Son moving out poems

It’s actually made things worse between us and we’ve been arguing even more than usual because things have been raised in the sessions that trigger us both.
We agreed to have counselling after a bad couple of years in which our son, who has ADHD, went off the rails and we had to remortgage the house to get funds to pay for his education. Also, my wife had to go back to work full time, which she resents, as she says she has enough on her plate with our son and our younger daughter to look after.
Added to this, we’ve completely stopped having sex or being affectionate. We’ve both been ready to walk away from the marriage at different points, but felt counselling could help as a last-ditch option. But it’s not what I expected.
I do want to get through this together if possible, but sometimes it seems easier to throw in the towel. I’d welcome your opinion.
Coleen says
In therapy, things usually do get worse before they get better because it brings everything to the surface, it opens old wounds and revisits issues that you’ve avoided. But that’s how it works and, if you stick with it, for most people it does have a positive outcome.
You have to confront problems and look them straight in the eye in order to move on from them. So, I wouldn’t give up on it yet. I’ve had therapy at different points in my life and you do have to commit to it for a period of time to get the benefit.
As for arguing after the sessions, tell your therapist this is what you’ve been doing and discuss it in the room. And why not agree with your wife to talk about things constructively after a session?
Go for a coffee and spend half an hour or an hour talking instead of arguing. Inevitably, therapy will bring up things you didn’t know about each other – opinions, feelings and even events that might come as a shock. You do have to be prepared for that and work through it.
You’re doing a positive thing – however things play out in the end – so keep showing up. You will get to a point when there’s a breakthrough for one or both of you and you’ll know what to do. Good luck.

WA STATE: I have 2 children under the age of 5 years old. Their father is an undiagnosed narcissist. We split up when the children were 3 months old due to him cheating on me twice. We remained roommates and friends for years afterwards. This last year however, he chose to lie about why he needed money, where he was going + why he needed babysitting (I worked 12 hour shifts as I was the bread winner of the house) and at times wold be out until 8-10 am without any notice. Finally, truth came out. He was seeing a woman. He was using said borrowed money to pay for dates, was crashing at her house and sleeping with her if ya know what I mean and was actually going out with her. When I found out, I had requested that until I know she was safe, that the children don't get involved yet. He went behind my back and brought her around my kids for almost a month. (When I had been seeing someone, I was not allowed to bring my person around my kids until he felt comfortable with it and I respected that request). Now, this last year he has presented what is called a campaign smear. Anyone who told him he was wrong for the way he was handling things, he got angry. He cut off all of his family, destroyed our friendship and lost his job as he was her supervisor. He at one point told me he would be willing to sacrifice all of his relationships and job for a relationship with this woman.
Now, the father has a history of yelling at the children for very minor things, he has shoved my son by his head while he was only a year old (because he was "frustrated with him". He has a history of:

• falling asleep during random points of the day, leaving the children unsupervised and able to get into things they shouldn't like sugar, nail polish, flooding sinks etc....
• having headphones in/on nearly all day.
  
• Allowing children to answer front door when he is a different room without checking for who it is first.
  
• not brushing their haiteeth
  
• not giving baths when needed
  
• leaving them in dirty clothes the entirety of the day, even to sleep.
  
• Had a suspended license yet continuing to drive my children around
  
• leaving soiled diapers on flooon them without changing for extended times
  
• allows them to sit in pee soaked sheets/clothes.
  

In current times, he has moved in with this woman and is engaged to her in less than a year. Moved in within 3 months, engaged within 4 months. I live on my own. He Couldn't pay me child support after October. His fiancé paid me in December. I was donating plasma to make ends meet. We are supposed to have 50/50 but we have no legal plan or anything. We were never married. I get the kids early or I get to keep them longeasked to keep longer because of "stress" he has or no babysitter. So technically I have had them 70/30. Finances are a lot better now for me so im not as stressed about child support however, my kids are saying "daddy mean, daddy scary, daddy angry, daddy hit me, daddy hit me harder. I don't like daddy, I don't want to go to daddy's." They'll gesture to their cheek. In December, my son came back to me with odd bruises on the sides of his cheeks by his mouth. I only was told he hit his face at the park on his left side but he had a exact same bruise in the same spot on the other side of his cheek. I asked about that and he got very defensive and angry and tried to claim he hit his face on the monkey bars at the park then hit his other cheek by jumping on the bed. My daughter has said daddy hits them on the arms, feet and head. The bruises they come back with are hard to identify as them playing and being children or abuse. Whenever we do swap, they are quick to leave to come to me but fight me on going to their dad's. What can I do? I have witnesses to his neglect and abuse but not much evidence from the past. I have some and a ton from current. Ive been trying to keep screenshots, photos anything. I just want to do right by my kids. His fiancé keeps their apartment spotless as she had OCD. My kids sleep in a small bed together. They also prefer his fiancée over their father and this has been vocalized by them several times. Please help me. Also he had lost his job in February and finally got one about 1.5-2 months ago. I lost my job but had a new one within a week.

AITAH for kicking my stepmom out of my house?
Am I the asshole for kicking my stepmom out of my house? My mother and father had a divorce when I was three years old. A year after the divorce my dad got remarried to a woman named Verna who he met through his mother. She was nice at first all up until the wedding. She got mad at me because my father wanted me to be the ring bearer instead of her nephew. Over the years in my childhood she did many things to me and my brother that were just wrong. She would give me and my brother horrible haircuts without my father’s or mother’s permission or buy us clothes we told her we didn’t like.
In my teenage years I had very expensive tropical fish that needed a special tank and heater. I saved up a bunch of money from jobs over the summer I bought the tank, the heater, the filters, the chemicals, and the fish. I had him for over a year and he was so marvelous. One day, I came home from school and it had turned out Verna found a dish in the cabinet that had a tiny piece of food on it that I missed when she made me do the dishes. Instead of making me do the dish over again or grounding me she decided to pick up my fish tank and go into our backyard and dump the tank out with the fish inside. I was horrified. I didn’t get my fish in time. Verna had squashed my fish with her foot. I was so mad I punched her in the face and left on my bike to a friends house. When I got home, my father was there waiting for me. He was with Verna. What had happened was after I left Verna called my father’s office and told him that I had assaulted her and ran away. My father was fuming. I told him that she was lying, and she had killed my fishes in the backyard and that he could go back there for proof. My father had believed me at first and went into the backyard to see this proof. What I found out later was that after I left on my bike, Verna picked up the fish and buried them in the neighbors backyard and had picked up the the tank and the heater and everything and put it in the closet. At this point my father didn’t believe me one bit and he grabbed me by my arm and slapped me across the face. He told me I wasn’t allowed to live with him anymore and that I was going to go live with my mother in the town over.
Eventually, I was fine with it. I packed all my stuff. I said goodbye to my friends and I left for the next town. I was in the town for a few months before my father and Verna begged me to come back because of my brother. He is disabled. It wasn’t common back then. A lot of people didn’t accept him and didn’t know how to take care of him.
I only moved back in because my brother. For the next few years until I graduated high school I had to live in a real life hellhole. Verna would break a vase or a glass or a plate and when my father got home, she would tell him I did it and I would get in trouble for it. Eventually, I graduated high school and my brother was only a few years younger than me at the time. I rented out my own little apartment and I had him move in with me. I wasn’t comfortable leaving him with my father and Verna. when he graduated high school, I decided to take him with me to college several states away.
Anyways a few months ago I found out while my father and Verna were married my father had been emotionally abusing her. My father went to jail and we all found out that Verna had sold the house for a lot of money (since she was broke) to a company who was buying houses to demolish for a new town shopping center. Verna packed her stuff and was hotel surfing for some weeks and was tired of it and all of her family lived all the way in Michigan. Verna thought of me and didn’t even call me or say anything to me for that matter. She knocked on my door and asked if she could spend the night in my guestroom. I told her she could stay for a few hours while I decided if she could stay or not. My guilt got the better of me and I let her stay for about two weeks during this time, she didn’t do anything at all. She refused to do the dishes that she dirtied. She refused to pick up after herself and do her own laundry. She refused to pick up her makeup off my counter, and put her shoes away in her room. She also hurt my brother on accident and hit him in the head with the end of her wine bottle that she had when she broke into my basement and drink most of our wine that was very expensive then proceeded to tell everyone in my house that my brother hurt himself and then used most of our Tylenol because of her hangover from the next morning.
A few nights ago, I decided I was over it and yelled at Verna and told her to get out of my goddamn house. She screamed back at me that it was “technically her house too” because I was “technically her son” she refused to leave, and I threatened to call the police on her. Eventually, she grabbed all of her junk hopped in her car and left I haven’t heard from her. I haven’t seen her anywhere in town and nobody I know has heard from her. I don’t know if I should really even care if she got hurt or if she’s just planning to leave and look to stay with someone else. She’s treated me and my brother horribly and I don’t appreciate how she treated me over the course of my life but she still is a human and maybe she’s a bad person because of what my father did her, I feel really bad for what I did to her and I kicked her out when I should’ve been there for her, but I also feel like I’m kind of the victim here too. I don’t know if I did the right thing or wrong thing.

I’m in a complicated situation and feel pretty trapped. My husband (non-us citizen) and I (us citizen) were married 11 years ago in another country. We moved back to the US for his high paying job and I got a pretty high paying job of my own. He quit his job and started a company and was back and forth between his home company and the US. We had a child who is now 7.
Then my husband’s business fell apart right after my son was born. He can’t go back to his old country due to these business partner debts. He has been making some money off of investing and now consulting but contributes nothing to the household. He hasn’t filed taxes in 4 years. He never got a drivers license or green card here. He hasn’t had a valid visa since that first couple of years back, so now he can’t leave the country.
I can’t do anything to divorce him, right? Or even separate? We have a child together and as much as I don’t want to live with this man or continue to live in financial ruin (i will never be able to pay off our joint debt and taxes) due to him, I don’t want to deport my child’s father. Even if he gets his taxes straightened out and gets his green card I’m still on the hook to support him as far as I can tell.

“Before I met the Savior, I was a worthless piece of garbage, barely a human being,” Lovebug droned at the front of the enormous room. Lovebug was a monster of a man, two-hundred and fifty pounds of hard tattooed muscle. Like myself, he was a high-ranking member of the Church.
His flat gray eyes scanned the room with a fanatical gleam. I sat in the first row, watching and waiting. Followers of the Savior would tell their stories, how the Savior had reached down and lifted them out of sin and filth to bring them up to the divine. The bright fluorescent lights overhead droned on with a low hum. Thousands of men crammed together in seats or stood at the back of the room.
The Savior taught only two commandments: to murder is holy, and to die for the Savior is the highest bliss. An army of warriors followed the Savior, knights on a holy crusade, priests who wouldn’t hesitate to burn the foul bodies of any witches or demons we encountered. I thought of myself as a knight for the holy king, our Savior, the mouthpiece of the eternal.
“Now, it is like the hand of God has reached into my heart and loosened all the knots there, the knots of anxiety and fear and uncertainty.” He raised his black, military-style rifle into the air for emphasis. “I never realized the true nature of reality before- the fact that we are living in a simulation where the final battle of good versus evil is playing out before our very eyes. And I will be on the side of the good, until my dying breath. I will be on the side of the Savior and of God!”
The crowd roared and clapped. Men got to their feet, sweating heavily in the boiling hot conference room. I felt the surge of energy pass through me like a tidal wave, the pure confidence and iron will of truth. Lovebug lumbered down off the stage as the Savior came out from behind the red curtains, walking with the straight spine of a soldier. He wore a silky black robe that fluttered softly around him, the hood pulled back.
The Savior had horrific burns running the length of his body. His arms had melted folds of keloid scars visible all the way to the tips of his fingers. His scalp had also melted, and the Savior had no hair except for his eyelashes and eyebrows. But the fire that had nearly killed him had spared his face, an aristocratic visage with ferocious green eyes like those of a cat. That face seemed like it had been sculpted out of marble by DaVinci himself, the high cheekbones jutting out over a chin so sharp that it looked like it could have hammered nails into boards. He stared out at the crowd for a long moment, his gaze unblinking.
“The final battle has begun,” he said in a low voice, no more than a whisper. Yet, in the deathly silence of the hall, his words rang out loud and clear. “Those in charge of this illusory world know that we see them. We see them very well, how they hide behind the curtain. They control the world economy, the justice system. Every government, whether they call themselves communist, authoritarian or democratic, is no more than a puppet in their dancing fingers.
“When anyone tries to stand up and lead the masses of suffering people towards freedom from slavery, they are vilified by the mainstream media, brought up on false charges or killed, their bodies staged to look like a suicide. Look what they did to Jesus, and for what? For telling people to love God more than their rulers? And those who speak out today are also crucified, murdered in prisons or killed by their governments. Truth is the most precious commodity, after all. It is one that can only be purchased with blood.
“So what can we do? How can we fight against such evil?” There was a quiet muttering among the pale, frozen faces that stared up at the stage with adoration and love.
“We can fight it by using their own weapons against them!” the Savior said, his voice rising in speed and pitch. He raised his fisted hands to his chest, accentuating each syllable with a back and forth stab of his hands. “Fight fire with fire, and pay back blood with blood! The only thing these global terrorists understand is greater levels of force. We must show them death on a scale they have never before imagined.” I felt nervous as the Savior delivered his message. I saw other men shuffle anxiously in the crowded auditorium, most of them having high-caliber rifles slung around their shoulders.
I felt the rising violence and bloodlust in the air like electricity before a lightning storm. At that moment, I knew we would all have to fight before too long.
***
The Savior called me and Lovebug back to his office after the speech had ended, sending his squirrely assistant over to deliver the hand-written note in the Savior’s blocky, copperplate handwriting. For a long moment, I simply watched the crowd filtering out of the doors, heading back towards the complex where all the holy soldiers of the Savior lived. Feeling dissociated and light-headed, I followed behind the massive muscular form of Lovebug, the heavy weight of the M16 bouncing against my chest. We pushed through the blood-red velvet curtains, winding our way past stage equipment and down a hallway of pure marble.
Mystical paintings similar to those of Alex Grey covered both walls, showing the inside workings of the human body through art. It was as if the painter had X-ray vision and could see the heart chakra and the countless thin vessels that spiderwebbed up to the crown. But, unlike Alex Grey’s hopeful depictions of mysticism, these showed men and women being burned alive, crucified, decapitated or strangled. Dark colors composed the paintings: the dark blue of a suffocating face, the clotted red of an infected stab wound, the black of death. They captured the essence of struggle perfectly.
The Savior’s office had a thick mahogany door with silver engravings of leaves and vines running the length of it. At the top stood a single staring eye with twelve wavy tentacles emerging from the perimeter of it- the symbol of God, who the Savior had seen personally. God would sometimes speak through the mouth of the Savior, always during times of great tribulation or suffering. Lovebug knocked at the door. The Savior’s deep voice echoed out faintly.
“Come in.”
We entered slowly, the sprawling desk of the Savior filling half of the room. He sat in a comfortable chair behind it, reclining. On the walls behind him, he had pictures of Jesus, Saint Stephen, Gandhi, Hitler, Jim Jones, Shoko Asahara and others who he taught had fought against the world elites and been killed for it.
The Church of the Final Rapture was not a church in the conventional sense. The main teachings didn’t revolve around the divinity of Christ or the nature of original sin. What the Savior taught was far more profound- an illusory or simulated world where every single person could become their own Christ, could awaken to the truth and perform miracles, but only if they believed fully and followed the Savior.
“Sit down, please,” he said in his gravelly voice. “I have a mission I would like to discuss, and you two are the only ones competent and loyal enough to carry it out.”
***
“There is another anomaly spreading,” the Savior said, staring between me and Lovebug with his fanatical emerald eyes. “It is located in a rural part of the United States, in a town called-” he glanced down at the sheet of paper in front of him- “Frost Hollow. Supposedly, there are black-ops sites located nearby, secret alphabet agencies experimenting with magnetic distortion systems and creating rips in the fabric of spacetime with micro-wormholes.
“I don’t think it is much of a leap to say that the anomaly was likely started, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the government, as part of their research. The Cleaners would like to control that power, after all. They have been sending their men after it for years like sheep to the slaughter, expending billions of dollars researching it. If they and the US government end up being able to control the creation and spread of anomalies, they will use it to enslave the world. There is no question about it in my mind.” He leaned forwards towards us, his eyes growing cold.
“There is only one path forward I can see. We need to spread the anomaly, make it become unstable so the demons of Hell contained within it can spill out onto the real world. Perhaps it will awaken the downtrodden masses enough to begin the final revolution. We must fight terrorism with greater terrorism, and violence with greater levels of violence. For this mission, I am sending the two of you into Frost Hollow.
“Your job will be to find the Titan or Titans and lead them out to the border of the anomaly. These are horrendous beasts- indeed, the Church has seen them before. They are nearly impossible to kill. I want you two to go inside, bait it and have it follow you back to the edge, beyond the veil.”
“What’s a Titan?” Lovebug asked, his eyes flicking left and right nervously. The Savior stared at him stonily for a long moment. Then his eyes rolled back in his head, showing only the whites. All the blood seemed to drain from his face. His teeth chattered, his mouth opened, and through it, God spoke, the words pouring out like crashing stones. The voice did not sound anything like the Savior’s. It sounded much deeper, more mechanical, more alien somehow.
“I see you very well. I saw you when you were no more than a blood clot in your mother’s body. I see you even as corpses, rotted, putrefying, crawling with scavengers and insects. I see everything, every moment of time. But, in the anomaly, there are things I cannot see. For this, my holy ones must go forth.
“In the center of Hell, you will find a rose, a bird and a stone. These will be your salvation, if salvation can be found at all. Go with the blessing of Yaldabaoth.” The voice cut off abruptly, the silence deafening. I could hear my own heart pounding in my ears.
The Savior’s eyes came back down, looking confused and uncertain. His pupils were dilated and he was sweating heavily, even though it was cool and air-conditioned back here in his private office. We stared at each other across the table, a no-man’s land that protected me like a shield. For there seemed to be something dark in the Savior along with the light, and I didn’t know if any man could contain that power.
But there was no question of disobeying. Within the hour, Lovebug and I were on one of the Church’s private jets flying to the town of Frost Hollow.
***
The gently rolling hills of Frost Hollow loomed below us as the plane circled the small dirt airstrip in the middle of some cow farms. I looked up at Lovebug, trying to judge his stony expression. He had done many years in prison before joining the Church and finding salvation, even being the leader of one of the gangs. I knew he wasn’t afraid of violence. He had never told me what he did, what tortured him so much.
The Savior had told us much secret knowledge- how to find a Titan, a massive, bloated abomination that could come into being only within an anomaly, a combination of many rotted body pieces fused together in some sort of hellish black magic. The Savior had spies around Frost Hollow and the surrounding towns who had been monitoring the anomaly, watching the unstable gateways leading in and out and mapping them as best they could. We would be given a fast car, plenty of weapons and some body armor. I had no idea how nightmarish the journey would become, however.
“I’m driving,” Lovebug said as we descended the steps. A man in a black suit with the symbol of the eye and tentacles pinned on his black button-up shirt pulled up with a Mercedes AMG-One. It was a sleek, silver thing of immense luxury and power. The craftsmanship made it look like a work of art. I sighed, keeping my finger nervously on the trigger of my rifle as I glanced around the strange, empty town.
“If this thing won’t outrun a Titan, then nothing will,” I said, trying to break the tension. I looked at the speedometer, seeing it went up to 220 miles an hour.
“Damn fucking right,” Lovebug growled as we slid into the futuristic-looking leather seats. The engine turned on like a softly purring kitten. The GPS automatically turned on as well, the soft robotic voice leading us toward one of the more stable portals to the anomaly.
Lovebug sped down the empty forest roads of Frost Hollow, going twice the legal speed limit the entire way.
“The speed limit is only for the lowest common denominator,” Lovebug said pedantically, waggling a tattooed finger for emphasis. The GPS said we would reach the gateway to the anomaly in five minutes. Based on Lovebug’s speed, I thought it would be more like two. “Someone who actually knows how to drive and isn’t drunk or high can easily do 80 in a 40. Easily.” I glanced nervously at the speedometer, realizing he was going over 100 miles an hour now. The sports car hugged the tight corners of the winding forest roads with absolute precision.
“Turn right onto Snake Island Road Extension in five hundred feet,” the robotic female voice. Lovebug slammed on the brakes a few seconds later, the tires skidding and locking up. We looked around frantically, seeing no streets anywhere except the one we were on.
“What the hell?” Lovebug asked. The night was crawling in by now, the darkness covering the forests like a curtain. I squinted, looking at the thick grove of trees on our right, scanning it back and forth over and over. After a few seconds, I realized there was an overgrown dirt path there with no sign. It was nearly impossible to see at night, however, and calling it a road was somewhat of a joke.
“Oh, damn,” I said. “They should’ve given us an SUV.”
***
According to the GPS, our destination was only a thousand feet down Snake Island Road Extension. The low clearance of the Mercedes was a problem as Lovebug tried to navigate the flooded forest path. Deep tread marks flooded with black, stagnant water marked the entirety of Snake Island Road Extension. But ahead, the headlights illuminated something unusual.
Cutting straight across the trees and brush like a razorblade was a shimmering wall of translucent energy. It reminded me of a mirage, curving upwards in wavy spiral patterns. I could see through it easily, but it gave everything a dark, sinister covering. The forest seemed to be in constant motion as the grayish light distorted it.
“Look how huge it is!” I said in awe, staring up at the starry sky. The flat wall rose up seemingly forever, disappearing in the cold void of infinite space. Lovebug slowly ambled the car towards the anomaly, trying to keep the Mercedes from getting stuck with its low clearance.
“You ready for this, man?” Lovebug asked in a quavering voice as we inched towards the anomaly. It was only seconds away now. He grabbed my shoulder. “This is it. Remember the commandments.” I closed my eyes, concentrating my heart on the Savior’s words. Dying for the good is the highest bliss, he had told us.
“Let’s do this,” I said, my eyes flying open from my silent prayer as the hood passed through the anomaly. It disappeared in front of our eyes. We could see the forest on the other side, but the Mercedes looked like it was going through some sort of teleportation portal, being ripped apart layer by layer and sent somewhere else. Lovebug nervously grabbed my hand.
“For the Savior and for the Good,” he whispered as we passed through.
***
I heard screaming and wailing, full of agony and unimaginable horror, like the screams of those burning in Hell. My vision went white. A carpet of morphing dark colors covered everything as the shrieking intensified, until I thought my eardrums would explode.
“Stop!” I cried, feeling the pressure in my head like a splitting migraine. “Stop screaming!” I started kicking, punching, trying to get away.
“Calm the fuck down!” someone whispered, slapping me hard across the face. Stunned, I looked up, seeing Lovebug holding me down in the seat. He was covered in sweat, his face a blank mask of terror. “Don’t scream. There’s things outside that are looking this way.” I blinked fast, my senses coming back to me. I felt like a man waking up from surgery, confused and disoriented, my memories only returning in small trickles and drops.
We were sitting in the Mercedes on a road that looked like it had been made of human skin. The headlights showed the ragged patches of pale, leathery flesh sewn together with black thread. The road disappeared ahead of us in a straight line. The land here looked as flat as Kansas. Like a mirror world, it had houses and restaurants and churches lining both sides of the road, but they were all wrong.
The stone church looked like it was constructed of some kind of red volcanic rock. Baphomets and upside-down pentagrams covered the outer walls, engraved deeply into the glossy surface. Mutilated bodies covered the front lawn, impaled, crucified, skinned alive or burned at the stake. Hundreds of men, women and children lay dead in front of the Satanic temple.
Overhead, the sky bubbled and frothed with red clouds and constant explosions of blue lightning. Like missile flashes, the lightning illuminated the world around us, shining brightly before going dark. The incessant strobing gave the entire place a kind of circus freakshow vibe.
Many of the homes looked like they had been constructed from bones and covered in human skin, like some sort of hellish teepee. Arm and leg bones wrapped in razor-wire formed the pillars. Grinning skulls lined the top of the flat, rectangular roofs, thousands of bleached human heads staring down.
Staring out of the dark doorways, I saw gleaming, silvery eyes. They loomed eight or nine feet in the air on spidery bodies. Their limbs looked as thin as bones, jet-black and dull. The only color from these still revenants was from their unblinking eyes and grinning mouths, where teeth like those of a dragonfish jutted out. Every pair of eyes on that street was fixed intently on the Mercedes, the sick rictus grins on their alien faces never faltering.
“Jesus Christ, I’m sorry,” I whispered, feeling weak. “I thought I was in a nightmare for a minute there.” Lovebug shrugged his massive shoulders.
“Yeah, I felt it too, though I came out of it a lot faster than you did,” he said, glancing over at the Satanic church as we passed. It had protective black spikes rising high into the air all around it. The broken body of a child who had been burnt at the stake stood in front of the gates like a death omen, his small, withered hand holding a black rose. Lovebug choked, retching. He nearly rolled down the window, until his eyes met the silvery ones of a nearby abomination.
“What’s wrong?” I asked, looking closer at the church. On top of the roof, I saw an enormous statue of a black raven, its wings spread as if it were flying. It had three gleaming, silvery eyes embedded into the dark rock.
“That boy just reminds me of my son,” Lovebug whispered glumly, inching along the streets.
“I didn’t know you had a son,” I said, surprised. Lovebug had never mentioned a family. He shrugged.
“I don’t. Not anymore. I killed him. I got drunk and high one night back when I was selling drugs. Fell asleep in the living room with a lit cigarette and burned down the whole house. I killed my wife and son, burned them. They sent me to prison, but what did that matter? The prison up here is far worse.” He tapped the side of his temple.
I was about to say something, but at that moment, many things happened at once.
***
Lovebug was staring at the corpse of the child when an inhumanly long arm reached up from the side of the car. It had fingers like spikes, as sharp as a knife and twice as long as normal human fingers. I gasped, a warning shout welling up in my throat, but the hand came smashing down into the driver’s side window and grabbed Lovebug’s neck.
The window exploded in a shower of safety glass, shattering like brittle bones. Lovebug’s scream was cut off as he was dragged, kicking and screaming, out of the car. I swung open my door, leaping out and bringing my rifle around.
The Cheshire Cat grin of the abomination never faltered as it held Lovebug in front of its body like a human shield, holding him by the neck above the ground. Lovebug’s legs kicked and squirmed, his face turning blue as he slowly suffocated. His eyes bulged from their sockets, panicked and rolling, uncomprehending in their total animal panic.
I flicked on the laser sight. It danced over the ground, flashing over the body of Lovebug and the abomination. But I couldn’t aim for its torso or face, as I would probably hit Lovebug in the process. It was far too close.
I aimed for the monster’s thin, skeletal feet, the black toes twisting over each other like the roots of a tree. The gunshots rang out as a deafening counterpoint to the thunder blasts.
The monster gave a hissing gurgle as two bullets caught it in the right ankle. The creature seemed bloodless, and only dust and ashes rolled out of the exploded insectile flesh. It tried to skitter away, but its destroyed ankle caused it to fall forward, throwing Lovebug.
His body rolled across the road, the soft leather that looked like it was made from tens of thousands of human skins. Gasping, his lips still showing a faint blue cast, he struggled to crawl away.
I saw furtive movement from all around us. The creatures in the houses and doorways were moving forwards, drawn by the bloodshed or noise. Hundreds of glowing, silvery eyes surrounded us. I sprinted forward, dragging Lovebug to his feet.
“The church,” I hissed. “It’s the only place.” Still pulling the weak, confused Lovebug behind me, we staggered towards the black gates. They opened with a shriek of rusted metal.
***
The creatures stopped at the gates to the blood-red church, simply staring at us like statues. They didn’t even seem to breathe, their lidless eyes never blinking, the silvery glow never fading.
“I think this is the place we’re meant to go,” I whispered as we made our way towards the massive pointed doors. “When God spoke to us, he said something about a stone, a bird and a rose, that we would find the Titan through that.” I pointed back at the burnt body of the boy. “He’s holding a rose. On top of the building, there’s a bird. And the church is all stone. Maybe this is the place where God wanted us to go all along.”
“Maybe,” Lovebug muttered through heaving gasps, still grabbing at his bruised neck. “God, this hurts. It feels like I got hanged.” Side by side, we pushed open the doors to the Satanic church and walked inside.
***
Row after row of pews stretched out in front of us. Thousands of black candles were set up all around the perimeter of the enormous chamber. They sputtered and flickered constantly, throwing dancing shadows in every direction.
A small pair of bright eyes glanced up at us from under one of the nearby pews. I nearly jumped out of my skin, pointing the rifle at them and yelling.
“Show yourself! Come out now, or I shoot!” Lovebug looked at me, confused. He hadn’t seen it. But a few heartbeats later, a little girl crawled out, her eyes big and blue, her body an emaciated wreck. She wore ripped strands of what looked like leathery human skin to cover herself, tied together with black string. In one small, grime-streaked hand, she held a half-eaten raw mouse.
“Please, don’t kill me,” she said in a small voice. “I’m Emma. My mommy and daddy got dragged away and I’m scared.” I felt sick and weak looking at this small victim. I reached down and helped her up.
“I wouldn’t hurt you,” I said, kneeling down to her level. “I thought you were one of the bad guys. This is Lovebug, and I’m Jack.”
“This isn’t part of the mission, man,” Lovebug said nervously. “What are we supposed to do with her?”
“Well, we can’t just fucking leave her here,” I whispered back. “We need…” But I never got to finish that thought. Because, at that moment, the church woke up.
***
A red glow started at the front of the chamber, the altar where the priest would have stood and given speeches or holy communion. Here, they had a podium that looked like it was carved from a single block of obsidian. Reflected in it, I saw the screaming faces of people burning in Hell, grinning demons ripping off strips of human flesh and spiraling waves of flames, all sculpted by an artist who was able to capture the most miniscule details of agony and torture.
I looked around, realizing Emma had gone. I hadn’t seen her scurry away and hide, but her absence gave me a feeling of crushing dread in my chest.
“Lovebug, something’s wrong,” I whispered, still staring up at the altar. I heard a floorboard creak behind me. I glanced back just in time to see a man wearing full SWAT gear. I caught the flash of a pistol coming down, the butt aimed at my forehead. I heard the cracking, felt the immense pressure and pain. For a few moments, I swam in the currents of consciousness, trying to stay awake, but then the blackness crept in and stole me away.
***
I awoke suddenly, my hands tied so tightly behind my back that I couldn’t feel my fingers. I felt sick and wanted to throw up. I quickly choked those feelings back down. I tried to shake my head, to clear it, but that just brought jolts of pain like electricity shooting through my skull. Nearby, I heard a gunshot, then another.
“Bring it, fuckers!” Lovebug screamed in an insane voice. The explosion of a grenade rocked the building, and I smelled choking black smoke. I opened my eyes, seeing three men in SWAT gear laying dead, their bodies scattered haphazardly around the chaotic scene. One wall of the church had blown outwards, the stone still sending out gray wisps of wavy smoke into the air. I looked at my partner, seeing he had a bullet hole in his left arm and another one in his stomach. He was bleeding heavily, but the adrenaline and insanity seemed to keep him afloat- for now, at least.
I saw something walking towards us from the stage. It looked like a small boy, but black shadows spiraled up around his chest and face, translucent and shimmering darkly. He looked about five or six, his skin pale and smooth. As Lovebug’s face grew slack and distant, the boy abruptly erupted into flames.
“Don’t kill me again, Dad,” the small boy whispered in a hoarse voice choked with pain. The flames rose from his head and skin, melting his flesh, blackening it. Drops of boiling fat dribbled off his nose and chin. “Don’t send me to the dark place again, Dad…” He continued creeping closer to Lovebug, moving like a lion stalking an antelope.
“I didn’t know!” Lovebug cried, his face going paler. Tears streamed from his eyes as the rifle trembled wildly in his shaking hands. For a long moment, he looked torn, the finger tightening on the trigger as sobs escaped his chattering lips.
“Kill it, Lovebug!” I screamed. “Don’t let it get to you!” But as he dropped the rifle and knelt before the small boy, I knew it was too late.
The shadows spun faster and faster around the burning, dying body of the boy. He gave a scream of soul-shattering agony, reaching out to a small hand towards Lovebug.
“Help me!” the boy cried. Lovebug hesitated before bringing an arm up to take the boy’s hand.
“I missed you, Robbie,” Lovebug said before his fingers brushed the boys. The boy lunged forward, grabbing Lovebug’s hand with an iron grip. I saw Lovebug’s eyes widen in shock and surprise. A moment later, I heard the bones in his hand grinding together before breaking with a sound like snapping tree branches. The boy’s eyes darkened into jet-black orbs, the melted lips splitting into a sadistic grin.
“I missed you, too,” the thing hissed as its right arm changed, melting and reforming into something black and blade-like. The insectile limb swung forward in a blur, coming straight at Lovebug’s heart. He gave a panicked squeal a moment before it hit, trying to pull away with all of his considerable strength, his face turning chalk-white as the shattered bones in his hands ground together.
I closed my eyes, rolling away, trying to undo the knots that held my hands in place. Lovebug must have been greatly outnumbered. He would never have let that man tie me up. I heard the sounds of tearing meat and crunching bone nearby. Lovebug’s final breaths gurgled through the air, but I still kept my eyes closed, not wanting to look.
I felt a small tickle on my wrists, then heard a little voice next to my ear.
“I’ll get you out of here,” Emma whispered. I waited a few moments, then I heard the ropes snap. I looked back, seeing her holding a piece of sharp, broken glass in one tiny hand. In her other, she had the car keys. I wondered how she had gotten them, the little pickpocket.
“Thank God,” I said, rubbing my wrists. I looked around for my rifle, seeing it was laying next to the body of one of the SWAT guys. I wondered who these men were. I crawled towards it slowly, not wanting to draw attention.
“Don’t move another step,” a voice growled behind me. I glanced back, seeing the small boy, his features morphing into those of a demon. Curving horns spiraled from his temples. His jet-black eyes stared down at me with hatred and coldness. “You’ll follow your friend who killed my servants. His soul will stay alive forever within my body, a sickly thing wrapped up in an eternal shriek.”
“Fuck you,” I cried, lunging for my rifle. Emma disappeared behind a pew, running on all fours without looking back. I spun as I hit the ground, turning the barrel towards the morphing face of the shape-shifter. Its jaw unhinged, a snake-like tongue flicking out as it flew through the air towards me. Hollow fangs dripping clear venom grew from its mouth in a heartbeat, elongating and sharpening before my very eyes.
I fired twice, the bullets entering through its mouth and coming out the back of its head. Its flesh disintegrated in an instant, the body turning into light, gray ashes that disappeared in the breeze. Breathing hard, I waited, wondering if it was all over.
I heard a rumbling far below me, as if an earthquake were starting. A moment later, the church floor exploded upwards, sharp rubble and splintered boards flying in every direction.
***
“It’s coming!” Emma screamed, running over and grabbing my hand. I lay there, shell-shocked and unmoving for a long moment. In hindsight, the girl was a natural born survivor with much sharper reflexes than me. It was likely the only reason she survived as long as she had.
“The Titan,” I whispered grimly, trying to pull myself up to my feet. But it was like trying to walk on a heaving, sinking ship. Parts of the floor collapsed down into a seemingly never-ending abyss beneath us.
Near the stage, I saw hundreds of long, pale arms pulling something bloated and monstrous out of the ground. It was a Titan, and no explanation can ever convey the true horror of that thing.
It looked like countless human corpses had been melted together, fused into a ball with sagging, boneless chests, deformed faces and millions of writhing maggots. It groaned and gurgled with many lungs, exhaling a rotting, sulfurous breeze that made me want to retch. A soft susurration of many pained, muttering voices continuously emanated from the Titan.
“Emma, run!” I screamed, but she was already sprinting back towards the front door of the church. I backpedaled, afraid to look away from the creeping monstrosity, the juggernaut of rotting flesh moving towards us.
I heard the Titan closing the distance as I sprinted through the front door. The abominations with the silver eyes still slunk around the gate, blocking the car. I raised the rifle, firing blindly at the creatures, careful not to hit the little girl.
“Go to the car!” I screamed at Emma, feeling around for the keys. As the abominations saw the Titan, those still alive scattered, moving in a blur back into the shadows and homes of this rotten place.
The Titan broke the front wall of the church, sending splinters of red stone flying in every direction like bullets. It groaned and gurgled faster, its sickly cries more insistent. I ran to the Mercedes, starting it up and pressing the accelerator to the floor. I pulled a U-turn, heading back to the border of the anomaly.
***
The engine roared, the car bucking like a wild stallion as it pressed me and Emma back into our seats. But the creeping Titan continued gaining speed behind us, and for a few seconds, I feared we would be crushed to death under its massive weight.
The anomaly shimmered ahead of us. I crashed through it at two hundred miles an hour, skidding wildly as the Mercedes hit the dirt road. I nearly flew into a tree. I managed to right it at the last second, pulling onto the paved street as the Titan broke through behind us.
It followed us out. It’s in the real world now.

i feel that my boyfriend’s(27) mom hates me(36). when she found out that we’ve been living together, she called me desperate, manipulative, easy-to-get, and other hurtful words. sometimes during off from work, my bf visits our house because he said he felt at home spending time with my family. my family likes him and goes really well along with him. on the other hand, his family only has nasty things to say about mine. his mom hates the thought of his son spending his rest days with us instead of them. i hope you can enlighten me because i was traumatized with what his mom called me. btw, i already moved out of his house.

I (42F) am going on week 3 of living alone. My now ex-boyfriend of 2 years came home and said he wanted to move out. We had been having problems for awhile, but we had just moved into this new apartment in February. He has a 10 year old son who I was having problems adjusting to living with. Every weekend, he brings a truck and loads up what he can. I make sure I’m not home during this time.
The apartment is really cool. It’s loft style and right on the edge of downtown. It’s 2 bedroom 2 bath and rather roomy. I was so happy moving in here but now I’m having a lot of trouble being happy and making it my own. Most of the things we had here were his. It’s difficult living alone in such a large space and watching things disappear every weekend.
I have lived with boyfriends and alone off and on for the past 20 years. I honestly thought this was the one. I have come to the conclusion that I’m just not good at living with people. I can’t take another one of these heartbreaks. I don’t want to live with another significant other again. At the most, we could be neighbors. Has anyone ever lived like this?

Howdy everyone, sorry for the long wait, things just got really busy out of nowhere, and I’m still scrambling for time. Either way, I’m back and I’ve got a fresh new chapter for y’all. If you would like to support me, then you can do so over on my Ko-fi page. With that out of the way, I hope you enjoy today’s chapter!
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I looked around the gray, featureless walls of the cell that I found myself in, and considering my previous accommodation not twenty minutes before, this was downright comfortable. There was a small table bolted to the floor in the middle of the room flanked on two sides by hard metal chairs that were just as bolted to the floor. In the corner opposite of the cell door, there was a small cot with no pillows or blankets, just a hard piece of foam in place of a pillow. There were strips of lighting throughout the room in all the corners, and it lit the room to the point where there weren’t any shadows that I could immediately see. No doubt there would be cameras in the room to keep an eye on me, but if there were any, I couldn’t see them.
Once again, I found myself in a place where I couldn’t tell the time, and boredom quickly set in. It’s funny how when you think your life is in danger you get bored right after. I didn’t have to wait long, however, before there was a sharp banging on the door, and a harsh voice from the hallway shouted, “Stand away from the door!”
I looked at the door with half hearted interest as two guards flanked a man. He was in his late 50’s with close cut curly hair that was graying. The clothes he was wearing screamed businessman as he was wearing a smartly appointed and well-tailored suit and the ancient briefcase that he carried supported that idea. He had a stern look on his face that betrayed frustration, probably at the idea that he was meeting with me, “Thank you, gentlemen, but I think I can handle myself from here.” The two guards nodded and quickly left the room. As soon as we were alone, he sat down at one side of the table and popped open the briefcase. Out of it, he took an actual ink pen, some paper, and what looked to be an audio recorder. Noticing that I hadn’t moved from my position on the cot, he sighed and said, “My name is Wilson Jefferson. I think you’ll want to hear what I have to say, as this pertains to your defense in court.”
I paused. “You’re my lawyer? Why the hell would they give me a lawyer?” I asked.
He gave me a look. “As a citizen of United Terra, you are entitled to a lawyer for the duration of your legal proceedings, unless you would like to represent yourself?”
I sat up, and quickly strode over to the table and sat opposite my supposed lawyer. “And how do I know that you won’t try to sabotage my defense?”
He didn’t even look at me as he ruffled through the briefcase again and pulled out a tablet and started tapping away on it. “Back when we figured out that aliens were real, most of the population was in support of the provisions that would have eventually become our current day policy on interaction with aliens. There was a smaller group that believed that was a waste of time, resources, and the trust of our galactic neighbors. I happened to be one of them.” He turned the tablet over to me and showed me a news article from ten years ago.
I slouched in my chair. “I had heard about you guys, how will this help me?”
He leaned forward in his seat to stare into my eyes better. “Because we have been preparing for something like this happening for the last ten years.”
I scoffed. “Really? You’ve been prepping for this for ten years? Including the Strength Through Diplomacy being hit?”
He waved a dismissive hand. “Obviously not that, I don’t think anyone would have predicted the Yalayans hitting us like that. No, I’m talking about your potential legal defense.” He picked up his pen and pointed it at me. “We have several angles for this defense, and a good likelihood of getting you out of this, but before we get into that, I need you to tell me everything that happened, and leave nothing out.”
I nodded and got started. This was going to take a while.
We had been at it for several hours, me telling the story of the last couple of days, and Wilson stopping me every once and a while to clarify a point or two. The only stop that we took was when dinner came, and he had to leave to make some calls to his colleagues. He said it was to come up with the soundest strategy that they could think of. Before he left, he told me that my trial was in a week, and that I should be on my best behavior before then. The meal was nothing to write home about, honestly it was slightly better than the MRE’s that I had been eating back on the Shooting Star.
Soon after the meal, however, there was another bang on the door and once more the demand that I stay away from the door. Once again, the door slid open, and this time it was the same two guards as before, the left one carrying what looked to be a data pad.
“What’s going on?” I asked. My lawyer had advised me not to say anything to the security that could be potentially damaging.
“You’ve got another visitor, you’re mighty popular today,” the right guard said.
“Where are they?” I asked. I tried to get a glance into the hallway to see if I could see if there was someone waiting there but couldn’t see past the two guards.
“It was deemed that they were a security risk, plus, I doubt they would even be able to fit in here, much less have a conversation afterwards.”
My heart nearly skipped a beat as I heard those words, because there were only two or three people that I could think of that fit that description. My suspicions were confirmed when the guard turned over the tablet and I saw the familiar feather crested face of Aeva staring intently at the screen. From the background, I could clearly tell that she was probably on the Shooting Star right now.
Her expression immediately softened as when the camera was turned over to me, and she breathed a sigh of relief. “Thank the Spirits you’re ok, after what those soldiers said to me after they took you, I feared the worst!”
I shook my head and looked over to the soldier holding the tablet, gesturing to take it from him. He handed it over to me and turned to leave. “Knock on the door when you’re done here.”
“Aeva, how’d you even know that it was possible to contact me in jail?” I asked.
“We’re docked on the Strength Through Diplomacy right now, and a human visited the Shooting Star and wanted to know my side of the story. He said he was your lawyer, and he was gathering some facts,” she explained.
“Wilson you son of a bitch!” I said out loud. “Is he there right now?”
“You know, that’s a very rude thing to say to your legal counsel,” he chimed from outside of the field of view of the camera. I could hear the sound of metal on metal, meaning he was probably in a mech right now.
“Either way,” Aeva said before I could get another word in. “He told me that I would be able to watch the court proceedings remotely, because there wouldn’t be a way for me to be there in person.”
I nodded. It was a bit of a relief to know that she would be there, the first xenos to see a human without the mech suits. “Will anyone else from the Shooting Star be able to make it?”
“From what Wilson has told me, the captain’s also going to be there, mainly because he wants us both to testify in court. And besides,” she gave a small trill, “I’ve always wondered what Terran courts were like, it’ll be a first for everyone!”
I grimaced. “It might be a bad representation of what Terran justice is like, we don’t usually go for the death penalty.”
“Well, this is a landmark case!” Wilson piped up from the background. “My people have been fighting against the policies for dealing with xenos for ten years now, if this goes through, then the precedent set will be used to justify whatever else that the policy makers of United Terra want!”
“Bold of you to assume that they don’t already get away with whatever the hell they want.” I scoffed, shaking my head. “But getting back on topic, we have a week to prepare, how are we going to do this?”

I (M23) have been contemplating breaking up with my bf (M23) Jason, because of his homophobic family. Context: we have been together for 4 years and he moved in with me at my university dorms 9 months into our relationship due to his parents constantly threatening to take his entire McDonald’s check for rent when he was already paying for school and his school laptop. After he would tell them that he couldn’t afford it and they would threaten to kick him out. The last straw was a physical altercation occurred when Jason didn't nail down nails in a straight line during some fence repair where his dad began threatning his place in the house came to question. As a result, I asked him to move with me so I wouldn’t have to worry in fear that he would be living on the streets and I would of been hundreds of miles away to get him. They laughed at his face when he told them he’d be moving out. Up until the day he moved out he had packed everything in bags and his family didn’t think he going to go through with it. The day of they put all his stuff in a couple suitcases in what i call a last stitch effort to be a family to him. 3+ years later, i find myself in a very conflicting situation. After so many years of not needing his family and my efforts to help him so he wouldn't need to ask for help. He has decided to reconnect with them more due to my family's involvement in my life. I have been very fortunate to have accepting family across the board. As he has been communicating more with his family, i have noticed that his family hates me. At first, i believed it to be that I "stole" their child. However, I honeslty think its because they hate the fact that I am just the smudge in the family photos due to me being a man that is with their son. They have gone so far to not invite me to his sister's wedding and family Christmas party. They purposfully played down the court wedding saying that as per the court I wasnt allowed to go due to the fact that I was not immediate family. Only parents and siblings were allowed to go. They went so far ti say that they werent going to celebrate crazy after. Just a small lunch with his family and his brother in laws family. No surprise when Jason told me that he got there and noticed that his entire family was there waiting, and after they ended up having a whole party at Jason's family home. I was devasted and cried myself to sleep while Jason enjoyed himself and drank all night. Now the church wedding is coming up and they flat out told Jason that I was not invited. We were both hurt but myself more that he didnt notice it before . Even after I told him that they are doing all this to hurt us. As the day comes closer, jason seems so complacent to his family. It seems he is doing it to stay good with his family, but at times he tries to play it off as him taking advantage of his family's money. However, I feel that if the rolls were in reverse I would fight tooth and nail for him to be considered my family/partner. It just seems like in the long run they will hold the money he takes from them over his head.

Collanite Season 1:
Storyline: one day, during day of the blood ring on monstinia, a portal made of this excess energy formed in the relatively small but populated and active island, known as aphrodite, not only that, but it also created a energy dome around itself, that slowly grew until it covered the entire island, causing strange, anomalous events to occur on the island. On further investigation, it was discovered that these events only affect aphrodite. Later on, from the same portal, a group of people from another world fell through into the island and started colonizing it for themself. Theme: strange, otherworldly characters have entered aphrodite
Locations: Monster Metropolis, Saltwater Shore, Skier Slopes, Doggy Diner, Peace Pond, Mount Anon, Starlit Suburb, Golden Saucer, Cozy Cabins, Sakura Swim Club, Misty Mesa, Sacred Shrines
Skins: Travis Touchdown(1), Link(22), 2b(43), Glamrock Freddy(57), Sindel(71), Monika(94), Cloud Strife(117)
Destruction Tools: Blood Berry(goes on back), Ancient Battle Axe, Virtuous Contract, Glamrock Mic, Sindel’s Kwan Dao, Heart Pen, Buster Sword(goes on back)
Backblings: Blood Berry(comes off back), Hyrule Shield, Virtuous Contract, Glamrock Giftbox, Sindel’s Regal Crown, Poetry Book, Buster Sword(comes off back)
Emoticons: Ancient Bow Drawn, Well Done Superstar, Kombat Hairwhip(animated), MonikaHeart, Confident Cloud
Gliders: Demzamtiger(motorcycle), Wild Paraglider, yoRHa Flight Unit, Car Battery, Sonic Levitation(built in, sindel), Poetry Book, Hardy Daytona(motorcycle)
Contrails: Sheikah Symbol, Pod 042, Blue Boltz, Glitching, Materia Orbs
Emotes: Beam Showoff, Milk Drink, Slate Check, Phut Hon, Glamrock Wave, Glamrock Giftbox(built in, glamrock freddy), Sonic Scream, Write Your Heart, Code Panel(built in, monika), Piano Practice, Victory!
Weapon Wraps: Tunic Of Memories, yoRHa Specialist, Glamrock Shell, Edenian Crest, Doki Hearts, Buster Steel
Music Pack: Berry Beatdown, Open Wilds, Blissful Death, Pizzaplex Performance, Your Reality, Let The Battle Begin
Weapon Charms: Jeane, Triforce Of Courage, Superstar, Soulfire Sindel, Chibi Sayori, Chocobo
Loading Screens: View Of The Wild, yoRHa Installation, Below The Pizzaplex, Kingdom Of Edenia, JuSt MoNiKa, Fantasy Evolution
Edit Styles: Purple Jacket(Travis Touchdown), Tunic Of Memories, Tunic Of The Wild, Well Worn Outfit(Link), 2p Mock Machine, Mask Off(2B), Dirty Freddy(Glamrock Freddy), Royal Attire, Revenant Sindel(Sindel), Paper President, Ghost Menu Monika, Ponytail Monika, Jumpscares Monika(Monika), Playstation Polygonal(Cloud Strife)
Wildlife: Goose(runs up and steals an item from you), Chocobo, Wolf, Horse, Snowcoat Fox
Vehicles: Chocobo(tameable), Horse
Weapons: Thrasher Assault Rifle, Thrasher Burst AR, Thunder Shotgun, Buster Shotgun, Sonic Wave Shotgun, Calamity Submachine Gun, Sacred Submachine Gun, Tactical Pistol, Drum Pistol, Ancient Sniper Rifle, Monster Grenades, Silver Longsword, Royal Guards Sword, Beam Katana, Silver Knife, Bronze Knife
Items: Crafting Station, Pizza Box, Pizza Slices, Maple Sprout, Maple Vines, Apple, Baked Apple, Maple Pie, Raw Meat, Meat Skewer, Knights Shield
Containers: Common Loot Crates, Uncommon Loot Crates, Rare Loot Crates, Super Rare Loot Crates, Ammo Boxes
Weekly Challenges/Updates:
Week 1.
Visit Named Locations (3)
Deal Damage With The Bronze Or Silver Knife (300)
Search Loot Crates (5)
Plant A Maple Sprout, Then Consume Maple Vines (2)
Eliminations With Beam Katana (1)
Week 2.
Visit Starlit Suburb, Then Block Damage With A Shield (200)
Retrieve A Stolen Item From A Goose
Search Uncommon Or Rare Loot Crates (3), Deal Damage With A Thrasher Assault Rifle Or Thunder Shotgun (500)
Tame Horses Or Wolves (1)
Deal Damage With The Royal Guards Sword While Riding On A Horse (350)
Added: Bows, Arrows, Milk Bottles
Week 3.
Fire Arrows At Opponents (8)
Land At Sacred Shrines And Reach Top 50 (1)
Interact With yoHRa Pods (3)
Craft A Shotgun Or SMG Using The Crafting Station (1)
Deal Damage With A yoRHa Assault Rifle (300)
Added: yoHRa Assault Rifle
Week 4.
Pick Up Or Purchase A Pizza Box (1)
Visit Doggy Diner And Consume Pizza Slices (5)
Perform Dodge Rolls With The Knights Shield (3)
Construct A Stage Inside Of Doggy Diner (1)
Eliminate Opponents With The Silver Knife (5)
Week 5.
Knock Back Opponents With The Sonic Wave Shotgun (3)
Eliminations At Mount Anon (3)
Interact With The Royal Crest Of Edenia At Sacred Shrines (1)
Deal Damage To Opponents At Close Range With A Thrasher Assault Rifle (150)
Search Loot Crates Of Rare Or Higher Rarity At Sacred Shrines And Mount Anon (8)
Week 6.
Visit The Clubroom At Starlit Suburbs (1)
Eliminate Opponents At Starlit Suburbs Or Sakura Swim Club (3)
Consume Cupcakes (5)
Collect A Fazer Blaster And Stun An Opponent Using It (1)
Delete Opponents By Eliminating Them With Four Hits Or Less (1)
Added: Apple Pie, Fazer Blaster
Week 7.
Visit Sacred Shrines Or Sakura Swim Club, Drink Milk Bottles (3)
Collect Torn Poem Pieces Scattered Around Starlit Suburb (7)
Restore Health And Stamina Using Meat Skewers (75)
Deal Damage Using Monster Grenades (150)
Destroy Structures With Beam Katana In A Single Match (20)
Week 8.
Consume Apple Pie (1)
Investigate Strange Energy Signals At Monster Metropolis, Mount Anon And Skier Slopes (3)
Collect A Tactical Pistol And Deal 150 Damage Using It
Piece Together The Torn Poem Pieces Into A Full Poem (7)
Get An Elimination With The Ancient Sniper Rifle (1)
Week 9.
Deal Damage With The Buster Sword (175)
Land At Golden Saucer
Block Damage With The Knights Shield 30 Seconds After Landing (150)
Visit Skier Slopes And Cozy Cabins In A Single Match
Land At Monster Metropolis And Deal Damage With The Buster Swords Cross Slash Or Blade Beam Attack (100)
Added: Buster Sword.
Week 10.
Deal Total Damage With The Calamity Smg and Royal Guards Sword In A Single Match (300)
Consume Baked Apples, Maple Pies Or Pizza Slices In A Single Match (8)
Visit The Clubroom At Starlit Suburbs, Read The Pieced Together Poem (1)
Use The Buster Swords Cross Slash To Deal Damage In Different Matches (3)
Tame A Chocobo And Ride It 250 Meters
Week 11.
Interact With The Strange Gauntlet At Mount Anon (1)
Eliminate Opponents Using The Buster Sword (3)
Investigate Strange Objects Appearing At Monster Metropolis, Saltwater Shore, And Misty Mesa (1)
Defeat Prismarine Warriors (5)
Visit Named Locations In A Single Match (3)
Added: Prismarine Warriors, Prismarine Knife
End Event: Power Theft The event starts players around Mt. Anon. The event starts with an anomaly opening up at mount anon and from ot, Romeo the admin appears and steps out laughing maniacally “it is time, people of aphrodite. Time that I take this islands power for my own!” Romeo then rises up into the air, hovering above the center of mt. Anon.. then 2b rushes up the side of the mountain and slashes Romeo with the virtuous contract, causing him to yell out in pain for a moment before quickly composing himself and fires a blast of lava towards 2b, knocking her off the mountain and onto the ground with a thud. He then fires another blast, attempting to finish off the islanders of aphrodite, but monika forms a shield of code that absorbs the blast before closing it. “Don’t worry about him, we’ll stop him before he can do anything harmful” monika says, and then both cloud and travis run up to the mountain, weapons drawn- and then in sync, they jump up into the air and travis performs quick and powerful slashes with his beam katana, while cloud fires multiple blade beams at Romeo, greatly damaging him and knocking him back down onto the mountain, as they both fall back down sure they’ve beaten him.. and they took that moment to rest, but just then as soon as they let their guards down.. romeo began laughing before getting up and dusting himself off and commanding his army of prismarine colossus to rise up from the water around the island and attack everyone on it. Then saying “Now, back to absorbing this pathetic heart of yours” and forming a small protective shield around himself and firing two guardian beams at the center of the island, glamrock freddy then throws everyone a Fazer blaster as him and sindel team up, using the combined efforts of the Fazer blasters and sindels sonic scream to stun the colossi, the additional Fazer blasters allowing the rest of the the islanders to fire at the collosi while they can’t move. Romeo then attempts to pull the power heart out, causing a small tremor as the power heart is ripped out from the core of the island, then once it’s all the way exposed he begins using the beams to absorb the crystallic energy. once the first set of colossus fall, another one walks up from the water almost immediately, and then monika seeing this, says “it’s no use. They just keep coming..” then she gets an idea, and says “alright, I have an idea. But- it’s a risky one..” “if the powerheart becomes corrupted, then it’s dark energy will drain the energy and power of anything making contact with it..” “but, as the heart is what controls everything on this island. If it gets corrupted, the islands landscape and everything would also become corrupted and sinister.. but it’s the only way” monika hesitates for a moment before manipulating and corrupting the powerheart. as the heart grows darker and begins to crack slightly, the influx of dark energy causes romeos beams to backfire, draining him of all his energy and admin powers and causing him to fall out of the sky, back onto the mountain and sliding down the side of it, hitting various things on his way down before eventually coming to a stop on the ground surrounded by everyone else. Romeo then lets out a weak cough, saying in a weak raspy voice “what.. h-happened?..” and link chimes in saying “you just got defeated by us.. now.” And link draws his sword, ready to finish off romeo.. but before he can, the powerheart lets out a big burst of dark energy, knocking everyone back and leaving a decent sized crater around it.

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(Descriptions of fictional crimes investigated by the story's main Character Max.)
Detective's Fate
It's august of 2008.....
Max is a detective living in Chicago He checks his pistol and puts on his police badge as he walks out his front door.
He has been searching for a serial killer known as the Caller for years and always been one step behind due to the red tape.....
More importantly the chief's lazy attitude towards getting search warrants and actions approved by the courts for raids. Twice Max had good intel on the suspect's locations and photo evidence showing him at the sites.
The department needs more vigilant, caring officers and leaders but no one steps up to do it, instead they just complain about the slow progress and officers. And hinder investigations.
Now Max has decided that it might be time to stop playing by the rules and catch this scumbag.... .... ....
Starting his car Max sets his GPS to the address that "The Caller" was last seen and pulls out of his driveway as the 50 miles of directions pop up.
The killer's nickname being for his signature of calling in as he is committing the crime.
As he drives he remembers his first case, five years ago now..... ..... .....
A woman, Joane Taylor, was found dead in an alleyway after going out for the night. She showed no signs of struggle leading the police to believe she had drank to much and expired from alcohol poisoning.... ...
The death was written off as a "party gone wrong".... That is until several more were found and the coroner decided on a whim to test for other substances.
Once it came out that the deaths were possible murders...
The calls started coming in, almost like the suspect wanted credit before revealing himself....
Then ways of the deaths began changing as the Serial Killer explored his twisted desires searching for his preferred method.
The last case being a young woman found stuffed in a dumpster after the killer apparently got scared off.... Max will never forget it.... .... ....
The GPS finishes and the car beeps its final direction, taking an exit off the highway. Ramps out here are always confusing... Which is funny since he has driven this one for five years now...
The chief says he should sit this one out but he can't... The latest victim 3 months ago.
Marie Spelner, a waitress out on her smoke break talking to her spouse on the phone.
Survived by her husband, no children or living relatives. ....
Max Spelner turns into the driveway of the house he was directed to... Stepping out of the car he walks up and knocks on the door. Looking at the house he knows the family must be doing well if they live here.... Raising his hand to knock again he hears a scream from inside....
A second later the door is answered by a middle aged butler holding a tray with wine glasses on it... "Hello Sir, I'm sorry but this house does not wish to partake in any offers at this time..."
Max calmly says. "I'm not selling anything."
The butler looks confused for a moment before his eyes dart over Max's shoulder seeing his unmarked cruiser and he nods.
Looking past the butler Max sees that a woman is cleaning up after their dog.
"Have you seen this man?" Says Max holds up a picture of the one suspected of being the killer.
The butler gives it a once over before replying. "I'm sorry sir, no I have not." His tone sounds like he is lying... ....
"Are you sure?" The detective asks.
"I would not lie about something like that, sir." He states, his eyes not meeting Max's.
The woman calls from inside "Fletcher, who are you talking too?"
"Some man asking about a killer" he calls back.
"The killer is an inside job!" The woman quickly states.
"What?!" Max says.
"The Killer, it's an inside job." She says again, louder this time. In the same Max also hears a child begin to cry in another room.
"We should start from the beginning, it will be easier to explain trust me." The woman says.
'She seems to know what is going on....
"How do I know your story holds water?" He asks out loud.
"Oh I wouldn't lie. I have been following the case myself and it seems like an inside job to me." She states, somehow sounding hurt.
"Is there anyone else in the house besides you two and the baby?" He asks noticing the baby isn't crying anymore.
"Just Fletcher and I live here, the baby is my cousins but he just stays the night sometimes." She replies.
Max draws his gun and enters the house upon reasonable suspicion of an emergency in progress or suspect on the premisses as the man seems to be deceiving.
While the woman still seems unconcerned that the child is now silent.
He pushes past the butler and rushes towards the area he heard the crying. passes the entryway, the dinning room, and a kitchen before finally finding a child in a playpen.
"There there..." He says in a sing song voice picking up the child. "I'm officer Max, do you know where your mommy is?"
The child just cries louder.
Then he sees the man from the photo walk out of the bathroom, upon seeing him he bolts for the door and Max sets the child down gently then gives chase.
He runs through the house, following the man as he can hear the woman screaming at him to stop but he doesn't."
"Stop or I'll shoot." The man doesn't even break stride.
Instead he runs out of the front door and jumps into his car.
Furious that the man might escape he fires at the car as it drives away.
The back window shatters and he hopes he got his tire, but he doesn't wait to find out as he runs to his car and initiates a pursuit....
He flips on his concealed lights in his cruiser as he reverses down the drive and into the street.
The suspects car is fast but he manages to keep up with it weaving in and out of traffic as people move over for the siren.
As they approach a red light there is heavy traffic in the intersection..... ....
The suspect slams on his brakes and Max's cruiser only just stops short of hitting it. Jumping out the Detective points his firearm at the vehicle running up beside seeing heavily tinted windows.
"Get out of the car and on the ground now!!" He shouts as he moves to the driver's side door.
After seeing no response....
Max throws open the door and the driver is gone with the passenger side open.
He quickly runs to the other side catching the man trying to sneak off tackling him to the ground and then takes his arms putting them behind his back.
Max grabs his radio and calls it in as the man cries.
As he is waiting he hears a noise that sounds like static.....
"Wrong guy moron.. Did you ever stop to think I wanted you close for this one. That I planned everything...Even framing the pothead..... I almost lost interest until you pulled in the driveway... The attic is kinda cramped tho... I think I'll go carve some meat. Maybe graduate to other things to. I'm not sure yet. Lets see if you can catch me before......" A familiar voice says over the radio then cuts off... ...
Max looks at the man on the ground. "Why did you run from me?" He asks.
"Cause I have like 19 grams of marijuana in my pocket." He replies...
"Do you know how stupid that is?! I don't care about that I'm looking for a killer."
Before he can answer Max hears the woman from the house screaming for her life and a child's cries on his radio.
Then from below Max. "He's in the house, he's in the house! My mom and the baby!" The man on the ground says crying.
Max uncuffs him and runs to his car heading back to the house as he lays down rubber on the road... ... ...
As he approaches and pulls into the driveway he notices the front door is open.
"Hold on I'm coming!" Max screams jumping out of his cruiser...
He runs into the house finding the woman's body arriving too late. Moving over to her he checks for a pulse but she is gone, a large gash in her neck.
As he stands up he slips in a fluid but gains his balance and tries not to think about what it is....
He rushes to the room the baby was in finding the play pen empty. He leaves the room searching the rest of the house and still doesn't find the child.
"Where are you!!!" He calls out....
"This is the Callers first kidnapping and the media would eat up the fact I failed to stop the man." He thinks as he blames himself.
Sirens begin to blare in the distance as backup is about to arrive... ... ...
"There's a woman dead and a baby missing! The woman is in the dinning room straight ahead of the front door, Hurry!" He yells into his radio...
Looking over at the mother seeing a piece of paper on the floor.
He walks over to it seeing writing.
"So close... Looks like I'm a kidnapper now.... Good luck finding me.... And... I so enjoyed killing that sweet wife of yours. Might do it that way again. Not to the kid tho....later Max. Ps. This game is so fun.." It says.
"He was here..." Is all he can muster as the team enters.
"He was right in this house and I missed it because her son freaked over weed and ran..." He says as another officer speaks to him gently.
"Don't beat yourself up Detective, it's not your fault. He must have hid before you got her and left after you arrived." The words do little to comfort him "First day back on the job and the killer escaped taking a child..." He says as he walks away.
The chief arrives in his new lexus with a screeching of rubber as he lurches to a halt.
He quickly exits and leaves his door hanging open as he rushes into Max's face....
"I told you to stay away from this case MAX!!!!....(takes a breath)...
"If I catch any flak from my superiors, I won't suspend you.... That'd be to easy. Desk duty and an entry level demotion. The new guy will have a higher rank than you if things go my way.... Now get outta my sight...". "(Sighs)...
"This job is gonna be the death of me..." He says walking away from Max and towards the Coroner's van..... ..... .....
On the way home the detective stops by the store close to his house which is unlike him because he usually follows the same routine.
He nears the front door and he hears a kitchen timer ding loudly from behind him as his car explodes throwing him through the storefront windows as they are blown out..... .....
Alarms around the lot and others nearby create a cacophony of noise. His head pounding as his body aches, Max pushes himself up and collapses as the store manager runs over to him telling him not to move as he dials 911.... .... ....
Waking in the hospital Max recalls the feeling of the Shockwave as he flinches in phantom pain.
"Who woulda thought its like holding a ringing metal bat that hurts your hands but all over and way more intense." He thinks.
He suddenly feels tired and falls asleep.... .... .... ....
The next time he wakes, he sees a breaking news story that Jane Saltani is reporting on....
"Young toddler Accidently Shoots Serial killekidnapper ending his life and Alerting residents in the Area." The news anchor says.
Sighing to himself Max thinks about how crazy that is and laughs.
Tho he really wanted to bring the guy in. He closes his eyes to get some much needed sleep as his door opens.
Max looks up to see a man with a silenced pistol pointed at him.
"Hm. Now they think I'm dead. Funny how they just assume they got the right guy. Just like.... You did Detect... ....." Max hears but then hears no more as his end comes at just over the speed of sound....
The Caller leaves the hair of another intelligent convicted murderer that he obtained in a spot that's believable and quickly leaves.....
He disables the surveillance system and sends a virus out to any device that has received video data from the hospital.
Erasing and corrupting the systems. Leaving a master hackers finger prints on a glass from his home....
"Sorry, no witnesses." He says to the security guard as he fires... ..... ..... .... ....

This is a UK-specific question! I'm the father of an adult son with learning disabilities, and our family is considering moving to a different part of the country. Our options are limited by the services and activities available for my son. We're keen he gets as much time out the house as possible, being active and socialising with friends which he enjoys. We've been reaching out to local authorities but it's been slow and challenging to get clear answers. Does anyone have any recommendations? A friend's family recently moved to Taunton and had great things to say about the services and clubs available for their disabled daughter, but we'd love to hear about other experiences in different parts of the country.

I recently joined this sub on the recommendation of my partner who was helping to find support for me. We have a 3 month old boy together who absolutely lights up our lives. He's spunky, goofy, and sure let's us know loudly and suddenly if he's hungry or has reached 3 milestones simultaneously in a day. I love him and I love my partner who went out of her way to seek resources for me while also addressing her own feelings and issues that have arisen from first time motherhood.
I've always thought that I wanted to be a Dad and have been told I'm a natural and that I was made for this. Lots of positive affirmations from my family and a couple of close friends that remain in contact. It certainly helps, but while I revel in fatherhood, I'm missing aspects of my former life- Particularly my core friend group who I would meet up with once a week and the gradual dissolution of my hobbies and interests.
I'd always thought of my core friend group (5 including me) as being a constant fixture in my life even after having a child. One friend (who is in a relationship with another of them) even wanted kids herself and had joked about taking matters into her own hands if her partner didn't start seriously considering it.
Well I'm 32 going on 33 now and ever since my partner got pregnant a year ago, we've been gradually seeing my friends less and less. Part of this was due to a shift in lifestyle change. I entered a relationship with my partner in Marchh of 2023 and naturally wanted to integrate her into my friend group.
For background, my partner was an alcoholic and sober two years and had started trying to reintegrate alcohol back into her life in moderation around the time we began dating. My core friend group and I would hang out Fridays or Saturdays and have a few drinks and smoke weed, play board games, watch movies, play video games, etc. Not a healthy lifestyle frankly, though I personally didn't really drink anything at any other point in the week except with them, so I had a much different relationship with alcohol than her prior to entering the relationship.
Anyways, around May 2023, I became concerned with the quantity of my partner's consumption of alcohol when the opportunity presented and decided to go sober proactively, especially since these weekly hangs were enabling it, and I was certainly starting to not feel drinking as much as I was anymore either. She agreed to do so with me and we both stopped cold turkey but still went to the events. In July 2023, we found out she was pregnant. To this day it hasn't been an issue once and it speaks volume to the work she's done that she was able to just flip back to not drinking again. It's a huge relief and a testament to her force of will.
Since then, we had tried to attend the hangs and brought non-alcoholic beers and cocktails with us to engage in the social aspect, which we found easy at first. But with time, our friends started engaging with us less at the hangs and as the pregnancy continued, we attended less and less as it took its understandably physical toll on my partner. The last couple of months started feeling great and the group dynamic felt somewhat normal and engaging again, but then suddenly the group chat saw less activity. Understandably, once our son was born in March we stopped hanging in person because very obviously, priorities have shifted and we have poured all of ourselves into raising our wonderful boy.
I'm feeling lonely though. There was a sense of comroderie I feel like I've lost since. Most of these friends have not asked how any of us are. Have shown no interest in my son. It's painful to think that we'd talk so often of how we were for life and that'd we'd be aunts and uncles to our kids and all but one (my best friend) have seemingly shown up to that.
I'm thankful for my best friend and his genuine attempts to stay connected but it's so strained now and my only link to the group as a whole seems to be dead in the water. They still hang weekly for the most part but have taken to direct communication to coordinate. So now they have a weekly avenue to communicate and the group chat being my only feasible way to maintain a link at this time is barren no matter how often I attempt to engage. I see my other friends social media filled with pics of them at the cottage we all used to go to right now and feel a horrible sense of fomo, anger, sadness, and who knows what else.
I don't know- I just feel really lost right now and am hoping it gets better. These aren't bad people but they've shown that they clearly have no interest in this part of my life despite my attempts to stay engaged and ask how everyone is, send pics of my kid, etc. I feel like I lost myself and my friends shortly after meeting my partner. I feel physically healthier making these changes and don't want to continue my old lifestyle, but I miss my community. It feels a little harder right now because I'm not seeing much of my family either since it's hard to coordinate taking our little one out in respect to his wake windows and tolerance of travel and disruption to routine. On a brighter note, I'm now feeling much closer to my partner and I's mutual friends, a couple we've known since high school who have a 1 1/2 year and 6 year old girl who love an our out from us. Reconnecting with them from the scope of parenthood has been a real treat and helps a bit.
Anyways. I know this was a lot to take in with a lot of rambling, and am thankful for the opportunity to vent. Any advice on how to talk to my friends about my feelings, move on, or how to make new connections, or re-engage and find time for personal hobbies would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and hope you're all doing well!

I am not the OOP. The OOP is u/throwra_10888 posting in TwoHotTakes
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My MIL doesn't let me have sex with my husband
My husband and I got married a year ago. He and I didn't live together before, in fact we hardly saw each other because we both worked and studied at the same time, so our time was quite limited. We got married and went to live together in his apartment.
Unfortunately two months after our wedding his father died in an accident. My mother-in-law and my husband (who is an only child) were devastated as it was quite sudden.
My mother-in-law, left alone, began to suggest to my husband that we move with her to her house to keep her company, but because she is from another state we couldn't due to our jobs and college.
Then she came to us, our apartment is 2 rooms, so my mother-in-law occupied one and my husband and I occupied another.
I mean my mother-in-law never liked me. She is one of the mothers who think "that no woman is good enough for her son."
As a couple who are still "in the honeymoon stage" we had sex very frequently. Every day, even up to twice a day. This changed when my mother-in-law arrived, since the apartment is small so I didn't feel comfortable doing it with her living there.
The thing is that when we did have sex with my husband, my mother-in-law magically "interrupted us." It didn't matter what time it was, even if it was 3 AM she casually got up and knocked on our door asking "What are we doing?" Or telling my husband that she feels bad because her head hurts or things like that.
This has been going on since my mother-in-law moved in with us, it's been a stressful 7 months. Besides, I have no privacy of any kind, she criticizes everything I do, especially my food.
My husband tries to give me my place, saying things like: "it's not true mom, the food tastes good."
What really annoyed me was the fact that she started saying that several things of value and money were lost in her room casually the day I stayed at home. (I had the day off from work and study in the afternoons)
I really got fed up, I told my husband that this really wasn't what I expected. I agreed to let her move in with us because my father-in-law passed away and I was really trying to be empathetic to her and her pain, but I'm not going to let her call me a thief.
Now I'm at my parents' house, my husband keeps calling me and sending me messages to come back, but I don't know what to do anymore. This is really stressful.
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OOP
I’m fine with a sexless marriage, but what really bothers me is that she said I stole her things
The house is there, it is empty. My mother-in-law actually wants to sell it because she "now lives with us and there is no point in having an empty house."
I don't think so, he seems pretty frustrated since we stopped having sex. But he doesn't try to start anything either because he knows that his mother is going to interrupt us anyway. After she interrupts us we no longer continue with sex
Update 1 month later
Update: My MIL doesn't let me have sex with my husband
Hello good evening Thank you all for your advice and comments, I tried to read them all.
I wanted to give you a little update.
I returned with my husband last Thursday. While I lived with my parents we were talking and seeing each other.
The first time I agreed to talk to him I told him that he really had to do something about his mother because our relationship was going down the drain.
He kicked his mother out. She didn't take it so well. Remember how I told you she wanted to sell her house? Well, she actually did, she put her house up for sale. What surprised me so much is that she listed her house for sale at well below the average cost considering where that house is located. Apparently she was about to close the deal with some potential buyers.
She hasn't communicated with anyone since she left. We also don't know if she returned to her house.
And now everything is fine. My husband also thanked me because he couldn't stand having his mother in our apartment anymore.
I also made it very clear to my husband that if his mother had behaved differently I would never really have minded if she stayed with us.
I feel a little bad for her but she really brought it on herself, I was always kind despite her treatment.
Thanks guys for your comments and advice.
Update – 2 days ago
Update: My MIL doesn't let me have sex with my husband, she came back
Long story short, my mother-in-law returned to our apartment.
After my husband kicked her out she didn't contact us for about 2 months. Then she began to resume communication with my husband.
Three months ago we received the news that my mother-in-law was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. My husband asked me to move her mother back with us and given the situation I accepted.
But she continues with the same attitude from the beginning. And now it is worse since she needs various care, and I must take care of her. I quit my job to take care of her full time.
We are drowning in debt since my husband's salary is not enough to cover all expenses. My husband suggested putting my mother-in-law's house up for sale again and she refused, saying that it was the only thing she had left and that she wanted it to be my husband's inheritance.
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several commenters ask if OOP is sure MIL actually has cancer
OOP – yes. She really has it She is not tolerating meals, I must help her go to the bathroom and shower. She just sits on the couch and screams to ask and demand things.
I am not the OOP. Please do not harass or brigade the OOP

Here’s my story, I’ve shared it so many times, me and my wife (we’re both women) have been together for 3 and married for 1. I had major , major things I needed to fix(mentally) I was still married when her and I met, but was separated from my ex.. and she was already in that process of healing and doing the work that she knew to do to get help. This hopefully will paint a picture on where I’m going with this, my girl was free spirited, and loving of herself and I was carried loads but I saw what I wanted and thought I could carry her. Fast forward, I go to bootcamp, and come back she decides to move her life with me, she had already had an apartment, a place of her own, a familiar place, and still although unhappy was moving to be with me. At that very moment we were packing she found out about me still being married, I don’t know why I thought I could have it handled before she would’ve ever knew but I know that was a scumbag move.. she still moved with me, she was in love with me. Throughout our relationship we had so many trials and tribulations, I got deployed immediately in my new command, she helped me with the divorce since I was overseas and still made time to see my daughter on the side to keep consistency in my daughters life. I know I asked for way too much, and we both agree that we were terrible to each other during that time. When I got back we tried couples therapy, and we also had a baby, I tried my best to be as attending as possible but it’s like whatever I did wasn’t good enough for her or she got ticked off and vise versa. We did a good number on one another, fast forward to my second deployment I fucked up, I royally fucked up, wild night happened at a port at a bar and too much cheap awful drinks, I had a hickie on my neck, and I came back to my hotel, and of course FaceTimed her, and I from there on out I officially just crumbled her heart because she was in love with me, she still gave me another chance, and when I came home from deployment it was on me to schedule couples therapy, but I got consumed my command is busy, it just seemed life was going way too fast for me. She said the only way she would stay with me since I broke her trust was if we open the relationship up, we made some ground rules, I didn’t want it, but then again I cannot have my cake and eat it too. Throughout the year what I did wasn’t enough, and I accused her of hiding her phone from me being secretive and she broke up with me, officially, said I am spiraling, come to find out she is talking to another man in the military, they’ve been doing their thing for a while, but now since we broke up (I know I know I suck for doing this) I went through her phone.. and she’s calling him daddy, sending him pictures of her and our son, they’re saying I love you, she said he’s respectful, and that he treats her the way she should be treated the bare minimum his mom raised him right… she’s lying to me about where she’s going and sneaking in, when she doesn’t have to. It hurts because I take full fault in this all, I don’t know how to let her go.. I don’t know how to walk away, and heal. If anyone should read this, please give me advice.

I’m a 41 year old female and after years of trips to the doctors and being fobbed off, I finally got a diagnosis and had my first lot of treatment yesterday. I had a number of different issues with my back and hips but the main thing is Sacroillitis and Arthritis in my hips and lower spine. I had two cortisone injections in my sacral area yesterday and I cannot believe it. I got out of bed with ease today and was able to get up without any pain. I can stand up and sit down and it’s not hurting. I am actually walking back from a friend’s house about a mile away and I’m not in pain. I’m literally speechless and I’m almost waiting for it to start hurting. I can’t remember what it was like to move about without it hurting. I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but I am so happy to be able to move around and not feel so much pain. I’m actually a bit sad because I’ve lost years of my life to pain. I’ve not been able to do so much stuff, because of the pain. I couldn’t play with my son properly, because of the pain… I can’t help but think that it could have been diagnosed and treated years ago. But I’m so grateful to have been given this opportunity and second chance at living. So many people don’t get the opportunity or it’s too late or doesn’t work, so I’m determined to live life to the fullest and make up for the time. I feel like I’m at the start of an adventure and I didn’t think I’d ever get here. I’d resigned myself to being in constant pain so this has been the most amazing gift ever. Thank you for listening and supporting me and for anyone who is thinking about having the injection, I would definitely recommend it xxx

I’ve been with my boyfriend for 4 years. He met me with a 3 year old boy.( I was 21 at the time and he was 22). He was perfectly ok with it and we had several conversations about it. I notice he would never take me out on dates or get me flowers in the early stages, but I ignored it. He wouldn’t try to get to know my son as much as I thought he should. Fast forward we moved in with each other after 2 years. We got an apartment. The first year was the hardest. We truly showed each other our true colors. We both stayed. We both work full time jobs, but I do everything around the house. I clean, cook, laundry. Everything. After a year I saw a routine. We would both get home, I would cook and serve him and my son, and after he would go to the couch, and my son would go to his room and I would clean after. Yes, I had a conversation and asked him to help me out around the house and he would do it, but when he wanted to. I hate having a messy house so I would just do it. He will play video games or take a nap after eating, and my son will be in his room playing by himself. I would ask him to do stuff with us but it’s like if we were forcing him to do stuff with us. It’s been 2 years now. Nothing has changed. He barely helps me around the house. After work he always naps and plays video games. That leaves my son and I seen this. I can write so much put just trying to give little details. He never takes me out on dates. Never plans any outing as a family. I know you guys will say maybe he doesn’t like to go out but as soon as his family makes plans he says yes right away. Yes he takes us with but does he not like hanging out with us alone? Why can’t he make plans with us only. I’m 24. I want to go out. My son needs to go out. Not see his stepdad always laying down or playing video games after work. Help. I know this is all over the place. Just trying to vent.

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• Resident Evil 0 HD REMASTER
• Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
• Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
• Resident Evil Revelations
• Resort Boss: Golf
• Retimed
• RETROWAVE
• rFactor 2
• RiME
• Ring of Pain
• Rise of Industry + 2130 DLC
• Rise of the Slime
• Rising Storm 2: Vietnam + 2 DLCs
• River City Girls
• River City Ransom: Underground
• Roarr! Jurassic Edition
• Roboquest
• Robot Squad Simulator 2017
• Rogue : Genesia
• ROGUE HEROES: RUINS OF TASOS
• ROGUE LORDS
• Rogue Stormers
• rollercoaster tycoon 2
• ROTASTIC
• Roundguard
• ROUNDS
• RUNNING WITH RIFLES
• Rustler
• Ryse: Son of Rome
• S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster
• Sailing Era
• Saint Row
• SAINTS ROW
• Saints Row IV
• Saints Row The Third
• Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell
• Saints Row: The Third Remastered
• Sam and Max Devil's Playhouse
• SAMUDRA
• Sands of Aura
• Sands of Salzaar
• Saturday Morning RPG
• Scarlet Tower
• Scars Above
• Scorn
• SCP: 5K
• SCUM
• SEARCH PARTY: Director's Cut
• Second Extinction
• Secret Government
• Serious Sam 3 Bonus Content DLC, Serious Sam 3: Jewel of the Nile, and Serious Sam 3: BFE
• SEUM speedrunners from hell
• SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
• Severed Steel
• Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
• Shadowgate
• Shadows Awakening
• SHADOWS: AWAKENING
• Shape of the World
• She Sees Red - Interactive Movie
• Shenmue I & II
• SHENZHEN I/O
• Shift Happens
• Shing!
• Shining Resonance Refrain
• Shoppe Keep
• Shoppe Keep 2
• Shoppe Keep 2 - Business and Agriculture RPG Simulation
• Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
• Sid Meier's Civilization VI
• Sid Meier's Railroads!
• Sifu Deluxe Edition Upgrade Bundle (EPIC)
• Silver Chains
• SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
• Sinking Island
• SINNER: Sacrifice for Redemption
• Siralim Ultimate
• Size Matters
• Skautfold Chapters 1-4
• Skullgirls 2nd Encore
• Slain: Back from Hell
• Slap City
• Slash It
• Slash It 2
• Slash It Ultimate
• Slay the Spire
• Small World
• Smart Factory Tycoon
• Smile For Me
• Smoke and Sacrifice
• Smoke and Sacrifice
• Smushi Come Home
• Snail bob 2 tiny troubles
• Sniper Elite
• Sniper Elite 3
• Sniper Elite 3 + Season Pass DLC
• Sniper Elite 4 Deluxe Edition
• Sniper Elite V2
• Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 - Season Pass Edition
• Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
• Snooker 19
• SONG OF HORROR COMPLETE EDITION
• Songs of Conquest
• Sonic Adventure 2
• Sonic Adventure DX
• Sonic and SEGA All Stars Racing
• Sonic Generations Collection
• Soulblight
• SOULCALIBUR VI
• Souldiers
• SOULSTICE
• Soundfall
• Source of Madness
• Spartan Fist
• Spec Ops
• Speed Limit
• Spelunx and the Caves of Mr. Seudo
• Spidersaurs
• Spin Rush
• Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
• Spirit of the Island
• Spirit of the North
• Spring Bonus
• Spyro Reignited Trilogy
• Stairs
• Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova
• STAR WARS - Knights of the Old Republic
• STAR WARS - The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition
• Star Wolves
• Starbound
• Starsand
• STASIS: Bone Totem
• State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
• Steel Rats™
• Stick Fight: The Game
• Still Life
• Still Life 2
• Still There
• Stirring Abyss
• STONE
• Strange Brigade
• Strange Brigade Deluxe Edition
• STRANGER
• Strategic Command: World War I
• Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg
• Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom
• Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism
• Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty
• Strategy & Tactics: Wargame Collection
• Streamer Life Simulator
• Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
• Street Fighter V
• Strider
• Strikey Sisters
• Struggling
• Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
• Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
• Styx: Master of Shadows
• Styx: Shards of Darkness
• SuchArt
• Sudden Strike 4
• Sudden Strike Gold
• Suite 776
• Sumoman
• Sunblaze
• Sundered
• SUNLESS BUNDLE
• Sunset Overdrive
• Super Buff HD
• Super Mag Bot
• Superbugs: Awaken
• Superhot
• Surgeon Simulator 2
• Survive the Nights
• Surviving Mars
• Surviving Mars
• Surviving The Aftermath
• Swag and Sorcery
• SWINE HD Remaster
• Sword Legacy Omen
• Sword of the Necromancer
• Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon
• Syberia 3
• Symphonic Rain
• Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
• Synthwave Dream '85
• Tacoma
• Taiji
• Take Off - The Flight Simulator
• Tales
• Tales from the Borderlands
• Talk to Strangers
• Tallowmere
• Talos Principle (Gold)
• Tangledeep
• Tank Mechanic Simulator
• Tannenberg
• Team Sonic Racing
• TEKKEN 7
• TEMTEM
• Terminus: Zombie Survivors
• TERRAFORMERS
• Terratech Deluxe Edition
• Terror of Hemasaurus
• Textorcist
• Tharsis
• The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem
• The Adventure Pals
• The Amazing American Circus
• The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines
• The Anacrusis
• The Ascent
• The Battle of Polytopia
• The Battle of Polytopia *DLC1. Cymanti Tribe *DLC2. ∑∫ỹriȱŋ Tribe *DLC3. Aquarion Tribe *DLC4. Polaris Tribe
• The Beast inside
• The Blackout Club
• The Callisto Protocol™
• The Chess Variants Club
• The Citadel
• The Colonists
• THE DARK PICTURES ANTHOLOGY: LITTLE HOPE
• The Darkest Tales
• The Dungeon Beneath
• The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos
• The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• The Escapists 2
• THE GAME OF LIFE 2
• The Golf Club™ 2019 featuring PGA TOUR
• The haunted island, A frog detective
• The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game
• The Hong Kong Massacre
• The Horror Of Salazar House
• The Innsmouth Case
• The Invisible Hours
• The Jackbox Party Pack 9
• The Knight Witch
• The Last Campfire
• The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame
• The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
• The Long Dark
• The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition
• The Mortuary Assistant
• The Mummy Demastered
• The Occupation
• The Outer Worlds
• THE OUTER WORLDS: SPACER'S CHOICE EDITION
• THE PALE BEYOND
• The Quarry
• The Quarry deluxe
• The Ramp
• The Rewinder
• The Sacred Tears TRUE
• The Sexy Brutale
• The Shapeshifting Detective
• The Shrouded Isle
• The Tarnishing of Juxtia
• The Tenants
• The Uncertain - The Last Quiet Day
• The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day
• The Uncertain: Light At The End
• The USB Stick Found in the Grass
• The Walking Dead
• The Walking Dead - 400 Days
• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners
• The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
• The Walking Dead: Final Season
• The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries
• The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
• The Walking Dead: Season 1
• The Walking Dead: Season Two
• The Way
• The Wild At Heart
• The Wild Eight
• The Witness
• Them and Us
• They Bleed Pixels
• Thief of Thieves
• This War of Mine
• This Way Madness Lies
• Three Kingdom: The Journey
• Time on Frog Island
• Tinkertown
• Tiny Tina’s Wonderland(EU)
• TINY TINA'S WONDERLANDS CHAOTIC GREAT EDITION
• Tiny Troopers
• Tinykin
• Tinytopia
• TIS-100
• Titan Quest
• Tokyo Xanadu eX+
• Tom Clancy's The Division™
• Tom Clancy's The Division™ - Survival!
• Tools up
• Tooth and Tail
• Torchlight
• Total Tank Simulator
• Tour de France 2020
• Tower Unite
• Trail Out
• Trailblazers
• Trailmakers
• Trailmakers Deluxe Edition
• Train Sim World 3: Standard Edition
• Train Simulator Classic
• Train Valley 1
• TRANSFORMERS: BATTLEGROUNDS
• Transport INC
• Treasure Hunter Simulator
• TRIBES OF MIDGARD
• Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
• Trinity Fusion
• Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia
• Trombone Champ
• Tropico 5 - Complete Collection
• Trover Saves the Universe
• Tunche
• Turmoil
• Turok
• Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
• Twin Mirror
• Two Point Campus
• Two Point Hospital
• TYPECAST
• Tyrant's Blessing
• Ultimate Chicken Horse
• Ultimate Zombie Defense
• Ultra Space Battle Brawl
• Unavowed
• Undead Horde
• Underhero
• Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy
• Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
• Universim
• UNLOVED
• Unpacking
• Unrailed!
• Until I have you
• Unto The End
• Upside Down
• URU: Complete Chronicles
• Vagante
• Valfaris
• Valfaris: Mecha Therion
• Valkryia Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
• Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
• Valkyria Chronicles 4: Complete Edition
• Vambrace: Cold Soul
• Vampire - The Masquerade: Shadows of New York
• Vampire Survivors
• Vane
• Vectronom
• Velocity Noodle
• Venba
• Verne: The Shape of Fantasy
• Victoria 3
• Victoria II
• Viking: Battle For Asgard
• Virgo Versus The Zodiac
• VirtuaVerse
• Visage
• Viscerafest
• VOIDIGO
• Volcanoids
• Voltage High Society
• V-Rally 4
• Wanderlust: Travel Stories (GOG)
• Wanted: Dead
• Wargroove
• Warhammer 40,000 Sanctus Reach - Complete Edition
• Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon - Imperium Complete
• Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
• Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf Special Edition
• WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR: REALMS OF RUIN – ULTIMATE EDITION
• Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
• Warhammer: Vermintide 2
• Warman
• Warstone TD
• Wasteland 3
• Wayward
• WE NEED TO GO DEEPER
• We should talk.
• We Were Here Together
• We Were Here Too
• Webbed
• Werewolf: The Apocalypse Heart of the Forest
• West of Dead
• What Lies in the Multiverse
• When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
• while True: learn()
• Whos Your daddy
• Wick
• Windward
• Witch It
• Witchy Life Story
• Wizard of Legend
• wizard of legends
• Worms Rumble
• Worms Rumble + Legends Pack
• Wrath: Aeon of Ruin
• WRC 6 FIA World Rally Championship
• WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship
• WWE 2K Battlegrounds
• WWE 2K23
• WWZ Aftermath
• Wytchwood
• X-COM: COMPLETE PACK
• XCOM: ULTIMATE COLLECTION
• XIII - Classic
• X-Morph: Defense
• X-Morph: Defense + European Assault, Survival of the Fittest, and Last Bastion DLC
• X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack
• Yakuza Kiwami
• Yakuza: Like A Dragon
• Yumeutsutsu Re:After
• Yumeutsutsu Re:Master
• Zen Chess: Mate in One, Mate in 2 , Mate in 3 , Mate in 4 , Champion's Moves (5 games)
• Ziggurat
• Zombie Army 4
• Zombie Army Trilogy
• Zool Redimensioned
• Zwei: The Arges adventure
• Zwei: The ilvard insurrection

DLCs and Softwares:

• For The King: Lost Civilization Adventure Pack
• Train Simulator: Isle of Wight Route Add-On
• Train Simulator: Woodhead Electric Railway in Blue Route Add-On
• Train Simulator: North Somerset Railway Route Add-On
• Train Simulator: Union Pacific Heritage SD70ACes Loco Add-On
• Train Simulator: London to Brighton Route Add-On
• BR Class 170 'Turbostar' DMU Add-On
• DB BR 648 Loco Add-On
• Europa Universalis IV: Wealth of Nations
• Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise
• Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Res Publica
• Grand Central Class 180 'Adelante' DMU Add-On
• Peninsula Corridor: San Francisco - Gilroy Route Add-On
• SONIC ADVENTURE 2: BATTLE
• Small World - A Spider's Web
• Small World - Cursed
• Small World - Royal Bonus
• The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos - Goodies Pack
• The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos - OST
• Thompson Class B1 Loco Add-On
• Total War: Shogun 2 - Rise of the Samurai
• Train Sim World® 3: Birmingham Cross-city line
• Train Sim World®: BR Class 20 'Chopper' Loco
• Train Sim World®: Brighton Main Line: London Victoria - Brighton
• Train Sim World®: Caltrain MP36PH-3C 'Baby Bullet'
• Train Sim World®: Cathcart Circle Line: Glasgow - Newton & Neilston
• Train Sim World®: Clinchfield Railroad: Elkhorn - Dante
• Train Sim World®: Great Western Express
• Train Sim World®: Hauptstrecke Hamburg - Lubeck
• Train Sim World®: LIRR M3 EMU
• Train Sim World®: Long Island Rail Road: New York - Hicksville
• Train Sim World®: Nahverkehr Dresden - Riesa
• Train Sim World®: Northern Trans-Pennine: Manchester - Leeds
• Train Sim World®: Peninsula Corridor: San Francisco - San Jose
• Train Sim World®: Rhein-Ruhr Osten: Wuppertal - Hagen
• Train Sim World®: Tees Valley Line: Darlington - Saltburn-by-the-sea
• Worms Rumble - Armageddon Weapon Skin Pack
• Worms Rumble - Captain & Shark Double Pack
• Worms Rumble - Legends Pack
• Worms Rumble - New Challengers Pack
• Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 7
• Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft - The Eldritch Box DLC
• Duke Nukem Forever Hail to the Icons
• Duke Nukem Forever The Doctor Who Cloned Me
• GRIP: Combat Racing - Cygon Garage Kit
• GRIP: Combat Racing - Nyvoss Garage Kit
• GRIP: Combat Racing - Terra Garage Kit
• GRIP: Combat Racing - Vintek Garage Kit
• GameGuru
• GameMaker Studio 2 Creator 12 Months
• Intro to Game Development with Unity
• Music Maker EDM Edition
• Neverwinter Nights: Darkness Over Daggerford
• Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Dark Dreams of Furiae
• Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Tyrants of the Moonsea
• Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
• Neverwinter Nights: Infinite Dungeons
• Neverwinter Nights: Pirates of the Sword Coast
• Neverwinter Nights: Wyvern Crown of Cormyr
• PDF-Suite 1 Year License
• Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook and Starfinder Core Rulebook
• RPG Maker VX
• WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS - Ultimate Brawlers Pass
• We Are Alright
• The Outer Worlds Expansion Pass
• A Hat in Time - Seal the Deal DLC
• City Skylines:mass transit
• A Game Of Thrones - A Dance With Dragons
• A Game Of Thrones - A Feast For Crows
• Blood Rage: Digital Edition - Gods of Asgard
• Blood Rage: Digital Edition - Mythical Monsters
• Blood Rage: Digital Edition - Mystics of Midgard
• Carcassonne - The Princess and The Dragon DLC
• Carcassonne - Traders & Builders DLC
• Carcassonne - Winter & Gingerbread Man DLC
• Carcassonne - Inns & Cathedrals
• Carcassonne - The River
• Splendor: The Trading Posts DLC
• Splendor: The Strongholds DLC
• Splendor: The Cities DLC
• Small World - Be Not Afraid... DLC
• Small World - Grand Dames DLC
• Small World - Cursed!
• Sands of Salzaar - The Ember Saga
• Sands of Salzaar - The Tournament
• Monster Train: The Last Divinity DLC
• WARSAW