Im starting to love you quotes

Dear, the guy who might be the one for me for eternity. I just feel like now is a time for me to write this because there is no other ways to feel better if I keep it in.
I'm 20 years old, I've been single my whole life. There has been a guy I thought was the one for me, but turns out they were not. Now they ran off happily with some other girl. Leaving me breathless and heart broken. Being single for 20 years has been okay, and peaceful. I enjoy being single, but then again I feel also that there are times where I love myself enough and know my standards, I can't seem to help but feel that I want to have a man, the one that will hold my heart gentle. Someone I can go to, EVERYTIME, to cry on and lean on when I'm in desperate need of comfort. I want to feel that love with a man that I read in my books and see in movies. I know there are guys like that out there, and they got their woman just to make them live in that reality. I wish someone could do that for me. Why I plan to write this now? Well, I met a girl not so long ago. She and I share the same interest of reading books. We talked for almost 2 hours until we had to leave to sleep and wake up for the next morning. She told me she was going to the beach the next day with her friends, and I was happy for her. I love beaches but it's not often I go there because where I live, the weather gets quickly cold. But even if a day comes where it's so hot. I can't even afford to get there. I will get my driver license soon and plan on doing so much with a car for the sake of enjoying even if it's little by little. Anyhow, she tells me a moment later that there was a guy and his friends at the beach joining her and her friends playing volleyball. And this certain guy has been eyeing her for a long time. This is where the feeling started, the feeling of ''Wow, she's so lucky'', ''I wish that could happen to me.'' or, ''Why can't that be me, too?''. She explains to me about the guy like a whole romance book started, and there, in the moment, I didn't feel jealous, nor hard feelings on her because she experiencing something all girls who have been single for too long wants it too. I just felt, too happy for her, too happy for her I felt more lonely inside even if i got my soulmate friends. It's just those feelings that pass by but will eventually go away, but will come back naturally and what do I do with it? Just vent it out to myself, anyone, stranger, or a friend. In truth, I'm really tired of how this society of men are going forward. I'm so tired I wonder sometimes if it's even possible. I've interacted with so many guys in my life, it may be hard to believe but really I am speechless how guys are these days. Talking to 30 men, not flirting with all of them at the same time, but just one by one that comes and goes. Not even one, not a single one was never gentle in love. It was rather quick and fast. It makes me wonder where has the slow and gentle love gone? Where is it? Where are you? Where are you in this twisted world that can really love me in a way that feels really love? Home and warm. Safe and comfort. I find it stupid that I come here now writing all this. I'm not sure what I'm trying to gain from here. Maybe I just want someone to truly relate to me. Someone that can speak to my heart in a correct way I'd been wanting someone to do.
So, dear future soulmate, There is so much love I have in me that I truly wanna share with you, even if you're not next to me, not even close, yet further away. I still wait, maybe look for you somewhere and hoping you'd find me. There are many ways I want to say than just ''I love you'', but I want to let you know this way: I've been waiting for you my whole life, for you to be the one and last until i share my last breath. My heart yearns for you in the morning until evening. Every time I look at the sun and feel the warm in my body. I think of you, I think of how you make me feel safe in every way that makes me more in love with you. You truly are magnificent that I could never turn away from the sun you are to me. I'm truly stupid to write this for nobody, but I just want to make my heart heard, I want my heart to feel known by you. If I can hold your heart for one day and more, please let me do it for infinity. I want to give you my heart because that's how much I'd be in love with you, and never give it back to me because you're my reality i've been wanting in my dreams. You are every bit if existence that puts my world on fire in the most extraordinary way. If I could yell out what love feels like, i'd say your name out loud and proud. Knowing that, having you, I can feel like I can do anything because I know, from heart and soul, you'd support me in every way. I love you to an extend that stop loving you feels like an endgame for me. I want to grow old with you and have beautiful kids with you. Finally, I want to know what loves feels like with you. If you are out there. Your most long lost soulmate, A

I've been dating my partner for 3 years now, our relationship is pretty ok for the most part. I work an overnight job, have a bedridden mother and stress from other circumstances. So when we first started dating, there were no signs of insecurity or lack of self esteem. When it reared its head, I've always been on top of reassuring but now it's tiring. I'm an emotional repressed man due to my upbringing(currently seeking therapy). I've offered love through several means, ordered food, given massages, spending quality time with her. But when I keep getting the, do you still love me texts or the constant need for reassurance. I've almost flipped my lid because it feels like she authentically is ungrateful. I also hate having to play therapist or being accused of feeling some type of way because of intrusive thoughts/feelings. Plus with my overnight job, she will drop hard conversations and intrusive thoughts on me while at work. Call me because she can't sleep, text me insecure thoughts seeking reassurance at 4 am, go off on me because the imps in her head are telling her one thing. I've tried putting up these boundaries of not bothering me during my shift. But it's never going to be listened to.
TLDR:Gf seeks constant reassurance from and I'm at my wits end. Any advice will help

Hey there! I'm on a quest to find that special someone who can be more than just a friend. Life's journey is more enjoyable with someone by your side, don't you agree? Despite not knowing you yet, I have faith in the magic of connection and believe that together, we can create something beautiful.
I recently turned 21 and live in the Greater Ahmedabad area. While I adore my city, I'm eager to make new friends online. Whether it's chatting late into the night or sharing funny pictures, I'm all in for making meaningful connections.
Let's break the ice with some fun activities! Whether it's discovering new music, exchanging recipes (I make a mean pasta dish!), or watching our favorite shows together, I'm up for it. And if you're into gaming, count me in for some co-op adventures!
Though I'm young, I've experienced my fair share of ups and downs. But through it all, I've learned the value of kindness, affection, and understanding. If you're someone who values these qualities too, we're off to a great start!
Here's a bit more about me: I enjoy exploring new hobbies and trying new things. Currently, I'm diving into digital art and enjoying every moment of it. I'm also a romantic at heart, so expect lots of love and affection from my end.
When it comes to relationships, I believe in mutual respect, trust, and open communication. While I'm seeking online friendships initially, I'm open to the possibility of it evolving into something more if we both feel a connection.
So, if you're up for friendly chats, laughter, and maybe even a little romance, let's see where this journey takes us! Whether you're from the Greater Ahmedabad area or anywhere else, distance is just a number when hearts connect.
Feel free to reach out, and let's see if we click. And regardless of whether we hit it off or not, I wish you all the best in finding what you're looking for!
Looking forward to hearing from you!
PS - I won't mind if you are older than me.

Hey ya'll
30/M from NC here. After doing a lot of reflection on my last relationship, I realize what I want, what I need, and what I can't compromise on and I feel like it's time to get back out there.
About Me

• 30/M
• Residing in NC, originally from Jersey.
• 6'5, 250lbs (weight loss surgery patient)
• Blue eyes, shaved head. Beard (Ginger apparently)
• Politically moderate, respectful of all views
• Non-religious and I'd prefer if you aren't either as it's just caused conflict in the past.
• Employed full-time and enrolled in school full-time.

A few things I enjoy

• Movies/film study - horror and Star Wars are my jam.
• Gaming - Xbox, PS5, PC - always down to try something new and drink/shoot the breeze!
• Cooking - I'm one hell of a chef
• Amateur Mixology
• Reading
• Writing
• Hiking/camping when my health allows - the dogs love hiking!
• Bonding with my two dogs - Yes, I will provide all the pictures you desire!

What I'm looking for

• US Based Female (sorry, but it's too hard with timezones)
• 25-35 years old
• Appearance doesn't matter much to me, however traits like voice, eyes, and smile will win me over.
• Strictly monogamous
• Someone who seeks quality time - phone calls, gaming together, movies together. Bonus points if you're within 5-6 hours and we can easily meet up.
• Emotionally available - please have done the work to heal from your last relationship!
• Looking to ease into things, definitely a friends-to-lovers arc.
• No smoking (420 is not a problem as long as it's vape or edible due to sensitivity to smell. If that's your thing, more power to you but we won't be compatible long-term, unfortunately.

For communication, I have Discord, Snapchat, and good ole' texting.
Send me a chat with your favorite horror movie and let's get this started!

Hey ya'll
30/M from NC here. After doing a lot of reflection on my last relationship, I realize what I want, what I need, and what I can't compromise on and I feel like it's time to get back out there.
About Me

• 30/M
• Residing in NC, originally from Jersey.
• 6'5, 250lbs (weight loss surgery patient)
• Blue eyes, shaved head. Beard (Ginger apparently)
• Politically moderate, respectful of all views
• Non-religious and I'd prefer if you aren't either as it's just caused conflict in the past.
• Employed full-time and enrolled in school full-time.

A few things I enjoy

• Movies/film study - horror and Star Wars are my jam.
• Gaming - Xbox, PS5, PC - always down to try something new and drink/shoot the breeze!
• Cooking - I'm one hell of a chef
• Amateur Mixology
• Reading
• Writing
• Hiking/camping when my health allows - the dogs love hiking!
• Bonding with my two dogs - Yes, I will provide all the pictures you desire!

What I'm looking for

• US Based Female (sorry, but it's too hard with timezones)
• 25-35 years old
• Appearance doesn't matter much to me, however traits like voice, eyes, and smile will win me over.
• Strictly monogamous
• Someone who seeks quality time - phone calls, gaming together, movies together. Bonus points if you're within 5-6 hours and we can easily meet up.
• Emotionally available - please have done the work to heal from your last relationship!
• Looking to ease into things, definitely a friends-to-lovers arc.
• No smoking (420 is not a problem as long as it's vape or edible due to sensitivity to smell. If that's your thing, more power to you but we won't be compatible long-term, unfortunately.

For communication, I have Discord, Snapchat, and good ole' texting.
Send me a chat with your favorite horror movie and let's get this started!

She got up in the dark, with only the dim ambience of soft blue lighting to accompany her. She stretched all four arms, her two legs, and rolled her neck. It struck her as mildly interesting in that moment, how something so small could connect them to humans, The thought was fleeting as she took another step forward to kneel down on the floor. There, in a little alcove in the wall, she had set a volcanic rock from Anin, dried moss, and other paraphernalia from her home world. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath resting her hands together.
Praise and respect to the spirits of Anin. Praise the fathers and mothers of war gone to their rest below the moss and the earth. Praise their spirits that watch from the sky and peer through the ether down upon us.
She continued the slow mantra in the style of Prayer learned from Naktan and pulled her concentration to her core, ignoring anything and everything around her. A deep state of meditation overtook her. She would never have done this if she thought there were any chance that she was in danger, but below she knew Earth glowed like a sphere before their orbiting ship. There was no worry of invasion.
She thought she heard something at one point, but chose to ignore it as she continued her mantra.
Eventually, and after an unknown amount of minutes, she stood and turned slowly to find-
She stopped, and crossed her arms over her chest.
"What are you doing?”
Adam burrowed his way further down into her blankets, nuzzling his head up against her pillow,
"So warm, and comfy!"
She tried not to smile,
"You dumbass."
He pulled the blankets tighter around himself,
"You know, I did come here to talk to you, but now I actually am really comfortable, so come back in two hours."
"I- This is MY home!"
He closed his eyes and pretended to snore loudly.
She rolled her eyes as she watched him theatrically pretend to sleep. She looked around mildly for a moment, before picking up another pillow and glancing at the door. She casually walked over, dropped the pillow on his head and then held it down as if she intended to smother him.
”Die human scum!”
That got him up and moving.
Before long the two of them were grappling for the upper hand, him trying to put her in a choke hold, and her using her lower arms to pinch him.
He yelped,
"Ouch! Pinching is illegal!”
"Sissy."
He clamped his legs around her lower arms, pinning them in place.
She struggled for a minute and then went limp.
She could feel his smug smile,
"I win, I beat the saint of Anin. Everyone bow at my feet."
"You say that, but if this were a real fight, since you’re a human male, you're the one with a self-destruct button."
"Self-destruct button...?"
"Meaning if this were a real fight, I would have punched you in the balls."
"Yaoooutch… Oh god… Please don't."
Finally, he let her go, leaving the two of them to lay on her bed, sheets scattered on the floor around them, and her pillows in disarray. Adam put his hands behind his head and sighed.
She glanced over at him,
"I don't suppose you came to just hang out. Here on Admiral-ly business?"
He groaned, pulling one of her pillows over his face,
"Please smother me for real this time."
She leaned up on one of her elbows,
"Why?"
"I don't wanna be an adult anymore!"
She tilted her head to the side, watching in amusement as he attempted to throw a childlike tantrum, but only really had the energy to kick his feet once,
"It's boring and lame and they won’t let me wear heelies to important meetings... also children don't have to pay taxes."
She laughed, pulling the pillow from his face,
"Adam you are many things, but 'adult' is not one of them."
He grinned slightly,
"True enough."
He sighed again and rested his head back against the pillows,
"I just want to get back to what we are supposed to be doing, exploring the universe and making cool alien friends."
He threw up his hands in frustration,
"But suddenly I find myself embroiled in stupid annoying politics that I don't understand, being used by people who are, let’s face it, WAY smarter than me, constantly finding myself getting manipulated."
She huffed,
"They aren't smarter than you Adam, they're just manipulative, and you aren't."
He sighed,
"Fair enough."
Then he looked at her, bright green eyes reflecting the soft ambient blue light,
"I just, I miss this, I miss us, I miss hanging out and doing stupid shit, and all of the things I could do when I wasn't so important and this operation was smaller."
She smiled rather sadly reaching one hand over for his, lacing the four of her fingers through the five of his,
"Well someone has to do the hard things, who better than you?”
He glanced over at her, raising an eyebrow,
"Or you, miss saint?”
She rolled her eyes again,
"Can't seem to get you off of that. I'm still the same person I used to be."
"But with power."
She elbowed him gently and he grinned,
"But really, I am proud and impressed and... Let's be honest super super smug that 'I' know you personally."
"I know, I am pretty terrific."
The two of them laughed for a minute before settling down again. He glanced over to her little shrine on the wall,
"What were you doing just then?"
She looked up at the ceiling, following the lines of metal and rivets with her eyes,
"Praying to the spirits of Anin."
Embarrassed, he shifted,
"I didn't know you were... Well I didn't think you were all that religious?"
She shrugged,
"Don't feel bad, it's sort of a new thing. Back before all this, it was sort of just stories to me. Like I believed it because that was what everyone believed, but I didn't really accept it, or feel it the way I do now. After everything with my mother, it was hard to feel connected to something I felt I wasn't a part of... But then after visiting my mother, after becoming a saint for a religion I never really followed... Well, it started to make more sense. It feels real now in a way that it never did."
She turned to look at him, finding him watching her, the UV blue stripes in his skin glowing blue.
"I believe in the spirits of Anin more than I ever have."
He smiled at her and squeezed her hand,
"I'm glad to hear it."
They lapsed into silence for a long moment, staring up at the ceiling before, inevitably he broke it,
"So this makes you like, space Moses right?”
She frowned and turned to look at him,
"What is a “Moses”?"
He grinned,
"A guy from one of the Earth Religions. You know, guy follows god's directions to lead his people away from slavery, climbs a mountain, receives the word of god, comes down to give it to the people, that sort of thing."
Sunny tilted her head slightly to the side,
"Are you religious?"
He paused, frowning,
"I... well I... don't really know. My family has been some flavor of Christian for a long time."
"Christian?"
"Uh yeah, the general idea is that there is one all-powerful deity who created everything. He has rules and laws that you are supposed to follow, the general tenants of this specific religion mostly boil down to: love everyone and don't be a dick, which humans are notoriously bad at. You sin you go to hell, a very bad place after you die, and if you are a good person you go to heaven. Problem is everyone is a sinner and breaks the rules, so really no one was going to get into heaven."
"That sounds bleak..."
"Well, that's where the other stuff comes in. Basically, this all-powerful deity sent down his son in human form to live a perfect life, so when he was martyred he took on the sins of all of humanity and paid for them in the greatest act of mercy to open the gate for the rest of us into heaven."
Sunny shifted as he tilted to the side to lay in the crook of her arms,
"Of course that is just one religion among tons on earth, we aren't really as cohesive in our beliefs as Drev are... As for me... I'm not really sure."
She tilted her head to the side, cheek resting against his hair,
"After seeing space, I become more and more convinced of some... Thing that created everything, but beyond that it's sort of a tossup."
She ran one hand through his hair, coarse but still soft somehow.
"You know my name comes from that religion?”
She turned her head to look at him,
"Oh, really?”
"Adam was the first man."
"What do you mean!?”
Adam shrugged,
"He was supposedly the first man that god created, from the dust of the earth... I think?"
She gave him a sidelong glance,
"Look, and you get to be the first idiot in space."
He snorted and poked her in the ribs.
"There were PLENTY of idiots in space before me, believe you me."
"Mmm I don't know, you are pretty dumb."
He laughed, grabbing a pillow and hitting her with it. She rolled over so she was lying on top of him and then went limp.
He struggled,
"Get your big ass off me."
"Oh no, I have been attacked by a sudden acute case of the “my spine doesn't work anymore”-disease."
"If you don't move, you'll suddenly find yourself with a case of “fist in your face”-disease."
She laughed and rolled off him, making sure the hard parts of her carapace were sticking down for maximum discomfort.
He grunted.
They returned to lying down next to each other in the half darkness. Sunny reached over and turned on some quiet music in the background as the two of them sat and talked, and laughed.
"I can't wait to get back to deep space."
He closed his eyes and hummed softly at the thought,
"Just the crew and the darkness and nothing ahead of us but an endless frontier."
Surprisingly, she found the thought to be more than a little comforting, and closed her eyes thinking about the vast reaches of blackness and the endless spinning galaxies.
"And while we are out, we can drop Conn into a pulsar."
He snorted,
“Why? Well first of for scientific reasons! If a marshmallow causes a nuclear blast, I wonder what dropping Conn would do… but at least he’d be dead.”
"That billowy bastard would survive and you know it."
She huffed,
"Still though, if I have to hear one more smug lecture how he has a child with you, I'm gonna wring his scrawny neck."
He grinned teeth flashing blue in the light,
"Is someone... Jealous?"
Sunny laughed, almost tipping him off the bed and onto the floor with her mirth,
"Yes Adam, I am totally jealous, really I am, ‘kay?. I mean who wouldn't want to have a child with YOU, big dumb, dork. Really the perfect place to put my superior genes."
"Superior genes, says someone who can't reach the top shelf."
She kicked him, foot clanging off his prosthetic,
"I am a foot taller than you."
He placed his hand next to his ear,
"What was that, I can't hear you over how short you are."
Sunny shook her head,
"At least I have binocular vision and both my knees."
"So we are gonna ignore that that binocular vision is due to a prosthetic now after the whole “your mom” incident? And also, veeery important: weird neck nostrils, don't forget about those!"
"Oh yes, so I can’t house them on my face like you and your bigass nose."
"Low blow, low blow."
"There are... Lower things... I could make fun of."
He snorted,
"Can't make fun of it if you've never seen it. You on the other hand, walking around in the nude..."
"You're welcome. Who wouldn't love…"
She gestured to herself,
"This."
"Mmm yeah... chitin, very sexy."
"I am a gift to the universe, and should be appreciated by everyone."
He brushed a hand through his hair,
"Well I find that real gifts are gift wrapped, so jot that down."
"Oh yeah, like a prank gift when you put something lame in a box for something cool."
He frowned at her,
"You wound me. My feelings are so very very hurt. I might even cry."
"I drink human tears."
"That… that's really gross.'
She laughed and then they lapsed into silence. She could hear him breathing quietly next to her in the darkness, his chest rising and falling under the ambient blue light. She looked across the room to where her saint armor was hanging in its climate-controlled case illuminated to a pearly sheen.
"Adam?"
"Yeah?”
"You know I'm just kidding about calling you dumb right?"
"Yeah I know."
"I'm proud of what you've been doing."
Adam turned to look at her rather incredulous,
"Me, of what? I haven't been doing shit."
"So, we are just going to ignore you overthrowing a maniacal politician while simultaneously piloting a 2,000 year old spacecraft?"
"That was more Conn and Eris than it was me."
"It was your idea."
"Let’s not forget Admiral Kelly."
Sunny pulled him closer,
"I am sorry, I will not be accepting anything other than you acknowledging that you did a good job."
"Screw you!”
"You'd like that wouldn't you?”
He sighed,
"You've been talking to Ramirez WAY too much."
She was only slightly smug as she rested her head back against the pillow,
"I really should get up and train..."
"We should yeah..."
Neither of them moved.
"Alternatively, we could just... Lay here... All day and do... nothing."
She looked up at the ceiling for a long moment and pretended to be in deep contemplation before…
"Well it's official, you have convinced me. You and your silver tongue."
"I am a master negotiator."
He shifted position putting one arm behind his head,
"Think about it, by this time tomorrow we will be back to space exploring and doing what we should have been doing all along. I can't wait."
"That makes two of us."
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I (15 FTM) am in a ongoing battle with my dad (40M) and Step mum(52F), context: My dad is a very hot headed person, yelling, screaming and insulting is a normal thing from him. Both me and my step mum have to deal with this but I get the most of it. My step mum insults me and degrades me all the time, calling me names, using me as a slave and being extremely transphobic. My mum is out the window as she was abusive and lives over an hour away. I have no other family where I live and I can't stay with friends.
I told my step mum in passing conversation that I plan to move out when I graduate high school for university. She lost her crap and said that I never loved her or my dad and I'm an ungrateful brat. I ignored it but it keeps coming up, her and dad will say comments or say I could do online which I don't want to do and have said many times. They keep bringing it up and I'm starting to think maybe I am an asshole but I'm not sure, I would love some advice or support thank you.
Extra context: they are extremely strict and control all my devices, bank account, clothes, hobbies, where I am, what I do, what I eat etc. I will try to answer any questions in the comments, thank you.

FYI, this is a story COLLECTION. Lots of standalones technically. So, you can basically start to read at any chapter, no pre-read of the other chapters needed technically (other than maybe getting better descriptions of characters than: Adam Vir=human, Krill=antlike alien, Sunny=tall alien, Conn=telepathic alien). The numbers are (mostly) only for organization of posts and continuity.
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Future Lore and fact check done by me.
Awwwww! So cute!
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She got up in the dark, with only the dim ambience of soft blue lighting to accompany her. She stretched all four arms, her two legs, and rolled her neck. It struck her as mildly interesting in that moment, how something so small could connect them to humans, The thought was fleeting as she took another step forward to kneel down on the floor. There, in a little alcove in the wall, she had set a volcanic rock from Anin, dried moss, and other paraphernalia from her home world. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath resting her hands together.
Praise and respect to the spirits of Anin. Praise the fathers and mothers of war gone to their rest below the moss and the earth. Praise their spirits that watch from the sky and peer through the ether down upon us.
She continued the slow mantra in the style of Prayer learned from Naktan and pulled her concentration to her core, ignoring anything and everything around her. A deep state of meditation overtook her. She would never have done this if she thought there were any chance that she was in danger, but below she knew Earth glowed like a sphere before their orbiting ship. There was no worry of invasion.
She thought she heard something at one point, but chose to ignore it as she continued her mantra.
Eventually, and after an unknown amount of minutes, she stood and turned slowly to find-
She stopped, and crossed her arms over her chest.
"What are you doing?”
Adam burrowed his way further down into her blankets, nuzzling his head up against her pillow,
"So warm, and comfy!"
She tried not to smile,
"You dumbass."
He pulled the blankets tighter around himself,
"You know, I did come here to talk to you, but now I actually am really comfortable, so come back in two hours."
"I- This is MY home!"
He closed his eyes and pretended to snore loudly.
She rolled her eyes as she watched him theatrically pretend to sleep. She looked around mildly for a moment, before picking up another pillow and glancing at the door. She casually walked over, dropped the pillow on his head and then held it down as if she intended to smother him.
”Die human scum!”
That got him up and moving.
Before long the two of them were grappling for the upper hand, him trying to put her in a choke hold, and her using her lower arms to pinch him.
He yelped,
"Ouch! Pinching is illegal!”
"Sissy."
He clamped his legs around her lower arms, pinning them in place.
She struggled for a minute and then went limp.
She could feel his smug smile,
"I win, I beat the saint of Anin. Everyone bow at my feet."
"You say that, but if this were a real fight, since you’re a human male, you're the one with a self-destruct button."
"Self-destruct button...?"
"Meaning if this were a real fight, I would have punched you in the balls."
"Yaoooutch… Oh god… Please don't."
Finally, he let her go, leaving the two of them to lay on her bed, sheets scattered on the floor around them, and her pillows in disarray. Adam put his hands behind his head and sighed.
She glanced over at him,
"I don't suppose you came to just hang out. Here on Admiral-ly business?"
He groaned, pulling one of her pillows over his face,
"Please smother me for real this time."
She leaned up on one of her elbows,
"Why?"
"I don't wanna be an adult anymore!"
She tilted her head to the side, watching in amusement as he attempted to throw a childlike tantrum, but only really had the energy to kick his feet once,
"It's boring and lame and they won’t let me wear heelies to important meetings... also children don't have to pay taxes."
She laughed, pulling the pillow from his face,
"Adam you are many things, but 'adult' is not one of them."
He grinned slightly,
"True enough."
He sighed again and rested his head back against the pillows,
"I just want to get back to what we are supposed to be doing, exploring the universe and making cool alien friends."
He threw up his hands in frustration,
"But suddenly I find myself embroiled in stupid annoying politics that I don't understand, being used by people who are, let’s face it, WAY smarter than me, constantly finding myself getting manipulated."
She huffed,
"They aren't smarter than you Adam, they're just manipulative, and you aren't."
He sighed,
"Fair enough."
Then he looked at her, bright green eyes reflecting the soft ambient blue light,
"I just, I miss this, I miss us, I miss hanging out and doing stupid shit, and all of the things I could do when I wasn't so important and this operation was smaller."
She smiled rather sadly reaching one hand over for his, lacing the four of her fingers through the five of his,
"Well someone has to do the hard things, who better than you?”
He glanced over at her, raising an eyebrow,
"Or you, miss saint?”
She rolled her eyes again,
"Can't seem to get you off of that. I'm still the same person I used to be."
"But with power."
She elbowed him gently and he grinned,
"But really, I am proud and impressed and... Let's be honest super super smug that 'I' know you personally."
"I know, I am pretty terrific."
The two of them laughed for a minute before settling down again. He glanced over to her little shrine on the wall,
"What were you doing just then?"
She looked up at the ceiling, following the lines of metal and rivets with her eyes,
"Praying to the spirits of Anin."
Embarrassed, he shifted,
"I didn't know you were... Well I didn't think you were all that religious?"
She shrugged,
"Don't feel bad, it's sort of a new thing. Back before all this, it was sort of just stories to me. Like I believed it because that was what everyone believed, but I didn't really accept it, or feel it the way I do now. After everything with my mother, it was hard to feel connected to something I felt I wasn't a part of... But then after visiting my mother, after becoming a saint for a religion I never really followed... Well, it started to make more sense. It feels real now in a way that it never did."
She turned to look at him, finding him watching her, the UV blue stripes in his skin glowing blue.
"I believe in the spirits of Anin more than I ever have."
He smiled at her and squeezed her hand,
"I'm glad to hear it."
They lapsed into silence for a long moment, staring up at the ceiling before, inevitably he broke it,
"So this makes you like, space Moses right?”
She frowned and turned to look at him,
"What is a “Moses”?"
He grinned,
"A guy from one of the Earth Religions. You know, guy follows god's directions to lead his people away from slavery, climbs a mountain, receives the word of god, comes down to give it to the people, that sort of thing."
Sunny tilted her head slightly to the side,
"Are you religious?"
He paused, frowning,
"I... well I... don't really know. My family has been some flavor of Christian for a long time."
"Christian?"
"Uh yeah, the general idea is that there is one all-powerful deity who created everything. He has rules and laws that you are supposed to follow, the general tenants of this specific religion mostly boil down to: love everyone and don't be a dick, which humans are notoriously bad at. You sin you go to hell, a very bad place after you die, and if you are a good person you go to heaven. Problem is everyone is a sinner and breaks the rules, so really no one was going to get into heaven."
"That sounds bleak..."
"Well, that's where the other stuff comes in. Basically, this all-powerful deity sent down his son in human form to live a perfect life, so when he was martyred he took on the sins of all of humanity and paid for them in the greatest act of mercy to open the gate for the rest of us into heaven."
Sunny shifted as he tilted to the side to lay in the crook of her arms,
"Of course that is just one religion among tons on earth, we aren't really as cohesive in our beliefs as Drev are... As for me... I'm not really sure."
She tilted her head to the side, cheek resting against his hair,
"After seeing space, I become more and more convinced of some... Thing that created everything, but beyond that it's sort of a tossup."
She ran one hand through his hair, coarse but still soft somehow.
"You know my name comes from that religion?”
She turned her head to look at him,
"Oh, really?”
"Adam was the first man."
"What do you mean!?”
Adam shrugged,
"He was supposedly the first man that god created, from the dust of the earth... I think?"
She gave him a sidelong glance,
"Look, and you get to be the first idiot in space."
He snorted and poked her in the ribs.
"There were PLENTY of idiots in space before me, believe you me."
"Mmm I don't know, you are pretty dumb."
He laughed, grabbing a pillow and hitting her with it. She rolled over so she was lying on top of him and then went limp.
He struggled,
"Get your big ass off me."
"Oh no, I have been attacked by a sudden acute case of the “my spine doesn't work anymore”-disease."
"If you don't move, you'll suddenly find yourself with a case of “fist in your face”-disease."
She laughed and rolled off him, making sure the hard parts of her carapace were sticking down for maximum discomfort.
He grunted.
They returned to lying down next to each other in the half darkness. Sunny reached over and turned on some quiet music in the background as the two of them sat and talked, and laughed.
"I can't wait to get back to deep space."
He closed his eyes and hummed softly at the thought,
"Just the crew and the darkness and nothing ahead of us but an endless frontier."
Surprisingly, she found the thought to be more than a little comforting, and closed her eyes thinking about the vast reaches of blackness and the endless spinning galaxies.
"And while we are out, we can drop Conn into a pulsar."
He snorted,
“Why? Well first of for scientific reasons! If a marshmallow causes a nuclear blast, I wonder what dropping Conn would do… but at least he’d be dead.”
"That billowy bastard would survive and you know it."
She huffed,
"Still though, if I have to hear one more smug lecture how he has a child with you, I'm gonna wring his scrawny neck."
He grinned teeth flashing blue in the light,
"Is someone... Jealous?"
Sunny laughed, almost tipping him off the bed and onto the floor with her mirth,
"Yes Adam, I am totally jealous, really I am, ‘kay?. I mean who wouldn't want to have a child with YOU, big dumb, dork. Really the perfect place to put my superior genes."
"Superior genes, says someone who can't reach the top shelf."
She kicked him, foot clanging off his prosthetic,
"I am a foot taller than you."
He placed his hand next to his ear,
"What was that, I can't hear you over how short you are."
Sunny shook her head,
"At least I have binocular vision and both my knees."
"So we are gonna ignore that that binocular vision is due to a prosthetic now after the whole “your mom” incident? And also, veeery important: weird neck nostrils, don't forget about those!"
"Oh yes, so I can’t house them on my face like you and your bigass nose."
"Low blow, low blow."
"There are... Lower things... I could make fun of."
He snorted,
"Can't make fun of it if you've never seen it. You on the other hand, walking around in the nude..."
"You're welcome. Who wouldn't love…"
She gestured to herself,
"This."
"Mmm yeah... chitin, very sexy."
"I am a gift to the universe, and should be appreciated by everyone."
He brushed a hand through his hair,
"Well I find that real gifts are gift wrapped, so jot that down."
"Oh yeah, like a prank gift when you put something lame in a box for something cool."
He frowned at her,
"You wound me. My feelings are so very very hurt. I might even cry."
"I drink human tears."
"That… that's really gross.'
She laughed and then they lapsed into silence. She could hear him breathing quietly next to her in the darkness, his chest rising and falling under the ambient blue light. She looked across the room to where her saint armor was hanging in its climate-controlled case illuminated to a pearly sheen.
"Adam?"
"Yeah?”
"You know I'm just kidding about calling you dumb right?"
"Yeah I know."
"I'm proud of what you've been doing."
Adam turned to look at her rather incredulous,
"Me, of what? I haven't been doing shit."
"So, we are just going to ignore you overthrowing a maniacal politician while simultaneously piloting a 2,000 year old spacecraft?"
"That was more Conn and Eris than it was me."
"It was your idea."
"Let’s not forget Admiral Kelly."
Sunny pulled him closer,
"I am sorry, I will not be accepting anything other than you acknowledging that you did a good job."
"Screw you!”
"You'd like that wouldn't you?”
He sighed,
"You've been talking to Ramirez WAY too much."
She was only slightly smug as she rested her head back against the pillow,
"I really should get up and train..."
"We should yeah..."
Neither of them moved.
"Alternatively, we could just... Lay here... All day and do... nothing."
She looked up at the ceiling for a long moment and pretended to be in deep contemplation before…
"Well it's official, you have convinced me. You and your silver tongue."
"I am a master negotiator."
He shifted position putting one arm behind his head,
"Think about it, by this time tomorrow we will be back to space exploring and doing what we should have been doing all along. I can't wait."
"That makes two of us."
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I’ll be in Chicago today from 10am-8pm. I’ve been to your beautiful city many times and have experienced just about everything you’d find on a ‘top 10’ Chicago list. I was planning on spending the day at the Art Institute, but alas, closed on Tuesdays. I’m looking for a fun day, I’m really up for anything. Here are some details to help with suggestions. Thanks in advance, Baltimore sends its best regards & love-
Starting point is the train station.
I’m healthy and mobile, plenty of city experience.
Cost/money isn’t an issue (within reason).
I’m fine to pick up Ubers and/or scooters to get around for the day.
Interests:
Art - I really like street art (eg Banksy type stuff), and modern/experimental art, as well as architecture. I’ve seen most of what you’d find on best-of lists, I’d love to find something interesting that I haven’t seen yet, like some gems that aren’t the popular FLWright designs (maybe something a bit obscure).
Music - I’m an old hipster guy, I collect records and would be up for some kick ass record store recommendations (preferably nothing in the chain/big-box store category. Or anything interesting music related.
Coffee. Im going to need a solid espresso/cappuccino
Anything limited-time happening in the city today that I could catch?
Any other weird and interesting things to kill some time would be appreciated.
I’m probably going to grab some bud for the day, any particularly cool dispensaries to check out?
Famous people & leaders- I enjoy checking out landmarks related to famous authors, artists, inventors ect. I enjoyed the Hemingway house the last time I was here.
Thanks in advance, I’m hoping for some cool recommendations, thanks again.
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My ex came back in my life and told me he loves me, and was speaking to me like he was my boyfriend for one month 24/7, then after that he acted suddenly cold, and I started asking him why the change in his behaviour and he told me were not a couple, and that he doesn't want a relationship. Only to discover afterward he started a relationship with someone else... And he's doing with her the things he said he wanted to do with me. So I feel like I was a void filer you know until he met "the person". How can I deal with this type of rejection ? It's very hard to cope with it. Even if I'm trying to collect myself again, I don't know who I am anymore, I really loved this man (I don't anymore after what he did to me, it broke all my feelings for him) but I really feel rejected. Even sometimes I'm wondering that he wanted to try with me again and then something pushed him off and he preferred the other person or I don't know. I would like to take care of me and discover myself again but I don't know how... What I've been through is really hard. Now I struggle with my life, with my study, with my hobbies, I can tell that this experience affected me more than what I want to admit.

Number 8:Ayane Matsunaga
That should be self explainitory she is a child I never got to meet her in my playthrough thankfully but anyone who picks her to date is honestly an opp. I find it funny that atlus can give us children as dating options but they refuse to let us date guys! ;^;
Number 7:yumi Ozawa
Now yumi in all honesty is a cool gal and a great friend but I just felt her story was a bit too what do you say cliche? It felt like a soap opera sure I felt bad about her family situation but I saw the ending and outcome fairly easy plus I don't like her png tbh
Number 6:ai ebihara
I don't have much to say about her considering I have yet to meet her in my second run but in my opinion having a fake dating option is extremely stupid tbh I would have rather the doctor from the hospital over her..
Number 5:Yukio amagi
You can flame me in the comments but I will stand my ground by saying she is and always will be in my eyes a wet blanket. Don't get me wrong she's funny at times and her reactions are cool n everything I just find her very bland and boring. I saw a clip of her valentines day and I didn't find much appeal in it compared to chie whom I dated first. I will say though she has the coolest looking persona!
Number 4:Marie
Now she's an interesting question in the fact of her story (spoilers ahead you've been warned) the fact she was part of izanami and the fog was a great twist in my opinion and the fact she was struggling and didn't want to be bothered really touched my heart. Hell even before that she was a very cute character but I always saw her more a friend than lover. Maybe I'll date her in my 3rd run but dating or not ill always save her
Number 3:rise kujikawa
If you've seen my previous post yes I'm dating rise she won the pole boysss!!!! Apart from that rise I think is the easiest romance considering she's the only character in the game that shows interest in you without needing a dialog option like chie or Yukio. Shes very cute and pretty mind you and I can see myself dating her which is why she's gonna be the one for my second run!
Number 2:Naoto shirogane
Probably the most underrated waifu in the persona series not only is she a complex character and is a total badass at that but she's also very shy and to herself alot. My type of girl is one who's very confident and smart but when around someone she's loves is very quiet and shy it's a type I find myself enjoying tons in games and in real life. Honestly Naoto would have been Number 1 if only the fact that you meet her extremely late in the game to the point where dating her isn't really that long. And by that point you've missed cute moments I love ya Naoto but If only they introduced you earlier
Which means it's time for the grand finale but first I'd like to put an honorable mention if atlus actually let us date men
Honorable mention:teddie
Teddie is always and will always be a very cute option for me in the fact with his bad jokes his personality and his innocence. (Again spoilers ahead) with the part where you could have kissed teddie man how fast I pushed that button. I won't forgive atlus for taking yosuke and teddie as options...
Now it's time for!!!!
NUMBER 1: CHIE SATONAKA!
If you have been paying attention I've made many mentions to chie satonaka throughout this listing mainly because well for me her romance fame out of left field for me.. when I started p4 I knew Naoto and was gonna date her but chie romance just...happend again if you've seen the rest of this post you'll see she fits my boxes shy badass cute the whole shebang but the thing that I think really solidifies her spot in Number 1 is this line in the valentines day romance is (spoilers again) "I still can't belive you chose me" that line hit me like a semi truck it's as if she's not just talking to your character but to the player itself because many pick Naoto Yukio or rise and rarely her and during my playthrough I felt slight regret for not waiting. But that line made me realize that I chose right.
Anyways that's all for today yall can hit me up in the comments give me your own thoughts opinions and list changes and as always have a great day! Byeeeeee

I started watching slushy noobz due to my bestfriend being absolutely obsessed and i found myself quoting them a LOT unintentionally so i decided to start watching them. Yet somehow my absolute favourite person is mandy and im so glad shes made a channel!!! i aspire to be as real to myself as she is, being able to not laugh when she finds jokes unfunny and the ability to shut the convo down when she wants to is really cool. i love her dynamic with both hamza and martin, cant wait for her to post more!!! People who think she doesn’t get along with hamza need to go touch grass too lol, i feel as though she would have made it clear behind the scenes if she genuinely didn’t want to be around him. also shes gorgeous

My ex came back in my life and told me he loves me, and was speaking to me like he was my boyfriend for one month 24/7, then after that he acted suddenly cold, and I started asking him why the change in his behaviour and he told me were not a couple, and that he doesn't want a relationship. Only to discover afterward he started a relationship with someone else... And he's doing with her the things he said he wanted to do with me. So I feel like I was a void filer you know until he met "the person". How can I deal with this type of rejection ? It's very hard to cope with it. Even if I'm trying to collect myself again, I don't know who I am anymore, I really loved this man (I don't anymore after what he did to me, it broke all my feelings for him) but I really feel rejected. Even sometimes I'm wondering that he wanted to try with me again and then something pushed him off and he preferred the other person or I don't know. I would like to take care of me and discover myself again but I don't know how... What I've been through is really hard. Now I struggle with my life, with my study, with my hobbies, I can tell that this experience affected me more than what I want to admit.

So Season 6 is not my favourite it's not the worst either so far I think that goes to season 5 but I'm jist about to start the episode and it just hit me with nostalgia and remember how both amazing this episode was and how heartbreaking.
Okay so just finished the episode and was better than I remembered it's quite a unique episode other shows have done it before like the Simpson's but how a majority of the episode is the day just from different perspectives I definately like this approach.
Clark;
Clark's story is about his denial and whatnot about if he should risk his secret to try and stop the wedding and it's not the best out of them but it's probably because it's the same story told once again we've been seeing since season 1 but yeah.
Lex;
Lex's story surprise surprise has him doing some shady shit and even killing a man I mean I get that Lex is supposed to be going down and getting worse and worse till he's just like the comics and cartoon but Season 5+ Lex seems like such a drastic change.
Lana;
Lana's Story is my favorite as she finally figures out Clark's Secret but Lionel appears to ruin things for them once again despite me wanting Clark and Lois to get together I do hate it when Lionel switches sides, we later learn his threat was to keep Lana close to Lex to protect Clark but still.
Resolution;
Lana is forced to marry Lex and liento Clark but I won't lie it's interesting to see Clark on the other side of that.
Despite Lionel using Lana in this episode I love he's finally gotten on over Lex I never thought I'd be routing for Lionel but yeah here we are. (I know Lionel is like the Rimplestilskin character you never know what side he's on but on my first watch ofnthe series growing up you'd never know he'd end up being an ally of sorts to Clark even if he did threaten to kill him lol

After 2 years, I (M24) broke up with my girlfriend (F22). It was a beautiful and healthy relationship at the beginning, but it changed beyond recognition. Over time, she began to show her toxic, manipulative, and narcissistic nature. The whole world revolved around her, she could never admit her mistakes, and she blamed others for everything. She constantly blamed her parents for her anxieties, saying they didn't listen to her, understand her, or care if she was sad during her childhood. This is not true at all.
To clarify, we lived together in an apartment for about 6 months. The first two months were great, and she helped with household chores and cooking. But after those two months, something broke. When she came home from work, she would lie in bed all day watching TikToks and reality shows. I took care of the entire household—cooking, cleaning, and everything else. The only thing she occasionally did was laundry, and even then, I had to push and beg her to do it. Our sex life suddenly ended, and we didn't have sex for about 2 months. I've always been the type who likes to cuddle and have close contact with my partner. I could only cuddle her when she wanted to; if she didn't, she would just say that she was comfortable and didn't want to be touched.
She was nice only when she needed something; on those days, things were okay with her. But the next day, when she didn't need anything, she was withdrawn and indifferent. I tried to do everything for her, often driving her to and from work, buying her gifts, and getting her whatever she craved. I tried to be her support, but toward the end, she started rejecting it. It's weird because she kept telling me she loved me. About a month ago, she told me she loved me but couldn't fall in love with me. She said the problem was within her and that often, even when I did or said nothing, I annoyed her. This hurt me deeply, and I considered ending it back then.
Meanwhile, she started chatting with her ex-boyfriend, whom she met at a bar while out with her friend. They had a bad breakup, but they supposedly cleared things up and became friends, chatting every day since then. I felt strange and bad about it. Her relationship with me felt like it was out of principle, and she was just using me. She was only nice when she needed something. A week ago, she went on vacation to Turkey with her family, a trip I couldn't attend. We got her passport and everything ready together. On the first day of the vacation, she texted and called me, and I saw she was happy, which made me very happy. But after the first day, she only messaged me once every two days. When she returned from Turkey, I was on a hike with her dad. When I got home, I went to take a nap, and she was at her parents' place. I woke up to her knocking, standing there with three friends. I didn't get a kiss or a hug. She immediately left with her friends to go to a bar. I heard some quiet mocking and smirks but didn't address it. She closed the door, and everything hit me—all the sadness and melancholy of the past months. I felt like crap. I unpacked her suitcase with tears in my eyes, packed my things, and called my dad to come get me. I had a few beers on the hike and didn't want to risk driving. I texted her that I was going home. Her response was that she fully understood.
She had already told me that she was sorry for her behavior but didn't know any other way and that I didn't deserve this. Yesterday, I went back to clarify things and get the rest of my stuff. She told me that during her time in Turkey, she didn't miss me at all and didn't feel the need to text me. She realized then that this wasn't how it should be. We shed a few tears, and she asked if she could cuddle with me one last time, which broke my heart. I felt like crap. She helped me pack my things, and I left. She's probably going to stay with a friend. We were renting this apartment, so we'll just cancel the lease.
On the hike, her dad told me he was very happy that she found a guy like me and that he was sorry for how she was treating me. Even though she's his daughter, he said I didn't deserve this and should pack up and leave. He said she was like her mother and that I didn't want to end up like him. He told her the same thing when she came home—that she shouldn't treat me like trash and should either start acting normal or break up. Her mother told her she hoped she'd find another tyrant who would bully her and make her life hell like all her previous boyfriends.
Sorry for the long text, but I needed to vent and also put my thoughts together in case I need to remind myself why this was the right decision. There are probably many mistakes, so I apologize. English is not my first language, and this is my first experience with Reddit. Thank you for your feedback. I need advice on how to stop thinking about her. I'm afraid I might start stalking her on social media or want to message her. What was your way of avoiding this?

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Apologies, this is a long one... My now fiance had never had a relationship with his Mum and hadn't had any contact with her since he was around 6 years old. Years into our relationship she contacted him begging for a chance to get to know him and of course I encouraged it because I felt it would be incredibly healing for him! When I met him I already had a 1 year old daughter. He's raised our daughter as his own and she eventually started calling him Dad as her bio Dad hadn't been around since she was 6 months old. He's been an amazing Dad, so loving, caring and protective. We have recently had a baby together and he'd been an incredible support through pregnancy and our baby being born. MIL is of course super happy about being around in our lives to witness us have a baby together and is loving being a grandparent. But here comes the problem. She keeps making comments infront of my daughter despite knowing that she knows me and my fiance as Mum and Dad. When we last visited her she repeatedly said to my Daughter, "oh I'm so glad to finally meet one of my grandchildren" (meaning the baby). "Oh I can't believe I only have grandsons no granddaughters." And the gut kicker was, "gosh you look so much like your Mum I couldn't even begin to imagine what your Dad looks like"!!!! She even refers to him by his name to my daughter instead of Dad but only when he isn't in the room. There has been more little digs from her here and there but I never let them bother me as I know this woman secretly can not stand me. Now my daughters 11, every comment I saw her face drop a little more and I was shaking with anger. After that I kept quiet with one word answers and made excuses to leave as I didn't want a scene infront of my kids. When we got home and the kids were in bed I brought it up to my fiance, about how uncomfortable it made me and our daughter. He made excuses for her doing it and even said you don't understand its different for men then women. Still have no idea what he meant by that but it made me emotional enough that I ended the conversation there and then and walked out the room. I haven't brought it up again because he's clearly going to defend his Mum no matter what I say or feel but I feel so turned off by him now. I've took over all parenting of my daughter and am considering walking away even though he is a fantastic Dad to both kids. I don't know if I can move on from him defending the things she said, or am I just being petty and need to get over it?

Age: Now 14, when complaint appeared 11 Gender: Female Weight: Normal Height: Normal Race: white Location: Europe (with free healthcare)
Past & current medical history: History of bedwetting until 12 years old, frequent nosebleeds, frequent stomachaches due to being scared of school
Family medical history: Brother (me) diagnosed with ADHD, family history of mental illness
I am asking this for my lil sis because my mom seems to think it's totally normal and wants to sweep it under the rug.
Quick backstory: I had very bad mental health problems as a kid, struggled a lot with feeling different and not doing well in a school environment, even went inpatient once. Multiple psychiatrists talked to my mom and afterwards diagnosed me with depression. When I was 18, my mom finally opened up to me and said that more than 5!! of my teachers talked to her about a suspected ADHD diagnosis, which she apparently purposefully did not mention to psychiatrists as I 'cannot have ADHD because [my] grades are too good'. Went to see a new psychiatrist, did testing, got an ADHD diagnosis. Now I'm doing way better in life, no more suicide attempts, even on my way to graduating university. So this history might bias me, of course. My mom says I am projecting my feelings onto my sister, which is very much possible.
So, onto the complaint:
My sister used to struggle a lot with frequent bedwetting, up until she was 12 years old. I had the same thing when I was a kid due to anxiety, so they thought it was the same for her. She also gets stomachaches sometimes because shes so scared of school and does not want to go. Her grades are very bad, and she struggles a lot with doing her homework and paying attention. She also does not have any friends.
During Covid, I used to help her with online school and realized that she would sometimes completely forget about classes happening, would daydream during the entire class, and when doing her homework would sometimes forget what she was writing in the middle of the sentence and finish it with a completely different sentence. Her homework often came back as 'unintelligible', 'unreadable', 'lots of careless mistakes'.
When I started being more strict with her, aka tracking all her homework, waking her up in the morning, taking away her phone during class and reminding her to pay attention every 30 minutes, she got drastically better grades in the span of two months. Sadly, due to Covid ending I had to return to my college city and her grades started slipping again.
All these things to me point to an ADHD diagnosis or at least something going on, especially due to my diagnosis. But the most worrying thing to me was:
Up until she was around 11 or 12 years old, she would sometimes be so focused on playing video games that she would pee her pants a little because she didnt realise she needed to go. If you would tell her to go pee, she would get upset/annoyed and tell you 'just 5 more minutes' over and over again, until it was too late. She's also really bad with hygiene, when she's visiting I have to remind her to brush her teeth daily, to shower and to wash her hair, otherwise she just won't do it. She's honestly sometimes really stinky and her hair is always a mess.
My mom said that's a normal things kids do, but I annoyed her so much about it that she took my sister to one therapist who talked to my sister 3 times and then said she does not have adhd and that shes healthy.
So now my mom is really angry with me every time I say that I am concerned, because this one therapist said shes a normal kid so if I'm doubting that it means I think I know better than the professionals.
I honestly have no fucking clue, maybe this is a normal developmental stage? My mom says all of us were stinky and icky as teenagers and she will grow out of it, but I think its hurting my sister, because she does not have friends and I think every kid needs friends right?
So I am just asking here because I honestly don't know if I'm actually just projecting and should listen to the professionals and if I dont that makes me a bad brother somehow. I am not trying to imply shes a bad kid, I love her a lot, I want to make that super clear. I promise I'm just worried for her.
It would mean the world to me if you could reply, no matter if it is to dissuade my worries or by confirming to me that that's actually something to worry about.

Hey everyone! I've never made a post on reddit before so bear with me friends. This is also gonna be long because I physically cannot restrain myself from overexplaining.
Ok, SO me (24F) and my guy best friend (25M) have known each other since about sophomore year of college. Let's call him Tony alright. I met him through my college roommate and best friend, we'll call her Tina (Tony is Tina's cousin's husband's best friend). He went to a different college in a city about 2 1/2 hours away, but he came and hung out with his friend a lot and he lived with them during COVID. I'm a pretty socially awkward and shy person so it takes me a while to get comfortable around someone and be myself so I didn't really engage with him at first. It should also be mentioned, I've never been in a relationship or in love befoe; I've been on dates and done a thing or two here and there with some people, but I've always been shy so I'm kind of a late bloomer in the relationship aspect. He is not and he's been in relationships before and has experience doing the horizontal tango; an activity I do not have experience in!
Fast forward, tail end of junior year or beginning of senior year of college we start actually interacting and I open up a bit more. I then develop a small "schoolgirl" kinda type crush because he was a new friend and funny and nice, and I never really had any guy friends growing up so it was new to me and you know the daddy issues of it all. Ok so BOOM spring break senior year right (March 2022), we go on a vacation to NOLA with our friend group. My crush is in full swing at this point and during said trip, my bff Tina and I share a hotel room with Tony and his best friend Ted (sharing bc we are poor). So we get a lot of quality time and get a lot closer as friends. Skip to May 2022, we graduate college and my BFF Tina moves to the bigger city in the state we live in (where he lives) in June (we went to college in a small town). So, naturally I go to the city a lot to visit her and so in turn we start hanging with him more frequently since he's closer now. At this point, I'm over my crush and he's just my really good friend (I promise). Fast forward to December 2022, I move to the city as well and my bff Tina and I move in together so we see him even more, and he's spending nights at our place (on the couch). We get a lot closer and the main thing we do in our friendship is talk. He's a level 100 yapper, and I didn't used to be at all until we became friends honestly, but he just brings out the yap in me. We talk about anything and everything; we even argue about a variety of topics, but it's not with malice or rudeness at all; we're just talking. He's just genuinely the easiest person to talk to I've ever met; strangers just talk to him all the time.
So now we're gonna jump to December of 2023 (sorry for the jumping around, I'm an ADHD warrior). I've had mental health issues off and on since high school, but they got worse around this time. Around this same time, he started getting depressed as well as a few months prior he had been fired from a job and his car got towed amongst other things. My BFF is also going through it.We are all just going through some trials and tribulations lemme tell ya. So, we've all been leaning on each other emotionally pretty heavily lately. Recently, he spends multiple days in a row at our house. So, I've been working through the prior mentioned mental health issues these past months and I'm think I'm finally coming out the other side. I've actually been the happiest I've been in a very long time, but I'm also still struggling a bit because I feel as though my personality has changed drastically since this ordeal or maybe I'm finally feeling secure enough in myself to show my true personality idk, but in a nutshell I'm feeling open and brave which are qualities I don't have experience in whatsoever. As I'm finding myself, I think I'm also becoming more in touch with my feelings which is how I realized I had feelings for him, but anyways back to the nitty gritty. So I'm feeling all these new feelings and all, and my crush on Tony comes back with a terrible new twist: 100% real uncut feelings 😔. But, I am terrible at reading social cues and understanding other people's feelings so I genuinely can't tell if he feels the same or not. But, ever since I've realized my feelings, I've been noticing things more. Me, Tina, and Tony have always been very open with each other in the sense that we talk about anything and everything. We talk about sex, relationships, our bodies, etc. But, lately, I feel like him and I talk even more about sex and relationships and he makes more jokes or funny remarks about sexual or romantic things between us. To be fair, I have too (😝), so it may just be in response, but come on, it's to the point like, we jokin anymore?? So, the other day, I was joking about how I was gonna be a virgin at 40, and he said, "Nah, we'll figure something out before then." like what you mean by that?? And another time, we were riding in the backseat together, and the whole car was talking about eating a girl's kitty cat and I had made a joke about not knowing the feeling and he said, "What?? That's so sad bro" and then under his breath said, "we'll have to do something about it" like huh???? And I also have this crop top with butterflies on it that may be a lil revealing (🙈) that he complimented when he first saw me wear it. And now, whenever I wear it, he'll say something about it like, "Ohhh, return of the shirt" or something along those lines. Also a while back, I had told him about how my late grandpa would always sneak me Ho-Hos as a kid and how I missed him a lot, and in the next few days, he brought some over when he came to hang out like brooo 😩. He didn't say that was the reason or anything, but that would be a crazy coincidence I feel. He's also always showing me something on his phone like a video he thought was funny, a movie he liked, pop culture we talk about, music he likes, etc. He'll just appear in front of me with his phone 2.3 cm from my face saying, "look 👁👄👁". Also, we've both been talking a lot lately about how lonely we are and how we miss sleeping and cuddling with another person in the bed. I feel like I've been dropping hints, but I'm also scared to tip him off so the hints I think I'm dropping could be more like office friendly chit-chat in reality!
It should also be noted that after I got over my initial crush, I didn't find him attractive. I really didn't find him attractive when I had a crush tbh. He's definitely not my usual type at all; I'm a fat bi girl who usually goes for masc women or feminine men and he's a short skinny lil fella with a permed mullet 😭. I'm definitely not his usual type either which is another reason I have doubts about his interest in me. He usually dates skinnier girls. I'm finally okay with my body, but if you're a fat person, you know how absolutely anxiety-inducing it is thinking about shooting your shot and someone rejecting you because of your body. I don't think he would do that, but there's still that fear there. He's also mentioned recently how he doesn't care about looks and body and I'm like 🤨 you hinting at something?? Cause I've talked to him before about struggling with loving my body so he knows im self-conscious about it at times. I'm also hesitant because besides Tina, he's my best friend in the world. I would never want to do anything to jeopardize that friendship. I've been trying to get over it and/or ignore it. But, God, idk what to do anymore. It's driving me insane, and I hate that I'm looking for things and reading into things. And I feel like I'm acting weird or changing my behavior which sucks cause it's hard to control cause I'm nervous. But, I really don't think it's all in my head. I don't even know if I want to pursue anything and change our relationship forever, but I feel like I'm going crazy. If anyone has any insight or advice, it would be much appreciated. Thanks a bunch!
TL;DR: I (24F) think I'm in love with my guy best friend (25). We met when I was 20, and I think he may be flirting and secretly feel the same, but I truly can't tell. We hang out almost everyday, but I don't want to be seeing things that aren't really happening. I also don't want to ruin our friendship. I would really just like some insight on the situation or advice on how to tell if he's also interested. TIA! 🫶

Sorry if i come off as a little awkward i'll be as honest about myself
About me

• my name is ryan
• White
• Brown hair
• Wears glasses
• I'm 6,2
• A little on the chubby side but working on losing weight
• I'm on the autism spectrum
• Very socially awkward
• Extremely empathetic
• Kind of clingy -LOVE to info dump

My interests include:

• Reading (especially horror stuff like stephen king)
• Movies (any genre works for me but mainly horror)
• Video games (again any genre works but i especially love platformers and puzzle games)
• Animation of any kind

I would like to find a person who is a very kind soul who is ok with me infodumping on certain occasions.
I don't mind your height or weight but i do prefer if the age range is from 20-25 though i would prefer if you showed a picture first then i'll give mine in exchange and i would love to hear your interests 😊. You could start with favorite movies/games to play/watch
I'm hoping I could make a connection with someone. Doesn't have to be romantic.
If you prefer to chat on reddit or discord i don't mind either way. (I'll send my discord in dms)
Btw i'm usually open, and when i don't respond. Usually it's because i'm asleep XD