Online dating population

I've noticed some observations about the topic recently:
• Children are taught early on to stay inside as the real world is too dangerous and scary and your child can be safe and happy playing on their tablet.
• Dating apps then hit the mainstream.
• The message is pushed that approaching women in public is creepy and women are just there at the clubs to dance with their girlfriends and don't want to be bothered.
• Dating apps slowly implement a pay to play policy.
• Most Dating apps end up being bought by the same parent company meaning if you're low on the algorithm in one app then it might affect your chances on the algorithms with the other apps.
• The rate of single men keeps going up and up. Combine this with late stage neoliberal capitalism which means less children are being made.
• More men are checking out of society figuratively and sometimes literally.
• All while the push for the child free movement is happening.
Now is this some elaborate scheme for population reduction pushed by Henry Kissinger, or some plan to fight climate change by Bill Gates? Or is this just the logical conclusion of neoliberalism? Who knows. I don't think every single thing is a conspiracy, but I think it's pretty obvious that there's people with sinister intentions behind the scenes. I even heard this creepy theory that the push to not approach people in public was manufactured by dating apps.
"Women don't want to be fucking approached in fucking public! This isn't fucking wholesome you fucking chuds!"

Hello babes, so I'm a total newbie in this topic, not a big fan of online dating. But I want to give it a try.
I only have one hookup experience before.
The thing is, before getting into any sexsual stuff, I would really like to see the person who I'm gonna be with. So I invite them to a coffee. I just want to see them if they are the real person who they told me and check the vibe, u know.
But I see most guys are not into it, at all. So far no luck. They just want to come over and be done with it.
Idk, am I asking for too much? Are hookups are that blind and risky?
I was kinda seeing this meeting rejection as a red flag but encountering this that much, I have started to question myself.
Please advice...

Hi all,
I have posted here before (a while back) and I want to post here again to field advice from the online community. I (28F) and my nesting partner (32F) have been seeing a married couple (38,39F) for six months. This happened organically — and we all met at a dinner through a mutual friend. Whilst things were quite slow moving between me and A, my partner and B were quicker with admitting feelings for the other. Since we all realised we have feelings for each other (as in, I like one half of the married couple and my partner likes the other) we have been somewhat of a polycule since.
Now the point: my partner’s girlfriend has been going through severe burn out. And, the state of the marriage between her and her wife hasn’t been the healthiest (think, not having sex, going to therapy, lots of miscommunication). Initially, we all sat down together after trailing seeing eachother for four weeks and I pulled the plug — stating that I didn’t think their marriage was strong enough to handle secondary relationship. After some time apart, we all reconvened and things seemed to have improved from their side. So I agreed that I felt more comfortable and we all proceeded to see each other fully. However, throughout seeing A, I have noticed that in her marriage B seems to defer quite a bit to her wishes. They operate on a primary / secondary basis, and whilst I don’t probe into the state of their relationship beyond what affects me or my partner (think need to know basis) — it’s obvious that Bs burn out, the lack of intimacy between them, and Bs recent resignation from her job have all contributed to their marriage coming under severe strain.
Now I’ve got that context out of the way: at the weekend I politely pulled out of a scheduled sleepover with A because my partner was quite anxious post-Covid and needed my time. Sometimes, she’ll have episodes of anxiety where she’ll feel quite alone and worried about being abandoned — and last week after an illness, she was in that space. This decision seems to have catalysed a big response from A behind closed doors, which affected B (who is burnt out, autistic). Separately, my partner has apparently been rapid fire texting B (her girlfriend) nonsense stuff like “I feel abandoned by you, everyone hates me” etc. this has lead to B sending a text to the group chat (not even privately) saying she has to break up with my partner, step back from the polycule, and she has no energy left for anything.
This has deeply upset my partner, humiliated her, and triggered a shame/abandonment wound. In her frenzy, she’s essentially criticising my every move at home, wailing, waking up in tears or angry at me, and intimating my decision to continue seeing A is a “non ethical” one. When I wished B well — she also told me I was “betraying her” and should be “defending her” (rather than acknowledging Bs decision to step back, as someone who is not well, and wishing her the best).
This behaviour from my partner also extends into other areas of our life. For example, even when things were fine, she told me she didn’t feel comfortable with me having dates over to the house (we have our own bedrooms, space isn’t a factor) — but was fine with A sleeping over. And is now trying to make me cancel a pre planned dinner date I have with someone at the weekend because I’ll be abandoning her if I go.
At this point - I’m stuck. Yes I can be sensitive to where she is at. That might include not having my date over for dinner at the weekend. But I also think her behaviour is not right, and I feel pressured to stop seeing my dates due to her circumstances. What can I do ethically?

Hey all! I broke up with my ex fiancé in June, so not really sure I should be posting this here, but I don’t really know where else to go since you all understand what I’ve been through (my story is on my previous posts).
Since then, I’ve done a lot and just tried to have fun and heal. I don’t think I’m quite ready to date yet because I honestly don’t know how to think/feel about a bunch of things, one being trust and other being porn use. I’m also not fully over my ex yet. So I don’t feel it would be fair to date or start a relationship.
Anyway, I guess my question is what’s the line between trust and being naive? My ex used every excuse under the sun to cover up his porn use. Now I realize I was blindly trusting him and I just can’t put myself through that again.
In our 7 years together I never checked his phone (until the last 2 months where I found all sorts). I don’t want to be blind again, but also want to trust my future partner, I don’t want to be worried that they’re texting other people. So where do you cross the line?
I told my ex I didn’t really care if he watched porn. He always told me he never watched it anyway. This was a complete lie. If he had been using it a moderate amount and it hadn’t effected our relationship I probably would have never even noticed/cared. Turned out it effected everything. Now I think if a future partner was watching it I’d probably have a pretty big reaction. I know a lot of people say any amount of porn is damaging. But is a ‘no porn’ boundary realistic in todays world? I’m 28, I want kids and a family one day. I don’t have forever to find the perfect partner. But maybe I should be waiting for that perfect person? So again, where’s the line?
I’ve been thinking about doing some online sanon groups, is this a good idea even though I broke up with my ex? Or is it more for people who are still with their partners?
If anyone has any podcasts/books/websites etc that you think might be useful that would be amazing!
I’m sorry if you read this because it means you’re in this group, but I hope you’re having a wonderful day ♥️

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We met online and were dating for 6 months. After attending a friend's wedding she returned with the decision that she didn't actually want a relationship at the moment anymore despite her saying (while ending it) "its a pity, we'd make a great couple."
This woman was my equal in every way, she saw me, she understood me and at first she accepted me. We shared almost all our hobbies too so I can't even try take my mind off of her by doing something I used to enjoy. It all just leads back to her.
Now she no longer wants me and has explicitly told me that it's over and there's no way to recover what we had. She is sorry that she hurt me but that changes nothing.
I no longer eat 3 meals a day, I don't see the point. I no longer sleep much if at all, the demons in my head won't let me rest. I see no point in life anymore. I've even started self harming again for the first time in over a decade. I've never had a connection like that, and it's gone.
My chest is constantly tight, it feels like there's a little constant pain in the hole where my heart should be. Part of me hopes it does amount to stress induced heart attack so I can leave this world without having ended my life myself. I'm in so much emotional pain I just can't take this anymore. We were so good together, she had even said she was happy, but it's just not what she wants at the moment and doesn't know when she will want a relationship in the future only that she knows she will at some point.
Why do I bother trying to stay alive? Why do I bother fighting the depression anymore? Maybe dying would just be easier...

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I did my renewal online for the first time on March 14. I was reading how it was taking longer than usual so I was a bit scared since I live in a really expensive city and living off just my income. My marital status changed too so I was worried that would cause it to take longer. I got an email a few minutes ago and to my surprise, my case is approved. Expiration date is July 17. Next thing to do now is AP.
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I'm tired of these meaningless pedophile witch hunts. There are so many non-creepy ways to interpret someone online saying a particular character in Degrassi is attractive.

1. They are currently a teenager, and they find the teenage characters attractive.
2. They are an adult who grew up with Degrassi, who can remember how they once felt about these characters.
3. They are an adult who remembers what it was like to be a teenager and what characters would have been their type at that age.
4. They are an adult who is not blind. I'm 29; it's not weird for me to say that Manny was a pretty girl or Craig was an attractive guy. That doesn't mean I want to date 14 year old Manny or 16 year old Craig. It wasn't weird when I was a teen and showed my mom the guy I had a crush on for her to reply, "oh yeah, he's handsome."
5. The character was a teenager being played by someone many years older. When I was a sophomore in college watching Degrassi, I thought Zig was cute, and his character was a grade 10 in high school, 4 years younger than me. In real life, Ricardo Hoyos is only a year younger than me. When Jay was introduced on degrassi, Mike Lobel was already 19 years old.

Maybe you think that the person making the comments should clarify that they don't, as an adult, want to literally date a fictional 14 year old, but that is so much more tedious than just saying "omg, Emma was/is so gorgeous" or "Sean was always so fine to me."
In general, I try not to comment on characters' appearances online out of sensitivity to the actors who portrayed them. But can we stop pretending that everyone who does so is some kind of pervert or pedophile?

I am new here and just want to get this off my chest! So i hope you can help me with some advice. Been with long term relationships, 3 to be exact longest was 4 yrs, minimum 2 yrs) so pretty much I can say that I handle relationships well. Reposting this from my other reddit acct. Also, never experienced any cheating from all those. Recently, I have been dating and the usual is pogi boys na have pretty decent followers sa somed. Until I met a guy that I like, nageffort pa nga sya after 2 days na nagusap to travel 2 hrs so we can meet and did the same effort to go to and visit him naman. There are some things that are new or maybe hindi ko lang narerealize pa. 1. What is it with them about posting tiktok or reels to show off their body, or even dance na may mga kaldag or even pacute cute lang na parangtrying to flirt ba. dont get me wrong I am all for it, but we have talked and agreed that we both are exclusive. One time minessage nya saken yun video na talagang kapag nakita online kulang na lang icomment ng mga tao na ang sarap mo or kaldagin mo din ako. So the overthinker in me, told him sana wag mo ipost okay na ako lang makakita, but he did it anyway and told me hindi naman ako nagrereply sa mga chats nila. He also said na this is the only outlet he has kapag stress ( sabe ko talk to me about it baka i can comfort you) and yet he continues to post stuff. One time i saw him always checking how many likes na yun stories nya or plays etc. i dont have issues abt it support ko sya, pero im afraid na syempre I trust him but i do not trust the people around him, syempre temptation is everywhere baka biglang me tempt.

1. He is a party person gusto nya umiinum. So one time we went out with my friends sa isang bar. Is it true na kapag kunware may nakita kang guy tapos nakipagtitigan ka na hindi ka aware na you did? Ganun kasi yun isa kong nakadate pero i couldnt absorb nun at maintindihan kar ako im aware palagi, just like veryone else kpg me pog lingon ka. But this guy, he said nakikipagtitigan daw yun isang friend ng friend ko tapos titingin din daw sya i asked why? Kasi curious daw sya kung magjowa sila nung isa. moved to another bar na puro sayawan. I can tell he is really drunk, so sa table namen may isang guy na pumoporma dun sa isang girl na kasama namen, naobserve ko 5 times he was always dancing close to the guy so hinila ko sya 3x dito ka sayaw with friends. Pero he finds his way back dun sa guy na malapit. Yun trigger ko na was he was dancing tapos tumitig na sya sa guy like it was more than 5 secs nakatingin and that was my when i walked out and nagpahangin. 30 mins nawala but he did not look for me. My friend then approached me saying na uy he asked if my other friend is str8 daw and when i went back sa bar kinakausap na nya yun isang friend ng friend ko na beks. I was devastated. So the morning i told him abt how i felt kasi paguwi namen lasing na lasing na sya and nakatulog agad. His response was hindi na nya maalala lahat ng ginawa nya after our first bar, and if it was flirting nakita ko daw ba na nagexchange sila numbers facebook or even naghawakan? Which is true, pero the fact na hindi sya makaalala ng anything kpg lasing how can i be so sure kpg ndi nya ako kasama? true din ba na kapag lasing na lasing you dont remember anything?
2. I dont demand time talaga but our setup is somehow LdR kasi malayo, both of us are new sa gantong setup. For me no matter how busy i am, i find time to update and message him, but for him either it will take 2-3 hrs to respond or kpg reply one liner. He tells me he is responding if not busy naman. Communication is impt for me the mere fact na kahit sabihan mo lang ako na im doing soemthign or office na ako i would appreciate kasi i respect your personal time. Pero sometimes i feel like ako lagi yun mageeffort to message and he is obliged to reply. Even sa mga. Calls ko ndibsya sasagot or kpg sasagot mabilisang usap lang, pero kpg sya na tatawag akobnaman sagot agad.

Sorry ang haba ng story. If youve reached this part sana you can advise me. TIA.

I (17M) have always lived rather independently. I have friends I talk to but I once I leave school I usually just do stuff by myself. Mostly games and books and the like. If I played anything multiplayer it was with one person online or with my sister. Recently I had a huge frenzy of a relationship starting with her convincing me to date her and that i was worthy of love, to her showing me true love and affection, to her mother breaking us up and saying we can’t even be friends even though she is 18 and should be able to make her own choices and ending with her hating me and ruining my reputation and several friendships. I have the full story with all the ups downs and her controlling manipulative emotionally-abusive mother. If needed for context I can add it. After this super close relationship, i’m finding myself missing texting her constantly and i got super dependent so doing things alone feels lonely and difficult instead of natural. I keep longing for connection to anyone. Trying to talk with friends and game with friends way more. I used to never talk with or play with friends before and i never needed to. But now i’m struggling to do things alone and constantly longing for the connection and involvement she showed me was possible and invited me into. It also hurts knowing she’s graduating in a few days and i’ll never make amends. She’ll probably hate me forever. Even though she shares more interests and similarities with me than i can count, and i’ve tried to count. It hurts every time I see her but it also hurts knowing she’ll be gone soon. How can I go back to not caring or feeling like before?

Hi all, I just graduated my RN and I am looking to start a online rn-bsn program in the Fall. I am located in Massachusetts and was looking at UMass Dartmouth. I was looking at the program of study and these are the classes.NUR 214 - Scholarly Inquiry Credits: 3

• NUR 301 - Transition to Baccalaureate Nursing Education Credits: 3
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• Evaluating Limits: Understanding how to evaluate limits is crucial in calculus and statistics. Limits help us understand how a function behaves as the input (or x-value) approaches a specific point.
• One-Sided Limits: One-sided limits are used to evaluate the behavior of a function as the input approaches a point from one side (either the left or the right).
• Two-Sided Limits: Two-sided limits are used to evaluate the behavior of a function as the input approaches a point from both sides (both the left and the right).

Importance in Calculus:

• Derivatives: Limits are used to define derivatives, which measure the rate of change of a function.
• Integrals: Limits are used to define definite integrals, which calculate the area under curves.

Importance in Statistics:

• Hypothesis Testing: Limits are used in statistical hypothesis testing to determine the critical region and calculate p-values.
• Confidence Intervals: Limits are used to construct confidence intervals, which estimate population parameters.

Continuity

• Definition of Continuity: A function is continuous if its graph can be drawn without lifting the pencil from the paper.
• Discontinuity: A function is discontinuous if its graph has gaps or holes.
• Types of Discontinuity: There are several types of discontinuity, including removable discontinuity, infinite discontinuity, and jump discontinuity.

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Practice Problems and Exercises:

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45M saw the midnight screening of TPM in NZ 1999.
Online now there's been a debate around the PT hate vs ST. I was there and the reception was different vs now along with environment online.
Biggest difference is social media didn't exist as such (unless you count forums).
So in 1999 what were we doing Star Wars related? Well our group was playing Rebellion and Rogue Leader (N64 game). Somewhat recently Shadows of the Empire. They lined up for tickets I managed to score some midnight screening ones.
We didn't hate TPM. The disappointment was very real though.
The 90s were kinda rough n NZ. Our group was a mixture of welfare kids through to reasonably well off kids. We consumed a lot of what is now legends material. Games and books mostly. Comics were a bit harder to aquire in my part of NZ.
Internet was a lot less common back then no social media. A computer was around $2000 nzd in the 90s rent was cheap say $40-60 per week circa 1996-1999. I don't remember the conversion rate to usd minimum wage was around $6-8.
Buying a PC though was 6-12 months rent. I didn't own one in 1999 first used the internet 1996 to give you an idea.
I watched TPM disappointment was real but I didn't go online and slag it off. I wasn't online. There was also sobe really bad Star Wars media by tgen so it was far from the worst. That applies to Disney Star Wars now as well.
None of our group hated TPM anyway and we formed our own opinions. And those opinions were mostly self contained. Idk if there was online hate in 1999 but if there was it was easy to miss. Even if you had a PC an the net it as dial up. And you would gave to go Join a forum. 1999 was also the first year I saw a text message.
Fast forward a few years. 2001 was the first year I joined a forum. It was a D&D one but they gad another section for Star Wars RPG. My first discussions around Star Wars online were about the d20 and older D6 material. The D6 material was massively influential in early Legends material after Heir to the Empire. No one got to offended if you didn't like TPM but I don't recall people constantly dumping on it. Not saying it didn't happen but it was easy enough to miss.
Interdiction cruisers in Rebels. They are from legends and they got it from said D6 RPG materials.
Fast forward a few more ears and RotS has been released. Generally people online seemed to like that one (cf RoS). Not claiming it was universally loved but a common attitude seemed to be the PT was a bit meh except for Pt III. Once again social media didn't really exist or was in its infancy around 2005/6.
It was also a golden age for Star Wars games 2002-2008 although you could also claim 1997-2010 ymmv of course. Even if the movies were not loved there was plenty of other media to distract you. Once again there wasn't a lot of hate directed at the movies at the time. Not everyone loved them of course but the negativity was more disappointment, wish they were better, at least pt III was good.
And then social media blew up. I don't remember Twitter before 2012 and I think I used youtube for the first time 2010 late adopter.
So that's the key difference between then and now IME. Social media didn't exist, less people were online. Those that were more segregated into their own communities on forums. Most people didn't use forums or even knew what they were.
I did see my 1st meme in 1996 or 97 comparing a politician to the Nazis. Godwins law 1997.
So I'm Gen X turning into my parents lol. Never used a dating site haven't been single since 2000 and barely single since 1996. No idea where to even start if I was.
But the rise of social media has resulted in a lot of anger and confusion and flow on effects I have noticed. Another simple example is dating and expectations due to tinder and porn. Younger female friends or relatives putting pressure on themselves and guys completely clueless. We just had to deal with things like playboy. I'll admit to reading them but stopped aged 16 when one realized that girl you like probably doesn't like them.
Modern world is better in some ways worse in others compared with the 90s.

Has anyone gone to F5 school at Ft Jackson in the last year? I know SSG and below have to stay in the barracks with AIT Soldiers just wondering what the expectations are for an NCO attending F5. Update: everything else I have have found seems to be pre pandemic and their policy letters online are way out of date

** this is a long rant
We broke up yesterday — after 16 months together and what was both our first relationship (both around 18-19 y/o). I met him online, me in nyc and him in LA. We both got into the same college and our first interaction was nothing but sparks. There was no consideration for looks, background, and what nots. To me, that was the purest form of connection and intent of interest. Fom my daylight to midnights, our hours were full of conversations, flirts, and little did I know, the beginning of love.
After three months of talking, he traveled across the country to meet me and those memories felt like scenes out of a Hollywood movie. Those memories I kept on as we did LDR for the next 5 months until college started. While it was hard, I learned with the time difference and schedule differences, it’s not the quantity of time you spend with each other but if the person on the other end is worth waiting for. I waited.
When college rolled around, he filled his schedule once again with student govt campaigns, clubs, and networking events (we go to a highly competitive school). I waited. I gave him my all (my firsts of everything) and we went on dates here and there but it felt nothing of what he promised: the quinesstenial college romance of holding hands down campus, studying in the library, watching the first autumn leaves fall. I asked why we can’t do all of this and he told me he’s busy and that there’s that insecurity in him to show personal life in public. I empathsized as his touch and his care behind the door meant more that what was displayed. So I became accustomed to waiting.
During winter, I reflected on our relationship: the imbalances of love. I asked am I receving as much as I’m giving? My love langauge is acts of service and physical touch. His, as I came to conclude, is quite rare. Because of his ambition, time is his most valuable asset — no matter how busy he is, he always makes time to spend time with me. I know that he loves me because he’s a person who puts up a strong front, a big smile, and what seems to be never-ending energy, but when he’s with me, he’s able to let it go. Like a bird who everyone sees soaring but only I can see when he’s down, with his wing tucked, and defenseless. I came to treasure this trust between us and proud of how deeply connected we became from just talking through a screen to be spending arm and limb next to each other.
-Yet, I couldn’t heal him. No matter how hard I’ve tried, he feels as if he lost himself in with the amount of things he’s trying to accomplish in college and as he tries to find his passion to pursue. Because we only spend nights together in the comfort of my room when both of us are tired from the day’s schedules, that old spark of never-ending conversations of random topics disappeared. For him, he enjoys my company but sometimes he feels as if this relationship felt like an obligation. Because I spent so much time invested to him, I also lost sight of who I was coming into college, full of aspirations to do and explore.
We talked about this issue, and I told him, yes we need to redirect our focus but it doesn’t have to mean the chopping board. As students, the most and least I can give is my time for when he needs support and comfort. I want to be with him along this journey and come out into real adulthood with memories and success to share. But as the stubborn soul he is, he reaffirms that he doesn’t want us to cling on and salvage the bare minimum. he told me, “if I have a chance at loving you again after college, I will fall even harder.”
This love was becoming cancerous. From one day to the next, our love catching closer to the end depsite our souls becoming more saturated with depth. Why can’t love be everlasting like the fairytales promised.
I miss him so much and I don’t know how I should treat him. should i wait for him until we’re ready? what are the boundaries of us? we both agreed to continue to talk because we care and support each other but will he still be soft and gentle to me because he loves me but we’re not in a relationship? will he wait for us?

We met online with a 1.5 hour commute between us - It was lovebomb at first sight. The first date (june 2023) was magic spending 10 hours at the beach in the water. I had a feeling after just a week of knowing him... facetimes or texts every 3-5 hours, seeing each other every other weekend. It was lovely to have such an incredible connection with someone so quickly and crave them every moment of everyday. I really felt like this was it with the amount of attention/affection he gave me, we would surf and skate together. he said his dream was always to skate with a girl. he told me how important it was to have the same interests as your partner and we also were both into taking film photos and have really special memories captured.
The distance started to take a toll on us 3 months (September) in. It was our first sort of argument he picked about it being almost noon and we hadn't left the house yet to do what we said we would do I was ready and waiting for him to be done playing guitar. But this was all due to him waking up late per usual and his ADHD is so severe he has no idea how quickly time goes by while He will do 4 things at once and then complain about not enough time in the day.
We ended up breaking up because he kept saying "I don't Know" when I Would ask him what he wants. We both crying I packed all my things and then I said why don't we enjoy the day and do what we said we would do and then I'll go home. We ended up enjoying the afternoon and he cried to me about how he can't lose me and how foolish he was to start an argument.
OK fast forward 2 weeks in September we had plans to go camping for the weekend, I booked a dog sitter. the night he was planning to come over he cancels on because there is a rat in his house (he has 3 roommates and the kitchen and pans and cabinets were never cleaned). so I end up taking my oldest dog on the camping trip and leaving the younger one with the sitters. this was my first sign from the universe that things happen for a reason... keep reading.
Then in end of October. My old boy is sick I drive to Mexico for vet care and he offered to come with me both times and then said he had too much work. Mind you, he wakes up at 9am, clocks in from his bed, does his morning routine and doesn't start to work until 11am usually. He will go run errands in the middle of the work day, play guitar and complains about not being a good worker. He even told me a friend called him out for it because he had mentioned it to them a year prior. So he had been knowingly a poor worker for more than the time I have known him. I brushed it off since my dog was #1. 2 weeks later I take the second trip to Mexico which also happened to be the day after I had been put under for a broken finger from a surf accident. he did not come for my surgery to support me and i expressed concern on lifting my 80 lb dog with my finger freshly put back together with a metal plate. yeah he couldn't come he has work. I spend 8 hours in mexico going to 5 hospitals for my sick dog to find answers. while he ended up going to the skatepark after work. I went to stay at his house that night which was nice he setup a bed for me to lay next to my dog on the floor.
the next morning was Friday. I said ok I have to put my baby down this weekend he is so sick. he said ok I am coming over right after work to be with you. that evening he calls me. his friends brother is in town and he is going to go surfing in the morning (saturday) with them and come over right after. I said ok whatever. I was screaming inside.
he comes its fine. sunday I put my dog down. I have the vet come, before hand I had frequencies playing for my baby on spotify and he has the audacity to change it to youtube video to show my cousin a skate clip. I called him out and he dismissed me.
a week after my dog is put down we have another (many not even mentioned because its painful) butting heads episode of him telling me knitting is not faster than crocheting and he has the experience since he was around it when his friends crocheted so i should listen to him. mind you I have been crocheting for 10 years i have never knitted so i mentioned i was going to start knitting and he told me how much slower it is and i just genuinely don't know so i said oh I didn't know and I don't know what to expect and because I didn't say I believe you it was this terrible icky feeling in my gut I didn't even wanna talk to him anymore. I was telling him how excited I Was about something and he would always shoot me down. so I called him later that evening after work to discuss it and of course he is driving to the skatepark and he says he needs to go skate and feels bad energy after me calling him to talk about the knitting crocheting mishap and he goes "your life has been so depressing lately" and I was just so taken back by that and hurt I don't even remember what my response was but I should have hungup and never talked to him again. I don't remember what happened but I let it go.
then a couple weeks later (November) its 2 weeks from Thanksgiving, he says his roommate is making a fried turkey and invites me i am so excited because I am 2,000 miles from my family so I begin to prepare what meals I want to make. a week before Thanksgiving he facetimes me and says he has exciting news that hes going to mexico for thanksgiving to surf with his friends. I was so sad, I asked him why he would make plans in place of what we planned and he just said it was a special opportunity and so I felt i had no choice and didn't fight it. i realize at this point of typing all of this I enabled alot of this behavior.
that evening I sent a video message to him about how hurt I was and how inconsiderate he is of my feelings and the fact that I am his girlfriend and his friends and what he wants to do comes before me always. the next morning he apologizes via text and then is quite throughout the day which is very odd because he texts every 3 hours pretty much. I ask how his day is going and he says it started off shitty because of the message he received from me that morning, it wasn't the "best way to start the day". so again I am dismissed for sharing my feelings. and I let it go again.
Thanksgiving comes and I take my other dog camping to the spot I took my recently passed dog. Fast forward December he was visting at my house and I have been working on training my younger dog he has leash reactivity. I say "here" and treat dog when we pass other dogs so he associates quiet still behavior with a reward in this moment. Ok so then he suggests I teach dog a different word that would associate a dog is coming and that my dog needs to behave............ I said that is exactly why I say "here". He continues and starts to raise his voice, "you aren't listening to me, teach him a different word like leave it" and I said ok but he still isn't good with "here" so why would i give him another word to learn? it turned into an explosive fight. we broke up the next night and he is bawling his eyes out and so am I. a week goes by we get back together because I can't help but think he has potential to be this amazing partner he talks about all these things he wants out of someone and I check every box but he just would pick this random little arguments and then be so indecisive of what he wants to break up or not.
I told him how I wanted to do yoga teacher training he says "theres already a lot of yoga teachers". I told him I was going to costa rica with my girlfriend for a surf trip and he says "why would you go with her and not me? how long have you known her? your level of surfing isn't even at the par to go to costa rica" but he had already gone on 2 surf trips with friends. he would dismiss me time and time again. he would criticize everything I do. even telling him something I saw happen he would qualify everything I said and question what I saw was true.
His birthday comes in January and prior to this I told him how excited I am and important it is to spend brithdays together and shower each other. I make him a cake the night before and set up my dog for daycare. I drive to work keep his cake in the fridge and then after pick up dog from daycare and drive 2 hours to see him and celebrate. He then tells me he booked a trip to skate in Spain with his friends over my birthday. I was so heartbroken I wanted to throw up I asked him if he takes me seriously and he said yes of course and we both cry I am so furious I should have left but I didn't. I then tell him how disgusting his house and its been 8 months and hes never bought me flowers. the next day he brings flowers to the coffee shop I went to work at. I went back to his house after and broke up with him yet again. I burned a picture of him he gave me. I really tried to move on. he hurt me so much and would dismiss me all the time.
I don't know why but we got back together again. he started watching dharma talks I would send him (mindfulness talks, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Ram Dass kind of stuff) because he knew how selfish and self centered he was and he admited it every time we broke up but made no effort and this last break up he really did seem to make an effort.
we didn't see each other for 40 days and he came over in April for a weekend we went to the art museaum he was in the middle of a story and we were getting kicked out I asked him if he can take my picture quick and he flips, "I can never finish a story it takes forever all the time" he takes my picture and then I stop being silent. I tell him you are the storyteller all the time I never tell you stories because its always about your stories I remind him I haven't been to an art museum in ages and i want a photo in that moment and your story already happened so why cant it wait a moment??? he then woke up a little and saw my perspective. and then the next day we went to surf, the surfboards are in the car we go thrifting and he says oh we can't be in there for even 30 minutes someone will steal the boards he had all this concern on the surfboards and I was like why did we come here then...? lets just leave but no we go inside and of course 15 min in he says ok! 15 more min! and then later that night I said why did you make such a big fuss and then you don't even live the truth you say? he says yeah I wanted to come apologize to you but I didn't and I am like are you kidding?! come on please I need you to take accountability for your actions this is part of being an adult!! and then he admits to being a "whiny baby" and I was like yes you are a huge baby and youre a grown ass man! anyways it was a very nice talk while I was actually able to talk and he was listening very well.
Ten days ago was my birthday, I went camping with my dog. He told me he would facetime me on my birthday he only sent a text in the morning from spain mentioning "I wish I could be with you" whatever crock of s*/t. he never called me. I saw his friends posting on IG though so I know they had Wi-Fi. I sent a picture of my camp and said "we made it, thanks for calling like you said you would :(" that was my last text to him.
the next morning he gave every excuse, "sooooo sorry I didn't get to facetime you" we were so busy blah blah blah. its like if you wanted to make the effort you would? sends another text asking how camp was and what are we doing that day and then another one 8 hours later apologizing saying how truly bad he feels and hopes I am willing to speak with him but could understand how I wouldnt want to and says he blew it.
I never responded. He never even tried to call me to apologize just 4 total texts. I blocked him from seeing my IG stories. I am so heartbroken that I spend a year thinking I was with this wonderful person who wants the same things as me to learn that all he wants is to skate and surf and not do any hard work or put any effort into life he has not made any growth the entire almost year I have known him.
I have made so many advancements in my own life. I sold my motorcycle, rented out my garage, laid brick in my yard by myself never offered to help, I starting selling all of my vintage at pop ups I did 3 and he never came to any. I broke my finger and put my dog of 11 years down. I have a really wonderful job and I also stick to my word and do what I Tell people I am going to do.
I can't help but be missing him. Wanting to work it out. I act impulsively quite often but I know in my gut this man would not stand up for me if times got tough like he hasnt this whole year. can people really change? do I owe closure to him?