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I’m 23F and I’ve never been in a relationship before. I’m going on my first real date (ever) in 2 weeks and I don’t know how to explain to him that I’ve never dated, had my first kiss or anything like that without it being completely awkward. No one I know has this issue so it’s hard to seek out advice from friends. I guess I’m just scared of scaring him off or getting rejected due to my inexperience? Any advice on how to navigate this situation would be greatly appreciated.

I (39/American/F) had a child with a (39/Indian/M) and I am now a single mother to a very curious 5 yr old daughter. Backstory: I was overseas in the military and taking a break for R&R. I had always wanted to visit India, so I booked a trip to Southern India. While I was there, I unexpectedly fell in love with a man I had met who lived in northern India. I had to return back to my post in the military, but we kept in touch. This was approximately 10 years ago. I was in the military for another 4 to 5 years and we kept in touch the entire time. I decided once I separated from the military that I wanted to do animal rescue work in India. I wanted to travel the country first to figure out where I was going to move to, and he offered to come with me. So we had chocked the country together, and I chose a place to move to that was not where he lived. He always respected my independence and never pressured me to be anything other than myself. We had a great relationship, and once I had moved to India, we flew to visit each other quite often. We were in love, so of course we were doing the deed. I had been diagnosed with polycystic ovarian disease years before I met him. So we never never use protection and I never never got pregnant. I also never got pregnant my entire life so it was not anything I was concerned about. I explained to him the condition and we never use protection. When I was leaving India to go back to the United States because of a visa issue, he came to help me pack and move all of my stuff. He stayed with me for a few weeks. I always respected his boundaries, that I was a secret to most of his family though I had met some of his friends and cousins over the years. We were both very respectful about each other’s boundaries. I knew that his religion was keeping him from telling his mother and immediate family about me. I had no issue with this. While he was helping me pack my stuff and move, he brought up the idea of getting married. I told him I don’t know if you want to marry me because I don’t know if I can give you what you want. I know he loved kids and wanted to be a father. He said he wanted to marry me and we went to see if we could get married before I left. The law and India are very strict and we were not able to get married there. So we decided we will just wait until I get back to America and do the marriage visa thing. When I got back, I was so nauseous. I never even thought to take a pregnancy test, until my best friend had mentioned it. So I took one … Just because I had no idea why I was so nauseous all the time. Turns out I was pregnant. I called him and I talked to him about it. He said that I could make whatever decision I wanted to because it was my body. He said he would support me in whatever decision I made. So I went and got all the tests done and thought really hard about it. I never actually wanted to be a mom after finding out that I most likely wouldn’t be. I had kind of come to terms with that. But I ended up keeping the baby. And I am so grateful and happy that I did. Even though things did not work out between he and I, I am still completely happy that I have such a wonderful, beautiful, amazing daughter to share my life with. From the point I found out I was pregnant and that I was going to keep the baby, he and I started making plans for the marriage visa. Though it was our plan before I even left India and knew that I was pregnant, now I feel like he wanted to be here even more. Up until she was six months old and I was preparing to send in the visa application and the application fees, he was totally on-board. When she was six months old, he decided he didn’t want to come here and he didn’t want to leave his family. So we parted ways and he then had no intention on keeping in touch with her through video messaging or telephone calls. I don’t know if it was his own feelings of guilt or that he felt like his family would disown him, but he just completely had no interest in her life at all after that. Now, whenever she ask me, which is not very often, I just say that he lives in India. I show her on a map where India is and where we are. She doesn’t ask anymore questions for now, but I know there will be questions later. And I don’t want her to have any feelings of abandonment. I don’t want her to feel like he chose his family and his life over her. But I also don’t want to lie to her. So I’m feeling very conflicted about how I’m going to approach the situation later down the line. If you have any suggestions or experience with this type of situation, Please share!

I’m AFAB. 20 years old. I’m anemic and have been given ferrous sulfate 300mg tablets. Tonight for some reason I couldn’t swallow the tablet even with a lot of water and before I knew it, it had midway dissolved in my mouth leaving me a horrendous metallic taste. I pulled it out and drank again but this time the tablet completely dissolved in the water as I drank it.
I have a vague metallic taste but that’s about it.
What are the consequences? Is it bad? Should I go to the hospital.
I have bad health anxiety so please bear with me.
Thanks!

Which ones are good? Which ones should I look into? All I see everywhere is the razer kitsune and people saying it’s godly or it’s horrid and never an actual honest review of it. Plus it’s $400 so I’m not gonna buy it till I see an honest review on the thing so I can decide if it’s worth it or not. There has to be more than one leverless controller for ps5 available, but I just can’t find them.
Also from what I understand I need a pc to change settings on ps5 adapters for other leverless controllers so that’s not an option because i don’t have a pc.

What are your thoughts on KT tape? Does anyone use it regularly/does it help? It’s not helping my subluxations but I think I might feel a little pressure/pain relief… but it could be a placebo effect. I’m pretty broke right now so I don’t want to keep buying it and trying it out if it’s not even that helpful. Thoughts?

I’m sorry for how off-the-rails this is going to sound. I’ve just had something very painful happen, and I just need to vent.
Do you ever just think back to when you were a baby, just born? You were innocent then. All the hardships, all the mistakes you or others made, none of it had happened yet. You didn’t choose the life you were given. You didn’t ask for anything that would happen next. Any pain, any loss. None of it was on you, not that young. You looked at the world with so much wonder, so much curiosity. Things hadn’t gone bad yet. Or maybe they had, and you just didn’t know. And they’ll leave their mark. And maybe there’s a better way than the life you’ll end up knowing. Maybe there’s a solution, one you’ll find eventually. But you don’t know what it is. And you won’t know, not for a long time. By then, so much pain will have come for you, and the people you care about.
Do you ever wish you could just go back, hold that little version of you in your arms, and tell them, even if they won’t remember it, that they’re strong? That they CAN make it? Would that do something, somehow?
God, I just wish I had held my anger in a little longer tonight.
I went off on someone who has caused me a lot of hardship. This is someone who’s very close to me, and someone who is the way they are for reasons that aren’t entirely under their control. They’re my older sibling. I’ve known them my entire life, and there’s always been problems. Tonight, they were very mad about something that had nothing to do with me. I walked in at the wrong time. I didn’t know what was going on, and they snapped at me to get out. I wasn’t going to say or do anything. I had to be in the room because I had to retrieve something. I got what I needed and left. A few minutes later, they were rude to me again. It was passive-aggressive. It wasn’t the intense, out-of-nowhere anger it had been. But the camel’s back broke. I screamed. I punched the door. It was disproportionate, but it was just after everything else I couldn’t take it anymore. And it became an entire thing. The two of us and our mom. It was only after it got that big that I saw just how hurt we all were, how hurt we’d always been. And then I just wanted the fighting to stop. And it did, eventually. And maybe it’s better that we just got everything out. Maybe things can change. I pray to whatever or whoever’s up there, if anything/anyone, that things finally will.
People are okay now. My sibling and I are okay. We’ve apologized to each other. Our mom and I are okay. Things are stable enough between the two of them. But nothing does this to me like home. Nothing makes me feel this fear, this pain, this loneliness. I’m in college, home now for the summer. This doesn’t happen to me there.
We’re born innocent. We’re not born wanting to do harm to others. We just want to know this world we have.
Things can be better. Things WILL be better than they are today. I just… wish they already were.

Hiii okay so I’m whitening this deer skull I found and I’ve only been soaking for about 4-5 hours at this point and there’s a green tint to it. I was wondering if anyone had any tips to help get rid of that greenish tint. I believe it was because of the amount of hydrogen peroxide that I used but I’m about to take it out. What should I do?

It’s coming up to the 1 year anniversary of her passing. My baby babygirl. I’m getting therapy soon, as I still can’t. Let. Go.
You can read my post history to get an understanding. She was just a baby.
If anyone feels like honouring my precious angel, please please do so I can frame it at her memorial. https://imgur.com/a/moo-moo-0zafZ3I

I’m 250+ days now. My overall health is noticeably better (blood pressure, weight, etc) and that’s great. I made it through football season, the holidays, and the doldrums of winter without drinking. So far, so good.
My wife and friends have all been super supportive. Haven’t really thought much about it, to be honest. Until today.
We took our kids to another family’s house and they’re Germans living in the USA for a few years. It was just before 11am and we were being offered coffee, tea, etc. I’ve never liked the taste, so I don’t drink coffee or tea, and I was more than happy to have some water. He then offered beer or wine. Again, I declined. He offered whiskey. (Even when I was drinking, I would have turned it down at 11am.) I plainly explained that I stopped drinking, period. He offered NA Beer. I declined. He then offered it again. And once more.
I know he was being polite. But everyone I’ve told about my decision has been supportive. Until today. It wasn’t done maliciously but it was still ridiculously hard to keep turning down. Like, I almost agreed just to shut him up.
But the streak continues. And I’m glad.

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I have only played a few ranked matches bc I don’t usually play them so I’m low rank and ppl see that and either leave or kick me so I can’t play any ranked matches, therefore I can’t level my rank up and it’s just an endless loop😪 and I’m good at the game too mfs just discriminatin low ranks for no reason lmao. They should of made it so u get in games with just ppl the same rank as u so u can actually play the game

hello guys i’m 22f and i have a nephew who is 6 years old , i don’t really see him as much but whenever he sees me he adores me and i as well adore him!!! i always talk with him about his favorite characters and make small talk with him and i could tell he enjoys it. anyways, today i was asking him what’s 1+1 and he said 2 then he proceeded to ask me what’s 100+100 and i said 200 and then he asked me what’s my name + kiss + his name and then he said kiss my name and after that i said Nooooo not that !! and then he kept asking random questions for example like what’s godzilla + a random character.
anyways, i know he’s a kid and he probably doesn’t understand that what he said wasn’t very appropriate but i also didn’t want him to feel like i was scolding him for him saying that. but was it a little inappropriate for him to say that? (he’s still a kid so he doesn’t really understand the statement he made)
it even made me feel a little uncomfortable even tho i know i’m the adult it was just weird to me idk , i did tell my sister about it and she said if he says anything like that to correct him about it and remind him that i am his aunt and that it’s not appropriate to say that, which of course I will say.
but has anyone had a nephew or niece who would say random things like that to them ?

I bought this iPhone 15 max at Christmas. I sit there and have to punch punch punch or tap tap tap on my screen to get it to do anything. I have an arrow that I’m gonna go to the next page and it takes me 30 seconds or a minute to sit there and tap Over and over to finally get it to go to the next page I got hacked in it a lot of times I can’t do a dictation because it stops right after the first word crazy and I don’t know how many keyboards but I got three of them on there and none of them are any good why can’t they just make a simple one if there’s one of us is perfect except that it doesn’t have the app on it. You have to go hit you know another button at this is crazy, I’m doing voice text. Actually this one has stayed on but the dictation but I’m gonna ask for a new phone. I’m so frustrated with this.

I’ve had this clicking on compression in my front suspension pretty much since I got the truck. Dealer always said “ can’t replicate noise” which is nonsense. Replaced sway bar bushings, links, and tie rod ends today and now the clicking seems more often and on both sides. I’m thinking body mounts? I have a bilstein lift coming I. About a week so if it’s shocks that’ll be replaced soon. 90k on the truck. Any input is appreciated! Thanks

hiya! :⁾ i usually spend my days in my room avoiding the sun and keeping busy with my summer classes, but it’d be nice to get to know some people and chat throughout the day!
a lil bit about me: i’m 21, in my junior year of college, an introvert, neurodivergent, and lots of other words. i also like to think that i’m a little witty and funny at times.
some of my hobbies include: watching shows/youtube and movies, listening to music, reading and writing, browsing pinterest, exercising (mostly strength-training and yoga), cooking, playing on my switch, smoking weed (very 420 friendly!), and so on. there are a ton of thing i’d like to explore and try out also!
we can totally get to know each other more through DM’s and even exchange discords after a while. anyone can reach out, though i do have a preference for women, people of color, and lgbtq+ individuals. again, anyone is welcomed to reach out regardless of identity! all i ask that you’re in the united states (bonus points if you’re in est), over 20, and a respectful human being.
woop woop, thanks for reading!