Funny sayings to go with a gift

Writing this to vent. I’ve (m21) been having a lot of trouble getting myself to like my sister (f29) recently. I’ll start off by saying that I don’t actually hate my sister when it comes down to it, it’s just her actions recently are becoming intolerable. i don’t even know where to begin. she is just super toxic. that’s common information within my family. she is super manipulative, into getting others to do things for her own sake and acts like the victim whenever she doesn’t get her way
she doesn’t drive, and instead of trying to save money to buy a car she is constantly spending money recklessly either on food or some other random item. i’m not one to tell her how to use her money, but she often get’s rides which are at the expense of my mom’s health since she’s the one always driving her all the time from work even when my mom is old, injured and tired all the time from work but my sister never seems to take her into consideration. she doesn’t even pay her for gas most of the time, and my mom is obviously becoming really worn out by the situation
She seems to kinda use money to her advantage to get what she wants too. she has a pretty good position at at her work, so she gets paid a lot and takes advantage of just having money all the time, so she ends up always taking advantage of others. She manages to convince others to do things to her bidding in return for money, food or items even when something may inconvenience others, and she plays the victim whenever you tell her no
because my mom’s always picking her up, she’s always showing up to my house and it’s such a bother. I always have to stop whatever i’m doing to give her attention. the aura in the air when she comes over is just so problematic. she’s always bickering with my mom, and she acts like a child all of the time and has no courtesy or regard for any of us. I’m sure she acts responsible enough at work, but when she comes over she just acts so immature and I’m for to deal with it. I can’t just lock myself in a room either because I live in a studio apartment. She also just always has a problem with everyone, and acts super snarky. she can also do bad things to you, but when it happens to her it’s such a big deal
I’m honestly sick of the way she treats me specifically. She’s always playing super rough with me. she’s always hitting me and while it’s not malicious, i still definitely don’t like it. she always manages to degrade me in all sorts of ways, and it really hurts hearing every time. She’s also always infantilizing me, and treating me like a literal fucking toddler and it’s super annoying and degrading. i’ve gotten a huge inferiority complex because of the way she treats me, and I don’t feel safe to be myself or to feel like a human whenever I’m around her. she’s also always making fun of me whenever I do or say anything higher that might seem “cringe” to her and she always gives me this face of disgust that i always hate seeing
she doesn’t have boundaries either, and is always touching us inappropriately. not sexually, but she’s always doing something enough to make us feel uncomfortable. she has such a raunchy sense of humor, and it’s always at the expense of making us feel uncomfortable
one thing we both deal with is mental health, and she is constantly picking at me about it even after how badly it affects me. not only does she call me names like disgusting, filthy, etc even when i deal with a lot of self hate but she’s always making fun of me over serious mental stuff i’ve dealt with before. i remember one time i said i’d kms, and she told me I wasn’t down. she’s dealt with pretty bad stuff too and I’m not going to discriminate her against it but she can always say something sensitive to mock you but if you say anything to her, she’ll expect you to sympathize with her
idk, this probably all sounds like normal family shit but at this point it feels so overbearing and i’m just so sick and frustrated of dealing with it. its just issue after issue. she always says i treat her badly because I ignore her and sound frustrated when i talk to her, but I do it because she acts like this
i’m sorry if this post sounds super hateful but, i’m just very frustrated. i don’t hate my sister, and i’m greatful over all the things she’s done for me but I just can’t stand her and her personality any more. i want to get away so badly but i’ll be honest, i give into it way too much and i’m not sure how to break away or gain independency. it’s a weird situation, because my sister is the mediator in our family. she’s the easiest to get along with and brings us all together. she is also smart, and is able to do many things for us as well as gets us stuff, but the environment is just way too toxic and I don’t know how much more of it i can handle

Hi friends! Hoping for some suggestions/recommendations and if someone else may be in the same boat.
I’ve had stomach issues for as long as I can remember. About 15 years ago we did some genetic testing and I was told that I wasn’t celiacs but should probably go gluten free since my body wasn’t digesting it. Went gluten free, didn’t notice a difference so went back to living my life.
Last year I finally went to a GI, she said I was positive for celiacs but wanted to do an endoscopy to confirm. Endoscopy came back as no intestinal damage so no signs of celiacs according to this GI. She said I could eat gluten and keep living my life. I then saw a nutritionist who recommended that I go gluten free again and see if that helps. A few months go by and I notice no difference. I even intentionally ate a cupcake to see how I would feel, totally normal. Both of these doctors have been kinda dismissive and not the most helpful. My GP is even worse and immediately says every problem I have is due to anxiety and won’t let up, I’m looking for a new GP.
Is it possible that I could have celiacs but with no symptoms or intestinal damage? I don’t have the money to see a second GI for another opinion but am kinda at a loss of what to do. If I do have celiacs I don’t want to be potentially causing future harm, but I’ve noticed zero difference in my health from going GF. Is anyone else in the same boat?

Toxic parents (neither Catholic)...what do I do? How do I navigate this in a Catholic way while still protecting my son and marriage? (Sorry in advance for the long post...)
So I (26F) have, what I have been realizing for the past few years, very toxic parents (both 50). For background, I am an only child, which I hate bc I feel so alone in dealing with this. I was relatively close with them in my childhood, but when they fought I was ALWAYS their buffer. They would do things like say to me "can you believe they said/did XYZ?” or "don't tell them this but..." or "your dad/mom used to do..."and then say something horrible about the other. Growing up I didn't think much of it, as a defense mechanism I would just go along with it and agree with whoever was talking with me, but my mom was worse about doing this than my dad (dad still did it, just not as often).
I lived with them while in college to save some money, but started to grow more distant while in college due to major life events that happened. While in college we had big deaths in the family, within 2 years both of their moms (both of my grandma's who I was very close with) passed away unexpectedly. When my dad's mom passed he started drinking...a lot, which was terrible to be around, so I tried to avoid being home when at all possible. When my mom's mom passed, her dad went manic and had other health issues so my mom moved in with her dad to care for him for about 6 months. She also was not well, very depressed while still caring for her dad.
After graduating college when I moved out it broke my mom, she literally had a mental break. She moved out of their house, went to live with her sister 1hr away, lived there for 6 months while being suicidal and we FINALLY convinced her to go to a mental facility to get the help she needed.
After she got out she moved back in with my dad, but still had suicidal tendencies and would rely on me and her sister (my aunt) to help stabilize. My aunt, her sister, was her best friend...she passed away from COVID at the end of '21. My mom surprisingly handled it ok, but she is very lonely. Without her she just has me. She has no friends and doesn't try to make friends. I have tried inviting her to things to get her to meet people, but she seems to always have an excuse and never comes.
After all of these terrible things happened, I found God and became Catholic. I know I wouldn't have survived any of this without Him and the Church. I am very firm in my faith which I think makes my parents uncomfortable bc they're not religious (but they think they are). When I became Catholic they, especially my mom, made it known they were not ok with it.
My mom also has a lot of physical illnesses, she has extreme back pain from an unknown cause, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, blood pressure problems...the list goes on, but essentially she is not in great health at all, is in a lot of pain basically all the time....but also seemingly doesn't do anything to really help herself.
Fast forward to now and 8 months ago I had my rainbow baby and my mom absolutely loves him. She says all the time how she wants them to watch the baby so we can go out, but I'm just not comfortable with either of them caring for the baby without my husband or I there with all of their history and a few months ago my mom told me that when I was a kid my dad would hit her. I had no idea, don't remember this at all and was obviously very distraught when I learned of this. I tell her I'm not comfortable with either of them watching the baby alone and she takes it extremely personal and is then very passive aggressive. Which of course makes me feel terrible. SOOO....what do I do? How do I navigate this in a Catholic way while still protecting my son and marriage?
Thanks if you made it this far!

Me 21f, and my girlfriend 20f have been dating for four months. I had two relationships before her, and she had one. But hers was an online relationship while mine were not, so i had my first kiss and all of the steps of intimacy with both of them. I am her first everything. And she (understandably) feels not so great about my past relationships. She is so insecure about them. And it’s always been this way for four months. I dont regret my past relationships because i loved them and i was serious about them. But lately, i am starting to regret them, with her pushing me away almost everytime we kiss because she remembered i kissed someone before. Or if we are doing more stuff, she remembers i did those things before and gets sad, almost cries. Says “ its hard to imagine you feeling comfortable with someone that much”. And every single time, i reassure her as best as i can. Stop everything we are doing, talk to her, cuddle her and keep reassuring her. And once every two/three days she always makes “jokes” that involves my exes. This isnt something that bothers me, for me. I am worried that these feelings of her wont go away and she cant be fully happy with me. We have talked about this before but she only says that she is sorry. Now, i do get her. But here is what bothers me and i want advice on this especially. We didn’t have sex yet. I just don’t feel ready for it. But she says that if i had sex with my exes after less time than her, she would get sad. I cant help but feel pressure. Like a lot. Its effecting me. We are not there yet, my past experiences were later in the relationship. But, she will go to her hometown for three months and we are going to have a sleepover and i know she will want to do stuff. Her being this way, me regretting the things i did in the past, is not good for me at all. I seriously have no idea what to do and it’s starting to affect me, therefore our relationship ,a lot.
What should i do???? and yes i have talked to her and reassured her in every way imaginable.

We loved listening to The Strokes together. "The New Abnormal" was released at the height of the pandemic, when nobody else was releasing new music. That album became forever cemented in my mind as a memory of those times with you and the years that followed. It's the one album that I can't listen to without being flooded with thoughts of you.
Today is the first time since you left me that I listened to it in its entirety. It was really hard to get through, in a way, because it felt like a time machine transporting me back to all the happiness of our years and moments together. I was reminded of how I felt when we were still together, when I was still whole, complete, happy and content. I saw the vivid images of us sneaking away to make love in your mom van because we were all supposed to be home in quarantine. Of us lounging together in and by the pool in the summertime, talking, laughing, making lunch together, dancing in the kitchen, then heading to the bedroom for some afternoon delight. The way it felt to be best friends and lovers. How we went to the Strokes show last August and had such a beautiful evening together. It was one of our last happy times with one another, one of my last happy times at all. I miss you so, so much.
I wonder if you still listen to it. Are you able to? Or is it just another thing you've thrown away because it reminds you of all that was so good between us? I hope you still do listen to it, and the memories and happiness of our magic come back to your heart and mind, if only for a little while.
Times like this are really hard. People tell me to just move on, but I can't. There's a very deep part of me that is painfully aware that what has come to pass is not what was meant to be, and I'm unable to escape from that. Things got really bad in the end, but I always knew that the things said were just because of superficial damage that had been caused by the pain and rejection of losing you slowly over the course of a year. That it was like a coating of dried mud, that when cracked off and wiped away would reveal the shining gem of our love for each other underneath. That if you could only see that, see me, the man you said you'd love until the end of time, instead of only that outer coating of mud, that we could repair all the damage, discard all the harsh words, and finally be free to grow together and love each other for who we really are, who we always were. That we could have so easily started fresh and been so happy with each other again, instead of throwing it all away and allowing what's happened instead to happen. But for some reason, you were never able to do that. You didn't know how to scrape away and see through the mud, which I'll never understand because you're otherwise so brilliantly intelligent. But nonetheless, you were unable to see this simple path to peace and happiness and chose the opposite instead.
I wish there was some way, any way to get through to you, but you've closed all the pathways. I want so very much to just sit and talk with you, like two good people with good intentions who wish each other only good things. Really, I'd do anything for that, even if it was only one more time. After all the time that's passed, I'd hope that you'd be able to finally let go of the resentment and just have an open and kind conversation for each other's best benefit. I wish there was some way to make you see that.
If we could only sit together and listen to "The New Abnormal" together just one more time, such a simple thing could have enough magical power to bring us back together again.
I miss you, T, more than words can ever say,
M

I (30F) met this guy (34M) on Raya a month and a half ago. We immediately hit it off. Always on the phone, FT watching movies/shows every single night. Planning upcoming trips (he lives in Indianapolis and I live in Atlanta). After a week he planned his trip to Atlanta and we agreed I'd go to Indianapolis two weeks later, and he would come to LA where I would be two weeks after that. Shortly before coming to Atlanta, he asked me to go with him to TN with his parents the week before I go to Indianapolis (the week after he came to Atlanta). I said yes and we were both SO excited. I just think things changed in Atlanta. I found him to be pretty inconsiderate because we only went places he wanted to go, stayed out very late every night, and really only met up with his friends. His excessive weed smoking also bothered me. His last night there, I told him how I felt and he completely disagreed and thought that he was being considerate so we had a slight argument. The next day before I took him to the airport, I asked him whether the disagreement changed anything between us and he said no, so I believed that.
Over the next week after Atlanta, the conversations slowed and we didn't watch movies or FaceTime not even a single time. He never mentioned TN again and went without me. While in TN, he hardly texted me back, so I told him I felt things were different. He was a little defensive but apologized and said it was not intentional. Then over the next few days (leading up to me going to Indianapolis), conversation was still slow and still no FaceTime. I just felt in my guy things were different and was not comfortable going anymore (I was solely going to visit him, but when he came to Atlanta, his friends were there too)... but he assured me things were good and that he was excited for me to come.
I am now in Indianapolis and heading home today. I have very mixed feelings about how things went. I am sad that I'm leaving because it feels like this is the last time I will ever see him. Kind of like I'm grieving? The same level of inconsiderateness continued here. He had to work a couple of days and those days I was my by myself until the evening time, which I understood. He's a photographer and his income isnt steady so when he gets a gig he has to take it. I understand. But one of the gigs were pre-planned. He told me about it before I came and put my name on the list to go with him. The morning of the event, he told me that the attire was pink and dressy. Of course I didnt pack anything to fit the dress code so I couldnt go. That evening I told him I just wanted Chillis. He said, "we can go for you but I'm not going to eat anything because I don't like Chillis" and I was like okay cool, let's go where you want to go. He had to take a nap first. Then he had to shower. Then he has to roll his weed. THEN we went. I was starving. Kitchen was closed when we got there. I was so pissed and had a visible attitude. We settled for a taco truck. The next morning, we were laying in bed and I saw that he accidentally opened Tinder. He left for a quick gig and I texted him letting him know we should start using condoms since hes on Tinder. He basically scolded me and said he wasnt on Tinder and he just has the app and that it was immature of me to accuse first before just asking. I apologized. Later, we went back to try the place where the kitchen was closed. Had an overall good day. Then we're sipping wine and watching one of his shows to close the evening, and I suggest a show and he says no and just puts on another one of his shows. The wine hit me at that moment and I went off and told him he's been so inconsiderate despite how understanding I've been the whole trip. He didnt like my tone so he yelled back a little. I called my best friend to get her take on the situation and she did agree that he was inconsiderate but that i shouldnt have yelled. I accept full responsibility for my delivery but it was really how I felt.
I slept on the couch but woke him up to talk about it. I guess I was still emotional and yelling (which I didnt realize I was doing) because he got in my face and yelled, "watch your tone in my f***ing house" and I told him that I was going to look into changing my flight or getting a hotel. He said let's just go to sleep and talk about it when we wake up. At 11 he woke up and I asked if we could talk about it. He said after he gets out the shower. After the shower, the talk was short. It was mainly me asking him if he thought this was going to work. He said he wanted it to work but that he isnt confident.
Now were down to the last day, we've been having a good time the last two days, but we did agree that him coming to LA was too soon and expensive for now. Is it possible to turn this around? I do like him aside from him being inconsiderate. I really enjoyed us connecting before things got weird. But not I feel as though he's looking at me as someone who likes to cause problems, even though that isn't the case. I just feel as though I flew out to see him just to be disregarded. I want to turn things around and get back to where they were. Will pulling back a little, but not maliciously, leaving the ball in his court work?

We loved listening to The Strokes together. "The New Abnormal" was released at the height of the pandemic, when nobody else was releasing new music. That album became forever cemented in my mind as a memory of those times with you and the years that followed. It's the one album that I can't listen to without being flooded with thoughts of you.
Today is the first time since you left me that I listened to it in its entirety. It was really hard to get through, in a way, because it felt like a time machine transporting me back to all the happiness of our years and moments together. I was reminded of how I felt when we were still together, when I was still whole, complete, happy and content. I saw the vivid images of us sneaking away to make love in your mom van because we were all supposed to be home in quarantine. Of us lounging together in and by the pool in the summertime, talking, laughing, making lunch together, dancing in the kitchen, then heading to the bedroom for some afternoon delight. The way it felt to be best friends and lovers. How we went to the Strokes show last August and had such a beautiful evening together. It was one of our last happy times with one another, one of my last happy times at all. I miss you so, so much.
I wonder if you still listen to it. Are you able to? Or is it just another thing you've thrown away because it reminds you of all that was so good between us? I hope you still do listen to it, and the memories and happiness of our magic come back to your heart and mind, if only for a little while.
Times like this are really hard. People tell me to just move on, but I can't. There's a very deep part of me that is painfully aware that what has come to pass is not what was meant to be, and I'm unable to escape from that. Things got really bad in the end, but I always knew that the things said were just because of superficial damage that had been caused by the pain and rejection of losing you slowly over the course of a year. That it was like a coating of dried mud, that when cracked off and wiped away would reveal the shining gem of our love for each other underneath. That if you could only see that, see me, the man you said you'd love until the end of time, instead of only that outer coating of mud, that we could repair all the damage, discard all the harsh words, and finally be free to grow together and love each other for who we really are, who we always were. That we could have so easily started fresh and been so happy with each other again, instead of throwing it all away and allowing what's happened instead to happen. But for some reason, you were never able to do that. You didn't know how to scrape away and see through the mud, which I'll never understand because you're otherwise so brilliantly intelligent. But nonetheless, you were unable to see this simple path to peace and happiness and chose the opposite instead.
I wish there was some way, any way to get through to you, but you've closed all the pathways. I want so very much to just sit and talk with you, like two good people with good intentions who wish each other only good things. Really, I'd do anything for that, even if it was only one more time. After all the time that's passed, I'd hope that you'd be able to finally let go of the resentment and just have an open and kind conversation for each other's best benefit. I wish there was some way to make you see that.
If we could only sit together and listen to "The New Abnormal" together just one more time, such a simple thing could have enough magical power to bring us back together again.
I miss you, T, more than words can ever say,
M

Currently living with my Mom until I find a place and ex-wife moved in basically getting "help" from my mom. Has been here for a year and has been told a thousand times we are not getting back together but keeps going on with this bs. She has traveled 2 times a year with her family and has invitado me in the past but also has gone with them leaving me here without inviting me when we were together too.
Going to New York for a couple of days and I haven't ever been there, taking my son only and she flips out now saying that it was always a dream of her to take him to NY. Telling her family that she is not going because I didn't invite her in a victims tone really pissed me off. Supposedly leaving soon but I will believe it when I see it.

The title says it all. I’m sick, i have diseases, i’m not pretty or interesting or smart or anything really. I don’t have any friends, i’ve had a crappy life. Always struggling and trying everything to get out of this lifestyle but i can’t. I’m just damaged beyond repair. I don’t go to college anymore, i just work and go home to do absolutely nothing. I don’t want to continue anymore, i’m tired of hurting physically and mentally. My body just can’t take it anymore, i’m constantly sick and hurting all the time and there’s no cure for my diseases. I feel so alone, i tried to reach out and make new friends and be hopeful, i was the cheerful, funny and sweet friend but everyone treats me like shit like i’m some kind of monster when all i do is be nice and helpful to others, i don’t even talk about my problems and traumas. But when i find someone that could potentially become a friend i just drift away because it takes to much work from me and i just don’t have the energy… I might just take my life away because honestly i don’t think i want to live in this world, everything goes to shit everywhere, i don’t even see a future, sure i wish for some things but i can’t imagine it becoming real. Everything is fucked and i might just get fucked up enough so i don’t wake up. I’m just sad for my cat, my dad and my girlfriend, this will probably fuck her up for life and i’m sorry but i just can’t.

We loved listening to The Strokes together. "The New Abnormal" was released at the height of the pandemic, when nobody else was releasing new music. That album became forever cemented in my mind as a memory of those times with you and the years that followed. It's the one album that I can't listen to without being flooded with thoughts of you.
Today is the first time since you left me that I listened to it in its entirety. It was really hard to get through, in a way, because it felt like a time machine transporting me back to all the happiness of our years and moments together. I was reminded of how I felt when we were still together, when I was still whole, complete, happy and content. I saw the vivid images of us sneaking away to make love in your mom van because we were all supposed to be home in quarantine. Of us lounging together in and by the pool in the summertime, talking, laughing, making lunch together, dancing in the kitchen, then heading to the bedroom for some afternoon delight. The way it felt to be best friends and lovers. How we went to the Strokes show last August and had such a beautiful evening together. It was one of our last happy times with one another, one of my last happy times at all. I miss you so, so much.
I wonder if you still listen to it. Are you able to? Or is it just another thing you've thrown away because it reminds you of all that was so good between us? I hope you still do listen to it, and the memories and happiness of our magic come back to your heart and mind, if only for a little while.
Times like this are really hard. People tell me to just move on, but I can't. There's a very deep part of me that is painfully aware that what has come to pass is not what was meant to be, and I'm unable to escape from that. Things got really bad in the end, but I always knew that the things said were just because of superficial damage that had been caused by the pain and rejection of losing you slowly over the course of a year. That it was like a coating of dried mud, that when cracked off and wiped away would reveal the shining gem of our love for each other underneath. That if you could only see that, see me, the man you said you'd love until the end of time, instead of only that outer coating of mud, that we could repair all the damage, discard all the harsh words, and finally be free to grow together and love each other for who we really are, who we always were. That we could have so easily started fresh and been so happy with each other again, instead of throwing it all away and allowing what's happened instead to happen. But for some reason, you were never able to do that. You didn't know how to scrape away and see through the mud, which I'll never understand because you're otherwise so brilliantly intelligent. But nonetheless, you were unable to see this simple path to peace and happiness and chose the opposite instead.
I wish there was some way, any way to get through to you, but you've closed all the pathways. I want so very much to just sit and talk with you, like two good people with good intentions who wish each other only good things. Really, I'd do anything for that, even if it was only one more time. After all the time that's passed, I'd hope that you'd be able to finally let go of the resentment and just have an open and kind conversation for each other's best benefit. I wish there was some way to make you see that.
If we could only sit together and listen to "The New Abnormal" together just one more time, such a simple thing could have enough magical power to bring us back together again.
I miss you, T, more than words can ever say,
M

Hi all, currently going through the BI with the USSS. I’ve gotten BQA 2 years ago after my security interview and now that I passed my security,Poly, Medical and home interview so worried that I’ll get BQA after all of that. The BQA still haunts me till this day so I’m just so worried that they can and do BQA at this end of process. If anyone has experience or info about this please share and let me know.
My background is clean no drugs,no alcohol, some travel abroad, duel citizenship but I mentioned that I’ll renounce it, 9 foreign contacts but they don’t have any government jobs and most of them under the age of 21 because they’re my cousins. My reference and employers have been contacted already and all say good things expect for 1 job. Is this going to be a problem? I want to reach out to the investigator to explain the discrepancy because he didn’t mention anything about the job that gave me a bad review but when I reached out to my FO to check on the status they mentioned that if HQ has questions they will reach out. Is that too late to explain the discrepancy to my investigator or since he didn’t contact me he doesn’t think it’s a deal breaker? Thank you so much!!

This may be an issue with iOS/iPadOS in general, but I've found since purchasing a new 11" M4 IPP that the magic keyboard sometimes just straight up doesnt work.
What do I mean by this? Well, I'll be going along my way working on it, and let's say I wanted to use Spotlight. I try Cmd-space and 95% of the time it works, then randomly it'll just not work for 2-3 times.
Then let's say I've just unlocked the device (2 space bar taps), and then I quickly hit the lock button again --- it may ignore the first 1-2 presses of the button, then finally decides "ok I'll let you do it this time"
Is there some sort of input block timer that Apple has after a new screen appears? I'm trying to find some sort of explanation for this thing just randomly deciding to ignore keyboard inputs seemingly outta the blue. There's no pattern to it, it's extremely short-lived when it happens, and I'm semi-convinced that it has nothing to do with the keyboard or bluetooth, and that it's 100% an issue with iPadOS.

How to forget someone? Can I get access to the settings to delete residual data? My brain settings, I mean. Because I don't feel her so much in my heart.
Well, for a brain trained to remember formulas and enzimes, it's hard to forget about something like that.
Maybe I do feel her in my heart, a little bit.
But, with imparciality, you can't eliminate the memories of a person, there is no way to forget about everthing that we did. There's no point in lying to myself.
So, what's the alternative? 'cause if I can't forget you, I think about us everyday. And I bet you don't even remember me. But, what do I have to do if I can't forget about you? Get over you? How do I do that? Get over you. Surpass the version of me that was with you. Beat your memory. Because if I stay the same, just like you met me, waiting for you, then you win. And if you were here with me, I would let you win everytime. But since you tried yo hurt me, I'm thirsty for competition; to not let you win, to not let your memory win. Because you probably don't give a shit about this, probably you'll never know about this. And it's better that way, far.
I belive it's time to get you out of my life. Not to remove you from it, that's not what I mean. But to get over you without having you in consideration.
And, as I write this, I'd like to know what you think about this, because I still want you to want me.
If you think Bad about me, keep it to yourself. But if you want me back, you just have to say it. And like that, I go round and round, like a dump of shit in the toilet.

My husband [36] has been the Godfather for 4 of his first cousins children and now Sponser to 2. They now have 8 children, so I expect they will ask him plenty more times. My husband has participated in these activities for the past 4 years in a row. Since we married 3 years ago, they never asked me to be Godmother. I feel quite offended, as I have been to 3 rehersals and all events. Each time, you are giving 2 days of your time.
When I first met my husband first cousin and his family, I felt very uncomfortable. His cousin's wife is extremely vulgur and hot headed. She even called my mil a "fucken bitch" in front of my husband. My husband doesn't want to rock the boat, and wants to maintain a relationship with his cousin, so he says nothing. He doesn't ask them anything in order not to get into their bad books and for them to stop talking to him. To give context, his cousin hasn't spoken to his parents in many years and the grandparents haven't even met all their grandkids. They are quick to cut people out of their lives. They don't even tell people when they are expecting, as it is some type of game. At one point, my husband first met one of the children at another event. He asked "who is the child in the stroller?" It was theirs. They will tell only a few people that they are expecting and then see if the grandparents find out. They test people to see who can keep a secret for them and who is loyal to them. I don't like to play games like this or associate with people that do this.
The Confirmation is on a Thursday at 5 and I finish work at 6 to 7pm. I will not be going. Partially because I work late and have patients booked, I need to make money and because I don't feel comfortable.
Is this acceptible, or should I attend? Any suggestions of advice on dealing with them in the future?

Since yesterday after returning home from work my Wi-Fi is no longer working. Some details:

1. I have an Arris Surfboard SBG10 routemodem combo. I've used this for 2+ years without issue. Just moved last month and it connected to the new service just fine. All the lights are on just fine, though the bottom one is flickering [the ((.)) one]. And yes, I tried resetting the modem/router and even changed cable outlets and tried a different cable cord.
   
2. My Wi-Fi connection is selectable on my iPhone but I do not get any service from it. Even when I'm not trying to access a new webpage on my phone's browser, I get popups saying "Cannot Verify Server Identity" from web addresses like outlook.office365.com and susi.comcast.net.
   
3. Reported an issue with Xfinity and they say there are no outages detected in my area.
   
4. My Samsung TV and HP laptop are also not connecting so I know it's not just a phone problem.
   
5. If I go into my xfinity app my modem/router is no longer listed.
   

Please help so I don't have to sit on a phone line with customer service. I saw another thread suggest my modem/router could just be at the end of its lifespan. It was a cheaper one, I definitely didn't pay more than $80 for it.
Open to any and all suggestions.

I am going in circles right now with the corporate office here. I purchased the project source branded water filters for my Samsung fridge. I've changed it out 5 times with a Samsung branded filter without issue, and decided that 2 of these for the price of 1 seemed fair to try. I followed the directions, soaked it, installed it, and ran about 4 gallons through it before consuming anything. It seemed to install the same way as the OE filters, I went to sleep and this morning stepped out of my bedroom and into water. The filter had leaked and filled my kitchen and living room with water. I mopped up, used towels and got things under control, but I have water under my vinyl plank flooring now. Has anyone had luck with a damage claim with Lowes? I've been on the phone for 2 hrs and have been transferred no less than 5 times and still have no resolution. As I sit here typing this, she says they have to connect me to Project Source and gives me the number I am on the phone with.... Then transfers me to a warehouse lady that has no clue. I don't get it. Who do I talk to that knows something?

I’m in a fragile state rn so please be gentle lol
My family is wonderful and very physically present, but the older I get the more I feel like I don’t have the same relationships with them that they do with each other and it’s so painful. My brother and sister often hang out and go on trips together that are never really mentioned to me and I wish I could be close with my younger sister the way that I always see people talking about with their sister.
But I think the most painful is seeing my dad so close with my sister and always feeling like an outside with the two of them. We used to go on fun little trips together, just the three of us, but for the last several years it’s always just the two of them. I know I’m a few years older now and work full time while she’s in school so it’s harder for me to call off work and I guess I have more responsibilities, but they hardly even mention it to me before it happens, they might make a passing comment with the potential dates and then a few months later I hear that they’re leaving that weekend. Every single year when I find out it causes a rift between my dad and I, but it still happens again the next year.
It just happened again a few days ago, I asked if my dad could help me with something car related and he said he couldn’t because he’d be on this trip with my sister, but this time he truly didn’t say a single word of it to me. I said thanks for the invite, he told me he sent me a list of dates of possible trips back in January so I must’ve known, and then I scrolled through 4 months of texts and didn’t find a single mention of it. I sent him pictures showing that he had never once mentioned this trip to me, and he said something like “I’m sorry. You once bailed out when I got your ticket. I’m going to California in June if you want to come”. He offered to get me a ticket but it felt like he was throwing his hands up in the air saying fine, you can come too. And it’s obviously too late for me to call off work now, even if they did want me there.
There was a few years ago where I did have a ticket and then wasn’t able to go for reasons I don’t remember. So I guess he doesn’t want that to happen again maybe. I just don’t get why my absence wouldn’t make him want to put even more of an effort towards making sure I’m apart of the next trip since I wasn’t there on the last one. There was another year where I technically ruined their trip when I had to go to the psych ward, and a few months later my dad slipped out a comment on how much money it had cost him.
I don’t know anymore. I have been casually left out of things for my entire life and having it happen with my own family is just idek. I sent him a long text explaining how hurtful it feels to always feel like my company isn’t wanted and told him I didn’t want a reply, but it’s been a few days and he actually hasn’t said a word. My mom said he’s always a forgetful person and not to take it personally but it would just be nice if he could remember the person that made him a father

I had a relationship where the person seemed all into me from the start with regular communication and inquisitiveness about me. We met at the park originally and had really great spark. I had never had anything like that before. Usually i was used to people who were inconsistent and don’t care really. This person met my family and friends and a little bit later they said they thought we were so well matched that actually they were ready to propose and get married. we shared the same values the same future outlook in life. everything was just matched. we could talk for the whole day at a time and we did activities together.
i started taking part in their hobbies because I enjoyed doing things together. soon i realised that i was the one doing their hobbies more than they were caring or asking about mine. i noticed the stuff i was proud of like a few of my hobbies and activities they said were silly. they called me dumb and stupid as a joke on several occasions. they even called me a swear word as a joke also. when i expressed i didnt like it they carried on saying it about someone else. apparently they said this stuff to people they care about/it’s their friendship groups humor. they made a joke about my ears as a joke my clothes too there was always something to say about them. i felt that i was changing myself for them - the way i look and the way i dressed. even though they weren’t controlling or forceful their sarcastic comments got to me and made me change. i had an intrinsic feeling a few times that they were rushing things and didn’t really care who i was as a person but they kept reassuring me that we were right. we talked about the proposal rings honeymoon future moving in everything. the proposal was meant to happen soon after
we met again after a little bit of time of being LDR different states and all of a sudden they had completely changed and were cold with me. they just didn’t care and my jokes were annoying and they seemed happier with everyone else but me. they walked ahead of me and let a door close in my face because they were so unbothered where i was. i asked the issue and they said they don’t feel anything for me romantically and we’re nothing more than a checklist. i couldn’t believe this. i was shocked and although i accepted things amicably i’m really distraught. i don’t understand the change overnight from one night saying nothing would change their feelings about me to nothing. it’s been a month and has had a significant impact on me. i just don’t know how i’m ever going to get the consistency they gave me again. they wanted to talk all the time even from the start and I’ve only ever talked to people before who were very low effort with me. We matched on everything and I was so excited about the future and I just don’t know how I can move on after we had planned so much. i don’t think i can find someone who communicates like that again or is this consistent. what should i do?

I'm a fan since I was a child, not even a teenager, and I respect all of RH's (and members) work. Having said this I believe HTTT was rushed and some B-side tier like tracks were included just to finish the proyect and move on. All of us know that RH's B-side are INCREDIBLE buy should be put where they belong. I found myself just not listening to HTTT because of the tracklist, so I use Thom's. But it has problems, I will come back to this later.
Here this list is discussed: Thom's Alt Tracklist for 'Hail to the Thief' : radiohead (reddit.com)
So why put aside 4 songs? Well I LIKE THEM but imo drag the album flow. -Young Blood: I like the lyrics and the spooky vibes, the tempo, the claps. When the rush comes in is great, but it sucks the flow. -I Will: it's almost like a survival chant, something Thom will sing to himself to be at ease in the middle of utter chaos. It sucks the flow. -Punch: Very interesting idea and phenomenal execution but i cant find its place here, the lyrics ar off topic for HTTT. RH out of the comfort zone (and this says a lot). -Backdrifts: Its an Amnesiac B-side, no one can tell me otherwise. I like it more than Gloaming (Ill come back to this).
There are problems with Thoms tracklist: Not putting 2 + 2 at the start should be a capital sin, putting Gloaming second should be a death sentence lol. You kill the album with Gloaming second bro, why?
There There in the first half instead of the second is an AMAZING choice, you will hate me for this comparison but i think its the Arpeggi of HTTT, it BELONGS to the beginning.
So how will I fix it? 1. 2+2 2. There there 3. Sail to the moon 4. Sit down, stand up 5. Go to sleep 6. Where i end 7. Backdrifts 8. Myxomatosis 9. Scatterbrain 10. Wolf
-Why? 2 +2 is obvious, There there second shows the potential of this album and its top 10 at the bare minimum RH song. Then we go mellow on Moon to rise again mid Sit down Stand up. Go to sleep > Where I end is just a no-brainer. Late half being Backdrift or Gloaming (i preffer the first) as introduction to the weirdness of Myxo. Myxo > Brain > Wolf is also a no-brainer and it should remain arrenged in this way as in the original LP.
-Gloaming is Thom pushing his electronic ideas before The Eraser and I dont even think it belongs there, I just dont know where to put it but i preffer Backdrifts. I think no one gets the fascination of Thom for this song, maybe it was a difficult one to finish or something, if u know anything comment below. When RH came to Argentina in 2018 people were fainting in the first row and in the middle of the CHAOS Thom started singing Gloaming lullaby style, acapella. I love the gesture, but OF ALL THE SONGS IN THEIR CATALOG why on earth will he choose that? so random, imagine Mr York whispering on clutches: ''funny haha, when the walls bend with your breathing'' like wtf xD
-You're free to comment, leave your list and opinions. This is not out of disrespect but my will to listen to these bunch of songs instead of forgetting about them :/

Hellooo,
Just a lil theory. Tana said they were going to touch base on the awful things happening Palestine in the next pod episode (I’m assuming the one coming out this week?). I’m wondering if it’s coming out late because they have to do some major editing to avoid backlash OR if they’re skipping it all together. I’m also wondering if that picture Brooke snapped of them podcasting in Hawaii is going to be the new episode and they’re just running late?
Idk. Ofc they’ve run late with episodes before but Tana saying a while back that their touching base on Palestine and the episode being Late seems to have a correlation.

Me, an ENFP and my ESFJ friend were having a flirtatious banter sort of thing, on and off for almost 2 years. He wanted to have a relationship since the last 6 months(I'm poly BTW) & he knew everything about me and even helped me nurse a disastrous heartbreak that was going on when we were just friends. All the while, I began to develop feelings for him but I didn't dare confess them, till yesterday when I did and he got cold feet all of a sudden. I wish I could go back how things were but now that feelings are out in the open, I feel hurt and vulnerable. He says he's just a one woman guy and that my idea of love is completely different from his or at least that's what he says today. There have been instances when he wanted to have a physical relationship with me but I denied it till yesterday. Turns out, I'm in love and now he isn't.
What do I do in this scenario? Will he come back to me? I feel horrible for confessing that I loved him and I guess I just lost a very good friend. He said I'm the only one that makes him feel seen and it was the same for me too. I felt so safe and hence I blurted all my feelings out. Any advice or any opinions to help me would be greatly appreciated because I just feel really numb right now.

This post was originally meant to be a comment, I see a lot of people asking where to start/getting confused about what it actually means to be an entrepreneur and start a business, and a lot of people seem to be starting without any direction at all. I like to think of being an entrepreneur’ not as a choice, but as a gift or blessing for the world that has been handed down onto someone. More of a destiny, so here’s my humble advice on how to get there:
Simple Terms: Find what you’re good at, everyone has something ➡️ Get knowledgeable about it ➡️ Work in that profession ➡️ Identify fixable problem/unseen technique within that profession ➡️ Study it, sell it, profit.
If you’re lost on what to do and don’t think you have a talent, then you just haven’t experienced life yet. A lot of people have a ‘trigger event’ for when they do figure out what to do, but it’s unlikely you’ll experience it at home.
You can think of it as you in a field, with a bow n’ arrow, and blind fold on. You don’t know how many targets there are, and you can’t see them right away. But you do know that if you keep shooting your unlimited amount of arrows, and don’t give up, something will eventually stick. You can increase your chances of this by:
➡️ Going to college ➡️ Taking on a trade ➡️ Traveling ➡️ Meeting new people ➡️ Volunteering ➡️ Learning a new language ➡️ Taking on new sports/hobbies
Things to avoid and sure ways to fail: ➡️ Opening a business without an idea ➡️ Being a know it all/undermining people ➡️ Taking advice from gurus on YouTube ➡️ Sitting at home and not experiencing life ➡️ Having no respect for others, this burns bridges and will literally get you nowhere
Final tip: ➡️ Your business/product should improve the lives of others. If you try to make money off of cheating/taking advantage of others it’ll come down on you fast, and why do that anyway? Don’t be another scummy business fool.