I (20F) ran away from my parents place when I was 18. My mother and father were very neglectful towards my mental and physical health and my father was physically abusive. I have a sister (13F) and she, for the longest time and now, is the light in the very dark tunnel that is/was my home life, I love her so much and leaving her was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. She was the first person I told and made sure to keep her in the loop (I didn't want to just vanish from her life, although I kept my plans to leave secret from my parents).
It's been two years since I left. I moved to another state, I have my own place and a nice job that keeps me financially sane. Learning how to adult on my own has been challenging but also very fun and I fear losing that independence in any way, especially at the hands of my family.
Up until a few months ago, my parents had no clue where I was as I was afraid they'd do something, but it's been two years and I've been really wanting to see my sister. With her finishing up middle school and being on break, it's the perfect time to do so, so my mother and I got in touch and she planned a trip to come to where I am so I can see my sister. After weeks of planning, the day finally arrived for them to make the trip and here they are! I will be seeing them in a couple days. I'm nervous. My mother seems to forget that our relationship is strained (because she can't remember the events that took place to make it so, how convenient), and she has never taken accountability.
I'm trying to make this trip about seeing my sister as much as possible since she is who I really want to see, but the part of my mom being there and me having to see her after so long, especially the way I left, makes my stomach churn. I don't want to revive any of the shit that took place back home between me and my mom and I truly don't want to get into a fight with her. I haven't had fights like that in a looong time and dredging up those old feelings scares me. I want the time I spend with my sister to be nice and fun and i want to show her around the town, there's a lot here that she'll be seeing for the first time and I'm grateful she's getting that experience.
I guess I'd just like some advice about how to mentally walk into this upcoming visit. I have many conflicting feelings about it, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm so grateful that I get to see my sister after so long, we were inseparable before I left and it hurt leaving her behind. So many emotions, so many feelings, and I'd like some advice from anyone who's gone through something similar.

Also, I never knew you could hit his purple bubbles.
I always found those boss fight extremely hard.
If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna hurry my head in the sand now, because that's all it could be used for.

Hello to the smart side of reddit,
I understand this is probably a bit of a complicated situation and wondering if anyone could give any advise at all?
My mums been separated from her husband for 12 years- he left for another women, moved out, handed back his keys etc for about a year, when that relationship blew up he moved back onto the property into a self contained granny flat, which doesn’t have an oven or a washing machine, he stopped paying all bills for the property 10 years ago (mums paid about 400k off the mortgage in that time). In these 10 years he’s been everything from emotionally abusive to physically abusive but for varying reasons the police have not done anything.
We have just gotten home from a holiday, and he has broken in through a window (shook the window open and took off the screen climb in) he then proceeded to steal furniture from the house, obviously opened a door took stuff out, locked the door and slithered his way back out the window.
She has messaged him asking if he’s been in the house, he called (I recorded it, yes I know it’s illegal but better to be a criminal and alive then be a dead saint because I didn’t get proof) he’s admitted to abusing mum, trying to attack me for saying I’ll call the police on his cannabis plants, admitted to breaking into the house and taking the furniture, admitted to not living in the house, said he’ll never step foot in the house again.
My mums scared to call the police now, I promise you, I’ve called, my mums called, old school teachers, neighbours, everyone has, the police haven’t done anything, so reddit in your experience is there anything we can do? Please help me, I’m scared for my family. Any advise good or bad please

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Hi folks!
My bike's front break started behaving weirdly within 8-9 months of buying it. When I reported it to the service center, they were like - "sir you might be using front breaks more often, please use back break" and dismissed my complaint. I was tolerating it (it is still tolerable) but I went to the service center (1.5 years after buying the bike) so I asked them once again to check it. Now they are saying that the ABS is faulty and the replacement cost is ~13k. I am completely in shock that a bike which I have been using very safely and getting all the servicing done on time has such a big fault. I searched on the internet and it looks like other people are facing a similar issue. 13k is too much for me. I had bought extended warranty of 5 years but it appears the extended warranty is only for engine. I had an insurance too but it appears the insurance was valid for own damage only for a year and it has expired as well (the document said it is valid for 5 years but apparently the validity is only for 3rd party damage and not own damage). I want to understand that does the company not hold any accountability because the bike is just 1.5 years old, how can such a new bike have a faulty ABS when bikes usually work for 5-10 years. Is there no way i can make the cost cheaper by getting warranty extension or renewal of insurance?

Hey there!
Thanks for checking out my post! I'm a 27 year old dude living in New Zealand. It's hard making friends as a big kid but here I am trying! My best? Probably not. Still trying though? You bet.
So about me: I'm a makeup artist by trade, dog parent to a smooth haired fox terrier, an INFJ if that kinda thing floats your goat, dark lord successor to Sauron, and a big ol nerd. I like horror and fantasy everything, with a sprinkle of sci fi here and there - video games, movies etc etc. I like MMOs, survival horror games, RPGs. A big fan of horror movies and if you have any obscure ones you don't think I'll know, I'd love to hear them! Other interests of mine are MTG, drawing, listening to music, desperately trying to keep my dying pot plants alive, conjuring some dark outer god and trying to become the immortal hivemind ruler of the galaxy.
Not necessarily looking for a gaming buddy despite being a gamer, more so looking for people to talk to and get to know who have some similar interests. Not huge on voice chatting either, but gaming and VC aren't off the table once I've known you for a little bit. I'm also not looking to join any groups or anything you might have, mainly looking for one on one friendships.
If any of what I've said has ticked a box or two for you, feel free to send me a message! I have discord if you'd prefer talking through that instead of janky reddit chat. Please just be 18+ and LGBT friendly, thanks!

Hey there!
Thanks for checking out my post! I'm a 27 year old dude living in New Zealand. It's hard making friends as a big kid but here I am trying! My best? Probably not. Still trying though? You bet.
So about me: I'm a makeup artist by trade, dog parent to a smooth haired fox terrier, an INFJ if that kinda thing floats your goat, dark lord successor to Sauron, and a big ol nerd. I like horror and fantasy everything, with a sprinkle of sci fi here and there - video games, movies etc etc. I like MMOs, survival horror games, RPGs. A big fan of horror movies and if you have any obscure ones you don't think I'll know, I'd love to hear them! Other interests of mine are MTG, drawing, listening to music, desperately trying to keep my dying pot plants alive, conjuring some dark outer god and trying to become the immortal hivemind ruler of the galaxy.
Not necessarily looking for a gaming buddy despite being a gamer, more so looking for people to talk to and get to know who have some similar interests. Not huge on voice chatting either, but gaming and VC aren't off the table once I've known you for a little bit. I'm also not looking to join any groups or anything you might have, mainly looking for one on one friendships.
If any of what I've said has ticked a box or two for you, feel free to send me a message! I have discord if you'd prefer talking through that instead of janky reddit chat. Please just be 18+ and LGBT friendly, thanks!

I am 21 years old, I got my testosterone checked and it came back at 18.2 nmol/l. I have been struggling with erectile quality for a while now and rarely have morning wood or any type of spontaneous erections. When I rarely do they are weak. I can sometimes get an erection from masturbating with porn but sometimes I cannot. I need to stimulate constantly because I struggle to maintain anything. The best way I can describe it is it is like there is sometimes a cap on how erect I can get in a day where the next day the cap might be higher or lower. I have pictures and videos to confirm my theory. It is VERY rarely I feel the cap is so high that it feels like I could out on a condom and have sex.
When looking at porn I struggle to find anything I actually want to masturbate to because I feel like I have watched it all already. I struggle to get turned on by it and always need a at least 15 minutes to finish and sometimes even that isn’t enough.
Please help me. What can I do?

My daughter is 3,5 years old and weight 33 pounds
We will a long flight about 14 hours, my toddler is hyper and cannot sit still no matter how much toys or activities I give her , I don't want to bother anyone So I was thinking of giving her melatonin just for airplane But I don't want to hurt my baby
Thoughts ??

Hi, i m 29M from south-east europe(balkans), and looking for friends. I started to work as doctor and i ll prob get specialisation in few months. My interests are music(old stuff mostly), animals, skincare, gym, sports, anime/manga, history, swimming, hiking and some other stuff. Also wanna learn to cook cuz i ll move out next year. Also my old account got banned for nothing so i dont have much post history here sadly

Advice please!
I live in Glasgow, and I'm looking for recommendations of places to go train-plus-bikepacking with my five year old. I drag all our camping gear in our trailer, and there's a limit to how long my daughter will sit on the bike, so we need the following:

• Accessible from Glasgow by train (or has somewhere we could stop for a few nights en route)
• Has a campsite within about 15 miles' easy cycle from the train station
• Is a very low traffic route to the campsite
• Has places we can get to by bike once we're there (we won't have all the stuff by then, so can handle more hills, but does still need to be safe - no country roads with cars hurtling round hairpin bends at 100mph)

So far the list of places I've found is as follows:
Largs.
Yep, that's it! It's an hour from Glasgow by train, has a lovely off-road cycle route all the way to Kelburn campsite, and once you're there there's loads to do without a car - forest trails, little cafe, the water, amazing ice cream. There's even a tiny soft play!

hey, im an 18 year old girl who is going through a break up at the moment. im in the process of moving to a different city so it'd be cool if i could find someone i can be close to online.
i love voice calling and video chatting, and my hobbies are listening to music, riding my bike, playing the piano and drawing/painting!
please be under 22 if you do want to send me a message, and please be respectful, thank you!

Hi, i m 29M from south-east europe(balkans), and looking for friends. I started to work as doctor and i ll prob get specialisation in few months. My interests are music(old stuff mostly), animals, skincare, gym, sports, anime/manga, history, swimming, hiking and some other stuff. Also wanna learn to cook cuz i ll move out next year. Also my old account got banned for nothing so i dont have much post history here sadly

Me and my friends recently had this conversation. Personally my answer is “finding out a few years into our marriage they’re a completely different person”
I.e. they end up having a completely different personality/traits/etc than what I thought. Like the whole thing was just pretend.
But, my friend had one that really confused me, she said “if he loves our kids more than me”. Which honestly, no judgement, was so odd to me. Love for a child and a partner is a different kind of love afaik? Then again im 25 no relationship no kids so perhaps I’ve no perspective. I didn’t want to prod her further as to what she meant because it seemed like a valid answer that had valid reasons for her, so this brings me to:
What scares/worries you guys most about marriage and kids? And why?

34 year old strongwoman, pre-injury my dead was 135kg it's taken quite a while to get it back, I found my grip suffered more than my legs! But this is 120kg (as you can tell, my videography skills are shocking as I didn't manage to get the weights in the video but will post a separate picture!)
If you listen carefully over the gym music, you can actually hear my knee 🤣
But recovery is possible!
Stay strong out there,
Thank you for everyone in this sub who has kept me completely sane during the recovery, you're all amazing people

Hello to all the men here.
I, 28M, just did my masters last year (2023) and had got an offer for a good paying job as Business Analyst in a Health Tech company, whose joining I never received since last year. Although, this led me into severe depression for like 6-7 months, I kept looking for jobs and other opportunities which I wasn't getting despite of having an lil above-average profile.
I had everything planned out when I had got that offer from the job, hoping to work in that company for 2-3 yrs, shifting to another company with good salary hike, getting married at 29-30yrs of age, and settling down like a good ideal man. But this drastic unfortunate event of not getting the joining for like 2 yrs pretty much fcked me up and I've started thinking, there's absolutely no use of planning your life as it's gonna change any moment.
But I remembered I have always wanted to do PhD (specially in Public Health), could be from Indian or Foreign University. I will turn 28 tomorrow, if I get into the University this year by August/September it will take at least 3-4 yrs for me to complete my PhD. Now this is in a very Indian context, I'm worried whether I will get married too late or will even find a woman for a 32 yrs old man. Factually, speaking, I'm dark skinned guy, but good physique (6'0, 50%body fat, regular gymming since a year), but I have not been able to connect to any women since my last break up 3 yrs ago, which entirely fucked my love life and career as well.
Nonetheless, I wanna know what are possible trajectories of me going for the PhD. Should I just keep working in my job and forget about seeking further education? If anybody (or anyone u know) relates with me and my situation, what happened with you/them? What do ya'll have to say on this?

Hello, dear redditors. I have joined this subreddit to seek some support and advice. Hope you can help me to get some peace. This will be a long post, but I feel very hurt now, and need to vent, so forgive me that.
6 months ago I met a guy, 33 years old. I’m 27. It was unrolling slowly between us, but eventually we started to like each other and have frequent meetings. Be both agreed to exclusivity, and confessed that we enjoyed each others company, and that we are more than just friends. He always took lead and reached out for a contact with me, texted me first, and was quite engaging. At one point I started to realize I was falling for him.
3 months in I started to notice he suddenly got a little sadder. But I couldn’t figure out what was going on. This was slowly happening over the period of several weeks. He has always told me about his anxiety issues, and his sleep problems. One time he even broke out in tears in front of me, and I tried to support him and calm him down the way I could. We kept seeing each other, but I saw something was going on, his mood was always getting slightly lower with every upcoming week, which started to distress me. I asked many questions, trying to figure out the reason, but could never get to the point. I figured he was suffering from some sort of depression, probably.
One day we agreed to meet, but he suddenly cancelled, and said he does not want to see people right now, and does not want to be around anyone. I got confused and very anxious, I thought something happened. But he refused to see me or get my help.
over the next couple of weeks he was texting me a couple of messages a day, letting me know that he is in some sort of ‘comatose’, feeling very anxious, restless, and not able to sleep. This is where I started to google the symptoms, and confronted him. Turns out his is BP, and he was scared to tell me because of the stigma.
This episode lasts from the beginning of April. He finally decided to take medication. He was not unmedicated before, because he was scared. I tried my best to talk to him, and support him, as much as I could. It cost me a lot of stress, sleepless nights and tears, because I mainly could not figure out what is wrong with him.
He got very cold with me, he stopped calling me sweet names, be gentle with me, and complained about no libido, which is totally normal. He said he needed a friend more than anything now. He said he does not feel like he can be with anyone now, that he does not feel anything to anyone at this point of time. I knew I already liked him a lot, and I confronted him with this, but said that I will support him as much as I can now.
I knew he had a female friend, he knows for a long time. Yesterday he texted me that this friend is leaving to another country in a couple of months. He said he confronted her that he likes her, and she said the same back. According to him, he just realized that he has ‘feelings’ a week ago, when she told him she’s leaving. But he said he does not know, what exactly he feels to her. Whether because he is sad a friend is leaving, or he actually likes her, he doesn’t know.
but this hit me very hard. I hope it makes sense of that I explained here. I am very hurt and do not know what to do.
do bipolar people have mood/feeling switches like this? I feel like everything what happened before this depressive episode was a lie, and my feelings were misused. I feel like I was chosen over someone else. it made it look like he is scared to lose her, but does care if I am gone or not.
is it normal for people with BP