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SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU by mistaking my aunt for my sister
POST: Hello Redditors! Considering I am reddit lurker, please spare me if I make any mistakes considering this is my first post!
So just some background - My older sister and I have a funny relationship. She is 19 and I am 15, and she really enjoys punching me and making fun of me. -
So I am currently upstate, visiting family and every summer we rent a house for a week or so. Last night all of my family was over at our rented house. When we were eating dinner, my sister thinks it will be funny to slap me on the back and make me choke on my drink. I get so embarrassed. I then plot my revenge.
I see my opportunity. My sister is going to the bathroom and I follow her. I then get called away to play a game, but I go back towards the bathroom. Its still occupied! Here comes the FU. So I wait for my sister to come out, and she finally does. When she walked out I had to rush because she was going the opposite way of where I was standing, and accidentally slap her lower back/butt. What I didn't realize was that my aunt and sister were wearing the same color dress. I then realized my mistake. It was so awkward between me and my aunt for the rest of the night. I hope she doesn't mention this to my parents!
TL;DR: | My sister embarrased me and my attempt at payback resulted in me taking my aunt to spanky-town. |
SUBREDDIT: r/cats
TITLE: Embarrassing, no throwaway, no exaggerating. I just want to share what I woke to this morning and see if I am not alone (god I hope my cat is not the only one)
POST: A small back story, my male cat (we've had since he was 2 days old, orphaned) was neutered at the time cats are suppose to be neutered. But he is still very frisky when it comes to some blankets and cat beds.
He sleeps in my arms, cuddled up like a baby, and sometimes he walks over my face to get into my arms.
BUT this morning, he lingered over my head. I was wearing an eye mask...but it wasn't like I could see anyway, I had full cat crotch in my face. As I slowly gained contentiousness, I realized that my dear cat had taken his mounting position on my face...what he normally saves for his blankets and pillows...WTF animal.
TL;DR: | I'm pretty sure my cat tried to rape my face as I slept. Luckily I'm a light sleeper. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationship_advice
TITLE: 26/M and 21/F. Ending it gracefully.
POST: I have recently been dumped in a rather monumental fashion. Essentially she just stopped talking to me and my attempts to contact her and ask for an explanation have been met with nothing but silence.
I do not know why she has done this, and I would like to know. Although, to be entirely honest, I am alright with the fact that she has decided she does not want to be with me. I would like to extend the option of friendship to her but I doubt she would be receptive of this, given the way she has decided to end things.
I have written up a fairly long message that I would like to send to her as a parting farewell. In essence, I want her to know that I am not bitter about the way she has treated me, that I would rather she spoke to me about it but I am ok with the fact that she didn't. I am not upset or bitter, I'm not going to try and win her back. I am ok with being friends.
My question is, should I send the message? Or should I just walk away from the relationship without letting her know how I feel?
TL;DR: | Got dumped. Not upset. Send her a message to tell her this, or just walk away and let it hang. |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: What can i do to solve my serious roommate problem?
POST: In short, i want to murder my roommate, i can't find another place because i already signed the lease, and making him move would be more trouble than i am capable of handling with a civil demeanor.
My current roommate must have some sort of mental issue or something, because he is the most overly confident prick you could ever meet, but the kicker is that he is the exact opposite of how he talks and it pisses me off to the point where i think i need to start talking to a therapist so i don't physically assault him. He is constantly cracking dumb jokes about how girls are stupid, which offends my girlfriend. He talks about how he is "so good at fucking bitches" when he hasn't had sex ever to my knowledge. Also, despite the fact that he is short and scrawny, he thinks he is like the champion MMA fighter always talking about how he can beat anyone up despite that he is small. he has even tested me a few times and tried to fight, but i know i wouldn't be able to stop punching him so i constrain myself. What can i do to make my situation better?
I need serious advice.
TL;DR: | My roommate is some sort of super-bro douche wannabe and i want to beat him to death but can't. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I can't stand sharing my best friend (18f) with my sister (15) who I don't get along with.
POST: My best friend and I have been inseparable since grade three. She moved away, and our relationship didn't suffer. When she eventually moved back (three years ago) her family ran in to serious financial problems. In order to be able to afford a home, her family was going to have to move to Florida. She'd been moved around countless times before, and was devastated about leaving the state. My family considers her to be one of our own, and we invited her to move in. She did. I am a very busy person, with rehearsals and extra-curricular activities going on all the time. I'm also quite temperamental. When my friend moved in, she only hung out with my sister. She would never show interest in spending time with me, and in the 6 months she lived with us, we never once slept in the same room. Now I see he at school and we are still friends, but she's always around my sister. She invites her over all the time and they have become what she and I used to be. I can't stand it, but I don't have the heart to tell her. I think it's unreasonable for me to ask her to sever their friendship because I know my sister is very close to her and she would be upset. It's gotten to the point where my friend's family knows my sister better than they know me. What should I do, am I wrong for absolutely hating this?
TL;DR: | I don't like my sister, and she's now closer to my best friend than I am. How can I help this? |
SUBREDDIT: r/personalfinance
TITLE: I was promised gas allowance when I signed contract in my new job (although it is NOT included in the contract I signed)
POST: Hey guys something really fast, I dont really know which is the right subreddit for this question but I guess you can help me since its somewhat related (I think) haha
I was promised by my direct boss when I was signing contract that I would be receiving gas support since I am required to use my car (not that much, but still enough to make a difference by the end of the month) 2-3 days a week.
How can I remind or ask my boss for this without it turning awkward?? He and me seem to get along "well" but not wonderful, and I've been in this job for a week.
Thanks for the help!
TL;DR: | was promised gas money but no signs of it yet, how do I bring it up without being an ass about it? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Update: me_30f_husband_33m_other_guys_30s I let a guy sleep in the same bed as me
POST: Here is the original post: [original post](
I talked to my husband tonight after I got back into town. I brought it up in conversation, looks like I was the one that over reacted and was blowing it out of proportion. He took it really well and was just teasing me about it. He joked around about it and it was about a five minute conversation. I asked him if he wouldn't want me to do it again in the same scenario and he said it was fine. I think if something similar comes up in the future, I will just clear it with him first.
Maybe now that we are married and have been together for so long, we've really grown as a couple and he has more trust of me than I thought he did. A lot of the more jealous stuff that happened, did happen in the beginning of our relationship. I think it helped that he knew the two friends. I wouldn't of done the same thing with people he didn't know anyway. Thanks for the advice reddit.
TL;DR: | Talked to my husband about it and it went really well. Glad I told him and it wasn't an issue. |
SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU by waiting to go to the bathroom.
POST: This actually happened today.
So, I went to this 4 week class thing about different crap. And at the place where these classes happen, it is a fucking maze and its hard to even get out of the building. Meaning, the professors don't let you go to the bathroom unless you are about to piss or shit yourself.
This is where my fuck up begins.
Im just sitting there, not really paying attention, but my hand shoots up as I feel my ass about to explode. The proffessor calls on me and I let out a shaky "mAY I GO TO THE BATH ROO M"
She gives me a dirty look and says no.
So I try again later like a little bitch.
After 4 tries, she finally lets me go, and as soon as I stood up
Shit literally hit the fan.
TL;DR: | Had to take a shit during class, finally able to go, shits all over self right as I stand up. |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: Reddit, why do you like Top Gear?
POST: It's a well made produced show, dont get me wrong. I kind of understand why US redditors might enjoy it more because of the car culture, which we don't necessarily have here in the UK. But, the show - or atleast its presenters, represents a sort of hysterical right-wing, anti-intellectual idiocy - packed full of really terrible jokes about how academics, french people and lesbians should be shot and why wont the government allow us to shoot french people and lesbians etc. A really tired kind of humour usually found in playgrounds and casual racists. I guess the FOX news viewer of the UK. So how come Reddit loves it? Is it just the cars? Does the outer context get lost on a non-UK audience?
TL;DR: | Reddits gushing love for a right wing, anti-intellectual show bemuses me - why do you like it? |
SUBREDDIT: r/loseit
TITLE: Totally failed Day 1 :(
POST: 26 y/o female, sw 150lbs, goal weight, 130 lbs
First off, I'm brand new to this sub, so I hope I'm doing this right...
I've been struggling with myself for quite some time, searching for the motivation and the courage to do this and to better myself. I finally signed up for a spin class and was very excited to get on the road to becoming the person I've always wanted to be. I live in NYC and had called a cab to take me to my first class, which is starting right now. Cab got stuck in traffic, and I missed the class. I was so nervous to begin with, and I can't help but feel defeated that I can't even get to the freaking class. I feel silly being so upset about this, but I really just feel like I've failed before I've even begun.
TL;DR: | Finally worked up the courage to sign up for a class at the gym, didn't manage to get to the class. |
SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU: I treated "budget projection" like reality and played at being an Elf. Oops!
POST: I'm positing this under a throw-away, because I don't want to make anyone else feel badly...
After Thanksgiving, I was feeling so grateful and blessed by all we had. No real savings, but no huge debt either, and enough to pay the bills. I was looking forward to extra work hours and a bonus on my December 15th check, so I decided to help other people out. Toys for Tots, the foster system toy drive, the local food drive, and another family on Reddit that were having a tough time all got hundred dollar donations. I finished my Christmas shopping for family, signed up for Reddit Secret Santa, paid all the monthly bills.... and then came down with influenza.
The 'flu is no joke. I was flat out for a week, and I missed 8 days of work. During the busy season, the working of which is what *earns* that holiday bonus. That, plus two doctor visits and a prescription of Tamiflu, and I am down a cool $1000 from my "projected budget." With $90 bucks left until January 1st.
So my husband and I are trying to return the gifts we got for each other in time to buy groceries. I'm returning a couple of things I got for my daughter as well.
Being an Elf is a wonderful thing....but planning ahead and being frugal would have been better. Next year, I'll start saving early so I have money to share that doesn't hinge on my "projected" paycheck. Oops.
TL;DR: | Santa's elves' kids have few toys of their own, like the cobbler's kids who have no shoes. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: [20f] I met a guy online, lost contact, any idea on how to find him again?
POST: I made an online dating account and this guy and I really hit it off, I had to disable my account rather spontaneously (long story) and I forgot to give my number to him. I figured that I'd get over it, move on, but I still think about the "what ifs" a lot. So after a few months of having my account disabled I enabled it again to see if he was still there and his account along with all of our messages were gone (I'm assuming that means he fully deleted his account). I know his name, where he goes to school, and where he (used to) work, but nothing else, how could I go about trying to get into contact with him again?
TL;DR: | I met a guy online, lost contact, I know a little bit about him personally, how do I find him? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I [21 M] am not sure if she's [21 F] interested in second date.
POST: Hopefully I'm doing this right.
Okay, so there's this girl I met in school about an year ago, few months after that we made out while drunk, several times by now, actually.
I finally asked her out two weeks ago, she said yes, we went, I think it was fun.
We are texting each other pretty much every day, but I do that with lots of people, so I'm not sure if that's something to be happy about.
After maybe like a week, I asked her out again, nothing too fance, maybe coffe or something, she said she's working - which is perfectly ok, obviously. Then I asked again, out for a lunch and she didn't really said anything, just started talking about something else (I mean, we were texting, so it's not as weird, I guess?)
Now, you have to understand that I am horribly shy person, I get nervous a lot and it took me great deal of courage to ask her out in the first place. I am also not very good at dating, this is my first actual dating in sense that we went for a date - I've had GFs before, but that was horny high school dating.
I'd even be okay with her not wanting any second day, I mean, she's nice, but we're not super-close or anything. I'm just afraid that I'd be one of those creepy dudes, always writing girls about bullshit things when girl is obviously not interested.
Should I just keep asking? Should I just ask what's up? Do nothing?
TL;DR: | Went on a date with a girl, thought it was nice, but I'm not really sure if she wants to continue. |
SUBREDDIT: r/Advice
TITLE: Considering making a 1500 move..
POST: I am strongly considering making a move back to my great home state on the West Coast, I am currently living in Northwest Arkansas.
I have lived here for about 7 years, I moved away from my biological mother and California on a routine Christmas trip, I was 14 years old. I graduated high school with Honors, started community college and burnt myself out.
Also in 2012, my stepmother (the only person in my family who loved me unconditonally) was diagnosed with a breast cancer reoccurrence and recently lost her battle.
With that being said, I am ready to get out of Arkansas. There really isn't much left for me here and I believe it has served its purpose. I do still have family here, but we are not on good terms at this time. I recently got out of a long-term relationship and I'm itching for a new adventure.
My question to all of you is, should I renew my lease and stay here for another year until I save more money...
OR
Pack my things and head out west?
TL;DR: | Life has lead me to a fork in the road.. Is it time to pack up and head back home or stay put? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Trouble with my gf ex husband
POST: Reddit,
25/m and my 38 y/o gf are having serious issues with her ex-husband. He makes threats towards me like kicking my ass and at times killing me. He actively watches her house, stalks her, and hunts me down. The only reason she's put up with it for this long is for her daughter to have a good relationship with her dad. He doesn't work so he has all this time to do things like this. It's gotten to the point where I have to have her pick me up since he knows what i drive and doesn't know i'm there. My son and I have had to leave because he was coming over to start trouble with no regards to the children. I'm at my wits end trying to figure out what i can do, not only to preserve my relationship, but keep what i consider my family safe. We live in WV and from what I understand they don't have a law against stalking, and she won't take out a restraining order, although she has in the past, because she wants her daughter to get to see her dad. Please help.
TL;DR: | My g/f ex husband hunts me down like a dog trying to harm me and interferes with our relationship. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationship_advice
TITLE: Nice guy [20m] who likes long relationships currently can only pursue short ones, HALP
POST: So I'm mainly wondering how others may have gotten over this situation. So most people peg me as a relationship guy, as in girls date me but they rarely hook up with me. To be fair I really enjoy talking, doing relationship things and generally being a cutesy boyfriend. I'm not worried about getting another girlfriend or anything but I'm currently working for a year in a different city. So since I attract relationship girls its hard to explain to them that I'm going and I want things to not be too serious. And secondly since im the dumbass I am, I always push the relationship further by wanting to do couple activities and generally making things more serious, e.g. talking about life and getting to understand each other better.
I've already been pseudo dumped cause she felt like she was going to fall for me and didn't want to hurt herself (which I respect) but it doesn't change that I'm still kinda lonely. On another date and she said she only did long term on the first day so we are just friends now.
Point is I can survive this year being kinda lonely, or trying to be a fling guy (I'm pretty bad at it) but wanted to know if anyone has had this problem or if I'm an odd duck.
TL;DR: | I'm a long term relationship specialist, who is here for only 1 year, hard to be a fling guy. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [32 M] have a crush on a co-worker [27 F] and I hate it.
POST: I was dating somebody else when we met (as co-workers), so I didn't think much of her, except she being very attractive. When I became single again, I started viewing her in a different light, and the infatuation started slowly but built up over time. At this point it looks like a one way crush, with her giving me some mixed signals at the beginning, and if I tried to escalate, she would back off.
At this point I'd like to forget about her altogether as I am not making myself available to other people. Paradoxically, I am being hit on by multiple girls at work, which is making me feel even worse by wasting my emotional energies on this girl.
I already unfriended her from (fb) but Going No Contact is not a option, as we are coworkers, and we bump into each other all the time. Also, we go at the same gym. And yes, I have been dating (casual), and sleeping with other people (two hookups), which help for a week or so, and back to step one, with me being all retarded around her.
I feel she both hates and likes the attention, hence the mixed signals.
Need advice on how to get rid of this stupid and immature crush.
TL;DR: | Have a crush/infatuation on a co-worker, and want advice on how to move on and forget about her. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [41 M] with my GF [39 F] 10months, had a small fight...
POST: My gf of about 10 months and I had a fight. We didn't really raise our voices or anything and it was mostly done via texting. I wrote some things out of anger/sadness...nothing that bad or anything, just childish bullshit.
We made up last night but I was wondering how long it takes to get that feeling of lovey dovey back 100%. I would say I'm back at like 80% or so. BTW, the argument lasted a couple of days and we just made up last night. We have never really had a 'fight' before so it is kind of new ground.
TL;DR: | Had a smallish fight with gf, wondering how long it takes for the ebbies jeebies to calm down. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [19 M] with my _Girl of Intrest__ [18 F] 1 month of talking, What do i do?
POST: Been talking seclusive with this girl at my college for a month now and we have gone on adventures kissing and stuff so one day i drop her off at her place and she is all bubbly the next day she wants me to stay the night with her (no we didnt sleep together, i guess i let the bros down but i was happy just being with her) and this is where it gets weird.
Her friend from home comes up to visit, she all of a sudden stops calling me or texting me back says she is going to Montery with her friend, two days into her trip with her friend she said "you dont have to wait for me live your life." but she then has the nerve to snapchat me the proceeding 5 days with some guy at Montery. wtf is wrong with women sometimes.
TL;DR: | She likes me one minute and then she goes to her friends college and forgets i exist? what do i do? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: i[m 25] in a relationship with a girl[26], but theres another girl[23] who who gives me butterflies.
POST: I'm in a good relationship. I know that. It's not perfect, but it's definitely good. We do have some fundamental differences though that make me question things sometimes (she had a much crazier past than me, over 10x the number of sexual partners, and i want her to quit smoking, though i dont know if she ever will). Honestly, if it wasnt for the smoking, i probably wouldnt doubt the relationship what i do. the rest of which just comes down to trust issues (yay starting relationships by her cheating on her bf with me, then on me with him.)
theres another girl who ive been in the same organization with me during 2011, but quit during 2012. i used to interact with her fairly regularly, but since then, not so much. recently though, i saw her at a party we were both at. every time i see her, i swear the lust demon in me awakens kicking and screaming. she is gorgeous, has a great personality, and she smells great. i know we have some fundamental differences too, but ive always worried that if the opportunity arose, she would send me straight to the part of hell reserved for cheaters.
what do i do.
TL;DR: | theres a girl who drives me crazy in all the best ways, but its not my gf. halp. |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: Reddit, I really need your help.
POST: about 4 months ago me and my girlfriend broke up. We have gotten back together since then, but in the 2 weeks we were apart, apparently my girlfriend's guy friend forced himself on her, touched and kissed her. she never told anyone and did not go to the police because she was scared and confused. I cant live with myself knowing that nothing is going to happen to this dirt bag. I don't think the police could help at this point but even if they could, it would reveal that (plot twist) me and my girlfriend are secretly dating. her parents cant find out about us dating because they would end it. anyways i come to you in need of help, advice, really anything you can tell me that i can make this right. I don't know what to do
TL;DR: | my** **girlfriend** **was** **nearly** **raped** **and** **i** **need** **to** **avenge** **her** |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I [24f] have feelings for a good friend [28m] and we are both in relationships. I feel like a jerk.
POST: I [24f] have feelings for a good friend [28m]. This is more complicated than it really sounds. I also have a boyfriend and he has a girlfriend. I know I am a scumbag for even wanting something to happen with my good friend and me.
This friend and I have been hanging out for over a year. Things between us have been just drinking together and playing pool nothing serious. Over this year I have developed feelings for him.
I feel like a jerk because I have been dating another guy for about 11 months. I know it's not fair to him. Our relationship hasn't been too great and we have a lot of issues. This good friend has always been there for me when times got rough and I for him. The good friend is in a long term relationship. I feel like total jerk because I don't want to ruin that for him.
TL;DR: | I have feelings for a good friend and we are both attached. I am at a loss as to what to do. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [23F] with my partner [25M] of 5 years, feeling like sexual energy has disappeared.
POST: For work and school, over the last year and a half my partner and I have been living in separate cities, about an hour apart. We still kiss and have sex, but -- it feels so cliche to say -- there isn't any "passion" anymore. He doesn't say anything to suggest he finds me sexually attractive, and sex is usually in the dark without much talking. I found a push up bra today that fit, but I started to feel pretty depressed, thinking that it doesn't matter at all what I look like. We're still very young, so this lack of sexuality is frustrating and upsetting. We are incredibly open with one another, but for some reason it's never felt natural to talk about sex and sexuality a lot. I am reaching out to you, dear reddit, to see if you might offer any advice for a couple in their early to mid-twenties who are needing a sexual intervention.
TL;DR: | Longterm couple in mid-twenties doesn't have a strong sex life. Want it to change. Send help. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [20 F] 15 months. I fucked up, guys. I don't know what to do.
POST: I've been with my girlfriend since January 2014. It's been great. We get along amazingly well. We just click. It's pretty smooth sailing since then. Maybe 1 or 2 little arguments, but nothing major. Until now.
We have mutual friend, we both follow on instagram. This friend posted a pretty revealing photo of herself, and I can't tell you what possessed me to like it. It may not seem like a big deal, but my girlfriend has body issues. I think she's beautiful, and sexy, and incredible, but when she saw that I had "liked" that picture, it destroyed her.
She isn't speaking to me. We don't live together, but we usually i.m. until one of us falls asleep. It's not that she's mad, she's sad. She's heartbroken. This is a big deal to her. I feel like the biggest piece of shit in the world. I'm going to catch her before she leaves for work, tomorrow, but I don't know what to say. I seriously think she may break up with me for this. Any advice helps.
TL;DR: | Girlfriend saw that I "liked" a friend's revealing picture on instagram. Might break up with me. |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: Reddit, what is your kryptonite?
POST: We all have a fatal flaw - what is yours? And please, a story - Reddit likes stories.
Mine is my red-green color blindness. For those unfamiliar with the condition, remember taking the Isahara test at the optometrist? The one where you have to recognize a pattern of colored dots (usually a number) in a sea of other colors? I can't see that number. So if a bunch of green dots form the number 7 in a big patch of red dots, I can't really see the seven.
So, Story:
I was sitting in bed when my nose started to bleed. My first thought is, "Shit, not on my new sweater!". I cover my nose, and run to the bathroom. I clean myself up and look for any blood on my sweater. It is at this moment that I realize that I am looking for red blood on a very green sweater. Tiny, speckles in a field of green. The single possible situation in which red-green colorblindness could be a detriment. My fatal flaw, elegantly expressed in a 60 second interval.
TL;DR: | Nosebleed on a green sweater - couldn't see the specks of blood cuz I am red-green colorblind. |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: My girlfriend is having stress issues in college and is thinking of dropping out, how can I help so that she wants to stay?
POST: Some backstory: My girlfriend and I go to the same college, and I'm handling the work load pretty nicely...She, on the other hand, is falling apart it seems, and when I ask her why, it's because she just misses home so much. She lives down the road about 20 minutes, but everytime she sees her family, she breaks down after and tells me about how much she has missed them. She can't see them more, because that will only make her want to drop out even more. She can do the work, but she can't handle being away, so what can I do to help relieve her stress so she stays in school? I want what is best for her, and I believe that's school and not dropping out.
TL;DR: | My girlfriend is homesick, but it's causing her so much stress that she wants to drop out. What do? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Should I [19M] get revenge on my ex [19F]?
POST: We went through a very rough patch recently. We never communicated about how we felt. When she ended it she didn't say why, but she told me it wasn't me and she didn't like being 'tied down'. I was hurt, but she said she didn't want to lose 'me'. I was an idiot and let us keep talking, but only casually.
Fast forward a week later and she tells me she hung out with a guy, and she said she really liked him but told me her feelings for me are gone. Now I'm so hurt because I'm an idiot and tried to hope for nothing. Now things between us are completely over.
But here's the catch, she told me she use to have a sexual thing with her step-brother. If the parents knew, they'd be livid and would probably disown her.
I feel like I want to because of how much she hurt me, but at the same time it could fuck that family up so hard. So what do I do? :(
TL;DR: | I'm mad, my ex had a thing for her step brother and I'm not sure whether I should tell the parents. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [19M] Considering contacting my ex gf's [19F] current boyfriend and telling him she has been cheating on him, with me.
POST: So me [19M] and my ex girlfriend [19F] of 4 months broke up about a month ago, and one week later she found someone else [23M] and decided to go into a relationship with them. I was very upset about it, as if our relationship meant nothing to her and confronted her. Slowly we started talking again, made amends, and started casually seeing eachother again.
Which was a huge mistake. I wasn't over her and she told me herself she still felt something for me, and I seriously don't get why she would stay with someone else if she still had feelings for me. Somebody tell me.
In short, we spent a lot of time together post-breakup, and then it just happened. And not just once. And for justification she initiated things first each time, and I hate to be a homewrecker. I just still have these feelings for her and wish I could still be with her. I asked her if she would ever tell her current boyfriend and she said she wouldn't, although i don't think it's fair to him and I just think he should know.
TL;DR: | Ex gf has new boyfriend, but cheats on him with me and I was wondering if i should contact him. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationship_advice
TITLE: Is it creepy for me [F23] to reach out to a hot guy [M??] I saw on ladybonersgw who's in my area?
POST: So I was looking around /r/ladybonersgw today for shits, and ran across this INSANELY hot guy. Out of curiosity, I stalked his post and comment history, and saw he's in my city and located VERY close to me. Would it be creepy or weird to send him a message? If anyone here has posted to that sub, would you find it weird? What are your thoughts?
I wouldn't necessarily want to pursue anything emotional or sexual irl, I'd purely just want to talk to him online since he's superfine, buuut if it leads to something irl I wouldn't be opposed.
TL;DR: | Is reaching out to a hot dude from /r/ladybonersgw in my area purely for fun creepy? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: My GF [28F] eventually wants a tattoo. I'm [30M] adamantly against it.
POST: So my gf, who I love and basically see my self marrying, is thinking about getting a tattoo. The problem is I am very against them. Other people have them and that's ok. I have several friends with tattoos. I have a problem with a girl I'm seriously dating getting one.
I think she sees getting tattoos as something fun to do where she gets a matching one with a girlfriend. I see it as her destroying an area of her beautiful skin. It is ultimately her choice what she does with her body, but I don't think even a small tattoo would be a compromise I could live with.
I'm not the most articulate in person, but I think that getting a tattoo would have her also going against something I think was really important. Something to the level of if I were to blow my entire salary to get a luxury car rather than to save up the money for something else. She still does not have one, but has brought this up several times. I'm not quite sure how to proceed with this as it would really ruin a lot of the love I feel for her and probably make it impossible in my mind to marry her if she were to go against my values in this way. I also don't want to compromise and let her get one that might permanently change the way I think about her. Can someone give me some perspective? Please feel free to post your experiences.
TL;DR: | GF [28 F] wants to get tattoo in the future. I [30 M] don't want her to get one. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationship_advice
TITLE: Me, [19/m] broke up with girlfriend [19/f] of 1+ year.
POST: Its been over a month now. Broke up because of religious issues. We live on a college campus, and our buildings are in very close proximity. So naturally, we see each other quite often because we eat in the same place, have similar classes, etc. When I see her, I smile and say hi. She does not reply; she avoids me and makes a great effort to stay away from me as much as possible. She even runs away sometimes. Thats probably because when we broke up, I suggested maybe trying to work it out and get back together. If not that, then at least be friendly to each other, just for old times sake. She did not want that because she still had feelings. Anyway, like I said earlier, I do not try to talk to her at all anymore, but simply say hi when I see her. She cant even wave back. So lately, i got to thinking that her behavior is saying she wants what we had to have no meaning. If thats the case, would it be a good idea to ask her to give back all the gifts we got each other, if they mean nothing to her. I want us to keep them, but if they mean nothing to her, no sense keeping them.
TL;DR: | is it okay to ask gf to give back all the gifts we got each other if they mean nothing to her now |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: I have never sold on Ebay, and I'm scared Paypal might screw me around, Please Advise...
POST: My aunt passed away lasted year, and in getting her affairs in order, my family ended up with 2 Passport Escort 9500ix radar detectors. I expect to get around $300 a piece, BUT with all the Paypal shenanigans lately I'm not sure what I should do about receiving payments.
There are a few details that may effect my plans. I've used Ebay and Paypal for years as a buyer, but never sold before. I have my bank account attached to Paypal, verified, I use it ALL the time. I've even solved disputes through them successfully (jerk tried to sell me a water damaged DVD). My biggest concern is that, years ago by virtue of me having a bank account, my brother started the Paypal account I use to this day. That means I'm using an Ebay and Paypal account with same last names (very rare Americanized-Italian name) but different first names.
If I got this done a few months ago, I wouldn't be so concerned, but I REALLY need this money for new glasses so I can get my Drivers License renewed and thus GET A JOB. Getting my money held up in some dumb fraud investigation would be a huge bummer. I could really use the advice on how to deal with this, are there any safer options?
TL;DR: | My Paypal has a diff. first name than my Ebay account, could cause a problem. Any other options? |
SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU by inadvertently referenced "being meister of dicks" on my high school jersey
POST: Definitely not today, but when I was back in high school.
In high school, it is a tradition to get a high school jersey with a nickname on the back of it. Being me, I didn't have a nickname nor did I like anything people called me. So I decided I wanted to make up a nickname myself and put it in my jersey.
Taking influence from The Maestro from Seinfeld, I called myself the D-Meister; the "d" representing the first letter of my first name because "i am the best of being me". Remember, I was in high school.
Eight months and $85 Australian Dollars later and I got my high school jersey, however, during the eight months in limbo for the jersey, the internet had created a new joke/meme about sex and penises. The punchline in this joke was "She got/wants the D!", the "D" representing penises. So flashforward to me opening my jersey; I open the plastic and written on the back of the jersey is "D-Meister" and I was utterly confused because I had completely forgot what I had put on it.
I then took it for a test ride and of course, people were shouting "She got the D!", "You are the best at dicks", "DDDDDDDDDDD-MEEEIIIISSTAAAA", and the list goes on.
TL;DR: | I spent nearly $100 on a school jersey that made it out to be that I am the best at taming dicks. |
SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU by waking up too early
POST: Being an Australian, watching the Euro's can be a little bit difficult. Matches start at 11pm, 2am or 5am.
Having been spoiled on Facebook regarding the England Iceland match, I decided to avoid it all and watch some live. So last night I set my alarm for 5am and went to bed. Dutifully I woke up this morning and took the dogs down to pee, its still dark and I cant see much and I'm still half asleep. I trounce back upstairs, eager to watch Portugal go at Poland.
Problem is, there is no game. The game is tomorrow, I just woke up my girlfriend for nothing. Fuck this I am going to go down and make coffee at least and not be the worst person ever.
But just as I reach the kitchen, before I have turned on the lights, my sock becomes wet. Yes.. Wookie has peed inside, and I have stepped in it.
So I hop to the laundry, swing off the sock and go get some paper towels, thinking if I had just stayed in bed I wouldn't be on my knees, one frozen foot, cleaning up dog piss at 5:15 in the morning.
TL;DR: | Woke up really early to watch soccer, found out it was the wrong day, then I stepped in dog pee. |
SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU - making a payment
POST: Technically this happened Friday, occurred yesterday, and finally, the realization today. So Friday, I get paid, make my usual payments and a few extra (tis the season). The first payment I made was my car payment. As I recently moved away from the only state that has this particular financial institution, I made the payment online while being walked through my first online payment with a representitive on the phone with me. She apparently failed to mention it will take a couple of days to post this payment to my bank account.
I had some other payments to make, and I knew I had the money to afford these so I make them as well. Check account balance and nothing seems odd... Good to go. Make a few small purchases that (I thought) I have enough money for and go about my weekend.
Fast forward to today, I try to buy cigarettes (don't want to hear about bad for health and blah blah blah) and was told my account had insufficient funds.
Normally this isn't a big deal. Bank does it's thing, money comes back to account, make arrangements and pay the bill next payday. Problem is, I am flying out of town tonight to go spend Christmas with my family about 2,000 miles away and need a minimum of $25 USD to check my bag with this particular air line.
TL;DR: | Merry Christmas Mom! Can I borroww $250 so I can get my acct out of the hole and check my bag? |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: Reddit, my family and I have $15,000 and two weeks to spend towards travel anywhere this summer. Where should we go, and why?
POST: My mom's extended family owns a business that sold a number of its assets late last year, landing our family with an extra $15,000. As they already have secure investments, and currently donate a good portion of the household income to a variety of charitable organizations, my parents have decided it might be high time for a family vacation this summer. We have not traveled abroad in a few years, so we are quite excited with the prospect!
After much thrilled discussion, we have decided that we want to travel someplace we have never been before - this means that we cannot travel to these countries:
* United States
* Canada
* France
* Italy
* Japan
* Singapore
* Philippines
* Indonesia
* Malaysia
* Sri Lanka
* Maldives
* Cambodia
* SAR of Hong Kong
* Australia
These are the places currently on our shortlist, but our discussions have rendered the list highly volatile. Any suggestions and recommendations for places to be added/dropped/changed on this list are very much appreciated!
* Tunisia
* Crimea
* Croatia
* Sardinia
* Messenia
* Montenegro
* Danube
TL;DR: | If you had $15,000 to spend on two weeks' worth of travel, where would you go, and why? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: My GF[18] doesn't want me[17m] watching porn, but expects me to let her to - she claims it's the only way she can get off. Am I wrong in not wanting her to watch it if I can't?
POST: We got into an argument about it before. I stated my position and told her basically "If I can't, you can't." Maybe it's jealousy, maybe it's over protection. Whatever it is, I don't like it. Her reasoning for not wanting me to watch it was because she didn't want me gawking at some random girl and deriving sexual pleasure from her. And I completely understand where she's coming from. I don't want her staring at some dude's dick (or another chick for that matter - my GF used to be a lesbian, now she's bi) and deriving sexual pleasure from that. I just...I just don't know where to go with this whole thing. Help me Reddit, you're my only hope.
TL;DR: | GF doesn't want me watching porn, expects me to let her as that's the only way she can get off. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Worried I (19f) won't be able to move on from my boyfriend (20m) of 4 years.
POST: Is it possible to truly move on from a first love and come out better in the end, and if it has successfully happened for you or someone you know, could you share tips on doing that? My boyfriend (20M) and I (19F) have been together almost 4 years but recently broke up (again). I'm not looking for opinions on our age, naively, etc. I just feel like I truly will never be able to move on from him and love anybody else in a similar capacity. Every time we broke up I would stay in contact and we'd get back together. I get so worried that I will never have as strong an emotional, physical, or overall loving connection with any other person as I do with him, so I usually try to get through the issues we are having. I can answer more specific questions if they are relevant to advice you think may help, but there's a general overview.
TL;DR: | I've been with my bf for almost 4 years and feel like I won't love anyone as much as him. |
SUBREDDIT: r/legaladvice
TITLE: Inyo county, California, speeding ticket
POST: I am feeling pretty desperate. Last night around 10 pm I was pulled over for going 87 in a 65 (on a highway. A long, boring, scary highway). I know I was going faster than the speed limit, but I don't believe it was 87. I didn't have my insurance card on me, my parents pay for it, and aren't consistent about updating me on it. I had my policy number, but that's it.
So, I have this ticket. I know I at least want to fight the insurance, because i had it, just not on me. But there is an issue: I have to go to court in Bishop, CA, and I live in Lancaster, Ca, 200 miles away. Not only is the ticket really gonna put me out on my ass for just the fine, but traffic school and going all the way to Bishop is really going to fuck up life for me. I make 10.50 an hour. If the ticket is as much as I have a feeling it's going to be, it could be a weeks worth of pay for me. I know you can make payments usually, but I'm scared. Please help. This is my first ticket in almost 4 years of driving.
TL;DR: | i need to contest a portion of this ticket. Can't afford to go 400 miles there and back to do so. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Trying to get my ex back?
POST: So my ex and I ended things horribly about 9 months ago. About 3 months ago I sent her a really long email apologizing. I wasn't very good to her. I was constantly suspicious of her cheating, to which I found out was false, she never cheated. We dated for 3 years. I'm 35 and she is 39
So now she is with a new guy and has been with him for about 2 or 3 months. Before she got together with him her and I had talked about getting back together and working things out. She said she had to think about it, but before any of that happened, her new bf kind of forced her into a relationship. Now about every couple of weeks, she calls me drunk and crying that she misses me and wants to be with me and tries to leave but he never lets her.
She also has to ask him if she can hang out with me, to which he always responds "no". I know as far as reconnecting with her and all that, I'm doing the right thing. But I don't want to get my hopes up and fail. So my question really is: Do you think she deep down really wants to get back with me? And do you think I should just be patient and wait?
TL;DR: | My ex gf is with someone else but i think she wants to be with me again... or something like that. |
SUBREDDIT: r/dogs
TITLE: A question about my hypoallergenic dog.
POST: I met and brought home my German Shepherd mix about 5/6 yrs ago when she was 4 from the shelter. She was (is kinda still) very timid and shy, but the sweetest and most grateful dog I've ever been involved with. Slowly throughout the years, she has gradually become more and more itchy, to the point where I was taking her to the vet every 3 mos or so for them to tell me its fleas, give me some antihistamines and medicated shampoo and send me home. I finally found a vet who took a skin culture and told me she has zero (0) fleas on her, but that she is having allergic reactions to something and that it is being exacerbated by the summer heat. cool. I got the "Blue" brand "wildlife diet" (no grains, no fillers. just meat and veggies) and have been being vigilant in keeping her away from the other pets' food.
My question is this : Can I still give her fresh meat? what about bones? I just made split pea soup and usually give her the smoked hock afterwards... There are no grains and it's not processed, but I do not want to ruin any progress we've made so far. I was rewarding her regularly before and feel guilty I haven't found appropriate treats yet. Like i stated earlier, she is SO GOOD and sweet but has no confidence, treats have been a great/easy way to tell her she is being a good gir (all her papers joked about how HIGHLY motivated by food she is).
TL;DR: | My dog ~~is hypoallergenic~~ has allergies and I want to give her a smoked ham hock, is that ok? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I[18M] fell for my best friend [18/F] and no clue what do.
POST: I've always been enthralled for most of highschool, I guess. She probably knows it, too. We hangout a decent amount. Recently, though, it's become unbearable for me. I feel like I'm running out of time to do anything since college is rapidly approaching. I always try to forget her in a romantic light, but I really like her. I'm pretty sure I haven't built up her image in my head, I know her well. I've also been feeling really sad lately (like a month or two), which I'm sure is brought on by this. I wouldn't quite call it depression, since the clinical term doesn't seem to apply to me, but I dunno, maybe. I just don't know what to do. I'm really tired of being sad, but at the same time Im afraid to do anything.
TL;DR: | I fell for my best friend, and I don't know what to do. It's bumming me out big time. |
SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: Tifu by meeting my girlfriends parents
POST: My gf of two months decides it's time for me to meet her parents for the first time. Naturally I agree and on the day am very nervous. We meet and I drive her to her parents house for lunch, on the way we have an argument and she is silent the whole way there. I asked her if there is anything I should know and she ignored me. I knock on the door and am greeted by a very large black woman and, as my gf is the whitest woman you will ever meet, I exclaim "you're black!" And stared at her. My gf failed to mention she was adopted.
TL;DR: | met my gfs parents and shouted at them "you're black" and stare, only to find out she was adopted |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I [15 M] screwed up my potential relationship with [16 F]. I want to move on but it feels to early.
POST: She was a great friend of mine and I loved her since minute one of our friendship. At the end of January I asked her out on a date, she wasn't able to make it but only afterwords did I find out she was unaware that it was a "date". I then made my intentions clear, I was asking her out on dates because I liked her. And she then rejected me. I was very dejected, I'll respect that, but I haven't talked to her since.
I've met other people, I still have feelings for her, but I'm ready to move on. But it feels to early, is it all just hormones. I don't know.
TL;DR: | Got rejected by girl I liked, want to move on, am ready, but don't know if it's the right time |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: My [26 M] GF [24F] of one year said some thoughtless shit. Am I being sensitive?
POST: So my girlfriend had a bit of a wild history before she met me. She went through a bit of a rough time and hooked up with a decent amount of people before me. I don't think she's cheating on me or anything. She just says off-putting things sometimes and I wonder if I'm being sensitive.
A lot of times she'll see a hot celebrity on TV and say "I'd fuck him" or "he's hot", which doesn't really bother me because they're celebrities and whatever. But today we were sitting on the couch and out of the blue she said "I want to fuck a black guy before I die". So I was kinda silent, and she asked me if I had been with a black girl before. I said no and then she said "I was with a black guy and it was the best sex I've ever had." It didn't really make any sense to me because she just said she wants to get with a black guy before she dies so I'm not sure if she was just messing with me or not.
So basically, am I being sensitive or is this just massively disrespectful? I'm a bit of the jealous type and I really don't care to her about her past "escapades", so whenever she brings up anything like that I quickly shut her down.
TL;DR: | Girlfriend said she wants to sleep with a black guy before she dies. I got mad. Justified? |
SUBREDDIT: r/needadvice
TITLE: Advice about Middle School
POST: I'm in the 8th grade and have a very severe stutter. I don't have a multitude of friends but i have quite a few. I was on the bus home sitting by myself and looking out the window when i get hit by a bead. I turn around and ask whoever it was to stop. It happens again and i ask who it was three boys i know and who have picked on me in the past for stuttering are all laughing and pointing at eachother. A different guy i know told me it was this kid we'll call Harry. I ask him why hes doing it and he starts mocking me saying "w-w-why." I realize this is stupid but i go over and shove him and he punches me in the side of the head. I hit him back and he punches me a few more times so that I'm bleeding from my mouth and nose. I go home and talk with my parents so next morning I go in early alone to talk with the Dean and i get a 3 day suspension for fighting.
Harry goes home and tells people he broke my nose and that he beat me up. Harry is kind of a small kid and I'm very tall and skinny. Now everybody i know is making fun of me for being beaten up and this kid is mocking me still behind my back. I can't tell the dean because that'll only raise the amount of bullying. I want to know how to not get in trouble but show him I'm not going to be a weakling and get labeled as an easy target.
TL;DR: | Got beat in a fight on the bus don't know how to avoid bullying and want to show that I'm not weak |
SUBREDDIT: r/personalfinance
TITLE: Questioning what repayment plan is best...IBR vs REPAY vs pay as you earn....
POST: I will graduate on October 2nd and start my new job on 9/19. I will be making more money but my last years taxes are about 36k. I will be making about 45k with the new job but it puts me into a higher tax bracket. I have about $8000 in left over school funds, I wanted them returned to lender but the law changed and some got placed in my bank account. Due to medical bills I used some of that to pay down a large surgery bill. I will be paying them back that 8K!
I cannot consolidate my loans as I did with my undergrad loans. I plan on applying for the national health corps loan repayment program or
TL;DR: | what is best IBR/REPAY/ program. Do I pay off undergrad loan with higher interest loan? |
SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU again. Five years later and I made the same mistake. NSFW?
POST: Well reddit, I don't know a classy way to put this so I'm just going to throw it out there. I accidentally got icey hot on my balls again. Again. How the fuck do you manage to accidentally do something so horrific to yourself TWICE do you ask? Well it's pretty simple, I am not a smart man. The first time I was in highschool at wrestling camp. I was sore as fuck from running 5+ miles on the daily followed by multiple sessions of getting my ass handed to me by badass wrestlers from all over the nation. I put icey hot all over my achey thighs to try to get rid of the severe DOMS(delayed onset muscle soreness). I went for a run afterwards and the sweat carried the icey hot all over my sack causing me indescrible agony. Today I fucking did it again. This time fueled by tequila and severe DOMS from deadlifts from the day prior I decided it would be a wonderful idea to slather icey hot all over my lower back and the back and insides of my thighs. Immediately after I went to my room which is in the third story of my house. Today was abnormally hot and my bedroom is in the attic, which is like a fucking inferno. Immediately I began to sweat as I climbed the stairs from the first floor to the third to get to my room. Once there I stripped my clothes off and sat down. This sent trickles of sweat down my back to my crack not only carrying icey hot to my sack but also to my asscrack.
TL;DR: | fuck tequila, fuck iceyhot, goddamnit I can't believe I just did this shit again. Fuck!!! |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationship_advice
TITLE: I (19/m) have crazy doubts about my relationship with my girlfriend (16/f). Not the first time it's been like this.
POST: I have weird doubts about my relationship with my girlfriend. We've been together maybe 2 weeks. The last few times I've hung out with her, things were perfect. Amazing actually. I fear I will push her away though. Somehow someway. I'm a good guy but I think I'm too good. I think I'm too affectionate and I feel like it will eventually push her off or something. At least it's been that way. It's been like this with past relationships and I actually did push those people away I believe.. Drives me insane. I wanna try so hard to make sure it works. I don't wanna lose her. She just makes me feel great. I feel like trying hard will mess it up too though. Ugh. I think I delve too deep into it. I think the worst for everything. I don't know. What do I do? Should I do something else to keep my mind off this?
TL;DR: | Worrying I'll screw things up in the long run with my girlfriend, but things are alright. What do? |
SUBREDDIT: r/running
TITLE: Check my logic but I calculated the chance a single ticket will be selected for the 2016 WSER100
POST: 3.13% chance a ticket will be selected in 270 rounds.
There are 3560 applicants listed in ultrasignup (this number will change but it is what I have today). Using the percent breakdown from 2015, I estimated the number of applicants are in each application year category (wser.org/lottery). Then using the 2^(n-1), I calculated there will be 9166 tickets in the bowl at the start of the process.
Year 1: 1981 applicants with 1981 tickets
Year 2: 890 applicants with 1780 tickets
Year 3: 390 applicants with 1561 tickets
Year 4: 189 applicants with 1511 tickets
Year 5: 79 applicants with 1266 tickets
Year 6: 33 applicants with 1066 tickets
From here,
I used the formula of 1-(n-# of tickets)/n for each of the 270 rounds (wser typically uses an expected draw of 270 wser.org/lottery). For each subsequent round I reduced the total number of tickets by 4 (using a weighted average for the ave year to be selected). So the odds for a single ticket to be selected in round 1 is .02182% round 2 is .02183%.
I then summed the percent chance of being selected in any round to find that for each ticket you hold you have a 3.1% chance of being selected.
TL;DR: | using P=tickets/# of all tickets. The result is the % chance for each ticket for the WSER lottery. |
SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU by joking about the Jenny story.
POST: This did not happen today. Most of you may not know about the Jenny story...ah who am I kidding, it was on this very subreddit. Anyways, I saw all of these gifs and pictures making it to the front page, and I thought 'Hey, why not grab some free karma?' So then I posted to /r/gifs a gif of Andy, from The Office, crying at a computer screen, with the caption 'Reddit right now'. The comments were mostly 'What? I don't get it?' I tried to explain the context to the commenters, almost none of them knew what I was talking about. I mean, come on, it was all over Reddit.
TL;DR: | Read the Jenny story on /r/Tifu, tried to jump on the karma train, nobody got the joke. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: My [m20] friend [f20] I had been growing feelings for is out of a relationship. How do I tell her, that I wabt to start something with her?
POST: We're going to university together, started developing our friendship for a year. I haad been trying to ask her out, but she had a bf during that time.
We talk about all kinds of stuff, whenever a topic pops into our heads. I kept in touch with her during holidays and kept growing feelings for her. I ask her about her job, if somethings bothering her when she seems upset (sometimes it had to do something with her bf but she wouldn't go into details, since it would be kinda awkward to do so)
Now, if my fact-check is correct, she broke up with him about 2 weeks ago, a few days before her birthday. I did buy her a present, a plush dog - she told me how she'd love to have a dog but her parents wouldn't let her. I was the first one that day to give her a present and she said it brightened up her mood for the rest of the day.
She's planning on going on a trip next week with her mother, and I'm very anxious about it being some kind of deadline. I have now 3 days before I don't see her for a whole week. I want to try to ask her out, as in do something fun before going away for the week. Is there any advice you could give me on this?
TL;DR: | Growing feelings for friend of 1-1,5 years, she had a bf, now she doesn't, how do I approach this? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: My boyfriend [24M] and I [33F] are drifting apart...
POST: My boyfriend [24M] and I [33F] have been together 2 1/2 years now. The last few weeks it feels like we've become more roommates/friends than lovers. I have my kids 50% of the time. But even the time it's just us, we seem almost awkward or uncomfortable.
He stays in another room on the computer playing games most of the time. So I find other things to do. We have barely touched, let alone kissed in about 2 weeks. I've tried giving extra attention, cooking, making sure everything is done around the house so he has less stress. Nothing makes a difference. He makes NO effort to even do anything with me unless it's coming to bed to sleep.
I know both of us have enjoyed porn and solo orgasms during this time as well. Our sex life has always been amazing and of no concern.I guess I'm looking for some words of wisdom!
TL;DR: | My BF [24M] of 2 1/2 years and I [33F] are drifting apart. Looking for ideas to help. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me[16M] found out that my friend [16F] has been dating a guy online for a year and a half. But he's been feeding her lies.
POST: So I posted earlier about how I have a huge crush on this girl who has been dating a guy she has never met in real life. But I just recently learned some very disturbing facts.
I realize that this was out of my place to do so but I did reverse look ups on the guys name and state of origin. No one even comes close. Every time I get nothing. I did Google search with his name in quotes. "like this" to bring back exact searches. Again nothing. It's like this guy doesn't even exist.
So now that I have this massive burden on my shoulders I need to know how to get rid of it. How do I tell her?
TL;DR: | Girl I have a crush on has been dating a lie for a year and a half. A lie that she has never met. |
SUBREDDIT: r/loseit
TITLE: Clothes? [M]
POST: Some time ago, I was weighing in at 215, 220 on a bad day, and had been that weight for some time. I was at a size 38, which fit comfortably most of the time, if I wasn't wearing jeans/shorts I'd wear gym shorts or sweat pants. Currently my goal for the end of school year/beginning of summer (around May. 5) is 170. If need be I'll go farther but that's my current destination. At spring break I had settled at 185 for some time (longer than I'd like to admit). My size 38's no longer fit, without a belt cinched to the last notch. I figured enough was enough and it was time to grind out the last bit. 3 weeks later I was at 177, and I won't know what I'm at again until the school year does infact end, so it'll be somewhat of a surprise. Any who, my pants, and many of shirts just don't fit anymore. The elastic, permanently stretched from the past, now hangs loosely or not at all. 38's are impossible to wear, and the lone pair of 36's I held on to, now need a belt (the last belt I have that works is on the last notch). Many of my large shirts look baggy, and XL's look plain silly. While all of this makes me happy, I'm now out 2-3 years worth of collective wardrobe. What is a cheap/reasonable way to begin collecting clothes that fit a new, slimmer me?
TL;DR: | Lost weight, 80% clothes don't fit/won't fit soon. How do I get more clothes on a budget? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I [23m] need help to stop comparing all girls to my ex [23f], it's already ruined my relationship with my girlfriend [27f]
POST: So like the title says I compare all girls to my ex Emily. Emily is an amazing girl who I just wasn't ready to date yet. I was extremely insecure and was working through some depression that was caused by an androgen deficiency I developed as a result of damaging my pituitary gland while playing collegiate football.
Moving on Emily was everything I ever wanted, however we just met too early in life and I ruined it forever. She was tall, blonde, and the prettiest girl I have seen to date. She's has the most easy going attitude and really takes care of herself. She is absolutely amazing, she is my sensation. It's been about 15 months since we have seperated, the break up was God awful, mostly because of me.
So now I'm in a new relationship with a girl that's a little older than me. She's awesome but she just isn't Emily. I'm often trying to change things about her to make her more like my ex but it's just not right. How do I move on and get over her?
TL;DR: | I'm comparing all girls to my ex and it isn't fair to them or me. I can't find happiness. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: My [22F] boyfriend [25M] won't let me play Pokemon Go on his phone
POST: I can't play it on my phone because it's a piece of crap. I was so excited when Pokemon Go came out, I've been a HUGE fan of Pokemon since it came to America. This is kind of a big deal to me. My boyfriend, however, has the app on his phone and won't let me play it. He just teases me about my shit phone and says the game isn't that good anyways, but I catch him playing it quite a bit? I don't think it's fair because when he doesn't pay his phone bill, I let him use mine sometimes to play games, but he won't let me use his! Am I right to be upset???
TL;DR: | I am a huge Pokemon fan, want to play Go, phone is shit, boyfriend won't let me use his to play. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: My [25 M] Ex-Girlfriend [29 F] Birthday is comming up, and she is visiting me.
POST: We had a 5 year relationship than broke of about 6 months ago. I moved away and we have a great friendship right now. We have visited eachother 2 times and it all went well. I dont want to get back together, and i think neither does she. She is turning 30 and are comming to visit me for a couple of days. The thing is i dont know if i should get her a present.
30 is kind of a big deal to turn and people usually give a bit bigger gifts. But since she is my ex i dont know if it's weird to get her something. In that case it's also hard to tell what's too little and what is too much.
So if anyone could help me with this i would be gratefull.
Note: I'm not requesting a gift, i'm asking IF i should get her a gift at all in this situation.
TL;DR: | Ex-Girlfriend(now friend) comming to visit me on her 30th birthday. Should i get her a present? |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: how to convert a voicemail into a computer friendly file?
POST: Howdy,
i have a voicemail on my cell, (Verizon wireless) that i have been saving for the better part of 3 years. its a recording of my 5 year old (he had just turned 2 at the time of the message)
i went away on a business trip, so my wife had had him call me to leave me a good night message. it means a ton to me, and will probably mean more as he gets older. i re-save the thing monthly so it will not erase, i would like to preserve it as some sort of (.wav? / Mp3?) file? anyone have a clue how to?
TL;DR: | i have a message saved on my (Verizon) cell voicemail, how do i convert it to a computer file? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [20F] with my SO [22 M] are having issues in the bedroom.
POST: My SO and I have been dating for a little over 4.5 years and have lived together for about 1.5 years now. When we first started having sex everything was great and when we weren't living together things were great too, but once I moved in with him things started to go down hill.
We have currently hit week 8 of no sex and I don't know what to do. I've tried uping my sexy game, I've tried hinting all through the day that I want to have sex with him, and I've talked to him about it. Every time I bring it up he says that he's too stressed out from work and/or too tired, but that it definitely isn't me. He swears that he still finds me sexually attractive, but I'm having a hard time believing that at this point.
I know that we have different levels of libido. His is obviously lower than mine, which is fine, I can deal with that, but two months of nothing is beyond anything it has ever been.
Other than that, we have a great relationship. We have fun together, we deal with issues in a calm way, we laugh all the time, and he is my absolute favorite person. I don't want to break up because of this. It seems unreasonable to ask someone to fill my every need 100% of the time, but I don't know what to do next.
Should we go to counseling? He's not fond of the idea, but probably would if I pushed it. Suggest an open relationship?
TL;DR: | SO and I haven't had sex in two months. Not sure what to do about it or what the best option is. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me[25/F] with my husband [27/M] for 5 years. Fighting a lot over the past year. Today had another fight he stormed out of the house.
POST: Me[25/F] with my husband [27/M] for 5 years. The particular fight that happened today is so stupid, but I just need some perspective on this.
He came home from work. We agreed earlier in the day that we were going to watch game of thrones together at 7pm. I started cooking at 6 or so. As soon he came home (after cycling) went to his study and went on the internet. I jokingly reminded him that we will watch the episode and told him that food will be ready by 7. He said ok and turned back to his computer. I didn't want to remind him again later. 7 o'clock came and went and he was still upstairs. By 8 I gave up and went to the shop. When I got home I was quite sad/annoyed and he came downstairs. He than got annoyed that I didn't call him that food was ready.
I am annoyed that he just sits on the internet and didnt even bother checking time or coming down. I didnt ask him to help cook or anything else, just that we start watching tv at 7 as otherwise it gets late and we both get tired. He has stormed off after I said that the food is cold etc
What do you make of this silly situation?
TL;DR: | Me[25/F] with my husband [27/M] for 5 years, has a stupid fight tonight. Just need some advice. |
SUBREDDIT: r/loseit
TITLE: Diet plans that work?
POST: I am a female college student working full time, and I have no idea where to start. I was very active fall semester 2014 due to being in the marching band, where I was around 145 lbs which was a normal, healthy weight for me. I was that weight all through high school as well, involved in band, show choir, theater. I am now 185 lbs, 5'6. I'm not unhappy with myself, I have a lot of body positivity, but I want to march Drum Corps International starting in November and I want to start prepping my body for that. It takes a lot of endurance and physical fitness.
Since I'm working full time and I'm a student, I am looking for quick, affordable ways to lose weight. Something like slim fast or a similar program would be great. I have no idea where to start and any information would be incredibly helpful. Is there a program you've tried that has been really successful? I have used MyFitnessPal in the past to track my calories and it told me I should be around 1200 to lose a pound a week, and though that's what I eat (and even below that....I remember typing in 800 cal for one day...), I'm not losing weight. I'm assuming this is/was due to shitty food, fast food, school lunches, irregular meals, etc.
TL;DR: | I'm trying to lose 40+ lbs, in a cheap, effective, safe way. I need some help! Thank you! |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I [18, Male] need help breaking up with my girlfriend [18, Female].
POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for two and a half years. We are both going off to college later this year, and it is my opinion that breaking up sooner rather than later would benefit both of us. She is extremely attached to me, but I have slowly been drifting toward a more indifferent state of mind. It is her opinion that we should be together at least until summer. What advice can you give me? If needed, I can elaborate more.
Additional information:
At this moment, my girlfriend is at the height of her sports season. Her biggest competition is this week and next.
TL;DR: | I can't bear to devastate my girlfriend by breaking up with her, and don't know when to do it.* |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: My SO [26 M] of 2 months blurted out "I love you." I'm [26 F] not sure if he was serious or how best to respond.
POST: SO and I have known each other for about 6 months and started dating around 2 months ago. Things are going really well but neither of us had said "I love you" prior to this weekend.
A couple days ago we were watching T.V. and when both of us laughed at the same, somewhat inappropriate, moment, he blurted out an "I love you." I was in the middle of laughing and he caught me totally off-guard. I think I responded with "aww" but we were both laughing through the moment and I really didn't know what the proper response would have been. He didn't repeat it and besides my somewhat involuntary "aww" I didn't specifically acknowledge he said it.
Since he blurted it out I'm not sure if he really meant it, or if it sort of just came out by accident in the moment. If that was the case I'm worried that bringing it up will make him uncomfortable. But if he was serious I'm worried that he might be hurt that I didn't respond in kind.
Thoughts on the best way to respond now, two days later? Should I bring it up? Should I continue to basically ignore it?
TL;DR: | Can't tell if SO meant it when he said "I love you" - not sure how to best to respond now. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [24 M] with my Friend[22 F] of 2 months, we went for drinks last night, I think she thought I wanted to kiss her, but I didn't.
POST: Hello!
Not a very serious matter but I really like this girl as a friend!
We went for drinks yesterday and she is French, French people give each other kisses when they meet. I at least thought so, so when I met her I said "don't French people give each other one kiss?"
She replied no, with two usually but I never do that.
I somehow like to give just one kiss I don't know why, I just like it.
So we had our drinks, she went home by cab and I said "just one kiss" and kissed her on the cheek.
Her reaction was somewhat weird as she tried to get the fuck out of there as fast as possible.
Now I don't know if she thinks I tried to kiss her because I wasn't.
What do I do? say nothing? mention it the next time I see her?
Oh she has a boyfriend as well, I would never try it!
TL;DR: | Went out with female friend, I think she thinks I tried to kiss her but I didn't. What do I do? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: How to tell my girlfriend I cheated.
POST: So a little background here. I'm 18 and my girlfriend is 16. We've been going out for about 9 months now.
This past Saturday I went to the club with my friends. This club has 2 levels so I went upstairs away from my friends (who all know my girlfriend) and started to dance. I found this one girl and start to dance and make out with her periodically for about a half hour, then returned to my friends and felt like shit.
I know what I did was wrong and I am prepared for the consequences. I am willing to work things out with her and try to regain her trust again. What I need help with though is how do I go about telling her what I did? What are somethings that I should say to comfort her.
One of my close friends suggested that we cut all contact for a week and think about if we want to stay with each other, what we see in each other, and what life would be like without each other. What are your thoughts and suggestions?
TL;DR: | I cheated on my gf at a club and I need to know how to break it to her and what to say. |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: Oh guuuurlfriend (but really need some gf advice)
POST: Ok so.
My Current ex-gf and i dated for nearly 2 years, we fought and argued but got along great. When things were good they were awesome when shit went bad it went real bad. We have broken up before and fight at least once every other month. However we love each other and shit always works out.
Now a few months back when we split for a week or so i hooked up with my ex-ex-gf. I did not tell her about it at all not even when we got back together and i lied to her face about it. She asked if i had hooked up with anyone while we were split up and i said no.
A few weeks go by and one night she goes out drinking with the girls and hooked up with a girl she didn't know. We had talked about her hooking up with girls and i was cool with it if i was there and at no other time. When she told me i felt like she cheated on me. I didn't get mad and forgave her.
So my ex talks with my ex-ex(fuck you facebook and all social media) and my ex-ex tells her about the hook up. At this point my ex-gf sends me a text calling me a monster and telling me to never contact her again. I text her one time apologizing and nothing more. I never heard anything back from her.
What do i do? What can i do? Should i notebook her and hope she talks to me again? Its been close to a month.
TL;DR: | Cheated" on my gf and cheated on by my gf, i am the bad guy. What do i do? |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: My ex-wife keeps visiting my personal blog. I need some brilliant prank ideas.
POST: My ex-wife and I went splitsville in 2009, and it wasn't very civil. She really hates me, and it kind of feels good. We got married really quickly and I knew even during the ceremony of our wedding that it was the wrong thing to do, but went through with it anyway with the intention of turning a blind eye and making it work.
She made some awesome homemade macaroni and cheese that I ate and then told her that it was over and I didn't like her or love her. It was pretty cold, but it was the truth. I think she feels the sting every time she thinks of me.
By the looks of my google analytics account and a little sleuthing, I see she's been visiting my website about 2x per week.
I barely post anything - I'd say about once every 2 months or so, but I'm ready to post crazy things just make her crazy.
What ideas do you have?
TL;DR: | Ex-wife hates me, visits blog I barely update 2x a week. Let's prank her, need ideas. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [23 M] with my ex [21 F] broke up but she is pregnant.
POST: I met this girl and we dated for a month, all went well until we started to argue here and there, things got a bit rocky and we were pretty much on the verge of breaking up... To find out she is pregnant. Now, the arguments actually escalated and we put and end to it. We barely talk now and she wants nothing to do with me it seems. I'm trying my best to mend this situation so that we can raise this child together but she is so distant & making everything so difficult. I could use some advice on how I should go about this.
I feel as if the more I try to make this work the worse the situation gets. I've apologized, everything. I'm lost at this point.
TL;DR: | ex is pregnant with my child and I can't seem to get her to work things out with me, I need advice. |
SUBREDDIT: r/personalfinance
TITLE: Only child, parents in rough financial shape, can't help themselves - need advice.
POST: Hi all,
My Dad has been disabled and unable to work for the past four years, while my mom is working as a part time home nurse for no where near enough money.
They make ends meet on a very limited income (mortgage on house they built 24 years ago, so inexpensive, basic cable, no internet, no cell phones, etc), but their only car just died after the head gasket blew - and now they need to figure out how to get a car.
The only extraneous expense they have is about 6K in credit cards that they've had left over from my Dad's business days - his disability hit when he was still floating some balances, and thus he's been paying it off slowly ever since.
So, I want to help - but with a family and a need for a bigger house on my own plate, I'm not sure how to, without sacrificing my own retirement.
Pay off the 6K/transfer to my own card? Is there a way to do this and receive some advantage?
Help pay for a Car? same question?
I just feel a little hopeless, and I know you guys are geniuses, so any advice you can give, I appreciate it.
TL;DR: | Dad's disabled, Mom's underemployed, 6K in debt, car died. Best way to help them? |
SUBREDDIT: r/loseit
TITLE: Today is the 1 year anniversary of my RNY gastric bypass.
POST: So on 9/25/12 I had gastric bypass (gb). On the day of surgery I was 425lbs. (192kg) As of this morning, I am at...(drumroll)
Feels good, it's been interesting getting to this point. I now have a healthy work out regimen, and I no longer am shoving food down my gullet constantly. I would post a pic, but I'm at work. Next step is getting rid of the skin from dropping 248lbs. in a year. I work out, so there is muscle tone, but still, there is a loose skin issue.
And for anyone wondering, yes, I had tried traditional diet and exercise, almost all my life. My hurdle was to stop emotionally eating and getting more active.
Have a good day, and good luck to everyone out there!
TL;DR: | Was 425lbs. (192kg.) on 9/25/12, had gastric bypass, now I'm 177lbs. (80kg.) on 9/25/13. |
SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU by putting ice cream in my fridge.
POST: I fucked up a week ago, its results happened yesterday.
Anyway, so last week I went out for ice cream with a couple of friends. The ice creams were expensive, but the plates were huge. Only one of us finished his, and he's kinda the fattie. I went home, then put the ice cream into the freezer, not wanting to waste a dollar or two. My fridge is split into two parts; the normal fridge and the freezer. Note: my mom, for some reason, likes to overstuff the freezer and never uses most of the stuff in it. I had to squeeze the ice cream. For the rest of the week my family and I were out of town. Fast forward to yesterday, we came back and we noticed a horrifying smell. My mother said it smelled like a corpse, and my sister said it smelled like rotting food. They were both to some level right; apparently, the ice cream was too squeezed and pushed the door open, and the freezer had deactivated. There was blood from the meat, and most of the food was rotten. When my mother saw it she went batshit and screamed her ass off at me. I then had to spend 5 hours cleaning blood up, trying to figure out what was or wasn't rotten, and trying to figure what the fuck my mom had even put in the freezer. Still nor sure what I threw away was.
TL;DR: | I leave an ice cream in the freezer and ruin most of the meat inside. Way to go, me. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I [18 M] want to get to know a girl [19 F] I work with, but she has a boyfriend.
POST: So I work with this girl, and it's just a summer job for both of us. She started dating a cashier there about 2 weeks before I started working there. He will still be in highschool here, which is about 40 minutes away from the college she's going to. I'm going to a different college only 20 minutes away from hers. When they're together it seems kind of forced, but that might just be work. So should I even try to talk to or get to know this girl, or just forget about her since she's dating someone? I don't wanna be a dick, but I also like this girl. Now i'm not talking like trying to date right now, just become better friends for the possibility in the future. I don't wanna fuck with her relationship, but if she inevitably does break up with him, and i'm there, then that is a plus.
TL;DR: | I like a girl, she has a boyfriend, he's in high school, will be long distance, what do. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: How can I [28M] best talk to my daughter [6] about my mom who left our family?
POST: Long story short, my mother left my dad for another man years before my daughter was born. As far as I know, no one (including her mom, sisters, etc) has heard from her since, nor do any of us have any interest in ever seeing her again.
My daughter had never really asked about my mom until a year or two ago, when she was going through a photo album I didn't even realize I had, which had some pictures of her in it. I told her that it was my mom in the pictures, and she left it at that. Every now and then, she'd ask another question about her. I told her that she left and made a new family, and I don't know where she is.
I've tried to be as sensitive about it as I can. But 6-year-olds aren't dumb, and she's made the connection that my mom no longer loves me, my brother, my dad, etc. I try to distract her by saying not to worry about my mom, and that my daughter should just focus on her family - those who are a part of her life, and show her love every day.
I think my daughter feels a void, or needs some kind of closure here. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
TL;DR: | Mom took off on the family. Daughter wants to know more about her (or get to know her). Help! |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: Is Comcast the devil?
POST: I have been pondering this question now for sometime and seem to come back to the same conclusion... Comcast is the devil!
They seduce you over with cheap rates and the promise of great service... Then once you have taken a bite of their proverbial apple that's when all hell breaks lose! You find yourself paying for channels you did not sign up for and fees that magically appear for no reason... You start to lose cable and/or internet signal (sometimes at the same time), and then they send one of their minions out to your house to investigate, your shit mysteriously works again! Oh and lets not forget the fee they charge you for this person to come out and tell you they don't know why it is faulty and that it works now! Of course the next day it will be down again...
TL;DR: | Do you think Comcast is the devil and how can we get 4chan to send pizza to this hell on earth? |
SUBREDDIT: r/running
TITLE: Upcoming race and high temps
POST: I have a 10 mile trail race coming up on Saturday and I'm pretty worried about the heat. Dependent on how technical the trails are, I can run this distance in 2-2.5 hours, usually. I've been eyeing the projected temps and it's supposed to be a scorching 90° that day. Up to this point, humidity has been 95-98% first thing in the morning.
Not only am I worried about running in the heat, but I'm not as trained as I would like to be. Life circumstances have prevented me from maintaining as high of a mileage as I normally would.
Up until now I've been getting up around 6am to run before the sun starts beating down but the race starts at 8, and it should be around 75° by then. Needless to say, I feel underprepared and unsure of how badly the heat will impact me (I've run several days in the heat and it slows me down and makes me very sluggish, and forces me to sometimes walk).
I suppose I'm looking for any bit of encouragement or advice.
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TL;DR: | 10 mile trail race in high temps and humidity level, not as trained as I want to be, and nervous) |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: To all the Redditors that have a communal laundry room: How long do you wait to remove someone's finished laundry from the dryer?
POST: Our building is a decent sized 3 story apartment building and has 2 washers and 2 dryers per floor. Sunday is obviously a big laundry day for most people. I put my clothes in the washer and noticed there were clothes in a drying cycle. Since washes usually take 25 minutes and drying takes 45, I went to check on my clothes after about 35 minutes and noticed the people's cycle was done, but they hadn't removed their clothes yet. I checked after another 20 minutes and again after another 25 minutes. Their dryer was cold and the clothes inside were cold. I decided I wasn't going to waste any more of my time, and while I really don't like to take other people's clothes out of the dryer, I needed to get my laundry done. I come back after about 40 minutes to check on my clothes and the person finally came to take their clothes and left my dryer door open so my clothes wouldn't dry. Who the hell does that? They left their finished clothes in the dryer for an hour on the busiest laundry day of the week and think I'm rude for removing their clothes when we only have 2 washers and 2 dryers per floor.
TL;DR: | I waited for an hour. They opened the door to my dryer to spite me so my clothes wouldn't dry. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me (23/F) and my ex (24/M) broke up 5 months ago, he's moved on, how do I give him his stuff back?
POST: I decided to create a throwaway for this question since my ex set up my original reddit account and knows my username.
I'll do my best to keep this short. We were together, on and off, for three years. He broke up with me in December, saying that he needed to experience some self-growth from being alone. Tried to get back with me in January when I originally gave him back his stuff. We talked for a couple of months, then in April I told him I couldn't keep being "friends" while waiting for him to figure out whether he really wanted to be with me, so we cut off contact. He started seeing someone else one month later, and now they are moving in together.
I have found a few more of his things over the past couple months, and I can't decide what the right thing to do in this situation is. I don't want to be the girl who trashes her ex's things, but I'm not sure if I could handle seeing him, knowing that he moved on so quickly. Any suggestions would be great!!
TL;DR: | Found ex's stuff while moving, he's moved on, I haven't quite, how do I/do I give the stuff back? |
SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU by peeing in a mall in front of everyone.
POST: Much like many other fuckups mine was not today but in fact a long time ago. When I was about seven my mom took me to the mall for some shopping. After a while we were growing pretty hungry so we proceeded to procure some food from one of the vendors in the mall cafeteria. Now, me being a small kid with an even smaller bladder needed to use the restroom after a longish excursion at the mall. Attempting to find the restrooms I looked around to no avail. Thus, I called upon the great wisdom of my mother as to where I could relieve myself. She, who's was distracted by something at the moment, pointed at the restrooms. However, from my vantage point, where she pointed was not towards a restroom, but instead a potted plant. Confused, I asked her if she was sure that was the restroom. She nodded her head and proceeded to carry on doing whatever she was doing. Now me, a obedient soldier, believed her every command, and so with complete faith in her directions I headed over to the plant..... And peed in it..... In front of about a hundred people who were also eating in said cafeteria. Now and only now was it that my mother discovered her mistake when she looked up and saw my golden streams breathing life upon the plant... After that we basically left the mall, my mother in shame, me in confusion, and didn't come back for a loooooooong time.
TL;DR: | As a little boy I peed in a potted plant in a mall cafiteria in front of about a hundred people.... |
SUBREDDIT: r/personalfinance
TITLE: I need some job advice on searching for a job and moving farther away.
POST: So I live in a very depressed area (the poorest city in the America last I checked). I make circa 30k/year which is amazing for here. I want to make closer to 40k+ a year. I have an AAS in computer technology, 2 cars, and a fiancé. I am in Pennsylvania at the moment, about an hour from philly. I want to live in a walkable area and get on first shift. I am willing to move pretty far to do so, I just have no clue where to start. This is a big jump for me - I never moved out of my parents house.
Any advice would be great, I need to get a job that supports both of us.
TL;DR: | looking for a 40k /year IT job not sure where to look, willing to move to ??? To get it. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I [18m] just found out that my girlfriend [17f] is taking diet pills. How do I approach this?
POST: I don't know how long she has been using them, but I know it is illegal for her to use them. We have been dating for about three months now so I know when shes hiding something from me. After a looooong conversation between us, about me trying to find out what she was hiding from me she finally confessed that she has been taking Diet pills.
She was was afraid that I would get mad at her if I knew, and I'm not. Just concerned. She is not fat or overweight (has a very tiny belly is all), but she has always had self esteem issues. I feel like I'm not being a good boyfriend, reinforcing her that she does in fact have a good body and that I do like it, ect ect.
Her parents are not giving her the pills, shes getting them from a friend. What can I do to make her stop taking them? I can't tell her parents, I know that much. Should I subtly try to just keep complementing her on her looks in hopes she stops thinking she needs them? Have a serious discussion about it? I'm not sure the best way to approach this.
TL;DR: | Girlfriend is taking diet pills when shes not fat/supposed to. How do I get her to stop? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I [18F] got in a bad fight with my dad [52M]- I don't know how to fix this?
POST: Earlier today, I got in a fight with my dad. I am in driving school, and he wanted me to drive to school today, as it's not that far away. I didn't want to drive today because I wanted to take the time in the car to pluck some facial hair; I genetically have very dark hair on my upper lip, and after being bullied about it when I was younger, I get extremely self conscious about it, and didn't want to go to school with there. My dad refused to take me if I didn't drive, and I started getting stubborn and refusing to drive, and it ended up with me not going to school. When we went back inside, he started throwing things around the house, and saying how I should have fun being a recluse and other kinda nasty things, while I was crying. We're both in separate areas now, and I'm at a loss about what I should do.
I know that I was being a bit unreasonable, but I feel like he wasn't listening to my concerns, and I got upset about that. I moved in with him a few months ago last year, and this is the first big fight I've ever had with him, or really anybody. I don't know how I should handle this. Has anybody here dealt with something like this before?
TL;DR: | My dad and I fought over stupid stuff this morning, and I don't know how to deal with it. Thoughts? |
SUBREDDIT: r/loseit
TITLE: Day 37.5, third time is a charm right?
POST: Ok so this is not Day 1, I only just discovered this amazing subreddit so this is my belated Day 1 post.
37 year old male starting at 264lbs - AGAIN!
This is my third time i've done this now. The first two times I went from 280lbs to 220lbs.
The first time was about 14 years ago, this was right on the heels of reading The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet: The Lifelong Solution to Yo-Yo Dieting. I followed that book and found a lot of success and lost 60lbs. The biggest discovery for me was that I'm an addict and I have to treat my weight problem as an addiction.
Now the second time, about 4 years ago I hit the same size, around 280lbs so I thought it was time to change. Enter My Fitness Pal, this is when I discovered how easy it was to count calroies. Following MFP, I got back down to 220. I stopped logging and slowly I gained back up to where I am today.
So in total i've lost 120lbs but yeah I feel pretty shitty for ruining all the previous hard work, like it was a waste. I'm not going to let that happen again.
My plan: Track using MFP for life, because even when I think i'm tracking in my head the addict side of me is BAD at keeping count. Longer term goals for me is to get back on my road bike and do a long distance ride. I've climbed Mt Baker on my bike and I really want to do it again.
Today i'm down 13lbs, i'm happy with how much i'm eating and i'm already starting to feel better.
TL;DR: | I'm like a food junkie and i'm hoping this is the last time i'll have to do a Day 1 post. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: I [F21] am having a hard time ending things with my partner [M21] of a year in a half whom I still truly love.
POST: We began as friends which turned into best friends quickly and then best friends with benefits even quicker. It's been a year and a half now of dating and we love each other but I'm just not sure it's right. We have trust issues and we've had talks about our relationship not lasting in the long run. That being said, I don't know why we continue on hurting each other when there's a chance that this could not last. Every time we talk about ending things, we fight, we make up and we ignore that it happened. I am trying to build the guts to tell him we should put an end to it but I do truly love him and it will be hard to let him go.
I am not looking for my future husband and I've never thought about my relationships in the long run before dating him. Am I being ridiculous because I am scared it just might not work out somewhere down the road? Should I just go with the flow and enjoy it while it lasts or should I end it with him? Any advice or similar stories would be incredibly appreciated.
TL;DR: | Don't know if and or how to end things with my bf of a year and a half whom I still love. |
SUBREDDIT: r/dating_advice
TITLE: How long should I wait to ask a girl out after first meeting her?
POST: First off, I am an 18 year old male and she is an 18 year old female. I think of myself more as a romantic than some other type of guy. I am very considerate and kind. She is the most kind girl I have ever met and she has a refreshingly amazing and intelligent personality. She is super shy around most people even though she has absolutely no reason to be. She is also extraordinarily beautiful.
Let me make this clear: **I WANT A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP, NOT JUST SEX**
So, I have known this girl in school for about a year, but we just recently started talking and we have a lot in common. My friends that know her have been encouraging me to ask her out. For some reason I feel emboldened right now and I want to ask her to dinner and a movie or something pretty low key. I don't know what would be a proper amount of time to wait (or not wait). I do believe that the feelings are mutual too.
Another thing is that my family is going on a trip over the holidays... should I ask her before I leave and give her time to think, or should I ask her after I get back? She likes scifi and stuff so I was thinking about asker her to see the Hobbit? Also would it be to early to give her a small Christmas present?
TL;DR: | I want to ask a girl out, but I don't know how long to wait after first talking to her... |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: So 2 weeks ago I just found out my wife has not love me in about a year...
POST: I am a 34m and my wife is 27f. We have 2 kids, 7 and 5.
I got home from work on a saturday. She was acting distant and said
she had to run out and get some things. Weather got bad and I tried
to call her several times to make sure she was ok. When she finally
answered she said she had bene sitting in the garage for a while.
I went out to talk to her and they is when she told me she has not been in love with me for about a year. I had no idea about any of this. We talked all night and the next moring she also to me that she cheated on my multiple time with the same guy over about a years time. We did have a bad spot in our relationship for about 3 months around that time.
She has apparently been done with me for a while so she is very calm and cold about the situation. I am struggling to deal with all of this being dropped on me at once while I also take care of both kids by myself. She is staying with some friends so I am the one at home tryint to answer all the questions and trying to keep it together for my kids.
As stupid as it makes me feel I still love this girl with all my heart. Eventhough she does not deserve the feelings I have for her.
How am I supposed to move on from this. I went from perfectly happy to a single dad in a week. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
TL;DR: | Wife has not love me for a year and also cheated on me. I had no idea any of this was coming. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [18m] with my first girlfriend [20f] of 1.5 years. I have no friends, i want to change that, how do i go about this that ? (Details Inside)
POST: Hi, so truthfully i have no idea what i'm doing and or how to do it. If what i say makes no sense or is just really silly, please call me out on it!
So this is how i see it;
Currently, i have no friends. I recently got a new job and would like to try to make "friends" outside of work. The issue i suppose i have is that i would like to keep friends as my friends, and sort of a group of people i can go to for support or comfort if i have issues with my gf.
I feel like i need my own friends , not necessarily "OUR" friends, if you get what i mean?
I'd like to go out and socialise with them on my own, (not all the time obviously, i'm not going to just ditch my gf just because...)I'm just afraid that my girlfriend will take this as a bad thing and (maybe rightfully so) how do i word it/approach this kind of situation to her.
She doesn't really socialise outside of work, so she'll probably want to come along with me or be annoyed that i want to spend time with people other than her (both males and females), but that's just not what I want right now. Am i being crazy?
Please offer any advice you can! I can't really go to anybody else with this!
TL;DR: | I want friends that are my friends and not "OUR" friends. I also don't want to hurt my gf. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationship_advice
TITLE: I [M25] with gf [f25] are getting tested for the first time. It's been many years since our last tests. If I test positive, how do I approach her with it while preserving our sex life?
POST: So my gf and I have been together a couple of months and have a very active sex life together. We've been using condoms since the beginning, but she plans on starting the pill soon, which means we might do away with the condoms for now.
We both agreed to get tested before doing so. She is just out of an 8 year monogomous relationship and isn't too worried about herself. I have been more of an active agent; I havent gotten tested since I was about 18.
I don't believe I have any STDs (everything looks alright down there), but of course that a very stupid assumption to make. So, assuming I do end up positive with something, how do I talk to her about it without disgusting her?
Also, are there any STDs I could've given her even when wearing a condom? I eat her out often / she blows me often as well. Additionally, I get what could be cold sores on my face, though I'm not educated enough to tell if they are not pimples / ingrown hairs.
TL;DR: | Getting tested for STDs, not sure how to talk to GF if I end up having one and preserving our sex l |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Bf doesn't understand I need space. Advice?
POST: My bf (23) and I (23) have been together for 2 years. He has always been pretty insecure and I know for sure that he feels like he doesn't deserve me eventhough I always tell him I love him, how perfect he is for me, and that I want him by my side for the rest of my life. He got issues, like everybody, but he only focuses on his dark side. He doesn't love himself.
A few days ago we had a fight (his insecurity was the reason) and I told him I need some space and time to think. And that I think he could take this time for his own good, working on his insecurities and that he maybe needs professional help. He doesn't understand this. He's telling me I don't love him beacuse I'm leaving him on his own, that I'm only thinking about myself. He won't respect me and now I feel I don't want to be with him because he isn't letting me breathe. I need air. This is not the first time we fight for something like this. At the begginning, I tried to help him. But now i've realized he is the only one that can help him.
Please, how do I make him understand I need time and space? I asked for three weeks.
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TL;DR: | I need time away from my bf and his insecurities. He doesn't understand. What should I do? |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: What's your funniest or best story from online gaming?
POST: I realized from another thread that people must have some great stories from playing video games online with other people, I know that I have some pretty amusing ones (well to me they are, at least).
One time I was playing Halo 3 online with a bunch of friends. Some of my friends liked to talk a ton of shit, so I would usually let them use the mic. One time, there was this kid on the other team in social slayer with the name "sportsboy(insert random numbers here)". In the lobby before the game, my friend was trying to get him riled up so he said something along the lines of "Sports boy? More like GAY boy!" And we thought that was the end of it, but since it was social slayer, we could hear the kid's mic when he got close to us during the game. At one point we hear a man yelling "IF YOU CALL MY BOY GAY AGAIN I'M GOING TO FIND YOU AND HANG YOU FROM THE TALLEST TREE ON OUR FARM BY YOUR NUTS." It took a solid 5 minutes for us all to stop laughing, and I'm pretty sure we ended up losing because of that.
TL;DR: | tried to get a kid riled up on Halo 3, got threatened by his dad to get hung by our nuts by a tree. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: My husband [29M] admitted to cheating on me [23F] with a coworker
POST: I am completely blindsided by this, we've barely been married a year and I thought things were going great.
He came to me and told me, I had no idea, and he swears it was a one time thing. (This was confirmed by the coworker [20ish F], I reached out to her privately.) I feel the trust is completely shattered between us.
We had an "open" relationship deal set in place because he has some tastes [M] that I can't really fulfill, but with the limitation that he tell me beforehand. I came home a few months ago to a surprise in my bed, we had it out, and he promised it wouldn't happen again. (There was some disagreement about our original agreement-- I may have been incorrect in the "telling before", no one could really remember, including me.) This agreement NEVER included women.
Anyway-- he seems remorseful, but keeps blaming my busy schedule, saying he needs more sex than I give. I work 60-70 hours a week so that he can finish his degree. (He is currently working 30 hours a week as an intern.) I don't know how to get through to him that I feel like our life is completely normal. We have sex about once a week, which is when our schedules match up. He doesn't understand I have no desire to work around the clock, and I literally do it for him.
TL;DR: | Husband came to me and blindsided me with a one-time affair; blames it on my busy work schedule. |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: How do I (20M) break up with a girl (19F) that I just got back together with?
POST: So me and my SO had been dating for about 2.5 years. We got together in high school, and as things go people change and we grew apart so I ended it.
A couple weeks later I was feeling lonely and depressed and I caved and got back together with her. Now it's been about a month since we got back together and I'm starting to feel the same way I did before the breakup. I know I must seem like a dick, and I feel like one, but I feel it would be for the best to end it. I just don't really know how, help?
TL;DR: | Broke up with SO of 2.5 years. Got back together. Regretting it a month later, what do? |
SUBREDDIT: r/personalfinance
TITLE: Buying a home. Everything is coming together well except student loans.
POST: I've been out of school for about 2 years now and am looking to buy my first home. I've saved up $35k for a downstroke on a $160k house. I make about $60k+OT so I don't think I'm in over my head.... Except student loans.
I borrowed $50k for school (not terrible IMO), but about $15k of that is a private loan at 11% because I had no other option at the time. My payment is over $700 which seems completely unreasonable to me since other people with similar debt pay 1/2 to 1/3 of what I do.
I don't know the first thing about how to go about refinancing education debt, and all the lenders I've checked out, seem to only offer buying out your loan without helping out on the interest rate more than a fraction of a perfect.
TL;DR: | $60k student loan is almost as much as a $160k mortgage. What can I do to fix this?? |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskDocs
TITLE: I'm a 20 something with extreme nosepicking issues, and it's making me
POST: I know nose-picking is more of a problem related to children, but for me its gotten out of hand.
I just can't stop
And it's not like I can get over it or "use a tissue" - my mucus gets extremely dry, so blowing my nose actually does absolutely nothing. This is particularly frustrating when I am in an office or meeting etc. and I'm on the brink of losing it because of the discomfort it causes in my nose. This issue has been going on for as long as I can remember myself.
I have been to a doctor, x-ray'd my face and sinuses, got told that I have a *slightly* deviated septum. My ORL told me it's not a big deal and *should* not be a cause.
Was prescribed saline to wash my nose, but it does literally nothing in the long run because during the day it still dries out. This is making me feel like I have to carry my own bottle of saline and do nasal irrigation while at work.
I want to know if there is any tried and true method to end this, stop my mucus from being dry all the time. Should I consider doing surgery for my deviated septum? (Can provide photo of x-ray if needed)
It's been bugging me my whole life but now it's going to start affecting me in a more serious manner.
TL;DR: | I nose-pick a lot, mucus dry so blowing it doesn't help, my doctor's advice didn't help. What do? |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: My fiancée (24F) has no bridesmaids and it's making her so upset she wants to call off the wedding. How can I (25M) help?
POST: My fiancée and I are recently engaged and have been together since we were 18. She's not the bridezilla type but she has imagined a nice wedding.
She's not very social and has no sisters/female cousins, and as a result she has no bridesmaids. Zero. I on the other hand have a solid group of guys to be groomsmen and they're already talking bachelor party.
My fiancée won't have a bridal shower or bachelorette party, or anyone to go dress shopping with, etc. it's really bringing her down and she won't even talk about weddings. Once she said between sniffles "can't we just sign a paper at a courthouse?" But I know neither of us really want that.
I have suggested having my sisters and cousins as bridesmaids, but they don't really know her well and likely wouldn't want to. How can I help her?
TL;DR: | My fiancée has no one to ask to be bridesmaids and it's making her very upset. I want to help. |
SUBREDDIT: r/askwomenadvice
TITLE: I (22M) asked a girl (~22) on a date. Turns out she's already going to the same event with her friends and she's said I'm welcome to come along too, or suggested I come along too. Which do I choose?
POST: Asked a girl out and it turns out she's already going to the same event with her friends (approximately 5 other girls).
As a bit of background, I know three of these girls pretty wel. They used to live with my best friend in his freshman year of college, so we used to go out together a lot; but I don't know them well enough to have ever met up with them without this friend being present. The other girls, including the one I've asked out (first date) I've barely spoken to.
So when I asked her out she said I was welcome to come along with her and her house, or gave me another date to reschedule.
Would this be a bit awkward for a first date? Is she only asking if I want to come along to be polite and would me actually accepting the offer be an intrusion on their house evening out?
TL;DR: | first "date" (if you can call it that) with a girl with all her friends present or reschedule? |
SUBREDDIT: r/books
TITLE: Just finished "This Side of Paradise."
POST: I have read "The Great Gatsby" three times now and each time I felt like my age and personal experiences made it better and better so I wanted to finally try some of his other work, so I figured why not try his first. I gotta say that was some book. It's short but it switches it's tone so many times and the way he writes just seems so reckless but in a good way!
I don't even know how to describe it right now, I am still digesting it all but just had to share this with someone, or someone(s), who might have read it and up where I live that is very hard to find. At times it made me wish I could live in that time at Princeton or any of the Ivy League schools but then other times it made me so happy to be in today's world without all of Amory's issues even if they are self-inflicted.
TL;DR: | Liked "Gatsby", read "This Side of Paradise", having lots of feels that I had to write to someone |
SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [27 M] with my girlfriend [24 M/F] 18 month relationship, How can I break up with her when nothing is going wrong?
POST: I have been dating a girl for 18 months and I know that it is time to move on. I know myself well enough to realize that that we are not fully compatible. All of our conversations have become stale and repetitive along with all of our time spent together.
The problem here is that she adores me. I don't want to hurt her too badly most of all. Her family lives in Alaska and we live in Atlanta (not together) where she has a couple of friends but no one really close.
I think about breaking up all the time, even when we are together but it doesn't stop me from acting like nothing is wrong. This break-up is going to be coming out of nowhere for her, so I really need advice on how to go about this.
TL;DR: | I need to break up with my girlfriend who is still in love with me in a way that won't destroy her. |
SUBREDDIT: r/jobs
TITLE: Working in retail as an "in between"-- sort of OK idea or horrible idea?
POST: Hello again-- it has been a while, but still no job to be had by me.
I am, as I might've stated in some other post, sometime, a Masters degree Chemist. I'm applying to both jobs (available immediately) and graduate school (which will start next Fall).
**Do you, Jobbit, in your professional opinion,** think that applying to and working in retail (Kohls, Borders, someplace like that) for the holiday season would be detrimental to my resume?
I have been unemployed since graduation in August, and have avoided said retail employment because it was "out of my field". But student loans are coming, and I feel I should start saving (as well as saving for a down payment on an apartment and other living expenses).
TL;DR: | is out-of-field work better than no work at all? AND THEN should I put it on my resume? |
SUBREDDIT: r/AskReddit
TITLE: How long did it take for you/your peers to realize that you/they are not special?
POST: For me it was when I broke both ulna and radius in both arms, my freshman year of high school, the last Sunday of spring break.
It had happened while I was trespassing, trying to see if I could get a pitching machine over a 15 foot fence before they tore the batting cage down.
I broke my arms atop the fence, and fell, having to climb to the other side with two broken arms. (Not compound fractures, but obviously still plenty of pain)
I thought it would end up a badass story to tell, but when I went to the ER and had the X rays done, nurses gathered around to laugh and take pictures of the X ray of the kid with two broken arms.
Already upset, that night I got hungry and tried to get myself a midnight snack. I couldn't open the fucking fridge.
The next day at school, I received everything but pity or compassion. I had been on the baseball team. I was cool. But kids are fucking relentless. Nobody signed my casts.
Since then, I largely kept to myself. I had quit the baseball team, and spent more time with my real friends. I now know I'm not special, but I do my best to make other people feel that they belong. Belonging is the closest thing to special there is.
TL;DR: | Broke both my arms, nurses were dicks, peers were dicks, felt pathetic, now I'm an adult. |
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