WorkI'm getting ready to wrap up my 5-year PhD in STEM, and I'm moving on to bigger and better things in the world of medical research. Som**hing you need to know about STEM folks is that we tend to be caffeine addicts. Coffee, tea, energy drinks, the works. However, for about the first 3 years of my program, I was the only coffee drinker on my team. Everyone else drank tea or soda. I'm a coffee a...
Family ConflictMy stepmom was diagnosed with cancer a few months ago. She's really sick and her and my dad are struggling to keep everything going. They've got four kids together 8 and younger and then there's me (17m). I don't have a good relationship with them. I did until I was 6. Then things went badly. So my mom d*ed when I was only a baby, my dad and stepmom met when I was 2. I really loved her and ...
OtherWorking out is a pillar of my everyday life, and it has been for the past ten years, and I'm at the gym every day of the week. I go to train and go home. Many folks want to record their exercises to post on social media. This is their business and not mine, they can do whatever they want, but I also don't think I need to stop doing my own work-out to accommodate them. Last night, I was doing...
Family ConflictI (29M) just proposed to my girlfriend (27F) of four years. She doesn’t really like jewelry as a whole, and has said she doesn’t like diamonds. I was really struggling to find a ring that I thought she’d like enough to wear. My mother pulled me aside and offered me one. She had a beautiful Sapphire ring that’s been in my family for any years, and Sapphire happens to be my fiancés birthday ston...
OtherAlmost every Friday, my friends and I would go out to eat or grab a drink. I’ve known Jenny since high school, and I never liked her. She used to never bring lunch and expected everyone to share their food with her. I always told her no because I wasn’t going to go hungry for her sake. If it had been a real need, I wouldn’t have minded, but she would always say things like, “I didn’t bring ...
OtherGrowing up, my sister (26) and I (23 F), were not that close. She was my parent's favorite daughter. I have always been a little overweight, I had PCOS, my sister was slim and fit. I always held that resentment towards her, especially when she belittled me with my mom. Not letting me eat more than one serving of dinner or more than one serving of dessert. Telling me that sleeping in was making...
RelationshipI (28f) have been married to my husband for 4 years and consider him my family. We will never have kids. I have recently started a new job. We've been really busy so I worked many hours of overtime. A few weeks ago my boss asked me whether I had family. I said yes and he didn't ask for more details. Last Friday he kept calling some of my colleagues into his office. Then he called me. I went ...
OtherMy sister and her wife can't have kids together for obvious reasons, so they asked me to be a "known s**rm doner". They first brought it up to me years prior jokingly before I was deployed as she lovingly said "just in case I don't make it back" but like most of the time when my sister has a big ask to make, she just asks and expects an answer right away. For multiple reasons I said no the big...
OtherI met my girlfriend when we were 11. We were on the same basketball team so I met her family at the games. Her sister “Sammi” was 8 back then and I guess her family used to like teasing that she has a little crush on me and she’d get all shy whenever I hung out with them. They made jokes about me being her “little boyfriend.” Then we got together when we were 13. So the whole Sammi crushing...
Family ConflictI am a 14-year-old female with Asperger's, Anxiety, and insomnia. I recently found out my mom has been recording conversations and then sharing them on her Snapchat for her friends' entertainment. She has been adding text that says things along the lines of “The struggles of a mentally disabled child” or “Don’t you love aspergers?”. I find this annoying and asked her to stop recording me witho...
RelationshipI (28F) took my husband (31M) out to dinner for his birthday last weekend. I reserved a table at a nice steakhouse he loves and invited a few close friends and family, nothing huge, just 10 people. I paid for everything myself. At dinner, I stood up to give a short toast about how proud I was of him for hitting a milestone at work. I barely got two sentences in before he cuts me off and say...
OtherSo I’ve got a ma*sive family, one of 6 siblings. My youngest brother got married last year and his wife is now pr****nt with their first baby. She was planning on having a big baby shower sometime over the summer and wanted me to be in charge of baked goods (cake, cupcakes, etc). I’m a big baking hobbyist and I make a lot of very extravagant cakes for family/friends. This has always been a thin...