Hi, this is not a rant, i really would like some insight in to the below:
Hi, ive experienced the "Walk away Wife" and i have noticed i (male) seem to be blamed for "missing the tiny hidden messages" and its my fault i was "blind sided" by her leaving. This really winds me up.
In this case i have NO warning about anything, text messages were all happy with hearts and emojis, but then it comes out how she's not happy about at least 5 things, and yet only said anything like "it would be real nice if you can take the trash out" while i never was thanks for renovation, getting the car fixed everytime, aka only seems to have voiced any BAD side....
In bussiness if i was to "hint" at problems all the time like say:

• looks wet up there, might want to get someone to look at that
• Seems to be more wet that last time, might want to go take a look
• Loads of water now, likely ok, but would get it looked at

When roof caves in and floods, guess what I AM SUED, i never pointed it out "looks wet up there, if that gets more wet, that could damage the whole propery" then i cant be sued it was a choice to ignore it.
So "can you take the trash out" 4 times to be used as a REASON to walk away when i have many issues but STAY AS I PROMISED TOO seems childish to me, however it seems therapist seem to take this as ok, and women still do it... is it just me or did i just simplfy this?
"can you take the trash out, its winding me up and i am not happy, i might leave over it" sure sounds like an over statement BUT THIS IS what happens... so is this just an underhanded way of covering the truth as what they are attempting to do i known to be wrong? The first time the problem was voiced to me i FIXED ALL OF IT, for which she says "i dont feel anything now", well thats as YOU didnt want to keep the promise you made, you involved 3 other people in your side of the relationship by "sound off them" instead of TALKING TO ME!!!.
My point here is this seems to be a trap that cant be avoided, so how does anyone avoid it?

Splinter is inspired by the slicing and mirror powers that the witness uses during the lightfall and tfs trailer. This is basically just a fun idea as to what a 'witness subclass' would look like.
Visuals: The splinter subclass would have its designs consist of broken glass and reflecting mirrors. Its energy would be a pale red with bright white streaks. Enemies killed by a splinter debuff would have look as if they were sliced into red segments before disappearing. Lore: If stasis is control and strand is going with the flow, splinter is ignorance. Rather than controlling or flowing with the universe, you have to actively deny its rules to use splinter. The witness carved a hole in the traveller by ignoring the strength of its shell.
GAMEPLAY:
Verbs:
Cut - enemys hit by cut take a small amount of damage and are given one stack of cut. If they receive 100 stacks, they will be hit by dismantle.
Visual: Cut would look like a small red slice going across the enemy's body
Dismantle - when an enemy is 'dismantled' they will receive a moderate amount of damage over the course of 1.5 seconds. Other enemies hit by dismantle will be given a varying amount of cut stacks, depending for how long they were in the aoe. Cut and dismantle would be your bread and butter for general ad clear. Dismantle would also stun overloads.
Visual: Where cut is one single slice, dismantle is a flurry of these slices going across the inflicted targets body, as if they're being diced.
Displacement - enemies affected by displacement are initially slowed by 60%, before going back to normal speed over the course of 3 seconds. Projectiles slowed by displacement are permanently slowed by 50%, and their damage decreased by 15%.
In pvp: Displacement would slow players by 30% and gradually return them to normal over 3 seconds.
Visual: Normal enemies that have been displaced would look like segment of their body have been cut offer and separated. These pieces eventually fuse back together as the slow effect decreases. Boss enemies would simply have a red hue to show they have been affected by displacement.
Rend - A high power single tick of damage in a small radius. This would be more helpful for taking care of healthier targets quickly. Hitting a barrier champion while they are shielded stuns them.
Visual: Rend would appear like a gash in the air, as if the universe itself was cut open. This gash would stay for half a second after a rend attack. This gash would look similar to the portals made by vergil in dmc5 (although more red instead of blue)
Guard points (splinter's main gimmick) When using a splinter powered melee, the first 0.3 seconds of the attack while have a guard point. If an enemy hits while the guard point is up, you will receive 60% reduced damage and be immune to one shots. It will also boost the damage of the melee by 50%. Projectiles will also proc the guard point depending on the overall damage of the projectile. Enemies hit by a guard point empowered melee are briefly flinched.
Visual/audio: When in the 'guard point stance' your guardian will radiate red splinter energy with white streaks. When hitting the guard point, the white streaks will turn black and make it resemble an impact frame.
The audio and animation of the melee would also change to make the attack feel more impactful.
Reflective plating - while reflectjve plating is active, gain 20% dr and empower your guard points to be more effective. Guard points with reflecting plate now active in the first 0.7 seconds of the melee rather 0.3, and will increase the damage resistance to 90%. Lastly, projectiles that hit the guardian while guard point is active will reflect back to the enemy (although for reduced damage)
In pvp: The only difference with pvp is that your head hit box will not be immune to one shots.
Visual: Reflective plating will look similar to guard point, the energy will just be much less intense.
Rupert drop (probably not what it would be in game but bubbles already taken) - Rupert drops are the splinter subclass pickups (even though you don't actually pick them up). Rupert drops are a hybrid between stasis crystals and tangles. They can be for either cover or they can be shot to pop into a small cutting explosion. When shot by their creator or allies, rupert drops will move away from where they were hit, the bigger tha damage, the faster it moves. Ruperts drop would have a 15 second cool down and be generated by killing enemies with rend.
Visual: Rupert drops would look like giant bubbles roughly the size of a guardian. when taking damage, they slow crystallize before exploding into shards of glass.
When spawning in. The rupert's drop would look as if its slowly being formed by pieces of glass coming out of the gash made by the rend.
Grenades:
Shred grenade - explodes on impact to create a moderately sized explosion (slightly larger than a scatter grenade) that would deal a total of 110 stack of cut over the course of 0.75 seconds.
Cleave grenade - sticks to target before exploding into a small radius rend attack.
Dispersing grenade - explodes into a field of displacement that slowly implodes to create a small displacement explosion. The initial field would act similarly to a dusk field grenade, while the implosion would be similar to a snare bomb in damage.
Subclasses:
Each of the subclasses would mirror the arc subclasses in a way, Since splinter would be the darkness antithesis to arc (like solastasis, void/strand)
Ronin - hunter subclass Where arcstriders use their hand to hand prowess and expertise with the pole arm, Ronin use their skill with the blade to fell even the largest of does with a single slash.
Ronins are inspired primarily by heroes from old samurai movies. Wandering swordsman who could defeat armies with nothing but their trusted sword.
The gameplay fantasy of ronin would consist of well timed guard points and high power single target damage using rending attacks. The subclass would have a higher skill ceiling than most, rewarding knowledge of enemy attack patterns with high damage attacks.
Melee - Unsheathing strike (2 charges) Striking enemies with your katana inflicts them with 30 stacks of cut. Standing still before attacking will increase the damage of the strike by 15%. When empowered by a guard point, the strike will deal 60 stacks of cut in a large radius.
Visual: The splinter katana's is made up of various uneven panes of broken glass. When empowered, the katana's blade goes from red and white to pure black.
Super - shimmering blade (roaming/one off) The Ronin unsheathes their blade when beginning the super. While in super, there are 2 attacks. Light attack - fast slashes that each deal 40 stacks of cut. Heavy attack - quickly sheathe the blade and become immobile. Releasing the attack button has the Ronin slash the air and rend every enemy in a large radius. This attack ends the super immediately.
Holding the attack for a longer period of time increases the damage of the rends, fully maxxing out at an 80% boost.
During the release of the attack, a guard point is active for 0.3 seconds (0.7 when reflective plating is active). Hitting the guard point immediately increases the attack damage to 80%, while also further boosting the range and damage by 15%.
Aspect 1 - crossguard slash After a successful guard point, follow up with a second slash that rends the opponent. Killing an enemy with slash regenerates 50% of your melee charge.
Aspect 2 - quickdraw sheathe Gives hunter a guard point during initial activation. Successful guard points now boost class a ability regeneration by 150% for 4 seconds.
Blastmarine - Titan subclass Blastmarines mirror arc strikers as both are 'soldier' subclasses. Where strikers are frontline fighters, blastmarines are the 'heavy artillery' weapons experts of their fireteam.
Where ronin are calm, collected samurai, Blast marines are loud, explosive 80s action heroes. Big guys with bigger guns.
The blastmarine gameplay fantasy consist of being the heavy weapons guy, battling the hordes of their enemies with their cutting and dismantling projectiles.
Melee - Knucklebuster Raise your left arm briefly (this is when the guard point is active) before cocking back their right arm's wrist cannon. Hitting enemies with this inflicts them with 50 stacks of cut. When empowered, the radius of the blast is increased and inflicts 80 stacks of cut
Visual: The guard point would resemble a boxer blocking a punch before counter attacking with a jab. The wrist cannon would resemble the red arm punch from ultrakill. The attack would also end with the blastmarine pumping their arm like a shotgun (cus it would look cool)
Super - devastator cannon (one off) The blastmarine would ready the cannon onto their shoulder (similarly to a scorch cannon). The cannon would need to be charged fo a short period before firing. The initial blast would deal high single target damage before imploding into this cloud large cloud of dismantling slashes. This cloud would last front seconds before disappearing.
Visual: the devastator cannon would look similar to a halo spartan laser, just much bigger and with a much bigger blast radius.
Aspect 1 - coverfire blaster Rally barricades now spawn in a heavy cannon for the blastmarine and their allies to pickup. This cannon fires at 300 rpm and has a total 25 rounds that it can fire before disappearing. These shots have a small aoe effect and each deal 20 stacks of cut. Continuous damage with the turret Grant's reflective plating. This aspect would act similarly to a gauss cannon from halo.
Aspect 2 - ballistic bombard
Enhance the functionally of your splinter grenades.
Shred grenade - improved radius and total damage and duration (now deals 170 stacks of cut over 1.5 seconds) Cleave grenade - can now be charged to skip across the ground up to 3 times. Each bounce creates a rend.
Dispersing grenade - increased radius of initial field and increased damage of implosion. Initial field now pulls in enemies and flinches them.
Glassformer - warlock subclass (name tbd) Where stormcaller is harmony within, the glassformer embraces the chaos of splinter to conquer the battlefield.
glassformers are inspired from crackpot scientists from monster movie. Creating inconceivable creations.
The gameplay of glassformers revolves around using rupert drops and creating unpredictable combinations.
Melee - broken flurry (2 charges) The glassformer sends a burst of 8 panes of splinter. Each pane inflicts 6 stacks of cut. When empowered, the total amount of panes increases from 8 to 12, they also can increased tracking to targets.
Visual: Each of the panes would shoot off from the glassformer's fingertips. When empowered, the panes turn black.
Super - razing burst (one off) The glassformer raises a giant ruperts drop infront of them, before slashing it with their splinter infused hand and rending it, this creates a large ape explosions that dismantle enemies in its radius. Enemies near the giant gashes are slowly pulled in.
Visual: Razing burst is essentially a large spherical blender that would pull in enemies not originally caught in its blast.
Aspect 1 - fracturing chasm Rends now linger for a longer duration and suck in enemies in radius of it. Killing enemies that are pulled grants reflective plating.
Aspect 2 - chromatic concoction Inflicting ruperts drops with elemntal verbs gives the explosion that property. (For example, applying jolt to the rupert's drop gives the explosion jolt.) A singular bubble can hold up to 3 new verbs.
Visual: When a verb is given to the ruperts drop, the respective subclass energy will begin swirling around the inside of the drop. The more verbs, the more colours swirling around.
Fragments: Fragments would be obtained similarly to strand, killing enemies with splinter will have a chance to give a 'shard of splinter'
Killing targets with rend reduces rupert's drop cooldown (0.5 seconds per enemy)
Apply more cut stacks
Picking up orbs of power grants reflective plating
Rapid finale blows with dismantle grant grenade energy
Precision finale blows against displaced enemies creates a displacing explosion
Super finale blows create cutting explosions.
Conclusion: I'm ngl this post is wayyyy longer than I thought it'd be. I wanted to just spitball an idea I had the other day for a new subclass

So I gotta do a rant about something that's now over already for some time but still makes me seethe when I think about it. I am from germany and I am quite unsure about some work related english terminolgy, so if it confuses you ask away.
Until recently I worked in a sheltered workshop and 2.5 years ago there was the next works council vote to be held, at the start there were only 3 candidates so an autistic co-worker (I will call him Matthew) and me thought it would be a more interesting election with more candidates and we both put us up for election after getting some support from our departments, in the end there were actually 8 candidates and even though I could only hold half a speech before having a meltdown, I still got elected together with John and a very friendly co-worker from another department with some form of learning disability (Let's call him Phill)
Now we got a bit of a problem, as we were elected to represent around 150 people, with no one having prior experience in it and the former council being mostly absent/going into retirement, suddenly we were supposed to attend all kind of organizing events, which mostly were very interesting and fun but also stuff like employment interviews for the staff of the sheltered workshop who supervises departments where I already sometimes got sideeyed by the workshop staff when I asked for claryfications on questions.
But what really made me angry was the kind of ableism you'd suddenly encountenotice everyday. We were expected to act like NTs and when we didn't we would be blamed for all kind of stuff.
One time we got a complaint from a department about the staff there and we decided to just go there to ask if we could set up a meeting with them, the next day we were told my the workshop manager that we couldn't just "waltz in" any department as it would send a specific message when the works council just comes along and talks with the staff there and that in the future we should talk to him first.
Another time my two colleagues went down to the manager to set up a meeting because we wanted to talk about a change to the operating regulations he NEEDED our approval for what he ignored "because the former council already agreed" even though that was two years ago at that point postboned because of covid-19.
Well, I never entirely got told what exactly happened there but apparently he told them they could come in right away to speak about it and got very loud at some point, from that day onward Matthew didn't want any conflict anymore at all with the management and I am pretty sure it triggered some traumatic experience from his childhood ABA therapy... from all I can tell and it's making me really sad even today, as he's one of the most kindest and well thought out people I know, even though he's in his fifties he never got that "boomer attitude" going a lots of older people get.
I tried to push it further and managment even acknowled that our complaint about the new regulations were factually correct but they wouldn't care because it's basically already done and it didn't help that my two colleagues didn't want to push it any further as Phill generally, while being a very nice and friendly person just disliked conflict from the start.
Then there were all the times where we were told something would be done with it never being done until we asked at least three more times, like how do these kind of structures NTs put up even keep working at this point?!
A lot of other changes management just assumed any missing protest from our side meant we agreed with it even though they would need our formal confirmation but everytime I wanted to go file an official complaint Phill didn't care and Matthew didn't want to cause a ruckus.
Also bullshit rules obviously made by NTs for NTs, like: You are allowed to eat there even if you are sick but only if you visited a doctor who confirmed you are sick, otherwise you weren't allowed to eat in the canteen because apparently "people could feel it would be unfair" even though no one of our co-workers ever told us so and they wouldn't know if someone was sick or "official sick" anyway as they aren't allowed to ask if a doctor confirmed it or not. When we asked how they intent to control it they said they realisticly couldn't and hence trust the people being honest, we of course mirrored this response to our co-workers and asked of them in a very non sarcastic tone of voice to be please very honest. (Anyone knowing Babylon 5 just imagine Londo)
We started to resort to "more subtle but non subtle" ways of criticizing bad practices, like we held the yearly company meeting (led by us, attened by everyone interested including workshop staff) and there were people who had serious complaints (about being infantilized by certain staff members all the time) who we gave the time to voice it and of course the workshop staff wanted to quiet them down, so we added a "private" part where no workshop staff was allowed, we excluded management from the last part of the monthly meetings, as they did exclude us from theirs (which was already normal practice since years) and stuff like that.
Well overall it was a very interesting and fun experience but it was also so FUCKING FRUSTRATING, indeed it frustrated me so much that I left the workshop (and the works council early) for that very reason after being there almost 11 years, fuck that shit, fuck NTs with power complexes and their "politics" of doing things the very exact way unwritten rules never told you.
I know this got a lot less structured and more chaotic than I wanted and I left out some details but it makes me too angry to straighten it right now, feel free to ask away.
5/10 would only recommend if you are ready to leave afterwards and got a very high frustration tolerance.

Hello, I'm a Brazilian guy who likes to make new friends, I'm the type of person who talks about everything, like hobbies, travel, cats, food, sports, books, art, etc... So whoever wants to talk, just send a message.
Big hug beautiful people🤙🏼

I was under a huge stress for last few days and I thought of having some fun by harmless flirting. Well, dating apps are not so good for flirting without giving hopes.
So I thought of snapchat. I never use that app because the veryconcepts of it doesn't fit my social media needs. Anyhoo I posted some stories and boom! Friend requests started to accumulate. ( Yeah social media is easy for us women ).
And this guy with "nair" vaal send me some texts. The usual kinda but his pictures looked good 😁. We just introduced each other and then suddenly he asked "are you a virgin ". I wasn't shocked or anything because we get many "send bobs and vagana" msgs. So I replied " No, I'm not, but why do you think its okay to ask random people" He said "Why do you think its okay to tell a random guy" and that put some smile onmem I replied " I don't care about sharing such details to anyone " and he texted " I do want to care you" Tbh I was kinda amused by his reply.. It was a good save.
The minute I want to continue the conversation he said somthing like " actually I like it that you're experience " and that was enough
I texted him " thats it man, peace out"
He replied. " I WANT SQUEEZE THAT "
Ewwwwww!
I blocked and unistalled snapchat itself. 🥴

Hello! 👋🏽
Do you like to talk a lot? Do the other people in your life find you annoying? I won't!
I'd love to meet someone who likes talking and starting conversations, because I am bad at it! It can be short-term, but I would much prefer something long-term! please tell me in your few first messages whether you want it to be one-time or not lol
If you can't start conversations then please don't text me, because I can't either :'( I can just keep the convo going, but if you can start convos, then please send a DM! You can talk about anything you want, or just rant about your day, anything tbh. I'll listen and share what I have to say too so you won't feel like you're talking to a brick wall!
Tell me what stuff you like, and I'll talk about mine! Saying our hobbies/interests here will give us less to talk about in DM's. And I believe that friends who are into wildly different things can still make connections.
BTW my timezone is GMT+3, if you don't care about timezones then neither do I.

Hello everyone! I’ve been struggling for days trying to figure out how to solve my problems with loading games on usb loader gx. I’m using a mac so I can’t download wii backup manager or stuff like that. Basically I have some games that fully function such as Wii Sport, wii sports resort, super mario bros, and other games that appear in the catalogue with the cover but once I click them they don’t have a preview and when I play them either they send me back to wii menu or they black freeze my screen (mario kart for example) My d2x is the newest version so v11 I used this guys tutorial to mod my wii https://youtu.be/eOrW28UfGjM?si=AJskqdIWj7n_id1N
I also followed some random YouTube videos of people trying to solve the issue. Changing iso on the games and stuff but nothing seems to work. ( https://youtu.be/EypIigbgfIk?si=zD2yA49rLAIMzNJX) (https://youtu.be/0jBwREk6b1Y?si=ZUH78UCUCuL_GZ75)
Can anyone please help me?

I find it much easier to connect with new people online on voice chat than on text. If you feel the same way, send me a dm.
A little bit about me: On the outside I may seem like a sarcastic piece of shit. But, like an onion, as you peel off more layers, you find the exact same thing and you start crying.
Bonus: I've been told I have a nice voice.
Looking forward to meeting some lovely people.

I’ve never written a question on this app before but this is eating at me. BUCKLE UP THIS IS LONG!
So my husband’s family have been abusive to him, he is the black sheep of his family he is the youngest and has a different father than his older siblings (8,6 years older).
Ever since I started dating him I was antagonized in some way. When I first met his family for Christmas his middle brother invited his ex-girlfriend to hang out, unbeknownst to my then bf which was awkward but she was fine with me. My boyfriend then was really sick and I took the train 2 hours to pick him up from his home (where his family was with their cars) and take him to a hospital in London. He was there for 6 days not one person visited him but me. They made fun of him and minimized his illness.
Then we moved to my home country the US and eloped. They came to visit a few years later his mom and eldest brother were okay. Middle brother again constantly throwing barbs and digs at me completely unprovoked. I get there may be a culture difference they are White English conservatives, I’m African American. Shortly after we married he dated a black girl, who left bc she was also treated poorly. Some examples of digs; I congratulated him on graduating and asked him when he finished he replied “same time you were supposed to” (I dropped out). Then I asked what the he loved most and what was challenging about being a PT and he replied “no offense, working with fat people.” Took them to multiple meals and covered everything which wasn’t cheap, he complained about the food being “reheated” and bitched when he was ID’d.
Things get progressively worse, middle brother has a precious baby. I want to spoil her and become close with the mother of the child (who is not with him due to his creepy behavior). We form a fast friendship and chat all the time about the baby. My brother in-law tortures this girl denies he is the dad but also goes out of his way to bully her (she’s not breast feeding right, she shouldn’t have pacifiers) all from the comfort of his home. He is also constantly complaining about having to pay $50 a week in child support nonstop saying he is going “bankrupt”. My hubby is part of a group chat and my mother-in-law talks ish about my friend and my hubby is telling me. I ask to see and his brother is actively trying to give his soon to be 1 year old daughter eggs and gluten that his ex told him she was allergic to and they are plotting to do this during her birthday and explicitly NOT tell my friend the mom of his baby. The reasoning was “I’m the father, I deserve to be respected, I can make choices to” but he is extremely sneaky. I show my friend/baby’s mom the messages and all hell breaks loose because of course he lies and gets caught. I would have told him off directly but he blocked me because he was mad at how close I was getting to his ex. I am called a “despicable woman” dragged in their chat, made to seem that I’m spying on my husband and accused of being jealous and sabotaging my niece’s birthday party. My husband says nothing in my defense just goes along like he didn’t send me the photos of their chat…
They don’t know I’m pregnant at this time and I chose not to tell any of my in-laws due to how awful they are. I also don’t believe in telling anyone that would wish ill on me and my baby (bad juju), but my bestie the baby mom knows. I give birth his mom has an absolute tantrum says incredibly awful things to my husband, reaches out to my mom to wish her congratulations on her grandchild and says “i guess I will learn to love him.”
Then my friend the mom gets diagnosed with cancer and wants to keep this secret and makes me promise, she kept my secret pregnancy it is the least I could do. She dies a few months later and my brother in law attacks her for not telling him and claims she is a horrible mother. He takes custody of his daughter.
Fast forward the eldest brother meets this hog woman. She is rotund and English, very ignorant and rude. The first interaction I had she thought she knew so much, decides to bash my dead friend’s parenting, call my dead father in law “weird”, tells me my niece eats everything now due to having a “good parent” and called my apt in NYC “embarrassing” bc it had scaffolding on google maps when she looked me up (like a creep). She then antagonizes me in a variety of slick ways including posting the eldest brother with my niece with the caption “uncle B’s favorite!” On my son’s birthday. Most recently I tell his family that we want to actually have a proper wedding and celebrate after 10 years of marriage, i give them 2 years notice. The hog says “ohhh me and the eldest are planning on getting married then.” I ask why she says “nice weather”. She then proceeds to have a fall wedding (orange, red, greens, pumpkins, barley, wheelbarrows etc.” in May. I try to be the bigger person and send a kind welcome and she leaves me on read.
I hate these people, I need to let this go. My husband says that we should just go on continuing our happy life and not “start problems”. But it feels like so much awfulness to have to swallow. I also feel like if/when I do speak up I’m the hysterical angry black woman and this hog is the “innocent”. The whole thing is so so frustrating but I need to let it go even though I want them to hurt emotionally as much as they have hurt us.
Any recommendations, would you want revenge? There is so much more but I have written a novel already. I feel alone like no one has my back or tries to understand my perspective. They are so sneaky and underhanded. I want to protect my family from these sick people. At the same time I want justice, justice for my husband, for my dead bestie, for me son and for me.

time check: this was literally about a year ago and its always bothered me. so can i vent? im gonna vent just because ive never told anyone this, not even my best friend because he's involved and so...i never brought it up to him cause i didnt want him to feel bad.
so we're coworkers at a retail store mind you. we're over a month in our relationship and me, my ex and other coworkers are all at work. we're pretty close by this point and then my best friend/coworker comes to work and im beside my ex behind a large glass table. and when she sees him, she is the ONLY one of our coworkers who excitedly RUNS around the table and hugs him....
how do you think i feel at this moment? so to add a little context: my ex at this point and never after during our relationship ever showed this kind of excitement when seeing me. my best friend had last worked with her like what, less than a week. also never showed this type of excitement to any other coworker. So?
also, my friend is a model/actor. handsome. and he had gone to new york for a trip. i can understand if this had been the first time my ex had seen him in like 2 weeks after his trip to new york. but it wasnt, they had literally just worked together in less than a week.
and then she playfully punches him, grabbing his arm and who knows what else. i was kinda pale faced, not wanting to put too much attention as my other female friend/coworker i know was staring at me. she's like me, and feels insecure about stuff so i know she knows i must have felt something.
also, im not the touchy type at all. im a very shy guy, i dont initiate hugs like this at all with anyone except with my partneex at the time. and so what confused me was that i had told my ex this - that im not the touchy type after my ex said she struggles to reciprocate affection back (to me). when she told me this, i was like oh wow. my partner struggles to show physical affection. didnt really question what she meant by it specifically but still felt it was fair enough. and then i see this.
theres much more to our story, and reasons why I felt insecure. at one point, my ex told me that because she had seen me too much lately, that the excitement to see me had died down. thus, when i would see her at work she'd just be like 'oh hey'. sometimes, wouldnt even acknowledge me. and sometimes, i had to ASK for hugs cause my ex wouldnt initiate it. would just see me at work and continue on. but hugs everyone else like my friend - running around the table all in front of me and our friends.
i messaged my ex immedielty after this, during my break at work. never ever saying she should stop anything. but just that im confused and wished she showed me the same excitement. but called me insecure and the excitement to see me had died down. didnt make me feel too good :/

My ex and I, were dating last summer , long distance. We broke up, mostly it was my fault because i was asking for too much, I was asking for him to call me 3-4 times per week or to spend more time together and he just didn't. Anyway, fast forward to today, he will visit in July and we are planning to start our relationship again.
However, i have this feeling that he is NEVER truly there for me, not now, and not even one year ago when we were dating. Two days ago, i was at a concert, Rammstein, i was happy as hell finally, i was there with some friends. After i returned home, I messaged him and we texted a bit. He said goodnight, and as i was going to text back he called me. I got so happy. I need to explain. He hasn't called me in month, most of our fights were because i just wanted him to call me a bit, sometimes before sleep for a goodnight, some times i even used to beg him for a call. He had been so cold and never called and the times he did, he called for 10 mins and was moody. So two days ago, he called by himself and i was so so happy to finally speak again. I picked up of course. However, I heard him speaking a bit and then nothing. I couldn't hear anything from his side. So then i hanged up and immediately i texted him '' did you hear me '' and things like '' i couldn't hear you''. But i texted this right after i hanged up and he even read it. but he didn't respond. i texted once more asking if he will call again but he didn't read it this time. And then i realized he just went to sleep. So. I just started crying. I felt so bad, the emotions changed so very fast. One second i was so happy to talk to him and then this didn't work out. And i didn't know why. I waited so long, I wanted to talk with him so much, so many months. God. That was a happy day because of the concert but i ended up just crying to sleep. The next morning he texted me that he wanted to call, but he couldn't hear me so he fell asleep.
Today, my IELTS results are out! I was expecting them since i want to apply for a Master's degree. I passed with 7.5 and that was good enough for me. So i texted him happily again. He responded and asked me if i was happy with my grade, and i said ''Yes, i know it's one very good grade so i'm very satisfied''. Then he proceeded to tell me that the top grade for IELTS in 9 (which to be honest i didn't know). I just told him that I don't know anyone who got a 9! Then he said he got a 9 in IELTS some years ago, that only above 8 it is considered a C2 and recognized a mother tongue. So i said okay, i could never pass it with 9, i'm happy for my grade. Then i started talking to him about the universities i wanna apply abroad. But then he just stopped answering me. I assume he fell asleep or something.
Anyway. My point is this. I ended up feeling sad again. And i do feel that he is never here for me, that he doesn't care at all. At the same time, he says that he doesn't want any of us to move on and he is going to visit on July to fix things. I just don't know how to handle that he doesn't seem to be mentally here with me?

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My coworker and I just recently became “friends”. Outside of work he tries to call me & I never pick up as I am someone that needs a warning before getting called. Calls make me anxious. Very anxious. So this is something that bothers him. We sit next to each too. So every times he calls I say “no, you didn’t call me lol. I’ll show you”. I guess this did make them a little sad. I also once did bring up how I don’t like phone calls as they make me really anxious. I told him how I never speak with my family every day/week but like every other weeks because they too know I hate phone calls & most of them hate texting. So we compromised to every other week. My coworker however likes to call me everyday after work. On our ride home. & I hate very much. I am not confrontational so I didn’t know how to tell them straight up to stop calling as often as they do. & I guess they didn’t take the hint as they do this almost every day for the past two months of knowing each other.
Anyways, fast forward to yesterday, the reason why they called me out for being a liar is because the area I sit at. The group there(like three people including him) like to tell each other that I did something that I didn’t & I’d be yelling (you guys are lying etc. like a lot. Because they literally do!) they’ll say thing like (hey John. X said you are cheap etc. & because I am a reactive person I’ll call them out for lying). A new girl started work & I have been telling her how they are liars & don’t believe what they say as they always lie. On Friday, my coworker changed their outfit as they live next to work & someone poured coffee on their shirt & pants. They had black pants on but when they came back, they had blue pants on. The color difference was huge as the blue was like a sky blue/light blue. On my lunch my coworker told the new girl they had changed or something along those lines but the girl said (x said y’all are liars so I don’t believe you. Literally WORD FOR WORD). That pissed my coworker off, they are now saying I have tainted their image & is making them look like a liar at work & that isn’t something they ever want to be associated with. They told the manager about this & the manager called me aside to tell me that I have called them a liar multiple times & they also brought up the fact that I lie about when they call me & that I call a liar more often and that hurts my coworker. Idk how this turned out so big when they do in fact lie about me a lot. I know they do it as a joke since I am a reactive person & it’s fun for them to see me react. But idk how this has turned out this way. The new girl not believing him because I said so is literally not what I want since I told them as a joke too. Like “hehe don’t believe them. They lie”. Idk what to do cause now they aren’t talking to me as I tried to apologize and higher management is getting involved in this.
I just wanna know if IATA in this situation. And if yes, what can I do to rectify this because I don’t want management to think I am out here harassing coworkers.
TL;DR: My coworker and friends like to say things about me that I did not do, which in turn makes me call them liars but a new girl refused to believe my coworker because “I said they are liars” to new coworker and this hurt them. So now management is involved because I am calling my coworkers liars.

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I'm the kind of person who still believes in fairy tales and magic, even though I’m a “gRoWn uP”… I might seem a little quiet, but deep down, there's a whole world of very naugthy and mysterious things waiting to be discovered with me…
When I'm not buried in my politics law classes or sipping coffee at the campus coffee, I'm lost thinking about how hard I wanna get my pussy railed by older men.
You wouldn’t think that I’m like that if you’d see me on campus thinking i’m a futur lawyer 😼 but these are my thought when I'm at the university. To make it easier for you to imagine, Think of a girl sitting at a cafe and staring out of the window - Yep that’s me..thinking about how I could get fucked in any position in my future lawyer dress mmmh..
Yes, I might be shy however as soon as we know each other better be ready to meet my second personality, so just send me a message 🤤
Edit: Dangg after reading it multiple times it really looks like a resume or sum 😅…
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Yesterday after 12 years of relationship from 18 to 30 years old I got dumped out of nowhere. I am quite devastated as it was a complete surprise. Woke up and asked her why she was distant since a week and she said "I need to find myself and I no longer want to be in a relationship" and that's it...
I need to know if I am doing the right thing and if there is a chance of salvation. Please help me understand better...
I totally get where this comes from since we are in complete symbiose, work together and are together most of the time. The thing is, she sort of lived some parts of her life through mine. The work is my business, which she came in, every time I have a new idea she instantly helps me launch it. I always knew this was an issue, but I didn't have any solution for her except encouraging every hobby and activity she had without me. Same for most things in life she relied excessively on me, including any problem she got, vacations, family issues ect...
Recently she got into yoga and sports seriously doing multiple teacher formations, I was very happy for her, but in hindsight I think this emancipation is what sparked the breakup and the need for more emancipation. I was very happy she found something she loved and is passionate about that have nothing to do with me, I was also glad she was discovering herself more.
Yesterday when she told me this, I was totally devastated but couldn't say anything else then "Okay" since anything else I wanted to say would've been very negative . Then she asked me to leave, so I did and went to my parents house. She has a 2 weeks yoga formation right now so that's why she is the one staying, she said to me that in two weeks she'll move in the south with her mom and I'll get the appartement back... Quite depressing...
She sent me a text :
"My love I am with you. Forgive me it has nothing to do with you, I have a visceral need to be alone. I am really sorry I hurt you so much but I have to listen to myself. You are amazing and I will always love you."
I answered that I was very sad and surprised but I understood and she could take the time she needed and I was still here for her. But I refrain from sending anything else, giving her the space she needs.
Now please tell me this is not over... Do you guys think this is only a break or should I grieve and accept this relation is over? I totally get why she needs space, but can't accept our beautiful relation is over... She is the love of my life and I have no idea what to expect or prepare for.
I have no idea how to live without her. The fact that there was no argument is even worse, it seems there' nothing to fix and nothing I can do... Can I do anything more?
Ps : of course it sparked in me the motivation to solve every single bad habit I have, even if this was not the cause of the breakup. Also sparked the need to drink a lot...

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• [ ] 21+ in age (this is a strict one)

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TALL (taller than my own height) , very communicative, masculine(mostly beards and body hair) gamers/anime nerds.
Someone who’s ready for a long term relationship Someone who may want to live together in the future
Someone who loves anime or video games especially OW2. *These are just preferences not a deal breaker. *
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Hi, I'm talking to this Egyptian guy online for 6 months now. He is a really swret guy, very respectful and handsome. He always make sure that he calls me every single day or every chance he gets when his on break at work. He had also book a ticket to fly to my country by October to come meet me (I was the one who booked online the ticket but he was the one who payed) so I know he was serious about coming. But this past few days, his always busy and is doing a lot of things that he now only texts me 2 messages every 2 or 3 days. He said there was a problem at work and needed his time and attention more. Do you think he no longer interested in me?

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I (f20) went on a dating app and got dm from this dude (m21?) who was relatively good looking and seemed friendly. We chatted and I felt relatively safe as we were similiar in age and I got the impression of a friendly person. So we exchanged personal contacts.
But things felt uncomfortable as this person started texting with a more flirtatious undertone? (Calling me couple nicknames and cussing etc…)
I felt awkward after two days of texting as when asking about hobbies I got back answers that felt pretty incompatible with me.
E.g// What do you enjoy? ANS: Philosophy. When I mentioned nerdy hobbies I liked, the response was fairly off putting (Essentially saying that web novels were gay etc…)
Eventually I received a deleted message from a second contact (Which I ignored), idk maybe this dude was sharing my contacts?
I believe that mystery contact that messaged me was prob the same person as after ghosting I got responses like: “You blocked me? … I won’t talk to you again”. I didn’t block this contact and just deleted it, as I felt that was the right move.
After a few weeks another response from the unblocked second contact: “Hey fatty”.
Safe to say I made the final decision to block that contact.
I can see that some people can be bad at texting and that I over read situations. But I felt this person was pretty disingenuous. Which presents the question AITA? I think partially, but to what extent?
In general I was posting to get a better perspective of the situation from third parties.