ngl I'm wondering why she came onto Reddit seeking advice when it's clear she already has her mind made up, getting defensive af/aggro when anyone (reasonably) questions some aspects of the relationship.
If this bothers her so much, she needs to talk to her husband about it. If she doesn't feel able to talk to her husband about it, she needs to ask herself why lol
Dr. Spock said he was wrong: “The science and statistics behind spanking suggest that laws allowing corporal punishment are in the best interests of the child” which cites part of the quote: In the 20th century parents have been persuaded that the only people who know for sure how children should be managed are the child psychiatrists, psychologists, teachers, social workers and pediatricians—like myself. This is a cruel deprivation that we professionals have imposed on mothers and fathers. . . . We didn’t realize, until it was too late, how our know-it-all attitude was undermining the self-assurance of parents.
LOL his name isnt actually Caleb ? he’s truly a really good guy and a good friend to my brother and i. but yes i SO SO regret ever hooking up with him. i was just drunk and in my rebellious “nothing matters, fuck everything” single phase. but as it turns out, things DO matter and stupid actions have consequences
The problem is you may not be the only one able to access this, we all use software on our phones, however we don’t always know what information they have access to and so if your phone falls victim to an an exploitation attack, and your data containing such photos is extracted and placed live. Then the issue arises, so really by placing a blanket law in which it is illegal for both you holding your very hot data or having someone’s nude data, this overall inhibits the problem from arising as much as possible. Although, it will become more interesting subject when someone will develop an Porn artificial intelligence that will be able to recreate such disturbing photos, yet at the same time those possibly children it will be fictional, however in the end no kind of images is acceptable.
Call her bluff. She wants to break up with you if you wont show her these bank statements, tell her ok. This seems like a relatively new relationship you're in, see each others financials for any reason is too much too soon. Her reason for wanting to see them is even dumber than any legitimate reason.
He sounds like a jerk I'm sorry. If my man starts jerking off next to me because my sleepy self doesn't respond to his fondling I just half smile to myself and think, alright you have fun, and go back to sleep haha
You need to sit down and talk with him about it. He most likely doesnt know. Say it makes you feel dismissed. But you NEED to tell him HOW you want to be comforted instead. People need different kinds of comforting and its hard to know what to do without knowing how to actually make your partner feel better
So my partner and I have a ten year age gap. However, this only works for me because I’ve had age gap relationships before and I know what to look out for. Make sure he treats you like an adult, but not like an adult with his experience (as in getting mad or belittling you for not knowing something he knows). Make sure he doesn’t pull the age card or the experience card when making decisions. Also, make sure to be financially independent, ready to walk away at the first sign of any abusive behaviors, and make sure you know that you and him are at totally different stages of life. He might be ready to settle down in the suburbs, while you are still trying to be free and online your life. Don’t commit to early and be safe.
It really depends does she say things that hurt tour feelings. If not let it pass as a joke, if not you need to talk to her about it. Her reaction will tell you if she respects you or not.
Great feedback. Therapy is the answer for this, since OP can’t fix this on their own. OP needs to decide to either go through life a mental wreck, or commit to resolving these issues in therapy.
If you’ll do better at your moms, then move back to your moms. If the relationship is making your mental health worse rather than better, then you should end the relationship too, and work on yourself. Sometimes love just isn’t enough.
He may do that whether you involve yourself with him again anyway.
He will also learn that threatening suicide work when it comes to manipulating you. Whether that’s keeping you from leaving or even just winning minor disagreements. Maybe not even threatening to harm himself, but threatening to harm you or others.
He needs major mental health care no matter what you do. Including in-patient treatment and years of therapy.
You need to do what is best for your own safety and health and that is to separate yourself from him completely.
She engaged with the temptation instead of turning away from it right away. She wanted to go to the room and if that guy left with her she would have. The sad part is she talked about her husband with that guy.
If you don't leave and cut him out completely and I mean full NC, this will absolutely be your life. They will not stop sleeping around on you or the child's mother, and he will bring you nothing but tears and heart ache. Keeping this relationship in any way will only show him that this is not a boundarie for you and that you will only be angry for a bit then get over it. Please choose yourself.
When I was in nursing school, many of my colleagues would express anxiety and fear, “What if I can't do this? What if I'm bad at it?” I would always say “Think of the worst experiences you have had with nurses. Can you do better than that? How can you not do better than that?” And it would make ppl feel better bc with minimal effort, you will not be awful at nursing. And there are so many truly awful nurses out here, it's pretty easy to not be one of them.
Tell her it makes you feel like she's not listening and that hurts, so in anytime you feel a pause coming on, you are going to (gently and lovingly- not irritated) hold up your pointer finger so she knows to wait. It will be funny/weird and awkward at first, but it might help her retrain how she communicates.
I have ADHD and used to cut people off all the time because my thoughts were coming faster than they'd speak. It's rude and ADHD is no excuse, so I had to really, really work on it. I still do it occasionally and always catch myself & apologize.
My guess is it isn't about your pause at all but your wife has some faster thoughts than you and maybe is stressed. Try the hand gesture. See if it helps cue her to keep listening.
You know he will. He's definitely pathetic enough to pull a stunt like that.
But rest assured that his mum will be giving him another stern talking to if she was to find out.
My hope is that OP keeps in contact with her soon to be ex MIL so her she can prevent her son from continuing his shenanigans like accusing OP of adultery or refusing to pay child support.
It's not irrational. I completely understand feeling overwhelmed by the pressure of someone needing constant contact. I'm really busy and as an introvert, texting back can feel like another job. BUT if someone I love needs me about something important, I'm on it. I'll even call them ha. Seriously it shows someone's priorities if you're ignored so much. Sounds like she's not really as good a friend as you think ❤️ sorry
No, it doesn't. He's bullshitting you straight to your face. Android (which a google pixel is) doesn't send notifications for apps that aren't installed and, well, Tinder sure af isn't a preinstalled piece of bloatware sotware. He's using the app and lying directly to your face about it. He's bombarded with them bc he's a suss af bastard
This boils down to two questions and I'm going to be crass and blunt.
Do you intend to have children? Because if so, and you marry her, your children will be sexually abused by her father. There is nothing you can do to stop it if he isn't in prison. If she'll throw her sisters under a bus for material gain, she'll throw her daughter under her father for material gain. If you marry her without having a vasectomy, you are complicit in your future children's sexual abuse.
Do you want to be married to a bad person? Because she's a bad person. She has turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse of her sisters for material gain, and she pretends to be a also be a victim as a way to get attention. There's no sugar coating that. Unless she gets some intense therapy and spends some time in self examination, I don't see a lot of hope for her ever being a good person.
Again, she thinks it is fine for her pedo dad to rape little girls as long as she gets material gain from it. Do you really want to marry that kind of cruel and depraved person?
I’ve tried to reach out to literally every rescue or shelter in my state and they won’t adopt to apartments. Yes I understand you want to generalize all young people but I’m simply not like that. I don’t like going out at night and not coming back I like going for hikes and walks even in the rain I mean I live in one of the rainiest states so you get used to it quickly. I’m sorry you’ve had bad experiences but that doesn’t mean everyone is like that.
Jesus don’t fuck people you work with and don’t fuck people who have relationships. Your a grown ass man and your acting like a kid. Probably why your fucking around like a 23 year old
They’re just thoughts. The mind likes to play tricks and spin all kinds of stories in your head when you’re not occupied by anything. It’s called inner dialogue, google it. I used to do the exact same thing. After some serious soul searching I realized I did it because I was insecure about my relationship, too afraid to get hurt.
You don’t need medication or a shrink to handle these kind of thoughts. It’s stupid advice. You’re not a mental patient who needs 20 therapy sessions and a bottle of tranquilizers.
It is a normal thing to be wary of your girlfriend cheating. Everybody who’s in a relationship has this fear. Did she ever did something that in the tiniest slightest way justifies those thoughts? If not, put it to bed. The next time those thoughts pop up just recognize it as inner dialogue.
Hmm.. It's hard to really give you advice on whether your feelings are irrational or not without clear examples. If something specific she's doing bothers you I think you should discuss it with her though.
I think he Can be civil by ignoring her attempts to discuss, responding or even speaking about it to her and essentially ignoring any mention of it. How drunk was she? Are her flat mates guys? Does she have girlfriends? Beware girls that have all guy friends with maybe some rare exceptions.
I just dont understand why she would do this and even talk to her cousin to say she had sex and felt nothing and pretended but to continue to do it. Why would she breakup her family and marriage for that?? She was also saying things like tomorrow is round two and im thinking of my plan, ill tell him he is obssessed and he is narcissit. Like its a game or something when its her dayghter, her life, her marriage, future etc?
While it’s true that his problem is the abuser but he would benefit from therapy both internal with how he deals with it but also giving him direction on how to handle scenarios with his abuser. Instead of random people on Reddit, it would be an actual therapist giving him advice.
Mate, what on earth were you apologising for? Having consensual sex with other people before you even met her? That's ludicrous.
And for her to enact a Greek tragedy over it like that…. its sweet that you care about her enough to want to comfort her, but this is your sign to run. She has issues that she needs to deal with herself, you're not so enmeshed that you need to make it your problem.
Play this out further – what are YOUR values? Are you ok with all of the other fundamentalist views she is going to bring with her? Do you have gay friends she is going to condemn? Any single parents or divorcees in your social circle that she's not going to want to associate with? If she is this far down the rabbit hole on this issue, she's going to be hardline on all of them. And I don't get the sense that you are equally bigoted and intolerant.
She's into you. Call it a crush or whatever. She wants to engage in sexual contact with you. Make sure you speak to her girlfriend and ask if this is with her consent if you are wanting to try it out. If you don't, tell your friend that you appreciate her interest but want it to stop. If she stops, great. If not, cut her out of your life.
I don't think the, don't try to date coworkers, here is really an issue considering it's only a casual job in retail. However I do agree with the latter about intellectually I know a romance could ever be equitable, it's just hot to convince my emotions of that when I feel so happy around her. Thank you for your advice though it's good to hear it put straight like that.
Yes, it is, I’m just saying I haven’t forgiven it in the past, as I wasn’t aware. All I’m trying to say is that I haven’t forgiven the behaviour to have him repeat the cycle. Not that this changed the fact that he did it, just that it wasn’t me forgiving and then him doing it again if that makes sense. The therapist also believes it’s an escalation of behaviour, but she is hopeful that if he addresses the underlying reason for the behaviour, then this would be less likely to happen in the future. Again, not sure I want to stick around for that, but just looking for others’ perspectives on it.
Only you can decide which, if any of these, are dealbreakers for you. None of them are insurmountable so long as you can come up with a solution together that you can both live with.
I mean if he compared dicks with his buddy she would probably also have some questions.
Calling it cheating is going overboard tho. But it can be seen as a small betrayal of trust and boundaries.
I mean if he compared dicks with his buddy she would probably also have some questions.
Calling it cheating is going overboard tho. But it can be seen as a small betrayal of trust and boundaries.
Thank you ❣️
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ngl I'm wondering why she came onto Reddit seeking advice when it's clear she already has her mind made up, getting defensive af/aggro when anyone (reasonably) questions some aspects of the relationship.
If this bothers her so much, she needs to talk to her husband about it. If she doesn't feel able to talk to her husband about it, she needs to ask herself why lol
Dr. Spock said he was wrong: “The science and statistics behind spanking suggest that laws allowing corporal punishment are in the best interests of the child” which cites part of the quote: In the 20th century parents have been persuaded that the only people who know for sure how children should be managed are the child psychiatrists, psychologists, teachers, social workers and pediatricians—like myself. This is a cruel deprivation that we professionals have imposed on mothers and fathers. . . . We didn’t realize, until it was too late, how our know-it-all attitude was undermining the self-assurance of parents.
You know… I think you can just wash it down with the shower and it’s fine..
I think your wife overreacted but her being upset is reasonable
Pmsl. That “poor woman” who screamed at a child for talking about her dead mother.
Yes, she's the fucking victim here.
I'm glad she's out the picture.
LOL his name isnt actually Caleb ? he’s truly a really good guy and a good friend to my brother and i. but yes i SO SO regret ever hooking up with him. i was just drunk and in my rebellious “nothing matters, fuck everything” single phase. but as it turns out, things DO matter and stupid actions have consequences
The problem is you may not be the only one able to access this, we all use software on our phones, however we don’t always know what information they have access to and so if your phone falls victim to an an exploitation attack, and your data containing such photos is extracted and placed live. Then the issue arises, so really by placing a blanket law in which it is illegal for both you holding your very hot data or having someone’s nude data, this overall inhibits the problem from arising as much as possible. Although, it will become more interesting subject when someone will develop an Porn artificial intelligence that will be able to recreate such disturbing photos, yet at the same time those possibly children it will be fictional, however in the end no kind of images is acceptable.
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Do not see him again.
Don't send her the statements! You don't owe her any evidence as it happened before you were together. This is not healthy behaviour.
Call her bluff. She wants to break up with you if you wont show her these bank statements, tell her ok. This seems like a relatively new relationship you're in, see each others financials for any reason is too much too soon. Her reason for wanting to see them is even dumber than any legitimate reason.
He sounds like a jerk I'm sorry. If my man starts jerking off next to me because my sleepy self doesn't respond to his fondling I just half smile to myself and think, alright you have fun, and go back to sleep haha
You need to sit down and talk with him about it. He most likely doesnt know. Say it makes you feel dismissed. But you NEED to tell him HOW you want to be comforted instead. People need different kinds of comforting and its hard to know what to do without knowing how to actually make your partner feel better
So my partner and I have a ten year age gap. However, this only works for me because I’ve had age gap relationships before and I know what to look out for. Make sure he treats you like an adult, but not like an adult with his experience (as in getting mad or belittling you for not knowing something he knows). Make sure he doesn’t pull the age card or the experience card when making decisions. Also, make sure to be financially independent, ready to walk away at the first sign of any abusive behaviors, and make sure you know that you and him are at totally different stages of life. He might be ready to settle down in the suburbs, while you are still trying to be free and online your life. Don’t commit to early and be safe.
It really depends does she say things that hurt tour feelings. If not let it pass as a joke, if not you need to talk to her about it. Her reaction will tell you if she respects you or not.
Buy toilet paper which dissolves
Great feedback. Therapy is the answer for this, since OP can’t fix this on their own. OP needs to decide to either go through life a mental wreck, or commit to resolving these issues in therapy.
If you’ll do better at your moms, then move back to your moms. If the relationship is making your mental health worse rather than better, then you should end the relationship too, and work on yourself. Sometimes love just isn’t enough.
He may do that whether you involve yourself with him again anyway.
He will also learn that threatening suicide work when it comes to manipulating you. Whether that’s keeping you from leaving or even just winning minor disagreements. Maybe not even threatening to harm himself, but threatening to harm you or others.
He needs major mental health care no matter what you do. Including in-patient treatment and years of therapy.
You need to do what is best for your own safety and health and that is to separate yourself from him completely.
Uh bro, get the fuck out of there? Date in your own range you’re a victim lmao
Plz help a gal out lol
She engaged with the temptation instead of turning away from it right away. She wanted to go to the room and if that guy left with her she would have. The sad part is she talked about her husband with that guy.
Then welcome to the rest of your life.
If you don't leave and cut him out completely and I mean full NC, this will absolutely be your life. They will not stop sleeping around on you or the child's mother, and he will bring you nothing but tears and heart ache. Keeping this relationship in any way will only show him that this is not a boundarie for you and that you will only be angry for a bit then get over it. Please choose yourself.
I know I know, the whole never ask someone out while they're working
Not sure who even camp up with this crazy advice. As if the best place to ask people out is Tinder.
Really just super lost here any advice?
Homie, this is like asking for advice with homework before even enrolling in school. You haven't made any effort to even ask the girl out.
I know you said your family is in another country – is that’s accessible for you? Is moving in with family an option?
When I was in nursing school, many of my colleagues would express anxiety and fear, “What if I can't do this? What if I'm bad at it?” I would always say “Think of the worst experiences you have had with nurses. Can you do better than that? How can you not do better than that?” And it would make ppl feel better bc with minimal effort, you will not be awful at nursing. And there are so many truly awful nurses out here, it's pretty easy to not be one of them.
She would have straight up got a knuckle sandwich doing that shit lmao
Tell her it makes you feel like she's not listening and that hurts, so in anytime you feel a pause coming on, you are going to (gently and lovingly- not irritated) hold up your pointer finger so she knows to wait. It will be funny/weird and awkward at first, but it might help her retrain how she communicates.
I have ADHD and used to cut people off all the time because my thoughts were coming faster than they'd speak. It's rude and ADHD is no excuse, so I had to really, really work on it. I still do it occasionally and always catch myself & apologize.
My guess is it isn't about your pause at all but your wife has some faster thoughts than you and maybe is stressed. Try the hand gesture. See if it helps cue her to keep listening.
You know he will. He's definitely pathetic enough to pull a stunt like that.
But rest assured that his mum will be giving him another stern talking to if she was to find out.
My hope is that OP keeps in contact with her soon to be ex MIL so her she can prevent her son from continuing his shenanigans like accusing OP of adultery or refusing to pay child support.
It's not irrational. I completely understand feeling overwhelmed by the pressure of someone needing constant contact. I'm really busy and as an introvert, texting back can feel like another job. BUT if someone I love needs me about something important, I'm on it. I'll even call them ha. Seriously it shows someone's priorities if you're ignored so much. Sounds like she's not really as good a friend as you think ❤️ sorry
Or he might have to go for a relationship that is better suited for him . Same goes for OP .
I don't know if you should leave or not, but don't have a kid with her unless you are willing to be almost 100% responsible for the kid.
These comments are why you can’t go on Reddit asking for advice ?
No, it doesn't. He's bullshitting you straight to your face. Android (which a google pixel is) doesn't send notifications for apps that aren't installed and, well, Tinder sure af isn't a preinstalled piece of bloatware sotware. He's using the app and lying directly to your face about it. He's bombarded with them bc he's a suss af bastard
Didn’t read it all but look after YOU first before ANYONE else. You’re still very young and have lots of life left to live.
Didn’t read it all but look after YOU first before ANYONE else. You’re still very young and have lots of life left to live.
This boils down to two questions and I'm going to be crass and blunt.
Do you intend to have children? Because if so, and you marry her, your children will be sexually abused by her father. There is nothing you can do to stop it if he isn't in prison. If she'll throw her sisters under a bus for material gain, she'll throw her daughter under her father for material gain. If you marry her without having a vasectomy, you are complicit in your future children's sexual abuse.
Do you want to be married to a bad person? Because she's a bad person. She has turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse of her sisters for material gain, and she pretends to be a also be a victim as a way to get attention. There's no sugar coating that. Unless she gets some intense therapy and spends some time in self examination, I don't see a lot of hope for her ever being a good person.
Again, she thinks it is fine for her pedo dad to rape little girls as long as she gets material gain from it. Do you really want to marry that kind of cruel and depraved person?
I’ve tried to reach out to literally every rescue or shelter in my state and they won’t adopt to apartments. Yes I understand you want to generalize all young people but I’m simply not like that. I don’t like going out at night and not coming back I like going for hikes and walks even in the rain I mean I live in one of the rainiest states so you get used to it quickly. I’m sorry you’ve had bad experiences but that doesn’t mean everyone is like that.
Jesus don’t fuck people you work with and don’t fuck people who have relationships. Your a grown ass man and your acting like a kid. Probably why your fucking around like a 23 year old
They’re just thoughts. The mind likes to play tricks and spin all kinds of stories in your head when you’re not occupied by anything. It’s called inner dialogue, google it. I used to do the exact same thing. After some serious soul searching I realized I did it because I was insecure about my relationship, too afraid to get hurt.
You don’t need medication or a shrink to handle these kind of thoughts. It’s stupid advice. You’re not a mental patient who needs 20 therapy sessions and a bottle of tranquilizers.
It is a normal thing to be wary of your girlfriend cheating. Everybody who’s in a relationship has this fear. Did she ever did something that in the tiniest slightest way justifies those thoughts? If not, put it to bed. The next time those thoughts pop up just recognize it as inner dialogue.
There's no normal relationships. What everyone else does has nothing to do with what is best for you…and for him.
Ooohhh people do invite others just for presents. Sorry to burs your bubble
Wife to coworker… “Hey do me a favor, tomorrow wear my watch while you are working.”
Hmm.. It's hard to really give you advice on whether your feelings are irrational or not without clear examples. If something specific she's doing bothers you I think you should discuss it with her though.
I think he Can be civil by ignoring her attempts to discuss, responding or even speaking about it to her and essentially ignoring any mention of it. How drunk was she? Are her flat mates guys? Does she have girlfriends? Beware girls that have all guy friends with maybe some rare exceptions.
I already my daughters passport thankfully.
I just dont understand why she would do this and even talk to her cousin to say she had sex and felt nothing and pretended but to continue to do it. Why would she breakup her family and marriage for that?? She was also saying things like tomorrow is round two and im thinking of my plan, ill tell him he is obssessed and he is narcissit. Like its a game or something when its her dayghter, her life, her marriage, future etc?
While it’s true that his problem is the abuser but he would benefit from therapy both internal with how he deals with it but also giving him direction on how to handle scenarios with his abuser. Instead of random people on Reddit, it would be an actual therapist giving him advice.
Mate, what on earth were you apologising for? Having consensual sex with other people before you even met her? That's ludicrous.
And for her to enact a Greek tragedy over it like that…. its sweet that you care about her enough to want to comfort her, but this is your sign to run. She has issues that she needs to deal with herself, you're not so enmeshed that you need to make it your problem.
Play this out further – what are YOUR values? Are you ok with all of the other fundamentalist views she is going to bring with her? Do you have gay friends she is going to condemn? Any single parents or divorcees in your social circle that she's not going to want to associate with? If she is this far down the rabbit hole on this issue, she's going to be hardline on all of them. And I don't get the sense that you are equally bigoted and intolerant.
Hi friend,
What are your hopes for this relationship? Also, can you say more about this feeling of stuckness that you said you're having?
She's into you. Call it a crush or whatever. She wants to engage in sexual contact with you. Make sure you speak to her girlfriend and ask if this is with her consent if you are wanting to try it out. If you don't, tell your friend that you appreciate her interest but want it to stop. If she stops, great. If not, cut her out of your life.
That ship has sailed
I don't think the, don't try to date coworkers, here is really an issue considering it's only a casual job in retail. However I do agree with the latter about intellectually I know a romance could ever be equitable, it's just hot to convince my emotions of that when I feel so happy around her. Thank you for your advice though it's good to hear it put straight like that.
It’s not like he cheated years ago. It was mere months ago. It’s completely understandable that you’re not over it and that you don’t trust him.
Why do you want to stay? He doesn’t seem to respect you or your feelings at all.
Yes, it is, I’m just saying I haven’t forgiven it in the past, as I wasn’t aware. All I’m trying to say is that I haven’t forgiven the behaviour to have him repeat the cycle. Not that this changed the fact that he did it, just that it wasn’t me forgiving and then him doing it again if that makes sense. The therapist also believes it’s an escalation of behaviour, but she is hopeful that if he addresses the underlying reason for the behaviour, then this would be less likely to happen in the future. Again, not sure I want to stick around for that, but just looking for others’ perspectives on it.
Only you can decide which, if any of these, are dealbreakers for you. None of them are insurmountable so long as you can come up with a solution together that you can both live with.