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OtherI need a new car as my old ones is over 35 years old and on it's last legs. I also decided to get an upper end luxury car which was a huge upgrade from my old but reliable Volvo since I figured I'd earned it and I could pay for it outright. I took my boyfriend with me to the dealership as you do as a couple. A salesman approached us and the entire time, from the start to finish, kept talking...
OtherMy family and I moved into a new home this spring. We had previously lived in apartments and we now have our first yard for our kids to play in. The neighborhood we moved into has a lot of mature trees, and this being the first time I've had to do my own yard work, there has been a learning curve. One of my neighbor's yard is separated from ours by a chain link fence. There is a large tree just...
OtherI (m41) am married to my wife (f37). I have two kids from my previous marriage, (b15) (g13). I am Jewish, as was my first wife before she pa*sed. My current wife is not. We have no kids together. My kids have always got along with their stepmom and her family fairly well, until recently. Thanksgiving with my wife’s family is a huge affair, and it’s the only chance a lot of the family has to...
WorkSo I’m a nursing student and we’re doing pulses and blood pressures in a test off setting. We are matched with other students to do our pulse and blood pressure we only have one try and if we fail we get kicked out of the program. So I get matched with this girl I’ll call Patty. Patty is at least 350 pounds and her arms are as wide as watermelons. So I had to do her pulse well if you don’t ...
BoundariesMy wife and I have been married for 6 years, like any married couple, we share everything, EVERYTHING. however, me being naturally a private person I just don't like it when someone invades my private space..the bathroom for instance. Let me just say that I take my time when answering nature's call. I just go in with my phone and do my thing. Recently, my wife started barging in randomly for no...
RelationshipMy 40th birthday is this Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday. All I wanted was a quiet, romantic weekend with my husband (I'm an event planner so I like to plan things in advance). I told him weeks ago that I wanted us to go away. He initially seemed on board, but then the Super Bowl came up. He's a HUGE football fan. He watches every game, every year. For his birthday a couple of years ago, I even surp...
OtherMy son Ben came out as bis*xual a couple years ago. Most of our family accepted him. Although I know he disliked some of our actions when he came out (we are still in contact with familiars or friends that didn’t accept him), we tried to be as supportive as we could. A bit after he came out he introduced us to his boyfriend. He was a really sweet guy and clearly loved our son. About a year ...
OtherI (36M) and my wife moved to our area seven years ago for my wife to pursue a job opportunity where the population happened to be exclusively white. In the last couple years or so, we've had an increase in the non-white population, including the first Muslim students I've had since before moving here--I grew up in an ethnically diverse area, so not being surrounded by multicultural people and rest...
RelationshipIt was my boyfriend’s 36th birthday yesterday and I ended up crying like 5 times over the events that transpired. He loves the show Nailed It and I thought it would be cute and fun to plan him “his own episode” with two cake challenges for just the two of us at home since we couldn’t go anywhere due to current circumstances. I put like 60 hours of planning into this day. I handmade umbrellas...
Family ConflictI (16M) have an older brother (20M). 2 years ago, before going to college, he came out to our parents as gay, which made our dad to disown him and cut all contact with him. He tried to force our mom to cut contact with him as well, but she refused, which lead to a huge argument between them. After a couple of months of almost daily fights, our parents eventually decided to divorce. Soon after,...
RelationshipI'm a working (sole income earner for the time being) of 2. My husband has been struggling to find a job for 16 months, and so I've been solely paying for everything. As you know it's summer time, and the kids want to go to the beach every weekend but I'm busy working often times and my husband won't bother take them unless he uses my car, which is a no from me because I need it for work. A...
RelationshipI(18F) have a boyfriend (18M) who almost broke up with me for painting my nails white. Well, he actually did break up with me but came by a day later begging for me back so we’re back together now. I’m curious to know what people think of the situation I’m about to describe. So, for context, my boyfriend is very serious about what I wear and how I present myself. He doesn’t like when I wear an...