#firstworldsolutions

I hate that feeling of 'I would have done anything for you' when you know in retrospect that the person sucked. It's the worst.

Dear ex,

That too. I mean... it exists though!!

You know, I think he has the same mindset you did. Which I'm sure came from very noble places (too noble??), but it was definitely a disagreement of ours.

^ this. There are also some actively anti-creep subreddits (see r/ShitRedditSays. calling people out on their racism / sexism / oblivious privilege / rape apologism / etc). It's not all bad!

haha well, he and I broke up (for TOTALLY unrelated reasons) so that plan fell apart, clearly.

Totally valid. I'm surprised how many people are calling him names too. I didn't think this whole thing reflected poorly on him — I was just really frustrated in the situation.

Hahahaha thank you for that inspiring speech. I will tuck it into my back pocket.

Wow my bitching post pulled out some interesting conversations. Mad props to Jezebel.

Totally valid point, given that you only know what I told you.

Serious problem in my last relationship: Then-boyfriend came to visit me over winter break (we're in college and our hometowns are a 7 hour flight apart), but literally refused to have sex (or do anything that involved taking our clothes off) unless he was 100% sure that ABSOLUTELY NOBODY was in the house, including…

So, suppose this became super-widespread, to the point where "safe bumping" (LOL) was status quo, wouldn't we all just get super suspicious of people without smartphones?

Somebody wants a grandchild...

I HAVE THIS PROBLEM. do any of you highly intelligent gizmodo commenters have a solution for this?? My toes get sweaty and at first I thought it was my boots leaking but it's not, it's just sweat! But it's super cold and uncomfortable!

Yep.

He does not sound like a nice guy.

Totally agreed. Like, I could theoretically pirate all my music, but I'm shelling out for Spotify premium because I like to think that money is supporting the artists. I'd be happy to do the same thing for youtube.

A bunch of people are recommending Adblock, which works fine on my end of this transaction, but you'd think Google would realize what demand there is for exactly this ^

Oooh! Burn!