today is my birthday. I turned 23. I feel very alone right now. I’m not very close to my sisters anymore and the only person I have to talk to is my mom, but she seems barely interested in anything I have to say I don’t have any friends close, and distant friends. I don’t have anyone to reach out to if I needed to. I’ve been so alone for the past couple years a lot has happened. My mental health is completely completely I don’t have anyone to reach out to if I needed to. I’ve been so alone for the past couple years a lot has happened. My mental health has completely deteriorated into what feels like a husk of a person. I go to therapy, but I feel like I’m not making any progress. I get so anxious when I leave the house I get so anxious inside my house I get these panic attacks where it feels like I can barely breathe or think and I get extremely uncomfortable feeling in my chest the only thing that will help is to curl up in the fetal position with no lights or sound. I feel completely useless. I feel like everyone I know is embarrassed to be seen with me. I can’t trust myself or anyone around me. I don’t have any coworkers and I go to school online. I’ve tried meeting people online making friends but no one sticks around. I just don’t see a point. i feel so hopeless.

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My sister (26f) and I (29f) have been estranged for many years. I recently logged onto Facebook and saw so much of her life that I've missed - the friend groups I'll never know, important events to her all because of the negative past events we've shared together. I have missed so much of her life and feel like a failure as a big sister.
Her birthday is coming up and I can't even text her to ask what she wants because I'm afraid of coming on too strong at this time...I don't know even know her favorite color anymore.
We met up last Thanksgiving and had a great time - she hungout with my husband and connected 1-1 with him and we had some great interactions for the first time in years. We even collaborated together to get a digital photo frame for our mom (hence where the beginning of this post ties in)
However, our father died when we were still in high school (she was 15, I was 17) and she was the one who found him and that really drove an even bigger line between us. We have had major, major arguments and fights towards each other growing up, and two years ago she was just downright rude and terrible to me to the point where I had to leave a vacation early, but we made up after a few months before our next big family event, but have not really reconnected.
We really are completely different people, but she's my family and I still love her. I want her to be excited with me when I welcome a baby into our home in the future (not pregnant now), and for her to be an amazing aunt that I know she can be...she was a beautiful bridesmaid at my wedding last year and I want to continue having those fun family moments with all 3 of us.
Reddit, what have you done to bridge a broken sibling relationship with a wide gap between you two in terms of personalities and lack of communication?

So I have an Xbox 360 that I found in my loft the other day, I thought I’d sign in and check out what’s on the store because I heard it’s shutting down. I found out you can buy skin packs like Stranger Things and Doctor Who that aren’t available anymore. I am a MASSIVE nerd when it comes to both of these things. If I buy them, will they transfer to my current account on Xbox One bedrock?

My apologies in advance if this is long. I was in an abusive relationship/marriage for 23 years. This incident happened when we were still friends. If I had I only known the truth when this had originally happened, I would have been saved from decades of emotional, psychological, verbal, physical, sexual, and physical abuse. (And currently post-separation abuse).
The cast: me, my ex Bub (Beelzebub), my ex-crush B, Bub's gf M, Bub's bf V (It will make sense when you read it.)
TW: Suicide, self-harm, abuse
We met through a mutual friend. We became really close really quickly. He was 17 and I was 19. We would talk for hours about anything and everything. I was raised around domestic abuse, and my family was highly dysfunctional. I suffered severe trauma as a child being raised in this environment with an abusive father and brother. (His namesake). By the time I met Bub, I had been having mental health struggles for many years. To deal with the trauma I still suffered from I would self-harm by cutting frequently. I also had been in a psychiatric hospital twice for suicide attempts. I told Bub about all of this, and he knew that I still did it. He was very supportive and would get really sad when I harmed myself.
Since we were just friends we would talk about our crushes. He had a crush on a girl from high school and I had a crush on one of my ex's B, who was also my high school crush. We only dated for 3 weeks, and we decided we were better as friends then lovers. Though we did have a FWB thing going on when we were both single. He really talked up his crush and I really talked up mine.
Two months into our friendship he got a gf. He told me she was a girl he knew from his home city named M. He claimed her mother would babysit him and his brother. He really talked this girl up. She was into all the same things as him. He said she had beautiful red hair, D breasts, liked the same books, movies and music as him. (Yes, he bragged about these things, as disgusting and corny as it sounds now). I was starting to believe he talked her up to make me jealous, which it honestly did. However, I knew it was petty jealousy and I was very happy for him and expressed that to him.
I don't know whose idea it was for her to start communicating with me, but she started emailing me to get to know his best friend (me). I was totally cool with this and was excited to get to know her. Before I know it, she starts getting really nasty with me for no apparent reason. It really upset me. My natural impulse at the time when I was upset was to cut. It was a maladaptive coping mechanism I had for years, and I did it when I was really upset. I explained this to him, and he said he would talk to her. He showed real concern I was harming myself and he also wanted her to stop.
So, he told me he had talked to her, and she had told him she would stop harassing me for no good reason. I really assumed she was jealous and let her know there was nothing to worry about. We were friends and he had a much longer history with her. She didn't stop. She continued to say the vilest and f'd up things to me, including making crass and insensitive comments about my suicidal ideation and self-harm. Naturally I was really upset and cut myself pretty badly. I still have the scar.
This basically went on until they broke up a month later. He said she was doing heroin, and he was vehemently against drugs. He said that they had a good friend that died of an OD, and he couldn't be with her if she was going to do that. It was over. She never contacted me again.
Not long after that B (my ex-bf) had come back from bootcamp. I spent a good deal of time with him while he was on home for leave for two weeks before he shipped out overseas. We decided in that time that we would no longer be FWB because I was starting to have feelings for Bub. Me and Bub started dating right after that. He ended up telling me that him and M didn't really date, and he had only told me that to make me jealous. AHA! I was correct!
So, I asked to meet her. He was a bit hesitant at first, but he finally agreed. At this point his bf V from his home city was dating her. It was the perfect opportunity to meet her as like a double date. I will say, at that time in my life I could be possessive and jealous. Not proud of it, but I was young and immature. I ended up treating her pretty snidely because of this.
One night we were out with them, and Bub got into a car accident. We ended up having to call his dad for a ride home. When we got to his home, his dad was contemplating letting them sleep there. I whispered in Bub's ear that I was not okay with his ex-gf sleeping at his house. She overheard me tell him this. She pulled me aside and told me they never dated. WHAT? I was furious. Bub made eye contact with me, and by the look on his face, I could tell he knew what she told me. The ride back, to drop them at home in his dad's car, was uncomfortable to say the least.
After he dropped them off, I confronted him. His explanation was I was so pushy to meet her, but he knew how jealous I could be, so he didn't want to actually introduce me to the real M. Ends up V was dating a girl with the same name. I felt so stupid and betrayed. I wanted to end it, but he seemed so remorseful I ended up giving him another chance.
Well, the years go rolling by, and I hear no more about this girl who he was so close with, in the past. Bub was a very charismatic person with a lot of friends. He never stopped speaking to friends permanently and they would come in and out of his life. I found it a little odd that there was no mention of her but didn't think much else of it. I also never really formally met her.
Then Facebook became a thing. He ended up being friends with every person he had ever known. Except her. I would bring it up and he would always have some excuse. We ended up moving in with his brother in 2015. I wasn't really around his brother a lot, so I never got a chance to talk to him at length. I remember at one point I brought her up. I was just so curious at the mystery girl and wanted to see if he was still in touch with her. He told me he didn't know what I was talking about. He said his mother never left them with babysitters and only worked when they were in school.
"What does that mean," I'm thinking. WTF does that mean? I brought it up to Bub and he told me she only babysat a few times so his brother probably forgot. But this didn't sit right with me. He had told me that she would babysit them frequently. He denied ever saying the frequency. What could I do but believe him? It had been almost 15 years by that point. That's a long time to keep a secret like that. Surely, he was telling me the truth. I dropped it for good.
We get married that year. We had a child the next year. We had a stillborn a year after that. All this time until 2022, I started feeling really uneasy about our relationship. I started suspecting that his behavior towards me was abusive.
Sidenote: I didn't include all the abusive behaviors in this post, as it would be a novel if I did. I'm simply recalling the events around the catalyst to my descent into hell.
By the end of 2022 I was broken. I had gotten my first of what would end up being 3 TROs against him. I dismissed the first two. (The second was a dual, as he set up a situation that created the need for me to defend myself. He claimed I wasn't defending myself. That's a story for another day). After the first two, I was still so desperate to salvage my marriage with my eternal hope that he could change. I was just so broken by then I didn't think I deserved any better, and no one else could possibly want a worthless, pitiful broken mess like me.
The summer of 2023, while laying sleepless in bed, the memory of M flashed through my mind. I started remembering details I had long forgotten. Why did I never meet her? Why was she never his friend on Facebook? Why had neither of them reached out to each other? I had met every person he talked about, or he was at least friends with them on Facebook. Why not her? Why did his brother not remember? Why did he say M's mother babysat them all the time? I KNOW he originally said that damn it! Why was her email address, at only 17-years-old, her first and last name? 17-year-olds don't use their names like professionals. They call themselves sparklybutterflies86 for christ's sakes! This was all going through my head.
The next day I confronted Bub. I will paraphrase to the best of my memory:
Me: Was M real?
Bub: I thought this had been settled already.
Me: No. No, it hasn't. You told me your brother just did not remember her and that was the last I spoke of it.
Bub: Deadpanned looking me right in the eye "No. She wasn't real. I thought you knew this by now."
I can't really remember what I said at that point, but it was a lot of "how the fuck could you do that? and other expletives. His excuse was he was an insecure teenager, and he was jealous of B and how much I talked about him. A fucking insecure teenager. Talking up his high school crush didn't make me jealous, so he made up a gf.
He pretended to be a gf, who went on to harass the shit out me. Which caused me to be so distraught that I cut myself. He knew I was harming myself and he kept on doing it. I still bare the fucking scar from that time. He involved a poor innocent girl that I was fucking terrible to. Not to mention the fake story of a friend that Od'd. And his excuse for this deranged, diabolical, INSANE fucking shit was, "I was an insecure teenager." No fucking big deal, right?
23 years. Two kids. One alive and one deceased. 23 years of complete and utter psychological annihilation with this man.
If only I had known.
If you have come this far, thank you so much for reading. I left him for good October of last year, and I have never felt more free.

Hello, I am looking for a longterm duo and friend. If you are looking for the same, I hope you read the whole post. I type alot in the interest of not wasting anyone’s time.
I play almost every genre. Im hoping to find someone that likes more than one or two games and knows what they like. I often find people that are “down for anything” but not excited about anything. I want someone who is as excited to play as I am. Some games that I currently would like us to play are:

Path of Exile (I play every League, its currently my main game and I’m happy to teach it)
Escape from Tarkov (Coop Pve for now, not looking to do pvp again til wipe. Im a retired Sherpa with several thousand hours)
Borderlands 2 (Always down for a new play through)
V Rising (Pve focused)
Project Zomboid
RimWorld
Ready or Not
Helldivers 2
Coop story/horror games
Fallout 76
Battlebit Remastered is pretty fun
Ive heard good things about elden ring coop mod but havent tried it
Smite (Not league or dota)
Hunt Showdown if anyone wants to teach it to me
Grayzone/ Arena Breakout when they get more polished
Fortnite/Pubg occasionally

There are alot more so feel free to ask anything. Please do not message and just say you wanna play one game. Im looking for a permanent duo for many games, not an evening of just helldivers.
For availability, I am gaming 8-12 hours a day. I don’t work. I don’t expect that from you, but I am looking for someone who will want to play a few hours a day on most days. If you only play weekends, I don’t think we will be a good match. I am very flexible with scheduling and communication is most important to me.
I do ask for age 20+ and NA replies only for ping reasons. Would use discord voice chat.
If you made it this far, then I imagine you are looking for a similar thing. If we have similar game interests and availability, drop a comment or send me a message. Tell me about yourself. We can discuss what game we want to start on, games we have in common etc. If we don’t match up well, that’s okay also. I wish you the best on your search as well.

This is going to be a long post, because I don't really know how to explain how I'm feeling without a lot of context.
We've been together for about a year, and at first everything was great. We spent all our time together and I didn't see anything wrong with it. My partner has a lot of trauma and struggles with anxiety, depression and PTSD, so they require a lot of patience and support. I never hold their mental health against them and do my best to be as understanding and supportive as I can. There's been many times where they've expressed to me that they feel like they're burdening me or hurting me because of their mental health, but I've always assured them that I love them for who they are and that I'm with them because I chose them and will continue to do so. For most of our relationship I never felt that they were dependent on me, because they'd always tell me how I can't fix them, and that it's "not my job" to drop everything for them whenever they feel depressed or anxious.
Recently, I think I've come to realize there are some unhealthy patterns, and that I might be neglecting my own needs.
The first incident that made me feel this way happened a few months ago. My partner asked me to come over one night because they were really depressed and having trouble motivating themselves to do anything around the house. I had a lot of work for grad school, so I said couldn't sleep there, but I would come over if it would help. They told me I could bring my work to do there, because it might help motivate them to start their to do list. I came over and tried to talk to them for a while, but they wouldn't open up to me at all, so I continued to do my work. They told me they were tired and went upstairs to bed and I came up to talk to them before I left. They were crying and telling me it feels like I don't care because I was just doing work, and when I tried to comfort them again they told to leave them alone, so I left. I get home, look at my phone and they're texting me that I "could've tried harder" and they didn't "feel like I was there". I felt like I was wrong, so I went back and ended up staying the night. Things like this have happened several times, and now I feel like I can't leave them alone anytime they feel down.
I think I truly realized things weren't healthy a few weeks ago. I was on my way back from studying all day for finals, and they had called me asking if I wanted to stop by. I said I really just wanted to go home and take a nap because I was exhausted. They seemed off to me though so I changed my mind. I said I could stop by for a bit because it sounded like they could use a hug. When I got there, they told me they hadn't eaten all day and hadn't done any work from home. I tried for almost an hour to comfort them and convince them to eat something. They wouldn't do it. I offered to make something, or order something, and they just didn't want to eat. They kept telling me they were "fine" and to go home so I could nap. I was afraid to leave because every time I do, it makes things worse. I finally decided to go home once they agreed to order food. They asked me later if I was coming back, and I said I wanted to stay home that night. I asked if they needed me there, and they said "I don't want you here if you don't want to be here." I told them I wanted to make sure they were okay, so I went back. It's easier for me to comfort them in person, and they were barely talking on the phone. I was so exhausted, and I really wanted to stay home, but I just forced myself to be there, because I felt like I'd be wrong not to.
Besides those big situations, there's a lot of small things that add up. I'm generally a very independent person. I'm introverted and I like my space. They always want to sleep together, and I just need to have my own bed sometimes. I've started just saying "I want to sleep alone" instead of giving a reason, because when I used to give a reason like "I have an early class", they'd always try to find a workaround to it. They want to do everything together, while I need space. When I was prepping for my final exams, they'd always ask if I wanted to study at their place while they work from home. When I say I'm going to study with my classmates, they want to come and do their work with us. Whenever they run errands, they want me to go with them. They constantly ask me to walk their dog when they're too tired, depressed, or just don't feel like doing it. They can't stand to be away from me for more than 2 days. Every time we spend a weekend apart, they talk about how much they miss me and how they don't think I miss them the same. I get that they want to feel wanted, but at the same time, I think a little time apart is a good thing. There's a lot of other examples I could give, but this post has gotten long enough.
I know I need to set boundaries, but I know this is going to be a touchy subject because one of my partner's biggest insecurities is that they're dragging me down or hurting me. I want to be there for them, but I'm tired of the guilt I feel when I say no to something or I don't have the energy to support them.

was normal until it reached 3:00 am The power went out randomly for three minutes after the lights went back on I saw a note on the floor it read: hello Nick long time no see we want to play a little game all you have to do Is survive until 4:00 am get to your bedroom and I'll show you the rules. Of course I freaked out I always read horror story's on Reddit I never thought they were real, ran to my room saw list of rules first never exit the room they can see you second if you hear foot steps hide anywhere third check the living room camera if you see little girl the be as loud as you can don't let her watch tv do the opposite for the boy and lastly a clown will enter the room try to have a normal conversation with him no matter how scary he is that's all good bye. I was scared I didn't know what to do imidiatly I heard foot steps I hid under my bed I almost screamed when I saw a spider like demon it almost saw me to be continued.

Age 28
Sex male
Height 5'8
Weight 150
Race White / Caucasian
Medications: Daily: Descovy for PrEP, 5000 IU Vitamin D3, 50mg zinc, 10mg Zyrtec (generic)
Last night I smoked a bowl, same weed I've been smoking for weeks. Same amount of weed I do every night. Started eating dinner after smoking. After about 10 mins, my hands and head and feet were going tingly and numb. It definitely didn't feel like weed, and I let my SO know I was feeling weird. He had me lay down in bed.
My hands went completely numb, still tingly. Couldn't move my fingers at all. My abs and chest started getting super tight. It started feeling like my chest was super heavy. I was struggling to breathe, gasping for air as I had my SO call 911.
I'm literally gasping and fighting so hard for every breath for about 10 mins while my entire body is numb, and I'm in a cold sweat. About 1 minute before EMS got here, I felt like I could start breathing again. EMS got my vitals and stuff and my heart rate was 150 and basically stayed elevated for 10+ mins so they recommended hospital.
So I took an ambulance to the ER. Got IV fluids. By the time the doctors started seeing me, my heartrate was still in the 130s. They did an EKG, CT, blood work, and an xray.
Was there from 8:30 to midnight and they couldn't figure out really what caused it, but they said for sure it wasn't a PE or DVT. The ER doctor thinks maybe it was a vasovagal spasm or pre-syncope.
Still don't know if it was just an insane anxiety attack? Or if I really do have an underlying issue. When I was discharged from the hospital I still had over 100 heart rate.
During those 10 minutes where I was fighting to breathe, I thought I was either gunna die, or my SO was going to have to start doing cpr on me because it was getting so hard to gasp for every breath.
It definitely felt like I was going to stop breathing, but I know the brain is powerful and a part of me still thinks it could have been random anxiety attack? The only thing that was out of the ordinary compared to any other day, is that my SO was using heavy duty wood-stripper on our deck about an hour before I smoked on the deck. The label says that if you can't smell any fumes there shouldn't be any, but another part of me thinks that maybe that had some sort of impact? Seems far-fetched but I just don't have much else to go off of.
I've never had anything like this happen before and I am otherwise healthy, no asthma, or previous heart or lung problems. I'm going start making regular PCP appointments, but I wanted to see if someone else here had any thoughts. Thank you.

So I’ve purchased a second hand car. All was going as you’d expect from a used Vauxhall Corsa (1.2L Limited Edition, 2012) with 75,000 Miles on the dash. I soon realised that the car pulls slightly to the left.
I’ve just had a set of new tires fitted and the alignment done and pulled out and realised that it’s still pulling slightly to the left.
The roads, speed or breaking has no bearing on it it seems. The breaks have been inspected and they are fine.
It’s doing my nuttttt in as I’m not sure what the issue is anymore. When I let go of the steering wheel I notice that the steering wheel will drop ever so slightly left and I’ve got to correct it slightly right otherwise within 20 odd seconds I’d end up scraping rims on the pavement.
I know there are a multitude of things that it might be but really need input.
Anyone got any advice? Going to a mechanic tomorrow to see what can be done as it’s really starting to do my nut in and don’t want it to be a major operation.
Thanks in advance. Please help.

Seen: Season 9
Stepping back, I go all the way to the magical age, I wait for things to happen and allow the gods to destroy the world but instead I let myself be known to them, giving my greetings and sucking ass to the destruction god. The difference between the original is that I stick around for the aftermath after getting myself some elixir of eternity, talking and getting along with Salem until and making her think I am a manifestation of the mind and make sure she doesn't go inside the pool of destruction, but ultimately leaving her alone at the last legs of the journey so she can fall in later without my positive influence.
When Ozpin is reincarnated, I once again wait for him to begin moving and meet Salem, I then allow them to fight and return for my misdirection technique where I trick Salem, giving Ozpin enough leverage to get the girls out. I then lay the guilt on, HARD, about how she killed her own daughters and how she could have died millenniums ago if not for her pride and ego, being 1000x worse than her father. In the event this mental manipulation solves the problem and she admits her mistakes then yippee, but, otherwise, I continue with my plans by hiding the children and allowing them to find relationships while I continue researching the grimm. I take them to the lower islands on the map, clear out the grimm and use my own which I would either have tamed or learned how to herd and fake extreme grimm density. Slowly I build my population and selectively breed the people to be taller, stronger and not alter Ozpin's reincarnation cycle by using my own stock. When we start reaching modern stuff, I kill Cinder before she has the chance to take half of Summer's powers and allow Pyrrha to possess the half-dead corpse. I would have also come out at some point, possibly with my men, to continue the heavily guarded city beyond the mountains, using it as an emotional sponge to massively decrease the grimm population. Meanwhile, over the years and well after exploration had finished, the other islands in the south near Vacuo would have been cleared out and populated. Using these islands, a lot of resources would have been sent to Menagerie so their paradise/asylum/home was more than a tropical tourist spot with terrorists. Similar events would be done around the world like expanding Atlas with a city on its Eastern side that exploited the same deep dust veins.
Come the attack at Beacon, well that is simply an event that shouldn't be stopped, instead, the forces were to be relocated elsewhere and when everyone left with plot significance the soldiers could come in and clear out the rest. The story would continue until the ladies got to Atlas, at which point the plan to leave the planet would be progressed while I take the knowledge wish granter, killing Salem's agents and allowing Atlas to safely leave orbit while the spacial bridge was opened for the people under Atlas. Finally, entering the 9th season, I jump down and eat the time fruit, giving Jaune a wink as I surpass him and vanish to the beginning. Watching the gods grow up, I capture their destroyer and teach them responsibility before beating the shit out of them, knowing that their journey of discovery will force them to repeat their mistakes. With what needed to be accomplished done, I take the leaf and get behind Jaune once more so I can go exploring, collecting and learning. Once I have seen all I possibly can, I end up back at the tree using the leaves and go to the present, saving the cat and the demon for my trump card, modifying the lamp to hold them and give the cat the answers it wanted while making the demon more humane and able to change his size. I then once again leave team RWBY and friends with the cat and demon by my side with a bunch of leaves and a seed.
Now back and ahead of the story, I reconnect with my people, happily hearing how things have gone as directed and that Atlas has positioned itself above Vacuo, sending down massive amounts of resources upon request and establishing an inter-planetary defence network that utilises mechs, asteroids, lasers and drop pods. The best part is that after getting the help of the Tree, the final part of my plan has been completed where I reveal myself, showing off my army of faunus, silver-eyed, semblance-using, magic users. The best part is that the Tree wasn't just used for a time skip and secretly helped complete my final form.
Like Salem, her immortality allowed her to be drenched in grimm energy which would have eroded anything else, giving her control and partial traits, as well as a liking for destruction. But the truth of the grimm component is that it is like Venom from Marvel and has the opportunity to harmonise cells as free parts that work with even greater determination and vigour. Mixing it with a body is hazardous and wouldn't have the intended effect and using an immortal simply creates a balance because there is no means of contention. But since I spent the time gaining pawns and researching dust, I would have finally been able to conduct a hybrid formula of dust and grimm that could be injected into exceptionally strong individuals or immortals with a proper synchronisation rate. As for the cat, it offered the potential to enhance things even further by using its supernatural and reality-defying powers to simulate a consciousness for the grimm-dust cells that merged with my immortal ones, allowing the new mind to be absorbed and enhance my abilities over my own body. As for the demon and leaves, they have a different purpose, one that others thought wasn't needed when Salem arrived after a while with her flying gorilla and dragon fleet with a bit of native desert-type grim and migrating herds. When they came, using the satellite array and infinite powers of creation to create defences only made up in a child's imagination, also using Penny and her ice abilities to clear out and flatten desert mounds. Speaking of Penny, her soul project was mass-produced using those of a good nature, meanwhile, Penny became like the director or big sister to all the other androids with their cybernetic superpowers. Something that would be a massive help against Salem's latest onslaught of epic and never-ending hellfire and rattlesnakes. Eventually, Salem would be beaten and cornered where she would be sealed and imprisoned thanks to the combined efforts of everyone, making an overwhelming last-stand victory. But Salem's wishes wouldn't go unfulfilled and she would get to see part of what she wished for desperately, seeing the gods descend upon the world where they would be met with me. If you were properly reading by now, you would know I gave these gods PTSD once I showed my maddened face and gave them a roast about their failings as gods and abandonment of their creations before talking about the philosophies and sophistry for why humanity should live by mentioning everything, from our flaws to our cute quirks to our outstanding commitments. The gods would be made to seriously consider as they were buttered up by their shrines being decorated and freshly offered offerings. Finally, though, what would be the final straw is the tea which would have the leaves pushed into their mouths, bringing them back to the Tree for sorting, alls all that ends well

28(f) had been dating this guy 30(m) for 2 months. We met online and hit it off crazy well right away. Our personalities are almost the same, we make the same jokes, like similar things.
Well unfortunately I started to get triggered because of my past, and become extremely insecure always questioning him and doubting his feelings towards me, and that eventually pushed him away. It frustrates me because I’m not that person, I just feel like my past relationship hurt me. He broke things off with me on Tuesday night. He said I needed to work on loving myself, and trusting my partner and that I’m an amazing person and that he doesn’t want to be doing this, but he can’t because it’s effecting his own mental health. He cried, and we hung up.
Well last night, literally 24 hours later, he FaceTimed me and we talked for 2 hours. He said he couldn’t sleep, and he missed me, and that he would love to hangout on Friday. He kept saying “I just don’t know”.
I don’t know what to do. I so badly want to hangout with him, but would it be a bad idea?
Is there a chance we could still work and he felt he made a mistake since we’re only 2 months in and he called only a day later?
Please some advice.

Self-Love
“I woke up this morning and I had a hard time for a while,” said one recovering man. “Then I realized it was because I wasn’t liking myself very much.” Recovering people often say: “I just don’t like myself. When will I start liking myself?”
The answer is: start now. We can learn to be gentle, loving, and nurturing with ourselves. Of all the recovery behaviors we’re striving to attain, loving ourselves may be the most difficult, and the most important. If we are habitually harsh and critical toward ourselves, learning to be gentle with ourselves may require dedicated effort.
But what a valuable venture!
By not liking ourselves, we may be perpetuating the discounting, neglect, or abuse we received in childhood from the important people in our life. We didn’t like what happened then, but find ourselves copying those who mistreated us by treating ourselves poorly.
We can stop the pattern. We can begin giving ourselves the loving, respectful treatment we deserve.
Instead of criticizing ourselves, we can tell ourselves we performed well enough.
We can wake up in the morning and tell ourselves we deserve a good day.
We can make a commitment to take good care of ourselves throughout the day.
We can recognize that we’re deserving of love.
We can do loving things for ourselves.
We can love other people and let them love us.
People who truly love themselves do not become destructively self-centered. They do not abuse others. They do not stop growing and changing. People who love themselves well, learn to love others well too. They continually grow into healthier people, learning that their love was appropriately placed.
Today, I will love myself. If I get caught in the old pattern of not liking myself I will find a way to get out.

(Long text if you don’t want to read just answering the question is fine)
Yeah so literally that. I’m Mexican and live in mexico. I am graduating in July from a finance and banking degree and have been working since I started university, started in a administrative role in a national only company (I was lucky to be given this job), then I moved to a well known international company as an intern in risk and controls.
The thing is I lived in Germany before college and had multiple jobs (In construction, bartender, waiter, etc.) that I even got a pretty cool job with the owner of the restaurant where I got to live incredible things with people from different countries but since then I have felt like my jobs here and even the exposure to growing professionally and in my personal life are too limited.
So my questions are, is there any chance that I can get a job (remote preferably because I love traveling but also would love to relocate somewhere in Germany, Spain, England, etc. for the Europe nostalgia) in my field (finance), administration or even something related to technology (I’ve been doing research in coding and AI as business developing that I find fascinating) but focusing only in international companies? If so… what would be the best the best approach? I mean like, pages to look for jobs, field considerations, resume improvement, companies I should consider, skills I need, etc.
Maybe it’s too dreamy and if it is I also accept reality checks :).

I am trying to implement dbt in my company and also find the best practices on dbt's official website helpful. However, I am struggling with one thing regarding the model types.
If I have a dataset, let's say about districts, and I clean that up to have a staging model. Then I don't want to have a `districts` data mart with all possible statistics of a district, but rather a subset of it to be used as an input for other data marts or intermediate models to have a smaller database table. My questions would be now:
Which layer is this? Should I create a second staging layer? But it may be used in production, on dashboards etc. Is it a data mart? But it doesn't inlcude alle the necessary statistics of a district. Would you create two "district" data marts then? Should that subset data mart be a database view watching the big "district" data mart? To me a data mart is (as the name suggests) a mart an analyst can go to to get all information related to the entity of the mart. So my usecase somehow contradicts this definition.
Would be happy to hear how others would handle such situation.

Greetings, if you are a lady/wife who is done with the mundane stuff and wants to talk about it, feeling inadequate and responsibilities weighing in, you have found the right person.
This side, your next door nerdy boy, who’s bit into anything and everything! Music, Art, Movies, are what take my free time usually.
So would love to chat and talk all things new and old!!

1.STOP TELLING People everything. Most people don't care, and some secretly want you to fail. 2. CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS WISELY
The fastest way to become better is to surround yourself with better people.

1. EXPECT NOTHING, APPRECIATE EVERYTHING

Be grateful for the little things in your life to find inner peace.

1. DO YOUR BEST AND TRUST THE PROCESS

The harder you work, the luckiest you will get.

1. CONTROL YOURSELF, NOT OTHERS

Controlling others is strength.
Controlling yourself is true power.

1. LEARN TO REACT LESS

When you control your reaction, nobody can manipulate you.
Drop💯 if you reached here!
This shows you are a part of 1% who actually finish what they start.
THANK YOU FOR READING ☺️
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Ever since I was 13, I had a moment in school where they said I was the student of the month. The thing is that I was running late so I didn't get to hear it in the comms. When I entered the building, one of the teachers told me to come to the office so that the principal can tell me something. I have really bad anxiety and I thought I might've done something wrong. As I went into the office, I started to cry out of fear that I might somehow get detention or a suspension. When the principal said I was student of the month, I was both relived and a bit upset. The main events happened when I went into the class. Before I say it, I just want to say that I have really bad low self-esteem, but I am not afraid of loud noises. Anyway, when I went in the classroom, the whole class applauded for me. It caught me off guard and it caused me to tear up uncontrollably. I walk out in the hall and asked the office if I can call my mom. They said yes and I asked her she can pick me up early, to which she said yes. When I got home, I just couldn't stop crying due to the amount of stress and pressure I had to endure. Today, I have started to improve my self-esteem, but I still can't handle large amounts of people congratulating me. I'm not saying that I don't like their compliments, and I can take them all day, but I just lack the feeling of being proud about myself for what I do.

Hello Everyone!
My name is Vinícius, I'm from Brazil and I have some history here in "Gift of Games", as I have requested "Diablo 4" 22 times, "Helldivers 2" 8 times and more haha!
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What is Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
SMT V: Vengeance is a very hard, strange and interesting JRPG, it has some dark themes that make it stand out from the majority of games on this genre.
The game features a monster catching system(more like demon catching in this case) that enables you to recruit, improve and fuse demons that you find everywhere. It is very unique because for you to recruit them you have to chat with them, and sometimes it doesn't work like you expected, the demons may not want to join you or maybe they even want to trick you into giving them something and just vanishing after, the outcomes are very funny sometimes.
The newer version improves the game in many ways, it has a lot of QOL features, but the biggest difference is a totally new campaign, since most fans thought it was the weakest point of the original version.
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Why Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance?
I'm a very big JRPG fan and have been for many years, I like many of the old ones and also newer ones, but I'm specificaly found of the ATLUS games like the SMT and Persona series. They have such a personality that you can always be sure that they are made by ATLUS the moment you see a frame of it.
I have been waiting to play this game since 2021 when it released, since I don't have a Nintendo Switch, but it feels like even more time and I'm sure it will be worth it.
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Why can't I buy it?
All games are very expensive here, I live in a small town in Brazil, a country in which the AAA games cost R$ 300(our currency is called Real) or even more, and the minimum wage is R$ 1.412, so it costs a big % of the minimum wage, it's absurd. I am a photographer who is still trying to make a living of it, I had many jobs before but some fired me and some I just could not keep up because they had a huge tow on my mental state. From my experience the only job that could maintain me without destroying my mental is photography, I just love it, and I took too long to realise that I could do something important with it.But the point is that not only AAA games, but all game prices here went up really fast on the last few years, and it's impossible to keep up with it. I am struggling at the moment to acomplish my objectives professionaly, and I believe that this game may make my days a little easier.
But the most important reason why I can't buy it is that my city right now is going through the biggest natural catastrophe the country has ever seen. I live in Pelotas, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and we have many cities very close that were completely vanished because of a flood, and I mean that literally, some cities will now cease to exist because everything was consumed by water. The situation here is sad, we have never seen something of that magnitude in our lives, if you want to have an idea just search about it and watch some videos, it's devastating...
Now my city is also starting to suffer because of the flood, I think my house is probably safe for now, but now I can't even work, nobody can do anything until this passes, and even after that, we will have to deal with the problems that will appear. Some people lost everything they had, some people lost their family, their pets, the whole country is trying to help but there is no way to really stop it now.
So I basically just want this game to keep me sane during these dark times that we are living here, I know it will not make life easier, but it might bring me a little more joy so I can face the problems in a better shape than I am right now.
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I think I don't have anymore to say, so I just hope someone reads this poorly written but full of sincerity text. 😁 Thank you SO much for giving me the opportunity to ask for something like this, you have no idea how much this means to me and how surprised I am that we have some people here with that kind of generosity!
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I'm 24F and I met this guy (29M) over hinge. Firstly, I didn't know he was in a different country (USA) because he set his location to my country (his hometown). I matched with him and we hit it off and I deleted hinge, and then I found out that he's not even living near me - to which I started rethinking things because I didn't want to do long distance. Secondly, he said he was going to come to the hometown for a few days and we could go on a date and I thought that would be a good option because we had hit it off really really well. Then suddenly he mentioned how he has an "empty flat" and he wants to invite me there. I said I don't wanna do that, we can meet outside. He also kept asking me to go clubbing with him or be with him overnight outside which would be impossible for me. Then he video called me randomly and kept asking me to get on the call and show my face but I wasn't ready, it was too soon and I told him so. Anyway we talked for a while and last night he was getting on the flight and he texted me saying "I know you won't show yourself on video call but I hope you don't scam me because I've heard people scam foreigners a lot" to which I completely lost my shit. First off, this dude kept insisting I meet him outside at night on the first date itself, or go to his empty flat and what not, as if that wasn't sus?? I didn't know him either. Honestly I'm the kind of person who has given 20 bucks extra to someone who has stolen from me because I felt like this person has stolen because they're in a shitty place in life. I can't dare imagine stealing and neither was I raised in such a horrible way. My dad earns more than he would in his entire life, I haven't grown up with any scarcity of money to steal from someone else or scam someone else. Pretty self centred of him to think that he's worthy of stealing from just because he's a golden boy of his parents who has grown up in a white country. I blocked him. So pissed tbh