
I thanked her for taking time to pick out a gift for me but was pretty blunt in telling her I thought it was weird and wouldn't wear it. AITA/AIO?

The application for the 2024-2025 Federal Direct Parent PLUS Loan opened on April 1, 2024, but the online application should not be submitted before June 1, 2024. The deadline for Parent PLUS loan applications varies by institution, so you can check with your child's school for more information
So, if I am reading this correctly I need to wait a few days? My daughter's college financial aid website does not have a deadline date for the plus loan.