What does your gut say? You sound pretty unhappy and I’m with MintyCupcake that it doesn’t sound this therapist is offering you very many coping strategies for all the stuff that’s coming up. Ideally, you’d be BOTH uncovering the issues AND being able to take some baby steps while also taking care of yourself (or at…

I’m so sorry this happened to you. One thing to consider is that - since he’s still married - this is further proof that it’s still all about him. He didn’t stop to consider the emotional unfairness of dropping this bombshell on you. He didn’t get divorced and THEN ask if you’d like to try things again. He’s still…

A long outdoors swim and the next day, a massage of whatever length I can afford.

What strikes me is how overproduced and interchangeable all these men are. It’s the rare song and person who are memorable. The rest of time, there’s a beat and a melody and it could be any one of two dozen men with likable voices singing, and they probably market-tested the twang. Not much original. When someone does…

You are exactly right. Song is old but shit like “honky tonk” by Trace Adkins, dominates country music charts. More recently in the same vein, you have someone like Kane Brown. If you look up his music and sound, it’s almost like a caricature of what a country person is. I don’t know if his accent is real or…

Yay crafts! Thanks for starting a thread :)

hey thank you! he ended up responding and said ‘sorry got slammed with work. i’ll keep you posted.’ i responded - ok in that case i think i’ll take other plans. we can reschedule. i basically said call me when you’re free to go out. you know i’m interested in getting to know you. kiss emoji. then texted other guy and…

I know it’s hours later but if you still can/haven’t already tell the guy from the dating app you’re free and go out with him. Don’t say anything to the other guy. If you hear from him, don’t reply until tomorrow. He can’t possibly be so busy that he couldn’t take 2 seconds to reply. This is one of my biggest pet…

I can't say that I have had this exact same experience, I just started therapy, long over due three weeks ago and for one of those weeks. my therapist was out of office. It sounds like you have tried to speak to your therapist and she just plied you with platitudes? If so, I would definitely walk away. You feel like…

I wouldn't tell him, I would just go on the other date. Realtor is being rude and doesn't get to date you tonight. Enjoy your other date. Maybe you'll even get on better than you do with Realtor. 

Used to be called “white slavery” and young women were warned that they’d get sold into it if they traveled alone.

When I was studying Witchcraft in Europe, it was fascinating to read about accusations of thousands of babies slaughtered and eaten by ‘witches’ - but not corresponding complaints of missing children? Also, in areas where there simply weren’t thousands of babies in the first places because they were relatively remote…

There was a conspiracy with Russia to affect the election, it just didn’t directly involve the President. Multiple people have been indicted and convicted already.

Exiting by the front door? Amateur. They probably have a heated garage area in the property and are already in the back seat when chauffeur drives out the front gate.

ETA: Interestingly all of the “repressed memory syndrome” talk had an indirect influence on me. At one point, I started to wonder if my increasing discomfort with my Dad’s affectionate ways were a sign of repressed memories of childhood sexual offenses. With time I was able to see that it was the result of other, less…

These people sound way wealthier than the McMansion crowd.

He and Seaman were mortal enemies, each of them accusing the other of being plant[.]

the book looks interesting. pizzagate, reptoids, flat earth, etc. all easily dismissed, but one question: were any ‘conspiracies’ in the book actually found to be a conspiracy?

a decade or so ago, ‘your email is being read’ or ‘your device is listening to you’ was dismissed with an eye roll as conspiracy theory.…

Fuck, this shit hits close to home. The Satanic Panic figured largely in my childhood (it actually started in the 70s, but really came to a head in the 80s). Close family members were sucked into it after becoming “born-again” (which is absolutely a cult). This filled my childhood with a great deal of fear, which took…

The same people who deny the loss of life at Sandy Hook, spend endless time demanding justice for imaginary children who were in a being held in the Comet Pizza basement, Note: the building has no basement