text,label " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/m] Need advice on how to approach a conversation with someone (19/f) who I haven't spoken to in the last 6 months. POST: Background detail: Earlier this year I moved out of America into a different country, Australia. This involved of course, losing touch with a lot of friends because I'm physically not able to talk with everyone day to day due to time differences and everyone being in college/university. Unfortunately of the friends I lost contact with, one of them was act",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Guardian of a minor, can her parents force her to stay with them if she enters their property to see her younger brother? POST: Greetings. I am a legal guardian of a 17 year old teenager (call them jack). We live in Florida, but the issue at hand lies in Pennsylvania. We obtained legal guardianship of this person because she was abandoned by her biological parent(dad is alive but useless and mother passed in 2005). We are not blood relatives but the courts have awarded guardianship to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a 19M constantly getting ignored by girls for my friend which is really starting to drag me down. POST: I could really use some moral advice and support at the moment since I seem to be going through a rough phase relationship wise, here's the story. So, I'm a 19M who has never had a relationship before, even that thought can sometimes start to drag me down. I'm told by my friends that I'm one of the nicest guys a girl would ever meet. The thing is, the moment a girl spots my be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [25f] agreed to meet up with me a month after she dumped me [24m]..bad idea for me? POST: I asked her to meet up and she agreed. She dumped me a month ago yesterday after we were together almost seven months. Logically I know we wouldn't work as a couple unless we both made compromises. I would, but I don't believe she would. I'm not quite sure what I want out of this -- closure? To see if there's anything left? Here's the text after I broke NC: Me: ""Tonight's the biggest ni",negative " r/relationships TITLE: So my soon-to-be room mate slept with my room mate. Advice? POST: Not really sure how to handle this, looking for advice. I currently live with two guys, all of us are 21. Roommate A is single, and probably likes this girl, we'll call her Q, also 21. Roommate B just got dumped after a long, devoted, relationship. Q dates fairly often, and has clearly hit on Roommate B. Roommate A has on multiple occasions strongly advised and even told B to not do anything with Q. Next year, Q is m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28M] with my wife [25F] met 4 years ago, she wants to relocate and I do not POST: Were in the NYC area, she wants to move to Boston. Not because she has a job offer or anything, but because she loves change and loves the area over there for the next big change: I too love New England. But my career is going very well here in NYC and my entire family is here. I'm very close with them. She comes from a dysfunctional family with whom she's emotionally distant, and has no emotional ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [27M] meeting my ex-girlfriend [25F] for lunch. I want her back. How should I play it? POST: I had been dating this girl for over a year. She seriously was the best thing that ever happened to me. However, we had a few problems towards the end. Basically, I was moved for work to London briefly, and this brief period went into a few months. During this time, I was supposed to go and visit her, and her family. I delayed unnecessarily and she was patient, up to a point. The suddenly",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is the idea of only marrying within your culture/religion outdated? POST: So I dated a Middle Eastern guy for several months last year. It was a really good relationship, but we ended up parting ways because, a. He wasn't supposed to be dating in the first place according to both his religion and parents, and b. His guilt over those reasons. It was a cordial breakup, and we're still very good friends. One of the factors we said might have ultimately broken us is our cultural differences",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 F] has a best friend [36 M] for 4 years, but why aren't I attracted to him? POST: I'm a single, attractive and successful woman. He's single, attractive and successful. As a best friend he is amazing, literally everything you would want in a husband. When I am sick, he is there. When I am sad, he cheers me up. We can hang out for hours and have the same sense of humor. One problem is that our families hate each other, so if we were together they would probably turn the w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] feel bad for ex [20M] 1 year because i broke up over the phone POST: Im on mobile so sorry for formatting Im just looking for advice. Long story short we dated for a year but brokeup or almost brokeup like three or four times sometimes i initiated, sometimes he did but we would get back together after a few days each time. fyi our issue was communication but over time i felt like it was just clashing personalities. I finally decided it was too much for me and i called it of",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Take back the ex, or just move on? [m/26] POST: That's always the million dollar question right, are they worth taking back. Short version is: dated for a year, I moved to where she lived and got a job, a month later she freaked out and moved 1000+ miles away. Things were okay between us for a while and then she just dropped off the face of the earth one day. Now, a month after disappearing, she LITERALLY flew back and showed up at my door step. Then i got the usual: ""I made",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What ""embarrassing"" things have you hidden from the world, to later wonder ""what was I thinking?"" POST: My freshman year of college, I was a varsity athlete, and I wanted to ""fit in"" with the team (I never really did in high school). So I hid my magic deck in my sock drawer and would claim to ""visit family"" on the weekends I went to tournaments. Then comes spring break, when my rommate and I are packing our things, and he sees me quickly move my magic cards into my bookbag and starts la",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [25/M] recently broke up with GF [26/F] after 5 year relationship. Still have same friends. Planning to spend a night on the town this weekend and just found out she's going too. [x-post r/relationships] POST: What started as a usual group of just friends turned into me dating one of the ladies. We all remained good friends during our relationship. Recently, we came to a mutual decision to end things. Our group of friends is still together. The ex-gf and I have had on and off ",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Finally landed a job! and everything started happening. POST: After a year and four months of not being able to find my first job in engineering finally I received an offer a couple of weeks ago. Wanted to share this because I was beginning to get very frustrated with the process and with not being able to land anything. Funny thing is I applied to many places through those 16 months, and then an ex-classmate called me asked me if i would like to get recommended at 'JOB A', got an intervie",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you deal with Unrelenting rage? POST: I'm so furious right now Reddit. I just lost got laid off because ""Business is bad"" yet I trained a new hire to work with. looks like I trained my own damn replacement. Last week I broke up with my GF of two years because she was cheating on me with her old ex. This guy is a loser who never has work to do, everything is paid for by his parents and he just does drugs all day. fucking loser. So my ex moved all her shit out while I was at work",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I (M/22) live in Central London, and my SO is moving in for 2 months to find a job. Should I charge her anything? POST: Hi personal finance, I have a very personal finance question which I really do not know the answer to: how much to charge a lodging SO. I live in Central London, and have a nice apartment which I share with two flatmates. The rent is very expensive, swallowing about 45% of my post-tax income when bills are included. My SO of 19 months has graduated from universit",negative " r/jobs TITLE: How do you tell someone you won't recommend them for a job? POST: I asked on Facebook if anyone would like to interview for a position we're hiring for where I work. An old co-worker of mine (we'll call him Bob) said he was looking for work and wanted the recommendation. But I don't feel comfortable recommending him. Bob got me my previous job. I had been working at the company, and was allowed to switch departments because Bob agreed to mentor me while I was transitioning. He also nudged be",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by looking at my girlfriend's old Facebook notes. POST: This story happened around February of this year, I had been with this girl for roughly 5 months and I wanted to surprise her with her favorite flowers on V-Day without asking her about it. So one night I opened up every single note she'd ever put on Facebook in my browser and Ctrl+F'd the word 'flower'. She happened to call me at the same time and asked me what I was up to, I explained to her I was looking for something on her Fac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I wrong in not wanting to hang out with my GF's ex's? POST: So my girlfriend and I have been dating for almost a year, she is 19, and I am 20. She is generally a sweet person, but she doesn't get along with girls, and has dated, or had flings with a *decent* amount of guys. She has kept in touch with almost all of them, and still hangs out, talks to them, and will even call them every once in a while. This makes me extremely uncomfortable, as almost all of these guys are making ob",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, in what way do you try stop others being upset form things that have upset you in the past? POST: Example; Its my younger brothers 16th birthday this year, and I have bought him a cheap-ish tablet device (I don't have a good income) and I have a silly meal planned, including a home made pizza and home made muffin with chocolate sauce for desert for him, where I'll bring the muffin out on his wrapped present. I'm doing this because most of our birthdays, we have been promised a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: boyfriend (25m)didn't cheat but seemed tempted. Am I overreacting? POST: My boyfriend (25M) and I (25F) have been together for a year. This weekend, we went on a ski trip with some friends. We knew about 5 of the 20 people in our group so we made a few friends along the way. The last night we were there, I got sick and spent most of the night alone in our hotel room. I tried getting him to stay in the room with me but he wanted to drink with his friends, so I gave him my blessing to ",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Had some interviews, no offers, what am I doing wrong? POST: It happened again today- I have a decent interview, but still didn't make the cut. This is the 4th time this has happened in the last month. My resume/portfolio have gotten me a decent reply rate, and I have had some good interviews, but still no results. And I'm trying to follow the advice on here, basic stuff- get there a little early, bring your resume, research the company, look over and prepare common questions, send a thank-y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my exclusive bf [26M] for 5months, how soon is too soon for 'the talk' POST: Hey all! Thanks for reading! I've been with my boyfriend for five months, both in love. He is slightly emotionally damaged and sometimes has issues expressing himself unless I bring up the emotional topics (this is due to several bad past relationships with being cheated on, he also was with a girl for seven years, they were engaged and it ended cause she cheated multiple times). I have also b",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: My dog seems to know she has been bad when I get home. How can I ""punish"" her so she will be better? POST: My dog is a 2.5 year old Pit/Boxer. She will have ""accidents"" inside and will ALWAYS get into the garbage if we don't put it on the counter (she has even ripped a cabinet door off to get to it). She is left alone 90% of the time for a max of 4 hours. I have been told and have read many times that dogs don't understand a punishment if you were gone when the incident occurred. But w",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying but get my computer fixed POST: I had a really nice laptop. 8gigs of ram, solid state drive, blazing fast and full of cool shit. I played a couple steam games on it but after awhile it started overheating and shutting down. It was still a great machine, but games with serious physics were too much. No big deal, I have a desktop for that. This is my work machine primarily. Full office suite which is nice. I mentioned this to a friend and he offers to clean the fan and reapply t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [15/m] friend plans on having a child with his [15/f] girlfriend. POST: My friend and his girlfriend plan on having a child in there 2nd year of high school. They have been dating about a year and even want to get officially married when they graduate. I learned this information through his girlfriend and I am the only person besides them who knows. I have brought it up to him a handful of times to convince him why it's a bad idea but he tells me to not get involved into his life",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Going to college in August, need help buying a Laptop. POST: I should start this off by saying that I've never posted on Reddit before, been lurking here for 5 months and been an avid /b/tard for close to 4 years now. 4chan probably wont be of any assistance. Anyhoo, i need to buy a laptop to go to school with. I'm going to KU in August and i want to get the best computer i can for the cheapest amount i can. I'm pretty into gaming, with HoN and Shogun 2 making up my most played, althou",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: ROTH 401K vs. Buying a House (xpost: r/investing) POST: Throwaway because I don't want my redditor friends to know all of this. I'm 25 years old, and make 40K a year. I have 0 debts, own two cars, no credit card debt, and I do have a 6 month EF. Investment - ROTH IRA = $30K - All in S&P Index Fund I need to choose between buying my first house vs. maxing out my company's ROTH 401K plan, which comes with a 50% match. I'm in a unique position to buy a house. In my case, my mom",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: Hey my friend totally sucks. POST: (for the record, we are in high school so yeah, just noting since I'm x-posting from /r/teenagers ) Hey okay. So as the title states, I have this really good friend. And she sucks. I mean, she is an awesome person, smart, funny, attractive, etc. etc. but she is convinced she is totally worthless. Not in a depressed kind of way, as she's often happy and upbeat, but she for whatever reason believes that she has absolutely no good qualities whatsoever, w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (23/M) and I (20/F) have been best friends for years. Now that we are finally together he just wants to have sex in the most part of the time. POST: Me and my boyfriend have been best friends for almost 8 years. He has always been very attentive and sensitive to me and I always kept a great love for him. I've always had problems with connection and I can say that, in fact, he is the only person besides my mother with whom I managed to make a connection. I was dating two",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I can't get over a guy I never even spoke to... POST: So in June (2014) I moved away from home to start a new job about 6 hours away. I drove there, started my new summer job an everything was going great. Let me give you some background, where I worked is a small tourist ""town"" by the ocean that is pretty much only functional in the summer. So I was about a week into work and I went to take the garbage out... I walk outside and on my way there a group of three guys who also worked in ",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Kitten is peeing in inappropriate places - have tried several things and am not sure how to proceed. POST: Hello, I posted a while ago about how my new kitten was giving us trouble by peeing in the wrong places, e.g. trash cans, the sink sometimes, etc. We're in a three story house with the litter boxes down in the basement originally (we've got a full-grown cat for whom that works fine), however, taking the advice I got previously, we put a litter box on each floor now. Both cats have been",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should a girl [16] tell a guy friend [18] her real feelings for him? POST: I've liked a guy friend [18] for a while now (over a year), but, I don't know if I should tell him [16] that I like him. We're pretty good friends and we talk a lot, not just mindless chit-chat, we've had some pretty personal conversations before. He isn't American by the way, I'm not sure that would make a difference, but, just in case... I've known him for about a year and a half. Anyhow, I'm not sure if",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not reading my script before rehearsal POST: I (22M) just landed a part in a play at my community theatre. It has been 4 years since I have done any acting, so I was ecstatic to get cast as one of the leads. I had read about half of the script before our first rehearsal and noticed that I had quite a few kissing scenes with the cute girl playing the character opposite of me. I was relieved to find out the girl was really funny and relaxed, because I find kissing scenes to be kinda awk",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How much time do I [19M] have to wait until I can try to get back with my ex[18F]? POST: Both of us loved each other but I fucked up many times and I started to destroy the relationships. After 4 months of relationship she said she wasn't happy and that she had to decide if she could keep on with the relationship. Then I started to think and I realized about ALL the things that I fucked up because that girl was my first love and I lacked experience. It was then that I started to cha",negative " r/running TITLE: Tips for running through a period of depression? POST: I've struggled with periods of depression throughout my life, and usually just binge on movies until it passes (1-2 months on average), forego exercise, and limit my interactions with others. Unfortunately, I'm a teacher now and on top of that, am training for a marathon in January. The problem is, I can barely motivate myself to show up for work in the morning, much less do any workouts - running or otherwise. Does anyone have tips on",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Don't know how I [34/f] should deal with my therapist POST: I am seeking relationship advice with my therapist. We are in a therapeutic relationship, unlike most of the romantic relationships mentioned here. Also, I am not seeking advice having do with any of my issues. Basically, for the last few months I have been telling my therapist that I was abused for years by a parent who spoke to me in French. My therapist also speaks some French, but our therapy is conducted in Engl",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Going in for an interview on Wednesday... POST: I'm slightly nervous, but I think it will be good, I've been preparing and I know what I'm going to say when the Personal Presentation comes up. But...! During the Personal Presentation am I meant to talk about myself and why I want to fill the apprenticeship. On the ""About me"" slide I have the regular stuff like ""Born in the UK"", ""Spanish and Jamaican"" because my mum is from Jamaica and my dad from Spain. I also have the word that would best",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (23 F) with my ""friend"" (25 M). Very confused by his actions POST: I have known my friend Eli for a about a year. It was known for about four months that we have had feelings for each other and we recently decided that we wanted to go on more dates with each other and focus on just on each other. We have the same group of friends and they have been working on setting us up so we were always seeing each other a lot and meshing because of our similar movie and music tastes. Eli a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: BF[35] is mad b/c I [F 32] traded shirts w/ another man at a party..was I in the wrong? POST: I've been w/ my bf for 6months now. Last night we were at a house party together & had been drinking.. He insists that our mutual friend [M]has the hots for me.. I don't really see it but, admit that I can be daft sometimes.. Either way..I have never given him or anyone else a reason to not trust me in a relationship..I'm always honest& open..never been a cheater! My current BF knows this ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: A question for Asians. POST: I live in the Chicagoland area and I have been noticing groups of young Asians (mainly girls) hanging out in restaurants, travelling on trains and especially walking around downtown Chicago. The odd thing about these girls is they dont seem to know eachother. Normally when I see a group of girls together in a public setting they seem like friends or at least they act like it. The more I pay closer attention to Asian groups I notice, the more they seem like th",negative " r/Advice TITLE: New dog at home, Aunt and Uncle mean to her and won't listen to me POST: So I got a new dog on July 3rd, a lovely german shepherd/husky mix. Her name is Bonbon and she's a big sweetheart. She gets along with everyone and loves to play. Ever since I brought her home, my aunt and uncle kick her, spray her with the hose, stomp their feet and shoo the dog whenever she gets remotely close to them (which really spooks her, since she's a shy dog). We have two other dogs, but those belong to my au",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [21 M] in love with with my best friend [20F] who I've dated. POST: I dated my best friend for about 5 months. Before that we previously fooled around when drunk. I love her, she's one of the best people I've ever met. Lately I've been considering ""Am I in love with her?"" We are college students. We were very busy the 5 months we were together. We didn't have a lot of alone time. Our relationship got stale. We broke it off at the end of the year. We are living together (as fri",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My computer hates being idle! Can you guys help me solve this problem? *BEEEP!* POST: Hello all; So a while back, I installed a brand new shiny, all-that-I-Could-afford graphics card on my Desktop PC--an MSI GeForce n460GTX Hawk graphics card. It runs what I need it to just fine, but other than its graphics card my desktop is rather run of the mill. To list: Hewlett-Packard HPE-210f (With a 'windows experience' score of 4.1!) AMD Phenom (tm) II X4 945 Processor 3.00 GHz 8.0GB RAM W",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Got a phone call saying that I won a cruise, they asked for my name and hung up... did I just get scammed? POST: Hey Reddit! Basically what I just asked. I like to fill out those forms at the mall sometimes for fun but never expect anything out of it. I was having a terrible day and got very excited when I got the phone call. They transferred me to the claims department and they asked me my name and then immediately hung up. I did a quick google search and nothing seemed to come up, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my friend [18 M], birthday party POST: So im not really close to this guy but he invited me over for his birthday party (night) and i was the only girl he invited. The others there were his long time bros. I didnt go in the end though cause i felt it would be weird if i went. Why would he invite me?? There are other times where he did things for me too such as waiting for me after school when he ended early but i ended pretty late. I asked him to wait and he just did f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it wrong that I [31m] still wants a relationship with my soon to be ex-wife [27F] when shes having another mans kid? POST: Ill try to keep it short. We were together for 10 years. Had our kid 6 years ago. About 6 months after he was born, She was in a serious car accident, hit head on by a semi. Had part of her spine fused with rods and also has an spinal simulator for pain. She, from day one, has wanted 2-3 kids, me not so much. I was happy just us three. We spit up, both seeing",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25M] long-time friend [25F] asked me to dinner. After I accepted, she's turned it into a date. POST: First post in this thread, throwaway account, names changed. I've known my friend (let's call her Susan) for almost 9 years. 5 years ago I moved across the country for work. We kept in touch through social media and always tried (and failed) to meet up when I came back home to visit family. I'm now moving back to my home state in about a month. Susan sent me a text telling me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19m) am deeply in love with (18f), how do I get rid of it? POST: We have been in an off and on relationship for 5 years, dating half year, splitting up for a year etc. Now we are in a dating phase, working on a relationship we both want. Now here's the thing, I am deeply in love, and I know she isen't that much as me, I want to take 100 steps at a time, she wants just 1 step. I KNOW this isen't going to work out in the end and I dont want to be hurt after all. People might ask, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] with my friend [18F] and her ex-boyfriend [19M] [Dating] POST: So I just started college, and my friend Kate is a grade above me (so she's a sophomore now.) We were pretty good friends in high school, but 100% non-platonic. She had a boyfriend Matt in her grade that I was on good terms with and that I would occasionally hang out in a group with him. So we are all going to college in the area (different colleges, but all close together), and in the beginning of July, Matt br",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] want kids, my gf [23F] doesn't want any, ever. We've been together for 5 years and I'm afraid I can't continue POST: I bought a house, bought her a car and she's ready to move in with me but I'm because she doesn't want kids and I do. She's very mad at me because I gave her the fantasy of living together by taking her house shopping, buying her the car and talking about our future in my house. I recently started to realize that this was gonna be a massive step in our relatio",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my GF[24 F] 4 years, is extremely short tempered and gets angry at me for seemingly nothing POST: My Gf and I have been together for 4 years. The majority of the time she's amazing. But ever since I can remember she's had a short fuse. It is often triggered by minor occurrences like her phone freezing and the refrigerator door not closing. These often lead to tantrums and her yelling at me. When the refrigerator wouldn't close, instead of looking inside to see what was",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32/F] with my crush [46/M] of two years POST: I have realized recently that I really, really like my coworker. We started out flirting fairly soon after I started working there, and it has progressed somewhat physically. We talk often, in person, and messaging. He has called me things like beautiful, pretty, amazing, cute. He has said I could have any guy I want. He has came up behind me and poked me, came up behind me and wrapped his arms around me, getting pretty touchy. The ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (29M) am concerned about my girlfriends (27F) friend (27M) and his intentions... POST: My gf and I have been together for 16 months. We live together and have talked a lot about future plans together. In November of last year an old friend reached out to her on Facebook. She hadn't heard from him in 3-4 years because his ex didn't want him speaking with her. Well they have text every now and then since then and sometimes the texts have been out of line- talking about how he wish",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] have been dating for 3 months, I'm a virgin, she's not. Don't know how to ask her for sex. POST: Hey guys, So it has been 3 months since I'm in a relationship with her, and I'm really confused. In facts, She already went through several relationships, had sex with men /and women/, and in the other hand, I'm still a virgin, she knows that, and we didn't make love yet. About a month ago, I asked her the reason. She replied that she wanted me to b",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Anyone ever have any success getting a family member to change the way they interact with their dog? POST: My brother in law and his wife have a dog that I believe has some reasonably serious resource guarding issues with 40-50lb dog. The dog has shown aggressive behavior over couches, chairs, their bed, food, stolen items (food taken from the counter, dead animals found on walks etc), the wife (growls at my brother in law sometimes for simply approaching her while the dog is near her). B",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/m] my Ex-gf [21/f] is reaching out to me. Need Help POST: Okay, the preamble here is that we started dating in 6th grade, and on and off through 10th grade. That is when I was diagnosed with some mental conditions and had to go away for treatment. We decided we were too codependent and she stopped talking to me for a few years. We started talking again when we were both in relationships, and her relationship ended but I stayed in mine. She then met someone and has been with",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26/F] with my ex [36/M] of three years, we work in the same office, is it okay to wear the jewelry he bought me to work after our breakup? POST: Hi! I'm a longtime lurker but this is my first time posting so I apologize in advance if this isn't the right subreddit/format/etc. Background: I like wearing a little jewelry each day to finish off an outfit. My ex bought me quite a bit of it over the years and when we were together he always loved it when I wore something he had gotte",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/M] with my girlfriend [27/F] and our relationship is moving fast -- potential red flags? POST: Girlfriend and I were shitty to each other two nights last week. My friend was in town this weekend and at the bar (around 5pm) she starts freaking out because this guys approached us saying we're a great couple and need a game plan for the future (she is foreign and her visa is running out soon - I'm considering a move to her country). At the bar she starts crying and says she wants",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] and my ONS [28 F] know each other for 2 nights, have Sex during 2nd one. Not sure about what she wants. POST: We know each other for 2 nights. She asks my friend (M27) ""whether I'll be there again"". Am there again the next night. We go out again. Have fun, have Sex (again in the morning and she went for it). Go for a nice walk in the sun. Bring her to the main station. Says she wants to go to Event with me. I agree, tell her I'll contact her. Send her message the next day:",positive " r/relationships TITLE: It may be time to leave my girlfriend(20f) but I(20m) am not sure how or if I should. POST: Hello, thank you for reading this, I don't know who else to ask about this. The problem I'm having is I don't know if I still want to be with my girlfriend anymore, there isn't any big issue that is making me want to leave but things for myself mostly, such as she is my first real relationship and we have been together for a bit over a year and a half, but I feel like I'm missing out on thing",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 F] with my friend/colleague? [30's M] 6 months, he has helped me tremendously - what is appropriate to thank him? POST: hi all! I'm an artist working in a new creative field. This summer I met a group of people who work in this field. They meet up, share work, hook each other up with gigs. It's great. Everyone has been so nice. The guy who started the group has hooked me up with work that has honestly been life-changing in terms of getting in the game. He is married, I am ma",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [M/26] Went on a date with a girl [F/23] but not sure what to do next? POST: I'm in Argentina and I matched with a girl on Tinder. We met up and got drinks earlier tonight and we had a great time - I was laughing, she was laughing and we had fun. Here's the thing - I'm in Buenos Aires and I've only been learning Spanish for a few months so it's pretty basic and she speaks absolutely no English. We were able to understand each other though and the language barrier wasn't really a pr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (26/M) Dealing with Possessive (30/F) Woman POST: Hi guys, Maybe you can provide some insight. My buddy introduced me to a friend of his girlfriend a few days ago. We met each other, talked and hung out for like an hour. She was pretty cool. However once I got home, she started texting me non-stop. Like, when I say non-stop it was literally every three minutes. I told her I was watching tv with my mom (which I was), and every ten minutes she would text asking if I am still watc",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Boyfriend [25/M] not attracted to me? [19/F] POST: I feel a little strange about coming here for advice, but I don't know what else to do. I'm in a long distance relationship, but we meet in person periodically, and this is a very serious relationship for both of us. We have lots of sex when we get together (an average of 3 times everyday). I am considered very good looking, he tells me on a regular basis how cute and beautiful I am, and say that I have what he considers his id",positive " r/relationships TITLE: my [16 F] girlfriend gets hit by her brother [15 M]. I am [16 M] POST: My girlfriend and her mum both get beaten by her brother. Since we have been going out (4 months) he has only hit her once (it was a weak punch so i dismissed it) but he repeatedly punches and kicks his mum to the point she is crying. He hasn't hurt my girlfriend since we have been dating but before that he has given her bruises across her body and a black eye. I am not entirely sure what to make of this situation",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (18F) boyfriend (18M) is going away for college. What do? POST: My boyfriend and I are your typical high school sweethearts. We were crushing on each other for years but managed to confess and get together only about two months ago (I actually posted an Ask Reddit thread on the subject). Which sucks a lot because he's going away for college in two days. He'll be on a busy schedule since he enrolled an art academy and will have classes for 9 hrs a day. We both like each other a lo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What do you want when you come home from a stressful day at work? POST: My (20f) boyfriend (22m) of a year and a half has been very stressed out at work lately and most days when he comes home he is in a bad mood (understandably) and seems to get irritated by anything/everything I say and do. I see why he is not in a great mood, I just don't think it's fair for him to take it out on me. We've been arguing a lot because of it, which isn't normal for us. I'm getting worried that I did ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife and I are ALWAYS the initiators when trying to get together with our friends. Late-20's/early-30's POST: My wife and I have several friend-couples we enjoy hanging out with. All are married, some have kids. Most of the time, we see them in large group settings like watching football or playing poker. My wife and I prefer to hang out with people in smaller settings, like just four of us having dinner or something. Other couples claim to want this too, often saying ""we should h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How would you react?! I am a [23f] with my s/o [23m] POST: Hello, my s/o [m23] has posted a photo that I am not comfortable with. He acts like it is no big deal. He works at a Vape shop and this girl seems to be in there every night they seem pretty comfortable with each other he buys her soda he lets her use his Vape whenever she wants he posts her a lot on snap chat. I have threatened to leave him am I over reacting should I be more upset!? Help!! The photo is of the girl licking ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [f 17] am having issues trusting my boyfriend [m 18] of 8 months. Help? POST: So, my boyfriend and I are generally pretty open with our phones and things like that, he goes through mine all the time. I finally decided to go through his, and I genuinely didn't expect to find anything bad. But one look at his Facebook messenger and I was feeling pretty different. I found out that throughout our whole relationship he'd been messaging tons of girls, sometimes just saying ""Heyyy,"" somet",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Men help me out. What would you have done?? or women, what would you have thought? POST: So earlier this morning I went to the gym to work out with a girl friend of mine. We're both very close and kinda have a thing going but have both agreed not to pursue it much. While at the gym we were working on abdominals and core exercises and stuff, so we're both sitting on those small mat type things. While there, some guys sits down on a machine right next to us and also facing us. He's got hi",negative " r/travel TITLE: I heard you guys might appreciate this: feel good message, and great reminder to always pay it forward. POST: I know a lot of pay-it-forward messages focus on helping someone out in really dire situations, but I got this from someone who I met for just one day, she was couchsurfing with a friend, over 3 years ago: >This is a bit of a belated email but one I've been meaning to send for a while. Do you remember when I was in San Francisco and you were lovely enough to show me around, take me",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [21F] shy, inexperienced and not at all confident - he's [26M] the complete opposite... Would it work? POST: I've only ever had one boyfriend - I was 18 and lost my virginity to him and he was the first guy I ever kissed. I was only seeing him for about a month before I broke with him because he was becoming weird and controlling. I haven't seen or dated anyone since. I'm really shy and not very confident, I shy away from people who tend to show interest in me because I'm not rea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29F] with new guy [29M] I started dating 3 months ago POST: I started dating a new guy about three months ago. Things started out great, dinners, dates, lots of texts. It has continued the same - meaning that we still see each other only once or twice a week for dates. He responds to my texts quickly but I'm always making the plans. Its seems the relationship is not progressing. Then today I asked him earlier in the day what he was up to later. He wasn't sure he may of had t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Please help, Grandmother's leg is locking up, Do not know how to help her. POST: I'm at my grandparent's house right now because they need somebody to help them get through the day when my Mom (who is their home nurse) can't make it. About an hour ago my grandmother tried to get up to go to bed and she ended up standing there for about ten minutes, my grandfather and I asked her several times what was wrong and she just shook her head. After about five more minutes she said that her leg ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Would you keep looking for a job or stick it out? POST: I've had some shit job luck. I was temping at a place that was supposed to last a year. They cut it short 4 months in and said they needed someone more senior. I think they strung me along so they could waste time interviewing, but I tried not to be too bitter. My supervisor at that place reached out to me this month (4 months of being unemployed) and said his wife (at another company) was hiring my position. So I got in touch and int",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: 5/3 Credit Card double-charging every transaction this last month. What to do? POST: So a few months ago I got a credit card with a decent limit for emergencies that I carry around since I have not been too big on using credit cards at all. Then about 5-6 weeks ago, my wife decided to plan a trip for us to go to Disney World. We did rough cost estimations and we had been saving for it, but instead of piecing it all together, I decided to put the whole trip and related costs on my c",negative " r/self TITLE: So I've seen a lot of amazing things happen on reddit... today I received my first commission check from iTunes for a project I've been working on for 3 years. It was all of $1.55. Please help my website get the attention it deserves and get me out of school loan debt! POST: I've been a redditor 11 months now (other username: tcash21). I've seen a lot of amazing things happen here, from money being raised to help a sick redditor without health insurance, to random strangers offering organs,",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What if the Berlin Wall never fell? POST: I am an American student studying German. I am looking to start a discussion about what would have happened if the Berlin Wall never fell? I am simply curious as to what theories there are as I am sure many people have talked about this before. In fact, what sparked the falling of the wall was actually a mistake. A mere slip of the tongue. I was originally going to post this to /r/Germany but it is not specific to just Germany. This would have i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need help, screwed out of 300 deposit. before I moved in. POST: I moved to Shreveport (PCS) to start flying at Barksdale air force base, I couldn't get there in time to see an apartment so I looked online. Found a cool place, 870 sq feet, full kitchen stainless steel, granite counter tops, etc. I get to the base 31 Aug 11pm.. in process the next day, long process not done yet. Go to check my apartment on 2 September. And when I get there I don't have a kitchen. kitchen promised: <",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Too late for closure? POST: A few months ago, I had a... thing with a girl. Basically, we'd get together at night and fuck, cuddle, fall asleep and fuck some more she'd GTFO with all possible haste the following morning (her preference). Nothing serious, but I did like her a lot. We never knew each other well enough for me to fully justify this claim, but she's likely in the top 95% of people I've met in my life, all things considered. Anyway, I awoke one beautiful Sunday morn",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (18M) said something strange a few months ago and I (18F) am confused POST: To start off, I want to say that my boyfriend (of 5 years) and I have an overall very loving relationship. He is my best friend and I am his, he has never said anything concerning (other than this) ever and before you tell me to just break up with him, I'd like some advice on the situation. So a few months ago my boyfriend and I were at a party. We were both pretty drunk. He started off by just tel",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Advice on casually dating multiple people. POST: What might seem like a blessing for some, is a major headache for me. I'll start off by saying this: I have been out of the dating game for years. My last real relationship ended in 2010. I kind of dated around for a few months after that, but I never wanted to commit to anything. Once I started my current job, dating just sat on the back burner. Flash-forward 6 whole years, and now I have this dilemma, all coming to a head this weeken",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Missed a meeting due to anxiety. Should I lie? POST: I'm a freelancer. All my contact with clients is online (none of them are local), mostly through email. Pretty regularly, a new prospect will want to chat with me before they hire me, via phone or Skype or Google Hangouts or whatever. Understandable; they want to make sure they have the right person, and tell me about their company and the project. I have pretty bad social anxiety. I'm fine once the meeting starts, but for hours bef",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] develop vaginismus 1 year into every relationship. POST: I am 15 months into my 3rd serious relationship. Both of the others began going downhi after 1 year. I developed vaginismus and was unable to have sex and eventually lost interest. This new relationship is perfect, and I'd hate for it to end the same. I am so attracted to him, physically and emotionally. we used to have incredible sex multiple times a day. Now, one year later, I'm suddenly super anxious when it comes ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by learning a mouth doesn't lactate. POST: So this actually happened awhile ago, as most tifu's do. A little backstory, as an eighth grader I had some serious anxiety. And when I got nervous, I vomited like a damn faucet. My guts would hurt so bad it felt like someone was trying to wring out my intestines. One day it got so bad I asked my mom to drive me to the emergency room because I was 99% sure I was going to die. She sped me all the way there, and we waited for about 3 hours. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Move in with bf or pay student loans? POST: I would like input on if I should move in with my boyfriend. I am having an inner struggle with this for a few weeks. To the point of losing sleep. Me 23 him 22 dating close to a year. So now for background information. I recently was offered a new position where I make more money and with this I would be able to move out of my parents house and live on my own. I had asked my boyfriend if he would be my roommate not thinking he would sa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my Fiance [25 F] 4.5 yrs, she drove up gave me the ring back and told me it's over POST: I had thought everything was going great. We hadn't fought in a long time and we were going to visit her sister next week in North Carolina. I was working and she texted ""I'm coming up."" So I'm waiting for her at my home and she finally gets there ""we have to talk."" We go in the back and she tells me ""I don't love you as much as you love me. You deserve someone who is going to wa",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: My( 24M) mutual crush (24F) has decided to take sometime off to get over her past..how should I help? POST: Some background: She's a first year in Med School, I'm a 2nd year. She's 3 months out of a 3 year relationship, I'm 4 months out of a 6 year relationship. We started talking and hanging out a lot about 3 weeks ago. I've swept her off her feet: cooking for her, buying her flowers, being an all around gentleman & taking things slow. When we are physical (no sex yet b/c we both wa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: what mis-information is widely touted by the hivemind here, but is in fact untrue? POST: I'm pretty tired of everyone crying about how banks got bailed out and tax payers got the short end of the stick. please do some research- and you'll see that the majority of 'bailed' out companies have paid the money back with interest. In the case of Goldman, they took $10Bn INVESTMENT from the gov't (which got from taxpayers), and they repaid it with 23% interest. on an overall basis- the maj",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Both nearing the ends of our leash.. Help! (F20/M22) POST: So here's the deal... My boyfriend (M22) and I (F20) have been together for just less than 2 years. We share many interests, however, we do both have our own hobbies as well. In the last year we have been arguing and fighting about once a week over the silliest issues. Though we both know that the arguments are pointless, neither one of us can keep from hurting one another. Though we both regret our words we end up fighting a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, please take care of my bunny this summer POST: Hello Reddit, I live in Denmark but on June 21st I'm going to Iran for a vacation. I really don't want to go but my parents have the final say and the said I'm going. I can live with being in Iran during the extremely hot summer and even fast (since Ramadan is coming up and it's illegal to not fast). The only thing I have an actual problem with is my pet bunny here in Denmark. I can't bring him with me and I don't know anyone who c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [20 M] is overstaying his welcome and I (20 F) don't know how to tell him to leave. POST: Throwaway account just in case. Some background: I live in a house near my university with 6 other girls. The house is owned by our church and has an open door policy during the day so it is also a place where students come and hang out between classes. It's not uncommon to have people over during the day hanging out or studying. The problem is that we have one friend who *never leav",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What would you do if your life suddenly resembled the plot of The Wedding Singer? POST: Hi Reddit! Long time lurker, first time seeker of the hivemind's advice. This feels so surreal! Before we begin, I'm not here for karma or upvotes. I really would like to hear your thoughts on this. I was out with a bunch of friends last weekend and I met a girl through them. She's demonstrated interest in me (she was attached to my side the entire evening) and she's very cute, only trouble is th",positive " r/dogs TITLE: So angry and not sure what to do POST: I'm so annoyed right now! doggit, I'm not sure what to do or what I can do. I know of two people (a couple in a relationship) that are very irresponsible dog owners, they are my boyfriends friends (definitely not mine) and treat their pets horrible. They are the kind of people that keep their dog tied up outside 24/7, let it poop everywhere and never clean it up. Have a flimsy fenced yard where the dog eventually got out and got killed by a car. They fe",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: How do you stay motivated on a daily basis? POST: I've been following this sub for quite some time now, almost more then a year. I can recite numerous motivational quotes. I know how I want to be, how ever many variations of that there are. I know I can be motivated to do what I need to do. The problem is, I forget. I wake up in the morning, with a little bit of the motivation I had from the night before, and spend the day building it back up. I'm all talk and no play. This was supp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How much time is enough for a break? Me [20/M] and her [17/F] POST: A few facts: * We have been talking since December through facebook * She lives on my hometown, 500km away of where I am right now * We met up twice in February, and in one of these dates we made out for a long time and almost had sex * She has issues with her ex and he keeps stalking her and sending letters, sending friend requests to the people that comment on her photos and etc * We have never had a ""bad tim",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] am really isolated and scared POST: I'm very isolated. Its caused me a lot of damage, completely killed my ability to think straight, and now I'm dropping out of college with failing grades. I'm coming around to the fact now that, historically, I've been a social disaster. But I just can't take it anymore. I desperately want to fix it before my youth is completely gone. But I have no idea how. I'm completely lost. I want to date women but I have *zero* idea how to do that",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I am 17/m falling for my 16/f ex again...? halp POST: I dated my ex for a little more than 9 months. eventually we had some awkward situations and we broke up. I eventually fell into a slight depression that I got out of about a month ago. its now 4 months after we broke up and she messaged me for the first time since we broke up. Within that conversation I remembered why I loved her. She was the nicest person, she let me talk and she was there for me. She was the exact person ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I [18M] clear everything up my friend? [17F] POST: Hello everyone! So I have a good friend of mine, her and i have known each other for over 3 years and it's only since the past year. That we've started hanging out more. We have lots in common and can talk about basically anything! I think of her really as my little sister. Anyway, yesterday i decided i would invite her to my formal (Prom) just as friends. She said yes (yay! :D ) and the rest of the day we just hung ou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [17 F] of 10 months is angry at me [17 M] because i wanna get a job over the summer vacation and she is gonna be home alone for 2 weeks. POST: So, my mum has a new workspace as a manager of a store, and she told me there's a chance for me to get a job over the holidays, but she doesn't know the specifics regarding shifts and whatnot. I told her i want to get a job and since then she is telling me about job offers everyday, so she really wants me to get one. With the cur",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Should I just end it now? POST: So me and my boyfriend are both 17 and have been dating for just over 7 months, the relationship has had tiny bumps in the past but other than that it's been great. In July i'll be moving to from Australia to Europe. I did the hard task of telling him my choice to leave almost 2 weeks ago, he thinks I made the right choice in leaving and we both agreed that a long distance thing at our age with that much distance would never work out. That was about as muc",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, What is your most bizzare encounter with a total stranger? [First post] POST: Today (Jan 23, 2012 Chinese New Year) I was waiting at the bus stop with a few friends to go home. We'd come 40 minutes too early and 5 minutes too late so we waited there a while. Out of no where an old Indian man (late 60's early 70's) stops to sit at the bus stop beside me, and soon we engage into conversation. He practically told me his life story, how he had broken his femur once in India in a car ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [20F] 1 month, girlfriend has a 2-year-old and we need advice on how to pursue a relationship POST: The girl who I am dating has a child who recently turned two years old. The child's biological father is not a part of their lives and has not seen his child since shortly after her birth. We're having a hard time determining how to go about this. We both want a relationship and care greatly about one another, but we are unsure how to go about this with he",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Four of my best friends got busted for vandalism and might be charged. Their court date is in June. What do I do? POST: On Friday night, I was hanging out with four of my best friends. We were at a wal-mart plaza when one of my friends suggested that we should buy spray paint and go around and tag buildings and shit. Obviously this was a stupid idea, but to my friends, I guess it wasn't. So, my friends decided to buy it, and they wanted to go to an elementary school we used to go to and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: F[31], M[31] on/off...and really on again. I think. POST: Dated a guy years ago. I was his first girlfriend and love him. He had to move away soon. So, there was always this strange fear of that. There was no clear break up. Just me frustrated and pushing him off finally. We're apart for a few months. We end up living in close proximity again for about 2 years. Sexytimes, cuddles, fun happens again but he's moving soon again. So that fear is there. Nothing officially restarts. He say",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: No Idea what to do... POST: My dad hurt my sister when she was younger... Around 13, possibly like 15? He'd get her stoned or drunk and molest her. I never asked and was never told exactly how, don't even want to know tbh. But I'm super protective of her bc I feel like her getting hurt is somehow my fault. I am five years younger than her. My dad's off paper now, and out of prison but my sister isn't over it and honestly I don't blame her. He never did anything to me that I can recall b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [25F] tell my fiancé [30M] that he seriously needs to loose weight without hurting him? POST: Short and sweet: My fiancé is obese and has always been obese. I love him with all my heart but I'm not physically turned on by his body. This makes sex very awkward and not enjoyable for me. I want to spend the rest of my life with him, but if our sex life isn't good then I fear we'll end up breaking up. He has often said that he's gonna loose weight and we are going to the gym. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] do not know whether I am going on a date with [22F] of it's a friendly meet up...? POST: A couple of months ago I started talking to a girl on facebook who went at my university. I had a girlfriend at the time so didn't pursue her, simply had a friendly chat. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to her again and I teased her because of a picture she had posted on facebook and we spoke/joked around (flirted perhaps?!) for a bit. She then asked me how long I was going to be around fo",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Best friend's father has put her in rehab, with no contact from anyone even her mother. What? POST: So... here's the deal. My best friend started smoking a lot of pot last summer. She moved out of the house right after she graduated. She partied a lot, smoked, etc. Most things that young adults do once they get out of the house. (I did the exact same thing, but I've settled down and I'm married now) Things eventually got worse with time. She got caught with weed twice. And her dad being a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M 19] cannot choose between two girls [Both 18] that I like. POST: So, I live in Liverpool and I made friends with two females online over a year ago. I did not meet them on any dating sites, I am just good friends with them. One of them lives in Runcorn, which is very close to where I am, and one of them lives in London, which is quite far. Now, here's the main problem: I get on with them equally well, and I share many interests with both of them. I'm confident that I know them",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girl ends things, not really sure where to go from here... POST: So I'm a 17 year old guy whose a high school junior. Around february I asked this girl out, let's call her Julie. For the first couple of weeks, things went really well with Julie. First there was a lockin at school, where we ended up sleeping in the same sleeping bad and she cuddled up to me in the night. Then I had a birthday party where we spent the entire time together, and at the end of the night we kissed a ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it safe to omit past job info on a job application? POST: I'm about to start sending out apps for a second job, but I'd like to not mention a job I had last year. It was at an abysmal call center where I became deeply depressed over the course of a year and then ended up getting fired after snapping at one of the supervisors. Explanation: My primary job (the one I care about) is at a television station. Whenever there's severe weather, I have to go in. I'm essentially on call in the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Confused about where to go from here... POST: Hi all, 20F with 19M, been together for over two years. We're in college now and go to different schools that aren't too far away. We usually see each other every 1-2 weeks. Off birth control I'm a very sexual person, on it I have to be coaxed, I'm now off it for the first time in the relationship. I'm attracted to a bunch of people, some who are my friends, some who are his, and am overcome with feelings of lust for certain individual",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting a UTI POST: My SO and I have recently started to ""get it on."" In this time very little has occurred to cause a hitch. Might I also mention that this is my first sexual relationship, so beyond him I have no experience. Now, I do still live with my parents, and am under their rules. The unfortunate part to this is when, on Saturday morning, I woke up with a UTI. What's more, I didn't recognize it, and figured it was normal every now and then. Now, my mother has been very prote",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by comparing my Girfriend's grandma to a bitch in front of her whole family POST: So let's set the scene. Earlier today, it was my Girlfriend's grandmother's funeral, and afterwards there was a gathering at my Girlfriend's parents house, where there was food, and drinks for everyone. Where everyone can reminisce and share memories. So i'm in the kitchen with my girlfriend, her parents, her grieving grandfather, and other family members. My girlfriend has a dog, he's quite excitable, and",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Tell me your most embarrassing sexual failure, so I don't feel so bad about mine. POST: Imagine if you can, the cutest little button-nosed, befreckled, green-eyed beauty you have ever seen. Kind, sweet and shy. Nineteen years old. Now picture me, a short curly-haired geek with no social graces whatsoever - people scared me, pure and simple. I loved that girl from afar for the best years of my life, but never had the guts to do anything about it. Now flash forward six years since we'd l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with everyone. For around 8 years. I came to the realization that I'm a terrible person and all my personal relationships are build on lies. I don't know what to do. POST: I smoked too much weed yesterday and had a panic attack. I came to the realization that I'm a terrible person. I think I have some psychological problem and I feel like I can't trust myself. I have this high opinion of myself that I'm so much better than everyone else, but in reality I'm just not. I'm not",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25F] two coworkers [60's M] are chain smokers and they reek. They sit near me, what can I do? POST: I work in a cube farm, and there are two guys who sit on my row who are smokers, they probably go out 4-5 times a day to smoke. Every time they come in from their frequent smoke breaks, they REEK. What can I do? One is the head of my organization and the other has been with the company for 37 years, while I've only been here 4 months. I hate the smell, it gives me a headache, and i",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Need advice. Growing up, my parents were bad dog owners. 15 years later I'm still carrying a lot of guilt, and now I'm afraid to get a dog of my own. POST: When I was 6, my family adopted a black lab and a golden retriever. They were never properly trained so they spent all their time in the yard or in their kennels (with the majority of their time being in their kennels). Quite honestly these dogs had sad lives. They weren't abused but they were neglected emotionally for years and years. R",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: First time problems POST: Okay so me [16/m] and my gf [16/f] were going to have sex for the first time. We've been broken up for 2 months and just got back together a few weeks ago, overall we've been together for about a year and 3 months now. It isn't my first time having sex ever but my first time with her. Things started out like every other normal intimate session (kissing, touching, ect.) and as more clothes came off and things started to get more intense I kept feeling m",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling half the SVPs at my company ""I Love You"" POST: I work in IT and I got an email on my phone from one of our locations having issues with a printer. They sent it to the wrong group, which about 4 SVPs were a member of, but I figured I would help them out anyway. So, I opened it up so I could reply with the fix. At that time my wife texted me saying that maintenance came by and fixed our AC and said I love you. So, I type Love you too and hit send. Then I noticed I had a new emai",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By writing love poems. POST: Obligatory ""This didn't happen today but 3 months ago."" Well, for a little back story, I was crushing hard on a girl at the time and found her absolutely amazing. I had a hard time letting my feelings out, so I went outside with a notebook and did some poetic work about her. I put all my thoughts and feelings down in every verse, giving it my all. I spent hours sitting in the woods working on those poems. Then, eventually nightfall came. I headed back to my ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I be concerned? This situation just doesn't seem right. POST: Anyways, I'm usually not the jealous type and have always given any gf I've had the freedom to hang out with other guys as much as they want. The past few months, I started dating this girl who has been amazing in so many ways, up until now I've had no issue with her. For, the past few weeks shes been away visiting family. I know she has friends around the area and shes been hanging out with them while she ",negative " r/college TITLE: I hate what I'm studying. POST: I go to a small, private, liberal arts school. I transferred here after two years of community college so I could enter as a junior and save a lot of money. The school gave me a lot of scholarships, far more than most larger schools would. It also runs on a trimester system. Anyway, I decided to major in Asian Studies and minor in women's studies. Get your laughing out of the way now. I've heard it enough from my STEM-filled family. I love my major, but I *",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] am considering leaving my[21 M]boyfriend of one month for belittling me in front of his friends POST: Its been working for a month now and he has seemed very sweet but he invited me to a group called Rockford Mises Circle. Anyways, some defenses of the confederate flag came up. I was troubled by this and argued with the others that it was a patently racist flag and they starter saying it was no worse than the american flag. Anyways, boo-thang keeps liking this confederate ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Once I had handcuffed myself in a Hot Topic with a belt, I had to get the store manager to break it after 20 minutes of everyone staring at me, helpless. Reddit, what's the most embarrassing story you've had involving store managers? POST: It was one of those handcuff belts, and I had the bright idea of putting it around my wrists which apparently should not be done, as they got really tight. My cousin, who had been with me said to close them tighter to unlock them... which I did. This w",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [25m] awesome new Internet girlfriend [26f] is very overweight POST: We've been talking for a week, and we're pretty much perfect for each other. It's moved very fast, and because she seems so awesome if she were thin I would put a ring on it so fast her hand would get whiplash. (obviously a bit of hyperbole) But she mentioned that she's about 20 pounds overweight, so I asked her for a representative picture. She's pretty short, so the 20 pounds look like 50. She's not a wh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [17M] partner [17F] doesn't like me hanging out with my friends [16F, 17M] because I ""blow her off to hang with them"" so easily. POST: [Note: My partner's going through some gender issues at the moment, but for the sake of simplicity, I'm using feminine pronounds.] My partner (of five months) doesn't like me hanging with my friends because, and I quote, I ""blow [her] off so easily to hang with them"". I mean - I can see where she's coming from, yeah, but I only ever hang with them",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking the blue pill 6 hours before work POST: So I thought I would have enough time to sleep this off. Take the trip, my demons told me. It is, afterall, just a sleeping pill. Right? Wrong. I'm sitting at work now pretty much in a hypnotic state. Dazed and confused. Discombobulated, disconcerted, and derrrping hard. My head is lolling from side to front to back again and my eyelids are about as swollen as a hippo's ass after playing hungry hungry hippos with 4 fat and angry",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Does anyone have any *moving somewhere to stay with your significant other* stories? I would love to hear the good and the bad. POST: I am currently trying to decide where to live. I'd love to hear other people's advice on moving to be with your partner. Here's my current situation: I moved to a small town in the Yukon for change in my life. I planned on only staying a year. While here I met someone. We've been dating only 8 months. I'm a 31/f, and he's 29/m and I am very happy",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by ruining a surprise party and insulting the hosts autistic kids. POST: TIFU Guys. My friend, lets call him ""Carl"" has a surprise party tomorrow night, and Im excited for attending. That was up to 30 minutes ago... My friends and I, including Carl have a massive facebook chat about random shit. There is a separate chat for organising the party. We found out that Carls mum invited both his ex and current girlfriends to his party. We laughed, oh how we laughed. So, I told the massive c",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Younger sister is the ""victim"" in a sexual exploitation case, even though nothing happened. How to proceed? [BC, Canada] POST: Hi there, So my sister is a ballet dancer, almost 2 years ago a new male teacher joined the faculty of the academy she was dancing at, this would make her 17 at the time. This male teacher (let's call him John) was a fantastic mentor for my sister and she often had private lessons with him. This is completely normal in dance studios all over the country. About",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [16m] gf [17f] has recently told me her father gets drunk and verbally abuses her with a past of some physical abuse. POST: My girlfriend of a few months recently revealed to me that her father gets drunk and verbally abuses her and her family every other night. I am the only one she has ever told about this outside of her family and none of them want to go to anyone abiut it. I've tried talking her into maybe calling the police or social services or whatever to get him out of the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15M] with my new girlfriend [15F] of just 1 month, pretty happy but feeling like I may have chosen the wrong girl. POST: So around 7 or so months ago I started to notice that this girl liked me. She is pretty and very easy to be around with so I asked her out. I essentially got friendzoned and was pretty disappointed about it. We still talk a lot and we're pretty good friends. Something like five or six months later, I started to notice this other girl who was also pretty and fu",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I refer my terminally ill cancer patient mother to a new doctor? POST: My mother has stage 4 breast cancer. She had two separate mastectomies, and the cancer has spread into various parts of her body. Now it is in her cerebral and spinal fluid, which has caused her to lose ability to movement in both legs. She has been bedbound for a year now. Since she started having leg problems, we have not spared any possible test or treatment that could help her. Her case however got so bad, ",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] Suggestions on best dry kibble for Aussie and Papillon POST: I've been trying to figure out what food to switch to that will be good for both my Mini Aussie (25lbs, 2 years old) and my Papillon (5 lbs, 5 years old). I have been feeding them Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula, the small bites one, for the past 1.5 years. But due to the recent news about their settlement with Purina, I'm looking to switch to something else. My main problem is finding a kibble size small enough that ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20/F] boyfriend [23/M] 5 years. He has to put his family dog of 14 years to sleep this week and I am unsure of how to help him with his grief. POST: I have been with my boyfriend - we'll call him Andy - on and off for over 5 years, but we are now very serious about our future together and have started settling down in a sense. The entire time I've known him Andy has had a family dog - we'll call her Sammy - that has been his best friend since he was little and I know he loves her",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Attn small business owners or accountants. I am looking for advice on accounting software. POST: Hi Reddit! I am looking for advice about which accounting software is the best for small businesses. **Some Back story:** My parents run a small landscaping company/nursery and have been having trouble with the finances for the last few years. Obviously the recession has been a big part of the problem, but so has mismanagement of expenses and growing debt. They still do all of their bo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] just met my boyfriend's [26M] family and realized I slept with his brother [20'sM] last year. POST: So this is kind of awkward and I don't really know how I should proceed. I met my boyfriend ""Eric"" a couple of months ago through mutual friends. We went on a date and really, really hit it off. We have been dating ever since and things are going great! It was his birthday yesterday, so he asked if I wanted to join in on his birthday dinner his family was having for him. This",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My girlfriend (F/24) and I (M/23) have been dating for 4 years but she has some severe anxiety and I feel like it's holding both her and us back in a pretty serious way, to the point where I am second guessing our relationship. I really need some help. POST: Guys, I really need some help. I've been dating my girlfriend for a little over 4 years now (mainly long distance, she lives in a city 2 hours away, and I'm going to university somewhere else, though I visit often and I'm i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[18M] and my girlfriend [18F] have been dating for almost 3 years and she feels that I don't love her as much as I used to. What should I do? POST: So my girlfriend and I have been dating for nearly three years and recently she was acting sad so i asked her what was the matter and she wouldn't tell me and when she finally did she told me that she feels that I don't love or care for her as much as i used to because i don't do as many ""sweet things""(not sexual lol) as i used to. I f",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girlfriend having irrational fears about me cheating on her. POST: A little background: I'm 24, she's 26 and we're a year into a fantastic relationship. She's had 3 long-term relationships prior to me, all of which ended very badly with her being cheated on. On one of them, see walked in on the act. One of the ex's was very manipulative and really broke down her self-worth and has caused her to have some trust issues. He cheated on her with another guy, and multiple girls.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Update: Me [16 F] with my boyfriend [M 17] of two year's little brother [14 M], making me uncomfortable, not sure how to handle it. POST: Link to original- I have great news. Thank you to those of you who helped me! I talked to Boyfriend's parents with Boyfriend while Lil Bro was over his friends, and they understood right away about my anxiety when it comes to male contact, without me even having to explain why, and we decided as a group, it was best that I talk to Lil Bro about ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm in love with my best friend. POST: Well at least I think I may be. I've liked him for three years now. We even dated when I first met him for a while, then broke it off to be friends. We're extremely close, we tell each other everything. We playfully hit and kick each other all the time, we hangout, everything. Everyone says we're perfect for each other. Even two of our teachers told us we should get married. He has a girlfriend right now, and the way he talks about her, the ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Just got a subpoena from Neustar, representing RCN. My roommate downloads lots of shit from the internet illegally, I don't - but my name is the one associated with the RCN account... What do I do??? POST: Reddit, My roommate downloads a ton of stuff off of the Internet illegally, using torrent sites, I believe. I'm talking movies, TV shows, books, music, everything. He used to have 3 hard drives full of it all, but then 2 of them got stolen, so now he just has 1 (plus, whatever is o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is my [19 M] ex [19 F] trying to make me angry/get my attention? POST: So, it's almost been three weeks or so since we broke up. It was entirely on her terms and has been the majority of the time. She used to be really caring, but now is motivated solely by her own interests. Today, even though I shouldn't have, I checked her social media. I found stuff that I'm *pretty sure* was directed at me. She knows from our previous relationship I don't like certain things (I'm not going to ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit: my best friend forwarded me an offensive political email and I snapped. Did I go too far? POST: One my my best friends forwards me 2-3 conservative and often blatantly false emails a week. Many are offensive, but I find it entertaining in a general sense. They're often politically based--""CAN YOU BELIVE OBAMA BIN LADIN DID THIS LOL!!"" Today's email, however was a variant of this [one] A smattering of anti-Muslim comments allegedly made by Australian officials, that essentially ",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Interview Tips After Being Fired POST: I think I'm going to be fired from my job. I was short on my register (sadly a $20 ripped and they blamed me) for the second time (the first time was my bad from lack of training) and was put on probation and they've taken me off the schedule. It's a part-time position at a movie theatre. I enjoy working at a movie theatre and wanted to apply to another. I've only been at my current job for three months and I've read I shouldn't put it on my resume. But ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [f19] has spat on me and hit me [m19] before, I think I'm in an abusive relationship but I have no idea on how to get out. POST: We have been dating for 2 years and the last year was dreadful for me. She has called me the worst boyfriend in the world, an idiot, brain dead, stupid, retarded, a cunt, and pretty much every word there is. I recall her hitting me twice before and she spat on me once out of anger because I didn't want to talk to her and didn't return her calls. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Can i fuck my ex, even when no feelings? POST: Let's start up with some story: I [male 18] had a supreme relationship with a superhot girl [female 20] for about 3 years. Like every other couple we had ups and downs. About 1 year into our relationship she fucked another dude while she was drunk. She was deeply sorry and we managed to get over it and rebuild our relationship. Our relationsship got even better after this and we were really close. But the it didnt last, she did it aga",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Boyfriend (possibly) shows friend nudes of me. What now? POST: My boyfriend and I (female) have been together for a little over a year. We are both 21 and live about 2 hours apart due to attending different universities. As you can imagine, things can get a little lonesome in a LDR, and we occasionally send each other x-rated pictures (generally I have at least some clothing on). I trust him so I felt it was safe to send him a little something to miss me while I'm gone. He save",positive " r/college TITLE: Arabic major looking to learn another language. Advice? [xpost from r/linguistics] POST: Hi guys, I'm currently an Arabic major, just finished my freshman year at a pretty good university. I love languages and linguistics - my original plan was to pursue a degree in linguistics but then I found an awesome Arabic program. Anyway, I'm looking to add another language to my repertoire. My concern is really just demand - I want something that will lend to getting a job later, and won't be some",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [22/f] being cruel to my ex [23/m]? Ignoring him for weeks now... POST: I'm 22/f and my ex is 23/m. We broke up officially about 2 months ago. We dated long distance from the USA to Europe for a year and a half, seeing each other about every 3-4 months for a couple weeks at a time. The last time I saw him was July 2013 and neither of us knew it would be the last time. In the fall, things got really, really rocky and we started breaking up and getting back together constantly. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (18/M) My friend (17/M) of 5 years may be talking to an ex (18/F) in a romantic fashion POST: I'm looking for some opinions on how to handle this. Recently my gf of 4 months broke up with me, but really no hard feelings, as it wasn't over anything major, just compatibility in general. I found out that they had started to hang out and it makes me feel betrayed by my friend that he may be making a move on her. But I'm also not so sure thats what it is, as they had spent some time to",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Just broke up with girlfriend of 2 years. First real relationship, first breakup. POST: Basically we (f-19, m-21) went through a very long period of constant daily arguments and the occasional temporary breakup. I finally decided enough was enough and told her there's no shame in saying we love each other, but aren't right for each other. The breakup was fairly mutual in the beginning, but ended with her crying a lot and begging me to give it another chance. She had done this b",negative " r/running TITLE: Running and MMORPGs have a lot in common, when you think about it. POST: Ex-WoW addict, runner since 2009. It strikes me that running today pushes a lot of the same buttons that used to make me sit through Naxx progression runs. A few examples: - I love the 'achievements' of running, whether it's running further, running faster, beating a PR in an official race, or increasing my weekly mileage. - The social aspect of official runs reminds me of the frenetic mood of a large-scale raid, whe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [M28] wrong for not wanting to attend my cousin's [32 M] wedding? POST: I have a first cousin who I used to be closed with and respected a lot. Everything was fine until he was pressured by his family and essentially set up with a girl from his home country. He chatted with this girl for about 3 weeks and then he flew over there with his mother and proposed to her. She is going to be here next month and they are having the wedding in April. I have kept my mouth shut about this ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] Girlfriends[20 F] male friend got in bed with her . POST: My girlfriend of the last year was away with some of her uni friends from her course staying in a cottage for a few days. One of the nights she went to bed early and a male friend got in bed with her while she was sleeping. I found this out from her friend in the library when they were talking about while they were away. Her female friends was supposed to share the bed with her but this dude stole her spot. Note the",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by having a party POST: Some backstory, my parents left me home alone for a week while they where in las vegas. So of course I tried to do what any teenager left home alone for a week would try to do, have a huge party. with the plan in place i got some of my friends to help me setup, we moved almost everything that was breakable into siderooms, even some of the furnature. the doors to those rooms where then locked, with the key inside, the only way in, unscrew the door handel. I got",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I, (19 F) am no longer friends with ""Amy"" (19, F) because she treated me badly. My other friends know this, and still continue to be friends with her. It's annoying but I keep my thoughts to myself. POST: Backstory, we'll call this old friend of mine Amy. We are no longer friends because we grew apart. She was partying and going out all the time and I started to stay in more and focus on myself. Rather than encouraging me, she belittled me, made no effort to hang out with me unless w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [24/m] appears to love me deeply [21/f] but constantly cancels dates, plans, or other things that are important to me. POST: Hello r/relationships. I'm a little confused by my boyfriend recently. He is adorable, self employed, makes decent money and lives on his own. I am a college student (live off campus in my own place) and work part time. We met over two years ago online and started dating after two dates. So far everything has been prettty smooth sailing for the mo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my ex [20 F] Broke up 3 months ago. Relapsing? POST: So me and my ex did not have a healthy relationship at the end. Things weren't going well for either of us. So she broke up with me and then immediately begged me to come back and I chose not to come back thinking that it was the correct decision. Our relationship last 2 years until that happened. Fast forward a bit and the things that rocked my life (No job, loss of home) have stabilized. I had already gone through",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27/F] with my bf [31 M]of 2.5 uears not sure how to handle this without being selfish. POST: Hi reddit. So Sam and I have been together for over years. We were friends before that. We had this habbit of people watching. Kind of like red car blue car kids play? Except in our case we would spot attractive people we saw by sayimg dang every time we spotted one and keep counts some times for giggles ( we afe both some what bi so we both played both genders, it's silly and stupid, I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my ex-girlfriend [18 F] 2 months, so we started dating at my summer job, she friend zoned me, there was promise for a relationship afterwards, but after all that she has now started dating someone else. POST: So me and this girl from Utah (I'm from California) started dating at my summer job. There was a lot of drama concerning some trauma she had experienced in the past. It was affecting her sleep with nightmares and she had panic attacks. I care for her deeply and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [29m] husband won't stop rough housing with me [26f] POST: I created an account just for this and I am on my mobile (formatting) My husband and I have a wonderful relationship, we are best friends and do everything together. He is a lot of fun to be around. We have known each other for nearly ten years and together for 5. We married last year. He likes to play fight/wrestle and at times, so do I. There are other times when I don't want it or when I want it to stop immediately. M",positive " r/jobs TITLE: at a crossroads, need advice on how to proceed POST: I recently graduated from a top tier public school with a B.A. in political science. I have a decent gpa (3.65) and some internship experiences, but nothing that really stands out. I looked for jobs that pertained to my major, and was offered a few jobs. The problem is that my dad recently became very sick, and was unable to work as much as he needed to (he's self employed). The job offer I received was on the other side of the country, and",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Just found out a friend's gold digging fiancee may possibly be cheating on him. HELP!! POST: A good friend of mine has been engaged for about 2 years or so by now. I'll refer to him as 'E' for anonymity's sake, and his fiance is 'T'. I've known E for many years now. We went to high school and college together. We even currently work together...for E's father's company. Well, a few years back, E met T through the now ex-wife of a now former friend of mine and E's. T is from a different ci",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] now ex boyfriend [19M] of four years had a side girlfriend, I just need clarity and advice. [breakup] POST: Two days ago I broke up with my boyfriend of four years when I found out he was playing me and a girl at his college. Honestly our relationship wasn't working out before I found out and I was planning on ending it but I loved him so much that I held on, until I found him messaging a girl on the iPod I lent him. We had a lot of issues and I rarely felt my needs were met",positive " r/college TITLE: Question about Student Loan Exit Counseling (US) POST: So hey, I'm a fifth-year senior in college (in the US, btw), and I'm graduating on the 24th of this month. I was notified by my school that I had to complete exit counseling on my loans before I could receive my diploma. While working on the online Exit Counseling form, I came across a part on the first page where I needed to put down my student loan information. The page was already populated with my unsubsidized loans, but asked me ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: BF (29M) said some very hurtful things in a fight with me (22F)...we have some serious drama, please help. POST: My boyfriend broke my trust after he lied to me and I caught him texting an ex gf inappropriately. He apologized and promised to never do it again. I forgave him. Then we had an unexpected pregnancy and we disagreed on what to do with the baby. I wanted to keep it, he didn't. We broke up for a few days after a fight and when we got back together, I learned he had imm",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my [26 M] 2 years, broke up with him, wondering if it was for the best. POST: Hi there. This weekend was just about the shittiest I've ever had. My dog died unexpectedly, which of course made me upset. I broke up with my boyfriend the day after, feeling like it was time and I wanted to be alone. I thought I wanted to be free and 22. He told me he loved me for the first time (something I've been waiting for for a long time), and it sounds like emotionally he was final",negative " r/travel TITLE: Road trip advice needed! Traveling from San Diego to Denver, looking to car camp as much as possible along the way. POST: Preface; we have looked around at many subs, and thought to start questions here, but even if you have no advice to give to the trip, please let us know of other subs that are active where we could ask these questions. Buddy and I are going to see a concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in late May, and decided to make a road trip out of it. We have four days to get the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22M) just start seeing this girl (20F), But... POST: We just started seeing each other for about a week, The first few days were nice she seem really close to me. These past two days though seems like she is distancing her self, not sure if its my own paranoia, or she just wanting a little past for a day or so I haven't had any kind of relationship for like four years, so im just hoping im just being paranoid. Not looking for the its ok just keep trying, more just wanting advice ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] live with my boyfriend [24M], we have been dating for about 9 months, I was wanting to know if this was common. POST: I absolutely love living with my boyfriend and couldn't wait to move In with him, even though we have only been together a short amount of time it feels like it's been forever. I love everything about him and want to spend the rest of my life with him Although when I told some of my friends who haven't spent that much time with us as a couple,they seem to t",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not thinking. POST: So I wanted to post a different TIFU but it must wait to the weekend so I'll post this one instead. And the obvious this didn't happen today but a while ago. Everyone knows how peanut butter gets hard as fuck when it's in the freezer right ? I didn't for whatever reason. Anyways so I couldn't find any knives other than this long ass kitchen knife and I was too impatient to find another knife so I decided to scoop some out. I got the blade stuck in the peanut butt",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [34/F] am turning 35 soon and need some advice about how to celebrate based on recent changes in my life... POST: So I'm going to be turning 35 in over a month. Every year for the past many many years, I've had big birthday parties at my parents' home where 35-50 friends would come. I would kind of feel like it was my own popularity contest, wanted all my friends to come and if they didn't show up I'd be mad at them. Over the last few years I've been working more and have become m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: ""I don't want to tell you why I'm mad; you should know on your own."" How do I deal with this? POST: Going for outside help concerning relationships is usually my *last* resort, but this issue is driving me nuts. Backstory: Been seeing a girl for about 7 months now; only been ""official"" for about 3. We're great together. Laugh a lot, joke with each other, blah blah. The only thing that bugs me is that she is fairly closed off and *sometimes* emotionally distant. The worst way ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24/F] with my bf [23 M] of 7 months, just got insulted.I am angry and really sad.Overeacting?Please help :( POST: First a little background - I have been dating my present boyfriend for almost 7 months now.We work at the same place and have managed to keep it pretty discreet and professional. Before we started dating, we had been very good friends for a year. I have had two bf before this(a month of LDR and a 5 year long relationship that ended brutally a little before my present",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it a bad idea to reconnect with my ex [25/f]? POST: We dated for 4 years, including college and a year out of college. About a year ago, she moved to a new city and with the distance and pressure of engagement, we broke it off. Well, technically she broke it off, but it was something we had talked about a few times. Since we split, I've seen a few women, but nothing serious, and I haven't slept with anyone because I don't do the whole casual sex thing. Don't get me wrong, if t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Gift for my boyfriend- is it the thought that counts? [21F, 29M] POST: I'm in a long-distance relationship with my boyfriend. We started casually dating in March, he had to move away in August so we didn't get serious until we determined if we could maintain an LDR. We've been a couple officially since September. We alternate visiting each other every 6 weeks, for a week. I'll be going up to see him November 30th. I want to get him a Christmas present since I won't see him again unt",positive " r/running TITLE: Strange pain in my inside lower calf... Impact injury/ POST: I've looked up common running injuries and nothing matches this. Thursday I did a mile and maybe pushed myself a little more than usual, but felt fine. Yesterday my inner calves, the bottom six inches or so, were a little sore, more like a bruise than muscle pain. But they looked fine and felt normal, no pain when touched. So I went running again this morning. Did a couple miles before I had to stop at a red light and then realiz",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] had sex with a girl [21 F] who I think I'm interested in. How to proceed? POST: So last night I was at a party and I meet this girl. We get to talking and I come to find out she's my best friends' ex's roommate, and we have a good amount of mutual friends. I had heard her name a few times here and there but never actually met her until that night. Anyways, we get a drink and start dancing, which eventually led to making out yadda yadda. We eventually ended up going outside ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Redditers, I had a crap experience at the store yesterday and wanted to know some social rules you think everyone should follow? POST: So yesterday I went to the store to grab a 6 pack and a couple 2 litters. When I came in I checked the lines and saw they were empty so I didn't bother with a basket. I got my 6 pack then headed down the soda aisle, seeing they were out of 2 litters of coke, I opted for 4 of the 1.5 litter bottles. They were bulky and carrying them was a pain in the a",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Post break up problems. POST: A bit of background goes as follows, Very recently (the last two weeks is when this all transpired) I discovered that my Girlfriend was dating my best friend while we were dating for about a month and a half. It all came to a head when I found out she lied about where she was, and drove 5 hours to meet up with him, and they ended up having sex. That relationship is over and any advice in coping with that is very welcome, but not why I am here. The thi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A friendly reminder about personal info from your Askreddit mods. POST: Hey Askreddit! I'm Metaranha. You may have interacted with me at one point or another when you've had a post stuck in spam, or if you've had feedback on askreddit in general. I wanted to bring up something i've been noticing lately, and that is a lot of personal information being posted about others. Maybe the information belongs to redditors, maybe it doesn't but the rules apply just the same. We've actually bolde",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My cousin stole over a thousand dollars worth of jewelry from my aunt and now we have it located, my cousin is going to prison, buy apparently we have to buy it all back from the pawn shops he pawned it to. What can we do, reddit? POST: My aunt has been down on her luck since her husband of 20 years left her in the last year. She has supported my twenty something year old cousin all of his life, and he has always stolen from her but mostly pain medications. My aunt has had four hip repl",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Don't lie to me, amigo POST: This happened a few years ago. The wife and I took a cruise and stopped for a day in Ensenada, Mexico. We were wandering around town looking in various shops and just enjoying each other's company. We entered a ladies clothing store and were looking at a blouse for my wife. We asked the guy running the shop the price of the blouse. Even though I speak fluent Spanish, we spoke to him in English because my wife speaks only English. He answers ""I don't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 F] was unsure and just ended an undefined relationship with [24 M] , now I miss him, feel dumb POST: I just ended a casual but not casual relationship of about 4 months with a guy a really liked as I was unsure about how I felt about him, and am not ready for a serious relationship. We had discussed what we were both looking for when we first started going out, and agreed that a chill casual sort of deal worked. I made sure to express that if he expected it to turn into someth",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26m] in love with childhood friend [26f], who is currently dating my best friend [25m] POST: I grew up with a girl who went to the same church as me, and we were friends who hung out quite a bit until the end of high school and college. She had gone to school quite a distance from me, so we didn't see each other again until she finished college. When she got back, we started hanging out again, and really hit it off, but at the time, I was still really hurting over my ex, an",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever had a reoccurring dream about somebody and later met them? What did you do? POST: Two very close friends of mine have admitted (separately and without knowledge of the other) years into our friendship that they have been dreaming about me regularly since childhood. Not in any romantic way, but that I was a central figure in many of their dreams and often accompanied them on adventures and gave them advice and it's part of what drove them to pursue a friendship with me. Bot",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Please help. Sorry for the length. POST: I dated my best friend off and on for about 2 years, we'll call him J. J and I were and still are undeniably perfect for one another. I then moved to Australia and J and I broke it off as it was just 'young love' and we're not the OMG LET'S GET MARRIED kind of people. Haha. After about 6 months after the move we decided to try to do a long distance relationship. This worked well for about half a year and we were happy despite the distance. I ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Question about eviction and rent POST: My parents evicted some tenants because they were caught producing marijuana. The cops came, busted the whole operation, and now the house is pretty much messed up since there's crap everywhere, broken doors, etc. Anyways, the tenants' last day to get their stuff is this Monday. They already paid for this month's rent, but one of the tenant's family members that wasn't on the contract is asking for a partial sum of the rent that they paid for",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How can I stop (24/m) talking down to my girlfriend (23/f)? POST: I'm a little lost. Actually, more than a little. This is a recurring problem. My SO is one of six, and she's been taking care of herself and her siblings since a fairly young age. I am an only child who with an overbearing, overprotective mother (whom I owe so much to). I had a rough time learning to take on personal responsibilities and I feel like taking some control of my own life has left me with a superiorit",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [NC] Big metal pipe fell off of truck & totaled my car. Insurance not reimbursing enough. POST: First and foremost - 1. I was not injured in the accident. 2. I do not have GAP Insurance on this car. I was recently involved in a car accident in which a giant iron pipe fell off of the trailer of a pick-up truck on a small road. The pipe fell right in front of my car and I slammed into it without any chance to hit the brakes. The exterior damage was minor and looked like a fender ben",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (F)irst relationship just ended after one short month and I'm not handling it well POST: I got redirected here from /r/twoxchromsomes, so bare with me. I'm just copying and pasting from the original post. So first things first, I had to make an account just to post this. I never actually post anything haha. Also some sex stuff gets mentioned so this might be NSFW Anyways as the title says, I (21F) started talking to this guy on okcupid in December, but because I got mono we cou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 F] met [23 M] online but he had a girlfriend POST: I met a guy online through a video game. We both started talking a lot day after day and became really close. He has had a girlfriend for about 7 years now and he's admitted to having a crush on me. I have a crush on him, as well. He said he ""enjoys talking to me more than he'd like"" and I certainly am emotionally involved. I do not know what he looks like and we've only communicated once outside of the video game (via Skype ch",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Why am I [20F] holding on to an abusive relationship? POST: I had this whole thing written out but I am going to get to the chase here. I have been dating my ex (Mike) on and off for almost 3 years. I blacked out and cheated (not remembering) with him and lied about it so I wouldn't lose him, knowing my mistake. He chose to forgive me and we have been on and off ever since. It truly seems like 3 years later, after my mistake, I am still apologizing and having to make up for what I di",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Are they (21 F) afraid of me (22 M)? What does this behavior mean? POST: Hi, all, first time redditor here, this is just my second post, and I need some help. I'll start by describing myself to give you a little bit of insight into my situation. I'm a 22 year old senior male in college, I stand at about 6 foot 2 inches and weigh roughly 245 pounds, I've been hitting the gym lately to fix that problem. I'm generally very quiet and work focused at school but am outgoing when people e",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How would you promote your crowd funding website differently to what I'm doing? POST: So long story short I'm a 31 year old final year Zoology student who needs a Masters in order to gain PhD funding, with the end goal of becoming a researcher studying sexual selection. The UK research councils have removed all masters funding, the UK govenment is installing a loan system for 2016 but only for the under 30's and all remaining funds are only available for the taught masters (which won't bene",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 24f dating best friend m27 of my ex m26. We were together for 4 1/2 years. Broken up for 4 months. POST: i met my ex 6 months before my best friend. we've all lived together and it was fine. my ex and my best friend were never that close. my best friend fell in love with me when he met me. he has never done anything to threaten the relationship and i was was loyal and faithful to my ex. When my ex and i broke up my best friend came to visit, we were in the midst of it all. Hes helped",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Want to buy a new(or used) car... how much can I spend? POST: Hey please bare with me this is my first post.. ever. Anyways I'm 18 and going into school full time in the fall and also working full time, the university is close enough to my moms house that I am just living here and probably will be until I finish school (2020ish). She doesn't ask me to pay rent so my only expenses are food and my phone (200/ month). Because of scholarships and a program at work my school is paid for",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Advice for a teen with a very close-minded mom? POST: Hey Reddit, Lately I've been noticing in my relationship with my mom that things are getting more strained and such. My mom and I have had lots of arguments and fights about thins, whether it was school or a job, but ever since my dad passed away (who would always be the fair and understanding mediator), the fights have been increasing in intensity and frequency. She will never listen (not as in do what I say, but just honestly list",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What should I [f/26] do to say ""thank you"" to my boyfriend [30/m] for being there for me through a tough time? POST: I just went through a really tough medical procedure. My boyfriend has been AMAZING to me, making sure I have everything I need, I'm comfortable, etc. I really don't know if he understands how much I appreciate him for all that he does every day, and especially how much I appreciate him for sticking by me through this tough time. We've been together for 3 1/2 years, an",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm afraid to see a psychic POST: I was raised to accept the metaphysical. Spirits. Healing. Psychics. I don't think what they say is an absolute future. I just notice if something they said happens but I don't try to make it happen. The last time I saw one was 3 - 4 yrs ago. At the time I had just found out who my birth father was. He died a few months before I found out. The psychic at the time told me not to look for signs from him. He had a lot of issues to work through on the oth",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Immature Gilrfriend [20M] [18f] POST: I love my girlfriend, I really do but lately she has been really disrespectful towards me. The other night she promised to call me in the morning and decided to run errands with her mom instead. I don't mind her running errands with her mom it is just that we live almost 2 hours away and it is hard to make time to talk to one another and our phone calls mean a lot to me. She promised to call and I waited all morning for a call that did not ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [31m] slept with my daughters mom [27f] now its....weird. POST: So went out this weekend to a party and because my baby mama has almost the same circle of friends, we ended up seeing each other. I had to work in the morning and went home and also let a male friend crash at my place. I got a call from her saying she drank too much so she needs to crash. Fast forward, my friend left a few hours later and her and I hooked up twice before I went to work. Now I reached out to he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (20f) and my partner (22m) of 1 year, hes addicted to other females POST: Throwaway, obviously. My boyfriend and I have been together for some time now, the relationship started after a long friendship and progressed to more. It wasn't the easiest start and we have fought through a lot together, he is the love of my life and soon to be father of my baby (I had a 10% chance of ever falling pregnant. Huge surprise but very excited) There is only one issue I have, I've noticed h",positive " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Reception Etiquette - Please Help! POST: Hey /r/weddingplanning! I was directed here from a different sub. In November, my wonderful boyfriend proposed to me and I said yes. We are both in our last years of college and he was planning on applying to PhD programs across the United States in hopes of getting his Doctorate in Computer Science. Throughout our entire relationship, we have discussed having a very small wedding, but now that we're actually planning we have both decided w",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What should I do regarding local small town hicks who are known in the community for killing over a dozen puppies and unknown amount of kittens in last 2 years? POST: I live in a small town of maybe 500. The Sheriff patrols our town on occasion and that's about it. Most of the town are friends with each other, for instance my parents are very close with the towns Mayor. The mayors son however bought a house after he got married and started having kids ect. Another very good friend of my ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with this girl [26 F] been on a few dates, moving too fast, then drastic haircut... POST: Multi-layered problem here. Been on three dates with this girl, seems cool and we're both seemingly interested, though it's still the exploring stage. She however seems to want to move much faster. So 1, want to have a ""slow down"" convo with her. However, as it's very trendy here in Seattle, she gets a drastic haircut (think very short pixie cut), which is just not my cup of tea, w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What can I do/say to stop a family member's spending on facebook games? POST: This story is, unfortunately, about my mother. I had to move back home to help support her (my father passed away back in 2001, so it's just her) after she was diagnosed with diabetes. I've kicked in for rent, buy my own food, and usually am down the road living with my girlfriend. I have NO qualms about helping her out financially. Her roof has a leak and has ruined part of our ceiling. Thankfully, a family fr",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What innocent things that kids have said has your mind warped? POST: I work at a pool with a slide, a pretty sweet fuckin slide too, with water jets and turns and shit. Anyways these kids, who were brother and sister, are taking turns at the top of the slide shouting ""Bang!"" at the one sliding so they could pretend to die and do funny poses. It's cute and I did shit like that as a kid, whatever. So the brother forgets to ""shoot"" his sister and she comes to the top of the slide and say",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Question regarding pee on a mattress... POST: Last night I had a girl over. We were up most of the night fooling around. Around 5 am, when we were both pretty wiped out and ready to pass out from exhaustion, I was lying with my head sort of between her legs, as I had just gone down on her. We were both sort of drifting off to sleep when I felt liquid on my hand. I realized she had just dozed off and was uncontrollably peeing on my bed. I woke her up quickly and she stopped immediate",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [23M] been with my girlfriend [19F] for 2 months, I'm falling hard for her for the person she is, but over text she's a nightmare.. POST: She's the most beautiful, caring, kind and considerate girl i know of in person, but over text it's always like she's looking for a fight. When we're together we click on so many levels. Before we got together i was warned she needs alot of love and she needs to feel a sense of security, which i give her everyday regardless. She's had a stri",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 34 [M] See What She 24 [F] Says or Move On... POST: So I've been dating this woman for the last 4 months. When we go out, it is like the world stands still. We match in so many ways, it is ridiculous. Things have progressed into the serious side of the relationship. Two weeks ago, she is getting ready to move from an apartment to a home, but never wanted my help. I offered to buy boxes, tape, and what not...only to find out that her best friend was asked to get these things. I",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: What's the best way of communicating that I [21F] want more out of our relationship? POST: I [21f] have been dating a guy [20M] for a little over a month since we met at the beginning of the semester. We have been taking things very slowly and he has said that he wants the relationship to progress slowly so that neither of us gets hurt, in part because I'm a senior who will be graduating in a few months. While I understand his logic, I would like our relationship to be more intimate ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27M] caught a glance of a note in my partner [26f]'s phone. Can't be sure of what I seen - but it looked like her wanting to be with another man. POST: I'm in a very loving relationship with my partner of over 1 year. We live together, 99.9% of the time get on like a house on fire. I was helping her find something in her phone when I stumbled on a note - it looked and read like a message she had written to another guy from a few months back. The note/message was addressed to a gu",negative " r/self TITLE: A Small Holiday Rant POST: For anyone unfamiliar with their Greek, the letter ""X"" is pronounced ""Chi."" The combination of this letter, with the Greek ""P"" or ""Rho,"" have been traditionally used to abbreviate the word Χριστος (""Christ"") since as early as 1021 AD. The labarum ( an image of a letter ""P"" bisecting a letter ""X"" is a common Christian symbol used to simulate the religion's savior. The term ""Xpian"" has been used as a short form word for ""Christian"" as early as 1485. There is even ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend of 6 years considering leaving, says she ""needs time"" POST: Me(28m) her(32f) have been together for 6 years. It stared as a LDR and then I moved to her then we moved back to my hometown. The only major issue that we have ever had over the last 6 years has been the amount of time that I spend gaming or just generally on the computer under headphones. We have a 5 year old son and I admit that I honestly don't spend enough time with them. I don't know why I do it. I want to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'[m] in love with my girlfriends best friend[f][18] POST: My girlfriend and I have been going out since junior year, and I have been completely and absolutely in love with one of her best friends. Since day one of freshman year I thought this girl was the pinnacle of attractiveness in a human being(the girl is not out my league). I always had been too nervous to talk to her so, I just lusted over her. In the end of junior year I met my current girlfriend. I thought I was over her bu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M/F] with my GF [22 M/F] 10 months, everything's going great but I am curious about experiences POST: So I've been dating a girl for about 10 months now and she's wonderful, we click, we're extremely big on contact, we talk every day throughout the day. BUT, this is both of our first real relationship. Before this the longest time I dated someone was one month (never had sex) and she dated a guy for 4 months, did not have sex. We were virgins coming into it, lost it to one an",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what was your first brush with the law? POST: Mine was rather tame. While in college and living off campus in an apartment, one of my roommates was playing his music too loud while being alone in the apartment. One of our neighbors attempted to knock on the door and ask politely to turn the music down, but he couldn't hear the door over the music. In response, she called the cops and they came to the apartment after the rest of us had returned. Later, another roommate of mine",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: American PDA Confused by Cop Help, Please! POST: I am a female minor, fifteen, and school is out for the summer. My boyfriend (my age) and I were lying in an open field on school grounds, away from the school and any people, but it wasn't totally private. We weren't looking for a place to go shag, we were just enjoying the nice weather. We lay together for a while, on our sides, then we kissed for thirty seconds maximum, and a police officer comes up out of no where and says, ""Don't you ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: HELP. I went to jail for failing to abide my ""Duty to Aid a Police Officer."" I did nothing wrong... I think. POST: I was on my steps in front of my apartment complex in downtown Denver. My neighbor (and friend) was very intoxicated, screaming at the top of his lungs. He shattered my beer glass on the pavement, another guy's beer bottle on a car, and a flower pot on the steps. The police came and he went inside. They approached asking questions. I replied with vague responses about the e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my ex-girlfriend [18 F] 3 years, don't know how to break off contact and get over her. POST: I dated this girl for three years and we have been through quite a bit. I am still bitter about the way it ended (on the first day of college) and feel bitterness for things that she has done to me. But understandably I still feel a lot towards her and it's really beginning to wear me down. I am wondering how I should go about breaking off contact with her as she still tries ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (M25) stayed at another girl's house last night. Do I (F25) have the right to be upset? POST: We're both 25 and have been together for seven months. Last night, he had a guys night and I had a girls night. Come to find out, he and his buddies went over to a girl friend's house to play poker and hang out. He was drunk so instead of driving home, he stayed the night there on the couch. I told him he could've called me and I would've picked him up but he said he didn't wa",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Mom's greatest disappointment POST: I'm a low class guy from a Latin American society. Luckily for me I have been granted with a scholarship in an international school because my mom is en employee there. If it wasn't for her I would be studying in a public school because we cannot even afford a mediocre private school. I have always been an independent, and ""intellectual"" student. I've never needed her or anyone's help when doing my assignments since I very young. I've been studying in",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: School Loan advice: Trouble finding employment - thinking of taking out small personal loan? POST: Hello /r/personalfinance Current student here (independent status) but unable to find employment so far even as part-time that doesn't interfere with my summer classes or a paying internship. I am working with Career Services and other temp agencies to hopefully find some part-time work soon. My bills as small and doing what I can outside of blood/plasma donation and odd jobs. As f",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I help a friend going through the divorce of their parents? POST: Hello, I don't post much on here but I feel pretty inferior as a friend, regarding this situation. A very good lady friend of mine learned that her parents are planning a divorce. I care very deeply for her, as she's kind of like my little sister. I don't know her parents and know almost nothing about what kind of people they're like, except for the fact that they're a bit of on the wild side, frequent rock concert",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Long time ex has a new boyfriend. Confused about my feelings. POST: Both 22 now. Dated from 18-21. We actually haven't spoken in over a year and I have a great new girlfriend whom I've been dating for about a year. There was some bitterness over the breakup. A lot of hard feelings, especially from me. I've been more angry with myself over the decisions I made for three years and I feel stupid for having been blind to the manipulation. just a few minutes ago I saw on facebook that s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (21F) become interesting enough to make friends? POST: I posted here yesterday but my question was a bit all over the place, and I wasn't really sure what kind of advice I wanted. I'm a 21F, in a relationship with a 21M of 2.5 years. Neither of us have friends. However, I'll leave boyfriend out of this. This has more to do with me. I find that I don't have a lot in common with the other college students around me. Basically, there isn't any reason for them to want to h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 M] with my co-worker [28 F] developing feelings for her, but afraid it may complicate working relationship POST: I've a co-worker who I've supervised and mentored since she started working for us over 2 years ago. I've always thought she was cute but have never thought of it any more than that over that time. We weren't friends or anything outside of our working relationship either. However, over the past couple of months, we've hung out a few times outside of work and have tx",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: 3-year old biting and hitting my child. Advice? POST: Our best friends have a son who has the same age as our son, almost 3. They play a lot together. 6 months ago their son started hitting our son regularly while playing, and a few months ago this turned into biting. He recently even drew blood. Our friends say that this only happens with our son, so he ""must be provoking it somehow"". We don't see any such provoking happening. We've seen a change in their social interaction though: pr",negative " r/travel TITLE: Backpacking noob, looking for advice POST: Hi all, I'm graduating from college in May, and as I've pretty much been sheltered my entire life, I wanted to go out and do something way out of my comfort zone. I figured backpacking would be a great place to start, but I'm unfamiliar with the activity, and was hoping for some pointers and enlightenment. Are there any resources on getting introduced? I'm looking to do around a month-long trip during June, most likely alone. I'm very interested in",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: What are the rules on going on a date with someone else during the first-few-date period? [I'm 23] POST: Hypothetical: How long into a relationship should there be only one woman? I generally use a rule of 3-5 dates / sex, whichever comes later; the idea being if I'm willing to stick it out 5 dates or I'd wait more than 5 dates for the girl to have sex, we're entering a relationship and I'm no longer allowed to take any other girls to dinner. If I get to 5 dates and I don't feel a c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21/F] obsessed ex-coworker [24/M] messages my current fling [30/M] claiming to be my current boyfriend. Has he scared him off for good or is this fixable? POST: Hi! I recently met this cute guy about a week ago and after running into each other a few more times we decided to grab lunch and later hang out. Two days this week we hung out and hooked up and he's really great. I haven't felt this way almost ever and I really wanted things to work between us despite the age difference.",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Beep beep beep POST: When I was at school, I was in Mr McClure's form. He was the most hated teacher in school, and I did not appreciate having to see him twice a day, every day, on top of the dreaded geography lessons everyone endured. He was rude, managed lessons badly, shouted randomly and just went out of his way to punish even the smallest whisper in class. He was also incredibly unsympathetic to me and my best friends home situations, where we were young carers to our disabled p",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making sure I was looking alright. POST: I was sitting in class, we were about to leave. Everyone was getting up, I stood in a corner and got the camera app up on my phone to make sure I wasn't looking too bad. I had the front camera pointed in the direction of a girl that was bent over, but I was only looking at the self-pointing camera. I had it elevated like I was taking a picture so to see what I looked like eye-to-eye, and the teacher said,""What are you taking a picture of?"" I l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why is my ex [31M] still feel the need to 'like' my [27F] Instagram photos? Is it innocent? POST: Dated a guy for about a month, we were attracted to each other from the start. All of a sudden he became distant after we had sex the first time, prior to that we were just fooling around and having a good time together. He said his ex was back in the picture and things were getting serious between us and he couldn't let it go far as he wasn't sure what he was doing. I felt dumb for n",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is there an embarrassing moment that's still going to make you blush all the way to the grave? POST: About three years ago, my high school held a poetry jam. Typically a generally successful (though usually not very well known), published slam poet is invited to perform alongside the students to display their work and receive recognition. This particular year, a poet was invited that I was a big fan of. I asked the teacher MCing the event if I could have a peak at his set list in order t",positive " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu, I learned that I have absolutely no idea how to open a bottle of wine. POST: Tifu, I bought my first bottle of wine since I'm celebrating finishing college and wanted to upgrade from my usual boxed variety or beer. Unfortunately, I have never used a corkscrew and only managed to remove the cork half-way. Instead of re-trying the corkscrew, I decided to try to pry out the cork using a knitting-needle. When that didn't work, and, in fact, I only succeeded in breaking off the protruding pa",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My boyfriend [20/m] lives in a van. I [20/f] don't know how to feel about it. POST: I've been with my SO for a year after being friends for a year. I am happy with him and love him a lot. He has recently been forced to move in with his aunt, but there are already quite a number of people living in that house. He has decided to buy and fix up a van and sleep in it in her driveway. He has confessed that this has always been a dream of his and he's actually really excited about fi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need a little help please Reddit... POST: About two months ago my standard grade exams (scottish - 15/16 year old qualifications) were looming and my mother limeted my internet to one hour a day. Needless to say i initially objected to this but did still follow it under the condition it end after said exams Now yesterday was my last exam and after spending today helping my grandmother with trimming her hedge, painting her deck, my mother says to me i am allowed on the internet two hours",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [30F] anxiety is making it impossible to leave an unfufilling relationship with my BF [29M] of 3 yrs POST: Sorry is this is a little all over the place. I have a hard time keeping my thoughts straight lately. My boyfriend and I have been dating for 3 years. We moved in together after about 6 months. He is a genuinely good person, but I know he is not good for me. We don't have similar values. He is not active, is serial unemployed, he enjoys hanging out and smoking weed. I am ",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: In need advice in regards to getting my 2 1/2 year old to sleep. POST: Long version: I indulged myself and spent the first year and half of my daughters life rocking her to sleep every night. This made her very dependent upon me when it came time for bed each night. As our second child was born the oldest got a new room and bed. She transitioned to the new room fine but relied on me to lay in bed with her. Over time I have progressively been able to move from laying with her, to sitting ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] with my best friend [20 F] of 4 almost 5 years, how to deal with potential red flags for women in dating life? POST: Long time reader, first time poster. I've know my best friend since High School. Met through a mutual friend and then she applied at my part time job later on and we got a lot closer. She's been in a relationship with a guy for 5 years and i've been just dating around. Nothing too serious. Our relationship is 100% platonic (I know right?) to the point where ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where do I go to meet new people? POST: Hey Reddit, Let me explain. I'm a grad student (in the US), so most of my life is spent in lab. I am not antisocial in the least, and usually hangout with my friends/happy hours etc. I'm even part of my univ's ballroom team, and often go out salsa dancing (although not as much as I used to, thanks to research), and thanks to these various activities, I have a pretty formidable sized friend/social circle, I think. However, as far as trying to mee",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] need help addressing personal issues to mend relationship with BF [24M] of almost 2 years POST: I have been having a lot of issues with anxiety and handling stress since I started graduate school in the fall. I know that this is because I feel like a failure for not working like other people my age, not contributing financially because my income goes to paying for school, and not being in a position that ensures full-time employment following graduation. (I tried counselling ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (F18) tell my boyfriend (m19) that I have been lying to him about an eating disorder? POST: Hi. I made a previous post about my boyfriend commenting on my weight jokingly/not so jokingly. This would hit any girl hard, but as it seems I have a form of bulemia nervosa which I have been diagnosed with as of, well, today. However, many on this post asked if he really knew I had a problem or how serious it was (its still really not that bad). But he doesn't have much of an idea ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being overly aggressive with the boxes at work. POST: Being the new kid at the restaurant, I was looking for things to do to stay busy (we all know that only lasts so long...) and saw a bunch of boxes that needed to be broken down. So I proceeded to do so. Some of these boxes were tough, I mean, real tough. Like waxy, vegetable shipping boxes (food service folks, you know the type)--SO, I grabbed my trusty pocket knife, and bossed those boxes around and busted them up. Next, I go",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F20] spilled apple juice after my coworker/friend [F22] mopped the floors. She thinks I did it on purpose POST: We work in a cafe. One day, I was on bar making drinks and she was mopping the floor. I opened a fridge and a bottle of apple juice fell out and spilled. I told her I was sorry and she mopped it up. The next day, the same thing happened. I opened the fridge to see if iced coffee needed to be refilled and a stupid bottle of apple juice fell to the ground right after she",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How do I get my dog back? POST: My ex and I broke up in May, we've been trading our Pomeranian back and forth every week. We had 2 cats together as well, but I agreed to let him keep them, as I can't give them everything right now. The Pomeranian is my baby. I've always fed him the best food, kept his shots up to date, bought his flea and heart worm preventatives. My ex decided its too painful for him to see me every week to give me the dog, and said that I cannot see him anymore. I'm assu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [27F] go Low Contact with my crappy grandma [80ishF] without doing so to the rest of my family? POST: I'm going to keep this short and sweet, and then if anyone wants further details, feel free to ask! But: My grandma is racist, xenophobic, homophobic, is just incredibly bigoted. She's also a textbook narcissist, and (I feel) uses myself and my brother to further her image as loving-doting grandma, which is just Not. True. I've reached my boiling point with her comments an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He [24/M] doesn't open my [19/F] messages for hours - but I can see he's awake/online POST: I met ""Johnny"" 6 months ago through friends. There was an immediate connection between us and we started having sex about a month later. Our individual friends on both sides know about us, but our mutual group isn't aware. We're not at all official, haven't even discussed it, but we go home together almost every weekend. He is a really, really kind person. He isn't my type at all but what at",positive " r/relationships TITLE: She [23F] Casually mentioned that she's went out with someone yesterday even though I [21 M] explicitly told her that I was interest. POST: edit: sorry for the random abbreviation after she in the title. So some context: I told her that I was interested in her a few days ago, but she was in the middle of a family gathering. She told me that it's something that needed her full attention and that we would talk about it later. We talk every day but she never brought it up. Today s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/F] live with my boyfriend [22/M] and want to move out of our city, but stay with him POST: Hey all. I recently started going to a college in the city that my bf and I (together for two years, living together for one) live in. I'm starting to realize that I absolutely despise this city. It's about two hours away from where my parents live, so commuting to school wouldn't be an option. I'm beginning to dabble with the idea of transferring to a college in another city (about an ho",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, why do you have trust problems? POST: Many people have trust problems based on prior events in their lifetime that affect them in many ways. What caused yours? Have you gotten over it? For mine, it stresses how small petty things can make people have trust problems. It was a very small case and seems somewhat childish (and will after some of you post, I am sure) but a good friend of mine manipulated me online. I started talking with someone (friend1)in a game I had seen before ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [18m] After a year of being together, I feel like she doesn't care anymore. [18f] POST: So, I have been together with her for just over a year now. The first few months of our relationship was great and I was happy, but now I feel like she just doesn't care anymore. Over the past few months she has slowly wanting to spend less and less time with me. At first I just dealt with it by keeping occupied with other things, but now its gotten to the point where I am up late at night (I'm c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] and my GF [30 F] of 11 years, decided to split, I feel like I'm falling apart. POST: About a week ago she told me she had talked with some guy at a happy hour with co-workers. That conversation had made her realize she wanted to be single as we'd been together for such a long time. Neither of had ever really dated, and she felts didn't have an identity. I felt the same way, more or less, andeventually we decided to split. I was excited, but now I am feeling like my life ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Confusing Girl POST: So I just moved to a new area across the country, and I've been making friends more or less steadily. Near the beginning, I met this girl that I have a lot in common with. I'd chance upon her outside our major's building and chat for like an hour at a time. Last week, she asks me if I want to go to a Halloween party with her because she didn't want to be alone around a bunch of people she didn't know. She's pretty cool and I didn't have anything better to d",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sneeze-frying my laptop POST: So I've had my MacBook Air for about a year now and I can't really imagine life without it. It's just a gorgeous machine that never complains about the ludicrous amount of Netflix that I put it through. I was casually just browsing in bed the other day when a sneeze caught me unawares. Globs of mottled snot bombarded my computer screen as I reached for the tissue box. Alas, the tissue box was empty so I was forced to abandon my laptop as I ran into the b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [25] of 1 yr, hides facebook relationship status from specific guys POST: Basically what it is. We decided to go ""facebook official"" recently, and I went on her account only to find that the status is visible to all her friends except some guys, a few of whom I know she has slept with (casually) in the past. Thing is, she doesn't know I have her password, so I don't know if I should bring it up or just break up with her since she clearly has the intent of cheating by want",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Seeking Advice on Planning a Caribbean Honeymoon for January 2012 POST: My fiance and I are about 5 months away from the wedding and are thinking now is a good time to start planning our early January honeymoon. We're looking to go some place where we'd be able to get away from the cold weather, enjoy the beach, and do a few fun activities (e.g. horse riding, swimming with dolphins, scuba diving, etc). Our budget for the whole affair is flexible ($3k to $5k) and we're trying to make it l",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I've [20f] got a (mutual) crush on my co-worker [30m]. Is it a bad idea to pursue? POST: Hi reddit! I just recently started a new job after having my first child and I've been employed here for about a month now. In that time I've met and gotten to know a man ten years my senior, Mike. Now I've always been attracted to older men but never actually dated anyone outside of my age range before. After striking up a conversation with Mike for the first time it was obvious there was some ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I (23f) approach my husband (31m) of 2 years married about how we are NOT meeting our weight loss goals and that he isn't making much effort to change that. POST: Before I get backlash for wanting my husband to loose weight, here's some background info. Since we have had our son a year ago, we both have gained 20+ pounds. While I like my husband the way he is he lost quite a lot of weight right before we met and he was very happy with his results. He went from 200 something",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I kill/keep (possibly venomous) spiders away without using something poisonous to humans or pets? POST: I'd like something I can squirt at it. I'm terrified of Brown Widows (not brown recluse)/Black Widows and I get a couple in the back yard/front yard each year (both have the hour glass on abdomen). Prefer not to kill by crushing, smashing, etc, because I don't want to even chance getting bit (I'm allergic to a lot of things). I'd rather squirt it with something. On a relate",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: (CAN) My husband and I are planning a family lunch at a restaurant - are we expected to pay for everyone? POST: My husband and I eloped 6 months ago while our mothers were in town to go wedding dress shopping. We had planned a larger wedding and had told immediate family the proposed date; however, we decided that this is not what we actually wanted, nor was it a reasonable amount of money to spend on one day. Our finances are happy about this decision. We are now going back home",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [26/f] and I [27/f] have been together over a year and a half. She knows I'm ""the one"" but I'm not so sure (anymore) and it's tearing me apart. POST: Hi reddit. First of all, thanks for taking the time to click bc I could use some listening ears and friendly advice. My gf and I have been dating for a little over a year and a half. She's just fucking incredible, and my god still gives me butterflies. However, we could not be more different. The same reasons that brought us tog",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[19M] have been crushing on my friend [19F] since the first week of college, we are now sophomores. Will this get me anywhere? POST: I'm a guy who has only had short relationships over the past several years. She has never dated anyone, but we seemed to really hit it off the first two weeks of school. I asked her out and she told me she wasn't ready for a relationship. We still hang out and we are really good friends now. Is this the right time to talk to her about my feelings? If",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [25F] roommate [27M] of 1 year won't stop scaring my dog [4M] even though I have specifically talked to him about it multiple times. POST: I have a dog who is incredibly shy and anxious. I got him from a shelter just over a year ago and he was previously neglected and possibly abused. He likes me, my boyfriend, and one roommate and that is it. We all live in a house with a fourth roommate: S. S is kind of a dick to the dog (O) and doesn't seem to realize. I have told him that if h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to handle a partner who plays video games and does nothing else. POST: Some context: I'm a 27F and my parter is a 27M- we've been together for 8 years, no kids. I love him very much, and I know he loves me. We both work, but he makes much more money than I do. We both enjoy playing video games, but he plays CONSTANTLY, literally, from the moment he gets home from work to the time he goes to bed. This leaves me to do all the cleaning, cooking, shopping, laundry, etc. I get h",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I (26/M) had an excellent date with a (24/f) a week ago. She told me we'd hang out again and has been elusive since. Question inside. POST: I had a great date with her last week. We had the natural 'chemistry' and 'spark' that most of my first dates lack. We also got physical and did cute little things such as hold hands. At the end of the date she told me we'd hang out again, that she has a busy schedule this month but should have time to hang out, to call her. I waited a day, ca",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sending 90 emails to 202 people on accident POST: I'm a web developer and my company runs a blog for this guy. He was one of our first customers back when it was just 3 of us. Well he's been posting and running his blog for about 4 years and had a total of 189 posts in that time. Recently he came to us because he is publishing a book and wanted some help with online marketing for it. Well we looked at his website and realized it was on an old Wordpress version that was 2 years old and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] Starting my 2nd year of uni. Wondering how to meet new people? POST: Hey everyone i'll just get straight into it. I've been single for a good year and a half now and would really like to meet someone. So I've just started my 2nd year at uni literally today and so i'm wondering how I just get myself out there and meet people? I go out to bars and things but I find it difficult to start talking to new people. I'm also hoping to join some sports clubs this year but again I fin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to not feel uncomfortable about boyfriends significant wealth POST: Before I begin sorry if it's a little long, I haven't gotten a chance to talk about this to anyone yet so it may be a little ramble-y. So I've [19/F] been dating my [19/M] boyfriend, lets call him Bob, for about 9 months now, and I'm still kind of uncomfortable about his family's wealth. I knew going into the relationship that he had a pretty big house but didn't think much of it, I have friends that live on t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] recently hung out with my ex [20M], he doesn't seem interested in talking anymore. thoughts? POST: 2 years ago I dated this guy for about a year, we had a really great relationship, but it didn't work out. we hadn't seen each other since the break up but eventually we started texting again, just talking about school and movies and tv shows and small talk. we had always considered ourselves good friends, during and after the relationship and his friendship was something I valu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (22M) and recently ex-gf (22FM) who were together over a year, broke up about a month ago. She only just recently contacted me to get her phone charger back and I'm not sure what to do. POST: So I broke up with her about a month sgo, but I didn't mean to. It's hard to explain but she never wanted to discuss and work things out in our relationship. She would always go home or leave when we got in fights and she wouldn't talk to me about them to try to fix things. Then she would jus",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by playing with sand POST: Note: First post here, unsure where NSFW or not. This fuck up took place about 3 weeks ago during the day of a small time festival located on a beach. About 95% of the festival-goers indulge in drugs and I contribute to that 95%, however it was a relatively tame day - I had some LSD. As I began to enter the 4/5th hour, myself and 4 friends, who shall be dubbed M, J, E and R, were enjoying our time at the beach before the festival started. Whilst M and J were",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[22M] with my friend [21F] of 10 years, keep hooking up but wont go on a date or even hang out outside work. POST: I've hooked up twice in the past couple weeks with a girl i have been friends with for almost 10 years. We ended up liking each other a few years ago but we would really only hang out during the summer when we were at summer camp together which is now the place we both work. Whenever summer came around either i had a gf or she had a bf so we never tried anything, exc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my girlfriend[23F] of 3 months doesn't like giving head POST: So I have been dating this girl for a few months and mostly everything is great. However, we are having some issues sexually, specifically she does not like giving head. She has given me head twice, once to completion. Afterwards she started saying how ""it's so hard giving head"" and that she ""can't breathe very well"" and ""it sucks""(no pun intended). I didn't really say anything after but since then she",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by pulling a knife on a mental health worker POST: This happened back in 2008, I was recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital and i was on a lot of medication and living in 1 bedroom government housing flat (that i had just moved into ). I didn't really know the mental health team that was meant to be looking after me and 1 day i was chopping up a rock melon with a big butchers knife and i had a knock on the front door, i yelled wait and the knocking got louder so i yelled 'Fuck",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend (34m) plans to propose to his gf (30f) in a public way. Not sure she'll say yes. Should I say anything? POST: They've been together for 3 years and it's been generally good, though the rough patches they do have are *really* rough. He's not abusive, just an a-hole sometimes. But he's a big fan of the grand gesture and that's how he plans to propose. For anonymity's sake I don't want to get too specific, but what he's planning is on par with proposing through the jumbo-tron at ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by finally getting caught. POST: This just happened to me so I'm still kind of reeling from it. For the last three years where I have had a roommate, I have never gotten caught with the wood in my hand (a few close calls though), today, my luck ran out. I had just gotten back from the gym when the feeling of horniness hit me. I knew my roommate was out working out/getting laundry done, so I figured I had enough time to give the wood a good whacking. So I pull up some quality shit and",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is my website being taken advantage of? Help me reddit! POST: Hi reddit...I think I might be at risk of being taken advantage of by a pretty major company, and I wanted your advice on the situation. Basically, I run a gaming website. We have a very active, albeit small (30-50 active posters), community. The site traffic isn't the best in the world, but it honestly doesn't bother me. I have never run the site for profit or anything...what minimal ads we have are there at the request o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Sometimes I (23F) want to break up with bf (33M) of 1.5 years, but when he does it first I say I don't want to break up. POST: Sometimes when my boyfriend does and says things that are completely inappropriate it makes me want to break up with him. I have good reason to. But during these times he gets all mad and says that we are broken up. This makes me go on the reverse side, saying ""no we aren't"". Even if my plan really was to wait and then break up with him. He always realizes hi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by falling asleep with my PC on POST: So I had a really long day at the university and decided to turn in early. I was lying in bed browsing the internet, with screen projected on TV. The last thing I remembered was opening a photo of a girl on facebook (you know, *research purposes*) around 9 pm. The windows were open at the time. Then I dozed off, to tired to even ^do ^my ^research. The wind blowing through the open door woke me up at 2 am. I had absolutely no idea what happened unti",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: How was it for you? POST: When you had your heart broken for the first time? I (23M) am going through my second break-up, but it is the worst by far. The first I was easily able to harbor animosity towards and eventually killed my feelings or her. This time around, I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with this girl (20F). She is studying abroad and fell that she had to break things off because she had doubts about our relationship. she feels too young to be so involved. she",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I make up for a bad review? POST: I am a tutor at my high school. Over the summer, I decided to begin private tutoring; however, I didn't start off too well. I opened an account on University Tutor (a site for finding a private tutor), and the first person who contacted was a dad. I called him, and things started getting shady: IRC, he wanted to meet at a hotel 25 minutes from where I live to tutor a son who lived with his mom in another city (he said he was a businessman on a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO [28M] broke up with me [23F] yesterday because of his missing dog, we also work together. How do I go about this situation best? POST: I had been dating this guy for about 7 months now, we work at the same place different departments. He has a history of alcoholism (he has 2 DUIs) and has been dealing with this, while I've been supportive (taking him to AA, driving him everywhere) , I've noticed I've also fallen into a co-dependant relationship. This is why I've been more than ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, can you help my sister find a doctor? (EHE/Bone Cancer) POST: Nine months or so ago my sister discovered a bump on her leg and went to the doctors to get it looked it. Long story short, after MRI, PET scan and bone biopsy, they determined it was Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (or EHE). In September she had limb salvage surgery at UMDNJ in Newark NJ, the results of which can be seen on [this X-ray] (Compare to a [normal leg] The surgery itself was more than 9 hours long. Sin",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Comcast $450 doesn't care, is it fair? POST: So, like a good little Comcast customer I pay my bill on time for a year or so were I live. (Ive had Comcast at other houses for years.) I go to add TV to my existing account, they want me to pay $450 just to add TV. Naturally I want to talk to a manager than after 15mins of run around I'm offered wireless to the account which I decline. Transferred to yet another rep who tells me that I should get satellite which I decline. Then to another re",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you learn to die well? POST: I have been thinking a lot about the old Mark Twain quote that ""atheists tend to get grumpy with age."" I have had close calls and came very close to dying once. I dont know it seems like the actual act of a quick death like I was in for (unexplained anaphylaxis) was not so bad and when I was in it I didnt really care about much of anything and felt very peaceful. What worries me isn't death but when I am in my 50's or so and death is looming much close",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Landlord wants to charge us late fees but the payment has been sent and delivered on time according to the bank? POST: We have our rent payments set up to be sent out automatically through bill pay at the bank. This works by the bank charging our account for the amount and mailing a check to our landlord's address on a set date every month. Last month, our landlord complained that our rent check had not arrived, even though the bank confirmed it had been delivered. So we put a stop on ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Cat's n' Milk POST: Dear Reddit and all of you fellow scientifically minded people out there. I found myself at the local vet clinic the other day reading up on their generic pamphlets and factoids to help pass the time only to come across a cute little excerpt that stated this particular gem as fact. ""One ounce of cows milk is the equivalent to five cheeseburgers to a fully grown cat."" I am by no means an expert (hence the inquiry) in the field but I know one thing for sure. Scaling i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my boyfriend [22M] 6 months has a lot of female friends, how do I stop being so jealous? POST: So my boyfriend and I have been together in a long distance relationship for just over 6 months. It also looks like it will be long distance for the foreseeable future, as we go to different universities. However things are going really well, we love each other, we see each other as regularly as possible and when we do we have a lot of fun together. It is honestly the best rel",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32F] with my [35M] - how to talk about his family ring (my soon to be engagement ring) not being my style? POST: My current boyfriend and I have talked about getting married, and he mentioned his grandma's ring would be his when she passed away and strongly implied that would be my engagement ring. He got home this morning from visiting his mom for the holiday this weekend (I had to work and couldn't go), and the bits and pieces he told me about their conversation has made me thi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by buying a soda POST: Okay, so admittedly this didn't happen today. But since most fuckups aren't apparent until afterwards...let's skip that part. I'm in my room on a Friday night, being a recluse as per usual. No big deal, I'm relaxing with some video games after a long week of homework. I queue myself up for a game of Dota 2. (For those not versed in video games/Dota: Essentially to play with other people you search for a match and when the match groups enough players, you must hit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (25m) best female friend(25f) just confessed to me but she was drunk and I dont know to feel POST: I apologioze for my grammer i just suck at it. So this girl I've known since high school, lets call her S has always been one of the girls that I had feelings for but she was always with someone else during our friendship until a couple of months ago. Anyways so we always had a good relationship where we would hang out all the time and talk about our problems and such. For the longes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I, [23m], am ready to say I love her [21/f] POST: I'm sure we all know that moment - god damn, it hits you like a ton of bricks; that moment where suddenly you realize your in love! My girlfriend and I have know each other for six months now, and since we've met we've been rather inseparable and while our relationship became official in late January we had been talking about such things before Christmas. I've been in relationships before, including a serious 3 year one; my current g",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need advice on responsibility, could you help me Reddit? POST: Today I was issued a warning from my parent that I was not responsible enough to deal with the other ""parents"" dogs. I was never brought up with pets other than cats, and they were easy to manage. I just moved into my parents house coming from AZ and Graduating High School. However these dogs are specific and there are only two of them. One dog is on the verge of death, while the other is still a puppy, a very large puppy a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [23F] find myself fantasizing about my boyfriend's [24M] brother [23M] POST: I [23F] have been with my boyfriend [24M] for three years now and things are going really well. I'm more crazy about him now than I was back when we first got together. His family has always lived out of state, but a few weeks ago they moved 20 minutes down the road from where we live. The whole clan moved down- his mother, father, nana, and brother. My boyfriend and his brother [23M] are only a litt",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (23f) trying to adjust to dating a guy (28m) who is hard to read and shows little emotion. Together 2.5 months. POST: I started hanging out with someone I met through mutual friends a couple months ago. We didn't really have a first date but we became sexual right away. Because of that I wasn't sure if we were just going to be FWB or more. It didn't bother me a whole lot so I never asked. However, he'd want to hang out regularly and he introduced me to a bunch of his friends. We ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: I messed up really bad and I lied about my wages during a phone interview with HR. What should I do now? POST: I am interviewing for a very competitive position (same title) in a non-profit company that pays mid-range at $30/hr (they get huge amount of donations). I currently make $20/hr. I believe I am underpaid at my job partly because I work in non-profit and partly because I feel my boss depends on me greatly but does not value the work I do. After my second interview HR contacted me a",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Turned down £50k a year to go back to university and study physiotherapy. Seriously worried about budget, please help. POST: I have been working in sales for 3 years and have got to the point where I am about to have a really big year. However I have also been studying my A Levels after work each night and paid about a £1000 in fees in order to be able to go back to university and study physiotherapy. I negotiated with the companies director at work today and explained the situat",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Non-romantic] I [24M] feel like I'm performing the duties of friendship instead of being a friend POST: So I'm a reasonably stable person. Shitty job, shitty apartment, shitty life, but improving on all 3. With my friends, it feels like I'm just jumping through hoops that are expected of me. They need support, I say the supportive things they need to hear, and we move on. They have a thing they're interested in, I feign the bare minimum of interest, ask a few questions to show I li",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[25F] with a great guy[26M] together for eight months. I am afraid of the commitment that we may be headed towards. POST: We've been dating for about eight months and have gone through some pretty fantastic and terrifying experiences together. Our sex life is not great, we haven't had sex for months, most of the time he travels for business and we only get to spend time (which is usually his choice) on the weekends, and we decided to have an abortion from a very early mistake. But ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can some companies (like Frye's) get away with stuff like this? Or what are some horrible retail repackaging stories you have? POST: This just popped into my head after reading a couple of other threads, and I got curious. A couple years ago I bought something used from Fry's. A processor, I think. Yes, I know it's stupid. That's what I told my dad, too (I was building him a PC at the time but he wanted to cut corners). Anyway, we get it home, and the computer doesnt turn on. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Brother just acccused me of sexually abusing him when we where both children POST: Absolutely shocked by the allegation, My brother currently has a alchohol problem and I have pestering him about it for a few weeks now, I called him today and he was in a bar as usual and drunk - I tried to threaten him about calling the cops and getting him to a clinic and also revealing to our parents that he has been locked up a couple of times for being drunk. At this point he said that he would t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU Breaking Into My Own House POST: I finally got booked my first very minor acting role on a crappy cable show. Since I was already taking a large bag with me, I didn't want to mess with bringing my purse as well, so I put my ID and such in my jacket pocket. Despite getting up at the asscrack of dawn to get to set on time, I was running a few minutes late. I rushed out the door in my normal routine, locking the door handle lock as I usually do, before whipping out my house keys to lock the",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Defective Macbook Pro - Not under warranty - What are my options? POST: A while back I bought a Unibody Macbook Pro. It comes with the option to run on either an integrated graphics card (slower but longer battery), or a dedicated card. I ran it exclusively on the dedicated card right up until my battery died. Brought it in to the Apple store and they said that the battery was rated for lasting 300 power cycles and mine lasted 240, but since it wasn't under warranty any more I had to pa",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: by calling a kid retarded. POST: This happened in Yr7 (6th grade, I live in the UK) and I just remembered this while having a discussion about retarded people (not in bad way). I was new to this school and I was just making some friends and was ending up in good classes as I was a pretty good student. This school was ok but not the best. In some of my classes there was this fat kid, very fat kid and I just assumed he was fat. I had no problem with his weight but as time went by I notic",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: The greatest troll dad POST: I have had a job ever since the age of 14. My parents always made me work because they said they needed me to help paying the bills. When i was 14/15 my parents made me pay 30 dollars a month for my phone bill, and from the age of 16-18 they have made me pay for my phone, gas, and insurance. Last year when i got into my car accident my parents added on another 3000 dollar bill that I had to pay 100 dollars a month (50 a paycheck). Recently i have begun debati",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] with my ex-girlfriend [16F] got into a fight about the guy she's seeing ended with insults and blocking of one another POST: OK so this might be a little long so bear with me. Alright so me and my ex were trying to remain friends after our breakup (less than a month ago). we've had a couple fights before mainly about the guy which I feel she dumped me for. I've told her multiple times before to not talk about him to me but she would continuously talk about him to me which p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I (23,m) help my friend (m,22) getting through his breakup? POST: So one of my best friends got broken up today. They were together for only 6 months but he gets attached really quickly. They confessed their love for each other a month or so ago and he told me how happy he was with her all the time (at leas until recently). He has a problem with being too clingy, that's why his last gf broke up with him, she felt smothered and couldn't take it. We talked about that a week ag",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are some of the best Facebook hacks you have seen? Preferably humorous and not offensive. POST: I am versing a bud in a board game, at the moment we are one game a piece and the games are getting heated. At it's most extreme, even the rule book was brought out and dusted off to resolve a very minor discrepancy. Also one of us did a heinous fart, neither of us owned up, there was a dog in the room inside a radius that could potentially incriminate it, so the case went unresolved. Any",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Morality - My roommate and I are having a debate that we cannot seem to resolve. Who's right? POST: In what began as a discussion on moral relativism, my roommate and I have reached an impasse. It seems that we differ greatly in our ideas of what morality is and how it relates to the concepts of good and bad. I believe that with sentience, you have self-interest and therefore a perception of good and bad as it relates to you or other things you can relate to. Within that I believe there",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [M17] just got back from a weeklong camp at my dream school, how do I tell my GF [F17] that I no longer want to date after graduation? POST: So just a little background info, we are both rising seniors in high school and have been dating for about nine months. We have always planned to date after graduation and clearly stated that we would continue dating after graduation. I plan to commission into the United States Army after college. All of my college choices are military colleg",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16 M] always end up in stupid arguments with my dad [46 M] over the smallest things. POST: I always fall out with my dad over the smallest things. He's a stressed out guy and gets angry easily, not to mention he's had a lot to deal with recently that I won't get into, but it stills annoys me. For instance, I asked him what our Netflix password was cause I forgot it, and when he claimed we don't have a password, I tried to calmly explain that we must have a password or we wouldn't ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, do you have any stories about a long distance (internet) friendship you had and what happened when you met? POST: I've become really good friends with a bunch of people I met through a web community I'm on. We're all sort of scattered across the world so we would communicate through this forum. The company that the forum is on has an anniversary celebration every year since like 2007. So most of us have ended up meeting at this anniversary celebration. The first time I went was",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (24) want to end my relationship with my bf (29) of 18 months. How to do it? POST: Okay, so basically my relationship is over. I've known for a while. We moved in way too fast, I became extemely unhappy, and after much deliberating it was decided that I'd go back to living with my parents and he'd find another place. The relationship hasn't been the same. It's been a month, and the doubt I hoped would go away just hasn't. I thought that it was living together that made me doubt my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 38F with my 47M husband: married 20 years, I'm done but don't know how to tell him POST: He's a good, kind, attractive, and compassionate man. I love him in that I feel affection for him and don't want to see him hurt. I love our two amazing children. And when he touches me, I want to curl up and cry inside. I want him to fall in love with someone else who's better for him in every way. Calmer. Sweeter. More tender-hearted. More home- and family-oriented. Less of a mess. We've had ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Missed court date, now there's a warrant out for my arrest. [Colorado] POST: I am 19 years old. In May, while I was living in Colorado, I was apprehended by a couple cops (for being drunk) and was taken to a Detox center. I am now living in Minnesota. This afternoon, I received a letter informing me that I missed my court date and that there is now a warrant for my arrest in Colorado. Now, I didn't know that I was supposed to appear in court. At the Detox center, there were vague ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend of 4 months [19F] Is still pissed off with me[19M] and we have a big date today POST: So yesterday me and my girlfriend were planning our date over the phone and after something small and stupid was said and a ""couple argument"" started over something small and stupid. We were both in the wrong but I apologized and just dropped everything she said without asking for an apology to save drama. After the argument it was pretty late so I knew there wouldn't be much time to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I properly ask a guy if he likes me after 4 years? POST: I, [20F], have liked a guy [21M] for about four years now, but have no idea if he likes me. In the first two years of our 'relationship' we hung out a good amount and hooked up every time. As time went on, we dated other people, but every time we were single we would get together and hook up. Over the last two years we haven't seen each other as much, once a week to once a month, and pretty much hook up and leave. Last w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15M] with my friend [16F] I've known for 3 months, moving states. I want to start a relationship. POST: I met this girl through my ex (when I was dating her). Through hanging out with her I realized how perfect of a person she is to me. If I were to start a relationship, I feel that it would be based of way more than my previous one. The problem (for me), is that she's moving 2 states away. I want to tell her how I feel. I don't want to spend the time when she's gone thinking ""w",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By going blind on vacation POST: This happened a few weeks ago on summer vacation. I had cheap Wal-Mart glasses, so this was bound to happen. Get to the hotel and take them off, as I was setting them on the table the lens break. Fuck. Vacation was a water park so not that bad, or so I thought. The water slides all had personal set of rules and to ride them you had to follow them. Problem is I'm nearsighted and the signs were pretty far away. Had to ask someone to READ me (a 16 y/o) all t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [22 M] broke up with me [23F] after 3 years together. He says its a break. Any stories of getting back together after a ""break""? POST: After three years together, my now ex-boyfriend decided to break things off with me. I guess things just got too difficult and he no longer felt like he could be in a relationship with me. I think its more due to personal problems than relational problems. At first he said it was a breakup but later said it was a break. I still be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] am getting sick of my parents [50s] and their worsening attitudes POST: Growing up, I just blocked out their incessant arguing and quietly listened to their (somewhat forceful) suggestions on how I should live my life. Now, however, I can take it no longer and I end up clashing with them often. My dad criticizes my mom for being untidy and my mom gets mad at my dad for a ton of things. Truth is, they're both guilty of the things they blame each other for. But when I try to to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my Brother [28 M]: He wants me to be his best man and officiate his wedding this March. We've never been close. POST: My brother and I have never been close. We grew up on farm together in our small town, but were never very alike. He's a small town loving, football watching, family guy. I'm more of a city living, whiskey loving, workaholic kind of guy. The only time I can ever remember even touching him is when he hugged me after our Mom told us that she and our Dad w",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Another spat with my[M25] girlfriend[23/f] POST: Had another row with the girlfriend today. Day was fine, good, dandy, however you want to put it. I had taken her out to eat and then we were going to see a movie, but she tells me she's too tired to go now (she was going to pay for the movie while I got dinner). I say that's fine we'll go home, but she had to get some things from the store first. Well we go to the craft store and she gets the things she needs, but then start",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So, AskReddit, I have a question for you regarding race... POST: I recently saw a post on AskReddit, which asked for advice on dogs, specifically, what breed the poster should get to if they want to fulfil certain traits, like temperament or intelligence. Now, most people I know are happy to say that different breeds of dogs have different traits, such as high/low intelligence, aggressive/non-aggressive etc. And they would say that in breeding dogs, you purposely perpetuate certain trai",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF[22F] of 2 years, recently broke up with me, I[22M] found out she's been with another woman. POST: Hey all, my girlfriend of 2 years broke up with me a few weeks ago. Nothing dramatic happend, she said her feelings for me weren't there anymore...she said she wanted some time to figure out what she wanted to do in life and didn't want to focus on a relationship. She said in the meantime she wanted us to remain ""best friends"", I agreed (not a smart move I know). Recently I found out",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my long-term BF [28 M], found photos of other real girls on his hard drive POST: I've been dating my bf for 2 years and I live at his condo 3/4 times a week. He is a photographer by career and has a lot of external hard drives that he uses to backup his work. This past weekend I jumped onto his computer while he was away and as I tried saving a file, the default save path was linked to a folder in the external HD he had accidentally left plugged into his computer. The",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] with my [23F] of 4 years in a long distance relationship, broke up because of me and now I regret it. POST: I dated a wonderful girl for 4 years. We lived in the same neighborhoods but went to colleges in different states so we did the long distance relationship thing. We had our ups and downs but overall very happy together besides the distance. We discussed marriage post graduation, she was ready for a proposal and although I knew I eventually wanted to, I wasn't quite r",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I want to leave sooo badly but im stuck on a lease with her. need advice POST: Hi everyone! Im currently living together with my girlfriend. we've been together for almost 3 years. started living together a year and a half ago. after living with some roommates for 6 months we moved out and are renting a house together. Our lease ends in 7 months. Quite honestly, I dont think I can last that long. First off, shes a wonderful gal. Shes very thoughtful and really sweet. But she is also ki",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by ruing a cosplayer's Free Comic Book Day. POST: Okay so free comic book day was on May 1st, and therefore did not happen today. So for those of you who do not know, free comic book day is exactly what it sounds like; a great opportunity for comic book geeks like me to save some cash, add some stuff to their collections, and for cosplayers to do their thing. So me and a few buddies were waiting in what was a large line and I see this female cosplayer in a Chun Li (character from Street ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Help with Parents and Losing Weight POST: I'm only 14, 190lbs, nearing 200. No matter how clearly I explain that to my parents, they just get all pissy saying ""OH, IT'S NOT OUR FAULT YOU'RE A FAT###, IT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE A LAZY SACK OF ####"" First of all, the typical grocery list is ""Sodas, Chicken, PopTarts, Eggo Waffles, and Popcorn."" It's my fault for wanting to eat something besides that? Their mentality is ""You can eat whatever the hell you want, as long as you work it off."" Yeah, wel",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Any Adivce On How to Be A Dick? POST: Reddit, I've finally decided I'm going to become an asshole. I'm tired of doing the nice guy rutine and getting snubbed by the ass hole docuhe bags I claim to dispise so much. So, I'm going to become that which I hate in order to see if it's really worth hating. I was thinking about starting with my physical appearance you know, working out, running getting in shape. After that, I need to know the attitude to have. I don't want to come off as a compl",negative " r/loseit TITLE: How to I feel satisfied or proud? POST: For the longest time I have had a pot-belly. In my sophomore year of high school I weighed 190 and I am now bellow 160 in my freshman year of high school. I know I should feel so proud, I've dropped several waist sizes and I continue to meet and blast through goals at the gym. However, I still have a stomach. I feel like such an idiot because I don't think I'll feel any sense of real accomplishment until I am in peak condition, but that seems so far a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my girlfriend[17] 1 year 2 months, thinks I'm talking to someone else when I'm not POST: Hi guys, So me and my girlfriend have a really strong relationship most of the time. It can be quite stressful because she is currently grieving and my Father is terminally ill. This aside, we try our best to always be happy. She was on my phone (which I had no problem with) and she saw that I had a conversation with a girl. Perfectly normal conversation, nothing being said that s",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Any wisdom or particular experiences to share involving break ups and moving on? POST: I went through a breakup a while ago in 2012 and have the feeling that I should be over it by now; however I feel like some part of me is still hanging on for some reason. If you want to ask about details of the relationship you can but I don't expect anyone to. It was a quick break up (her choice) and I dealt with it quite well after the first two days. This seemed too quick and now I'm starting to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F24] treat romantic relationships very differently than friendships. I have more success with friendships. Help? POST: I'm not sure what the balance between not jumping/diving into a relationship very quickly versus being cold, versus showing your love should be. Sometimes it feels like I'm not giving enough, sometimes it feels like I'm giving too much, too soon. I have a best friend. I would probably give everything to her if she asked for it and we're very unselfish towards ea",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my GF [20 F] 8 months; I was stressed, she left; She's unsure POST: I've been dating this girl for about 9 months if you include before we were ""official"", and things were pretty great. This was my first serious, committed relationship so I was doing some learning along the way (i.e. understand sometimes she just needs to vent and doesn't want solutions, accepting not talking about sexual past, living independent lives, etc) some general boyfriend stuff. While I know t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] girlfriend [17F] hit me in public yesterday. A girl [17-19F] gave me her number. Should I call her? POST: Hi, I can't sleep and I need advice The last 12-10 hours have not been easy for me. My girlfriend slapped me in the face for adding a female friend on Facebook. This girl and my girlfriend have some sort of problem with each other. I did not know and she hit me in my face three times. She left me alone in the mall. 10 minutes after my girlfriend left me, a girl walked ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Romantic interest [19 F] gets cold feet after I [19 M] ask her out after 2 months of hanging out/ occasionally hooking up POST: So me and this girl have been hanging out/ sporadically hooking up for the past couple months. It seemed like she was sending signals that she just wanted to be friends, but ultimately she came back and we started hanging out again. Recently, she has been dropping serious signals that she wanted me to ask her out (texting me late at night and early in the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my boyfriend [21M] ~1 year on/off, am I being completely stupid for getting back with him? POST: We started dating the first time about a year ago. He talked about his ex a lot, who was still in love with him and they were very close friends. She would call a lot and he would answer while we were together, and he compared me to her. There was also a night where he got black-out wasted and ended up kissing a lot of people, including her. It was rough for me, and after ab",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Advice for meeting new people on campus (22M) POST: I'm a 22-year-old male and a senior in college, and I live with my four best friends, but have almost no social exposure beyond that. I have friends in my department at school but no one I ever hang out with outside of classes (with the exception of parties on the weekends, etc). Pretty much the only people I see when I'm not either in class or on the way TO class ate my roommates. I'm starting to feel pretty trapped. My last gi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by failing at parking POST: Full disclosure: this FU happened yesterday. I just got my license two weeks ago despite the fact that I'm 21 and I now have no idea why I waited so long since being able to drive is usually awesome. My godmother gave me her fiancé's old car, a well-preserved 2004 Saturn L300. So, I drove to the nearby grocery store to get some last-minute dinner ingredients and neatly pulled into my small parking space. So when I leave I'm pulling out of the space and hit th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Advice on getting back together? 22 m and 22 f. POST: Hi. My SO (22 m) and I (22 f) dated for 6+ years. He broke up with me about 2 months ago because: 1. We were spending too much time together - neither of us ever had ""me time."" Spending too much time also led us to value the time we spend with each other less. 2. We were too comfortable with each other. 3. He wanted to figure out who he is when he is not with me. We decided to get back together. We talk every day (not excessive",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (27M) long time girlfriend (26f) got me a gift that she can't afford. Struggling financially. POST: Alright, this is a slight rant so brace yourself. Only wrote this out to see if I could. So my girlfriend decided to spoil me on my birthday by spending WAY more than she can afford. I was very excited about my gifts, but immediately realized she made a mistake because we have some many bills to take care of. I told her that it was nice but I would be happier if she returned and ju",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my crush [24 F] 4+ years, how do I move on? POST: Guys, need some infinite wisdom. Really, how does one ""move-on"" from a crush? If it were an actual relationship, it would be better because it would have typically been burnt to the ground. However, how does one move on from a crush? I have expressed my feelings and clearly she doesn't feel the same way. We ended up staying as friends. But my stupid brain just can't stop fucking feeling jealous of her current SO and c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my ex [27 F] girlfriend just broke up after a year and a half. So lost.Need help.. POST: Hae guys. Pretty distressed here. Just broke up cleanly(I apologised for everything I did wrong and she did aswell. Had a civil break up like it was a divorce) and im in limbo. I know the age difference will be a much disputed topic and I think it really was. She's a College graduate with a decent job at the moment while I am just a young upstarter training to be in the police for",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Today my little sister found out she is pregnant. Now what? POST: She's 20, I'm 21, she's living with two of her friends in an apartment. Our father (who raised us alone since the age of 10 and 11 respectively) JUST moved to Ohio less than 2 weeks ago. She found out last night at the hospital, they did a blood test after she came in with bad stomach cramps and feeling extremely nauseous. She wants to keep the baby, I told her that I would support her choice, no matter what it was. We to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32F] with my BF [36M] 1 year, how to show him that I support him since he got the job I've always wanted? POST: Hi all! Frequent lurker, new poster. My amazing boyfriend and I have been together a year. He's great. Honestly, the first partner I've had in my life- we both give and take and compliment each other perfectly. We both work in a niche field, and I've been at this a LOT longer than him (10+ years, whereas he's only been in it 2). He was given an opportunity as wo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [19, m] girlfriend [19 f] is uneasy about a nickname about me at work. POST: A couple of girls that I work with have given me the nickname pickle. It doesn't bother me at work at all because people have jokingly called me that my whole life. My girlfriend works with me and she is very upset and jealous that these girls are calling me ""pickle"". She is demanding that I make them stop. Both of these girls are dating other people, and are in long term relationships. I have been datin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] new boyfriend [26M] of 3 weeks insisted on changing the locks at my place and acts like a concerned parent POST: Ever since I showed my new boyfriend my place he has been acting psycho and telling me how bad my neighborhood is (it isn't) and how I need to move. I live in a single family house alone at the moment because my roommate who normally stays there too is doing a study abroad program in Spain. When I brought him, we'll call him Eric, btw he is a city cop, back to my ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (27F) being too nice or fulfilling my obligation by offering to pay someone back for my mistake? POST: Recent thread about a guy whose girlfriend is too much of a people pleaser reminded me of this. My friends criticize me for being a bit of a people pleaser as well. In this situation: I was supposed to move into a new apartment July 30. I had a new job lined up and though I hadn't met my new roommates I said I would take the place. I agreed the lease would start July 30 even",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I think my girlfriend is addicted to medical attention. POST: I (29m) think my girlfriend (27f) of 3 years may have some type of addiction for lack of a better word, to attention. She's constantly going to the emergency room or doctors with mystery ailments, or simple things like headaches or stomach pain. She seems perfectly fine, then just starts complaining about pain and is off to the hospital. She gets pain medicine and a diagnosis of migraine or muscle aches or acid reflux, the",negative " r/loseit TITLE: NSV- Ran 6.7 Miles instead of 2.5. POST: I usually run 2.5 mi on the weekends. I used to match what my friend, who inadvertently motivated me to lose weight, would run when we went out together. I knew that she could run further but figured that she was into cross country and I couldn't match what she would normally do so I figured 2.5 is where I stop and that does the job. Today that would not do the job. Today I cranked some Daft Punk and just ran for as long as I possibly could. Tod",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm in love with two men, what should I do? POST: OK reddit, this is going to be long, you are warned. I am a 23 year old woman from some Middle Eastern land studying in the US. In May I met a guy (24) on OkCupid of all places. Wonderful, smart, funny, handsome… All around perfect. We had an amazing few weeks, and I felt genuinely in love. Possibly the best sex of my life, and we just fit each other. Same goals, same tastes. He is the type of guy that I just feel comfortable with. H",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my ex-Girlfriend [23F] dated for over 2 yrs. We broke up on x-mas eve, she contacted me wanting to talk POST: We started dating in college and used to study at the same course, after about 5 months in the relationship I was accepted for a government scholarship to the UK, we live in Brazil. We decided to keep the relationship even with the long distance and I like to think for the most part it was a great achievement that we managed to do it. We obviously had our share",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF and I are debating a ""break"" after she stops talking to me. POST: So basically my 21 y/o GF stopped talking to me over text (I'm 22M), and has done this for a while repeatedly. I talk to her afterwards and try to get her to at least respond. Obviously I get angry, and then, today, most recently she says that we should take a ""break"" because apparently we don't get along. So far, she has said jack-shit to me about anything, regarding her unhappiness or anything like that, and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to proceed ? POST: I'm attracted to a girl, we'll call her Sarah (16), who likes Twilight. I'd like to initiate a relationship with Sarah but I'm not sure how to go about it, and I'm unsure whether I need to watch/read Twilight so that my interests would match hers. I've also found myself in an (accidental) relationship with another girl, we'll call her Nadia (18), whom I was friends with since I was 5. I don't find her attractive, but after I asked for her number she assumed I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my ""boyfriend"" [28M] for a few months now finding that he's being weird with his phone. Need advice. POST: So I've been dating my guy for a few months now and it's been great so far, but I also have anxiety and trust issues in relationships because of the past. But I'm very intuitive of things so I pick up signs quickly if there's a change. So the problem is that I'm noticing he's pretty private with his phone. He keeps it locked and with him all times. And when we ar",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (22F) really insecure 'cos of boyfriend (22M), and not sure if it's warranted POST: Hi everyone, I'll just give you a wee background of our relationship so you can maybe understand where I'm coming from. My boyfriend and I have been together two years; though we did break up for about half a month about 5 months ago. He's this hugely successful guy; engineer, gym buff, brains... you name it. However, I don't feel he's overly interested in me unless he's got nothing else to do",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Scared student [17F] because of my assistant orchestra director's [late 20's M] twitter. Can he get fired for this? POST: I'm a high school orchestra student and this year we got a new orchestra assistant director. He gave me the creeps from day one, but I just ignored it and passed it off as me being uncomfortable with having a new person trying to control the orchestra program I've been a part of for four years. Well this morning I came across his twitter account and I found a lo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (M/30)has a ton of pictures of his ex gf naked on his phone. (F/25 8 months) POST: So, I don't have a phone. I lost it a couple weeks ago and haven't replaced it yet. My bf left me with his phone last night at the bar because he was super drunk and wanted to go home and I wanted to stay with my best friend who I haven't seen in months. At some point in the night, I decided to look through his pictures. I have no idea why. I've never felt the urge before and I really di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I think my ex-girlfriend [17] is leading me [18] on. POST: So, I had previously been dating this girl for seven months, until two months ago, we broke up. So for two weeks, we barely talked, instead of going cold turkey, and ended up ""getting back together."" What I mean by this is that we now act as if we're a couple again, but not really. She says she's not ready to have sex again. As well as this, it seems like when we kiss she never really wants to, and just does it to make me hap",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are some of your best revenge stories? POST: Warning, explicit language follows: First, a bit of background: I work at a warehouse that processes the returns of empty beer bottles (for the Ontarians out there, I work at The Beer Store's Distribution Centre). One of our tasks is to throw bottles which come down a conveyor belt into their respective bins (coloured, clear, brown bottle, liquor/wine bottle, etc). To begin, I was innocently sorting bottles at work when a yellowjacket d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Im not attracted to my girlfriend. POST: Im on a business trip right now and it's the first chance away I've really had to think about it. When i first met my gf five years ago, she was a stunner. Ran cross country in high school. She was 5'4"" and 120ish. I was seriously attracted to her intellectually and physically. Had sex regularly and i loved it. After two or three years, she was busy with work and school alot. Her work ethic is honestly unmatched. But in those years, she put on",positive " r/Cooking TITLE: How do I grind spices and not get the powder up my nose? POST: I just made a spice rub for the first time in ages, and I'm still sniffling! First I tried grinding the red pepper flakes and tea leaves in my trusty giant granite mortar and pestle. Normally I grind much smaller amounts of spices, but I guess this recipe was meant for use in two or three meals. I don't know what happens when someone who actually knows what they're doing grinds stuff, but when I do it part of the spices get pow",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What can I (F20) do to become capable of having healthy relationships? POST: Having ruined my two previous relationships because of these issues I had settled adamantly in the idea that I was going to be alone for at least the next few years to work on being comfortable with myself and to get myself able to have more healthy relationships in the future. I've already made a lot of progress in that, but over the winter I met a man, and whilst he knows about these things and we are ta",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my gf [22 F] of 5 months, I am uncomfortable with her flirty behavior towards her male co-workers and friends. POST: So I have been dating a girl for 5 months now. She seems to really care about me and we aren't having any major relationship problems but when she tells me about her days at work she mentions her flirty relationships with co-workers and friends. Yesterday my friends invited us to a nice restaurant to catch up and she sees a co-worker at the restaurant ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 30m like the wrong girl POST: So this week I met 2 girls, the first one is prettier lies to me such as saying her bf is her ex, really only wants to see me when she has nothing better to do, and unfairly expects things of me such as hinting at wanting gifts. And she is not out of my league at all. The 2nd girl is not as good looking, treats me great, she will light my cigarettes, she took care of me while sick, sex with her is better, I think she might be in love with me. Now the t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [F19] friend [M18] and I have a weird relationship (about 5 months) that I don't know if I should continue POST: My friend is my ex who I have dated twice. After I got out of my recent relationship, we began being friends again. After a while (2 months) we began hanging out. We would hang out a couple times every month and would text every day. Still do, actually. When we hang out, we makeout and cuddle and do all this coupley stuff even though we aren't dating. He has told me bac",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (29 M) told my (23 F) girlfriend that I masterbate, which she considers it cheating. Opinions? POST: My girlfriend asked me if and how often I masterbate. I was honest and told her every four days or so, but she considers this cheating she said. She then asked if I think about other women, which I responded to with no either her or nothing. She seems to think that I should have sex with her whenever I have the urge, but she often gets sore easily so I don't bring it up with her, ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Fiancé[30F] 8months, worried about sex life? POST: So I'm 10 years younger than my fiancé(inb4 you're too young or it's too soon) and she means everything to me. I've never met anyone who clicks with me like she does. I was a virgin before her(by choice) and she was obv not being older. I get upset or freaked out thinking about her past lovers or sex life, she tells me that I've been the best and that I'm special but for some reason it really turns me off some of th",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Obnoxious drunk girlfriend: what do? POST: I have been with my girlfriend for a little over five years. She is really awesome in every way except one: she gets obnoxious when she's drunk. It wasn't a big deal early in the relationship, because she never used to drink often, but she's going through a bit of a crisis with graduating from college and leaving her friends behind, so she drinks heavily three or four nights a week right now (probably a phase, not at all worried about her ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my well-endowed guy I've been seeing [22 M] for ~3.5 weeks hurts me sexually but is great in every other way. Should I break Up? POST: So, throwaway because this is embarrassing and some friends are Redditors, but I really need some advice. A little bit of background information, I started talking to a guy in a class of mine a few weeks ago and we really hit it off. He's really cute and I was surprised when he talked to me and actually got kind of nervous (not that I'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Husband [M24] has been acting really clingy. Told me [F26] not to ask about it anymore. POST: 3 nights ago, my husband came home from work pretty late - normal time for him to get home as he travels from the city. I was in bed. I heard him come in and get undressed then he got in bed and pulled me really tightly against him. I gave him a kiss and asked if he was okay he said he was fine. Throughout the night I could just feel him pulling me tighter and tighter against him. Like reall",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [F23,M24] Can this work, or am I crazy? POST: We've been together for maybe a year and a half, I'm F23, dating M24. The relationship is great, I like him a lot, he's really supportive, the sex is awesome, we have a lot of common interests and have a lot of fun. However, my practical side says it's not going to last forever, due to: - He wants kids. I don't. This isn't going to change, and I'm not willing to compromise. - His family has all stayed within one small area of a specif",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Gf [20 F] of 11 months, she randomly started asking distant and I don't know what to do POST: I have been together with my girlfriend for 11 months, and things have been absolutely incredible. We see each other all the time and are both so happy together. We are always incredibly affectionate, we really love each other and we tell the other that all the time. We talk about the future, about spending it together, and about being so happy. We have both helped each",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: When you're high are you as good in bed as when you're sober? POST: Okay, a little back story. I've wanted to have sex with this guy for months. He finally ended up at my house last Friday and I just told him. We were making out and he was turning me more than I've ever been turned on. Problem was we didn't have a condom. So I invite him over tonight and he shows up totally high which wouldn't be a huge deal except the sex that was so anticipated lacked, I didn't get off and he had his c",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [20m] deal with my SO's [18f] anger POST: My SO and I have been seeing each other for about 2.5 months now. It's recently become apparent that she doesn't know what to do with her anger. She got herself into a foul mood because she was sick and 'it's not fair why did it happen to me,' after staying over at my house, it took me about an hour of getting snapped at before I was able to calm her down. This isn't an isolated incident, but is indicative of the pattern she show",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Wealthy customer offers me a flight to London as a tip, need advice. POST: I'm a early 20's woman server, and was serving this mid 30-40 male who was with his sister and brother and law. The entire night, he was in no way flirtatious, creepy, googly eyes etc. I bring him his bill and he asks if I would like money as a tip, or a flight to London. I say London, kinda joking (while still kind of intrigued) while realizing he's dead serious. He says leave your contact information and I'll se",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Help][discussion]Dogs sharing beds POST: Disclaimer: I write this post knowing I am already an overprotective dog dad... Recently, my Girlfriend and her dog moved into my place (just for a few months until she moves out of state). Her pup and my pup get along great. They enjoy playing with each other, cuddle together, and have never gotten into a real fight (just scuffles when one is playing too rough and the other doesnt like it). My dog is pretty submissive while her dog is definitely mor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I don't think my gf loves me. POST: 20M with 18F for about 9 months, LDR. I've loved this girl since I became her bf, and I have done everything in order to preserve this relationship when it's long distance. I don't feel she loves me the same way I do for her. I always want to do activities with her, but I wish she would initiate once in a while too. Her excuses are that ""I'm the man, I should be in charge."" I do take charge most of the time, but when I have to call every single t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (22 M) am having doubts about my fiance of 2 years (20 F) POST: She's done nothing wrong and she's absolutely wonderful but sometimes I just look at her and I question whether or not I want to get married to her. Not because she's unattractive or she's cheating on me or anything but just.... because. It might also have something to do with the fact that she was my first. Which at times makes me think that I haven't done enough dating or seeing other people. I've considered asking",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (23M) cousin (23M) is depressed, but won't go to talk to a counselor POST: At this point I'm frustrated. I've told him I care about him and his mental health, that he should see a counselor and that he should start working towards getting better. He is way too caught up his past, instead of working on his present. He keeps making excuses, and it's frustrating as hell. Excerpt of our his last text: >Well, I've not got any alternative. Can't go to a therapist because that means le",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Foreveraloner [M/21] here. Girl [F/19] may like me and I'm terrified out of my wits. POST: I go to a large university in the Midwest and I'm a senior there now. I have never done anything with a girl - not even holding hands - and that's probably because I dealt with a lot of body image issues that I only got over recently. I'm a pretty social guy, not an every week partier but I have a group of friends and can talk to people outside of my safety zone. I'm learning how to project con",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [27F] can't get over the fact that my boyfriend [24M] of 2 years never wants to get married. Please help. POST: So I'll start out by saying that we have been in a solid relationship now for almost 2 years although we have a longer history than that. We also have a child together that is almost 3. My boyfriend recently has told me he doesn't see anything special about marriage. He doesn't think it actually means anything and has provided several examples of failed marriages from pe",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: (16m) Tried asking this girl out..not sure if she actually said yes? POST: So I've been talking to this girl for about a year now, she's in my spanish class. I feel like we really have some type of connection. She laughs so hard she cries at all my jokes, we have similar feelings on things, she took my sweatshirt today and just wore it without asking me, idk it was cute, sue me. We flirt a lot during class and I think she likes me and so does everyone else but i'm not sure. Anyway ba",positive " r/dogs TITLE: My dog only attacks this one dog, and one dog only, at the dog park. Is there a possible reason why? POST: My dog is a 4 y/o, 95 lb female GSD. The other dog is a <40lb gray, fluffy mutt (imagine a mini keeshound mixed with an Australian Shepherd). Well, we started at one dog park where we met, and they were perfectly fine. Once the new fancy dog park (goes into our local lake) was opened (this was about two years ago) I noticed my dog HATES the poor mutt now. Granted, the mutt has that i",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit: Have you been a victim of racial profiling? POST: My friend's boyfriend was presumably a victim of racial profiling this evening. She is upset but I told her I believe racial profiling is still common. The story: Her father and grandfather both died in the past year. In their wills, she received a truck, trailer for hauling items, an expensive lawnmower and several other items. The lawnmower needed repair and her boyfriend dropped it off at a repair shop this morning. When he p",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Education and experience too specific? How do I break the mold? POST: I have both a BS/MS from two different top US Universities. I currently have a position in the sciences closely related to my graduate school work that is a limited term appointment - and it's been almost two years. I've done well there..but its been a turning point for me in realizing that research science is not the path for me. The problem is, I don't necessarily know what is anymore. I'm still somewhat interested in my ",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: Im falling apart POST: My gf/exgf told me its over, that night I drunk called her and we apologized to each other and agreed that we were both under a lot of stress and I convinced her that we needed some time apart to really think about what we want. She agreed to see me in a couple weeks and she would think about what I suggested. She said that its ok if I call her and she would answer if i did. I really want to give her space, but I'm worried that if I dont contact her at all she'll j",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not hearing the teacher burp POST: It began as a normal day, I proceeded to class with my friends and sat in my usual spot. Now, lets call this class Geography and my teacher Mr.Beans. The class began and was all normal until Mr. Beans began to rapidly sip his can of sprite in between talking. Fast track a few minutes, as the bubbles from his sprite begin to travel up his spouts, he erupts. Burping mid-sentence and the whole class began to crack up as discretely as they could. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it possible to replace the sexual aspect of my (23F) boyfriend (24M) with porn? POST: I love my boyfriend dearly. We've been dating almost two years. We were both virgins when we met and very slow to do anything sexual, at least by modern standards. Our sex life is handjobs/fingering, though we've had PiV a couple of times and I've given him oral sometimes. We're currently long distance for the summer (both in grad school and living with parents in different states). Recent",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Any idea what's going on here? POST: So there have been two instances with myself where a dark red mid to late nineties Ford Explorer (or similar) vehicle has been waiting somewhere along my driving path and taken a picture of me. The first time, they pulled off of the highway as I was going over the bridge, pulled over on the bridge and took a picture. The second time they were waiting outside my neighborhood. The second instance was probably four months ago. The first time it was reall",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my now ex [19M] broken up and need advice on what to do next. Please help. POST: I'm 18 and my boyfriend, now ex, is 19. We've been together for 2 years and everything was fine. But about 7 months ago, i changed a lot. I used to be so in love with him, but I started feeling bored and I felt like I fell our of love with him. So we went on a week long break back at the beginning of August, but I don't think it lasted long enough. I broke up with him for good a few days ag",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Almost cheated, dying from guilt and am still being selfish with my actions POST: I am a 20 year old male, in a relationship (just over a month) with a 19 year old female. Cutting to the chase: Went camping over memorial day weekend, and the girlfriend stayed at home. Got stupid drunk thursday night, and went for a stroll with a girl I used to have feelings for (we never hooked up). We didn't have sex, and didn't even kiss but there was some very extreme cuddling under the stars. T",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My best friend's dad is abusive, how can I help him? POST: I need help giving him good advice! My best friend's dad is verbally, emotionally, and (when he drinks) physically abusive. My friend is nearly 18 and wants to get out from the horrible situation, but he's afraid to leave his mom and little brother (about 5 years old) alone to take the brunt of his dad. Normally, he protects his mom and little brother, so without him there, some truly terrible things could happen to them. However, i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I[20M] feel guilty for being aroused by hot girls and fantasizing about them, despite of having a great relationship with my gf [17F]? POST: So I have a fantastic relationship with my gf of 1 year and love her more than anything. This is the first relationship either of us has ever been in and it really is going great in every way. I have been travelling the world now for a few weeks with friends while she stays home for school. I gave up porn before I met her because I think",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my GF [21 F] of 4 months, the lack of sex is killing me POST: My GF has always had a very low libido. It was a bit higher before we went official, but actually never more than once a week, which would be fine for me. I can have sex more often but once per week is totally enough for me to feel loved and fullfilled and I don't think this is an abnormally high sex drive (but correct me if you think otherwise). After that it dropped pretty fast - since we have gone officia",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24ftml have finally ended it with my girlfriend (20) How to resist urge to reconcile? POST: She and i were together for about a year. At first, we were good about communication and worked on our issues consistently. Now, she is an emotionally abusive woman, and after months of her ""trying"" to work on her issues, I have called it quits. She does not acknowledge me in any way when I am home. Doesn't call or text when I'm at work, and likes to go out while I'm working and not be ho",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just got played. Do I warn her new boyfriend? POST: Hi, Reddit. Long time lurker, first time poster. Vague Backstory: She left her other ex because he was an asshole and she really liked me, so she wanted to take a break from relationships for a while until she sorted things out. Flash forward: She still likes me and we're now dating (although she won't make it official and introduces me as 'her friend' still). Flash forward 2: She and I are now in a sexual relationship, but she st",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Meh. POST: I was sorta seeing a girl until a couple weeks ago, let's call her G. Now, the first time G and I got together she had a boyfriend but I thought she had done the right thing and told him/ended things with him. This was my mistake, I never was able to ask her. Either I got distracted or I just didn't want to ask and that's my fault entirely. Long story short, the break up itself isn't bothering me because we broke up with each other at pretty much the same time for differe",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My girlfriend asked me if it was okay if she went to hang out with a foreigner pen pal that likes her to a place that mostly couples and families go to. What does reddit think of this idea? POST: My girlfriend has had a pen pal of sorts and now he's visiting from another country for a week. She lives on one side of town and I live on the other side, driving distance. In the past, he liked her but as far as I know, he still does. I don't know this guy, but that is what she told me. My gir",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] really like my coworker [20M], should I keep it to myself? POST: I really, really like my coworker, ""Jake"". I can't remember the last time I clicked with someone this well. We have so much in common but also a lot of differences and our personalities just really mesh. And I'm seriously the type of person who usually views others as just my friends and I RARELY develop romantic feelings but it's happened with Jake. When I walk into work and see him, I feel lighter. I instantly",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [29/m] friend seems interested then not in me [26/f]. Help deciphering this before I make a fool of myself? POST: One of my close friends can get a bit handsy with me at times, especially after some drinks, compliments me a lot (beautiful, hilarious, brilliant, etc.), and often invites me for one on one time even after we've spent all day together as part of our larger friend group. Often when we're out, he'll have beers and shots ready for me as soon as I finish my previous on",positive " r/running TITLE: Runnit, we need to talk. POST: Over the past few weeks I have noticed an increase in the number of people bashing those who post PR's or new distances they have run. Here is the deal. Stop it! There are those people who like to share their running achievements with others and if they are like me and have no one around who would understand what the hell a PR was then they want to share it with a community that will. Just like there are those who will congratulate them and encourage them",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] and two guys [25M and 26M], wait around for ""the one"" to be ready, or date another guy knowing he isn't ""the one""? POST: Guy #1 [25M] - Knew since we were kids. Been in love with him since age 14. Feel like I am meant to be with him. He feels the same, and has told me repeatedly that he intends to marry me. BUT. He is currently trying to get sober. I know enough to know that I need to leave him alone during this time so he can work on himself. Also, I currently live ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Can it take an insurance company more than two weeks to give you money back that wasn't theirs in the first place? POST: Okay so here's the thing, my boyfriend is 18m and got his own car. There's no doubt auto insurance would be pricey, right? Well this specific insurance made him pay $636. I thought it was ridiculous that he had to pay that much, even for an 18 year old. Apparently there was a rush to get his car insured so I let it be. He now got a new insurance that only cost ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] and classmate [20F] POST: So I recently developed feelings for a girl in my class and she likes me back. She recently (October 2014) got out a 4 year relationship where she got dumped but the guys still wants her back. She has been conflicted and has been having bad sympathy while being with me because she doesn't want to hurt her X. She told me she is prepared to cut him out of her life eventhough he is a very good friend of hers (been together for 4 years, you get to kn",positive " r/Advice TITLE: My brothers are ungrateful douchebags. Constantly partying, drinking, and recently drug dealing. Worried about my mom's health due to said douchebags. POST: I'm not exactly an avid poster, and hardly a lurker on reddit, but I seriously need some advice here. Currently my 2 younger brothers both nearly 16, have been seriously getting on my last nerves, and my parents especially. They disregard any form of authority, and they are just getting worse and worse and of recently I learned that app",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 F] with my SO [55 M] of 18 months, how to handle a situation involving his 'friend' [24 F] POST: My SO, I'll refer to him as D, and I had a rough patch a year into our relationship and while we stayed in the relationship, I moved out of our shared residence for 4 months. I moved out the 1st of July, and just moved back in 2 days ago. During this time he reconnected with a 'friend' on FB, a 24 F that I will call C, and I found this out because I went on his FB and did adverti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my crush[24 F] - know her for a while, need adivce what next. POST: I'm using a throwaway mainly because a lot of peers know my reddit username. Anyway, so a little over a month ago I met this really cute foreign exchange student through a project and I was immediately stunned not just because of her looks but also by her intelligence and the way she is open. We have been chatting on college for a while, you know, just quick chit-chat in the hallways and I've asked h",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Berated by Boss POST: So Reddit. I recently started an internship in DC. I intern for 2 people in the IT Department. I have been here for a month, in that time one of the guys I intern for comes in on a daily basis and sleeps until his boss gets here. Tuesdays and Fridays his boss doesn't come in and so he sleeps until 12 (work starts at 8:30 or 9) goes to lunch, comes back at 1 and starts working then. I have become a scapegoat to his boss, he assigns me tasks that he just does not want",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Erection issue.. Would this be a deal breaker to you? And how would you like to be told about it? POST: Backstory: So I've been seeing my partner for about 3-4 months now and I've been having trouble maintaining my erections, I have actually been using an old supply of Viagra pretty much every time we have had sex (Because yep it's not the first time it's happened to me, it happened with my previous partner too).. Everytime I've tried without Viagra I've failed to maintain my erectio",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, i have been scammed. What can i do now? POST: I was looking for a present for my father, and i was thinking about a roomba, the cleaning robot. We live toghether and we have a neighbour that comes 2 times a week for ironing and do some cleaning. The idea was to cut the expenses for cleaning, so in my mind a roomba should have been a good idea. Looking around on ebay, but a local version like craiglist, i found an offer for a good price, but not very different from the other pric",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [m21] think my [20f] girlfriend might be putting on ""shows"" for people in chat rooms POST: So last week while using my girlfriends computer I somehow stumbled upon her browser history only to find out that she has been going on omegle frequently. When I clicked on it, it brought me to the site where I then saw that she had selected it to show her only people that when to the same college as her which seemed pretty strange. At first I didn't think anything of it but the more I did t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend of seven months [23F] throws temper tantrums when I [26M] don't want to have sex. POST: This has happened maybe three or four times since we've started dating. I have a headache, or I'm tired, or I'm just not in the mood, and she wants to have sex. I say no. She gets very upset, and sometimes she starts crying. That happened last night. She never wants to talk about it after the fact. She did say once that she's done the same thing in past relationships and that she fe",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Fucking job. POST: But I'm so ANNOYED. So I'm currently working as a telemarketer. At first, I was excited, because I like learning new things and what have you, but as the job worn on, people and their shitness got to me. At any rate, I applied for another job--an assembly factory job. There was an ad, sign on bonus, referral bonus, paid orientation, etc. I went to the interview, I *thought* I did good. I passed the test with flying colors and what have you, lady said she just needs ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Reddit, am I being hyper-sensitive and clingy or do I have legitimate concern(m)? POST: So, there is this girl that I have been seeing for about 6 months. We started out taking it slowly and I think that that was a smart choice. We started hanging out more and have been getting increasingly serious. I officially made her my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago. Well she works full time and I go to school and work so we have limited free time. For me, I would like to spend a good deal of",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not knowing how to tie a tie POST: I had my first day of volunteer training today at a hospital (First impressions are everything). I had about 45 minutes before it would start, I was already dressed in my uniform and ready to go. But this was the first time I had to use an ACTUAL tie. Always used clip-on before. So here I am, trying to figure how to put on a tie. I COMPLETELY forgot that something called ""The Internet"" existed. So I wasted 30 minutes trying to get it on. At that poin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my boyfriend [18M] of 8 months going to college, worried about keeping our relationship going. POST: My and my boyfriend have been together for 8 months and we have a great relationship despite the age difference. We spend a lot of time together and love each other. In the 8 months we have been dating (we have known each other for about 2 years) we haven't had any real problems or conflict. We met each other in a job that we both are still in right now (and I plan on st",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my bf [25M] of 5 months, his ex shit-talks about me. POST: Hey there, I just need unbiased opinion about my situation. I got into an agrument with my boyfriend because I caught him in a lie. We were supposed to go to his friend's birthday party, but he told me that he changed his mind because he wasn't sure if his ex was going to the party. I asked him on chat if she still has feeligs for him because I found it extremely odd she would randomly pick a fight with him thro",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19f] relationship is being affected because I feel like my boyfriend [20m] doesn't show me enough affection, how can this work? POST: We've been together for a while now, on-and-off, but have been on for the past 2 years. My problem is that he doesn't give me enough affection, but he feels the complete opposite and didn't know there was a problem. I've always showed him affection through hugs, cuddles, kisses, etc whenever I see him. Tbh, I sometimes feel as though I over-do it,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO [24F] of 3 months lacks confidence, and it's making me [21M] doubt our relationship and think of my ex abnormally often. POST: I genuinely find SO attractive and she is both smart and funny. We have been seeing each other for a while, and everything is cherry and the sex is outstanding, but she never seems to have any convictions of her own. She wants to please me and act as though her own needs are secondary. She wants me to do the things I want to do and she wants me to be ha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my boyfriend [22M] of 1 year, fights are getting worse and worse. Need advice to break a habit. POST: So, we don't fight more often than normal, but latley it seems like very issue get blown way out of proportion. To the point where we end up fightng about the fight rather than the issue we started out with. We have talked about it and agree that the problem is that I bring up stuff in a to confrontational way, which makes him get to defensive right away and shut down.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26F] and my boyfriend [26M] have different marriage and family views. Move on? POST: Edit: title typo. Sorry. My boyfriend and I. My boyfriend [26M] and I [26F] have been together since 2010. More or less we have an overall happy relationship. We have an apartment together, and spend time together, although we do not sleep together at night because of conflicting work hours (not sure if that makes a difference just thought I would put it out there). But we try to spend some o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [23F] in 2 month relationship w/[32M], how can I tell when to initiate contact? POST: I'm [23F], boyfriend is [32M]. We have been dating for 2 months, friends for about 4 months. We see each other an average of once during the week, and have been spending most/all of the weekend together. It's been great - he's very supportive, affectionate, we share nerdy interests. He's told me that he's happy with me, I make him content (and that both of these are unique), and that it feels like w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my girlfriend [26 F] 7 years, I found out I have a child with my friend [28 F]. POST: So I'll try to add as much detail as possible 4 years ago me and my friend of 10 years (Tess) had a two day long affair. I confessed to my girlfriend that I had the affair and she forgave me and gave me another chance. even though I didn't deserve it but made memcut contact with tess. Me and tess agreed it was for the best so we parted after a tearful conversation. Well everything h",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: My brother is a stranger now POST: My brother has a problem with pot. Yeah yeah, ""pot isn't addictive."" Doesn't matter, he has a problem. He is high every single day. He told that to my mom, straight up. She simply said ""I don't know if I can accept that."" And he flipped. Violently yelled ""fuck you"", broke a door, screamed ""fuck"" over and over. This happened before, unrelated to weed. He punched a hole in my door, and two in his. It was terrifying. I was in the basement, but I heard eve",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: (F 23) Do I still get a chance with him (M 23)? POST: I (F 23) noticed that i'm falling for one of my friends (M 23) from sports. Now I think that he likes me to but I'm not sure. He does look in the eyes when talking, lots of touching (back, shoulder, etc), brings me home at night (though he does that to some others as well), and more of these things. Though he's really social in general. Though a good 2 years ago after championship he said these words: Finally I get to give you a k",positive " r/relationships TITLE: M(38) her F(36) - Is this Normal? I need advice. POST: Is it normall for a Girlfriend to expect u to msg her @ work even if she can't get the msg's till a break or off work. Some backround: I stayed with her after this.. even moved in together again. The other day i was off work and stayed home and gamed. My girlfriend expects me to send her msg's even if she isn't able to respond. IE working. She gets upset that i couldn't msg her to say something.. like i love u .. or thi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I just a complete fucking idiot? POST: I'll try and make this short. My girlfriend and I had been together for close to 5 years, then she transferred colleges and went to school about a state away. At first we tried to make everything work and it was going well. Eventually she called me and out of the blue told me she wasn't in love with me anymore, she was heartless about it and basically killed me. It was rough for awhile but eventually she apologized and I accepted that at lea",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm concerned a longtime friend [22f] wants more out of our relationship then me [22m] POST: I met her in sophmore year of high school and we've been friends since. We never dated or had sex, though it almost happened a few times. Our friendship's been rocky the last couple years as she was having problems with her then BF. Then I got a call from her, crying, that they broke up. She kept saying she wanted to hang out but wouldn't give me enough information to do so (like where she ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My godmother [45F] wants my [23F] social security number. POST: So my godmother, we shall call her Anna, who is 45 years old asked me for my social security number so that she can add me as her beneficiary on her life insurance. I am a 23 year old female. A little back story on our relationship. Anna has never really been apart of my life, even though she is my dad's sister and my godmother. She stopped having anything to do with me since I was about 5 years old. Whenever I do see ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by reading ""Between Shades of Gray"" at church POST: This fuckup happened a couple years ago. Background info: I'm not super religious so when my family goes to church I usually bring a book to read. This particular day, I was reading Between Shades of Gray, a historical fiction novel about the Holocaust that has nothing to do with 50 Shades of Gray. Of course, young and innocent 13-year-old me hadn't heard of 50 Shades (and it wasn't that popular back then anyway). So begins the unfortun",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: TV calibration for dummies, anyone? POST: I recently ""inherited"" an LG LCD-TV (32LG2000) from my parents after they gifted themselves a new one for christmas. To go with this recent windfall I purchased a TL;DR: ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, does this make me an asshole roommate? POST: I have my own room in a small house with 5 other guys. I was in class all day and am coming down with a cold. To help fight this cold off before finals, I took plenty of vitamins and shit and decided to go to bed early. All was fine until I woke up around 1am to the sound of my roommates and their friends making lots of noise. They're having a bonfire right outside of my window. Whatever, it's not that late, I can sleep in a littl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26F] have a crush on a colleague [36M] and just found out he hooked up with my housemate [27F] POST: Having such a string of back luck recently... I sit with this guy at work. He's really so nice and such a kind person. I have a crush on him which I hide pretty well (I hope!). I'd never dream of trying anything because first off he's my colleague and second of all he's just out of an extremely long relationship is broken-hearted. We've hung out a few times in a group after work ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Well, I'm pretty sure I blew it (x-post from r/foreveralone) POST: So, there was this really cute girl who I met during my marching band camp over the summer. I had a huge crush on her for some time, and we were pretty good friends. Now, one night, late-ish, she texts me about being a bit down. She believed that nobody would want to ask her out on a date, and that she was worried about homecoming night. So, I figured this was my golden opportunity, and I told her I'd like to go out w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (22f) bring up marriage to my boyfriend (26m) without sounding like I'm pressuring him? POST: We have been together 3 years and lived together just about the entire time. He has a career and everything already while I'm just starting school. We have two dogs together, his parents love me, and my mom loves him. (Which was a huge shock to me) I love him. He's fantastic and I want to continue to build a life with him. He was married before (they never even lived together and",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How long is a normal amount of time between relationships? POST: So I met this guy in August (fine, it was online, let's move on) and we talked and it turned out that we had a lot in common and we talked a lot and then we met and it was pretty cool and now we've hung out several times and we talk on the phone every day, blah blah blah. It's all good and well, and he's a fan of reddit, and I'd sort of been needling him to tell me his reddit name, and he finally did, and then I looked",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I think my boyfriend's friend has feelings for him...and it may be mutual POST: My boyfriend (24M) and I (23F) have been together for a year now. He has a group of really close friends and I think one of the girls may have feelings for him... I think that he may like her back but I'm not sure. I don't know if I should bring this up with him? I trust him and I don't think he would ever cheat on me but I fear that a few years down the road he will realize that he does have feelings fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my friend [22F] 3 years - Gets me excited about doing things with her knowing she probably won't follow through. POST: This may seem petty but it bothers me. We have lived together, with 2 other girls, for 2 years. We all get along really well and have never had any fights, but the way she sometimes treats our friendship makes me feel sad. The problem is that she'll hear me talking about a show I want to watch, or a good game I've started playing, or even somewhere I'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [31 M] feeling partially trapped with my GF [28 F] of 10 months. Feeling like a terrible person because of it. POST: Just wanting to unload this somewhere. Also want to preface this with the fact that I feel pretty selfish for even putting this out there when there are so many people in genuinely shitty situations. But, we all live in our own worlds. The past few years I've been traveling around a lot. I'm a web developer so can work remote - not really tied to one place. En",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] I've been dating my boyfriend (20/m) for a year and three months. We live 4 hours apart, and I need some help. POST: When my boyfriend and I first started dating, we only lived 40 minutes from each other and went to the same college. He was so sweet and thoughtful, always letting me know how much I meant to him, in the same way that I let him know. Although, over the summer, the thoughtfulness began to subside, and he basically told me that it was because he didn't feel ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My best friend [both F22] has a boyfriend....and I HATE IT! How do I deal with these feelings? POST: We've been best friends for 10 years. Recently, she met someone and they've started dating. Prior to this, she'd never had a relationship of any kind. Her dating someone is really new to our friendship and I've found myself feeling very threatened by it. As a result, I've taken it out on her and the new guy (who I haven't met yet) by being very cynical and negative about the whole sce",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [67/F] Girlfriend wants me [25/M] to be honest with my family and friends about our relationship POST: First off I'd like to say that I have always been attracted to older women. Typically women between 40-60. Because of this I've never been in an actual relationship before, nor am I very sexually experienced. At least that was the case 4 months ago. I've been dating a 67 (was 66 when we met) year old women for the past 4 months and it has been absolutely amazing. Our chemistry",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my GF [21 F] of 19 months, we want the long distance to work across continents POST: We're both seniors in college in India and will be graduating in 4 months. After graduation we would have been together for 2 years. I'll be leaving India for USA to pursue Masters degree, while she'll stay back and possibly come to USA 2-3 years later to pursue an MBA. We are really into each other and have been doing whatever we can to make this easier. Anyone from India will know ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [21 F] gained considerable weight, I'm[m 24] not as attracted to her. can you love someone but not physically attracted to them? POST: My gf gained 20-30 lbs during the time of us going out, going from high 170(curvy) to 193 at 5'5. Now I'm body positive and okay curvy girls but she's passing that point ..this a little much considering I'm 60 lbs lighter than her and our bodies are so different. Besides the attraction thing as a person I'm TRULY genuineally concerned for her ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Minor traffic accident due to weather conditions, can I get out of my citation? POST: I overestimated a turn and crossed the double yellow line due to poor visibility (sun-blind at 8:30am coupled with a slightly foggy windshield), scuffing a car coming the opposite direction with my mirror in the process. I'm not concerned about my insurance or the other party involved, my issue is the $125 ticket that I received that is going to sap my bank account and drain what little x-mas funds I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [00 M/F] with my ___ [00 M/F] duration, short-description POST: Well, it basically all started about 11 years ago (please keep reading =\ ). I have known this girl since she was 13 and a I, 15. I have always had a thing for her, and she has always had a thing for me. We were just always tied up in other relationships or didn't talk for a while here and there. Fast forward to almost 3 years ago (her 22 and me 25), and she's always hanging out with me and having troubles with her ab",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Judge didn't show up to my traffic court date. Should my ticket be thrown out? POST: Here is some background: I was pulled over in a group of cars on a Wyoming highway in May. I was the second car in a line of three. The highway patrolman told me he clocked all three of us speeding. I had a feeling he clocked the first car speeding and gave me a ticket for following him. Long story short, I decided to fight the ticket in court. I drove nearly 4 hours to the circuit courtroom today. Whe",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Structured Settlement Advice POST: I would love some advice on selling a structured settlement if anyone has any experience. Backstory: When I was a kid my parents were involved in a law suit and as a result I receive payments from a structured settlement starting at the age of 18. The initial payments were used for college and misc expenses, the last set was mainly given to my family to help out with my siblings school and to help with bills. I am set to receive the following p",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [M20] I am really bad at picking up signals POST: So I am studying to become an English teacher and there is this girl in my class whom I fancy. Now I talked about this to one of girl friends just so I could hear a woman's point or view. However, she wants me to stop talking about it since every little thing the girl does, I ask to my friend if it's a signal that she likes me. I'm so bad picking up signals that it's driving me crazy. I've been in the same class as this girl for 4 we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] with my [22F] two years, Am I too controlling? POST: I was wondering how many people find what I do too controlling, to make this short. I don't let my girlfriend go to bars without me. If she wants to hangout with a friend and go somewhere to eat or shop that's cool, but a bar or club not without me. I don't let her hang out with guy friends if I'm not there. Not that she has many, but IMO I've seen it posted many times ""I've been friends with him forever"" ""My guys f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I (24F) help my obviously depressed and mentally ill older brother (27M)? POST: My older brother is obviously struggling, and has been for years. The reason why I'm posting this now is because we were at a big family dinner last night, and it's like I could see clearly what a dangerous state he's in: just standing there, rail thin and looking so, so sad. He and I have never been close. We don't talk much, but see each other often at my Mom and Dad's house. I love him, but w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21m] girlfriend [20f] is in Miami for Spring Break. She's with her girlfriends and is drinking all week. Why am I worried? POST: A little background, my girlfriend and I have been seeing each other since last August. We've never had any huge problems with our relationship, just little fights now and then but overall our relationship has been really happy. The only infidelity I have caught her doing was her texting her drunk texting her ex early in the relationship (September). ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I was offered a new job. The boss told me to put my two weeks in at my old job. My last day of job #1 is coming up, and now she's telling me they're having a meeting regarding whether or not I get the job. Is there anything I can do? POST: Not sure if this belongs here and if not, sorry, but I really need advice. Just like the title says: I was offered a new job. Upon meeting with the boss, she told me to go ahead and put my 2 weeks in at my old job so I could get started ASAP. No",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help settle a bet on the square - rectangle relationship. POST: A friend and I had a bet revolving around the whole ""a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square."" I was thinking that the fact that a rectangle is not a square is not always true as there is a specific case in which a rectangle is a square, when both congruent sides are of the same length. They told me that was just called a square but I disagree. A rectangle is defined as a shape with four sides, opposite side",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Slight mistake creating a ""Roth IRA"" at my credit union POST: After reading /r/pf and /r/fi over the past few months, I decided to take the plunge and start a Roth IRA at my credit union. After opening the account, I realized that I couldn't choose my assets for the IRA and that what was labeled a Roth IRA was really a Roth CD. I am still young and do not care, at the moment, to have $2,000 tied into a 5 year CD. From what I understand, you can pull money out of the CD, probably",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21 F] and my recently ex-boyfriend [22 M]... I've decided it's too soon to maintain a friendship, but I miss him and am having a hard time cutting contact. POST: We were together for a year, the last few months of which were temporarily long distance because I went on a semester exchange. Now we're both back in the same place. We had a month of hard times over Skype, and eventually broke up. He came to visit me 2 weeks later for a week. We were still broken up, but had a really g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: me (20/m) got dumped by my gf (19/f) unexpectedly..need encouragement POST: Sorry long post. So reddit, I got dumped last night. I met this girl a few weeks ago at a party and we hooked up. I was like hell yeah, this is awesome. She was totally okay with having just a physical relationship. But pretty soon she told me she liked me and was having feelings for me. At first I was like crap. But I kept hanging out with her and god damn, this chick was awesome. Totally chill, had exac",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [27/M] girlfriend's [31/F] big move is putting a massive strain on our relationship (JPN) POST: I'm at loss. My girlfriend (of 6 months) is moving to Australia in July; something I knew from that day I met her and long since come to terms with. For her, it's a massive undertaking with many things she's unsure about, and so I'm doing my best to assist with translations, finding housing and support while moving. Though for months now, she's been worrying about the future (o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My mom wants me to help her hide her car in a storage shed, under my name. POST: I'm a newlywed twenty-four year old female who is in the process of working hard, along with her husband, to eliminate debt and start a serious savings account. We're being super frugal, cutting down drastically on our extra spending and trying to get our lives in order and become completely debt-free! That's not where the problem is. My mother and stepfather (49/65) are currently involved in a dispute ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, is it common for students to win scholarships? POST: I am a senior in high school who feels so hopeless right now. I have applied for somewhere around 16-20 scholarships. I have not won any. Also, to note, most of the ones I applied for are the ""write an essay,"" type scholarships instead of the ""text this to win!"" type stuff. I have applied for both national-esque type scholarships and local ones- no luck. I have tried looking at the previous winners to see what a lot of these co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] hasn't felt anything for anyone in years. POST: I once had what I considered a great relationship. It lasted almost three years, and then suddenly and for reasons that were never explained to me, ended. It completely destroyed me. I suffered through depression and identity issues for a year or so afterwards. Fast forward to today. I'm content. I feel pretty confident about who I am and what I want out of life. Since my last relationship I've only dated occasionslly, and ne",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my boyfriend [21 M] of just over one month, I can't have hard conversations with my boyfriend POST: I don't know what it is, but I just can't seem to bring difficult things up or say how I really feel in person. I just freeze up and basically shut down. I need to have these conversations with him, especially because his past is a little...wilder...than mine, but I can't get myself to talk to him about it in person. Sometimes I'll step into sensitive territory while I'm",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I think I'm annoyingly picky, what can I do? POST: Hello redditors, 26 year old male here long time browser with a throwaway account asking for your help, or advice. After a long consideration & looking back at myself I think I have problems. First a little bit about myself. I consider myself to be a good looking guy, funny, intelligent, very social as I have no issues talking to anyone and can easily carry conversations, I have a good job, I have hobbies and have no problem meeti",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not understanding how minutes work POST: Just happened 30 minutes ago. Still sitting in my car about it. Went to meet up with some friends to grab some ice cream today. City it was in is always packed but I managed to find a meter slot. I've been crunching numbers all day at work so numbers were my thing. I was ready. ""I got this"". I noticed parking had to be paid until 8 PM, it was 6:20 PM. Alright, Went into my handy-dandy coin-holder-thing in my car (you know the one), got out my",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I (22f) tell my ex/friend (26m) that his friend (25m) was the one who convinced me to break up with him? POST: Me and my best friend had started dating after I moved 1500 miles to him. That weekend was his birthday and he was partying which I don't really like. At one point I was alone with a good friend of his for a couple of hours and we ended up talking about ex. He pried and found out that I was concerned about the drinking being normal and that ex was more unbalance",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29 M] have been dating a young lady [29 F] for the past two weeks and she's been wonderful, but now I feel like I fucked up by telling her that I want to be with her. POST: So basically, tonight during dinner I essentially told her how I felt about her. That I was developing strong feelings for her and that I'm willing to be patient and take things slow for her sake (Not a month ago, she'd been dumped for her fiance)and that I respect her enough not to rush things but that she is ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my ex [19 F] 3 months. just broke my heart. POST: Yes i know 3 months is not a whole lot but she was the first one that i let close to me. the first one that i actually felt a connection with. the first one that i felt like my heart was actually gonna go to her.it was a distance relationship because we were both in college but we had so many road bumps. we had problems with her parents not being really supportive of me because of my ethnicity and she was always very ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Cheering yourself up after something terrible happens POST: My wife is currently demanding a separation and will not talk about it any further. We've been married just under one year. I've been sitting in a daze for the entire day trying to come up with something to say, but can't bring myself to say anything much less look at her. She still is the most important person in the world to me. It just hurt... a lot when she took off her rings and put them in front of me. Shes pack",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it too soon to move in together? 25f + 23m in an LDR for 1 year. POST: Hi r/relationships. Just wanted to get an outside perspective on my relationship. My (25f) boyfriend (23/m) have been together for about a year now and are discussing moving in together this summer after he moves for his new job. This would require me moving out of state with him about 3 hours away from all my friends and family. I am willing to do this, and I am excited about the prospect of living with him, b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do you guys see a relationship with a girl [32F] 7 years older than the boy [25M]? POST: **UPDATED**: Thank you guys for sharing your own experience and giving valuable comments. It def gives us much confidence to pursue our love despite of all the pressure, prejudice, negative convention, etc. I know it's a hard journey but we will always be together to face all those and I believe finally we will see the happy ending! I will let her see this post to see the world is full of lov",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: what do I do with this car? POST: Hey everyone... a while back I moved basically across the country and couldn't sell my car in time for the move. I left it with a title and bill of sale signed with a very good friend of mine that was going to try to sell it off for me. Kick forward a couple of weeks and I find out it broke down while his fiancee was driving it to work one day (the car DID have problems before hand. It was an old beater.) and has not correctly worked if at all since. Wha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 M] ex-boyfriend [21 M] of 2 years, went abroad to study and broke it off with me after moving all of his stuff into my new apartment before he left. First love break up, help! POST: So from the beginning I guess. We have been dating for 2 years and we have lived together for 1. I am a post-grad and he is still a student. In his last year he wanted to go abroad for a semester and I always encouraged it even though I was going to miss him so much. I am a very emotional lover",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: DAE feel that people who start topic tittles with DAE, are very poor karma whores? POST: I think an explanation is need to convey my point. [Some guy makes a DAE post] And redditors start grumbling that DAE posts should go into DAE, obvious karma whore is obvious, Now seriously, do you really need to put the words ""anyone else""? If you simply put some cryptic shit which is relevant, like ""my name is Mr.Burns!"" people would lulz If you put some fail witty statement like ""Springfie",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Should I continue with attempts in that direction? POST: Hello, I'm 27M and she is 28F. We are kinda colleagues, but we don't work at one place and meet mostly on team buildings or other company-related occasions. She is nice and polite, and hmmmm... let's say ""popular"" in the male environment. She had a bad brake with her last boyfriend year or two ago. AFAIK, she is single now. I often go hiking in the nature and I'm taking photos. She has seen them and likes them very much - like",positive " r/Parenting TITLE: 16 years old...time for a job? POST: My son is 16...he's a football player, taking 3 AP courses, runs track in the spring AND has a girlfriend. I feel like this is the time when he should be looking for a part time job to take care of some of the ""wants"" on his list. We've happily and generously handled his needs (clothes, $ for dates, etc) but he doesn't contribute financially. Yeah, doing extra chores is nice but it doesn't save me any money. He says he doesn't want to get a job be",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Will my weight loss plan of ""just eating less calories"" eventually stop working? POST: 5'3"" SW: 162 CW: 150 GW:120 At the beginning of this month I bought a scale and decided to start losing weight. I started out running outside around the block between 1-2 miles on average every other day and eating less calories. Since it's gotten hotter in the past week, I haven't been running. I work a lot, so I'm constantly moving for 5-12 hours out of my day, but not working out. However, I am still ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21 M] best friend [21 M] is lying and I don't know what to do. POST: My best friend has been placed on academic suspension for the fall semester, for having shit grades. He got himself a $9/hr job and is still going about life normally, but he's lying to everyone, including me, his other friends (my other two roommates) and his now-ex-gf, and his parents. He's fabricated a story about a Co-Op which I know is bullshit, but I'd rather not go into details of how I know that. He do",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, on what factors do you typically base your moral decisions? POST: I was playing New Vegas and I realized how worthless the karma system was in my decision whether or not to steal someone's shit. I lack the capacity to believe in a higher power (surprise), and so, if abstract concepts and the fear of eternal punishment don't guide my moral code, then what does? I'm not talking about killing, raping or curb-stomping kittens here. I mean, there are three or four good reasons not",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, when you've had an accident or traumatic event how did you deal with the emotional aftermath? Humor or fear? POST: I was in my first car accident today. It's all pretty hazy, but basically I was stopped at a stop sign intending to turn left. This was on a back road I've never driven on before. I looked both ways, twice, then went to make my turn. The next thing I knew my car was completely stopped and slowly started to feel intense pain my in shoulder from the seat belt. It was j",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Doctors of Reddit, I need your input regarding alcohol abuse. Please POST: I'm 21 years old and have been drinking since I was about 17. Within the last year I would say I've been a heavy drinker. It's been going downhill. I've been drinking a minimum of a 5th of whiskey a night for about the last 2 months. Everyday. I've half-assed tried to stop but it is tough. All I can think about on my way home from work is picking up a bottle. Sometimes I even pull into the liquor store without e",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by recording a time lapse with my iPhone. POST: I was sitting in my bedroom enjoying a book this evening. The sun was starting to set and it was casting a very nice warm light over everything. I had the genius idea that I would set up a time lapse on my phone to capture the sun setting behind the horizon, the movement of clouds, etc. I set my phone up in the window, pressed record and went back to my book. I was very content with myself - reading and looking forward to the beautiful tim",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] want to date my recently broken up friend [17 F] POST: A few days ago I met this amazing girl, let's just call her valery. Valery and I met in my dorm through a mutual friend. We have a decent amount of stuff in common, and it seemed like we hit it off pretty well. We have spent the past few days together a lot, but she seems more interested in taking to my roommate [17 M] who is gay. Valery knows that he is gay, but she is more physical with him and talks to him more than m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [Relationships] I [19F] am in a long-distance relationship, but don't masturbate to my boyfriend [21M] POST: I'm not sure how to talk about it, and even admitting this to myself makes me really uncomfortable, but I decided to give it a go. I've been in a long-distance relationship for an year, and we have met multiple times in person. There was no sex as it would be my first time and I wasn't feeling ready for it yet, but I suppose that will come with time. I do enjoy being really c",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: 22 (F) Camgirl, first time filing taxes and getting screwed POST: Started camming in 2014, made money, paid taxes, then told I didn't pay my state taxes. I went to H&R Block to get my taxes done. Gave them my I9 that was sent to me from my modeling site, and then wrote off some dildos and other expenses. I was told how much to pay federal and state. I went to my bank and got a cashiers check for each. Then i mailed them to the address my tax adviser had previously given me. End of",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31F] with my boyfriend [36 M/F] of two years, learns about my sexual history and is not happy about it POST: Throwaway because boyfriend knows my real reddit account. So I (31/f) have been dating my boyfriend (36/m) for almost two years now. We met on OKCupid and he is the love of my life as well as my best friend. We hit it off from our first date; I really feel lucky that I found someone who is as intelligent and good looking as he is. We almost never argue... But something",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [25F] With my boyfriend [29M] of two years, I found evidence of him reading my emails on my iPad that I let him borrow. What do? POST: Jake and I have been together for two years, lived together for one and we have an awesome relationship. We dance in the kitchen, stay up late drinking scotch and playing backgammon, and co-parent two fun kitties. We agree on religion/politics/marriage/kids and are on an agreed-upon timeline to take things to the next level. We know the passcodes for ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [22M] I hit it off with a girl [22F] who has a boyfriend. I've never been a homewrecker...but I'm tempted. POST: I'm experienced in the dating game. I've never once cheated on a girlfriend, nor have I facilitated a woman cheating on her boyfriend. I also have never asked the internet for this sort of help...but I am today because I'm confused as hell. I hit it off with this girl. Instant chemistry. Just one of those things that there is a palpable sexual tension and personal connect",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What words and themes are cartoon shows not allowed to use? POST: I've always heard there's a list of ""Seven Dirty Words"" that you can't use on tv, but I was also under the impression that networks had lists of words they wouldn't allow in their content to not offend their audiences. For instance, in episode 5 of Young Justice Invasion on Cartoon Network, one of the villains stated he was distracting the heroine and commanded his lackeys to ""kill her."" I thought in a cartoon you weren't ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (22/m) Girl I'm interested in (22/f) how do I get her to date me? POST: Okay, I've had a crush on this young lady for about a year. The moment we met there was a huge amount of chemistry and we got along very well; However my friend at the time was seeing her, and I don't play that type of game. We're both single now after a year and some incidents including me not being friends with that guy anymore, and we hooked up two nights ago. I'd like to take her out on a date, but s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [19f] pretend to be someone else and lied when I [21m] confronted POST: Okay last night I went with my suspicions and went through my girlfriend's ( kim) phone. I know it was wrong. And I only checked the one app. Idk if I am glad that I was right or not. But essentially this was a fake number app which she used to pretend to be someone (kate) I had met off of another app. I met Kate via an anonymous post. And started talking there and eventually texting. I never once ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Punjabi Sword Fight 2: A sword that has no direction POST: So there's this wonderful girl i met she is 24, i'm 30 male (relationship length is 7 weeks), and we hit things off the first time we hung out. So we've been seeing each other twice a week, as schedules allow. And so after 7 weeks of being totally into each other. I decided to get this bright idea to add her on facebook. Well her little brother sees me as a friend on her fb profile, and calls her out on it. And he tells her t",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by parking out in a hurry POST: So this tifu didn't happen today but about 5 months ago. It all started by my having a smaller car accident where I turned when I shouldn't have, ending up with a rather small damage on both cars involved (nobody got injured though). Since my parents pay for my insurance, they obviously weren't too happy about this. Fast forward about a month, it's snowing heavily, it's very cold and I am late to work. I get outside, free my car from snow and ice and get i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Landlady wants to screw us over! Help! POST: Finished a lease at a house with four other people. Things were great till we left the house and asked for our security deposit back. First, she claims that we haven't paid her all of the rent (which I believe to be a lie), but she won't account for how much rent we're missing because she never documented it. So she wants us to send her photocopies of all the checks we sent her. Unfortunately, two of us don't have complete records of thei",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] get irrationally angry at my SO [19M] for silly things, and can't forgive him for no real reason POST: I've known my SO for a few years now, and we previously dated for a year and a half. Now, we've been together for about three months, and it's been long distance ever since we've met. I currently live at home in a really small town, finishing up high school. This is really tough on me since all of my friends have gone on to post-secondary, and it gets really lonely without a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Friend is afraid and spazing my new apartment will become the new drinking hub for our other buddies. He's genuinely scared? POST: My close buddy is afraid that when i get my new and first apartment that all of our other friends will be swamping it for a place to get drunk and pass out for the night. He's very worried and constantly linking me to anti-peer pressure websites. Also keep in mind that he almost lost someone close to him due to a drunken car accident but how do i go",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: My friend's little sister and I have feelings for each other and I'm not sure how to continue. (I'm 16, she's 13) POST: I have two long time friends who have been dating for about 7 months now. Recently we have been hanging out, but since we didn't want it to be a 3rd wheel situation (because I am single) My friend has brought her little sister. She is in 7th grade and is 13 years old. She is very mature for her age and it really isn't awkward at all when we're together. I am 16 and ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm flipping out, please, please help me. M/21 (GF PROBS) POST: My girlfriend and I were supposed to meet tommorow and she texted me saying ""I cant go because I got caught with weed and now my probation is extended. Im in alot of trouble and my phone got taken away."" I was extremely disappointed and I told her so because i had this surge of emotions come over me and I have a diagnosed self control problem. I did not cuss or show that i was really angry, and I asked ""when could ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: No debt, substantial savings, 401k Matched, soon to be full time Master's student to receive 25k a year...how can I best use it? POST: I have been employed the past 2 years and have matched my 401k to the max through my employer. Additionally, I have no student debt and basically a car payment that comes out of my savings and has been budgeted for. I will be a Master's student this fall (quitting my job) and will be receiving a stipend of 25k a year with tuition already paid for ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (19F) Still Have Feelings For a Close Friend (19M), Not Sure if I Should Bring it Up Again. POST: So I've had feelings for a close friend for almost a year. We talked about what our relationship was last year and determined that we didn't know, thus we should say that we are ""really good friends"". A few months later, I tried to bring it up again, but he didn't seem to remember the previous conversation (even though he was the one who instigated it). I've been trying to figur",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Breakups] [25 M] My girlfriend of 6 and a half years [22F] broke up with me the day after my graduate school graduation POST: Hello everyone, My girlfriend broke up with me this past Sunday. It's been a rough few days for sure. I had an engagement ring purchased, and she knew it. She told me that over the past year she hasn't loved me and lied to me every time she told me she did. As you can imagine, I'm absolutely crushed. We have been dating since high-school. We were planning ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my fiancee [23 F] 4.5 years, is scared of our kids inheriting her families mental health issues POST: I want children, but my fiancee doesn't. This is because her family has a history of mental health issues, and her (adult) sister who is mentally ill has proved to be a lifetime commitment for her parents. When we got together she did want kids and since then the subject didn't really come up again until recently, after we got engaged. We are getting married in August",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Fuck people that do this kind of thing. What is your biggest pet peeve? POST: So I'm in class today minding my own business when I start to stretch. My legs extend and accidentally push the desk in front of me forward so that it makes that awful noise that all desks make. The girl in front of me gets horribly offended and annoyed, with good reason. Then she, out of the blue, yells out ""SAM GET YOUR GOD DAMN FEET OFF MY DESK AND FUCKING STOP."" Without warning. Without the slightest shred ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU POST: A bit of background: I used to swing a lot growing up just hitting balls with an iron in a field and had a pretty consistent swing. I never hit a course though and there's a period of about 9 years (16 to my current age of 25) where I didn't golf at all except the odd time at the range. So it's my second time on the golf course, a little 9 hole called Airlanes as it is situated on an airport approach. 18$ a round. I was using my friends clubs because I had outgrown the set I owne",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Uneasy gut feeling about new ""friend,"" not sure how to distance myself. POST: Hi Reddit, thanks in advance for trying to help me and my friends out, I'm not sure where else I can turn for confidential/anonymous advice. I've just started at university and it's been amazing. I feel/felt completely safe here. Until recently in one of my classes this guy has been sitting with me and my friends. He seems friendly and helpful but something is off, he's also several years older than us. I can't pu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my fiancé [20 F] 4 years, I need some help with my fiance and living aboard. POST: So I am 21 living in Alabama live on a boat for some time now. Me and my fiance are getting married June 2017 and I really would like to move into a boat before that. If possible in the next 6 months but she is very weary on makeing a life decision like that. I have shown here stories people have wrote and videos of people who have and the pros and cons but she just doesn't feel it. It i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is he [28M] giving me [21F] subtle hints? POST: 28M and I 21f have been together 5 months. He is preparing for war and is away a lot. In the last month he has: flirted outrageously with other women, made jokes along the lines of we're only together because I won't leave and, after coming back from sea, is going to bend over backwards to go to his friend's party, probably without me. He hasn't gone to bed with me except for sex, after which he hops out. All the while he tells me he lo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F], my ex's [24 M] Dad just died. I want to offer support etc but it might be overstepping boundaries as an ex. POST: I found out yesterday that my ex's (let's call him Travis) Dad died. I was in complete shock, especially since I hadn't actually heard it from him, I saw it on Travis' sister's Facebook. I was with Travis for nearly two years, and in that time his parents pretty much became my own, especially his father since I've had a horrible relationship with my own. They",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Update: [18M] broke up with my girlfriend. Already have feelings of regret, but not enough to take it back. POST: [Original post]( So last night I broke up with my girlfriend. I cried all night and all day today. I was planning on visiting her like mentioned in my first post, **but everyday single day since she got back to college we would fight/argue about something.** We tried making compromises. I told her I don't want her going out as much, and she told me to stop flipping out a",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by setting my girlfriends cat on fire! POST: This actually happened about ten minutes ago. My girlfriend has three cats and needless to say the apartment can get a little stinky from the litter boxes. I decided I would light a few candles and strategically place them around the apartment. One such candle was placed on the end table next to the couch. Forgetting about this, one of the cats jumped up to the armrest and I was casually petting him when I started to smell the oh so awful sce",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Time to find a new job? POST: I'm 18 years old, finishing a couple of online classes so I'll have my HS diploma in about a week. I've been working at a fast food franchise since the beginning of march of this year. I took the job because I was promised I'd get at least fifteen hours a week with room to improve as I became more senior. I was thinking I could save up to move out of my parents house. I thought, well okay, I'll work hard and in a few weeks I'll have twenty five or thirty hours a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me (16/m) and my ex girlfriend (15/f) broke up a while ago, and now I want her back. POST: First of all, please don't pass judgement about age. Just because I am young doesn't mean I haven't experienced love. So, I broke up with my girlfriend of two years about 5 months ago now. We had seen each other practically every day and had plenty of time to hang out. We had some problems here and there, including her somewhat cheating on me. I told her and myself that we could get thr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 F] have been offered a lot of money, by a long-distance friend [30+ M] who is in love with me, to fund my life work. I don't know if accepting it is an option? POST: Sorry, that was really hard to sum up in the title. I'll elaborate as best I can here. PLEASE try to see past how this might come across as arrogant, I'm not really used to having such an admirer, I just want to do the right thing. :/ His feelings for me are no secret (I'll call him Tony), he tells me constantly",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Pre-gaming before a wedding reception? POST: So in a week four friends and I are heading out to the wedding of another friend. This is her big day and we want to make it special. Her family is full of drinkers so she is specifically making it a cash bar so she doesn't have to pay for all of the alcohol. In order to get around this my ""friend"" and her date (she's in a long distance relationship but for fear of going to a wedding without a date asked a jerk to go along with her) want to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My partner [24M] of two years and I [19F] are seeking a solution to long distance dating POST: My significant other and I are trying to find a solution to our long distance relationship. He lives on the west coast of the United States and I live on the east coast of Canada. We have met, and are still meeting whenever we can. His tight work schedule and my busy school life haven't made this easier for us. Because of certain events, I still have five years left of school (University i",negative " r/college TITLE: Enjoying my time in community college but parents make living in difficult. POST: Because of financial reasons I chose to enroll in my local community college in the hopes of transferring to a better school than those I was first accepted in last year. On paper, this seems very practical: saving tens of thousands of dollars, little risk of changing major, practicing good habits before university, but one thing I did not take into account was how living with my parents would be a hindrance",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 M] am at beginning stages of divorcing my wife [34 F]. I realized I only have one single friend, all others are married. Need more single friends. Anyone else been through this predicament? POST: I've gone through a very rough 5-yr marriage with a person that has treated me really poorly, mostly through constant criticism and complete lack of any type of affection or intimacy. She's not inherently evil or malicious but I'm convinced that the past abuse she's suffered has playe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (21M) of 3 years hit, kicked and spat on me (20F) yesterday, yet I find myself not wanting to leave. POST: As the title says, he hit me, kicked me in the stomach 3 times and spat on me. He had been deleting messages with an ex of his and of course I was suspicious, I tried to grab his iPod to look at Messenger and see what he was saying so he punched me in the arm. He went to walk out the bedroom door so I stupidly followed and that's when he kicked me in the stomach. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [20m] in a pickle, and he [20m] is offended. POST: About two weeks ago this guy (Zach) started showing interest in me, and at first I wasn't sure if I felt the same... Then I did. Within a few days I was pretty much crushing hard on this guy. Then it happened. Someone far less mature than me decided to write ""I WANT YOUR SEX"" on his fucking car and he decided it was me. One of our mutual friends told me what was going on, since Zach never approached me about it or asked me anyt",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: She is my own personal storm cloud POST: My own personal storm cloud follows me everywhere, metaphorically anyways. When its sunny all around me, I do things as if it was sunny, I sunbathe. But even when I sunbathe I know its rainy, those around me are dry but I am drenched. They can't tell though, they are focused on the sun. I don't blame them either, its hard to see the those on the ground when the clouds are below you. When the forecast seems to be clearing up for me, a sudden hig",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M/F] with girl im dating [26F] for 2 months. To soon to pull the trigger to ask her to be my gf? POST: I've never been in a romantic relationship before. I met and hit it off with a girl at a concert 2 years ago. Never saw her again. 2 years later, it turns out shes best friends with a great friend of mine and helping to throw a house party my band was playing at. She moved out of town after I initially met her and just recently moved back into town. Since early november we",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (22/M) semi-long distance relationship with my girlfriend (21/F) is in its death rattle. How do I go about handling this breakup? POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating from across the state (I'm at university while she's at home) for about two and a half months. I've been putting a lot of effort into trying to enjoy my senior year of college to it's furthest extent while also giving her the attention that she needs, though I admit I may not have done the best job of it. Lat",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I have a reason to be upset? POST: Me f(19) him M(19) together for 5 years. This is a difficult situation because I'm not sure if i'm over reacting or how it is in other relationships. But whenever we make plans for him to come over to my house, or for him to pick me up to go to his house he's always late. For example today I was supposed to hang out with him at some point (we never decided on a specific time) so I call him at 1:00pm and ask him when he'd like to get to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I don't like my BFF's boyfriend. POST: I (f32) don't like my bff's (f31) boyfriend. Sigh. This is tough because she's convinced they're going to get married but he's selfish and I can tell by his actions - and inactions - towards her that both might well be settling. I realize people settle all the time and it's nothing new, but this is a girl who has been single for four years after a hard breakup of six years, who struggles with self esteem, and who goes for guys she has to work ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [21/m] met this really cool girl [21/f] on a plane POST: I feel really lucky that I sat next to this girl. I had a great time talking to her, she is beautiful and we have a lot in common. I knew right away that I wanted to be with this girl. I didn't want to seem to desperate or weird so I asked her name and told her I'd add her on Facebook. At one point I even asked her if she wanted to to go to a zoo and she said yes (we are both here for about 2 weeks). I was under the imp",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: PA - Landlord wants to withhold part of security deposit for ""dirty toilet and not vaccuuming"" POST: Whereas the lease says nothing about being obligated to return the premises to as clean as before - simply reasonably clean. In the conversation that the landlord and I had over messenger, I had responded that I felt as though I left the premises as clean as before. She has failed to take pictures of the condition of the place before cleaning it - simply claiming that her having to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 F] boyfriend [27 M] of two months is communicating less; I feel like I'm being irrational but don't know how to stop POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for about two months. At first, we were talking, texting, skyping, or with each other almost non-stop. We'd always find random excuses to talk to one another, and worked it out so that we'd see each other often. For the last week he's been talking to me at a much lower frequency. We were supposed to talk on the phone on",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I control my sex drive?? (female) POST: I'm a 21 year old female and my sex drive is out of control. Yeah, yeah, ""what are you talking about, that's great, let's meet"" whatever. It's a considerable problem. I want sex ALL the time. I mean, from the moment I wake up until I fall asleep. I'm in a relationship, and it's absolutely wonderful. We have fantastic sex most times we're together; probably about 3 or 4 times a week. But if I had it my way, we would have sex every day, mul",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: How odd is it not to want to be in a room near to one in which people are having sex? POST: So I didn't meet the guidelines for r/AskWomen, so I'm gonna try again here! This may seem like a weird or really specific question, but I've always felt really uncomfortable at the thought of people having sex in a nearby room, and I was wondering if this is an uncommon feeling or not. If they are having sex, I'd really, really like not to know about it - knowing that people are having/had ",negative " r/self TITLE: Thank you video games POST: Was feeling a bit sorry for myself tonight. Social life is a wreck, subsequently making my emotional state raw and fragile. Needed something to take my mind away from problems. Enter 'Papers, Please', a game I got from the recent Steam sale. It's the perfect game to appeal to my self-proclaimed decent attention to detail. There's just enough plot to keep me exploring, and there are doses of humour to amuse. The increase in the challenge comfortably gradual. I m",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I wrong here? Valentines gone wrong. ""You didn't get me flowers."" POST: Soo I got my GF a box of 4 cupcakes picked to order. Cute box hearts and bow etc. She loves red velvet cake and cuban crackers with guava and cheese. I got her 2 red velvet, 1 guava, 1 dulce de leche. We were also going to go have sushi. I give her the gift but she didn't want to eat any at the moment because she already had another cupcake from a friend. She then proceeds to complain ""I can't believe you didn't ",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Need help dealing with a repeatedly noisy neighbor. POST: My partner and I live in a four-apartment building (in a cluster of 20 or so such buildings). We're friends with the other two residents, and everyone in the building, us included, hates our downstairs neighbor. It's an old building with thin walls/floors, and he has a large soundsystem including subwoofers. He listens to his music/TV/movies really loudly, so much so that I can make out the conversations of the characters like",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Preparing for wife's loss of a life-long companion. How can I best support her, considering past immense emotional collapses? POST: So, this is actually my first post to this sub, let alone Reddit. I'm happy to leave it here - thanks for reading. I (M/33) have been with my wife (let's call her Sophie, 31) for five years, married for one. Sophie is a down to earth country girl in love with her horse that she's had since she was 4 years old. That makes the horse 27 years old (which",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My friend recently came out that he's gay, which is cool. But he thinks I'm gay too and it's gotten violating. What should I do? POST: Like the title says, my friend recently came out which is cool with me, whatever turns you on, turns you on. But he thinks I'm gay/bi too and that I just need help coming out of the closet. This is not the case at all, I've only ever been attracted to women, and in all truthfulness I've only ever had erections for women (obviously I'm a guy). But no matte",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex and I are acting like we're dating, don't know if I should stop it or not...help! POST: So, bit of a backstory: I (21f) was dating my ex (21m) for about a year when we broke up. We didn't contact each other for about 7 months until a month ago when we tried to make amends. This turned into us both admitting that we've missed each other a lot and we both still care about the other. We've hung out a few times since then and talked about how we still have these feelings and since th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most hilarious/inappropriate thing you've ever seen a child do? I'll start. POST: So my boyfriend was turning 18 or something, and I decided it would be a totally brilliant idea to have a pizza party at Pizza Hut for him. I invited a few people, and my mom and eight-year-old brother were there. We get through dinner. We stand up and go to pay the bill. My brother for some reason loudly announces to the entire dining area, ""Hey, I'll give you a blowjob for your birthday!"" Fucki",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friendless and starting over, again. POST: To give you some background I have always had a hard time making friends. I was always that girl that that sat with the teacher at recesse and read copious amounts of books for my summer vacation. I would only have maybe one good friend at a time, if I was lucky. About four years ago when I was 21 I moved to a different state (NY to PA) to live with a friend. My ""friends"" (basically coworkers that I hang out with on a regular basis) that I ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: My (21M) Gf/Fiancée (22F) said she wants a break, not sure how to deal with it. POST: Recently my Gf told me that she wants a break and that she needs time to find herself and discover what she wants out of life. We have been together for 3 1/2 years and I'm madly in love with her. We got engaged after 1 year of dating and promised to get married after we graduate college. I went home for the summer and she stayed at school. I noticed her acting differently over the phone when we ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my ex [19M] of 8 months, she recently started talking to me and wanting to be friends, conflicted. POST: My ex and I dated last year from March to around November. We had a fast and serious relationship where we both loved each other. She broke up with me because she thought we should be independent and grow on our own which I thought was fine seeing as I wanted to experience more dating before settling down anyway. In December we talk again and me and her decide we w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with my new girlfriend [35F] instant sparks, love at first sight, etc...am I crazy? POST: Let me preface by saying I want it to go fast. Essentially we met online, quickly realized we wanted to meet and I drove 3 hours to meet her. We instantly hit it off, for instance the very first thing we ever did in person was kiss very strongly in the parking lot for a few minutes. I can't stress enough that it wasn't sparks, it was an explosion. We spent an intense two days together",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting a row from the coach driver POST: This happened on Monday (June 8th) morning. FYI in the UK there is a bus service called Megabus that lets you travel between cities (I normally travel inside Scotland). When you book they have a sheet that lists everyone including names etc. I was all packed and ready to go on my week holiday to Cardiff with my sister and her husband. Anyway, I had booked a bus (11:10AM) to Edinburgh where I would meet up with them. My Mum dropped me off at a",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: A couple of days after our breakup, I just can't bear to talk to her. POST: My ex and I are both 23 and we had dated for over 3.5 years. She was my first long-term relationship and I was her second relationship. We went through so much together; deaths in each of our families, changing career paths and changes in educational institutions. In the end, I broke up with her(last saturday) because I wasn't 100% emotionally invested with her, mostly because of major differences in sex drive. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Drove out to a bar with a friend(28f), she left without telling me(25m), should I be mad? POST: A long term(3 years) friend of mine and I decided to go out to a bar for the night. She coaxed me into picking her up, and driving(she lives about 20 minutes opposite of the direction we were going). We get to the bar and hang out for a bit, then she meets up with someone else and we split up for a the rest of the night. The night continues and eventually closing time comes around. I look ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my best friend/colleague [22 F] need opinions POST: Basically she broke up with her boyfriend of 8 months due to his jealousy and mistrust of our friendship, it didn't help that she would mention me in arguments to piss him off so eventually they broke up. The problem here is that since they broke up she has been very hot and cold with me, one second she's kissing me the next we are just friends then again she's asking my opinion if we were to date but it would have ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what should I do about my problem roommate? POST: My roommate has kind of lost it recently. Towards the end of spring break she started to ignore me a bit and wouldn't really talk to me. When we came back to school she had purple hair and a new tattoo and some other strange new behaviors, but still wouldn't talk to me. We were never particularly close, but we got along well enough to chat about our day and whatnot. Recently, she hasn't said a word to me. I'm not sure what I did t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [29] cheated with a coworker. We are trying to make it work, how do I [21] deal with the emotional pain? Duration [3 years] POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years and for the most part, it's been great. We get on incredibly well, have a great time together but still leave room for each other to breathe and spend time with friends. A few weeks ago, after his behavior towards me changed ( having a short temper, frustration when having to see me ) and my susp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26m] with my [23f] SO. She lives with me 29 out of 30 days and doesn't pay rent/utilities. Unsure if that's fair to ask for contribution. POST: So my S.O. pays a small amount of rent to keep a room at her parents house but is never there. She stays with me almost exclusively unless they have a family event (they live 45 min away). It was a 50/50 split between here and there but in recent months has become essentially an always here occupancy. Even when our schedules don't match s",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [28/m] separation advice, child involved POST: i don't know if this is the right forum to start, if not i apologize. a brief background. a little over 3 weeks ago my wife[29/f] (common law) told me she was no longer in love with me, that she thought it best i move out and date other people. during the course of the conversation she did say she was still attracted to me, and she loves me as a friend and our daughters father. don't know if that has changed. over the last few w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] no longer feel like I want to be with my girlfriend [18F] of 2 years, but with exams approaching I don't want to cause anymore stress. Please help me! POST: So this is a throwaway account and is my first post on reddit so please forgive me if it doesn't fit in this subreddit or is poorly written. Anyway, I will try to keep this brief. So I am 18 years old and in my last year of college and so is my girlfriend. We have been together for two years but I have recently felt lik",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by Insulting my Fiances dress POST: Let me preface this by saying to my own admission I say the worse possible things at the worst possible times. I don't have the part of the brain that says, maybe you shouldn't say that right now. Anyways... Last Friday, my finances mom died. She immediately had to go buy a new dress because her mom always said she hated that she never wore dresses. She finds one she likes and takes it home. The other day she tries it on with her bra because boobs. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24/m]My friend that's a girl [24/f] is being terrorized by her ex. POST: We're trying to start a relationship but she has a medical issue that only I, her ex, and her parents know about and he's threatening her with it to keep her from moving on. I don't know what to do I've talked to the guy man to man and he gives me the ""I'd never do that to her, I'm a good guy"" bullshit response. She doesn't want me to do anything more than talk to him for fear that he'll get pissed and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29M] my gf [20F] of 1 months, is waiting 'till marriage.. She's amazing, how do I deal? POST: This girl blows my socks off, never met a girl like her. She's everything I've ever wanted.. She's young and I know as we age she'll change as a person. She's vaguely open to trying 'some things' but not having sex.. Aside from that she's awesome. Intelligent, gorgeous, strong, encouraging, supportive, loving, and affectionate. That said, she didn't mention that she was holding off sex ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Will this be the end of a long haul? 23M 25F POST: Me and my girlfriend have been dating for 2 1/2 years now, and have been madly in love. We are currently away and met through her coming here for Studying Abroad. We've been visiting each other off and on for about a year. So now I've been trying to decide where to live. It's easier for her to come here because my parents are more supportive, they will get me a place to stay and let her sleep in the same room as me. Her parents don'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my 26 [F] ex gf, should i call her re: dead mom? POST: Hi, this is going to be a really complicated issue. The short is that I am with my current girlfriend of 2 years. I was an asshole and was emotionally cheating on her with my ex-gf within the first few months of our relationship. My ex was actively trying to break up our relationship by calling my gf names, telling me that she misses me, etc. My current gf found out, and I had to cut contact with the ex for good rea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16M] with 17F girl I like just a quick question? POST: I just have a quick question. I was working a shift at work with this girl I like and we were able to close early so we got out 10 minutes early and I didn't have a ride. She noticed I was waiting for a ride and offered me a rid home, I said no because I had plans afterwards but said thank you. Then like 2 minutes later she got in her car and pulled over to where I was standing and rolled down her window and offered me a r",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 25/m Unusual Relationship issue with 23/F POST: I'm not sure how to succinctly explain this. Right after I turned 20 I met a girl who was 17 going on 18. We had a very deep connection, right away and it only got stronger over our five years together. At the end of '14 we started having serious problems...stuff on both sides, she began to abuse me and we stopped talking for 3 months. After talking some stuff over at length, it became clear to me (and she verbatim confirmed) th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] I[49/F] found out my son [14/M] wears panties [X-post parenting] POST: Original story [here]( I took your guys's advice, which was pretty much to confront him about it, tell him not take his sister's stuff, and give him money for his won things, without making it a big deal. It kinda became a bigger conversation, but he was comfortable with the discussion, and seemed less embarrassed than I thought he would. That kids has guts... So, when I got home from work today, after ",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Creepy or sweet? POST: So I just moved to a new place seven hours from my home city. It's a low-income, low-population area in South Carolina. I'm a DC-native with a DC salary, so I'm a bit of a fish out of water, but that's sort of how I like it. My neighbor is a 24-year-old single mother of two (I'm 25) and both kids live with her. Son is 5, daughter a little younger. She struggles like most single moms do; paycheck-to-paycheck, gov't assistance, etc. Anyway, I've only lived there a week ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: College kid that wants to start saving. Family and friends are no help. Any advice? POST: Hey everyone. I'm a college junior who is just now understanding that I need to save my money, instead of spending it carelessly. I'd like to find a solution that involves something more complicated than a high yield savings account (like at Charles Schwab), which is what my father suggested. Any advice? I am working full time this summer, and need to invest in a new car at the end of the summ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Trust Issues After Beginning Round 2 with BF POST: My boyfriend (25) of 1.5 years and I (24) went international long distance in July. He broke up with me in October. We were having problems and arguing a lot since he went away. He started going out a few nights a week then eventually said he was done and didn't ever want to be with me. After 3 months he started begging to get back with me and saying it was the biggest mistake of his life. He said he would show he changed and that h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Would you please help my friend's awesome charity win $10,000 for Make a Difference Day? POST: My classmate ran this awesome program to teach kids to fish to feed their families and to learn to respect the environment (see [here] for more details) and he is one of 9 finalists with a chance to win $10,000! He wants to give $5,000 to the [Durham Ronald McDonald House] and the other $5,000 to the [Florence Fuller Child Development Center.] He was leading in votes a couple days ago, but some",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my former roommate [20 M] duration, he has been following me for 3 years and it's making me uncomfortable POST: I'm currently a junior in college, freshmen year I lived in the dorms with 40 other people on my floor. I was pretty good friends with the majority of the people there, however, there was person, Ben, that nobody talked to. He was always alone so I tried to be nice and talked to him when I saw him. We would occasionally play games online together however we ne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] married 6.5 years [29 F] to grad student and I am real lonely. POST: We have been married (no kids) for 6.5 years and have been together for about 8. Wife is a 4th year PHD student and I have a decent job. I try to be supportive of her school but I am starting to resent it I think. She initially got into the masters program and just extended to PHD in the spring. I'm just really lonely. During the week she works on school and on the weekends she relaxes and watches TV",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] can't stop getting angry at my longterm boyfriend [25 M] of 3 years, for no reason at all. POST: So I'm just looking to see if anything else has ever gone through this, or has advice. My boyfriend is the most amazing person, so funny and nice and thoughtful. But for some reason I get so angry with him for no reason; I've tried to figure out why I am getting so mad, or if he is subliminally doing something that makes me angry, but it often seems like there is no reason. So w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] ex[21F] asked me to meet with her and it's ""nothing bad"" POST: I have been single now for about 8 months and after going through a rough patch and self reflection, I am a lot happier with my life and made every aspect of it better. I've dated my ex for almost two years before we broke it off. The short version of that is that she could never tell me she fell out of love and strung the relationship out longer than needed, which came to an end when she started seeing a frien",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [50 M] wife [48/F] long married, falsely accused of ""emotional affair"" POST: My wife has gone through my my email and social networking accounts and concluded that I am having an emotional affair with my friend's wife. She bases this accusation on friendly interactions in a Facebook group and one email wishing the ""other woman"" and her family a happy 4th of July. In that message, I said that I missed the family. She took that to mean that there has been a love affair going on for ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not making the the move with the girl I am in love with. POST: As most stories go, this didn't happen today, it happened beginning of this year in January, and was reminded of it by the ask thread about ""What do you regret not doing as a horny teenager?"". Now to the the story, midway through senior year, and just started League Duals for wrestling. So I get a weekend off from tournaments. So I (tell lets call her M) M ""hey you wanna work on our debate this weekend"" she replies with",negative " r/relationships TITLE: She has herpes, should I keep seeing her? POST: I'm [20M] and she [27f]. We are in a friends with benefits kind of relationship. She is a coworker of mine. All though not currently because classes have started and I cut down on my work hours. We started having sex around late April and about three weeks ago she told me she has herpes. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, that she is crazy and don't trust her. I thought the same thing originally. Anyways, let me tell you why my dumb as",negative " r/loseit TITLE: A tale of two scales... well a question more precisely POST: Digital vs the swingy numbers one. Yeah I'm super articulate. I have two scales, one is old and digital . When it turns on you stand on it, you can't get off to let it calibrate/ find zero. You just stand it weighs. The swingy number one is off by 4 pounds. So I just subtract four pounds. I prefer this one because my logic is that I know how off it is, it shows me and I do the math. At one clients scale ( yes this is all at wor",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by fondling rat poo POST: So recently I got a pet rat. I let her run around through my pockets , hood and other nooks and crannies she wishes to explore. Fast forward to this evening where I was watching a movie with my boyfriend , everything was well until I decided to put my hands in my pockets , I felt some small object in one of my pockets and assumed it was a small piece of paper , from a chewing gum wrapper perhaps and subconsciously started twirling it around my fingers and tearin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Kind of feeling like I'm stuck in this phase of my life. What are some of your ""It gets better"" stories? POST: I'm 22, and most of my friends have just received their first bachelor's degree, and I'm just about halfway. I feel like I should be further along in life than I am, if that makes sense. Due to my brother having a lot of medical problems (mostly seizures and sudden loss of motor function), I took a year off after leaving home for my freshman year of college. I wanted help my mo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Reddit: My grandmother needs love from her family. Advice? POST: This is a throwaway account. My grandmother is around 80 years old, Korean, and her health is decent. Our family lived with her since my parents got married, and she has been the homemaker when my mom is at her work. The problem with my grandmother is that she never leaves home. There is no problem with that except that I feel terribly bad for her solitude and loneliness. When I am away at my college, there is nobody a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] have been dating my best friend [20F] for 2.5 years and she just told me she is asexual POST: I started dating my current girlfriend 2.5 years ago and we have truly become best friends. We have similar ideals and values but have no problem differing in opinions. We are not 100% alike but compliment each other perfectly. I would rather spend time with her than doing anything else on the planet. We do not fight at all and have a seemingly perfect relationship from the outsi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (26F) am visiting my long distance girlfriend (24F) and her apartment is so messy I can't stand it POST: (Btw, I've never posted to Reddit before and I'm using the app, and I can't figure out how to tag it or add proper ""flair""? Apologies) My girlfriend and I met in college, but didn't start dating then. We liked each other but didn't act on our feelings, and she actually transferred away. We reconnected over Skype a few years later and started dating, but she lives across the cou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] posted nudes on GW on here and my boyfriend [19M] saw it and broke up with me. POST: It was a stupid decision, not even sure why I did it. I do know I hate myself for it though. He saw it and broke up with me immediately. We're still talking but he's definitely said a couple times although he'd be open to dating, he doesn't think it's gonna happen. I'd have to earn him back and blah blah. We were almost at 10 months. I'm absolutely heartbroken and in incredible amounts of pa",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Dick ex boyfriend regrets his actions. Does he apologize? POST: I was dating a girl a year back and I abused her pretty bad. I'd prefer not to go into too many details, but this is roughly what went down. I never physically hurt her, but I mentally abused the crap out of her. In hindsight the Doctor and psychiatrists I'm seeing now say that I was psychotic. I would force her to do things for me and demanded to be treated like a King. If she wouldn't listen to me I would cut myself and send",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My stepdad is in prison for possession of marijuana, the food is inedible and he's lost 40 pounds. What can I do to help him? POST: As the title says, my step-father is in jail for felony possession of marijuana. He has served his two year state sentence, but in lieu of probation he is serving a 6 month county sentence. Ever since he was transferred to county he's been having trouble eating due to the quality of the food. He says that it's unrecognizable. Now, my stepdad isn't a picky ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your best April Fools prank/joke/story that you have lived to tell the tale. POST: Mine was when I was first learning to drive. I have my permit for a few months when the 1st rolled around, it was at this time that I decided to prank my mother. I called her up between driving from morning practice to school to tell her I had a car accident and was pinned in the car. She at first didn't believe me, but at the time I had friend riding along with me and they were playing sound ef",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Can I [26 M] change my relationship with long-term partner [24 F] of 3 years? POST: Hello. I love my girlfriend. She's kind, positive, and optimistic. I greatly enjoy being with her. However, I feel I've neglected parts of my personality to make it work. She's quite shy, so I don't strike up random conversations with people. She's also a homebody, so I haven't explored my dream of travelling as much as she wouldn't fit in with the travelling characters I would like to meet. We've b",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: To ask, or not to ask. POST: I'm (M 21) from a small town, started and run a computer repair business, And I did some work for a woman, who's daughtor (F 18) was in a couple classes lower than I was in high school. Also her daughter is in a program to help younger people start business's, a program that I will be giving a speech at (about starting a business). Always thought about asking her on a date but never did. Now me being out of high school, (her being a senior) Do I have any",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am a [21] girl studying abroad in foreign country. Roommate [19] follows me everywhere. I need my space but do not know how to tell her. POST: Hi Reddit! I am borrowing my friends Reddit account because I am in need of some advice. I have come to a foreign country with around 30 students from my school in America. We got paired up with roommates from our school at random. The roommate I was assigned to has a completely different personality than me. I am adventurous and open-mind",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29M] is not sure how to best deal with relationships dynamics with [24F] woman I am dating. POST: I [29M] started spending time with this [24F] about six weeks ago. We've been having sex and there seems to be good physical chemistry. She claims to be super busy and probably is. She lives with her ex. They broke up about 7 or 8 weeks ago. She tried living with her parents but that did not work out. We agreed that we can date others and if we want to be intimate with others then w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I tell my [21F] best friend her [21M] boyfriend of two years cheated on her with a girl she cannot stand? POST: Me and my best friend (Jane) live together in an apartment. Last year we roomed with this girl, we'll call her Ashley. Jane and Ashley started out the year as really close friends. However, as the year went on they had a falling-out. They have hated each other ever since. Ashley moved out, and we had a new girl move in. Jane and this boy named Franklin have been dat",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not paying attention at the cash. POST: This is a minor TIFU in the grand scheme of things, but it's still making me laugh. Earlier in the week I was shopping at the little family-owned grocery store nearby, and I brought several items to the cash. The owner gives me the total and I thought that he said ""$4.25"" so I gave him a five-dollar bill. He then says: ""Do you have 25 cents?"" I think that he's asking me this so that he can give me an even dollar back in change. I am quite",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20/F] with my boyfriend [23 M] of 13 months, issues with honesty, respect, and no sex. POST: My boyfriend and I haven't had sex for a month or two. I believe at first this was because I wasn't getting off from it and I wanted him to focus on me a bit more. When that wouldn't work (I have trouble focusing on the pleasures during sex, can't orgasm easily) he'd often get very frustrated and I guess it eventually put him off trying anymore. Since then every time I bring it up he make",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My roommate [21/F] is seeing my best friend [22/M] on the side. Her bf [22/M] does not know. Should I [21/F] say anything? POST: A little bit of info regarding this. My best friend (of 7 years) lives about 4 hours away from us and lately both he and my roommate (of 3 years) have been getting closer and closer. He came over to visit back in January and first met my roommate when we went out for drinks (her bf was away on vacation). They instantly hit it off. He's been planning to come",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] and my ex-BF [24 M] broke up in 2011, he just contacted me and I don't know how to say no. POST: My emotionally abusive ex-BF [24M] broke up in early 2011 over LDR-related issues and we didn't break it off that well. For the first following weeks after the breakup we would sometimes talk and end up with awkward conversations before losing touch. I have since moved on and have been with my current BF [23M] for 2 years and I would really prefer that my ex do not contact me on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girl [20F] broke up with me [20M] after five years really suddenly. POST: THROWAWAY ACCOUNT! Hi. I've been in a loving relationship for over five years. I was going to get married to this girl soon. She recently started massive shifts at work, almost 9-12 hours a day, 6 days a week. We live apart and we got the chance to spend a few weeks together, it was amazing. Even though she was coming back late in the evening, I looked forward to her returning. I did get annoyed at things ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are your Ungooglable trivia questions? POST: I love trivia nights, and I'm thinking of running a trivia night to raise money for charity. The problem is that even the rural area that I live in, Smartphones are more than prevalent enough to ruin such events. So what I am trying to do is compile a quiz for which the answers will not show up in a search engines results. I have a couple of riddles and a couple of local knowledge questions, but it's not quite enough. What I really want",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with my [24/F] roommate let the electricity,hot water and gas go off again for the second time this year POST: Hey Relationships, I live with Liv (who didnt pay these utilities) and Gina This morning I wake up to an angry text from my roommate Liv about someone eating her bread, something along the lines of ""dont touch my stuff"". Whatever, it was my mistake, I apologized and also told her it was rude to speak to us this way. I then get a text hours later about the utilities",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hotdog vendor crapping himself and ""washing"" himself in our bathroom POST: There's a hotdog vendor who works the corner outside our building in one of those old fashioned carts. He's one of the only remaining hotdog vendors left around here, somewhat of a neighborhood icon/institution (been here for decades, he's probably late 60s or so). For the past 2 or so years, he's been shitting himself once every couple weeks, waddling into our bathroom, cleaning his nickers in the toilet bowl a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (F/29) has decided to use sex as a weapon against me (M/33) POST: I want to be brief to avoid a wall of text: - Girlfriend has expressed a desire for me to come inside her repeatedly. - She does not want to go on Birth Control - During a conversation I honestly said that I am not ready for that at the moment as we've been unstable lately, and we don't have any precautions in place to deal with it (Morning After Pill, etc.). I have said repeatedly that I will gladly re",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [23 M] break up with her [23 F] on Valentines day? POST: Hey guys this sucks, but I'll cut to the chase. Ive been seeing my buddies ex gf for about a month now behind his back and its killing my conscious, i unfortunately kept this going on for a month. But i NEED to break it off. It just doesn't feel right and I'm betraying his friendship. But i dont know if i should do it later today or tell her tomorrow. We have a date for later today to go watch a movie, dinner..etc bu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] have been mutually ""pretending"" to be in a relationship with a girl [16F] POST: This girl [16F] and I [19M] have been talking for about a month now. Things have developed and we treat each other like we're in a relationship. Everything someone does in a relationship, we do. The phone calls at night, the caring of well being, etc. The catch is, I've unveiled that she got out of a year long relationship maybe 3 months ago. She says she isn't ready to be in a relationship,",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (22f) with law student boyfriend (26m) of 2.5 years. What was your SO/ex SO like when studying for the BAR? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for a little over two years now. He's just finished law school and is currently studying to take the bar sometime early next year. I'm definitely not a stranger to how busy he was; I'm in school myself and completely understood when we would go a few weeks without seeing each other because of finals. The issue is that I'm wor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf (26m) doesn't think that I (26f) think he's good enough. What can I do to show him this? POST: My bf and I have been together a year and this past week has been awful. We've been fighting and spending some time apart to make sure this relationship is what we both want. I know it's what I want. He seems to think it's not what I want because he says that I'm never happy and I'm always disappointed. He said he doesn't feel that he's good enough for me, and even when I tell him ot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 M] with my GF [34 F] 1 year, How do I get her to dump me? POST: This woman I have been dating for about a year has constant problems. Every day/week/month there is some new thing that is everyone's fault but hers. She's always broke, can't pay her rent, can't fix her car, can't take care of her kids (that don't live with her), she smokes a ton of weed (and because of this is constantly losing everything), goes out drinking at least once or twice a week, does occasional drugs ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Whats your best story involving being caught (or nearly) during sexytimes by parents, kids etc? POST: I'm sure many people remember how hard it was as a youngin' living at home to have a little ''privacy''. In highschool my ex and I had a small window of opportunity (45 mins) where we could walk to her house after school and proceed with the sexytimes because he parents were still at work. Once around Halloween we were proceeding with the doings when the dreaded sound of the garage doo",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I'm [20/f] and received this 'unwarranted' message from an ex a couple of weeks ago. I need an unbiased opinion on if I should reply? POST: So, I dated this guy around March '11 to around the 5 month mark and we'd had no contact since until he sent this message to my phone and FB. However I'm unsure if I should reply, or if this is one of those 'I just want to feel less guilty, don't reply' sorts of thing. I feel inclined to reply, because he honestly wasn't really that bad of a guy - I m",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Worsening Separation Anxiety? Food/Toys Won't Distract POST: I recently asked for ['Ideas to Tire My Dog Out Mentally and Physically Before Work']( As it turns out, no amount of toys or exercise will get my dog to relax when we leave him, and I think it's a severe case of separation anxiety. I've read the other threads on this subreddit, but nothing we've tried has worked. It's been 3-4 weeks with virtually no improvement. We did start allowing him to roam free in the apartment (as ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How do I start things up? POST: I'm in desperate need of halp! There's a girl. i like her, she likes me, etc. We text on a daily basis; you know, the constant flirting, stuff like that. last weekend, we got a bunch of friends together and went to the mall. We walked, shopped, and ate. (I'm a guy). We later all went to the movies. We sit boy-girl so it's me, her, close friend, close girl-friend., etc. My close friend and the close female friend snuggle (not unusual) and they do this",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Try to scam my sick friend? POST: So, my friend and I had embarked on a two-month traveling spree across eastern Europe a few years back. All had gone well until we both became ill in Romania. It was a bit rough where we were staying, so we decided to head back to a hostel we knew in Belgrade. We had eurail passes and felt like shit, so we opted to upgrade to a sleeping berth. Well, by the time we were boarding the train my friend was so sick he could barely walk. Sensing easy prey,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [26 M] how do I start a relationship when I have no privacy because I'm living with parents who need my financial help POST: So I have a full time job, car of my own and can afford to live on my own but due to my dad being older (almost 60), his hours getting cut a lot at work & rising rent costs (Live in California) he can no longer afford to maintain the family (Himself, mom and 2 siblings) on his own. So I am stuck living at home helping with the rent and groceries. I'm in my mi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 F] very good friend [24 M] was brought up on child pornography charges POST: This is obviously a throwaway. My very good friend was just charged with possession and distribution of child pornography a few days ago. I don't know any of the details besides his means of distribution and the number of files he had on his computer. I am heartbroken. I've known him since I was 6 years old and we were great friends in high school. He was recently (~1.5 months ago) was diagnose",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [22 F] wants to get back together with me [25 M] but we live on opposite sides of the world. POST: Me and my now ex were together for 2.5 years in England. The relationship was really good, everything went well, we even lived together for 1 year and worked together for more. I was very integrated into her family and their businesses. When she went to uni, we really struggled to spend any time together as I was working full time and she was at uni. This was ultimately the reas",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: broke up with my GF a month ago, we are trying to get back. I'm asking her to cut any relationship with a guy she went out with...don't know if I should demand it. help please POST: I'm a (m) 25 years old. my GF is 22. we broke up almost a moth ago and we are trying to get back. during that time she slept with a friend of her. they used to hang out a lot and I didn't mind because I'm not jealous. I asked her to stop talking to the guy because it makes me feel uncomfortable, but she s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I 20M want advice on remaining ""friends"" with a sociopath 21M POST: I would like input from people who have dealt with sociopaths, or would consider themselves sociopaths. I have known this person for three years, and been really good ""friends"" for about 1.5 of those years. He is incredibly intelligent, and a great teacher. He's very open about his mentality to me, about how he puts on a mask on his true personality around other people and how it is absolutely imperative that no one",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M/F] don't know what happened with [18 F], thought it was going well POST: I met an amazing girl, who I'll call Jess, and after I got her number we were texting all the time for the first week or so. I've never had a relationship or anything close before and i'm super shy so I had no idea what I was doing and just kinda went with it. Jess and I went on a couple of dates and on the third one I got the confidence to kiss her, which she liked but also said it was about time. The d",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: LPT: Don't allow your stubbornness and laziness to become your downfall POST: Not sure if this belongs here but I had trouble finding an appropriate subreddit. My grandfather and grandmother live in a small two-story home in Huntington, WV, by themselves. They do not get out much, with my grandfather being 80 and my grandmother being 70 with COPD, Dementia, and Schizophrenia. They both smoke (after stopping once and starting again *ahem* my grandfather) and my grandmother doesn't take ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/18] can't decide whether I want my relationship to go further with my [F/18] Friend. POST: I've been in a on and off relationship/mess around for about 2 1/2 months but not once have we actually said we are in a relationship. She [F/18] regularly ""Invites me over for a movie night"" which usually consists of a 3rd of a film and me stopping over. It just seems to be just sex and I can't read her at all! I'd love to take it further and actually commit to a relationship with her b",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling my ''girlfriend'' i liked her.... POST: and oh how it hurt. So I've been dating this girl for about month. We get on really well we've kissed and talk often. Today i asked her if she wanted to ''go out''. The distinction between going out and dating is a subjective one to me so i thought asking her ''out'' to be my girlfriend would be a just a fun and silly little formality. However she responded by saying she wasn't sure she wanted to peruse a romantic relationship and s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the regulation regarding working lavatories on commercial flights? POST: A few days ago, I had a short flight on one of those little regional planes. I was at the airport with a somewhat short layover between flights, got on this plane, and was told just before leaving the gate that the bathroom was broken and we would no be able to use it during the flight. My first thought was - ah! But I already need to go! Now what?! My second thought was - wow what about people with Chron",negative " r/relationships TITLE: F[24] stood M[26] up on a blind first date so I'm looking for advice/perspective/insight POST: Long story short, I'm a teacher M[26] and for the past 6 months one of my co-workers has been telling me about her daughter's friend F[24] that would be perfect for me. Her daughter's friend friended me on Facebook last week and sent me a message. She introduced herself and said that she was going out to a local bar with friends and that I should join. I responded the next day that my frien",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18F] girlfriend and I [18M] were apart this NYE and she played suck and blow with her friends... POST: For those who don't know, suck and blow is a game where you use your breath to hold a card to your mouth and pass it in a circle from person to person, mouth to mouth. If you drop the card, you have to kiss the person with whom you dropped it. According to her, there were two occasions where she dropped the card and had to kiss another person. One with a girl friend of hers, an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29M] with my wife [26 F] 1 Year Dating & 6 months married, she calls her ex boyfriend almost every single day for 1-2 minutes POST: So when we first started dating, she made it clear that her ex and she were no longer romantically involved, however, they share a cat together and were really good friends. She still goes over there from time to time and I've just asked to never ever hear about it or hear her talking about him...otherwise I'm just fine with it.   Recently I had t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [28 M] with a serious medical disorder, tactfully tell my [65+ M] colleague that his consolations are not helpful? POST: We've known each other for about 6 years now. I've had epilepsy for over 2 years now and it's pretty bad; if I average out my recent episodes I'm having about 8 seizures a day. I've had 55 in the past week. This man, an older man, takes every opportunity he can to console me by relating his experience with asthma, and how hard it was and how he miracul",negative " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by taking the extension cord from the living room POST: So. In our living room there is an extension cord, that connects the wifi router to the wall. The extension cord is necessary because my roommates wifi card is fucked up and she runs the ethernet cord, which belongs to me from the router in the living room to her computer. Now I told her two weeks ago that I needed an extension cord and she is currently using both of mine. And today she said something that mildly ticked me off so I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] of 1 year, seriously going down hill. POST: This might be a long one so please bare with me. Me and my girlfriend have been together for over a year now, we met on tinder (destined to fail I know) and it was okay for a good 6 months, and then it seriously started going downhill. I seriously have no trust in her anymore. It's gotten to the stage where I've been checking her phone every time I see her, if she see's me trying to do this she will phys",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I got screwed by my Driving School and their 3rd party scheduling software. What can I do? POST: My instructor told me that Schedule Agent, a 3rd party that schedules drives for students at 911 Driving School would email me reminders 48 hours in advance of a drive. I scheduled several weeks ahead of when I would actually go do the drive. Of course I gradually forgot about the dates and exact times of which I would have a drive, but I relied on Schedule Agent to follow through on ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F22] feel like I'm constantly psyching myself out of meaningful relationships. [M27] POST: I [F22] met someone [M27] on a dating website, and we seem to be hitting it off really well. We've gone on one date, and we talk on the phone, and text all the time. We seem to really be a good match. We both want something serious and it seems to be heading in a good direction. We have several plans to see each other again. We're still taking it easy despite both of us eventually wanting a ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My former boss won't pay me my wages. What can I do? POST: Background: I used to work at a sign company where we would do everything from political signs to car wraps. I'm in NC where this exists: My asshole former boss is refusing to pay me my final paycheck because he says that I owe him money for damaging a customer's vehicle and breaking one of his personal signs that he left in harm's way (on a 5'x10' router table that we used often). I have already talked to the Department of Labo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are most anti-psychs really that deluded? POST: Hey Reddit, Im a 16-year old lurker who's been suffering from light depression for almost a year. I started seeing a psychologist this autumn and taking Citalopram, and right now I'm feeling a lot better. My experience with mental disorders, which I researched constantly over the summer, has prompted me to consider studying psychiatry in two years. So far it seems like an interesting job, but recently I stumbled across this anti-psychiatr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] 3 Months, Multiple unique? issues, some her & some me POST: Hey all, So I recently started dating my girlfriend and everything has been great but she suffers from depression and insecurities so a few issues popup that she flops around on. She is Bisexual which I'm okay with but I'm actually the first person that she's ever dated or been romantic with. So recently she expressed asked if it was possible to love other people too, also wondering if ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] My boyfriend [30/m] does not let me view his texts, let alone touch his cell or glance at his Facebook inbox POST: We have been together for roughly a year now. About 4 or 5 months ago I snooped through his laptop while he was at work because he constantly turns the screen away from me while he's on it for hours at a time. I did not find anything suspicious. However, I did ask him to leave the computer unlocked for me to use before he went to work that day so I felt he ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I saw my v.day gift on accident and she found out, what to do? [25M, 28F; 6 months] POST: I walked into her apartment during lunch and saw my gift on the kitchen counter, a small stuffed animal with some chocolates and a card and she found out. She doesn't make a lot of money but this year is the first time she's been able to buy anything for anyone and was excited to surprise me but I ruined it. I have a whole day planned out for lunch, adventure, and dinner, not to mention the f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my ex [23 F] of 3years, first loving relationship I had and need some advice on how to move on. POST: Met in College. Dated almost two years then moved together to a different state for my job after we both graduated. Lived together for almost a year. Fights and arguments became more frequent mainly due to my attitude and not truly knowing what the future held for us. Not my first serious relationship, and had other casual flings in college, but the first girl I can sa",positive " r/relationships TITLE: A coworker held a big party, and invited everyone but me [25/f] POST: A manager at my work held a big party (for a personal, family reason) and invited everyone else but me (including the owner and his family). It is a small workplace and while I am okay at my job, I am not great, but it's pretty clear this is not a ""career"" for me. I am the newest employee but have been working there for several months and am on reasonable to good terms with my coworkers. We have spent the past seve",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: IOWA: PAULA v. MIP POST: Just last night, my organization in college had our end of the year award banquet at a hotel, which has several cabins away from the main hotel. Our organization had rented out two of the cabins, one of which became the main party room. There were about 30 people inside the cabin last night, a mix of under-agers (all over 18) and 21+. Around 10:30PM, a police officer walks up to the cabin to see myself and three other members drinking on the porch. All four ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not being patient at a restaurant. POST: So this actually happened today about 2 hours ago. Me and my sister work together in a mall and after work we would get picked up from a friend and go to chili's. we got there at 10:40 and they closed at 11:00 pm and we could tell the waitress didn't want to serve us. So we get our food and get ready to pay the bill, my friend payed for herself using the tablet installed at the table and my sister and I split our meals so the total came to abou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I just jealous? Or do I have a right to be concerned? POST: My SO(M28) of three years and I(F26) have been arguing about this topic for quite some time. He enjoys commenting on pictures of women on r/prettygirls; from saying that their beautiful/cute to commenting on specific body parts such as eyes or breasts. I am extremely uncomfortable with this because I believe that if he is happy with what he has then he would not feel the need to comment. He even has wandering eyes when we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [30f] feel weird about a couple pictures I saw on my husbands [28m] phone. Am I being silly? POST: Let me start by saying that my husband was looking through pictures on his phone, so I looked with him (as in, I wasn't snooping behind his back.) I teased ""show me a picture of your girlfriend"" and as he was scrolling I noticed a couple of pictures of some girl I didn't recognize and I said ""is that your girlfriend?"" He stopped and said ""that's so-and-so from that business trip I wen",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm horrible at math. I'm 25 years old, how do I teach myself? POST: Alright so here's the deal, public school in America most likely (and expectedly) is to blame for my totally shallow math skills. I went through high school fearing I was simply stupid, that math wasn't my thing and it took until recently to realize that perhaps my teachers were just idiots (no offense to the good teachers out there). Anyway the thing is, I know about Kahn Academy and things like that, my real ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I now understand why it's mandatory to vote in Australia. Wouldn't it stop this corruption in the US? POST: Aussie Logic: So apparently those likely to vote Democrat are less likely to turn up on the day than those likely to vote Republican. Therefore, the GOP are able to deter probable Democratic voters by making it harder to vote. Right? For example, this: Caused by a republican governor reducing the early voting period. What a coincidence! So, if everyone has to vote, then... wait ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [26 F] of 2 years told me to dress up as a 'spear-chucker' for halloween. I (25M) am African-American. POST: Using a throwaway since she is a redditor. Yesterday, my girlfriend and I were talking about what costumes to wear for a halloween party. She quickly decided she would be a victorian noble lady (she has a dress like that laying around from a party a few years ago), I had no idea what costume to wear. At this point my girlfiend half-jokingly tells me to ""dress u",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being distracted in the Toilet at work POST: This week. The morning after a glorious meal of spicy Indian food. Sitting down at the office, releasing some smells that might have caused fainting had anyone else been near. Time to relieve the intestines from the Indian food. I go to the toilets that are used by 100+ people who work in offices on the same floor. All the 6 cubicles of the female toilets are empty - an uncommon good luck. I get down to business, distractedly flush, wash h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (25) wants me to be on top more during sex, but I'm (f 21) very uncomfortable about it. POST: My boyfriend and I were laying in bed last night when he brought up that he would enjoy if I was on top more during sex. This isn't the first time he's brought it up,(he's brought it up a lot in the 10 months we've been together) and I've always dismissed it in the past, but this time he wasn't letting me get out of talking about why I don't like it. I told him the truth, I'm af",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: GF(27) has pimples and I(26/m) can't get her to see a doctor POST: Hi Reddit, Throwaway account b/c my gf frequents reddit as well. I'm not sure which forum is appropriate to ask this question. If this isn't the right one please let me know which one I should post to... We've been together over 6 years and as long as I've known her she has had pimples on her pubic area. Sometimes one but 2 or 3 is not surprising. They usually start as ingrown hairs so you can't even see or p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Confused about western dating culture POST: Hi everyone, I'm a girl who grew up with pretty conservative views on love due to the culture I'm from that now that I'm 19 and have joined the dating scene I've become more and more confused about general western dating culture. Basically I rarely ever have crushes on guys even because even at that stage I feel like I need to gauge their character and personality and then decide to pursue them or not. I just feel that dating is automatic",negative " r/jobs TITLE: What to do if you lose someone's favor? POST: Over the summer, I had an internship which I ended up doing pretty well in and received favorable reviews from my team leader and coworkers. As a result, I was even able to receive a job offer which I later accepted. As I started up school again, I kept in touch here and there with my colleagues from the summer and everything appeared to be okay. I made sure not to overburden them with too many emails so that they wouldn't get annoyed (I sent may",positive " r/loseit TITLE: lost all motivation POST: Hello losers! I created a throwaway for this one. Not really sure what to expect in the way of replies because it's a pretty strange problem that has occurred, so hopefully there are a few out there who have been in a similar situation. Around late June I stumbled onto this subreddit at a perfect time. I had a crappy day and was hating myself (mostly my weight) as usual. I was encouraged to get started on my weight loss and did just that straight away - tracking ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Not quite February yet, but what are your WORST Valentine's Day stories? POST: My story goes like this. A few years ago, had a major crush on a girl I knew from work. We had spent a lot of time hanging outside of work, going to the movies, dinner and going over to one anothers houses every now and again. Finally Valentine's came around and I decided to take the opportunity, and use it as the day I pronounced my feelings for her. I got some roses, candy, a card and drove over to her ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by forgetting about speeding tickets POST: Ok, so i do have a bit of a heavy foot, I'll admit that, but if i do speed it's usually no more than ten over. So this was actually Thursday evening, so more like Thursday i fucked up... I was driving to go pick up some new computer parts. I had a migraine, but i didn't feel like it was enough to impair my driving. On the stretch of road i was on, the speed limit changes from 50 to 35, then back to 50 a mile later. I was cruising around 45mph,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Talking with my BF of nearly 2 years on a dating website now..he doesn't know it's me. POST: Ah where to begin. I first caught him about 8mos in. Found a conversation on FB where he was trying to coerce a girl *who I later found out was 14-he is 24 I am 25F* into speaking sexually with him. Found out this happened the night of his birthday several months earlier while I was sleeping next to him. I felt disgusted. He tried to pass it off as being one of his friends on his computer. Li",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need some advice guys, work related crap. POST: I'm super thankful i have a job and appreciate my pay. As i may come off as complaining, just know im not trying to be dreadful when I say whats to come. I currently work in IT, once a small company we have exploded in the past 5 years, going from 10 people to about 140 in the company with 2 main offices. We have grown from making a couple million a year to over 300+ mil a year. I have been with the company for 3+ years now and i've pre",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Do you tell your best guy/girl friend that you love them? F(21) POST: Last night when my friends and I went out to the bar. Me and my girl friend dressed up. My best guy friend (friends 4 years) was acting kind of awkward like he always does. He kept teasing me about what I was wearing. He kept pushing into me in a flirty way. Before we left he said ""I could never get sick of you, ever"" and while we were out he put his arm around me and said ""I love you. Really, I do."" He then threw ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: my [21 M] recent ex slept with my best friend!! and i still want him back?? POST: hello i am a [20 F] and i dated my [21 M] boyfriend for about five months until we broke up because of distance and school. last week i found out that he was having sex with my best friend!! he lied to me at first because he knew i would be mad. now he is apologizing to me and i slept over his apartment last night and i really want to be with him again but friends are telling me that i have no respect f",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: 22M, having a ""date"" with 20F soon, planning on confessing POST: It's kind of a tricky situation. I've known this girl for years on and off but we only got close about 5 months ago (and that's also when I started fancying her). She and another friend of hers helped me out once a week for about 6 weeks doing mock tests for the cambridge ESOL exams so I've had to chance to meet her often and talk... we went out just the two of us a couple of times (once for dinner, once just for a simp",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by ruining a friendship in 3 days. POST: This happened literally 30minutes ago. I was hanging out with this girl that I met 3 days ago, and I was starting to like her too. So as we were hanging out tonight doing homework she mentions that she has a muffin top and thought she was fat. Me being the dumbass that I am told her that she wasn't fat but just a little chubby (big fuck up). In my mind I didn't see this as a bad thing, but I immediately apologized to her about a hundred times and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I tell my friends I'm not a lesbian? POST: So when I was a wee lass I had a bit of a thing for girls. I told my mom that I liked girls at this time and she took that to mean that I *only* liked girls. I didn't have the guts to correct her since I was already mortified about telling her in the first place, so she went on thinking I was a lesbian and I thought, ""welp, guess you're a lesbian now."" Fast forward two years and I was sixteen and at this point, whenever the subject ca",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's the best lie you've ever told and gotten away with? POST: So when I was a freshman in high school, I failed my second semester of Spanish, and didn't feel like getting in trouble with my parents for it. On the day report cards were handed out, I feigned sick so they would send it by mail. I told my mother I did better than I actually did, she never saw my actual report card. Our report cards displayed all grades from all semesters, So I fake sick again when the third rep",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (25/f) boyfriend (24 M) asked me to move in, but our cultures don't allow so we'll have 2 apts and live in 1; how does this work? POST: My boyfriend asked me to move in with him, and I said yes =) The thing is, he is from a culture where people simply don't live together before marriage. And while he is okay with it, his family and society, not so much. They are cool with us, completely, but they don't know we plan to move in together. I don't think this is anything unusual. I ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Mother causing problems in my relationship life, what do I do? POST: (M20) I'm in college and only get to come back to my hometown every few months or so, my best friend(F20), who I've known for a long time have started getting closer and closer. I have feelings for her and there is a chance, plus she acknowledges my feelings, but just wants to take it slowly. The thing is, my mother always gets in the way of any type of relationship I try for, I've never had a girlfriend because she",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: How to help my crying mom who is in deep depression (serious replies only please) POST: I just want to say thanks for taking the time to read this, I don't know where else to turn to. My mom is in deep depression and crying almost daily because of a lack of money and work. She is a middle aged single mother of 2 who are both currently in college. She is in construction who owns her own business on the west coast, and from her perspective it seems everything is going wrong in her life f",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by synthesizing polyvinyl alcohol and being a league player POST: We made polyvinyl alcohol in Chem lab yesterday, a manly jelly/play-dough-esque substance that looks like it was extracted from the depths of the Incredible Hulk's nostrils. Anyways, I decided to add green dye to mine since it made it look like Zac (a champion from League of Legends). When I got home I thought it would be a good idea to split my amorphous goop into five pieces (Zac splits into little blobs when he dies)",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What should I [F/15] do about this crazy girl [F/15] at school? POST: Okay, I used to be friends with this girl, but then she started getting all paranoid. She thinks I was flirting with her b/f behind her back, which is not true in any way. Heck, I only tolerated him because they were dating. Anyway, things kept getting worse and worse between us and then finally one day she cornered me in the bathroom. When I tried to leave, she threw a punch at me and so I had to defend myself. Tw",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25m] boyfriend is accusing me of starting to ""let myself go [25f] POST: We have been together for 2 1/2 years, and have been living together for 5 months. I have bipolar disorder, which occasionally (ok, at least monthly) affects our relationship. Along with the little bouts of depression, I care less about my hygiene. I shower, but brushing my teeth is something I've always hated. I gag, I hate the feeling and the taste of ANY toothpaste. Brushing my teeth 5-7 times a week is a ",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [HELP] Dog pees on our bed every day. At my wit's end. POST: Started about a week ago. She pees on top of the bed and it gets all the way down to the mattress. We have bought more sheets and done an insane amount of laundry (even though we don't have machines readily available to us). She was on steroids for itching, but I have taken her off of them and the problem persists. We take her outside 3-4 times a day, have started crating her when we're gone, and not allowing her on the bed anym",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How Do I (22F) Ask My Friend (24F) To Be More Supportive? POST: Throwaway because my regular account has the same name as my social media accounts. Leah and I have been friends for four years now. She is moving in in half a week and we are both really excited for that to happen. We are usually inseparable but the past year and a half has been a strain on our relationship. For starters, she hates it when anyone in our group of friends gets a boyfriend. I was no exception. She hate",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How to meet like minded people? POST: I'm 18 years old, and due to constant moving and family issues, I did not attend any school for two consecutive years since 2nd grade until junior/senior year in high school. Because of this, I tend to be a little anti-social and don't have the social skills most people my age have. I'm introverted and spend most of my time thinking, but I have never met anyone that thinks about the same things I do on a regular basis. I think about space, time (or",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [16f] Lost my virginity to my [19m] BF last week and not feeling good about it? POST: so we met on facebook and have known eachother for about 2 years but finally hung out in person about 4 months ago. we've been ""official"" for 3 months. he had just got out of a 1 year relationship when we started hanging out. the problem is he still talks about her. A LOT. how she cheated on him with his friend, and he loved her so much, blah blah. and he is SO depressed about it. i can understand ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Mother is cheating on my dad.. and has been for past 10 yearsMe [00 M/F] with my ___ [00 M/F] duration, short-description POST: Remove ALL BUT ONE: [No Regrets]: If you don't feel bad First time reddit, please excuse me if I break any formatting rules, I'm not very familiar, I just found out, I'm literally shaking, my heart is about to explode, I can't look through my eyes properly and I'm breathing extremely heavily I would like to star with fact that I'm 20 and since very young ag",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Higher Paying Job vs More Substantial Job Experience POST: Hello, I will be graduating in a Masters of Environmental Studies in a top 5 university. Background in project management and sales. I am sorta of indifferent at both positions, one will be much funnier (young, hip, shoot by the waist side, drinking on the job kinda of job) while the other I will be surrounded by much more intellectual people. The better money is very attractive for someone who is in over 100k of debt, but I am afr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] reconciling with SO [23f ] and going no contact with female friend who I have known for almost a decade. POST: I have a female friend who I have known for about ten years who makes my gf feel uncomfortable since I keep in contact with her. We had a huge fight about it and I broke up with her for three weeks. She sent me a lengthy email explaining her trust and inferiority complex and it made me feel guilty. She also wants to move in with me next month. During the break I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] am having doubts about moving forward with my [24F] girlfriend. POST: Not even sure where to begin with this but here goes. We dated for all of our senior year in college, mutually broke up before graduation, and were both single for the next two years while talking regularly for that entire period of time. She came to visit me last summer and we decided to get back together. I live on the east coast and she lives on the west coast so we don't see each other much (were both",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my boyfriend [19 M] of six months, anxiety and guilt over every minor thing I do wrong POST: Some background: I've been with my boyfriend Ben for six months now. It's the first relationship for both of us. He's amazing, kind, sensitive, intelligent, loyal, funny, supportive, and everything I ever wanted (or at least I'm still in the honeymoon phase so let me think he's perfect for a little longer). I try to be a great girlfriend to him, and for the most part I think I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] got into a fight with my gf [23F] now she's crying in the shower POST: We we're laying in bed talking about all and everything, from my upcoming birthday and what to have for lunch tomorrow. We ended up talking about what I wanted for my birthday, and I told her I didn't care for my own birthday and I'd rather not celebrate it. She doesn't understand and we keep talking/arguing about it. I tell her I don't want anything to revolve around me and she says really finds that unat",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Jealousy and its mind games! POST: Me 20 M her 20F been together for a year and a half. WE fight a lot about each others friends, but lately theirs this guy, and hes a good friend of hers, and he recently broke up with his gf. Now my girlfriend has talked him through the hard parts, never has been a problem. Now she texts him constantly, still not the issue, she knows I dont like him and we fight some about that, and he tells her he loves her and shes pretty , but her and of her fri",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Bisexual, but parents don't know yet. Advice perhaps? POST: Alright, so my parents do not yet know that I am bisexual. The only ones in the family that know I am bisexual are my sisters, but not my parents. The only things stopping me from going out with guys is the fact that I am afraid that they will be rude to me that I didn't tell them before I was with someone. On my Facebook, I have had it state that I am interested in men and women for quite some time, hoping that they would find ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I snapped at a kid last night for calling my boyfriend a ""retard"", what are some words (derogatory or other wise) that just really get under your skin? POST: King of a long story but... We were at a party with some friends, my boyfriend was making small talk with a guy we've both met only once or twice prior to this incident when they start talking about the birth place of a pretty famous boxer. My boyfriend said he was pretty sure it was somewhere in California while the other guy wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Problems deciding our child's religion/beliefs. POST: Backstory. Me and my wife have been together for nearly 2 years now. We've been friends for awhile and when a ""relationship"" when awry we ended up getting together. The ""problem"" was that she was pregnant. I was with her for all 9 months, I was there for her and the baby the entire time. I've changed shitty diapers, I've had baby puke all over my, I've eaten disgusting baby food. Stayed up late at night to take care of MY daughter",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my SO [19 F] of 1 year, and I still have jealousy problems? POST: So we've been dating for a little over a year now and I still seem to have jealousy problems. I don't know, I still don't like when she says certain things. Sometimes she would say "" ____ is texting me all of a sudden"" or ""People always text me in a bunch, so random.."" And usually these people are ""friends"" that have pursued her in the past, but have failed, however, they still remain in contact once in ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my girlfriend [25 F] of 7 years, should we start a joint savings account before we move in together and get married? POST: I have been with my girlfriend for 7 years and I plan on proposing later this summer. We are currently looking for a new apartment to start living together for the first time. I make roughly 62k and she's around 50k. She doesn't have the best grasp on saving money and could use some structure saving money. I happen to be very good with money and sa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my boyfriend [22 M] of 7 months, are having problems successfully communication in our new LDR POST: So recently i went back to my school for my junior year and my boyfriend has started his post-grad job about 2 hours away. We make time on weekends to visit each other. At first, it was really hard for me and i was pretty badly depressed. He wouldn't try very hard to communicate with me, which left me sad and lonely quit often. I kind of sought out advice in other place",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My roommate [27F] apparently borrowed my [30M] undies. POST: I posted this to TMR but didn't realize how incredibly slow that sub is. Throwaway because reasons. I'm a guy who occasionally likes to wear girly clothes, socks and underwear mostly. I have several really cute pairs of both. I live with a female roommate. She's pretty cool and we're relatively close, talk to each other about future plans, feelings, et cetera. Our rooms are right next to each other and both doors right n",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31f] reconnected with long lost love [33m]. Buuutttt he's married POST: I fell in love with him when I was 15. Even though I was young, I knew what that feeling was. I had asked him out a few times back then and he always turned me down. He always said it was the age difference but that never stopped us from being friends. I was relentless. Not annoying or overbearing but I did not give up. There were a few times where we could've hooked up but he, to me, was better than just a h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [27F] recently hung out with my coworker [33M] outside of work and had an awesome time, but am not sure if there is mutual interest or not POST: I was recently chatting with my coworker and invited him to come to a meetup I was headed to. We ended up having a great time, going out to dinner afterwards (total of about 4 hours, where we exchanged cell phone numbers), and he left at the end of the night saying ""We definitely need to do this again soon!"" The next day, we ran into each ",negative " r/books TITLE: The stigma of listening to audiobooks as somehow lazy or 'cheating' needs to stop. POST: As I'm sure for most regular readers and those who aren't, the act of reading a book is a large part of the enjoyment. Relaxing in bed, on the couch with your feet up, as it rains outside and you're warm inside, you feeling cool in an air conditioned living room on a blazing summer day and just being engrossed in a book. The smell of the book and the sound of the pages being turned can almost be ritualis",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My ex (24m) and I (19f) like each other. But he's got a girlfriend. Not sure what to do with myself POST: We broke up like 4 years ago. A few months after he started dating now-girlfriend. They are in an unhealthy relationship (she's mean, lives in a different state due to mental health, he hopes she'll change). Last night we were hanging out (started hanging out again this week) and ended up saying how we mutually like each other and ""want to jump each other"", sexually. But I don't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me(F/23) having feelings for SO(23/M)s best friend. Do I tell him? POST: I am in a relationship with the greatest person I've ever met. We've been in a relationship for three years, and a couple a months ago we got engaged. I am completely in love with him and very happy. My SO has a best friend whom I like a lot, he's a very good guy, but lately it appeared to me that I actually find him attractive. The thing is I've thought other people were attractive before and me and my SO talk ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (22/F) think my relationship with my boyfriend (27/M) might work better if we were just friends POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 11 1/2 months, we met through mutual friends and connected right away on more superficial interests, and for a while things seemed fine. But as the relationship continues, we keep finding more things that we differ about (the main one being that I think that when you're in a long-term relationship, you should start making your SO a prio",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What does a kiss on the cheek mean? [17M and 17F] POST: I [17M] am in highschool with this girl [17F] that I like quite a lot. I have spoken to her occansionally during the last year. At the last school party we spoke quite a lot with each other. At the end of the party when we were leaving the building, some of my friends persuaded her to kiss someone. First, they wanted her to kiss a guy which often touched her hair during the party, took her glove to tease her, talking a lot to ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [20m] girlfriend [20f] of about a year spent the couple years before me as a wild party chick and that stresses me out POST: It's a bit hard to explain my feelings. Basically my girlfriend spent the end of high school and beggining of college sowing her wild oats. She was drunk most of the time, did a lot of drugs, and slept with kind of a lot of guys. She was largely influenced by her siblings (who are still like that today) She's not like that now. Now she's everything I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 19 [F] talking to 25 [M] for four months, but he won't commit. It's tearing me up. What do I do? POST: He is 25 and I am 19. We met at work and I fell for him the first time we talked..no joke.. After that we started hanging out outside work and kissed and all the jazzed. Me, being as blunt as I am told him I wanted to be in a relationship with him. He told me about his past and how being a ""nice guy"" won't happen anytime soon because of how badly he was screwed over. I tried to ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting my guest keep her cart in my room over night POST: So a close friend of the family is leaving to another state for the unforseeable future, so I offered her my place, shes staying at mine and her cat in my room. The little kitty had been running around pouncing, sniffing and quizzically looking at all my crap for hours. Fast forward to 2am. I wake up because the movie I had on had a louder than usual scene with awful Hayden Christensen acting so I flung up, looked around an",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Just starting college. Already freaking out about my future. POST: Music has always been my passion. I had been first chair in my class from middle school all the way up to my senior year. All of my friends were in band. It had been my passion, and I naturally assumed that some day I would be teaching music somewhere. Well, this past summer I began to really think about where I wanted to go, what I wanted to do with my life. It hit me that maybe teaching wasn't where I wanted to be. ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by breaking a Bus door and making about 50 people wait for half an hour POST: So, this happened today after school. Me and my buddy took the bus to get home. After a 10 minute drive, I had to exit, which turned out to be quite a challenge, since it the bus was very crowded. When the bus stopped, I politely asked people to move aside, so I can exit. Some girl didn't hear me at first, so I lost a little time. Anyways, the doors were about to close, so I had to fight myself through at the",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/m] my girlfriend (21/f) is acting weird the past week and I need advice. POST: So we been seeing each other for 2 months now ( I know its not very long) but we have an understanding that hasn't been there in my previous relationships. For the past 4 years all I have cared about is just having sex with someone and that is it. But this girl has made me feel ""giddy"" again. I want to do all the romantic things that i used to do. But I dont want to annoy her and become clingy ei",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My ""best friend"" doesn't give me the time of day, but occasionally does. This time I vented to her about a big problem of mine going on, and she proceeded to not text me back or answer my calls! I'm fed up with this. What should I do? POST: My best friend is very confusing. She claims to think of me as that and always comes to me for her problems, but she only sometimes helps me with mine. Recently one came up and she asked me to explain so I take some time to write it all out and it cam",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How to make a teacher go away? (we dont want to mess her up, just get rid of her) POST: Hello there. I've come to you as my last hope. Here's the story. I'm a 17 year old guy from Latvia. I go to school like any average person. I'm honestly sick of school and particulary this teacher. Our entire class hates her. She is the biggest pain in the ass. I'm one of those people who simply does not like math. I'm a pretty bright mind, but I'm not really interested in most of the stuff they t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] with my girlfriend [F] of 3 years, I'm simply bored. Am I scumbag for this? POST: I want to start off by saying that, yes I know you don't owe a relationship to anyone. I still feel really bad about the situation but I'm not sure what else to do... So I started dating my girlfriend Rachel in my first year of college. Everything was and has been great! We barely ever fight which is great because that means less stress for everyone. To be honest with you Reddit, I want new w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, how does one switch from being a night owl to being a day person? POST: I've been noticing some changes in my behavior over the last 2 months. I've picked up some bad habits I'm having trouble breaking. Was wondering if anyone had any advice. Facts: Most awake: 3-5am Most productive: 2-4am Most asleep: 3-5pm Lack of productivity: 2-4pm Hours of sleep per night: 3 maybe 4 on a good night (not interrupted but restless) Diet: Cereal with milk, sometimes eggs for brea",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: should i call her, or text her to ask her out on 2nd date? POST: Hi everyone, I'm a freshman at university(21M) and I met this girl(20F) back in july who's living in the same residence hall as me. Started off as friends ( i suppose) but after interacting a bit with her though common activities in the residence hall i eventually tried to text her a bit of flirty stuff and got her out for a dinner and a walk around the local shopping area through text. I'm not sure if she saw it as a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I've decided to study online and still continue my 9-5. Has anyone done this before, and if so is there anything I need to know? POST: I have been wanting to become a teacher aide or child care assistant for the last 10 years. I've never been very good at studying in a class room so I never went to university. I have regretted it ever since and have been bouncing between jobs and I hate them all. I decided that I would look into online learning that way I can still earn money but",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My girlfriend of 5 years is leaving me for my roommate of one year. POST: My girlfriend [21] of 5 years is leaving me [21] for my roommate of a year. The situation is a bit complicated so I apologize in advance for the amount of text. I think I will start by describing my living situation. I live with my sister [23], her college boyfriend [23] of 2 years and a girlfriend of ours[24]. My (ex?)girlfriend does not live with us but is over almost constantly. She doesn't have a lot of friend",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is my Dad lying to me? POST: I'm 18 and I will soon be taking an online animation school. But until then, I don't have much to do with my life, so I've spent my time staying up late at night and drawing. I prefer working at night because of the lack of distractions. Anyway, my Dad has been rather irritated with my sleep schedule. He's been telling me that in his experience, staying up at night and sleeping during the day was bad for his health and he blames his obesity on it. When I ask",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's the worst thing you've ever uttered and immediately regretted? POST: To give a little background, my wife is 19 weeks pregnant and we had a miscarriage scare early on. So, earlier this evening while on her way home, my wife calls me and informs me that I need to leave our front door unlocked as she needs to use the facilities in an urgent fashion. So being the awesome husband I am, I unlock the front door and go back to spending quality time on reddit. A few minutes ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How should I (37f) properly deal with leaving BF (37m) and moving on to someone we both know? POST: He and I have been together for just over a year and I'm simply not happy. I've told him multiple times over the past 6 months. He flirts with other women, I feel used by him, I feel sexually frustrated and like he puts no energy into me. I've always been friends with another man (Liam) who has developed feelings for me. Honestly, he puts more energy into me as a friend than my own",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [25M] of several months was briefly seeing a friend of mine before she died. I [23F] am struggling POST: It sounds weird, I know, but it's been oddly great. We were friends, spending time together and talking about our memories of our mutual friend, hanging out more and more, until we finally leap right into our feelings for each other one night, and have been together since. I'm struggling very hard to reconcile this. If she were still alive, he'd be with her, and it'",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How did you get over that girl in your life? POST: So I'm guessing this is probably a question that has been asked before ofcourse, but the situation is a little different here. So about 5 years ago me and my best friend fell for the same girl. He got her, they've been together for 4 years and its been a tough long road. This isn't the situation where you can just tell me to stop hanging out with them or anything, we have the same friend-core so thats pretty much impossible. I've tried a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I need some help with disability insurance and some upcoming surgeries. POST: A couple years ago, I injured my knee making a stupid home video. Doctor said I was okay, and that there was no ""structural"" damage revealed on an x-ray. I've been working for the last year now as a groundskeeper/custodian, and over time my knee pain has come back and increased. An MRI showed I had torn my lateral meniscus and have a meniscal cyst, over my right knee. I made the decision that I need the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my Girlfriend [20 F] of 2 years, are drifting apart, and we both know it. POST: I moved a couple months ago (about 900 miles away) for a new job. My girlfriend and our daughter came to visit, everything was fine. Now that shes back I found out she re-added some guy she used to know. They snapchat together and who knows what else. My girlfriend ignored me now, I ask to see my daughter, she can't even send a picture. I haven't talked to her all day, and am planning on k",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Now EX [23F] of 10 months broke up with me at 2AM last night POST: this was a long distance relationship( through state lines, met online), she originally showed disintrest in a long distant relationship for a long time, but we managed to work that out. we have seen eachother three times since then, twice only on the weekends and the final one was an entire week in florida. during most of this time however she was unemployed, as she just recently moved back from co",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Excuse me Reddit, you wouldn't happen to know any creative ways to acquire Apple products at a fair price would you? POST: Ok here's the deal Reddit, I will try to keep it short. I am a games developer (currently unemployed) that has been given an opportunity to work on an iOS game that could really help kick start my career. As an unemployed games developer, I don't have the luxury of thousands of pounds to plow into the overpriced hardware that would be required for me to develop on ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] finally over breakup with my [19F] ex, very cute girl in my uni course, dont know how to go about asking her out POST: I have spent the last four months getting over my first serious relationship of over two years. It's been a process but have come out the other end much happier after finding out she had been unfaithful for the last 6 months. I just came back from uni break and when I left I promised myself that this semester I would ask out this really cute girl who also s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is this relationship between me [30F] and him [21M] going to work? POST: So I don't want to go into a long winded explanation but the guy (21M) I'm (30F) currently dating, I have known for about a year. We started out as friends. Only in the past few weeks did we transition into something romantic. He's cute, smart, and most importantly funny. He has never been in a relationship before so he's pretty much going into this blindly. I don't mind holding his hand during the way because I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I think my [23F] best friend [24F] is developing a drinking problem. POST: Hello reddit. Lately my best friend is in a rut. She is a server at a restaurant and *loves* her job, she's been with her boyfriend for 4+ years and they have an adorable little house they live in together. She's always been the kind of friend that NEEDS to have people around her, or else she gets bored and lonely. She's very dependent IMO, and her bf knows it. She'll constantly ask me to come over on weekday",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (17F) with my mom (35F). I never knee my father but I would like to. How do approach this nicely even though my mom doesn't talk about it? POST: So, I'm on mobile, and I'm sorry for any errors and the wall of text. Like the title says, I never knew my dad. I know that he left my mom when he found out she was pregnant, but that's it. I don't even know his name or how old he was. I started therapy about two months ago and brought up with my therapist that I have tried to ask her",positive " r/jobs TITLE: New employer is a ""drug free workplace,"" but I am currently on prescribed amphetamines. What do I tell the drug test people? POST: I was recently offered a job at a major corporation that a ""no drug in the workplace"" type of establishment. I have a valid prescription for adderall from my doctor, and I will be taking it when I have to go in for my drug test (it will be in an undetermined time in the future). Is it possible to explain to the drug test people that I have a valid prescription bu",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Take my Myki, miss your train. POST: **Backstory**: So this morning my sister needed to catch the train into the city, and she normally asks to use my Myki, which in Melbourne is what we use as a ticket which we load money onto, an touch our card on a sensor which deducts money based on the trip. Anyway she normally asks me if she can borrow it and ahs me back the money afterwards, but recently she had been using it without my permission, and hadn't been paying me back. **The Reveng",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my girlfriend [16 F] of 4 months, Long Distance; I'm starting to see a growing gap between us. POST: Before I begin to write, I'm a love fool. I fall for people so easily and I have no idea why. I've been trying to stop myself recently but I couldn't help but date this girl. She was incredibly sweet and someone who I spent almost every day with. However, recently, we've began to grow further apart and I really don't see a future with her. Being the stupid immature per",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (19/F) tell my boyfriend (21/M) of 4 months that I tested Positive for low risk HPV ? POST: There is no way to sugar coat this but I got a phone call today from my doctor telling me I tested positive for HPV. I am a little in shock and realize that it's very common ( about 1 in 4 people are exposed to it in their lifetime) , and I realize that most people's immune system fight off the virus and it usually goes away. Here's the problem. I got tested for stds before I was eve",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your ""Grade school loser/Real Life success"" story? POST: My Story: I spent K-8 grade in remedial Math and English classes which never really helped me. I was very awkward, annoying, and confused about how to really do anything within my life. This carried over into High School were I struggled to make friendships that would extend outside of the walls of the school. I was a D-C student at the bottom of my class and almost had to repeat my Senior year. After Senior Summer School, ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Should I try a 3rd slap Repair surgery if my second one fails. POST: Hi, I am a 19 year old male who loved working out. In Dec. 2013 I had my first SLAP repair surgery. After about 8 months of PT(physical therapy) recovery i still had pain. After MRI testing it was clear i had a reoccurring tear. This past January(2015) I went through my second SLAP repair. I am coming up on the 14th week after surgery. I still have pain and it is very similar to that of which i experienced last time around",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Tips for Cutting Back and Changing Bad Habbits POST: I'm a 25/F I work full time as a programmer. I make $72k/year. My take home is just under $4200/month. My hard monthly expenses (rent, car etc) is ~$1500. I have $9k CC debt i consolidated into a new card that charges 0% with the goal of paying as much off as possible before the rate goes up (9 months left). So far I'm paying $500/m towards my debt. Up until May this year, I made anywhere from $15k-$32k I've always had to live p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my boyfriend [23/m] of two years and I saw an app that may lead to hook ups or was it a glitch? He refuses to say more than what he did. POST: Me [23F] with my boyfriend [23/m] of two years and I saw an app that may lead to hook ups or was it a glitch? He refuses to say more than what he did. My boyfriend left his facebook account open. He recently informed me that he changed his password because he thought someone may have been trying to hack. No big deal. We live ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/F] facing major life decisions... POST: Hi, Reddit. I know this may not be the most proper subreddit, but it's the only one I'd consider appropriate. My mother and brother (32/M) live in the same home together. Since my dad died when I was 16, they have lived together and are psychologically tearing each other apart. My parents had a company together and since he passed, my mom has been unemployed and living off the insurance which is running out. She has since faced some",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (29m) the gross one here or is she(23f)? POST: My girlfriend and I live together, and have been together for 4 years, planning to get married. Things are pretty awesome, we're very intimate, physically and emotionally. There's just one little thing that drives me more nuts every time it happens. My girlfriend has a very hairy tummy, which I don't mind at all, though she does, and she's planning on getting electrolysis eventually. However, her stomach hair causes a LOT, and I me",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (26F) feel like no one is ever ""good enough"" and it makes me feel like a terrible person. POST: The title says it all. I'm 26 years old. I have my own place, a steady job, etc. I have a huge problem that is making it difficult for me to for any kind of relationship, romantic or otherwise. I'm extremely judgemental. I've always been like this. I always think someone is too irritating, talks to much, smells weird, is too unnattractive to even ""bother"" with. I HATE that I am like this",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25F] boyfriend [26 M] is setting up a business which I'm pretty sure is going to fail. Do I help him or get out now? POST: We met in college, been together nearly 3.5 years. We don't live together as I'm pretty introverted, neat and like my own space. We do spend about 4 nights a week together though. Anyway ""Jack"" is setting up a bar. He has a rental property sorted, a decent loan and is hoping to be up and running by Christmas. He originally wanted me to be his business partne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17F] with my BF [17M] 6 months, he kissed friend [17M] at party POST: As the title says, last night my boyfriend kissed one of his male friends at a party we were both at. I don't care if he's bisexual, but if he's dating me he shouldn't be kissing anybody else regardless of gender, but he doesn't see it that way. He described it as ""lad bantz"". I also have a problem with his best friend- 17F- her and I have never got on, and he told me that whenever he's friends with her he can",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [19] brake up with my bf [20]? POST: i'll start from the beginning.. I met ""mike"" [20] in 2008. Ever since I met him, I've had this on and off thing for him. But we have always been just friends, best friends. But, It seems as though we stop speaking to each other for unknown reasons every now and then, but we always seem to come back to each other. We kinda hooked in 2009 and my love for him grew stronger. Then, we stopped speaking to each other for about a year and I thoug",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are all people who claim to see spirits full of shit? Can any of you ""see dead people""? POST: A little background... My SO, his mother, and I recently went to visit one of my SO's brothers. He and his girlfriend (L) live in a house on the ocean where we stayed for a few days. They told us beforehand that they were pretty sure their home was haunted. It is situated between two Chimacum indian burial grounds, and they frequently hear loud crashes upstairs but never find anything that coul",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20f] boyfriend [21m] put lots of money and no effort into his 1st anniversary present for me. Should I ask him to return them? POST: So, yesterday was my boyfriend and I's 1 year anniversary. We decided to stick with tradition (even though it's meant for weddings) and have a paper theme, with a small budget. He spent HOURS making me a card using a special italian embossing craft, and did a treasure hunt around my room before giving me my final present - a beautiful ring with 3 l",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [18M] Asking girl in class to campus event POST: I met a girl first day of classes and we seemed to hit it off pretty well. I wound up walking her back to her building after class and talked the entire way, and we seem to have at least a couple similar interests. I also had a smaller conversation later that day when I ran into her, but it was a little awkward since I didn't know anything about the subject and her friend was there. I want to invite her to a campus event so I can ha",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My wife (28/f) cheated on me [26/m] when first started dating POST: So the story goes like this. My wife and I have been dating 3 years and married a year. The other day her phone was left at home in our room and a mutual friend texted her about our dinner plans. I read the message and noticed she had gotten a text from a guy friend who she (as far as I know) no longer associates with. I scrolled through the messages and saw that he had texted her the previous week about an ero",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I did a pipl search for my name tonight POST: and my name shows up at my ex-wife's address. Throw away account. I have never lived at that address, but my name shows up at the address that she lives at after we got divorced. The information comes from whitepages.com. As far as I know, she still lives there. The reason I don't know for sure if she lives there or not is because we haven't spoken in months and preferably, I'd like to keep it that way. However, I'm concerned that she pu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] am currently living with my autistic brother [36M] and desire to move in with my soon to be wife [20F], but am now nervous about what my brother will pull off if I'm gone. POST: I've known my gf for 14 years now and the resemblance is uncanny. We've always gotten along through the years and have now realized how much of a great couple we would make and I don't want to loose her. We've been dating for 6 months now, but since we've known each other for so long we are ready to ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [17M] want to talk to this girl[16F] I barely know but idk how. Advice? POST: Okay, background. I am very bad at talking to girls. But she's in one of my classes in school, but only for a few more weeks because second quarter is about to end, so the classes change then. We've said maybe two words to each other and that was in September when I asked her for her name so I can put it on a PowerPoint project she was a part of with me. Anyway, besides that, we have not spoken. I want to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] have feelings for my friend's ex [17F] POST: In about October 2014, a friend of mine started dating this girl and she started hanging around us a lot. I was in a relationship at the time. They dated for a year and a few months, they broke up like 3 weeks ago. For the past 8 or so months, I've had very strong feelings for her. I was always physically attracted to her, she's probably one of the most attractive girls I've ever seen. At first it was nothing more than that I tho",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] girlfriend [17F] of 1.5 years LOVES giving blowjobs. Weird? POST: My girlfriend and I are both in highschool and obeying law of consent in our state. We have been together for over a year now and have an amazing sex life. However, my girlfriend just really loves giving blowjobs. When its that time of the month, my girlfriend declares it blowjob week. She has never been with anyone else and when we first got together I kind of had to guide her through the process and tell he",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] asked my SO [27M] whom he thinks is more attractive -- me or my sister [18F]. POST: Okay, I know this will make me sound cray. And I probably am. So let me at the truth if that's so. I asked my boyfriend who is better looking -- my sister or me. He said we are both the same looking in terms of attractiveness. Then, I asked him why he wouldn't answer one of us when in the past he answered one of my brothers when I asked him which of my brothers are better looking. (I didn't a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: After a breakup, are you obligated to help each other in any way? POST: I [F/30] dated a guy [M/31] a year ago. It was the second time we'd tried dating, both times he broke it off due to his crippling commitment-related anxiety. During our second try at being a couple he entered therapy to try to cope with his problem, and over the course of about six months I was his shoulder to cry on, the soundboard for his problems, and in a way his second therapist. We would discuss him, ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I [22f] not get overly attached to rebound buddy [23m]? Semi NSFW POST: A couple weeks ago, I got broken up with (it was a short relationship, so I wasn't too upset over it). The same day, a guy I have sort of known for a few years also got dumped by his girlfriend of a year and some months. We never really hung out too much before, but since over a week ago, we have been texting/talking and sleeping together (sleeping, not sex) every day. I have also been meeting all of",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Discovered that my gf [23f] and her ex have been talking/flirting? the week before we began our relationship. POST: Bah. I [25m] regret it. We've been together 8 months. We were sleeping, and her phone got a text at 4am. Her phone keeps ringing until she checks the message, and she was out cold, so I picked it up to shut it off, when I found a message from her ex. I don't know much about the guy, and she's told me that they haven't talked in a while, so I was curious to see why",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 F] asked the guy I'm dating [25 M] about being exclusive and his response was ""Yes, BUT..."" What does he mean? POST: I've been dating a guy since July and decided I wanted to ask about being exclusive. I told him that I really like him and am not interested in seeing anyone else and asked what he thought about being exclusive. His response? ""I'm not interested in dating anyone else either, yes we're exclusive. But I'm not looking for a long-term relationship."" He then gave me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19M) overheard my mother (F61) talking and crying to her dead boyfriend. POST: So in the last year or so, my mother got back into the dating world after being separated for a long time from my father. She found this amazing, kind man named Frank. Although they were very different, they really fell in love in a short time. For all of their relationship I was actually away at college and only got to hear about frank. They were deeply in love and had so many plans. Then out of the ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Getting a personal loan to pay off 25k in credit card debt--financial situation is about to make a dramatic turnaround. POST: Starting the second week of August I will no longer be paying $350/week in childcare payments for my twins as they are starting public school. I've been looking forward to this for 5 years! I've pretty much used my entire income to pay for their care since they were 8 weeks old and I had to return to work. In order to make ends meet instead of paying off m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: A delicate question I [35] have about an issue with my wife [35], not sure where to post or even if I should. POST: I'm not really sure how to start, but basically, my wife is a nurse and she's always coming home with pills. We've been together almost 10 years, and she's always had pills with her. Since she is a nurse, I never questioned what she took or why, and she always keeps them in a prescription pill bottle like you'd get at a pharmacy. Here's the thing, last weekend, I was lo",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] Separation Anxiety and Peeing POST: I have a 5 y/o lab mix rescue. He was basically house trained when I got him with my ex. I occasionally had issues with him marking my bed after we moved from a house to an apartment but it wasn't often. Ex and I started fighting, marking increased. Ex and I broke up and I moved. At first, he didn't mark at all but now it is a daily occurance. He marks my bed and my closet every day while I'm at work. I've gotten a walker, he still does it. I tried p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[24/f] have been seeing two guys [both 30 M], I like this one guy but we never talked about exclusivity, should I end things with other guy? POST: So I[24/f] have been dating two guys [both 30 M], let's call a guy that I like Sam, and the other guy Tim. I met both guys at similar time, only 3 weeks ago. I slept with both of them, but since I slept with Sam I haven't seen or slept with Tim, and I want to focus on Sam (although we never talked about exclusivity). Sam and I chat and ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sleeping at a friend's with my boyfriend POST: This was about a week ago. My boyfriend was leaving for the military so we were spending as much time as possible together at a friend's place. This had become a daily thing for the past 2 weeks, so I had become pretty comfortable with going and sleeping on the couch while they continued drinking or playing video games. Also, side note, my boyfriend and his friend still devoutly believe ""girls don't fart"". I've always lived up to this, be",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Copyright Enforcement Group - a force to be reckoned with? POST: Hey so today my roommate got a letter from our ISP (Charter) saying we illegally downloaded a file. I went to the case file on Charter's site and went to the website stated in the message they were to forward to us. The website is for a group called Copyright Enforcement Group. Basically is says settle out of court. Go here and pay with your credit card. If you don't then we will refer you to our lawyers blah blah blah. I ",negative " r/travel TITLE: Looking to book a frugal 2 week trip out of country this summer for some adventure, first time solo. Would love some advice on a destination! POST: Hi there! I'm a 21 year old Seattle based lady looking to see something different this summer, I've requested 2 weeks off from work from July 15-26. My ticket budget is ~$1200 max, & I'm hoping to keep in country expenses under $400. I've travelled before, always with my family, to Mexico three times & Costa Rica once. We stayed in hotels but ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [19 F] keeps questioning our relationship (Me [20 M]) POST: Hey all, so a glimpse into our relationship. I have been dating my girlfriend for a little over a month now. She makes me incredibly happy, cares for me a lot, and I care for her a lot, and she says that I make her happy as well. On a regular day, things are great between us, and the relationship is perfect. My girlfriend is a very insecure person sometimes. And normally, she is just insecure about her looks,",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit help! Is there anyway you can help me get my stolen phone back that was sent to space? POST: I sent my android phone to space on a weather balloon. see how in a video I did here During the flight to 116,000 ft the worst case scenario happened and I believe it overheated (due to a heater pack enclosed with it). It shut down power and could not finish its programming of sending its location so we could not recover it. I did have it set so if it was turned on it would report ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [20F] worried that I'm seeing red flags of my boyfriend [20M] emotional cheating and don't know what to do. POST: We have been dating for 3 years and a few months ago I was sitting next to him and saw him get a text from a girl who's name I didn't recognize he quickly closed the text and we went on with our day but it was very odd the way he reacted and made me nervous so I approached him about it later that night and he said she was just a friend, but it came out that he had bee",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [22/f] My boyfriend [27/m] wants a threesome, I don't POST: So early on in our relationship, my bf brought up that it was a huge fantasy of his to have a threesome. At the time, I was intrigued and into the idea of a threesome, and said one might be possible. However, as our relationship grew more serious, I found myself becoming more and more uncomfortable with the idea of a threesome. I told him this, that the idea now made me very uncomfortable, and that I didn't want another pe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Two of my close friends (21 M, 21 F) are dating and I (21 F) can't get either of them to hang out without the other. POST: I have two close friends whom I have known since freshman year of college. Let's call them W (21 M) and C (21 F). They started dating near the end of freshman year and since then they have become increasingly joined at the hip. I used to be able to hang out with them by themselves but now it seems like I never get to hang out with just one of them. C is easy eno",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Has anyone experienced sleep paralysis to this degree before? POST: To elaborate, I went to bed at 6 this morning. This isn't the first time I've experienced sleep paralysis, the first time being about four years ago when I napped on a lazyboy rocking chair. Though I notice there's a higher chance of me experiencing it when I nap often, that hasn't been the case for several months until now. I accidentally fell asleep from 6pm-10pm yesterday and decided to stay up and write a paper, whic",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] text a girl [16 F] I like and have been talking for a month, she says she doesn't love or care about herself and gets sad. How do I lift her spirits? POST: I started texting a girl about a month ago. We both like each other and are mirror images of each others personalities. Recently, I've found out that she was bullied mercilessly last year and being falsely accused of being a slut. She came out to me with this and I immediately tried to make her feel better. I told her th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Redditors who grew up with divorced parent: How can I help ensure my kids will grow to understand and not resent my divorce? POST: Recently my wife and I separated. The separation is fairly amicable and she and I have vowed to remain partners in raising our kids to avoid making them feel divided or abandoned. We take turns watching them when the other is busy and have an open door approach to visits. We still take them out as a ""family"" to movies and such just under the pretense that mom",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update 3]Me [27F] with my ex? Bf [33 M] 4 years, [24 F] he spent the night with is pregnant, he says she's lying... POST: Well I had a problem a few weeks ago, posted, ended up staying with my boyfriend. So the girl who used to be my friend and current co - worker is saying she is pregnant with my now ex boyfriends kid. We remain polite with each other at work but when she told me I honestly wasn't that upset. I knew I probably should have broken up with him when I found out they",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My best friend told me [M/17] that my girlfriend [F/16] told him that she thinks I'm boring. POST: I've been dating her for a little less than a month now and I thought everything was going just fine. Over the past day or 2, I noticed she was acting strange and not as talkative with me. It upsets me when I notice this because I overthink everything and immediately think the worst. I get really disappointed in mornings when I see that she never replied to anything really nice I sent",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Advice for a friend POST: Here's what happened: My 20 y.o friend works part-time at Kohl's and makes around 40-60 bucks every friday for a paycheck. On December 20th her 17 y.o brother used her debit card to purchase Xbox Live for his account, and then took a plane to visit their sister in Texas, and he's currently unreachable. She got a refund for the Xbox charge, but is getting overdraft fee's every few days because it put her in the negative. She told her mom what happened but her mom do",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [18f] of 1 year ended it with me [18m] suddenly, after apparently no longer feeling 100% committed to the relationship due to some new feelings for someone else. I believe crushes can happen in committed relationships and she has just overreacted, am I mistaken? POST: My gf and I has been in a positive, healthy, loving and fun relationship for just over a year when out of the blue she thinks we should just be friends. In short - I am devistated. The only prelude to this was her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [28F] in love with my friend [28M] of 13 years, he's in a LTR. Should I wait? POST: I've been in love with my friend since high school. Our timing has always been off. He was in a relationship, I was in one, and now he's in a different one. The one he is in now started shortly after my most recent one. All long term. I can tell he has some serious feelings for me. There is love in his eyes. He has been dropping me some not so subtle hints. He sends me shows to watch and music to list",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend 23 [F] of three weeks, when is it...too fast? POST: So, after a long time of trial and error with dating, I met this girl over OKCupid that pretty much stays on my mind daily these days. We have been officially dating for about three weeks, and it's been going amazingly well--like, too well, maybe? We're both the sole reason with don't have those OKC accounts anymore. In these three weeks, I've taken her on several dates, laughed until our sides hurt ov",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] just found out that my bf [22M] of 2·5 years has been sending inappropriate messages to a number of different girls! I found out because I looked through his phone, which I now feel very guilty about... I need advice as to what to do next! POST: We have been in a relationship for 2 and a half years but for the past year or so our relationships has been a long distance one, he now lives over 400 miles away. Although the long distance thing was hard at first I felt like we were",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 M] want to ask this girl [25 F] out that I work with when she leaves at the end of the month. POST: I joined the company at the start of the year and we've sat next to each other every week day since. We're part of the design team so we sit & work together. We have the same lunch break so we spend all day together pretty much. The thing is, I don't know if it's just having a strong team relationship or if we genuinely like each other. She always tells me about her and what sh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [27M] cheated on my girlfriend [25F] of 4 years while she was away, not sure if I should tell her. POST: I started dating my girlfriend four years ago, but we've known each other for about six. We've always had a great relationship, but recently it's been... different, and I just feel like we don't have the same connection we used to have. I still love her, but I'm not IN love with her anymore. I was going to break up with her because I feel like we both deserve better, but she ha",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Workplace Harassment: More Annoying than Hurtful but I want it to Stop. POST: As a little background, I'm in my mid-20s, I live in NYC and I work for a large bank. I'm an Indian-American. I have this co-worker who is in her late-30s from Bulgaria, let's call her Lisa. She's on my team and until recently, was slightly senior to me. I was recently promoted and am now on the same level as her. The problem existed before my promotion and has gotten worse since then. If I'm being up front, I do",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I have $7,500 in savings and want to leave my state/country. (xpost from /r/advice) POST: I don't want to make a big long post about this so I'll keep it as short as possible. I'm 22. I have $7,500 in savings. I work a part-time minimum wage job, which is of no importance to me. I have an AA degree and am two semesters away from graduating with a bachelors in business. I live at home but it's very rough living here. My mom is abusive and my dad blames me for it. I don't have a car,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19F) lied to my friend (18F) about having a job. I don't know what to do. POST: So my friends and I have barely kept in touch since graduation. They all go to different schools and I took a semester off. My one friend and I, however, did keep in touch. We text everyday. Since graduation I've been trying to get a job but haven't had any luck due to my lack of experience. My one friend and I applied for the same job and she got it. I felt so lame since I'm currently not in schoo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21 M] roommate [22 M], wants us to pay for his stolen wii. Is he right? POST: I live in a house with 10 guys (including me), and this past Friday one of the guys I live with threw his friend a birthday party. He emailed us beforehand and asked permission before throwing it, so we all knew it was happening. I was hanging out with some friends elsewhere, but he made it clear we could come to the party if we wanted. At some point during the night, someone stole another roommate's w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] want to ask out a friend [16 F]but are kind of in a difficult situation POST: I [16 M] don't have any idea on what to do. I want to stay friends with my friend [16 F] but I also like her and want to try to do something but I'm fairly confused on how to approach the situation. Something I should also mention is that she's said (in a random conversation we've had) that she isn't exactly looking for a relationship at the moment which I'm not 100% sure if she is not interested ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My 1 year anniversary is coming up, Reddit can you help me find a gift? POST: So I have been dating this girl for a year now and we have had our share of issues( her parents are Muslim and don't agree on us dating) but we our extremely close and we have become best friends. She is 21 and i am 23(m), she has been sheltered and spoiled her whole life but i have given her a new outlook on success and life. I am also her first and she has an incredible amount of trust in me which",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Abandoned Things In My Apartment POST: I recently moved into an apartment in Madison, Wisconsin. I was supposed to be roomates with a Russian man (who here so after shall be referred to as ""the Russian""), but he ended up moving out right as I moved in, using his security deposit to pay his half of the last 2 months on the lease. It's pretty impeccable timing, since I now have an entire apartment to myself for half the price. He's bounced out to Florida pretty quick and left a lot of hi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 M] with my ??? [29 F] 3 1/2 months, still getting to know each other POST: I am curious on a female perspective or a third party outside the box take on this scenario. I've been dating a woman for just about 4 months now and things are great. Staying at her place usually Saturdays after we spend the evening together, we go out in the morning and do breakfast and during the work week we try to connect one of the days for dinner and some ""alone time"". I've been pretty laid back ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (33m) tired of being bad guy to my (31f) family POST: Last year around November my current girlfriend broke up with me for another man. I moved across the country for a new job. We talked and recognized we both made mistaken and owned up to them to each other. We got back together about 4 months ago and have been making vast improvements in where we went wrong the first time. We communicate on a whole new level, are more considerate of each other's feelings and the love has come",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Worried (F,28) about Fiancés (M,27) bachelor party POST: My fiancé attended a bachelor party in NOLA last February where strip clubs were attended as well as the hiring of two private party strippers. Not really noticing a change in his behavior I decided to ask if he felt any different after watching this sexually intense show and he admitted that he felt a bit underwhelmed while having sex with me but that this feeling was quick and fleeting. He then went on to propose to me ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Canadians and Europeans of Reddit: What is the Work Ethic in Your Country Like? POST: I'm a software developer from the US. I know absolutely nothing about Europe, other than it exists, some of my ancestors are from there and my grandfather lost an eye fighting Nazis there. My wife wants to move out of the US. If you haven't noticed, we're sort of riding the right-wing crazy train off a cliff. Neither of us particularly wants to live under Christian Sharia, so we're looking to jump ship",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How do I know if it's a date or just a hangout? (18m, 17f) POST: I took a girl that I like to the movies a few weeks ago. I paid for her ticket (she thanked me and seemed pleasantly surprised). She was really nervous and awkward for most of the night, but we still had a lot of fun and were together for like four hours. I blew it and didn't put my arm around her in the theater, because she seemed pretty tense and I was, y'know, unsure if it was a date. But, I did put my arm around her",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by helping my wife get home décor at Target POST: My wife and I are selling our house so we decided to jazz the place up with some new artsy stuff. So we go out to eat at Moe's (relevant) before we head to Target where we found a nice, heavy wrought iron wall thing for a good price - SOLD! We bolt out of there and head home excited to setup all the new stuffs. Well, upon getting home I realize that Moe's has caught up with me but it's late and I'm tired and the new, heavy décor piece i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with the guy I like [22 M], how do I ask him not to put his hand around my neck during cuddles/sex after a psychological trauma? POST: Hello /r/relationships! I met a guy a little over a month ago on a dating app and we've been talking a lot. We like each other and have a lot in common. We plan on meeting next month as we live in different cities. We have sort of drunken sexted yesterday (that's something I wanted to avoid before our meeting, but fuck it, it happened and c",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why is the process of applying for higher education so inefficient and discouraging? POST: I am currently in the process of applying to a total of 8 graduate schools, which is the recommended amount according to anyone you could think to ask. This means 8 separate application fees, which I understand. This costs about 30 USD a pop. 240 USD. I'm fine with that, really. However, I had to take the GRE prior to applying, which costs nearly 200 USD on its own. Then, to report my scores costs",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Someone just tried to steal my identity. I want to press charges. How do I find the thief? POST: Hey redditors! Someone tried to steal my identity this morning. I got to work around 8:30, and at some point after that I logged on to my bank's website to check my balance. I noticed a charge of $3.00 from a company called Coffee Cup Software based in Atlanta. I immediately called my bank, put a block on the card number, and I just now ran over to my bank to sign the paperwork denying ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Any advice/wisdom for someone whose mother is about to pass away? POST: Hello, reddit! Thanks in advance to any and all who share their thoughts/wisdom/advice/anything with me regarding this. I've sought comfort from family and friends, and perhaps my fellow redditors can help me out. I'm a 20 year old male whose mother will pass away soon. She was diagnosed with lung cancer 5 years ago, and after a valiant fight, she is ready to give up. My mother is my best friend; she raised me virt",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my BF [20 M], together for nearly 2 years. Upcoming issue (for me) POST: Hey there /r/relationships! Looking for some advice on a situation that's coming up in a few months! Anyhow, My boyfriend have been together for nearly two years, for the most part we have a great time together and he's amazing. We're planning to go to England for a 1.5 month holiday at the start of december (and possibly living together next year). However, being students, we'll both head home f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my BF [23 M] 1 year. Am I getting too emotional? POST: So Rick and I have been dating since last May, official couple since February of this year. He's my first relationship. It's been good; we like each other a lot. A con in our relationship is that we both live at home. There's really no where for us to be alone. Along with work and school, we maybe see each other once or twice a month (we do text each other daily though). At the beginning it didn't bother me much b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] Guy [22M] is interested in me [18F] and I'm not really sure if I want a relationship with him or not or what I should do... POST: Previous post: So, um wow. That turned out to be much different than I expected. So, the guy has been trying to hang out with me a lot, which is cool, except I don't reciprocate his feelings. He hasn't been very subtle, to the point that someone we just met could tell he liked me. I decided that I really didn't want to pursue a relationship, a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I(27/f) should feel something for him(28/m) after four dates right? POST: So I (f27) went on four dates with a guy (28) after talking online and a few days of texting. He was great, really sweet, generous, good looking, fun, and intelligent. But I wasn't feeling it. I didn't get butterflies, my heart didn't beat faster with him, there was no pull. I liked hanging out with him, but I didn't feel it. I ended it after our fourth date, because I knew he did feel more than me an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [22 F] of 4 years, she's not comfortable moving in together after graduation. POST: So my girlfriend and I have been dating since our senior year of high school. We both went to community college, and transferred to the same school to finish out our 4 year degrees. I've been offered a job at a software company about 2.5 hours from home, and will be making enough to support us regardless of her employment status. If everything goes as planned, she'll f",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by pulling weeds POST: So I started pulling weeds out front in my flower bed and everything was going smoothly, or so I thought. I pulled out a couple if specific weeds and an entire ant colony came pouring out. This would have been okay, if there werent a ton of crickets and spider webs around. So basically after a couple of minutes after pulling out the ant coloney, World War 3 began on my front lawn. There were ants destroying the crickets and a few spiders, the crickets were destroyi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [41F] with my [46M] 5 year relationship, should I cut off all contact? POST: We truly dated for the first two years; he was unfaithful but we both wanted to try to work it out afterwards. However, 3 years later, we talk and text everyday from first thing in the morning to usually last thing at night. What bugs me (and we've discussed this) is that he still calls me his ""friend,"" is unavailable for long periods of time when he's hanging out with his other (always women) friends a",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by forgetting a towel POST: So lately I've been trying to get fit since I am thinking about joining the Air Force sometime next year. I've been waking up at around 5:30/6am to go for a morning jog. After I finished jogging I decided to take a shower. Right before I hopped into the shower I looked at my phone and saw it was 6:30. I knew that my sister would be getting off work in about an hour or two (this is important). So halfway into my shower I felt the need to reward myself for the g",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Hi PF, today I opened a Roth IRA. Did I make the right choice? POST: I suppose I should give a bit of background as to why I am asking this question. My dad didn't start saving for retirement until his 30's, and due to his student loan debt doesn't know when he'll be able to retire (he went to school late and got his masters from a private school). This Saturday I will be finishing my undergraduate degree with just shy of $14,000 in debt and in the fall I will begin a 2-year gradua",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Things that your parents do/did that you wish they never did? POST: I am talking about more serious things here than ""my mom told my to clean my room but im like no mom ur gay, shes such a bitch uguuuuh!"" Well for me, my mom always talked about us not being able to afford stuff. For example, I was once talking about how my company (lifeguarding) wanted me to come in one day on a friday during finals week and I told them I couldn't. Out of nowhere she goes ""why not? You know we need the ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by Making Myself Homeless in Edinburgh. POST: OK, this literally happened right now, and I not only fucked myself, but my friend who's with me. So we're here in Edinburgh on a holiday. My best friend offered to let us crash at her apartment, which she shares with her boyfriend. It's our second night here, we told them we're taking them out to dinner, as a thank you for letting us stay. Anyway, after the dinner, they want to do a pub crawl. We aren't the super-into-getting-shitfaced typ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: AskReddit, is it possible to file a lawsuit against a company for negligence to fulfill their end of of an agreement? (Details inside) POST: So here's the deal. I've lived at my current residence for 10 years. I've had at minimum 30 packages delivered via UPS of which a grand total of 0 have ever shown up on my doorstep. 15 have shown up next door, 3 to the house behind me, 5 to the house on the other side of me, 3 to a house 4 houses down, 1 to the house across the street, 3 are stil",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M], could my lack of ambition hurt my relationship with my GF of 8 months [22 F]? POST: I've been with this girl for a while and it feels like the honeymoon period never ended. And the feeling is completely mutual. When we're together we're both pretty much on cloud nine. I couldn't hope for us to get along better. The issue stems from me feeling a bit inadequate for what is pretty much no good reason. My GF teaches a foreign language and makes great money, but she has dr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me and my bf [24f/25m]. He wants to move; I think it will ruin us. POST: We've been together for almost two years. It started out delightful and then got rocky. I know he used two dating sites since we've been together, I strongly believe he's also used two others. That experience of course made me doubt our future. He's also broken up with me twice and regretted it both times; apologized and made up. For one of those times, we lived together. He says he's done with it and that he lo",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Moved up income classes and would like advice on buying vs renting and buying a car POST: Here's a little background for context: I was fortunate to get a job that put me into the high middle class income bracket. My siblings and parents are able to support themselves financially because everyone is grown up but we grew up below the poverty line so I am always cautious about money and fearful that this situation might be too good to be true. My parents don't have any savings and ba",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my friend [24 F] Why is she becoming so distant? POST: I've known this girl for a couple of years, but since december we have gotten closer almost 100% through texting with each other. Both of us have busy schedules, so text and snapchat are our primary means of communication. I started to really like her, and after hanging out with her in a group setting (and both of us having an awful date on the same night), I got really drunk with some friends and asked her out o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] w/my boyfriend [30 M] of 4 years, debating on breaking up w/him and feel horrible about it POST: My boyfriend and I met online and were long distance for 1 year. I moved to his city and we've lived together 4 years total. At first I was blissfully happy and even now I don't regret my decision to move because I like it here in this city. The thing is, I'm not excited with him anymore. I was always the one who wanted sex and recently I just don't care. We go several months ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I[19M] get over my personality ""issues""? POST: If something was broken, you'd do your best to fix it, right? For as long as I can remember, I've always felt as though my personality has not gotten me to where I want to be, or the kind of person I want to be. While most people may be happy with themselves, I've always tried to change who I am, specifically modeling myself after others that I thought were successful and were where I wanted to be in life. It's gotten to the point",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with a crush on [22 F] Casual meetings at a bar, Confused on what to do. POST: So... there is this girl who I have been kind of crushing on for a while now and the only time we ever see one another is at the bar where everyone hangs out. Well last night after having some drinks and chatting for a bit near the end of the night I hug her because im leaving and she gives me a peck on the cheek and says im sweet. Well she is kind of friendly to everyone hugging and what not so",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Confused about my situation POST: I am a 21 M, and she's 21 as well. We dated for about 5 months, and last week she broke it off with me. I took it really hard, and cut contact for about 5 days. We're going to be back at school together in the fall, so after she caved and texted me first, I started talking to her some. Now we're back to texting just short of the amount we texted when we were dating, and her texts seem to on the side of flirting where we were before we dated, while ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(22F) long distance boyfriend(23M) moving in 2 months from now - easing homesickness? POST: As the title says, my boyfriend of a year and a half is moving across the country to live with me in March. As far as living together goes, I have no actual concerns. Our relationship is great, likely because we communicate well and no topic is ever off-limits. We have discussed our pet peeves from having previous roommates as well as which chores we prefer to do and which we would prefer th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Do men have a ""role"" in the relationship anymore? POST: I'm 26 (male), and she's 20. My GF and I are both in college. We've been together for a few years now (my longest relationship). We have fun together, hang out a lot, and are generally really good friends. But something is missing. I feel like I should be doing something, or taking on some role that I can't put to words. I know I'm being vague, but it's a very intangible sensation. Consider this: It is common to have a dog fo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20/F] with my boyfriend [21 M] of 2 years. My new meds are causing problems. POST: Hi /r/relationships. Me and my SO have been together for 2 years now and I've been on antidepressants for most of that time. My doctor increased my dosage recently and ever since then my libido has nosedived. I still want to have sex with my SO (though far less than I did before), but I find it incredibly difficult to get aroused and impossible to come. My SO is starting to get frustrated about t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my SO (complicated) [19 F] of 2 months, are unhealthily addicted to each other POST: We're both in college in NYC, and this is the worst time for love to blossom (finals). This is after a long period of romantic back and forth, finally ending with something I guess I'd label ""best friends with benefits."" Our compatibility is uncanny. We're both a little scared by this fact, but we feel the same way about each other. However, we aren't in a relationship because she is g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My silly [18M] dilemna POST: So, to explain (pardon the vague title), I am 18, male, just finished my freshman year of college. I was homeschooled and graduated a bit early. Being homeschooled was great, but I live in a rural area and I didn't have the opportunity to meet as many people as I think a public-schooled person would. About five years ago, my family began attending a new, smallish church. It took a while to become ""accepted"" by the few kids my age there. They were from o",negative " r/running TITLE: Pain / numbness only in right foot along side.. am I defective? POST: I know you all will eventually just tell me to see a doctor and to get a proper shoe fitting, but I thought I'd just run this by you to see if anyone else has the same issue. I recently began running and have had some issues on my right food, along the right side. Mainly the pinky toe, towards the back of the 5th metatarsal. I was using very bad running shoes for a bit and recently got some Asics Nimbus 16's (which appa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] and my SO [23M] have everything in common personality wise, but nothing hobby wise. How do we work it out? POST: We've always been like two peas in a pod. Our personalities are identical and we get along perfectly. However, lately he's been feeling like it's not enough, since we don't share any significant hobbies together. He's a very outdoorsy person. Loves hiking in the mountains and backpacking. While I love to be outside as well, being cold and exhausted up in the mou",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My first and only girlfriend and I broke up after 3 years. I need some advice. POST: My ex-girlfriend and I have been dating since were about 16 and we broke up 3 week ago, I am now 19. She was my first girlfriend, and besides pointless high school relationships, I was her first 'real' boyfriend. She was my first love, she took my virginity, and I adore everything about her. Niether of us cheated, and we had each others trust. Not everything was perfect for long, we ended up ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Is this the friend zone? POST: I'm 16M; She's 16F. I knew her a long time ago, recently started talking on facebook. In the last few weeks, we've been out 3 times, all three of which went swimmingly, we've done art/craft, been for walks for hours and hours, and dropped by at cafés. Each time she's made a point of how much fun she's had over text, as have I. We get along really well, and I like her a lot. We've been talking *a lot* in the last couple of days, and the most recent ",positive " r/running TITLE: Need advice from Runners of reddit POST: Background info: Height: 5 feet 7 inches tall *Weight: 175 lbs Age: 26 Gender: Male Running History: None Started Running: 3 weeks ago How Often: daily (m-f) rest on weekends   First week: 1mile 25-30 mins Run speed on Treadmill: 4.5   Second week: 1.5 miles 25-30 mins Run speed on Treadmill: 4.5   Third week: 1.5 miles: 20+/- mins   Run speed on Treadmill: 5   Still on my third week, but now i feel some burning sensation on my kne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [29 F] husband [27 M] of 5y, was molested, almost raped, and is always hit on by males - and it's causing him to questing his sexuality. POST: I posted about my husband who confessed to me about a week ago that he was molested by his (since passed) brother at a very young age. Since then, we have had our first counseling session, which I attended out of support for him. He ended up describing a lot of times that he has been hit on by the same sex - not only this instance of mole",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24M] with my ""girlfriend"" [23F] of 5 months, +9000 km (+6000 miles) separates us POST: I met this girl in October 2013 , knowing that in November she would travel to India to stay for at least 3 months. We try not to cling too much, but things flowed naturally and during the month we were together all that happened was perfect : similar ideas about various things, mutually attraction, sexy times, etc. Then we had the ""separation"" . In December 2013 we decided that I would go to",positive " r/Pets TITLE: Massive downpour leads to finding a kitten... POST: We live in the woods about 8 miles from town and about 3 mikes from the nearest neighbor. This morning, we had a huge storm blow through that dumped about 2"" of rain in 4-5 hours. In that storm, I kept hearing a very loud ""mew"" coming from our attached barn. I threw on my mud boots and grabbed a flashlight and headed out to the building. In the middle of the floor, I found a sopping wet, muddy, and skinny kitten. No mama cat around. We",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [23/F] looking for advice/encouragement in keeping ex-boyfriend [23/M}] out of my life for good. He's persistent, but also toxic, and emotionally abusive. POST: My ex has many issues. Emotionally abusive being the biggest. Oh, he also has a major issue with alcohol. He'll tell me things like no one else will date me as long as he did and that my friends won't ""be there for me"" like he was. I'm not in love with him. We've been broken up for almost a year but I stayed friends with hi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I require assistance in social interactions with a young lady my age. POST: Okay so here is the story. I'm a 14 year old male and on the second to last day of school, the girl of my dreams walks up to me, writes her name on my yearbook (we were signing year books at the time) along with a note next to saying ""love you"" with a heart drawn next to it. Now here is the problem, school is out and i have no way to contact her except via Facebook. What do I do? P.S Hi I'm socially awkward i hav",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Tips for a first time flyer? POST: So, in a bit over a month I am going to be flying for the first time. And I am fucking terrified. I am scared of heights (past about 10 feet scares me) and I'm scared of being over water as well (as in boats and stuff like that) and I am flying from Halifax (Canada) to Dominican Republic, so over a decent bit of water. My friends have told me that its safer then driving, and that I should search about it. While doing so I found this ""When risk is meas",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [24F] I need help confronting my alcoholic husband [31] POST: My husband and I were both in dark places when we met roughly 4 years ago (I was pill-popping and he was drinking beer after beer every day). We connected over the fact that we were both trying (unsuccessfully) to use our bad habits to get rid of some emotional pain. As our relationship grew we got to know each other better and eventually we fell in love and got married (it was 2 years this summer) Along the way he helped",negative " r/travel TITLE: Bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok for my trip in a month. I have no proof of exiting the country or a tourist visa. How do I secure a (read: ANY) visa for my trip? (Help!) POST: I'm leaving for Bangkok in one month on a one-way ticket. I've heard different rumors about Thailand visa requirements. Some people say I won't need to provide proof of an exit method before receiving my visa, others say I will. I understand that I'm granted 30 free days upon departure from my home airport (SEA-TAC",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it appropriate to send a former teacher an email, apologizing for causing grief when I was her student? POST: From 4th to 7th grade I had a teacher that I eventually loathed. It felt like she singled me out and made me the center of attention when I was younger. In 7th grade she humiliated me in front of my class by saying something on the lines of: ""So you know everything in this subject too?"" I always thought I was the victim but recently a friend told me that I was terrible to her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] want to date [?? F], but I don't know how to approach her, or anything about her. POST: Hey /r/relationships, here it goes: So ever since I switched the gym I go to (which was like 3 or 4 months ago), there is this girl which I don't know anything of. I don't know her name, her age, or where she studies. I seriously don't know *anything* about her. If I were to guess, I'd say she's 16 or 17. I constantly see her as she goes at the same time from Monday to Friday. Either w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20F] boyfriend [22M] got a DWI and so I broke up with him. Now I'm thinking it was a heated decision and I want to get back together. POST: We're both in college and have only been dating for about 2 months, but everything just feels right: one of those relationships were you feel like you've know each other forever blah blah blah... Long story short, everything was solid until he drank after work and drove home, and got arrested. I must disclose this is something that he normall",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my girlfriend [25 F] of four years, went engagement ring shopping and now she's telling telling all of her friends POST: My (27M) girlfriend (25F) and I have been talking about getting married for awhile now and both agreed that since an engagement ring is such a large purchase and that she would be the one wearing it, it made sense for us to go shopping together to get her input. We went this past weekend and everything went really well. I've got a good idea of the s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my best friend[16 M]- I said some things i regret while stressed out POST: Just background, I suffer from anxiety and depression I have been best friends with him since sophomore year, we are juniors now. He just got a girlfriend, and it bothered me as suddenly i was less important to him. I tried to be supportive as i just want him to be happy, but it got annoying, and being stressed and just in a bad mood, i was not the nicest to him. Now these comments were not",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are some strange things that your family does that are normal to you because you grew up with them? POST: Earlier this week, my parents were traveling back from visiting my grandparents. About 80 miles from home, they stopped to help a young man on the side of the road with a blown tire. Now this isn't all too uncommon, but they were still the first to stop. Since it was a Sunday, all of the tire shops were closed by the time they got into town, so they offered the kid a place to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[25/F] with my S.O.[28/M] of two years: he doesn't know whether he wants to be with me, and I don't know what to do. POST: My S.O. and I have been together for two years. Recently, I've been feeling uneasy in our relationship because it feels like he has become distant. I asked him why we never talk about our future together. When I brought this up to him, and he responded that he doesn't know if he wants to be with me in the future. He says that lately he has been constantly ques",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My 6 months separated [38F] wife wants to get back together with me [40M] POST: After 16 years of marriage (20 years together) my wife and I separated about 6 months ago. I fought against it but she was insistent. No cheating or major single issue. Just a lot of unhappiness in general. We have 2 kids 13 & 6. They handled it fairly well. Saw a consoler for about 3 months to help learn how to communicate better. We have been friendly and still see each other several times a week (s",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: Could USPS be lying to me? (x-post from /r/USPS) POST: I shipped an iPhone to my dad on Thursday, May 8th. It still hasn't arrived. My receipt with the tracking number got thrown away on accident, and the package is not insured. However, I know it's possible to call the location it was shipped from and they can tell me the tracking number. Yesterday I called Bob, the USPS man at the facility I shipped my package from. I told him the day I shipped it, what time I shipped it, as well as ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/m] Severely stressful situation girlfriend [16/f] I just want to help before its too late for us. POST: She has way way way too much going on in her life, mostly derived of the constant battle between her mom and dad who were recently divorced (1-2 years). I know she enjoys her time with me because of the smiles I see but I know how sad she gets and how confused it all makes her. If i could take all her problems and make them mine i would, but i can't. I now just want to sp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Saying I love you. After a month together Me (28/f) and my boyfriend (32/m) POST: My boyfriend and I have known each other for a year and a half and have now been together for a month. When we first met I had no feelings for him but something changed. We have a great time together and he says he enjoys my company and talks to me every day. Same with me. I feel like I really want to say I love you but I am scared. I have had bad relationships in the past and I think I have grown t",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making a joke in bad taste with new coworkers POST: This happened last night during a fantasy football draft between coworkers. Some background info necessary: we're right next to Penn State and a lot of us go there including myself. Some are eagles fans, some are steelers fans, and there are some other favorites as well. I've worked for this company for about a month. The draft starts. We're all guys so everyone starts making fun of each other in good fun. I made some funny comment",positive " r/relationships TITLE: If he [M38] gets hired, my [F26] life will be a little different very shortly. POST: So, I'll get right to it. My current boyfriend is the man of my dreams, the one, we have no hesitation in our joint answers that yes, we want to get married. We've been together for 1 1/2 years. This is where I want to be in my life. Both of us are in no rush. I'm still working on a degree and he is currently still focusing on his career. This brings us to our next point. He's applied for another p",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [42F] with my sister [45F]: handling religious differences POST: My sister is a devout Christian. I am an atheist/secular humanist, but have always been discrete about my beliefs. My sister lives in another state, and we are otherwise quite close. We text nearly every day to chat. Recently we started chatting about something touching on religion, and she asked me flat out if I believe that Jesus is alive and will be resurrected. I said no, but that there are tons of things human",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my BF[26 M] 1 year, I regret sexting someone else, but Don't know how to tell him POST: I have some pretty specific kinks, that my wonderful bf of a year can't give me. I love him, and he satisfies me in every way but one. I wound up chatting to this older kinky guy online the other night and it slowly turned from an intelligent discussion on the psychology of kink into dirty talk via hypotheticals. No pictures were included, and I honestly didn't contribute to the di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Atheist marrying a Catholic means I have to annul my previous marriage... POST: As stated, I'm an 31/M/Atheist marrying a 27/F/Catholic with whom I've been in a committed relationship for the past four years. We are both fully aware of each others beliefs and have spent a great deal of time discussing various topics of our future together that our beliefs will have an impact on (such as raising children, church, sex...). I was previously married to a Mormon woman who really wasn't ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: prepare for the most awkward pentagon of weirdness... would really appreciate some advice! POST: Recently broke up with my boyfriend of 2 years. I, an 18 year old, fooled around with a classmate at a party. After telling my 24 year old ex boyfriend, we broke up. We were both heartbroken, losing both our relationship and friendship. My ex's mom didn't hesitate to share her feelings towards me, writing a very nasty note along with revoking a phone contract I had paid three months in a",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Said some mean things to my ex.. POST: Long story short, my ex (19f) broke up with me (20m) over reasons that still boggle my mind 2 months later. The breakup blindsided me, and the reasons she gave never really made sense to me. Shed say she loved me and that she want to be with me, but in the same paragraph say that we needed a break. Whenever i asked about the details of the break she would respond with I don't know. Eventually, over 3 days, she had the ultimatum that she didn't wan",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [18 M] The girl I have a thing with [18 F] never says she likes me back. POST: So let's start off with giving her a name, let's say her name is, Stacy. Stacy and I have known each other for a about a month and a half, we text everyday and hangout quite frequently. We have talked about relationships before, but I know she wants to take it slow and so do I. She was in a 2 year relationship prior to us meeting, so she told me she didn't want any commitment and I completely understand",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my girlfriend [19F] 8 moths, I don't know how to feel about her. POST: My girlfriend is a fantastic girl, smart, great personality and cute, when I saw her I immediately fall in love, but now, 8 months later I feel something changed, I'm not even sure if I still love her. When I'm with her I feel good and happy, but sometimes it get uncomfortable, we're studying engineering so sometimes she just talk about our courses, troubles with calculus or something related. Of co",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my friend [17 F] broke off starting to be friends again POST: i was once amazing friends with this girl then we broke off because of me and now were becoming friends again. I am happy that we are friends again but its just a problem with me to keep wanting more and i just wanna be like what we were before and to even to date her I always daydream and have these stupid like romance daydreams about her... She said we can be good friends at best, yet i still want more id",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I met a girl while traveling. I need some relationship advice. POST: I'm 20 and a guy. She is 20 also. We have been together for three weeks. This is my first experience with a relationship. I went on a trip for a month to the other side of the world. I met a girl there about five days into the trip. I thought she was really awesome, not to mention good looking. I didn't want to start anything because I knew it would probably have to end when I left. Also, I am (was?) really nervous aro",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is he [25, M] just not that into me [21, F]? POST: Hi everyone! Just wanted to see if anyone could shed light on the situation I'm in. I'm currently a university student on summer break from school. Last spring, I had gone out on a few dates with a guy that I'd felt I had significant chemistry with for most of the year. I was very interested in him then and he seemed to feel the same way, so I told him then to keep contact over the summer, as he is a third year graduate student stayi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Was it okay for me [22 M] to truthfully tell my girlfriend [22 F] of 11 months that I was mad at her for going in to work on her day off? POST: The first eight and a half months were a blast but recently it's gotten a bit rockier. We're more prone to misunderstand one another and it causes a fair amount of friction. We both are short of cash, I'm taking a quarter off of school to find a job and she has a partime/full time job in retail, so we're usually stressed about money and other",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M], never had a serious relationship, with the girl I just started seeing [19 F], things are starting to get serious, how do I proceed? POST: We go to college together, I'm a junior and she's a freshman. I met her a couple times in the fall, found her attractive, got her number, but timing never worked out and nothing happened. 3 weeks ago we ran into each other again at a party, and sparks were flying. We kissed that night, made plans for late the next week and ended up havin",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Eat my food will ya? Hope you like dirt in your mouth. POST: Little back story: I moved into the place I'm living about 9months ago when I started my new job landscaping for a huge company. I rent a room in a house l, which is shared with two brothers, 34yrs old and 23yrs old. I am the odd one out. The build up: So like any normal human being trying so save money, I go out to my local grocery store and buy what I need for the week and repeat. Since the day I moved in my food woul",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] girlfriend [16F] has mommy problems and I need advice on how to help her with it. POST: Well a few years ago I'm told that her parents had a very messy divorce, which was pretty hard on her. She doesn't see or hear from her often and her mom makes promises she doesn't keep and/or ignores her when she calls (doesn't call back either I think) this obviously is hard on a teen girl especially now in her life (or so I've read) on top of this she hates her dad's new girlfriend (th",negative " r/self TITLE: One of my friends confessed his feelings for my best friend POST: I'm getting a ride home from my best friend, let's call her ""kaylee"" and another friend, let's say ""Jack"", in in the car with us. Jack lives a way out of town and we decide to drop him off first. Jack says he wants to talk to kaylee. I switch seats with him so they can talk. I put my headphones in. A couple minutes later I take them out to hear what they are talking about. I listen to the whole thing. He talked for a good 15 mi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you feel about medium-length hair on males in a professional environment? POST: I am interviewing for an IT Help Desk job at a lawfirm where i'd most likely be sitting in my own office most of the time. I have medium-length hair (almost to my shoulders) after getting it trimmed (from just past my shoulders) and layered a bit. My dad feels this is unprofessional and stormed out because I don't care about getting this job (I do). My opinion is that my hair looks fine, I am comfort",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is he [31 M] not that into me [28 F] or just freaking out about his own feelings?Relationships POST: Hi guys, Couple weeks ago I met a guy and fell in love with him immediately (like i always do). We're seeing each other almost every day, sex is good, talks are even better. Everything seems to be perfect to the point of me not believing it's actually happening in real life (not super lucky with relationships in the past). And then BANG couple days ago he started a conversation abou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my now GF [19 F], starting to feel pressure of labelling our relationship... POST: So I've known this girl for 6 years, and have been through a lot with her including being friends and friends with benefits over the past 4 years. We went to the same middle and high school but we only started really kicking it off in high school. We had a small thing in about 3 years ago like making out and 2nd base, typical high school shit, but then stopped because we didn't really f",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I am having major sex thoughts about a woman who is not my wife. POST: I'm going to college after a few years off and I've made friends. One of them, ""R"", is a 28 year old fitness buff who sits next to me in every class we have. We've become pretty good friends, we don't spend a lot of time together, but we grab coffee from time to time. We talk, we hang out, we study together. All of this is fine, I have had female friends before and not developed crushes. Here is the problem... I've",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [32f] keep my painful past from ruining my relationship [1yr] with a truly great guy [32m]? POST: I [f32]was married for 13 years to a guy who fell in love with a woman at his work shortly after our first baby. The 5 year affair had been going on three years when I found out about it-in the middle of my second pregnancy. He kept telling me it was over, then I'd find proof it wasn't. It finally ended two years later but the 5yr mind fuck damage was done and I left. I had been",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by ejaculating on my buddy's couch + sister [NSFW] POST: So my buddy's parents where on vacation and decided to leave the house to him for the week. Like the 16-17 year olds we are we where going to use this opportunity to go the nightclub near his house, and then sleep in the house afterwards. The plan was made and we where going to have pre drinks in a few hours with another friend and 4 foreign friends of his wich he wanted to show a good time. Once we where all at the house my budd",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why does the US have an extremely liberal tenure granting policy in its primary and secondary schooling system? POST: From my understanding, the tenure system was created to insulate academics from repercussions arising out of having unpopular opinions and researching unconventional topics. Also, again from my understanding, in order to get tenure the professor has to be an asset to the university with a strong showing in teaching and research and there is an understanding that not every",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF (16f) and I (18m) are starting to get sick of each other and I don't know what to do. POST: My gf and I have been dating for roughly 8 months and it seems like we are starting to both get tired of each other. We used to be content just hanging out at my house and watch movies and go out occasionally for dates. We are both introverted and when we're together, we don't talk a lot about ourselves. Over the past month, we've been pretty distant because she told me that she wanted",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I think a website stole $12.99 from me. Can anyone help me get it back? POST: I signed up for a ""Trial Account"" on the website [Extabit.com] as I needed a big file quickly. I did a quick Google of the site before paying and it seemed like a legit site (not someone going to just take all of my money and give me nothing) so I signed up happily. When I signed up, PayPal sent me confirmation which informed me that this was $2.99 now and $12.99 each time after, which I did not sign up for. S",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] dating [22 F] but falling for her best friend [22 F], feeling like a full dirtbag. POST: I hope to keep this short. A few weeks ago me and a friend met two girls at the bar, first impressions kind of led to who we spent the night talking to. I talked to A, my friend talked to B. A was cool and I wanted to get her know her better. Weeks later, we're unofficially seeing each other. However, my friend and B never worked out. B thus remains single and typically hangs out with ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[18F] feel like my friend[18F] doesn't want me to hang out with her new friends. POST: Hi, I'm just hoping for some advice on how to handle a situation with my best friend. We've both recently turned 18 and have started going out partying. The first time we went out it was just the two of us and it was really fun. The second time we go out she introduces me to her new boyfriend who is nice and easy to get along with. We and some of his friends have a good time out (though we spent h",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Interested in two jobs in the same company. Need opinions. POST: Hello guys, I just wanted to get your opinions so thank you in advance. A new company set up shop near my place and I'm set on getting a job there. They have two positions that I'm interested in, a Team Leader or an associate. If it's up to me, of course I'd like to be a Team Leader but I'm not sure if they would give value to my experience of handling a team. They're looking for an experienced Customer Support Team Leader and",negative " r/self TITLE: Graduating College...now what? POST: On Saturday December 15, I will be graduating college with a Bachelor's business degree. The part time sales assistant internship I have been working for the past four months informed me today that there is not a full time opportunity with them and I have until the end of January to move on. (I was expecting a very nice full time offer). My parents are split and still in divorce court, my incredible girlfriend of over a year is studying abroad this Spring ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/F] and my new BF [21/M], friends are trying to get involved, blatant lies, how do I confront them? POST: I met my new SO on NYE. He was an old school friend of my close friend's SO. We got on really well had a few dates, and have been dating for about 6 weeks. My close friend's SO, and all of his friends ( a fair few whom have shown romantic interest in me), have now started getting involved saying that my SO is ""lying to me about his ex girlfriends"" Personally, as long as ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My girlfriend (21/F) doesn't seem to have enough time for me (20/M). POST: We've been dating for almost 4 months now. We really like each other, so that's not the issue at all. She's a senior (skipped a year) and I'm a sophomore, and we go to the same university. The problem is that I feel like I need more time from her than she can give. Now it's important to know that she has pretty bad anxiety problems, and I'm normally okay with this (I help her work through them). But",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By being a perfectionist. POST: Like many other TIFU's, this didn't happen today. It happened a few months back. I had an LG Optimus F3. I was demoing a house and using my phone to listen to music as I worked. I had it set on the windowsill and some plaster or a wooden slat must have fell on it because at the end of the day I noticed I had a very small crack on the screen. I should have just left it, I could still use it and it was barely noticeable but being the perfectionist I am, I",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Career/life advice. POST: I'm kind of in a strange situation. 3 months ago, I got hired full time by a company that opened an office in my hometown. I've been freelancing for a year so when I landed this job, I was ecstatic. The job had great pay, benefits and hours. I got to lead a lot of projects and for the first time in my professional life, I was happy. Last Tuesday morning I walk into the office and notice my boss's stuff is gone. The other two partners call to inform me that my",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Ladies, how do you feel about this approach in getting acquainted? POST: the story: a while ago my friend, say, Jake went to a university social club dinner and met a bunch of people. Jake texted me, and we were going to hang out with at his dorm after dinner, so I had to drive and pick him up. Two other people from that dinner, which Jake met for the first time also lived in the general direction, so Jake offered them a ride and I was okay with it. One of them was a guy and other ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] in a newish relationship with this girl [20F], she has tons of male friends, in contact frequently. POST: Hello reddit. I've been seeing this girl about almost 3 months and there is a lot to like about her. She's kind hearted, happy, beautiful, and really really likes me. What has me curious though is the fact that she is texted by another male almost everytime we hang out. Some important backgorund information is that she has a history of being in shitty to meidocre relatio",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Need to replace gaming as my go-to entertainment. POST: So for some context, I'm 16 and my dad is literally obsessed with control over my gaming. I play maybe 3 hours a day on the weekends and none at all during the weekdays because of my schoolwork. I'm ranked #2 in my class which tells you that gaming isn't exactly harming my school career. My dad tries to connect everything negative with my life to videogames. (Ex: Eye doctor says I have large nerves in my eyes which might be related t",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, I love the guy but we both know that we shouldn't be together. What do you think we should do? POST: I've been dating a guy for almost 3 years. We've been off-and-on the whole time, but when things are good, they are the best I've ever had. The only problem is, they aren't always good. We fight a lot about silly little things, and we also disagree on a lot of bigger issues (aka politics, religion, life goals, etc). We've discussed getting married but both think that it woul",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] cannot find any privacy for sex POST: Be sure to explain in detail with line breaks. Hello, I'm 20, and my girlfriend is 18. We are both in studying in different universities in the same state and both live in the dorms. Relationship is great, everything going very well. We've kissed, cuddled, and dated a lot. However, when it comes our time to really get intimate, and take it to the next level (sex), we can't find any privacy. I live in the dorms",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my GF [19 F] of 9 months, may break up to help me deal with LDR POST: My GF and I met early in the first semester of college and had a great relationship all throughout our first year. However, now it is the summer and due to how busy her schedule is and the fact that she hates talking over technology, we haven't really had a long chat in a while. We usually text each other everyday but the last time we had a video conversation was about 2 weeks ago. When I brought th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend grieving death of his father. What should I be doing? POST: I'm a 23 year old female, and my partner is a 25 year old male. We've been together for about a year and a half. Two years ago, his father passed away suddenly. I know he's been (obviously) upset the whole time, but I think he was sort of in denial until recently. He holds himself together pretty well, but he sometimes admits to me how depressed he is and what a mess he is emotionally. He's definitely the sto",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/F] with my boyfriend [21/m] of 2 and a half years. I want a family, he wants a high paid job. POST: so it's something that's been on my mind for a while. I'm a family person. All I want in life is to start my own family, it's all I've ever really wanted. I lost my father at a very young age, and I guess since then I've just felt like a huge part of my life has been missing. I want my own family to love and give everything I possibly can to. I'm not saying I want it now. But I ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I'm a lonely 23 year old who wants a girlfriend but I'm too shy POST: I'm a very shy Asian guy who's socially awkward (especially around the opposite gender), with low self-esteem and almost no confidence. I'm not your regular everyday shy either. I would never consider approaching a stranger unless I was forced to, I can't speak in larger groups (talking 3+) of people I'm not familiar with, I get nervous and self-conscious speaking one-on-one with a stranger and I even get nervous sometime",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Having less and less sex with boyfriend, damaging relationship, need help. POST: I'm a 21 year old female who has been in a stable relationship with my boyfriend for roughly 2 years. Aside from a few minor arguments here and there, no real major issues have arisen until now. The problem is, since the start of our relationship, the amount of times we have sex has slowly declined to nothing. At the start it was almost every day, now it has slowly declined to less than 5 times a month. It i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What to do about this? POST: Alright, so this is a terrible experience I had this semester at my college. I like to consider myself a pretty good student, I keep about a 3.0, good enough right? I took a world history class and did alright in it. Towards the end of the year the professor hands out the grading weights and says ""calculate your grade"". I'm fine with the calculated A- I would have gotten if I failed the final with a 50. (And I did, I failed it with a 69.) After I take the ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] feel insecure because my bf [25M] keeps liking another girl's [20F] Facebook pictures POST: Throwaway because I am embarrassed at myself for feeling this way. My boyfriend Ryan and I have been together for 8 months. He's a great guy. We both had said that we were each others' best relationship. Ryan spends a lot of time on Facebook because he works from home on his computer. Every once in a while when I'm browsing Facebook, a post will come up saying ""Ryan has liked Bri",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Are there any girls that won't play with my heart and throw me away like trash? POST: I have been talking with this girl for about 4 months now... I got to know here in my students association. We got off really well. I helped her get over her ex who had just broken up with her...She used to cry every day and I was there for her every time. A bit later she started to get over him and we talked and texted from morning till evening. We got off really well. It was at this moment that I st",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] don't know when to ask out a girl. Either I'm way too soon or way too late. POST: I used to try and be friends with girls first... they'd get boyfriends or I'd get stuck in the proverbial friendzone. Or, if I wasn't in the frienzone, there were so many complications preventing me from dating a girl. Like one of my friends really liked her, or one of her friends liked me, or the group would randomly have some kind of horrible falling out and we'd stop hanging out before I got",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by leaving my girlfriend alone with my laptop POST: We've been together for a little more than 7 months and yesterday she was alone, all day at my house while I was at work. She was using my laptop for Facebook, email, etc. No big deal, until she starts deleting the history ""icons"" from Chrome's home page. She continues to do so until she sees this flaming dick with rainbows shooting out. Her curiosity got the best of her and so she opened /r/spacedicks for the first time ever. She slamm",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23m] have been cheated on by my wife [21] and she's convincing my it's my fault. Help. POST: My wife cheated on me. Flat out. 2 Fridays ago, she didn't come home after work . The next morning I was scared and looking all over her (imagining the worst) and ended up tracking her cell to a hotel. Where she was with someone else. I waited in the lobby for 3 hours until she came out. Once confronted she did the casual ""this is your fault, you forced me to do this"" routine. I believed i",negative " r/loseit TITLE: [NSV] Shirts and pants. POST: The pants aren't all that special, I knew that I was fitting a size smaller, I just had to head out to the thrift store and buy some. The shirts, however...I was walking through Boston Store, and I thought to myself, ""I wonder if I can wear what stores consider to be their customer's range now."" Grabbed a 2x shirt and it was a pretty good fit. Grabbed a zip up sweater just to be sure, and sure enough, it wasn't a fluke. I almost dropped 80 bucks on the sweater ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My ex boyfriend(M/28) wants to keep in touch with me(F/22) but he doesn't want to get back together with me yet POST: My ex boyfriend and I broke up about a month ago after an ugly fight. We had been together for one year and a half an we both considered our relationship serious enough for marriage. I was living with him at the moment, and I moved out of his place after I broke up with him, since my name was not on the lease and he was paying full rent. I've still got some feel",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Parking ticket in collections without my knowledge--need help to reduce/remove impact on my credit score (x-post /r/personalfinance) POST: I moved to Portland, Oregon from another state about one year ago. I was checking my credit report today and found a mark from a collections agency (Alliance One) for $164. The report says this debt is from Multnomah County Parking, which is the country Portland is in. I did not, to my knowledge, receive any parking tickets while here. I have not re",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36 F] with my _new hook-up [39 M], how to navigate the upcoming sexual relationship? POST: I have been chatting to a guy for 6 months, no haven't met yet, but we've discussed hooking up. He lives 3 hrs away and travels sometimes to my city, which is Down Under (NZ/Australia region.) We were going to meet last night. He emailed me last night, but before he gave me the address of his hotel, it looked as though he fell asleep. I didn't find out till this morning, which kind of reli",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [MA] Should Magic the Gathering Events have sales tax? POST: For those of you unfamiliar with Magic the Gathering it is a playing/trading card game that has been around for about 20 years. There are many stores that hold events for people who enjoy playing the game to participate in. Some of these events participants pay a fee to play the game with decks that they bring themselves. If they win they normally receive packs of cards or store credit to buy more cards. Another format of",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] I discovered my [18F] boyfriend [23M] has been screwing his ex [21F]; am I over-thinking this? POST: [Update] I discovered my [18F] boyfriend [23M] has been screwing his ex [21F]; am I over-thinking this? (See: Original post [here]( Not much people answered, so I'm not sure if this is a necessity, but I'm going to do it anyway. I'm sorry I didn't get to a respond, but thanks for your replies regardless! Now, for the TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me [22M] having doubts with my gf [22F] of 4 years, missing the ""thrill"" [XPOST from r/relationships] POST: I'm with my gf for 4 years now. Everything is great, our life is awesome and we are having plans, etc. Sex is great too. I feel I love her. I mean, I still smile everytime I see a picture of her, and feel the love rushing through my stomach :) But, in the last period, like in the past few weeks, I feel an increasing desire to pick up others. Not exactly just the sex, but ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I got screwed over by Air France and now have a 10 hour layover in Charles De Gaulle Airport in France. What are your airport horror stories Reddit? POST: I flew transatlantic from the states and arrived in Paris quite late. So late, in fact, that my comfortable two-hour layover turned into me missing my flight due to customs, security, people not getting out of my way fast enough, etc. I arrived at the gate at 10:15 for my 10:25 flight only to find the doors closed. After being directed",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Having credit score issues - anything I can do? POST: Hi guys, Brief overview of my situation: I just graduated and started a new job, I have 12k in loans. I paid rent and utilities in my name for a year. I've had a discover card open for about a year which I've paid off in full every month. Discover does their monthly Fico report and my credit has slowly been going up as I made my payments on time, they even raised my limit to 2000 without my asking. They report my Fico scor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25M] girlfriend [23F] is taking pills and I am concerned it's ruining our relationship POST: Two weeks ago her brother came to visit and brought her a lot of pills to repay a debt? I think they're called norcos?. She has been irritable and bizarre mood swings ever since. On Friday we were at a cookout with my friends, she showed up wasted and ended up making a scene and embarrassing me. At one point someone asked my friend, we'll call Jake, who isn't the most socially aware pers",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Wondering if taking the job is worth it? POST: To keep it short, I've been unemployed for about a month and a half now after being let go from my previous job. I'm a fairly recent graduate that just got an offer from a startup that pays hourly, about $12. While I'm eager to gain a job and know I'm in a position that I can't be picky, I'm wondering if the job might be worth it when taking into account the 40 minute commute into the city, student loan payments, etc. I'd like to have a salaried",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What should I do with my dog? POST: Reddit, I really need your help with this one. In March my girlfriend and I got a dog, her mom watched the dog for us for a month while we were at school. At the end of May, her mom ended up getting a puppy. We are moving into an apartment in two weeks when all of a sudden she tells me today that we might give our dog to her mom for fear that she will get depressed when we move away from the puppy. While I understand her reasoning, I also said that our",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 M] with my GF [25 F], how do I communicate pre-break up? POST: I've been with my current girlfriend for about 15 months and have come to the conclusion that I don't see a long term future together. She's a nice person, but I find myself growing increasingly unhappy. I could go into the details, but for purposes of this post, I've decided to end it, hopefully amicably. The triggering event occurred over Thanksgiving and since then we've not spoken a lot, just a little bit ove",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Honk at me at a not turn on red, get caught by the red light cam. POST: so at my school there is a big intersection that has no right turn on red all four ways. but as with most of these, the no turn on red signs are dutifullyignored by drivers. so much that this year the city added brand new high tech traffic cams that catch you running reds. In Los Angeles County a red light ticket can be $300 to almost $500 depending on the city. So I'm stopped at a red waiting to turn right, now",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24] this my girlfriend [34] of 1 year may have a child and is hiding it from me. POST: I posted this in Ask Reddit, and they suggested I come here. I've been with my girlfriend for just under a year and I couldn't be happier. She's 10 years older than me but that hasn't been a big deal at all. I asked her from the get go if she had kids, or wanted kids and she said no to both. I was getting her a last minute Christmas gift when I bump into an acquaintance from high school. We w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my bf around 22 months [25 M] saw something strange on his phone and don't want to call him out on it if it's unneccesary but also don't want to let it eat at me. POST: I was with my boyfriend who I've been dating around 2 months, his ex before me was pretty serious and they had a falling out, he claims to have absolutely no contact with her and to hate her. He was standing across with me messing with his phone and I noticed snapchat was up and her name was at the very",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[18M] with my SO [19/F] let's people into her lives that don't care about her depression POST: A little background on my girlfriend and I. We dated for three years in high school and continued that relationship into university. She dumped me after she told me that she was diagnosed as depressed and that she couldn't hold down a relationship. Fast forward a few months we have come back into contact and are back into being physical, telling each other we love each other. When we go ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by Reading my Mom's Email (NSFW) POST: I am a 16 year old kid (male) with divorced parents. The divorce happened in 2014. Today I fucked up by reading my mom's email. A few weeks ago I figured out my Mom's password. To me it was a learning opportunity because her and I haven't really talked...in a few years. So me being proud of my ""hacking skills"" I went through her entire email, every last one including the junk mail. What I found was... well... What I found first was a video of some",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using my phone POST: I've been reading so many of these lately and was wondering when my fuck-up time would come. Well, last night it finally came to me. Yay! Not as great as I thought it would be. So I go to a pretty big public university (hint, we just won a cool football thing) so naturally it's been pretty wild on the weekends. I decided to go to a party my friend was throwing--seeing as there would be jungle juice instead of the usual natty light I thought why not. Wouldn't hur",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, does having a problem with the iPad mean that I should also not use game consoles? POST: Ok Reddit, I've got a problem with the ipad, the iphone, and generally with walled-garden software ecosystems in general. I feel like if I've bought the hardware, I should be able to run what I want on it. I recognize that there are situations where running arbitrary code doesn't make a whole lot of sense, for example I don't feel a need to install programs on my thermostat, and don't *want*",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Sleep with my ex and betray my trust? Enjoy waking up at 6 every morning. POST: I recently found out that a close friend of mine had been sleeping with my ex of 4 months behind my back. Despite denying the claim many many times and asking me to trust him. It was one of those situations where you just push it to the back of your mind and remember that he deserves trust. Well, he has his doorbell remote outside his house and his place is on the way to my university every morning, so I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I (22f) just ask him (26m) out on an actual date? POST: We are both coworkers and work closely together. One weekend I asked him if he wanted to get a drink, and he said ""don't hate me. I'm busy this weekend so I won't be able to this weekend"". He said he would get a drink with me, but it has been weeks since I have heard from him. He also played along when I told him a coworker said he saw us ""holding hands and kissing"" (we didn't. Our coworker was just messing around cuz we ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my [21 M] (ex) boyfriend/fiance.. 8 months, lives in a reality where he is a fuck-up and ""can't be with me"" POST: This is cross-posted with /r/bpd because that is something I deal with. Tonight, a very turbulent relationship with someone who was a close friend of mine for years ended. We dated shortly when we were 17 and have harboured feelings of love for each other ever since. The last 8 months were over long-distance, and we were engaged. We have the most amazing c",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [21 F] am frustrated with back and forth behavior from 24 M. Opinions? POST: The rubber band theory states that men go through periodic withdrawals from their partners and that when the man pulls away, the woman should pull away too. This will cause him to bounce back like a rubber band. My s.o. and I embody this and I'm getting really annoyed. Right now I'm in what would be called a ""casual relationship. "" We live apart & we haven't talked about being serious because we're ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by releasing the burp of my life - in a business phone conference. POST: Well yeah... It was just 5 minutes ago and I have no idea how red I turned and how red I still am. We had a national conference with about 30 people in total on the phone, discussing statistics, money and similar things. Everyone had a chance to say something about his work and general things they think were worth mentioning. I was last with my turn - after about an hour of listening and mental exhaustion from that,",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by saying that I'm in high school and missing out on a 3some POST: A little background info I'm a 16 year old guy who is a sophomore is high school. Just like 99% of the posts on here the fuck up happened a few weekends ago. Me and my family usually go skiing at least once a year, so this year we went up to Red River, New Mexico for our vacation. Since the weather was fairly warm, I decided to put on my Chubbies. For those of you that don't know what Chubbies are... they are men's s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [26M] I'm curious how to compliment my SO [25f] of 2 months now, when she's down on herself. POST: Since day 1 have told my SO that she's pretty; beautiful; sexy; etc... at different days throughout the weeks. Today has been interesting. She starts telling me how she feels ugly and all this jazz. My thinking, since my usual compliments don't seem to convince her, why not just give her a solution to her problem...? I sent her this text in our convo, ""Your thoughts about yourself I c",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Update: I just found out that my husband (26M) cheated on me (24F)... Again POST: [Original Post] ( This didn't get much attention, but I thought I would update. The last couple of days have been emotional. I went to my OB office and got tested for all STD/STIs. He delivered two of three of my nephews and he's a doctor who refers to my office regularly, and he hugged me and let me cry. He's a really good doctor. I should have the results by Friday. I told my coworker who I'm on",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Just accepted a job offer! For the first time in 3 years Ive got meaningful employment...negotiations after a ""trial period""? POST: First let me just say it's been a momentous struggle as anyone who has been long-term unemployed can attest to. I landed this job through a contact I had made last year who recognized my name on Craigslist (I post my resume there) and invited me in after a few phone conversations..one thing led to another and they created a part-time temporary job for me. I'll be",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Health Insurance - HELP!? POST: Here's the deal. I'm about to graduate college. My gf and I have been planning for nearly a year to move in together in NYC post-grad. She's from CT, and I'm from NY. This whole time, we've been assuming that because of the health care bill, we'd both be insured under our parents' insurance until we're 26. However, her dad (in CT) works from the public transit authority and has health insurance from the state as part of his job. When she suggested moving t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my husband [30M] of 2 years, I need him to shoulder 100% of the household responsibilities temporarily and he refuses POST: My husband and I have lived together for about 6 years now (long before we were married). We split our household chores about 50/50, maybe 60/40 with me doing a little more but that was always okay with me. My husband usually makes dinner and I clean up the kitchen after him. I'm pregnant now in my first trimester and I have been SOOOO sick and ti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my GF[21F] of 2 years. Am I being inconsiderate to my GF by having a female study partner? POST: Jealously has always been an unattractive trait to me and my girlfriend has known this from early on in our relationship. If she's ever been jealous in the past she hasn't really expressed it. The few times where I felt jealous, I quickly told myself I was being silly and moved on. She has guy friends and I have female friends and we are both cool with it. We check out peo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my [30F] 1 1/2 year relationship, mom comes and stays for an extended period of time POST: So my girlfriend (asain) and I (Italian American) have been living together for about a year now but before moving in we were together about 6 months. When we decided to move in together my s/o mother came to supposedly help us find a place to live. Now a year later our lease is up and we are looking to move again. Also my s/o mother is back for a 3 month stay same as last time. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20M] brother [16M] wants to throw a party well my parents are away. I said no but he plans to do it anyway, am I being unreasonable in stopping it? POST: Tiny bit of backstory, my parents have always been very lenient and do not ask much of us. One of the few things they do ask is not to throw parties at our house. So onto the point my parents will be away for the weekend and my brother wants to throw a party. This party will have around 25 people both boys and girls from his sc",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU Doing laundry... POST: By not checking all my pockets. I opened the dryer to collect my clothes and I noticed a small clear purple piece of plastic. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what it could have been - I didn't have any pens in that color and there were no ink stains... I don't carry around little plastic toys... Maybe it was something from the person who used the machine before I did... And then I found more little pieces... eventually I found enough pieces to figure out ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with my partner [26 M] (8 years) disagree on how to deal with neighbours (MF 20s) causing arguments. POST: I have posted to off my chest in frustration about our neighbours before a short summary is we have a house split into two flats and this couple moved in about 6 months ago. I have had issues from the beginning with being woken up almost every night by them letting the dog out, yelling for it to come back an slamming doors this can be any time of the night from 11pm-5am",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my GF [21F] of 3 months, I recently found out she had sex with her ex at the time we were not officially together, but we were talking. POST: We started talking around May and by talking I mean getting to know each other, kissing, things you do right before a relationship. At the same time she had a boyfriend that she wanted to end the relationship with. She told me he was an ex. I recently found out that she had sex with him during our time of talking, i found this out",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Working with an ex and an awkward situation. Please give advice! 30/m and 27/f POST: So I'll try to keep this short. My ex girlfriend and I split up last in March. We dated for 4 years and she had/has some things to work through (not directly with me but other aspects of her life). Here's the issue: we teach a music class together. Initially she moved out and we didn't talk. She was being really irrational (I wasn't a saint either). She said she wanted to come back and teach",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25F] boyfriend [29M] of 3+ years ended our relationship. Is it normal to feel anxious more so than depressed/sad? POST: *Throwaway because both of us are active redditors and we each know the other individual's account name.* My s/o and I were in a long-term relationship (3+, nearly 4 years). He recently ended our relationship, which had been suffering problems we were trying to work out for several months to a year. Mostly these were related to an on/off dead bedroom situation,",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A friend is having a background check run for a job, they made her log into her facebook and then went through it. Is that legal? POST: I knew they could search you on facebook and look at your account that way but I didnt think they could make you log in. I mean my profile is set to private so most of my friends cant see everything on there. What about blogs? I have an online blog that is set to private that no one can see because its easier to journal wherever I am that has internet ac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [33 F] am leaving my [32 M] BF of 4 years. We live together. POST: I've decided to leave because had told me that he does not want to get married. Not to me, not to anyone. We have discussed it calmly, we have fought about it, I have written him a letter. I have told him I don't have to have a big wedding, that I will sign a pre nup, etc. Basically I have tried to get to the bottom of why he doesn't want to get married, but he's stonewalled me every time. Apart from to say 'if yo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 M] Girlfriend [21/F] of two years whom I'm very much in love with has a sexual history that I can't cope with. POST: I've been in a committed relationship for two years and I thought one day I would be able to get over her sexual past, but I don't think I can. Who she's done, what she's done, how many -- it all gets to me. Every guy she's had sex with before me is really jacked and good looking, which is an indicator to me that she doesn't find my body type attractive and th",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Billing School won't let me withdraw unless I pay in full so I can focus on my online shop POST: Xpost from r/personalfinance: I am 19 and from California About a year ago, I just turned 18 and was self employed selling things online. Even though I was profitable, my mom was extremely unhappy with this. She called me a failure everyday and said I was a disappointment. She only made me even more depressed on top of being stressed with my orders. She kept telling me to go to a Medical ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sexting my girlfriend NSFW POST: Hi there, long time lurker, first time poster hoping to entertain you with my fuck up. So...here goes. So my girlfriend and I are currently in a long distance relationship after she moved back to Shanghai after she graduated from university. Our medium of communication is normally Facebook messenger, this part is important, you'll understand why in a moment. Shes moves back and we have had some rough times from not seeing each other so the moment we ",positive " r/running TITLE: Running and Peripheral Vascular Disease POST: Hi, I want to start running to lose a bit of weight and get into shape. The problem is, I have mild [PVD] in my right leg. This causes severe pain when I run for more than 3 minutes straight. It used to be way worse when I was a smoker but I haven't smoked cigarettes for almost a year already. I'm looking to take it further and get into shape. I'm 23 years old, 5'7"" and 170lbs. I just want to know if running is still viable for me and if the p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24F] boyfriend [22M] is essentially anti-feminist. Should we just agree to disagree? POST: Guys, my boyfriend is upset about feminism. It's to the extent that he gets really super disgruntled whenever anyone brings it up on TV/internet/etc. and I don't know how to react. He's of the opinion that feminism has been too riddled with extremists and other bad feminists for the cause of feminism to be taken seriously. He also believes that much of the discrimination against women that ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm 24/m, she's 24/f. ""I like you but I'm too busy for a bf""... POST: We met at work and see each other everyday. We started hitting it off immediately and she was leading the way with the flirting and hinting at wanting more. After hanging out maybe twice we had a movie night at my place and I ended up sleeping with her. It was great, and she still seemed to be pushing the issue. In my head I thought that next time I see her outside of work, I'm gonna ask her out and we'll be ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Best way to ask random guy out? POST: So there's a really cute guy who works at the coffee/sandwich place I do my homework at. When we first saw each other I kind of felt like there was mutual interest because we kept catching each other staring at the other person until he started talking to me while pouring my drink. And he just did little things here and there-- he'd mess up my order or almost pour coffee into my tea while talking to me...he is interested right? Anyways, I got a ",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Question about birth control side effects. POST: Hi, hoping its okay to ask this here. I'm a 22 y/o white female (5' 9"" and ~160lbs) living in the Chicago suburbs and I've been on the combination pill (Lutera) for almost 4years. I am not taking any other medications or supplements. Usually my flow lasts for 5 days and is light but definitely noticeable. Over the past 3 or 4 months it has started to lighten significantly. Last time I menstruated for very lightly for 3 days. I know loss of y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M/F] with my girlfriend [24 M/F] of 3 years, she keeps dating with som DotA guy I'm pretty sure he is in love with her, and I'm kinda desperate. POST: EDIT: NOT DATING, HAVING A BEER/COFFE -> hanging out seems a more appropiate word. (Massive disrespect at my English sorry) Hello Reddit! This is my first post here so sorry if I make some mistakes (English is not my first language so expect some errors) My girlfriend and I have been dating for three years now and we have had ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using my smartphone powers for evil POST: So I recently found out that my new smartphone has an IR Blaster in it which essentially makes it a universal remote. Naturally, I used this power to mess with people. After using it on my parents a few times, I told them that it was me turning the TV off and we didn't need to call in a technician. We all had a good laugh and were on our way. Flash forward to today in class. I decided to test and see if this worked with the projectors our sch",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is the best way to competitively eat hot wings? POST: So, in a couple of weeks, I will be participating in a wing eating contest. Now, I am an average build guy, but can eat a pretty healthy amount. I'm looking for two things. 1) What is the best way to eat alot of food in a short period of time? Should I eat earlier in the day so that my stomach is stretched? Or should I make myself hungry by not eating? Should I drink anything before hand? 2) And, I think more importantly",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my ish-ex [23 M]- how many times can you get back together before you're 'that girl'? POST: [throwaway] It's been three years, and we have broken up three times mainly because of issues related to long-distance. Crucially, he was the main instigator all three times, but is now saying he desperately wants to get back together. I'm cuckoo crazy in love with him, but getting back together a fourth time seems pretty nuts- when is it time to cut and run? I don't want to be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 F] went on a couple dates with [25 M]; he likes me but doesn't want to plan a future date POST: Went on a couple dates with this guy; we really hit it off and both dates were just filled with laughter. Last date I felt the physical tension and really wanted to kiss him. I kept placing hints about our next date (we had a few ideas), and finally asked when he was free. He said he doesn't want to plan a future date with me, and will tell me why next time I see him. He's apparentl",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] girlfriend [18F] of 9 months has become slightly needy... POST: There's not much to explain, but 24/7 it's a constant ""can you hold this"", ""can you do this"", ""can you do that"", ""can you open this"", ""can you open that"". It's really becoming annoying because she's fully capable of doing whatever she asks me to do. There's been a few times where we have been at a clothing shop because she was looking for something to buy, and then she's asked me to hold her wallet. Now that wo",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Had to put a medical bill on credit card; think it affected credit POST: Hi all, I was without a job after graduating graduate school for nine months, but finally got a job in February. Toward the end of the unemployment, I ran into a few medical issues that had to be taken care of sooner rather than later. I was also running out of money. In order to pay the last medical bill, I put it on my credit card since I was worried I wouldn't be able to make rent next month, but was in ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21/M] Getting over being attracted to someone. POST: So for awhile I have been dealing with depression and over the last couple of months have made a lot of progress. I have been working on being more social and as a result I have been meeting more girls. One of them I am definitely interested in, but I am pretty sure she isn't into me. I am having a hard time getting over it, I am not sure if it is infatuation or actual attraction but it is hard to deal with especially since I have",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: a question about digital piracy. Why does converting/encrypting data not absolve pirates? POST: I've been thinking for a while about ways in which someone could send a movie or music file to another without being held accountable for piracy. Sorry this may be a messy train of thought - expect edits. Could someone not just take an (.mp3), convert it to (.txt), run it through a simple program to feed out two streams of characters, one character to one text document named one.txt and one n",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I'm about to lose my apartment POST: So I did a series of dumb things and am about to pay for it. Maybe some of you can talk me off the ledge or help me figure this out? I left a physically abusive family situation two months ago and I'm renting an apartment for $1069/month. I make $1978.38/month, which I thought was plenty of buffer with a monthly student loan payment of $199.27 and car payment of $334 (total expenses including rent are $1602.27). Turns out that's not enough buffer. I am ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's a prank you've organized that not only went well, but better than expected? POST: **Prank 1:** In college my friends and I went to the dorm's communal kitchen and set up a classic prank. The sink had a separate spray hose. If the sink was on and the handle on the spray hose was pressed, water would shoot out of the hose instead of the primary faucet. [For those that don't know what I'm talking about.]( We put a rubber band around the handle and angled it towards the user so that ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Would it help or hurt the small town that I live in to report the multiple businesses that pay below minimum wage (my employer included)? POST: Hey reddit. Kind of a legal question, but kind of a moral question as well. After getting suspicious of some of payment habits of the owner of the Sandwich Shop that I work at, I decided to check what the law was about minimum wage here in rural Minnesota. As I understand it, state law holds minimum 6.15$/hr for large businesses and then lesser a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my GF [21 F] of a year, she almost never compliments me and it hurts my self-confidence. POST: First off, this is going to sound kind of pathetic and petty, but its been affecting me lately. I have the perfect woman, we have an amazing relationship and we've been working through long-distance due to attending different universities. I'm head over heels in love with her and everything with us is pretty much perfect. Now to the issue, as I said in the title, she never",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[22M] with my Gf[20F] over 2 years, tired of fighting for her to stay with me. POST: I will start off by saying I love my girlfriend. I would do absolutley anything for her just so she is happy. We have had this plan to move in together to a really nice city in a few months and I have been really excited. Unfortunately my girlfriend has been thinking other things. She has been thinking about moving in with her cousin really for away and she says she is torn. On one hand she says sh",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: i (m18) cant tell if she (f17) likes me and i don't know what to do? POST: I am really nervous about my relationship with a girl i like and i don't know what to do. I met her at school and i asked her to get coffee with me couple of days ago, we are both in high school. we had a great time and talked for about three hours while getting coffee. we text a ton, and i hang out with her after school with some other people some days after school. today while we were talking i asked her if ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Update - My [19F] new next door neighbour's kid [10M] is driving me INSANE with his screaming, temper tantrums and swearing. POST: [Previous post.]( Well, I've taken all advice given from the previous thread into account. I've worn headphones, I've kept in mind that there may be underlying conditions, I've notified my parents, and I try to keep out of my room when possible. I've even been trying to stay out of the house to avoid it. it all. But these efforts have become useless in t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] I don't know how to not look like a petty jerk with my 28[F] friend POST: Just for some background, last weekend I got stood up on a date after giving up on dating for a year. This weekend I was going to the bars with my friend from the title, but when I showed up at her apartment, she wasn't there and didn't pick up the phone. I waited 20 minutes then just went back home. I get a phone call an hour later. I couldn't really hear what she was saying (something about her ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [19M] break up with [19F] Gf of 4 years? POST: Ok so basically I still love her and we have been through basically everything together. We are long distance and made it work through the first year of college and everything was great. But as the year ended and summer was starting we started to fight a lot more and things just kept going downhill. She was like forcing us to spend all our time together. And I really messed up and lost some trust by texting a friend that I tho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [29M] not as interested in girl [30F] I'm dating as I thought I was. Don't know how to end it. POST: So I ran into a friend of a friend at a recent street festival. I had a crush on this friend of a friend last summer but she had a boyfriend. When we ran into each other at this festival, I found out that she was single at the moment. We never really hung out individually but after bumping into each other, we decided to hang out one on one. (So far, so good...) After the first ti",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [M21] best friend [F21] of 4 years and I had a fight about how I go too far and cross lines. POST: So, lately my best friend has been getting upset over things I say that she feels are ""inappropriate"" or embarrassing. Apparently I say these kinds of things a lot, but she's the only person that has ever said anything to me about it. None of my other friends seem to think that I do this. There have been a couple of times where I said something and immediately regretted it becaus",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Is this a deal breaker? Me(F/27)him(M\40) POST: I just have a question. I had slept with this guy a few times before (sober and drunk.) I am so sexually attracted to this guy that it's not even funny. We have gotten along pretty well and had and have great sex. One night (about 3 months ago) we both got pretty drunk. I was overly tipsy and he was blackout drunk. We got home from the bar and starting having sex, he slapped me in the face pretty hard during the act (I like rough ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just made a fool of myself in front of abunch of strangers. What was your last public humiliation? POST: I was hungry, so I decided to go to Chik Fil A. I get there and I get in line to order. The line was probably 15 people total. All is going well so far. I ordered a number 1 meal and paid, no problems. I totally just zoned out and started to leave without my order. The cashier goes ""Sir! Your meal!"" Ah, of course. Meal. When I turned around, my foot was on my other foots shoe lace. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M17, asking about F17] Complicated Situation, Is She Interested? POST: So, the best way I can think of to explain this is to describe the people involved. Names have been changed for the sake of privacy. Me: Goes to school A, has a serious crush on Sally, from school T that I left 3 years ago. Has been texting her for quite some time now, and getting mixed signals. Sally: Sending me mixed signals, seems to be attracted but shy and unsure of where to go. Very good person, but quiet",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [17m] wait for her [17f]? POST: I've been around this subreddit for quite a while, and the members here seem to be very honest and helpful. I've been struggling with a problem lately, and I've finally decided to put it out to try and get some help. So this girl and I have known each other for about a month. We've grown close very quick since we've met, which is something she too can agree with. I've hinted at a relationship a couple times along the way, but she's been puttin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: surprise pc build today, what would you want in a computer for just about $1000? POST: i posted this in r/pcgaming, but i would love a response from other people. so long story short, just got back from vacation, went to turn on computer, and nothing. im pretty sure just the power supply is shot, but i feel like now is a good time for me to rebuild. ive been looking for a good reason and now i have a halfway decent one. anyways, my wife agrees and i can go to just about a thousand dolla",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [14 M]with my Crush [15 F] duration, short-description POST: This is going to be a little long. So, I ride horses with this girl. I only get to see her about 2 -3 days a week, I started to like her so I asked her to hang out sometime. She said sure, then later that day she texted me saying she just wants to be friends ""right now"". We agreed to still hangout some day. A couple weeks later everything is fine and not so awkward. I have asked her in person and through text if she wan",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [19M] of a year broke up with me [20F] two months ago, but recently he drunkenly told me that he was in love with me and thought out breakup was a mistake. I don't know what to believe? POST: Two months ago my boyfriend broke up with me because he felt as though he didn't think I was the one or that we weren't meant to be. Despite that we had a great relationship. We were best friends that happened to be in love. However, I understood at the time that love isn't always e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My F(23) father M(72) keeps talking about death and it upsets me greatly. POST: My parents had me very late in life, as the ages show. My mother and I no longer speak, as she was very mentally and emotionally abusive. I am an only child, with no other family, so it's really just my father. Him and I are very close, and often talk on the phone for hours. I live somewhat far away (2.5 hours) so I don't see him more than once a month at most. He's remarried, so I'm glad he has my step-",positive " r/Advice TITLE: I absolutely suck at parties. POST: Recently I've found myself winding up at parties where I only know the person or couple that brought me. Here's what usually ends up happening. My host does their duty and introduces me to one person. For the first half hour I bounce between my new friend and my host. Then I find myself in a weird fisheye lens world where everyone I know is mid conversation, Everyone I don't know is in mid conversation and there is no one on their own. So... What ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22M) am concerned that my brother (20M) and mother (62F) hate each other, but don't know where my place is in their relationship. POST: As I said in the title, I (22M) am concerned that my brother (20M) and mother (62F) hate each other. A little background: My brother and I have always had a tense relationship. My mother was always harder on my brother, which instill a very strong sibling rivalry which we still carry on but to a lesser extent. A year before I left college, my da",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by mistaking my aunt for my sister POST: Hello Redditors! Considering I am reddit lurker, please spare me if I make any mistakes considering this is my first post! So just some background - My older sister and I have a funny relationship. She is 19 and I am 15, and she really enjoys punching me and making fun of me. - So I am currently upstate, visiting family and every summer we rent a house for a week or so. Last night all of my family was over at our rented house. When we were eating ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [16M] girlfriend [16F] of a week wants me to talk to a guy she has problems with. POST: So we've just gotten together and I really like her, but yeah let's get to the issue. A buddy of her started to pretty much hit on her. She's annoyed by that and now she sent me his phone number and wants me to talk to him. I told her I don't know what to tell him, and she seems a bit pissed right now. Wouldn't it be kind of weird if I have to tell this dude to stop hitting on her? All she did",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm sure its been asked a thousand times but...Is my husband of 2 yrs [22 M] ""falling out of love"" with me [23 F]? POST: We seem to have been growing apart in the last couple of months. My husband does not kiss me anymore unless I lean in. He doesn't hug me or show any type of physical affection. When he gets home from work, he either plays on his phone, cleans guns, or plays xbox. We hardly talk unless we are in the car or he wants to share a story about something that happened at w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[26M] with [25F] for 9 years, she broke up with me, I cant accept that its over. POST: Been with her for 9 1/2 years, she was my best friend but we had been getting a little distant over the past year with her new job. We were supposed to be moving in together this month and she called it off. She tells me that her perception of our relationship is that we are going around in circles, that I want to move in together and live our lives together and she has doubts and fears. She ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why does he [20M] refuse to answer my [20F] calls? POST: Alright, I've been with my boyfriend for three months now. It started out great, where he'd see me everyday and call if he didn't. But now I rarely see him and its a miracle if I even get a response. This has happened before, where he's disappeared for weeks without contact with me. I called his house during one of these weeks. He agreed to see me, but fell asleep and never called back. Who did call me back, though, was his m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] really like my BF [21M] and we are compatible BUT I am afraid it won't work out in the long-term because of status differences. I am so torn! Should I end it? POST: I sometimes feel like I love my bf (of 2 months). We get along great and I'm happy with him. I met him randomly through a friend at a group movie-thing in March and it went from there. We are even going to go on a weekend trip together soon. But the problem is I really care about him and am tired of painful break",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [20m] continue to be a loyal son even if it means feigned affection? POST: I am looking for advice. I was born in the rural South to a traditional family, i.e., one that values God, guns, and all the implications therein. Members of my family frequently express, I believe somewhat unconsciously, racism and homophobia that fits their idea of a well-defined, categorized world. A common evening at our dirt road trailer involves my father watching reruns of Heehaw-like show, i",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Possible Flake on the second date...Need help following it up POST: I [27 M] have been talking to this girl [24 M] mostly through text but we did go out on a date. After our first date, she said she had a great time and things were going pretty well. a couple of days later we were talking and she mentioned she wasn't ready for anything too serious and wanted to make sure i was aware and wasn't getting set up to get hurt. Since i just got out of a relationship (same as her, mine is ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (F, 22) with M (27), have been seeing each other for a month. Today we talked about not being in a committed relationship but he's acting as if I'm his girlfriend? Confused POST: Met a very nice guy about a month ago. We've hung out four times and he came over today because he wanted to chat about where things were going. We previously had not hooked up. He was very understanding about it (I had a not so great past experience) and we talked about it briefly over text. He texted m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [23 M] being selfish or unreasonable with my [23 F] SO POST: Back story: A couple months ago I hooked up with a long time friend of mine and told her that I had feelings for her. She was skeptical and we had a very straight forward conversation about what each of us wanted. She had just gotten out of a relationship and said she wanted to take things slow so that she could work on herself. I told her that was reasonable and lined up with what I wanted, since I'm slammed with h",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's the most bad-ass thing you said to your parents when you were a kid? POST: I don't have a memory of this happening but it is my mom's favorite story to tell of little me. I was about 4 or 5 years old and at the time my mom was pregnant with my little brother. She was having a rather hormonal day and decided to treat herself to a non-alcoholic beer to cool the rage. Now I have always been a little shit but that day I was being especially testy. It got to a point where my ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not taking advantage of a sure thing POST: Last night I messed up and realized it, decided to post it now. So about a week ago I started chatting with a girl from Tinder. She had some busty pictures, it was Valentine's day and I was bored and maybe a little lonely, so I decided to send her a message. We began talking, she seemed like she was all for hanging out but couldn't that night because she was busy. We remained chatting a little bit each day into last night where I screwed up.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] will soon be moving in with my gf [22], but I have an embarrassing problem (tmi) POST: I've been dating this girl for about a year, and now circumstances have finally evolved to allow us to move in with each other into an apartment. This is a huge move for both of us, since neither of us have lived with an SO before. However, I have an embarrassing medical issue that may cause some problems between us. Basically, I have irritable bowel syndrome that causes me alternating bou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Please help! I really want to make this relationship work, but my girlfriend[f19] doesn't care to hear anything I [m20] have to say about the world or anything in it and continues to disrespect me. POST: Me and my girlfriend have a very loving relationship. However there's one thing that has always bugged me. Everything I mention about literally anything she has the opposite perspective on and it seems forced. It's like that with so many things that I think that she just takes the o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (M18) started talking to a girl (F18) I met on a dating site, she says, she later says She doesn't know what she wants. POST: I've been on dating sites trying to find someone to start a relationship with. I met this girl and we've been talking for about a month now. We've talked on the phone and text and on skype. We get along well, she's really smart and cute and funny and honestly I'm really infatuated by her and we have a lot in common, she's the kind of girl I could see mysel",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Craigslist Personal Assistant job sounds sketchy. Advice? POST: Hello, I've been browsing this sub regularly and soaked in a lot of good information, but now I'm gonna come to you guys directly for some advice about a possibly sketchy ""job offer"" I've gotten from Craigslist. Some background: Recent grad (7 months ago), long and painful job search. Got a job (~24k/yr) that sucks ass but need something to do until something better comes along. Looking for advice since I'm a first gen Asian-Ame",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by attempting to build a rope shelf with my boyfriend. POST: This was actually yesterday but anyways.. I was browsing through Pinterest for ideas to build some kind of storage shelves in my room so I could stock them with all my books and random crap. I saw a rope shelf and was like ""Cool! This look pretty easy and fun to make!"" So boyfriend and I go to Home Depot and get a bunch of wood and rope. We take all the stuff home but have dinner plans so by the time we get home it's already mi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend[21] gets very hurt/upset when I'm[23] not in the mood. POST: Backstory: Today me and my girlfriend of about 2 years got into an argument over sex. She went out with some friends to a restaurant and got tipsy/drunk and came back to see me. I had just woken up from a nap and wasn't really in the mood. We've had talks/arguments like this before and it's mostly stemming from me being stressed out and not wanting sex because of it; it's my last year in college, sometimes I get ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [20 F] of 1 month, asked me to have some time for herself POST: Well, what happened is that she asked me for some time for herself, because she started dating me too soon after a break up, and she says that all that she wants is being with me, but she doesn't want it to be some sort of consequence of her break up. So I told her that I would wait for her until she clears her heart and her mind. And I have absolutely no problem about doing that kind of sac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] dating her [32 F] for 3 months, she's still on Match and dating websites POST: So, I'll break it down real quick. We met on Tinder, hooked up, and have been dating for 3 months. The first few 'dates' were pretty much meeting up and messing around, and I'll admit, I wasn't sure where it was going. I liked her and was infatuated. I found her extremely sexy and attractive. Over the past couple of months, we've been going out more, getting to know each other, she unknowingly ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Do you ever look around, examine the way we as a species choose to live our lives, and think ""what the fuck""? I sure do. POST: We have a limited amount of time to live our lives, we're at a point where our ability to manipulate matter would be referred to as magic by many of our ancestors, and yet it seems we take an absolutely asinine approach and adopt ridiculous antiquated worldviews. I'm not angry or depressed, but sometimes this boggles my mind. First off, lose the fucking ego. All",negative " r/loseit TITLE: [SV] Down about 20lbs, and [Help] Just wondering if anyone else has this weird problem POST: I've been posting/commenting in this subreddit a little bit, and every time I get some pretty good feedback and amazing motivation. First off, I weighed myself today and I've lost 20lb's since changing my lifestyle 5 weeks ago! I'm really excited and happy that I've been able to stay motivated and push myself. I know I still have a long way to go before hitting my goal. My family have been th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [M27] gave me [F26] a ring as a gift. But it's not an engagement ring. My friends think it was a tacky thing to do? Please help? POST: I'm a little pissed at my friends and I'm looking for advice. About a week ago, my boyfriend was traveling for work and did some shopping while he was in the city. Apparently, he saw a ring in one of the shop windows and immediately thought of me. So he bought it and gave it to me a couple of days ago. It was such a thoughtful gesture an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my bestfriend/roomate [20 M] i'm insanely worried about his mental health after his 4 year relationship with his SO ended POST: Alright, so my bestfriend had been dating his highschool sweetheart since they were about 15 and about 6 months ago he found at she had cheated on him with multiple people and of course, they ended up breaking up. At first it really seemed like a good thing, he was doing great at school, working out a ton and getting really into shape, and mak",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Personal Issue: Me[22F] considering turning down a job offer. Is a long commute and wrong cultural fit valid reasons? POST: I have recently graduated college. I had an interview at a company yesterday, and have been debating on whether I should turn down a potential offer. First off, the commute would be about an hour and a half, but I was not driving during rush hour. The commute could be longer. Furthermore, driving in large amounts of traffic makes me nervous. I honestly don't kno",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] Still A Virgin And It Seems To Be Ruining Potential Relationships... Should I Just Get Rid Of It? POST: I have never been in a serious relationship. I've gone on dates with lots of guys but the longest that's ever lasted was 3 months. I am not sure what the issue is. I get told I'm 'pretty/attractive/hot/good looking' a lot (I'm thin, tall, blonde)... so I don't think anything physical is my problem. Now I'm thinking my virginity is the issue. I'm not saving myself for mar",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M18] am experiencing silly HS relationship drama with my girlfriend [F17] POST: Before I start this, I'd like to ask I don't get the usual answer of ""It's high school, it's not going to last forever"". I get it. But I'm naive and stupid. And I'd like you guys to take a step back to your high school years and just give me a little insight or guidance on the issue. My girlfriend (let's call her A) and I have had an ongoing mutual interest for going on to five years now. We've gone o",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not flushing stranger's poop for him. POST: So I'm at this burger place with my girlfriend and I decide to clean my glasses. Well when I don't have my lens wipes on me, I normally use a little soap and water to clean them. So I go to the men's restroom and wash them in the sink. I decided that it would probably be better to use tp instead of paper towels because it's less abrasive. That's when I walked into the only stall and gazed upon the most terrifyingly huge pile of shit I ha",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I just became a doctor but neither am I interested in practicing further nor do I know what else I should do. POST: Hey reddit, I've been a lurker here but for the past few weeks I'm lost in thought and decided why not ask the best community there is. I live in India where at the age of 17/18 we're supposed to decide what field we want to graduate in. I told my parents then that I'm still confused but they convinced me to become a medical practitioner like my father is. So I went ahead and ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Just interrupted the ""course of mother nature"" to save some baby birds... Have you ever intervened nature to protect an animal? POST: A couple weeks ago I noticed a robin (state bird of Michigan) building a nest right outside of my office window - literally about 8 feet from my computer monitor. I took quite a bit of interest in [this little birdie family] and have since been taking photos and video with my GoPro camera. I just leave it in the tree for a few hours every few days to docum",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: I need help. Repost from relationships POST: I just recently found out that my girlfriend (f 27) recently deceived me (m 21) , telling me that she was out with a friend and eventually admitting that she went to watch two men have sex. This happened last weekend and this weekend. She guilt tripped me when I didn't trust her last weekend, and this weekend as well. How do I reconcile this? Women in the past have cheated on me. Is this because I attract a certain type of woman? IS this just",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it weird? Is this a consequence of my previous relationship? POST: Is it weird that I dont feel the need to talk to my boyfriend everyday? In all honesty, I could probably be perfectly fine going two or three days..even more, without really talking to him. I do miss him dearly though. He lives on the other side of the country for work and he only comes home for 10 days every 20 - 50 days. We have been spending time together for about a year but have only been exclusive for just ov",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Inexperienced and need help; why could he be ignoring me and what to do? POST: So I am a very inexperienced person (F, 22) when it comes to relationships. I only had one relationship prior to what's happening now and so I could use reddit's wisdom.. There's a guy who since the beginning of this semester (January) has been staring at me, and I catch him looking and i feel the gaze. He is very good looking ( I think), but I thought he was looking because I am a race different from th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19/F] really liked the waiter [?/M] who served me last night. Should I go back? POST: He had a very special sense of humor, something really got me. He seemed to like me too, looked for eye contact and checked on our table way to many times just to ask how our dinner is. I was with a male friend, I guess that could've held him back from flirting. I was thinking that I would go back alone today, but I really don't know if I should. I was thinking about handing him my phone numbe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [31M] SO [33M] of 6 years is always getting sick but won't do anything about it. I feel like I'm living the life of a carer but for someone who is able to help himself. POST: This is a throwaway account because of reasons. My SO and I have been together for 6 years. In the time I've known him he's always been a tad on the fragile side when it comes to his health but it's never been a major issue until recently. In the last 3 months or so he has spent probably 9 out of 12 weekend",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it okay to call someone [ex-boyfriend] out on shutting me down in front of other people? POST: Brief context: My ex-boyfriend and I run in the same social circle at times. Looking back, I can see elements of potential emotional abuse in our relationship (it was never severely emotional abuse, just red flags, enough to make me wonder). The breakup was on good terms, we are both still friendly to each other, and 95% of the time can interact really well. My problem now is, that sometime",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Finding a girl I met at a concert POST: Last night and this morning I've been trying to find this girl that I met at a Chance the Rapper concert yesterday. I don't know why but I can't seem to get her off of my mind. We didn't talk much but we did exchange names. It was really loud but from what I could make out her name was Dorraine. (Possibly it was just Lorraine but I thought I heard a D sound when she said it). We got split up in the crowd and I was going to try and find her after the c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF's rationalization for sleeping with someone else makes me feel like a chump for taking her back. POST: Some quick back story/context to the question, we're both 25, been together for 2 years. A few months ago my gf slept with someone else, although we were coming off of a break and getting back together at the time. It's been a rough couple months of fighting and such, but I was trying to make it work, get back to normal and forgive and forget. Recently she told me that the r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] don't want my GF [22F] to move back home because I love her too much and already deal with depression and loneliness. I'm broken. POST: Okay, so I'll try to keep this as short as possible. I've been going out with my girlfriend for about 3 months now, but we've known each other through work for a little over a year. We love each other, maybe I love her more than she loves me. Anyway, her dad recently passed out and foamed from the mouth from what they think is alcohol related",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[23m] watched an ex-pornstar's YouTube clip of her playing a video game and my gf[20f] of a year hates me for it. POST: I am into a certain video game and sometimes I enjoy watching other pros play. I usually only watch a select few players but recently someone mentioned that an ex pornstar plays the game and makes a living off of it which piqued my curiosity as to how she has a large enough audience to make a living, so I ended up going to a video of one of her streams. Now, my gi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] entered in a local contest to win tickets to a popular band and won! My ex [21F] is upset I'm not sure that I want to take her. POST: So, as the title says, I called a local radio station and won a free pair of tickets to a concert of a very well known band. I was in the car with my ex, Kayla, when I called. Kayla and I are still really good friends and see each other almost every day. I care for her deeply and she is one of my best friends. Here's where it gets pretty trick",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: How to talk to semi-financially illiterate fiancé? POST: I have a unique situation here in terms of my fiancé. He's 26 and is very well off. But, has never paid a bill until a month ago and doesn't understand dependence on a paycheck, and is often upset with me for how little I can contribute and I'm not sure how to explain that I'm doing everything I can. He has an investment portfolio that has about 850,000 in it, has additional savings and bonds I'm not aware of the total of (",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Not sure if I should continue to pursue or not...Strange situation POST: We're both 20 and will be juniors in college this fall. We met last semester through mutual friends. I just got into town for summer classes. We've been texting and flirting a lot in the past weeks so I figured she was interested. Problem is, a friend of mine is also interested in her. I'll call him X Heres the current situation. Last night, a friend had a pool party. X and the girl were both there. They end up",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: How to save and have some money left over on a limited income? POST: I work in quite a low paid job however I do a lot of overtime to cover my expenses. I am trying to save for a mortgage at the moment using the UK's help to buy isa, the government will top up whatever I save by 25% which is great but is really eating into my wages. I am currently making about £1400 a month. My rent is £500, household bills £250, my personal bills and car finance are £200. I am putting £200 a mont",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by accidentally asking my mom's neighbor how his orgy went. SFW (I promise) POST: So there is this house near my mom's that for the past two weeks has had a lot of cars outside every other night, consistently. Staying at her house, I joked with my mom one night that that guy must host orgies or something. The thought was, for some reason, so funny to her, that it became an inside joke between us from then on. For instance: ""Gee son, there must have been thirty cars at his house, must be ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [18] doesn't want me to watch movies if they have even a little bit of nudity in them, and gets jealous about other small things. What should I do? POST: My girlfriend [18] and I [19] have been together for almost 2 years. In every way it's been a great relationship, and I love her dearly, but there's this one problem. She gets jealous about other females all the time. If she uses my phone, she'll look through the messages for conversations with other girls. If she find",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [VA] Landlord failed to inform me of mice and mold in the house, demanding terms not stated in the lease if I wish to terminate POST: The landlord of the townhouse I moved into about a month ago has literally no idea about the condition the last tenants left it in. He did not inspect it or have it cleaned when they moved out. I recently discovered from his daughter that also lives in the house that there are mice. And my other roommate told me that they have been there since before the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Best Friend is being blackmailed by asshole ""boyfriend"". What do, r/relationships? POST: Okay, I know it isn't my place to interfere and such, but I've never seen my best friend as down as she was today. So, best friend (18) starts dating guy (17) in a different country, long distance. She went and visited him for a few weeks and came back, then they had a fight. So, she broke up with him. This is where it gets interesting. Her father is very anti-relationship (muslim father, very ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Second Birthday? POST: Alright so I'm 23M and my girlfriend, let's call her Renee is 24F. We've been dating and living together for about a year or so. Yesterday was her birthday. I had sprained my ankle a couple days prior so I did all I could without doing more damage to myself(cooked her dinner, cleaned the house, got her a present). The night went on and we had fun with friends and whatnot. Today though, she woke up wanting more apparently. Her plans for the day were me taking h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Do you tell your best guy/girl friend that you love them? F(21) POST: Last night when my friends and I went out to the bar. Me and my girl friend dressed up. My best guy friend (friends 4 years) was acting kind of awkward like he always does. He kept teasing me about what I was wearing. He kept pushing into me in a flirty way. Before we left he said ""I could never get sick of you, ever"" and while we were out he put his arm around me and said ""I love you. Really, I do."" He then threw ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I (19F) stop being friends with him (22M)? POST: I met a guy online who lives on the other side of the world. We became good friends and developed feelings for each other. He said he wants to be with me and I want to be with him but we both know that it will never work out. So we agreed to just be friends for now, but it isn't working for me. I can't stand the thought of him being with other girls, which I know he is. It really hurts me. I want to get over him but I can't if w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [23F] broke up with me [24M] to work on her depression. Should I really go no contact? POST: She told me she still loves me and wants to be with me but wanted to break up because she felt like she was dragging me down, like I didn't deserve to be in a relationship with someone struggling with depression. That it wasn't anything wrong with me or the relationship. She brought that up a month ago as well saying things like ""how are you even with me? i'm terrible to you...""",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Confused by hookup relationship POST: I (22, F) recently broke up with my boyfriend of 2 years. I think I had been over it for a while before I actually did it--I was sad and still feel sad sometimes, but mostly I know it is for the best. A few weeks ago, I started hooking up with this guy (22, M) who I'd flirted with for a long time. At first, I thought it would be just a hookup type relationship. He and I don't have much in common, and he's actually a little bit famous, which m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with a girl I have fallen deep for[20 F] has me in a difficult situation that has me practicing my patience. POST: So to start off, I have been really working hard to meet this girl I have deeply fallen for through an acquaintance. She is like everything I want in a young lady. I was in so deep that I really wanted nobody else. And that mindset still lingers. I was able to try and have the acquaintance attempt to pair us together, but it looks as though it may not happen ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19/F] with my best friend [20/F] of 3 yrs, two months ago she got dumped by her bf(of two months), since then she hasnt stopped obsessing over him/complaining about him. POST: For the first month and a half I was fully supportive of my friend. I unconditionally agreed with whatever she had to say about her ex, even if i knew she was wrong. I gave her all the sympathy i could, i was'there for her'. But here we are two months later, and still she goes off about her ex almost daily",negative " r/loseit TITLE: First time in my life I've tried to lose weight. It's interesting. [F/21/147] POST: So I've always been fit and around 120 lbs. But I suffered a sports injury in college which left me unable to practice or play. Over the past year, I've gained about 40 lbs, which is a lot on a 5 foot girl. I started realizing it in pictures and couldn't believe this was me. I was eating the same, but gaining weight because I wasnt burning off those extra calories. I wanted to cry because I had to buy size",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23f) am single for the first time in 8 years. I have no sense of self. How do I learn how to function as an individual? POST: I recently came out of a serious relationship. We were planning on getting married and he left for someone else. He's still with her. A month before I met him, I left a 7 year relationship. For the past 8+ years I've been part of a ""couple"". Now that I'm single, I'm having a hard time being alone. I'm constantly trying to find male companionship even thou",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: LRT SO needs help getting aroused. POST: Dating for almost 8 years me (24f) him (23m) We are apart for about 10/11months. (jan to end of nov) for school. While we are apart he has gone to clubs and strip clubs to dance wth ladies and strippers. and i dont really have a problem with it since we are apart for so long. Then he started working out a lot. It killed his libido, and since he moved away form our home town for the duration he has no friends in Ontario so he is extra lone",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: How do you GetMotivated when you've screwed yourself over so badly? POST: long story made short: been unemployed for over a year, getting a bit depressed but I had been holding out with temp jobs and internships. two months ago, I really fucked up and got convicted of a DUI. right now I'm taking a break from working/interning to study for the GREs, but I'm feeling really down - about how badly I fucked up getting a DUI, how badly I let my family/friends down, and my own feelings about",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My Girlfriend[f/19] is on vacation for 2 1/2 Months without me, says she doesn't feel it anymore. I'am [M/22]. POST: My Girlfriend for almost 3 years is on vacation since the 2 of January and comes back on the 9th of March. Yesterday i asked her where I stand and if she really knows what she wants (continue the relationship), because she didn't show the affection i used to get from her the whole time. Then after some struggling she answered the following: *""to be honest, i wa",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Anyone else never had regrets until you go through a breakup? POST: (24 f - three weeks since end of five year relationship) I've never felt regretful before. I've always stood by my actions and my mistakes as part of learning. But I feel like I didn't need to learn this by going through this, I wish I could have realized this sooner and maybe not have fucked it up. We both made mistakes, we both failed at the relationship. I'm not putting all the blame on myself. But I'm do",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend [25 F] of over a year. I don't feel like I love her anymore. POST: I'm at a crossroads it seems. She loves me a lot and goes out of her way for me, and even understands me more than anyone else. But as of lately, I just don't feel the same for her. I do not want to hurt her at all, but I cannot think of a good way to break it off. She pours everything she has into this relationship which is making everything so much harder. I even tried taking her to the ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: SECOND UPDATE Me [40's F] with my friend [40's M] of 6 months. Complicated. Maintain friendship, or figure out how to end the friendship without hurting him? POST: First post: First TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 24[M] don't know what to do any longer with ex-gf 19 [M] POST: Hey, So yeah 2 months ago she broke up with me while she was leaving for a vacation the day after. I was heartbroken and still am. She told me it just didn't work between her and me and I somehow can understand. After she came back for vacation she was here in The Netherlands for two weeks. We have been hooking up during that timr trying to get things together. We had a awesome time and then she had to leave again for ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 F] with my bf [24 M] of 5 years, can't agree on how arguments should go, so we're ending things POST: When I was upset I said (calmly, but tensely) ""I don't want to fucking talk to you right now, I'm so angry."" I walk away. He said that's wrong. I told him that's what you're suppose to say so that you don't say something mean or stupid. He disagrees.   While explaining that to him, I say things like ""You really think that couples never argue?"" ""You need someone perfect."" Th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] want to know if I should pursue this guy [20M] and make the first move after the initial contact. POST: I met this guy through Tinder and he said that he was looking to make friends and he doesn't really hook up. He has but he was a relationship guy. (I can tell he was honest about it. I've met too many guys who aren't.) I can respect that. I spent some time with him and his friends and I had a blast. We talked a bunch and it was great. It was clear we got along and we ende",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My brother's dog is missing and we're getting very worried. Maybe Reddit can help? POST: My brother lives in the Modesto area, near Standiford and Prescot, with just his little Boston Terrier, Sally. While taking Sally out for a late night whiz, he tripped and fell. The thud and following pirate speak spooked her, causing her to make a mad dash into the street. She'd always been a timid little thing, but we never expected that kind of reaction. The other issue: we can't even call out her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Fellow math student is bragging and putting other students down. POST: So I am in a college math class with a student (let's call him Adit) who spends a fair amount of time advertising his supposed math abilities. This is a small (~30 person) class in a small room, so everyone can hear him. Earlier today, a student in front of me said something to the effect of ""yeah, I spent like 4 hours on that homework"", and Adit replied boastfully ""Oh, wow, that took you four hours?"" with an i",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Property that I work at is selling. Current Company is offering me a demotion and new company has begun to recruit. What to do? POST: So i am an assistant property manager at a luxury apartment community in the NYC-NJ-CT area about 7-10 mins from where i live. I make about $46,500 and I have been on the job for 1 year and 6 months. My property is about to be sold and the management company (Company A) I am working with has not been very clear with what is going on. My property man",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting the munchies POST: So I saw a story about someone having eaten some sugar ants and this reminded me of my own battle with the infamous sugar ants. I was extremely stoned and remembered that my parents had just bought two bags of mini donuts, one chocolate and one powdered sugar. They were both unopened; nothing like a fresh bag of mini donuts. I couldn't decide between the two so I just took both to my room and proceeded to fucking inhale the mini donuts without even looking a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (17f) get a lot of mixed signals from a really good guy friend(17m) POST: I (17 female) have been friends with this guy (also 17) for a few years, I've known him since 6th grade, actually been really good, almost best friends with him for 2 years. He knows I like him, that is something we can sit down and openly discuss. The downside to him is that I only ever see him in school and the rare occasion we go eat out with friends, he HATES texting passionately. Sometimes he'll text me ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my fiancée [27 F] of 7 years; do you ever fully get over cheating from a long time ago? POST: 2 years into our relationship, she made out and got felt up by a guy at a wedding. I did not see it coming at all and found out about it a few months later. I broke up with her immediately and it wrecked both of our worlds. We had 6 months of back and forth conversations where she would often take my verbal abuse over her cheating. I got over it by believing that she had sim",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my best friend [22 F]. Her ex is trapping her in his home and she's trying to bust out POST: I need help on how to get my her out of a really bad situation. Sam had a long term relationship with a guy and broke up with him due to him being neglectful and being and overall asshat. Sam has moved on and was happily making friends with other guys when asshat decides it's a good idea to try to win her back through good'ol stalking. He (word-for-word from Sam), would go t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] just got an unwanted message from him [34M], do I reply? POST: Relevant info: I've been with my SO for 5 years, married for 2. He (we'll call him Gus) has been with his SO for several years, married for 3 with a kid. We live on different continents. Background: I met Gus through mutual friends when I was 17 and he was 26. I didn't have many friends at the time so we hung out every once in a while. Come to find out Gus asked my dad if we could be in a relationship. My dad, co",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting a pencil cap stuck in my ear during a test in 8th grade. POST: Ok so Let me start out by saying that i'm a freshman in high school so this happened last year. I know you guys are wondering how a 14 year old got a pencil cap stuck in his ear In 8th grade. I had a test on history and I got stressed so I started fiddling with the cap of my lead pencil. I honestly don't know how but it somehow got stuck in my ear. I quietly raised my hand to inform my teacher about the situation",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [19 M] tell my new girlfriend [19 F] about my anxiety/depression? POST: **Relationship backstory:** I work for a campus organization that plans events for students. The people who help us are volunteers and we become friends with them. I met my new girlfriend, who I will call Sally, at the beginning of the semester. We slowly started talking more and more and went on our first date about 3 weeks ago. We've hung out before that and have gone on about 5 dates total. Last n",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Younger co-worker (24/m) asked me (31/f) to do S&M play with him, I am married... should I do it? POST: First of all, I am a married woman (4 years married) with one child but I have always had a fetish for being a dom in a relationship, but my husband would never do something like that. The situation is my co-worker recently broke up with his girlfriend, and hes been in a depressed mood the whole week. We work as one unit on a team and we've always had a good relationship. He's aske",positive " r/GetMotivated TITLE: [Discussion] My response to the ""a lot of mother fuckers to prove wrong"" POST: I remember when i had a version of that picture tapped on my mirror so everyday when I woke up i remembered why I would go to the gym, why I would eat right, why I would do the things to make me the best fighter I could be. I wanted to prove everyone wrong. Everyone that said it couldn't be done, that dropping out of school to chase a dream was a mistake. That's all I wanted. Fast forward a years and a l",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I have a job offer conundrum. I have been asked to interview for another position, but currently have a job. I don't want to upset my current employer. What do? POST: I've been working in total for about 2 years since graduating college in 2009 (thanks, Recession). I've been at my current job for just over a year, and last week I was contacted about a new position with a different company. I like my current job, I have no complaints at all. My boss and owner are great, I'm good a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [M/22] get in touch with my absent Father? POST: My dad was married to another woman when my mom fell pregnant. He divorced and promised to be there for my mom and the baby (me). He failed to keep that promise and was barely present for ~18 years of my life. I haven't seen him at all for ~4 years, but my mum (who usually hates him) wants me to make an effort to get in touch? I told her 'Why should I, he should be the one trying to make amends?'. She couldn't give any other r",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: [Serious] Redditors who have packed up and moved to a new city on a whim - what was it like? POST: I'm 26 and recently decided to pack up and start a new chapter in a new city across the country at the end of this month. I'm curious if anyone out there has done this and if they have any (hopefully constructive) advice to offer. The original plan was I was going to keep my current position and be transferred, but that fell through. I had already committed mentally to making the move so ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is me [F/21] not texting him [M/22] back a mean way to hint that I'm not interested anymore? POST: I met this guy at school and we exchanged numbers pretty quickly. We texted about 3 days straight and then I started to see that I wasn't really into him personality-wise, so I didn't respond to his last text. He didn't ask me a question in the last text, it was just a statement text that I didn't respond to. He never texted me again but almost a week later I still feel guilty abou",negative " r/Advice TITLE: What do I (f22) get leap day bf (35m) of one week for his birthday? POST: I posted this to another sub but they deleted it. This one is a bit lighter, but I'm stuck for ideas. We met due to work (not together but our companys do business together so we bumped into each other) and eventually I developed a massive crush on this guy. He's charming and handsome and pays attention to you, like if I said I had a sick relative he'd always ask about them even if we hadn't seen each other in weeks. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I recently found out someone on my floor is a sex offender, but I can't find him online. Suggestions? POST: Ok, so I just found out today that someone who lives on my floor is a sex offender. We were making small talk and he just kind of blurted it out randomly. I was able to learn his first, middle, and last names.I was curious to know what exactly he did to earn this label. So I entered his full name into google, but couldn't find him. I checked the FBI site and some site called watchd",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Virgin couple(26m, 28f) just had sex for the first time after being in a relationship for almost 4 years. But y'day, gf made it clear it's not happening again until we're married. How do I handle this? POST: Hi reddit. I've been in this relationship for almost 4 years now. Never had sex throughout our relationship as we promised each other to save it till marriage just to keep it special. We're both virgins. Never really had much problems during the first two years as we were mostly ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [19/m] think I'm in love with my best friend [18/f], so need advice on taking things to the next level. POST: So, I have been friends with this one girl for about a year now. We see each other almost everyday at class and we text all the time. She's pretty much my best friend, and I am hers. Point to be noted, she has another best friend too which she is more close to than she is to me. Okay so lately she's been telling me how handsome I look, and that younger sister says ""I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm worried that my[F20] group of friends[FMM20s] is going to fall apart due to feelings we're developing for each other. We all have depression and anxiety issues. POST: This isn't the most intense story out there, a bit of young adult drama, but any advice would help. I feel lost! We all met through activities within our mental health clinic, and have formed deep, fun friendships. I don't want to lose any of them for the world - we're all massive supports for each other. First it",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (23/f) bring up the discussion about our future to bf (23/m) of 7 years? POST: Thank you for reading. Please keep an open mind while reading this; it's a special situation due to cultural differences. We have been together for 7 years; so through high school, university and we both have jobs now & focusing on our careers. We've had our downs (just like any other couple on the planet), but we are happy. We make a good team. **Twist:** My parents don't know. I'm from a South",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20sF] feel like moving on is a betrayal to my ex [20sM] POST: I dated my ex for five years. We are in our early twenties. I am obviously not over my ex, and I know things can change in the future. But right now when I try to acknowledge (in order to help me move on) that I CAN fall in love with someone else, I start crying hysterically because I feel like falling for someone else would be a betrayal to my ex. I know it wouldn't be since we aren't together, but it's how I feel. Is ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] feel a distance growing between me and my GF [18 F] POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for almost 6 months now after meeting during our first year of University. She commenced the relationship, and I had gotten used to her being ""clingy"", in a good way. I quite liked it, actually. She'd always text me to ask how my day had been, and she always wanted to call. She would actually tell her friends about how much she loved me and so on. Over the summer, she spent a mont",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my GF [19 F] of 1.5 years, broke up 7 months ago, can't get over it POST: My girlfriend and I of 1.5 years, started dating at the end of grade 12, and broke up 7 months ago, one month into university. I loved this girl more than absolutely everything, and was devastated when we broke up. She started dating somebody one month after we broke up, the guy was someone she previously knew and she knew he was into her. I've been with other girls since, I dated somebody for ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] met a guy [not sure how old but ~28-30 I think] at a work do a week ago. He got my number but never texted, I don't know whether to make the first move POST: So we got on pretty well at this work thing and ended up going for a couple of drinks afterwards, just us. We had some interesting conversations and had a nice time, and I ended up walking half way home with him because our conversation was so good! (btw we don't work in the same place so I probably wont see him at a w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Does my coworker [30?F] think of me [39M] as a friend? POST: There is a woman at work who I try to chat with every week or so. She's very friendly and has a great personality. I would like to be friends with her. Sometimes I have to talk to her because I need to ask her a work-related question, but other times I'll just stop by and ask her how she's doing. I am very introverted and don't have very good social skills, and she is a great conversationalist. Sometimes our conversations ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Don't know who else to ask... POST: So I am a 21 year old guy that goes to college out of state from home, I come home a few times a year to help my parents run the restaurant that my family owns. For three years now I've worked with this girl there that I have always had an interest in, and only this year have I realized that she may be interested as well. I really like her and would really like to have things kick off and become, lets say ""official"". Here's my problem, I'm no",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/m] Visiting hometown, can't figure this girl out [22/f] POST: If this should be elsewhere or deleted, by all means. So I'm in my hometown for a month after having moved away four years ago and my last visit two years ago. And there is this one girl that I wanted to see at the very least while I was here. A couple years back we had some long distance thing which I ended up ending because of.. Well f*ck knows I guess I was scared? Anyway, time has passed, I've changed, we'",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Medical school ambitions POST: I'm just looking for a little guidance. I'm 21 years old and until last year I didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to engineering school, which is not a bad path for someone who doesn't know. However, I got 3/4ths of the way through the Civil Engineering program and decided definitively I want to be a doctor. Specifically in the area of cardiology. I did my research and know being a doctor today can be a nightmare with the liabilities and what used ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27M] have ADD. My GF [24F] of 1.5 yrs, has eating disorder, depression, and anxiety. She doesn't think I love her despite my efforts. POST: I'm looking for ideas on how I can really prove to her that I truly love her and care about her because I really do. My issue is that I have a hard time focusing and for some reason no matter how hard I try, I can't show Emotion. But I try everyday to prove my love to her. She just thinks I don't care about her and is constantly depressed a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, my father is being a right prick, and im not sure what to do. POST: My dad basically bailed on my mother and I before i was born. I havent seen him more than twice in a year in my whole life. When i was 15, he went to live in Macao, overseas, without so much as a word to anyone or any attempt to contact with me, not even a birthday wish or a christmas card. I found out where he went a while ago through my younger half-sister, who i recently added to FB. Im 23 now, havent see",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [26/F] fiancé [24/M] emotionally cheated on me for 1 year, now he will be her boss! POST: Hey, About 4 years ago for about 2 years my SO and I were having some trouble in our relationship, a year in my SO got very close with a girl from university and that ended up as him emotionally cheating on me for a year, we got over that and he ended up cutting her of, a few months after that we have been going strong and our relationship has never been better. This was 2 years ago, he tol",negative " r/loseit TITLE: What to do when your partner is NOT helping? POST: My partner and I are both overweight. I'm doing something about, he claims to be also. I'm exercising and eating right, and losing weight. He's skipping meals and trying to get me to eat junk with him. I'm not giving in but what do I do in this situation? We don't live together so now I'm spending fewer and fewer nights with him so that I can make dinner and plan lunches. Whenever I tell him I'm not having any, he does the whole ""I wouldn't",negative " r/college TITLE: I feel like I'm in the hunger games here POST: I got into a very competitive program for college that basically allows us to complete college undergrad in two years. Its very well known that my college drops about half of the accepted students and because of this basically everyone is horrible. It's been three months into school and I've tried to make small talk and make some friends. My logic is that if we don't understand anything, we can help each other and have that support group. I'm ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Not sure how or if I should make a move. Help please? POST: I am a 23 year old female, 5'2 115lb who got out of a 5 year relationship about 10 months ago and haven't really had too much experience with the whole flirting/dating game. I met a guy (20) about 2-3 months ago and just recently started hitting it off with him for the past couple of weeks while playing xbox games together at his place. Through mutual friends and partying there have been a couple of occasions in which we ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you had a SO whose physique made you self conscious about yours? How did you deal with it? POST: If anyone has some tips, I'd be really thankful. This is my case: I am a short girl with very large frame (for any woman, but especially one of my height) and average weight. Basically, I am very wide and have essentially no waist and also some unwanted belly and thigh fat. I consider myself attractive enough in the face, but am never super comfortable naked next to a SO. My current ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife [29 F] is in love with someone else [Me M 28], been together 4-5 years. POST: So it's been a while since I've been on reddit to post, but I think I need the opinion of strangers, and there's no one in real life I can actually ask. MY wife went on a trip a month ago to see an old friend, when she came back she was significantly colder to me, I took it as a sign to up my game and be a more understanding husband. Well it turns out that while she was seeing this old friend she ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being kind to my brothers POST: So this actually happened a while back, but I thought of it today. I'm still in high school and my brothers are a bit older than I am and live in different towns, so I don't see them often. So I went and spent the weekend with my brothers and we all decided to go out to lunch. My oldest brother normally pays for lunch because he has the best job of the three of us, and sadly (for him in this case) seniority is a thing that exists. On this occasion I in",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (20,M) saw my female friend (20,F) naked and she's strangly ok with it. Why? POST: So last week I was at a friends house it was me and maybe like 6 girls all about 20 years old. One of them was getting ready for a date but she was dressed kinda slutty and was really worried about it. I offered to give my personal opinion on her outfit because I'm a dude and I'd tell her what i thought was to far ect. I walk into her room and she's completely naked. I turned away quickly but she t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 23f and guy 25m went on two dates over two days. He isn't texting now. Why? POST: Lives in London and was home in Ireland for a few days. Went on two dates and he seemed really interested. Gave him a quick kiss on first date at the end. And second date he even seemed like he was making plans for next time (possibly could be Christmas next time he's home) he said we have to go bowling next time.. seemed nervous on first date and was babbling a lot. He had a big day planned out he d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my boyfriend [21 M] of 6 months. I want to go to a club with my female friends. He's against it. POST: I really don't know what to do, and I'm feeling frustrated and in need of some outside opinions. My bf and I have been dating for about 6 months. We've been long distance for about 2. I have never been to a club before, and my friends have invited me to go to one this weekend. This sounds fun, and I want to socialize with my friends and have a good time. I'm not look",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] ended things with my girlfriend [17 F] of 6 months but don't know if i should go back or not POST: So I've been dating this girl for six months and decided to end things with her yesterday because I thought I just lost the feelings I had for her. It was the hardest thing I've ever done simply because iv'e never been the one to end things and seeing her cry was one of the worst things I've ever experienced. She kept on telling me in tears how she wanted me to be happy and th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] with my girlfriend [22 F] 2.5 years, long distance and wants to start an open relationship. POST: My girlfriend of 2.5 years says that she wants to start dating around in order to fill the void that she feels when I am not in town with her (we are in a long distance relationship and see each other for varying lengths of time about 3-4x per month). Although she would be dating other guys she says she would still be in love with me and no one else. I am able to keep busy and ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My friends stole and vandalized a head because they thought it was funny, now there is a website up looking for it. HELP! POST: Basically, a few weeks ago, I was driving around with a few friends in the middle of the night in a pretty nice neighborhood. I'm going to say this right now, these friends are extremely emotionally unstable and make a lot of ridiculous decisions when they're bored. We drove past a house that had all kinds of decorations, and this house was BIG. The kind of 'big",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [US] Roofer has been holding my deposit for 1.5yr without doing any work and he doesn't have the money to pay me back. Do I wait until he can reimburse me or do I sue him? POST: [WV] I hired a contractor to put a new roof on my home and paid him half the money up front ($4500). He was starting his own business and getting his contractors license for the first half of the summer and did not complete the job. He told me that I would be first in line the next year so I let him keep the de",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Being harassed by a medical billing company. Worth getting a lawyer or just give in and pay up? POST: Situation in brief: Bill for ~$1000. Insurance company says they paid it ages ago. Medical billing company says they never got the check. Insurance says ""here's the check number, go look for it"". Medical billing company says ""we'll put this on hold and get back to you."" It's been 3+ years since the charges were actually incurred. They have been billing me on and off that entire time.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my GF [18 F] 2 years, says I've changed, and that I have to go back to how I was POST: So we've been dating for dating for about 2 years, for the first year everything, aside from some minor mistakes on her part. For example, she wanting to move abroad, with her brother, and for two weeks not talking to me at all, saying to all her friends that we had broken up, and all of a sudden, she came back talking to me that she wouldn't go cause of me or even saying we shouldn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M], my girlfriend [32 F] of 1 year wants to get married, I don't! what to do? POST: I'm a 25 years old guy and my girlfriend of 1 year is 32. Due to her age, she is in more rush to get married than I. I'm still not even sure if she is the one. even though I love her as my girlfriend and would like things to stay the way they are. However she is much more serious in our relationship. Even talking about having a tiny bit of doubt would make her sad and angry. So to keep the relat",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Strange weekly water weight gain - Ideas? POST: Hi All: I'm 31/M and recently I've noticed an odd trend in my weight. Every Sunday my weight goes up dramatically. This past week I weighed about 8.5 pounds more on Monday morning than I did Sunday morning. Obviously, it's not ""real"" gain - there's no real change in my diet from during the week and I didn't eat an extra 28,000 calories on Sunday, so I must be retaining a ton of water. Does this happen to anyone else? Some kind of stress ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My girl friend of 9 months wants to move in with me but her aunt wont let her. POST: Hello, I live in NY and my Girlfriend lives in PA. she is 18 I am 20, her legal guardians do not like me and have threatened to have a restraining order filed, i have no relationship with them. They have also notified me that i will be trespassing if i go on there property. My girlfriend wants to move up here on the 18th to live with me, i have also gotten a job position lined up for her to start short",negative " r/running TITLE: How many days a week to maintain performance? POST: Just started running pretty recently, doing C25k then going to do 10k one. I'm a rock climber first, and runner second (sorry folks, running's not my first love). Luckily I started running during a break in my climbing training so I've been able to really focus on it. However, I'll eventually be climbing 4 days a week, but don't want to give up running. How many days a week should I try to run to maintain whatever performance level I'll b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My husband (31m) and I (30f) are moving with our mutual friend (28m) to a new city. It's been years since any of us have had roommates. Advice? POST: This question is rather general so let me know if it isn't allowed. My husband and I have been married for 5 years and we've been friends with Aaron for like 12, close friends for 8. He is our mutual friend (we all went to the same high school, he and hubs went to the same college. Husband and I didn't date until after we were both ou",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I need help. I have ADD and am afraid to take meds such as Adderall. POST: I have a wife and 4 beautiful children and make a good living and provide for them the best I can. I also suffer from ADD and it has proven my life to be a very difficult one to live. I've always struggled immensely to focus on things that do not interest me, struggled in school, didn't go to college for fear I would in no way make it through because of a lack of focus. At the time I had no clue why I was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He 25M won't let me 25M spend the night. Wait for a ""better time. "" POST: I work 7 days a week, and on Saturday and Sunday morning it's at 4:30am(or waking up at 3:30am.) He works 5 days a week, getting there at 7am M-F. When it's late and we are cuddling watching something, I ask to sleep over and wake up early with him or I leave to work from there. Good excuses and promises of another time. We've been dating for 2 months now. Last night there wasn't a reason I couldn't, but him no",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/M] with attachment issues, what is wrong with me? POST: I am an 19 year old male who has never been in a serious relationship, and I tend to have this attachment issues with girls. What I mean specifically is that I have gotten really attached to a girl that I hardly know. In high school it was the complete opposite, I would always fall for the girls who were my closest friends and that would always cause problems, now a full year out of high school it's different. This gir",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my ex girlfriend [17 F] 5 months she hangs out with my friends and makes me feel awkward POST: so my ex and I broke up pretty mutually 3 weeks ago and I've taken a little time but now I'm pretty much over it. We were best friends for about 6 months before we started dating and I was always worried this would happen and ruin our friendship. When we broke up we agreed to stay close friends, but now she's hanging out with my group of friends and becoming close friends wit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My friends 30's F is having a crisis and she has just vanished. POST: My friend is a single mother, her kid is with his dad for summer. We have known each other for little over 2 years now. For past year or so, I thought we were quite close. I would talk with her every day, meet few times a week. Both of us have been single for some time now so having her around filled a big gap. She is very warm, comforting person. She does have this wild partying side that I have grown a little tir",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm a M [17] and I don't understand why I'm so bad with girls. POST: Like the title says I'm a 17 year old male and I have no clue what it is I'm doing wrong. I have always had a general interest in woman and have had more than a few girlfriends and short relationships but recently its been getting difficult. I just started a new job and have met about 5-6 girls that I've found attractive one in particular works in my department (photo) and I just find her personality amazing ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU throwing bottled urination at unnamed homosapiens POST: Fuck me. I was on the bus and my friend really had to urinate so I gave him my Gatorade Bottle. He pissed in it like I figured he would. I sit on a horrible bus where the back is just a bunch of Ratchets and Douchebags who are the most annoying fucking people on the planet. They always throw their trash across the bus because, like I said, these kids are idiots. My Common Sense decided to sit the next 5 Minutes Out and I plotted th",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Does it make sense for me to transfer my IRA from Scottrade to Vanguard? POST: Hey there, I tried taking a look at previous postings, but couldn't find a good answer. Here's my situation: I have two accounts with Scottrade, a brokerage account worth about 60k right now and Rollover IRA worth just north of 10k. This rollover IRA came from when I left a job back in 2003, and I just haven't done much with it. I have a few holdings, but the majority of the account is in unsettled trad",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] and my girlfriend [19 F] of around a month going to a family dinner, me wondering what one would ask her family members? POST: Okay. So this is my first post/question here on reddit, and I'm kind of hoping you guys could help me spitball some ideas here... **My concern** So the thing is that my girlfriend's mom asked me to attend her birthday party, which is like this family dinner-thing. I'm not really having any trouble communicating with her parents. They already love",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (27/m) Growing feelings for my Best Friend (29/f) and I don't know how she truly feels... POST: My first Reddit Post so please be easy on me :) First a little back story. I've known my best friend (we will call her Sara) for a little under 4 years now. We met when I actually was dating her little sister (23/f), who later left me for her boss, and has since had a child with him, but we are still both civil to each other and talk, as I am very close to their family. T",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: New landlord hasn't provided most services promised. Can we withhold rent? POST: I recently moved into a new London flat. The flat was completely empty and open entirely to new tenants. In my contract, I am covered for rent, gas, electric, water, broadband and a weekly cleaner. Also it's 'fully furnished' However, broadband was not provided for the first three weeks of the term. A cleaner wasn't present for a couple of weeks either. The fridge is also not of an acceptable standard - ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Reddit: Can anyone make a gif out of this Calvin and Hobbes? Also, would any Redditor be kind enough to draw/paint this for me? POST: I love Calvin and Hobbes. When I have a hard day I'll just sit down flip and flip through a few pages. I find it funny when I reread these comics because as a kid I would laugh more at the actual pictures than understand the message of the comic. Now I enjoy both the significance of this comic strip and the artistic genius behind it. I guess I would ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, can you help me clarify my sexuality? POST: I (male) consider my self to be bi-curious in every sense of the word. I have just turned 16 and i have a girlfriend (who is also semi-bi-curious). I have always considered the possibility that i might be gay, and have talked to a few of my closest friends about it, and the answer is usually the same, ""Your still in your teen years, you dont know shit"" or something to that extent. I have had more ""gay experiences"" then ""straight experi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] met a girl online and I'm trying to get a friendship going out of it, not sure what to do POST: So I got out of a 3 year relationship about 2 months ago, over that moving on. I turned to some online dating to try to find someone. I started chatting with this really cute girl and don't want to mess this up. Best part of this, she goes to my college. We exchanged numbers after a bit of chatting online, then a few days after I got her number we texted a bit and I asked for her s",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Offensive Political Rants From A Facebook Friend. POST: Fibromyalgia and some other disorders has rendered my friend Sue disabled. A friend lets her live in a small house in the woods of a rural area. Though she works part time, she is all alone, far away from anything, has extremely little money and a LOT OF TIME ON HER HANDS. Sue is lonely and bored, so she is posting endless political rants on Facebook. She is a liberal and I am a liberal. I don't hide her posts, because I real",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21M] spending christmas/staying with [21F] girlfriend of four months? POST: I have been going out with my current girlfriend for the last four months. We met at the end of the school year in May last year, and talked all summer and then started going out in September. Both my parents passed away two years ago, and they were the ones I usually spent Christmas with. Since then I spent all my holidays with my Aunt and Uncle which has been all fun and good. So my girlfriend and I were",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend (25) of 2 years needs some cheering up, and I (24) don't seem to be able to do it! POST: Hello, It started yesterday, I got home and noticed something was wrong. She was apathic really, but didn't want to talk about it. She did however say briefly that she felt like a loser for not finding her dream job, and she has the feeling she is stuck in her life. I tried hugging her but it all felt forced and I had the idea that she wanted to be alone with her thoughts, mostly beca",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Dating my friend's sister... POST: So, to start off, I am in quite a predicament and am not really sure what to do. For about a month now, me and my friend's sister have been seeing each other regularly. So far it has been completely secretive and the only two people that know of the relationship are me and her. She has a brother one year younger than her (one of my friends, and the same age as me) who is extremely protective of her. Her brother is in my grade, and we talk re",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I hook up with this girl in my college class? POST: I was in class minding my own business on my laptop when she came down and sat next to me. I took one look at her and I knew I had to ask her out. She's and I are getting the same degree and we're both want to go for masters. Anyways I was talking to her after class and I got her number but it didn't help that I said ""incase I have any questions about class"" I know I am not a pro at this. I am new to this I never do this so I am ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Update: My (39F) boyfriend (46M) will not acknowledge my financial success POST: Recap: When I told my bf that I got a raise and bonus, he ignored me. Original post: I finally talked to him about it. He responded with ""I don't reply because I was always taught that you don't talk about money, much less brag about it."" Odd, because his mom tells everyone what she is earning. Also, bf announced his income to me and his father. The consensus on the last post seemed to be that most ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He (32/M) has an insanely demanding career. I'm (27/F) not looking for anything serious, but should I cut this off? POST: I met this guy at my job working late nights at a bar. He was a regular customer on my shifts for months. He gave me his number a little over a month ago and we've hung out maybe 5 times. We both work a lot but he works A LOT more. He's also on call pretty much 24/7 whereas I have a set schedule. He is always cancelling plans or moving them later, or he'll show up",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [30/m] girlfriend [25/f] wants to keep our relationship a secret until she is financially independent, should I stay? POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 2 years now and are finishing med school, and starting training together at the same hospital in July. She has kept our relationship a secret from her parents because they are super religious/racially prejudiced and would not accept it (I am agnostic), and probably wouldn't accept me initially. My entire family",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] and my SO [27F] with my FMIL [50~ F], will not except that we want a small wedding POST: My SO and I are happily engaged, planning on the wedding sometime middle of next year. At Christmas time we had a sit down with her mom to kind of get the ball rolling on planning and just build a general plan. I come from a large but disjointed family, 5 siblings and a bunch of nephews and nieces. SO is an only child but has cousins around her age that acted as surrogate siblings when g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20M) cheated on her (21F). I've been emotionally cheating for along time and last night I finally went all the way. Should I tell her? POST: I feel like shit, one of my best friends (21F) and I have always just been super comfortable with one another. When we were watching movies at friends houses or whatever we always cuddled when are SOs weren't around. My best friend, the girl I cheated with, is part of an 11 month long distance relationship and was planning on breaking up with",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my friend [26M] of 4 years, should I ditch this jerk? POST: My friend, who I met back in college, has always had issues. He says he has an anxiety disorder with some mild OCD, but Ive always suspected there's more going on due to his depressed behavior and social awkwardness. We hang out about once a week. Usually in a small group, which has gotten smaller due to people moving. (And, admittedly, some bein tired of his 'rules' when we hang out.) We talk over text and I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] on the fence about [30 M] , is the age gap too wide? POST: Hello reddit, created a different account since people know my main one. But this is officially the first post i'm making to this sub. To get to the bread and butter of the post, someone hit on me while i was running an errand. After some small talk back and forth we say our ages as posted in the title (granted, he looked+acted more like someone in his mid-late 20's). I had to leave in a hurry but we did exchanged ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, help me troll my girlfriend! POST: My girlfriend is a VERY heavy sleeper, the kind of person who is asleep within about 15 seconds of her head hitting the pillow. However, once she is initially asleep, its like she's in a blackout drunk state. What I mean by this is if she wakes up for any reason, whether its me getting into bed or her going to the bathroom, no matter what happens she won't remember it in the morning. I've had 15 minute discussions with her about a book I was re",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My (21,M) parents blame me for ruining their upcoming vacations POST: Hi Redditors, I want to explain you the situation briefly. This Saturday my parents will leave for a one week vacation for the first time since I have been born. So far we only traveled together or me alone with my mum or my dad alone. I'm 21 years old and from Germany, mady my high school diploma(Abitur) here, doing an apprenticeship at the authorities and wouldn't consider myself dumb or irresponsible. I'm maybe n",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am a 20 year old with no real direction in life, looking for some advice. Any suggestion helps. POST: I am a 20 year old male living with my parents. I have gone through 2 years of university, making some decisions along the way. Now, after having gone through a job as a Personal Trainer and deciding I didn't like it, I have no real idea what to do. I thought I wanted to be a P-Trainer for a good portion of my life, but now that that prospect turned out to be a dead end for me, I'm not",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25/M] was worried about how close my girlfriend of 2 years [23/F] was to her boss [34/M] and had a moment of weakness and snooped on her Facebook. Searches for him constantly late at night, and has texting me at the same time saying how she is masturbating. Don't know what to do. POST: First off- yes I know it is a massive invasion of privacy and for that part I am in the wrong, but I cannot help how I feel. She has always talked about him and I initially thought this was harm",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [m, 22] doesn't trust me [f, 20] to go away to college...thoughts/advice? POST: So I am currently commuting to a smaller branch of a larger college and I am in my 4th semester here. I got all my gen eds out of the way and it's time for me to go to the main campus to get my major-specific classes done with. The problem I have is that my boyfriend of 3 years has specifically told me that if I go away to school, he and I ""will not make it"". I know that he has trust/jealou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [20F] of 1 year and a bit is acting strangely towards me [22M] after an incident at a club. She won't stop texting me. POST: We were at a club with our group of friends and I went to talk to a guy I recognised. When I got back to our table I heard this guy laughing at my friend about her ears (she has attached earlobes) and I told him to tone it down a d that she is beautiful. Now admittedly I was probably slightly buzzed at the time, but I think she read too much into it,",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by impersonating a girl with spine problems. POST: So this fuck-up in particular is from 14 year old me. Obviously, I was the coolest teenager in the entire world and made it my mission to be as hilarious as possible. There was this one particular girl, we shall call her Hannah. Hannah walked around with her butt sticking out a bit and her chest pushed forward. Up until this point I thought it was purely for attention and to show off - after all, she had a big rack. On this fateful",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I(19m) am uncomfortable with my girlfriend(19f) taking molly and feel like I should voice my concern with it POST: Okay so I've been in a ldr for about a month now and next weekend she is coming up to visit me and then go with her friend to this electronic concert on Sunday night. She told me she's popping molly before and I know what it is, but have never taken it so I don't know it's full effects. She's taken it before she met me and mixed it with alcohol and weed and ended up blac",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Got my salary doubled, but not sure if its good idea to stay. POST: Hi reddit, I could use some advice. I work at the top department at one of the big name companies you've all heard about. My projects generate a lot of money for the company. Not sure how much, but it is in millions. I got some data on sales of just one product and its close to 29m/quarter conservative. I have bigger projects that generate more. Not sure about exact numbers. I am not the only one involved in the process, but",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Hi loseit! First time poster looking for some answers/advice. POST: I'm fed up! I'm ready to lose the weight, and that's a pretty good start. But now what? I'm 25 years old, and don't want to reflect on this time of my life only to realize I was never happy with myself. So here's the deal: I'm A 6'1"" female and I weigh 180 pounds. I used to weigh a lot less. When I was 18 I had a botched knee replacement surgery that incapacitated me for 3 months. I never fully recovered and my metabolism t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] with my boyfriend [18 M] for 1.5, says that I don't sacrifice enough for our relationship, and that he contributes more. POST: Me and my boyfriend recently started college, he moved away to dorm and I stayed at home and went to a University near by. I don't have a car or anyone that can take me to visit, therefore he must be the one that always comes here for us to see each other. I understand it is hard to come every weekend, so I made it clear to him that I am completely ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [30 M] need advice to deal with my ex-GF [27 F] on something I promised a while back POST: I was in a relationship with a girl, after a few months I find that we just don't seem to click as she asks for way too much attention and is too emotional for me to handle (seems to want a very submissive partner or an extremely dominant one) and so I broke up with her (was about 2 years ago). With time getting to know her I realized she is somewhat batshit insane and quite recently she's b",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By telling all of my FaceBook friends my Reddit username. POST: This happened a few days ago, and I'm still feeling the pain. I'm currently on my super secret alternate account. For a long, long time now, my whole group of friends in school has had a running joke around basically obsessing over this random kid who kind of hovers around us. For secrecy's sake lets call him Garry Redwards. This escalated into making him his own meme, subreddit, several Facebook groups and a hashtag. I was",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [30F] of 4 months broke up with me [33M]. How do you know when it's time to start trying again? POST: So I've dated a bunch but never had a really serious relationship in my life. This was my first. It was love at first sight, thought I was going to marry her, etc. Unfortunately I messed things up, know what I did wrong and am going to have to improve in the future. Unfortunately, I've never felt this awful in my life. All I do is think about her all the time. Everything seem",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How long did it take for you to fall in love with your SO? POST: I've (20 F) been going out with my SO (24 M) for about three months now. We've been hooking up for about six months and really good friends for a year but I know I'm not in love with him yet. We see each other about four/five times a week and have been since we met so I'm a bit shocked that I don't even feel *close* to being in love with him yet. He's a GREAT and charmingly hilarious guy though so sometimes I feel gu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me 23M with my Girlfriend 23 F of 5 years, I want to drop everything and move I don't know how to bring up such a crazy idea. POST: Alright, I have tried the whole college and get a degree thing and it just is not working for me. I have decent job that my 2 years of college got me and it pays about $40K a year. I work late and leave early and sometimes get sucked into weekends at work. That's not an issue though. I enjoy the work and it has potential to take me somewhere and it e",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Credit utilization question POST: so If the ideal credit utilization is 20% of your limits available to you, How badly am I hurting myself.... I have a series of required payments each month, Music lessons for kids, gym membership, internet, hydro etc. They all offer credit card billing and so I have them set up to bill automatically each month to my card. With that, I check my balance at the end of every month and pay it in full, because i have been doing this for a while, my b",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does anyone understand taxes? POST: This will be my first year paying taxes. I'm working as an independent consultant, so I have to do everything myself. I'm going to pay federal income tax quarterly estimated. I plan on doing that for state income as well, the snag there is that I'm a resident of Pennsylvania, but working in Ohio. Near as I can tell, I should pay state income to Ohio, but state unemployment to Pennsylvania. Anyone have any inkling as to whether or not that is ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I've accidentally told my father and stepmom that I use them at my own convenience POST: It's been a pretty rough night for me. I'm at my dad's visiting to take graduation pictures and my parents are divorced basically living across from each other in Texas. My dad and stepmom have probably provided more in my life than my mom has ever. After a quick stop at my uncle's house to go visit them, my parents and I were on our way back home when they decide to talk about my future and how col",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Worried about my future boyfriend and his feelings for a freshmen. POST: I'm having problems with my ex. Yes he's my ex. I had broken up with him because he had trust issues and you can't have a good relationship without trust. So I ended it with him. As it turns out I started missing him, and I asked him what he would say if I asked him out some day soon, he said he would say yes. So since yesterday ( Sept. 29th, 2016) We've been unofficially dating, we've kissed and hung out ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 24M with my 25F fiancé of 6 months. I saw something I didn't want to see and it may end the relationship. POST: We were dating 14 months and have been engaged for another 6. We fell in love pretty quickly and the relationship has been great. Her nephew needed a new phone so she was going to give him her old one. She got it out and put it on the charger before work one day. The password was 1244 which is the same as what she has now but I've never went through it. It turns out she",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: (Pennsylvania) Dealer lied to us about financing options. Is this legal? POST: UPDATE: My husband went back to the dealership to request the rate we were approved for. Good news! They're fixing it. I still don't think it was a mistake and that they just didn't expect us to follow up. But whatever, it's done. We did it, reddit? My husband and I just bought a car today after we were pre-approved by Capital One for a car up to 40k between 4.1 and 11.11% interest. We found a car we liked",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] and my fiancé [34M] have been together 2 years, how to approach opening up about sexual things? POST: My fiancé and I have been together for 2 years and friends even longer. I'll try to keep this as brief as possible :) Anytime we are in conversation about an article we read or a movie/show or something that involves talking about fantasies or porn he seems to get standoffish. I'm open and honest with him and generally he is as well. Back story: When we began dating both ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Tennessee] I work for a small company (<5 employees) and I think my boss has some type of malware or virus installed on my personal (non-work) phone. POST: I live in Tennessee. I have a feeling that my boss (who has many friends in the private investigation field) has something installed on my personal smartphone. The main reason I think this is because I have noticed that any time I get a text while we are both at work his phone will get a notification EXACTLY the same time as mine d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I Love her BUT! POST: I LOVE her BUT. *She was never my taste of a girl for a lasting relationship. *The relationship is pulling her down as she is not ready for commitments *Am never comfortable whenever I go out to the public with her *She is hardly lively and hardly happy *She keeps a LOT of secrets from me *She hardly expresses her love for me in words or actions *She is over lazy *She dislikes cooking or doing any other chore whenever she's in my house or even in hers *",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] thought I found the girl [21F] I want to spend the rest of my life with, she told me she wants a break. POST: Hi guys. I'm really torn at the moment and I hoped you guys could help me see things in perspective. First of all, we've been dating for 3 years. After the first year our relationship got so serious as to moving in together, buying furniture together and everything. In the year after, we moved to a better place, we've been on various holidays (including a 3-week holi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, just saw a husband and wife riding their bikes with an infant on board take up a whole lane on a busy street. What is the stupidest thing you've seen a biker or pedestrian do while you were driving? POST: I was about to turn left onto a busy street with a family of bikers in front of me. The husband had a child seat attached to the end of his bike with their child in it, so naturally they were riding very slowly while recklessly taking up a lane. We both turned left onto the stre",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Dumped out of the blue. Should I chase her? (m/18) POST: Yesterday I was giving my gf (f/18) a ride home from work. We were laughing and joking the entire 20 minute ride, and as I pulled up to her house, she didn't open the car door, but dropped the bomb and dumped me. She said that she was feeling ""conflicted"" as of late, and didn't want to continue our relationship. We'd been dating for just over four months, and I can safely say I'd never been happier, than when I was with h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (both of us are 16) slept for awhile at her ex's house. POST: So earlier today, my girlfriend and I were thinking of ditching school together. I ended up not being able to hang out with her, and she still didn't want to go to school. So she drove to her ex's house and slept there for awhile. I know for a fact that he still harbors feeling for her. She told me around noonish what she did and I felt so betrayed. I've told her numerous times that I don't like that she main",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] met girl online [21 F] and spoke to her often, got her phone number, her skype, and went out for some lunch. Has she lost interest or playing hard to get? POST: I met this girl online and we hit it off in the chatting world. We later met in real life (keep in mind, she lives in a neighbouring country from me) and everything went really well. We started texting the whole day afterwards but things went too quickly. After that the situation got awkward and I tried to fix it bu",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by peeing on the bus POST: This happened literally a few minutes ago. I'm travelling home by bus, and it's quite a long trip. I almost always remember to do my pooping and urenal business just before the bus ride, but today I was in a hell of a hurry and forgot to take a piss before stepping on the bus. An hour went by and my urge to pee was unbearable. I know that the bus' bathroom is small and almost impossible to pee in. But I really had to pee, like really bad. So I did what I had",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend keeps me and her friends separate. POST: Me 23, her 23, been together 8 months. Things are great, overall. I love her, we talk about our future together, we both are on the same page about everything. The difficult part is that she can't really handle hanging out with me and her friends at the same time. She says that when I'm there, she can't be present for her friends and that it changes the dynamic. Which I totally understand. We usually do one night of the weekend ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Wife got rear-ended; at-fault person's insurance company kicking their feet POST: Greetings. I apologize if this is the wrong sub. As the title says, my wife's car got rear-ended by someone going at 25-30 mph. My wife's mother, who was in the car with her, has a hairline fracture as a result. Additionally,tThe car suffered extensive damage in both the rear and the front as a result of bumping into the car in front of us. We've contracted a personal injury lawyer for the bodily har",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What do you consider 'stalking' given modern technology? POST: My personal example: I go to the same grocery store often, and one of the cashiers and I flirt a little every time. The last time I went I noticed that the receipt had her first name and last initial on it (Tech #1). With Facebook's new feature, it was very simple to type ""friends of my friends named blah"" to see if anyone I knew, knew her. She was third down on the list. (Tech #2). Looking through a few of her pictures (beca",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I'm a 20/f and I wanted to ask out my coworker [21/m]. Turns out he quit, should I still pursue him? POST: So I've [20/f] been working at this place for about a month and started really crushing on one of my coworkers [21/m]. Whenever we'd start talking to each other we usually had a lot of similar interests and got along pretty well. I haven't dated in a few years and just moved back in with my parents after living about 5 hours away, it's nice to finally have a interest in someone ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I [20/M] become better friends with her [18/F]? POST: I have a friend that's in the same choir as me; we both joined last year, but I'm currently a junior in college while she's a sophomore. Last year I was in a LDR, and I kind of shut myself off from becoming too friendly with any other women because I didn't want to risk developing feelings for them. This past summer I broke off the relationship for unrelated reasons. Now I want to become better friends with this girl ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Looking for advice on convertible term life insurance for me (31m and my wife 33f). POST: My wife and are are recently married and plan to start a family soon. We have started talking with a financial advisor and received some quotes however I'm looking for a validation or second opinion. He advises a term policy that has an extended convertible rider so we can have the option to convert to perm insurance in the future when we may be looking for tax free vehicles to invest into. O",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: She (19F) left me (20M) confused, not sure whether to cut ties or to cut her some slack. POST: We dated for a three months and we had a great time during it, however she's become depressed lately. When I asked why, she told me about her ex (how he's not doing too well without her) and that she feels sorry for him. Honestly, ever since then she's been more and more depressed, essentially taking on his depression onto herself. Our relationship took a turn for the worse because ",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: advice on reconnecting with friends. POST: I had alot of good friends, the kind of friends that would do anything for you and can just talk to, but after high school I just slowly stopped talking to everyone because i became bored with life and never could talk to anyone because life was just fucking boring, I became socialy stupid, became a loner basically, starting disliking people, that kind of shit. Its been like 6 months to a year since i talked to any of my old friends. Now i reli",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Simultaneous throbbing pain in middle finger and jaw POST: Hi there, I'm a 21 yr old Caucasian male, 6'3"" (190cm), 175lbs (80kg). I take 75mg of bupropion (wellbutrin) a day. I'm in overall good health. I guess this isn't really a super concerning or urgent question, but it's been on my mind and I couldn't really find any solid answers through Google. Occasionally, the middle joint of my middle finger and my jawbone directly beneath my chin will both throb with a somewhat sharp pain. They",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] wants to reconcile relationship with mother because it's becoming 'baggage'...need advice POST: Hey, So I'm trying to be a better person. I've never had a good relationship with my parents, but especially with my mother. Long story short, I felt like I was used while growing up as my mother wanted to live vicariously through me. Anyways, at 26, this past has caught up to me and is causing issues. Basically it's become 'baggage' that I need to get rid of. I know I need",negative " r/relationships TITLE: parents treat me like a business expense, not one of the family. POST: ok so first things first. my parents are making me pay 350 a month to live at home. i used to live in an apartment but i lost my job and started going to school instead of looking for another. now that im in school im spending my free time looking for a job. note: my parents are completely fine financially, better off than most actually. i have 2 older sisters 29 and 31. The oldest lived at home until 29",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU and got white-van scammed POST: Contrary to the other tales I've heard on here, this one did not involve a van. I bought a pair of Koss SX-30 speakers from woot.com a few days ago. They arrived today, and I was so excited to try them out that I went out and bought a 6V DC adapter like it said, plugged it in, turned it on... and nothing. Nowhere in the instructions does it say an amperage level for the adapter, so I got a 6V/1A adapter, thinking it would be fine. However, no sound comes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I get my boyfriend (17M) to commit to me the same way I (17F) commit to him POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for over a year and a half. We are about a one hour drive away from each other but we are both very busy with different lifestyles and school, which results in us seeing each other maybe once a week if we're lucky. I have always been strong enough to be able to deal with the distance, even if I miss him more than usual sometimes I never consider calling it ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my boss [40 M]. He lies about payments and puts me in uncomfortable situations. POST: So I've been at this complicated job for around a year, at first it wasn't complicated at all. My boss was super nice and always paid on time but business hasn't been so good as of lately and this has caused him to be delayed with the payments. I understand that its normal to be delayed a few days, specially in our line of work but he now owes me 2 whole months of salary. Today he t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Closing the door POST: me 29/m her 24/f. We dated for 2.5 years, and broke up 6 months ago when she was finishing Uni. Our relationship was great (w/ normal ups and downs) but she needed to 'find herself' but that she perceived a future w/ us, but she couldnt say when. So I started moving on, didnt talk to her for 3 months, then she re-appeared one night and did some things that were really hurtful. So I told her to stay away from me. I spent the next 2 months again moving on d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My sister[28F] and her husband[30M] left their children[6F/3M] alone for 3+ hours to go watch a soccer game. POST: As the title says, my sister and her husband left their two children unattended at home for 3+ hours last night, and I'm worried it wasn't the first time. But I want to make sure it is the last time. Last night, my niece K called me on accident after dialing the wrong number. I talked to her for a few minutes before asking to speak to her mom. She then tells me that he",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How to tell a girl that I like her? [18/m] girl is (18/f) POST: I have never had more than a couple of friends, and have never had a girlfriend (currently 18, 19 in a couple of weeks). I am in a halls of residence. There is a girl who I think I really like, she is really nice, and very pretty. She does not have a boyfriend (that I know of) but a girl like her won't go long without one right? The problem is that I am extremely introverted and barely ever leave my room, I don't ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my BF [23M] 1 1/2 years, just broke up because he thought I cheated on him POST: My boyfriend and I broke up because he thought I cheated on him. I have this new guy friend, whom I'm not really even close with. We had some conversation in facebook, we just talked about cats, good movies, and places. I usually delete conversations with people I'm not close with and leave the ones with my close friends. My boyfriend saw a new message from my new guy friend. You see, when",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [24/f] boyfriend's [27/m] work schedule is changing and I'm scared for the future of our relationship. What do I do? POST: I am lucky enough to be dating my best friend. We have been together romantically for a few months but have known each other for almost 2 years. I am hoping to be lucky enough to spend the rest of my life with this charming, handsome, funny man. We live about an hour away from each other and have been lucky enough to have the same days off, but now hi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] I [24F] told my family that I am engaged with my 7 year long term SO [24M] and their reaction was not positive. POST: First part: Once again, thank you everyone for your opinions and advice. I just got back to my apartment from my parents house. They are upset that I did not wait and we were moving too fast from SO telling my parents about wanting to marry me. Dad wanted some kind of dinner where all family and friends get together to make an announcement. (I think he ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my Finace [27 F] of 2 years, How do I break this news? POST: Hi. In short, the situation I am in is this: I hooked up with a girl a few times about 2 1/2 years ago, and one time we did not use condoms (she had said she was on the depo shot). The relationship floundered soon after. We were not that serious anyways. Now she has a kid and is coming after me for child support. I'm fine with supporting a child of my own, it's under no dispute now that the kid is mine sinc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20/F]My mother[48/F] detests my [20/M]boyfriend of 7 months and informed me she'll be praying for his death POST: Using a throwaway because I've promised not to bring this up with him again until after his mcat in a month, and he has my usual reddit account, though he is aware that she hates him First, the relationship with my boyfriend. We feel that we're perfect for each other. We have the same thought patterns and values, and can often finish each others' sentences. We can gr",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the actual rationale behind denying OWS protestors the right to assemble? POST: I'm angry, but stay with me here: the situation with the OWS protests seems to boil down to: people exercising their right to assemble, government is getting ""annoyed"" by it. Last time I checked, though, the Bill of Rights doesn't give us the ""right to assemble until the forces in control grow tired of it."" So what is the government's actual excuse? Can they truly simply break them up because they wan",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: ""It's OK ladies, this round is on me!"" POST: A couple of years back myself and a couple of friends were enjoying some late night weekend drinking. As usual, the bar was packed and I was still waiting for drinks after 40 minutes or so. I am not a patient person. I saw many people come and go from the bar yet I was still to be served. When I finally secured a place at the bar, about to hail the bar steward, only to notice a sharp, digging pain in my left side. I look, a young girl, arou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[25M] story involves jealousy, heartbreak, and no end in sight. POST: My year long relationship with my Ex [24F] has just ended because I could not get over some jealousy issues (I don't know if the real issue was me or her). Her Ex continued to contact and reach out to her during our relationship; calling and texting at random hours of the night. At first it didn't bother me but once it got to the point where it was becoming a regular occurrence, it started to eat away at me. N",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [19M] planning a dinner date with a girl I want to confess my feelings to [19F], I want some insight on my plan POST: Background: I met this girl through a friend a little over a month ago (maybe a month and a half?) (we all go to the same school), and have talked to her a few times. She's extremely nice, funny, pretty, likes a lot of things I do, yadda yadda yadda. I asked if she wanted to grab coffee a couple weeks back, we did and talked for around an hour. The next week, I ma",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: Should I continue in my major? POST: Long story short. I'm a junior currently at RPI. I was a Mechanical Engineer but I found the classes to be really boring and I couldn't sit through Thermals and Fluids 2. It wasn't hard and my GPA could have been above a 3.3. It was a 3.2. But I decided to take Electrical classes to see what it was like and if I would like to switch. The classes were manageable but I couldn't get the grades I wanted. This semester is the worst I've ever had. I thin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, the former owner of my house stopped by unannounced today and now i'm scared he'll rob it. WHAT DO? POST: As the title suggests, I'm outside working on our mopeds and he pulls up randomly. Keep in mind I've never seen this guy before in my life, never met him, and all I know about the former property owners is one of them was foreign and got arrested for attempted murder, the other was black and got arrested for drug posession/sale. Anyway this dude hops out of his minivan, wife ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 M] with my gf [25 F] of 3 years, am I being a dick for wanting to keep some friends ""for myself"" POST: GF is getting pretty close (in a friendly way) to a very close [32M] friend I know for 5 years. They had met before she and I got together but barely more. In the past few months I was living abroad for work, and they started getting drinks together, going to the restaurant, and partying together. Before I left we all used to party together so this one is not new. Now I lear",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [17/f] need some advice about post-breakup friendship with (17/m). POST: I broke up with my boyfriend of 14 months about 3 weeks ago. I didn't love him anymore, and I felt that it wasn't fair to him; he deserves a girl that loves him wholeheartedly. But, lately I've been missing the (lets call him) Sam that would call me baby, and tell me that I was beautiful, and be affectionate; I broke up with the Sam that I didn't love anymore, the Sam that would tell me that I was being ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18m] dumped by girlfriend [19f] four days before moving in together, no she's seeing a dude she met two weeks prior to the move in date POST: It's all in the title. We dated for a year and spent a lot of our free time together and decided we would take the plunge and move in together even though we are young. We had a perfect relationship, we communicated everything, had a lot of fun, were on the same frequency, etc etc. During the summer we saw each other every weekend and alt",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [31 M], deal with my crippling feeling of jealousy? POST: Right. So I've been in a couple of relationships, have no problems meeting people, and I'm currently involved. I've always been caring and supportive, inquisitive and interested. But somehow, perhaps due to my own feelings of inadequacy, I've always been feeling a high level of jealousy toward my partner. Jealousy is not really the right word though, but I'm not a native English speaker. In short my feeling is this:",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [23/m] am in a proper happy relationship but something about my girl[21/f] bothers me..please help. POST: I have been with this girl for an year now, being sex-buddies for the first 8 months, and then we started dating. We used to live in different cities then, and used to have sex about once or twice in a month, trying out new stuff. Now we've been in the same town and since I have roommates, we seldom get time to have sex, but there are ample chances to make out. When we're",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by ordering an escort from backpage.... now im out 200 dollars.... POST: so.... its my birthday.. this all just happened. Got home at around 2am from a bar, didnt manage to bring home a nice lady and its my BDAY... Got home took a shower and peed out my alchohol. got really horny and opened up backpage. I see this post with a super hot chick, amazing breasts and honestly a 10 in my book, Maybe a 8-9 face but whatever. So i call the number and the girl says 200 donation for an hour a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 30m her 27f we broke up a few days ago and she wants back, staring at a 2 year ldr, been together 3yrs POST: We live together, we are both sad. She has an apartment lined up in another town due to school that she moves to in a month and a half. We broke up because she couldn't do LDR and I couldn't move. She now says that she is willing to try long distance, but two years is huge and it is across 3 timezones. I have had not that many breakups. Is it a normal stage to want to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18 M] best friend [18 M] tricked me into asking my girlfriend [18 F] 2 months, if she loved me. POST: Okay, so my gf and I met through my best friend. He can be an ass sometimes, it's a love hate relationship between he and I. Anyway, my gf was over my best friend's girlfriend's last night, and he sent me a snapchat of her with the quote ""I want to wait"". I texted him and asked what the quote was about, to which he responded sex. I am completely fine with that, as I am saving m",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Everybody has a crazy story for their 21'st, whats yours?(I'll start) POST: So just as everybody else, we pregame before going to the bar at midnight. We only had a couple beers each, just a bit tipsy (pussy, i know) My friends girlfriend dropped us off and we kicked it off hard. Friends kept buying me shots and personal pitchers. Some randoms also bought me some shots. That night I drank a couple Jager bombs, Jameson, peach vodka and there might be another couple kinds... but i was fuck",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 M] with my girlfriend 15 F] 1 Month just broke up and I'm confused. POST: So ya I get I'm young and I have no idea whats its like, laugh at me all you want. I genuinely confused and really wanted help. But pretty much this is my second breakup and I'm not all that sad. Last time it happened I couldn't get over it for months on end and it was shorter but I'm just not feeling it. I'm going to see her tomorrow and we've agreed just to be friends like usual, we broke up because ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my old roommate [30s M] arguing over stuff he left at my house. Do I owe him an apology? POST: My former roommate and I did not have a good relationship. He moved out April 1 and left behind a large pile of wood in the backyard. He has been by a couple times since to pick up other large things and I stressed to him that he really needs to grab the woodpile as well. He hasn't and I've asked a couple times since and he keeps saying it will be gone soon... it's two months",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, the integrity of a total stranger saved my daughter's Christmas -- how do I thank him? POST: Sorry for the grandiose title. No truly heartwarming story about how a stranger saved my kid's puppy from a fire or something, but my faith in humanity was restored a little bit today. So my daughter, of whom I have full custody, is spending Christmas break with her mom in a different part of the country (I am in the midwest). I took advantage of this absence by waiting until very near t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I(18M) deal with leaving a girl (18F) I have been dating due to going to different universities? POST: The girl in question and I are off to university in a few weeks and for about 8 months in the past we have been seeing each other (we live quite far apart so we only meet around every 2 weeks to a month). Things progressed to the point where we were almost ready to be a couple, but things didn't work out in terms of university and now we're gonna split up and go our own ways",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm a [23/M] and recently met an incredible [21/F]. The problem? She lives far away. POST: Over this weekend I was able to meet a remarkable girl. Pretty much from the get go it was obvious that at least I was interested (I drunkenly gave her a flower at a cocktail party to start off our first conversation), but she also ended up hanging out with me the next night as well at my house, albeit with her friend. She knows I have a crush on her. I know she is interested in me at the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I want to go on break with my SO but I'm afraid he might do something irrational POST: My SO (22m) and I(19f) have been in a long distance relationship for almost a year now but we've only started seeing each other in person since the end of February. He and I go way back and we've gone out before but took a few years away from each other due to family issues and me moving everywhere. I love him but I feel like I only love him as a brother and a best friend. Him on the other hand is ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the worst way you hurt yourself accidentally as a child? POST: On Christmas Day 1993 (I was three myself), I was annoying my mum in the kitchen. I spun around in the kitchen and, only as an overexcited child on Christmas can, fell over, breaking my leg. As I sat there bawling my eyes out on the floor over my fractured leg, my less-than-impressed mum told me to be quiet, and to stop being over dramatic. Later, I was forced to drag myself up a stairway, and bawled my eyes out when ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Girl at Party Discusses FIRST Threesome. What are some instances where someone starts seriously discussing a topic you were just kidding about? POST: I was walking through my friend's room after a party, it was the only way to get in the apartment from the porch where we were smoking, to see a girl (who had just puked her guts out in the bathroom for a solid hour and a half) ""cuddling"" with two of my friends on top of a bed with their clothes on. I joked and remarked ""this is the closest",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (f 24) have been offending a guy (m 27) at work and instead of coming to me he keeps talking to my boss. I honestly don't realize when im offending him and am having a hard time figuring out what to do. POST: This is a long-ish story and im on mobile so please excuse my errors. I recently started baking at a coffee shop and the guy who was training me was being friendly and bantering, then after I left he was going to the owner to complain about my lack of a filter. Supposedly h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I get past my dick? POST: I [M28] was dumped by my ex[F26] about six months ago -- for a second time. Long story short she did so many horrible things over the last year that this would be a wall of text if I tried to explain it all. What would have been our three year anniversary is tomorrow and we are getting drinks. I didn't plan it, she contacted me out of the blue yesterday. I've been seeing someone[F21] for the last few months and we made it official a couple of weeks a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 F] with my boyfriend [29 M] of 4 months, on paper he is amazing, but i don't feel that head over heels spark. Jump ship? POST: i was in a relationship recently for a few years with the guy who i was to marry. we' talked about the wedding, everyone in our lives knew we'd get hitched eventually. we were each others everything. passionate about each other in every way. it was nothing i'd ever felt before (and may never feel again). but it was too strong. the intensity turned int",positive " r/relationships TITLE: If I [21M] were to get into a new relationship, should I tell my new partner that I once threatened to post my exes [20F] nude photos to the internet? POST: First of all I just want to make sure I clarify that I never actually posted the photos online, I only threatened to do that. Long story short I found out she was cheating on me and we then soon after broke up. Even though we had broken up she would continue to message me on Facebook and text me basically rubbing it in that she ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Feeling Jaded. Reddit, what do you suggest this girl to do with her life? POST: Hello! I'm a 23 year old single mother who works full time, goes to school full time, and takes exclusive care of my one year old son. I've changed my major so many times that right now I am ridiculously overwhelmed and, quite frankly, am starting to feel like a complete moron. Until this semester, I really wanted to be an Engineer- unfortunately, with the workload that my life is just in general, I just can",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I am in my freshmen year at University and everything is going HORRIBLY Wrong. Please HELP! POST: Hello fellow Redditors. I'm a 19 year old attending a big time University this semester. I came from a community college where things were a bit bumpy (a few D's here and there on tests- but Ultimately ended up with a 3.8 GPA) and I figured myself well prepared for college. I'm not. Everything is falling apart. I am only taking 12 credit hours- the classes seem simple (Math, Botany",negative " r/self TITLE: My BF's Aunt Stole My Xanax from His Safe. What Should I Do? POST: Alright, well, my boyfriend got kicked out of his room (he had a room, one floor up, in his grandmother's apartment) yesterday due to his aunt telling his grandmother every single bad choice and action that he did. On Friday, when his grandmother told him she no longer wished for him to go to his room while she was away on vacation (came back yesterday), I left my Xanax in his room. I have high anxiety and have been known to ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can we stop the propaganda? Can we influence anything? Can we change the world? Like, now?.. POST: Ok, I'm not really good at English, but here it goes: What should be done to stop the bullshit that is going on on the Television and, perhaps, substitute it with something that would actually benefit us as a species/civilization? The Internet is a pretty propaganda-safe place, at least where I hang out, but I keep hearing more and more about ""media black-outs"", FOX lying to their viewers",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [WA] Sketchy employer behavior regarding not paying overtime and hiring two people then firing one of them. POST: I am trying to figure out if there is more to my previous employers frustrating and sketchy actions, or if this is a situation that I just need to let go and move on with my life from. There are two questions in here, the first part being that they hired two people then let one go, and now won't give me a severance I was verbally promised (wish I had it writing), and part t",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Car - Total Loss Settlement help? POST: Me and my girlfriend were in, what I would call a fender bender. A car in front of us stopped short and we hit them going between 3-10 mph. The car we hit received minor damage, a few cracks in the plastic rear bumper and a minor crack on the taillight. While her car (an early 2000's hyundai elantra) received a pushed in headlight, leaking washer fluid, a little bumper damage, and the hood was a little lifted. I don't know the extent of the exact",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (23F) overcome rumors about my past with a particular person (33M)? POST: So I have a 5 month (on and off) sexual history with a man I'll call Nick. Nick works at and co-runs an organization where I have many acquaintances due to a few-month-long volunteer stint there. I would like for them to be more than acquaintances though. No one there dislikes me, but I don't feel like any of them really know me. I take a while to come out of my shell and gain confidence around new peo",negative " r/loseit TITLE: [NSV]: Size 42 to 38, then fail, now down to 36! POST: I wanted to give those of you who struggle with sticking with it through stressful times and a busy life some hope... I feel your pain!! My previous post: So everything was going awesome... and then stress eating DISASTER struck all at once. - I was running and stepped on a rock. Completely devastating the ligaments in my ankle. - Came to the conclusion that my 10 year long relationship is coming to an end, our kid was also born. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you tell a friend that you don't want to work with them? POST: For college, my friend and I are taking (basically) the same courses. We've always worked together on various group projects. However, I am more of an A/A+ student, while he is more of a C/D student. In past group projects/assignments, I would basically do all the work, which I was fine with due to it being manageable. My friend tries to contribute, but is limited by his lack of knowledge and/or inability to study. The",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I filed yesterday after maxing out my Trad IRA contribution, even though it wasn't tax deductible. Did I fuck up? POST: I was debating maxing out our IRAs because my wife and I are hoping to buy our first home this year and we want to keep as much cash liquid as possible, for a down payment. I decided to contribute the $5,500 anyway (each of us, so $11k total) in case we don't end up buying a home and won't need cash until next year. (I contributed to our Traditional IRAs instead ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Identity theft POST: I got a phone call from my dad today. He said received a phone call from an Urgent Care asking for my SSN. He let them talk for a little and asked for some identifying factors about myself. Their info was wrong and he told them so. I'm worried someone is after my identity. I could be over reacting, but this is something I want to avoid in its entirety. Any ideas on things I can do now to prevent anything from happening? I have put a fraud alert on my credit. ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: TIFU my resume POST: ok long story short. I have 5 years experience in customer service and 2 in marketing. Those 2 years I've managed to excel past my colleagues who have a lot more experience, I understood marketing and am very good at it. I've received 3 raises in the last 2 years! My company is downsizing and laying off employees, my job is far from secure since our department is trimming down. My new manager hates me so I fear my days here are on countdown. I have a lot of debt and eng",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: The Finns have a holiday to embrace trying new things and failing. I want to bring this National Day of Failure to the United States. Want to help? POST: The Finns, as usual, are [doing something pretty cool] The ""National Day of Failure"" (NDOF) is a day set aside to encourage people to try something new without the fear of failing. The purpose is to attempt something you're quite certain you might fail at, just for the sake of giving it a shot. I want to bring this idea to the United St",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Should I(f/28) re-initiate contact with him (29ish) after randomly meeting? POST: So, about 3 months back I was doing the online dating thing and started chatting with this guy. We added each other on Facebook, and started texting casually as well.. We did make plans to meet up once, but then I had to cancel and we never ended up rescheduling - I guess neither of us was interested enough at the time to go through with it. And, I could tell by some of his facebook posts that he had pr",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by splitting my bra into two pieces. POST: Well reddit. I gotta say, I think I fucked up enough to finally make a post. It all started this weekend. When I had the bright idea to wear a ""close-to-breaking"" bra. Now when I say this, I don't mean a tiny hole. I mean the middle part where the two cups connect the string was barely holding on and under quite the tension. With my body type, that bra was BOUND to break. But I shluffed it off, because I had worn it many many times with no prob",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I highly suspect one of my neighbors has been capturing and taking pet cats out of our neighborhood, and now I've got an audio recording of him resolving to shoot my cat. My mind races at what to do, so I ask you, Reddit: WWRD? POST: Our cat didn't come home a few nights ago. After a day went by, we made flyers and passed them around the block. Later, cat comes home dirty, scared, no collar, exhausted. Today, we come home to a police warning letter about our cat pooping in a neighbor'",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: This past weekend, I rode 1270 miles on a motorcycle, got sunburned and possibly hypothermia, all to see a girl I love...Reddit, do you have any stories about going to extreme lengths for people you love? POST: Mine goes like this, one of my best friends M. We have only been friends for four years since we met back in freshmen year of college. She dated one of my buddies for about seven months, and after they broke up we remained friends. Two years ago she moved away to Las Cruces NM, wh",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (M/19) met a coworker (F/17), but I think I missed my chance to make a move. POST: I was always kind of a quiet guy at work, and even though I tried to be nice to my work friends, I never hung out with any of them in real life. When we first met, I thought she was pretty cool. She had a refreshingly positive outlook on life, which seemed pretty rare. She had some life experience, but hadn't become jaded. We got along pretty well at work, and even though she was 16 at the tim",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [16/M] High School Love? POST: Well I'm currently a sophomore in high school and its not that I really want to go out with someone I just feel that I could learn something from it. Background: I'm a 16 year old with **super ASIAN** parents. I come from Bangladesh where relationships are never a thing it's basically arranged marriages and nothing called ""true love"". If you go marry/go out with someone it's deemed ""bad"" and you're looked down upon basically and also your parents basic",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] and this girl [18F] fell in love, but we have both are in relationships POST: Ive known this girl for about 5 years, and even when we were 13 and 14 we really liked each other and we've been hooking up for a few years. I only get to see her a couple weeks a year but we are really good for each other and I never have as much fun as when Im with her This year we were both in relationships, and so although we spent a lot of time together, we didn't want to do anything since al",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (20f) recently starting realizing my feelings for my best friend Ralph (20m), and he just started dating his other best friend, Nikki (20f) POST: I've been friends with Ralph for 7/8 years which is about the same he's been friends with Nikki. Him and I have always been very close friends and tell each other nearly everything. We hang out multiple times a week since he lives a mile away and we get along well. He even goes on my family vacations with me and we've talked about being r",positive " r/relationships TITLE: A girl I've [20 M] fallen for [21 F] just wants to be friends with benefits. POST: I asked out a girl that I've had a massive crush on for about 6 months. She said she doesn't have strong emotions for me, but if I want we could be friends with benefits until someone better comes along for her (she literally said that she doesn't feel a ""spark"" for me but she is ""horny enough"" to consider FWB) . For me, though, sex is meaningless unless it is accompanied by a strong emotional connecti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (29/f) am confused about bf (28/m) using IMVU and keeping his relationship status single POST: ( 29/f dating 28/m for roughly two years) My boyfriend has openly told me he is part of a chat site called IMVU. He says he uses it to DJ there and meet friends. Problem is he also keeps up with them on facebook, skype, kik messenger and other social media platforms. He has never used it with me around while living together but used it before we did and started using it again after we liv",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] really like my coworker [18 F]. She has a bf with cancer who beats her. Is it wrong to make a move? POST: I recently moved back to my hometown in England after travelling the world and being away for about 8 years. On my travels I have met some amazing women. I have had a 2 year and 3 year relationship. I would never of thought I would ever meet the woman of my dreams in my hometown. (She used to live in my parents village. Which has 12 houses). Anyway...I work with this ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've (22f) been dating my boyfriend (21m) for four months, how do I get over my fear of our relationship failing when there isn't anything wrong because of my past relationships? POST: I've been through a couple of bad break-ups that were like the rug being pulled out from under me. I dated a guy for seven months and I was always a no sex before marriage girl, but the guy I was with always mentioned getting married and having kids. After seven months of dating, I felt comfortable a",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by accidentally calling my cousin a ""Jew"" in front of my Jewish friend. POST: As always, this happened yesterday. I was playing Destiny with my cousin and some friends on XBL. My cousin was being really quiet and one of my best friends says ""I don't think I can trust him, he's being too quiet."" I try to say something we always joke about (since my cousin is of German decent). I try saying ""You can't, he's a Nazi!"" In an Old Man Herbert voice. Well, I start getting shot at right after the",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by showing my boyfriend my nasty-ass yeast infection. [NSFW] POST: To start, I had BV. I go to the doc, and she prescribes me an antibiotic by the name of ""Flagyl."" Like a responsible lady who doesn't like to post too much on /r/TIFU, I read all the instructions and look it up some more on the internet so I can understand the mechanism of action and possible side effects. I see that Flagyl sometimes causes yeast infections. Well that kinda sucks, but I guess I'll just keep an eye out for",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I get my fiancee to understand social cues? POST: Hey guys I've been having an issue lately, so naturally I turn to reddit for advice. My fiancee is horrible with understanding social cues. He never bothers/annoys me, but I notice that occasionally he can get on other people's nerves with the way he acts, conversates. A few examples: * He will try and talk to people who have absolutely no interest in talking to him. He's a very friendly guy, and loves getting to know peopl",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [19M] in a former open relationship [19M]; we're still happily together but I'm having problems POST: So basically when we started seeing each other we made it casual and open, and although I didn't want to, we did any way (I was fairly crazy about her from the start), then I got mad at her after she did stuff for the first time with another guy (no sex, just a quick dick grab which might have led on (and I know this because she hates lying)). So after this we decided being open",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my girlfriend [25F] together 7 months, having trouble reconciling her previous propensity for casual sex with our situation POST: I know this is going to come off as bad. I don't know of any way of asking for help other than just saying what is the problem and asking how I can get past it. I have always associated sex with an emotional attachment. I've never had a one night stand or a casual fling. I have been attached to each person I have been with and to me it j",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Future career/college advice needed POST: A little introduction, I'm 17, just about to finish high school. I'm very very VERY shy, for the first week of my 10th grade I didn't speak to anyone at all in my school, people had to approach me or I'd never talk to any of them. So, by the end of this year I need to decide if I should go to college, and if so, what to study. I'm absolutely in love with astronomy and astrophysics but while doing research on the topic I get quite bored watching the ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: I've lost the weight. Working on the ""rest-of-your-life"" part. How can I get my old man to follow me? POST: Something clicked for me 8 or so months ago. A lot of things really. Back problems, slowly creeping up from XL to XXL, realizing I was officially ""obese"", deep thinking about my own mortality, and a super supportive girlfriend who was going through a much less severe version of the same thing. But what lingered behind most of this was that I was turning into my dad. He's 56, permane",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How would you react if you were the guy in this situation? POST: I am 24F, boyfriend is 24M. We've been together for 4.5 years. Yesterday we were cleaning my car together and I found a pack of condoms under the driver chair. I have no idea where they came from, seeing as my boyfriend and I don't use condoms. I held it up, kinda chuckling, saying ""huh that's odd, look what I found.."". My boyfriend laughed and said ""oh what the hell, that's strange. We'll now they're mine."" Then",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My fiance and I got into our biggest fight and I still feel devastated. Don't know how to overcome it. POST: My fiance and I have been together for over 2 years and have been engaged for 3 months. We had one rough patch when I was working odd hours and we didn't see each other a lot when we would fight. But yesterday was the worst ever. We have been going strong and are always laughing, our fights are always so minor and we get over it so fast. But yesterday we got into a fight",negative " r/relationships TITLE: This might be a weak post compared to others but I [23 m] caught my girlfriend [21 f] texting intimately with a former date. [We have a 2 year relationship] POST: (back story) We've been together two years and like some couples we started strong and slowly sloped with many ups and downs in between. The guy she was texting was someone she used to date before we were together and stopped talking to when we started dating, but she happened to have a class with him at our college and reg",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my SO [17 F] of 3 months, her mom possible brain cancer. POST: My SO'S mom is her absolute best friend because she has been homeschooled the past 2 years of highschool. Her mom was having bad headaches, went into ER last week, long story short she lesions and now waiting for results which will tell us if its infectious or cancerous etc. If its not infectious she will have less than a year to live. Me and my SO are very debastated about this and she has been a mess ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does the internet have a purpose? POST: I've been thinking about the internet lately. Specifically, I've been asking myself whether it has a purpose or not. One of my re-occurring thoughts is that the internet is not unlike any form of medium (cave wall, canvas, pen and paper) and will eventually capture the most complete record of human knowledge and consequently represent the most thorough and scientific analysis of this planet. Many of us are on the internet every day, recording and",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a male(24) who needs advice about my feelings towards a long term female friend. POST: To be honest I don't really know how to ask this... Well I have a friend that I think would make a very good partner in life. There are many reasons why I haven't done anything towards a romantic relationship. One of the reasons, which is the biggest of the reasons is that I don't want to mess up our friendship.(This has been a problem of mine for many, many years, and not just with this girl.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] think my crush [20F] likes me back. But one thing prevents me from knowing 100%. POST: Long story short, I feel as though I have most of the clues to realize that my crush possibly likes me back. We talk a lot, especially online, and it's always great. We hung out a bit more last school semester, and it always went wonderfully. Even physical contact has increased. But the fact remains that she is still not my girlfriend, simply because I haven't asked her out. And I'll tell y",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (26F) FWB (24M) is seeing someone else too, and I don't care except apparently I do. POST: Early in May, my 4-year long relationship ended, and not too long after that, one of my friends split up with his girlfriend, whom he'd also been with for a while (they were already together when I met him, I think it was about 6 years?). So we got together to commiserate and all that, there were drinks involved, one thing led to another, and we've been hooking up pretty regularly since. I h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Painfully stiff neck, what do I do? (XPost from /r/Health) POST: So I'm at the point where I might need to go to a doctor but I thought I should ask the world wide web for help. (Probably the dumbest thing I've ever said). The right side of my neck and upper shoulder are in pain. Depending on how I move my neck, it gets more or less painful. Contracting the area is more painful than stretching it but after sitting stretched for a while the pain gets even worse. Sometimes my entire right ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 21 M done with gf 20 F of 8 months because of constant verbal abuse and manipulation POST: So today my childhood friend is leaving for Korea. I told my girlfriend yesterday that I needed to go home. She does not have a car and wanted me to take her to her house (1.5hrs one way) and come back that night in order to get things she needed for a school project. Last night I came over and tried helping her with her project but she threw a things at me and when I went to leave she said ",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: I am stressing hard about my [DECOR]... POST: Alright, my lovelies. I am stressing out about the decor for my wedding. As far as decorations go, it is all DIY. [These] are our centerpieces. It is a picnic wedding at a park (tables are picnic tables decorated like [so] My concern here is that the tables look like poop. The paper is laid down to class up the picnic tables. Unfortunately, it just looks so very empty. There will be some additional flowers scattered about, but not too m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36 M] with my Wife [34 F] of 4 years, concerned about a financial reveal. POST: I met my future wife just over 5 years ago and we very rapidly got pregnant, moved in together and married. All things considered we are very happy. One issue we had very early on was over money, whenever we start to discuss finances it would end in huge fights and arguments. So it just became and 'don't touch' subject. I know she has significant debt (student loans etc) and she knows I have savin",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Rude Guy at Choir Concert POST: Not my story, but a friend's father's. I'll call him Billy-bob-joe. Billy-bob-joe was trying to enjoy his son's choir concert. (Not to toot my own horn or anything, but the choir performing that night was quite good ;) ). Unfortunately, the two people in front of Billy-bob-joe didn't seem to understand ""Please don't talk during performances."" During one part of the concert, a soloist sang a song and was doing quite well. Any sane person would have",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going from biofreeze to winter freeze POST: So this just happened. I was rubbing a generous amount of biofreeze to my bicep when I suddenly needed to piss. Yes I know we have seen this before and yes I completely forgot my hand was lubed up with biofreeze when I decided to piss. Immediately I am like oh crap but atm it didnt feel too bad. Then the burn started and I panicked. I run for the coldest item to put on my junk to ease the burn. Well I run in my underwear out the back porch ",negative " r/self TITLE: Am I justified in being pissed? POST: Okay, asking for reddit's opinion here. Last night was my bachelorrette party, or it was supposed to be. We were going to do a halloween theme (since its my favorite) and all dress up as naughty nurses since I am weeks away from graduating with my RN. Not only did a few of my bridesmaids not show up, as well as almost no one that I had invited (note, I had to plan my own party, here) but all but one of them showed up late. Oh, and apparently only I and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Husband (25m) says he doesn't want me (25f) to go camping, not sure how to handle it. POST: My husband and I have been together about 8 years. Married 6 years We have two kids 6 and 2. My girlfriends Jenny, Christy and I were planning a camping trip about 2.5 hours away from home. No kids no dogs. It would be in November. This particular place has no resturants or stores nearby. It is specifically a camping/hiking trip. The total cost of the trip would be about $70 per person. Ever",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/f] can't seem to function without one person to confide in. I'm afraid I annoy my friends when I'm not in a relationship. POST: I [21/f] have had relationships in the past and I am currently single. While I'm in relationships I really enjoy having that one person to talk to things about, tell them when I'm happy about something or upset or anywhere in between. When I'm single I find myself being incredibly lonely just for someone to talk to, and I end up reaching out to inc",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I did the right thing, but what now? In unfamiliar territory. POST: I am living in another state on exchange and I happened to room with someone from the same state as me. Didn't like him from the start as he is sorta broish. Also slob but I put up with it and became sorta friends with him. Tolerant of the fact that he kept around seven bottles of half full dip spit around his side. My friend from home also came on exchange and she and him went of a few dates nothing special. Las",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: (30M) looking to wade into the dating pool. POST: So I'm a 30 year old male who has yet to be on an actual date. As a note to put it out there, I am heteroromantic but asexual, and plan on staying celibate throughout my life. I didn't really even start to look at dating until I was about 27, when I became interested in a lady we'll refer to as S. I thought I loved S, as she was one of the few females who didn't scoff when word of my beliefs made it to their ears. We tried to date, b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex(F21) wanted to apologize and let me(M23) vent after 3 years of silence, but I couldn't say everything. POST: You wanted to know what sucked the most after our break up, and I know I listed the things you did that really ate at me. Although I left out the perpetual-ness and the growing sorrow of your absence, that's what really stuck with me and really weighed me down. At first it came before I was even really conscience, my eyes not yet open when lying in bed. I could smell y",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Dealership giving me the run around. What are my options (California) POST: Hey /r/legaladvice! First time poster here. I have been searching for days on advice and now I figured I would ask you guys. I bought a motorcycle almost 6 months ago. It is used, with only a couple thousand miles on it. After waiting a couple months, I had still not gotten my license plates. I had called the dealership asking status, they told me they made a mistake and hadn't sent the forms out yet and that",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Discussion] Puppy coming home in 2 weeks.. breeder has a flea outbreak. POST: So I did some reddit searching and found some good information, but felt like any of your experiences will definitely help even more for me. I'll be bringing home my siberian husky at about 8-9 weeks. Last week, my breeder called and told me of her situation. She had a flea infestation. I was really upset, but understood, dogs get fleas, it happens. But I also had no idea what to do. She, the breeder, explaine",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [F25] bf [M22] of 2 years has started drinking more heavily. I am scared of drunk men and he knows I hate his ""drunk personality."" Not sure what to do about it. POST: In general we are quite happy. We have our problems, but who doesnt. He works a very awful schedule at a very demanding job, and once in awhile, he drinks for recreation. I'm cool with that. What I'm NOT cool with, is him getting shitty. It seems like he drinks to get drunk. He will have a whole bottle of scot",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Employer refuses to remedy bed bug problem and notify employees POST: I work at a rather large call center (800+ employees) in wisconsin I've been with the company for several years and because of my position am privy to more information than most. The whole ordeal began 6 months ago when an employee came to me and reported sightings of a bed bug. I was physically able to collect a specimen and take it to the call center manager. Nothing was done about this. In fact, the head honcho c",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by having my phone speak in front of the entire class POST: So we have a bio class where we take our own bio tests on our own devices. There is absolutely no proctoring going on. This literally just happened. So, I was all but done with my test with the exception of one question. Something about roundworm and exoskeleton. I decide hey I deserve some kind of break and Google the answer. Looking around, lo and behold my phone speaks what I'm looking at in front of the whole class. And ev",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Hard to talk to my SO about more serious personal feelings POST: Hello there. I'm looking for a bit of advice. My bf [M21] and I [? ,21]have a monogamous long distance relationship. We meet during the summer months but don't go to the same college. He's very silly fun and nerdy which is just my type, but it seems like whenever I need to talk to him about more personal things about me or possible complaints about the relationship he tends to avoid the subject. When I do eventu",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: First Job problems POST: So im 17, and I got a job 3 weeks ago at a local resteraunt clearing tables(not so bad right?) So they have me come in and train on sunday the 3rd for 3 and 1/2 hours that night, Im told to come in from 11-1 and 5-7 every day until the weekend which I am asked to come in 5-7 on both days. So the sunday comes and I ask about my paycheck but keep in mind, the guy who owns the resteraunts first language is not english, he tells me that in 1 or 2 weeks i will b",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [33/m] Is snooping justifiable if you find something? POST: So my wife and I share an iPad that doesn't really leave the house. She bought it to use at home just for stuff like browsing, social media and games. Then I started to play games on it, too (with her permission). She hasn't used it much since she got an iPhone 6 last fall but I chalked that up to her just wanting to play with the shiny new thing. So now I'm pretty much the primary user just for games. About a month ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/18] have been in a relationship with my gf [18] for over year, yet i now feel guilty. POST: Hi /r/relationships, I have been in a relationship with my girlfriend for 14 months now and its my first serious relationship. Things have been going well over the past year or so. Now, this is going to sound weird, but i have started to talking to girl [17] i met online a lot and playing computer games with her. We share similar interests, more-so than my gf and i just feel we have a b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my now official boyfriend [26 M] whom I've been seeing for 8 months, has never been in a serious relationship, and I'm so confused how to navigate this? POST: So I met this guy spontaneously in the middle of the night last year, it was supposed to be a hookup but we ended up really hitting it off and every time we hang out it would be for extended periods of time. We really enjoyed each others company. He is kind of a dumb ""blonde"" but not actually blonde, just ditzy,",positive " r/travel TITLE: His first trip out of the US... where should I take him? (Or even within the US?) POST: I've got 7-10 days of vacation time in September-October, and since I love to travel I want to take my boyfriend with me. Problem is, I don't even know where to begin. I've been to a few places in my adult life, none of which I'd mind going to again, (Mexico, some Caribbean islands, UK, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia). He's been to most of the midwest US (where we live), and California. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] broke up with my gf[19F] month ago and not sure that i need to date anymore POST: So I broke up with my gf month ago because she always was complaining about me for last 5 month(was dating here for year). She was my first gf and sex partner as well. Now I feel like i still need to do something with my passion and I dunno if it worth to search for girls just for sex, cause I want to have a stable partner but also person who can support me. On the other hand, there always will ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/m] going after [21/f] who friend-zoned me. I gave up, but she just messaged me something interesting out of the blue?? POST: We get along amazingly, joke around a ton together. She added me on facebook, and she seeked me out with conversation for about a week straight. I asked her on a 1st date, went out for 6 hours! Rock climbing, dinner, coffee. I think I was too soft / a bit too reflective on life and came off like a teacher. I should have been more manly and chatted abo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [16/m] My girlfriend [16/f] doesn't know if she likes me POST: Sorry for the shitty formatting and wall of text. It all started about 4 months ago when I got her phone number and wrote to her the first time. She lives on a school 6 hours away from me but was at her parents place so she was able to see me after talking to me for about a week. We hit it off and I was lost in this girl. She seemed so different than all other girls, I felt all the kliche things, things I used to m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] and my partner [22 F] broke up and I am having a lot of difficulty with this. POST: I treated the relationship in a very unhealthy way. We were together in person for a few months before it became long distance. When that happened, I spent all of my time waiting near my computer for her to come online so we could talk. I didn't take care of myself (I have severe depression, anxiety, and OCD), and I relied on her for all of my emotional support. I'm having trouble trying to",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: He [24/m] has ignored me [23/f] for over a week. What to do now? POST: Boyfriend and I last saw each other about 9 days ago. We got into an argument, both of us hurt, and we sort of cut things off, but I said ""maybe instead of breaking up we should just give me each other space?"" he said (with a pissed tone) ""yeah. maybe. I'll call you"" while walking off hastily to his car for work. He HAS done this before (stonewalling after a big fight) about 3 other times. 1st and 2nd time ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my close friend [19F], best friends for a while, we drunkenly kiss one night, all downhill from there POST: So i met this girl in my freshman year of college and we hit it off straight away. It was kind of strange at first for me to be so into a girl in a completely plutonic way...but it was working so i didn't question it. We got close enough to the point where i considered her one of my best friends and we could talk about anything. This is where our friendship peaked",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] got cheated by my two best friends [23 F/M] while I though i had a possibility with the girl POST: This girl left his boyfriend thanks to me, I opened her eyes she said, i'm perfect and to never ever leave her. after having a few dates and kissing and sleeping together, she tells me she needs time to leave her boyfriend, who is in a separate city. I say ok and leave distance while she makes up her mind. She sent me some messages that she left her boyfriend and so on, later",positive " r/dogs TITLE: Please tell me if I am out of line POST: First let me set up some context: I've always had a dog growing up, but this is my first time caring for a young adult dog by myself. There are a lot of things I didn't have to deal with growing up. If it comes to exercising a dog, picking food and treats, training, and interacting with dogs, I'm your man, but I am not always the most knowledgeable person when it comes to canine medicine; its just not something I've ever been responsible for. So, w",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Cannabis and the Colonoscopy POST: Hi! Caucasian 24/F, 5'9"", 190lbs. Currently on Plaquenil and Baby Aspirin for mild Lupus, and Loratadine for all my sniffles. This has all been discussed with the pre-op nurse, as has the specific question I'm about to ask, but I just wanted to see what you guys think. I have a colonoscopy (my first) coming up this Friday. My GI is pretty sure it's just an internal hemorrhoid giving me a bit of rectal bleeding, but given my autoimmune history and long h",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26/M] I'm having intrusive thoughts about leaving my girlfriend. POST: I've been seeing my GF [22/F] for six months now, and I've been thinking about how I would go about breaking up with my girlfriend. What I would say, what would be the insurmountable issue, etc. I thought it was akin to that impulse to jump from apartment balconies, l'appel du vide, but I found myself flirting with two different women this week, and I'm beginning to think there's more to it. I love my girl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my boyfriend[21 M] of 2.5 yrs, decreased sex drive and lingering glances. POST: My boyfriend and I have had a healthy, loving relationship for the past 2.5 years and I think we're very compatible. We had sex for the first time about 6 months ago, but haven't done so since, because birth control was making me crazy and killing my sex drive. After stopping the birth control, though, my sex drive hasn't returned completely. We do not have intercourse anymore, only oral/ha",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Nipping? Mouthing? POST: Backstory: I adopted my 6 year old weimaraner almost a year ago. She had been kept in a cage as a breeding dog most of her life. From what I've gathered she was allowed in the breeders house every so often. The couple that bred them was older and the wife had died. She was the one who usually took care of the dogs. The husband tried to continue for a year but failed. It has taken a year for my sweet Heidi to walk around with her head up. It hung for so long and s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my boyfriend [22M], his friend [22M] and his friends girlfriend [19F] went camping, we all got really drunk one night and things turned sexual, and his friends girlfriend is now always flirting/talking dirty with my bf? Was it wrong to feel jealous? POST: Last weekend, we(me, my boyfriend S, his friend J, Js girlfriend M) took a few days off to go backpacking through the wilderness. We sorta know each other and S and J have been doing everything together and one of thei",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [M20] and girlfriend [18F] have been arguing a lot since her depression got worse. I need help. POST: I made this account just so I could post; I do browse Reddit but never made an account. So me and my girlfriend have been together over a year now, but just lately she's been really down; obviously this has made me really down too. :C this has lead to us arguing a fair bit and quite frequently. She says if we keep arguing like this she don't know how much longer we'll be together",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My girlfriend just broke-up with me... i'm really down right now. Reddit, how do you get over a break-up? And... should i take her back...? POST: I had this feeling all day that she was going to break up with me... All the signs were there. Well yeah, after school she texted me saying she's been thinking and she wanted a ""break"". I wasn't surprised by this but I still felt like complete shit... I really love this girl. Well we texted shortly and just accepted that we're taking a ""break"" ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Being forced in a long distance relationship - should I consider it? POST: Been in a relationship with my girlfriend for 6 years. We're in our mid 20s and finding our feet in our careers. We have discussed in detail our future plans - plans that were to move in together soon and then the next step, which is marriage. However, my girlfriend is planning her further studies in a different country and has already applied to colleges and is expecting to get into one. Although, I've been ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I desperately need to change my life. Advice? POST: In the past three years, I have gotten nowhere in my college academic career due to laziness. My parents pay for my tuition. Apart from that, I have an ego that wants to look like I'm a ""normal and decent person"" in front of everyone else. The truth is, I recently have not been able to talk much with friends because I tell them that ""I'm dealing with personal issues right now"". However, it's been really hard to break the cycle. I have b",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: My friend/neighbor/crush(19) just texted me(19) and told me her and her bf broke up, what should I do?! POST: Hey! So a little background info, a few months back me(19) and my previous gf broke up, and I decided that I needed help getting over it and saw a therapist and now a lot has changed for me and I'm glad to be a happier better person for it. However,two weeks ago, by chance I was able to get to know my neighbor(19) better (I live on campus) and we have been hanging out and we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19F] boyfriend [19M] doesn't introduce me to his classmates as his girlfriend POST: As college has recently started, my extroverted boyfriend has been easily making friends in his classes. While we are hanging out on campus, sometimes his new-ish friends will come up to us and start a conversation with him. Before getting too deep into the conversation, my boyfriend says ""Oh, sorry, this is (insert my name)"" and I smile and we greet each other. I've met about 5 of these frien",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I need a random stranger to tell it to me straight. POST: My friends are great, but I feel like I'm receiving advice/input from them that is similar to the stuff in the movie ""He's Just Not That Into You"" where they always try to make you feel better rather than being honest with you. I (21/f) have been seing this guy (25/m) for about 4 months now. We did not know each other beforehand, which I think is also a setback to our relationship. We've been sleeping together since a week ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How hard is long distance? POST: I (16m) met this girl (15) in January at a church gathering. We never really talked, but we smiled and said go to each other a couple times and swayed when the band played a slower song. We held hands during one even. We knew we were into each other, but it was kinda weird because we still didn't really know each other. We danced together a bit, and then she saw me sing at the talent show thing they held. I wanted to get to know her better so I took h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] feel frustration and anger every time I interact with this one coworker [23F] for two months. How do I improve this relationship? POST: I started at a new company 2 months ago and there is an intern here who has been here for nearly a year that I really don't get along with. Outside of work situations, we generally enjoy each other's company, but at work, I get very frustrated every time we interact and even angry sometimes. For example, I pointed out an error in one of h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my friend [26 F] 3 months (friends), long distance and how to move forward POST: So I have been talking with this girl, and she has come to tell me over te past few months that I am her best friend. Well I admitted feelings for her as more than friends and she said she has the same feelings, but she is moving away (about an hour away from me). Well we talked about it and I told her that even though she is reluctant to get into a relationship quickly, I am willing to ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: If some higher power was going to destroy the earth tomorrow what would you do to delay the destruction POST: Basically if a god, person, or extraterrestrial being were to tell you that they were going to destroy the earth and all of it's inhabitants the next day what would you do to prolong complete destruction. I would look confident and maybe even scoff a bit and then proceed to stack rocks. Every rock I find I add it to a stack. Pyramids shaped, box shaped, and simply column shaped ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Went to NYC to meet penpal of 5 years, fell in love, what now? POST: This girl and I have been penpals for about 5 years. I am 23, she is 21. She is from Russia. We have been talking frequently for the past 5 years through mail, facebook, and skype, so we have gotten to know each other very well. We are comfortable with talking just about anything. She has never had a boyfriend. This past summer she decides to travel to America (NYC) for the first time, and I take the opportuni",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How does one become comfortable with loneliness? POST: I'm not entirely sure this is a question for /r/relationships but I figure it can't hurt to give it a shot - and please forgive me for any gaps in thought. I'm a 24-year-old male who's going to be finishing up college in the next year or so and I've come to realize lately that I've been feeling really lonely. I've tried dating (off and on for about two years - it's hard to date when you're in school and older than just about ev",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it wrong of me to have such high expectations for a friend? POST: I am a 26 F and my friend is a 28 F. Lately I have been finding myself completely annoyed with her. Her parents totally support her, and up until recently she had been unemployed for 6 months. She never looked for jobs, and finally now has a part time one because someone approached her with it. Now to what bothers me - I work full time and go to school on top of it, and support my boyfriend as he goes to school and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why do I [27 M] feel like a huge asshole by telling my ex gf [20 F] that I'm not sure I could accept her unborn child? POST: My ex gf for back in contact with me after a year of us breaking up (I was going through depression at the time and didn't want to drag her down with me). She told me she wanted to get back together. We went out twice just for ice cream. She would talk about 'us' and even said she would have another kid if I wanted one. She also wanted to come over to my plac",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How to move on? POST: For the past 30 years of my life I've never been lonely, I always had friends, and girls to sleep with without getting emotionally involved, 6 years ago, I started thinking about settling down, I had an unsuccessful relation ship for a year, but I moved fast since I still had a lot of friends, and honestly a lot of women hitting on, me, I had many relationships for a year, before settling with what I thought was my soul mate, everything was like fate wanted us to b",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I[f30] am confused by my bf(m39) lately. Little advice please..? POST: Lil' backstory eh? We have been together almost two years. He practically lives with me. We both have kids from previous relationships. Confusion number one goes like this.. Him and his x wife argue almost daily. I don't understand why. He claims he wants nothing to do with her and shes a bitch and yet there is daily contact even though its not civil or about their kid. Granted it'll start about the kid ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: tricky relationship situation concerning my ex and a new girl that's come into the picture, need some insight. POST: My (now) ex-girlfriend broke up with me 5-6 weeks ago, we've remained on good terms, still friends, she would check up on me almost every day but that slowed and I haven't even talked to her in over a week. Anyway, I have a new girl I'm getting involved with...this situation is weird, because assuming that me and this new girl get involved, my ex will see us together ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (24F) confused about his (25M) behaviour POST: I've been seeing this guy from work and since he is my superior we kept the relationship secret. Most of our conversations happened via text. Very nice, sweet cuddly and all till I said a couple of things that gave him the impression that I was wasn't taking the relationship seriously (seeing other guys). After a ""text"" talk, he realised it was a big misunderstanding and he shared his insecurities(namely due to his ex). We carried ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to criticize girlfriend? POST: Going to go fast. Dating this girl for 4 years, she has recently had some medical issues and has begun coughing a lot. eg. 5 min drive, about 8 times. She coughs really loud to the point where it hurts my ears such as if I was listening to an ipod full blast for like 10 minutes, it resonates in my ears.. It wouldn't be so bad if she would cover her mouth to try and muffle the sound, but she does not try at all. How can I go about and tell her to try",negative " r/relationships TITLE: gf [24f] is actively hiding me [27m] from certain friends POST: Bare bones. We've been together a year, and earlier this week, I was over at her place and she was skyping with a group of her friends, planning a party for one of the girls. She warned me not to make a sound, and I asked why, she said, ""A couple of my friends don't know about you."" Upon further questioning, I found out that these aren't very close friends, just people she lost touch with since college, and I said, ""W",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I morally obligated? POST: Hi. So I guess I came here to see if you guys think that I (22F) am morally obligated to break up with my bf (26M) of one year. The long and short of it is basically as follows. He is from the college town that I moved to for school. I graduate in a year, and am moving to another state right after. I like my boyfriend (I'll call him M) well enough, but I definitely do not love him and do not believe that I ever could love him. He is a very sweet",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18 M] Girlfriend [18 F]. Just broke up with me. Need some advice please. POST: So today my girlfriend broke up with me out of nowhere. We are both in college and decided to keep an open relationship before this break up, but out of nowhere today she said that she wants to just completely end it. She goes to the community college in the town we live in and I go to a college that is a short train ride away. Today she said that she doesn't want us to hold each other back and event",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Does anyone have recommendations for a FT job to pursue, which is flexible [i.e. work-from-home part of the time, etc], for someone with an MPH and an RD? POST: Just wondering if anyone has recommendations on the above. I have a chronic illness and would prefer to work from home part-time if possible (it just makes things roll smoother having the extra down-time. I can still be quite productive at home.) I figure that, these days, I've got to be able to procure something FT that enables me",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Well... things went south fast ([16/m] worried about [16/f]'s past, Should I remain Interested?) POST: (16, male, high school, Central coast of California) Recently I've been talking to a girl I've been interested in. Was ready to ask if we could hangout some time and maybe go surfing then grab a bite (start dating). As I was talking to her she seemed almost bipolar, staring intensely into my eye's having an awesome conversation with hints being dropped by both of us, then the ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU getting caught exchanging nudes with a friend POST: So recently because all manor of things I've been so down borderline depressed, I thought flirting with a close friend of mine might help. Things got rather heated and some images and videos were exchanged and that brings me to last night. My and my girlfriend (I'm not sure what we are right not) Went out, saw a band, got some cocktails had a right laugh. We'd got in and we'd both fell asleep, I woke up because she was moving about an",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I can't tell if the girl I'm seeing [18F/22M] is dating somebody or not POST: So I meet this girl at school a couple weeks ago, we hang out, she comes over, we talk for a while, she tells me that she has just recently broken up with her boyfriend (they had been dating a while) because he was collecting pictures on his iphone of girls that he didn't know but lived in the same hall as him. While we're watching a movie, she gets a text and tells me that her ex-bf is standing outside of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [m/17] took an interesting girl [F/16] on a date and she thought it was boring and wants to wait? POST: So I [M/17] have been talking to a really cool girl [F/16], who I met through mutual friends, for several weeks very often. She showed initial interest in me, and we have flirted/hinted about dating. I finally took her on a first date. We went out to eat at a casual sit-down place, ate for an hour, then didn't want to go home so we drove around town just talking about various t",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Can I/Should I take out loans from school to travel after I graduate? POST: So I'm currently loan free and will be graduating in Fall 2012 (end of the world and all). After that, I'll have about 4 months before I apply and get accepted into PTA school. During those 4 months, I'd really like to go travel, seeing as I probably wouldn't have the chance or time to do so later in my future. Extra info: PTA school will cost 5K within the next 2 years (community college super close to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] know a girl [23F] who won't go out with me but doesn't seem to want to be friends either. POST: Yeah, my title is a little confusing but I won't make this long. I've known this girl for a while now and we've chatted a bit a bunch of times and know a lot of the same people. I recently asked her out and added that if she wasn't up for it, it was okay, we could still be friends. I didn't get a response back at all. I added the friends part because I was serious about it and I a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My fiance wouldn't go out to eat with me to celebrate. Am I wrong to feel hurt and angry? POST: I'm 24 and he is 25. We've been together for 5 years. Okay, for background info, my fiance and I have been working on our health for a bit under a year. I've gone from 150lbs to 105lbs and hope to lose about 5 more. He has gone from 220lbs to 180lbs, and I'm not sure how much more he's going to lose. I think ideal for someone his height/build is like 165 or so. Anyway, it's been tough bu",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Too stubborn to let you go POST: Went on vacation with my friends in the Dominican and did not expect to find love. I figured it was just a vacation-phase and I would just forget about you after I got back home but you just had to. You just had to tell me on the day before I left Dominican that I am what you were always looking for in a guy. You said you wanted to try long distance (3000km btw), you told me you'd break up with your boyfriend (of five years) because he is immature and yo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My mom thinks that people give themselves terminal illnesses by thinking too many negative thoughts. What can I say to make her see reason? POST: The father of one of my friends died recently, and my family was talking about it at dinner tonight. He apparently died of a heart attack, and everyone is still in shock about it. As we were talking, my mom said that she thought that ""people choose to die"" (direct quote). I thought she might have meant that people choose to do things (eat certa",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Just don't know if to continue POST: I am 23 female he is 22 male soon to be 23. It is a long distance relationship of 2k or so miles. It has been going on for about a year even though it hasnt been ""official"" for that whole year . Basically the relationship has had a history of very up and down. I don't want to make this a very complicated post but there is tons of shit going but with our last fight I'm not sure of its worth repairing anymore. We have pretty bad fights but t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So I always wanted to know why there are bully's and how they experience it, I know there has to be some bully's (hopefully ex bully's) on reddit, I wanna know you're story! I start off with mine! POST: So I was the prey and the predator sort to speak. In elementary I was picked on for being a nerd and i just ignored it most of my time there. Then some new kid came to my school and he hated me for no reason ( even to this day I still don't know why) but it wasn't no jokes or teasing, it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (27m) having a hard time coming to terms with a relationship interests (22f) past. POST: Here's the deal. I'll keep it short and vague enough to avoid details. Yet I'm just looking for advice because this is something I never expected and don't know how to handle. To set the situation I'll explain that me and her were somewhere between friends and acquaintances over the last year or maybe two. Over that time she, like any single adult has the right to has hooked up with and had ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Personal issues with me [16F] about hitting 2nd base with bf [17M] POST: My boyfriend and I are in a great relationship and I love spending time with him. Tomorrow (10/9) is actually our 6 month mark! As the title suggests, we only recently hit second base, as this is my first relationship and his second, and we're both relatively young. I'm actually very happy about moving the physical aspect of our relationship slowly and he is happy to comply. While making out earlier, I could te",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/F] think my boyfriend [23/M] is cheating on me. I snooped through his phone and found a few things. What do you think, reddit? POST: While I know snooping is awful, I couldn't help myself. I noticed my boyfriend has been texting this one girl a little more than I like and I looked. I'm disgusted with myself, but this is what I found after my cursory glance at the conversation: -he sent a picture of his face while he was drunk to her, and she complimented his appearance -they",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my ex-gf [28 F] 4 year relationship, broke up 3 months ago, still living together, she just told me she cheated for the last year and 3 months POST: I had no idea she was cheating... with three guys... for FIFTEEN MONTHS. There was one time I suspected something due to behavior changes, but she convinced me I was just being irrationally anxious/work stress. Basically, any time she spent any time with male friends without me, she was cheating, it was never an out-of-th",negative " r/cats TITLE: Litter problem POST: Hello, new cat owner here. I got Fedora (female) at the start of December 2014, in a few weeks she learned to use litter box and everything was excellent. Until one day I closed the bathroom door to clean the litter box, and she peed on the floor in the hall. After the incident everything was just fine. Until recently she started peeing more often like once a week, which was fine. But then last saturday (6 days ago) we had guests and they kept closing the bathroom door ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/m] My girlfriend [23/f] live too far apart to see each other (only temporarily, though). Wondering what to do about her new guy friend. POST: Hey /r/Relationship_Advice. I'm several thousand miles away from my girlfriend for work. It's been this way for about 5 months, and I've got about 6 more to go before I can go back home for good. Things have been going really well for us doing long-distance. I never feel any urge to be unfaithful and I never second-guess our relation",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by spilling hot cheese all over my body. (NSFW) POST: This happened a few weeks ago, but nonetheless. I was walking around the house naked for reasons that you don't need to know. Decided to make some microwave mac and cheese for the girlfriend and I. Directions called for 16 minutes, so I set the timer and walked away. What's this all the sudden? I have to poop. So I go do my business and come back out and the microwave is reading over ten minutes, still. ""Huh"" I think, I must be a fa",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [20m] am getting mixed signals from a girl[22f] I thought was interested in me. Should I stop talking to her? POST: I've known this girl for about 6 months. I love her personality more than anything and I would love to work it out with her :). The first month we knew each other she asked me out on a date. I wasn't interested at the time because I didn't know her too well. In the last 6 weeks we've went out together in a group multiple times. She used to text me first everyday but",positive " r/relationships TITLE: One of my [16M] best friends [17F] has serious self esteem issues and it causes a lot of fights between us. What do I do? POST: I don't know where else to go for help, so i'm turning to you guys/gals because you've helped me out in the past. I have a friend, we used to date but it was nothing serious, and after we broke up we ended up becoming really close friends. Recently she's been having personal issues that she refuses to talk to me about but are clearly causing a lot of emotion",positive " r/self TITLE: I'm worried I have ADHD POST: and I'm even more worried that I'm self-diagnosing. Last Saturday, I was given ritalin at a party (similar drug in terms of official treatment to Adderall). I hadn't been drinking that night, and I was pretty alert otherwise. I took a pill, and the effects kicked in about half an hour later. It felt like everything that ever frustrated me about the way I thought disappeared. I've always felt that I have a lot of mental clutter going on, and found it hard to fo",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: A series of misfortunate events POST: This happened a bit back, but here it goes: I commute to school, and its about a 15 - 20 minute drive from where I live. One day I was really low on cash and had to put gas in my car, so I put what I thought would be enough to get one more trip back and forth before I can get paid and fill it up properly. I made it there no problem, and was about 1/4 of a mile away from my exit on the highway when the car sputtered and died. I pulled over to the",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I am 16/m and I am in a bit of a dilemma. POST: Hi Reddit. I am not sure if this is the sort of subreddit in which allows teens, and if there is a better subreddit, I will direct my problem there. I am a sophmore in highschool. I was asked to a Sadie Hawkins dance (girl ask guys). This girl is from my church and I find her very annoying (Side note: I'm not very religious, and she is crazy religious.) I have tried befriending her, but I never had a good time with her. My family",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my girlfriend [30 F] of 10 years, I'm afraid of marriage. POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating and living together for a long time. We get along OK. She is mad at me sometimes, usually about what she feels is a lack of communication, but we always work it out. We don't have any real problems, and I think are happier together than most couples after 10 years. I think she'll be a good mom. We're talking about getting married, and I just can't feel OK with it. As a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend [20 F] 1 year, I feel like I want a three way too much and I can't bring sex and love together POST: For a while now my girlfriend has been talking about wanting to experiment with another woman and even having a 3 way. Sometimes while we're having sex she even insists on me talking about it without me even bringing it up. We've been talking about this probably for over 6 months and it has yet to happen. My want for is getting out of control that my girlf",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Pay down debt or focus on savings? POST: I realize this might be a no-brainer for some but here's my reasoning: I have not built up much savings at all and real estate around me is sky rocketing. I was making 2k/mo CC payments and just had a very expensive few months that almost tripled my debt. I started thinking that my credit balance rises and falls but never gets to $0. Now I am thinking of allocating 2k/mo to savings and still a sizable amount to credit. I know I will pay in i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [25F] better support my boyfriend [26M] of 2 years when he's depressed? POST: I've been dating my boyfriend, ""Jake"", for two years, living together for the past six months. We talk very openly about everything, including our mental health; we both see therapists for different reasons (him for depression, me for anxiety). Jake suffers from periods of depression, ranging from a few hours where he's crying and incapable of doing anything to a week of being unable to be interes",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [20/f] can't tell whether his [22/m] feelings have changed since I opened up a little bit POST: and it's driving me crazy. He was pretty blatant about his feelings for me, saying he'd never felt this way, that I was perfect, etc. and after I opened up to him a bit about my insecurities his tone appears to have changed. He doesn't text nearly as often, seem nearly as eager/into me and I'm just generally worried I fucked things up by saying too much (or maybe just too soon). I",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sitting on a yoga ball. POST: This actually happened a few months ago, and I thought I'd share it with you now that I feel like it. Anyway, that night I thought of going out with a girl I've been dating at the time, but instead of going out she invited me to come to her house because her parents were on a trip and she had to look after her four year old brother. No biggie, even better because I thought that the little guy would go to sleep so she and I could have some alone time. Fa",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Found out about my bio dad almost 6 years ago. Should I reach out? POST: I'm 24F and I found out a month after my 18th birthday that the father that has been around my whole life isn't actually my biological father. I had just gotten a job and I was looking for my social security card in my personal file cabinet. I found child support papers and a baptism certificate with my birth father's name on it. I confronted my mom and asked who it was and she replied ""that's your father. He was my bo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my gf [17 F] of 6 months, does she like me still? POST: My girlfriend and I are pretty close to each other. I've met both sides of her family, and for a younger couple, I think we've been dating kinda long, considering we're still in high school. We have little to together, but we get to hang out alone with each other only every few weekends, considering that we work and she has to spend some weekends with her mother. What worries me is that during the week, she spends",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: [30M] Needs your advice on dating a friend's ex. POST: Thanks in advance. So I'm [30M] recently out of a relationship and am ready to start dating again. Specifically, I'd like to ask out/start dating a woman [22F] that I've known for almost two years. My only problem is that her ex is a friend of mine. He and I aren't close, but I see the guy at least twice a month at various social gatherings within my social circle. They've been broken up for a little over a year and she initiat",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Kinda Mad... POST: So I finally decided to get off my butt and lose weight. First couple of weeks or so, I hustled. I was feeling good. I wasn't expecting to drop ten pounds or anything, but I did drop out 5 pounds or so. So now, I didn't get to go to the gym for a couple of days due to some family staying over and me sticking with them taking them out and such. Now, Ive been watching what i eat. Every now and then, I'll be defeated by the smell of the junk food and cave, but for the most p",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Good Foot's band van stolen - can you help find it? They're playing my best friend's wedding in less than 2 weeks. (x-post from /r/KansasCity) POST: [Reddit, can you find this van?] ( The Good Foot (R&B, Soul band from KC) is playing my best friend's wedding less than 2 weeks away. Just last night, the band posted on Facebook that their van was stolen. No word on whether on what equipment was inside, but they are scrambling to find it and so far, have no leads. The bride and groom met ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28M] have been dating this girl [26F] for a couple of months and now shes been distant the past couple of days POST: So I have been seeing this girl for a couple of months on and off, but the past couple of weeks we really hit it off, we've both told each other we really like each other, and we've been intimate. We've been texting just about every day and she also initiates many of the conversations. We were supposed to meet up a couple of days ago, but she cancelled last minu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [29F] husband [31M] has gotten very distant and grumpy lately POST: Been married 4 years, over the past 4 months my husband has gotten more and more distant and grumpy. Occasionally he is his old self, where he jokes and talks animatedly but there are more and more instances where he simply gets grumpy and quiet. He spends more time alone, he gets up in the middle of the night and goes online. He takes extra long in the shower or even spending 20-30 minutes in the bathroom, I",negative " r/loseit TITLE: How to be supportive to boyfriend trying to lose weight POST: Hello, I hope I can post this here. I live together with my boyfriend, and he has been trying to lose weight for some time and he has lost about 30lbs (I am guessing here because he does not like to tell me) in the last year but the progress is stalling and I think it might be partly my fault. I am a thin woman, I always have been, I have never counted my calories or anything. I guess I just eat less/am less hungry in general. He",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Going to ask her out... advice? POST: Okay, so if you care to look over the older post, its [here] Basically, i'm 23 and I've decided to ask this friend of mine (who's 27) if she wants to go out with me. I had every intention of asking her out last night when I saw her, but due to exhaustion from the long day or whatever, I just let her walk out the door with a ""goodbye"" and a hug. (she's been coming over about once a week for the last month and a half or so to watch TV and hang",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By hiring a girl who turned out to be a stripper POST: So this actually happened just recently. I was a Front Office Manager at a Hampton Inn. I had hired this girl who I was on the fence about but needed a front desk girl so I was desperate. Not knowing anything about her, she got hired. Throughout the next couple of months, she gave me problems: no call no shows, not coachable at all, and just a poor rotten attitude. But I couldn't fire her because I needed a desk clerk because I wasn'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [32F] overheard my boss [61F] gossiping about me and don't know what to do POST: Feeling very anxious and upset right now and thought I'd ask for advice. Basically, I overheard a conversation between my direct supervisor and our executive director criticizing me personally. They thought I had left the office I think so were gossiping about me. Specifically, my ED was complaining I had not been smiling lately, that i seemed so damn unhappy, would it kill me to smile, etc. My supervi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my BF [25 M] for 1 year are studying the same thing and I feel like everything is a competition! POST: I have a boyfriend and we are both studying business. We live in the same city, go to the same school, the same class and we spend a lot of time together. That's one of the things I love about us! He is really smart and can help me whenever I need, and of course it's good to have similar interests. But at the same time, I hate it. He is so smart that most of the tim",positive " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Trying to decide between small local wedding or destination wedding with party at home afterward. Help! POST: Alright, both FH and I are very private people. I have a small, very close-knit family, his is large-ish but not very close. There are 11 people total in both sides of my immediate family, and I always thought I wanted a destination wedding. Now that the wedding is actually a reality, what I would really prefer is to just elope but FH is definitely against it. At first he w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (19f) current man-friend (22m) is developing a bromance with my friend (20m) who happens to be a past hook-up of mine. I feel sort of uncomfortable with this. Advice? POST: Alright, so last year at the beginning of my college career I hooked up with a guy friend for a few weeks. It didn't work out and we decided to stay friends. There is literally no attraction or sexual tension between us anymore-- in fact, the two of us like to pretend it never actually happened. Fast forward t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does anybody know why electromagnetic therapy devices like Deta Elis are not the main treatment for medical problems? POST: Sorry if this should go under a different subreddit. So for those who don't know, electro magnetic therapy is a way to treat, get rid of and cure diseases, parasites, even viruses. Electromagnetic therapy is achieved by wearing a device set to the virus, parasite, etc that you want to get rid of and then it sends out electromagnetic wavelengths that are specific to ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, we are waist-deep in debt, with no savings and wife is half-way through her pregnancy. Need advice POST: Me: I'm a freelance web developer working around 25-50 hours per week and living in a 3rd-world country doesn't help. The hourly rates here are much, much lower as you'd expect and even if I work overtime almost 4 days a week, the income just won't fit to pay our debt and save at the same time. Wife is at home doing everything she can to help. I hate the thought of her workin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22m] invited my gf [19f] to live with me over the summer between semesters of school. POST: Me and my girlfriend have been going steady for around two years now, and have had multiple summers under our belts apart as we are from different states but go to the same school. Recently, however, she had been diagnosed with severe depression and was in need of counseling - I volunteered to house her at my place while she got the help she needed, and that has been fantastic for her and o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[28F] with my 'friend' [32m] 2 months, has said he wants to take things slow after I told him I was looking forward to creating a solid foundation. POST: This gentleman and I started seeing each other about 2 months ago. He has been very open and honest. He openly admits he is concerned about becoming overly co-dependent on his partner, citing he has identified patterns from his past that support this fact. After about half a month, he asked me what we were doing, and if we were '",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Service Animals in California Apt Building POST: Hi LegalAdvice! My friend regularly visits and sometimes spends the night (~1-2 times per month). They have a service animal (small dog) that comes with them when they visit and stay over. I'm a subletter in an old (rent-controlled) apt building in San Francisco. The building mgr has never given me any trouble about the dog, but I've never run into him when the dog was around. Recently they wanted to do maintenance in the apt and ga",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [M22] have found out my S.O. [F24] has cheated on me cheated... POST: We've been together over a year and a half, I snooped on her found and found these texts talking to him just like she talks to me, confronted her about and the truth came out. Apparently it had been going on since November and she slept with him twice, she seems sincere about making the mistake but that could just be because she's been caught. I don't want this relationship to end and I'm all for forgiven and se",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20 M) have not been interested in sex with my (20 F) GF for about a month. Anyone else have phases like this? POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for two years and have had a healthy sex life so far. We have had sex about twice a week on average for the duration of the relationship thus far. Recently, we went on winter break from school and spent some time away from each other. Since we have been back, I have not wanted to have sex with her. I don't get turned on when s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Help me [19 M] get over the girl [19 F] I've been with the past 2 years. POST: I've just broken up with a girl I've loved for the past 2 years. She assured me that she wasn't looking for anyone else, just she wasn't happy in this relationship anymore. We had a talk about 7 months ago about how we'd lost the spark we originally had and I vowed to make things better and try to fix things. I'm a strong believer in fixing relationships rather than binning them and finding new ones. H",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/m] Can't stop thinking about my ex-girlfriend when I'm with my girlfriend. POST: Here's the story, my relationship ended with this girl over a year ago. Our relationship was reaching the three year benchmark and I had every intention of asking this girl to marry me. We were high school sweethearts and we shared an apartment as soon as we were old enough to take care of ourselves. In retrospect I was young and dumb and should've seen the writing on the walls but thats life I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 F] virgin is insecure about body+sex. How do I bring it up with possible SO [22 M]? POST: So I have been seeing a guy [22 M] for 4 months and I really, really like him. He is loving, supportive, smart, etc. I honestly think I hit the jackpot with him. He is sincerely very good to me and for the first time, I found someone that I am compatible with. Anyways, he has mentioned that he wants to be in a serious relationship and of course, I do as well. However, I am afraid of jump",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Washington] Broke an apartment lease and landlord kept security deposit. They charged us additional cleaning fees and didn't use deposit for cleaning. POST: Hi everyone. Kinda in a bad place here. I moved my family across the state of Washington for a job and had to break my lease with my current landlord. In the lease it said that we would forgot our $625 security deposit if we broke our lease and we understood that. Two weeks after we move they sent us a letter saying we owe $1800 i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] need help with my relationship with my [23F] girlfriend of 1.5+ years POST: I have been dating my 23 y/o girlfriend for a little over 1.5 years now. I do not see our relationship lasting and I need some help. I will list some things I see as issues and why I believe it will not work. 1) I am in the process of getting a job as a police officer in a very large city on the east coast. This has been my dream job since I was a kid. She hates it, I admit this is a tough time for",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: 23 Years Old, In Grad School, Want to get a jump on Credit POST: I wanted to get a credit card for a few reasons. First, I wanted to get a jump on building my credit. Second, and more specifically I wanted to get the Amazon card to actually get some perks I would use, (free money). I tried to apply for the Amazon card, and was denied on account of not having any accounts open for long enough time to get a credit history, which was the reason I was getting a card in the first plac",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] My dog won't stop biting his skin off, nothing helps alleviate it POST: Hey all, I have a 10 month old mixed breed puppy, about 50 pounds, possibly a rottweiler/lab mix. He has always been ""itchy"" but recently he will not leave himself alone. He tears his fur off and his back half is covered in huge bald patches, and now he's opened up bloody patches as well. In addition, he always looks miserable, whining softly, getting very anxious when he can't scratch, and generally looking kind o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 M] ex-girlfriend [23 F] of 2-ish years emailed me. I'm in a happy relationship and just want some reassurance that I handled it well POST: Will keep it short: My ex-girlfriend and I dated for about two years (on and off), until we finally broke up for good last March. After the breakup, she tried to get back together with me for a while, but she quickly moved on and all was swell. Anyway, the way we used to get back together was like, one of us would contact the other, we'd ",positive " r/Cooking TITLE: arg! left a few pounds of pulled pork on the counter for a few hours... is it ruined? please help, details inside... POST: So yesterday I cooked a pork roast in my crock pot and had a ton of pulled pork. i was planning to eat it last night and tonight and then freeze the rest. I had some for dinner around 6:30 and then ran off to volleyball. Got home at about 9:15 and realized I had left the container on the counter. Now, the pork was in a ceramic container with a plastic tupperware styl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex-girlfriend said she wants to talk, but three months and many excuses later, there's been no word POST: My girlfriend (19f) and I (20m) broke up after nearly two years of dating this last May. A few days after this happened, she texted me saying she'd ""love to reconnect."" A few days after receiving that text, she sent me another saying she'd ""love to talk more and learn from [our breakup]."" The problem is this: every time I've brought it up to her, she has made an excuse as to wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my friend [19F] 1 year 2 Months POST: So basically i have been talking to this girl for a while now, and she opened up to me with her feelings and to be honest i was really surprised (kinda dense). I didn't know how to react since I only saw her as a friend so I told her how I felt, and she accepted it and we went back to being friends. However after she confessed to me i started seeing her well not so much as a friend and got attracted to her, It has been 2 weeks si",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with my GF 25 [F] 10 months. She refuses tell her EX about an STD because she ""just doesn't care"". POST: Just to get some facts out of the way to make this less texty... * GF Still lives in the home that her and her EX own. * They were together for 5 years * He has another residence but still pays for 50% of the mortgage for the home. They need to fix the sewer before they can sell. This is in progress as money permits. About 3 months into our relationship my GF goes for h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] have just realized that my sister [24F?] may have been molesting me as a child. I think I'm a fucked up person POST: Before I post I'm really sorry if this is the wrong subreddit Ok so a recent reddit post here actually reminded me of something that happened to me as a kid. Around when I was 7, my sister told me To hang out with her in her bed I thought nothing of it and went. She was around 15-17 (can't remember exactly). Well the first time it was hugging and playing a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I tell if my bf is gay? POST: So, I have been dating this guy for over 6 years. He is 29 and I am 25. We are both openly bisexual and have been for the duration of the relationship. He claims he likes to look at other men and is sexually aroused by them but does not like to be in relationships with them because they don't understand him like women do, as he is a bit feminine. We recently had a baby together and, though we have always had different sex drives, it has gone ",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Dominant-dog tricking other dogs to approach by laying down? POST: I'm trying to get my 2 year old 85 pound black mouth cur less reactive around other dogs. When another dog/dog with owner approaches (I go to a park where there is a leash law that most people ignore) he will go into the 'down' position. He will remain in that position until the dog is within pouncing/smelling range and then he will jump up and either be perfectly friendly or be a domineering snarling a-hole. He has bee",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [30F] husband [34M] is unwilling to have our newborns last name be my name. POST: I just had a child, a few weeks ago, with my husband of 4 years. When we got married, I told my husband that I wanted to keep my last name, and he said that was more than fine with him. I know that he enjoys the traditional aspect of families and he probably deep down would have been happier if I took his name. I brought it up to him and asked him if he was upset that I wasn't taking his name, and he",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My old roommate wrote a scathing poem about me for her senior project, and said she didn't give a shit that it hurt my feelings because it was published. What's the shittiest thing someone's done to you and refused to apologize? POST: Context: She and I were friends and we decided to live together. Everything was fine at first, but then she started passive-aggressively attacking me. Eventually, I stopped wanting to be around her and started staying over at my boyfriend's place. A few mon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20M] girlfriend of 2 years broke up with me about 2 weeks ago. Now she's texting and flirting with me. I need some advice. POST: My girlfriend broke up with me about 2 and a half weeks ago because she felt like we were already married because we moved on together and she just felt like she needed to be alone. We dated for almost 2 years and were so in love with each other. We didn't talk at all for the first week or so and she randomly texted me the other night to see what I wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: The person[25F] I[22M] was seeing suddenly stops talking to me and gets a boyfriend... POST: I know this might seem petty, but I was dating this girl I've known for years over the past summer. She always told me that she had liked me for a ""long time"". I told her I wanted a relationship, and she said she would be ""open to the idea"" but didn't want a relationship at that moment (because she had been going through some tough life events). I empathized and continued to hang around, an",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I just had a massive fight with my sisters boyfriend because he was bullying my mum into giving my sister money when she barely has any money herself. Mum was reduced to tears yet he carried on so I stepped in and the rest is history. POST: This guy is a real piece of work. My sister is an equally terrible person and it's such a shame. They've both recently just got an council flat but neither have a job to support their flat or their habit - smoking weed all day, every day. Don't get",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[27M] with my SO [21F] work together, can this last? POST: So this has been going for about a month now, I say S/O because with work and everything there is huge pressure from co-workers getting involved in our relationship and turning it into drama (we work in a small staffed bar) The one thing ive realized is that work relationships fail because (for me at least) when you start to form a connection with someone you want to talk about it. When something is new and exciting to yo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [F19] boyfriend's friend [M22]is jerking me around. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for two years and have a very cohesive relationship, I'll call him Steve. Steve's close friend and I used to go with a group to dinner once a week until he decided that he didn't like me anymore and has been making excusing to not go. I did not know that Steve's friend had a problem with me or what I could have done to make him upset. Steve's friend finally decides to join my boyfriend,",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: About to finish Uni for 3 months, should I ask her out anyway? POST: Right, I (M22) am currently at Uni, and want to ask out one of the girls I know (20), however Uni term finishes in about 2 weeks, and after which, we'll both be leaving for about 3 months, and will be around 100 miles apart. Question is; should I ask her out now, and hope (if it works out) that we can keep stuff going during the 3 months apart (I'm going to be working 40 hour weeks during the 3 months, and neither ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Best friend has a new girl on the condition that he doesn't speak to me. POST: I'm a 23 yo lass and I have a best friend ( of approx 7 years) who's a 25 yo guy. He told me he liked me approx 1 year ago. I didn't take it any further as I was committed to my current relationship. I think he's a great guy so I also told him he's a perfect bloke and would have no problem finding someone who makes him happy. He's had a couple of girlfriends since then and we've remained in touch, gone to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my 7 months [21 F] broke up one month ago - not sure how to cope POST: We met at university and things slowly escalated until we started going out this Spring. It seemed like everything was going great.. We'd text all week, meet up at the weekend (I was often abroad during the week with work), fuck and well, just have a great time. We were in love -and looking back, I've never been happier. Four weeks ago, out of nowhere, I got the phone call. She told me she wasn'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [24/M] feel self-conscious or worried about over sharing with my [26/F] SO of 6 months? POST: In an LDR. I was reluctant to get close to her at first, which is just how I think I have always been. She developed pretty strong feelings for me before i allowed myself too, off of the strength of our interactions and talking online. She told me she loved me and that it was OK if I didn't feel the same way. We have been getting to know each other for several months. I eventuall",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with various friends with benefits [21-28 M, How can I keep from getting attached? Should I try to get into a ""real"" relationship? POST: So I've been hooking up with people off of Tinder, had some real bad times and some really great times. The thing is, how do I get over the really great times, especially if we meet up a few times? Like if I meet someone once a week for a month, how can I keep from getting attached? So far, 2 of my 3 favourite fwbs have gotten into monogam",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Year-long struggle, should I give up? POST: [Disclaimer] I don't mean to say I've found ""true love"" and this is just another story of teenage heartbreak so I can understand if you all get pissed at me for posting this or something; not very familiar with this sub. So this girl (16/f) I've been friends with for a while and I (16/m) are in a weird situation. Last summer we got to become very close and I expressed my desire to be in a relationship with her. She hasn't denied nor accept",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F23] can't tell if new boyfriend of 1 month [M25] is actually just stressed with his work or he's just not that into me. POST: I started seeing a guy I met on POF but realized quickly he worked with 2 of my roommates. We started talking and have a lot in common.. Both short and longterm goals and interests all line up. We clicked really well. He was very flirty in the beginning, in person and over text. I thought he was amazing. We slept together a few times and our chemistry was ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What else can I do to 'protect' myself from shitty landlord? POST: Just moved into a new apartment, and the landlord is a grade-A douche bag. We did a walk-through inspection, and he already had the imperfections listed when I got there. When I tried to add anything to the list, he'd say something like ""oh hon, that won't matter when you move out"" or ""we have videos of all the properties sweetie, so we'll know all this stuff when you move out."" I know for a fact he's lied to me in a coup",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Has she gone off me already? POST: I (25 M) met a girl (24) online, we've been seeing each other for about a month and texting a lot for a few weeks longer. I last saw her at the weekend, asked her to be my GF in some SAP way, she said yes. I stayed the night Saturday, next morning we had sex for the first time, it was all right, she came so couldn't have been too bad for her either... Cue her having to rush to get ready to go see her friend who'd recently split from her BF, she asks",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Ex-boyfriend [25] is being way too confusing POST: I'm going to make this sound as short as possible, and I need guys perspectives on this, because I know what the girls think. I date my ex-boyfriend [25] for 15 months, and I broke things off because of a lot of miscommunications that happened. But during our relationship, in the beginning year, we almost fought none because that's how good we were together (yes, i was stupid to break up with him). After our break-up, I asked for ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my Girlfriend [18F] about 8 months, she cheated on me at a party last night. POST: Okay so here it goes. My Girlfriend and I are in a weird sort of limbo relationship zone at the moment. We are both extremely busy this year and essentially are studying all the time to try to get into college. Neither of us have any time to meet up except when we have this one class together on a Saturday. She used to come over on a Saturday and we would hang out but my parents got stri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I deal with my mother and sister? POST: I (30m) haven't gotten along very well with my mother since I left the house to go to college all those years ago. I can get along with anyone, I have patience in spades, but she's just selfish, inconsiderate, and mean. One of the larger points of contention is the fact that I've been agnostic for as long as i can remember, but she just interpreted this as laziness. She criticizes every decision I make, and seems to resent the fact that",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I've never asked for help, but now might be the time POST: I'm on this rec. volleyball team in college and after talking with this girl a few times I can just tell I've never ever dreamed of being more compatible from an interest standpoint, obviously physical attraction is there but it's something I've never felt before. In the time talking with her I was amazed about how much we had in common. Twice I walked with her from the gym to a place where we have to go our separate ways, we",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Amazing relationship but...??? Need advice please! POST: My bf and I are both 21. Been together for 3.5 years. Been in an LDR for 7 months. We are in love blah blah blah and going very strong. He is big on independence where I am more relationship centered verging on co-dependence. The LDR has been very hard on me emotionally and he realizes this. I have been trying very hard to change and I think I am doing a good job. Point is no matter how hard I try I really don't want to put up",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my [25F], 8 months. Says everything is perfect, but she dosent love me. POST: Me and N met 8 months ago. Everything has been awesome up until last night where she dropped this bombshell on me. No arguments, great sex life and general happiness towards spending time with each other and each others interests. When we first started dating, N has said this was her first real relationship and it is hard for her to express emotion. (Traditional asian, parents were in her life",positive " r/Parenting TITLE: My SO found out today that he might have a child with another woman POST: Throwaway account and cross posted on r/relationships Background We (30sMF) have been married a little over a year. This is both of ours second marriage and I have a daughter with my ex-husband, whom I pretty much have full custody of. A couple of hours ago my husband was served with court papers for a paternity test and for child support for a 2 year old girl. I had no idea that he could've been the father of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my 22 F know each other for 2 years now, started dating about a month ago. POST: So, I have known this girl ( we will call her Mary) for about 2 years now. I met her through a good friend of mine as she is his sister. We have begun dating about a month ago due to us talking on and off and finally meeting for coffee and sharing a kiss. Here is my recent uncertainty. She has told me before that even though she doesn't show affection she doesn't want me to think that the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My mother [51/F] and I [25/M] suspect that my step-father [53/M] is becoming addicted to oxycodones. I need help on how to talk to him about it. POST: My step-father was struck with a disability earlier last year. He's having chronic back pain and recently had a major surgery, and was given oxycodones. (pills with 512 on the back) He's practically confined to his room due to his ailment. My mom noticed he started to be more and more out of it through out the day. The last time we to",negative " r/running TITLE: Looking for advice... POST: So I love running. have ran (literally) 6 days a week for the past 4 years. Before that I did not run for the sake of running, but competed in many sports growing up. I recently ran my first marathon this past fall. I am also planning to join a branch of the military, after I graduate this spring, in which physical fitness and aerobic capacity are going to be absolutely essential. That said, I have recently been recovering from an injury (glute strain the d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [34M] need good articles to show my wife [32F] about acceptance of your spouse for who they are, in terms of healthy, happy relationships. POST: Edit: I feel the need to put in this edit. I am not looking for advice on how to solve our relationship issues, at this point I'm pretty sure we just don't work due to core differences. I'm specifically looking for information about acceptance of your spouse in the terms of happiness within a relationship. My wife insists she accepts who ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23m] asked my live in girlfriend (2 years) [21f] for a small loan and now she's treating me like a stranger. POST: She wants a written agreement saying how much I owe her and when I intend to pay her back. I was offended she didn't trust me. We've been together forever Im not out to screw her at a moment's notice. She said she doesn't loan money even to family without it in writing and if I'm as trustworthy as I'm telling her she should know I shouldn't have any issues with her ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do you deal with a friend who has become a little distant and more abrasive with you? POST: I (33/f) used to talk to a friend (25/f) over text daily. Also over email. We'd see each other in person maybe 4 or 5 times a week. We've known each other for 2 years through work. I'm gay, she's straight, and at one point I told her I had feelings for her. A year goes by since that though, and we're still close. but over the past month, she's pulled away for no apparent reason. The only t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] I'm not sure what to do about this POST: I've been with my boyfriend [23/m] for 6 months, this is my first relationship so I'm not sure if the following things are normal. The first point started straight away, he constantly talked about his exes. Now I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen and it doesn't bother me too much when it's just general talk but when he talks about intimacy with them that's where I get a bit uncomfortable. Since this is my first relationship",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17] and my girlfriend [18] had a mutual breakup because she had to leave for college. How do I avoid negative feelings towards her? POST: Me [17] and my girlfriend [18] have been dating for about 5 months and when we started we knew that we had to break up at the end of the summer because she was going away to college 4 hours away from me and I was staying in my hometown to finish high school. A few days ago the time came for her to go and we said our goodbyes and what not and le",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Question about short-code SMS service subscriptions POST: Today I was looking at my AT&T wireless bill for the first time in a few months and I noticed a $9.99 monthly charge for the following: Horoscopegenie Alert Short Code 27140 ID 35603 Provider Wisemedia US I'm the last person to subscribe to any of these moronic services, much less a horoscope one, but this was under my girlfriend's number on our shared account, and she actually puts some stock into horosc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] Get Jealous of my Boyfriend's [20M] Relationship with His Sister [22F] POST: We've been dating for 3 months and I've let him know that I get jealous of his female friends. He's hasn't cut off friendships with them despite me asking him to, but he does try to make me feel included. I have been having other jealousy issues as well that I haven't been able to tell him about yet. It's embarassing but I get jealous of his sister, they're pretty close and I feel sometimes like ther",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I ruin this girl's life? POST: Fellow gentlefolk of Reddit. I met these two girls last night at a bar. They were having a ""girls night"" and my buddy and I went over and started talking to them. Of course, the one Im talking to and working on has a boyfriend, but she is cool, so Im talking to her anyway. It turns out that they are having drinks as a make up thing, because the girl im talking to (girlfriend) heard from another mutual friend that other girl (cheater) slept with this ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Recently got asked to be a ""date"" to a wedding, by my crush of several years. Is this a miracle or am I set for more heartbreak POST: Hey everybody, I (24m) recently got asked to attend a wedding with a friend that I have had a serious crush on since college. The girl who asked me (23f) recently got out of a long term relationship a few months ago and needed a new plus one, and asked me to attend the wedding with her (it's still a few months away) Here is the kicker, she knows I hav",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: I know someone here must have been in a similar situation. POST: Me 29M/Her 23F. This happened 3 weeks ago, now I'm finally seeking advice from you guys. I can provide details for the whole story if you want them. Basically we were never more than fwb for more than 2 and a half years. She led me on the whole time. I fell for her, I let my intentions be known she always acted like she reciprocated, but never made her intentions with me clear. I tried to get over her (I had to move a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Having a really stupid fight with my (14/f) mom (54/f) over a guitar POST: Im gonna keep this short and simple I really wanted a guitar but my mom refused . She said to my dad that if he was to buy me a guitar, he would have to pay her the amount he spent on the guitar in cash. Yesterday, I found the guitar I wanted was on sale and the guy was nice enough to even give me a discount on it. So my dad bought it for me. But here's the problem: I can't bring or play it in the house simp",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: My insecurities upset this girl I was dating and now she is ignoring me. Halp? POST: I'm a 32m who met a girl (23f) via OKC and we dated for about a month and a half before I let my insecurities get the better of me. Last week, I saw a guy post on her wall about having met her through another dating site. At this point, I couldn't control myself and texted her about it, basically accusing her of dating around without telling me. Background info: About a week previously I specific",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [18M] tell one of my best friends [18F] that I'm in love with her? POST: I really don't know what to do. My friend's name is Amber. She, a friend Kevin [18M], and I are all really good friends. We have been for years now. But the thing is that I can't go any longer loving Amber and not doing anything about it. We hang out together all the time, but just as friends. I can't stand it. The problem here is that if I tell her I could ruin the relationship between us. I want to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: A very close mutual friend of me [23F] and my coworker [20sF] was murdered last week. How to approach? POST: Last weekend, my best friend growing up was brutally murdered by her boyfriend of a few months. Some guy she barely knew. We were best friends growing up. Needless to say I'm not taking it well. I'm devastated. A girl was hired at my work a few months ago. She's in a different section/dept than me so although I sit across the hallway with her, I have zero interaction with ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend trust issues, in a vulnerable place, not sure how to proceed POST: my girlfriend and I are 23, we started dating a little over a year ago. very soon after we decided it was love I got diagnosed with a life changing illness and she insisted on sticking around. i love her and am emotionally indebted to her for the time she has spent with me as i've gone through treatments. but over the past year there have been issues with trust. i've caught and confronted her about lying o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [24/f] seeing [22/m]...was it bad sex that is making him act distant all of the sudden? POST: I [24/f] met a guy [22/m] a month ago. We talked on Tinder for almost a month before finally meeting up. We did taco tuesday with his friends and got drinks the first date, but he didn't make a move. Then he invited me for drinks with his friend the following weekend. We had great conversations and chemistry. We finally ended up kissing and I spent the night, but he said he wanted to wait ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Workmate offered me lifts to home since last October; today he asked me for fuel money. Advice? POST: Hi Reddit Last October I was speaking to two of my mates (let's call them A and B) and I mentioned that I live in an area. ""A"" had been dropping me off on his way home in an area 1/2 hour away. I think that it was him suggested that I go with B since he lived just a street away. I asked ""B"" and he said yes. Back then I didn't notice any hesitation in his voice (personally I don't think ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my Girlfriend[19 F] of 2 years, Parents almost found that we moved in together POST: My girlfriend used to live next to me, in the apartment next door, but when the girls that she lived with started being toxic, she started sleeping in my house and after a while moved for good. She still pays her share of the rent at the other house but does not go there very often. Today, her parents came to taker her home for the weekend, as they usually do. But we forgot to set th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By having half of my class miss lecture POST: So it's the first day of the semester. I'm a transfer student to this new college. Essentially that means I started at one school, then moved on to another to finish my degree. I was intimidated by the size of the new school as it pretty much was roughly 20x bigger in both area and amount of students. So there I was. A newb to this place with no friends or known people of any kind. After getting lost I finally find my classroom. It was a giga",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my partner [23M] ~1 year, breaking up when we graduate university in December, how can I mitigate feeling absolutely shitty about it? POST: So Boy (23M) and I (21F) have been seeing each other for about a year, we were more or less partners for the last 8 months, recently it became monogamous and since then I have felt we took a big emotional step. I'm crazy about him, but everything in our relationship felt so hesitant, and for me it was partially because we had this b",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I feel bad? POST: I bought my parents house. I have a Good Job. I broke up with my gf of a couple years and she had a daughter that I was dad to. Well fast fwd a few months. I am still getting over not so much the gf but the whole being dad scenario. Well my parents are retired and live down south for the most part. However they enjoy coming to visit (which I don't mind) but around spring break they over stay their welcome in my opinion. They have been here 5 days now and my mothe",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: 19 y/o. Very bad acne for about 4-5 years. POST: I'm a 19 y/o male with very,very bad acne. So just need to vent this somewhere because everyone I tell IRL don't think this is a problem. Since I'm the only one in our 'group' or circle of friends (lacking better words here) who's got serious issues with acne, people tend to come up to me to complain about them getting a pimple. I think they're awful since they obviously see me having this red,bloated face and they think they'll get compa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[23 M] with my ex[22 F], why does she feel like she's the victim? POST: About 6 months ago my girlfriend dumped me to pursue another guy, who she may or not have been cheating with me on (i'm fairly certain she was, I had some ""questionable"" evidence, she obviously denies it). And to and insult to injury she's dating the guy now. This guy also happened to nearly break us up when we were together, so I find her claims of ""oh I didn't mean it when I asked him to fuck me, we were just",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Advice please: We are both working full-time. Can we realistically own a dog? POST: We are a family of four, I have two little boys of 5 and 8 years old. I work a 9-5pm job and my wife works most days from 7-3pm. We have been recently thinking about getting a dog. We would get one from an animal shelter, a small breed or mix starting from an age of at least a year old. I am hesitating though because I don't know if the dog could make it so many hours alone. I have a small garden and I could i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with a girl [18F] that I just met and I am completely lost on how this works POST: I guess you could say I'm pretty new at this dating thing. So I met her at a cafe and we talked for an hour. It was pretty good because by the end of it I got her number.This would be the first girl I have ever asked for her number (to date rather than asking her number for work purposes or other reasons). We have scheduled a coffee date (3 days from now) to get to know each other a bit bett",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: To people with Elementary Education degrees in the US that have moved overseas since: what sorts of issues did you run into with trying to continue your job in the new country? (cultural, license-wise, etc.) POST: I'm working on my Elementary Education degree, and the man I've been dating for over three years is joining the Air Force. He's mentioning a lot of places overseas he might be posted, but I don't want to be idle and want to be able to use my major (some of the places he listed",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Found pictures of my Girlfriend on her computer that are a little scandalous and I didn't take them. POST: I'm 28, she's 26. We've been dating for 8 months, the pics were taken in September. They're from the point of view of her bed, she's wearing matching bra and panties, appears to have just gotten out of the shower and is posing next to her closet, also has on a garter belt get up with fishnets. They were taken all three in sequence and about 4 hours before she picked her ki",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Bedbug fumigation safety question POST: Hi Reddit, so this summer my apartment acquired a case of bedbugs. My subletters called the exterminator who fumigated the place twice. The problem is that I have a loft in my room (which the subletters did not use) and had stuff stored there including clothes and my computer tower and as a result they did not cover anything. I immediately put my clothes in the washer or sent them to the dry-cleaners when I got back. But that's not what I a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 21(M) dating a girl and having a hard time being hard POST: So I started dating this girl (21F)a while back, and I lost my virginity to her. Going into that I had some issues with erections, nerves and whatnot. I solved that, or so I thought. Since I had no trouble really a couple times after that. Come this last weekend we were fine at night, but we went for another go the next morning and my downstairs brain was apparently just not cooperating. I am not a hugely sexually motivated ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: This was in my cheesebread from Papa John's. Any idea what it could be? POST: So, earlier tonight, my girlfriend and I ordered a pizza from Papa John's and 6 cheese tuscan cheese sticks. They were delicious, by the way. After we had it remade because some jackass stole it. We get back from picking it up (sorry delivery guys, but that extra delivery fee can rack up when you order as much pizza as I do), and start chowing down, and my girlfriend bites something hard. It's a small, white ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my boyfriend [20 M] of 2 years - He has just informed me we may be apart for 8/9 months. POST: Background: My boyfriend and I have been dating for over two years. We are sophomores in college. We broke up once for about a month/month and a half the summer before freshman year, but got back together and everything has worked out surprisingly well. I am planning to study abroad in Spain second semester of this year (January 19-April28). He just informed me last night t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] am really confused about situation with girl that I like [18F] POST: So a bit of backstory on myself, at the age of 13 I started training in greco-roman fighting and after a year of that I transitioned into mma (mixed martial arts). I don't consider myself a God at fighting but I can hold my own if things get really heated. Currently I have been talking to a girl from my school for a few months and things were going really good, we hang out a couple of times and she seemed ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: So many people experience anxiety and depression yet feel so alone in it. What was your lowest place and how did you pull out of it? POST: So I have been reading /suicidewatch and see how lonely people feel in their depression and anxiety. And I have met lots of people in my own life who feel like things are never going to get better. People often say ""it gets better, I felt like crap once and life is good now."" But people don't often say how bad it got and the specific turning points t",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Things going way too fast and it's freaking me out. I don't want a relationship and things are spiralling out of control. POST: Almost two weeks ago my long-term girlfriend (3 years) broke up with me. Obviously I was crushed but there were legitimate reasons and it was quite amiable. Two days later I go out drinking with a group of friends and to cut a long story short I get very drunk and end up sleeping with one of them. Now I thought it was a one time thing (she hasn't long gotten",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20 F] issues with my [20 something M] roommate and his cat POST: I've been living with my current 2 roommates for about 2 months now. The apartment complex I live in rents by the room, so I didn't know them well prior to moving in. I live with a girl and a guy, share a bathroom with the girl. The guy roommate– I'll call him Jack– has this cat (named Peter) that tries to run into my room all the time (scaring my cat, which I have to keep in my room all the time because of this), scr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [17F] friend [19M] is in love with me and I'm not supposed to know, how can I help him get over me? POST: I've been friends with this guy for about 3 years, he told me he's loved me for ages when he was drunk & high (he doesn't remember a thing) and now that I think about it it's super obvious. We're good friends to each other, and I'm one of the most constant things in his life - he gets a lot of drama around him for reasons that are his own fault, and some that aren't. I'm not",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I don't understand my girlfriend's point of view on moving in, can someone clarify for me? POST: I make a total about 1200 a month. My parents only charge me less than 200 dollars a month and its just for my bills. I'm sure my parents with enough convincing would allow her to spend 6 months with me until she's sent off into the navy and make me pay the rent. Her living situation is rough, shes forced to work 6 days a week, 10 hours a day and gets paid only 200-300 bucks at the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my GF [20 F] 7 months, said she doesn't remember the last time her and her FWB had sex... POST: For the first 6 months me and my GF were together she assured me that i was her first partner after her BF of 2 years and her broke up. About a month ago it came out that she had a FWB in between us. Yesterday i made the connection that she was seeing her FWB at least up until we met each other. So i asked her if there was any overlap. She then said ""I dont remember, i do k",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My girlfriend's cat has been having frequent seizure-like activity since Saturday night - Does anyone know what might be the cause? POST: He was at the vet on Wednesday for a declawing operation and came home Friday. Saturday night, my GF noticed he was involuntarily extending his neck (moving head back and up), occasionally remaining tonically extended for a few seconds. [This video shows what my GF observed]( At around 4:30 there is a very clear example of one such attack. Anothe",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: To gift or not to gift? POST: Background story: I'm a pretty good student, but very very very lazy about coming to classes. Unless I get points for attendance, I almost always get A's. But anyways, I never show up to class regardless of whether or not there are attendance points after the first few lectures. In my NEURO 404 class I actually met a pretty sweet girl whose conversation I really enjoyed and the class does weigh pretty heavily in attendance (10%?) Pretty much the only reason ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, would you buy a house that was situated near high voltage power lines? POST: For those of you who aren't familiar, [here's] an example of what I'm referring to. My wife and I are considering purchasing a property that is ideal for what we're looking for (5+ acre lot, 2+ acres of woods, secluded, excellent schools, close to family/work, etc) except in one regard: the very edge of the property has both low and high-voltage power lines. Additionally, this property is (what seems to",positive " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by calling a guy steve POST: This happened while I was at work. I have regular customers come in who I'm pretty familiar with and am friendly with. There's one man, called Steve. Lovely guy. Anyway, there's another customer who looks similar to him, who I don't know the name of. I sometimes mix them up, and call this guy Steve, who always looks a little disgruntled when I call him that, yet he never corrects me. This is over a span of a few weeks and finally came to an end on my last",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] Have problems with my ability to make friends, or even socialize in general. POST: Hi, names... nevermind. Anyway, I am 22 and male, as it says above. And I cant even really approach anyone for an open conversation. In fact the whole thing scares me really. I got a job through my fathers connections and have held that for three years now. Yet I still have trouble looking my boss, or co-workers in the eye. Though they are probably the closest things I have to friends but I do",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28F] with my spouse [35 M] 4 years together but never actually together. POST: My spouse works shift work. I am working part time over the summer and go to school full time during the year. We have two young children together and he has two children from a previous marriage that are over in his days off. I have been having to work extra on all of his days off lately but even when I don't it's crazy hectic with all the kids. We are hardly together and when we are it is with all th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [M24] untangle my life from my gf [F21] of 3 years after we break up? POST: I'm currently living with my gf and we share pretty much everything. She has bought me so much of what I use on a daily basis, and vice versa. Honestly I'd be homeless if it wasn't for her. But we've just lost that drive in our relationship and I feel like I need to get out of it before I go absolutely mad. I just don't know how to do it without the actual separating and moving out being a long and d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] GF [20 F] of 6 Months, She is having a hard time finding a place to live POST: First of all my GF got kicked out of the house some time ago when we were together, at first it was hard but we managed to find her a place to stay for the meantime. Her friend took her in to live with them without paying rent. When she got kicked out she basically had nothing. No money, no car, no credit, no phone, nothing. All she had was her clothes from her closet and shoes. Her parents did",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Criminal Mischief Summary Offense POST: I was recently found guilty of a summary offense criminal mischief charge in Philadelphia, PA. I am having trouble figuring out exactly what this means for background checks regarding future employment. More importantly, I'm curious as to what would happen if I got another summary offense for criminal mischief, would the consequences be more severe? If for example, I was caught again doing criminal mischeif in a different part of PA or say NY,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO[19M] gets out-of-hand angry when I[18F] want to go out with my friends POST: THROWAWAY ACCOUNT :O Lately it's been happening more and more frequently. We argue because he doesn't like it when I want to go out to clubs with my friends. We've been together for almost a year and a half, and it's always been an underlying issue. As a result of this I've been out a total of 2 times since turning 18, and both times he has been there. I feel like he's ""chaperoning"" me I don't get ou",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Worst dining experiences... POST: Share your most nightmarish dining / food industry stories! Mine isn't that horrible... Several months ago, I ordered a steak and egg scramble for lunch from a new local restaurant. After eating a couple bites, [I NOTICED THIS] When the gag reflex settled down, I returned the container of food to the restaurant. The waitress says she can't see anything without her glasses, so she brings it back to the kitchen. About a minute later, she comes back out o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16M] asked my friend [16F] who I have a crush on if she was free this weekend, and have not recieved a response after a long period of time. POST: Like the title says, I recently asked my friend who I have a crush on if she was free at all this weekend. I was texting her around four hours ago, and early on in the conversation I asked her the question. I did not ask her out on a date, but I was planning on asking her out the next time we did something in real life. She has not resp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [30 M] noticing more and more that I'm getting interrupted more and more often by coworker [45 M] and family. What should I do about it? POST: A little bit about me - I hate getting interrupted. I'm an introvert in the sense that I think about something for a while before saying anything. I'm not a ""talk it out"" kind of person. I'm a very methodical speaker - I don't think I speak slowly, but I do think I speak slower than average. I also tend to speak concisely, so I don't think",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by resting my head on a table POST: This happened quite a while ago, back when I was nine or ten. I was in school and felt a bit tired, so I decided to rest my head on the table. I somehow managed to rest my ear right on top of a broken pencil lead, which then stuck to the inside bit of my ear due to an excess of earwax. Using my fat infant fingers, I tried to get if off, but only succeeded in pushing it into my ear canal. Subsequent attempts to remove it pushed it further in, so I went ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How Badly did I screw this one up? POST: I am a 28 year old male who went out for New Years with my ex gf a 25 year old, we had dated for 3 months and have been broken up for roughly 3 months, she was in a bad relationship before us and jumped right in to seeing me, she needed to work out some issues with herself so we ended things on pretty good terms. We spoke on the phone and agreed to meet up for dessert and to go see my friends band play, afterwards I said whatever you want to ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, is it fucked up on my side to not intervene? POST: My ex just posted on her facebook status that she got a job at *Vector Marketing* and she will be selling knives. Now for the people that don't know about this, this is a major scam. You pay upfront for a set and then you are to sell it. But the problem is that no one buys it. I want to tell her that she is about to get trolled but I know, if I try to explain her the situation, she will think that I am just trying to put her d",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Aussies of reddit! I could really use som help. POST: Ok, so here is my problem. I lived in Brisbane from the 13th of august 2011 to the 12th of january 2012. was our property managers. I payed 600 AUD in bond money On the 5th of december i got an email stating that PROFESSIONALS STYLE REAL ESTATE had been appointed our new managing agent ( ) My contract ended on the 17th of january, so I scheduled a room inspection on the 11th of january. I was told that they would transfer my (a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26M] am worried about my SO's[25F / 2years] serious mood swings. POST: My Girlfriend is having a seemingly increasing mental breakdown, and I'm not exactly sure what to do about it. She seems aware of it too, but can't control it. She'll be in a depressed mood or crying because of her depressed mood and her fear that I'll resent her for it (nothing further from the truth), and then she'll perk up, we'll get things done for about 2 hours and then, boom, back into depression. I th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my boyfriend [23M] of one year, there have been some rough times and I don't know if I should be hopeful or not. POST: Long story short, the first time I dated my boyfriend we broke up because his ex was way too involved in his life. After a few months, he has pretty much stopped being friends with her (they still see each other occasionally with mutual friends and she still tries to get with him, but whatever), and we got back together. I told him if he became friends",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my boyfriend[25M] of 4 months, about to bring him home to meet the parents this weekend POST: I am bringing my boyfriend home to meet the parents for the first time. He is the first person I ever brought home to meet the family, so it is kind of a big deal. I just want everything to go smoothly. Any tips and/or advice is appreciated! A little bit about us: we have been going out for 4 months. Everything has been great so far. We have fought once, and we both apologized",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (22F) need to break up with clingy long distance ""bf"" (23M) POST: I met Ryan, 4 months ago on OKC. It certainly wasn't love at first sight but after 3 months I started falling for him and he eventually told me he loved me. However within two weeks he had to move to take a job in SE Asia for a year. The night before he left I cried, and even though he claimed that I should just see other people now, he also said he'd be happy to move to wherever I was in a year. During this tim",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (19F) SO (19M) keeps mementos from his previous relationships... he's more sentimental than I, but it makes me a little uncomfortable. POST: I was helping him clean out his room the other day and we came across all sorts of knick knacks. One of these was ""the first number [he] ever got from a girl"" (his first ""serious"" relationship too at 15, the girl he lost his virginity to, and who cheated on him*) on a post it note. He kept that. He kept a really long handwritten message in a ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Car Debt POST: Hello, everyone The gist of the problem is that my father owes 10 thousand in debt from car payments. It was a pretty brand new car but stopped paying because he was tired of fixing the car when it broke down (DON'T BUY KIA) Anyways, in the beginning it was 5 thousand, but because of interest it is now at 10 thousand. At the time we didn't have the 5 thousand, but now we do. Is there any possible way to bring the debt back down to 5 thousand. They have started to g",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm about to be dead in the water, and now I'm considering getting a second BA in CS after I finish my BA in English in the Spring. Any pointers? POST: So, I guess I'll just be honest. I didn't really know what I wanted to do when I first got into college, so I just picked English by default and then went through the motions. Now, I have one semester left. All my English classes are done and I just have to take my exit requirements. Earlier this year, however, I started realizing that I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24M) find her (23F) ""world"" unnattractive. [dating] POST: Little backstory before I begin: I recently met this girl off of OkCupid . She is very nice, very pretty, and very intelligent (I actually really like her) but there one thing that bothers me about her: the world she lives in is, in one word, ""hood."" I realize how bad this sounds but I can't look past that facet of her... Both of us are black, we just have completely different upbringings... I've been exposed to a whole ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Pathetic ""love at first sight"" story. Help needed. POST: So I know this story is going to sound *ridiculous*. I know this is beyond stupid and barely could be considered a problem, but I need help. So here it is, my family and I went to the PA grand canyon about a week or two ago, and then we went to have dinner in a small town near it. There was a gift shop in that store and behind the counter was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. (if you cringe easily, this is your warning, dont",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by teaching stage combat and hitting my head against the wall. POST: This actually happened yesterday, so I'm cheating a little, but I just now discovered this subreddit, so bear with me. So I teach a high school advanced theatre class and this week I'm teaching them about stage combat. I learned the basics in college and I thought the kids would have some fun fake hitting each other. Well, we go through punching, kicking, etc, and we get to more complicated stuff like pretending to hit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Caught in a love triangle with my best friend. POST: So my (21M) best pal (21M),recently moved from here in St. Louis to Los Angeles to pursue his career at Disney. While out there he met a girl (21F) through mutual friends on Facebook and they began being romantic with each other. My friend has a very low self esteem and values any romantic attention he can find a bit more than is probably healthy. He's very jealous of me, and it doesn't help that I'm everything he's not as far as t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (M, 16) Need advice on regarding a (F, 16). POST: First off, I understand that this is high school, so a lot of people don't think it matters too much. And they're right. STILL, I have a pretty easy question to answer. I've been friends with this girl for a while now, but we weren't that close last year, mainly this year. She's been dating this guy for 3 years, if you disregard the period they broke up in the middle for. This relationship is a train wreck. The guy is a jackass, but ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M17] want/need to change about how I think about my girlfriend [f17] of one year. POST: Ok guys, here's whats up: I have major trust issues. I mean they're BAD. My girlfriend is possibly the most trustworthy partner I've had yet, I can trust her with anything/everything. I know for a fact that she won't cheat on me because she had the opportunity to do so, but she refused to and told me every time someone tried to make a move on her. Hopefully you guys will see that she is very tr",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: A question about homosexuality. POST: Both homosexuality and incest are considered taboo by practically all industrialized societies today. Homosexuality has begun to be legitimized by our culture today, though many people are still wary or maybe even dead-set against it. Incest is nowhere on the same level. What was once very common and encouraged in ancient times is now repugnant, vile, and sickly. So these two taboos have crossed paths headed for different directions but the quest",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [18M] ask out a girl from work [16-17F] on my first date a month and a half before college starts? POST: A little about myself; 18 year old male who just graduated high school, making this the summer before college hits on August 17th [UTD]. Quite short [5'2""] and skinny (110lb) having taken after my parents. Main interests involve gaming, computers/technology and a bit of singing. Have not had any amount of dating beyond going to the movies with a girl in middle school, res",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: [Serious] What should you do if a girl you like starts entering your friend group? POST: I asked her out a while back but I figured out that she had a boyfriend... Now because I talked to her one of my friends saw her at a meeting and they got along well. They both hang out a lot and the girl I like now has pretty much joined my friend group. I tried to stick around the group and hang out too but every time I do and I see this girl I think why is she even hanging out with us? We all have",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Whenever I (20M) go home for the college breaks, my girlfriend (19F) always gets upset with me, because she feels I'm not paying enough attention to her. POST: First off, I want to apologize for the throwaway account as my girlfriend is also a redditor and I don't want her to see me posting something like this. My girlfriend and I have been dating for 1 year and 4 months now and this has been happening since we started dating. When my girlfriend and I are at school together we are i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21M] SO [19M] has a very close platonic relationship with a previous partner that makes me feel conflicted POST: We have been together only for about 3 months, and a month ago i found out that a friend he was having dinner with that night was someone he was romantically involved with for two months about a year prior (who is a lot older than us both). Apparently they have remained really great friends over this time - text daily, call each other on the phone every so often, gi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] and my boyfriend [28M] of 2 years...he wants to be the King of the Castle but I feel like a peasant. POST: From the beginning, we've had a long distance relationship. We haven't spent more than two weeks together for the 2 year duration we've been together. We try and see each other once a month, but it's usually when I make the move, pay the money etc. He's the most controlling person I've ever met, and I don't know how to even deal anymore. He tells me where I can and can",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24M] girlfriend [24F] went way too far pranking her male friend [24M] and now I'm wondering if the pranks are flirtation after all. POST: My girlfriend of 2 years has had this male friend for a while, his name is Declan and I'm not his biggest fan but I didn't want to impede on the friendship. So she told me last week that Declan pranked her by calling her up and pretending to be Jack Nicholson with one of those soundboards, so she wants to 'get him back.' So as a 'joke' the ne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend [25 F]. How do you guys deal with the risk of unexpected death of your SO? POST: I have so much invested in our relationship and I want to marry my girlfriend. I get scared though. I always wonder if she'll die in a car accident or something and it makes me not want to commit. Whenever I look at her, I feel like it may possibly be the last time. I guess its the fact that you may never know if it's the last time. We're making all of these life plans and ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Family business & told I ""can't"" and ""shouldn't"" contribute to 401K POST: Father and uncle have a partnership and I've worked for them for the past 5-6 years. 401K offers no match. Now the financial company guy (outside company) running this told me to set one up like 5 years ago. Gave me the paperwork, and I kind of blew it off for a few years. Last year I decided to inquire about it. Then he starts telling me that I can't contribute or its illegal. After a little research a",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: What could possibly cause a girl to simply not acknowledge that I exist after flirting with each other for so long? POST: This happens all the time to me (17M) it seems! I apologize if this is too far back for some of you but this is going on in highschool. My buddy and I talk about how another girl has stopped acknowledging me and he sees that as a sign of disrespect. So this other girl - let's just call her Allison - and I were ""talking"" for quite some time. It started a couple mo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: An old friend committed suicide. Looking for insight into my reaction, or maybe someone who can relate. POST: Hi Reddit. An old friend of mine killed herself not too long ago. I wasn't able to attend her funeral, but I've been in touch with her family and mutual friends. Many of them are thanking me for taking her to church when we were younger, because she was baptized/saved/whatever you want to call it. I've had friends and family die. I've never been that shaken by it because I'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my gf [19 F] duration 1 year. We are currently in a cabin for the weekend and she just broke up with me. POST: A few months ago we deleted our snapchats because I was following some models which she didnt like. We decided to download snapchat again months later and I again followed arsenic magazine which shows a lot of models and I thought it was ok because my gf is also a model. I screen shot a snap of a model to visit her website, my gf saw the screen shot moment",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Doesn't trust me anymore (Long one) POST: A few weeks ago My girlfriend of 2 years broke up with me. I was destroyed fro a few days but a girl that I've known since kindergarten reached out to me. She helped me through the break up we hung out had coffee and she just all around helped me forget the break up and made me happy. One night me, her and her friend went out to dinner, my ex texts me yelling at me because she believed someone that told her that i said some terrible things about her",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I[23 F] asking too much of my boyfriend [27 M]? POST: OK, so I have been with my boyfriend for around 18 months now, I even moved from the east coast to the west coast to be with him as he moved for his new job but things have gotten strained in our relationship and I was wondering if someone else could add an outside view of my problem? Everything is fine normally with the relationship but every so often my boyfriend goes off on one about helping each other. For instance, I can'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(26f) want to become friends with my(27m) professor POST: This semester I am taking a statistics class and all semester I have had a crush on my professor. I have gotten to almost every class early and had random conversations with my professor, nothing personal just small talk type things. He is a grad student and is always very friendly. Now that the semester is almost over I find myself wanting to get to know him more and see him again when the semester is over. I don't really ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend of one year (M18) won't let me (F18) enjoy the occasional blunt POST: I don't know if I'm just being extra sensitive, but before my relationship with my current boyfriend, I was in a relationship with a very controlling guy. I mean this guy got me to stop weed altogether, told me to change the way I dress, and basically gave me ultimatums all the time. Also, I did have a period of time in the summer that I spent with a very questionable guy, and part of what we did inv",negative " r/relationships TITLE: At 12 years old, I started an 7 year internet friendship based completely on lies (big ones) that may have destroyed my friend's life. Forever I've wanted to find him and apologize, but I have no way of contacting him. Should I even try, and if so how do I go about it? POST: Some backstory: At age 12, i was really into the famed ""Crossrealms Tavern"" RPG chat room on Compuserve (yeah...that's right). Along the way, I made a friend there who was my age who lived in another state. Over ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: I am not sure how to reply to people on the phone POST: So I guess this is a somewhat unique situation but I just wanted some advice. When I answer the phone at work people often ask me what my name is. I do not want to give out my name over the phone because a little while ago I had a guy calling the store asking for me, then sending super creepy things to the store for me. I have contacted the police and they have informed this guy to never contact me in any way again. I still feel creep",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my GF [21 F] duration, I lied once and she doesn't trust me now. Can the trust be regained? POST: Me and my girlfriend have been together for about 5 months. She has always hate one of my friends sisters, who I used to have a crush on. I lost all interest in his sister after realizing that her personality was shit. Anytime her name or a girl is mentioned, my GF flips shit on me. Being that this is my first real relationship, I have no idea how to handle to, which I j",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I no longer feel a real connection with most girls... [16|m] POST: Throw-away account because my friends know my real account... So back in the beginning of this school year I met a freshman (I'm a sophomore) that goes to my school and began to like her. She was always too busy and I ended up meeting another girl who became my first girlfriend. Since then we've broken up and I have started talking to the freshman again. A couple nights ago we were texting and she admitted that",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (25m) with my ex (25f), planned to have coffee but she cancelled due to feelings, how to respond? POST: So we met eachother as friends about 9 years ago, had a relationship for 5 years and she broke up 3 months ago. After that, I did a 2 month trip to Asia on my own and had a really good time. When I came back I really felt like contacting her again, so we texted for a bit, nothing heavy, and I proposed to have a coffee soon. She agreed and we decided to meet up in a week (this su",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My brother [25M] passed away in August. I [23F] started a physical relationship with his best friend [24M] about a month later. Afraid how it will end. POST: My brother passed away in August. Afterwards, I started spending a lot of time with his friends, because it made me feel closer to him and they were going through the same loss I was. There was a lot of sexual tension between myself and his best friend. About a month later, we started a strictly physical relationship. We bot",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, can you help me find the maker of this young, aspiring black child? POST: Abandoned by his parents at an early age, Lafondo Carlton (his given name, by us) was left on the street, like a litter of unwanted kittens. Feeling compassionate, we rescued him from a cardboard box and an undoubtedly miserable life. Over the past year, he has accompanied our family on various trips around the world, including Mexico, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Japan, South K",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I(M25) say I'm not interested to a girl(F25) I work with? POST: So there's this girl at work who likes me. We've known each other since I've joined at my new workplace for 4 months ago. She's been kinda letting me know that she's interested in me. Last night saying that she really likes me and wants to be with me. This has been a flattering experience for a guy who's never even kissed a girl. But the sad truth is that I don't have any feelings for her. I'm also really ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What was an innocent question you asked with disastrous consequences? Asked about a thumbnail and got a heartwrenching story about a traumatic childhood event POST: A few years ago I was on a tour of Italy with a tour group. Over dinner, I noticed that one of other people on the tour group had a shortened thumb with no nail. This was a very friendly gentleman in maybe his mid fifties. I don't know why, but I asked about it. He got embarrased, and explained that he tries to hide it",negative " r/self TITLE: I quit from a job a few years ago, but HR records say I was fired. Is this possible? POST: Hey Reddit! I'm a recent graduate and have been having troubles finding a job. I've even widened my search outside my home state and sent around 40 or so resumes for jobs from admin support to marketing but, still no luck. So in the middle of my predicament, I ran into an old co-worker and told me the company I used to work for is hiring. I thought I'd seen daylight because at this point, I just needed ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf's mother is in a verbally (and maybe physically) abusive relationship but can't force herself to end it-advice? POST: My gf's parents got divorced probably 5 years ago, and since then her mother (who is about 50) hasn't dated very good guys, so her standards are absurdly low. Now she's in a 2 year, on-again off-again relationship with this guy who is bipolar and doesn't handle it well at all. I think he's about 10 years younger than her (so 40 years old), and he's very, very co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 F] with my ""friend"" [25 F], started dated but are we doomed? POST: I started dating a girl a little under two weeks ago, after some informal dates that have happened since we met through mutual friends around Christmas. I **really** like her. The issue is I'm still clouded by issues from my old relationship; my ex and the breakup really affected my self-esteem, and ideas about my self-worth really affected my self-esteem (he cheated on me and left me for someone else, I foun",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19m] with my LDR Girlfriend [17F] 9 months, her mother is neutral about me POST: So a little back story, I met her mom over skype a monthish ago. So my best friend, my girlfriend and I were both on skype (mom didn't know we were dating at the time) and my mic spazzed out and it wouldn't work, while my friend's' worked clearly. And so her mom literally told my girlfriend that I'm reallllyyy awkward (because she thought I wasn't responding, when in reality my microphone wasn't work",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Haven't spoken to really good friend in 10+ months over a stupid fight, what should I do? POST: Some background to this story is that my best friend and this girl were dating sort of long distance (one province apart) and through him, I became friends with the girl. There are no romantic feelings involved here, but I did get to know her really well for the next two or so years and we became great friends. Even though we at no time met face to face, I considered her one of my best friend",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my manfriend [23 M] 2 mo., I got him flowers and he let them die. POST: Been dating real slow with a new guy. We are both out of relationships recently. I got him flowers the other day. I left them by his front door. He thanked me kindly for them. I came over a couple of days later and they were not out of the wrapper or in a vase; instead they were shriveled and dead on a desk. Maybe he just wasn't paying attention, or maybe he doesn't like flowers. Regardless, I fel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Dating] I [M18] am unsure of what to do to set up a third date with [F18]. I feel stuck. POST: So, I met this girl at my work and asked her out. We went and had coffee and talked for a good hour and a half. I texted her later and told her I had a good evening and wanted to see her again. So a few days later I took her out to lunch and did some urban exploring. I had a great time, and I'm pretty sure she did, but here is my problem: I never escalated anything physically past a hug. E",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Help: My wife thinks I have Body Dismorphic Disorder POST: So, if you click through my post history, you'll see I struggle with gaining muscle and losing weight. I've asked several times for help and gotten great replies I promptly disregard. I usually attempt the suggestions but panic when the scale slips higher. Basically, I'll eat more or whatever but when the scale climbs I instantly cut intake. I'm deeply ashamed of what I look like; I change in the bathroom at the gym, I feel self-c",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Engaged and having trouble with trust. 28/f, 28/m POST: I'm (28/f) currently engaged to my fiance (28/m). I recently came across a group that he is in with his close guy friends where all they do is post pictures of naked women and talk about girls they have had sex with or want to have sex with. Luckily, my fiance was not noramlly the instigator these conversations but he looks at it every day and I saw that he had been bragging about a girl he had sex with years ago, and anot",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: You had your chance. POST: I just need to get this off my chest. The person I'm talking about won't ever see this, but thanks in advance to everyone on this board for letting me vent. You are a piece of work, I will say that. I tell you over and over that I've only ever wanted to make you happy in whatever way I could. I was there for you through all of the fucked up things other guys have put you through. I was there as a friend for more than one instance when you needed someone to ta",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] been dating [27M] for over a year - he recently told me he would never consider marrying someone without a graduate degree. I don't have one and feel like this was a subtle hint he wants me to? POST: So I have been dating a guy for over a year and it has gotten fairly serious. A conversation came up recently where he told me he would never consider marrying someone who has not gone to graduate school. He grew up poor and higher education is important to him. The thing is, I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] of 3 years, she wants to ""find herself"" POST: I will try and keep this as succinct as possible My girlfriend has been in a long term relationship since she was 17. We started dating 2-3 months after she and her ex had broken up. And we have been together for 3+ years now. We went to the same college and spent plenty of time together, but were no means attached at the hip Last night she told me that she had been thinking about how for the past 4 ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] am frustrated with my husband's [29M] lack of effort to find a new job. POST: I have been dating my now-husband for 2 and a half years. He's Canadian and I'm in the U.S. This summer we decided I would go live with him for a bit and get married. We could do this because he had just gotten a better paying job around March. Things were fine, we got married, and then a couple weeks later he was fired from his job. He was a sales rep and they claimed sales were down and he just wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Moving to the other side of the planet. SO said she loves me; I'm not sure if I should say it back because there's no future in the relationship. POST: Background: I'm 35 and in the military and my (I guess prior) SO is 29. I found out that I must move to Japan less than a month after we started dating and informed her as soon as I found out; I also said that ""I'm not willing to do the long distance thing"". She spent the following 4-5 months actively pursuing jobs around Tokyo ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Think my fiancee is cheating on me. Does anyone know any way to hack into facebook without knowing her password? POST: So a few weeks ago some guy wrote on my fiance's facebook wall ""Hey my new phone won't be in for a few days. Msg me."" A few minutes later the post had been deleted. I decided not to ask about it, but she's been acting really suspicious these past few days. We have always shared our email and facebook passwords because we are very trusting, but I went to check it out toda",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using 200x too much of an expensive, dangerous chemical POST: I'm a third year Biology student at a British university. I'm just coming up to the end of my final-year research project. I'm studying how bacteria evolve when they have genes knocked out. I specialise in evolutionary biology, so I don't have much experience with basic molecular techniques. Furthermore, I'm not supposed to look at their genes, because another student is studying that - I just look at what they're doing. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20/m] in a long distance relationship with [20/f], feeling that I'm losing her POST: We've been friends for about 6 years but just only recently got together 4 months ago. A month ago we both left for college (I'm on the west coast while she's on the east coast). Things were working pretty well during the summer and at the beginning of the school year. She had a hard time for a week or so because of all the school work that got dumped on her. She would call me and I would console h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] 1 year after break up with my now ex-gf [18 F] of 13.5 months, how to get over fears and issues? POST: It's been almost a year since the break up with my now ex-gf. We were together for about 13.5 months. She was my first everything except kiss (she was 2nd). The break up was really bad, and it ended up almost getting us both in severe trouble with our school and authorities. I am completely over her now and I don't have any thoughts or feelings about her anymore. I went",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Male [16] Got a girl's number and her boyfriend replies. Why did she give me her number when she has a boyfriend? POST: Alright so there was this girl in my summer class that I didn't take care to notice until the last week of summer school. I barely talked to her but I did end up getting her number which was eaiser than I thought considering it was the 1st time I actually got a girl's number. (We'll call her Sally) Sally puts her phone number in but forgets it so she checks her pho",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I [M23] and my SO [F20] split up about 2 weeks ago. I definitely want her back in my life and have realized ways I contributed to our breakup. What's a smart approach to asking her on a date? POST: My girlfriend and I were together for 3 years and have had a child together. We had lots of great times, but she left 2 weeks ago because she doesn't feel like she is in love anymore. She says she has felt this way for a long time, and she has given it her all to try and make it work out for us",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] was with my crush [17 F] (who has a boyfriend) last night and I think I messed up big time. POST: Last night she came over to simply watch Frozen before we went to a party, but one thing led to another and soon enough we got to talking about us as a relationship. We ended up getting really close and intimate when she said how badly she wanted to kiss me. I knew that I shouldn't do it because of her BF and tried to stay away, but eventually I caved in and we kissed. She to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my ex[21 F] may get back together after she kissed an ex and still talks to him. POST: My ex gf and I broke up a little over two months ago from a 9 month relationship. Throughout the entire relationship I told her the only reason we would break up is from cheating. Before we broke up her ex got in contact with her and I asked her not to talk to him. I graduated and she is still in college so I don't know how long she listened. But she got in touch with him and went to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my boyfriend [22M] of almost a year, need advice on dealing with new living situation. POST: I'll make this as brief as possible! My boyfriend and I were roommates before we started dating. We lived together for about a month before getting together. Obviously this is kind of an odd situation, but for the duration of our relationship it's never caused any problems. In fact, it ended up being an advantage because our clashing schedules only allowed us to see each other ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M/] with my girlfriend [20 M/F] POST: My birthday is at the end of this month and my girlfriend and I had made plans to go out to dinner and she's been really excited about it. My brother texted me today saying he wants to take me out for drinks with him and his girlfriend and our best friend. I told him I would love to as i don't get to see him often because he lives a few hours away and it's my 21st birthday so I thought it would be fun to go drinking with my brother. I told",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Can a change of your personality cause you to fall out of love? POST: A brief summary of a much longer more detailed story: I (18/f) have been dating 20/m for two years, at the beginning of which I was a very serious science geek, party goer and very pessimistic. I had just turned 16 and was fresh out of the a teenage phase where I sort of tried to fit in too hard with all my new ""cool friends"" and rejected my interests and general self. it was in that period that I first met him, ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Not anytime soon but, if I live to a certain age, I will kill myself. POST: Don't get me wrong, I am in more fortunate situation than most. Educated, good career, financially comfortable, loving friends and family. But despite all this, I feel completely hopeless. Likely also suffering from depression for quite a while too. My problem is that I do not see a happy ending for most people's life. Most will either die young in their prime or miserably old. I visit my grandmother occas",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Etiquette question about asking out close friends of close friends [38/M, 35/F, 35/F] POST: I'm [38/M] close friends with V [35/F] who is close friends with S [35/F]. I've only seen S a couple times, but we had a nice talk on a group hike and she's very smart and pretty and I would be interested to ask her out. I talked to V about that because I wanted to be able to include in my message to S that I had already talked to V and gotten her blessing that everything was cool about me a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me: 19F, Him: 26M... Can you tell me if I'm controlling? How to avoid this silly argument. POST: Note: I know we are both immature Basically sometimes when I ask my boyfriend to do something (can be really really mundane like throwing old food out), he refuses through means of sarcasm and excuses that aren't real (don't have time), and it ends up escalating because I want him to stop kidding around and he ends up getting super annoyed and refusing out of principle even though it rea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F23] need some advice for starting a tough convo with my BF [M25] of 1 1/2 years. POST: Background: I've been together with Steve for a while now. It's great and we both love each other. He's the first guy I've dated that actually treats me with the love and respect that I want. Due to busy schedules we can only see each other 1 or 2 days out of the week mostly weekends. Situation: I'm finishing up my B.A. at a University and he's working on his Associates at a community college",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your most embarrassing drunk moment? POST: I'll start. I recently came to South Korea to visit my husband. One particular weekend, we decide to go out and enjoy the town with his friend and his friend's wife. Needless to say, we were all very ~~drunk~~ plastered. We decide to end the night and walk back home to his friend's apartment. On our way back, we get this GREAT idea...Let's have a girl's vs. boys piggyback race. I was the one piggy-backing. Well, the friend's wife forgot t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Basic Questions for Life? (First Post) POST: Hi all, I've had my fair share of ups and downs in my life, as I'm sure we all have had. These questions helped me, I hope they might help you too... Who are you? Who were you? Who do you want to be? What do you do? What do you want to do? What does home look like? What does home feel like? Where do you live? Where do you want to live? Where is home? Where are you going? Where did you come from? When do you expect to achieve the goals y",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My close friend [24/F] just admitted to me [25/M] that she has strong feelings for me, but she's in a relationship. POST: Hi everyone, first time posting so bear with. I've been friends with this girl, lets call her Victoria for almost 6 years now. Our friendship has always been a close one, partners on both sides have had issues with it. I've never thought that there was a thing there, but she recently admitted to me she has feelings for me that go a lot deeper than just attraction",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Got stood up last night. Need some advice with dealing with the embarrassment. POST: I started a sex friends relationship with a coworker recently. Which was a bad idea, I know. We hadn't been able to have intercourse (but had done a lot of other things) because of different situations so we decided that he should come over on Sunday and finally rectify that. I reminded him during a conversation on Friday and he'd happily said he remembered so I never even considered he wouldn'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Need wisdom about my 2 year relationship - are we deeper in love or have we plateaued? Help please! POST: Hi r/relationships. This is a throwaway since my SO knows my reddit name. I'm female, 26, and he is also 26. A quick run down - we met over 2 years ago, and have been together save one 3 month break ever since. We moved in together in Oct. of this year. My question is about how love evolves. This is the first partnership I've been in that I would call love. About 7-8 months in",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my wife [27F] married almost 4 years, don't know how to fix our problems POST: We have been married for 4 years now, dated for 3 years prior to marriage. Have 2 girls, almost 3 and almost 1. We both work in the medical field so our schedules have always been strange. A couple months ago our relationship started getting bad. We didn't see each other a lot because of conflicting schedules. And when we did see each other our time was taken up by our daughters. This separa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I (F20) throw out my exboyfriend's (M20) old love letters and cards? POST: My ex-boyfriend and I broke up around 6 months ago after dating for 3 years. I have moved on and am in a committed relationship with someone else, and am very happy. I have gotten rid of most of my exboyfriend's gifts. I don't wear the jewelry he got me, I gave away his old shirts that were to small for him, and I've long since donated the teddy bears he bought me. However, I can't part with the cards",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Confused on what I want and how to pursue it. POST: I'm a 22 year old female that lives about 20 minutes outside of town and shares a car with her mother for now, not in school, although I have a job, and see friends maybe once or twice a week so I hardly have a social life at all anymore and feel inadequate to most of my peers. However I'm told i'm very attractive/great personality and I do have a FWB I've been seeing since February that I'm starting to fall for, so there's that. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my ex [20 F] together for 8 months, Do I try to get her back? POST: We got into an argument over something stupid. We made plans and she bailed on me. Upset I ignored her texts for a day, her texts included things like asking me why I was mad, and a sincere apology. I should've accepted it right there, but I was immature. I then texted her back and said how I was sorry and such. She responds with ""I hate playing games"" and ""I'm sorry I just don't have time for that"". ",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Mom doesn't 'get' non-minister officiants (mini rant) POST: So, I've always known choosing our officiant was going to be a battle, but first I figured it'd be a battle of us not knowing who to choose. It's important to both of us that the officiant actually be someone who is important to us. One of my close friends from college is partially responsible for us meeting and happens to be 'ordained' by the power of the interwebs so we want her to do it. Momma Bear of the Bride is havi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Im(M24) not sure what to do. My Father(M54) is literally destroying my family's house. He is very unstable and has a history of being violent. (xpost r/domesticabuse) POST: I dont know where to post this and I am sorry if this is the wrong sub. My dad was an alcoholic during my childhood and beat my sister and I when we were children. This stopped when he stopped drinking which was when I was around 11. He has always punched holes in walls or destroyed things around the house when he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22 M] not sure if I should break up with my gf [19 F] because of her family POST: Hi all, I've got a problem that I hope you guys can help me with. I'm a 22 year old university student dating a 19 year old university student. I recently got into a relationship with her in July. It's my first relationship since I've always been an awkward kind of guy, so I was ecstatic when I asked her out and she said yes. The problem is this. My girlfriend is Indian, and comes from a very str",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do i [29M] keep my girlfriend [23F]. Help. POST: Hi, This is my first post, ever. I love reddit. I have a problem, my girlfriend is starting to lose interest in me. The situation: i have been in a relationship with this perfect, funny, smart, genuine, BEATUIFUL girl for 4 years. We have been living in different cities the whole time, at first it was far apart our towns, now its a 2,5 hr trainride. So we see each other every other weekend, either at her place or at mine. We ar",positive " r/self TITLE: Reddit, help me create my new job. POST: Currently, I work as an ""Instructional Technology Specialist"" at a college. We are in charge of everything electronic that isn't the computer (projectors, audio systems, video conferencing, etc.). This summer I made a short video detailing our new Telepresence system. Everyone at the school was super impressed with my video skills (though the video wasn't that amazing, imho).... though, I have a degree in film. Because of that video, I've had a numbe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How to get my SO (25M) to keep up the sex life in our LDR? POST: My LDR boyfriend doesn't want to engage in any kind of sexual activity with me when we are apart. No sexting, phone sex, naughty pics, links to porn videos or erotica, no video-fun. I need men who are also not keen on this to give me some insight and tips. My boyfriend (25M) and I (23F) actually met on exchange in China and have dated almost a year with him coming to Canada twice for 3 weeks each time and me living wit",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Does she like me or was her friend just fucking with me. POST: I'll write a little bit of background before going straight to the point. So I have been together with this girl, which we will call Melanie for illustrative purposes. in a couple of classes in college and in the first class we didn't really talk that much but during the second class with her (which was a couple of months later) she started sitting together with me, sometimes even sitting right next to me when the whole",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Myself (27/M) and new potential lady (26F)... POST: Met a nice girl on Bumble. She gave me her number. Started texting, set up a date. Met for drinks late last week. The date went well. The conversation flowed, we have lots in common, some light flirting, lots of kino (playful brushing of my arm, etc), we talked about different potential activities to do in the future (""oh, we should go to this bar next! Oh you should come do yoga with me! A hockey game sounds like so much fun!"") an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (m20) and my girlfriend (f19) just broke up despite still being in love with each other POST: My girlfriend and I have always been perfect for each other. We have tons of fun together and we have both told each other many times how we both want to spend our lives together. She is away at college about 3 hours away and I am home going to college. This is our second year in college so long distance hasn't really caused any problems. Lately, she has been getting a little distant. W",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's something you've done that has made someone else extremely uncomfortable/miserable? POST: Allow me to get things started. When I was eighteen, I dated the Swedish foreign exchange student from my school for a year. Then he returned to Sweden, and I waited six months to save up enough money to go visit him for Christmas and New Years. We spent two weeks together, and then I had to return home. Being young, I was utterly and hopelessly in love, so I boarded my plane to return hom",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/M] Seeking insight to help me cope and keep moving. POST: So let me set the stage first: I had just gotten out of my first relationship (also my first LTR(18 months)). It was a poisonous relationship with constant fighting on her part, and various other shitty things including a lackluster sex life and jealousy issues. However, the terms of the breakup were very shitty on my end. I cheated on her. I felt like complete scum and I hated myself for what I had done because I d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19F) resent my mother (50F) for years of abuse, but she's changed. POST: Hello, thanks to anyone who reads this. I was abused in many ways, emotionally and physically, by my parents for about 8 years, who were both alcoholics and had a lot of anger issues. After their divorce and the death of a family member, my mom absolutely changed herself and apologized sincerely more than once for what she's made me go through. She's been loving for the past 2 years, but the problem is tha",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking ""Were they all girls?"" POST: So that just happened about a hour ago, me and my lab partners met to do this lab report. Fyi I'm the only guy in the group. One of them asked how was our lab partners last semester, one said ""they were all nice and smart"". I was like""They were good"". Out of curiosity, i asked ""How was yours?"", she went ""meh, they were nice but they had not idea what to do and I had to do all the work"". Here's the fuck up part, as soon as she said that, I was like """,negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (19m) and my mother (47f), who thinks she's a special snowflake. How can I help her? POST: I'm not sure where to begin with this since I'm not coming here after some calamitous event. I'm asking for help after a lot of self-reflection on the issue. I do love my mom very much, but more and more often I've noticed that my mother will make excuses to justify to herself and others that she has done and said nothing wrong or is helpless in a situation. I think the best way to explain ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Best way of separating from a group and asking a girl out? POST: Hi /r/dating_advice, It's been a while since I've needed dating advice, but I'm in sort of a new situation for me. I recently started a graduate program and there's a girl in a similar program to mine who I've taken a liking to. Unfortunately, we're in the same friend group, and because it's still early on in the semester this friend group does **everything** together, to the point that she and I have never really be",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Knitters and sweater wearers of reddit: I have an expensive sweater that I love but is too big for me. Is there a way I can shrink it a size without ruining it? POST: Basically I have a lambs-wool sweater that I used to wear all the time. I lost about 30lbs and it looks like I'm 9 and trying on my dad's clothes when I wear it. In the past I've hand washed this sweater in cold water and laid it flat to dry and it didn't really shrink at all. I've only washed it 2 times and only wear ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: How can I find the total costs for taking out a mortgage? POST: I've looked at mortgage calculators, but I have no idea what I can expect to pay in property taxes, homeowner's insurance, and mortgage insurance, and whatever else. My fiance wants us to buy a house as a way to stabilize what we'd be paying for a place to live over the next 30 years. Since we live in Los Angeles, it's difficult to follow conventional wisdom. We make about 110K combined, and are spending about 30% of ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I stop checking her TL? POST: We've been friends since college and I'm (27/f) using this word loosely. She's (27/f) the kind of girl who falls of the radar when she has male attention and her ass hole ex is probably the only reason why we stayed friends after college (she needed me to move in to split rent). After living together for 7 months I got my dream job in California, packed up, and moved out west. From the moment we lived together she introduced me to Twitter. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [28M] and I [26F] want to move in together, but he's allergic to my cats. What to do? POST: I [26F] have been with my boyfriend [28M] for nine months. In the past two months we have talked a few times about me moving in with him (he initiated the conversations), and also what we might do further down the line once I've finished the degree I'm working on (I initiated the conversation). Not moving in together will not break us apart, at least for now, but it's something ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Co-worker got fired, I was that insensitive colleague POST: My co-worker who has been at my company for almost 8 years got fired a week ago and today was their last day. As a junior, and someone who didn't know her that well I had been avoiding talking to her all this time for the risk of saying the wrong thing. Furthermore, shes been incredibly difficult to talk to this week as shes incredibly emotionally unstable due to losing her job. She sits across from me, and for some fucking re",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by saving my computer work too often POST: I am doing a school assessment which is worth a magical number on my end-of-year report, and this happens to be in the class I find most important for my future studies - Digital Technology. Shout out to the teacher who caused me to FU and lose 2 weeks worth of work. Lets cut to the story: So the lights werent working in the class, but we all pretended like its not a problem. I was working on my massive word document as usual, documenting all t",positive " r/weddingplanning TITLE: My fiancé's boss wants to throw me a wedding luncheon, I need some advice POST: My fiancé works for our local government under a really wonderful woman who we occasionally get together with for social events. However, considering she is technically my fiancé's boss their friendship must maintain a certain degree of professionalism. Yesterday she sent me the following message: ""I want to do luncheon for you for the wedding. Bridal or your choice."" She then listed off a potential",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with my Crush [24F], don't ask questions back on texts? POST: So yeah, im feeling like im getting close with this female, we talk alot ect but sometimes over text messages when I ask her what she is doing, she just answers like ""I just ate."", and thats it? I don't know if I should continue the text conversation and how do I do that? I mean, she could just ask me ""How about you? What are you up to?"" or something but no. Yes I have met the female in real life, not just over t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is there a way for me (F19) to verify his identity (M18)? POST: So I am an 19-year-old girl and I will travel abroad this summer. I will coincidentally travel to the country of a male online friend of mines who lives there. We've been talking for 2 years. He is 18 and just graduated from high school. Is there a way for me to verify his identity? He said he hardly uses Facebook from beginning since we have met and he gave me his account anyway when I asked for it. He only has a girl ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my ex [26 F] of 4 mo, pretty sure she's spying on me somehow and I need help POST: So I'll spare all the details here but long story short my ex is telling me she's pregnant but refuses to show proof and has lied about this before both to me AND to another guy. After getting some advice, I started recording our conversations, as she was becoming more and more manipulative. Basic description of the situation: she is trying to blackmail me into being in a relationship wi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] just found out my girlfriend [20 F] of a year was almost a school shooter POST: I'm kinda freaking out right now. She got really offended when one of my buddies was talking about how crazy a person must be to shoot up a school. I asked her why, and she went on a huge rant about not every school shooter is insane and some have legitimate reasons and are just going about it the wrong way. We got into a huge fight because I didn't see her point of view, when she finally screame",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [24/f] having a hard time doing normal day to day things, and i can see the disappointment my husband [30/m] is feeling. POST: So, i have a lot of things working against me at the time. I work long days, but i have more days off. I switch between day and night shift every 2 months, so I'm constantly adjusting to new schedules, and i often end up having very little sleep until i end up over sleeping on my days off. I've had constant nausea for almost a year now and my doctor has n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] and my GF [20 F] of 3 years, want to bring my best friend [18 M] into the bedroom for his first time. POST: Okay, so let me just start, my friend, let's call him Joe, and I have been friends for about 10 years now. His family lived right next to my grandparent's house, so I was over frequently enough. Joe and I grew close through gaming and are now attending the same University. My girlfriend, who we'll call Jess, and I live in an apartment just off campus, so the three o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my exBF [21 M] of 5 days, I showed up to training where we both train today, not sure If I did the ""right"" thing POST: Background info: It was a somewhat clean break.. I think.. and somewhat mutual.. He ended it through text and i said ""i feel like i deserve a face to face break up"" and he realized that, that was an asshole move to end it through text so he asked to meet the day after and I eventually agreed. I respectfully said, ""I understand and respect your decision ",negative " r/self TITLE: Reddit, We Need An Image Makeover POST: I got in a Twitter argument today with several people (that WILL NOT be found or bothered over this, thank you) that have this awful preconceived notion that we're all a bunch of fat manchild misogynist assholes. We need to do something about this. Every community since the dawn of the internet has had its bad apples. There's always going to be some douche that thinks that women should sleep with him just because he's being nice to them, or that it's t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by forgetting my keys while moving POST: Long time lurker first time poster. Context: this happened last summer, I was moving to Charleston, SC on a hot hot July day. I finally was done unloading everything and hopped in the u-haul to go pick up my car. So if any of you aren't familiar with Charleston, there's quite a series of bridges that I must drive this giant, lumbering truck over to get downtown to the u-haul location. After about a 20 minute drive, I pull in to the u-haul park",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What do you do if a fellow employee plays the ""popularity"" card? POST: Advice needed. I started my new job on Monday... I got hired with another person (both of us are temp-to-hire through the same agency) Since we would be working closely together and sitting in adjacent cubicles, I figured I would do my best to try to get to know her- be myself blah blah blah. She blatantly told me Friday she does not find me funny and thinks I'm annoying. She has also blocked me from Facebook. I have ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/M] with my friend [18/F]. She keeps flaking on plans and this time it bothered me a lot. Am I just a filler or secondary friend or is she genuinely interested in being my friend still? POST: Title explains the jist of it but I'm getting frustrated. I really feel lime a filler friend. Someone to make plans with to dump at the moment something with better people comes along. I like being friends with her as I feel like our personalities line up very well, however she flakes on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [39 M] trying to figure out my coworker [23 F] POST: Long story short I trained her on her job for 2 weeks, she's been with the company for a month. I think this girl is in love with me, but I can't figure out why. So she is really friendly, she always texts me that she missed me on the weekends, always texts me ending with emoticons, lots of smiley faces and XOXOXO's. She calls me honey and sweetie I am no expert with women but I think I am getting a signal from her that she wan",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Mary's Bridal Returns? POST: I had my first dress appointment today and it was wonderful!! Previously I posted that I would have to go alone due to my family and friends all living out of state. BUT I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO ALONE! My fiancé's grandma and aunt surprised me with an offer to join me. It went so well. They are both really sweet agreeable people and we had a great time. Originally I was set on lace, but after trying on some more flowing chiffon dresses, I realized that was",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Irate and sexist customer makes cashier cry, and leaves to a frozen truck that won't start. POST: Working in a large department store, you see a large variance in the customers intelligence and ability to control anger. Keep in mind that I am around in the vicinity keeping tabs on the situation just in case it became physical. Story : One guy I remember came in screaming at the cashier at our returns desk, and for who-knows-why is angrier than a mama bear after losing her cub. Sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 M] and my mom [50 F] have been arguing about moving homes. POST: For about 5 months now, my mom hasn't returned to work. She had surgery in August, and has had a full recovery. She still complains about pain and headaches, but they've been there ever since I could remember. Recently, she has been going to therapy to treat the pain, and now goes almost twice a week. My dad provides a stable income for our family, and my mom has lots of options for jobs she could do that wouldn",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [24] plays WoW every waking moment of the day lately. How can I [26f] prevent this from becoming a regular habit? POST: My boyfriend started to play WoW again (he used to play before we started dating). His friends paid to reactivate his account. Since reactivating it about 2-3 weeks ago he is on the computer every waking moment of the day except for when he goes to work. Before WoW he played similar games, but he only played them a couple hours of the day. He also used ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I've been fired from 2 of my last 3 jobs. I just got a new job, and I'm scared this one isn't going to work out either. How do I prevent this from happening? POST: Both of these jobs I lasted about a month before my boss took me aside and essentially said, ""It's not working out; we're going to have to let you go."" I don't want to say I was incompetent, but I just wasn't meeting their standard of quality, and my learning curves weren't fast enough. There were clues, and talking-tos along ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He [32 M] only flirts with me [28 F] after he has been drinking. POST: My co-worker has flirted with me twice during company events while under the influence of alcohol. I think he has a high tolerance for alcohol so I don't think he was ever actually drunk when he flirted with me. Let me preface this by saying I work aboard so drinking and work culture is different. Also, English isn't his first language so he sometimes has difficulties with it and I've heard he is shy. The first t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend of almost a year and a half just told me she is feeling different and she doesn't know about us anymore. Need help, POST: First I'd like to say sorry for a lot of words but please read all of it. So me 17 and my girlfriend 16 just got done with a really long talk about us. I've been dating her for almost a year and a half and absolutely love this relationship, I have a lot of feelings for this girl and I really enjoy being with her, over the year we have had the best ",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: The video game vigilante is here. POST: I love playing online games but one of the few things that really gets under my skin is when people act terribly to each other and this tends to get incredibly vicious when it comes to online interaction. While I'm not much of a CoD or Halo guy but I've played them and ran into the typical jerks and 12-year old shit talkers but none of it has come close to the vile beings I've met through League of Legends. I've been on the receiving end of th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My landlord made a mistake in my lease (in my favor) and now they're trying to bully me into paying money that I don't believe that I owe. Help? Advice? More details inside. POST: Here's the story. I have a 12 month lease. The lease says ""The term rent shall be $7,200, payable except herein otherwise provided, in installments of $900, on the 1st day of every month, in advance, so long as the lease is in effect."" I signed this lease almost a year ago. Later on in the lease $7,200 is ag",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: So getting this off my chest, today a guy got in my face and I'm very confused by the reason. POST: So today in the afternoon I was walking to my gym that's in my neighborhood. It's a short walk and I do it all the time, I obviously have to go through a few crosswalks and at one of them I was waiting with some guy in a leather jacket. I had my headphones in and was listening to my music while on the crosswalk, after the crosswalk ended and I continued to walk I hear somebody behind me y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My live-in boyfriend [27M] and I [23F] have hit a rough patch. How will I know it is time to start talking about the end? POST: My relationship with my boyfriend (~2 years) has been great. We have had a lot of fun together and been respectful and honest throughout the relationship. For the past month or so there has been a change. We are shorter with each other, we aren't as physical, and we seem to be generally less excited to be around each other. I have been considering bringing ",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: Ever date your best friend? [M19] POST: She and I dated for three years long distance, but have been best friends for about 4 and a half years. We knew each other when we were underclassmen in High School, before I moved across state. Both of us deal with varying degrees of depression and anxiety, so we always went to one another with our every feeling and need. We were just best friends, you know? I often don't even like calling it that, it just doesn't do the relationship justice. We we",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm becoming very depressed and angry. I'm very successful for my age yet no one will hire me. My friends who have less credentials are finding work, yet they aren't even finished with their associate degree. POST: I'm 20 years old, as of now I am a junior in college. I'm attending one of the top business schools in the U.S., and is internationally as well. My degree program, information systems is almost number one in faculty productivity. I'm currently in the honors program. I trans",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Can things still be fixed between my mother and I? POST: I'll try my best to explain what's going down: The story of it is: My mother and I don't exactly see eye to eye on some things,but things usually don't get that bad and we're both able to move on from the argument and live together normally,as mother and son. However,that changed in our most recent argument a little over a week ago,where things got way more heated than it usually does,the end result of that was now she avoids any di",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Stupid girl [28/F], in desperate need of strangers' help to tell her how stupid she is being. POST: So, here is the jist of my situation. I dated this guy for 3 years, the first year was amazing. We were perfect, we laughed and played and loved. Typical love story shit. Within the second year, things started to change, he stopped being present. The affection stopped, he no longer touched me unless it led to sex. I started getting depressed. I brought this up to him several time",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by referring my buddy to a dealership where I just bought my car POST: A week and a half ago I bought a certified used vehicle from a dealership and the salesman was offering that if I referred someone to them, and they bought a car, I would get $100. The car that I traded in, was in bad shape. Needed about $1000 in repair, but surprisingly, they gave me $200 over blue book for it (wasn't going to argue that, thought maybe they get parts for cheap and it's not an issue to them.) So, ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: How to break up with ex/fwb without feeding his sick need? POST: I (19/f) have an ex (21/M) who I'm very attracted to, but broke up with because I always felt inadequate around him. He has a need to care for others, to be above them, to always be the one giving advice and help when others need it. It's going to sound crazy, but I always think he feels like it's a ""privilege"" to be receiving his aid. He has a way of making you feel very small, and I lost all of my confidence while I was",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What can I (16f) do for my brother (12m) when our parents are arguing? POST: Hello reddit. I don't want to go into too much detail, but basically our family has been going through a rough patch on and off for a year. Things are bad again just now, and my parents are stressed. I'm old enough that my dad explains to me what is going on and we're honest with each other, but my brother doesn't know as much as I do. I know that although things are shit right now, it'll pass eventually. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Female friend drama POST: First of this is my first post, my boyfriend doesn't usually give his number to people so when i found out that he accepted this girls number i felt uneasy. I later from out that when he told me he was hanging out with friends, that he had went over to her house and that the other friends that were suppose to show didn't. He went out to eat with her and played with her brother and basically met her family. She then invited him to go shooting with her a",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: My(21f) ex(22m) got back in touch with me after breaking up with me 4 months ago POST: We had a really rocky relationship for about a year. I posted about him before, and the general consensus was ""run!!"" We broke up after fighting for hours and he said some pretty messed up things, like threatening to hit me, telling me to kill myself, saying he was going to record the conversation so he can show people 'how he speaks to me.' All of these things are fresh in my mind, especially how he ca",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] don't know if I should try being friends with this guy I've really fallen for [19M] after he rejected me POST: I met Jamie through a mutual friend. I felt a really strong connection from the start, it was odd because I've never had that experience with anybody before. We started having sex a few weeks after we started hanging out. He initiated first kiss. A few more weeks into that, we went on a trip together, where I realized I liked him romantically. I told him a few da",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [23F] break up with my live in boyfriend [27M]? POST: So this is my first time breaking up with anyone, let alone a live in boyfriend. I guess I'll start from the beginning. We started dating 3 1/2 years ago and moved in together a year ago in July. Before we moved in I had some doubts about us but the lease was already signed and I thought I'd get over it. Long story short, I never did and haven't really been happy the past year. I've been depressed and just not myself an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my gf (22F) and I (22M) have been together for 3 years, have lived together for 1. Not sure if I want to keep living together. POST: as the title says, my girlfriend (22) and I (22) have been dating for a little more than 3 years. We were dating long-distance for a year (2 years ago), and then when I moved back we moved in together last year in July. living together has been a little bumpy and I'm not totally confident I want to keep living with her. I still love her and want to ke",negative " r/cats TITLE: Redditors of r/cats, I need your help! POST: So here's the back story: I agreed to watch my friend's lovable, cuddly 1 year old neutered male cat while she leaves the country for a few months. Except I have a cat of my own a not as cuddly, paranoid, hates-being-touched-by-strangers 4 year old spayed female. I introduced them slowly by keeping them in separate areas and I have seen them playing sleeping on the same couch/bed. But they fight way more than play and recently they've started a pis",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU- Unintentionally invited myself to an all lesbian party last night. POST: Me and this girl I work with decide to go to one of the bigger clubs in the city after the rest of our coworkers flaked on us. Once we get inside, we dance a bit on the first floor, then decide to go upstairs. Usually its only $5 to go upstairs, but tonight it was $12. I just figured it was typical club bullshit........Then I saw the dancefloor. HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. I honestly thought I had walked onto the set ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How long exactly would a rebound last? POST: I understand it's relatively subjective, but how long would you say a girl waits until her next relationship isn't considered a rebound? I (22M) met this girl (23F) last week and we hung out and it seems pretty clear that we both show a mutual sense of interest in each other at the moment. She asked about past relationships (I haven't dated in quite a few years), and, when asked, she mentioned that she just got out of a relationship in Ma",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Would I know for sure if I had a potentially serious neck injury? POST: The incident occurred over a year ago now when I was struck directly in the head by a person's full body (they were stage diving at a metal show, and I wasn't paying attention). I got tunnel vision from it and felt initially a little woozy, but after some fresh air I pretty comfortably watched the rest of the show. After this I walked back to where we were staying, slept, and then sat in a car for 13 hours the next",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Speeding Violation POST: I need some help from the people of r/legal advice in fighting a ticket. At 2:10 am I am less than one mile from my home. I am caught going a speed of 42 mph up a hill marked 30. At the top of the hill is a police officer who had just finished handing out a ticket. By the time he decides to begin the next ticketing process I had already slowed, turned the corner, and begun down the next road. We were separated at the intersection by a light. At the end of th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by yelling at a teenager at the drive thru. POST: To preface, I'm generally a really nice guy. This happened a while back and I just now decided to share it with the world because I still feel bad about it. I was coming off of 24 duty and decided to swing through the Mexican drive thru to pick up a couple breakfast burritos for my wife and myself. While waiting in my car, I take notice to this jacked up, excessively loud truck in front of me at the window. I could see in his mirror tha",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, tell me about your most memorable dreams. POST: I use the word memorable because dreams can be anything from ridiculously funny to a horrible nightmare. I'll tell you guys mine first. A little while after Inception came out, I was laying on my couch in the middle of the day and I fell asleep. I was in the middle of a normal dream (I don't actually remember what was happening before this) when I suddenly realized I was dreaming. I had some lucid dreams like this before, and I did",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my BF [20 M]. Job vs Relationship Issues POST: Me and my BF have barely been dating but I have really only come to realise recently that my stability for living in the area isn't that great. I am currently casual in my job, and there are a lot of chances for me to go permanent, but where I am currently working (with him) isn't the workplace that makes me happy. I have worked in other workplaces in the job where things are more laid-back and accepting and friendly, wh",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Recently broke up with girlfriend interested in new girl. We're friends and both [22]. POST: So here's the situation. We went out to the bar together and had a good time and that was when I told her I was dating someone. Last Friday we a had a great time together and i could've made out but didnt because i was in a relationship then on Sunday I broke up with my Gf. I want to hang out with her and potentially get closer to her. How can I do that and remind her in a subtle way that I'm",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: Skin tags on gooch + dental floss POST: So recently I was browsing reddit and saw someone post how one way to get rid of skin tags is to tie dental floss around them. It cuts off oxygen until it dies basically and falls off. About a month or 2 ago, I got what I thought was an ingrown hair right on my gooch. I picked at it and it eventually turned into a tiny little skin tag... Recently it started to hurt more and more and sex with my boyfriend kept making it worse. We hang out quite a ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: What should my brother (33) do as a career after devoting the past 15 years of his life to music? POST: Since he was a teenager, my brother has basically devoted his life to being a jazz musician. He graduated from a three year junior college program and then studied at one of the top universities in the country only to drop out because he felt a degree wasn't necessary in the industry. He has toured in Europe, played center stage at some of the biggest jazz festivals in the world and is qui",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Girl (23f) Goes Silent On Me (28m) POST: I've been talking to this girl I met online for about a month and we just recently exchanged phone numbers and text constantly, mostly at night. She always finds a reason to text me, even about the most random things. We've gone out twice and both times I felt we made a good connection and had a good time. The last time we went out she showed me pictures on her phone of her trip to Disney World she went on a few months ago and showed me a funn",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, my school is motoring the students online activities and social network sites and suspending students who say/post bad things about the school. Is that a violation of our (students) rights? POST: * TL;DR: ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [CA] New Restaurant Job Does Not Take Tip Taxes from Paycheck POST: Hello, I just started this new restaurant job around a month ago and my paychecks have been the full amount despite the tips I make. In my previous experiences in my other restaurant jobs, we have to claim how much we make in our tips so it can be properly taxed. This usually comes out of our biweekly paychecks. So our paychecks would be around $200-$300 smaller depending on how much tip we make. However at this ne",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I'm getting a lot less financial assistance from the government than I was expecting. (CAN) POST: So I'm eighteen, and in September I'm going to University. Total tuition costs will be around $8000 and residence will be around $7000. That's not counting transport, spending money, buying school stuff and any emergency expenses that crop up. So in total I'm looking at about $16,000. In my bank at the moment I have $3,000 and I'm earning about $400 every two weeks because it's hard ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(M20) feel like I'm leading on my girlfriend(F19) who already decided she want to marry me. WAT DO!? POST: So, here's the deal. This girl (F19) and I (M20) have known each other for about seven months, we have been dating for about two. Well everything is going great. We have similar interest, she lives on her own, has a job, has a car, going to school, pays for dates. It's really nice. The only problem is she is already talking about moving in together, saying how she would never",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do you think Facebook is running a scam? How do they profit from this? POST: If you have a facebook account, you have probably seen one of these on your wall. One of your FB friends comments on, likes, or shares a photograph of some poor little chemo kid from someone you don't know. In the comments, it says something like, ""If you hate cancer, subscribe and share!"" Those things are annoying as fuck and I have been trying to block them. The problem is, Facebook won't allow me to bloc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] and this girl [16F], she is scared to get attached to me before I go to college. What can/should I do? POST: I'm a senior and she is a sophomore in High School and I'm about to graduate and go to college. We've been talking for about 3 weeks now and thinking about dating. I really care about her and she said she likes me and enjoys hanging out with me. She now is really scared that she will be a burden on me and holding me back, that I would just leave her behind, and the fu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[18F] have a much older friend[25M] and sometimes it seems creepy. Is it creepy? POST: A note that I've changed some ages by 1 or 2 years just because I really don't want anybody to find this. I've known this guy, who we'll call Tom, since I was about 15. I wasn't friends with him at the time, I just knew him through a mutual friend. Mutual friend is only a few months older than me, but he turned out to be into child porn and I reported and cut contact with him, but Tom still had m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: To gift or not to gift: a new love interest's birthday. POST: Hello, RA! Hopefully you all can help me out a bit here. I met this wonderful guy about a month ago, and we've been seeing each other for the past three weeks or so. We're both college students at the same small university, but we met during the last week or classes, so for the majority of the time we've known one another, we've been apart. For clarification purposes, we are not officially dating, but we are not 'fu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my Dad [56 M] past few months, has been binge drinking and eating nightly and has sent texts of a depressive and sometimes suicidal nature POST: Hi. This whole situation has kinda blown up tonight, but it actually started a few months ago. To start depression has run in my family, my father's mother killed herself two years before I was born. Compounding this is my father's father who was a heavy drinker. These two things have combined in my dad who recently has starte",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [20/m] ready to start dating again? Never been in this situation, and would like a second opinion! POST: Basically, I was in a relationship for a bit over a year that ended close to three months ago fairly messily. I've heard that a sign that you are over your ex is that you aren't angry with them anymore, and this is a part I'm curious about. No, I am not still angry in general with her, but she does still make me angry on occasion. I'm forced to interact with her every once in",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Adults of reddit: Short of going to the pub/out to dinner, what do you do for fun with friends? POST: Hello, /r/AskReddit! I have been tasked with finding out what grown-ass adults do with their friends for fun/recreation short of bar-hopping. Many of my friends are in committed relationships/married, and within that group, some are pregnant. It's obviously not fun for the ladies to be in a loud pub or be surrounded by people who are drinking (especially when said ladies used to drink ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] am absolutely disgusted by my ""stepbrother"" [16M] POST: For clarification, stepbrother is in quotes because he's my mom's boyfriend's son. There really needs to be a word for that, because he's not my sibling and thank goodness he isn't. So, I don't know if this is a common trend for sixteen-year-old boys, but he's just gross. I'll call him David. David's parents are divorced and they have joint custody of their two kids, David and his younger sister [12F]. Whenever they vis",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] partner [18F] of 2 years is life at conception and is against sex with 2 forms of contraception POST: We've been together for almost 2 years, and there has always been a lack of sex. It's starting to get to me, as it's something I've enjoyed the times we have done, and I don't want to continue not having it. I really enjoy being with her; I absolutely adore her and (perhaps slightly too soon to say) but we want to stay together for as long possible. However, she has now tol",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Are there signs somebody has been raped? POST: 19 year old male here. I'm really interested in this girl at school on my floor. She is really beautiful, sweet, and friends with everyone she meets and I was completely surprised she was single. She caught my eye immediately. Gotten to know her a lot and we text/talk a lot when we are not together. Earlier in the year, she was asking for my help with my neighbor, but things with that ended a while back. When she was asking me for advice",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my exgirlfriend [21F] of 5 months breakup. POST: Were both college students, and one night of drinking she ditches me at the bar to go home and cry. I found out that she went home after I called her roommate. I asked her why she was crying and she wouldn't tell me. I didn't think much of it(she was really drunk). She wound up puking in the toilet but I wasn't awake when this happened. The next day I text her saying if I made her cry we should talk about it. She comes ov",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Question about the post i saw earlier about shitty_watercolour making it on the news POST: Sorry I couldn't find the link. How does reddit feel about reddit being displayed on the news? I am a little concerned because although it can be frustrating trying to explain what reddit is to an outsider imagine the attention bringing in a bunch of new people. My biggest concern is it might enter a fad type situation and Id much rather have to explain reddit to someone rather then be placed into ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] am afraid to break up her [20 F] because I know it will ruin her POST: It's been almost a year, about 10 months to be exact. We're both in college, and for us, we've been in love for so long, but I don't know if a committed relationship is right for me anymore. We almost broke up last month. I knew that SOMETHING was very wrong with how I felt. I thought I just couldn't handle her insecurities that made her needy, and we decided that I should do my best to accommodate her s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I feel like I've punished him[28m] and myself[25F] enough. I'm just tired of being angry. POST: I don't want to go into it, but he hurt me a while back. We've been dating for nearly a year and the ""incident"" happened 3 months ago. I'm not sure if he cheated and I can't 100% prove it. We've made our truce and decided to give this relationship a serious run after so many hiccups. Rather than talk about it like a rational adult I vented to my friends about some of his behavior and bas",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25M] girlfriend [26F] asked me how many women I've slept with - I feel uncomfortable answering POST: Standard throw away because friend and the person in question knows my username. I've been seeing this girl for like half a year. we're not officially together but are in everything but name a couple. Everything is great and we have a really good time together and this post isn't really about any drama at all, it's just this question that has me feeling a little bit off. She was m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18/m] want to my gay, future roommate and crush [19/m] how I feel about him POST: Since sixteen I've identified as completely asexual. Never had had a crush on anyone before. Never saw anyone as sexually attractive. Fast forward - my group of friends (we're first year uni students) and I are talking about who's going to room with who. One, let's call him Lyle, who's openly gay, asks if he can room with me next year. At that point, I just saw him as a friend, so I said yes. Fast ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [26/m] fell in love - while being in a relationship of 8 yrs (26/f) POST: Hey Reddit, After 8 years of being in a relationship with my girlfriend, I made the mistake of meeting a friend from university who I knew for a couple of years. We went out, had something to eat, I walked her back to her appartment and we continued the night at her place drinking wine and talking. At the end of it, I needed to get home but there was no transportation service so I asked her to crash he",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Bought a new car based on a false advertisement in Wyoming. POST: I test drove the vehicle about a month ago. Went home. A few days later they called with a better price. I went back to their website to look at the car again. I did a bunch of research on prices, etc. I countered their offer and we reached a deal. This was all over the phone. The car was listed on their website as a 4runner limited. I was out of town for 2 weeks when we agreed. They brought the paperwork to me ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (24/m) looking on how to approach (26/f) about getting into a relationship POST: We have been good friends for about 3 and a half years and I've always found her attractive but never made a serious move because I wasn't physically near her some of this time and I can't, for the life of me, figure if she is sexually attracted to me and I'm just misreading signals. Some details to take note of: * If I'm not with her in person, she constantly messages me all day everyday, about t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: F (25) and M (33). I'm probably being irrational. POST: Hi. So I just recently started seeing 33M. Let's call him Joe. I've known Joe for almost a year (since January). We met through mutual friends. After we met, we spent a lot of time together with and without mutual friends. We both knew we liked each other but we both haven't dated in a long time so we were both scared to initiate. Until last week, he asked me out and I was so happy. None of our friends know yet since we both a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [17F] is paranoid that I [16M] do not actually like her POST: We have only been going out for about a month and a half but we have been friends for about 2 years. I thought everything was going great but about two weeks ago she sent me the we need to talk text. I was not sure what I did but when we talked she wanted to break up because she was convinced I didn't actually like her. I told her that I do and she told me ok that if I did she didn't want to break up. Yesterday ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [17 M] girlfriend [17 F] and I have been together for a year, but will be forced to say goodbye. Please help! POST: My girlfriend and I met a year ago and hit it off unbelievably. She is one of the most interesting and fun girls I have ever met in our life. We are both seniors in high school and in 8 months we will be going to different colleges in different states. The inevitable separation is already affecting our relationship. We aren't applying to any of the same schools becau",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [30M] can't control my anger. This week my domestic partner [30F] left me after I did something terrible POST: I've had anger problems for a while. I can't control myself and have treated my domestic partner like shit for a long time. We've been together 3 years and we have a 1 year old child together. This week, I got into an argument with my partner and splashed water on my baby's face. I regretted it instantly. She told me she was leaving. I continued the argument, and told her ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend is using Craigslist and Okcupid to masturbate to... Is this really all he is doing? POST: Boyfriend (m24) and I (f22) have been together for about 4 years. I think has been emailing other women through Craigslist and dating websites because that's how he said he likes to masturbate. Because it feels more 'real'. I saw his OkCupid account two years into our relationship, this has been deleted, but he was still messaging another woman on there too. I forbade it, because I con",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being lazy and liking free things POST: So some back story just got accepted into nursing school to get my bsn and when i was younger i moved a lot (different states). Well the school i got accepted into requires vaccination records and TB test. So after work i went to the health department to see if i could get my vaccinations just to knock them out and not have to get a hold of my old school and then get them to send my records (which were probably out of a date anyways). But when ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (25/f) aunt (55/f) gave me a defective iPhone. How should I approach this? POST: My aunt and I always had a good relationship. I'm on her Verizon plan and we both had an upgrade for an iPhone 6. To clarify, I paid for phone and I pay for my portion of the plan. She is just the account holder. She pays only for hers. She texted me when she got the phone and activated hers. She was going to drop my phone off later that night after she got home from work. She then started texting m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] coworker/close friend [23F] was fired today. How can I support her? POST: My coworker, Kate, was fired today and I need some advice on how to support her. We work on our college campus for a really prestigious program with a Fortune 500 company, for really great pay. The issues that Kate says she was fired for today include her attendance and some security issues. Even though I think Kate goes above and beyond when she can, she definitely had some attendance issues that were",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Can a contract supersede law? Dispute with dog breeder in NY over hip dysplasia. POST: I am taking the dog breeder from whom I purchased my dog to small claims court. I'm suing her for the full purchase price of the dog. Here are the facts - Purchased the dog at 2 months old Severe hip dysplasia discovered at 6 months old (condition found by my vet, confirmed by a hip specialist, and confirmed again by a veterinary radiologist in NYC) The contract I signed with the breeder states tha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [22F] stop being insecure about my boyfriend's [22M] relationship with his ex? POST: My boyfriend Sam and I have only been together for about six months. Prior to me he was in a three year relationship with his now ex-girlfriend, Emma. The major issue that is coming between us is my insecurity about his relationship with his ex. They broke up about a year ago but recently she came back into his life wanting to be friends. I actually suspected she wanted something more and ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: An hour before an earthquake hit my country i dreamt about it, has any one of you have any kind of ""prophetic dreams"" POST: I was asleep and i have this dream about an earthquake hitting my country and it was pretty horrible, my parents and everyone i love died, an hour later (today) i found out that there was actually and earthquake about 5:30am. When i woke up i was pretty scared so i made myself remeber the dream as much as i could and this is what i wrote, as you can see this was at ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [F/20] boyfriend [M/23] lied to me about having a Facebook account POST: My boyfriend lied about it and continually said he never had it on and on again. I ended up finding it a while later. Told him I did and he said he rarely uses it so didn't tell me. However, he had no problem lying to me about it but added random strangers from the internet to speak to just a few days before I found his FB. If he rarely used it, he could have just said that...but why lie and then have no pro",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your opinion of 'contract to hire'? POST: I lost my job a few months back and recently took a contract to hire job that looked somewhat promising. I'd not received any other offers, so I figured I had nothing to lose by accepting, but I'm not sure I like it all that much. Making an hourly wage is certainly more flexible with overtime pay than being a salaried employee, but I don't really like the uncertainty of not knowing whether or not I'll be hired on permanently in 6 months, ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking the bike to the bar POST: I am currently living in Romania as a volunteer (originally Danish). I live with people from all over Europe and this weekend we had guests: some other volunteers also living in Romania. As the young people we are, we were drinking to our friends' arrival to our city and of course we want to go out with them. We decide to take our bikes since the bars are a bit too far away on foot, especially in the Romanian winter. We survive the way to the bar, wit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [m/22] would like to pursue something with a girl [21] that I kind of got set up with over the weekend...any advice for me? POST: So, over the weekend, I attended a wedding with one of my close friends and her boyfriend. Unbeknownst to me, she invited her best friend (whom I had met previously, but never really spent any time with) and we were each others ""dates"". We had a great time at the reception and then spent the rest of the weekend hanging out. It was great because we preven",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[27M] girlfriend[23] wants me to tell her that I love her every 5 minutes. Seems unreasonable to me. POST: There are a few things going on in my relationship with this girl whom I've been dating for a little over a year now, but I wanted to focus on this one thing because I feel like she's being immature. For the past couple of months she will mention how I don't tell her that I love her enough, or show my love for her. It really drives me crazy because I tell her I love her mult",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M/F] with my gf [21 M/F] broke up with her and now I feel terrible, is this normal? POST: I know that sounds dumb, ""well of course you feel terrible"" But we had been going out for 2 years. I broke up with her last night, the reasons being that we were doing different. She just bugged me with a lot of things she said completely against what I believe. I also don't believe I had feelings for her anymore. I described it like ""you're a great girl, you're just not great for me"" and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27M] girlfriend [25F] is having a private stripper at her best friends hens night and it makes me really uncomfortable. POST: We've been together for 5 years, and I trust that she has no bad intentions but with a group of drunk girls in a private apartment and me not knowing what's going on all night, it's going to make me really uncomfortable. I did a bit of online research about what goes on at these parties and it sounds like, unlike at a club, anything could happen. It's her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [21/M] ask my Dad about his Infidelity? POST: For as long as I can remember (I'm 21), my dad has been cheating on my mom, usually with women he met online or through work. My mom knows about it but has never done anything. Never divorced him, barely confronted him, and it's basically the elephant in the room for my family. No one even acknowledges it anymore. Because of this (and the fact that he mostly lost interest in me after age 13), I've always felt a slight distance ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Forever alone redditors, what are some ways to cheer yourself up when you're really feeling down on yourself? POST: Its not anxiety, its not depression, I'm just in a lapse of a moody down (probably PMS). Regaurdless of reason, I have always been forever alone and usually been fine with it. And when I mean always, I mean always. I was that kid who everyone used as a kicking post and was an outcast for some time. Mostly for reasons that I am strange. I was that little girl who would coll",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (21M) Does ""I'm not ready for a relationship"" ever mean anything other than ""I'm just not that into you""? POST: So, a few weeks ago a girl I know (19F) asked for my number through a friend. I've known her family for years and they love me, I came highly recommended. I took her to the movies and we both had a great time. One of her cousins told me that she had basically bragged to her about how perfect it was and how great I treated her. Saw her the next day and things got hot and h",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Landlord - Tenant (Brooklyn, NYC) POST: Ok, so... I made a payment to a previous landlord which cleared the bank on the same day that the new landlord took over ownership. Now the new landlord is petitioning me for non-payment. I have provided proof of payment, and they are in the process of receiving the funds from the previous landlord. They have told me that had they cancelled the case, but it remains open in the courts. To my surprise, after receiving confirmation in an email fro",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girlfriend Can't Decide How Fast She Wants This Relationship To Go. POST: So heres the background of the situation first. I have been dating a girl for 2 months now, and we were best friends for a little under a year before we started going out. I am her first boyfriend, she is my second girlfriend. About a week ago, while watching Balls of Fury and Boondock Saints (She had never seen them before! Women right?) we started to makeout (Ping-pong and irish people get our juices fl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [45 F] with my dad [70 M] Dad has some heafty health issues, I'm sworn to secrecy POST: back story: I am my Dad's step child, he was always my Dad (married my mom when I was 3). Mom and my brother have no contact with him. Mom used parental alienation with my brother and completely ruined any relationship they had. My Dad has been ill. He recently had a stroke and after getting access to his hospital records I know it's worse than just the stroke. He has an aneurism and there wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] preformed a really petty act towards my ex [24m] and I don't even know where to apologise POST: Look I did something bad, and all I need to know is how can I Apologise to my ex max I broke up 3 months ago with max because I was just not feeling it any more. I tried to let him down gently and we kinda stayed on good terms. I would text him every now and then and ask things how his uni course is going. We were talking three week's and he told me he got a new job but it was",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Long-time crush on M29. Do I (f26) message him when I'm in his city? POST: I've know Jim (m29) for years. Our families were friends but we never really spoke much. I always felt so shy and awkward around him because he's so good looking. Or actually, it's not really his looks. It's everything about him. I would find myself getting butterflies just being near him. People would always tell me that we were so similar. That we should date. Jim knew about this too, and I think it made thi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, should I go find a small town in the middle of no where to live in? POST: I just graduated college in an extremely difficult major whilst learning how to cope and manage my anxiety disorder with unsupported parents and siblings who never took stock in me finishing. I'm feeling lost and don't know what to do with myself, and I want to just get in the car and drive until I find a small town in the middle of nowhere to figure out who I am outside of school. It's kind of always be",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is my Halloween costume illegal? POST: Here's my plan: Dress up as a complete gangster; looking thugged out to the max. I'm talking giant chain, fitted hat, and over-sized clothes. I'll rock a shiny red pinky RingPop™. I'll throw on some fresh ass Jordans, and crip walk around with a 40 oz. Here's where it gets sketchy: I want to put flour and oregano in little baggies and hand them to people at parties. For example, when someone asks what I am, I'll respond with ""Yo bi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What pieces of knowledge/secrets have you intentionally kept from somebody for your own amusement? [Possibly NSFW] POST: My best friend had a house party while his brother way away at uni and parents away with work. Events led to me having sex in his brothers in his brothers bed, my best friend knows but for obvious reasons he didn't tell his brother. The funny part is that I didn't change the sheets and the brother came back the next day, potentially sleeping in my semen. The brother se",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I almost got a blowjob, but her mom came. What is the biggest cock-block you have ever experienced? POST: In highschool, I rode the same bus as a cute girl. It was the first day, and she got off at my stop by accident. Being a GGG, I asked her if she wanted to stay at my house until her parents came to pick her up; she agreed. We started to make some conversation on the walk to my house and started to like each other. We get to my house and go into the den. I pop in a movie and we start ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Messaging with my [20M] long-distance girlfriend [18F] of 4 months suddenly feels off and awkward. POST: I met my current girlfriend at a new years eve party I hosted when I was back home for Christmas Break. We were completely inseparable for the rest of the break after that and decided to become an item on the last day before I headed back. Obviously this meant we swapped to chatting over facebook messages and it always felt so so easy and natural. We both expressed that we'd been",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I Have Jealousy Issues POST: I will try and keep this short. I have no idea what to do about it. I am a 25 year old male and I have aways had jealousy issues. Over the tiniest, dumbest things. I have decent looks and have never had any trouble with the ladies, but I have lost many girlfriends due to jealous feelings. My girlfriends have always been attractive, and everywhere we go, people notice. They are always getting looks, compliments, and getting hit on sometimes. I am in a fair",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My boyfriend (18M) always thinks i (18F) is gonna cheat on him :/ POST: I'm his first girlfriend and first love and we've been dating for a few months and I'm crazy about him. He's really insecure that I've dated and had sex with guys in the past and he thinks that I'm way too good and pretty for him (He's also the jealous type). I don't think that at all and i don't even look at other guys but he always makes jokes like ""don't cheat on me"" when we get off the phone or always s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my Boyfriend [28 M] duration 2 years, admitted he is not attracted to me. What do I do? POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for about 2 year, we were friends for 2 years before hand. He has admitted to me that he sometimes wishes he was more attracted to me on a physical level. He said that he thinks I am wonderful girlfriend and that he like exactly who I am, but apparently I am not they type he finds pretty. I'm struggling with where I go from here. I think he ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by Using a Pocket Hose POST: I planted some grass seed last week and had to water it. I also bought a Pocket Hose, because although I am neither 5 nor 75 years old, I *am* a lady who does not enjoy lugging 50 pounds of garden hose around the fucking yard. Judge me. Anyway, I figured this would take all of 5 minutes and since the patch is close to the back door of my house, I didn't bother putting a bra on beneath my white t-shirt. You can all see where this is going, right? I attached ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my GF [21 F] 3 years, I'm wondering how much arguing is ""normal"" POST: Using a throwaway as I have a few friends who use Reddit and know my username. A little backstory: Me and my GF have been dating for nearly 3 years straight out of secondary school (high school). We're both in our first serious relationship. Things started off great and even up until now I love how weird and how similar we are (our friends often say we're the same person). Over the last year or ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] broke up with my GF [23 F] of 6 months because of health and family issues POST: Me [23 M] broke up with my GF [23 F] of 6 months, because she has epilepsy and it got to the point where we couldnt go out at night for fear of her having an episode which has happened a few times when police and paramedics had to get involved. She also has a horrible relationship with her mother whom she lives with and her father lives far away due to his job. Every week she is threatened w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [27 M] with my FWB(?) [23 F] 1 month, suddenly she's really withdrawn and icy POST: Not exactly a world shattering issue here, but I would like some advice: I met a girl on tinder, and there was instantly crazy sexual energy between us. We met almost immediately after chatting and, well, yeah. It was amazing. We kept it going for a while, and started hanging out a little bit. We realized we kind of don't have that much in common (but still have fun chatting), and time in the bedroo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [22M] stay in South America with my girlfriend? [21F] POST: Been a lurker here forever and have found tons of useful advice but I'm in a bit of a specific crossroads right now and would really appreciate some outside input. My girlfriend and I both live in San Francisco but for the past 3 months she's been living in Bogota teaching English at the local schools while I stayed with my parents at home raising money for college next semester. I just came to visit her two weeks ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24/F] my partner [24/M] bullies and teases me, I get upset, calls me moody and won't apologise POST: So we've been in this relationship for almost 2 years now. We've been happy, I love him and he loves me, but recently things are opening up to me. He's very sarcastic, and can come across as rude to people. He's quite arrogant about this though and doesn't care. Me on the other hand, I find it funny, but am more attentive to empathy and realise his jokes can sometimes be hurtfu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [18M]. Best friends [18M/F] just started dating and I'm afraid the girl might be crazy. Pt.2 POST: [Part one]( Ok so this will be more brief than pt 1. Basically at this point they've been on three dates total. Alicia told Gavin, completely seriously, that she loves him after a group hangout yesterday. Gavin said he said he loved her too because it would be awkward if he didn't say it. His logic right now is that he really likes her anyway and he'll love her eventually. Oh yeah,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: So I (20m) went on a date with a girl (20f) and it went kinda meh but I'm still interested. POST: Okay so yesterday I went on a second date with a girl and it was going good at first but then I got too in my head and things started going downhill and the conversation started dying. The thing is the first date went well. I mainly blame it on the fact that I don't do well in a restaurant setting and would rather just hang out instead, but now I think my chances might be screwed. I want",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] get a renewed crush on my best friend [19M] for about a month after I see him every time I see him. POST: Title pretty much says it. We've been really good friends for 4 or so years now. We went to different but nearby highschools and go to different colleges that are about 3 hours away now so we've never gotten to see eachother very frequently. Every time I see him in person though, for about a month after I just cant stop thinking about him. I'm terrified of doing anything ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [19F] know if it was just a one night stand with him [19M] or if it is going to happen again? POST: Hey /r/relationships! On Friday I hooked up with a kid I had been talking to on Tinder a few months ago. We matched while home for the summer, found out we went to the same school, and ended up looking forward to finally hooking up when back at school. So that happened on Friday - I texted him because of that old liquid courage and because he had texted me the time before (I",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Update 2 to ""strange comment"". Is she still interested? POST: See original posts [here] and [here]( As per the kindly recommendations of the folks here I've since charged on forward and asked her out to an after work dinner. Nothing expensive, just tasty ethnic food near our workplace that she was interested in trying after I mentioned it. I figured a short meal would allow us to at least have a conversation rather than the 5 minutes after yoga last time. The problem is I asked her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] dumped by my ex [25F]. She's now back with her ex. They were talking whilst we were together, do I have the right to be furious/feel betrayed? My judgement is clouded. POST: Hi guys, I've had a lot of issues with this break up, it was 10 months ago and I'm still struggling big time, but there's been a piece of big news I found out today and I want some outsiders opinions on it. On a few occasions whilst I was with my ex I found out she was still talking to her ex, nothing s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to talk to my (22/F) mother about spending Dec. 24th with boyfriend's (23/M) family. POST: My boyfriend (23/M) and I (22/F) have been dating for over three years and both celebrate Christmas. In the past, we've been in college and just went to our own homes for holidays. Now, with working schedules, he has Wednesdays and Thursdays off instead of a typical weekend, meaning he has December 24th and 25th off this year. He has expressed interest in moving his Christmas celebration",positive " r/relationships TITLE: A guy (20s-ish? m) requested to follow me (24f) on Instagram & I'm afraid he's preying on a girl he follows (11-ish? f) POST: So, this might be kind of weird but I would feel bad not inquiring what to do in this kind of situation. I have a private Instagram account for my friends. It's purely for people I know. Occasionally I get random follower requests but I always deny them. I got one last night from a name I didn't recognize. Looking at the pics on his account, I thought he was",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24F] boyfriend [23M] of 6 months has hundreds of ""sexy"" pics of Facebook friends on his computer that he masturbates to... POST: Hi all, I [24F] have been dating my boyfriend [23M] for around 6 months, and I am a little bit disturbed by some of his masturbation habits. I personally have nothing against masturbation to porn - I think that it's normal to be attracted to other people even while in a relationship, and I understand that masturbation can sometimes feel refreshing w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is my boss on drugs? POST: I recently started working at a company as a trainee. During my first day, my boss made several jokes and had a very bold personality. It seemed like he wasn't afraid to make any joke in front of anyone. While going out for field work he was extremely attentive and descriptive about everything related to the job (I expected such as he is a master of his job). As the week progressed I started to notice that he frequently left to go to the bathroom while he was ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Not sure if this guy (22m) likes me (21f) or what to do.... POST: He hasn't had a girlfriend since high school (we are upperclassmen in college). I know he's kind of shy and awkward. Anyways when we hang out with our friends we flirt a lot. I lean on him and he doesn't move. One time at the bar I think he awkwardly tried to pay for my drink (he put money in my face). He was flirting with me hardcore a week ago. Just childish things like throwing things at me and playing with my",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Feeling rather helpless... [22M] POST: About 6 months ago me and my girlfriend broke up of 7.5 years about. Wouldve been 8 in april. Met a new girl [23F] (I am the kind to fall for girls quick. Me and my girl broke up before for a bit and again I found another girl prior. This was about 3 years ago but that is besides the point.) Okay so I met a new girl who had also broken up with her boyfriend. But she is getting back with him. I just feel helpless because every girl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my crush [20F] who's dating a friend of mine; I have feelings but don't know what to do. POST: Hi everyone, This is an alt account as my crush is also a redditor and I would like to stay anonymous. So I've become friends for a few months with this girl, and was going to ask her out but on the same day I learned she was dating a friend of mine. Thing is, I see her regurlarly, she's a great person and we have a lot of fun. But I just can't repress these feelings I hav",positive " r/jobs TITLE: A few questions about a promotion POST: Hi r/jobs, I'm lucky enough to be facing a promotion within the next couple of months. The new role is reporting directly to someone that I've only really been ""dotted-lined"" to so far and I have a few questions/concerns. 1.) I want to ask for a raise. I feel good about the money I'm making now, but a promotion is always a good time to ask and my company, as a startup is very structured about regular periods for review and raises. **How do I go about ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M Recovering Narcissist] Bought a Xmas Gift for a [22 F] I've Been Seeing [1 Month]. Not Sure if I Should Give It to Her POST: I've been seeing this girl pretty often for the past month. We have a lot in common and after we both opened up to each other last night, I decided to buy her a little gift this morning. She likes coffee and I bought her a $10 K Cup refill pack. I thought it would be nice, but nothing over the top. However, I do believe that she didn't buy me anything f",negative " r/travel TITLE: How substantial is the difference between American and Lufthansa? POST: Booking a transatlantic flight (US to Germany) and have a choice between almost identical direct flights from American or Lufthansa. The American flight is slightly cheaper (I think about equal if we buy wifi on AA; free on LH), and slightly better timed, but the difference is so minor I'd consider going Lufthansa if it would be a better experience. Both allow one free checked bag. Is the difference substantial for an u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (17) got my girlfriend (18) pregnant, how do I tell my parents? POST: I'll try to make this quick. I am currently 17 years old about to be 18 in a couple months. I got my girlfriend pregnant a few weeks ago because the condom broke and after some discussion we have decided to keep it. I'm both excited and scared right now because of many things like how my family will react, and both of our futures because we're both headed off to college next fall. I'm not sure how I should break ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26F] Need to Breakup with my BF [25M] But Can't Physically Do it POST: I haven't been able to see my bf in about 12 weeks now, despite living only 10 minutes away from each other. Here's the list of reason he gave me - friends from out of town visited x 2 - sick x 2 - too busy with work - cell phone died - no response x 4 - grandma's birthday We've only dated for a year. He's usually too busy so we only hangout once a week when we first started to now 12 weeks and counting. We us",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] Have never felt jealous or really cared in the slightest about my past or current SO's interacting with any men, in any setting, with or without me around. Am I weird? POST: The story starts a few years ago when I realised I didn't care about these things that other people seem to care about. My ex SO went to visit her ex before me, and told her friends about it, she was probably excited to see him or something. They responded questioningly like ""ohhh, is that cool? Shoul",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 29M with my wife 27F togeter 11 years Married 5. I have been cheated on twice now. POST: So we started dating in high school. We moved in together right out of high school and have been living together for about 10 years. Two years ago we picked up and moved to a new city to explore new and exciting things. I felt like things were going great. But about a 6 months ago she started surrounding herself with guy friends and acting distant. About 3 weeks ago she drops the bombshel",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: 2-YO Bernese getting non-aggressively territorial over pregnant lady(me) POST: Just looking for a little management advice here. As in the title, our(spayed, female) 2-year-old Bernese Mountain Dog is getting a little territorial of me, especially in regards to my husband. She's not aggressive about it(no growling or aggressive posture etc), but she tries to push in between hubs and I or push him away if he and I hug or cuddle without her. I'm 28 weeks pregnant, but I'm also unemployed",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by doing the right thing. POST: * TL;DR: ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by accidentally eating a pot edible POST: So this actually happened yesterday, but its still a fuck up. Anyway, its Friday, the day before Valentine's day, and I'm at school (highschool softmore). Everyone brought their treats and stuff to school, I got some of the basics: a couple of cookies, some brownies, and some candy stuff. Anyways, it all went bad when I got a brownie from one of my friends. I mean, I knew he smoked pot but it was whatever, I didn't think he'd bring any to school.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My girlfriend has a BA in political science but knows nothing/is not interested in politics at all. What are some options for career paths? POST: I want to help my girlfriend find employment so bad. The problem is, she doesn't have a ""dream career"" or anything like that. She went to college without any real direction. She just thought it was the next thing your supposed to do after you go to high school. With no real goal in mind, she picked political science as a major after her academi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Looking for a second opinion in my situation. POST: After a long year going about my own life in an okay way,i recently found myself reunited with a friend i was really close with on a personal level and for the most part was in love with. although i was essentially friend-zoned most of the time a year ago She did make me aware that she did love me, but i was a different person then and completely drug fueled. After a while of back and forth problems with people coming between us a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [16M] have trouble letting go of my ex[16] after she is recently contacting me after 2 months of silence POST: Hi kind of shy posting here but ehm so i met this girl online about 8 months ago it was the sister of a friend of mine but we immediatly had everything going for us and about a month later we were in a relationship i loved here more than what ever at that point but things started to look bad her mom has a depression so she isn't really happy mostly angry at my ex because s",positive " r/loseit TITLE: I've been on a plateau for a year, and today I had the epiphany as to why. Time to make a change! POST: When I first started losing, I would give myself rewards for hitting big goals, such as ""Oh hey girl you lost 10 pounds! Have a cookie."" and other things like that, allowing myself to splurge on a semi-regular basis. After a successful year of weight loss, I've been maintaining my current weight for the last year. That's not bad, because maintaining is certainly better than gaining back,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [F18] reach out to my ex-best friend [M18], despite him having past feelings for me and now being in a relationship? POST: I want to keep this relativity short. Me and my ex-best friend haven't spoken in over 6 months. Almost everyday I think about how close we were and it really upsets me we have grown so much apart. Our friendship ended because of numerous things. Firstly because he liked me and I rejected him twice. I then began a romantic relationship with someone else.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Childhood friend [F25] wanted a closer relationship with me [M24] but now is backing off. Help. POST: So we've known each other since 2nd grade. Lost contact after 5th. Found each other around 16-17, she went off to college and we started to Skype and show body parts. We became a couple shortly before that. She came back down about a year later and ended up being with another guy. He treated her bad and eventually after some years she finally ended it. It's been almost a year since ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Wise or not for me [19/M] to tell a girl [19/F] this? POST: So this girl that that I've been friends with for over a year, recently told me she likes me - and it's really clear she does. We've also agreed on a date soon. But she needs some time to sort out her emotions because she still has a few feelings for her long distance (overseas) ex-bf. Although she did say she liked me, I'm worried she might intentionally or unintentionally string me along and later decide she wants to try",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] Mom [45F] refuses to stop opening my mail. Am I being unreasonable/disrespectful? POST: As the title says, I [22f] can't get my mom [44f] to stop opening my mail. Duration of relationship is ~22years... I do not live with her anymore, I live about an hour away and I'm still in school. I often use her address for my more important information since it is more likely to stay the same and I don't want my mail floating around to strangers at my old addresses. She checked the ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 F] and my boyfriend [18 M] of 8 months just broke up and I am having issues coping POST: Things for the past few weeks have been really rough on us. Basically we don't have time for each other and are going to have conflicting lifestyles. Thing is we're still in love but did the responsible thing of breaking up. He's my best friend and I love him so much. We just couldn't be okay together and i understand that. I tried so hard to make things work but they just wouldn't. I'm ",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Nothing like being asked ""why"" you're getting married.. (vent...) POST: I've been with my FH for a little over two years, and when we get married we will have been engaged for 2 days short of two years (we seriously knew we would get married within days of beginning to date- we are perfect for each other) and while my father's side of my family (parents are divorced) have been super supportive and are helping with the whole shindig, and his family is super happy for us and so suppo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[18M] is bothered by my girlfriends[21] sexual fantasy. POST: Now, her and I have only been together for about 5 months, but we've gotten extremely close. I do have some insecurity issues that I'm working on and I trust her. Although last night she said something that really bothered me. We got on the topic of sexual kinks and fetishes and it has always been hers to sleep with a married man. Because in her eyes she grew up with sex being very taboo and she loves the forbidden rush ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] kissed a Friend [24 F] who's in a relationship, now she won't talk or even look at me. POST: I have feelings for her, but at the same time she's one of my best friends. She has gotten herself recently in a long-distance relationship and I told her I had feelings for her. She said she was confused, and that she wanted to be faithful. I agreed. A week later we were talking and she explained why she chose him. I was a bit tired of the situation, so when we went to hug and say",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, how do you think I should deal with my blackmail situation? POST: Hey there guys and gals. Unfortunately, I was tricked by one of my ""friends"" into sending him a nude photo of myself (although, my face isn't in the picture). How did he do it? By masquerading as an alluring female. Was it stupid of me to fall for such a poorly executed ruse? Yes. Anyways, he recently tried to trick me again. I called him out on it privately and asked for an apology. He indeed apologized, but",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need help convincing my parents to go my first ever (real) party! POST: I'm going to be graduating high school next friday (the 27th) and there is a party right after at somebody's house. Problem is, my mom set up something the same day with family even though we're going to have another family party the next day! She makes me feel guilty by telling me that the family is there for me and I won't be there... but I feel like i'll regret not going to the final shabang, you know? Also I'm 19",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Good, free, DVD Ripping software? POST: I have a tonne of DVDs that I'd love to have on my netbook (which doesn't have a disc drive). I have a high-performance, desktop I can use to rip all DVDs but am coming a bit unstuck finding a good bit of software to use to rip them. I found one but it always rips the sound and video into different folders and, when I finally managed to stop it doing that, it kept splitting the files into chapters. All I want is disc in > press ""rip"" > wait > ri",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I've cried myself to sleep every night for the last three weeks. Please tell me this will get better. POST: My (ex)boyfriend of over two years (21) broke up with me (22F) about three weeks ago. I have been trying to stay as busy as possible, but there are still those quiet moments when I can't help but think about him. Late at night after I go to bed, when I listen to my iPod and something by Minus the Bear or The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus comes on, when I'm getting dressed and see a tshirt ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my ex-gf [19F] 7 months since breakup, just a bit of a rant. POST: Okay! So..my ex girlfriend broke up with me TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (M/27) girlfriend (F/27) of 3 years doesn't want to have sex until she ""knows I am committed to us forever."" I'm truly not sure if I will ever have that outlook. POST: Title hopefully explains it all, but to expand: We both love each other a lot (she is actually quite crazy about me, I love her deeply but I wouldn't describe it as ""crazy about her"" like newlyweds or like the first few months of a new relationship). She feels she has already compromised her beliefs in some areas (",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [41 M] with my ex [34F] of 7 years, 3 children, messy split 1.5 years ago after she physically attacked me. Spending a weekend together for daughter, need advice POST: We're attending an event for our daughter (5) that is a 4 hour car ride away. We will be driving together, and also staying in a hotel together, and I'm looking for some advice on how to prepare for it. Backstory - ex was charged with domestic assault after she attacked me about 1.5 years ago. We split up, she mov",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Rise and Shine POST: For a little background, I just finished my first semester of college. In my first semester, I was in the university marching band, which meant not a lot of free time and very little sleep on Friday nights/Saturday mornings. My roommate was not in the marching band, so understandably, he would go out and have fun. This however meant that he would be back when I would get little sleep as it is. At first I asked that he either come back earlier, or find another plac",negative " r/loseit TITLE: What A Week! POST: This is my first week being serious about counting calories, exercising, and have good general health. I am 27/F/257.5 lbs. I have had some bumps in the road and have decided that for my new years resolution that 2014 would be about me. I am a stay at home mom and my life rotates around my family. I decided that I need to take care of myself. I used my fitness pal and have been tracking around 1200 calories daily and drinking 128 oz of water. No pop, and no shit ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I (24/M) get my parents (40sM/F) to stop babying me? POST: Hi all, My parents have always been very overprotective of me ever since i was born. I am the oldest, yet I don't ever recall them being overtly overprotective of my younger siblings. Yes, I am still living at home and I do work as a tutor for a small tutoring organization. I very much feel like every decision I make about my personal life will be met with critique from my parents and them telling me that I am doi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Social questions in EMT class. POST: I am taking an EMT course this summer. We are assigned groups to work in. My new group is comprised of three individuals in the 20-23 age range. The fourth is a woman in her 40s and I just turned 27 this summer. I find it somewhat difficult to relate to the three students, two of which are extremely extroverted individuals who do the majority of the speaking. One seems to always want to ""one-up"" the teacher and add something he knows due to",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by melting plastic. POST: So I was ironing a shirt I needed to be a part of a crew for a show tonight. I put the iron down on a plastic drawer thing I have for no more than five seconds as I smoothed out the shirt. I take it off and then notice the goo coming up. I panic and try to clean it. Its hard, some of it gets on my bed and now I'm in full panic mode. I also need to get to close in twenty minutes and I haven't showered. So, in panic mode, I try to iron again...not noticing the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[21 F] not sure if I love my bf [22 M] anymore, and I think I may be pregnant and he wouldn't be the father POST: So I just reunited with my boyfriend two weeks ago, because he was doing an MD/PhD prep summer program, so we hadn't seen each other in three months. During those three months, we wrote love letters, skyped, called, etc. We were still in love. Everything was amazing before he left for his program. Now, when we first see each other two weeks ago, I just don't really f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20M) am having some serious intimacy issues with my girlfriend (18F) of 1 year. POST: So to start this off, me and my girlfriend have lived together for the majority of our relationship. We had started dating for a few months while I worked out of town and we quickly fell and decided that we would live together near where I was working out of town. We moved provinces together and have been through absolutely almost everything a couple of 5+ years experiences compressed into just 1",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[22 M] am with my GF [22F] of 4 years, she has a driver's exam coming and I want to help her cope with stress. POST: My gf is a wonderful human being who has but few flaws. One of them is coping with stress. She's been trying to get her driver's licence recently and it means A LOT to her. I believe the feeling of achievment she would get from that would help her prep for upcoming exams we need to take in order to get in to college. She has, though, a crippling fear of failure(someti",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I (24F) get a gift for my bf (29) on valentine's day when I know he probably won't get me one? If so, what could I get that won't make him feel guilty about not getting me one? POST: My boyfriend is focused on leaving for Australia on Valentine's Day, and I will be dropping him off at the airport. I will be meeting him in Fiji two weeks after that, but until then I am trying to decide if I should get him anything for Valentine's Day, considering he probably is too busy t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20m][19f] does this have any potential or am I reading signals wrong? POST: let's cut to the chase. 20m. 18f. known each other for about 3 weeks, met through a good mutual friend. we spent last week hanging out (for almost the entire weekend) with the mutual friend (who has his own female interests). had a fairly instant crush on her - sassy, mature, smart, driven. had sassy/flirty conversation the whole time, although it was all fairly innocuous and PG-rated. i asked her out at th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [28/F] offer to bow out of my [28/F] friend's wedding? POST: I'll keep this short. This girl and I were very close for several years. Since college, we have hugely drifted apart. I speak to her once every few months. I wasn't surprised to be asked to be a bridesmaid as we had discussed it many times in the past. I did feel somewhat guilty to be taking a spot in the party as we are no longer close, and she has taken her finances friends on as her new best friends. Those girl",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How does she feel about me? POST: So I've known this girl for 5years now, since grade 5. I never really had feelings for her or really ever talked to her until around late last year. This year all of that has changed. We were assigned the same class and have been talking more often. Now that I am actually getting to know her better, I'm starting to see what a great personality lays inside of her. The problem is I don't know how she feels about me. I can't tell if she has any feelings ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: She [26F] says she can't give 100% of herself to me [27M] yet. POST: She's one of those girls who have been hurt a lot in the past. Her previous boyfriends treated her like shit, except for her first boyfriend whom she loved. We've been together for 7 months now, and in all of that time I could feel that she isn't giving herself to me totally... unlike me. I give her my everything and she knows it. She does things that she wouldn't do if she loved me completely. Anyway, I talked to",positive " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Relatively new rescue is bored and being destructive POST: Hi, Our dog Jack is a 2.5 yr old german shepherd mix. We rescued him about 5 weeks ago. He's a super sweet dog and is incredibly well behaved ""out of the box"". His only real issue has been some recent chewing on the house (!) while my boyfriend and I are at work. Up until this week, he's had free range of the laundry room (where his crate is) and large backyard via a dog door. Last Monday, he chewed a little on the back d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO (M27) says I'm (F26) unemotional, cold POST: Background: in high school, I was incredibly emotional with the guys I dated. In college, I was in a LDR and he cheated on me. This is the first relationship since then (6 years), though I've had a few hook ups in between. In the car, he will make a random comment or statement that seem to have more to them (making a comment about a passing car, something he did at work, whatever), so I'll make a noise or comment that I'm listenin",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU and might not graduate on time POST: I am on track to graduate from my university in may 2013. But because I fucked up, I might not quite get there. Over the summer I took two computer science electives. They were both 400 level classes but the material wasn't too bad. What really made these classes easy was the professor. I had the same prof for both classes. This guy can be a boring lecturer, but he couldn't possibly be any easier. All his notes are simply plaintext and available onli",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [25F] is asking me [27M] for nudes but I don't want to send her any because I'm self conscious. POST: Hello there fellow redditors, throwaway account here, just looking for some advice. My SO has been asking me for nudes lately and I don't know how else I can say no to her aside from saying ""no, I don't feel comfortable"". She usually fires back with ""but I don't understand why you can't do it, you're a guy! All my exes have done it"", ""we've been dating for a while now ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How to show my ex of 3 years(m22) I've (f22) really changed and am sorry? I'm really serious about making this work. POST: How can I prove to my ex bf who I dated for 3 years that I am really going to change this time? Ultimately I know that it is his decision to get back together, and I am prepared either way. However, I really think he is the one for me so I am not about to give up. Unfortunately I have really messed things up. I have been the terrible gf that takes everythi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [21 F] of 5 years with a 2 year break in the middle, we have nothing in common. POST: Started in high school into the beginning of college then we broke up because she started to become the typical jealous girlfriend. She wasn't like that before and how jealous and clingy she got was a major turn off so eventually i got fed up with it and broke it off. We kept in touch and we would hook up. She got a boyfriend and we kept hooking up then they were having",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (18F) am confused about my relationship with him (20M). POST: I (18F) met this guy (20M) during a night out and have been seeing him since then. When we're meeting its pretty much about just one thing, but there are also some confusing signs he wants more, isn't sure what he wants or is just using me as a replacement for someone else. As an example, he gets very touchy, always tries to kiss me goodbye and is very gentle from time to time. He also puts a great effort in telling me ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to the restroom at night POST: Alright, so this happened last night. I was sleeping like a regular person until I wake up to my stomach in intense pain. Whatever, it's probably the ramen I ate sometime ago, I'll just sleep it off. Then it starts growling and I get that feeling that it's probably a good idea to go to the restroom at that point. As I got out of bed, I felt the need to fart, except I know better that it's not just fart that would come out if I let it out. I stumble",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 26F was seeing a guy 23M and he stopped talking to me. Would like some advice to help me figure out why. POST: I started working at a new company in October of last year. It was an exciting time in my life because I had just started living on my own (after a long term relationship), I had a new job that paid more than I had ever made, and I was actually content with my life and not dating anyone. I made friends with a few people in the new company right away. One of which was a ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is there any way (good) way to tell someone that you've gone out with a few times that you're already casually seeing someone, but would be willing to stop (without sounding like a weirdo or needy)? POST: So I honestly don't know how this got to be my life, but here I am: I've been dating someone for ~3-4 months. I'd say she's considerably more into me than I am into her, but I've made myself very clear that while I like her, I'm just not interested in a real romantic relationship wi",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: How to know if a girl I just met is interested in me as a friend or interested in more? POST: i'm 21 and a male. So i went to a football game with some friends a couple of days ago. One of our female friends brought her friend along and it was the first time we had met. i think we really hit it off and got along really well. We all went out for lunch yesterday and she was there again. we talked more and we have quite a bit in common. Now we have been texting eachother for a bit, a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] had one date with a woman [20 F] I've been interested in, and my habit of over thinking is killing me. POST: So I am in college and met this girl a few months ago and was immediately interested. After seeing her a couple more times, not having the chance to get her number, I chatted her up on FB and got it. I had no clue if she'd be interested, but I had lunch with her and asked her out to dinner, and she obliged. She seemed to enjoy all of our conversation at dinner, and a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my boyfriend [20 M] been together for nearly 2 months, how do I tell if he's actually interested POST: So bare with me, this is my very first relationship and I'm sort of dealing with everything all at once. I met this super amazing guy and we have the greatest times together when we hang out, like two to three times a week. I feel like things are going awesome and he says he's interested in something longer term like me. My only concern is his lack of messaging me",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My girlfriend's boss is a cheat. POST: My girlfriend works at a bar here in The Chicagoland area and her boss is shady as hell. My girlfriend works her ass off and is a student at our local community college. This is all just background info. So, last week she got her paycheck. On the paycheck her boss, the owner of the bar, put that she made $462 in tips, she didn't make nearly that. My girlfriend only made about $100 in tips. I have told my girlfriend that she Has to talk to her boss a",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Two jobs: How the heck do you feed yourself? POST: Hey everyone. I have recently started a second job, and for the most part I haven't been doing too bad with staying on track. However, two days a week, I get off at one an hour before I have to be in the other. It's a half hour drive, plus about twenty minutes of getting out of the building at one and getting into the building at the other, which only leaves me enough time for total crap. My morning job does not have a shift long enough to ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by doing oral-sex with my girlfriend POST: My SO and me are together for like 1 year now, she wanted to do everything slow (on sexual stuff and such) and because I really love her, I was okay with waiting that long. It was hard for me, since i've slept with 4 other woman in the last 5 years, It was hard to let it take so long. So last week we finally decided to start doing some more stuff, it was all fucking sexy and more lovely then I've dreamed off, she was really into it, and we were",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19f] just recently found out I'm pregnant, now the father[19m] is saying he wants to join the military POST: We have been together on and off for over a year, and I found out I was 6 weeks pregnant a little less than a month after our most recent breakup. When I told him about the pregnancy, he was shocked of course but eventually he told me that he wanted to raise the baby with me, instead of putting it up for adoption, like I suggested. This was about 2 weeks ago. Now, he's say",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] fear I no longer love my boyfriend [20 M] of 1 year, despite him being amazing. POST: This last year has been rough on me. I had an health issue that got me very depressed and even lead to some physical pain. My boyfriend, to whom I can point no faults, was always there for me. Hearing every complaint, always comforting me in every way. He can be a little too rational sometimes, but his love for me makes his emotional side stand out as well. He has almost no faults / they're ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the proper way to introduce yourself to a new neighbor? POST: I love being friends with all of my neighbors. In the old neighborhood I lived in I knew everyone! Now I moved into a new neighborhood and I moved into one of the first houses to be built. Now that a few houses have gone up and new people have moved in, I would like to get to know them. In particular I would like to meet the people who moved in directly next to me. They seem like a nice family plus they have a daughter",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By getting drunk while my roommate and I are in a prank war. POST: This prank war has been perfect. Nothing has been seriously damaged and there are no injuries so far. My last prank was a little mean; I put a mouse trap in his protein powder jug. When he stuck his hand in the jug I heard the snap upstairs. He had just stolen all my lightbulbs, so I wanted to be mean. So last night I drank too much. I work at a bar, so Sunday and Monday nights I go out because I work every other night ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: An Idea: How to Protect OC on Reddit from being copied without citation POST: Many redditors have been complaining concerning people and organizations in the public eye taking things from reddit and explicitly or implicitly passing it as their own. It's always amazed me that reddit is such a large community but seems to have no influence regarding protection of their own property and creations. My idea was to have a modification with every post that gave you the option of marking whether",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My mother [52F] just found evidence of my father [55M] cheating, she feels devastated POST: To give this some background, they've been together for over 25 years, there were ups and downs but they always made it work. She has no intention of filing a divorce, but rather she wants to use the opportunity to speak to him and potentially make the relationship better. They've been long distance for the past five years because my father works elsewhere, so my mom feels that she understands",positive " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Advice on working dog up to hanging out in the house alone? POST: Hello /r/dogtraining I'm a recent college graduate, dog mom and soon-to-be working professional. While I don't start my full-time job until the first week of September, I'd like to be able to eventually leave my dog Leo (6 month old mini Australian Shepherd) alone at home during the day, without being crated. Does anyone have experience working up to a daily routine like this? I'm currently free all day until I start my ",positive " r/self TITLE: I don't know how to tell my boyfriend that I know. POST: So tonight I was at my boyfriends apartment. We are both in college. We were hanging out, dancing, making pizza. We watched a scary movie. Made out. Said we loved each other. Poured a few drinks. The normal night. But as we were falling asleep, he told me that he felt insecure because he felt I was too pretty and too smart for him. He's not exactly closed off, but I felt like it was a big break in our relationship. He fell asleep. I did",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend [M 17] isn't giving the whole story about my [M 17] girlfriend [F 17], or my girlfriend manufactured a memory POST: My girlfriend of two and a half months (who I'll refer to as C) and my aforementioned friend (M) previously dated, and C told me that they kissed. However, she also admitted that she didn't remember the actual event, but she ""knows"" that it happened. This has been her only kiss so far. M and I were talking about kissing experiences (I have none, he participate",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ladies of Reddit, serious question: I'm afraid I am friendzoning one of my female friends. Does that make me a dick? POST: Story time! I'm 23 and I've been working at a restaurant for about a year. The girl in question, who is 20 now, got hired at the same time as I was and we've become pretty good friends since then. I honestly feel like she is one of the few people at work that I consider to be a friend. We goof off a lot at work with eachother, and that usually involved some light fl",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am sick of coasting through the system. How do I beat it? POST: So I take myself to be a reasonably intelligent person, but the issue is school doesn't interest me at all. I love learning with a passion, but the only thing school has taught me is how to manipulate the system and coast. My problem is something that happened freshman year of highschool really just took all of my drive to try to put up with all this busy work bullshit. But if I don't pretend like I agree with this shitty ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Im [36 M] finding it difficult to talk to my LDR gf[30 F] of 6 months POST: So, we've been dating for about 6 months long distance. At first it was all super cool, lots of talking, lots and affection etc She has had some health issues which have messed her up quite a bit emotionally and she is super stressed out with work. Her 'go-to' response seems to be putting up walls and not communicating, I try and talk to her but it never seems to go anywhere. She gets angry and frustrated wi",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Doggit, my dog has changed (for the better)? POST: Hi, guys. I have an unusual question about my husky/lab mix, who turned one year last month. In the past few months, she was really testing our patience as an adolescent pup. She is well-exercised, but she would not allow my boyfriend and I to be in the same room, basically. If we were both sitting on the couch, she would bark at us incessantly and never do a command -- even ones she knows well and would do otherwise. She has always had a pr",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Need some advice on an employment issue please and thanks. North Carolina. POST: OK, so I got hired (N. Carolina) at a new restaurant in a newly renovated and recently branded hotel back in the middle of October. I was hired as a waiter full time, that's what I signed for and talked about with the GM of the hotel. However, over the last two months I have not recieved more than about 15 hours a week on the schedule and when I brought it up they simply said that they didn't have enough ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it rude/inappropriate/stupid to speak broken Spanish to people who obviously speak Spanish? POST: I recently moved to Los Angeles from Oregon, which means that I interact with a lot more Spanish-speaking people (mostly Mexicans) than I ever have before. I took two years of Spanish in undergrad, so I can string together a few basic sentences, but nothing very intricate, and I have trouble understanding native speakers talking at full speed. Sometimes we play soccer at a nearby park, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my ex[24 M] broke up after 14 mo., 5 days later he is dating the girl he cheated on me with. how do I not care? POST: We had a long history of friendship and both made the leap to start dating last year. There were many bumps because we both brought in past rel. baggage and each have our own minor-moderate, chronic mental health struggles. We could support each other but we also brought each other down. Despite our challenges, we each felt a deep connection and similar ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by vacuuming and cleaning the doormats POST: Happened minutes ago.. Backstory: I live with my GF in an apartment bloc. Every apartment in our particular bloc have small balconies. Our next door neighbors are two girls a and guy, they've lived there for about two months and we don't know them at all. So today we decided to clean our apartment. We planned it so the last thing we would have to clean was the entrance. It's spring and the weather is finally starting to turn where I live (c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[23M] with my father [60M] several years, relationship with older brother POST: I'm the younger brother. My older brother from my Dad's first marriage (he's now 35, has kids, etc.) lived with my Dad and me for a short time. I just graduated college and came home to live with my folks while searching for a job. They rearranged some furniture and while putting away my clothes in a cabinet in my room, I came across a series of letters written between my brother and my Dad. I knew they",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] am currently dating a girl [17 F], and she has a boyfriend. POST: Alright, so I met a girl in college last semester, started to really talk to her in early December. I realize that we both like each others, we talk a lot more (mid December) We keep talking, and then she mentions that she has a boyfriend. I'm kinda pissed, but I'm telling myself ""I didn't spend a whole month talking to this girl for no reason. It's not because there's a goalie that I can't score."" (",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (30/m) need advice on how to explain my mother that my girlfriend (29/f) and I will be visiting her for only few days? POST: My girlfriend who is about to start last year of master program at university a few states away is coming to visit me. We'll be going to have her meet my family. The problem is, my mom know she will be with me for two weeks, and is really expecting to see us a lot. The reality is, she would make us sleep apart (she firmly believe that a unmarried couple",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what should I do about a slacking co-worker? POST: I'll try to keep it short but ... eh who am I kidding. Basically my co-workers' work ethic has been waning. It started shortly after she returned from vacation but that was close to 2 months ago now. We are supposed to share responsibilities such as answering the phone, handling clients, taking tours of the building (we lease high end rentals), and other mundane office tasks. The objective of any rental property is to keep it oc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] screwed up at my 21st, not sure how to tell my girlfriend [20 F]. POST: I've been in a LDR with my girlfriend for a bit over a year. We're very happy together and I'd never even entertain the idea of cheating on her, or at least that's what I used to think. Last night was my 21st birthday and unfortunately due to work commitments she couldn't come (she came up earlier instead when she could get time off of work). Now I'm not the biggest drinker, mainly because I don't enjoy",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28/F] with my bf [32M] of almost 2 years, accused me of cheating and I think I fell out of love and don't know how to get it back POST: My bf and I have had the most amazing relationship up until about a month ago. I had never been happier, things were easy and happy. Until I left for a few weeks for work. While I was gone, we had a communication issue. I could not talk on the phone often and all I really had was texting, so that was what i did. He would rarely respond to me so I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [m27] boyfriend [m26] of 7 months has been acting mean after I had my hair dyed. POST: So my sister is a hairdresser and lives in another country. Recently she has been visiting the country where I live. When I see her, I always have her do my hair. This summer I decided to try something really different and dyed it blonde. It's not platinum blond, but quite a bit lighter than what I normally have. However, it's not bright yellow either. My sister did a really good job on achievi",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My FWB [19/m] wants to be around for moments in my life [19/f] where I'm vulnerable. POST: So I've started to have FWB with a friend from freshmen year of college about a month ago. We had a slight thing at the end of freshmen year, but it never went anywhere because we lived 3 hours away for the summer. It started out of the blue, the FWB wasn't planned, one decided we just decided to go for it and see how comfortable we were with it. Turns out very comfortable. I am a very e",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (21F) with new boyfriend (24M)--His friends (20s M) ""tested"" me and I passed, is this as weird as I think it is? POST: Hi r/relationships, need some outside perspective here on a small but weird problem. I've been dating this guy ""Sam"" for about three months now, just recently made it official and I met his friends on Thursday. Sam's awesome, and his friends seem awesome too...or so I thought. We were all hanging out playing games, watching Netflix, etc on Thursday after having ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Need help with a girl POST: This is going to be a long post. It was the year 2011 when I went to China, there my cousin introduced me to one of his class mates via QQ (a really popular messenger in china), we started talking a lot and got to know each other better all on this messenger, she started to play the same game me and my cousin played and recommended me a lot of movies. One day when I asked her to go out despite my low self esteem caused by acne, she rejected because reaso",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why am I [18M] going from confident to clingy in my relationship with my [18F] gf, and how can I fix it? POST: Hey reddit. I am in a two month-long relationship with my gf, who I have really come to like recently. However, I have noticed that I am going from confident to clingy really fast--and I am beginning to worry how it is affecting our relationship. When we started talking a while back, I felt like I was the one in control--she was pursuing me more than I was pursuing her. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO [24F] gave me [30M] chlamydia. What now? POST: I'll try and keep this short. My SO is a 24 y/o, last sexual partner other than me (according to her) was a cheating ex, in August of last year. My last partner was a one night hookup before meeting my current SO about 8 months ago, I regularly get tested between partners. My current SO and I have just moved in together after about 8 months, and things are getting really serious. Today at the doctor, she ""found out"" she had chl",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By not doing homework POST: So my math teacher gave us this homework that could get a mark on, we had the easter weekend and 1 day to do it. Fast forward to yesterday when I realized I didn't do it, so my first idea was to search online for the answers, surprisingly enough I found the whole subject with the answers, finished copying and went to bed. Today we had to give it, so everyone handed their papers etc. She started correcting it, when it comes to my turn, she looks at my paper the",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Recently Let Go - Confused Where to Go Now POST: Before anything - a little background. I'm at 2014 graduate from an engineering background (mechanical). I was recently working in a position that was a step in a different direction, working as a technical sales rep. Suffice to say, the job was far from what I imagined and I was let go after about half a year. Unfortunate, but I realized that sales was just not my pitch and now I'm looking to go back into what I was schooled for - engineering",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being impatient while doing my laundry POST: I live in a building that is an old mansion converted into an apartment building. The landlord has a single dryer in our basement which is used by not only this building, but the one next door as well. Doing laundry can be inconvenient, especially since most people don't measure their laundry time and can show up anywhere between immediately to several hours after the dryer has finished. For some time I have debated the etiquette of removin",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: So my FIL keeps making a joke that bothers the crap out of me about my daughter, how can I make him stop? POST: My father-in-law and I don't get along all that well but I put on a good face and push through. Because of this I try not to say anything about how I don't agree with some of his parenting choices on my 2 younger sister-in-laws (9-10), but he keeps making a joke about my daughter that I have mentioned to him, on several occasion,s that I am not comfortable with. He says it joki",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by buying a bar of chocolate. POST: So I was on a date with a girl to the cinema. The date went well, but it was only a second date, and I still didn't know if she liked me or not. So she went to the bathroom, and I decided to go to the shop next to it while waiting. Now we had gone to see the hobbit and I was starving as i hadn't eaten since dinner before, and I didn't feel I needed a snack during it, and I didn't want to ask her for some in case she thought it was weird. So when I wen",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not getting this nursing students number. POST: Today I had surgery on my left knee. Was nurvous as fuck the whole time in there. I arrived at 12:00 and didn't get taken into the opperating room till 15:30. It was my first time being out under anesthesia and I was on the verge of a panic attack the time I was in the pre-op. It wasn't major surgery or anything serious, they just needed to fish out some broken cartilage that was floating around in there after I dislocated my knee on the",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I haven't had this feeling of fulfillment and joy for 9 months! POST: 9 months ago, the girl that I thought I was going to marry cheated on me. I went through a really rough time, wasn't able to forgive her until she moved on to someone new. I decided to throw myself in my schooling, but for months I felt like I was going through the motions. Some classes were going well, others definitely not my best. However, yesterday I talked to the head of our department and he said he wants me in ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting run over by my own car POST: This didn't happen today but 2 years ago. I woke up and thought that I should go to the store to grab some food, even though I had a cold because it was winter and my immune system was weak. So, I quickly put some clothes on me and went to the store. I didn't want to take too much because my dog was alone at home. When I reached my destination, because I wanted to be quick I forgot to pull the hand brake. Nice! I got out of my car and then I got ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] may have told a small fib to my boyfriend [21M] about the price of a car. POST: I have been dating my SO for nearly 5 years now. He's a great guy in all aspects. I have never lied to him... Until today. I feel guilty about it. His birthday is coming up, and I wanted to get him a really awesome present. I have quite a bit of money and want to spoil him a bit, since he's often buying me necklaces and rings that honestly, he can't afford. He does it to be a nice guy. I found ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] want to reestablish a relationship with my dad, but I can't stand his personality. POST: My dad lost his job a few years ago, and as a result he had to move to California to work on a potential job there. We (my sister and I) didn't follow him, and lived with my stepmom (who I do NOT like) for about 6 months. Then my sister went off to college, and I lived with my mom for my last year of high school. At this point I was only seeing my dad when he was in town (which was like ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by hitting a Wal-Mart employee on the head with a gallon of milk POST: Edit: Technically, this happened yesterday because of when I started writing this at 2:00 am my time, my bad. TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [15M] friends [15M/15M] have ordered a bong to be mailed to my house despite knowing consequences POST: Throwaway because a few friends know of my reddit account but none of them frequent this sub. After a nice Saturday night together with the boys, I left early the next morning as I had work. My two closest friends who we'll refer to here as M & Z spent the rest of the day together. In that time whilst I was at work, they ordered a bong (exams are in two weeks, after that it's s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my boyfriend [22 M/] for 7 months, he already says he wants to marry me some day, I feel the same, is that normal? POST: When did all of you married people know that you had met the person you were going to marry? How soon? My boyfriend actually told me within a month that he wanted to marry me but I think he was just infatuated at that point. But he still says it now and I love it. I really want to marry him someday too. We knew each other for a couple years before we ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] was left by my long-term GF [F 20] of 2,5 years. Can't seem to get a grip on life POST: Hello all. My relationship ended in the spring, after my GF felt alienated from me after my 12-month compulsory military service was coming to an end. I understand her reasons and try not to blame her for ""ruining my life"", even being succesful sometimes. She's now in a new relationship and I feel so helplessly alone. I can't seem to find a new directoon for my life, even though I've ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [27M] How do I have a relationship with the first girl I ever slept with? POST: I finally had sex late in life with a girl around my age. We have had sex a few more times since then. We both really like each other, and I want to date her now, but we both know that I am almost definitely going to want to experience sex with other girls at some point in the future. It seems like this fact is going to make it hard to have a truly committed relationship with her right now, even though w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[26M] girlfriend [26F] wants us to buy a house together, but with only her name on the mortgage. POST: Hi r/relationships, My girlfriend and I (who have been together for 3+ years) are thinking about buying a house together next summer. She still lives with her parents while I have an apartment of my own. Because she has no car, no rent, and the only expense being her cell phone, so she has been able to save much more than me for a down-payment. I have lived on my own for the last",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Crush [2? F] from the gym, she has initiated convo twice in a week, Idk how to approach POST: There is not much to say, I been going to the Gym for a month with a buddy of mine, last Thursday we had a class and she approached and initiated a convo with me then my buddy tried to wingman me, but the class started so everyone went to do our exercises and she left the class. Today we saw her again, we were finishing our exercises and she talked to us (My buddy says tha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] am usually not nervous about talking to girls I'm interested in, except for this one girl I've had a history with [19F]. How should I approach this? POST: I was good friends with this girl, let's call her Anna, for a few years at school. We hung out every day, talked a lot and were good friends. I had a crush on her, asked her out on a date in early 2013 and she said no, saying we were better suited to being friends. I still liked her after this, we remained friends and I was",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] about to go on first 'date' with a beautiful girl[16 F] please help out a fellow redditor, i honestly have no idea what i'm doing :) POST: Hey reddit, After meeting this absolutely beautiful girl at a few parties and get togethers about 6 months ago, we have been messaging each other since on and off. I had immediately liked her from the first time I had met her, although I suppressed my feelings for her as I though I was out of her league. It really pleasantly surprised m",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [29/M] Went through a nasty breakup, followed my ex [20/F] to a new city now I'm here alone. Can't stop my self from harassing her with texts because I have nothing to do and no one to talk to. I want to stop, need some help. POST: Our relationship was bad from the start. I am the type of person that has to ridiculous belief people will change and to fight for things you want. She had cheated on me in the past but I forgave her. I should have ended it there but instead we staye",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my boyfriend [21 M] of 3+ years, I know I want to get married, but can't get past feeling not ""grown-up"" enough POST: As the title says, my SO and I have been together for over three years and have an absolutely amazing relationship. We've lived ""together"" for about two years (I'm about 45 min away at school and live on campus during the school year, but stay with him on all breaks and weekends). The topic of marriage has come up plenty of times, and I'm in no way op",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [25 M] get my girlfriend [24 F] to start exercising? POST: I have been dating my lady for over a year. I love my girlfriend and I think she's hot shit. She is curvy, about 5'2 120-130 pounds, and has the exact body dimensions of Marilyn Monroe (lucky me!) however, she thinks she's fat every so often, a lot more lately. I do not think she is fat, but this is a problem because her self esteem is so low at times that it is making her feel unattractive. Today at work I sent h",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: (Massachusetts) Issues with Management in a Non-profit need advice. POST: So for the past year I have been working for a non profit organization that takes care of people with disabilities. I am the only night staff besides the CEO of the organization who is hardly ever here I work 50+ hour a week overnight which is basically just being in the house. I also work 32+ hours a week during the day running programs / activities. So there's no written contract but food and housing is ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/m] think my gf [21/f] cheated a long time ago. I am going to find out. POST: Sorry. You will probably be disappointed that there's pretty much zero detail here, because the details are VERY specific and if I really put any details, honestly if ANYONE who knew me saw it they'd probably know it was me. The only thing I'll say is that almost two years ago I had a really bad feeling something happened between my girlfriend and another guy. She didn't seem like the type at ALL, and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[25 M] gf [ 25F] of 6 months is going over saturday to her ex's, she told me a different story. POST: My Gf and I have plans tomorrow and I ask if she would like to do something Saturday as well. She replied that she has plans with one of her other friends, Sarah. However, I was talking to a mutual friend of ours and she told me that she was actually going over to Marks place, her ex. Our friend told me that she didn't tell me because she knew id be jealous or mad. I am not sure ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24/F] incorrectly accused my SO [26/M] of cheating and he's very upset with me. POST: Unfortunately due to someone elses miscommunication, I was informed that he was lying to me about where he spent Saturday night - he told me he was with his guy friends, but someone else heard differently and told me was with another girl. The next day, I was quite angry and didn't believe him when he told me it wasn't true. He called his best friend who confirmed that he was with him. My previ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28/F] with my boyfriends [29 M] 4.5 years, I think he wants to end it but I want to work on it. POST: I want to work on the deficiencies in our relationship because I love my boyfriend, and I recognize the faults that I have (insecurity and the anxiety that stems from it). I have been going for monthly counselling to help me work on these personal issues, but change doesn't happen overnight! This is my first long-term relationship but one of many for him About three months ago w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 17m/17f.... insecurity over what she told me before a trip POST: Dating for just about 7 months now. Very in love with each other, blah blah all that good stuff. It's awesome. She recently left on a trip to Europe with 4 other students from her high school class. We don't go to the same high school, by the way. Anyway, leaving each other for 2 months was hard enough. But the thing is she went on the trip with an ex boyfriend that she dated around a year ago. They originally had a",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by annoying my sister and her friend, in a towel. POST: I like to annoy my sister quite a lot, we annoy each other and prank each other. I wasn't just trying to be a dick, it's just what we do. I pranked her recently, and today she got revenge. I woke them up early, and splashed some water on them. But, later after my shower, I went downstairs to get a drink. This is where my sister and her friend was. I then began to annoy them. What I didn't realize is how angry they got. Her friend ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [33m] ex [26f] from 6 years ago has expressed she'd like to try again. Not your average situation though POST: My ex and I recently started talking again after a few years of silence. We dated about 6 years ago. Briefly. We got together, were together for 2 months and then she broke up with me because she moved 4 hours away. So it didn't end bad, but at the time I took it bad and said stuff I didn't mean, hence why we haven't spoken in a long time. She came back into my life r",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Everything I [21M] want but with an older girl [32F]. POST: I'm dating a 32 year old girl as a 20 year old male. She has a disability and has been discharged from the army on medical leave and gets $500 from the VA for her disabilities. She has 2 daughters ages 3 and 9 and wants me to take care of her and her daughters in exchange for free rent. She wants me to pay a portion (undetermined at this time) of the $500 i would get from the government for rent. The job would be 2 bloc",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When was the last time someone flipped out on you for no reason? I'll start... POST: Well like 10 minutes ago i was on facebook and this girl whos like really popular said some stupid shit. So me being the person i am joked around and told her she spelled something wrong. So she got all sarcastic called me 11 and then some 2 dudes come on and tell me to leave her alone. One proceeds to call me a ''DICK FART'' and the other said ''FUCK YO VOCAB''. So me trying to undo and fix this deletes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [26 M] pretty sure my girlfriend [29F] of 6 months is about to break up with me. How to solve issues before next time? POST: I met this girl around January, we went on a couple dates and it was just magic. About 3 months in we started to let our guard down more and show each other our true selves. We both had personal baggage that kept interfering and fights have been more and more frequent since. It has become clear recently that for this relationship to work we both need to mak",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: How to go from date to being FRIENDS (17/F) with him (2?/M)? POST: Ok, so here's what's going on: I'm a 17 year old female who graduated from high school. He's a 20 something year old male I met at a trivia game night last Friday. He asked me to be his partner in the game (normal protocol) and we hit it off. He asked me for my number, I gave it to him awkwardly, and then he texted me today asking if I wanted to go get dinner with him this Thursday. I don't know him. He doesn't kn",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Brooklyn, NY: Former landlord just contacted me asking for back rent from 3 years ago POST: In 2013 I experienced a financial crisis due to some health problems, and was unable to pay rent for several months. My landlord took me to housing court, where I was given some time to try and pay off the back rent, or else be evicted. In the end, I was unable to raise the money, so I notified my landlord that I would move out. As far as I know, I was never officially evicted, since I moved out",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling a customer that his ""fucking wife"" was the reason he had no data left POST: Work for phone company, face to face. Background: Customer came in asking why all of his data had gone from his device in ""one night"". I got the device and looked at the Data Usage (Android) and noted that he'd used 6.5 GB in tethering. ""Sir what else do you connect to this device"" ""Just my wife's iPad"" ""Well that's where all your data's gone"" ""She only goes on Facebook?!"" ""She must have gone on oth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[20F] Have my first date since my break up with [22M] feeling like I cant do it. POST: I can't stop thinking about my ex, its been a month since out three year relationship ended (with one breakup inbetween) Now I know what people may think when I say this but he was very manipulative and emotionally abusive. Even so I loved him more then anything. I would of given him the moon if he asked. The breakup was messy, I got f*cked over and litterally robbed by him. It's taken a ",negative " r/Pets TITLE: How do I get my cats to stop being jerks to my dog? POST: So our cats are really rude. They're about 3 years old, brothers, neutered, strictly indoor cats. Here's an example of their rudeness: One day a few weeks ago, Ozzie (cat) was hanging out in a chair in the living room. Totally relaxed, grooming, you know.. chill. And Opal (dog) walks through the living room, also relaxed and chill. This should never turn into an issue right? Well as soon as Opal passes by that chair, Ozzie reaches out ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I am 20 years old, 6'3"", black, and have never had a girlfriend - nor for that matter ever have women show interest in me/""check me out"" POST: Gonna keep this short : I'm a 20 year old dude who has never had a girlfriend. I find that generally women tend to ignore me. I'm a university student so theoretically am in the best time to meet new people but it simply isn't happening. Been feeling a little bit lonely over this lately. I've been told before that I am an extremely friendly perso",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22F) had to stop my ex (21M) of two years and me from getting back together even though I want to be with him POST: We were together for nearly 2 years, and broke up about 6-7 weeks ago. We had been having too many problems and causing each other too much stress. I did not exactly handle this emotionally well, and kept coming back to him. But, after a couple weeks things got better. We have a lot of mutual friends, so we saw each other a lot. We started hanging out together, and i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO (22F) failed to mention she acquired an STD from her ex. And I'm (24M) deeply hurt. POST: We've been together for one year. Went through a lot. She dated an asshole of a guy before me. Her ex didn't treat her well, lowered her self-esteem by saying she's ugly, won't hold hands with her on public and was basically just his fuck toy. Those issues sank deep inside her and it's what's keeping her from improving herself even when I'm here. We encounter something and it boils down to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend[22M] of 4 years just told me[23F] he wonders what it would be like if he was dating his childhood[21F] friend POST: My boyfriend recently told me he wonders what it would be like if he and our mutual friend dated instead. They're childhood friends and she only views him as a brother. She's the only close female friend he has. I got jealous and told him to hang out with her less. Is that okay to ask? He promises only hang out with her when we hang out with our group of fr",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How did you know you needed to stop being friends with certain people? POST: I've been friends with all the same people for as long as I can remember. I'm a senior in high school now and the more I feel like I'm maturing, the more I feel like my friends just aren't good for me. A lot of my friends still act like middle schoolers (not exaggerating either) and most of them are guys. One of them who is basically my brother constantly hits on me now and it makes me feel extremely uncomfort",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (23m) with my friends (22m) I have been depressed and don't want to hangout. Friends 14 years POST: We have been friend for 14 years and are both currently going to separate colleges. We generally hangout when I go home to visit my family. I have been depressed for years but I could always put up an act that I was happy or at least alright. These last 2 semesters have been really hard on me and I can't keep up my appearance any more and I'm a real downer right now. I don't care fo",negative " r/self TITLE: reddit, was I out of line or was my mom? POST: Dear redditors, My mother called my boyfriend last night and I happened to be in the same room during the discussion. She called saying my boyfriend needed to repair her air conditioning system. He just graduated with a mechanical engineering degree with a focus on HVAC design, but does not know how to repair actual systems because he has no experience. He declined because he was not comfortable with potentially messing up the central air system",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] of 18 months cheated on me [24M] with my best friend. As a result i've decided to move city. I am worried I may not meet like minded people and/or girls. Any tips or advice? POST: Basically, was with girlfriend for about 18 months. Found out she hooked up with my best friend / housemate on the night of my birthday celebrations while I was passed out. The last few months have consisted of her trying to get me back and me feeling like I just can't trust her. She's since gon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (m24) undefined relationship with her (f23) and another man (m30s) POST: Hey reddit, I apologize in advance for the wall of text but please bear with me. I don't normally come asking for help in a situation like this but this is a new thing for me, also please forgive me if this is the wrong sub to post this in... So I met this girl a few weeks ago and we clicked immediately and have since been seeing a lot of each other. We have consistently engaging conversations that can las",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my acquaintance who I made out with while in a relationship that I ended yesterday [26 F] known her for about 6 months, want to know if I should tell her the breakup wasn't her fault POST: So, last weekend, I made out with a girl that I do comedy with. She confessed that she had a big crush on me (not knowing I had a girlfriend) and I was weak and cashed in. Things did not progress farther. (Yes, I know I cheated, please spare me any chastising in the comments. I alrea",negative " r/self TITLE: Fiancé tried bleaching my hair... POST: So since I'm recently unemployed I thought it would be awesome to have my fiancé dye my hair instead of paying my salon guy $69 plus tip to do the same thing. I'm naturally chestnut but I haven't let that show in years (it's usually dyed reddish-purple or dark red or reddish-black). He and I picked out an awesome 'Vampire Red' from Hot Topic since I always wanted the Run Lola Run color and my salon guy can never get it right (it always came out too dark",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31F] with my ___ [30M] 14 months, he wants us to exchange passwords POST: Using a throwaway. The title is meant to say BF. I messed that up. My boyfriend, Dylan, and I have been dating for a year and a half but exclusive for 14 months. We've recently moved in together after we hit the year mark. We wanted to take our time and make sure that this was right. The sticking point though is about our digital privacy. Dylan wants us to exchange passwords so we have access to each othe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [17 M] Gf [21 F] of 2 years wants a purity ring for her birthday POST: So, a little background: My gf and i have been together for like 2 years and things are getting a bit serious, we are planning on living together next year, and we are kind of an open minded couple (understand all kind of weird shit sex) But her birthday is coming soon and after long search i found myself with empty hands and directly asked her, she answered with no hesitation that she wanted a purity ring. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I move to Seattle or Portland? (Redux from Lawrence, KS) POST: I know this topic has been done before, but in the past it's included replies tailored to the person asking. Thought I might as well give it a shot. Early 20s, male, likely to be single at the point of moving. Grad school is definitely in the cards but I want to take a couple of years off first. I'm legitimately interested in a move to the Northwest as I've always had an idealized conception of the weather and pace, b",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Can I (26/f) fix my relationship with my boyfriend (24/m) after I've emotionally strayed? POST: Long story short, my boyfriend and I have been together for 4 years and have lived together for the past year. Recently, I met and got to know another guy, who I felt like I had a lot more in common with and I was absolutely crazy about him. It got to the point where I actually tried to end my current relationship to be with the new guy. In the middle of trying to end it with my bo",negative " r/Cooking TITLE: I made something by accident, and I'm not sure what it's called POST: The other day, my gf baked a cake, and asked me to make some chocolate frosting for it. I happily obliged her request, but I wanted to try something different. I had read on a blog post that making a hot simple water/flour thickening agent and adding that to the frosting would make it more smooth. Well, I made my frosting, as usual save for the addition of my starch. But it came out very thin at first. No worries, I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Having trouble getting over an ex girlfriend POST: I'm a 20 year old male. I know it sounds really foolish, but I can't seem to get over my ex. I dated her my junior year of high school. It's not like the relationship ended in a horrible way or anything. She was a foreign exchange student, I met her when I was 17 in my history class. I ended up dating her for 6 months and losing my virginity and she was also my first girlfriend which probably explains why I can't seem to get over he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F]am not on the same page as my visually impaired roommate [24F] whom is overly-dependent on me. College roommates, 1 year(2 semesters, 32 weeks.) POST: I talked about my situation beforehand on /r/Blind with this [post] I really do want some kind of healthy relationship with my roommate. She has been visually impaired since childhood. She has other disabilities too. I just met her when this fall semester began 7 weeks ago. I just feel so stressed/suffocated when with her. (Exam",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (m23)think my friend's (f23) male friend is a complete asshole. Is it socially acceptable for me to tell her? POST: This past summer I've hung out in the same social circle as my friend, whom we can call Rachael, and we have really grown to enjoying each other's company, even doing things one on one. I am not interested in this girl in a date-y kind of way. We have a friendship chemistry that I really enjoy and would never want to mess that up. During this summer, she has been han",positive " r/Parenting TITLE: Locked in a closet by my 4 year old POST: So tonight my youngest (F-4yrs old) wasn't listening This is a growing problem with us. You can ask her something, and she flat out ignores you. So tonight when when we were asking her to do something, she was ignoring us. As punishment I told her I would take one of her stuffed animals away (I purposely chose one she doesn't play with much). I gave her a count down, and she still wouldn't listen. So I told her she could have the toy back when s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [20F] worried about my psycho ex [20M] POST: He was a psychopath. Not even exaggerating. He's told me if someone where to mess with me, he would kill them and he knows how to hide a body. He's told me how he would in detail. He goes to a military academy. Anyways, I broke up with him and he said he was going to jump off a building. I haven't had contact with him since. I facebook creeped on him. He has a pic of him with his arm around another girl (dating, maybe?) She lives in ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27/m] want to learn to be less repulsed by my partner's [27/f] fat. She's amazing, and sexy, and I want to look at her the way she deserves to be looked at. POST: Please reddit, what do I do to find my partner more attractive? She's amazing, the sex is awesome, her brain is fantastic, we live together, we solve conflicts like a fucking team, and get along marvelously. We are poly, and we have other healthy relationships as well. My partners come in all shapes, sexes, and sizes,",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I a whore? POST: Over a year ago I cheated on my current girlfriend. She still doesn't know. I cheated with three different women. Two of them multiple times. The first time I cheated, I had been with my girlfriend for around 9 months. Then, she just kind of blocked me out of her life for about month; stopped calling me (initiating or calling me back), didn't appear at any of the bars that the two of us normally frequented. When confronted, said she didn't know why we hadn't spent a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my Friend [16 F] a little over a year, possibly looking for a relationship POST: I have been friends with this girl for a little over a year and over the last couple weeks we got really close. After breaking up with her boyfriend she asked me if I had a girlfriend and we had a deep conversation about eachother's eyes (I know it's corny). Afterwards she said she was back with her boyfriend but she's not serious about their relationship. I am not sure whether or not she ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/m] Am I wrong for asking my girlfriend [25/f] if she has had sex with a specific person? POST: I've been dating her for about six months and we really like each other. I live in a small town and know that she has had sex with other guys I see around and that doesn't bother me. She has even had sex with a couple of our mutual friends. Again, it doesn't bother me. Sometimes though I'll be bothered by the idea of her sleeping with a specific guy more because of the guy being a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf(18M) is still hanging out with his ex (18F) and I (20F) am extremely uncomfortable. I need advice POST: My Boyfriend (18) was seeing a girl (18) for almost 3 years and they didn't have a great relationship to my knowledge. She cheated on him with her current bf (21?) and she used him to go to a concert which he paid for, drove to, and bought her souvenirs galore. This behavior would make me angry at even a family member let alone a partner, yet he insists on keeping contact wit",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/f] Struggling with how to be present for boyfriend (20/m) after house fire. POST: So the boyfriend and I have been having a crazy summer and haven't seen each other for a good while. This 4th of July weekend we planned on spending some much needed quality time together. Unfortunately, his family home had a devastating house fire a few days ago, leaving him with no room and most of his stuff and valuables ruined. I of course invited him to stay with me for as long as he wa",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My boss wants me to step down, can I collect unemployment? POST: Long story short, the company I work for is one of many in recent years that has gone bankrupt and started liquidating. I'm a full time student. I've been with the company for over 7 years. I started at entry level and worked my way up to a Manger position. I really dislike the company and management style but i've stayed on in hopes that the store I work at will go out of business so I can collect unemployment and ju",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M/F] with my ex-gf [26 F] ~7years, blind sided with a break-up POST: This is an update to the [previous] post I did. I recently discovered that she is in a (possible) new relationship with one of her really close male friends. She has been friends with him since me and her started dating and I guess things blossomed for them at some point after she broke up with me. I kind of figured they were in a relationship considering facebook shows everything in the news feed such as li",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 M] and my girlfriend [15 F] of 4 months, I'm slightly getting annoyed at the little things. POST: Hey there. I know this is probably a dumb question, but I appreciate all help. After 4 months of dating my girlfriend, I've started to get annoyed at the little things she does. Generally it's on days where she doesn't take her ADHD meds, but it can happen on days where she does take them. We talk quite often, stretching from about 7 PM-1 AM on weekdays, and from maybe 10AM-1AM o",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Did I just dumbfoundly spend $500 on suits? POST: So I just came back from Men's Warehouse in search of a new suit. My current suit arsenal consists of a 6 and 11 year old suits, both which don't fit, notably the pants. I originally went into the store with the intention of abusing their black Friday sales, which aren't that great. I was open to other options though since they also have the buy one suit get the other for free. I currently don't have a job, but am in need of a suit. I'm i",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Unique Rental Agreement POST: Hey /r/legaladvice! A little bit of a unique situation regarding a rental agreement. My plans are to move in with my Sister and Brother-in-law under the conditions of finishing their basement with my money in trade for me to live in their basement. I am currently pulling permits for the work, and about to get started with it. The agreement is that I pay for the whole finishing of the basement in trade for how much money it costs to finish it, this will ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [27M] have been engaged to my fiancee [25F] but think I'm falling for another girl [24F]. Never thought I'd feel like this - please tell me this will pass. POST: [UPDATE] Thank you so so so much for each and every response. There are so many perspectives here I didn't consider, and that's exactly what I was looking for when I reached out for help. I'm not going to post a ""decision"" because I would like to think through more, and I honestly still don't know what's going to happen. ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm going to break up with him, just so I'm available in case the guy who shattered my heart has any desire to date me. POST: In all fairness, I am only dating my boyfriend because I felt insanely alone and desperate. I have minimal physical attraction for him, and my ability to put up with him is waning. He's a great guy, and he's certainly in love with me, but it just isn't worth it. The guy I like, however, is great to talk to, and is absolutely stunning. While he's a lot less mature",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] just started dating [26F] 4 weeks ago, she's angry because i'll only treat her cheaply POST: I started dating this great girl around 4-5 weeks ago, we've been on 2 dates and I've hung out with her at her flat 3 times in this period and I've been pushing to see her again. I paid entirely for our 2nd (dinner) date. Originally after talking she opened up to me and told me she 'doesn't want anything serious' but still wanted to be treated and made to feel special. This wasn't ju",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Would like a puppy for me [26F] and bf [30M], but wondering about impact on relationship. Advice? POST: For those of you who got pets, particularly dogs, after already being in a relationship, what effect did it have? In particular do you still find it easy to go out? How about holidays and traveling? I thought getting a pet could be a way of solidifying our relationship. It implies love and commitment, almost like a small step towards building a family. Also my boyfriend is slight",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [M/20] Gf [F/21] of 1.5 yrs. started talking to an old guy friend A LOT. Over reactive jealousy or should I be concerned? POST: So just recently my girlfriend of 1.5 years had found out one of her old guy friends from high school was in her university. They started talking and the conversations were pretty long, which was to be expected seeing as they had a lot of catching up to do. However, recently it has been a lot more than the usual catching up. She and I Skype almost",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is the way I'm feeling clingy or normal? POST: M 23 F 20 together 5 months. Basically, I wish my boyfriend and I talked more when we were apart. We live a few blocks from each other and see each other most days, so this doesn't present itself as a problem too often. However, on the days we don't see eachother we rarely communicate. My issue is I can't tell if how much communication I want is normal, or clingy. When I lived a bit further away we talked most nights on the internet,",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling my professor she is traffic. POST: So I'm sitting in class playing on my phone so I don't have to talk to people. Same stuff, different day. About 5 minutes after class is supposed to start people start grumbling and asking each other questions because the professor has not arrived. This gets my attention and I start to wonder if we're going to leave early, praise jibbers. About that time a TA walks in and says our professor is going to be late because she is stuck in traffic.",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by shaving my balls in the shower POST: I'd never attempted this before, but proceeded (with great care), with the only razor in the house at the time - Dad's face one, but he was never going to find out. The fuck up wasn't in the the shaving itself - everything went smoothly, and I then went off to school. BUT - I later got a call from my Mum, yelling down the phone 'WHAT DID YOU SHAVE THIS MORNING, THE DRAINS ARE COMPLETELY BLOCKED!'. So I was like 'Umm, my face'. She didn't buy this",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [ 18F] with my boyfriend [17 M] of 3 yrs broke up with me a month ago, apparently he's completely gay now POST: This breakup was completely devastating to me and broke me. for about a week and a half I continued contact with him and acted insane, trying to be ""friends"" but acted needy and terrible. He then cut me out of his life because I was too stressful. I have been making some good progress healing I suppose. Haven't looked at his social media or anything, hanging out with f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with 25F, together for 10 yrs, don't know how to talk about our different sexual appetite (x-post r/askwomen) POST: Hi ! 25/m here, asking for help. I don't really know how to tell this and english is not my native tongue so I'll try to make it as clear as possible, and I am sorry if I'm hard to understand. So, I've been with my SO for the last 10 years and it's been really great and all except for one thing : we definitely don't have the same sexual appetite. I mean, I lo",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Do I really need a Roth IRA? Also retirement questions from someone in their 20s. POST: Hello all! Long time lurker and wanted to first thank the community for their advice and discussions. It's pretty awesome that I can better my personal life and finance through the Reddit Community! I am currently in my low 20s and recently got a job. I am currently putting 5% of my earnings into my 401k for my company match. On top of that I am feeding money into a mutual fund at Vanguard. M",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I've[26M/F] been in love with my [27M/F] friend for years but she's leaving the state for school in a few weeks, do I tell her? POST: So short backstory: We met when she got a job working in the office right next to me, and we hit it off right away. We'd hang out all the time at work, go to lunch and whatnot, text, but we always had significant others and things never really progressed past the point of friends. I've never told her how I felt but I'm almost positive she has feelings ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Falsely Accused of Cheating POST: My husband and I have been married for almost two years. For marriages, this is a very short amount of time for what we have been through. We are in our early 20's. I'm a full-time student and employee. I'm sure that you can imagine the amount of time I invest in these things to maintain a 4.0. He works, but has plenty of free time on his hands. Tonight, I was accused of cheating. I met a classmate at a coffee shop for a few hours to work on an a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you deal with a grumpy co-worker? POST: I just recently started a new job. Being mostly used to grunt work, this particular job being more thought intensive was a good switch on my part. At my work, we work in pairs for 12 hour shifts, so dealing with one person all day or night can be rather difficult if that person doesn't want to communicate. Having only been there for a month or so, I'm nowhere near fully trained and this co worker expects me to inherently know how to do every",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [M, 26] with my girlfriend [F, 27] of 1.5 yrs, how to not sound accusatory? POST: I like to think my gf and I have a pretty stable relationship. We have talked before about how cheating is unforgiveable and how if one of us met someone else we had feelings for, we would immediately tell the other person and break off our relationship. A few days ago I saw her texting one of her attractive male friends and I could see above her response the guy had sent a photo. I couldn't tell ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How much do the little things matter? POST: There are a lot of small things that my SO and I bicker about (we have been together for over 3 years). They seem like no big deal, but the same things come up with such regularity that I worry we will keep fighting about them until it drives us apart. He makes somewhat rude comments about my clothing, mostly that it's too revealing. I've asked him many times not to bring it up as it makes me self-conscious and honestly is just a non-iss",negative " r/relationships TITLE: ACTUAL FINAL UPDATE to Me (28/f) with my husband (34/m) together 4 years. We are being stalked and harassed by his ex gf (26/f) from years ago! POST: This is FINALLY the real, final update to these posts: I'll make this short. It's a very happy update! (For me and my husband anyway!) After more harassment and crazy rumors, we were able to get a prenatal paternity test done. To our surprise (not!) my husband is NOT her child's father. I don't think we will be seeing her for a long ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I ask my Highschool/recently graduated neighbors to turn the booming stereo down without seeming like an old dickhead? POST: There is a 50+ person (2nd in the past month) party 4 doors down, and the bass is shaking the house and keeping the kids and wife up. It is now 1115 PM. I asked them to turn it down, and they did, but you know how parties are, it went back up a short while later. I have no issue with the laughing and carrying on, it is just the booming bass. I just wander ov",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Get a new car soon or wait until after I move? POST: Ok so here's my dilemma: I was planning on getting a new car this summer by paying down my loan as much as I. Ouls and rolling the remainder into my next one. Unfortunately I didn't get back as much as I'd hoped so I opted to put my tax money on my credit card bill. I have ~$2600 left on my loan at $140 a month, and ~$900 on my credit card at $32 a month. My issue is I don't know if I should aim for a new vehicle on a new loan, p",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [X-post from r/relationships] I'm single for the first time in 6 years. I don't know how to go on a date and be normal. Story inside. POST: In my junior year at college I met a girl; yadda yadda yadda, 6 years later we break up after getting engaged last year. Now I'm over the break up, but a few days ago I go to my good friend's family dinner, where she's invited me along with one other friend. Friend and I hit it off. Back then I was 19 I had a 3 week relationship with my fr",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm embarking on a journey of fate. Advice? [long] POST: I am a 23 year old who graduated from college in 2010 with no clue about what I wanted to do with my life. After spending the last year burdened by family duties and slipping into a deep depression, I am in desperate need for an adventure. I've decided to start in my hometown in California and attempt to hitchhike/CouchSurf/wwoof my way down to South America. I am not making any definite plans and I am open to going just about an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my ex[19F] together for 10 months, broke up last week, feel like a dick for acting like this POST: I broke up with her because our relationship was bad. I loved her very much, but we constantly fought, she was NOT the person I was hoping she was in terms of so many things - She was my first girlfriend, and I did everything I could to fix things, but in the end it didn't work, and I decided to cut it. We saw eachother for the next 5 days for some reason, and I cut it of",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is this girl telling me she doesn't want to talk to me? POST: So there is this girl that i invited to a study group for one of my classes. She went, didnt seem like she had a bad time. We talked for a little bit after. I became facebook friends with her. I've invited to a few other study things or asked her questions about the class and she hasn't really replied. The first couple of times i talked to her about the class, she was quick to respond. I dont like her or anything, were just cl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (21/F) am a survivor of childhood abuse; my bf (25/M) of 1 year and I have a few issues. Advice? POST: Be sure to explain in detail with line breaks. hey, I am a 21 year old female and I am a survivor of childhood abuse (both physical and sexual. The physical abuse a lot longer and the molestation for the last year, since i hit puberty.) (for about 5 years from when I was 7 till i was 13). I am an orphan and my legal guardians (an older couple) were physically abusive. I am in ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My BF's [25M] anger scares me [24F] at times. POST: Using a throwaway since bf Reddits. My BF and I have been dating for a little more than two years. Something that has always bothered me is his road rage. It doesn't happen all the time by when it does, it can be scary. Sometimes he will speed to catch up with the person or just get very angry in the car. This week though really scared me when he texted me in the morning about how some guy almost hit is precious car. He started t",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Talk me into giving up the hope of the perfect girl POST: so, long story short, I (17/M) haven't been doing too well with dating in my short time of involvement. I know girls around me are interested (i.e. flirting, wanting to hang out in 1-on-1 situations, even calling me ""cute"" in a serious tone) however I've never actually taken the next steps. So, after a little bit of soul searching, I think I've settled on the reason; I keep holding on to the glimmer of the hope that a relatio",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's a completely random thing that's happened to you and had an unexpectedly large impact on a certain aspect of your life? I'll start POST: last night, I got a call from someone across the state from me. Turned out to be a wrong number, the guy apologized and hung up. Whatever. A couple hours ago, the same guy calls back, **drunk off his ass,** saying how yesterday marked his 3rd year of being sober but he ""just couldn't take it, ya know?"" and started telling me about his fr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26]M would like advice on my 7 month relationship with [27]F POST: So my SO and I have been together for 7 months. She [27] We both love each other very much, and I plan on marrying her one day. We have both discussed our future with each other, and are very happy together, and pretty open about everything. She has a much more sexual past than I, which doesn't bother me at all, but an issue has arisen that makes me feel pretty damn uncomfortable, and in the back of my head, mak",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] with my friend [21F] boundaries being crossed? Shows up and sneaks into my bedroom at 4AM drunk, in the AM starts a fight with me sober, more inside. POST: So my[18M] friend [21F] decided to show up at my fathers house drunk and crawling in my window at 4AM. Flash forward we hook up and have sex. Cue to the morning, I quietly get up and start cleaning my room and wake her up around 8AM. I tell her that I need to go to my mothers and that I need to be there by 9AM and I will ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/m] Girlfriend [23/f] won't let me shave off my small patch of chin hair (all the facial hair I can grow) even though my new job is requiring me to shave it. She says I look too young without it. POST: Due to the nature of the job, it would make sense that they want me to appear professional and well shaven. I've spoken with her many times about this, warning this would happen as soon I get a job in this profession. But she won't budge. She says I'll look way too young witho",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Roommate is seriously neglecting animals; moral quandary ensues. POST: Background: I am living in a shared college house situation. I have been very in/out for the last year (summer/fall semesters abroad, this semester only here for a couple days/month). Roommate has 1 dog, 4 cats. I had been troubled before I left (last year) about the way my roommate has taken care of (or rather, not taken care of) the animals. The food was left outside (with flies, for days often) or not enough food",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my Coworker [21F] She likes me and I am unsure of my feelings for her. POST: A Woman I work with likes me and even gave me her number and we have been texting back and forth lately and the thing is that she obviously likes me but my feelings for her are unclear I want to test the waters to see if I have any attraction to her but would that be rude and/or leading her on when I am unsure? I don't want to deepen her feelings for me and then decide I don't like her and hurt",negative " r/self TITLE: This is how I know my ex's drunk dial could be akin to him having ingested truth serum POST: Not sure this is the right subreddit, so direct me to a better one if need be. My ex (with whom I am discussing reconciliation) drunk dialed me after having consumed more alcohol than any human being should have survived, let alone been conscious. We had a long talk where I asked him many questions, almost all the answers were things I truly wanted to hear and never imagined I would. I began to w",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by kidnapping my neighbor's dog POST: Using throwaway cause this is pretty embarrassing. It was kinda stormy outside for a while and in the afternoon it turned into light showers. Well, while I was on my way out the door to give a friend a ride to work, I saw this dog wandering around my neighbors front yard. I didn't know them well but I was pretty sure they didn't have a dog. Being an animal lover, and the fact that it had began to rain again, I opened my door and called to her. She",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My apartment hired contractors to renovate, and after they were supposed to be finished, they came in and painted the ceiling and got paint all over the keyboard and monitor of my new laptop. What should I ask the apartment to do? POST: My apartment complex (TX) was bought out by a new managing company and they decided to do renovations before the turn (student living) so they could raise the rates for next year. We were given a notice that dictated what exactly they were doing each ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do you find other sites (or forums) with message boards to be trash after discovering Reddit? POST: Just to clarify it for you all. After I discovered Reddit about four years ago I've become a lot more choosy on what web sites or forums I find to be good. Most of the forums I used to lurk or post on before are just trash compared to Reddit. To me I just see so many ignorant, immature or/and illiterate idiots on other sites compared to Reddit. Don't get me wrong. Reddit has its fair shar",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ideas for a present as a thank you? POST: I have met someone online in World of Warcraft (Yes I could have posted in that /r/), we have been speaking and getting to know each other for 2 years. Recently it became clear that we both like each other and she has asked me to visit her in Sweden for a week which I graciously accepted for the chance to get to know them even better. I asked her to ask her parents how much they would like for living costs while they put me up for a week, she ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF doesn't like telling anyone outside of her closest circle of friends about her relationship with me.... POST: I'm (20M) from Wales and 6 months ago I started going out with my now girlfriend (29F) from Colombia. We both reside in Quito, Ecuador and she lives with her family, I live on my own in a flat. Basically the problem is that she doesn't like telling people that we're together, I find this a bit strange and although in Latin America it's normal to hide it from you par",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My Friend [22/F] says she has been abused. She is known to lie constantly. I [23/F] am unsure how I should handle this. POST: Hey guys. First time asking advice on the web so bear with me. I have known this person since early high school. I was one of the few people that didn't bully her. She followed me home from school one day and since then we were 'friends'. I have always kept my distance as much as possible because she lies constantly and has been known to steal as well.",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Advice after putting in fence POST: When I was a kid, we lived out in the country and I had a black lab, that occasionally got out of our fenced area, but was also capable of miles long hikes with me off leash. Last year, many decades after childhood, we got a rescue dog. The rescue org guessed a Jack Russell - beagle mix. I did the wisdom panel DNA test which said one parent was a Rat Terrier and the other was a Collie/Yorkshire Terrier cross. She looks like a. Rat Terrier, but the ear",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Husband resents me for making him choose between me and a former fling. Is there any hope for our marriage? POST: I'll try keep this short. Husband and I [both 31] met about 10 years ago. He had a friend he was a FWB with before we started going out. I didn't have a problem with this at all! The problem I had is that she was obvious about her dislike for me. She'd talk badly about me to her friends (sometimes within earshot of me) and to people who were friends with me. I don't",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, think you could help a guy marry the love of his life? POST: I've been dating an incredible girl for 4 years now (who thankfully for this post is never on Reddit) and I've been saving up for a ring for a long while. She changed my life beyond what my imagination could ever have predicted. Showed me the world Aladdin magic carpet style and inspired me to be a better man. I'm a working musician (bass player) tripling down on a 9-5 job, music lessons, and gigging...plus the o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [21/f] boyfriend [21/m] has a ""thing"" for Asian girls and Asian culture. I'm white. How would you handle this? POST: Long story short- His mother is very into Japanese culture. She has a tattoo in Japanese and apparently used to take in Japanese exchange students when my boyfriend was in high school. I guess this love for their culture rubbed off on my boyfriend because he's a Japanese minor at our school. The running joke among all of his friends is that he likes Asian girls. His",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (20 f) boyfriend(22 m) just hit me in front of all of my friends but I think it was an accident. Still upset. (1 year and a half) POST: Uhg okay so this just happened and I'm tipsy so excuse me for not making sense but I'm really upset and I'm not sure if I should be. 1 year and a half relationship (FYI MODS). Basically my boyfriend and I have a very nice, kind and gentle relationship except for when it comes to sex, then it's BDSM-ish (I submissive, he dominant). Anyways, we wer",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] why do I seem to be attracted to girls I have no chance with? POST: I've started to notice a pattern with any sort of crush I have. That line is they are way out of my league, or have very little in common with me. The past five years I've had three different crushes, all with different reasons why they wouldn't be interested in me. The first girl took place when I was a Sophomore in high school and she was a Freshman. She was this party girl, who for some reason I was att",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being an acceptable mate... to my cat POST: Back in September I took in a stray kitten. She's now five months old, and I figured it was time to get her vaccinated. Since she possesses claws of death, I figured I'd give 'em a trim before looking like a negligent asshole in front of my local vet. Soooo, I picked up the cat and plunked her on the kitchen table, then started giving her heavy pets to calm her. She mrowed weirdly in response, and I ignored her, picked up a paw, and watche",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my Room-mate [26 F] I don't know where I stand. Trying not to be a POS. POST: Hi All, I need that internet brutal honesty here to help sort this out because I feel like a bloody 14 year old again. I've been living with this girl for about half a year now, we get on really well, often spend time together like watching Stranger Things on the couch, going to dinner and walks, even run together. Lately we've been spending loads of time with each other and there's been a ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 M] with my Girlfriend [15 F] two months, She's started to act upset a lot but will not talk about it. POST: For the past two weeks things have not been going very well between us. The cause of the issues is almost always the same. She wants to do something (usually at school) but I'm busy doing work, so she gets upset and refuses to talk for the rest of the day. During this time she will often start talking or doing things with other friends of hers, and will sometimes mention",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: This is my [19/m] first ""real"" relationship. My girlfriend [18/f] has had previous relationships and I feel as though I might have trouble comparing to those past relationships because she treats me very differently. POST: My girlfriend doesn't frequent Reddit so I don't think she'll find this post, at least I hope not. Anyway, as explained above, I don't know what to make of my girlfriend's decision. I've been in my current relationship for about two months now. Yes, I know ho",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Roommate Troubles... and I kind of exploded. POST: Hey Reddit, Been having some trouble with my roommates. I have 8:30 am classes every day of the week, and I try to go to sleep at 12 am. Everyday, they are up till at least 2am, sometimes up till 3 am. They chat really loudly and laugh very loudly. They play the guitar and have speakers to play music in the night. Lately, they have been having people over past 2 am. I have been trying to tell them to stop for almost all of the semester.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M23] really like long distance girlfriend [23] but we will have diverging paths when she returns to US. POST: I really like my current girlfriend of 8 months. So much so that I decided to get back into the relationship even after we went on a break because she left the country to teach English abroad until May of next year. Long distance has been going okay so far and to be honest we are the kind of couple who can probably handle it pretty well (mostly not jealous types and also o",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: I (27m) had a 6 month long distance thing ended (22f). Having trouble dealing with it POST: Back in July this girl and I started dating. Neither of us wanted to get into a relationship cause she had just gotten out of a 2 year shitty relationship and I was leaving from Texas for law school in Minnesota in about a month and a half. However, we continued being in a long term dating situation after I left. About 4 weeks ago she ended things because it was feeling too much like a relationship",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Coould really use some advice. POST: My GF:20 and I (M:20)have been dating for 1.5 years, everything is fine in our relationship but I really am concerned with her relationship with her Mom and myself being dragged into it. Her Mom is extremely overbearing, needs to be in constant contact and etc. This amongst drives her absolutely insane but the main issue is her firm belief that my GF is terminally ill. I was always told about how her mom insisted on frequent bloodtests and check",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 M] told my SO [21F] of 3 months, I was not ready to take the next step. Now I am afraid I may have ruined it. POST: I had an ugly breakup last summer when my ex cheated on me and I was incredibly hurt. It took me some time to get over. I met the girl I am dating now about four months ago and have been dating for about three. We are exclusive and have a great time together. Tonight she asked me if I would consider being boyfriend and girlfriend. I told her that I wanted the ti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29F] has been hooking up with [29 M] for 9 months, just found out he's been engaged the whole time. POST: I'm in shock right now. We always had a very casual arrangement, we met through Tinder last autumn, I stayed over his a few times but mostly he would stay over at mine maybe once a month or so. Just sex, I didn't think for a second that I was the only one and I'm sure vice versa, but wow. Not that. Recently we had grown closer and started texting just about everyday stuff, w",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [18 M] girlfriend [17 F] of 2 years is threatening to kill herself if i break up with her POST: She suffers from depression and this isnt the 1st time this has happened. Throughout our relationship ive begged her to receive professional help with me but she has always refused. She is not mentally stable and constantly has ""temper tantrums"" and freaks out when anything doesnt go her way. For example, last friday i made plans with my friends to go out. She asked me to see her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M20] in a relationship [F20] and getting worried. Need advice POST: I've never actually asked for advice like this, so please excuse me if I screw this up. I'll just start from square one. Ive started dating this wonderful, amazing, funny, beautiful girl. Lets call her Jess. I'm amazingly comfortable with her, something I've never fully been able to do with many girls. Having a great time together, but some things have started to worry me. For one, she's kept every love letter a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your best *facepalm* worthy moment with a coworker? POST: My girlfriend told me this gem the other day, thought I would share with you. She works for a massive healthcare software company that employs about 5,000 people. Almost all of them work at the same mega-complex in the midwest. In every department, there's a break room where the company provides free stuff like milk, coffee, juice, tea, etc. They had this big meeting with the CEO of the company, all five thousand emplo",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Marijuana Bowl Found in Dorm POST: Hi r/legaladvice! My campus security recently went through my room due to ""smell of marijuana"" and I didn't have anything actual in it. The only thing I did have was a bowl that had previously been used to smoke that had residue on it. I haven't used the thing in forever, they just found it searching through my wardrobe. I don't know why, I have been in trouble for weed in my room before but I had nothing in my room today besides the bowl. I doubt v",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How should I surprise my girlfriend?:) POST: Hey guys, Im new to this subreddit but I hope I can get some great advice! So Im a 19 year old male going to school in this desolate corner of Wyoming. My girlfriend (17/f) lives in the opposite corner, about a 7 hour drive. Her 18th birthday is this weekend and I've been working on a necklace for her that I think she'll love, and until now I thought I was gonna have to mail it to her. Also, she thinks Im super busy and wont be able to s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (21F) just told my boyfriend (21M) of two years to fuck off. POST: So my boyfriend and I were supposed to see each other today. We haven't had a date or alone time in a few weeks. He's been texting me a lot about how he loves and misses me. He was supposed to play hockey and go eat sushi with his friends, and he said he would come to my house around 4. I woke up a bit late, so I decided not to run errands or do anything else while I waited for him. Just before 4, he calls me. His ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex boyfriend(but still close friend) seems more distant ? Help me 23/f him 25/m POST: Basically we broke up for the second time (he ended things for the last time last year) due to religion and culture difference that his parents didn't agree with..Muslim and I'm not (took a long time to get the real reason out of him).. He visited me across the water about 6 months ago and we ended up kissing a lot and being really lovable.. We were texting after the visit and I said we should set a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need my wisdom teeth removed and I don't have insurance. Reddit, what should I do? POST: My wisdom teeth have been aching for a few months now, so I scheduled an appointment with my dentist to get x-rays. Turns out, I have 4, all of which are impacted. I have to go to an oral specialist. I called them, told them the situation, and they told me each tooth will cost $220-$480 each. And I'll also have to be put under, which is another $450. As the title says, I don't have insurance. W",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my GF [24 F] 5 years, she is pressuring me for marriage, I am unsure. POST: So my gf has always been clear that she wants to get married. All well and good as I thought I did as well. She has been nagging for about a year now that this is what she wants and she asks me for when I plan on doing it. This started out as a cute reminder every now and then but recently any time she brings it up, we fight about it. Long story short is that she says its the only way she know",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: He's shy and I'm sick of making the moves! Do I have to keep this up? POST: [20] F here, he's almost 20. We've been dating for about a month now. After our first few dates, I started getting really anxious for him to kiss me... so I finally did it for him. It was explosive. It left me so excited that the nerve-wracking physical barrier was broken. Or so I thought. I'm not sure if he's just too nervous or if he doesn't want to move as fast as I do, but we've hung out since then and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[21M] with my GF[27F] of 6 weeks, she wants me to be less nice POST: Last night she told me that she's more attracted to guys who still show some disinterest (you want what you can't have, etc) and that I'm being too nice to her/giving her everything she wants even though we've only been together a short time. If it keeps up, she says she'll probably stop being attracted to me, which I obviously don't want. This is my first serious relationship, so I can understand that I probabl",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Can't figure out why my dog just passed away. POST: I've had a Rhodesian Ridgeback for about a year and a half now. My wife and I took him in from an old classmate of mine when she had a newborn and didn't have the time. She said he was born in the Summer of 08. His name's Moses. About a year ago, we took him to the vet because he was in pain to the point where he didn't want to get up. That was solved with pain meds and muscle relaxers although he's always shown signs of arthritis type pain",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by shocking the shit out of my hand until it was numb. POST: So, basically I'm a little boy trapped in the body of a hairy mountain of a man. What is a popular thing for little boys to do? Well, build potato cannons, obviously. But since I have a job, I can afford to make my cannon a bit more... *industrial.* This includes a [push-button barbecue igniter] to light it off, because only peasants light their spud guns with lantern lighters. So I got the parts after work today with the int",negative " r/self TITLE: Reddit, how do you deal with an incompetent superior at work? POST: So a little background. I am currently employed at a coffee shop, and I work with an incredibly incompetent and uncooperative shift supervisor - who has been there for 3+ years. On numerous occasions, she has admitted that she doesn't know how to run some of the most basic coffee-making tasks (like how to keep cadence to ensure fresh coffee), or know the standard recipes and formulas to making a good latte. She doesn't know t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] started a long distance relationship with no guarantee of meeting. Need advice. POST: Me (24,M) started dating a good friend of mine (23,F) and are in a long distance relationship. She lives in India and I live in Chicago. We used to be friends for two years before we realized we really like each other. We currently have almost no guarantee of when we will meet although there is hope of her coming to visit in October. Due to my visa issues, I can't",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] and my GF [23 F] of 7 years broke up last Saturday. She wants to get back together, but her week away is haunting me. POST: My gf of 7 years broke up with me last week because whenever we discussed our future or marriage recently she has been feeling unsure (after 6 years of being really sure). She didn't want to let our relationship get to the point where she felt stuck and with no way out. I have been and still am sure that I want to spend the rest of my life with her. Bu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [27F] boyfriend [29M] told me I need to lose weight. Should I be upset? POST: Last night after dinner, my boyfriend of 3 years sat me down and told me he thinks that I should lose weight. He said I've been making some unhealthy choices lately and thinks it would be in my best interest to start limiting what I eat and walking more. I could tell he's been feeling this way for a while, and he took a lot of time to work out how he wanted to tell me. I simply said 'okay' and agreed ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I broke up after 19 month long relationship and now i have developed feelings for this other girl in my batch but dont know how to ask her out..pls help me POST: I(20 yrs M) am a med student (currently 2nd yr) in india. I recently broke up from a 19 month long relationship with my batchmate(shes 21 yrs). we started having fights and she had intense ""trust issues"", she was way too paranoid and too possessive to the point where she used to check my phone and used to call me in the midd",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by pulling instead of pushing. POST: Hate to say it but sadly it wasn't me, but there isn't a subreddit called todaymyfriendfuckedup so here you go. I go to a brazilian, english speaking highschool. We were reenacting a scene from A Midsummer Night's dream. This play has a love triangle and the teacher and a student were pretending to be Demetrius and Helena (Helena loves Demetrius, but Demetrius loves another woman.) The student was Demetrius and the teacher was Helena. The teacher was",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Lawyers of Reddit - Is it illegal to delay burial of a deceased person? POST: I feel like my wife's aunt(The Evil One) is a despicable excuse for a human being. My wife's aunt's aunt (The Deceased) just died and The Evil One was her power of attorney and is the executor of the estate. The Deceased requested that she be buried in Hawaii, but The Evil One wants to wait for 3 months, until June, to bury the body so that The Evil One's husband, who is a teacher, will be done with school. T",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: No one to talk about this stuffthing that is making me very sad and confused. Halp. POST: So, I'm taking to reddit because I'm being crushed by the sheer weight of this. I am deeply, totally, completely in love with my friend and it's really not cool given our seemingly unending circumstance. I have other dudes I could date and probably-maybe-possibly-might. No, I will. But, I don't want them. I don't want their hearts *or* their penises. I want him and only him. Love at first sight t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am going of the NET for about 3 months for fishing. What should i do before during and after for science. Also what should i bring to do. POST: The short story: Im going fishing for 3 months strait on a boat that is 50 feet long. I do not leave the boat more than 2 or 3 times in this 3 month time period. I have done this before for 2 months. What should i do in the name of science before during and after? Since i will be off of the internet for 3 months strait and relativly no news wi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My girlfriend's mom broke us up, and now she won't even talk to me. What do I do? POST: We were dating for about four months, and we grew very close very fast because we both had a whole lot in common, from similarities with family history to goals for the future. One day, we got bored, so we decided to make a story similar to 'the Hobbit.' At one point, I included in the story that I was crushed, and she got really upset, as she pictured that I died. At first, her mom said tha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: When does it stop being ok to be dating multiple people? POST: I [25M] recently went on a first date with a girl [23F] and it went really well, we talked for hours. Texting almost non stop after that. Had a last minute spontaneous meet up a few days after, talked some more, ending up kissing before separating. Had another date, made out a bunch after that. Before even the first date, I had another date set up with a different girl [?F], although we had to delay it so it hasn't happen",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Lawyers of Reddit, is a verbal agreement every legally binding? POST: The story around this question is a bit convoluted, but I'll do my best. A friend of mine is attempting to purchase a house, but he cannot do so because underwriting will deny the loan because he has legal settlement to pay. Now, here is where it gets complicated. The reason he has a settlement against him, is because about 8 years ago, he and his wife split up, but he also had to be deployed. He verbally told his th",negative " r/jobs TITLE: My boss didn't want me to quit after I told her I had other job opportunities LOL POST: I started a new job this year and my boss and I don't get along. I would never pass probation under her and probably would have gotten fired so I quit. The agency that we work for is interested in bringing me back for another position. I planned on quitting Wednesday after I unexpectedly got THREE job interviews from three other agencies. The jobs are real, FT professional gigs. I told my boss that I un",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Dog behaving differently around SO? POST: I have had my pooch (Lab/cattle dog mix, just over 1 year) since this past December. She is a wonderful dog, if a little energetic, and I train with her (almost) every day and I take her out for vigorous exercise daily. About a month ago, I started dating someone and my dog's behavior has been much worse. When my girlfriend is at my place, my dog is incredibly demanding about getting attention: nudging hands, jumping, barking, nipping, etc. This h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Mentors, how close do you aspire to be with your mentees? POST: I strongly disapprove of all the shit men get when they're around children by themselves like the rest of Reddit, but my roommate is no child. She's a sweet and pretty girl with big eyes, big boobs, and wavy hair. She is somewhat naive about the world and the people around her, but she thinks her male mentor's intentions are pure. He's single and in his late 40's. He's had years of experience mentoring college students in ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Fiance [M34] wants to keep our money separate. I [F32] feel weird about it. Does he not trust me? POST: My fiance and I are in our early 30's and are moving in together. We've been in a serious relationship for two years. We're getting married this next summer. Last night, we discussed how we'd handle finances since we're moving in together. He said he wanted to keep everything separate, except for a joint checking account for shared expenses. I want to combine everything and have i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (M28) wrong for telling my brother and SIL (40s) they're parenting wrong? POST: My brother and SIL hit their children, shout at them, intimidate them into submission, hothouse them, and generally repeat all the bullshit our parents did to us. It's taken me 10 years of leaving the house and away from the family to get to where I am now, and I deeply hope my niece and nephews (12F, 10M, 8M, 6M) don't need to go through the same process. The parents think they're doing the best f",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My fiancee is being sued by a University for tuition debt, what do we do now? Is bankruptcy the only option? POST: We are not seeking professional advice on here, even though legal advice would be appreciated, we are just wanting to get opinions of what others think. If anybody has been in a similar situation and can offer advice, wonderful, but thank you, to everybody, beforehand. To start off how this all started, my fiancee had originally planned to go to a university (U-1) that was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend probzz POST: I (20F) have been with my boyfriend (20M) for 6 going on 7 months. I never imagined we'd be together for so long, it started off as a FWB type of thing. All has been well except for these past 2-3 weeks... We left off at college sort of on sore terms. Recently though, I feel as though I am the one carrying the team. He doesn't really talk to me unless I initiate something, and even then he does little to keep the conversation going. I feel like he's living his ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have 9 weddings to go to this year (invited to 11). What's the worst wedding experience you've ever had? POST: Mine was a few years ago. I was invited to a wedding for a girl that I knew in college. We were casual hookup buddies, but never more than that. The last time we slept together was probably a year after college was over. Three years later she calls me out of the blue to say that she's pregnant, getting married, and wants me to come to the wedding. I wasn't planning on it",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: What's acceptable for opposite gender friends? (30f) POST: I used to have a lot of guy friends, more than females, while I was younger/single. But that has changed over the years and while I'm now in a committed relationship, i really don't talk to guys anymore. In the workplace, sure but not as outside friends really. None that aren't ""our"" friends. My SO says he wouldn't care even if I did have guy friends I talked to regularly. So he has a female friend. i've met her and lik",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I need your help. POST: Hey reddit, So I'm not sure if I'm posting this to the right subreddit, I don't even know if anyone can help me, but it's worth a shot. I need your help because right now I'm suffering from a crippling depression and potentially bipolar disorder. Now I know that the thing to do is to go to the doctor, however I have tried that to no avail. I've gotten wait listed, rejected, and some places didn't even call me back. One or two said yes, but didn't accept ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need advice about not being paid enough. POST: At the end of Summer, my employer asked about the logistics behind constructing a bouldering wall (long instead of tall) for his gymnasium. He asked for a proposal with quotes from local companies, as well as a quote to do the project in-house. The cheapest quote was $40 per square foot (600 sq. ft. total). I calculated cost of materials and gave an estimate of $2,300 not including labor. He hired me, and we agreed from the start that anyt",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (25/M) fear a physical injury will keep me from meeting women and pursuing romantic relationships. How can I get around it? POST: I am a firefighter, and about a year ago I had an accident at work where I and another firefighter were on a roof trying to ventilate and the fire was in the attic, but we didn't know it. The fire weakened the roof enough that I fell through. When I fell I landed in a partially involved room, and the RIT crew got to me before anything really bad could ha",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Has anyone ever gotten anywhere by complaining to their cable internet provider about latency issues? POST: I live in Atlanta and have Comcast as my ISP. I think my internet connection gets shittier every day. I've called them more than a few times about this. I've also done the same in previous places I've lived when it gets bad. Right now if I ping a random URL (yahoo.com for example) 20 times I get 155MS as my minimum response time. Half the time I test ping responses I'll get about ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28M] wrote a poem as part of my Christmas gift to surprise my new girlfriend [26F] of 1 month. Any ideas on creative ways to deliver it? POST: I've known her for a year but we just started dating seriously. She knows I'm into writing, and she kept hinting that she wanted me to write her something for Christmas, so I wrote her a pretty long poem about our relationship and how happy I am with her. The only problem is that I can't figure out how to deliver it!! Should I just print i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with the guy I like [18 M]. I feel like he's moving too fast but I really like him. POST: We've known each other for less than a month (we are not dating) and while it was only once, it seemed like he hinted over text messaging that we could do things that involved sex next time I hang out with him. I really like this guy and up until that one text message, it seemed like he liked me and he was actually interested in my life. I don't want to be used, but I don't want him to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18/agender] have no idea what my friend [19/M] of 4 months wants - platonic or romantic? POST: Here's the scenario: I'm 18 and genderqueer; he's 19 and cisgender. We attend the same college, share several classes, have similar interests and passions, and have compatible personalities. We're friends and spend time together as such - helping eachother with homework, running, talking about music, texting eachother random jokes etc. We spend more time together than with other friends,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Short relationship between me [20 M] and ex [20 F] ended and I'm trying to figure out if a friendship is worth it. POST: After dating this girl who's been a close friend for a while, at about the time when I started getting cold feet (although I didn't say anything) she broke up with me. For context, she cheated on her last partner with me, and they broke up a week later. Within a week after that we started seeing each other, but it wasn't exclusive until 2 weeks before the end. Af",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [28/f] doesn't want me to do steroids [27/m]. POST: Before anything I really do not want your opinion on the legality aspect of it. Many of the notions of steroids are completely mythical and often come from misinformed people. My girlfriend is a very good, sweet girl, if not a bit emotional. She admittedly knows little to nothing about steroids. I have used steroids in the past safely and have done everything in my power to communicate to her that they are safe, told",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] with my [22F] Girlfriend of 8 Years, who thinks that our relationship has become just friends. POST: Ok, So first things first, we have been dating for the past 8 years and last night we had a fight. What we fought about is the fact that we used to have sex frequently, but the past year and a half it's been barely anything physical. So, last night I explained that the reason I desire this is because I want to feel that level of intimacy and to experience her on that level.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: (F20) It bothers me when my best female friend (F21) does this...and it happens often; what do I do? POST: We have been friends since we were kids, we grew up together. I can't even remember a time in my life when she wasn't there. Not to sound conceited, but I'd say we are both fairly attractive young women. Apparently, we even look alike. A lot of people even ask if we are related. As far as I know, neither of us have been jealous of each other about anything. HOWEVER, lately she",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [23 M] First time possibly entering long term relationship. POST: ** TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] with my boyfriend [20 M] of seven months, I found a used condom on top of his trash? POST: Hi /r/relationships, I'm kind of freaking out right now. I went to my boyfriend's apartment in between classes to take a shower, since it's closer than mine and I figured I was only going to be there for maybe twenty minutes. Stopping by like this is pretty normal for us. He was home but working on an assignment, so I let him be. I took my shower, but when I got out I noticed a use",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Advices on females perspective on affection for males. POST: 25M here and my GF who is 25M broke up with me because I don't show affection like she wants. I truly love her and have always been blinded because I thought I was showing her love but after reading the 5 Languages of Love I realized everybody shows love differently and I should have understood her needs to do that. However I kept explaining to her I show her love by doing this and that but really she just wanted more affec",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [17 M], and I have a question with a girl [17 F] I asked out. POST: So long story short, asked out a girl I just met after school, she said ""let's get to know each other a little bit"". I got her number the same day, texted her the same day, this was 4 days ago. Yes I know it was pretty fast, so anyways... Just now I sent her a message if she wanted to ""grab something to eat with me over the weekend"" since she said she wasn't doing anything at all. Now I also mentioned ""I want to",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What kind of weird stuff are your 'workers' (house keepers, plumbers, gardeners, etc.) into? POST: I had the plumber come to our house today to unclog the kitchen sink and we started chit chatting about random things. At one point, we started talking about places we visited around the world. I told him about some of the places I've visited and then suddenly he turns semi-serious and says, ""I know it doesn't look like it but I have a very special gift"". The rest of the conversation goes ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [17/f] don't know what to do about a guy how thinks I like him [16/m] POST: So I used to like this guy whose a year younger than me in my school and he thought I was cute and would tell his friends so one of his friends told me. Anyways he gave me his number and we texted a lot and I went over his house and hung out (didn't do anything sexual) and went to the park. Well now, I don't know what happened I don't really like him at all. But he still likes me and texts me every ot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [39 M] with my girlfriend [28 F] of two months - maybe I shouldn't be this close with her so quick? POST: Out of an 18 year relationship a little over 4 months ago. Relationship was devoid of sex. After becoming single, I began dating around - primarily to, well, get sex! In doing so I unexpectedly found a really great girl, lets call her Michelle, with whom I'm very compatible. I actually feel like I care about her a lot, and while the sex is great, frequent, and communication is",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15m] with my bf [16M] 2 yrs, he only wants me when we are alone POST: I've been with my bf now for 2 years. I'm out he's not. We've always hung out together as best freinds as well as boyfriends now he's only interested in bf bit of our relationship when no one else is around. He sleeps over at mine 3-4 nights a week and we have great sex but after he never wants to cuddle it's wham bam the sleep. I do enjoy it but want more. When we are out he keeps me at arms length and I'",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I had $40 USD stolen from my PayPal account 10/06 and now the scammer is attempting to blackmail me to unfreeze the transaction. What can I do? POST: Throwaway for obvious reasons. I have received an e-mail from PayPal on 10/06 stating that I had sent a payment of $40 USD to an ""Andrew White"". Since I have no idea who this is and I have not purchased anything via PayPal that day I was suspicious straight away. I reported the transaction and made sure to change my password & secret questi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23/f) am falling too deep for my (24/m) partner, it's only been a year. POST: April 2014- I end a toxic relationship with Ex. We were both living with my mom, due to the disagreements she told me to move out so he could stay. May-June- Ex always made me feel terrible for enjoying sex so I went rogue. I was living in my car but mostly bed hopping with fwbs. One of my main fwbs is my now boyfriend. I developed genuine feelings for him which scared me so were kept in the dark. He ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [30/m] girlfriend [25/f] wants to keep our relationship a secret until she is financially independent, should I stay? POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 2 years now and are finishing med school, and starting training together at the same hospital in July. She has kept our relationship a secret from her parents because they are super religious/racially prejudiced and would not accept it (I am agnostic), and probably wouldn't accept me initially. My entire family has m",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: By not checking the right email POST: So, today is my first day of grad school. Yesterday I was on campus checking out the library when I discovered I had been checking the wrong email. I have for months been receiving important emails to my gmail and this webpage where I would get notifications of important messages. I thought that this was the email service. I was very wrong. Imagine the sinking feeling when I was using campus computers and was provided a link to the webmail servi",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Puppy is possessive over food. Help! POST: My 11 week old mix puppy (was told he was mostly black mouth cur, but have been hearing he looks Pitt lately, plus who knows what else) becomes quite aggressive when it comes to food. He will eat our other dog's (10 y/o f shepherd mix - sweetest dog) food when fed at the same time. He will also steal treats out of her mouth (dingo bones and such). When you even try to pet him while he's enjoying a nice treat he will growl and snarl at you. O",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Not sure if i should break up with my [22/f] GF POST: We have been together for almost a year and a half. Granted we are recently back together after a couple months apart because we thought that was best. We started hooking up again after the breakup and then proceeded to get back together. Now that we're on the same page, she loves me and said told me once but knew that I wasn't on the same page. We've have conversations about me not loving her yet and we more or less chalked",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/M] am uneasy of my girlfriend's [F/21] employer [M/28] showing interest in her POST: My girlfriend is 21, and we've been together for 1.5 years. We've been through a lot: travel, abortion, monetary issues, etc. Recently we've been long-distance because she needed to go down to California to make money to go to Germany this Spring. While down in California, her employer was giving her a lot of hints, despite the fact that she explicitly said she's in a relationship and isn't i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] of 3 years, wants to post on gonewild. I don't know what to do. POST: Okay. I posted this in askreddit and they told me to post it here. I don't know if it belongs as I've never posted or really visited here on my regular account. If it is not allowed than please delete it. So. My girlfriend and I were hanging out last night talking about sex and stuff and she told me that she wants to put a picture up on gonewild. I didn't think she was serious u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [m/22] and I [f/22] want to tell my parents about our relationship, but are hesitant because of my strict Muslim parents. POST: Hey everyone! A little background on my bf and I. We've been dating for almost a year and we were best friends before that. He's my first boyfriend and we fell deep in love and want to get married in the future. He converted to Islam a few months after we started going out, for personal and obvious reasons. We're both applying to the same medica",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my crush [20 F], we've both broken up with people a few months ago, but I think I might like her POST: After my break up with my gf at the time, one of my friends introduced me to one of her mutual friends who'd also just been through a messy break up. Both of us have had lapses for a couple of weeks with our ex's, but are both now moving on (it's been 3 months). We've gotten quite close in last few months, and I think she's really funny, cute and quirky as a person ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by abusing my bf in his sleep POST: So this actually happened about a year ago. My bf and I had been dating for a couple of months and we decided to start staying over at one another's home. Everything was going fine until one night, I had this strange vivid dream where I slapped someone across the face. Then suddenly got woken up by a loud scream. I had apparently slapped my bf, he had a massive red hand print across his face. He started accusing me of doing it deliberately, and wit",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Guy[34m] I[24f] have both an emotional and physical connection with won't take the next step POST: So I've known this guy for 4 years now, we worked together for 3 years and always got along very well. He then left that job and around then we started getting very close, talking to each other over text messages. This texting back and forth has been going on for a year now and in the last like 3 months we've talked every single day. We joke around, make fun of each other, share i",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/m] I missed my chance.. What do I do? POST: One of my best friends (19/f) recently got married and I still have feelings for her. We met senior year of high school and became good friends real fast. I was her Winter ball date and she was my prom date. Right as I was about to ask her out as boyfriend/girlfriend, one of her exs asked her out and they dated for a few months. After we graduated I moved 3 hours away for college and she stayed in our home town and ended up gettin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Mom {38, F} is driving me {19,F} insane! How do I handle it without hurting her? POST: My mom and I have never really gotten along. I have always been a ""Daddy's Girl"". I lived with him for a long time. Now I live with my mom so I can continue to go to my college. We also have a roommate living here {M, 40} and my sister {F, 15} Mom told us about the roommate and said that he, CJ, was moving in for financial reasons. The thing is, we don't need it. We live in a big house, my mom ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [19M] admit my bisexuality to my girlfriend [18F] of two years and deal with sexual attraction to a close mutual friend [19M]? POST: Hey everyone, throwaway account since the people involved are on Reddit and this question is sort of incriminating. My girlfriend and I have been in a sometimes rocky but overall enjoyable relationship for nearly two years now. I've struggled a bit with my sexuality over the past few years but never really came up with anything definitive unt",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: I really need your help. I've been denied employment because I failed a drug test due to a prescription drug I take (Adderall) and it's their policy to not hire anyone that fails a drug test, regardless of circumstances. POST: My friend got me an interview at a nursing home. The interview went great, and I'm more than qualified for the job I applied for. The person that interviewed me was the director of nursing and she basically told me I was in, so I filled out some paperwork. I went",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my GF [27 F] of 2 years, potential distance issue, looking for advice. POST: My GF of 2 years has an interview in North Carolina for a job that would be a GREAT fit for her. It is exactly what she has went to school for, and has been striking out where we live now. We currently live together in Chicago (for about a year) and my work will keep me here. I encouraged her to apply elsewhere as she was having incredible difficulty finding something close., but I was hopi",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (18m) think that my girlfriend (18f) is too sensitive. POST: Okay, I'm just going to hop into this because I don't really know where to begin. I have been dating my current girlfriend for about 1 year and 7 months. Lately I've been noticing something that I haven't been able to put words on for the past few months, that she is too sensitive as I mentioned in the title. For example, earlier today she had gone to the doctors appt while I had a band audition (we live together).",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Recovering From Inactivity POST: age 32 sex female height 5'11"" weight unsure, around 80kg to 83kg race caucasian meds 400mg seroquel m/r daily, methadone 13mg daily reducing 2mg/month. i have been housebound for over 3 years (anxiety related to dental issues, gad, and panic attacks, along with cyclothymia and severe lack of energy after starting on seroquel.), and very immobile. i lack energy, and have been on a sofa for all that time outside of go",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (28F) and my boyfriend (32M) of 2.5 years, I love him but we don't have sex POST: *Me (28F) and my boyfriend** Okay kids long time lurker, virgin poster, so here goes. I'm going to make this short because it isn't a very complicated situation with a lot of detail, but nonetheless need some advice as I'm too embarrassed to talk about it with my friends. Me and Bill (it's a cool name but not his) love each other a lot. We have a great relationship in that we are both extremely re",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/m] I have been asked (indirectly) by a girl I like (18/f) to pursue her. I love the idea and plan on doing it, but I just realized that I don't actually know how. POST: I'll keep the story short. Basically, I havent had a girlfriend in over a year, but that's not really the issue. My last couple girlfriends since I was 16 all came about from growing sexual tension until it just culminated and we just had sex so everyone could go back to their lives. This, however, is differ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Where did I(M17) Fuck up? (F16) POST: Well, where do I begin. First of all I like this girl, Caitlin. She dated my best friend(pete) and that how we first met. They broke up about 7 months ago and that's when she first started talking to me. At first I didn't take much of it. She started to flirt with me and like an idiot I started to do it back. This is when she ask if i liked her, I said yes. I instantly regretted it. I didn't know what to do, I started to panic. He didn't see eac",negative " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by thinking a man with Parkinson's disease was trying to dry hump my wife. POST: This was literally 20 minutes ago at the local Denny's. As we were walking in to sign our names it was fairly packed being Christmas day. A young couple is walking out the same time we were walking in. I notice the man staring intently at my wife while moving his hips back and forth vigorously. Normally I do not care when someone makes a look or even a pass at her because what am i going to do about it start",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: My father died and left some debt behind. I'm worried my mother may liable for it. Please help. (UK) POST: My father passed away at the weekend and he had 2 credit cards and a loan in his name. My mother knows about them as they were decisions they took together, however they are just individual debt in my dad's name. I know individual debt is usually settled from the estate that's left behind and then cancelled but my mum and dad had joint bank accounts that the loan was paid into",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/M] In foggy relationship with (ex?)(20/F), unsure of how to approach dating. POST: This is kind of a long setup, I apologize in advance. About a year and a half ago, I had been accepted to a university, and was living in my hometown as part of a transitional phase. Spent some time with some old friends from high school, reconnected with, at the time, (20/F) friend. I expressed interest in dating her, she kind of beat around the bush for a few days, figured she wasn't inter",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: It might be my anxiety getting the best of me, but I need help asking out a girl POST: I recently moved to a new place and, through a friend, have come to be introduced to a girl who I am quickly developing a crush on. She and I have hung out with our friends a few times and I get good vibes from her. She likes my taste in music (which is a huge surprise for me), laughs at my jokes, and is a very pleasant person to be around. The mutual friend who introduced us has told me that",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M/F] with my gf [24 M/F] of 8 years. I've been waiting for sex for over 4 years. Still a virgin. I think I'm done. POST: We started dating in HS and continued into college. We had a LDR for a year between. She told me when we moved in together at college that we'd have sex. We had already been dating for 4 years when she told me this. Well... 4 years later and it still hasn't happened. Turn out she has some condition that makes it incredibly painful to have PIV sex. There'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (20M) made out with my best friend of 7yrs sister (18F). POST: My best friend of 8 years invites me to his older brothers 21st birthday tonight. Well best friend (kyle) isnt drinking i have no clue why. Whatever i drink without him. Im playing beer pong and havin fun being lively and what not well his younger sister (haley) is also there im outside for a bit i light up a cigar im walking around taking in the country. I walk around the house haley is there puffing away at a cigaret",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (25F) think my brother (23M) is depressed and not looking after himself and I don't know how to help him. POST: My brother (23M) has been gaining a lot of weight over the past couple of years (about 30kg). He plays video games late into the night and sleeps most of the day when he isn't working. He is disillusioned by his studies because he has been studying for 5 years but due to administration circumstances beyond his control, still has over 2 years to go until he qualifies to wo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I(18m) see if my ex(17f) will take me back? POST: Two weeks ago, my girlfriend of ten months broke up with me. Lately, we'd been fighting a lot and so she decided she couldn't do it anymore, hence the breakup. We still talk regularly, and she still calls me at night when she has nightmares (which is a common occurance) and also whenever she needs to talk about something that's bothering her. I still love her and I miss her very much, and am reasonably sure that if I were",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I[19 M] get to know a stranger [19 F] better? POST: Hi! So recently this girl at school piqued my interest in her. She's a friend of my friend. I only found this out when I told my friend she was pretty. I didn't ask my friend to introduce me to her cause I was embarrassed. But after my friend left and she was going to leave school. I don't know why but I just went up to talk to her and explained that I told her that I told our mutual friend that I thought she was pretty. She",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How to stop my bf (3yrs) to stop smoking!!!! POST: Sorry for the misleading title!! It should be: What can I do to make sure bf keeps to his promise!? My bf (28yo) and I (23yo) been together for the last 3years and we spent the first 2 years as long distance.. Here's the thing I have always known that he is a smoker and have been since he was a teenager. But this last 3 months we have gotten an apartment together and we now live together. He promised me sometime ago that he'd on",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My friend,[20/f], may be coming on to me. [20/m] POST: I have a semi-ldr with her (nearby, but different cities) and we usually just interact through text every now and then. Lately she's been giving me signals that she's interested in me and it seems like she wants me to ask her out on a date or hang out. Consequently, she asked to meet up sometime when I'm not busy. Now, I have a feeling this will end up in a situation where she'd want to be in a relationship, and I just wa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I don't understand women... POST: Last week I was flying back home and ended up in the middle seat. When I sat down this lady walks by and sits next to me. Worth mentioning is that she had one of the biggest, fattest wedding rings I have seen probably ever. First thing she does is buckles herself then pushes up the divider thing between us, turns to me and says like this is the first time she is flying by herself and she is not uptight so if I wanted to I can lean on her and all she will",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my SO [16 F] 1.5 months, short-description POST: My relationship started about a month and a half ago. I really really like this girl. I have since the second I met her and I still really really like her. However, The main problem is my girlfriend have broken the I love you barrier. But she thinks that I don't mean it when I say it. I do. I love this girl like no tomorrow. But I feel like she is shielding herself off from me, because she either A. Doesn't trust me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (25/F) know that this guy (27/M) is into me? POST: Hi everyone! I'm using a throwaway because I know he is on reddit. Anyway! I've been off and on with this guy for about two years now. We've hung out occasionally, but we have only slept together twice. When we hang out, it's usually informal things, like grabbing a drink or coffee. We never really talked about dating, in fact, we both dated other people during the months when we didn't hang out. We have A LOT in common, ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Leaving a company and feel that they have broke my employment agreement POST: I live in the US. I am leaving a company for another job and had signed an employment agreement. Lots of standard things in it (vacation defined, PTO defined, non-compete, etc). One thing that has always bothered me is that the wording of certain parts. Particularly when it came to my benefits. I started as a part time employee, and signed all documents when I was a part time employee, but what I signe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my [24F] ex-gf coming to visit, starting a new relationship [25F], can I avoid awkwardness? POST: Background: I dated a girl for about 4 years, mostly through college. We broke up a little over a year ago, but we are still very close and talk frequently. She has been going through some tough times recently, some mental health issues, lost her job, and family problems. These all have been going on for a long time, but she has been getting more and more depressed about t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [28M] way into [26F] - unavailable. Walk away right? POST: Keeping this hopefully to the point. Girl I've known for a good while (like 9 months) through mutual friends, we get on great but rarely get chance to hang out. In that place between acquaintances and friends. Last weekend she asked me out for a day in the country then had to bail, I rearranged for this weekend and we go out. I flirt, but she doesn't reciprocate much other than complimenting me a couple times. We hang out al",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (F/28) BF (M/36) has a tattoo that he says he wants to get rid of because female friend doesn't like it. Am I over reacting? POST: This seems a bit like I'm over reacting but I'm not sure if it's just because that's what he says. We've been dating for a little over 6 months now and have had small arguments here about my jealous tendencies. I've tried very hard over the past few months to get better control of it. But the argument last night felt like I was justified in being upset",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my Fiancee's [24F] parents[M & F 50's] 6 years, Who pays for the wedding when families are very different in size? POST: I recently proposed to my lovely girlfriend of 6 years. We are great and we are just starting to look at wedding plan and start to get an idea of budgets. We are not set on a huge wedding and are not planning anything extravagant. A taco bar is looking like the catering, to give you an idea of how laid back we are. I make about $46K a year and a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ex-GF Problems POST: Hey Reddit, so I'm in a bit of a predicament. About a month ago I broke up with my girlfriend of 9 months . I had sometimes suspected she was cheating on me, but never caught her and she was always calm and reasonable when I confronted her about it, so I always let it go. Anyway, I'm currently forced to live with her for the month of June (we had made housing plans before I broke up with her). While she could theoretically live at home, I wanted to be the gentleman ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I selfish(22 yrs), spoiled brat for wanting comfort from my boyfriend (26 yrs) when he is ""busy""? POST: Saturday night my boyfriend's roommate had a huge party. My former best friend showed up. My best friend (23) and I (22) have been best friends for over ten years. She lived with my family and I for free for a few years also. I thought of her as more than a sister. About 3 months ago she disappeared from my radar without an explanation or goodbye. It feels like someone stabbed m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So you're contacted by a past friend who has had drug problems since your last contact, what do you do? POST: In the area I live in, herion/oxycodone addiction is an epidemic and many people who I was friends with in high school have faced (or are facing) this problem first hand. I'm not exactly someone who trusts just anyone, especially after years without contact, and can not stand to be associated with drug addicts in ANY way - not for support, not for friends, not for a shoulder..no",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend of one year has been cheating on me with another guy for a month POST: We are both 18 and have been dating for a year ands half. We have been best friends for practically two years. We are moving into together at the beginning of August, the lease is signed and everything but here is how it goes. Throughout the month of late April through June I was going towards a rough patch in my life in which I would pretty much smoke everyday and would hangout with my friends a lot ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with guy I'm dating [23M] a little over a month, not sure if I should go to his Halloween party POST: This guy is super awesome and I'm going to skip a lot of the intro stuff because I kind of need advice rather quickly. Basically him and his roommates are having a Halloween party tonight and I was invited in the beginning stages of its planning. I've been seeing him about once a week, sometimes more. He bought tickets for and took me to see Modest Mouse on Wednesday, and he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28M] with my __fwb_ [21F] of 3 months, she just ended it because she said we were developing feelings and a relationship was happening. POST: We have been in a fwb situation since October. It started off typical enough, but we enjoyed each other's company so much. We'd Make each other dinner, she introduced me to her friends, I went and saw a play she was in. It still seemed kind of casual, but I definitely liked her a lot. We'd hang out once a week. We hung out and hooked up",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/M] Don't know how to feel, don't know how to react, don't know my best course of action with an old friend [17/F] POST: So I've known this girl for a while now. I used to have a stupid grade school crush on her that I never planned on acting on until she started dating... my best friend. It has since been a month and a half or so since they broke up and I'm damn near certain she likes me. I helped her through her breakup, I said some really nice things while drunk (lol righ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my ex [22 F], slept together and it set me back. Should I talk to her about it? POST: My ex broke up with me about 15 months ago after a 3 year relationship. We ended up in different locations shortly after. We semi stayed in contact but eventually I found out she was with someone else and it crushed me so much I cut contact. Then ~4 months ago I found out I would be moving to the same city. There weren't any hard feelings or anything between us so I let her know I",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] I like my friend (21/f), she's been onto me but I don't know what to do. POST: I've got a friend whom I really love as a friend and really like sexually. The thing is that since the last 4 times or so that we've met (BBQ-parties), she's been onto me and been touching me and then later turned to make out with what ever guy there is available. I am a really shy person so when I try to show her that I like her it comes out more like pathetic friendly hugs or comments or wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: F(24) Apparently I make all the relationships in my life crash and burn. POST: I don't know what I'm doing wrong anymore. No matter what I do or how hard I try it feels like life keeps bitchslapping me in the face. I've done some things I regret in the last year or so, sure, but not enough to warrant this kind of negative karma. I've lost friends, lost my job, couldn't afford my therapist and then she turned out to be wildly unprofessional when I left (leaving me with even *more* iss",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with [20/F], putting myself in the right mindset for relationships/ POST: I always picture a relationship in my head as something specific, and I feel like I have the wrong mindset on them. I can't put my finger on it, but I feel like I'm always trying to win something in a relationship. I feel like there is a lot of pressure to try to win the girl over, and I end up overdoing things to try to ""win her heart"" so to speak. Basically, I just want help to change my mindse",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: We've seen ""best comeback"" threads, but what are some of your worst comebacks, reddit? POST: Some friends and I were at Wal-Mart at around midnight recently (because sometimes we like to take in the show). We were minding our own business, passing through electronics, when a women passed by us, coming from the other direction. As she passed, she let out a loud sigh and said ""Get a life..."" Thus began The Great War for mjdgoldeneye's Brain. She was talking to someone on the other sid",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Should I accept the money? POST: My friend's boyfriend's sister is getting married soon and my friend's brother contacted me and asked me if I would put together a video for them to play for the Bridal Party. I was happy to do it. I have made videos like this in the past for graduation parties and such, but they have all been for close family so I never charged. When he first contacted me he said he would pay me, and we talked about it again today and he said he would text me next week to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my ex [17F] of 2 years, get back together POST: Me and my ex got together about 2,5 years ago, we were really close, but towards the end of the relationship I started losing interest. One week before she broke up with me after telling me several times to please give her more attention, she cheated on me with a guy she met online (sent nudes, counts as cheating). I did not know about this, for a very long time. We talked very rarely for about a year or so, and I never",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Relationship] Me [18 F] with my boyfriend [19 M] 9 mo, He's getting frustrated about not being accepted into a fraternity, I need help on what to do! POST: Alright. So. Boyfriend was looking forward into being accepted into a fraternity that all his friends are apart of. He asked his mom to send down his suit, he bought a new pair of shoes, and he was looking forward to it until he got the news that he wasn't accepted. . .by one vote. He responds by saying he'll never rush agai",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: No matter how good things were going, the relationship just suddenly ended POST: We are both 28, known each other for years and got together 6 months ago. In the last few weeks she has been distant, we were very patient with each other and communicate very calmly and often. We were very happy together and then suddenly she said she is feeling numb and wasn't sure why but assured me that it was nothing that I was doing. So on our 6 month anniversary she comes over to tell me she wants a br",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (M/21) don't know if my friend (F/19) is hitting on me or not? POST: About seven months ago, I went through a nasty breakup. I'm still not completely over it, sometimes I feel really depressed but I've been doing okay. I've tried online dating but it just hasn't worked. Anyway, two of my good friends just broke up. They always seemed like the happiest couple but one day they just decided to end things and it came as a shock to everyone. Erica was devastated and depressed that thi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my boyfriend [31 M] of 3 years -- is it normal to consider leaving him every time we fight? POST: Hi guys, thanks for your help in advance. I've been dating my boyfriend P for 3 years. I love him, unlike I've ever loved anyone before. I don't think there's anyone else in the world like him. We own a business together, have a band together, work on various other projects together and live together. We own a car together. We just moved 2000 miles away from our hometown",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I being stupid by waiting for this girl? POST: Hey reddit, So here's the deal. I really like this girl and she says she likes me back. We talk and txt all the time and we have gone on a couple simple ""dates"" to the caf for lunch and dinner. (I'm in college btw) But anyhow, the problem is that she is currently in a relationship with another guy. She met him when she got to school, (shes a freshman I'm a sophomore) and they have been sorta together since then. He doesn't ever take",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] with my boyfriend [28 M] of 3 years, I don't know if I should break up with him POST: My boyfriend and I met at uni and after a few years of being friends we started dating and have been together for over 3 years. During this time we have always been in an LDR but since we both changed cities the distances have varied a lot during the years (1 train ride to the other side of the world). Now we have both settled down in 2 different countries and see each other 2 out 3 weeken",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] need tips to what i should say to my boss [24 M] when i quit my internship to be a intern in another company POST: Hello people from reddit! I already thought of some stuff that i should say, but i'm really looking into gathering more things to say because this is my first time doing it. I work in customer service in a medium-sized company. I like working here, but it is not related to what i'm doing at university (computer science). I made an interview to work in one of t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My uncle has Cerebral Palsy, ideas for activities for him to do that are easy day to day tasks? POST: My uncle has Cerebral Palsy, ideas for activities for him to do that are easy day to day tasks? THANK YOU SO MUCH for looking at this, even if its briefly, it helps raise awareness about the condition. For a little background, my uncle is full body affected (including speech) by CP. He has been living with at home by himself for the last 20 so years by himself since my dad moved out when",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my crush [22 F] been talking to each other for, like, a week. A question about Facebook message interpretations POST: Basically, i've had a crush on a girl at the school i go to, but i was waiting for the right time to talk to her and break the ice. Y'know, break the ice. However, all my plans fell out the window when someone who overheard me passively mentioning said crush to a friend and ran to her and told her that i liked her. Now we're just sorta talking over Face",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] wonder what's the point of trying when most relationships hurt and fail POST: Hey all, please excuse the pessimism. I'll give some context, first: I've had two girlfriends cheat on me, I've seen my friend cheat and get cheated on, my father has cheated on my mother, etcetera etcetera. Now, some of these couples broke up, some worked things out, but had major trust issues and horrible arguments (like my parents) for the rest of the relationship. In other instances, I see fr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23/F] girlfriend [29/F] bought n iPhone despite us being ridiculously broke. POST: I wanted to say no, because we're broke af. But I can't because it IS her money and she can do whatever she wants with it. (I am very sorry and this maybe very shallow but this is one of the many problems I have right now and I can't talk to anyone. I'm going crazy.) I stopped working (am a freelancer) because she wanted me to focus on my studies so she alone supports us both plus our 4 dogs. So ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm sure my job is trying to screw me over, but I don't know how to sort things out. POST: I work for a supermarket in the UK as a Home delivery driver/monkey. About 6 weeks ago, my boss asked me if I wanted to change from doing 2.5 days a week, to 5 + overtime in the 'office' where everything is prepared. I've been working about 50hours a week instead of 15 and was lead to believe my contract had been changed after a phonecall and foolishly I didn't sign anything. When I asked my manage",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I think I'm on the verge of a break up. POST: I'll try to be brief and answer any questions. Last week, my ex girlfriend whom i was in a LDR with was in a very serious car accident. She hadn't contacted me in 2 weeks and I thought she had gone missing (she had actually been missing before, was stranded in Malaysia). Anyway, she lives in Thailand and I had no way of making contact with her. As a result, I've been extremely worried over the past few days, and have been calling vari",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Question regarding strange behavior in roommate POST: My girlfriend and I share a house with a longtime friend of hers, a really nice gal whom we both get along famously with. Thus far, things have gone swimmingly and there's been a complete lack of conflict or tension. However, we've noticed a behavior of our roommate's that is truly bizarre and has us scratching our heads. I'm wondering if anyone in the Reddit community has experienced this or has any insight as to whether it's indicat",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] figuring it out with [25 M]. Known each other a month. Laid my feelings out. I think he just wants to be friends but not sure POST: So, I recently opened up to a friend that I had a crush on him via text while I was a bit drunk. (I know that was a dumb decision, no need to rehash that). But his response via text was kind of vague. Like you're a ""great girl"" etc. And as such, I made a comment about us being friends and that seemed to be the end of it. I suck at this stu",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Having My Liquid Break in Middle School POST: About 5 years ago I was a yung Asian-American boy just trying to find his way through middle school without getting bullied much in the savage jungle that is... middle school. The fuck-up lied in my mind.. or my pants.. or both. Well, moving forward, I was horrible in front of others and cared *EXTREMELY* about what others thought of my actions, so much so that...onetimeinscienceclassididntwanttogetuptoasktheteacher(whowasbehindallmyc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [23 F] and I [23 M] broke up Sunday after 5 years. It's now Wednesday and I'm making out with another girl. Am I a scumbag? POST: The break up was (mostly) mutual. We were both aware we had issues and that something needed to be done (the relationship seriously lacked intimacy and companionship). Difference is I thought we could work on it and she obviously didn't. Now there's this girl who I started talking to just before the breakup (Saturday), and it was completely platoni",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I convince my boyfriend to experiment sexually with me? POST: Back story: He was in a relationship for six years and apparently ran the gamut on sex. When they broke up and we got together, I essentially lost my virginity to him and am sort of sexually naive. He's tied me up a few times and I enjoy anal, but there are still things I've always wanted to try that he won't because ""he's done it before and it doesn't work."" Like sex in the water, like a bath or hot tub. I don't want",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 M] sister [29 F] cheated on her boyfriend, wants support from me POST: My sister recently became exclusive with this guy, but she's had a couple hiccups. He's traveled for family reasons the past two weeks but returned the two or three days ago. They hung out the day he returned from his trip, but he's been a little MIA this weekend. She reached out to him via text, but his responses were pretty infrequent. She said she was feeling insecure and since I wasn't there to babysit ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[34M] best friend has a 'fear of commitment' or else he'd be with me[30F] POST: I'm pretty much in love with my best friend, who I also have a friends with benefits relationship with. He has made it clear that he doesn't want a relationship right now and I completely respect that. I'm not clingy and I never pester him about trying to change his mind. The last thing I would want is to FORCE someone to be in a relationship with me. Last year, we started dating and a few months in h",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, if you smoke cigarettes why do you do so? Bonus, what got you into smoking and how old were you when you started? POST: Title says it all. My answer is that I started smoking at the age of 17 because I my entire family smoked and I was around them all the time. Not only that, but a lot of my friends smoked as well as I enjoy and enjoyed doing it. I understand that its bad for you, but I like doing it and we've all got to die of something it may as well be of something that I like",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever seen what felt like another dimension in a dream? Specifically, a kind of ""afterlife""? POST: Disclaimer: First off, I just want to say that I'm not religious and truly don't know how I feel about what happens after death. I'm just genuinely curious about the general reddit population's thoughts and experiences on this, which is why this isn't in a dreaming subreddit etc. Here's my story: I lost my dad about 5 years ago, and every once in a while I will dream about him. Th",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does anyone know of any websites or anything were I can get an old beat up antiques to restore? POST: Ok so I'm trying to get my dad something for Christmas. He is in his 50's and due to a string of accidents at work and medical issues, he is no longer able to work and has been out on disability. My dad has never been the type of person to sit around, he's worked his whole life and is incredibly handy. However recently because he hasn't been able to work he has been very bored and I can",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my Boyfriend [26 M] of 8 months. I am unhappy, but do not want to end the relationship POST: Some background about myself: Since I started college in 2012, I have had depression or at least on/off episodes of depression. I also have extremely crippling, low self-esteem. Due to these mental/emotional problems, I find it extremely difficult to be alone. When I am not alone, I feel OK. When I am alone, I am a fucking nightmare. That said, I haven't been single in a long",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [45M] with my ___ [45F] 20yr duration., Crisis point, welcome perspective of older redittors with kids POST: My partner and I have been together over 20 years. We have 4 kids, She is bipolar. I have health issues and the last few years ED. Earlier there was an obsession and affair. It was clearly manic stuff, so we moved on. Maybe about half way through she started shunning me in bed. it was painful. I adapted. A just satisfactory sex life ensued, but it was hard for me for yea",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] always cut friendship with previous girlfriends. Do I have a problem or is it normal? POST: Hello! Lurker from couple months on this subreddit. I am 24yo and i just recently split up with a girl. Even though I try to be a tough guy that got into mud/obstacle races and marathons I am seriously really sensitive in relationships with women. Being lurker I came across this particular statement at other thread ""I don't think it's that weird to stay friendly with someone you at",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I moved to the other side of the planet for this - and now the connection isn't what it should be. How can I find where we should be? POST: We met online (f/US/31) and (m/Aussie/33). We started talking via email about 9 months ago. He came to stay with me for a few weeks and things went amazingly. It was the best few weeks I'd ever had. We spent hours and hours a day on IM together, in addition to long, detailed emails about our goals and personalities. Things were rocky, partly bec",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need advice on child custody and parental rights! POST: Ok so I'm going to make this short as I can. I have a 4yr old. His mother has full custody, I pay child support, but for the last 2 1/2 years the child has been with me at LEAST 50% of the time, and the last 5 months he has been with me 80% of the time. I work fulltime, go to school full time, and I still pay her child support even when I have my child as much as I do. The reason I do not push for joint custody at this time is: ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: For the past 4-5 months, I have been receiving bills from many companies addressed to a person with a name/address similar to mine. Also phone calls from multiple healthcare providers requesting payment for treatments I did not receive. Could it be related? How can I stop it? Details inside. POST: I moved to a new apartment in July. Shortly after, I began receiving bills from multiple places (collection agencies, Sallie Mae) for a person with similar identification info to my own. B",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23m] and sticky situation with friends [24m, 25m, and 26m] POST: I have an odd situation involving some close friends of mine that I would love some advice on. So I dated this girl [20f] for roughly 8-9 months, and we broke up in the beginning of December on not the best terms. 3 days later one of my good friends [26m] hits her up and they begin a thing. I found out about that like halfway through January, and talked to him about the situation. He swore up and down that it was d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend[20 F] 5 months, left me because of her illness POST: She left me because she felt her recovering from her mental issues was being hindered by our relationship nurturing an unhealthy dependency upon me for her happiness. Everything was perfect between us otherwise. I want to help her but it seems the best thing we could do is give her space and call our relationship off completely. But I love this girl, honestly. I have had many girlfriends but she is the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [18F] SO [17M] pays more attention to his phone than me. [9 months] POST: Side note: Keep in mind that 17 is age of consent where I'm from, in case people are concerned about that for some reason. So this kind of started a while ago, but it was never really a big deal until today. Before today, we'd be on the phone, usually at night, and whenever there was a gap in the conversation, I'd hear the sounds of a Game Grumps video in the background, probably on his phone. When I start",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] am in the most perfect LDR with my SO [28M] and really don't wanna f**k up this time... Any advice please? POST: We've been together for 8 months and it's like living the dream. He lives abroad but we've been making it work, we see each other ever 2 or 3 weeks and I have never been happier. Butttt... I have a terrible history with men (or great, depending on your angle - I've experienced a few more than my fair share) and I'm so desperate to not fuck this one up. To summaris",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Autistic stepson (8m) stole some toys. His mother has reached out to us for the first time. Husband (30m) and I (30f) want to handle this right. Please help! POST: Hello r/relationships! As the title says, my husband has a son who is 8m, and autistic. Differing doctor opinions on Asperger's or high functioning. He is hard to communicate with as his vocabulary is very limited. Husband and I have been together 7 years, married 4. Husband's ex has reached out to him (for the first time",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] talking with my Ex BF [ 23M] after a year and a half of no contact.. I don't trust him..How to proceed? POST: Hello All, In 2014 I had shared the BEST 5 months of my life with my ex boyfriend. Honestly, I don't even know where to begin.. the spark and connection was just there. Unfortunately, he had a LOT of things going on at the time and decided it was best to part ways. Some of his circumstances included..losing his home, step father issues (jail for domestic violence) ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (f20) am saying goodbye to SO (M21) tomorrow and don't know how to deal. POST: I(F20) have been with my SO(M21) for a only 4 months. We were trying to not be ""too serious"" because he was leaving at the end of the semester to study abroad and then he is done with school. He is moving home, which is multiple states away, after he is through studying abroad. Lately things have been going fantastic, and we both are ""in too deep"" with each other and having a difficult time with the idea",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My girlfriend is being threatened with termination, help please and I might design (photoshop/ illustrator) you something. POST: My girlfriend is getting threats to be fired at her job for not working some insane extra hours. She already works on everage an extra 2 hours per shift. Tonight she will have to stay till near midnight (the job is 9 to 5) after being directly confronted. Apparently all the employees are treated like this. Her boss is also the CEO of the company and often ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/F] with my mother [56/F] - She has just found out I have a tattoo and is now not speaking to me POST: My mother and I have a great relationship for the most part. Major disagreements have always been based on how I spend my money and what modifications I make to my appearance. At 18, I started to get a large number of ear piercings and dye my hair ridiculous colours. This did not go over well. There was shouting and crying (mostly on my part). Now she has accepted the piercin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with [24 F], dating for 2 months. What are acceptable responses to ""Let's just be friends""? POST: I'm a dude that just got the ""Let's Just Be Friends"" response from someone I have been seeing. I have been contemplating the following two responses: Accepting friendship, assuming that I can put my feelings aside. Telling her that I don't think friendship will work because I have feelings for her. My question is, when a woman says ""Let's just be friends"" does she actually ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: M19 having troubles with F20 saying that we might find new people when she is away at college POST: I am madly in love with my girlfriend. She just started going to college about 350 miles away a month ago. We were talking and she said that we might find someone we like that is at our location. She means that she might find a guy she likes who goes to her college up there, and she said I might find a girl I like who lives back at home. I don't want to find someone new, and this",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hi Reddit. I have a problem, and I think its running my life. Any advice? POST: I have a sleeping disorder. Not in the sense that I can't sleep. But I can't control my sleeping patterns. I can never fall asleep before 2-3am, and find it extremely hard to wake up. I have a 9-5 job, and my girlfriend has to force me out of bed every single morning, and I'm usually running to make the train on time (and usually miss it). On weekends, sometimes I don't fall asleep till 4-5am. And when I do ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Stolen license, do I need to be worried about Identity Theft? POST: Kind of a long story, but I am with my girlfriend visiting her family in Ohio. We both currently live in New Jersey. We were out for the day and had parked our car in a public lot. Someone smashed the side window and stole my girlfriends purse. The only thing in there that really had much personal information was her license. But also my old provisional license was in there, the one from where I was 17. My provisio",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Just realised I (20F) have been completely used for sex by a guy (22M) I was seeing kinda seriously. Feeling hurt and betrayed. I need a place to vent! POST: I met a guy on OkCupid and we seemed to really hit it off. We would continually text back and forth, and went on some really fantastic dates. We would talk about being serious and potentially even long-term, and honestly, it was everything I've ever wanted out of a relationship. We were dating for around two months. Quite recen",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] and my new gf [24 F] have been officially dating for a month, recently found out some things... POST: So I have been seeing this girl for about 3 months now and just began dating her just under a month now. however, I just found out that in the time we were seeing each other see was having sex with me AND her ex. Now that were dating she has told him to give her space. Which he has done as I haven't seen or heard about him since. But all this stuff came out just now as I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28/f] ended a 9 month, seemingly perfect relationship because I wasn't loved by him [27/m] in return. POST: I feel like I've made a mistake. As much as it pains me knowing that I'm the only one to have feelings, all I want to do is cry in his shoulder and mumble about how much it hurts. Maybe he could have loved me back one day? Or maybe he was just too nice of a person to break it off when he realized he didn't have the same feelings. I don't want to hold him back from finding so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] am confused about what to do with my [19/F] crush POST: So yeah, this is just a crush. I recently got over a breakup that happen a little before Christmas. We ""met"" on Tinder a little under three weeks ago. In that time, we've talked *a lot.* She knows my biggest (and darkest) secret that literally *nobody* else knows and I know her's. So we're pretty comfortable with each other. Here's the deal. She has expressed no romantic interest (though neither have I). I think she mi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/m] with [20/f] gf, both college/military backgrounds. Might break up? POST: So me and my gf go back to when we were both in High School, and Civil Air Patrol cadets. We both went to a summer training event in 2007 and talked on and off for years. Then I started going to college in Long Island (where she is from) we start talking again after she transfered to another school on the island. We met up the first week in January and starting daiting two weeks after. Im a AFROTC c",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Two months down the drain POST: Hey guys, Just really need to vent about this. Basically, I was at a super crappy job. Found a different job, put in my two weeks, and everything went smoothly. From ~February 27th until April 18th, I stopped smoking marijuana to clean myself up and ensure I could pass a piss test. Before, I smoked about 2-3 times a week. I got a job that didn't require a test on March 20th, but I still didn't smoke again in case I ended up leaving (which I did, because",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Been together with my boyfriend [26] for two years and sometimes I [23] still feel as if he's with me for convenience. POST: First of all, we were friends way before we got together - and good friends at that, but in a long distance kind of setting. We stayed in touch and talked a lot. I know most of his exes. They're not my friends and I never really hung out with them, but he's told me about them and showed me pictures through the years. It was never romantic in those years. Two y",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [M24] cheated on my SO [F26] with my bestfriend. POST: I dont know what to do. I was on a trip and got together with my bestfriend because we hadnt seen each other in 2 years. One thing lead to another and we had sex. I have been with my wife since highschool and had kids very young. We have 3 now and have been married since the second child. I cant say we were ever head over heels for each other and we are both mostly staying for the kids. I love my bestfriend. I have since w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my girlfriend [24 F] 6 months still no bond. POST: I've always had problems growing attached to anyone, we've been together 6 months and she absolutely adores me as does her 4 year old daughter. So far the relationship has gone well other then I don't feel anything for them no love no attachment whatsoever . She's always telling me she loves me and is always trying to get me to spent extra time with her, I generally say it back as it makes her happy. I'm not sure tha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my gf [22 F] of 3 years, broke up with me because she wanted to ""try other guys"" but now wants to get back. POST: I just want to say English isn't my first language so excuse any mistakes. So my gf and I became a couple during college and we were a very happy couple all the 3 years we were together.We helped each other through so much and are much better people because of each other. Recently she took up a fellowship programme and met a guy there that she claims was ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Soooo Me [20F] with my (ex?)Boyfriend [24M] just agreed to a ""break"" but there's a bit of a complication. POST: Hey Y'all! So BF and I have been together for 2 years. We live together and moved from the west coast (where i was born/raised + where we met) out to Massachusetts (where he was born/raised). Our relationship has been very rocky recently and we mutually agreed on a break-of-sorts. (Neither of us knows what the outcome will be). But, since we're obviously not going to contin",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [M24] going on my first date with [F22] and her mother... POST: I've told my situation on another forum and got some great moral support and a little advice. I figured I'd explain it here too and see what you guys think. So, I met this girl on OkCupid, even though I had only got on the site for the lulz. She lives in another state and flew in for spring break and we planned to meet on next Saturday. She however was visiting my university because she's coming here or another nearby c",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Need advice on confessing feelings to a girl (college) POST: So I've known this girl for the past two years, we used to be very close and tease each other a lot, but we never did anything sexual. Our friendship has been kind of up and down and it appears we are growing a little distant. On top of that, I have always been sexually attracted to her and can no longer submerge these feelings in my conscious and have to let it out. I really like her but I've held on to her for so long th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Did I [19 F] make a mistake with him [24 M] two weeks, differing opinions leading to me feeling used. POST: So I entered a casual relationship with a guy a few weeks ago. We would meet up at my place, have sex, cuddle and talk, and that was pretty much the extent of our relationship. When we weren't together, he would constantly text me, saying he was thinking about me, that I was sexy, gorgeous, and all the things he wanted us to do together. Today he came over after work, and we h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My SO [F26] has self-esteem issues about things I [M29) don't worry about. How can I make her feel better? POST: We've been dating on and off for almost 7 years now. We went on a 3 year hiatus but we've decided to get back together about 5 to 6 months ago. We're doing pretty well, but lately I've noticed this strong push back from her whenever I compliment physical attributes about her that I like. She would tell me she's really conscious about the things I compliment about, to a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] need help on how to ask out a girl [18 F] that I barely know, but is into me. POST: So there is a girl at my school that some of my friends say is into me. I had a class with her freshman year, but never really talked much, and have never really talked since. She has recently been coming to my soccer games with her friends and cheering our team on as well. We are both seniors now. I know who she is and I know that she is a pretty fun and cute girl. I know that you should",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my crush [22 F] of month, Is it a good thing or a bad thing to talk to her if I am unemployed and looking for a job? Am I acting like a nice guy if I am not talking to her? POST: **About me**: I am a recent university grad majored in Computer Science looking for a job in the tech industry. It's been a few months, and I haven't found a job yet. **About her**: She is an intelligent/smart European student, who recently finished her undergrad and continuing her studies",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Figuring out what we want... POST: I must have a preference for certain things, it stands to reason that if every possible outcome to a juncture was played out then one would get the best possible reaction. However, I have real difficulty deciphiring what that is. As I've aged I've seemed to have come up with a evergrowing list of rules and beliefs about things I like and don't like which often appear inaccurate and merely cloud my vision when trying to decipher my opinions. I'm skeptical ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Selling Office Building in Iowa POST: We have a signed lease that goes through January 2017 for a tenant renting a suite from us. We are in the process of selling that building now, and plan to have it sold in early April. We have offered the tenant a better(larger) suite for a discounted price (same price they are paying now), and free moving at our expense. We even agreed to a lower 2-year renewal rate so we would be losing even more money. They initially were happy with the move, bu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [dating] I (21F) am worried that my bf (25M) are fizzling out after almost a year. POST: We've been dating for almost a year and it has been amazing. We love each other, and I was thinking that he was the one. Recently I dont know whats been going on, but for the past week or two it hasnt been the same. I had a tough period and intense PMS a coupke weeks back, but I dont feel like that is the underlying problem. Theres some tension, and I'm worried. How do I address this problem?? ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does knowledge such as Wikipedia need protection from the future? POST: I've been thinking about the rise of the internet and its impact on society and it crossed my mind. Knowledge and history always have a flavor of the biases from the time they were written. But if a book survives being obscure, generally it's flavor remains unchanged which allows people to analyze it with its contemporary significance in mind. So you can read a biography on the same person from different times and ga",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm the one that fucking got you out of your parents. POST: I am the only reason you got out of your parents, you told me all the time how you needed out, how you needed to move and be free for them, so I stuck my neck out and asked for the whole place and that would make me fucked if you ever moved out, and you told me that's fine because if I ever moved you would follow me, even to another town and everything. So I guess it started when you got a dog and were to lazy too train it but ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my ex [30 M] of 3 months - got engaged to another girl and im crawling further into disillusionment POST: Been dating a friend casually for the past 3 months, from an early stage I made it clear it was meant to be casual predominantly as I had exams coming up. Some days before my exams, he asked me to marry him. I laughed it off as we had always kept everything as a joke. Then the day before them, he told me he was off back home to marry another girl he'd been seeing w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, my ""friend"" is an oversensitive, bigoted, hypocritical, homophobic jerkface. Tonight is his birthday. I think it may be time to say something. POST: My friend is French, Catholic (the really nasty kind - hates gays, thinks earth is 6,000 years old, etc.), and has this odd complex where he thinks he's the alpha male of our group and calls the shots. He sometimes refers to himself as ""the boss."" Tonight is his birthday (of no significance - he's 33) and he planned a dinner ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Have to claim rental income on primary? POST: Little backstory I've been living with my Girlfriend for the past few years. 2014 we rented an apartment together, we were both on the lease, no issue. 2015 I purchased a house only in my name. My girlfriend is still living with me and pays me half of the mortgage, for me to cover groceries, her car gas, and of course the mortgage payment. She also pays for the utilities (minus tv & internet). The only reason I am asking is because i",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Not sure what I need to do about GF's mood swings POST: Hi Everybody, I (M25) have been dating my girlfriend (F24) for about a year now. Everything is great, she is absolutely loving, caring and does a lot for me. I have never had a reason not to trust her and I really care about her. However, lately it seems like this relationship is getting one-sided. I feel like I have to walk on eggshells a lot. For example, last Thursday, I was hanging out with my friend after I asked her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my SO [24 M], plays video game with rape POST: Single player video game. Ages have been changed. We've been together 4 yrs. I'm not looking to break up. I am just uncomfortable and I would like advice on how to approach this. A few days ago I was sitting next to my SO while he played a game which he had significantly modified. These modifications are popular and you can get a lot of different features by using them. As we were talking, his character lost a fight and th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my [26 M] for 1 year. Need advise on how to break it off. POST: So I've been with my current boyfriend for about a year. He's been wonderful to me, very caring, remembered my birthday, surprise gifts etc. etc. Then one day about a week ago we were at a bar with some of our mutual friends and this guy comes up to me out of no where and starts hitting on me. I'm polite and decline and mention I have a boyfriend. He persists and knows the guy standing next to me is my BF",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [f/25] broke up with me [m/26] two weeks ago, meeting her for coffee but want to get back together with her but unsure how POST: HI r/relationships About 2 weeks ago my girlfriend (f/25) broke up with me (m/26) after been together for 5 months. The only reason I got was that she did not care for me in the same way I did for her. The only thing I can think which could have caused her to break up with me, was that I said that I loved her the week before, which I think took",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where did the quote from an 'Old Indian Chief' concerning DST originate? POST: Ok. I always see the quote, *""Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.""* it is always cited to be from an 'Old Indian Chief' or something of that sort. Where does this quote actually originate? Was this truly a quote from a Native American in Arizona? I have searched and searched and I cannot actually fin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19f) have an issue with my BF (21m). I feel like I'm being taken for a ride? POST: So my BF and I started dating my freshman year (his sophomore year) and we go to the same college. We see each other as much as possible, he's in premed and I'm in communication/ advertising. Obviously his course load is more intense than mine. We know each other's friends and have a great time hanging out. He's super affectionate and sweet when we are together. First issue: when we get into a disa",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Need help understanding some tax implications POST: My company was recently acquired. Before the acquisition I purchased about $5k of vested ISOs. After the acquisition was complete I received a payment from those stocks of about $25k. They were subject to a disqualifying disposition, so I am expecting to pay federal and state taxes when I file for 2013. The remaining unvested options were converted to ISOs under the same terms for the acquiring company. I will have about 20 share",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my boyfriend [21M] of a year, found drunk texts on his phone to his friend about wishing he could hook up with a girl he met at a party POST: I'm not quite sure what to think right now. Yesterday I found texts on his phone to his friend about seeing a good looking woman at a party and of him wishing/wanting to do sexual things with her. In his texts, he mentioned that he wouldn't (although not because of me) but he brought her up repeatedly. I was away for the weekend a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28M] with my friend? [26 F] have been messaging a lot then spend a weekend together now little to no contact. POST: So about a month ago a girl I went to university with and I started to message each other again. We have a little history of a few nights together but no sex. After a very intense amount of texting and joking about flying over to see each other before I move closer to her for a new job. 10 days ago she joked about me going over for an event she had a spare ticket f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my GF [25F] of 6 months, messaged her ex [M] ""congrats"" on getting his PhD POST: I guess he posted it on social media. She was upfront and told me that she did. I just don't get why she felt it necessary to say anything at all.I asked her why, and she said because she knows he's been working on it for a while. She says this is the first time she's contacted him since we've been dating. Apparently he replied ""thanks :)"" or sumthin like that. Is it normal for someone to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [41 M] with my wife[41F] married 10 years, are in a tough spot. Mentioned this to my mother, and she gave me a revelation that I don't know how to handle. POST: My wife and I are currently seeing help for relationship issues. She is super critical, and controlling, and this is something she won't admit to. The most I can get from her is that she admits to ""not having a filter"" when when she talks. In a moment of weakness, I mentioned to my mother our marital issues, and she smi",positive " r/travel TITLE: Do Americans go to Cuba through Canada? POST: Hi, I'm curious if anyone knows how strict the ban on Americans traveling to Cuba is. I'm an American citizen attending a Canadian school and got asked to go on a brief (1 week) trip to Cuba for reading week and heard Americans sometimes go through Canada and just don't stamp their passports. But it clearly says on the Department of State's [site] that the American govt will confiscate my passport if they figure out what I'm doing. Just wonderin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with my boyfriend [28M] together 6 months. Boss [40sF] saw my nudes and it's his fault. POST: Throwaway because... reasons. So this morning my [26F] boyfriend [28M] asked me through text if we had taken any photos during an intimate time over the weekend. I replied, ""Not that I can think of, why?"" At this point, my boss [40sF] comes over to my cubicle to chat about things that happened in her absence (came back yesterday after long sick leave) so I put my phone down, as on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (31M) fucked up a friendship (25F). POST: I (31M) fucked up a friendship (25F?). I'd thought I'd misread cues she was interested in me for more, we'd been hanging out for months, at her apt watching shows, chatting, drinking wine, etc. I had a long talk with her few weeks ago, she was surprised, but it seemed to end fine, we were gonna be go on being friends. Though it wasn't the smoothest talk, it was good enough. Ever heard of WhatsApp? Within a week of this I dumbly made a gro",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Should I consolidate my wife and I's student loans? Is it a good idea? POST: So I was checking out a [consolidation websites] and some of those sound really good. To give you a sitrep of our finances: I make 90k a year and she is just about to start working. She just got out of school. I have: * 28k @ 7.9% parent plus loans * 29k @ 7.9% parent plus loans * 29k @ 7.9% parent plus loans * 10k @ 7.9% parent plus loans * 17k @ 3.4% on me My wife has: * 27k @ 4.77% * 18.5k @ @ 6.2% ",positive " r/Parenting TITLE: Telling kids I'm Turning off internet 12 and 13 y/o boy and girl POST: I have a 12 and 13 year old and I have begun limiting screen time as a result of recent problems. We actually didn't have screen time issues before but the kids are more defiant now about putting down devices to do other things. I recently found out how to block the mac address of devices and set times and all of that at the router so I can shut down internet access to devices. I put in a bedtime schedule that tur",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my ex[17F] 10 months, and i took a step back POST: Me and my ex have been pretty civil with each other. We broke up about a month and a half ago, she breaking up with me since i wasn't getting counseling and reacting poorly to my family issues. It was hurting our relationship and i ended up hurting her. Ive since started getting counseling, which is helping, and started going to the gym for the past month to improve. I feel different now and its a change. I have been ge",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [00 M/F] with my ___ [00 M/F] duration, short-description;text=Be sure to explain in detail with line breaks. **tl;dr**: Mandatory summary/question! POST: Hi guys! I've recently joined into /r/relationships and I need some advice in talking to my roommate. We're currently undergrads at a university, and we were originally planning to find an apartment together, I've noticed that what we want is pretty different. While price is important to me, I'd much rather have a safe and cond",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] not sure if [23 F] is just interested in me for sex or wants more POST: well i've been talking to this girl for a while now and i really like her, we talk basically every day, and for the past couple weeks we've been hooking up just about every other day. but we dont really see eachother outside that. now i have no problem with this, but i'm trying to guage whether or not she wants to get serious or not. and im not sure how to go about bringing it up because i dont want he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [31M] Wife [30F] of 6 years hates my cooking, and it makes me not want to ever cook again POST: My wife grew up in a very suburban setting and never had any exposure to different or ethnic food, she grew up with a food schedule (Monday: steak, Tuesday: roast chicken, etc..). Meanwhile I was raised to eat many different types of foods, and as such I love to experiment and learn new dishes and cooking. So naturally when we got married I thought we would break that habit of a fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] she hates me for the thing I never did [19F] 3 years POST: She left me for someone else she met online 3 months ago. I'm studying abroad, so it was difficult for me. So from a friend I found out, that our old friend she is still in touch with ( im not) told her lies about me when he was drunk, like how I used to talk smack about people and talk smack about her when we were together, the point is, I NEVER DID ANY OF THOSE THINGS. I have evidence, written evidence that those ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [27/m] am jealous because of my girlfriends' [26/f] friendship with one of or coworkers POST: We've been together for one year and we're very serious. All the following information I know from various stories she has told me. She hangs out a lot with this one guy from work, who's known to be a bit of a womanizer. They spend their breaks together, go to lunch together(don't know how often it's just them or they're with other people as well), he gives her rides home. At one po",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Roth versus Traditional 401K - Resident physician using income-based loan repayment POST: So here's my situation. I'm graduating medical school and am about to start my first year of residency with 176k in student loans that will have interest rate of 6.42% after consolidation. Since my planned career path will put me in training for 6 years in public universities, I plan to try and take advantage of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) which in its current form will ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by April Fooling my roommate POST: My roommate and I have had a couple incidents with the upstairs neighbor. We've been contacted by our landlord multiple times explaining how our upstairs neighbor is not happy with our noise. (specifically my roommate playing the piano). I thought it would be hilarious to get a friend to put an eviction sign on my door for April Fools. The plan is in motion. I decide to go play soccer while he is home. Friend comes, drops off the notice, knocks on doo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can anyone link me to one or more internet articles which are legitimate proof that Joseph Kony is dead? Guy in my class claims to have killed him. POST: This guy in my class at university is about 50 years. He claims he's been properly trained in the military and it's his first year at uni. He was telling me and a group of people about how he was sanctioned by the African National Congress to take out Joseph Kony and it was indeed hard to believe. He knew more than anyone else I've met ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my ex [30 F] a few months, she is accusing me of gaslighting because I don't know what she's mad about POST: The best I can guess is I pressed ""like"" on tumblr, on a porn post of an asian woman, which she saw while going thru my ""likes"" list via a special URL that you can access it from, and then I unliked it. The thing is a) I don't remember that at all and b) even if I did do that I don't care. It's something I probably would do on occasion. She's being very vagu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the craziest way that you got something back that you thought that you would never see again? POST: My best friend had is custom BMX's stolen yesterday, and got one back today. here is his story. Stolen Bikes Update! Went into work late today, had to chat to building management about the break in and run some errands. Around lunch time I was crossing Hastings in the middle of the crosswalk I met head on with a guy riding my bike!!! I couldn't believe it! My bike!! So I just gr",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I don't even know why I'm submitting this. Thank you if anyone wants to read. POST: Hey fellas, I've only told all of this to one person (later mentioned) I'm looking for some advice, or for someone to troll me. Whatever. Summer 2009. I meet this girl on the last 3 days of a 2-week group vacation (nobody knew each other), and then and there I know that I will never settle for anything less. We don't get close enough to actually speak about anything too personal, but everything s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Some of my family is mad at me [20'sF] because I don't want to invite my cousin [35M, known since childhood] to the wedding POST: My SO is muslim and he has given me all the happiness in the world. I wouldn't be able to finish college without him and his support. He genuinely saved my life. My family ADORES him. He is such a good influence in my life and has changed my whole world. All but my cousin and his wife. My cousin is extremely bigoted. He constantly sends me these facebook",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Update : My(m24) gf(f22) of 2.5 months seems to be overly attached to her ex bf(m24) from 2 years ago, who has a gf(f20s) and a child (m5months) POST: Original www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/3blosg/my_m24_gf_f22_seems_to_be_overly_attached_to_her/ All you guys who commented on my last post, you guys were so supportive abd gave great advice. Thinga took a kinda steep turn this evening though. So tonight i went around to Claire's. She hadnt been feeling well today and she as",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 30/F wanting to be missed by 32/M SO POST: Having an issue and starting to feel a bit silly. I've been dating my boyfriend for 10 months. He is truly wonderful and loving. He has gone through some challenging times in his professional life recently and I have been happy to be able to support him emotionally. He has also been incredibly supportive of me with the stress of my job as well. I feel that this has strengthened our still new relationship. We were able to enjoy 2 weeks of am",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by hitting 'Submit' POST: This just happened. For my psych class, we had 4 online quizzes due tonight at midnight, which we had two attempts each at. I finished my first attempts, and lost 50 out of 470 overall. Not bad, but if I got 460/470, my grade gets pulled up to an A. So I run, grab food, then notice the time, so I leave it on my desk, and begin the second attempt. I'd made meticulous notes the first attempt, which I use to do the second. I Submit Quiz 1, attempt 2. Full point",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: She (26f) says I need to get my backbone back (28m) POST: So. My girlfriend and I have moved in with one another. Life changes are happening for me I've got her. Which is great. New job, starting graduate work shortly, but for whatever reason I've had some mental changes. I'm typically a go getter, look out for me type. Lately I've been subservient to her. It's not what I want to be, it's not what she signed on for. She wants the me she met when we first started dating. I wa",positive " r/relationships TITLE: A 'girl' (19/F) randomly got a hold of my phone number from my Co-workers. POST: So a girl, a year older than I am some how got a hold of my cellphone number from the Subway that I work at. She randomly texts me after two weeks of having my number. At first I did not believe that this person was legitimate considering it is against company policy to give anyone's information out without legitimate reasons. , but I drilled her for questions, such as the areas surroundings, she got the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He [24M] kissed me [23F] but there were no sparks. I'm brand new to dating, so is that normal? POST: I went on my very first date ever with a guy I met online. We had been texting for a few weeks, so I knew I liked him, and I found out I really liked him as I got to know him over the course of the date. The kiss was perfectly timed, romantic setting, etc...but I just didn't feel the butterflies or the spark or the huzzah! I thought I was supposed to feel. We ended up making out later",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [20F] broke up with me but I'm [20M] still in love with her. Help! POST: My now ex girlfriend and I have been dating for over a year and a half and we were really amazing together and very happy. However, within a weeks time she kind of panicked about being so committed and broke up with me through text, which absolutely destroyed me. Within two weeks, she has kinda gone crazy, drinking constantly and has already done stuff with another guy and may be going on a date with him des",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm scared I'll fall too deep in love and the timing isn't right but I'm too scared of losing him POST: Female/17/ duration of relationship - 8 months I don't want to say anything to him because I dont want to insinuate that I'm anticipating him cheating or for it to insinuate that I want us to break up, but my boyfriend is going to uni in October (he has an unconditional so he definitely IS going - yes it's 6 months away but I can't keep it concealed much longer) and I'm absolutel",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting the wrong locker POST: So a few months ago my brother was sick and couldn't go to school, so he asked me to get some books from his locker so he could study for a test. Being the good brother I am I got his locker number and code. So here I am looking for his locker, number 271. I made sure to put in the combination exactly as he said. My lock was the same type so I was fairly sure I was doing it in the right order of digits. After 5 minutes of trying hopelessly a girl came al",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: (21 F) How to tell when I'm in a ""FWB"" situation or in the beginning phase of a relationship? POST: This is sort of about a current situation that I am in, but also just a general question. I have had a lot of ""friends with benefits""/""fuck buddies."" I reaalllyy enjoy sex, so if I'm not dating someone, the easiest way for me to get some on a regular basis is to just sleep with a friend/acquaintance. I like to be as straight forward as possible, so most of the time I'll talk with the g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 M] am concerned because my Roommate [28M] has stopped talking to me out of the blue. POST: Today marks one week since he has not spoken more than a sentence to me. Out of the blue he stopped speaking to me. He can't be bothered to have a conversation even if it's small talk. He comes home. Puts his stuff on the counter and then goes to his room where he stays for the rest of the time. If I'm in the living room, he'll refuse to come out only until I go to my room. We just moved ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my friend [18 F] She said she liked me then denied it, I really care about her. I don't know what to do. POST: So one of my best friends, let's call her Sarah, recently told me she has feelings for me, and I let her know that I have feelings for her too. Then, a week later, denied ever having feelings for me beyond being friends. She had told me (in great detail) of her long string of abusive boyfriends, so I just end up rationalizing in my head that she is just ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] forgave my girlfriend[23] for cheating on me. How do we move forward now? POST: I found out my girlfriend had been making out with someone at a party while she was drunk 2 months ago. She didn't tell me, but I found out about it this week, and she said she didn't tell me because she wasn't 100% sure and didn't want to hurt me.. I'm hurt like hell, but anyways, I forgave her.. I'm hoping someone who has been in the situation could give some advice on how I move forward. The",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] just asked [17 F] out to lunch, not sure about her reaction POST: So there is this girl who I'd been talking to a lot in one of my classes. Whenever she seems to get the chance she always turns around to say something to me, roll her eyes about the teacher, etc. My friends who sit near me have been telling me that the flirting has been getting annoying, as it is nearly constant now, so I decided to do something. Today after class, I suggested that we should go out to lunc",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Started to lose the battle, but I made it through the tough times. POST: I was working nights for a while and was seeing my weight loss begin to stop. I then started to see myself slowly gain weight and I got angry. I fought to not gain to much. I put on close to 10 pounds despite my struggle. It is hard to maintain and lose when sleep doesn't happen and you are having to live off caffeine and planning meals are not an option. Then I realized these are all excuses. I then fought to get",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [17F] parents [55M and 56F] raised me vegetarian. I want to start eating meat. POST: Throwaway time. My parents raised me, my sister Allie (22), and my brother John (19) as vegetarians. They are both very against eating meat for ethical reasons and have taught my siblings and me that same rhetoric. I have never once tasted red meat, fish, chicken, etc. My parents have also recently become vegan and now are disallowing milk, cheese, and eggs from the house. There are a few reason",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [22 F] for about 3 months now, keeps complaining about sleep deprivation. POST: She comes to our apartment every day as of late and always complains about how she's sleepy, exhausted, and worn out. Like sometimes in my mind, I'm just like, ""Oh please, stfu and sleep then."" Like she would rather complain about it than just go to sleep. How can I tell her this without her getting upset and without having to just flat-out say, ""stfu?"" It isn't a complex is",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm literally feeling emotionally numb after a horrible break up. POST: About 4 months ago, I [21F] had a pretty bad break up. He broke up with me for a good reason, but it still hurt. And then three months later we decided to take a break from talking... seeing as us being broken up, wasn't really keeping us from actually acting like a couple (even though we literally only saw each other three times within those three months). After the month was up, he came back a day late and left",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Things aren't working out between girlfriend (35) and myself (25) Need advice redditors ! POST: Things havent been going smoothly with my girlfriend(35) and myself(25) and I feel like I want to break up... But i feel horrible doing so, especially with her 7 year old son being attached to me. We've been dating for a year and a half now, and it started out stressful... But great. Over the past 6 months or so theres been some big issues with compromise. I feel she is a loving mothe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [M22] met a [F20] online and have fallen in love. Is our relationship unhealthy? POST: In the beginning of the summer, I was very bored. I just graduated from college, and I had to relocate to a new area for my job. I was in a social slump, so I turned to Omegle. It turns out Omegle works very well sometimes and I quickly became friends with a girl I met there. It was awesome because we had so much in common. Well 4 months have gone by and we're still talking. Our conversations ha",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Received an audit notice for my 2013 taxes that I owe $2,400 for an incorrect credit POST: Hello, first time posting. I'm 24 years old and received a letter in the mail yesterday questioning my education credits for 2013. The American opportunity credit is listed on here. It's requesting for me to sent a form 1098t or to pay $2,400. I did my taxes myself using turbo tax. Bad I know. I remember I looked over the requirements for that credit and saw that I met the basic requirement",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[20M] with this girl I like [21F]. How do you get over a 10/10 girl? POST: Hi! So I met this girl at school January of this year and we happened to have 2 classes together! She's ridiculously good looking! Like I noticed her as soon as I walked into the class. I probably never woulda talked to her, but she approached me at the coffee shop and we had a conversation! Like an actual conversation! I've always been bad at conversating, but it felt natrual with her. I found out she had ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I may have a shot of stepping out of the friend zone... POST: Hey guys! Throwaway here, sorry for that. A few months ago I got friend-zoned by the girl I have a crush on. I made a post on RA back then asking for advice and it was unanimous: she was ""clearly into me"" and I should ""make a move as soon as possible"". It was already too late unfortunately and she made very clear that even though she liked my friendship, she didn't want things to go any further. This was in January.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M19] don't know what happened to me today and feel guilty about what I said to my girlfriend [F19] POST: Hey all, recently I started hooking up with my ex girlfriend of 4 years. It's been fun, but the thing is we've never had sex. After we were broken up this summer I did make up for lost time and explore with other girls, so I'm not a virgin. She on the other hand, is. Now, I've been very respectful of this throughout our whole relationship and not once did I ever try to make her",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By kissing my friends girlfriend. POST: We were at her house for a party (her parents and extended family were there also, so nothing frisky was going on). We were all pretty drunk personally, I was near blackout drunk. (I remember the night, just not specific details or reasons for my judgement). Needless to say, they were on a bench outside and I came out and started talking and the conversation continued and I ended up asking her boyfriend if I could kiss her on the forehead and he go",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M20]My girlfriend kept something from me[F18] POST: A couple days ago I found out my SO of 7 months sent a lingerie picture to her best (male) friend. The reason she sent it from her point of view was because she wanted an honest opinion of how she looked. She didn't tell me. She said it was because she wasn't thinking and she didn't mean anything from it. I asked her if I asked who she sent the pictures to, would she tell me she sent them to her friend. She didn't answer. It makes ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: i (20 F) found suspicious internet history on BF of a year (20 M) phone POST: Yeah I was snooping. It's nearly 5 am on the weekend and he left our house (we live together) at eleven pm and still isn't home. I found browser history from his phone on his laptop (his internet browsers sync from his phone to laptop) of ""escort"" websites in our state- with about 15-20 different girls profiles in his history. The profiles he viewed all were very sexual (offering things like threesomes, blo",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Ohio] Want to Record Private Lessons and public Rehearsals POST: Hello all! Throwaway for anonymity. I am here because I go to a music school (very expensive, private, not state) and many of the players in my studio have been very upset with our studio professor. He is, overall, not a good teacher, and is often a bad person. We are currently unsure of whether or not we want him fired, but we are positive that his behavior won't change if/when he gets talked to by the administration",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[m19] SO [f19] of two years speaks other language around her parents, around me... POST: So my SO and I frequently go out with her family to eat and they all end up speaking her native language leaving me out. I know it's normal to speak you're native language but they do it so often that I feel left out of every conversation they have. I have tried to get her to teach me some of the phrases but let's just say she isn't too enthusiastic about being a teacher. Should I confront he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with [21F] 4 years, she deletes her facebook messages with a guy [20M] she insists is just a good friend, should I be worried? POST: I know it's considered bad mannered to even consider looking at the Facebook of a SO, but I have been worried a lot and recently checked on her FB account (we have always shared all information, she has mine and has checked before, I have never checked hers). One thing I noticed was that a chat log to a certain person (who has confessed to her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 M] unexpectedly started sleeping with my ex [28 F] again- I love her but I'm scared. What do? POST: I'm 27 and she's 28. We both live in a small city with the same group of friends and we've dated on and off for the past year and a half after I moved back to the city from being away. We've known each other for years (i had a crush on her since 16). When we dated I broke up with her once first, then she broke up with me twice. We seem to date for around 6 months followed by a p",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Grinded on my friends crush. POST: I'm a high school student. I went to my first dance tonight and kind of wanted to get rid of my grinding virginity. My friends were pumped and wanted to help me. I know, I know it sound really fucking stupid but I only get one night to act like an idiot. Anyways, we're at the dance and my friend really wants to get her crush to see her and dance with her. I knew the guy, he was cute and I liked him too but she knew him longer and I never said I li",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (23/m)I've lost my sense of trust due to shitty past relationship, how have you dealt with a situation like this and how have you built your sense of trust again? POST: First post here, be merciful. I'm trying to build up trust between me and my current girlfriend, my last relationship ended really shittily (if that is a word) and I think I'm still dealing with the repercussions of the way I was treated. To put the story short, I was cheated on multiple times while I was workin",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [19/m] There is this girl in my class I know is interested.. But need help initiating. POST: I know there is no guide or 'special words,' I have already talked to her outside of class. I walked to her almost to her car, I was about to be late for class and we were going in opposite directions and I didn't ask her for her number! I know huge mistake. But there is always another time if i do it soon. I need to keep her interested, so is there any thing I can say to her that will l",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need your advice reddit: don't want to ever have sex again... POST: So this is going to sound awkward. I'm mid 20s, male, tall, slim, not ugly. And not interested in relationships or sex. It's been 7 years now since I had a bf/gf (I'm actually bisexual in terms of attraction) and feel absolutely mortified when the idea of forming a relationship comes up - and yes, people do ask me out (both sexes). Even if I'm attracted to that person though, I can't do it - I read up about [schizoid",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Update 2-Me [25F] with my ex (29M) how it feels to not be lost anymore. POST: first update is here : So, it's been a few months, and I figured I'd give an update because a lot has changed. My ex and I went NC. In this time, I got a new job, I've been eating better and drinking less, and exercising and spending lots of quality time with my son. Overall, I'm much happier than I can ever remember being. My friend and I continued hanging out, and he was supportive, kind and pati",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Just [f]ound out I've been given Chlamydia, please help! POST: So to cut a long story short, me [25 f] and my partner of 6 years [24 m] broke up. I spent the following weeks getting quite drunk and ended up having a one night stand with a buddy of mine [25 M], which was very briefly unprotected. A month later, I end up hanging out and then hooking up with my ex partner again, unprotected... This morning my buddy rang me and said he'd tested positive for Chlamydia. He can't have got i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 m] with my SO [21 F] had a playful moment that ended with her getting mad and hitting me, but maybe I crossed the line? POST: So.. To start off, we have been together for two years and we occasionally have disagreements, but they have always been civil. This is the first time it ever got physical (from her end, I did not hit back). My SO and I were in bed and she was feeling playful and started biting and kissing my butt (I know it's strange, just bear with me..) and I told h",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Apparently I'm (29M) good at sex, and I just can't accept that. POST: My wife and I have been together for 6 years. We met at a BDSM club, so needless to say, that's been a part of our sex life this entire time. Now I made an effort to understand what makes her tick in the bedroom, as anyone would, but I never felt like I was doing anything particularly good. Fast forward to the recent past, and my wife and I, after talking for quite a while about it, decided to morph what w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Issue concerning me (19f) my boyfriend (22m) and his mom (~50f), she's going to ask me a question that I don't know how to answer and I need advice. POST: Sorry if this turns into a jumbled mess, I'm not so great at words. So I've been with my boyfriend since new years, and things are great. It's by far the best relationship I've ever been in, he's sweet and caring and he's my best friend. We hang out all the time, and we smoke pot together But.. Here's the problem, we both have",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: In great relationship for 2 years, don't feel the ""passion"" anymore.. what to do? POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating almost 2 years (both 21). He is very nice and treats me really well, and I've seen his life change drastically for the better since we started dating. Over the past few months I feel like I don't have that same love for him anymore, like I feel like we are really good friends, I trust him and care about him. But I'm not physically attracted to him as much ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Initiating a relationship within a group POST: I am a 21yo/M college student, with a tightly knit group of friends, all guys. We have fairly recently acquired a similarly tightly knit group of girls as friends that we include in a wide variety of activities. We engage in hiking, drinking, camping, and other group activities together, and always have a great time. There is one girl in the group that I have started to grow quite fond of, we obviously have quite similar interests, spo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[16M] with my girlfriend [17F]. When I do something wrong she posts to tumblr about it and denys the post is about me. POST: Basically whenever I do something wrong that annoys her she posts something to tumblr but then fervently lies and denies it being about me which it obviously is because in some cases its 30seconds after it happens. An example of this is last night she was saying how much she wanted to buy a camera and I was being a dick and I was really condescending to her (",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Update: Lost 7 lbs, need help. Now with pics. POST: I weighed myself 3-4 weeks ago, at the time I was 146 lbs. Since then, I've lost 7 lbs with the help of r/loseit, and I couldn't love a sub reddit more than this. Everyone here is helpful and encouraging! But I have a problem right now. I'm not sure what to think of my body, I know its a vast improvement and I am proud, but as a girl with a lot of body image issues, I need your help. I'm 21 years old, I'm 5'9 and I weigh 139 lbs. When do I",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do you believe in ghosts? Regardless if you do or not, have any stories? POST: I like to think of myself as a very rational person, and I try to think about everything in a logical way, but for some reason I really like the idea of ghosts existing and do believe in something in that sense. One of my experiences with the ""paranormal"" was a bout 2 years ago. I was in my room half asleep, when my dog suddenly bolts upright starts to growl. Just as she does this, I hear footsteps right a",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by manscaping! POST: So yesterday was the manscape but the actual fuck up I didn't realize until today. For those of you who don't know, manscaping is the act of trimming a man's pubic hair and is typically done to one's self. I decided that my nether regions were getting quite unkept, and that it was time for a trim. After my trim, I decided you know what, fuck it! Im shaving it all off to see how it looks. Bad idea. Shaving it off was not an issue - kinda felt freeing in a weird way - ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] am afraid with my brother and sister in law [27 M/F] is going to be strained. POST: Hi community, I'm stressed about about my brother and his wife (married 3 years, dated for 2). We used to be close, but now it feels like they only tolerate me when I'm around, and say the things they're supposed to say (like I love you etc). My family has always been super close and I'm worried that our relationship won't ever get back to normal. I don't have much details but I guess I'm ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F], happily married with a crush on my co-worker [36 M]... is this normal?? How can I stop it? POST: I am happily married, have been for a few years, however I think I have a crush on my co-worker. My co-worker [lets call him Dave], is usually the one to talk to me first. And he can be a bit.. flirty? He knows I'm married, and the flirting is just playful flirting. He has never blatantly made a move on me, and I have never reciprocated in any flirting. Even if my husband wer",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by accidentally sexting by GF (NSFW) POST: So this happened a few months ago. I was casually messaging my GF about her day whilst she was at work, from my phone using FB messenger whilst I was walking into town. I stopped by an atm to get a few quid out. Now because of the way I held my phone, and because I didn't put it into lock screen, my fingers came into contact with the touchscreen by accident and resulted in selecting the most recently taken picture, which thanks to Mr Zuckerberg ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F25] think my boyfriend [M26] might be doing steroids. Do I confront him? How? POST: My boyfriend and I have been in a serious relationship for almost a year.. When we first started dating, he was really fit. He was kinda on the skinny side but still had some muscle. He looked totally normal, nothing out of the ordinary. However, over the past four months or so, I've noticed that my boyfriend's body has significantly changed. I don't really know anything about steroids but it's ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Since I [30 M] found out my ex [32 F] had a baby; its been on my mind a lot. POST: She moved to another city not long after we broke up. We stopped talking about 1.5 years after that when she met someone else. She never told me and it hurt me that she cut me out so suddenly out of the blue. I got over it and went on with my life and started dating other people short term. She was just a distant memory in my mind periodically thinking of things we did together but not more then that. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are your ""tough old people"" stories? POST: I was heading to the library to drop off a book with my friend. We start walking towards the door and we see someone laying by the steps. It was an older woman. We ask her if she is ok and she tells us that she fell down the steps and how her hip might be broken. I call 911 and they ask me to explain the situation. ""We are at the library and an older woman has fallen down the stairs and her hip might be broken."" From the ground the woman ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by walking on a frozen lake with a rifle. POST: This happened last year in December. So I was with my cousin and we both had these .22lr guns that we borrowed so we could go rabbit hunting. We saw one after awhile so I sighted in on it. Then my cousin shot right next to it on purpose to scare it away. I was a little ticked off so I went and did my own thing. I walked out on this frozen lake and ended up slipping flat on my face. Now I was holding the rifle in my hands and it looked p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my GF [27 F] of 1 year, feelings just not there POST: We have been together for a year. Things started amazingly. We got on like I've never done with anyone in my life. Didn't get bored of each other's company, enjoyed the same things mostly and were supportive of each other. But the intimacy just wasn't there. We have had sex maybe three/four times total. Since then, anytime I go near her, she tells me to stop being annoying or hides, sort of playfully but it's pers",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 F] looking for advice on how to ask someone out! POST: I am so bad at asking people out, so I need some help here! There's a cute guy who works in the little restaurant at my building. I see him every now and again as I pass by, and he was my waiter once. I think he's cute, but I know nothing about him, so I kinda want to get to know him and see what goes on from there. I'm unsure how, though. Sometimes I see him in the kitchen as I walk by in the morning, or when I'm in the",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Returned a lot MacBook to its owner by snooping. Is privacy invasion worth it if your lost belongings come back? POST: Background info: I work at a university and our front desk is right next to a computer lab. We're always getting lost USB drives, wallets, keys, etc. and 90% of the time they just sit in our Lost and Found (L&F) never to see the light of day again. This year, I've started actively trying to return these belongings to their rightful owners: - If keys and wallets have lo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I dont believe in the paranormal, and I am sure you dont either, but do you have anyreal life stories that made you think otherwise? Ill start... POST: I have two actually. The first happened to me when I was around 8. My family and I were heading back to dallas from houston and it was around 2 am. We were on a lonely two lane highway for about 1 hour without seeing any other cars. I was looking outside and I saw a cloaked figure gliding right next to us at about 70 mph. I stared at him",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] interested in a girl [22 F] who is nothing like the other girls i've ever gone out with. Outgoing, quirky personality, and i'm not sure how to handle the situation. POST: I've been in 4 relationships prior to this, the most recent one ending 4 months ago. The girls I typically went out with were all of a similar mold - quite shy until you got to know them, had lots of friends but weren't really extroverted, had their insecurities, and very much became my best friends over t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] lots of friends/acquaintances, but not close to anyone POST: So, it's not often, but I'll go through some periods where I feel depressed that I'm not close with anyone. I have a good number of friends, but they're all what I'd call surface level friends. Nobody seems to be interested in getting to know me or hang out with me 1 on 1 outside of our group hangouts. (though I'm never excluded from the group stuff though.) I end up going out to eat alone a lot for example. 9",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can staying up for 36 hours help me reset my sleep clock? POST: Alright, so normally I work from 5am to 1pm at my job. Monday to friday. And on the weekends I usually go to bed around midnight and wake up around 8am or 9am. And on sunday Just fall asleep normally at 10pm... But this weekend I did not wake up till 2-3pm on both nights and I really messed up my sleeping pattern.... Now I am not tired at all and its already 2:30am. So is it worth it to try and sleep for 2-3 hours or just ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Girlfriend is in debt, bank has offered to consolidate said debts with a loan... (UK) POST: So my girlfriend stupidly took out a Credit Card when she was in university and spent £1950 on it, she must now pay it back at £65 a month (£40 interest, £25 actual as she can't afford more). She also has a student overdraft of £2000 which will have to go soon. The bank has offered her a loan of £3950 which covers both and she will have to pay £91 a month for 5 years. Originally she woul",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend's ex is harassing her over chat POST: Age: 25m / 28f. Length of relationship: 6 mos. My girlfriend's ex and our mutual friend sends inappropriate and abusive messages to my girlfriend on chat. This is from today: ""have you fucked (OP)?"" Previously she's told me he'll say stuff like ""do you want my dick in your throat?"" The first time I heard about it I messaged him and was like ""Dude wtf are you doing?"" He said sorry, it was his fault and he'd stop. But apparently my girl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my [20 F] friend who I've been hooking up with, want to end things positively POST: I know, another brilliantly ambiguous college relationship. A girl in my apartment building has had a crush on me for awhile. I decided to see where things went this semester and we had a relationship where we hooked up, slept over (did everything but sex), and went on a few dates. I got somewhat attached, but we were both a little confused and I got mono and things cooled down for the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32M] with my STBW [29 F] 3 years - getting married. Terrified about my vows! POST: Greetings! As mentioned in the thread title, I'm just wanting to run my vows past you fine folks to make sure I'm not saying something that is going to piss off my bride-to-be? Figured I'd go on a structure of me->her->us. Hopefully it works? >Before I met you, I spent so much time thinking about time travel. Reading about it, writing about it, hoping and praying that such a thing was possible - ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Finally under 200lbs again. POST: About 2-3 years ago I weighed 153lbs. I'm now 23, and a few months ago I realized just how out of hand my weight gain was. I had been avoiding the scale, my jeans were tight, I wear a lot of yoga pants and leggings, so I didn't think much of my jeans being tight. Back in May just before my 23rd birthday I put on this dress I was planning on wearing to go out to dinner with my family, It was always a little loose so I figured it would fit fine with my weight",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] think I have anxiety, but my mother refuses to accept that I may need help with my problems. POST: I've always had trouble making friends, and I've always been extremely quiet around other people. It's not until recently that I've gotten close to someone and they've given me a new perspective on details of my life that I previously ignored. I realized that I actually get scared or nervous around other people, and start to sweat and stutter to a small extent whenever someone ",positive " r/travel TITLE: Help for A Trip South This Summer POST: I've done some searches here on Reddit and Google, but haven't had luck with finding exactly what I'm curious about. Some friends and I (total of 5 people) want to take a trip south to the Gulf Coast because only one of us has actually seen a beach. We will be leaving from the Kansas City area. We will probably be driving. Our target length of time is about 5 days. Our goal is to just have a week to do nothing, hang out on a beach or walk around town",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, (specifically those across the pond) why do Europeans tend to out-dress those of us in the US? POST: Anybody from the US who has traveled to Europe likely took note (almost immediately) of the fact that the style of dress is much different abroad than it is here. Even those who have never left the country may have picked up on this by way of European travelers on holiday here. I have made these assertions both while traveling and coming in contact with people traveling here, bu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Trouble at workplace, jackass boss, Reddit support needed. How do I handle this?? POST: Hi guys, this happened to me few days ago, and I need your best advice/thoughts on the subject. Im working as an online marketing manager for my company, and I was pretty happy with my status and job description. As it turns out, we got a new company head two weeks ago, and she has marketing background, but nothing close to online advertising. So a few days ago, this lady comes to my table (where I`m ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I face a potential charge of academic misconduct at my university. What can I do? POST: Some background info: -management project handed in by myself and 3 group mates -2 days later, a mark of zero was received -upon further investigation, our mark was a result of 'plagiarism' -there is a meeting with the prof and a member of school staff in order to sign a form agreeing that we plagiarized So basically, this was a large project which was composed of multiple sections. We split up the ",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: In defense of DB- especially on a limited budget. POST: DB has a really bad reputation, sometimes for good reasons, but here's my experience. The first thing I liked about DB is that they will exchange unaltered dresses for different sizes. So supposed you buy a dress 9 months out, then 3 months later have dropped a size or two- they'll switch the sizes out for you. As a lady whose weight fluctuates, this was a big selling point!!! Anyway, I bought a gorgeous dress at DB. It was a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, is it ok to date someone that shares the same name as you? POST: So, I met this girl at a friend's game night that I recently attended and thought she was absolutely beautiful as well as quite smart. It kind of bummed me out when I found out her name was Alex as well though (darn unisexual names). I don't know why, but I seem to has this hesitance toward being interested in anyone with the same name as myself. When I shared this with my friends, they weren't quite sure why it was",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Options for some inherited oil & mineral rights? POST: My grandparents owned oil and mineral rights for several plots of oil-producing land. When they passed, their assets went to a Trust. It gets complicated from there, but it is essentially split between 4 people. It's a pretty decent chunk of money every month and they have been deposited into the Trust Account for 3 years now, where I assume someone is using the money (I don't have direct access to the bank account). So, now 2",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Boyfriend [22M] doesn't have a reason as to why he loves me? [21F] POST: I am a 21 year old female, and I have been dating my 22 year old boyfriend just a little over 2 years. Past relationships have caused me to be over suspicious about everything in my relationship- in fact, I constantly question every detail. More recently, the fact if my boyfriend truly loves me. I find it hard to believe my boyfriend truly loves me when I ask him why he loves me so much like he says. He'll ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU because of auto correct POST: i am a 15 y/o and was on a trip with my friends and i did a competition with my friends,the competition was u take perfect photos of nature and to take pictures at the perfect timing,and the most important rules r:never photoshop and never filter images because the colour shld be as u took it because some of them stay at a place for hours to take a perfect picture with a beautiful colour in the atmosphere,so me being the competetive shit i am,i decided to l",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need help being friends with a girl I like POST: So the long version of this is, I joined an outdoor pursuits club went on a weekend trip and met a girl. She is fantastic - in every way I can think of. She's good looking, smart, funny(she even laughs at my jokes), witty and she even has similar tastes in books + films. So we chat for about 2 hours, by which time i'm totally smitten, and then she slips in that she has a boyfriend. I immediately think of how to kill him(not really). So w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19m] that my girlfriend [17f] of nearly a year might break up with me because she is moving to a city 20 minutes away. POST: My girlfriend might be going to another school 15-20 minutes from the city we currently live in and I have a feeling she will want to break up with me when the time comes. We love each other and she often says she loves me when in her sleep without even noticing, of course she also says it when she's not sleeping and we are together everyday. I often think ",positive " r/self TITLE: My mother is making me feel beyond guilty POST: I'm a 16 year old girl who has been with my boyfriend for over a year. We are sexually active and neither of our parents know. I'm afraid that I may have a UTI, so I asked my mom if she could take me to a doctor. She begins to ask me questions, asking if I've done anything of any kind at all. I lie and say no, which I feel awful about. She then continues to say she doesn't believe me, that I need to wait a long time before losing my virginity, t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/M] can't let go of the past. POST: I lost the first girl I ever loved (we'll call her Emma) due to stupid shit. I keep thinking I'm over her, but I keep proving myself wrong out of nowhere. My relationship with her ended three years ago, and some weird shit happened with her second boyfriend. I've been happily dating my second girlfriend (Elle) for just under two years now, and lately have been telling myself that I love her... but I keep thinking about Emma. Despite now at",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it me or my job? POST: I'm not sure if this is in the right place but here goes... I work at a T J Maxx, where I clean things and do whatever anyone asks me. I have some jobs that I do everyday. (clean dressing room, mirrors, foyer, etc.) Occasionally I'm asked to clean things that are seen as demeaning, like the hinges on the floor or things that nobody would notice, unless your looking for them. Now I also believe everyone has a price, Mine is $8.00 an hour. That is the price you ne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [32F] get along with my dad's wife [60s F]? POST: Long story short, my dad left my mom when I was 16 and immediately started dating his current wife. They got married when I was 18. I'm an only child. My mom is very resentful of my dad - though she claims she never loved him. She tries so hard to be diplomatic about things, but sometimes her opinions slip (like comments under her breath when my dad is in town and wants to see me and my kids)... My step-mom is everything my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (28F) am starting to be really worried about my sister(23F) POST: As I said I am 28 and my baby sister is 23. We've always had a really good relationship despite being completely different people. Now, a lot of bad things happened to her, but honestly from what I see she grew up to be a completely normal, rational adult, and I've seen people who have been through less handle it very poorly. A few days ago I overheard her talking to someone and despite every fiber in my body telli",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20F] mother [45F] berated me over text message about posting a picture of myself in a bikini POST: I am generally pretty conservative with what I wear as I have had very bad body issues for most of my life. I went to the beach with my boyfriend yesterday and he took a picture of me in front of the water in my bikini. It was the second time I had worn my bikini ever as I generally try to avoid swimming so that I don't have to show my body. I was really happy with the picture and h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] am feeling insecure about my relationship with my boyfriend [21M] of 1 year, because it's always me making the effort. POST: My boyfriend and I have been going out for a little over a year now. During the entirety of our relationship, it has almost always been me asking him to hang out, go out to eat, go on a trip, etc. I did not mind always being the one putting in effort at first, but it has started to wear on me recently. This is most likely because since I am the one alwa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19m] am starting to fall in love with my [16f] girlfriend and am afraid. POST: I've been in relationships before, this one's the strongest thus far. I've known her for a year. She told me she loves me early on and has confessed being ""in love"" with me as well. She calls me the perfect guy in every way, I call her gorgeous, we just work. I'm usually busy with work/college and so I barely get time to chat/talk with her. When I do get a moment to myself, I check facebook and twitter ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] am unsure if i should break up with my GF [19 F] of a little over a year, and its causing me a lot of stress. POST: Me and my girlfriend of a little over a year go to the same college as freshman, and live in dorms very close to each other. I see her almost every day for about 5 hours. Since college has started she has become very clingy to me, spending all of her free time in my room and has not made any new friends. My roommates, who are also my best friends, have been ve",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend (18F) and I (18M) keep having small stupid arguments. POST: We have been dating for almost 9 months now and until recently we haven't had any fights. Last night, we were hanging out with some of her friends from school. I'm rather introverted and it was my first time being around her friends other than the couple times I visited her at school. I was being quiet which shouldn't be a surprise to her at this point but when we left, she was mad at me for how I acted with her f",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I just moved into a new house a month and a half ago and the neighbors do NOT take care of their kids. What do I do? Anything? POST: There appear to be two kids, a boy and a girl, I would put their ages between five and nine. They are almost ALWAYS out in the back yard, I mean early in the morning and late late at night. The parents are out there with them maybe 30% of the time. My girlfriend and I constantly hear the sounds of kids crying or screaming coming from over there, and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] am dating my friends [22F] little brother [19M] she wants me to tell him I am a Hooters Girl. POST: I have been seeing my friends little brother for about a month now. She is perfectly fine with it but she wants me to tell him where I work. I have been really hesitant to do so because I am honestly scared of what he will think of me. I really like him and I don't want to screw anything up. I am a Hooters Girl and my friend is pretty much demanding that I tell him about it. ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/m] my girlfriend (18/f) says she's having doubts and I could use some device. POST: To start I'm [M 19] she's [F 18] We've been dating for 8 months now and are in a LDR temporarily (for summer vacation) which will stop being long distance in about a month. A couple days ago she told me that she doesn't know if she's actually in love with me and that she feels happier when she's alone. I was totally floored because leading up to this we were pretty happy (or so it seemed). A",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My ex-landlord just text me threatening legal action regarding the deposit and possible deductions. Please help (UK) POST: This is what he sent; ""I've heard that you have left my house in a state and that you are contesting any repairs to be deducted from the deposit. So I've taken steps to put this right by taking legal advice on the situation and make no doubt about it I will you and your mate in court where I will be claiming for time off work plus legal costs and once that's done ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, convince my roommate that citizens with guns is a good idea, and if not, why? POST: The right to [bear arms] **I should point out my roommate is a Redditor, and hopefully enough people join this, and he'll get in on it.** My roommate and I really got into it about this last night. He is a liberal, and respects rights by all means necessary, he is also very moral. He absolutely believes in the right to gay marriage, because he adamantly opposes the belief that you as a citizen ca",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Old boss is purposely not filling out my unemployment papers. What do? POST: So basically a few weeks ago I got fired from my job at a pizza shop. A friend of mine that I worked with got fired a week before me for stealing from the store. He stole about three hundred dollars over the course of four or five months. Regardless of that fool the next week after a shift my boss sat my down and told me I was fired because basically I was friends with the thief and they felt ""a lot of animosity",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (M 17)am having problems with my mom(F 40's) and it is making things worse with everyone around me POST: It all started yesterday. I went to the doctor's office and I asked him if he recommends any sleepaid meds to help me. He offered some method that I should try before and if not then the sleepaids are a go. We leave and my mom explodes with anger. She says stuff like ""estas bien pendejo, mal de la cabeza"" (you're a dumbass, you're sick in the head) because I shouldn't be asking ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my SO [23 M] in a sexual rut... How to get out of it?! POST: I'll try to keep this short and sweet. The past month or two my boyfriend and I have been really busy. This semester has been really crazy (I've needed a tutor and my other classes take hours to complete) and every weekend I've been working at this god awful job. He usually works the opposite hours that I do so we barely see each other. When we do see each other, one of us is usually sleeping or we're just r",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I [M27] am looking for some advice for my fiancé and I(sex stuff, thus the NSFW tag) POST: All in all, I feel that we have a rather healthy relationship. We have sex 2-3 times a week and we spend a great deal of time together, so our physical closeness is at a very good stage I think. A while back, I asked if she enjoyed giving me head at all(it is my biggest turn-on and my all time favorite fantasy regarding her; sorry if that's sort of vanilla), and she told me that she doesn't h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my good friend [28 M] of 10 years, told me yesterday he is depressed. He won't open up to me. POST: Good morning Reddit, Yesterday, one of my best friends admitted to me that for a while now he has been suffering through depression. I told him that I'm glad he told me and that no one should be going through that alone and I offered to lend an ear to him. Right away he shot me down and gave me an excuse along the lines of ""I'm strong enough to get through this on my o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 F] living situation with my boyfriend [27 M] of 11 months POST: So I've been dating my boyfriend for 11 months now and we seem pretty serious. He lives very close to me in his own place and I live with my parents (even though I stay there 4-5 nights a week). I'd like to move out at some point this year because I feel like its about time but I'd like to know where his head is at. I'd be perfectly ok moving to my own place somewhere but if he'd like me to move in within a year i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] want to ask a girl [18F] out, but I'm uncertain if it's a good idea given how busy I am. POST: My concerns have nothing to do with the girl. By all standard metrics she (a gorgeous star soccer player and engineering major) is spectacular, and our interactions have been consistently wonderful for both parties (so far as I can tell). I'm pretty dense sometimes, and even I can tell that she has been flirting very aggressively, so I feel around 90% confident that asking her out w",positive " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Training a dog to be MORE excited. POST: My wife and I adopted a greyhound 4 months ago. She is a very shy and timid girl. We have noticed that she has gained a lot more confidence since we got her, but she is still really scared of most other people. The problem that we're really dealing with is that she shows no excitement to anything, not treats, praise, walks, nothing. She just kinda goes with the flow. I can tell she likes the treat and occasionally enjoys walks, but she barely s",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by losing my temper at a video game POST: This happened last night, so while not technically today it was within the last 24 hours, so whaddaya gonna do. Anyway, to the fuck up. I was playing smite (a computer moba, like League of Legends for those who don't know) with one of my good friends when, in typical moba fashion, I begin to get fed up with how my teammates are acting. They are consistently making poor decisions, I'm forced to deal with the repercussions, etc etc. (honestly I wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 M] girlfriend [20 F] of 2 months, told me something personal and my reaction caused me to miss the story - I want to understand it better but its a sensitive topic and I dont know how to approach it. POST: I'm not sure if this is even the right sub but I thought I'd try and you guys could at least point me in the right direction. My girlfriend and I have been together for 2 months and have only known each other for 4, we're very open with each other though and have told each ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] I (29M) had my first therapist visit yesterday. I don't feel any better and if anything feel more damaged than before. POST: Original thread: I'm not sure at this point that I can be helped. I spent over two hours with my therapist yesterday spilling my guts about all of the issues that have plagued me over the past few years. We went over how everyone has betrayed me and how I've failed so many others. She suggested a few things, but mainly informed me that my brain is ",negative " r/self TITLE: 25 years old. I have a decent job with potentially great benefits, should I leave it and go to school for free with everything (books, supplies, and cost of living paid for? POST: Job eventually will match your 401k up to 7% and every year gives you 10% annual salary straight into 401k. So basically you make 30k or so cash money, but retirement accrues about 5100 every year for nothing. Of course with raises it will increase every year. But there is a ceiling of about 60k. (10,200) into 401k ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [31M] feelings for my SO [29/F] have changed, and I'm a bit lost as to how to handle it. POST: We've been dating for a little over a year and things were pretty intense for a while, we'd spend all day together and talk all day on the phone or Skype if we weren't together in person, it went on for months and still does regularly. I still care about her tremendously, but the care that I have for her has shifted. It's not really a romantic one anymore, very occasionally I feel that w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [30 M] went through a really bad break-up and met a really awesome person [30 F] who I'm not sure I can be with right now POST: You can look back on my history and see I went through (and still am) a really shitty breakup. It's still on going as I deal with her mom to get stuff out of my apartment but that is another story. Shortly after the break up, I started to date around. Not that many mind you. I met this cute girl through mutual friends a couple months back but never tal",positive " r/dogs TITLE: My roommate bought a puppy that I think wasn't properly taken care of. What are your opinions? What should I do? POST: My roommate and his girlfriend recently purchased a Chihuahua/Jack Russel mix off of craigslist in Oregon (specifically in Portland). They were told the puppy was 6 weeks old. Upon getting the puppy back to our apartment I checked him and and found that he had fleas and worms. My first concern is that I was under the impression that you couldn't sell a puppy under 8 weeks of ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I'm interested in the girlfriend of a cheating guy i know. POST: So i recently met two people on a separate ocasions, and they are a couple. I met the man first and he talks about scoring girls in such a naturality that it took me time to know he had a girlfriend. I managed to swallow my disgust and keep acting normal. Now I'm friends with the guy for very little time although we are becoming pretty close because of a certain situation we are going through (nothing bad FIY). I met the girl ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33 F] with my hubby [36M] of 6 years, I think I'm too patient? POST: My husband is currently looking for more freelance work. His latest gig fell thru about a month ago, and nothing is on the horizon. I want to be supportive, but we moved to a major city that has a huge cost of living for his ""career."" I work an extremely physical job full time, but I don't make very much, and take a full course load in graduate school. Today, I came home to a filthy kitchen and him settling i",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Printing DickButt at Work POST: So I work at an Insurance Office and a coworkers computer was down and she couldn't print. She asks me to print a receipt for a customer so I go to the customers account and start to print the receipt. Now being the practical joker I am, I think to myself ""I'll print DickButt instead and when she sees it she will laugh and think WTF is that?"" This is not what happened. She grabs it and without looking hands it right to the customer with a shit eatin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (Asking for a friend) her f26 with him m29. Found necklace in their bed that doesn't belong to her. POST: My friend is 26 and has been dating her boyfriend for over 3 years. They recently moved in together and seem like a very solid couple. They have their occasional fights but I've always thought he is a good match for her. He's recently been traveling a lot and I'm not sure how that's affected their dynamic. She was cleaning today and found a necklace on their bed. It's not he",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: What to do with a woman (25F) that is notoriously hard to get a hold of? POST: So I went on this date a few weeks ago with this girl that I have had a crush on for small while. Everything went well, conversation flowed and we both had a great time. For the last week and a half I have been trying to set up a second date, but this girl is always busy. She just got a new job and is working a ton of hours to make ends meet. So every time I try to set up a date with this girl she has work",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 M] GF [19F] likes to tell little white lies to prevent me getting jealous, how do I get her to stop? POST: We've been together for almost a year and a half and whenever we get in a situation where something might get me a bit jealous she has a habit of lying about it in order to spare my feelings. Everytime (at least I hope so) I figure it out on my own or find out later and it ends with me getting mad because dishonesty is my biggest turn-off in a relationship. If someone can",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Advice For Getting a Mortgage With School Loan Debt POST: Alright, reddit, I need some advice. I am almost a teacher (within 12 months I will have a position), but for now I work at a daycare, which is not lucrative. I am trying to get a mortgage for an amazing house I found, and the only thing holding me back is my dti ratio. My only debt is school loans, which I have spent the summer consolidating and getting on an income based repayment plan. I owe nothing on them for a year",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Advice on getting computer related job on a BS in bio degree. POST: So like the title states, I have a degree in biology. I'm interested though in working with computers. And I don't know what to look for. I was the kind of kid, who at 13 years old was writing scripts for macros to play UO for myself while I was at school. Yeah they had a recorder, but you had to tweak the code they wrote. So my question is, what kind of jobs should I be applying for? I don't really have a resource ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[34 M] am almost but not quite yet divorced from 12 year together wife [ 34 F]. She wanted relationship therapy but is now backing off POST: My wife and I were 14 years together, of which 9 married. We have a daughter of 8, and a son of 5. From March to December 2014 I had an enormous stressful work life (being an entrepreneur) which I projected on my wife. Fights were frequent and I became very nasty toward her (not physically!). In December 2014, the day after I bought a plot ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF (22) is depressed, relationship (4.5 years) is being ruined. I (22m) don't know if should leave her. POST: Hey, I've been on a relationship with this girl it's been 4 years and 8 months. She's very intelligent (started reading books in different languages at the age of ~5) and fun to be with, my only ""complaint"" was how she can be a bit insensitive and rude (These are things that should be taught as good manners, I guess). Anyway, great social, sex and friend life until +1 year ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [27/M] confused about a damaged [29/F], she dropped a bombshell(s) on me! POST: i've known her for a year and a half now. we've been seeing each other for the first year on and off. mostly when we were both intoxicated. our sex life up to this point was fantastic! i've been having a hard time getting her to open up to me and worse yet she tells me i'm the coldest dude she's been with. the other night she invited me to one of her friends parties, which is a first for this ""re",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [29/f] My boyfriend [29/m] of almost 3 years won't consider living together. [long] POST: We are not engaged (yet) but have been talking about marriage for about a year now. We have what I consider to be a good relationship, spend usually 3-4 nights a week together (@ my house). We have an active sex life. He can't pinpoint a reason why we can't live together before marriage other than ""it isn't right"". He grew up in a moderately religious home, but does not go to church now. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my Baby Momma / GF[22 F] 8 months, friends are a bad influence. POST: Hey everyone, so I have an issue! I started dating this girl back in June and its been great. Things happened, she got pregnant and we're still together. I have one issue with the relationship however. Before we found out she was pregnant I knew she smoked weed (we're in Colorado so w/e) and I was okay with it. What I didn't know is how often she did it. After we found out she was pregnant I thoug",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: To my ""friends"" POST: Fuck you. I can forgive the ones who managed to get out of this shit-tastic town. I can forgive them because I know if they were here, they would be with me, picking me up when I'm down. But the ones who are still here? You've been nothing but a disappointment. You constantly make and then break plans with me, making me feel unwanted and like a loser for being a college girl stuck inside on the weekends. I'm not old enough to get into a bar, but you can't wait th",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: GM at Virginia DoubleTree Hilton told me she doesn't believe my family members would be responsible when I inquired about using my employee discount to book a hotel room. Should I go straight to HR or EEOC? POST: **Backstory**, I work at a Hotel in Virginia and we have a GM in the company who does things which in my eyes might not be entirely legal. On numerous occasions she has pulled employees phones out of their hands and locked them in her office only to return them at the end of t",negative " r/books TITLE: Here's what it means when a book is classified as Young Adult. POST: You guys are killing me here. I keep reading posts and comments where redditors have a clear misunderstanding of the **Young Adult** genre. YA books have a main character who is **15-19** years old, and are marketed to teens ages 13-18. That's pretty much it. They can be fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal, horror, contemporary, whatever. The characters can say bad words, have sex, do drugs, and anything else you want them to d",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by forgetting how to manage a budget POST: This happened about 3 hours ago. My college has a student council that contains many extra curricular activities that I participate in. We all have a set budget that gets decided at the beginning of the fall semester. Among these activities, there is an anime club, which I am the treasurer of. I've been careful to keep doing my job properly and keeping track of our budget precisely so no one got on my back. These past 2 semesters we've been s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My best friend [19/F] is controlling and manipulative, and I [20/F] don't know how to handle it. POST: We've been friends for a really long time, we've known each other since Primary School. We lost contact for a bit during Middle School, but reconnected again in High School and have been great friends ever since. I love having her as a friend, I wouldn't trade her for the world, but sometimes things feel like they're getting out of hand. I should mention that we're not dating or an",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking my boyfriends mother if she liked ménage á trois. POST: Following a nice Easter lunch with my boyfriends conservative family, his mother mentions that she has been making a hobby of making candles out of wine bottles. She casually mentions that if we have any old wine bottles with cool names, we should give them to her and she'll make candles out of them. I don't drink wine very often -- I've usually favored beer more. Every now and then, I'll get a bottle of a sweet red wine f",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: My last four hours POST: Alright, summer's coming to an end now. So is my summer fling relationship with this girl (age 22) I met. I'm a 22 year old male. I'm leaving her to go back to my university to finish up my studies. I love her. Told her everything about how I feel about her. She told me how this distance thing is going to kill us and we should just stick to being friends. True. I agree. She decided it was time to do a distancing thing because we got too attached, texting eac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [f18] explain to my bf [m20] (of 9 months) that I want to be a priority sometimes? POST: I am at my boyfriends house on the weekends when I dont have class. (We have been officially together for 9 months, but have known each other and been friends for 4 or 5 years, and occasionally hooked up before making it official last summer.) For the last couple weeks it seems that I only have his attention when we have sex. The rest of the weekend he spends on the internet or playin",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/M] I'm trying to get back together with high school sweetheart [21/F] who likes me but won't say why she's holding off POST: So me and this girl dated in grade 12 for 6 months, and then when the whole University thing came around, I broke up with her because we were in different cities. Now, nearing graduation we've been going out on dates and hanging out. This has been for about 8 months. For the most part, it wasn't romantic until last week when it rekindled. We have alwa",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Thinking he may be the one or, perhaps, subconscious settling...? POST: Right, ill make this short! So I'm with the MOST amazing, greatest boyfriend a girl could ask for. He's loving, attentive, makes me laugh at least every hour and is stable in all regards. We're both not sure if we want kids (im late 20's he's early 30's) but we agree on virtually everything else. We've recently moved in together and I can't believe how fun and easy it is to live with him and he with me. Now, i cant",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My online GF 17F suddenly dropped everything with me 16M. Am I in the wrong? POST: So I met this girl from a game about 2-3 months ago and we were into each other. I know it's dumb considering its not physical but talking to her just felt so nice, so right. I asked her how she looked but she said she was shy and didn't want to because of a past bullying experience. so I backed off with that question expecting it to happen sometime in the upcoming weeks or month. To take the first st",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [20/M] stop being a hypocritical ass to my FWB [20/F]? POST: So I have this FWB, Ashley. I haven't known her too long, maybe about a month or so, we met on Tinder. We've hung out a bunch and get along incredibly well. We both got out of abusive/bad relationships not too long ago so neither of us are really looking for a relationship. When we hang out, though, we don't really act like friends. We act as if we are dating, which I don't mind because I would be lying if I said ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [19 F] of over a year reacts so strongly anytime she does anything that hurts my [19 M] feelings, I've been hiding my emotions POST: Whenever I try to communicate a problem in our relationship or express how she hurt me in some way, she gets completely hysterical. She just feels so bad that she hurt my feelings that she cries and cries. She sometimes has panic attacks and usually gets close to having one. Her reactions have been getting worse, so I recently started hidi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Keeping secrets from your SO and talking shit POST: Long story short. I read my boyfriends text messages and found out one of his girl friends tried to set him up with one of her friends. My bf declined and felt sort of weird about it (cause he is loyal to me). The girl friend said she did that because she ""never knows what to say, you are so off and on about her (me)"" I am not mad about it, clearly nothing happened. I also realize reading his texts is wrong. However should I be wo",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By getting caulk everywhere POST: Hey reddit today i desided to try and caulk the gaps around my A/C in the window cause spiders have been getting in and im fucking petrified of em. now normally i can caulk like a pro but today i tried to use the caulk gun and a hole popped in the side and caulk started spewing out **(fuck off you dirty minded pricks)** xD anyhow I decided instead of wasting the caulk i would use my finger to spread it around the gaps then i squeezed the tube too hard b",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: [Tutorial Request] How to DIY the flowers on these centerpieces/favours? POST: Hello fellow planners (past, present, or future)! My wedding is coming up much faster than I would like, and I need a little help with potential centerpieces. The centerpieces that our venue has are hideous, so we decided to make our own. We were originally intending on making submerged floral arrangements (something like the ones [here] using faux flowers, but today while looking for favour ideas, I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [23M] of one year, lied and forgot about my birthday present[19F] POST: so in mid february, it was my birthday, it wasn't a very good one might I add, for several reasons. My Boyfriend said I'll take you out for lunch, choose a place. So I chose a place, slightly more excited that the day was getting better. He told me my birthday present was on the way- being delayed in the post... Fast forward to a week ago, I asked about it, he said he lied and it was never in the post",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Happy ending after revenge. (Not that kind of happy ending) POST: On a recent camping trip, my girlfriends father exacted some excellent petty revenge on some fellow campers in the ground. We were set up in an RV at the last spot at the end of the grounds. The roadway went down further to a beachy and rocky area where there was a nice river! Anyway, this place had some amazing quad trails nearby, unlike any I knew existed. But for some reason these guys decided to drive around the",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, how can I get over my want to fight for feelings? POST: Explanation: I have met a really nice guy, he's incredibly sweet, like pretty much all of the same things that I do and really freaking likes me. Everything about him says that I should like him back, and I do enjoy his company but I hate the fact that I don't have to try. Literally, all I have to do is talk and this guy falls more in like with me and it's so boring. I want to like him back and be excited about being with h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (30F) husband (31M) exaggerates constantly and I'm sick of it! POST: My otherwise great husband and I have been married for 5 years, and his constant exaggerations are really starting to bug me. I've started calling him out publicly and he is getting really defensive. A few examples: He works nights, but sleeps every day from 7a- 3 or 4pm. He's the kind of guy who falls instantly asleep when his head hits the pillow and nothing short of the apocalypse can wake him. I have caught",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Reddit - I need help. I [20's M] Cheated on the most amazing woman [20's F], no reason why.. I miss and love her very much. How do I move forward? POST: Throwaway for obvious reasons. I can't go into much detail such as ages but here goes: Basically I had a long and very happy relationship. I am madly in love with this woman, and have been since the day I met her. We hardly ever fought, had very few issues, and those that we did have were minor. The fuck up is: I cheated. I'd like ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my friend [18 F] want to get to know/ date POST: First to start off, I was surfing Gone Wild a few days ago, sending messages to random girls on there to make myself feel better because I've never really had any sort of relationship at all. So this one girl stuck out particularly to me. We started talking on reddit, then eventually we moved to talking on kik. The only problem is I found out that I knew this girl! She goes to my high school and I never pictured her to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My sister [18 F] is dating a much, much older guy [36 M] and I [23 F] am not sure what to do. POST: My little sister moved in with me on her 18th birthday due to incompatibility with my conservative parents. Since moving in with me she has had a few different waitressing jobs and is trying to get on her feet with steady employment, and a place of her own. She had a crush on her tattoo artist for a few months and would talk about him a lot. She voiced aversion to his age (36), but c",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Uncertain About My Work Future POST: So I have been working for this company for the last six months in a Marketing Manager role. While not a huge fan of the financial industry, I have enjoyed the work and learned a good bit. The guy who hired me was from my home state and we hit it off right away in the interview. I say was because he left for a much better job three weeks ago. He was the most vital part of our company in my eyes, brought with him nearly two decades of damn good knowledge an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [32M] pursue this relationship with this woman[31] from another planet? POST: I fell like enough red flags have been raised for me to opt out of this, but I can't get over my feelings for her. She's had more serious and casual relationships than I and unfortunately for her the serious ones ended badly making me think she's damaged goods or just more apprehensive than usual. She's a white, Christian, conservative Republican and I'm a Hispanic, atheist, liberal Democrat. On pa",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting naked to have sex POST: So I will start off by saying that my cat is a little shit. I love him, but he can be a grade-a terd sometimes. Specifically with his urine. I have learned to never leave clothes on the floor. He will always use the litter box until I forget to pick up a shirt off the floor and bam, he pissed on it. . My gf and I have been doing great and have not had an incident in months. Until now. . Well yesterday night I groggily returned from the bathroom wh",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: First person dreams vs Movie-like dreams and the link to Games/Movies. POST: I would like to start out saying that I read a few articles somewhere saying that it was a link between TV and dreaming that caaused black and white and color dreams... back when tv's where only in B/W the majority of dreams were too, but now most people dream in color because of color TV... My question is this, if TV can influence dreams then can gaming as well? Example, I play shitloads of first person shooter",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my girlfriend [23F] 6months. What are some Best Practices for a nice time with an end date? POST: Me and my girlfriend Tina have been going out for about six months now. We're both each others' first girlfriends: first time kissing another girl, first time having sex with another girl (kinda late bloomers I guess, wasted too much time pretending to be straight). It's been great. Seriously, I have no complaints. She's sweet and we connect fantastically and while we're s",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: [20m]I need help here guys. POST: I was in Vintage Stock today, a place I've been going about ever other day or so at varied times of the day for the past week. Well a couple hours ago, a really cute girl was working there who looked very familiar. I couldn't quite place her, so I asked if she went to my high school, but she said no. After getting the cards that I wanted, we him-hawed around trying to figure out where we had seen each other, as we both recognized each other at this",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My mother was just sold a preowned computer that was also the wrong model at Future Shop after the salesperson insisted it was brand new. What can we do? POST: Tonight I noticed a new computer appeared as a shared computer on my network. I was unaware of this and it had a strange name. I then found out my mother had just purchased a new laptop. I googled the name of the shared computer and it looks like it's some sort of dance group based in my city. Anyway, we concluded it was preowned",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24m] dating [18f], I'm her first boyfriend, want to be respectful POST: I'm trying not to take advantage of the situation but I don't know how to draw that line. We both went into the relationship with clear priorities, I talked to her parents before we became bf/gf and did it all right. I come on really strong and I love deeply and loyally, and she has been incredible at reciprocating my love and honesty in a real level. However I can't tell if that's because I'm the first pe",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: I am NOT your maid, you idiot POST: So, I had this really cruddy roommate who was a lazy, filthy slob. He would never get off his unfortunately over weight ass and do anything, and his room was a exact copy of the lower reaches of hell. His room smelled of urine from god know what (none of us had pets) and I actually asked him if he was depressed in any way, he wasn't. He treated me like a minimum wage servent and would always be on MY computer because his ""didn't work"" I once came ba",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do I have a really bad life plan? POST: I saw a submission on here not too long ago from a guy asking how people are actually supposed to make a living and sustain themselves out in the world. This got me thinking that I really don't have any idea what I'm doing as far as moving on in life goes. I first started thinking about it when I signed up for an electrical course at the local community college back in the Spring semester this year, but was fired from my job the very same day (Lo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Two crazy kids want to stay together in the same country, but don't want to get married. What to do? POST: Background: My partner (male, 22) and I (female, 21) have been dating for 4 years. We've lived in his parents house for a year and a half, and in their granny flat for about 4 months. Our relationship is going very well. I love him and his family, we cohabit very well, we're sharing a bank account to pay for rent and food, we've been through a lot together and it seems like the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (22)and boyfriend (23) of 5 years are going long distance for a while and just need some advice from people who have been in that situation and survived? POST: Hi /relationships 10 weeks from now I will be moving cities, not too far about 3 hours away, I know thats not very long but, boyfriend and I are very close and we are going from seeing each other every day to once every 2-3 weeks. This is because he works all through the week and plays sport on weekends so, finding time",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by refusing to go to confession POST: This happened a while ago when I was attending a Catholic high school. Every first Friday of the month the religion classes would file behind their teachers and make their way into the auditorium in order to confess their sins to the priests working at our school. As I had recently decided I did not want to be associated with religion anymore, I was none too pleased to find myself being herded into another bout of confession. By the time I reached ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [25F] of 5 years, will get married one year soon, but I have no friends. POST: Hi, using a throwaway. I have no family and I have no friends. The family part isn't by choice, but the friends part is partially by choice. I moved to a new state and met my girlfriend. She is really great. She has a broad social circle and I would say I am on decent friendship levels with her friends. We are pretty great together and I can see us getting married in the next f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I don't know if my problem is with me (F18), or my boyfriend (19). POST: I'm going to try and make this as short as possible. My boyfriend and I went to the same high school, but never really talked until the summer after graduation. He told me he'd had a crush on me for quite a while, but at first I only liked him as a friend. Eventually I started to really like him, and we went out a few times. We have now been dating for two months. At first I was really happy just like anybody e",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] proposing to my girlfriend [28 F] of 9 months without meeting her family? POST: I've been dating my girlfriend for about 9 months, and we've known each other a lot longer than that. I want to propose to her in September while on a trip. But here's the deal. By that point, I won't have met her family. I know a lot -about- her family, and I hear about them from her, but we live several thousand miles from them and it's just not feasible to go out there. So here's my question",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30M] with my friend [late 20s M] of a year, hinting at how other-friend-couple (mid 20s) should break up POST: Actors Friend: Trevor Couple: Frank & Rachel So my friend, Trevor - we've worked together for a while, 5-6 years, and gotten more friendly over the past year or so ... now hang out outside of work fairly regularly along with a larger group of coworker-friends. Even more recently we have started chatting about topics of mutual interest ... sports, books, and psycholog",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/m] my ex-gf is [18/f] and she fucked me over POST: well the story goes like this: i've been in a relationship with the girl of my dreams for almost 3 years. the last months didn't go really well although we still loved each other alot. we decided to take a break and both have the freedom to do what we wanted, we both went on a vacation for more then a month. after we both came back we were together very often and often slept together. now theres this friend of mine that is ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[22M] in a LDR with my gf[25F] but I think the honeymoon phase ended too quickly. POST: My gf and I met online and we've been dating for about 9 months. She's been in a few serious relationships where as this is my first. When we first started dating and a bit before we were extremely close and sent many texts whenever we were apart. If that wasn't possible we would leave sweetly written notes for each other. Fast forward a couple months and she visited me for the first time and i",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I need help on standing out in a crowd, so to speak. POST: I recently started at a college roughly 2,200 miles from where I used to live. Consequently I have been very lonely coming off of a breakup combined with the fact that I don't know anybody here. Anyways, the college I go to is very small, and is very very technology and video game oriented. Because of this, there are very few girls here, accompanied by very very many guys. However, during my orientation I was placed in a gr",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Wish I'd waited on the cell phone (young teen) POST: I bought my 13 y.o. daughter a cell phone (very basic, no web access) to use for emergencies when she was in seventh grade. She's in eighth grade now and is constantly hounding me to buy her an iphone. We discussed general rules for the phone when she first got it: It has to be turned off and stowed at night, no checking phone during certain times, etc. But then I stopped checking to see where the phone was at night. And then I r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my Fiance [30 F] 6 yr duration. Her friend is organizing a surprise party to make me redo my proposal because she thinks it sucked. What do I say to that? POST: I recently proposed to my girlfriend on a trip and she said yes (woohoo!) Just me, her, a scenic quiet place halfway around the world. Now that we're back her friend (32/F) is now organizing some sort of surprise party for my fiance. She asked me for availability and my friends' contacts and then added: ""_< --- balance transferred debt (no interest for 12 more months): Capital One: $1,343.26 Amex: $853.9",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Crate training issues... Help! POST: I picked up my dog from the shelter on Tuesday. He had just been neutered, so he was a little off, but he got in the kennel just fine. He loved the kennel on the first day, and would sleep in it even though there was a blanket on the ground. He later started sleeping on the blanket. It's been a few days and I can see that he's feeling better, but suddenly he's refusing to go in the crate. I thought he was house trained since he went potty the first few ti",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I produce an amazing roller derby webcast that should be spectacularly popular but isn't- how can I find an audience? POST: I produce a live broadcast of all-female banked track roller derby games every couple weeks. To sum it up in a nutshell: - All kinds of girls in uniforms that easily rival those of [volleyball girls]( - A real hardcore physical competitive sport that is [exciting to watch] self-aware and interesting. - Played on a banked track which is faster and more acce",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [16F] don't feel anything between me and my boyfriend [17M] of a little over 2 months POST: (throwaway account) My boyfriend and I have been going to a very small school together for the past year. We have very different friend groups/schedules so we only began talking in May. We started a week before school ended, but even when we started dating I didn't see him as anything more than a friend. I have no romantic feeling or attraction to him. I feel like this relationship is so mu",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Getting kicked off my parent's auto insurance POST: I know it seems bad, but I got into my third car accident today. I'm 18 and I've been driving for almost 2 years. I'm an inexperienced and overall horrible driver, I know. Never was I in a bad accident, every single one resulted in very minor damage and just an $80 or so ticket. This time it was hardly my fault. I was in the middle of the intersection because the light turned green and the leftmost lane was letting me go, but in the next",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19/M) am having trouble not worrying about my relationship of 4 months with my girlfriend (19/M) POST: I am a worrier and over think things all the time especially my relationship. I am constantly over thinking little things and have a feeling like something is wrong between us even though we're completely fine. I hate that I can't always be happy with her because I have these negative thoughts that something is wrong. She gives me no reason to think anythings wrong and if we do h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need Advice from songwriters who don't sing on their own recordings! POST: How important is the person who ends up singing your music? Recently, I helped some friends record vocals for a songwriting contest. I didn't really think much of it until a while later I found out their piece made it to the finals and their song was posted up online along with others. I was confused when I bothered to look at the credits and saw they had someone else's name where it listed as the main vocals. So",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Kitten seems to be drinking a lot of water - am I overreacting or is it a cause of concern? POST: Hello! I took in my adorable stray Joey when he was almost 4 weeks old and he is now about 6 weeks. He gets along magnificently with my other older kitten Phoebe (who's almost 5 months), eats well, is (finally) litter box trained and can go on his own, and sleeps/naps normally as far as I can tell... I took him for his first vet visit (besides the check he received when he was initially taken i",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Experiencing a change in appetite -- could it be my change in exercise routine? POST: Hello! I have been lurking here for six months now, and have finally worked up the courage to create an account. :) * I'm 22, female, and weigh 158 -- down 50 pounds from June of this year, the official start of my journey; down 90 pounds as of this time last year. * I have a calorie intake set at 1200 and try to burn at least half of that off with exercise. * My exercise routine consists of my exercise",negative " r/running TITLE: Anyone had a biopsy done on their foot? How long to heal? POST: So, first some background info. A few weeks ago I noticed a strange bruise-like mark on the bottom of my heel. I had just started running barefoot about once per week, but prior to that I wasn't really paying attention to the soles of my feet, so I really can't say if it happened before or after the barefoot running. But of course when I tell that to other people they say obviously I bruised my heel or got some kind of fungus ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] left by my partner [28 F] after 13 years, wondering when it's OK to date again POST: My girlfriend of 13 years who I have always known was bi recently left me because she wants to explore that side of herself (never got the chance). I'm pretty crushed, but I'm also OK with it because... I'm not a woman. Can't help her with that. I did my best and was a great guy. Can't change anything anyway. We broke up about a month ago and, having never been single, I started messing a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my GF [18 F] of two months, need advice on how to accept her friendship with her ex. POST: Hey! First post here. So, my GF broke up with her ex of 2,5 years about 8 months ago. I know she is over him, and that she just wants to hang out with him as a friend (their relationship was horrible at the end, but they agreed to break up, with no hard feelings). Still, I can't relax about it, as this is my first serious relationship. I am not going to deny her hanging out wit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is he my boyfriend or my roommate? POST: Hey Reddit!! Here's the story - My (27 f) boyfriend (30 m) of 4 years who I live with doesn't feel like my boyfriend. We never do anything romantic together, we rarely have sex, and anytime I suggest we go out and have fun...you guessed it, I get rejected there too! We've argued, we've talked, I've addressed the issue, it gets us no where. I've asked him to help me pick out lingerie (in my world it would be so flattering to hear him say he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] having to deal with a broken heart POST: So I asked someone out an year ago. She said she was seeing someone. It sounded like it was just something casual lasting for a few weeks. Never was the BF mentioned until one of her friend accidentally blurted it out a couple of months ago. During this whole period she randomly started ignoring me twice which became normal only after I started ignoring her. I should have seen this as a sign but I loved her too much. Then in an e",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A good way to earn money for a new car... POST: My friend destroyed my clutch. It's going to cost $350 to fix. I wont make him pay for it because I asked him to back the car up and he was scared to do it, so I am at fault. The car is older than I am and I dont want to put any more money into fixing it. I'd rather get a different car. But I'm broke. I pay for my own college and will have to move out soon. I already work 40 hours a week, and can't commit to a second job. I have an idea ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (23M) Gf (21F) of a and a half years gets annoyed that I go to bed early. POST: I work full time at a good job and I wake up at 7 every morning to get ready for work to leave at 745. My girlfriend is in her last year of university. Basically I'm tired as hell at the end of the day so I like to go to bed at a decent time (11pm) to get a good night of sleep. My girlfriend gets annoyed because she wants to talk to me late into night. This sounds innocent enough I suppose but we excha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my boyfriend [24 M], need to work on communication (him talking less, me talking more) POST: I love my boyfriend to death, but this has been more and more on my mind lately and I'm not sure how to broach the subject. I'm a very quiet person. I think about things a lot before speaking. He on the other hand is quite talkative and thinks on his feet. This has developed into a pattern where he rambles about various topics he's inerested in, while I nod and smile, because ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] Please tell me [25M] that I did the right thing about my (ex?) boyfriend [21M] of two years. I don't know if I can handle this. POST: Original Post: I posted recently about my boyfriend, who was caught by a friend of mine on a Tinder-like dating/hookup app. The friend had sent me photo evidence, which I saved to my phone. So tonight I confronted him. He knew as soon as he got home that something was wrong. I was cooking and shrugged off his attempts to hug me, because hi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by multitasking POST: I'm going to preface this by mentioning that I'm a bit scatterbrained, so sometimes I get muddled and fuck up in creative ways. when I do, people often stare at me, bewildered, before asking, ""how did you manage THAT?"" I'm also rather sickly, so when I have flare-ups, I get ultra stressed, and this increases the frequency with which I dick everything over. I had a poop day at work, so I decided to opt for one of my comfort foods - KD with onions, ground beef, and a",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: I'm a freshman in college whose made some poor decisions towards my priorities, I need some advice. POST: So since I've gotten down to my university, I've been going to parties every single weekend, spent almost a thousand dollars within two months on absolutely nothing important (mostly impulse buys). And it's shown up in my classes. I'm at a point where I'm missing lecture halls 3-4 times a week because of being lazy. I've not turned in any important papers which have made up about 20",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Parking ticket/towing POST: So about 2.5 weeks ago my car got towed in the city of San Francisco. When I went to get my car back, I noticed a ticket slapped onto the windshield. I have to pay my ticket by this Saturday but I also wanted to protest the towing because I truly feel that it was unjust (long story). I sent in my protest for the towing and luckily I didn't think to check the parking ticket for my license plate because if I did, I wouldn't have known that they wrote it wrong ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: (GA) Accepted roofing bid. Contractor did less than agreed. What's my recourse? POST: I hired a roofer to evaluate roof and address issues prior to selling a home. His evaluation came out to $2000 to replace a small water damaged soffit and an entire eave of shingles and underlayment and everything involved in whatever had caused the leak through the roof and onto the soffit. I thought it wasn't water damage at all but an animal. He stated it was water and needed replaced. With a buyer",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I bring up the subject of sex to my GF without her getting mad? POST: I (M:19) have been seeing my Girlfriend (F:18), for 2 months and a half and we are good together, we spend alot of time together and have a lot of fun by going to each others houses, going on dates and talking about our problems. But the problem is, I don't know how to bring up sex. I was told by my best friend (who is a girl) that the best way to bring it up is through flirting, by making immature com",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[23F] with my boyfriend [24M] of 4 years, 1 year post-cheating, trying to reconcile POST: Just over a year ago, I cheated on my boyfriend (then of 3 years). We briefly broke up but got back together after about a week and agreed to work towards rebuilding trust. I have been trying my hardest to reconcile by working on myself (working through depression, anxiety, becoming sober), removing toxic people from my life, and being honest with my boyfriend. I do not have the funds for the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Sharing a bed [M27]with my ex-girlfriend [F23]and how to deal? POST: First off let me say this is going to sound ridiculous to some and any criticism is warranted. Long story short (kind of) I broke up with my gf of a few years who lived a few states a way but ended up moving in with me. We stayed friends and she remained interested. One day her mother kicked her out and she had no where to go so I said she could stay with me until she picked herself up. Fast forward four months la",negative " r/loseit TITLE: I'd like to show you my before and after, if you don't mind :) POST: [Me holding my license] (picture taken today) The smaller picture was around 2009 (weight loss didn't start until late 2010/early 2011), bigger picture is Dec 2011 [photo] How it started: I got hardcore dumped and lost about 15 pounds from the initial depression. That little bit of weight gone made me feel a little better, so I started doing light exercise (as much as a depressed person can muster), all the while ana",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I (25f) divorced (25m) ""Loser"" 2 months ago. Married 3 years. I have never been happier. POST: I (25f) divorced my ex (25m) two months ago married 3 years. It has been a long and painful experience. A complete nightmare. I found this link that I wanted to share hoping it might spare others from getting involved with a ""loser."" I wish someone had shared this with me. It was hard realizing my dream in life was not what I had envisioned, but I am proud to say I will NOT make the same mistake",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your most fucked up Reddit-inspired nightmare? POST: So last night, I was browsing Reddit right before bed and ended up on now resurgent WTF subreddit. After several O_o moments, I was sufficiently disturbed and decided it was time for sleep. Then at about 3am I bolted awake in midst of a trrrbl dream. In my dream there were hundreds of small brads (the little nails) that were somehow embedded into my scalp. This wasn't a Pinhead in Hellraiser scenario – they were sticking out o",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My (18m) SO(18f) just broke down... Help... POST: It started by watching phantom of the opera, she got quiet and then when I tried talking to her she snapped at me. I got mad and didn't think much of it. I later come out to find she is sulking... She tells me she isn't happy with her life....at this point I'm hurt... But she is battling depression so I understand (and she is on her period, which is terrible this month) so I take her out for a drive and we sit on a dock, no one ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [29/m]Not sexually compatible with [30/f] wife, need advice POST: Reddit, I've come to you seeking answers. Or at the very least advice. The background is: I'm 29, my wife is 30. We got married VERY young (19). She was 7 months pregnant at the time. Looking back now, I can see that we got married because of that. I thought I loved her and that she was the one, but I didn't even really know who I was at the time and what I wanted out of life. I've grown to love her though. As I'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [30F] aquaintances [32M/20F] that I suspect have a fling have similar time stamps on fb messenger- is this evidence? POST: Hi reddit, I have a guy [32M] and a girl [20F] among my acquaintances and I suspect that they have something going on. When I look at fb messenger, they are/were often online at similar times, could this be evidence that they are/were chatting? E.g. One time it said that both of them were last online at 1AM-ish. But, of course, this could also mean that the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my dating relationship [28 M] 1month, how to ask about testing... POST: I don't want to get oral herpes because I have anxiety about it and also a weak immune system that would make outbreaks very frequent/difficult. I've begun dating someone new (3 dates), but am now out of town and will resume once back in a month. He's told me he wants to be in a relationship with me. We have not kissed yet because our dates have been punctuated by me going in and out of town. I wan",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF Seems less Interested POST: We are both in our 30s and working, and we have been dating for around a month or more. When I first met her we spent a great deal of time together, and I also found out that she needed to take her Boards in August. She wasn't going to study, and I encouraged her that she should and she has been studying for multiple hours a day (which I believe). That being said, we had some plans prior to that, and she is less interested in doing those because she ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with my girlfriend [25F] of 2.5 years in LDR. She suddenly doesn't love me anymore, how is your experience? How did it end, what did you do? POST: Hey reddit, I have been in a LDR with my wonderful girlfriend for 2.5 years. 3 semesters ago she moved to NYC to study and we have seen each other 4-5 times since. LDR always sucks, but we have been doing quite a good job, I believe. We texted each other everyday, we tried to call each other and every break either one of us woul",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me 25F feeling a little down in the dumps because I haven't met anyone I'm attracted to in a while POST: I haven't been in a relationship in a long while, my last relationship was a Nicholas Sparks type romance that was really romantic but ultimately didn't last and it was a really heartbreaking time. I immediately cut contact and ""worked on myself"" for a long time. That took a few months, and since then I've been dating again. I've been in a bit of a real slump lately in that I'v",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21 M] on rocky terms with [20 F] should we end it? POST: Our relationship was 3 months of fun for the two of us. We spent the majority of our time together, became best friends, expressed our love, and did all the other things that come with a good relationship. The only issue we had was that she never saw me as a ""provider"", she usually dated much older guys and sees a relationship not so much to be focused on fun, but emotional and financial support. I began to offer both and we s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my Gentleman caller? [24M] of 2 months. At what point do I tell him I'm bipolar? POST: Hello Reddit! I'm using a throwaway but I really want your opinion on something. I met a guy, we'll call him Shane in August. He was a casual hookup but we ended up getting to know each other and spending more time together. We go out about twice a week. I'm a commitment-phobe and he's coming out of a bad relationship, we've both expressed that we aren't ready for a relationship. Tha",negative " r/Advice TITLE: What pranks can I play on my friends in France? POST: Dear Reddit, I am going on holiday to the south of France with 16 people tomorrow morning, and with so many people it is fair to say that not everyone is the best of friends. Thus, I will have little in the way of guilt about pulling some wicked pranks on them. For example, there is a pool at the place we are staying, and we are currently planning a night where we tell all the girls about a really posh restaurant we are treating them to.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] with my girlfriend [16F] of almost three years, I feel we've become incompatible and I have lost feelings. POST: I know not many posts here are from 17 year olds. But I'm in need of some mature advice. So I've been dating my girlfriend since we were in 8th grade. We've grown up and matured together. We were great as 14 and 15 year olds for the most part, little arguments. About a year ago my mom found a vape I have and freaked out, and one of the agreements about me still",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [21M] having problems dealing with my girlfriend's [19F] cleavage. Looking for some advice. POST: I know this is going to sound kinda stupid and imature but I really am only looking for some advice on how to deal with this. So, my girlfriend really likes to wear sleeveless shirts that show cleavage. This alone isn't what bothers me, I never had problems with my girlfriends wearing shirts with cleavage, I actually think it looks good. The problem is that my girlfriend has small ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 15/M relations with older sister's best friend 18/F Wat do, reddit? POST: Im really desperate for advice. During spring break I (After 5 hours of being in bed) had sex with my sister's best friend who is 3 years older than me. It wasnt a one night exclusive event, as we engaged in activities 2 nights and fooled around on the sly. My sister knows we did SOMETHING, but doesnt know to what extent we went. She is currently seeing the friendship (relationship) of myself and her bes",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (25f) do love my bf (28m) but don't know if I should date him POST: So I've been dating my current bf for 10 months, and honestly I don't know if I'm going to stay with him. The problem is when I met him he was still living with his mother and had never really lived on his own. I seriously taught him how to be an adult. I got him to sign up for a credit card, we live together so I helped him get some utilities in his name. I turned a big boy into man. Problem is in doing that we fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my 6yo ex, cannot move on POST: We ended our relationship a month ago. We fought a lot, and she lost feelings long before that. She insisted that we still stay friends but I could not. I tried to move away but I kept getting back to talk to her. We spent a lots of time together, we used to talk a lot and it was hard not having her in my life. Now, we talk couple times during the week. I still struggle to sleep at nights and go throughout the day, while she has almost ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being a stupid teenager POST: Sorry for any mistakes I may have made in this post, this is my first time posting here. Plus, I'm on my phone typing this out. So it started out as another day. Well, except for the fact that we had a district test. Four hours of sitting in a classroom, either reading, taking a test or sleeping. I did all of the test in two and a half hours, leaving me with extra time. I just sat there reading for the remainder of it. After that, we went to classes and",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being too open with my aunt POST: This fuck up actually happened today! I'll just jump right in. First some backstory... I'm 20 and am just recently getting to know my aunt, as she lives in Colorado and I live in California. We haven't been in contact long, but she seems incredibly excited to get to know me. Unrelated to that (but related to the fuck up, as you'll see shortly), I'm dating a guy who lives in New York. We met online but have since Skype chatted and talked a lot. He's 2",positive " r/Pets TITLE: Reddit Veterinarians! Our Bernese Mountain Dog needs your help! POST: Thank you for clicking and caring! We recently left our 3.5 year-old Berner for a week at PetSmart while we visited family. He goes there all the time for day care and has stayed there overnight 3-4 days before, but this is the longest he has ever boarded. As soon as he came home on Sunday 11/3 he began vomiting water up. Monday AM 11/4 he refused to eat (VERY unlike him - he lives for food... I can't stress that enough) an",negative " r/dogs TITLE: I am a Canadian student living in a one-bdrm apartment with my dog. Am I eligible to foster other dogs? POST: Hey! Here's a bit about me and my dog. I am a 22 yr old Canadian (ontario) student working part time (weekends). My dog is a 4-year old female (fixed) Siberian Husky. Even with my other responsibilities I make enough time to give her all the exercise and attention a Siberian Husky needs, and she has little to no issues while in the home (doesn't destroy anything, house-trained, etc)",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, what options does an uninsured person have for dealing with a major medical bill? POST: So, a little back story. My best friend is an Iraq vet in West Virginia. He was honorably discharged about a year and a half ago. Since then, he's simply been working odd jobs- manual labor, being a bouncer, etc. He's an avid body builder and spends a lot of time in the gym. He never filed his disability paperwork with the VA, and has never been to a VA hospital. He has had no health insu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[19F] with my bf [20M] of 1.5 years, Outsiders think I'll break up with him, I think im happy now not sure and confused POST: So I went away on a week camp with people I don't know. We got on to discussing my relationship with my boyfriend and then a girl was like as a joke so How long before you breakup ? And then one thing lead to another and these people who never met me until two days ago (half way through the trip at this point) had already come to the conclusion that we would",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] with my girlfriend [21F] of 1 year, coming out about my drug use. POST: So, we've been dating for a bit more than a year now but we've known each others for way longer. Things go quickly, we're madly in love, no arguments, we are supportive and everything in this relationship is perfect and we do live together. The real issue here is that I've started doing cocaine about 6 months ago. It started once with a friend of mine, didn't touch it for about 2 months, then I met some",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26/f] My SO (29/m) is always right. POST: My boyfriend of a little more than 2 years *never* owns up to any of his mistakes. He consistently ties them back to a reason why he did what he did, ultimately putting blame on someone or something else. **The bigger issue?** In arguments or disagreements, there sometimes comes a point in time when something ""triggers"" him, and he explodes with rage, swearing, name-calling, belittling, yelling, pointing fingers at me, etc. During th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [28M] with my girlfriend [28F] 1 year, had told me she has got a job and is moving 4 hours drive away. What's that going to be like? POST: I love my gf, she loves me. But shes just finished her degree and landed a job which is giong to mean she'll be working fulltime 4 hours drive away. My lifestyle is pretty erratic so I foresee not finding time to catch up for full weekends more than every fortnight or more. Ive not been very supportive so far.. probably being selfish.. but ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[25] girlfriend[22] that I started seeing in August 2012, was kissed by someone at a party, but i think she did the rights thing. What do you think? POST: So my girlfriend was at a party. She was really drunk, and was also been feeling really low at the time. Anyway, to make this short, some guy grabbed her and kissed her. She said she kissed back for a moment, then realized what was happening, pushed him away and told him that this was inappropriate. She immediately left the party",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25/M] have never not had drunken sex on a first date. Now I am 3 dates deep with a girl that I like, and we haven't been drunk or slept together, and I find I am weird and awkward. POST: Title pretty much explains it. In my adult life, I have always ended up drinking and hooking up with girls where there is a mutual interest on the first date (or, in many cases, we actually meet by getting drunk and hooking up.) Right now, I am in my first situation ever where this didn't happen.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [32M] Why doesn't my [33F] girlfriend want to share our relationship on Facebook? POST: She insist of keeping everything private - no signs of her/me on Facebook and even as far as her ""Relationship Status"" on Facebook, it's listed as single so it just looks like she's keeping her options open to me. She claims it's because she doesn't want to have to deal with the looks or questions she will get from people as this isn't her first LDR. I told her that it's going to happen regardless",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27/M] with my GF [28/F] of 7 years;broke up but still trying to stay in touch POST: Hi,first time poster.Forgive me for any mistakes. I was friends with this very sweet and beautiful girl in medical school, but she was seeing one of my friends at that time.We grew very close and became best buddies in the 2nd year.By 3rd year we broke up with our respective SO and started dating.We had a good relationship with lots of ups and downs till we had to move cities for Post graduation i",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [22/F] want to still be friends with my recent ex [23/M] but I'm pretty sure he'd set me on fire if given the chance ... long term approach advice? POST: **I just want to clarify that this post is not about now, or anytime close to now, but for advice to use in the future. I understand that he needs time to sort out, decompress, hate me, heal, etc. And I am not in any way trying to make contact at the moment. Thank you for the concern that I may be throwing out an offer for f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[23M] boyfriend broke up with me [24M] after three years because he found someone else. POST: We met online three years ago, we immediately hit it off. Our first date was actually just supposed to be a hang out but we both quickly realized we liked each other a lot. My parents kicked me out after finding out about this, so I was rushed and we moved in together after 4 months (not something I'd normally do). After living together for six months we decided it would be best that we ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21M] I want authentic and deep relationships but I have none. I always end up hiding how I feel and lying. Help? POST: I feel as if no one in my life knows anything about me. I have no one I am comfortable sharing wants and fears or discussing how I truly feel with. I hide or lie because I am scared of what people will think about me. I feel lonely and I live a lonely life. I feel as if I do not live authentically. I have been practicing Buddhism and meditation for two years and am",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21/f] My boyfriend[21/m] frequently will tell me he likes me a lot and really enjoys spending time with me, but nothing more? POST: We've been together for a little over a year, and everything seems to be good between us. We have sex pretty frequently, initiated by both of us pretty equally, we hang out without having to do anything sexually sometimes, etc. He tells me a lot about his personal matters and vice versa. All lines of communication are open between us. The thing I'm won",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I may be fired from the nonprofit I work for because I'm refusing to work 2 shifts a week for cash under the table. What can I do? POST: So I work at a fair trade store and my boss has asked me to start working on Saturdays and be paid out of the tip jar in cash. Its during our farmers market and we get a lot of traffic so there is enough in the jar to pay what I make, but I'm not ok with working illegally and letting them avoid payroll taxes. The company is poorly run to begin with an",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by mistaking a girl for a guy POST: This one actually happened a few hours ago. I'm absolutely mortified. A week ago, my friend's friends smoked us up. We were chilling and just generally having a good time. This girl comes in and off the bat I thought she was a he. So I'm joking around and try to guess everyone's name and I land on her. I call her John. In less than a millisecond I recognized NOPE, not a fucking john but a pretty feminine name and hey, guess what I'm an asshole. My fr",positive " r/Advice TITLE: For additional $160 a month, I can live without random roommates. Is it worth it? POST: In the fall I'll be going into my junior year at university. I'm currently living in a four-bedroom on-campus apartment with roommates I knew from high school. One is moving away, one is moving off-campus, and the other is graduating. This leaves me with the unit and no roommates. If I renew, I'll have three random roommates. Obviously this could be no problem, but it could also be really bad. I'm a ver",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [M/28] dating a [36/f] 2nd date was.... meh. Am I over analyzing again? POST: So I met this girl, this Friday will be a month. My cousin introduced us and we hit it off immediately. She started giving me shit and bantering with me and I left with her number. We had a brunch date and then went out for drinks and that night ended with a kiss or two and her asking if we were going to do this again soon. Unfortunately I had to go out of town for 8 days for work. I just got back, and we ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend doesn't trust me and I don't know what to do. POST: My girlfriend (21) and I (22) have been going out for about 1 and a half years and have been friends for about 8. In my relationship before her (which were about a month apart) I cheated on my ex. I felt terrible about it and didn't tell any of my friends because I didn't want to be judged. The girl who I cheated with was my best friend at my school (who my other friends don't personally know...they don't go to my s",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (18/m). Girlfriend (17/f) broke up with me about three months ago. I still have feelings for her. Need advice on how I should go about getting her back. POST: So I got set up with this girl through a mutual friend in May of last year. Neither of us had ever been in a relationship so I had no idea what to expect but we really hit it off. We had lots of chemistry and she seemed to like me and I liked her. We start dating and hanging out more constantly and I'm really beginning to",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Sending a cookie to an ex-gf with a card of a female forever alone drawing POST: Hello dear redditors, I believe my problem is pretty common among the Land of Crazy Ex-Girlfriends, but I still want to tell you my story. You see, I had this gf, who were not that into me, but we were dating anyways, I wasn't happy for a **long** time, because I was feeling as if I was friend zoned Then, today, we had this cookie sale in our school with the theme of V-Day. I sent her one, and on a card, I",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have any Redditors ever dealt with a distorted perspective which has impacted your views on life? If so what? [nsfw] POST: To start, I'm a 23 year old, who has never had a relationship so I have nothing to really compare my distortion too. But I feel like I will never be able to truly enjoy a romantic relationship, for one reason. My views of what I love seem distorted from the socially acceptable norm. I've spent too much time watching anime/hentai, playing both regular and adult gam",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help, I think someone bought a house in my name? POST: So I was looking up my student loans, and the federal website has a series of security questions that put all other websites to shame. My first time there it was about where i was born, car i drove, some other stuff about me with multiple choice answers that were creatively close but only one was the correct answer. This time, the questions were about a mortgage i supposedly took out from a bank in a state i have never been to buy a",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How do I cope with having no friends? POST: So the title says it all, I don't have a single person that I can call my friend. The only person that is in my life that knows anything more about me than my name is my girlfriend, but it seems like I can't even get along with her lately. I don't even have a relationship with my parents and I am an only child. This is starting to be a real problem. It's starting to mess with my relationship, I am too dependent on my girlfriend because I have",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] just got broken up with by my [17 F] girlfriend of 2 months. I can't seem to keep a girl. POST: She used the phrase ""I'm not ready for a relationship yet"". I asked multiple times for the real reason but she insisted it wasnt me. I was her first semi serious relationship. This answer makes sense because I always felt as if she wasn't truly into it as much as me. Whenever we would hangout unless it was an actual date it was always with her family or friends and she often refu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My Significant other has significantly changed in one year. My feelings are changing and I am distressed. POST: Reddit I need some help. I am using a throw away account for obvious reasons because I know that if he saw this he would be really sad. I am engaged. My fiancé and I have been together for two years. In the last year he has gained almost 100 pounds and seems to have lost his motivation to stay fit and healthy, and also attractive. I would like to think that I am not a very v",negative " r/relationships TITLE: An old fling and current friend (19M) is blowing me off, conveniently as I'm (21F) dating a new guy POST: Me and 19M have known each other for about a year and have slept together repeatedly over the course of the past two months. Non-committed. However, if he were to ask me on a date I wouldn't say no. He's always saying how he doesn't want to make us a thing, so whatever. I got the dick. Definitely nothing to worry about. In the past he's always been happy around me. Joking with ",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Puppy will not pee outside at night/morning. POST: I have a 3 month old puppy. At night, she has been sleeping next to our golden doodle, and they wake up at about 5 am to play. They sleep on a pile of blankets next to the bed. The first few nights, there were no problems, and my puppy would either go through the doggie door, or wait for us to take her outside. I set my alarm for 4 am (we all go to bed at midnight) to take her out, and take her out every hour after, but she just wi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] with my best friend [23 M] of 4 years, keep having to say no to door-to-door sales. POST: Some minor details changed due to my friend being a big redditor as well. So he got a job at a Cutco-like company. One of those ""multi-level marketing"" companies where he spends a lot of time trying to sell people something they don't really need (or want for that matter). When he first got this job I was excited because it didn't really seem like a sales job. To help him get some expe",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by calling Darren a Sandwich. POST: First day of school holidays, school holidays (atleast here in australia) lasts two weeks. I decided to play League of Legends with 3 school friends. We obviously ended up with 1 random in our team. Darren - the random, calls ""support"" and instalocks Graves. Maybe he wants to support Graves? Who knows. Would've been interesting to see. We get into game and he says ""I'm ADC"" and decides to act like a retard, baiting team members and kill stealing. Whe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29/f] need help getting over impossible but intense crush on colleague [29/m] POST: We are not having a relationship, it's just a mutual crush. But it's SO hard to deal with! We are both in a relationship with someone else, and neither of us wants to hurt the one we love. It's simply out of the question, don't worry. I just want to stop feeling this way! I mean, at times the intensity of this connection between us is just killing me. We understand each other in a way you don't",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my fiance [30M], I feel like a terrible person for having feelings of lust toward my coworker [28M] and not having them for my fiance (nsfw) POST: My [27F] fiance Jacob [30M] is a sweet, caring, wonderful man, we've been together for 5 years. I can imagine spending the rest of my life with him, I'm very happy with him and feel lucky to be marrying him. However, I see these posts on reddit about men/women saying how they still want to jump their husband or wife after yea",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Signing a lease with friends who are dating each other - how can I protect myself in the lease in case they break up? POST: Title says it all. In two months I'm (22F) planning on moving in with two friends and one friend's boyfriend (23F, 23F, 23M). We'll be moving into a house in downtown Austin, TX. Becky and Amanda (names changed) are great and I can't wait to live with them. But Amanda has asked if it'd be okay if her boyfriend, Carl, can join us on the lease. I don't h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[22M] met an exchange student[22F] who goes to a school a few hours away. Now what? POST: I was home from school during Thanksgiving break and decided to hit the bars with my buddies. The bars were dead on a Friday and it was pretty boring until I saw the most beautiful chick walk in. Fortunately, she was with an acquaintance and I walked up and introduced my self. We started to dance and I could tell she was into me. I pulled her aside to talk to her a bit. She was from Australia.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F, Montana] with my LDR [24M, Texas] advice on coming clean about a major lie POST: im prepared to get a lot of really harsh words right now and i deserve to hear it.. please keep on point too and help me think of the best way to be honest with him. how to bring it up, etc cross posted to ldr. met online, still nevermets. we've been really involved for almost two years. i do love him and he loves me. when we met i was sort of slender ... i gained weight quickly due to a medic",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I overreacting? What should I do, /r/relationships? POST: Alright so, my gf (18/F) and I (18/M) have been dating for about a year now. It's a long distance relationship, we're both college students and we visit each other during holidays and breaks. We broke up 5 days before our first year of dating, and got back together recently. Ok so, here's what happened. Last night, we were talking about naughty things and she asked me some questions about my ex. She then told me about h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it ever a good idea to revisit a ""toxic relationship""? 27 y/o female (me) and 25 y/o female POST: I'm going to try to make this as short as I can, sorry in advance for rambling. Back in high school in 2001, I met a girl the year below me, we became friends extremely fast. Example: I had known her less than a month when I cut off the majority of my hair in an effort to prove something to her, and lied about it to friends until they saw it, we told everyone I had shaved my head. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(19m) girlfriend(18f) of 1 and a half years Wants to get a flat together. I don't, crisis inbound? POST: Hi redditors, first time post, long time lurker. So a bit of back story. I have been together with (let's call her) Emily for a year and a half. And it has been great, apart from a few arguments and quarrels we have been pretty happy together. We started dating as she was in her last year of school, I had finished school and had gotten a full time job. Things moved pretty fast",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me (27F) him (28M) My first real adult relationship..How do I say those dreading words? POST: Okay. So, this is the first real adult relationship that I have ever been in. I have never said ""Love"" to another person that isn't family or a close friend (which isn't very many people in it's self). We have been dating for 10 months now, and I know I am not ready to say it now, due to all the stuff that comes with it. It would be too much for me at once. The hard part. I know that",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my girlfriend[17 F] 1/2 years, how to bring her to talk? POST: So I know what you might be thinking: ""You're in high school, if the relationship doesn't work out just leave!"" But that's not how I think. If I just leave when things are not the best, it'll be bad for the future. So here is a general run down for you guys. Right now, my girlfriend is going through some tough times with the rigor of school being super high just before it ends and some personal issues. Whe",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your most horrifying memory that makes you groan or cringe when you think about it to this day? POST: When I was in high school, I often brought a flash drive to school to help me move files, work on homework, etc. One day I was in the computer lab finishing a lab report, and I accidentally left my flash drive behind. I later realized this and went back to find out if it was still there. APPARENTLY, the band teacher had mistaken it for his own and plugged it in, saw from a file ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] don't think I'm attracted to my boyfriend [22M] anymore, together 2 years POST: Hi Reddit. I'm stuck. I've been with my boyfriend ""Dan"" for 2 years now. It started as a thing and it progressed into something so much more. We both love each other very much and he is my best friend. A couple of months ago, I noticed my sex drive plummeted. We went from having sex to every time we saw each other (2-3 times a week) to maybe once a week. He was always the one that had to keep up",negative " r/running TITLE: Had a great running moment today. What's yours? POST: Went on a 5 miles run during my lunch break and when I had nearly reached the end I realized that I was going to have a new person best for a training run. Within the last 50 feet a line had formed across the sidewalk for some fancy-shmancy gourmet lunch cart and the queuers had left a small hole, about a foot and a half, for pedestrains to get through. Just before reaching the hole a sharp dressed guy stopped perfectly in the space and",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [22F] can't help myself from chasing while I'm still in a relationship. POST: Let me start off by saying I love my boyfriend more than anyone (excluding family). We have been dating almost 2 years, and he has been there for me for everything. He loves me, always respects me, and I've truly met no guy like him. Now, I recently started talking to this other guy. And I can't get him off my mind. He's attractive, smart, and we hit it off really good. But I just know he could ne",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [24M/23F] Having Trouble Moving On/Forgiving Myself POST: To make a long story short, I [24M] met a girl [23F] back in November and we hit it off really well. I guess it was what you would call a ""whirlwind romance"" as we were both really into each other but we lived in separate states so it complicated things and caused the whole thing to end just as quickly as it began. I tried to make it work way harder than I should have and that was the nail in the coffin for the whole thing. Th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Myself [17 M] and a girl I've been dating [17 F] are having a movie night. What can I do romantically to make it special? POST: Long story short, I've known this girl for a while, and she told me a few weeks ago that she's had feelings for me for almost a year. We've been on two dates and are having a movie night Friday. We are watching ""The Notebook"", which I think is a sapp romantic. I want to know what I should do. The only thing we've done physically was holding hands, so I'm s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(M23) lost my SO's(F22) trust and don't know if the relationship can move forward. How do I cope with the uncertainty? POST: So I know there is a simple solution to my issue but I need some help getting through it. So about a month ago I messed up and lost trust with my SO of a year, I won't go into the details but I messed up by being in a situation that I really shouldn't have while fairly intoxicated. Anyway, we talked it out multiple times and seemed to be on and off from fights",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: I'm having these weird muscle contractions POST: Age: 16 Sex: Male Height: 185 Weight: 65 Race: Caucasian Duration of complaint: 3-4 years, maybe more Geographical location: Netherlands Location of complaint: Hand, Feet &: face muscles ***** First of, I'm Dutch, and thus it can happen I'm not using the right term for something. Basically, when I'm idle for a moment, sitting for example, and then move again, I can get these weird muscle contractions in my feet and hands. My ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29M] with my GF [31F] 6mo. Is she ashamed of me? Or just afraid to tell her parents about me? POST: She's got a PhD. I enlisted in the military, and am newly civilian (two years) and am attending college for an engineering degree while I work full time. I make good money, I have my own place, I have a car, some savings, etc. Her parents paid for school, her car, etc. They're rich, my family is not. I've had to work for things, she did too but in a different way (12 years of high",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (27f) My boyfriend (28m) of a year and a half does't trust me. POST: So my boyfriend and I have been together a year and a half and he does't trust me. Now let me make it clear that I have never lied, cheated or done anything that would normally make a person untrustworthy, he just doesn't trust me. He constantly ""has a feeling"" that I'm lying to him or keeping something from him, when it's simply not the case. In the time we've been together I have rarely seen my friends (before h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How should I Handle Ending My Relationship? POST: Hi fellow redditors. I'm in a bit of a dilemma, apologies for the lengthy details. I'm 28, and have been with my girlfriend who is 25 for approaching 2 years. I've given myself a mental deadline of 2 years to either step up the relationship or break it off, I feel I owe it to her either way. The relationship itself is great; we are receptive to each other's interests, we get along with the other's friends, and we enjoy each other's ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: You have the chance to significantly impact someone's life. You can make a dying person's wish come true without ever getting any glory. Will you take that chance? POST: My brother died from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at age 24. He was in great shape for his age, but a freak accident caused him to go sooner than we had anticipated. It's four years later and I still think of him every day and continuously try to find new ways to keep his memory alive and spread the word about DMD to aid ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear hairdressers/barbers/ hairstylists of Reddit, I have a question to ask you that I've always wanted to know! Thank you in advance! POST: I just went to Mr. Toppers (a chain salon in the UK) for a haircut, and as usual, I don't know what to tell them when they ask ""so how would you like it?"" (mostly because I really dont know what style I'd like) , so I say ""Whatever you think will look nice"" which I say all the time. They usually end up cutting it the same style (a sort of side part",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I buy and sell things on Craigslist a lot....and sometimes I play along with people that don't seem like they're going to buy my stuff.....but now I have a $3,500 check in an envelope in my hands and I don't know what to do with it......please help POST: Hi! I posted up two guitar speaker cabs on the Los Angeles Craigslist Musical Instruments section for $475 (for both of them). Someone contacted me, offering me $400.....I said $450, she said okay. Then, the typical scammer stuff star",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (20/F) confused about my flatmate's (M/20) feelings for me, nothing while sober, only when drunk. POST: I'm in my first year of uni and am in a flat with 11 other people. In the spring term, I started to have feelings for one of my flatmates (hereafter known as S). I didn't do anything about them and nothing happened between us during that term. However, since we got back, we've developed a habit of going into each other's rooms after nights out. It always follows the same patter",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU because I couldn't wait to go to Walmart POST: Well, this happened a couple of years ago when I was about 15. My school was a magnet school (The advanced school of the district), and I was in the engineering program. I joined a skills club which was more of the engineering club. We would compete at city level, and most of the time we would get to compete at state level. That year almost the whole club got to compete at state level, and it was about 40+ kids. The competition was about 6 h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: When should I [25m] think about getting married to my GF [22F] POST: I thought this might be interesting to ask & talk about. As it's something on my mind. While I'm not in any immediate rush to get married, I'm interesting to know when you think the right time is? Do you have a minimum time constraints, Issues to sort out with your partner before moving onto that stage, etc? I'm curious, I was with a girl for 2.5 years and never saw that potential so it ended eventually. With som",positive " r/travel TITLE: Has the marijuana cafe ban been put into effect for Amsterdam tourists yet? POST: Hello r/Travel! I'm not sure if this question has already been submitted or not, but I am going to the UK in about two weeks from the United States for a month long trip to visit family and friends. During this trip, I was hoping to take a day trip to Amsterdam before the ban on tourists going to the marijuana shops takes effect. I have heard many things about this legislation, but from what I understand th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Attempted cheating while blackout drunk POST: I did something terrible last night. I wont detail everythig, but there was drama and at the end of the night I was alone with a long time married friend who is a friend of my boyfriend also. I was very very very drunk and I very persistently tried to get my friend to have sex with me. I have no idea why I would do this. I love my boyfriend very much and I am not attracted to this friend at all. I feel awful, I barely remember it but I ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I [22m] just broke up with my gf[19f] last week, now I feel like I dont have anyone to talk to. POST: I just broke up with my gf [f19], we had been together for 9 months, and with me moving to NY for next year I didn't things were going to work out with long distance so I broke it off. Now she hates me and even though we work together she basically ignores me. This plus most of my best friends being either graduated or gone, i just feel so alone and depresed. Not only that but school a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[50/F] is dealing with alot of stress with my Husband [70/M] POST: I am in my 50s and have been married for 8 years. I came from another country and moved to the US, so my english is not the best but I manage, my husband only speaks english. My son is in college right now and I am paying everything for him. I work full time and do another job on the side trying to start up a company with virtually no funds and no emotional support. My husband, makes around 140k a year, doesnt work(",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [AU] Signed a contract for a service, in short order found out some additional medical information that would influence my choice, tried to cancel immediately. Am now being told my information is going to VEDA for a credit default. POST: Hey all, posting from Victoria, Australia. For starters, please don't tell me I was being an idiot, I get it.. So basically a few months ago, I went to see an organisation who specialise in hair loss treatments. All the men in my family are bald or ba",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend[18 F] 1.5 years, Breaking up solely because of one reason (LDR) POST: I've been dating my current girlfriend for about a year and half and just two months ago we continued our relationship long distance in order to accomidate going to different schools (about 1.5 hours apart). Anyway, last night she texted me that she doesn't think it will work out because I'm not there. That is literally the only thing, she would rather have somebody there who she can to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (23 F) after first date with (23 M) don't know what to do, mixed signals POST: Ok, i've been talking to a guy i've met through facebook (few mutual friends, a lot in common) for maybe two weeks and finally we've met. We weren't alone from the beginnig, I've met a few of his friends and he treated me neutrally around them. Later when his friends left we actually stayed all night talking, drinking, walking around the city. He hugged me a few times, gently touched me when there was a",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [TX] My ex-roommate picked up a check for both our deposits and won't give me my half. What can I do? POST: I live in Texas and leased an apartment for a year but left to study abroad so I subleased it (which did not give up my deposit) for the last month or two. Anyhow this meant that I was not there the day the lease ended. In our contract it states that our deposit would be mailed as a jointly payable check (600 each, for a total of 1200 dollars). When I called my apartment company",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (25F) roommate (21F) wants to avoid rent POST: When my roommate and I moved in together, she said she would be leaving in the middle of November, at which point my bf (who I'll share my room with) will move in. My bf's situation changed, so he moved in on Nov 1st. I asked her for this month's rent (I pay the rent for my roommate and I, and she pays her part to me) and she says she wants to pay only for the half that she'll be here. I was blindsided by this--she never said she want",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my boyfriend [28 M]. We recently started fighting over sleeping arrangements and bed space even though this wasn't a problem the first two years we lived together. POST: I'll try to keep this short. Boyfriend and I have been living together for almost three years and recently we have started fighting over bed space and sleep schedules. Boyfriend is not currently working right now (starting his own business) and I have to wake up at 6:00am every day to go to work. Pro",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] Seeking advice for my Sister [21F] breaking up with her partner [M32] he refuses to move out. POST: They have been together 5 months, moved in after two. Tumultuous relationship where his aggressive behavior got worse and worse. Several altercations later (in witch he threatens to kill/stab/beat her and smashes the kitchen) and broken promises it wont happen again. She resolves the relationship is over and its not going to get better. He calls sobbing begging for forgivenes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [22 M] and [23 F], do I tell her how I feel? POST: Okay, so this is a complicated story and I want to be vague enough so it's not obvious to anyone involved so please bear with me. But basically, I broke up with my long term girlfriend a few months ago and since then I've become increasingly close with a friend of mine who I knew only slightly well before then. During this time I have developed feelings for her, flirted slightly and this has been reciprocated. However, I have not pu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] and my girlfriend [20F] are moving FAST. I like it, but should I slow things down? POST: My [20M] girlfriend [20F] and I have been dating for about two months now, and in that time we've been moving very fast. We've both been seeing each other almost every day, and she stays over at my house more often than not. We still hang out with friends, but we're almost always together; and I really enjoy it. We've discussed (often brought up by her) moving in together in a year or so",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Advice on new gf? Me [17/M] Her [17/F] POST: I posted this in another subreddit (schizophrenia), but I think it may work nicely here too. I'm new to reddit so sorry if these aren't the types of questions that can be asked. Ima just copy paste. A little backstory. I don't believe it's integral to the question, but just to give some perspective. I had a childhood friend who was always pretty wierd. She never really had any friends. She mostly played alone, besides when I played",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[19M/F] with my infatuation? [18M/F] past month, teen-angst and confusion galore POST: Hello /r/relationships!!! im drunk as fuck so please dont judge my grammer for i dont care. I have a freind whose neighbor i am extremely enfatuated with, she admits that she likes me... the catch: she has only been with gurlz (!?). i took it slow with this girl because i felt an extreme connection with her (maybe its teen ~~angst~~ hormones talking, but whatevs) and didnt want to ruin it by goin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How soon is too soon? POST: So I (26F) ended things with my ex (26M, 4+ years together) about 2 months ago. It wasn't a great relationship and I was completely out of love with him by the end. Shortly before the breakup, I met a new person (30M) at work (different employer, same building), though I didn't start seeing him regularly until about 3 weeks ago. He's relatively flirty, and we've gone out twice, platonically. During the second platonic event I told him I was single. We t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (m/17) have recently developed a mad crush on my best friend of 4 years (f/17) - What to do...? POST: Yes Yes, I know this is a very common thing but I would just like to gain some kind of outside opinion on it. Ive been best friends with this girl for almost 4 years and this year im in my final year at school and am having 'romantic' feelings for her which are lovely and all but very problematic for me. I really dont want to ruin this friendship because i care for her so much, s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] want an open relationship with my boyfriend of just over a year [26M], don't know how to approach it. POST: I've been dating ""Jamie"" for just over a year now, and so far our relationship has been great. The only thing that sucks is the fact that we're long distance. He lives in the UK, and I'm in the States. I met him while traveling over there and spent a few months with him before coming back. We decided we were in love and wanted to remain exclusive while we were apart. H",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is it wrong for me [17/M] to ask my best friend [17/M] to stop being friends with one of my ex-friends [17/M] POST: First off, this is going to be a little complicated. This whole thing started 3 years ago when I became friends with James (Obvious alias, he's my now ex-friend). We were ""best friends"" for 3 years, and he was later my boyfriend for a few months. He emotionally abused me for the majority of the relationship, and most likely never actually had any romantic feelings for m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, please share your heart valve replacement stories. My mom's getting one and I'm worried. POST: Tell me your stories, please! My mom's getting her aortic valve replaced in September. She's got a great surgeon (one of the top 25 in the country) and the guy uses a minimally invasive technique that also uses a robot (he helped pioneer the procedure in the US). But... Mom says she's getting a biological valve and the doctor told that they last 20-30 years. She said she's not getting ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Arrived at work tonight to find my supervisor made all my work from the night before pointless. Let's hear your ""I work with idiots."" work stories. POST: I spent 4 hours chiseling up foundation and pouring concrete to install mounting bolts for a piece of equipment last night. When one of the supervisors showed up for work this morning, she demanded my supervisor installthe equipment so it would be easier to fold sheets, even though I left multiple notes stating the concrete needed at le",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21m] have been in a relationship with [19f] for a few years. However, I have feelings for my best friend [21f] POST: I [21m] have been dating my girlfriend [19f] for almost four years and have been happy with her. However, I am coming to grips with the fact that I will always have feelings for my best friend [21f] that I have known since we were 4 years old. I've been in love with her my whole life. The other night we (me and 21f) went to the bar, had some drinks, danced, and s",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Left my cheating ex-wife a few months ago. Not sure if I'm rebounding or ready to pursue someone new. POST: Two months ago I left my ex-wife. We were together for just shy of 4 years and married for the last 2 of them. I found out that she cheated on me when she relapsed with drugs a little over a year ago. I stuck around because I still loved her at that point, and was not anywhere near financially prepared to leave then. Things didn't get better, and I was miserable for the",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Kicked the ex off my works wifi network w/ unexpected benefits. POST: Backstory: Got an ex (then my fiancé) a job at my company. We split but still have to work together and we're physically in the same room together for eight hours a day, five days a week. My ex, in a successful attempt to be obnoxious, would chat on hookup-apps on his phone and leave the ringer at its highest setting so as to let me know when and how much he was sexting. I chatted on these apps as well but I ne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28M] on first meetup with her [28F], she left my apartment in a RUSH and now doesn't want to talk. POST: I'm just at a loss right now. I met a girl on Tinder, we talked for a few days and then agreed to meetup today. She came to my place first and we were going to go to the bar down the street. She was fine with that, even though we hadn't actually met before. Well, she gets here and doesn't really want to go out so we sit and talk for an hour or so and then one thing leads to a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24/M] girlfriend [26/F] watches daddy/daughter porn and I'm not sure how to feel. POST: My girlfriend (F/26) is a smart, intelligent and dedicated person. She tells me all the time that I'm her person and we talk about the future a lot. We've been dating for about 9 months and I'm her first super serious relationship. When she was a little girl her stepdad would do creepy stuff like make her kiss him and lick his face. No penetration or anything. I recently found some daddy/daug",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Money issues in a new relationship POST: So... here goes... I'm 31, male, and have a job that makes a great living. For the past 3 weeks I've been dating 26, female, who works as a paralegal. 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POST: So whilst out exercising he made the comment, ""I wish I'd gone to college when I was younger, those chicks back there were cute, I'd quite happily bang them and never see them again."" --- When expressing my that I was uncomfortable with the comment he made he said that the line is hard because we're such great friends. He stresses that he would never date those kind of girls, as he finds it diff",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Should I roll my 403(b) over into my 401(k)? POST: Hi /r/personalfinance I'm a bit of a laymen when it comes to all things investing. A bit of background is that I'm 28 and great at saving, but investing just seems to boggle my mind. As such, I'm hoping I might be able to get a little bit of advice regarding retirement plans. At a previous job with a non-profit I started putting money away into a 403(b) account. After leaving that job, I never looked back and the money investe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My LDR boyfriend (24M) thinks saying he would ""fuck the shit out of me"" is a compliment & I (22F) don't. Minor argument and now I'm feeling upset. POST: Hi relationships, using a throwaway for this. Basically, my bf and I were skyping & he was commenting on how good I looked today, etc. and followed up with if he were here with me right now, he would fuck the shit out of me. I just feel so grimy and gross hearing that phrase applied to me. I told him that it didn't make me feel goo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22M) need advice about breaking up with my girlfriend (22F). POST: I feel like I want to break up with my girlfriend but I have some hang ups that I'm hoping you guys can help me work through. So L and I have been dating for around 9 months now. For the start of our relationship we were long distance (I was in college in NY and she was in FL) and while this wasn't ideal it worked as we were still growing with each other. Around 4 months ago she got a job close by and for the sum",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my friends [16-17 F] in the last three days I turned 18, so Im not sure how to handle this. POST: /r/relationships, Im not sure if this is the right place to post this, but Im in a strange situation and I didnt see any other better place. Forgive me for any mistakes made in this post Since I was a kid, I had always been around women in the same house hold. That situation has changed but, however, my mom still acts as my rock because shes the one I most relate to. Anyw",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] broke up with my gf [23 F] after dating for 4 years. When is it normal to get over it. POST: After 4 years of dating I broke up with my ex. We had been having problems for a while and after doing some counselling and a lot of chatting I decided it was best to break up. It was a really good relationship with lots of growth and fun, I look back on our time together really fondly. She was really good to me and I tried to be good to her but at the end of the day we were going ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [m26] was dating a [f24], found out she was dating every day POST: Reddit, my first post here after reading for a while. Here's my story and question. I have been single for a year, wanted to get dating again. So I created a profile on a website, was about to give up after a month. A girl gave me a message. It was all fun and after a week or two, we started dating. Romantic places, great diners, it seemed great. There was chemistry, at least in my experience. Last Sunday she cam",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [BreakUp] Me [17 M] with my Ex [17 F] 8 Months, Broke up the other day, not quite sure what to do about it POST: Me and my girlfriend of 8 months broke up the other day, which completely took me by surprise, I know that i'm young but I just know that I loved her, however she was my first, but for her I wasn't, so she had experience in all this, and the past 8 months have been the best I've ever had. As for the break up (This is over Skype) she said to me ""Can I speak to you for a se",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by pre-ordering Super Smash Bros. Bundle off Best Buy POST: So I had pre-ordered the Best Buy Super Smash Bros. 4 bundle a while back, about two weeks before the official release. I bought an extra Gamecube controller for my brother, since he is the only person I pay games with at home. Both were to be shipped with express shipping the day of release. After a week of ordering it, I check up on the status, and everything is normal. The card I used was verified already on both items. Fast",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] My boyfriend [21/m] of 7 months broke up with me to study abroad for 7 months, should I be trying to get over him? POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 7 months and the whole time we were dating I knew he was going to be spending the summer in Europe with some of his friends from boarding school and then going to spend a semester of school in Europe. Just before left he broke up with me. On one hand I wasn't super surprised because whenever the topic came up h",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [19/m] feel worthless and at the end of my rope because I don't know what to do with my relationship with a [19/f] POST: Background: my gf has been asking what I think about a break, because she loves me but when she is around me she feels alone and when she is with school friends (big group of 6-8 people) she feels less alone. We have been dating quite seriously for 20 months now So last night as we are sleeping together (Non sexual) she asks what I think of an open relatio",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25F] boyfriend [24M] of three years doesn't want to spend time with my friends. I don't care, but they're annoyed. What do? POST: I'm in a happy three-year relationship—boyfriend is something of a homebody (so am I) who is very, very honest about how he feels about people. If anything, I admire this quality. I get along fantastically well with his friends, and he's made friends with a handful of my friends, too. A couple of my college friends (we're no longer very close, but we",positive " r/relationships TITLE: She (35F) got back in touch after needing space with me (31M) then stops responding POST: Ended up texting her at night ""I said I was going to let you know when I was free but I know you need your space now. When you change your mind, get in touch"". The next day she texted me around 4pm and said, ""Hi, how's your dad doing?"" ( My dad was in the hospital for his knee). I replied when I got off work at 9, ""He's better, thanks for asking. How are you doing?"" Two minutes later, ""Glad he",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Discontent wife wants explanation (Slightly NSFW) POST: My husband and I got married almost 2 years ago. We waited until marriage to have sex. Of course we were horny while dating because we were waiting but when we got married it changed. We didn't have that normal honeymooner thing where we did it ALL the time. In fact, due to technical difficulties, on our honeymoon I think we successfully only did about 3-4 times. When we got home, it took me 6 months to get used to it and even long",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dell told me I needed a new motherboard... POST: But seeing as how Dell's support is usually the same support you'd get from your local mechanic, I figured I'd ask you guys first. I'm not the most brilliant person when it comes to computers, I just play Plants vs. Zombies, watch my hulu and occasionally pop in a DVD. However, when I went to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I got a BSOD. When I restarted I got the same thing, ""a device driver is stuck in an infinite loop."" The dri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [45 F] think my boyfriend [60 M] may be a creep. Advice please! POST: I've been dating my 60 year old boyfriend for a year and a half, I'm 45. We love each other, and we have great chemistry. We do role play daddy/little girl which I liked until this incident happened. We are both divorced and have dated a lot before finding each other- we met online and he pursued me for a long time before we started dating. He has a wondering eye which I told him I didn't like, and he agreed to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33 F] with my roommate/ex-lover [24 M] 3 months, is my ex-roommate/lover sleeping with his new roommie? POST: Guy 24, moved in, with girl he'd been hanging out with for a month and slept with for about two weeks after he moved in. Then he says he doesn't want to be her bf, sleeps with me, then goes out with her (lies to me), has sex with me again over a week or two. Night after we're together his bike is stolen and he goes with her and has sex with her, hangs out with her for f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Final Update** Me [16M] with a [21F] found out personal information, and I got some help. POST: [First post:]( [Second post TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] long-distance relationship girlfriend [19F] of 5 months posts intimate underwear photos online POST: To keep this story short, I will not go into too much detail. She is really hot. And we've been having a long distance relationship for about 5 months now. We have exchanged pictures and if we wouldn't be so far away we would've already been together. But what pissed me off enough to make this post, was that she posted a photo of her with only her bra, and her perky breasts",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My parents just found out that my boyfriend (19M) and I (21F) have been having sex. POST: I'm trying to figure out what to do. My boyfriend just seems to be pressuring me and trying to get me to sneak out of the house at night. Which is something I really don't want to do, yet he tells me that it's what I should do if I love him. On the other hand, my parents who are relatively conservative in the area and who I still live with have told me to think things through (I lost my virginit",positive " r/Advice TITLE: so i fucked up in college, and feel that I need to go back and do it right. anything to recommend? POST: So basically, I did the normal privileged white kid thing: graduated high school and went to college. I went for chemistry, which was something i excelled in throughout high school, and thought it looked pretty good on paper. Anyways, i rocked my freshman and first couple terms of sophomore year, and then just started failing hard. I ended going from a 3.8 student to close to a nuthin st",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 M] just went on a second date with [26 F]. I am not attracted to her, i might be way too shallow. How can i look past her looks? POST: Lately i have been thinking my standards are too high when it comes to looks. The good looking girls are mostly not interested in me -or- is much harder to pick up signals from (i am extremely bad at picking up girls, i basically need a very willing girl). So, now i'm trying to date this girl. She seems like a very good girl, maybe a good matc",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/f] My boyfriend (17/m) is in love with two girls POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 8 months. He asked me out by telling me that in his dreams, I had replaced the girl he ""used"" to love. 8 months later, he continues to think of her, and told me that he still loves her. However, he knows he does not have a chance with her, due to circumstances I never asked about. I love him, but I think to him, I'm just a replacement for her. I don't know what to do. I love",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the best way to deal with family that you really cannot stand to be around but must? POST: I live about 15 minutes away from my husband's family, and while I love his parents, I cannot stand to be around his brother or his family. He married a woman with two teenage boys that she has never disciplined, they treat all women like shit because they were always around her father, who treats women like they are worthless. The younger of the two, who is 14, has real issues, like hurt",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My best friend [27 M] of 13 years is lobbying me [27 M] to change my recently decided wedding date. POST: I've known my best friend for just over 13 years. He got married to his wife 1 year ago. I have recently got engaged to my girlfriend of 4 years. As 2 couples, we get along well. No major fall outs or arguments. In arranging my wedding, my fiancé and I have found a venue we love- and have chosen a date on one of two bank holidays in the season we're after. The other bank holida",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: He (20/m) was trying to ""cheat"" through reddit, I (20/f) don't know what to do POST: I went to send him a message to his reddit account last night and my eye caught something labeled ""nsfw"", I wasn't trying to snoop on him. He posted a request for girls to send him nudes/have dirty conversations with him through /r/dirtysnapchat about two months ago (we've been dating for 9+months). When I sent him a screenshot he got very defensive, trying to make me feel bad for ""stalking"" hi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 18F met a great 19M in college, but we can't look at the relationship long term? POST: I know it's early to look at long term effects in our relationship, but I think it's important. I started dating a 19M in college. We're in the ""limbo"" stage, we're dating and we really like each other but we haven't known each other for very long so we aren't official/exclusive yet. I was thinking about our relationship and remembered that he said he wanted to live in China. He is fluent in Chine",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (24f) have a gut feeling that my fiance (31 m) is changed eating and don't know how to go about it. POST: We are going on our 4 year together, 2 years engaged. In the beginning, we were amazing. We did everything together. We were open. He shared his password on his phone, and I don't have one so he has access anytime. Anyways, the relationship lasted like this for about 2 years, and then the red flags started to show up. He started to keep his phone on him, when he used to just ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My gf (26/f) of 10+ years and I (28/m) had a heated debate about our future children and video games. She is ""disgusted"" by me and is questioning our future. POST: As the title says. We started talking about video games last night (it did not go well), and it continued tonight. I brought up the fact that I don't care if my kids play violent video games if they want. I really have no problem if my child plays GTA or COD, or whatever else, if that's what they want to play. I think as a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26m] with exgf [26f] a year later, still dealing with the aftermath POST: Live in a small town, all my family live here, everyone grew up together. We had a bad breakup caused by my depression after a family member died. I introduce her to a circle of about 30 people, all my so-called ""friends"" i grew up with. She's a typical insecure people pleaser and everyone stuck by her, i'm cast out. Parties happen now and again and our paths always cross. After a couple of months of break",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/f] might lose virginity to a great guy [20/m] but struggling with feelings of revulsion POST: Since I've started dating I've had problems with suddenly becoming repulsed by guys, which makes me worried. What tends to happen is I get hugely infatuated with them at the start of a relationship, and then at some point (usually after our first tipsy make-out session) it's like the upward swing of my feelings suddenly plummets in the other direction. I am currently dating the sweet",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [29F] end ""friendship"" with colleague [mid-50s M] once-and-for-all? POST: I work in a professional office. Years ago I was introduced to G through a friend, H. (I am no longer in touch with H.) G is extremely socially awkward, e.g. he has, in the past, invited me into his office and gone through old calendars to show me the photos inside, and resembles a middle-aged Steve Urkel (pants to his chest, thick glasses, spits when he talks, etc.) About half a year ago, G trans",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21m] asking out a girl [19f] already in a relationship POST: I've been hanging out more and more with a girl who's in a relationship. Nothing scandalous has happened, but I do have a crush on her. I honestly think she feels the same way. I'd never try and convince her to cheat, but I would like to ask her to date me instead. Is it wrong for a man to ask out a woman who's in a relationship not to cheat but to get her to leave her current guy? There's no kids involved, there's no",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [24f] boyfriend [27m] may have just broken up with me? POST: I've [24f] known for a few months that my boyfriend [27m] has been depressed. I, myself, have been on antidepressants for a while. I made him an appointment at our doctor when I first found out he was depressed, hoping maybe she could refer him to a therapist and/or give him some antidepressants as well (fyi his appointment is in a few days). Since then I've tried to be almost annoyingly supportive and understanding. H",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I feel like I wear a ""freak"" sign on my forehead. POST: I have trouble with everyone I meet. I feel as though no one understands me and I can't connect with anyone on the level I desire. I have mere acquaintances and drinking buddies at the very least but I feel as though I burden others with my more meaningful conversations. I tend to dwell a lot and seek advice from others but I have never found someone that can truly accept me as I am. I fear I scare others away with my intense compa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, have you ever needed to use a fire extinguisher? POST: I'll start. I was probably about 13 years old, home alone one night. I lived in a small town so we use a wood stove instead of a heater. I was gettin cold so I decided to build a fire. My mother loved to decorate everything and on this particular fire place, she had a glass plate with a candle on it. I didn't notice or think anything of it. As the fire was getting nice and hot, I hear a loud *CRACK!* and then SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I need help. Soon. POST: My girlfriend is 30. I'm 23. When we moved in together last August, we joined bank accounts, signed a lease, etc.. We were both working pretty high-paying jobs (for us, anyhow). Household income of around $100-$130k. I got sick in September and lost my job. I was on EI for a few weeks before that ran out. Her and I sat down in November and decided it was a good idea for me to go to school, get student loans, and get a part time job. Obviously, ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Lying to Out Of State Police Officers POST: I live in Pennsylvania, and my sister lives near me (~8 miles) across the river in NJ with her husband. Long story short, due to my sister (a physician assistant) refusing a C-section, a court order was sought. Sister left NJ WELL BEFORE (12 hours) the Court order was signed. Order was signed, and hours later, two Police officers from *NJ* showed up at my house in Pennsylvania (~8 miles away across the Delaware river) looking for my siste",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[21,F] boyfriend[25,M] and I don't know how to respond to the wedding question... POST: Sorry about length, and sorry if I'm in the wrong subreddit, but this was the topic of best fit... Him: 25 Me: 21 Relationship: 1.5 years So, my boyfriend and I have been in a relationship for over a year and a half. There's a four year difference between us, and we first dated when I was 17, and he was 21. My parents didn't like that, so we broke up after a month. We talked(and hooked up) on ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22F] Why do I feel guilty about skyping my male best friend to catch up? POST: I have been with my boyfriend (23) for a little over a year, before that we were FWB and before that friends for two years. My best friend, lets call him Roy, has also been friends with my boyfriend since freshman year. Anyways...Roy was one of the first people I met in college and we have remained very good friends throughout and beyond school. I questioned if I had feelings for him all of fresh",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: To people that have had good relationships that ended, what can friends do to help you in any way? POST: I am usually able to talk to friends about many issues, with the exception of breakups. Mainly because I've never been interested in relationships or really had the time for one. However, one of my best friends recently broke up with his girlfriend (also my friend) after dating for just over a year, as she was insecure, due to many things currently occurring in her life, and felt that",positive " r/dogs TITLE: A question about my hypoallergenic dog. POST: I met and brought home my German Shepherd mix about 5/6 yrs ago when she was 4 from the shelter. She was (is kinda still) very timid and shy, but the sweetest and most grateful dog I've ever been involved with. Slowly throughout the years, she has gradually become more and more itchy, to the point where I was taking her to the vet every 3 mos or so for them to tell me its fleas, give me some antihistamines and medicated shampoo and send me home. I",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I wrong for being offended POST: Two days ago while walking down town I noticed a Jewelry store. It was a crafts shop, make your own necklace, ring, earrings etc.. Since Christmas is coming up I decided I wanted to get something for my girl friend, so I picked her up a necklace. I liked how a beaded chain looked and the proprietor encouraged me to make my own. When I sat down at the table these two ladies were talking and I joined in the conversation. After about 15-20 mins of c",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Its complicated when she's not allowed to date. [17/M] [15/F] POST: I've been talking with this girl for months and have had too little self confidence to ask her out. I finally get confident enough to ask her to the prom and she said yes x1000 (seemed super excited.) A day later I try asking her out on a date but she says that her parents don't allow her to date, but she likes what we have and doesn't wanna ruin it because of that. Now I don't know what we have. Backtracking a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: FWB [22/f] friendzoned me [22/m] as she started dating someone out of nowhere. What should I do? POST: Ok, so I know the whole ""friendzone"" topic has been discussed ad nauseam but this one is a little more complicated. I had this friend and we started getting really close. Eventually we got very serious and starting having sexual relationships, dates, walks in parks ect. We spoke on the phone all the time for hours and if we weren't, we were normally texting each other. Throu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is the most unintentionally creepy thing you have ever done? POST: As a preface, i should probably mention that i have been told that i have the axe murderer look. Anyway, my story occured not too long ago. One day, on my way to visit a friend I decided to buy a bottle of water from a coffee shop, I noticed an attractive girl standing in front of me in the queue. She turns and smiles at me and I smile back, she leaves about a minute before me. As I am walking, just staring d",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Carefully managing long distance interactions POST: I recently got back in touch with an old high school friend of mine who is currently in Texas. She had a massive crush on me in high school, but I wasn't interested at the time. However, now that a few years have passed (I'm now 25 and she's 23), and I have been into and out of a long term relationship that ended because my ex turned out to be.. childish in every sense of the word, I'm looking for someone else to share my tim",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [19F] cut off ties with my ""best friends"" [20F]? POST: We're all in college and living in the same suite. We're supposed to live together in an apartment next year but I found out I can still change who I live with...which I'm seriously considering. Basically they're the really jealous, possessive type - any time I hang out with a friend, they'll get super passive aggressive and give me the cold shoulder for days on end. They got mad at me once for going to the gym because",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my ""Friend"" [21 F] .. is this cheating? POST: so i met this girl awhile ago and we got along from the first secound we hanged out nearly everyday, we have same hobbies same music taste and we both study the same stuff and we get comfortable with each other .. we like talked about everything her first crush mine as well, my childhood memories and her really wierd ones :'D anyways so yeah we are friend for like 2 months but we REALLY got along aaaaaaaaaaand then i foun",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21] have a problem with 2 girls [22], need your advice. POST: Since it's to long to explain I will keep it very basic and short, and if you want to think I'm that asshole guy - do it. But I've got a girl on my side (not together) which I live with and everything works out for a long time and we kinda act like a couple. She is more like the badass girl, tattoos, you can get drunk with her, and she is like the ""bad"" girls, if you know what I mean. Last week I've met a girl, which ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My first barebones kit. Some friendly advice from fellow Redditors? POST: So here's the situation, Reddit. My desktop recently died, and I'm in the market for a new one. I've narrowed my decision down to two barebone kits, [this] one, and [this] one. I chiefly use the computer as a media center. Mainly for my music, sometimes the occasional video and some printing/scanning every now and then. I will be purchasing an HDTV in the future and plan on hooking my machine up to it. While the t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: If you found out you had only a short time left to live, a prognosis of a few months to maybe a year - would you tell anyone? POST: If you were diagnosed with a condition that would kill you would you make a big deal out of it or would you carry on your life as 'normally' as you could but just trying to take as much enjoyment out of it as possible? Would you tell your friends so that they would make a big fuss, or would you just continue as you were, perhaps acting a little bit more 's",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where can I find an illustrator for a poster? POST: I have seen posts fly by on Reddit where an art student or someone is doing drawing for money, but I am not sure where the right place is in Reddit to ask. I have just painted my study and I have a big wall that's a greyish colour (yep, English spelling!) and I would love for someone to draw an illustrator\vector picture of me and my girlfriend that I can get printed as a poster. Obviously I know this takes time and skill so I will be ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Hiring Manager cancelled interview last minute - Postponed without date? POST: I was contacted by an in-house recruiter through Indeed from a very well-known company. He screened me over the phone, which went pretty well. Then he sent my resume over to the hiring manager, who had her assistant contact me via email to set up a phone interview. I responded with a few dates and times the same day a few hours later. Over 2 days passed and I didn't hear back, so I emailed the assistant again remin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22M] going out for coffee in one hour with someone new [21F], still recovering from my toxic ex of 7 months POST: Here's my original post for some context on my emotional state earlier this week: Quick brief on that situation: BPD ex, I was made into a villain, we haven't spoken in 20 days and probably never will again. Very painful breakup and my first long-term relationship. I've been coping in all the ways you would recommend. I've been working out, spending lots of time",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] of 6 years, I'm don't enjoy living with her POST: Me and my girlfriend have been together for 6 years, but for about 4 of those years it was a mostly a long-distance relationship: for two years we saw each other on the weekend, then for the next two she would usually come at my place for a week or two at a time. Nowadays, she's not exactly living with me, but she is staying at my place for long periods of time (3 to 4 weeks), very frequently. When",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Finding out on a weekly basis her exs are really cool and it emasculates me massively - am I worried over nothing? POST: I'm [m/26] constantly annoyed by my girlfriend [f/28] of one year's habit of talking about her exes. She has had a lot of problems with a guy a few years ago and so decided to just have casual things with guys, and for the last five years (I'm her first official bf in that time) that's just what she's done. She's still in contact with a few of them and hangs out w",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [CA] Landlord refused my rent payment three times, I'm now being evicted for nonpayment! POST: I signed a one-year lease on an apartment -- I've been there 8 months. I was a day late with my Sept rent and received a 3-day-notice. I paid the rent by personal check and put it into the box. I ran into the manager the next day, and she gave me back my check, along with a invoice for $700 for a bunch of other charges: building utilities and a late fee for them. She also tells me it needs to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my boyfriend[21M] been together 1.5 years just found an old facebook message. Not sure how to feel about it. POST: My boyfriend and I have been living together for the past year. He works nights and the other night I was kinda bored so I went on facebook. He was still logged in so I did some snooping. I know I shouldn't have, but I was just a little nosy. Anyways, I found a message from a girl that use to have a huge crush on him. I found a love letter that she wrote hi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I[29F] tell my sister[27F] that no family from our mom's[53F] side will be at the baby shower our mom is hosting? POST: My younger sister is 5 months pregnant living in a city about 6 hours away by car. Her, husband, and her in-law's will be driving into town for the shower our mom is hosting in the town she and I reside in. My sister is close to our mom. I am not. Our mom has alienated herself from her entire family (2 sisters, 1 brother, numerous nieces and nephews) as well",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] seem to have a problem with my girlfriend [18 M/F] drinking in general. POST: So to sum up everything quick, some background information of me: Parents broke up when I was around five because my father was a raging alcoholic. He was at the point of drinking rubbing alcohol, and was in the hospital, where the doctors called my mother and told her he was probably going to die. Luckily he didn't, but parents still broke up. Fast forward 10 years and mom becomes a daily alcoholi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M23], my dads [M59] sucks at cooking but he loves it, what should I do? POST: Hi guys, my dad has a passion for cooking, developed in the last 2 or 3 years, he watches always on tv cooking programs, he read books, (he still goes to the library to get book lended lmao), he doesn't use the internet, he doesn't like technology etc etc... he is very stubborn, he is not good at cooking, he doesn't put attention in washing the fish before cooking for example, and then when someone point",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Friends succeeding, and I feel terrible...? POST: I don't know man. Me and a buddy of mine used to make music back in high school, a few months ago he got flown out to work at paramount (or whatever company) and now I'm just hearing he produce the next Justin Beiber single. I don't get it, I've always felt a knot in my stomach but up until now it was quelled by the fact someone I knew was truly living their dream. We may have had our differences (mostly involving my now gf, he's not a bi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Downstairs neighbors of reddit I ask you.. POST: I was gardening on my back porch, which is made of wood and has slots in it so dirt fell down. My cats recently knocked over a pot, and I avoided cleaning the mess because of the dirt that the downstairs would receive. I saw my downstairs neighbor walk out and look at the dirt and go back in, so I dropped a note apologizing and telling him I would pick it up if he asked, I went on to say that I was going to clean the mess from my cats an",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your most disgusting sexual experience ever? Bet you can't top mine. (NSFW) POST: Back in the day when a light night of drinking meant I didn't blackout, I awoke one morning to find myself next to a woman who I would conservatively guess weighed 300 pounds. I have absolutely no memory of how she ended up at my place and remembered nothing of the night. I freaked out. I woke her up and told her she needed to leave. Seeing her nude body as she got out of my bed was nothing short of ",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: How to get out if short term health plan? POST: So I have been working for three months and my company pays half my health care. Since the plan doesn't start until next year he has been pushing me to sign up for short term plan, through his provider. It all felt like a sales call. The plan was I can use any urgent care immediately and I'd pay 50$. The agent sent me a camera shot of my card that's on her PC, and I go to three clinics that rejected it cause I looked so ghetto with it. I h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [25M] trying to learn how to talk to introverted girls POST: I was homeschooled, and due to shyness, degree choice, and some really bad athletic injuries, I didn't socialize much in college. My type is introverted (or at least 50% introverted) girls who are athletic, intelligent, and talkative. I love listening (to smart people), and I'm kinda an adrenalin-seeker. I'd much rather go sky diving than go to a party or go clubbing. I've had few close female friends, and all have been",negative " r/tifu TITLE: tifu by using my phone in the movies POST: So like many tifu's this happened a few days ago. So I've been texting this girl who's pretty hot on plenty of fish for a week now. We decided to meet up on friday at mcdonalds. I'm there waiting for her and as soon as she sees me she gives me a big hug and clings to me while walking around the mall. I knew at this moment I had this girl in the bag. We then decided to watch a movie but we had two hours to kill. I took her downtown and strolled around",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my friend [25 F] I met online. Can a relationship like this work? Is it creepy? POST: Hello everyone so I met this girl last year on a game and we'd play all the time, she and I have become really close friends over the last few months. I have nothing but trust in her as she has always been there to comfort me in times I felt alone (I've had a lot of living changes due to family issues and living conditions) and has always been my emotional rock I can turn to. I've d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my GF [25 F] of 2 years. Moved in together 3 months ago. She cheated. Am I wrong to dump her and leave her to figure out the rent situation? POST: I am so furious. I feel so betrayed and dissapointed. I trusted her and made a commitment to her when we moved in together. I thought she felt the same way and was going to take this relationship seriously. I feel like she completely disregarded that commitment. She needs to learn that you can't fuck people over without con",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [US - OK] Can my inlaws legally spank my son? Does the law protect him if I forbid them from spanking/switching him? POST: My inlaws are religous kooks, the type that post 2-3 memes a week on Facebook about how their parents kicked their asses all the time and ""look how [they] turned out!"" Until my son was born in September, I just rolled my eyes and groaned. I haven't been able to discuss this with the inlaws yet because my mother-in-law is a colossal bitch who takes ""my way or the hi",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: (Colorado) Parents stole my weed, do I have recourse? POST: Okay, so I am a 23 year old college student, pretty much supporting myself. My parents and I have a strained relationship, they pretty much disowned me around four years ago because they decided I was a 'pot addict.' Around thanksgiving I contacted them (for the first time in a year) just to say ""Happy thanksgiving!"" and one thing led to another and eventually they invited me to stay at my childhood home in Colorado this we",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Is this a cold sore? Have had before but this is a small string of painless bumps that hasn't gone away in a month POST: 24, M, 6'0, 150lb, white, ~4 weeks, lips, none, one dose of Valtrex (4g) I've had cold sores in the past but had gone on a lucky 3-year streak without. I felt what I thought was the tingle and used Abreeva as I have in the past. Next day there was a small string of what I thought would grow to be the normal fever blister. Luckily, they remained small and painless (pic h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [M/20] two best friends [F/20 & F19] are fighting and it's breaking my heart. POST: About 3 months ago, my two best friends (whom we'll call Sophie and Lucy) got into a fight after Lucy told her boyfriend something personal which Sophie had told her previously in confidence, asking her explicitly not to tell anyone. While I am not certain since I don't know what Sophie told Lucy, I believe Lucy told her boyfriend because she was worried about Sophie. Naturally, Sophie is upset, bu",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the most disgusting thing that your SO has done that you have had to take care of them through? POST: My SO had just finished a big account and was out celebrating from 3-9 and asked me to pick her up at a happy hour 45 minutes away. She called me when I was 15 minutes away to tell me that she had just gotten sick while walking into the bathroom and needed me to hurry. I assumed that she must have been pretty drunk at this point, so I prepared myself for the inevitable drunk ramb",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [30/f] have no passion for my boyfriend [32/m] of 1.5 years or anyone else for that matter. Is there something wrong with me? POST: I have been with my boyfriend for almost a year and a half, but I have never felt passion or the ""butterflies in the stomach' or obsessive feelings towards him. This worries me because he is an amazing guy who is obsessed with me and gives me everything. I understand the feeling he has for me, but I don't feel it for him. Shouldn't I feel this? I know ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] thought I was recovering from my breakup [20 F], but after 2 months with no contact, moving on seems harder than I thought POST: Me and my ex had a relationship of 4 months, it was really intense and amazing in many aspects, but it ended due to constant fighting and a consequent feeling, from my part, that I didn´t love her anymore. We broke up nearly 2 months ago, and I still feel emotionally dependent on her. I know for sure that I don´t love her, that I don´t miss most o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my manipulative Mom [50s F] How do I stop the lying and manipulating without destroying the relationship? POST: Hi, I posted yesterday about this similar incident but included a legal aspect that got the post deleted, so I'm going for different advice this time, thanks to everyone who commented yesterday! To start things off, I'm fairly certain my mother is a psychological manipulator, meaning that even if I show her that she's manipulating, she'll deny it and keep pu",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by mocking a deaf girl POST: Several years ago, I was at a party, engaged in a conversation with about six of my friends. A few others joined in the conversation including a very good looking girl who really caught my attention. We were all half in the bag, and of course the background music was pretty loud, so there were a lot of requests for people to repeat what they had said. I have this asshole-ish habit that if someone asks me ""What?"" more than twice, I engage into some silly sign-",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF (24/F) of 2.5 years is moving in 6 months. I (24/M) am not following her, and don't want a long-distance relationship. What do I do next? POST: The reason for me not to follow her is that I have come to realize she's not the one. This is not because of anything she's done wrong, or because she's abusive, or anything like that. She's great. She absolutely adores me, and we've had a very loving relationship for the last 1.5 years. The year before that was a little shaky and we ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your most recent real life karma story? POST: I found a hard drive wrapped in paper and scotch tape marked ""Doctor K's Hard Drive (Defective) still has data."" in a walmart shopping cart when I was in Toronto. I decided to take it home with me to New York so I could plug it in and find out who the owner was. I was able to locate his contact information and setup a meet for the next time I was in Toronto. I gave him his hard drive back and we both got on with our lives. I believe ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by accidentally making a kid think I'm interested in his sisters. POST: So, unlike most TIFU's, this one happened earlier today. I run cross country at my high school, and I sometimes get home later in the day. Yesterday was one of those days. My mom was gone at a soccer tournament with my brother, and my dad was at work, so my mom had a babysitter watch my younger siblings when I was at cross country. She's a senior in college, and I know for a fact she has a sister who's a sophomore in",negative " r/self TITLE: Abrupt sex stoppage (mid-play) POST: My partner and I have been with each other for 6 years. We both enjoy sex, however recently whilst sexing he has insisted on using toys. Now, I haven't objected to toys in the past, I just want to stagger their use. Frankly, a dildo can be painful especially if it's considerably larger than what I'm used to - no matter how much lube. I have expressed this to my partner. Anyway, last night we were having sex and then he said 'I've picked out some toys for y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my gf [17 F] one year, she hates my best female friend POST: My gf hates my best female friend which I have been talking to for years now, and she asks me to stop talking to her or we're breaking up, (I am *massively* reducing the amount of details for the sake of your convince, for more info ask in comments). her argument: I had a crush on said friend years ago, and said friend is very... ""touchy"", and my gf think she is tring to flirt with me. my argument: we have be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 23 [M] The Girl I Was Dating [22] Suddenly Lost Interest. POST: So I met this girl and we hit it off immediately. Everything was going great, she'd call me all the time, text me non stop that she misses me etc and we always had a great time on our dates. We were going out for about a month and everything was smooth sailing until it wasn't. She started becoming extremely distant and hard to reach. Things went on like this for about a week when I got tired of living in my head and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [32 M] girlfriend (31 F) of 6 months unexpectedly let herself into my place this morning. POST: My girlfriend and I are in love. We presently live 10 minutes away from each other. I've been quite clear with her that there are times when I want some personal, alone time. She says she understands. Last night I told her wanted to be solo; however, I was awakened at about 5 am by her. She had let herself in with a key I had previously given her and she said she couldn't sleep and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my SO [19 F] of two years, I think I might be sort of a sex addict. POST: ""Jane"" and I have been together for two years. She's the only girl I've ever been with, and while it may not seem like it based on what I'm about to say, I truly love her more than anything in the world. Over the past sixteen months, Jane and I have had a long-distance relationship. I was initially against continuing our relationship once we separated, but Jane convinced me otherwise, and I'm ha",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: My brother gave his girlfriend a key to our apartment and now she feels entitled to hang out in the apartment even when he's not here. How do I handle this situation delicately? POST: I moved in with my brother and one of our mutual friends to save money about a year ago, at which point I didn't mind his girlfriend at all. As time went on, I saw how she demanded him to do *everything* for her and she did nothing for him in return. I can't even look at her anymore, it makes me sick. I st",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me(19/f), him(21/m) Please remind me there's other fish in the sea or POST: I've been with this guy for a year and he's not treating me like he used to. We are fighting over silly things and our relationship is weakening...but I love him so much. While he's ignoring my texts and doing what he wants (texting other girls), I'm here crying. All the time. I can't sleep properly when we are at odds and feel super heart broken. Im not going to admit he's making me feel this way cause I fea",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: The only college I got into was a safety. Do I go there, or go to a community college and transfer? PLEASE HELP. POST: I consider myself a pretty good student. I'm going to graduate in June with ~3.5 GPA and a 2110/2400 on the SAT (1450/1600). I've taken 8 AP classes (4 this year) and I've passed every AP test I've taken so far. My extracurricular activities aren't outstanding, but they're at least something. I applied to every UC school except Merced and Riverside, Cal Poly San Luis ",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: If you can't accelerate, don't tailgate POST: Saturday I was driving on a rural 2 lane highway, full of rolling hills and curves. It's hard to pass on the highway, and there are only a few place where you can safely do it. I was doing what I consider a very reasonable 5 - 7 mph over the speed limit, but an asshole driving a semi insisted on tailgating me for miles, even though the chance for passing was virtually nill. Normally I don't care too much about tailgaters, but having an ",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: 3 month old puppy became very growly and aggressive while tired POST: Cassie is a golden retriever, and we've had her since she was 8 weeks old. She's been sleeping in her crate at night since day one, but napping wherever in the house... Which is bad because she'll get up and go poo by the door without anyone noticing. 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She had a very bad childhood, and it even continued in to her adult life, including losing an infant child to Baby Shake Syndrome by the hands of her now ex-husband (who is in prison for the crime). Before tonight, I've kind of blindly ignored her behavior because of the bad things that happened to he",positive " r/loseit TITLE: (Very) SV: Have had a tough time starting out, but fit into some old pajama pants today! POST: I've been lurking on r/loseit for a while and have decided to make my first post. I've always been a plus-sized/curvy girl, hovered around a size 16-18 in high school (didn't weigh myself back then). In my senior year I managed to lose an awesome amount of weight and got to around a size 12. Then, slowly, over the 4 years that I was in college, I gained it all back, and then some. I'm now 23. A fe",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: our album artist for my band bailed... please help!!!!! POST: Hello fellow Redditors I have a job offer for those of you who are looking to prove your skills as a creative graphic designer. Here's the situation. I play bass for an aspiring yet very poor jazz/metal band that is in dire need of album art. Our initial design team had months to complete this, but failed to do so in time for our album to be pressed and at the last minute they decided the concept was no longer ""fun"" for them -",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Found our Venue! (And didn't have the reaction I thought I would) POST: After much encouraging from all your lovely ladies we didn't give up and we found a venue that we LOVE! We took my mom and she loved it too so we knew it was it. We were able to get our date (Super Pi Day, 3.14.15... and I already changed my flair!) and we put down a deposit. When we got back in the car I was giddy and freaking out and giggling. What I didn't expect was when my FH and I got alone- I burst out",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Stepfather is a hardcore alcoholic, can me and my mother just leave? POST: We live in Florida. Basically my mom married this guy about 5 years ago and shortly after we found he was an alcoholic. Back then it was somewhat bearable but he did have occasional outbursts of anger where he would just yell at my mom for an hour or two when he was at the peak of his drunkenness. Nowadays, his alcohol intake is through the roof. From the moment he wakes up he has at least 1 or 2 drinks and when",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: 17 years old, looking for advice to (try to) ensure financial success POST: Ok, so I do not plan on going to college, as my family cannot afford it, and my grades don't ensure I'll get into a college anyways (I'm a junior and I've been skimming by with C's since freshmen year, I'm getting my grades up to a b average just in past 6 weeks in hope of good chances for scholarships, etc. because of an upward trend.) Anyways, I do plan on going to pipe fitter classes as I am in NE Housto",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How to tell an obsessed girlfriend to chill out/maybe we should take a break without ruining her life. POST: I, a 20 year old male junior in college have been in a relationship with a 21 year old female for about a year and a half now. She has also said that she is looking for a serious Mr. Right for the rest of her life, and that I am it. I feel like she plans her life around me and almost lives for me when I don't want that at all. I'd like to talk to her about these issues b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [22M] Agreed to a blind date with a female [24F] to a ball that was set up by a mutual friend and his wife. How to make it a fun weekend for her? POST: So, work has been busy as hell the last 18 months and I haven't had the energy or time to invest in a relationship minus a random bar encounter. Work is having a ball where we all go in uniform and wives, girl friends etc come and we drink and eat and drink for a while. My buddy and his wife are convinced that Jane (F24) would be a p",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Why did you start? POST: I've been having a tough time lately, because I haven't been seeing progress. I know I need to lower my calorie intake again, and I'm just having such a hard time doing so. Anyways, I'm having a difficult time looking forward, so I decided to get a little inspiration by looking back, and seeing how far I've come and remembering why I started. So I'll start. I started because I live in the south where it gets hot really early in spring, and I want to be able to go ru",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27M] long-time friend [27 M] has no job, no motivation and constantly overstays his welcome. Ruining our friendship. POST: I'm looking for advice on how to deal with my friend Mark who spends every weekend sleeping on my couch and doesn't take the hint. He's 27, lives at home with his parents, works part time at a country club and seems like he has no interest in pursuing a full time job. Every Friday night he heads into the city to meet up with me or the rest of our small gro",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: SO talks to his ex, talks about his ex, no alarm bells, but really shaking my confidence? POST: I've been seeing this really lovely guy for around 2 months (23m, I'm 21f) and things are going well. * He was in a 2-year relationship with a girl who he describes as somewhat crazy, and from the sounds of the stories he's told me, his parents nor certain friends were not entirely too fond of her. They've been broken up since July of 2011, and he and I started seeing each other En",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I released a free app on the App Store and published the code under the GPL. Now someone has rebranded an old release of my code and they're selling it for $0.99. Is there anything I can do to prevent people from wasting their money on the other app? POST: A while back my teammate and I wrote a free and open source [KeePass] client for the iPhone called [MiniKeePass] A few weeks ago a new app named SyncPass showed up on the App Store that is a rebranded old version of our app and they're",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I (15F) get my father (55M) and brother (23M) to go outside when they smoke pot because of our confined living space? POST: Alright so, throwaway account just in case. For background, my family had to move out of the house we rented by New Year's of last year, and since then we've been living in a crummy motel. Its literally a living room, kitchen, one bedroom, and a bathroom. My mother stays in the bedroom while me, my sister, and my father share the living room (I don't ge",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Question about problems I'm having... POST: Hello all, new to this sub, I have a question that I can't seem to wrap my head around. I am male, 22 yo, 5'11 and around 200 pounds. I get a generally good amount of exercise between cardio and lifting, try to eat healthy most of the time (never exceed my calorie count of BMR, stay at a pretty large deficit 90% of the time) but yet I can't seem to drop weight. About 6 months ago I dropped down to about 185 and was very happy with my weight, but a",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (25M) Girlfriend has quit talking to me, updated POST: **Slight TL;DR: ",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: How can I find my Father? POST: I'm not going to give out any personal information, nor do I want someone to do any of the work for me. Short background: I was born in 1989, and during that time my biological Father was in jail. When he got out, he denied that I was his child, but there were blood tests done that proved I was his. 4 years later, my Mother was unable to take care of me due to her heavy consumption of alcohol and I was ""adopted"" by her parents. I just found an old folde",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] am moving into an apartment with a couple of friends 2x[20F] and we're starting to have problems. What can I do to make this easier for everyone? POST: Our apartment lease is starting soon and for a few months I've been getting furniture, sublettors, etc. Lisa has been pretty helpful getting stuff setup but Ria refuses to do any work. I told Ria to set up our utilities and she told me three days before our lease started that she couldn't do it because she's going to be going ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Individual 401k vs holding in a bank POST: Oh HAI PF! So I'm currently: 24M, Single, 55K/yr in low COL area. My living expenses are about $800-$1000/mo (working on getting them a bit lower), and I've got healthcare through my parents for the next year (Thanks Obama!) Currently I have 11K in a ROTH IRA, ~14K in long term investments for a down payment on a home/future kid's college, and ~8K liquid between savings accounts. Note, my wages aren't withheld so at next tax season, unc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (20F) and boyfriend (20M) of two years. I know we're too young to get married, but are relationships supposed to be this stagnant? POST: Stagnant is a harsh word, but I couldn't think of a better one. Basically, my boyfriend and I have been dating 2 years. We're living together temporarily until the end of the semester, and then we move to separate dorms. I've really liked living with him and we're considering doing it again after we graduate. It's really fun cooking dinner to",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Don't touch my fucking dog. POST: So I've been living at my place now for a year and a half and have always had a problem with the neighborhood kids. At first they loved to run through everyone's yards - that ended pretty quickly when they found out I got a dog. So it's been a year since then and my dog's gotten almost full size and looks super cute still. The kids are always doing things to set him off, kicking on the fence, barking back at him, one time I even caught them putting **",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm worried about a situation with my SO regarding the summer, but he doesn't understand my concerns POST: My boyfriend and I [21] have a great relationship. We've been dating for 7 months, and it's absolutely amazing - the best relationship that I've ever been in. The only thing we don't always agree on is how much space we need - I'm perfectly content not having my own ""personal time"" because I LOVE being around people, but he needs a ""recovery"" day every week where he just complet",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] don't know how I should feel about my wealthy uncle (mom's brother). POST: My parents fought all throughout my childhood. The family drama was rife with financial trouble and emotional turmoil. During family get-togethers, they would sometimes take place at my VERY wealthy uncle's mansion. He always kind and gifted us an allowance to me and my brother (gave to my parents anyways to pay for bills). I've always had positive experiences and memories with my uncle.After that's do",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is an ultimatum about opposite-sex friends fair? POST: I(19F) have been dating my boyfriend(20M) for a little over a year. My boyfriend has always been the type of guy who has a lot of female friends, and I met him just as I was coming out of my shell and have very few male friends. He is the overly attached type and gets upset whenever I happen to hang out with a guy, partially because there has been some kind of interest (either on my side or the guys') between most of my male fri",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Credit Score dropped three digits because of Mom's ex-bf unauthorized usage of our CCs. Do I have any recourse to stand on, legally? POST: Story time, A few years ago, my Mother allowed her boyfriend stay with her, and over the course of that time the boyfriend apparently went behind our family's back and began using the credit cards she had available, without permission. Some of them were in my name, other's were co-signed between her and myself. Fast forward to last July, he",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are my options as a college dropout? POST: I'm 20 years old, a computer science major, and currently in my third year at a state university, with 20 credits under my belt (technically 37 as I have 17 credits at a community college). My first semester of college, I took 18 credits and landed myself with a 2.2 gpa. I then took a two credit winter course to boost my gpa up, got an A in it, and brought my cumulative gpa up to a 2.38. The following semester, I decided to take 12 credit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (22F) so jealous of my sister (24F) and it's driving me crazy. How do I fix this? POST: My sister is better than I am. I'm willing to admit it, and I've just kind of accepted it. She's prettier than I am, more ambitious than I am, kinder than I am, more generous than I am, and just all around a better person. I have been working on improving myself, and focusing on measuring my success based on me rather than her, but it's a slow process. Now for the actual issue: I'm trying ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[34M] found out my [37F] wife's past and I feel disgusted POST: Me and my wife have a rock solid relationship for 5 years now and she's a wonderfully kind woman. However I learn about what she was like in her teenage years and I feel shocked and dismayed. We went to a get together with people mainly from her old school and I had conversations with some guys from her old school and many of them had positives things to say, but I was talking to some others. They told me that they us",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by photoshopping my English teacher into 9/11 POST: Trying to keep this short Recently my high school decided to invest in iPads. I was skeptical at first but found it to be fairly entertaining later. Especially for taking embarrassing pictures of my English teacher. Eventually I had amassed an album of such photos. Apparently this is a violation of the schools new rules. Later on, upon downloading photoshop for the iPad, I took some of the more hilarious pictures and created a Godzi",positive " r/travel TITLE: Should I bring a laptop backpacking through S-America? POST: My boyfriend and I are going to spend a year traveling through Central- and S-America, and we're trying to decide whether we want to bring a laptop along. My laptop is a 1.5 y/o MacBook pro, and I'm not too keen on having it stolen or damaged. We have a history of taking a lot of pictures and videos while traveling so being able to store, sort and backup massive amounts of photos is a must. The idea of editing HD videos on the r",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 F] with my husband [30 M] 10 years, not stepping up to provide for family POST: Let's keep this short. We have 2 kids. Our entire relationship I've always been the responsible one. Cleaning, bills, etc. I chalked it up to him being young (20) when we started dating. That should have been a warning sign. Basically my husband does not provide for the family. He's driven us into bankruptcy once, and now we are almost homeless/starving again. He does work-but he doesn't make eno",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Unusual wedding structure, how to word invites?! POST: Hello weddit! This might be my first official post here! My fiancé and I got engaged a few weeks ago, Sept 13th. We're diving headfirst into planning and trying to get as much done as possible asap. We *just* secured our venue, a beautiful local art gallery here in Chicago, and our date, October 11th, 2015. We are, however, very lost on how to properly word our invites due to the weird structure we're planning for our wedding",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my GF[22F] 7 months, I messed up, now I can't sleep knowing she's hurt. POST: Basically I have recently been the cause of arguments, I have been an idiot and I know it won't happen again. The problem isn't that I can't fix this. The problem is that right now, all I want to do is see her and show her how sorry I really am and just how much I love her. And for the last two nights, ive had a total of 6 hours of broken sleep. I NEED to speak to her yet she's extremely bus",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Did my [23M] ex [21F] cheat on me with another woman? POST: Went out with a girl for about 3 years, we moved into an apartment together outside the city and things seemed to be going absolutely great. We hadn't gone on as many dates as we used to when we first started our relationship, but I thought she loved me. I truly loved her with all my heart. It made me so happy to provide for her and make her be happy. Then in the last month, she all of a sudden wanted sex like every other d",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do all Americans have access to the roof of buildings, no questions asked? POST: I've been pondering this question for a while, but in movies and TV programmes set in America, there are always scenes in which the characters find themselves on the roof of buildings. Recently I was watching the Alpha's pilot and one of the characters just walked into a random building and went to the roof in order to snipe. Another example would be in the movie The Hangover, although it could be disputed",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I've never been so embarrassed in my entire life POST: I was in my friend's dorm (on the other end of campus from my apartment) last night, casually drinking with her and her roommates. I got a little buzzed but nothing too bad. As the night progressed my need to pee got worse and worse and worse, but I have a fear of using anything else besides my own toilet. So I just crossed my legs and did the pee dance for a while. Finally, I couldn't wait any more and said my good byes (it was ge",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/m] am losing intimacy in my relationship with my girlfriend [21/f] POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for over two years now. We met in high school while she was an exchange student, studying in America. We stayed together despite living in different countries, and have made multiple visits to see each other for month stays each time. I am now taking university classes in her home country to be with her for the whole semester. Starting in Mid July her greencard wil",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] cannot keep it up long enough to perform with my gf [17F] of 3 years. POST: I have been with my gf for a long time and during such I have been the one giving out most of the sexual acts. I go down on her at least once whenever we go out. That is no issue for me; I enjoy giving her pleasure. However, whenever she tries to reciprocate, it rarely works out. I love her and am attracted to her and want to be able to perform for her but in about a year of blowjobs I have finished o",positive " r/Advice TITLE: i need to change, but how? POST: im not a native english speaker, so sorry for any bad grammatics hey, im 18 years old and i dont have any friends at the moment, when i had friends, they would slowly disappear/ignore me. the reason behind this is simplay that im an attention seeking arrogant bad person. i was raised from my mother (no dad) until i was 11, then my mom gave me in a children´s home where i am still living. my mom never gave me real attention and was a bad person, i think that",negative " r/self TITLE: Help. I'm stuck in the back of a library and can't stop crying. POST: I broke up with my girlfriend 3 months ago and since then have been very politely excluded from our shared social circle. I was the emotionally stronger one and I mostly broke up with her (after seeing that our relationship wasn't going anywhere) AND they were mostly her friends first. So I backed off and made sure everyone was focused on making sure she was okay. Everyone said that they still wanted to be friends with both",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/M] and my GF [25/F] broke up after 4 years, and I realize I have very few personal goals. POST: I was dumped because my girlfriend was tired of pushing me forward in life. to get a raise, to go on trips, to take a course, etc. She made a lot of the decisions for me. It wasn't because I'm lazy, it was because I thought I was content with my life. I would do these things to make her happy. She chose the apartment, she chose the city, she tells me I should go for a raise, and I'd",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is there a way to get an old profile taken down/removed from google? POST: Thank you in advance for any help you have. **Background**: I am a 22 year old female and I will be graduating with my bachelors at the end of this year. I have already completed an internship and done a lot of networking for my industry, and have a good job more or less lined up for after graduation. I also plan on pursuing graduate school after that. My industry is pretty well connected with the tech industry. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Are my BF's (24 M) standards for communication too high? POST: So my BF of 2.5 years is a very affectionate guy (both physically and verbally) whereas I (23 F) have had to practice at it. I come from a family that doesn't really talk about emotions or anything really while his family is really open about their emotions. So I've definitely had to work at communication and initiation of affection (both verbal and physical). I've been trying pretty hard to change and get better at this.",negative " r/tifu TITLE: (I'm a kennel maid) TIFU by Forgetting to give a customer's dog back. POST: Happened yesterday. I work in a kennels. I'm female. Last customer of the day turns up to collect his dog. My engrained routine is to hand the dog over first and then sort out payment. But because this dog is an uncontrollable lunatic, we agreed he should pay first so that he'd be able to leave with it straight away. We're alone in the office waiting for his card payment to go through, so we exchange small talk to f",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Need helps with naps POST: DD is 7 months old and has always had issues with naps. They rarely last longer than 45 minutes and she struggles to go down for every.single.one. At night, we have a bedtime routine and she goes down (awake) and falls asleep with no problem. She sleeps through the night and knows how to fall back to sleep if she wakes up in the middle of the night (and isn't scared, sick, teething, etc.) But for naps, she cries when I put her down for every nap. We follow",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [23F] right to suspect he [30M] has yellow fever? Based on his IG account. POST: Hey Reddit... Background: I'm an Asian American girl who was born and raised here in the US. A few months ago, I met my current SO, ""Jerry,"" who is a White American guy. Now ... Jerry is wonderful. I'll save the cheese. Jerry is an graphic designer, so his Instagram is full of his work, and he has about 6k followers, and follows about 6k people. Jerry has a diverse dating history that includes m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My 22FGirlfriend constantly cuts me out and treats me 22 M with disdain when she is down even when I am not to blame. POST: Currently I am in the doghouse for complaining about yet again being given the silent treatment. The last three days have been all surliness, I kept trying to be understanding of her and asking what was wrong, but only got an answer when I finally cracked. Yesterday was like the 6th anniversary of her Grandfather's death. I am jerk for not remembering, but sh",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Leaving career field to work low-end job? Bad idea? POST: My situation is, I've had the same job since graduation (3 years) within my field of study. In the last 18 months, it has been awful. Awful as in, they owe me up to $9k but people are going back on their word, work 60 hours a week with no overtime or comp pay, and lately, my higher-up has been talking trash on me, but acts like it never happened. So, to say the least, I have been incredibly unhappy. I'd applied at other jobs in my fi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24F) love my boyfriend (26M) more than he loves me. POST: So basically my boyfriend and I have been dating for about 2 years now and he recently just got back from a month vacation out of the country. Needless to say he fell in love with the countries he visited and when he got back he mentioned that it's so weird to be back where all his stress is. We kept in touch when he was there through skype and I know he was loyal to me. I just can't help but feel cast aside though when I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26 F] love my boyfriend [37 M] of 2.5 years, but I still think about other men. POST: I love my boyfriend. Immensely. We frequently discuss spending our lives together, and I can imagine a generally happy future with him. Since he's a bit older, and has been divorced, I feel he is getting ready to slow down. I am a bit younger, and I feel I have a lot of energy left to use before I settle down, have kids, etc... And on top of it, I still get that excited feeling when I think about",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My classmate [15 F] wants a ride to school from me [15 F] POST: For summer school, my classmate (not even my friend) approached me and asked if I was doing anything in the morning before summer school starts. I said no, and she asked if I could give her a ride to school in the morning. I didn't know what to do and there were a lot of people around us so I said yes, naturally. She lives 7 minutes away from me, but giving her a ride would be going out of my way a lot because we live on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend[17 F] of 3 weeks not feeling attracted to her as much anymore POST: I've been talking to this girl for about a month now. I've always found her striking when it comes to her looks. She isn't straight up attractive but just the way she carries herself made her seem classy and beautiful to me. Anyways, at the time I was still having sex with a girl I was absolutely head over heals for for a long time but she played me bad and it just made it hard to trust h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Do I [18M] have the right to be annoyed with my girlfriend [17F]? POST: My girlfriend and I have been going out for nearly two years now, things have been going great and we haven't had any major issues. We both trust and love each other very much. However the other day she admitted to me that she has been logging onto my Facebook account privately and reading through my messages over the past week or so. Now I've got no problem with showing her my messages and have absolutely nothin",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: My state (Florida) won't let me run for public office. POST: Some background, I turn 18 the day before the general election, I am pre registered to vote and very much plan on voting on November 8th. So when I considered running for the position of Special District Trustee, where the only qualification requirement is to be a legal voter in Hillsborough County, I was ecstatic. I've always wanted to work in government, and this seemed like the most reasonable first step. I emailed/calle",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [16/m] am a violent control freak and I can't take this relationship anymore POST: I suffer from anxiety, bulimia and manic depression. Everything needs to be under my control and if it isn't I flip out and loose my shit. My boyfriend [18] is very quiet, introverted and submissive. Despite being a foot taller than me (I'm a shortass 5'4""), and twice my weight, he lets me control him and push him about. I feel bad about it afterwards but I get some sort of power-boner when yel",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [19F] When is asking someone out via email/Facebook appropriate? POST: I [19F] kind of have a thing for this guy that I work with [25M]. We get along really well and seem to have a lot of similar interests, and I would really like to get to know him outside of work. Now, I know office/workplace romances aren't really that desirable. However, our schedules have recently changed, so we won't be working any shifts together for at least the next 5-6 months or so. The only time I would ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my SO [21M] of 3 years have terrible sex when we try (rarely), what to do? POST: Title basically explains everything. I was a virgin, my SO wasn't. We have tried to have sex multiple times, and it's gotten better each time, but obviously we both know it's terrible. I'm inexperienced and hope to try more often so it can be a lot better for us because I know the intimate aspect is very important to him. However, after multiple failed attempts, he has honestly given up on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [21] is chatting about sex online with former hookups & talking about reuniting. Am I [22] on the chopping block, or in the wrong for snooping? POST: We've been together for three months, and after accidentally seeing a text message on her phone from an ex of hers, I perused her facebook messages while she was in the shower. What I discovered was a series of conversations reminiscing about past sexual exploits, obvious flirtation, and hints at future encounters. While",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A national call list POST: So, this guy called me last night and here is the gist of our conversation... Me: ""Hello?"" Him: ""Yea, who is this?"" Me: ""I'm sorry, who is THIS?"" Him: ""This number just called me and I wanna know who this is"" Me: ""Um, no it didn't... I was sitting in the bar having a conversation and no where near my phone"" Him: ""No, this number called me. I answered and it just sounded like a bunch of noise and you hung up on me. I wanna know who this is!?"" Me: ""Well,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my SO [20F] of 3 years. I dont know if im bad at supporting or if shes horrible at taking support POST: Important note: We are long distance, we communicate through Skype calls. My SO has suffered from depression in the past and she is overall a very emotional person. Anyways, it seems like she transforms into someone else when having frustrations. When something doesnt go the way she wants it to or had planned, its constant crying and bawling and its very hard to deal",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21m] what the hell is going on? POST: I've worked with this girl for 6 months and we really hit it off. We would hang out alot outside of work text nearly everyday. We were always a little flirty with each other and I think we both knew that we liked each other but we never acknowledged it. Two nights ago though she came over after work we had a few drinks and I just sort've blurted out ""you know I like you"" she said she liked me too and the next thing I know we're making out ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (20f) girlfriend wants a break from long distance relationship after 2 months, me (21m) POST: So, i'd been dating this girl for a while, with it getting more serious towards the end of the summer. Due to unfortunate timing, just as we start to feel really strongly about each other, I had to leave for university this september(final year), which meant we were both unsure as to what we really were as a couple, if we were in a relationship or what At the start I didn't see it as muc",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Reddit, please help me out. My gf and I broke up last night :( POST: Reddit I need help, please. My girlfriend and I broke up last night. We're both 18. We were together for 7 months and deeply care for each other and love one another. The beginning of our relationship was great, we always did things together and had a lot of fun. But the last month we've been tight on money and we don't go out as much. As of late we are just always hanging out at my house watching tv and movie",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it considered sexual harassment if your (older male) boss tells a (younger female) employee in front of co-workers ""You screw everything up, just stand there and look pretty"", in a non-joking way? POST: Basically I work for a restaurant (chain) and an employee is threatening to sue the company alleging sexual harrassment. The owner of the company wants to meet with all of the employees to fill out some form about any information they might have. I'm sure all of this relates to an inc",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Having Serious Problems at a Motel 6 (credit card charged twice for a different amount) POST: I checked in this afternoon, 2 nights, signed a slip for $109.86 [1] . I get up to my room, and go online, and checked my account balance for something unrelated and see this [2] Charged twice for a different amount $126.34. I go down to the front desk and talk to the lady that checked me in, I think she is Co-Owner with her husband... she says that she only charged me once, and that I saw her d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my former lover [23 F] on and off over a few years, are trying out the friends thing. Can it work? POST: I was with this girl who I met at work. At first I was a means of getting over her ex boyfriend of 6 years. It was just sex but I soon asked her if she wanted a relationship. She said no and eventually got back together with her ex. A year later we start talking again and eventually start sleeping together. She confesses she wants a relationship but due to my job a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20F] Found out my boyfriend still maintains his ""available"" OK Cupid profile, and ""responds frequently"". POST: He is 20M and we've been together for about 2 1/2 years total, planned to get hitched soon within the next few months. I haven't asked him about this yet. He told me about it a while back since we had discussed finding a threeway partner, and I agreed it was a good idea, though I told him to tone down the profile (he had fun making it, I do with those kind of things as wel",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sending my gf's guy friend a picture of her nude accidentally POST: So, this happened a few months ago with a girl who I'm no longer currently dating. She was giving me a cam show and I had taken screenshots of it. For someone reason one of the screenshots image urls got copied onto my clipboard without me knowing. So fast forward post cam show I was messaging one of her guy buddies, lets just call him Bill, about random shit (don't really remember the topic) and it got to a point ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: [NSV] I can run?! (ok, jog) POST: Hi, r/loseit! I have been a reddit lurker for about 1 year and have been lurking on r/loseit for about 1 month. I decided to join today because I am elated that I was able to run (5.5 mph- Fitness magazine says this is ""jogging"" but whatever) on the treadmill today and wanted to share. I started my weight loss on 7/19 at 290 lbs (M, 5'10""). Today I weigh 268. I started working out on the elliptical 45-60 minutes a day, 6 days a week. I switched to the trea",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My friend has a full ride scholarship that pays for four years. Due to an advising error, she has lost a year of education toward her degree and she must go to school for a fifth year in able to get the degree. The catch is she cannot financially pay for this fifth year of school. POST: My friend is attending a university to be a respiratory therapist. Out of high school she was awarded a third party full ride scholarship to attend school (She would not be able to attend any school if",negative " r/self TITLE: im ruining my girlfriends vacation. POST: throwaway, for obvious reasons. tomorrow i am breaking up with my girlfriend of 7+ months. it's going to be painful, and its going to suck for myself just as much as its going to suck for her. were both 30, live in the same city, and are stable and sane. the short story is, im not happy. not entirely. while we do manage to make each other laugh and smile - im still feeling like somethings missing. the real issue here is the timing. we're scheduled",negative " r/relationships TITLE: SO [31M] irritated that I [22F] won't have sex with him at his mother's house. POST: It's so goddamn frustrating. This is somewhat of a vent--my boyfriend and I have a normally healthy and fun sex life, although we're a bit long distance (we see each other every 2-3 weeks or so). I have social anxiety, so it took a lot for him to convince me to come with him to his mother's house for a night or two this holiday. As it turns out, they're okay with letting us sleep in the same bed, wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] need to leave my live-in BF, but I'll be so alone and vulnerable. POST: Hi there. Thanks in advance for listening. I'm 22, and I moved in with my BF last year. It was a cross country move, away from the toxic family I can't move back with. This guy isn't abusive, but he's really dragging me down - I just can't be with him anymore. I'm starting to save up to move out and break up. But I'm not sure where to go. I don't have a single friend, no family.. and I'm a very small ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I just found out that my girlfriend is messaging/spending time with an ex-FWB behind my back. Am I overreacting? POST: Last night, my (24M) girlfriend (21F) of seven months was staying over at my place. I know that this one guy an ex-FWB of hers is still after her, and after she went to sleep I stupidly checked her text messages. Sure enough, this guy has been flirting with her over text, that I expected. But I also found out that this past weekend she agreed to meet up with him fo",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Unsure of my own intentions, Not sure how to proceed (M21/F20) POST: So last week I joined a campus organization that puts on concerts on campus. We had our first concert last weekend and to put a long story short, I ended up spending the evening with one of the girls on the council and we had a lot of fun. We ended up drinking through the night and making out at about 2am in the grass on a campus lawn. It was an awesome night and I like the girl a lot. My problem, though, is that I",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Should I look for a new job now? POST: This might be a bit long. I'm a junior at a relatively small office job and just learned that due to lower revenue than expected this year a senior person in my same position may be let go in a few months time to save money. (I seem to have escaped the chopping block because my salary is lower) Now, I had been casually thinking about trying to find a new job by spring of next year. This was mainly to secure some more money and to hopefully gain some mor",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by freezing a new galaxy at a Costco POST: (Note: I'm on mobile, sorry for format, this also happened a year ago)TIFU by freezing a brand new display model of a Galaxy. So its around 11:30 in the morning, me and my family just arrived at Costco to do our shopping for meat and stuff. I ask my dad if I can go to the front of the store and look at the new TV's, phones, tablets etc. (Here it comes, the FU)So I'm at the front checking out a new floor model of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10in. and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [25 M] bring up to my girlfriend ___ [24 F] that I use a dildo and want her to use a strap-on during sex? POST: Me and my girlfriend don't live together yet, but we plan on doing it. I have a dildo that I use frequently but I obviously hide it and I'm really scared what she might think when I tell her about it. I consider myself bi (which she also doesn't know) but I don't want to freak her out and make her think I'm in the closet or I'm not attracted to her. I've also figu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Housemate [20M] with girlfriend [19F] 2 years, Housemates girlfriend unofficially moving in. POST: Hi, My housemate we will call Tim has been dating his girlfriend who we shall call Kate for the good part of two years, Recently We have moved to a new house, and Kate has started university, Her university is two hours from her house and she has university 5 days a week, Tim offered for her too move in as our home is a 10 minute walk from her university, but she declined as she said ""s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23F) need advice about not living with my boyfriend (27M) anymore. Is it possible to make it work not living together after living together ? Anyone with experience ? POST: Hi! This is my first post in reddit and I need some advice. My bf and I have been together for 6 months. We rushed into living together because for 2 months we were spending every night together anyway so we decided to take the plunge. Obviously, it wasn't the best decision. We both made a mutual decision to no",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have a collection agency after me for bills I paid... just wondering how long it takes for something like this to affect my credit score POST: I've been going back and forth with a collection agency and fitness group about money that was owed. I heard from them in February, but they said they would call the fitness group and double check with them because my mom and I thought we had cancelled. They called back 4 weeks later and said no we had to pay... they said to go to the fitness ",negative " r/travel TITLE: Expedia set up a connecting flight for my parents where they needed a visa. Ending up costing them thousands! Is this right? I feel they were cheated big time. POST: Basically my parents booked a flight to the Philippines and not once, ever, had they had to get a visa for connecting flights. For some reason they had to connect in Beijing and since my parents thought that it was a connecting flight, they didn't need a visa... Connected through many countries myself and didn't need a visa eit",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, how did you deal with exam stress/anxiety and focus on studying? POST: I am almost certain that no matter what I do, I wont be able to match up to what people expect me to achieve. These are not my final exams, i'm only 15, but the results from these exams will determine what courses I can take, and what classes i get put in. This school year has already been pretty bad for me, I think I made some mistakes in what subjects I chose, and I have an English teacher who has a reputati",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/m]How do I get over someone[18/f] who I still love and still have to spend the next 2 months with? POST: So, I really liked this girl(we are both 18) for a year now (we are classmates, now in our senior year), and last month she told me she had feelings for me too. We started dating, going out and kissing and all seemed great untill we went to a bar with some friends and she started making out with some random dude she found there, and she spent whole night with him. I tr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [2o M] met the Girl of my dreams[23F], but i dont know if I should tell her how i feel POST: Hey guys, I really don't know what to do so I want to ask you. First of a little bit about my background: Im 20 years old and moved away from hometown over 1 year ago(because of my work). I had a gf back then and she wanted to try the long distance relationship. At my 19th birthday a friend of mine sent me a picture of her kissing another friend of mine in a club. I was with her for ~ 2 ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by doing scat play with my wife when her brother came over for a surprise visit. (NSFW) (maybe somewhat NSFL?) POST: So my wife and I were doing scat play with each other (I know, it's gross to everybody else) and had gotten ourselves covered. The two of us had ear plugs in so it wouldn't get in our ears (learned that the hard way) and as a result we couldn't hear anything. We were doing anal as she ""relieved"" herself, and while this was happening her brother unlocked the door and came ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Canadian husband mentally/physically abused by Japanese wife. How can we help from overseas? POST: My Canadian uncle is has been living in Japan for almost 20 years and has been married to his Japanese wife for 14 years. They have three kids under the age of 12. For the last couple of years his wife has become more and more abusive and beats my uncle as well as emotionally abuses him. She has even hit and verbally abused their kids. It has reached a point where we are concerned for th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friends (all 21/22 F) seem to constantly downplaying events to the point they seem maybe jealous of me? (21F) POST: I'm wondering if it sounds like they may be jealous or if it's just in my head. Also, how to deal with it.. Prior to this, they always talked about how hot I was, how I look like I belong in New York City, etc. I usually was super awkward about it. I always get hit on by guys when we go out (albeit very creepy guys). I also get things for free at restraunts/bars bec",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] have occurred a problem with my girlfriend [19F], as I said to a friend I miss Tinder for the Banter and she over heard. POST: So, never though I would be writing something here. Everything was going great but my girlfriend decided to essentially interrogate me last night as yesterday she over heard me saying to a single friend,   ""You should get yourself on Tinder, it's great fun. Loads of Banter. I miss it. I used to have to some right laughs"" So my gf overheard this co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 f] ex [23 M] [00 M/F] trying to be friends POST: My ex wants to be friends - it seemed fine to me - he was intellectually stimulating while we were together so I was like why not. We went to an event yesterday and I had a terrible time. I found him uninteresting and actually repulsive. We had nothing to talk about. At the end of the night he said ""It was really good to see you again. I really like being around you."" I responded somewhat to the extent of ""how is that possible t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21/F] with my SO [22/M], is demanding I trash some of my stuff. POST: I have been with my SO for about 2 years. Although things have been good for the most part, we have had lots of arguments regarding his insecurities. I should also start off by saying that neither of us have cheated. Okay so I have a box that is filled with letters, trinkets, pictures, etc of stuff I've collected from friends to family and so on. My SO up till yesterday never even thought of the box. But I ha",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Pre or Post-Celebration ideas for those who might be cut from the invite POST: Hello Weddit! Longtime lurker, first time on this subreddit. Here's the situation: FH and I have a good-sized (~20+ people and kids) group from college that we'd really like to be there at my wedding. Realistically, with the amount of family FH and I have (ie. a LOT), it is looking like they will be cut from the list. Which sucks, because we really want them to be there, but don't have a budget or ven",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Is it okay to not be sad after a loved one dies? POST: My (great) grandfather passed away earlier this morning. I was at a friend's house and received a phone call from my mother telling me that he had passed a little while ago. I had always been sort of close to my grandfather, but in a weird way. The age gap (he was 94, I'm 17) made it difficult to be close in certain ways, but he was always very proud of me and I had a lot of respect for him. He was also one of my biggest role mod",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are the Art institutes a scam like ITT tech? Should I keep going there? POST: So a little back story I really hated high school and was bored out of my fucking mind in that place so I pretty much just dicked around and didn't pass like half my classes. I didn't party or anything, I just didn't do my homework. So I didn't graduate and took my GED tests a week after graduation and had that shit done before summer was over. Before I had all that finished I had decided to pursue my intere",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22] considering breaking up with my [25F] girlfriend of 7 months. POST: Ok, of by the title you know that I am considering breaking up with my girlfriend. So a little more about us. **Me:** Finishing up my internship and will be returning to collage later this month to complete by BE this coming spring. Will be applying for jobs soon, and will be receiving job offers in Jan/Feb. **Her:** Graduated 3 years ago, has a job,place, and doesn't want to go anywhere (her family li",negative " r/loseit TITLE: [TIPS] Starting my journey today! POST: Hey guys, so it's probably obvious that I'm new here and I guess I should say a bit about my situation. I'm a junior in college, I weigh about 300 lbs and am about 6'. I was actually down to 265 by Christmas of last year, but then I suffered a really traumatic injury to my right knee. Something happened while I was getting out of bed, I'm not quite sure and neither are the doctors. Well it's pretty much healed now but because I was off my feet for ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] I'm finding myself jealous over nothing my BF[28 M] is into poly POST: Sigh I don't want to come across as rude I have nothing against poly what you do is your own thing, I am VERY loyal and monogamous which apparently is odd for my age (19 almost 20F) my bf (28M) has told opened up to me recently that he is open to the idea of poly only if I am ok with it since he said he has loved two people at once but I told him I just am not ok with that. I know he wasn't disr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [18F] is very dependant and I don't know if I [19F] can handle it. POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for almost two years. We are both out of high school and have jobs to pay for what little bills we have. I love her and love being around her. She has an eye disease that is in her family history which will eventually cause her field of view to get smaller and smaller making her legally blind. Her grandmother has it as well and she is always running into walls and obj",negative " r/college TITLE: academically dismissed, need advice POST: Long story short, undiagnosed anxiety caused me to transfer schools during my junior year, and then subsequently fail two semesters (0 credits earned). It has been a year since my dismissal, in which time I moved back in with my parents, worked a three month internship, and continued my work freelance video production. Now I believe that I am ready to get back to school, but since I failed the last two semesters I attended school, I don't see many",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Fiance cheated with one of my groomsmen POST: So... I had a bit of a whirlwind romance with someone I thought was the girl of my dreams. Did the dating thing for a few years after meeting, proposed, planned a whole wedding together, etc. I was really on cloud nine. I've always been a bit of a hopeless romantic and IMO treated her like a princess during the course of our relationship. There was even a good period of time that I supported her entirely while she looked for work post",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [26F] can't stand my best friend's best friend, how do I let her know? POST: I [26F] became really close friends with Jane [26F] in the summer, and with her came her best friend Sarah [26F]. Jane recently got dumped, and in an effort to support and care for her, Sarah and I teamed up and worked together for the past month or so to make sure she was in a good space mentally (it's still pretty rough). In that time, I realized I really can't stand Sarah. She is too nice. I am not nice",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I[M23]potentially ruin my Ex's[F24] current relationship? POST: So I broke up with my Ex about 5 months ago. I found out she cheated on me at the very end of our relationship and she is now with that other person. I still talk to her and have feelings for her. On my last vacation home from work (I work overseas) we hooked up a few times. She claims her and the other guy aren't in a relationship but she is pretty much staying at his place and started seeing him (he is actually ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I [19/m] overreacting at my girlfriend[18/f] for ruining her surprise gift for v-day? POST: Okay so I just found out my girlfriend logged in to my email address without my permission and found the order confirmation for her valentines gift. She accidentally let it slip on the phone and I don't think she saw it as a problem, initially, but she did apologise after she realised how much it annoyed me. Now what surprised me is how annoyed I got with the situation, with V-day on",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking a girl I just met on tinder surfing. POST: I am writing this from the emergency hospital lobby. But let me start this from the beginning. So I meet a girl on tinder last Tuesday. We start chatting and she expresses her interest in surfing (says she's gone once with friends etc). So we decide to go today, seeing it's a holiday and the weather is nice. We get to the beach and I just ask the basics, can you swim? Do you know how to deal with rips? And don't drop in on anyone. So w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21/M] wants to make this less awkward between me and my girlfriend [20/F] due to her first impression of me, advice? POST: A little bit about myself, I used to be a super introvert, and I opened up ever since, I only had 2 past relationships which lasted 2-3 years or more because I'm a guy who really looks towards the future and wants the relationship to last. After a few mishaps, I became closed up. Thing is, now that I'm with this new girl, I have sort of become this closet guy",negative " r/travel TITLE: Looking for a monastery to travel to in the U.S. POST: So I realized today that what I really need more than anything is some time away. I love to travel and do so frequently, both for work and otherwise, but I am looking for something a bit different. It is not a travel-friendly tourist destination I seek, but instead I want to find a monastery that is welcoming to outsiders. I basically feel like I need to go somewhere for a week or two and just live in simple silence. I'm non-religious",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Parking Violation Absurdness POST: Back in January I got a parking ticket from the great city of Philadelphia (I was born and raised in the suburbs). I got a ticket for parking legally along a curb within a shopping center parking lot. I should not have been issued a ticket, but that is besides the point. I sent in my dispute stating my claim. I received a letter saying they have received my dispute and are looking into it. Last week I received a violation saying I have not ""made payment",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 17 year old girl wants to date me, 19. It's more complicated than this, but essentially I'm a tutor at a summer camp, and she's a student. What should I do? POST: Context: I'm an RA and instructor on a college campus. I'm currently working for a summer program here. I make tea in the evenings, and every now and then some students come by to drink it. Last evening she came alone, and expressed feelings for me, and a desire to act on those feelings. Pros: -I like her. She's nice and",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[19/f] friend[20/m] sent me an inappropriate text. Hes has a girlfriend[17/f] POST: Background: My friend, J, and I have known eachother for close to 6 years now. We've been there for eachother through a lot. We had a ""thing"" for a few week about 3 years ago, but it never went anywhere and we dated different people. We also had sex twice last year when we were single. We stopped chilling for a bit before started dating F. We all used to be close but she kind of distanced herself f",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My bf (23/m) broke up with me (20/F) for ex POST: We broke up a few days ago. He said things like ""If it wasn't for this previous relationship, I'd be with you"" and even ""If things go bad again with this, I'll probably contact you again"". Which is frustrating because it's hard to get over someone if they keep you hopeful. Especially because him and his ex have had problems and he insists that he's probably making a mistake. I've never had this situation before and I've never be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23f] fiance [24m] ended our relationship. I don't know where to start. POST: My fiancé broke up with me two nights ago. ""I'm still in love with you, but I'm not willing to put effort into this."" I've been justifying his behaviors for about a year. The truth is, that if by December (the end of my school semester), he still wasn't doing anything to *try* in our relationship, I was going to force myself to leave him. I love him with all my heart, but I was going to put my self-resp",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Just got fired for ""scheduling reasons."" In my particular situation should I try for unemployment or am I just screwed? (Detailed info in post) POST: It's a bit convoluted actually, but bear with me if you have the patience. I am an intern doing 32 unpaid hours per week. To make ends meet, I've been working at a bar twice per week since last August. Recently I was approached by an organization who wanted to give me part time paid work during my internship, and a full time position afte",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] mutually broke up with [19 F] ex after 5 months due to distance , things are spiteful and awkward. POST: We broke up when college ended for the year, as there was a lengthy distance and we wouldn't see each other for the summer. We were adamant we wanted to remain friends. A month after the break up we stopped talking for over a month. I tried to talk to her on facebook but it really seemed like she struggled to talk to me, eventually getting replys days later. When I a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] and my boyfriend [25 M] broke up after over 6 years. Seeking advice on healing and moving forward. POST: My ex and I have been friends and family to each other for years and have a dog together. We have lived together for a few years now. We ended things on good terms - nothing horrible happened and we want to stay a large part of each other's lives - it came down to him doubting we could fix things whereas I had hoped we could. After a few weeks I started finding some ne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my fiancée [26 F] of three years, I need some advice on how to take charge and revamp our sex life. POST: Hi guys, I'm new here so I hope I explain myself right. I'm looking for some advice as my fiancée and I are in a pretty big rut right now. At the start of our relationship, until about a year ago, we enjoyed a really active sex life. She was the first girl I had dated who was on the same page with me sexually in terms of libido and likes/dislikes. She was always f",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I hate Christians...hypocritical fucktards. POST: I was raised as a Christian and I believe in God. I like to see the occasional good things on the sub, but fuck Christians. They are so fucking 'high and mighty' and they always know the right answer and have no problem telling you exactly what you're doing wrong! Or condemning whatever choices you make from the comfort of behind a computer screen/perfect fucking lives. I'm just done with that sub..they shame everyone and everything...I ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/m] my Girlfriend (22/f) is great, but i can't stop thinking about a girl from my past, can somebody offer any kind of advice please? POST: I am a M[22] and my girlfriend is f [22] I'll try to keep this somewhat brief. I have been dating my current girlfriend for almost two years, and i am completely happy being with her, couldn't ask for a better partner. I am even fairly certain i want to marry her. Before we met though, i used to have some weird relationship with this gi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] mutually broke up with my GF [19 F] of nearly 2 years. POST: Well on Tuesday night me and my girlfriend of nearly 2 years decided that we should put a halt to our relationship and call it a day. At the time we went through our flaws and how we each felt and we both felt the same way. We have been arguing a lot lately, about anything and everything, trivial things that aren't even worth arguing about. We have been through our issues and lately I have not been the best boyfr",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Management found out I'm looking for a new career path, now they want me to sign a ""commitment contract"". Advice? POST: I've been with this company for a little over 3 years, learned a lot from it (first job out of school) but realizing its not for me. The deparment itself has a horrid 100% turn over rate and no one really lasts more then 6 months. One of our new hires came from an industry I'm interested in, so I began asking him what it was like, and how they enjoyed their previous career i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it right for my 30 year old boyfriend to have so many touch-ey platonic interactions with other women? [29f] [31m] POST: Obvious throwaway... I [29F] have been seeing this guy [31M] for a while now, and he's a great guy - very considerate and sweet, more than willing to devote his time and attention to cater to my wants and needs, and just generally makes me feel happy and stable...except for one thing: he is seemingly surrounded by females. His interactions (hugging, going to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my GF(now ex) [26F] of 1.5 yrs, broke-up so I could make my parents [64M/61F] Dream come true and I feel horrible. POST: My parents were immigrants to the united states and have been struggling to stay in the working-class since I was born here. They spent their entire lives barely having enough money, water, food, or clothes so they could pay rent in one of the nicer neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Their reasoning was so that my siblings and I had a chance at a better l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with guy [27M] Just found out I'm pregnant, help please POST: I've been hooking up with this guy for a few months and he's moving away (I made another post about that) but just found out tonight that I'm pregnant with his baby. I think I'm 1.5 months along. He's on an trip with friends before he graduates and I've called him twice. I also sent this text: ""It's really important that you call me as soon as possible. I don't want to interrupt your night but it is urgent."" I'm n",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: My dad's caregiver married him, took everything, has disappeared, and I want justice...what are my options POST: I've been dealing with this for awhile. Made a few posts on the subject, and now there is a new development. history: My dad had dementia, and the VA sent us a caregiver who was less than reputable and stole POA from me, and married him, somehow. Then she kicked him out of his house, and into a nursing home. Then she used POA to take possession of the house a year before h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex (m 30) asked me (f 30) to be his +1 at a wedding of mutal friends. Bad idea? POST: Background info: We dated for 4 years, had a rough break up and didn't talk for a year. Started talking a few months ago and are fine as friends (though he may have lingering feelings, I already told him I don't). We are both currently single. The Situation: He invited me to be his +1 for his friend's wedding. I know the couple and will know some others there, but they are all his friends. Going",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] Don't Want to Support My GF [22F] POST: Hello reddit, I've been dating this girl since high school. I love her. She loves me - she loves me /so/ much. But I feel like we're headed in different directions. She's been working the same dead-end job since she's graduated high school. I went on and earned my Masters in computer science by the time I was 20. I run a mobile/web development company, and take home a sizable income (roughly the total income of my parents, who are bo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: The chances of a first relationship working out? [22M][23F] POST: Hi, I [23F] have been dating my boyfriend [22M] for almost two years. We have a great, healthy relationship. However, a few days ago, he confessed to me that he has been having doubts about the relationship. He knows that cares about me very much, he knows that we have a great relationship that both his and my friends are envious of. The issue is that this is my boyfriend's first and only relationship. He said that h",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Redditors, what gives your life purpose? POST: Recently, there's been this nagging at the back of my mind about purpose in life. What is it? I was with a friend yesterday who was going through some tough times. I tried telling her that she still should be happy because there's a lot she can do with her life. I told her there was purpose that she could define for herself. I'm still trying to understand what my purpose is, and what my end goals in life are. This creates a huge mental obsta",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Gf [19/F] of one year broke up with me [19M] for a reason that in my opinion does not warrant a breakup and can be settled. POST: Hi, My GF broke up with me one month ago, it was all kinda rushed cause we were texting and she behaved a little weird the 2-3 days before so I asked her whats up and if shes not feeling well. Well, long story short, she broke up with me, first on the phone, later we talked (at a party and I was kinda drunk and kinda...let her get out of it a bit to eas",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He (M23) disappeared for almost 3 days and I (F18) become concerned, even moreso after getting a weird text. How do I interpret this? What does this mean? POST: **Background:** **AGES:** 23m, 18f **LENGTH OF RELATIONSHIP:** 2-ish months - however we're very close. He knows more/as much about me than some of my close friends do. So, after driving myself insane trying to figure out what's been going on, a UK friend of mine sent a message (in the possible event that he hadn't been r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[21m] best friend/ future roommate[21m] is dating a girl[19f]who is friends with my ex[19f] POST: To sum it all up, I dated this girl( M ), she didn't have a ton of female friends so I encouraged her to join a sorority which she did. My last roommate( R ) was Hopkins up with a girl who was in the same sorority( L), they became friends. At the end of the year M and I broke up. Then R and L end things and almost immediately my best friend/ future roommate( P ) and this girl Get toge",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Crazy or romantic? POST: I'm 21 and the girls 22. I've had this semi relationship with a girl for a couple months now and it wasn't really anything big but I guess we started feeling something for each other. We decided to get a bit more serious but she later changed her mind. We're still really close. I have a slight history of involvement with her best friend. Nothing has ever really happened between her best friend and I but the history itself made her go against it. She's said sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it a bad time for me (m20) to break up with my girlfriend (20)? POST: First off, this might sound crazy, but she's not my girlfriend. We've been on and off for about a year now. It's been difficult because we go to colleges that are 3 hours away, and when we're home, we're still an hour away. We see each other about once a week and what used to be the highlight of my week, just seems to add stress on top of everything now. One thing is for sure, i am not happy in this relationship",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Over Eating, Help? POST: Five years ago, when I was a Sophomore in High School, I went to my first Districts meet in swimming. I saw all of these very in shape people around me, and here I was; 5'10, 215lb all body fat. On the way home from the meet, I suddenly said to my dad, ""I want to start taking a weight loss pill."" He set me on the right path by basically telling me that that was foolish, and got me in the gym where, over the next three years (up until the middle of swim season my fre",positive " r/relationships TITLE: New guy in my life...awful texter? POST: The title pretty much explains it. I'm 19 and he's 21. We've just started dating (2-3 weeks) and are exclusive. We have a great connection and a lot of fun together, but he is an AWFUL communicator over the phone. Sounds like a silly issue, but he's on the college baseball team and gone fairly often, so communication in person can be limited some weeks. He'll be so sweet in person, and we have a great time together, but when he responds to me",positive " r/relationships TITLE: me [18, M] and my girlfriend [18, F] of three years broke up three days ago. I've really been needing advice. POST: My girlfriend and I had been having a happy (or so I thought) relationship for the past three years. Then she started talking to me less, and spending more time ""Out of the house"". I was starting all of the conversations, calling to see if she wanted to go out and do something, and the response I always got was ""it's up to you"". Then, three days ago, I take her out",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Feel like I'm being taken advantage of, how do I approach boss? POST: Last summer I needed a pharmaceutical related internship to build my resume. My neighbor, one that our family isn't particularly close to, is a director of HR at a pharma packaging company. He hooked me up at 12 an hour. Upon showing up to my first day, every member of the quality department was surprised to see an intern as they had never had one before. I was told this company hires many interns per year in eve",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (18M) an asshole for distancing myself from a friend (18M) because I don't really like the kind of person he is becoming? POST: So let's call my friend Steve. We've actually known each other and have been close friends for 8 years. We used to hang out together all the time and we got along very well. A lot of things changed when we went to high school, though. We went to separate schools and I kind of figured that we would both become different people but I hoped we could still ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using public toilets POST: I am a 16 year old boy and today I was out and about with my friend in a town. We were sat town park and I decided I wanted to go to the toilet, I thought it would be a good time to check my small toe as all through the day the nail had been digging into my other toe so I ran straight towards the toilets with out noticing something very important... I went straight into a cubicle and pulled my sock and shoe off, while inspecting my toe nail i noticed a littl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] have no sexual interest or thrill with my current gf [24F] of 3 years, every other aspect of the relationship is great, please help. POST: My gf (24F) is overwieght (5'7' 240lbs). She's cute but after such a long time together, my primal urges of wanting to having sex with a woman of a normal weight/body are starting to get to me. While I get aroused, I dont feel a strong thrill or excitment anymore in the bedroom. I also don't think spicing things up with more kink in th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting busy at work and forgetting I had posted a question in AskReddit POST: Yesterday [I posted a question] to /r/askreddit. It was the same question that I [posted nine months ago] The last time I posted the question it got 27 comments and 7 upvotes. So I wasn't very optomistic that it would do any better this time. I posted the question at work immediately after I got back from lunch with the intention of checking in on it every now and then to help make my afternoon move qui",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: GF [32f] wanted to talk about marriage over a year ago and I [33m] wanted more time. Now I'm ready to talk about it and she is avoiding the topic. What gives? POST: We've been together for three years now, and known each other for five. Over a year ago, she wanted to talk about the future. I just wasn't in a place where I could even think about marriage, to her or anyone, and I told her that. I really appreciate how cool she was about it, she let her needs and interests be kn",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (M22) of 3 years dumped me (F20) and I really need advice POST: Before we started dating, we were best friends for a long time. There was a point when all my friends hated him because they thought he was a douche but I didn't care, I really liked him until I eventually began to fall for him. He didn't think I was pretty enough to date him though which I agree with because I was kind of ugly tbh but time passed and my chasing and puberty worked because we started dating. We",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24, F] getting totally fed up with my mom's [48, F] constant complaining. POST: The main thing she complains about is chores. I do the dishes everyday and once a week clean the kitchen and living room. She doesn't say hello when she comes home from work, first thing she says is ""Did you do the cat litter? Did you clean?"" Even though I do clean, we have seven cats, so there are fuzz balls. She's also passive-aggressive, like for instance she will say ""I smell the cat litter"" and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19F) am still in love with my ex (22M). What should I do? POST: Although it may sound cheesy, from the moment I laid eyes on my ex, I have loved him. We instantly clicked on our first date, and we were together for 11 1/2 months. He was my first everything. We wound up breaking up because I was still in high school and needed freedom, which he didn't understand. He hated my friends, and therefore, I stopped hanging out with my guy friends. We talked about getting back together ",positive " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Help! I feel like we're using too many websites for our wedding/registry. POST: Hey everyone - I'm the groom, and I'm working on the websites we'll be using for our wedding information and registry. The Fiyonce and I are feeling a little scattered. Currently we've signed up for a wedding website on [theknot.com] - the purpose of which was mainly to provide details about the event and links to various travel details/wedding party profiles etc. However I noticed its functionality",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 F] am having an awful time with my [23M] now ex boyfriend, I still care about him so much. POST: My boyfriend had just moved to Korea and I thought we were going to break things off. About a week after him being there he told me how much he missed me and how much he wanted me to come visit him. So he told me he would stay committed to me until I came to visit in December. Then we said we loved each other, which we had never done in the 1 1/2 years we had been seeing each other.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24/F] needs advice on how to respond to my boyfriend [31/m] of 9mos'. despondent attitude of not accomplishing career and educational goals in life and aging. POST: My boyfriend seems to lately get really depressed when he thinks of what he's accomplished, his career path, his debts, his future, and aging. I feel like I am not good at advice in this category because I'm 24, working full time, financially independent, and am virtually debt-free. He works at a call center and m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Confused 21f/24m POST: I'm having a hard time opening up/ understanding. We've been dating for around 2yrs now. I know that this guy could be my future husband. Except I feel like I can't open up because he doesn't want to hear my drama at home. So i feel shut out. Another issue is we give each other privacy on our phones etc. I had my account opened and I freaked out because he wanted to look on here. Well there's some stuff I've vented/ asked for advice I just don't want to b",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: (22f) recently single and a long time friend (22m) made a move on me. He wants a sexual relationship but I think I want more. POST: What can I do? I find him sexually attractive, and we click well and get along great. But I think I have more of a thing for him than just sexual attraction. How can I make it clear to him that I might want more without scaring him off? I don't want a full blown relationship, but I'd like to go on a date or two rather than the bootycalls I'm getting fro",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by scarring children for life. POST: So I work at an animal rescue. It's a shit filled job but I love it. Frequently we have groups of young kids come in from summer camps or day programs to see all the animals. We usually have 2 a day that run one after the other. After group number one passes through, we get a call about a sleep needing to be done (aka euthanasia). Not observing and no paw print. Easy peasy, but not pleasant. On the first attempt to find the vein, the dog struggled ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I need outside perspective, I want to not be the crazy mean step mom. POST: So today I'm at work and my spouse(5+ years, 27f/39m) texts me that he bought a china tea set for his 13 year old daughter because 'That's what she wants' even though I have NEVER seen her drink hot tea or ask for it when I'm drinking it from the pot of water I boil daily for my own cup. The only reason she got the idea was Monday I went to teavana and while waiting for my tea we looked at the pretty tea set",negative " r/self TITLE: Engaged to a compulsive liar, any ideas on how to deal with this? POST: Allow me to begin by saying that this isn't a plea for help because I just found out that the girl I've been with for five years is a pathological liar. I've known since the first few months. The problem is that everywhere I look and everyone I ask tells me that seeing a therapist is the only way to help her work this out. While I agree that professional psychiatric help is necessary in our situation, seeing someone once ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [16 M] father [48 M] claims that I'm too picky about being clean. POST: Hello /r/relationships redditors. Since I was ten, I had the habit of always being clean, and organized. At first I thought I was crazy for having the uncontrollable habit, but my older sister (20F) clarified that it was normal to shower regularly, brush my teeth, and do other sorts of washing. **Here's the problem**. My dad simply thinks that I am really picky about being hygienic all the time. I got into ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my GF [19F] of 10 months, advice with breakup needed POST: I'm in the process of breaking up with my GF. We broke up (I broke up with her) not long before she left to go home for a month over summer. She wants to stay here 2 weeks after she comes back because her return flights are booked and she can't afford to go anywhere else. I would prefer she stay at her old flat (she still pays rent there hence why she cant afford to go anywhere else) for those two weeks, but ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Leaving my (22M) family to ""free"" myself and need help! POST: Backstory: Growing up my parents (namely my mom (44F)) prioritized good grades and always made it a big deal despite trying my best to do well for high marks. My siblings (20M) and (19F) aren't exactly the most successful kids, so my mom is always telling me that I'm her ""last hope"" and it has always made me feel like I have big shoes to fill, which comes with an immense amount of pressure to succeed. Not sure if their fau",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girlfriend (17f) flirting during argument? POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for a year and a half. We're both 17. Its been amazing but lately its been dying down and getting boring for both of us. We're trying to spark it back. My girlfriend recently had a passing interest in another guy (not me). She told me about it and felt awful, saying that she felt she had cheated on me. It lasted less than a week apparently, and she seemed very guilty. She didn't do anything",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I (24) text the girl I have been seeing (23) again when I texted her last? POST: I've been seeing a girl the past few weeks and Saturday night our texting conversation ended with me saying ""haha yep!"" I know that isn't really something you can reply to but I was going out to the bar soon anyways so it was time for the conversation to end anyway. Now over 2 days later I never heard from her. I know my last text wasn't much to respond to but I thought she might text me next ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my husband [24M] and in-laws [50M/F], feeling like my request concerning my dog is not being taken seriously POST: My husband and I live close enough to his parents that we frequently visit on weekends. We have a dog and when we started bringing him with us I noticed that the dog would have sores all over his stomach, chest, and underarms. This only happened at the in-laws and never at our own home. I took the dog to the vet and after doing several tests the vet was un",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, how did you know it was love? POST: I'd told a couple of girls I loved them, and wasn't sure I'd ever meant it. I said it in sophomore year of high school to a girl that I dated for a total of two months before she broke up with me over an e-mail. I'm fairly sure that wasn't love. I said it to another girl that I ended up dating for two years in a complicated, mutually destructive, emotionally abusive relationship. There were a lot of emotions wrapped up in that relationship, and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: We [19M/F] dated for 2 weeks, she decided we be friends, then she deleted anything to do with me. POST: Firstly i really appreciate any response! :) So back story is that i met a girl and we started dating after knowing eachother a week, we dated eachother for two weeks and we were in mutual agreement by then that she did not have enough time for a boyfriend due to schooling and work. So we broke up 5 days ago. Our feelings didn't change, just our situation so she suggested we be f",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: DAE have a pre-schooler who is on a hunger strike? POST: My 4 year old son has never been a big eater, but for the past two weeks or so he's been particularly averse, almost phobic, of eating. He's been waking up every morning for the past couple of weeks asking whether it's okay if he doesn't eat anything that day, and when it's time for meals he appears very apprehensive and uneasy. In the past week he's vomited about six times in total on separate occasions, always during meals. He'",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is there a ""Favorite"" button on Reddit that I am missing? POST: I feel really bad because I hardly ever upvote due to the fact that there doesn't seem to be a ""Favorite"" button on Reddit. When I do Upvote, it's because I REALLY enjoyed the submission and want to see it for later. But I hardly ever vote if I think it's a upvote-worthy article, because it's not necessarily something I want to view later, and it'll push down my ""Really enjoyed"" links on the 'liked' tab. Am I mi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My live-in boyfriend [m/29] has been cruising craigslist casual encounters and admitted to responding to ads while I [23/f] was out of town for work. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years and live together with a small dog. We have had a fairly rocky time together, but we love each other deeply. I have never had any reason not to trust him in terms of fidelity until today. Driving around today looking to find out which restaurants are open on labour day, I used hi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your weirdest or scariest story of your experience with public transportation? Be it a bus, train or whatever. What was your reaction to it? POST: I've been lucky. I've only been taking a bus now for a few months. I've had some stuff that isn't too uncommon on the buses here, apparently, people drinking and once a person peeing on the bus. However, there was this one time when i was taking a bus back to my house. I had this crazy man sit beside me, who apparently had a foot fetis",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [OR] My stupid brother violated his parole. How screwed is he? POST: Cross posting from /r/AskReddit. I'm not seeking professional advice, but hoping someone might be able to give me an idea of what to expect in this situation. ------------------ > There's a lot of things that got him here, but essentially when he was 23 he dated and had sex with a 16 year old girl. On top of that he provided alcohol to her and whatever other things. He was going to be in jail for six years but the p",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Found out that boyfriend intends to give me an engagement ring that's been in his family. I'm not that into it... POST: I'm so sorry if this is an inappropriate subreddit for this issue. You all just seem so equipped to give advice in this area. My boyfriend and I are committed to having a life together for the rest of our lives. We have talked about marriage and the future in a responsible way and are ready (we are both 25) to take the next logical steps. I have recently found o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my wife [28 F] 8 years. Saw my ex again after 10 years and said hi. Should I say more? POST: So I noticed yesterday that my ex who broke up with me 10 years ago is working where I work. We were passing in a corridor the other day and I said ""hi"" to her, and she said ""hi"" back in a nice enough manner. The breakup was kinda ugly, and I never saw her again after that, but it was a long time ago. Now I'm leaving my job in a couple of days to move on to somewhere else, and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] broke up with my boyfriend [19M] a few months ago over him putting me down. Him and his friends are now telling me I overreacted. POST: So allow me to give some background information. I'm an 18 year old girl who has usually been a little bit chubby due to a hormone imbalance (I have way too much estrogen). As such I have been cursed with rather large breasts which cause me massive amounts of back pain and cause me trouble with finding clothing. I've been on the waiting list",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife [23 F] of one year is upset that I'm [25 M] a light sleeper. Wants me to 'get over it'. I feel disrespected. POST: She grew up in a noisy family and is used to being noisy around sleeping people (and likewise she had told me she was a very heavy sleeper, and that I could be as noisy as I wanted -- which I've since found out is not entirely true). Anywho, I'm a night owl and she's an early bird, so practically every morning she gets up at 6-7am and starts clanging around with",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my boyfriend [23M] of three years, a small spat over Dungeons and Dragons POST: I feel so silly posting this here because honestly compared to everything else people write here, this seems like such a small thing? But it's really bugging me and I need some advice. Me and my boyfriend have been dating for three years now and we met in college. We actually met through our school's gaming club. I was there only to play Dungeons and Dragons with the club president reall",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with a girl [21 F] I've been seeing for a couple months, she doesn't want to continue dating but invited me up to her place after she told me POST: So I [26 M] have been seeing a girl [21 F] that I met on Bumble for a couple months. We saw a movie on Friday night, and when I was dropping her off at her place afterwards, she told me she liked me but didn't want to continue dating me. Which is all well and good, and I can respect her honesty. Then she invited me up to her pla",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] dating [17F]. I have mixed feelings about her. Not sure how to handle things. POST: So obviously im pretty new to dating and all. But I met this girl that goes to the local private school and I am not sure what I'm feeling towards her yet, while she is bieng obviously very interested in me (Complimenting me of my looks and talking to me all the time). I'm having a bit of a struggle to give back compliments that I really mean, since I don't really have a clear picture of how",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] had a talk with my crush [18 F] of two years, and she said she'd love to date me, but probably can't. POST: I've had intense feelings for this girl for two years now, and I never said anything cause she was happy, and I thought telling her would make things complicated or stressful for her. Recently, her and her boyfriend have been having some troubles due to being at separate universities. She feels he's not putting in effort, and that hs only focusing on himself. He is a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Started sleeping with a guy (M22)who later became one of my (F23) best friends. Now I don't know whether I should wait to see what can come out of our relationship or move on. POST: When I was 21 and a my junior year of college I met David who immediately took my breathe away. We were introduced to each other by mutual friends and immediately hit it off. During that time I wasnt looking for a fling, instead I was hoping to find a partner who I can be adventurous with and enjoy my you",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by complimenting a family on their gorgeous baby. POST: I just got back from the mall. A mall I will never return to again if I can avoid it. After doing my shopping, I went to the crowded food court. I sat down with my imitation Chinese food. While I was eating, I glanced to my left. At the next table, close enough that I could reach over practically, was a mother cradling her BEAUTIFUL baby. I mean, this kid was adorable! He was no more than 12 months old, and was exactly what y",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 F] with my boyfriend [30 M] have a relationship of 8 years, our marriage got postponed for the 3rd time POST: So our marriage had been postponing since the last 2 years. And this postponing was from my boyfriend's parents side. First time they came up with some astrology bullshit, second time his father died and now 3rd time back to astrology bullshit. There's no satisfying his mother. And everytime he talks to his mother regarding marriage, she cries and creates drama. It b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Haven't hung out recently with a friend, how to hangout again? [20M/20F] [Non-Romantic] POST: I've known a girl for a couple years now, over summer I feel we became good friends, however we haven't really hangout in the last month and I miss hanging out. I was hoping to get some advice? I feel we really ""clicked"" and it was so much fun! We went hiking, went to the theater, went for dinner, swimming, and just hungout, talking until 4AM, talking about our families, or politics, or wha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (24M) am having difficulty living with my GF (27F) because I feel like we have both changed as people. POST: We've been together about 8 months and we moved in together way too soon, and I knew that but I felt very comfortable with the idea and so did she. We've been living together for around 4-5 moths or so. Obviously we both learned a hell of a lot more about each other as they days flew by. I'm having a hard time dealing with our issues let alone my own issues and direction in ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my gf [26F] 2 years, ""dont know each other"" POST: Tuesday I got in to a fight with my GF, we went out with one of her friends and my gf was being kind of a bully to her. They usually interact that way, picking on each other, but even her friend asked her why she was being so rude that night. On the ride home, she asked if anything's wrong and I tell her she was being very rude to her friend, and that I understand they've been very good friends for almost 3 years now, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] SO [22M] won't stop yelling during arguments POST: We've been together for about 2 years. We don't fight very often, but I've also found he feels the need to raise his voice when we're discussing or debating something (this is not at all in an argumentative way, for ex: is chocolate or vanilla better type of thing). When we do fight, he screams the whole time and won't let me get a word in. When I finally do get a chance to explain myself, he COMPLETELY breezes over it a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is extra credit worth the dogma? POST: While in class today, the professor announces that she will be having completely optional extra credit. It seems simple enough, write a three page report on two movies one of my choosing and one of hers. Compare and contrast the two films and their messages. Terrible test results have basically made this the only choice for most of the class (I don't exactly need it, but it wouldn't hurt.) **The problem** While we can pick any movie we want, it ca",negative " r/relationships TITLE: boyfriend [20] says he ""changed his mind"" about kids but i [20] know he's just putting his feelings away POST: we've been together almost a year and i know he's the one i want to be with forever. we're perfect together, i never thought i would get this lucky to have him. we're planning on getting married in the next couple of years and the only thing i can think of ever potentially ruining us is the fact that he loves kids and i get psychically sick thinking of having one of my own. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me [21M] and my ex gf [20F] dated 9 months and broke up. We are waiting until summer to maybe start again. Help? POST: So as the title says the gf and I broke up. I was crushed, but it was whatever. I asked for a second chance and she turned me down. She said let's break up. Basically do soul searching; see if we are a good match and wait until summer. So 2 months from now. She doesn't want me to wait for her, I already have a girl who is interested in me, but that's another st",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I make my partner[M] feel comfortable enough to make moves on me[F]? POST: I've just created this account to post here for anonymity reasons . I've searched the internet beyond reddit and I haven't found much literature on the subject. I am a female who is currently seeing a male. We're not in a committed relationship, but he shows a good amount of interest in me. Enough for me to continue to pursue him. Anyway, my understanding is that he hasn't been with many women in his li",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30M] with my girlfriend[30F] 6 years broke up and now she wants the dog and money. POST: So 2 years ago I bought a house with my girlfriend. I bought it in my name and with my money. When we moved in she contributed money for furniture and other projects around the house. Last year she spent about 3 months staying out late and distancing her self from me and finally decided to move out in October. We started dating again in January and were talking about her moving back when he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[24 f] friend [23 f] started treating me badly. POST: I love my friend, Sara, but recently she started treating me like shit, especially when we are in a group of people. She's only nice to me when we are alone together. It only started recently. She would also intentionally make me feel like the third wheel by leaving me out of conversations, and when I ask her about what she was talking about, she would give me a dirty look and say, ""it's nothing, you don't need to know."" It's no",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (~24/f) My bro's (22/m) brain is fried from long-term drug use (Idk what he's even done), he is certain he will be a popstar and I feel like I've lost him. POST: When he was 16 he hit his first hit. By 17 he was doing major drugs, tried to run away from home and be a drug dealer, stole alcohol from stores and was generally hellish. Somehow he snapped out of it (a bit) when I enticed him for a free lunch. He was snappy and creepy and tried to jump out of the car while I was driving an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [21M] approach this situation with my close friend [20F]? POST: Hey r/relationships, So I'm in the midst of a dilemma right now about this girl. This past school semester, she went to study abroad in France and just came back this week. I've known her pretty well since November of last year, and we've went out to dinner and movie a couple of times before she left. Needless to say, I've really missed her the past 5 months. I really enjoyed the time that we spent just hangi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sending the Unicode of Death text message to everyone I know. POST: This happened yesterday actually. I was doing what every other person was and sending that text to crash people's phone. Except I read online if you take out the words ""effective power"" then it will completely block them out of their messages app so being me I did so. After sending it to about 10 different people, I went to bed. 15 minutes I hear my dad on the phone, turns out all of those kids I sent it to told their",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being addicted to Monopoly POST: So this actually just happened and I'm definitely, 100% a total idiot. So here I am playing Monopoly on my LG G Pad at 3 in the morning because I'm addicted. I'm playing against the CPUs and I've already eliminated two of the players. Now I own 3/4s of the board and I think I have this game in the bag. In true Monopoly bullshit fashion, I land on his two monopolies about 5 times while he lands on my cheapest one once, and I'm rapidly loosing money. O",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my GF [24 F]I'm not sure how to handle distance POST: Hi Guys! I have been with my girlfriend for over 2 years. Everything is great. I love her, she loves me. There are some circumstances however that terrify me. Background: I was raised in an emotionally, and sometimes physically abusive home. There was constant emotional manipulation throughout my teen years. This and the conflict leading up to it left some pretty deep emotional scars. I feel inadequate at times. I'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My wife slept with my best friend while drunk. What do I do? 30M 30F POST: Ok, so my wife got drunk and slept with my best friend which happened to be her best friends husband. I caught them in the car I just bought her at 4:30 in the morning. Out friends (29M and 28F) were spending the night after a long battle with their family. My wife and I had helped deal with the family issues that day and we all came back here to relax and unwind. I was sober and my friends wife doesn't d",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: My dog can't hang out with any humans except the two of us who adopted him? POST: I need help. I adopted a two year old dog in July to save him from death row at a kill shelter. I was going to find him a home, but two days after taking him, decided to keep him. I love him to death. When we first took him, he was the sweetest dog to any humans that he would meet: us, our friends, waiters in coffee shops, strangers in the street. He didn't bark at all. For about two weeks upon adopting ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my good Male friends girlfriend [18F]. Fell for my friends girlfriend POST: Spent a lot of time with my good friends girlfriend at parties and shtuff, he's been there too. But there's been times when it was just me and her and we are just chatting for ages alone together. She'd come in from the backyard whilst im in the kitchen. It's a little strange and we both know that. I cant help but stare at her when she's talking, not in a creepy way. But in a way in which she",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 21M, my gf (22) of six months saw something POST: Everything seemed to be going great until last night. I was going to show her a picture, and we both saw that I had saved a pic from gonewild in my gallery. She just got back from a trip of three weeks and while she was gone I have been masturbating to pics on gw as well as watching porn. Reasonably she is upset, I completely understand why she would be. But now that brings up a different issue. The more and more I think about it the ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Met a girl a couple of days ago, and we've been hanging out together for the past two days. I think I rushed/got excited and now she's turned away. Can I fix it? POST: So I am a college freshman, and I met a really nice girl at a party, who is also a freshman. I walked her home, and she was appreciative and everything and we ended up making out before I left her dorm. Well, we started talking a little bit here and there, but I started to text her to start a conversation a few hours a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my Girlfriend [27 F] of a year, asking her parents for her hand in marriage (Limited time, parents live far away, need a way to get them alone) POST: I need some ideas guys! I am traveling from Louisiana to Pennsylvania this summer on a long road trip with my girlfriend. I need to figure out the best way to get her parents together and her not around during my 3 or so days I'll be at her parents house. I plan on asking for her hand in marriage, and if I don't do it the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] feel as though my SO [21M] ignores me for his family when he is home visiting. Am I overreacting? POST: We met our Freshman year of college and have been dating for about two years. While we get to see each other at school, our actual homes are several hours apart and it becomes a special treat over long breaks to get to see each other. We are very close and spend a lot of time together, so being separated by 3 hours of distance is already hard. My SO is much closer to his f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19 F] ex-boyfriend [22 M] says he will not be able to get over me until we have sex one last time. POST: My ex-boyfriend is very lonely and does not have very good social skills. We dated for four months, it was my first serious relationship and his second. I broke up with him but I felt bad for him, so we remained friends. Mainly we chatted online. He wanted us to sleep together still. I - feeling guilty - agreed to this but then backed out. But he kept on asking many times an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my Family [M/F, 21-60] 24 yrs, I feel like I am the disappointment of the family. POST: If you're reading this, I guess I just wanted to say thanks. I know it's not the juicy drama that is usually really popular here but I've had these feelings eating me up inside for a long time, and it's nice to get them off my chest. Anyway... All my life, I've felt like I was second place to my brother. My parents are loving people, and my brother has never been nothing but kind an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] To those who have moved in temporarily with their in-laws... My husband (31M) and I (27F) are going to be moving in with his parents (60sM/F) in another 2 or 3 months. Advice? POST: This is basically a small continuation of my previous post which can be found [here]( After speaking briefly with my husband last night, I made it clear that I have some concerns and things that I would like to discuss together before we talk to his parents about anything so that we're both on t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I think I may be in trouble POST: Well basically...I had to write some essay thing for class and it was taking ages so I took a break and decided to browse the internet. You know how it goes, you look at funny pictures of cats and BAM you're looking at porn. Now the way I look at pornography is I go on a site, click a bunch of links and then sift through them picking out the good ones. However, one I clicked turned out to be child porn (which is fucking gross) and I got sent to my own go",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [16/M] messed up big time with girl [16/F]. POST: So, this girl and I have been talking on and off for about two years (We're in high school so this is a long time for us). We always seem to get along but every time we stop talking it is because I think that she is playing me. This is a problem because every time we talk it over I seem to have been mistaken about her motives. Anyways, just today I was very fed up with all this nonsense and decided to call her on her bullshit ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my boyfriend [25 M] for three months. Wants me to move with him to another state once my semester is over. POST: I should start off by saying we're in a long distance relationship. We met when we both took a mini vacation to a different city, and we just hit it off right away. We've seen each other once since then, and we'll be seeing each other again next week; however, he's mentioned that I should move out to his state once I'm done with my semester. I want our relat",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [25/m] am not sure how to handle things with an ex [22/f]. POST: OK so this is long, so please bear with me. So last summer I was in a relationship for 6 months starting last summer. The distance and just general immaturity (on both of our parts) caused her to break up with me late last year. We tried to be friends, but failed, so I cut communications between us because I kept overthinking and got drawn in and sad over the smallest responses from her. Fast forward 6 mon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I(M21) tell my girlfriend(F18) of 9 months about my lie POST: I lied about not being a virgin. She had two before me and talked a lot about her last ex before I lied and said I had sex with my previous girlfriend. This was before we ever had sex and I was embarrassed about being a virgin and male because my first girlfriend said it was weird that I was one and she wasn't. She called me a little boy. We obviously never made it to sex. So over the past 9 months she's asked que",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I (23M) have had strong feelings for best friend (23F) don't know how to advance. POST: So I have known this girl for 18 years now and best friends for almost 6 years now. I started to like her about between freshmen and sophomore year of college. I did ask her out over text that summer as well, I took her to a movie, but nothing came of it since I don't think I was mentally prepared for a relationship at the time. Since that time however we have become pretty close friends as well",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is kissing cheating? Should I be mad? POST: My girlfriend (22) has been in Italy (I'm in the US) for the last month and will be back with me (21) in less than a week. We're used to the long distance thing because we've gone to different colleges for the last 2.5 years. Anyway, recently she's been going out to clubs dancing a lot and drinking more than she's used to (still not that much). Almost a week ago she told me that after drinking she made out with some guy at a hostel she stayed a",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Not sure how to talk about language skills POST: I'm applying for a job where they would like a candidate who speaks Spanish. I took Spanish in school and was pretty good at it, but it's been several years since I've used it much at all so I'm now rather rusty. I would have called myself ""proficient"" back then, as in, not fluent but can have a conversation, read a story, or write a paper as long as the language isn't extremely technical. Today I would say I can have a simple conversation and ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (21M) been cheated on by (23F). Am I just naive or too nice? POST: Hey. So, I just need a little helpful Reddit advice. I have been with my girlfriend for 2 1/2 years now and she is the girl of my dreams. I'd do anything for her and she's the best thing to ever happen to me. Usually, if anything goes wrong or we argue, I am quick to chat and forgive and so is she. Everything has been fine recently, however, whilst working on a new job she changed. Ended up drinking, smoking wee",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Credit Card Debt Help! (Just found out =\) POST: Hi folks, My current situation is weird, but please hear me out, I could use a lot of help. So my mother is a single parent, who lives with my grandmother and my sister. My mom works 2 min wage jobs, make roughly $1800 a month and my sister makes roughly $800 from her job (min wage as well). I'm away at college, and basically I take care of myself. My sister put $6700 worth of debt onto one of my mother's cards and (I just found ou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my crush [20 F] couple months POST: So I've been close with this girl for a couple months now and we have class together almost every day. Things have never really been locked as ""friends"" between us, I mean we're close but I don't think either of us sees each other as completely just a friend. I really like this girl, like I think about her all the time, I'm crazy about her. I don't think her age should be an issue since we're in college, I guess I'm just kinda scared",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am being a total hypocrite to my girlfriend, and I need help to fix it please!!!! POST: So my problem is that I know that I am being a hypocrite, and have double standards with my girlfriend. The problem is that I really dislike the idea of her smoking weed. I have always associated it with specific bad people I know who I do not want to put in the same group as my girlfriend. The thing is, she has only done it about three times ever. Once a long time ago, once about 9 months ago (wh",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Hospital debt collector keeps calling me for my dead dad. How should I take care of this? POST: Hi, throwaway because I'm afraid I'm doing something illegal.. I live in Virginia and my dad passed away in a hospital 2 months ago. I've been receiving calls from the hospital financial services almost every week. They leave voice messages specifically for my dad... (Do they not know he's dead?) Right after he passed, my mom went ""crazier"". Long story short, I lost contact with her. I",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am a waitress whose tips are being altered to avoid making up the difference on my paycheck. What should I do? POST: So I work at at Pizza Hut in Illinois. Minimum wage here is $8.25, so as a server I make $4.95. State law requires that if I make less than min. wage with my wage + tips, Pizza Hut has to reimburse me. Recently I've noticed they have changed the amount of tips I've claimed on the last day of each pay week that I've worked (for instance, 6/17/12 was changed from me claimi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [24f] is getting married [27m] and she's not ready for it. How should I approach this? POST: My friend [24f] has been engaged to a guy [27] for over a year now. They have lived together for as long as I've known them (about 10 months) but as far as I know they'd never set a date or planned anything wedding related. From what I've seen of their relationship, he's very distant and she's very co-dependent (she has no job and relies on him for everything). I know she's not ful",negative " r/travel TITLE: Honeymoon problem - Caribbean substitutes? POST: I'm looking for a honeymoon for around the 4th of March and we'd been planning the Caribbean, most probably Barbados or Turks and Caicos and then we heard that the Caribbean is the heart of the Zika breakout, and as we want to start a family soon completely wrote it off. My other half is terrified of going on holiday, he's had bad experiences whereas I travel a lot. He doesn't want to travel too far, like above 12 hours. (I'm from the UK) So",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16M] with my friend, Emil [15M], he was told by a stranger that I'm autistic and has been telling other people. POST: *Names changed obviously* So, if you're wondering, yes I'm autistic (aspergers), but I never told him. I don't really know how he found out, he says he found out because ""someone told [him]"", where someone is a classmate. He says this happened 3 years ago, and he doesn't remember who told him, he also says that he just kept it in his mind, not true not false. ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: SO and I broke up after 1.5 years. I need a 3rd party perspective POST: I'm 27m she is 24f. I fell in love with this girl so hard and we moved in together after about a year of dating. I knew she wanted kids eventually and I've always been open/undecided about kids, but i figured I had plenty of time to get to the point of feeling right about it. After about 3 months of living together she started saying she wanted to have a kid by next year and wanted to go to the doctor to get thing",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (20 M) friend (20 F) and I's relationship of 15 years is platonic, but seems to be heading towards romantic. POST: Hello, just seeking some advice towards what I should do, and the overall situation, the usual. Throwaway and name changes, of course. Originally, Jane and I were in the same K-2 classes, and were friends during that period (parents set up playdates, etc). She was my crush during this time and afterwards; and as far as I can remember, I even kissed her once in 2nd gr",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I [19M] am scared that I will never get another girlfriend. POST: So, I fell in love in high school. As funny as it sounds I thought she was the love of my life and I still constantly thinking about her and how I should of never moved away after I graduated. After I graduated I moved across the country, she moved on to other things and other guys. But that is not the purpose of this post. I am no longer in love with her, but more of the idea of her. I miss having someone to talk to and to",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Crazy neighbor keeps calling the police. What can/should we do? POST: Some friends and I moved into a house a few months ago. We have parties on a weekly basis. We also care about being respectful to our neighbors so we walked around and spoke with them requesting that if they ever have a problem with us, they speak with us and we will absolutely remedy any problems they have. This has worked out fine and we have a great relationship with all of our neighbors except one. The lady acros",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Teenage relationship advice POST: Hi reddit, I'm Brad, and this is my first ever post! I've come to you in search of a bit of help. You see, I recently confessed my feelings to a girl that I have liked for some time now. We're both 16, we go to the same school, and we have quite a few similar interests. Neither of us are very sociable, but we hang out with the same people. When I told her how I felt, I was prepared for the worst, perhaps she had feelings for someone else, o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Vulnerable Girl still likes me after declining her 1,5 years ago. POST: There is this girl (2 years older, I'm a 19 year old boy) who started liking me a couple of years ago. Now I'm a very shy and introverted guy, so I let her be for that a while. Only when her texting became so obvious I couldn't go around it anymore I waited for the right moment and rejected her as carefully as I could. One thing I still regred though is that I did this by sending her a text message, though that w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] really think my parents should get a divorce. Should I say something or stay out of it? POST: I couldn't find any other posts relating to mine, so I'd like to hear what you all have to say. Is it wrong for me to want my parents to get a divorce? Ever since I was a child, for as long as I can remember, my parents always had their issues. Now I know every married couple has their arguments, but this is past that in my opinion. Throughout middle and high school, my mother would",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/F] am not sure whether or not I should ask him [25/M] if we are dating or if I should let things unfold naturally. Help! POST: I'm in a graduate school program where I see my group of 50 classmates every day. I met a guy in the same program in August who is now in my same circle of friends. We started hooking up last December and I now currently stay over at his place 3x a week and I now have my shampoo and toothbrush there. When I sleep over we have sex maybe half the time (",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, in all seriousness, who here thinks they might have been abducted by aliens? I would like to hear your story. POST: I haven't seen anything like this at least in the last six months, so I figured I would ask. My personal experience isn't a direct visitation or anything like that. But when I was about 9, a commercial came on for one of those Time Life books about alien abduction. Now, I didn't have anything like a phobia or shied away from monsters. In fact, I had seen the Alien",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22m] in love with my best friend [23f]. Help. POST: I'm in love with a girl who has been my best friend for over eight years. I don't know what her feelings are towards me, I'm afraid if I bring it up that it could jeopardize our friendship. She has a boyfriend but I always get the feeling that she would like to be more than just friends. I don't know if I'm reading too much into the small things, so maybe you could help me interpret. I don't really know how to put this all tog",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] with my GF [22F] of 1 year, she wants to get serious but she's extremely needy&emotional POST: I met this girl through a mutual friend and started dating her a year ago, but we both attend different schools about an hour away so I only see her on weekends. We love each other, so I wanted to see what it would be like to live together. During a three week period during winter break she wanted to live with me and it worked out really well. She made me breakfast every morning",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting my watch fixed. POST: So this happened about 20 minutes ago. I Drive to my local mall because a pin for a link on my watch fell out. So I goto one of those little kiosks that sit in the center pathway of the mall. I give the lady my watch and explain the situation. So far so good. I then notice a black guy on the other side of the kiosk with gold chains and gold watch etc. I take a few looks at him and notice he resembles soulja boy. So I get the bright idea to pull up my sna",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [23F] here confused by a [33M] - 5th date in a few days, still no kiss POST: We met via okcupid, he messaged me and we exchanged quite a few long messages up until he asked me to dinner two weeks ago, and we've been on 4 dates since then. Despite the fact that I'm awkwardly shy, and not really used to going on real dates things have gone well, and we have a lot of shared interests. The only thing is we haven't kissed yet, and he doesn't really talk to me outside of our dates. He will",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure what my [22M] next step should be with someone [19F]I might be falling for POST: A little backstory. I met this girl last summer and we dated for about a week or two before she left to school a good 800 miles from where I live and she grew up. We started talking again about a month ago and things couldn't have been better. It's like the time she was gone didn't really happen. We were happy just being together and we have become a lot closer. She left a little less than a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A college tradition/milestone is coming up for me; finishing my ""beer card"" for the local wing place- need to pick a quote POST: So I go to a very small and isolated college in the US (2000 people and no cities for 45 miles), and one of the big traditions here is to get a ""beer card"" from the nearest wings/pub place (40 minute drive). Basically, I had to drink fifty different beers at this restaurant (only 4 per visit) and today I'm going to finish! It's a really big deal here (especiall",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I had a final due today, but instead I got high.. POST: So today was the end of my online express semester sociology class. I fucked upped last semester by not finishing a class, and so I was shy 3 credits of graduating. I took this Sociology class because it was available, and easily accessible given my work schedule. Now, I've been an avid stoner for about 2 years now, and every night after work I pack my bong at least twice. Then I'll do whatever, and smoke more until I go to sleep",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (18M), have strong feelings for someone (18F) and I think I'm getting mixed feelings from her. POST: Hi there! I'm new here, but I like reading others post that I can relate to. I hope I can get some help and advice, thanks for reading! Well here's a little about me. I'm a guy of course lol, 18 years of age, 2nd semester of college, little awkward and shy at times. .-. musician but I guess sort of an artist over all. Now the reason why I'm here! It's my second semester at my colle",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] am falling in love with the one girl [22F] in a group of otherwise male friends and am feeling extremely conflicted, emotionally. POST: I feel like such a creep for feeling this way. Of course the one girl in the group - who also happens to be pretty good-looking - is going to get doted on by just about everyone else. It makes me second guess whether I really like her for who she is, or just because she's more easy to imagine getting romantically involved with. However, fe",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [19M] needs advice on depressed [19F] POST: Hi, I don't really know where to begin. I met this girl a few weeks ago through a mutual friend, and we really hit it off. I took her on a date a few days after meeting her, coffee at a low key place she suggested and back to her place to watch and movie and just cuddle. A few nights later we were lying around and talking about us, and we just decided that we were both really into each other and wanted a relationship. So we started ""dating""",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am i a fool? Should i leave her? Help reddit!! POST: I've been with my girlfriend for 2 years and counting and 9 months into the relationship I found out that her boyfriend of 3 years was in jail and she was still with him, writing letters, and going to see him. Ok Well a few months after that ordeal I find that some guy in her class knows everything about our problems and she had a little crush on him, some said he was her confidant? Well him and a few others she would secretly te",negative " r/self TITLE: I spilled coffee on a girl's laptop. Should I reimburse her for repair costs? More details inside. POST: So last week I was in the library at school working with a large group of people on an online exam for our class. It was at a computer station - four school computers and a couple people had their own laptops. There were also books and binders and notes stacked everywhere. I was the last one to arrive at the table so it was pretty crowded. I pulled up a chair and tried to move stuff around",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trusting a fart POST: I was out with a few friends and my girlfriend celebrating Green Beer Day, an annual tradition at my school the Thursday before Spring Break, and I had ate some pretty greasy fish sandwiches earlier for lunch. Unknowingly this cheap green beer and fish sandwich cocktail was brewing in my stomach to create the worst gas on earth. I am talking like walk into a house with a dead body that has been there for a month bad. After these waves of gas hit me, I start to sw",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (22M) break up with my (20F) girlfriend? POST: I am currently living with my gf Allie. She is wonderful and beautiful, but I have been wanting to cut it off recently. I'll provide some background info. We have been dating for 2 years and 1 day before our 1 year aniversary she cheated on me with another guy. It wasn't sex, but it was hardcore emotional cheating and kissing. I was destroyed when I found out the next day. I promptly broke up with her and I caved and top her bac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[17M] parents[57M] [55F] won't allow me to date for quite a while and want me to stay home for another year. POST: My parents are fairly conservative homeschoolers(I've always been homeschooled, and it's not that bad-social or otherwise)They are both very intelligent(surgeon and nurse) and never had any problems teaching me or my siblings. Recently we've been having large amounts of conflict because of their rules and plans for me. I'm in my 4th year of homeschooling and they want",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/M] My girlfriend [19/F] tells me she needs emotional distance but is unclear. POST: I have been with a girl for nearly 2 years now, and in the past few days things have gone off the rails. She broke up with me the other night saying she still loves me and wants me to be around her all the time still and that she isn't interested in dating other guys. She was literally offering to make plans at the end of June with me the day before. We had a little squabble over me just get",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Moving out. POST: So reddit, me and my friend have been planning on moving out we're both 19. His mom is kicking him out for being ""controlling"", but she's just super lazy. we both have full-time paying jobs that would support us. Except my question is more personal. I want to do it because all my life i have never had any privacy in my home. I have always slept in the living room and I have never had an ounce of privacy. I currently go to school part time/year-round, work and rarely g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (m17) girlfriend (f17) of one and a half years is smoking weed despite me trying to get her to stop POST: So I'm in a little predicament, my girlfriend has started smoking weed and she won't stop. I want a clean relationship aka no drugs or alcohol until it's age appropriate and before she started smoking, she told me she'd never smoke weed unless I'm ok with it. Cool, nothing to worry about. This summer: I go on vacation with my family for 10 days out of state and I would exp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30/F] with my husband [32/M] I feel like I need time away from him. POST: I love him, but I spend so much time and energy trying to make him & my family happy that I just forget myself. He's not really a touchy/feely guy, but he does get offended very quickly. I don't really have girlfriends that I could do a girls weekend with, nor do I really care to. I just want to take a weekend alone in the middle of the woods to clear my head, and kind of come to terms with where I am with",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/M] just learned I have Mono. How do I handle it with [23/F] I just started dating?? POST: I dated her for probably 2-3 weeks before I learned I have Mono. Told her as soon as I knew, and she took it well. We had already made out a lot, so the sad thing is I probably already gave it to her. I was very apologetic and said that I understood if she didn't want to see me anymore. She basically just said ""it's okay, you had no idea you had it, don't worry about it"". I gave her a",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: Call center or Bank Teller? POST: Guys I need help/advice. Soo..i applied for multiple jobs and two companies called me for interviews and they all went well. The first one to call was the call center and they offered me the job and i start training on november 2. No orientation. While waiting, the second one called for an interview for teller and days after they called me to start orientation next monday october 19th. Both seem to be nice but also demand my commitment and my availabili",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (28f) need to divorce my abusive husband 33m) but I have no money, no resources and no assets. What do I do? POST: My husband is physically and emotionally abusive. I need to start planning to divorce him but I don't have money. I do not have access to his bank account or money of my own. He has been supporting me while I recover from PTSD, anorexia and bipolar disorder. Now I am better and trying to become independent but he is holding me back and frankly being cruelly abusive. ",negative " r/self TITLE: I fell for the old Indian Windows phone call POST: I spent over 40 minutes talking to this Indian dude about my Windows security being expired. He changed my password, accessed files, downloaded a bunch of programs etc... I finally got it when he tried to make it look like my command prompt said ""Windows security has expired and will crash your computer"". However, he wrote ""Windows security has expired and will crashed your computer"". I immediately turned off my computer, hung up and turned o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my Bestfriend [26F] is getting married,however I don't know if i should put my foot in it. POST: Lets call her Tess and her fiance Tom for the purpose of reddit. Tess and Tom have been together 4 years, pretty good relationship until he is out with the boys. They normally just get blind drunk and sometime he comes home with random girls numbers on his phone or girls will message him. Sometimes he accidentally in his drunken state gives out Tess' number. Tess is a nu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] with the guy I've been seeing [28 M] for about a month...when is the right time to talk about becoming official? POST: I've been seeing this guy for about a month now. We decided we only wanted to see each other a week into dating. We have great chemistry and we get along really well. I'm really into him and he seems really into me. I want to move on to an actual relationship though. I don't know how to approach this or if I even should because we've only been seeing each o",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How possible is it that he doesn't want me anymore because of my looks? POST: So I was talking to this guy online. We've known each other for a few months and we got along great. We even made plans on meeting. I really wanted to make it come true and real, but the distance and money were an issue. I still did believe in ""that it'll work out some day"" At some point drama got involved and he stopped giving me compliments. We deleted each other and blocked each other around 2-3 ",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Why would you help someone if you're just going to make them feel like an asshole? POST: About 3 months ago, my Sister and her roommate found a house they liked and made arrangements to move in. Because the roommate would be out of the country the first month they would be moved in, she offered her room to me (I was living with my parents) and my Sister said it'd be cool. Well, I lost my job, and am broke. Sister offered to get me some groceries and I kept the house clean. No big ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] have jealousy issues with my boyfriend [19M]. How do I stop acting like this? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for a little over a year. During this time, I have developed a habit of becoming jealous over little things that he may do, such as talking to other girls over Facebook, liking other girls pictures on social media etc. I never had this in my previous relationship at all so it's foreign to me and I don't know why I act like this. It's something that we h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] Keep Almost Calling the Guy [26M] I'm Seeing by My Ex's [24M] Name POST: I [25F] don't know why this is happening and it's driving me insane. My ex, ""Timothy"" [24M] and I were sort of FWB from mid-2014 to December 2014, exclusive from December 2014 to May 2015, and then a weird FWB thing from July 2015 to November 2015 until I finally broke it off. It was...not a good ending and I have only seen him once since then and mostly I keep asking myself why on earth we were together",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my issue of feelings. POST: Hello all and thank you in advance! I am a young gentleman. I get it. 23 is not the age to really be thinking about anything serious in my life. I dated a girl about 6 years ago in highschool, we broke up but she has been my best friend ever since. I was talking with her about one of my most recent girlfriends, lets call her C, we broke up about 2 months ago. I noticed she was hanging out with some new dude (thanks social media!) who is n",positive " r/relationships TITLE: The Big College Question POST: My girlfriend and I (both incoming freshman to distant schools) have been together for 6 months and really want to stay together. My game plan is to transfer to a school that's 2 hours away from her. It's mainly because its a better school, closer to home, and closer to my other friends. I can visit and it will be relatively easy except this first year. I'm taking the approach accepting that it will be difficult, but if we both work hard we can succeed.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my BF [21M] of 2 years, he says I dress like a slut POST: Can't sleep, feeling very hurt, maybe someone can help me. My boyfriend can be a bit... direct. He has been for the last month or so casually/jokingly saying I'm dressed like a whore/slut. Every time he did I'd become quiet and distant. the last couple times I kinda casually hit his arm and told him not to call me that. He responded by correcting me, because he didn't say I was a slut, he said I was dressed like",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking out my best female friend POST: So this finally came to a conclusion today, but the asking out actually happened just over a week ago. Me and my best female friend were lying in her bed watching the new game of thrones. We were cuddling because it was cold and i started to sort of try to escalate things (thought fuck it why not). She stopped me and asked me what i was doing and i though screw it and told her maybe we should start seeing each other. Which ended up with a tenta",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I need advice on how to create a more frequent basis that I can spend time with this girl I like. POST: I am a sophomore in college, and the girl I like is a freshmen at the same college. We went to the same high school before, and we knew each other, but never really hung out. Now that we go to the same college, we actually see each other more often. We eat together every once in a while, and I really enjoy the conversations that we have. She's funny, smart, and beautiful. At least ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Discovered my BF [M30] has been engaged 3 times so far. Talks about wanting to marry me [F24]. Confused. POST: Hello, reddit. I don't know if I am simply feeling insecure about this, or if there's genuinely a problem. Me [F24] and my BF [M30] have been dating for almost two years. I think everything is going well, we rarely fight and usually communicate well about our feelings. My BF has been married once when he was young, but that was a mistake and they got a divorce after a year",negative " r/cats TITLE: Temporary home needed for two cats ASAP (Austin) POST: I have two awesome cats that are both about a year old. Recently, I returned to Minnesota to visit family and left the cats with a friend of my boyfriend's. Although I originally planned to return to Austin after a couple of weeks, I have had a family emergency, and have to lengthen my visit. Our cat sitter is going on vacation this Thursday (6/13), and so I have two days to find a new place for them. About the cats: both are extremely l",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF[17] broke up with me[18M] last night, and I don't know how to handle it. POST: So we started dating at the beginning of my senior year and her junior year. We had gotten very close, and we were both content with the relationship during our time together when I was still in high school. I planned on going to community college for two years to save money and be with her, so we were both happy as ever. However, starting at the end of the school year we began to drift apart. She ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my boyfriend [19 M] for 6 months, I feel like he isn't interested in my life. POST: So my boyfriend and I have been friends since 7th grade, and we recently got together and usually things are really great and I'm super in love with him. Something that bothers me though, is that he never asks me about myself. I knew going into the relationship that my boyfriend was a little self centered, but he's funny so it he plays it well, and it doesn't usually bother me. I just",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is an example of unexpected generousity you encountered? POST: So today my school had a fundraiser for a project building schools in South Africa. We all went around the city, Oslo, asking for money. Living in one of the richest countries in the world me and my partner thought it would be a easy job collecting a reasonable amount, 400 NOK = 65$, since the average wages are around 20$ an hour for teenagers. However, when we were asking for money downtown most people didnt even make ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Feeling inadequate in my relationship f(20), m (22) because of friendships POST: This is more of a personal question than a relationships question. My boyfriend and I have been dating for a year, and were best friends prior. This is my third year in college, and since it started, everything has changed. For obvious reasons.....friends moved away, made new ones, etc. I know that my boyfriend doesn't particularly like that I have mostly guy friends. We have a lot of mutual friends, b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my friend [18 F] have been friends for a little over a year. I liked her a fair bit but.. POST: I liked her a fair bit, did all kinds of things. i do things like buy her shit, physical contact, arm around shoulder while on train and bus, rest head blah blah. its mutual too. we share alot of hobbies and talk facebook almost daily. / im like okay, this can develop into something, but im busy in exams atm i dont want to start a relationship now, ill work on my physicalit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/F]and my bf [24/M] have been dating for 3 years but my mom is still constantly trying to push me to date someone else. POST: I guess it would be best to start off with my background prior to getting into a relationship with my bf. Throughout high school, I was part of a close knit group that happened to be composed of majority boys and a couple of girls. We always hung out and they would occasionally come over to my house to chill, therefore my mom knew most of them really we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my family, I'm not sure how I'm going to survive the Christmas period POST: I'm at university, and it's my third year. I love my family, all of them, but I don't know how I'm going to survive emotionally this christmas. My grandmother has had alzheimers for 10 years, doesn't know who any of us are, and is either quiet or talks in gibberish. She recently went into a home, but before that, my grandfather didn't want to let her go, which I understand. She's had cancer twi",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Need advice for credit card debt POST: Fairly simple, at least I hope. I have a credit card, had it since I was a junior in college. I am a year into my career after graduating. At one point when I was in college, I racked up a lot of balance on it but paid it off thanks to my internship. (To attach numbers, I put about $1500 balance on a $4000 credit limit, but again I paid that off) When I graduated and got my own place and car and stuff, life happened. I now have a $7000 credi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Awesome girlfriend (24 f) burning out fast POST: My boyfriend and I have been living together for almost 2 years now (m+f). We are in our mid 20s.. no pets, no kids, the only responsibilities we have are each other and our jobs. I make considerably less than him yearly but I do ALL of the house work, laundry, dishes, vacuuming, groceries, bill paying and I pick up tabs when we eat/drink out. I also pick up the tab when we pick up the occasional sack of ganja. This imbalance of fi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What grown-up things did your parents/aunts/uncles/adults in your life never tell you and you had to learn on your own? POST: For me: + Dilute the bleach when using it for general cleaning purposes (otherwise the possibility of accidentally killing yourself in an embarrassing way is very high) + Car manufacturers like to hide various parts of your car jack under the insert that you have to pull up and out to get to your spare tire. I learned this the hard way when I blew a tire at 4 ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How do I express how sorry to someone I hurt deeply? POST: I once use to go out with a guy who was recluse to an extent. He would be open to friends only. I loved him and love him still in a way today. We went out when we were 15/16 years old. Got on great. One day, I somehow talked it into myself that I didn't care or something and I dumped him. But not in a responsible way at all. Without talking to him I just change my Facebook relationship to single. He was hurt as fuck. I didn't know w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my ""Tinder friend"" [25 F] 1 month, told me she is not ready for an relationship POST: I met a girl over Tinder and contrary to popular belief I use it to meet people for something long term. We have been on one date and text each other for hours on a daily basis. Even after the date she told me she is quite keen on going on another date. In one of our text conversations I asked her if everything is ok between us and if she would like to go on a second date she re",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Customer service and retail workers: Do you mind when I use your name while talking to you if I happen to read it on your nametag? POST: I make a point to use someone's name in conversation when I am talking to them, if it can be used in a manner that doesn't sound forced. For example, at the end of a conversation where they have helped me with a question I might say, ""Thanks, [NAME HERE]."" I also make a point to remember people's names if I am a regular at any particular business or o",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by waking up late POST: Note $50 is a decent amount of money to the 15 yr old I am Props for being today, so this morning My school had a fundraiser and me being the smart guy I am decided that I would get the $50 note out of my wallet and go with that intending to stop at a dairy right next to my school to split it before school. Unfortunately I woke up very late and so I didn't have any time to split it and so when I got to school my headmaster was there to collect money so I had to ha",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Can I please get some advice on whether or not to pursue a friend? More info inside.. POST: I hope this is the right subreddit. If not, let me know. Okay so I'm a male, age 18. The girl in question is also 18. I'll call her Sally. We met five years ago at a party and became friends quickly. She's damn good looking. Like a real stunner. Definitely at the upper limit of my league. So when we met I immediately took interest in her just based on aesthetics but for some reason I never to",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: 3 good dates, bad 4th. How to proceed? POST: So I (26M) have been on 4 dates with this girl (24F). I've been out of the dating game for quite some time, so I'm unsure how to proceed. Anyway, date 1-3 went very well, never a dull moment and free flowing conversations. Date 4 comes around, which she initiated, and I feel it went quite poorly. We attended a weekday sporting event together and the conversations are sporadic and felt forced/awkward. At the outset of the date she comment",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: So, my grandfathers entire estate has been sold (not his bank account) without any notification to my family who was to inherit all of it.... NY State POST: I'm not going to really go into details, but just list off facts. The man was estranged from our family. His trailer sat in a trailer park accruing lot rent. He owned his trailer. The park office was notified my family was interested in clearing out the trailer and selling it on his behalf. Legally we had all the rights to it.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My ex added my Mom on Facebook, but why? POST: So, my ex-gf and I broke up roughly 3 years ago, and things didn't end too well. We dated for just over 2 years. We hadn't talked for sometime until about 10 months ago when she fbook messaged me that she had seen me downtown with a female friend, that she looked cute and asked how I'd been. It quickly deluded from there into whether or not I had cheated on her (long story short, yeah I had, emotionally not physically tho) and I told her the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my girlfriend [ 26 F] of 6 years, she has been recently laid off from her job and this has been causing a lot of tension in our relationship. POST: We have been living together for around 2 years now. She had a part time job where she worked for 4 hours each day, recently the company went bankrupt and she was laid off. I've never actually had problems with money since even though she earned quite less than I earn, I was able to cover some of her expenses/bills with m",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Obnoxious parking POST: We have a temp at work. He drives a shiny silver Scion while I have a 10-year-old Toyota that looks like it went through hell and back with slight injuries. I park on the street because the office's parking lot if usually either full or doesn't have shade. My spot on the street has shade and I can leave fairly easily at the end of the day. We are located in a cul-de-sac, and usually there are two other cars parked on the street with me. These two other cars a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Infatuated with another girl POST: Sorry for throwaway account. My girlfriend uses Reddit, although very rarely. I've [21M] been with my girlfriend [20] for almost 3 years now, and I've been pretty bored with how things are for a while. She's an attractive girl, but I've been bored sexually for a long time. We try new stuff to spice up our sex life every now and then, and we have sex at least 2 times a week. But all I've wanted for the last 2.5 years is to sleep with other girls. I'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21M] girlfriend's [21F] sloppiness and clumsiness is really getting on my nerves. POST: We've been dating a year. Probably 6 nights out of the week she stays at my apartment. Quite often she'll leave dishes laying around, dirty clothes, etc. I've talked to her about cleaning up after herself and she says she tries. Right now I see a pile of dirty clothes on the floor in the bedroom, and her dirty work uniform in the corner of the living room along with a couple of dirty dishes sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with girl [25 F] I've been dating for a month. Is there a problem or am I overanalyzing? POST: I've gone on four dates with a girl over the past month, sleeping together after the third. As far as I can tell, everything has been great and I'm starting to fall for her. We both haven't been dating other people since meeting each other and usually talk on the phone (not necessarily every day, but usually we have some kind of contact each day). However, things started seeming..",positive " r/relationships TITLE: What age is 'right' for relationships? [14 F] POST: Hello r/relationships. I am a father of two who is becoming increasingly concerned about his daughter and the choices she is making in terms of relationships. Recently (a week ago?) my wife found out that she was 'going out' with a guy who is quite a bit older than her (around 16 or 17), and we ended up in a bit of an argument as to whether this was okay. My wife was strongly against it, and I was very unsure as I am not the kind ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [20f] breakup with my boyfriend [22m]? Outgrew relationship and have never broken up with anyone before POST: I have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for almost 2 years. We met in undergrad college and have a pretty good relationship. I'm just not sure the relationship is for me anymore and I've outgrown it. While we have a good time, our relationship is based on our college experience and mutual friends. We don't have that much in common when it comes down to it and",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Girlfriend (18y) is active on facebook without contacting me (18y M) while on a trip to India. I have yet to hear anything. Do I, the serious boyfriend, have a right to be mad? POST: I am an 18 year old guy in a very (or as as much as it can be at our age) serious relationship that has been going for between 7-9 months. I'm on my gap year right now, and she, also 18y is in the grade below me. I have been traveling extensively this year, but I am always very good about checking in, wh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] ""friend"" [22M] doesn't see anything wrong with our 'friendship""? POST: Basically been sleeping with this guy on and off for two years now. He is the only person I've slept with. We've never talked about being exclusive but when we are sleeping together it is usually exclusive by default. He's never referred to me as more than a friend and as time has past he now thinks of me as his best friend. However a lot of his actions go past best friend/friends with benefits territory ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by washing my face POST: A couple days ago I was lathering up my hands with a fancy, acne-treating, $15 bar of clinique soap to wash my face after a hard day and the damn thing slipped out of my butter fingers and nothing-but-netted into the fucking toilet bowl. My roommate, a chemist, and me, a chemical engineer, decided with our best judgement to just leave it there, because ""hey, it''ll it dissolve in like a couple hours or something."" Now, 3 days later the toilet will barely flush (",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [19/m/UK], going to meet LDR girlfriend of 3 years [18/f/IL] the first time in April POST: Hi Reddit, I literally made an account just to ask this, but that's besides the point. Anyway, after about 3 years of agony and saving, we've finally arranged a date for me to go and see her, thing is, she wants me to move there straight away... Now, money isn't the issue here, I have enough to visit or move, the problem is there isn't enough money to visit to see how it goes and then",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [29/m] boyfriend has ended it with me [23/f]... In four months. Don't know how I should feel. POST: I've been dating this great guy for a while now. He's everything I ever wanted. Even better, he claimed to feel the same way. Recently, I was admitted (and given a substantial scholarship to) one of the best graduate schools in the country, that is located 3 hours away from our current home. He seemed supportive of me going to this school at first, but once we found he couldn't tra",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my brother [25 M], disagree over how often housekeeping should replace our sheets in hotel. POST: [Update here]( My brother and I are on vacation in Las Vegas. This morning we were headed down to breakfast and to the spa. After the spa we were planning on coming back up to the room to get changed and go out and gamble. My brother was concerned that we might get back while they were cleaning the room so he suggested we put the do not disturb sign on the door so we wou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: LDR Doomed? POST: I (23/f) have been dating my boyfriend (29) for five years. 6 months ago, my company relocated me to another city about 4 hours away. It was a ""move it or lose it"" situation, so if I didn't move I wouldn't get my relocation bonus, pay increase, and I would have had to find a new job, so I moved. He was upset, but he said that he understood why I had to go. Fast forward to now: It's getting more difficult as he is very busy with some art projects he is working on. H",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28/m] left my extremely religious community and an arranged marriage. I've been dating a great girl [28/f], but feel I'm missing out on being with other people. POST: Greetings Reddit. Some quick background: I grew up sheltered and very religious - I went to an all boys school through high school, no television, magazines, only censored/approved books. I was expected to enter an arranged marriage and have kids right away, all before my mid-twenties. At 19 I decided I wanted mor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(23M) am concerned because my girlfriend(24F) kissed another girl POST: The other night we were hanging out with some friends and we all got pretty drunk. One of our friends who is a girl is openly bi and has expressed that she's attracted to my girlfriend, but we were all cool with it because nothing ever happened. But the other night we were all kind of passed out on a couch together with the lights off and they were sitting next to each other. After a little while, my girlfriend",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] sister [21F] is about to be homeless. POST: My little sister Marie has exhausted every avenue of support she has been extended. We grew up with my mother who is now technically homeless although she has friends she stays with. Marie has been kicked out of my other sister's house, my father's house, my grandparents' house, etc. for breaking rules and being disrespectful and manipulative. These rules aren't unreasonable, like keep a job and do your dishes. She has been staying",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Lesbian best friend thinks she likes me. I am a man POST: Ok so I (**a guy**) have been friends with my friend ""Lisa"" since **middle school** and are **21** now. were pretty much best friends and have everything in common. There has never been any kind of sexual tension between us pretty much ever. She is lesbian, has been for as long as i can remember and actually came out to me before anyone else. She's dated women and all that jazz. So i recently got into a relationship with ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: What is an appropriate friendship? I [19f] don't want to cross any lines. POST: I'm in a rough spot socially, I recently moved. Many of my friends are spread out all over the country right now, I don't have a job/classes yet, hopefully over the summer though. I am in a long distance relationship with [20m] and I love him with all my heart. He's unfortunately 8hrs away, so visits are every few months. I have a good friend about half an hour away from me. [19m] I have zero feelings ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: This past week has been really rough for my gf[18] and I[19] POST: This past week has been really rough since we've both been busy and she works a lot. We've both been working really hard trying to study and finish work for midterms this week and next week. I'm home for spring break this upcoming week and she has the next week, so we won't get to see each other much, but I've been looking forward to it since I last saw her in January. I'm just annoyed that she has barely had t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is ex-sis-in-law abusing my nephew through poor diet? POST: He is 5, she is extremely controlling over his diet. He is not allowed salt, sugar, bread or pineapple (because it ""makes his pee stink""). His daily diet consits of milk for breakfast, a small bowl of soup for lunch and dinner. His live in grandmother slips some lentils and beans into his diet probably a few times a week. The daily soup is chicken breast broth with some celery, carrot and chicken chunks. He is denied red mea",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Realizing that my new roommates are kind of... urban hippies. Wondering how to deal with it. POST: I live in a beautiful, recently finished rowhome in a northeast city. When my old roommates moved out, I found three new people to move in so I could stay on the least and remain in the house. These are friends-of-friends, and seemed like really normal, cool people. I should mention that they're all friends together. They *are* normal, cool people; aside from their refusal to use basic ho",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dropkick Murphys just saved a guys life. What's the coolest thing you've ever seen a band do? POST: Just saw the Dropkick Murphys at Mohegan Sun (Casino in CT). During the second song I could see security jump to the very front by the stage. Best thing I know the lead singer is making the ""cut it"" motion slashing across his neck. The band stopped playing and he asked everyone to move back in the floor area to give some room. He kept checking in on the guy who was apparently having heart ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Dad [66 M] leers at me [17 F]. POST: My dad has made me feel uncomfortable in my own home since i was 14. He stares at my butt and chest constantly. He probably thinks he's being sneaky but it's so obvious. He's always trying to walk behind me where ever we go. It makes me feel anxious and I don't want to sound dramatic but it also makes me feel sick. I'm so happy I finally got my license because when he used to drop me off from school, he would just sit there with a long line o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17/F] with my boyfriend [15/M] 4 months as a first relationship. Personal issues, don't know how to end relationship without hurting him. POST: Im a Senior, he's a Sophomore in high school, we've been together for about 4 months and he's completely in love with me. I'm not in love with him but he cares so much for me. I'm going through a lot of stress, all the college applications, getting homework done, playing 3 sports and coach one, my parents are going through a really tough",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting a purse stuck to my dick POST: This happened a couple of nights ago at a party. So basically me and my mates were at a party, probably around 150 people on this massive property in the middle of no where. We are all drunk, smoking, etc. Then me and this girl started making out. We got somewhere private like somewhere in bush around the owners house and she starts giving me head, now this is where the fuck up happens, I close my eyes to this decent blowjob, and then we started ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: This girl (18F) likes me (19M), doesn't want a relationship right now, but we're still hanging out? POST: So there's this girl I met in one of my college classes about 10 weeks ago, and we immediately hit it off (we studied together the night we first met). She asked me to watch a movie with her, and we went out to lunch a few times. One night, she comes into my room and tells me she loves hanging out with me. However, she tells me that she's not very happy with herself right now (sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my boyfriend [24 M] of 2.5 years, might be getting married! Are we too young? POST: hey guys! I'm super excited, I love 100% love my boyfriend, know I want to marry him (someday), we both get along swimmingly with each other's families and we've been talking about big life issues (kids, finances, career goals, etc) but we don't exactly have our shit together. He's from a Latin American country, I'm from the States. He's en route to take his TOEFL and apply for a B.A. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25/M] re-initiated contact with a girl [23/F] i really liked. Things seem different and i cant get a read on it. POST: Hi, So this girl and i were pretty interested in each other for a few months. Had a couple of dates, hooked up a few times, talked constantly. The catch was we lived kinda far apart (3 hours by car) so it was kinda hard to see each other regularly. This was ok for me as i was happy to put in the extra effort to see her but she started to distance herself and lost",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [F29] recent ex [M32] is blowing up at me because he doesn't like that I started seeing someone else so fast. POST: We dated for two and a half years, and broke up about a month ago. It was a mutual break up. We were both dissatisfied in the relationship. It was him who started that break up conversation, but we were on the same page. A week later, I started seeing someone else - a friend of mine. It's very casual, I have no interest in another relationship this soon, and the pers",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: The Marriott has charged over $1000 to my credit card in repeated attempts to ""refund"" me. What more can I do? POST: Recently, my brother, cousin and I took a road trip through the USA, (Toronto to California) from July 19th to July 30th. On our way in, and out, the Fairfield Marriott in Amarillo, Texas, was used as a one night stop. Departing from Texas on the 29th of July, we were charged $117.39 for one nights stay. During the check-out, the clerk accidentally charged $258.51 in addi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [26M] of 3 years moved across the country 6 months ago and begged me to quit my job and follow him. I'm set to move a month from now, and he just told me he's enjoying his freedom and doesn't want me to move for another 6 months. My relationship is over, isn't it? POST: We had a great relationship before he moved, and up until yesterday I had no idea there was any issue. I arrived in his new city for a visit and to finalize my new job yesterday morning, and yesterday af",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting cramp on a plane POST: So basically I'm a cyclist and this morning I was due to go to a race with my team early in the morning, waking up at 6am and setting off covering a decent distance (50miles) right so 8:30 roles around and i'm all ready for my race and prepared to go! set off on the course and do my 25 mile Time trial in a Personal best (57 minutes just in case you care) Right here is were my fuck up begins, normally I go back with the team and get the legs massaged ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Really complicated situation between me [17M] and a girl [17F]. POST: I really don't know how to deal with this. We started dating last year and it got a bit more complicated. Long story short, we became really good friends and right now I'm in love with her, but she isn't in love with me. She says she loves me, but not in that way. I can't get over her as long as I keep seeing her, but she has a history of self-harm (cutting) and she called me today saying that she did it last night",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: What can I do? Eviction shows up on credit checks, but I've never been evicted from any place? POST: So wife and I are attempting to move (end of current lease) and as we are applying for new places, we get a response back from one of the potential landlords that there's an eviction notice on our credit history. Puzzled we ask him for more details, which he provides. Come to find out our previous apartment complex which we've had more problems than we care to list here served us an",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Can they find me??? POST: Back in 2006 when times were good, racked up some credit card debt with MBNA (I think now Bank of America?) When 2009 came around, we fell on hard times and the payments were hard to make. Called them up and they negotiated our rate down to 5%. In 2012 I called them again and asked if we could have a reduction to the 5%, they said no, but there were no penalties on late payments (which I didn't realize was part of the original agreement.) So I missed a few",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you go out in a new town and make friend? POST: I am interested in peoples approach to making new friends... Reason: I just graduated from college where I had a bunch of friends in many different groups, I got a job in Boston where most of my co-workers are on average late 20's or older. I love hanging out with people, talking about anything, and just doing whatever but I seem to have a problem with initially meeting people. I get a lot of advice about going to bar's and meeting",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: If one wishes to go into business, how important is one's college major? POST: I'm about to enter my Junior year of college. I attend a prominent State school in the US. Going into college, I wanted to go to law school and was interested in philosophy and politics, so I began pursuing a dual major in political science and philosophy. This was fine because I was planning on going to law school. Now I no longer want to go to law school. I want to pursue a career on the business end of t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Antiques question - Reed Barton 1901 ""Tiger Lily"" vs. 1945 ""Festival"" POST: Any antique know it alls out there that might be able to answer this question for me. I was sold a set of, what I was told at the time, 1901 Reed Barton ""Tiger Lily"" silverware from an antiques shop while on vacation. (8 dinner knives, 8 dinner forks, 16 teaspoons, 3 iced-tea spoons, 2 serving spoons, 1 serving fork, 1 butter knife and a sugar spoon for 100$). When I got home and got it all polished up and was lo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Coworker(27f) railroading my(22f) work. I've been at the company 6m longer but just returned after 2m of maternity leave. POST: I have been back from maternity leave for nearly a month. Before I left I was very friendly with this coworker and we worked together very well. We have the same title at different buildings of the same company so we were always trying to forward each others projects and make sure they are successful. However, since I have returned she has kept her project",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [21M] start dating? POST: I have never dated anybody and would like to start finally. During high school I skipped all of the dances, wasn't in any clubs, and was overall too nervous to approach any girls. I simply hung out with my friends instead. Fast forward to now, I go to work school full time, work full time, and all but 2 of my friends have moved away for life or school. I would like to start dating but am not really sure where to start. I would rather avoid cowork",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Should I still ask her out, or did I mess up? (18M) POST: I am a senior in high school who used to he unable to talk to girls due to low self confidence, but hasn't gotten much better in the last year or so, and there is a junior girl, let's call her Jane, who I think is very attractive. She is smart, quiet, and sweet. I've wanted to ask her out since the end of last year, when I was a junior. I was very shy and couldn't do it last year, (I know, I should've gotten some balls and did",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I[16 M] hopeless with girl[16 F] I have liked for months? POST: So, first semester I had a class with this one girl, who you could easily say was way out of my league. She and I talked a lot and we became friends. About everyday we talked and now we text/snapchat pretty often and sometimes we would hang out. She would also talk to me about her life a lot and the drama in it. She wouldn't tell this stuff to a lot of other people. Eventually I became friends with some of her friend",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [19F] comfort my BF [19M] with the loss of his father? POST: Two months ago, my boyfriend lost his father to cancer. We were on a break at that time, (we are back together now) so I wasn't there to really know everything that happened during the last few days while his father was alive. The wound is obviously still fresh, and every so often he'll text me saying ""I miss my dad."" and I won't know what to text back. We've also never talked about it in person, so I don't really",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm pretty sure my GF (24f) cheated on me (27m) but she doesn't know I know POST: We have been dating for one year. In the beginning, the purpose of the relationship was only for fun and saw it like a temporary thing, however without realising, it evolved to a more serious relationship. it grew on her and at some point she wanted to come to either live with me (or at least somewhere near) or me to stay in Europe. Afterwards, it started to grow on me. Everything kept going on smoo",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: 17y/o male wanting advice on how to get back into the dating game. POST: Apologies if this is in the wrong subreddit, just let me know if it is! So I'm a 17 year old straight male, who recently came out of a shitty relationship to say the least. It has been a few months, and I have been looking to get back to dating. I know I'm only young and have next to no life experience, but any relationships i have been in have been long term, i have never had a relationship lasting under 6 mon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [16M] girlfriend [13F] was molested 7 years ago and the offender is back POST: Hi reddit, throwaway. So my girlfriend has confessed she was raped five times by a friend's husband while living in Africa. She was six years old. She remembers it like it was yesterday. This hit me hard. I don't know how to cope with this. I love her and want to be by her side at all times. She is visiting Africa in a few weeks, and this man will be here. When she was molested, she said no one car",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by farting in solidarity POST: This happened while I was still a preschool teacher. Part of my duties included leading group time, where I read the my class of 18 3-5 year olds a story before afternoon snacktime. Some of you may not realize that the most notorious preschool far bandits are the little girls. Preschool age girls constantly rip ass, and usually don't give a fuck. However, at some point, they start to get embarrassed. One girl who was ashamed to pass gas was the new girl, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 M] have lost the trust of my wife [28 F] of 5 years, and our anniversary is coming up. POST: We have been married for about 5 years. Throughout that time we have mostly gotten along fine. No issues like cheating or anything like that. Some philosophical differences but nothing relevant to this post. In the past few years though she has ""caught"" me in a few lies. It's usually about little things. Basically I'd tell her I was going to do something, forget to do it, and then",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Help please. I have started to fall for a long time friend who is in the process of getting back together with her abusive ex-bf. POST: So just a little back story. I am a 22 yo male and she is 22 as well. I have been friends with this girl for quite some time (a few years). Didn't really start talking in depth until a few months ago. Now I have started to develop some feelings for her, because we have been talking almost everyday, on the phone/webcam/IM'ing. She is super awesome and",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30s M] with my wife [30 F] 4 years (few months married) saw a porn on my phone, now she's livid and won't talk to me. She thinks porn is cheating. What should I do? POST: Originally posted on AskReddit, I was redirected here. Here's the story: We've only been married less than a few months. It had been several days to a week since the last ""release"" for a couple of reasons (our relationship has always been strong, it's not because of that). I was starting to feel like blue balls ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[22F] am jobless and living with parents[52F & 52M], they are causing stress on boyfriend[27M] & my relationship. POST: I have been jobless since February after having a job for 7 months. It wasn't anything big, but it was helping me gain experience and savings. Boyfriend and I were planning on moving out in a couple of months, but I messed that up. Boyfriend now has a year of schooling left and his parents have offered to help him out with expenses for the next year. My parents h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: reddit I need help fixing a laptop POST: friend of mine came to me saying his laptop won't charge. upon inspection I discovered he had broken the port which prevented the cable from making a connection. I made him no promises but I told him I could try and replace the port and see if that will work. I got the part online I took the comp apart installed the port and at first it seemed to work since I noticed the charge light in the front of the laptop turned on when I plugged it in.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: me [19] not in love with this 'nice' guy[21] dating for 5 months. Confused. Don't know how to break up. POST: So I know this guy for 7 years, just acquaintance. But recently(5-6 months) he's showing big interest in me. He calls me all cute names. He totally wants to hang out with me all the time. He cares for me. He always tries to adjust his schedule for me. Does all sorts of stuff that makes me go 'awww'. He's really nice. I really really liked him. But right now, whenever I think",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [M/21] feels guilty when I [F/20] fellate him. [NSFW] POST: My lovely boyfriend and I have been dating for a short time (maybe a month? Maybe less? Please don't judge, I'm crazy about him). We haven't had sex yet, but we have indulged in mutual masturbation on several occasions. I've given him oral sex twice, but each time he says he feels really guilty about it. I'm completely fine with it (actually I happen to love it, which is a first!), but he feels as though I'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/16], am starting to have feelings for my good friend[F/16], but she has a boyfriend [M/18] POST: Me and Allison have gone to the same school for about 4 years but we've become much closer in the past 2 years, due to finding out how similar we are in the way we think, our humour. A year ago, I found out she had a boyfriend. It didn't really mean anything to me, as I still saw her as just a very close friend. We used to talk about everything together, bitch about life and even go",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: The Person You Loved, The Person You Still Love, Is Dead POST: When people say that going through a break up is akin to the death of a loved one, it's not an exaggeration for dramatic flair. It's the simple truth. After 5 months of being out of our 5 year relationship, we broke NC and talked. It didn't make me feel better or give me any answers to anything. The conversation was awkward and forced. She (20) said that things just change but declared that I (20) will always be her first lov",positive " r/dogs TITLE: I am passionate about dog rescue, but my mom is out of line. Please help. POST: So I unfortunately am still living at home with my parents, trying to save money. My mom has gone absolutely crazy fostering dogs, and owning them in general (she works with midwest boston terrier rescue). Don't get me wrong, I love dogs, and I advocate adoption and someday hope to be a foster home as well, but we currently have 6 bostons, one Aussie foster failure, and another boston who is a soon to be foster fa",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making a (sort of) Holocaust joke with random strangers in an elevator. POST: So, I'm finishing my last class of the day at the college I currently attend. I get on the elevator the head to the first floor of the building. Elevators are already the most awkward, naturally occurring scenarios ever. I don't talk a lot at school. So, me and a few other people are waiting and eventually get on the elevator. There was a group of white girls (I assume they were friends) and an awkward, kind",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my S/O [28 F] Met 2 years ago on reddit, lived with eachother in Canada since October. I want to rent a room, she doesn't. POST: My S/O (f28) moved here (Canada) from Australia last October. When she moved here I (m27) was renting a room to my 19 y/o cousin while he completed at work placement in my city. I owe $11,000 debt for school and my down payment on my house. I'm pretty outgoing, my S/O is very introverted. I broke my rule which said; ""I will only date someon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] and my boyfriend [32M] of six years can not get along after moving in together POST: My boyfriend just gave me the finger and freaked out on me for painting my nails in the bathroom with the exhaust fan on. He insists that i move all my supplies and sit in a more dimly lit room near an open window, citing health concerns while lambasting me for ""using that stuff"" (nail polish) despite my understanding of the manufacturing process and noxious chemicals in said product. Curr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my Ex-gf [16 F] that I dated for a month. We broke up and I was wondering if we can still be friends. POST: Ok so to begin there is this girl and she was my really close friend. I started liking her and incidentally she started liking me back and we started dating and boy we hit it right off. I was so happy with her and for a while she seemed to feel that way too. Only last week I started feeling that she was becoming distant and cold especially during one of our dates",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (20/m) No idea what to do in this situation POST: ok short backstory: New girl starts working where i work i add her on facebook and we start talking i get her number and we text pretty nonstop for a few days.I ask her out and we go for a walk and chat about pretty regular stuff (work,college) etc. fast forwards to this week we go out Sunday night for a few drinks. I walk her home and we hold hands and make out for a bit so i naturally assume this girls into me. I ask her the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My male (30/m) workout buddy desperately needs training in the gym. What do I (28/f) do? POST: My male friend (30/m) and I have started working out together, which is great. We've been friends for about a year. He heard I had started to hit the gym and he wanted to tag along. The biggest problem is that he has NO idea what he's doing in the gym. He's doing weird shit with dumbbells that aren't even exercises, and...I'm embarrassed. People are watching him fumble with these weights ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I[23M] allow my [21F] to grind with other guys? POST: My slightly LD girlfriend and I have differing views on grinding, flirting, and other bar behavior; she thinks it's no big deal and allows me to do it, while I view it as cheating. She has mostly silently accepted my wishes, although now and again she asks me to reconsider. She admitted that her 21st wasn't as much fun as she had hoped because she wasn't able to dance with anyone and she wound up leaving her own birthday ou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(20f) husband(34m) is using up our savings to buy drugs POST: We have been married for almost 2 years now and we dated for about 2 years before getting married. When we first met, he would spend lots of money on taking us out to eat. As our relationship progressed, we spent more and more. After we moved in together, we had two accounts and we both have access to them. We only have 1 car so I drive him everywhere. We are living in a very small apartment and our bills are beginning ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Landed an internship, feeling like I'm too old to be an intern, also underpaid. POST: I landed myself a graphic design internship with a political organization that considers itself to be a marketing firm for progressive causes. Fine, cool. They need a lot of work done, starting with their logo, they have $800 set aside for me...and they want to pay $10/hr. This internship requires me to bus across town three days a week (boss stated he wants me in office more), but pays at the end of the m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [23/F] am regretting breakup with BF [23/M] worried we will never have an opportunity to try a relationship again. POST: I dated a guy that I had been best friends with for years for about 10 months. In July I graduated from university and got a job across the country, in a very northern isolated area, from where we lived. He was also in the job hunt but was having no luck so he was going to move with me after I got settled (a couple weeks). But when I got here I panicked, ki",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] need help to know how to feel comfortable in my new relationship and within myself.... POST: Hey all, So I'm new here, I've read heaps in the past but never signed up! But I need some advice... So I've recently split up with my partner (Let's call him Bob [23M]) of 5 years. We lived together for about 4.5 of those, so life is quite different now. He was doing some crappy substances behind my back for the last year so it was definitely a massive shock. I met someone else quite",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] and my bf [17M] are doing more serious things, how do I feel more comfortable with strict moral code? POST: I was raised in a strict catholic household and have always been quite prudish. For some reason I think is attributed to growing up very conservative in action and social disposition, I get anxiety attacks immediately or slightly after I make out with my boyfriend. To make it worse, my ex (who I never got very far with but is friends with my boyfriend) is making fun ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 16M super confused about this girl I like POST: So long story short me and this girl went on a trip together I got her snapchat and we talked a bunch when we got home. SHe kept saying she missed me and asking if I had a girlfriends so I asked her out over snapchat and she screenshotted it and didn't respond. We kept in tough after that and then I saw her today and she was super exited and sat by me instead of her best friend and she took like 20 pictures with me some by some yearbo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Socially awkward to women. What to do? POST: In terms of cultivating something more than friendship. I've been pretty shy since middle school (although with my friends I'm ridiculously loud, boisterous, et cetera) and am slowly growing out of my shyness. When it comes to men, it's easy to start chatting. But with women I have to work a little harder and I don't know why. Pretty much the more attracted I am to a certain lady, the harder it is to approach them; even when they seem to be g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (F22) don't know how to feel about him (25) POST: I can elaborate a bit, but this is a throwaway. I know it sounds bad, but I (F23) have been in a relationship for over a year, and so has my a friend of a friend (M25) that I've been seeing quite a bit of lately but I've had a few thoughts cross my mind, and I can't help but wonder if they cross his as well. Sometimes I think they do. The way he stares at me and looks away quick, those eyes. He checks up on me, texts to see how I'm ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (21F) of 3 years can't carry her bags but gets upset when I (21M) help her. POST: This is a really short question, and probably a stupid one. My girlfriend isn't very strong. She's not small and delicate or anything, but she doesn't have much arm strength. She can't carry her school bag on her back for long periods of time (it's never heavier than say 15 pounds), nor can she lift the shopping bags and walk to the bus stop, not without dragging the bags along or takin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Did I react properly?? [17] male [17] gf POST: So me and my girlfriend have a long distance relationship, and we've both had some trust issues, mostly on my part for other reasons (she didn't cheat just lied about talking to a guy). Anyways she went to a restaurant and we talked while she was there for a bit, I asked her what she was eating and stuff, I told her to Snapchat me and she said ok but never sent one (she opened mine) and I asked her who she was with. She didn't reply for ",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: How hard is it for both parents to return to work after baby? POST: I am aware the answer would be relatively subjective but I would like to hear about personal experiences. We haven't started trying for a baby yet, but the plan is June 2015, but I worry about how hard it will be to raise a child, maintain a household, maintain a relationship and a job all the same time without burning out? My partner wants me to return to work and I don't really want to, for the fact that I think it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My good friend [15 F] who knows that I [15 M] like her, won't talk to me anymore. POST: Throwaway plus first time posting in this sub, so sorry if mess some stuff up in the usual format for posts here. I have been good friends with Kate (not real name) for about 9 months now and after about 6 of those months I began to develop feelings for her, and told her this. Turns out that she had also started to like me, but was afraid to tell me because she had gone out with a good friend bef",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with my 3-year long-distance girlfriend [23F], arguing about a lodger POST: Germane introductory info: I live in the UK, she lives in the USA. I'm currently attempting to move with my employer to the USA, but the timetable is uncertain. I own a flat and I will have a spare room in it over the summer. A friend has told me that a friend of his wants a room in my neck of the woods, and I'd rather let to a friend-of-friend than a stranger from posting on a spare room site. Tr",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22f] He [21m] is playing me hot and cold. POST: Alright. So, background, I'm about 7 months out of a ~3 year off/on relationship (which ended finally on my terms and which I was happy to be out of) and have been using Tinder like nobody's business for about 6 of those months. Initially it was a pretty humorous social experiment for me, then unexpectedly had a fantastic summer romance out of it (ended because dude was moving across the country). That aside, pretty much just dat",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Major dilemma between my girlfriend of 2 years and a girl I just met this semester. Help me, please. POST: I'm a 20 year old college student who's been dating a girl a little over two years now. Probably closer to two and half. We've known each other since high school. I just met a new girl this semester and I'm really starting to like her. Now, I feel like some of the love between me and said girlfriend is gone... At least on my end. She still adores me but I'm starting to lose it ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Gf [20f] wants to go to Ibiza alone and expects me [23m] to be ok with it. POST: I'm using a throwaway because she knows my main Reddit account. We met in college. I'm currently working on my master's degree though. We have been dating for two years if it's relevant. A few months ago she was so excited about going to Ibiza and I thought we could go together. The problem is that she wants to go alone. I have no problem when it comes to traveling alone, but Ibiza is... weird. It's a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 24 M with my Friend girl 29 F. Am I missing all of the signals? POST: Hey all I just got back from seeing a friend who I met at work. She is the most beautiful person I have ever seen with long dark hair, beautiful dark marble skin, and an amazing smile. I was so impressed with her personality too I asked her to lunch and we have been on five hangouts since than walking around, dining, and talking. We usually end up talking for more than 2 hours whenever we meet up. Today I met he",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] boyfriend [22M] insists on updating his Tinder profile weekly though he insists he's not looking for anyone. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together around 5 months or so - we got pretty serious very fast, but we spend a ton of time together and have a very healthy relationship thus far. Interestingly enough, we met through Tinder (on one of the maybe 6 or so tinder dates I've ever been on). We both kept our accounts; I mostly use it for a self esteem boost when I'm feel",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [F20] am still in love with my ex [M26]. And honestly I just want to not be anymore. POST: We dated for 2 years, since I was 18. I never really cared much for guys before him, it was always if they liked me cool, if not whatever. He was my first everything. Including my first love. I honestly planned on him being the one. He even said I love you first. He told me he had only felt this way about a girl once before and he made the mistake of losing her. I let him become my everything",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm in love with a girl who hates me: Any females able to give some advice? POST: Ok so here goes: A while ago me and this girl had a little thing together, usually when we were all out drinking me and her would be into each other. One night we all got drunk and me and her ended up doing stuff.. Not sex, she was clear that she would rather we where sober for that. I really like this girl but i was about to leave for the army the next month so did not want to get into anything like ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [OHIO]Calling out on corrupt/unethical business practices from which I'm employed. POST: Hello everyone I made this throwaway for legal reasons (obviously) and I am seeking guidance on how I should proceed. I have evidence of not paying overtime, grey marketing, faking serial numbers for warranty ""repairs"" and profiting from doing so. I have seen this occurring in-person although I do not have access to the financial documents for evidence purposes. I know that my boss has lied to a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm depressed and in a very dark place right now. I want to stay home while my boyfriend goes to visit his parents for a week, but my ticket is already booked. Do I bail anyway and pay them back? (27&33) POST: We've been together for two years. I've hung out with his family twice. His family is a 4 hour plane ride away. They booked us tickets to come for a solid week. I was feeling apprehensive about it in the first place, but figured I'd get a lot of relaxation in during the trip so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/m] have realised I'm bisexual, gf [27] doesn't yet know. I'm stressed and scared. POST: Should go without saying, this is a throwaway account. So my gf of 11 months, Lauren, doesn't know I'm bi. Our relationship is serious and I'm crazy about her, have been since we met. I feel like she's the best thing in my life because I feel like she makes me a better and stronger person. I could talk all day about her obv. I want to put a ring on it and have kids with this girl. We are bo",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Feeling less than sexy. POST: *Sorry if this is a bit long but it feels good just to put shit out there.* I leave my abusive POS husband of 5 years for raping me and putting our 4yo daughter into unacceptable situations. I finally learn what love really is with my closest guy friend and less than 4 wks into our flowering relationship find out I'm pregnant which in itself is amazing, I'm on BC and conception has always been a difficult thing for me. After many Dr.'s appointments w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27F] was lied to by my sister [31 F] and made to visit while her family was sick, they're mad that I'm mad POST: I was travelling overseas to visit my family (sister + parents) back home. They planned a small party of sorts for the day after Christmas, and though the children had been sick, they assured me that it had been a week ago. They are aware that I get horribly sick very easily (lupus) and am afraid of catching stomach bugs in particular. After food had been served, the k",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: X-Post from /r/AskMen, tips for a nervous young guy?! :D POST: So me and this girl recently started talking and we connect real well! I'm not someone who is desperate by any means or jumps into relationships but I have a good feeling about this girl! We exchanged numbers a week ago and tomorrow made plans to go out Christmas shopping together. Of course this isn't really an official date or anything, but I definitely want her to have fun and make her want to see me again so I may so",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] started seeing this girl [19F] for a week. We hit it off but she started giving me the cold shoulder after our lunch date yesterday. POST: I met this girl on Sunday for a first date. We instantly hit it off on our first date. It got to the point where we were making out and cuddling and talking about so many random things all night by the ocean. It felt amazing. She thought so too. The next morning came and she wasn't feeling well so I bought her breakfast and we ended up cu",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Long time friend who I let stay on my couch for a bit stole from my room mate, what would you do? POST: This guy who I've known since freshman year in high school (we're now four years out of HS) has been staying on our couch because he had no where to go. He now has his own place but because he was a friend he came over to watch some football while both my room mates were home for the weekend. I left the house to run to the convenience store. I was gone for maybe 20 minutes. Everythin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear 30+ Redditors, what was coming into adult hood like for you? POST: Let me explain: I've recently turned 20, and experienced some health problems, as well as some anxiety. Some if it caused by my health, a lot of it caused by the possibility of the world, and my seeming lack of direction, and being unsure about my current job, and what I'm doing in school. I've had a few people tell me that in your 20's, your body changes, as well as your health, and the world becomes a much wider pl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my [25 F] friend, wants to to start dating, but i had no idea POST: Ok so backstory, I met this girl a little over a year ago in a class at school, and we immediately hit it off, we got along really well and I would've loved to have a relationship with her. We talked about going out all the time, we both knew we liked one another, but at the time she wasn't interested in starting anything and wanted to remain friends. Obviously i was disappointed but we continued to b",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Mono & Anxiety (panic disorder) POST: To start off I am a 24 year old male. Besides performance anxiety (presentations) I have never had anxiety to the point where I had panic attacks. At the end of August, I suddenly one day had a shortness of breath that freaked me out and it led to a full blown panic attack. Ever since then I have had times where I have been on the cusp of having another and have been able to overcome it mentally. I have noticed the Anxiety is much worse the first f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] bf and I [22F] have been dating for 4 months but we fell in love in 3 days. He thinks this is weird, any similar stories? POST: My bf and I had a whirlwind romance. We met in college, hung out once and then kind of never stopped. We spent 3 days straight together and told each other things we had never told anyone before. I had never felt like I could totally be myself around anyone before him which was weird because we hadn't known each other for a week. We had awesome text",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [25 M] is having a hard time understanding feelings and reactions of [25 F] girlfriend of about 1.5 years. Wants advice about what to do. POST: I'm having a hard time understanding my girlfriend who seems to frequently get mad at me or upset with me. When she does get upset (or even if she's in a bad mood unrelated to me), she will treat me rudely (cold shoulder, sassy replies). I've made it clear to her that I don't like that sort of behavior and it bothers me greatly in many levels",negative " r/self TITLE: I can't deal with personalities bigger than my own. POST: I'm known to be very confident, charismatic and funny by a lot of people. The problem is, that when there's a personality larger than my own in the same room as me, it's like I take a complete backseat. If there's someone funnier, someone more confident or someone even better looking, suddenly it's like I stop trying and barely say a word, as I just sit in their shadow - but I'm not doing it consciously. This can cause problems. Some",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey reddit, my sister decided to date a kid 4 or 5 years younger than her and now consequently he is obsessed with her and won't leave me alone. Anybody know of any ways I can send this kid back to his sandbox? POST: He is 14 and she is on the verge of 20. Heres the story: they met at an underground-esque wrestling match which he was competing and he told her that he was 16 (he looked it). My sister, the dumbass, took his virginity and *then* he let his whole age thing slip. She figured ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: F 28, M 26: How do you know if you are with the life partner that will help you reach your highest potential? POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for six years. We love each other, know the other well, and are best friends. We communicate with trust and empathy and solve our occasional arguments relatively easily with calm words. We support each other really well when one of us needs emotional or physical help. But, there are a few things that make me wonder about him as a li",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] have been in two consecutive several month long relationships when my partner suddenly stops talking to me, what the heck am I doing? POST: So this has happened twice to me, which is making me think I am a crazy person. Similar situation has happened each time: been very into a girl and am getting similar vibes back, date casually for maybe a month or so, start getting serious, and maybe a few weeks after that total cut of contact. I'll send out a few: ""hey everything ok?"" ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How did you redditors break your SO from being so dependent? POST: Bf grew up having everything done for him and now for me it's like pulling teeth to get him to help out. I don't need a neat freak or anything, but just want some help - without having to ask for it. I'm tired of hearing from him that the house is a mess. Whenever I say it, i do something to change it. But when he says it, i think he's hinting for me to do it. We both work full-time jobs, myself outside of the house, him ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my now ex-girlfriend [17 F] of a year, she ""fell out of love"" but wants to stay friends that act liek we are dating. What to do? POST: So we had been together for a year and 3 months and we've had our issues but nothing this bad. 2 days ago we were talking and something was up so I asked her. After 5 minutes of trying to get her to tell me she said it was something she didn't want to admit to herself. She said she fell out of love with me. Apparently to her this means ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it normal that I [F/21] want nothing to do with ex-boyfriend? [M/24] POST: Basically, I was dating a guy for a year and a half. He was my first boyfriend and I'm realizing now that the reason I stayed with him so long was that I was scared to be alone again/scared no one else would want me as well as I was too scared to hurt him and end the relationship. But I finally broke up with him a little over a month ago for many reasons... his inability to hold a job, his immaturity, his ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF (F24) regularly says that I'm (M24) short/small and its getting to me POST: I've (M24) been dating this girl (F24) for about three months now, I really enjoy being with her but she is a little physically abusive and can be demanding but its all mostly rough playing. She would randomly ask or state 'Anatomi, why are you short?' or 'you're small', I really didn't care about it in the beginning but now its getting to me that my height matters in this relationship. I'm 5'8' and shes 5",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm really bothered by thinking about my girlfriend's exes and her experiences with them. Has anyone else ever experienced this feeling? POST: I've been with my girlfriend for a year now, and things are pretty good. She's my first girlfriend, so I lost my virginity with her. She's had three previous relationships - with a mixture of males and females. I know it's completely irrational, but just knowing that she's had sex with three other people really bothers me, and makes me feel w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my brother [17 M] I suspect he may be involved in what I feel is an inappropriate relationship with a [21 F] that works at his school. POST: So my brother [17 m] is involved in a group at his high school where they have hired some staff to help coach and choreograph and etc. I also volunteer at this group (because I went to HS there) so this is why I've overheard some things about this situation. One of the staff is a 21 F whom he met over the summer at a camp for this ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Economic refugee (US to Asia) looking for advice POST: US citizen here. Post college I seemed to really have it together. From 2001 to 2008, I worked in various HRIS administration and consulting roles and climbed the corporate ladder, saved aggressively for retirement and invested savings in stocks, bonds and real estate. I held a few positions and also did some contracting work in the field of Human Resources doing system administration. In 2008 I lost my job and then was unab",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [42M] slept in dog pee for the second night this week. My wife [38F] of 13yrs refuses to kick the dogs off the bed. (I come home after she's fallen asleep). POST: This is not even the second time it's happened. My wife likes to have the dogs sleep on the bed with her, mainly because I don't go to bed at the same time she does. I've given up fighting with her about the dogs being on the bed despite one of them throat-growling at me when I try to kick him off, however, I draw the ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Customer service workers of Reddit: How do you deal with customers that make you feel like a terrible person? POST: I work at a kid's gym. I teach classes to kids ages 1-7 helping them work on things like balancing, tumbling, not beating each other up, etc. The biggest problem is keeping kids safe, and the biggest reason they get hurt is if they're not listening to or following directions. Which is the kids' fault. I cannot make kids obey me, as hard as I try. Today a girl got hurt on a",negative " r/jobs TITLE: My friend is in a crap job and is being used. What options does she have? [xpost from r/AskReddit] POST: Hi Reddit, So I recently became aware of how poorly a friend of mine is being treated at her job and I was wondering what options she had available. Here's the situation: * She works for an international security firm in Rhode Island, but from what I understand, the home office has a small to medium sized staff. (I'm not going to name the company but you can PM me if you must know) * Sh",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: The highlight of my night. POST: I work in law enforcement and my current post is in a jail. We print out rosters of inmates in housing units from the computer to keep track easily while moving about. Sometimes we have to highlight them for different reasons. This could be who we're moving from one place to another, who we need to talk to, or people that are in another location than listed. The revenge here is simple. I printed out a roster for a co-worker, and handed him a bundle o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] need to break up with my SO [22F], but I'm scared for his mental health. POST: So a bit of background : me (23/f) and my boyfriend (22/m) have been together for 2.5 years, and living together for 1.5 years. I would like to state that I love him with all my heart, I really do. For around 6 months I've begun to feel myself drift out of our relationship. It's got to the point where I seemingly have no affection for him, I just don't want to kiss or hug him, or hold hands like we",negative " r/Advice TITLE: First real vacation in nearly 6 years. What to do? POST: I'm a career musician. I teach 7 days a week, play in multiple bands with weekly shows, and rarely ever get a full day off. Any time I unexpectedly have a free day, I just end up trying to rest and catch up with other things that have piled up, but those days are hardly relaxing. The days I DO actually take off from teaching are for family events or touring (which is work just the same) I've been feeling like I'm approaching a point",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: FINANCIAL AID NIGHTMARE. I have to idea how to afford this school. Reddit, please help me. POST: Alright, I will try to make this short. I am going to start my second year at a University in the fall. I lived in the dorms last year and after everything, BARELY made it financially. I figured moving off campus would be way cheaper, so now I rent a house right next to campus. For the summer I am working FULL TIME (Monday through Friday 8-5 on campus). I just got my awards package... and I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [24F] talk to my sister [20F] about her hitting her boyfriend [22M]? POST: My sister and her boyfriend have been together for nearly 2 years now. She is about 12 weeks pregnant. Today, my sister was venting to me about her relationship and how our mother tells her to leave every time they have a minor disagreement. She then said that when they fight, they each yell a bit and sometimes she hits him ""but that's it"". As soon as I read this, I knew I had to talk to her about i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my SO [25F] 3 years, She wants to get nipple tattos POST: Me and my SO have been dating quite a while now, 3 years. We've had the usual bumps along the way but right now at a strange crossroads. SO has recently taken to the idea of getting both her nipples tatoo'd. Some back story is that, my SO is notoriously impulsive. She is far too impulsive, I am far too conservative (not politically). It works for us as a couple to help level each other out. SO has gotten pier",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[18 M] have a crush on a girl [17F] who is awesome, but I don't know if she feels the same. Need help' POST: So I am taking this girl to prom. We met earlier in the school year at a game and at the time she liked one of the players on the team, but I have no idea if she likes him still or not. I am actually not sure on a lot of things (for example, how to tell this story so please excuse my randomness). Anyway, I had known OF her but wasn't really friends with her, the game was supe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my boyfriend [25 M] 5 years, hates his job but I can't convince him to quit. POST: My boyfriend of 4 years, James, has been working in his 'dream job' for the past 18 months or so straight out of college. It is a stressful field and he knew that going in. Lately his job has been extra stressful due to changes in the company, and it seems he's been given extra responsibilities, that aren't in his job description. The stress has been taxing on him and on our relationshi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22F] not sure if I'm being paid for house-sitting for [30sF] POST: I'm an undergrad college student. This summer, I started research with a professor I really like. She asked me to housesit for 2 weeks while she traveled. I have been watering her plants, feeding her cats, cleaning the litter box, and taking out garbage. I'm 1 week into the housesitting right now. Pay never came up in our conversation. I know that I should have clarified beforehand, but I just assumed I would be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23F) am having body image issues and its causing lack of sexual intimacy and frustration with my boyfriend (29M) of 2.5 years POST: I've gained some weight in the past year or so. To the point where I feel very uncomfortable in my own skin. I used to be very active and into exercising but lately I've let myself go. I'm barely 5' therefore any weight change looks significant on my body. Lately, this gain has been causing intimacy issues in our life. We live together so we always h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Gf(25f) dumped me(29) via text while I was out of town and is treating me like a stalker POST: Gf was supposed to go to with me to my family reunion/mother's birthday. We were also celebrating the 4th of July because she had to work. So my family moved the date up earlier so she could be there. The day before we leave I wake up to a really long text message. She says that she can't leave because her cat is sick. And she can't afford the vet bill and needs to work. I told her I ne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Thinking of moving out of student accommodation but want to keep friends POST: I'm a uni student living in a large house with friends, but increasingly some of them have been acting pretty shitty towards me. If I talk about it with them my concerns get dismissed pretty quickly. It's getting to the point where despite the fact that I've got less than two months left living with them I'm considering moving out. Personally, I think that living with them has made our friendship worse. ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Co-worker who quit refusing to pay for carpool agreement. (NYC - New Jersey) POST: Backstory: I currently live in Brooklyn, NY. Late last year I took a job in North NJ, on the premise that the office would move to Manhattan in May of this year. There was already a carpool coming from Brooklyn to NJ, and I was able to ride in that to my job for several months until the carpool driver left the company. I was paying a monthly fee for the carpool ($150ish). The office decided not to reloc",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How to get rid insecurities? POST: I (M-19) just got told by a girl I was talking to that she didn't want to talk to me again. She said that I mentioned that another girl was really hot and that I picked on her insecurities a lot. The first of the two offenses was just me being stupid and having nearly no experience with women. I know that I need to fail before I can succeed, that's covered. The second offense occurred because I myself am insecure and lash out whenever to make myself feel b",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Ex's new girlfriend is racist and incredibly problematic. Feel shitty for being dumped for someone like her POST: So my ex and I broke up only a few weeks ago. The breakup was a little rough for the both of us and things have been mending slowly since, but I recently found out that he has just started casually dating someone new; I would never have known this had the girl not tried adding me on Instagram and putting his name in her bio. Naturally, I looked her up to see what sh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] got really drunk last night and slept with my co-worker [30sM]. It's so awkward and I'm dreading going to work tomorrow. POST: The title says it all really. Last night a group of us from work went out and I got really drunk (so did everyone so I don't feel too embarrassed about that). I went home with a guy, who is senior to me at work and we had sex. It was one of those nights were my memories are hazy but I remember the sex being pretty bad, like it usually when you're tha",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Diagnosed with latent TB before college, parents refuse to accept treatment POST: 18 y/o Asian female who is 5'2.5"" and weighs approx. 121 lb. I was recently diagnosed with latent TB (positive skin, negative xray). Most likely exposed during trips to Taiwan (3 trips in the past 5 years, 1 trip [two years ago] in the past three years). I'm moving to college in a little over 3 weeks. My physician currently wants me to start a 9 month course of antibiotics (I forgot the name of the antibiot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] am still in love with my [20F] ex, we're living together next year and I don't know what to do. POST: We met at the beginning of university just as I had come out of a year(ish) long relationship. We started seeing each other informally quite quickly and made it official a couple of months later. We were together for a year before before I started to want something different. Nothing changed after a while and we were both getting upset about it. Now here's the bit that mad",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Some dick has been sniffing around my girlfriend. POST: A bit peeved at it. Here's the story: She was friends with him when she started college, and nothing came of it. She admits that he's attractive but he's not her type. He was always trying to talk to her after class and come see her and all that, and I told her numerous times that he was sexually interested in her. She never believed me. Then he did something (I forget what) that made it obvious without him explicitl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] feeling suffocated in my family. No peace at home. Feeling neglected. No way to move out. POST: We're a family of 5. Mom, dad, older sister, older brother and me. I'm the youngest. Brother and sister moved out and it's since then that life at home became more difficult. The main reason why I'm writing this now is because of the 1000th argument I had with my parents about my social life and I'm sick of it. I'll try to keep this short. I have a very close group of friends. T",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend of 6 years (25) proposed to me (25), but his parents (early 60's) forbid him from marrying me. What should I do? POST: My boyfriend's parents have not liked me since the day they met me. His parents are very conservative, religious, and concerned with social status. I don't fit the definition of the girl they want him to marry. His parents are well-off (his dad makes about one million dollars a year) and want him to marry a girl who comes from a similar background. I co",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Going To Walgreens POST: I went with my mom to Walgreens today. She lives alone so I try and go with her when she runs errands. We get to Walgreens, we go inside and head our separate ways. I meet up with her on the woman's isle, and as I am approaching her I look down, and notice a human turd on the floor. Then from the turd, is a trail of shitty footprints leading into the restroom. I was horrified! So I went to the pharmacy counter, and waited behind the man at the counter. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [19/F] attracted to a guy [22/M] that consistently smells terrible POST: Sorry for wording, it's a silly problem. I'm attracted to this guy I met at college a couple months ago. We're friends and we hang out a lot at school but we haven't gotten to meet up outside of school yet for unrelated reasons. I'm pretty attracted to him and we do a lot of flirting through text and I think we both put out a fair bit of tension irl. I think we have really compatible personalities and he's ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Boss fired me for a mistake – an error which I see on her website now. How can I get her back? POST: Right. So, I worked in a shitty university in the communications department. The conditions were fucking horrible and those above me were extremely incompetent. Years of giving many fucks and trying to better the quality of our collective work was alway met with, ""there's nothing we can do. You best just live with it"" kind of response. So, after years of losing sleep and going crazy, I de",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Can't tell if I'm [21/M] settling or have true feelings for my girlfriend[21/f] of 4 years. POST: Me and my girlfriend have been together since senior year of high school. Everything between us has been as close to perfect as you can get. She's everything I could have asked for. Yes, we do have some problems, she's very clingy and gets jealous easily. I'm horrible at communicating feelings and problems with our relation. But these are things that we can/have been working on together ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [M20] I cant tell if my ex girlfriend [F18] is just confused with her emotions or wants to get back together POST: I dated this girl for 3 years. We both go to the same college and live near each other. The reason that we broke up was because I made the mistake of taking her patience for granted one too many times and she didn't want to be hurt again. I am still in love with this girl. We went for about a month of a grieving stage. We started talking again and she tells me that ever",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Husband [31M] wants to assemble an instrument for me [29F] for Valentine's Day. He bought the instrument years ago as a gift - it has been in its box this whole time. POST: My husband sent me a text today that said ""I'm making you a Valentine but it's a surprise!"" I was pretty excited since we rarely exchange gifts - really only birthdays. Years ago, my husband bought me a build-your-own cajon (a box-like instrument you sit on) with the intention of building it for my classroom. H",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: thought I'd just pop on here and search for the answer, but every time it's asked it just gets snide, obvious ""funny"" replies: Viagra POST: I guess I must be naive. I didn't think Viagra was as hard to get under-the-counter as cocaine or Xanax. I thought somebody out there must know one of the thousands of websites which deal the real thing. Why don't I just go ask my doctor? Because it's for recreational purposes. I don't actually have a limp dick, I have a girlfriend with a high l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (F16) am becoming good friends with a guy(M20) but don't want it to be anything more POST: I'm becoming really good friends with a guy, and a really value him as my friend and love hanging out with him, but I'm worried that if I do to much stuff with him one of us might end up liking the other one. I don't think that he likes me, mainly because of the way he treats me and the age difference. I like him a ton as a friend, but not anything more. I really don't want our relationshi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F20] lied to my boyfriend [M18] about being a virgin. He's so angry with me. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for 8 months now. After we had been on 10 or so dates, we had been to each others apartments and it felt like it was getting more serious. But we would make out for ages and he would never make a move, so I did. He stopped me and told me that he had been with one girl before me, but he regretted it and he wanted to wait until things were more serious to have sex",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are women generally opposed to having a caring/non-controlling/non-douche man in their lives? POST: This is a rant. Gotta tell someone, might as well be you, Reddit. Two girls in a row now..two. I made them breakfast when they would stay over. I was always there for them in their times of need. I helped them with their problems, held doors, bought dinners, cuddled, sexed, talked, everything. This last girl..two weeks ago I met her family. They liked me, I liked them, everything is going",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20,m] friend [18,m] blames his issues on medical injuries POST: He's not really my friend anymore but he has PCS (post concussion syndrome, mild traumatic brain disorder) it was pretty serious but he's been a lot better now, but the issue is he blames all of his issues on it. He got it 3 years ago and still going through therapy. I hate this guy now. He uses his medical injury to justify being a fuckin' dick to anyone. He expects sympathy for fucking up and saying ""he has no cho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Afraid he doesn't love me [20F] anymore. POST: i really love my boyfriend. he means the world to me. Last night, we talked about us. I told him that I felt like he didn't love me ( we have been on/off ) He then told me that he didn't know what love was... I told him that love was about caring about the other person, do anything for that person, be there for the person when times are rough. To support every decision. Am I wrong? he said he does care about me. That he would anything ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Gf (21F) gets angry at the fact that I(21M) have female friends but finds it okay for her to do the same POST: I'll try to make this a quick read.. We've been in a relationship for a little over 3 years and dated for a bit before that. I'm not sure what category this would fall into but whenever I have anything to do with a person of the opposite sex, she gets instantly mad and starts questioning me about the person and asks why I'm talking with them and tells me to stop. She won't",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My recent girlfriend [29F] just did something that made me [28M] feel very weird POST: So, we've been going out for a month, awesome relationship, best sex ever and we talk pretty much everyday on g chat. It's about **11:40 PM**, I tell her I'll take a shower and be right back. I take the shower, come back and watch the rest of this movie instead of messaging her. She sends me a message at **00:30 AM** saying ""Long bath?"", I sent her a ""lol"". Our conversation goes as follows: **Me*",positive " r/self TITLE: Hey Reddit. Here is a trailer for a web series I've been working on for 5 years. POST: A friend of mine makes puppets and I'm a video guy. We thought it would be fun to put together a real treasure hunt. A treasure hunt where you don't have to sign up for anything or take some silly trivia test or something. So we each took 5 grand out of our own pockets and put it into this project (and the ground). Then we pooled our resources and pulled favors left and right to make it look as good as we",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Finally went on date with awesome older man. How to get a second one? POST: I finally had lunch with this really cool male acquaintance of mine last weekend. We'd been planning this date for months over email, and he drove quite a long way from where he lives just to talk to me (I could hear the nervous excitement in his voice when we met). A day after our lunch, I sent him an email saying I had a great time. He responded with the same, but didn't suggest meeting up again. I know his",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: (M21, F20) Just being friendly, or into me? POST: Met this girl in class, and I knew something about her seemed right. So i took a stab in the dark, asked her on a date to a place she tweeted about. She responds to me super happy saying yes and she was so excited. So early December we go on the date, things went really well. We seem to have great chemistry. Then about 2 weeks later, we went and got breakfast together on campus. Always playing with her hair, smiling, dressing real cu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [16M] wanted to join my brother in MMA. He was over physical with me and I am not sure If I should tell mom POST: **Overly Physical** My brother is 15 and his whole life he was excelled in Martial Arts. He is known as ""Black"". I don't know why, he is white so it must have some deeper meaning behind it. I wanted to join my brother in Martial Arts to learn to defend myself. My mom allowed it and I went to my first lesson last night. The head guy in charge paired me up with my brot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (20F) letting him (20M) use me? POST: Little background. Me (20F) and, let's call him ""John"" (20M), dated for 8 months while we were in high school (about 15). Broke up because he was ""in love"" with an old friend from his hometown whom he hadn't seen in a while (which he had later claimed was just stupid teenage angsty hormones, which I believe). We didn't talk for a while, but became friends again, which turned into a weird on-and-off FWB thing. We've talked through it a lot, ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not pressurizing properly POST: So today I went to a ski resort in Breckenridge, Colorado to check things out before I ski. We go all the way up with no difficulties and it was a beautiful place. Now, Breckenridge is about 13,000 ft. (~4000 meters) and Denver itself is around 5,400 ft. (~1600 meters). Off the bat I fall asleep with my Beats studio headphones on and wake up by the time we get home. At this point, the change in altitude was 7600 ft. (~2400 meters). I wake up blissfully",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How should I [20f] treat an old high school friend [21f] that has been rude to me? POST: I used to be good friends with a guy that I had a crush on for years in high school (I graduated 2 years ago) who started dating this girl. I stopped talking to him as often out of respect to her and their relationship and was really excited to gain a new friend. However, she would tell me about their dates in full detail, knowing that I had once had a crush on the guy. She'd shove her phone in m",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: What's my next move? Me (22M) and a girl (21F) at my college have the strangest encounters POST: I would like to start by saying I probably have a severe case of oneitis, but I really enjoy hanging out with this girl and we have a lot of shared interests, so I'm not ready to give up yet. Met her last fall and talked to her a couple times at some parties, but nothing really came of it. I was interested but never felt that she was. Move past a dead period where we don't see one anoth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[26F] BF[27M] grows and smokes marijuana, I don't know how I feel about moving in. POST: Me and my BF have been dating for almost 2 years now and I recently found out I was pregnant so he's been talking about making space for me and the baby in his home. We both have great careers and are responsible adults, I have no doubt in my mind that he's a good man and could provide for a family but there's one thing I don't really know if I agree with and that is the fact that he grows and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27F] mom [57 F] lied to my uncle. Now I don't know what do about my dead dad's toolbox. POST: Sorry if this is a weird place to post this. So my dad (actually my stepdad, but he raised me. He and my mom divorced when I was in college. But then they were boyfriend/girlfriend again and going to move back in together) died about a year ago. It was very unexpected. My mom, brother, and I went to his place to get his stuff and handle his affairs. Then the plan was to head to my dad's",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Some time ago, I [M/20] broke up with my gf [F/20] of 3.5 years. What do I do now? POST: Our relationship was problematic from the very beginning, we both are drastically different people with drastically different, shall we say, tempers and visions when it comes to relationships and love. I am more of a romantic, whereas she is more pragmatic and distanced. And even though we were doing mostly fine, though half a year ago it slowly started to break, and about a month ago we decided ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Life choices: Happiness or Success? POST: I'm currently in a PhD program and realizing that I'm pretty miserable. I'm 3000 miles away from my friends and my BF and not enjoying my research at all. I've been raised that a good life is one which is ""successful."" I've always worked hard and enjoyed the benefits later. This midset is making it difficult for me to imagine walking away from my PhD program, which is making me miserable. In my dad's mind (and mine too, I suppose), I got g",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Should I talk to my Ex? need help POST: I (20 male) dated this girl (20) for two years before splitting. She was absolutely infatuated with me, she loved me to pieces and I loved her too but not to that intensity. The break up was pretty nasty because of how she felt for me, and it turned to her hating me. It's a year later now and I have started missing the hell out of her, just suddenly. I feel like its a feeling I never had before. Like Ive had two years at college and I know that I'm",negative " r/books TITLE: I didn't like Brave New World, at all, and I'm the only person I know who feels that way. What did you think of it? POST: I respect it for its ideas, and I know it's totally bonkers that Huxley came up with all this stuff in the 30s, and I understand how cool it is that the concepts are still relevant 80 years later, but really, truly and honestly, it was one of the most boring books I've ever read. I'm not sure if this is a trend amongst science-fiction novels, but I felt like for a novel ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Came home [CA] to find my house hand been entered. Called landlord who admitted that another realtor went into the house but without his permission POST: I love in California and have been living in my current residence since June of last year. My lease is up at the end of the month and will be switched to a month to month lease. Lately, I've been having some problems with the property manager/landlord. The owner wanted to sell the house and the PM notified me that this was happening ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Went through my roomates panty drawer, I think she knows. Help? POST: First off, I don't do this regularly, or often. Only once in a while. So today, about half an hour after she left to go to class I went in her room like I do sometimes. Sometimes I worry she takes some of my stuff, because my dishes go missing so sometimes I'm just checking. But usually her drawer is open, and I almost wonder sometimes if she's asking me to go in her panty drawer. She also leaves her laundry out in the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me F (39) boyfriend M (42) - non exclusive/exclusive - confused - 1 year & 7 months relationship POST: One year and a half on, lots happened and we are still together. We had a break back in July, however, we got back a month later, on a confused ground (non exclusivity). As maintenance times he explicitly showed he is ok with threesome (MFF). I would like to try a F, but was not sure about the threesome thing. Anyway, it happened, but I did read some kinky messages from him to her,",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by eating Skittles in class POST: A couple days ago I bought a pack of Skittles before attending a class. This was the movie-sized pack, so it was huge. You open up a cardboard box and inside is a plastic bag filled with 3.5 servings of Skittles. Unbeknownst to me, the ENTIRE class is watching me while I struggle to open this. I didn't want to open it too hard or else I knew the Skittles might fly everywhere. However, I was too embarrassed that I looked weak and couldn't open a bag of ca",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [15F] Sister [22F] doesn't allow me around her Son? POST: hey :) I'm having issues with my older sister, she has a 3 year old boy and I want to be able to spend time with him but she's really hesitant about letting me. She doesn't even like me being around him when she's there, she gets angry at me if I pick him up or hug him or pretty much anything. and once our mom was going to look after him but something came up, I asked if I could instead and my sister said no. That really u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex is drunk and texting me pictures of herself. POST: I dated this girl for a long time. We ""split"" two days ago because of a fight I started. The next day, yesterday, we talked a bit, she texted me that night because she was lonely. I apologized for things that had happened. I stopped responding and an hour later, she calls me. The next day, today, I text her and she's not responding. But she starts sending me pictures of her and her friends at a concert. She looks *great.* I'm r",positive " r/relationships TITLE: A guy [M/19] I've never talked to in one of my classes likes me [F/19] and nothing is happening? POST: There's this guy in one of my classes that I'm pretty sure likes me. The first day of the semester he sat next to me when there were a lot of the empty seats to choose from, and when I sat in a different seat the next day he sat next to me again. When he was sitting next to me I would catch him looking at me out of my peripheal vision. At the end of class our professor told us to ex",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22 F) think I'm falling for my boss (29 M). Need advice! POST: I've been at this new job for about 2 months and I honestly don't know what to do. It's hard because we are both of a similar age. I first entered into this job with no expectations. I thought it would just be a seasonal position to give me time to get my life together after graduating. While I still mostly see it that way I still do see room for possible advancement. My boss and I first started out barely talking. N",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [26 M] girlfriend [26 F] of 1 year cheated on me, should I tell our friends? POST: I discovered my girlfriend was (only emotionally - allegedly) cheating on me for months. I confronted her, lots of tears and talking, she seemed legitimately sorry, etc etc... I tried to forgive her and we tried to move on, but more lies surfaced - no big ones, but enough for me to give up on her. We have a close, shared circle of friends. The question is now: should I just say we separated, or sho",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by working in the intense heat. POST: I work at a baseball park as a concessions guy. So I was doing my business selling stuff until I had to go outside to sell beer. And it's really hot where I work and I got rather sweaty specifically in my groin region. It happens to the best of us right? Anyway, as I'm standing in the sun I'm getting sweatier and sweatier and I can feel my wet underwear on my asscheeks. Not a fun feeling. So when I finally get to stop selling beer I go back to a stan",negative " r/loseit TITLE: not exactly weight-loss related but how can I quit being frustrated and negative? [serious] POST: hey weight-losers, this isn't weightloss-related but maybe you could help me out anyway. first off: I already lost 10lbs and I have 10 more to go. I decided to shed some weight a few weeks ago and I'm really proud of myself for being so disciplined. Being on a healthy diet and maintaining an exercise routine has helped me a lot - I weigh myself everyday in the morning and always get off the sca",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my BF [24M] 1yr, broke up due to excessive smoking, how do I deal? POST: I got fed up today and broke up with my boyfriend bc his parents have been outta town for less than a week and all he's done is smoke week, lay around, invite ppl over to smoke more, annoys me for sex all day, invites more ppl and back to smoking, goes to sleep around midnight or 1. Rinse and repeat. This was supposed to be our trial run if we were to move in together and clearly I am not down fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my friend [19M] ~2 years, friend dating and rejection - what would have been the best thing to do? POST: We started off as good friends with a solid year and a half of close friendship before he confessed he really liked me and wanted to date. At the time, I had no dating experience and thought that going out once as friends meant an exclusive relationship, and because I didn't feel the same, I rejected him. We weren't very close after. One year later, after having be",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26F] Not sure if I should disclose information to my [26M] boyfriend of over two years POST: My boyfriend of over two years and I moved away from each other about half a year ago. The distance was tough on both of us, and I found myself very unhappy in the relationship. In that time, I met new people, including a guy I hung out with a few times. I told my boyfriend each time we hung out. A month or so passed and one night after a few too many drinks, this guy and I exchang",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Potential phone harassment. Has anyone else experienced this? POST: Since midday today, my phone has been ringing, and it's been the same number every time. After the seventh time, I answered it, and a few seconds later, some weird boop-boop electronic music started, and someone said something I couldn't make out. To be honest it sounded like a name, and oddly, it sounded like Jim Henson. Shortly after he hung up, my computer's internet failed, and it wouldn't reconnect until I restarte",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I come to you with a twist on an old cliché POST: First of all, I'm using a throw away because she's a Redditor, and hopefully she won't see this since she doesn't really go on Askreddit. My story is as typical as anyone who has ever been friendzoned before. I'm head over heels for the perfect girl, but to her we're just friends. I've been completely in love with her since the beginning of this school year, and even just having a conversation with her seems like a treat. But here come",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Underage Drinking, what to do? POST: Hi Reddit, 19 year old living in Pennsylvania and I have been recently caught walking around a neighborhood under the influence with a few beers in us with a friend while trying to run away from the cops that busted a party we were at. We claimed ""we're out for a walk"". The cops breathylzed us and sent us back to the party house stating ""You cannot drive back home tonight, here are your citations."" The citation explains that I have consumed alcoho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[22F] parents [48/50] are being too controlling over my brother's [21M] life. POST: My brother is in his second year of college. He has Aspergers which causes him to get pretty stressed out while making decisions. He can't deal with people being upset with him, especially our parents. And I feel like my parents have been using this to their advantage. This past weekend he had a ridiculous amount of school work and was panicking about what to do. I told him to take off work and so ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Is my best friend (21 F) interested in me (21 M)? POST: Hello ladies :) , I would love your input on this. Let's call her M. I feel as if M always finds an excuse to touch me, or have me touch her ( non-sexual), or for us to be near each other. Not that theres anything wrong with that, just something I've noticed. I will list instances: 1: She would make me touch her forehead and cheeks To determine if she is sick or not. (Also feeling for lymph nodes located underneath the ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [22/F] am feeling conflicted about my very new relationship with [29/M]... POST: I'm having a hard time talking about this to anyone IRL, so I thought I'd try here. Him and I just met two weeks ago and really hit it off. We have similar interests and have a great time together. Last weekend we went out for drinks with some of his friends and some of my friends, everything was great. Then we all got a bit too drunk and I ended up agreeing to be his girlfriend after only knowing him",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [25F] trying to muster up the courage to seek mental help, but I don't know if it's necessary or I'll receive help. POST: * TL;DR: ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Electrical Engineers, Aviation Geeks, DIYers, and general smart folk of reddit: can I convert my aviation headset for use with consumer electronics? POST: so here's the deal: I'm deployed with the army as a helicopter crew chief, I typically work nights so when I do get a chance to get online the connection is typically good enough to VOIP/ Skype home (since the other guys are either working or trying to sleep)- however: whomever I'm trying to talk to can rarely hear me; I live in a tent",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my SO [22F] of 2 years. Is there any point in staying together or should I end it now? POST: Me and my SO met in collage and have been together for around 2 years. I'm in my final year whilst she has already finished as her course was a year less than mine. As such, we have been in a long distance relationship for the past 6 months. We have a good relationship and are able to see each other weekly atm, however in april she will be going traveling for two months. Soon ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is my relationship ""doomed to fail?"" (Both 18, 1 year) POST: We've figured out long distance pretty well. We're freshmen at different schools. Even though we have the short term figured out, the distant future worries both of us. She wants to live in Europe for a year or two after college, while I want to go straight to grad school depending on what career I want to pursue. We had a long talk this weekend during a visit and we feel as thought we're in a rutt (despite being 18 and onl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Moving past infidelity (repost from r/survivinginfidelity) POST: **reposting here as this subreddit has quite a few more people that might help** Hi Reddit, I've been scrolling through many submissions on here for quite a while and wished to submit my own but have been rather terrified that I would do it incorrectly, if I did I apologize profusely. My husband (28m) and I(27f) have been married for five years. He had a one night stand with a prostitute while on a business trip a fe",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/f] Long distance relationship going downhill... not sure what do to. POST: So over the summer, I went to a summer college program (being an upcoming senior at the time) where I got to live on campus for a while and I met this really amazing guy, lets just call him Trevor. He and I spent basically all of our time together the entire month. We decided that we liked each other at the end, but he decided he didn't want to try a ""long distance relationship"" (in reality, its only",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Catholic Wedding POST: Alright so here at the end of June I'm getting married to the love of my life, the only thing she's Catholic. I'm talking Catholic schooling from elementary school all the way through college. I was baptized Catholic and received my first communion, however I stopped going to church and being actively religious shortly after my first communion. I have since been more of an agnostic/free thinker in my approaches to religion. Well we are having a full on Catholic wed",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [27M] confused about my 2 yr relationship with my gf [27F]. Should I break-up? POST: Me and my gf have a really great relationship since the beginning. When we met we started dating almost immediately, as you would call ""love at first sight"". It was very intense emotionally on the first year. We trust each other, we support each other and we like to laugh together. We're basically best friends on top of being romantically together for 2 years. I think she's very beautiful, caring",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (19/M) so isolated and lonely. Why can't I find a girl who is somewhat into me? POST: Had a breakup after a 4 year relationship back in March. I felt like crap so i decided to lose weight to improve my image. I've lost almost 50 pounds since then and I honestly look great. Went from 220 to almost 170. Im in my 2nd year of college and I was excited to meet new girls and see what is out there. I consider myself a mature and intelligent guy for my age. I'm a communications/journalis",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by thinking I was hot while having a toilet paper sticking out of my ass POST: The usual: this fuck up happened a couple years ago. When I started college, I started caring for my body a little better. I lost a couple pounds and the teen acne cleared up. I was finally the confident, beautiful young lady I always wished I was. So one day, I meet up with a friend to get some iced tea. I wear that new, cute short skirt and I feel great! We go shopping after and... suddenly I need to piss.",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Where do busy young adults meet people to date and not just hook up? POST: 22 female. I'm not in love with the idea of having a serious online presence, so I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of going to a dating website. Also, from what I've seen, a lot of dating websites will say atheists are unmatchable :/ So, where does a 22 year old meet someone to date? I don't want a relationship just for the sake of having a relationship - I'm perfectly comfortable being single until I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [37M] cheated on my wife [39F] and came clean. How can I show her that I love her and that I'm truly sorry? POST: We have been married for 15 years. I'm traveling abroad and had sex with another woman. I have never cheated before and feel like shit. I wanted to wait until I'm back home to tell her, but the guilt of what I did to her was too much, and I ended up telling her over the phone. She is obviously extremely upset, and she's not eating or sleeping much. She feels ugly an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(M/20) girlfriend(f/19) has been treating her friend(male) to treats and meals. Am I wrong to be upset? POST: My girlfriend of a year has met this guy in her class. She has done some things which have bothered me. She has gone to his house until 1am for hw. She called him to help move in to her new apt without leaving me a voicemail or texting me. I had class ending in an hour, but I don't know why it was so important to move her furniture from near her window to the other side of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F22] think I'm feeling jealousy for the first time POST: Apologies for formatting issues, I'm on my phone. I've never been the jealous type before. I usually have complete trust in my partners so I've never had an issue with jealousy before. Which has led to me being burned before with multiple partners having cheated. I've been with my SO for almost a year and friends long before that. We bonded over a love of reddit. About a month ago, she mentioned a slight crush on a reddito",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [18m] Dad is trying to set time limits on the internet. Not sure how to go about this. POST: My Dad has been strict my entire life with me but now that I am 18 and have a job I feel like this shouldn't be something that he regulates. I have 2 younger brothers and I think that he still feels that he has 100% control over me, like he does them. I would rather not resort to just changing the internet settings secretly so I have no ""set times"" for internet usage. I believe it has become ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever been in a situation where karma came full circle from something good/bad you did and are amazed by it to this day? POST: Me and my friends from high school used to throw huge warehouse parties in high school, my friends dad owned one and it was legit; police security, lights, everything. Admission was a couple bucks and I was in charge of it. At the end splitting everything up, I took about a hundred more dollars of my fair share. Fast forward to next week in class. I keep",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my (ex?)boyfriend [21M] of 9 months, says he hasn't been ""lonely"" and so he NEEDS a break but he doesn't WANT a break POST: Me and my boyfriend have known each other closely for about 2 years now. We ""officially"" got together last summer, almost right after he broke up with his previous girlfriend of 5 years. He has been hesitant because of this but really loving all along the way, even though there have been some serious rough patches. He came and met my family this",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[21] Girlfriends[23] mother[40?] is very toxic and manipulative and I'm having a tough time handling it. POST: I'm having a very tough time handling myself in this situation. We have been together for 2 years. My Girlfriends mother is very manipulative, and just overall has a toxic relationship with my girlfriend. She was oblivious at first and after a year and a half of sticking it through with her, I have finally showed her how horrible her mother is. In jest my girlfriend has be",negative " r/self TITLE: Packing a bag and leaving home advice? POST: Im a 19y old irish lad. All my life i have been lazy and sat on my hole for most of my days feeling sorry for my self because life wasnt giving me anything. I have grown weak, inflexible and irritable. Im a pathetic excuse of a man. Well now i want to change that. I intend on getting a bit of money together and packing a bag and just leaving. I could leave for a month. I could leave for a year. I dunno, all i know is i need to get out of this plac",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Reddit, what's the best/safest way to download individual MP3 songs for free? POST: I just created my Reddit account the other day and I've been exploring. I really like /askreddit. Today I was listening to some music on Youtube (Grooveshark is gone, hence, no more playlists) and I started looking around for a song that I stumbled across on Youtube. There are lots of download-for-free websites but I do not want to infect my computer with any viruses or malware. I want to 'burn a cd' (yes I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21M] friend [20F] is distant after having sex POST: Shortly after I exited a long relationship, my friend Jenna and I starting having sex multiple times over the course of a month. She made it clear that she was not interested in a relationship with me and that she hopes it doesn't change things between us. To be honest I wouldn't have been opposed to it turning into something more eventually, but I was fine with this because I am not looking to jump into a serious relationship a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19F) have once again been let down by my boyfriend (22M) of 1 year. Not angry, but disappointed. POST: A little info: I am an art history student and I help in the university gallery on a regular basis. Today there was a show that allowed open entry, nothing judged or selected to go in. I decided to put in a few of my photographs that I do on the side to see how people like them. I was very excited to have my pieces in a gallery and in an art show- it didn't matter to me if it was",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, I need to get myself motivated for college again. Educational/inspirational suggestions? POST: Backstory: I got my Associates degree last year, and basically missed the submission deadline for the college I was seeking to get into for the continuing semester. Long story short, for the last few months I've taken on more hours for my job (grocery store, deli) which is a kind of job that I can really only describe as something that turns me into a close-minded zombie after worki",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I don't know what to do after losing my virginity. Any suggestions? POST: So this chick and I met on an elevator at my college campus. She was from one of my classes last semester but I never spoke to her until we met on the elevator. We started talking about music and we both were fans of U2. We started talking about our favorite song, which was ""I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"" and used that to segue into an in depth conversation about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Naz",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My wife (30) found out I (31) went to a dating site. POST: First and foremost, no, I have never cheated on my wife. Ever. We've been together for over 5 years now. She found out that I went to some dating site because she saw a welcome email from the site. Why did I go? Boredom. I was bored on the internet and for whatever reason (I don't even know 100% why) I decided to go check it out. The profile was actually set up for a location thousands of miles away from where I live a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my boyfriend [21 M] of 3 years, I am developing feelings for a new guy/ POST: I have been with my boyfriend for almost 3 years now, and I care about him alot. We are in a long distance relationship, and things are good for the most part. We fight every now and again, but for the most part I am happy. However recently I have been developing feelings for a guy that I have gotten to be really close with over the past several months who goes to my school. He is extremely n",positive " r/relationships TITLE: A girl (17f) and I (16m) developed a relationship very fast. Now I feel very confused and I don't know what to do. POST: About two weeks ago, I broke up with my first ever girlfriend of almost 2 years. That day I was talking with a friend and said I didn't want to get into another relationship in high school. The very next day, I was hanging with some friends and just being generally weird and ended up cuddling with this girl for a while. It was nice, but it was a joke. Then some int",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [F19] pay for this? POST: Good afternoon, Reddit! About 6 months ago I apparently received a parking violation ticket. However, I never saw any ticket on my car and I never got anything in the mail until a couple days ago. I was away when the mail was delivered to the house; my mom saw the ticket, freaked out, and paid for it for me. I came home and she started yelling at me about the ticket. I picked it up and instantly knew something was wrong. First, it was addressed t",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Wedding woes depressing me. Want to cancel [rant/advice?] POST: Throwaway. My SO have been together for 7 years and have a 1 year old together. We became engaged last June, and NO ONE cared. Our parents were like meh. My mom even showed her distaste for my ring. (Rose gold? really!?) Thanks mom. Fast forward to planning our wedding, we can't afford the wedding I want. I know I can't have everything, and should be grateful for my wonderful SO. I am, I love him to death. We are liv",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Question about Google's use of tracking data om visitors on websites that use Google Analytics. POST: Google offers the use of Google Analytics free of charge on websites. The website owner can, to some extent, choose how much data is shared with Google, and Google promises that the data collected will not be used to calculate how much Google could charge for Adwords. But my question concerns the privacy of/use of data from **the visitors** on websites that use Google Analytics. Cons",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Advice Needed: [26/m] Moving In With [23/f] to End a LDR POST: My girlfriend [23/f] and I [26/m] have been seeing each other for roughly 7 months. We have been a LDR from the start (a 4 hour drive, but right now a 8 hour plane ride). She is currently weighing moving in with me 5 months from now. The other option would be moving in with friends and remaining a LDR for 2 more years (still 4 hours apart). She is on the fence about moving in together for fears we both share. For t",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Dealing with this break up POST: Hey there, This morning I broke up with my girlfriend after 5+ months of having a relationship. This might not be a long time, plus we live in different countries and never once touched each other during this whole relationship, yet I feel broken and she is worse. I talked to her best friend who is really mad at me(understandable of course) and she says that Lucy(my girlfriend) is really in love with me and right now she is a mess; angry, sad, frustrated, b",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Missouri/Arkansas: questions about custody POST: Going to try and keep this short and simple. I'm just trying to prepare myself for what may happen. My BIL and his (ex) girlfriend are having a baby. She is due in July. She has 2 previous children from 2 different fathers and does not have custody of either child. Her mother has custody of one and baby daddy has custody of the other. She has done nothing but lie to us and my BIL and we are concerned for the child's safety now and when ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [20F] of 2.75 years, broke up with me this past Friday. NC so far. POST: Note: I'm 23M. Long story short, we had a couple of weekends in a row where I wasn't quite myself and kind of a bummer to be around (work stress). This was not typical of our relationship—generally we were always very happy, spending all of our free time together doing fun stuff. So after those two weeks, she informs me she met someone. It's 100% platonic so far, have only seen him in groups, and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (22/m) w/gf (20/f) of 2 yrs. Is it normal to be physically attracted to other women but not want them? How do I respond truthfully if my she asks a question about it? POST: I'll try to keep it short. I love my girlfriend, she's great. She's also very insecure and I try to support her as much as I can. One time she asked me if I thought my female coworker was attractive (I know this is a ""test"" but I didn't want to lie). I said that no I am not attracted to her. She then asked ""but",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/f] I like this guy [24/m] but not sure if he just wanted sex or maybe something more? POST: I met this guy last summer, he started working at the retail store that I work at. He only worked there for a month or two before he got a real job and moved out of town (he already graduated from college, and I'm still working on my degree). I was very interested in him, he's cute, funny, smart, etc. We only talked a few times, but I guess I left an impression because a few months w",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being high at church POST: I was recruited by the musical director at a local church to play in their worship band after being recommended by a friend. I'm not religious but I agreed to play given the generous honorarium that they offered me. The service started around 8:30 and ends around 10, so afterwards I went home and indulge in my usual post-work routine of smoking, showering, and eating breakfast. I finished the first two steps when I received a text message from a random numb",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 20 M and my 38 m stepfather don't get along. It's tearing his marriage apart. POST: I'm a 20 year old Korean guy. My stepfather is another Korean, only a little older. He's been married to my mother for I think 9 years now, however I've never (ever) really talked to the man as I lived with my father and hardly ever saw my mother for extended periods of time, also he isn't very social. His english isn't the best and I don't speak enough Korean to hold a conversation. I moved to my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I wrong? Or she is just a mean girl me[20/M] gf[20/F] POST: I will try to keep it as short as possible. I'm having hard time right now, i have been with my gf for more than a year, but these last monthd have been very hard and painful. Last month she wanted to take a ""break"" because she was tired of being in a relationship, but later i found out she was just having feelings for another guy, who she admitted she likes him and is her crush. A few weeks later she came back to me a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My daughter [F16] wants to see me [M42] for first time in years. This is huge for me, and I want to say the right stuff to her. POST: I split up with my ex before I even knew she was pregnant. My daughter (and only child) has grown with her Mum & stepdad all her life. I was slow to make an effort after my daughter was born (it was complicated by the fact that I was living in a different country, but that's not an excuse). Since my daughter was about a year old, I've done everything",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I change from having the 'best of intentions' to actually following through and completing something when it comes to my wife? POST: I'm married. I have an amazing wife that takes care of most things. I find myself working. Working a lot. It's what my father did. It's what my grandfather did. I don't know much past that, but I understand hard work. When my wife has one on one time with me, I can knock everything out. I think I get so caught up in neglecting her that I tell",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIP my brother but accidentally ended up on the receiving side as well POST: I'm the older sister and I have two younger brothers who are both deathly afraid of fire ants. I got a bunch of crushed up red flakes from the spice cabinet, and decided it would be hilarious to sprinkle them all over their clothes pretending they were the ants. I waited for my opportunity. We were all swimming in the pool, so I waited until they were lying down outside and began to secretly sprinkle their bathing su",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend [17 F] 1 month, She called me boy another guys name POST: Hello, last night me and my girlfriend had sex for the first, which didn't go too well but that is a question for another subreddit. The next morning, we are fooling around, play fighting and what not and she calls me by another boys name. I know for a fact that this boy (the name she called me) has been sending her messages like ""I think I'm and love"" and sending her messages all throughout the ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking a huge dump in work POST: Throwaway because I know colleagues are on here and I'm on my phone so apologies in advance for grammar and formatting. So, I've recently started a new diet, which is making me a hell of a lot more regular than normal. The morning coffee has started to take effect and I'm feeling the pains of an imminent shit. It's just gone break time, so everyone is slowly getting up to go get food, I announce that I'm quickly nipping to the loo before everyone goes",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Co-Borrowing my Mothers Home/Tax Deduction POST: My mother is a widow who receives a foreign widows pension, she also works part time. She makes enough money to pay her monthly bills+mortgage, but because she makes so little declared income, she is not getting anything from the mortgage interest tax deduction. I am on the opposite side of this spectrum. I have a low 6-figure income, but I have no property, no children, I am not married, and I cant even deduct my IRA contributions",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, who was your most memorable crush? POST: My most memorable crush was on a guy named Andrew when I was in high school. We were both in band, and I wanted to sit by him very badly but was down in the fourth chair position, while he was first chair. We didn't have any chair testing that first year because our director was very new, but sophomore year we did. I knew this, and practiced a complex piece for months to prepare for it. I beat out the other two seniors and got to sit in th",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Is it unreasonable for me (F22) to feel offended and upset...? POST: Yesterday at work I saw a dude pissing all over our unloading dock. I work in the produce department of a large grocery store and we compost lots of material at the end of the night. As we were heading out last night, there was a dude peeing all over the stairs out back. I told him to leave immediately, and he walked away pissing before getting in his car and sitting in a no-parking zone, watching me and a male cow",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my girlfriend [24 F] we have been together for over 2 years, it's time to move to the next step, but i have concerns. POST: To start off, i have been married once before, and have a 5 year old daughter that i share custody with my ex-wife. My current girlfriend (we'll call her Jen) and i have been together for almost 2 and a half years. I believe that we are almost ready to move on to the next level and get married and start thinking about growing our family, but i d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[23/F] with my Boyfriend [23M] 2 years, need to bring the spark back, I need advice on how POST: We started dating when we were 21 and we had so much fun together. Most of it involved drinking with our friends. Then we moved to California together and we just had each other. We were still having a lot of fun exploring new things and being on our own. Then we moved home about a year ago. Things haven't been the same since. I don't drink as much as I used to and wish he wouldn't drin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my [18 F]Girlfriend of 3 years broke up today... over skype POST: We started dating in grade 10 and everything was perfect until march of last year when during the break she randomly decided to end it with me only to come back within 6 days, I figured nothing of it and I never used that in our fights(the little amount we had) and moved on from it because I thought things got better. She recently joined the military and has been having doubts about us lasting, during re",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my friend [25 M] of four years – I think he stole my wallet [Non-Romantic] POST: This guy has sticky fingers – he pockets lighters when the bowl is being passed around, he picks up more cards than he's supposed to during games of Catan. Most seriously, he's been observed pocketing the tip on communal bar/restaurant bills by mutual friends. My friend group tolerates it because he's a nice enough guy and it doesn't happen often, nor has it ever been suuuuper serious. He",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [28 M] want to pursue her [24 F], but not so sure after what she said last time. Please advise want would be the right thing to do. POST: So, I've working at the same organization for the last 5 year, and the company went through a major re-structuring about 4 months ago. As per the new norms, we have an HR who sits along with us to ensure that all our employee problems are resolved in time. I have a crush on the new HR lady and have been talking to her for the last 1 month or so. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you break up with someone madly in love with you? POST: Here is a little back story. I was raised up as in a strict christian family, and I was taught that sex before marriage was prohibited by god. Roughly a year ago, after I went to college I became an atheist and I had sex with two girls, then I started dating my girlfriend. I've been with my girlfriend for 8 months, and everything is good between us. I love her, but I'm not sure I'm in love with her. She tells me every single",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [M24] Looking for and idea to ask a friend out[F23] POST: Long story short I hope...anyway I have known this girl for about 8 years and have been hanging out with her and her friends a lot for the past four years. We all get along very well, and always have a great time together. She just moved back home and I see her every weekend. She brings a friend around one weekend and we end up getting pretty drunk. I end up talking to the friend for awhile and was in the process of kissing he",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [15/m] don't know what to do with her [18/f]. POST: Alright, I'll admit it: I need help. First off, I'd be happy being ''just friends'' with this girl who we'll just call Lisa, but I want so much more. I really only met her once, until the Friday before last. I'm instantly greeted with a hug and ''I missed you so much!''. I was actually surprised she remembered my name, because the last/first time I met her was at least 4 months ago. Anyway, I was at my brothers when all thi",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFUpdate: I can hear again! POST: Here's my original post from a week ago: Basically, I stuck a q-tip in my ear, shoved some wax deep into my ear canal, and could hardly hear anything for a week. Well, I'm very pleased to say that my ear has cleared up. I kept applying drops of hydrogen peroxide and carbamide peroxide, and I used a bulb syringe to squirt water into my ear and get out the wax. One day, after several days of treatment, I squirted the water into my ear, and several huge globs",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I think my boss is screwing me over and doing something that is possibly illegal. POST: I work at a hotel and the employees clock in with time cards. Shortly after I started working there I received several aggressive notes from my boss about overtime. Apparently it's completely unacceptable. So I started being careful about the amount of time in which I was clocked in. I got it exactly to 8 hours, that is unless the shift after me was late, so I'd get some overtime. Yesterday on ou",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Crazy ex room mate blew up letterbox, what can i do? POST: So im moving in with my step sister in a few weeks to go to university and for the last year she had another housemate who's ex girlfriend has a restraining order on him because of physical abuse, my step sister felt uncomfortable living with him. He was given three months notice that he had to go as was required by the contract he signed and moved out a few days ago and i hoped i'd never hear of him or see him again. Last night",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21M] girlfriend [21F] of four months told me that I am ""average"" in bed and that I do it like a ""typical white-boy."" How exactly do I react to this and how can I prevent my self-confidence from being crushed? POST: I have been dating this girl for about 4 months now and I was unable to have sex with her for the first month due to sexual anxiety. Finally, I became comfortable enough to have sex with her and it was pretty good. For awhile it was more or less the same stuff in bed",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 F] accepted a ""dinner at his [31 M] place"" date invite too soon. POST: I [24 F] have been on one great date with this guy [31 M]. We talked very openly and had a lot of fun. We met online. Everything regarding what we discussed and his profile points to the fact that he's looking for love, not casual sex. We've discussed cooking at length and so a date for us to cook together isn't entirely strange based on our conversations. For our second date, he's invited me over to his pl",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [23M] girlfriend [26F] doesn't seem to be over her old Tinder hookup POST: Backstory: I started dating my girlfriend in September of last year. Sometime earlier in the year she met a guy on tinder who was from out of state but in our town for the weekend. They stayed in touch and over the next few months she made multiple trips to visit him (6+ hour drive one way) and they were semi-serious. She ended up breaking it off because she didn't want to do the LDR thing. Fast forward to",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Advice on a Trip to Greece? POST: Hi Reddit! This summer mark's my mother's 50th birthday and her and my father's 20th year anniversary- and to celebrate my family was going to go to the one place she always wanted to go, Greece (Athens, Santorini and Crete.) However, with all the economic/social turmoil lately, we are starting to worry (we will be there in late June/ early July right after the next set of elections.) Is this worry valid? Is there a chance that we could be stuck there in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[17 M] am sending flowers to my potential gf[17 F] We've only been on two dates together through 6 months, lot of potential, I want to know what to write in the card POST: We first met when she needed my help asking out my friend to a school dance. We hit it off at the dance even though we weren't eachother's date. That was about 6 months ago. We talked on occasion up until our most recent date. I took her out to get breakfast and go walking down by the river. I like her a lot, and ",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: I [22] honestly believe I've had a Hershey tinfoil wrapper stuck in my right nostril for 10+ years POST: So this is kind of bizarre but it is on my mind. I am a 22 year old male. The other day I had an incredibly vivid memory, back to about 15 years ago, give or take. I was sitting in my basement playing video games. I had just finished a Hershey kiss, the kind with the sort of tin foil wrapper. What I decided to do, after mindlessly making a ball out of the wrapper, was check to see whet",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: How Much of a Mortgage can I Afford? POST: I am graduating from college this May. I've worked hard the last few years to remain mostly debt free (No Student loans, and only a small car payment at 0% interest), worked full time throughout college to build a decent savings, and recently got hired for a post-graduation job in Atlanta. I am married (no kids), and with our move in May, we have decided we would like to purchase our first home. The only problem is I don't know what is a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my SO [23M] of 4ish months, says we have no future. POST: I met my SO a little under 4 moths ago, and we really hit it off, We have great chemistry, both in and out of the bedroom. I thought things we going well, even though we had never had a talk about where we going/what we were aiming for etc. I got asked on a date yesterday, and I brought this up to my SO this morning, he wasnt very happy and said he'd call me after work. I tried calling twice this evening, then h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] can't cope with my boyfriend's [22M] past flirting habits. POST: We've been dating for more than a few months now, and we met online. Before he met me, he would message tons and tons of girls and sleep with a lot of people, pretty much every week. We're talking about sleeping with one-two girls every week and messaging over 20. Now that we are together, it's not that I don't trust him- I trust him completely and I know he would never, ever cheat on me. But it creeps me out t",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Stepped on earrings, what should I do? POST: My gf accidentally dropped/left a brand new set of earrings lying on the ground (5 pairs to be exact) and the the heel of my foot stepped on all 5 pairs, I fell to the ground and I noticed that I left blood on the floor. I think the bleeding stopped but it still hurts like hell. I was just wondering if it good to just clean it with alcohol and then band-aid it up? I'm not sure how infection works with the foot, I tried googling it but it just to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my ___ [26 F] of 4 years makes me miserable POST: I feel like our relationship reached its climax a long time ago but she is too in love/weak to accept that and move on. We almost seperated a couple of years ago but she threatened to kill herself if I left and it worked. I still love her and always will.... I've tried incredibly hard to fall back in love since then but it just isn't there anymore. Why do I want to leave? She constantly complains......there is hardly ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by offering Chocolates to my boss's children. POST: To start with, I don't have a great relationship with my boss. So I am always trying to impress him with stuff. Today, he brought all of his 4 kids to the office. I usually keep a bowl filled with chocolates on my desk so that I can socialize with people in the office. (LPT: A bowl of chocolates on your desk can be a great conversation starter if you are a little introverted). The chocolates are all different. Kisses, Hershey's, Dark ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [27F] can't let go of my ex [31 M] of 2 years, because there has been no retribution or remorse from him - UPDATE POST: It's been 1 month and 10 days since I found out my ex (who I was going to marry, he was my first almost-everything) had been manipulating using me like his property. He had another girlfriend for 5 months in between us. The story is here: But still, I wake up angry or extremely devastated from the trauma. Now and then, I will remember little details and piece th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [38 M] with my GF [33 F] 8 months; Girlfriend is a moocher that I want out of my home. POST: I have allowed my girlfriend to move in with me because she and her son were being kicked out of the house they were sharing with another mother and child because she could not find a job to pay her half of the rent. I had huge reservations about this when she initially asked to move in because I'd been through this kind of thing before, and I didn't want to be stuck taking care of two peo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] Her [20 F] Only have friends number and her first name. POST: So I went out this weekend and didn't get too drunk and met this amazing woman called Jess, she's absolutely perfect, we danced for 4 hours and I don't mean dance as in the shuffle or some random drunk moves I mean we both knew how to dance and took it from there holding each other close and so forth. Anywho, we had so much fun that when she went at the end of the night I completely forgot to ask for her number,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] and my Gf [18 M] are having trouble meeting, and it's straining the relationship POST: My gf has incredibly strict, controlling parents. They don't allow her to be out of the house for very long, and it's impossible to be together for more than say 4 hours at a time, MAX. We live 2 hours apart so that doesn't help. It's hard to have a relationship when you can only meet on every other weekend for at most 4 hours at a time! Her parents are by far the biggest issue here. Th",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I Hate My Disturbed Cousin POST: I care about all my family to some extent. Everyone in his family besides him has some redeemable feature. He's just an awful accident to me. He's 26 morbidly obese, a slob, unemployed, and mentally unstable. He doesn't even want to get diagnosed because he thinks the whole world's out to get him (Though he always screams at my aunt about not caring about his health). He puts himself above everyone; making great claims to be an inventor of motorcycles, e",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Kinda hard to title, Age issue POST: Hello everyone, (Sorry for formatting and bad english! I'm on mobile and english is not my main language!) Here is my issue: First of all I'm a 22 years old male. Last month, I started to talk with a girl online that I met in a game, after talking for a while we realised that we had a lot of things in common, we talked to each other each day and had a lot of fun. We learned a lot about eachother, and I learned that she lives in Europe. On",negative " r/relationships TITLE: OK to be friends with an EX? HELP! POST: My (28M) SO, thinks it's ok to be friends and regularly speak with his ex girlfriends. We've only been dating a few months, but this bothers me and I don't know how to bring it up. When I've (24F) mentioned that he's giving these girls the wrong idea, one in particular who won't leave him alone, he says it's not a big deal and they will not get the wrong idea. He's told me that this particular girl is still ""in love"" with him, but he does no",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 F] girlfriend wants to try again with me [18 M] after I said I'd fallen out of love. POST: So this girl and I have been going out since September. We were deep in the honeymoon phase and I felt that she was the one. Coming into the new year, I began to see her more and more as a friend and honestly felt that I'd fallen out of love with her. I told her all of this and kept the friendship door open, which she agreed to. A few weeks go by and we're hanging out and we start talki",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/f] Should I break up with my (19/m) boyfriend or keep trying? POST: So I've been only been officially with my boyfriend for two months but one month ago, he went to Tahoe to work at a camp for the entire month. Over there, he had no service and couldn't really call me as often (I wasn't able to call since 99.9% of the time he was busy or had no cell service) but I was fine with that since I knew he was too busy. So three weeks in, I thought we're all fine and dandy just wit",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Situation, people pushing wrong button. Need to find a 'button cover' Google fails hard POST: Basically at my job site we have 'push for service buttons' which conveniently are located next to the push for ticket button (parking garage) at our entrances. 100s of times a day people are pushing the wrong button and either don't say anything when we answer the intercom or immediately and annoyingly yell 'SORRY!!' Besides being annoying, it also can plug up the intercom line with too much",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Started group therapy to improve my empathy skills toward my[f20] boyfriend[m20]. It's bringing up resentment on my part. POST: Boyfriend and I have been together a year, long distance the whole time. We have met three times and have a fourth meeting planned. I love him. We have a great,stable relationship that we maintain despite the distance. Overall I couldn't be happier with anyone else. I'm not a great listener. I never have been. I'm perfectly happy to try to fix that (well no",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Is it okay to not finish my degree for a while? POST: My degree was shit. I swear I tried in school, I'm 4 classes away from graduating, but my GPA stands at 2.5ish. Classes were never my thing. Additionally, my college was ranked near dead-last out of the 4year schools in the state recently -_- I won a major hackathon and an engineering conference recently though and got noticed by a very well-known company. I love my job there and am being promoted in the next month. There is a clear track",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Charge me extra for your mistake? I'll rustle your jimmies POST: A little about me: I am a Redditor with a phone and an insatiable lust for rustling jimmies. The fixer guy performed his ""business"" from home (not even sure if legal), a house with Christmas decorations still up, 10 cars shared between the driveway and in the front yard. The house itself was quite a mess, and the feeling of the house itself was quite dilapidated. You may question why I would take my phone to be fixed in",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Is kissing required on the first date? POST: I am a very confident person (30, M), and if I like someone I enjoy showing it and I'm not afraid to do so. Yes I still get nervous leading up to it. But I feel as though kissing is required on the first date to really indicate my intentions. However, on my 2 of my last 6 dates, I really liked the girl so when I went for the kiss they both mentioned that its too early to kiss, or they don't kiss on the first date. They were turned off by ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[16M] Father[36M] ""doesn't know"" why I don't want to see him POST: Backstory: My parents got divorced when I was 10, I have never really liked my dad. He always yelled and apparently abused me when I was a baby, but I'm not going to completely believe that as I have no solid evidence except for my mother's word. He also always threatened my 3 siblings and I when we were younger and I was completely terrified of him. He yelled at my mom a lot as well, but I might've been too young t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need to network my life... Suggestions? POST: Hey everyone, So I'm moving into a new place, and in the process trying to organize/simplify my personal and work life and need to figure out the best way organize access to information/media/etc. What I would like is essentially secure access to my files from anywhere (my laptop, bedroom pc, space ship, etc.). After doing some thinking, my initial thoughts are to set up a small server (which I have, well it's a hp media server, but I f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my GF [21F] of 18mo, Porn and Trust issues POST: So I told my girlfriend that I have looked at porn while we've been together. She told me that she thinks less of people that do porn and look at porn and that she is heavily against it. This was last night and I don't know if she will be able to get over it. She also likes to express how she doesn't trust me at all. Today she saw me looking at another girl and wont get off my ass about checking her out. She is convinced",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20'sM] girlfriend [20'sF] has an extensive sexual history and some escorting. She does not allow me to have feelings about it. POST: This is a throwaway. We are both the same age and in our early twenties. We've been dating for about a year. I have only had sex with two girls before her. 3 months into our relationship she told me she's had sex with 10+ guys, I was upset and had a bad night and made her feel bad for it. Apologized profusely the day after. Brought it up once again",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Gear Heads (Petrol Heads) of Reddit, Please help. POST: Hi All, I have a problem with my 2002 Saturn L300. It burns oil. I have decided that spending $2000 to fix this issue is not worth it. However, the trade off is that I need to keep my fluids in check. Fast forward to my last car inspection and I needed some work. After this, I noticed that there was a wire hanging out of the front of my car where the ""grill"" is. I thought nothing of it. Well, now I need to top off my oil and",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (m/24) want to get back with my ex (f/24), not really sure how to go about it POST: We dated for 2 and a half years starting our senior year in college. Obviously life changes a lot when you graduate and for the most part we did great. Fortunately I was able to get a good job that really set me up for the future. Unfortunately it changed my schedule and limited the time we got to spend together. This is were our issues came from. Before we didn't really fight about anything b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] think my best friend [17F] is telling me she loves me through twitter (dating) POST: (before anything me and my best friend have known each other since elementary school and we've been super close for as long as i can remember) Very recently i made a twitter (because i think social media is pretty dumb and recently got convinced to do it) and my best friend immediately told me to follow her, i did and immediately found out how much edgy stuff she retweeted, no big deal, the",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (25m) Unsure what to do... Help. POST: I (25m) just started dating a super sweet and nice girl that my best friend set me up with. She's super cool but a little on the young side (20f). We've gone on two dates and have had fun both times and we get along alright. However late into the night of the 2nd date she revealed to me that she's a Virgin by choice... As in until marriage.. I am NOT. she told me several guy have stopped dating her because of that and I was so shocked and ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My girlfriend (18/f) and I (21/m) ""have to"" break up in September. POST: She's going to au pair in France for a year and go to school in a different city when she's back. We desperately love each other. I can do the things I want in life and stay with her. That includes living in France. I don't want to stay here and take another gap year from school (had some registration problems). I want to experience something new. And I could do that and be with her. She said she can't do",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Music to my ears POST: After graduating college, I move back into my parent's house - as it's the cheapest rent in town - while trying to find a job/movethefuckout. Well, the job market is phenomenal and all, so I'm still here. Needless to say, my mother and I do not get along very well, and do not see eye to eye on really anything; this includes sleep schedules, of which we have opposites (her: early to bed, early to rise | me: reddit, ""where the fuck did the night go?""). As of late,",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are there any true pursuits of knowledge left? POST: I grew up as a fairly intellectual child. Certainly not a genius or anything, but I have always had a legitimate desire for knowledge, as I'm sure many people on reddit and around the world are. A desire for almost any kind of knowledge, spanning the arts, sciences, mathematical concepts, philosophy, you name it and put it in an interesting context, and you've got my interest. I dreamed of going on to college/university and pursuing a ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Relationships based on lies? [23M] POST: So I have a problem with every new relationship (platonic or otherwise) that I get into, and old relationships I still have. I'm really not a fan of drugs or substance abuse. It freaks me out to the point of panic attacks. I can't stand looking into the faces of people who are high (I can take drunk people but I'm still uncomfortable) because it scares me that they're not present and that they're not the same as I knew them before they ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Jobs for forced retirees? POST: By ""forced retiree"" I mean people that are in their late 50s to early 60s, that are not yet ready to retire but lost their jobs due to extenuating circumstances; such as: the company is looking for younger demographic of employees, the company need to let go of employees, or their position was no longer needed. I am asking for my dad who is in his late 50s and worked 30 years as a stock broker in the same company. He was let go because the stock mar",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Reddit - ever seen a ghost? I have. Even though I don't believe in them. POST: I'm not particularly superstitious. But I know something weird happened that night. Last year I suffered from severe depression, with, at its worst, bad panic attacks and agitation. My friend used to let me sleep over at her place when I was really upset to give me a break from my home and family. One night when I was feeling particularly irrational and unwell, I was over at her place again and slept be",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU because of a parachuting fantasy POST: It's more like ten years ago I fucked up but... Anyway, I was eight years old and I had a loft bed. You know how bunk beds have a top bunk? Well this was like a bunk bed but with only a top bunk. So, little me was really close to the ceiling, but there was enough room for me to sit on the railing that prevented me from falling out... well, that's what it was intended to do. This time, it ""helped"" me live out my parachuting fantasies. I had a knit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How to politely tell my [M22] father [55] to give me space POST: My dad just got his second divorce and is incredibly lonely right now, and is planning on making a huge trip to come visit me from another state. He's planning in visiting for my birthday, but I know its best for him to stay put and just go in with his life without using me as one source of happiness. What I need is to make my life about me. I have my own work, friends, and problems I need to work on, and having him aro",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's the best way to fix my biggest personal flaw? POST: I have always hated myself for it, but I don't like reading. I honestly hate reading. I have always been a very slow reader. Sometimes I have to reread things because I don't get it the first time through and my position on reading has always hindered my studies/grades. The best advice anyone has ever given me is ""just keep at it, practice with books you like and you'll get better."" It's hard to find books I like, I get",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is the meaning of life? POST: I'm finishing up my college years, and after spending so much time in a classroom, memorizing facts to get better grades at an institution I am spending an absurd amount of money to be at, I sometimes wonder if I would be happier if I had taken a different route. I'm surrounded by people who devote their lives to studying for tests, and at least to me, I prioritize differently -- I value human interactions over almost everything. People are impo",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Dietitians... Who's gone to them, and are they super helpful? POST: Yesterday I went to the doctor for an Upper Respiratory Infection. My blood pressure was a little high at first but later went down to normal territory, and when I expressed concern, my doc told me he could put me on blood pressure meds. I told him no thanks, I don't want to be 25 years old and on bp pills. So I asked if he could write an order for me to see a dietitian, get them to help me out. Today I'm hunting down a die",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (24m) girlfriend (25f) is feeling guilty about her mom taking care of her grandma. POST: My (24M) grilfriend (25f) is feeling guilty that her mother has to take care of her grandma who is bipolar and has dimentia. It hurts her to see her grandma in that kind of shape because she wants to have good memories of who she was and not remember her how she is acting lately. What can I do to help take away her guilt of having her mom take care of her grandma? (Her dad, the grandmas son, p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I tell my sister that her boyfriend creeps me out? POST: My sister is 20, and her boyfriend is 18. They've been together for about a year now, and every time I see him (which is often because I live with my sister), I get these really bad/uncomfortable vibes. He's never done anything creepy or wrong, or even given signs of going in that direction, but he just feels to me like the kind of person who could. It's a gut feeling, and I do not like it when he's around. I feel unwe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] have wierd dreams about old friend [18F] making me question feelings for girlfriend [18F] POST: I was super close with this friend until 1yr ago when I started dating my girlfriend. This friend and I went to the same school and we hung out alot on breaks and got together on weekends to party. 1-2 months before I started dating my current girlfriend we started having moments that almost led up to kisses but I always pulled away because I was too insecure and was afraid of her ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(18f) ex-boyfriend(18m) has chosen to not speak to me after 7 years of friendship. POST: My boyfriend of nearly 3 years, and best friend for 7 broke up with me 2 weeks ago. After be broke up with me, out of no where, stating that he no longer loved me enough to pursue a long distance relationship has chosen to ignore all of my text messages and calls. I don't even know what to do anymore because I only want to be friends. I think, to be honest with you, i message him in hopes for",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me: 19/F. My boyfriend [20/M] wants to test the waters with other women. We're in an LDR. POST: As the title says, my boyfriend wants to ""test the waters."" We've been best friends for a while and basically tell each other every aspect of our lives, and what's going on. Through a series of events, he and I ended up getting together and very much love each other. We've been officially together for about 3 months now. Problem is that previously, he lacked a lot of confidence. No",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 F] with my bf [28 M] 10 months, this is the first relationship when I often have tiny fights (that always ends on a good note) and I just want your insight about it. POST: Nothing dramatic happening, but I guess I just wanted everyone's insight about this. I have been dating this guy I met on a dating site a year ago, and we've now been dating for 10 months. We are really happy together, and have similar hobbies, humour, tastes, plans... and are overall very compatible. We've ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (f/20) haven't seen my boyfriend (m/20) in a month and I'm really worried it's going to be awkward! POST: We met in our first year of uni (lived together in a shared flat) and became really good friends. About five/six times in the first year we hooked up. We never had sex but pretty much did everything except the actual deed. When we weren't doing stuff we never discussed or mentioned the fact that we hooked up and nobody in our circle of friends knew about it. This year ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: How should I invest $75,000 at the age of 21? POST: Hi Reddit! For christmas this year, my family offered to buy me a new car, as the one I have been driving for the last 5 years is starting to get older and is starting to accumulate more miles. However, my dad purchased the car pre-owned and I recently found out that he opted for a 10 year/100,000 mile warranty. I think a $100,000 car might not be the best for me right now, as I am still in college and the parking lots around camp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend [24 F] 4 months, just broke up with me POST: I woke up to about 8 texts saying things like: i've been crying all night, i need to tell you something, i met my x yesterday from brazil (yes he moved from brazil to new zealand to get back with her). In her texts he said she still loves him. I don't even know anything about him. I told her not to break up by text message, but when i checked her facebook she had already made the breakup quite official. so i ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Weird girl issue POST: Hi. In the end I will simply ask: ""What to do to help her?"". But for now lets talk about facts. Area where it's happening - university. We have small issue with this girl. She is a target for laughs at at the moment, because she doesn't know what she's doing. In fact - she doesn't even realize she is not officially a student (sic!). I'll start here. She went to our classes (as she often do), then proceeded to ask professor irrelevant question. It was very distu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [14m] thinks my [14f] parents [40s m/f] are abusive. what do you think reddit? POST: Hey guys, i""ve read this sub before and i want some perspective on this. So, my friend, Jake, he's my best friend and we've known each other since kintergarden almost. The other day he said, that he thinks my parents might be abusive. My parents are my dad and, my mom Jennifer, I don't think they do anything out of the ordinary for parents though they are strict. I asked Jake what he mea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] and my girlfriend [22 F] of 5 months are both worried we're too attached. POST: My girlfriend and I hang out everyday. We've known each other for 6 months, and as we've fallen in love with each other we've become inseparable. She basically lives at my place, we eat together, do homework together (same major, a lot of same interests). We get along great and love spending time with each other. One time she had to go somewhere for a day, and when she came back the next day we ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is it wrong for me(26m) to break up with girlfriend(21f) of one year when everything is good. I just want to be alone. POST: More details- I have been with my girlfriend for over a year and we live together. The passed couple of months I have not been into the relationship at all when on paper everything should be perfect. She is a truly great girlfriend but I just feel like at this point in my life I need to be alone. I rushed into this relationship a little fast, we moved in togeth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [28M] and I [27F] have very different views on finances and it's tearing us apart. POST: Hello r/relationships! I'm pretty sad right now and need some advice. My bf and I have been together for 4 years. Everything works out great between us except whenever the 'money' topic comes up, we will argue. Last night, we were talking about his student loans and a huge argument came up. He has about $60k of student loans with ~7% interest. He has a job now and I think that his ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 F] feel like I have to initiate every conversation with my friends. POST: Using a throwaway because people know my regular account So I'm in my senior year of high school and I feel like I have accumulated a great set of friends. I even have a group (though due to a break up within the group has not been together very often) where we do group things. We're on winter break and so I've been away to another state for the entirety of the two weeks. The break is almost completely",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] and my girlfriend [20F] of three years, and right now I have no idea how to cheer her up and I can tell she's getting very depressed. Any advice would be more than remarkable. POST: Basicly me and my girlfriend have been together for three years and everything is going great.. With the exception of one recent problem. About a mounth ago she got into a major car crash and has been wheelchair bound for weeks now. Between the bills racking up (since she can't work), and her v",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M]. My grandfather [84 M] has passed away and asked me to play Taps at his funeral. POST: My grandfather recently passed away. A couple months before his death, he asked if I would play taps for him at his funeral (I play the trumpet, he served in the Korean War). I told him I would do this for him because it seemed like it was the last thing he wanted and I had no idea how I could possibly turn him down. Now that the time has come I don't know if I can get up in front of hi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My aunt [40sF] is lying to her kids [11-16M/F] about me [22F] living with my boyfriend [25M]. I'm not comfortable lying to my cousins. What do I tell them? POST: My aunt is teaching her kids that premarital sex is unacceptable, and by extension, that living with a partner before marriage is also unacceptable. While I disagree with her, it has never really concerned me before. I always figured that her kids and I had a relationship that would allow them to feel safe approaching me w",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: (Harmless) Spiked Muffins for our Principal POST: So a few years ago, me and my group of friends got ourselves firmly put on our high school principal's shitlist. How this came to be is irrelevant to the story, but suffice to say we did something bad and I won't try to justify it. Regardless, after said bad event the principal just simply would not leave us alone. Every day he'd make a point of checking up on us, making sure we were on our best behaviour and generally slandering us w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] is having an incredibly tough time with a unfortunate break up scenario with my girlfriend [19F] of 2.5 years. POST: We have been together for 2.5 years. She's a freshmen in college I'm a junior. I recently transferred to go to school at home and she is at a party school. She is in a soririty and always hangs at frat houses. I know I'm doomed because she feels like she's been ""missing out"". It really crushes me. She broke up with me the day before new years and made out with",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm wondering if the age gap between me [24 M] and someone I'm dating [18 F] will be a problem for a relationship. POST: I've gone on a few dates with a girl I met through a mutual friend and think there's something there. Unfortunately, as someone who's working to get over a mild case of Fat Boy Syndrome I'm a little insecure about how our age gap will be perceived. The age gap is largely explained by a different educational path and a 2 year period of mandatory military service o",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My roommate is growing weed in the garage and was recently arrested for possession. Should we make him get rid of everything? Or are we being paranoid? POST: Like the title says my roommate has a small grow operation in the garage (3 plants small 5x5 tent) we also live in washington state where it's legal to possess marijuana, however growing is illegal without the proper paperwork which he doesnt have. We as roommates decided he's fine to grow since there is no reason we'd ever be c",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I love my girlfriend, but she can be the hugest bitch to me, but when I bring it up or call her out, it just starts a fight. I feel stuck. POST: Hi all. So, basically, I love my girlfriend. We've been together 4 years now. She is sweet and kind and super cute, and we have a lot of fun together, but she can also be very snippy, short-tempered, self-absorbed, complainy, stubborn, and mean, especially during the week before and during her period (but also the rest of the time.) Co",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by chasing a girl POST: So this actually happened about nine years ago, but TIFU by trying to chase a girl. There was a new girl that worked at a store where I was a regular and I had a crush on her from the first day she started. I hit it off with her pretty well and would talk to her when I came in, along with the rest of the employees since we knew each other pretty well (small store). Once a month the employees would get together and go see a movie at the theater next to their work ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [23F] be charging my friends [18 - 35, mixed] entry to my party? POST: This is a weird one. I am throwing a big party in November. As I work in a tattoo shop, in a heavily tattooed area in a small town, I know a LOT of local business owners. So when I decided to throw it, it made sense to use local resources for it to support them like they support us. I have hired a venue, DJ, band, bucking bull (weeee!) as well as lighting, sound equipment, smoke machines, hazers, organi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [21/f] and my boyfriend [24/m] doesn't see a future with me. Should I break it off? POST: We've been dating for a little less than a year and my boyfriend is very career oriented and has already decided that he will move far away for his career in the next few years. He mentions it as if it is nothing but it really hurts my feelings because it's a constant reminder that we will part in the future. I have also been feeling that he has put less and less effort into our relati",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Finish getting my AS at Community College then transfer? Or Transfer now? POST: So I'm trying to decide if I should stick it out at my Community College and get my Associates in Computer Science or try and transfer to the college I""m aiming for ASAP and get right into the Game Design and Development program. I'm in my second semester at Community College for CompSci and I'm way ahead of the class. The curriculum at this school moves way too slow IMO and I'm actually planning on writing the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me a [16M] met a [14F] at a wedding, is this creepy? POST: Last week I attended a wedding in England (am English) at which the best man lives with his daughter, 14, in NC. The girl seemed pretty funny and cute, but there were other younger children in which she seemed to stay with nearly all of the time. During the week I didn't see her much and didn't really even speak to her except making her laugh a few times while in a group. My sister exchanged contact details with her including",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my gf [28 F] 2 years, junk food... you can see where this is going POST: Hey everyone, Late twenties male here in a year-plus relationship. I'm sure this will come off as awful and superficial but I can't pretend like it doesn't bother me anymore. Also, I'm certainly not the first person to encounter this problem. My girlfriend is very nice, successful and highly attractive. We rarely have any fights or even small qualms. However, since we've met she has gained wei",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What coincidences have unnerved you so badly you will never forget them? POST: Years ago, my grandfather suffered multiple stokes. He spent his last couple weeks in the hospital and we would go see him as much as we could. He would always stare at me, no matter who else was in the room. He would raise his hand toward me, and moan or try to talk (this was impossible for him due to the strokes). I was there the day he died, and he looked at me, reached for me, and began doing what I can on",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What can I do about a for-profit business opening within the animal rescue I work at? (Both are owned by the same person) POST: Throwaway account...anyway... The president of the animal rescue I work is wanting to open a grooming salon + boarding facility for the public, with profit from this going to our rescue, I guess as a donation? I don't know. I have so many problems with this. She's wanting to put the salon INSIDE our kennel building, using our largest room for housing adult dogs",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: The future, the future, the future. POST: First, background: we're both in college; she is 20, I'm 21, and I'll be graduating in a couple months while she will be remaining here for two more years, including spending next semester abroad in France. We've been dating for a year and a half, including the whole long distance thing last summer (we live on opposite coasts) and the whole meet-the-parents schtick. Long distance was hard, but we made it through, and now we're basically",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] have anger issues that have caused me to lose my [24M] boyfriend... POST: The three serious relationships I have been in have all be hurt because of my anger. My anger has only caused one person to break up with me but the other two relationships have ended after a long build up for my anger and their anger. My most recent break up was the one that broke up with me. I am very sensitive and anger quickly, especially when I am under stress. On top of this, I tend to have panic ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Business Idea - How should I pursue it?? POST: Reddit, I am a young (25 year old) Business Professional doing mostly Marketing and Business Development work. Ironically, I earned my Bachelor's Degree in Psychology (graduating at the top of my class) - and yet somehow I have found myself working a standard 8-5:30 job that pays a comfortable living wage. In the time I've been working at my current job, I've had several upstart business ideas that I've developed marketing plans for. Brandi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (M/19) have been on and off with my ex (F/22) of 5 years for a couple of months. POST: I have been broken up with my girlfriend for 5 months. We had been dating for 5 years prior through a long distance relationship. This past year we were finally at university together and it had its ups and downs. At the end of the school year I broke up with her because I wasn't sure if I was in love with her anymore. After bumping into me a month later she contacted me and started talking for a",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU because I didn't check my GF's house. POST: Long time ago when I was in high-school this happened. One day my GF told me her parents were gone for the day and asked me to come over. I was down, my GF and I were known for getting frisky keep in mind. So I met up with her and we went to her place. When we entered she started shouting out for her mom or dad to see if either of them were home. No response came so we went on in. She said that she was going to go freshen up and told me m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your inside joke? POST: When we were in college my roommates and I met a man clearly on some sort of drugs at a bar. He asked us if everything was ok in our lives. My one friend, we'll call him Steve, was going through some stuff at the time answered not really. Drugged man looked Steve dead in the eye, got real close and said, ""Hey. Keep your titties out."" ""...what?"" ""Keep your titties out."" ""But what does that even-?"" ""Just...just...keep your titties out."" Fast forward to a wee",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How hard is it to lift 20kg repeatedly all day? POST: I just applied for a job as a labourer for a meat cold store. One of the questions asked me if I can repeatedly lift 20kg of weight all day. I said yes, but truthfully I have no clue. I'm actually a really short guy (however I do have a bit of muscle, I'm short, not skinny/weedy) and have no clue whether I can actually do it or not. I know I could easily do 12kg all day with one arm, since I tested it on an object I have that I happe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [21M] of 2 years, values his mom's opinion above all others POST: He talks to his mom about literally everything. He's even mentioned to her that I've had trouble shopping for underwear. I was using an app that he relentlessly insisted was stupid until I got rid of it. As soon as his mom started using it he said 'hey that sounds great, NJTH you should use it!' I wanted to dye my hair a bright color, but his mom said it was stupid so that went out the wind",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Friend's ex lives in Canada and won't return her tax forms to the U.S so she can file her taxes. He also is cashing her government checks. What should she do? POST: Well her boyfriend kicked her out in September, she paid the Canadian postal service $40 to forward all of her mail to her new address. For some reason the Canadian government forms were not being forwarded. She did not realize this until a few weeks ago when her ex contacted her to tell her that he had her tax forms and aske",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Help. Used my company card w/o authorisation, can't get refund POST: Hi all Am I as screwed as I think I am? I started my job late last year. I love it and I'm told I'm good at it. My director says I'll be manager next year, and in order to do this they've paid for me to take a course. I have been doing coursework and one of the almost essential aspects of the course required access to paid material via a third party website. Without properly thinking it through, I thought ah it's a work",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is one (true) story you have, that is completely and utterly unbelievable? POST: It's from my dad, but here goes: My dad and his friend from work are huge metalheads. Friend gets tickets to go see Iron Maiden a few towns over in a few weeks, and asks some other friends to go with him. A few days before the concert, however, one of the girls (maybe the guys gf, idk its irrelevant) backs out two days before the show. The guy, knowing my dad is into metal, invites him to go. M",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Life Insurance: Should I stay or should I go? POST: Hello PF: Throwaway account here. Seeking some input on what to do with my current life insurance situation. **Details:** -26M, not married, no dependents -Insurance: 60% Term/40% Whole (Northwestern Mutual). Approx 7x my current salary -Stable Employment, 1x Salary Life Insurance I have a good friend who used to, in his words, ""sling life insurance"". I ended up signing up for a blended term/whole policy with him 4 years ago",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by losing my apartment keys POST: So last night, I was over at a friend's place pretty late (He has Netflix and food. Why WOULD'NT I be there late?), and decided I should get home soon. Around 12am, some of my other friends who were around offer to drive me home. I get out of the car, say goodnight, walk up to my porch to unlock the door to my apartment, and reach for my keys. Here's where everything goes wrong. I'm rummaging through my backpack trying to find my keys, standing in the fr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] of 2+ years broke up ~ month ago, I haven't been able to get her out of my mind and it got me thinking, is it bad to be the ""chaser""? POST: In every long-term relationship I've had (I know, i'm only young, but i've been a long-term relationship kind of guy since I was about 14), I've always found myself to be the ""chaser"" in my relationships. Now, initially the girls seem to be just as much into me as I am to them. But as time goes by, I try my ha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [23/m] be okay with my girlfriend [21/f] hanging out with guys she has had sex with? POST: Pretty simple. My current girlfriend has a pretty big sexual past. We have been exclusive for around 2 months, we were hooking up for about 4 months before that, and fairly good friends for another 6 months before that. She has slept with around 20 guys, while she is only my 2nd. She is friends, stays in touch with, and hangs out with a bunch guys (maybe most) that she hooked up with ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: (CA) Looking for a review of my budget and wondering how you handle overdraft dependance. POST: Hey everyone so I have a pretty sound budget but I would like a second pair of eyes on it. [Budget]( I was unemployed for 7 months so my Visa got maxed out to $7500 at 19.99% and I started with a negative balance in my bank account. I've been working for two months now and still at that negative overdraft balance of $1200 I really want to get back into the black every month instead of",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by bursting my tyre at my driving exam POST: I've been driving for 12+ years with my license from back home. But in the UK, my license is untransferable and I had to take the exam. Well, I've been practising for a few months in the 'wrong side' of the road and this morning was my exam. My instructor was a cool Londoner geezer, but he kept saying out loud whenever I had a minor fault. I was really nervous. I started to get even more nervous, but it was going ok-ish. Then he asked me to ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Relocating and freaking out POST: So a little background on me I currently live in Puerto Rico and I'm 28 and after some time in the US army and a brutal divorce I finally got my life together and last year finally finished my undergrad and applied for a masters program in the US more specifically Miami for January. I was shocked I got in honestly and my long term girlfriend encouraged me to go, so I took it. We agreed to work through it long distance because she's a journalist and has ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My daughter (17F) is going to greater and greater lengths to see a boy (17 or 18 M) her mother and I have told her she is not to see. I am running out of ideas. POST: Up until earlier this summer, I really considered myself luck as a father. My daughter was always very intently focused on her schoolwork, and had her goals set on getting into a good college. I have never before had issues with her disobeying me or her mother. But, earlier this summer she started seeing a boy in her c",negative " r/loseit TITLE: I'm not giving up; my break is over! POST: My resolution this year was to lose weight. So far I've lost 33.8 pounds. I came home from college and losing the weight stopped. I walked less, half heartedly played Wii, and went to snacking. Overall, I do weigh less than when I got out of school, but I'm just not feeling it. But this weekend, I went shopping with my best friends and I was really upset that I wasn't able to buy clothing from the same stores they did. They're both around an 8",negative " r/running TITLE: Reddit, I present to you the story of my PR POST: It was my school's annual 5K, so the runners are students, faculty, and then random other people from the community. I'm 1st on my XC team and I was really hoping to be the first student to win in a while. My main competitor was a 42-year-old who we'll call Steve. Now, Steve was ahead for most of the race, but I stayed connected to him. Then in the last miles, I surged ahead and took first place. I was in first going about 20 meters from th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Would cutting contact be a good idea or should I stay friends with (F) co-worker. Stuck in a weird situation and not sure what to do. POST: I'm a 27 year old male and work at a store with a 19 year old female. Over the past few months, she's been very flirty to me specifically but I did not express any interest in her at first due to the age gap. She would find ways to team up with me on projects and we would be together every day at work until all the co-workers just assumed ther",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [17M] been dating [17F] for half a year. Almost closer to friends than dating. POST: So, I've been dating this girl for about half a year now, we see each other at school every day. She isn't much for physical contact, we've kissed a few times but that's about it. She is a very big studybug and is always doing work so at school I usually leave her to it and try not to bug her. Whenever I'm talking to her, it seems as though she's not very interested in what I'm saying (I'm a ho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf (18 M) cheated on me with his ex after 6 months of dating. Help me (17 F) decide to stay or not? POST: Description of relationship: Me and him have been together for almost seven months now, four of which official. I know, short-term. He's a great guy, not my normal type he's a footballer meathead, but I fell in love with him against my will. He's amazing to me. We both love eachother very much and had great communication. We made eachother better, he motivates me and I sooth",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Thinking of investing in a new car. Work has me driving 40k/yr in my personal car. Doesn't sound doable. What would be a better alternative? POST: So I'm a recent masters level grad in counseling. I currently work as an in-home counselor and make about $20k a year (working part time to have time for my son). The area I service is 50 miles from home. With the amount of clients and frequency that I have to see them, it comes out to about 40k miles a year for work related travel to the service",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27/M] live-in girlfriend [27/F] still wants to maintain a relationship with her exes four year old daughter. POST: I'm a 27/m whose gf recently moved in and things are moving pretty fast (2 months) and seriously. Her previous relationship was with someone with a 4yo daughter, and the relationship lasted 10 months. Multiple times in the past month, her ex has solicited her to come to his place to visit and spend time with him and his daughter. He says his daughter misses her, an",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by skipping work a day for my birthday POST: So, yesterday was my birthday and I made some bad decisions. On Monday, I was working, as usual, and I told my workmates that my birthday was coming up on Wednesday. On our work, they dont allow us to celebrate birthdays, so I didn't commented on that anymore. Yesterday, on my birthday, I woke up, getting ready for work as usual. I received a call from my family that they have prepared small party and a dinner. I was decided to skip work an",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Did I [M 20] cheat on my gf [F 20]? POST: So a couple of nights ago I was at a party that got pretty big and pretty crazy. I got excessively blackout drunk and don't remember 2/3 of the night. Fast forward to the next morning and I wake up next to my girlfriend and apparently Id thrown up everywhere last night, all over the floor and toilet and trash. So im so confused about what happened last night because my gf says I was playing pong with a mutual friend and then she disappe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 M] with my wife [33 F] married 5 years, I suspect she is cheating on me POST: My wife has in the past few months been talking more and more about this guy who works in her office. She has made comments about how he tries to flirt with her, but how it makes her uncomfortable. She says she doesn't want to make a big deal, but she is usually highly confrontational so that alone is unusual. She isn't the sort to try making me jealous, so I don't know why she is saying this to me. ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My mom is going crazy. POST: My parents got divorced when I was 10. After that my mom found a guy named ""jeff"". For around 10 years now, my moms off again on again bf jeff has been ruining her mentally and physically. He has hit her physically several times, and constantly belittles her to a point of little to no self worth. She says that they love each other and they have all these memories together, but the abuse just wont go away. I have been living with my mom for the past month now due",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: The politics of space: I want in POST: Dear Reddit, I am a Public Affairs major with a hard science and poli sci background. Seeing Planetary Resources make their bold prediction to actually make space mining a very real part of the world economy has left me in quite a pickle: I want in on this industry before it takes off, but on the political side. There are hundreds of policy issues dealing with outer space in general, and throwing resource extraction into the mix will only create m",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Almost Getting Banned From Every Walmart and Sams Club in The State. POST: So this happened a good couple years ago. When a friend and I was 12ish(we're 19 now), whatever age you begin puberty. Well straight to the point, got lucky stealing a bunch of YuGiOh cards a few times but the last time... Pretty much the same routine, we'd get some packs of cards and pretend to go looking for his mom, we'd disappear into the clothes section and unwrap them in the middle of the racks(surround",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, do you actually need money to start a non-profit organization or, do I need to find outside funding? POST: My roommates and I have a jar in our kitchen that we throw spare change in throughout the week. We use this change to purchase lottery tickets. *We are all college grads working entry level jobs. It sucks I know, but cubicle life pays the bills.* We are all roughly $30k deep in student loan debt therefore, outside funding seems really impossible until this debt is decrease",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Found out my girlfriend was raped. She blames herself. What should I do? POST: Ok so here is the story from what I've gathered, this happened about a year before I started dating her. She attended a party near the end of her junior year in High School. She never really did alcohol or any drugs before this to much of any extent but this time she went way farther than she intended and ended up getting very crossfaded. Basically at some point during the night she started getting hit on by ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Caught girlfriend sleeping in bed with another man. POST: I work as a part time firefighter and was on shift last night for work. My girlfriend invited me to go to a concert with her and her dad. I told her that I wouldn't be able to find a cover with that short of notice so she said that she was going to invite one of her friends that was a guy. I was fine with that since she wasn't hiding anything from me. When I went to her house this morning she was sound asleep top less with a dude sle",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [19M] looking to reconnect with a middle school classmate. POST: Hey all, this is my first post and I could definitely use some advice. Here's the situation: I graduated middle school (junior high) in 2007. I was kind of a weird kid back then and didn't really understand the saying ""think before you speak"". Anyways, after middle school I went to a high school pretty far away and haven't talked to 99% of the kids from middle school since I graduated in 2007. A few months ago I was loo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 25M, how do you get the will to keep trying when you have stopped finding yourself attractive? POST: I know that when my exes have looked at me, they've seen someone who's gorgeous and have been totally turned on by me physically, in combination with my other character traits. A few months ago, my most significant relationship slowly admitted that she stopped finding me attractive, and that she wasn't turned on by me anymore, she broke it off and left me for another guy with a pe",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the best second-to-newest generation Android phone? POST: First, I apologize for asking sort of a stupid question and if there's a better subreddit for this, then please point me there and I will delete this and post my question there. I currently have a Samsung S3 on ATT. I'm not looking to change carriers or plans. I bought a new case for it because my other case was coming apart and the new one turned out to not be protective. It slips off my phone if dropped and now there's a",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to join the military POST: Hey Reddit. I fucked up bad. First and foremost, this is a throwaway account so my friends and family don't find my regular. Onto the story. So, when I graduated high school, I went *straight* to a recruiter for the Air Force. The whole thing seemed to be cut from golden fabric; I got a 97 on the ASVAB, I passed the practice DLAB on the first go, and I was passing through everything with flying colors. However, something should be said of my hea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/F] love my bf [26/M] but am starting to hate parts of his life aside from me. POST: We have been together for a year. This relationship is better than anything I could ever imagine. We are extremely close and pretty much living together at this point. There are two different things that have been bugging me A LOT lately: 1) He has been sober for 3 years, which I have absolutely no problem with. He frequently attends AA meetings. Well recently, his ex-girlfriend texted him to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [29F] grandparents [81F, 81 M] want their addict son [54M] at my wedding and are creating chaos to get their way. How can I stop it? POST: I am getting married in August. My fiancé and I have paid for it ourselves and have sent invites to 35 people. This small number meant cutting out a LOT of people. I didn't invite my uncle because he had little to do with my life. Plus, he is a drug dealer and addict, lost his kids due to abusing them, and stole multiple houses and cars from ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by Driving My Boss's Car POST: Welp, today it happened. I fucked up. My boss has a 5 speed car and, since I have yet to learn how to drive a manual, he offered to try to teach me. Our shifts end, we go out to the car, and the lesson begins. Everything was going fairly well considering it was my first time really driving a stick. The car died plenty of times but I managed to actually drive it twice. The second time was going alright and I felt pretty comfortable changing gears. Until my ",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Web Developer: Should I Stay Or Should I Go? POST: Hey All, I'm a web developer who is currently working under a contract at a fairly big agency, I've been there for over a year. I was hired originally under a staffing agency, but I have since parted ways with them and work directly for the agency now. My contract is now on a month to month renewal and is salary based. When I started at the agency, I was doing predominantly coding work on a fairly good project (not the greatest, but good).",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 M/F] with my GF [26 M/F] of 9 months. How to deal with past sex tape? POST: Long time lurker, first time post. The header says it all. I will keep it short. After about 9 months together, my GF tells me that she made a sex tape together with her past BF. It was a couple of years back. I got upset. She said she had asked him to delete it, but the guy is apparently a douche and I doubt that this occurred. I like the girl a lot, but I don't like this. It raises questions ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] and my GF [26F] have been together 7 years, but I feel like I'm missing out on experiences by not dating other people? POST: My girlfriend and I have been together since we were 19 and are incredibly in love. Constant talk of marriage, kids etc. I don't see myself settling down with anyone but her for the rest of my life. HOWEVER, a very small part of me thinks that I'm perhaps missing out on having other experineces in life such as meeting other people, going through that ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I don't think we have any common interests. POST: I [F20] love my SO [M24] and we've been together almost six months now. The problem is I'm starting to feel like we have nothing to talk about anymore. I try to show interest in the games he likes, but they're no fun to me. I don't really have any hobbies because I work ~50 hours per week and I'm a night shift worker so I'm pretty limited in that nothing is open whilst I'm awake. We have a really similar sense of humor and we like th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [16 M] friend's [17 F] friend [18 M] is in a bad relationship and has multiple times threatened to kill himself and has hurt my friend as well. POST: I'm not usually very good at writing things like these but I'll try. Let's call my friend Josie and her friend Caleb. This had been going on for a while before I had actually found out about it, and I'm really concerned for my Josie and her Caleb. So Caleb is in a bad relationship with his girlfriend. They hate each other and alway",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20M) am interested in my good friend's sister (18F), but don't know how to proceed without jeopardizing my friendship with her brother (20M). POST: I (20M) recently broke up with my first real gf (20F) after a year and a half. I've enjoyed being single but am now interested in my good friend (20M) of 2 years' sister (18F). My friend told me in passing that his sister thought I was cute and we have chatted a few times, but I don't see her all that much. I'm really attracted to her ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (16M) have a crush on my best friend's (17M) ex-girlfriend (16F)! Help! POST: So I (M16) have been friends with my friend for three years now. We are fairly close, and I'd consider him among the closest of my few friends. He started dating the girl in question about two months after I met her, which was about a year ago. They had a very close relationship, and I didn't really talk to her to often, but I just thought she was cute and was happy that the two of them could have a good ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [24/F] boyfriend [31/M] changes/cancels plans without my consent, and now that we work opposing shifts and don't see each other often it really bothers me. POST: Using my personal/throwaway account. So, this is the happiest relationship I have ever been in an even if this behavior continues, I'll stay with him. But this really gets to me: He and I will have plans to do something, just the two of us, and without waiting for my opinion on the matter, he will invite other people al",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I would really like to see this universally here on Reddit. Do you guys think we can make it happen? POST: I live in northern California and I notice that a lot of young people like to use the word 'GAY' to describe something that they think is stupid or to express distaste for something. I think that it could be offensive to a lot of people. However, a lot of people here have already been incorporating the use of this word into their everyday diction and I don't see an end in sight. Wit",negative " r/college TITLE: Convincing Parents About Major POST: Essentially, the content is pretty positively correlated with the title. My goal is essentially to major in economics as an undergraduate then go on (maybe not instantly) to get a PHD in the same subject. I am not very upfront about my aspirations so very few (and no one that matters) actually are aware of my goals. I'm coming to a point where I really need to decide if that is what I am doing within the next week or two. If things were simple I wou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My 70 year old mother watches TV and smokes all day - yet she says she's not depressed. Whenever I try to address it, to help her change her bad habits, she jumps down my throat. POST: I'm a 42 single woman, who has been dealing with my mother's negativity and low grade depression almost my whole life. My parents got divorced almost 30 years ago, but my mother never re-built her life. She never had a lot of friends to begin with, but as she's gotten older they've become few and far",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to my dining hall while on the phone. POST: First, a bit of background, I am in college and at my school all students are (upon enrollment) signed up for a mandatory full meal plan. Last night I was in a hurry, and on the phone, when I came into the dining hall to eat. At first everything was going fine, I got my food, set it down, got a glass of water, came back, and ate. All the while I was talking on the phone (I know it's obnoxious, I'm sorry, the hall was almost empty). ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20M) have been FWB with (F20) for about a year, and I just became really jealous when I found out about a holiday fling of hers POST: So as the title suggests, I´ve been in an FWB relationship with this girl for about a year, and I´ve always felt quite certain that I´ve never had any affectionate feelings for her, until recently, when I found out about a holiday fling she has with a guy abroad. Now, I`ve always loved hanging out with her, I`ve always been attracted to her physic",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My bf [25 M] and I [24 F] of four years with...DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNN...ring drama POST: Hi /r/relationships, My bf and I have been going out for a few years and things have been great. He is absolutely the man I want to marry and he is over the moon about marriage as well. We are both pretty ""romantic"" people but I would guess that I have a slight edge on him in the practicality department. We have agreed that we want to get married next winter so we are starting with preliminary d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [20 M] unclear where I stand in the eyes of my crush [21 F] POST: I've been trying to get with this girl for a few months now, a classmate of mine in college. We get along really well, have our own inside jokes, make each other laugh during class- the whole jazz. Recently, it's gotten to the point where our friends have been teasing us about dating as if it's just assumed at this point, and I wish it were. Problem is, I've asked her to hang out before to which she replied she wa",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Will You Help Me Put My Money Where My Mouth Is? POST: As you likely know, CISPA was passed by the House of Representatives. This bill – allegedly designed to keep us safe from something or other – is the biggest threat to online privacy and creativity that I've ever seen. The only people it really protects are the individuals and corporations who seem entirely oblivious to the fact that file sharing (even if it is called piracy) is the single best way to advertise and promote things. I",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: he broke my heart, got a new girl almost immediately and 3 months later wants to chill? POST: I am an 18F and dated a 22M for 5 months. My ex always had trust issues (all of his past gf had cheated on him) even though I was a completely loyal girlfriend. Our relationship was a lot of fun and we had many good times together. At the end of the summer he broke up with me because I left to go dorm. Even though my school is only an hour away from home, he said he didn't want to do the long dis",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Was there ever a weird coincidence in your life? POST: I've noticed some weird coincidences in my life recently, three to be exact. My dad brought home a little flower pot with a planted seed in it, and says it's supposed to grow into a really tall flower within like two months. I took care of it, and coincidently the first day it broke out of the soil I met my friend ryan. Me and him bonded every day, and every day the flower grew a little bit more. Eventually right as the bud of the fl",positive " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Help! Dog has become anxious and aggressive after recent move POST: We have recently moved last week about ten minutes from our old two bedroom apartment to a much bigger four bedroom house with a yard. We thought our 11 month old Frenchie would be over the moon about the space and a whole yard just for him. However, he instead seems to be showing signs of anxiety, and aggression since our move. He has been hyper vigilant in the house and will go ballistic over any noise. He doesn't s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] ruining relationship with [25M] because of poor self image and hang ups POST: It brings my SO down as well. I feel like it's putting a strain on my relationship with him and pushing him away. There is a 2 month waiting list at my university for therapy, and I've been through the cycle last year and it was unimpressive. I would love to go to a private practitioner but the ones that I have found that I feel compatible with have an avg session rate of $130-300 dollars. I live",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Value of working from home? POST: My wife and I recently had our third kid and will need to move soon so that we can have more space. We have the option of moving far enough away from my office that commuting would not be possible and so I would work from home. The downsides are we would also be away from my family and our friends, and I would be away from my office and coworkers which can make work a little more difficult. The idea of being home all day with my family is very attracti",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by walking out of a house with a shotgun at a home invasion POST: I know I'm an idiot but basically it went like this... My roommate my friend and I are all chilling at my apartment and my friend gets a call from his mom randomly saying someone had broke into her house and he was still there. So I being the only one with a gun grab my shotgun and we all rush to the car to go over there. We get there and it looks clear but I tell my roommate to stay outside while me and my friend go into ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [30/m] Once I get mad at my wife (27/f), I'm pissed at her all day long. POST: Quite often, something small and stupid happens, and I get pissed off and stay pissed off at her for a long time. Meanwhile, she can just shake it off like it never happened. This morning, we slept in, and I got up, made a coffee, but messed it up because I was still too tired. All I wanted was to wake up. I took one sip before she comes over and opens all the blinds in the house. I get pissed ",negative " r/running TITLE: Beginner needs help with shin splints, please. POST: I used to run track in high school until I busted my knee, then I went to college, stopped running, and gained a ton of weight. I recently graduated and started running again on a paved trail in my town. After a week hiatus, I hit the trail again, and holy smokes it was the worst shin pain I have ever had. I almost couldn't continue, but I pushed through it and took it easy for the rest of the day. I really don't want to quit running, b",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Down 47 pounds in about 3 months. POST: So I found this subreddit through r/fitness, and thought that I should share my story in hopes of helping others out. A few months back I weighed 255 pounds at 6'2. This is the heaviest I have ever been. I was extremely out of shape at this point also, and was eating fast food on a daily basis. My now ex girlfriend had started exercising and dieting and kept pushing me to do the same. So I downloaded the Myfitnesspal app and started counting calories",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How should I [21F] approach my SO about his douchebag best friend he's moving in with? POST: My SO [27M]'s best friend is kind of a scum bag. He is very different from my SO, but they get along very well. They have known each other since grade school, and he got my SO his previous job, so he's not a terrible friend apparently. However, he makes many shitty decisions. He's cheated on every single one of his girlfriends, drives drunk - with beer jugs sometimes in his lap on the driver'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] cheated on my [18F] girlfriend who's moving away next year POST: Ive been with m girl for 10 months now. Last night i had a coworker over after a pizza night and we started kissing deeply. Thats all that happened though I know what I did was wrong, and frankly there isn't a specific reason that I cheated. I just messed up. I feel pretty awful, and I know for sure my girl would be absolutely devastated if I told her. The thing is, she's leaving to the air force next year. S",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29 M] broke up last night with my GF [29F] after 8 years. Feeling lower than low POST: My girlfriend and I have been together since the end of college, struggled to find work in the shitty economy, moved in together, got a puppy, all around grew up together. There were definitely rough patches but I think I convinced myself that things were good/I was happy because I didn't really know what being happy was. The last few months have been decidedly bad (last year not so great eith",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I have been pirating stuff POST: Some background: I am a 17 year old guy heavily into gaming and often want games on the computer (slowly leaning in pc from console) and often i don't have enough money to get them at retail or on steam. I will then go to a .se website and look for what i want there. I always tell myself that I am just getting the full version as a demo until i can support the developer. I got some games and I managed to get 1 of them on gamersgate.co.uk so i deleted the",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: (TEXAS) Contractor won't pay subcontractor. POST: I am a subcontractor for roofing companies. I work for numerous companies. They call me and tell me the address to go to, and I provide the labor for replacing the roof. Then I hand them a bill for the work and they pay me. On September 28/2013 I replaced the roof on a house for a roofing company that I have done numerous roofs for over the last year. I gave them my bill for $1,575.00 and they have not paid me. Their phone number no lon",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: A few questions from a relationship noob POST: 23 y/o M here and I'm currently dating this girl that I met online (OkC) and we've been going out for a month now. She's everything I want in a girlfriend and I couldn't be happier right now. I've never been ""good"" at dating and this is more or less my first relationship that I see getting serious with. I've been asking my friends for advice as I go and I've been mixing their advice with what I think is right in my mind (or what co",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking a long, relaxing,shower POST: It was 8 am and i decided to go into the bathroom, and follow my daily routine. Wash my face, take a piss, and shower. I washed my face and then hopped in the shower, i decided today, being Sunday i would take a shower. Little did i know (or hear in my case) the sink was running. So i continue on showering and relaxing shaving my balls and such, until im interrupted by my dads Spanish girl friend ""water leaking downstairs"". So i immediately jump",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (30M) blacked out, hooked up with (F) who have me a ride home. Not sure if I should tell my girlfriend POST: I (30 M) in a 4 yr relationship with (30F). A week ago I got drunk and blacked out and a mutual (F) friend offered me a ride home. We hooked up. I think she knew what she was doing. I got half a bj and then got out of there. I remember very little. She is in our friend group so me and my gf see her often. I do not like this girl in anyway, and I have never cheated on anyone",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have an amazing boyfriend that I can see myself with for a long time, maybe even mariage, but someone else is in love with me that I might have feelings for, help! POST: Ok, so I'm a female in my early 20's and I met and have been in a relationship with this amazing guy for 6 months. We both see eye to eye on a lot of things and he's mature, knows what he wants, has a nice job and goals. We both want and love the same things in life. I'm a pastry chef and currently working 2 jobs and ",positive " r/college TITLE: Group members are lazy? POST: So there's this project we're supposed to work on and granted, we are procrastinators. However, for the first part of our project, I basically pulled the team by putting together a final design (while the others did not) and this was reflected in the marks. Now I decided to take up the lead and divide the work amongst the members depending on what they wanted. One person chose to just copy my design from the 1st part but here's the catch - this person didn't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do I (M29) break up with her (F26) or tell her the truth regarding my illness? POST: Please, spare me the sympathy votes/comments. I already get enough of that from my family. For the sake of brevity, I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty details. I'll just say that I was recently diagnosed with an illness that has spread and will need surgery/therapy soon. It is life threatening but my doctor's confident that we can beat it if we're aggressive. I'm (M29) also in a one year r",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Unsure of how to tell my boyfriend I'm a virgin, among things POST: Background on myself [22/f]- coming out of a two year funk of feeling sorry for myself after a failed relationship, meet new guy [28/m] who's just great- and I'm not used to it. We've been together for about a month now. I'm used to being treated like ""one of the guys"" or like dirt. I'm not used to getting picked up on a sunny day and being surprised with a picnic. He's incredibly sweet to me, but I've been holding b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [24M] breakup with smoker [24F] or give ultimatum first? POST: I've been dating this girl for about 8 months now, and from jump street I knew she was a smoker, about 4-5 cigs/day. She assured me she was quitting, and I made a conscious decision not to force the issue but to let her figure it out on her own, as I personally HATE being nagged about things. Also, she convinced me it would not be an issue, and that she was actively trying to quit. Eight months later and her hab",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I[18f] let him[22m] understand that I don't want to get exclusive? POST: I went out with a guy a few days ago and I had a really nice time. There are a few things however that I really don't like about him and would bother me if we got too serious. I also just started to go out and see people and I don't want to step into a series relationship right away. I don't have much experience in dating and I want to meet and go out with more people. He has texted me every evening sinc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Would you marry the first person you had sex with? POST: There's a bit of exposition here but I'll try and hurry though it: Me fiance and myself had dinner at my parents yesterday. When we arrived we walked into a full blown nuclear war between my sister (15) and my mother. Sister had had sex with her boyfriend, mom did not approve. Right, so later at back at our apartment fiance (26, like myself) remarks ""Well, 15 is pretty early"". I said ""not, really. I lost it at 16 and you at 1",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF Still has small feelings for long time friend... POST: Me and my Gf have been dating for almost 6 months now. Im 22 years old shes 23. This story is pretty confusing so ill try my best to explain it. So about 2 months into our relationship, she tells me she was hanging with one of her guy friends and he kissed her, she was at least faithful to me and got upset and left and hardly talked to him much after that. Thing is the same guy, she had a one night stand with him about 3 m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [M/24]Am I really giving up? [F/20] POST: Background: Together 3 years. Kind of rocky throughout. I have a history of Depression, and recently identified Co-dependency. Situation: SO and I ""can"" get along great. We can have fun together, loving, etc. Overall, from the outside we look functional. However, over the entire course of our relationship we have both demonstrated a lot of stubbornness and anger. We fight quite often and it can get really heated. We'll both say very h",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: 20/M college student male who is interesting in dating but needs to meet new people POST: The title can't really explain it all so I'll elaborate. I'm 20 year old guy at a very tiny tech school trying to find a girlfriend. I kinda have a bad reputation so I can't ask anyone out from my school. However, there are other schools right basically across the street. Unfortunately, I don't really have good friends there anymore which makes it hard to meet new people. And my school is V",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm 19/M and my girlfriend is 18/F and has daddy issues. Please help POST: I am in a long distance relationship and me and my girlfriend have met 3 times, the last one we stayed together for 2 months and then the inevitable happened. We had to part, anyway. Each time we were forced apart, we both cried. But this time she has been crying for 2 weeks straight. I keep telling her that i will be back to see her in September or October but she keeps saying it doesn't matter because ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is the most terrible thing you've heard someone else do? POST: I was having a chat with my new concierge friend at my building when he began to tell me this story. In his old country (somewhere in Africa) he was a driver for a hospital. One day he was transporting 20 people from one hospital to another when he needed to get some gas. He walks away to take a pee and when he returns he notices that he forgot to lock the people in. Unfortunately for him, they've all escaped. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [25 M], my [24 F] girlfriend of 5 years doesn't seem all that into me. POST: Hey everyone, Never posted be here, so I appreciate every response. My girlfriend just left to see her friend out of town for the weekend and I am a mess. Not because she's gone for the weekend... But because for the past 2 years our relationship has 'calmed down' and I am unsatisfied. I love this person more then my writing skills allow me to express. We fought really hard to be together, its a long s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Men and women of Reddit: would you forgive your SO if they hit you? POST: Throwaway account. I have a question. So last night my fiance of 4 years and I went out and got fairly drunk. We came home and started fighting about the stupidest things. I was being a bitch, and he was being a jerk. We don't usually fight, but for some reason we were just going off on each other last night. Well, I ended up saying something mean. Something about him being a white trash redneck- and he fl",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I have to hire a programmer, but I'm not sure how to find the right one. What questions should I ask? POST: Some background: I'm overseeing the production of an educational web-enabled simulation for a college in Virginia. It's basically like a choose-your-own-adventure kind of game where users are shown little video clips and then are asked to make decisions about what they've seen. Depending on their decision, they'll be shown positive, negative, or neutral consequences. T",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (18/M) struggle with being the ""good guy"" too much POST: So as the title says I struggle with being the good guy all the time when dating. Usually when I start with someone the girl is more into me than I am with her. Generally as time though if she is a girl I want to date I start to become more and more emotionally invested in the relationship. I start texting more and buying more gifts or whatever but nothing overkill. We will text for a few hours every few days and when we go",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] feel terrible about the way me and my ex [19 F] of 2.5 years ended, and am finding it hard not to contact her. POST: Hey Reddit, So a few nights ago I broke up with my girlfriend of 2 and a half years due to the fact I didn't feel the same way about her as she did about me. For the past couple of months I had struggled with feelings of guilt as I couldn't decide whether or not it was worth not being truly happy in order to save my girlfriends feelings at the sacrifice of my ",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Not sure what discipline is required in this situation (8y/o and 6y/o) POST: For some backstory, I work part-time at an after-school program with about 30 school-aged kids. The program ends at 6:30pm and I'm usually on my own after 5:30 as the majority of the kids have left. Last Friday the weather was bad and there was some construction on our street so there were still about 15 kids there when my coworker left. Ten minutes later the ceiling started leaking. I started looking for a pail",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (f22) friend (m35) admitted he finds me sexually attractive and my bf (m26) isn't happy about it POST: So I have a friend who used to be my neighbor for the last 4 years, but he moved down the street and still visits me pretty often when he's not out of town working. We play games together (video games, dominoes, board games) and smoke. That's about all we have in common. He is gone for long periods of time so when he's home, he comes over frequently. Before I was with my boyfri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] with my [19M] ex, struggling with self imposed no contact POST: My boyfriend of a little over a year unexpectedly broke up with me about a month ago. First love, first kiss, all that jazz, it hit hard. Anyway, he didn't really want to break up either (his reasoning over this whole thing has made pretty much zero sense to me but if he wants to break up, well, he wants to break up, not a whole lot I can do.) He asked if we could 'compromise' and be 'very good friends', an idea",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Recently engaged - need some advice with something... POST: Ok, so I recently moved from Northern New York to Charleston (for those not in the US - about 15 hours/700 miles away for a really good job and my girlfriend of five years agreed to move with me. We knew we'd be getting engaged soon and I ended up proposing in October. Things were busy at work from October till Christmas - so we are just talking about wedding planning now. She is dead set in having the wedding in Charleston bu",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I don't know what to do. I love him, but it's like talking to a wall POST: My brother has a problem with pot. Yeah yeah, ""pot isn't addictive."" Doesn't matter, he has a *problem.* He is high every single day. He told that to my mom, straight up. She simply said ""I don't know if I can accept that."" And he *flipped.* Violently yelled ""fuck you"", broke a door, *screamed* ""fuck"" over and over. This happened before, unrelated to weed. He punched a hole in my door, and two in his. It was terr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [20f] is pulling away from me [19m] and I don't know why or what to do. Can anyone help? POST: So, a little background first, I've been seeing this girl for five months now, and we are (or were) pretty close (we said ""I love you"" and all that). We're both students, and at the end of last semester she failed two of her classes. As a result, it was uncertain that she could come back at all. Now she's back, but still not totally certain if she can stay, it depends on if sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Communication troubles in a LDR with my [20/F] boyfriend [20/M] of 7 months. POST: I've been on another continent for the past two months, going home in two weeks. Before I left, I was worried that we would not communicate as often as I would like, seeing as he doesn't really text me that often back home, and I'm the one who usually plans the dates and meet ups. I'm mostly ok with that within the context of being in the same city. However, since I've been gone, I usually get about o",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the worst thing you've blurted out that you couldn't smooth over or take back? POST: Tonight, after my family Christmas my Uncle and his Girlfriend woke up the family to tell us they had to race home. Her college-age daughter had been in a serious accident. All we knew is that she was aware enough to relay her mom's name and phone number. We were consoling the mom as we were packing the car up for their 4 hour drive back home, and the woman was talking about the small car her d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 M] have decided to go after my roommate [22 F] who Im nuts about and has a long term relationship POST: First things first, I know this is probably not going to be popular on here and Im expecting hateful words from the self-richeous Reddit peanut gallery, so bring it on. My roommate happens to be my dream girl and the only one ive ever met. Mentally and physically she is exactly what I want, period. The first time I came over to look at the house we really hit it off. I th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Really concerned after spending a week with my in-laws... My wife is becoming my mother-in-law... and I really can't stand the woman. POST: me: 45m, she: 41f, married 4 years (my 1st, her 2nd), no kids.... Her mother is not an outwardly mean person, she saves her meanness and ball busting for her husband... I spent the last week in the back seat of an SUV, being driven around florida by my father in law, listening to her challenge everything he said, and every move he made in traffi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [M 23] and I [F 22] were best friends for 7 years before we started dating (for 2 years) and now I'm having a hard time letting him go, when we still hang out often. Advice? POST: My ex and I have been best friends for quite some time (7 years). Eventually we decided to date each other which lasted for about 2 years until he broke up with me. After the breakup (about 6 months ago) we still hung out as friends and sometimes it went a little further than that. Recently I've dec",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Do I (31/f) tell my SO (27/m) that I started therapy? POST: W and I have been together for just over a year. We moved in together two weeks ago and I'm struggling with some anxiety. He used to play WoW and has a few female friends from his guild that he texts or facebook messages on a fairly regular basis. He's not at all secretive about any of it and will show me them or read them to me. I don't think this is a new or increased behavior, just that I am observing it more since ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Dating] I [26/M] wear a memento necklace of my late father, I often get asked about it and I'm unsure how to reply. POST: It's a blue glass pendant with his ashes infused and inscription of a little life motto he used to say. I usually hide it under my clothes as I've had awkward moments before of being asked about it. I never take it off and most of the times forget it's even there, which leads to it sometimes ending up on top of my shirt, which often prompts people to say, ""Oh ni",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just had a girl I'm seeing pretend to be her ex-boyfriend in an attempt to manipulate me to commit to the relationship. What's the nuttiest thing someone has done to try to get closer to you? POST: So the story was her ex got 'hold of her phone because it was broken and was replacing it for her. She proceeded to text harass me as ""Mike"". I knew almost instantly I'd done-done it and stuck my dick in nutjob station, where all tracks lead to crazy town. Still, I decided to play along.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Which pen to buy a friend as a 21st birthday gift, and what to get engraved on it?! (Parker / Fountain pen) POST: My best friend is turning 21 soon so I wanted to buy them a really nice pen as its something they've always talked about wanting. We quite often glance into the Parker Pen displays at stationary shops and the ones that she always seems to look at are the fountain pens, so that is what I'm expecting to buy. However I wanted some advice from people that have hopefully used the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28F] with my BF[29M] of ~1 year - Need advice on handling a strong dislike of my boyfriend's best friend. POST: I'll try to keep this short and sweet...my boyfriend and I have been together for about a year, and I can honestly say we have a really solid relationship. I love him and have a ton of respect for him as a person. I am looking for some advice or insight from those of you in relationships where you strongly dislike a close friend of your SO's. Here's my reasoning: Th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] confronted my boyfriend [24M] about his manipulative, borderline abusive (gaslighting), behavior. He doesn't think he's manipulative. POST: So my BF of 2 years has been increasingly verbally abusive towards me through gas lighting. The most recent example would be that he tried to convince me that I liked this guy even though I don't. I texted a male friend who I've known in high school about xyz because I saw on social media he just did xyz and I wanted advice. After that,",negative " r/travel TITLE: Connecting Flights or long lay over? POST: I'm planning to go to Antigua, Guatemala in March, and I have options for flying there. I can either take a one-stop flight there, with an overnight layover in Houston. I like this option because I'd arrive in Guatemala City early in the morning, which seems smart and safe considering the violent reputation of Guatemala City. On the way back, I would have to have a one-stop with a layover in Virginia. The downside of this would be that I'd spend ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it normal to do a phone interview for a different job while on the clock on your current job? POST: I'm 25 and have only had one real job, and the interview process for that was fairly...unconventional, so I have no idea what I'm doing. I work in IT, and my boss, as awesome as he is, has made it clear that even if I went and paid for any advanced certifications out of pocket, I should not expect a reimbursement for the cost of the exam, nor an increase in pay. I feel very loyal to my ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my friend [21 F] who is too touchy for me. POST: I'm having some problems with a female friend of about ten months who touches me in what I feel is a borderline inappropriate manner. By inappropriate I mean in a way that for me is reserved for romantic partners. The group of people we hang out in is very ""touchy"", but in a faux-sexual manner. We all know each other well enough to realize that any such kidding is in jest, and there is no sexual tension or anything. *",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [M24] am moving in with two female friends [F23]]. I also have a gf [F23]. She's ok with this completely , but what are some do's and don'ts that i should be aware of ? POST: I'm asking this sub because I want to respect my girlfriend 100% and want to be sure there's no problems. I've known this girl through my university for a couple years. We talk here and there but I know her well enough I think. Her best friend I don't really know, but she said she's just like her. She's not ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: ""The Waiting Game"" and if I(25m) should tell her(27F) ""I love you"" first. Possible dumbass question. POST: I tried to ask this in askmen but they won't let me because my throwaway is new and I don't' want to use my real reddit username because we send one another stuff on here all the time and there's a chance she knows it. Preface: I love her. I fucking love everything about her. Her smell, her smile, her heart. She's amazing, the relationship is phenomenal. I was talking to my co",positive " r/relationships TITLE: We don't always fight, but when we do it's about living together... POST: Me (23, f) bf (26) have been official for a year and a half -plus another year and a half before that we were on and off because I was 10 hours away at school. We love eachother very much and rarely fight, but when we do it's always about living together. Background... He owns a house, has had it for about 2 years. He has a male roommate upstairs with him and a couple in a separate downstairs apartment. Sinc",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] am trying to organize a second date with [17F] for the last week, but she says she's too busy and that she'll let me know when she's free POST: I'm a bit new to dating (only had 2 short relationships in high school) and a bit of a socially awkward guy so I'd just like some advice on what to do with this girl I've been trying to date. So I asked this girl at my university out 2 weeks ago and we had our first date earlier this week. At the end of the first date she told me th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are some modern examples of ""traditional"" art forms (prose, poetry, music, film, theatre, painting, sculpting) that would blow my parents and grandparents minds? POST: My parents are growing old and are beginning to suffer from a very common disease of their age: although they are very interested people - they read the papers, watch the news, trail the book shops, they go to the movies and even the theatre - they occasionally now voice the feeling that very little comes close in qua",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My partner [27 M] and I [28 F] are splitting after 10 years and not sure what to do about the money I have put into the house without my name on the deed POST: This is a throwaway account. This isn't a legal question. I believe it's more relationship/ shared finances. My partner (27M) and I (28F) were together since high school-about 10 years. Never married, but partners. We bought a house 7 years ago and it was owner carried with my partner's name on the deed. He said if we split up",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18] worry for my girlfriend's [17] wellbeing. POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for six months, we've been very happy and things seem to be going fairly well except maybe for the past week. She has had a very rough home life her entire life and I've been trying to support her as much as I can. This past week though, her mother, brother and herself very quickly moved out of her home to get away from her very dominant father. He found out as they were moving and tried to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (26f) wanna do something special for my bf (23m). POST: We have been together for a little over a year now and things are going great. Our lifestyles are very much a like but it's hard doing something nice while on a budget. Here is a list of some of the things he likes. -Video games (new and retro) -Watching wrestling -Reading and writing (usually sci-fi) -watching movies and TV shows I don't know what I can do that is out of the usual routine of things that would be special. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: This girl (23) I've been seeing frequently mentions hot guys in front of me (20m). Am I being unreasonable asking her to stop? POST: I (M20) have been seeing this girl (23) for almost 4 months now. We got very close very fast, and this girl means a huge amount to me. To begin, I don't have very high self esteem. I don't think I'm ugly, but I'm a little overweight and just don't think of myself well. I'm working on it. She has a habit of pointing out hot guys. Like, these totally rip",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Was there flirting between me (16/F) with my straight friend (17/F)? POST: Okay, so, I'm a bit confused right now. The other day I was helping my friend (who I also happen to have a crush on, she knows this) with her homework, and one of the questions was to pick two famous people in history that you like, one female and one male. I gave her a male person and I decided I'd let her choose the female one, with me saying ""I don't care about women."" She jokingly responded with ""wel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28F] am dating this lovely guy [33M] but his past history bothers me POST: His history is nothing disturbing. I'm probably overreacting but the issue is that I live in the Midwest. He's white and I'm Asian. He has only had two serious girlfriends in the past and he's still friends with his first one--the first love. On facebook, he was looking through my profile pictures and so I did the same. That first love is Asian. I don't know if it is because I don't feel unique? Or I have",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Dating] How do I (24F) tell the guy I am dating (27M) that I have a skin condition and scars all over my legs/groin? POST: I have hidradenitis suppurativa, it sucks. It's not as bad as it has been in the past, but my upper-inner thighs are covered in scars. I have avoided relationships and had practically given up on dating and sex (with other people... I have a very strong sex drive). Recently though, I met somebody and I really like him. We have been talking everyday for about 6 w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 F] sister [23 F] does not properly clean the kitchen each time she uses it and it is driving me nuts! POST: I am admittedly a messy person and so is my sister who lives with me. I tend to leave a few of my clothes lying on the bed or forget to take an empty cup to the sink until the end of the week. However, I never get to the point where I am being swallowed by my mess. Most of the time my room just looks ""lived in"". Like I rushed out of the door but will be back in a few hou",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Should I add her on Facebook and ask her out, or risk becoming the ""creepy guy"" in the circle of friends !? POST: This weekend I went to my Best Mate's Birthday Party, then the initial group splitted because some didnt want to go to a club, so we end up being a 6 person group entering a club (My mate and his girlfriend + 2 friends of his GF(girls) + me and another dude). Now, I've always been bad with women, not that I've never had previous relationships, more like I never initiate",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: I don't know how to start again POST: I need advice, I seriously do, Im a 20 year old guy who was raised on southamerica, and Im losing everything. I'll start by saying, my parents are not from here, they are hard working people that took a chance to get into one of the most wealthy countrys in southamerica, my mother's family in particular was running from persecution on spain. So we are the ONLY family members living here on Colombia. And now we are getting death threats since 6",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Cute guy seems to have disappeared? What did I (F,20) do wrong? POST: Hey everyone, I'm probably just being over sensitive but I thought that this guy (24)and I had great chemistry and we had arranged to go on a date this weekend. Except now he's gone silent! I haven't heard word one from him, and my messages don't appear to have been read? I'm using kik and it just has that little light gray D next to the message. Originally, I'd asked what time and where he wanted to meet, but go",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Poor man's solution to broken logic board? POST: Hi, i'm a university student studying architecture right now and thanks to myself i've spilt choco milk on my macbook pro. After bringing it to the apple store they are charging me ~$500 for the replacement + repair. I cannot afford this but can borrow money from parents if i really had to. I've been looking into buying my own part online and replacing it myself but it is still quite expensive. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with t",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: You irritate me...why do I put up with you as a friend? POST: I have known you for a couple years now and yes we are friends but honestly you just really piss me off sometimes. What really annoys me the most is the fact that you are 26 years old, still living at home with mom and stepdad, been working at the same job for 9+ years...(food lion), always bitch and complain about your mom and job, never been on a date/had your first kiss/or have a boyfriend. Seriously, grow the fuck up. I",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Did I [17M] just get best-friendzoned? This girl is really confusing me.. [17F] POST: A new girl recently moved into my school from Europe and I started talking to her pretty often. The last few weeks we started talking all the time and she seemed to give a lot of signals that she liked me. However, when I asked her out today (wording: ""Would you like to go out with me), she said yes and we started planning it but a minute later she asked ""Like a best friend date right?"" I pani",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm miserable at my college and want to transfer. How do I convince my parents? POST: I got an academic warning because of my grades. My GPA will probably be a 2.25 after I do well in a winter course I'm taking. I'm not happy at my college at all. This past semester I took on more than I could handle classes wise and suffered for it. It's dead on the weekends, the majority of students commute, they're lacking in on campus activities, the president is also pushing a social justice curricu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (21F) and I (24M) have been dating for a few months, she is moving into a new place and informed me that her EX might be spending the night a few times on the couch. Should I be worried? POST: ~*~ TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Husband [29M] arguing with MIL [60F] Do I [26F] need to intervene? POST: Hi guys, I'm hoping somebody can offer me some advice. My husband has had a rocky relationship with his Mom for the past 2/3 years. It sort of correlates with when he moved out of his family home and in with me. We moved about an hour and a half away and we used to see them once every week. I'm not really sure when the fighting started or why (I think hubby is keeping it from me). They just seem to talk less and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Reddit, I need your advice. I'm a 20 year old girl who is uncomfortable with drinking and smoking weed but my boyfriend likes to get high and drunk with his friends. I love him, but I can't stand his habits. What should I do? POST: My boyfriend and I have been best friends for a year, and have been in a relationship for 3 months. He has always smoked weed and drank with his friends. He only does it with his friends and in a social scene. He knows I am uncomfortable with him doing it ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Need Advice: ATTN: Content (with your lives) users of reddit; How did you finally become content with your career, marriage, significant other, etc? (self.AskReddit) POST: Hello Reddit, I suffer from a serious case of ""the grass is greener"" syndrome in some major aspects of my life; my career, my lovelife, my living situations, etc. (For those that may be wondering, when I refer to ""the grass is greener syndrome"", I'm referring to how everything seems to theoretically seem better than any ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Returned a lost MacBook to its owner by snooping. Is (a lil) invasion of privacy worth it to get your things back? POST: Background info: I work at a university and our front desk is right next to a computer lab. We're always getting lost USB drives, wallets, keys, etc. and 90% of the time they just sit in our Lost and Found never to see the light of day again. This year, I've started trying to return these lonely things to their rightful owners: - If keys and wallets have loyalty card",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32F] with my sister [30F] - she's stuck on a failed relationship, idealizing the ex and devaluating her character. How do I help? POST: A year ago my sister broke up with her then bf. We live in separate countries, so I never actually met him and my opinion of him was developed through her stories, but I never much liked him from what she told me at the time. I didn't think they had much in common in terms of interests, goals, values. She broke it off eventually and three months ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to talk to my GF [22F] about me not being able to provide her with a life of luxury at this very moment [24M]? POST: I have been dating my gf for about 8 months now. We understand each other on almost every level except when it comes to spending habits. She comes from a wealthy family, has dated older men (30+) in the past, and is therefore accustomed to the ""high-roller"" life. There are plenty of examples to draw from, the most recent one is when we had to long distance for abou",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Appealing to those Redditors in the Holiday spirit who wish to find something good to do with a few extra dollars... POST: Hey guys, Firstly, this is not a guilt seminar, just a possible outlet for supporting someone in need. My younger sister visited Africa two years ago and met a little girl named Kisakye (pronounced ""sah- chee"", pictured here and her report card here . And here is my sister's website... ...as you can see she paints her African children frequently. (I think her",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By trying to do a backflip on a diving board. POST: This is kind of 2 fuck ups wrapped up in 1. One was me and one was my sweet, old, Grandma. I'll start with my fuck up: It was the summer of 2008, and I was only 13 years old. It was quite hot out, so me and my friends decide to go swimming. Being 13 year olds, we think it's a good idea to try a bunch of tricks on my friend's diving board. We're front flipping, making as big of a splash as possible, trying to land on knee boards... T",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, My gf of a year and a half wanted to go on a break a week ago, I am meeting with her tonight to save my relationship. I am not sure what to say, help? POST: Reddit, I have been with this girl for a year and a half. We have been doing long distance for the last 6 months, and a week ago out of the blue she texts me saying that we should end it, and just be friends. Then I guess I said a few things and convinced her to give it some though and she was fine with a break. I know she ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] has never had any female friends and cant seem to find any no matter how hard I try. Help? POST: Sure I've had female aqauantiances but never any real ones I could call a friend. I always try to talk to girls in a friendly way but they always seem to be rather cold and detached to me. Even when they give me thier facebook/phone numbers they never initiate contact with me and I always have to talk to them first only then to get short replies if any. What am I doing wrong he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me(24M) hooked up with a college instructor(44F), had a bad falling out, and now I found out she'll teach a part of the course I need for my future career. POST: Met an instructor on an online dating site (im in my 20s, shes in her 40s) we went on a couple dates, made out, she gave me head, did some foreplay stuff.... then I got bored with her, she got pissed and deleted my number and such. I decided to enrol at the college, see the teacher directory, and low and behold she instruct",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [16/f] want to break up with my bf [22/m]. Never ended a relationship before, need advice :/ POST: Okay okay, I know what half of you are going to say.. 'Pedo' amirite? lol Well let me tell the story. We've been together for 2 and a bit years now. I am just starting to miss being single. All the people I have talked to have said ""That is completely normal - you're young, you're allowed to be single and have fun!"" and thats what I want. I want to have fun. I want to get the cha",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My senioritis has continued a fair way out of college. What actions have you taken to be productive again? POST: Hey Reddit, I recently graduated with a BS degree (7 months ago) and landed the kick-ass programming job I've always wanted. Through most of college I was consistently a high-producing, high-quality student and had no real need for anything motivational. As my last year started winding down, senioritis set in and I began procrastinating quite a bit, but still nailed my miles",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [20/m] i need some serious help POST: im a male [20/m] from ohio. 3 years ago i dated a girl [19/f now] online and we broke up within a few months. a bit after that we became very good friends, talked on skype a lot, and communicate regularly over phone etc. I just learned that she's coming to a place near my town for a 2 week trip. she really wants me to come see her but i just dont want to (she has a real boyfriend now, so it's not like it'll be romantic or anything). the drive is",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 F] cant stop thinking about my ex-boyfriend [25 M] from 4 years ago POST: Me and my ex broke up 4 years ago. We were together for 3 years. He was the love of my life and we had an amazing relationship. We never argued, we never were jealous, we were always supportive of one another, and we always genuinely enjoyed eachothers company. We broke up because we were young and I think both of us were itching to see what else was out there. I initiated the break up, but it was a mutu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Shy [25 M] with anxiety attacks. Should I try to date [22 F]? And should I tell her? POST: I haven't known her for long, but she's one of those rare girls that I reallllllly like. Somewhat introverted, but talkative, and athletic. I wish I could say more, but I'm trying to figure this stuff out early and I've only seen her 3 times. Each time was at tough mudder training, and we didn't have much time to talk, but she seemed to be kinda interested. I'm EXTREMELY shy. I have anxiet",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm maid of honor [30F] for my friend [29F] since birth. She wants a 'destination bachelorette party' and I'm way too broke for that shit. POST: I've told her that if it's very expensive I don't think I'll be able to go. I know she wants me there, but at the same time I don't want her to give up on doing what she wants so I can attend. The party is months away and I'm sure I could theoretically save up for it, but I'd have to spend no money for the next several months and I don't rea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28F] with my [40F] coworker chews gum really loud. What can I do to address it, if anything? POST: Is there any polite way to ask a coworker to stop snapping her gum? She is a nice lady. We're not close or anything. But all day long she's snapping her gum, chewing it like cud, just making generally gross saliva slosh sounds. I've tried everything: I listen to podcasts and music with my headphones, but I can't always have my headphones in. A few times, I whipped my head around ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/m] Girlfriend [20/f] loves me more than I love her. POST: We've been together for about 9 months. We worked together for some time and became friends. Eventually more than that. Soon afterwards she told me some heavy things. She has had problems with sexual and physical abuse in the past. She has some strong anxiety problems (probably stemming from the past but I'm no psychoanalyst). These manifest in occasional anxiety episodes and slightly manic behavior. I've managed to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Someone who devalues your career choice POST: F 27, SO M 25 Been together 2.5 years About a year and half ago I dropped out of a MA Healthcare Administration job because I found it utterly boring (no offense to anyone) and because I didn't really have experience in the field and knew that it would be challenging for me to get a job. I had been out of college for almost 4 years and during that time I was working with kids (behavior therapy and running after school programs). It was c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am 23F with a 28M for 3 years. His weight gain over the last 2 years is deeply upsetting and I'm afraid I'm becoming less attracted to him. POST: Pretty much what the title says. I am a 23 year old female who met my 28 year old boyfriend while still in college. He was my first real relationship, and it has continued for 3 years now. When we met he was slightly chubby, but I had no problem with that at all. We moved in for the summer after 4 months of dating, and have continued liv",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Be and asshole after losing a friendly game? Walk that extra 40 meters for lunch POST: So today we have shortened lessons (20 minutes) because of a school event.On the first 2 lessons we played scrabble because everyone wasn't there (event) and our teacher also really enjoys it. So in my group there is an Asshole(AS for short). AS is fat and really likes to eat.While playing he constantly complained when someone put a word in a spot he wanted or someone just got a lot of points. AS lo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] NEED to tell my SO [26M] something but am having a hard time working up the courage. Any advice or support greatly appreciated. POST: Hi all, Pretty simple.. I've [24F] been seeing someone very special [26M] for almost 2 months, we really hit it off and I'm crazy about him. We haven't had sex yet.. this is party because of my personality (shy, takes me a while to get comfortable with someone) but it's also because.. I have genital herpes and haven't worked up the courage to",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is your kryptonite? POST: We all have a fatal flaw - what is yours? And please, a story - Reddit likes stories. Mine is my red-green color blindness. For those unfamiliar with the condition, remember taking the Isahara test at the optometrist? The one where you have to recognize a pattern of colored dots (usually a number) in a sea of other colors? I can't see that number. So if a bunch of green dots form the number 7 in a big patch of red dots, I can't really see the seven",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Not sure if I'm (26/m) justified in being upset or just being jealous. POST: So, here is the story: I just got out of a 7 year relationship about 4 months ago. I found out that three years ago she had cheated on me. I actually didn't want to end the relationship, she didn't think we could repair it. Anyways so almost immediately I met someone new and now we've been dating for about 4 months. 2 weeks ago she moved in with me to my moms house because she was living in a weird si",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I initiated the breakup [m29] with [f28], but I hate the fact I will be losing my best friend, any way to salvage the friendship? POST: [m29/f28] I broke up with my girlfriend of two months, (friend for 5 years) after some core beliefs issues we had in the relationship. The problem was with sex, and her beliefs that they should not be had till we are married. I thought she would loosen up and at least allow foreplay, but soon realized that, that was out of the question, till engagem",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my SO [18 F] of over 3 years, she is backing off from our relationship. POST: I have been with my now SO for over 3 years and we've just started attending the same university this fall semester. Because it is a local university, we have just opted to live at our own homes. In the past, we've always been enrolled in different schools. We would text each other during the week and mainly hangout on weekends. This was in high school. Since starting this semester at univers",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My grandmother is a victim of internet bullying - how can I help her? POST: Sounds weird but if anyone has experience working with older folks, especially in elderly communities, you would be privy to some real high school drama bullshit. I provide care for my grandmother. Unfortunately, with the added, ""benefit"" of Facebook and other outlets I have run into a particular pickle. It seems that the name calling & gossiping from the days of yore have transcended to hate-laden wall posts,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33M] getting sick to stomach because of my girlfriend's [26F] best friend POST: I have had some depression but my life was so cool I would play tennis and work out 3-4 times a week. Would be so happy going out with friends. I would have low days too but I had happy days as well. I never went to a therapist or took any anti-depressants. I met this amazing girl 7 months ago. She is lovely, everything I could have asked for. 3 months ago, I got suspicious about her best guy friend.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [29M] get easily infatuated and feel like the phrase 'love is blind' was made specifically for me. How can I learn to trust the way I feel? POST: There's a lot of history behind these thoughts, but without getting into it I find after a relationship ends (I've had ~4, most are multiple years long), a fog lifts from my perception and I see every flaw so clearly, and I feel like I should have seen everything coming and should have ended things way sooner (or never even began). It fe",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking out a 17-year-old. POST: I met this girl at a party and we seemed to get along decently well so I proceeded to ask her out. She complimented me (I'm being a little cryptic, just in case) via text and was somewhat flirty. It's probably important to mention that I'll be 22 in a few months. I checked out this girl's facebook (added her as a friend) and noticed her birthday. 1997. Crap. I went through with the date because I'm not a complete jerk, and she's actually only a fe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex gf (32f) from college messaged my fiance (29f) to tell her I (32m) cheated on her, it was over a decade ago and a stupid mistake, fiance not sure if she wants to be married again POST: I cheated on my ex girlfriend of 2 years in college several times. It was a stupid ass thing to do, we were fighting, constantly at each others throats and neither of us had the balls or relationship experience to know the best thing to do was to break up. I've never cheated on another woman sinc",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not knowing how to prepare a meal POST: So this was 2 days ago. Still feeling the repercussions of my idiocy. Quick bit of backstory, I absolutely hate the feeling of raw meat touching me. Any dinner I make I usually get someone else to deal with the meat or get ready to cook stuff. So I was making a curry for myself and SO and realized we had no precut chicken. She was out of the house and expecting dinner for when she got in the door so I decided to man up and cut up the chicken ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Looking for help finding a job I'm qualified for POST: Hi, I'm about to finish my senior year of college; I will have a bachelor's degree in the arts from a private university. I double majored in Philosophy and International Studies, and double minored in Italian and Classical Civilizations. I took so many classes because I love learning. At this point, I am wanting to be a high school social studies teacher. Over the weekend my friend finally opened up to me and told me I ought to look in",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Did I[24F] misread what my boyfriend[25M] was ""implying""? POST: ME: haha yeah that is pretty cool BF: lol ME: I bet I know what you're doing right now - What's the sexiest/hottest image, gif or video you've seen, that has no nudity? (from front page of reddit) BF: hahaha no, not at all ME: yeaaa BF: why would i go on that at work? ME: at work? BF: although i bet you're response to that would be ""what do you mean ""at work"""".. ahh i was righthahahaha ME: hilarious BF: i bet i ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm in a bind, I have to get a root canal done, but my current situation is making it difficult to schedule one. How long can I wait until I'm screwed? POST: I'm currently in the process of a move and essentially have to be gone by next week. I'm moving about 460 miles south and have been putting off scheduling an appointment. It's through the army, and the dentists up here I was sent to told me that the only person that might be able to do it (that the army allows) is about 80 miles nor",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I am worried about my age impacting my job. Help? POST: I am just about to begin my first professional-ish (full-time) job directly out of undergrad. I'll be a sort of lead position over people who have been in their position for years. I was told in the interview that these people are strong-willed and some times don't take well to people telling them what to do when they have seniority. I am confident that I can deal with that personality-wise. However, I have a problem, I am a ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [19M] girlfriend [19F) cried and started an argument when I told her I wanted to go to Spring Break, should I feel bad? POST: So me and my GF both planned on going to Gulf Shores during Spring Break with some of my fraternity pledge brothers and best friends. Well today she told me she didn't have the money and couldn't go. That's where the problem arises. I do have the money to go, and I still want to go, so I told her that. We got into an argument and she said I was being self",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [67 F] grandma won't stop talking about the state of my [19 F] armpits in front of other family members POST: I have hair on armpits sometimes. I'm not embarassed about it and it is not a big deal in any way at all. My grandma, seems to want to make it the biggest deal, especially when other people are around. It would be helpful to know that I am temporarily living with my grandparents right now. Also, she has done the talking about my armpits infront of others thing about 3 time",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My car was vandalized in a parking lot a few nights ago. I know who did it. Now I need to know where to go from here. POST: Some backstory: I left my car in a church parking lot(all but one door lock) on July 13th after getting picked up by a friend. At some point while I was gone, three kids got inside, smoked a blunt, spit all over the inside of the windshield, dashboard, and mirrors, burned my graduation tassel(which hangs from my rear-view), jumped on the roof(caving it in), bent th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [19f] and I [19m] just broke up because of sex. POST: So we've been dating for almost 2 years now. She grew up religious, but she's not too religious. Goes to church almost every Sunday but that's about it. Her whole life though her family has been telling her to wait to have sex until she's married. Well since day one I told her I could not wait until marriage since we're so young and it'd be years before marriage even became a possibility. She told me she could figure ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Why do I [29/m] care so much about being in a relationship vs. dating exclusively with this girl? [29/f] POST: Am I just worrying about semantics? I've been dating this girl exclusively (on both ends) since late October. I broached the subject of what she sees me as in mid-December and she said she wouldn't call me her boyfriend yet, ""sorry if that's not the answer you wanted."" I played it cool because, as I said, we are exclusively dating. I'm thinking it's just my own insecurity i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (28m) gf (26f) of 2 years, she thinks she's worthless just because she doesn't have a job. POST: About a month ago, my girlfriend lost her job. She was laid off with lots of other people. The thing is, she didn't like the job and it didn't pay very well. $11/hr if I remember. Between us, I make more money, like maybe 34k/yr. She was constantly struggling between vet visits for the cats, car repairs, etc. She's always wanted to be a full time writer/author. I told her that I want",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [24F] Went out on a first date with a [35M]. Need some advice on some small particularities that I am not sure how to address. POST: I met this guy randomly at a restaurant and he asked to stay in touch. Last night he invited me over and made some dinner. Overall the dinner was great we talked a lot he seems very genuine and we have a lot of things in common. I had a good time and would enjoy seeing him again. There is one thing that really kind of turned me off. This guy has long na",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24]want my Ex-Girlfriend [23F] of two and a half years back but need to learn how to be happy with myself and grow before that can happen. How do I make a better version of myself for the girl I Love? POST: So me and ex split up about six months ago and just recently started talking to each other again in the last few weeks. When we first saw each other I ended up skipping classes all day, taking her to lunch and generally having one of the best days of my life. I had forgotten ho",positive " r/relationships TITLE: my [24m] close friend[24m] met my another friend[23f] through me, now they are dating and accusing me of talking about them behind them. POST: i live in EU and we have people coming from other countries all the time, I had this new girl who came to the city , i knew her cousin who asked me to show her around, i introduced her to my close friends , we went out a lot for months, she[23f] eventually started dating my close friend[24m]. my friend[24m] was bit shy about his relationship ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU, by cutting the grass. POST: Yesterday I had to cut my grass for the first time this year because it was getting pretty bad. All I have here is an electric weed eater which is why I put it off for so long. Whats worse is the extension cord I have for it is only about 20 feet which means I have to unplug it and put it in another section of the house and hang it out the window. So I get to the last little part of the yard and my only option to plug it in is to unplug my deep freezer, no ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: I was cited with Receiving Stolen Property. Help? POST: So me and a friend were in Walmart and found an iPhone 3GS. The phone was dead so I took it home to charge so I could turn it on eventually. The girl who lost the phone called it from a friend of hers. My friend talked to the girl and tried to setup a meeting the next day and the call dropped. Thinking nothing of it he turned the phone off so it could charge again. About an hour and half later the cops showed up and originally wer",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Supposed to go on a trip to visit girl [F/24], but unsure if i [M/28] should go through it with. POST: Throwaway. Back a few months ago I met a girl, she is from a different state, we quickly went on dates, fell for each other hard (as far as i could tell) and then she had to leave. We made plans for me to visit her later on this year (coming up on shortly), we were both excited, at least I was. We haven't really had a talk in a long while, little short 5 minute chat's here and ther",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Probate/inheritance question [IL] POST: This is a somewhat long story, so I will try and stay on track and focused as possible. My grandfather passed in 2001, but did not have a will. My mother and her sister were the only living relatives, however my mother had been named executor of his estate and had power of attorney when he passed. His estate has and still is in probate in IL. The last thing my mother did was back in 2006, and that was miss a court date. My mother passed last",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I being a jealous bitch? Flirty female friend wants to stay with my boyfriend for a few weeks (F25)(M27) POST: My boyfriend of 10 months has a female friend whom I secretly loathe. They became friends about the same time we started dating. From the very beginning, I felt like she was interested in my boyfriend, although she's never told him that. Her behavior suggests it. Whenever we hang out with a group of friends, all of her attention is directed at my boyfriend. I catch her",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my girlfriend [16 F] of 4 months, Broke up need some advice POST: We were great friends and started dating. I realized that i in fact wasn't right for her and realized that i couldn't keep it going. I ended things with her and thought i did it a nice as i could. I am still interested in being friends with her but she is very upset. Some context. I asked her if she wanted to be in a relationship anymore after about a week of her acting very different. She couldn't answ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Guys keep confessing crushes on me [20/f] when they know I have a boyfriend (22/m). POST: My boyfriend and I have known each other for over four years, and we've dated before. For simplicity's sake, let's say we've been together for five months. Our relationship is awesome, we make each other very happy, and we communicate well. The problem is with the people who don't seem to get that. In the past week, two of my boyfriend's friends have confessed crushes on me, one to h",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Take it or leave it? POST: Could do with a 3rd person objective take on a situation I've found myself in. I'm a 23 year old male, went on a date with a girl about a week ago and she seemed to really enjoy herself and said at the end she'd like to meet again. Since then we have been texting a lot and seem to getting on pretty well. She sort of invited me out with her friends for last friday, but on the day it was raining quite heavily and she said it wasn't happening anymore. Then s",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help, Freescore.com has been billing me for 6 months and I want my money back! POST: yes I know it sounds stupid and obvious but here's the story I went to see what this was all about awhile back was filling out an application to membership when I thought ""hey this sounds fishy, im outta here"". I poured over every page that i clicked through and found no terms and conditions so I promptly closed out the window and carried on with my life. well 6 months later I'm looking through my che",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I work to support my parents and siblings - i dont think i can take it anymore POST: I want to start off by saying i'm 18 years old and since i were 16 i have been working. The last few months i have been working every hour available to me. I currently have 3 jobs (two 5 days a week, one 2 days a week) and i can end up working between 96 and 100 hours a week. Monday - friday -- 16 hours a day saturday+ sunday - 8-10 hours a day I Love my family to bits and they mean the world to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (21/M) can't deal with my (43/F) mom or her side of the family since the divorce. Considering cutting ties. POST: Alright to start things off my parents got divorced about 8 months ago. I ended up moving out with my dad because he was struggling financially and emotionally. Things were touchy with my mother for awhile but we mended things. She did however insist on talking to dad through me about my sister (9/f). It got old quick but mom and dad were in no shape to talk so I bore t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When redirects go bad, or crime on the Internet. POST: This is something I was thinking about for a while now and was wishing to get some opinions on. In real life events that preceded and follow a crime are generally of a local nature. In other words, if you see a crime being committed it usually happens right in front of you and you know immediately to call the police and they should be able to handle it from there. The crime happened, you saw it, and had no active role in it. With ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my SO [27 F] for nearly 2 years, went on vacation with a friend who I'm starting to have a crush on. POST: I've been with my SO for nearly 2 years. I enjoy being with her and everything is great. The two of us recently went on a vacation with a friend of ours (26/F) and found myself thinking about her more than usual and beyond current friendship. Since I've been home, I can't get her out of my mind. I thought I had outgrown the phase of my life where I would be in a",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not opening the door to the newest employee POST: First time posting here, nevertheless, I've been a long time lurker. Yesterday, I had a medical checkup, so I left my office earlier than normal, and didn't return because the checkup went past beyond than my usual office log-off time, so I just went home. Fast forward to this morning. I arrived on time to my office but there was a queue to register in the fingerprint scan log-in entry control. When I finally arrived to the log-in de",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(22f) am being stood up by my own bf(31m). POST: Hi, I have an issue with my bf's behaviour and I'm not sure if I'm being reasonable in it or maybe overreacting. I am 22f, he's 31m and we've been together for 9 months. We're not living together. He has his own flat and I live with my parents. Last week he was sick and he took a day off from work. I am a student, and I had a day off school too on that day. I could've helped him, cooked for him and so on, if he just told me. Anyway,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Dad (50M) wants to stalk me (19M) using the FindMyFriends app, says I need to grow up? POST: My dad has never been a strict person. But he's got a very narcissistic personality towards him. He's only just settled down with his wife and is always on his iPhone/iPad constantly buying gadgets etc. Since he's settled, he tells the whole family to use FindMyFriends because there are no secrets to be held? But he constantly stalks everyones positions (Grandfather,Auntie,Children) etc.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28/M] am having a hard time reassuring a friend[24/F]. She accused me of something I didn't do. POST: We're Internet friends and have never met in person. We do take each other seriously as friends, though. We have both given support and shown concern for each other multiple times. She somehow got the impression that I used a throwaway to talk to her on reddit. She was scared so badly that she cut all contact with me from July to November. I've since given her hard evidence t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/F] with my girlfriend [24/F] of 6 months, found out seeing was seeing other guys during our casual dating right up until we started going out. POST: EDIT: im 22M, woops!! My girlfriend and I have been together for 6 months (a year in total, 4 months casual dating, 6 months dating). I recently found out that while we were casually dating she had been seeing and having sex with other people. We had been seeing each other for four months and she had met up with this person (the ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just found my iPod Touch 2nd Gen, and it's still 100% functional. Reddit, what are some potential practical uses for this iPod since it's too old to be used for its original purpose? POST: Long story short, I dug up my old 16GB iPod Touch while going through some old stuff yesterday, having not known where it was for ~5 years. It's still fully functional, the battery charges, the screen works, the external speaker works, but it's too old to run any recent version of iOS, and its spec",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28F] Feel weird about something that happened 10+ years ago POST: So I don't know why but this has been bugging me lately. When I was in high school I made friend with a lot of people a grade or two younger than me. This resulted in me knowing people several grades younger than me through association. When I was 18 I was hanging out with a mixture of guys and girls (there were maybe 6 of us.) The age ranges were 15-18. I was 18. One of the guys mentioned ""the uncomfortable game",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my girlfriend [25 F] of 8 months. She has a history of ending relationships suddenly and badly. POST: So, there's this girl, see. And she's a phenomenally talented, adventurous, beautiful doctor. Our Venn diagrams are pretty much in sync. We've known each other for four years, and have been eyeing each other that entire time, knowing we've got a great connection, but through circumstance (relationships, distance) we've never gotten a chance to truly explore our frie",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [24F] bf [23M] had a child with an ex when he was 16. I don't know how to feel when we talk about having a baby. POST: Hey Reddit, first post... I hope any of you in similar situations can help me out. I've been with my current bf for almost 2 years now, and will move in together next month! I love him dearly and hope to have a family with him later on. The thing is he had an unplanned pregnancy when he was younger and has a 7 y/o kid. I've never met the child, but I know the ex",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My girlfriend [24/F] is on the larger side, and I [25/M] don't know the best way to respond when she asks if she looks fat. POST: So I've recently started dating a girl who's larger than most of the other girlfriends that I've had. While she is by no means obese or at an unhealthy weight, she still is bigger then the other girlfriends I've had. With my other girlfriends, when they told me they feel fat, I was able to tell them that they were skinny, as in many ways it was the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22m] boss [26m] keeps sending me to work in another department and I don't know what to do POST: Okay so I work in QA for a small Software Development company (50-60 employees). The QA team is fairly small too (6 of us). The company recently got an order for a bunch of our software and hardware (which we put together in-house) and the president decided that getting this order ready for shipping is now The Company's top priority, and this has been going on for the past few days. E",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Sleuths of Reddit, what do you make of this? [MIC, NSFW] POST: Let us begin with a little backstory: So my friend's parents are in real estate and he often helps them clean out abandoned/repossessed houses so that they can be put on the market again. Here is where our story begins... Now, little is known about the residents in this house before it was abandoned. Located in the asshole of the United States, Missouri, the people who were originally living in this house ran away after b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (27/f) girlfriend want to pick me (30/m) up from my colonoscopy. We've only been dating 2 months, is it a good idea? POST: Just used the GF descriptor in title to make it easier to read. We have had no talk about actually being GF/BF. For the last couple of months I've been dating this great girl. Smart/ funny etc etc we have been getting along extremely well. We are both fairly guarded people, and while we truly enjoy each others time, we still have some barriers up. Altho",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [M](21) Pretty crappy scenario with an ex[F](20) unsure how to proceed POST: So part of this is to get this off my chest but mostly because I'm at a standstill and unsure how to move on. In august of 2011 (lets go with M) M and I started dating. I fell in love with her, we lost our virginity to each other, and we were together up until July of this year. She broke up with me (not completely out of the blue we did have some difficulties but not anything to immediately give up on the",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [California]GF being charged tuition to a school she didn't even know she registered to. POST: My girlfriend attended orientation to a Cal State she was interested her freshman year. At the end of the dat she decided she didn't want to attend this school due to financial resaons and when about her life. Turns out over the years she been getting letters trying to collect a debt of a semester worth of classes dating back her freshman year. When we call to get this settled they state its",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 M] met a girl [29] about a month a go. We hit it off strong and our relationship is great...however I am not sure anymore. POST: So I am a ballroom dance instructor. I met her at a dance on a Saturday night out of state. I danced with all the ladies there, her a little more because she was younger than most. She's not my typical type, but she is cute. I was a gentleman, asked for her number at the end of night and traveled back home. Tuesday I texted her and we started talking ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[25] has his first serious girlfriend[21] and is maybe scared or wrong about her. POST: Hey, so i met her 3 months ago in a club and things escalated kinda quick. Kissing in the club and then we started dating, also with a lot of kissing from the beginning etc. I offered her to make the dating exclusive after the first date. Some weeks futher we are doing heavy petting. And now we are in a relationship. So there was no room for feelings that could come up for something someone cant",negative " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by cooking seafood POST: So today I fucked up by cooking seafood. And yes it was actually today! Well, anyway, so I was cooking seafood blah blah, and since my mom can't stand the smell of seafood (weird, I know.) And so we had to air out the house before she got home, well to do that you need to open windows and all that. I have a cat that loves to go outside but we don't let her because I'm afraid she'll get hurt by other neighboring cats. Anyways, we opened the windows and let it air ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: how long after a breakup do you start actively trying to date or start online dating? my ex waited 3 days :( POST: My bf and I just ended a serious, committed 3 year relationship. We had a huge fight and we mutually broke up out of impulse/anger. A few days after the fight/break up, I find out that he reactivated his okcupid account that he created when we were on a break/long distance. I feel disgusted and hurt and sad and a billion other things. How long do most people wait after a bre",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/F] Could I have scared my boyfriend [21/M] off? POST: My boyfriend and I had sex for the first time tonight after being together for a month and talking casually for a month beforehand. Before we had sex, I mentioned starting to fall for him, since he had said it before. He kissed me, and then I asked him how he felt. He said that he thinks he's falling for me, and I asked him if he was just being nice and if he meant it, and he said yes. Then we had sex. Now, we had talke",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Boyfriend wants to live together next summer... I want to but I feel like I need to focus on other things. POST: 20m and 20f. I am currently living abroad for the academic year while my boyfriend stays behind at the university we go to together. We have been together for sometime now and are pretty serious. I feel like we got even more serious as a couple when we made plans about making it through the year apart/travel arrangements for visits, etc. Because of this (I believe), ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [23F] gf keeps getting hit on, telling me [26M] about it, but allows it to continue. Do I have a right to be somewhat upset? POST: I'm in an LDR for 8 months now with a great woman and she knows I have had issues with unfaithfulness in the past. I don't understand why she goes out of her way to tell me that guys hit on her, but when I get uncomfortable, it's almost as if she gets upset right back / not understanding. Don't get me wrong, I fully expect that as a girl she's going ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 25/F with my Ex 27 M 3 Years, Broke up and heartbroken. POST: So this is your generic break up post. We were been going out 3 years on and off (he broke up with me twice, once for 1 month and then for 3 months). We reconnected after a night out. We moved in together January 2015. Before this we were actually doing well. On to the break up. Things had been tense for a long time. The fights were lasting longer, up to 3 days with him leaving the house and me having no way to contact",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (20 F) over reacting about my (19 M ) long replies while he hangs out with people? POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for close to 2 years. Recently he just made a good group of friends from work and I am so happy for him. The thing is most of them are girls and they only hang out when he gets off of work which is usually 1AM and he stays over at their house until 11-12 PM. During that time, he does not talk to me, if he does its very short text's and doesn't reply for ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17m] and my [17f] gf of 2 years broke up but I want to get back together POST: Hello reddit, it's my first post and I really want some advice We've been together for 2 years. It's been the first relation for both of us. Were broke up once 3 months ago but we got back together after 1 week. Then we broke up over me being to clingy. I've worked on that and i can say that it's no longer a problem. Other that there were only small arguments but nothing serious, but lately is was re",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: How best to pay SO's grad school tuition? POST: Trying to figure out what is the best course of action in this situation and could use some help from /pf. My SO recently decided to go to grad school to get a masters in SO's field of study. It's the right choice (opens doors, increased salary, etc.). However, we've run into a small snag. SO's plan is to work full time and take one class per semester as a part time student. Each class costs about $3,800. SO originally was told that",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Consolidation, then PAYE + PSLF: Success? Critique my plan, please POST: Current situation: I have subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford Federal loans, both eligible for Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE, similar to IBR but 10%, not 15% of income) and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). I also have a ""Loan for Disadvantaged Students"" , a federal loan that I am considering consolidating, albeit at a higher interest rate (5%->6.8%, plus losing my deferment benefits). Here is my plan: Consoli",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Baby going to bed very late POST: So something concerning me. My wife and I have terrible schedules. We both work at restaurants and both get home late. Recently my 16 month old son has started finally going to bed at 1 or 2 in the morning The thing is, he gets plenty of sleep. He will sleep for 10 plus hours if he needs to and takes a nice long nap around 4 or 5 in the afternoon. We also have a blackout curtain for the room so that he can sleep in darkness for these recent late nights.",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Girlfriend of two and a half years of dating broke up with me. Needs help/advice, please. POST: I'm 17, my girlfriend just recently 17. The other day was my girlfriend's birthday. She went to a party for her godchild, who also happend to have the same birthday. While there she broke her foot on a fun jump. So over the past could of days I would occasionally text and call her asking how she was doing. The other day I texted her asking if her foot was hurting. She replied with, ""No, it feel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 F] broke up with my Ex Bf [22M] and lost all friends in the breakup. What do I do? POST: So I've been dealing with some stuff lately, and the whole situation has been really getting me down and I could use a little bit of advice in how to handle it. I recently broke up with my boyfriend who shared the same social group of friends. The relationship wasn't healthy, and he did do some things that were very invasive due to his own anxiety problems (following me to my class, trying",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 f] with my schizophrenic girlfriend [20 f] 3 Months, Require Perspective POST: inb4: op should have used a throw away account. This is a partial throw away account. Anyhow, this girl, K, asked me out a good 3 weeks ago, on the 10th of July. That day in which she asked me out, she stated she would be disappearing again. It is not out of the ordinary for her to retreat, and keep away from socialization every few months. Well, she's stopped taking her medication, and she's des",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] with my crush [17F] , first time ever truly liking someone but doesn't seem that feelings are mutual. POST: Ok, so basically this all began during our homecoming this past November. I have never spoken to this girl before but we both know who each other are, so we talked and danced at homecoming, I felt that we really hit it off, so I gave her my number and she sends me a text about 10 minutes after we leave. We text almost everyday from that time but at times she would jus",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [17F] brother [18M] doesn't respect my mom [50sF] and refuses to work POST: I'm currently a high school senior, and my brother started his first year in college. He recently finished his first semester. My mom has been paying for his college so far (she is a single parent). The only thing she has asked for him to do is to pay for his textbooks, transportation, etc. He has been able to do so because of what he had saved up from allowances basically, which amounted to ~$1000. Howe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30'sF] frustrated that my [30'sM] boyfriend of a yr or so opts to live with his parents. POST: We both hit some rough times last year so he moved in with his parents but I managed to pick myself up and am doing well but instead of moving in with me and taking the next logical step, he's still living at home. He doesn't seem inclined to be leaving there anytime soon either. I love him and want to stay together but if he would nrather live with his parents than his girlfriend does ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Advice on how to support myself with a part time job (UK) POST: Hi All This is my first post to Reddit so please forgive any slip ups or mistakes! I recently finished my Master's degree in England and, on the urging of my parents, have returned home to Northern Ireland in order to take a break and search for jobs without having to worry so much about financial constraints whilst I'm unemployed. Sounds like the perfect plan, but I'm miserable. The problem is that I've always bee",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Learning to forgive and forget after getting back together? POST: Hello. I hoped someone here might be able to give me a little advice or share experiences on how to move forward when you get back together with a long term romantic partner after a separation; namely, how do you let go of the hurtful things that were said in the past? I love my partner and want to let go of my anxieties and my pain, but there are times throughout the day when I find myself dwelling on hurtful th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being accidentally racist POST: This fuck up actually happened about 20 minutes ago and I am still cringeing at what a horrible person I am. My husband and I went on a walk after the sun went down, because it has been far too hot to leave the air conditioning during the day unless absolutely necessary. Being the boring white folks that we are, we were waxing poetic about how hot it had been. Unreasonably hot. Gruesomely hot. Oppressively hot. As we neared our home, we passed an olde",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [19/M] dating this girl [19/F], turns out she's the slutty type of girl, still like her - need advice. POST: So I know this girl[18] from school in one my classes. We basically were in the same class for about 1 year then I had to change classes and didn't get to spend that much time with her. We still talk like about everyday and ended up in a relationship. Right now, there's school holiday and she lives like 80 kilometres away from me and didn't get to date or spend time togeth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28F] with my boyfriend [27M) 3-4months, I need to break up with him, but I don't want to see him anymore. POST: Hey, so I've decided I need to break up. I hate break ups. I wasn't sure about him to begin with but I thought I'd try it out. He's been mostly good, but I definitely no longer want to be with him. I don't want him touching me etc. he has a problem with boundaries. Eg. Wednesday night he came to my house at 1.15AM to see me. Knocking on my window/wall till I came outs",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (19 f) considering breaking up with him (20 m) POST: This is pretty hard for me to write, but I've been with my boyfriend for almost two years now and I love him so much, but I don't know if our relationship should continue. It seems like the spark has gone from our relationship. He's so distant and private- it's always me telling him I love him, and it's safe to say I put in 95% of the romantic aspect of our relationship. In short, he makes me feel unloved and unappreciated- we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28F] am wondering if this is rude with my in-laws 50s M/F POST: I need to know if I am being a big baby or not. Is this rude or am I just sensitive? Basically I wrote on MIL's facebook page saying oh its our friendship anniversary! I was just trying to be cute with her. Well for hours I got no response. Not even a tiny like. Not to sound like a stalker but I just happened to see she responded to other things and made post but ignored mine all day. I felt dumb and embarrassed so I ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I messed up at a store I working for a friend. POST: A friend of mine recently opened a shop with two friend's. He's out of town and asked me to cover him for two days, I agreed. A bit of background on the store... It's an art collective, and the artists/consignee's are in charge of making sure items are priced and that they are added to the list of inventory. Well one woman hadn't done either, and someone came in and was looking at her item and was convinced when she in last it was pri",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ass gaskets, purse hangers, lysol- these are necessities to a woman's bathroom WHY are they not in there. NSFW POST: Why don't all bathrooms have ass gaskets and pocket book holders? I demand to know!!!!! And when I go to the last stall I'm disappointed to find neither in none of the stalls if searched, so I curse loudly about dancing while I Lysol the shit out of the seat, and wipe it down (if there's lysol) If theres no Lysol I curse even more about touching someone elses ass germs an",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I could really use some advice or help in general. POST: Um I'm a little hesitant to say what my age is because I feel people wont take me seriously then. But Im 15 almost 16. She is the same age. I can understand why people wouldn't take me seriously. ""Your only 15, what do you know about love?"" I get it. It sounds stupid. Im still very young yet. But I just really need some advice. She was the first very serious relationship I had. We were dating for 9 months. She was very mean durin",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using too much essential oil POST: So just to be clear, this happened when I was a lot younger (don't remember the exact age), a time when I didn't know better. I'm 17 now and I don't think I'll ever forget this horrifying experience. Like most people, I assume, I lotion when I get out of the shower. Gotta keep that skin moist. And my mom used to keep these small vials of essential oil in the bathroom, to use when she took a bath or whatever. Now, my probably tween self had no idea th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, What's the worst situation you've found yourself in after letting go a little fart but following through and shitting your pants? POST: Ok i'll start. While holidaying in Penang, Malaysia about 10 yrs ago, i was getting myself ready to go out for the evening, this was around the time when them cream coloured chino trousers were quite fashionable. So i get ready, complete with cream chino's and a white short sleeve short, go downstairs, walk through the reception of the 5 star",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by walking down the stairs while reading. POST: This happened about an hour ago. I am in the process of applying to law school and was working on my transcript requests. I spent some time in the army and moved around but took classes at various posts I was stationed at. This means I have four schools to send transcripts to the law school admission council. I had gone upstairs to my office to print out the forms. Here's where disaster struck. As I was walking down the stairs I also was ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Ohio] Being charged $125 for lock change after moving out of old apartment. POST: About a month ago I moved into a new apartment after the end of my lease at a previous apartment. I just got the Deposit Summary Form back, and they're charging me a 125 dollar fee for them having to change the locks. I inquired today about WHY I was charged that, as I turned the keys in on time(a few days before required to, actually) and they told me that because I made a spare(and turned it in), they",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend told me has (lingering) feelings for someone else, advice? POST: We're in college, and we've been together for 5 months. Three of those were long distance, which was tough; long distance wasn't something I wanted to do, I just cared about him enough to try it. I visited him a couple of times, and it was, for the most part, great when I was with him. School just started again, I was so excited to see him. The FIRST night I'm back he tells me he still has a thing for this oth",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Activities for a forever alone? POST: My closest friend has to repeat the last year of school because he didn't pass the final exams, my other friend got a crappy temporary job and works every afternoon and evening, the rest of my friends are on a long holiday trip. So I am forever alone (or at least for ~3 months) and have no one to do stuff with. **What are activities I can join alone and where I will meet new people and can socialize?** Not necessarily girls, though that would be nice",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my girlfriend [20F] of 1.5 years, we rarely have sex anymore. It's always dismissed when I bring up the issue. POST: Hey all, Long time lurker here love this sub, people here give great advice. Using a throwaway because friends know my username. To start I love my girlfriend, Sara. A lot. She's really got it all and I could see myself spending the rest of my life with her. We are really open with each other and I am comfortable with telling her how I feel. I'd say we h",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Who will join me? POST: I have no idea where else to go to ask this, so I figure I'll just do it here. I figure I'll start with the flat basics, then work my way into the details. skip to the end when you've heard enough. I'm going to go live out in the woods in about 2 years. Not just a bit out of the city. Deep woods, into the Rockies, away from society, and I need some people to join me. I am sick and tired of this life. This safety, this predictability, this simplicity... it's driv",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by licking the inside of my donuts. POST: So i work in landscaping and everyday me and my partner hit up 711 for a quick breakfast. Anyway I got my two donuts for 99 cents and a small coffee like usual and walked back to the truck. This is when i kind of loss myself cause it is 6AM and i just woke up, so I am waiting for my partner to come out of the 711 with his stuff when i start to lick the glaze off my donut. I totally zone out to which this overweight women driving a honda i guess i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it bad to ask out a girl that gave me dating advice? POST: The back story to this is that for about a month(past) I told this girl(girl A) that I wanted to ask out another girl(girl B). I'm not sure if she isn't interested in me but anyways, after a month of encouragement from girl A I finally managed to get the courage to ask out girl B. I was rejected, and now friends are telling me to move on. I want to take this advice but I'm not sure who to move on to,if that is how I move on, b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My longtime girlfriend [20f] and I [20m] have been growing apart. She's been losing feelings for me and developing feelings for a co-worker. Do I stick it through or jump ship? POST: So my girlfriend and I are close. We've been like a married couple since high school. Lately she's been super busy and works and lives a little ways away, and we haven't seen much of each other. One day she tells me she's been feeling weird about me lately, and starts to question her love for me. I tol",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29M] with my fiancée [28F] 5yr. Wants me to stop talking to my friend. Among other things. POST: My fiancee has never liked one of my friends and has said many times i should stop talking to him and distance myself from him. He pokes fun at me and belittles me at times but has never really said anything that i've taken offense at but maybe im too thick skinned. He's helped me out when i was super depressed and even set me up with my current job which he pleaded with me for years ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [42F] with my[34 M] 1 year, 10 year old daughter hates my boyfriend POST: we have been dating for a year. I divorced in October 2012 and my boyfriend and I met in January 2013. I have 3 children. They briefly met my boyfriend for like an hour in February 2013, but did not see him again until April 2013 when we started dating regularly. My 10 year old daughter seemed to like him at first, but once she found out we were dating in June 2013, she hated him. She also thin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (m18) lost on what to do. My girlfriend (f17) for 6 months never liked physical contact an she told me the reason why. POST: Sorry if theirs a lot of mistakes I'm typing it of my phone an i feel tired. I've (18m) been dating this girl (17f) for 6 months now. In the beginning i noticed she pulled away a lot when i would try to go in for a kiss or a hug. When i asked she told me she doesn't like any of that so I've stopped. There's been times where she told me she has a secret an s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23/F] How do I handle nerves when going on a first date? POST: First off, this is a throwaway account, I'm about to go on a first date with a guy, I've been in a relationship before that was emotionally abusive but never on a real date. In the past, I've been insecure about dating because I never felt ready. Now that I have matured a bit more and do feel ready to date, I got asked out on a date by this guy that I've been talking to for a while on Okcupid. This guy and I seem to h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my friend [20F] hooked up and she has a boyfriend. POST: I recently met this girl through school and we hit it off well. I still don't know her all that well but i was trying to learn more about her. We ended up back at her place during one of the huge storms recently and that led to movies, cuddling, and eventually sex. After we added each other on various social media. It was at this time I noticed it was pretty obvious she was in a relationship currently. I'm tryi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Youngest children of Reddit, what did you do to get revenge for all the crap your older siblings did to you? POST: When I was in elementary school, I went to a gifted program in a school which also had a very large, famous special needs program. When people would ask where we went to school, my brother would tell people that he and my sister when to one school, ""but ChickMD goes to _____, because she's 'special'."" People thought I was mentally retarded for three years... Anyway, high s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my GF [22 F], 1.3 years, living together and bound by a lease, but I fear a breakup is coming. POST: I'm afraid it's coming, given the way she's been acting lately. She gets annoyed easily, has said she's tired of being in a relationship. Physical intimacy is all but gone. I work from home, she doesn't -- we only see each other a bit each day, but she still gets easily annoyed. Some days will be awesome, others horrible. It's like we go from having fun to her being agg",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [First Post] I see my ex every day, and it is REALLY hard for me, even though I don't like her any more. [20m] [21f] POST: Hi, She was my first girlfriend, and the same with her. Even though is is really attractive she was a virgin before starting dating with me. We were together for 7 months, being in the same tiny College in Brazil (250 students, a law school). We were (and still are) in the same classroom of 25 students. It was really intense, I loved her and she loved me. But o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27/F] with my husband [30 M] married months dated 6+ years, found evidence he cheated POST: I've always given him the benefit of the doubt, having been cheated on in the past I told myself to never punish another man for what an asshole did to me in the past. Well, for some reason I decided to snoop in his phone, and there was some pretty damning evidence that he was up to no good when he was away on business a year ago. Including a picture of a woman that he sent to his friend s",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [GA]Seeking advice/help with disability claim POST: So I really need to get this out there with someone. Anyone I can talk too. Basically I have Blount's disease, Morbidly obese with a case of arthritis in my knees as well. Ive had 2 surgeries as a kid. 1 for rods in both knees and 1 for staples in both knees. Ive been denied a couple of times and this is my first time appealing the decision. Ive seen an orthopedic that took 1 look at my x rays and was surprised that no one believes my",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I stay or should I go? POST: Reddit, be forewarned: the following is a sad, sad tale of a lonely young woman. It took me two long, lonely years to heal my heart after my last relationship. After it all, I'm finally ready for a meaningful relationship, and as luck would have it, met a very nice man. Last night was our fourth date, but I haven't gotten so much as a peck on the cheek from him. I must add that my libido is considerably higher than the average woman. To ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: PF What sells when presenting a project? POST: Not sure if this belongs here, feel free to move this I am a senior year student, Bs. M.E. and me and a small group of other students (cross carreers project) developed this project as a part of a course we are in. It's the full idea, from basics to research and construction plus the whole engineering theory backing we could give it, it's solid and looks good. We have made small scale polls, social and economical research, we even g",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/f] I want to know the best way to try to approach my ex[17/m] POST: My ex and I started dating while I was in my senior year of high school. Unfortunately, I overlooked his needs for a very long time, wasn't always open to listening to him, and didn't understand that sometimes the jokes I made hurt him. I changed my ways and have tried to be as supportive of him and his needs as possible, the previous hurt has stayed with him. He tried to repress this for a while because he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is my [M19] girlfriend [F19] just waiting to break up with me in person? POST: So me and my girlfriend have been dating for about six months. We started dating in college but, once the semester ended we had to go long distance. Unfortunately we live on opposite sides of the state so I have not really had the chance to visit her. -- The first month of summer had gone by fine, we texted regularly, set up Skype dates on occassion, but as the summer went on those all started to slow down",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [38 M] with my Wife [30 F] duration, 2 Years dated, 1+ year married POST: We had the discussion, even before we got married, and it was this. If there is every someone we wanted to sleep with it was ok. So we have an open relationship. Funny part is that's not really the problem with us. The thing is we know women have an easier time telling this to a guy and they are completely accepting, but if I ""as a man"" put this claim out there, I'm not believed. I know girls have the adva",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my GF [25F] 5 months together been in open relationship 2 months, not going good. Want to close it. POST: Ok here we go, Been with my Current GF for about 5 month. The first 2-3 months were amazing, then she wanted to open up our relationship, She has borderline personalty disorder and has a hard time staying happy with what she has. I understood this and wanted to be with her, so i said yes even though i didn't really want it, and yes i told her that. Now about 2 mo",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Question(s) about group interview tomorrow. POST: Made a throwaway for this. I just moved to a new state and my job hunt as a **video producer** hasn't been going well. A recruiter offered me a **customer support** position at a camera company. The job isn't something I'd ever apply for and **I'm not qualified**, but it'd help me get on my feet as well as give me some great knowledge with their products. As a videographer, this company makes equipment I use, but I was told by the recruiter ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: So here's the story... POST: I'm(19m) into this girl(18f), but we used to date about a year. It ended terribly. After a year of straight up shit I am now a very well rounded guy with a lot going on as opposed to a lazy stoner that I was. Anyway so I decided well fuck it might as well hit her up its been a year. Turns out she's changed a good deal as well. We start texting, next thing I know we hang out and it reminds me of the really good times I had with her. At this point y",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not proofreading my code causing my basement to flood POST: Bit of a back story: we have a sump pump in our basement controlled by a Raspberry Pi. The sump pit is too narrow for a float switch to be used so this is a way to get my nerdy groove on and use the Pi that was collecting dust for the last 2 years. Saturday morning I was heading to the lake. Before I left I did my normal check on the sump pump as our water table has been fluctuating a lot and I have to manually adjust the c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with most of my friends [20-25 F's], I feel like my insecurity and self esteem from past relationships/friendships has lead to me ruining my newer friendships. How do I overcome this? POST: I don't want to make this too long, but basically I had some shitty friends in my younger years (all through K-12), and it was only in college that I really made some good friends. I had to transfer schools because of academic reasons after 2 years (switched majors), and as a result I lo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my boyfriend [20 M] in a 3 years relationship, low sef esteem and trust issue. POST: Thanks for reading, first time posting and not feeling too confortable but need some advice. I'm 4 years older than my boyfriend and we have been together for 3 years and living together for almost 3 y. Anyway I have very low self esteem and it might be because of it I got some trust isuues, even though my boyfriend never gave me reasons to not trust him I can't say I'm 100% sure that ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 F] with my boyfriend [34 M] together 3.5 years, are we doomed? POST: We don't have our ""collective futures"" planned since we got together after our divorces (we each married after 5+ year-long relationships). Both of us are unsure where we land on many things in the future, so we have decided not to move in with each other until that's more known. The biggest issue is that we cannot communicate about difficult issues. Whether it's work stress, family drama, or medical stuff,",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [19m] met this girl [19f] two weeks ago, I want to tell her how I am feeling about her before Christmas break... [Update!] POST: Link to original post in comments (sorry, weird mobile issues) So not just 20 minutes ago I had her in my arms, we were enjoying our show that we are watching together (white collar, 10/10 would recommend if you haven't watched it). The episode we are on ends, and I then I stop it from auto switching to the next episode like I always do so we can e",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what are some teachers you've had that piss you off to no end? POST: I'm in my final year of high school, taking English 30-1 (Grade 12 english, standard level). Being an avid reader and writer for many years, I have an extensive vocabulary and understanding of essays and such. My teacher seems to think my class is full of retards, even explaining how to use commas (-_-). On the diploma, we have 2 essays to write, and she has use writing paragraphs that are <1 page long. Tired of",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I'm 29 and interested in a 22 year old. Should I even pursue this? If so, how? POST: I'm currently finishing a degree at my local university. I'm 29 and divorced. As a ""non-traditional"" student, I don't regard campus or my classes as a place to meet women. The vast majority of them are either so much younger than me (18-20), or married. This semester, however, I've met a sweetheart of a gal. She's 22. I was lucky enough to get paired up with her as a lab partner to work with for the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it appropriate to give compliments while in a relationship? Me F/21, friend M26 POST: A somewhat distant male friend is engaged and frequently compliments me and other females in our friend group. Is this inappropriate? Should we say something to him or his fiancee? The compliments are often things like, ""You look so beautiful today"" or ""That shirt is really flattering on you, I like it"". But he has gone far enough to specifically text me or a friend after we upload new photos t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does anyone else have a secret hate/strong dislike for their best friend, and if so, how do you deal with it? POST: This is a throwaway. Even though I'm fairly certain my best friend will never see this, my real username would give it away. I've been best friends with the same girl now for about six years. We were as close as brother and sister at one point, but I don't feel that way anymore. In fact, it's to the point now where I can barely stand talking to her. She moved about four ho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] am worked up about being a virgin and my [23 F] girlfriend not being one. I know I'm in the wrong, please help me get over it. POST: So, here's the thing. I'm an incredibly shy guy when it comes to girls and relationships. I can talk to them normally, be friends with them, but I've never had enough courage to engage in something like a relationship, it really baffled people how I still don't have a girlfriend, but that's how it is, and that's what led to me being a virgin ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21 F] Listened to a friend's advice and decided not to date him [22 M] POST: Ok, I will admit that this is an unusual situation. I just need an honest opinion on what to do. It all started when I was close friends with this girl and I met this guy through her who became one of my closest friends as well. Except during the time I met those two, I could tell he was really interested in her. He would ask me to check up on her and I could tell she was annoyed by his flirting. She ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with my friend [31F] of a few months, turned me down for a date but said that friendship could turn into a relationship, what do? POST: So I've been hanging out with this girl for the past month or so, initially it was just a friendly thing but a few weeks in we went to a show. When we were saying our goodbyes we kept hugging, I feel I missed a cue here and I'm definitely kicking myself for it now. Anyway, I fell pretty hard after that, and since then when I'm around her my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Did i(21M) just ruin my chances or did i make the right choice with this girl? (20F) POST: UPDATE: SHE just texted me back saying she was just being shy because she has a fear of approaching guys first thats why she said she wanted to just be friends because she didnt want to scare me away. She only texted back now because her phone died! I asked her on a date and she gladly said yes on monday after we both get out of work!! Even if its just one date, ill take it, gonna see where it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] made out with a guy [18M] at a party last night. Where to from here? POST: **To provide some context:** I was at a party last night, and there was this guy I met who I was getting along fairly well with. He was setting off my gaydar, so at one point (we were pretty drunk at this point), I asked him if he was into guys. He smiled at me and told me that he knew I was going to ask that question, as he noticed me checking him out. I smiled at him, and sheepishly remarked I had pr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (21M) need advice on if I should break up with my girlfriend (21F) who thinks I'm the ""one"" just because I want to know what other girls are out there. POST: So I'm (21M) just looking for some life advice in general I guess. I have been best friends with this girl (21F), let's call her Tammy, for 3 years. We've been hooking up for 2 and dating for 1. We have a complicated history, the gist of it being I had to wait a long time for her to come around to the idea of dating me. I was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] have known a friend [17 M] for a few years now but I still feel like a barely know him. POST: I'm currently in high school and I have known a certain friend for a few years now. We walk to classes together and sit by each other sometimes but when we talk our conversations never seem meaningful. I notice when he talks to his other friends he's able to laugh, mess around, or look like he's having a good time but when he's around me, any sort of laughter, when there is any, som",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need tech support help! My wireless won't connect, and my roommates are no help! POST: Help, Reddit! I moved into a new apartment 3 weeks ago, and my roommates have laptops, but plug them in with ethernet cables because no one knew the password for the router. Lucky for me, I'm on the first floor of the apartment, where there is no access to an ethernet jack. After 3 weeks of leeching off the neighbors' wireless, I finally decided to pester my roommates about it tonight. The router is ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I'm working for a new startup company (background inside), can I invest my ownership equity into an ira? POST: Within the last couple of months I read an article (i believe from this subreddit) which talked about how some individuals are able to grow really large Roth IRA's. The article talks about at least one way to do this, by investing the ownership equity/shares in your own startup, then if you luck out and get an ipo or get bought out later, the money goes into your roth ira ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 26/m got dumped, facebook inquiry POST: As the title suggest, I am a 26/m who(m?) got dumped back in April after a six month relationship due to the fact that she fell out of love with me and to get through it I pretty much got her out of my life. All the things she gave me are far in a closet, all the pictures have been cast away and I stopped all her updates on facebook from showing up on my feed. Yet i did not unfriend her due to the fact that even though i do not like how t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [24/M] help to support my girlfriend [22/F] who just found out her dad has fairly serious cancer POST: Hello Reddit, I have been dating this girl for about 5 months now, and we've known each other about 5 years. Things are pretty great, and we have a fairly strong relationship. About 2 months ago she was at my side for the passing of my grandfather from cancer, and was very supportive. Now the shoe is on the other foot, she recently found out her dad was diagnosed with c",positive " r/cats TITLE: My two cats really hate each other, help! POST: It's been over a year since the new cat was introduced. We did it the way people advised us to, keeping each cat in a room, then swapping so they could get used to the other scent and so on. From the get-go the younger, additional cat has been annoying the hell out of the older (about 5 years old), existing cat. Initially the younger male wanted to play and wrestle, the older female didn't want to, and hissed and growled and ran away. We didn",negative " r/dogs TITLE: My older dog refuses to do his business when I walk him on a leash/in my presence POST: Hi /r/dogs! I was hoping other dog owners might have some ideas for me to try. Here's my situation... I have two large dogs, both black lab crosses. When I let them out to do their business in the morning, it is still dark. The same when I let them outside to do their business in the evenings (7am-ish and 5pm-ish). There is nothing I can do to alter that, as I leave for work around that time in the m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: donating my egg...what do I tell my boss? POST: Today I have a meeting with my boss, and I'm planning on telling him about my upcoming egg donation. I'm a high school teacher and I'll be required to show up late to school about 3-6 times, since I'll be getting ultrasounds done every other morning during a 12 day process prior to egg retrieval...so I have to have a clarification of my absence. Just so you know, these ultrasounds MUST be done in the mornings, so it's not like I can just go",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I need your help, if possible, to help me deal with our landlord. POST: January of 2010 my family and I moved to our first house ever. Obviously we are new to this stuff, so we really need help. We were officially moved in on January 1, 2011. Rent is payed the 5th of January. The rent is $850. It was a year lease, and my mother and the landlord started bumping heads since the beginning. The owner of the house had a representative, and she had asked for an amount of money. When th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my friend and ex [24 F], known each other for a year, much of it long distance. Her family does not like me. POST: Hey, I am wrapping my head around an issue I can't find a way out of, and I was hoping some people here could help me out. I got to know my friend through family, and became friends quickly. We did a lot of talking through text and skype due to living elsewhere most of the year. We ended up dating long distance for a few months, before she broke up wit",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, How do I go about my friend finding a SO? POST: Backstory; I live in the dorms, and one of my really good friends has recently started a thing with a girl we hang out with. I'm really happy for him, since he had a hard time with another girl last semester, who led him on. But now, when we go out to parties, or just to get food or anything, it's awkward. It's not fun to be around the two of them together anymore. He's a great guy, but even hanging out with just him, he usually e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] and my gf [22 F] have been dating for 18 months, so why do I freak out when she goes to clubs/bars without me? POST: It's not even a question of trusting her because I do, 100%. Even the thought of other guys trying it on with her or gawking at her annoys me! What makes it worse in my own head is that when I was single, I was those guys!! I don't want to ever stop her doing anything, she can do whatever she wants with whoever she wants, I just want to stop worrying over ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] have just gotten in contact 4 months later with my ex [22 F], and I think I actually want to try again. POST: So about 4 months ago, I broke up with my girlfriend of just over a year. Didn't work due to personality clashes and we moved in together very early. I feel the relationship didn't work because of some of my immaturities. I still loved her when I broke it off, but told it was for the the good of the relationship (it was, we agree on that now) But, for the past 4 mont",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] general issue with relationships in general. POST: So to start off I'm a 22 year old Mexican female. I was born and bred in the US. I was never in a relationship in high school. I recently started dated after high school. I try to talk to guys, they all call me cute. But they immediately want sex. One date and they immediately want to get in my pants. Some relationships were that, I guess I'm easily coerced into that mess. It sucks. I was recently talking to a guy, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my Boyfriend [30M] of 3 years. Not sure who needs to change but I have a problem with his online gaming. POST: I have come to a real standstill with my relationship. We have been through a lot together, I have depression, and am quite co-dependent. He has anger issues and problems respecting me. But we're getting through that. Where I am at a loss is with this: He likes to play games. All day, every day. I usually accompany him, I Reddit and watch and talk while he's p",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] after [22F]- Commitment Issues POST: Hey so I've known this girl about a month now, shes really nice we like alot of the same things we get along well together, the first few weeks we talked alot hung out once just the two of us and twice with her friends at the bar we met at, one of the times her friend approached me and asked if I liked this girl and I said I did and I find her interesting, to which she replied that I should make a move and we didnt have this conversation ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my best friend [25F] she's having a destination wedding and told me her wedding comes before my job. Thinking of not going POST: So my best friend Nina got engaged to this guy she's known for like 2 months this Valentines day (Cliche, I know). He's British and they're going to have the wedding in London this August. I'm super happy for her because she's finally met the man she claims is ""the love of her life"" and wants to settle down. But, something she said the othe",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: So I'm in a relationship, but still no ""romance"" [17M] POST: So I went out on about 5 dates with her and finally asked her to be my girlfriend [17F] this past weekend. She said yes and we hugged for a prolonged period. Now we've hung out a few more times, and just last night I went over to her place and was home alone with her for over an hour before her family came home and we had dinner. And still there is no intimacy or kiss or anything. Both of us have never had a SO before. I mi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my gf[23F] 6mo and I don't know how to convey my negative message about how we fight. POST: When we fight she is 100% of the time the one as the ""attacker"" if you will. Meaning I'm always the one in the wrong. In addition to this she always claims I try to be right or will call me defensive. Both of these are annoying because for example if you call someone defensive they can either say yes, or they can say no, but in doing so look defensive. So what I want out of fight",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29M] moved across country for a job, asked gf [23F] - GF isn't happy and is bringing me down with her POST: I was offered a job with my company in another division that required transitioning from the Midwest to a coast. My gf and I had been dating for 1.5 years, and I asked her if she wanted to come with. She said yes, we found an apartment, and have been here a year. Now, she is telling me she's unhappy, she wants to be closer to family and wants to move back. The thing is, she",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Fuck fuck fuck fuck my allergies. POST: I can't breathe. I can't see. I can't swallow. I can't fucking do anything. I've been sneezing non-stop for the last THREE hours. I have a fucking migraine from how many times I've gone *""AAAAYYYY-CHOOO"".* I'm so sick of the sound of my own sneezing, I can only imagine that I'm driving my housemates crazy. My nose has been running like a faucet. I've gone through TWO rolls of toilet paper. That's so fucking stupid. On top of that, I can't keep my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] and my gf [21 F] of 2 months, both come from different religious backgrounds, and it is becoming a problem POST: Even though we have only been in an official relationship for around 2 months, my girlfriend and I have basically been dating for about a year. 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He's seven years older than me, didn't do too well in college, managed to get an associates degree after dropping out for a few years and taking a few online classes. Now has an Associates in some kind of manufacturing engineering or something (was going for plastics engineering). He worked at a cell phone store since college, dead end job. Now he got a job as a mold changer technician or something like that. ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to collect a parcel POST: So I got back from uni at about 4 to find a delivery note saying that no body was there to collect my parcel so to get it I had to go to the delivery office. I headed out and got on a bus to the place, It was a 15 min bus journey but I got off right outside the parcel office. I got there and the gate was shut but there was a huge latch on it to open it by so I opened it and headed to the door. I got to the door and gave it a yank, it didn't open so I j",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [18] of 6 months broke up with me and I [18] need help. POST: My girlfriend told me she was going to break up with me the other day, tomorrow she is coming over to talk to me in person. She told me that she doesn't have the same feelings anymore and I think because this whole month I have been moody and just a very angry person, she said she doesn't think there is a way to work this out. But the thing is I kept a secret from her because I was very embarrassed by it, I",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling my whole class I thought semen was delicious NSFW POST: Idk if this is actually NSFW because I'm talking about things that were discussed in a high school biology class but I thought I'd play it safe. This happened to me back in high school and it's one of those moments that still passes my mind as being excruciatingly embarrassing. 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She has done it more than a few times to myself, I don't really care since we have a 4 month old daughter together. Well, we had an argument a couple days prior, as a man of course it was my fault. She has borderline personality disorder so basically if I ever call her out on anything it ends in her hanging up on me, refusing to talk or thre",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Is anyone here in the UK and familiar with property law? POST: I live in a listed building in central London. My flat was converted from two rather large storage rooms (in the mid 80s) into the residence (1bdr flat on the ground floor) it is today. In said bedroom they added a ""built - in"" closet when it was converted. This is where it gets sticky : I've owned this flat for 6 years and never altered this wardrobe, yet now, I'm being sued (by the landlord of the building) for 'encroa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my Friend"" [21 F] 1 year,such a nice girl, but feel upset. POST: I am working on improving myself and have struggled with depression and stress for a while. Sucks but still want more confidence and better times for myself. Probably stemmed from past experiences with friends and others who left me for personal reasons. While having things be completely crappy, I get introduced to a girl. Lets call her Alex. Alex is very outgoing and loves to talk and I was shy at the ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the worst thing (with the best intentions) you've ever done to a family member? POST: i'm bored on vacation, it's 10pm and the heat index is still close to 100 degrees. my cousin and i are inside our cabin with the air on and playing on our computers. he kept showing me things on his facebook wall that were funny, to him. i had already seen them, because reddit. soooooooooo, i install RES on his laptop and help him sort out his subreddits and explain the site to him, and now i",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Jet lag, sleep issues POST: The girl is 2 this weekend. She co-slept until 18 months when she was crib trained, and it was arduous but within a couple months, she was going down easily and staying peacefully in bed 7-6 every night. One week ago we returned from a 10 day vacation in which there was a 5 hour time difference and during which she co-slept. We got back one week ago. Her sleep is completely fucked up. Bedtime is a nightmare of crying again. She's not going down until 9-9:3",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, how can I stop being so depressed? POST: Recently, I've been ridiculously depressed. The love of my life started talking to me again in the past few weeks. We broke up years ago, and I could never quite let her go. She lives about 45 minutes away, and came to stay at my apartment for a couple nights. When the time came for her to leave, I told her she could move in if she wanted to. She gave me some offhand response, and it was like I was saying goodbye forever. My heart nearly w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [34M] looking for the courage to make the split with my [34F] emotionally fragile girlfriend of 4 years. Please share your breakup stories! POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for just over 4 years. We share a home, 4 dogs, we laugh together, but deep down in the core of my being, there's this nagging voice telling me that she is just not the one for me. This sucks. This means I have no choice but to destroy the woman that I've built a life with for the past 4 years. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Did I [21m] make the right choice? POST: I have never really had a girlfriend before I started ""dating"" my friend's sister [21f] about a month and a half ago. After a couple nights where she was at the same house parties we made out and began talking more. I can't say I was 100% into her but after years without seriously talking to girls I just went with it. We went on a couple of dates and I began to like her more, though we were both pretty shy and she had never really been with an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (19M) can't stop torturing myself over my ex (17F) hooking up at a party POST: So my now ex and I broke up a week and a half ago. She dumped me and said she was losing intrest in me and didn't feel the same as she did anymore. I'm having a very though time because of this, but she seems and seemed to be doing very fine. She went to the movies with some friends (5 guys, among who her ex before me, her best friend who has (had) feelings for her, and a friend she kissed all night be",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Owning and using a car outside the US prior to it turning 25 years old (then importing.) POST: Hello r/legaladvice I've been looking for info about this with little luck and so any advice would be greatly appreciated. I would like to import a vehicle into the US legally. The car I'm looking for however its not yet 25 years old (and no it is not a skyline.) If I wait it out the chance of finding one in decent condition will continue to fall or it may no longer be an option with my budg",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] boyfriend [25M] won't let me play Pokemon Go on his phone POST: I can't play it on my phone because it's a piece of crap. I was so excited when Pokemon Go came out, I've been a HUGE fan of Pokemon since it came to America. This is kind of a big deal to me. My boyfriend, however, has the app on his phone and won't let me play it. He just teases me about my shit phone and says the game isn't that good anyways, but I catch him playing it quite a bit? I don't think it's fair bec",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Let's cheer this place up a bit. What miraculous events have happened to you? POST: When I was about two, my mom was diagnosed with Dermatomyositis which is this horrible auto-immune disease that causes your body to attack, and destroy, your muscles. It was very serious and the doctors had no idea how to stop it, much less cure it. She was practically treated as a lab rat as they tested different combinations of steroids and other medications to try and find a fix to this disease. She ga",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Myself [27 M] have been dating Female [24 F] for 2 months. Found out she has had a lot more 'experience' sexually. Concerned about moving forward since I am more conservative. POST: I am in another country on assignment for a project and have been dating this local girl who I work with (limited interaction at work). So a bit about me: At home I am a more conservative person - go to church often (2 times / week), don't stay out late, hang with friends for a couple drinks sometimes, f",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: [20M] Asked Girl Out...Again POST: Brief context: * When we first met, she asked for my number. * Always texts me the day before confirming our workout for the next day. * Asked her out Friday to rockclimbing, she accepted but later texted me for a raincheck. She said she was exhausted; text was received early morning. * Worked out with her a total of 3 times. Usually lasts about 2 hours. I've been working out with a girl I met at my school's gym for the past few weeks. I just ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: /r/AskReddit, I need some help with My girlfriend and her abusive ex. Can someone give me a suggestion on what to do? POST: My girlfriend and I are only freshmen in high school and we started dating more than a few weeks ago. She told me about her ex boyfriend who is an abusive piece of shit. Apparently, he confronts any new guy she takes interest in and tells them a bunch of fake shit about herpes and what not. He also passes off hurtful comments to her.He also did this to another girl ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: I have no references, and thus get little traction. Help? POST: I've never really established a relationship with a manager (barring maybe... 2 or 3 among 15+) that would support a request to help me move from whatever job to a better one. Most of the jobs I've had are the kind that no one really wants (foodservice, warehouse work, other manual labor), and few people keep for any extended amount of time. We basically just try to keep each other sane and distracted, but I've never really made",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my close-friend [21 M] of two years, I feel like I've been ripped off. How irrational am I being? POST: Hello Reddit, I'm having an issue with my friend, Imajerk, right now, and we both would like the internet's opinion on the matter. Background, we have been great friends throughout uni, because we are in the same major and this will end up being nothing more than a bump in our relationship. A few weeks back, I bought a TV from a friend. Before buying this TV, I sp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [26/M] in a LDR with my girlfriend [22/F] at a seasonal job multiple states away where I will be working this summer. I feel it slipping. Nowhere to turn for advice. POST: Alright, so I've dated this girl for 2 months. We decided to stay together when I went home for the holidays. I've been home for about 3 1/2 months and I'll be headed back in a month. She sees a long future together and I'm not sure I do. I just don't feel there's anything ""special"" about the relationship, but",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [18F] being too controlling with my boyfriend [21M] of 8 months? He says I am. POST: Me and my boyfriend have been together for 8 months. Things have mostly been great but we've hit a rough patch recently. We're both stressed because of other things going on in our life. For the past few months I've been trying to bring up a touchy subject with him because it's something that makes me VERY uncomfortable. I thought I would eventually get over it, but we're 8 months in and it st",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by almost popping myself and then cutting my butthole. POST: I've got a real double whammy for you guys today. So there I am, drowsily waking up from a nap, feeling like a real genuine fella. I groggily lay around for a while until I feel the feel to poop. Feels like a solid one coming down the ol brown eye so I sit there for a moment enjoying my after nap joy. Then, it turns into a real fiery liquid poo. No fun. I jump up, slightly releasing my bowels giving me a nice pre squirt. My n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21m] broke up with my ex [23f] 4 months ago. Is it weird if I stay friends with her friends and hang out with them? POST: We dated for 2.5 years. During that time I became really close with a lot of her friends. Close enough to consider some of them my friends as well. Also close enough for me to miss them (one of the only things I miss about that relationship) and want to hang out with them. I've talked to a bunch of them since we've broken up. None of them are mad at me or dis",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My pussy-whipped friend is bitching out on my bday for his gf's friends bday. Am I an asshole for wanting ""the guys"" around on my bday? POST: Throwaway here. My bday is Saturday. However, one of my good friends made plans without even really consulting me. His GF's friend's (of maybe a year) bday is also Saturday, and he planned on doing all the stuff with her. This severely hurts my feelings. I told him I wanted him to hang, and he said he'd work at it on Sat, but, ultimately, he will",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Students of Reddit, have you ever felt like school isn't for you, but followed through anyway? POST: I'm in sort of a slum right now. I'm going to college and am expecting to graduate this coming spring, but school just seems to really suck at the moment. I know a lot of people will probably see this post and respond by either saying that I'm inconsiderate towards those that don't have access to education, or that I should follow through because I'm so close. I'm not worried about not fi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Sold my motorcycle without having them fill out paperwork, now number is disconnected... Help! POST: So I recently sold my motorcycle(on Wednesday 05/16/12) which is also when they picked it up, it was 1,200 cash and the only reason I didn't have them fill out the paperwork that day was because I had to get the form notarized due to the fact that I lost the pink slip.. She told me everything was fine and that she had work on Friday and that I could drop the paperwork off then.. Friday c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 F] can't figure out if it was right to break up with my ex [30 M]. It's been over 4 months POST: My ex and I dated for 2.5 years. We split a year after I moved away for grad school. The distance was somewhat of an issue, but it was doable. We broke up partially because we were fighting a lot, but also because he asked me to marry him, basically because he's not a US citizen and might have to leave the country soon... I said there's no way we're ready for that (we had been prett",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I had a hell of a nightmare the other night. What are some of your most fucked up nightmares? POST: I usually dont get freaked out badly by my nightmares but for some reason I had to get up and get a glass of water after this one. I dont remember what happened prior to the worst part but I dont think it was important. So me and my brother and my dad head down into our basement which doesnt look like it does in real life this time its much more cluttered and for some reason theres about",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Broken Toe Legal Help POST: I work as an overnight stocker for Wal-Mart, the Corrupt Empire. Anyways, I dropped a container on my foot yesterday, and broke my big toe. This happened outside of work. I called, and was asked to try to work anyways. Got to work, and told my manager and was told that ""I still had a job to do,"" and that ""I needed to give them 110%."" I ended up waddling around half the night, and going home. The manager was reluctant to let me leave, and said ""see you tomorrow",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: By staring a chain Yawn in a very serious meeting. My Boss threw a very angry look at me while yawning in front of his boss. POST: It happened just now, writing this is the first thing I am doing after the meeting. Having no clue that I had a 2:00 PM weekly meeting, I went to lunch with one of my colleagues. We usually prefer to go out for lunch on Thursday's because its more of a serious day and we like it gone asap. Anyways, we had a great one and on the way back I remembered about ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I 25/M cheated on my GF 23/F Of Two years with a co-worker,can I fix what damage I've done. POST: The title pretty much says it all,I cheated with a girl from work, it wasn't my intention but my coworker and I have known each other for a long while. we eventually went out after work for drinks to celebrate a tough period at work being through and ended up making out. Afterwards I felt horrible and decided to cut off all personal contact with my co-worker saying that I didn't f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] and my fiancee [25 M] have been together for 6 years, just some advice about some hiccups. POST: To start, I just want to make sure that everyone knows, if he never changes I am still more than happy to be with him for the rest of my life, so breaking it off is not an option. He asked me to marry him in October of 2013. Naturally I have been super excited ever since. Neither of us are religious so we don't need a big to-do. The night of our engagement we were both so excit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend has a recurring problem in bed. How do I deal with it? POST: Basic info: 21 year old female dating 29 year old male. We've been dating for a few months, and every single time we've had sex (seriously, without fail) he can't keep it up consistently. He can occasionally finish, but not every time. I know that he wants to, but most times he just *can't*. I'm fairly certain it isn't in relation to physical attraction since he's always complimenting me, etc. But who knows. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (21M) Rejected all the time and recently have been having a lot of trouble meeting new girls. POST: Hello, ive been rejected about 9 or so times in the past few years (never been told yes in my life), and despite being strong at first, it has begun to wear down my self-confidence. I honestly don't know what i've been doing wrong but i'm obviously not very desirable to a lot of people. I've been trying to meet new girls outside of my platonic friends, but a combination of my hob",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [21F] made a joke about our sex life which has me [21M] confused POST: My gf and I have a decent sex life. We're both adventurous and seem to enjoy each other. Other than frequency (we're LDR) there no complaints except for one. When we were together (when I visit) not too long ago I asked her if she could wear some of her sexy underwear more often. She has a great body and sometimes I'd like to see her show it off more. She declined and joked that she doesn't have to dress up ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [34M] just saw this book on my gf [31F] (5 months) bed side table. Anyone ever seen this or read it.... Should I be concerned? POST: My gf (31F) and I have been having issues with trust the past month (see my other post; ) and this morning I saw this new book on her bedside table. I asked what it was about and she said its similar to Men are From Mars... I just googled it and here are some quotes; ""Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of som",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My 8mo pregnant wife is extremely uncomfortable/irritable and I don't know what to do! POST: My wife (F/33) and I (M/28) have been together for 6 years, married for 3 and are expecting our first child (a boy) November 14th. She is experiencing typical third trimester suffering. Her legs and feet are swelling and she can't get comfortable. She wakes every 45 minutes to pee at night, and is EXTREMELY irritable. Everything I do or say pisses her off and results in a fight. She only",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my ex-gf [20 F] she has an active relationship with a co-worker, we ended things but I can't let go? POST: Hi all, Posted here the other day and it really helped reading all your responses! Basically in the last few weeks I have found out that my girlfriend who I've lived with for over a year has been in a relationship with a guy she works with for at least 6 weeks. At first I thought she might have just cheated on me but now I have come to find out they want to be t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF[19f] wants to break up with me[21m] because of cheating... I want to know what you think about this situation POST: So, to keep this short, my GF traveled with her family in December to spend the NYE in another state... After NYE, day 2 of 2015, after 5 days without even texting me, she says she wants to break up with me and I ask why and she doesn't want to answer. After a lot of questions, she finally admits that she got drunk in a party and kissed another guy there. I just ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20M] girlfriend [20F] gets sad when I don't sleep with her in her twin bed, but I can never fall asleep when I do. POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 6 or so months, and we live in different towns. When she visits me, we stay in my full sized bed. But when we visit her, the only sleeping option is to share her extremely small twin sized bed (in a room she shares with another woman but that isn't the issue here). I've slept in this bed numerous times, each time giv",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27/F] with my [30 /M] have been dating for six months & I want to break up with him POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for six months and everything should be fine. In fact, if it weren't for my set of problems, it'd be lovely. But the major problem is that he's 30 years old. Still lives with his family (mom & aunt). Doesn't drive his own car, borrows his aunt's. And this is bothering me to no end because I have my own place, have my own car. Oh, and I have a steady job.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my SO [20M] of over 6 months, should I be worried about his social media or is this nothing? POST: So maybe this is normal with guys but it's been bothering me more and more as our relationship has gone on. My SO and I are in LDR for most of the year since we're both in college in different states. We see each other every 6-7 weeks, for about a week at a time, two if we're lucky. We were just a ""thing"" for a good six months before we became official, and we both agre",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20, F] am concerned about pursuing a relationship with [25, M] since I am more experienced POST: I am a 20 year old female, and I am dating a man. He is amazing, respectful, funny, handsome and intelligent. I am absolutely crazy about him, and he is crazy about me too. I am concerned though. He has never been in a relationship before, never been intimate with anyone before and lives with his parents. He's a total 'ugly duckling' recently gone swan. None of this is an issue to ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's a story that your friend tells you that makes you laugh every single time? POST: My story is that my friend was at the beach with her family one time. There were these massive sand dunes and her and her brother were standing at the top of one. Their dad yelled out for them to run down the sand dune, so her brother did. She decided she could do it too so she started running down. One of her feet just ""turned into mud"" and she fell onto her face and began sliding down the dune on ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] wants to date [16F]. Known each other for 6 years. Text for 2 months. POST: Firstly, i apologize if i use the wrong format. I have know this girl for 6 years and have started to like her 3 years ago. However, i only began texting her in September this year and we are quite close now. i really like her alot and have told her that i want us to be together. She, too, likes me but she isnt clear if we should be together. I have asked her out already but she insists on paying ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My BF [30M] of 6Months is still Facebook friends with many girls he hooked up with, should I care? POST: My BF is amazing and we have a healthy, respectful relationship. I, however, have some deep insecurities stemming from childhood abandonment issues, and this often can manifest as jealousy (I started therapy and am working on it!). I find myself having to double-check on my feelings sometimes for a reality check, is this my insecurity or is this a normal feeling? Anyways, BF wen",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by thinking it was the wrong time POST: First, a little background. Monday, November 2nd was the class withdrawal deadline for my college. Anything after this date is considered an incomplete/failure. I had been debating all day whether or not I wanted to drop a class I had been struggling with, as my parents told me if I didn't do well this semester they would be taking me out of college (they indirectly pay for my college as they bought me a Florida prepaid plan when I was a child and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Break Up] I was being lied to about being lied to POST: so yeah, I'm 17, turning 18 in two weeks and I know that's really young but this situation doesn't suck any less just because I'm young. I was dating the love of my life for almost 3 years. He broke up with me about 3 weeks ago, and he's ALREADY dating another girl. He told me that he wasn't interested in another, but here they are already saying I love you. I am so beyond livid. I've been crying non stop since the break up",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I M(28) didn't get the girl F(24) a V-Day gift how badly did I mess up? Also is what I'm planning to do to big of a gesture? POST: Long story short for V-day I didn't get the girl I'm dating (about 3 months in) anything, no card, no candy, nothing. Instead we went to a paint your date art event, in my mind the painted picture was going to be something like an unspoken present to her. However she surprised me with a card and chocolates and told me about the research she did about the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: She (21F) called it off our short relationship with me(22M) because ""she wasn't in a place to be dating"". Things might have changed...but I'm not sure. POST: When the girl I was seeing for about 2 months decided to call it off, I was pretty hurt but I understood the circumstances. We were both leaving town for a while, so after some hard thinking I realized it was for the best and tried to move on. I blocked her from snapchat because it was the only form of social media that I could ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [25F] who keeps ending up with guys who are ""not ready for a relationship"" POST: In the past year, I've ended up involved in 2 different relationships with guys near or the same age as me, who after a few months of dating told me ""I like you a lot and have feelings for you, I'm just not ready for a relationship right now"". How am I supposed to take that? Did they really just figure out they weren't ready or were they just trying to let me down easily? The latest relationship is wit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] with my boyfriend [26 M] of 5.5 years, have been on a month-long break. We're going to talk tomorrow for the first time in a month. POST: My boyfriend of almost 6 years wanted to take a break a month ago. It's been a month and we're meeting up to talk about our relationship and future together. I'm pretty damn nervous about it. We agreed that we wouldn't see other people during the break, so I'm not worried about that. I trust him. I'm just worried that this break hurt ou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: About to do LDR with my (20F) boyfriend (22m) of 1 year POST: Ahh, hey guys. I'm just dealing with something right now that I need a little support with - any advice or kind words would be greatly appreciated. Little back story: Ive known my boyfriend for two years through friends, and started dating last summer. We actually were roommates (before we started dating) and continued to co-habitat at my apartment when the summer was over until the academic year ended (in May). By weird ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Application proposal idea. How to retain ownership of the idea while proposing it to a company? POST: Location: Tampa, Florida, United States of America So I have an idea to propose to a major company that utilizes services it already has, but also applying a new concept and services into the existing services. Unfortunately, I cannot go into great detail about it without revealing what the proposal is. The vague specficiations are: -Utilize existing two services/applications -Chan",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need advice, mom doesn't know about dad's ongoing affair POST: Four years ago I went into my mom's email account to look for photos a friend had emailed her. I saw a folder in her account called ""cheater."" Inside it were about 50 emails she had saved from my dad's email account between my dad and another woman, graphic emails detailing sexual encounters. I immediately logged out and tried to forget about it. A few months ago, in June, I was angry with my dad and finally told my mom I kn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20F] My Friend [20F] Tries to Make me Do Sexual Stuff POST: My friend is bisexual, I'm completely straight. I'm not one of those girls who can like mess around with another girl and think nothing of it, I have no attraction to females whatsoever. I've been friends with her since we were twelve, so we're pretty close. Over the past year or so she started changing, in college she's started drinking and stuff. And now she tries doing sexual stuff with me, not like flat out raping me, b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My SO [22F] 'angry speaks' with me [26F] even if she doesn't mean to. It's taking a toll on our relationship. POST: This is like the opposite of baby talk. I will try to make this brief. My girlfriend and I have been dating for 4 years now. She came from a dark place in her life and is a survivor of sexual and physical abuse. She started off as a very distant, somewhat peculiar girl- detached and absent. Ever since we have gotten together, I've tried to develop her confidence with l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Non-Romantic] My [16M] ex girlfriend [15M] is spreading lies about me to her friends and it is really weighing me down. POST: (I'm new to this sub, so I apologize in advance) Me and this girl had been dating for about six months off and on. During our relationship she rarely hung out with me, barely seemed invested in conversation, constantly complained about her family life, her past, she self-harmed, she'd never be willing to discuss the future, and she's saying that I hurt her. ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Do I have to give reward money if I put it on a poster? (WA) POST: I know the title makes me sound like a jerk, but just hear me out. A little over a year ago, my brother and I had two new bikes go missing from inside my house, each worth about $1400. After they went missing we filed police reports and put up posters with reward for information on the bike's whereabouts and no response. One of the posters at a dog park was torn down the next day and I found that suspicious. Long story ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by looking at sex toys while logged into my mom's amazon account POST: Well, a few days ago my friend and I were bored and somehow the conversation of ""weird things you can buy on Amazon"" came up. ""Hey I wonder if you can buy dildos on Amazon!"" Well of course, my curious mind had to find out. So I open Amazon and start looking. Dildos galore! So I search further into the sex related goodness. What IS the weirdest sex related thing you can buy on Amazon? All sorts of fetish related stuf",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[27F]am embarrassed by how dependent I am on my boyfriend [28M] (9 years) POST: I feel emotionally dependent on my boyfriend. We spend a lot of time together but he has hobbies that I have no interest in (running, lacrosse, basketball, etc.). Before I never really had a problem with him spending time with his friends but as we grow closer I find myself missing him more and more each time he leaves home. I expressed these feelings to him a little over a month ago and he's been inc",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Management is trying to fire me for something they know I didn't do. Advice? POST: I'll give you a little backstory first: I've been a loyal employee at my job for 4 years. I've never had any issues with management, and am widely seen as a great coworker. I'm often asked to train new hires, so I am respected by management as well. A little over a month ago, two coworkers pulled a stupid prank. I was in the area when it happened, and I was seen on security camera doing my job while thes",positive " r/relationships TITLE: (26f, 27m) I don't like the pattern forming, how to change it? POST: I'm not sure if I hate my boyfriend or hate myself. Or maybe it's just a general frustration at life and partly due to the fact I came off the contraceptive pill 3 days ago (although it feels too soon to be feeling emotional effects of that). We've been dating for 5 months and apart from Christmas have spent every weekend together, usually from Friday night until Sunday evening. This week I saw him on Wednesday ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Toby 18M with my Linda 18 2 months does she like me or just messing around? POST: I am in the same class as her on high school. It started after xmas when i started talking a lot with her. She started calling me ""my boy"" so i responded with ""my girl"". Overall much flirting IRL and chatting.   She invited me over for dinner. We ate some food and watched a movie and was cuddling a bit. But yesterday I was at a party with her, I was way too drunk and ended up in the same bed as her af",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making aioli POST: A few days ago, my mother in law said she was going to import some fancy fermented asparagus from Spain for xmas appetizers, and asked me to make my wonderful aioli as a dip. Since I make this fairly often, I said, ""Sure! No problem!"" and promptly forgot about it. My husband and I did our Christmas thing, spent time with our baby (his first Christmas!), went to in laws for breakfast, my parents for lunch, then home, where he told me I should think about making th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18/F] may be in love with my guy bestfriend [20/M] but I have a boyfriend [20/M]. Help? POST: So, here goes. I'm a college student in a university here in our country. (Hint: It's somewhere in SEA) And my college life is filled with lots of people, male, female, trans and everything else. I've always been sought after, for some weird reason. Like, in between my relationships, which would usually last for 6 months to 2 years, there would guys and girls expressing their interest f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [20 F] 3 months, have a question about first relationship feels/ love. POST: So i've been dating this girl for about 3 months now. She is my first girlfriend I have ever had and we have a ton in common. For her, this is her first i guess serious relationship in college. I have a friend who is in the same situation but its a been a bit longer for them, it also is his first relationship. And we have a third mutual friend who also says the friend 1 is only",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] dad [65M] is extremely controlling and overbearing POST: So about six months about I moved in with my dad, who lives alone. I can't take this anymore- moments ago at 3:30AM I was awoken by him because he is apparently so worried about me that it makes him physically ill. He claims, ""you've been here for six months and you don't even have a job"" (I've had a job for most of the time I've been here and I just got a new one, I'm just waiting to be scheduled regularly",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 22M with my 19GF, she talks way too much about her friends. POST: Pretty much what the title says, She always likes talking about her friends. Whether it's about drama, every detail of their life, how funny they are, and pretty much anything about them or what's going on in there life. I can deal with it for the most part but like damn she goes on and on about shit I don't care about at all. She also like praises them by saying, how funny they are, how smart they are, and all thi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why do I pass out/feel light-headed after discussing certain topics for a certain amount of time? POST: I wasn't quite sure where to put this, as I don't consider it particularly serious, so I put it here. Apologies if this is the wrong subreddit. About 2 and a half years ago, I managed to pass out in a sex education class when contraception was being discussed. In the following 2 weeks, I passed out in every class (Only one class a week, but that's not really the point). Pregnancy and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I Maybe Still In Love With My Abusive Ex POST: I need to some help. Sometimes I feel like I can't think straight . Like I've completely lost sight of what I'm living for . I'm a 20 year old female . I am 4months pregnant and Ive been with my Significant other for a year now . He is very dedicated and committed to providing for us, the best life he can . He's hard working and completely honest . But , he's so strong minded that it's hard to convince him of anything. I'm starting to fe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [0021 F] with my boyfriend[20 M] for 7 months, and I found out he lied like my ex, should I break up? POST: My previous ex boyfriend was a liar and a shady man and I told my current boyfriend all the stories from my past. He did the same thing. Today I confirmed that he lied to me. He told me that he was going out to lunch with his mom but the truth is, he went out with friends. When I confronted him about it, he said that that was last week instead of this week. In my heart, I k",positive " r/relationships TITLE: When do I [21M] tell my [21F] girlfriend about my life? POST: We've been seeing each other about 7 months now and I feel like I haven't been completely honest with her. Basically, she knows nothing about my past.. and there's a lot of fucked up shit in my life I've kept from her. My mom abused me and beat me, all the medical problems I've had (I've had 23 surgeries, she knows some of it but not to that extent), that I was raped when I was 14 and I was outed as 'gay' to everyone I kn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Dad [51/m] and I [21/m] work for the same company. I am an intern and in passing at dinner one night expressed my displeasure at doing a certain task. My Dad went to my boss over my head. POST: Hey guys. So my Dad and I work for a large company and I am an intern here. I got this job on my own, my Dad suggested I apply for it and I got selected out of 16 other applicants. Extremely lucky to have this internship and it's very challenging and I enjoy it. At dinner last week, I co",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 20F with 20M fwb drug user. In too deep? Can't resist him, AMA POST: Basically I've recently started a fwb kinda relationship. Although when we agreed to it when we were both drunk and had only just met each other the night before. That doesn't bother me- I've never had such sexual chemistry with anybody before this. But the thing is, I'm only JUST coming out of a long term relationship. I haven't been single since I was 16. The last thing I want is something complicated. This guy s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my crush [18 F] have been talking for around a month and half. She acted like she liked me and then suddenly changed her feelings about me. POST: I have been talking to this girl for around a month and half. We talked almost every day and I really began to like her. We hung out a month ago before she went back to college and it went great. She kissed me and told me she had a great night and that she had a crush on me. I noticed that she often texted other guys but I ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Safe Upload Spot POST: I have a ton of pictures that need to be uploaded. They range from family friendly to porn. Where is a safe place to upload them just to free up room on the desktop? I don't need to share them with anyone but I'd like to have that option available. My main concerns are organizing, not breaking ToS, and privacy. Also, free if possible. I've looked at Flickr but I don't want to break any rules and I can't decipher if porn is allowed, even if private. Tumblr seems oka",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] and my [27F] GF have been dating for 3 months. She is all I want in a woman however I am concerned that the disparity in age and experience means we want expect different levels of sexual activity. POST: Essentially we had a one night stand and have been infatuated ever since. I know she wants to be serious as she hasn't had a boyfriend for years however I am worried that we want different things. I know myself enough understand that I am seeking the following in life at t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28m] with my coworker [??F] 2 months. Instant enemy 2 days after meeting. POST: I will keep this short. I moved from Canada to China for work. Two days after arriving I meet the secretary (W) who, about an hour or so later, with a cold face tells everyone that she does not like me. I thought she was joking. Two months later and things have gotten increasingly colder in the office between her and I. She never says hello or goodbye to me, which makes things really awkward when I s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (27f) with my boyfriend (35) of 5 months. Saw he was on a cam girl site. I'm super upset. Help. POST: So, I have been with my boyfriend for just 5 months, we have never had a fight and we have rarely disagreed on anything more than where to eat for dinner. We have pretty similar ideas when it comes to most things in life and our sex life is pretty fantastic (as I feel it should be so early in a relationship). So here is my problem, last night my boyfriend went to show me something",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by talking to my boss on the phone. POST: Small fuckup, but I still feel like a giant idiot. I work at a small coffee shop somewhere in Germany. We have a policy at work that requires you to call your superior if there is a difference of 10 bucks or more in the cash register after we close down. So today, I was working late shift, and voila: a difference of 10 precisely. So I count out the 100 that go back into the register in small bills and coins, call my boss, put the bills into the",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Losing interest POST: Hey! First of all I'm 17 old boy and I've never had anything serious with a girl before so I'm extremely clueless. About a month ago I started talking to this girl, we basically talked nonstop and she was definitely sending signals, I just wasn't sure if was prepared to be in a relationship. A few days ago I told her that I really liked her and that would love to get to know her but then she told me she had lost interest in me and didn't like me in that way a",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Finally see a light at the end of the tunnel! POST: From the moment I set my eyes on this girl 5 years ago, I knew that she was it. I know this sounds stragne because i was only 13 at the time, but i just KNEW. The problem was, I wasnt allowed to date for three more years. then, later that year, she started dating a guy. I was so bummed. Then, about two before i could date, she broke up with this guy! I was pumped. But, in comes a *very* handsome dude who was honestly very awesome, and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 F] with my live in boyfriend [40 M] , of almost 3 years, recently I snooped and found that he may be cheating with men and I don't know what to do.... POST: A little background...We have the best relationship we get along great we are very open with each other and are very much in love (or so I thought). my boyfriend is bisexual and I have always told him that I would not mind if he were to have sex with a man because I can not give him what a man can. Even though I have said ",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: How do I end it? POST: Hi, I've been together with my girlfriend for 4 years now. We're both 23, and this is the first real relationship for both of us. The first year and a half was long distance, and after living together in another country for a couple of years (while she studied), we're now back to being a long distance couple since I moved back to my parents while looking for a job. We've been very supporting and loving of each other and never had a real fight, at least not about ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [18F] sleeping over my boyfriend's [19M] house for the weekend, and he lives with his family. Should I sleep in the same bed? POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for a little over a month, and in college we slept together in the same bed no problem. We became sexually active later in the relationship, so we had no problem just sleeping together. He stayed over my house a couple of times, and we slept in separate beds because my parents felt comfortable that way, even though",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: America, is it really as bad as it seems?? POST: Not even with the ridiculous religious & political element that I keep reading about, I see alot of posts about school/college & drinking and I think is it that bad? As an Australian religion never affected my life in anyway - My family is catholic but non-practicing and I was never ridiculed for not believing, my mother while not always agreeing with me let me express myself. I was on birth control by the time I was 15 because I was sex",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] got drunk and slept w/my [20F] roommate's friend [20M]. She's upset, he won't respond, how do I repair both relationships? POST: About a week ago me and a group of friends went partying and participated in typical party events. My roommate, Lauren, and her long time friend, Mike, were included in this group of friends. For some background information, Lauren and I have been roommates and best friends for the past year or so. I have also known Mike for the same length of time",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 23 Y/o dad stuck in relationship?? help. POST: Well here it goes. I am a 23 year old dad. I work 10 hours a day 5 days a week and am considering getting a second job. Why? My SO(26) is currently a stay at home mom. We have two kids. One from her previous relationship. She flat out refuses to go to work because of the 'price of daycare.' The four of us are currently at her parents house which is constantly stressful. I make an okay wage however it is not enough for me to",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by laughing at a lady being hit by a car... POST: So, first time ever getting high so of course I'm laughing lots at everything. So as me and a friend were walking home, we stopped a traffic light to let cars pass. Lady comes and walks next to us. We wait for the cars to stop, and then the lights go red, however one car failed to stop, and so the lady was in a rush gets hit like in GTA. Body somersaults to the ground and me and my friend were in shock. We go up to her to help her, but ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my crush [18 F] casual seeing eachother, need help to get over her POST: So I've been seeing this girl casually for about a month. She came onto me and I introduced myself. Since then I try to meet up with her, watched a movie, went to her house, all casual. She has tons of guy friends, which she kindly reminds me everytime that they are just ""friends"". However lately at a party, she had no total interest in me anymore. She used to stand closely to me and made sure th",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what idiotic or crazy thing have you done even after someone told you not to do it? POST: I'll start: My husband and I were just married and decided to spend our honeymoon in Hilton Head Island, SC. My husband's parents own a timeshare on the island, so my husband had spent many summer vacations there in his childhood. On the drive down, he warned me numerous times about the alligators in the marshy parts of the island. I listened but mostly let his warning go ""in one ear and ou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[19M] am going off to college and my girlfriend[17F] are not sure how to handle it POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for 11 months. She's a year younger than me in school so this fall I will be going to college and she will be a senior in high school. We have been inseparable. We always hang out every chance we get whether it be out with friends, just watching movies, going out to dinner etc. I can say that she is my bestfriend and I have never felt so strongly about anot",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can coming off as too smart or over qualified for a job in an interview hurt your chances at being hired? POST: The reason I'm asking is that twice now I have been passed over for a promotion where I work. Right now I'm a package handler. I have been with the company for a little over 5 months and just learned today that they went with someone else for the second job I interviewed for. Both jobs were admin/office jobs, one was doing kick-backs in the system for bad addresses and address ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (16M) best friend (17M) of 11 years doesn't seem to want to be around me anymore POST: I've been friends with (let's call him Jason) since 1st grade. We are juniors in highschool now. Ever since the beginning of this year, when he got a girlfriend, he's been a different person. He never really wants to hang out, and he only hangs out and talks to other people from school. He talks to this kid in our grade (let's call him Matt). And when he's around him you can't even talk to him",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I go about getting medical help for my father? He has got mental health issues. POST: I'm a male and studying at University for nearly four years and I don't live at home unless it is the holiday periods. My father has a very short temper and is very aggressive. He used to beat me, older brother and mother up when we were younger. Now he is older he wouldn't dare to try it now. He still has eruptive angry arguments where he will threaten to kill my mother or just shouts out her a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the worst coincidence that you've ever been a part of? POST: I'll start. Sometime in the 1990s, I lived with my mom and her boyfriend, and we used dial-up AOL for Internet access. At the time, we only had one phone line, so using AOL meant no phone calls. My mom was sometimes annoyed that the phone line was always tied up because the phone was her primary form of communication. One day, her boyfriend was out running errands, and she needed to go run some too. She told me not to g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17F] with my [19M] 8 months, how to get through 2 weeks without communication? POST: Hi all! Unusual for this sub, but there are really no issues in our relationship. Long distance now because school is over for the summer, we've seen each other for 2 weeks total. It's been going well! He is leaving for field school in a few days. Due to the area he will be in, and the nature of the field work he will be doing, there will be little to no communication- we aren't positive yet. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I have a history of co-dependent friendships and I want to know how to avoid that [19 years old] POST: Hi, I've come to the realization that I keep running into the same problem over and over. That is, I somehow keep finding myself in these super co-dependent friendships. When I was in third grade, I became really close friends with this girl[19] (I'm a girl too, by the way). As we grew older, we became very different people who often argued and just generally did not get along wel",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [26] am not sure what to do about my gf [23] who posts on gw. UPDATE POST: [original link here]( Thanks for the advice. We spoke about this last night and I told her exactly how I felt. I wasn't trying to attack her and I basically asked her WHY she did it and how it made me feel. She told me she just enjoyed validation from strangers and she was always insecure about her body and has dealt with body image issues ever since she was 12. And then she started crying and felt terrible",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18/M] S/O [18/F] decided we should end things, caught me slightly off guard and I'm extremely lonely (advice needed) POST: Throwaway. My SO decided that we should end things on Tuesday. Let me give you a run down: we were never together, just two friends who liked each other and hooked up sometimes. Two weeks ago we talked about our relationship because she seemed kind of distant (she's often really busy with sports/school/family) and we both reaffirmed that we didn't want a c",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: LDRs are no fun POST: My boyfriend and I have been in a relationship for 1.5 years and a temporary LDR (we are going to different graduate schools) for four or five months. We see each other every month for about a week, and we always have a great time together. However, I'm living with him for the month of January, and the situation has been anything but enjoyable. Since I moved in, he has shown absolutely NO respect for my space or my time. He sets up dates with his buddi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (20f) boyfriend (20m) masturbates when I am at work and does not feel like sex when I am home POST: Sorry if I don't make sense as English is not my first language. So my bf and I have been together for 5 years and have been living together for a year. I work 5-6 days a week and have Sunday's and sometimes Tuesdays off. I work long hours from 8am to 6pm and get home around 7 or 8. I am always willing to have sex with my boyfriend when I get home however I notice that he doesn't fe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35/F] been chatting with a guy, how can I tell if he is interested in me? POST: I met this guy who works at a local store and immediately we smiled at each other and struck up a conversation. He asked how long I lived in the area and explained he was new to the area and we chatted for about another 5 minutes. I returned to the same store today to pick up something and he was there. I noticed he was across the store when I walked in and within a minute he was by me and asked ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] need to know how to tell someone [25M] I've had unprotected sex with about my past HPV POST: So, I fucked up a bit... I have had abnormal pap smears in the past (meaning I have had HPV) and I recently (since this summer) have had sex with someone I REALLY like, without using a condom. I feel I fucked up because I didn't tell him about having had HPV (I've had normal pap smears for over two years now). I know that it never actually goes away and I am technically a carrier fore",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why does my [20F] boyfriend [22M] have a folder with 200+ photos of girls from his facebook on his computer? POST: Ok i was at my boyfriends house while he was at work and saw a folder titled /b/, like from 4chan, knew it was his porn folder cause we've gone through it before and so i decided to go into in. while in it a found 2 other folders, one containing my nudes that i've sent him and the other containing around 200 photos of girls from his facebook. By photos I mean like profi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my Ex [19 F] of 1 year 7 months, don't know what to do. POST: So it's been exactly a month and a half since my girlfriend of a year and seven months decided to part ways with me. It all happened after she came to pick me up from one of my labs at school and I asked her not to come until later due to the lab being extended, yet she came anyways, got upset after waiting in the car for an hour, and we ended up breaking up. The same night she claimed I was her best friend, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22M] having communication problems with my SO [20F] POST: My SO and I started dating almost a year ago in late March 2013. We were living in the same place, and we really fell for each other. We spent the month of July apart, almost as a foreshadowing for what would become our relationship. We both moved away to different places in late August, and we've been in a LDR since then. Things have been going well. We broke up when we moved away, but we got together almost immediately",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/m] I need some advice on how to take my relationship to more than just friends with my coworker [19/f] POST: About 2 weeks ago a new girl started at the place I work, and we immediately hit it off(I think so at least). I'm able to make her laugh, vice versa, and we talk a lot when we're on the same shift. Long story short, I'm embarrassingly inexperienced when it comes to more serious relationships(haven't had a girlfriend since mid school) and am pretty much clueless abou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I be okay with my SO not coming home at night? POST: My bf (28) and I (f, 26) have been living together for 6+ months now. He moved to the other side of the city for me, away from his family and friends. I did the same but I only moved 20min away where as he moved 2hours away. I'm pretty easy going and my SO and I have our own groups of friends etc. We spent heaps of time together so its not like he never gave me time or attention. The last week or so he's been coming home",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (18M) have a stupid problem with my GF (17F) that she will get extremely angry about. POST: So I have been dating my gf for just about 2 years now. We texted a lot for a good 3 or so months and hung out plenty before we started dating, and got to know eachother very well. About a month in to dating we started to be sexually active. The problem I have with her is that she feels as if texting is necessary. All day everyday.. or at least whenever possible. I can't stand it because w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Moving from across state, what is best and cheapest way POST: Hi So i and GF got a jobs in Oregon, 20min out of Portland, currently me and the GF life in Minnesota. We were wondering if Reddit has any brilliant suggestions on how to most cost effectively across country. This is how we stand right now. 1 Toyota Camry car - no hitch 1 VW Beatle - no hitch $2000 budget.. I don't have much stuff, so i could most likely fit all my stuff in a 4 x 8 Uhaul trainer. The GF has a whole 1 bedro",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your worst experience at Walmart? POST: Mine really isn't that bad, but it is what inspired me to ask you guys. So please out do my worst experience, I know it will be entertaining!! For some odd reason my school ID was setting off the alarms as I walked through the doors. I dreaded going to Walmart for months because I had no idea what was happening. During this period my boyfriend, dad and I go to the local Walmart and as I walk through the door the alarm goes off, as expect",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by eating stale skittles POST: So it's 2:17 in the morning and I'm playing some COD, yep no life. So I see a pack of sour skittles across the room. Craving that shit I venture over to grab some. Noticing they don't display the new Green Apple flavor on the package I realize these things are old. I am hungry though and don't feel like venturing out of my man cave. So I take a handful and start to chew. Fucking pop three braces brackets, stuck in my cheek. So I'm spitting blood and st",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [21/M] have some massive jealousy issues and it might be killing my otherwise perfect relationship with [20/F] POST: Hey people, I need some serious advice here. So I got into a relationship with a girl I've known for years. We both always had a crush on each other but only get together 6 months ago. The relationship is amazing, much better then my previous ones. I am really happy with her and can imagine a long future! The only thing that really kills is my irrational jeal",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my boyfriend [25M]. I'm prepared to leave him over this, but I don't believe in giving ultimatums. POST: I've been with my boyfriend for 2.5 years and we live together. About a year ago he began a friendship with a girl he met at school that I'm very uncomfortable with. He initially tried to keep it from me but I found out and caught him in multiple lies about her. He doesn't see any need to end the friendship because he says they are just friends and he feels I am bein",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M with [18 F] who've been speaking for a few weeks over snapchat and skype etc. Stopped talking as she's confused what she wants POST: I know this is teenage bullshit but im kind of stuck and want help We met on tinder, it escalated and an attraction sparked, started talking lots and both admitted our attractions to one another, it was going really well and she wanted to meet me and was saying ""oh if you only lived 40 miles closer"" we became invested in each other so i decid",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [20M] of 4 years, why do I want to ruin something that isn't broken? POST: First post on this thread, any help is appreciated. My boyfriend and I have been dating since we were about 16 and have had an amazing past few years. He's perfect in the generic boyfriend way: kind, funny, tall, handsome, and my family loves him. But for the past three years I've been away at college, close enough to visit, and he's been at home at a JC. He'll be transferring soon a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my GF [22 F] broke up after 6 years, I'm torn apart POST: Followup to this: We broke up today and I just need a place to vent a bit. We got to know each other at 16, it was the first relationship for both of us. First everything. Long distance relationship for a whopping 4 years after meeting over the internet, and we even moved in together and gone for 2 more years. I think it's fairly impressive. I know it's going to suck hard. I know the first relationship is alw",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (24/m) My gf(22) of 2 months wants my friend to come along hiking with us cause she misses him. Should I be concerned? POST: Hello reddit, me and my gf have a great relationship so far. We get along well, she goes out of her way to see me, etc. She's met most of my friends too and she likes them and gets along with them. Me and her were talking about going on a picnic or hiking and she said bring along your friend too, I miss him. She's been out with us before, but that's when ",positive " r/Dogtraining TITLE: My dog doesn't 'play' with other dogs. Is that a problem? POST: Oliver is a 2 and a half year old Miniature Shetland Sheepdog. I work at a doggy daycare 6 days out of the week and he gets to come with me for free. Which is freaken sweet! He get's very excited when we pull into the parking lot and sees the other dogs barking. When we're in the room he runs after dogs, barks at dogs, attempts to 'herd' the dogs, plays mega fetch with the dogs but will not actually play with them. He's ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26/m] needs advice on ending short relationship with [27/f] POST: I recently met a girl through an online dating app, we met up for drinks the first night and hit it off pretty well (given the first date jitters). We decided to meet up a second time and went to get frozen yogurt, this date went pretty well but I did get slight annoyances by certain things she said (""I don't know, im just a bitch sometimes, LOL"" For the third date she invited me over to her place for a home-c",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (M/20) have a different future planned out for myself, which gf (F/19) doesn't agree with. POST: Hello Reddit, I appreciate any advice given. My girlfriend and I are both in college. Different schools, but relatively close. I see her 2-3 days a week. Relationship is good, were making two years next month. We have some complications (She doesn't like that I have girlfriends because she gets jealous, which is very annoying) but other than that it's fine. However, we both have d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (18f) wants me (18m) to sleep with another man while dating her. POST: When I was in middle school, I realized I liked boys and girls. This wasn't hard for me to accept at the time. Here's the thing about it, I've only had a few crushes on boys and many with girls so I decided that although I was bisexual I leaned more straight. I've also only kissed one boy and he rejected me after. And that's the only experience I've had with a boy My girlfriend, Sam and I have been ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [15 f] have a crush on a boy [15 m] and am not sure how/ if I should tell him. POST: So I've sort of liked this boy for a long time, and i would consider us friends. I am also very good friends with his sister (also our age), but recently (past 2 weeks) basically all of my friends, many of whom are also friends with him, found out that I like him. Some of them think he might like me but I am unsure. I dont get the chance to talk to him that often because we have no classes tog",positive " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by not listening closely in class. POST: I'm a sophomore in high school and I take a digital media class for third period. A lot of the class is spent photoshopping pictures of whatever the teacher chooses. Today we were supposed to be photoshopping a picture of Squirt from Finding Nemo. Instead of typing ""squirt from finding Nemo"" in the Google search bar I was lazy and just typed ""squirt"". I looked at my computer in shock to find a full wall of images of girls squirting and my computer",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My girlfriend's father is abusive, girlfriend and her mother are scared to speak out. POST: I did not know where else to post this so if this is not for this subreddit, I apologize. She's my girlfriend of 4 months. We are both 17. Recently, I notice she's been sounding and acting melancholy and anxious, almost fearful of something. Or someone. I know her father is absent but I never asked why. I figured he was just another deadbeat, another coward who was too foolish to wrap ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife [32F] talks too much and it is always about herself. I [28M] feel annoyed, irritated and don't know how to proceed. POST: Hey guys, I really need some advice here. Lately I've been feeling really frustrated, unsure about continuing with this relationship so I really need some outside perspective. We've been together for 2 years and we've been having a lot of fun. I thought we were great together but maybe the problem starts with the fact that I used to work long hours and n",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by grabbing a girls ass POST: This is actually what happened to my friend, decided to share the story. Which is 100% true, except the names. So my pal Brad is in college, and a he is very hyper and daring(which proved fatal). So a new girl Becky comes to their class, and my friend likes what he sees. Two days later, Brad receives a text from a girl, who says her name is Becky, Brad asks if its becky from Mining and Engineering class, she says yes. Jackpot! Its his time to shine with hot",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Cosigner for apartment is asked for ""Proof of Income"" but is self employed, what to provide? POST: I REALLY hope I'm asking in the right place. It seems like you guys can help me here with advice. Location: California (if it makes a difference). A bit of backstory here. I'm in the process of getting accepted for an apartment and they asked us for a cosigner. This cosigner said they'd do it for us, filled out the application and whatnot. They got approved on everything (credit che",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by misunderstanding an overweight couple at work. POST: So this happened about 2 months ago, I'm a cook at a small family owned restaurant but I can fill in for the bussers when they need which is what I was doing on that fatefull day. Im a pretty quiet guy so bussing and hosting is a bit out of my element so I was already uncomfortable enough as it was. Then this middle aged overeweight couple came in looking for a table to sit at. These people were probably 300 lbs each, keep in mind I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with sort of girlfriend [17F] Of 2 months, I'm having doubts about things. POST: So I met this girl off Tinder and we got on really well, chatted and met up a fair amount of times. Things were going good. A bit of background about this girl is she holds 3 jobs and is in full time education predicted fantastic grades, sort of a golden girl type. Recently I feel she's less and less into me which is painful because I've fallen for her hard. She seems to not want to carry tex",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (24f) am getting fed up with my boyfriend's (24) best friend's behavior POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for nearly five years. His ""best"" friend cheats on every woman he's with and when we confronted him and told him to try out an open relationship, he says he would hate for his girl to see other guys, yet he wants to sleep with other girls. He's a drunk mess who parties too much and too hard. Morally speaking, he is the complete opposite of my boyfriend and it an",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, where are my cockroaches coming from? POST: I moved into my current apartment last February and for the first few months i would get one cockroach per month (roughly). After about 4 months i told the management, and they said the cockroaches were coming up through the drains and i needed to pour bleach down every so often. (I also got my room [inside and out] sprayed with bug killer.) So i start pouring bleach down my drains, and in the amount of 3 moths, i got about two cockroac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [M/28] friend [M/31] of 10 years turned out to be a sociopath POST: I'm in a serious quandary here. A guy I'd been friends with for 10 years completely screwed me over recently and disowned me. He did it with no emotion and no regret, immediately moving on like the whole friendship never happened. I don't want to get into all the details but the short story is we ran a business together, I helped him set it up and did countless hours of free work, once the business was establish",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 21m never been in a relationship, and confused at current situation. POST: So a friend of a friend (22f) stayed over for a couple weeks a few months back. Another friend constantly talked to her and said how he was in love with her, but when she arrived he ended up hanging out and sleeping with a girl next door the entire time she was here. Once the 22f left my friend started dating the girl next door and rarely talked to her. While this happened 22f and I started talking a lot and h",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting dog guts on my favorite pair of shoes POST: TIFU, Actually this happened yesterday. It was 10:30 at night, the end of my shift at my shitty retail job at Walgreens (I'm a senior in high school, I'm just happy I have a job). I don't have a car, so I commute to and from work by riding my bike. Well last night, my shift ended, I unlocked my bike, hopped on, and began my two mile ride home. This Arizona weather is beginning to cool down for the fall --it's finally below 100 degree",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] And really confused about how I feel about my bf [21/m] right now. Any advice much appreciated. POST: I know this could kind of also be in r/longdistance but I'm putting it here anyways. I've been with my bf for about 10 months now. We go to school together but live on opposite coasts, so I haven't seen him for around 2 months. This is my first relationship so I don't know if this is a normal phase or something unique to myself and my situation but I feel like I'm fallin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf (22M) is to afraid to tell his parents about me (F22) because I am catholic and he is muslim POST: he's going home this weekend to tell his family about us, and now that there are less than 3 days before he sees his parents, he decided he can't try anymore and is too afraid of how his family will react to him dating a non-muslim his wishy washy decision making has been going back and forth....one day he says he loves me and wants to be with me, the next day he says hes too afr",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the best way to start a new life? POST: Before anyone ask, no, I did not kill someone and need to leave my town, nor am I running away. I have been giving some deep thought about saving up money and next summer, getting a ticket for a bus and leaving my home town in NY. The reason I want to leave is because I am not mentally happy with my life: I am not in the career I want to be in, I am living with my parents on the cusp of turning 21, and I am getting tired of not having co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] broke up with my girlfriend [22 F] to avoid a long-distance situation for a couple of months. Having second thoughts. POST: I've been dating my girlfriend for about 3 months. Things have gone well, but it seems that she feels stronger about me than I her. She has said that she loves me occasionally, and I have not been able to say it to her. I am going to be gone for the next 2.5 months for work. Because I've had a bad experience with long-distance dating in the past and be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure if I should break up with my girlfriend or not. POST: Me(16m) and my SO (16f) were at a party last night and as the final dance came on I thought I'd go find her and have it with her. I find her grinding with another guy and his arms around her. I try and separate them so I can dance with her instead but she turned me down. I leave angrily of course and tell her that we're over. We talked later about it and she's making me have second thoughts about breaking up with her. Th",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Talking to my parents about transffering High Schools POST: I'm a freshman going to a private high school about to end my first year (9th Grade). Going into sophmore year I want to switch to a public school because I genuinely don't enjoy where I'm at now. It's going to be my sisters first year in college next year and my high school cost 1/3rd of her college tuition which is way too much for a school I don't like being at. I do believe in God but I don't like how they require me to tak",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[19F] and my ""friend"" [21M] POST: I dated a guy for 3.5 years, and was totally in love with him. He tried to force me to go to the same college as him, so I broke it off. After this break up, I wasn't heartbroken. I was very sad but tried to make the best of the situation. I got into a new relationship and I was really excited about it. I got the ""spark"" feeling when he touched me, and he treated me amazingly. I was very happy for about two weeks. For some reason, after about two ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is the craziest thing you have found out when searching online for an old friend? POST: My mom had a daycare until I was about 5 years old, and my best friend at the daycare moved a few states away a few years later. I looked on facebook to see if she was on there, and instead I found her mom's facebook page. She had something under her description about ""I miss my daughter every day"" so I looked up her daughter's name on google and found out that when she was 12 she and a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my SO[30M] 3 years, says he cannot apologize for hurting me because he doesn't think what he did was wrong. POST: Edit/ TL;DR: ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my ex [18 F] 5 months, Friendship POST: So my ex had feelings for her ex even though we had been dating for several months and she broke it off. I understood that, however from mutual friends I discovered that she had previously already ""broke"" up with me emotionally which I had noticed as she ignored me for a week. In addition, I learned that she actually wanted to keep ignoring me but still be ""together"" for another month+ to avoid possible future awkward situations.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear reddit, I need some serious advice concerning college (and paying for it). POST: Here's the background: I am a rising sophomore in college, and I currently attend Washington University in St. Louis (for those of you who don't know, it is a fairly prestigious university with a top pre-med program). I've had the fortune of being raised by parents with a steady enough income to afford it, at $65,000 per year after taxes and such. They basically said they would continue to pay so lon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20 M] I don't know how to deal with my feelings for this person [25 F] POST: I met this very nice woman through Okcupid who was 25. We met up a few times then she moved and said she would be back in January. Well, I couldn't stand waiting so I just freaking called her. She said she really liked me but that she got back together with her boyfriend. She was originally in a long distance relationship but broke up because of it and decided to see other people. But that didn't feel righ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my Boyfriend [28 M] of 2 years, I found love letters from his ex. POST: Hi Relationships! Throwaway because I don't want anyone I know finding this post. My boyfriend (Adam) and I have been together for 2 years, and had a great relationship. Adam used to have a GF whom he was wildly in love with who he dated for roughly 6 years and it ended when she broke up with him - he didn't want it to end. I always suspected that he still held a flame for her but I also realise so",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My husband [33/m] is losing his job, what can I [33/f] do to help him feel less depressed? POST: A few days ago, my husband learned that he's likely going to be out of a job within the next two weeks. He's been with the company for about 7 years. It's one of those unfortunate situations where the company went public a little over a year ago, and, while their stock is rising and they're generating more income, they've been ""reorganizing their infrastructure"". For the past severa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23m] am getting mixed singals from [23f] POST: Went on a date with this girl, well i guess kinda on 2, the first was coffee and we talked for like 2.5 hrs, the time flew, i dropped her off at her house (we live a block apart as it turned out) and she texts me saying we should do something sometime soon. I agree and shes (pleasently) straightforward and tells me to pick a time. We meet up again 4 days later, i take her to dinner then we end up sitting in a park, this time the date",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me(17) and my boyfriend(17) for over a year's relationship is becoming greatly damaged from my anxiety of opening up POST: Me(17f) and my boyfriend of over a year(17m) have a great relationship other than the fact I can't open up. For as long as I can remember I've had severe anxiety and slight depression, usually in situations of vulnerability. and something I've never been able to do is speak my mind or talk about my feelings. My current boyfriend is the first person to have a pr",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Living Abroad as a Personal Finance Solution POST: My wife and I (Mid 20's American) recently hit a financial rough patch which we addressed by moving to Vietnam. Living abroad is in several respects a very effective solution to financial difficulties when you are not locked to a specific location by your job. If you are unemployed or work online you can substantially reduce your costs without substantially reducing your standard of living. Furthermore in many fast developing econo",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: (25/m) First date with a girl, debating if worth going for a second. POST: As the title says, debating if I should ask for a second date with a girl I just went out with or not. The first date was alright. We seemed to have the same goals (wanting to travel, both very focused on work and moving forward in life/as adults), the conversations went up and down and up and down, with a couple pauses here and there. We both seemed too enraptured in work and/or school to have too many inte",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what should I ask my 89 year old grandfather to find out the most about his amazing life? POST: My grandpa means the world to me. He was my best buddy when I was growing up - always shuttling me places and taking extra special care of me. Oh, AND he's a total bad-ass: Grew up in Kansas during the Dustbowl/Depression era; fought in WWII and the Korean War; had both knees replaced simultaneously; had a massive heart attack in the middle of the night, took a shower and then drove h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my gf [18 F] of 2 months, she feels no spark with me POST: Let me break it down, for over 3 years i've been on and off crushing on this girl, she would usually just be really friendly with me (really good friends) basically she didnt want a relationship so I backed off, until recently when we started talking more and i noticed she hugged more etc seemed more interested. i asked her out then and since then we've had issues where she feels like im a great guy but sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] broke-up with my gf [17 F]... What now? POST: Last week I posted on here saying I was having issues with my relationship. I decided to go with some advice that suggested I talk to her about it and break-up with her if she can't change. I did that, but she said she couldn't. We broke-up. I regret it... I now realize how trivial what I wanted was. (I wanted to spend more time together) Here's where I am now, I want her back more than ever. I don't know if she'll want to get ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I a shitty person, or is this ok? POST: I have been seeing a friend as a fwb for a few weeks now. We had a talk the other day and decided that (har har har) we are talking. I am not exactly sure what this means, but we decided that we are more than fwb but still single. We agreed that we are not necessarily working toward a relationship, and that we are just going with the flow. So we are fwb+feelings basically. I have a good friend whom I've known for years, much longer th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Straight guys of Reddit: How do you feel with being friends with gay guys? POST: I'm leaving for college in two days, and I've already met a great group of guys that are going to the same college and living in the same dorm as me. My roommate is alright; we send each other an occasional text every now and then, but we're not buddy-buddy. The reason why I'm asking is because I'm (obviously) gay, but not flamboyant. I'm masculine to a point, but sometimes when I get really comfortable aro",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my girlfriend [28 F] 1.5 years, we fight, I get defensive, and I need direction. POST: So, my girlfriend and I have been going out for nearly two years now, and things are good, more or less. We've got a stable household, although neither is happy about how much free time we don't have, or that we're still fighting through school (a doctorate for her, master's for me). Our relationship has matured, and in general, we can resolve stuff well. However, there is a bad hab",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [22m] tell her [20f] that I don't want a relationship? POST: About a half year ago I was at a home party and my friends had brought a girl who they know from online. I had the impression that she was kinda easy/slutty since before because I knew what kind of snaps my friends were getting. She had a boyfriend at the time and I didn't really care at all. Now a few days ago she added me on facebook, and within an hour of she asked me if she could have my snapchat. Now she talk",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/M] am unsure if my friends are my friends. POST: Some background: I've been with this friend group since high school. Let's call them Dave, Charles and Nick. We've been a close bunch but and we always give each other crap but I feel now I get crap for whatever I do. My friend and I didn't drink at the time (senior year of high school) but Dave Charlie and Nick drank a ton. My friend and I would always get a ton of crap from them. Eventually gave in and had a drink. They t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [20f] has deep security issues, and can't communicate with me [21m]. Is there anything i can do to help her? or is this a lost cause? POST: Girlfriend and i [20f 21m respectively] have been together for about 16 months now, and aside from the issues i'm going to approach momentarily things have been pretty good- this is really our only stumbling block. Also understand i really want this to work. I hate to approach it as 'she's the one' and all that presumption, but the bes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I keep over analyzing, and its pissing me off! How do I stop? POST: Specs: Me [23M], gf [22F], dating for about 2 months. The title is pretty explanatory, but for background info: basically our relationship has been going AWESOMELY since the beginning. We click on so many levels, always enjoy hanging out together, similar life goals, not to mention she's incredibly attractive. The problem is I have begun over analyzing damn near everything. I re-read through the texts that were se",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (24/F) left my fiancé (26/M) behind in the world of childhood. POST: We have been together for 6 years (since my senior year of high school). He graduated from the same school, but he spent some time ""enjoying life"" until I graduated and we decided to go to the same college together. Things were amazing- we've never had trust issues or any ""real"" problems and we enjoyed going through university together, being your typical stoner couple enjoying the liberal life... Then, I quit s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (M24) have had cosmetic leg lengthening to make me five inches taller. Is this something I should tell my girlfriend (F24)? POST: No, this is not a joke. About a year ago, I underwent a procedure called, ""Cosmetic Limb Lengthening."" This procedure made me go from being 5'7 to 6'0. I ""grew"" five inches. My orthopedic surgeon told me the average height for men America is 5'9. In other words, I was considered a short man. This is not something I'm proud of but my height was som",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28/F] with my ex BF [29/M] fell in love, he's lied to me about other women and just found out I'm pregnant POST: I had a friend that worked in another town and visiting her one day I met him. We fell hard and fast for each other. At first he was wonderful. So kind, caring and sweet. He was the kind of nice guy that the girls overlooked because he was so timid. I wanted to give him the love he never got but deserved. Slowly my Mr. Wonderful started unraveling and reviling his true",positive " r/dogs TITLE: [help] considering episioplasty for puppy with recessed vulva POST: I currently have a 17.5 week old GSD puppy and she is absolutely amazing. She began having chronic UTIs when we got her at 8 weeks and has been on antibiotics constantly. We have had multiple urine cultures, an ultrasounds, blood panels, and consulted with an internist and surgeon. The internist and surgeon indicated that her vulva is one of the most hooded ones they've seen and that it is very unlikely it will correct its",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[M22] have problem with intimacy POST: This is probably the most stupidest problem that I have had in a while. Or not. I cannot decide. See the thing is, I have been in a relationship for about 5 years. Since that was my first ever relationship that also involved intimacy, I was a little bit tense at first. But during the years I have become more relaxed and open about intimacy. That relationship ended quite badly for me, since I was still in love with her at the time. That was 1",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my Girlfriend of 1 year [28 F] broke up due to distance/careers. Just need some positive vibes and a platform to vent. POST: Hey reddit, Just need to vent my most recent break-up as I find telling someone helps. Even if it is anonymous internet folk. My GF and I decided to end our relationship. Not because anything was wrong, but because she was moving away from our city for her medical residency placement. We knew when we found out that where she was placed that ou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] of a couple weeks, need advice on building a relationship with a girl who already has a child. POST: I met this girl Stacey at my local community college. I work at a gas station and she works at a Walmart. We started hanging out whenever we saw each other, and eventually I asked her friend what her deal was: was she seeing anyone? And then her friend tells me ""You know she has a son, right?"" I did not know she had a son, but was unphased and sa",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by saying I would rather die than sit thru my lecture... POST: So this happened yesterday actually, 7th period AP Calculus class. My teacher was going over how to use the class set of Graphing Calculators but I already know how to use it so me and my friend were goofing off and writing messages. Eventually, my friend wrote ""There's nothing left to due but kill myself"" on his calculator. Me and my buddy get our laughs and then the bell rings to go home. Well apparently we didn't clear the",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Fuck Buddy Etiquette?! POST: So I (20M) was at a club the other night I met this really hot girl (20F), etc etc, and I went over to her house and we fucked each other silly (note: she gets around and this doesn't bother me also gets tested regularly so please no ""safe sex"" lectures) After we smashed I asked her, ""So, are we going to this again sometime?"" She said yes. So I now have a girl that I can visit every so often and fuck. (So much better than a SO!) Now I'm pretty sure this i",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [M] 21 am having a hard time getting my girlfriend [F] 21 comfortable in the bedroom... POST: A little background: -We've been dating 7 months -Both our first relationship -Both virgins (still) -She has a lower libido than mine (which I'm fine with) -Times She's gotten me to orgasm: 0 -Times She's genuinely tried to get me to orgasm: 0 -Times she's touched my dick for more than 10 seconds: 0 -Times (per month) we have fun time: 2ish Please don't see me as shallow. I love thi",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [28/f] Newly engaged and beyond excited!...but seriously unhappy with diamond-less engagement ring POST: Boyfriend (29) of six years just proposed and we are so happy and excited for our future together! However, I am super bummed about the ring. We had previously talked about rings and even showed him pictures of types I like. I have been excited for a diamond engagement ring for a long while - he knows this. And I had told him I dislike any color on engagement rings. So tha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Chase the dream or Keep the girl POST: Hi im a 26 male and my gf is 24 female. I used to live in the mountains of colorado for two years after college and i loved it. But i moved out by myself so it was lonely at some times even tho i met a lot of great people out there. Anyways my grandfather was diagnosed with colon cancer so i moved back home for a few months to be with him ( he beat it tho and is doing great now) But while i was home i met a great girl. She treats me very good an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure if the girl [20F] I [23M] have been seeing for 5 dates + knew 2 months previously is a virgin. Not sure how to proceed. [Virginity] [Dating] POST: Basically I met this girl through a mutual hobby, asked her out, and have gone on 5 dates in less than 2 weeks. 2 of the dates ended at my house watching Netflix. I didn't invite her over to have sex. 1st time I put my arm around her and it was fine. 2nd time she sat in the middle of the bed cross legged and left *immediately* aft",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [22M] never texts or calls me [19F] anymore. POST: Hi Reddit! I'm 19 and my boyfriend is 22 and we've been together for a little over a year. My boyfriend isn't much of a texter anyways, because he prefers to talk over the phone. We would always always talk on the phone at least once a day, and we would text each other a few times during the day. If he couldn't call me at night, he would text me saying goodnight, and I;d get a goodmorning text every once in a while.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, can you help me organise a trip to the Grand Canyon? POST: My family and I are flying out to California for my uncle's wedding in late October, are are staying until early November. We've visited before, but this time we'd like to go a bit further afield and see as much as possible, as this is likely to be the last time we'll be going together as a family. I know it's quite a way away, but my parents are desperate to see the Grand Canyon. I've said that it's probably going to co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23m) am falling for a girl (22f) AGAIN that I met online over 5 years ago. Advice? POST: Here's the story, I apologize for the length: I met this girl many years ago (5+ years) in an online game when I was a kid. We became good friends and being the naïve boy I was, I started to ""like"" her. I told her how I felt, but she politely rejected me saying that we don't know each other in real life. I knew she was absolutely right (She could've been anybody!). After that, we laughed it ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, Got a minute? I need your help with Sprint and a new Palm Pre. I've Got Issues, Man! POST: So, I buy a palm pre on craigslist. Really nice lady, no red flags whatsoever. She won it from a radio station in LA (KROQ) at a bar contest. She has AT & T, and can't/won't switch. I pay her and am on my way. I go to activate and it is already activated. The phone is BRAND new, in the box, plastic scratch protectors still in place, the whole nine. The phone has either never been t",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm kind of fine with this. POST: I got out of a long-distance relationship about a month ago -- he was 300 miles away, we never so much as saw each other, never touched, never anything. It lasted a long time, though, almost two years. A few weeks ago, I started dating someone else, who lives much closer to me, and already I feel great about it. The other night, on our second date, we fucked in the back seat of his car. I feel like I should feel bad about this, but... I totally don'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[23M] am seeing a girl [24F] who just got out of a seven-year relationship. Looking for advice. POST: So I've been seeing this girl for around three weeks now.. beautiful, a lot in common, we get along great, the whole package. Problem was, she wasn't really putting out, meaning we haven't even kissed yet. Yesterday I learned that she had recently (a month ago) gotten out of a 7-year relationship with a guy she's known pretty much her whole life, and that she's kinda new to being w",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/m] Is this a normal feeling, or do I have trouble with moving on? POST: When I was 14, I met this girl and we became very close friends. We ended up dating when I was 15, and we were together until I was 17. It was awesome being with her, and to spare details, I would say that we really helped eachother learn a lot about relationships and love. It wasn't a perfect relationship, as none are, and it wasn't like, a blind-love teenage honeymoon type thing. Anyway, she was a yea",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I want to end my 9 year relationship with my boyfriend [M27], but he is dependent on me. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for 9 years. He's not abusive or anything, I'm just tired of being together. We met in university, he was studying science, I was studying for engineering. I graduated after 4 years and I've been working ever since. After undergraduate he undertook a PhD in math. During his PhD, he was allowed to tutor undergrads at the university, so he made a bit of m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19f) don't know if I'm asking too much of my boyfriend (24m), maybe I have too high of expectations or maybe I need something more. POST: I have been with my boyfriend (lets call him Ryan) for almost 2 years. We have both been through a lot, separately and together. He has been married and divorced, I have been in emotionally abusive relationships. When we first got together I found out I was pregnant from my ex who had threatened to kill me and burn down my house. I was going t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Looking for some advice, regarding my startup company and a current employer of mine. POST: Im going to try to keep this as to the point as possible. I am a new intern within a devision of AT&T, during my hire I had to fill out a form outlining my current portfolio of knowledge and assets, to prove I am not here in a competitive manor, during this I listed my recent startup company. AT&T is a massive company that can basically claim any number of things, my only concern is that I am act",negative " r/jobs TITLE: After 3 interview rounds and flying me across the country, a person from HR called to ask if I would be willing to work for lower than the range I had given in the first interview POST: I've been interviewing at a start-up for the past few weeks, including a meeting where they flew me to a different city for the day. All the interviews have gone very well and I was expecting an offer by the end of last week. We had discussed salary expectations in interview 1 and 3. In interview 1, I gave a r",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by choking on pearls POST: I caught a really bad flu while on holiday in Taiwan. As I was resting in the hotel, my girlfriend bought some Boba back to cheer me up. Some background for those unfamiliar with Taiwan, there is a really popular drink called Boba Tea. Its basically ice milked tea with dessert in the form of some black chewy pearls. I thought it was a greater invention than even Starbucks and fell in love with this drink after trying it. While passing the drink to me, my gir",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Me and my girlfriend broke up. POST: Me and my girlfriend were in a relationship for almost a year. Well, it would have been a year at the end of this month. It was extremely long distance, we met on reddit actually. We only met three times since we began dating, and were pretty in love. I know this sounds ridiculous to a lot of you, but she meant a lot to me. We skyped for hours every day. She was my first everything. Distance meant problems. It was hard, and we both knew it. At the en",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: 28 Male, falling for my new housemate, 26 Female...I can't work out if the feeling is mutual! POST: * TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How exclusive is dating? POST: Hi there. Let me lay out the current situation: I am currently dating a chick I met in a bar a while back. Let's call her Lauren. Due to bad timing we've only met three times so far, but it is obvious that things will evolve to the next step (ie: the bedroom) next date or so. I like her, we have a similar sense of humour and get along well. Over the past two months or so I have started to get friendly with a girl in one of my classes, let's cal",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: BT Broadband, are they having a laugh? POST: My parents home internet is provided by BT, (British Telecom). Our subscription is an unlimited package, with 8Mb download and unlimited usage. The last few months the speed of our line has decresed dramatically, almost to the point that it has become unusable for most internet applications, such as youtube, streaming and any form of downloads. This is a recent [speedtest]( I have been in contact with BT numerous times about the problems, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (M, 25) broke up with my awesome girlfriend (F, 24) because of suspected potential infidelity... May have been wrong. POST: I've been dating my girlfriend for two years, she's great. Our only issue, which has come multiple times via fights throughout our relationship, is that she slept around a lot in college. This issue is magnified as she went to college with many members of our friend group, a college that I didn't attend. Going into the relationship, I've heard stories from m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: me [18m] want to get a certain girl [18f] what do i do? POST: I have started working out and my guns are big as hell, I started also doing homework and have been arguing with the teacher and showing im a smartass just to get her attention in class, what remains is that I basically am the socially equivalent of a rock in real life, and dont really have any good friends in class etc, I had glasses on me not too long ago when my lenses delivery were late, and she said ""wow you look good",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21/F] with my ex-anorexic best friend [21/F], she keeps eating all of my food. POST: Okay so I know this sounds a bit petty, but I'm a student on a very limited budget. One of my very good friends struggled deeply with anorexia a few years ago. She refused to eat and got extremely thin. She was sent to a clinic and has been doing much better. However, food (and especially her eating) is an extremely sensitive topic that is just not discussed around her without a freak-out on he",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[25M] have lost my confidence and become depressed after being dumped[29f] for another guy. POST: We were together for a year and it went REALLY well. We always got along so well togeher, fell in love. We basically hit it off instantly. From the moment we met. I really thought she was the girl I was going to marry when we hit our first year together. Then 2 months ago she told me she was going back to her ex. I felt totally crushed. Then I found out last week not only is she with h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [21M] girlfriend [20 F] of 5 years, wants to bring me to a party that I know the guy she cheated with is going to be there. POST: First post on Reddit, a little backstory. My girlfriend and I have been together for 5 years now. Two years ago she cheated on me with her long time guy best friend at a party. She lied to me for 6 months, but finally admitted it to me under pressure because she knew others were going to tell me. We broke up but got back together a few months after. Th",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Worried that I am being too selfish [23/m] in 9 year relationship with [27/f] POST: Been together a long time, I think we are happy pretty much everywhere else in the relationship besides the bedroom...at least that is where I am unsatisfied. I have never been with any other partners, she has had 2 others before me. So naturally we started off on condoms, and haven't ever left. Only recently have I asked if she was interested in any other forms of contraception. I felt guilty a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Bf (26) not sure he loves me (f26) anymore. POST: Ok, so.. my boyfriend and I have been together for about 1year and 3 months. A few weeks ago he started to seem more and more annoyed with me, and he started fights over the smallest things (me asking what he was thinking about, the way I washed dishes..) and today he dropped the bomb: he thinks our relationship has turned into a friendship, he's gotten tired of me and he's not sure that he loves me anymore. He said he started to feel",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it legal for my network administrator to view and know my login password for the network account? POST: So today my teacher received an email from the network analyst and his boss saying that my password was inappropriate. This set off alarms in my head as first of all, I know passwords should be private. Second of all, passwords are suppose to be secret not open for anybody else to see. So I'm asking you guys if this is even legal? Knowing my network login passwords. I feel sorry fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: More than friends... POST: My friend was dating my other friend (I met them at the same time) for four years. I've known them for the past three years. Over the course of these three years I've seen her treat him like shit, repeatedly, and every time something happened between them all of our mutual friends would suggest to me that we should date each other instead of her being with him. However, also through the course of these three years I became one of her best friends and wou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (22M) unsure about how to take this 'relationship' with 20F POST: I have been talking with this girl for about a month, and we feel quite close towards each other, and have admitted our feelings and want to be together. However, one problem is that it is very long distance, something that would result in not seeing each other more than a few times a year most likely, and I'm not sure how well I would personally cope with that, as I like to have intimate relationships, though for ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I have a derogatory account on my credit report from a loan taken out in 2006, how can I remove it? POST: So quick back story, In 2006 when I had just graduated high school I was voraciously hounded by CitiFinancial to take out a personal loan at a high interest. I resisted for some time but eventually finances got tough and I caved. I accepted a loan for $5000 at a 39.9% interest rate, me not knowing much about finances I assumed I would be able to pay it off... After making go",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 25 y/o Male. Just broke up with my girlfriend [23] after her moving in only a few months ago. We've been together almost 2 years. POST: Hi Reddit, So here's the deal. I've been with this girl for 2 years now. I just bought my first home in May and moved out of my parents' house. Shortly after she moved in. Overall we had a pretty great relationship. We had our troubles but generally things were pretty happy between the two of us. My problem is this. I've never really been alo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18, M] told my friend [21, M] I had a crush on him, and now I ruined a friendship POST: I developed intense feelings for a friend I met at uni, and I unfortunately decided to tell him I liked him a couple weeks ago. He initially seemed okay with it (he's usually a pretty reserved and understanding guy), but now we've (obviously) become more distant. He's not homophobic (as he's apparently told me), but I can see how any person would be a little unnerved to think that a friend only",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Help Me Get Over Myself POST: Hey Reddit, I have nothing to be unhappy about. I'm in a long term relationship (3 years) with a girl I think might be perfect for me. We have a lot of similar interests and life views. We almost never fight. I think I love her (think because I'm having these issues) and I'm pretty sure she's even more crazy about me. We're both 21. Yet, I feel like I'm missing out. She's my first real girlfriend (had a short relationship in high school, doesn't really",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26M] was picked to be an usher for my [26M] close friend's wedding. Should I accept? POST: Hi r/relationships, A little backstory, my friend and I have been close friends for over 14 years and he is getting married in the summer. He asked a different friend to be his best man, and I wasn't totally surprised because they've been friends for far longer. Last night, he asked me to be the usher at his wedding (specifically not a groomsman), and I was a little shocked at that. He ha",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By sitting with my legs crossed POST: Today, I graduated for the last time from Aviation Challenge ( It was my last year at the camp, and I was very bittersweet. I follow my crew trainer to my seat, and wait for my turn to be called up. Following the instructions given, I cross my legs on the floor and wait. I hear my crew trainer yell ""Falcons on your Feet!"". ""Yes, Sir"", my team replies. At this point, I have an OH SHIT moment. My leg fell asleep. Bad. Stumbling around in front of al",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23f] bf [24M] of 1.5 years seems unhappy all of the time, and our relationship feels like it is dying. How do I know if I should break up with him or wait for the rough time to pass? POST: Over the past month, my relationship has felt dead. We just don't connect like we used to, he seems unhappy all of the time, and things feel forced. We've been together for 1.5 years, and friends for 3. I suggested going on dates again, but that didn't work, because I always had to plan everyth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my live with GF [27 F] 1 year'ish. She makes a lot of money, but always broke! Don't understand, how to bring up? POST: First off, I've brought this up several times in the past (soonest being like a month ago), and she immediately gets defensive/deflects the conversation. ""I don't feel like talking about money right now..."" ""I pay my half don't I? So why are you worrying about it...?"" These numbers are adjusted to protect my anonymous status... but they are fractiona",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [27/M] less attracted to my girlfriend [26/F], but she puts/rants when I try to explain. Advice? POST: edit: POUTS not Puts So basically I work an evening job and she works during the day. We both work long hours, but when I get home she's almost ready for bed and I'm kind of still geared for another 2 hours of lounging. Anyways, she'll say she wants to ""hangout, talk, have sex"" but she's just sleeping on the couch next to me dozing on and off, and when I'm like ""OK, I'm r",negative " r/loseit TITLE: calorie deficit = lose weight and gain muscle OR calorie deficit = overall body size will ""level out"" to accommodate the new calorie budget. POST: A great friend of mine and I are a bit at odds with how we come to understand this concept, so I thought I'd ask here and hopefully get some good information on the topic to finally settle mine and my friend's understanding. One argument is that at a calorie deficit, one can gain muscle while losing weight. While doing this, a lot of protein wi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (17) need help with my girlfriend (18). POST: We've been dating for a year and a month. I've treated her very well. She moved to my town last year and we started dating a couple months later. Before me she dated a guy who was very bad to her for almost three years. He was mean to her and abusive. I believe she was also sexually abused as a child sometimes. This has restricted her sexual labito and desire for sexual contact. We have had sex and done things, but it rarely happe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] felt in love with [17F], but its a long distance to her. POST: Hello guys, first of all, sorry for my english, I am from Germany. I need advice from you. I am 18 years old and male. I met this girl when I was 11-12 years old back then in Habbo. She is 1 year younger than me. We wrote on a daily basis and also send pictures to each other. Some pictures were really private. I got a big crush on her when all this kind of stuff started, she was also really into me I guess, but",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your ""It's not what it looks like!"" story? POST: How were you caught in the act of something which, to an outside observer, would seem REALLY awful or confusing? ___________________________________________________________ Mine's not too bad - I have high hopes for you all - but when I was a kid I got really sick and was blowing my nose all day. My mom had gotten me a bottle of ginger ale because for some reason it always made me feel better. It exploded when I opened it and I he",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting puke on my new jeans POST: So last night, there I am...At a bar. Having fun with my friends, looking pretty sharp, got the feel goods from some vodka and Red bulls. When suddenly I feel like I have to piss. I get up and glide my way across the bar. Now this bar is kinda small so the walkway is a little tight especially on a packed Friday night. I accidentally bump into this manly chick at the bar who you could tell thought she was hot...(nope) and her uglier boyfriend mistakes",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I've made a mistake that may have just cost me my college career. Help, reddit! POST: Throwaway account here. I am a 3rd year college student, and up until recently I have been able to afford paying my tuition through a combination of financial aid and out-of-pocket expense. However, this upcoming Spring semester, I didn't have the money to pay the remainder of my tuition out-of-pocket. I remember from my financial aid reports in the past that I have been eligible for several student l",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I hate it when people say ""I know how exactly how you're feeling."" POST: No, you don't. You might have had something similar happen to you in the past, years ago, but you're not me. You don't have the same past, the same experiences, or struggles. I appreciate you trying to help, but you're kinda...not. My ex-boyfriend/best friend and I went at it again yesterday. He said something very negative and pejorative about me to somebody else. Sure, it might just have been a slip, but I ",negative " r/travel TITLE: Need ideas for vacation. POST: Hey all my family hasn't really had a vacation in forever. Details We live in Oregon and would like to go somewhere with nice weather and nicer beaches. We have budgeted around 6-7 thousand dollars for the entire trip for a family of four (My 2 parents a 26 year old female and 21 year old male). We would prefer around a week long vacation. We are willing to go to most places on the globe except for places US citizens arent allowed (so no cuba parents are nat",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: People with questionable morals, where do you draw the line at your morality? POST: I was watching a documentary on the Aryan Brotherhood and one of the high ranking members who had claimed to kill 20ish inmates in prison left the group because they killed someone's innocent father to send a message. He felt compelled to leave the group because he felt killing an ""innocent"" man went against his moral code. It made me think a lot about how flexible morality is for some people. I have sim",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Someone created an ""anonymous"" forum for my university to gossip on, let it run for weeks, and is now releasing everyone's name and what they posted. Is this legal? POST: The Website in question: Part of me thinks that it is hilarious what he did, but another part is worried about the ramifications it is going to have on the people who posted on this website. There used to be an anonymous forum for universities where people would just gossip about whatever and whoever. Usually they t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I get my guy [27] to tell me how he feels about me? POST: I've known this guy for close to two years, we've had some sort of relationship from we met (mostly long distance but visiting, travelling together etc.) and have been more properly ""together"" since christmas. He's staying with me now for two months over the summer, and mostly everything's going fine. The problem is, he's not a very verbal person. He never tells me how he feels about me (or about stuff in general, real",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] trying to move me and a girls [16 F] relationship to the next level? POST: Basically I met a very nice girl at the movies two weeks ago at the move theater. She seemed pretty interested in me and I was interested in her so I asked her for her number and got it, yadayadayada. So we tried to get together but neither of us can drive yet. It's pretty embarrassing, but that's the problem. I really want to get to know this girl better and I want to take her out and get to know h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: When & how do I bring up monogamy? I've [30F] been seeing him [28M] for 1 month. POST: We met through POF slightly over a month ago. All signs so far point toward this being a monogamous relationship- we talk daily, see each other frequently (2-3x per week), & are both future-oriented (i.e. He's already invited me to a wedding in September). We have also slept together. I'm apprehensive about trying to define the relationship because I haven't actually been in this situation for Y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [28M] Girlfriend [27F] of 1 year is making me feel down about travelling. POST: To set the stage: She's been all over the world because her family is extremely well off. She's lived in multiple countries throughout her life. My family was intensely poor and I'm the first person to have crawled my way out of it. I've been putting myself through school (it's going great!) and supporting myself, and have barely been able to afford trips outside of my state let alone to different co",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: The longer I'm out of town I feel like I'm moving towards the ""just-friends"" zone POST: Hey guys, I know this may seem like a silly post, but bear with me as I am looking for some advise. About a month ago I (26m) met a very nice girl (24f) on the internet and we hit it off pretty well. About two weeks ago we decided to meet and spent a lovely few hours together walking around the city, drinking coffee, etc. We both knew it was a date, but at the end of the evening she was meeting ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Paypal Credit Woes POST: So apparently PayPal credit has pulled my credit info directly from my PayPal account and charged a payment that I thought I was making with my credit card via Paypal like I always do. I have made efforts to avoid their strategically placed buttons for offers for PayPal credit for at least a year and have always thought that method of relying on consumer mis-clicks to get more credit sign-ups was quite near criminal. At last, after all this time, PayPal's",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling a friend his mom is a bitch! POST: Let me begin with apologizing if my english is incorrect. I am not a native speaker. My Fuck up happend a few months ago. It was around midnight when we(me and two friends) decided to go get some burgers at Mac Donalds. As we're driving through the mc drive i spot an old lady working there. I jokingly tell my friends that she must really like working there because at that age you should not be working at a MC. Until now nothing weird is sa",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Girl has postponed date twice. POST: I(M/20), a civil engineering student at a small private university, asked one of the few girls in engineering (F/20), a systems engineer, out on a lunch date and she said yes. But a day later she tells me she can't make it Friday cause she has to give a tour to some prospective systems engineering majors. So we postpone it to next Friday as long as she doesn't have to work again. So Thursday comes and I ask her if we were still on for Friday an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 M] with my [33 F] confusing friend POST: I'm sure yall hear this type of question often but here it goes. Me and my friend have been close friends for several years now. It first started when we worked together. We became close friends and hung out all the time. I ended up falling for her and telling her how I felt but she told me was hung up on some other dude. We continued to be friends and hang out all the time. She ended up moving away but before she left she confes",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by answering the question ""what would your previous supervisor say about you"" with ""I'm awesome"" at an interview POST: I lost my job last week and I had been applying everywhere I can for some work, but since I live in the middle of nowhere and my car broke down in early Feb I have to work in a specific area so I can have a ride to work and continue saving up for a car. I had an interview today upon being asked what my previous supervisor would say about me if he were called I responded",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my friend? [19 F] briefly known her, met through tinder, too clingy too fast, my first time with a girl after being cheated on. POST: Alright I'm in need of some advice here. I really don't need shitty reddit jokes and sarcasm right now, need help guys. Thanks in advance. First off I'm 3 1/2 months out of a 3 and a half year relationship that ended with her cheating on me. Was incredibly broken up. Got depressed. Got medication. Got better (still on meds). I am over t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am a boss and made a somewhat subtle pass at someone who reports to me. Does she know what I was doing? [serious] POST: Three years ago I was one of the rank and file at my job, but I was good at what we do. My company hired this girl but she wasn't very good. She was getting close to being fired so I was asked to step in and train her. I patiently coddle her and get her to the point where I save her job. She's a pretty girl. I don't always trust my opinion on that but I've heard at l",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I gave a total stranger a ride earlier today. What random acts of kindness have you done lately? POST: She was sprinting up the street around the corner from my house with a suitcase, and was wearing heels. I pulled up next to her and asked if she was headed to the nearby train station in town and she said yes. I offered her a ride, as I had to literally pass it in order to get to work. She was hesitant at first, understandably, but I was on my way to work at the courthouse and showed he",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/F] like this band a lot, jokingly kept saying I was going to marry the vocalist. We matched on Tinder and talked for a few days but then the conversation died... POST: Edit: Just to be more clear, the vocalist is a girl. What is a good way to get it going again that doesn't seem desperate or creepy? I sent a message that never got a response, then they left to play shows for weeks like the next day (I know because I was following the band on social media long before the Tinder",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by Forgetting to go to the ATM POST: So it's finals week and that sucks, so I decided to study all morning and renew my medical marijuana card cause I live in California and there are a lot of dispensaries. I was in the parking lot of a clinic and realized I had no money, but I had a paycheck that needed to be deposited from mt job. I deposit it and on the way back to the clinic I get in a car accident... it sucked but neither cars are totaled but my airbag deploys so I get everyone's in",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [16/f] my [18/m] bf is basically head over heels for me, nothing is going wrong but worried about stability POST: >made new reddit acc just to post this anon Basically, I have no problems with the relationship at hand, but just for a bit of background I've had 2 other bfs, first cheated on me and the second dumped me because I'm bipolar and my mood swings were too much for him. I'm not really worried about him being only in it for sex or something considering he's older as h",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making a comment POST: This happened a couple of hours. I am a freshmen in high school and in drum line (the best!). Anyways, this story starts out with me and a couple of friends talking about our band director. One of my friends was saying how scary it was to get yelled by him, and I responded that it is a LOT worse to get yelled at by our drum instructor. Backstory: our drum instructor, let's just call him John, is a really harsh, cruel man. He will yell about how terrible we are a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What do I [18F] do with this guy I'm talking to [18M]? POST: Hey guys. So I have a question. I'm an 18 year old college freshman, and I just recently got out of a 1.5 year relationship with a great guy and I'm pretty bummed about it. That said, I heard the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else, so I decided I would put myself out there to find something casual. I'm not looking for a relationship but I wouldn't mind a FWB or something. First of all is this a good",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (25M) sister(20F) is pregnant and the fetus is dead. POST: Hi Reddit. I need your help. I am the oldest of 4 brothers and three of us are living 5 hours away from my parents. They pay for the house and the bills in general.my sister is three months near to finish her college degree. They were supposed to be her because next weekend is Father's Day. My sister told our family she is pregnant, she went to a clinic today with her boyfriend and the fetus was not moving so she needs",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] with my Fiance [29 M] 7 years. We've never had a make-out session. POST: This is a throw away since he knows my account. We got engaged last October and I can't wait to marry him next year. He's an awesome guy and we get along great. We laugh together all the time and he's truly my best friend. Buuuut... We've never actually had a real and true make-out session. Personally, I've always loved that about him since his kisses are always so sensual. But I guess it also has",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18f] is considering to stop hanging out with mine and my BF [18m] friend [19m] POST: My friend is called Max. He knows me longer then my BF and sees me as a close friend even though I reckon he talks behind my back and has admitted it. He's got quite close with my BF recently and I don't really like hanging out with Max sometimes he can bring me down a lot but it's supposedly his type of humour. He also likes to be competitive with my BF by showing of the fact he can fuck any girl",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: hmmm.... what is he thinking? POST: Hi R_A. Well, before we get started, I know no one is going to be able to tell me EXACTLY what is going on. To get that info I would *GASP* have to ask him up front myself!! Me: female, 20s The ex: male, 20s Situational break-up (nothing that I did, he was under a lot of pressure from family and school), I was heart broken. No longer hurts but occasionally aches. We've started seeing a lot of more of each other and even having coffee or a",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by running into a wall. POST: Of course, this was a couple months ago back when school was still in session. I was playing some sort of tag game in gym and I was a tagger. I was chasing this one guy who I thought was slow because he was pretty lazy in class. Somehow this dude becomes insanely fast when he realized I'm chasing him. (Turned out he played varsity football.) I didn't realize we were both headed towards a big cement wall, but I guess he did because he made a sharp turn at t",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: My ex-wife is threatening to pull full custody over the fact I called her names for betraying me. She says it's abuse, I say I have a right to be mad. Am I screwed here? [Serious] POST: Wife had an affair while telling me and our marriage counselor she was committed to working on the relationship. This went on for about six months before I found out and kicked her out. She promptly and moved in with new guy. In the last two years we've shared custody 50/50 with no disputes over schedules",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (19) of almost a year just suddenly broke up with me (f/18) POST: 2 days ago while I was cooking him breakfast he casually told me he was moving to Tennessee. We live in Massachusetts. I brushed it off at first because I didn't want to get upset. I didn't want to lose him. For starters, he had an absolutely perfect relationship. We were completely in love with each other and we told each other all the time. I did everything for him and he did everything for me. He was m",positive " r/loseit TITLE: SV and NSV? POST: So I know you guys are big MFP fans, but I tried using MFP but 1290 calories just doesn't cut it for me, sorry. I know I will need to address food eventually, but at the moment I am averaging about 2000 per day. I'm not eating out every day, or eating nothing but carbs and cheese, so I will work on perfecting my diet later. Anyways, the last month or so I have been going to my martial art once per week instead of twice per week to get back into fitness. The last month, my",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I get out of being the go to guy for free computer repair and start charging for it? POST: It all started in Middle School were I realized I had an amazing gift for technology, my parents would always make me set the clock on the VCR. Set up the new gaming consoles (yes I was half spoiled), and eventually set up the new computer in the house. Well fast forward 15 years, I'm now 28 with a good social group, job I love with a decent wage as a Network Admin and now I'm even more in d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me 25/m with my 28f GF. 3 yrs LDR. Issue or no issue? POST: I have been in an LDR with my GF for 3 years. We met at College, and I travelled to live in her country twice, and met her in another country once. She hasn't come to see me (workaholic). Total we've been together 16 months. Things have been tough. I feel like a fool. I asked her to come for a little holiday with me, and we hadn't seen each other in 4 months and had no solid plan to see each other again until this one. S",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (26f) boyfriend (32m) of 1.5 years wants to spend time with an ex (?f) when he doesn't even spend time with his own friends. Should I be okay with this? POST: I'm not doing a throw away because I don't care. Okay so my boyfriend, who is usually so wonderful and caring, just texted me and asked me if I would be okay with him getting together with his ex and helping her with school work. As far as I know he hasn't even seen her since before we started dating. A week or two ago she",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33M] with my girlfriend [35F], I am recently separated and this is a new relationship, experiencing ED POST: I am only 4 months out of my marriage, my wife left me for someone else. I recently met a woman who I really like. We've went out a few times now and after the last 2 dates she has stayed over at my place. Although we both wanted to, ""little i_post_from_this_acc"" wasn't playing. I have never ever had issues before, can still get erect while alone, in morning etc etc so I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Wondering if I [20/f] am in the wrong with speaking to my Aunt [46/f] as an equal. Really confused. POST: Okay so I am quite honestly confused with how I should be speaking to my aunt, it sounds a bit dumb, I know. My mother, her sister, taught me to speak to people on an equal plane for how I am treated. I work, a lot, and recently my cousins birthday passed and I sent her a message because there's no way I could call her because of work, so i thought that was sufficient. She did th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] with my boyfriend [19 M] of 6 months, he does things that make me feel insecure and I feel like I waited too long to address it. POST: So my boyfriend and I have been dating for about 6 months now, and I care a lot about him and our relationship. We have a ton in common, share so many interests, and he is a very kind, sweet, adorable dude. The problem is that I'm not his type. He's told me many, many times (maybe not daily, but close) that his ideal girl is the super stacke",positive " r/cats TITLE: Need help with cat introduction POST: I just got a new kitten and I have 2 other cats. One is an outside cat, she stays there all day every day. She is allowed to come inside but chooses not too. My other cat who is an inside cat loves the outdoor cat but she will not let him touch her, so I figured that he was at least semi-okay with other cats as he REALLY would love to interact with the outdoor cat. The indoor cat absolutely adores our dog as well. Now that I've brought a new kitten in he ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M/] with girl [24 /F] 1 month since our last date is that why she is ghosting? POST: So this summer I reconnect with a girl I had gone to college with over snapchat. I decided to compliment her one day and we really hit it off. We literally spoke everyday this summer/ all day- sent one another pictures of our day. It was almost as though we became best of friends. She lives relatively close to me about 7 minutes so we'd often joke about local places we frequent. It felt amazi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my friend [24M] Of a month, hooked up while drunk and haven't seen him since/talked about it. How do I know what it meant and how do I broach the topic? POST: Last week, I went out with a group of friends and we were drinking quite a bit. At one point, me and one of the guys (who I've been friends with for about a month) were split from the group and ended up alone. We walked back to his place, he grabbed my hand and held it for the rest of the walk. As you can probably",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29F] with my boyfriend [37M] of 9 months, he doesn't bring me to work events. POST: Basically we have been dating for 9 months now. We hang out 3-5 times a week, and I stay over there when we do. We are on each others social media, and have met most of each others friends/family. I have met a few people he works with, however he never invites me to work events like dinners, holiday parties, etc. This weekend there is a work event at a place I frequent, but he basically told me he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [19F] has broken up with me [19M]. we have been dating for three years and says she needs space. POST: Me and her were high school sweethearts and everything about us meshed perfectly. We both have completed our first year of college and everything seemed to be going well until two days ago. We got into a minor fight. After is was over we said sorry and that we love eachother and are happy together. The next morning she messaged me saying we need to talk in person, i a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [29M] got me [27F] a ""gift"" that requires me to spend hundreds of dollars. I'm pissed. POST: My boyfriend (I'll call him Bob) and I met a couple of years ago and have been dating since. I make a lot less than Bob (roughly half his salary) but also have fewer expenses. Our ""fun money budget"" is roughly the same. My birthday was yesterday. Bob surprised me with tickets for a trip to Hawaii over President's Day week. He's clearly been planning this for a while and I was so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF can't stand my gaming habits POST: We're both mid-20s, together 2 yrs, this has been an issue before but is more so now that we are living together. I am I guess a serious gamer--can play pretty endlessly for a whole weekend or whole week, but usually only when something new comes out. She takes something of an intellectual approach to gaming--""what would you say if your SO spent all weekend sitting around watching TV? Or smoking pot? You would not believe that you are dating th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] and my boyfriend [23M] duration 6mos, he's ""normal"" and I don't think he can understand my struggles as some who's reality is ptsd and bpd POST: My boyfriend is kind, strong willed, and compassionate. But I believe his compassion is cut off at a certain point... he tries clarify what I'm saying to him in discussion but it sounds more like layman's terms. His heart is so big but his up bringing in suburban iowa with a television-perfect like family is so much different from m",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to teach my three year old son to pray. POST: My son gets frightened sometimes at bedtime and keeps coming out of his room at night. He lies in the hallway with his blankets and we put him back in bed- the cycle repeats endlessly. Every once in a while, during this endless bedtime routine, he comes up with questions for me, like important questions for him, that I am genuinely not expecting and am out on the spot to answer...tonight was one that I think I may have made a pret",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I [17f] tell him [17m] how I'm feeling? POST: I've been spending a lot of time with a kid who moved to my city in September (met in school that month, starting seeing each other outside of school about 3 times a week starting January), and I've suddenly realized I'm sort of... I think he's great. He says things in beautiful ways, and his smile makes the put of my stomach feel happy, and for a while I wasn't really noticing, thinking we were simply friends.But... He's alw",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [21M] girlfriend [23F] constantly is suspicious of me cheating, and it's driving me away. POST: Me and my GF have been together for about 2 years now. We recently moved into an apartment together in May. Since then I have noticed that she thinks I'm cheating on her. When I ask her why she thinks this, she can't give any explanation why. She gives me dirty looks whenever I leave the home without her, and there is just no sense of trust whatsoever. I would absolutely never cheat ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I suspect that Reddit is overrun by a handful of power-users. What's the point anymore? POST: I'd articulate this problem further but it's just such a waste of time anymore ... so technically I just did ... As long as anything I have to say conflicts with your world view I'm doomed to being censored by power-users alone. It's boring and it's dumb ... remember when reddit used to be fun? ... and don't tell me this problem is isolated to the major subs ... it isn't. The way I see it I ha",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trusting my friend POST: This happened two weeks ago. As an ignorant moron who had no idea what meatspin was, my friend told me to go on meatspin.com Three hours later, during English class, while I was doing research I decided to check out what meatspin.com was. Mistake 1: I didn't check the credibility of the site Mistake 2: THE COMPUTER WAS ON MAX VOLUME So when the site loaded, the music from the site blasted across the classroom and everybody turned around, looking at me, in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] *want* to get over her [18 F], but I don't think I want to POST: I gave her my heart and she stomped on it. I was really good friends with her, or so I thought. I became the best person I could ever be in front of her. I treated her like a gentlemen. Even the few times we got into minor arguments, I let her win even though i wasn't convinced the slightest bit. We were always seen together, always talked, always had fun talks, and I swear she liked me back to a certain extent.",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Recently broke up with girlfriend and feel confused, what do I do? POST: About a week ago, I (17 y/o male) broke up with my girlfriend of a year and a half (16 y/o female). I thought the relationship was coming to a close and that I didn't feel the same way I used to about her, but in recent days, I've felt a resurgence of these feelings that I used to feel. To make matters worse, my best friend seems to be showing interest in her, and not only does she seem to like him back (n",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My ex showed up at my house and is refusing to leave until I come home and talk to him. POST: My (very recent) ex apparently just showed up at my house, with the intention of talking to me. He is claiming that he is going to wait there until I get home, whenever that is. I must have missed him by minutes, because I only left an hour ago. I don't know what to do. I feel like I have to go talk to him, but I very much don't want to. I was the one who ended things, which I never do. I",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Problems with parents and exboyfriend. POST: Okay, this might be long, but I really need help with this. Me and my ex have been on and off for two years. But we finally started dating last summer (I'm a 15 year old girl, and he's a 16 year old boy). Our relationship was perfect, as crazy as it seem i'm pretty sure it was love, but had to be hidden because my parents are old fashioned conservative and from India (I was born in the US). So I obviously couldn't tell them that we w",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Need help on dealing with grieving friend POST: One of my four closest friends who I will call 'L' is going through a really tough time right now. Her mom has been in the hospital for a few months after falling while in her home and not allowed to go back because of worsening dementia. Her dog had a twisted stomach and had to be put down suddenly on Halloween, she's scheduled for a gastric bypass surgery in January and now she's just learned that she should prepare for her mom dying soon. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] have reconnected with an old acquaintance [M22] who asked me out but his messages/behavior seem questionable? I'm also really inexperienced and don't know... POST: So I used to work at an organization a few years back in high school (we're talking like 4-5 years ago) and was part of a youth group with a bunch of other people my own age. I used to like this guy who I thought liked me too but he never did anything about it so I moved on. Now, several years later, his best frie",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] don't think my bf [25M] is attracted to me anymore POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for almost 2 years now. I love him so much and I know that he loves me too. He tells me how much I mean to him and is always there for me and thinking of little ways to make me smile. The problem that has been an ongoing issue is with our sex life. Just to be clear, there haven't been any changes in physical appearance for either of us. He says that he just doesn't have a high libi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Disabled in 2008 and lost everything; mother helped our family by purchasing a home. My mother has recently become seriously ill and the prognosis is grim. We are afraid we'll lose our house if and when she dies. Can you point us in the right direction? POST: In 2008 I was attacked in a violent road rage incident which left me with physical and physiological trauma which left me feeling like 10% of whom I used to be. These injuries took a toll that began with me losing a six-figure tec",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22m] she is [22F] 5 months, what the hell is going on? POST: So I met this girl who I used to go to High School with, we didn't know each other back in the day, but in the last 4 months we have became best friends. Talking constantly, hanging out whenever I am home from college, typical best friend stuff. I'm happy at this point. So I broke up with my girlfriend about a month ago and weird things started happening between us after that, even before we were broken up and I just t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] and my bf [28M] together 2 years are about to go long distance for a few months. Any advice on how to stay close while living apart? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for 2 years and living together for about 6 months. We're great together and make a strong team. I definitely see myself marrying this man. For at least the last year we have been talking about moving across the country to a city that we are both very excited about. We've both been looking for jobs ",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Relationship advice: not sure if this is where to ask, but I need help with an inevitable breakup situation POST: The story is that I met this amazing guy at the bar, he is the cousin of one of my friends. He is kind, funny, and honestly the funnest guy I have ever known (this is not limited to just guys I've dated). I have such a good time on our dates, and when we watch a show (firefly) I swear I have never been so comfy in someone's arm. I even have been considering a long distance relat",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] trying to win back my ex [24M] of 3 yrs, need help trying to do the cheesiest, most romantic thing. POST: My ex [24/M] and I [22/F] dated for almost 3 years, I knew before we started dating that we were meant to be together forever. I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. We've had so many good times over the few years. We have had our ups and downs but we always worked through every tough spot that we've had. We are probably the cheesiest couple. Our cheesy-ness is",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(17M) have know this girl(17F) for a really long time, and I am confused... POST: There is this girl I have known for about 4 years, we have been on and off since then. When we first met, we had a lot of chemistry together. But at the time she was not ready for a relationship, so we stopped talking. About 2 years ago, we started to hang out again and we eventually started dating for about a month. Then she broke it off, and then we stopped talking again. Now fast forward to about ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it a total asshole move for me [M 35] to ""postpone"" breaking up with my GF [33 F] until our shared lease is about to expire? POST: It sure sounds like a dick move on the surface. We've been together for almost 10(!) years now, and she's by far my best friend. We gave it a good shot, and there's still love there, but whenever I think about the future, I just don't think we are the right people for each other. It feels like one of those relationships that just keeps going and goin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my GF [25F] of 4 months, Not feeling relieved after breakup. POST: Hi Guys, I am worried I may have made a mistake by breaking up with my now ex girlfriend. My ex girlfriend and I were in an hour and half long distance relationship. We always had a great time together, I felt like I could say anything to her, she's smart, funny, and beautiful. I miss spending time with her, and I'm not sure if I ended the relationship too soon as I still have strong feelings for her.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [29M] cousin/good friend [32M] died and left me out of his will? POST: Me and my cousin grew up together. His dad struck it big with a business when we were both kids and since then his life has been infinitely better than mine. His family owned larges houses, several luxury cars, travelled the world, while my family barely got by (don't get me wrong, their family helped from time to time). Anyways, it never really affected our relationship. We still both went to the same school, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[22F] am having a hard time trying to move out because my parents[60M/52F] keep ""borrowing"" my money. POST: I've been trying to move out for over 2 years now, but every time I even save up another thousand or so dollars my parents ""borrow"" a few hundred to pay the bills. I understand some parents charge their older kids rent but it's ridiculous what they ""borrow"" sometimes. They use that word ""borrow,"" but in truth, they have never once paid me back. Even on my birthday, they'll gi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my Girlfriend [17 F] Have been together for about 6-7 months now but... POST: Me and my girlfriend have been together for about 6-7 months now (Both 17) but recently, she has started acting differently, for example, she never messages me first and doesn't seem interested in me much anymore. She always cancels plans that we have and seems to want to go if we ever do meet up. She never ever really says that she loves me anymore and even if I do say it first she'll only s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (f/21) trying to repair a relationship with (m/21) POST: Sup reddit, Let me start by saying that I am mostly at fault. I came into the relationship as an paranoid person because I've been cheating on multiple times. Neither of us intended for it to be so serious but, two and a half years later, we are still here and best friends at that. For the first year or so it was awesome. As time went on, though, my paranoia grew and I snooped. I found out that he had been looking at pict",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [23] is an idiot with money. We've been dating a year, should I bother worrying about it? F [20] POST: He's been broke the entire relationship. Not just broke, but in debt. He was living off a friends couch for a month, got kicked off it and lived out of his car for a weekend. Then he lived with me for a month before signing a lease for his own place. Since then it's continued to be a constant struggle. He's gone through 4 jobs, fired from two. At one point I even had to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my Mom [57/F] and Dad [53/M], she takes over 50% of my child support POST: At this point in time I don't have any relationship with my father and only hear from him when he needs to discuss something financial or college related with me. The only emotional support is from my narcissitic mother (and even then she's not quite sure how to be a mom anyway). My mother made the irrational decision to move across the country by herself as I was preparing for college so I moved",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not understanding how my store phone worked POST: This happened about 30 minutes ago while I was at work. I work for a large retailer and we frequently transfer items that customers want to and from other stores. A week ago one of my coworkers was supposed to transfer an item for a customer from a near-by store to our store. Well I was about to leave work, but our store phone rang and it was the customer in question. The customer said that she was supposed to be contacted when we got ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: he (26M) says he doesn't want a relationship, but turns down casual sex POST: I've (25f) been dating a guy for a couple of months. He told me at the beginning (and a couple of times since then) that he wasn't looking for a relationship, which is fine. I'm 25 and not exactly looking to settle down right away. But he sends seriously mixed signals. He's introduced me to some of his friends, hung out with some of mine, texted to say he missed me when I wasn't available, offered to he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do you know if you have daddy issues? POST: I (20F) have been dating an older man (27) for about 3 years now, and for all my life, even when I was a child, I have always been attracted to older guys. I'm attracted to the ""protective"" type. My dad has always been very protective of me, in the kind of way that made me lash out and cry at night because of how restricted I felt in my own home. I wasn't allowed out a lot. I have always been very intimidated by him, and I'd be so ner",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Has anyone experienced ibuprofen or acetaminophen rash before? POST: I took ibuprofen last Friday night and Saturday morning I woke with a widespread rash. No other symptoms, just a slightly itchy rash. Fast forward a week and it's still here. I went to the doctor and he was useless, as WebMD and Google pics gave better answers and advice than he did (stay away from the medicine you most believe caused this/drink as much water as you can). I was told to monitor it, and then had blood",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with my b/f [26 M] of 3 months, he has lost sexual interest? POST: Been with my guy for 3 months. We met off of Plenty of Fish in July. We had sex the second time we hung out and were basically stuck to each others side from that point on. Obviously feelings developed so we decided to make it ""official"" in September. Great, right!? For sure, we get along great. Our sex life was great, sex everyday at least once or twice. I couldn't get enough and nor could he. This past mon",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: PSA: CreditKarma scores can be very different from what a lender sees POST: So my wife and I had been saving for a house and trying to improve our credit scores over the last year in order to get a good rate. We signed up for credit-karma in the hope that would be a good tool to monitor and improve our credit. Instead we found the following : * Scores : CK's ""transunion"" and ""equifax"" scores were significantly off from the ""actual"" scores that the lender sees. * Recommendation",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[23F] am worried about my friend[21M] of 4 years who has suddenly stopped responding to my messages but I could be over reacting. Don't know what to do. POST: okay so we used to be close and see each other frequently. Last year that became more like once every three months but recently we started seeing each other again and we talked about personal stuff. Like he wants to kill himself but he seems to have been pulling himself through and finding stuff to distract from the depression",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How many of you have never been in love? POST: Never ever been in love, as far as I know. Nearing 30. I have no problems with getting physically attracted to others, but love? I do get emotionally near people, have great friendships and so on. But the concept of love, as described by the rest of the world, could just all be a big lie. Perhaps my brain is chemically malfunctioning. Perhaps love really is the biggest delusion of the human race. What I`ve never had, I`ll never miss, right? ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Setting Boundaries between my[21F] best friend [19M]/ romantic interest POST: Hello all! So a few months ago I started to like my best friend. I confessed to him these feelings and he responded positively. We started getting closer physically (touching, holding hands, cuddling, spooning) and emotionally. Then one day he stops reciprocating all contact. When I talked to him about it he relayed that his previous relationship left him with some things he wanted to work out on his own",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How to stop my friend from generally being a dick [both of us are 23 M] POST: Basically this guy often makes snarky or cynical comments, or tries to put me down and it's getting kind of old. We've been friends for many years but until recently I hadn't seen too much of him, but now we both work together at the same company so I work with him every day. A good example of some of his BS - I injured my hand at work, so he had to take on a little extra work. I busted my ass regardles",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How to turn a newly formed friendship into a relationship? Sorry if wrong subreddit.[m17] to [f18] POST: There is this girl at my school, brittany. (f18) i'm (m17). I'm aware of the consent laws in my state, so that's not the problem. I didn't know her like, at all. She was in my class and was pretty. So I saw her in the hall way, and so i went up and just talked to her. I got to know her decently for the 2 minute walk. We weren't just walking randomly, but as a class to the li",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is what I'm doing normal for a university student? POST: Hey reddit, This is a throwaway, but I'm just wondering if these changes are normal for someone my age, and if I'll regret it when I'm older. Sorry to dump this much text, but I normally never feel like I need validation for what I'm doing, but I just feel like I'm at a weird point in life. To start off, just a bit of background (you can skip this). I'm starting my third year of Human Resource Management in the fall at a local u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (18/f) dating a guy (20/m) thats smaller than me, makes me feel huge POST: So lately I've been seeing this guy, not officially dating or in a relationship but he's nice to be around. He's alot taller than me but he is the scrawniest kid I know. If he was a little more bulked up I wouldn't mind but both of his thighs equals like one of my thighs. Is it bad that this is the only reason why I don't want to make it official? I feel like I ll crush him if I wanted to get rough or somet",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by uploading pictures of myself in lingerie on Dropbox. POST: So there is a Dropbox for the program I am in at my University. It's for uploading old test, books for the class, etc. It's really awesome as I have not had to pay for many books because of it... I digress. So one day I randomly met up with a friend to study for a test. Neither one of us brought our computers. So I decided to log into the programs Dropbox to get the pdf of the classes book with my phone. The studying went wel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my ex [20 F] just under 5 years, she broke up with me, not sure what to do. POST: So basically its been a long time coming me and my gf broke up March 9th, it would have been 5 years in April. Basically she dumped me theirs a bunch of reasons why mostly being we have been in the realtionship for almost 5 years never really dated anyone else. second being she is into poly and wants to have another partner I'm not really comfortable with that(only if it is a girl, I told ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[18M] broke up with my gf [18F] of almost two years a week ago, went out today to feel better, but now i'm feeling worse than I have this past week. POST: So last week I broke up with my gf of almost 2 years. I did it for many reasons. In my eyes she constantly emotionally abused me, and a couple of times physically, but even then it was more emotional. So one day we were arguing which we did constantly, but we always made up in the end and were happier than before. This time was di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (21F) am not as smart as my boyfriend (21M) and fear I won't be nearly as successful POST: My boyfriend and I have been together about 3 years, going into our last year of college. We plan to live together after college We both go to a very competitive university but are in different majors--he's in tech and I'm in liberal arts/some science. I was originally planning to be a doctor. I chickened out a few months ago and switched career paths. Now I'm going into something still s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] dated a guy[19 M] for 3 years and we broke up. Still hungout and talked about being in love/getting back together. He just ended things and told friends he's been just using me for sex. How do I stop feeling like life sucks? POST: I dated a guy I met in my sophomore year of high school. He was a senior. We had everything in common and he went to college and we still dated. We broke up a few months ago but continued to talk/have sex. We had discussed getting back together and ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Skype Interview and I anticipate some level of negotiation of Salary and Relocation POST: Hello PF, I have decided to relocate and a company seems intent to hire me. I have a ""broad"" engineering degree that is related to a field colleges don't often have departments for. My experience in this field makes me semi-unique. We have a Skype interview scheduled. I am borrowing a very nice laptop, have skyped my sister (who has a journalism degree) to make sure that the computer is at a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [24F] won't spend the night at my place [26M] because her mother [50sF] won't approve POST: Hello all. Been dating my gf for 8 months. I'm 26M, she's 24F. Both of us live with our respective divorced mothers. I have the worst student loans and have to buy my own health insurance so living alone is financially out of the question at the moment. My mom is pretty chill, spends most of the weekends at the house of the guy she's dating, and doesn't care if my gf comes over. S",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Two Job Offers... How to best handle them? POST: Over the past couple of months I have been phone screening and interviewing at two different companies. I've finally gotten the employment offer as an attachment in an email from company A. Company B has brought me in for two interviews, and upon completing the last one (10 days ago) they told me there is one other finalist they are considering and would let me know either way this past Monday or at latest Tuesday, since his/her interview was s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] asked this girl [17F] out and she said no POST: This girl that I like throws around a lot of mixed signals. She always invites me to things such as going out to eat, going to the movies, yoga, etc. But she always brings her friend along with her. Her friend isn't at all interested in me but it's just sort of awkward sometimes. My friends have made it very clear in the past that I like her but she chooses just to ignore that fact and not make things awkward. A while ago she sa",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my friend [19M] involved in a squabble POST: Okay, so I have a friend (Let's call him ""Fred"") who has a brother that doesn't seem to have any friends based on what he told me. The brother found me via facebook and tried to befriend me, of which I had no problems. The problem began when we started going out to malls to have fun at the malls however. The brother, let's call him ""Shawn"" drove me and my other friend to the Mall, and he turned on the music really loud in his",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (25f) want to drive 1000km to tell my ex(24m) I made a mistake and want to move for him. POST: Ok, so a few months back my BF of 3 years got a job offer 1000km away. I've never left the city I live in. I was very reluctant to say yes because I'm also very close with my niece(5yrs) and my nephew(2yrs) and I didn't want to leave them. I said still said yes and I only lasted a week. I know, kind of pathetic. I was overwhelmed and scared. I wanted to go home and just take a break ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can cops use Facebook photos as a justifiable search warrant? POST: I was at a party in a cottage on base at my local rec center, there were about 30 of us and we were all underage. They found a bong in the room i was in and none of the 14 people in the room claimed it. All of our information was taken and some of us were let go. I blew a .08 and a few of my friends got a ride to the station. When we asked the swat team why their cause was for the warrant, the pulled out photos of the sp",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Question about lawyer conflict of interest? UT POST: Kind of a long story so I'll try to be quick. I don't even know if this is possibly a thing? I'm married and in an open relationship with my husband. We are completely open and honest about everything and it works for us. I work for a company, and my husband owns a branding firm that is contracted by my company as well. Recently company has started taking a financial hit, and owe my husbands company around $100,000 in back already",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [17/f] want to ask a guy [17/m] to coffee but... POST: Here's the situation. I want to ask this very nice, rather awkward, entertaining guy (also a redditor) out to coffee. However, once I like a person I clam up and get super nervous and idiotic around them. So how do I go about asking him to coffee? I have no idea. Advice? Second problem- My ex and I have been broken up for a month now. We'd only dated for two months and it had all been rather tame. Alas I was his ""first"" ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16M] with my girlfriend [17F] of a year and a half, my world has kind of been flipped upside down POST: I don't know how to start this but my girlfriend and I went to a very small forty person school. We connected and began dating and have had tons of fun. Her family quickly started to like me and there have seldom been any issues, most of them around her ignoring me to spend time with her friend, as in full on dump our plans and spend the rest of the day with her friend. She co",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, when's a time you were hated on just for being from a different country? Bet you weren't saved by a man and his monkey POST: So, when I was in 8th grade (2006) my family took a trip to Israel. Now there's 5 of us, I was 14, littler sister was 11, and older brother was 17, and my parents. We are a white American family, raised in the church. But I digress, so the first few days of the trip were fascinating, we got to go all over and see some pretty crazy biblical shit and just",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Redneck Fucks Trying To Hassle A College Kid Playing Dubstep POST: Okay so yesterday I was heading to the public library to rent some movies. I turned down a road and was driving the speed limit (25 posted). I drive by this house of rednecks (probably 5 on the porch)--three of them were in a truck attempting to pull out into the road, but I still had the right-of-way and decided to just go around them. They blare their horn at me like I've done something wrong. They followed me t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29F] want to use an egg donor for any children my husband [30M] and I have, but he is very against the idea and we're at odds POST: I've been with to my husband John for eight years, and been married for three. We have a wonderful relationship, we're both successful in our careers, and we live in a nice safe area, so we've been talking about having children soon. I definitely want children and so does he, but I don't really want to pass my genes on. I'm not infertile, but I have",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] seem to be developing a huge crush on someone [19F]. Questions inside POST: So, me and this girl go to the same college, and it's our first year here for both of us - I'm a freshman, and she's a transfer. We hit it off really well as soon as we met through a mutual club. We share similar interests and stuff and just get along pretty well, despite not having spent too much time together. After a weekend together with the club that we're in, we decided to hang out the next we",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm worried [20] with my gf [18] 1 yr, telling me unbelievable histories - does she have mental ilness? POST: My girlfriend kept telling me unbelievable stories that I believed in, because hey, I love her! She met sister that she didn't see for years, I'm 99% sure that she told me that she didn't see hers aunt for years, whereas she told me that she saw her few months ago (I'm not sure about this though). But history from today i just.. Winning a lottery is nothing. She said she saw",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] in a frustrating situation with a [18F] POST: There's this girl I have feelings for and who has feelings for me, and a few weeks ago we hooked up at a party. Directly after that we spoke and she said she just wanted to be friends because the last relationship she came out of ended badly and the commitment worried her. We hooked up again at a party a couple weeks after, and she said she wanted us to be fwbs. I thought this would be alright so agreed to it. More recently at ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [21 M] can see demons [20 F]? POST: My boyfriend told me that he can see into another spiritual world. He can see aura's, spirits and demons in a spiritual realm whenever he opens his portal. Most of the time, he likes to keep it closed. Today he told me that he thinks it's demons that are breaking up our relationship. He told me about the demon he saw when he was younger, which would play little tricks in order to break up his dad and his mom. I think he's just using th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my girlfriend (18f) isnt returning to school next semester. i (18m) was happy for her but now i cant come to terms with the situation. POST: I just completed my first semester at college and did very well-- all As and Bs. I should be really happy for myself but Im not. im stuck thinking about how my girlfriend isnt coming back. before i was happy for her. with a crazy, troubled past shes finally ready to open herself up and seek treatment to deal with the emotional scars shes suffer",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Overcoming Nice Guy Tendencies in my current dating situation... POST: I [29M] have a history of being a ""Nice Guy."" I am slowly overcoming this problem by being a more confident person, but I find that when I am starting to date someone new or trying to date someone I tend to revert back to my old ""nice guy"" persona. Because I am interested in them, I try to be extra nice and accommodating to fit their schedule. For example, right now I am interested in someone [27F], who I have me",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Please help! How do I talk to my girlfriend about my day? POST: Howdy Reddit, This question might seem really weird of stupid, but I really need your help. I've been together with my girlfriend for 7 years now, but lately my shortcoming start to become a problem. I've always been quite introvert and never really talked about (imo) not important things. When I tell people stuff I run it through myself first (would I want to hear this from somebody or do I not give a fuck). That my sc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend's past rape has just ruined our relationship. Need help. POST: I originally posted this in r/rapecounseling where I received some good advice but not very much as it doesn't seem like a very active community. I thought I'd try it here as well. My girlfriend (22) and I(21) just broke up because she doesn't feel like she should be in a relationship right now. She has been raped twice (a couple years ago) and ever since then has been dealing with the emotional consequences.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18/F] with my new boyfriend [19/M] of only a few weeks - I don't know how to tell if I'm feeling the right thing... with kissing POST: So when people talk about kissing they say it gives them an amazing feeling and you get all weak-kneed and almost dizzy. That has never happened to me with anyone I've kissed. I like the way kissing feels but it's just... my lips on other lips. Sometimes I can feel something that's almost like sparks and it feels good but I don't get just crazy d",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Would like your opinion on purchasing first condo (CA) POST: I'm looking to buy my first property within the next year and a half and one of the things I've heard is that purchasing a property while it's being built is one of the best ways to save on a property. I'm looking now because it turns out I can get possession exactly when I want it if I look now. My intentions with my first property is to live in it for a bit and eventually rent it out when I have enough saved for anothe",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: NJ Roofing Job Fail.Help? POST: I'm just trying to get some advice on my current situation. I have a mixed use building with a flat roof in which there was a leak in so I decided to get the roof redone. I hired a company and while they were doing the roof there was a storm and the ceiling was completely immersed causing additional damage. When they finished the roof there were still leaks. So we had one of the other companies we were originally considering come look at the situation. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my friend [25F] since 7th grade, haven't received a save-the-date to her wedding POST: I was best friends with this girl all throughout junior high and high school and then for the first few years of college (total of about 9 years) until I transferred. We also had this best friend (now 25M) and the three of us did everything together. Even after I transferred, every time I would come home the three of us would get together. Since I left town, about 4 years ago, we've ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] bought a computer to replace my GF (22F)'s broken notebook. She's mad at me because I want to sell her computer and keep the money POST: She's been complaining about her slow notebook with a half-broken screen for the past half a year and she's been wanting to get a new one. She couldn't afford it and neither can her parents, so she's just been keeping it — and _joking_ that I should buy her a replacement. I'm well off and figured that I could actually buy her one, so I did,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] with my GF [21F], been together for over a year and a half, long distance relationship, starting to see the hopelessness of our situation. Should I end it? POST: I've been in a long distance relationship for over a year and a half now and we have been getting along great, she's a perfect fit for me, however she is over 5000 miles away and we've only seen each other once for 2 weeks this past winter and she will be coming here to visit for 3 weeks. In the past few months I've",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [25 M] How can I attract people I'm actually interested in? POST: Without meaning to insult the entire female population, it's easiest (for the sake of this post) if we split the girls that I've met and only view them platonically and the girls that I've met and 'liked' into '*Type A*' and '*Type B*' respectively, I've found that 'Type A' girls have 'liked' me and wanted to be more than a friend whereas 'Type B' girls have usually only seen me as a friend. I feel that I don't act par",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by touching an electric wire in a lion enclosure at the zoo POST: The other day I was dragged to the zoo by my family. I really don't care for the zoo but went anyway. I brought my cousin with me,who is around the same age as me, in hope that his company would bring a little more excitement to this so called adventure. After walking around for about an hour we found our way to the lion enclosure. Me and my cousin spot a hole in the fence and a wire, which I can now confirm to be an elect",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [30 M] best support my wife [28 F] as she relocates 6,000 miles to be with me? POST: My wife was recently granted a visa to come and join me in the UK; she is re-locating from the US, ad will be flying to London very soon. She will be leaving her mum, dad, sister, and other family behind. She is also leaving a job she has been in for several years, but she will be bringing her dog, who she is obviously very close to. She has lived at home all her life, and in the same cit",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: [17M] Needs help feeling better after break up with [17F] POST: Right... so where do i begin, it was all going great this is about 4 months into our relationship. I met this girl at college and we were the best of friends back then but as we get further into our relationship a guy who used to flirt with her started asking her to go out with him instead of our usual group of friends. First mistake she made was to go out with him and that did make me a bit angry because she was basically le",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My 17 year old girlfriend is being sexually harassed at her work place by her manager POST: Over the past few months I (18M) have been told by my girlfriend (17F) about one of her managers who is sexually harassing her. She works at a nation wide chain restaurant, so I'm assuming sexual harassment isn't taken too lightly there. When my girlfriend first started working at the restaurant, one of her managers who is in his mid 20's, asked her to send him naked pictures of herself. When ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Love Triangle POST: I'm an eighteen year old who was in a relationship with a girl also 18 years old in my school for six months. It was intense but we broke up a month ago. She was really close to another guy, a close friend of mine, for a long time, and everyone thought they would be a couple. When he didn't make a move, I thought it was okay for me to. I developed strong feelings for her and I still think of her everyday. Yesterday she told me she was dating my friend and I don'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Female best friend stopped talking to me out of no where, what did I do? What should I do? POST: So I'm an 18 year old male and my friend is also 18 years old and is female. Now let me just give you a little background of our friendship... We were friends for quite a while but we never got close until our senior year in high school when we both had classes with each other and we both got out of that ""seemingly awkward adolescent stage"". Anyway, we would talk/text/chat to each other ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my best friend [20 M] of 10 years, recently saw each other and have been hooking up. POST: Okay so, I have known this guy for ten years and of course when you're younger you have crushes on your friends but nothing ever came of it. Recently we completed our second year at university (different schools) and met up in the summer. We had a few drinks one day and hooked up. Whatever no big deal, nothing really changed afterwards except we became more flirty. Fast forwa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19 M] good friend [20 M], who is gay, told me he has strong feelings for me. POST: One of my closest friend, let's call him Steve, told me yesterday that he has feelings for me. He's made it quite clear it's not a small crush, he told me he's never felt this way about anyone and is ""hung up"" on me (he's been acting strange recently and struggling to focus on finals. He told me it was because of a guy, which obviously later turned out to be me). I wasn't too shocked when I found",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: I (M18) need to break up with my Girlfriend (F18)...gently... how? POST: throwaway cuz she's a redditor too. Ok. So. I (M18) have been dating this girl (F18) for about 7 months now. Not very long, but not a short time either. Long story short, when we started dating, it was simple. We both like to smoke weed and have sex. So that's what we did. However, I quit smoking weed about 4 months ago, and since then I've changed and am no longer interested in her, and I am now interested in anot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18m] just found out that my girlfriend [17f] is taking diet pills. How do I approach this? POST: I don't know how long she has been using them, but I know it is illegal for her to use them. We have been dating for about three months now so I know when shes hiding something from me. After a looooong conversation between us, about me trying to find out what she was hiding from me she finally confessed that she has been taking Diet pills. She was was afraid that I would get mad at ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend[F/20] don't want any intimacy with me [M/28] POST: We have been together for about 3 months. We haven't had sex yet, because she doesn't feel ready for it and i'm ok with it for the moment and I don't wanna force her. We just kiss and hold hands, when things start to get sexual and intimate she always tries to avoid it, she don't want to stay in my place for the night and it's been bothering me, i think it's normal to have some kind of intimacy in a relationship. Part o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] of almost 2 and a half years, broke up and I'm completely destroyed by it. POST: She broke up with me because I wasn't demonstrating that I loved her with details. During our relationship she warned me that I was changing from the guy she fell in love with but being the ignorant/immature guy that I am, I didn't pay much attention to it. I feel selfish because I know I don't deserve a second chance, even though she gave me chances during our relati",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I was in a car accident over a year ago, and now being sued for 50k and have no idea what to do. POST: Last year may I was in a mild accident. It was a very foggy morning, and there was a lot of obstructions at the intersection as it was having some work done too it. After waiting for sometime and waiting for an opening to cross I saw nothing so I started off. Next thing I knew my car spun slightly and I heard a slight ringing. Apparently I had been in a collision. I don't know if it mak",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A question about the legality of my mother's supervisors actions. PLEASE HELP Reddit; you're my only hope. POST: Hi Reddit. This is a throwaway. My mother works for a unified school district in the United States. They have recently updated their systems and have moved towards computerizing everything. She now has an email account with this school district. She is new to computers so she just leaves her account logged in so she does not have to log in every time. Her supervisor cam",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I (19M) ask my lecturer (40sF) out? Hear me out first. POST: I have known her for almost 2 semesters. I liked her since her first lecture. We got along just fine and had no mutual romantic feelings towards each other. About four weeks into being taught under her things got heated rapidly when I consulted her quite frequently for an assignment. We had excellent chemistry, and the age wasn't any barrier at all. Funny things invariably happen for some reason when we interact with",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need to write an exposition to my teacher on why he should forgive me POST: A couple of days ago, our English teacher asked us to write an exposition on the topic of ""It should be illegal to smack children"" for homework. Being the slacker I am, I didn't do it. By the time he called my name, I had written down a few points I could elaborate on. Unfortunately, I am a horrible improviser, so this did not help much. This is how it went: ""Should smacking children be illegal? This is a very",negative " r/dogs TITLE: My dog took off yesterday and I went temporarily insane trying to find him. He's not really a dog, but my child. POST: So, anyone who knows me knows that I'm kind of obsessed with my dog. He goes everywhere with me and is completely spoiled. In fact, I recently posted in /r/dogpictures a picture of my handsome devil: I got him when he was 2 years old and he is now 7. He knows many tricks and is gentle as a giant. Yesterday, I let him and his brother out in the yard to go pee, and because I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Green eyed monster at work: me (M27), her (F22) and him (M34) POST: I have this strange situation and I really think reddit can help me on how to take it. I'm M27 and have/had a crush on the F22 co-worker. She wanted to make friends with me but came out as flirty rather than friendly. So I asked her out. Then she revealed she has a boyfriend and I backed down. This other co-worker (M34) is a married man (10+ years) and used to be my friend (common hobbies type of friendship now that",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] showing romantic interest in [26 F] person I know online for 2 years POST: A couple years ago I ran into this girl that has and still does work on some freelance projects for me of the art sort. She does great work and she's been a great help and we work great in that regard. In the past four months we had talked briefly about some computer-related interests, finding out we have a few similar interests in gaming tastes and outlook with art methods. She seems like an okay",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (m/20) was dumped by girlfriend (f/19) because of my depression POST: We are both going to the same college and met because both of our best friends are dating each other. We were instantly great friends and just got more and more close as time went on. We were only really dating for about 6 months which is too long I know but thats not the problem. This semester she took a new job and had a harder class schedule leading her to get stressed. She has been helping me through my depr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do I have a right to be concerned? SO does not have pictures of us on his social media. POST: Throwaway since he uses Reddit. I (25F) feel silly even asking for advice about this.. but its really bothering me. My SO (26M) has Facebook and it does not have any pictures of us. I didn't care in the beginning but after going on 1 year... I hope this would have changed by now. His FB does show hes in a relationship. I brought this up to him 2 days ago and he reacted very frustrated a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I stay friends with my roommate's ex? POST: So, my roommate and good friend was dumped the other day by his girlfriend of 3-4 years. She and I are great friends, and because she was very sheltered growing up I've only started really getting to know her these past few months. Now here's where things get hairy: I've talked to her every day since the breakup (it's been 5 days--and for the record, she's been texting me, I haven't been the one reaching out), and today my roommate fou",negative " r/loseit TITLE: My Scale Battery Died. Suggestions? POST: O.k., so I went to weigh some food tonight, turned my scale on, got a low battery sign, and the thing turned right back off. Grr... I know it takes one of those funny flat circular batteries. But, the battery compartment is held on with a TINY screw. I tried both my tiny screw drivers, and while they both were small enough to fit, they didn't turn the screw. It has a funny shape to it as well, and neither of my tiny screws fit that shape. Not s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Drop out of college for long distance relationship or drop girl for college? POST: I've been with my current girlfriend for the past 3 years, and the entire time it's been a long distance relationship. I met her when I was still in the Navy stationed in Japan (she's Japanese), and for some miraculous reason, we managed to hold a relationship for this long. I've been in school for the last year or so and have about 3 more years left until I graduate. Lately (being about the last 6 mon",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I think I'm [19/f] over-reacting to something my boyfriend [21/m] did. POST: Using a throwaway for this one. Anyway, a few nights ago my boyfriend and I were out, and he pointed out a girl that hit on him a while ago. This put me on edge immediately. He had told me the story a few months prior and I laughed and joked with him about it. But him pointing her out to me just hit me hard in the gut, especially since I didn't make the connection in my head that it was her, matching ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to install Silverlight for Netflix POST: There was this show I wanted to watch but somehow there were no... other ways... of watching it, but Netflix (Canada at that!) had it. So I went to get my first free trial and Netflix account. I found the show and went to check it out and then I'm told I have to install Silverlight. I first recoil in terror at seeing this piece of archaic technology that I have done so well so avoid for years, but decide to go through with it anyway and ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I like this girl (20f), and she likes me (20m), but I can't seem to carry a deeper conversation with her via text. Any advice? POST: I met this girl online. We've been talking for a week and she replies often, but I'm trying to learn more about her. We can't meet in person yet, as we're in different cities and all, but I plan to as she lives on the way to my college city. She's said she likes me, but I feel that was something she said a little prematurely. I mean she's not acting di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my [21M] 2 months, plans to meet his parents fell through, he started ignoring me the same day. POST: Things moved fast, but very well and he asked me to meet his parents for happy hour. The plans fell through because they had an emergency back home. We decided to go to happy hour anyways, where I saw my parents, but they didn't see me. I asked if he wanted to meet them, but neither of us were ready so we went somewhere else. It seems planned, but it was a total coin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] want to get out of the power struggle with my gf [18m] of three years POST: So I've been with this girl nearly three years, all through high school and she has been my life. We'll call her Ash. I love her something fierce and I do want to spend the rest of my life with her. Just because I'm 18 doesn't mean I'm gonna miss out on stuff, it just means I've already found someone who I want to share the experiences to come with. Anyway a year ago my father passed from a codeine ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] broke up with my ex [21 F] almost a year ago, and I'm still hurting, need help. POST: So I broke up with my ex almost a year ago, and it was an ugly break-up. She was going through a lot, and she would never talk to me about what was going on with her life and she would just explode. I would get angry about this, and we would fight. I realize the relationship was toxic, but I still miss her, because when we were good, I can't remember being happier with a relationship. Last",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend doesn't want to have sex, what do I do? POST: I (17m) started dating this girl (17f) about 2 weeks ago, and last week I sent her a text in accordance to our conversation. Nothing to serious, I just called her sexy and she told me that she doesn't want to have sex. I agreed and said ok but I am kind of dissapointed. I am not just looking for sex in a relationship, I would only hope that it could potentially be a part of it in my first relationship. Is there anyway I could",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my boyfriend [27 M] of 2 yrs. Feeling insecure about my boyfriend talking to exes POST: I'm deeply in love with my boyfriend but lately I've been feeling uncomfortable about how he talks to his exes. The first year of our relationship was long distance and I trusted him completely. Now that we live together I still trust him but see that he frequently chats with his exes, one in particular he was madly in love with for many years. He's a friendly guy and I'm happy he ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my Father [47 M], need advice from people who have experienced similar situation POST: BACKGROUND: My dad is borderline autistic, has communication issues and is emotionally fragile following a meltdown 2.5 years ago during which I ended all contact. I always harbored resentment for my dad, since I was very little, coming to a realisation that I didn't like him personally when I was about 11. I told him so at the time and he cried for hours. When I was 15 I blocked hi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19/F] think my [20/M] boyfriend still has feelings for his ex. POST: Let me just give you some background information on myself. Before this relationship I had seen someone for over a year and a half, after being lied to and cheated on it screwed me up emotionally. To the point where I tried to kill myself multiple when it ended because I believed life was no longer worth living without him. Several years later, I have not been able to keep someone in my life due to my ""wall"" pr",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, bestow upon us an answer: who is the bigger scumbag? POST: Reddit, we have been a group of friends for eight years, and we have recently had trouble deciding how acceptable some of our buddies' behaviour is, so please tell us. Our two friends, we'll call them Bruce and Jack, have been best friends for sixteen years. Six years ago, Bruce began dating a girl, we'll call her Dallas. Things did not end well for them, and Dallas turned out to be a habitual liar. Now, several months ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with a friend [26F], told her I have feelings for her. Feel guilty to continue talking to her. POST: I met this lady friend of mine about 4 months ago at a convention. We became friends quickly and hung out a couple of times. I developed feelings for her. A month in, I told her how I felt. She let me down gently. Told me I'm two years too late and she has a boyfriend. I did not press further. Things didn't get awkward and we kept in touch. Or rather I did not give up. I had",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [28m] a groomsman for my friend's [29m] wedding. His bachelor party trip is coming up and it's a little too expensive for me. POST: My friend's bachelor party is coming up in a few months and it's going to be a weekend trip. The cost of the entire trip is likely going to end up being close to $900 per person for the weekend (including flight/hotel/etc). - I booked time off work and had every intention on coming to this trip, but I've been worried about it ever since I started l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[22F] afraid to pursue friend[21M]. I feel like I don't deserve him. POST: I'm hoping to get some advice on what to do. I have a friend that I recently found out I have feelings for after hooking up one night. People have said that we have chemistry and after that night I have to agree with them. He told me that he wants to remain friends afterwards but there are some things he says that makes me think he likes me more than that. However, I'm afraid of pursuing anything with him ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have I Become The Person I Used To Hate? POST: I've always been politically ""aware"". It used to be that one of the first things I did every morning was check Drudgereport. I'd listen to NPR on the long commute to work and occasionally bounce between several radio talk show hosts. I knew what was going on, and could name the people doing shit I didn't like. I've always had a little contempt in my heart for people who have strong opinions on an issue or candidate, yet really didn't kn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [24 F] 5 months, she has a male friend who constantly texting her POST: I'm having trouble telling her that she shouldn't lead the guy on, with her attention if she is not interested in him. But she tells that he's just a friend and he has many female interests so it's okay. But i feel extremely insecure about it and on our dates she likes to talk about him (which makes me feel horrible). A little background on our relationship, I'm in school and I am ve",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28f] with my husband[30m] of 6 years, has photos of my brother's wife's cosplay on his phone. POST: My husband likes cosplay photos, especially sexy female ones. Totally fine, of course. He has many folders on his phone and computer with pics of cosplayers, sexy pics, regular pics, cool well-done cosplays, etc. Pretty normal to like such things in the lifestyle we live (we like gaming, anime, etc) My brother's wife is a cosplayer, and she works very hard on her costumes. She pos",positive " r/tifu TITLE: By leaving duty (as an RA) and going to a house party. POST: For some context, I was on duty, and i had the duty phone. If you're on duty, you must stay within five minutes distance. Also, you have to sign the phone off to someone 48 hours in advance if you are to pass it to someone else. Anyways, I was on duty with some co workers and i got a call from a friend that said they found a party to go to. I was immediately like, fuck i'm on duty, so I can't. A coworker of mine heard my convo and o",negative " r/jobs TITLE: We just interviewed 2 people for the same position. Candidate A looked stronger on paper, but Candidate B got hired because of appearance and attitude. POST: Background: We're hiring for a part-time temp admin position. Our company has business casual dress code, but more on the business side. Also, there's a heat wave (relevant). Candidate A: Previous experience working in our company doing admin work, has good references from our company with a different department. She shows up we",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girl I'm dating is direct, but how direct is TOO direct? POST: I met a girl about two weeks ago, and there definitely seems to be some chemistry. However, she is extremely direct to the point of being rude and callous. For example, I have a Marvel poster on my wall and every time she's over she remarks (with not a drip of humor) ""God, I hate that poster."" When I texted her today to comment on how there were some crazy rainstorms near me, she replied ""No shit."" When I offere",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Commitment phobic and trying to make the right choice. POST: Here's the bare bones: I'm an 18 year old girl, he's a 21 year old guy. I'm a first year in college, he's a third year transfer student. We've been seeing each other for maybe six or seven weeks. Here's what's up with me: I just got out of a year and a half long relationship. I'm definitely over it, but at the same time, I'm not super eager to go jumping into a new relationship. I'm also terrified of commitment. And I'm r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 F] and my boyfriend [25 M] struggling with meteoric love, over-exposure, a rushed marriage proposal, concerned parents, and the military. POST: I met my boyfriend online through OKCupid. It was the best date ever, and we became nearly inseparable almost immediately. We met on Veteran's Day (Monday) and that Friday he told me he loved me. Things escalated very quickly and the reality of the fact that we are military and that he could very likely be leaving in January made thi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Ladies of reddit: A friend of mine [19/f] has been going out with a guy [19/m] for 1.5 months and the other day he went through her phone without her knowing and blocked phone numbers that he didn't want contacting her. POST: He did this because of his jealousy, and blocked any guy's phone number that he didn't want contacting her. To me, this is crossing the line in pretty much any stage of a relationship, but especially one so early on. My thinking is that 1.5 months is also the ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit: the current tenant of my dream apartment won't let me view the place, any advice? POST: So here's the story (I will try to be brief!) I found the perfect apartment (great price, perfect location, etc.) but the current tenant will not allow me to view it (his lease is up September 30). I was shown an apartment of the exact same size and layout, but obviously I do not want to sign anything until I see the actual place I'd be living, lest he has been painting his walls with hum",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Would it be inappropriate to ask him (M/20) to hang out (F/20)? POST: We used to work together a couple of years ago and were very close friends who shared everything with each other. He was one of the few people I felt comfortable opening up to. A few months ago, after nearly 2 years of not seeing each other he came in to my workplace and later that night spent about an hour and a half on the phone just talking about common interests and everything that's been going on in our ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Possible graphics card failure? POST: The other day I took my graphics card out of my case to do some seasonal dusting with canned air. I have the AMD 6950 2GB card that I purchased around a year and a half ago. Well, after putting the card back on the MOBO inside the case, my monitor did not start up properly. While the computer turns on and my keyboard lights up ( all signs of normal functioning ), the monitor remains unresponsive and the light on there remains orange ( no source detec",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girlfriend and I have tension in LDR POST: So, me (M(22)) and my SO (F(22)) have been in a LDR for the past 8 months. I live in Dallas and shes in Roundrock, which are about 2 1/2 hours away from each other. I just started my career a month ago in Dallas and she starts her teaching job this coming august. Originally we both had jobs in Dallas, but hers fell through and she was not able to find any open teaching positions here because it was too late in the year (hints why she w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My mom [60, F] is upset that I [23, M] considered not attending Christmas dinner this year. POST: I am currently living at home while I finish college. I live with my mom and little brother. The rest of our family lives across the country. Every year, my mom's friend invites us for Christmas dinner with her family. I am pretty introverted and I find dinner a little uncomfortable. The people there are very nice, but I only see them once a year. Otherwise, I have no relationship with ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my girlfriend [19F] of 5 months, She verbally degrades herself and says I don't love her a lot, feeling emotionally drained. POST: Hi, like the title says I've been with my girlfriend for about 5 months. When we were first dating, she wouldn't say things like ""I'm not pretty"" or ""you hate me"" or ""you don't even love me"" really at all, but now that she has been home for winter break she says them every time we are together, multiple times a day. She says it jokingly, but",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Atheists of Reddit: Why do atheists always have to bash on christian faith? POST: Hey reddit, first of all, this is my first AskReddit, so pardon me for such a generic topic. It's just, every time I browse r/atheism, most of the posts deal with people having to smash someone's belief in faith. I myself am an atheist, and i honestly don't care whether someone is religious or not. But most of the stuff I see in r/atheism makes me shake my head. Every second post consists of someone making",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16 F] think my crush [16M] likes me back? POST: Hi! I talk to one of my guy friends pretty frequently, and he's really sweet but I never really considered the possibility of him liking me. (though I've been crushing on him for a while now) For about a month he's been in his home country where he doesn't get very good signal. However, when he does, he texts me as much as possible. Lately, however, I've noticed that he's been calling me ""love"" (For example: ""I miss you, my love",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/m] Filling the void - issues with texting/facebook/etc. POST: So, I'll do my best to make this quick. A week ago I asked out a girl who I had spoken with two or three times previously (she goes to a different school than me). Totally on a whim because she's real cute and is friendly and smells good. Keep in mind, ""asking someone out"" doesn't usually happen this way in high school (I'm 19, she's 18 - we're both heading to college). Or at least people don't typically ask out",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21]m and my roommate [27m] he hit his ex[19f] while we were all at a party last night his ex sent her dad to kick his ass tonight and now I am unwillingly involved POST: Last night my roomate and several other friends of our went to a party, everything was going well and we were all having fun, until his ex showed up. the thing about my roommate is he's a ...very emotional person. he's 27 years old and doesn't know how to handle his emotions well. His coping mechanism is copious a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (35/M) boyfriend (36/M) of 1 year has been slut shamed by his own family and I finally snapped at them. POST: For some background: my BF is an Iraq veteran who came back from overseas with more than his share of issues from both the war and serving before DADT was repealed. When he first came back, he drank too much and had a lot of sex with a lot of different men. Thankfully he didn't catch anything, found a therapist, is dealing with his issues, etc. It hasn't been easy but we'r",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: FUCK FEAR. POST: Standing, staring blankly into space in my bitterly cold darkened room, I realized that the overriding philosophy that I adhere to is fear. It isn't the need to maximize my self interest or do unto other as they would unto you or even just to have fun or be happy. It is fear plain and simple, that permeates almost every decision of my life. Like a terminal cancer, it invades and takes over from my core being. The decision to lie at every opportunity about my social li",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [27/m] Just ended a 4 year relationship with girlfriend [24/f] and I'm a wreck... but I think I made the right decision POST: My GF is a wonderful person. Pretty, smart and fun to be around. Over the last year our relationship has just become 'comfortable.' We don't really fight, we have date nights, but everything has become somewhat consistent. On top of all this, social pressures of being together for 4 years have begun to add-up and everyone is asking, including her, when w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: What exactly is going on? fiancee(25f),me(24m), 2 yr+ ldr. POST: Hi, thanks in advance to all who help. basically, me and my fiancee, who have been together over two years, and engaged 5 months, have hit a huge snag. a few months ago she started getting cold feet, i visited her, things seemed to smooth out. After i returned home, she started a new job, the distance was hard as ever, i started school again, and slowly things started to erode. theo other day we talked, and she express",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Long distance seems to have cooled down. 25m 23f POST: I (25m) and her (23f) have been talking for about 7 months now. It's long distance and she lives in another country. It's about 2 hours by plane, I live close to the border. Things started great. She's easily the best person I've ever talked to and we get along great. We've been making plans to visit each other and have pushed them to October on account of me starting a new job recently. Lately, though, things seem to ha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my ex [35 F] of 3 years on and off, wants to be friends after a bad break up 3 weeks ago. POST: We broke up 3 weeks ago over her possessiveness, jealousy and general distrust. I have always had many female friends in my life however she has never been able to accept any of them. She has never truly trusted me and sees me as a player and someone who is always seeing the next best thing. After our latest breakup, she contacted me and asked whether we can start with a cle",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] need help giving up on trying to find someone. POST: I have tried as much as I can to find posts online in relation to just simply giving up and I couldn't find any that I can call useful. I fully understand that I am in control of my life and my failure in dating is because of me and I'm not blaming women, society, the world or any of these stuff. A little about me for reference, 23 years old male, have a full-time stable job, independent, live alone in a 1 bedroom apar",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My bf [21m] of 2 years broke up with me [21f] 5 months ago and I still love him. POST: We were 19 when we started dating, and we spent 2 years of our college career together. We had a great relationship. Always laughing and rarely fighting, essentially it was two best friends who fell in love. 5 months ago he broke up with me and I felt everything just shatter; it was the first time I felt heartbreak. It was really hard for me because I was in love and so passionate about it. I didn'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] unsure what my friend [17 F] of ~6 months thinks of me. Not really looking for a relationship, but don't want to be totally oblivious POST: I'm not really looking for a relationship - if I was, I could just ask her out. I'm dealing with problems in my life right now. I'm not going to confess when I don't know where I'm going; she could do better, and I don't *have* to be in a relationship (I'm sure I won't regret it later) I know everyone is different and this is all guess",negative " r/relationships TITLE: So my girlfriend (29F) and I (29M) broke up about 2 months ago... POST: I've been trying to get her back this whole time but to no avail. I still love her, I still want her back, I miss her and cry for her nearly everyday but am not making any progress at reconciling. Well recently I've been talking to some female friends to get their perspective on what else I should do to get back with her, what haven't I tried yet that might help me win her back over, what some of their situatio",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/m] Figuring out what to do with a 1 night stand girl (23/f) POST: I was looking around on Craigslist because I was bored. So I guess this girl moved here recently (my city), and was looking for someone to show her around and ""whatnot"". After I go through this short screening process, she invited me to come over to her place and bring condoms after I responded telling her I could show her around, just not to bars and stuff. She's cool with that and I guess does want to have ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: She's my best friend POST: I'm 15 and recently I have just been doubting my best friend,we've known each other since we were 7 years old and I've always stuck up for her and she's always stuck up for me but recently I've just being feeling differently about her. I swear she just seems to lead a lot of the guys along in some sick twisted game of jumping through hoops and I honestly don't think she realizes that she is doing it. She is one of the most caring friendly people I've ever met",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I Want My Mom Back POST: I'm trying to do my homework, but my mom is in the other room crying. Ever since my mom hit menopause she's been going into a downward spiral. When she retired in 09' it just got worse and worse. Both her physical and mental health are deteriorating. The worst part is that I hadn't fully realized it until I moved out just how bad it is so now I can't even move back home to help her (12 month lease). My brother lives with her, but all they do is fight and he",negative " r/self TITLE: Scared of failing my first class ever when I am on the verge of graduating. Somebody help me with this suffocating anxiety :-( POST: I am taking two classes right now. They are the last two classes I need before graduating next month. The problem is one of these classes is Spanish II and it is terrifying me. Currently I have a 3.9 GPA, so I'm not a bad student or anything. I make tons of A's, but Spanish is a whole different story. I took Spanish I during Spring semester and I got an A, ac",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: The world's worst closer... POST: Dear reddit, I am as of last night the world's worst closer. Seriously, last night, I was on a date with my crush. Yes, the one. We've known each other for three years, but on New Years Eve this year we started kissing. Or more accurately she started kissing me. We've met on several occasions after this, but never alone and nothing has ever happened since then. However, last night, I asked her out, and we went to the movies. We saw an horrible movie, th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My cats leg/paw is swollen, and he's limping. What can I do!? POST: I got home from work tonight and noticed my cat was limping... I took a look at him up close and noticed his paw is a lot bigger then it normally is. The swelling has gone up his whole leg (front left, for those curious). I tried putting it in hot water and salt but my cat has always had an attitude and will hiss/grumble/growl/squirm when you touch him. I also tried seeing if there was anything stuck in his paw like a bu",negative " r/loseit TITLE: 50 lbs down and a resting heart rate of 48 bmp! Thank you loseit for keeping me motivated. POST: In May of 2011 I decided it was time to start losing weight. Due to multiple knee surgeries when I was younger I had developed a very lethargic lifestyle and needed to makes some changes. So I subscribed to this sub and started running 3 times a week. I started small and with a goal of a 10 min mile. Slowly over the past year+ I have been adding to my running time and now run 7 miles in an hour ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20/M] with my girlfriend [18/F] of 8 months, I am having problems of trust and self-confidence that are ruining our relationship POST: Hi there Reddit! I'm a long time lurker and this is my first time actually posting something on here. I met my girlfriend about a year ago, we started dating in december. We've had an incredible story so far, living through a very hard long distance relationship at first and then spending about three months together, living in the same places. ",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Am I on the right track with my Yorkie's barking? POST: Maggie's about 7 years old. She's been living at my parents' house for the past 6 years or so, and recently moved in with me after I settled in after moving for a job. It's her first time moving, so she's understandably dealing with some anxiety. However, I recently received a complaint about her barking while I'm gone and have been trying to work with her to keep her calm. I found out from recording her that I can't leave the",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I use to fill trashbags with pee at sleepovers. What wtf was I thinking moment can you share? POST: Me and two buddies would always have sleepovers on the weekends Freshman Year in highschool. Specifically at the one kid's house because of his sweet ass basement, halo 2, and his refrigerator stocked with coke. Throughout the night we would pound as many cokes as we could. We would than urinate into whatever bottles, cans, and containers we could find and line the inside of the garage wi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I just accept friendship? POST: We're both 20, but we attend University about 8 hours of travel apart, we know eachother from school where our parents live. We were never very close friends, but almost always had mutual friends, and since we were around 12 or 13 years old, there's been some sort of level of sexual tension between us. At various times before we went to University, we were very close to dating, but it never quite worked out, even though we both wanted it t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [20 F] of a year, suspicions have been confirmed, how should I go about breaking things off? POST: For the past couple of weeks my girlfriend has been texting one of her friends from work apparently about trying to become more in touch with God. That was all fine and dandy with me because I don't care whether or not she is religious or not, but it did make me slightly suspicious as she is the type of girl who would publicly bash Christianity on the intern",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my friend [33F] 6months, we got close really quickly and have added fooling around, both scared of losing friendship POST: You hear of it all the time that you shouldn't cross boundaries with friends. Our communication is great and she's really reserved sexually when she's not in a relationship. We spend all of our free time together and everyones pushing us to get together officially. Neither of us think it's romantic feelings but we're so close and tell eachother ever",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] want to vacation in Japan. Bf [30M] doesn't want to because he has a Japanese woman/scat porn fetish and says he couldn't handle the temptation. POST: I have expressed how much I want to go to Japan to my boyfriend of 1yr 9 months. I've tried finding a friend to go with, but they can't afford it and I want to go before summer because I start grad school in Fall. Bf says he doesn't want to go because he would want to have sex with all the women and watch live scat porn shows i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Met a girl on vacation, now she sounds unhappy POST: M33, met a girl F22 while we were both on vacation. We spent one day together, and I was planning on leaving for my next destination when I decided I could stick around and spend another day together. It was really quite lovely. If it's relevant, got to 3rd base, no sex, she seemed uncomfortable going further and I respected that. I'd definitely see her as girlfriend material if she didn't live thousands of miles away. Unfortu",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: Sensitive issue with my sister. POST: I'm 21 and my sister is 33. She's married with two young kids. Growing up she was a great role model (long blonde hair, blue eyes, tan, in shape, ate well, etc). We used to be able to swap clothes and shop together. She's gotten significantly heavier, to an unhealthy point. I've never been stick thin myself, but I worry about her. Two kids and [PCOS] can only be a crutch to an extent. I've lost a large amount of weight and her health is decli",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [26F] frustrated with my boyfriend's [29M] unwillingness to engage with me on his relationship with his close female friends POST: My boyfriend and I of 2 years (have been good friends for many years, with some dating previously) have been fighting a lot lately about the relationships he has with his female friends. I am uncomfortable with certain situations, and feel that he does not show any empathy or willingness to discuss my discomfort. I want him to be friends with these ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by breaking up with a girl for not being white enough POST: To start out I would like to say I am not racist. I'm just extremely bad at conveying thoughts and putting emotions into words. I'm also very impressionable, apparently. This happened about a year ago. I was dating a very attractive, nice, but relatively opinion less American-Korean girl. I had been dating her on and off for about 2 years as we had many problems. (Trust issues, her flirting with ex's etc.) As a guy who comes f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22F) fell in love with a boy (24M) on the other side of the world. I'm now back home and have met someone new, but I can't help thinking about my overseas ex. Help? POST: I met him on exchange in France. He is French, I am Australian. We fell in love, were together for 6 months and it definitely was the best relationship I have ever had. Long-distance was too much for us to do, we said goodbye at the airport and have been keeping in touch via skype fairly regularly. However, I m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is my [18F] boyfriend's [18M] gaming an issue? POST: My boyfriend really likes games. We have been going out for 3 years. He doesn't tend to put me off for games (or at least not recently) but the amount he plays concerns me. Sometimes he will play for 20 hours straight staying up overnight. If I say anything or suggest breaks he gets angry and says I'm annoying him. I'm just worried because I've heard of people dying from too much gaming straight. He spends 90% or more of any free",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M], have been with my [21 F] girlfriend for a year, I get paranoid about cheating, how can I solve this issue? POST: I'm with a beautiful girl, and I'm an insecure guy who always gets jealous and paranoid that on nights out and whatnot, there will be other guys and she might do something. She's the love of my life, and she's never done anything to deserve distrust from me. I've never expressed these feelings to her, and have never been possessive or anything like that in fro",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girl I'm dating [23F] drunkenly accuses me [26M] of being a player. Am I in the wrong? POST: Girl I've been dating for a few weeks (not in a committed relationship) is out having drinks and whatnot with her friends and she texts me saying she's pissed at me because I'm a player and that I can do my thing, etc. This is all because last night I went and saw a movie with a girl I met online a few years ago (we decided we're not compatible, but we hang out from time to time as friends) ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: (UK) 17 year old with an eBay debt and unsure what to do. POST: Hi guys, Im a long time lurker and finally got round to making an account a couple of weeks ago, I now need your help! I sell items on ebay regularly, however recently two orders have been refunded as they were never received (I used tracking but ebay favoured the buyer and not me even though I had evidence) and so now im in ~£325 debt with them. This debt has now been passed onto a debt collection agency and I freque",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Dog anticipates wakeup time POST: My dog has started anticipating wake up time every day. I'm not sure whether she has figured out when our alarms go off, or we start stirring in our sleep in the morning, but she has taken to wagging her tail (loudly against things) and vocalising and prancing about every morning, before our alarms go off. Normally, my answer to this would be to completely ignore her until she quieted down. Unfortunately, I need to get up and go to work, so I have lit",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Even though I don't get along with my father, they are my siblings and I should be allowed to see them. POST: My parents divorced around 9 years ago. After that my family went through that seemingly typical struggle of who gets what, who has custody of the kids (my brother, I'll call B, and I), why I should hate the other parent more and all that shit. I grew to hate my father for many reasons but especially because he had an affair with some woman (I'll refer to her as SM), during his ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] Since last Valentine's Day, Confusing relationship, maybe it's just me but I seriously doubt it POST: My girlfriend, well, when I first met her, god damn, I thought she was the perfect representation of what a female should me, she was kind, very gorgeous and could make me laugh. Very few females can make me laugh really hard. Some issues I noticed popped up the first few times we started hanging out, the thing is, I am unsure of them. A possibili",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] need to have a conversation with my friends [15-17 M/F] about my depression. POST: A little backstory, I am 16 TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] just began dating a person [29 M] the week before I began cancer treatment. Still seeing each other, but feeling guilty. POST: I was diagnosed with breast cancer in mid-June. Despite my diagnosis, I still pursued a guy that I've had a big crush on for a long time. We had an amazing few days together before I had surgery on July 5. I'm still in recovery mode. Throughout, he has been incredible, coming over to spend time with me, sweet make outs, get to know one another. Th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [21M] Neighbours[??M/F]ringing the door at 3am and snooping around outside. POST: So I moved in not long ago, since then we've had no real introduction to the neighbours but all I've learned so far is they're wanted by the police, police have been knocking at our door asking for them multiple times. I've never met or spoke to them or even seen them. I assume one of them works until late at night about 11pm because I hear some footsteps then but otherwise NOTHING. It's like they d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [28F] girlfriend [22F] is worried I will cheat on her because I had a foursome in my last relationship. POST: My girlfriend and I have been together two years. She recently found out that I had a foursome when I was dating my ex-girlfriend. The foursome happened while both my ex and I were completely drunk and was not something we'd planned on happening. My current girlfriend believes that bringing any other person into the bedroom constitutes as cheating, even if the decision was",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[F 20] have been hanging around with a guy [18 M] who just started school for the past few weeks. I think I scared him off. POST: He's a freshman, I'm a sophomore. We clicked pretty well at the start of the semester and we wind up spending a lot of time hanging out (dinner, homework, grocery shopping, etc). I think I ruined our platonic relationship though over a trip last week. While I had a pretty big crush on him, I've been assuming I'm not his type (I've seen him get flirty wi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my mom [48F] - she's a slob and ignores me when I ask her to clean after herself, I feel unrespected POST: Hi, I've been living with my mother all my life and for most of it we both were messy and didn't clean our house often. As I have a job now I became more organized and started looking after our house more. I'm not a ""perfect housewife"" but I'm definitely not a slob anymore. My mother on the other hand cleans only when the sink is full, food starts rotting, there'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Need you people form Reddit because im pretty confused :) POST: So the case is: A few weeks ago i met a girl at a party and i kinda flirted with her (mostly because she had pretty big boobs and i was completely drunk). Few days later the same again at another party but the same girl. So yesterday i was at a birthdayparty of my friend and she was there too. So we sat together the whole night and talked and made fun and so on. Right before i wanted to go i couldn't help but kissing out",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [4OsF] with my SO [50s M] of 15 years. He confessed to me that he used to steal women's underwear. Should I be concerned? [cross-post from r/sex] POST: My (f40s) SO (50sM) admitted to me that he used to steal his female roommate's underwear and also steal underwear from laundromats and anywhere else he could steal them. He would masturbate with them/wear them. How bad is this? I know it's criminal. What does it mean? He also tells me that he only did it because he was too ashamed ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/f] am having severe relationship anxiety and problems, /r/relationships! My bf [25 /m] and I are in a long distance relationship and things are getting really rocky. Save me! POST: I'm in an international long term relationship with my boyfriend. We've been together for almost three years and things have been recently getting rockier by the month. He's studying internationally and has a sports scholarship at his college, where he resides. His studies and especially sports invol",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU, by losing my 3DS XL over a month ago POST: Well the original fuck up happened over a month ago. One week I was super sick and took my 3DS XL to school with me so I can play it on my bus into classes. Well being super sick I came home and immediately forgot where I had placed it. Well I panicked and thought I lost it. My girlfriend being as awesome as she is, went and bought me a 3DS off of kijiji and the game I had ""lost"" with my XL. Anyways the new fuck up is I have found my ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [22 M] thinks I [22 F] am having conversations over text with my ex [22 M] but I am not. Need advise. POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for almost a year. We have been doing long distance for the past two months which will be being ending in about two weeks. I am very much in love with him and feel genuinely blessed to have him in my life. We are a couple that are best friends. Our friends and family actually enjoy our company unlike many other couples who may de",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Would I [24/F] be a terrible person if I sold a gift an ex gave to me? POST: Not sure if this is exactly the right place to post this but I couldn't think of a better place, and I mostly just want either reassurance that I'm not terrible or someone to tell me straight up it's a douchey thing to do. I had a pretty volatile relationship with my ex and in general it was a really terrible emotional time for me. We've been broken up for over a year and are currently on okay terms- every",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20] GF [25] 2 years is inviting friend to stay over at her house for a few days to visit. Justifiably concerned? POST: We've been together for quite a while and I truly love this girl and I know she feels the same way. She's been friends with this guy, we'll call him Jim for a longer time than I've known her. However, I don't think she's seen him in quite some time and I don't really know anything about him. As of now, our relationship is long distance due to school and she let m",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Do I have a right to dislike the only friends I have? POST: Recently I've been finding myself more and more disenchanted by the current group of friends that I have. There are 6 of us (including myself) and we pretty much see each other constantly. We've been friends since first-year college (third year currently). They're my only real friends that I keep, and we haven't had any real issues since then. But lately I've noticed some things about them that I suppose I never picked up on ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: What is the key to better communication in a relationship? me (21/f) and bf (22/m) POST: I've been with my bf for about 6 months now. We have such a deep connection intellectually and passionately, but sometimes I feel like he doesn't exactly understand my needs in a relationship. I'm a hopeless romantic and I love doing sweet things for him and showing him how much I love him. He can be romantic too, but I feel like he doesn't show me the love I need or give me the confidence to fee",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [51 M] am having a hard time settling what to do with my parents' house with my sister [56F] POST: Sorry for the repost, but I messed up with a lot of the details. I'm very sorry but I've recollected myself and gotten this straight. About 20 years ago, my parents paid for half of their house, but my sister, who was more well-off at the time since she started working first and also had a well-off husband, offered to pay for the rest of the mortgage. Now, as is tradition in our cul",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[23 M] alone on New Years and I have no real friends. POST: I'd like to start this off with saying I've always had trouble making friends and forming relationships with people. I was bullied as a kid/teenager and no doubt it has affected my ability to interact with people. I'm frequently on guard when interacting with people I don't know and I probably come off as snobbish/stand-offish due to my inability to converse. I'm quiet and reserved, and I don't open up to people particular",negative " r/Advice TITLE: This morning I pulled a muscle at work, employer sent me to ""their"" doctor and said I was okay to work, but it's more painful now. What do I do? POST: I'm not asking for medical advice. To be more specific, should I go back to the fast talking employers doctor or should I see *my* doctor (which is at a community health clinic)? The fast talking doctor didn't even ask me about pain. She just tried to get me out as quickly as possible without a very thorough exam of my injury. Is that norma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (m20) of a year and a half struggles with communication and it makes me worry for the future of our relationship. (f18) POST: My boyfriend (20) and I (18) have been together for a little over a year and a half now and are moving into our own place in the next month. He has always been quiet and struggles to communicate his feelings properly. Due to previous relationships I struggle with insecurity issues and I really need to know where I stand. We both work full time a",negative " r/self TITLE: Snowball Trolls POST: I'd like to preface this with the fact that I've had a lot of crazy experiences in my four years living in NYC. Maybe I'll get around to posting some more of them, but this happened last night so it's fresh in my mind. I had an interesting experience last night as I was walking to my local YMCA this evening, in Manhattan. I had my headphones on, music loud to get in the zone for my hip hop class, when I felt a forceful push on my left shoulder. (I should mention that I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with my now ex[24M] of 3 years- he broke up with me because I ""deserve better"". Where do I go from here? POST: I'm still a bit shocked that it's over....I've just laid in bed a cried. we have been together for 3 years. He was my rock and my best friend. As all couple we have our shares of ups and downs but I believed we could work through anything. He says that I would end up settling with him and I won't be happy in the long run and that he's doing it for my own good. He ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: is there a reason or not? POST: Me and my friend at work were discussing about atheism and we had a serious discussion about universe. According to my friend, ""there should be reason for everything, when i say big bang created universe, the question is why did it happen or when i say all living organisms are just another large chemical complexes that exhibit their own property just like any other chemical compound, the qs is why does a such a large chemical complex should come in to exis",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Advice on this new relationship POST: Hi, so I (17/m) have been seeing this girl (17/f) for the past few weeks and we have gone on several dates. We have talked and we both really really like each other but there are a few things on her part that are getting in the way of us officially going out (or whatever you would call it). First of all, she pretty recently got out of a long relationship (over a year) and her ex still wants to get back with her. She told me she is completel",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Late Bloomer in need of Dating advice POST: So backstory is I'm 26M, and have never been on a date, and am looking for advice on how to break into the dating scene, and how to handle addressing that topic if it comes up. The thing is I don't really have one reason to point to as to why I haven't: I'm somewhat shy for starters, I have a nice circle of friends but I'm not one to quickly befriend someone I meet randomly on the street, in a restaurant, etc. Making matters more complic",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] think I haven't been treating my GF [23 F] right. Should I change my attitude and am I being an asshole? POST: Made a throwaway because people know my reddit account and I don't feel like them talking to me about this. Anyway... I've been in a relationship with my girlfriend for about 8 months now. We've always had a good bond but I admit I have been a bit of an asshole sometimes. And it's only hit me now. She's a very sweet girl who only tries to see the positive in things,",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Tasty revenge for my small portion of pickles POST: The background. Today is my last day of work. I work in a large food and beverage factory which has surprisingly terrible food and beverages at the cafeteria. As a result, my coworkers and I often speed out on our lunch break and get some fast food near by. One such place is a famous sub sandwich shop. I have only eaten there twice because of the terrible service. Yesterday I was running late and decided to stop there out of conveni",negative " r/relationships TITLE: After dating my BF [22M] for over 2 years, he still doesn't know if he loves me [20F] POST: I'll try to keep this short and to the point, if I leave out anything important, feel free to ask down below. Sorry if I dont make any sense, I just finished crying. After a year of dating my BF, I said ""I love you"". He expresses how it made him happy to hear that yet he can't say the same. He didn't really give a reason then, just that he can't. We had a long talk, with him explaining that ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (27/m) need help moving on... POST: I've had 4 serious relationships in my life, and each of them has ended semi badly. From cheating, to really bad fights, I've never really had a 'normal' breakup. I have a really bad habit of beating myself up, and lingering on the things I did or said that led to the breakup. It gets so bad that it consumes my thoughts a good portion of the day, and has led to severe insomnia. This week marks breakup #4. I lost my temper and am completely at fau",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: You are stranded in the Gulf of Mexico. What do you do? POST: You're on a chartered cruise ship in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico when the engine blows. Due to explosive materials nearby, it creates a giant rip in the ship's bottom and it starts to sink. A necessary fuse box is hit and all power on the ship has given out included the radio transmitter and receiver (they probably run on their own battery just in case, but let's just say for the sake of the story) Everyone is told to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [F21] roommate [F21] is trying to be a home-wrecker POST: (All names changed) A little bit of background: I have been living with a girl named Mia for almost a year. We have had a rough 2 year friendship and I am moving out soon with the intention of cutting off contact with her. Recently, Mia has developed a crush on Jeff (she admitted this to me). Jeff actually has a girlfriend and Mia is well aware of this. However, she invited him over tonight for wine and a movie and ended",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [-/22] broke up with my SO [-/24] today and am now wondering if it was what I truly wanted. POST: I've been seeing someone for a few months now, and things are great. They are fantastic in every way- Good persona, great charisma, totally accepting of me and what people would consider flaws, mind blowing sex, etc. However, they are very distant. Off the bat I told them I was unsure of being serious and they were on the same page. I figured it would be a casual thing, maybe 3 ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Any divorce lawyers out their that can help my brother [M28] and his wife's [F29]'s situation? POST: My brother has been married to ""Sarah"" for about 7 years now. They have two children. One is the biological son of my brother, the other is not his biological daughter. They met in the army when she was pregnant with her, they married, and he legally adopted the daughter. Anyways, Sarah is a very stubborn person who always wants her way and isn't the nicest to my brother/is demanding. H",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How important are common interests for the long-term of a relationship? POST: Me (m) and my girlfriend met in college whilst studying the same IT course. We've now been together for ~ 2 years She's 18 and I'm 21. We first met and of course we saw each other most days because of college and everything was great, we got on great. Now, we finished college a month or so back and have just gotten home from a 2 week holiday together, alone. This was the first time we have truly been alon",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by discovering Reddit. POST: I really should use a throwaway for this, but here it goes: Last night my boyfriend (of 5 years) confronted me about how depressing I've been for the past few weeks, and how it's really bringing him down, too. We nearly broke up before due to the same reason, but I hit the gym, lost some weight and gained confidence. Well, I've fallen off of the bandwagon again. I now weigh the same amount from when we met (150ish). I was doing so good... Honestly, the more",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by having a cheat day on my diet and then breathing POST: This happened less than 30 minutes ago. Today started out as a great day. We have a biggest loser completion at my work and the winner gets about $500 as the prize so I have been working my ass off to lose weight. The people participating weighed in today as a halfway mark and I was ecstatic to see that I was in the lead by a pretty good margin. Seeing as I have completely changed my diet, I decided today would be good timing fo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] am interested in a guy [21M] and would like to ask him out for coffee. Not sure if that implies interest. POST: Prior to this, I had been in two relationships: the first one being in middle school (which might not even technically count) and the second being a five-year relationship that started back in high school and ended roughly six months ago. I also come from a fairly conservative family background that has sheltered me for most of my life, and attended a high school wi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (M18) am really unfair towards her (F18) desire to get scholarships POST: I know everything in about to say is selfish. I know it's irrational. It makes no sense and I know I'm way in the wrong. I just don't understand why because problems like these I can't fix unless I know the deeper cause. So.. My girlfriend and I are both in college and have dated since junior year in high school. Everything was great! We felt perfect for each other. She was always the A+ above and beyo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] need help with intimacy issues POST: Little bit of backstory: I was a virgin until a few years ago when I met someone who I ended up dating/getting engaged to. We kept it going for about two years and then I broke things off for a multitude of reasons (she had no motivation, no job, she was a chronic liar and she made my friends and family uncomfortable). She had the libido of a twelve year-old boy and I got to explore more of my sexual self than I ever thought I would in my ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm(24) mysteriously stressed out by this girl (24) I'm talking to. POST: I don't know what it is. We started talking again just 3 days ago. We dated for about a month January of 2015 and have just reconnected again. The reason as to why we broke up was because I thought that we wouldn't work sexually because she didn't like foreplay. I find that to be trivial today and feel like I was very closed minded and selfish. But ever since we've started talking again we've hit it off wi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Female dating younger guys: What age is too young for it to work? POST: I am a 29 year old female. Divorced a year ago or so. I think my marriage aged me quicker than I wanted it to, so I find now that I am dating again I get a long best with guys that are younger than me. I am ready to start looking for something serious again... but I don't want to keep trying to start stuff with guys younger than me (like 22-26 year old range) and then realize that they were just in it for some fun,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my date [25 M/F] 1 month. Is head over heels ever a good thing? POST: I want a new relationship to go the distance. However I'm struggling with my own will power and want to see her as much as I can, which is a turn of for most people. All this being said, I am keeping my cool with her and now am on vacation in a country without cell service and we don't communicate via the webs. Yet I can't get her off my mind and it's bothersome since it makes me anxious and may lead",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by almost cutting off my nipples POST: I was a 12 year old boy and was playing at my friend's house who lived on an orchard. Star Wars Episode 1 just came out so we were obsessed, dressing like the characters and having plastic light saber fights on the trampoline. We started recording ourselves with a video camera chasing each other through the fields and jumping over the ditches and canals that water irrigated through. I was pretending to be Darth Maul and the only black shirt I could ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[23M] younger cousin[17M] asked my girlfriend[22F] if she wanted to hook up. What am I dealing with here? POST: So there is a wedding happening tonight and most of the guests (me, my girlfriend and my family) had to arrive a day early and stay in a hotel. Last night, we all had dinner, and everything was fine and dandy and my girlfriend got well acquainted with everyone. Fast forward to this morning, I get up early to go for a jog and when I come back, I see everyone near the lob",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend's mother [40's F] says I'm not welcome to be part of the family. POST: She really liked me until recently. She thought I was lovely, intelligent, hard working, and that my charity work was awesome. My boyfriend and I have been dating for over a year now and no issues had come up, till my boyfriend let slip that I'm an atheist. I'm not in anyones face about it. She posts on facebook all the time about how atheists are attacking her freedom ect ect and I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my GF [18 F] of 11 months, interest seems to be waning in each other POST: We started dating right near the beginning of college and lost our virginity together. Thinks were amazing in the beginning, and I truly believed I loved her, but now things are really starting to die out. I don't really feel strongly about her until I consider leaving her, and I don't know if that's a good thing to hold a relationship around. I talked to her, and she feels pretty much the same",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16/m] don't know if I should end it with my girlfriend [17/f] of two months. POST: I've known this girl a little over a year now. We met last year and I was in a relationship at the time. We kept in contact off and on, she woul text me and invite me to things all the time and I'd always turn them down. Summer of this year I broke up with the girl I was in a relationship with when we met. But we kept talking, and it was almost like we were still in a relationship. I wanted to see",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My ex (24/genderfluid) I dated for four months asked if I (21/f) want to live with him, and it's throwing my perception of our current friendship into question. POST: So about a month ago we broke up. We've been friends for years and both decided a four month relationship wasn't worth ruining that. A week or so after that, shit hit the fan at my old home and he offered to let me stay with him and his housemates for a while, to which I agreed. Since I moved in we've spent a lot of tim",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Trying to figure out whether I [19F] should stay with my boyfriend [20M] or not POST: I'll start this by saying that in my past relationships, I have always ended them at the wrong times. Either too prematurely over something stupid, or I stayed with the wrong person for too long. So what's happening now is I've been dating my boyfriend for 6 months, and I am his first girlfriend. At the beginning, he was very sweet, we really enjoyed being around each other, and (not that I require",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my friends [M/F], am I doing anything wrong? POST: Hello everybody, I'm a 24 years old man, I have a lot of friends, I have no problem finding people to do all kind of activities with me (basketball, chilling, movies, road trips, even sex) but I always have to be the one inviting them. During the last two weeks, I've been busy with my new job so I didn't get a single text, call or email from a friend to hang out. I'm 100% sure if I had invite them to do something the",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: People of Reddit, has anything ever gone so perfectly for you that you feel like the universe is just cooperating with everything you want and need? POST: Like for me, I'm a senior in high school and I've got absolutely no community service hours (I'm lazy), which I need to graduate. And with my dog having passed away last year (I'd had him since I was five and I'm an only child with divorced parents) I've been feeling lonely, stuck in my house by myself all day. I can't leave the house ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the best reason you've heard that lead to a confession of something they would have otherwise gotten away with. I'll start... POST: I'm looking for entertaining stories of people getting tricked, or fooling themselves into a confession that if they had just kept quiet, they would have gotten away with. Here's mine: A few years ago, my mother called me up and said that she had just found a two page confession from my brother about how for the previous two nights he was waiting fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Strange mood swings and aggression with my mom causing family relationship issues...Not like that ಠ_ಠ POST: 21/M...and no, this is not THAT kind of relationship. My connections with my family have gotten somewhat screwy. I guess the length of time is all my life. At the moment I live at home, part time job full time student. I live less than 10 minutes from campus so I saw no point in burning off 8,000$ to live with some asshole I'd wind up murdering. My family is still together, o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [32f] want to reconnect with my estranged best friend from the past but not sure how or what to say POST: When I was in middle school I met a girl who became my best friend. We were inseparable from the ages of around 14-17, constantly staying over at each other's houses, hanging out, sharing our secrets and hopes and dreams of our futures. Some of my best memories are of all the crazy stuff we did, the adventures we had together and the shenanigans we got into. Around when we were",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Insurance claim... What do I say to adjuster? POST: I am dealing with a major insurance headache right now. A month ago, all of my camera equipment was stolen from my car. I am an artist and primarily use my equipment for shooting my own artwork. Occasionally I will do volunteer shoots for non-profits, and friends. Sometimes they pay me a little money for helping them out, however, these payments are more like courtesy 'thank you' payments generally amount to a couple hundred bucks. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I, 20[F], am struggling to define my sometimes sexless booty calls with 28[M] POST: I've been seeing this guy for a little over 3 months on a bi-weekly (on average) basis. We met online, and hooked up on our first date; so, basically a purely sexual thing. After 3 weeks of hooking up he asked that we be exclusive, I agreed, and he brings this up pretty frequently, ""renewing"" the agreement. Other than that, very casual, only seeing each other and talking on days we hook up. Despite th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] and my Girlfriend [23 F] of four years don't talk much as of late. [Relationships] POST: Ok, so my girlfriend and I have been long distance for a few years now. It has never really been a problem before because we aren't so far apart that its a huge hassle to go and see her, and we have always communicated well and whatnot. However, this year she moved in with her sister at school and she pretty much spends all of her time with her. Normally this wouldn't bother me but it s",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it selfish to have kids, if you have a history of auto-immune and bi-polar disorders in your family? POST: I've always thought I wanted to have kids, when I get to the right age and find the right woman. Recently my mother admitted to being bi-polar at the age of 55 and has begun to seek treatment. Her mom (diagnosed in her 30s) and her brother (diagnosed in his 20s) were both severely bi-polar. The majority of my paternal family is medicated for much less severe mood disorders (lot",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By listening to a girl's words instead of her actions. POST: Mandatory clarification that this happened years and years ago. I met a woman online and after some weeks we decided to meet up. I drove the 2.5 hours to her town and we hit it off really well. In fact things went so well I made a move. She told me that she was extremely into me but just got out of a long term relationship and wanted to wait a bit. Given my age and mentality at the time I normally would have just walked away ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] am currently broken up with ex-gf [21 F] of 2.5 years because she cheated, how can we save our relationship? POST: So the gf and I go to different colleges 30 mins. away. She confessed to me about a month ago that she cheated on me, and I immediately broke up with her. **Some details**: She had sex with a guy that has a huge crush on her, they were both sober, they used a condom, it was only about 20 mins., there was no oral sex or kissing, she confessed the very same day.",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [27/m] My wife's [30/f] mental illness is driving me crazy! POST: My wife has very bad post-partum depression (we have one daughter, 1 yrs old), she has anxiety, and she is a hoarder. The depression was always there, but was always manageable. I can't stand to be around her anymore. Her hoarding went from 0 to 60 since the baby was born, and her depression makes her not want to do anything. She will not get any professional help to treat her symptoms. I know I said through",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not Sure Where to Go POST: I attend a boarding school and I [16M] met this girl [15F] a few months ago. We hit it off and it seemed like everything was going great. She flirted a lot with me and asked me to ask her out to a dance but i couldn't because i was going to be away for the weekend of said dance. After this dance, she continued to flirt with me, constantly asking me about what my ideal girl was and if i liked anyone. She also tried to eat dinner with me as much as possible a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Atheists of Reddit: where are you from and what is the religious climate like? POST: I've been lurking around here for a while and the atheist memes around here tend to stick out after a while. It's not because they conflict with my own personal views, as I'm agnostic (at best) and my dad is pretty firmly atheist himself and loves to sermonize about the importance of rational free thinking (he has the god delusion on his bookshelf...since before it was cool on the internet)...if anything",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My roommate has a TRO against me so she doesn't have to pay rent POST: Ok. Long story. Here it goes. I am 22 years old, and she is 18. We moved in together because I had recently gotten out of an abusive relationship, and needed a roommate. She rented out the living room, while I rented out the bedroom for a higher amount. In November we had an argument over rent and bills, which resulted in me getting a disorderly conduct ticket because i threw some old lightbulbs into the kitc",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Our 1yr old Aussy cross is a bitch to other dogs, in more than a biological sense. POST: [Rhu] born April 2013, is a wonderfully obedient and loyal Border Collie Aussy cross. She is easy to train and is very well behaved, except one thing, starting at about 10 months old. We'd meet another dog while walking. She would wag her tail playfully and walk to meet the dog, seeming friendly. She would approach the dog face to face, still friendly. This was when it would go wrong. Often she wo",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: US- Illinois- Left the scene of an accident, am I going to get in trouble? POST: Last night coming home from work I was involved in an accident. I was cut off by a large SUV that slammed on their brakes. I was able to stop in time without hitting them, they drove off. As soon as I came to a stop, I got rear-ended. This was a dark 4 lane busy road, so I turned off into a parking lot immediately after to check my car. I got out and saw 2 cars that were behind me, still in the road. A car",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] with my girlfriend[18F] 2 years, I have a feeling that she now hates me and avoids me when we are with friends. POST: For some reason I feel as if my girlfriend has begun to hate me, I should probably mention that we went through a break-up of about 3 months and then re-kindled our relationship. After which we were getting on well, but now I feel as if I annoy her i.e sometimes when I try and have a joke with or a little playfight (and I've seen one of my friends do somethin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (28M) am a groomsman in my friends (28M) wedding. He wants a 7+ day bachelor party. My fiancé is pissed. Thoughts? POST: Hey reddit, just need advice. My fiancée and I are getting married in a few months, so we've been busy saving money and planning the wedding. My friend just got engaged to his girlfriend of 3 months and they are having their wedding before ours. He's a groomsman in my wedding. He asked me to be a groomsman in his and I said yes. All was well. Then he dropped the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] saw a girl's [19-20 F] picture on Facebook after a close friend [20 F] liked it. How weird would it be to ask the friend to introduce us? POST: Okay I have never done anything like this before but I swear I haven't seen a girl this cute in a very long time and I just keep thinking about that picture for some reason. I am tempted to ask my friend about this girl but I'm worried it would be weird since she might not even know her all that well and it would seem creepy as fuck ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25F] boyfriend [25M] of 2 years. He cannot satisfy me in bed, and has basically given up trying. POST: So my boyfriend and I have lived together for 6 months. I am completely in love with him and I want more than anything for this to work out. When we first got together, neither of us were very experienced sexually. So at first, we were just getting to know each others body and I didn't mind that I didn't have an orgasm during sex. But it has now been 2 years and he still has n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've (F22) been seeing a previously married man (M27) for six weeks. Divorce is final next month. But I'm having a hard time waiting to see if he sees us more than just ""someone he's seeing"" POST: So I (F22) have been seeing this guy (M27) for about 5-6 weeks now. We've spent the majority of our time together. I recently accompanied him back home for his birthday and met his entire family. We get along very well. My only hesitation in attempting to move forward from where we are (whi",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Enjoy your overpriced and squashed fruit! POST: *Long time Reddit browser, this is my first post!* I work as a cashier at an upmarket fruit and grocery store in a neighbourhood that's known for being a bit snobbish. When customers are checking out, I have to individually put every loose item on the scales, locate the item on the touch screen and the correct price per kilo is calculated. Because the scales are quite old, it's really easy to increase the weight of the items on ther",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (M/22) There is a girl in my class (F/21?) Is shy or am I missing the signals? POST: So there is this girl I like in one of my classes, she never really talks to anyone or really even participates in class discussions. I started to wonder if she liked me when I would catch her glancing over at me on occasion. Plus whenever we got into groups for group work she would always find a way to sit next to me despite being in different groups, but she never would speak to me. We both w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend(F17) broke up with me since I(m17) didnt let her cheat off me on the final exam POST: Today I had my final today and my girlfriend sat right next to me (we have the same first letter of our last name)(Alphabetic order). So anyways she was saying how I should let her cheat off me because I love her, I thought she was joking ,but during the test she would nudge me. I mouthed the words No and moved the cover sheet for the test closer. (Im not going to risk being caught whi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [26/F] of 6 months doesn't want any photos with me [28/M]. Also cultural problems. Is this normal? POST: White guy with Filipino girlfriend. She completely hates photos of herself in general but it really upsets me that we have been a couple for a long time now with barely a single photo together. It bothers me a lot, because I want to the photos to be a reminder of the times we are having together. She is not concerned about it at all. Also issues with her sleeping o",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I cut ties with my friend today, she doesn't know. POST: I'm not sure where to start. Im a guy whos a sophmore in college. About 11 months ago I met this girl and we quickly became friends. A few months ago I started to get feelings for her and got the guts to ask her out. She said no (which sucked a lot and hurt) but we remained friends (She still had feelings for her ex which is why I believe she said no). Well I thought I would get over her but apparently I never did. She is back wit",positive " r/self TITLE: Don't use Amazon's Subscribe & Save option. Unless you have a lot of free time. POST: So I was subscribed to get a few packs of [these pecans] once a month. They used to cost $11.12 per two-pack with the Subscribe & Save discount. As you can see, they now cost $17.20 per two-pack. I was never notified of this until I received my most recent shipment and my card got charged the increased price. I was under the assumption the original price was locked in, but I was wrong and that's my fault f",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: How do I [40M] stop female friends trying to find me a girlfriend? POST: I'm 40 and currently single. I've only had a couple of long term relationships as I was married until a few years ago. I've had one relationship since my divorce and have been single for over a year now. My experiences with relationships overall have been pretty poor tbh and despite being over my most recent ex I just don't feel I'm fit to see anybody else. I feel like I have far too much baggage and am strugg",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He cheated. Still together, but I'm jaded. Advice? Worth my time? POST: He [24] Me F [24] We've been over a year and a half. We recently signed a lease together and are moving in a week. I found out 3 days ago that he slept with his ex about 10 months ago. He had confessed to secretly seeing (but not having sex with) his ex a few months ago because he was ""confused."" That caused trouble but I forgave him and we've been rebuilding trust. Now this little gem. I was kind of paranoid a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [26M] broke up with my girlfriend [26F] of almost 2 years because the love was gone. Did I mess up? POST: I'll try to keep this short and kind of vague, in case someone I know sees this so please don't upvote this too much. My girlfriend Kate and I met almost 2 years ago, and started dating shortly after. At first, things were great. We clicked really well, liked a lot of the same things, and literally never fought. We don't live together, but we had started to discuss maybe moving",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Going through first break up between me [19M] and my gf [19F] of 4 years. Need advice on moving on. POST: So my girlfriend and I have been together since high-school for almost 4 years. We had a really great thing going. But anyways I'll keep it short: We broke up because she wanted to have a boyfriend who is Christian and someone she can marry in the future. She believes that because I am an Atheist we will end up getting a divorce due to differences in how we will raise our kids ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [23 F] likes being romantic for me [25 M] and sometimes it bugs me, is that wrong and should I just let it go? POST: Oftentime I find that my girlfriend is very romantic, many times more than I am romantic to her. I've always heard that girls want their guys to be romantic to them. I've never really heard it the other way around. For example, sometimes she comes downstairs of her apartment to get me all dressed up, hair done, smelling nice, etc. Even if im just go",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I'm [25f] having a panic about him [25M] POST: I've been seeing this guy for just over 2 months, we see each other twice a week, at the weekend we were talking (slightly tipsy) and he was saying how he's scared of a relationship because I'm not going to be here forever (I'm 5 months into a temporary 2 year visa in his home country), he said he likes how things are going and how we are at the moment. He said this totally off the bat, I wasn't questioning him about 'us'. His friends t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Are my girlfriend's emotional needs unrealistic for being consoled? [33m/32f GF of 6mo] POST: It seems my girlfriend is getting annoyed with my reaction to negative things that happen in her life. Being a LDR doesn't make it easier. They're not major issues, just daily annoyances in her life for the most part, but they seem to come up a lot more than than used to. When one is brought up, I feel for her, tell her I'm sorry and ask her a few questions on it and honestly do listen. G",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Loving someone shouldn't be a question, right? POST: Alright, new to writing to reddit as I've always just kind of browsed but I figured why not just write about this since its been on my mind a lot. Also, I'm on mobile so don't mind the mistakes. I (24 M) with (22 F) am currently in a relationship that I have been in for almost 4.5 years and we have only broke up once but lately it either seems like we or mainly me, has lost the spark for what once kept us going. We've had our probl",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [22F] & [26M] He's an awesome friend and en even better FWB, but he could never be more right? i don't want to kid myself but then again... POST: I [22F] and my friend [24M] established a fwb relationship the other night which led to some of the best sex I've ever had. Our friendship is fairly new and we've discovered that we can talk for hours on end even in between sex. At one moment he was very pensive and admitted that he's never shared some of the things he's told me to anyone b",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, who do you resent, and why? POST: I'll go first. Around this time last year, I had a pretty solid friend group, and had also recently started to reconnect with my old friend (we'll call him ""A""). ""A"" was a little nerdy and *literally* had no friends except for me, so I decided to do a nice thing for him and introduce him to my friends. Within a few months, ""A"" was a concrete part of our friend group, but he and I didn't talk much individually anymore, which didn't bother me to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: whenever my gf [22 F] has a herpes outbreak, she emotionally and physically distanced herself from me [23M] POST: title really says it all. She won't let me touch her, kiss her, hold her. She ignores me. She found out about a year ago that she had it. We had just started dating. She was/is very flirting and outgoing, like(d) sex, had many partners. She still is that person to an extent sometimes, but I think having an STD has really harmed her self-esteem and makes her feel like sh",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I've treated this girl like complete shit for years, communicating only electronically, and on Thanksgiving I got drunk and she said she wants to hang out. What now? POST: I've seen this girl like three times ever in person. We went to the same undergrad school. I've been completely off-putting with our communications for the most part over the years. Last Christmas she wanted to bring me a gift, I would never respond to her requests for my address. I just really have no interest in this",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by jumping onto a trash can drunk and promptly landing on my face POST: This happened yesterday in Atlanta. Some of my best friends (read: worst/best influences) from undergrad are visiting a part of our crew who goes to grad school down there from NYC. So were all happy to be back together all weekend and Sunday turns immediately into an aggressive Sunday-funday. Grad School friend brings myself and another one of my friends around campus while the other part of the crew is re-upping ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit please help me. I honestly have no motivation to do anything whatsoever. POST: I am a freshman in high school. I used to be in Math, Science, CS program in middle school that was pretty advanced with a decent amount of work. I am now enrolled in another magnet program that I was accepted to called the Global Ecology Program. It deals a lot with nature and well being of the mind. Don't get me wrong its a great program, however, the content of it is far underneath me and it frankly ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] think my mum [56F] has a drinking problem and I don't know how to deal with this. POST: **Background** My parents run a very successful restaurant in France. My parents have been in the industry for over 30 years and due to running their own restaurant it is safe to say that they are worked to the bone. My parents have been together for over 35 years now. I am still studying at University and have done so for the past 5 years. I only go home on vacation every 2/3 months or s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why do I always get this reaction? POST: Reddit, how come whenever I mention that I am a Republican I immediately get called a gay-basher, a racist, and a bigot when all I did was state what political agenda I mostly identified with? I can honestly say that I am not a gay-basher, I am not a racist, and I am not a bigot. Because the 'famous' Republicans have such heavy handed gender/racial views does not mean that every person who identifies with some of their political views (i.e. how to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] am uncomfortable with gf [21F] of two years's music choices during sex POST: 'Sup, /r/relationships, my gf and I are currently fighting about our sexual activities and I'm wondering if I am totally off base here. My gf and I started going out two years ago. For the most part it has been good but a few months ago we sensed that the sex started to get stale. My gf (I'll call her Amber for the sake of this post) suggested that we change up our music choices and I agreed. She pu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [24M/F] Just received a $200 cheque as a wedding gift, but we're not having a wedding. POST: Fiance [24M] and I [24F] are getting married next week in small ceremony at city hall with only his parents as witnesses. Fiance gave a childhood friend (who is out-of-town) the heads up, and his a couple members of his family just dropped off a cheque for $200. We're both thinking this is too much - our 'wedding' is going to come in at under $700 including license and ceremony fees. But, the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22 F] and having a hard time trying to reconcile getting over a crush on a friend [23 M] and a gut feeling that something more is going to happen between us. POST: I've liked this guy for a long time, and he started a conversation with me on Facebook. But he suddenly stopped replying to me a while back I msgd him again to meet up, and he hasn't replied even though it's been a few weeks. He works about 50-80 hour weeks though so I'm not sure he forgot. I know that means I don't ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Advice Needed On Wooing a Pretty Lady POST: Reddit, I need some assistance. With a lady. While normally I do *alright* with girls, this one seems a little bit more difficult. So I had seen this girl at a party one time, and thought she was beautiful. I was a bit too drunk to really be any good at intelligent conversation so I just didn't approach her (for fear of looking like an ass). Shortly thereafter, I talked to her roommate and told her that I thought she was pretty. Well, she sp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend has low testosterone. I feel unwanted and unattractive. What can I/he do? POST: My (29F) boyfriend (34M) have been together for 3 years. He used steroids for several years and has now made the decision to quit. He had blood tests done and has found out that he has very low testosterone. Sex has dropped from about 4-5 times a week to once a week if we're lucky, but it's not the lack of sex that is bothering me. He is moody and less engaging and just doesn't seem interes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21M] bf [23M] to check out naked girls on reddit, even when I'm right next to him. POST: So here's the story. My bf [23M] and I [21F] have been together for a year and a half now and I started to notice some habits he has about naked pictures and porn a couple of months ago. My boyfriend loves to check out naked girls online, mostly on reddit and sometimes on snapchat and instagram. He watches some everyday, even if I'm right next to him when we're laying in bed. It started ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] got involved with a married man [30M]. I am now worried that I will get summoned to court during their divorce. POST: About 3 months ago, I fell in love with the most wonderful man, the only problem was that he was married but had made his decision (long before he met me) to get a divorce. I knew I shouldn't have gotten invovled considering he also has a child. We ended things about a week ago and I have been having a really hard time. He said he shouldn't contact me again ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my soon to be ex-GF [19 F] dated for 6 months in secret, but her parents just found out. POST: Long story short, we were friends who met online, went out a couple of times, nothing special, then that spark happened and I asked her the big question. Fast forward 6 months later, she was scheduled to fly off to further her education in about a week. Then, today a bomb dropped on us when her parents found out about us secretly dating. 1. Her parents don't care for hearin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27F] husband [37M] is pushing me away by refusing to deal with his depression. POST: My husband, Chris, and I have been married for 6 years. We have had a rocky, but relatively good relationship. We both struggle with major depression and anxiety issues, spending a big chunk of our time working on coping. In the beginning of our relationship, I had to start medication for my depression for the first time. It was a pretty low time, but we made it through it. It lasted about 6 mo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [M19] and [F18] of one year. Is it possible to be so compatible and in love, and yet, know deep down that something isn't quite right? POST: I believe this girl is almost perfect for me. I love her, she loves me, we do some amazing fun stuff together, share passions and hates, know what each other is thinking half the time, have a great sex life and generally we are really happy together. She is there for me in ways nobody else is or ever has been. However, deep down, for a long tim",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is it just me or is this slightly unfair? POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 3 years now. We're both juniors in high school (17 years old). So we've been together for a pretty long time. We both know know we're not ready for sex, and I don't expect that of her at all. However, I've gone to second and third base with her (rather immature terminology for saying I've basically gone all the way to performing oral). And of course, she enjoys it. However, she has yet to retu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my exGF [20F], left after my daughter was 1 week old. In a new relationship. POST: Exgirlfriend left 1 week after my daughter was born. Moved about 30 minutes away out of the city and living on the first floor of an apartment that her male coworker's grandmother owns and happens to live on the third floor. After saying that they were just friends and saying that there is no title, but always hanging out in his room, bringing him around. Finally made it facebook official",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M], does emotional removal really work? POST: I have this really great friendship with this woman I think is amazing, and I would very much like us to move to the next level. We've talked about it, and at first she rejected me, but then for a couple weeks she tried to give me what I wanted, but it was really about her giving me what she thought I deserved, not what she actually wanted, so it failed. She says she doesn't want to be in a relationship right now, with anyone, as i",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Caught my girlfriend cheating..what now? POST: Hi Reddit. I don't use facebook a lot, but I logged in a couple hours ago for the first time in a few weeks. I guess my now ex-gf thought I couldn't see the photos she was tagged in with the guy she's been with for about a week and a half (that I know of), or the comments about how they're falling for each other etc. Obviously, we're done. We live together though so a ton of her stuff is here. She's at her mother's house right now (probab",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dilemma: Perks or Promotion? POST: I've got a job where I perform well. Always exemplary performance reviews and praises from my supervisors (who are both offsite several hours away). The perks are that I can work from home whenever I want and when I do work I can come and leave whenever and use the gym during work hours. As long as the work gets done, no one really cares. I don't feel the work is all that difficult although it does take some time. I've been offered a promotion (I'v",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [34M] wife [37F] (of 8 years and 2 kids) confessed she had sex with a guy earlier this week. What do I do? POST: My wife is a gambling addict and we've had numerous problems and discussions about this in the past, we've put gambling blockers and everything.... ... Anyway I was looking at the history on the (shared) laptop to get the URLs to block the latest gambling sites she uses and I see a number of married dating sites and how to stop Kik notifications (as well as the search ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my gf [28 F] 3 yrs, considering open relationship. POST: so we have been talking about having a crack at this whole open relationship idea for about a year now. we both acknowledge that we love each other and cant imagine feeling the same way about anyone else, but we are occasionally attracted to others. and we think we feel secure enough to have an open relationship. she sees it like ""why would we stop something wonderful happening naturally?"" we want the best for",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (17F) have incredibly, incredibly strong feelings for a friend (22M), who is in a healthy, long term relationship. POST: I'm (17F) half in love with a friend (22M), who also happens to be in a very healthy, long term relationship. We've been friends for about a year and a half. It continues to be a long distance friendship, since he lives in a different state, but we built up a really good friendship over emails and calls. I occasionally see him in person, and this becomes my probl",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [24/m] and my gf [21/f] has serious trust issues with me. POST: So besides this one thing, everything between us is great. But here is the thing : my girlfriend asked me to quit watching porn, which I really don't agree with but I love her very much so I did anyways. This has been the source of her mistrust in me. Basically, once every month or two weeks she'll tell me that she ""just knows"" that I'm watching porn or that ""she has a hunch"" and proceeds to berate me and ca",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [31 F] long-term friend [32 M] sexually assaulted me. Should I tell the woman he's been hanging out with? POST: I've known this guy for 7 years, as he's friends with my boyfriend, and I considered him a close friend as well. The three of us went camping earlier this summer and, on the first night, while inebriated, my friend forced himself on me in the tent. I tried to fight him off but he's got about 50 pounds on me. I also remember trying to unzip the tent's flap to leave but he",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what occupations are there for designing video games? POST: This might be a long read. Also not sure if this is the right place for this. To put some back story. I have had ADHD for most of my life although it was only recently diagnosed. (The symptoms were all there, but my parents just attributed it to me being eccentric) and have never been able to focus on most things. Ever since I was little, I wanted to be a game programmer. However, due to my ADHD I could never actually br",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [25/f] not sure if my boyfriend [27/m] makes enough money for us to be compatible POST: I've been dating my boyfriend for six months now and I'm questioning our compatibility. We met through a mutual friend, and he's a very loving guy and he makes me happy. However, we have a lot of differences that I'm having a hard time coping with. For one, I am three years away from being a surgeon. I graduated at the top of my class and I have worked very hard to get where I am today. Conve",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] with my girlfriend [18F] of 2+ yrs. She is repeatedly picking fights due to my new living situation. Advice Please. POST: My girlfriend and I go to school in the same city. I go to the university, she to the college. I lived in residence and made some very close-knit friends. She also lived in residence but did not have a very good experience. I am moving into a house next year with 7 of my residence friends. There are 4 male and 3 female. My girlfriend strongly does not ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I started a new job in a former government warehouse. There is a really creepy room inside. Help me figure out what it is please! POST: So I started this new job with an online company recently. A few months before I started they moved their operations into a former government warehouse in the south bay area. I've been told that it used to be where the government did a lot of international shipping and receiving... Anyway, to the point. The company recently acquired the upstairs portion",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Trying to deal with leftover bad feelings... POST: When I was in college, I became friends with this girl, A. We were really close and became close with another girl, B. After a while, B got a SO and stopped talking to us. A is really bitter and likes to talk about people behind their backs, and proceeded to do so. We drifted from B, mostly because I listened to what A said and just tried to avoid confrontation. A and I moved into a place with a bunch of people, and she proceeded to be ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Digging up and remedying old traffic fines [CA] POST: Once upon a time, I was 18 and didn't give a fuck about much of anything. In 2009 I got two speeding tickets. I only deserved one of them, but that's beyond irrelevant. Now, being 18 and stupid and not having any fucks to give, I did the smart thing and never went to court. My car was in disrepair, I had just lost my job, bitchmoanwhine etc. I just didn't go. Genius. They took my license (go figure), and I finally gave up my dead ca",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28m] needs advice on a crush [31f] POST: About 2 months ago, I was on vacation and met a girl that lives in another state. The night I met her I just had this overwhelming rush of attraction. We spoke, had a few drinks, exchanged numbers and have been in constant communication ever since. The type of relationship we've developed over text/call has been one like you would see from a GF/BF. We made plans to meet up with each other because we both wanted to see why this attraction w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I get the target off my back? [21/F] POST: Ever since I was abused when I was younger, I feel like I'm a walking target for men who want to control, punish, hurt me. I've been assaulted multiple times, I've had men push me into alleyways and grope me, I've been in terrible relationships where men's misbehaviors have snuck up on me. And this isn't just a matter of me tolerating abuse. I'm talking everything from dating men to having strangers stalk me in the street. There's so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure what to do about a friend I never stopped liking because of history.. POST: I'm 21[m] and she's 19[f], and we've known each other since 2007 in High School. We hit it off right away and she was super into me, but I had a girlfriend at the time. I realized I was starting to feel something much stronger for the new girl in my life, and that we were much better together than my current girlfriend and I. I'd been wanting to get out of the relationship with my current girlfriend ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my wife [23/F] of 3 months, and I got a bad feeling about this POST: I'm just gonna jump into it. My wife was a virgin until marriage for religious reasons. I was not, but I was okay with that because I fell in love with her very deeply very quickly. We got married in September and she still will not have sex. She gets too nervous and puts it off. I've taken her on a month long vacation to relax her, set the mood, given hour long massages, and without going into detail",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] with my SO [28 M] in a LDR. He comes to town, gets drunk, cheats. Should I forgive? POST: **Brief background:** My boyfriend and I finally got together after three years of running in the same circles, but never being available to each other. I had a life threatening injury in January and he really stepped up trying to help me get better while I was in the hospital. It led to us finally getting together-- even though he lives across the country. **Issue:** He finally was a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I(20f) read my boyfriend's(24m) private messages POST: I have been with my boyfriend for a little over a year, and I love him and think he is a wonderful person. To provide a bit of backstory, I am in a new city(been here a year and a half), with no friends, waitressing/in my first semester of college and he is graduated and working a big kid/40 hr per week job, so there are a few lifestyle differences. I have felt in the past that he is not as open about certain things as I would li",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [21M] getting signs from her [21F] ... but she's in a ""complicated"" relationship POST: Okay, well first a bit about me. I've never had a girlfriend, though I've been good friends with many girls. I guess I'm not good at picking up on signs, and I have a difficulty on acting on them when I do. I'm also not quite versed with social mores, but have always held the opinion that you don't act on someone who isn't single. I've known her for a few years now, and recently we've become p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [34M] marriage to [34F] is a mess POST: Back story: been together about 10 years, married for 4, with an 18 month old. We both work 40 hours/week. Issues: no intimacy, imbalance in household duties, disagreements in parenting styles, and overall malaise. I (34M) do 99% of the cooking, dishes, all the cleaning other than her laundry, or the babies, and most of the grocery shopping. There are many times where trash, food, etc will be left just steps from a garbage can. Kids toys",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (21F) am quickly giving up hope with dating/relationshops POST: Context: I am 21 years old and have never been in a relationship, or anything remotely close. I've made out with a 2-3 in the past, but it has always involved alcohol and has never been enjoyable. One guy was quite aggressive and forceful, and another was SUPER nice and we genuinely got along so well. And then i found out a few days after he had a girlfriend (even though i had asked him a few times before and he straig",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend JUST gave up everyting and moved across the country for me, now my feelings for him are fading. How can I fix this?? POST: BACKGROUND My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years, I'm 22, he's 26. We have always had an excellent relationship -- best friends, able to talk about anything, rarely fought, and felt very much in love. We were even talking about marriage. A few months ago, I got a job across the country and so we both packed up everything and moved to a n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] trying to figure out what to do about having a crush on [18F]. My approaches thus far have been unsuccessful. POST: Hello redditors, this is my first post on this particular subreddit, and I am excited to here what advice you all could give me. Here's some more background on my situation: I'm currently in college, and work part time at a grocery store on the weekends. Several months ago, my store hired a new cashier, who I thought was cute at first, but nothing more. We had",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By not wiping my shoes off POST: So the usual this didn't happen today but a couple months ago and I'm still paying for the fuck up. It had been a long day at school and I wasn't able to go to the bathroom for most of the day, so when I was driving home I had to pee extremely bad and it was raining outside. When I got in my house I didn't bother wiping all the water that was on my shoes and ran to the bathroom. Most of my house is wood flooring, and half way to the bathroom I ended up sl",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Need help entertaining a friend POST: A girl that lives on my street has started to come over to my house pretty often (most nights). Most times, a few housemates are around so we don't have an awful time entertaining ourselves, but maybe half the time it's just the two of us. When that happens, we end up just sitting around trying to have conversation. We're running out of things to talk about, so it gets awkward just sitting around. As far as I can tell, everything is platonic, so I'",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Injuries and college scholarships POST: I'm feeling kind of screwed here. Background: I'm going to a very expensive, specialized private college for digital art & animation, currently a sophomore. I won a very hefty art scholarship from the school, basically covers about half of all tuition for 4 years. Awesome, right? State is cheaper, but doesnt have anything close to what I want. Problem: During the first semester, I overloaded my schedule. I don't mind working my ass off, but I serio",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: I guess you won't be needing these anymore. POST: A few years ago I was working at a restaurant that had just been opened, and as a budding young chef I was excited to learn about all the things. However, I was unaware of the shady business dealings that were going on upstairs. The owners of the restaurant were new to this kind of financial venture and weren't really sure how to run things. Even though it's best to have guidance from someone who knows the business, they had an invis",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is anyone here a Business Analyst, especially for an insurance company? What EXACTLY do you do? POST: I wen't for a preliminary interview today with HR at my company about a Business Analyst position. I felt confident knowing it was going to be projects to design and implement new programs, processes, etc... Then she asked me ""how do you feel about a career in IT?"" I was kind of caught off guard because I'm not an IT type, I don't know programming or anything along those lines. She ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: M(27) doesn't ever want to have sex with me F(21) anymore. POST: Hello all! My boyfriend M(27) and I F(21), have been dating for about 6mons now. We were friends with benefits for a year prior to actually dating. During that time, and during the first four months or so of actual dating, we had sex frequently. Typically, we would have sex 3 or more times a week. My sex drive is higher than his, as I always seem to want sex, but when we were having it 3x a week I was reasonable and wou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] fucked up and taught my nephew [5M] the word C***. My sisters, cousins, and mother are beyond furious POST: I was watching a movie and he was in my room with me, at one point the guy said C***. He asked me what the word meant and I told him it was another word for used for girls. I seriously was not thinking, I said it on the fly. I realize now how fucked up what I said was and I am paying the price for it. I bought him back to his place and my mother [49F], sister (his mot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] just met a 25/F and hit it off, she's recently broken up with her ex. POST: Was playing ultimate frisbee with a few friends a couple days ago and this attractive woman comes up to me and asks if she can join up. We say sure and she plays for a bit and after a while we end up grabbing a beer after the game. She and I end up hitting it off and chatting the whole night, there's great chemistry and the conversation is quick-witted and fun. Night end, she invites me in and we",positive " r/relationships TITLE: (22M) need an unbiased opinion on an argument I had with my girlfriend (22F), am I just being jealous? POST: Relationship has been fine for the last three or so years, Going to mention here that I have some jealousy issues that I'm still working on (but getting better) over the last few months/one year?(not sure) she's been befriending a guy that lives a few houses down her street, another 22M guy, hanging out with him/having drinks etc (thought I'd add in here that she says he ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my crush/ex bf [25/M] dated for 3 months, he dumped me, but I want him back... POST: I'm driving myself crazy here. Normally, I'm sane - I don't normally pine over guys who don't want to be with me. I met Chris through a coworker back in October and connected with him right away. I've never been in a relationship that escalated as quickly emotionally. We hung out almost every day and could talk about anything. The sex was amazing, we always had so much fun, he brou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My(21F) friend's(22F) husband (22M) jokes go way too far. POST: So my friend(lets call her A) married her husband (lets call him B) 22 years ago. No one in our friend group likes B, and he does not have a filter. A couple weeks ago another female friend (C) and I decided to go visit A&B for their house warming party and on the way down we decided we wanted to go roadtrip for memorial day weekend and decided to invite A. However, when we invited A she decided to ask her husband to j",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: So I like a girl from work (x-post from /r/askwomen) POST: But I don't really know how to approach the situation without making it awkward. I told one of my friends that works with us that I think she's attractive (I didn't use that wording) and he thought it was strange somehow. But I only told him on the chance that he might tell her I said that, and maybe she'll show some more interest in me. My friend outside of work says she sounds like she's definitely interested based on me ju",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my classmates [22F] & [21F]. One of them won't respect my boundaries POST: We have a group project assignment due. The other 2 girls in my group apparentlu set a time for the next meeting without my consent while I was absent. They basically ambush me the next time they see me and tell me about the plans. knowing I had prior obligations, I try to move it. When this doesn't work I say ""ok"" acknowledging the meeting. After my next class I finally have a chance to look ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15M] with my group of friends [15-17M], they make plans and don't invite me, but still talk to me normally. POST: I've been close to these 6 dudes for about 3 years now. We were in the same class, would constantly make plans, hang out. I was always invited. However, from last year to now, we got divided into different classes at school. 2 of them stayed with me, one went to another school, one stayed in ninth grade and 2 others went to another class. Since then, they've made ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [21f] a former prostitute and heroin addict. Will my boyfriend [24m] ever trust me? POST: We have been together for like 2/3 years now (I know, it's terrible that I don't really know exactly how long, but when we got together I was still heavily in those bad lifestyles). I actually met him while prostituting- he paid me for sex. We continued to talk after the fact and he wanted to be with me. We eventually we got together. I stopped prostituting mainly due to his help and I",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by handing my mom my laptop to book me and my girlfriend a hotel room right next to a tab about Sexual Positions and Ideas. POST: So my birthday weekend is coming up next weekend. I am turning 21 so to say the least I am very excited. However, my parents are going out of town on my actual birthday weekend so they decided to pay and book a hotel for me and my girlfriend tomorrow. She lives out of town, going to college about 3 hours away so its long distance. She still comes into town eve",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Freelance jobs feels more like an internship... POST: I recently got a job freelancing at a large corporation. I got the job through a staffing agency, but it is not a typical temp place. They described the job as ""long term"" when they hired me, but I feel like I'm still treated like an intern. When I do project and finish them, my boss always says OH SOMETHING FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO or A NEW PIECE CONGRATS like I'm an intern. I know I should be taking it positive, but I just feel like it's kind",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my boyfriend [19 M] (1 year), I danced with another guy at a party and my boyfriend's hurt. POST: I'm currently going through a rough point with my boyfriend of almost a year right now. Sorry if this gets too long, but any advice would be more than welcome. Using a throwaway for this post. My boyfriend is an aspiring DJ and he had his first gig playing at a frat party this weekend. A few of our mutual friends and I went to go support him. As is the theme with frat par",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: 22, college graduate, no debt, 52k/year, Now what? POST: Worked my ass off through college at a dairy farm, paid it off in full with no help from mommy and daddy. Bought my car in college in cash for $10,000, now realize that was stupid and I could have used the credit. I am now 22, graduated with a business degree, have no car/student loans, and I scored a job making 52k a year. Living rent free with a friend via arrangements in terms of cleaning and helping them live a healthy l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my boyfriend [23M] of about a month, I have mental issues and I'm scared he will tire of them POST: Hi! So I've recently reconnected with my bf who I used to go to school with. He's super cool and great. The issue is, I have a mental illness that was controlled on a medication but now isn't. The first week of us dating I had a seratonin overdose and he had to take me to the ER. I was hallucinating and shaking but he played it cool and everything. After that I went throu",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Hoping to get some advice! [21/f] POST: I'm currently single, and lately I have been doing a lot of thinking about my dating history. I have been in several serious relationships, and I have cared a lot about each person I've dated. Things usually go great for the first few months, but after awhile I inevitably become hyper-aware of where I ""rank"" in the relationship. That is, I make a decision on who is the ""reacher"" and who is the ""settler"" between the two of us, and I rea",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Don't feel like it's my responsibility POST: So my parents are separated, I split my time half and half, my mom's car a problem with the exhaust, got told to bring it to this garage where they don't go by appointment, you just drop the keys off in the morning and they try to pass your car throughout the day, but that kinda leaves you without a car, and they don't shuttle, so it's either shell out for a taxi, or have another ride, so the arrangement that I dropped her off at work, and br",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How do I (23F) handle dating a very inexperienced guy (23M)? POST: I (23F) have been on several dates with a guy (23M) who has told me that he is uncomfortable when it comes to the physical aspects of a relationship. He has never been in a relationship and has never dated. He is a great guy, but it has now been 6 dates without a single kiss. I can tell that he is trying to initiate it, but then ""chickens"" out. We have even spoken about it. Shy and inexperienced guys out there, w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my ___ [28 F] Should I keep her around or end it since I'm already in doubt POST: In a little dilemma here I started dating one of the girls in my friends circle who've ive know for over a year now for about 3 months so far. Word got out about a month ago and since then her best friend has been doing a good job at taking her time away from me. This weekend this friend invited her man crush and his kid brother to dinner with my girl and another girl unexpectedly. The",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (f24) didn't tell my SO (M25) I had cancer until now, and I don't know how to fix our relationship. POST: First of please don't berate me on not telling him. I know it was stupid, I know I should have known better. I'm not here to listen to why I was a bad person. I just want to save the best thing that has ever happened to me. So I (f24) have cancer. It sucks, I'm on wait and watch stage right now until they decide treatment is necessary. I've known I've had cancer for about a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: me [22 F] with my SO [25 M] so in love and compatible, want to live with him for the summer but only been dating 4 months. POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for almost four months, so not that long. We live two hours away from each other so we only see each other on the weekends. I am graduating from college in a month and considering living with him for the summer and getting a job serving or waiting tables where he lives. I would be doing the same thing if I stayed for th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not great at reading people and not sure if my crush (20/M) likes me back (18/F), would love an outsiders opinion POST: Hi! I have been crushing on a guy for a few months now and would really like an outsiders viewpoint on this. I met him through a club in college and we found out we had a lot in common (same major, classes, etc.) and he seems like a genuinely nice guy. Most of times we have hung out, it has been with other people present, but he'll often bring up a story to me spec",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [28m] girlfriend [25f] of 7 months has stopped putting any effort iinto her appearance when she is around me. POST: We've been dating for 7 months and I've never had better sex. That was in the first couple months of our relationship. Now, things have cooled off considerately which would be expected to a certain extent, getting out of the honeymoon stage, but I find myself less and less turned on. She is obsessed with makeup, which isnt a problem. What is is is that even though ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my SO [22 M] of 2 years. We're both in an unofficial-closeted relationship. I want to make it official between us, but he is wary. Any advice on how to approach this? POST: About us: we are both seniors who will be graduating in 6 months and commissioning as Coast Guard Officers. We have unofficially been together for 2 years. I would've called you crazy if you were to tell me two years ago that I'd be in love with a man. At first, I thought we were just best friends ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Reported to Social Services and Health visitor over minor accident...? POST: Ok so here's the full story: We were supposed to attend my niece's birthday party dinner in the evening so I went to get a shower while my husband took care of our 2 year old and 8 week old. Husband went out to make 8wo a bottle of milk and noticed that as I was showering, the ceiling was leaking so he mopped up the mess, got the baby bottle and went back into the living area where the kids were - in those 3-4 minu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31/F] with my boyfriend [45 M] 3 years, Is it OK for a Woman to propose to a man? And how? POST: I have been dating the most wonderful, sweet man for the last 3 years. The problem? I told him at the beginning of our relationship that I never, ever wanted to get married or have more kids. I had just gotten divorced, it was horrible, and I was bitter. We agreed to have an open relationship, said that it was ok for each to date others. Neither of us have. We spend every waking",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by clapping POST: I was in school, We got out for our lunch break, I was talking with my friends and one ""let's call him B"" of them went to talk with his Gf < not sure he says she is only a ""friend"". I didn't notice him, then my other friend told me:"" Look at B, he is like in love"".. I told him:"" Good for him, Bravo"" and clapped twice to sarcastically show my friend that i don't give a fuck. then 3 seconds later, the WHOLE FUCKING SCHOOL started clapping, and she leaves ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] Should I [24F] tell my BF [26M] of 4 months that I slept with my [25M] best friend nearly 4 years ago? POST: So I told boyfriend on Tuesday night. I was disproportionately nervous so boyfriend possibly thought it was something worse. But yeah, told him, he essentially said 'you were clearly REALLY worried about that, it's fine. You know I see things in the past as done and not that important'. And then when he saw I was relieved at his reaction, asked if it was ok to start m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (25M) am wondering if I should contact my ex (24F) after more then 6 years POST: My ex-gf and I met in high school. I was 17, she was 16. Although she wasn't my first gf, she was the first girl I actually fell deeply in love with. Our time together was amazing. We split up after two years without any reason. She just told me our relationship wasn't what she expected it to be anymore. I didn't see it coming at all, to me our relationship was perfectly fine. Basically it all ended in",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (21M) of 3 years is thinking about getting fit and I (21F) need to get over my insecurity. Help? POST: So believe it or not, this all started with that old kids show iCarly. I was on the internet and found out that Nathan Kress, who played Freddie, just got married. I told my boyfriend, who googled him, and was shocked by how good he looked now. He lost a lot of baby fat and no longer looks super young. My boyfriend has always looked young, if I didn't know him I'd s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Trying to get out of a lease, any help appreciated. POST: So here's the deal. Last summer I signed a lease to live in college apartments in the city of my university. I had just graduated and was planning to live there another year. Turns out I couldn't find a job so I moved in with my parents out-of-state. I had a subletter for the fall semester but he has since moved out. I had arrangements all semester for a spring semester subletter but last week she backed out on our verbal agree",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by browsing the ASOIF subreddit. No spoilers. POST: Ok so I know this is going to be buried by more interesting posts, but here it is anyway. Unlike most TIFU's this happened a couple of hours ago. So I was bored and decided to browse Reddit like most people here and I found my way onto the ASOIF subreddit as I am currently reading the books, currently on A Feast for Crows, so obviously there is a lot of stuff yet to happen. And obviously it's pretty retarded to be on there anyway but ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] is concerned about my bf [24M] over working himself POST: So I dating this guy who use to live in Chicago for about 3 years had to move back to his small little town because unfortunately his dad died of cancer and he had to take over the family diner. He has been back there for about 4 months and I drive down and see him every 3 weeks or so. I am still got some stuff to do up here but if the relationship goes well I plan on moving down because I have always wanted to live",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I[26f] help my SO[38m] of 3yrs? He is depressed and unemployed and takes it out on me. Feeling desperate. [xpost /r/depression] POST: My SO is really depressed. He is unemployed and has been for over 2 years now (not including a couple of short term jobs and handy man work he rustles up now and then), and his self esteem has suffered greatly because of it. He is regularly applying to jobs but it's a tough market where we live and he is just not having any luck. He has been dep",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My [F20] boyfriend [M21] is always losing stuff and it drives me crazy POST: Ok this isn't really serious but it's been getting on my nerves for over a year. My boyfriend is so forgetful and it's getting absolutely ridiculous now. Just last week we drove an hour to my parent's house and it wasn't till we got home that he realised he'd left his wallet there. So we had to do another 2 hour trip to go and get it again. A couple of days later he ""lost"" his wallet (it was actually at his d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Give me [18 M] your opinion about this. Is my [50/F] mom's parenting normal? POST: I brought this up with a friend one time and he told me that it wasn't normal, so here it goes. Ever since I was around five(which is the earliest I could accurately remember events) my mother would lock me in a cupboard whenever I misbehave. Sometimes I would be kept there for hours depending on the severity of my actions. I would usually get punished because I mess with my brother or accidentally br",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO [26M] refuses to take off his hat around me [18F]. He even leaves it on during sex and when he sleeps POST: He and I have been seeing each other for a while, but we've only been exclusive for a few weeks. He flat out refuses to take off his hat, and won't give me a straight answer when I ask him about it. I asked him if he's doing it because he knows I'm curious and it's driving me a little crazy, or if he's afraid to take if off for some reason and he responded with, ""I'm not ",negative " r/self TITLE: WWYD if your boss is dating your mom and you found out the office manager is airing all of his dirty laundry? POST: My mom has been dating her BF for about a year, he owns a dental practice and I started working there six months ago. It was both of our understandings that no one in the office knew how we knew each other outside of work aside from him being a ""family friend"". Tuesday I found out that everybody in the office has known that he is dating my mom since just after I started working ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: MILLENNIALS of Reddit - Where is your management's leadership style missing the mark? POST: There has been a huge problem of retention/turnover at my company (tech start up based in NYC) and I think part of the problem is leadership style by Baby Boomer management. A quick Google on the issue shows articles about Millennials' need for meaningful work over pay compensation and fancy titles amongst other things. But these views are often in direct conflict with key elements that define su",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I tell the once other girl [F/?] that he [M/33] tries to make me now the other girl[F/33]? POST: I was in a relationship with a guy for about 2 years and I found out that he was cheating on me (I don't know for how long he had been doing it). I broke up with him and had no contact with him for 5 months, while he started to see this other girl. After his monthly texts asking me how I was doing and telling me he missed me, I agree to have a drink with him after 5 months.",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Desperately seeking legal advice in regards to driving after suspension and possession POST: I'll try to spare you the sob story details but essentially; im an alcoholic and occasionally use heroin (HONESTLY). i was driving my mothers neighbors car tonight with a suspended license. i went to the city, got my fix and came back. i literally made it to her complex, parked and prepared to use the rest of it. it turns out the neighbor (an elderly lady of about 60) panicked and called the co",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My Grandfather wants to connect with me after not speaking with him for a decade. What should I do? POST: Back story: When I was 16 I found out that my Grandfather used to physically abuse my Dad(who I hold to be very dear to my heart) when he was a small child. Before that when I saw my Grandfather the only thing he would ask me was ""You gotta boyfriend yet?"" and I was pretty young so the answer was always no. Then he would turn to my Dad and start talking politics or something I could ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [19F] make myself feel better about my S/O [20M] turning 21? [6 yrs] POST: My boyfriend of 6 years is a month away from turning 21 and his older coworkers are extremely excited to take him drinking. He's never been the type to drink but I always thought that was because he was underage (although I'm always trying to get him to go to our native country to have some fun with moderation). I know I can't stop him from doing what he wants on his birthday but I'd like advice on",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Useful Tip: If you drive out-of-state, get an out-of-state E-Z Pass! Toll discounts vary depending on which State issues your tag. POST: No, E-Z Pass toll discounts are not universal! Each participating state issues their own separate version of E-Z Pass, giving discounts only (or mostly) at toll plazas in their own state. However, you are not limited to signing up for your own state's pass! I recently discovered that I can save approximately $156 annually by switching from a New ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Need Advice! Desperately need $5,550 in dental work. POST: I'm a 27 year old male. I just got health insurance for the first time since I was 19. I have Medi-cal through the state of California. I am a Tour Manager for bands. So, on the books I don't make a whole lot of money. Not too much off the books either. 5 years ago I fucked up my four front teeth. I got emergency care at the time but now I need crowns on 5 teeth. I also have a few other issues. I just went to the dentist ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Saw my friend [21 M] continually grabbing the ass of another friend last night. But he's been in a relationship for four years...Do I tell his girlfriend? POST: So, basically I've been friends with this guy (J) and his girlfriend (E) for over two years now. We're not particularly very close, but they're fun to hang around. Every Saturday night a bunch of my mates and I go to this club in the city. Last night when I was hanging out at the bar I noticed my friend (J) being particular",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [23M] won't commit to relationship with me [20F] POST: We have been together for 10 months, and our relationship is awesome. We don't fight and he is probably the best thing that has every happened to me. Whenever we do get into arguments, we settle it out in a healthy way (this is how I feel, how can I make it better, etc). We get along very well and have a great sex life. About three months ago, things become long distance (~1 hour away) but we still communicate well. Th",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU:For going to Saturday School POST: The story starts when I leave early one day at school to go to the doctors and I miss PE, and that day we had a timed mile run, and missing one can fuck you over. I dont want to be the guy who failed PE because of something like that, and to make it up you have to go to Saturday school for PE. Today I go and Saturday School starts, we eat breakfast, put backpacks and phones away in a room locked away the whole time and we start our run. I expected it t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [20M] wants to pay to fly me [20F] to Europe, and I feel guilty. POST: My boyfriend is living in Europe for 8 months on a job there. You might've seen my previous post about how I'm financially supported by my parents, who aren't okay with me spending any money of my ""own"" to go to visit him. He's offering to pay for my ticket because he says 1) he would be paying the exact same for him to visit me and 2) getting to see me matters more to him than the money does. I fee",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/m], feeling distant from my 2 year gf (19/f) POST: I've been in a relationship with my gf for a little over two years now. We've always been vocal and affectionate with each other but ever since May she has been with her friends more and more to the point where we would only see each other once a week if that. She has also stopped texting me as much, and would always say that her phone is plugged in,(which knowing her she is usually on her phone) since I would say around",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, have you ever been pressured by your school to do something to their benefit? POST: My school is not the richest school in the district and is always pulling schemes to raise money. Around holoween they throw a carnival and ask students to participate in such ways like operating the booths. Well the booths are games that reward candy and soda. Where do the prizes come from? Well the students of course. Every year they throw us into our class groups and tell every grade what they",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [32] gf [28] starts a lot of fights irrationally and the stress is destabilizing my life. POST: My girlfriend of one year is pretty amazing in all aspects but one. When she gets upset, she starts a fight, and I mean a serious fight. She doesn't actually communicate, when I'm trying to discuss the issue she insults, demeans, and literally throws all the low blows possible. She also instigates the fights most if not all the time. Normally, we fight and I can deal with it because she",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it normal to be feeling so over a long-term, serious relationship after just a few weeks? POST: We [30/F and 59/M](yes I know some of you will think it's weird) mutually ended our very serious relationship three weeks ago due to incompatibility issues. No hard feelings, really. I was devastated for the first week, I think he is still pretty broken up over it and even though I pretty much begged him that first week to get back together he refused. We are just too different from eac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I know if I am just being petty or if I am actually still angry? POST: My husband (27) and I (24 female) were long distance about 90% of the time we were dating. We were dual military stationed in two separate countries. In fact when we got legally married, after dating seven months, we were not even at the court house. He moved to Germany when his tour in Korea was up. And for the most part everything is pretty good. Well I went through a med board which sent my to a post in",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Need to convince my boyfriend that I still love him. POST: I have been dating my boyfriend for almost three years, and we are both in our early 20s. We have been arguing frequently for the past few months, and I am afraid that I am going to lose him. We are both insecure and we have trust issues, and it definitely does not help that I am manic-depressive. I have struggled lately with my mood swings, and I was committed to a psychiatric facility for a brief period of time. My boyf",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Married guy (28/M) in one of my (25/F) classes. We got on well; he likes to email a lot. Is this okay? POST: I sit next to this guy in one of my classes, and because of that we usually end up working together for group work or making small talk. We ended up having a nice, long chat on Friday during break; we have similar senses of humor and have some things in common, and I haven't made any friends in my classes. Great! I noticed his wedding ring and invited him and his wife to my ho",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [25] of 3 years cheated on me [28] while being in another country for internship POST: I had some relationships before, of 1 to 3 years, but I knew she would be the one. I could do everything with her, I could talk about anything with her and the other way around. Just this year we went on a 2 month trip in a small 2 person tent and didnt have a single argument. I love her to death and so did she.. A month ago she left to another continent to fullfill an internship for her mas",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not telling my parents my halloween costume idea. POST: Happened yeaterday. I am a 19 year old college student, so every couple weeks or so my parents and I will skype. So yesterday, my parents and I were talking, and we came to a lull in the conversation. Trying to fill the awkward silence, I said, ""I figured out my halloween costume this year."" My parents asked, ""What is it?"" Oops. I realized I can't tell them because this year I am going to wear a shirt showing a music staff wit",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: How do you handle hubris? POST: I think, the other side of being motivated is keeping that motivation once youve been actually motivated and have done great things. I, for one (with all honesty) after having done a great amount of quality work, I would slump in a very lazy spell, with the reasoning of ""i deserve this, i've done a great deal of the tasks."" These spells would take longer than usual resulting to me not doing much task. Along the way, I would develop resentment to my su",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[22m] caught my [19f]gf of 2 months lying, and I'm having trouble putting it behind me, anyone have any insight? POST: I've been dating this girl for about 2 months now and everything seemed perfect. We moved in, maxed out a credit card, and have already talked about marriage. The problem is she just got out of a 11 month relationship with one of her coworkers 3 weeks before we became official. Tuesday, she said she was going to hang out with her friends, but went and saw him. When",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] suck at texting, I want to flatter this girl [17 F] I like POST: So this is kind of the first time I've ever texted a girl I like, in the past when I would text girls I'd just be able to talk about anything since I don't care what they think of me. I've been very cautious and I want this thing to work out, here's an example of how our convo is: * Her: Hey * Me: Hey * Her: How are you? * Me: Good what about you? * Her: Good :) * Me: (Don't know what to say, so I'll just say ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (31F) am very close with my goddaughter (1F). My cousin (28f) says I should invest more of my time with her kids (6F and 3M) because we are biological family. POST: I am a woman that has no kids of my own by choice and neither do my siblings (28M) and (24M). My best friend Lila (30F) of over 10 years asked me to be a godmother when she had her 2nd daughter almost 2 years ago and I was so honored and accepted! My cousin Sarah and I were raised in an environment in which our whole e",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My friend has a teacher who has a very harsh ego problem, so to get back at him he recruited me to help him put this guy into his place by simply posing as a student and asking questions pertaining to the class. What is something you've done to put someone in their place non-violently? POST: Okay so a little back story my friend(he'll be Miguel for the remainder of the story) has recently started classes. He had an assignment due and when he tried to hand it in the professor immediately ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the best way to tell my SO he needs to get help for his alcohol problem? POST: Having come from a family of alcoholics, I have started to recognize signs that my SO has a serious drinking problem. Whereas before he used to be able to have a couple drinks a week, mostly in social situations- he now can't sleep at night without having at least 2 drinks. This has moved from a couple brews to shots of rum/tequila.vodka along with those few brews. Over the weekend I saw him taking a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most awkward situation you have been put into? Possibly NSFW POST: I went to the gym yesterday without my friend (and spotter). The gym has 'fitness gurus' in said establishment that give you free advice, train you, or spot for you if you need. I asked this guy 'Mark' to spot for me. He is a medium sized fit dude. I sit down at the bench and start doing bench presses. With every set he positions himself further forward in such a way that he is over my head completely. As in if",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend won't take a job because of me. (27F 27M 3 Years) POST: I've been with my boyfriend for a little over 3 years. He has some issues with anxiety and sometimes he needs reassurance that I'm happy with him. I know my boyfriend just got offered a job that he'd be very interested in doing but he refuses to take the job because it would require me to move to a different state with him. The problem is, his current job is awful. We try to meet up for lunch as frequently as po",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M25] Losing my Wife/Best Friend [F25] to our new love [3.5m] POST: I feel selfish, and I feel unhappy. My wife is my best friend, we have been together 3 years and there is nobody else in the world I would rather be with, we complement each other very well and I would say we are as good at communicating with each other through even the hardest of things without a problem. Our daughter was born just over 3 months ago and we love her to death. Oh man, we love her so much. Here is",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit! What are some of the most disturbing, disgusting, and just plain horrifying things you've imagined before going to sleep? POST: I'll start. I always imagine this naked half-man with no legs (no crotch either) opening my bedroom door, hopping on to my bed just by using his hands, and stare at me. He then reaches into his belly-button, pinches it, and starts peeling his entire skin off, all of it, in one go. I can vividly see the tissues detach. As he peels it off, he proceed",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is something that you would do but stopped because someone did it to you and you found it offensive/annoying? POST: I worked in a very busy clothing store at the mall. The influx of customers was in the thousands and the influx of annoying customers was that number minus 1. I'd constantly have to answer questions about coupons, sales, returns etc. and I was at that stage where I knew when it was coming. I'd cut off the person asking the question and blurt out the answer very robotic",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/m] Fallen in love with [18/f]; but this love cannot be POST: I know it sounds weird but it's really what it is. This isn't about parents not liking her, religion, age difference (Only 1.5 to 2 years age difference) or anything like that. It's just something that is never meant to happen. I really can't explain and I do not want to explain. Obviously, I should just try to avoid contact, but sadly that isn't possible. I volunteer at a place where she goes and can't really c",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Getting 1 (maybe 2) new kittens..need some advice POST: Hey r/pets! I think I'm getting some new friends pretty soon, and I wanted to ask for some advice. Mainly, what would I need to get started? The kitten would be about 2 months old and apparently is starting to eat solid food. It would definitely be an inside cat, and I'm worried about space. I live in a 1 bedroom apartment that's ~550 sq. ft, so it's not too terribly small. Would that be enough space for it? I'm definitely gonna spoil",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting a midnight snack POST: So, like a lot of other fuck ups, this did not happen today. A couple years ago I was a really bad sleep walker. Countless times my mom would encounter me strolling through the house, mumbling about cheesecake or how I really wanted to piss on the stairs. Generally my mom would either direct me to the bathroom, talk to me (because apparently I could somewhat hold a conversation), or just send me straight to bed. So one night, I ended up sleepwalking mu",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Funding retirement vs Funding a home purchase POST: Hi all, I'm a new college grad, married, and looking to buy a house in the near future. My wife and I are looking for homes in the 400-500k range (our area is very expensive) and are saving up the 3.5% for a FHA 30-year loan. We can save enough in just about 2 months. My employer matches 100% up to 6% on my 401k contributions Should I cease putting the 6% in for the time being so that I may afford the down payment sooner? (We",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Offered new job, boss wants me to move into a production house, needing advice POST: Without getting too personal, I'm looking for financial advice about this job I'm considering. Long time IT/admin/computer guy (brutal hours, wildly fluctuating pay, no dignity) who's considering taking a new job as a producer. The content isn't too important for this discussion, but there will be music, video, and other forms of content, as well as utilizing my skills as a computer network admin ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [25 m] struggling to trust girlfriend [22] POST: Me and my girlfriend of 5 months have been very happy over the course of our relationship. Lately I've been going through some struggles with work/family and it has affected my mood negatively. She recently went out one night with some co workers and one ex-employee. I noticed following this that she had been texting a guy pretty regularly so I asked her about it and she explained it was just an old co worker that she was friends",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my good friend [23 M] who is in a bad relationship, should I tell him I am interested? POST: This guy and I have been friends since freshman year of high school. We started by hanging out in the same group of friends and eventually became close friends. We have kissed and fooled around in the past in high school but nothing ever came of it, probably because I wasn't very interested then. I went away to college four years ago and he stayed in our hometown. Whenever I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (23F) overcome people knowing stuff about my sexual past with someone (33M)? POST: So I have a 5 month (on and off) sexual history with a man I'll call Nick. Nick works at and co-runs an organization where I have many acquaintances due to a few-month-long volunteer stint there. I would like for them to be more than acquaintances though. No one there dislikes me, but I don't feel like any of them really know me. I take a while to come out of my shell and gain confidence aroun",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 1.5 year relationship just ended, ex-fiance [22M] who left me [21F] is now dating an 18F, I ended up hooking up with someone as result, confused... POST: Well, as the title says, he ended relationship in a horrible way. Was incredibly mean to me to leave, said many lies to me (and everyone else apparently, whenever they ask why we broke up). He was emotionally cheating on me with this girl who is still in high school who works at the same place he does. Found out while I was out with",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have too much money lying around... What do I do with it? POST: I am a 21 year old, getting ready to enter graduate school in the fall (PhD in materials science if you care). I have never really been into my money, and am naturally quite frugal. If I see something I really want, I will buy it, but this really doesn't amount to much. I have ~20,000 in a special offer checking account (local bank which offers 2% interest on checking account for under 25k and a bunch of other stipulati",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [27/f] My boyfriend (28/m)and I have been living together for 3 years. He says he'll propose soon but doesn't seem to save any money! POST: Now, maybe I am wrong and he has been secretly saving money. But living together, and knowing everything that the other person buys all the time, I feel like he'll never have enough money for a ring. I know he's a guy who will want to spend the '3 months salary' and impress me with a gorgeous ring. But he keeps buying expensive things that ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [23/F] confused about the status of our relationship and would like some insight as to what he's [23/M] thinking, but without asking him directly. POST: I recently moved to a new city and started seeing this guy that I've known for about three years. 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I figured, ok, score. But unfortunately when I asked her to hang out same day I kind of got really nervous and awkward. And she pointed it out a lot(though she said it was cute). It wasn't to the point where I couldn't like make any conversation but there were some dumb, quiet moments on ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: For over ten years, my life was completely out of whack POST: For much of my adult life, I had no idea what was wrong with me. I was unmotivated and depressed. I was fired from job after job for reasons ranging from answering my cell phone to accidentally destroying a fifty thousand dollar machine. Life was a haze and I didn't know what to do about it. I was ambitious but nothing ever seemed to work out. When I finally held on to a job for long enough to get health coverage, things s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] and my fiance [28 F] are getting married, but I don't particularly care about the details. POST: My long-time best friend and I are getting married after four years of engagement (YAY FINALLY) this coming June. We've picked a location, menus, invited people, etc, etc, etc. Througout this process, I've tried to be as helpful as I possibly can, giving feedback, talking about my preferences, etc. The problem is...I don't really care about the details. I certainly don't care w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Doctors: Is it worth it to get a premed degree if I want to become a doctor? POST: My thinking is that it probably helps in terms of getting into medical school, but also narrows my carreer path. For example: What happens if I get a premed degree, then go to medical school, do my residency, and decide its not right for me. When looking for a job all I will have is that medical experience. Do I have to go back to college at that point? 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I told him that while I do love him, I need to think about getting into a relationship with him simply because we haven't",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I am pissed off at my best friend/roommate for.... well, for having a boyfriend. POST: I have been looking for a boyfriend on an off since a month after my last one broke up with me in April of 2005. (For those who don't want to do the math, it's 6 and a half years.) I can't find anyone. All I want to do is settle down and get married, and I can't even get a boyfriend in six and a half years. My best friend and I have lived together since March 2009 (about 2.5 years). For that en",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Got some problems. POST: Hey there. I'm in a bit of a rut, hoping that someone here will be able to give me some advice. First time posting, long time lurker. Anyway. I've been in love with my childhood friend pretty much since I was 15. 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POST: The topic has come up a few times, and every time it does they talk about how slavery was a fantastic institution because it was so productive. Now, they're right in the fact that it was profitable, but they also don't think it's morally wrong. I'd want to tell them that they're being stupid, but I can't do that without bringing up morals or valu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [31F] Grandmother [91/F] has dementia. She's forgotten that my Grandfather died years ago and I don't know what to tell her POST: So my Grandfather died seven years ago. My Granny coped okay for a while, but at the end of last year she had a few falls and we (my brother and I, her only family) realised that she couldn't look after herself any longer. She's now in a nursing home. She's happy there mostly, and definitely safer, but her mental capabilities have really started to suf",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F20] seem to not get along with my coworkers like they do with each other. I feel left out. POST: I just started working with them in September. They've been working with each other for 2+ years. So of course they'll have more personal relationships. I think I'm a nice person. I never gossip with them though. Im a pretty shy person so sometimes I can come off awkward. I try to join in their conversations sometimes, crack a joke here and there. But they seem to drown me out or do",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [31 M] with my girlfriend [33 F] of 6 years, got blackout drunk and apparently told her I wish she was dead... POST: Title says it all really. So apparently, whilst under the influence of god knows how much alcohol, I got into an argument with my partner and said some really horrible things. Amongst those, still to my disbelief, is that I told her I wished she was dead. I apparently also said I hate her, and hate our relationship. Thing is that isn't how I feel at all... I have n",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Just Hit A Mind-Blowing Milestone POST: Last year around Thanksgiving I found out that I have diabetes. I immediately started a diet of about 200 carbs or less a day. I haven't been that strict about it, but I've been turning down most things that I know I shouldn't eat. Cutting out pretty much all sugary foods. When I weighed myself about a month before Thanksgiving I was about 435 lbs. and gaining. In the last month or so I've had about 15 people tell me I look like I've been losing a lot",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My girlfriend[24/f] got drunk last night and all of a sudden after 5 months of dating got really mean, but only to me. [29/m] Not sure how to react? POST: I've been dating a girl for the last 5 months and it's been pretty great. We've hit a couple bumps but been pretty good about dealing with stuff but last night caught me off guard. When we're out in groups and she drinks she usually gets a little distant and wants to go focus on her friends, which is totally fine, but last ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Getting mixed signals, leaving me (26F) confused with the possibility of a relationship. POST: So recently I've become closer with someone I work with. We work different shifts but still hangout with the same group of people. I see him for a little bit when I come into work and also when he covers during my shift. He's a very kind person and is affectionate and started showing more interest towards me. At the time I wasn't so sure what to take from it but heard from a few diff",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23/F] with my SO [24/M] of several months, he sees illegal behavior as normal income, and even seeks to expand upon it while finding himself in the hole constantly. I just want a normal relationship. POST: I've known my boyfriend for years, we've been together now for several months after a few tumultuous years of friendship. He has a daughter with a woman who's stability makes it difficult for him to see said daughter often, which I have helped him with by taking him to see her ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When was the last time you remember being really really happy on a daily basis? POST: I've had a run of bad luck the last few years and I had to actually had to sit down and think about when I was last consistently happy. The answer kind of disturbed me because it was awhile ago. Probably 2006-Mid 2007. At the time I was making gobs of money working for a company I loved with all of my closest friends. I was single but that was okay. I lived in a nice apartment that I could afford, drov",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Broke Up/Got Back Together 2nd thoughts +Girl Going To Africa POST: I dated a great girl (First gf for me) for 14 months. 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POST: Hi everyone, I'm a 20 year old male, and am still technically new to dating (I've asked out two girls in my life and have been rejected both times.) I started working at my dad's business recently, and right next door there's a sandwich place I go to almost every day. There's a girl there that I found attractive, and eventually because of how frequently I go there, she remembers my name and always addresses me by it when she sees me walk in. I recently found",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is my [f]riend (23) overreacting? Me (22, m) POST: This is more friend relationship advice, but I still feel this subreddit is relevant. This kind of relates to whether or not, if I as a man (22) am being insensitive without realizing it or my friend (F, 23) has thin skin. This isn't about who's right, in a sense. I'm trying to figure out if maybe I am being perhaps a bit too jocular with her and maybe I should tone it down. It might also not be a gender thing at all. We have been fr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22 M] thinking of breaking up with my highschool/college sweetheart [22 F] POST: So, I need to be brief because she'll be here soon, but we've been dating for four years in July, and though I still care for and may even love her very much, I don't think I'm ready to settle down. I'm finding myself less and less attracted to her and more and more interested in other people (I've never cheated or even considered the notion.) She's an amazing person, though she can drive my crazy",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Do I [27F] have a reason to be jealous of my BF's [25 M]'s ""let's just be friends"" friend? 6 mos. POST: When I met my BF of now 6 months, he was also hanging out with another girl (he met us both through online dating around the same week). Things progressed with us more quickly than with this other girl and when we got serious, I asked him to stop seeing her. 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He moved to another town and we never even tried to talk, he was also unemployed and he didn't pay child support so I never got anything from him. The last time I saw him I was 13, when me and my mom had to go a few times to hi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: OK, Reddit, give to to me straight: the male ""fear of commitment,"" does it really exist? POST: ** TL;DR: ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My house in California has been foreclosed for 90 days now. We're sticking around. What will happen? When will it happen? POST: Our house was sold in an auction in early May. We are supposed to get a notice on our door stating that we have to be out by ninety days. 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It's a cold night and there a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (27f) am afraid my husband (25m) will leave me after fights POST: Every time my husband and I have a disagreement (I wouldn't call everything fights) I'm afraid he will leave me. I think I'm afraid of that with everyone, but he's the last person I have left for me. And then it makes me hate myself even more, because I know he wouldn't just because of a fight. I know this isn't normal behavior. I know there is something wrong with me. And this makes me even more scared that he'll s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How big of a Jerk am I? POST: So I open up my present from my parents knowing its this huge keyboard piano that i wanted and they knew the exact one I wanted too. after opening the box I find that the keys are cheap plastic and not the weighted ones I wanted. I told my mother that it was the wrong one and she agreed after pressing on the keys herself. My dad and I put the keyboard back in the box and I could see the look of disappointment in my mothers face. I knew she wanted me to get e",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help Reddit! I don't have electricity because the power company refuses to let me put it in my name. POST: Backstory: I'm located in Southern California and moved into my apartment on August 1st and was able to successfully setup my utilities online without issue -- or at least it appeared that way at the time. Fast forward to a month and half later and I find myself without power today because the previous tenants had an outstanding balance on their power bill. The catch? *The previ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Should I leave my job? POST: I work for a technology company. Three months ago, we had to lay off over 30 people, ever since the ""purge"" the development team has been dropping like flies. As a result the account team (my team) has been stretched RIDICULOUSLY thin. During our reviews we were told ""across the board there will be no raises and your upcoming comp plans will be your reward"". I have been getting paid for the last quarter at the compensation level for the Junior level (I was giv",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28M/m] ended a LDR with my ex[20/F] due to distance and incompatible schedules. Now she is doing NC. Any support would be appreciated. POST: By LDR, we only lived two hours away. However, the aspect that really hurt us was we could never find time for each other due to our schedules, other than texting and Skyping. It's common that we could only see each other once a month. I've already posted the following somewhere else but here it goes: Background infoL I've been seeing he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 27M Continue a date if it goes well POST: I'm having a first date thursday. We're going for coffee in a large city at a mall. If it goes well and we want to continue hanging out what should we do? 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Alot of my fri",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [18F] of four months won't kiss me because I [18M] have a cavity. Not sure how to feel POST: Lurker for life, but I would like some input. Thank you in advance! Studying at college, I end up passing out at the first chance I get a break from school work. (Three hours of sleep every night takes its tole. Thank god for coffee!) This usually results in my not brushing my teeth often. I know it's disgusting, but I honestly feel that my grades are more important than my hea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my boyfriend [22 M] of two years says he refuses to get married before he is 30 years old. POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for about 2 years and we have a great relationship. I'm very independent, and have had to work 40 hours a week, and put myself through full-time school (I graduate in Spring 2015) I pay for everything on my own, and I'm all around pretty grown up. His parents are doctors, and my bf hasn't had to pay for anything himself or have a job. He",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU because my girlfriend's vulgarity is rubbing off on me. POST: So a quick background: my girlfriend and I always tease eachother and say gross stuff like ""I'll poop on your face"" or ""I'll pee in your ears"" Anyway this TIFU happened today in class. Lecture was going on forever and I had to pee. So I turn to my classmate and tell her ""hey I have to go pee, mind if I get by"" she jokingly responds ""no, you can't go pee"" to which I respond ""I'll pee in your mouth"" ...well I immediately reali",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Craving problem POST: Would rly appreciate someone helping out, 14 y/o male. Over the past 6 months or so, I've gone from being severely overweight to a normal BMI. My body fat percentage is ~18%, which is okay I guess, but not nearly as low as I'd like it (preferably somewhere in the 12-13% range). I'm not starving myself, I'm just trying to eat at a calorie deficit of ~100 to 150 calories a day. I can usually control myself about fine during breakfast and lunch. At dinner, however, I ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (23/f) called out fiance's (26/m) biggest insecurity and feel like shit. How do I start to mend his heart? POST: EDIT 2: Thankfully today, when he found out how upset I still was and was shocked, he told me he had already forgiven me and moved on. Now does that mean I feel all happy go lucky again? Not at all, I have a lot to work on. But thankfully he forgave me. ----------------- Long story leading up to this- but key points: -nothing malicious -we are going through some",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 Q] with my partner [24 Q] of 2.5 years - is it weird that I'm still not entirely out of the honeymoon phase? POST: So, sorry about the Q thing first off, but we identify as genderqueer. Yeah I know that part is weird, but that's not what I'm asking about, haha. I've been dating this awesome person for about two and a half years, and we moved in together maybe a year and a half ago (so, about a year into the relationship). Because of this, my partner has settled into a more ch",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: 1.5 year old dog suddenly wants to behave and follow instructions POST: I have a year and a half year old Golder Retriever/Lab mix that has been brought down to not being allowed outside without a leash for the last year. I walk him and play with him, but its always on a leash. This was due to him wondering off and completely ignoring me when off leash. Final straw was staring at a car coming down the road and never even attempting to get out of the road. (driver stopped and he didn't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Navigating a friendship with my (M/28) recent ex (F/25) POST: After two years, I (m/28) was dumped by my now ex (f/25) because of long distance (though I visited every 2 months) and infidelity on her part about a month ago. In one night we went from talking every day for at least 3 hours (Skype, phone calls and texts constantly through out the day) to occasional texts every few days. In spite of the breakup we both agreed we wanted to be friends considering the non-romantic aspect ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (22/f) am the bad guy here, it was beyond horrible and I know it but i need some advice and insight. (25/m) POST: So before I get started I acknowledge that I am a fucking idiot and I am not excusing my behavior. I also know that this will get a lot of hate. Ok. So I have been seeing my boyfriend for a while now. We get a long great and I spend several nights at his apartment. Also a bit of background, he is from Guatemala and I am american. Well Saturday we were at his a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Sister illegally renewed a phone contract in my name 2 years ago. I let her off with it but now it's come back to bite me. POST: I'm 25, sister is 34 Two years ago my sister used my security code to get a phone on my vodefone account and change the address to hers. I was angry at the time and threatened legal action but she later told me that she had sorted it out and it wouldn't be on my name. It would be on her credit report etc. 3 months ago she when into debt on the phone and c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do I [27m] need to stop hooking up with coworker [31f] ? Need advice POST: For the last couple of months I have been hooking up with a coworker. At the onset I was sure to be very honest about not wanting to get into anything serious, and she said she was okay with that. Lately she has been making comments about it being a stupid decision to not date her. She has also tried to start dating other people during this time but for one reason or another continues to want to meet up. She",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is going onto someone's profile and downvoting everything in their overview a thing now? POST: I've noticed that it seems like someone is just going onto my profile and downvoting every single one of my comments and submissions. It's really obvious, too, because now instead of seeing 1|0 on otherwise unremarkable comments, I see 1|1 and apparently now someone else has joined in, because nothing on my page is above x|2. I don't really care about karma but I just think it's pathetic that ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Sold a computer that was left at my house... POST: So my friend lost his computer a year and a half ago, and a year later my room mate and I find a lap top in a bunch of junk. We try for months to find out who the owner is, and in July finally decided to sell it. The computer store bought the lap top with complete knowledge that I didn't know who's it was, and four months later called the owner telling him that I sold it to them. What are the legal ramifications that I could face an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] with my coworker/friend [18F] of 5 months drunkenly left a voicemail saying she loved me and that I was pretty POST: Okay, time for some background. I have known said friend/coworker for a little over a year, but she just started working in the same department as me (we work at the childcare facility at a gym). The other night she called me while intoxicated and left a voicemail, one that I did not listen to because she asked me to not do so. I found out what it said tonig",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 M] don't want a friendship with her [27 F] POST: a woman i met a few weeks ago is totally uninterested in a romantic relationship after letting my intentions known. no worries and absolutely no animosity. however, when i stop contacting her (as one does when they are rejected), she continues to contact me, unsolicited, via texts or calls to see how i'm doing, catch up, etc. i'm well aware of the ""friend zone"" and assume that she sees me as one. keep in mind, i've barely know",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My back is killing me - any advice on good computer chairs? POST: My day job has me sitting in a chair that is causing me immense back pain. Does anyone have any recommendations for better chairs to spend hours a day in? I would greatly appreciate it! TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] have been on 3 dates with a girl [20F], we seemed to be getting along really well, but now she has stopped talking to me POST: This is probably a typical question, but i dont have a whole lot of dating experience so I'm kind of in the dark at the moment. I've been on three dates with this girl, we get along really well, and she has displayed quite a lot of affection towards me. Our latest date was particularly good. Near its end she asked me when she was going to see me aga",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[22 F] have feelings for my friend [21 M] of 3 years but time is not on my side. POST: I'm starting to have feelings for a friend that I've had for 3 years again. We both had feelings for each other at the beginning of our friend relationship but we quelled those very quickly. For the past 3 years, he and I have been in and out of our own separate relationships, with his ending about 2 months ago. At the moment, we've been flirting a lot through messaging and we have kissed and fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Hesitant in relationship POST: New account for certain purposes; long time lurker (20 M / 20 F) Well to start off ""Julie"" lets call her, and I have been dating for a little over a month, she came to my university from across the states. She plans to go to this university for all four years. The problem arising is I'm really starting to like this girl; I like spending time with her, doing anything from watching tv, walks, cooking, movies and spending time with her. She happens to b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my SO [41M] dating for 6 months. Looking for guidance from redditors who deal/dealt with a significant age gap. POST: A little background: Started seeing him (romantically) this summer. We used to work for the same company but not in the same office. I honestly didn't know how old he was when we first met because he takes good care of himself and looks quite young for his age. Anyways, I've known him for 3 years or so. We had the same position at work just in different",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Please HELP! - Need help deciding between two job offers: POST: I am currently agonizing over which is the right decision for myself and my family. Quick facts: ME: early 30's in the Marketing/Advertising arena Wife: early 30's in the healthcare/social work field Children: 1 child under 12 months. Current location: Southwest Job 1: Location: Chicago Role: Higher level management, run small department, etc (i.e. Director) Company: 5 year old company, small 35+ people with plans to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17/m] unsure of what to do with my gf [16/f] POST: My inexperience is killing me... I've recently started going out with someone (about 2 weeks ago) and I'm having trouble knowing when to physically touch her (not sexually just stuff like hugging and holding hands). I feel like if I don't try to take any initiative our relationship will fall apart and i'm not sure what to do D: we only consistently see each other for about half an hour in the mornings with friends and for about fi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is best for my dog? POST: A little bit of background to start: the dog in question is a young stray that one of my old college roommates found in South Carolina. She brought him home for me on the 1st of June this year, and he has lived with me ever since. I am unsure of the dog's age, but he appears to be less than 2 years old (based on his teeth). Every since about the 3rd night I have had him, the dog has been super attached to me. He follows me every where, and whenever ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Asking girlfriend [19F] to look pretty for me [19M] a tad more often POST: We've been in a relationship for 9 months now. Before this, we used to be best friends for about 2 years. Things have been going very well thus far, we don't fight, and overall get along very well. However, one little thing has been slightly bugging me... I don't want to sound superficial or fake, since my girlfriend is an absolutely amazing person, and the best friend I've had. However, since we've been dati",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Dating a very busy girl. How to keep the spark and move things forward? POST: Me 23M. Her 21F. (If that makes any difference?). Wasn't sure whether I would post here or in r/dating_advice. Anyway, here goes: So I've been dating this girl for a while now, we met over 2 months ago and had several dates during the summer. They've all been great but we've mainly been out in town having ""short"" dates due to conflicting schedules. We've basically made out a lot, drinking, talking and just",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I work above my pay grade, how do I request for a salary adjustment or raise? More details inside (US) POST: I started working as a lab technician at the end of year 2012. I was a recent college graduate two years ago. I did simple things lab techs do. Cleaning glassware, prep work for experiments or analysis, restocking, cleaning, etc. Fast forward a few months into the new year, when one of the higher ups leave. She decides I am competent enough to take over about 90% of her resp",positive " r/tifu TITLE: NSFW TIFU By pooping in a grocery bag POST: First things first, I live in an apartment with 3 other people and my girlfriend stays over on the weekends. So last Sunday my girlfriend and I decided to order in, watch some Netflix and just have a lazy day. We stay up late, ordered food around 9pm, and got to bed around 1 or 2. I woke up the next morning at like 7, recognized I needed to go to the bathroom but decided I could hold it so I went back to sleep. I awake once more at 9:30 with a need ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I stop loving him? POST: I broke up with my boyfriend a few weeks ago, and on good terms too. I thought I would be able to handle it, but it turns out, I can't! We broke up because he feels like he needs to concentrate on his studies (he's on the verge of failing), and I actually agreed to this. We have the same courses together and we always sit together. But now, everytime I see him (which is really basically everyday), I'm getting all warm again, as if I'm spending ti",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/M] vividly dreamed of cheating on my [21/F] girlfriend of 3 years last night, and could use some advice. POST: Hi /r/relationships. I made a throwaway for obvious reasons. A little background about me: My girlfriend and I are in college right now, we have been dating for several years, and friends before that. We have been extremely happy together and have had quite frank conversations about the future, we intend to marry when we graduate, and I have been looking around at rin",positive " r/dogs TITLE: [Discussion] Taking care of roommates dog for a week. Dog ripped the new couch. Am I responsible? POST: Hi guys, my current living situation is fantastic. I just moved in to a two bedroom with a friend of mine a couple months ago. She left to go out of town for a week and will be coming back Wednesday. My roommate has a dog, a one year old pointer mix, that generally is pretty good. Since my roommate has been gone the dog has definitely been acting worse. Basically, if I have time to tak",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (30f) feel down about the end of my long term relationship with my partner (33m) POST: Basically i think ive been suffering from emotional abuse. I have low self esteem and a low point of view of myself. I never used to have that. Weve had ups and downs the past few years and ive tried my hardest to do everything to make it work and to make him fall back in love. But he only loves me as a friend and isnt in love with me after 10 years together. Hes kicked me out 5 times now a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24/f) can't tell if I should break it off with him (23/m). POST: Fiance and I have been together 4 years. I love him, but have lost almost all attraction to him. We fight quite a bit. He always does the same thing: when we fight, he changes for a little bit and acts better, gets my hopes up, then goes right back to ignoring me/my feelings. I kind of feel like I can do better, but I'm scared because me and him get along so well when things are good. I'm guessing it has a lot to do ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my GF [21 F] 4 months, she wants a tattoo but I'm firmly against. POST: Some back story, my GF depressed a lot of the time and feels bad about herself constantly. We've known each other for almost 3 years and have become very good friends in general. She wants two small tattoos, one on her ankle and some script on her ribs. I don't like tattoos and have made that clear. I think the reason she wants the tattoos is because she think it'll make her feel better about he",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Met a girl, but dont know how to end our texting sessions. POST: Recently I met a sweet girl, with whom I think I can have a long relationship. I haven't had a relation for a long time (4 years), so I don't know what 'normal' is now. Almost every night we are texting, and at the end of our talk I say it was nice talking to her. I really mean it when I say that and she replies the same way. Now, I don't want to lose the meaning of that; I don't want her to think it is a phrase ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [22 F] of 6 years, the only girlfriend I've had. And now we are done. POST: We just broke up. I'm kind of a mess right now, so I'm really sorry if this isn't structured. She's cheated on me in the past, and I forgave her. Then she started talking to some guy a few months ago. But recently, blocked all contact from him because she wanted to be with me. Turns out they kissed a few times. Clearly she isn't stable, and I know this relationship is toxic. Af",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I was cheated on by the love of my life, how can I move forward and stop obsessing? POST: About two months ago, my boyfriend (19M) cheated on me (19F) with his close friend from school about 5 times over a period of a week while under the influence of cocaine. I can honestly say that I have never been so devastated in my life. To make matters worse, he continued his friendship with the girl (they did not hook up again) without telling me until he came home for summer. His excuse for ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [26 F] of seven months, broke up recently and she won't stop hacking into my stuff POST: Two week ago I told my girlfriend i wasn't sure of my feelings for her anymore and we broke up. A few days later i hang out with a Platonic female friend, she finds out and loses it She hacks into my facebook account, my email, and somehow my phone. I had to talk her into eventually giving back my accounts, but i had lost alot of stuff from my phone. We make up b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] am thinking about reopening communication lines with ex best friend & girlfriend [22F] POST: A year and a half ago I had a dream come true--I asked out my best friend who was a girl and she said yes. The problem was that her being my girlfriend was nothing how I had hoped. She had been abused by her father at a young age and as such had intimacy issues that ultimately led to the demise of our relationship after 6 months. Essentially she wasnt attracted to me because mainly ""a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Beeped in on a really bad conversation with my[M17] sister[F20] and her boyfriend[M20's] POST: Not sure if this is the right place but it involves my sisters relationship? Known her my entire life (she's older so yeah) Ok. We recently got out of a family plan on our cell phones and haven't found a new provider so we're basically only able to make calls on the house phone right now. Earlier tonight, I picked up the phone to call a friend for a ride. I didn't know my sister was on ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 21F not looking for a relationship, but she still acts like my (23M) girlfriend. How to continue? POST: A few months ago I (23M) met this 21F who I've fallen pretty hard for. She's beautiful in every way that I look for in a women, and things were going really well between us after meeting up a few times, until she delivered a line similar to ""Just to let you know, I'm not really looking for a relationship at the moment"". That's when things got confusing for me. We've still been see",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] live with my boyfriend [25M] but he stays at his parents every time I'm away POST: We've been together for 1.5 yrs, and have been living together in our own apartment for 4 months now. I've lived on my own for almost 3 years prior, and he's lived at home for his whole life. Every time I'm away or we fight, he's right back to his parents for the day/night. He doesn't understand why it upsets me that after a week of my being gone (vacation,work, etc) he's never home at all du",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU Ravioli headphones. POST: I was walking out of my room with a bowl of ravioli remnants(aka sauce and meaty bits), a cup, a coffee mug, and an empty bag of Funyuns when I decided ""Man! The edge of my desk right above where I set my headphones is a REALLY good place to set this bowl so I can open my door!"" What could go wrong? Right when I set the bowl down I pulled my arm away to open the door. My finger tapped the bowl so lightly that it couldn't have possibly knocked the ravioli stuff o",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Had an interview last week, supposed to hear from them this week, itching to get results. Thoughts on if I'll get it? POST: So I got an interview at a tech company last week. Long story short I had an interview with them back in June for a sales position, said I would be much better in marketing but they didn't have a position open at the time and they would call me when they did. Well, they came through on their word and my first interview happened in October. Sadly it was right before Sand",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] am not sure where my relationship with my emotionally damaged love interest [19 F] is going. Please help! POST: So first a little backstory. Back in December of last year I matched with this absolutely beautiful girl on Tinder. We hit it off talking right away and several days after we went on our first date and saw Star Wars and it was an amazing first date. After that we hung out every day for about a week and it was amazing and things were going super well. Until one day ",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: [Advice]: Excessive pregnancy paranoia POST: Hello! I've been sexually active with my SO since April. He's my first and I've never had any sexual experience before dating him. We took a little break from May - July because we didn't see each other over summer. I don't know if this is normal, but sometimes I get excessively paranoid that I'm pregnant. I'm on the combo birth control pills and he uses condoms. There was one occasion where we were both really horny but we had no condoms",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Non-romantic] My dad (40-something M) and his new wife (40-something F) moved to my (29M) town, and are freaking out because I don't want any contact. POST: Long story, but short version. Abusive childhood. Came to terms with my mother years ago. We're friendly acquaintances. My dad is a different story. We nearly reconciled once. He divorced my mom, and we started getting close. I was even willing to forgive him for the neglect and abuse from before. We were turning a corner. ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to the toilet just before everyone came back from work. POST: So yeah, I am currently between jobs living back home, and as I'm doing the washing up I feel a certain level of build up, the kind where you know its a risky choice to ignore it. So I do my habitual thing when I'm the only guy in the house, I lock the front door as I'm not exactly quick to react to things sat on the toilet, I do the same if I'm showering in the house alone. So yeah, I'm doing my thing and I hear a kn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [14 M]with my crush/friend [15 F] about a year now I've liked her. Just a couple months ago our relationship changed. POST: Okay, without going into a year or so of my life, I'll explain it as good as possible. I ride horses with girls at a barn. All the girls there are way older than me 23, 18, and such. This one girl is 15. Let's name her O. I've like O for a while now, and one of the girls I had trusted knew it. I asked O out to hang out some time and she said su",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/m] my girlfriend's [17/f] new guy friend has been uploading too many pictures of them recently. POST: Okay so my girlfriend and I have been dating since late last year. We became really close in our last year of high school together and started dating right after graduation. Our friends got into either highly reputable universities or the least reputable ones (they're easy). Gf happened to get into the middle so she had no one she knew going with her. Before long I could se",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Does this girl[17F] like me[18M] possibly? POST: So there is this girl in my Spanish class and my adv comp class, and she sits across from me in Spanish and kinda next to me when we were in adv comp, well one day she complimented my hair cut I'n Spanish class, then she started randomly saying hi to me in adv comp and the hallway, then she was explaining to this person in my class that we were friends and then like one day I let her and a bunch of girls cut in front of me in class bec",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Need advice from fellow contractors on agency fees. POST: I have been working as a contractor for a company for the last 18 months. Last September my contract has been renewed and I was asking for a raise which I was denied. I was told the client was unable to accommodate a pay increase. Since the beginning of the contract have I been paying 300 euros monthly as a flat rate agency fee but just recently (after 2 months of not getting due to their incompetence) I have found out that they have",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] am seeing a girl who just turned 21[f] and a girl who's 35 [F] for about a month now, I'm at a crossroads. POST: I met both these girls about a month ago which was then a few months after I broke up with my ex. I met the girl who's 35 at a bar and the girl who just turned 21 at work. The girl who's 21 is really attractive, and really my style in terms of physical appearance. Into a lot of the same things I am but is just so typically 21. Snarky and kinda bitchy, she's alway",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [24F] boyfriends [26M] promotion is slowly breaking him. POST: Since meeting my boyfriend 5 months ago, our relationship has been amazing. He is considerate, hard-working and the only real issue we have had became a non-issue after a good chat. But the current problem isn't something I can fix for him. About 6 months ago my boyfriend got handed an amazing career opportunity - a promotion to sales manager and then the huge leap to acting branch manager. It meant working from anot",positive " r/self TITLE: Interesting Times At Christmas POST: So me and my mom are up late, around 2.30am, watching Christmas movies and she's wrapping up some last minute gifts. I go to look and see what we have for breakfast, I planned on making pancakes and bacon. We didn't have anything for pancakes so she and I went for a walk to the 7-11 near our house and while paying, the debit machine breaks. We could not get the card to work. A random guy walks up and pays for our groceries, it was the weirdest thing. It wa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ever get your hero fired? POST: So, heres my story, and I'm sure someone can top it: When I was an 8 year old, I was a huge Star Wars fanatic (some things never change). My family was moving across the country, and my parents hired a moving company to help us get packed and moved (3 young kids, no easy task). The guy who was packing up my room noticed all my star wars toys, and informed me that he had a speaking role in A New Hope. Basically, his uncle was a senior costume designer (res",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [23M] not mess up my relationship with a friend [25F]? POST: So I'm a quite, introverted guy and never had too many friends - always preferred a couple of close ones to a large groups of acquaintances. I haven't made a new one in years, but about 8 month ago I started hanging out with that girl from work. She's fun, mature and I enjoy our conversations a lot. However maybe too much? I think about her (in a non-sexual way though) not all the time, but a bit more than I'm comf",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22f]Hacked BF's [22m] FACEBOOK and discovered that he frequently searches for a few select women. Should I be worried... and how psychobitch does this make me? POST: My BF gave me his password to log into his computer once and curiously I typed it in as his FB one password ...and VOILA! it worked. one of the worst decisions i've made. i don't have the self control to stop logging in and checking to see what he searches for despite knowing its making me super insecure and causing m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Dear other adults: Have you been dating someone, never initiated phone/text contact with them, but still been really into the other person? POST: Evening all. I realise this is a trivial issue in the scheme of things but if you guys could weigh in and give me some advice I would appreciate it. I've been dating someone for less than a week (I know) but am really into him and want to make it work. He has told me in no uncertain terms that he likes me back and wants to take things furt",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How can I[20M] repair very damaged friendship with two of my best friends[20F] POST: A few months ago I [20M] had a falling out with two of my best friends [20F]. This happened because I told them that ""a month or two earlier I was a little upsetting with how they treated me while I had issues with the rest of our group of friends (and half of the group were my roommates)."" I was in a really bad place at the time and it came out wrong. They didn't take it very well and stopped ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25f] am worried about my aunt [50-60?f] and I don't know what to do. POST: So my mom devastatingly passed away a few weeks ago and no one is really doing all that great , I'm certainly not. I've always known my mom and my aunt anne have never really been able to catch a break and have always had shitty jobs and never a whole lot of money, I've felt really bad for them my whole life. Right now my aunt obviously seems very depressed, her sister just died, she works at sobeys as ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend of mine [19F] recently broke up with her boyfriend of 6 months, had sex with me [19m] and is now feeling bad about it. POST: Im mostly looking for advice on what to say to her... I can't really provide that much info on their relationship, all i really know is that it wasn't really that good for the last month and she was accusing him for cheating.. Im guessing she did it for revenge.. It all happened when we were out drinking with a few friends on our local bar. We were all ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [21 M] of 9 months, admitted he once groped a girl as a child POST: My boyfriend is very sweet and caring. He's not a sort of macho man, more of a dork. A few days ago while sharing secrets my boyfriend told me that he once groped a girl's butt in middle school and he continued even after she said no. I really don't know how to feel about this because the entire time I've known him to be sweet, gentle and caring and now I can't look at him without thinking ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: he gives me the silent treatment POST: When we have arguments he gives the silent treatment and i hate it so i often try to figure out what is the problem because sometimes I dont understand why he would get mad over some stuff. when I try to figure out what is wrong he replies coldly and this gets me mad. I told him already that if something is wrong he should not keep silent and become mean but rather tell me what is the matter but a few days ago we had a little misunderstanding",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my parents [60 M/F], don't know how to approach them about marrying my girlfriend [23 F] of 2 years. POST: I know everyone has their own issues with their parents in one way or another, so that means every situation is going to be different. I've had a fairly normal life other than developing crippling social anxieties such that I'm doing well in academics, music and exercise. But I still struggle dealing with people, and the people I am most afraid to deal with are my",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Mutual feelings remain, what do? POST: I am 18 F and he is 18 M. We were together for a 1.5 years. I moved to Norway on an exchange programme two years ago and he was one of closest friends in my class from the beginning. We grew closer and our friendship developed into a relationship. We went through a lot of life changing things together (the death of family and friends, the pains of growing up, sexuality, emotional pasts etc.) Two weeks ago I moved back to the states for college. W",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting my pants stuck. POST: Today, my parents are volunteering at a carnival until late at night, so I was on my own for dinner. Decided to make some good ol' Bagel Bites, since i'm too lazy to actually cook anything. While waiting for the delicious little wheels of bagel, sauce and cheese to cook, I sat down at the counter and pulled out Ifunny. After looking at some pics, I looked up and noticed the microwave had 5 seconds left and hopped off the chair, which is about 2, maybe 3 f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 23 y/o F, met 24 y/o M in college and reconnected on tinder but.. POST: So, when I was freshman in college I'd occasionally see someone I thought was cute but we never spoke. We matched on Tinder and he told me he was into me back then, then asked to ask hang out over this past weekend. I have at least 4 or 5 pictures of myself on Tinder and the guy obviously knows what I look like since he has seen me in person although its been awhile. Thing is.. I got braces on my top teeth 5 d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to get over jealousy? Me (F/22) boyfriend (M/24), coming up on 6 years. POST: My boyfriend was recently on spring break with his fraternity and a couple of pictures surfaced of him and this girl. One picture looked bad, he had his arm around her and they were really close, like couple close. He swore that she was taking pictures with everyone like that but I haven't seen anyone else on that trip being posted (see the crazy yet?). Then my mom saw one while I was driving back from",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Dating a 31 yr old (im 23) and I'm not sure what to do... POST: I have the most amazing girlfriend. We have been dating for two months and officially boyfriend/girlfriend for a month (as of today actually). We are both entrepreneurs and work a lot of hours each week. I work probably 12-14 hours per day and always have my phone going off when I'm not even technically working, so I'm almost always working unless I'm asleep. She owns a successful Spa / Salon and has always dreamed abo",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Late Dinners and Avoiding Overeating POST: Hi everyone. I'm a first time poster so I guess I'll give some basic info. I'm 5'10, 35years old, and 270lb. I've been trying again and again to get into a routine so I can lose weight but I keep getting messed up at dinner. My day, like everyone's I'm sure, is very busy. I'm up at 6:45 to get my kids ready for school, go to work, pick up my kids around 6:15pm (it's almost an hour drive) and head home. My son is special needs and has a feeding diso",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/M] Girlfriend of 4 years left the country for a year. Not sure what to do. POST: I'm 21, she's 19. I've been going out with her since I was 17. She moved to France for 10 months at the start of September, and before she returns I will be travelling to America to work for the summer. So we will see each other just a handful of times over the next year. I still love her, and I know she loves me, and I'm not sure when I will ever find anyone like her again (I know I'm still y",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I tell my [M/17] friends I don't want to be friends with them anymore? POST: This sounds extremely juvenile, but I've found myself becoming uncomfortable with my friends recently. I was brought up in a conservative home, with strict parents. I had it drilled into me, from an early age, that anything illegal was completely and utterly out of bounds. My friends have recently become friendly with this pothead who dropped out of high school. I'm not friendly with him at all, in f",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I have a job prospect that involves leaving my friends, family, girlfriend and school for more money and a possible salary in the future. POST: I am twenty years old and have a pretty decent job opportunity. This job requires me to move about two hours away from where I live, and my ""weekends"" will be Tuesday and Wednesday, which means any spare time I have to visit any friends or family or my girlfriend is gone. I'll be making around $40,000 a year starting off, in the future wh",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, how should I handle my roommate when settling some end-of-the-lease finances? POST: Yay college questions! Anyway, the current roommate in my apartment has only recently tried finding a subletter for the summer. Meanwhile, I recently secured one after more than 2 months of active searching. I believe the reason he has delayed this search for so long is because he is guaranteed a sum of money from his future job through a relocation package. His trying to find a subletter ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [21M] call out my ex [18F] for lying, or just let it go? I dumped her a week ago POST: My gf moved two hours away to college two weeks ago. That weekend she went to a party and got smashed to the point she passed out and had to be carried back to her room. The next morning she told me about it and I asked if anything happened between her and another guy or something. She told me three times that there weren't even any guys there and that it was just her and four other girls ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by falling asleep under a tree POST: This happened when I was 18 and I'm almost 27 now. I can't believe it's been so long since the day that changed my life forever... I went backpacking in Mexico by myself after my parents got divorced and my grandpa passed away from cancer within my first semester at university. I traveled around and ended up meeting a group of locals who were around my age with similar interests as me. We decided to buy tickets to a music festival just outside of G",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/M] I don't feel the same about my Girlfriend. And it's killing me. And she's going to the military in 3 months. POST: My girlfriend and I have been going out for 10 months. But we've known each other for almost 2 years. We went from best friends, to being in a relationship. We've always had our ups and downs but I've loved her since the beginning. Always promised her that i'd never leave. Now let's backtrack to last month. We were fighting a lot and she kept getting mad a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you deal with having too many hobbies? POST: I become INSANELY passionate about my hobbies and I have way too many!! Three things about my personality: 1. I have a very obsessive personality. 2. I'm super competitive. 3. I have many interests and I feel very vested in them. Being full time employed, I am really torn on how to spend my time away from work. My hobbies: 1. I have spent countless hours learning the ins and outs of poker, pool, and any competitive betting t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by insisting on driving POST: I recently got my full driving license. I live in town but attend a rural school where many students drive there own cars, including most of my friends, but not me. So while i had my license, I was still taking the bus to school regularly while my parents took the car. Today, by happenstance, my dad had an operation in the city that my mother had to take him to. I was granted use of the car for the day which meant driving to to school!! I gleefully took the",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [M/20] I think I might have upset someone (F/25?)by not replying to their email. (Social Anxiety involved). POST: I met this girl a few months ago during a meet-up for people with social anxiety/shyness. I really don't know a whole lot about her so I might be spitballing a bit here. Bottom line is she sent me an email one day asking me if I'd like to do something with her sometime. I interpreted this as merely a friendly invitation to hang out but I think she may have meant som",negative " r/Advice TITLE: science fair question (soz if dumb question) POST: Hey whoever's here, so I need some advice. For uni we have a science fair project and our group had a really good idea that was creative etc and I got my parts to a pretty refined part for it. But then two days ago my group felt the idea wasn't quite clear and decided to go with a different idea. Currently what we've done looks really tacky and messy compared to the first idea. I'm kinda disappointed bc we're not gonna do as well for sure b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my overbearing, clingy, south asian parents [50s M/F]. I'm planning on moving out this year. What is the best time to tell them and how is the best way to tell them. POST: Honestly, its mostly my dad who is extremely clingy and overbearing. When I was in college, he would expect me to visit every weekend and call him every day. I never got along with my parents. They were very strict and didn't allow me to have much of a life growing up. Anyways, I plan to move out s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31M] interested in [~25F], was her supervisor last week, she is leaving my department this week. How should I go about asking her out? POST: To explain the situation the woman in question was assigned to work with me last week for a two week stint at my department. I was her direct supervisor last week, but this week handed off my duties and am working in a different department. She will be leaving our department for good at the end of this week. I am fairly certain she will be r",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why not just expect the worse outcome of every possible situation? POST: I don't mean be a debbie downer, or expect everyone to die all the time, but what is the point in hoping for something? I suck ass at explaining things so let me use an example. Say you are entering a competition. You are one of four people who can win a nice prize, lets say $500. Here is where this little ideology comes in. You hope your going to win, wait and wait and beat the fuck out of your f5 the day the w",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to Sexapalooza POST: In case anyone doesn't know, Sexapalooza is like the sex version of Comicon. I was walking around with my girlfriend, and we decided to check out ""The Dungeon"". Inside, there were people in bondage, people getting whipped, and all sorts of freaky bdsm stuff. I turn around, and my dad is standing just a few feet next to me. He is standing there with some woman (who is not my mother) and proceeds to eat her face. I'm in a BDSM dungeon watching my married dad m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Getting my first car for the summer. What should I know? POST: A little background: I'm going to be entering my senior year of college this upcoming Fall and would like to get a car. I'll have about $8-10k after my summer internship, and am thinking of getting a used Prius for the gas savings. The reason being is because my university is located about 76 miles away from home, and I plan on going home almost every weekend. I don't know much about cars other than the little research I've ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Neighbor having mental health issues, anything I can do? POST: So, I've lived in the same apartment for a long while now, and I love it. Tiny little studio facing into a nature park right near downtown, it's awesome. About a month(?) ago, a new neighbor moved in. He set off my spidey senses a little bit from the get-go, but acted nice enough, so I didn't think much of it. Unfortunately, shortly after moving in and every day or two since then, he's exploded into screaming fits. Violent ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What to do in this situation... POST: So at this bar I frequent, a rather tall and lanky fellow claims to be a US Marine. Coming from a bit of a military family, I was naturally excited to talk to the guy. I asked him what his unit was and he simply brushed the question aside and exclaimed he was at Fallujah and in Afghanistan as though I attacked his credibility. Gave rise to a little suspicion but whatever. Later, I find this guy is telling the bartender he is US Navy Special Forces. N",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What would you do if I told you I banged your sister? POST: So I've known this guy for about 5 years, and 4 years ago I got engaged to his younger sister. Let's call him Tim. Through that relationship I got really close to Tim, and the rest of her family; in fact he's pretty much my best friend and I hang out with the family at least once a month. (Let me preface this by saying that both I and the family I am referencing pretty much believe in monogamous relationships/sex) About 1.5 ye",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Was it just for fun, or is she interested? How do I find out without escalating? POST: Me: 34/M, Her: 27/M Last night, several of my friends and I went out dancing in West Hollywood, including a young lady that I've met at several functions over the last couple of months. We have a lot of mutual friends, she's quite striking, and we have a fair number of common interests, however, I've never sensed she was interested in being anything beyond friends, so never thought about trying to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend of 1.5y [21 F] just confessed that she had sex while drunk on holiday... 3 weeks after I [21 M] asked her out. POST: My girlfriend of 1.5y [21 F] just confessed that she had sex while drunk on holiday... 3 weeks after I [21 M] asked her out. Really not sure what to do or even how to feel right now. She confessed it this morning, telling me that it had been weighing on her for the entirety of our relationship, and it honestly feels like a brick to the head. Some backst",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your biggest ""not-sure-if-gusta"" moment Reddit? POST: Mine is quite disgusting, but I'll start. So it started with a huge family dinner one night, I'm talking HUGE. So I ended up horribly overeating and unfortunately had some of the worst and largest farts of my life that night. So anyway, I jumped in the shower later and decided to wack-off a quick one. Well I'm this close to finishing up and mid fap I let loose one of the most massive farts I have ever experienced in my life. I",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting too drunk in Delaware POST: This happened new years eve night. For the record, I have a terrible history on new years eve, including an underage and a nightmarish Dui experience. This new years, as is tradition, I fucked up again. My buddies couldn't figure out whether we wanted to go to the bars for new years or try to find a party in our small hometown. When we decided against the bars, my friend had a seemingly great idea to go to the university of delaware, where he is enr",negative " r/jobs TITLE: I'm stuck in a low-end job cycle and don't know what to do about it anymore. POST: I guess I'll start with a short synopsis of how I got to where I am today. In May of 2015 I graduated from college with a Computer Science Degree and a minor in Finance; average grades across the board. All the counselors I saw on campus thought that with this combo finding a decent job would be easy. I attended job fairs and applied at companies that I found interesting. 3 months before graduation came aroun",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My partner [22/m] and I [22/f] are reaching a crossroads in our relationship. POST: So, we've been together over 5 years. We've been dating since high school, moved in together after 2 years and haven't looked back. Our relationship is completely stable except for one particular instance. I am a fairly motivated person and I have several life goals I'd like to achieve, while he does not. He has no job ideas, though he is attending university. He has no ambitions he wants to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (F/16) doesn't know if she should tell her parents about me (M/16) POST: My girlfriend of about 4 weeks doesn't know if she should tell her parents about me. We've known each other for about five years and her parents know me as well, just not very well. Her parents are conservative religious and albeit her parents said that she could date (however, they wouldn't approve of it) a while ago, my girlfriend doesn't really know what to do. She thinks that her parents wi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your ""I almost died"" story? I'll start. POST: When I was around 12-14 me and a couple friends were playing around in a house that was being built. It was winter and there was a couple inches of snow on the ground. We were on the first floor, but the house was on a hill so there was a second story window in the kitchen. We were throwing these two foot metal spikes tied to string we found down from the window, trying to spear cardboard that was in a pile of construction garbage. We ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with coworker [17F] how do I get her to stop annoying me without hurting her feelings? POST: Ok, so there's this girl at work. She's 17 and has a shiton of issues. She told us (without us asking) that she used to cut herself, she suffered from depression and a million other things. The problem is that for the past two weeks she has been getting too touchy feely with me and I don't like it. As a matter of fact, I don't like her and she annoys the ever living crap out of me",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I (24F) don't want a relationship with a previous FWB (24M). Not sure how to be nice about it. POST: Sorry it might be silly but I come from a generally conservative family/friends and I really don't know who to ask about this.. So me and him met in college and thought of each other as hot, but didn't act on it. Couple years out of college, we meet again, and our a little-more-than-acquaintance-friendship becomes a FWB briefly. It was a FWB because he was looking for a job and may",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Dog park issues POST: So I have a 1.5 year old rescued Australian Cattle Dog named Casper who is super energetic. I usually go to a local dog park 4x a week to keep his energy at home down. Last week, I took him and was playing fetch with him when another dog collided with him midair and he fell hard. He got up fine but just left the ball and walked straight to me and laid down at my feet. A few moments later another dog came to sniff him and Casper snapped at him, which is unusual. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [26M] of 3 years hasnt introduced me [21F] to his family yet... POST: Hi everyone, just made an account so I could post this... I really need some advice I want to start off by saying I feel so sad about this, I can't communicate with my boyfriend who I love and care for more than anything on this earth... I have been in a pretty serious relationship for 3 years with my boyfriend. In those 3 years he has met my family, we have moved to another country together for be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [26 M] GF [24F] of one year said some thoughtless shit. Am I being sensitive? POST: So my girlfriend had a bit of a wild history before she met me. She went through a bit of a rough time and hooked up with a decent amount of people before me. I don't think she's cheating on me or anything. She just says off-putting things sometimes and I wonder if I'm being sensitive. A lot of times she'll see a hot celebrity on TV and say ""I'd fuck him"" or ""he's hot"", which doesn't really bot",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girlfriend (21f) broke up with me (21m), we got back together and now I'm regretting it. POST: Basically our relationship is great, we both love each other and we both get along very well with our friends and family. We were together for 8 months living in the same city, and the past 6 have been long distance. We still managed to see each other every weekend. She broke up with me because there was no end date to this long distance thing, after a week she caved in contacted me",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me [20/F] moving in with boyfriend [22/M] tomorrow, second thoughts... POST: I have been dating my boyfriend for quite some time, (around a year) but he lives around 4 hours away, so we decided a few months ago that once his lease was up in June, we would move into our own place. Great! I was head over heels with this guy. My family though, being of Arab descent, disagreed immensely about moving in with a guy. They made sure my life would be a living hell until I left. It has b",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Is this normal behavior by a non-conservative [35/F] girl ? POST: I posted this earlier, but people got upset by the labels I used, so here is the PC version of this story: I [M/36] just started going out with this girl [F/35] and I'm a bit surprised at her behavior on our 3rd date. We didn't do anything on our first couple of dates. Not even holding hands or hugging. On the third date, I walked her to her door, and I wanted to give her a kiss goodnight. Next thing I know, we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30F] with my boss [34M] of 6 months: subordinate/boss relationships and asking for transfer POST: Hey! 30F with a newish job of 6 months. I've been crushing on my boss hardcore in the time since my first interview. We talked about it and he feels similarly (even though he probably shouldn't have admitted that). Yes, I know shitting where you eat is usually a terrible idea. We work in a fairly laid back but still professional non-profit. We have the typical company handbook rules",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (15 M) made out with a girl who is not my girlfriend, even though me and my (15 F) girlfriend are about to break up POST: Ok so me and my current girlfriend have hit a very rough patch, and me and her both know it's about to end. We both want to break up we just need to say it. Tonight at a party I made out with a girl (not my girlfriend) and feel really bad about it. Repeat: I have not broken up with my girlfriend yet, but am about to. Do I tell my girlfriend? I don't want to be ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 F] am terrified of telling my mom about my boyfriend [31 M] POST: My boyfriend and I have been known each other for a year and have been seeing each other for 5 months, but didn't make our relationship official until about 3 months ago. My mom knows we are in a relationship, but she doesn't know how old he is and hasn't met him yet. I am terrified of telling her his age. She will be very upset that I'm dating someone much older than me, understandably. I am serious about our ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Today I got told I 'destabilized' a girl. Fun. POST: Yeah, so this happened while in the staircase of the building where I live and she got out of her apartment to walk her dog. We're both around 20 I suppose. So I and the person with me let her go down the stairs first. So OK, and I get told I destabilized her, that she ran away, etc. That actually made me laugh, it's always pleasurable to hear this as a guy. But the thing with this is I'm of these guys who never had a girlfriend and",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by accepting free drinks on my birthday POST: First, some context. Saturday was my birthday, and it's when the fuckup happened. I was leaving work around 9pm (my boss let me leave one hour earlier since it was my birthday) and decided to stop by a cafe on my way home since I was friends with the owner (let's call him bob). He wasn't there so I drank a couple of beers and was ready to go my way when a girl I'm into (I'm a male) sent me a message asking me out to a party. I already made p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Clueless (24F) on where things with (26M) are going and How to break down these ""walls"" I have up. POST: Me (24F) and (26M) have started seeing each other again after not talking for a good 3 months. It has been about a month so far. We had previously been seeing other 5 months up until I ended due to his lack of effort in talking to me. He's in the Navy and I understand that his job requires him to be away and there are days where we can't send out an email, but the emails he did se",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [M19] too hopeful or getting subtle signs from my crush [F20]? POST: I care so much about her and I have for years. I've known her since highschool and I'm now graduated from it. I told her about my feelings about 2 years ago and she claimed she had felt the same way once but not anymore, Though it could have been her taking pity on me. In any case, Things got quiet, My deep feelings for her finally calmed and even though I still cared about her very much, I got over her. Recen",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [21M], he doesn't see a future together after 2 months POST: My boyfriend of two months told me last night that he doesn't see a future together with me. He has told me multiple times (I've asked multiple times) that he doesn't know why, it's just a nagging feeling. This came out of left field to me, because everything was great leading up to about a week and a half ago. He wouldn't answer anything from me (snapchats, calls, and texts) because he said he w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most traumatizing thing that's ever happened to you? POST: My best friend and I were supposed to attend the same Ivy League school. We had an apartment reserved, and both of us had weekend jobs lined up. He was going to play D1 lacrosse, I was going for pre med. We both moved to different high schools our junior year of high school; he went to a prep school, I went to a predominantly white school 10 miles from our reservation (we're Mohawk indians). Well, he was home for chr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (22F) am having an increasingly hard time getting my SO (26M) to open up. We've been together for a year and a half. POST: Until two months ago, everything was fine. We never fought, I didn't get annoyed with him, it was all fine. He's been there for me through some tough times and I love him so much. But lately I've been trying to express things that I'm concerned about and that make me feel unappreciated such as I've never once gotten a spontaneous gift or date, I got him stuff f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: A girl [22F] I [22M] met from Nepal and her kissing techniques. Cultural difference or something else? POST: So I met a girl from Nepal recently and things have been getting pretty heavy. I get really thrown off by her kissing method though. Neither her nor I are virgins, so I don't believe it's from inexperience, but it seems like we're on two different pages when it comes to kissing or ""making out."" I've always kissed using the French kiss style. She, on the other hand does somethi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] girlfriend [20F]'s medication has obliterated her libido. POST: My girlfriend [20F] of over five years has been taking birth control for nearly as long as we've been dating--aside from the obvious reasons, she has severely debilitating menstruation, which the birth control ameliorates. She started with one pill, but switched to another (Loestrin, I believe) when the former made her sick. She also started taking a Zoloft substitute for anxiety last year. Since she has been o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (25m) ask my roommates to be quiet after 11PM? POST: I (25m) have two roommates. A 54 year old man and his 57 year old sister who just moved into the house. I am in a tough place financially, which is why I'm in this crappy situation until I get back on my own feet. My rent here is cheap and I plan to move out as I can. They are extremely loud, ungraceful and obnoxious with their volume levels. They are constantly yelling and making loud noises while playing with the dogs ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you completely change your diet to avoid processed foods? POST: Recently I've gotten into reading up on how meat packing plants operate, crops are grown and I've watched a few documentaries on how food is supplied and distributed in America. It's fucking disgusting. I know that my diet is not going to take complete 180 degree turn, but I'd like to put that up there as my goal. Do I stop shopping at Safeway and start shopping at Trader Joe's / Whole Foods? I'm lucky enough to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28M] am getting less intimate with my wife [29F] (together for 7 years), we disagree about raising our child, and I feel frustrated and lonely POST: I don't know if my wife cares about me anymore. We lose intimacy with every passing day. This week we fought over me trying to teach my son to play chess. She was saying I should let him win. I wasn't playing for real, but things happened and he lost (he's 6). He starts crying which I thought was funny, she procedes to tell me what a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Have you ever heard a reasonable ultimatum? Details inside. POST: I (30f) have been with my boyfriend (30m) about a year and a half now. We live together with our 2 cats and have been planning on getting married for a while. No official proposal yet, but plenty of future planning. We fight a lot. Mind you, I am no saint and have plenty of flaws of my own. But he has major emotional problems from several past traumas, and because of that our fights can become just vicious. He says a",negative " r/loseit TITLE: The challenge of overnights- Advice? POST: Hi Sheddit! I'm looking for some advice on a persistant problem with my healthy lifestyle efforts. I basically work 7 days a week to pay off a credit card, and during the week I have no problem sticking to my gym/diet plan. But on the weekends I work 1a-9a and wind up having breakfast and lunch at work because I am physically hungry, then go home and go to bed, then wake up and have another two meals because I'm more or less squeezing two days int",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21 F] My boyfriend [20 M] lives with someone who makes me uncomfortable POST: My boyfriend lives in an apartment with a few roommates. We're both college students so we both have roommates. However, all my room mates are female and just friends. He lives with guys and girls, but one of the girls he's lived with he's been with when drunk. They never had sex but they did other stuff. He says he doesn't like her and they were just really drunk but sometimes I'm a little insecure about ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Trying to learn Portuguese in memory of my Grandmother. POST: For as long as i remember my grandmother smoked up a storm. Hell i clearly remember when she used to watch me when i was around 6. The trash bags filled with Marb. Reds so she could collect the bar codes, waking up in the morning and always finding her in the garden outside, and the cabinet, second from the right, with 6 screw drivers hanging on the door, that held the meter stick she used to 'discipline' me with. God i love h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I've[27F] been on 3 dates with a guy[26M] and now he's dropped off the face of the earth POST: I've been out of the dating game for 4 years and now I'm trying to break back in. It's hard to meet people where I am so I've been trying okcupid a little bit. I messaged this guy a few weeks back because I thought we had a lot in common and he immediately messaged me back with plans for a date the following week. We've been on three dates since the middle of June. Communication between",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Lock me out? I hope you sleep with ear plugs. POST: My parents have expressed their desire for my brother and I to move out by changing the locks after much drama in the past and present. Instead of giving me a key so I could still live there in peace, they have decided to lock me out whenever I leave the house for work, socializing, or they are just feeling like dicks. I have since moved most of my stuff into my new room since I'm sharing a place with a couple people I met on craigs",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU Gets girls number, Forgets my phone got stolen POST: Ok, so I was at a band competition today and I saw a cute girl decked out in all TMNT gear. In my mind I thought, ""It only takes 5 seconds of bravery."" Now, I am not known for my ladies man attributes. I work up the courage, go over to her talk to her for a second, hug her, get her phone number, you know the basic shit. I feel extremely successful that I got her phone number. I go back to the bus only to realize a critical point. My ph",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24/m] made her [22] feel undesirable and now we are 6 hours apart and have had very little communication since. POST: I'll try to make this concise. The girlfriend [22] and I [24] had been dating for 4 months. We planned on me living with her for a few weeks while my apartment was being put together. We normally have a very active sex life and we are both very into each each. We make points to make sure the other knows how much we care. I stayed with her for a week and during ",positive " r/running TITLE: Brook's PureFlows fit changed with the 4s and need suggestions of other brands to consider. POST: Fingers crossed I get clearance from my Dr tomorrow to get out of my air cast and scooter situation and start tapering back into full weight-bearing life including exercise and eventually running! I've spent since the beginning of April trying to get a stress reaction to heal in my cuboid. I tried on my road running shoes a couple days ago (to test if I felt my foot was healed), which are Bro",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [20] is leaving for the army in January, but now he's beginning to change his mind, and I [17F] am unsure of what to do. POST: Reddit, I am so conflicted. We've been long distance since the beginning - he's from the US, I'm from Canada. We've dated for about four months and he flew over to see me once. In January he'll be leaving for Basic Training. I can't help but wonder what our future is going to be like. There'll be six years apart, although we'd probably be able to s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I posted this on /r/teenagers a few hours ago, I [16 M] want your opinions! POST: So basically, I was supposed to ask this girl out to a date last week. But, I found out that she likes (or I'm pretty freaking sure) one of my friends. Anyways, my friend actually started talking to her like 2 weeks ago, and he wanted to give me good cred, but they started talking like every night, and I didn't find out until he told me. I'm perfectly fine with it, albeit, a little hurt that he didn't t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] dont know what to do with my GF[20F] POST: So I don't know what to do. The situation is that my girlfriend and I have been dating for the past year. We go to college together and live on opposite sides of the country. From the start the relationship has been rocky. Looking back I haven't been the perfect boyfriend but I also know she has never been able to let anything go and at times she feels controlling and maybe manipulative but id rather not get into that now. Anyway re",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: How to break our dog's 'guarding' habits? POST: Hello all, My girlfriend and I have adopted a rescue 2-3 y/o (1/2 pitbull and 1/2 Basenji) and it's been about 6 or 7 months since we've taken her under our wing. 1st off she is loving and super sweet to all (under the right conditions). If we're in our home -> she's great with guests. If we're out walking at the park -> she's great in passing and even with light interaction. It's when we sit down away from home - she goes into t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my new Girlfriend [19 F] of one month, she wants to have sex but I don't feel comfortable with it. POST: Quick summation of our relationship thus far: Met as a friend of friend 3 months ago; hung out a bunch of times; eventually came to terms with our mutual attraction; went on a few dates so far; only made out for 2 weeks, and have done ""everything but"" so far. So, me and her have been having a good time with each other, but she wants to have PIV sex at this point",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I [18m] took a girl [18f] on a coffee date and she said that she feels like she knows me well enough to start dating? POST: So as the title suggests, I went and asked a girl out for coffee, she accepted and we ended up hanging out and talking for a long time it was great - we had heaps of fun. What happened afterwards though was that she messaged me saying that she does like me a lot but feels like she doesn't know me well enough to start officially dating (which is fair enough) but",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Keeping details from my past hidden from everyone is really fucking annoying. POST: Well, I'm 30 years old, successful (making 93k/yr), married, have a kid. Life is good now, but it wasn't always that way. When I was 10 I was sodomized by an older teen who said ""don't worry, I'll suck you and you can suck me, that way we'll both know what its like when girls do it."" didn't even realize the guy was a pedo at the time, and didn't tell anyone. Also Dad was pretty abusive to both my mom",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] still heart broken with my first gf [17 f] I don't get it and I cry every day since 7 months ago. POST: I don't get it. I don't get why I am still in love with her. It's been 7 months and I still can't stop thinking about her. She broke up with me because she thought she wasn't good enough. This honestly hurt me extremely because I've tried everything to be happy and we never argued in this relationship until she said that and I wanted her back. Also, struggling with de",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by buying condoms at WalMart POST: This happened this morning: My roommate and I are seniors in college, attending university in a particularly rural part of Pennsylvania. As you could very well imagine, the local WalMart attracts a unique cast of characters. We drive to WalMart to buy our weekly necessities (garbage bags, soap, detergent, all the boring stuff), and I remembered that I had used up all of my condoms over the past week (met an awesome girl). Maintaining responsibility fo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [26m] am starting to worry my girlfriend's [29f] fear of intimacy may stem from abuse. How do I ask without risking making her feel inadequate? POST: Been together about 9 months. We are both virgins, so it's totally understandable that she'd be nervous about experimenting. I am too. But last night when we were making out and getting a little physical, she asked if we could keep the touching above the clothes, and take things in baby steps, because she is ""terrified."" It wasn't cl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend [23F] who might want to date me [23M] is sending me gifts. POST: Friend and I went to college together, have known each other for five years. While at a party in college, 1 year ago, she said that if I was single she would definitely want to date me. I was dating someone at the time, so I reminded her of that, she apologized, blamed it on the alcohol, and we then ignored that the conversation occurred. Three months ago I broke up with my girlfriend and have been single ever si",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (22M) crush on a girl(18F). Don't know how to go about this. How should I start? POST: Hell ladies, sorry to deserve you with my problems but I have a problem. I have a huge crush. Like huge high school crush. Anyway, there is this girl I know at church. She is beautiful. Like I stare at her and look at a morning sunset, they both equal in beauty. She's so beautiful. Anyway, I just realized I have a crush. I'm 22 and she's 18. She goes to my church and she gorgeous. The problem is",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My birthday was March 7 and my bf [24M] didn't get me a gift, or hasn't gotten one for me [22F]. Is this a huge red flag or am I just being selfish? [dating 7mths] POST: We got each other christmas gifts and valentine's gifts, so I don't think I'm too out of line with this. I dropped hints all month and the week before with cheap and expensive gifts of what I want and I haven't gotten anything. He has a steady job (actually just switched jobs in which he got twice as much pay), he ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [WA] Mechanic ""fixed"" my crashed car, took 6 weeks. Got it back and the wheel broke off after 30 miles. POST: I crashed my car mid May, the only real damage was to the passenger front wheel. It was bent in the wrong direction and the power steering was leaking fluid. I had it towed to my house and a mechanic left his information on my windshield one day. Didn't trust him from day one but went with it because of the low price (Initial estimates of 6k, he said he'd do it for 3k). Body wo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 F] am worried about being accused of stealing drugs from my [23 F] friend POST: A good friend of mine got diagnosed with breast cancer back in August. She has been going through chemo, so obviously she is being prescribed pain pills as well as anxiety pills. Well, I get a group text on Saturday saying someone has been stealing her pills. She didn't say what they were, but said it has happened a few other times and they were the same type of medication (that had street value). ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Took in a stray for a week, apartment bathroom damaged. POST: I lived in a mid-rise apartment in the Dallas, TX area and I'm not sure what I should do here. A few months back I took in a stray dog who was quite literally starving to death on the side of the road, and after calling a few shelters to see if they could take the dog and being either denied or ignored at each, and also not wanting to take the dog to the pound just yet, I cleaned her up and let her stay in my apartment for a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are transgendered people feeling when they say they have always ""felt"" like a man or woman? POST: I submitted this question before, but got 0 comments, so I will ask again, because I am really interested in knowing.... Whenever transgendered people talk about how they came to their sex-change decision, they always reference ""feeling like a man"" or ""feeling like a woman"", sometimes from a very young age. While I believe that they have these feelings, I have never heard these feeling",positive " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by lifting the wrong pair of glasses POST: Classic 'this didn't happen today' but it happened more recently than I'd like to admit. I'm 17, so my Catholic parents still make me attend mass with them. This happened a few weeks ago, and I still feel embarrassed about it. I'll do my best to explain this- we were sitting in the order of, me, then dad, then mum. When we go to communion, this order got swapped around so it was then my mum, then dad and then me. So I discovered my mums pair",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [37 M] with my friend [35 M] of 13yrs who keeps his family life private, his Dad is dying. How can I show support while respecting his privacy? POST: My friend's father is dying of cancer and expected to only live a few more weeks. My friend (let's call him George) won't take help from his support system of friends, instead he's bottling his feelings as he historically has done (Example: one night he broke down crying, letting a lot of pent-up feelings out after an argument he had",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] gave my crush [25F] a birthday present; was it too much? POST: I had some free time last week and put together a birthday present for a classmate that I have feelings for. We are both fans of Pokémon, so I got her a plush and painted a clear bowl to make it into a PokéBall container for the plush. Her birthday is this coming Monday, but I decided to give her the present early. I asked her yesterday when she was free so I could give her the present, but she said, ""You didn't h",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: The stress of school is making me an unpleasant person to be around POST: I'm stressed out. Like really stressed! Let me start with a little bit of background information. I'm a very determined person, so when I have a goal I will do whatever it takes to achieve it. After highschool my goal was to become a paramedic. 3 years later I had graduated a college medic program and been hired with the service I wanted to work for. This alone was quite the feat. Where I live, in Canada, there",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've had feelings for my best friend for over a year now and I'm going crazy. POST: So I (M-18) have had feelings for my best friend (F-18) for over a year after she started telling me she liked me while I was still in high school. (I'm now in college and she's still in high school.) She was also dating a cousin of mine who was a female, but said she no longer had feelings for her. We tried to make things work many many times and she always changed her mind. (Pretty sure because s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my Wife[31, F], 8 years ,Cheating wife keeps using it against me POST: I am not e very good writer an English is not my first language, so bear with me please. Me and my wife are married for the last 5 years I fell in love with here while i was volunteering in another country, Head over heels and for me it was, Or i stay in here country and not going to be happy (The people in that country are not know for there friendliness) or i take here with me to my country and ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: 28F perpetually single and tired of it. Help me please? POST: Hello reddit. Long time lurker here needing a bit of advice. I am a 28F who has never dated before. I have been fairly shy my whole life which of course makes meeting people difficult. I have made very big strides towards a more outgoing life over the past couple years. Talking to strangers (this idea used to terrify me), doing more fun activities outside the apt and my usual friends, dressing more attractively, ect ...",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf(M27) is unemployed but not doing much about it. POST: My boyfriend of almost 4 years has lost his job in February and since then has had no stable income. We have had to move back to my mothers house which is stressing me out to the moon and back due to her hoarding and the house being an hour away from the city. I'm 22F and still studying but also taking any and all temp jobs just to get some income. My boyfriend seems to literally not do anything - he checks LinkedIn for jo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I got fired from my job almost a year ago and still haven't been able to find employment since. My life is in shambles and I don't know what to do, advice? POST: First, I got fired from my job. It wasn't the best job in the world but it was a job. I was fired for not punching out for my hour long breaks. It was dumb of me I will admit but they had been cutting my hours and the extra money was something I needed if I were to pay my bills and rent on time. Then three months later my girl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my BF [21 M] 1.5 Years - How do you guys deal with being attracted to people that are not your SO? POST: I'm in a happy long distance relationship (Please leave out your personal opinion on LDRs, I've probably heard it twenty times by now.) and even though I know it's normal to experience some sort of attraction towards other members of the opposite sex I wanted to know about healthy ways of dealing with it. There is no one in particular I have the risk of cheating wi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How should I[23 M] ask out a mutual friend[early 20's F] that I never really interacted with before? (x-post from /r/dating_advice) POST: I apologize if I'm not allowed to x-post, but since I wasn't getting any responses in /r/dating_advice, here it goes: I currently go to college in a town that's not too far from my hometown. So, a few days ago, a friend of mine from high school (22 M) happened to be in the area and randomly asked to hang out. While hanging out with him, he decides",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Commitment Issues. Wouldn't mind some help. POST: Hey reddit, wouldn't mind a little help here. I've been kept up at night a long time for this, and it's finally getting to the point where I could use some help. Essentially the full situation is that about 2 years ago now I broke up with a long term girlfriend, and probably one of the strongest loves of my life. There were many issues involved, but the breakup never affected us talking to each other/being friends. I've been in ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: my now ex-gf (17/f) and I (18/m) still want to get back together, but don't, need advice! POST: **Prepare for a wall of text...** So my recent ex-girlfriend (of about 4.5 months, we were around each other a majority of the time) and I broke up for a mutual reason, that being we didn't think that we were cut out for each other. Every month, she would get an anxiety she calls ""the feeling"", which would and she would get a look on her face that resembles a mixture of sadness and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [34 M] with my wife [33 F] of 5 years, have grown apart and have a son [1.5 years] POST: We got married mostly because of a visa restriction, my wife(girlfriend at the time) was going to have to go back to her home country. We decided to get married so she could stay, we did love each other, need and want each other so it didn't seem that crazy at the time. A few years down the track, she gets permanent residency and immediately falls pregnant (after stopping her contraception p",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: should i do this, reddit? POST: well a while ago my friend introduced me to this one girl, and we immediately clicked. we have tons in common and she's the closest friend i've ever had. all our friends say we should be together, and she wants to be with me a lot, but i dont really have teh need or want to have a girlfriend and haven't for a while because i went out with this girlw ho i thought i was in love with but wasn't, so i'm not sure how love should feel. but anyway, what",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should we stay together ? POST: I'm going to be a senior in high school and at the current moment I'm dating a girl who is going to be a college freshman. Within a month and a half she will be moving 6 hours away to attend school. I don't know what to do. We've been dating for 5 months (doesn't sound very long) but I'm crazy about her and she is crazy about me. I've never been so in love and she told me that she hasn't either. I know it's love and neither lust nor infatuation because",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girl [19 F] I'm [23 M] seeing tells me she kissed another guy at the bar and almost went to his hotel. What is she trying to tell me? POST: So a girl I've been seeing for a few weeks meets me for a walk and we were chatting. We've made out pretty heavily, danced at bars, and met multiple times for lunch. I've gotten to know her and feel there's something here. So I'm starting to think we can move past the dating ""getting to know you"" phase and maybe start being something. Back to ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being honest with my Dad. POST: So, here I am, reading a speech for a school assignment, and my Dad calls me downstairs. I go to the middle of the stairs and stick my head out the side like I usually do. The observant might point out that I did this in order to remain as far away as possible while still holding the ""respectable amount of eye contact"". My Dad and I aren't that close, we don't spend much time together due to his work schedule, and whenever we are in the house together I",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking my case off my phone. POST: I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 that I haven't had for more than a couple months. My screen became defective yesterday for no apparent reason. It had horizontal bars across the screen that affected the display, but not the touch properties because I could still use it. Other than that the phone was fine. No cosmetic damage because I took care of it and always had a case on it. Today I decided to take it back. Overnight it got worse and half of the s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Mom is getting ready to leave Dad, dad has no idea anything is wrong because Mom hasn't said anything... should I say/do anything? POST: Long story short: my mom is planning on leaving my dad once she feels secure enough to be on her own financially (they're not married). I know because she shared it with me in confidence to which I asked if she had expressed her concerns and the why's of her leaving with my dad to which she said she hadn't. I asked why, her response, ""he's old and he's ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by walking in on my mom going down on another woman POST: Yup. You read that correctly. 21 here. Went over to my mom's yesterday morning. She convinced me to stay until Sunday morning. I don't want to listen to the guilt trips, so I stayed. Now, my mom had a friend over late evening. My brother and I dislike this friend of hers so we just lock ourselves in our respective rooms. Headphones on, Netflix and Spotify streaming. Same for my brother but replace Netflix with CS: GO and tellin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26F] think my 2 year relationship with my boyfriend [33M] is over. We both want to continue the relationship but he is showing no effort. Am I being obsessive or should I move on? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for almost 2 years and it was a wonderful time. I moved in with him after a couple months of dating and it has always been fun. We have never had any issues at all. This last month he did a 180 of his character. He stopped touching me, reduced talking to me, s",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by buying a oneplus one POST: Like most other TIFU posts this didn't actually happen today but today is when I realised I fucked up. Back in February of this year I decided it was time to buy a new phone. So I looked what was available on the market. The oneplus one caught my eye as it had good specs for a cheap price. Up until a few months ago I had no problems with my phone, then I began to get poor battery. So I hit the forums to see what everyone else is experiencing. They all said",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO (25, M) and I (25, f) disagree on how much you should rely on someone when you're in a relationship POST: Hopefully I (25, F) can explain this! Basically my SO (25, M) is a little stress bunny and even the smallest things can get to him and eat him up inside. When he's stressed he shakes, gets ill, it's very noticeable. I've also been going through a lot of stress recently, mainly stemming from my brother dying a few weeks ago. The sum of our big argument at the moment is",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My sister [22 F] is cheating on her boyfriend [23 M] while he's away at bootcamp and I don't know what to do about it POST: So my sister [22F] has been more-than going out with this guy [23M] for not even a year yet. 2 months after they started dating she got a tattoo on her wrist for him, 4 months after that they were living together. Trust me, I know she's an idiot, you don't have to bring that up. Two months after living together (in his house) he gets a call from the National G",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my sort of fwb/secret lover [42 M] of almost a year, says ""he loves kissing me"" POST: So long story, short, I fool sexually around with this guy, we get along beyond great, we're always thinking the same thing, and when it started he seemed okay with the lack of any commitment from him. (knowing i have a bf) So today we go for lunch and a bj, and he says""I love kissing you"" and I cant lie, I love kissing him, so I said it back. Then we kind of laughed it off, and he ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my ex [20F] during 5 years, she broke me. POST: Hi reddit, I don't really know why i'm posting here.. I think I'm a bit tipsy... Btw, I'm a young french guy and I apologize for my mistakes. I've meet N (I'll name her as this) at the high-school, I was 16 yo and I fell in love with her in a few talks. After a year w/ her, we decided to move in together. Everything was perfect (there were some argues, but anything unusual). I was imaging our future (wedding, child ...) A",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 26[M] here with 29[F] for 4 years. Having issues with 'ups and downs' due to shallow reasons? POST: Details in the subject. Obviously getting to the age where we're both considering the next level of the relationship, however, I am having issues related to 'shallow' thinking that I'm not proud of. There are days where my gf looks great and I really think ""I'm going to marry this girl"" and then there are days where I have trouble finding her attractive and question the relationship. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: So I have two friends one M and the other F. The guy told me that he is into the girl. What should I do if they start going out? POST: So like I said before I have two really good friends, I pretty much spend all of my free time with these two or try to. Today one of them told me that he had feelings for the other person. Needless to say I spent a great deal of time now walking in circles wondering what I am supposed to do. I spend so much time with these two and I know that th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21] girlfriend's ex boyfriend died while they were together. Am I [25] being selfish and inconsiderate? POST: Hey All, I [25] have been dating my girlfriend [21] for just over 6 months now. A little over a year ago her boyfriend at the time died tragically in a horrible accident. I am her first real boyfriend since and although the relationship so far has been wonderful, I can feel the pressure of this past starting to build up. Quick rundown so you get an idea: Going into it w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(27M)found a locked folder filled with pictures of me on my wife(23F)'s laptop. Do I just ignore it? POST: So my wife and I have been together 4 years, married for 1. Recently she has gone to visit family members living in another country and I couldn't go with her due to my job. She has been gone for two weeks now and will be back on friday. About three days ago she asked me to send her pictures of our daughter stored in her laptop as she wanted to show them to family members. So I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: me m 17 with f 17, havnt talked in 4 months and she just messaged me POST: backstory - got together with the girl id liked for ages about 6 months ago, we became really really close. Suddenly we went from everything to nothing (her decision). Last time we talked was 4 months ago. Tonight she just messaged me saying shes sorry how she called everything off and that she gets it if i dont want to talk to her. The thing is, i still love her, i think about her every single day, shes one",positive " r/relationships TITLE: An acquaintance (21F) asked me (19M) out today, however I'm already happily in a relationship with someone (20F). POST: I've (19M) been with my girlfriend (20F) for about 6 months or so, and we're both very happy with the relationship. We rarely fight and make each others lives better and make each other better people in general (cheesy, I know). After one of my classes today, an acquaintance (21F) who I've known for a little under a year surprised me a bit and asked if it would be",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boss (54f) has strange ideas about what I (25f) should and shouldn't be doing for my job. POST: Evening all! I am a librarian. I love my job and it's exactly what I have wanted to do since about age 17. My position requires me to do a lot of things like visit schools (I'm a teen librarian) purchase books and video games, plan programs do community outreach etc. A huge thing in our community is school outreach. The big boss is really pushing all librarians to be present in the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend never pays for me POST: I have been with my bf for a year now. We are both in our 20's and college students with similar finance, however he spends a lot of money eating take out while I try to save money on food. We never really dated officially, we would hang out and end up going out to eat together but never really on a ""date"" as such so I always offered to split the bill as we were just friends. Then when we became official we would take it in turns to pay or split the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M]with my interest [22F] first time meeting, can't tell if I messed up my chances POST: So I met this woman through a dating app, Coffee Meets Bagel, and we really hit it off. We kept texting and discussing things and eventually she texted me saying she was happy we connected and I made her happy. Eventually, we decided I would go up to visit her at her school, since I go to college in a different state I get up there, and we go to the bar and share a drink. I talk, probably",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Woman [24 F] Seems Interested, But Never Asks Me [24 M] Out POST: So I recently reconnected with a woman that I kind of used to date a few years ago. We never had anything official, but we liked each other a lot. Nothing ended up progressing between us because after a few months of talking/dating, I moved 13 hours away to transfer to a university. This month I moved back to my hometown- where she still lives- and we reconnected. We've gone out three times in the past few weeks and b",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I need a change of scenery. Where should I go? POST: I just turned 25, live in a suburban town outside of New York City in my parent's house, work in internet marketing. I don't know if its the awful weather taking its toll on my morale, or just some deeper inclination that the older I get the more I realize I'm never going to do something special (i.e. be a movie star, rock star, famous author or artist) The only thing I can think of to help make me feel better that I'm just """,negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] Weird sexual stuff 4 yrs after being molested POST: I hate to say I was ""molested"" because I never did anything against my will but its what I always used to have to say in therapy. When I was in jr high I had a close relationship with 1 of my coaches and he taught me how to fuck. I really liked it and it just felt right I guess. My mom figured it out after almost a year and put me in public school and therapy. Other than getting some nudes from a few girls I haven't fucked",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] and friend [21 F] of 8 months recently slept together, want help to create a relationship. POST: So here's a little back story: Met this girl about half a year ago. We hit it off, talked almost everyday, and hangout on a weekly basis. Originally when I met her I wasn't seeking a relationship, however as time went on I started to become attracted. This is where I was basically stuck in her friendzone, which I had eventually accepted and decided to move on. Not gonna lie I wa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What should I learn while bored at work? POST: Obvious throwaway... If we can set aside for a moment the fact that I'm asking for advice in something which isn't recommended in terms of advancing my career, I'd appreciate it. We all find time to procrastinate or get in some free time here and there at work. I'm lucky enough to have a pretty cush tech job and find myself with lots of free time. I am, however, becoming increasingly bored. I browse reddit for hours, but that's only ne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/F] with my fiancé [26M] 2years, he is sick, how can I make him feel a little better? POST: Hi all, My fiancé and I have been together for two years, but we were best friends for 11 prior to getting together. About a week and a half ago he got really sick, and even though he has been drinking boat loads of fluids, taking medication, and relaxing as much as he can, his symptoms have no improved. He's been to see two different doctors, who both say it's just a bad cold, but hone",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Buy a house, or build one? POST: I'm in the process of buying a house, and the process is falling apart last minute. It's a VA loan, and everything was on track, until the mortgage company said that my ""dream home"" (which uses a well) is close enough to the city water hookup that it's required. The appraiser estimated that the hookup would cost about $1k, and there's some trivial woodwork that needs to be fixed too. This stuff is *required* before the mortgage company will close on th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How/when should I [23F] bring up DTR talk when apart? POST: Met an amazing guy [26M] online back in Dec. He's originally from an area near my hometown and was back on break from medical school (out of state). We had two 5-hour long dates before he went back to school. He's a first year. I'm going to grad school this fall (3 year program). When he left, we chatted almost every single day since then via text and snapchat. We have great conversation and I'm extremely attracted to him. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my gf[17 F] Gut feeling that she is cheating. POST: My friends told me of my gf's ""slutty"" past and I've seen it first hand when we were friends and stories she told me. I could tell that she had a sexual relationship with every one of her male friends that I met. Just through body language and subtle things. For example we went to her friends house who is older, can buy alcohol, has money for weed(which she always wants but never has) and he rents his own apartment.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my boyfriend [19 M] of a month: He doesn't want to have sex. Should we break up? POST: We recently started dating. It's my first relationship, while he has had one previous girlfriend. The title is not really accurate, he does want to have sex, but not nearly as often as I do. I almost always have to initiate. If it was for him we would be having sex twice a wee tops. It makes me feel sad and unwanted. I am not used to dealing with such rejection. I mean we are young a",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Prior authorization POST: ""Prior authorization"" is one of those things I'm convinced can only exist when you get an organization so big there's no one who has the power to say, ""That's horrible. We should never do that."" If you're not familiar, ""prior authorization"" is a process where, when you're prescribed a medication, your insurance company will refuse to pay for that medication until they get a letter from your doctor saying you need it. You know - a piece of paper that says you ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a [22/F] pouring love into a relationship with my boyfriend [25/M] of 14 months, and am getting little in return. POST: My SO and I live about 85 miles away from each other, and we entertain busy schedules (full time work, part time school, etc.) and use Skype, texting, etc. to fill in the gaps when we're apart. Lately, I feel as though I make all of the effort to communicate and connect. (I'll send little love notes/care packages in the mail, initiate conversation, plan our da",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can anyone help me lose about 15 pounds, and at the same time help shift my mental state? POST: This shouldn't even be difficult, but my problem is food. Half the food I eat is decent, and the other half is complete shit. I can't cut out the shitty part. It's like nail-biting - half the time I don't even realize I'm doing it. I just think ""oh I'm hungry, what food place is near me?"" Of course it always tends to be fast food of some sort. This also includes soda. I drink a lot of soda. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (31m) don't like the way my girlfriend (29f) has started to dress. 3 years together. POST: Recently my girlfriend lost some weight. Not a lot, and she's still chubby, but she is healthier now and has some great curves. I looked at her clothes and it looks like she's in a 12 or 14. Mind you this isn't about weight, I couldn't care less what she weighs, I'd be attracted to her at any size. It's just that she's started to dress completely different and it's started to bother me. She ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [16/m] Met a girl online, we had a thing for a while got hard to maintain due to her emotional problems. I left and now want her back... [F/18] POST: So I met her playing a game online and the second I did I pretty much knew she was perfect (or so I thought) We started talking and then basically spent a lot of time together (on skype mind you) Then the problems started.. I can admit I was too clingy but I found the perfect girl and she was out playing with other guys and I got ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I'm in a strange situation at work. I feel like I have to choose between two ""harassment"" (aka hostile work environment) scenarios. Will you help? POST: This has never happened before, but my employer just hired a woman that is so attractive that it takes an almost physical effort to rip my eyes from her. Other men don't see what I see. They think she's ""average"" and ""homely"". But once I see her.... I gotta stare. Blame me for not having self-control all you wish... but MY GOD this",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do I (24F) tell my friend (27F) about her husband's (28M) cocaine addiction? POST: This is going to be one of those confusing ones so I guess I will make up fake names. My boyfriend ""Steve"" and I have been together since high school. His best friend ""Adam"" has been friends with him for at least 10 years, since before I met them. Last year Adam married his girlfriend, ""Josie."" Josie is 100% not okay with drugs, hates being around them, but tolerates him occasionally smoking some pot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27M] have a second date with her [24F] tonight. My batting average hasn't been great lately and I feel nervous. POST: I have a second date with a lovely lady tonight. Our first date was earlier this week. We've been texting every day since our first date and she seems genuinely excited to see me again. Did not kiss on the first date, but I felt really good chemistry. Anyway, I'm feeling nervous because I haven't gotten past the second date with anyone in a long time. I've been ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Gf [f23] didn't come to my [m23] bday party. Is it just a one-off thing or can I be bummed? POST: So my gf and I have been dating for almost a year now and today was my birthday. I don't have shindigs or bday parties ever as I have this crippling fear over guests not coming ever since I was a child. But this year I decided to step out of my comfort zone and invited my gf to come have some birthday cake and minor festivities with the family. She had a networking event during the day ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Aside from the gift exchange, randoms acts of pizza, and petty, sarcastic arguments over Reddit, what has been your most memorable interaction with another Reddit user? POST: I remember posting on r/nyc back in 2011, asking for someone to volunteer for a charity event. Little did I know how offensive it was to ask for a volunteer photographer. Nevertheless, I found out the hard way. This one particular redditor (who happened to be a professional photographer) made it clear that you just",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My friend OD-ed on the weekend and I feel like I've failed as a friend. POST: Okay, so I've never really posted anything like this before and this could all end up as ramblings but here goes. So, I'm currently 18 and have just started university this year and just like everybody else who leaves highschool I kind of drifted away from a lot of my friends. One of these friends happened to be my best friend of 6 years who I do still keep in contact with but have sort of distanced myself from",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What was a time when someone told you something seriously wrong about them, and you couldn't even come up with something good to say to them? POST: I bus at a local bar, and I'm only in high school. Last night a regular came in on a Saturday (I've been working here about a year and a half. I know regulars' patterns, this guy never comes in on a Saturday.). He was a mess. He basically started telling me he's an alcoholic (I've been able to see that for about a year). But the way he was te",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, can you guys help me out? POST: Sorry for the title, it was the most fitting one I could think of. Anyways, onto my question. I'm 20 with an Associate's in Web Design/Dev and I get bored out my mind when I'm coding or abnormally frustrated when things just won't work. I've tried learning different instruments but I just can't interest myself in them. I have an original plot for a book that I've been writing in my head for the past 4 years but, every time I try to sit down and w",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Do girls change their minds after a first date/dinner? POST: Story in a nutshell: For the first meeting, my friend (Sam, 23 M) brought me along to dinner and a bar with his girlfriend (Sally 23 F) and her friend (Kim 23 F). We had a great dinner and we all talked to each other. I thought I did a good job in presenting myself to Kim, whom I had interest in. I then had a few more get togethers with the same group of people and during one of the nights, Kim hooked my arm while walking",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26/f] My boyfriend (25/m) masturbating at home while I'm awake... POST: I tried ignoring... Got upset about it. This has been an on-going situation, but today I got really hurt about this after nervously laughing... (random details spread out through the post; ask for clarification or additional detail if needed. also i'm new to reddit, so forgive me if i have no idea what's going on!) I work from home and my boyfriend has been home since mid-evening. I've been suffering fro",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Sister[18F] got fingered by her lecturer [40+M]. Help. POST: I don't know how to react now. My younger sister just told me this after her class. Reddit please help my sister. Apparently she's been secretly dating her lecturer since last Oct without anyone's knowledge. My sister is just an average looking girl with no past relationships. She takes her studies seriously but somehow lack the affection from guys. This lecturer is an assh*le manipulator. He has no wife/kids. He doesn",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, we're moving offices this week. Help us do something cool with this massive 65"" TV. POST: We're moving our office in two days. There is a 65 inch 720p rear projection TV we've had in our office for years, but all we use it for is classic gaming. See [image]( The new office doesn't have room for this giant thing, so it's gotta go. We've tried to give it away - nobody wants it. Selling it seems out of the question as Craigslist is polluted with hundreds of these things. Peop",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] 3 yr old rescue loved people, now scared of people, UNLESS they smell like dogs [x-post r/dogtraining] POST: I got my pit/shepherd/? when she was 1.5 yrs old. Our first 2 months, she loved meeting strangers, and I took her everywhere. One year later, she barks at anybody who interacts with her or speaks to me. She reacts when someone says ""Excuse me,"" ""Hi,"" or when someone makes a kissy sound at her. I avoid eye contact during walks so nobody talks to me. Occasionally, my dog sees a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[26M] totally deceived by co-worker [22F] who pretended to be someone completely different than who she is. POST: I met a girl at work about three months ago. She seemed really cool and the more we got to talk to each other, the more I thought we had in common. She would mention things like that she was going home to ""hop on X-box Live"" or mention obscure black metal bands that I love that she is also a fan of. I honestly couldn't believe that I had met someone I had so much",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21m] feel like I am putting more into the relationship 3 months with [21F] POST: I'm not going to go into great detail to spare you guys having to read it, but the main idea is that I feel that I put more into the relationship than my GF. We havent been able to see each other much since school started. In the past 14 days ive seen her 2 times. Once on the first day (for dinner and to hang out around 3 hours) and once on accident (for 20 minutes) about 4 days ago. I have called he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me M(19) and my ex GF F(18) broke up after 3 years and a week later she fucked a guy and wanted to talk to me about it. POST: So long story short she didn't like where we lived and wanted to be with her parents so she moved to a different province and we had a mutual breakup, I told her she will always be my best friend. So after she left she hung out with this guy that fucked her and then didnt want to talk to her anymore even though I've told her about those types of guys 1000 tim",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Quit my pT job 3 weeks ago, Owner asked if i could still cover a shift POST: I had been working at an ice cream shop for a year and recently quit 3 weeks ago. The honest truth for why I left was because I was simply getting bored of the job. Every shift was the same, but it was expected as the job really was an easy teenage part time job. All was well after quitting, but then just a few days ago I get a text message from my ex-coworker asking me if I could cover her shift on Saturday because ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[18M] with my girlfriend [18F] of 1 year, She cheated on me over the summer, how do I get over her. POST: I have been dating this girl for over a year. I absolutely loved her to death. THis summer i just found out she cheated on me with 3 guys, never sex but everything up to it. Ya I can tell she wasn't lying when she said she loved me it's just that for some reason she thought she could be with me and also be with other guys. After revolving my whole summer around being able to se",positive " r/Pets TITLE: Caring for a friends cat POST: My friend is traveling this summer and asked that I care for her cat. She moved the cat in yesterday while I was out of town, and when I came back today the cat seemed to have claimed the bed as her own. She's friendly enough but if I get on the bed sometimes I get hissed at until I get off. Ive never owned a cat before so I'm not quite sure what to do. My friend is traveling all summer and I live in an efficiency, so kitty and I are stuck together now. I'm un",negative " r/relationships TITLE: BF(29) + self(25) + son split up for christmas due to BF's family, please advise? POST: I feel like this issue is pretty ridiculous, and I should just suck it up and move on. But I wanted some other opinions, please. My boyfriend(29) and I(female, 25) have a son(4) and have been dating 6 yrs. So, the boyfriend(BF) asked me if it was okay for our son to stay at his parents' place for christmas. Actually, they're flying across the country, the 3 of them(son + BF's GP), to visit other ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm a boring person. Can you help me out of this slump? POST: So I'm one of those guys that when asked, ""What do you wanna do?"" usually responds with, ""Iunno, what do you wanna do?"" Which isn't a huge deal, but t gets to be more than that. I'll wait for one of my friends to call me instead of calling them because I have no idea what I would invite them to do. I take my girlfriend on mundane dates, albeit nice dates, to the fancy restaurant and the movie theatre and date that's be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] and my girlfriend [17 F] have been dating for 2.5 years says she doesn't feel we have much in common POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for 2.5 years and have been doing about 1.5 of it in long distance. My gf said on the phone today ""You know what I realized? We don't have a whole lot in common."" It freaked me out guys. It worried me that she doesn't wanna be with me because of this. I don't know. Probably just me freaking out for no reason. But when I look at it ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you drive? POST: I had two long drives this past weekend and have noticed a lot of people don't understand the correct way to drive on a highway/interstate. It seems people are driving using completely random methods. So I'm curious, how do you drive? For example, on a two lane highway I drive in the right lane and go into the left to pass people(proper method). What ends up happening every time though is that as more cars are on the road, more people seem to be just driving i",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My in-laws trigger me and even though my wife likes to go visit every few weeks I really don't feel like going POST: At the center of all this is my wife's sister's husband - the brother-in-law. He's a total deadbeat. Doesn't work, doesn't help out around the house, doesn't even care about his children (2 boys and a girl). His wife has been supporting the whole family, and my wife's parents chip in because her income isn't enough to cover their expenses most of the time. He just preten",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Annoy me about putting away clothes? Prepare for an inconvenience! POST: Howdy fellow revenge-lovers! This one will be quick. **The Incident:** My mom came in my room yesterday night around 11pm,~~to see what I was up to~~ complain about how I haven't put up my clothes that she spent hours folding, and how it won't take long to do, and how I should do it. Now, let's keep in mind that I'm not some do-nothing; I'm 20 years, in college, and on Spring Break. Unfortunately, as an engine",negative " r/jobs TITLE: What are some stable, high income jobs, that don't require that much of an education, or physical strength? POST: Additional info: I'm a single young mother of a 3 year old, so I'd like to be able to come home each night. I barely have a high school diploma but consider myself quite smart. I have no marketable skills or talents. I can't afford an education as it is, but I'd still like to hear about jobs that require minimal education. I live in Alberta, Canada, so I do have the oilfield at m",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [29f] am dating [for3months] someone [29m] with a child for the first time. Help me better understand my role? POST: Hello Reddit, I'm dating a guy with a baby for the first time ever. I have done my best not to get involved with someone with a child because I don't know what it's like so it kind of freaked me out. I just got back in this relationship 3 months ago but we were engaged about 8 years ago. Everything was amazing until I had a miscarriage and it broke our hearts ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: After almost 9 years and and 8 year old son... POST: Wow. I don't know where to begin. I'm 36. She's 27. We have an 8 year old son. Our relationship has been up and down for the past few years. She used to live with me. She moved back to her parents house last year. I called her to see what she was doing tonight and she said the usual. Go shoot pool. She's been hanging out with other people while we frequent our favorite hang out so I didn't pay any attention until she started ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I explain to my girlfriend (20M/19F) a need for ""bro time""? POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for ~7 months. We go to the same college, and this summer she's living in my apartment while I'm living in a different city about an hour away working at an internship. So far, I've made the trip back just about every weekend. The problem is, this weekend I just really don't want to go back and I'm not sure how to explain it to her without her getting pissed. I'm a somewhat ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 19f and 21m. Having difficulties with my boyfriend's insecurities. POST: Hey, r/relationships. My boyfriend and I have been dating for 4 months, living together for 3 months. He's 21 and I'm 19. Everything is wonderful, really. We both love each other very much. Our only problem, or my only problem (since he doesn't see it as one), is that he's insecure when it comes to his body. He used to be thinner before we met but last year his father died and he went into a bit of a depression",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: How to convince my dad to let me buy a new laptop? POST: I legitimately need a new laptop. I'm currently using an HP from 2005, and this thing has too many problems to count as well as it being too old to handle some programs. I'm planning on buying an Alienware M14x laptop, ~$1,300. I have the money for it right now, the only thing standing in my way is my father. He does not understand me and my level of need for a new, powerful laptop. He thinks spending that much on anything video g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my various failed hookups [F]- what's preventing me from pursuing women who are clearly attracted to me? POST: Hi Reddit! My entire life, I've been inexplicably unwilling to go after girls. I don't know why. Anyone who I've told this to has assumed I'm gay, but I'm certain I'm not. Since I was fifteen or so, various girls of varying levels of attractiveness have displayed interest in or actively pursued me. I've been presented with opportunities to make out and such",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [17/f] with a blossoming crush on her classmate [18/m]-should I get up the courage and ask HIM to prom? POST: Hi guys, I attend a very small private school and am a new student this year. There's this guy in my history class who I sort of have a thing for now, and with prom approaching, I've been fervently hoping he'd ask me. I honestly don't know how he feels about me, usually I end up chatting him first on fb ( and it makes me feel so pathetic that sometimes I wait, hoping he'll",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[23F] boyfriend [30M] asks me not to break up with him- help me figure out why this bothers me so much. POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 6 months now. We have a great relationship- he's kind, considerate, and fun. Like any couple, we have our disagreements, and sometimes those disagreements turn into fights. Even when we fight, though, we fight fair. We usually both vent, spend a few hours apart, then text to discuss how we feel, what we want the other person to work o",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking my phone to the bathroom. POST: Mandatory ""this just happened."" For background - I generally don't bring my phone into the bathroom with me at work. It usually sits on my desk, since I tend to wear skirts and have no pockets. Well a few minutes ago I was responding to a text while walking to the bathroom. As I closed the stall door, I realized I had nowhere to set my phone down. Every surface is curved (the toilet tank, the toilet paper dispenser, etc.) I just had the screen",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16M] with my ""Crush"" [16F] Need tips for a first date. POST: Alright here's the deal. A couple of weeks ago we had this thing in school called ""Killergame"". You basically got the name of a victim and you had to tag her and you got points and so on. I get this girl and she looks stunning. Aproximately a week after I had tagged her I added her on Facebook, she accepted and that was it for about another week. Then our entire school went on this ski trip, I was oblivious to what peo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] Seeing [19F] Wondering where things are going? POST: Been seeing a girl for just over a month now, we always hook up for a solid while when we go drinking but lately we've just been going for dinner/casual dates that don't really go past a cuddle and kissing usually requires me to be the initiator. She calls me literally every day, anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour and we just chat etc. She's made it clear that we aren't officially together (which I don't expect after a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 M] friend [26 M] of 12 years has no respect for my own space POST: My friend just doesn't ever seem to be able to take a hint. I don't want to hang out tommorow so when he phones I say I'm busy don't have time to meet up etc but he always finishes convo with yeah I'll be near yours so I will give you a buzz just incase your free, I don't mind hanging out with sometimes but he's not the type of friend that will meet up for an hour and be gone it's like he will stay for aslong ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16/F] with my boyfriend[17 M] of 3 months- I always start the arguments, and need help. POST: He's my first boyfriend is obviously my everything. A little background first: I grew up with some speech problems that did not truly get better until middle school. It also didn't help that my mother spoke very broken English when I was younger, and she can be very irrational. So I've noticed that I can make him upset quite often. Like a few days ago, when I tried to explain to him t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (18m) girlfriend (18f) of (only) 3 months told me that her period was late just before I was going to break up with her. I think I'm being manipulated, but I also don't want to dump her now if it's real. How should I proceed? POST: I'm not totally sure how obvious it was that I was going to break up with her. We were still on cute and friendly terms although we had talked about the future. College will make things long distance. The final red flag I needed came a week ago when she",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] am trying to reconnect with an old friend [22F]. POST: I haven't talked to my friend Tara in about a little over 2 years. We had a fight back then as a result of me being immature and not accepting certain things that were happening. I felt entitled to things and she wasn't having it and we haven't spoken since. I now realize what I did was wrong and want to apologize for it so I texted her for the first time in about 2 years last night. We texted 3 or 4 times back and fort",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (15M) ask my friend (17M) for romantic advice without making him feel bad? POST: Aloha. (I'm not actually from Hawaii.) So, I have a pretty big crush, and I'm kinda uncertain on how to proceed. For the last couple weeks, I've been thinking of asking Arthur (not my friend's real name) for advice on the matter. I've known Arthur for over a year and a half, and I sincerely trust him. The trick here, though, is not hurting his feelings. Last year, Arthur was in a relationship ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Unwanted friendship between me [20 M] and a girl I met [20 F] POST: This has been following me for a year now and I wish it wasn't. And I may have screwed up, but hopefully it's all over now. During the fall 2015 school semester, I met a girl in my digital arts class. We talked a good bit, and I invited her to a school function (trivia night). It was fun for the most part. We hung out some more, but I started to notice that she was a devout Christian. I don't downplay people for ha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (19/F) can't make my pregnant sister's (29/F) surprise wedding, parents making me feel guilty. POST: A few days ago my oldest sister announced to our family she is pregnant and going to have a wedding before she shows. Normally, this would be great! Her and the SO were on this pathway anyway, but I guess little baby is a catalyst for getting it done. The problem is that they set the wedding date on a long weekend that I know I'm going to be 8+ hours away and there is no possibl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my Boyfriend [24 M] of 2 months, we're always talking about him! POST: I've been officially dating my boyfriend for two months and it's been (mostly) sunshine and rainbows thus far. We met online, so there's been a lot of ground to cover in the ""geting-to-know-you"" department, meaning lots of long conversations sharing past experiences, likes/dislikes, family relations, etc. I definitely fall on the more reserved/stoic side of the spectrum, while he is much more exube",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Strong willed toddler? POST: I'm a first time mom and no other kids in our family so far. So I am just wondering if this is normal or what I should be doing exactly? My son is now three and a half years old, he is very well spoken and usually very well behaved doesn't really throw tantrum fits crying or screaming uncontrollably, but lately he has become so bossy. The way he talks to us (parents and even grandparents) and angry if we don't comply. Should I get mad at him for talking lik",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 F] with my friend [30 M], 2 years. Can a FWB turn back to normal if he never stops pursuing? POST: Travis and I started our friendship with us getting to know each other, and with him constantly trying to get into my pants. I told him point blank that I just wanted to be friends. But he was persistent. Long story short, we finally had a ""fling"" with a whole lot of messing around for a couple months. I had always told Travis I was not attracted to him, but was basically using h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my very recent ex [27 F] dated 3 months. Need to know if most women would find this creepy. POST: Background: I've been dating this girl since October. I really like her and things have been going well, but while we have been dating it has been clear that she has commitment issues. Due to various personal issues, she doesn't trust people and is afraid of getting really involved with anyone. We've been talking about it and I'm afraid I want more from her than she is wil",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does my girlfriend have a split personality? POST: So I've noticed something about my girlfriend, every time we have had sex, she would fall asleep instantly after it was over and when she would wake up, she would have no memory of it at all, and no, I did not drug her. Whether it be 5 minutes later or the next morning when she wakes up, she would only remember a few moments before the sex, but have no recollection of us performing the act at all. But then today, it seemed like her whol",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I help my bf find what he really enjoys doing? POST: We are both 22 and we have been dating for 6 years. When we were in high school everything was good, we both just had to concentrate on getting good grades. When we graduated things started to change, he became extremely lazy and apathetic. I decided to attend community college with him (my parents pay for my college which im extremely thankful for), I helped him fill out scholarship and FASFSA stuff and he got a grand whic",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What idea have you adamantly believed in and/or fought for that moments later you realized was actually pretty stupid? POST: A male friend and co-worker at my new job asked me out for drinks. About 15 minutes into our conversation at a nearby bar, he expressed interest in possibly dating each other. Although I liked him, I didn't feel quite ready to go there yet. I responded by saying something like, ""I really like you, too...but more as a friend.."" Immediately, I heard what I was sayin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Sex with my (25/m) ex (20/f) POST: So my ex and I broke up. We'd originally been from the same town, and had to separate for colleges. We'd been dating for a year and a half, and when we are together, we were attached at the hip (and the pelvis). Well, long story short, a month before she's supposed to come back to town, she calls me on skype, tells me she got drunk and banged her roommate's older brother (who was staying with them at the time). We tried to work through it, blah bl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16M] told my very close friend friend [14F] that I liked her. Now she is ignoring me. POST: So this friend and I are very close and I have liked her for a while but didn't want to tell her for fear of messing things up. So I asked some friends and they said to just tell her, so I did. I told her one night while were talking. She said she didn't feel the same and I told her that I was fine with that and said we can still be good friends. She said ""Ok, that's good I don't want anyt",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] flatmates [27F, 23M - siblings] talk about me in Cantonese POST: This has been going on for a while (I've been living with them for the past 2 years) and it didn't really bother me in the beginning, but the annoyance has accumulated over time, especially because I thought we were friends by now. They can both speak perfectly good English, and while they did ask me if I was okay with them speaking Cantonese when I moved in (which was fine, it would be unfair to stop them), I'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21 F] with my hookup [28 M] wondering if there is any meaning behind his lack of desire to have sex in his bedroom. POST: Most guys I've dated/slept with prefer to have sex in bed. Normally if foreplay begins on the couch, he'll say ""do you want to go to my room?"" and we'd go from there. With some guys I found it kind of annoying -- why did we always have to be in bed? Well the last couple of guys I've been with have been a little bit different and I'm wondering if I'm reading too m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [21 F] for 2 years, struggling to deal with previous partners POST: Me and my girlfriend met at uni in first year and have been dating for 2 years. 15 months ago she quit uni and moved home (about 100 miles away) so we've been doing the whole long distance thing with me finding a job there to move in after i've graduated. About 7 months ago we split up. The details of this aren't paricularly significant but it was her decision to end it. We were apart f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] increasingly frustrated with the dating scene and don't know what to do. POST: I will attempt to keep this short and I hope this is the right sub for this! I have been single for a few years now, the occasional casual fling here and there, but haven't had a 'boyfriend' since I was 20. For a long time I didn't want a relationship or made excuses not to get serious with anyone (""I'm just too busy right now, I need to focus on work etc etc""). For the last two years I have been",negative " r/relationships TITLE: First relationship [21F/23M]. Feel insane and jealous and needy. HELP POST: Hi, r/relationships... Throwaway because my boyfriend's roommate reddits and this is embarrassing to me. This is my first ""real,"" official relationship (5 months). I've dated casually before, lots of one-night stands, but never actually been with someone and it's making me insecure as fuck. Granted, I've always been insecure. I got issues -- poor self-esteem, anxiety, depression, the works. Had some bad ex",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Please help reddit, my house is being foreclosed on and I was supposed to be out **yesterday**. What does this mean? POST: I'm 19 and have taken over foreclosing my fathers home after he passed away. I have been putting off finding a new place to live until today, when I looked at the date I was supposed to be out of the house. The date was yesterday. First of all can I be kicked out at any time now? I've spent the whole day packing in fear someone is coming to my door to drag me outsid",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting my dog sleep in bed with me POST: So.....I work night shift, and had just returned from a 2 day trip with my SO involving tickets to a game that is about 5-6 hours away, one way. We had gone up and spent the night, and returned home the next day around 8 or so (I had driven the entire trip). Knowing I had to go to work the next night, and not wanting to be awake 1000 times, I doped myself up on allergy meds and waited to pass out. Now, I love my dog, and I missed him, he's a s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My childhood friend has to be convinced to go to rehab.... I need help POST: A friend, whom I have not kept in contact with much, is in trouble. He was homeless, wandering the street, and severely depressed and car jacked a guy with a knife so he could run away. He stupidly called a friend asking for downers in a moment of panic and turned the car around to go see a friend. Needless to say he was caught by cops and is now going to court in a week. We live in Canada BC so i doubt he w",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I want to upgrade my phone, keep my number, and will be out of the country for 4-8 months POST: I currently have the iPhone 5S and I am with a Canadian service provider. I received this phone back in January 2014 on a grandfather smart plan contract and it has since expired (after two years) so I'm not tied to any agreement at the moment. The plan I have is just ok: $39 per month with the usual text and call perks and 600mb of data. I plan on getting the iPhone 7 before the year ends. I'm ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[21M]: How do I meet girls my age, when the things I like to do don't put me around girls my age? POST: I think the title is a pretty good summary of my 'problem', but here's some more detail to put it into perspective... I've had the extreme fortune to get a job in the Data Warehouse industry (Vague job-description is vague.) without a degree, and basically skipped college. In my job, the majority of people are 30+ married professionals. That means I wont meet anybody that way. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M18] accidentally read some of my girl's [F19] texts in front of her when turning off her alarm. I saw a suspicious text, should I be concerned? POST: My girl and I are exclusive but we dont call each other boyfriend and girlfriend (she doesn't want to for college, should this be a warning sign in the first place?). Anyways, if we did anything with anyone else it would still be cheating. Also, we go to different colleges. We have been seeing each other for 5 months. While visitin",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: 1 Growing up I (18f) looked at a ton of online Porn and it's warped me sexually NSFW POST: Not my real account for obvious reasons. I caught my brother watching porn on accident when I was 12 years old. I couldn't believe what I'd glimpsed before he noticed me and after feeling shameful for a few days at what I'd seen I looked up stuff on my own which developed into an almost nightly porn watching habit once I convinced my mom I needed my own computer. Watching pretty vanilla porn pro",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] feeling unsure about EVERYTHING after finishing University POST: I am 22 years old and recently graduated from University with a 2.2 Masters Degree in Chemistry. I'm really proud of myself for that however I'm feeling really emotional recently cos I feel like my life has no direction. I fell in love with the town/city I went to University in and have stayed long since finishing my exams til my tenancy ends at the end of August. I've had a fairly good summer applying for jo",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 19 [M] - Am I an idiot or a sly devil? How to resolve this situation? POST: I'm a 19 year old university student. I was in Africa couple months back. Before that I was going out with 2 girls (let's suppose Girl A and B). Girl A is a girl from my university and we go to same lectures, on the other hand girl B is a girl from another university that I met in a university x university fashion show. She invited me to London fashion show so I was in debt of her favour so decided to d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] need some advice/perspective about dating a ""funny guy"" [30M] POST: I met this guy a few weeks ago from an online dating source. On our first date we went to a really nice restaurant and talked for a few hours. I had fun and he was pretty funny! He said a few things about his friends and coworkers that kind of made me raise an eyebrow but since it was a first date I just let it go. We recently went out again and I can't get some of the things out of my head... he talked a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (22 m) As a lonely guy, how should I figure out if I really like someone instead of just enjoying their companionship? POST: This situation has happened to me before. I was quite lonely as a college freshman and got back together with my high school flame (at the time a HS junior). However this relationship was predicated on my loneliness and when I didn't feel lonely I didn't care about her much at all. After a short second honeymoon we broke up again. Now, after not dating for ye",negative " r/self TITLE: Family Quandry POST: Recently my family has been going through some changes and I'd like some opinions and advice. Basically here's whats up: My mom has recently reached retirement after a long stay on disability following a serious back injury (multiple surgeries, really ugly stuff but she's ok now). She is 5 years older than my dad, who still works to support the family and has done so for the past 10 years. My siblings and I are all away at school/jobs but are still financially dependen",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my [19 F] After 1 year of relationship i am starting to consider breaking up. POST: So this is my first serious relationship that lasted more than 2-3 months. I have a nice relationship with her, we get along ok, but i always felt something was missing, we dont have a lot in common, almost no tastes in common, we just go along very well. The problem , and i feel very bad for this, is that i am starting to get bored. She wants a lot of attention and we had discussio",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do you think social media affects your relationship? POST: Me [24 M] with my GF [21 F] of 1 year. I think my relationship is negatively affected. I can't seem to communicate with my female friends via social media without my GF having something to say. Sometimes she goes as far as to ""favorite"" or ""like"" a comment I make to a female friend to passively let me know that she's watching... I also sometimes see her ""liking"" some pictures on instagram of dudes' selfies, sometimes ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [14/m] and the strange mannerisms of a (16/f) POST: So, there is a girl that I generally like that I have known for the past 1.5 years. Some background: I am 14, she is 16, for separate reasons, however, we had/have similar classes, are both fairly intelligent i.e. possible valedictorians, have similar interests, BUT i live in an essentially no-dating household and the majority of a possible relationship would be restricted to school and after-school events. I honestly have no ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24 f) moved out of my house because I was fed up with my step dad's lack of boundaries// feeling guilty leaving mom and sister POST: It will be almost a year since I moved out of my house and I still feel uneasy about it. I left on good terms and still visit once or twice a week but I cant feel guilty abandoning my sister and my mom. My mom used to be a single mom before she married her current husband. I was 15 and my sister was 13 then. There has been no action that I would cons",negative " r/self TITLE: Reddit, I need landlord/tenant advice POST: To begin, the fine I incurred is legitimate, I did break the terms of the lease (smoking and had an animal on the premises, both of which are not allowed). However, my manager only discovered these things after showing my apartment without giving me 24 hours notice. I live in Washington state and know there is a law or something saying that a manager must inform the tenant before entering, etc. Not sure of the specifics. On June 16, they asked to ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Worried because she does little to keep the conversation going... POST: I have a crush on this girl at school that I talk to often. We're both 21 and I'm the man so I'm usually the one starting the conversations up and approaching her, which is cool with me. The problem is, she doesn't pull her weight very much in a conversation. When a topic dead ends, she hardly ever transitions into something else and it leaves me having to lead every conversation and feel awkward only talking a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21m] sometimes hurt my [23f] best friend without meaning to POST: Firstly i'd like to say that english is not my original language so i'm sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes. So here is how it goes : i met a really nice girl -that i have no romantic interest in- about a year ago and we quickly became best friends. More specifically i am her confident. The thing to know about me is i generally have a ""i don't care about anything "" vibe going on, i'm incredibly laid back an",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Can the Dr. Ornish Diet help with OCD and appetite POST: I am a 23 year old white male who is 6.1 ft and I weigh 250lbs. Last year I had to go to the hospital for OCD and I am now getting treatment for it. At the time I had been losing weight in a healthy way. When i began losing weight I weighed 287 and when I went to the hospital I weighed around 247. During my lowest days I weighed 231, but I had stopped eating. I am now taking Prozac, Xanax, and Risperdal. My weight has gone up to 250 ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Well this is... weird. Never heard of something like this happening. Advice? POST: So some context: I have this friend. A few years ago her and I used to like each other. Nothing happened, we moved on, she got a boyfriend. Year later, I like her again. Year after that, I don't like her. We're all 18. They've been dating two and a half years. Her boyfriend hates me because I liked her and he thinks I still do. So for the last six months he's been harassing me, acting like an as",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [24F] leaving my abusive boyfriend [31M] today. (8 months) POST: My soon to be ex boyfriend was Shitfaced by 8 last night... while walking to a new years party with him and my upstairs neighbor he started to pick a fight with my neighbor. Who has been nothing but nice all day. My neighbor asked him multiple times to stop. Then my boyfriend attacked him. My neighbor didn't hit him at all. Just pinned him down until we thought he was calm.. He kept going after my neighbor...",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my new love [28 F], she wants kids, I don't. POST: I started dating a girl 3 months ago and we are firmly and strongly in love with each other. I am so thrilled at having her in my life, and vice versa. We are both very family oriented and we've already spent a decent time with each others parent/siblings. It's come up that she will most likely want kids. I almost definitely do not. This is scary to me. It's lovely to find someone that makes me this happy, but I am a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 F] am pregnant with ex's [22 M] child. Should I break no contact to tell him I'm having an abortion? POST: Tried to restart things with ex of 2 years and it didn't work out. He ended things about a month ago and later I found out he was sleeping with multiple people at the same time as me. That's fine. The problem is when I went to get checked for STIs and found out I'm pregnant. I'm in no way emotionally or financially ready for a child and I'm scheduling an abortion as so",negative " r/Advice TITLE: As you progress through life, how to get past the existential pulse or aging and growing up? POST: I'm turning 28, recently moved to a new city, and as I've had to start my social circle over (from moving and starting a new job) and I've been getting these overwhelming feelings of ""oh shit, I'm going to die some day."" I realize I started to take on a lot of worry, like what if this new job doesn't work out, or what if I can't afford my apartment? I'm now older than my father was when he ma",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Genuinely miss talking to a girl, but I kinda screwed it up anyway. POST: I'll do my best to keep this short her and I are both 26. 6 months ago I met a girl on okc and we hit it off great. Texting all day into the night, tons in common, blah blah. Due to conflicting schedules we didn't hang out till a month after meeting and the day before I was contacted by my ex who just wanted to chat. While I have no interest in dating my ex again it put me in a weird place and I wasn't posit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] suspect that my ""not-yet-girlfriend"" of 6 years refuses to date me since I'm not a vegan like her? [20F] POST: I have been in a somewhat romantic relationship with this girl for 6 years, there's kissing, there's petting, and other things like that. After the first year she has refused to date me, and she won't tell me why. I suspect it's because I eat meat, and she is a vegan. Is she in the right for doing this? I know I shouldn't have to change just to fit her standards, ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Redditors...How can I fix a strained father/son relationship? POST: My father and I never saw eye to eye as I was growing up but it just got worse the past few years. Ever since he lost his job two years ago, he does nothing but stay home and watch TV all day. He has since left the responsibility of taking care of the family to me (I'm only 24). This has caused a strain between us because I'm working and trying to get my life started while it seems like he has given up being a respo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22F) am having cold feet whether or not go to my best friend's (22M) going away party POST: Some brief background: me and my best friend didn't exactly had a clean start when we got introduced. Originally, we were set up by a common friend because we were both looking for a hookup. But then he started to grow on me because we hung out a lot more than screw each other and during the two years that we knew each other, I confessed that I liked him and wanted to see what happens if we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: last chance. POST: So my best guy friend/ex friend with benefits of 3 years asked me the other day if we could hook up one last time before he proposed to his girlfriend. Is it wrong of me to actually consider doing this despite the fact that we would both be cheating on someone? would it be wrong to just kiss him one last time? i know this sounds bad but i do love the guy, but not in the i can see us together in the future type way. TL;DR: ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Should I consult a lawyer? Fired for tardiness, after disclosing disability POST: I'm hoping to hear from or talk to someone familiar with the Americans with Disabilities Act, I live and worked in Pennsylvania. I'm diagnosed bipolar 1. I worked for a marketing agency as a web developer, my work was always praised and always done early. After about 9 months of employment and a strong depressive episode I began to be late somewhat often, like 5-10 minutes. I was given a few ""talks"" and f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29m] have, because of depression, alienated nearly everyone I care about. How do I reconnect? POST: I'm not entirely sure that this is the right subreddit but I'm not aware of any that might be more relevant. Also, I won't bore you with too many of the details of my depression (there's a sub for that) but a long story made short: a few years ago I went into this downward spiral and pretty much stopped talking to everyone I know. I think part of it was that they just weren't prep",negative " r/running TITLE: Suffering from a tight piriformis muscle since 2 months ago. Haven't run since. Should I start running again since it's going to hurt either way? POST: Hi everyone. I was running every day about 2 miles after work. I've never been able to run any more than that. But it felt great, and I was good at those two miles. Anyway, I started experience horrible lower back pain... around where my Sacro-Iliac joint is. I went to the doctor, who diagnosed me with a tight piriformis muscle. He sa",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Should I report a coworker for leaving his post before his replacement, me, arrived? POST: I am a security guard, and one of the most important things drilled into our heads is ""Don't leave your post until your replacement arrives."" So to the story, I work overnights (midnight to 10am). In middle of my sleep, around 6:30 pm (I normally sleep from 2pmish-10pmish) I get a phone call from my coworker, Art. He asks if I can come in 2 hours early so he can pick up his daughter from somewhere.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my boyfriend [23 M] 1 year, after having a MAJOR crush on him for 2 years, we started dating, and now I'm not sure POST: Hey all Maybe relevant: I suffer from anxiety and depression, used to be on meds, now off. So my boyfriend and I were best friends for 2 years before we started dating, but from day 1 pretty much i felt like he was the one for me. Last year august at a music festival we finally hooked up after tension had built for a while. Problem is, after we go",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my _Grandmother in law__ [81F] Currently I am living with her due to circumstances that can not currently be changed. And I am having many troubles. non-romantic POST: So right now I live with my husband at his grandparents house. His mother lives there but she is in a wheelchair. His mother was never a mother figure and his father is long gone. His grandparents are who raised him. Unfortunately right now leaving is not an option and I do not care to explain. His grand",negative " r/relationships TITLE: When is it time for me [21M] to move on from my [21F] POST: I have been dating my girlfriend for 7 years. We started in 8th grade and moved on through high school and now college. We've overcome several obstacles together throughout the years including sex, pregnancy scares, moves, college, money. Things have been going decent and I decided to move in with her in her apartment at the university she attends. Things were great at first but slowly became worse. I couldn't find a job b",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by lifting weights in gym class. POST: This fuck up happened about two years ago while I was in high school, but still makes for a funny story that comes up in my life ever so often. I went to a very small high school consisting of roughly 200-250 total throughout all four grades. The gym class I was in had around 15 people in it. This gym class was about an hour and a half of us using the crowded exercise room with a few different kinds of equipment. I was using the weight rack and had",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My F/30 Sister and her boyfriend are back living at home with a disruptive past/current relationship POST: **Backstory:** My sister has been in a relationship with her boyfriend for a couple years now. Since dating shes been in and out of the house and keeps my mom worried up at night and a couple of times they've been in really bad fights. One where they broke the bedroom door in a room they used to stay in and trashed the room and another where the boyfriend had a knife. Anothe",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What advice has helped you move on with your life and focus on yourself after getting out of a relationship? POST: I've always had the same luck with guys. I've had a bunch of relationships that just don't last longer than a few months. I'm a week away from turning 21 so everyone keeps telling me to relax and that I still have plenty of time to settle down and all this. But all I'm looking for is something real. I've yet to find a guy that thinks I'm worth the trouble. I'm not a typical ",positive " r/books TITLE: just can't get into Cormac McCarthy POST: First read Blood Meridian from start to finish, all the while thinking either 'here is a book that is decidedly not living up to its hype' or 'maybe if I just keep going, it'll all pay off in the end...' There were certainly some fascinating sections (most of which that I can recall involve some violent dust-up as the gang moves from one town to the next), and it's clear McCarthy is a very skilled prose stylist, but now that I've finished All The Pre",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to tell my (19M) friend that he isn't going to get anywhere with his romantic interest (19F) POST: Been a while since I've been to this sub, but I could really use some advice. So me and a friend were at a party about a month ago where we both met this girl. Since the party we have both started talking to and getting to know this girl, him in the sense that he wants to date her, me in the sense that we just want to be friends. Anyway, we were talking tonight and she revealed 2 ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by driving my motorcycle on a country road like it was a race track. POST: This happened Saturday evening at 7:30pm. So lets just cut to the chase. I was leading a group of 8 bikes. Pretty far ahead of the group in eye sight of the bike behind me. I was taking curvy country roads at double and triple the ""recommended"" speeds. I had just taken a right turn at about 95 mph. The next one was a 25 recommended. I tried to pull it at 85. I could have made it but I the middle of it I let fear c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] just discovered that my mother [47F] is having an affair. POST: Over the period of a few weeks, my mom has randomly been leaving the house- claiming that she's ""stressed out"" and ""just going for a drive."" Sometimes, she'll be gone until late at night- at one point she came home after midnight a few evenings ago. My dad [53M] usually ends up asking me where she is- I can tell he's frustrated but he doesn't show his feelings as well (they've been together for about 30 years).",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29 M] struggling to forget a girl [29 F] that I've had the most amazing connection with, ever. POST: What do you guys/ladies usually do to forget someone entirely? I can't stop thinking about her, she's the most amazing person I've ever connected (different from attracted) with in my life, ever. period. She likes me too, as a friend. She didn't say that though, yet, the friend part. She does like me around. But she's in a relationship, and also she's the kind of girl way out of ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: We are in a collective state of denial. POST: I've been browsing alternative media and conspiracy forums for about 3 years in tandem with a daily dose of the major media articles. Of all the events, theories, and falsifiable mainstream narratives, I find the September 2001 attacks to be by far the most glaring, deadly, and consequential in the context of the world. I went 10 years before I ever even questioned the mainstream narrative of the event. It has completely unraveled for me ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] cheated on my girlfriend [20 F] of two years, I told her, and she took me back a few months ago. How do I deal with the guilt and shame I feel. POST: I'll try and sum up the background. Going out with a great girl for years, my first ever girlfriend. I start to feel jealous of my friends who are sleeping with loads of people. Find myself in position with different girl and a lot of wine, I forget everything that I love and we end up having sex. I instantly regret it, try and",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does your family say goodnight and good morning to each other? POST: I only ask because I'm rather bothered by how my it is NOT a custom in my wife's family. In fact, they rarely ever do. Even when I make sure and say something to the effect of ""goodnight"" - most times they don't even respond. Other times, when they say ""I'm going to bed"", they don't follow that up with goodnight, or sleep well, etc. They don't say good morning either. No they don't think I'm evil or something. It j",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Would job hopping matter with part-times? POST: I'm currently a senior in High School and have been working at this cafe for 8 months now, they pay me good, but I only work one day and it's because I'm not able to walk there (don't have my driver's license yet). However a job opportunity opened at my local grocery store, literally across the street (1 minute walk). I'm willing to work more hours and the pay is almost the same. I'm going to lose the benefit of discounted food, but also I will ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I (30m) was dumped yesterday by (30f) after having dated for a few months. Via e-mail. After setting up for a mini vacation at a B&B POST: So I'm posting here because I think it'd be constructive, an easy way to vent, and to get others perspective. I met (30f) at an event my friend invited me to when I was feeling a bit depressed. My friend introduced me to her and we hit it off pretty well. An invitation to drinks later, and another date and then another, things were rolling pretty well",positive " r/relationships TITLE: This will likely be the last time I (26m) write in this subreddit POST: Despite some supportive words and constructive critiques, I'm giving up on having a meaningful relationship and am resigning myself to bachelorhood. Without sounding conceited, I have a few things going for me that some don't. But I also realize my negative attributes outweigh them considerably. I'm just now enrolling in university at a time when most people my age either have a bachelor's or are completing a ma",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, have you ever gotten the last laugh? POST: Reddit, I'm a college-attending lass, and stupid enough to repeatedly date run-of-the-mill douche-bags that play me like a broken record. Well, once again, I was played by a guy that I had feelings for. After all was said and done, we wound up on speaking terms and went to see a movie together tonight as friends. We get back to my place, and are sitting in the car, just talking. The boy makes a cocky joke about his sexual conquest of y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [m22] girlfriend [f21] feels pressured when I try to initiate sex POST: Some background: when my girlfriend and I started dating about a year and a half ago we had sex very regularly, maybe two or three times a week. Now things are very different. I think we only have had sex once in the past month. I try to initiate pretty often and then I always feel bad and dejected after I am turned down. She says that she feels pressured and she really doesn't like that all. In fact she has",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] boyfriend [25M] of three years hates my tattoos. POST: When my boyfriend and I met, I already had four really large tattoos and I knew that I would get more in the future. My boyfriend never said anything bad about the tattoos I already had - in fact, he once drunkenly admitted to me that he had a fantasy about getting with a girl with a bunch of body mods. That kind of annoyed me but whatever... So since we've been dating I've gotten two more tattoos. The first time I aske",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [19f] didn't call me [18m] today, what should I do? POST: Really simple question. This girl and I go way back to elementary school, and we haven't talked in about a month or so. I had previously cut contact with her to deal with some stresses in my life, and yesterday I gave her a call to let her know that things are better, and she seemed really excited but couldn't talk at the time because her parents were visiting her, but said she'd call me tomorrow. There's some exciti",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend [21 F] who is friends with an ex POST: Prior to dating my current girlfriend, whom completely adores me and wants to spend the rest of her life with me, we were best friends. During this time, I wanted to date her and she knew that, but wasn't ready to commit to a relationship. That was fine by me, we were good friends. However, she was casually seeing another guy, and them interacting always depressed me a little bit. She would text him from time to time",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need opinions Reddit: Do I blow her off? POST: Hey Reddit. I'll do my best to keep this short. I sort of hooked up with this girl recently, and we both obviously had feelings for each other. When she left, she started acting screwy, but through a mutual friend I found out she liked me, but didn't want a relationship. Fine. So we kept it cool, chatted, whatever. I find out officially she is moving many states away for school, and will be staying there for good. We set up plans to hang",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my girlfriend [16 F] of a few months, she likes to tease me and it's starting to get annoying POST: To be fair, not all of her teasing annoys me. She can call me dummy or retarded or an idiot and I don't care, I'll do it right back. That's her personality, she's a very sarcastic person and loves to tease people she's close with. But there's these jokes that she'll sometimes make that are really starting to bother me. She'll joke about leaving me or her being with other",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I can't believe my boyfriend when he compliments me anymore... POST: Last week, I told my boyfriend about a lie that I had told him when we first started dating. He was really hurt by it, understandably so, and he covered that up by getting mad. He said some hurtful things, but we ended up working it out, and now he's forgiven me for all of that. The only thing is I don't think I've forgiven him for the hurtful things he said to me... Whenever he compliments me now, like when he sa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Parallel Universe mind loop POST: Recently I have been revising for my Physics exam so when I've been taking a break I've been watching physics related videos on YouTube which lead me onto one about the theory of parallel Universes, which got me thinking. In the video they said about how the interaction between particles would spark of into separate 'branches' where in one branch they interacted and the other they didn't thus creating an infinite amount of branches over time, and in each",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my friend [20F] I asked her out, she said yes, then cancelled to date me due to school and fear of drama. POST: Hello, So I asked a close friend of mine out. She said yes, and I thought everything was fine and dandy, until the day of the date. She post sooner the date for tomorrow, then the next day came. She missed the date. She forgot to wake up. Obviously this made me assume that she didn't want to go out with me. So I told her if she still wanted to go out that s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [43 M] want to leave my wife [38 F] of 15 years, but don't want to put my kids through a divorce POST: My wife and I have been fighting a lot lately, and I'm tired. Our biggest problem is that we have patterns where we don't talk to each other, and don't seem to be able to talk productively about conflicts. I'm tired of all of it and just want to split up. But we have two kids (10 & 12) and I don't want them to have to go through a divorce. I can't stand the thought of them livi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] Just found out that my [26F] boyfriend [31M] of 4 months is married with a pregnant wife. POST: [Here] is the original post. I fought with myself last night over whether to tell her or not. There was an overwhelming majority on to tell her, but at the same time there were a few who made valid points for reasons I should not. Ultimately, I decided to tell her, since if I was in her situation, I would want someone to tell me. I called her this morning. The conversation was ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU…by sitting down on the bus POST: Well…what can I say…TIFU… This happened to me this morning so I can actually say TIFU... So I get on the bus this morning and I couldn't believe my luck that not only there is a seat but two seats next to each other right at the back of the bus. I make the mistake of deciding to walk to the back of the bus. As I always do I give the seat a quick look just to make sure I ain't sitting down on anything ""nasty"" Passed the sight test (the smell test is sadly ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[20M/F] and my friend [19M/F] 6 months... I nee some advice. POST: I went on a few dates with this girl I know, then after a few dates she established that she 'wouldn't really be a good girlfriend.' So she still just wanted to hang out. We hung out, and ended up making out a lot. At the end of summer I get a text from her apologizing and saying that she has been seeing someone the whole summer but still has feelings for me. She doesn't think it's 'our time' yet and that she t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling some of my friends about a potentially new relationship POST: So I met this girl earlier, she's really nice, a great baker, has a big heart. I met her in a party and her other friends are hot. She's okay. Yea I know, I am being a major jerk here. I felt really bad about this. As I get to know her more, I think I kinda have feelings for her, and I feel bad about saying that she's not hot. I might even have used the word ""ugly"". That was very superficial and dickheaded of me. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] and my SO [21 F] have been together for almost a year and are moving in together and I'm scared. POST: We've had a great relationship so far. We're at the point now where we basically are more comfortable sleeping in the same bed instead of apart, and we're not even kind of sick of each other. We're planning on moving in together and sharing the apt with her brother, who also loves me, which makes the situation seem even better. Then tonight she hits me with this long te",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Three weeks ago I [19,m] posted about what gifts I should give to my date [18,f]...and I think the results came back positive! POST: [My last post]( Not to here to boost my karma on anything but I generally think the date went well and I'm just so happy. On the day I was kinda nervous because I haven't seen her for about 3 weeks or so and when I saw her, all feelings of nervousness came away. She wore a beige top with an Aztec wooly jeggings of some sort which looked so pretty",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22/F] just ended things with a semi serious fling [22/M]. Is it too early to start dating again? POST: I met this guy last year whilst he was on holidays in my state. When he returned home, we began talking and skyping almost every day. I flew up to visit him a few times and during that period I grew really serious feelings for him to the point where I felt like I was falling in love. Considering that I've never felt feelings like that before, it was pretty scary for me. However",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I don't believe my boyfriend finds me attractive and it's putting a strain on our relationship. Help? POST: Me (20f) and him (22m) have been together for about a year. We are very sexually active, and I love him, and he loves me. Everything in our relationship is pretty great, we get into little fights, but nothing serious. The problem is that I don't believe that he finds me attractive. I am overweight (5'5'', 250lbs) and sometimes I feel extremely insecure about it. I've been the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (17F) have terrible social anxiety - to the point of panic-like symptoms. POST: I know a lot of people claim to be so introverted that they can't talk to people, but I have a slightly different problem, and I don't know how to fix it. When people try to talk to me, like if someone I know sees me at work, I get panicky. My heart races and my hands go numb, I can't think, and I get fidgety. It's like the beginning of a panic attack. And it's not like I just get anxious. I feel like",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: People of reddit, what is the most shameful fap you have ever fapped? I'll start. POST: At my house with my girlfriend of the time. Laying in bed watching a movie when sexy times start to ensue. About half way through she finishes and wants me to finish. I suddenly can't stop thinking of that day earlier in school and whether or not I finished an assignment. No amount of refocusing helps and I lose it. She asks if anything is wrong and I decide to tell her, she laughs and says that's kin",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Kissed a stranger this weekend. I need a girl's advice! POST: I was at a very intimate and psychedelic concert Saturday night. I had glimpsed this very attractive girl and soon near the end of the concert she made her way over to me. I was asking myself if I should make a move seeing that she had positioned herself in front of me in a very tight environment. I never really understood how these kinds of situations work. I'd always see this kind of thing happen with friends of mi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] An I [M18] wrong to stay with her[F18]? POST: Here is a link to my origional question: As i put in an edit, i ended things. I really miss her but that is not what I'm asking about. I cannot express in clean words my anger towards her ex. She didn't want me to talk to him but now that things are over, should I talk to him? I know it is kind of immature but I don't think I've ever been this angry towards someone. He set in motion a downward spiral that ultimately ended my rel",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Daughter (20 mo.) wants to sleep in her brothers (3YO) bed... this is ok, right? POST: My son has slept like a champ since birth: All night, no getting up, bed at 7p until 6a daily. My daughter, on the other hand, co-slept with us because of breast feeding until about 3 months ago. Since then we had her sleep in her crib alone. My wife and I slept on the living room floor because she would cry and cry if we were in the same room (two bedroom house.) A month or so ago she learned to get ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sabotaging my dream job interview POST: Context - I had a pair of friends who are from abroad and were leaving this week. They asked if they could have a going away party at my place since my parents were gone. I said sure why not despite the fact that my dream job interview was the next day since they promised they'd invite a bunch of ppl over so that I wouldn't have to drink much and finish relatively early. I go out and buy alcohol with them, return home only to find out they invi",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Loseit, what are your feelings about standing desks? POST: Short backstory: I started my first ever desk job over the summer after having a fairly active job, and immediately felt HORRIBLE from all the sitting (and gained about 10lbs). I started requesting a standing desk in August, yadda yadda yadda, bureaucratic bullshit, about a month ago I finally brought in a bunch of (carefully measured and custom built) boxes and plopped my computer on those so I can stand at my desk. I stand 2/3 of ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can my landlord is threaten to kick me out in 72 hours for dirty carpet and bathroom? what do? POST: Landlord calls me yesterday saying she needs to check for a water leak/replace said parts if need be. I rush home, tidy up/take our recycling/vaccum and take off for class. (college student mind you, midterms this week/out of town this weekend) I really didn't have time to completely clean everything and I thought I would be alright. So landlord calls me back, said she is ""absolutely hor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22m) just stumbled upon an opportunity to become a prostitute to pay for my girlfriends (22f) college. Need advice. POST: Hey all. Using a throwaway since this could go bad if I post it on my original account. I am a 22 year old male finishing up undergrad studies and I so is my 22 year old girlfriend. She is working on getting accepted to pharm schools and has to pay for many flights around the U. S. to be interviewed by these schools. She has little money since she spent it al",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my boyfriend [25M] of 1 year, who is implying that I'm codependant and possessive for wanting to Skype while he's away on business. POST: Until recently both my boyfriend and myself worked part time in entry level jobs, in the last few months he's taken a position with a new company and has gotten to go on a business trip overseas for a week and a half. He reassured me before he went that the separation wouldn't be that hard and that we'd Skype a lot and keep in touch. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend [17 F] of almost 2 years. Not really a bad breakup, but it hurts bad POST: This past Saturday my girlfriend broke up with me. We had been dating for 1 year and 10 months. Even though I'm 19 she was my first girlfriend and the love of my life. I guess the relationship ended about as good as one could. Neither of us hate each other. The reason she broke up with me is because she just doesn't think she's right for me. That part was a little confusing for m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] with my ex boyfriend [20 F] of 1 year, not loving him, but i am still sad. POST: So, I want to make this short as possible. I do **NOT** love my ex boyfriend anymore, I do not want to be with him, because.. after we broke up, I realized how unhappy he was making me and how much I didn't want him anymore. He made me cry, WAY to often. We broke up a month ago. Maybe two. I realized he started dating a girl, and I've seen on instagram/facebook that they are now together. The",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25/m] have been hanging out with a new girl [18/f] and constantly thinking about our age difference POST: I met this girl who is totally my type physically; down to the kinds of clothes she wears, but i can't help but keep my distance because of our age difference. She's made it pretty obvious that she's into me. She attends school and is in a very time-consuming and difficult pre-med program but has weekends off (usually) so she likes to plan our weekends literally an entire week",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my Ex BF [22 M] threatning me and finding ways to bother me online. POST: I honestly didn't know where else to turn. I lurked on reddit for two years but I'm desperate for some advice here. I met a guy online on World of Warcraft and we hit it off since then. He lived in Cananda and I live in the US. I was going to get my passport to see him untill things started to get bad. He because very emotionallly abusive towards me and I noticed he was trying to single me out fro",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Do I date her? POST: So I have been in a sort of long distance ""relationship"" with a friend of mine for about 2 or 3 months now. We talk every day via text or on the phone and frequently visit each other. We started out just having sex but have grown pretty close. She wants the boyfriend girlfriend titles but I am hesitant because I don't know how long it would last and honestly she isn't a perfect fit for me. I'm trying to keep things casual but I do enjoy spending time with h",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Fiance wants to try pegging...and I'm unsure about it. POST: 25M/24F -- Fiance for 7 months. Originally, a few months back, I was the one that was begging him and telling him that we were going to try it one way or another. Whether he wanted to or not, since he convinced me to take it up the derriere. Ehm, beyond that point.... the other night, he sent me a text message: ""Does pegging make a guy gay?"" I was taken aback. Where had this come from? Was he randomly thinking about it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (f/27) Privilaged introverted bf (m/25) won't participate in parts of my life which is making me change as a person POST: I have been living with my Bf for just over a year now. He is completely introverted. In fact he has no friends besides two guys he skypes with regularly to play video games. He's a great guy. He is funny and open with me but just completely shuts down when other people are around, even if he knows them relatively well he will hardly talk. I am a social perso",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24M] my girlfriend (23F) of five months just asked me to propose due to religious reasons. Currently in shock. POST: Throwaway as i don't want people i know irl knowing about this yet. My girlfriend and i have been dating for almost five months now. She is greek orthodox and i am not overly religious at all. This girl is amazing. Since the day we met we haven't been able to stop talking. I love spending time with her and seeing her whenever i'm able. Everything has been going",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: The best impulsive idea I ever had.. POST: About two years ago, I got a new job and was finally able to make more money than I needed to get by. Having not that much in savings (maybe a small emergency fund), I decided to have a portion of my paycheck automatically deposit into my savings account, to guard against firing/job change/zombie-pocalypse. At first, given that I wasn't going to be making that much more than before, I though maybe $200 a month was all I could afford to b",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Hey loseit, I need some advice for a friend POST: So my friend has always been thin, but struggles with her body image. I personaly think she has always looked amazing and especially now considering she has had three kids! Anyway, she has it stuck in her head that she HAS to weigh 110lbs in order to feel good about herself. I keep trying to tell her that numbers don't matter as long as she looks great and feels good about herself. She's not the best at healthy eating and I've been trying ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Need help talking to this girl again [17M] POST: So this past weekend was our prom. Our school has taken in some foreign exchange students, so I asked this one to go with me. She is a girl in my grade from Mexico. After we go with our group to eat and leave the main dance, we of course go to the afterparty. We both drink a little, but not enough to get drunk. She starting resting her head on me, saying she was tired and her head hurt so we sat down. After a while she started talking",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Talking to my ex POST: So I (20/F) have been going through a rough time in my life and have been dealing with depression. I have been posting some sad things on my Twitter Instagram etc and my ex (22/M) has started to notice so he decided to text me last week to see if I'm okay and he really helped me out and gave me the best advice because he knows exactly what I'm going through. It was really comforting to know he cared and wanted to be there for me after all we have been through. ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by having phone sex with my mom. POST: Background: I'm a 20 year old woman. I live with my parents. I'm also a phone sex operator. I specifically do female domination phone calls, which includes all sorts of kinky stuff like verbal humiliation and punishment and making the guy on the other end of the phone do terrible things to himself. Yes, not only do they consent but they pay for me to tell them to punch themselves in the balls. So today I'm taking calls. On the website I use, they r",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My best friend (F, 21) drunkenly felt me (F, 21) up last night and I don't know how to respond POST: Myself and two of my best girlfriends (let's say Susan and Jess) were having a wine night per usual last night. We've been close since the beginning of college a few years ago and have all the same classes because we're in the same very structured major. We're all very drunk, sitting on the couch together and Susan turns towards me and starts kissing me. We kiss for a brief mo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: SO is holding back emotionally on the relationship, and it's starting to hurt me a bit. How do I talk to him without scaring him? POST: Ages: 23M & 21F || Relationship: 3.5 Months We get along really well, things are lovely. I'm from another country and currently at University. I think this worries him, and is keeping him from getting too 'invested.' He also is still sort of healing from a break up with his ex of 2.5 years (happened last september) who he still has contact wit",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What petty/trivial childhood things are still being held against you today? POST: I was talking to my sister on the phone last night, and we got into an argument about her hypocrisy in how she deals with her children, versus the things SHE did when she was a kid. Basically, she was looking for ""you're right"" and instead I answered with an opinion based in facts. She eventually closed the argument down with ""...that's how you've always been, just like that peanut butter time!"" and hung ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23M) am in love with my new friend (21F). She has a boyfriend. Need advice. POST: So I met this girl a couple of months ago. We've become very close, but only as friends. I mean we are spending every possible minute together, and texting when we aren't. Good mornings, good nights, and everything in between. Every day. Also, she has a boyfriend,but he lives in Okinawa, so they only see each other on Skype, and they only dated for like two months before he moved there. I'm defin",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [30]M, [31]wife cheated working things out... POST: I've been with my wife for 4 years. She cheated on me about 6 weeks ago with my best friend. They had been having an affair for about 2 weeks before she came clean to me about it. She has begged for my forgiveness and has been genuine about doing everything she can. She says it was a mistake that they both made and she feels terrible about it. I chose to forgive her and work on things. I love her a lot and I am of the minds",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Redditors with physics degrees, how did you find work after finishing university? Any advice for a lost physicist? POST: Hello, I graduated with a B.S. in Physics from UC Santa Cruz in 2008, and have spent the last 3 years traveling and working in the outdoor tourism industry (whitewater rafting, if you're curious). A great lifestyle, but subject to wild fluctuations in the amount of work you get due to global economic climates, local natural disasters (ask me about rafting in Icela",negative " r/dogs TITLE: I've got 17 dogs in one room right now. It's chaos, but happy chaos. POST: Hello! I've posted here before, but I'm gonna introduce myself anyway. I'm 18, and I've been working my dream job for 6 months today! I run the doggie daycare at my vet's office. It's a full time, 8-5, m-f job I was lucky to get. Before I started, they had kennel staff doing daycare, but it was never the same person and never consistent. Since I've started, daycare has grown a TON. I started off with 2 or 3 ""regulars"" ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My mother [50ish] won't let me [f22] see my little sister [10] unless I cut my hair. POST: I've had long hair my whole life because my mother didn't allow me to cut it. I finally recently cut it into a cute fauxhawk. I go to school out of state, and I was skyping with my little sister and mother and showed them my hair. My mother didn't say much, but she later called me and informed me that she doesn't want my sister around that and I won't be allowed to come see my sister this summe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (29M) with gf of 5 months (31F) and I did something selfish. POST: Phone formatting apology. My girlfriend and I have been planning to move out together recently. She found out her landlord wanted his place for himself and she thought now would be a good time to go. Me being the typical hero type said ""let's just move in together!"" Way ahead of the schedule I had planned. We've been rocky since we started the relationship and 5 months in is a bit fast for me. The last few days ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using Google Hangouts POST: This was a fuck up I never thought would happen. It seemed like such a simple thing, and I didn't know how bad it would get. I have been dating a girl for a few weeks, things progressed pretty quickly into the infatuation, spending all time with each other phase. It was like I blinked and woke up in love with her. I'm talking head over heels in love with this girl. Well there was a problem, her parents were very religious, believed heavily in courtship, s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: His [35M] kids scare me [23F] POST: I've been in a relationship with Mike* for 11 months now, we met though mutual friends and despite the age gap got on really well from the get go and moved in together 3 months ago however his children (son, 7 years and daughter 8 years) from his previous long term relationship scare me and are causing issues. They are constantly hostile towards me to the point of calling me names and throwing various objects at me when I'm alone with them, or whe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [20 F], who drunkenly made out with another guy at a party POST: At a U.S. university, I'm in a stable, four-month relationship with my girlfriend, who I know really likes me. Last night, she asked me to a college party, but I preferred staying inside because I had a lot of work to do. Before she left, she bought her pajamas to my room so that she could sleep next to me when she comes back. She didn't come back until I went to bed at 6am, however, and sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should [19/m] text [20/f] that didn't text back? POST: So I met this girl in one of my classes and managed to get her number. I waited about a month before texting her (stupid, I know) because I'm shy and when I did we texted for maybe an hour before she didn't respond mid conversation. The conversation was very light, mostly about our jobs and school. She wasn't sending my any one word texts or any other hints that she wanted to stop talking and it was midnight so I just assumed she",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (M17) Parents (M35)(F34) argue and talk about leaving each other almost every week during a saturday. What to do to make them stop? POST: My mom and dad argue every Saturday each two weeks. This the time which my dad starts drinking a lot in the house . When he comes from his friends house they both start talking about leaving each other due to their issues. My dad also likes to flirt with other girls in front of my mom. During the argument he says he's the boss and he owns my mo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/M] Trying to read signs from someone else [19/M] POST: Bit of background on this is in order I guess: I have never actually 'talked' to someone before now. Dude follows me on tumblr. I see he's pretty cute so I follow him back and say ""thanks for following!"" which he gave a standard ""no problem!"" A bit later (this being 2 weeks ago Friday) he messages me and says ""You're super cute and your blog is great"" and then we started talking back and forth to discover that we g",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: General relationship insecurity....how do you deal with it? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for about 6 months. He's absolutely everything I've ever wanted in a person. My family loves him, things really are great...but I'm constantly afraid of losing him. I'm so afraid one day he's just going to wake up and change his mind or something because this is too good to be true. He's given me no reason to ever think he would do this and I know it's my own anxiety clawing ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/f] Struggling to find things to do with my partner [22/m] POST: Hola. Myself and my boyfriend have been together two years now, and seem to be doing a very little range of 'things' together aside from going to the cinema, dinner, and lounging around on a sofa watching TV. I've tried suggesting other things (day trips, finding good multiplayer games on Steam/consoles etc) but he only seems interested in watching TV or playing card games. Since we are both still pretty damn ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M/] with my ex gf___ [20 F] 7 month relationship, 1 month LDR so far. Broke up with me, calls me 2 days later. POST: I'll keep it short. My girlfriend of 7 months broke it off. It's been 1 month of LDR and I could tell she started distancing herself after about 2 weeks into LDR. So just two days ago she broke it off saying she wasn't willing to do the distance and needed space. Yet just 4 days before that she was telling me how much she missed and loved me. I told her how I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] I [22 F] met a wonderful guy [20 M] while out dancing, how do I not fuck this up? (1 week) POST: Link to op : I met him today for lunch. He looked happy to see me and I was happy to see his handsome face too. I noticed he talk too much too fast though which I don't like. He did get me a sandwich and Starbucks though. Anyway, we talked about us and he said he was not ready for a ""full blown relationship"" because he did not want time / he saw it consumed his friends' lives. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: If you think someone wont text you unless you text them first what should you do? POST: I've been texting a girl from okcupid (I'm a girl too if that matters? we are both 23) but I'm always the first to send a message. As soon as we start texting the convos usually last at least two hours, sometimes closer to four or five. Today I ran a little test and haven't texted her all day, and she hasn't texted me either. Should I continue the test or just message her or what? We've made a fe",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not being able to say the L word...and then accidentally saying it. POST: So I've recently started seeing this guy, I know he;s liked me for a long time, but I only recently realized that I actually really like him. We're hunkering down for a night of movies and alcohol as per usual when he suddenly drops it. He's like, yeah...I think I love you. Completely caught me off guard, I was honest with him. I really like him, but I'm not to that point yet. after a little bit of awkward talki",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm 27/m and not sure if my girlfriend 30/f is right for me even though she is a great person. POST: This is my first relationship and everything feels fine for the most part. We started dating sometime early in the summer last year and things have been okay. She seems to be more than happy with me as a partner and feels like we have something really great. I'm inclined to agree except that in many ways we are very different people. I'm a fairly nerdy CS graduate who likes his ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my coworker [late 20s/30s? M] talking to me while working and at home. POST: I have social anxiety first of all. I just started working at a department store last week. Since I don't really know about things in my department, I have to ask/follow my coworkers around to tell me what to do. This one guy was talking to me yesterday asking me about having a boyfriend, what I do in my spare time, etc. At one point he asked me for my phone and I thought he just wanted to kn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (29F) am a lesbian falling for a man (28M) I don't know what the hell to do here POST: I've been a lesbian as far back as I can remember, never liked guys, never felt attracted to them. I've been with women since I was 15, I had a couple drunk kisses with guys in college for the hell of it and that was it. I've dated solely women, I could be in a room full of abercrombie models and it wouldn't really bother me. Yet lately I've found myself falling for a man. We started out as fri",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: CS grad here, hate current job. Seeking to be better POST: So I have a full time job as a tester... I hate every minute of it. I have a CS degree with a minor in networking and security and MSc degree in IT. I wasted half the time at Uni, I started working hard and paying attention to class way too late. So I did a MSc, maybe that was gonna help me but it didn't. I don't live in the US. Here in my country, companies ask for provable experience in certain technologies like Java or .NET",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When I was 18 I met one of my childhood heros Mike Mussina, All-star MLB pitcher for the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles, and afterwards I lost all respect for him. Who are some of your childhood heros you regret meeting. POST: So the story goes like this... I discovered my love of playing and watching baseball at a young age and I've alway like the New York Yankees. I've looked up to a lot of their players as role models but especially pitchers because I was a pitcher myself. Wel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Temporary distance is killing our relationship day by day, i'm not phased by it but she's feeling the strain and seems like giving up. Can i get some advice over here? POST: As the title says, me and my girlfriend (Both 20) have nearly been together a year and make an absolutely brilliant couple and we love eachother to peices as (We tell eachother daily). We both met at University and we spend at least 4 days a week together every week for a year whilst at university. But now it i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I was just violated with a video camera. HELP. POST: My dermatologist and my mother convinced me to visit a local tanning bed. I wasn't really against the idea, but as a 17 year old straight male...the tanning salon was not a place for me. Against my better judgement, I went anyway. I walked in to the tanning salon, very weary of the environment. I put down all belongings and began undressing. Shoes, pants, then undergarments. My shirt hung over the important area that needed to",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your best ""Damn, he got me... Well played, sir"" momeny? POST: One of my lower level bosses and I have been going back and forth with real life trolling. I hide his ID card, which he needs to log into the computer, he takes my access badge (to get in the building), etc. This has been going on for about a week, getting steadily worse. Today I went in and took his whole monitor and mouse. He came and told me to give it back, which I do, then goes ""god damn it, where is the wheel to m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 F] need advice for finding work/life balance with my [22 M] fiance [4 year relationship] POST: Be sure to explain in detail with line breaks. This past weekend, my boyfriend of four years popped the question out of the blue and I said yes. Initially, I was ecstatic about it, although I still felt a bit disappointed because it seemed fairly rushed. I know most people wouldn't think waiting four years is really rushing, but I feel in this situation my boyfriend is afraid of losi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Despite knowing my feelings for her [18F] will go away and that my feelings [22M] may not even be true it still hurts. POST: I met this girl who is actually amazing in every way. I haven't met anyone like her ever and I don't just mean her perfect appearance. I always tell her that even her personality is amazing and one of the greatest I've see. Anyways, I feel so in love with her even though I'm sure it's not love since I'm dumb, but I don't know how to deal with this. I don't wa",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my boyfriend [35M] of about a year, his pre-existing trust issues are coming in between us. Advice? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for about a year. Prior to dating me, he was in a long term relationship that ended in a nasty way, resulting in him having major trust issues. As with most couples, we have had some ups and downs, but nothing that communicating hasn't seem to work out. Until now... Lately, I've been having questions that can't be definitive",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] had sex with my boyfriend [24M] and his best friend [24M] last night. Not sure where to go from here. POST: So last night I had a threesome sex with my boyfriend and his best friend. This friend, let's call him Dave, is his closest friend since they were 15 or so, so they're pretty tight. Dave has always slightly flirtatious with me, not to the point that it causes annoyance or worry, but always a little more than he normally should. I talked to my boyfriend about it and he w",positive " r/running TITLE: After suffering a metatarsal stress fracture from wearing Vibram's, I'm finally back to running, but I'm not sure where to go from here. POST: I've ran in vibrams since April, but with pretty low mileage. I upped it quite a bit around August cause I felt I was getting fat, and this spike in mileage is what I think caused my stress fracture. I had to wear a god-awful boot for three weeks, but now my foot is completely healed. My doctor said to stay away from vibram's and get a shoe with lot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Hello friends! My man(25) does not like my(26F) body. Share your thoughts? POST: Friends, I am going through a phase with my partner. He is legally, a genius. He is a prodigy graphic artist, has exceptional taste and can express himself with complete awareness. We've been together 6 years and have a baby 1 year old. He does not like my body. He, as many other men, likes an ass on her girl. I do not have an ass. It's embarrassing to say, what girl wants to admit that but it's the trut",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [23/m] moved to a new city and met an old friend [22/f] that I really like, but she has a boyfriend. Am I just torturing myself by hanging out with her? POST: So I recently moved to a new city and found out I knew one person in the same area as me; a girl I went to school with that I always kind of had a crush on. I started hanging out with her and that crush kind of started evolving, nothing crazy just the thought that I wouldn't mind if this went somewhere. Anyway, when I m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [m/18] Basically Girlfriend is ignoring me POST: We were in my basement and she wanted to cuddle with me, so I slipped under the blanket and said, ""no sex."" (Because just before we were hooking up and doing some four play).. And she got mad at me because I thought she pulled me under the covers because she wanted to have sex, but just wanted to cuddle. I tried to talk to her afterwords but she just wanted to go home. So I drove her home and she didn't even say goodnight or b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/F] think my brother's [18/M] friend [30/M] talks a lot, but I think he needs professional help POST: So, my younger brother has a close friend from work who has been down on his luck all his life (that being an understatement). He's a man who witnessed his father being killed at a young age, his mother dying from cancer, suffering some brain damage to even being homeless. And that's not even touching the tip of the iceberg. So, due to some extreme circumstances, with his sist",negative " r/self TITLE: Harassed by boss - At a job for less than 3 months (24Y, F) POST: I work at a small office. It's my first real job after getting my degree, I've studied a lot to get that formation and it was hard. All started alright, everything seemed promising, until a coworker had a huge fight with our boss (woman at her 50's). He asked to leave and acted rather unethical, harming my boss the work we developed there. Things went downstairs, everything went wrong with the office's projects. My boss starte",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My wife wants us to move in with her aunt so we get the house when she dies. It feels wrong, but here's the story POST: My wife and I are living in a single wide mobile home that is owned by her mom's cousin. My wife likes living here but hates having her as a landlord. Our landlord/cousin's mom is dying and is being ignored by her daughter, and her daughter acts like she just wants her mom to die so they can move on. It's sad. My mother in law takes care her in the hospital and found ou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My S/O of 3 years (24f) decided to take in her little cousins without even talking to me (21f). Now I'm thinking about leaving. POST: Ok here we go. Me and my S/O have been living together for about 9 months. Everything was going fine until about 3 months ago. She got a call from her mom about how her little cousins mother(Robyn) didn't want her kids and she was going to kill them unless someone came and got them. She in return bought it to my attention and we talked about it briefl",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [24F] sister [17F] has been secretly dating a 29 year old man for 2 years. POST: My mom was called by the police department 3am two nights ago to report my sister, who was charged with underage drinking, and a 29 year old male drunk driver. As it turns out, she's been dating the driver for 2 years, has slept with him multiple times, and has been lying about her whereabouts and who she's been hanging out with....for 2 years. We were really really close. My sister is one of my best",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by playing video games POST: Long time lurker here,now with a story to share Today I wasn't able to get a lift into town to skateboard,so I spent the day playing video games on the computer. My mum returns home and suddenly becomes very angry ''How many hours have you been on that machine?'' I explain I've had nothing else to do all day so I've been on most of the day. My mum goes ballistic ''What are you implying?Get off it now!'' She grabs my keyboard and yanks it,pulling the computer",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF[20 F] broke up with me [20 M] abruptly. Lost totally. POST: We are college classmates. She broke up with me about a month ago. She had been giving indications of sort, but never said or talked about it explicitly. I mean no relationship works like clockwork, I just took them as bumps on the road. So our semester exams end, and she just calls and drops the hint that its over. I am obviously overflowing with emotions. I ask her to meet to explain/ discuss this (Hoping it can be so",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do you consider fussy eaters rude? POST: We had some older relatives to stay recently, for quite a long time. One in particular, refused to eat anything he didn't normally eat. He didn't have allergies or dietary requirements, he just didn't want to eat outside his comfort zone. He claimed to like 'corned beef', so my girlfriend got a bit of silverside and corned it - he refused to eat that. When he said he liked 'corned beef' he really meant he liked tin spam... Personally, I consider",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: To what extent will bed bugs ruin my life? POST: So...I went on a trip and flew back two separate airlines, and after four days my roommate started to get bites on her back. After she saw a blood stain on the sheets she flipped out and called a bed bug dog, who indicated they were in the suitcase I took on the trip, her bed, and our couch. We had an exterminator in the next day, washed and dried the majority of our clothes, and threw away the suitcase (obviously). I have been staying a",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Question about student loan garnishment,tax returns and settlements. POST: Will try to keep this short. Live in TN, debt collector is in PA. My live-in SO of 5 years went to a for-profit college before realizing how awful it was, but not before taking out 4k in loans through the government which is now over 10k with interest. Anyway we were under the impression that they were deferred and had not received anything to state otherwise. Then about 5-6 months ago we got a ""final notic",negative " r/cats TITLE: I own a cat in an apartment that says no animals POST: and have had my friends call me stupid for it. However, the little girl needed a home. No one was taking her, and the original owner had to leave town. If I hadn't taken her, she would have been left on the street or given to the pound, which was already overpopulated with cats. She's 2, had her shots, and was fixed. I've had her for about 6 months now, and I'm moving into a pet-friendly apartment this summer when my lease is up. She'",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My mom has been bipolar and on and off addicted to drugs since I was 8. It's been 11 years now and life is still going on this way. I need help. POST: **Back story:** My mom had always struggled with ADD and depression since her childhood/teenage years. When she met my dad, things turned around for her. According to my family and from what I can remember, she was a loving wife and mother. Things were great for awhile there. At some point when I was a child, my mother started abusing Ph",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my Ex Girlfriend [17F]. She wants to remain friends, but I still have feelings. POST: We broke up 3 months ago, it was a mutual decision as we both knew the relationship could not work due to various reasons. Even so, we're really close so we decided we'd still be friends as that's what our relationship was based on in the first place, the fact we got on with each other so well. She is now seeing someone although it's ""not a relationship"" (Her words) Since then we tex",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Need advice on current situation POST: I'm a guy, and i'm 20, and i've recently met this girl who is also 20. When I first met her, she had just recently broken up with her boyfriend of a year, but were sort of back together so see if things can work. So, of course, I didn't try anything. We just texted and hung out at parties and stuff. However, I have grown a crush on this girl, though never voiced it. Yesterday, we were texting and out of nowhere she mentions that she broke up wi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [F 22] drank with an ex [M 24] and he semi-cheated on his current girlfriend [F 21] with me. He doesn't remember. Do I tell him? POST: My roommates and I share a pool of friends, which includes a guy I dated for a brief time. I had just recently broken up with my latest boyfriend when the party occurred. My ex and I are on good friendship terms and he is in a relationship of about 6 months with a new girl. At the party there was a good amount of what I believed to be harmless flirta",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] gave my crush [22 F] a gift and it made her cry, now its awkward. POST: There is a girl I've liked for a little while, she told me a few personal things about growing up after moving around a lot. Her mother passed away about 3 years ago so this year I got her flowers just for her to have. I just gave them to her I didn't make a grand gesture about it. When I gave her the flowers she started crying a bit, but held it together. We talked for a bit, not bringing up her moth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my friend [24 F] BF/GF? POST: I have been friends with this girl that I'm kind of dating, for the past 10 years. We recently started to get intermit, but I got the feeling that she never had the same attraction to me as I do to her. That is till today, I over for an hour or so when I asked to get the book she was just finished so I could started it, and that's when I found her diary, (before anybody say it I know it was wrong to read) well what she had wrote the day b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [33 F] am worried about my friend [30 M] of 5 years because he is getting involved in a pyramid scheme and won't listen to reason. He also has a mild learning disability and I feel they used that to rope him in. POST: I have a good friend who has always had the kindest heart and really just wants the best for everyone. A stupid MLM or pyramid scheme company is preying on his kind heart and learning disability. Now he feels (and believes I guess) that the lies he's been told are r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [27m] being too obsessive or clingy about my girlfriend [23f] of six months not talking to me on facebook? POST: I am fully aware this may come off as super clingy. I kind of hope it does, that means it's all in my head and not something to worry about. My girlfriend is very terse and not talkative through texts, Facebook messenger, stuff like that to begin with. For the last three days, she hasn't messaged me on Facebook at all. This is the longest we've gone without talking ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I don't intend on introducing my [23F] bf [28M] boyfriend of 1.5 years to my parents any time soon, would it be rude and random for me to clear the air on this? POST: I have a few family events coming up such as nephews birthday party, cousins wedding, and family dinner. And basically I am no where near ready to introduce my bf to my family. I have never introduced any boyfriends or guys that I'm dating to my family so it would be a pretty big deal. The main reason why I don't want ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32F] with my BF [33M] 3 years, beginning to resent him/think he is lazy. POST: I have been with my bf for almost three years, we get along well and rarely fight. We have talked about the future and we both want to move in together and get married when the time is right. We do not plan to have kids. When I met him he was working from home, but about a year into the relationship he found a part time job. He has been working there since in the hopes that they will offer him a full ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my GF [21F] of about 7 months has been acting really weird ever since a talk we had POST: So I've know this girl for almost 3 years now and we never dated because of location but we've been living in the same place for about the last 8-9 months and have been together. It started out great, super affectionate, sex all the time, always wanted to hang out and go out. Now about 6 weeks ago we had a talk where she said she felt like she was under too much pressure and didn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do you let someone know they need to back off gently?? POST: Met a guy a couple of days ago. He offered me a lift home and I found him on Facebook later to thank him again. Things have progressed and we are texting. However he is really needy ... already! The other day I didn't text back within 10 minutes and he had texted again saying too cool for me. He asks for pics (face... thank god) a lot.... and asks to come/stay over. Just a little context... I have been out of the dati",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does any here practice Krav Maga? POST: I'm looking into Krav Maga to get into better shape, both to feel better, and I'm going into the Army Reserves soon, so I want to get ready for basic training. I'm not horribly out of shape, but my stamina is way below what it should be, but I can handle pushups, situps etc. My friend's ex does Krav Maga and she told me it may be too intense for me, but her ex was also in level 3 (I think that's what she said) classes, so I should be alright in the",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU because my teacher wouldn't let me use the restroom. POST: So this happened in my 9th grade school year. Just a little info, I am very skinny and tall and just all around awkward.. and very pale... So for some odd reason i decided to wear swim shorts to school (idk why i never wear shorts). The school day progressed pretty normally until my English class. The first mistake i made was not using the restroom before class (because they are foul places). The teacher decides we should have so",negative " r/loseit TITLE: If you're overweight to an unhealthy degree, how do you feel when you hear people say that you or others shouldn't worry about losing weight? POST: I've seen a lot of discussion with the term ""fat-shaming"" thrown around about people who are overweight to an unhealthy degree and I'm a little torn on it personally. I don't think that anyone who is overweight should feel ashamed of it, but I absolutely hate when people tell someone who is clearly unhealthy not to lose the weight because ""they'",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Question about resuming a relationship with an ex POST: My girlfriend [18F] and I [18M] mutually ended our relationship of a few months at the end of the summer because she was moving far away for college and we didn't have the sufficient groundwork put in to do a long distance thing. It was more of a technicality than a traditional breakup, as we still talk everyday and feel the same ways about each other. It's more that we decided that whatever dynamic occurs between us doesn't make us ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16/F] with my boyfriend[17 M] 3 Years, we've been drifting apart. POST: So my boyfriend and I have been dating for three years, and have known each other for four years. It's an online relationship, but we've met up irl once. The first year was great. He loved me and I him, we spent time together - it was great. However, at the beginning of the second, I started to not spend time with him as much. He'd always try to talk to me but I'd be busy with life. Eventually he gave up tryi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Long distance relationship too hard for me [21/F] but not him [20/m] POST: I moved roughly 700 miles away when I graduated the college we met at, to go to another college and get out of the state I absolutely HATED. He still has a year left there, and then has plans to go to school at a military school and then go into the Army. We've talked and fantasized about getting married before he goes into Army, and at the time, yes I was all for it at the time. It was exciting and felt great",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What makes people attractive to you? POST: I've been thinking about Attraction as a construct for men and women, and Reddit seems to have a lot of very strong opinions on the subject, so I'd like to hear what you think. I believe the 1-10 physical hotness scale is too inaccurate to explain how people end up together (boning); there are non-physical things that make men attractive to women--like confidence, sense of humor, and money--that are probably *more* important than physical measu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [17M] Should I or shouldn't I date a Teenage mother [18F]? POST: Ok, to begin, I've just gotten out of a 2 year relationship a few weeks ago, I've been friends with this ""new"" girl for years, only recently have we been getting close, but she has a little daughter since she left school. I have finished year 12 and have 2 stable jobs. She doesn't have a Job, but she gets money from child support/centrelink help etc., She's living with her mother (We're neighbors actually.) We like eac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my fiancé [27M] of 4 years: is it possible to heal after infidelity? POST: Couple of things: - I have Bipolar 1 Disorder, I was diagnosed 6 years ago after a severe manic episode - About 4 years ago I moved to my current town, went into denial about my condition, got a different psychiatrist and psychologist, and was re-diagnosed with depression and anxiety - Also 4 years ago, I met my current fiancé, let's call him Jim - Life remained fairly unstable but not unmanagea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: BF lost his job and now there will be no ring, no wedding. I know it's selfish and immature... POST: Both 30 years old. 3 years together. We were solidifying final details of how we would move in together after getting engaged. He ordered a ring online. I was obviously super excited and shared this with my family and close friends (2 best friends in a different state). Last friday, BF called and informed me that he's been fired. I don't want to go into details, but it's partially",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 M] with my ex [26 F] and child [3] - therapist said to cut them out of my life POST: I have finally started seeing a therapist after my divorce with my ex and my therapist is telling me I need to cut them out of my life to be able to move on. I feel that this is wrong because I love my child and I'm not sure what to do. It's been about a year and a half and we have joint legal custody while she has full physical custody of our child. The divorce was hard for the both of u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] am debating on going to visit my ex girlfriend/extremely close friend that lives in Las Vegas [21M/F], BUT I am afraid it might cause some problems POST: Alright so I'm going to visit this person in Vegas and stay at her apartment for about a week. We started off as totally platonic friendship and then formed into a very close friendship which turned into a relationship. (This was 3 years in the making) We have gotten together and broken up about 4 times (That was 2 and ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (19/f) My ""more-than-a-friend"" [19/m] refused to hold my hand in public - meaning what exactly? POST: Been hanging out with this guy from my class for 3 weeks or so - took about a week for him to coax me into cuddles (sidenote: I'm not a fan of physical interaction, which I let him know about, so this is big for me). Within a few days we had made out multiple times, and clothes had been shed at various points (also a big step for me), so this is obviously not a meet->x amount o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Best Friend [21M] of 19 years keeps harassing me [21F] don't know what to do POST: My best friend and I have been friends for 19 years. Him and I are both adopted from the same orphanage, from China. So no matter what I've always turned to him to talk about adoption troubles. He helped me look for my birth parents. Anyways, I've always had the biggest crush on him. January 2013 we started to hang out, like really hang out. We would hang out 24/7 pretty much. A few times we got real",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my BF [19M] broke up a week ago after seven months, I want to get back with him? POST: So my boyfriend and I broke up almost a week days ago after the worst week we'd ever had together. To cut a long story short, he'd cheated on me, lied about, I'd proved it, he asked for time, I messaged him too much during that time, he finally said he couldn't do it anymore. When he said he couldn't do it anymore, he said he wanted to remain friends for now and that we could maybe r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [24M] Struggling with Constant Dominance of Alpha [23M] Coworker and Friend POST: My friend and I have been working together for over two years now and have become very good friends. However, in the past few months, our relationship has grown to the point where it is usually very tense and where I end up feeling like shit after every conversation with him. I would never refer to myself as a beta male, but I am relatively passive and I am not an aggressive guy, nor do I wish to be. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my girlfriend [21 F] of 2.5 years, she has a lot of mental health issues and it is hard to not let them get me down. POST: I've been with my SO for two and a half years now, living together for one and a half. She has had very rough life which resulted in her developing C-PTSD and major depression. Her C-PTSD makes her behave like someone with BPD, which was her main diagnosis until very recently. Basically, she used to be way crazier than she is now, but after start",positive " r/tifu TITLE: [TIFU] By snapchatting on a treadmill POST: Today, I went to the gym, did my leg day workout, then abs, then started running. By the time I hit half a mile I was already pretty tired so I wanted to get the workout done quickly, I turned the speed up a bit in order to get it over with (some regrets). While coming up on the halfway point, I got a snapchat from my friend, and was about to reply with a video of me flipping him off while running. As I was about to send it to him, I accidentally cl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M 18] My ex gf [F18] changed her mind on hooking up with me POST: So I started dating this one girl in my pe class. We talked one day, she messaged me on Facebook, and we ended up hanging out. The next time we hung out me and her almost had sex, but she didn't want to because she's a virgin. 3 weeks after going out she broke up with me, her reasons being that I needed someone who wants to have a closer relationship, and that it wasn't fair to either of us to keep going out. She told",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/M] can't stand my girlfriends sister [23/F], starts to put stress on our relationship POST: As the title says. I have been together for 3 years with my girlfriend [22/F], who still lives at home. Long story short, I never liked her sister but 2 years ago she moved out so I barely saw her (except for family meetings, a few weekends a month). She however broke up with her boyfriend and recently moved back into her parents house. She has been back for 2 weeks now and already it",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to clean ""my car"" POST: So I currently commute to my University and in while doing so, I found the most perfect spot, the closest spot to my class in the most CROWDED lot, AND it's right next to my crush's car! my day right? :> I go throughout my day wondering why's it raining so hard and why must I walk through said rain. After class I walk back to my car, in doing so, I see a dude sprinting and looking suspicious and spooky kook'd a'f. Thinking he hit someone's car or scratch",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend [15 F] of almost 5 months, She has bad anxiety and gets occasional depressive episodes POST: So my girlfriend has pretty bad anxiety, but her mom hasn't gotten her checked out for medicine anyways, even though her mom is a psychiatrist and ""self diagnosed"" her with anxiety. She often gets affected by certain situations, for example just the other day, her parents had a talk with her about her wanting to be an artist when she grows up, but trying to discou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my Boyfriend [27 M] of 10 years POST: Hello, I've been with my boyfriend since I was 14/15. I love him. He is calm and steady. But sometimes I feel like I want to move on. I think he has depression. He is very vacant. He answers most questions with ""I don't know"". He has no inflection in his voice. Sometimes I have a surreal experience when I realise he is actually 'real'. It is hard to explain. He plays xbox in his free time non stop. He is in the top 10 for achieve",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Will it ever be enough? POST: I started this, we'll call it journey, in the middle of January of this year. It wasn't a new years resolution or anything, my boyfriend decided that he wanted to lose some weight and I thought, what the heck so will I. I was always tired, had no energy, felt cranky all the time, had no self esteem (regarding my appearance) and was at 140lbs. I'm 5'3"" and started college at 118lbs. Move forward about 10 weeks to now, I'm down 10lbs, love working out, have more ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me [20 M] and My gf [20 F] for last than 1yr, broke up wf me 3 months ago, I just cant let go of her, what can i do to win her back ? POST: We were tgt for last than a yr.We used to love each other so much.I always thought she s the one.We were tgt most of the times in college, but then LDRs... She said that she gets tired and it has got nothing to do wf LDRs, said that she has changed.She told me its time to let go. I just dont understand why... I would do anything to win her ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [21 M] get over the anger/jealously that comes from knowing her [21 F] past? POST: I have been dating my girlfriend for over a year. I'm crazy about her and I know she feels the same way about me. I think she's the one I'm going to end up with. Things have been great, until I get stuck thinking about her past. Specifically, one guy. I understand that she has had previous boyfriends. That's fine, I have a past too, but that's not what upsets me. When we first met, she had ju",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 F] with my ex [30 M], 3 years, we're still friends but he sometimes makes comments which deeply hurt me. POST: I used to date this guy all throughout college (let's call him Bill). We knew each other in undergrad, but didn't start dating until grad school. Bill was an awesome boyfriend while we were in grad school. He was very caring, loving, and affectionate. We dated for about 3 years before breaking up. He dumped me, and to be honest I took it pretty hard. I thought we were",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by smoking in my room POST: Like most stories on here, this is something that happened to me around a year ago but I have only recently found Reddit and it only recently occurred to me that it would be fitting for this subreddit. Last year I was living in a university accommodation which didn't allow us to smoke in our rooms. I had lived in the accommodation for around 3 months prior to this happening and had never smoked in my room, however one weekend all my flat mates for various rea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I screwed up big time. POST: I (23M) screwed up big time with my wife (21F) of 2 years. What happened is I have this very old friend (21f) whom I have known for years, we have always made sexual type jokes with each other and it has never been a problem. I then got married and my friend and I kept going on the same way, I didn't try and hide it from my wife or anything but I didn't exactly share the jokes with her. Well a few months ago my wife found out the things that my friend ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21F) boyfriend (24M) has trouble coping with the death of his brother and now doesn't know if he still wants to be with me. POST: Hi everyone, I've been with my boyfriend for almost eight years now. We live together for 3 years. Around mid-october we got the news that my boyfriend's brother is very ill and will not make 2015. Unfortunately he died right before new years. Since we knew his brother was sick, my boyfriend started being less motivated in stuff. He loves to play gu",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Anyone else have super skinny babies? (EBF) POST: My first (2 years old) was super skinny, even with formula, until about 6 months and he chubbed up a LITTLE. (I tried breastfeeding, never should've given up but I did because it was stressing me out so much =c He was given formula from a couple days old til ... I don't remember when but I stopped trying to breastfeed/pump when he was 4 months) My 2nd (3 months old) is super skinny and no matter how much I feed her, she isnt really gettin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 F] with my coworker [late 40s F] co-workers for just over a year, I unfriended her on Facebook due to drama and now she wants back in my life POST: Last year I began working closely with a woman, let's call her Casey. We became Facebook friends pretty soon thereafter. It's been just over a year since then. Recently, another friend, let's call her Jen, has told me some pretty disturbing things about Casey. In essence, Casey is extremely lovely and nice to my face, but whenever ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [17 M] being used by [19 F] gf for sex? POST: Hi Reddit, So about a month ago I got myself into a ""relationship"" with a girl and so far its been nice, But recently I feel some things have changed. I feel that she only likes me for sex. she says that she loves sex with me, but rarely says things like she likes me. I mean she has said she before that she likes me but she says she likes sex with me just as often. She rarely texts me, even when its important things like ""When do",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: A rant about everyone butting in. POST: So it seems to me that every time someone not in my close circle of friends finds out I'm planning a wedding they have a g-d opinion and tell me I'm doing things wrong. I have a friend who is doing my wedding planning, but I'm doing a lot of the appointments and planning on my own. A friend of mine fancies himself a photographer (he's ok, but not a professional) and took issue with the photographer I chose. I got a really great deal and I lik",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm single, and miserable. What do I do, reddit? POST: All my friends are in heavily committed relationships, so going out with them is usually a fruitless endeavor. I'm 22. In good health. Mentally stable. Just about as normal a guy as you can ask for. Now I've been cheated on, both on my long term relationships, and the past two ""few month flings"" I've had, were terrible. I'm a pretty shy individual, before I get to know people. But when you do know me, I'm the life of the party. Lou",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: how do i go from friend to lover? POST: My negatives 1. I'm 5 foot 9 2. I'm 160 lbs and average looking 3. I'm Indian. 4. I have no game. Especially number 4 is my obstacle. I've seen shorter, uglier, fatter, and other Indian guys get gfs. But, I lack game. I meet girls, but I introduce myself to them normally. As in a hey, how are you? And major, hometown, what year. But. I can't flirt with girls. And I don't know the tactics guys use to bring girls back to their dorms/houses.",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] My best friend (20/f) and I soberly kissed the other night in bed... what?! POST: So I met a woman about half a year ago and she quickly became one of my best friends. We seriously are always on the same exact page and have identical senses of humor, so we are always laughing and got close very quickly. I have many gay friends so I am super comfortable with homosexuality but she has told me before that even though she knows it shouldn't, homosexuality really weirds her",positive " r/relationships TITLE: So my best friend/roommate's recent ex-girlfriend just tried to kiss me... POST: Basically what the title says. My best friend and this girl have been dating for a couple years now, we're all 21 years old and I've known both of them for about 3 years. They broke up a couple weeks ago. I'm pretty good friends with both of them so when the girl wanted to come with me to a party tonight it didn't really seem weird to me at all. She even came over to my house to pregame when the ex was a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [m19] blew off a date with a girl [f19] by lying to her about being hit by a car. I regret it. Should I tell her I lied? POST: (First off English isn't my native language so sorry for any mistakes.) Okay so this really sweet girl was really interested in dating me and frequently asked me to hangout. Eventually I said yes even though I didn't like her... So here's the screwed up part. An hour before we were supposed to meet up I was hanging out with my friends and didn't feel lik",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/19] have seen things lately that make me believe my father [M/49] is cheating on my mother. POST: Note to everyone my parents are together and have been for over 25 years. So it started earlier in the year when we were on holidays going to India and Thailand. It was my father, brother [25] and myself. On our arrival we stayed in Bangkok for a few nights. Due to a discount we had received, my father had his own room and my brother and I shared another. The rooms were paid for wi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20/F] with my boyfriend [23/M] of a year. We stay together because we love each other but our relationship has never really been truly stable. Is there any hope for things to get better? POST: I met my boyfriend a little over a year ago and we became very close very fast. Early on, it became obvious that we both cared for each other deeply, unfortunately, it seems like we can never catch a break. We are constantly fighting and getting frustrated with each other. Things turn aroun",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being a 1st time pet owner POST: This fuck up was actually early this morning and I'm still cringing/on the verge of bleaching everything. So I recently got a little rescue puppy about a year old who had come with some health issues, but deemed two weeks ago a clean bill of health. Flash back to last week: I see these little rice things where my dog slept in my apartment the previous night, thought nothing of it until they reappeared yesterday morning on the couch. This is where",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] I have developed some personality issues from lack of social contact, don't know what to do to develop social skills POST: 28 y/o male here and I am a full on recluse. I work a normal job, but usually wont go out for social events and can make just about any excuse to avoid them. Most years I will eventually cave and go out once or twice (twice is frequent), with a group of work people. Once I'm out in the public I immediately regret it. I will freeze up and won't say anyth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30/F] with my husband [33/M] of 8 years. He asked me if I thought I had let myself go. POST: He has been on a diet and this morning he said, ""I lost another pound!"" I congratulated him and asked him how much that was total, great job, yada yada. Then I told him about an article I just read about a girl trying to lose weight when her friend had confronted her and asked her if she had let herself go. I thought it was a silly/stupid article, and I was kinda rolling my eyes at it..",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I have fleas in my house and I need them gone. How do I get rid of them without hiring an exterminator? POST: Backstory. I live in a 4-bedroom, 2 bath rent house that is roughly 2,750 sq. ft. I have 3 roommates. One of my roommates has 2 primarily outside cats. They have been getting their medication and seem to be free of fleas now, but they definitely tracked the fleas into the house. I haven't let them in the house in roughly 2 months. As a renter, and being that I don't own the cats, I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 M] girlfriend [22 F] of six months has terrible anxiety but refuses to seek help POST: As the title says, my girlfriend has terrible anxiety but refuses to look into getting any sort of help. Two recent instances have made me really worry. First, just last week she had a panic attack while sitting in her room. I drove up to surprise her and take her out to dinner. When I got to her apartment, she told me that she was having trouble breathing. She told me that something in her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21/m] I've started seeing a girl again[18/f], who I hurt in the past and I'm not sure what to do POST: Okay so I actually used this subreddit in the past for advice on the time when I hurt her. The link to that thread is [here] I'd ask that you please read that first so you can understand how I hurt her. Thank you :) So, it's been a little over a month since that incident happened. Well, about two weeks ago she and her friend came to this thing that she knew I was at (because one o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 24f and not into participating on a family cruise... POST: Hi reddit! This is my first post, so bear with me... My mother's side of the family has decided to throw a family reunion on a cruise next summer. I've only seen this side about 5 times in my lifetime. Sounds fun, huh? Only thing is...I do NOT want to go. I have a fear of vomiting, so any kind of activity that vomiting is a possibility, I avoid at all costs. Yes, there is medication, as well as procedures that I can do t",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Having this problem with my crush... POST: well, there's this girl I've been having a ""Flirtationship"" with for a while, she's admitted she likes me a lot, and I have too, yet I really haven't had the balls to ask her out and be official. So, fast foward three years, here we are again, we're at the mall and she confesses again, and I tell her again that I still like her, now, here we are 3 months after that event and I just found out, she's had a boyfriend. **for two years**. this broke my ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Girls, most thoughtful thing a guy has ever done? POST: Me and my boyfriend had been going out no longer than 6 months when he was due to go away for a few weeks volunteering in Tanzania building a school. I had never felt the way I felt about him towards anybody and the day he went away I got all melodramatic and cried my eyes out. But just before he left he gave me a blank photo album with a post it note on it which read 'keep your eyes peeled'. First night went, I moped about at work ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I want to get back at a douche landlord. What are you evil suggestions? POST: Short story: I live in an attic above a drugged up-drunkard rich guy. A few nights ago he got really upset when I kindly asked him to turn down his music at 5am (the music was coming from three floors below me to give you an idea). Over the past few months, he's yelled at me for asking to reset the internet router, for *HIS* tv not connecting to cable, and other really stupid nonsense. My last confronta",negative " r/books TITLE: Hey r/books, just thought you might like to see what I am doing for my final year at college. It's called, ""A Book Artist's History of the Book: A Story in Three Parts"". POST: A Book Artist's History of the Book: A Story in Three Parts I plan to design three books that engage with the book as a cultural technology. Each book will be accompanied with an historical or theoretical essay. The books and essays will address the book as form, reading, and new technologies. To address the history ",positive " r/college TITLE: What happens when you go on academic probation for a second time? POST: Please dont give me crap on how im a horrible person, Ive been living in hell this semester, I feel guilty enough as is. I was placed on academic probation in my freshman year, back in the fall of '09. I took a lot of advanced classes and I just wasnt prepared for the challenge in my first semester. So i got mostly D's but got over it and its been mostly Bs with a few As and Cs since. Well this semester ive been sick,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How long do I [25/F] have to wait after throwing my SO [27/M of 8 months) a birthday party to break up with him? POST: A few months ago, my SO suggested he might like a birthday party. Being a generally caring/giving partner, I decided to throw him one - I've invited all of his friends (~20 guests), decorated the fuck out of his home, and prepared a feast for the party, which is tomorrow night (not to mention, flipped for this whole bill). These last two weeks or so, through a series",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Still Feel Lousy 3 Days After Dehydration POST: I'm a 22 year old male. On Thursday, I went far too long without water in the Florida heat and passed out. My friends luckily ""caught"" me so I didn't crack my skull open on the pavement, but I was taken to the hospital for IV fluids (after being told that my condition was life threatening because my BP was plummeting and my pulse wasn't raising to compensate) They gave me 2 bags through the IV and sent me on my way after 3 or so hours. Since",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's something that's happened in the last few days that made you feel pretty damn awesome? POST: After having slept terribly, fretting over school and regretting my new stupid haircut, I was having a less than stellar morning. I was waiting in line for coffee before class and an old woman came up to me, lightly touched my arm and said, ""My, look how pretty you are!"" The only stunned reaction I could muster was a shy smile and a thank you. As a girl with visible tattoos and a k",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Stuck at Home for a Few Months: What Can I Do to Boost my Resume? POST: Hi r/jobs I am new to this sub so I'm hoping this is the right place. Let me know if there is somewhere else I should post this. I am currently experiencing some pretty intense health problems which are keeping me inside, in bed, and out of the job market. I graduated from a prestigious liberal-arts college last month with a degree in Political Science and French (I am effectively fluent - not too good for the job mark",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: People don't understand any of it... POST: I am asked by people such as friends, family and co-workers non stop why i don't have chase women or have a girlfriend. Fuck for the longest time i didn't even know why. till a realization in therapy session. For context as a youth i was a short fat 245lb gaming fool but when I grew into my body and started working out I found out at 6'3 I'm noy half bad looking. But For some reason the people in my life do not understand that i am single by M",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I asked her to gog for drinks. What now? POST: So, basically here's my situation: We have been going to the same English course for like 3 months now. At first, i didn't know her but i was determined to ask someone out. So there was this blonde and blue eyes. I tried, got rejected even before asking (what a bitch). Then, i was walking down the street with a friend of hers and just happend naturally. I asked her friend to go to Starbucks with me. Her friend got a little nervous and ma",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by writing in code POST: So, over the summer, my school wasted thousands of dollars on an ""innovation lab."" This lab consists of some cardboard boxes, a 3D printer, and blank walls **that the students are allowed to paint whatever they want on.** So of course, me being the sneaky sneak that I am, I decide to have some fun with this. A little backstory here: About three years ago, I invented an alternate alphabet. It's phonetic, so it's harder for people to decode than just a simple cryp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21 M/F] Mother [40s F] had a mastectomy - how can I help? POST: My Mother was diagnosed with Breast Cancer about 4 months ago. She's undergone radiation and a mastectomy. My parents didn't tell me until after she had the mastectomy and the outlook was positive. I don't mind this, I would have been devastated at college and probably failed a few classes. However, now that my mother is at least out of the woods and the tumor has been removed, there are a whole bunch of issues th",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I don't know where to go in life. POST: Up until recently in life I would just coast around doing whatever made me money and paid the bills while still allowing me to have spending money. Now, I am getting married (Legally no ceremony yet) and we have a 2 month old daughter. I am working in the IT field and am about to start school for Software Engineering. My wife has a grand vision for what she wants us to do with our lives together and how we can work our way into getting paid very well",positive " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by leaving car windows open while driving @2am POST: I was driving back home after a day of work & evening with my gf @~2am Long straight street, it was hot outside (~26°C) and not a single car around as you can tell by the day/hour so i thought it was ok to leave car windows open. ...Until 1km from home. There the apocalypse happened in 0.5 seconds. Imagine the street: ditch left & right with the typical grass leaves coming out from the street borders. No time to think at all. I s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [19/F] really annoyed with everyone I know. How can I fix this? POST: For about a week now, slowly people have been really getting on my nerves. I'm wondering if it's because I'm just spending too much time with them, or if it's something else. We are a group that met early on freshman year of college. It's about halfway through first semester of sophomore year. We all lived on the same floor last year, and this year we live in the same building. We spend all of our waking momen",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [26F] Here who's been having bad dreams that I think is affecting relationship with my SO [25M] POST: We've been together for a little over a year now and recently for the past 3 weeks I've been having bad dreams. Either the dreams of me being unhappy in a relationship and leaving him for another man OR of my SO cheating on me and leaving me feeling completely betrayed. I wake up either feeling extremely guilty or drowning in a pit of despair. It doesn't help that when he notices I'm",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my ex-gf [20 F] of 2 years, 6 months later I get this text POST: EDIT: For what I feel like was a semi-confusing title. We dated 2 years. It has been 6 months since the breakup. Quick preface on breakup: I broke up with her mainly because of my own issues, but added on with the fact that my feelings for her had lessened significantly and were distracting towards my pursuit of my own mental health, individuality, etc as a college age student. Broke up with my ex-girlf",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] have a crush on a girl [20F] and I asked to her close have a 'quick talk'. Need advice. POST: Throwaway account. Sorry for title. Should be 'I asked her close friend to have a 'quick talk'.' So I've had a crush on this girl for about 6 months now. We aren't very close, but we've got to know each other reasonably well. This girl is unbelievably beautiful (but also quite pleasant and shy), definitely out of my league. I sometimes say to myself that I will ask her out when I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (23F) feel like I'm holding back my so ( 24M). POST: We've been together for about 7 months and we only see one another about 3 days out of a week. I feel as though spending time with me holds him back from having time to do what he is passionate about (not gonna specify but it's creative work). His only down time is the weekend which is when he spends time with me. This is my first real relationship and I don't want to fuck it up. I want to see him every chance I get but he need",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking a panhandler if he really meant Tuesday POST: I went to pick up an iced coffee at my local Dunkin Donuts. As I was driving away and about to then onto the connecting street, I stopped to let a man proceed across my path on the sidewalk. He flagged me down as if to ask me a question, so I waited for him to approach. At this point, it's important to share that this is an area with a bunch of fast food places nearby. The Dunkin Donuts is next door to a Burger King. So the man ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] hooked up with my friend [22M], he initiated it but failed to mention his girlfriend [22f] of 4 years POST: I graduated college about a month ago. The week before graduation the school I was at organized a ton of senior week events for the graduating class. A friend of mine started flirting with me and I, believing he was single, reciprocated. We went back to his place and had sex. I figured that nothing would come of it. Yesterday, the first post that I saw on my Facebook n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [18M] keep separate aspects of my life from affecting each other? POST: Hope this is the right sub for this. I've had a problem lately, it's not really a relationship problem as much as it is a problem with the way my mind handles relationships. I can't keep things separate. Like I feel like my sex life affects my professional life for example because there are things I'm unsatisfied with (long story short so recently lost my virginity but I don't like how it happened). ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] don't know how to break up with my [19F] girlfriend. POST: We have been dating for 2 years and have had many problems in the past. I used to love her a lot but its slowly starting to fade away. I am starting to realise she is verbally abusive and calls me every name in the book, and makes fun of me because I chose to attend college rather than university. Because of this she lectures me about how I have no future and won't have a job. She has swung at me twice in the car, w",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Medical Insurance -- Employer let payments ""lapse,"" now does not pay his part of the ""agreement."" POST: My boyfriend's boss is kind of sketchy. There are a number of red flags going on (website is not paid, inventory is not being restocked, etc.). BF got paid a day late this week, and it is ~$350-$400 less than what it normally is, the boss says this is for ""insurance..."" Normally BF pays $59.72 biweekly for health insurance. The boss said he ""accidentally"" had Erick pay both",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [28M] right to keep tabs on old school friend [28M] for ego boost? POST: There was a guy at my school who I wasn't particularly friends with, although we never had any major conflict either. Social media allows me to keep up with his life, and I get a bit of joy out of the fact I'm doing so much better than him. I have a very glamorous, high powered career that takes me all over the world. He has an incredibly boring job in logistics, after failing to make his dream of becomin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with a guy [24 M] I was messaging and went on one date with: message from the blue after two and a half months, should I reply and if so say what? POST: Brief background: met this guy (James) online, messaged for ages but never got round to meeting up. I got sick of this, tried to fade, then he finally scheduled a date - but I ended up accepting a date with the guy who is now my boyfriend (Rory) for the night before, and was blown away, and James in comparison I had no real",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (F 20) best friend (M 21)'s future girlfriend hates me POST: I'm a reasonably attractive female, and my best friend is a reasonably attractive straight male. We have never dated. I was briefly attracted to him at the beginning of our friendship, but the more I got to know him, the better I liked him and the less I was attracted to him. I believe the feeling is mutual. I know ""best friend"" is a childish title, but he means a lot to me and we understand each other better than mos",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Some lady rolled down her window, yelled obscenities at me, flipped me off, then crashed into a pole going 40mph. What instant karma in driving have you guys had? POST: So a bit ago I was driving down the road and I needed to get into the left turn lane two lanes over - mind you, I still had around a mile, so I didn't feel that worried about merging. I put on my blinker, and waited for an opportunity. Unfortunately, a woman in an SUV decided that she didn't want me to get in her lane. Wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my boyfriend [26 M] of 8 months, and I'm having sexual problems. POST: My bf and I have an awesome relationship in my eyes, and he is really the person I see myself settling down with long term. However, I feel like I'm having trouble satisfying him in the sex department. He is well endowed and horny All-The-TIME. He doesn't pressure or try to manipulate me in to having sex, but I know through various conversations that if it was up to him, I'd be getting sexed up 10 ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [22M] Met the most beautiful girl of my life. I want to get to know her more, she lives far away. What do I say to her??? POST: So I met the most beautiful girl I have ever seen in my life the other day while we were at a club in Las Vegas. No, neither of us was drunk and yes I understand its a club in Vegas. We danced for a little bit and had great conversation about life, the future, and our pasts. She was leaving with her friends and I gave her my number (my phone died). I found t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21m] just found out my dad [55] cheated on my mom [54] 26 years ago, feel guilty for them sticking together POST: First of all excuse my english, I hope you understand! So today I found out my dad cheated on my mom 26 years ago and they kept it a secret and decided to stay together anyways. They never loved eachother after that and as a result I now know why our family never really ''clicked''. So after a long emotional discussion in the family I now feel so sorry for my parents f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my ex [18] 2 years together. He wants to bring his current gf to social events. Am I being unreasonable? POST: We were together for two years and broke up four months ago. Two weeks after we broke up he started dating this girl and it was a massive blow. I was really worried about them dating and I felt uncomfortable about her for a while before we broke up. When it happened I had a panic attack and she was a mutual friend. He and I were each other's first everything ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [FIXED] My girlfriend [22F] is, surprisingly, just coming into the realisation she's a larger girl and is getting angry at me [23M] for it. How do I talk with her? POST: A good friend of hers recently called her fat in a way which was far from malicious and she reacted quite poorly to it. Later in the evening she asked me if I thought she was fat, to which I responded I thought she was beautiful even if she was a bit bigger, which clearly wasn't the answer she was looking for. I get ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Pet cat is keeping me from moving out of my drug addicted fathers' place? POST: I [17F] have been living with my dad [45M] for about a year now. We have an apartment that really does not cost much in rent, but my dad is a drug addict and the bills are never paid. He spends all of his money on drugs, which leaves us with only about $100 for food and groceries for a week until his next payday. I have been trying for a year now to help him end his addiction and keep our apartment, but",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Im driving my self insane with bad thoughts, what do i do? POST: so basically ive been dating this girl for about 7 months now and things have been amazing. our chemistry is amazing we both talk to each other and get along, etc. but lately i have been dealing with a lot of financial issues with tickets and got in a car accident, which totaled the car. i have just been on the edge lately and it is causing me to just be irritable with my girlfriend and causing stupid arguments. i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[18M] girlfriend[18F] mad at me over a stupid game. Help? POST: Okay so here goes, my girlfriend and I are madly in love, 2 years, been bestfriends since 7th grade. Anyhow, every year our school has a game of ""Assassins"". Which is a game where 300 juniors and seniors spend months going after new targets to win a pot of 3-4 grand. They have to attack their target with water to advance. I knew this game was going to cause her to have issues, so here's what went down, she got her tar",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F25] had lunch with an ex. Now my boyfriend [M26] thinks he can hang out with his ex-girlfriend whenever he wants? I don't like this. POST: Okay, I [F25] fucked up. About a month ago, an ex contacted me out of the blue and asked me out to lunch. He was in town and wanted to catch up. Totally platonic. I told my boyfriend what was going on and he was completely fine with it. So I had lunch with my ex and that was the end of it. However, it seems I set a bad precedent because now my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22M) am falling fast for a taken girl (18F) that I have a past with, she feels the same way, but ""can't"" break up with her boyfriend. What do I do? POST: We used to talk in high school, then we slowly drifted apart. Last week, when I started my new job, I found she worked there too. I facebook messaged her, and we started chatting again. She is ""stuck"" in a two year relationship with a VERY controlling/jealous guy. He told her he couldn't wait to marry her, so that he would own he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] have to see my ex [21F] multiple times per week and it's constantly setting me back POST: To start: The relationship was a tumultuous, intense, and codependent three months. The moment we started dating she moved into my apartment, and we had all classes and study time together, so it was a 24/7 environment. She has a lot of issues I don't need to really get into, but she was diagnosed as a narcissist by a psychologist, and looking back it's painfully obvious. Selfishness",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I really wish I had a normal family... POST: I'm 33. I've made mistakes and bad choices (though honestly less than most people I know) in my life but you have never supported anything positive I've ever done. I am aware that a parent doesn't want their child to make the same mistakes as they did. But when your 33 daughter calls you and tells you she's pregnant with her fourth child you shouldn't respond with 'shame on you' like a dog that just need on the carpet. My husband has a good j",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by causing homemade rocket fuel to go off in my friend's kitchen POST: This happened some months ago. A few friends and I (all high school students) decided to embark upon the process of creating a 3D printed homemade rocket using rocket-candy (A Potassium Nitrate mixed with caramelized sugar mix) as the propellant. Creating the parts was no big issue, and we had everything printed in no time. On a bright Saturday morning we decided to create batch of rocket-candy at my friend's house f",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [18/m] and have a girlfriend. What do I do if i'm very interested in another? POST: So I have a girlfriend (Let's call her daisy) for a bit over 6 months and it's a very serious relationship, we had a lot of fun together and I really like her a lot she's a good person and she loves me and she gives my life a lot of stability. But, a few days ago I met a girl (Let's call her pam) who I already known from before. I met her on a bus ride and we had such a good talk. It was lig",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] am considering getting back together with my ex [20 F] POST: Her and I used to be in a relationship a few years ago. We dated for about a year. We were a very fitting couple, according to the both of us. We could talk about anything with each other, sex was good etc. However, we decided to break up because we couldn't find time for each other. (work/studying etc) Now that the circumstances are better, we could start dating again, and I'm fairly sure she still has feelings t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (19/M) have been dating this girl (16/F) and need advice but am worried about the difference in age and life experience. POST: I met this girl about a year ago when she was 15 and I was 18 and we hit it off, but I said I wouldn't date her until she turned 16 which is legal where I live. I really like this girl, and in the past few weeks we've been out on two dates where we both had a lot of fun and ended up kissing. Neither of us are virgins, from previous relationships. She reall",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (19F) and my father (53M): Is this Normal? POST: My father and I have never really gotten along but since moving back home things have escalated The issue in question concerns him touching me. I'd like to say right now that I have no desire to make this into more than it really is, but I still feel that this is an issue. Ever since I turned 13, my father has grown fond of touching my waist, smacking my butt (not as a form of discipline) and other types of vaguely sexual tou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[18m] depressed. How do I handle this? POST: Quick background: I've always been a serious, introverted guy with not many friends but I always found myself happy. But lately life is just not doing it for me. My family has always been dysfunctional. My father[65] and mother[47] fight since I have memory. My mother suffers from bipolar disorder and it is really taking a toll on me lately although I always try to be supportive. My brother[24] left 3 years ago because he just couldn't",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [18 F] with my SO [18 M/F] of three months, he emotionally cheated with his ex of one year. POST: I'm really lost on what to do, this may be a bad idea but was hoping someone else has been through something similar. My current SO and I have been together for a few months. A year prior to our relationship he was dating this girl. A few months after she broke up with him,for what he thought was no reason, he found out it was because she cheated on him while drunk at a party. A few week",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Summer fling gone bad. [m/f. Both 23. Approx 2 weeks] POST: **I want to know how to stop being a derp dumbass and how much of a dumbass I was.** I met a girl through mutual friends I made on the east coast during my summer internship. We had sex and I asked if we could be exclusive. She said yes, but then recanted the next day. The only stipulation I had when we began our FWB relationships, was that we had to be open when either of us were planning on seeing someone else. She wo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My body issues are getting in the way of our sex life! POST: I(29/F) have been with SO(30/M) for almost 4 years, living together for 2. I have body image issues like most women. Having been a big girl most of my life and dropping the weight all at once(70lbs in 8mths), I have lots of stretch marks and extra skin. I am thin, but I still have lumps and bumps in addition to the skin and stretch marks. So to say the least, I am most happy when I am clothed. My SO has requested I send h",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I got offered a job at a Medical Marijuana collective in California. Need advice (x-post from /r/trees) POST: Ok, a little back story here. I am living in California and have been looking for a job. I was offered a job at a medical marijuana collective. My husband supports this completely.. we are both advocates for medical marijuana. I rarely smoke (like once a month) but I really believe in pot's medicinal properties (and of course the happy effects too). The collective is really legi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Best friend (F/15) keeps on doing illegal and shady activities. How do I (M/17) break away from her or convince her to stop? POST: I been friends with this cute girl for about a 2 years now. Although I am not completely romantically in love with her (we hold hands, cuddle at home, give light kisses to each other but not in the lips), I still get jealous when she hangs around with guys and does stuff without me. Although I care for her deeply and treat her as if we were in romantic re",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[22/F] husband [23/M] consistently goes onto nsfw after I told him I am not okay with it. How do I handle this? POST: My husband and I have been married for almost a year now and before we were married we were together for 3 years. We recently had a baby together and since having the baby I have felt very self concious about my body. I have been working really really hard though to get back into shape and to look and feel sexy again. My husband tells me all the time that he thinks ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27F] ex [M26] of 1 year contacted me after 2 years of NC...help?! POST: My ex and I were together for 1 year. He immediately broke up with me when I admitted to lying about an insecurity of mine. He considered any form of lying, small or not, a betrayal. He went NC and blocked me on everything possible. I emailed him a handful of times for about a month, begging him to let me explain, or for him to try and understand. I never got any response. For the past 2 years I've tried mo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29M] with my friend/acquaintance [19F] of a couple of weeks and I'm unsure if there are hidden intentions POST: So just a bit of a backstory. I started fall semester of college a couple of weeks ago. In one of my classes I quickly became friends with this girl. We just hit it off from the first class and now hang out to talk for a bit after class and the last time I saw her we went and grabbed a bite for lunch. To further add, I'm a married man (5 total relationship) and she is ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [40M] with my ex [37F] of 5 years, should I allow her back round in person to collect stuff? POST: My ex of five years lived with me in my own property for a couple of years. I ended up having to eject her due to a problem she had with alcohol which she blatantly wasn't addressing despite all my requests, and it was affecting my health too at the end. So she had to move out and we split up. 1.5 years later and I still have some of her stuff in my house, it's being collected slowl",negative " r/running TITLE: Comfortable backpacks for long runs POST: Hello fellow runners! I've been running for a little over 3 years now, based in NYC, and lately have been really enjoying using running as a way to commute or to travel to friend's places. For example, last weekend I went on a 10-miler to my friend's place in Brooklyn. I brought water and a change of clothes in a really awful, clunky backpack. I also like to commute home from work, ~6 miles, don't use a backpack for that though, but would like to.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23m] don't really know what to do after she [25f] kind of said 'no for now'... POST: Hey, So basically I asked a fairly close friend (friends for 3 years and see each other in a group setting 3 times a week on average I guess) if she'd be interested in us being more than just friends (with a potential relationship being clearly implied and definitely not 'friends with benefits' type stuff which wouldn't really be something either of us are interested in...) at the beginning of Ju",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: She wants to take it slow, POST: I (24/m) have been friends with this girl (28/f) for about 8 months, and recently started hanging out alone as friends, going to dinner, movies, etc. I grew more attracted to her, and last week asked her out. We went to dinner and a movie, which was fun but awkward. The conversation, trying to hold her hand during the movie, the quick peck at the end of the night . . . all kind of awkward. After the date she started acting weirder than usual. She ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I've got a lot of learning to do. POST: My thoughts like to torment me in the middle of the night. Oftentimes they're painful, but they are necessary. This thing called life we all find ourselves navigating through astounds me. How one person, their own center of their little universe, can persist through all the trials and tribulations of existence and still make it to the end in one piece without destroying themselves. Most of us do anyway. Tonight I am awoken to the mistakes I've ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [M 23] almost lost my girlfriend [F 19] today and I need your help. POST: We've been fighting a lot lately. She's fed up that I'm unhappy with certain parts of my life and the fact that I let those stresses bleed through into our relationship and time together. She's at the point where nothing I say and nothing I do even effects her anymore, and we had an awful argument over petty little shit today and it got so bad that by the end of it she was convinced that ""we need a brea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my GF of 2 years [24F], picked up ""offensive"" reading material and are now in a huge dispute POST: This was kind of absurd as I was writing. The story is quite simple, a week and half ago she came home with a book. ""Why Men Love Bitches"" by Sherry Argov. I found this quite funny on her behalf, I didn't question her about it and just assumed she was reading it because the title was quite intriguing. She read it quite frequently at home during our reading times but didn'",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My bf(24) is acting like he is giving up... I don't know what to do. POST: We have been together for two years and recently my boyfriend has been feeling like he is initiating sexual activities a lot but doesn't tell me until he is extremely bothered by it......but we talked. about him telling me a little sooner than later. But he hasn't told me sooner than later. His game needs mkneyband I offered to give him money to conitue playing and he shut me down, when he normally w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my Girlfriend [24 F] 5-months, feeling burnt out how do I let her know I need a little more time on my own? POST: I met my current girlfriend back in September and things progressed pretty quickly we spent lots of time together (probably too much) very quickly but it was fun and exciting and what not. I went home for winter break (graduate student) and when I came back things did not feel the same but continued normally. A couple weeks ago I started a pretty big proj",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 M] ex [F 18] cheated on me a few months back. I still have feelings for her, and yesterday learned she was trying to hook up with my best friend. POST: Title is pretty self explanatory. The details of her cheating on me aren't really important, but it hit me pretty hard. She was the first girl I actually loved, and I'm still dealing with the anger, sadness and self esteem issues that come with something like this. The other day, she started sending me pictures of her hanging ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [23F] friend's [22F] controversial sex issue with ex-BF [24M] has divided opinion and stopped us talking. What could I have done differently? [TW: rape] POST: A close friend hooked up with a mutual friend of mine and my partner's. They were together a few months and encountered a number of sexual as well as emotional incompatibilities and she eventually decided to break it off, on the basis that he had sexually assaulted and raped her. She fed me the details and the bottom ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22f]If a guy asks you out does it automatically mean he is into you? POST: Hello everyone! I am sorry if my questions are stupid, but I don't have very good social skills or experience in my life... I recently moved to a new country and have had a really hard time getting to know new people. Finally (after about a month staying here) I met a group of people who are interested in the same things I am. And one of the guys offered to give me a city tour. He is very nice (and cute",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] recently single with stranger [26?M] who I met at amateur comedy show. Should I approach him or would that be creepy? POST: Last night, I went to a kind of crappy comedy show at a bar to support a friend of a friend. I very recently got out of a kind of crappy relationship of 1 year (we broke up Sunday, comedy show was Monday). It was a super small crowd (6 people in the crown and 5 comics – 11 people total?). Afterwards, my friend went to the bathroom and I stood near the ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My best friend's crush of 7 years and mine of three months POST: Details: 22M and Older Girl(No age for anonymity) So a few months ago I started hanging out with my best friend's main group of friends. I've had the best time in years hanging out with them. One of the girls in the group I'd known about for two years through my buddy talking about her, and before I met her I just knew her as his friend zone crush. After the first few times hanging out with them my buddy had a ta",positive " r/self TITLE: ""Great Customer Service"" plus ""A couple in love"" deserves some recognition... POST: We know that Reddit is a great place to rally forces when a company has wronged us or another underrepresented group but **to be fair I think we should also point out when a company does something good.** * * * * * My close friends just got married on Friday and the honeymoon destination was a surprise to everyone including the bride. Yesterday the bride posted her ticket stub for the first leg of the fligh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Weird question but What do I (21/m) do about my younger sister's friends (15/f) trying to hang out/flirting/being friends with me (I know that sounds weird so read the text below) POST: I'm 21 and I have a sister who is 6 years younger than me at 15. She and I have always been close and like to hang out together. I'm usually off at college but now I'm home for summer and we're hanging out again. She has some friends, though, that she likes to bring over and they are all nice girls an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I(23F) got too drunk at a party last night and some girl kissed me, with my recently established boyfriend(22M) no where in sight. POST: So I've been seeing this guy for almost 2 months and we just decided to become an item about a week ago. I have never had such strong feelings for someone, I love and am attracted to him in every way. With that said, I may have drank too much last night and let a girl kiss me in the middle of a bunch of people at a party. I honestly don't remember ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by leaving FaceTime on my Mac open. (Slightly NSFW) POST: So - obligatory this happened 5 years ago, not today, like the title of this Subreddit might say. Anyway, so a few things before we start this jolly TIFU story out. - (1) I'm using a throwaway for this - my main throwaway, because I have friends on reddit and they also know my Reddit username and check it regularly. - (2) I have a bad habit of leaving all of my tabs open because I always forgot to close them. Anyway, as I sai",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Counseling is hurting my relationship. POST: Me (20 yo m) and my girlfriend of 2 years (20yo f) are currently broken up because I have felt like she has had one foot out the door for the past month. She has broken up with me and then apologized and tried to get back with me multiple times in the past month. A few days ago she said she was going to take my advice and go to counseling for her clinical depression and anxiety. Two days ago was her first visit and yesterday she started ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How can I stop making excuses and avoiding relationships? POST: I'm a good-looking 17 y.o. guy. I'm confident and good with people, so I have lots of friends of both sexes and quite a few girls have shown interest in me. When it comes to relationships, though, I can't get past some sort of wall in my head. I've hooked up with a few girls, but have never had a real relationship. The past couple weeks, I've been talking to three girls, two of whom I'm almost certain want to go out wit",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Tell me about your ""High School Sweetheart"" POST: For me, this was not one of my prouder moments in my high school career. It all started Junior year (before that I never really had a girlfriend) when I was put in the same 5 classes as this nice, pretty girl that I'd never really talked to before then. Seeing as I spent all day with her 5 days a week, we got to talking, a lot. It was pretty obvious that we both liked each other, but we both lacked confidence to do anything about it. So t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should we get married before long distance residency POST: I am a (28f) currently in a serious five year relationship with a (29m) who has been accepted to do his 3 year residency at a hospital very far from where we currently live. I have never been in a long distance relationship but I know I love him and the idea of him being so far away is donting. I myself am also in school for a similar career. My partner and I have spoken about kids and marriage for many years now but he has s",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Nearly 90% of my income goes to bills - I feel depressed since 3 months prior only 50% was going to bills. What can I do? POST: Hi guys - I'll try to keep it short, and won't get into specifics. Basically I'm a single guy who works a job I really enjoy, the pay is okay - it's more than what I've ever made before and it's full time with full benefits. However 1 of my 2 roommate's moved out - greatly increasing the rent. On top of that I had to recently deal with buying a new ca",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is having a picture of an old girlfriend on your desk wrong? POST: When I was in high school I fell in love for the first time. This girl was beautiful, brilliant and was my best friend. Her brother was one of my closest friends, as well, and I was as much a part of her family as I was my own. During the course of our relationship she was diagnosed with leukemia and hospitalized for months during chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant. She had a roller coaster of a time trying to beat ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by eating chocolate before a date POST: This didn't happen today, but a couple of weeks ago. I had been chatting with this girl for a couple of weeks and finally gotten the balls to ask her out. (I am a confident person, but i really liked her). So we were going out on friday but i was working until 6 so i was going straight to meet her after work. After lunch i ate som chocoloate i had brought with me and a small piece fell into my shirt (yes, actually.) I stood up from my chair but c",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my date[23M] of ~1 month, can't really tell if he wants this to be purely physical POST: I've never been in this kind of situation, so I could use Reddit's help a bit. Thank you in advance. I've been seeing this guy that I met randomly in the city. And I am not sure if he's thinking of this evolving into something purely physical. I'll give you some background. 1. We talk all the time. We've been basically texting throughout the day since we first met. My phone kee",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: GF wants to experience ""the single life"" POST: My girlfriend broke up with me to ""live for herself"" for once (she's been in relationships ever since freshman year, she's 22 now). I'm leaving for deployment tomorrow, and she wants to get back together when I get back. Our relationship was perfect when we were together, and everyone was envious of how perfect we seemed together despite it being long distance. She said if she did end up sleeping with someone else, it would only be a one nigh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] am still getting jealous over my [19F] girlfriend of 5 months, I can't stop obsessing!! POST: My first 'real' girlfriend recently dumped me as she felt we were drifting apart, coupled with the fact that at the time I asked her out she thought she was 'second pick' to another girl. She also saw a contrast between us sexually, I was usually eager to do anything remotely sexual whereas she never seemed to want to (this was not due to lack of attraction - Trust me) in hindsight I",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have any of you ever psychological tests that made you question your sanity? Why? POST: I have a friend that asked me to help out in gathering psychological profiles of college students for one of their course requirements. For fun, I asked if I could try out the survey (separated from their sample) just to see. A few days later, my friend came back with my results and flagged me for my results. My friend simply mentioned that my results seemed irregular and their professor wanted to m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [32 M] am overweight and my wife [28 F] wants me to work out, but I don't feel like it POST: I am at least 30 lb overweight. I do want to lose weight, but somehow I am not getting the motivation to do it. I used to be 35 lb heavier a few years ago, but 2 years ago I ran half marathons, ate healthy and lost that weight. Got married 2 years ago. Since the last 2 years, I have not worked out much, and have been maintaining the same weight. I am basically around 25-30 lb overweight. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] Recently Broke up with Ex, How do you do the date thing again? POST: Just got out of a fairly long relationship (for my age anyways), and I've sort of forgotten what it's like to flirt or ask someone out on a date. I have a friend that I'd like to ask out after I'm 100% okay with myself (and more importantly if she's okay with it too), but I really value the friendship and don't want anything weird to happen if she says no. I know that that's part of the risk, but minimiz",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by texting a girl POST: So, first post so sorry in advance for any formatting problems. Long time lurker is the word I think (I used to read a lot of posts but neversubmitted one myslef) Anyway, recently I went for a sleepover at one of my friend's houses. It was fun, we did epic shit. One guy, lets call him Nick, to protect his identity, gave my number to a girl called,lets say, Chloe. Now, I had no idea that he gave her my number. So one day I got a text from Chloe saying 'heey xxx' s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] have no idea how to make friends. POST: I'll keep this short. I'm 24, and I have one friend. Yes one. I haven't seen him in 3.5 years. We text and talk on the phone occasionally. I have my SO, he is wonderful. He has ""work friends"" and refuses to invite me along to hang out with them because it'd be ""weird."" I'm cool. I don't drink, so I don't go to bars. I smoke a lot of weed. I'm really laid back, I swear like a sailor, and I like inappropriate jokes. I do not like hang",positive " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] House trained dog has started to have accidents in house ONLY after dog walker drops her off POST: Recently my dog has started to go to the bathroom in the house (in the same spot), but only on the days that the dog walker comes to bring her out. On the days that the walker does not come, she does not have an accident. Interestingly, I have been using the same dog walker for about 2 months now, and this has only started (and now happens almost everytime) a week or two ago. I talked w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to deal with my [24F] emotionally distant boyfriend [23M] of 4 years. POST: I'm slowly coming to terms that my boyfriend of 4 years is emotionally distant and not willing to connect with me on a deeper level. Lately, we've been getting into a lot of fights about me feeling insecure, unloved, alone etc. During these fights he stays unresponsive or very defensive. He can't stand fighting and he would rather bottle it up than face the problem. It's starting to make feel like I a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (24f) SO (22m) used the Xmas present he bought me before wrapping it. POST: My SO and I have been going out for about a year. Today I opened his Xmas gift to me. It is a video game that I've been wanting to play for a while ($60). I was very happy, because it's an expensive game that I wouldn't buy for myself, and I think I will love playing it. But, he told me after I unwrapped it that for the last couple of weeks he had been playing it on our shared console while I've been at ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me 27F with my engaged friends (both 30s). I am the reason they met but.... POST: So for about two years I spent a good majority of my time online in Second Life. It was basically my whole social life. During that time, I made friends with these two people (guy & girl). They were both dating other people when I met them, and both of their relationships ended with some form of cheating. With what I knew of both of them, I thought that they may make a good couple, so when I could tell ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: College student falsely accused of sexual assault. POST: (Ohio) Long story, but last week my roommate an I were out at a party. He met this girl and they hit it off well. We all came back to our place, all of us were mildly intoxicated (were all of legal drinking age) but my roommate was especially drunk. My roommate and the girl start fooling around, but my roommate passes out before they go beyond making out. The girl still spends the night, and is gone the next morning when we wake ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I'm 17 from the UK and just received a letter saying that I am in debt £261.28. I have no way of paying it and if I don't I will be taken to court, what can I do? POST: To cut a long story short: A while ago I got £1000 in savings and ripped it to shreds on my new gaming computer, along with many other unneeded 'luxuries'. I had around £200 already in my account and swiftly spent about £1200 on my computer. I thought that the whole point of a debit card is so that you can't spend m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I get back on my feet? POST: I'm 19, soon to be 20, and I need help pulling myself together. My last job was a summer camp gig I had just before going to university, 18 months ago. I dropped out of university after not being able to settle on a major and general lack of enthusiasm and motivation. My grades were average, and I can go back. Since I returned home last May, I have spent 8 months doing almost nothing. I haven't been able to find a job to afford to save up for school o",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking two adopted sisters who was adopted POST: sorry for the bad english. this was a while back, i was at a party with all of my friends, it was a very big party. So i run into a friend(who is a cousin of one of my best friends) who i had not seen in a while, so of course we started talking, my best friend was also there, suddenly she says to me, it's good that i found you, happens to be that my sister is also here, i would like you to meet her. so we go to meet the sister and they ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Why is is so hard to find a man? POST: So this is a throwaway I've never posted anywhere before just lurked. But I've been feeling really down about the dating life lately and hopefully someone can give me some advice. I'm a 25 year old female, and I've been having some really bad luck lately. The last guy I was seeing was a chameleon. So he pretended to like the stuff that I do to get into my pants, he does it with a lot of girls and he's on ok cupid and I fell for it. Ever since t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting fired for bleeding all over a customer's merchandise. POST: I work (used to work) at a historical coin shop that takes itself VERY seriously. But, being the new guy (not to mentioned the youngest one on staff by about 30 years), I was given a job in the back office opening coin binder and dumping out the coins. My boss gave me a dull butter knife to use for cutting through the cardboard, and I put up with it for about 2 weeks. And then I had a ""fuck this""/lightbulb moment, and",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Got taken on as a placement student, was paid £15 a day is there anything I can do? POST: Hi, I would love some advice of everyone and their ideas regarding my situation. I studied at university for 3 years. After the second year of study, due to being on a sandwich course, I was taken on by a company as a trainee and was paid a pittance of £15 a day. Whilst the job usually consisted of a 9-5 monday-friday norm there were times where I went away on business trips and worked for 20+ hours o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29 M] have a friend [29 F] with whom I've been romantically involved, who is back with an alcoholic she dumped before we met. POST: So, I've been hanging out with a new group of people recently, and we've all be having a lot of fun together and have quickly become very good friends. Recently, one of the girls of this group and I hooked up--and it was mutually a really great experience. We both had gotten out of bad relationships recently (mine was a 4yr, over 4months ago, hers was",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (22/M) needing help dealing with insecurities. POST: Hi all, First time post in here, looking for any advice on overcoming my insecurities in a relationship I cherish very, very much. My issues with relationships stem from a very close friend I had many years ago who I loved very dearly, but did not have the feelings reciprocated. After a falling out between the two of us she said (paraphrasing) that no one could ever love me. Such a statement from someone I loved, admired an",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I am in love with my best friend; afraid of losing her POST: I've known this girl, we'll call her W, for a few years now. We know each other well and she's pretty much always had a boyfriend. 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POST: We were dating for about 5 months and everything was fun. We had some ups and downs, but nothing too bad. Long story short, I fell for this girl and she knew it. The last week we were ""together"" she became super distant and we had very little communication. This filled my head with doubts and worries, and after reaching out to her about it, she told me that she needed a break. I don't do breaks, so s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: why does my ex [21 F] msg Me [21 M] POST: So we broke up about 8 months ago because i was pretty mean one night and said I was done. I regretted it and tried to get her back but she said she was done. I tried talking to her and fixing things to no avail. Eventually I stopped trying to see what was going on with her and she would start messaging me every other week or so. Finally I told her to stop contacting me because I needed time. After about I month I wanted to see how she wa",negative " r/books TITLE: Ok Reddit, I've been searching for this book since about 7th grade, and you're my last hope. (x-post from r/AskReddit) POST: I have searched *everywhere* for this book, and haven't been able to find it. I google the storyline a hundred times and nothing ever comes up. We had to read this book for this thing called Battle of the Books in like 5th grade. I was supposed to be the one to read it, and I only read the first few pages, but now I want to find it again to actually read it. So here's ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Best friend's sister POST: This isn't about how I [23 M] screwed up and fucked my best friend's little sister [20 F], but more about how I want to so incredibly bad to the point where I fantasize about her. I know I shouldn't feel this way, my best friend and I have been friends for over 10 years and I'm super close with his family. Her mom often refers to me as her ""other big brother."" I feel like these sexual feelings are kind of betraying that relationship with her family. Now th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What about breaking No Contact for a birthday message? (I 21M/ Ex 21F) POST: My ex broke up with me some 6 weeks ago after us being a couple for about 8 months. While it wasn't a mutual decision, the relationship ended amicably, with honesty and much respect. Since then, we haven't communicated at all. Doing NC surely has been the best option in this case, as it has allowed me to start healing. Now, her birthday is coming up in a couple of days and I've been considering sending a s",positive " r/Parenting TITLE: Responsibly NOT vaccinating? POST: This morning I went to the chiropractor and one of the receptionists had her one year old daughter there. She had told me on a previous occasion that she had decided not to immunize her child, which is her choice and nothing to do with me. However I was there with my five week old son, whom I do plan to get immunized at the recommended age of 6 weeks. Next week. The receptionist's daughter came up to me and draped herself over my legs, and was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 M] girlfriend [23F] and I have been together 2.5 years, found out she kissed a friend [22M] POST: A couple days ago my girlfriend confessed to me that she kissed a friend of hers. A little background: She has been dealing with depression for about a year and recently things between us have been tough. We've been through a lot together and have always been there for each other when needed most. My girlfriend has been very sad the past couple months and she will be gone this s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I 28f with my husband 34m, leaving emotionally abusive marriage, but don't know if it's acceptable to ask a certain friend if I can stay with her. POST: I posted this question a few days ago but didn't get many responses so I'm trying again with a different title. So, continuing with the title I have a friend that said a while ago that if I needed to I could stay with her. The thing is though she's 6 weeks due with her first child. She has a spare bedroom (even including the baby's ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Our house smells like a dead animal... help! POST: My boyfriend and I have been trying to track down this odd smell for a while, and yesterday I opened the door to the utility closet where the A/C unit sits and almost hacked all over the floor (I'm questioning my decision to post this while eating breakfast). We're pretty sure something has died IN the A/C, because we've searched the closet/everywhere accessible with no luck finding the nasty bugger. What can we do? I don't think we can",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend[18 F] 5 months, I am very stressed!! POST: I feel alone in this. I am coming here for a perspective. My girlfriend drives me nuts. I am going to get right to the point. Yes, I may be a little blunt, I may be a bit needy at times when it comes to sex. I may be rude in general. The thing that gets me, is her always nagging me about everything. She always says I am being mean, or being cocky, or being arrogant. I just think it is very odd how everyone else ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Am I being discriminated against? (x-post from r/diabetes) POST: The background: In January of 2015, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. I was close to DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis, a.k.a. diabetic coma) when I entered the ER (blood glucose was 600, A1c was 14)*, and thus had to take some significant time off of work. Since then, I've had to continue to take off more time for related illness and doctor's appointments. The job: I currently work at a small non-profit organization in the",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Want to ensure virgin girlfriend has a good first time, so I'm thinking of buying her a vibrator. POST: Hey /r/askwomenadvice this is my first time posting here, so If this post violates a rule I totally understand and I'll repost in a more relevant subreddit. Any way like the title says I've been with my current girlfriend for a few months and I've been really enjoying spending time with her. We're both in our 20's ( me:26, her: 22) When she first said she was a virgin I left it a",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Girl I met on a hike POST: This past Sunday, after feeling in a bit of a rut from my current dating situation, I decided to skip all the football hoopla and take a hike by myself. This particular hike that's local to me is about 10 miles round trip, so i prepared to be out pretty much all day. I arrived, gathered my equipment and commenced the excursion. As i walked up to the trail head, I noticed a gril who was organizing her things and preping to go on the same hike. We made brief ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23M] Help going slow with [19F] POST: Backstory: Met at my sister's 18th birthday (friend of hers), got a bit frisky (no sex), hung around the day after chatting and decided to ask her on a date which at the time she agreed to quite happily. Called her later in the week to arrange exact details and she asked if we could ""delay"" the date and ""get to know each other as friends first"" because she has never had a bf before (she immediately invited me to an event her and some frie",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [20F] boyfriend of less than a month [20M] is already talking about marriage POST: I've known this guy for six months; he's liked me for at least half that time and it's been obvious. About a month ago he finally asked me out. We went out on a few dates, and our relationship became 'official' a little before Valentine's Day. I've had my doubts about the relationship from the start, to be honest - he says he's in love with me, and while I *like* him it's definitely not love. The",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] recently broken up with ex [18 F] need to get her off my mind but i dont know how POST: so i recently broke up with my ex because i felt like i didnt matter to her anymore or that she didnt care about me anymore. She wouldnt pay attention to me and would rather watch tv and be with her step brother. i thought maybe she would care enough to talk things out but she hasnt even bothered to call or text me. I decided that maybe its time i move on but its really hard for me cause",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What can you do about bed bugs in employee dorms? POST: **Background** Last fall I worked for Xanterra Parks & Resorts at the Grand Canyon South Rim where we where provided with employee dorms, however these dorms have a big problem, they are infested with bed bugs. I worked there for over half a year and the problem was never properly taken care of. We could report them to Housing but unless we actually managed to see one(instead of just waking up in the morning covered in bite mark",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I doing what's right by going with my gut? [20 M] POST: I used to talk to a girl who was two years younger than me. We used to talk every single day for at least a year and a half. I definitely liked her and I knew she liked me, but I didn't know what to do. Then one day she told me this: ""Tell me you don't like me"". I knew the answer she wanted was exactly what she asked for, but I didn't know which decision was better; to say I do like her or to say I don't like her. I dec",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18f] am extremely jealous of my boyfriend's [19m] ex-girlfriend's pregnancy. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together almost a year, and have been good friends for 4 years. Our relationship is great in most aspects, we have a fairly open communication, and we are extremely close. He dated his last girlfriend for about a year and a half, but they still fooled around for a couple months after that. Then, his ex (we'll call her S) began dating someone else, got engaged shortly the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend went ""missing"" (not really) now she actually is missing. POST: Ok som im 18, girlfriend is 15. I live at home with my mom, she lives in a shelter run by cfs (child and family service, we live in Canada). My mom also works in a shelter for cfs so we have been hiding our relationship from her because technically its illegal or frowned upon or something like that. About 2 weeks ago she refused to go back to her shelter but then had nowhere to live so she was sleeping at her f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my Boyfriend [28 M] 1 years, doesn't approve that i'm sex toy blogger and that i review also porn POST: Original Post : I had finally a talk with him, we have continued our fight where he have tell many things that we had to say. And i have decided to be more open and honest about him (since i had hide to him my past and the fact that i'm a switch) . We try to continue our relationship, because he doesn't want to quit me or break up. Because for him, he wants to be ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by costing my school thousands of dollars multiple times POST: This wasn't really today, but something that happened on two separate occasions. When I was young I had a not-so-pleasant experience with fire, courtesy of my abusive father. Have always been scared shitless by even the thought of fire. 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But then when my friend (whos tastes i don't really agree with) was talking to me about how he loves nicki minaj and i disagreed with him he asked me ""well what makes her bad"". Now of course there is probably an easy answer to that but what it really ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20/F] ex[23/M], who I'm still friends with, keeps asking about my life and I'm uncomfortable with it. POST: Created a throwaway because he knows I Reddit. For the past year I was seeing a guy named Remy and although we were never officially boyfriend and girlfriend I still consider him an ex. Our relationship was great at first because I felt like I truly met a nice guy. Long story short, things started to go south in August due to constant communication problems and he was emo",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: A hotline counselor has told me I needed therapy, but what do you think, Reddit? POST: So I got in trouble with my parents and I felt that I needed to talk to someone other than my friends. The thing that you should know about my family is that my Mom can be very condescending, overbearing and negative; Dad is tired from work and he really doesn't want to deal with family issues. I inherited the traits of negativity/pessimism after so many years living here so I decided, on a whim, to ca",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my girlfriend [22 F] of two years, seems to have a lot of problems controlling her emotions/hormones weeks before her period. POST: Hey everyone, first, a quick apology just in case I'm not using terminology correctly. My girlfriend and I have been seeing each other for two years and throughout this time she has consistently had problems hormonally, or with controlling her emotions. She knows that what she's saying/doing is ridiculous usually (she's usually very push",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I break up with someone when they're my first seriously relationship? [15/f, he's 16/m, together for 7 months] POST: Today I realized that, well, I could do better then someone who puts me down all the time and doesn't listen to a word I have to say. He doesn't really make me happy, and he's told me several times I don't make him happy. We fight constantly (big fight at least once every 2 weeks, many small fights in between) and it always ends with him calling me profanities ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to discuss with people who argue more from an emotional place? POST: Some backstory: I currently live together with my best friend and her boyfriend (25'ish F/F/M), we'll call them Sally and Brad for now. Sally is very intelligent, she's bipolar, but it's well taken care of. Brad is not stupid either, and while he used to have anger issues, they seem to be in the past. A while ago, an issue popped up to which Sally wanted to react in a way that I feel would actively endanger ou",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [California] Can a current landlord hold information for a future landlord in ransom? POST: Hi, I'm living in an apartment at the moment and my roommate and I are planning a move to a new one soon. As part of her application for my roommate's new place, the management had a form that they requested our current landlord fill out, I imagine with information regarding do we really live her, did we pay our rent on time, etc. (We have always paid on time.) The manager, who's offsite, didn'",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Entry Level Engineer - Should I bail on finding an engineering position and just take a technician position for a couple years? POST: I left my last job nearly two months ago in order to pursue job searching full time. I did land one short term contract for a startup but responses past that have been lukewarm. 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He said he gets paid basically by selling my loan (potentially) to a bank; he and his company make money by charging the bank more money for my loan (1% maybe or 3 can't remember exactly), and that the loan amount doesn't change. He made it seem like it was us vs. the realtor(s), like they would try to charge me more on my loan to make mone",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my GF [25F] 1.5 years. My parents don't approve of us, and they refuse to meet her. GF feels slighted POST: My GF and I have been dating for almost 1.5 years, and for a majority of the relationship, I hid it from my parents. They are very religious (muslim) and incredibly conservative. this past October, they found out about us. I opened up completely, told them I want to marry her and I want them to meet her. It's been a battle for months, but they still haven't c",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by almost blinding myself with hydrochloric acid POST: I work at a local pool during the summer. We have a toilet bowl cleaner (Misty Bolex) that is 23% hydrochloric acid. It's fairly strong. If you do so much as drip the diluted stuff that's in the toilet bowl onto your foot, you better be near a water faucet or you're gonna have a nice burn. We're probably not the smartest by using it, seeing as how most of us are in nothing but swim trunks. Anywho, I was assigned to clean the toilets ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [22F] wondering if I should seek friendship with ex? POST: Last year, in late december just after christmas, I decided to end all contact with my ex. We had been arguing a lot. We were trying to give a relationship a last shot after 5 years of failed attempts, but it got messy quickly and I felt like I had felt the many times before. Like he misunderstood everything I said and constantly blamed my personality. ""You overthink"" is something he would toss at me all the time. Anyway, ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting in the wrong car POST: This happened when I was around 17. **A bit of backstory**: My mom has a pretty fun sense of humor, and was always very nice about driving my friends and I around before any of us had a car; she would drop us off at the mall, movies, whatever. She also had zero problem fucking with my closer friends as she would with me. Sometimes, after loading up the car with groceries or leaving a restaurant or something my mother would get in the car and start ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Being stuffed around by a multinational...Not sure of which country to follow up in? POST: Dear reddit, This is a bit of a first world problem hence the use of a throw away account. I'm from Australia, I was recently in the US for a conference, and stopped over in Vegas for a few nights. While I was there I went for a suit fitting at Hugo Boss. I had the tailor, in the store, take my measurements and make alterations as necessary. I came in two days later, tried it on and it fit perfec",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Plasterers of Reddit, can you give some tips for a novice about to skim large 3 ceilings in his house? POST: Hi Reddit, I bought my house over 2 years ago with my fiance and it needed a lot of work doing to it. We've replastered a couple of walls already using both mixed and pre-mixed plaster and found the pre-mixed plaster is a lot thicker and heavier than the mixed plaster. However, the mixed plaster we cooked up seemed to lose its wetness pretty quickly and refused to stay on the wa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are some things you do to wake up when you want to in the morning? POST: I would love to wake up at 6am and go running, have time to cook breakfast, maybe mediate or read some, but no matter what I do it seems like I land up sleeping right up until I HAVE to get up to go. I will just wake up, set my alarm for 30 minutes later, wake up again, push my alarm (on my phone) back again, and sleep till I have no time to do anything except shower and dress. Even if I go to bed earlier and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] & [27F] girlfriend - long distance (50 minutes or so) it's getting difficult... (3 mos. or so) POST: We've been at it for about 3 months. It's great when we hang out for the most part - into each other, good sex, fun going out etc. However she lives 50 minutes away and she works so much that I see her once, twice a week at most. She is often stressed a lot from work and barely has enough time to feed and let her dog out to pee let alone see me, and it often takes several hou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/20] am in a self-esteem rut due to my girlfriend [F/20]. What do I do? POST: Alright, so a bit of background. I've been in a relationship with my girlfriend for the past 6 months, sexually for the past couple of months. The whole 'getting to know each other' process started about an year ago, so this is in no way a rushed, reckless relationship. The issue here is that my girlfriend 'claims' that I'm not 'well endowed' enough to satisfy her. Now I'm no Peter North, in fact I bel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] seeking help about my ex [18 F], struggling to know what's right POST: I had been dating a girl for 3 years now. Honestly, I don't know how I feel about these 3 years. We've had our honeymoon stage and then fell off for a bit and then came back a little? Either way, I think we were both sort of deciding that since we were probably going to colleges far away and neither one of us were willing to have a long-distance colleges, we were half-assing the relationship. Well. As ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (28, F) feel like my boyfriend (25, M) of one year has betrayed my trust to the worst possible person. POST: I'll (28, F) will try to keep this as on point as possible. My boyfriend (25, M) of one year told one of his closest family friends that my last child was conceived via my being raped by my ex when said friend asked why I would ever have 3 kids. This is true. He admitted to telling his friend himself, and said that his friend wasn't accepting his evasive answers, so he fel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (23F) best friend (22F) is being a complete bitch about my boyfriend(25M) POST: I've been good friends with this girl since we were 17. We had our problems in the past because we got in an argument. She can be kind of selfish and tends to overreact but she's calmed down since then. She is now pregnant so that may account for some of the moodiness but not completely. I was friends with this guy before we started dating and she never liked him- she would make REALLY rude comments t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting my son play Goldeneye POST: My son is 5 years old and loves video games. 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Would it b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16m] left a bad first impression of gf [15f] parents. Apologize? POST: We have been going out for roughly 2 weeks, but had mutual feelings roughly since mid February. It's going well, and she lives relatively close (6ish minutes walking distance, 2 min driving). So this Saturday, I (after waking up at ~11 pm from a nap) decided I would go to her house (I've been there, but never inside/never met her Korean parents) to say goodnight in person, trying to make up for not coming over",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm an an Atheist, and I've noticed mostly Atheists are just as chest-thumping as Christians. Why? POST: I've noticed, especially on this site, that the majority of Reddits Atheists are just as bad as the Christians they claim are blow hards. Why is this? I'm an Atheist, my mother is a devout Christian, and my father is a now retired truck stop minister. I wasn't raised in an oppressive home, the church my patents frequent isn't filled with people hell bent to cram God down strangers t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (m26) girlfriend (23) just told me she still loves her ex and feels guilty being with me. POST: We have been dating for about 2 years now. She started dating me while she was still dating her ex. I didn't know she was still with him as he was out of stat. We fell in love. I found out about her ex about a year and a half ago. I have come to terms with this. Now she says she still loves him more then she loves me. It seems like she is only with me because her ex wont take her back. ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: You make me sick. You consider yourself better than x person for their crimes, so your response is that they should be wiped off the earth? POST: You know who I'm talking about. X person did Y atrocious act. Maybe they're a pedophile. Or they murdered innocent civilians. But regardless, people view them as a monster. They should be shot. They should be brought to the center of town and let the mob do justice. You make me sick. You know absolutely nothing about whats going on in that pe",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Roommate joint and several liability POST: Also [here] but asklegal isn't very high traffic (hope I'm not breaking any rules). Hi all: So I'm living with two other guys in a California house with a joint lease that expires Feb 1 (we'll call them Sam and Bob). We had a verbal agreement (I know it's meaningless) that made Sam (who joined later) pay $175 more than my other roommate who has the same size room (I'm in a tiny room half the size). Recently, Bob hasn't been respecting the hou",negative " r/self TITLE: What is the best way to approach/help a good friend who is a pathological liar? POST: I've been very good friends with this person for a few years and am quite close to them. Our friend group has noticed they lie about little things every now and then, and they are guilty of making a story sound better, but who isn't. However, I recently learned that they made up quite a significant lie to manipulate someone and get pity, which made me immediately concerned. Even more recently, they compl",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Friend needs help getting some revenge... POST: ...on his current housemates. Here's the situation: He's an international student at my school for his second year. Last year he met some guys who pretended to be his friend but in actuality, just took advantage of him by convincing him to live with them. They essentially made him their b*tch, for all intents and purposes. They get on him about any little thing he does. They harrass him verbally and make fun of him, how he looks, his acc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] with [18F], need help with asking out/moving to next step POST: For almost two months me and a girl who I met through a mutual friend 4 years ago, have been talking on and off online, We have plenty of mutual interest and from what I can gather we are very much alike, for those reasons I have been afraid to move it to a 'next step' cause I don't want to mess this up,however I am in luck as I found out she is going to the same concert as me next week. How would/should I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [39/F] with my H[43/M] married 17 years. Wondering when a friendship becomes an emotional affair? POST: I was wondering what the general consensus is as to what constitutes a ""just friends"" friendship and what constitutes an emotional affair? Yes this is between a married man and a single woman. Secrecy, constant IM's and calls, first person he talks to in the morning, last person he talks to at night. Got defensive when I called him out. When I asked him to give her up, he moved",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [20s m] confront my roommate [20s f] about an affair POST: Hello reddit, For about 4 months now, I have suspected that my roomate is having an affair with a married man that I know. Over the last couple of weeks, this suspicion has grown stronger. She has been acting off, lying to my face, and always has holes in her stories or explanations about where she's been, or who has been coming over to my house. I have finally pieced all the fragments together and the picture they",negative " r/self TITLE: Exceptionally pleased with Reddit after Digg died POST: I had been a casual Digger for a few years, until it sold its soul and the community disappeared. I never really posted anything, I simply just read through the articles, and enjoyed the comments. I never really visited Reddit, as it seemed to be Digg's retarded little brother (at a glance). So when Digg essentially shut down for me, I tried using Reddit. Despite being a bit hard on the eyes at first, Reddit grew on me. After a co",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My best friend [24F] slept with my friend's bf [26F/26M] and future husband. What would you do? POST: I'll try to keep it simple. I have two friends, Anne and Susan. I'm good friends with both, but am much closer to Anne. Susan has been with her bf Jake for three years, but Jake and Anne were good friends before Susan and Jake met. I believe Susan and Anne only know each other in passing. Almost a year into their relationship Susan moved to a different country. During that time, Jak",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] really really like this girl [17M] but just can't talk to her... POST: Hi, I'm pretty sure that trivial stuff like this is not welcome on this subreddit, but I'm trying anyway. Help me out if you can. There is this girl in my high school who I like quite a bit and would love to get to know. She seems quite nice and is not intimidating or anything. However, for some reason, I just can't bring myself to go up and talk to her. I usually find it easy to talk girls who are classma",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Anyone ever found 'The one' twice ? POST: Ok, so, I'm not very 'experienced' with women. I'm not a regular 20 year old who just goes round sleeping with any randomer they meet in a club or whatever. I feel that I need to wait for 'The one'. Anyway, this 'One' came into my life about 2 months ago. She liked what I liked, listened to the same music I listened to AND she didn't drink (neither do I). She is 23, Im 20 and this relationship IS long distance. So, it turned out that she had a b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22m] am stuck between a rock and a hard place with a [23f]... POST: Ok so there is a girl I'm interested in that I've been seeing for the past 2 months. Everything was going good up until one night we were hanging out so she said she was getting close to her monthly friend and told me beforehand that she was moody. We still proceeded to the date but things were just awkward because she was very distant. Of course everybody has an off day so I went with the flow. Fast forward a w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] am having minor issues with a friend [17 M] and need advice POST: I'm aware this issue is not unique to me at all. I'm currently 18 and I'm set to graduate High School at the end of the year, and move on to college Here's the issue. I have a very good friend (got to know him in 11th grade, became close friends in 12th) and we're both from very different friend groups, so I find it hard to hang out with him. If I do hang out with his friend group, he actually becomes more in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/f] have no idea how to deal with my dad [50/m] marrying my aunt. POST: I don't really know if I'm posting in the right place, however, I just know I need some clarity to all of this. My dad left my mum back when I was 15 and 3 years later we found out it was because he'd been having an affair with my Aunt. So Valentine's day weekend, they got married. We don't talk, haven't for 4 almost 5 years because he can't stand me... but I don't know how to deal with this. I have exist",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My live in girlfriend (20F) is extremely depressed and angry at herself about our current financial situation and its tearing us up. (20M) POST: So we have been together for just over a year now and have been living together for about 5 months. We just had a huge fight where I went off on her for ignoring me and being distant for the past couple weeks. I could tell something has been bothering her but whenever I asked I got pushed away. So back to today we get into this huge fight. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my Needy Girlfriend [21 F]. Together for over a year. 7 months Long Distance. POST: I've been with my girlfiend for over a year. She's from Beijing and I met her while studying abroad. She came to the US for school because our program has an exchange program. I didn't talk her into it. When we were together in Beijing we were together almost everyday. Long distance we talked everyday. When she came here, it caused more problems than it solved. She would expect me to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Does sleeping with a girl [24] that my friend [27] was interested in make me [34] a terrible person? (X post from /r/advice, because this seemed like a more appropriate sub.) POST: This guy was a close friend of mine and has since completely cut off all ties and apparently constantly speaks badly of me to mutual friends even though this happened years ago. He slept with this girl one time. He was interested in her, she didn't feel the same way. He tells everyone that they had a seri",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Age problem? I am [24/M], she is [18/F]. POST: We met at work, and for the past few weeks I've been noticing that she seems to be interested in me, and I am certainly interested in her. We tend to talk quite a bit while at work and we have a number of shared interests. She is about to start at a local college and will be living at home. Due to some unfortunate situations and poor decisions of my own, I have around 3 years left on my bachelors at a different school. I am fai",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my girlfriend [19 F] spent a year and a half, dating without her parents approval POST: We met when she was 17 turning 18 and she was already my best friend. We'd text all night and we've had so many life changing moments together. We hid it for a while and we tried to break the news as peacefully as possible. Her aunt is my boss and when I had a quarrell at work, my boss mentioned to her mother that I have an anger issue (Which i honestly believe everyone has, Mines no",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am a [19]f wondering if I should be my SO m[10] hanging out with girls he's dated before? POST: I've been in an on and off relationship for going on three years now. Tonight, he said he was going with his roommate to hang out with two girls. Let's call them Lisa and Amy. Back a few months ago when we were broken up, he started talking to his friend Amy's good friend Lisa. They talked for awhile and he took her out on a date. According to him, things went great, but afterwards she a",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by wanting a good night's sleep. POST: So this actually happened today. I hadn't been getting a lot of sleep over the last few days. Not for any bad reasons, just staying up late drinking, getting up early for work. The usual. I'd been going out with the same group of people I'd met at a hostel before I moved out. Nice enough people, mostly German. But importantly there is a cute German girl, Jess, among them whom I'd be crushing on. It seemed that she has a small thing for me too, bu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Not excited about being with my girlfriend POST: 28m dating a 29f, just about to hit our 2 year anniversary. I feel like the honeymoon period is over and then some, and I don't know if this is normal or not. We started dating just a few weeks after I moved to the area (match.com) and we share a lot of common interests. My main reasons for dating her are she's outdoorsy, not high maintenance, and she has a lot of qualities I value like being kind, giving, helpful. She has told m",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU with a poorly timed Freudian slip. POST: I'll provide some context. Today I had a presentation at 9 in the god damn morning. Being the awesome student that I am, I waited til last night to start it. Running on about 5 hours of sleep. Woke up late, was nearly late to class. I sit down. A few kids go before me. Halfway through the period the professor calls me up. My presntation was on the Astor Place Riot in NYC. It was a riot that precipated from an intense feud between two Shakespearean",negative " r/relationships TITLE: This is probably a stupid question to anyone with any dating experience whatsoever, but when should I [M/18] actually ask this girl [F/18] out? POST: So a while back, one of my friends said she wanted to introduce me to her friend. But we never got around to meeting because the schedules would just never match up and blah blah blah. Well I was talking to this friend and was telling her that like, 3 different girls had actually let me buy them a coffee and lunch before telling me they",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [20M] of 1 yr, I can't seem to pleasure him and it makes me feel terrible POST: Throwaway because friends use reddit, also yes I am aware that I apparently can't spell bedroom. My boyfriend and I have been together for a year now, and are long-distance to the point that we see each other every 4-6 months. The last time we saw each other was a couple of weeks ago. The visit before last, sex was great. We had sex a lot, he was able to orgasm frequently, and",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: My sister's mental health is breaking down, and she has no real support base. What can I do? What can she do? POST: Since early high school, my sister (27) has had trouble with self-esteem, putting pressure on herself, and has grappled with an eating disorder. She dropped out of college and moved to New York a few years ago, and though things haven't been easy, she's seemed a lot happier and has been eating. Now my other sister says she's gotten a call from our sister in NY, and she's ",negative " r/running TITLE: How to combine a high cadence with a lowish heart rate? POST: Relative newbie to running for its own sake and just having some difficulties trying to understand some of the nuances. I'm an ex-basketball player and my experience running has only ever really been anaerobic sprinting work or 800m intervals. I had to stop playing because of chronic shin splint issues but the idea of running really appeals to me so would love to be able to stay fit by running. I have done some cadence stuff i",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: License Suspended for Failure to Provide Insurance POST: So I'll provide some background info, I'm from Idaho specifically Ada County if that matters but back on 4/4/2013 I got a ticket for; >""I49-430 Vehicle Registration-Fail to Register Annually"" and >""I49-1232 Vehicle Insurance-Fail to Provide Proof of Insurance"" After receiving the ticket I registered the vehicle but I overlooked that I needed to go back and take care of the failure to provide proof of insurance. Which I realize",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can my girlfriend [F23] and I [F24] better manage the time we spend together? POST: Me girlfriend and I have been dating for just over a year and we've pretty much been living together that whole time. The circumstances when we started dating made it so it just made sense to live together. Now we're nearing the end of our lease on our apartment and we're wondering if we should live in separate places. We're around each other a lot -- evenings and weekends. We've both been feeli",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [26M] head over heels for this girl [18F], how do I end things with my casual partner [24F]? [UPDATE] POST: [Here's the original post.]( So, no one probably cares too much, but I ended it with the 24F tonight. She had noticed I wasn't being as responsive as I had been (which is partially because I'm in the last few days of finishing a PhD) and confronted me, asking if it was because of that or if there was something more. I was honest and told her that while the main reason wa",negative " r/travel TITLE: Friend is traveling to South Africa, does anyone know how ""tourist-friendly"" it is there? POST: Hello /r/travel, new around here may not be the place for this but here goes. I have a friend who is 26/F/American that booked a trip to South Africa earlier today somewhat on a whim. She's going with another girl her age, and since has voiced concern about the safety there (She will flying into Johannesburg and may visit Cape Town). She is an experienced world traveler, however I am not. Sti",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my bf [26M] of 5 months, his parents haven't asked anything about me? POST: I've been dating my boyfriend for about 5 months. We live in a different state from his parents, whom I've never met before. From looking on Facebook, it's obvious that we are dating. It even says we're in a relationship on Facebook. His parents, however, nor his friends have acknowledged this, and apparently, they don't care to ask anything about me. I, on the other hand, am always asking my S",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [M21] routinely sleeps for 12+ hours. Is this normal? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for just under a year. We are both studying at the moment in different states, but manage to see each other a couple of times a month. When we are together we have a wonderful time, go out and have fun, and (I feel I should stress this), his lifestyle is completely normal when I am there, and does not hinder what we get up to. However, when we are apart this is not the case. W",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How to approach my boyfriend of 1.5 years [m31] about my [f21] STD when I think I got it from him? POST: I had my yearly exam a few days ago, and I apparently have an STD. I've only had actual sex with my current boyfriend, and I know he hasn't cheated on me. But I also know he probably hasn't had an STD test since before he met me. I've had ""sex"" with my ex boyfriend, but he had a Madonna-Whore complex with me and could never get hard. So he was technically inside me for a minute a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] don't think my girlfriend [20 F] should be texting her friend whilst he's with us, sat right next to her. Am I wrong? If yes/no, why? POST: So yeah she always wants to go out on weekends so we go out with about 5 other people most weekends. She's always texting this one guy, she never actually talks to him, only texts him, whilst he's either sitting next to her on the sofa, or at a restaurant sat across from her or next to her or whatever. Bear in mind I'm sat next to her as",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Breaking up because I love you POST: I just need to vent because I'm thinking about breaking up with my girlfriend of 3 years because I don't think I'm meeting her needs. We know we're in love, and we have a very good relationship, but tonight she admitted that her confidence was at an all time low, and it really tore me apart. I asked her what I could do to help and she said I couldn't. When I asked her if my compliments did anything, she says she didn't believe them. Which really mess",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend [M 24] ghosted me [F 24]. Should I forgive him? POST: Over the last couple of months my friend had stopped responding to me. I tried to contact, but never got a response so I stopped trying. There was no argument and I thought we were on good terms, so I had no idea what the problem was. Recently, he texted apologizing for not responding and asked if we could meet up and talk, which I agreed to. He basically told me that his girlfriend was jealous of me and that he was concer",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I want to ask the girl of my dreams to Prom, How should I do it? POST: I'm very sorry if this is not considered a discussion-inspiring question or if it breaks any other rules! *MY PAST (Skip this if you want to get straight to the point)* So I'm your classic high school student who has had a lot of social problems. I've moved every year since 5th grade so it's been hard to make friends, let alone relationships. My 11th and 12th grade year I've stayed in the same school for onc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO just got violent, what to do... POST: My girlfriend has trust issues. Besides that one thing, everything is good, we have worked hard to build a good relationship and we are a few days from our first anniversary. We're both in our early 30s. Tonight one of my friends texted me asking about a job, and as any good friend should, I gave her some leads. Unfortunately, this girl and my gf hate each other from before I met either of them. I have been in minimal contact with my friend",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(25f) boyfriend(29m) of 2 years wants to breakup for more sex, but isn't really considering the effect on our daughter (3 months). What should I do? POST: We've been together to years and very much enjoyed our sexual exploration of each other. Getting pregnant wasn't part of the plan, but together we decided to go through this. Since we were both students I came home with our daughter while he works to get us a home. In 3 months I've taken her to see him 3 times and he's only vis",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [20M], we won't really be able to see each other until the end of May POST: Sorry for any typos, I'm french. My boyfriend and I have been together for a little over a year and have known each other for 5 years. We met on the internet at the age of 15 and have talk to each other almost everyday ever since. We live 40-50 minutes away from each other so we rather spend at least 2 days together because we're broke students and it's kind of a long drive just to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why would my 28F ex tell me to see her after work at like 2AM and then tell me to sleep on the couch? POST: I dated her for almost a year and we talk on and off. I haven't really moved on and I'm pretty sure she has as she broke up with me. Ok so basically she called me to see her after work, which is like 2AM. She texted me, say hi, what are you up to, calls me babe and everything. I went to her work, got picked up, and tried to be kinda bf-ish. She swatted my hands away, and was j",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Found out one of my good friends is a convicted rapist, still in shock and denial... POST: So I've known this guy since highschool, a brilliant guy who was voted valedictorian and we always got along. Even though we attended different universities, we still remained in touch because he was genuinely a cool guy. A few days ago on the news I see that he had been a convicted rapist on the registry of sex offenders for raping a girl back in 2010. And the case had been going on for 5 years.",positive " r/cats TITLE: Any advice on how to socialize a middle-age rescue? POST: My little girl Keely was left at a shelter in Brooklyn along with 12 other cats after her ""owner could not take care of them"" once her apartment was damaged by hurricane Sandy. When I got Keely, she was thin and bony and terrified of everything. She also had to have 23 teeth removed, as her mouth was rotting due to what I believe was malnourishment. Needless to say, she was never really cared for. Since she arrived with so many other",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] I [25 M] want to ask a girl out from my class. I feel so stupid asking reddit for this but I need help.. POST: [Here's the link to my prior thread]( So, I went to class preparing to ask her out after class for lunch. Well, it turns out she already has a boyfriend.. I actually figured that out before even asking her out to lunch. I should have just assumed she did. =/ I'm pretty sad about that. It was so easy to talk to her and she is a beautiful person. I know I know",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need some laptop advice. POST: Hey guys, need more than advice really; I know absolutely nothing about computers or laptops or..anything really. My birthday is just after Christmas and my Mum and Dad have offered to buy me a laptop as a joint present for both so I'm really excited! However, I haven't got a clue what make or brand or whatever I should get? I have no idea what the budget it is as I don't really like to ask. I use the computer mainly for messaging and doing college work a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (M33) Approach the Subject of Weight Loss with My Wife (31F)? POST: Throw away account because she knows my other username. My wife and I have been married for eight years now, and I love her every bit as much now as the day we were married. We are in a great relationship and I want to spend the rest of my life with her, but I'm starting to become concerned with her weight and the impact it may have on her long term health. Last summer I was looking at some pictures of m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/27] am losing patience. POST: Sorry for the throwaway. I'm exhausted of chasing down dates (online or in person). The dates I have been on have been the epitome of mediocre. I'd really like to find someone special; a companion, someone to come to home to and wake up with everyday. It just is so hard to see the forest through the trees at this point. I guess I'm hoping people who have been in my situation can share some positive dating/relationship stories. I'm quite aware that",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23F] husband [23M] and I live with his parents and I think it's hurting our relationship POST: My husband [23M] and I [23F] got married just over a year ago and he and I have been living with my in-laws. They're great and all, and he's happy there, but I want out and I think it's ruining our relationship and I feel I can't be honest with him because I don't want him to think that I don't want to be around his parents. We have a separate entrance and a kitchen, living room, and ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Disagreement when picking rooms in the new house POST: My house next year has one basement room no one wants as it's on a floor by itself and next to the kitchen. No one wants to be alone on a floor by themselves with the kitchen and living room and if people are pre drinking, coming into the kitchen you'll be in the room next door. Every room is en-suite except the 2 in the attic which share. No one wants the basement and people don't want but don't mind the attic. It's 2 guys and 8 girls ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Canada] My gfs ex-husband crashed their leased car while drunk, now shes on the hook? POST: My gf is getting a divorce from her husband in a few months, they have one kid, shes 4. He left her about a year ago to be with another woman but the ex and her have since split up. He is how homeless, jobless and an alcoholic on top of that. They have been splitting custody of their daughter 60/40, but since the husband doesn't have anywhere to live, hes been staying at my gfs place with their",negative " r/travel TITLE: Ok /r/travel, I need some serious input into some life-altering plans. Especially from Motorcyclists and RV'ers with experience in the America's POST: Alright, so my wife and I have been doing the same old for 5 years now. Working in a big city, living in a shoebox, etc. It has been great - lots of friends, lots of fun, but we miss the open road (spent a year traveling Asia, NZ, and Auss). We've been toying around with the idea of up-rooting, and doing a trip from Toronto -> Vancouver -",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] and a girl [18 F] having issues stemming from mental health, unsure what to do POST: Also posted to /r/AmItheAsshole So basically I'm in a situation that is... tricky. Me and this girl both admitted to liking each other after a whole buncha flirting over the course of several months. However, after this I kept asking her if she would go on dates / hang out / etc. and she always said ""I don't know"" or ""not in the mood"". Literally the only time I would see her was in school.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Boyfriend wants me to go on the pill to make sex feel better, but I'm scared of the side effects. Now there's tension in our relationship because of this. POST: We've been using condoms ever since we were first together, and we haven't had a problem with them, but he also knows that sex feels a lot better without the condom. He's been asking me if I'd go on birth control. I first said I'd look into it, but after I did some research, I was put off by the potential side effects. The issue",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by reading TIFU in classroom POST: This happened just an hour ago. I was attending a lecture on material science at my university and I have this boring professor whose monotonous baritone sounds like a donkey playing a blown trumpet while coughing. Halfway into the lecture just before I was about to get bored to death I pull out my phone and 15 seconds later I find my self on /r/tifu. I read a TIFU. Then another .Then one more and the comments on some of them plant C4 plastic explosive ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20F) want to be friends with my dentist (30ish F) POST: This might be weird, but bare with me. I am a 20 year old female who lives in a small town. All my friends have either moved further away to go to college, or have started families and don't really have time to hang out very often...I am going to school currently, so I figured I would make some new frends...but I haven't really clicked with anyone yet. Anyway, the other day I went to a new dentist and I actually enjoyed it.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my fling [22 F] of 1 day, she wants to carry on but is in a ltr. I'm not okay with this. POST: Crushing for a while, gave in last night and feel terrible about it. She's been with another guy going on 4 years, no idea if she's cheated in the past.(based off her being with me I'd say it's not that big of a stretch that it's happened before) Even if she breaks up with him- can any good come from us being together? We haven't talked much about it but I'm pret",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 F] boyfriend's [21 M] high school best friend [20 F] won't stop joking about how everyone thinks they'll get married one day. POST: I've been dating my boyfriend for a little less than a year now, and his best friend from home (we're in college) is my worst nightmare. They dated for a bit in high school, and she's very close with his family, posts pictures of the two of them from prom on social media every so often with captions saying she loves him, that kind of thing. They'",negative " r/self TITLE: Reddit, please help me save my relationship. I am shamefully jealous/paranoid and its gone too far. POST: Before I get a bunch of abuse I'd like to point out that I know how I am is really pathetic, but I can't seem to help it no matter how hard I try. Basically I'm a really jealous boyfriend and get quite paranoid (I've been cheated on in the past but I don't like to use it as an excuse, because I don't believe it's the reason). It affects my girlfriend quite a lot, which is understandable.",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [20/m] really want to get to know a girl [19/f]. I'm very attracted to her, but she just broke up with her boyfriend. Need some advice. POST: I'll try to keep this short and simple. I am extremely attracted to a girl that I met in one of my classes. She's smart, funny, fun to be around, and drop dead gorgeous. She just broke up with her boyfriend, who straight up cheated on her around two weeks ago. We hung out a few times that week, just hanging out and smoking, nothing more",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] broke up with my [22M] ex of 2.5 years, did I make a huge mistake? POST: We had a fantastic two years. We were each others best friend. I'm in nursing school, he had just graduated. Everything was going perfectly, but right around the two year mark I started feeling differently. Like that i was not sure we were right for each other. My ex was the sweetest, most loving guy, but I started falling out of love with him. I tried to give him things he could do to possibly make thi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, can we get some attention at Adobe for screwing over University students? POST: So they're releasing CS6 which is awesome, and I'm really excited about it. I went to purchase it, but I could only find an upgrade price of $525 (compared to $2599 new purchase, about 20% of the price) for standard users. The education new purchase price is $799, which is about what I paid for CS5.5 when I graduated from high school last year. For an initial hit, my family and I were willing to take ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the proper way to approach this situation with a girl? POST: So last school year I talked to this girl a lot over Skype and in real life, Most of the time she initiated conversation until I started to be attracted to her then it was kinda 50/50. This lasted about a month and a half, I joined the school late then shit went down and we didn't talk all summer. I tend to be emotionless but I couldn't stop thinking about her all summer, I was ashamed that I let myself fall in love tha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] got friend zoned by my [18 F] close friend, General Confusion on How to Become Friends. POST: Initially she found out from a friend who was close to both of us. She then sent me a text message saying she wants me to reassess my feelings. From what I heard from my friends, she is non confrontational. It's been months now, and I ended up asking if we can start talking as friends and she said she will love to. I'm pretty much over her now romantically and I am interested in s",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Thinking about talking to a recruiter. info appreciated. POST: 20 yo, Male. lost in life and at the end of my rope. I dont know what else to do to get me on some sort of path to a constructive life, rather than the bleak one I have now. Grew up in a USMC area, base isnt to far, so in high school I was in the Rotc program for 3 years. color guard. ect. Up untill my senior year, i planned on going into the service at the time thinking USMC. unfortunatly going through the program, groo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have a rule of thumb that gives you a free pass for stupid stuff that kids, teens, and young adults do. Tell me what stupid stuff you did that I can give a pass on? (Bonus if you don't use a throwaway) I'll start! POST: My rule of thumb is that you get a pass on anything you do or say until you're 23. But you'd better realize what terrible things you did or said when you were younger. I think about how awesome it was that I was a teenager before MySpace' Facebook ' or YouTube. Holy he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [28M] first time with a girlfriend [25] not sure when will I am supposed to be in love POST: I've been with my first girlfriend for 3 months now. I enjoy the time with her, the sex is good, friends get along, family gets along... But I am coming to a point where I really do like her, but I haven't found myself emotionally attached to her at all. This is the longest and only time I've had a girlfriend. I haven't said ""I love you"" because I honestly don't right now. Could I see myself",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: I was detained by police under a false accusation. Is this ""unlawful detention"" and if so, do i have any legal recourse? (video of incident) Please Help! POST: Link to video of incident: Facts: -I was not in a park, I was on a public street sidewalk. -There was no suspicion of a crime being committed. Do I have any legal recourse here??? Back story: I feel like my rights were being violated because the cop involved didn't like me, stemming from an incident a few weeks before the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [30f] boyfriend [25m] of 5 months is out of town constantly and rarely communicates while he's away. How do I cope? POST: My boyfriend and I started dating in early December. His family owns a farm about three hours away from our city, and he is down there helping out pretty much all the time. Sometimes I will go two weeks without seeing him at all. He is a seasonal firefighter, and work starts soon which will make our time together even more limited. When he is in town, he splits",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trusting a Finn with my grilled cheese sandwich POST: So, I'm an American international student in Japan, living in an international student dorm, where we have a shared kitchen. Today, I decided to make some of the Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup that my mom mailed me, and a REAL CHEDDAR CHEESE grilled cheese sandwich (in Japan, normal cheddar cheese is super expensive and hard to find). I've been feeling kinda eh lately, so I was really looking forward to it. I went in to the kitch",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by falling off a school building. POST: Yes this happened today, unlike many posts here. I was walking with my sister and her friends around my old elementary/middle school. On the outside of the school, there are almost no windows and in the place of them are giant letters of the alphabet that can be climbed. My sister dared me to try and climb as high as I could. I got to the second row and mis-step and fell off and landed on the cement seat below in front of my sister, her friends and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: She [19] left in the middle of the night out of nowhere, and now won't communicate with me [21, m] at all. I have no idea what happened. [1y, Should I keep my pride or apologize to my gf get back together but will have to ditch friend? POST: I have been dating a girl for over a year now. I am fairly well off for a one man family with good prospects, she was jobless living with her parents overweight too, had a lot of anger issues. But she was easily the best gf i have had. we had a lot of fun together. Today we ended up arguing on following: while at a party one",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [18M] want to make it happen [17F] POST: So, today we were in English class and we discussed as an excersie the new Maze Runner film. A couple of classes ago she had asked me a lot of questions (i'm the only boy at the classroom) and we seem kinda have the same interests. We talked about who had read the books and it seems that we both read them. I was so intrigued by her since the beggining of the year (kinda silent girl, with a big red mark on her face like Zuko from Avata",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (22M) recently starting dating a girl (20F) with emotional issues regarding an ex-boyfriend. Trying to avoid the friend/FWB zone. POST: I've known this girl for years and had always had a hunch that she had feelings for me, so I started hanging out with her more often and confessed my feelings. All is well, she feels the same way. We then start intimately hanging out, staying the night together very often, and acting like we're in a relationship. Since we'd been friends for so lon",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Kinda weird, but what are some jobs where you don't need to interact with customers much nor need experience? POST: I'm in my early twenties and I have never had a paying job (other than I worked a table at a flea market for one summer. I sold my own stuff.) I earned my GED last year but haven't gone any further in school as I am still trying to figure out what I want to do career-wise. At the moment I'm just trying to find a job to make some money and help out at home. There have to be some ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my boyfriend [27 M] 1 year, how to handle other people asking you out for drinks/events/etc POST: I've been with my boyfriend for a little over a year and I'm like 80% sure he's the one. I love him to pieces and would never dream of straying on him. Problem is, I really like being a social butterfly too and meeting and hanging out with new people. Normally that's not a problem because I can usually just bring my boyfriend along and that's the end of that, no unwanted c",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Moral Dilemma: Expose ""stolen valor"" (and hurt a good charity) or remain silent? POST: I was in the military for 10 years, leaving in 2005 as an E-6. In 2004 I was a squad leader for a team that deployed to a remote airfield in Pakistan for about 5 months, supporting different operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. While there, I was the in charge of all security operations on that airfield. From a security incident stand point, I knew about and was involved with everything that occurred. ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: You may live in Baltimore City, but you in no way know struggle. POST: Baltimore was a convenient move for you. It is close to all of the things you love and to the friends you've made. That's great. I support your decision to explore. I supported your apartment search. I even agreed to design your space despite being inundated with work. I've supported every single whim, dream, and scheme of yours for years. But what I don't support is the adoption of your bullshit-hyper-liberal",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 F] don't know what to do with all the things my ex [17 M] gave me throughout the relationship after breaking up. POST: Never gone through such a harsh breakup and it's still effecting me really negatively - I've tried to block him off most social media because it just hurts to see and to be in contact with him. It was an on and off relationship over the period of 1.5 years, and it's officially come to an end. The first time we broke up I immediately put all the stuff he gave ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [21 M] a loser who is still falling for the same girl [21 F] for the past many years. I vowed to improve myself and move on, but now she is back in both person and my mind. POST: I'm going to try to keep it short and simple. Can't think straight. There was this girl who I found to be the most perfect girl I have ever met. But, she she didn't like me back. At first I thought I had a chance. Things were going great. I felt like I was on top of the world. Her friends gave hints that",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: So how do/did you handle stifling parents? POST: I am 19 and a college student, living under my parents' roof; but I live on campus during the semesters and come back on weekends to visit. My mother recently has really been cutting time with me seeing my boyfriend. Lately, due to her finding out something she didn't like, she's been ordering that he come to the house to visit and that, if we ever go out, I can never go to his house (basically the ""it only takes you 1.5 hours to eat at a",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by completely misunderstanding how paychecks work POST: I'm a little too laid back when it comes to monitoring my finances. Using direct deposit and automatic bill pay had gotten me to a point where I don't have to pay more attention to my account than checking it about once a week to make sure I have at least enough in my account to cover mortgage + bills. This worked fine for single 20 something bachelor me, but recently I started dating a girl that likes going out a lot so my spendin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Just scheduled therapy for myself (23F). Looked up my therapist, and she is a different ethnicity than I am. How do I get over this? POST: Throwaway because I'm embarrassed and ashamed. I scheduled an appointment for today, so I only have a few hours to get over this. I know this is ridiculous and not fair at all, but I am worried that because of our different races, I'm not going to be able to relate to her. I understand that a therapist is a therapist, and their similarities to yo",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: An Ego Boost like none other POST: so i have been in a bit of a rough patch in some ways. back in late april me and my SO of 5.5 years called it quits. well, tonight i got the ego boost that completely blew my mind. me and my new SO are relatively new together still, and we are ina bit more of an open and liberal relationship. we are also a bit kinky, and one of her kinks is competency in action. so, as we lay in bed after some fun times i tell her about someone else i met who i have an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with the male friend I rejected [26 M] 6 months ago, I miss him and cry him... POST: I knew a guy since I was 19yo, we met at college, we had a spark but I rejected him...we ended up being friends, he was awesome, I fell for him once but I rejected him afterwards (again)...He was a great guy, one of the guys I respected the most, I've been harsh with him...but he ended up coming back and treating me good after all the pain i caused him. Yes, I led him on, and when I saw hi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] friend [21F] has been really clingy lately and I don't know how to approach her about it. POST: Hi everyone, so there's this one friend I have and we are in the same sorority together - going to the same university. She is a year behind me in school, and I am planning on graduating this year while she has another year or so left. Note: I am pretty much her only friend, and she doesn't spend time or try to get to know anyone else in our sorority. Lately, she's been really att",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: M23 - advice on meeting new people POST: Hi, I'm a 23yo male who would like some advice on how to meet new people that could lead to a romantic relationship. Even though I have a nice group of friends, I feel the need to have someone to share a closer relationship. My experience is somewhat slim. My romantic relationships so far evolved from a previous friendship, and therefore the process of meeting someone new and start ""dating"" is unknown to me. In the last months, I have been t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (18M) of 2 months broke up with me (18F) over a girl (17F) he started liking 2 days ago. POST: Alright so, I've been seeing this guy for about two months now. We met over tinder, went on quite a few dates, handjobs and fingering but never had sex (he's a virgin and I'm not). I talked to him on thursday, and when we went to bed he didn't say 'I love you' when saying goodnight as he always does. Didn't contact me at all on friday Messaged me this morning (saturday) over f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] had a threesome with my two roommates/ best friends [20M&19F] I am scared how this effects our relationship going forward POST: Hi everyone my name is Alice, and I have known my two best friends Thorn (yes that is his actual name) and Chloe my whole life. We go to college together and we organised our own living arrangement, rather than living on campus. We all have 2 more years left of college and we live in a 3 bedroom apartment and we all have jobs. Thorn is studying to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend's well off sister F 23 is being financially taken advantage of by her Fiancé M 30 POST: I'll try to keep this short but last night after seeing Ant Man my girlfriend was venting to me about her sister's (23) fiancé (30) and she told me that because her sister has a well paying job and has a fair amount in savings that the fiancé has been asking for some time for her to help cover off some of his debt, from what I know his only debt right now is from a car loan that he got ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24/F] struggle with relationships of all kinds and fantasize about moving to a city where no one knows me and cutting ties with everyone. Is something wrong with me? POST: I've had difficulty maintaining or enjoying relationships with friends and family my entire life. Hanging out with friends feels like an uncomfortable chore I often prefer to avoid, and being around family feels like commitment I wish I didn't have. I can't say I feel ""love"" for any of these people, and I feel t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [31M] have trouble with hearing stories from my girlfriend [27F] about her exes and past dating experiences. Does anyone else have this problem? How do you get over it? POST: I have only been with her for two months but we've known each other for 8 years... So I basically got out of the friend zone. I love her very much and want to learn more and more about her. And so I encourage talks about the past. But i don't feel comfortable with information about her exes. It is a strange fe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] confused with my ex [21 M], still have feelings, but met someone new [25 M] POST: I had a whirlwind romance with my ""ex"" - we were never officially bf/gf but besides the title we were basically like a married couple, and he even lived with me for a short amount of time. This lasted for 7 months. It's the shortest relationship and yet the most personal (him living with me) type I've ever had. He quickly and quietly won my heart and we expressed our love for each other deep",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my best friend [23F]. I don't know how to console her bad depression/anxiety. POST: Throwaway for obvious reasons. I love my best friend. We are roommates and have been friends for years. She has been battling with bad depression and anxiety for years. She has already seen psychiatrists and psychologists about it, but does not prefer taking medication or going to see anyone because she feel as if it doesn't help. She has many good days, but when she has a bad day they a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Very weird situation with the girl I like, details inside POST: Ok so, there is a girl who I really like and we get along very well, she has agreed we would be good together as a couple. The thing is, she is my boss (not at some major corp or anything so it wouldn't ruin my career to date her) and she is bisexual with a girlfriend who doesn't treat her as good as she deserves (texting ex's while hanging out, ignoring her etc). They are kind of on again off again. Basically, I want to as",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by rejecting my wife's invitation into the hotel room and ended up driving home semi-blind. POST: Okay, I was attending her friends wedding dinner/banquet and she being one of the bridesmaid, we arrived hours earlier to help prepare and stuff. She's helping, not me. I only drove her there early. So seeing as there's time and the bridesmaid have a hotel room to themselves she invited me to the room like ""hey hey..."" I played it cool ""Nah, it's okay... Not much time left before you need",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I don't know what to do, I'm just really scared all the time. POST: I don't know what to do, I'm just really scared all the time. I'm an Indian girl (19) and I'm seeing this white guy (21) behind my parents' back. I know it's not right to do it, but I really like this guy and I just want to be happy. We like each other (not love or anything... yet...) and he's really patient with the whole strict Indian parents thing but I just feel awful putting him through this. I don't mean to mak",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I live a simple but happy life, but most of my family and friends tell me I should do more with my life. Should I be more motivated POST: Okay so here's my story, I am 25 years old still working on my bachelors degree, and I work at one of those fancy restaurants with the banquet department. I make enough money to support myself but with school i cant work that many hours to live a lavish lifestyle. I mainly spend my money on food, bills, discount cloths, and the only big purchases i mak",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] am in love with a girl [21F]. I'm stuck in a hard place... POST: Hey guys. I've been thinking on this for a while. Decided to come to reddit for help. A little background on me then her, for setting the scene. Feel free to ask anymore questions if you're curious. I am currently attending community college, never dated, never even had a kiss. We are both total nerds, and that's one of the reasons why I'm in love with her. She is attending college in-state and is a senior ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (25 M) I (23 F) Broke Up Over Alcohol *UPDATE* POST: Fast forward a few days later...All of my things are officially out and all he can say are things like ""You're losing more than I am, remember that, you'll realize it later"" ""Can't believe you're choosing materalistic things (alcohol) over your relationship"" ""Hell no I'm not upset you did this to yourself"" ""I deserve better, I'm not settling for less"" ""You think I'm going to care about someone that couldn't do what she",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is there any way I [29M] can find a late-in-life surrogate father or mentor? POST: I grew up alone, most of the time. We lived in a remote area. My mother was taking care of three children while working multiple jobs. I'm nine years younger than my older sister, and six years older than my younger sister. I've seen my father maybe four or five times in my life, and we have no relationship. My step-father through my childhood was a cross-country truck driver so I never saw him either.",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Safe but worthwhile investment for $3000 during two year masters program? [Canada] POST: I am about to enter into a masters program, which will provide me with some financial stability over the next 2 years. I want to invest a portion of my emergency fund accordingly. What would be a low maintenance way to stash $3000 for 2 years, with little or no liquidity required? I currently have a significant amount of student debt from my undergrad which will have interest deferred while I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: The girl [24F] I'm [25M] dating wants me to engage in her fetish. POST: Bear with me. I started dating this wonderful girl two months ago. We share very common interests; we love being around each other. When I first started dating her, she mentioned that she did have an odd fetish - I was thinking, ""OH, she's probably into BDSM or something like that."" She asked if I'd be willing to try it, and I, thinking that it wouldn't be too weird, said, ""Sure! But let's get to know each othe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19/F] had incestuous relations with my sister [24/F] when we were very young, can't seem to get over it. POST: This is kind of hard to talk about and explain, I don't want to get into much detail. I'm being truthful in what I say and I'm just looking for guidance. When I was about 7 years old, my sister (12 at the time) for some reason introduced me to the concept of masturbation. I do not want to get into much detail about what happened because it really is disgusting and hurts ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [22M]I'm hurt by [19F]girlfriend's decision to go on a vacation without me. POST: [22M]Me and my [19F] girlfriend have been going out for almost a year now, and we've had our ups and downs and rough spots. She's lied to me multiple times in the past and has left me with a little bit of a trust issue. Recently she's been given the offer by a high school friend of her's to go interstate for her friend's university's orientation, which I've had described to me as essentially a party wee",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my SO [36 M] for 4 years, I broke it off and i am wondering how to deal with the guilt/him trying to get me back. POST: We have been together for 4 years. We have lived together for 2 of those years and traveled for 1. He is currently overseas for work and has been gone for a few months and will be gone for a few more. I've had the feeling that this is not the right relationship for me for a while, but we have always had something planned in the near future and we have ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by rejecting a great guy on POF POST: So there I am on POF (a dating site), going through tons of messages when I come across one in particular. You can tell this guys message was well thought out and that he really wanted to start something. He said he really liked my dress I was wearing in one of my photos and that I was absolutely beautiful in it and then he started talking about a few common interests. Honestly this is a guy just from personality I'd probably want to spend my life ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Relationship struggles on my end [M20] [F20] POST: So I've been dating a girl on and off for about a year. Then we break up and get back together recently. It's been a few months and both of us met in college. To me she was an awesome friend and an awesome person - however I just always feel like we are more along the lines of... a convenient relationship and less of an important relationship. I don't know how to phrase it but it's more like... I guess there's life.... Jobs... Etc.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Yours truly [29m] and my live-in girlfriend of 1.5 years [29f] breaking up, not sure how to proceed POST: met 10 years ago, started dating almost a year and a half ago to the month. everything seemed to be fine, moved in together and started talking about a family and future. i love her. still do. bought the ring, planned the wedding at the ranch my parents live on. Caught her once talking to a guy about going for the weekend, settled it like adults but the last month shes been ve",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my ex [26 F] together 2.5 yrs, have been broken up for almost 2 years. She keeps sending e-mails and messages, what should I do? POST: So almost 2 years ago I ended the longest term relationship of my life with. Very difficult breakup, I was her first kiss, first boyfriend, all that. For months I would receive nasty texts, always with an apology between 6-24 hours later. Sometimes it would be begging to get back together, sometimes about how awful I was, but went on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 F] with my Husband [27 M] married 5 years getting a divorce: How can I get over this relationship even though it makes logical sense to end it and I don't blame him? POST: Long story short - we got married young and grew apart over the years. He's extremely driven/ambitious/successful, while I've been slowly working on my career because I put mostly everything aside to try to make him happy. I don't want to get into the specifics as to why we're not right for each other, but",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I am dating my friends ex-girlfriend (barely) Am I in the wrong? POST: We both met her at the same time last February of 2011. I was interested but drug my feet. Over the summer he asked if he could make and I said sure. They dated for a month then he ignored her for three weeks and broke up with her. This was in August of 2011. I wasn't in a place to date anyone so once again I just mildly flirted with her. They hung out for a bit again in late December, but yet again he did the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my boyfriend [23 M] of a year and a half, why does he hide our relationship but doesn't admit hiding it? POST: My bf of a year and a half never seems willing to let anyone know I exist. He told his parents and his brother after a year and 2 months being together and it was only because I let him know repeatedly that it was important to me. Today his parents asked him why he hadn't already told his grandparents who have asked him flat out if he was seeing anyone to whic",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need advice: My newspaper is going under. What can I do to save it? POST: I've always known reddit to be a cornucopia of experience and knowledge, so I'm hoping that the great minds of reddit can help me come up with a gameplan. I'm fresh out of college, and I was recently hired on in a small town newspaper as the editor-in-chief. I was ecstatic, as I never thought I'd get such a job in my field at such a young age. However, I'm three weeks in and I've started to get a feel for the f",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22 m] dont know what to do with [21 f] gf POST: well she is currently in australia for study abroad and we have been going thru some trust issues. some background stuff is that she has kind of hurt me in the past when she goes out and gets drunk so I am kind of cautious when she does it over there without me. so recently in our latest fiasco it comes out that the night she was grinding and dancing with dudes in a club she ended up kissing one of them and never told me. how I",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (24/m) My Girlfriend (23/F) will not stop angrily arguing with me. POST: Ok. We have been together for 1 and a half years now. Everything is peachy keen besides disagreements... I know I have faults in the matter too, but this issue threatens to destroy our relationship, as I cannot take it anymore. When she gets angry, or feels pushed into a corner by me, her immediate reaction is to get irrationally angry and win the argument at all cost. She will go as far as to accuse me of",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 F] have feelings for my friend [30 M] of 4 years that I have a complicated history with. POST: I have a friend that I'm attracted to, and we've been good friends for years. When we first met, I was just a friend but he had feelings for me. I only found out when he kissed me spontaneously. I was in an complicated relationship at the time. He stopped talking to me after we talked that it's not going to happen. We didn't talk for awhile but we returned to being friends. We even h",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are Reddit's views on the social justice aspect of drug consumption? POST: I'm not asking whether y'all think drugs or ""good"" or ""bad"" or talking about stories of people on PCP killing and eating other people, I'm talking specifically here about questions about where the drugs we in the United States consume come from. Like, I've heard that selling drugs in the United States, for example, is a $30 billion industry and is responsible for the chaos taking place in Mexico right now, a",negative " r/running TITLE: Questions about shoes and insoles POST: I have been running on and off for about a year. I am not very knowledgeable about running or the human anatomy, so please bear with me. Last year, I started running with terrible old shoes and quickly realized I needed to replace them (mild plantar fasciitis, shin splits, among other problems). I went to a local running store and they diagnosed me as a pronator and recommend a pair of shoes. The shoes instantly helped with running pain. Fastforward",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[27F] don't know how to feel about my boyfriend[25M] of 2.5 years hanging out with a girl he had feelings for. POST: We've been together for 2.5 years, and are currently doing a long distance relationship because of school. The distance will be closed in a couple of months. He has girlfriends at his grad school, which I don't mind. I trust him, but I feel uncomfortable about the situation with one girl in particular. We were broken up for about 6 months, but still kept in contac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my fiancee [28F], have a disagreement on guns and our respective points of view. POST: I grew up in the good ol US of A and weapons are a part of my cultural up bringing. I started handling weapons when i was about 5 years old. My mom and dad took pictures of me with BB guns and small pistols shooting beer cans. And in the future when my fiancee and I have children, I want to be able to teach them about weapon safety and to respect weapons and that they are not toys lik",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [19F] having a hard time forgetting about my SO [18M] and I's fight, where he said he no longer wanted me. POST: So, about a month or so ago my boyfriend and I had gotten into the biggest argument we had ever been in before. We've been together about a year and 3/4 months now. We had been having problems before then, but we had talked them out thoroughly (well, from what I thought) and then we were having a bit of a rough night, we got to talking intensely and I can't exactly rem",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Curious as to what these texts mean and how to go about my situation POST: So I met this absolutely beautiful and awesome girl on OKcupid almost a month ago from now. We chatted for a week before finally hanging out at an open indoor volleyball court get together as our first hangout. We played for 4 hours and she clearly must have liked me enough on the first impression to agree 5 days later to go out on a date with me. The date was amazing, we spent all day together, had breakfast",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my SO [19M] of 6 months, I've lied to him about my ethnicity. POST: Longtime lurker, first time posting. I'll try to keep this as short as possible. I am 3/4 Persian and 1/4 Russian. I moved to Europe when I was 12. Once I moved, people told me I looked asian and me being the idiot I was, I told everyone I was 1/2 Persian and 1/4 Japanese and Russian respectively. This stuck with me ever since and I've always been scared to come clean. For the record, I am in no way",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] spent a night round my friends [21F] who I have a thing for after a party only to be kicked out in the early morning POST: So when ever I see this girl out we always get on pretty well and I feel like there might be something there but then other times I really can't tell. At this party on Friday we were talking quite a lot and from her body language it seemed as if she was quite into me. Anyway forward to late into the night and I was pretty drunk at this point and she of",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my friend [21 F] 3 weeks, confused about boundaries on sex. POST: I met a girl on Tinder 3 weeks ago. We hit it off really well and I stayed at her place the first night we went out. We didn't get physical. Since then, we've spent the night at each other's places at least 7 times. I took her out on valentines day. We hadn't been seeing each other long, but it felt right so we had dinner and went to a show. One night, she gave me a blowjob in my office at work. Some ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I be concerned about the non-existent relationship between me [26 F] and my mother [54 F] POST: My parents broke up when I still a baby, and my mother left me to be raised by my father and his parents and family. I had a very happy childhood and honestly, never felt like anything was missing. My father's family would tell me stories about my mother and her family, and everything they told me portrayed her in a good light. So it's not like I grew to dislike her or anything. She",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [36/m] cheated on my girlfriend (27/f), how do I proof that she really is the one for me? POST: 7 weeks ago I kissed another girl. I told her last week. Waaaay too late. I know that. We said we'd be honest. I couldn't, I was afraid she'd leave me. I really love my girlfriend and don't want to lose her, but she says the trust and respect is gone. I understand that. But no matter what I say now, it's all bad, I can't do anything right in her eyes. How do I proof that i won't ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my ex-bf [29 M] 4 years, financially supported him for years, now he has a job he is sleeping around. So hurt and confused, why do people do this? POST: Hi reddit, I am in a world of pain and some perspective would be nice and how to talk to him. D and I have been together for almost 4 years. What started out as a lovely relationship and a lovely bf really changed over the years. He lost his job half a year into his relationship and I've been financially supporting hi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are there any foods that you just refuse to eat even though you know you would probably like them? Do you have a reason for why? POST: When i was a kid at Mcdonalds i started of course with the kids meal, but once I was man enough i moved on up to the quarter pounder I quickly made it my burger of choice. My final form took place while i was probably in the 3rd or 4th grade when I started eating the DOUBLE QUARTER POUNDERS. Then, when I was in the 5th grade after putting down the doub",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: What Credit Card Should I Apply For? POST: So, I'm a 21 year old college student, and will be graduating(hopefully) by the end of next summer with a Bachelor's and a Master, because of a linked program thing I'm doing. Not super relevant, but an idea of my current situation. I live in an apartment with my boyfriend, and we have a lease until next August. I currently work as an unpaid intern, and also have a part time job that nets me ~ $270 every two weeks, that will probably end w",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I regret leaving my girlfriend POST: Just for clarification, this is thoughts I have and I have trouble sharing things with people verbally, and just in general. So this is basically the only place I will have shared it. The girl I dated from around november to may, she was a beautiful chinese girl, I was 17 at the time, and she was 14. She was absolutely perfect for me, we got along perfectly. We were about an hour and 15 minutes apart and my car couldnt make it that far because it wa",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [19m] Had sex with my ex gf's mom [40-ish F] POST: i just finished my first year of college and started working back home as a lifeguard. i ran into my ex's mom at the pool the other day and she was asking me about school and stuff. just so you know, this isn't some troll posting, she's not some super hot mom, she's just an ordinary woman in her 40s, big hips, saggy chest, big hair, probably a 4-5 on a scale of 10. Anyways, i didn't see her for a few days and then the other night aft",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Getting out of Friendzone 26(m) POST: About a month ago I was going to go on a date with a girl and immediately before the date started one of my friends was having a nervous breakdown and I started the date off by asking if she would mind other people coming along. She said no. I then had to cut the date short and thereafter girl didn't want to date or talk or whatever. After a month I got her to go on a date that was really awesome and she seemed to like it a lot and it was a go",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [28M] won't give me (28/F) a copy of his housekey. Does this mean we're not serious? POST: My BF and I have been dating for 3 years, we actually met out while partying one night through mutual friends. We are very compatible in a lot of ways, we have both made tremendous strides in personal development and we have been stable and happy and our relationship has really blossomed because of our more open communication. However, one thing that worries me is that he won't give m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Three years after a breakup, an ex[22M] posts nude photos of me[22F] online. Torn as to what to do. Please, Help! POST: Three years after a rather ugly breakup, my ex contacted me with a ""hey, what's up!"" I basically said, ""please leave me alone. For forever."" And cue photos. I'm still, and (understandably) will always be angry with him. He was my first love, he cheated on me, broke my heart, and tried to move away on whim without fixing things between us during a point where",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Morally Questionable Animal Neglect Situation POST: Hi there, So my husband and I live in a house we moved into a little over a year ago. We have spent a lot of time making renovations and have adopted two dogs of our own-- it really feels like a home. We have been spending a lot of time on our back patio the past few months and have taken notice to out backside neighbor's new puppy. However, before I discuss more about this dog, let me provide a little background info. In the fall of ",positive " r/dogs TITLE: Muzzle? Need advice... POST: Hello Dog People. I need some advice... Today, while walking my dog (treeing walker coonhound/beagle), we came across another guy out walking his dog. We crossed to the other side of the street since my dog barks at everything (other dogs, cats, scooters, deer). This guy's dog had a leash on him, but he guy wasn't holding onto it, and consequently, this medium sized dog came barrelassing towards us. My dog was probably twice his size, but teeth are teeth, and t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by wanting to have clone babies POST: This actually happened to me just now. I live in a town a few hours away from my wife for work reasons, so I don't get to come home on weekdays. Normally I drive down to see her on Saturday, then leave again very early Monday morning to get to work on time. That's been our routine for half a year now. So I get home a bit after noon, we have a late lunch, we have dinner, we're relaxing and having fun, everything is going well. We sat down on the cou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How should I [26M] approach my sister[18] which is in puberty. Having really hard time communicating with her POST: Hello, I could really use some advice Reddit. I have younger sister which is in that specific period of her life where she thinks she's smartest kid in the world, that she can do all by her self and doesn't appreciate anyone's good deed. She'll do anything to get what she wants and after that she forgets on all stuff that we did for her. Now I'm really sorry for my p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28F] with my husband [28 M] 10 years together, married 3, would rather spend time with friend than me POST: My husband and I were best friends. Great life in every respect despite his problems with diagnosed depression and anxiety. He became close friends with a friend very quickly and within a few short months came out of his shell and became the man I use to know. This all happened about 7 months ago. I like the guy and he can be great fun, but he is just too much to handle so",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] Want to ask her [21F] where this ""relationship"" is going. Worried I'll ruin it. POST: Bit of background: Went on a date with a girl I went to college with. Hadn't seen her in a few years so we decided we'd meet up after messaging on Facebook daily for a few weeks. She is only coming out of a different relationship so I'm not sure what she wants. The date went really well, we both agreed to do it again (she text me first telling me). We haven't talked much in recent days which",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Fell for a close friend, she didn't feel the same. Now she's got a boyfriend, but I'm still crazy about her. POST: I'm M, 15 and she is 16. The two of us have managed to get really close over the past 7 months. I thought we shared so much in common, sense of humor, interests, taste in various things, etc. Asked her out, but she gave me a maybe. Few weeks later, she mentioned about how she couldn't see the two of us dating. The next morning, I see on Facebook that she's dating a",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: Impressed the doctors with my low heart rate thanks to my new healthy lifestyle. Thank you r/GetMotivated for keeping me on course! POST: In May of 2011 I decided it was time to start losing weight. Due to multiple knee surgeries when I was younger I had developed a very lethargic lifestyle and needed to makes some changes. So I subscribed to this sub and started running 3 times a week. I started small and with a goal of a 10 min mile. Slowly over the past year+ I have been adding to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my ""friend"" [23 F] she's talking to her former FWB [2? M] behind her boyfriend's [27 m] back. I'm confused. POST: My friend, ""Sam"", was talking to me about how her former FWB and lover were talking together again about a month ago (possibly even sooner). Her boyfriend however found out and was a bit upset with her. She was telling me that he was upset and that he doesn't trust him being around her. Sad part of all this is that, she's openly admitted to be cheating on h",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU twice at my new job POST: So I just started my new job last week. I will be taking over one of my team member's jobs and so I am trying to learn his responsibilities. I was there for 3 days before he left on vacation for 3 weeks so there's a nice load of stress. Anyway I come into the the office and my other team member makes a comment about how if I was a little more trained he'd be on a plane to Venezuela right now. I laugh out loud and say ""Haha yeah!"" thinking he was referring to goi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 M] just had a fight with my father [53 M] who keeps pushing me POST: My father has been staying with me for a while now after having some very bad luck in his life. I've helped him get back in his feet and he is planning to have his own place by early next year. This morning he kept making sly digs at me, commenting on my lifestyle choices, badmouthing my mother. He really knows how to push my buttons. Anyway, I didn't react. The next thing I watch this motherfucker pour his c",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I'm not happy with my my job, can I get some outside prospective? POST: Hello! I'm in need of some advice! I started this job about a year ago thinking it would be a nice place to work while I was working on my degree. It was great at first, just simple data entry and scheduling stuff, but then my coworkers started to quit. It's a really small company, so every loss is felt through out the entire staff. Anyway, as time went on my manager piled more and more responsibilities on my shoulder",negative " r/jobs TITLE: what is the protocol for requesting off for a pre-scheduled doctor's appointment? POST: Working with this staffing agency, (for a specific job field so it's a little unusual) they finally found me a position at an amazing company after 3 months of crying I have no job and no money after graduating. They said they loved my stuff and even though I was kinda under-qualified, I was better than more experienced people. I almost cried. Phone interview tomorrow, and my staffing recruiter said it i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my ""girlfriend"" [19 F], how do I know when I'm ready to make the leap from friends to relationship? POST: Hi, I'm talking to a girl right now, and we both like each other. That's been established. We like each other, but we're not ""crazy"" about each other. We enjoy each other's company, but we're not head over heels. I'm having trouble deciding if I should keep talking to her until I know that I have really strong feelings for her, or if I should just ask her to be m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my boyfriend[31M] of two years, has let himself go, not sure what to do. POST: I have been together with my boyfriend for about 2 and a half years, everything is okay in our relationship generally. We started out as long distance, but now have lived together for about a year. When we first met he was very attractive to me, he was not muscular or anything but he was normal weight. He was so handsome. Then we had a period of long distance relationship and he started ga",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [17 M] feeling overwhelmed because of personal issues, and my girlfriend [16 F] is making it worse POST: Hey, guys. I've been going through a lot lately, and it's starting to get to me. The biggest thing on my mind right now is that my best friend [15F, if relevant] might have cancer; she needs chemotherapy and it's horrible to watch her struggle. I'm doing my best to be there for her and do what I can, but it's hard. I feel selfish saying it, but it's hard to cope. I don't want",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [34 M] with my __commonlaw_ [33F] of 3 years, always spends 3-4 days in abject grumpy ness being entirely dispondent after a disagreement if any kind. POST: So I know from general observation of other peoples relationships and the standard line that ""men always end up apologizing"", but I am wondering if my girlfriends standoff-ish behavior is normal. Basically, anytime we have a disagreement she will spend the following few days being totally despondent and generally unpleasan",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23] feel good about disappointing expectations I held about an old friend [22] ? POST: I had a codependent relationship with a friend of mine where I was either enabling or being too patronizing of their self-abusive behavior at any given time. It ended in a mess, with me deciding to deal with the damage by accepting all the blame for the relationship due to my weak sense of self by believing all the things she called me (a self-inflicted setback which has kept me in therapy for ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by facing my fears POST: This FU happened today as the title suggests. A little background info, I have a massive phobia of jellyfish, which I thought I had cured by swimming in jellyfish infested waters, luckily I wasn't stung. Let the FU begin. I am vacationing currently in Ibiza, more specifically near San Jaun. I went down to the beach this morning, with snorkel equipment, to swim to a small sea-cave located 200m or so from the beach. To get there you swim through a reef and have t",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: New to /r/pettyrevenge, but I think I've got something worth posting. POST: I am an office manager of a small business and have 3 women that work for me. We all work together in a small office and everything is always running smoothly without any issues with each other. Out of no where one of women is upset with me for something she *thinks* I said about her to a customer. Obviously I wouldn't bad mouth any of my employees to our customers, or to anyone in general as I like to keep a ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I don't know what to do (M18) POST: So I went to Europe for a school trip (even though I'm graduated) about 3 weeks ago, and, long story short, ended up talking and hanging out with a girl from another school's group. We became friends (though at one drunken party, we made out) and we talked about going to the Sara Bareilles tour here in Washington. Another girl, her best friend, was supposed to go, but ended up canceling. Anyway, I drive up a little over an hour to pick her up",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Can't tell if he's actually interested POST: I met a guy from OKC somewhere around 2 weeks ago. [He's 24, I'm 21.] He had told me during our outing - which seemed like it went really well - that he hadn't ever spent time with a girl from that site more than once because nothing ever worked out. But by the end of the evening, he was repeatedly checking to see if I was free the next night. He insisted he wanted to hang out again the next day. Now, reaching each other is difficult, beca",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [31M] is mad at me [24F] for having a male partner at work and is telling me I need to request a change for our relationship to work. POST: My job requires me to have a partner. We are on the road a lot, and sometimes fly to different locations, but never for longer than a week. Back in March my partner (that I had had for the last two years, and the entire time my boyfriend and I have been together) got pregnant and requested to be changed to a non-travel position. So I",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: the male dilemma: monogamy or promiscuity? POST: Hi, I am in a relationship with a girl who I care dearly about. I would never want to hurt her, and if I did, I'd be devastated. I find her very attractive and we share a sense of humor. There are certain things we don't match up on, but overall we fit great. I could see myself being with her for the long haul. HOWEVER, I am VERY conscious of other attractive women. I have a VERY strong urge to have sexual adventures with new an",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Help a fat kid r/LoseIt POST: As far as I remember I have been fat. When I was in middle school I always wore hoodies and baggy jeans, no matter what the weather was. I wore them so consistently that when one day I decided to take one off my classmates wouldn't stop talking about it, prompting my teacher to think I had something illegal (bomb, drugs, etc.) and checked my locker after I put my hoodie away. When I hit high school I grew and slimmed down a bit, but I was still overweight. Fas",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I need advice with a girl who's giving me mixed signals. POST: Hey /RA i could use your help with a girl ""situation"" I suppose you could call it. I'm 17 year old male, she's the same age, and not at all the girl that I thought that I would end up liking. I'm about 6'4"" and 280 she's about 5'2"" and maybe 110. I've never had a single girlfriend, never kissed a girl or even been out on a date. She's more experienced in the dating scene, but that doesn't bother or worry me. I've ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm looking for a web designer and Craigslist seems skeevy. POST: Hey, I need some advice! I'm looking for someone to build an OSCommerce website, and I'm having a hard time finding someone that I feel I can trust. I tried a local university, as I know some people there, and the one guy I found wants too little for the project, and was trying to get me to use software that I am not comfortable with (Yahoo, and Paypal). I met a guy from a company, who was wearing too nice suit, and tel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] Her [25F] Met on OKCupid, 1st date was great, second I thought was great but apparently not. I don't know what I did wrong. POST: So as I said I'm positive she enjoyed the 1st date because she was very excited and looking forward to going on the 2nd date. 2nd Date was 5 hours long at an outdoor bar by the beach with sand and water and activities. We ate, drank, played paddle ball and cornhole, went in the water, and layed out to tan. The conversation flowed nicely, never",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [28/f] MIL [52/f] has been feeling excluded since I got pregnant but won't talk about it POST: I'm pregnant with my first and am due in two weeks. This will be my mother-in-law's first grandchild.   As far as I know, she has always been a bit emotional, but otherwise rational. My husband and I never had any problems with her until I got pregnant. She is very happy about the baby, but is now making everything about her and uses everything we say and do in our lives as ""proof"" we",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by cheering for the wrong football player in a predominantly black bar POST: This fuck up happened last year but for some reason I didn't think to post it until today. It was a big fantasy football week for me, and I was all set to win my game so long as James Starks, the Packers running back, didn't score a touchdown. I was watching the game at my favorite bar, which is deep in Brooklyn. I'm a 6'3"" pale-ass ginger (Think of that rice paper stuff they make Thai spring rolls out of), and",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being right. POST: My wife and I were looking all over for one of our favorite pitchers after a big move yesterday and couldn't find it. I mentioned that it had to be in the top of one of the boxes because it was glass and I wouldn't have piled things on top of it. She said ""no its definitely plastic, sweetie"" and we went back and forth. Cut to an hour later I had found the pitcher and was SURE it was glass. I called her down into the basement and said ""Honey, it's absolutely glass, n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I know if my [21 M] first date with [19 F] went well? POST: So it seemed like we had a good time on our first date, we had plans and they fell through due to weather. But we went on a walk and then headed back to my place and just talked on my bed for 3+ hours. I've never really just talked on a first date that much but it was a lot of fun, she was really cool it and seemed like we were hitting it off. Things ended a little awkwardly though, I drove her to her place and there'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my guy I'm seeing [25 M] 1 month. Making comments about girls on tv? POST: We've been dating for about a month or two. He is big into fitness, works at a gym however he is quite thick…6'4 240 lbs..a nice mixture of body fat and muscle. I am 5'6 140, used to be 170+ but lost it. Still come ways to go.. Anyways we are eating pizza and garlic fingers (he had 3 i had 1) and this really hot in shape girl came on tv, all he said was ""She's fit!"" and went back to eating/his p",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (M26) was unfaithful to my GF(26) of 2+ years-- recently came clean... POST: It took about 1.5 months for me to come clean about a short lived fling with a toxic woman, but I finally did it. I don't need the internets to tell me I am a bastard and that I did something wrong... because I know that and willingly admit it. My struggle is this: I know that if I didn't tell her we probably could have lived a happy life together, al beit with my own inner struggle that would prob",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where Do I Live? POST: Okay so for the information, I'm 18 and currently live with my mum, mum and dad been separated for 5 years now and are still on good terms (still friends). As of late I have decided that university was not for me even though I got good grades all throughout high school and so on, I just was not enjoying university. Ever since then my mum has been a total BITCH. She is clearly unsupportive of my decision and claims it wasn't mine to make (whereas Dad said that he'd ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16M] and my potential interest [16F] are having communication issues POST: Update: Hi, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to put this. If so, please redirect me. I know I am young and inexperienced, but for the last year I have been attracted to a girl that attends the same school as I do. At one point a few months ago, we were dating, but then it broke off after she got depression. She barely came out of her room, so we kept in contact sometimes via texting. As time went ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] her [18 F] Were close friends for a year and a half. Haven't spoken for a year. POST: Quick backstory, I used to be extremely close with a girl that I had feelings for she told me she shared the same feelings but didn't want to date me because she didn't want to kill our friendship :( (friend zoned lol).we haven't spoken in about a year and the other day we arranged to meet up and see how each other are going. Anyway my question is how do I go about being around her without",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23/M] girlfriend [20/F] told me we need to ""take a break"". Does she want to break up with me completely? Is there a way to win her back? POST: So my girlfriend [20/F] and I [23/M] have been dating for around 4 months and last night she texted me to say that we should ""take a break"". Does this flat out mean it is over? Or is there a chance to win her back? She said that she felt I didn't care about her and that my jokes were hurting her feelings. I have a sarcastic sense of hum",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] ""swallowed"" the red pill. Now I love my current gf [24f] - how do I stop without ruining our relationship? POST: My gf and I have been dating for 8 months. Its been great. The only ""problem"" is, I treat her like nothing special. I don't do anything for her, Ignore her most of the time, etc. That's how I've treated my last few relationships, and that has worked for me. But I don't know if she will like me if I return to my ""nice guy"" self that I was in high school. For what",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(30m) am not sure we'd have a good future with her(28f) because of our vastly varied interests. POST: We have been seeing each other since last 4 months. I like her a lot and she loves me. This has been the closest relationship I've had among others(emotionally and physically). Among other relationships, I used to be in love with the girl, here I do not have that feeling(yet). So we've keep seeing each other. She thinks that we'd have a good relationship together, but I doubt becaus",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Take my spot? Have a guilt trip. POST: My mom and I dropped my brother off at a rest stop to go to a bathroom, and a car in a spot literally next to our car - not in front of, but directly to the right of our car - was just about to leave. Naturally, as you would with New Jersey parking etiquette, we put our blinker on to indicate that we wanted the spot. As we went to back up, a car (from New York, to add to the grudge to be had) pulled up behind us and blocked us from being able ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[26M] dating a girl [26F] for about a month. Is she's taking me for a ride? POST: It's my first time dating. Through circumstances, she got to know that I never kissed a girl before. This seems to have changed things and I feel like even though I'm giving her high priority, she's keeping me on the back burner. She even tells me about her plans with friends and then tells me that we can't meet up. Is asking to see her twice in a 4 day period too much? when she's telling me exactly w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Gut feelings about partner's roommate POST: My (30F) SO (38M) of over 1.5 years are in a rough patch. He's a very good person but not always a good bf. He does things that are really thoughtless sometimes and doesn't take accountability for them. While we are trying to fix our issues, there are some factors that make me think it's hopeless. Case in point: he lives with some other people. I think their existence in his life contribute to our problems. But he isn't interested in leavi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being horrendously hungover POST: Yesterday I was hungover to fuck. So to sort this issue, I thought I'd order in some Chinese food. I like quite spicy food so whenever I tend to order it in it's got something hella spicy in there. As most of you will know, eating food when you are hungover goes one of two ways - it either makes you feel great, or it makes you feel like total shit. Unfortunately for me, it was the latter. About 10 minutes devouring my spicy Chinese I could feel m",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Undergraduate student looking for advice POST: Hello, I'm a junior at a university in Virginia completing an international affairs (focus on the middle east w/ arabic) and political science double major, with a couple of free minors that come along with the classes I take. I went to community college and high school at the same time so I came in with around 50 credits as a freshman. Sadly I wasted a year trying my best to major in computer science but I couldn't wrap my head ar",negative " r/self TITLE: Dear All, POST: Tonight I was at work (I work for an ambulance corps) and we were waiting for calls to come in. Usually we watch some stupid TV shows to pass the time. Tonight we watched ""It's a Wonderful Life"". I've been severely depressed for over a year now, and that movie, though I've seen it before, really changed the way I see things. It sounds lame, but it's true. All of a sudden I feel different. Please watch it, even if you have already seen it. It just makes you realize how truly bl",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: Employer is screwing me POST: Throwaway account. Ok, here's the story: Took a job at a cell phone store, full-time, salaried, not only to work at the store but to do Chamber Of Commerce and networking events. Had hours cut to 30, moved to hourly pay. Then cut to 20. Stayed on so I could go back to full time when things got better (they haven't). Had to get cut again to 10 or so, so made a major lifestyle change and started staying home with the kids four days a week. My wife has ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my friend [26 M]. Recently broke-up after 4yrs. Started haging out with a friend but I think he likes me more than I like him POST: Bf (26) and I broke up after 4 years. He was my first, and I was his. I loved him, and I think I still do. We broke-up because he lost his feelings for me. It wasn't the same for a long time and I know it was the only option left. We tried working it out but it just did not feel the same as it used to. The break-up broke my heart and I fe",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: 22/f trying to figure out what money to put where POST: Hi! New to this sub (on an anon acct because my normal acct is linked to some stuff posted here for work) and am looking for a bit of advice coming from somebody who knows little to nothing about finance. ++ Goals for the year are to save more, and learn to save better, setting up a good system for what needs to go where each paycheck. Also considering going to grad school within the next 2 or so years, so will need to save ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (24F)'s family has had a huge drug problem both in the past and present, my boyfriend (24M) did a hard drug while on vacation...I need help POST: Hey so, I'm on mobile so I'm going to keep this short. Last night we were a bit tipsy and telling each other the truth about any lie we've told. I told him I lied about how many people I had been with and he was fine, if not a bit hurt that I had lied. Then he dropped the ""well, I did cocaine while on vacation in June...."" I asked h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] with my girlfriend [23F] 2 years, long distance, taking a break, should we get back together? POST: My girlfriend of 2 years and I recently broke up (a few weeks ago), or we're on a break at least. The principal reasons were that we were/are in a long distance relationship and I was prioritizing my career (we are both in very demanding graduate school careers), and really couldn't promise where I could get a job on graduation. But she is everything to me, one of my best fri",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By telling my sister the truth about Cats POST: Starting this off, if you're a cat lover and don't want to hate me. Please don't read any lower, I don't want to ruin any more peoples day. How it started is she used retard as an insult and I tried to explain to her why that wasn't the best thing to do. She may of just been tired but she just didn't get it and it made me a bit mad. So when she came into the kitchen holding her cat. I decided to get a bit of revenge. I started telling her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (26M) keeps lying about his ex. It's upsetting me (26F). POST: Everything in our relationship is good bar this one icky topic. Been together only 6 months. He is friends with his ex (they went for about a year and broke up a while ago, and it was about a year later that he met me), which is fine; I'm friends with most of my exes too. But for some reason, he keeps lying about when he is hanging out with her, as if he wants me to believe she does not exist. Recently he said",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: So I (19m) Just got played by her (19f). What should I do? POST: So me and this chick had plans to watch a movie tonight at my place. She said she has a lot of homework to do and would let me know when she would be free to come over. She texts me at around 6 saying ""Hey, I'm almost done with my HW :)"" I reply with ""Cool, im not home right now, but I will be soon."" I did not receive a reply back from her and later found out through snapchat that she went out with her friends. I'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 28M getting mixed signals from 23F POST: Me 28M, her 23F I have been talking to this girl for a little over a month everyday. We have hung out 1 on 1 numerous times when she comes back home to visit. Yesterday we had a moment in which we kissed each other on the cheek at the same time. She has opened up and became more comfortable and flirtatious with me. We are going to travel next week with a couple of friends, and I told her I would spend one day in which we go on a real date, sh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Trust issues? Fear he might cheat on me, don't know if I'm just insecure. POST: him 22m, me 22f. Dating 13 months. Found out that he sexted (or was sexted by) another girl 4 months into our relationship (September) and I found this out on my own 4 months after that (January) when I was a piece of crap and snooped through his email (he left it open and I went through old chats because I was bored and curious). I admitted to it all and we talked it out and I was more upset about how he",negative " r/running TITLE: Sore knees advice POST: I recently started running again to prepare for a police physical exam. I have to run 1.5 miles. I few nights ago, I timed myself and did it in about 14 minutes... but I tripped on curb and messed up something in my knees. Its a light dull aching pain at the top of my shin/below knee cap and inside the joint. I can mostly feel it after standing for a while, going down stairs, jumping, and jogging. Nothing is swollen or hurts to touch. I am flying out of state to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my gf [21 /F] of 1 year, broke up three weeks ago, now she's on a dating site. I feel like shit even though I'm doing the same. POST: Four weeks ago, me [21M] and my bisexual ex [21F] parted ways. The reason was that she didn't love me enough anymore, which was at least partly due to her beginning to desire women over men. I thought I was already well on my way in healing from the breakup. Today however, I found her dating profile. She's looking for women. The whole ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF (26)of a year went through my (26)phone AGAIN! POST: This is the third, maybe fourth time this happened. The first time we were in a rocky and early stage of our relationship. She saw a txt message conversation I had with a family friend of mine and i told this woman i loved her and i do. She takes care of my mother and is ALWAYS there for me. She saw this and thought I had another relationship etc... She also saw some old FB messages of when i hung out with a woman friend of m",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm dissapointed in my parents POST: I ofcourse feel bad about this, but i have reason to feel like they let me down. I want to start by saying that they weren't physically abusive. But the older i get the more i realise how they raised me was not at all about preparing me for the real world, but about having a ""nice kid"" that doesn't cause adults any difficulty and is very cooperative so people would tell them he's such a nice boy. I was being a selfish asshole when i told them i was ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: 1st SV: Got to Onederland....without realising! POST: This story starts with a visit to the doctor, i had some complaints about my Aunt Flo (TMI) and some major major weight gain, to say i was a blubbering mess doesn't even begin to describe how i behaved at that appointment. My doctor was sympathetic but ultimately unhelpful, told me to significantly lower my caloric intake, even though i was already eating 2 small meals a day, he also weighed me just for the record and i was a whopping 10",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19m] asked out a girl [19f], never heard back from her. How long should I wait to ask another girl out? POST: Sorry about the strange title, didn't know how to word it properly. The past few weeks I've developed crushes on two girls. They both were sending me signals that they were into me, and I figured I'd ask one of them out when the opportunity presented itself. So two weeks ago I asked Girl A out because the moment just felt right. She and I texted back and forth about s",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I have fallen really hard for my best female friend, what do I do/should I tell her? POST: Exactly what the title says. I have been friends with this wonderful girl for the past 3-4 years. I am male, she is female. We are both in our early 20's. While in college, we were as close as could be. We hung out everyday, would study together, basically would do whatever as long as we were together. I met her and got to know her basically when my friend at the time started dating her. Whe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] don't know how to make my long-term casual guy[21M] of just under a year happier POST: Throwaway here, as I think he knows my actual username. We have been seeing each other pretty seriously, but also non-exclusively for nearly a year now. It's always been very casual and fun and we are both free to see other people at anytime. Neither of us get jealous. Due to circumstance and not choice, we are living together, as I hit a few life snags and had nowhere else to go. He tol",negative " r/travel TITLE: Buying a leather jacket in florence italy. Not as straight forward as you think. POST: Florence is famous for its leather. At least thats what I discovered when we went there on a familly vacation in 2009. I was too young for a leather jacket to be cool or necessary but my father was insistent on finding the an absolutely exquisite one for himself. So off we go. After 10 leather shops it becomes clear that something isn't quite right. My father is Mr. Impulse Buy. We hit the 25 store ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend (16 F) whom I am very much romantically interested in has asked me (16 M) to a dance. But it's a little but more complicated than that. POST: As I was walking back to class from the lunch room today, talking to my friends, I hear a name called forth. ""SEAN! SEAN!"" That's me! The voices were of two friends of mine, Kremson and Liv. They were walking beside my friend Catherine, who was smiling, laughing, and looking just a little bit embarrassed. Kremson says,""Sean, Catherine",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24M] current relationship [23F] is getting poisoned by my hang ups with my last relationship POST: Back in April '13, my fiance with whom I had dated for 5 years and planned my life around dumped me and abandoned her dog through the art of facebook message. Since then, I've been able to step back and appreciate that she was not a good person, at all. For me at least. Since then, I've started dating this great girl that I've had a crush on since 2003 (that's ridiculously long ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: It's been two years since I [21 M] and my now-ex-girlfriend [20 F] broke up. Since then I've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and haven't made any progress with regards to moving on. Advice? POST: For 20 months my ex-girlfriend and I were together. We moved to another city to attend college together at a prestigious university. One month into our first semester she broke things off with me, claiming she wanted to experience life while she was still young (to live the ""college lif",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28M/]with my girlfriend[32F] of 5 months. Am I being too pushy ? POST: hey guys so my current situation is as follows Im in a relationship with this girl and I do care about her and up to this point I thought the feeling was mutuall. Lately we're having some pretty rough times. Both of us got a pretty packed schedules but despite all of that Im always trying to find some time for us and make it work. And its always the same pattern, at first she is happy and agrees. Then its I ha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [M19] parents [M60][F57] are driving me crazy. Is it my place to say something or should I just keep out of it? POST: My mum is stuck in an unhappy marriage with my dad, and has thought about getting a divorce since I was 4 years old. Resentment has built up over that 15 year time span, and it has gotten to the point where my father's very existence seems to be an insult to her. Every word my dad utters is bashed by her; his spelling, his grammar, his story-telling skills, how he ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Employers of Reddit: How do I negotiate a raise? POST: Dear Reddit, My contract is about to end and my employer already told me I wouldn't have to worry about my contract being extended. I wasn't worried, but did tell him I wanted to sit down and talk about the terms of my new contract. The company I work at had a rough time. I've been working my ass off to make things work and keep the company from going bankrupt and about a year later we're not doing great yet, but things are startin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My disabled Mom was caught having an affair and has ""ran away"" from home. What does my Dad do from here? POST: Like I said, my Mom is disabled. She had brain surgery back in 2001 which left her memory far from what it used to be, as well as having severe Narcolepsy, seizures and other various medical conditions. She is unable to *legally* drive, but has stolen my Dad's truck in the process (I guess it isn't stealing if it is in her name as well, though). As far as the cheating goes, she",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Emotionally/verbally abusive sister [24F] making mom [52F] and sister's [26F] life difficult. POST: To start, we've had a difficult family life. We had an emotionally abusive home, where the the [now] abusive sister (let's call her A) got the brunt of the anger. She stood up until she was hammered down, while I learned to avoid the aggressor. The abusive stepfather is no longer in the picture. Fast forward 15 years and she cannot form adult relationships. Her anger is unrelenting an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my gf [25 F] 5 yrs, having doubts as we seriously consider marriage POST: We have been together for 5 years and have a good relationship. Friends started asking about us getting married a couple years ago and I didn't think about it really until about a year ago. I don't feel excited about it. I'm not sure if I still love her, and she has told me she feels like she loves me more than I love her. I told her I don't agree, but deep down I do. I'm not sure if its just my ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He [32m] lied to me [26f] for 2 years about loving me? POST: That's what he said when he broke up with me but I'm confused because he told his friends that I was the one, said he started seeing me as more than just a girlfriend after 9months together, and even told his parents that we planned on getting married. I was a really good girlfriend and he admits that and says that nothing was my fault. I'm just having a hard time accepting it/believing it because what he says now does",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Threatened with contempt for failure to pay property settlement in divorce case - what are my options? I've paid all I can. (FL) POST: My ex basically was the only one who could afford a lawyer in our divorce and I stupidly signed off on a settlement that included a $20.000 property settlement for nonexistent equity in the marital home (which is actually more than $80k underwater with two mortgages). I have managed to get her about $8800 of that money by (again stupidly, but I don't fe",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to escape the friend zone POST: This actually did happen today. about 2 hours ago, to be exact. So, i work with a girl i've been into for a while. we hang out damn near daily and always have fun together. She was a little aggitated at her boyfriend today and decided to vent. I listened like a good friend, and gave the ol' ""you gotta do whats best for number 1"". I had an appointment to get to, so i left work and started driving. After about 30 minutes and a few beers, i decide",negative " r/self TITLE: Im a senior in high school and need to figure out what to do for the rest of my life, advice appreciated, more info inside POST: I'd really love to get into the engineering field. I have a passion for cars, ships/naval architecture and anything mechanical really. I've always wanted to be an engineer but I feel i couldn't make it into a good schools engineering program because of my math marks and gpa. I have a 3.2 gpa and got a 21 on the ACT. I honestly dont know where to turn. I looked at di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I say happy birthday to my ex? POST: I [23M] got dumped by my ex [21F] about 2 years ago now, we were really good friends and told each other pretty much everything and then one day she sat me town and told me she wasn't happy. She put it down to family things going on at home. This killed me for a few days/weeks until my lads picked me up again and got me back on track. We went ages with out talking but then as time went on we bumped into each other when we were out and end",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my Boyfriend [23 M] of 2 years, could use some advice on long-distance budgeting POST: Sorry if the title is a bit misleading, this is my first time posting here. My partner and I (I've known him for 2-3 years now, and he asked me out on my 18th birthday ^.^) both have a teeny bit of an issue with impulse spending. We currently live in separate states, and I was recently wondering how we should compare budgets quickly and easily so we can both plan them together :) We ",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Poor venue communication (long stupid rant) POST: FH and I booked our venue back in November 2015. It's not the fanciest place and I had my doubts at first but after looking around and mulling over what we wanted within our budget it was a good fit. One of the big selling points was the venue's wedding coordinator who was reviewed (and we perceived to be) fast and good with communication. If it wasn't for her I would have pushed for my first choice of venue. In December I contact",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] had a long term ex boyfriend [21F], who I still like, but I had a little something-something with my best friend[21F]. POST: be Celia, my ex boyfriend will be Kevin, and my best friend will be John. Okay here goes.. Kevin and I had been together for 2 years, before he left for another city, after which we had a long distance relationship for about a year. But I had to break it off because I couldn't handle being away from him, and thought it would be easier to just get ove",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my GF [26F] of 1 year, I find my girlfriend is not very good at carrying on conversations and it leaves us with little to talk about and it is getting boring, not sure if I should bring it up? POST: I love my girlfriend a lot and she is a great person but she is rather queit when it comes to talking. I am a total chatterbox and I am always cracking jokes and the like, so I feel like that energy has carried us this far in our relationship. But now it is getting a bit o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M/F] I have no friends, How I can I make more? POST: (Take two) I have no friends and have not been in relationship yet, just people on my contact list. i had no friends for for almost 7 years, not a ""friendship"" like connection to anyone yet. I have a standard for friendships, its not enough they call me now and then or say hi to me, you have call me at least once a week, we don't have to go out, just call me, cause I can withdraw at times, it will be nice for someone who co",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Laundry night? Enjoy losing an extra hour of sleep. POST: I stopped to use the restroom on my way to get my clothes out of the drier at uni because I couldn't wait. I always set my timer early so I get there right as they finish. I walk into the softly roaring laundry room in the dank and dim basement of the residential hall a few minutes after it was done. I stumble over to the row of machines stacked on top of each other and notice that my load seems to still have 59 of it's 60 mi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I used to be able to drink a lot and never get hangovers or blackout...all of a sudden, that's changed. Why? POST: So I used to be able to hold my liquor pretty well. All throughout 4 years of college, I'd had maybe two hangovers. I blacked out maybe a few times. I was able to drink a lot and not suffer from it and so I prided myself over this. Recently, however, all that appears to have changed. As recently as 6 months ago, I was able to keep this up. But now it seems as if my body's r",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [F24] good friend is having a leaving party and there is every chance my ex [M25] will be there POST: My ex and I broke up 4 weeks ago after a three year relationship. We met through sport, so we have a lot of mutual friends from our sports team. One of our mutual friends (let's call her Janine) is going away for 6 months and she is planning a night out/party in 2 weeks' time, and there's every chance that my ex will be invited and be there. Whilst my ex initiated the break up, i",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I understand that you have crazy parents, but what are some things that make you think that YOU are crazy? POST: For years I've been hearing this train, at night. Pretty normal thing to hear, I guess, but I live in an area where the only remotely close tracks I know of are destroyed and/or abandoned. I have lived here 12 years of my life, now, and know the area extremely well. No trains. The whole train thing became a big joke between my best friend and I because it's literally b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Just got out of my first real relationship and I'm very confused. [M18] [F18] POST: (Before you read this, please note that I'm very high so this post is probably poorly written) We'd only dated for ~5 months, but she was the first girl I ever connected with emotionally. She always seemed super into me (almost infatuated with me). About two weeks ago, we stopped hanging out completely out of nowhere. Soon she started ignoring my texts - a conversation that would usually take 10 min",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I'm an idiot and I think I've done some serious damage to myself financially. I'm 23 and completely confused. Advice? (Xposted from askreddit) POST: A few months ago, I had an overdraft on my checking account. I did not notice that I'd done it, and as I wasn't working except for an under-the-table cash-only job, I wasn't using my account at all. I kind of forgot about it (and this was incredibly stupid of me, I know). The bank ended up referring me to a collection agency, who se",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I think I'm in love with my best friend. What should I do? POST: We(M20 + F18) met about 2 years ago at one of my cities Green Markets. From the moment I first met her I knew I liked her. After a few weeks I worked up the courage to ask her out, but she had a boyfriend. We wound up just hanging out as friends and becoming pretty close fairly quickly. After a few months she broke up with her boyfriend. We were hanging out a few nights after that and wound up sleeping together. We ta",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [22M] Struggling to move on from a breakup 4 months ago [23F] POST: I'll keep this as short as I can. My ex and I broke up back in early February. We were dating for a bit over a year, and it all ended because she told me about her feelings for a mutual friend of ours as well as her falling out of love with me. Check my post history if you want more backstory. She was my first real relationship, and I absolutely intend on getting back in the saddle and finding new people. I've gone",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Am I a bad guy or am I entitled to my feelings POST: I have this girl that I've off and on dated for a couple years, though the majority of the time has now been long distance since we have both gone on with our lives. We still keep in touch daily and she claims she still loves me very much as I do for her. We have plans on rekindling our relationship later down the road when I have my life in order and I'm perfectly fine with that, but there's a dilemma. Im sexually frustrated all ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's a great city to live near in the US, and why? POST: My girlfriend and I are currently living with my parents in south-western North Carolina, but plan on moving away in a couple of years when i've received my computer engineering degree. North Carolina has it's pros and cons just like any place, but we're both completely tired of living here - more specifically in this area. We'd love to go somewhere new and start a new chapter in life together. I'm a computer nerd, she'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my Girlfriend [23 F] of 6 months, Girlfriends Past POST: So basically, I met my current Girlfriend in college. When we met, I was going out with my Ex-Girlfriend of 1.5 years at that time. This was about 5 years ago. About 6 months after my ex and I broke up, and I decided I should just focus on my studies (I was in med-school) and because I just wanted to be single for awhile. I had some girls ask me out, and I was into some girls, but ultimately I felt I wasn't read",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: The district managers boyfriend is making me uncomfortable at work and I don't know what to do. POST: A couple of weeks ago, the district managers boyfriend came to work at our store due to the one he was managing being shut down. The district manager is the son of the GM of our store. He's kinda cool, works hard and doesn't mess around back in my area (i'm the dishwasher). Recently, he started coming back asking if I wanted a hug, if he made me all hot and bothered (I dont wear an apron",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: My girlfriend's ex-step-mom refuses to let her see her dog....which her dad bought... POST: So my girlfriend's (17) dad has just gone through a divorce. His ex-wife has 2 kids (not by him) and together they had gotten a dog for the kids. When they split up, They decided to take the dog about 5 days out of the week. That was annoying but at least my girlfriend got to see her dog. But now, the ex-wife has blocked my girlfriends number and refuses to let her see the dog. The most annoying",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by booking a flight for my coworkers. POST: Today I realized I fucked up. As a Receptionist and Assistant, I am tasked with making travel arrangements for people in my office. The last few trips for employees have all been to Florida, for training's, and they have all been relatively close location wise. Last week I was managing a large amount of tasks people had given me, and I was told on short notice to book 2 trips for the week of December 9th. In an attempt to do it promptly, I j",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to learn Python in Computer Science class. POST: This did not happen today, happened a few weeks ago blah blah blah lurker blah first post here blah.   In computer science class we were using Python to explore some basics of coding and such an the teacher gave us a few minutes to explore around with some of the things you can do in it. To print text you would say > print(""This is text"") and you would get > This is text You can insert a multiplier to print more, for exampl",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where are the Rhode Island Redditors? POST: I'm slowly finding that my local friends share hardly any interest with me whatsoever. I moved back to Rhode Island after being gone for 10 years and experience a lot in that time. Things changed; they always do, but my friends didn't. Now, I feel myself growing further and further apart from them because we don't enjoy similar things. I like to stay connected. I like to have a good idea of the social issues going on as well as what imgur ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Skeptical or allergy prone cat owners, what are you success stories? POST: My wife and I are looking to get a cat. We have 2 dogs and one is older and mostly keeps to himself. The other is very friendly and we want to get him a friend. We have some concerns however. First is I have not been much of a cat person in the past. I hear all the horror stories of cats ruining furniture by spraying and scratching. We've all had friends houses that we have walked into and smelled the cat box an",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Help PF,Car salesman changed the agreed upon price without my knowledge. CA POST: Sorry for the wall of text. Here is my dog Well I purchased a 2015 Pruis C two from a Toyota dealership in SoCal and I spent a lot of time explaining to the salesman my terms for the purchase. I stated 9K was the absolute bottom for my trade in car, then I went on to say my absolute max I am willing to spend on this model was fair price ($19,930.00 edmunds.com). After his repeated trips to his boss a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21/m) girlfriend (18/f) wants to see another girl (20?/f) and I'm feeling unwanted jealousy. POST: My girlfriend M spends a lot of time with this girl T at school and work, and they were romantic together when we started dating 2 months ago. Not commited, but they would kiss and go on dates and such. M said she felt pretty neutral about T, and that she was just fascinated by her. We talked and agreed on monogamy, and she told T they couldnt kiss and stuff anymore. About a week ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: GF [25/f] added semi-recent hook-up (right before we started dating) on facebook after telling me [26/m] that she wouldn't hang out with him. Reading too much into this? POST: Background: I've been seeing a wonderful girl for about 2 months, and very seriously over the last month+. We got really close fast, and we're very compatible. I'm leaving in a couple weeks for about 3 months, but we already have some visits planned and we decided to do the exclusive LTR thing. The situa",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Why should I [18M] even bother with relationships? POST: Hello, so I am 18 years old and I've never had a girlfriend or really been involved with anyone romantically until a few weeks ago. Pretty much my closest High School friend [18F], who I used to have a massive crush on came home and we started hanging out a lot. One night at a party I kissed her and we began hanging out a lot more, doing the typical relationship stuff, seeing movies, hanging out at home, etc. I thought I wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Newly realised lesbian [21/F] stuck in 2-year hetero relationship POST: I have come to terms with my homosexuality over the past eight months or so. I am not outed to anyone and am still working through many issues myself, but I feel like the first step to getting everything sorted is to end my relationship. My boyfriend [21/M] live together and have two cats together. I could not cope financially without someone sharing rent/bills etc and neither could he. I live in a foreign coun",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (20f) bf(24m) of 3 years will not stop asking me to grow out my very short hair. Starting to feel self conscious and doubt his attraction for me. POST: I have had short hair since I was 8 years old, and met my bf when I had a very short shaved haircut. The three years we have been together hasn't really had any opinion on my hair until this past year. A year ago I was leaving the house to go get a haircut and he stopped me and said i should try growing it out ""for a change"" I'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (f 22) need closure with my ex-bf(32) but I don't know how to go about it. POST: This is kind of sad that I have to ask Reddit for relationship advice but I've seen what you guys do for others and was hoping you could help me too. Here is a synopsis of our relationship. We started dating about 5 months ago. And knew him about 5 months prior to that. Im middle eastern and he's American. i knew from the beginning that this would not be a good idea. But I went with my heart anyway. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] can't do anything remotely sexual without feeling guilty POST: I'm a second year in college in Southern California, I've recently met a girl that I am fascinated by and am extremely attracted to. We've been casually ""dating"" for about a month and we've hooked up a couple times. My upbringing was extremely religious (Christian), and I blame it mostly for my ""fear"" of anything sexual. Basically, if I go anywhere past 1st base I feel guilt/revulsion afterwards. This makes rela",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My mom is forcing me to go across the world with her to spend time with my father and his family (who have not been in the picture for the past 25 years) POST: To provide some context: When my mom was around my age, she met my dad and subsequently got pregnant with me. There had been a plan to come to the US (i'm from the philippines), but my mom had petitioned as single, so she had to go alone and was to send for me, and apparently my dad, later. As a baby I had stayed with my aunt a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27/f] am casually chatting with a very shy guy [27/m] POST: He and I were batchmates in college (not all the same classes though) and we lost touch for many years in the middle. Now suddenly we've started chatting again, thanks to Whatsapp and FB. I always thought he was kinda cute and interesting. In the interim, I've had many relationships, one night stands, flings, boyfriends, you name it. He, on the other hand... Nope. He's never been into all that. He's never had a girlfrie",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [F 27] am growing bitter and resentful and I don't even know why POST: I've had the same group of friends for the past 12 years. We were a group of five weird, awkward, wallflower-y and nerdy girls that always were hanging out with one another. Even when all of us went different paths after school we made an effort to keep in contact and spend time together. Now, one by one, they have become adults with their own social networks while they are still the only friends I've ever had.",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Interview on Wednesday--afraid employer might have seen old inappropriate posts on FB. POST: Throwaway for obvious reasons. Let me know if this is the wrong sub. I'm a college student with an interview for an internship I really want on Wednesday. I've been getting ready these past couple of days, and in the process I was looking at the company's Facebook page. I found the page of the woman who's interviewing me and found out we have mutual friends. After a while, the horrifying realization ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I have a huge anger problem POST: I have anger management issues. Well, it's not like I've been diagnosed with it, but I do know, that I don't get very angry often. Actually, I'm incredibly peaceful, very easy-going according to my friends, and genuinely a good person. But the the problem is when I do get angry, my anger knows no bounds. People tend to want to violent, like punch a wall violent. Not me. I go straight to plotting murder and how to get away with it. I've never followed ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Reddit, Please help. My friend's [M25] GF [F25~] just broke off their engagement POST: Hey Reddit, thanks for reading. Disclaimer: My friend doesn't know I'm doing this, so I'm going to be vague with personal information. I'm just seeking some good advice from good people on how to help him. The story so far: So a few weeks ago, my friend's GF 'went through' with breaking off their engagement. They've been together for a very long time, and it came as quite a shock to my friend. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] just got kicked out of college. I don't know where to go. POST: So, I fucked up. I received an email saying I am dismissed academic dismissal and I won't be able to apply till fall 2016. I failed almost everyone of my classes, it wasn't because I decided not to do the work; it was because my father went to jail. I was doing really well until October, and thats when it all went south. I received a phone call that my father was arrested, later that week I heard the entire stor",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Two weeks/5ish dates, not sure I want it to continue, but she REALLY does. Where do I go from here? Help?! POST: Basically, we hit it off right away. Similar interests, though not perfect and some good chemistry/conversation. This continued to about date 3, when we slept together. Since then, hardly any conversation, just the very basics and then sex. Good sex, but I am looking for a serious relationship. I keep bringing up topics and asking her deeper questions, preferences, opinion",negative " r/loseit TITLE: [Question] How should I aim to shed weight? POST: Hey, Some back-story, I'm a 20 (21 in late July) year old male, my height is 6""3, and I weigh about 96 kilograms (~212 pounds). Of late, my weight has been know to fluctuate anywhere between 85kg - 90-92 kg. The recent holiday season and overseas trips have meant that my food intake has been totally irresponsible and this is why I have put on extra! I have started my full-time job (on holiday break ATM) however I will be picking up a loca",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Should i keep talking to / hooking up with my Ex? (First post to reddit ^_^) POST: I am 19 about to start my second year of college and i know i am going to see my ex. The temptation is going to be there and I'm not sure if i am able to hold myself back. We had a decent breakup but everything after that was complete garbage. We still had sex and hooked up until one day she texted me and we had a huge argument. She said a lot of hurtful things about me and a mutual friend(who i have known",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I think my car is a lemon. I want to sell it but I'm not sure how to procede with my next car. POST: First thing, I'd like to establish that having a car where I live is important. I go to work at 4am when a lot of shifty people walk around (I'm a tiny female) and you have to use the freeway to get to the school I'll be starting this month. Walking/busses won't help me. My car is a 2006 Honda Accord I bought about a year ago for about 5k (I think, I don't remember the exact price",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Last night I drunkenly fought my fiance physically and I broke his wrist. I don't even know how to think about this. Help? POST: I know this makes me a shitty person. We have had somewhat violent fights in the past, and last night I was very intoxicated and he was sober. The fight turned verbally abusive on his side, and I reacted physically- I called it shoving but he called it hitting. He choked me and threw me around, but was careful to never specifically hit me. I know the obvious le",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: New father feeling undermined by MIL. POST: Brand new dad to a little girl born on Father's Day. MIL is in town to help with the birth and ""take care"" of my wife's sister who recovered from a psychotic episode in April. Birth was pretty standard, as was the hospital stay. The baby became a bit more fussy when we got her home, but mangeable. However, now, by day three, I feel like I have little to nothing to do to contribute to my little girl's lifw. When she cries, and mom and I try",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's your best/worst road rage story? POST: My buddy's wedding was this past Saturday in the evening. I'm not sure how your state's highways compare to the rest of the country's/world's, but interstate drivers are generally dumber than a bag of hammers here in Michigan. However, there seems to be a generally-accepted rule that one goes with the flow of traffic: keep right, pass left. Don't go 45 in the passing lane. And so on and so forth. You'd think common sense would prevail",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21/F] with my friend [25/M] of a year, need to talk to him about ""where we are"" but not sure on best way to approach the conversation POST: I posted something yesterday but I think everyone reading it was under the impression that I didn't want to talk to this guy at all about what had happened, so maybe I can get some advice now on the best ways to approach this conversation. Thanks in advance! Long story short, a friend of mine of one year started hanging out often and recentl",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [14/M] Like a girl I hardly know POST: I was unsure if I should post this to /r/needadvice or here so if this is in the wrong subreddit I will move it. I am currently a 14 y/o freshman in high school. And my high school has many sending districts. And mine is one of the smallest, so I know very few people. Anyway, there is this girl I like and I don't have any idea what to do with it. We have hardly talked. I know very little about her (besides her name). She seems like (for l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (M15) would like to know if this (F15) likes me. 2 months. POST: Sorry in advance for any typing/grammatical errors, I typed this on my phone. There is a certain female that for the last two months I have became really close and goods friends with. The reason I am asking if she likes me more than a friend, is her body language around me. Everyday at school, she wants me to give her a hug, and etc... In the classes we have together, sometimes I will see her staring at me, and ca",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/m & 20/f] Is it wrong for me to be concerned about this? POST: I've been going out with her for over two months and we've been really close for over 4 months. Anyways, she is really nice to me and I love her and she loves me. We see each other every day (worked together), but I have noticed that she has a lot of other friends whom she says ""i love you"" to. I've seen her text her friends ""ily"" and ""<3"" and ""love you so much"", as well as call them stuff like ""awh babe"" and """,positive " r/relationships TITLE: Apparently I [29F] say things that make the people I date think I am in love with them. POST: Apparently I express myself in a way that makes it seems like I am in love with the people I date, when I really just want to make them feel valued. I was seeing a guy [30M] very briefly, who didn't want to do long distance but had initially wanted a FWB arrangement with me. Some days ago he suddenly questioned that conviction, asking me ""what if it changes things"" between us. I said that i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my GF [20 F] 3 years, Crippling attraction to someone else POST: Sorry about this wall of text. It's been years since I've had any crushes whatsoever aside from my current GF (Zoe). Zoe and I go to different schools around 20 minutes away from each other. She has a busy schedule as do I, so we don't get too much time together. The time we do get together is usually filled with homework. We're pretty much polar opposites of each other in both interests and personality. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [M/20] My ex [20/F] tried to kill herself and I don't know what to do. POST: Hey throwaway here, but I honestly didn't know where else to turn. Basically, the girl I planned to marry cheated on me in February and I found out in August. I left her and despite it all I still love her. We were best friends before we dated and I knew what kind of a person she was, I don't know, maybe I fooled myself into thinking I was special. Anyway, after we broke up, she quit her manager jo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] with my crush [17F], really messed up. Please offer advice. POST: I am in Senior year of High School (17) and have never had a girlfriend or a first kiss. However, after two months of talking on social media I met a girl from my Chemistry class that I really really liked, I had indescribable feelings towards her. However, I fucked up. Both of us knew we liked one another, I was on vacation whilst we were talking most of the time on social media (over the course of 3 months",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: 20[F] Sleeping over at a guy's house for the first time POST: Let me rephrase that a bit. I'm a 20 year old female who is visiting a guy that I've known for over 3 yrs, but only hung out with twice because we live over 1,000 miles away from each other. We keep in touch via text mostly. We are not in a relationship, but the possibility is there and I think he'd like to see that happen some day. We've been intimate with each other and we do have feelings for each other. He made it cle",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/m] I said told my gf ""I love you"" and now I regret it. What should I do? POST: Last Saturday I told her ""I love you"" and after explaining why I felt that way she said ""I love you"" back. But I feel like we took too big of a step now. Instead of lifting our spirits its put a weight on our conversations and relationship. I can tell its bothering her, and its bothering me now too. I am going to talk to her later today, and I want to bring it up. I feel like she only said it to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [22 M] keep her [23 F] interest with limited opportunity? POST: Just moved to a new city for work about 5 months ago, and I was lucky enough to meet a really awesome girl during a Meetup about 2 months ago. In that time things have gone quite slowly, but really well. It took about 6 or 7 ""dates"" before I got the nerve to kiss her, but when I did she was receptive. We've seen each other a couple times after that, and things have gone well, although the relationship has not p",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] Gf [16F] 1 year , see her daily POST: Lets call her Sally. Sally is a really shy religious girl, and we dated for a year, but she broke up with me back in early February. I really liked her, we have the same interests, like the same sports teams, in almost the same classes (not planned) but more importantly in the same sports. We even got second at our homecoming for best couple. As it is the spring now, I am running track, and so is Sally, we are both distance runners. Beca",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Job Offer Negotiations: They Came Up Only 2.6% And Resent Me Official Offer - Do I Have Any Moves Left? POST: Background: Wanting to relocate to a different state lead to this job search. Company is a great name to have on my resume, job focus is a slight change where I have the encompassing skills but not necessarily direct experience with the tools. I am 2.5 years out of school and have been at my current job since (Engineering). **Numbers - Initial offer was for 75, after talk",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with potential dating partner [19F] sending me mixed signals POST: So I've been talking to this girl that's my best friends resident (she's an RA), and we have a date for this Saturday. She's talked to me fairly consistently, she flirts, and she has really good well thought out answers to any questions I throw at her. But here's the thing, she never asks any questions back, and if I ask about for example her favorite bands or books she just says ""that's too broad"" or ""I like",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my BF [29 M] 7 YEARS, refuses to try for baby. Won't even talk about my miscarriage [Jan 14] Please read. POST: I'm happy in my relationship and I'm very in love with my boyfriend, still after seven years, (we've lived together for 6) but he refuses to talk about starting a family. At all. A little background, and what makes this slightly odd is that at the start of this year we both agreed we'd try for a baby. He even told his parents. It never happened. If I bring it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M20] don't feel interested in my GF [F19] anymore but I feel trapped POST: Where to begin.. For starters, we started dating on bad terms, she was my best friends ex, I won't go into too much detail because there was a lot of confusion. But here we are, about 2 years after the fact and I'm in a bad area of my life. I don't really have any friends, and by that I mean I have 0 friends. I'm over it, I'm used to it. She is all I have and we live together. We have good time",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] have started my first ""fling"" [22 M] and am unsure how to act POST: This is a throwaway because my very recent ex uses reddit and I don't particularly want him to read this. Anywho, I just got out of a two year relationship a couple of weeks ago. He broke up with me rather unexpectedly over text while I was studying abroad in Italy. I have known another one of the guys studying abroad for a few years, and following the break up he said he had liked me for a while. I made it",negative " r/self TITLE: Need some marriage proposal ideas! Help?? POST: Obligatory 'back story': My girlfriend and I were best friends for two years before I miraculously broke out of the friend-zone and into a full on relationship. We've now been together for 8 months, and I know for a fact that I want to marry this woman. About a week ago, I thought of the brilliant (albiet, slightly unoriginal) idea of proposing to her on Christmas morning via her (our) Christmas gift. A brand new Harlequin Great Dane puppy. I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (20m) has a baby on the way, getting some weird feelings about it (19f) POST: I met a guy recently who I click with really well. We've been together for about a month, and I care for him a lot. He told me before our relationship even began that he has a baby on the way. The mother is a girl he dated for about a month, they broke up, and a few weeks later she found out she was pregnant. They were using protection, but it failed. She lives in Pennsylvania, we live in New Jers",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Can anyone explain how a first date can be so good and then the second be so cold? POST: I went out with this girl and had the most amazing first date. Lots of laughing, touching, hand holding, kissing etc. Second date rolls around and we watch a movie and she hardly reciprocated my actions involved at all. We still had lots of laughs and I made my moves evident (putting my hand on her lap, making sure we're touching, holding her tightly when scary scenes surfaced) but it wasn'",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting a girl's phone number POST: so this happens yesterday. On my one of my days off each week I stop by this restaurant to get some lunch. I have been going in there for a few months now and have gotten to know the girl that waits on me fairly well. She's cute and funny, real easy going. I finally decide to build up some courage and ask her out. I suggest that we should go out sometime and she says sure and we swap numbers. We texted each other for a little bit last night and I s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [26 M] GF [24 F] of 1.5 years, doesn't drive. Am I a jerk for denying rides? POST: My GF and I are perfect for each other and very much in love. We live together, and spend most of our free time together. She has a car, but doesn't drive it, because she doesn't want to pay for insurance. I'm lucky, and my parents pay my car insurance, to help as I repay my debts. We share my car, and it's really starting to bug me. I work a lot, and when I get off work, I hate spending my free t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend [24 F] 2 years, She complains about everything and continuously makes me out out bad a bad boyfriend. POST: I would go to the edge of the universe for this women, but geez does she like to complain. For example,on December 2nd, Our 2 year anniversary, I was going to take her to dinner but after much thought I asked her if she could drive this one time because the new headlight didnt come. I recently hit a deer, and I needed a new head light. It was lite",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 F] with my guy [27 M] of 1 month - disappearing act POST: I've been dating someone for about a month but I've actually known him for several years. Things have been going great this last month up until this week.. he's pulling a disappearing act almost overnight. We spent most of last weekend together and when Monday came we obviously had to go back to our work lives. We had been in constant communication (texting) up until Monday night.. he didn't return any of my texts. No",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my mother [50 F] , calls me by the female name counterpart. POST: My mother in the recent months has somehow started calling me by my name in it's female form. So it is the same name let's say Johnes for male and for females there is Johnny, a letter is changing. From 'es' to 'y'. I am not from an English speaking country. I have a sister with the same name as me but in the female form, the reason they say is that my grandfather and grandmother had those same names. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [23 F] seems to really enjoy attention from other guys. She always tells me [22 M] when it happens. Should I be suspicious/annoyed? POST: Hey folks, I'll keep this short. Me and my girlfriend are currently doing the lost distance thing, and will be for the next year or so. We've been together for about two months. She's a (very) minor celebrity (professional athlete) and is very attractive. She gets lots of attention from other guys; some subtle, some not so much. She",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Bestfriend of [18 M] and [>18 F] in a couple, [M] betrays [F], what should I do? POST: -So my best buddy is going out with not only my best feminine friend but the woman for who I would have given everything in,before their relation. -They've been in relation for 2 years now and he betrayed her 3 times in total. -The first time she got to know but it was only kisses so they settled it down. -The second time, she didnt get to know and I've let it passed, having decided to stay out",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by completely failing at hanging out POST: This happened last night, but if was after midnight to technically it was today. My friend and I are pretty lost souls. We have a group of friends that we kind of don't like. They are fake, never answer calls, and will only hang out with us if they have nothing better to do. So for the most part, Its just my friend and I looking to do something. Our mutual friend invited us to hang out with some of her friends, people we have never met. No p",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [27f] uncomfortable.. is it me or him?[27M] POST: So I'm going to try and be short and sweet. I recently starting see Marcus, we've been on a handful of dates. I met his friends already. He is very vocal about how he feels about me. If I asked him to be exclusive right now I know the answer would be yes. He seems ready to jump into 'relationship mode'. He is very attentive, a gentleman, he says/does all the right stuff. I wasn't feeling good and he was so caring and comforting and i",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: What do I [27/m] do about this girl [22/f] that I have feelings for? POST: I will try to keep this as concise as possible. I have a history with this girl. We used to hookup and she used to have strong feelings for me. Time has passed and the tables have turned. I developed strong feelings for her, but never told her in time. She moved on and now is dating someone else. I confessed it all to her and told her that if it won't be reciprocated then I will need some distance t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Dad always calls me [21F] by my sister's [18F] name, but never calls her mine. Now that I've moved out, it's worse. POST: I guess it sounds kind of silly, but my Dad almost always calls me by my sister's name. We aren't even twins, and we definitely don't dress/look the same either. While we were growing up everybody did it. Now it's gotten to the point where it's more than I would consider normal. When I visit, at least once a day he calls me by my sister's name. When we Skype, ",negative " r/cats TITLE: How to introduce a kitten to a resident, indoor/outdoor cat? POST: I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post questions here or in another subreddit, so I apologize if this is incorrect placing. Earlier this week, I adopted an eight week old kitten to bring home. I have a resident cat whom is 17 months old. For the first two days, I allowed the kitten (Ahri) to be out and about, but realized that it was stressing out my resident cat (Toulouse) when he was inside. He stopped coming inside as much ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (25M) feel like the crazy bipolar boyfriend in my relationship with my girlfriend (26F) POST: I've been in a relationship with my girlfriend for a year. I love her a lot, and I know she loves me. But lately I'm always losing my temper with her over little things she doesn't even mean to do. And I know I'm the bad guy here but I just can't help it. This fighting has been happening more lately. Perhaps related, is I'm under more stress currently as it is my last semester at univers",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU because of ugly food drive bins POST: A little info for background, I work at a Denny's restaurant as a host and for the longest time we've had no real garbage at the front desk. All we had was one tiny recycling box for lonely, unwanted receipts of those who had too much shame & regret to keep them. On the day I came in and noticed what looked like to me a very large, tacky garbage can suited for christmas I was pretty ecstatic, & immediately swept the floor and dumped all the dirt and ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: To file for Bankruptcy or not? [help] POST: I know I'll get the typical ""just pay your bills posts"" but whatever. I'm just not 100% sure what to do. I got with my fiance 6 years ago. We hit a lot of rough patches, we lost our home due to unrelated circumstances. We got a new place and I got severely injured from the job and I was fighting workmans comp from an awful large retailer known for their shitty service. They refused to send me my checks, always forgot to send them. I'd re",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21 M] girlfriend's [19 F] family wants her to go through an arranged marriage in order to help another family in need. POST: I personally don't believe in arranged marriages and neither does my girlfriend. She has distant relatives who reside outside of the states in rather poor living conditions. From what she's been told, they have it quite rough and her parents are seriously considering an arranged marriage to pull them out of there. My girlfriend has expressed her discomfort ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] said ""I Love You"" to my girlfriend [19 F], she didn't reciprocate. POST: This is a generally light problem, but I just need a little guidance. I've been dating this girl for about 5 months now, and while I've had my fair share of short, nonsensical relationships, this is my first actual steady girlfriend. Anyways, last week when I was visited her, I blurted ""it"" out. She didn't say it back, but it wasn't awkward or anything, and nothing's changed so I'm not super worried ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is one of the most amusing coincidental moments you have ever been apart of or witnessed? POST: When I was nine years old, I was left home alone with my sister. I can't remember exactly what happened, but something had startled me that was outside the house before my parents left. My sister knew this and being the wonderful sister she is, decided to scare me. I was on the computer in a room where the computer was positioned close to a window. She snuck outside and beat on th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [29M] being a controlling prick if I´m mad because my girlfriend [30F] had a male friend staying over on her bed? POST: We've been dating for only a month and I'm on a solo trip out of the country. She has a lot of friends and I'm cool with that. However last night we were skyping and she mentioned that she had one of her long time friends staying over. They slept in the same bed and apparently the guy tried to grab her ass a couple of times in the morning. She hasn't gave me a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with my SO[26M] of 5 years.He changes our plans and doesn't invite me to gatherings due to my anxiety. POST: My boyfriend and I have a great relationship overall. One issue we have though is my awkward shyness in social gatherings and my tendency to be more reserved than open around his friends. His friends are generally well rounded and eloquent, and they have plenty of stories to tell ( they travel plenty). I love them, but I find them intimidating... My boyfriend has bee",positive " r/self TITLE: How do you make friends? POST: I know this may sound weird to ask but let me explain. In a month or so I finish high-school, time sure seems to have flow by. Anyway, i've generally always been fine socially, although i have been slightly withdrawn and have mild anxiety in social anxiety due to bullying when I was younger. So, as i come to end of this year, i realised I don't have many close friends. Infact, due to my collapse in my academic performance (which is a whole other story, it's come",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is she (F/17) just being sympathetic towards me (M/17)? (dating advice needed) POST: Hello! I'm in college (UK), and I have a class mate for two of my lessons. She is probably the best looking girl in my school (no exaggerating) with a great personality too. We spoke in class a bit. One day she messages about wanting to know about homework and we end up talking for around two months online then I stopped because I thought she was just continuing messaging me because she's a nice pers",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Can I (M36), and my friend's wife (F36) get through this without an implosion? POST: My friend's wife and I recently started kissing after a heavy night of drinking. I woke up with no memory of the situation, but she called the next day to let me know what had happened. I was petrified and in shock. We're both happily married for over 12 years each, and chalked this up to too much alcohol. I called my best friend (different person) and confided in him about what had happened and he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My BF [19] is not interested in sex, Its starting to get to me [19F]. POST: So I met my boyfriend our second month of college ( a year ago ). We clicked instantly. After a month we made it official. The problem is though that he has no sex drive. I on the other hand have a relatively high sex drive. In the almost year we have been going out I can say that we have had a make-out session at most 20 times. And save for about 3 of those times its been my initiating and it takes about 30 ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18/m] in a ""relationship"" with [19/f] who is clinically depressed POST: Hi r/relationships I don't have many people to talk to about this so I'd like to share it with you and somewhat vent. I've been in a relationship with my girlfriend for about 3 years. We broke up at the end of high school and reunited about half way through first year, at the end of first year she came out to me that she was recently diagnosed with depression and broke up with me a few days later because she ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Lost my job because my mother was diagnosed with cancer. POST: My mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Thankfully it was the early stages the doctors said they can remove it via surgery. By the way, I just landed a new job in the city I live in and my mom was excited about it and said it helped keep her positive. The job started this Monday and her surgery was on Halloween so I was able to fly out of state to help her get to the hospital and take care of her after surgery.",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by assuming the show was just trying to be artistic POST: Today on my lunch break I decided to start watching the first episode of ""Better Call Saul"" on my computer. I had a limited amount of time left on break, and I knew I could only get about 15 minutes in. It started up with some odd background music and a guy working at a Cinnabon place. I knew Breaking Bad's style was kind of weird sometimes, so I just went with it. The music continued, and Saul was introduced. He was in a court",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Lessons from my wedding dress fitting experience! POST: I purchased a strapless, lace wedding dress (Kyra by Maggie Sottero) in the fall for my July wedding. Before selecting this dress I had tried on a few others, but they all seemed to shiny, or big, or heavy for my outdoor wedding. When I bought the dress, the sales lady told me I was in between sizes, and ordered the size up for me with the assurance that you can always make a dress smaller. For those of you going on this logic",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm an Arsehole [24 M] POST: Hi all, just want get some advice from other (previous obnoxious) persons who too were 20 something years old before. Where should I start? I'm an arsehole. My friends tell me that I am, and that I've changed since finishing off university and working full time. I know that they are concerned for me, and for myself something needs to change. So what has changed in these two years... I'm good at what I do. To quote a colleague: > ""You're good at what ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: After [24 M] breaking up with my 2 months ex [22 F], I tried to open up to her by saying nice words as last words before moving on completely. but she isn't responding. Was my action unnecessary? POST: So broke up with this girl that I've been dating for 2 months. The rest of the story is posted my previous [post!]( Anyway when we broke up, I told her maybe she should get a plan B because I definitely didn't wanna have anything to ruin our future but she didn't wanna take it. So we ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Spending a day together like in the old times with my [27] ex GF [28] after a breakup - Good or bad idea? POST: Hi Reddit, I have created a throwaway as I don't want this post to appear under my profile. Sorry for possible grammar mistakes, please note I am not a native a English speaker. We have went apart with my GF a week ago. I really don't want to get into the details, long story short, our relationship sucked in many ways. We were never true friends and never been connected t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What is our [18 M] [18 F] risk of pregnancy? POST: Disclaimer: We know we're stupid. And we know that there is no way to justify our actions because we were both not acting like ourselves. We are aware of any criticisms that might arise. The night after her period ended, we had unprotected sex. It was only for about 5 seconds. There was no ejaculation, and there were also no prior ejaculations, and I had just urinated about 20 minutes beforehand, so there shouldn't have been any spe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [18F] girlfriend wants to break up (peacefully) because she is afraid she will hurt me [17M] (7 months) POST: So I had been dating my girlfriend for about 7 months and everything was perfect. We'd confided a lot in each other and had some great memories. Today though, out of the blue, she told me we needed to talk after finals. I met up with her and she told me her depression had been getting progressively worse. (She has been struggling for quite some time and sees a therapist ever",positive " r/Advice TITLE: How do I (continue) to make it clear to my neighbors that they're disruptive? POST: Alright, so I live in a 3 apartment house, I'm on the second floor, my landlord is below me, and I have new neighbors above me as of February. My old neighbors were wonderful, never heard a peep, bark from their dog, or creak in the floor which is odd for a 100yr old building with both of them overweight. I'm not being mean, just stating facts. My new neighbors are not overweight and they have have a kitten",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [25 M] can't hold a job.....worried about our future POST: We've been together for a year and 3 months. In that time, he has been through over 5 jobs. The longest he has held one has been for 3 months in that time. He is 25 and I don't think he has even held a full time job. He JUST started college due to my encouragement. Also, he hasn't had a job for almost 3 months now. Yes, he hasp plenty bills. He took out a loan to pay for them once. Then I heard he finally got a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19/F] with my new boyfriend [22/M], meeting his family and i'm very nervous because of how embarrassing my life is. POST: So I guess let me say I recently moved across the country and have only been in my current state for 3 months. I actually met my boyfriend through tinder very luckily, since I haven't met many other people since I've moved here. So the relationship with my boyfriend is extremely new, we started going on dates 2 months ago but only made it official about a mon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (F/23) build back trust and confidence after my boyfriend (M/25) cheated? POST: Hello! Me (F/23) and my boyfriend (M/25) have been together for about 3 years. We have been living together since 08/14. He cheated on me about 5 months ago. I found out only 2 weeks after it happened. It wasn't an ongoing thing, they went on one date and had sex afterward. We have worked on building trust back. He is very adamant about wanting to stay together, and has worked to be fully tran",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23F] FWB [24M] currently lives with another FWB [27F] whom he's been seeing for 2.5 years. She calls him her boyfriend. POST: I've been seeing this guy for almost 2 months now. We agreed to be casual at the beginning, but he recently told me that he's developing feelings for me. He's mentioned wanting to introduce me to his friends and parents. I'm catching feelings for him too, but I'm nervous because of the situation he's currently caught up in. He's been FWB with a different g",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Today I was talking to one of my friends and we some how started talking about making a movie, So Reddit, what do you remember doing as a child that you were so excited to do but didn't get around to it or if you did, how did it turn out? POST: In school today, casually talking to one of my mates when the conversation of making a movie started up. He was very excited, I was more... skeptical. So we talked for a while, made up a story-line, invented characters and even started asking fell",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being a grotesque animal in a restaurant. POST: This was back in September 2014, I never really deemed it to be worthy of a TIFU entry but the more I think about it, the more I am disgusted in myself! So, I'm on holiday at Center Parks with some friends and we are planning on going to one of the resorts restaurants for dinner. The part I want to stress most is I had a nice, lengthy shower, cleaning myself fully. I then put on nice, fresh clean clothes. Fast forward an hour and we",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I have dirt on my manipulative, verbally-abusive older brother that can ruin his life, but I'm afraid he'd kill himself if I confronted him about it. POST: He used to be fun to be around, but now he's a monster. He makes my mother and I feel like crap. He yells at us, makes fun of us, he would frequently tell me to kill myself, he tried to make me feel guilty about seeking mental health treatment, and made my other brother's life a living hell before he took his own life. He's a disgust",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Tips for living with ex-boyfriend after a break up? POST: I (25f) had to break up with my(23m) boyfriend after dating for almost two years. He's lied to me about a lot of things and gone behind my back to hit up other girls a few times and I'm just done with it. He's staying with me because I'm stuck in a two bedroom apartment that I can't afford because my roommate bailed on the lease a few months ago. He also has a job that is closer to where I live than where he would have to go i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 23F and my boyfriend 28M have been together 4yrs I want to leave him but I'm in too deep and don't know what to do... Need advice POST: First some backstory. We bought a house together 8 months ago, both our names are on the mortgage. We have a joint bank account and we file our taxes as married even though we technically aren't. We've lived together for 3yrs. I go to school and he works and makes good money. He's a good guy and he's done a lot for me but I just don't love him. ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU monumentally by being an immature idiot on the phone POST: *A little (optional) backstory before I begin: recently a lightning storm hit the phone lines in my area and fried my landline and various electronics. Therefore for the past several months I've been getting by on a piece of shit handset that cost next to nothing and has a coil that tethers you to the wall whilst in use.* This evening I called my best friend hoping to plan a hiking trip up a local mountain for tomorrow (we live ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] and my 11 [ 24 M] friends, some of 10+ years, question re: drifting POST: So, this question derives from a fantasy football league. But its deeper than that, I presume. 11 childhood/HS friends (some of them were my best friends growing up) and I do a fantasy football league every year. Essentially, the entire league, except me, either (1) went to the same HS, or (2) was in the same fraternity in college. The group as a whole is cliquey. I didn't go to their HS or College ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] and an [18F] kind of had a thing for about a year? She screwed with my head to much so I just told her I'm done. Been thinking about her. Should I contact her? POST: I need your opinion/advice, r/Relationships. I won't get to specific but I really liked this girl, like a lot. Anyway, we were good friends and what not and I was flirty so I assumed I made it clear I was more into her than just wanting to be friends. We were hanging out one night and one thing lead to another a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28/f] with my finance [27/M] of a year, he refuses to acknowledge problems POST: So my finance and I have been together a year, when we met it was like the skies opened up and I finally got the world glowing upon me. We were practically twins, found the same things funny, I never felt more comfortable with a person. Unfortunately about 8 months in I started to feel like he was only happy when I didn't voice any strong opinions or concerns. Like I tried to bring up how we don't",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by checking my vehicle registration. POST: Like most fuck ups, this did not happen today. But I did realize my mistake only moments ago. This past Monday night, I was preparing to register my car for a parking pass the next day. This of course included gathering my registration and proof of insurance from said car. My fuck up was in deciding to sit down and taking the time to read through my papers to make sure I had all of the correct information readily available. I turned the passeng",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] asked for a co-worker's [22 F] number but no response... POST: I ran into another employee the other day. We talked briefly and I feel that we hit it off pretty well. We only just met but I was feeling the vibes that she was into me. Unfortunately, we were both interrupted and ended up parting ways before I had the chance to ask for her number. I work in a big building and we don't even work in the same area, so she chances of running into her again are not likely. I felt",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When I came back from Christmas-vacation, the small start-up I work for went ""corporate"" and yanked 2 of my vacation days. What do I do? POST: I work for a small-ish company. It was a ""start-up"" when I came here 3+ years ago. While I was on vacation, our Paid-Time-Off policy changed. Instead of vacation and sick days, it's all one big lump of ""paid time off"". They've started allowing people who've been here more than 3 years to earn 3 extra days. so, 15 days off + 3 extra for us old time",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] wants to dater her [17 F], feeling selfless and pressured myself POST: Hello there /r/relationships, I have a problem. Like the title tells, I'm feeling selfless and pressured. That's because I'm 8-10 kg away from the 'normal' weight and I would like to show her myself that way. I've been losing a lot of weight from last year until now. I started with 117kg last year in march and now I weigh 100kg. I'm also around 182cm tall. What I'm doing right now is just very unhealth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My partner [28/M] of 5 years is still in love, but I [25/M] am not. I've somewhat ended things, and now I'm not sure how to move forward. POST: Our relationship was amazingly happy and healthy by all standards. We were together longer and stronger than all our similarly aged friends. I truly love him, but I no longer have romantic feelings. The largest complications came from my mistakes while struggling to save our relationship. We were planning a big cross-country move even though",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with my friend [24F] in a manipulative relationship and another friend and i want to talk to her about him BUT HOW DO WE APPROACH THIS DELICATELY? POST: Basically the title. I have a friend who is head over heels for her boyfriend, whereas if you ask him if he likes her, his reply is ""not particularly"". There was an incident this summer where he was caught being inappropriate with another girl (canoodling, light making out), and it made her sad, but not sad enough to end ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [25F] date a guy [24M] who's 4"" shorter? POST: I'm 6'2'' (eek! I know), he's ~5'10'', though I haven't asked exactly how tall he is. He's extremely intelligent, Ivy league education, well-paid, ambitious, responsible, funny, treats me well, and thinks I'm gorgeous. He's kind of nerdy, but I can deal with it. The only thing that's holding me back is his height. I feel huge next to him. I'm not worried about sex (that's where height matters the least). I feel like I'd feel aw",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] Little over a month now, And I need a good way to bring up that I have a daughter. POST: So I'm in a relationship with this girl who has been really amazing to me and for me for over a month and everything has been going great. We've been really open about everything, we feel like we can tell each other everything.. except one thing for me. I have a daughter with an ex back from when I was 18. I pay child support every month, I talk to her when I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] am a virgin and my girlfriend [15 F] isn't. I can't get over her sexual past. It gives me a feeling of rejection/anger POST: So I am basically in love with a girl whom sexual history is pretty LONG. She had sex with more than 7 guys (One night stands) and she sucked some guys's dicks. I KNOW, SHE'S PRETTY WHORY. But she is perfect except for her sexual past, wich I know with a lot of details (too many details). I can't leave her but I get kind of sad, angry and jealous",positive " r/relationships TITLE: So i(22f) told my bf(50m) of 10months that I'm in love with him over text. POST: I'm a fucking idiot. I shouldn't have done it over text. Every time I saw him in person and wanted to tell him, my tongue would get all tied up and my stomach all unsettled and I'd break out in nervous sweats. I'm a coward. We're approaching our 11 months now, and neither of us said ""love"" yet. I've dropped hints, but he hasn't dropped any. Was this normal? I've never dating anyone this older than me, so",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is an awkward moment you can remember from elementary school? POST: Mine was in kindergarten. I finished my work early and what does that mean? Free time. I felt pretty lucky being one of the only ones finished. Of course, I headed straight to the computers. Games, exploring, not understanding what the hell you're doing with this weird technology, who doesn't love that? So I strolled over to the station a girl had just recently left and sat down happily in the chair. SPLAT. What the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] and my boyfriend [22 M] of a few months, are having issues with our different faith/views and his lust problem. POST: I started dating this guy with a very strong Christian faith a few months ago but I have known him for a about four years now. I went into the relationship being agnostic, but now I am trying out Christianity so we can get along better. He revealed to me that he has had a struggling addiction to porn and is very sensitive about the subject. He wants to wait",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [23F] SO[25M] Of 3 years casually tells me during dinner, on Valentine's Day that he went home with a female coworker for dinner the other day. POST: My SO and I have been dating for about 3 years. He is my 1st real boyfriend. We were talking about cooking when he brings it up that he ate over her house. This is the 1st time I'm hearing about it and I'm caught off guard. He says her father was there the whole time and that another coworker was suppose to join them but bailed.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Man [33] I am seeing admitted he thought I [24/f] was a teenager when he approached me. Not sure how to feel about that. POST: I am starting to see this man more seriously, to the point that we are exclusive, and talking about making it ""official"". He is 33, so considerably older than myself (9 years). He looks younger than 33. We were talking about it, and I told him I was thinking closer to 27 or 28. He then told me that he thought I was 19 when he approached me, and that (insert m",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How can I make long-term friends? POST: Hey everyone, I consider myself a pretty social guy and get along with people really well. But I can't seem to make friends that I can call ""best friends"". Like I'll see them when I see them, at uni or out and about, heck, they might even come watch a film with me, but generally speaking, none of them are as enthusiastic about doing things as I am. My invites to have road trips or driving out to explore generally go unaccepted, and the reasons aren't",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Long distance boyfriend wants me to stop masturbating? POST: We've been togother for over a year and this weird issue of masturbating is coming up. I've [20F] explained to him [25M] that I don't watch porn or anything while doing that, because I don't like that. I don't feel like me doing this is an issue though. I thought that he would also masturbate as most guys do BUT according to him, he doesn't and hasn't for a year out of respect for me. He tells me it makes him uncomfortabl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my coworker[20F], Want to ask her out but not sure how to go about it. POST: so this is an update from a previous post that didnt get any comments but got a few up votes, so... here's the link to that last post : TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] split with my ex [19 F] over a year ago and she texted me recently but now I cannot move on. POST: Me and my ex girlfriend dated for 2.5 years. A lot has happened and our split began to rise as I moved to college as a freshmen and she was in high school as a senior. We talked less and less until we stopped talking altogether. I wanted to keep in touch with her but not too long after, she got a new boyfriend who was just a rebound. So I was forced to try to move on and I w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Finally entered a relationship with the man of my dreams and now I am afraid my self-esteem issues are going to end it. POST: I am a 23(f) dating a 26(m). Over a year ago I met my now bf. I immediately wanted to date him. But he was talking to someone else and so I had to wait. Since then we both dated other people and subsequently ended the relationship. While dating the other guy I would think about my current boyfriend all the time and even thought about him to get off in the bedr",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: A job I love or a job that pays the bills? POST: So r/personalfinance, here is my dilemma: I work a job that I don't like but pays pretty well (hourly but I pick up overtime), about $60k take home. I got a job offer from my old place of employment in the music industry that I loved working at but left because of the low pay ($30k). But now, they might be offering me a new job making about a $50k salary. I'm considering taking it but I don't know if I can afford it due to: 1. st",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my boyfriend [23M] 2weeks, he keeps calling me a stage 4 cling, im confused as to whether I should be insulted or not POST: I started dating my boyfriend two weeks ago and we have spent almost every night together, and even when we aren't sleeping he is always cuddling me and so on and so forth. The other day he jokingly called me a stage 4 cling which really offended me, because i'm used to being in relationships where guys are just using me and they don't really care ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 18 F, I'm too emotionally dependent on my boyfriend. POST: Hi, okay so here is my story. Me and my current boyfriend became friends junior year of high school. (We are now both freshmen in college). We became very close, he always wanted to take our relationship to the next level but I was a clueless girl. Senior year, I realized my feelings for him did exist, we started dating, and we've been dating ever since for almost a year. I think because we were such close friends before we",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Boyfriend [17/m] won't tell me [17/f] whats going to happen with impending long distance relationship. POST: So, me and my boyfriend have been dating for about a year and a half right now and we are more than head over heels in love with each other. We spend every moment together and it turns out I'm going to be moving about 6 hours away (1 hour plane ride), in a year and will be staying for about 4 years. I really want to prepare myself for whatever happens, should it be me an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How can I make two nights from now the most romantic evening of my boyfriend's life? POST: I'm trying to surprise my boyfriend with a romantic evening on Sunday night. *I am the most unromantic person on the planet.* We've been dating for almost 7 months now, and are about to move in together. I'm worried that our relationship is already starting to get stale. I'm getting us an extremely nice hotel room, and bought him a $90 bottle of scotch. I need some ideas on how to make the eve",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] been together for 4 months [20F]. Is she losing interest? POST: Backstory: I started seeing this girl about four months ago, we work together (I know big mistake right). I knew at this point she didn't want a proper relationship (even though that's pretty much how we ended up). For the first few months she was always really affectionate, pretty clingy, would always spend time with me and pretty much just never leave me alone. We were having a great time together, but suddenl",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 M] do not find myself physically attracted to my GF [25 F] of 5 years anymore which has caused an avalanche of problems for me. POST: We have been dating for 5 years all of which has been long distance. The first 2 years she was only two hours away but then she moved further away after transferring to a new school and is now 8 hours away. The first two years were great because I could see her almost every weekend, once she moved though it has become once in a couple months or s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my Girlfriend [19 F] of 1 month. I think it might be me, but she's acting differently. (Haven't hung out much, doesn't text much) POST: I'll keep this brief, but when I had met my girlfriend we would hang out non stop, text often, etc.. Sadly her grandfather had passed, so we put things on hold for a couple weeks. Now she's been a pain to text, and to try to hang out with. However there are a few days where she'll text me and ask to hang out. I understand that she do",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23f) have a brother (27m) who is obese and I'm concerned about his health. POST: I (23f) love my brother (27m) very much, he took care of me and my sister (22f) when we were little since our dad wasn't really around, basically he is our father figure. I'm concerned about his health and wish he was too since he is obese. He has a son who is four and that's what makes me really concerned as well, the way his health is going I'm not sure if he is going to see his son grow up to bec",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Boyfriend[26M] took photos of half naked girls at a house party and I'm[24F] not sure how to feel about it. POST: So my boyfriend, of a few months, is in the Air Force and has told me on many occasions that the girls in the Air Force tend to be a bit risqué, to put it nicely. I mean to offend no one by that, I personally do not know any women in the Air Force and am sure that they are not all like this, but this is just the way that my boyfriend has described them to me. Anywa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] and my ex [19 M] are seeing each other again after a 2 month break up. I need some help. POST: My ex and I broke up two months ago. He told me he didn't have time for me, but the next week he has a new girlfriend. However, it didn't work out. This past Friday, he asked to see me. Things were pretty awful between us at the time, so I agreed. He came and picked me up, and we hung out and talked. I ended up spending the night at his house all weekend. We had sex a lot, and act",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26/M] am being warned to stop being friends with my exes[ 24/F] sister [24/F] after our break up POST: My ex, after having been separated now for 2 years from me, is warning her sister to stop being friends with me. Her sister and I have been friends since before I dated my ex and after my ex cheated on me and left me, she expected her sister to stop talking to me as well. Well obviously it hasn't happened and now after 2 years of no communication, a chance encounter with my ex w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I need some Photoshop help please? POST: I have 0 photoshop/editing skills and I need to do this small extra credit assignment for my teacher or she'll feel bad. I'm in AP Environmental Science and the whole class does not care about the class or the AP Exam. I really don't care about this assignment but my teacher already gets the feeling the whole class doesn't care either, and I'm afraid she's already starting to feel bad. I've been playing sudoku in the class for about 6 mon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] have a huuuuuge crush on my [21 F] close friend. Should I let her know? POST: I've been searching all over the internet for some advice and I can't really find anything that fits my situation, so I figured this would be the best place. To keep it simple I'm very into my good friend. Definitely not in love with her, but have very, very strong feelings for her. I'm just extremely scared she doesn't feel the same way. A good handful of my previous relationship, even non-datin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 F] boyfriend [20 M] broke my trust, unable to do our kink (fetish?) now POST: Hello! I'm so sorry if this is in the wrong section, if it is please guide me elsewhere. Anyways, my boyfriend and I used to dirty talk a lot and send pictures to each other. I found out he'd been saving my pictures via an app that saves unopened snapchats. I got really upset and he deleted them all (I checked his emails and computer). He saved them because he didn't want to watch porn when he was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (25M) with my GF (21F), she is totally changed after her mother's death and I am confused. POST: My girlfriend's mother passed away less than month ago from terminal cancer. It was a horrible time for her, her mother died on her arms and my GF took care after her and organized all the stuff and supported all her family through it. Even though her mom was the closest person to her, I didn't see her cry in public and she even hold a very beautiful speech at her funeral without sobbi",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I fucking hate atheists. POST: I have never believed in God and frankly I think that everyone who is religious is an idiot. But I'm not the kind of guy who tries to convince other people of their beliefs. I honestly think everyone is entitled to think and believe what and in who they want to, but because all of those goddamn atheists on (mostly) the Internet (yes Reddit, I'm looking at you) I can't even call myself Atheist anymore without religious people thinking badly of me. What you",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(18M) going out with (18F), needing help on how to reassure gf POST: So I (18M) have been with my gf(18) for about two weeks now but dated for about 3-4 before we made it official. She is quite a shy but extremely nice person and has never had any previous relationships. I however have. She Knows all this and wants to kiss me but is afraid because she ""does not know how to"" and she believes that I will dislike her for it. I have comforted her on this and let her no that there is not",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [23F] told my ex's [24M] new girlfriend he was still hitting on me, did I do the wrong thing? POST: To summarise, he has recently entered into a new relationship (about a month ago) and has invited me over for sex on two separate occasions. He has had ample time to tell her but has not said anything evidently, even after prompting him he did not give the impression he was going to come clean. Tonight I told her as gently as I possibly could whilst also acknowledging that it",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [30 M] have been moving too fast with relationships lately [25-30 F] - how do I find the right pace? POST: I got out of a 3.5 year relationship about 7 months ago - didn't date for about 5 months and now that I'm back in it I'm having a hard time pacing myself once I find a girl I'm interested in. My problem is I feel like I know what I want, I'm willing to become serious with a girl when they appear to check off a few of the boxes on my ""list of qualities I want in a potential pa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [31/M] got told by a friend [23/F] that she needed some time to think after I reacted poorly. POST: Posted this over in /r/askwomen[1] , was told I should put it here. Been casually seeing this girl, we'll call her Katie, for the last month or so, been friends since sometime last September. Last weekend, we went with a group of friends to hang out, and I got pretty blasted. A buddy and I went off to do our own thing, and her and her friend went up on the dance floor. Apparently at ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25f] friend [26f] cheated on her bf [27m] and is now pregnant. Should I tell him? POST: Friend (Amanda) and I were out of town visiting some of her old friends over a long weekend. She ends up sleeping with a guy, Tom, 3 times. They didn't use protection. Amanda took plan B four days after their first time. Amanda has a bf, Jeff. They've been together 5 years. Anyway, she misses her period and does a pregnancy test.. You guessed it: positive. Thing is Jeff was on vacation with",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Drinking Piss Out Of My iPhone 6+ POST: After a few hours' coding with my laptop and a full Nalgene, I had a full bladder. I finally decided to break my flow, and resolved to take a bathroom break on my next compile. Hit compile. Grabbed my shiny new iPhone 6+ and ran to the bathroom. I was finally pissing and it was glorious. Had potential to be a 30 seconder. Could be a new record. The multi-tasker I am, I even had time to clear my iPhone inbox with my right hand. Pissed for a f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [22/M] initiate things with my coworker [21/F]? POST: I recently started a new job and am interested in my coworker. We both work together as hosts so we're next to each other for our entire shifts. I've gotten into the habit of walking her to her car after each shift and I've been talking and flirting a bit with her, which she seems receptive to. Yesterday I asked her out and she said yes, though we haven't finalized a place and time, mostly due to both of our incredibly b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is it possible for someone [22/M] to have emotionless sex with an ex[19/F] of 5-8 years? POST: My boyfriend says that when he slept with his ex 8 months ago that it meant nothing and there were no emotions involved. The only chemistry was sexual and that he no longer had feelings for her. I find it hard to believe given their extensive past. I don't think he's lying, but maybe in some kind of denial. Which only frightens me more because if that's the case then there's no telling how",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[17M] with my girl [16F] 3 months, shores of indecision POST: Ok, so we dated for a three months then broke up She was my first kiss, first bang, first gf, first first first About two weeks after our breakup, her best friend(16f) and I start chatting This culminates in hanging out with her at her house, where we kissed and petted a bit. Haven't talked since Now about four weeks after the breakup, I'm hanging out with my first gf again. Should I tell her about the kiss or not? I w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28/f] am losing interest in my husband [36/M], but gaining interest in everyone else. POST: My husband and I have been together for 5.5 years, married for almost 5. He spends the majority of his time playing WoW, so we rarely spend time together. Before its asked, yes, I've brought this up to him many times and he gets very angry when I ask to spend quality time together. Over the last several years, I've noticed that I tend to become more romantically interested in other people ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] need advice about my relationship with my SO [23 F] of 3 years, unsure of how I feel POST: So, I have been with my girlfriend for a little over 3 years now, but lately things have been tough in that I don't know how I feel about her anymore. She's the only woman I have ever been with and I'm not sure if I want to continue the relationship or break it off and try dating other women. I got home from work yesterday afternoon and was greeted by a note on my desk, saying that s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23f] just kicked out my boyfriend [23m] but dont know if I want to end the relationship? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for over two years now. A few months ago we were having some trouble with our sex life, he was having trouble performing because of his use of porn and masturbation. We fought over it numerous times and to make a long story short, he promised to stop using porn. It's been a little over 3 months and he hasn't used porn, and our sex life has been great",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I crazy? POST: I am a 20 M, she is a 21 F. We both attend university, and are both in the same classes. We met about 6 months ago, at the first sight I thought she was beautiful. We started talking more and more in class and it was going great, come to find out she has a boyfriend! I was devesated, I started to have some legit feelings for this girl! Through more conversation I have found out that she is in an abusive relationship. The past few weeks we have been getting even clos",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my GF [20 F] of 6 months, long-ish distance, she sent a text expressing doubt regarding our relationship amplified by her mindset as of late POST: So I have been with my girlfriend for 6 months, we were friends before that. The first few months were great when we were both at uni (separate uni's, know each other from home) but ever since we both came back home she has been incredibly down on herself and was having depression-esque symptoms. Two weeks ago she moved ba",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (23 M) asked a girl (23 F) to date after 3 weeks of seeing each other. Got denied POST: Basically what happened was that I met this girl on tinder and we decided to meet after talking for a week. We had a date night and went great, had a first kiss whole thing. Now I haven't taken someone out I have liked in a year and a half since my last SO, so I made sure to go above and beyond with her even commenting on how she has never been treated so great on a date. Fast forward a week an",positive " r/dogs TITLE: Help! Trying to decide my pup's future. POST: Help peoples! I have recently adopted a st. bernard/irish wolfhound 6 to 8 month old stray pup (he's been to the vet and neutered etc...) I live in a 30' yurt in upstate NY and my property has a working invisible fence in place (around 15 acres of wooded area). It's been about a week and we've started getting used to each other; he is house trained, but *has* eaten some stuff and am in the process of crate training him, while I start his invisib",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [26m] little brother took his life on 11/3/14. My family always wants to meet up on relating dates and I don't like to. POST: Pretty much the title. My little brother was 22 when this happened. It really wrecked my life but it's been a year now so I'm able to function. I feel really bad for my dad though because he had to find him in the garage and cut him down :( I don't really like thinking about it at all. In fact when I do think about it I start freaking out but I know that he",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does American leadership have a plan to stop a crippling debt implosion? POST: The national debt is $13.1T. Over $5T of new debt is issued annually to roll over existing American debt. We're adding $2.0T a year to this figure right now. Massive liabilities for Social Security and Medicare are about to come in due to retiring Baby Boomers. And if Treasury interest rates were to ever rise to over 10% as they did in the 70s, $1.3T in annual interest payments says Congressional spending ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by misinterpreting polite conversation. POST: Short fuck-up, not a huge one. It should be noted that I just got out of a 5-year relationship about a month or two ago, so I'm just starting to get back into the whole dating thing. Plus, I'm really shit at talking to strangers. Social anxiety and whatnot. I went to Taco Bell on my lunch break, ended up going through the drive thru a second time to pick up my co-worker's order. The girl at the window was really cute, and she seemed to be f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(18M) am uncomfortable living with my friend/roommate(19M) after overwhelming ""love affair POST: I recently moved over 500 miles away from my home to live with my longterm/long distance friend and co-owner of our business. I've spent most of my adolescence talking and meeting people from the internet, this person was no exception. We started to get to know each other in summer of 2011. We had a lot in common and meshed really well. Fast forward two years and we had became best of ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Friend F[24] won't talk to me M[25] POST: Okay so kind of long story I 25[M] fell in love with my best friend F[24] I didn't tell her because she has already made it clear she does not like me that way in any sense. My therapist said I should spend some time apart from her and that should help me get over her. I told her I needed to take break from drinking which is mostly what we do together I did not want to tell her why because she has been in this situation with a friend lovin",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Need some advice on assault charges (domestic violence), this is my first run in with the law. POST: I am not a bad guy. Me and the wife got into an argument and it escalated. She threw her Chinese food at me. I reacted by pushing her for that. More angry words then followed between us. She then grabbed my food this time (styrofoam Chinese) and threw it at me again. It also go all over my computer. At the this point I was fuming. I basically told her to leave, since I pay for the bills",negative " r/cats TITLE: Good brands of pet food POST: My cat was sick twice this week, so we took him to the vet to have a look over him. Everything was fine, but the question of food came up. We were told that the food we were giving him wasn't of high enough quality and we should move him over to the vet recommended brand. When we initially took him to get checked over and neutered we were left a little bag of goodies for a certain brand of food, and a certain insurer. This brand was the one that the vet seems to",negative " r/cats TITLE: Trying to toilet train my kitties and thought you guys might be able to offer some insight... Cute kitty photo inside, for those of you who were looking for that, too. POST: This is a text-based cat post but, if you came here wanting a photo of a cute kitty, I will also provide that [here] so as to not disappoint anyone. Now, onward. About 2-3 weeks ago, I started to try to toilet train my two 3 year old male cats. I purchased a bowl that would fit in the toilet and used a thick cardboard ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Relationships] Why am [18f] freaked out by this [18m] POST: Its my First time posting on my brothers account so yall be nice Something a guy who has a crush on me is freaking me out in a good and bad way and i dont know why. A little backstory on this at the beginning of the year a friend i made introduced me to her best friend and her bestfriends friends , and of these said friends (lets call him darius) becomes attracted to me . While darius is attracted to me he isnt creepy ab",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/m] How do I tell if someone is my friend? POST: I've had a hard time in social situations for a while, but I'm trying to come out of my shell. Unfortunatly, this means that I'm crap at reading body language and that I'm not always sure of social protocols. One of the biggest problems that I've had is that I can't tell if someone thinks of themselves as my friend. Previously, I've been running under the assumption that if I have a heartfelt talk with a person where both of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] relationship with her [18F] just ended, but I think I feel good about it POST: We just ended a call, and it ended very well. After a unbearable hellstorm of arguments and hostility that spanned over two months, we were finally talking to each other as our normal selves again. Back story: There was a lot of me feeling insecure, worthless and her trying to do what she could even though I would lash at her for not giving me the attention I wanted. She couldn't bear with the p",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] infatuated with a friend [19 F] at college POST: So last year at college (freshman year) a female friend of mine introduced me to another friend of hers who also lived in my dorm. We got along pretty well, and soon she was inviting me to eat with her and sometimes do other stuff (she even started texting me with a nickname she made up). I knew I liked her then, but it was close to the end of the year and I didn't want to ask her out then since she lives in another state. W",positive " r/relationships TITLE: What should i do? I (20M) like a (20F), who just so happens to be in a long term relationship. POST: Ive worked with this girl once a week for almost a year. When we met we were both in relationships, i came out of mine in august, she is still in her relationship of 2 years. We have always got on well and over the last few months have started getting very flirty. here's the breakdown We always joke that il take her out after we finish our work shift, she has told me that she want",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [16F] feel like my emotions are a burden on my boyfriend [18M]. POST: I've been dating my current boyfriend for about 4 months, after knowing him and being close friends with him for about a year. I've been diagnosed as bipolar, so my emotions are often very unpredictable and I'm very sensitive. After a discussion we had tonight, he told me that he feels like he has to ""tiptoe around my emotions"" sometimes, something he is ""willing to do, but it's a lot of work"". I also have a huge",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [TN] Questions about going to attending high school and temporary guardianship in another state. POST: My family has just recently moved, as we do very often, because of their job. This time it was Tennessee and we moved from Alabama. We lived in Alabama for 3 years before we moved. I myself am attending a college in Alabama (Freshman) because I had in-state tuition so why not. My younger sister on the other hand is attending her third year of high school in Tennessee. The high school",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Good 3rd date, but she's out of town for three weeks. How to keep interest but not be clingy? POST: Background details: Me 22, young professional, etc. Her: 23, similar, apparently bad quarter at work, so she's really busy. We met on a dating site, and had three good dates. First was drinks, we got along well, no kiss. Second date, bowling to spontaneous dinner, then making out in the car. Third date, dinner and drinks with her friends. Making out in car, but she says she wants to g",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I probably would kill myself tonight if it weren't for promising my parents that i wouldn't. POST: I've been bullied a lot in school, but it got really bad in 6th grade, mixed with depression and anxiety it all became just too much for me. in 7th grade i left the public school i was going to and started homeschooling just to get away from it. during the next four years i dealt with the depression and anxiety with therapy, although all it did was make me better at hiding it from people. ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Just a little sad POST: I am a full time student with a part time job and a boyfriend, so I am usually busy and never at home. My dad works full time. Because we are both busy we haven't seen each other in months, we are very close and used to be inseparable, I am definitely a ""daddy's girl."" Anyways,late last night I saw him for five minutes when he came home before going to bed. He mentioned that he hasn't seen me in awhile and we should hangout in the morning. I saw him when I wok",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 F] with my Boyfriend [19 M] About 3 Years, Boyfriend turning into Bestfriend?/ Lack of my intimacy interest. POST: Been dating my boyfriend for about three years. I do believe I love him, but lately the past year I have never had a sexual or intimate thought about him. If I were to think about sex or something erotic it would be with other guys, daydreaming stuff with other guys. When I am with him we are both intellectually and mentally connected but physically we are not",negative " r/relationships TITLE: boyfriend is off to school and we've never been apart for more than 2 weeks...how do i deal? POST: my boyfriend (22, i'm 23) got into grad school and is now a 5-6 hr. drive away. this distance doesn't exactly scream heartbreak but in the 3 years we've been together, i haven't been away from him for more than 2 weeks. i didn't think i'd be so upset over it because i'm truly excited that he has this opportunity to work towards his goal/make new friends, but ever since i left him at his",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dating advice for a lonely friend? POST: Thanks if you're reading this... I'm hoping it won't get lost. I've got a forever-alone friend who is trying to find a girlfriend. He's mid 40s and the nicest guy I know. A real friend, and someone who would really treat a woman well. Problem is, he's intensely shy and socially awkward. Meeting in a club/bar/social thing isn't going to work, and one of those speed dating things would probably kill him. My wife and I are a bit younger, and don'",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I Want to Ask a Girl Out in My College Class. Any Suggestions? POST: So there's this girl in one of my classes that I'm crushing on pretty hard. We talk every now and then and during class and lab and I see her in the computer lab from time to time. My problem is I have the shy guy routine stuck in my mindset. I'd like to sometime steer a conversation into us going and doing something fun without coming off as a weirdo or anything like that. We initially started talking one day du",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 M] love my [23 F] girlfriend but I really want to date other women POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for over a year now. We get along really well, have a good sex life, and like being around each other. It's both our first real long relationship. I'm having trouble, though, dealing with my lustful emotions for other women. We both are in graduate school and when I see cute girls that I would have normally talked to when I was single, I have to really restrain myself ",positive " r/self TITLE: My mom thinks I don't know that she smokes... POST: It's ridiculous. If I walk outside while she's smoking, she'll immediately hide the cigarette behind her back. It's almost like she's a teenager and I'm *her* parent, and she is worried about being discovered. The thing is, she smoked when I was a young child, and she knows I have a crazy-good memory and probably remember that. She has no reason to try so hard to hide it. My dad openly smokes and has never tried to hide it. My parents are st",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [28M] wife [35F] picks fights with me, takes then too far, then expects me to forgive and forget with no resolution POST: Married just over a year. 99% of the time we are great. We recently returned from a trip with my wife to visit her family. The whole time she was lovey dovey and affectionate. The day after we got back she had a bad attitude. We had some issues with our power bill that she was working on. She did a spreadsheet and determined we were being charged erroneously. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/m] Ex help POST: Recently my girlfriend of over a year broke up with me. We go to different schools, but they aren't to far apart so we can see each other on weekends. When she broke up with me she said that she couldn't deal with the distance, after talking to her for a while I found out the actual reason she broke up with me was how I acted in the first few months of our relationship. When we first started dating she was the first girlfriend I'd had in a while, and had si",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] had a meet-cute with a guy [20-Something M] Just found him- Not sure where to go from here POST: Sorry for the long story but I'm new to this area and don't really have any close friends to turn to for advice yet. This weekend I was at my favorite bar and it happened to be karaoke night. I'm having fun singing along with my girlfriends and I keep catching eye contact with this ridiculously good looking guy. Every time I look over at him, he's already looking at me and keep",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What strange genetic traits does Reddit have? POST: I´ve become curious about this recently. I, unlike many of my friends cannot roll my tongue. From what I remember of genetics in biology at school, rolling your tongue is the dominant gene, so I´ve got the less common recessive gene, which explains why i´m one of the few that can´t! Unlike most of my friends, I can flare my nostrils at will. (it also happens if I take a deep breath through my nose.) I have no idea how this is controll",negative " r/college TITLE: Did my homeschooling prevent me from going to college? POST: Firstly, if this is the wrong place I'm sorry, just point me in the right direction and I'll be gone. Secondly, I apologize for the wall of text. So I feel like my mom screwed me over (unintentionally) by choosing to homeschool me. Not only do have a bit of a messed up work and study ethic, but now that I'm looking at applying to colleges it seems like I might be missing a whole bunch of the essentials for being accepted. For in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [28 F] of 15 months and her family believe in naturopathic medicine but I [30 M] don't. Long-term potential? POST: My girlfriend's mom had a serious illness (her hair was falling out, i believe due to financial stress) 8 years ago and she believes she was ""cured"" after taking Amway/Quixtar vitamins. Ever since then, her family has been huge advocates of naturopathic medicine and distributes Amway products. For those who don't know what naturopathic medicine is, here is a brief",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I (m, early 30's) can't tell if a coworker is interested or just friendly. Please help! POST: I am infatuated with a woman (late 20's) at work who has recently moved into my department. I didn't know her previously. She's my type in every way and each new thing I learn about her makes me more interested. After knowing each other for only about a week, she singled me out and asked me to hang out. We've had enough small talk at work for me to know that she has a boyfriend. In fact, s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] have have an unrequited crush on a straight coworker [24 M]. I have a boyfriend. POST: I love my boyfriend, and we have known each other for over 10 years (we grew up together and officially began dating in 2013). I started working at this place almost a year ago and was attracted to one specific coworker. He is completely straight, has a girlfriend, and I am able to comprehend that I am not going to date this guy and this crush is not going to be reciprocated ever, but I lo",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, would you impregnate your ex girlfriend? POST: I've been dating a girl for a little over a year. We were madly deeply in love this past summer without a care in the world. She is a little older than me and is unable to get pregnant by using her own eggs. On a vacation overseas she gets a phone call from her ex husband. He tells her that the IVF center called him to say that they were next in line. Approx waiting time was two years. I was put in his place, but we had to wait anoth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [22] tell my friend [21] that the only thing holding him back in life is his arrogance? POST: This is about a friend I've known for 8 years. He's trying to get a tattoo apprenticeship has been for the last two years. He's one of the most talented people I've ever encountered but has such a bad attitude that it'd be near impossible to teach him. He has the attitude of he knows it all already not just in artist matters but in life in general. He dominates every conversation",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24/M] met a a great girl recently, [25/F] but she lives a few hours away. Worth trying to see her again? POST: This past weekend my group of friends had some some friends visit from out of town, about 3 hours drive away. Anyways there was this girl with them who I had met once before but didn't think much of it. We all met up during the day and hit it off, nothing special. However dinner came around and we ended up sitting next to eachother and the attraction became pretty obviou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend of 2 years (20 F) broke up with me (20 M) Says she misses her ""BEST FRIEND""?! POST: **Losing my mind over this girl.. HELP!** Last couple of months we somehow started to get quite distant communication-wise. Just over a week ago we broke up. She sat down with me and told me she had simply ""lost feelings"". So I saw no other way than to agree to end things. I chose to respect her for being honest and the last few days I've given her space, nailed the no-contact rule and ot",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: At 20, in college and living at home, my mother still babies me to the point other people in my family notice. Can anyone relate? POST: To start off, yes I know I still live at home and that I'm not as ""grown-up"" as other individuals, and I in no way intend to sound like a whiny brat with separation issues but hear me out: My mother will still tell me to do things like ""Make sure you do your homework"" when I clearly have had no problems doing my homework in the past. We will be eating a",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/m] not feeling wanted by [18/f] gf POST: We've been dating for a little over a year and a half. We go to different schools and she does competitive gymnastics so she is out of town or at practice a ton. Usually we see each other once every one or two weeks. When we're together, I feel very loved and wanted. When we are not together, especially if it's been a while since we've hung out, I start to feel unwanted. As the time since we last saw each other increases, she ignore",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have an addiction to browsing the same pages over and over... Anyone have advice on how to overcome this? POST: I guess I am just longing for a simpler time but I have a problem with browsing the same things over and over and attention span problems caused by it. I can't just full screen a movie and watch it all the way through.... Every 5-10 minutes I go back to firefox and refresh reddit and a few other pages. I have full intention on watching the movie, for instance, but I can't ke",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [21/M] Hasn't been in a relationship in a while. Not sure really how to approach people. POST: I do apologize ahead of time, I have a hard time putting my thoughts into words. Well as the title says I have not been in a relationship in around two years and my previous relationship lasted right around two years. I have tried dating sites like [Plenty of Fish] myyearbook (I think it's called MeetMe now), OkCupid, etc. About 90% of the time I message someone on those sites I don't get",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] with my [18 F] girlfriend have a great relationship that is 7 months old. Today I got a call from her father asking me to stop seeing her. Can anyone else share experiences similar to this? POST: My girlfriend comes from an Arabic family and while she is not religious her father is a Muslim and today we were both asked by her father to stop seeing each other. She recently told her father about a week ago that we've been seeing eachother and we even went to the apple orchard ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [17/F] He [17/M] told his friends that we were dating but we weren't POST: Apologies if this isn't the right sub-reddit to post this, but I couldn't think of where else. Basically, I met this guy (who I'll refer to as H) a little more than a month ago at an overnight event in a nearby town and we hit it off. We ended up spending the night together and once the event was over we added each other on Facebook. We share a lot of common interests and so get along quite well. We've bee",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Most badass moment from your childhood? Here is mine. POST: When I was a young boy in the early 90s, one of my mom's best friends had 2 teenage sons. The oldest one was my hero. He had all kinds of cool stuff, drove me places, called me his little buddy, and played all kinds of sports. Totally the shit. He gets picked to be on the Nickelodeon show ""GUTS"" (before it went global, if that matters), and I, being in kindergarten at the time, was blown out of the fucking water. My hero gets to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] together for 4 months, just broke up today due to her not wanting to commit to a relationship. HOW TO DEAL POST: I live far away from her, around 6 hours. She goes to college and I am just a senior. We decided to hook up a few months back after clicking along very well. Although lately things have been going bumpy, we only text, we haven't had sexual contact in awhile. She's a party girl, but still shows me a lot of affection when we're together.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my girlfriend [25 F] duration 1 1/2 years, distance/work problem POST: So my SO and I have been dating for 1,5 years now and we have seems to hit a rough patch regarding the distance (200 km) and my work ( i work in a hotel and have to work a weird schedule) and things are getting worse and worse day by day. I am in love with her and she says the same but i am getting confused, i have tried to explain to her that i try to see her as much as i can but sometimes it happe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: me (F33) in complete mistrust of OH (M34) after finding his casual sex profile. POST: My Husband, (M34), signed himself up to a site used for casual sex when working away, while I (F33) sat at home lonely and clueless for 3 years raising our then v small babies singlehanded. I caught it in his emails a month after he came home and put him out (lasted a whole week). Thing is, it's now over a year later and my head still cannot get around it. I guess it was the effort of it, creating a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girl (19F) I (19M) keeps leading me on, What should I do? POST: So i met a girl a couple months ago at my university who I have a crush on, we hooked up a while ago, she told me she didnt want anything to do with her FWB anymore and wanted me, then she told me the next day she didnt want to get attached because she didnt want to get hurt. This led to bad feelings from both ends and we stopped talking much. Fast forward to this weekend, she ends things completely with this friend fro",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Why is my attraction for her so on-again off-again? POST: I'm 25 and my girlfriend (28) and I have been together for 2 months. At the beginning, I had been dating two women simultaneously (with each aware of the other) and broke it off with the other to be with her. She makes me laugh. She's intelligent. She treats me better than anyone I've been with. We both came into the relationship happy and whole by ourselves. She's pretty much seen most of my upsides and downsides alrea",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting my crush a new job POST: Sorry for formatting errors, on mobile. I'll try to make this short. Anyways, this happened a few months ago. I worked full time at an IT help desk, and also part time at a big name retail store. At the part time job I became good friends with this girl I directly worked with. We hung out together a few times, and I know the feelings were mutual, but she had a boyfriend at the time and I didn't want to make things weird. She was getting screwed out",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Applied for a job, got it, now I don't know if I want it. Advice please. POST: I started working as a service advisor at a car dealership last May. My dealership was taken over by a bigger group of companies at the end of the year. My department went through restructuring, my manager got demoted to my position and I was put as appointments coordinator. I hate phone work and it's been shitty since when I started this new job back in June. I recently saw a post for another advisor job at ano",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Lying to my(21f) boyfriend(21m) of a year for nearly a year. Should I come clean before inevitable breakup? POST: On mobile. I apologize in advance for this. I've tried writing this three different times. It's always been so long and confusing. I have this habit of starting a story and it becomes seven separate stories. Anyway. I'm really going to keep this simple. We've been together a year. It's been rough, but I firmly believe it's been more good than bad. Something worth fighti",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with a girl [21F] I went out on a few dates with. Am I a dick for being concerned with her weight in the back of my head? POST: Long story short, I met this girl on tinder. Her pictures were either one year old or at a certain angle, so I didn't suspect a thing. When I met her in real life, she was definitely bigger, and not by a small margin. I decided not to jump to quick conclusions and see where this goes. We went out a few more times, and I actually like her, she has a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: BF [M18] won't talk to me [F18] but his birthday is tomorrow. POST: Both of us are 18, I'm a female and he's a male. We've been together for six months. He ignored me for a week without stating why, so I texted him a few days ago telling him I missed him and if he needed space, it was fine by me but to tell me that too because I didn't like being left hanging. Many hours later there was still no reply and I got quite pissed off so I told him that I will leave him alone from now on. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Feel like it may be time to break up with my [21F] boyfriend [24M] of over a year, but I'm afraid to POST: My boyfriend [24M] and I [21F] have been dating long distance (about 3 hours away) for a little over a year now. I love him, but there are problems that just haven't been fixed. Im the only one who travels for visits, he never offers or tries to come see me. And when I do see him we just sit in his house watching tv, no dates. Not even for anniversaries, no dates or gifts (even ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: The girl [20F] from a student exchange program that I fell hard for left to go back to the US. I [23 M] spend 3 months with her almost daily and now I'm feeling completely empty, depressed and unhappy. POST: Hello Reddit, I am 23 years old student of Psychology from Athens, Greece. To make a long story short, I met this exchange student from the US back in February and since then I fell head over hills for her. We were hanging out every weekend and I saw her almost daily in classes.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 M] have a friend-acquaintance [38 M] (for ten months) and wonder if it would be weird to suggest hanging out for the holidays? POST: Or his bday in January? He and I talk frequently at the end/when he closes the booth of the newspaper/flower stand he runs. He went from the south to the west to get away from his family who's views he doesn't see eye-to-eye with. As it stands, he is single and I learned on turkey day, he spent it at a club drinking. I didn't ask why but I assume",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's something your parents have done when you were in trouble? POST: I'll start. When I was younger I used to go to my friends house alot and sometimes I would like to stay late. I would run home hauling ass, because I knew I would be in trouble. I make it home and I see my dads car in the driveway, I of course panic because he's obviously waiting for me inside. I enter the living room and there's no sign of my dad. I turn to see his door and I nearly shat myself. On his doorknob was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36 M] with a girl [28 F] have been texting and talking on the phone and had one date in person. She's socially active and I'm not. Will it work? POST: I've been emailing, texting, and talking to a girl I met online for about a month and we've been on one date. It all seems to be going well and our conversations seem to flow pretty nicely. When we talk, she tells me about her trips with friends, going out with friends or coworkers, doing planned activities with friends/coworkers, ",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Need some help deciding between two job offers. POST: I was let go over a month ago and have been struggling to find a job. I decided to cut my salary expectations down a bit and have been offered two jobs. They are both temporary options until I find something with better financial growth. The first is pet sitting and dog walking. The nice thing about this is that I could keep it on the side once I found a full time gig. It pays $10.60 per half hour visit. I could get up to 20 visits a day",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [31 F] found out my [31 M] has taken thousands out of our savings account and kept it in a secret account he had been using for 9 months. POST: I found out yesterday that my husband took out thousands of dollars ($4,600) from our savings account and put it in an old account he had before we married that I thought was closed/inactive. I also found out that the account I initially thought was closed/inactive he has been using for about 9 months and has hidden total about $5,400 from ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my GF [20 F] of 2 years, she has severe vaginismus, affecting our sex life, but she doesn't seem to want to do anything about it. (X-post from /r/sex) POST: Somewhat of an update to this: We have established that she has severe vaginismus. Since the last post we've taken some steps: she has done pelvic floor exercises and we've seen multiple sexual health counsellors, including one who is a specialist in vaginismus itself. However, each time, it took a lot of convinc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 F] have been talking to a guy [21 M] for 2 weeks now. (online) POST: To put it into simple terms. I type a lot when I'm texting - like literally 5 paragraphs. So, I really opened up to him over the past 2 weeks and he knows a TON about my life now. In return, to every text (5 paras) i send him, he gives me the EXACT same amount in return. Meaning, he types maybe a bit more than me, as well. I know about his past etc. about him as well. We talk everyday. I was just wondering",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: After an unexpected sighting of some police where my girlfriend and I were having relations, I found myself driving naked. Reddit, what situations did you NEVER expect to be put in? Full story in link (kinda nsfw). POST: So my girlfriend and I were doing our *business* in a car (P.T Cruiser) at a park, which is rather notorious for having teenage kids smoking pot. During a break, we noticed some lights flickering around a nearby building. Turns out it was what we thought was a cop accomp",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm at the beginning of a 6 hour drive with some people I barely know and I HAVE TO FART so bad. PLEASE Help. What do I do?!? POST: As I sit here in silent agony, I can't help but grimace every time the car slams over a bump in the road and hope I dont shit myself in the process of writing this. I'm carpooling with an acquaintance and his dad on a 6 hour drive. We sit in awkward silence and with every bump in the road, my stomach starts to gurgle and churn. *Oh shit.* ***OH SHI",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's your ""kids are little assholes"" story? POST: At work, when it's a child's birthday, he gets whatever colored balloon he'd like. We also have clear balloons, so some of the coaches know how to blow up a colored balloon inside a clear one. A little boy who didn't take classes there, and was just with his mom picking up a sibling, saw two girls get birthday balloons. The family left and came back about five minutes later, kid asking for a birthday balloon because it was his b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with guy i'm dating [23 M] already wants to go on vacation together? POST: There is this guy that Ive been talking nonstop to for the past week and have met him twice (he stayed over both nights, but we didn't do anything in bed) and already wants to travel together. I brought up the idea of going to the beach in a different state and he is totally up for it. I don't know if this is too soon to be going on a trip with someone but after my break up of 4 years, he has really",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: Would you do this, Reddit? POST: After a really bad breakup, would you erase that person away from your memory? I would. And here's the reason. I (23, f) had been in a safe relationship with a guy for 7 years. I met someone else (21, m) who was apparently crazy about me. We attended the same classes and were in the same study group. We became friends and he fell in love with me, even though he was in a relationship with another girl. The relationship I was in had become sour and this o",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need advice from anyone in the art/advertising fields. I'm on course to being an art director and I'm good enough for it. POST: EDIT: Should say ""I'm *not* good enough for it"" In college for some reason I studied Mass Communication with a focus in advertising. I've worked at a few ad agencies doing internships and I've always enjoyed the creative side of it. Now I have a full-time job as a production artist at an ad agency, and I'm on the path with the company to becoming an art direc",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Should the guy always make the first move? POST: F16 I've seen girls make the first move and I've been told that guys like that, but every relationship (not just my age group, but older college friends of mine) I've seen, where the girl made the first move, ended badly with the guy falling for some other girl who he then made the first move with. Should I wait and see how things go? Or should I make the first move with M16? We've been talking for awhile and he always gives me hugs before on",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Destination Wedding Issues POST: My FW and I got engaged on 3/30 and have been wanting to do a destination wedding since we started seriously talking about getting married. When we first mentioned it to our families, everyone was very excited to go to Cancun and just kept on talking how much fun it was going to be. Cost is not an issue as my family loves Cancun and has been plotting when to go next and we have offered to help pay for her family if they need any help. After a few da",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17f] with my bf [17m] of 6 months/anxiety is ruining my happiness POST: i've been in my first relationship for 6 months. i'm completely smitten and in love and much happier and in a better place then i've ever been. we're best friends, we're lovers. we can talk to each other about our emotional issues (both have anxiety & depression) we talk each other through our insecurities as well and im just always happy to be around him and we spend quite a lot of time together. the only p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [29F] getting married, and don't know if I can exclude a friend's bf. POST: So I'm getting married...in less than a week, to be exact, a small civil ceremony at the courthouse with just my fiance and a photographer. However, we are inviting all family members and friends to a party taking place in the summer so we can hang out, BBQ, and have a fun time. We are only inviting our closest friends in an attempt to keep it chill. Problem is, I have a friend; we're close in that we h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19/F] with my SO[20/M] and his frustration with me not hanging out with him and his friends POST: 3 month relationship, friendship has lasted for years. He (lets say Josh) gets really frustrated and seems to take it very personally when I don't join with his friends when they hang out. Sometimes it will be random moments when it's just him and I when his friends hit him up to smoke and I decide to go home or do something else rather than join him. Usually his friends call out of ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I need some advice on a very sticky situation concerning a girl constantly coming on to my bf. POST: Me:27 F The bf: 27 M As the title states, there is this girl who makes advances toward my bf nearly every interaction. What I'd truly like to do is rip her apart with my bare hands, but the problem is that his very close and good group of friends all like her. For some back story, he and I have been together, off and on for 4 years. Things are very good right now, but there was a t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] saw messages on my bf's [20M] phone of him flirting with a coworker POST: This morning I went through my boyfriends phone out of curiosity. I didn't think I was gonna find anything. In my head I thought my boyfriend was loyal and that I meant everything to him so what I saw was unexpected. He's been texting his coworker for a while now. He said she has a boyfriend but their text messages say otherwise. They're telling each other ""I love you"" and sending hearts and kissy faces",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 F] need advice on what to say when meeting my boyfriend [24 M] in real life for the first time POST: Hello! First off I would like to say that I am new to posting on reddit as I have just lurked in the past. Also, English is not my first language so I am sorry if any of it is bad! ^_^; So my situation is kind of weird I think for this subreddit. I met my current ""boyfriend"" online. On an online game actually. We shared Facebooks and social media, texted a lot for about 3 or 4 ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Active Job Scam - Volunteer Youth Exchange POST: Its a work-from-home job opportunity that is being posted all over Canadian job sites. Brandon Plunkett & Robert Johnston are two names used for the VYE (volunteer youth exchange) company under the number 902-800-0073. My only point of contact was with Brandon Plunkett via email, and he requested I complete various power point assignments. It was during an assignment I began questioning the authenticity of the company, and investigated. The com",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Interview Questions: What is a promise that you've broken and why? What is the hardest decision you've made? POST: First time posting a text question so please share some new love. My sister's friend just recently lost the opportunity to go into dentistry school after failing the interview. She had perfect marks, was part of a Sydney exchange program, and even won an academic award at UBC Human Kinetics faculty, but she couldn't give a good answer to two questions she was asked: 1. What",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He (26m) seems into me but won't ask me (22f). Yet if I pull back he seems upset. What to do... POST: We are both coworkers and work closely together. One weekend I asked him if he wanted to get a drink, and he said ""don't hate me. I'm busy this weekend so I won't be able to this weekend"". He said he would get a drink with me, but it has been weeks since I have heard from him. He also played along when I told him a coworker said he saw us ""holding hands and kissing"" (we didn't. Our c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex (23M) won't leave me (21F) alone, should I continue to ignore or tell him I am not interested? POST: I dated this guy, Alex, when I was a teenager, on and off for maybe 2 years? He was abusive, had a drug/drinking problem, and got me into hard drugs at 15 years old! I dumped him for good when I finally came to my senses. For the next few months, he harassed me to the point that I changed my phone number, blocked him on all social media, and I basically stopped going out in fear th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: No clue what to think, LDR, swear I'm not a troll [M22] POST: I just got an email from my girlfriend saying that halloween got a little out of hand for her last night. She said she was very intoxicated and the friend of the party holder was flirting with her all night, one thing led to another and they ended up having sex. The kicker is: she is a girl. I'm currently in Europe until May and have been here since September. I get to go home for Christmas and come May I will be back ho",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How does a Muvva-Fucka get some upvotes in this bitch (i.e. reddit)? POST: I'm starting to feel like those pathetic ""forever alone"" memes. WAH... nobody likes me. WAH... I'm undervalued. Why contribute if the world doesn't see my natural wit and brilliance? Bah fucking humbug!! No really, do people have a strategy for this because I'm starting to get frustrated. I'll give you an example. There was a picture a little bit ago that showed Jesus on a dog's ass. Not to brag or anything, b",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I am not sure if I am a bad person for doing this to my best friend. POST: My best friend is in need of money and I have enough money to lend her some. She's quit her job many months ago just because she doesn't like it, even though it pays well and she's refusing to go and find another one. She simply wants to chill at home and maybe come up with some lame and business ideas which would never work unless she puts her heart into it. She's living with her boyfriend and he's taking care all t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by thinking my fart was just a fart. POST: This only happened a few hours ago So I haven't been feeling well for the last few days and have been living off a diet that consists mostly of pizza and chili for the last week. I was on my computer downstairs, browsing reddit when I realized I had to take a dump. I waited and browsed some more until I **really** needed to go. The first FU came when I decided it would be better to quickly read someone else's TIFU instead of taking care of my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend (24F) and I (27M) were intimate before, potentially on the way to a relationship, but not anymore POST: I met my friend via online a couple months ago, and we connected amazingly well, chatted all the time, and after we met a few times in person, we started getting more intimate with each other, even having sex once. But after that, she seemed to chat with me less, and when I talked to her about it, she said that she would prefer a good friend without any intimacy instead. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [21] girlfriend [24] is in a mood with me for something I cannot control. Did I do something wrong? POST: Hi all, first time posting in this subreddit. It's a long read, please bear with me Both me and my SO work in retail, she faces customers on a daily basis in a homewares shop whilst I have recently switched to a new and more exciting job that involves delivering parcels to customers home addresses. The pattern of shift schedules at this new job is different to what I am use",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Sweet, chocolatey revenge POST: So, yesterday I was taking care of my little sister, who wasn't feeling very well. I was super attentive, fetching her snacks and blankets, letting her do whatever she wanted. She was completely milking it, complaining about everything and guilt tripping me into doing more and more. She even made me give her the last of my (special seasonal bath product from popular, expensive cosmetics store) and then proceeded to use far too much of it, and flooded ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have a ""problem"" that I don't care to have solved, but my fiancee would like some answers on it. What could be making her give me handjobs in her sleep? (Probably NSFW) POST: This has been happening for the past few weeks. If I go to bed with anything on that makes me ""easily accessible"", I'll wake up a couple hours later to her giving me a handjob. I even woke up to us having sex a few days ago. I couldn't care less to have the problem fix, but she would like to know if there's any wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [19F] is interested in restarting our relationship with me [18F] but I am confused? POST: My ex and I broke up in February-ish time after a short (1.5ish month) dating thing, due to us wanting different things from the relationship and I admittedly haven't quite got over it yet - I still miss her a lot. Recently, we've discussed restarting the relationship and she said she needed to sort some stuff first before coming to a definitive decision. This was all great and I was ha",positive " r/self TITLE: I just got tethering to work on my dumb-phone. POST: I bought a handheld Android tablet about 2 weeks ago, and it's really useful. The only problem is that it only works over wifi and doesn't have a 3G connection, meaning I can only really use it at home. Well, after messing with it a bit, there is an option called ""Cell phone tethering"" under the connections options, and allows you to connect to other phone via Bluetooth. I have a dumbphone with Bluetooth capabilities, but didn't think it ",positive " r/loseit TITLE: r/loseit -> Would you be interested in a website that lets you scroll through before/after transformations? Would this be something you'd contribute to? POST: One thing that's helped me in losing weight is getting that little boost of motivation whenever I saw some of the amazing before/after transformations people have accomplished. The way it'll work is simple; people will come to the website and be able to scroll through various transformations of people who lost weight, that's it. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My recent exgf [20/F] keeps drunk dialling me [22/M] looking for a booty call... I don't want to do something I'll regret but I really want to see her, not sure how to deal with this. POST: Bit of back story, Basically we had been together for 3 year, we moved in together and it all worked well until she booked a year trip to Australia, quit her job, ended up not going on her trip, stayed at home smoking weed while I worked and supported us both financially and finally broke up",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (21F) talk in my sleep and I'm worried that my SO (22m) is going to hear me have dirty dreams, potentially about other people. POST: So... My SO and I have been together 2 years. We love each other very much but we have our problems, like ever other couple. We can both get a bit possessive and jealous but we are working on it together. We've gotten considerably better than we were but we still aren't where we'd like to be. In mid to late August we are moving in together and we ar",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [24/f] deal with my boyfriend [23] being threatened by me being best friends with my ex? POST: I've been seeing my current boyfriend for a year & a half, but he's still incredibly threatened by the fact that my best friend & I dated for 5 years [we have not been romantic for nearly 4 years]. This has devolved to the point where any time I go do something with my bff he picks a fight and threatens to end our relationship, only to turn around saying he doesn't mean it etc. The",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] am falling for a friend [23F] but it's complicated and I need impartial advice. POST: Hey, so like the title says I'm falling for this wonderful girl I met 3 months ago. But there are issues that are preventing a relationship and I'd like advice as to whether I should stick around or just move on. Some background info: She had cancer before I met her and beat it and soon after I met her she found out she might have it again so she told me that until she's sure she doesn't ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: [Repost] Is she [19F] intentionally trying to hurt me[22M] after break up? POST: Hey, I broke up with my girlfriend of 2 years recently and despite me attempting to stick to the 'no contact' rule, I find myself replying to the constant texts she sends me daily. Her texts vary between being polite by asking me to help her with a problem she's having and then quickly switching to her being extremely hostile claiming that she hates me and doesn't love me(I don't know why her mood changed wh",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I change my life before it's too late? POST: I'm an 18 year old guy who doesn't know what to do with his life. I realized that I may be closing all of my doors to a potential success due to my lack of dedication and ambition. I am currently in grade 12 (senior year) and I have passed 2 out of my 7 courses over this year. I will be returning for yet another year of high school, but I'm hoping I may be able to change how I work towards my goal. A little background about me. I have ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] went on a date with a [19 F] girl I met online, and it went well, but some confusing texts afterwards POST: The date was today, we went and got ice cream and then watched Boyhood, which was fantastic. I'm a 22 y/o male, she is 19. The date went well, we held hands during the movie and kissed at the end of the date. When I got home, she texted me that she had a great time but she did not want to pursue a relationship because since she'll be starting her second year of pre-med",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Found out my wife of 10 years [31 F] has been cheating on me [30 M] by invading her privacy. Do I have a right to confront her? POST: Found out my wife was cheating my going through her phone. I got suspicious after we went through a rough patch and she started acting different with her phone (never letting it off her body). I still love her very much and have no desire for a divorce. We have two kids and for the most part a great marriage. A close friend said that I should focus i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [19M] girlfriend of 5 months [18F] says she has severe anxiety when talking to me POST: I don't have much time, so I'll keep it short and to the point. I've recently found out that my girlfriend has suddenly developed severe anxiety when she talks to me via text or in person. This is extremely straining, as I feel as though I've done nothing wrong but I'm still to blame. Five days ago she said that she needs some time away, but she doesn't want to break up. I'm wondering if I shou",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by forgetting I keep a lot of fishes. POST: I am big time enthusiast fish keeper. I have about 5 aquariums in my home, but I have to maintain several other containers as quarantine tanks and breeding tanks. These containers are usually buckets and other pitchers which have their temperature and other parameters maintained. From the past few days, I could smell a faint but rancid smell near my door. I thought maybe Ive missed the water change on one of the containers. So I checked all t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] and my 3 years old crush [19 F] ends up in the same university, I finally want to make a move but how ? POST: First of all, english is not my native language, so I apologize for my grammar/mistakes Explanation of the situation : I met my crush at school, 3 years ago, she became a friend over time, but I never wanted to get too close/try somthing because of my lack of self-confidence, but mostly because im really bad at relations with girls. I do believe she had interest i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Emergency! Need laptop help, please! POST: Hey guys i'm usually the tech savvy one but i've never had this problem before so I need some help, my only resource for help (engineer friend) is out of town and won't be back for a while. My laptop hard disk has died. It's damaged i believe, it just won't read. I already bought a new hard disk and i'm going to install win7 on there. I don't have a problem with the fresh install and getting the hard drive BUT I NEED TO RETRIEVE MY OLD FILES. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 20M 19F. Lost her trust. How do I get it back? POST: We've been dating for a little over 2 years, long distance for the most part. I'm on the east coast and she's in the midwest. I've periodically lied to her about smoking weed, which she has asked me not to do. She doesn't trust me at all, with anything, especially after the last episode about a month ago. The start of our relationship was rocky, I was involved with other women and she thought she was the only one. So as you can s",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by almost getting in a bar fight POST: So, backstory. I'm a 24 year old male who has a bachelor's degree and a job in my field. I had to move away from home for said job (about six hours away). I love my job and am very happy with my life at the moment. My girlfriend and I decided to come home since I have a three-day weekend. It all starts out great on Saturday. We're all drinking beers and talking and having a great time. We decide to go to the local go-to bar in my town to play pool ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what can I do to make my little cousin feel more loved, despite his deadbeat dad? POST: Friday my 11 year old cousin, we'll call him timmy, called me because he was scared to get in the car with his father who had been drinking. After making sure he was safe (I told him to refuse to go, and to stay with our uncle until my mom could go get him) I had to tell him I was at school and too far away for him to visit. His, father/my uncle ""Jerry"" is a 40 year old drunk that lives with",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] I [25f] simply don't know what to do about my boyfriend [26]. I feel paralyzed. POST: Original thread: First, I would like to thank everyone for their responses to my original post. I appreciate all of the feedback - it was helpful to get a fresh perspective on the situation. As many of you suggested, I faced the problem head on and confronted my boyfriend about the conversation I saw between him and another girl. I was afraid that he would deny it, that he would blame me",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[28/M] fiance's[26/F] ex[26/M] sent me nudes and sex pics of them saying I could never please her as he does. She is having a crisis. POST: Met Adrianna at a conference for businesses in our industry three years ago and we hit it off. We have the same tastes in movies, some in music, and both have an unhealthy obsession in bowling(never thought I'd find a partner as into as I am). We got engaged in September, and everything was going great. About two weeks ago I got a series of pi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Reddit, I just woke up during my first night back at college to my roommate peeing beside my head. POST: It's my 3rd year at college and I've never had a problem like this before. I woke up to my roommate (whom I've known for 2 years, but this is the first time living with him in the same dorm room) peeing in a box near the top of my head. I was so groggy I couldn't react until he had already emptied his bladder. He then tried to climb over the head of my bed and into my bed. When I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] feel like my girlfriend [21F] of two years broke up with me due to imaginary circumstances POST: Good Morning, Reddit. Two and a half weeks ago me and my girlfriend of two years split up. We had been together for the majority of our university lives and have since graduated and moved about three hours from each other via train - no big deal in my eyes. Three weeks ago I visited her house to look after her nieces with her, which was perfectly pleasant and fun, I felt a bit of ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: [Auto] Advice on repairing car or going for a newer car POST: Hello /r/personalfinance I've been driving a 1998 Chevy Lumina since I was 16 years old (19 now), and I've put roughly $1800 in repairs to it since then. My last big issue was a slight gas leak and I took it to a shop, which they refused to work on the car. I took to a family friend who works on cars, and after he was finished replacing several parts it ended up being $1200 as well as rigging up my gas tank so it would ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Would it be offensive for me (20f) to tell my potential roommate (21f) that if we are to live together, there are certain things I wouldn't want her to use? POST: My potential roommate (21f) is totally awesome. We are good friends and I think we would be pretty good roommates. Only problem is, there are some things I see her do involving material objects I wouldn't be cool with. There are things I wouldn't mind her using of course. Like my tv and treadmill and any food I plan on putt",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 NB] made a new, INCREDIBLY LONELY, friend [31 M]. He's hitting on me. My SO [18 F] thinks it's hilarious. POST: I'm on the Exec committee at a university society. I went to a society event yesterday and arrived a little late. As a consequence, I ended up sat next to the quiet guy who isn't so great engaging with people. I didn't mind this at all, so I was perfectly friendly with him and listened to what he had to say (quite a lot, not much of it interesting). After about 45 min",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] been dating a girl for two and a half years, [20 F] she refuses to come to my apartment/has been talking to another guy since January. POST: I apologize if I don't make much sense here, but I'm going to try. I've been dating a girl for over two years now. Generally, we are happy. We fight sometimes about dumb things but according to my mom (married 25 years to high school sweetheart,) that's the way all relationships go and I shouldn't believe the Hollywood prince-charmin",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Am I an asshole? POST: So a few weeks ago I was purchasing some of the devil's lettuce from a friend of a friend. This guy seemed cool and we got along pretty well. He would tell me crazy stories of some things he used to do. For example, steal things, rob people, sell drugs etc. Well once we got to the destination I gave him $60 to pick up for me and he came back about 10-15 min later saying he lost the money. My first though was he's stolen my money and is saying he lost it. He said he wo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my GF [23 F] been dating for 5 months but she's leaving to work on a cruise ship for 6 months and I am paranoid POST: My GF [23F] and I [25M] have met on Tinder and have been dating for 5 months. She signed a contract to work on a cruise ship before we met. She's leaving in a few weeks to work on a cruise ship for 6 months. Her and I are both very much in love and she says she isn't as excited to leave for the cruise, but she still wants to do it because she doesn't wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19m] have suddenly started going limp when it comes time to have sex. POST: My of two months girlfriend and myself, both 19, decided recently that we were ready and willing to have sex. Once she had gone to get a condom and return, and after I put it on, I was too limp to continue on. The same situation happened quite recently when we tried again. It's by far the most embarrassing situation I've ever been in in my young life. I'm aware I should go see a doctor but I'm away for col",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My FWB [23F] wants to just be friends [26M] POST: My FWB [23F] seems to just want to be friends with me [25M] and says she doesn't want to have sex with me anymore. She says most of the time she feels like a slut for having sex outside of a relationship. We're pretty close, so I believe this is the real reason. I've known her for about 3 years now, and we were once romantically involved for a short period of time. I really don't know what to think about this. We're both single, lon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16M] have recently begun asking about my father [?M] and learned a lot about him, and don't know if I want to confront him or not. POST: I decided to ask my mom about my birth father whom I never met, and she began to tell me about him. Among the many things she said, he's a chief of police, a pilot, architect, motorcyclist, veteran, former detective, among other things. This is all new to me, all I did know is that he used to be a cop. Anyway, I always planned on meeting him whe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27 M] girlfriend [22F] of 11 months just tested positive for genital herpes. I was her first... POST: First off, I don't believe she cheated on me. Even if she did have the time beyond school, two jobs, and me, she's a good girl with great morals. Plus she lives at home and her family loves me. Plus, with my history, me giving it to her is far more plausible... I was her first, we've been sexually active for about three months. We love each-other. I had been with eight girls bef",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Do I [23F] have the right to me upset at my mom[48F] for what she said? POST: My mom and I have never been super close as far as our relationship goes. It's never been bad in my opinion, we just never had that mother daughter best friend thing going on. Almost a year ago I moved away from home to live with my boyfriend and now we live 3 hours away. We try to come and visit at least once a month. They have came to visit us once, when they helped me move. Last weekend we went out to sp",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by wearing a old crappy helmet and being stupid POST: So this happened about 8 months ago during the winter. FYI Sled=Snowmobile I invited my friend over to go sledding in the field behind my house because we got a new sled and I really wanted to try it out. We didn't have very good helmets so I used an old crappy one that fogged up the visor if you left it closed for more than 5 seconds. That meant I had to leave the visor halfway open the whole time, which wasn't so bad until we were",negative " r/relationships TITLE: New Relationship, New Problems (xpost from r/LongDistance) (M:22, F22) POST: Hopefully this gets some views... New relationship, only temporarily long distance but the new long distance dynamic concerns me. I spent years in an LDR (long distance relationship) before this and I am worried that I just grew accustomed to the relationship specific things. For Example: -texting before you fall asleep. -texting when you wake up. -letting the other person know when you aren't going ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ex Girlfriend / Fiance is not doing well with her RX drug abuse problem... what can I do? POST: To make a very long story short(er) - I had been dating this girl for about 4 years before her first incident. She has a chronic pain issue along with multiple personality diagnosis (PTSD, anxiety disorder) - She started abusing her pain killers (oxy) and benzos (xanax, colonopin). Along with that came lies, shady behavior, and huge problems in our relationship. We worked together and finall",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Casually seeing two guys, this has never happened to me! POST: I [25F] am not very experienced within the dating universe. I've been on many dates but its been years since my last relationship so needless to say this situation is completely foreign to me! I've never expected anything like this to ever happen to me but within days of each other 2 guys, we'll say Guy A [22] and Guy B [31], both express interest in me (and we all work together to make matters stickier). I've gone on a f",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My ex called off our engagement last month. Now I'm finding out why. I feel lost and devistated. Any help? [x-post from askreddit] POST: So we had been together 7 years. Engaged to be married. Last month we had a long discussion about our future and she thought we needed a break. When we got together she had just turned 20 and once she graduated college we moved in together. She told me she didn't like the fact that she went from college graduate to house wife almost instantly.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I found a large wad of cash at work today and if it's not claimed, the company wants to keep it. Is this right? POST: I work at a grocery store in Ontario that is owned by a large Canadian company that I won't disclose. Today while working, I found a wad of $20 bills that had over $800 in it after we counted. I immediately took it to the main office, as there was nobody around except other employees and I was the only one who saw it. All the employees were pretty surprised to see",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Balancing school, work and volunteering. POST: Hi guys, it's my first post here and I was looking for some advice. Before I start, I would like to clarify that CITY A and CITY B are an hour bus ride/drive from one another. During the weekdays, I'm at school in CITY B, and from friday nights to sunday night, I'm in CITY A (I work here on Saturdays). Anyways, I've been offered a volunteer position in a hospital in CITY A and I'm not sure if I should accept or decline. The reason being is b",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Bloody Bradford Index Factor, now means I have a disciplinary, do I need to declare it to future employers? POST: Right, I've searched the internet and nothings giving me a straight answer so I thought I'd try you guys. My UK company subscribe to the Bradford Factor for sickness, if any of you are lucky enough not to know what it is, here's some stuff stolen from Wikipedia: The Bradford Factor is calculated as follows: where: B is the Bradford Factor score S is the total number of sp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Breakups- Me [21m] she [19F] still love her? POST: Yo so this girl and I lets call her hamsauce, well we dated in HS. I was a junior, hamsauce was a freshman. Lost our virginities to each other, basically went everywhere together conjoined at the hip. Talked day and night until we fell asleep, woke up early and talked on the phone. Dated for around a year. We broke up and after I had a fling with another girl, nothing serious, I didn't really like her much. Eventually hamsauce and I",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girls Nights Out POST: I'm [21/m] and my girlfriend [19/f] of seven months joined a sorority pretty recently and has been going out a lot with her girls, which I shouldn't have a problem with - I want her to go out and have fun with her girls. But I keep freaking out about her being hit on/hanging out with other guys while she's drunk, and I don't know what to say to her, because I know it's somewhat irrational. But recently, every time she tells me that she's gonna be going ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (23M) being stubborn about why things won't work long distance with a girl I love (23F)? POST: Obvious throwaway is obvious. I live a 1.5 hour flight away from the girl I had been dating for the past 2 years (but have been best friends for the past 6 yrs or so). When we started dating I lived cross country but moved closer 6 months ago. Since then we have been able to see each other every other weekend or so but I suddenly realized a couple weeks ago like I'm missing out on ev",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it possible for insecurities to only exist in certain relationships/individuals and not have them in a different one? POST: I could probably reword the title better but can't at the moment. I [21/M] have been in a relationship [29/M] for 11 months now. Our relationship consists of many differences, a lot of unhealthiness and negativity. We both have a lot of problems and insecurities but we're not gonna get into that. I have so much insecurities in my current relationship (my",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need help understanding something thoroughly terrifying that happened to me tonight. POST: I'm not religious, I don't believe in ghosts, but something very strange happened tonight and I can't understand it. I'm still shaking and am, to some extent, afraid to even leave my room. I was driving home from a pub and decided to take the highway. I was not inebriated (two beverages in three hours) and I'm normally awake at this hour, so I wasn't abnormally tired. There's a lengthy section of",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(22M) have social awkwardness problem that I didn't used to have, how can I fix it?? POST: I am in the claimed ""most social"" time in my life in college. Yet when I am talking to someone that I don't talk to everyday it comes out in a jumbled mess. I sometimes stutter or take long pauses to find the words that I want. Its almost like I am psyching myself out when I am trying to talk to someone. It happens with guys and girls but its definitely worse with girls. I would say it started",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20m] I met a girl [19f] on a dating site who's almost a perfect match, but she just wants a hookup right now where as I am more inclined to build an actual relationship. Advice? POST: I've been speaking with a girl on a dating site recently, and in the beginning we simply had talked about our interests and the like and found out we were pretty much carbon copies of each other. I'm really into her. Problem was, at one point she just completely dropped off the face of the earth for a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My Girlfriend (22) broke up with me (24) on Monday, and I'm confused. POST: So, On monday i came home and my girlfriend broke up with me. about a month ago she started being in a play and one night after a performance she decided to go out with a guy from the play. nothing happened but she broke up with me because she felt like she wanted something to happen. Fast forward to yesterday, we both had some time and space and we talked, we agreed to try and start over because we did ru",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Ordering A Fleshlight POST: Being a single guy in his 20's I thought ""Why not?"" So I went through Ann Summers ordering process only to realise in the confirmation email that it only included my house number, not my flat (apartment) number! So the erstwhile postman delivered my sex toy to flat 1 (a delightful Polish couple) instead of my flat 3. So I was coming home from work with my mum for a cup of tea when the Polish lady handed me my (every credit to Ann Summers) completely blank c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Help! Me [27M] falling for my non-single [25F] friend. POST: Long story short I met a girl a few months ago and we've become really close good friends. We talk, text constantly, and spend quite a lot of time together and have mutually become best friends in a city that is brand new to the both of us. I've started to care about her as more than just a friend but haven't pursued it and have no plans to as she isn't single. She started dating someone right before we met who unfortunatel",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22m] confused about my relationship with [20f] that I know for a year POST: Me and Emily got to know each other through a girl called Jess that we both knew. Jess for some reason lied about me to Emily later on and me and Emily stopped talking. Later Jess got between Emily and a guy that Emily liked. Jess lied to him about Emily, him and Jess became a couple. After this I sent Emily a message on Fb because I was feeling sorry for her and after we talked for a while, Emily reali",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (21/f) I'm not being expressive enough to him(21/m)? POST: It's been two months since I've started dating a guy that at first I didn't know if the relationship would work. We hit the ground running pretty fast and really love each other. The thing is, I'm not a very expressive person because of my past and having gone through depression a couple times, it made me not very initiative focused. I can be expressive and extroverted when I feel great, but my SO seems to have troub",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] lost contact with my friends [19 F, 19 F] through middle and high school. Advice on how to reconnect? POST: Back in elementary and early middle school, I was good friends with two girls who lived near me, and we would do just about everything together. My parents, as a result, ended up becoming good friends with their parents as well. But I was an incredibly shy kid in elementary school, and – to make a long story short – I really pulled into my shell just before I started m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Guy I like-I'm also a dude, not sure of his sexuality-should I initiate non-sexual hang out time? POST: Hey Guys, So I met a guy playing tennis recently-I was practicing my serve, ditto him, and we played a pick up game. We swapped #'s and have played a few times since. I'm 28, he's 23. (I know, kinda cradle-robbing.) He was mentioning today, during our warm up, how he got Topspin 4 for TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (16M) have been finding it hard to see the point of dating (15F) throughout high school POST: Let me explain myself. I have been dating this girl for about 6 months now. It has been my first long term relationship, and it has been going pretty well. The problem is, I have some serious attachment issues. Not like I am constantly wanting to be with her and demanding that we hang out all the time, but instead I can't swallow the fact that I most likely wont be with this girl after h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] can't stop thinking about my boyfriend [23M] having sex with another girl while we were broken up. Help? POST: Ok big edit since people are focusing on things that doesn't really matter to my problem. My ex and I were together for 14 months and we broke up for various reasons. We were broken up for around a month and during that time, he had a one night stand. He came back to me last Friday, said he missed me and love me so we agreed to try again. I stupidly asked too many q",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Advice on how I [22F] can ask my bf [27M] to be more affectionate? POST: I think www.5lovelanguages.com is an interesting/basic breakdown into the way that people prioritise affection. In my current relationship, what I'm yearning for is more physical affection and actual spoken affirmations. My bf does a little bit on the physical affection side, but it's not a lot, and I would really like more, and to be told I'm beautiful and to be told that he cares. I'm not looking to be worsh",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting drunk with my asian GF POST: I am a Soldier stationed in Korea. My buddy and I went out for drinks with my Korean gf and her friend. My gf is a real light weight, she is lacking that gene that lets her drink. The most she's drank with me beofre was two beers in my room and she was all red faced and hammered. Tonight we order a 3,000 CC pitcher of beer and a bottle of Soju. The lady friend has a few beers and leaves because she has work in the morning. My gf tries to kee",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] met new girl [24F] and not sure if I'm attracted to her POST: Note: this is the continuation of Read the thread linked for original story and background. I spoke to her. I told her what I feel, and I told her that something is lacking. She is cute and all, but I dont feel like I want to spend all my time with her, or have this urge / need to hug, kiss, hold hands. In short, I think I'm not attracted to her as much as I should. I dont know if this is a physical or mental a",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by locking myself out of my own subreddit. POST: This actually happened today. Yay, me. A bit of backstory. I'm a freelance writer and a part-time paid GM for a D&D store in my town. I created a steampunk, sky in the world setting for a writing challenge, then had nearly all of my players want to start playing it. I was a little surprised and very happy that they were so interested, so I made a subreddit to post all of the lore and work I'd done on the setting. About 16 hours into maki",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/F] reconnected with an old friend [20/M], but he got really personal really fast. Weird? POST: Recently I ran into a childhood neighbor and friend again for the first time since middle school. We quickly started reminiscing and talking about people we used to know, etc. and agreed to meet up and have lunch. Everything seemed perfectly normal and friendly at first. Over lunch, however, he started to get really pretty personal-asking things like how many guys I've dated and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [26F] husband [26M] of 4 years doesn't want me to pierce my ears. Which of us is the unreasonable one? POST: I currently have one lobe piercing (on both sides), and ultimately I'd like to get one or two more on the lobe and a few around the helix (because earrings are awesome). My husband didn't fuss that much over the one lobe piercing I already have, but every time I mention wanting to get another he reacts negatively. His excuses: * They're at risk of being torn, and you'd ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/M] I really love my girlfriend (21/F) but she's becoming less interested in sex. POST: Hi. I'm currently in a great relationship since I've been 18. I don't think a lot of people could have such a serious relationship at this age, but from the first moment we saw each other we were absolutely in love with each other. We started living together when we just turned 19 and we have been for the past two and a half years now. Everything is great, we've discussed marriage, we'v",positive " r/relationships TITLE: my [18m] gf [18f] of 7 months has been avoiding/ignoring. Am I being overly attached/worried? What do I do? POST: So for background, we have always had a close relationship, spending hours talking to each other and hanging out. Recently I have been out of town for about a month. We still communicated a lot towards the beginning of the trip but after a few weeks she began to not talk as much and would ignore me occasionally. A few days ago she told me out of the blue that she starte",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19F) am thinking about moving out from my mom's house (43F) POST: Some back ground: I suffer from severe anxiety and depression which has made my collge life (2 years) really hard. My mom has a disease that causes her great pain. I will try to summarize as best as I can. I don't know if moving out is the right thing for me. Right now I live with my mom, but I am seriously thinking about moving in with my SO. For this I would need really student loans for three years ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] and my girlfriend [17F] are on a break but desperately want to make things work. POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for a year and a half. We started dating when I was a senior in high school and she was a freshman, which I know can seem odd to some people, but I'll continue. We've dated all summer through my graduation and into my fall and spring semesters at community college and her sophomore year in high school. And now this summer had past and we we're still dat",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [26m] lost my virginity a year ago and had sex with only 4 ONSs. I am terrified of entering a relationship knowing that I am most probably less experienced than women my age. Is this a problem? POST: My story: I was born and raised in the middle east. Was not religious myself, but the society is, and is uber-conservative when it comes to sex. I arrived in the USA 1.5 years ago, and lost my v-card shortly after. At the beginning I only wanted to have sex, but after the fourth ",negative " r/Cooking TITLE: Hey Cookit- My new job features cuisine from around the world and I'm in charge of a dessert special, I would love some recipe input! POST: So I've been working at this fine dining place for a little over a month now and the kitchen crew is pretty small. I've got a pretty large amount of non-traditional cooking experience but this is my first fine dining setting and I'm trying to learn as much as possible. For me, that opportunity mostly comes from our ""birthday dessert"". If anyone comes i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my [Mid/Late 20s M&F] Acquaintences... is it too late to be friends? POST: Allow me to preface this with the following: I have always been terrible at interpersonal relationships. I have never had an instinct for forming friendships, and as such have gone most of my life without any meaningful friendships. For instance, I went from seventh grade through my senior year of college without ever once doing anything with anyone from school outside of school hours. yada ya",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by urinating all over my church bishop.. POST: So, my church has a scout troop that is fairly active and I help assist with it occasionally. We go on fun camping trips periodically and the bishop, who is an eagle scout, likes to tag along with us sometimes. He's an extremely formal dude and really mature as well. So, anyway, we all slept overnight at the campsite and in the morning we decided that we should go hiking down this steep-ish cliff that has a trail. Now before you enter the tr",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: Trying to get space [M23] from [F23] POST: I am a male law student who recently was dumped by a female classmate. We were in the same friend group and did most things together for about a semester and a half. I thought it was great, and she has been everything to me at this school. To be honest, it was the most comfortable, happy relationship I had been in. After breaking up, we hooked up for a few weeks, but she told me that she was seeing another guy a couple weeks back (another classma",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Girlfriend wanted to have a threesome with another girl while we were in Vegas ... POST: I'll try to keep this short. I was in Vegas on a work trip with my girlfriend (we work together sometimes) which also happened to fall on my birthday. She had been hinting to me that she may want to have a threesome with another girl but I never really got in to it for fear of it being a ""trap"". Anyway, while in Vegas we talked about without speaking in code to each other and one night while we were out",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] am thinking about asking my [23F] girlfriend to marry me, need perspective on ring POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for four years and living together for two. Our relationship has never been better and I feel like we're ready to take the next step (similar life goals/aspirations, financially secure, enjoy each others company, etc). So recently I've begun looking at engagement rings. I'm not a particularly vain person and I have little interest in contributing to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: At college without a car, how do i make this work? POST: throwaway. Hi reddit, so i'm in college and got out of a somewhat bad relationship a few months ago. Recently Ive become closer to a classmate a year ahead of me. We've hung out a bit, almost always with friends and have stayed up late talking more than once. There was one time i went over to her apartment to watch an episode of a show we both like (my tv was broken at the time) and we stayed up until 3 talking about random stu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [20 F] told me that she doesn't feel the same towards me [20 M] POST: Me and my gf were dating for 3 years and broke up in February of last year because I started taking her for granted. We got back together in December of last year and things have been going great. Until recently. I do love her with all my heart and I do a lot of things for her. She works 3rd shift and I worked second. Well I got a new job that I hate that's 1st shift just to see her more. And also I moved o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my GF [18 F] 6 months LDR, never have arguments. Should we? POST: I get that it's only been 6 months but I find it sort of strange that we never have arguments, I whole-heartedly love her. She's told me that she does not like arguments (and i'm the same) but I feel that they can sometimes be healthy, even necessary, to sort things out although this is the first major relationship i've had. My parents constantly have severe arguments (always on the edge of divorce) a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (f22) and my SO (m24) have been together for 3 years but he still insists on hanging out with other girls. POST: So my bf is bi, and told me when we started dating that he had a considerable amount of girls that he was really close with, sone he's slept with and some he hasn't. Well that was all fine and good before, but now it just seems to be one girl. He tells me he slowly drifted with most of his female friends because it bothered me, but he doesn't want to give up this one. T",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I[F/18] deal with an overly jealous fiance[M/19]? POST: We're both in college and we've been together for about a year. Everything has been awesome. There's always been a small issue with his jealousy, but tonight I'm really questioning the logic behind it. I'm not sure of what to tell him to make the situation better. For clarification, I live in an apartment style dorm with 3 other girls. We share a livingroom and kitchen. Earlier tonight my roommates told me they would lik",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] Fish Oil Dosage Questions POST: Hey r/dogs! I'm looking to start my two 45lb mutts on fish oil soft gels (will likely purchase from Costco). How many mg should be administered per day? They're fed rotationally on Fromm Surf & Turf/Duckenpfeffer, Zignature Zessential, and whatever decent grain-free kibble I can find for sale on Chewy. Should I alter how many caps I give them based on the food I feed, or will the food contribution be negligible? My goal is to see if their slight year",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (20M) going through a breakup (19F) POST: Its a really, reeeeeally, REAAAALLLY long story. Its been a month exactly of trying to save my relationship after a lot of unfortunate events and mistakes that are my own fault. This has literally been the worst summer of my entire life. I was with her for about 4 years, and it went down hill over the last 6 months. Anyway, i cant change the past. I need to go no contact. But i have a lot of anxiety and thoughts are haunt me, make me ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23f] broke up with my cheating ex of 4 years [21m] 2 months ago. I recently met a great guy [23M] but I think he's moving too fast... POST: My ex and I dated for 4 years. We had a passionate, but dramatic, relationship. I'm a no-drama type of person, but he broke up with me 3 times over the course of our dating and begged for me back each time. This most recent time was the last straw (and I also found out he made out with one of my friends...), so I broke it off for good. We stil",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M/] with my Not sure?___ [18/F] duration, female comes into my life shortly after having heart broken POST: Hi guys/gals, so I have seemed to find myself in quite the odd situation. So a little bit of background, my significant other and myself both graduated high school a few weeks ago. As tradition, our county all goes down to the beach in what we call (beach week). I only knew this female at the time because she was in a sort of relationship with one of my friends. So anyw",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18/M] discovered that my cousin [29/M]'s wife [27/F] has been cheating on him, should I tell him about this? POST: Some background info: I don't know my cousin too well because of our age difference so we never really hang together and whatnot, but what happened was we had a family party/dinner at his place and I was known to be a tech savvy kid (at least the most in my immediate family). My cousin's wife asked me to fix something on her computer since she got some virus and some ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My aunt who has severe Crohn's disease is about to be sent to jail for 60 days for not having the money to pay a $240 medical bill, Reddit can you please help my aunt out? POST: The title says it all really, my aunt has been through so much, she has had over 24 surgeries in these past few years because her disease is so severe. If she is sent to jail she will surely die. She has to come up with $2000 in these next two weeks or else she will be sent to jail. My aunt is also incredibly tal",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/f] How to be there for brother without getting too invested? [20/m] POST: My older brother failed out of school last spring, was diagnosed with ADD and depression, and has refused to get a job since. I don't even know where to begin. I'm in my second year of university, and go home about every two months, but I haven't talked to my brother since I went home for spring break, and I don't think we said much besides hi and bye... We haven't had a real conversation since summ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [21/M] trying to date a friend [21/F] who's interested but not ready for a relationship... POST: I've been interested in this girl for a long time and have had a huge crush on her for the past two or three months. I'll spare the details, but suffice it to say that she's awesome. We weren't especially close friends before (just part of the same friend group), but over the past month or two we've spent much more time together (both in groups and alone together, even late at night) ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (20f) boyfriend (22M) had a list of pornstars in his phone and I'm feeling insecure POST: Quick background, dating for 2 years and very in love, we do not live together, no major problems. One problem we do have is I can be very insecure and I get jealous easily of girls in his life. Today we were making a list of baby names just for fun that we liked in his phone and I had noticed another list of girls names and I asked what it was and it was a list of porn stars names that he ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Fight that might have ended our friendship - should I even try to save it or let it go? (Both 21/f) POST: A month ago, my friend that I have been close to for six years was supposed to go to a concert with me and another friend. About two weeks before the concert, she started ignoring my texts and calls. Days went by and a few days before the concert, I texted her and told her she needed to tell me if she was still planning on going since I hadn't heard from her, and told her I neede",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Can't decide between (immediate) career and good social life or relationship with my GF? [24M,24F, 2 years] POST: I'm 24 years old and from the UK. My French GF is also 24. We started going out two years ago when she was studying in the UK. We did the long distance thing for a few months before I left the UK to be with her in France. That was 3 months ago. Since I've been here I've been really struggling with the language, finding a good job and meeting new people. All of this has st",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19F] boyfriend [20M] of 5 years is moving away in a month and I want to know how to help. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together since we were 15 years old and have lived about 10 minutes apart for the entirety of the relationship, both living with our parents. Today, he was offered, and accepted a job that will require him to move 2 hours away from me. Seeing as both of us live with our parents, we really don't have anything we need to live on our own. I want to help him ",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Junior Bridesmaid norms? POST: So, this entire junior bridesmaid thing has me a bit baffled. How old or young can a junior bridesmaid be? What are their responsibilities? Are there any benefits they ""get"" over being a flower girl? Where I'm coming from: The fiance has two nieces who, when our wedding rolls around, will be 9 (almost 10) and 7. We also have his goddaughter who will be 3. We really want all three girls in our wedding, because they're all fantastic and we love ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: girlfriend insanely offended at my request of her freshening up before sex POST: I want to ask other women what they think about this. My girlfriend (she's 24, I'm 25) of a year is a beautiful, intelligent, and passionate, although highly emotional red head. She's also quite high maintenance. We have fights every once in a while because 'I do or say something that upsets her'. I usually let the things she does slide because they aren't enough to make me worked up. I work an insanel",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] just got broken up with by my [19M] military boyfriend. POST: As the title says, I've been dating my boyfriend for 8+ months, 5 of which he was in the military. From the beginning we knew he would be joining the military, and he said he wanted to stay with me. I agreed, even though being 17 and committing yourself wholly to someone like that was frowned upon by a lot of people around me. That's besides the point; I fell really deeply in love with him, more emotion than I've e",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my GF [20 F] of 4.5 months are hitting turbulent times post abortion. Don't know how to approach relationship! POST: We were an inseparable couple that excelled in communicating and having fun at home or out with friends. Lately, a week after an abortion I've never been so confused or lost. I know I can never relate or understand what she's had to go through so I try my best to stay caring and provide comfort with a sense of security that I'm truly there for her. I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I feel like the only reason I don't wanna date my best friend is because I'm not that physically attracted to her. Is this shallow, or am I justified in feeling this way? (17m, 16 f) POST: I've known her for about a year or so, but we've become really close friends over the past few months. I've never gotten along with someone so well in my entire life. Sometimes I literally feel like I'm talking to a female version of myself (in a good way) which is partly why we're so close. Someti",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my boyfriend [29 M] of 5.5 years, on the verge of ending it because I'm no longer attracted to him. POST: It's just not there when I kiss him anymore. I don't know how to get it back. It hasn't been there for some time, and it's only ever really been there in waves. I think deep down I was only ever so-so attracted to him to begin with. Throughout our relationship, we've struggled with sexual compatibility. We are excellent partners on so many levels. He's smart and ",positive " r/running TITLE: Intense calf pain from barefoot running POST: So a few weeks ago, I bought a pair of Vibram Five Fingers. I had run a little bit before, read about the awesomeness of barefoot running, and learned that it is good for flat feet, so I gave them a try. I started off with just walking around in them (running errands, looking and feeling like a douche) On Monday night, I went for a 2.5-kilometre run and has no serious pain. I learned quickly that I had to run more on the balls of my feet. So",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my friends [20 M] 4 years, they don't want to respond or pay up. POST: So, me and 4 friends all 20M, lets call them Lester, Charles, Alex, and Houston, are planning to go on a holiday. We have a whatsapp group where we're planning the details. Houston has left some money with me to handle his payments for the flight and hotel as he is currently busy with family matters. Charles has booked the flights. I am supposed to be handling the hotel booking. However, when it ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22f) don't know how to handle situation with (25m) boyfriend POST: I have been dating my (25m) boyfriend for about three months. Prior to this relationship I was in an unhealthy relationship where I was ""gaslighted"" constantly for close to two years. Being open and honest with this current boyfriend I spoke about my past and different events that have happened in my life that I am not to necessarily happy sharing. One related to this event was when I was passed out drunk at my fri",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I have no idea how to proceed. POST: Long story short, I've had a crush on the peer mentor in one of my classes since September and I'm not sure how to approach the situation. I'm trying to figure out how best to build a friendly relationship (before asking her out), but the only time we're in the same place is during class when I don't want to interrupt anyone. She gave her number to the students in the class in to keep us updated on things around campus and told us she'd go to even",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Engineers: what do you think of my [27/f] fiance's [26/m] work schedule? POST: My fiance and I have been together for 5 years. He is a structural engineer who started working full-time almost 2 years ago, and two months ago he started a new job at a private engineering company. I'm concerned about his long work hours. He's working around 55-72 hours a week. He insists all engineers are like this, but we have a small group of friends who are also engineers (mechanical, electrica",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [f/16] I'm having problems with my fwb[m/15] POST: Ok so I have this fuck buddy who I met several months ago. When I first met him, we got along amazingly. We both weren't looking for anything serious and just wanted fun. So we became fuck buds. A few months pass, and he starts developing feelings for me. He doesn't outright tell me, but he makes it obvious. I know I should've ended it then, but I was selfish. So we continued being fwb. Now, a few more months have gone by, and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my gf [27 F] of one month, need help managing expextations POST: I don't know what to do here… A bit of backstory about me and my dating experience. I dated one woman for about 2 years and looking back is was not healthy at all so my ideas of dating are gone to shit. I am ad addict and I attend AA and I think that is interfering with my dating life in the aspect of if I like something I want it every second. (over 5 years sober btw) To the story… I told myself I wo",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sharting myself at a bon fire POST: so this just happened about an hour ago so its pretty fresh. we were having a bon fire with my cousin, my neighbors, my family, my crush's family, and a couple of my friends. so the night is going off pretty good. there was not much drinking because i didn't have a lot money to buy any beer. so we just sat there on these little dinky chairs roasting hot dogs and marsh mellows and other things. we ate chips that my friend bought and it was pretty f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my [20 F] 1.5 years, here comes the break. POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for over a year and a half. We have been arguing a lot recently and are at different points in our life. I'm 22 and just graduated while she is 20 and only a sophomore in college. She has unrealistic standards in terms of what she would expect from me later in life and obviously hasn't had to work a day in her life making her not the most mature. Me being impatient doesn't make thin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (17/m) broke up after bad relationship. Don't know ifi want to persu another girl because she's bigger POST: Me and my ex been on and off for a while and during one of the off times this girl asked me what I thought of her ass and I said it was nice, then asked if she was Mexican. She said she was and asked how I knew and I said because all Mexican girls have nice asses. I include that part because its my dream to sleep with a Mexican girl. However, she's not what I was thinking when",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my boyfriend [21 M] of a few months. Not sure if telling him would be beneficial. POST: First off, I have been seeing my boyfriend since April of this year. Before we started dating, we were friends for over three years. Our relationship started off as a friends with benefits situation, where he would come over a day or two a week, we would have sex, and he would leave. This quickly progressed into us hanging out a lot after work every day, then I spent a few nights ov",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I love my alcoholic girlfriend, but is this worth it? POST: Hi reddit. I have been with my girlfriend for about three months now. I found out about a month into it that she has been fighting alcoholism for years, and I have seen the worst of it when she went to the hospital for pancreatitis. She went to detox a week ago and has been sober since. Yesterday, she admitted to me that she got one nip at the liquor store down the street while I was in the shower, but it took a lot of annoying",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriends mom (old) doesn't doesn't want him to see me (24) for reasons POST: My boyfriend is 23 and I'm 24. We have been together for about 2.5 years and have a really great relationship. We both still live at home because he is still in school and while I have a job, I have an insane amount of student loans to pay back. He isn't anywhere near done with school and his mom is getting more and more pissed at him by the day that he isn't done. I do understand her frustration becau",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Getting bored with each other after being in a relationship for 8 months POST: Me [22,F] and my boyfriend [24,M] are now almost dating for 8 months and he's the best thing what ever could have happened to me. We're still in love like on the first day and can't imagine a life without the other. But the problem is that i'm getting the feeling that we're getting bored when we're together and not doing anything but laying in bed ned to each other while he's on his phone and i'm laying on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [33/m] GF [29/F] overheard a conversation I was having at work after I failed to hang up a video chat call. POST: I work in a restaurant kitchen, and there was an ongoing conversation between co-workers about one guy's gf not giving him enough oral sex. A few of the guy's I work with offered graphic and colorful solutions to the problem. I offered the following: ""women don't want to be asked, they want to be told."" I realize how this sounds. I didn't mean it in a misogynistic w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] suck at dating and relationships in general. Please help me? POST: Hi everyone. I am fairly new to reddit and I am not sure if this is the sub for this but here goes: Yup, dating is a very grey area in my life. Im tired of watching my friends get girlfriends over and over again, it just gets to a point where I feel bad for myself and try to figure out what's wrong with me...I havent even had my first kiss yet. I try and try but often get rejected or the girl I am trying to s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my ex-fiancé [23 F] 3 years, separated but I want to get back together POST: So my fiancé and I ended up splitting up about 6 weeks ago. The more I think about it was me ending it but it felt somewhat mutual. So she wanted to talk and then she drops these bombs on me saying she doesn't want kids, she wants to move everyone 2-5 years and doesn't want to live near family. As you can imagine this came as a complete shock to me since this seem out of the blue since she wo",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Help, police served a warrant on my California home. POST: 90 days ago I had a warrant served on my home. The police were looking for previous roommate. We'll call him B. B lived in an RV on the property, he got a state license and registered his vehicle at my address. He moved out in April, and went on his way. Well he got into some trouble, and there was a search warrant served at my house. They took lots of my possessions. At the time I was not following all the laws of the land. Ha",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Redditors who were the ""popular kids"" in high school, when did you realize that you were cool? POST: Up until 10th grade, I wasn't the ""popular kid"" but I was pretty well liked. I was known by a lot of people, but usually it was just because everyone knew me as the guy who played a lot of video games. Once I got to 10th grade though, everything changed. All of the cool kids saw me as some awesome guy and started talking to me constantly. Seniors started to hang out with me a lot, and one",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with my girlfriend [24F] of 2 months, trust issues due to previous relationships POST: I've been dating my girlfriend for two months now, and it has been two very fantastic months, we have talked about anything and everything. She is a mom, has a daughter I absolutely adore, and we (all three of us) get along extremely well :-) I can't remember a time that I've been as happy. The biggest thing though is that both of us have had terrible past relationships and are having a ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [17/M] can't figure out if a friend [16/F] is interested in me POST: First of all, I have had girlfriends, but I was always the one that showed interest first. So, a couple of weeks back I started talking to this girl, who is a friend of A, another friend (he is important later on), for a cross-grades school project. While making it, she offered to basically be my assistant (the project involved almost 100 people and I was the ""leader"") and came over to my house to work. W",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [30/f] was just caught mid-orgasm, by my sister [40/f] and her 2 children [10-14m/f]. How do I approach this? POST: **Quick TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Good friends but I like her. POST: Sorry if this doesn't belong here since a relationship never started but yeah. Both 18 years old. Let's call her ""Blah Blah"". Blah Blah and I met at summer school 2 years ago and we became friends. It was until about a few months ago where we started hanging out more, talking more, that I started to have feelings. I recently gave her a mix CD, chocolates, and an Archie comic for Valentine's and told her how I felt. She said we'd be good just as fr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] am having trouble letting go of my recent ex [32F] and considering whether or not it is a mistake to break up POST: Hi there, I recently broke up with my ex girlfriend of 10 months and I am having doubts as to whether I am making a mistake with letting her go. We both love each other however I feel somewhat not ready for the level of commitment she is asking of me. The main issue for me is the 8-year age gap and the fact that her life is not sorted out. She is at a crossroads",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it ok to spend the weekend with this friend, under this circumstance? (Me: [20 F], Friend: [21 M], Boyfriend of 3.5 years [22 M]) POST: So there is a big engineering certification test that I'm planning to take in two months. There are multiply test centers, which are 1-3 hours away from my school. The test is supposed to take 6 hours. What I'm getting at here is this thing will take all day. Anyway, a friend of mine suggested that we go take it at the center 3 hours away becaus",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19F) sort-of cheated(?) on my boyfriend (21M), he forgave me. What now? POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for a month. A week in, we agreed that we weren't yet exclusive. We never had the exclusivity talk. But we've been together every day, most nights for the month, calling each other boyfriend, etc. It should be said up-front that he's my first relationship, and before him I've had FWBs, ONS, flings, etc. He's never hooked up, only had relationships. A few days ago, he ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Anyone know what kind of degree you need to work with soundboards for a concert or in a radio station? POST: I'm in my second year of college and hate my major and plan to transfer schools and change it next semester..hopefully. I was into the medical field but now want nothing to do with it now and was considering an environmental studies major since I've always liked and cared about nature, but now I'm really thinking my passion might be for music. I've always had an ear for it. I was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Need some advice POST: Me (20/m) and a friend(18/f) have been friends for about 3 years, it started out sexually but we ended it pretty quickly then since none of us wanted a real relationship. We then continued to be friend and grown really close, close enough that she knows more about me then guy friends. Now to the problem in hand, we have been starting to get more into eachother and have had a sexual relationship for about 2-3 months now, she have been some days just wanted the s",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: What is the best way to answer the ""how many people have you slept with"" question? POST: I know there are the the standard new relationship questions to ask, but this one comes up a lot with me. I am an 18 year-old attractive female, and I've had my fair share of partners (9 to be exact). Almost all of these were mistakes, so it is hard for me to talk about. I feel put on the spot and very uncomfortable when asked this.. Of course I am always honest, and I do make sure to point out t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Just found out my [19 M] long distance girlfriend [19 F] is cheating on me while visiting me for two weeks. I don't know what to do. POST: We have been talking for about 2 1/2 years now. We started talking junior of High School after we met online and continued to talk as friends up until the end of senior year. This is when we took a more serious approach and realized we would be able to see each other every few months. I've visited her twice over the past year and a half and she ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[20s M] ended up having feelings for good friend[20s F] down the road, we've talked about it but she doesn't feel the same. Things between us are as good as always. Feeling bad and cutting ties sounds awful, what to do about this dilemma? POST: Hey people, I'll try keeping this short, sweet and to the point so here it goes. Me and her have been friends for quite some time and somewhere down the road i realized that i had started caring about her *that* way. I didn't feel like hesi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Both [M19] How to confront a boyfriend about ""cheating""? POST: So I've had suspicions he was hiding something from me, he received texts from an unsaved number and ignored me when I asked who they were from. Finally, he's out of the room and left his phone, sure enough there are 2 different guys that have been texting him back and forth, one sending dick pics that my boyfriend responds positively to. The other I already knew about and told him to stop texting him, because it bothere",negative " r/self TITLE: James Joyce paper + stress = Blanket fort? POST: So I procrastinated as usual and ended up tonight with an unread Dubliners. My final paper on this is due tomorrow.... in the chaos of stress and apathy that consumed me I realized something had to be done. SO what did I do? Well, I built a goddamn blanket fort around my workstation. I'm writing this within the finalized fortress of cozitude and I have to say...there is something to it haha...beats bare dorm room walls and things reminding me o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [21F] FWB and Thanksgiving plans? Need help determining appropriate etiquette. POST: I currently have a FWB situation going on with a 25 year old male international student attending the same university as me. We're very good friends and get along quite well, and both of us have discussed that we can see our relationship budding into something more than just casual later on. He (I'll call him A from now on) has told me on a couple different occasions that he doesn't have any plans f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my gf [23 F] of 2-3 months; my first real relationship, she is great but I am finding myself less attracted to her -- I think it's just my fear of commitment though POST: I have never been in a relationship. I've had small flings, but never in a situation where I had a 'girlfriend' and was called 'boyfriend'. I met this girl about 3 months ago, the relationship ramped up super quickly, and about 2 months ago we started calling eachother girl/boyfriend. She seems sup",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Is she into me? (19M) (18F) College Weekend POST: We are both students at different universities. I had a girlfriend over the summer and every single time this girl and I were left alone she always asked me about how my girlfriend is doing, so I started thinking about everything after my (at the time) girlfriend broke up with me. (November 2014) I tried keeping contact with this girl, and we connected. I'm just afraid of falling into her friendzone (as I will explain next) She invi",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to be funny. POST: I work for a very small business of four employees but we are all very close friends. Well today we had a very important meeting in the city and after it was over we went out for lunch and drinks. As we are eating we decided we should get some new work shirts made up so we all finish up eating and head to the store. While picking out cloths as a group someone asked me what size pants i was wearing. Well i have no idea what size they were so i was trying to be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21 F] boyfriend [22 M] has stopped trying in our relationship and has said he will change but doesn't. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for about a year now. It was amazing in the beginning and he really is an amazing guy who I love very much. In the past two months I feel that he has just stopped trying in the relationship. We are students at the same university and we basically live with each other at this point. We settled down really fast and fell into routine. We",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (27f) best friend (27f) of 10+ years ghosted me POST: My best friend and I met in our second year of high school. We had been best friends ever since. I thought that we would be friends ""forever"" as lame and childish as that sounds. I have had friends come and go but felt like this friendship was the exception. Now onto the issue or rather lack of issue. She all of a sudden stopped texting me, was just gone from social media, and her email no longer worked. I feel it's worth ment",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [23/M] with an internal dilemma - girl I'm interested in is into polyamory POST: Feels a little strange asking the internet for some form of input on my romantic life, but this is something I've never had to deal with, so here it goes! So a little while ago I met a girl at a club I was working at. We hit it off, spend the night chatting, and by the end of it all, she asked for my name and number before she went on her way. Now, let me clear the air by first by saying I'm no strange",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Opinion/advice needed on off-leash neighborhood dog POST: Background: My lab, age 2, came into our lives at about 1.5. A breeder didn't want him anymore but things we have learned about him is that he probably didn't meet many other dogs (he overly sniffs, prefers attention of humans, heckles always raise instantly with other dogs but it goes away in a minute). So, he is still very ""new"" to greeting dogs. But, dog encounters, when he has them, are always friendly. First let me preface",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [30 F] boyfriend [34 M] is sometimes a major jerk. POST: I love my boyfriend alot but his behavior often gets very jerk like. He is a successful businessman and his behavior can swing. For example on the phone earlier with a client: ""Are you fucking retarded? No you're too dumb to handle this, I'm taking away the whole deal."" Comments about other women (not when I'm around): She's fat, dumb, what the fuck is she even good at? Why does she post pictures on FB... nobody wants to see",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do i tell my overly sensitive wife that she smells not so good down there? POST: This is a throwaway because because i don't want friends/family on Reddit to know its me. So my wife of almost 2 years (we have known each other for almost 10) is really overly sensitive about things. I love her more than anything. Her and my daughter are my whole world, and i hate upsetting her. She is quick to kindly point out embarrassing situations like ""haha! you have a booger hanging out!"" But if s",negative " r/jobs TITLE: 24 year old corp/finance paralegal at international law firm - thinking of switching careers POST: Dear Reddit, I've been working as a paralegal since I graduated from college, but I am not quite satisfied with where I am at the moment and fear that if I stay where I am long enough, I will start to become a ""career paralegal"" - people who paralegal for 8+ years. A career paralegal's salary improves drastically, but there's no sort of promotion other than going to law school and becoming a la",negative " r/running TITLE: Ran the San Antonio 26.2 yesterday, everything was going great UNTIL... POST: Yesterday, while running the San Antonio Marathon I was having a great run. Legs felt good, It was a great running day, felt ready... Ended up PR'ing my Half Marathon @1:57:42. Everything was great UNTIL... at mile 14, someone behind me kicked an empty water bottle, which then ended up under my right foot as I was midstride, causing me to turn my ankle something fierce. I thought I broke it... after picking mysel",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My niece [13 F] is depressed and I [23 M] want to help her, but I don't know how. POST: First of all, she doesn't know that I know, so that makes things a little more complicated. I'm not just guessing, though. I found out because I accidentally read something that she wrote which was not meant for me. She's 13 years old, I've known her for 3 years, and I may be the only person who knows about this. If anyone else knows, it's probably her boyfriend, and since he's around her age, I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 23 year old male - Girlfriend slept with someone when we were exclusive, but not together POST: Been with my 21 year old girlfriend for about 9 months. So my girlfriend had met this guy in Vegas before we met and they had made out. We have been dating for nine months and she still texts this guy. He lives across the country and she said it was just like a penpal thing. The amount of texting bugged me but I can be overly jealous. Last night she gave me her phone and I wanted to assu",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by advising my little brother to get up earlier POST: So, my brother wakes up late a lot of time, spends too much time doing his hair, so he frequently misses the school bus. He missed his 10th school bus of the year, so when me, my mom and my little brother are driving home, I tell him to wake up earlier. My little brother is an absolute asshole who does not give a shit about anybody else. So, when I tell him about this, he proceeds to give me the finger when my moms not looking and sh",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I want to ask this girl to prom, but don't know if I should.. POST: I'm a junior in high school, and I met this girl in my first semester gym class. Older were best friends. We later found out that we both liked each other but we're too afraid to tell the other. When I found this out, I also discovered that she still liked me, maybe even more than she liked her boyfriend of a few months at that point. I wasn't sure if I still liked her or not. Over Christmas break, her grandmother died and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[20M]went on a date with a girl[19F], I couldn't make a move.. Need advice.. POST: Hello Redditors! I am a bit confused about my situation and I thought the community could give me a hand.. So, I started talking to this girl via-internet for a few months. I knew her from school although didn't have contact. Years passed, she moved to another city, which is close to mine, and I decided to chat with her since I realized she had many things in common with me like(music, movies, series",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (M19) girlfriend(F19) of 3 years has found my porn bookmarks. Please help! POST: Hey guys I'm going to make this as quick as possible A while ago I posted on /r/tipofmytongue asking for a specific pornstar name. My gf stumbled across the post and it made her feel incredibly insecure. She didn't have an issue with me viewing porn before this incident but I don't think she realised this was the kind of thing some people who watch porn might do. I didn't think much of it before she ",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Dog ""guarding"" rawhides. What to do, what to do. POST: I'm a first time dog owner, and have only had her for nearly 2 weeks, so please bear with me :). Lorelei ""guards"" her rawhides. She doesn't growl or snarl or even hold it in her mouth, so I'm kind of at a loss as to where to start. Most of the advice I've seen on the internet as well as this sub is teaching her to leave it. So what does she actually do with them? She kind of keeps them right under her chin, and waves her head bac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26/F] want to have kids soon because I am paranoid about my biological clock ticking away...my boyfriend [26/M] wants to wait...*TICK TOCK* POST: I'll try to keep this short and to the point. We've been together over a year. We both know we want to get married/have kids together in the future, [in about 3 years time, according to his timeline]. When I was younger [early 20s] I put off having kids because I thought I have still have time, probably will have my 1st kid when I'm arou",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why am I periodically a dick towards a girl that I like who ""chose"" her ex over me. POST: A girl I liked broke up with her boyfriend and got with me about a day or two later. we dated for a week before her ex went to her hoping for a second chance. she says she didn't ""choose"" cause she couldn't say no at the time and that it was ""complicated. before all this and now we were and are VERY good friends,we talk all the time and about everything. sometimes when im talking to her ill pull a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] sometimes feel horrible for no reason, is this normal at all? POST: Sorry if this seems rushed or there's tons of typos, I'm on my iPhone 4S and trying not to turn into a sobbing mess. Since middle school I'd randomly feel horrible regardless of outside circumstances. I'll hang out with my friends having a good time then it's like a switch get flips in my brain and I rush home to cry my eyes out. Also I'll stop taking care of myself when I feel like this because I'm too busy",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [17F] talk to my crush [16M] (who I've known forever but have rarely spoken to) on Facebook and how many times should I start conversations before giving up? POST: Basically I like this guy who I've known forever but never really spoken to in person. I've spoken to him at school a couple of times when we're both walking to the same place, but it's not frequent and they never last long because our school is small. He's not in my year and we have no mutual friends. And he's ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22/m] want to make friends aside from my coworkers but don't know how POST: hey guys, I moved to a new city several months ago and I'm really starting to feel ""lonely"". I have friends back home but my only friends in this city are friends that I have made through work. I mean it's not too bad but I already hang out with them from 9-5 and I would like to hang out with others as well. It doesn't really feel like we're hanging out if we always just go out after work with the same",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Shit like this apple.. POST: so it all stars when... Christmas comes along, and i wonder what im going to buy my older sister who is in fourth year university, i thought jewlery, but she just got her x-ring, so i couldnt top that. so i decided to be generic and bought her a 32gig ipod touch (the new ones.) she didnt have one so she was ecstatic. Anyway, we get home from my cottage (where we spent xmas) and back to civilization and she plugs in her ipod and she sees that she needs a new ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the dumbest thing your college has done with technology? POST: When I lived in the dorms mine decided that they needed to block websites on the internet for ""productivity and bandwidth purposes."" Reddit, youtube, myspace, facebook, twitter, google images, wikipedia, ect. Of course the students complained about the blocks and how slow the internet was after the blocks were put in place. The response to that was somehow blocking every webpage to ""speed up the internet."" They did n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24M] girlfriend [24F] admits she needs help but refuses to actually get it. Time for an ultimatum? POST: Her problems have been having a negative effect on our relationship for quite some time. Her problem is general anxiety (diagnosed, has meds), but she thinks she's bipolar too. It turns into a problem because she becomes extremely insecure out of nowhere, about very irrational things. When she's not like that our relationship is great, but lately I feel like part time bf, par",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [M/20] having issues with girl [F/20] I've known for 3 weeks. Why is she lying? POST: I'm having a problem with this girl I met on okcupid. We met about 3 weeks ago and hit it off well. I even got her number within a day of us talking. We finally met up wednesday. We went hiking for 3 hours and as far as I know we both had a really good time. My reason being is we could've stopped at any time but we didnt. Thursday comes and I ask if she wants to hang out again on Friday and she ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Good friend's [F25] boyfriend of 1.5 years [M26] is cheating on her, but she cheated on him too. POST: I'm just looking for some input to see if you all think that I should say something, or if I should just not get involved. My good friend, let's call her Nancy, has been dating her boyfriend, Tom, for just under a year and a half. From Day 1 when they met she was cheating on him both emotionally and physically with another guy [M25] for about the first 9 months of their relationsh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] think my boyfriend of five years [18M] is about to cheat on me. I found messages I should have never seen. POST: Okay so I'm gonna try to keep this brief enough. I used to have a big problem with snooping through my boyfriend's facebook messages after he started acting suspicious. When I confronted him about girls flirting with him, he apologized and stopped talking to those few girls. I had since quit snooping because it was wrong and it was invasion of privacy. Here recen",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Bored and poor. My fellow Redditors, I need your help! POST: I am currently on summer break from my university, and have yet to find a job. Read: I have a LOT of free time on my hands, but no money with which to do lots of things like live entertainment, travel, etc. Preferably something that get's me out of the house, and/or learning a skill (I have a guitar but have never been able to commit to learning it), or just learning (links to interesting sites are welcome and appreciated). ""Go",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Tell us your best ""interrupted during sexy time"" story. POST: And by best, I mean worst. But I'm sure everyone would also like to hear the times it turned out well too. Here's my contribution, I'm sure very tame compared to yours: I (male) was in high school and my parents were going through a divorce at the time. My dad was renting a huge house that had a semi-private upstairs area where there was a television and DVD player. My girlfriend and I took advantage of this frequently by ""w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girls: How would you want your friend to tell you he likes you? AKA [xpost] I'm 28 and for the first time in my life, I'm falling for someone (26). I've never been the emotional type, so what I'm feeling is confusing and painful. I need to know how to handle this. POST: (copied from xpost) I've always thought I had my emotions in check. My relationships are nothing to brag about, but it's pretty consistent: a date here and there, bimonthly sex. But I've never felt anything for anyo",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm afraid my boyfriend (M/24) and I's (F/25) relationship is changing after 2.5 years. POST: We've been together for 2.5 years and decided to move in together after 1.5 years. Since we've been together I've gained 50lbs and he's always been overweight (actually obese, but that's a morbid term). He has no motivation to change and when I try to help or help myself, he is not helpful nor does he actually support me. He'd rather eat out for every single meal. Secondly, he owes me",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: What the hell is his problem? POST: Me 23/F, Him 22/M dating each other for 4 months. We are not exclusive but have been dating/talking every single day for 4 months. We had great times, thought we had a good thing going here. Lately in the last 6 weeks I have only seen him once a week, if not LESS. He works a lot, but after work he always finds time to go out with his friends, to go to the bar, to do this, to do that. I started to think he just wasn't interested anymore but we sp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 M] with my GF [30 F] 2 Years, She Hides Things From Me, I Pull Back POST: Hi Internet, My GF 30, and I (35) love each other very much, but we are continue to get into fights over the same thing. It's a cycle. She plays things close to the vest. There are white lies. There is lying by omission. I never get the full story- on anything. I get that everyone does this to some extent. When I get this treatment, I pull back. I don't want to pry or push, but I don't want to be a fo",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I've (M23) been talking to a girl (F22) I hooked up with a while back, don't know how to tell her I just want to be friends... POST: Ok to start with, I'm at university, currently sitting my finals and graduating in 3 weeks or so. She's a student but she's not around a lot as she's away on placement. She'll still be here for another two years. So back in February-ish time, I hooked up with her when I met her on a night out, came back to mine, didn't have sex, but everything else hap",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19 M] Former teacher [26 M] owes me $500 POST: Okay so to start off I have a great relationship with this teacher. I was in his class in HS and was one of the brighter students, he'd always refer to me as the voice of reason. We would make jokes and talk politics. He will be referred to as Mat During HS, I was the coach of a trial club. Every club needs a teacher coach. Our new teacher coach became Mat, because our old teacher coach couldn't do it anymore Anyway, for this club",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Calorie + Macro Targets POST: Howdy all! Long time lurker on this subreddit taking inspiration from everyone elses fantastic work reaching their goals. At the same time I've been trying to read as many tips as possible to give myself a chance to change my eating habits to a healthier way! There is one thing that has been bugging me and for some reason I can't quite find the answer so I thought I would get my first post out the way and I'll start off with some stats. I'm a 24 year old ma",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: M (23) Need some advice on a sticky situation involving (F24) F(23) (F23) (M23) POST: Alright so me M(24) met F(24), Roxy, at a bar and hooked up back at her place, in the laundry room/pool. Continue being a FWB thing for 4 months until thanksgiving where things went cold, no contact. R had two friends, F(23) F(23) Taylor Kelsey respectively, that saw me constantly hanging out with her as they live in the same complex (and were there the original night). Fast forward to last weekend,",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (24/M) have been seeing a girl (25/F), but I think I'm psyching myself out by overthinking it. POST: Hey everyone. I've been seeing a girl I met online in December, I believe. We've gone out probably eight or nine times since then (not super often I know, we're both busy and it's hard to find time.) It seems to be going well, we've kissed, though nothing more than that, and I don't feel like it's one sided. I just mean that it's usually her texting me, asking me if I want to ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Got threatened by a client. (new york) POST: Hello, I work for an insurance agency, and we have two offices. This client looks like had a bad experience at one of our offices and he is really mad (which I understand). So I am trying to help him out so he keep his policy active. He starts to insult me, doesn't tell me his name so I can help him or anything. He says ""you don't want to see me right now, I'll go over there and make things personal."" And hangs up. The next day he calls in",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: WA State, Contractor took repair deposit and ran, now wants money for tear out, what can I do? POST: I'm having an issue with a contractor who worked on the tear out after a flooding event, and I'm not sure what to do, I don't want to lawyer up if I don't have to. Has anyone had a situation like this before? The contractor was for a clean out and restoration company. We had a flood in our house and they came and did the tear out for the walls. We signed the paperwork for the tearout a",negative " r/self TITLE: To Leave or Not to Leave... POST: I am a college student nearing graduation with promising job offers but am I wrong to think I'd be better off leaving the U.S. (Not feasible at this time but in the future)? As a nation we seem to be isolated from the rest of the world (TIME articles targeting legitimate world subjects while we receive 'Animal Companions') and our legislature is unable to function let alone consider the interests of anyone besides the wealthy. Congress can't even pass the STO",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] got drunk yesterday and went to my gf [24F]. Now she's thinking about breaking up with me. I think I deserve this. POST: We've been together for about one year at the moment. Yesterday after school I went to a bar with a classmate, after that I was supposed to meet my girlfriend at a free concert somewhere near where she lives. I'm not always drunk, or a regular drinker. My problem seems to be that when I start drinking, it's pretty much impossible for me to stop before I'm",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my Aunt [50s F] who lives where I go to school POST: My mom's side of my family is all sorts of messed up. Let's just say there's abuse and lots of bad blood all around. Because of this, my mom has gone no-contact with all of them for about 12 years. I haven't spoken to either my aunt or her son since even before that time. I've probably only seen them a total of 10 times. My aunt just contacted me on Facebook today. She just found out that I go to college where she ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit: This keeps getting into my water. How do I make it stop? POST: [This little mischevious furry] keeps getting into my water. Nothing I do seems to make him stop. Does this happen to anyone with their cats? I am having issues trying to stop him from drinking water from my glass. In fact my table is bare because an hour previous to the picture being taken he dropped water on my desk and I had to hang the table cloth to dry. I have tried everything but he refuses to drink from his ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I want to experience deeper physical intimacy with my[18M] girlfriend[18F], need help POST: Edit: x-post in /r/sex To start off, we have an extremely happy dating life. We NEVER quarrel, because we can always come to a compromise, or agree to disagree and put disagreements behind us. Unlike other girls, she rarely brings us past disagreements in our conversation. We live in an Asian society where conversations about sex is taboo. At many times, girls are made to feel like sluts and",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21/M] having difficulties with friend [21/F] moving away POST: So I'm living with 2 roommates, one boy and one girl (lets call her Jill), We are both in college and have really grown close over the last year. Well recently Jill has made the decision to transfer to a different school for academic reasons. When she told me this I was absolutely devastated. I want Jill to be successful in her life and I know she is doing what is best for her but I still feel so sad when I think abou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] 2 year relationship, are traveling, she wants to go home and I don't POST: I care about her a lot and we share a deep sense of humor. However, recently I have been feeling distant. She wants to return home to see her family and get into a groove (she plans to go to PA school) but I am all about continuing the adventure. I am also teaching myself web development so advancing in my career does not require going to school somewhere for several years. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [42 M] and my wife [36 F] are losing our shit; also 2 kids [1, 6] POST: Wife (36F) of 8 years and I (42M) are having a challenging time managing our lives - social lives, family lives, work lives, personal lives. We both work full time. We seemed to have everything under control with our first child (now 6), but with 2 kids - everything seems to have shit the farm. No time for friends, not enough hours at work, not enough time at home - basically chaos. Childcare: Our 1 y/o son i",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Friend and I like the same girl? POST: Basically another one of those posts but I couldn't find my situation when i searched. Me and my Friend like this same girl. Were pretty close but by no means best friends. I've always liked her, but he got to say he liked her to a bunch of his other friends first, and so now I feel like i can't tell him. Anyways I don't think he has a shot with the girl, and she's clearly shown that she's interested in me. What should i do? I fear that i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is this called? POST: I was listening to a podcast today by Bill Simmons, a sportswriter, and he and another writer, Chuck Klosterman, were talking about Linsanity. They started discussing why there was so much hype. The usual things were ran through - the Asian-American""ness"", the Harvard east-coast liberal arts school relate-ability, and finally, Chuck Klosterman started talking about a story about John Lennon. The story goes that John Lennon was watching the results of the 1972 p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Relationships -- boyfriend's (25 M) ex-wife (25 F) is super hot, I'm not. Feels like he's settling POST: Soooo...my late night browsing on social media led me (20 F) to my boyfriend's (25 M) ex's ( 20ish F) Instagram page. And holy hell, she's hot...like 10/10. Her pics include travel, trips, hobbies, nights out--basically, a fun, active life. I'm attractive enough, but nowhere near that level. My life is boring, literally just working multiple jobs and going to school...trying n",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: To my friend. Fair warning, I sound like a total jerk. POST: But I wanted to say this somewhere. I'll be the first to say that I don't know how to deal with friends who are dealing with grief. I'm not very good at it. However, I strongly feel that a friend of mine is using the death of her father to....idk? Something is just off to me. A month ago, my friend's dad lost his year long battle to cancer. A year ago, I got a three am call about him being diagnosed with cancer. I stayed on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 F] was asked to dinner by my date [36 M], he is my dream man but I got fat. POST: So we talked like two years ago, he asked me out for a drink but I was hesitant. 4 months ago on OKC, I told him he was my crush but he moved away already. Now he is back and asked me out to dinner. I initiated the first two conversation; I thought he wasn't that interested but he emailed me first this time after so long and ask me out to dinner straight away which makes me think he's more inter",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Ex [20 F] duration 9 months POST: So this girl I met in college was amazing and we dated for 9 months and to be honest I thought she was the one and I dreamed of marrying her. I got caught cheating when I was away on spring break when I was piss drunk but we were able to work things out because at this point we were even saying that we loved each other. I had to leave the university we attended due to money/academic issues so we broke up. I am completely in love wit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18/M] am really confused with what to do with a girl [18] POST: So, I'm in the same class as this girl and I really like her. The thing is that it seems that she doesn't really like me in the boyfriend sense. I asked her out like a year ago and she said after some time to think that she is at the time interested in someone else. One of my friends had gone to talk to her, without me asking, about me and told me that she said that she really likes me sometimes. Well, the friend jus",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Ask me to buy cigarettes for you illegally, then rat me out to my manager? I'll do you one better POST: Not quite petty but... This girl, let's call her R, is a coworker of mine at a local grocery store. One day at work R asks me to buy her cigarettes from our work (I'm 18, she's 17). I tell her I won't and after a few more questions she drops the subject. Later that day, I am called into my manager's office and he is furious because R told him that I had offered to buy her cigare",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So what do Redditors think of murderers who are able to use the insanity plea POST: I know this is probably a controversial subject. Maybe? I'm not actually sure how people feel about this but give me your opinions on it. Today as I read an article by YahooNews! here's the link if you're curious... it really had me questioning the entire approach and method that the justice system uses. The title is ""Woman Removed After Outburst During James Holmes' Court Appearance."" As I read it there",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (19M) help painfully shy crush (19F)? POST: I recently moved away to university and I met a girl during a social gathering for students of my course. When I saw her, I was instantly attracted to her and so I went over to talk to her. Long story short, we hit it off insanely well, and we quickly became really close friends. We'd hang out at bars, or go for coffee, or walk to lectures together. Last night, we decided to go out clubbing and we got pretty drunk. In my drunknes",positive " r/relationships TITLE: On Infrequently Seeing Each Other? [M/25] Female Perspectives Could Be Useful POST: Hey guys & girls, So I've been seeing this girl for a few months. She's the same age as I am if that makes a difference. Things were going great. We were really clicking for a while and I really like her. She seemed to like me a lot back. We were 2 attractive young people certainly heading for a relationship I thought. But now, it seems like that's just a maybe. Recently she's been real busy with he",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: One mistake wipes your slate clean of points, FML POST: So I've been seeing this girl for the last 2 months and it was going great. She lives a little far from me so it's hard to meet her. A month into it, I asked for some time off from work, and it was approved by my manager. So I let her know and I asked her to plan for something special. However, the next day, my time off got rejected by the director, so fuck me right? I let her know that night and I can tell she was disappointed.",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Kitten Mental Problems? POST: A few weeks ago a cat of ours gave birth to 2-3 kittens (We didn't find them til about a week old). Her litter didn't make it except 1 and the kitten seems to have some problems. First of all it seems to have a lazy eye, and it seem to really enjoy hands? (If a hand is near it, it will climb on and stay there as long as you let it.) But my #1 concern is how it reacts to being held by it's mother, usually kittens legs curl up and it goes limp to allow for safe t",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Boys won't like you if you do that ... POST: As most people do, I was having a nice long think in the shower, my mum had been to visit me recently so my thoughts were mostly of my childhood. I love my mum obviously but we differ in views a lot, she tends to think I'm too 'liberal' whereas I think she's just stuck in her ways. My thoughts drifted to the song 'Why Don't You Love Me' by Beyonce, more specifically the line 'I make me so damn easy to love'. Why do I do certain things? Is it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend (26 M) has been dating a woman (23 F) for around half a year. Why is it that some completely adapt a new personality to fit their SO and others remain the same? POST: Once I got to college I realized I suddenly had a series of new friends who greatly alter their behavior around the girls they date. For example, say my friend in the title (26 M) is dating a woman (23 F). Those two individuals, myself, and several other mutual friends are hanging out. In this scenario he may ",negative " r/dogs TITLE: New puppy... bathroom problems POST: So we have a 6 month old male Westie. Yesterday we picked up an 11 week old female (also westie). She had a hard time adjusting, but after a few hours is now more comfortable inside and outside the house. According to the people we got her from, all the puppies never had any accidents because they were always with their parents and spend their time outside, so they've never actually been inside a house. The new puppy is great, she really is. Pees and p",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (21/m) working on getting with (21/f), spending time apart for break, need advice on my ways of thinking. POST: This girl I've been seeing the last month and a half or so isn't ready for a relationship because she only recently got out of a long one. I'm fine with that, I'm comfortable with what we have now, because she told me that given enough time, I do have a shot with her in the future. We're in different countries for Christmas break for about 3 weeks. I won't be able to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] need good arguments for me to convince her [25 F] that it might work out. POST: So I met this fantastic girl about 2 months ago, we texted a lot the first month and then finally started meeting, basically every day for the last 2 to 3 weeks. I really like her and she really likes me, I know that, she told me more than once that I'm good for her. We got pretty intimate the last time and now she wants a couple of days alone to think about us and if a relationship is possible,",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Valentines Day dillema. Opinions appreciated! (gory details for your trouble) POST: I just started dating this girl, and I'm trying to figure out whether it would be too much/too soon/too intimidating if I were to do something small but romantic for valentines day. We're both in our mid/late 20s. We've hung out now maybe 3 or 4 times over the course of 2 or 3 weeks; and we've had easily some of the best sex of my life (just fucking aggressive, animalistic, uninhibited, freaky, passio",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Dad [50] won't come to my[F26] graduation. POST: I don't know how to feel about this. My dad has never been the best dad in the world. Parents divorced when I was 5 and we had limited visitation and little bonding. Our relationship based on the effort I put forth, as his effort is rare and limited. However, he's quick to say we're the best thing that's ever happened to him. I often believe that he loves us to the extent that we provide him some pride and a good conversation piece for",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Took a stance against weight gain from medicine, lost 55lbs over 1.5yrs. I don't feel good about viewing myself negatively in the past. POST: My weight fluctuated greatly when I was changing medication. I lost a lot of weight, and I didn't do it the healthiest way possible. People just constantly complimented me with the changes I went through. I starved and received attention. I took adderall and things to help. I see this before and after and I see me destroying myself and everyone else s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M/F] with my friend [22 M/F] of 6 years, recently started dating. She is fresh out of a relationship. POST: As the title says, I begun to casually date someone I have known for the past 6 years. She just got out of a long term relationship (of 2 years) and I feared she was on the rebound but after numerous discussions with her, she feels she is ready to see me but also needs time to learn to live by herself and collect her emotions. Which I agreed to. The first 3 weeks, we hi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [21 M] Wondering if I should meet up with this woman who already has a boyfriend POST: Matched with her on tinder. Started talking and now we are meeting up. Then I finally notice that she already has a boyfriend and is just looking for friends. I feel conflicted. I don't feel enthusiastic about meeting up with her. I feel like just calling it off and moving on. But in the back of my mind I feel like that makes me a jerk or something. I'm not quite sure. I guess I had this stupid i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Slept with a married woman a few times and she is taking ""us"" too seriously. [31m, 33f] POST: I should preface this with saying we both are cheating and I get that people aren't really fond of that sort of behavior. I'm not asking about the appropriateness of the cheating. Just more how to unhook this woman. I'm 31m and I've been married 5 years. A couple months back I ended up getting involved with a coworker, Aubrey (33f). She has been married for something like 10 or 12 years and ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me (20F) mother is too codependent and now she's smothering me POST: I don't know what to do or what's going on in her head. I hope this is the right category lol. Anyways, she's got a lot of childhood issues and I think that's why she clings onto my brother and I. She does a lot for us but it's unhealthy to the point where my brother is close to 30 with zero responsibility including financial and still at home. She'll tiptoe around him to avoid upsetting him and my poor father",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, Job interview tomorrow, for my dream job. Advice, please? I don't want to screw this up. POST: First off, a little background information; I've never done any official pc-related work. I've always worked throwaway jobs (manual labor, retail, etc) though I've always excelled at the mechanical and electronic aspect of it (frequently I'd get asked to set up new computers, office systems, etc) and I've done freelance computer repair for many years, but it has never been my primary in",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not taking a shit when I needed to POST: This happened about two hours ago. So, I come home from school and feel the need to take a shit. No biggie, take a shit, wipe, get on my laptop for some reddit and CS:GO. Fast forward about two hours, I'm hungry. I toast some buns with strawberry creamcheese and some nacho cheese on the side. Another two hours later, my stomach begins to grumble. I told myself ""I'll take a shit when I wake up tomorrow."" This usually works. It didn't this time.",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by re-piercing my ear... POST: Disclosure -> Actually happened today...which I am led to believe is not the norm on this sub?1 So after a generally shocker weekend (crash my car on saturday....then got bitten by a dog on Sunday) this morning when I was getting ready for work I would make myself feel 'cool' by actually wearing earings. So when I was younger I had a fair number of holes in my ears, of which most had closed up. Being determined me, I found an old piercing in my cartilage",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Was my friend was almost lured into a human trafficking scheme? POST: First, this is a throwaway. My friend is a member of an exclusive social networking group, which among other things, provides job listings. She found a posting advertising for a summer tutor/nanny for a Russian family vacationing in the city where we used to live (she currently lives about 4 hours away), which is a popular vacation destination for foreigners. She contacted the poster, and received a reply from the f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/f] am hanging out with multiple guys and leading them on [30/m, 35/m, 27/m, 22/m] and I want to stop. POST: Ok first I'll preface this with saying that I recognize that this is a terribly hurtful (to other people) pattern in my life that I want to stop as SOON as possible. I realize that this is in the long run going to damage people, and the reason I'm writing this post is because I know how immature it is and I want to be able to stop. I have a pattern of hanging out with me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [28M] worried that my girlfriend [28F] of four years' dwindling libido is going to cause issues further down the line. Need a bit of advice. POST: Hi /r/relationships, Let me start by saying we've never had the most prolific love life, but it's never been dead either. Unfortunately, we seem to be heading toward that end of the spectrum. In the beginning we had sex twice a week or so and we weren't even living together, these days we do it's closer twice a month. I have a very hi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Hey, second chances, how do they work? POST: All right, I am a 35 year old jerk of a male who didn't tell the person I was going out with that I have Hep B until two months into some very intimate ""courting"". We had been friends before that for almost 2 years. Now I pretty much knew they had the vaccine, it's been required to even attend school for like the last decade, and they were in grade school during the last decade. Also they went to grade school in Australia, one of the first",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] friend/fuck buddy/guy I would die for [22 M] is leaving me hanging when I need him the most.. POST: I met a guy almost 2 months ago, we clicked instantly. We're super compatible and always have amazing times together. He took me to a trip to the city, we hang out almost every day, we basically act like we're bf/gf. I have a really ugly past with sexual assaults. Because of this, I can be a bit of a mess sometimes. I guess I'm not very stable. But with him, 95% of the time I",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Shy guy (21) needs serious help with complicated dilemma POST: I severely lack self-confidence and have been awful with expressing intimacy practically my entire life. Anytime I get with a girl I either push things too far and eventually embarrass myself, or not enough and end up wedging myself firmly in the friendzone. Now, I've met this girl (19) who I'm really into. Problem is, neither of us are good at taking charge since she's about as shy as I am. We get along really well, we ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by freaking out at having my car stolen. POST: First day of my flight attendant class was over and I walked out of the building towards my car. I had parked it on the street right beside the school, next to a tree. As I turned the corner, I can't see it. I have a red Smart, so it's easy to identify (not many around where I'm from). I freak out immediately. I walk up and down the street several times and get water in my eyes as my new classmates pass by thinking I'm nuts. I call my dad, s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22F) like engagement rings that are 100-200 dollars. Is this too much to ask from my boyfriend (22M)? POST: My boyfriend of 3 years will be proposing to me this calendar year. We plan on a long engagement until I finish graduate school. I've never been one to look up wedding themes and rings and things like that, but out of curiosity I started googling engagement rings. After searching I found that I do have a specific taste, which stems from the fact that specific colors wor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (27F) am engaged to lovely fiancé (28m) but still can't stop thinking about ex from 5 years ago... Halp. POST: As above. I'm engaged to be married this year. My fiancé is lovely, but works all hours of the week, and is so exhausted over the weekend (though we do try and spend quality time together). But I can't help but think we're not compatible in the same way me and my ex were. I do love him dearly though. My problem is, during the week when I'm alone, I find it hard to stop",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 M] am ready to propose to my girlfriend [23 F] of two years in less than two weeks, but the jeweler didn't order my ring. POST: I have a diamond in my family that I was planning on using to propose to my girlfriend in a little over a week. I have a ring picked out, and I put the deposit down. I ordered the ring four week ago, and it was supposed to take about four weeks to make and ship it. I called the jewelry store today, and apparently the jeweler I talked to never actually ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my BF [29 M] of two years, seemed like he was fading out, and now wants to pay for my student loans. What the heck is going through his mind? POST: My BF and I have had a great relationship over the last two years. We met at college, he was a grad student, and I was an undergrad in his field. We met up again when we found work in the same city and were together since. He's a quiet sort of guy, but over the last week, things seemed really strange. He was quieter tha",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is this gender discrimination? POST: Applying for vacancy as a Residential Assistant (RA) on a college campus. The opening was created because those who were originally accepted failed to meet GPA requirements and had their employment terminated prior to starting. When the deadline to be contacted for an interview rolls around, I hear nothing back so I assume my application was rejected--fine, no big deal until I discover that they only applicants who are asked for interviews are male. ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: CO-US Ex-roommate left property now wants it back 9 months later POST: So the situation is that 9 months ago my lease ended at my apartment I shared with two roommates (A, B). I renewed the lease as a joint lease with two new roommates (C,D). Roommate A left behind a few pieces of furniture (table, chair, shitty couch) stating no intent to ever want it back and ""giving"" it to me, C, D as it wouldn't fit in A's new apartment and she could not afford a storage unit so she would donate it",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/m] In an LDR with [18/f], what's wrong with me? POST: So I've been in this 8000 mile long LDR for 4 months, and we are doing great, we're both in love, and happy with each other. Until a week or so..I mean she's still more in love with me than ever, but I dunno, this past week it's like I'm falling in and out of love constantly, and I hate it..especially because I don't know why the fuck is that happening.. We didn't have any fight, she didn't do anything I didn't like, an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: When can I [19M] ask this girl to be my girlfriend [19F] at university? POST: I've been talking to this girl for about 5 days and have gone on two dates with her. We both go to the same university, both first years and our 2 dates have gone really well. I really like and I'm pretty sure she feels the same way. Is it to soon to ask her to be my girlfriend as we've known each other less than a week? We know alot about each other, we gotten very close (1st base) and purposefully not gon",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: [16 M] I need some serious crush advice. POST: Okay, lets go back a bit. So there is this girl whom I've had a crush on for about 5 months now (by the way, she's known that I like her for about 2ish months). I really think I do love her, and my female friends who are close to her told (this was about two months ago) me that they think she likes me back. We were talking heaps and heaps, literally til late hours of the morning, then a bit at school and again after. She would often say ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Young people of reddit, why do you have an ""old soul""? POST: Allow me to elaborate. Today was pretty slow at my place of employment and just like any other day at work, I start to space off. As I was spacing off I started to hum a song, the song being [Leonard Cohen's Suzanne] Eventually the humming became singing. About three quarters through the song, a gentleman (mid sixties) approaches my register, I am oblivious to him until I finish the song. He waits and listens until I am fi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my girlfriend [48 F] are in an unspoken eating contest that has lasted for months now POST: Okay guys i need help. So my girlfriend and I are in an informal/unspoken eating contest. Like neither of us have said we are trying to eat more than the other but i swear every time we eat she always tries to finish before me. She is gaining a crazy amount of weight too these past few months. I would say close to 40 pounds. I don't really mind because i have a fat fetish an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I think I (27f) accidentally discovered my boyfriend's (26m) secret past...(xpost from /r/sex) POST: We have been together for 3 years and live together. When we went through the ""what is your sexual experience"" conversation, he told me he had sex with one woman before me, a long term girlfriend and that was partway through college. I believed this to be true because he is shy and it fit him. He also harped on how he disapproves of people sleeping around a lot and that mentality. Ho",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by finding $1000 at work. POST: Happened about a year ago....still pissed. I used to work as an overnight valet for a company that contracted out to many hotels. I worked at the Marriott. i walked out to the driveway to pick up trash as required. I find $1000 in 100 dollar bills laying there and scoop them up. I pocket it, thinking about finally getting that gaming pc I've always wanted. Then I thought maybe someone really needed this money. So I walked into the hotel and handed it to ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Deciding how to respond to my boss disrespecting my girlfriend? POST: I've been working at a pizza restaurant for about the last 10 months, and built a pretty good relationship with my boss. But he is very disrespectful to women, and does not like employees who are in relationships. I however, have been dating my girlfriend since May, and he has openly criticized me for staying with her after she moved 8 hours away as of August. So I was extremely excited when she came to visit me, ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [22m] just witnessed my bartender gf [22f] receive a note of some sorts from a sketchy customer. Ask about it or leave it be? POST: So im hanging out at the bar she works at, having some drinks, and some real sketchy guy comes up for a drink. Mind you, this place is notorious for drug dealers and sketchballs galore. He starts conversing and talking her ear off for a while, which is weird for me because she barely talks to me when I'm visiting her. I digress. Anyways, she ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit I need your ideas on how to get revenge. POST: I need your ideas because this bitch that was in my drivers ed class was total CUNT, she would tell me and my friends to shut up when we whispered qiuetly to each other, and she would blabber on while the teacher was teaching the class, and thats not the part that set me off to give me the idea on getting revenge, so my friend lets call him bob, well bob is a chubby little friend of mine and he wanted to ask a girl out to prom so he ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are my rights as an independent contractor? POST: here is a little back story to start off. i started working for a small company, which is part of a franchise, back in august of 2010. at the time, they said they were going to start me off as an independent contractor and bring me into full time employment ASAP. fast forward to now, i still haven't been brought on full time. in the almost two years i have been here they have hired three people which they immediately brought on full ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] am worried about one of my best friends [17M] of 6 years (cause I guess that's important to know) POST: So I had my friend over recently. let's call him Spock. So Spock was telling me that he had been fasting recently, which caught me a little off guard, but he told me it had only been one day, so I didn't think it would be too bad. But he told me latter that night that his parents had been sort of drifting apart lately, and his dad would talk to him about it and it would str",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my Parents[60s] - They are unable to support themselves but I seriously can't live with them. POST: Hey guys. Just a bit of background here. My mom and I have always had a trying relationship. She has a bit of a narcissistic personality even though she cares for me. But when I moved out to live on my own, my parents never stopped giving me shit. They guilt tripped me, asked for lots of money (which I didn't mind at the time), and even my sister joined in. I hardl",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] am planning on telling a guy [23M] I've been dating for three weeks that I'm a virgin and want to wait to have sex. Is my plan okay? POST: I've been dating this guy for three weeks. All we've done so far is hold hands, but I am going to his apartment tomorrow night for dinner and a movie. Based on what I've read on here, it seems like now is a good time to bring up sex. I was thinking of saying some variation of *this toward the end of dinner. ""I want to talk to you about s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] need to get over a friend I've fallen in love with. How? POST: I'm in love with a girl who doesn't love me back, she doesn't think of me in that way and she has made it clear to me on a number of occasions that we are just friends. For almost a year we have been friends (and good friends too) with her knowing all along that I have these feelings for her and we have had many good times but the other day she told me that she feels uncomfortable with where we are now and I und",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the strangest logic you've had while drunk? I'll start... POST: It was at my friend's 21st birthday. I had a mandatory work meeting the next day at 8am. I don't think I had ever been more shit faced. At one point during the night, I fell off my chair onto the floor. Reenactments people have shown me resemble blank eyes staring out into space and, like a tree, falling completely sideways and straight onto the ground. I don't remember the falling. Just the being on the floor. My",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [18F] sent a mutual friend to check up on me [21M]...do I tell him things to make her jealous? POST: We have been in no contact for about 2 weeks now. Long story short my ex is young and trying to find herself without me. We had a near perfect relationship for almost a year. Anyways...I have been trying to make my ex indirectly jealous by posting photos on Facebook showing that I am moving on, still living and enjoying my life. One night I posed a selfie of me and a girl I ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I need your advice on a situation. Please look. POST: Hey Reddit, This is a throwaway account. Anyways, a friend of mine (lets call him A) since grade school was invited to a party by a mutual friend (B). I don't really like this mutual friend (B) but whenever I see him around he'll try to act buddy-buddy with me. Anyways, B threw a party and did not invite me. This isn't the issue here, I am perfectly fine with not being invited, no hard feelings whatsoever. However, I am no",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Trying to find an artist... POST: AskReddit might not be the right place for this, but I was hoping the hivemind could help me finding an artist here. About a year ago I found his store online, bookmarked it on an old computer, only to forget about it when switching computers. A lot of the work in his store was original renditions on comic book characters. I recall he had pieces for Batman, Doctor Doom, and the Incredible Hulk. The Hulk one is the one that sticks out in my memory the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 F] am feeling confused about my non-exclusive relationship [w/ 32 M] and new guy [28 M]. Advice? (also posted on r/nonmonogamy with a few edits) POST: Here's my situation: I have a friend with benefits (we'll call him V) who I've known for a number of years who lives in a neighboring country. We Skype once a week and email almost everyday. Our relationship has gotten increasingly more romantic and we've admitted we feel more for each other than is normal for friends who have se",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my ___ [16F] 3 years, ex girlfriend (high school) POST: Be sure to explain in detail with line breaks. Alright, so I dated a girl in high school when I was a junior and she was a freshman. It was fine at the time because I was in high school and I was only 16 and she was 14. Fast forward to senior year, after she broke up with me to date someone else and I turned 18 (which was a good thing we didn't carry on the relationship), we stop talking for about a year and a ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Fuck buddy wants to keep things secret... POST: Okay, so I'll just preface this with the fact that my love life is sort of a train wreck (and if you've seen my other posts here, you'll agree). So, I've been hooking up with this guy for the last 8 months or so. It's been pretty sparse all the same, because he's really busy and I live at home, so we can only hook up at his place or on campus, usually really late at night. He works for our student union and is very involved in c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a single guy [19M] living with Kallmanns syndrome. POST: For those who don't know, Kallmann's Syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes the sufferer to have an extremely weakened, if not, totally absent (which is true in my case) sense of smell and prevents puberty from happening at all without artificial hormone treatment. When I was in middle school and high school, all of my friends and classmates were all going through their changes; while I stayed looking like I was still ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [25 F] friend [25 F] won't shut up about new guy [25 M] in her life POST: For some background, I love my friend so much and we talk about everything. We met in college and have been friends for about 7 years. We live in different cities now so we have to play a lot of phone tag and talk online a lot. She's recently started seeing a guy friend of mine, and they are super into each other. The only problem is all she wants to do is talk about him. I'm so happy they got together",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my good friend also coworker 19F , she has a boyfriend but she is extremely flirtatious. What to do? POST: Ok so this girl and I have been good friends for a while now, we are also coworkers. Everyone at work has asked if we we are a thing before, she is extremely flirtatious, when we are hanging out she always cuddles up close to me , she lays her head on my shoulder and lets me put my arm around her. having lunch the other day she started caressing my knee. I've",positive " r/Pets TITLE: 7 hour car ride with a cat - tips? POST: Hi all, next month I am moving to a new apartment in D.C. for school. I am taking my two-year old cat with me. It's 7 hours away from where I live (Western NY) and I'll be driving solo - just me and the cat. I just got her a new carrier. I wanted to get it early so she could explore it if she wants. She isn't a fussy kitty and only meows when she wants my attention for something (pets, tummy rubs, etc). I plan on having her carrier facing me in the pa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is my friend being scammed? POST: Hi, My friend is looking for apartments in downtown Toronto, and recently found a really good deal on craigslist, I am however suspicious of this person due to the fact that the person claims he's away traveling in London, England and just sent my friend this e-mail: Hello again, Like I said, I will pay for a 2 days delivery so you will receive the Keys and the contract signed by me right away.I will explain to you step by step how this will work . 1) F",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] want to know when somebody should start seeing new people. [19F GF of 5yrs] POST: Skip to the last paragraph for the question, the rest is background. We've been together for at least five years, though most of that has been through high school. Now, with me going to college and holding down a job, and her just barely holding onto a job of her own, things are different. She's still a good friend, but I don't know if I want to stay with her. She's become even more blunt and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [28 M] Girlfriend [28 F] of one year has anxiety she will not address POST: I've been with my girlfriend a little over one year. We currently live together. When we started dating she confided in me she has some anxiety issues, especially made worse by her unemployment. As we got to know each other better and moved in together, more and more issues began presenting, all of which were manageable by both of us without much of an issue and everything has been great. She lost he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my girlfriend [16 F] of almost a year, I'm worried she's becoming jealous of my bandmate [15 F]. POST: Oooooooookaaaaaayyyyy So I've been dating this girl for basically a year, and we've had a really solid and happy relationship, for the most part. Since we're currently on summer break, we've been seeing each other more often, and it's great. From here on out, she'll be referred to as Gina. But I've also been seeing my band more often. And in my band is this girl.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 F] sister [14 F], posts inappropriate pics of herself on social media. How do I confront her? POST: I am friends with my younger sister on Instagram. I recently noticed that she has started posting suggestive pictures of herself. For example, bathroom pics where she pushes up her cleavage, pics where she's wearing just a shirt and underwear while making a 'sexy' pose, etc. Because she is so young, this doesn't feel like appropriate content for her to post. If she were older I",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting caught with my pants down by a flight attendant. POST: So this happened this morning. I was mid-way through a flight to California, and realized I needed to use the bathroom. It was a very early morning flight (arrived at 8:30), so I decided to freshen up a bit in the bathroom while I was there. I went to the bathroom at the back of the plane, combed my hair, and put on some cologne. I pulled down my jeans to use the toilet, when midway through piss, there was a loud dinging s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with a guy [33M] I met online. He is a teacher and has been sending me pictures of his students? POST: I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post, but I couldn't think where else to put it. This is a really weird situation and I need help figuring out what to do. I met this guy on Craigslist, and we started chatting on Kik. It was supposed to be a strictly platonic thing, but he started sending me really sexual stuff - dick picks, his naked wife, videos of them",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (18m) and my boyfriend (17m) of 2 months are struggling with my Generalized Anxiety Disorder POST: 2 months ago, I met my amazing boyfriend. I am still pretty closeted (bisexual), and this is my first serious relationship; I also have Generalized Anxiety Disorder, which makes things a little difficult. Because we are both relatively in the closet, the relationship is pretty secret. Our parents don't know about us and I have only told a handful of friends. Things are going pretty ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[23F] don't know what I did wrong with my crush[23M], went on an awesome date then Poof! POST: Hello Reddit! Well let's get to the point. I started talking to a guy who used to be real big in religion to the point were he could not talk interact with anybody outside his religion if he did he would be shunned. He was in it for about 21 years, he got tired of it and left them. He says he doesn't have many friends and he usually just works, works out, and watches TV over the weekends",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26 F] need advice on how to split chores with my husband [29 M] POST: We've been married for almost two years and together for nearly five. We're a really unusual couple because my husband works away from home for 2-4 months at a time, 2-3 times a year, and I'm a full-time student. While he's gone I obviously take care of everything without him. But when he's home (he doesn't have a job or anything when he's home), he falls into a routine of basically doing nothing. I end up havin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27] starting to have romantic feelings for one of my oldest friends. Her [26]. How do deal with this?? POST: I've [m27] known this girl [26] for over ten years. When I first got to know her I was in a serious relationship so I never looked at her as anything but a cool friend. Now year later and a few relationships later I find myself 'thinking what if??' Like any new possible relationship I'm not sure of where this will go but unlike any other past relationship this could mess u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/F] with my old best friend[25/F] Known her for like nineteen years. Is there any coming back from this? POST: To make a long story short, my ex-best friend Nikki and I had a good friendship at one time, but it slowly became so toxic that we really just drifted apart. We still talk sometimes but it's kinda rare. While we were close friends Nikki dated a guy named Caleb. Nothing happened while they were together but I fell in love with Caleb. Nikki moved on and married someo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [m25] totally into co-worker [f20] but she has a boyfriend...what to do? POST: I [m25] have been working with this girl [f20] for around 18 months. She is super good looking, which is why i even began flirting with a co-worker that was so much younger than me. She has a boyfriend so it never was anything serious. Recently, though, we have been talking constantly...i mean texting and chatting until ~3am for the last few weeks. The more i get to know her the more i really like her, she",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How can I (22/F) tell the difference between him (26/M) losing interest or just becoming more comfortable? POST: I know this is a menial concern compared to many here, but I do appreciate any advice. We've been together for about 8 months now and it has been a wonderful relationship. Lately, though, there have been a few little things that concern me. For instance, him texting less and the replies being one-worded or spread out, or not calling me ""babe"" as much, just little things ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by offending a Jewish coworker with an accidental holocaust reference POST: So I was in a standard office meeting with a Jewish coworker and for some reason we got on the topic of the new interns and the cubes that they had to sit in. These cubes are extremely tiny, square, and provide only enough space to look straight forward, hands on keyboard, that's it. They are like little claustrophobic concentration chambers. In fact, one could say they are even ""concentration cubes"", which is pr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[m22] have started to have feelings for my best friend's[m22] girlfriend[f21] even though im dating someone else! POST: First post, I need help! So I've been in my current relationship with X for about 3 months. It's been fairly great- the first 2 months were great but lately she's become controlling and sex is at an all time low. Anyway so my man Z and I have been friends since college (senior year of college currently) Z starting dating this absolutely gorgeous girl Y last year.",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My brother's(23/m) ex(22/f) texted me that hes being annoying...not sure the best way to handle this. POST: They broke up about 4 weeks ago and he is still trying to get back with her even though she already has someone else, she has basically been with this guy ever since they broke up. Its likely she was cheating on my brother with this new guy, because she cheated on him last year, broke up, with him dated the new guy and ran back to my brother when it didn't work. Every t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [39 F] with my BF [53 M] of 10 months. Need suggestions for things I can do for him to show him how deeply I care for him. POST: Hi Reddit! Well, I'm in a new relationship with an incredible man I met 10 months ago. I adore him and care about him deeply. He's taught me a lot about what it means to love a person and everyday I feel so very fortunate that I've met him. He's giving, he's generous, he's patient and we communicate openly with each other. He treats me like I am the on",positive " r/Advice TITLE: I was needy, what can I do now? POST: There was this international student at my college that I was ""talking"" to and we were hanging out alot. We went on a couple dates and she said she liked me but wanted to take it slow. She was an innocent girl so I didn't mind. However during the course of the relationship I acted needy and desperate, always needing affirmation that she liked me. Then she finally had a heart to heart and I felt completely satisfied and no longer needy for affirmation. H",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [20 M] 4 months, my boyfriend still has some feelings for his ex wife[29 F] and I feel like I'm going to lose him to her. POST: My boyfriend divorced his wife back in March due to multiple reasons. Money, jobs, her laziness, etc etc. Him and I hit it off fairly quickly and we started dating in May of this year. We hit a little rough patch, I know we were both the blame on it, but he starts feeling guilty about his ex wife and kid. I knew about his daughter ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 21M met a girl recently 22F only problem is she lives in another city. POST: I need some advice reddit your my only hope. I recently met a girl who was only in town for a short while and nothing happened then. We began texting back and forth and eventually of course the topic came to where this was going. I feel like it's relevant that we've been sexting a bit too, I say this not to boast but so you all can help me out more. I'm actually planning on moving there in the middle of ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [28 M] had a date with [25 F], how do I follow up? POST: There's a little more to the question, but I'm looking for outside opinions... I had a date last weekend... seemed to go well. She added me on facebook the next day (without prompt, but she knew my full name) so I assumed it went well. We've been texting for 4 days. She's not always quick to reply though. We've had one or two exchanges on Facebook in public comments. I asked her last night (about 24hrs ago) if she wanted to me",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I out of line for not wanting my boyfriend to join the Army? POST: We are 17, have another year and a half of high school and he's been the closest person in my life for going on 7 years. He told me that he wanted to but once we started dating a year ago he said he put it out of his head because he didn't want to leave me behind. But about a week ago he asked me what I would say and I said ""absolutely not."" and it turned to a huge fight, which we resolved the next day. But today he t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] feel as though I'm really dependent on people and find it hard to be alone. How do I get over this loneliness? POST: Hi. I'm 20F and I'm currently feeling like poop. I've lived alone since September as I came abroad to study in university. I live about 3,000km away from home right now as this was the best school and course I could find. I'm not liking my course much at the moment. My parents came to visit me and literally just left two days ago and I feel so depressed witho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my girlfriend[18 F] 6 mo, she's emotionally a mess but I'm scared of breaking up POST: I'm a teenager dating a girl older than me. She's very emotionally unstable. We've had fights throughout all of our relationship, ""fights"" being her getting mad at me for anything. She gets irrationally upset and gets mad when she doesn't get what she wants. We have been dating for six months and I'm starting to not be able to take it anymore, I don't want to waste my time...she go",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what are your thoughts on this? Interesting hospital Experience. POST: Last night I took my friend to the ER. It wasn't serious, he only needed a few stitches. We walk into the doors of the ER. My friend stepped up to the check-in counter, and I was in the position to see the side of the receptionist and a full view of the keyboard. The first thing asked by her was date of birth. He gave it to her. She then asked for his last name, first name, then confirmed a few things to him",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 F] think that this guy [19 M] I have been casually seeing is just keeping me around as his second choice to a his best friend [18 F] POST: I have been talking and have been casually seeing this guy since the begging of the school year. I am a sophomore in college and he is a freshman, and he is best friends with this gorgeous, very flirty girl. I guess at the very beginning of the year, before we hooked up, he was trying to get with her but they ended up just being friends as s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [17f] says we need to ""take a break"" after three months so she can figure out what to do with her life. Should I [17m] continue to wait around, or should I just move on? POST: We had a healthy, happy relationship for those three months. Then, out of of the blue, she, through a text message, says that she thinks we need to take a break, her explanation being that she has a lot to deal with and cannot focus on a relationship. I tried to get her to talk to me about it, but sh",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help POST: I'll be 20 years old next year. I was bullied as a child, which buried me in insecurities that have held me back socially, along with a lack of motivation that has held me back academically. In the first grade, my teacher left the room, and the other kids went wild. I decided not to be a douchebag and remained seated. My teacher thought this was a problem. I was then put into therapy, where I was thought to be depressed, and therapists tried to find a correlation between my bu",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I overreacting? POST: I am 33, my SO is 31, we've been together 3 years and living together for 2 years. We are on an extremely tight budget because although I do have a good job that pays decently, I am also trying to finish up my college degree and so most of my extra money after bills goes straight to tuition. My SO does freelance work that is sporadic and doesn't pay as well. We live paycheck to paycheck right now, but it's usually not a big deal since we're both workin",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Is this girl into me or is she just being friendly? POST: First day at my new job at taco bell, so I had to do some computer training and This girl (we'll call her Veronica) comes into the office I was doing the the training at eating an apple strudel, (Not the toaster strudel kind) and introduces herself. I introduce myself to her, and she asks me if she looks good with her newly died pink hair.I said yes it looks nice, the she offers me some of her apple strudel, I accept, but ins",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: So I accidentally found myself invited to eat Thanksgiving dinner at my manager's house. Need advice... POST: Background: This guy is the manager, then there are a couple of sups, then about 9 at my level and then about 200 others. I sent him an email wishing him a great holiday (genuine, he a great guy) and told him to eat some turkey for me. He told me to do the same. I mentioned that I worked on Wed and early Friday morning and as my wife and child were driving to wife's moms house, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 M] with my GF [30 F] 4 years, found out she used to seriously date a close friend of ours and never told me POST: Hey, I found out that my girlfriend of 4 years used to date a close friend of hers. They dated for over a year, and broke up about 2 years before we started dating. She never told me about it, even though this is someone that we hang out with all the time. Apparently, he broke up with her, and she had a hard time getting over it. I found out because it casually c",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making a paper crane. POST: Context: 21-year old American female living/working in Montevideo, Uruguay for the last four months. I was out with a friend, sitting on the beach and drinking some cheap wine out of plastic cups on Wednesday. I probably drank a little over half the bottle, but I'm a lightweight so the world was spinning a little (I know, I know). I got on the city bus alone about midnight to go home, and I started making a little tiny paper crane out of the bus ticket. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [28M] attempt to contact my [26F] Ex? POST: I posted here several months ago regarding my relationship and the fights we've been having, the advice was appreciated but ultimately to late to save the relationship. We broke up 2 days before Christmas, strangely we agreed to continue working at it - but she changed her mind between her couch and front door. We come from very different backgrounds but I always believed that in relationships it's to the benefit of both parties ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my Ex/BF [26 M/F] of 18 months, got together at a bad time, she is struggling to commit, I have suggested a break POST: Hi all, thanks for the advice ahead of time. I met this woman and we hit it off and became best friends. She ended a relationship with someone else (not because of me) and a couple of months later we got together. We are very close, but she is having a hard time letting go of the past. She says I am the kind of person she wants to be with and wish",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my college classmates POST: Be sure to explain in detail with line breaks. I'm a college student and all that entails. This is a simple question, but I'm struggling and don't know how best to approach this so it develops properly. I've met some good kids in my classes. How do I become better friends with them? I don't like just communicating with people in a class setting, or being the ""Hey, can you send me a pic of your homework?"" guy. I was thinking about this over ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [52 M] received a Facebook friend request from (?F) in 2013. She knew my name in High School (ages 13 to 18) but I was bullied a lot at that school and I'm concerned about getting the same old kind of emotional abuse. POST: Back in 2013 I received a friend request on Facebook. It was from a lady who knew my name in High School. But I was bullied a lot in High School and I'm concerned one of her Facebook friends from High School might start up again with the old abuse towards me. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the difference between ""friend love"" and boy/girlfriend ""love""? POST: In my own experience, I've been friends with girls (I'm a guy) who I've been close enough with to say ""I love you"" on occasion, in a friendly sort of way (ie, not as in ""marry me"") and I legitimately mean it, in that I have genuine affection for them. These girls, with whom I am just friends, generally have one of two traits: I'm either not physically attracted to them at all or they're taken. When they don't h",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Some guy stole my iPhone at Bonnaroo and I now have access to his Facebook. How should I go about trolling him? POST: My phone went missing at the Dollar Store just outside of the festival. We called and texted hoping someone might return it. Lucky for me the thief was an idiot and Find My iPhone exists. We tracked it throughout the city until it landed in festival grounds. The tracker routed us to an employee entrance where we explained the situation. Head of security, Bruce Godsey, was",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it improper to ask about the cause of death of someone you knew, even though you were not close to their family? Also can anyone explain the morbid curiousity that humans have in regards to the cause of death of others? POST: Last night a buddy of mine passed away unexpectedly. I knew him throughout highschool and he had one of my last 2 beers from safe grad when we graduated. Just last weekend he posted a bunch of pics of him having fun with his gf and brothers. And just like that h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my girlfriend [24 F] of almost a year and a half - I know it's time to end it, but never done it before POST: Created a throwaway because she knows my main username. We've been going out for almost a year and a half which makes this tied for my longest relationship, but longest relationship of my post-college life. I'm her first everything. Over these last 18 months, we've been each other's best friend. I love her and admire her but feel like I'm no longer romantical",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29F] got terrified by how I keep letting my ex ruins my life POST: So, I have posted story abt me and my ex here : after that event, we are still keep in touch. because we are gaming buddy, so we still play some games together, and he actually talk to me onto getting back. I think there is 4 or 5 times we already on and off, and its all he wanted to try again and be better and then he will be the one who broke up with me. I feels so stupid, I let him plays with my hearts and ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why is r/atheism so up themselves? POST: This will get downvoted so fucking much it's ridiculous. Seriously though, I am by no means religious, in fact I'm probably an atheist myself (I'm 18 [there goes all credibility] and struggle to believe in a higher power, so agnostic is probably the better term) but every time I come on Reddit there is some totally obnoxious post from r/atheism on the front page that just blatantly ridicules religion. Why? What gives you the right to stomp on ot",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit I need your creativity to make something awesome. POST: Hey Reddit, next Thursday I have a day during spirit week in which we dress up as a superhero, I plan on dressing up in formal clothing with a name tag that says ""Hello my name is Bruce Wayne"" I plan on wearing this until second period. when second period comes, I plan on having my friend call me and setting my ring tone to the old Batman theme song, I will then answer it and scream my city needs me and dart out of the class",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me and 2 friends all [17 M], feel like the other two are growing closer while I am left behind. POST: Me and my best friend James have been very close for a few years, and about 6 months ago met Liam at a festival. Liam is best friends with another one of my close friends, hence how we were introduced. James and I got along really well with Liam whilst at the festival, and so continued to see him afterwards with other friends, or just the three of us. Soon after James and Liam met",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/m] with [23/f] she does not communicate well POST: For the sake of brevity, this will be as short as possible. Together for 4 years, and what the title says, she does not communicate well. In the past she has gotten blackout drunk a few times. One time she slept in the same bed with another guy but never told me. Also she goes to parties a lot and sometimes she gets blackout drunk and dances with other guys. BOTH times her friends were witnesses say that she initiated the d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Breakup]I(22m) just told my girlfriend(20f) of five years I wanted to continue the relationship as friends and she took off POST: Backstory: I first made the mistake of not giving my opinion when she decided we should move out so she can get her dog from the shelter. Me being the person who thought everything would be alright went along and we've been living for almost two years together. She has had the tendency to be controlling, semi-joking/verbally abusive, and a jealous, very",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it fair for me[18M] to talk to other girls online as strictly friends occasionally? My Girlfriend [17F] doesn't think so POST: Me and her have been in a long distance relationship for about 8 months now and I just wanted to know if it's fair for me to do this? First of all she has depression and insecurities too but is it fair for me to talk to other girls occasionally online and telling my girlfriend everything after or is it not? I don't talk to them to hit or flirt on them. I o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] want to drop out of college. Am I making a mistake? POST: I recently got accepted into a college and I feel like it's not for me. I study IT, but I'm not into it at all. It's not even remotely interesting for me and my motivation is really suffering because of it. Also, due to certain law changes in my country, finishing the college and getting my degree practically means that I'm stuck with it for good with no other option, which lowers my motivation even further. The probl",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: In moving out my mom found every dirty secret I've ever had in my closet. Reddit, what terrible secrets have you had uncovered? POST: I'm moving to university this year so my parents are downsizing. I was really lazy about moving and only did the basic things then stopped going to the house to help move. I made the terrible mistake of leaving my closet uncovered. For the past 7 years of my life I have been keeping every thing I have ever wanted to hide or keep secret in that closest. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22 M] considering breaking up with my [18 F] gf of 2 months POST: We haven't been together long enough for me to feel as bad about this as I do, but I do care about her and she's had a history of cutting which worries me. She's a great girlfriend and I enjoy spending time with her, her personality, tastes etc. are suitable to mine; but I am considering breaking up just due to a lack of sex appeal. She's very pretty, but her weight is right around the point at which I'm not att",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] i think my SO (20/m) may not be interested in me anymore POST: We've been dating for a year but we have been ""talking"" off and on for a few years, it just never worked out. I'm starting to feel that he isn't really into me or is maybe just using me without realizing it. Within the past 4 months he never asks me to hang out anymore unless he needs something out of it (internet, something he left at my house, a ride if his car is down). He NEVER kisses me unless I ask him ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [F26] used to be with my ""player"" friend [M27]. I feel like I [M27] am not her type at all. POST: They used to be together a few years back but I don't think the relationship was ever that serious. He only mentioned her a few times before I met her. I used to be closer friends with him but I moved away for work so our friendship now is playing CS:GO sometimes and whenever I visit my parents who live in the city as he does, we tend to hang out. August last year ago he in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22M) have a problem with my SO (21F) talking to our ""friend"" .. the problem is, he's flirting with her and she does nothing about it POST: Someone I believed to have been my ""friend"" (lets call him Mike) is being very flirty with my girlfriend of almost 2 years, and the rest of our friends can see it. I won't go into too much detail, but Mike has been talking with her for about a month now since I introduced them (I've known Mike for a couple years, we weren't REALLY close friend",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] with my friend(maybe more maybe not) [18 M] - Advice appreciated on what to do! POST: We're both freshmen at a pretty small university. We've known each other about 3 months now, and from very early on (maybe the first week or so) I started showing interest in him. We talked a bunch through fb chat, watched shows/movies, played games together, etc. I'm 99% sure that he knows that I'm interested in him, and sometimes, through what he says and how he acts, it seems like he *",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Are we having sexual incompatible [m/23] and [f/21] ? POST: My GF [f/21] and I[m/23] are currently long distance; We been together for 1 year. I am able to see her once a month. But this time i came back, she hasnt been as sexual with me when i get back and doesn't want to have sex unless she is on her period. GF is not on the pill. We did have sex with condoms most of the time i come back and when she on her period. I asked her about it and she is afraid to get pregnant and she jus",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Microwave Warranty Repair: Damaged our wall and swapped our vent, now on vacation till 4/7 POST: Our microwave was brand new with our new house and died 2 weeks after we moved in. Company sent a warranty repair guy, diagnosed, order parts, came back and repaired the microwave. Well, typically you need two guys to remove an over-the-stove microwave and this guy did it on his own... putting deep paint scratches into our wall (lots of them). Then, when we turn the fan on, it now blows on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (17M) engaged in sexual activity with my friend (17F) but she did the same thing with another guy the following night. What do i do? POST: I'm interested in this girl and have been for a long time. We've been texting every single day for the past several months. We've had drunken intimacy on a few occasions and the last time I admitted to her that I had feelings and wanted a relationship. She told me she was interested but not ready for a relationship which I accepted at the time. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] boyfriend was hiding a huge part of his life from me [18] and I feel kinda hurt POST: [18F] Sorry messed that up I have been dating my boyfriend Alex for 8 months at this stage. We have been on numerous dates and he has been to my place several times. During the 8 months we have been dating he never once offered to take me to his place, or even tell me where he lives. He would always say around but he would always take his best friend to his place and they would clown aro",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you done any small social experiments? POST: The last few times I've been to a club I usually get a few coins back in change from the bar. These coins I throw in the urinals, one in each. I check back in about one hour, just to see how many coins are gone. I have been doin this for a while, and at first I started out with 1kr coins (ca: 15 cents). Usually no coins have dissapeared. The next time i threw a 5kr coin in each (ca:80c), and this is when things starts to get a bit inter",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [f/24] with my SO [35/M] of one year, seem to be having issues with road rage. I am having a hard tolerating his driving habits. POST: My usually sweet, caring and patient SO, turns into an aggressive and intolerable man behind the wheel. He is very impatient with people who don't turn on their signals when necessary, slow drivers and sometimes people who are just driving normally, but he is constantly commenting on other drivers and it causes me to become irritable and uncomforta",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[29m] Recently broke up with my girlfriend[28f] of 3 years, can you guys tell me if I was wrong? POST: Okay so girlfriend and I have been together for a while. Overall to me it was sad breaking up with her, but we had both checked out of the relationship a while ago. Our main problem was she wanted to get married yet acted nothing like what you'd expect out of a future mother. I was hoping over time she would mature but she never did so I never wanted to propose to her. She contin",negative " r/Advice TITLE: The recent revelations about politics enrage me on a moral level. I feel like they are making me unhappy and am sometimes off putting to others. In what ways can I help reduce these feelings? POST: Title pretty much says it all. Going to try not to include any of my actual political opinion here, just how it makes me feel. Just listening to the conventions this past week and seeing the discussions that we are having now and thinking about the outcome on the rest of the world is making me ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most memorable dream you've had? whether it be a weird, scary, funny, etc. I'll start POST: Once I had this dream that I was hanging out with a friend and an alien was stalking us so we decided to go tobogging. He then chased us down the hill on a sled. Once he caught up to us he kiddnapped us and took us to our house where he introduced himself, (his name was Zorg) and he insisted we stay for dinner, to which my friend said no. So he killed her. So I decided I would just stay",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I want to do voice acting. Do you all think I am any good for that or radio work? POST: [My attempt at a radio spot]( What do you all think?! Also, if you have any feed back feel free to leave it here and on SoundCloud. Also, if you all want something personal recorded especially for your in a deep voice or one of my accents let me know and I will see about doing that and making it available for download. My accents include: [Southern]( [New York] Chicano (1st gen Mexican-American Cho",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Car question re: highway running POST: So somebody I know recently bought a used car and doesn't want to put a lot of miles on it. Understandable. I was told once, however - by somebody reasonably knowledgeable about mechanical stuff - that semi-regular road trips are actually healthy for cars, particularly aging ones. Highway miles are of course easier than city for the obvious reasons (transmission/suspension/gas mileage/etc.), but even beyond that, he was saying that it was actually ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24/F] with my [25/M] boyfriend. Today is his older sister's birthday, and she died two years ago. Anything to be done? POST: I'm just wondering if there's anything that might be a nice thing to do for him tonight. He just mentioned it to me this morning before we left for work, I had no idea when her birthday was. A somewhat weird coincidence is that the sister's birthday is today, my birthday is tomorrow, and also, his mom's birthday is tomorrow. He was close with his sister whe",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Reddit Gods, how should I punish Goldilocks? POST: Hey Reddit, Let me preface this by saying I am a narcissistic asshole with no sympathy for pretentious bitches who think they can do whatever they want simply because they're in a sorority. I live in a fraternity house on campus at my university. It was a big gameday weekend here and after a drunken night out, I spent the night with my girlfriend off campus. When I got back to my room today, I found my room trashed (beer cans every",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my(21M) girlfriend(20F) of 5 Years says she isn't appreciated, but I don't know how to appreciate her anymore. POST: Alright so my girlfriend and I have been together for a little over 5 Years, we've been together since freshman year of high school. Recently she's been acting super distant and giving me the cold shoulder. Yesterday I finally got her to talk to me about why, and she apparently doesn't feel appreciated in our relationship which left me awe struck because 90% of the thi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20M) posted a picture of me and my coworker (20F) at her birthday dinner tonight. Is it normal for people to assume that we are dating? POST: So, I posted a picture of me and my coworker on Instagram, and people have been posting comments that are ""cheering me on"". In the photo, I have my arm over her shoulder. I thought it was just a friendly gesture, if I wanted to be more intimate I would have put my arm around her waist. Is it normal for people to assume that a male putting ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by freeballing in boxers (maybe nsfw?) POST: So after I had a shower tonight, I realised that the underwear I'd taken with me to the shower actually had a hole in it. ""Oh well"" I thought, I don't really need them anyway. I proceeded to put on the random pair of comfortable shorts I'd taken with me and wear those for the rest of the night. Fast forward a few hours and I'm about to go to bed. I decide that it would be appropriate to change into boxers to sleep in. I grab my trusty black ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What have you done to screw someone that had little repercussion, but you still feel guilty about? POST: I was a pretty big fuck up in university and needed tutoring for my statistics courses. I hired a really smart girl to tutor me and she sat patiently with me for weeks teaching me, but I ended failing the course anyway. I never paid her a dime. I can't recall if I just preferred to spend the money drinking or if I was just pissed off that all the tutoring went to nothing. I owed her p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Shitty Situation: I (29M) asked new friends (M&Fmid20s) to watch cats while I was on vacation, came back to find one very sick POST: Just moved to a new city, met some really wonderful people through mutual friends who live near me. Me and my girl mentioned we were going on vacation and were trying to figure out what to do with our cats. They jumped on the offer. They said they've been thinking of getting cats and would love to spend some time with them to see if it would be a good ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] girlfriend [22F] of 4.5 years was openly dismissive and insulting about something I was really excited about. POST: Hey reddit, my girlfriend and I had agreed that we could each get ourselves a belated Christmas gift. She spent around 180$ on clothing and getting her hair cut and buying some clothes. I spent 130$ getting myself a new safety razor, some different shaving stuff, and an old school pipe(think something that your grandfather would have smoked from). I made no is",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] Me [26F] with my BF [25M] 7 months, almost cheated on his ex, blames her for snooping POST: [Original]( I spoke to my boyfriend about my concerns regarding this issue about an hour ago and it sort of just opened up a whole torrent of issues. Towards the end of our ""how did our relationship turn into this"", I got up enough self-respect to ask that we start using condoms. I'm not on any sort of birth control and while he NEVER ejaculates (he physically can't do it), there are",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23M] long distance gf [25F] wants to break up because of my insecurities. Is there any way to repair the damage? POST: So we've been together a bit over a year. We are pretty great together. We both like the same things, we both enjoy the same hobby/life style (one where being petty to each other would go against the spirit of the hobby itself), we have both shared the same viewpoints about life, the sex was great. But I've been insecure because of my previous relationship. It's",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My friend keeps having this dream, can anyone help? POST: Okay so my friend keeps having this reoccurring dream about this one girl at our school. They ""dated"" in 4th grade, but she is a bitch and she always jumps from guy to guy (I know from experience). Anyway he keeps having this dream that they are on a date and he is having a really good time and they kiss. He doesn't like her but his brain is telling him that he does and he is REALLY confused why. She is such a bad person and no on",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by leaving a voicemail with my thigh POST: So, this happened at pretty much 12:01am today. A quick explanation: My phone likes to dial people I am texting if anything touches that spot on the screen even if its locked. It's a rare enough occurrence that I don't think about it too much but at the same time it doesn't surprise me when it happens. A few days ago I started messaging a girl, not really flirting but she was nice so I asked her on a date. It wasn't a yes or a no and we conti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 F] with my old best friend [13 F] for eight years, but she doesn't like me anymore. POST: I am homeschooled so I don't have many friends and the ones I do are very conservative and i can't relate to well. But she was my neighbor and she was so awesome and funny and weird but she doesn't like me anymore. Our friendship was weird, we never hugged or took pictures together, my friends didn't know i existed barely and the same with her but we hung out almost every day. I could tel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Contacted by ex, tell current partner or bury it? POST: Me (27m) and my partner (25f) have been seeing each other exclusively for a month. 6 months before, I broke off a LTR (4 years) with a really bad ex who cheated. I tried to be civil, but eventually decided (for my sanity) it was better to shut her out. Out of the blue, my ex messaged me and wanted to know if I was seeing someone else. I told her that my life is mine and that neither does she need my blessing for whatever (who",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: So, I have recently been in a slump, until now! :) POST: So, as the title says I have been in a bit of a slump with regard to my working out. Well, more honestly, I have completely stopped my running. I used to run every other day. mostly 5ks and some 10ks when I was good, but then I went back to college and fell into a slump. I stopped running, ate everything in site because food was readily available, did a bunch of drinking (it's college duh haha) and ate take out food regularly. T",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: If you had to coordinate an international pen pal exchange, how would you do it? [Serious] POST: This is my first post, I'm not very tech-savvy, therefore I apologize in advance for any errors. I'll keep this very short. I was just teaching in Sri Lanka for 9 months at a public Buddhist all girls school. They wanted American pen pals around the same age. (Ages 10-16ish). I couldn't say no to any of their adorable faces, but now I need to find them all American pen pals. (I tried worki",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Any ideas why I [18M] keep seeing the same girl [19F] in my dream? POST: Not sure if this is where I should post this So, this girl [19F] I used to date a long time ago [5 Month Relationship] but I wouldn't really consider it a relationship mainly because we basically didn't act like we cared about each other. After we broke up we slowly drifted apart and no we don't talk at all Anyway all of a sudden, she keeps popping up in my dream, and it's the same thing each night, hugging me",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Possible job related scam: Mills & Johsnson. POST: Hey all. I wanted to give people a heads up about an email I got recently from millsandjohnson.com that I think might be praying on desperate job seekers. Here was my experience: I checked my inbox to find an email alerting me that my application for the position of ""Data Clerk"" had been reviewed by a recruiting firm, Mills & Johnson, and that they wanted me to fill out a pre-interview questionnaire before scheduling an interview. I didn't r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21M] confused about [22M]'s signals. POST: There is a guy I've started to see (only gone on four ""dates"") and he's somewhat confusing to me. I personally am not looking for a serious, deep relationship, at least not now. We are both in college. On our first date, I'd mentioned that I might be graduating soon, as in, this summer (he had misheard me, I'm graduating next year). He got sort of panicky and said he was worried about me graduating early, which I thought was kind of odd. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/m] How do I go at my girlfriends [20/f] ""pace"" if she won't try and advance our physical relationship any further? (clarification inside) POST: Me and my current girlfriend have been dating for a little bit over a month and things have been going very well...except for trying to get closer. I realize that it's only been a month, but I have concerns for the near future. She is very shy and has also never done anything before (I know this for a fact). I was her first kiss and",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] have a negative outlook and I don't want it to affect my relationship with [20M.] POST: I have a wonderful boyfriend of ten months. We have known each other since we were young and have considered ourselves best friends for years. He's a stand up guy, working a full-time night job and doing full-time online school. He budgets really well and has his new car mostly paid off so that we can start saving for a house. He is sweet and attentive to my needs, but I'm scared he's bi",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I'd like to meet a friend of my friend. However, they've stopped talking and I still would like to meet her(much more details inside) POST: Hi everybody. So, a while ago I'm hanging out with my friend, we'll call him Bob. Bob and I are talking and I ask him what plans he's got for tomorrow. He says, ""oh and I'm hanging out with a friend. Haven't seen her in a while"". So I tease him, ""Oo good luck!!"" ""Haha nah, she's a lesbian"". I'm also a lesbian so curiosity got the better of me so I a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Once found a cell phone in the middle of the desert between AZ and CA. What are some weird stories (not supernatural) Redditors have? POST: When I was a freshman in High School me and my family were on a road trip to California. I was hungry so we had stopped at a gas station to get some munchies. I ate some chips that must have been outdated or my stomach just didnt agree. I was about to puke so my dad made an emergency stop in the middle of Nowhere. I ran out into the remote deser",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do ""banged"" and ""boned"" have the same meaning/connotation? explain. POST: My mother (54) and I (23) were watching tv and a trailer for a show came on. In the trailer/commercial they used the word boned. When the trailer was over she commented that she found the language to be disgusting. This sparked an argument about the meaning of the word. I am not offended by it, I see it as meaning the same/used in the same way as banged. She sees it as meaning the same/used the same as f*cked,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO [21M] often makes comments to me [22F] about how other women are 'hot' or otherwise attractive and it gets me down. POST: I know that people don't become blind when they date and that it's natural for him to still find other people attractive. But that mixed with the fact that we don't have very much of a sex life (he has a 'low' libido but I'm pretty sure he masturbates frequently) has got me feeling really down. He made a comment about someone on reddit today and I got a li",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: School has drained the life out of me, and I'm losing motivation quickly. Last year of college and I don't know if I can put in the effort to graduate. Advice? POST: So basically, I'm a EE/CS student at a fairly prestigious school (let's just say it's nationally recognized and does well in USNews rankings). The amount of work we're getting in our last year is unbelievable, I can't even begin to describe it. I have assignments due weekly, and for two of my classes, each one takes roughly ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Dating etiquette: On what date should you know whether you want something more out of your partner? POST: Hey reddit! Probably a stupid question. I'm a 20 year old female. Started dating again after 7 months now of being single and out of a 9 month relationship. Just moved to a new place, don't want to be labelled any harsh names or hurt anyone. Met two guys on tinder. They are fully aware I'm going on dates with other people (as they are). Went on three dates with one. He asked ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Trying to evaluate where to go. POST: My girlfriend of 2 and a half years and I broke up a week ago, I felt so awful about the whole thing. It basically came down to us starting to not have as much time to see each other, and then me getting frustrated and doing nothing about it. I felt like I gave up way to easy and really regret it. I talked to her via facebook after the breakup and we decided we are going to take some time to just recover emotionally. I told her I felt awful about it, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] can't figure out what happened when we [18F] met for a movie tonight. POST: Background: We're going to prom together, so I figured we should hangout before then and test the waters. We've known each other distantly for two years, but our relationship, if you can call it that, has only been since I asked to prom last week. We both go to boarding school, so I texted her to see if she wanted to hangout. She said she was free and said she wanted to finish watching a movie that sh",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help Reddit, I need HR advice. I feel like I got unfairly denied a promotion. What do you think? POST: Here is the situation: My ex-husband and I work at the same job, on different shifts. We have a child and we share custody. He is supposed to pick her up after work. He changes his schedule (willingly) almost every 2 weeks. I work overnight. I am currently in a temporary supervisor position, giving me access to the whole departments schedules. Depending on when he comes to work, I eith",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by guessing my female bosses age... POST: For some background, I am a medical student, and as a medical student you follow higher up doctors around the hospital for 2 month long placements. At the end of these placements you get your forms graded and signed by your team lead and thus pass the placement and rotate to another department. Now these team leads are at total liberty to give you any grade and justify it with a note at the bottom titled ""poor participation"" and the uni never ov",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Bad career move, significant regret and depression POST: I recently made a pretty bad career choice- I left a good job in a highly competitive field (Museum work) which I was passionate about for a SLIGHTLY better-paid but significantly less interesting and less challenging job in a different field. The main reasons I left were the increased benefits, but also I felt like the Museum I worked for was a somewhat hostile work environment and it was guilty of corruption and nefarious (though not",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with girl I met a month ago[24 F] blows me off to hang out, but is definately interested. Should I show signs of anger for blowing me off or play it cool? POST: Me and my friend met these two chicks about a month ago who are best friends. My friend is seeing one and its going smooth for them, but they are both serial daters. The one I'm seeing is more of an independant. When we hang we kiss do all that jazz. She defiantely shows signs of interest. There are times when I ask",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm 23 and have decided I want to pursue dentistry as a career. My parents are against it. How do I handle this? POST: To be fair to them, I already have a degree (in Journalism/PR) from a great college but have come to the realization the corporate world isn't fufilling me and that I'm better suited for a career that focuses on helping others in a tangible way (not to mention I love working with my hands). I've been accepted to a a one year post-baccalaureate program (in biomedical ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [29 M] with my girlfriend [27 F] new relationship, do I tell her about DUI that happened pre-relationship? POST: About two months before I met my current GF, I was booked on a DUI charge. It was all very borderline—barely above legal limit, passed field sobriety, etc.—but it still happened. Fast-forward a bit and I'm now in a new relationship. Everything is going great—almost too great tbh. But the one thing that keeps clouding my mind is the DUI. I haven't told her yet (we're abou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [25, F] contact my ex [29, M]? POST: Hi all :) any advice appreciated! Ex and I met over a year ago, when he was going through a big transition in his life - he broke up with his ex, moved from London back to his mum's in his hometown to help her out while still recovering from a back injury, got a new (shitty) job. At that time he was 27. We only dated for about 5-6 month, but we had insane connection. I can honestly say I was never in love before him although I had two 2",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Lost 25 pounds over winter break + multiple nsv (22M 6'2.) POST: I decided to drop some weight this vacation (starting 12/17) and now, with the vacation over, I am down 25 pounds. I am below 210 for the first time in maybe 9 years, hitting that weight range was one of my most intense, unapproachable feeling goals. The NSVs that accompanied this were fantastic. I have nerve damage in my left arm, issues with a few of my ribs due to childhood injuries and lifting weights has always been the m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How dangerous are cows on public land? POST: The town moor a large public field in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Every few seasons they move cows onto the field to graze and basically just live there before they're moved elsewhere. People use the field everyday since there are parks and public walkways on it, jogging, hanging out, picnics etc. Just an incident that happened to me and my friend last night. We were on the town moor around 8pm on top of the taller of the two hills in the field ",negative " r/travel TITLE: I'd like to cheaply study any language, anywhere, for as long as possible. Any recommendations? (legitimate details inside) POST: I currently have $3000 USD (can save more if necessary) and I want to live in a foreign country, studying their language for as long as possible. My preferred (but not at all necessary) parameters for the endeavor is to: study at a university (due to easy visa and living situation), study a non-Indo-European language, be a language with a good literary tradition",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Credit reporting agencies wont even let me access my report so I can start disputing a clusterf*** of errors. POST: I'm 23 and trying to get my shit together financially. That means I'm budgeting with mint.com, closing old bank accounts, and looking towards refinancing an auto loan. From what I've read here on /r/personalfinance, one of the most important things to do is to get my annual credit report for free online. The only problem with that is they keep asking me weird questi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My boyfriend (21/m) told me (22/f) the opinion of his sister would change our relationship. POST: Some back story, we've been dating for five months now and I've fallen hard for him and I believe he feels the same way about me. I'm the first girl to stay the night at his house and the first girl he's told he loves. We've never gotten into any kind of arguments dealing with relationship issues. So Thanksgiving day comes and his sister is coming into town from out of state, he ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [00 M/F] with my ___ [00 M/F] duration, short-description POST: So I have been having problems with my GF, I've recently annoyed her so much to the point that if I even try to joke with her or make her happy with something, she just gets mad. I feel like I have to walk on thin ice and really watch anything I say in order to avoid making her angry. Like the way things have been I keep trying to do things to make her happy but I keep getting the cold shoulder and her saying for me ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26F] am confused about how to define my relationship with guy I am dating [28M] and I'm moving away soon POST: Backstory: I met this guy almost a year ago at work and we became friends. As the year went along, we got closer and started hanging out frequently, texting everyday, flirting a lot, etc. I started to really like him, but I'm pretty shy and awkward so I've never really been good at the whole dating thing. A few days ago he told me that he feels there is something more tha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [22 F] deal with friends, family, and even aquaintances saying what I do isn't a ""real job""? POST: Hi, r/relationships! I got helpful advice the last time I posted here, so I'm looking for help again. So, I'm a tutor. I teach elementary, middle, and high school students. I also specialize in test prep (SAT, ACT). I was originally doing a full time job right out of college, where I wasn't too happy. I jumped ship and started tutoring. Maybe this is sort of a non-issue, bu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My boyfriend is probably going to end our 1.5 year relationship tonight... Any suggestions on how not to have this happen? POST: Here's the deal: (obvious throwaway, as my bf is an avid redditor- but he's at work and hopefully won't see this) -we met 1.5 years ago while I was still married (it was ending anyway) -instant attraction and we have been together ever since -I am in the process of getting divorced but for financial reasons need to wait to file till after a big financial dea",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Should my friend keep trying to text a girl he likes? POST: Hey guys my friend and I are in a debate about this girl and we thought we'd ask Reddit for your opinion. Basically my friend met this girl over summer in community college and he's liked her ever since. Since they go to different universities they have had close to no communication for four months. Fast forward to now my friend has since graduated and has been texting her to try to hang out and she has agreed, but haven't",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (22M) am moving home after 3 years of long distance to my wife (26F) POST: I have been living all around the world for the past 3 years. In that time, I have gotten married to my awesome wife who I met long before I started moving. We have gone about 9 months at the longest without seeing each other and the shortest was about 2 months. At our longest time we have spent 1 month together but we have spent many shorter times together. I have luckily been able to be home for major ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [30/F] boyfriend [25/M] just told me that I do too much and its making him uncomfortable, what does he mean by that? POST: We've been dating for a few months , and during our relationship I would do things for him (cook, clean, buy things that is needed for his place, etc. ). I am a mechanic and I also go to school for it. I offered him to get his A/C fixed at my school for almost free (about 20 bucks). I told him that I will pay for the belt since I get a discount. He then tel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 F] no longer with my boyfriend [28 M] of almost 10 years - need help moving on POST: Broke up with my long-time boyfriend (since before college) several months ago. He clearly was not feeling it and we grew somewhat distance a few months before I broke it off. Things continued here and there a while after; we saw each other probably once a week but nothing sexual really. Relationship ended in February; I officially moved out in mid April but had not actually been living there",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: 2 White boys trying to start an outdoor movie night in the ghetto. What's a good-priced projector with good display size? POST: I and my best friend are two scrawny white-boys moving out of my parents house for college very soon. In about a month or so, we'll be in an apartment in the less-than fortunate city of Waterbury, CT. We intend to become as friendly with the community surrounding us, just to get on good terms. After thinking about how to go about all of this, I decided starting",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [24M] girlfriend [20F] and I had a talk tonight and I'm not sure how I feel about the matter. POST: I'm in between jobs and just moved in with her last week so I've been doing housework and stuff like that we also have a few dogs so I stay busy until Friday when I start my new job. About 11pm I just straight up ask her if she's happy with me and she says yes and laughs and I ask her to really think about it because she has made me feel almost unwanted all day, she got off work an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my family [immediate/extended], how would it affect your relationships if you just 'danced around' the topic of sexual orientation well into your late 20s or once you were in a relationship? POST: Some examples of dancing around the topic: * if a sister tells you that it's okay if you're gay but you still don't come out. * if a sister asks how you'd feel if a group of guys walked over and started flirting and asked if you'd flirt back, but you don't show any sign of ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the most hilarious attempt at being badass you've witnessed? POST: Could be anything like an attempted badass line or some behaviour that ultimately ends up in hilarity. Mine's not that great but it's something I'm always going to remember. So, as a kid my friends and I used to skateboard everywhere, and one day we went to this mall near our place and go to the KFC. We all order up, wait for each other to come back to the table with our orders like civilized people, and we start",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU at work by installing windows 8 POST: I recently installed windows 8 on my computer and looked around all the new features; I logged into facebook using the facebook app, installed the e-mail app, and just generally messed around with the new OS. I decided I didn't like the full screen apps so I decided not to touch them anymore and I forgot about them. Anyways, today I had to demo to some managers a tool that I have been working on for quite a while so that it could get submitted to hi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [24F] with girlfriend [26F] two months, who has hooked up with her guy best friend in the past. advice please POST: Hey guys, new to the site and just needed advice from fresh, unbiased minds. My girlfriend of two months whom I really like was open about having hooked up with her male best friend a few times in the past. She insists that they're relationship is now purely platonic but I am still uneasy about their close friendship. I have met the guy and actually really like him. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my Wife [25F] 5 Years, I want to possibly make a career change, how do I start the conversation POST: So I graduated 1 year ago from school, and I haven't liked a single job that I've had in my field. My current workplace I've been at for a year and I've had 2 internships for 9 months each. I liked learning about my field in school and doing coursework, but I haven't liked any of my jobs. I've been depressed and anxiety-ridden for the past 6 months because I hate the ou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (24 F) girlfriend (23 F) won't let me see me naked anymore since weight gain. Not sure how to approach this. POST: EDIT: Oops, sorry guys. Title should be 'girlfriend won't let me see *her* naked anymore'. My girlfriend was very thin for most of our relationship (3 years). Around Christmas time of last year, she started gaining weight. She used to count calories, but she has stopped, and she is now a tiny bit chubby. I wouldn't have really minded, since she still looks pretty go",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] found that my friends aunt [35 F] are into me. [Dating] POST: This weekend i was at this kind of festival with my friends and some part og one of my friends family. This isn't the first time i've met them. Friday evening me and the aunt ended up talking for a good 1,5 hour about serious stuff (conflicts etc.). It gets cold, we move closer to each other, starts kissing, end up at 3rd base. She told me that this wasn't the first time she thought about it. I make the move",negative " r/loseit TITLE: I always try to hide behind the camera in order to stay out of pictures, but someone always manages to catch a photo of me... this time, I'm actually sort of glad they did... POST: So I've been stuck at -20 lbs. for at least 8 months now I think. Honestly, for 3-4 of those months I had sort of gotten lazy (stopped exercising and wasn't eating as well as I should have, etc.), but for the past 2 or so months I have been eating much better and starting to do a little bit of exercising again. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[24/F] with [25/M] not relationship status. Not sure if he is also interested in me? POST: So, I just let this guy I am interested in, know that I like him. I basically 'said' that I felt he should know that I like him. His initial response - it made him laugh, he said that's always good to know and it's better than not being liked. Then shortly after he responded saying that he thinks I am quite the fine lady myself and used my name. Then paid me a few compliments. I am not qu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (31M) find myself driving my GF (33) around since her car broke down three weeks ago (one-year relationship) POST: We're in a relationship for one year now. Her car broke down due to her own fault. She didn't maintain it, so the car drove without oil which killed the engine and totalled the car. This happens three weeks ago and since then I'm driving her to work and pick her up and bring her once or twice a week to a store. I don't like lending my car (to anybody) as I try to take ",negative " r/self TITLE: I need some advice about my crazy ex. POST: Without going too far into detail about my past with her: When I dated her in the past, she lied about just about everything possible there was to lie about. The biggest that she ever told was that she lied about being terminally ill with lung cancer. Fast forward about 2-3 years, and I've finally moved on with my life and have a decent job and am making it on my own. A few months ago she contacted me because she couldn't take care of her dog anym",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'll [22F] be moving in with my long distance boyfriend [23M] in 3 months. Could use some tips/advice/stories because life is terrifying. POST: I'm graduating and will be starting work in a new city come July. The plan is for him to make the move with me so we're uprooting our lives to be together. He's still in school, but doesn't seem to be fazed about transferring to where I'll be going. (He already made one transfer to the college he's currently in after he couldn't pay tuition a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex GF [22F] of 3 years broke up with me [23M] and said she was attracted to women...don't know what to think. POST: I'll start by saying we dated for 3 years and yes I was very much in love with her. We broke up 3 months ago when she told me she thought she was attracted to woman. I very much care about her and told her that she had to do whatever it she had to do to make herself happy, I didn't want to hold her back. We've talked on and off since then and are kinda still contactin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (23f) Father (55m) left my Mom (51f) on Valentine's Day for another woman. POST: Pretty much what the title says. This affair has been going on for a long time now and he finally left my mom on Valentine's Day. I haven't seen my dad since Monday nor have I talked to him since Wednesday (tried to get me to ride with while intoxicated-no!) I know he's going to call or text sometime and I'm wondering what I should say to him. I love him obviously, but this is so heartbreaking. They w",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not wearing goggles POST: So a few days ago I was at my best friend's end of school pool party because... end of school year. Anyway, we (me, best friend, and one of our mutual friends) had been messing around in the pool for an hour and a half and we decided to go in and play BF4 since we were cramping. During the messing around, we accidentally knocked over his chlorinator (a small buoy-type thing that you put chlorine tablets in) and spilled the 4 tablets into the deep end. Sinc",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So my cake day is approaching... POST: I have -34 comment and 1 karma. I am clearly not the best redditor, but I love it. I try not to use forever alone b/c I'm not, but I can't help but feel like I am on reddit. What is wrong with me? I get the jokes (most times) I am patiently waiting for someone to ask me 'when does the narwhal bacon?' but it has yet to happen. My negative comment karma came from a feminist-like perspective I was trying to give. I am a female and try not to post with ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: M 19 F 19 she says she wants to get baptized and because of that no sex. POST: Ok, so I've been dating this girl for about 4 months. I've gotten to the point where I love her irrevocably. We'd known each other for a while before that. Anyway, so things have been going along about as smoothly as they can given her PTSD and depression and trust issues. She was molested at 8 and raped again a year or two ago. That stuff I can handle fairly easily. Any time things start getting hot and h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] am very immature at relationships and I need any help that I can get. POST: I leave for college tomorrow & I suddenly realized that I have a big problem on my hands. I am incredibly immature in terms of relationships. As a person, I'm one of the most genuinely kind or ""mature"" people around, but when it comes to dealing with girls I'm an absolute wreck. I have no problem attracting beautiful & amazing girls, but it only goes downhill from there. I'm impulsive, a poor commu",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [F/20's] have problems with my SO [M/20's] intimacy POST: We have been together for 4 years. Everything else is great with our relationship except for intimacy. He can go several weeks without any sexual contact, but I love sex and I want to make love probably everyday (or at least every couple of days). Its not just the sex though. He loves hugs a lot and can get his intimacy from that. I love hugs, kisses, make out sessions, and sex. He doesn't care for kisses and when we h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [16 M] friend started dating my [16 F] best friend and I need help not being a jealous asshole [I am M] POST: So..... Three years ago I got a crush on my best friend (lets call her B) and it has been festering ever since (to the point of borderline psychosis). About a month and a half ago I finally confessed my affection and was politely rejected. So after that I was somewhat depressed for about a month (every day was a sad day) and after a month of depression I was over the hil",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure if my friend thinks he (23/M) and I (23/F) are dating? How to find out? POST: Hi So I've had this guy friend for a while. A couple of years ago I was aware of the fact he liked me but I saw him as just a friend and told him so, and then I got into a relationship and he did too. We remained casual friends texting now and then over the last 2 years but not really hanging out. Anyway we both went though break ups earlier this year, and recently he text me as we hadn't spoken",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Got (lightheartedly) told I'm chubby. a bit depressed. Guy apologized to me but havnt responded, don't know what to say back? POST: So today while in a conversation with a group, the topic of women came up. long story short, but in the middle of it while debating body types, guy turns to me in complete confidence and goes ""YOU'RE chubby, they are fat"" (in regards to other women in the area we were sitting) It hit me really hard. much more than i expected. its rendered me pretty use",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My now EX[18F] says i'm overreacting but I [18M] see it... I'm not sure how. Unhealthy? POST: I was with my now EX for three months. She broke up with because I brought up to a friend that I was uncomfortable with how she was acting with our mutual (now only her) friend. They have a very touchy relationship and he really likes her. I know this because he has ask her out almost 16 times (3 times when we were together even though he knew we were together) and has rejected him each ti",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by investigating what my dogs were barking at POST: So this just happened a few minutes ago and I am feeling like a terrible person for it. Now, my two dogs tend to bark at nearly everything they see and I've been working on fixing this and training them to stop barking so much. When they started barking, I just got up and went out to the back yard to see what it was they were barking at. When I saw they were barking at the pool, I just turned off the pool cleaning robot and went bac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my ex [26M] 1year, am I in the wrong POST: I know that it is absolutely wrong and inappropriate to go through someone's private messages but when you leave it logged on someone's computer and have had a weird gut feeling one will be curious. So my SO left a message open to an ex co worker. He is one that I had a bad feeling about for sometime but she assured he was a friend and in a relationship (with further investigation he wasn't). Well in the message he was informi",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Refinancing auto loan because I am unsatisfied with the lender POST: So I have kind of a silly question. A few months ago I bought a car and took out an auto loan for a decent interest rate. The loan was originally through Ally bank, but then soon after the purchase Ally transfered it to a different small bank that I had never heard of. Same interest rate and everything, just a different bank. This bank is awful. I do all my banking online and my biggest complaint is their website",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Help me plan my Food Decision-Free Month POST: The more decisions you have to make per day, the less you exhaust your willpower and the fewer times you have to rely on that willpower to help yourself make a healthy (calorie-budget-friendly) choice. I'm thinking if I plan ahead EXACTLY what I'm going to eat at every meal for a month and just follow that, the only decision I have to make during that period is to not give up. I'm going to rely on repetitive meals (which don't bother me at all)",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Tried to do the right thing but could not. Insurance legal advice TX needed. POST: Last year around April I backed into a car in a parking lot (field, not paved), it was private property and there were no witnesses, cameras, etc. Thinking I'm being a good guy I left a note apologizing and left my number. I didn't hear back from the vehicle owner until the next day and being slightly inebriated and caught off guard, I told her I was in a company vehicle and gave her my insurance informa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [22 F] told me [21 M] what engagement ring she wants and she'll be upset if it's not that. POST: My [21 M] girlfriend[22 F] and I have been together almost 2 years, and we talked about the future (marriage, family and whatnot) and she told me explicitly what engagement ring she wants, and said if she gets anything else she would be upset because it would show I don't know her. Marriage is not in the near future and we both agree on this because we're both barely out of ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by changing with my blinds up. POST: This happened about a week ago and I can't get it out of my head. I'm a 19 year old guy who lives with roommates in a four bedroom apartment on the third floor. My bedroom is the largest of the other bedrooms, and has a window facing the street. I never close my blinds because I like waking up to natural sunlight. One morning I woke up like usual and did my morning routine before heading out to class. Brushed my teeth, used the bathroom, showered, a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [27/m] fiance of 7 years [26/f] cheated on him what should he do? POST: It was at a club everyone was drinking and caught her making out with a guy she's known for only about 2 weeks. She doesn't want to tell him because she feels bad. But he is furious and doesn't know if he wants to stay with her. They have been together for 7 years and we're going to get married next year. Backstory this is the 3rd time she has done this to him and he has forgiven her multiple times. One ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is ticketmaster the only place one can buy well-known concert tickets? (for the gf, please help!) POST: edit: Please upvote if you don't mind, I really hope, someone knows enough about the ins and out about concert ticket-purchasing to help me out. So, I'm trying to get tickets to my gf's favorite music acts this coming June. She's been through a heck of alot of surgeries for the past several years but now that she can finally stand up, walk, run (fairly decent), and it's safe enough fo",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Women - What do you generally look for in an online dating profile, photos or first message? POST: So i've [22/M] just started online dating. Never had a girlfriend, still a virgin and rubbish when it comes to confidence talking to women... I've tried picking up girls in clubs but i have trouble hearing in loud environments from spending 3 years DJing during university so it just gets awkward when i have to ask them to repeat themselves so many times and to be honest I'm not really ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(19) am Having problems with my bf(23) being addicted to the internet.. POST: I don't know if this is the right place for this but I didn't know where else to put it. So my boyfriend is totally addicted to the internet and it drives me crazy.. I'm lucky enough that he's into cars and not other girls but it's just too much. When I go visit him at work (his dad owns a tv shop that my bf works at basically by himself) He's on the computer. When we go out he's on his phone for the inter",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [F24] boyfriend [M22] asked me what my greatest sexual fantasy was. I'm not sure I have one. Is this normal? POST: So - backstory - I've been seeing this guy for a couple of months. We went out for drinks and made out a bit, both of us unsure whether we wanted something ""official"". But we started spending more time together and enjoyed ourselves. Then he did a u-turn and asked me to be his girlfriend. Hooray! I guess I'm a bit of a prude. I like sex, providing I'm not feeling deg",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By thinking a black pair of thong underwear were in the backyard, picking them up and smelling them. POST: This happened yesterday to my neighbor while he was laying down the sod in his backyard. The entire 1/2 acre area was graded, raked, and almost ready for new lawn after he and I walked the perimeter looking for any remaining debris (small rocks, what have you). He was on the left side of the yard, and I was about 50 feet away helping on the other side of the yard. I hear this, """,negative " r/Advice TITLE: I had a pretty socking experience involving a homeless individual tonight, and i need some advice/reassurance. POST: While driving home from work tonight, I popped into Sonic to get a drink. A man, around my age, approached my car and asked if i could give him a ride to a nearby (Less than a mile) McDonald's. I looked him over, and something told me that he was not a threat. I agreed, and he introduced himself as ""Mike"". On the way to his destination, he told me a story of how his mom had ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] can't stand my gf's [23] family POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for almost two years now. Our relationship is great. However, my girlfriend has an unofficially adopted sister (we'll call AS) my same age. Her family took her in when she was 15 (I think) and my girlfriend was 18. AS is trash. She steals from the family that gave her a home. She steals from my girlfriend. She also has a one year old child from a deadbeat dad (drug dealer, arrested multiple times, etc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [30] with have a boss who hired a colleague who speaks his native tongue. They often speak to each other in this language that no one understands and I find it rude. Am I overreacting? POST: The colleague I work with is the same seniority as I am and we work very closely together solving problems, designing solutions, etc. My boss is french and so is my colleague. They have this habit of speaking french to one another when they are conversing and I find it extremely rude - no o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [17M] good friend [15F], has been avoiding me for the past few days POST: I've been good friends with this girl for the past few months, speaking pretty much every day since we met. Everything was going normally, I'm certain I didn't say or do anything to make her mad, but overnight she has been doing whatever she can to avoid talking to me, even going as far as to not come online anymore on the messenger we use, but being online on other ones. She's even stopped using spotify so ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] don't know what due do in current situation with [21 F] and a family friend [? M] POST: EDIT: yeah, I goobered the title up Wall of text, sorry: So I [20 M] met this girl, J [21 F] at my buddy's apartment complex, I gave her my number and we talked for a few days before I asked her out on a date. The date didn't go exactly as planned, things started off well but as it went on I started to get more nervous and say some boneheaded stuff, needless to say it didn't quite work",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your grudge holding or mortal enemy story? POST: This is more of a small world story than a fucked up mortal enemy story, but i hope some of them come along too. so i'll start, when i was really, really young (like grade one i think or even before) i went to this after school care as some kids with working parents do. i can't fully remember it so lots of what i'm repeating is what my mother has told me but essentially this kid bit my arm really hard, so hard in fact that it tore ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Have I [17/m] done something wrong?.. POST: So I was just on the phone to my GF [17/f] and I told her that I hate being on the phone. I have already told her this previously and have emphasised that it isn't just with her it's with EVERYBODY that I know, I even hate being on the phone to my parents due to the fact that it causes me to have to stop whatever I'm doing for however long and basically makes me procrastinate even more than I already do. I told her that I'm fine when",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Need Help (M/23). POST: This girl that I apparently knew when we was kids is single. Never knew until it was brought up later on. We even have the yearly pictures to be sure about everything, its funny everything about her is perfect. and i mean everything. Well back in Feb, she broke up with her bf of the time and seeing as though we get along just right, I decided to call it off with my own girlfriend two years at the time, because everyone was telling me ""better break it up now ",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Low testosterone in brother, I think I have it too. POST: Male, 21 5'11"" 165 lbs. White Okay, so, I can get into more detail if it's requested, but: My older brother (31) recently got checked for low testosterone, and he was quite low. He was in the military and isn't a very exuberant or jovial person, although he certainly isn't depressed or anything. I (21) on the other hand, am really playful and creative and not generally ""manly"". I run and have strong legs, but have less upper body",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my ""friend"" [21 F] of two years, had an abortion but I'm not supposed to know until tomorrow. POST: I'll try to concicsely explain our relationship. At first we were just friends, but as we got closer, we both kind of just mutually understood that we liked each other and were compatible, but since she had/still has a boyfriend when we realized, we never acted on our feelings. We keep it appropriate, but we get mistaken for a couple a lot when we go out. Now for the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend [28M] cut me out [26M] without warning, feeling lost POST: First off (this is relevant), friend is gay, I'm bi. I've been in the closet for a long time but over the past couple months my friend helped me come to terms with who I am and really helped me accept myself. It was nice finally having someone to be able to speak openly with about a lot of things I kept to myself that I thought I'd never be able to talk to someone about. We spoke through text most days (I've been out",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I (21 M) end friendship with ex-girlfriend (19 F) to start dating again. POST: This situation has been stressing me out and confusing me way more than a lot over the past couple of weeks and any help/advice would be much appreciated! When I was 18 (I'm 21 now) I met the girl who I thought was the love of my life. We dated for just under 2 years and had a pretty bad breakup due to me lying about places I went and me smoking and drinking (no, I never cheated on her or even came ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: SO and I broke up 4 days ago. Supposed to be talking, but he's been contacting other women. Do I walk away now? POST: My SO and I (both 23, turning 24) broke up after almost 5 years. Last month, we ""broke up"" but were still talking every day on the pretense of working our way back into a relationship, but 4 days ago we got into an argument and finalized the breakup. Since then, he's been contacting women (not just friends, but friends of friends that he doesn't really know) and asking",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Consistently out competed (23m) POST: Thanks in advance to anyone taking the time to read this and offer some advice. I have been having a pretty bad time trying to meet/pick up women at the bar/party scene. I find I have an easy enough time meeting girls, having conversations, and despite being an awful dancer busting a few moves. However, at whatever scene I am it, there are always more guys than girls. This leads to at least 2-3 other guys coming over and hitting on a girl I am al",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30F] need advice on how to deal with my 'trashy' name. POST: Background info: I grew up in the ghetto of one of the most dangerous cities in the US. My dad is an addict and we were incredibly poor, dirty home, neglected, - every possible stereotypical thing you could imagine, we were that. There weren't a lot of white people around, so I never had much experience on typical 'white people' names. There were a few other Crystals around and I never though much about my name. Anyway",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [24 M] of 1.5 month dumped me [23 F] when I thought this was going to be my first long term relationship. POST: I was in shock when he did it over the phone because just 2 days prior we made plans to see each other on Christmas Eve. I assumed this would be when we would exchange presents. I felt that he was pulling away a month before but thought maybe we were just becoming more comfortable with each other and he wasn't trying as hard. In the beginning he said I didn't hav",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my ex SO [21 F] are thinking about getting back together, but how can we get over what we did over our ""break""? POST: Me and my ex have a very complicated relationship. Dated almost 2 years through college (same college), then broke up but it was more of a break. However, we were talking during this break, and I hooked up with a couple chicks without telling her. Once again, we were talking but not dating. Anyways, we start talking again for real and are ""exclusive"" ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can any of you Redditors help me create an ""unofficial"" college transcript to show my parents? POST: It's not a matter of grades honestly it's a matter of classes. I never had to try or study in high school, I was a naturally smart guy who could manage those types of classes with minimal effort. College requires more prudent time-management skills and prioritizing that I never properly developed in high school. So after I had a horrible freshman year (that my parents are fully aware of) ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Destroy the gifts, or give them to her? POST: Reddit, I need your help, here's the situation: This girl and I were close friends, when we both kind of decided to cross the boundary and we started talking about a relationship. She told me thanksgiving weekend she had liked me for a while, and that I never made any moves. I told her I liked her and that I never made any moves because I didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable. Anyways, I bought her some Christmas presents 1 week ago, an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Broke up [17F] w/ my boyfriend [17M] but I'm starting to regret it? POST: Basically we have been on and off for round about a year and half and as per usual, it's always alright in the beginning but starts to get icky towards the end. By icky I mean that, he stops communicating with me and takes me for granted - all my friends told me that he's not worth all the stress, and it's true, I felt an immediate sense of relief. But I know for a fact that through all the struggle and negat",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my soon to be fiancee [20 F] of 3 month, she wants me in her life but does not love me POST: Just keep in mind we have different customs/traditions here in the middle east when it comes to meeting the ladies. So please keep an open mind about not disagreeing with with the approach (just be kind and take it as is) but please help me with my problem I met this girl about 3 month ago through a friend of my sister. we can't live together or really meet alone at this stage",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Let's hear your stupid teacher stories? I'll go first! POST: It's kind of long story... Back when I was a young 14 year-old, my math teacher used to pick on me. Always poking fun in class, berating me for not ""showing my work"", and a number of times said ""You couldn't have done that in your head... you're cheating"". He convinces my dad, parental consent needed, that I should be held back at least a grade. The whole ""teacher doesn't like me"" doesn't work. To determine what level I was",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I think 8 years might be over as my GF (F24) is too easily influenced by her mother that hates me (M26). I might have made a mistake. Help I hurt while my GF sleeps well POST: Hi all here is the original post: Long story short, I made a mistake and spoke with a very trusted family friend of my GF's mom. I didn't divulge too much but the long story was that the friend was surprised that my GF and I were struggling at all. After all just a month prior everyone was asking about when ",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Please help me come up with an appropriate consequence. POST: I have two children 8 and 6. We rent an old house, at least 100 years old. Tonight I discovered that the children have been etching into the banister at the bottom of the staircase. This is not just one little scratch. It is very noticeable, goes deep into the wood, and is on the front and side of the bottom support. It's a big problem. Our landlord is going to shit. There is no way to stain/ treat the wood the way it is n",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, do you have any friends that are just an absolute beating on a daily basis? POST: Throwaway for obvious reasons...Anyway, I have a friend who I have known for a number of years and whom I consider a very loyal and supportive friend. The only problem is that since a life-changing professional decision she made a few years ago she's been kind of a beating ever since. She's always down and no matter what any of us say she just kind of mopes everywhere. (Note: the professional de",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Would it be bad for me [18/M] bad to break up with a girl [16/F] using a letter? POST: This post serves as sort of an update to my last one where I asked if I should break up with her. She still still has not spoken to me or messaged me since the day I told her I was depressed and she almost made me cry because she told me to b***h about it to someone else. I know now that I have to end it, and I don't even know if we're already technically broken up, and I want to end it to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18] is unsure about sex with my girlfriend [18] POST: I've been in a very strong and healthy relationship for about 7 months now. Her and I are quite happy with it. Recently, she mentioned that she wanted to have sex with me. She has never done this before while I have with two other people in the past. Now this seems pretty obvious but there is more. I will be heading off to college in August and my family is moving from the area as well. She, on the other hand is staying in th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Pregnant from a long distance relationship, unsure if I should even tell him POST: Late November I went to visit my long distance SO. It was the second time we've meet face to face (just being completely honest) although we talk every night and though out the day, we've spoke about having a family one day but when we were about 30 and I was in the country long enough to stay permanently. Obviously both being adults we had sex, which got me pregnant (doctor confirmed and booked a sc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 F] feel like my boyfriend [28 M] has lost interest in haing sex with me. together 4 years, Dont live together POST: Me and my boyfriend have been happily dating for the past 4 years, and lately i feel as though he is ""going through the motions"" when it comes to our intimate activities. We dont live together, but spend 2-3 nights a week with each other. I am the only person who initiates these days, and even though he never turns me down.... its the same lazy position every t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Pretty much everything in my [25/m] relationship with my [25/f] girlfriend is great except for the sex. POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 4 years now. We were friends for a while before that and other than a short break a year and a half ago, things have been great. We've been living together for nearly a year. We have similar tastes in books, music, movies, and television. We can have intelligent, thoughtful discussions. We've grown quite comfortable with each other. ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Helping out new girl = being a bitch POST: I'm a lot more affected by this than I should be (having a bout of depression atm) but would *really* appreciate any acknowledgment I work in a crappy fast food restaurant, i'm really good at my job so i often get left to show new people (after they've had their first training) the finer points/keep an eye on them (babysitting really). I try really hard to show them new things and help find the stuff to do, basically be good quick so that they",positive " r/college TITLE: A gap year for myself. POST: I'm going to do a gap year at the end of my Senior year (I'm finishing my Junior year now), but I haven't found any programs that I like. I've spent the last few years and will spend my Senior year doing volunteer work. I want a year for myself that allows me to learn about myself and what I want out of life. Something peaceful. My life after the gap year will become hectic. I'll be attending Georgetown, which means four years of hauling ass, and then I'll be g",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: And here it goes again. POST: I feel like i've been kicked to the ground, then beaten up. Mentally though. My mother told me 2 days ago that i'm changing school next year, going from my top notch private school to a shitty public school where half the class is high on weed, and the other half simply doesn't give a fuck about learning. And now, her and my step-father are arguing downstairs, and i just learned we're moving, since my mother will surely leave him. He's paying for my school ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] like this guy [20M] but don't trust him at all! It would be easy to cut contact to stop feeling this way if only it weren't for our mutual friends... POST: I often play the online game League of Legends and met a guy through a mutual friend (so we all know each other in real life). My friend doesn't play a lot, so I ended up playing a lot with this guy, and normally we Skype when we play. I got to know him quite well (we've been friends for about a year now) and he can be q",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29F] saw a guy [29M] about a month and a half ago, really fantastic date and hookup. Worth it to reach out again? POST: So here's the deal. I was going through a breakup, still living with my ex-husband and not broken up yet, but doing so within a couple weeks. Met this guy and chatted with him for a while, at least a week or two, before agreeing to meet him for lunch one day. We hit it off great, even made out in the parking lot. Few days later I went to his apartment and we ha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (20 F) and new boyfriend (21 M), 1 month, bored/annoyed, and how long should I wait it out? POST: First boyfriend, I'm a late bloomer, so my relationship knowledge is minimal plus I don't trust my gut much on this stuff. Thought I'd give him a chance because on paper we have a lot of things in common and he's a very nice, sweet guy. I didn't know him before except for the occasional small talk in class, so dating has been getting to know each other primarily. We've been getting to",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Should I buy a beater or fix my totaled beater? POST: So basically what happened was I got in an accident not too long ago that caused a decent amount of damage to my 97 Honda civic. The airbags went off, the windshield is spider-webbed, the passenger side window is blown out (it was off the track), minor scratches to the front bumper, and I'm decently sure that the axle is messed up because it makes this weird popping noise while turning. The engine didn't start after the crash, b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(22M) have been having strong feelings for my friend(21F) who has a boyfriend. Wondering if I should stop being friends. POST: Sorry if I flair this wrong or submit this to the wrong subreddit but I don't fully know what I should do. I have become great friends with one of my female peers in the last year and for awhile I was okay with just being friends with her. My last and only relationship made me just want to be alone so her having a boyfriend meant she wouldn't fall for me an",positive " r/Dogtraining TITLE: 1yr old stopped obeying ""come"" when going outside for potty POST: I have a Formosan rescue mix that turned one last month. We have a nightly routine and he has always been awesome at it. We get up and get ready for bed, he waits by the door. We let him out and say ""potty"", he does his business. Once done, he comes immediately in and lays in his bed. We reward him and he proceeds to snooze. This has been the routine up until about a month ago. Now he goes out, goes potty, then wanders",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 25F with 33M boyfriend of 9 months, he has a low sex drive. Frustrated and don't know what to do. POST: So I've noticed my boyfriend has a low sex drive. In the past I don't remember a time (unless a boyfriend was EXTREMELY tired) that a boyfriend didn't want to have sex every single day. He wants to like twice a week. Last night we both stayed up until 3am and I was laying in bed naked and we just ended up cuddling. He didn't touch me (I usually initiate) or really react when I (sem",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Hit by my Boyfriend of half a year, who I trusted more than anything. What do I do now? POST: I'm an 18 year old girl, and he's 19 but in the same year of college as I am. We've been dating and practically living together for half a year, and I've never been so happy with anyone. I always felt safe and trusting of him, but this morning after I playfully swatted at him, and he hit me with a flat palm and a lot of force and said ""an eye for an eye."" We were with our other two roommates",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend of 1 year [18 F] have just broken up and I was not expecting this feeling POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for the past year, and within the first 8 months of that time we were absolutely great and couldn't imagine a time without each other. However, the last 4 months have been a bit rocky and especially the last month has resulted in our relationship to plummet to where we are no longer together. This happened through mutual agreement as ",negative " r/self TITLE: Co-worker's dad was paralyzed the day after her wedding - her family is asking for help. POST: Hey Reddit! My coworker's dad was paralyzed the day after her wedding in a freak accident. He's now a quadriplegic with a C4/C5 injury, and it's been incredibly stressful on their family. They have an excellent wheelchair, but no way for him to go to any family events. They're asking for help raising money to purchase a handicapped equipped van, and set up a site on gofundme.com to try and reach ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: 40k a year in expendable. Help me maximize this. POST: I am a 19 yearold college student who makes way too much money on eBay. I make approx 4k a month on the business, while I have a fulltime job and classes. I come from a well to do family so I have no expenses for college as they have all been saved for by my family. So here is my dilemma my net income on eBay is 48k, but I need to pay taxes on this earned income, how can I avoid some of these taxes and improve my fiscal sit",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Trying to build credit, hit a snag POST: I'm a 24 year old that moved to North Dakota, I've been paying my credit card bills immediately and I have set up myself with a nice emergency fund and savings. I play a video game that hosts a conference in Vegas every year, and I purchased the tickets and flight with my credit card and paid it off almost immediately. I watch my credit like a hawk, because I'm hoping to get a car (used) and apparently with the flight and tickets I used a su",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] and my now Ex[18 F] (2.5 years), recently broke up. Any tips on feeling better? POST: We met when we were 14, started going out the next year and were doing great. Unfortunately at the end of grade 11 I found out I was moving across the continent (my dad is military). We decided to give long distance a try. We got through grade 12 skyping often, sending letters etc. Once we started university things started heading downhill, 3 hour time difference, with university",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: 26 year old teacher and in need of retirement advice and financial analysis - 403, 457, or IRA? POST: As a public school teacher I am apart of the California State Teacher's Retirement System (Calstrs). I put 8% of my salary into the pension, and my employer matches that 8%. That's how it works for all teachers. The average rate of return for the past many years on that money has been 7% per year. As of now, I have a smidge over 11K in there. On to the meat of my question - I DO ",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: My mother verbal abuses and controls my family. What do I do? POST: Background info: * My mom and dad both run a group of companies. * My family is very much revolved around my mom and she is also the boss of said companies. * She guilts everyone into working because she is a major workaholic. She is obviously not happy but she keeps doing what she does for money. * My older siblings (2 sisters, 1 brother) and especially my dad are all depressed and sad working for her. My prob",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Crazy neighbor keeps calling the police. What can/should we do? POST: Some friends and I moved into a house a few months ago. We have parties on a weekly basis. We also care about being respectful to our neighbors so we walked around and spoke with them requesting that if they ever have a problem with us, they speak with us and we will absolutely remedy any problems they have. This has worked out fine and we have a great relationship with all of our neighbors except one. The lady across",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] am having trouble trusting my girlfriend [19 F] of a year POST: I have been dating this girl for over a year and everything is great. We are in love, etc. We rarely have issues with each other but there is one persistent issue, I randomly have days where I feel like she is going to do ""something"". I don't know what I think she is going to do specifically but I feel like it's something cheating-related that will end up hurting us. I don't feel like she would do so intention",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Whats the worst thing you've knowlingy done to someone else? POST: Not anything unintentional, actually knowing what you were doing! When I was 18, a while back now, I was in a shitty abusive relationship with a drunken scumbag. I was looking for an escape and one day whilst online started taking to an american guy, Im in the UK, who was a year younger than me. We got close over a few months and used to talk all day sometimes, on the phone, online etc. One day he told me he loved me, ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: 21yo college student denied Pell grant. What to do? POST: So I'll try keep this short. During my first 2 years at college due to financial situations I was awarded a full Pell grant. My parents have in no way contributed to my degree as I have been paying myself and partially through fed loans. Recently my mother got re-married, and next semester I was not awarded this grant. I spoke with our schools financial aid officer and asked him why. He stated that based on my parents co",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What was a moment when you were trying to be cute, fun, spontaneous etc with your SO that instead turned into a disastrous fight? POST: The following takes place between the months of November and March... November, girlfriend tells me I don't surprise her enough I agree and we both agree our relationship is a little stale so we will make an effort to spice things up. Over the course of the next few months we went on a couple random road trips and some romantic dates but nothing extraord",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] have been seeing a guy [25M] for about a month now. Yesterday I learned he is in a long distance relationship and they are engaged POST: There's this guy [25M] at work. We both studied in the same University for six years, but only properly met couple of months ago at work. After a couple of weeks of casual small talks in the halls he suggested that we should take dancing classes together. I [24F] happily agreed, because he seemed like a really cool guy and I wanted to learn ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] don't want my boyfriend [20M] to come camping with me and my friends. POST: I'm on mobile so I hope everything is up to par! I have been dating my boyfriend Denny for one year now. He's very sweet, funny, and intelligent. Overall we have a very happy relationship. However, he is very different from my friends. My friends like to drink and smoke, amongst other things. Denny is nearly straight edge, and although he doesn't judge others for living our kind of lifestyle, he doe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Perhaps a basic question, but I couldn't find much info on Google - my (30s-ish female) fiance (34m) of four years keeps accidentally hitting and elbowing me in the face and head when he's sleeping. What can I do? POST: Let me just get this out of the way, this is a serious question, and no, he's not doing it on purpose. We never fight and he feels terrible about it. He's a really tall guy - 6'2"", and I'm above average height myself. We have a queen sized bed but it feels more like ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 F] can't get my parents [62M/60F] to call me. POST: This seems like such a silly thing to be asking advice on, but it's really been bothering me lately. I've always had a pretty good relationship with my parents. After I left for college at 18 though, any communication with them always has to come from me. They never call and I practically have to beg them to be a part of big events (like graduation). The thing is, I don't think they're being selfish or hurtful. I think th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my wife [25 F] when we fight it always makes me think of my choice to get married to her vs my ex-girlfriend. POST: I got married sometime back and my wife and I did not turn out to be too compatible. We had constant fights and could not agree on any common grounds. During this time I had an affair with an ex-girlfriend. The affair ended and the wife knows about it. We decided to dedicate our efforts on our marriage and started resuming our relationship. However I'm ru",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19F] parents [55/53 M/F] hate my boyfriend [21M] and we need help POST: hi r/relationships, I need some major help: [background] I met Shane my junior year of high school at mutual friends birthday party. We hit it off really well, and we continued to date for a year and a half (from junior year of high school to beginning of freshman year of college). Things were really great for the first year and two months.. but then shit sorta hit the fan. I got into serious car accident g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25M] wife [23F] of 1.5 years lost weight. I find her less attractive POST: Looking back, all of my girlfriends have been kind of chubby. I never considered myself a chubby chaser; more just an average guy, and I care more about personality than I do about looks when it comes to partners. My wife has always been slightly overweight (she says 5'7 and 160 lbs). Lately she expressed the wish to lose weight. I supported her in this, and thought it was good that she wanted to exercise",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: A bully decides that picking on children younger than him was a good way to impress girls. I proved him wrong. POST: This story happened when I was 8 years old. Me and my brother, also 8, where walking through the neighbourhood one afternoon and we decided to walk into a section under development with houses being built. I decided to climb to the top of a dirt pile nearly two stories tall with my brother milling around down the bottom. A group of three girls and one boy, maybe 16 or s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Long distance and different wants causing constant arguments POST: So my girlfriend  (20F) and I (22M) have been dating for 4 years now, but only physically been together for about 8 months. I joined the Marine Corps and she went to college and we've been in a long distance relationship ever since the first 5 months of us dating. Now I'm not sure if it's just the lack of sex I've had since I've joined, but I'm pretty aroused like every day. Now here's the problem, my first 2 years i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [28 M] planning to break up with my partner [27 F] due to wanting different things and sexual incompatibility - how much should I disclose? POST: Previous post: Hi all, I'm planning to end my long term relationship with my girlfriend soon - due to us both wanting different things long term (she wants marriage, house, kids, I don't) and being sexually incompatible. We've had discussions before about long term plans, to which I told her at the time that I don't want marriage or ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24, M], got upset with my boyfriend [27, M] because told me he wanted to go on a trip without me the weekend of my 25th birthday... POST: Together for 3 years. I'm pretty baffled and upset by this... I don't know if I'm overreacting. He already ordered me a really nice present off the internet, and seemed excited for my birthday. Then today he says he wants to go on a trip over my birthday and it's making me reconsider a lot of things. Now he says he's going to be here, but I f",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Let me play you the sound of Revenge POST: So a few years ago I was living in an appartment building, where more or less noone really knew each other. But that was fine with all of us, sice everyone was out most of the day. However there was one guy who constantly turned on his music in his living room, when he went for a shower. So you can imagine how noisy it must have been, so that he hears his music while taking a shower in a total different room. So as this happened quite often,",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: As a child, did you ever do something that you thought was okay and later in life learned it wasn't? POST: Here's one of my stories. I must apologize to reddit for this one, but it's one story my cat never forgave me for. When I was younger I wanted to be a beautician like my Nana. Typically I would cut my own hair or my bangs and no one really said anything; however no one would ever let me touch their hair. One day I saw my cat pass by and thought to myself ""Buddy's whiskers are gett",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU Making fun of my office mate. POST: Literally just happened. Our office is starting to undergo construction and our department fridge will be moving to a different part of the building in another department. Sucks because we are losing the fridge we put our lunches in, etc. from our floor. I thought I'd be nice and clean out the fridge before it gets moved tomorrow morning. I probably could have put in a request for housekeeping to clean it, but thought I'd be nice and do it myself s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend of 6 months [F-16] is about to call and break up with me [M-17] and I need advice to cope. POST: Yes, I'm sure. She's all but told me. She also says it's a personal problem, not involving me, but she's unhappy and needs time away from me and her close friends. She said she won't be seeing anyone (this makes sense as she can't feel any emotions for the past week or so apparently) I should mention we dated for 3 months before after which she, of course, left me. I don't",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [29m][26f] Scared of getting married to gf with chronic health issues. POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 3 years. Sometime around 8 months into our relationship she began to get chronic migraines. Basically she woke up one day with a migraine and it did not go away for many months. She has been to many doctors and tried many medications. Since this started she has gone through many mood changes that have affected our relationship. She was put on an anti-depressant for ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my ex[23 F] recently broke up and she is heavily affected. We are coworkers. How do I even. POST: Hi guys. A few weeks ago my ex girlfriend for 8 months talked to me and said it was not working anymore and we should break up. She was inexperienced, had no previous relationships and took a very childish, clingy-girlfriend type approach to very trivial matters. I am more experienced and tried to explain to no avail. So she left me. This is fine with me. While i am sad",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my gf [18 F] who just left for college, and im stuck here senior year. Should we breakup? POST: I love her more than anything in the world and I want to make it work or at least give it a shot. She is reluctant because she doesnt want me or her to be sad all the time from missing each other. She also doesn't want to feel bad feeling sexy going out even though I told her its good to look good. I think she might be looking for some sort of flirtationship because she like",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30F] with my nephew [0M] Long distance Aunt. POST: Hey everyone, sorry if I am posting in the wrong spot but I figure reddit is the best place to get advice from people in similar situations. Please redirect me if this is better suited somewhere else. A year and a half ago I moved to Australia from Canada and my brother and sister-in-law and the first baby of the family (we also have a sister). He's 3 months old now (I have not been home since I left) and I've been keeping in ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by unclogging a toilet with my hand POST: So yesterday, I was hanging out at a friend's house, and I had to take a dump. Everything went smoothly until I flushed. Clogged toilet, no fun. I expected to find a plunger right next to me, but alas, no plunger to be found. I frantically search the bathroom, under the sink, in the cupboards. Nothing. Embarrassed to ask my friend or his parents for a plunger, I did what all teenage guys would do... I used my hand. Yes, I reached in with my hand",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, what's the worst bathroom experience you've ever had? POST: Mine was a week ago or so. I went into the bathroom with a newspaper and sat down to read the Times(Yes, I read the New York Times). Suddenly from nowhere my lower gut began to wrench and I was in a fit of pain. I began to void my bowels but my shit was too big and got stuck. I sat there grunting and straining, red-faced and sweaty, attempting to push it out. After what seemed like forever, I was able to give it one ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Servicemen and -women of Reddit: How realistic is the ""Incompetent military leadership"" trope? POST: It seems like every fictional movie/novel about military forces includes a section like this: In a big important battle, the leadership opts for a completely, comically stupid plan (such as, ""Lets all walk single-file up to the machine gun emplacement until we bury them in our corpses!""). Inevitably, the protagonist finds the much cleverer, but also fairly obvious, alternate plan (""Nah, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] am more invested than my girlfriend [21F]. How do I handle this? POST: We've been dating for about 8 months now. She's amazing and everything I look for in a partner - I love her and we're planning to move in together this June. The problem is she's much more invested than I am. She consistently texts me, will reply back to my text within the minute, and seems to always be free. She doesn't have a whole lot of a personal life or many hobbies. It makes it hard for me to have s",positive " r/Advice TITLE: I think my girlfriend might be crazy- please help. POST: Hey I'm a F 18 if that matters and this is my third or so relationship. We dated for at least 3 months and decided to go steady in mid December. She was always odd. But I attributed that to quirkiness and it was still on the side of cute. Always wanting to walk on the right side of me, being indecisive and asking me to make choices for her (on banal things) ect. I had a week roommate free and she suggested a sleepover. I was very ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my Wife [29 F] of 10yrs, Can't Get Over Her POST: In short we've only been married for 4yrs but have been together for 10. We probably shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. We had our first child young. She cheated on me when he was 2yrs old. We reconciled and 2yrs later we had our 2nd. After, that we hit another bumpy patch and decided to split. The split lasted for 1yr and then we got back together and got married about 2 years after that. As I stated a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20M] gf [19F] kissed a guy at a party a long time ago and I still feel bad POST: We are right now having a great relationship. We are 8 months together, but sometimes I still feel bad when I think about it and I want to ask you for advice. We were 3 months at the moment, she came over to sleep in my place at the late night.. we had sex and then she told me that ""someone kissed her"" at the moment I told her that I dont want to see her anymore and took her back home. By the way to",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: ""You've been pissed upon."" POST: Junior year of high school, I had an English class with one of the most obnoxious, self-absorbed douches in school. I'll call him Alex. Alex's family had lived in my small town for 3 or 4 generations, so they all thought they were the shit. Alex played baseball, so obviously, he was almost God himself. Alex loved to make people around him feel like shit. This wasn't always directed at me, but he did direct his share of belittlements toward me. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Kissed a co-worker, told my GF about it, and everything is okay now, but I can't shake feeling horribly guilty. POST: so me (22M) and my girlfriend (21F) have been together for a little over two years. We've had our ups and downs, like any couple does, but we've always managed to work it out and get back on track. Recently I've been happier with her than I've ever been. She's been so wonderful lately. So here's the trouble, a few nights ago, I went out to get drinks with my co-work",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Women of Reddit: What is the best thing a guy friend can do to make you feel better in a non-romantic way? POST: Without getting into too much detail, a friend of mine is going through a really tough time. She isn't having relationship issues or anything like that, it is something more serious than that. I've known her for about a year but we have been hanging out a lot more recently. She just found out about her situation a few days ago and I was the first person she told. I really ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does it seem like my mom thinks I'm psychotic? POST: Today, before she went to eat lunch with my dad and my brother, she asked me if why I didn't want to come. I told her I wasn't hungry and then she kept asking me if there was something wrong. I asked her why she thought I was troubled and she said ""You keep to yourself, always answer my questions with one word, and you never talk to anyone unless you want to discuss bizarre topics."" Those are all characteristics of a psychopath. I ca",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Update: I [m20] tried to end things with [f20] last night. I need advice on what next. POST: I posted in r/breakups [1] (my post), that I've fallen out of love with my long time girlfriend and needed to end it. Well, that finally happened last night. We sat down during the first free time we've had this week, and I told her everything. I told her I didn't love her anymore, and why I knew that. We talked for a good 4 hours, and strangely she seemed very very understanding about it. Then s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a [19M] falling in love with an [18F] pregnant girl. What do I do? POST: Well, I met a cousin of one of my friends and started talking to her and soon realized that she could be the one. I started to get to know her, not only through our conversations but through my buddy as well. Her parents divorced when she was 6 due to an abusive, alcoholic father. She grew up rebelling against her mom for refusing to allow her to see him. She has made some mistakes in life but I have seen",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: I am thinking of buying my mom's house POST: I am 24 and make just under 100K/year. By the end of 2012 I will have no debt (a few grand left on my student loans). I live below my means for the most part, and I have been saving $1000.00/week. This savings will likely go down to about $800/week. I am thinking about buying my mom's house. She purchased her house just before the housing marketing crash. She took out a $160,000 loan on her house about 5 or 6 years ago. The value of th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] keep leaving feeling disappointed after intimate times with my girlfriend [21 F]. POST: We've been dating for 9 months. We both are in college, living at home, so we don't get a lot of actual private time. When we do, I keep hoping something more than kissing and cuddling will happen. But nothing does. It leaves me feeling kind of disappointed. For instance, on my birthday recently, I got nothing more than some making out even after we had the house to ourselves. I don't kno",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Do I have unrealistic expectations? POST: Condensed version - I [20M] have been official with girlfriend [21F] for three months, but we dated for several months before that. And when I say dated, I mean spent pretty much every day with. However ever since we became official, things have changed. Before we became an official couple, she was sentimental and 'couple-y'. We'd say cheesy dumb things to each other, and were very affectionate, which I love. However, when we becam",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (27M) girlfriend (25F) isn't over her ex. I'm hurt at the realization. POST: We live together. This has been an extremely healthy relationship up to this point. She uses my laptop while I'm at work to check her emails, Facebook, and Reddit -- my Facebook and Reddit are open for her to use. I was going through my Facebook and saw where she searched for her ex an abnormal amount of times, or mostly her ex's girlfriend. She dated him 5 years, broke up 6-7 months ago. Spoke of how muc",positive " r/relationships TITLE: All right, I don't really know where to go with this, but I need advice. POST: First a little background. I'm 17, and I've never been on a date, kissed a girl, even so much as hugged a girl that I wasn't related to. This is partially because I'm shy, but mostly because I've always been extremely busy and (insert other excuses here). Anyway, on to my real problem. I've always been the nice guy. Even to the point of helping my best friend hook up with my crush because he asked me to. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my girlfriend [17 F] of 10 months, our conversations don't flow as they used to. POST: I love my girlfriend, she's amazing. I feel like we've been together a long time even though 10 months isn't really all that long (I guess it is for teenagers), and though the entire 10 months we've been together we pretty much text non stop, all day every day. We hangout at least once a week outside of school and we see each other every day in school. We talk on the phone every few ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [25/f] mother [65/f] seems emotionally distant after I separated from my husband. Advice on how to interact with her... POST: I got married at age 22 to my husband, who was 26 at the time. We lived together for around 2 years but had irreconcilable differences and amicably decided to cut our losses and separate before we invested more in a relationship in which I wanted one thing, he wanted another. My mother got divorced at age 28 after 6 years of marriage, during which s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22m] caused my best friend [22F] to cheat and now I feel awful. I'm not sure what to feel. I feel like scum. POST: I [22M] brought my best friend [22F] to a party some of my college friends were throwing. We have had a off and on mutual attraction for a few years but she goes to a school in another state and some past mistakes on both sides have never allowed us the chance to date. After it turns midnight everyone states to empty out and we've both been drinking so we're spending ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [28/f] have somewhat different morals than my bf [31/m]--how to deal? POST: I'm not going to claim that I'm a great person, because it's simply not true! However, I do value honesty very much. Like most people, I occasionally lie, but I hate doing so. My boyfriend is very kind and has strong relationships with his family. However, sometimes he seems to follow rules for himself that take advantage of others. For instance, he did not return work clothes (a few hundred dollars ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Girlfriend [20 F] of two months, She goes clubbing and I don't feel comfortable when she does since it's long distance POST: I've been dating my girlfriend for about two months now, but i've known her for much longer than that. We met about two years ago and really hit it off with each other, but things started to get really bumpy. It wasn't until about two months ago that we ironed out all the details and misunderstandings and FINALLY got together. The hardest part",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 F] lied to a friend [29 M] about my age when I was 17, and now I am concerned how he will react if/when he finds out that I lied. POST: When I was 17, I started talking to an older guy online (he was in his mid 20's at the time). Because he was older, I thought he wouldn't want to talk to me if I was only 17 so I said I was 18. He made it pretty clear after we started talking that he would be upset, and insinuated that he would stop talking/flirting with me, if I was under 18. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my ex [20 M] duration, apart for 5 months POST: My ex and I have been broken up for 5 months, he broke up with me. It was the second time he broke up with me. We were together 7 months then apart for 3. Then together for 14 months. My problem is that I don't know how to move on from feeling hurt and sorry. I don't know how to stop missing him. Since then, I've tried staying busy and was even with someone else for 2 months but he told me ""This just isn't what I want"". S",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Advice for me [20 M] asking out cashier I had a crush on in high school [19? F]? POST: Long story short, I had a crush on this girl in one of my high school classes, but being the shy guy I am, I never really got around to talking to her. I had totally forgotten about her until a few weeks ago when she randomly appeared in a dream, and then a few days later I happen to run into her cashiering at the supermarket (we didn't really talk on the first run-in). This seemed like a really c",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: What should I [28/F] do when there is an overlap with guy [27/M] and his gf [31/F]? POST: So, recently discovered that my friend and I have feelings for each other. It started when we were on a night out and we began getting closer (PG style). I guess we played with fire, when I wanted to a watch a movie and there was some flirting. We watched the movie in the office after work. We ended up holding hands, he said he liked me and we ended up kissing. He said he wants to break up wi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [M/20] and I [F/20]. Change is good or bad for relationship? Please help POST: Hey reddit, my names Nicole I'm 20 and my boyfriend eddy is 20 as well. We have been together for About a year and a half and things have been great. I know people change and you can't help it but does this happen all the time in a relationship? I'm one chicken for change because it's scary. When me and eddy started dating he fell for me pretty hard. He surprised me with flowers, gifts, dates a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Gf [22/F] broke up with me [22/M] last night. Long distance+ other guy...can/should I do anything to try to change her mind? POST: Long story short, my GF of about 8 months now (close for two years) broke up with me over the phone last night. After a bunch of cryptic ""you're just not *the one*"" & ""I don't want to go into it"", I finally got the reason from her. There's another guy she thinks she loves back home. We live 4 hours away during the summer & both of us work full time jobs ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] assumed my boyfriend [21M] of 1 month didn't want to hang out with our friends and went by myself without telling him. Now he is pissed. POST: Usually, our mutual friends like to hangout often. Yesterday was one of those days. I asked my boyfriend what he was doing and he replied ""Oh just playing overwatch"". So naturally I assumed that he was busy and didn't want to go hangout. Well, I definitely made an ass out of me. As I was with our friends, I made a joke about how my b",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [21M] want to see others but don't want to break her [22F] heart. POST: I've been dating the same girl for about 2 years now, and though things are still going well, I can't seem to shake my desire to be free, single, and promiscuous. When we first met, she was a virgin and had never been in a relationship whatsoever – I was her ""first"" in every sense and so she's extremely attached. The relationship is steady and happy; the sex is good, there is open communication, plenty of",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] need to obliterate feelings I have for my friend [18 M] of 6 months POST: I could go into a ridiculous amount of detail here, and I'm going to try avoid giving my entire life story in one post. I'm a freshman in college, recently out of a relationship (just over 1 month single, but following 2 months of conflict) that lasted 10 months. Through the breakup I found solace in a friend I made at school, who lives in the same house as I do in my dorm hall. He and I have a lot ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [26/F] abused by [24/M] boyfriend. Worth holding onto? POST: This is messy but I'll try my best to keep it short. We have known each other for a couple years and been seeing each other for about 5 months. When we became official I was warned by his ex that he was abusive. I know her and she is highly aggressive, she also claimed to have been beaten by 3 other men. Which seemed suspicious. She never said he hit her in the face and I let him explain his side of the story. I also saw ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I've done some things i'm not proud of. Can atonement for past crimes really be achieved? POST: (note i am very nearly illiterate) Some context for me: When I was younger I had this friend whose house I would stay over at frequently because it was awesome there. They had games, cool people, food, and everything else a poor 14 year like me old could want.Ii was not a popular kid in school so naturally the girls in class all ignored me. Here is where I fucked up: when I was a developing te",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25/M] GF [25M/F] of 3 years wants me to go to church. POST: I am an athiest and she has always known. She is catholic. We have made it 3 years without it really coming up too much. I somehow always manage to dodge the topic, but she wanted me to go to church today. She claims that not going to church is me not supporting her and not compromising. However, I see her asking me to go to church as a direct violation of my own beliefs or lack thereof. She is not trying to convert me, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ive [19F] been seeing a guy [20M] and i think i ruined it. POST: Ive been seeing this guy i met online for a few weeks. He is so lovely and genuine so far, makes me feel really special. I invited him uptown for a few drinks last night, we were both with our friends. I met him outside a bar whilst i was standing with one of my gay friends, he went into the bar to get his friend and my gay friend was leaving so he hugged me and gave me a peck. At that moment, the dude ive been seeing w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (27/m) don't feel anywhere ready for marriage or kids. My gf (32/f) of 3 years wants to plan. POST: I just feel like it's a deal breaker. I really CANNOT even envision that lifestyle for myself. I'm just not there yet. I feel like making some promise or plan for the future would be a lie on my part and would be the ultimate disservice to her when/if i still can't commit. So I don't know what to do. She's pretty fucking amazing but I feel like I'm holding her back from what will ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Terrible dream POST: Hey we broke up a whole year ago, right? I should be over it, right? Hmm I guess not. When you left it was so sudden I really didn't know what was wrong. Everything seemed so fine the week before we were no more, but I was probably being blinded by the festivities of my birthday. I'm terrible at social cues and situations. You knew that. I'm not an extremely emotional gal. You knew that. I sometime just enjoy the company of just me and my xbox. You knew that. You ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Taking (M,17) a break from a girl (F,17) POST: I've had a small one-sided crush on a girl that I go to school with for about 3 years. She was everything I wanted. Nice, smart, beautiful, etc. I recently started talking with her (since mid-late June) and we hung out a couple times. But since then, I've been almost completely ignored at times and it started filling up my ""anxiety balloon"". I feel like she's been stringing me along and treating me not like a friend at all. She's d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 26F with my boyfriend 24M of 5 years. He was asked to be in a wedding. I do not want to go by myself... POST: Hi everyone! So, my boyfriend was asked to be a groomsman in our mutual friend's wedding this summer. We are not super close with this couple, but will see them out and about, say hi, etc. He was surprised with the offer, but accepted it more out of guilt. This leaves me attending by myself. I told him that I do not want to go because I most likely wont know anyone there a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I haven't been in a relationship in 4.5 years...but one is just starting to bud! POST: I am 27M, she is 25F. She has also been engaged once before if that adds to anything. Its been a long time since my last long term relationship. It took me a while to get back into the dating scene after that, but since I've been dating a lot and meeting a ton of people whether it be through friends, online or talking to strangers. I was on /r/seduction for a while not with the intention of attr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My sister (28f) wants me to move in with her even though I (23m) am currently renting with my best friend (23m) POST: Been renting with my best friend for two years now , living as roommates. It's a sweet set up , we play games, have junk food night, order pizza, talk about guy shit like if dinosaurs could take down a jumbo jet. My sister recently moved back in to town from another state and has a shitload of money. She found this really nice house in a nicer part of town that she",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] needs advice about what to do with my [20F] GF POST: I 21(m) and my gf 20(f) have been together for about 3 years. Everything is pretty good and we love each other very much. I'll be graduating from college in May and I've been offered a great job about 4 hours from our hometown. I plan on moving there this summer to start my career at this company. My gf is very happy for me and is excited to move in together once I get an apartment in this town. Today she told me she doe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] struggling with group of friends. Should I walk away? POST: I've been feeling odd for a while now with a group of friends I hang out with. I know some of them since I was a little brat and one on one they are really good friends. However, I don't feel quite like myself when we're all together. I don't like partying so much but that's all they want to do on the weekends. If I say I won't go, I will always be pressured by them to do it. Rejecting once is fine, rejecting seve",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Because of our situation, my girlfriend and I cannot date during the school year. We want to get back in the summer, but she said something... POST: So she and I (16 male, 15 female; 3 months) are in a high-school program based on leadership. Love ruins leadership, because it promotes favoritism (*this is a rule of the program - absolutely no dating among fellow members*). I told her we should be apart during the school year, and get back in the summers and then once high school is o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 M] with my ex-girlfriend [16 F] of a year, had an intimate moment with each other a few days ago, I feel just empty now. POST: So, me and my ex have been done for a good amount of time, about a year. We had a falling out after we broke up, and we patched up our relationship, we became really close friends. She got with a new guy, and he really doesn't like me because of the things I said about her during our falling out, and he's just an asshole, but she loves him and it's not",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] Gf [22F] that I have been with for 1yr 8months hates sex. POST: As mentioned above my gf told me after about 3 months into the relationship that she hates sex, she doesn't get anything out of it, her past relationships had the same problem but I am the first person she has told. She doesn't desire or want to be with me intimately in any forms. When I try and bring this topic up she gets depressed (she thinks something is wrong with her cause she doesn't get anything out of i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [F21] boyfriend [M22] doesn't like my idea of going out but wants to be invited anyway? POST: So I like going out a lot. Whether it's a concert or going to downtown cities and hanging out. Everytime I hear of a festival or concert I'm interested in, I tell him about it and he complains. Complains that it's probably going to be a shit show because of the venue or because of the type of music it is. Says that life isn't just about concerts and people that go are assholes. But he'l",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [25m] have fallen for a woman [28f] who is going through a divorce- how do I proceed? POST: A bit of backstory- I have known this girl for a long time, as she is one of my sister's best friends. I have always cared about her, and supported her decisions, even if I disagreed with them. A few years ago, she got married and we didn't talk for a while. It was hard for me to deal with, but I got over it in time. Cut to around September, and I get word that she's coming back down,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (22/F) boyfriend (26/M) joked about violently retaliating against me if I were to cheat. POST: My boyfriend (26/M) of 2 months and I (22/F) were at my house last night, watching Netflix and discussing the show Orange is the New Black. The main character, Piper, is in prison and cheats on her fiancee with another inmate. He made the comment that if I were Piper and cheated on him, I wouldn't make it out of prison alive. He says it was a joke but I'm feeling unhinged by it. He think",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what are some things you did as a kid that make you think ""Yep. I was a little shit.""? POST: I went to a British International School, suffice to say, a sense of humour was not on the ""We have a shit load of:"" section of the brochure . I was always one of those outspoken, loud kids (I mellowed out as I got older). This happened in Year 7, which I think puts me at around 12 or 13 years old. Anyway, we had a class every Thursday, last period, called TL;DR: ",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: Finding my dream job... POST: Hello wolves, Lately at work I haven't felt very motivated to much else than what is required of me. My personal life is great, I have lost weight, picked up some meaningful hobbies I enjoy and have started doing things I wouldn't normally do, thanks to you wolves! Work on the other hand feels like a brick wall, just feels like all I do is busy work. I loved the job when I first started since I constantly felt challenged and the thrill of working somew",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with a girl I've been dating [29 F] for 4 weeks, I got a serious fever/sore throat. Should I have told her so she could have had the opportunity to help me feel better? POST: When I say 'dating for 4 weeks' I should clarify a bit. We had mutual friends for years - I hadn't seen her in years. She was at a party I went to. We hooked up that night. Then continued to see each other for the 4 weeks that followed. So - a month after we first hooked up / started dating. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [28M] ex-girlfriend [26F] asked ""How do I know I'm not making a mistake?"" when I denied her friendship. What did she mean? POST: This past Monday, my ex-girlfriend wanted to go on a ""break"" and was adamant that we remain friends. I was her most reliable friend when I was her boyfriend. I had already been through this with her before (whoops), but this time I told her I didn't want to be friends, I didn't want to be friends with benefits, nor did I want to ever get back together wi",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Having relationship problems.. :/ POST: Ok so there is this girl I like and i really fucked up. I said something I shouldn't i said am I your cushion ? because she just broke up her bf and she's seeing me now. We knew each other in high school and we both liked each other but didn't know that we did and we have hooked up. but I don't care about the sex I want something more with her the cuddling the kissing that we use to do. When we first started this. I miss it because I did like her and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (22 F) tell my boyfriend (22 M) about my graduation present? POST: Hello r/relationships! So my boyfriend and I have been dating for almost 3 years now and we are very good friends with another couple since college. For every occasions (birthday, Xmas, graduation, etc.), we give each other gifts as couples.Long story short, if I get presents from that couple, my boyfriend would also get presents from that couple and we would do the same for them. Recently, both my boyfrie",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Regarding an awkward situation with my sister. Anyways to make it better. POST: Well to begin with, me and my sister have an excellent relationship and often so things together as we find each other to be the only people within the house we find tolerable, as we share the house with our parents and other siblings, despite our age gap me being 18 and her being 21. now the awkward thing is that lately ive been talking to this girl and its been getting very flirty using Snap chat, basically",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with friend [21 F] a couple of months, she's in a ""open relationship"" but lies to her boyfriend about me POST: I've been having sex and maintaining a close-to-a-relationship lifestyle with a girl that happens to have a boyfriend. She claims that she has a open relationship but she lies to her boyfriend about me (he suspects it, a lot). We have become closer and closer everyday and we would most likely dating if she wasn't on a relationship. The thing is, why is she doing th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(22F) ex(23M) of 7 years wants to be my best friend? POST: I've (22F) been off and on with my (now ex- 23M) since we were in high school. We ended it about two months ago but he still continues to confide in me and calls me when he has amazing news, but I'm not sure what that makes me? We're always so back and forth about it. One day he's over it and wants to see us date other people but remain close friends, and the next day he wants to see me and talk to me all day long. I ca",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] partner [23M] tells me depression and anxiety are not real POST: I have suffered from invalidated and predominantly unmedicated depression and anxiety for over half my life. Partner comes along and after years of hard work manages to make me realise I'm worthy of love, especially my own. He was the only one who has ever been able to support me emotionally while I worked on improving my mental health, and has been there for me on a personal level for about a decade. In the p",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Should I move to a different college? POST: So, I have recently been thinking about switching colleges. I am currently a wildlife management major in the Southeast. I have completed 2 years of my Bachelor's degree so far. Honestly, I don't like it here and I plan on moving out west (possibly California) when I graduate. Here lately though, I have been wondering if it wouldn't be better to go to college out west? The problem is that it will be more expensive to go to college out-of-state. I",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I inadvertently ruined my 30th birthday present surprise, what should I do? POST: So my wife and I like to out do each other each year when we get each other presents. This year for xmas for example she got me a Kindle. I turn 30 in Feb, and I know she wants to get me something special. She told me the only clue I'm getting is that it's something I've asked for, but not recently. (That could be anything really) Now my wife is terrible at keeping secrets. I have to help her to not tell ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: 35M - uncertain if I should ask a much younger woman out for dinner POST: I'm a (35M) nontraditional art student sharing studio space with a *much* younger (21F) student whom I find myself becoming more and more interested in. I look younger than I am. I'm also fit and fairly attractive. Despite this, I can't help but feel weird. In my defense, my interest extends beyond physical attraction. I've known her for 2 years so I have a pretty good idea of who she is. I enjoy her work and s",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Why do People Lose Trust so Easily when it's so Hard to Earn? POST: I'll just keep this story short and simple. Couple years ago, when I was fairly young, I had this small group of friends. We ate lunch together, played games, etc. One day, I was like, ""Let's tell them a little secret about me."" Pretty stupid considering I knew them for not even a YEAR! I was young, besides the point, I thought I could trust them. Over the course of the year, and the following year, they tell their f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 F] don't know how to control my negative emotions and moodiness around my boyfriend [18 M] of 3 years? POST: My boyfriend of 3 years and I have always had a good and happy relationship. However, I've been extremely moody and shutting him out a lot recently. I didn't realize it until he confronted me about it tonight. I've been passive-aggressive, always being negative towards him, and just being a negative person to talk to in general. And I also am constantly getting angry wit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18/M] got rejected when arranging to meet up with a girl in my classes [18/F] who appeared to be interested in me. How do I show that I don't care and appear over it? POST: **Back Story:** ------------- So there's a girl in all my classes. She always chose to sit next to me in most of them and we get along really well. We have the same humour type, are very 'touchy' and 'feely' and always reference sex in almost every conversation. She always finds me before each lesson to wal",positive " r/self TITLE: Creative suggestions needed - how can I help my best friend's sister? POST: Here is the story. My best friend (let's call her ""Cindy"") is an adult, living on her own, working full time and going to college about 2 hrs from where her mother and 15 yr old sister live (let's call her sister ""Jenny""). Their mother has had a drinking problem for as long as I can remember and has already spent a few months in jail because of it. She has money problems, etc. and is a pretty selfish person to say the",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, does majoring in a language have any value if you don't plan on using that specific language after college? POST: I've been taking Mandarin Chinese for seven years and hate it. I think the language itself is cool, but have interests I'd rather pursue that I haven't, because I thought this would give me an edge in the job market. It's incredibly frustrating to see kids who've taken the language for far fewer years than I have speaking and reading as well as me, because I've only r",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by smoking Mary-Jane in a dark empty parking lot in a car with friends near a college campus. POST: Like most TIFU's, this happened a while back (sorry to disappoint guys). This was submitted as a comment earlier on another post, but it was late. Figured I would try to post it somewhere else. Oh and by the way, it's in poem form. **Oh, the good ol' college days.** Hanging with the guys at 19. A dark parking lot has painted the scene. We sat in the car, Did not get that far, T",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am [20 M] and my GF [18 F] is considering getting a male roommate next year. POST: So my girlfriend is at college this year and next year will be moving off campus into an apartment. She asked me today if I would be bothered if she and the other two girls that she is planning on living with allowed a guy to live with them next year. This guy is one of their close friends. He claims that he only likes asian women and my girlfriend is white. I trust my girlfriend a lot and don't thi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Found condom wrapper in the bed. Help me make sense of this?!? POST: So, last night my bf (32M) came to bed, and found a old looking condom wrapper in the bed. He didn't seem worried, an just tossed it out, saying it was old, and must have been from when we first got together about 3 months ago. Now, I (34F) know it's not mine, and I've never had any reason to doubt him, but I'm having a hard time making sense of this all. One one hand, his explanation could be perfectly correct. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27] can't give my wife [24] any criticism or offer feedback about her or our relationship without her getting mad and shutting me down... and wants to be the dominant partner in the relationship POST: I love her and I know she loves me too, but she won't accept criticism or feedback about her or us. She typically gets angry at my comments and starts yelling and cussing to shut me out. She doesn't really cuss about or at me, just to get her words accross. She also never lets m",positive " r/GetMotivated TITLE: I have a friend who is struggling with addiction & other problems - help me inspire him! [More inside] POST: He made some mistakes when he was younger, went to prison for 7 years. While he was there, he got his GED, became fluent and taught spanish as well as other classes to his inmates, then got accepted into the *neuroscience* program at a reputable school, and is an effing *genius*. This guy can crunch numbers, has the memory of an elephant, is fit as a fiddle, and all around has ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [19F] boyfriend [23M] broke up with me yesterday. We're still talking and it's confusing me. Help? POST: We'd been in a relationship for 1.5 years. He came to my home yesterday with a backpack to take his stuff, told me he wanted to break up since he feels like for the last couple of months he's been on 'autopilot mode' and doesn't love me like he used to. We fought mostly because of my jealousy. He lives in a sketchy part of town and I ask him to text me when he gets home and app",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I make money off of the student loans bubble bursting? POST: Hey Reddit, I know we were all pretty upset when the mortgage bubble burst and destroyed the economy. I know that the fixing that went on by the government may or may not hold. I do not really care at this point. I do know that SOME made a LOT of money off of the foreclosures. How did they do that? I would like to apply the same principles or strategy they used to get rich off of the foreclosures to get rich off of stud",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Kayak/Travelocity/AirTran canceled my reservation without my knowledge, and no one will take responsibility or issue a refund. Reddit, what should I do? POST: Here's the story: On November 25th, I booked a ticket from Rochester, NY to Fort Lauderdale, FL from January 6th to January 9th on Kayak.com. Turns out, booking it on Kayak actually books it through their partner website, Travelocity. I got my confirmation number from Kayak/Travelocity (they introduce themselves as Travelocity ",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Chest pain in the morning POST: Hello, I've been having some chest pains when I've woken up. It's been in the morning, and the it disappears after some time upright, tho it is still uncomfortable for a while when walking around. It began a couple of weeks ago. I was on vacation in italy with my family, and from day 1 it started. I assumed it was a bad bed, and looked forward to the next hotel we would go to after the first week, but that didn't change anything, even my own bed at home isn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do you think this girl (23F) likes me (M25)? (she's involved with someone else....) POST: I knew a girl on fb, she has a boyfriend so we started talking just as friends. But I started feeling some strong attraction, I like the way she thinks/behave, she's really hot, weird in a GOOD way and with time I grew fond. In the last few weeks I decided to tell her my feelings.. She said she feels really good with me and that she thinks I'm clever and good looking, that maybe in a different ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Me and a friend are both in love with the same girl. Once, I was chatting with her, and he began to basically ripoff what I wrote. What to do? POST: Yup. Basically we both are in love with the same girl, she knows we like her(Friendzone ftw...). One day he was over at me to do some gaming and sleep over, and I let him sit next/behind me(90 degree desk). So the girl logged on and I started chatting to her. After a minute or so she said: ""Whoah, this is scary! Derp is saying almost the sa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] sick to my stomach about my Ex [18F] after 8 months. POST: so i have been fighting depression over the ex for 8 or 9 months because i really did love her and she left me for a mutual friend. that was a hard couple of months. hearing about them together and seeing them here and there. i didn't have many friends left around me, they all hung out with my ex. i do nothing but work for the next couple months,don't go out often, when i see her around she doesn't seem to be with",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My stupid brother violated his parole. How screwed is he? POST: There's a lot of things that got him here, but essentially when he was 23 he dated and had sex with a 16 year old girl. On top of that he provided alcohol to her and whatever other things. He was going to be in jail for six years but the public defender was a specialist with people like him and got him down to parole. So he's on the sex offender registry and he's not supposed to be around kids of any age. Well, my mother dr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29f] feel like my boyfriend [25m] and I are more like friends with benefits than bf/gf POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for five months and lately I've been doing a lot of thinking about our relationship. The more I think about it, the more I feel like we're just friends with benefits. We do friend things together then have (amazing) sex. I also feel like maybe we're in a rut because all we do is go out to eat then watch Netflix on our dates. It's so boring. I've never b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20's M] with my Parents, They are flat out narcissists POST: Talking with them ends up with them talking to me, asking for honest answers gets me more lies and shaming, and anything that has to do with my feelings they tell me is wrong and I should feel ""this"" way. I recently confronted them, telling them all of us need to see counselling, which ended up with them booking an appointment for myself only, telling the doctor I was the problem and not them. When I confronted the",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/f] in a sticky situation with [19/f] bff POST: The title sounds like a porno bc the situation feels like a cliche porno. I've been friends with this girl since middle school. She's probably my best long term friend. I've been thinking about her in ""that"" way for a couple of years now, but have been seriously suppressing it. Which is easy to do, because in the moment I just enjoy being around her enough as a person. We haven't seen each other in about a year (college/going a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Your thoughts please? 18/m POST: Alrighty so I just got out of a 3yr relationship and for my thought it was awesome but apparently not to the other half (18/f). I had my time to think and we ended on a good note, she is going to school, I'm gonna work. What I didn't expect was how much of a lost guy I would be, I feel super alone and my mind is playing crap on my heart. I have a bit of a thing for a friend 20/f who is dating one of my old highschool buds. I don't talk to him an",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: My 7 y/o is acting out because we are moving again. POST: We moved across the country to Arizona in March and she took it very well. We made it an adventure, plus we had been homeschooling her, and although she had a good group of friends in Indiana, one of the perks to her was we put her in a charter school out here and she loves it and made a ton of friends. We lost our business in late August and have been unemployed since then. My husband has an opportunity to get a grant to get his ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (26F) going crazy? I just burst into tears because my boyfriend (32M) joked about eating my dog. POST: I had the dog before I moved in. He's never lived with a dog before so has a different view than me on things concerning my dog. Most of the time the three of us get along fine. He likes to joke about eating the dog. Weird, right? I try to have a sense of humour about it but it's not my cup of tea. Usually I don't mind that much but today was different. I was working in the o",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [26/m] falling for my best friend's sister (21/f) and I'm unsure what to do. POST: So a few months ago I decided to get a place with two of my buddies. We wanted to rent a house to help avoid the current bed bug epidemic in the area. So we found a place but one of them bailed last minute due to his mother in another state deteriorating and needing his support. So we looked for a replacement and eventually the friend's that didn't bail sister came on board. I rarely hung ou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf and i are having problems POST: my gf and i, have been dating for 3 months, a week from now. she called me up the other night and told me that she is losing feelings for me, it destroyed me, she does not know why she is losing feelings for me and Im scared that we wont work out. I really like this girl, I think i love her, i don't want to see her go. she thinks its her and that we went too fast (which Im sure we did.) we have agreed to breakup for now, and then have another go ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Do I have to disclose ALL previous employment when applying for jobs/is my reason for doing so good enough? POST: I'm thinking about taking time off from my education but if I'm going to do that I need to get a full time job fairly quickly. I'd like to get a job that will look good for when I eventually apply to grad school (for speech language pathology), so most likely in the education field and/or working with disabled children. My problem is that I quit a full-time job in education this",negative " r/relationships TITLE: me 19M with 18F broken up need help moving on POST: Okay so this happened over 2 months ago and it was a mutual breakup which i believe is the worst one because i still have feelings for and she did for me at one point but i don't know if that is the case to this day. We tried being friends for a bit but ultimately she wanted to cut off communication after she knew it was causing too much trouble with us. At first i was super upset about it but then just as i was getting over her sh",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: My kid, the baby sitter buster POST: So here's the deal: we had our first kid in October, so he's almost 4 months now. Our first baby sitter quit us because we complained to the agency when she called us away from school and work to pick him up when he spit up too much and then, on another occasion, cried too much. Soon after that, we got a new baby sitter. Today, she tells us that he cried for three hours straight today and that she'll see how it goes next week. So we might lose her to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24M] with my girlfriend [25F] 5 months, Am I wrong to be jealous/ worried? POST: My girlfriend has gone to a 6 night music festival in Switzerland, and will be completely out of contact with me for the duration. 2 days after this festival ends, I'm moving 18,400km to be closer to her (from New Zealand to Germany). I've never been to a music festival this large, but I have friends who have, and a lot of them have told stories about the drugs/ sex/ massive amount of drinking involv",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (31F) boyfriend (32M) of 5 years is having doubts about our future. Is this normal? Should I move on? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for over five years now, living together for over four. We have a pretty strong relationship and I would be happy to spend my life with him. Of course there are challenges and issues that arise, but no relationship is perfect. As I have gotten older, I have started trying to have conversations about marriage. My boyfriend has known all ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Realized what I had when it was too late POST: Throwaway account, me m(22) her(22). I dumped my girlfriend last week after making a rash decision based on sex. We we'rent having it because of her beliefs (wait until marriage), and I thought that I would be happier if I could. So I broke up with her and realized very quickly it was a mistake. I love this girl very much. I could wait for her. I have no complaints about this relationship other than that, and that doesn't even matt",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] have serious jealousy issues with my partner's [21F] sexual past POST: I know this is quite common but I can't seem to shake it off. My girlfriend of 1.5 years is attractive, and gets a lot of looks and has had quite a few partners in the past. Most were just hookups and never went beyond kissing, foreplay stuff. However, i myself growing up never really got to experience this. I was so desperate for sex, but it just never really came. I had a girlfriend for 9 months which I ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by splitting up my messages POST: Alright this happened just a few hours ago so the pain is still very real Me and my(possibly mutual) crush were talking today and as always things were getting a little flirty. At one point she says she's thinking of changing her Facebook profile picture and then sends me a picture of herself with the caption ""do I look cute in this pic ;)"". Now I'm one of those people who will break up a message into three, so instead of saying ""hi, good to see you tod",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with guy I was seeing [27 M] 1M, being friends after casually dating - how to go about this? POST: I met this guy a little over a month ago intending to have a one-off hookup but had a strong connection so we went out for about a month but I guess we both could sense the romantic ""spark"" going away after the initial infatuation period, so we eventually stopped seeing each other (without explicitly saying so, we just stopped texting/ making plans to meet up). It's been abou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] just broke up with my girlfriend [19 F] of a year and a half. Feel like I may have made a huge mistake. POST: Throwaway because she knows my username. Basically me and this girl have been dating for a bit over a year, and for the most part it's been wonderful. We have had our ups and downs, but overall we have been happy. She's by far my best friend and for the last year or so, has been essentially the only person who I had deep emotional conversation with. The last month ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why is she(22F) upset with me(22M) for not talking to her recently. POST: Me and this girl have been friends for a little bit. I felt like there has been an attraction between us so I asked her if she thought so. She said she thinks there is but she doesn't want to pressure it. I asked her if her if she wanted to see where it could go, no pressure. Then she said she's doesn't know and wants to stay friends. I'm okay with that. So I wanted to pull back a little and do my own thing. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: (24M), Thinking about reconnecting with my ex (25F). Is it ever a good idea? Also seemingly terrible timing. POST: Preface: Me and my ex broke up about a year and a half ago. It was a really mutual brake up and we both ended it with heavy hearts (we spent the last day together just reminiscing, laughing and crying). It ended because we were just different folks from when we started dating and wanted different things. We kept in contact for about 6 months until she started dating some",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Things with me [29m] & my roommate/FWB [24F] seem different and uncomfortable for me & I need advice on how to approach the subject and minimize collateral damage POST: I'll try and keep this short but I might ramble So one of my roommates and I have been involved in a FWB type relationship for the last 3 months or so. We both didn't want a serious relationship and we were both comfortable with each other. As much as we knew it was going to be complicated and we talked about the d",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (22/F) I have never dated anyone until now and have to ask if his (22/M) behavior is strange? POST: I'd love to get some opinions on the slightly strange situation I am finding myself in. I, (22/F), have been dating a guy (22/M) for almost a month now. Let me preface this by saying were both home schooled (making us slightly awkward) and this is the first time I've ever really ""dated"" anyone, so I don't have past relationships to gauge this one on. He and I just click reall",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Is credit score or income more important when applying for apartments? (US) POST: Two and a half years ago I managed to royally screw myself financially. Was under-employed and an addict while living in an apt with my then-boyfriend. I maxed out my credit cards and stopped making payments because any cash I had was going to rent, food, or drugs. I managed to get out of that situation a little over a year ago. Got clean, moved home with my parents, found gainful employment. Most o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] 2 weeks, She is too clingy POST: I was texting one of my friends and told him that I thought my girlfriend was too clingy,. My friend told my girlfriend that I said that and at the end of our date today when she had to leave she said ""let me know if I'm being too clingy"" I didn't know what to say, so I just sat there as she walked to her ride. I really didn't want her finding this out because I did a bad thing and talked about her behind my bac",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: We have becoming 'exclusive', she calls me 'her boyfriend', but the word ""relationship"" freaks her out. Am I missing something here? POST: Ages: both 26 About a month ago, we started going on dates. About 1.5 weeks ago, we became exclusive. Meaning, only seeing eachother. She refers to me as her boyfriend. This was a little fast for me, but it's all good for now. The other day, when I casually mentioned something about ""this relationship"", she wigged out a little and said we ar",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [31 F] partner [33 M] of 3 years cheated on me with a mutual friend. Not sure how to handle. POST: My [31 F] partner [33 M] of 3 years cheated on me with a mutual friend. They were both drunk and hanging out with other people on the beach. They ended up alone and flirting with each other, then making out. It did not go beyond kissing and he said he stopped it from going further. He told me the next day and said it was a mistake and would never happen again. I believe it won't, bu",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/m] Having much trouble deciding whether to stay with my girlfriend (17/f) of almost 3 years... Help me POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for almost 3 years now and we are both 17 (I know we were both very young when we got together and we are still young now). The trouble is being together for this amount of time and from a young age, we have kind of grown up together so we have both started to change. The relationship hasn't been the same for quite a while now,",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (23F) don't know how to leave an unhealthy relationship with my long distance boyfriend (31M) POST: I don't like to think of myself as someone who is illogical and only listens to her feelings but this relationship has changed me for the worse. Things were great in the beginning but I've turned into a jealous, insecure and paranoid person. It started when he kept lying to me and I kept catching him but I also kept forgiving him. There are numerous arguments with name calling ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the farthest you've ever gone to freak someone out? POST: I'll start. I was just driving home from the grocery store and had to go through a turn that requires you to go from 50 to 35 and back again. As I was speeding back up to 50 (I was going 40 and accelerating) a guy passed me after five seconds of leaving the turn. I was angry and flipped him off but did nothing else. As I kept driving he stayed in front of me as we were both going 50 now. Then I saw him turn onto my street. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I worry about my GF's increased libido? POST: We used to have sex 1 or 2 times a month, I am 30, she is 26. After discussing this matter a lot of times (it has been an issue since the beginning of our relationship - we are living together for about 6 years now) I started to search for sex somwhere else and got involved with OW. I felt that I cannot continue like this this, and after a month of sexual escapades with OW (she enjoyed anal a lot and she was also a huge fan of BDS",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girl[f]riend [26] of one month just told me straight up that I like her more than she likes [m]e [26]. POST: Then she added that she's liking me more as time goes by, which is most likely said to make me feel better. She has no problems with it but the reason she wants to see me alot is to find out sooner whether this is going to go anywhere before I develop more feelings for her and she ultimately might end it if she doesn't like me a whole lot. I'm just really confused and g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21m] am scared of my gf [19f] hanging out with [20m] POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 6 months. Everything in our relationship is pretty good at this point. Except I'm so scared she will hang out this weekend in a group of friends that include this one guy I'll name Sean. I've noticed that she seems kinda attracted to Sean. He is an interesting and good looking guy. If we're hanging out she will look at him and if he walks away she will look around for him. I'm w",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Do I have a shot or am I too deep in the friend zone? POST: I [19m] met a girl [19f] last year at university. I took a liking to her pretty fast, but she had a long distance bf and I was talking to someone else at the time. So I didn't think much of her. We had one class that first semester, then the next semester didn't have one class together and only randomly bumped into each other on campus. At this point I wasn't pursuing her or anything. Fast forward to this year (fall semeste",negative " r/relationships TITLE: When do I [25m] hit her up [26f] after we both end relationships POST: I just ended a relationship this past week with a different girl I was seeing for a short while (1 month). She (the 26f) ended her 2 year relationship 2 weeks ago. I ran in to her at a bar tonight while I was out drinking to forget. She said she had been out drinking a ton to forget as well. We used to hang out and rock climb together years ago, but my roommate at the time told me this girl was a lesbian (not at",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31M] with my gf [26F] of 1 year - financial troubles... POST: I've been dating my gf for a year now, in an expensive city. She moved to an apartment nearby (to be close to me), and now it turns out she can't really afford it. She's broke. I have savings. Recently her dog got sick and built up ~$2k in vet expenses. I told her I would help pay since she was stressed, and pay my half either way. Anyway, I went with her to the vet on one occasion and I footed the $500 bill. I know I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to resist the college culture when dating since high school? POST: So I [20 M] have been in a relationship with my girlfriend [20 M] for three years since we were high school seniors. I can honestly say I love her. We come from different backgrounds but she's my best friend and we have a rock solid relationship with great communication and no problems. We actually started out hooking up which went to oral sex by the 3rd hookup or so, and I asked her out after about a month. T",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How to get a replacement Certificate of Citizenship? POST: Parents withholding Certificate of Citizenship and SSN Card My mother and I had a falling out and she claims to have destroyed my citizenship documents(ssn and certificate of citizenship). I have tried applying for a replacement with N-565 but that took almost a year and I was denied a replacement for not supplying enough evidence, even though I sent in everything they asked for, twice actually. I'm not sure what to do. I have a",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: 'Date' vs 'Friend' conversations suggestions POST: Having got out of a 10+ year relationship last year I've been making best efforts to be a bit more social and confident, and through work and hobbies I've forged a couple of friendships with women. I'm very happy to be where I am, and when I've got to know these new people I've been generally sticking to the classic FORD conversation pieces. * Holiday stories * Asking about work/ideal jobs * Upbringing/Family * Likes/dislikes etc ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I feel like I was just scammed out of $200. I switched out of T-mobile 3 months before my contract ended. POST: I could have sworn I bought my phone in November of 08, in my mind it is crystal clear: It was cold, late, and it was to be an early birthday gift for myself. I was in the mall recently and Verizon had Droids 2 for 1, The wife gets a discount and TMobile's service was horrible, so I bought us new phones assuming I was 2 months out of contract. I asked the verizon guy, so I c",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Assistants: Do you use your personal phone for work? POST: I work as an admin assistant to a real estate agent. I've been at this job for 9 months. I got my own work email 2 months after I started, and I've had it on my phone since. I'm not really sure why I did that in the first place - I guess it was the excitement of having my own email! Recently my boss has been asking me more and more to use my personal phone for business - I communicate by text with almost all of our clients, and most",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] broke up with my gf [18 F] for unique reasons. Am I being unreasonable? POST: We met at work. She's an amazing girl; funny, beautiful, and really sweet. We dated for 3 months. In this time, we hung out maybe 5-6 times. Every time, it was at her house. The reason? Her mom controls her life. She isn't allowed to go out. She isn't allowed to drive the car she pays insurance for. She has no social life because of this. I'm currently in college two hours from where she lives. ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Medical question POST: Hello! I'm a 22 year old male that was recently diagnosed with Syringomyelia. I decided to reach out to my fellow Reddit peers to ask if any of you know someone with Syringomyelia? Also, for those who do know someone or is someone with Syringomyelia, how do you/they cope with the constant pain? Before I forget, I have also been diagnosed with spinal myoclonus. Also unfortunate, I have a crack running down my spine from C3 to T8 with a diameter of someone's pin",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Why was she [18/f] flirting with me [17/m] when she had a boyfriend? Should I stop? POST: Hey reddit, so I started talking with this girl i met on facebook because we shared the same interests in sports, music and stuff like that so I texted her during one of the LA Kings game and we really hit it off. We were joking with each other sending each other funny videos and I was a bit flirty and she too was flirty so I was going to ask her out but I found out through a mutual friend",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Reddit, is asking a mutual friend about an ex off-limits? POST: My ex and I broke up a month ago over a misunderstanding, and he told me to delete his number. We were both very angry at the time and things didn't end on a friendly note, to say the least. I'm babysitting for a friend who also happens to be my ex's best friend, and want to ask the friend about my ex-- specifically, if he would be open to the option of talking to me again. I don't want to put the friend in an awkw",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[24F] with my now ex[24M] broke up over his defensiveness regarding his ex. POST: I broke up with my SO over this - It's not so much that he still talks to her but he never told me they still talked until he saw her one night because she was in town. Their relationship was his first serious long term relationship and it ended over 2 years ago. After that initial night I explained that it made me uncomfortable and I wished that he would've been more clear about what this person mean",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: New to Renting Apartment and the Renter Wants my Proof of Income. What is the Best Course of Action? POST: Hello again /r/personalfinance! I am moving within the next month and have found a large condominium complex that is offering a great deal on their rent as well as any application fees. It will be my first time renting an apartment under my name so I want to be as thorough as possible. They are at low occupancy and can flex their prices a bit which is a nice bonus. To my knowl",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Please help, Reddit. Trying to get out of drug culture and make new friends. POST: I was a heavy user of mainly marijuana for most of my teen years. I was sitting around watching TV, stoned out of my mind, all day everyday, not doing well in school and going generally nowhere fast. It was not good. As much as people like to regard marijuana as absolutely harmless, it CAN be very destructive in heavy use for some people like myself. I was made to quit all drugs about a couple years ago. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do I [M29] have a moral obligation to tell a guy [M25?] I don't even know that his GF [F24] cheated? POST: A friend [F24] of mine [M29] recently moved over 800 miles west to be with her LDR boyfriend of at least 3 years. Before she left I happen to know she slept with a mutual friend of ours at least once (possibly multiple times) in a blatant and shameless way. I've only met the bf once, and don't really know him at all, but I can't shake the feeling he deserves to know that his gf ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Someone stole my cell phone and used it to make a few calls afterward. Is it possible to find out where this person lives? POST: Last night I came home and after an episode of Lost I realized I left my phone in my car. I went out to get it and found that someone had broken in and stolen it, along with the case to a Soundgarden album. (The joke is on them, the CD was actually in the player) I called the police and filed a report, but later I checked my call log through my provider's websi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my date [25M] of ~2 weeks, I don't want to fall for him this soon POST: I've only gone on two dates, which lasted 8 hours on average, and after a string of failed relationships and dates, we really clicked. And when he looks into my eyes, I want to believe that he likes me a lot too. But I have this lingering fear, what if he is seeing someone else? what if he's only considering me as a casual fling? what if he fades? It's really killing me. I've gotten therapy and ",negative " r/self TITLE: I have no idea what to do... POST: Today I almost got in trouble for the first time in my 20 year old life. I have 4 dogs, and I was walking three of them (mind you I live at my parents house), and someone video taped me swinging the 10ish lb dog around (due to my aggravation). An officer came and nearly arrested me for the felony. Importantly, this was the first (and definitely the only) time I have done this. The officer let me go after talking to my parents, and they are super pissed. I ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by tasting baby shit. POST: My sister recently had a baby and isn't able to leave her house very often due to taking care of the baby. So yesterday I decided to be nice and bring over taco bell and alleviate her by holding her baby. That way she could eat in peace. While holding the baby he let go a fart of all farts, or so I thought(sounded like an orchestra of tuba players). It smelled bad so I passed him back off to my sister. While she was changing him I decided to eat my delicious f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Suddenly concerned with cheating [M23][F21], might be because of this subreddit? POST: Up til now I wasn't that worried about infidelity beyond an average kind of low-level ""I hope this doesn't happen to me"". But... the more /r/relationships posts I read the more I've come to realise how absolutely more widespread and common cheating is. I keep reading all these stories about people finding messages on their partner's phone, or on Facebook, or whatever else. I know, obviously, it hap",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [15F] may be lying and I [15M] don't know if she is, but the issues she has, she won't talk to anyone. POST: Me and my girlfriend are both 15 and we've been together about 3 months now. Over the time I've gotten to know her, I've found she has a lot of illnesses, to be specific, possible anaemia, depression and so on. She's also been traumatized by a near non-consensual sexual event. But to me, this sounds a little suspicious. I feel that she's using the event as a cov",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: EX Smashed Up My House With Police Involved (AB, CAN) POST: Looking for best advice on how I should proceed. My (31M) ex (30F) showed up at my house today and started hurling the big flower-bed stones at the front door and siding, causing some damage. The house is mine and we lived in an ""adult interdependent relationship"" (common law) for just over 3 years and she left 7 months ago. I made up a thing for her to sign finalizing dividing shared assets and that was it. When she sta",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [35M] cheated on my wife ... emotionally with my [34F] coworker, we both feel guilty POST: I am deeply in love with my wife. We have been married for several years. In recent months, I have become friends with someone I work with. It started out with harmless joking and kidding around, not flirting. We are both happily married. As time wore on, we both fell in love with one another and feel extremely guilty. Our spouses are both amazing people. We refused to let anything physical t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [25F] Within the same hour, my boyfriend broke up with me and my dad is in the emergency room. POST: I've come to reddit so much, SO SO SO SO much over the course of the past few months with my relationship problems with this guy. I knew it wasn't going well, but I kept hoping that things would get better. We were only together for almost four months, and we temporarily broke up twice, so... yeah, it was pretty awful. I'd been having physical issues that were preventing us from ha",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: How do I stop comparing myself to other people/being jealous of others? POST: As the title suggests, I have recently realized that I cannot learn or see something about someone without automatically comparing that aspect of their lives with my own. I chose X dress for an occasion, so and so chose Y dress for that occasion.. my mind goes to ""She looks so great in that, I should have worn something like that!"". I see someone's facebook album or instagram post and I feel bad/jealous th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm trying to explain to someone what a rage comic is. Is there any comic out there that you would consider ""the best"" to use as an example? POST: Essentially, there is a girl I know who I've used rage faces via text and she loves them. When she asked what they were, I linked her the only clear explanation I know (Know Your Meme; sorry, but they had it in layman's terms). Then I told her I'd show her a ""good comic"" to get her started on what they actually exist for. I looked high and low",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need money and can work as a web designer POST: Hi, I'm right now in the University studying Industrial Engineering and I'm doing quite well. I have never worked before, but I have learnt by myself how to do webs. I know PHP, Mysql and Javascript (Jquery, Ajax) (and HTML & CSS lol). I have done some webpages for money (3) but they were for friends or relatives. I need money and I would like to do some freelance works as a web programmer/designer but I don't know how I can find clients",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Not sure if he's into me yet. POST: Hi, Obvious throwaway. I went on my first date in a while yesterday so pardon my questions, I'm a bit out of the game. Me, F27, him, M24. Met on a dating website, I made first contact. This was over a week ago. We exchanged emails for about a week and then he gave me his number and asked me what I was doing Friday. We text every day for the remainder of the week. He ended up coming over yesterday. I'm not sure if he had the initial attraction to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] got my heart broken by my 21 [F] girlfriend over text POST: I hate asking for help but i have no other alternative. I work night shifts and have minimal contact with people. I dont have friends in the area so it's been rough. Thanks. My girlfriend of a year and a two months broke up with me over text recently and im having a hard time getting over her. I loved her so much and its just hard not having her anymore. She broke up with me over text message. Background: my gir",negative " r/relationships TITLE: When do you know it's worth it to ""settle"" for your SO? POST: I don't mean this to be insulting or like I think I'm better than my BF, I don't at all. I simply am wondering how to know if your SO is ""the one"", so to speak, in spite of the little annoyances that pop up in any relationship. Background: I (28F) have been with my boyfriend (29M) for just over a year now, and I recently moved into his apartment. Things between us are generally very good: we were friends for a few years ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by swallowing a fart POST: So basically this happened a couple days ago, when i was at training (i'm an elite swimmer). I was expecting a normal cool and easy training, but oh god how was i wrong. It all started with me laying on lane with some of my good friends, i was starting at the back, heavy arms, and one of my friends where laying just in front of me. We swam a couple of lanes in a steady pace and was breathing pretty hard because of the pace, i actually felt it was going okay, un",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17/m] just got dumped out of nowhere by my [16/f] gf.. I'm sure she'll come back, what should I do? POST: Friday the 28th was our 6 months. She came over, we cuddled, watched netflix, made out, all those good things. On Wednesday the 2nd she texted me out of nowhere and told me she loved me. I told her back, of course. Everything was great. I was so happy and she was too, so I thought. The morning of Friday April 4th, if you had asked me, I'd have said that we were both perfect",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Owed 80 Dollars POST: So here's a little background on the situation. I met this guy, a seemingly upstanding, level-headed guy about eight years my senior. We both attend a small liberal arts University in North Carolina. In passing, I mention that for I will be driving up to New York for Spring Break. He demonstrates interest, and we strike a deal. Thirty dollars up, thirty dollars down. After dropping him off and going our separate ways for the entirety of Spring Break, he shoots me a t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [14 M] with my ""girlfriend"" [14 F] half a day, Yea yea yea, I know we're young. Not exactly sure whats even going on anymore POST: I know I know young love, and none of it really matters and whatever happens none of it will really matter in the end. So it starts off yesterday, and well it started off as a prank. Then we became friends of a sort, because I actually started talking to her, and turns out she's pretty cool. Now she says she's emo and cuts herself (which is a real tu",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by losing my phone POST: Throwaway for a shitty reason Yesterday, I found myself on my way to a family gathering hundreds of miles away from my home town in a rural dot on the East Coast. As we cruised the interstate, I started to wonder what sort of shenanigans we'd be up to. I knew there'd be a lot of herb, but I couldn't fathom the amount that was actually present. After getting my hands on a doobie, I found some other people to chill with and eventually found the need to make my way",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22/F] can't get over my ex [23/M] and now he's knows what I've been doing.. POST: We were together three years and broke up in February after he tried to strangle me. He actually walked out and fled the country we were in and I have had no contact with him since. I even got restraining order against him which was then dropped due to the fact the assault happened in a different country and because we weren't living together long term. I know after what he did I should hate him, ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by almost asphyxiating a nine-year old. POST: So me and my roommates at my boarding school decided one fine afternoon in 5th grade to attempt asphyxiation. This was not out of any perversion but merely a childish game. It was just a fascination with strangulation. We were just scientifically curious to find out how long it takes to almost die. So the game was to tie a knot around one person's neck while two would pull from the sides. I went first. The other two pulled from the other side",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] and my GF [16 F] 3 months, her phone got taken by her parents. I want to be able to talk to her. POST: Me and my girlfriend 'T' have really gotten close, and it seems like were going really well. Her dad is the problem. Recently he found out about me, and saw that me and her have been dating for a while now. Keep in mind he never knew any of this because he would freak out and never let us talk. So sense he found out, I want to get her a cheep little phone so we can just te",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] and my girlfriend [28F] of seven years have been engaged for a year, she wants me to convert to Judaism when we get married and I don't know what to do. POST: Me and my girlfriend have been together for seven years, I've known about her being Jewish since we met and I've respected everything that she and her family do when it comes to their beliefs. I attended her younger brother's bar mitzvah and I've been researching Judaism for a long time since we met. It's something tha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] feel like I'm bad for my boyfriend [20M]. (How) Should I break up with him? POST: Not really sure how to explain this... Recently, my mental health hasn't been so good. I think I've been excessively anxious, down and generally unstable. We've only been together a few months and I got the habit of messaging my boyfriend a bit when I'm really anxious/sad and he isn't around. He replies slower than elderly tortoise can walk and it makes my anxiety worse. Plus it makes me feel n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] may have serious feelings for my FWB [22F] but can't reconcile her past history with our mutual friends POST: She has had casual sex several times with a few of our mutual friends in the past year, and it really bothers me. Each one of them claims to have broken things off with her as well. When we hooked up initially, my friends and I made jokes at her expense, but this was before I thought anything serious or consistent might follow. We have been hooking up pretty consiste",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[20 F] have a toxic relationship with my mom [53 F] but not toxic enough to cut the relationship off. POST: I recently just got in an argument with her. I'm in college, only about an hour and a half away from home. Last night my phone was on silent, and usually I call her by 8PM every night. I didn't call her. She freaked out, called my boyfriend a ton of times, and called my university's police station. She thought something happened to me because I didn't call her back until 11. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Restaurant / fast food workers, why do some think it's ok to mess with customer's food if they are rude to the staff? POST: First off, I do not mean to imply this holds true for the majority, but I've often read how fast food or restaurant employees say ""Don't mess with the people who handle your food"" in reference to customers who are being rude to them or something similar. It seems even from the customer standpoint people seem to caution against being perceived as rude, and try to be ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [13F] feel awful my sister [15F] told me it was my fault my brothers [16M] girlfriend [16F] broke up with him because he had to come and pick me up. My sister told me that the whole family will be made if they find out POST: Hi, Reddit I need some adult advice because I feel really bad. I just turned 13 8 weeks ago so I am young and never used this site before. two weeks ago on a Sunday I was playing a local softball game with my team, it was just a fun game it was nothing compet",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Wife [28F] of 5 years just left me [33M] and told me she isn't coming back POST: I'm not sure if I should get into too many details but last night after work, my wife told me she is leaving me and our two kids. This came out of nowhere, we have a very happy marriage and we just had another baby a couple months ago. She loves the kids so much that she only ever leaves them when she has to, like for a dentist appointment or something. She's never spent a night away from them, even when",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me [20/m] My close friend [19/f] where do I go from here? POST: Some background: Me and her have been talking for 4 months, after she started to work with me. She has a boyfriend but we sort of flirted back and forth because we both have feelings for each other. I suggested we take a break from each other cause I didn't want to cause problems with her boyfriend of 5 months (which happened any ways) Over the past week things started to go from normal friendship back to flirting",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Are property taxes too much to justify the home purchase POST: I just want to confirm my thinking on a home purchase. Basically it works out that with all of my housing bills, mortgage, utilities, upkeep, and property taxes I want to be at 2000 or less per month. The problem here arises that a couple areas with very nice and affordable houses have astronomical property taxes. For the example let's round to 10k, this puts me over my monthly allowable spend, so it is out of the quest",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my GF [22 F] of a month, trying to avoid resentment over her friends comments POST: I am dating this girl we will call Jill. Jill and I were friends prior to dating. During that time she introduced me to 2 of her mutual church friends, we'll call them Ann [28 F], and Sarah [22 F], both single. We all used to hang out together. I never had a problem with them nor believed they had a problem with me. Ann and Jill went out to dinner 2 weeks into us dating. The conversati",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (22M) girlfriend(20f) of 8 months believes that she should mean the most to me in the entire world. POST: Okay, here goes. So lets start by saying recently i have not been the perfect boyfriend. My girlfriend lives a few towns away (2 hours) and i told her that i was at my house when in actual fact i was just chilling at my friends house enjoying a cheeky blunt after a week of work. She couldn't contact me (phone died) and asked my sister to see what was up, she then informed her",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A gym is chasing me for money I don't have and I don't know what to do. Reddit, can we stand up for the little guy against these behemoth companies? POST: So my boss signs me up for a 12-month gym membership with Extreme Fitness which I reluctantly pay for and then try to cancel on the twelfth month. I talk to ""Joel"" at one of their locations and he says ""No problem, you need to notify Kirk at this location and let him know you want to cancel. Here's his info."" So after several attempts ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by dreaming there was a hot girl in the bed next to me. POST: Recently I took a trip with four other dudes to do some dirt biking in the desert. We had two hotel rooms, two in one, two other friends (we'll call them Brett and Steve) and me in the other. Brett slept in his sleeping bag on the floor, and Steve was in the bed across from me. After wearing ourselves out riding all day, it didn't take much alcohol consumption to ensure we were all sound asleep pretty quickly. As I'm sleepin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever put yourself in danger to save someone else? Share your tales of selflessness! POST: I'll start. When I was on holiday with my mother, aunt, and her three children, we visited a market in the middle of town. Everyone was pretty distracted, looking at all the stalls, seeing what's on offer, that sort of thing. My aunt isn't great with children, despite having had three of them. She gets stressed pretty easily, so when I visit, I make sure I keep an eye on my two youngest c",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [M/24] asked her (F/20) out and got a ""maybe, just got out of a shitty relationship"". How to proceed? POST: I just moved to a new town and this girl caught my eye, after bumping into her a couple times we finally got the chance to have an extended conversation and asked her to go out with me the next weekend. After she responded I said ""I usually don't do maybes, but you're cute so i'll make an exception this time"", I was expecting a yes or no so the maybe sort of threw me of",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my boyfriend [24 M] of a year, I saw texts from my boyfriend to his best friend saying he wished I looked better. POST: I met my boyfriend almost a year ago on Tinder. We've been practically inseparable since our first date. This is by far the best relationship I have ever had. I love him and he's my exact idea of what I want in a guy. He has been feeling insecure lately, getting really jealous of me talking to my male friends. He made a joke about me going on a date",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Can't tell if (straight) friend is hitting on (also straight) me? POST: So I have this friend. We've known each other for well over ten years. There was a time around the 4-6 year gap where we weren't friend but now we are again for irrelevant reasons. This person has no concept of social boundaries. He's repeatedly done shit randomly like putting his hand on my shoulders, rubbing my arm, grabbing my hand etc. and he *will not stop* even after repeatedly telling me not to. Later he began",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] love my girlfriend [20F] and have never been with someone so perfect for me, but I still think about my ex all the time. POST: My ex [21F] and I broke up a year ago. We dated for almost 4 years and she was manipulative, borderline uncaring, and cheated on me, which ended the relationship. I lost my virginity to her, which I regret. I have no idea why we stayed together. There was this deep attraction to each despite how terrible we were as a couple. I don't understand. Fast ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my wife [28 F] of a year, wants to split the cost of her makeup. She's upset I said no. POST: Throwaway because she's on some makeup subreddit I think. Ever since we moved in together and later married money has been really tight. We finally started to follow a budget and each of us gets $100 to spend on whatever we want, but after a few months of that my wife wants to change it. She thinks that the budget unfairly burdens her with what she calls ""upkeep"" and that I g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (X-Post AskMenAbove30) Do you think he's(30M) tired of taking care of me(26F) in this situation? POST: My husband (married for a year together for nearly 5) works long hours and a lot. I'm a house wife. I clean everything for him, grocery shop, and make dinner. But once a month, when my period strikes, I'm bed ridden. I can't walk and I'm in a lot of pain. I get it coming out both ends and awful migraines to boot. I also am prescribed major pain killers while this happens. Luckily hi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25/M] ex girlfriend [24/F] just had a baby and I'm jealous and think I have feelings for her again. Help please! POST: I recently found out that my ex (4 years ago, together for 2 years) has had a baby with her new boyfriend of around 1 year. We haven't kept in much contact, and I found out from her pictures announcing the birth of her son on facebook. I haven't had feelings for this girl in years, it wasn't a bad breakup but we were never that serious as a couple, it was more ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [20/M] can't get/maintain erection with [21/F] girlfriend POST: So I've been dating this girl for about a month. Everything was good until suddenly I stopped maintaining my ""hardness"". At first it was because I was eating a lot of soy. Now I don't know what the problem is. I get semi hard when we kiss & such but right before I'm about to put it in it goes limp. Although one time I tried my hardest to get a semi hard erection (hard enough to go in) & once I was inside it got r",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My friends scumbag exgirlfriend is creating quite a few issues. Wanted to know a good course of action. POST: He broke up with this girl about 2 years ago but we still have to deal with her issues. Currently, my friend is staying at my place most nights a week until he gets his own apartment later this month. It started getting weird about a week ago - I got a text from her saying that her computer had been 'hacked' and she believed it was by me. Someone had left a signature in her reg",negative " r/running TITLE: Reddit, I present to you the story of my PR POST: It was my school's annual 5K, so the runners are students, faculty, and then random other people from the community. I'm 1st on my XC team and I was really hoping to be the first student to win in a while. My main competitor was a 42-year-old who we'll call Steve. Now, Steve was ahead for most of the race, but I stayed connected to him. Then in the last miles, I surged ahead and took first place. I was in first going about 20 meters from th",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: 19/m Not sure if I should keep pursuing current crush or just move on. POST: I have developed a hardcore crush on this girl that goes to my university. It started when I invited her to sit with me and my friends one day when she was sitting by herself. It then went to waving at each other when we passed by to actually talking to each other. I got her number and texted her a couple of times, hung out with her and her friend, and even sat with her at mealtimes. I even managed to take ",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Accuse me of cheating? Better watch your data usage... POST: Ok, so my ex-BF and I were living together for a time, and he had a nasty habit of accusing me of cheating. Any little thing, like chatting with team or fleet/guildmates in STO or WoW for example, would lead to accusations. (See my posts in /r/deadbedrooms for more info.) So one day, after I complained for the umpteenth about the lack of intimacy, he accused me of cheating yet again. In a fit of rage, I changed the Wi-F",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [16/m], and I have a friend [15/f] that I have liked for a long time. I want to start acting on these feelings but I don't know what do! POST: I have known this girl since my sophomore year.. when I first saw her, I thought she was the prettiest girl on the planet. I became friends with her and I asked her to a dance that year, though she said no because she was a freshman at the time, and she wanted to experience it with her friends. I shelved my feelings and sort of dista",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: It's my girlfriends birthday soon and I want to break up with her. What do I do POST: Hello Reddit, I have been dating a girl from my college for a year and a bit. We were really good friends and even moved in together (with a few other friends). Unfortunately, I have come to the realization that i'm not that into her. She is really into me and I just can't reciprocate the feelings. I have been in a few semi-long term relationships before (1 year+) and I have always felt way m",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How would you get revenge against a thieving/manipulative healthclub? POST: I am a college student. I signed up for a gym membership a few weeks ago, with the intention of having a place to work out for the summer. I stated this clearly to the staff member I signed up with. I was promised (and it is being promoted) that it is $10/month with no joining fee - so I assumed I would be paying $30 total for the summer membership. I have now been billed a $50 annual fee that is apparently in ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [00 M/F] with my ___ [00 M/F] duration, short-description POST: Hi reddit! I've been sleeping/talking to this guy now for about 6 months. We met online and started sleeping with each other right away. Most of our relationship was/is based on sex but i get a lot of mixed messages. He texts me pretty often even though i'm 4 hours away, he gets jealous when i talk to other boys, i sleepover and we snuggle, we hang out post sex for hours, he's told me personal things about his family ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[19 f] BF [19 m] is a bit of a bad texter and its starting to bother me a bit... POST: Using a throw away because he is actively on reddit... We known each other for all of high school and started dating last year. He was/is my best friend and even before we started dating we would talk on the phone almost everyday. Sometimes there would be some pauses when he would have a girl friend, but that's to be expected. Once we did start dating we were on the phone every night and text ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36 F] with my husband [38M] 10 years duration, to forgive or not? POST: Dear people commenting on r/relationships. Need your advice on how to approach this letter from my husband whom I have been separated since October 2015. The letter (please excuse grammar as English is not our first language). Wife - I have 10 days off end of January and I am thinking to come to visit you and (daughter 9 years old) but… -This period of not being under the same roof with each other allow me ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [38 M] with my wife [32 F] married for six years.. She constantly criticises my behaviour. POST: Sup Redditors, So I've been married for six years to my lovely wife, we have two young children, houses, cars, mortgages. the joy! Since the birth of our first things have been going downhill, I don't seem to be able to perform any task up to her approval, she constantly nit picks, complains, moans and bitches. The complaints range from major criticism of me, my body, my career, my",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Was I wrong? POST: A few days ago, a friend of mine was in the event horizon of a bad break up. She had posted a simple request on her facebook wall for her ex to STFU and leave her alone. He didn't like this so he started trash talking her. In a moment of stupidity I defended her, and put the punk in his place. Once again he didn't like this, so he got his brother in on it. His brother said ""I will cut you boy"" talking to me. I took this as a threat and went to the police about it.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My parents disowned me [23F] for deciding not to be Christian anymore and now they have disowned and kicked out my brother [15M] for trying to stick up for me. POST: Hi, so I don't even know if this is the right sub. If not could someone direct me to the right place. My parents are super Christian, like if you would say god if you hit you knee they would ground you. I am not joking it is that bad, me and my brother would often joke they are the most religious people in all of Ameri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [20 F] Struggling to continue a relationship after roommate break-up POST: My gf often seems to have troubles maintaining friendships which I believe stems from her low self esteem. During her sophomore year of college she found a roommate that was perfect for her and they were inseparable. However this past fall, they moved into an apartment with another girl who has major control issues. My gf and other girl clashed constantly while my gf's original roommate was stuck in th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do others handle dating with complex life situations or chronic illness? POST: I am a male in my late 20's that has been out of the dating scene for over four years due to getting a chronic illness. I will probably be dealing with my condition in one form or another the rest of my life. I have reached a point where I want to try dating again but am intimidated by the situation. I understand that anyone I date will have to accept my situation and my limitations as part of the package",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my GF [24 F] 6months, She's being bullied by her EX POST: Don't know what to do about an EX that is harassing/bullying my GF. He's threatened to tell everyone he knows/mutual friends/family about her having herpes and supposedly giving it to him (I'm inclined to think it happened the other way around). She wants to die rather than have anyone else know and I've tried reasoning with the guy and all I ever get out of him is ""I love her and I always will I won't hurt ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22F) can't stand to be with my boyfriend (24M) for long periods of time. Am I being mean? POST: So, my boyfriend and I have been together for about three months. Best relationship I've had. We get along super well. He often stays over my apartment and after like, two consecutive days of being together I start getting cranky and bitchy. As I write this, we've been together for three whole days doing nothing in my apartment. He kisses me and tries to initiate sex but I don't even fe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with ex fiancé [20 M] 5 year relationship advice. POST: My fiancé/ boyfriend of 5 years broke up with me 2 months ago. We still talk daily and tell each other everything because we were best friends before this. He has feelings for another girl but still admits that when we see each( we go to different colleges) that he has to be careful because he will start to feel things for me. He says that he has to put up walls around me so he doesnt fall for me again or so he doesn't",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] found nude pics of my BF's [24M] ex gf POST: As the title suggests, I found some pics I'd rather unsee. I was on his computer and was doing some stuff he'd asked me to do for his fall college admission. While going through the folders to find the documents, I came across this album and felt sick. We've been together a year but started seeing each other a couple of months prior and these photos were dated around that time. These photos were taken by him and she was aware he ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25M] sister [20F] stays in contact with our abusive father and I feel unsafe POST: I recently moved back home and was told by my mother that there have been subtle threats from our estranged father (who I have not seen in 7 years) in the recent past. I won't go into detail, but they are not threats the police could pursue, but I do not feel 100% safe considering he knows our address. My mother has decided she can't live in fear and can't afford to move, and neither can I for th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Did I get scammed? How should I get my money back? POST: Story: Canadian citizen here, hoping to acquire a firearms' license for recreational shooting. We have the options to either take the courses or challenge the tests straight up. Most places offer courses+test at around $200, and tests only at around $50-$80. This is something I wasn't fully aware of, I looked up one licensed instructor who offers challenge tests and booked a test for today. After the exam he said I owe him $180 (",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When should you/did you move out of your parents' house? POST: I'm 23 years old and employed. I make a decent salary and I plan to move out this summer. That being said, my enthusiasm to finally be out on my own has met a lot of resistance from co-workers and friends. I have people telling me that you should live at home as long as possible and save up as much as you can. My manager at work told me that it's dumb to move out when you could live with your parents and ""...save up to 50k",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, my coworkers and I started pitching in $10/week each and make our lunches in our office. Can you help us with some meal ideas? POST: So this started about a month ago. We decided that every Monday we would all contribute $10 and go shopping for lunch ingredients. We brought some stuff from home to help us like a panini press, cutting board, knife, etc. Every week we have some money left over and we're saving up to buy other food prep utensils. So far we've bought a chees",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend stopped having sex with me, is it over? POST: I'm a 23/M she's a 23/F, we've been together for four years, suddenly we've stopped having sex. It's been three months, and I'm getting confused. She claims it's because she's ""Trying to get her life together"". Which I would be totally fine with, if any of her rules/new behaviors made any sense. However, they don't. I guess in her mind ""Getting her life together"" means. -Buy a kitten (She has two cats she left at her mom's",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My mom (56f) sucks at communicating and I (25f) don't know how to deal with it anymore. POST: I love my mom, and she loves me unconditionally. She's a nice lady, but my god does she not know how to communicate or voice her feelings. She assumes every one can read her fucking mind. She's gone through countless friends, has stopped talking to pretty much every one of her siblings, and has separated with my father (though they're still friends) and claims that none of it was her fault a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30F] with my b/f [33 M] together 7 months. I just found out he has used escorts & I am sickened POST: In all the time I've known him he has always told me that he has only ever had 2 girlfriends that lasted anytime at all. One was in college and one was right after college and he ended it both times. He is a very career driven guy, has advanced very far in his field and in fact is already an executive VP. Basically I just came out and asked him what he has done for intimacy ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by driving through sewage...twice... POST: Ok so today started like any other day of the week. I get up. Get ready. And drive to work. I have underground parking at work, this part is important to the story. So as I enter said carpark from the rear nothing seemed amiss except for the visible overhead pipes were leaking water creating some rather large puddles (the kind you would see in heavy rain). I drove through them (and the leaks) thinking it was just a water leak then the smell hit ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Are my (24M) standards too high/specific. 3 things are very important to me in a partner and in each past relationship I've had to give at least 1 up. Tired of it. POST: I'm very ""into"" three things that I've always felt I need a partner to also be into to be fully compatible for dating. 1: I'm heavily into physical fitness, I work out at 6am four days a week and am in above average physical condition. 2: Geeky/nerdy/entertainment most of my free time is spent playing D&d, larping",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my bf [22 M] together for 4 years, we get into stupid disagreements and it makes me want to break up before anything worse happens? POST: My bf [22/M] and myself [24/F] get into silly arguments about minor things: planning a date, figuring out when to meet... Minor day to day things. But our style of dealing with confrontation is completely different: he gets cold and apathetic while I want to hash it out and just deal with it. These little arguments make me want to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my girlfriend [20F] of 1 year, I want to leave her but I know she's going to fall apart POST: I have a really shitty situation on my hands and I don't see any healthy way out of it. My current GF and I have been together for just over a year. I broke up with her about 8 months into the relationship because she was too needy and I couldn't fill the void she had in her life. However, the last time we had sex she failed to mention she had stopped taking her birth control, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] broke up with my SO [19 F] of 8 months because I loved her but wasn't in love with her. POST: I started dating this girl in November of last year and things were great in the beginning. I hadn't dated anyone in a while and things seemed like they would be great for a long time. Fast forward a few months and I told her I loved her and she said it back. I care for her, she would always look after me, ask me about my day and things were amazing. We broke up today because sinc",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU... and the bride's mom ended up insulting me POST: Well, Reddit... this happened today, this morning, to be exact, and it's a short, mildly uninteresting story. I'm a photographer, I was hired for a wedding and it was supposed to start at 10am. I planned everything ahead, and I was supposed to leave my house at 9am (because the place is like 20min away from my house). Turns out that I wasn't able to get a taxi (I don't have a car) and I ended up leaving at 10:07am, I was freaking out",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/M] don't know how to pursue a girl [24/F] that I met online. POST: I've had really bad social anxiety for most of my life. Talking to people hasn't been high up on my list of things to do in my free time. This also goes for dating. I've only ever been in one relationship, 4 years ago, it lasted all of a month, and ended with her cheating on me. Probably didn't do much for my self-esteem but that's not what this is about. Recently I've been trying to throw myself into situation",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my Ex [25F] 8 months, she dumped me, but still acts like we're together. POST: We were together for 8 months and we just broke up two weeks ago. She has said she was very frustrated with me and needed time to work on things for herself and said I needed to work on things too. We have been fighting ever since and she has been sending me mixed signals up until a couple days ago. We were fighting the entire day and all I wanted to do was explain how I felt and how she was",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24F] boyfriend [24M] says I can't tell the difference between flirting and friendliness and now I'm overly suspicious. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for seven years and in that time, I've been known to mistake flirting for friendliness many times. I have difficulty reading peoples' intentions and have gotten myself into unpleasant situations when men have been flirting with me and I misread it as friendliness. Recently, my boyfriend told me that it's extremely diff",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my girlfriend [27 F] of 6 months, are going through a scare POST: My girlfriend and I fell pretty hard for each other pretty quickly. We've been together for a short time, but are both long term thinkers. We're considering the steps of our relationship and improvements we need to make in our own lives to move forward (better careers, a place together, etc.), and one thing we've agreed on is that we are not prepared for a child yet. We have been using protection (birth ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by smashing a pregnant spider on my ceiling and causing an early delivery. POST: I'm glad I don't have arachnophobia. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been getting a lot of spiders in my house. Like, *a lot.* I'll see 2-3 a day, and naturally, grab a tissue and knock 'em dead. Well, today, as I was getting up to go to the bathroom, I noticed a spider on the ceiling. In no hurry, on the way out of the bathroom I grabbed some toilet paper to kill it with. I'm pretty tall, so I'm ab",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 M] Chose My GF [24 F] Over My Ex-Friend [24 F] Because The Relationship Was Inappropriate. GF Is Upset Because She Feels That ""It Wasn't My Choice"". POST: I had once struck a friendship with a female friend. However, my gf didn't the friendship so much because it was inappropriate. She was justified in that opinion and completely right. My admiration for the female friend was inappropriate. After much debate and through suggestions, I ended the friendship to preserve the rel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 M] with my fiancee [35 F] of 10 years, cant take it anymore. POST: Been with my fiancée 10 years. We have a three year old who I love very much. I cant stand being around her now. She is a stay at home mom and I work full time. The only times she ever talks to me is to ask for stuff or tell me what an asshole I am. She has no problem telling her mother every detail of what my child does during the day but never tells me a thing unless I specifically ask. I am at work bef",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Neighbour's Abuse of Shared Driveway (Ontario, Canada) POST: My neighbour and I share a driveway. In other words, there's a double-side driveway in the middle with a house on each side. When we moved in a couple years ago the previous neighbours had one car and parked it clearly on their half of the driveway. A year ago new neighbours moved in and brought with them a 30ft long 5th wheel camper trailer. It's very wide. Originally when they parked it, it clearly overhang out side of ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [23 M] ask out a friend [22 F] who appears to be ignoring me, despite showing different signals in person? POST: The last semester of my last year at my uni, I met a girl and we got along really well, we would hang out pretty much every other day. In February, I got a job offer from a company, and I haven't been able to meet up with her in person for about a month(finals and other stuff). We graduated recently, and I wanted to ask her out, so I tried to start a conversation ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Is she into me? POST: So I've never been the best with the feminine types, as you can probably tell since I've gone to the internet for help. Anyway I've been out of the dating game for a while and have just been focusing on my college work and whatnot, I'm a 3rd year and Vice President of my SU so there's plenty of work to keep me occupied, I have been chatting to this really attractive girl in 1st year though. We've got a lot of similar interests and I've given her Dracula to read ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [18F] understand the mixed signals of the boy I've been seeing [18M] for 3 months? POST: I met this guy (let's call him Sam) at a party and we immediately clicked and stuck together for the rest of night, just talking and holding hands. At the end, Sam asked me if I could give him a goodbye kiss, but I politely declined and suggested a date instead (which was quite out of my comfort zone, as I've never dated nor considered it before). On our 3 following dates, he was alway",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Advice On Keeping Motivated In A Dead End Soul Sucking Job POST: I originally typed everything out that has happened for ranting purposes, but it made me feel better in the process. So basic background. I work a shift I wasn't hired for, in a job I wasn't hired to do, for a wage less than what I was supposed to get. I was forced into a more dangerous manufacturing area and onto this weird compressed shift, that is sort of rotating, but super bad for your health. I work 11pm-11am for two da",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Dow this guy [21 M] like me [20 F]? POST: I visited a house back in february. I got drunk and talked to this guy and his friend. A day later, his friend added me on facebook and messaged me ""Sorry for the quick add, its just that I never talk to people like you and I d love to hang out again sometime."" We met up and didn't get along that well. The night after I hung out with him, he sent me a bunch of angry texts telling me how self centered I was and how he s upset that I didn't se",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [22F] tell my alcoholic dad [51M] that I think I may be an alcoholic? POST: My dad drank heavily throughout my childhood. He got sober when I left for college and has been sober for almost five years. Because he didn't really start addressing his alcoholism until I had moved out, we never really had a big conversation about it. My mom called to let me know he had quit drinking, and we've talked a few times about it. He went to AA for a bit and now sees a therapist. Now I, o",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [F/26] asked him [M/~30?] a near complete stranger out for coffee and he said yes! But how much do I continue to pursue him after? POST: I have to say I'm already very proud of myself for being brave enough to ask this guy out. He works on my campus and I thought he was so unbearably cute and plus he always smiles and says hi to me (unusual in NYC) so he seemed friendly enough. However, we did not have any common friends and rarely bumped into one another. So two weeks ago I summed",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I have a hard time believing girls. POST: I placed the message, ""I'm not on webcam because I don't want to scare you off."" on my webcam feed on Omegle to beg for chat. Particularly girls, as most of them are more empathetic. Is it a shitbag thing to do? Probably, but I've been ignored by girls my whole life. In school the only attention I got from them was feigned, with a sarcastic smirk about their faces, I'd buy it until I ended up getting laughed at because I was so desperate. I ha",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/m] She [19/f] doesn't enjoy sex due to a 'rough' past, yet will do things like show up in lingerie? POST: Their girlfriend does not enjoy sex. She'll always be seductive and whatnot to lead up to having sex, she does enjoy fore-play and all, but during actual penetrative sex she'll do nothing but just lay there. Not enthusiastic in the slightest, only wants to do basic missionary after a long time together, etc. On certain occasions she'll take the lead-up to a new level. O",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When you were a child, did you have any toys that, as an adult now, you(or others)might consider too mature, graphic, or inappropriate for the age and/or period of time you had it, what was the toy, and what made it so ""wrong""? -Possible[NSFW]- POST: Just to let you know right off the bat that I got the idea of this question from a short discussion that occurred in a post found in /r/Games. The post is about a guy seeing a Call of Duty ~~Lego~~ Mega-Bloks set Christmas shopping, [so he t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By being forgetful POST: So this just happened half an hour ago. Its 8 pm here. I am an undergrad starting my final semester.. was going to my friend's place for a stay over. Took a ticket till my friend's stop in train. in my country we dont have rotating doors or auto vendors.. just counters for tickets. I bought ticket and boarded the train and went till my stop. Climbed down and got checked by the station conductor. Fuck! I lost my ticket which i had kept in my wallet when i had boar",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hello Reddit, I have decided to never see my girlfriend again. I've just found out she cheated for the second time. I am trying to get my mind off things and I've just bought myself a used Game Boy SP with Pokemon Emerald. Which Pokemon should I start with? POST: Good Friday Reddit! Okay, so here is a little background about my last relationship. We were together for 2 years. I am now 22 and she is 20. We moved in together for a year but we broke up last November. After we stopped living",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16M] Am I being Pity Dated? [18F] POST: Hi guys, I know It's another teenage post that isn't ""real love"". I understand it guys, but please be understanding as I'm sure you were once an adolescent in the grasp of lust. I realise dating at the work place isn't a good idea. Back story: I go to high school A, she goes to high school B. Both are close in distance. We work at the same restaurant. She has been flirting with me heavily and her friend we'll call her ""E"" has been saying t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Moral Dilemma: Should I smoke weed (not medical) to treat my intractable pain? POST: Sorry for the throw-away account, but I would lose my job if anyone found out about this. My views: So, let me begin by saying, my position on non-medical marijuana use is complicated. I have no problem with it in principle and I strongly support its legalization. However, I have serious moral qualms with buying and using illegal drugs in the U.S. because it is part of a violent and exploitative system",negative " r/dogs TITLE: how can I get my dogs to stop fighting every single day? POST: I've had a mutt dog we got from a friend and aren't sure of her mix. She's a 15 year old dog. Her name is Nala. She's been alone almost all her life, and we've had play dates throughout the year. There have been dogs she gets along with and dogs she hasn't. We recently got a Siberian husky at 13 weeks and he is now 6 months and he is hyperactive! His name is Charlie. He loves other dogs and is friendly. He's a challenge and destr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my Brother In Law [29 M] of six years, creeps me out and makes me uncomfortable. POST: My partner and I have been together for six years and we currently live with his parents to save money while we go to university. We are looking for places to move out as we just cant stand living here any longer. My partners brother (29) lives there as well. I have always gotten on well with his family but have always felt very uncomfortable around his brother, he does things that ",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [HELP] beginning to feel I'm not the right fit for my dog POST: So, almost two weeks ago, I adopted a chihuahua mix from the humane society. I had done my research, I had owned dogs before and thought I was ready for anything. He is a smart, sweet little dog and is coming out of his shell but I'm still very anxious about everything. He's shown a lot of defensiveness and some serious fear towards new people, dogs (usually puppies), and sounds. He gets along fine with my older family dog ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I fear for my sexuality... POST: I recently caught myself looking at something that I've never considered looking at. I'm going to be very vague, but it was a kind of porn that I normally despise, and the part of the community of people who look at it in lust. Note: this isn't CP, rape, or any of the sorts, this is just weird, internet fantasy fetish stuff. For almost 4 years, I've heard, or saw forum discussions, about this group of people who look at this sort of thing in confusion",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can Reddit help me come up with a camp group name? POST: So, I'm going to be a counselor for a summer camp in a few weeks, and I need to come up with an interesting group name. The camp will be a week-long science-based camp culminating with the launch of a weather balloon. The other counselors and myself decided all of the group names should be something weather or climate related. The name also needs to include an adjective. For example, a boy named Tyler would name his group ""Tyler's ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: The difficult decision of financing a phone... POST: I split off my family's Verizon plan in an attempt to be more independent but also to avoid the annoying ""data usage"" texts that both my father and Verizon would send me. After three months of paying the overage fee I told them I was breaking off and signing up with T-Mobile. I tried the flagship Samsung Galaxy S7, but found the phone not all that impressive for the price tag and returned it. I found that I was missing many of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: feel like my boyfriend (22M) of 4.5 years and I (21F) are having routine conversations, am I worrying about nothing? Have any couples experienced this and how did you fix it? POST: Been together since high school, talked about marriage and kids, we're serious about each other. The start of our relationship we used to talk all night. Recently, maybe in the past year or so, our conversations over text message have become very routine, just asking about each others day, what did you hav",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my Mrs [26 F] about 2 years, Moving in together. How do I get my roommate to move out without ruining freindship? POST: So After being together just over two years, my girlfriend and myself have decided the best thing for us is to move in together for various reasons, the most important being we're all loved up. I've explained this to my roommate to whom I sub let, the lease is in my name and I cover all of the bills, just taking rent money from him monthly to help pa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: cheated on gf, gf forgave me, now shes lying about past... what to do POST: hello, so i cheated on my girlfriend months ago, came clean months ago, made up months ago. a week ago my girlfriend went through all my archived messages on facebook and read every single conversation iv had with any girl over the past years and got very mad. she forgave me and gave me her facebook and email password to check out, apparently she has only talked to about 6 guys about school work over the past 3 y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Where do we go from here? 25m with female co-worker POST: I (M25) went on a business trip a few weeks ago with a coworker from a different office ""jane"" (F24). A few things happened. 1. I think I might have fallen for her, I always thought she was attractive and we were casual friends outside of work but I never thought much of it because she has a boyfriend that she seems VERY committed to. A few things happened. Night 1. I was hanging out in Jane's hotel room and we had a few too ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How often to chat in a new long-distance relationship. Me [23M] Her [21F] POST: So I met her through friends months ago and we've seen each other every 2-3 weeks since then, she goes to school 2.5 hours away and only i have a car. Things have been going flawlessly, just technically starting going steady. I feel like I might have went a tad overboard with the affection recently and I don't want to scare her, so I'm pulling back a little. She just left a long distance relationship. The",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [31 F] girlfriend doesn't seem to think she ever needs to have any facts to back up anything she says to me [36 M]... POST: What the hell do I do? I'm in hell right now. My girlfriend of three years says things that are demonstrably not true but when presented with facts she still says that what she says is true if you look at it a certain way. For example, last night we were talking about something and she mentioned her eustachian tubes....and pointed at her neck. I said, 'Dar",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [27M] girlfriend's [26F] brother [28M] is a loser. She expects me to respect him and I don't. POST: This guy apparently had so much potential. He went to Oxford, graduated with flying colors... And never got a job. He lives at parent's home at 28 and makes about zero pounds per month in income. He spends his days getting drunk and playing video games in literally the basement of his mom's house. Now that's none of my business. It's his life, their family and what they do with him",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25f] and my bf [25m]. He is SO tight with money POST: My bf is so tight with money. I am very lax with money and I would just throw in 10 bucks extra without caring because it would normally cancel out through the course of a relationship (two years now). He will accept me doing this but when he is paying he'll charge me down to the nearest penny. Best example: I drive to see him, he takes public transit to see me. We split the costs of the bus/train, and the petrol. When I rea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 M] have decided that I'm going to give my GF [24] of just over a year until February 1st before I decide if I end it with her. Do I tell her about this deadline? POST: **Background** My GF and I have always had a rocky relationship. She takes medication for depression and anxiety, but still stresses out about everything (school, family, and work). So much so that it really affects our relationship. I've had doubts about the relationship for quite a while, but I've always hel",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Debating when I should contact a girl from university. POST: So There is this girl, ill call her K. K was in my freshman chemistry lab, and was one of two lab partners I had. We had lab in the same building as our dorms, so we occasionally walked back from class together. One time we were walking back and she had a dinner to go to, but invited me to come up to her room for a while before that. Two things, She is super innocent, and I am 99.99999% sure it was just to hang out and meet",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (22M) LDR girlfriend (24F) wants to go to a Valentines Day party, and doesn't understand why I'm upset. POST: My girlfriend of six months goes to school in the UK, while I live in North America (she is from the same city as me originally, which is how we met). Since we have a long distance relationship, I can't go visit her until April, which means we miss out on spending valentines day together. So, the problem here arose when she mentioned that she was invited by one of her fri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] broke up with my ex-boyfriend [23 M] of 7 years, six months ago. How do I deal with this mixed bag of feelings and when do I start dating again? POST: Hey all, I was with my ex for seven years--high school/college sweethearts and best friends since middle school. It was the most painful decision I ever made, but was definitely best for both of us. He was abusive and I didn't realize it until it got too far. So, this is how I've been dealing so far: *2 months of intense dep",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] broke-up with my girlfriend [24 F] of 3.5 years, moving on sucks. POST: Just this morning my girlfriend and I broke up. I brought up the possibility of a breakup during an argument, and she decided that's what she wanted. She took the night to think, and said to me she wasn't happy anymore. So she ended the 3.5 year relationship. I need help moving on. The problem is, I have no support system for this. She and I met freshman year of college. We met, I made her my entire wo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21 F] left two days ago for a festival weekend. Me [25 M] miss her like crazy - how do you keep yourself busy? POST: Hey guys, I've been together with my girlfriend for 6 month now. She moved in end of January. Everything is awesome. Two days ago she left for a festival weekend, returning Monday afternoon. Due to camping, she took a throwaway phone with her, so contact is very limited. I know, we are still very fresh and crazy in love, but I miss her very much (especially being",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to adjust/loosen my belt in the elevator of my workplace POST: I needed to use the restroom, and decided to bring my water bottle with me to get some water too (from the break room, which is on another floor). In the elevator, on the ride down, I realized I had buckled my belt too tight. Since I was in the elevator alone, and since I had 3 floors left, I decided ""what the hell, why not?"" (I didn't think anyone else was at work since people usually get off at about 4:30 PM where",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by missing an exam that's worth a 5th of my grade. POST: This didn't actually happen today, but I'm still dealing with the consequences. Sorry this is so long, but it needs explaining. I'm taking this biology class this semester. All the tests and quizzes are online and my prof posts all the lectures online, so I often wouldn't go to class. This is my first fuck up. Somehow I got it into my head that my fourth exam was due on Monday the 7th. On Sunday night I checked online and it tu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my bf [20 M] of 3 years, has decided to go overseas for a year POST: My boyfriend and I have been going out for 3 years and it has been a happy relationship. He went studying abroad for 3 months overseas and has come back recently. The first week was great but I asked him if he saw a future with me. He said he didn't want to commit to anything because we were still young and he was thinking of studying abroad again for a year. He doesn't want us to break up but he do",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking Gollum about anal beads POST: So. This is a while back. I'm at a party at my friend R's, about 11pm. Me, R and her boyfriend, and a few other people are in R's living room and we are all absolutely fucked. Now R is my Phresh N Sik Celeb Connection because her dad was Gollum in the LoTR films. The only real effect of this on our daily interactions is that I call her boyfriend 'Baezog the Defiler'. Anyway we got onto the Gollum topic and being drunk I decide to break out my st",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (25F) have been dating very on/OFF and casually (30M) and he wants to be serious. Where is the line between ""giving it a shot"" and ""leading him on""? POST: We met Feb 2010, and dated for about 3 weeks. I stayed at his place a few times, no sex. I didn't feel like I was getting the attention/affection I needed at the time, talked to him about it, and didn't hear from him again... Until NYE 2010/2011. We got back in touch, went on a few dates again. For the last 12 months, our relation",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By insulting my friends deceased dads fashion sense POST: So this actually happened today. A little backstory, one of the people at my school (lets call him Tom) had their father die of cancer. I didn't really talk to him back them but in the past year he's grown into one of my best friends. He doesn't really talk about his dad much, I actually can't name anytime he's mentioned him before today. After school me and my friends chill in the hallway for a bit and talk before we go home. T",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my boyfriend [23 M] of 2.5 years, I want to know what he thinks of our breakup? POST: So I've been in a tumultuous relationship for the past 2.5 years that ended at the end of April. My ex is a huge narcissist, always believing he is above everyone else even though he does absolutely nothing with his life. I met him when I was 18, naive, and in a bad time in my life, so I ended up getting very very attached to him. I treated my ex like a king but was stupid enough to a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Tech support guy looking for career growth advice/direction. POST: My story: I'm a 23 year old working for my resident state government. I've been working at this job for about a year and a half. Previously I interned with the local hospitals IT department for about 2 years. My current work environment consists of a sparse 31 employees that I support. We have two other IT employees here. Our director who is basically a project manager and our network person who checks on our servers and…",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] boyfriend [22M] loves music festivals and I ... Don't POST: My boyfriend of 1 year went to Ultra a couple years ago and loved it. He still talks about it all the time. Last year he wanted to go and he asked me and I said no because of money issues. He also ended up not going. I know he wants to go next year and tickets are already going on sale (or they are soon). I know how much he loves it. He wanted me to go last year. He said he probably wouldn't go if I don't because h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my date [22M] of less than a month, he's not completely over an ex, should I just see where it goes? POST: I messed up the title and didn't know how to fix it, so this is a repost. I'm sorry. New account for anonymity. Hi, so I (21F) am dating a guy (22M) we'll call Jacob; it's been less than a month. He was in a relationship before, but I'm not sure how long ago. Jacob clearly isn't over her, but it doesn't seem to effect our relationship. For example, when we're on ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [relationships] so I don't think my mom respects my stepdad (both 50's been married for about 6 months, both claim to love eachother more than anything) POST: [relationships]So my stepdad is genuinely one of the nicest and most caring people you'll ever meet and my mom is a jealous alcoholic who will never consider entertaining the thought of not having another glass of wine. Tonight we went to visit my stepdads side of the family for the first time and as usual she was drinking a l",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] have been with my girlfriend [18F] for a couple of months now, I still feel strange about the age difference. POST: I'm 20 years old and she is 18 turning 19 in a month's time. The age difference is not huge, but our lives have been very different. I have lived abroad for a year, traveled a fair bit and just had a larger variety of experiences, it seems, she has only really seen her hometown and hasn't ventured too far away or experienced anything that different. I love her",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Mentally abusing myself POST: So im 16 y/o male and i've spent the last 3 years being extremely self conscious and constantly beating myself up about things and always overthinking things. Its been getting worse and worse recently and it generally revolves around social interactions etc. For example I'm going to a new sixth form and on the induction day I tried making a joke in class (it was pretty much a dad joke, the teacher said ""say anything and you'll get it right"" I then stupidly said",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: I'm taking care of my 4 month old niece while my sister works and she started doing something odd starting Monday night. POST: She has started screaming at the top of her lungs after her evening nap. She was screaming to where she was basically running out of breath, which let me know that she is hungry, and I was able to address that quickly. She is doing that a lot less, but now there is a new scream that is incredibly loud and powerful. It's not hunger My sister and is a resident at ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] and my now ex [18F] 3.5 years, don't know how I should feel POST: For context, (S) was my first love, and me hers, we went through high school together, and went through so much together. We had been best friends for about a year before. After school she moved 3 hours away for uni while I started looking for jobs to be able to move up with her. 3 months pass and still could not find a job and i noticed she started to not talk to me as much. She finally came down and brok",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Greeting A Midget-Amputee The Wrong Way POST: So, around 5 hours ago, I was at a friends party. I recently met this friend so I'm kind of new around his town. Well, at his party, there were many people that I didn't meet yet, and I was kind of feeling uncomfortable/nervous to go. So, I get approached by my friend and a midget with an amputated arm. My friend says ""Eric, meet Mathew"" (I'm Eric). I was not sure how I was going to greet him, and in a state of panic and uncomfortableness",negative " r/college TITLE: Who do I contact to see if an in state tuition exception could be made? POST: I know, the hubris. But really my case is a bit different (I'm sure everyone thinks that but it's unique from what I've seen and who I've talked to). I want to see if my university will let me pay in state tuition instead of international tuition. I've already done my first two years here and paid in state fees because my immigrant status allowed me to do so. That will change soon and according to the policies t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[26f] have had it with my bf's[31m] inability to make the smallest decision and have become bored in the relationship because of it. How can I get him to step up? POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for a year and 2 months now. I have talked to him numerous times about how I feel about the situation and we had even gotten in a fight about it over the summer. The problem is he is content to just do nothing all the time. We don't do anything other than sit and watch TV unles",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need legal advice regarding lease agreements POST: So heres what the dealio is. 3 Months ago my now exgirl friend and myself found an apartment and signed a 1 year lease on a nice 2 bedroom. 3 months later I found out that she has slept with something like 8/9 other guys...while we were dating. I break things off post haste but say I am fine with living with one another she says its fine too. So about a week and a half ago she went to a friends and never came back. She says she doesn't w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 M] want to apply for college abroad next year, what/how do I tell my very new GF [25 F]? POST: Hi! I've been with my gf for only 3 months. My first relationship. We are both from the same country and both of us living abroad in Ireland atm. I am working and she is studying. She was going to move back to our home country after graudation (this May) but she is applying for jobs here just to be closer to me which I think is great. She is very career oriented and will probably get",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need ideas to troll Bell Canada POST: My roommate and I recently moved from Ontario (he went to California and I came to Nova Scotia) and gladly cancelled our Bell internet. When you cancel with Bell you have to return the modem to them. So we gave them two months notice of the cancellation so that they could send the sticker before I left town (roommate left 2 months before I did). Apparently they only mail out the shipping labels once it has been cancelled, because lugging around a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Fiancé [26m] lied to me [26f] POST: Yikes, where to begin. Today I was innocently looking through my fiancé's sent email looking for a file he sent to me when I found pages and pages of email responses to random girls on craigslist for casual sex. He included nude pictures of himself. I was absolutely devastated. He says he never has, nor ever wanted to do anything with these women, just get dirty pictures from them. I do believe on this. Once he even made up a whole story that some",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what was the last thing your conscience talked you out of? POST: I am an honest guy in a tight spot. I think I've worked it out to be alright, but I could certainly use a little more cash right now. Who couldn't? Today I was faced with an extremely tempting situation. I was browsing around Reddit, chillin' with my cat, when I heard a noise. It sounded like someone else in my apartment. I followed the noise to my bathroom and saw a leak coming from the ceiling right down into my ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking a joke too far. POST: I play an MMO called TERA and am helping a few guild mates with dungeons. Me and this girl (calling her Ana) are doing quest while the rest of the team wait for a dungeon to open. One dose but since me and Ana are in another dungeon, we get left behind. I notice this and respond In kind. Me: ""Y'all just left us."" Rick (another member): ""You were in a dungeon."" Me: ""Well fine. Me and Ana will go do our own AI(Dungeon name)...With Blackjack and Hooker",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Want to do something really special for Valentines day ... explanation inside. POST: Here's the back story. I am a 27 year old single father who just met what seems to be the women on my dreams. She's hesitant to give her heart to me as she's been hurt just as badly as I have in the past. (she's a single mom) We don't want to move too fast and hurt each other if something comes up that isn't compatible between the two of use, but we both know in our hearts that there is somethi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M, Under 30] have a crush on a person, [F, under 30] but conditions do not seem in my favor. I'm ready to ask her out, but things aren't ready for us. What do? POST: Some background: I'm, by chance, the very image of normal. I've had a crush on a woman I've had quite some interaction with and I have also developed a close friendship with. I've been too nervous to ask her out, but I think I'm ready now. She seems like the perfect person for me, as we have too much in common for me ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My mother went to a counselor today and he basically broke her more. Is there anything I can do? POST: She went to the counselor and my aunt called him, apparently during her session and told him about her alcoholism. Apparently, my mother and the counselor sit there talking trash about my aunt for 38 minutes and then he told her, "" I know an alcoholic when I see one and you are not one."" and ""People tell me I am an alcoholic too, but they are wrong"". Is there not some kind of ethics",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my depressed bf [25 M] 1.5yrs, struggling to be supportive partner, looking for others in similar position POST: I guess I am posting because I'm looking for others out there that may be in a similar role-- a partner of someone struggling with depression. Sometimes it just really takes a toll on me and I could use others to talk to that understand the position I am in. Often I feel selfish for feeling frustrated, rejected when he is uninterested in me sexually even thou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How should I handle my SO's grieving? POST: Hey, guys. So me and my boyfriend have been dating for almost a year. He is 20m and I am 19f. Last year his mom died. (September 20th) The year anniversary of her death is 3 days from now. I don't know much about her, except that she overdosed on pills she was addicted to. He sometimes talks angrily about how she would never hold down a place or feed him and his brother. And other times he talks about how funny she was and how he loved her.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend of 5 years broke up... POST: I figured, I just post this here since I am anonymous.... I am not ready to tell my friends yet, what happened. Today my girlfriend [19], who is/was(?) also my best friend, broke up with me[20]. She told me, she fell for another guy, and she didn't want to hurt me any longer, so she decided to break up. I had the feeling, that I was losing her, since several weeks, our relation went from ""normal couple"" to ""pretty cold"" during that tome. And ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Need help breaking the barrier between friendship and romance... POST: I made friends with somebody in my school who I just find amazing. I could name all of her qualities (ie. smart, funny, etc.) but I won't for the sake of a short reading. Anyway, I initially befriended her around 6 months ago but I have started to see her in more of a romantic light recently. I have evaluated the risks and benefits of holding a relationship with her (if it were to happen) and I could imagin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend's (18F) mother dislikes me (18M) and I can't take her on a date until amends are made POST: I want to take my girlfriend (of 6-7 months) out on dates, to movies, paintballing, gokarting, anything that would make her laugh/have fun, but her mother dislikes me and distrusts us after I broke up with her daughter a couple months ago due to us having unprotected sex (resulting in me being concerned of the consequences and yes, being immature), preventing me from being able t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] can't get past my feelings for boyfriend [29M]'s friend/coworker after an unrelated sexual assault POST: I have been trying to sift through the minefield of my emotions after being sexually assaulted by a good friend a few weeks ago while intoxicated and would appreciate some guidance on where to start. My boyfriend of a year is long distance with me across the country but we work for the same company. One of my immediate male coworkers is his close friend/mentor; my boyfrie",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [22/M] and my girlfriend is [21/F] and she feels like we never see each other anymore and I don't know what to do, what can I? POST: We live together. We sleep together every night, and usually spend a good hour before bed just hanging out/ talking/ having sex. She works during the day, and I work often at night. I surprise her with some nice dinner on Tuesdays when I don't work. She and I usually go out on Thursdays for lunch when she doesn't work. And we both spend every ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my GF [29 F] of less than 2 months, worried about our income differences (my 250k vs her 30k) POST: I've had a crush on this girl I've known for a year and just recently started dating her for less than 2 months. She's beautiful, smart, and has an amazing personality. She grew up poor and currently makes around 30k/year while I grew up upper middle class and currently make 250k/year. I was wondering if there are any tips for guys in this situation? I would love to hel",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by crossing the street. POST: So this happened at about 4pm pacific time October 5th 2015 I was just out walking my dog. While I'm walking this black guy is walking towards me on the same side of the sidewalk. Now my dog is pretty well behaved but when he first meets someone he can be a bit rambunctious. Well we make I co tact and I cross the street to avoid having my 80 pound yellow lab hop on him. Well he proceeds to start cursing me out calling me a racist and to stop profiling him.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just found out about my family history, what is yours? POST: Today, after finding out that the screenwriter for the move ""The Ides of March"" is a distant cousin of mine, Beau Willimon, I decided to perform an inquiry on my family history. My last non-American relatives came in from Eppingen in the Holy Roman Empire, which is now Germany and settled in present-day South Carolina, where there are apparently tons of Willimons. But I was born in Kansas and currently live in Oklahoma, and",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey guys, I could really use some IT help. POST: I've been working on this for 4 hours last night, and now it's acting up again this morning. I have a HP Pavilion dv6 with Windows 7 64-bit, 4 GB RAM, AMD Phenom II N620 Dual-Core Processor, and AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250. I recently moved to college and my roommates and I decided to pitch in for a better internet connection, and the only available was through Comcast. We got the modem from them and ditched the router th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by forgetting to complete my online BioSig ID and getting kicked out of my college class. POST: I am a High School Senior next year, and because I didn't want to take high school English (my least favorite class), I decided to take a dual enrollment class at the community college near me. I applied, got in, and it seemed like everything was going to be fine. My first assignment wasn't due for a full month, and the reading wasn't very much, so I pretty much forgot about the class until to",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Her (F/17) was forced by her mom to break up with me (M/19). How to get over it? POST: So I met this girl early in the year and we instantly connected. We talked for months and gradually became a couple. One day we kind of just said 'we are boyfriend a girlfriend aren't we?' It was amazing. Everything just fell into place and felt like this could really work. She was my best friend that became someone I truly had strong feelings before. I had been in an almost 3 year relation",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: A legal question about my business dealing with the shitty ethics of a family member. POST: Small Backstory... I purchased a business from my father at the beginning of this year. My uncle was our head employee, but we soon found he was stealing from us, and we let him go. His girlfriend soon came into a mediocre amount of money and them two started the same exact business as us but with a different name. Now to what happened and my question. I saw on social media the other day th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using the alarm on my phone POST: It only happened this morning. I needed to wake up at 7am to be on time for school, but I didn't have an alarm clock. Out of desperation, I found the alarm settings on my phone and set it to 7am. I set my alarm at 9:25pm. How do I remember the time I set my alarm so vividly? Well, that's all part of the FU! I woke up to a clear, reddish-blue sky. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Then I realised something, my phone didn't make any noise to wake me up",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf (f19) of 8 months is emotionally dependent on me (m19), what to do? POST: We are both met as freshmen at the same university. During the school year we would spend almost every moment we could together. We had never had any problems whatsoever until this summer when we both went abroad to different programs. Things have been hard for both of us, but it's been especially hard for her. She said for the first month (when I was abroad and she wasn't) she would cry for hours every d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my prospective date [18 F], suddenly won't talk to me POST: So I met this girl a few weeks back as a blind date a friend of mine hooked me up with at prom for a different school. She was all over me for most of the night and I thought we hit it off pretty well for complete strangers. I am not the type of guy to sleep around, so no magic happened at the end of the night. When we left, it was like 4 in the morning and I was kind of drunk, so being a dumbass I don't re",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[19M] told my crush[18F] that I like her. She never really said anything back, and we are acting naturally. But inside, I'm struggling to hold back my emotions POST: I've had a crush on a girl for a long time, and because I had tried to get with her before she kind of has an idea that I have feelings for her. Nonetheless we are good friends, and I'm her one of few guy friends. There's something weirdly awkward about her, yet attractive, and because I like her I invited her to go t",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What should I do if I feel I have found the girl of my dreams too soon? POST: Okay, here's the story. I have had three relationships across my life so far. I am in my senior year of high school. Almost two years back, I met my current girlfriend. About two weeks previous to me asking her out, I was about to start a relationship with a girl who had made it obvious that she really wanted to be with me, but neither of us had said it out loud. Enter my (not yet) girlfriend. She is every",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by Mistakenly making my friend think that I bought him a PS4 for his graduation. POST: I'll start this we the obligatory This didn't happen today but at the beginning of the summer. A little bit of back story, Me and my best friend had been really wanting to get TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my BF [24 M] of 1yr, he hid his smoking from me for 2 months POST: So my boyfriend and I got together about a year ago. We started out as friends with benefits and at the time he smoked. About two months in, he asked me if I minded if he smoked and I told him that I didn't, but would not want to be in a long term relationship with a smoker (mainly for health reasons). After that, he made an active attempt to quit smoking and after a couple more months, we entered a seri",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit: I am a 17 year old experiencing depression for the first time in my life. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. POST: Hi reddit. Normally I would never ask people for advice, but I am all out of ideas. I have never posted my problems online, seen a psychologist, or sought after any form of counseling. My problem, in my opinion, is extremely superficial. It's bothering me, however, to the point of depression. The problem: I want to be the guy who gets a lot of girls, the guy wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21M] I get attached and escalate relationships quickly. Is it normal or is this something I need to work on? POST: Hey, So I'll be frank, I've never really had a long relationship - the limit for me has only been about 6 months. I was riding on the bus the other day and it just kind of hit me how fast my relationships have escalated. The girls I've dated since starting college have all come from the same college as me, so I always saw them really frequently. From sex to saying 'I l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my 2 year SO [29 M], he's jobless and our relationship is being strained because of it. POST: My BF and I have been fighting over plans to move in together. He says he wants to move, but he can't find a job. Right now he lives with his friends, and sleeps on their couch. He treats me like I always wanted a man to treat me, and I'm very happy with him! He just doesn't have a job or any money. I love him dearly, and I know he loves me, but I need to make ends meet becau",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [14 M] with my lifelong friend [17 F], want to spend some time with her but not sure how to go about it. POST: Alright, so my parents had a tight circle of friends in college. To keep this part short as it's not important, they stuck together and to this day they are still (mostly) stuck together. A couple in the group had two kids, one (almost 12) year-old boy, and one 17 year-old girl. Being a guy, I was always pressured into sticking with the younger boy. I never spent muc",negative " r/self TITLE: Reddit, help me win $10,000 by voting – it would bring me one step closer to adopting! POST: Hi Reddit, Long time lurker – and I know people say that – but I am a LOOOONG time lurker. I dont really know how to prove, but I have been here for The Safe (of course), Arnolds AMA, going further back… The original picture of Rediculously Photo Genic Guy, the introduction of OAG and her beiber vid, the Redditor in the AT&T commercial - huh?, the day we all found out Molly Ringwald is a redditor an",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting a golden shower by my best friend and failed a drug test. POST: So it all started last Wednesday, I got a call from my uncle while I am at work. He says the company he co-owns needs temp help for 2 months paying a ton of money. Since he knows I'm leaving in Oct for new Zealand for 3 months he thought I could use the money. The only thing he says is I need to pass the drug test which was within 3 days. I smoke a lot of pot, so my urine is filled with THC. So i knew that was out",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Female 23 and male 22. In a serious relationship. POST: Hi Reddit! I've been dating this guy for about 8 months, we met just over a year ago. Just some back story; Met at work, I liked him right away, same with him but waited awhile since we work together. We get along great, sex is great. He's the most amazing boyfriend I've had in awhile. One small thing, he's afraid to love, I'm not sure how I feel about it, I know I love him but he doesn't love me. He was very sweet about telli",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] asked my bf [24M] of 5 years to move in with me and he won't give me a straight answer POST: I recently started renting my first place that is significantly closer to my new job. When I ask my BF if he would like to move in with me he dodges the question. We have talked about living together before, but when it comes down to it he's not ready. The only thing he has said is that I am not thinking about how far he would be from his family and job. It is only an additional 10 mi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I (22F), approach a sensitive topic to my bf(26m), without making him feel hurt or alienated. (10 months) POST: So my boyfriend and I are moving in together come January, we have been planning for the past 4 months. We are using this time to pay off debts and save. Now this would be my first time moving out of my house (besides college which was 1 semester). I have been excited and enthusiastic about this move. Now the issue... His brother, a year younger than him, is go",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I am I crazy or is she crazy? POST: So basically had a chill day today. Went to work, got off, cleaned and moved some stuff around to make the place look better. Yesterday, I was expecting visitors and the apartment was a mess so I spent a good chunk of my afternoon (after work) cleaning and doing dishes while my gf was at work for another 3 hrs. Today, she asks me if I can wash her shirt for work. It's a white dress shirt but we don't own much white clothes so we have to handwash that ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] went on an amazing first date with a [18 F] girl I met online. We both had fun & we want to go out again, what to do? POST: So, I met this girl online and after talking a couple of days and adding each other on Facebook, we decided to go out for coffee and it went amazing. I was thinking she wasn't going to show up or that it was gonna be an hour, maybe an hour and a half tops. We ended up talking for 3 hours about loads of stuff! We laughed a lot and had a really good time",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [m18] need quick advice ... POST: ... a girl that i have feelings for messaged me yesterday and asked me if i love her and i guess she kind of wanted to talk to me again. The problem is, she hurt me alot in the past 4 years and we were friends and then no friends anymore and then friends again and so on and so on. It made me depressed. But okay now im not depressed anymore and i am pretty much over her but since she messaged me out of the blue i cant stop thinking about it (the",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My sister is pregnant and I don't think my parents are going to take it well. POST: My 24 year old sister has been married for 2 years to a loving husband. A couple days ago she told me she was pregnant, but I'm the only one in the family who knows other than her husband. My sister and brother-in-law live a pretty crappy house that they are slowly trying to renovate. They still don't have a fully functional bathroom. They only have one bedroom. My sister has a solid job, but my brother-in-",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm Unsettled, Reddit POST: Reddit. I just had a conversation with an older woman in the office that I am interning at. She just told me that college is the best time of my life. I've been told this many times and believe it. however, I don't feel it. Now before you close this tab, let me assure you this isn't one of THOSE questions. Instead, I have something of a dilemma, that I really don't even want to entertain but i want you guys' perspective. I'm going to be a senior come september",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [33m] found out my wife[32f] of 8 years is chatting to and in love with another man POST: I found 3 days ago. I noticed she had been using her phone a lot and finally decided to check one day when she was showering. The chat goes back a few weeks but looking into photos, there are ones she sent and received going back 11 months. Through the chat they both say how much they love each other, how they're perfect together, she says how he understands her like no one else and mentions how",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girl [24F] I [28M] asked out said she's seeing someone else. What should I do? POST: So I had been getting very friendly with this girl over the last few weeks. I kind of had vague hints that she was seeing someone but it she never made this clear (she was actually pretty secretive about it), so in the spirit of my new determination to express my feelings I asked her out. She said 'there's another guy...' and then apologized and gave me a hug. I asked if he was her boyfrie",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (17M) of 3 years just broke up with me (18F). Don't know what to do. POST: We have been struggling for a while, but I honestly thought we were improving. I was in it for the long run, I could see myself marrying him. Then today, he sat me down and told me he didn't love me and he dumped me. Then he later admitted he doesn't even care about me at all. Our 3 year anniversary was going to be in 1 week. So he just sort of stared at me with his empty, loveless eyes as I sob",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what should I do about this cat that's always outside my house? POST: So I'm renting a house, moved in about a month ago. There's a cat that's always outside. It wanders around the neighborhood sometimes but always comes back and I usually see it at least once a day. It usually comes up to the porch when I go outside to smoke. I figure it must have belonged to the previous tenant. The thing is, there's something wrong with its ears. When I first saw it, it had scabs on the outsi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What would you do if you found a flaw in a nation-wide system which is destroying lives, but only politicians could change it? POST: My country is implementing an unified [TAS-like exam] All of our best universities use it as the only criterion for admission in an automated system. This year we had more than 6 million participants. The exam is long but half of the final scores consists in an essay, which is the only part graded by a human. The problem is they are NOT grading it correct",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Troubled cousin [26M] died in an accident. I [30F] have been asked to make commemorative book for his funeral. Can you help me think of nice things to say about someone I barely knew and didn't like? POST: Hi folks, Here's the background: My cousin had been troubled all his life. He was a kid with behaviour issues, and as often happens, he became an addict in his youth. He dropped out of school, got involved in crime, he got kicked out of his parents' houses for stealing their stuf",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Wifi is part of my lease, two days in it is already so unreliable I can't stay connected. (BC) POST: A few weeks ago I found a place to live in Richmond, BC and signed a year long lease with a private landlord that was advertised as including all utilities, as well as wi-fi and cable in the rent. The lease specifically has wi-fi listed as an included utility. Right after the lease was signed with my landlord, he mentioned that the wi-fi was ""not that good"" and that he was considering u",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: In your opinion, and in fact, are HR policies meant to keep you from saying offensive things, or from offending people? POST: This has become a topic of some discussion at my office lately. I have a dark sense of humor. Not in a dead kittens, /b/ kind of way, but I do say some terrible things. Recently I was in my office (I'm a contractor/vendor) and there were 2-3 other people, ranging from operators to a director. I said something, I don't recall what, but I'm sure it was terrible, a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Recently found out that my brother's best friend (32M) had a crush on me (28F) and now it's affecting my marriage (5Y). POST: My mom just told me that my brother's best friend (32M) had a crush on me. It wasn't even those exact words...more like his mom always felt that he had a crush on me. He and I (28F) have know each other since we were young, and in the past I have also had a crush on him but nothing ever remotely came of it. Now I'm married (5Y) with kids, but for some reason, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] have been with my girlfriend [21 F] for four years, and tomorrow I'm planning to end the relationship because I want to be single, but I feel so uncertain. POST: I already broke up with her a few weeks ago but, when we met up soon after, I agreed that I had been overly hasty, and so we decided to go on a break instead. It was all a bit out of the blue for her, I had told her that I was thinking about ending it a few months prior, but we patched it up and, when the doubts re",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] have difficulty dating where I live, and have difficulty getting attached. POST: Hey y'all! Just about to hit 2nd semester here in Utah (I live in the SLC area, and yes, our school system schedule is weird). And just by where I live, you can probably assume why I have trouble dating. But in addition to that, the girls I do have a chance with all know each other. If I were to hit on one of them or get into a relationship with them, word would spread quicker than wildfire. I'",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Advice Needed on Being More Aloof. POST: I (34M) have gone on 3 dates with a girl (31F) that have gone exceedingly well. First date we had dinner and went mini-golfing. (Which turned into Truth or Dare mini-golf, which I highly recommend if the other person is into it as it allows for going more in-depth than the surface ""what do you do"" questions.) Second date she came over and I cooked for her and we watched a movie then progressed to the bedroom. Third date we went bowling and end",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [26 M] wife [29 F] just had a baby boy last week, but now she doesn't want to talk to me. POST: My wife and I have been together for over 6 years. We have a good relationship with the normal highs and lows but no big drama between us. My wife had a difficult labour. It was a painful 24 hours of extreme contractions, and they had to use the vacuum (ventouse) at the end to help the baby out. She had several stitches from the episiotomy and is still recovering (we're now 8 days in).",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So the general consensus is that kids and young teens can be cruel jerks. Hopefully, most of us grew out of it. What is something that you did as a kid or teen, that you look back upon with remorse? I'll start. POST: I wasn't the most popular kid in school when I was 13. I had friends, but still did not have the confidence to be myself in large groups. I usually would just laugh at the jokes and keep my own opinions to myself (think hive-mind). I had a friend who was quite confident and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Please help me [25/F] understand my SO [33/M]'s money problems. POST: Throwaway account because he knows my user. I am in my mid-twenties and my SO is in his early thirties. We've been together for roughly a year; we've discussed our future and things are going pretty steady. We have our differences, but nothing we couldn't resolve within a few hours. However, we rarely discuss finances, because I almost always become over-zealous regarding his situation. So here's his background. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] with my boyfriend [18 M] of 2.5 years. Thinking of seducing him instead of arguing. Avoidant or helpful? POST: I find myself seeing less of him as he finds more friends. Now I'm lucky if I can see him for a few hours on the weekends because he's so busy with school, work, and his new friends. He seems happy with me/enjoys my company, so I don't think he's pulling away. He's the kind of guy where if I force him to do anything, he'll do the opposite. This fight-or-flight r",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Help! I am going to meet with The One That Got Away for the first time since we broke up. POST: We want to remain friends and while I wish the relationship weren't over, I accept her decision and will not pursue her in the near future (explanation below). She ended the relationship once already. What are some good boundaries to keep? How much dialogue is okay? And, what are some topics to address/avoid? My ""surrogate parents"" (I am 500+ miles from family) felt the relationship",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: A Question About Inviting Kids POST: My FH and I would love to invite everyone possible to our wedding, but the guest list is getting out of control. We need to scale back, so rather than offending the several aunts/uncles/adult cousins who we grew up with, we've made the decision to the 30+ children who would be invited if we made it all-inclusive. Most of the children are 5+, many are young teenagers, so it's not as if there are infants and toddlers. The issue we're having is, we",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How should I (17M) go about dating this girl (14F)? POST: So although I'm a senior (17M) in high school I've never been in an intimate relationship with a girl. I've had many FWB situations but growing up and seeing all the seniors pairing up has made me want a girl of my own. So I asked a freshman (14F) to the movies the other day. We've been talking a lot via text (I'd rather call her but it's expensive for her), and she seems like a really cool and mature girl despite her age (not to me",positive " r/loseit TITLE: A not so subtle reminder to keep it up! POST: Hey loseit, I have been down a road to fitness since July of 2011 and unfortunately it took a devastating turn. Over the Summer I was doing fantastic. I lost thirty pounds (from 265-235), I was feeling great, and I was enjoying my new healthy lifestyle and I was looking forward to being healthy again. Well, then my second year of college hit and stress pilled on along with the calories. Jogs and P90 were replaced by Oreos and ice cream. I tried ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By taking a shit in the ""out of order"" toilet at work. POST: The seams on my pants were bulging around the waste, and I couldn't run fast enough to the bathroom. I was sweating at this point and each leaping step I felt my ass cheeks clench less and less. I knew I didn't have much time before a waterfall of shit ruined my day and my pants. I bursted through the bathroom door and saw that every stall was taken.. except for the one marked ""out of order."" Knowing I couldn't shit in a urinal",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girl [18f] that I [21M] deeply care about told me she cares about me too, then 3 days later cut it all off because of her dad. POST: I'm involved in a high level competitive sport, and I've been interested in a girl in my club for many months. We always have so much fun together, and we have both stated that we love how we can 'escape' from real life when we're with each other and just have a great time. Last weekend I decided in a late night haze (I know this is bad but it w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Close friend [17F] who i like is confusing me [19M] with her back and forth feelings POST: So I met her around the start of July, we became close friends quite fast due to similar inerests and sense of humour and i fell for her. Skip forward to about mid/late august, i tell her how i feel. Its not reciprocated but we remain close friends. I know, bad mistake on my part in most cases. Anyway, turns out she actually had a guy she talked to online that she was 'in love' with. The same ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex (27F) and I (26M) are talking about getting back together. She's with someone else. POST: So, my ex and I broke up back in July. We were together for a little over a year. She started dating someone in September. She and I started talking again, and she isn't happy in her relationship. She feels that they aren't a good match, and that in the long run, there's no chance for them staying together. Her and I broke up for shitty reasons. Basically an argument that got out of hand. We'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] with my close friend [20 M], he asked me out but has some habits I find a little embarrassing. POST: Sometimes I think about us being together and sometimes I see him as a brother. I want to give it a chance and take it slow, but I really really don't want to hurt his feelings. So the main thing I wanted to talk about... He's a little crazy and super dorky. Both of these things I find endearing as a friend... but... and I really don't want to come off as shallow or mean b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22F] worried about my [22M] boyfriend's father asking us to do things which are not safe POST: I should mention that I live with my boyfriend's family and I love and care about them very much, which is why I'm so concerned. My boyfriend's father is big on doing his own renovations and manual labor, but he often asks me and my boyfriend for help doing things which are outright unsafe. For example, heavy lifting with not enough people, installing gyp-rock on high ceilings using ri",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26/f] my boyfriend [28/m] and I are very different, I'm less attracted to him. POST: We've been together 4 months. We adore each other, he's sweet and makes me really happy etc etc, but lately I've been noticing how different we are and I'm becoming less attracted to him. He does drugs recreationally and smokes. I don't, I hate smoking. He has a history of being fired/quitting jobs. I've had stable work. He is very disorganised and unmotivated. I am organised and motivated.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [M21] followed my girlfriend [F21] of 3 years to another guys house while she was supposed to be working. What do I do now? What do I say to her? POST: We have been together for 3 years. For the past few months she's been acting distant. She's also started taking Saturday night shifts at work. I tried to tell myself that it was nothing, but it kept bugging me. Last night I decided to follow her as she left for ""work."" I got my friend to drive me so that she didn't recognize the car",negative " r/self TITLE: I want to quit my job that I got rehired at 5 months ago POST: I was working at Starbucks for about 10 months before I accepted a bar tending position downtown where I was making even more money. I left on good terms with my boss and he said if I ever wanted to go back I would have a spot. 6 months later the job ended up falling through and I came back to Starbucks looking for a job quick that would pay my rent and help me survive. It's had its ups and downs so far, he's been telling myself a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Falling for my best friend. POST: I'm a [19m] senior at an all boy's high school. I've known my best friend's (Derpina) [16f] family for the past 13 years but only recently (as in within the last 3 years) really started being friends with her. Earlier this year I managed to escape from a very verbally abusive relationship. When I left my ex-bitch I had huge self-esteem and self-confidence issues that I really just tried to keep to myself. A few days after it ended, Derpina and I be",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: What do you want from me?! POST: Today my mom pulled something I thought she never would. For those who don't know, my grandmother is severely sick and doing the best she can to recover. I have high hopes she will be better. I was talking to my mom today, and we get into a conversation about whether I can get leave to return for the holidays. That slipped my mind because there were so many things to get done at work today as well as meetings. I apologize profusely, and then she said: ""W",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Dating/Personal Issues] - I (m22) am having a hard time expressing my feelings to a girl (f22) friend of mine who is still recovering from a past heart break from a year ago that wasnt even a relationship, but just someone she was seeing for a few months. POST: I met this girl back in 2013 and over the course of a couple of years have caught feelings for her. Im very reserved in expressing these feelings as im always worried that what friendship we do have right now might get awkwar",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I (M/24) want to pursue a newly single younger woman, but don't want to look like a rebounder/big brother. POST: I've been single for about two and a half years now. I was in a long-term relationship that blew up quickly and once I got over it I decided to look out for myself for a few years instead of trying to get a rebound date. There's a girl that I went to college with who's two years younger. Since the moment I met her (5 years ago) I have absolutely adored her. At the time",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my ex [21F], it's her birthday -- should I contact her? POST: So I broke up back in April with my girlfriend of almost four years. Since then, at her request we have had very little contact. She took the breakup really hard, and I fully appreciate that contacting her much the last few months would have been very difficult for her. I did contact her once, by text in August just to see how she was doing. This was about 4 months post-breakup and she let me know that she ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (21M) just broke up with my gf (20F) and now I feel incredibly guilty POST: We had been dating for almost 2 years, and as of last November everything was great. But we had a rough month and decided to take a break (which actually wasn't a real break because I felt so bad not talking to her when she was so sad) and we eventually got back together and it was nice. But rough times and fights and arguments and jealousy came right on back and I just couldn't do it anymore. She wanted ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: American Redditors, what do you think about the binary nature of your political system? POST: How did your entire political discourse morph into two combative arms? Why isn't this a major issue in the OWS movement? It seems to me (as a New Zealander) that the minority political parties are an important facet in politics. They offer alternative views and policies that aren't necessarily attributable to the traditional left vs right argument. Sure in the presidential elections it makes sen",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Being Friends Post-Rejection POST: I (M25) worked with her (F29), we're quite friendly for co-workers and I think she likes me. After I leave I ask her out but she said 'no'. We've carried on being our normal level of friendly when we see each other (group of us who do/did work together get together every few weeks), after a little bit of initial awkward. I kind of have this assumption that I can't be trying to be any more friendly with her because she will think I have ulterior m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My mother insist on getting to know my girlfreind [18F] and I really don't feel like doing it yet POST: I [18M] have been with my girlfriend of same age for hardly two months. We go to school together and besides that we meet regulary every weekend. Sometomes we go to a restaurant or a movie together, but most of time we meet at my place. I still live with my parens which I conaider pretty normal for people my age. It's not like I'm ashamed either of her or my parents, i just don't",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: When your girlfriend comes over to your place, what do you do for fun? POST: Hello all, Ok so me and my girlfriend hang out quite a bit, however neither she nor I have many friends in this town, so we are usually spending it together. She usually finishes work after 8pm so we get together for a few hours before having to go to sleep and back to the grind!. Usually we will do the following a- Go see a movie, or stay in and watch a movie b- Sex c- Watch TV show/s d- Something new play mo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 F] boyfriend [20M] doesn't approve of my recent healthier lifestyle changes POST: Been with my boyfriend for almost two years, moved in together in Dec. He's fantastic, I love him, and he's so very sweet to me. However, it seems like lately he has been totally discouraging of my recent lifestyle changes. Mandatory background that might help explain things: I used to have an eating disorder. He knows all about that, since he was very close with me during the duration of that h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [19f] broke up with me [23m] two weeks ago and I started no contact two days after. Does it really help to get them back? POST: I was with her for five months. She broke up with me at her house two weeks ago. I tried to handle the breakup well, and did not beg to take her back or anything, but said some stupid things. I claimed that I could not be her friend and it would hurt me to see her with someone else (she also admitted this). I admitted I messed up (was needy/clingy) and",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit I need help here!!! POST: So my wife has been in immigration jail since February and has been asking me to do a lot of things to help the case. I've done everything within my means that I could. I was asked 2 weeks ago if I could get baptized but couldn't find a church within walking distance of my house. And since I'm not working I don't have an income. So public transit was out. I only know 1 person in town with a car so that made it more difficult considering he was always busy",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by stopping a song POST: This is a bit more tame than most fuck-ups, but I hope it's fine. ^plsdon'tkillme So, obligatory ""this happened three days ago."" Anyway, some background first. I was on a DJing site (and a quick explanation of this: don't know what that is, it's a site where you pick songs from YouTube and SoundCloud to play with other people listening, and there's a wait list so people who want to DJ take turns doing so. You can join a community, or create a public community or",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with [21M] guy went on two dates, I can't get past his height, need advice how to decline politely POST: I swiped right on a guy from Tinder that seemed okay looking and had his cat in his photo which is an automatic yes from me. He isn't super hot lookswise but he seemed okay, was nice to chat to and didnt straight away talk about sex etc so we decided to meet for dinner after a week of messaging when he asked me on a date. I am 5'10, taller in heels. (this is listed on m",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by thinking I had a party affiliation POST: TIFU trying to cast my vote early. I knew that the primaries are closed party voting but 8 years ago when I registered to vote I wasn't educated enough to commit to a party. Now I know where I stand and I assumed that I switched to that party somewhere along the line. To vote in the primaries you had to be affiliated 29 days ago. I couldn't vote today. This all happened after I got on my soapbox on Facebook and urged my friends to cast their",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Inherited Accounts POST: This is my first time in the personal finance subreddit, so please pardon me since I'm still green behind the ears. My mother recently passed away at the age of 60, leaving my father (the primary beneficiary, aged 60) a decent pension income, decent life insurance benefits, and her retirement accounts. She has a 401(k) and as well 2 x 457 accounts (from different employers) and one 403 (a) account, all amount to about $600,000 (from what I understand it i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [40F] with my fiance [50 M] 5 years, moving in together. His kids [15 & 17 M] are intolerable. What to do? POST: Hi /r/relationships. My fiance (James) and I are moving in together in the new year and I need some advice about how to deal with his children. James is divorced and has two boys who stay with him every second weekend. James and I are in the process of buying a new apartment and moving in together for the first time and I don't know how to interact with the boys when ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: If you found out your friend is cheating... POST: Over the past weekend I came to learn about 3 separate situations of infidelity among associates of mine (just friends of friends) and it made me rehash the painful memories of learning my ex-fiancée was cheating on me. My question goes out to mutual friends of both sides who learn of these ""secrets"". Why do *some* of you feel it is none of your business and choose not to inform the other person (especially when you are close to both",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28M] with my fiance[29F] of 6 years, no sex for over a year. POST: We have a great and cooperative relationship with no fighting or major disagreements, however for the past year we have gone without sex. We had a very active sexual relationship in the beginning that calmed down to a more standard pace. Then after a few failed attempts at having sex it all together stopped. These failed attempts were due to either her being too distracted or not in the mood, and thus I would loo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Teacher (m30's) taking a student (f18) away from tutoring in a class needed to graduate. POST: I (17f) am tutoring a girl (18f) in Algebra II. It is a course required to graduate. I am a grade behind her, but I'm one of the best math students in the school, and I've already passed the course. Second semester has been very difficult for her, and maintaining a passing grade has become harder and harder. She doesn't test well. Last quarter's grade was passing, but it wasn't all that go",positive " r/relationships TITLE: This girl [15F] I've [16M] been talking to for quite some time said something very confusing to me and I'm not sure what to do POST: We both like each other and I told her how I really felt and she said that she doesn't want me to like her, for her to like me, or for this to happen. She said she doesn't know why this is happening or what she's doing to make this happen. She obviously seems confused about how she's feeling and doesn't know what to make of it. I just want to know",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [30F] co-worker [~45F] wears WAY too much perfume. How to approach? POST: Okay. So. Every morning when she arrives, the entire office is filled with her pungent floral/vanilla smell. We have doors we can close but usually by the time we smell her, it's too late and she has already stunk up our individual offices. I'm not exaggerating when I say that it gives me a headache. I can't taste my food when she's around. She re-applies halfway through the day everyday. I suspect she spen",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Gay guy trying women for the first time... advice?? POST: Hello women of reddit! I'll keep it short (/r/askwomen mods suggested here instead) I'm in my 20's and my whole life I've been gay but I still watch straight porn often (once a week, sometimes more or less). I have never actually been with a woman beyond kissing and some other basic stuff. Recently something happened in my life that changed my entire outlook, it's health related (no not an STD and no not contagious. But m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you deal with a cigarette-smoking neighbor when it stinks up your apartment through the vents? POST: I have two roommates in a nice apartment. The building is a diverse mix of families and college students. We three are grad students, all studying some form of medical science. When we first moved in in August, our sweet elderly neighbor next door smoked. She mostly smoked outside, but every now and then, we'd smell it as it crept through the vents. It got to the point where I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33M]with my girlfriend[35F] of three years, lost her job has been sleeping on the couch for months and just drinks all night and watches Netflix all day. POST: In December of last year I asked my girlfriend and her young daughters to move into my house with me. Everything seemed to be going well until about 4 months ago my girlfriend started sleeping on the couch. I have asked her why she doesn't want to come to bed with me and she says its because she has trouble sleeping. Jus",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28m] with my _crush[28F] of two months used to date but she wasn't quite ready. POST: Hey guys. Me and my crush have been dating for a little while in the past but after things got a little more serious she realised she wasn't quite ready yet because she isn't quite over her ex yet, and we stopped dating for now until she figured things out. Me personally am having a hard time about this and am torn between not wanting to give up on the chase, and going NC. I tried to enfor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[26M] with my Friend [32F] 4 months, small argument becomes a breakup POST: Hello r/relationships, I'm completely unsure what to do in my situation. My friend, girl, was staying with me for a month when I was in home detention for a DUI. Friday, me and a friend got in a little argument over something completely unrelated to our friendship. The argument was about a girl, ex-girlfriend, that I was seeing before I met my friend. Backstory: I realized after 2 months my ex was using",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26M] am heartbroken after my girlfriend [24F] dumped me due to financial issues. I need advice. POST: Hey /r/relationships. Here's a quick backstory about Emily and I. We've had a two year relationship where most of it was long distance. We lived in the same college town for the first six months of our relationship. Anyways, we had a plan, that in February, we were supposed to both move to New York where I have many job opportunities where I would make a decent middle class livi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [31 M] moved in with my SO [24 F] a month ago. Need the spark back! POST: My girlfriend and I moved in together about a month ago. We have only been dating about 2 months now. We love each other very much. Driving to her all the time took about an hour, and she was always worried about me driving back home late at night. We both felt so deeply about our feelings towards one another, that she asked me about moving in with her. I thought about it and decided that it was what I wanted",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [19/F] confused about my friend, I guess? [20/M] POST: We've been friends for a few years but he's like my best friend. We started being a friends with benefit kind of thing back in February. He said that he liked me but he didn't really want to be in a relationship with me, which I was cool with, ultimately. We're still really close and we don't have sex as often anymore, but we hang out all the time and now he's started telling me he loves me and stuff. He says he loves me a",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/f] My boyfriend [19/m] of 2 years goes on Gamyers/Gaybros? POST: I live with my boyfriend, we've been together for two years and have lived together in my parental home for the last year. However, about four months ago I found gay porn on his laptop. I confronted him about it and he seemed to just say he wasn't sure why he looked at it and promised it wouldn't happen again. He's pretty closed and wouldn't talk about it. Anyway, looking at his Reddit account (only really ju",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] my ex [21 F].. married for one year, now divorced for one year.. absolutely no contact anymore.. but I still think about her. POST: We dated throughout high school, got married a year after graduating, divorced a year later. Deep down we knew we weren't really meant for each other, but we're both stubborn and very much in love at the time. Our personalities were polar opposites, we slowly became emotionally and verbally abusive to each other, the love faded away.. in the en",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by imitating my dick coworker. POST: So, just about am hour ago (yes, I'm still freaking out) I was talking with a coworker/friend about another coworker that we mutually dislike for being a snide asshole. The snide coworker and I were talking about a Facebook post that I had made regarding my 3-year-old cousin who was recently diagnosed with cancer. He had asked me about it and I said ""Yes, the doctors found a cancerous cell."" The snide coworker snidely remarked ""Oh yeah? Was it canc",negative " r/Advice TITLE: [29M] I do really assholeish things, only in situations where no one will know it's me. POST: In situations where I am aware no one knows I am there and there is no way of linking me to what i've done I will do quite small but technically really asshole things that will really inconvenience someone and also things that no-one would really put too much effort into investigating anyway as it would make them seem crazy and also if they were to somehow accuse me it would sound like a ridiculous",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend wants to go to Japan to teach English for a year, How am I supposed to feel/deal? POST: Background information: Been in a relationship for 11 years, we are in our mid twenties. Our relationship has been good, there has been talk of marriage and we do want to be together.. I don't really know how to start, my boyfriend just finished his BA degree and he's got an offer to teach English overseas. Possibly for a year. I can't go with him, I'm trying to find a job at the",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [MA] Recently quit my job. Employer refuses to respond and pay me. POST: I worked for a company that treated it's employees very badly. The owner is very young(24) and really does not know how to run a company or treat her employees. I originally was hired as a full time employee on the books, or so I thought. Soon after she told us we where not on the books and actually 1099?? workers. From my understanding we where basically freelancers? Our paychecks where half on the books and ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: CONDOM CONCERN [NSFW] POST: So, I was having sex a couple of nights ago (I'm a guy by the way). She was on top and things were going great, until finally the sexing reached its obvious end. I came, or so I thought. I went to the bathroom to take my rubber off and when I looked at it I saw no spunk. I also saw no holes or rips and if there was a hole or tear in the condom, I'd expect that not all of the business would leak out. Anyway, I was a little concerned, more so confused. Ten to fi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you make money from home? POST: I've been unemployed for a little over nine months now, and don't seem to be having much success with job hunting. I am living with my fiance, who fortunately has a good enough job to support both of us. I stay at home and cook/clean, but I don't always feel like I'm pulling my weight. I have had some success with my Etsy store, and have made a tiny amount of money with Amazon Mechanical Turk (surveys and other menial online tasks that usually pa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf [21/M] is getting a little too arrogant and I [20/F] want to teach him a tiny lesson POST: My boyfriend has always been part of the 'popular kids' and it's something he values a little too much. He will sometimes tell me ""jokingly"" that he didn't talk to me when we were younger because I wasn't popular. I don't mind all that but sometimes he gets a little too cocky and he unknowingly puts me down. I don't take it too personally since that kind of stuff doesn't bother me, but ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting food poisoning from McDonalds at JFK Airport POST: This was not today, but about six weeks ago. The day had started well, I had just spent ten amazing days in NYC and was heading back home to Norway with American Airlines. Turned out that my flight was two hours late, so with time to kill at the terminal I decided to get some McDonalds as all the other places were crowded while the McDonalds only had a small line (in hindsight I understand why). So after consuming a Big Mac ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 M] with my father [38 M] recently, won't let me lock my door. POST: I'll make this quick. I lock my room every day because my 5 year old brother will go in and trash it. My bed is ruined, posters off the wall, laundry basket is dumped, an all around mess. My door is a very simple slot lock where you can stick a coin in and unlock it. So, I keep a coin in the picture frame next to my door. My dad is getting tired of unlocking it, now he forces me to leave it unlocked. Now my b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Im friends with My girlfriend's ex-best-friend-husband. how do i navigate this? POST: Joe (27)-husband Mary(26)-Wife/ ex best friend Jane(26)-my girlfriend Im (26/M) friends with My girlfriend's(jane) ex-best-friend(mary)-husband (Joe). I've never been fond of the Mary but i always tolerated her because she's WAS my Jane's friend. Me, jane and joe were all friends (we worked together) long before the now wedded couple even known each other. But now that Jane and Mary aren't frien",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where in the world are the biracial cake-toppers? POST: I'm getting married, and I'd like to put a bride and groom on top of my cake. This wouldn't be a problem except I'm half white and half black (so I look about hispanic) and my bride-to-be is white. I've searched high and low and found pretty decent ones for white gays, white lesbians, black people (very dark) marrying whites, white people, white people with their butts hanging out, white people on motorcycles, black people, Indi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Dating for just over a year and I'm having serious doubts. I need help. POST: My boyfriend and I, both 23 have been dating for just over a year. In the beginning of our relationship he was a dream. I have never had anyone treat me so well, I fell for him very fast. He was always trying to do stuff for me - drive me places, take me on lots of dates, give me massages and be very attentive sexually. He made best friends with my family and always came to functions with my friends. We had",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [31f] worry that my husband [34m] might be creating a web of lies POST: My husband and I have been having some problems and he has moved out because he said he needs to find himself. We still spend some nights together and he says he still loves me and that this isn't a forever thing but he is unhappy with himself and he needs this time to himself. The problem is that he is creating alter online personas and talking to online people more than he is me. He doesn't tell me what is i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my girlfriend [19F] of six months, hangs out with a guy way more than I'm comfortable with. POST: My girlfriend and I live a state away, for now. She's moving back to my state in a month. Recently she's met a guy who she says is her new ""best guy friend"" and she is always hanging out with him: going to lunch, dinner, parties ect.. I brought it up to her that I find it weird but she swears that nothing would ever happen between them so I left it at that. I'm not the ext",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Whats a reasonable amount to expect in a raise for a major promotion? POST: My wife's coworker recently left the company and it seems likely that she may take over his role instead of the them hiring a new person. She'd be more than doubling the number of people working under her in addition to having more responsibilities and just a heavier workload. All in all, it'd be a pretty big step up for her. Anyway, she's been told there would be compensation to go along with the promotion but w",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: Study Backlog / Focus issues. Have got 1 month to save the semester with no notes and minimal understanding of what is going on. Is it possible? Tips and tricks? POST: My first term of uni's almost over. I've been trying very hard since week 1 to be on track, gave up 90% of my social commitments, but somehow couldn't bring myself to finish my work over the week so I've gone for tutorials without knowing what was going on. I attend my lectures but I don't necessarily understand them - I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (28m) and my girlfriend (23f) of one year were initially on the same page about having no kids, but she's not so sure now. POST: The title says it all. We've been together a bit over a year, and have been living together for a few months. It's been pretty damn good. We get along well, and are both conscientious roommates. It hasn't been perfect of course, but considering we went from seeing each other once, maybe twice a week due to distance, it's went really well. About six mont",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [25 m] considering dipping into the family biz ink, need guidance and opinions. POST: For the record i've always been against doing this for obvious reasons. Anyways- there's an employee at my Family business that i've had my eye on for some time. I don't work there but I come in on a regular basis. I want to ask her out but never do because: *1. she's busy doing her job whenever i'm there *2. I haven't been able to find an opportune, discreet moment that won't make it fucking a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24M] with my gf [24F] of 3 years broke up and got back together. How do I get over her sleeping with another guy? POST: had a loving relationship with a girl for 3 years. We broke up for a month because we were both going through a lot of stress and she was getting grass is greener syndrome. After 1 month we reconcile and she apologizes and admits she made an error. I choose to forgive her but she told me she slept with my coworker a few times. How do I best cope with this? Not",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[18M] just hooked up with [18F] who's been my friend since I can remember, and had a boyfriend, we live 600km apart...need advice POST: So without going into too much detail, we see each other every year when we go for holidays, we've really liked eachother for years now, but we never gave in because we live 600km away from each other. Last year we didn't meet for many reasons (I didn't go for holidays) and she got a boyfriend. A few weeks ago we met again though and when we saw e",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [19F] gf found upsetting messages on my [20 M] phone POST: her and I have been together for almost two years. have lived together shortly over a year. first off, I love this women with all my heart and soul, I would kill anybody who tried doing any kind of harm to her. she's loved me like nobody else EVER will. ill get to the point. I have a habit of abusing stimulant drugs that she is well aware of, the other night while she was asleep I got really horny and starting anonymously",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(18f) can't do anything to get over my ex(18m), and becoming extremely depressed because of it. POST: So, it's been two months since the break up and I find myself feeling the exact amount of pain I felt on the first day. I was completely in shock when we broke up because I thought we had the perfect relationship. This is what I believe is the worst part because typically people have something bad to say about the person after the break up. He was absolutely perfect for me. I was so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my Girlfriend[21 F] of 3 years, have been fighting because I think she is cheating.... POST: So I've been dating my GF for 3 years now and we have lived together for one full year and everything has been great until she brought up the fact that she is bored with her life because of the repetition and she wants to meet new people, but she doesn't want to break up. In my pov I thought she was trying to break up but whenever I bring it up she says she still loves me and ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: AskReddit, how did you make a long distance relationship work? POST: I have been with my girlfriend for 5 years now and as it turns out we have to do the long distance thing for the next five years. I know that mine isn't the hardest long distance relationship in the history of love, but I still want to talk to someone about it. We are going to be 125 miles apart. Close enough where we can see each other every week but far enough where we can't live together. Our plan is to rotate visi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [26 M] think my sister [22F] is manic bi-polar, and needs serious help, she refuses. POST: She constantly blows up at anything, she screams at the top of her lungs at everyone at the flip of a switch. She goes from smiling to snarling so quickly at things. Was at a restaurant and was bitching about some guy on the other side that was ""staring at her"". She constantly -screams- at her 16 month old child. I have tried to talk to her, our parents have tried and nothing has helped. What c",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: [PSA] Make sure you read and understand your lease agreement. Also stay on top of your responsibilities!! POST: So here is the deal..... I have a lease on an apartment that started 7/8/2014 and was supposed to end on 8/1/2015. I recently closed on a condo and while I was going through the process of purchasing the home I got caught up on all the details of the buying process that I forgot to write my 60 day notice to vacate for my apartment. Not only does it say that a written noti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my boyfriend [19M] of 5 months, how do I break up with him gently? POST: So this is my first real relationship and I just don't see it working out for the long term. There's nothing really wrong, I just don't want to be in a relationship at this point in my life. My parents also don't approve of me having a boyfriend. The only thing is, we're really close and there's absolutely nothing between us. I've tried to break up with him 3 times before, but he eventually convinc",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/M]. Just conflicted and could use some advice POST: Alright. Sorry if this is long. There is just a lot on my mind at this point. To start of, I am still a virgin. I find no shame to it. It's honestly not that important to my life at this point. That being said, I just have this feeling, that sometime in the somewhat near future, my best friend (she's a girl, I'm not gay. Only for clarification) and I are going to have sex. It's really difficult to explain, but we bicker so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my new girlfriend [20 F], she's been with many guys and it's affecting me POST: I recently got into a relationship with a girl. I've only been in two relationships before, and never hooked up with a girl, but she's hooked up with many guys in the past. She's told me her past hookups mean nothing to her, and that I'm important to her. I do feel what she says is honest and genuine, but on the inside, it still bothers me. I know it sounds petty or childish, but when I s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my (now ex) gf [20 F] of 5 months, feels I betrayed her trust, was I wrong? POST: My GF used to have a pretty serious eating disorder, one that she thought she was done with. She very recently relapsed, and I was very worried about her. She had only ever told me and her ex about this disorder, and I wasn't really sure how to handle it. I knew my father had at one point been in a similar situation, and I wanted his opinion on how to approach the situation. I spoke to hi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: At what point did you realize that you could see yourself spending the rest of your life together with your SO? POST: I think today was that day. I called my girlfriend up for some good ole' fashioned sexy time, but low and behold... she started her period today. She said that she could not, but she would buy me some coffee instead. We went to our local coffee joint and she offered to buy me some fried rice from our favorite Japanese place in addition to performing fellatio on me, beca",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Got rejected by a girl 'friend'. Any tips on how not to dwell? POST: Ive had a close girl friend for about 9 months now. For about 6-7 of the months, she was in a relationship so I sort of just discounted her. Since, shes broken up and sent me very signals. Supporting: talking about how shes lonely, sometimes telling me she loves me, being close physically, leaving very seemingly-obvious cues, sending me semi revealing pics (but not quite NSFW). And non-supporting: she never really p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [24 F] of 4 months told me [33 M] I'm not attractive but she still likes me. Can I ever overcome the insecurity this has caused? POST: My girlfriend is quite naive and endearingly honest, but sometimes this has left me feeling very insecure. In fact I've never felt so insecure in a relationship before and I fear becoming a stereotypically jealous partner, something I've never been before. I think the age gap is exacerbating this. Firstly, she admitted that she doesn't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 23F HELP deciding if I should message 24M POST: Basically I met a guy a month ago, it was right after I got out of a 2 year relationship. I was afraid of liking him as I felt it was too soon, and as a result ended up pushing him away. However, he was a guy I could be awkward with, and laughed all the time. But He felt like I was over analyzing and not that confident and a couple other things. We got into an argument and I told him I was not interested. An hour later I told him I over",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] really like this girl [16F], but things have become complicated POST: I asked a casual friend, let's call her Elaina [16f], to prom because I have somewhat of a romantic interest in her. Last weekend was my junior/senior prom. We had an amazing time, danced the entire night, and on the ride home, she fell asleep laying on my shoulder. We talked the day after about where we wanted to take this and have been kind of talking about it all week. We have also spent time with each o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] dating girl [24 F] for a couple of months. She's not too keen on socializing. What can I do to bring her out of her shell? POST: Long time lurker, first time poster on /r/relationships. I find the advice on this thread to be excellent, so I'm reaching out to everyone here. For obvious reasons, I won't go too much into detail as I'm not sure if she's a redditor, but here's a general gist of how things are. Also note that it's been a while since my last gf, so times may have",negative " r/relationships TITLE: A friend [19f] told me [23m] that she loved me, I'm lost right now. POST: I have known my friend for roughly 3 months, most of that was spent working with her. Life happened and we no longer work together but we have been hanging out and talking at least 2-3 times a week and she always gets extremely excited when she sees me. We text basically everyday but nothing too deep. The last time that I hung out with her we just sat and talked for a little bit, laughed at a few memes that de",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[19 M] think that i lost my close group of friends[7x18/19M]. I feel betrayed POST: I have some what small group of seven friends. During and outside of school we where a pretty close bunch. Always hanging out with each other during school. However, since school ended we tried our best to hang out, and not brag or sound annoying but i messaged our chat group everyday to see when we could hang out, when we could free some time from work etc. The chats went quieter and quieter. Lat",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Seven year marriage overcoming an affair but the other man just won't go away. POST: 1.5 years ago my wife (29F) cheated on me (29M) with her boss. Their sexual relationship was a one night affair but a romantic relationship had been on and off for around a year. Shortly after he quit and my wife has remained with the company since. We are still working through some of the aftermath but on the whole I think things are much better. Early next year my wife has a work conference out of",negative " r/self TITLE: My boyfriend suffered in his childhood, significantly, how can I help him, are there any online forums that I can attend to help me understand? POST: I'm not sure which subreddit to use for this particular issue, but here goes: I am 19f and he is 18m. He's been struggling with his childhood for forever, some things he hasn't even told his mother about. Schooling was difficult for him in his early years because of what he was going through. He continues to have issues with opening up to me an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [21M] of 1.5 yrs, want advice on how to support him with school work. POST: Hey all, my boyfriend, ""John"" and I have been together for almost a year and a half, and we go to a very difficult undergraduate liberal arts college. We have a good relationship, that is not what I'm here for advice on. John is a Business and German Major, while I am studying Nutrition. John is not a native English speaker, and is in the process of learning his third language. It",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my boyfriend [22 M] 2 year long distance relationship, don't know if I should be angry of not? POST: My partner and I are in an LDR and I am visiting him for the first time in 2 weeks. He hasn't had a job since I've known him and he hasn't been looking. I'm staying for 2 weeks but yesterday he broke the news and told me he got a job in a 24hour fast food place that will have him working Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, all night. This means I probably won't be abl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21M] how do I handle [20F] constant flirting POST: So Ive got this really good friend who Ive been friends with for the past 4 years or so. She is probably my best girl friend. I am somewhat interested in her but always kept her on the back burner because I always figured I'd get the ""we're just too good friends"" shenanigan. So she is very flirty with me, always calling me hubby and that Im her favorite and all that. We used to text every day, but now we dont text too often, which",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] and my LDR bf [23M] of 6 months, wants me to meet his parents. Noob to parent meeting need tips on how to give a good first impression. POST: My bf and I have been going out for 6 months, and when I see him next during my Easter break it'll be a little over 7 months. He's really close with his family and they have their Easter family tradition where all the cousins, aunts and uncles all get together and celebrate Easter. His family is Catholic, 7/10 religious and he isn't. I",positive " r/self TITLE: Trouble deciding what to do. Stay in college or dropout? (IT Major) POST: Hey reddit, my first post here. Hopefully this is the right place to post. I'm currently a Junior (technically) attending a 4 year University. I have been having doubts about my education since my 2nd term of Freshman year. I'm an IT Major wanting to go into the security field, but I can't help to feel like I'm not receiving a good education. I've been taking loans to stay in school and I'm not actually learning someth",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making a cop think I was reversing at him. POST: So, waiting on a light to turn green, I drive a 4 speed manual, put my car in first gear and slowly let off the clutch to move forward and immediately got lit up. Cop thought I was trying to reverse into his car. Turns out, my reverse lights come on when I'm in first. Got a $10 fix it ticket for ""reverse lights in gear"" So, that was my fuck up. I actually have another car related fuck up from about 2 years ago. It was actually the S",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My long distance boyfriend [28M] of one year broke up with me [24F], but I still want to have sex with him. POST: My long distance boyfriend broke up with me a couple of weeks ago. We have been together for almost a year. 6 months in the same country and now 5 in long distance. I was supposed to go to visit him in a month. Though, I'm still going. My boyfriend has always been really busy with his career and I understand that, and when he said he doesn't have time for a relationship ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to a Teeny Weeny Green Bikini Contest on St Patrick's Day. POST: This actually happened years ago on St Patrick's Day. I was off work on St Patrick's Day and a buddy of mine called me up and said that they had green beer and an itty bitty teeny weeny green bikini contest at a local pub. He said the contest started at noon so we should get there around 11am to make sure we got a seat. So me being a good friend decided that I would get there at 10:30am to save his seat. The firs",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my girlfriend [33 F] since February, she is freaking out, will a restraining order prevent contact with my parents? POST: So I am an adult, and in my late twenties actually. I have never had to deal with any situation close to what I'm dealing with now but basically my girlfriend is freaking out at me and threatening to tell my parents some things about me I'd rather them not know. My question is, if I go to a police department tomorrow and ask to have some sort of r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [f20] am REALLY turned off by my SO [m21] supporting spanking children as discipline POST: I'm a 20-year-old female with a 21-year-old male for 3 years. The topic of child tantrums came up recently, which turned to a conversation about discipline and spanking. His stance is basically ""I was spanked and I turned out fine so we should spank our future kids for discipline"". I explained to him my stance about it and that I think it's very wrong, the trauma and distrust that could resul",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm afraid for my mother's safety and for my own (abusive father). What should I do? POST: A good friend of mine contacted me for help and I'm not sure what to do, so I set her up with this throwaway acct. Here's her story: -------- I recently learned that my dad has been abusing my mom for years. I had known about the emotional abuse, but didn't know until recently that he hits her. He has also come very close to hitting me too (we all live together). The way things have been goi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my girlfriend [15 F] just broke up. I need help. Is there something wrong with me? POST: So I met her like a year ago, I've swung from wanting to date her and not wanting to date her. We dated, but we just broke up after almost three months. My previous relationship lasted two months. It's pretty much that I lost interest in both relationships. I was getting bored and somewhat unwilling to change anything. My girlfriend and I didn't talk for like a week, then we broke ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [23M] am trying to be on better terms with my ex [21F] after 2 years of not speaking. POST: She broke up with me over 2 years ago after a nearly 2 year relationship. The reasons why were never spelled out for me as such but I know I had trust issues and was a little needy back then. There was some bad blood on her end for a while after I opted not to hang out/talk to her while I got over it. We share some of the same friends and have avoided each other for too long. Today wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] Broke up with my Girlfriend [19F] of 5 and a half years two months ago, I rebounded and now want her back but think i have left it to late and she has moved on. POST: To keep this short im not going to go into detail about the breakup but i left her, she clinged on to any hope that i was just going through a phase (turns out i was) and would come back to her but i rebounded and broke her heart again. a few days ago i told her i have been missing her and regret everything sh",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I threw up in an acquaintance's expensive sleeping bag, they threw it out, should I reimburse them for the whole cost? POST: I crashed at an acquaintance's place one night, sleeping in his sleeping bag. During the night I threw up in the sleeping bag (yes, I was really drunk). I gave him money for laundry, he said he washed it at least 3 times (don't know if he washed it more, or did anything else like spot treated it) and wasn't able to get it fully clean, so he threw it out. It was his",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my roommate [20 M] of 5 months, he won't stop making racial jokes & comments POST: Let me just start by saying I'm not a complete hardass and I can definitely take a joke 90% of the time. But things have become increasingly uncomfortable and I need some advice on how to handle the situation. I live in a 4 person apartment near my college campus in which I am the only African American living with 3 other white guys. We get along great, and we have become great friends ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever publicly embarrassed someone when it wasn't your intention? Here's my story... POST: I'm taking a public speaking course as an undergrad at my local community college. Most of us are adults looking to finally get our degrees. Today, we gave our mid-term speeches. After every speech, our instructor randomly chooses three people to give quick critiques and assign a hypothetical grade. This guy, who I honestly like a lot, gets up there and gives his five-minute on the danger",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (24F) have a strange concern with my boyfriend (27M) of 2 months. I really really like him and he's great...but he...wears kilts. How do I get over it? POST: Ok so like I said, this is a weird thing to have an issue with. He and I are both a little weird but that's fine. He likes cosplaying at anime conventions. He likes LARPing. We both like going to renaissance faires in costume. He wears kilts (Utility kilts, not the plaid Scottish looking ones) which I have zero issue with. He'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [19 F] broke up with me [20 M]. Not doing so well. POST: My girlfriend and I were magic together. Like, we completely clicked when we met, and everything between us was incredible - even through fights, we came out stronger and had an awesome relationship. About a week ago, she ended it because she has some emotional issues, and wanted time to herself to figure it all out. Thinking this would just be a small break, and would work out for both of us in the end, I agreed and gav",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (21) and this girl (19) I'm dating never text POST: Okay so I recently started dating this girl I met online for about a week and things have been going very smoothly we don't really text at all like only when we wanna make plans and talking with her in person is fine she said as of right now we are best friends that kiss. She has been honest with me about everything so far she said she doesn't know what she wants yet and she's still friends with her ex which kinda bothers me but",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: When I [22 M] am dating women dont try and figure me out, need help POST: So first off, this is a throwaway because I want real advice and dont want to seem like I am humblebragging or something. I want advice. I understand that attraction is not a checklist. That said, I have a lot of attractive features that are sought after in a guy and are noticed in the beginning. I look great, Goldilocks dick, come from a good family, wealthy, college educated, have a job, great at sex, open ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/22] just had a great second date with a girl [F/22] until the last five seconds. Kind of worried and looking for advice. POST: Hey guys, kinda bummed out here. Just went on an incredible date with a wonderful girl. It was our second date, and our first one went great too. She's funny, she's beautiful, just really, really awesome. I keep my cool though, and on both dates I've made her laugh a lot, she's been pretty flirty, and she has seemed pretty into it. In fact, the first tw",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: dealing with sex with new partners as a double standard POST: My very serious partner (23M) and I (21F) broke up around a month ago. He bailed because he ""didn't want to be in a relationship anymore."" we tried couples counseling briefly, but ultimately he claimed he just didn't want to be in a position in which he had to consider someone else's well being, long term or short term. So fine. I move on, my self worth returns to its natural status. I even sleep with a few friends of mine, but",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (22M) GF's(21) dad has been arrested and is likely going to prison. POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for about ten months. Tonight she texts me that she is very upset so I call her and she tells me the news. She is a typically exceptionally stoic, but this is pushing her beyond normal measures. She is the oldest of five children (ages 10 through 21) and very family oriented. As you can imagine she is concerned for her younger siblings, her mother and her father. Wh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] met [18 M] like 5 days, doesn't look so promising POST: Ok so there was this guy who I met on Tinder, and he looked promising to me. Everyone on Tinder wants to hook up but this guy looked genuine and like a guy who wanted something serious. He just turned 18 and I'm almost 19. He's almost a year younger than me. Anyway, when we first started talking, he seemed fantastic! I was extremely happy because he was so nice and we had things in common. He started to get sexual af",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] am not sure what me and this girl [20F] ""are"" for lack of a better term, and I don't know how to ask. POST: We initially dated for a little bit and then it was broken off because she had some pretty bad personal issues going on and said she didn't want to date anyone while trying to fix them, and I understood that. So we agreed to be friends and we've since become pretty close. It's been two months since we stopped dating and recently she started getting more flirty/sexual in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why is it OK for me [21 M] to stay best friends with this guy [21 M] of 5 years if I'm gay, but not OK for a straight guy and girl to be best friends? POST: Sorry if this question is immature. I'm just confused and questioning whether I can or cannot be friends with this guy. But I asked before about me and my best friend. I'm 21 and gay, I've known my best friend for years. We are really close and always got each others backs. I find him sexually attractive and wish he was gay so",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I tell the new man in my life how many people I have slept with? POST: 21yo female here. I got out of a long term relationship a couple months ago and since have been seeing a new guy (22). Things are going well so far but things are starting to get serious and I am worried he is going to ask how many people I have been with sexually. It was always a touchy subject with my ex as he did not like my number. I have slept with what most people would consider a large number of peo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24M] I have been dating my girlfriend [21F] for just over 4 months and she wants ""space"" now. POST: We have been dating for 4 months and everything has been wonderful, we get along so well and I really thought we were perfect together. I love her and her son. Two weeks ago her close friend lost her baby and It really hit my gf hard. There have been a few other events happening in her life that have really stressed/depressed her and things started to get distant between us so I",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do atheists really care if ""one nation under god"" is in the U.S. pledge of allegiance? and if so, what do you think about my solution? POST: I go to a catholic school and in theology class we arrived at the topic of how many atheists believe that the word ""god"" should be removed from the pledge. Many people were outraged by the thought of this, and i was at first (since am theist). but then i realized that the outrage i felt must be the equivalent of the outrage felt by atheists when the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [F, 18] boyfriend [M, 19] and I hit a rough patch. Will things ever be the same? POST: Made a new reddit account because he has a reddit. Back story: We've been together 3 months now. Known each other since 7 months. When we initially started talking, it was long distance, since he goes to a college a few hours away from where we live. We aren't going to the same college next semester but we decided to stay together regardless. The beginning of our relationship was amazing. We go",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me 20 M with my 19/F gf 3 months, she almost dumped me cause she saw my first flaw POST: So there is a huge back story to this but i will just summarize it as my girlfriend has been with a lot of assholes in the past and i guess as a result is used to hopping from guy to guy. We are currently doing long distance as I am going to school about an hour away but we manage to see each other once a week. Anyway last weekend i came home to see her and I had to cut our date short because my ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need girl advice. Lets hear it. POST: Ill keep this short as possible. Met a girl who had a b.f. at the time and thought she's totally awesome and cute and stuff. Now she's single and she likes to hang out pretty frequently, her being the one that initiates us hanging out. The first time her and I hung out alone, all was well and we had a good time. She left and went home, then called me an hour later to make sure her and I are ""on the same page"" The Same page being just her and I b",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you cope with being in your 30s and having a hot bi-sexual wife? POST: My story is that I am in my 30s years, am straight, and I am married to a hot bisexual wife. I have been in numerous threeways from this unfortunate circumstance. I now facing myself often kissing two girls at the same time, and I have no need to have sex with prostitutes. I am unfortunately starting to feel happy all the time and very not depressed. Doctors can't seem to treat my happiness. Now, startin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me(22M) having trouble with a potential partner(21F) POST: Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit but i need help. So i have been seeing a potential partner for the past month and a half. However, she recently got out of a 2 and a half year relationship about a week before she met me. Everything was fantastic, she told me it felt right to be with me, we told each other things we dont normally tell people, were able to talk about our days, and were basically acting like we were going to",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My girlfriend is wonderful, but I'm not happy. POST: Basically, my girlfriend is one of the best people I know. She's very selfless, sweet, smart, and attractive. I honestly believe that she'd do anything for me. We've been dating for just over year and a half and were friends for two years before that. Despite being a great girlfriend, she can be overbearing at times. If I'm out and she doesn't hear from me for a while, she'll panic and assume something bad has happened. In a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I being unreasonable? POST: When I got together with my current significant other there was another woman interested in him. She was shy and quiet and not particularly articulate. Rather than go straight for him I spoke to him for a while and sussed out whether he had any interest in her. He said no and we started dating. Since then we have moved across the world and I figured well there is no harm if he wants to stay friends with her. Since she has moved within a 15 hour driving radi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to save a puppy POST: My sister and I were on our way back home from a fun ~~date~~ night (since people don't like me using the word date in this situation) of pizza and ice cream when we saw a small yorkie puppy run across the street in front of us. I pulled over so that we could jump out and grab him so he wouldn't get hit and take him to the Humane Society or try to find his owners. When we were pulled over, he got spooked by us and ran into traffic and my poor sister saw th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36 M] with my (taken) best friend [26 F] of a year, I'm the bad guy in an emotional affair. How to extricate myself from this situation? POST: We've been co-workers for about a year. We had an immediate connection when we first met and have been pretty much inseparable ever since. She'd been in a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend for about two years before we met. I'd just moved to a new city and now most of my social life consists of doing stuff with her and people",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I [21/f] express interest in a coworker that I've never spoken to [20 something/f] without making it weird? POST: I'm a bisexual female (at least I think) who's never had sex with another girl. I work in your average office, predominantly comprised of people much older than me. However, I've recently noticed a young female about my age (most likely a few years older) who works in the department next to mine. I know I'm attracted to girls, but I'm *really* attracted to h",positive " r/weddingplanning TITLE: What to do with dad? POST: I love my dad. He's a great guy and we have a good relationship, though I'm certainly not a ""daddy's girl."" I'm fairly masculine and pretty independent and REALLY want to walk down the aisle by myself. My dad hates dancing and being at the center of attention (he's kinda shy and has an accent that makes him a little self-conscious). I know that he would do anything I asked of him (he did for my sister), but I don't feel comfortable asking him to do things",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 M] Boyfriend [27 M] of 2 Years Claims I Don't Trust Him? POST: My boyfriend and I are a fairly happy couple, we have our ups and downs but most of the time it's like we're made for each other. The problem is that he's constantly telling me that I don't trust him, not in the sense that I don't let him hang out with his friends, but in the sense that I ""never believe him"". The problem is that I do, within *reason*. If I remember something one way and he remembers it another, I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(18/m) just found out my girlfriend(17/F) of one year cheated on me. It's been a week and she wants to get back together POST: I had been suspecting that she had done something for a few months and I finally demanded an honest answer and she admitted that she kissed a boy and a week later slept with someone while I was away on vacation. Both time she claimed to be really drunk and swears it's a one time thing and I believe because she was honest with me and denied when I finally co",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By leaving my laptops with strangers in a bar POST: So today i have really messed up, i was in bar today doing school work on my laptop, when i really had to get to the toilet urgently. There was a couple sitting next to me, also students, and they seemed to be normal and nice people so i decided to ask them if they wanted to watch laptop for a while.(i was working on something and just wanted to go pee for a sec and come back). So i trusted them and went to toilet and when i came back, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 40F with my 29M of 6 mos, at what point does ""sorry if you cant afford it"" factor into what you think will be a lasting relationship? POST: I have a vacation planned with friends. We go every year to a different nascar track. The destination is always loosey goosey but last night we decided to go to kansas motor speeddway. Its within driving distance and/or within reasonable airfare. The total trip will be less than $600 (if we book now that includes airfare). I can afford th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, my most prized possession was stolen and I need your advice on locating it. POST: So I just found out that my 1977 Fender Musicmaster (guitar) was stolen from my Grandparents house (Albuquerque, NM). Here is a crappy [Picture] I bought this guitar when I was 15, because I wanted a Mustang but couldn't afford one. So I bought this and with my Dads help customized it to make a custom Mustang. He helped me rout it and I learned how to solder. Over the years I've constantly been ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Workout Programs for Beginners (x-post from r/fitness) POST: Hi everyone, I've got a simple question for you. My fiancée is currently looking for a workout program to lose weight and get stronger. She has some experience with exercise, but she's never found something that she really enjoys doing. I know that many people, myself included, can go to the gym 3-4 times a week to work out. Some people would rather walk across a bed of hot coals than to do that, and my fiancée is in that camp. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my GF [29F], 7 mos, I am just not that into her or could it be something else? POST: I have been dating my girlfriend for about 7 months. When we are together, it is amazing. I love being around her, we are always touching, and the sex is great. However, it is when I am not with her that the trouble arises. I just can't make myself care that much. I feel no drive to make the effort to hang out with her even though I know I will have a good time. It's like it is a switc",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I need help with my[19/f] relationship with my SO [22/m] for 3 years. POST: Ok, I really don't know where to start but I really need help. First off, my SO has emotionally, and once or twice, physically abuse me. I have became very dependent on him emotionally. I grew up with no care in the world on how I look to other people or to please other people, so people often tells me I don't know how to take care of myself and someday no one would like me. That kinda stuck and I real",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19/F] boyfriend [21] recently started working nights, it's screwing up our relationship. POST: Me and my boyfriend have been together for a little over 5 years. We've dealt with problems before, as most couples do, but at this point I'm not sure what to do. He started a new full time job about a month ago stocking overnight. I'm currently unemployed. He's been liking it a lot more than his last job and his hourly wage is much better. Now that he works nights, I don't get to see h",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Emancipation for 15 & 17 females in CT POST: I posted this in /r/relationships: and am here to ask about emancipation. The post above sort of explains how i have an good case for emancipation imo, and there is even more than what's in that post. So I'm 15, turning sixteen in a month. My sister is 17 and she will be 18 in one month. I'm worried about emancipation because how are we supposed to support ourselves? I don't want to go to a foster home or somewhere because I want to stay ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being offended by my shitty class. POST: So I have this class....it is a class about Linux, a Computer Operating System. We work in groups, and my group member told me that not only is the class's book completely unreliable, but many of the assignments can't actually be done properly, so we have to bullshit the assignment. In addition to this, future assignments are based on us having successfully completed the previous bullshit assignments. When my group member told me this, I was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my former long-term ex [20 F], states she doesn't doesn't want to just be friends, she wants more. POST: My ex and I have been together for a few years now and got through a very difficult time in regards to approval from one another's family. After resolving this issue things were going steady with the occasional arguments resulting from misunderstandings or bad habits. When it came time to further our education, I went to a different University for a while due to fi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [22F] handle casual dating when my ex[23M] is around? POST: So my boyfriend [23] of about a year and I broke up about 2 weeks ago. We are still friends, talking regularly. We have even kissed each other goodbye last weekend at a party. I love this guy. Like he could be the one. But we broke up under the guise of we needed to take a step back and work on ourselves before we could be happy with each other. Now, I got asked to go have a few drinks with a fairly new friend [28M",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [21/f] need advice about practicality of moving across country and giving up lots for bf [21/m] POST: Ive been a long-term lurker and have finally decided you all seem so helpful for everyone else that maybe you can help me. I've been dating my boyfriend for a year and we're pretty serious. He is in the Marines (he wasn't when we first started dating) so a lot has changed. He is currently stationed on the opposite coast from my school, my hometown, and his hometown. He wants ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by POST: Okay, this didn't happen today, but I wasn't a member of reddit at the time. It happened last December. I teach at a large research university in the US, and we were approaching finals week. One morning, I was heading to my lecture and one of my students was waiting for me outside of the classroom. He told me that his brother died over the weekend, and he had to miss class that day to attend the funeral. I expressed my (genuine) sympathy, and we tried to find a way to make the ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My GF was in a competition to do the most sexual positions - Should I be worried? POST: So, this needs some backstory. Im a 18 year old male, and my GF is 17, we are from Denmark, so all of this is legal here, just to be clear. Here it's very normal that, on fridays after school you go to a bar/pup to have a beer or 2. You do this with your school/classmates. We did this today, and at this bar there are a competition between the schools in the town. This involves doing a lot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F], I'm sexually frustrated, very lonely, and terrified of meeting men. Help! POST: Long time lurker, first time poster! I've never been on a date. I've never so much as hugged a guy I wasn't related to despite being a mainly heterosexual woman with an average sex drive. Since moving into my own place, I wanted to change that, so I set up an OkCupid account. I'd been receiving and replying to messages from a few guys I was genuinely interested in. So far so good. Reddit, t",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Nothing after 6 months of very active looking. POST: I've been looking for work in many different fields for the last 6 months, and I just ran out of unemployment today. I just separated from the military, where I was the area/operations supervisor of a small security forces team doing nuke security. I also worked as an alarm system operator/dispatcher. I was making roughly 65k in Europe, but I had been separated from my family for almost 2 years, so I decided to separate and come back to th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Bf's(M22) ex Gf(F20) lives across the street from him, Any suggestions for me(F19) to get over this? POST: Ill give a full but quick story. (Posted earlier but problem with the post) New boyfriend(M22) and I(F19) have been going out for a little over 2 months. Things have been great, we get along amazingly and I'm totally falling for him. He moved out into a friends old family home when we first started dating. Well, his ex, whom I went to middle and high school with lives across",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [22M] wish my ex [23F] a happy birthday? POST: It's been a year and a half since my ex of 3 years ended our on/off relationship. She broke up with me after 6 months, came back, then stayed for another 2+ years and left again. Both times she left to pursue someone else. Most recently she dumped me to date her friend's brother. (who dumped her after a month) She's had many boyfriends after him (at least 3), but to this point none have lasted as long as me. She's asked me to b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my BF [27M] 8 months, he doesn't believe in marriage POST: Some background: My boyfriend and I dated about 2 years ago for three months but the timing wasn't right so we broke things off. About a year ago we started casually dating while I was seeing other people and 8 months ago we decided we wanted to be exclusive. We are great together, we hang out often, have a great sex life, have common interests but can still manage our own time with friends/hobbies. The pr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Was I Wrong Talking To My Sister About Sex? POST: Me (21f), her (14f) and my mom (51f). I live 500 miles from my family. Growing up, I didn't have the best relationship with my mother. She has some undiagnosed and diagnosed mental health issues, and is incredibly impulsive and just a terrible decision-maker. She was a virgin until marriage at 21, and decided her children would be the same. The only sex education I ever had was ""don't do it"". No talk about safe sex, STD's, possible c",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I may have made a mistake, and I don't know how to fix it. I just up and stopped paying bills about a year ago. Student Loans, utilities, and cable. What is/could happen to me (I'm sort of afraid I'll be arrested, seemingly at random)? And what do I do? POST: (X-Post from AskReddit. Should have know the comments wouldn't have been helpful.) So, I dropped out of school in 2010. I just never got around to dealing with the student loan collection letters, and they piled up. I cont",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29M] with my GF[21F]of 1 yr are falling apart. POST: We met in college, she's gone on to grad school in Colorado, and I moved to Denver for the culture (love big cities) and in part, because she was going there too. My problem now is that my job leaves me utterly exhausted both mentally and physically. While I'm normally sarcastic, up-beat, and charismatic, this job leaves me short, tired, and beat down. Obviously this isn't helpful to our relationship. I've taken some time to",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How much money from adds goes to reddit, and how much goes to conde nasty? POST: Recent events have got me wondering about where the add revenue flows to when i decide to actually click on an add on reddit. I'm certain that conde naste does make some revenue off of owning reddit, otherwise they would have kicked it to the curb already. my other point is how much of my gold member ship goes to conde naste? I ask these things not because i care what is done with my money, I am merely ho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] and my girlfriend [22 F] of a year are having problems. She wants ""space."" How to proceed? POST: My girlfriend and I (we have been dating for a little over a year) have been having some issues recently. She moved away to a different state for a temporary job, and will be back at the beginning of the year. We were getting along pretty well until a couple of weeks when it seemed like everything went to shit. We weren't able to talk to each other much, and when we did we ended",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[26 M] have a thing for an old aquiantance [26 F]. The problem is I live 7000 miles away. [Dating][Friendship] POST: I used to live overseas when I was a teenager and there was a girl I knew in my greater friendship circle. When I was 18 I left but I went back to visit every few years and this girl stayed in my friendship circle even though we were never close and we would never communicate otherwise. Recently I went back and visited and ended up spending two or three days with her",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What in the fuck should I do Reddit? POST: Ok, pretty much right now my GF is nuts... (Then why are you still with her?) yeah yeah I hear you. I still love her and for most of the time we have a good time with each other. We laugh and just spend genuine time with each other. Other time's she is crazy off the wall bat shit crazy. She overreacts about some of the smallest things. Such as a few weeks ago her boss was cleaning the parking lot in front of her work and blew a huge amount of du",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 CD] with my boyfriend [24? M] a year or so, treats me badly POST: I'm a 24 yr old CD (crossdresser). I met my boyfriend on craigslist like a year or so ago. I don't know if we are officially boyfriend and girlfriend because he already has a girlfriend but I like to refer to him as that. He comes over late at night and I give him a blowjob and we chat a little bit and he has fucked me before. We've met up probably like 20 times. The past few times I've tried chatting more, like",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 M] have a [27 F] SO, but thrown off/confused by suspected interest from a [27 F] friend. POST: Ok, so I've [27 M] been dating this girl for close to three months now, and we're having a great time. We really enjoy going out to do fun things, etc, everything's fantastic. We're both very attracted to each other. Before we decided to go exclusive about a month ago, I went on a couple dates with another [27 F] girl. I really didn't feel any interest coming from her, so I stopped ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Husband has kiddie porn. Need to end marriage and get sole custody. POST: My husband and I have a 16-month-old son. Ever since he was born, our marriage has been awful. I've been waiting for my husband to become a father but he's proven to be completely incapable of raising a child. He's loving when he's around our son, but he does nothing to help care for him and when he's been left alone with him he has been damn near neglectful (not changing his diaper in 6 hours, letting him sleep ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] and my friend [18F] used to have a thing. Never did anything about it. She wants to be friends but Im not feeling like its worth it. POST: I liked her and she knew that. She's Muslim, she wears a hijab and dress. We openly liked each other for about two months a year ago but she went to another continent for summer vacation so we stopped talking. School began again. I told her I still liked her. It was weird. She would show interest but then say she didn't want anything rela",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my good friend [21 F] of a year and a half, am I being a dick and am I leading her on? POST: I have a good friend from college, D, who I absolutely platonically love. She's great to be around for a variety of reasons, but I recently found out that she's attracted to me because a male friend of mine, J, talked to her in a bar and she gushed to him about me. D recently asked me to be her date for a booze cruise, and I obliged without hesitation because it sounded fun. ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Sheriff calling MY to tell my boss I need to visit my boyfriend. POST: My boyfriend is in jail. He wants me to visit. He was trying to contact me (but didn't have my number memorized). He ended up getting it from a friend and calling me. He had to write my name down or something to make it okay for me to visit. Apparently made a comment about not being able to contact me... I work for University police apparently the Sheriff recognized my name and called my place of work...He didn't a",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Revenge against the magazine POST: Some months back, I took advantage of one of those ""4 free issues of such-and-such magazine"" deals where, if you don't like the magazine, you cancel your subscription and that's that. Otherwise you pay the subscription fee and continue receiving it. Now I did not like the magazine, and -- this was absolutely my fault -- forgot to cancel the subscription. Not proud, but it happens. That whole opt-in versus opt-out thing that so many of us are bad ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: REDDIT I need your Help(Broke Ex-GF's Window) POST: Long story: I found out my g/f was cheating on me a few days ago while I looked through her cell phone and found text messages. I broke up with her and the following morning I went to her house to see if there was a guy there, there was, I banged on the window and she later told me that she was drunk, upset and just slept next to the guy. We made up and promised to be faithful while she took a break. I went over to her house last ni",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Dad [50's M] Family life's a mess and no idea what to do anymore POST: There's a lot of things involved in this, a lot of them are really a whole other post by itself, but I'm coming to you guys here today, because my dad's depressed and he relies on me to be the only one there for him, which is really hard for me. Basically I have no interests, or anything, I like to be alone and I'm not a big fan of conversation, most of the time I spend alone on my computer or s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What to make of this? POST: This incident happened a few days ago but still makes me ponder. I had a roommate for 2 weeks at some seasonal job. A few weeks later after said roommate left I quit the gig. He texts me and I mention that I had quit and was doing some sight seeing. He asks me if I would like to come over since I'm near by and I said sure. He comes and picks me up the next day and he asks me where are the rest of my things. I told him I had shipped them home. He looked pu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[19M/F] with my ex [19M/F] relationship was 4 mnths POST: Hello guys, I just started college, freshman obv, and am trying to get into the dating game. im not going to lie, i am not great at picking up girls and have approach anxiety. Anyways, back to the topic, my high school ex, i have not spoken to her since she broke up with me, this was about a year ago, we had dated for about 4 months. She was actually my first ""long-term"" girlfriend, so i was really attached. i was so oblivio",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [26 M] with my SO [22 f] but I have a ""one that got away[ex 22F]"" that I can't keep away from. POST: So, I am currently living with my girlfriend of sixish months. We are perfectly happy together, even looking at buying a house! However...I have an ex...we were together for just about 4 years. We have broken up for 3 months before. Lived with other people, our families hate eachother, we technically don't function together. We argued constantly, wanted different things from life",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My husband [31/M] rarely wants to have sex with me [31/F] after 13 years of marriage and good sex life up until about 6-8 months ago. POST: Long time lurker, first time posting, advice welcomed... My husband and I have been married for 13 years. We have separated a few times for 3-6 months' duration, but always got back together. (Separations were always due to his drinking getting out of control, we have 2 kids, 10/M and 8/F, and I don't want them to be subjected to his idiot beha",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I balance care taking for my father, having a job and pursuing my individual life? POST: I recently was diagnosed with ADHD, prescribed medication, and got a job at the same time. I've done web development work for a couple months for $20/hr at this two man company. My dad has Parkinson's and I have been doing a lot of the driving and house work the past year. I've had a break from work since around Christmas time (boss-man went to visit his parents), and he called today. Duri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22f) am wondering if he (22m) was just blowing me off POST: I know the answer is the same regardless. I am just curious. I had a friends with benefits situation with this guy. I broke the sex off and we still talked, but then wanted to start it again. He said he wasn't sure this time around. He said ""nothing against you, I just don't think I want that right now"". I told him I had feelings for him and asked him bluntly what he wanted and why he didn't want to be with me. He said ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF[26 F] for 8 months tells me me [30 M] that she thinks she is fat and it's just not true. What can I do? POST: Hi! So 30/m here. My girlfriend is 26 and she thinks she's fat. I'm confident that this is just not true and she is a beautiful woman. While she said that she gained some weight (6kg over the past 7 months - it's what she told me) I don't have a problem with it because it's perfectly okay and I think only slightly above average weight. But she is really really unhappy ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why do we want what we can't have? Me [25M] with [22F]. POST: Met a girl a few months ago, and it wasn't long before we started hitting it off. We never dated, but I found her incredibly attractive. She told me she was interested but at the time I wasn't looking for anything super serious, so I turned her down (she also wasn't super engaging during conversations...lots of dull moments and she never had much to add). She was also in a serious relationship at the time. She told me she ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [30/M] am in love with a friend [22/F], but I don't know how to go about it. I've never had a girlfriend, been kissed, or been intimate. What should I do? POST: I met this girl in graduate school, I liked her instantly. As I got to know her more I fel so in love. She sat next to me in every class, parked in the same parking lot, and would walk with me to the parking lot everyday too. All that just makes me think she likes me, but I'm not the best at reading signals. I feel l",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/f] just saw fit to get tested, and I'm not sure whether to tell my current sexual partner [21/m] POST: Okay, Reddit... First, we are both students outside America studying at the same place. We met through a shared interest - I run a reasonably large geek-themed society. We both know a lot of the same people, and are seeing each other in semi-secrecy - I would rather my personal life wasn't common knowledge to the 60+ people in the organisation I help to run, plus its a very n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21M) SO (22F) got a job offer in another country. POST: She majored in mass media arts and Spanish in college and graduated last year. She's been supporting herself by being a line cook (food is a passion of hers, she wants to own a restaurant one day) but hasn't really had any endeavors into her degree areas. I'm graduating in May and up until now the plan had been to subsist for a while and save money then move and settle down. Well she went on a mission trip with her dad to So",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my friend [20 F] of 8 years, she is actively trying to be with my Father (2nd update) POST: Basically last night after dinner when Dad and I were clearing the table I just said asked how his week went. Then I asked if ""Lori"" (not her real name) had brought his dinner to him this week and he said yes. So I just came out and said it. I said, ""you do know that Lori likes you a lot more than just as friend right""? I was waiting for the denial or the laughing or somethi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (27/M) and my (28/F) gf of about a year and a half have conflicting schedules, never see each other and it's tearing us apart. POST: We have been dating for about a year and a half now. Always working through typical issues all couples have, and always coming through stronger. I manage a restaurant, and she has a 9 to 5. We don't live together either. I'm kinda of in a bad place personally, being that my dad whom I met a year ago passed away about 2 months ago. I really need her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me(22f) and my boyfriend(25m) are making plans to move in together. Seeking general advice and help with a few little problems POST: We have been dating for just over a year, and we will be looking for places starting in October. Before we became a couple we were friends for a few years and even lived together as housemates for half a year at one point. We get along very well and communicate effectively. I'd say we have a very healthy and happy relationship, which is great because we",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my friend [16 F] About 5 months, We are friends but how do I turn this romantic? POST: I'll try to state facts about our relationship in the past and try to avoid gushy stuff. I'll say things I've already done to try to progress the relationship further. I've known this girl for about five months. We shared a class last semester, we ride the same bus and live in the same neighborhood. We chatted with mutual friends in class. We talked for 30 minutes one-on-one almost",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Probably an obvious answer that I think I already know (RE: current gf I live with and one I used to live with) POST: Short preface (I'm old -- 38 and she's 37). I asked a question years ago about whether you should open a car door for women in the age of automatic openers (my ex said I should). I was told, the issue was not about the car door, but about love. My current gf (of 3 years) likes to drink a lot of wine on Friday nights and she over and over screams at me that I ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Scrub with PCOS. POST: [F]irst time even knowing about this sub, seems like an awesome place! I've been gaining weight since last school year and have managed to pack on about 50-60 pounds, leaving me at 5'10"" and around 205 pounds. I also found out from a recent doctor's visit (through various blood and insulin tests) that I might have polycystic ovarian syndrome. Essentially means that weight loss may be a bit more of a problem to lose weight than I've been hoping. I go through days at ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By daring my friend to kick a pole POST: This happened a few months ago, but I will start off by saying my group of friends at school hang around this area, which has a pole just standing there, empty and hollow. Well before we got there it was empty, we started filling the pole with whatever we had leftover from our food and the pole started to get really disgusting. One day during science, the class was dissecting a sheep's brain, and my friend managed to smuggle his brain out of the c",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My friend's son is stealing her credit cards and maxing them out. What can we do? POST: My friend's son is 13 years old, and has been stealing her credit cards for the past year. He has maxed out both of her credit cards on online-gaming and other things online. He's been sat down and talked to, yelled at, and I think was even slapped once, but he still does it. He has gotten his computer taken away from him, but was able to log onto others to buy more and more games. Recently, he was ac",negative " r/dogs TITLE: I need advice on tie outs/stakes. Possibly my only option until I can get a fence up. POST: My dogs (both 5 years old and 50lbs) used to get to run on 20 acres of property and we never had to worry about fencing or leashing them while were outside working or relaxing out in the yard. We've since moved to a place where this is no longer an option. There are now too many neighbors, too many cars and too many other dogs roaming around. We haven't been able to get a fence up yet, but I hope to h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are some strange/aggravating assumptions people have made about you in the past? POST: I can only think of one that has ever really irked me: when I was a wee lad, I was over at a friend's house when I noticed a vase I had never seen there before. It looked familiar though, and I commented to my friend's parents who were in the room at the time that my mom ""had a vase just like that."" I don't know if it was the way I phrased the question or what, but his mom's immediate response was",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: An inheritance was made so everything went to the brother while the other remaining survivors (2 others) were disinhereted. What can the other two survivors do? POST: In California, my cousins father died last year and left a Will that his daughter and granddaughter never read. They were told by the Father that they were on it. One year after his passing the mother died. Upon reading both Wills the 2 (daughter/granddaughter) discovered that the Brother who resided with the parents was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M/] with my GF [25 F] are Glorified Roommates Anymore, Need advice! POST: Where to start... We lost it all in a fury of drugs and bullshit. I got her into them, and she left me now twice for them. I am doing my best to bury the hatchet on that and move on, forgiving this and letting go of the hurt. She is back with me now, and has been for a few months. She lost her job and hasn't been able to get one since. I say this loosely. ""Trying"" seems to be the problem. I am not makin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21M] girlfriend [19F] is upset but wont help fix it POST: so me n my gf have been together about 6 months and i do love her, shes an awesome person but recently she's been upset with me saying we don't go out and do enough, so that was a week ago and ive been trying to think of things to do, she works till 6pm every night and its below freezing where i live so its hard to find things to do. onto today, she gets upset cause i couldnt think of something, since we argued a week ago ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 M] with my ex-gf [31F] 4mo, I got a celebrity autograph of her favorite musician for her birthday. POST: So, ex and I broke up. Stalled relationship-- it happens. My motivation is not looking to get back with her, but I don't know if I should give her this gift. Her birthday is a ways out, so it might not be as weird if I give it to her then, but I really don't care to have this sitting around. Should I just give the gift to her, or forget it? She broke up with me, and I ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Close friend of mine [19/f] recently admits she used to like me [20/m], knowing that I used to like her. All the while she has a boyfriend now. POST: I became friends with this girl about a year ago and I quickly formed a crush on her. We began to hangout every weekend and she had learned I had liked her and she didn't want to pursue it but remain friends. We've always had a unique relationship in that regard since she is aware I used to like her but she is always touchy with m",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Got a new job after 5 months of unemployment. POST: Figured I might as well share how I made it work. I was fired from my last job and it was... a bit of a messy divorce. As in, former boss decided to make an example out of me; appealed my unemployment benefits 4 times and forbade any of my former coworkers from speaking to me. So I was worried that I wouldn't ever work in my field again. In addition to making contacts with every tech recruiter I could, I also searched Careerbuilder, Indeed a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23/F] with my bf [23M] of 4 1/2 years, I posted comments on r/ladybonersgw and he found out POST: I'm not sure what advice I can glean, since it's in his hands now. I'm just scared and feeling sick to my stomach. This past weekend, he confronted me about my throwaway and had found I had posted comments on r/ladybonersgw. I didn't want anything from this experience, but he found that I had posted a comment on someone who lives in our state. This was the post that really got to h",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Spaying dogs with kidney/renal issues? POST: I know I'll probably get yelled at by people on here for this, but my 13 month old female dog is not spayed. Originally, we were planning on spaying her when she reached 10-11 months. This was because our original vet was a ""naturalist"" who told us that we needed to wait for our dog to mature before spaying her, since she is a bigger breed, and they grow slower than small breeds. However, at 4 months old, my pup ingested a toxin and went through ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my parnter[20 M] Two Months, Considering moving together otherwise will need to stop seeing each other POST: Hey all - my partner and I have been seeing alot of each other over the last 2 months to the point where we click extremely well. There are no real red flags (despite the fact hes yet to find a job - but i know he can cover his part of rent), however i know this is a very quick move and would like some advice. We live over an hour apart, and he thinks that find",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Close friend of mine is freshly going through the most difficult time of his life. What can I advise him RIGHT NOW to help his situation turn out the best way possible? POST: [Throwaway Account] Over a domestic dispute my friend's girlfriend left him, took their 2 one-year old twin baby girls, and took their only car. His girlfriend is extremely instigative and she finally got him to push her. She got the police involved and is filing a restraining order on him. He'll be going to court ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is a good-intentioned surprise you've given or received, which ended up being unpleasant? I'll start... POST: My friend's ex modded her XBox360, unbeknownst to her. She found this out when her console was permanently banned from XBox Live. Surprise! Can't think of any of my own right now... shame on me. I'll edit as soon as I think of some; I know I've botched a surprise or two... TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am turning 28 soon. Never been in a relationship. I had a sheltered upbringing and so zero social skills. Lost my virginity 2 years ago and only had sex with 5 women. I am scared. Help! POST: I don't want to whine about my childhood, but it was terrible and I couldn't break free and be independent until to years ago. I didn't get the chance to socialize with people outside my family until two years ago. Until then I was too weird for other people to want to be around me. Been work",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [19M] Dying of Embarrassment - I Was A Desperate Dater POST: I'm so embarrassed it hurts. For the past year I've been depressed and I would ruminate over why I've had so little success with girls. I realized that I was just completely desperate and everybody could see it. I know that its the past and I'll be sure to keep it in the past, but every time I think about it I cringe and its making me feel sick to my stomach. It may seem pathetic, but I just want to delete myself off social",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22F) just got dumped for being too thin POST: Over the past year I've lost the 60 lbs I gained in high school and have needed to lose since. I look and feel 1000x better but I am not okay right now even though this should be the happiest time of my life. A week ago my boyfriend (23M) of 4 years dumped me because I am too thin for him now. I'd always known he liked bigger girls, but I thought the fact that we loved each other for so long would help mitigate that. Fuck, he was so s",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using an accidental big dick as a wallpaper POST: Years ago, I decided to download a bunch (as in 1000+) of artistic photos and put on a folder, and i have an internet trigger to fetch more pictures (from sites like 500px, deviantart and some others) and put in said folder. I also set windows to change the background image - it picks a random one from that folder each 30 minutes, so i always have some nice new fancy background. the most NSFW picture i saw was a woman hidding her breas",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Attempting to lose weight, but I keep falling off and gaining it back. Any advice? POST: I'm 18 years old, 6 feet tall, and as of writing this, 358.6lbs. I first decided to take losing weight seriously around 3 months ago when I was at 365lbs. The farthest I've gotten that I recorded was around 352lbs. For some reason, I end up getting around there, then somehow gain even a little bit back and get discouraged, and end up getting back up to around 360ish. It's this cycle that keeps occurring",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my friends [20s M] 2 guys in my friend group are fighting and their tactics are getting more and more disturbing POST: Hi Reddit, Here is the situation. Two men in my friends group are in a fight. It has divided my friend group pretty much in half as people have chosen sides. One of the men (Todd) threw a brick through the other's (Alan's) window. Alan stole some property out of Todd's storage unit. Todd has been putting up ads saying Alan's business is now closed when",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my crush [16 F] since I switched into her class, So I finally got my crushes number last week but her phone was taken and I am nervous to talk to her. POST: So I finally got her number on Friday but her phone was taken. On Monday she was absent then Tuesday she was at school but I was to afraid to say something to her but she looked at me and smiled a couple times. I did not go to school today (Wednesday) because it was TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with myex-gf [25F] 3.5 years. So I showed up to my ex's house uninvited... POST: So my girlfriend broke with me at the end of February. We had been together for 3.5 years, and we lived together for a majority of the time including abroad for more than a year. We lived together until St. Patty's day. One of the main motivators was that we had a mutual couple friend coming down from Canada to the US to visit us. We kept it together and civil during their visit. Since S",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I, [22 M] cheated on my girlfriend [22 F] of one year and need some advice POST: I am in my last semester of college, my girlfriend graduated last year and moved away for work. A little while ago I expressed my regret of not doing more in college; I was a little bit of a shut in and didn't experience the typical college weekend nightlife- parties, games, dancing, hookups, etc. In response, she gave me a pass and told me that I can do whatever I want when she's not visiting. Last nig",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [13M] with my GF [13 F] Cant decide on what to do in this situation POST: Hello users i know as you can see in the title im quite young and ik what youre thinking, ''13 YEAR OLD MIDDLE SCHOOL RELATIONSHIP'' Yes i know i find this relationship to develop into a serious one (1 year relationship). I am a 4.0 GPA student and recently just got accepted into C.A.M.S but my girlfriend didnt apply, so that means we most likely will never see each other again. She really misses me and ca",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31M] divorced dad, - How do I go about dating? POST: I have been divorced for 3 years now. I feel like I am in a good place to date, but I'm unsure of how to even start because of my parenting schedule. My son lives two and a half hours away from me currently. Currently my schedule with my son (bi-weekly) Tuesday 3-7 PM, Friday - Tuesday overnights, and Thursday 3-7 PM. Unfortunately I will not be moving closer until he starts kindergarten (my support system lives up here by m",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Me [21 M] with my boyfriend [21 M] of one year, him and his parents are leaving for Canada in a few days, cannot celebrate our anniversary as parents won't let him off for one day POST: As the title says, my boyfriend and I are celebrating our 1 year anniversary today; he was supposed to come to school with me this morning and we were supposed to go on a 'date' at the nearby bar. He does not have a car, and his parents will not let him off for the day, insisting that he has to help th",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Stubborn areas and dieting multiple times POST: This question goes out to those of you who have done the diet > lean build > diet > lean build cycle a few times. My first time down the diet trail I lost a good bit of weight, about 75lbs total. I got down low enough (180 or so from 255) that my wife commented my cheeks were looking sunken and I was looking overly skinny in general. I recognized this as a red flag and stopped my diet since it can be pretty easy to sink into an eating disor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How should I [22F] approach being upset about something when boyfriend [25m] acts as if nothing is wrong? Been together 1.5 years. POST: Before my boyfriend left to work yesterday I asked him to text me his evening plans for when he got off at nine. We live together. I knew he was thinking about seeing a show if he could get in for free but I said if the free thing doesn't work out I'd be down to get a drink or something. Nine rolls around and a friend of ours asks me if him and I wa",negative " r/loseit TITLE: 40 teaspoons of sugar daily. Help for your weight loss journey. POST: 40 teaspoon fulls of sugar daily for 2 months was the challenge that Damon Gameau undertook in That Sugar Film. While initially that may seem like a lot, statistics ([1] [2] [3] [4] show that on average we eat much more than that! I wanted to bring the film to you attention as it has made me rethink the many ""healthy"" foods we have in the supermarket, e.g. low fat, heart healthy, natural yogurt is basically no different",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (21F) want to get a tattoo but don't want it done by my boyfriend's (25M) brother (23M) POST: I want a tattoo but I'm very picky about artist quality and such. I feel I have a right to be as it is my body and whatever I end up getting will be on my body forever. My boyfriend's brother is a tattoo artist. He isn't horrible, but his work isn't the style or quality I would prefer. I want to get a tattoo at one of the shops in my area whose work I am highly impressed by. I'm worr",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I know, I know, she's not that into me [27M]... POST: So I met this girl on Tinder, and she's honestly first person who piqued my interest at all after 5 months of being on the app. We went on a first date for drinks, during which she told me that she was having a great time and hoped we could do it again. We ended up going to a movie the very next night at her suggestion. Made plans to get together again the following weekend, but she kind of flaked and we didn't end up getting toge",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a [24 M] trying to help my [57 M] father with Alzheimer, how can I help him? Got plans overseas so I'm stuck on what to do. POST: So basically I'm currently living with my father in another city while finishing my studies. He separated from my mother because he's fairly violent and has some deep seated issues. He is extremely manipulative and tries to control everything (got back with my mother only to leave her in debt, cut off my accounts so I had to do as he said or starve, t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Sister suffering from chronic illness, any advice for offering support? POST: My sister has been struggling with health issues for the past three years. She was been to several doctors and has had all sorts of tests run, no one is sure exactly what is going on with her. She is being treated for thyroid issues, but is still not feeling well. She gets very fatigued, ""foggy brain"", and has digestive issues. My sister is in her late 20s and has been having a really difficult time. There are",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (f31) done with my marriage, husband (m32) is not accepting. POST: I'll try to keep this short and sweet. We've been together for almost 10 years. I'm 31, he is 32, no assets, no kids, lots of debt and one cat. I love him, always thought we'd stay together forever. He loves me with all his heart. But we've grown apart. I'm not the person he married. I've matured and grown. He's the same person I married, irresponsible and more into partying then being an adult. Our lif",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Need clothing/fashion advice from women who've lost it POST: I'm still a work in progress, but I've lost 52 pounds and finally fit into the clothes at non-plus-sized stores! None of my plus-sized clothes fit me any more, and I'm starting a new job in 10 days. I haven't been buying any clothes during the weight loss because I've been out of work, so everything in my closet is for someone 50 pounds heavier. Here's the problem, though: although at a size 16, I now fit into the largest size ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25f] boyfriend [28m] of 2 years doesn't want me starting a colony of cockroaches in our basement. Honestly, it's not as bad as it sounds. POST: So this is nowhere near as serious as a lot of the other stories on here, but I'm completely out of ideas and I hope you bright, charming people can help me out. A few months ago, I adopted a neglected lizard (with my boyfriend's enthusiastic consent) and have been nursing it back to health. In the process I have gone through a *lot* of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (25/f) reading too much into a Facebook post? Dating for a month. [Update - I wasn't]. POST: [This] is the original. I just wanted to update because I don't get what happened. I took everyone's advice last night and just didn't comment on it. However, another girl did saying ""Is this to let all of the other women you're playing know you won't be sexting them this week?"" I texted him about this and kept a screenshot because the whole status has since been deleted. He didn't re",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need help regaining my happiness.... POST: Hopefully this is helpful for others as well. It's a fairly common situation to be in love with someone who doesn't love you back. It's not even that uncommon that the person who I love happens to be my best friend but it's been a year and a half and after much suffering and deep though I have come to the conclusion that the only way for me to be truly freed from the incredibly (possibly) torturing experience that is being in love. Over the ye",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling a girl that I liked her POST: Well, typical situation, isn't it? It started a few months back when she (I'll call her Bethesda for now, because, geeky stuff ayy) moved to my school. I'd known her for a few years through other friends and we clicked fairly well. Eventually she came to me when she was feeling depressed and having had similar experiences was there for her. I really liked talking to her and she helped me through a lotta my shit. We were in all the same classes",positive " r/self TITLE: Political and news-related subreddits, specifically /r/politics, are agitating me. POST: As you know, political and news-related subreddits are biased. I used to like them because while the articles may be absurdly biased and based on half-truths (I'm looking at you, Alternet), the top few comments usually pointed out mistakes and did what actual journalists should do: they used facts, sources, and (*gasp*) showed both sides of the equation that is political opinions. Recently, however, /r/po",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] got wasted with friends [20-22M] for the first time. Carnage ensued. What do I do now? POST: Hi people of reddit. So back story - I'm an ex-Muslim and I thought that it'd be a good idea to try drinking for the first time with friends I know and trust. I did and it didn't go so well. Long story short, I drank waaaaayyyy beyond my limits and got very wasted. I vomited a lot and I managed to also piss myself. I said things that I kind of regret (no insults, just revealing y",negative " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by thinking edgar allan poe had a malformed hand POST: I had read many of poe's works in school and on my own. I enjoy them but dont know a lot about the guy. Last night I went to an edgar alan poe evermore thing. And the actors were playing their parts well. Even in between stories/poems they played their characters. Well, When i got to the part where poe was about to do poetry I noticed his hand. I assumed it was a fake hand and figured I take this chance to learn more about Poe. The ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20's M] with my GF [20's F], unsure about fairness of how her child's father being treated. POST: My girlfriend has a toddler, who is the most adorable tiny human being on the entire planet. As the story goes, the girlfriend was physically assaulted by the father during the pregnancy to the extent that complications during the pregnancy came about. She says she was assigned an unfair case worker by the police with regards to the assault, who could only contact my (then pregnant)",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my BF [26M]. We have been together 10 years and still no proposal. Should I be worried? POST: Okay, so, we've been together 10 years. Since I was 17 and he was 16. Basically, I just don't get why he won't ask me to marry him. Even if we're engaged for a long time, I don't mind. I just want to be able to say he's my fiance. I think that the term boyfriend if just too small a word after 10 years don't you? Am I wrong? We've had fights about this and he says he'd definitel",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My girlfriend got $200 stolen. What should I do Reddit? POST: My girlfriend of one year recently had plans to move into an apartment with a friend, they were pooling money in an envelope at her friends house so that neither could spend the money and so that they could easily see how much they had at the time. My girlfriend was about $200 into the envelope when they broke off the apartment idea. The money went missing a week later. Her friend suspects that it is the roommate downstairs ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23/M] SIL [21/F] doesn't bath for weeks on ends. When she holds my daughter [3mo/F] she makes her smell terrible.. how can I get her to start showering? POST: My wife, Shawna [25/F] and I have been married for 7 months, but we dated for 6 years before that. Her sister Selena [23/F], doesn't often shower. Sometimes she will go several weeks without showering, only washing her hair when someone complains about it. My wife and I have recently had a baby girl, Rebecca. She is 3 mon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] am worried that I may end up getting cheated on by my [18 F] girlfriend when college starts. POST: Just to preface: I know next to nothing about relationships, so don't be afraid to call me an idiot if I'm being one. So me and my girlfriend have been a couple for just about two months now, and it is set in stone that we will be attending different colleges coming up in a month. I'm staying near our hometown, while she is moving to a school that is a four hour drive away",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need advice: Wannabe identity thief causing me grief POST: A few months ago I received a phone call from my ISP (Shaw communications, in Calgary), letting me know that somebody had tried to use their online chat to recover my e-mail password and they suspected it was fraudulent as they had no idea how to answer any relevant security questions. I was thrown off, I have some minor visibility on the internet in that I was in an administrative role in a small game community, I have dealt wi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I like one of my best friends, but I don't know if I should tell her. POST: I am a 15 y/o guy in my sophomore year of high school. There is this girl in my grade, and a few of my classes, that I really really really like. Me and her have been going to school together for about 2 and a half years, but I haven't really gotten to know her well until about a few months ago. Her and I have a lot (and I mean A LOT) in common. We're both redditors, we both like similar music, play vid",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23f] don't get as excited to see my boyfriend [23m] (6mos.) as he does me. Is faking how much I miss him the same as leading him on emotionally? POST: My boyfriend just gets a little more excited and sappy about seeing me after being apart a couple days/weeks. I think part of it might be that I have a more fulfilling social circle than him so my time never feels very empty. But I admit he's a little more affectionate all over. I try and match him or go out of my way to do nice t",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Opening a US bank account from Australia to deal with Amazon payments POST: Yo! I had a search for this but couldn't find anything similar here. This is my issue: I'm a writer and earn money selling my books on Amazon. Amazon payments can either be made by EFT to a US bank account, or by cheque. Being from Australia, I can currently only receive cheques. This means I have to wait for a cheque to be posted to me (5-10 days), then when I cash it I have to pay an AU$20-odd fee, the",negative " r/self TITLE: My once amazing workplace has turned mildly hostile as of late, and my out spoken nature could put me on the verge of getting fired. Help, Advice or Similar Stories, please... POST: I love my job, my co-workers, my hours ... I am extremely lucky. However, recently our Manager was fired by our Corporate Office. Our Assistant Manager quit. We had a mandatory meeting today, in which, the Corporate office told us: We are not to have ***any*** contact with our former bosses (including public pla",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My best friend wants to date the girl i like. P.S. They both know i like her. POST: Me and him. We are like brothers. He knows i like her so much. One day he sent me pic of a some girl, and he was like: ""I think i'm in love."" And right next to the girl he likes was standing her, the girl i like. I knew her from past, and i told my friend i can hook him up with the girl he likes. He agreed. Two months from then he stoped likeing that girl. I was ok with that. But he started chat",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by having my lighter in my pants during a workout POST: So let me be clear, I don't smoke but I hang around a bunch of friends that do smoke and they forget their lighters very often so I started carrying one for them. No big deal. I went to the YMCA this morning so I could keep my he-hooters down, and stay in shape a bit. Now I'm weird about this, I like to work out in normal clothes (i.e. jeans and a t-shirt). It just feels more comfortable that way, of course I change when I get back",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Wrong name calling destroyed something for Me[21M] POST: Hello /r/relationships, it's my first time posting. TL;DR: ",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: My Parents hate my future husband, I need advice! POST: I have been with my fiance for 5 years, engaged for 3 because I wanted to wait until I was done with my graduate school program. Now our wedding is set for this October, but my parents are making my life hell. My fiance is 28 years old and a custodian for the local school district, but not in the union yet. he really only makes minimum wage, and still lives at home with his parents. I come from a family of professionals who al",negative " r/running TITLE: Training for a half vs Depression - not sure what to do POST: I attend an out of state university, but about a month ago, I moved back home for the summer because I have a full time internship in the area. While at school, my depression got much much better through the help of a therapist, and a new relationship (I now have a very supportive SO). Since being home with my parents, I am slipping back into how I used to be - depressed and only having the desire to go to bed after work, and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO(17m) and I(15f) are madly in love. I have this great fear that it will just fail(because of reading other people's stories). Is there anyone out there with SUCCESSFUL early on relationships? POST: What the title says. I'm just wondering if there is anyone out there who has stayed with the first person they were with, or has stayed with their high school sweetheart. Of course, my bf will be going to college in a year(two grades ahead) so I am terrified of that breaking us apart.",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I (26M) go about distancing myself from my ex (27F) who keeps initiating contact? POST: So the backstory is brief but important: We started out as friends, got serious, and then circumstances changed one of our locations for the next 2 years by 6000 miles and we decided, mutually, that trying to make a relationship work over that distance wasn't feasible. She was the one who first moved to end the relationship amicably. Problem: It was her first serious, committed rela",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: And then I woke up... Dealing with the hurricane of post-breakup life with a Highly Destructive Ex-Gf. POST: I want to start this post by saying thank you r/Relationship_Advice. I've posted a couple times on here on throw aways and have been taking to heart a lot of the comments on posts made over the past year. I finally 'Ripped-Off-The-Bandaid' a month ago today, and ended my near 3 year long relationship with a highly abusive, (verbally, emotionally, sexually), girlfriend.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26 M] am weirdly hung up on a guy [26 M] who I only met once. POST: I met a guy last month who seemed pretty cool. We had a night together and then he strung me along for a few weeks - insisting that he wanted us to see each other again, but it never happened - he actually stood me up twice in that time (well, cancelled with virtually no notice). I have no idea whether his excuses were truthful or not, but over the course of a few weeks I'm sure he could have made time if he was g",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by shopping on Amazon while drinking tequila. POST: Obligatory ""this did not actually happen today"" disclaimer. I didn't realize my fuck-up until the package was delivered today. I went home this afternoon for my work break and notice an amazon package on the porch. I was instantly ecstatic. I'm a huge space nerd and had ordered a nebula themed phone case online a few weeks ago, but it seemed to have gotten shipped late and hadn't arrived. I rushed inside to open the package, my dog ba",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21/F] Old fashioned ladies: how often do you pay on dates? POST: I'm accustomed to being in more sugar baby relationships than the traditional relationships. I think it's changed me in small ways. I would get a large sum just for spending time with a man as a sugar baby and because of that, now I get turned off when I offer to pay and a guy I'm dating lets me pay. I always buy the guy that I'm dating gifts, I'm very generous and fun in bed, and I make sure I spend a ton on the way ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: M/23 F/19 How do I move forward with this relationship? POST: I'm 23 m, and she's 19 f. We met through a mutual friend 2 weeks ago and have hung out 4 times, once with the mutual friend and 3 times alone watching movies and stuff. We've been texting every day for a couple of hours for over a week. We've held hands for hours, we've cuddled and so forth. This is my first time doing this stuff with any girl. I haven't kissed her but I plan to the next time we meet up, probably early thi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24/F] with my 25[M] - ending the relationship when there is not anything ""wrong"". POST: I've been dating this man for a year. We do not live together. Things started off strong and I felt like I was in love. At this point in our relationship, he does everything right. He treats me great, we fully trust eachother, I like his friends, I like his family, he surprises me with little things, I am attracted to him, etc. But I simply have lost feelings for him, for no particular reaso",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: We Formed a novelty band as a 21st birthday present.. looking for input. POST: Hi Reddit, we are a group of 5 young guys who want your input on a project we're working on. Our friend asked for a theme for her 21st birthday party. We immediately suggested ""Lions and Robots"", which she loved but she eventually settled on ""Album Covers"". So we formed a band called Lions and Robots. We're currently working on an album of covers, mostly Daft Punk songs played on acoustic instruments, but lots",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23M) just found out that my mum's boyfriend (47m) is in another relationship behind my mum's (45F) back POST: Basically my mum has been seeing this guy for the past 7 years, he's always been a caring and nice person. However, it seemed that he never took the relationship as seriously as she did, they never moved in together, never went on holiday and he would only ever come around anywhere between 3-4 times a week to once a month if he was 'busy'. Anyway, for the last few months",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Panic attack at new job POST: I posted this originally in /r/anxiety, but wanted a broader response. I started a new job (in retail) a few weeks ago. Everything was going pretty well until Friday of this past week. I had a panic attack in front of several coworkers (and tbh probably some customers). When it started, I kind of breathlessly snapped at one of the coworkers while I was in a panicky state. I then ran to the employee bathroom where I nearly passed out. Luckily everything passed ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Group interview at a place i've previously worked for already? POST: Hey reddit, first time poster here. I made this thread because I've encountered somewhat of an interesting situation. A little background info, I recently graduated from university with a BA in Business Administration and for my last year of school I worked part time as a student assistant at one of the departments at the university I was attending. There were no fulltime positions open when I graduated so I ended up tak",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/F] with my friend [23/F], unsure if she seriously screwed me or I'm overreacting. POST: I moved to a new city and found a part time job in sales, but was looking for more consistent hours, so I asked around. One of my friends had started working at a restaurant as a hostess and they desperately needed more hostesses, so I dropped off a resume and started the job the same day. Because my friend had set it up for me, and because I've had several years of experience in the serv",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being too honest about why I'm moving jobs POST: This literally just happened and I'm kicking myself for being such a loose lips Lucy. I'm changing jobs, long story short my current role is just not what I was sold, my boss is incredibly difficult to work with and bullying me until I feel sick with worry everyday. Trouble is she's also in a very senior position - almost untouchable. So that means either I go or....well I go. That means I'm sending out CVs galore, you name it, I'm ap",negative " r/cats TITLE: Advice on caring for a five-week-old kitten? POST: Hi, guys! Not entirely sure if this is the right place to post this, but I am going to take a chance. :) We recently acquired a four-week-old kitten from an abusive home and we are a bit concerned about his behavior. We have had him for a little over a week now and he seems to be settling in okay. He is fed and watered regularly, and the difference we have seen in nine days has been extraordinary; he is a whole new kitten. He does not mewl co",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [F24] fiance and I [M25] broke up last night and I'm destroyed. I need help. POST: Hey guys, it's the first first evening in 6 years that I am truthfully alone and I'm devastated. My fiance and I were together for 5 years and had without a doubt one of the most beautiful and closest relationships I have ever heard about. But it all ended last night. The details are too difficult for me to put into words. But for the first time in 6 and a half years I feel completely abandoned, h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19/M), am single, never had sex, and my (19/m, 19/f) friends are having lots of casual sex. How do I stop feeling jealous? POST: I went through high school without any kind of romantic or sexual relationships of any kind, and most of my friends were single, or if they were dating, weren't sleeping with their partners. Enter college, and I make friends with people who are a little (or a lot) more experienced, and a lot more confident. I never had much self esteem to speak of, henc",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: how do you fix a relationship that has been consistently down? POST: hi all, thanks for reading this ahead of time. here's my situation. i have been dating my boyfriend for quite some time now. things were fine the first year, but the past two years have been miserable for me. it all started when we went off to college, and he became incredibly busy. we see each other maybe once a month, and we usually schedule seeing each other the last minute because he's so busy. this frustrates me ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I need your help. Particularly you artists out there. POST: So, this will be the first Christmas I've ever spent where I've actually had a girlfriend. She's a real nice girl but I'm really nervous because I'm not used to giving people gifts, especially people that I really care about. I want to give her something she'll really remember for the rest of her life. So I got this idea. She loves two things: Superman and Giraffes. So what I want to do is give her a shirt that has Supe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [20F] Roommate [20F] is always fighting her bf POST: Hey r/relationships I dont know quite how to go about this situation. My roommate, who I've lived with for 2 months so far and will be living with until May, seemed to be a nice enough girl, but is turning into a hellish reality quickly. I live with three girls total, and the other two also agree that her habits are getting old fast. To start, she is constantly fighting her long term boyfriend. They say they've been dating sin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 F] with my BF [30 M] of 3 years, I feel like he is trying to impress/likes my older sister [33]. POST: Hi reddit. I need some outside opinions to figure out if I'm overreacting to this. My BF ""John"" and I have been dating for three years. Generally we have a trusting and respectful relationship, but this progression has started to make me feel uneasy. We don't see my older sister ""Mary"" much, but when we do I feel like he's constantly trying to impress her. Mary is more a",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Bad credit due to medical expenses and lack of history. Earn ~45k a year. Where do I start? POST: I am a 25 year old male who is currently living with my father who is on disability. I work at a CS chain as a trainer and I make about 45k a year. At the current time, the only expenses I have are a car payment of $320, insurance of $120, and a cell phone plan that's costing me $120 (I know I can get this for a lot cheaper but this is what I'm currently paying so I'll use it to calc",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Aside from weird dreams, but Reddit, what have been some of your funniest dreams? POST: One that I can vividly remember happened during 8th grade for me. The back story was that primarily for 4 days straight my friend and I just continually played Nazi Zombies on CoD. Thus, every night the images and ideas being so present in my mind that I would dream about fighting zombies. Well, this final night, my dream began where I was in the beginning stages of Nazi Zombies, fighting off the wave",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: i think that a girl may be using me for a trophy fuck POST: To get things started, I'm not pretentious or self-absorbed by any means. By trophy fuck, I don't mean what you guys are more than likely thinking... handsome, etc. It has nothing to do with my looks or my personality. Anyways, on Facebook quite some time ago this girl added me, I've never met her before, and I never really accept strangers. Although we had no mutual friends, she lived about an hour away and was extremely cute",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[21M] with my 5 month pregnant girlfriend [21F] 8 Months, Hurt the love of my life, when I came home drunk on my 21st birthday. POST: My girlfriend and I have been seeing each other for 8 months now, we used to live 2 hours away, but since she got pregnant in February I decided to move in with her and her roommates to help support and take care of her. When I moved in things started off great, we would spend time together and enjoy each other's company but as time went on she began",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Ex [26/F] asking for forgiveness after 4 years I'm [26 M] shaking. POST: So my ex [26/F] contacted me after 4 years asking for forgiveness for the way I was treated. I forgave her years ago after we broke up, it was really painful for me, I hoped the best for her and her family tried my best not to hate her or hold any feelings. I went no contact after the break up and haven't heard about her since. We were young, young people make mistakes. The thing is, I'm shaking, and I'm shock",negative " r/dogs TITLE: How do I prepare my dog for my SO to leave? POST: My dog Logan and my boyfriend are very attached. My bf is moving to Germany for a year (Study Abroad), and our lives are about to change. My bf is more affectionate with Logan than I've ever been, and Logan follows him around the house as a result. (I wanted to avoid that kind of attention, so I was distant with him. Maybe a little too distant now, seeing how happy my bf makes him...) I've started giving Logan more attention, I do more fun,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my co-worker/crush [26 F] at dinner with a mutual friend. She was being really demanding about sitting on her own side of the table, and I let her have her way. Why is this bothering me? POST: Went out to dinner with two of my co-workers, one of which is my crush. I'll call her Jen. I'll call the mutual friend Lisa. Long story short, Jen already knows my feelings towards her and wasn't interested. We remain friends. We made dinner plans a week ago with Lisa, and Jen ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 M] with my crush [15 F] I barely talk to her and I do not want to give up on her. POST: I'm in love with this girl i've met in the english institute I go to. She started being my crush between september & december. I really, really, really like her, but I don't really talk to her cause i'm kind of fat and drops my self esteem to the ground, also cause I don't know how to talk to womens IRL, I do fine online. We don't have too much in common, we go to the same school but diff",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Curious as to how cautious I [24/m] should possibly be about someone [23/f] who's been on&off with a guy for nearly 5+ years POST: She recently broke up with this guy. They've been together for a soild 2-3 years, but she's left him multiple times, and they've been on and off for over 5 years, total. We're not currently dating or anything, but she knows I really like her. I couldn't be happier knowing she's now single, but deep down, I'm concerned I should be cautious. Is it common fo",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Long Term relationship.(5 years in total) Breakup 2.0 POST: Right. Where to start. I am 22m, I have a Daughter who is 4, and a girlfriend who adores the ground i walk on. (not ego, like just take my word please) Now originally we were together from school (high school) for around 3 years and we got pregnant by accident. After plenty of tears, discussion we decied to give it a go (im just 18 at this point). Around 4 months into her pregnancy, i had a major ""i havent been a te",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] Destroyer of crates. And carpets, for that matter. POST: Hi all. I just adopted this [gorgeous fella] this past Saturday. He's a total sweetheart and big old mush who has probably had a pretty rough go of things. We are really trying to do the [two week shutdown] but discovered he has some serious anxiety. He escaped our last cage twice before we reinforced it with zip ties. [Then he just bent the metal and slid under.] I bought a new, [heavier crate] that we reinforced like fort knox",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I cannot live with people anymore. POST: I've had my fair share of living with bad roommates. Ones who play video games and watch movies till 2AM on a weekday (I have a full-time job as well as they do). Lived with someone who never lifted the toilet seat up to take a piss, sometimes forgetting to washing their hands afterwards. A roommate who brought work home and had conference calls in the living room till 3AM. A roommate who never cleaned up after themselves, especially in the kitche",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] GF of 1 year is a workaholic and I [23M] am the exact opposite. POST: My GF is a complete workaholic. If she isn't working on school, at work, or doing house work she feels like she is wasting time. I, on the other hand, am the type of person that would love to sit inside all day and read. The problem is she feels like her way is right and I can tell she thinks I am lazy and I waste my time. For example today we got in a fight because ""I didn't do anything today"" even though",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (16m) have met a wonderful beautiful girl(15f) who has some issues and I'm curious to hear what you guys think about this situation. POST: The background of this story is important so I'll start with that. I met this girl about 2-3 months ago at church. Her grandma is one of the people who I am very close to at church and introduced me to her. Her grandma is such a wonderful person and I'm often at her house. So, she introduces me to this girl (her granddaughter) and we almost imme",positive " r/relationships TITLE: A new (>2 weeks) love interest(23/F) and myself (23/M) are incredibly compatible, and I don't want to fuck it up royally. POST: Here's the skinny: My history with relationships is, simply put, a history of screwing up. The timeline of my love life has very large gaps, interrupted by incredibly brief (often less than one month) attempts at solidifying a potential relationship, only to watch them burn in the flames of my own over-zealousness and crippling fear of dying alone - I make ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Ex[19f] may be pregnant....I[22m] am lost and dont know what to do, i cant think clearly. POST: First off i dont want a kid this early on but if she is pregnant i wont back down. We dont know anything for sure, no pregancy tests just a very late period. But in order to prepare myself for the worst i need to get everything sorted out. My plan prior to this was to get a semester of college in and get into the USAF to get them to pay for some my college. With this news i feel that i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (22M) and I (21F) broke up last week; I wanted to try and he didn't POST: We broke up last Monday. I was convinced that if we just tried, we would be able to be happy together and he didn't think we could be. I told him all about how things could be better but he didn't want to give it a chance. He went out of town and I tried to stop being upset about it, but he said he wanted to talk in person when he got back. When he got back we went to his house and we talked, at ",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Helping my SO with dog training POST: My girlfriend and I got a Pembroke Corgi 3 weeks ago. Shes 10 weeks old now. The pup is every Corgi. Shes smart, caring, and stubborn. Ive been primary on taking care of things for the pup (Feed her, bring her outside in the middle of the night). The dog has become my shadow and is learning commands, doing great on potty training, has no issues in the crate, ect. Her personality is developing well and is only mildly aggressive but Im train",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU working with a crazy guy off craigslist POST: So I met someone on craiglist for a job installing cameras. He is a crazy old man 60's that brings his ""service dog"" ( not really a service dog) to him on every job installing cameras. The entire 7 hrs was the worst job experience of my life. He cussed, threatened to kill, threaten to blame a a broken camera on the pervious guy and said he was gonna call the cops and blame him for robbery. He was like a broken record player over and over, so ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my friend [16 F] have known each other for a while, not sure whether I should take a step further POST: Hi Reddit, I need some advice. I have this girl since I was in middle school, but I only became real friends with her in the past two years. We are doing this course in a same class, and we are talking very frequently and hanging out. She is my type of person and I can't stop thinking about her, since she has been someone I can joke around with and make me laugh. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [F 20] broke up with me [M 21] out of nowhere after a 6 year relationship. What do I do? Why did she do this? POST: This all came out of nowhere. Monday morning I got up, got ready for work and got my daughter ready for daycare. My GF works at the daycare my daughter goes to, and since the roads were icy I dropped them both off. Gave each of them a kiss goodbye and I went to work myself. When I pulled into the parking lot at my job, I had a text from my GF saying she wants t",negative " r/jobs TITLE: How can a person from a poor/abusive family work their way up to earning a Masters/Doctorate (specifically an MD)? POST: I'd like to start by apologizing if this isn't that relevant to this subreddit, I figured that there must be a decent amount of people here who've been in the situation I am now. Some background: As stated in the title, I grew up in a family with an abusive father that wasn't in the best financial situation. The peak of the abuse occurred in my first two years of high scho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 F] am having trouble making friends after my best friend [21 F] 'disappeared.' Putting strain on my relationship with my [M 24] boyfriend. POST: I have always had trouble making friends. Any friends I make are not ""good friends;"" they're either friends only in the basic sense of the word, (i.e. someone to see a movie with, but not there for me when I need someone) or if they are there, it's usually abusive. My best friend, whom I met my frosh year of college was an interesting",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Having trouble understanding why girlfriend gets mad when I don't respond quickly to texts, but only at certain times... POST: We're both 21, dating for 5 years. Overall a fantastic relationship--we bring out the best in each other. I know we started dating each other when we were both young, but we've made it work together and everything (in that regard) is great. My girlfriend gets upset with me if I don't respond to her text messages ""quickly enough"" (i.e., anywhere from 15 min",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [29 M] still can't get a read on this woman [29 F] (Chat daily, met up once, plans to meet up again) POST: I met this woman on one of the less popular dating apps a few weeks back and have been chatting with her daily ever since (initially through the app but before too long she trusted me with her number so via text). Last weekend we finally met up- we went mini golfing but that only took an hour so we decided to continue and get coffee afterwards. Even after we had parted ways, ",negative " r/cats TITLE: Pet a stray, now cat has fleas POST: ADVANCE APOLOGIES FOR WALL OF TEXT So, a couple of weeks ago, I came upon what looked to be a stray cat. I went up to pet it and saw that it seemed healthy (not fat, not thin, good shape), had been fixed, and was friendly with me, so it seemed to be an indoor/outdoor cat, but without a collar. When I went back with a pet carrier to see if I could catch the little fella to take to the humane society (in case it was a stray or an indoor cat that got out,",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I bring up a change in the relationship without making it worse? POST: It's been about 3 months of me and (we'll say..)Derek(for purposes of not using real name..) have been ""exclusive"". He would often say that we were a couple just not officially dating for about a a month and a half that we were ""exclusive""; after that everything changed. He lives 5 hours away from me and we had been talking about seeing each other. I had a week off from work so we planned that I wou",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying too cook fish and chips POST: It all happened on Friday. My parents went out to a meeting and left me in charge of cooking the fish and chips in the oven for dinner. Bad idea. I went to turn over the fish whilst it was in the oven and lifted my hand towards the hot surface of the oven. [My ring finger instantly burned.] When my parents came home my mum, who is also a nurse, told me to put my hand in cold water, then into an ice pack. Ten minutes later, she put burn relief on",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Considering joining Military to help jumpstart Computer related career among other things. Have some Qs. POST: Little bit about me: in based on the U.S., 24 Male, been living in Texas for the past year, and I have family 12 hours away. So, I've recently become single and had to move into a place of my own and I'm trying to study to obtain a CompTIA A+ certification. It's going slower than I'd like due do many distractions. I've been thinking lately bout possibly joining the Military i",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Should I start dating for the sake of overcoming shyness? POST: I (20/M) have so many fears, cynicisms and doubts about dating. But I've never actually dated- so fuck it I will. I need to get over that hurdle in my life, so I can convince myself it's not as bad as I preconceived it as. There's this one girl (18) who was keen on me, I never pursued it due to my phobia of dating. But with this newfound desire to conquer my fear I can't help but think about her. She's nice, attractive ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making the newspaper POST: This happened last weekend, and got in the newspaper and [online news site] (dutch) a few days ago. Only thought of writing a TIFU today. Last weekend I went with a few friends to Pukkelpop festival in Belgium. Dancing to Major Lazer, in front of me was a woman holding a helium filled balloon. A gust of wind lowered the ballon, I jumped and hit it. The woman let go of the balloon and it flew away. No big deal, you'd think. However, she stormed at me, pushe",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is subscribing to Scientific American/ New Scientist worth it? which one would you pick? POST: I've recently started paying more attention to articles submitted in those two magazines; I'm a medstudent and i've been trying to keep updated with new developments. Thing is, most of the stuff i'm interested are not open for public access, so i'm considering a subscription. I've got limited money to spend on such things (plus, i live in Argentina, it's like 4 times more expensive for me :P), ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (18m) have issues maintaining meaningful friendships with other males POST: Ever since my friend (let's call him Ed) moved away when we were 14, I haven't had another male friend that I would consider good or significantly close to me. All of my current close friends are female and have been for a long time, but this is putting some strain on things both for me and my girlfriend since it makes her feel (understandably) not totally comfortable that I practically only have female fri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [26M] been seeing her [22F] for a month and just found out she's in an open relationship with another guy POST: Not much to say really. We've only been seeing each other for just over a month, and it's mutual that we really like each other. However, she told me last weekend that she's been in an open relationship with another guy for a long time. Obviously I don't consider this a giant issue right now, as when people first start dating they're in all sorts of potential relati",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I had an account in collections and thought I took care of it but now it's back. Not sure what to do. POST: In college I worked at a restaurant where I was injured, long story short I ended up in the emergency room with 11 stitches and was out of work for 3 days. My boss at the time gave me some paperwork to fill out and said he would fill in the rest then send it in. Being 19 and stupid I trusted that he would send the paper work into workers comp. Well he didn't. I didn't know th",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Will future employers care if I volunteer? POST: Hello folks. Here's my situation. I am a 25 y/o male who has not followed the traditional high school-->college-->9-5 office job. I left my first university in 2012 to go to basic training for the National Guard. When I got back home, I was not ready to jump straight back in to school, and so I started working security. Over the past 2.5 years, I've worked my way up to a supervisor position for an office compound, and returned to school in Janu",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 31 year old boyfriend has sown his wild oats. I (24f) have not. POST: It really bothers me that my boyfriend of 1 year has slept with so many women he can't even count. There's a lot of reasons behind why it drives me crazy...I'm admittedly jealous and insecure and feel like I'm competing with all those women. I feel like there's nothing ""new"" for him to experience with me and it's less ""special"". It's been something I just accepted I may not ever get over maybe partially to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: It's been 1 month and 13 days since we last spoke. POST: 21/F It was a 1 month and 13 days that my boyfriend (22) decided it would be best that we take a break from our relationship and from each other. Seeing that he's currently abroad, so it's easy, since we physically can't see one another. I went to visit him and when I came back to the states, I was in a very deep depression, so I was more negative than I usually am and I'm still struggling to cope with it months later. After a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18f] want my boyfriend [20m] to take on my last name along with me taking on his if we get married, but he thinks it's dumb. POST: We've been together for almost 7 months, and we're not planning on getting married any time soon, but I think sharing our names is fair and equal. Our potential children would take his last name. But a marriage is an equal partnership, not one person becoming another. My last name is my identity, his last name is his. If we get married, we become part",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Older, introverted Redditors: How often do you regret the social opportunities you've missed because of your introversion? POST: I am a bit of an introvert myself, and often a night in sounds a lot more appealing than a night out at a loud, crowded bar. My friends are the drink and dance type, so I get a lot of invites, and I when I say no, I wonder if I will regret it seriously in old age. I did party quite a bit in college, and I look back fondly on those memories, and I'm glad I've m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: She [25F] says the only thing that will make her happy is if I [26M] propose POST: We've been together for three years, and last night was almost the tipping point for both of us. We talked about why we were unhappy, and she said the only thing she's not happy with is that we're not engaged yet. She said that was the only thing, and it made her depressed. When asked how we could compromise, she said ""do it sooner"". I don't feel financially stable enough to do it yet, but will be ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My younger brother is an emotional manipulative, ungrateful brat POST: I love my 18 year old brother, he isn't all bad, has lots of qualities as well, but I'm starting to hate him more than ever. My parents always did everything they could for him, still do. He has the best parents in the world, all the support and love in the world, and he still complains about everything!! He's always saying he doesn't have enough money to buy the clothes he wants, doesn't have enough money to do what",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My roommate [18F] caught me [19F] having sex with someone in our room. She totally freaked out even though she told me she was not going to be there. POST: Hi reddit I have a roommate problem. I'm a college freshman so I've only been in school a couple weeks. My roommate seemed nice - I didn't think we were going to be best friends as I could tell we were very different people. But I thought she was pretty easygoing as she doesn't seem to care that I am way messier and louder than h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [28M] been wanting/trying to break up with my [25F] GF of 2 1/2 years for over a year. Help! POST: The relationship has always been rocky. My love for her is the only thing that's kept us together. We should have broken up, a lot. Over a year ago she started a business that I unwillingly became a part of. Then she pressured me into moving in. I haven't wanted to be with her for quite some time. She has a lot of unresolved issues combined with the fact she's very imma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [19F] always being rejected or ignored by men which in result makes me freak out. POST: I would consider myself quite attractive. I recieve a considerable amount of male attention when I go out. However, I'm always being rejected. For example, in text messages/snapchats when the other person reads the message & doesn't reply I get very upset. I get this feeling i am not good enough, my insecurities get the better of me. One example of how I get rejected; I talk to a certain perso",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Everytime I [F/20] bring something up to my boyfriend [M/24] that he has done that has hurt my feelings he gets really defensive. POST: I try to be as mature as possible when I confront my boyfriend. I stay calm and cool and speak in a neutral tone and explain the situation. For example, tonight he did something that kind of hurt my feelings. We were speaking on the phone and I said ""tonight, when you blah blah blah, it kind of hurt my feelings. Next time, just let me know (whatever)",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[24M] with my Friend/crush[24F] feel lead on POST: So I've known this girl for a while and we've been getting to be closer friends (but not very close). She went in her own relationship and so did I. Later on we both ended up single again and I liked her so I figured why not ask her out. She told me that she was tempted and but that she didn't want to date at that time. Her breakup was really bad so I can understand why she would want some time. So we just kept on as friends and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19/F] boyfriend [21/M] bought me an absurdly expensive one year anniversary present. POST: On top of several other fairly expensive items, including two nice new shirts and a name brand silver bracelet, my boyfriend of 1 year bought me one of the newer models of a Macbook. He has always been over the top buying me gifts for holidays but I feel like I'm using him if I accept this. I have asked him to take it back multiple times, both seriously and jokingly, but he said he could af",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [26M] can't get over my ex girlfriend [25F] and it maybe hindering my current relationship with my girlfriend [22F] POST: Me and my ex girlfriend were together almost 4 years back in college through early university. I loved her without a doubt. Been with new girlfriend about 2 and a half years, and all I can think about is my ex. Since about 6 months ago I've realised that saying 'I love you' to my current girlfriend just doesn't feel right. It doesn't help that as a male in my ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35F] with my boyfriend [32 M] for a year, his mom died which led to depression and so I don't think I'll tell him about pregnancy (and probably abortion). POST: My boyfriend's mom died earlier this year. He went into a deep depression. Things got harder and harder between us. I did everything I could to be there for him. But then he broke up with me. I've been feeling weird recently and realized that I don't remember if I got my period last month. (It's been really light lately ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: So I've got a first date this weekend, does reddit have any advice for me? POST: Back info is an optional read: Me: All right, so I'd consider myself an average guy just recently getting out of a pretty big rut in my life. I'm just now starting to alleviate some of the anxiety I've been dealing with in for awhile as well as building up my self-esteem with some medications a doctor has prescribed to me. When I think of relationships, I try to make them last until the ultimate goal at the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28M] with my formal girlfriend [33F] of 8 months, I feel guilty for not being as heart broken as her POST: I ended things with my ex about 2 months ago now. Things just werent working for me and I'd tried talk it out with before we broke up and she basically said deal. So after getting tired of just dealing and some how accidentally ending things I stuck with it. She wanted to try being friends but that didn't work because she just kept getting upset that i wasn't trying fix thin",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Question for those who have fell off and gotten back on! POST: So my question is did any of gain / lose water weight multiple times? I will give some background as to why I am asking. Sorry if its long. F/22/SW170|CW150(?)|GW120 Okay so I fell off and haven't been eating super clean for around 6 months. I still had good days and I didn't gain anything back I just wasn't cutting enough. So this week I decided to get back on the wagon. I don't count calories, I am down 20 and this works fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25 M] SO's [26F] younger sister [17F] gave me a printed photo of herself for my birthday. Wondering what it means. POST: I've been with my SO for 7 years, living together for 4. We live in the same town as her family where her younger brother and sister live with her parents. We get along fine with her family, and have had a lot of interactions with her younger sister (Olivia) whose company we both enjoy. Olivia and I have what I think of as a close brother/ sister connection, so",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the weirdest way you've been hit on before? POST: Today I was at the gas station getting gatorade for my daily tennis match with my friends when two girls, the cashier and a random customer, started hitting on me in one of the weirdest ways. First off, I'm a minor and they're over 18 so I was immediately creeped out simply for that reason, but it quickly got weirder. The one customer said that I was sexy and I looked like David Beckham (Funny because that's not even the right spor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend calls me to discuss money POST: OK reddit, a little backstory. I(M.19) have been dating my girlfriend (F.19) for a little over a year. In this time we have broken up once (got back together a month later) but have otherwise, had a pretty solid relationship. During the summer we spent most of our time together and did absolutely everything. I have to say it was one of the best times of my life and it is what I keep going back to when things get rough. Lately we have both re",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by throwing a knife POST: TIFU - not so much today but a few months back. Sat in the canteen at school I was near to my friend, let's call him Alf, who likes breaking things. He was flexing one of those weak knives - the kind they trust even young kids with, basically a butter knife - back and forth, when of course, it snapped. His immediate reaction was one of ""I know, I'll throw the blade at Popplefish"". So he did, and it hit my forehead. Now being about as sharp as a brick this kn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [24M] grabbed my [21F] face a couple times while talking to me POST: Is this a reason to break up, as in a huge red flag? I'm honestly not sure. We have been dating a couple months and having some issues lately. He came over to talk and I was looking away a little bit because I was upset, and almost each time I did this he would grab my face to force me to look at him. I put my hands up to his hand to show him I wanted him to stop, but he didn't. I never said anything a",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Need Advice on a Fist Fight with a Friend POST: So I'm in quite a predicament at school, a friend of mine has accused me of stealing off him (which I didn't) I profused my innocence over the phone but he wont believe me stating that people have told him I had and continued to block me on FB and my number. So he goes off threatening to bash me on the weekend or the next time he sees me at school, Now I've got some former experience with Boxing and Thai fighting but this guy is (6""2 and hu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When I was 16, a group of us boys were hanging out at a friend's. I was shown a rifle, and I jokingly pointed it at my buddy. I'll never forget the instant fear among the guys in the room, and the quick intervention to get the weapon out of my hands. POST: The rifle wasn't loaded... at least that was my impression as I never inquired. But it was easily the most stupid thing I have ever done in my life. The situation could have gone quite differently. What's worse, is that I was in ROT",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How do I make it up to a friend we didn't invite? POST: So, I have a group of 5 friends that were going to see Star Wars together, but on the night of release, my husband got so excited that he sent out a text to everyone saying he had to get tickets now. One person in our group responded ""Good Luck!"" and that was it, so my husband went online to get tickets about 30 minutes later. Then, two of our other friends called and said they had miraculously found 4 tickets together, did we want t",positive " r/self TITLE: Faces with a truly Life Altering decision and I don't know what to do POST: Back story and context: Hello, how yall doing? I don't post here, ever really, so a bit anxious, but here we go. I'm a hard working kid (24) working in the city trying to get through the recession. I work in commercial Fireproofing. I apply spray-on coatings on architectural steel. I used to work for y dad, who was one of the biggest companies in the industry in our province. I was there for a few years until I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] kinda pissed with my girlfriend [17 F] concerning events POST: Hey reddit. I'm in a relationship for almost a year. Our relationship is pretty good, smooth. We love each other. When we have little problems we talk about it and make it work. No big deal so far. However, I'm feeling unconfortable as fuck nowadays. I'm always the one who's planning something to do, you know? I'm the one who has to make plans, search for a place to go. I'm the one who make ""different things"".",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I don't know how to deal with my SO's low self-esteem and passive aggressiveness. Help? POST: My boyfriend and I (I'm a lady) have been together for about a year, and we're both 19 and sophomores in college. It's been a wonderful year, and when things are good they are so amazing, we love each other more than anything. We became fast best friends last year, and that developed into a strong relationship where we pretty much spend all of our time together and both greatly enjoy the ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [38/F] with my boyfriend[35/M] 2 years Don't know how honest he is being with me? Found MSG saying he wants to marry a girl on facebook POST: I'm having a issue right now and don't know how to deal with it. I guess in a way it is petty but I don't like how it makes me feel. My boyfriend has always been very loving and caring. He is really great. he is divorced and says that he thought he couldn't love again until he met me. The problem that I'm having is that i recently found out ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my GF [18 F] 2.7 years . Found out parents might be getting a divorce GF was not there when i needed her. Ended up in a big fight POST: So yesterday i found out my parents might be getting a divorce. They were talking about it and wanted me ( the oldest) to know first. My Gf is in college 6 hours away and i knew she was going out to go to a party. Well i told her what was happening and she told me she would talk to me about it after she finished her food. Okay cool. N",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU Girl gave me head, I thought I came...I was wrong![Slightly NSFW?] POST: So yeah it actually didn't happen today but about 5 years ago. I was still a virgin and kind of frustrated about it. You know how it goes ""shit i'm still a virgin..."" So I was at this party and I heard that there was a girl which I heard she was pretty easy(Let's call her easy girl from now on). So for the rest of the evening I spent drinking, I went outside to smoke. There was easy girl. I was really fucked up, bu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Suggestions? High-school graduate seeks short-term job that involves solitude and travel. POST: I was at a graduation party over the weekend and talking to a recent graduate. (I am in my 40's was there as a friend of the parents) and he said he wanted to travel for a year before he went to college. He's not looking to join the military, be a OTR truck driver or a professional sales rep, he just wants to see the country (US) or even the world and enjoys long trips an solitude. Any sugge",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it wrong that my boyfriend(21) wants me(21) to dress like I am 16.... :\ POST: Okay so I'm 21 and I do look younger than my actual age, but honestly I chalk it up to good genes, I don't speak like a high schooler or anything ... So it has never been a big deal to me. However my boyfriend, of 2 years, who is only a few months younger than me recently bought me these boots and at first I was really touched thinking it was just a nice random gift. But later in the day he admitted",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My husband (m31) told me (f29) two nights ago that he's been unhappy for 6 months POST: This is going to be a long post... To start things off, I'm still very confused and heartbroken. I always thought I was in a great relationship and that we were partners in everything. I've felt like something was off for a few months but he said it was just stress at work and honesty has been the core of our relationship so I believed him. Well, Wednesday night my husband came home and after a l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] and my boyfriend [22M] are thinking about breaking up because he doesnt want me hanging out with men. POST: We have been together for a year and a half. My boyfriend hates that I have friends that are guys. He doesnt care if I hang out with girls. His reasoning is hes scared i'm going to leave him for someone else. But the thing is i'm bisexual. I have been in relationships with women. I'm not gonna just not hang out with my male friends because hes insecure. I understand no",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need some insight about having an intervention for my sick sister. POST: *This is a throw-away account to protect my families identity.* **Background:** My sister is very, very sick. She has a severe eating/body image issue that has led to type 2 malnutrition (this is what my father told me) and liver issues resulting in her being hospitalized. She has not left my parent's property for around 6 months except for late night runs to Meijer or the gas station. She also is a former addict ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my SO [24M] just shy of 2 years, struggling with his passive aggressive behavior. POST: So my partner and I are usually pretty great, but we do argue (we are human after all) and during these arguments he'll often throw insults at me (idiot, loser, dick, stuff like that) he knows it upsets me yet he never seems to apologize for it. Also more often than not when we argue he ""breaks up with me"" but never truly does it... not that it ever gets spoken about. I'd like to dis",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [35 M] wife [32 F] of five years is choosing to place our son [3 months M] in daycare even though we agreed that she would stay home with him. POST: My wife knows my reddit account, therefore a throwaway. My wife and I have been together for 8 years, married for 5. Before we got married, we discussed having children and what we would do. My wife said she would love to be a stay at home mother and we both agreed that it would be easier for her to take off work for a year or two f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (27f) am ready for my bf (36m) to commit further. Remarried divorcès of Reddit, does it take longer to be sure the 2nd time around? POST: My bf (36 m) and I (27 f) have been dating for 19 months and living together for about a year, and everything is great between us. We have fun together and really encourage one another to be our best selves, individually and together. I'm ready to get married, but he is more apprehensive, and doesn't know why we need to change our relationship si",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Neighbor threw mud on my car, what should I do? POST: So, for starts it wasn't my car, but my sister's car. My sister and I were driving to a bar, when she noticed that her car, that was just washed, now was covered in mud on the passenger side, and the passenger mirror was way out of adjustment. Prior to getting into the car to the bar I had noticed a person standing around her car rather suspiciously. Her car was parked across from her house, with a permit, in front of her neighbor's h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I don't know what to do... POST: My friends parents are smothering her, she is not allowed to do anything without their permission (which is rarely given) and is pretty much made to sit in the house all day doing homework, after which she pretty much watch's some television and then heads to bed. She is in college but still lives at home and so is not getting the college experience of dorm life. three of her parents children have already left the house telling their own parents",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking Booksnort without checking if anyone was home POST: Throwaway for reasons So here some backstory. I play games on the computer a lot. Like, most of my life consist of computer gaming. I still live with my parents and they do not like my playing computer games at all, and times tried to convince me to get rid of my computer and get a laptop instead. They always get on me about it and it bothers me. So, I like to kill 2 birds with one stone by taking booksnort while playing comp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 F] has a clingy acquaintance/friend(?) [18M] who I've known for two months, and wants to marry me POST: Okay. It's a little weird. I know that teenage relationships don't matter. We're graduating in a few days. I am not, and was not looking for a relationship. Aforementioned acquaintance asked me to prom, no big deal. I met him a month earlier at the time of asking, I said ""yes,"" as friends. I told HIM it was as friends, I told people who asked it was as friends. We usually ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20F) am having doubts about my relationship with boyfriend (20M) of 3 years. POST: My boyfriend and I have been planning on someday getting married and spending our lives together. We weren't perfect, but we were happy together. He was (and still is) the only person I ever see myself settling down with. A few months ago, I started losing feelings for him. I suffer from depression and was taking an antidepressant at the time, so I thought that my medication was the cause of my los",positive " r/relationships TITLE: He [22/M] dumped me [21/f] because he's depressed. What do I do? POST: We'd been together for a few months, friends for years before that and I was under the impression that everything was going swimmingly. We always had fun together, had great chemistry and I was so surprised at how comfortable we were around each other in such a short space of time. Then the other night I thought I'd check in to see how he's feeling with everything when he told me that he's not happy. He admitted ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[21F] don't feel too excited about this amazing guy[24M] I've been seeing for a month POST: I got dumped twice in this past year, one of them dumped me for his ex and the other because of the distance. They would both go hours or even days without talking to me or replying to texts (I'm not the clingy type either) so I was always waiting for their contact in anticipation and pretty much had anxiety attacks. This new guy I've been seeing for a month is the opposite! He texts everyday",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 MF] with my BF [40 M] - 1 month. Broke up, I dated and slept with someone else. Now he wants to get back together. Do I tell him? POST: Was with my boyfriend for about a month (+several weeks prior intensely chatting online), everything was fantastic until one day we got into an argument and I broke it off. Then, realized I might have overreacted. He didn't respond to my email or text, and I thought I would not speak to him again so left it. The very next day, I was asked out",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by ordering a chair from Germany POST: I was on Facebook and saw that someone posted a link to a Buzzfeed article about cozy chairs to take naps in. Being someone who enjoys taking naps, I clicked on the article and started browsing. I came across one that I thought was cool looking, and clicked the link to the website where the chairs were made. This is where I fucked up. The company that makes the chairs is German. After getting Chrome to translate the page I still couldn't make sense",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Most confusing 'friendship' I have had for years. POST: This girl and I have known each other for years; since the 4th grade when we met in orchestra. We remained pretty good friends all through grade school, middle school, high school, and now college. In the past, we had a few sexual encounters but nothing serious or consistent. We had always seemed to like each other at different times. I would like her, and she would have a bf. She would like me while I had a gf. Well, now t",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: When is enough, enough? POST: I've been dating this young lady in a long distance relationship for over a year now, I spent 3 weeks with her over xmas-newyears which was absolutely amazing, we parted in torrential tears at the airport. Shortly after she returned to studying, she mentioned she was required to learn formal dancing to be able to pass her class. She said not to worry and showed me a pic of a short weedy guy. However a week or too later she complained she was still havi",positive " r/self TITLE: Just met my Dad after 33 years and just found out he's going for tests for cancer. Not sure how to feel :/ POST: I've just turned 33 and hadn't had my Dad in my life until very recently. I managed to track him down online a while ago, have been chatting via the net and finally met up a few weeks ago. It was all great. Everything felt natural and it made a lot of things about me make sense. We are so similar in so many ways. I've always felt a bit of an outcast with my Mums side of the fa",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: I [26F] was just dumped by my boyfriend [35] of 7 months and I'm pretty sure he was ""the one"", what can I do to get him back? POST: So last week my boyfriend of 7 months decided that he didn't like being my boyfriend anymore, but he liked being my friend. Since the beginning of our relationship we had this intense connection and within the past couple months I knew that he is what some people call ""the one"" or the person I'm supposed to be with. I know it sounds really cheesy, and before ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18m] and my mother [38F] Havent talked in two or three years. Apparantly she will be attending my graduation in 1 1/2 weeks and I need help. POST: When my parents got divorced 5 or so years ago I took it pretty rough. It changed me as a person dealing with the divorce and I had a few years of pretty rough depression. As i started to get past my issues, essentially my mother starts to go crazy. She starts talking about how she wishes she could kill my father (whom I live with) a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Legal opinion: Do I have a case to take this guy to Small Claims? POST: So back in the fall of 2010, after doing some work for a company, I was put in contact with another business owner funded by the same guys (Lightbank, the guys behind Groupon). I talked to the guy about what he needed, and we agreed to a retainer for three months. Like a fool, though, I started work before I had a signed agreement, and once the first payment was due (about a week after PT work began) he balked at ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (21F) dating bf (23M) for 1.5years. Need some creative ideas on how to show my love and appreciation POST: So this isn't going to be your typical r/relationships post. I have been with my boyfriend for 1.5years, we both fell head over heels in love with each other and I honestly could see myself spending the rest of my life with this guy. But both of us are currently university students with me on work experience and him on campus. I've generally just had a terrible week, had my p",negative " r/dogs TITLE: I'm reading clashing information about teacup frenchies. POST: A friend of a friend has a teacup french bulldog that she cannot take care of and asked if I might want it. I've always wanted a frenchie but never considered a teacup. I was reading up on the breed and came across an article saying that ""teacup"" dogs are usually just the runt of the litter and are prone to more health issues. I've looked at different sites and have seen contradicting information about teacup breeds. French bulldo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my LDR girlfriend [19F] of 5 months, told me she regrets breaking up with her boyfriend POST: I have been in a long distance relationship (LDR) with my girlfriend for 5 months now. We had been best friends for nearly 2 years before that. She lives half way across the United States from me. She dated a guy for about a year, she was single for a handful of months, and then I went over and met her in person for the first time and we began a relationship. I get to see her",positive " r/relationships TITLE: First serious relationship with 23M is heading towards first serious break up and I, 22F, have no idea what to do POST: I'm ten months into my first serious monogamous relationship. Up until now, I've went with hook ups, friends with benefits, and a couple non-monogamous ""relationships,"" though this is the first time I can definitively say I am ""in love."" This being in love is partially the problem. For various reasons, this relationship can't really go on forever; he's got glaring",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [26/m] doesn't apply himself more. What can I [23/f] do to encourage him? POST: Boyfriend's a history major with a minor in pre-med. He graduate a while back and now he's working as a research assistant at a hospital. He's been working as a RA for about 2 years now, unemployed for a few months in between studies. His pay isn't so great and he's doing much more than they're paying him. Once the study is over again, he's going to unemployed again until he finds another study ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Applying with A Friend POST: Some quick background info. My friend and I are graduating from the same uni this year and from last August we have been on the job hunt together looking for chemical engineering. I mean to point where we have been applying to jobs together for about 4 hours a day (almost). Now the thing is, we have the exact same experiences. The reason being because what I was able to get into (internship or research), I got him into as well and vice versa. To be completel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: ex-GF of 1.5 yrs [22/F] texts me [25/m] with a picture of us just to let me know she has a new bf POST: We dated for 1.5 yrs. Broke up and restarted many times. It was very fulfilling. Then after 2 months, of NC at all. She texts me with a picture of us. She then says good times, hope everything is well. OFC I bite. Asking her how she's doing. She just feels the need to tell me she has a bf now. Immediately I reply that I've had about 13 girlfriends (obviously one night standers a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I am(30 M) have been dating my (29 F) GF for ~ 1.5 years now, really feel like she is the one in so many ways but having trouble calming my mind about could be's. POST: I know this title is generic an I apologize, but basically here is the issue I've been dealing with on a semi regular basis. I've been with this girl for just about a year and a half now after about 7 single years thinking I'd be single forever partly because I enjoyed being single partly because I was scared of bein",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by accidentally making a rape joke. POST: I'm visiting some friends at another school, ""Mary"" and ""Dave"". We're all staying in Mary's room since her old roommate moved out. We're all hanging out in Mary's common room with her roommates, chatting, she's drinking a little. Like an hour earlier, my friend and I spent 20 minutes blowing up and tying off 2 condoms, which Mary quickly popped! But hey ""we've got 2 more"" if we want to do it again. So we're all joking around about I forget. Dav",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18/M] with my girlfriend [18/F] Of 7 months. I don't go out/hangout with her as much as I feel I should. POST: Hi all, I'm writing here because I feel as though I don't hangout with my girlfriend as much, and I know some people will just say ""then just hangout with her, what's the problem"", that's the issue. I don't know what the problem is. Maybe it's that I'm just lazy or something but I really do like her a lot and I feel AWFUL because she deserves better... Also, I feel lik",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Stolen Card Information] Someone in Brooklyn just spent all my money. POST: Granted it wasn't hard, wasn't much in there to steal. My employer doesn't like to give checks out. They have a preference for this stupid Citi prepaid card. I sent Citi an email explaining the situation so hopefully sometime soon I will receive my money back and the account will be closed. **Here is why I am posting in /r/legaladvice:** Is it at all possible that I can use the information I have on the per",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Dont know if this is the right sub. But finding a girl accepting me (m21) even though i have Braincancer. POST: As the title says i have a very rare form of braincancer thats non-lethal as long as my meds and inop machines are working correctly. There has been a few times where i could have died, and been operated on over 50 times (lost count after 48). And to the problem, everytime i start dating a girl and things go great. The second they find out i have braincancer even th",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I think my gf is crazy. She is overreacting to the point where she wants to end things. I think I might let her. POST: So I just started dating an ex-girlfriend again (I know, first mistake, right?) and for the first few weeks things have gone WAY better than I expected. So the other night I was out drinking with some buddies and I got a slightly racy text from my gf about how she was getting ready to go to sleep in our ""dirty sex bed"". I of course smiled and my buddies ask",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] am depressed when I'm not with my girlfriend [21F] POST: Hi r/relationships. I have lost all goals and motivation for self-improvement in my life because I have a girlfriend now. Basically everything I did (developing skills, making friends, going out), revolved around the possibility of me meeting a girl and getting laid. Now I have a girlfriend, but we can only meet once or twice a week. In the time when I'm not with her, I feel horribly depressed and don't know what to do",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by putting my classroom on full lockdown. POST: I've been a long term sub for a while now and this isn't quite from today, but oh well. One of the first days at my current assignment an announcement came over the PA stating ""We are on lockdown."" So, being trained in this from other assignments, I turned off the lights, had the students get out of sight (not easy as the classroom had six big windows from the hall, but apparently 6 middle schoolers can fit under my desk /r/TIL). I then rea",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do other countries have a huge difference in cost for a similar service just because it has ""enterprise"" or ""business"" in the title like in the US (like ISP's)? POST: I was just involved with getting a new ISP set up at work. Small office (~20 ppl), and for a 10/10 fiber line it's costing us almost $1k/month, plus several thousand for installation (even though all the lines and hardware is already installed from our last ISP). This is NOT a dedicated line (like a T1), it's the same car",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Americans and non-U.S. folk alike: What innovations did your country invent/create/pioneer that you wish more people knew of and respected? POST: Reason I ask: With some of the threads today on what others do not understand about the U.S., or misconceptions people have about the U.S. and other countries, I was reminded of a time a few years back: My friends and I were visiting Amsterdam and Munich for a week (yay Oktoberfest!) and on the night train from AMS to Munich, we were throwing b",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Job question? Am I in the right? POST: Sorry for the vague and poorly worded question, but I need to get this resolved by tomorrow and don't have time to of something better. Background : I'm 18 and working at a hardware store on the weekends to make some spending money. The job is okay. Sometimes I get to sit around and do nothing on a slow day. Occasionally I have to do ""dirty work"" like pack and take out the trash, cut up boxes, clean/dust stuff. I wouldn't mind this as much if the base",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: My dilemma selling a car today. POST: Alright so I bought a 1999 Mazda mx-5 for $500 [Exterior]( [Interior]( And found out that heaps of work need to be done. I don't have that money to fix it so I decided to sell. My original price was $3000 I got a call within 20 minutes. He drove 60 minutes to pick it up and haggled me down to 1.6k :( Being heavily influenced by my mother i decided to take the offer. Instantly regretting it I tried to take back the offer etc. I called the RT",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: x-post from r/relationships: Still hung up on my ex after two years...should I contact him? POST: I was in a 4 year relationship with my ex (now 24/m) before the relationship I have now. I've been with my boyfriend (28/m) for almost two and a half years. I am 22/f. My current relationship is great, and I'm happy mostly (depression and yadda yadda) but I have serious trust issues and lots of anxiety to go along with it. What does my ex have to do with it? I know he cheated on me a time or",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [22F] not take my boyfriend [21M] for granted? POST: We've been together for a year. It's been frustrating throughout, since the most recent 8 months have been long distance, where I've been at school and he's been working. Recently I've been really fed up with the effort of maintaining a long-distance relationship, because of assignments in my engineering program, and university life in general. Sometimes I wonder if I could do better than him with less trouble by dating",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: In 1973 the Supreme court in Roe v. Wade established the constitution provides the individual with an implicit right to privacy, and laws against abortion violated this right. Why doesn't the ACLU use this, amongst so many others, precedent be challenge the PATRIOT Act as unconstitutional? POST: * TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex texted me out of the blue, commenting on my recent breakup with someone else & informing me of her new relationship and her happiness - was this intentionally cruel? (Text inside, reactions solicited) POST: [38f, 38m] Recently I broke up with a woman I had been dating for about a month. I have been in a significant amount of pain since then. About week later, my previous ex texted me out of the blue and reading her text felt .... bad. I tend to be naive about the intentions of oth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've (22M) let on that I have sexual experience to someone I've gotten close to (20F); but I don't. POST: So, there's a girl I've gotten close to that really likes me, and I feel the same. Been speaking for about 5 months now. Call it cheesy, but I've never quite known anyone like her. We're more than likely going to step it up at some point, and we talk dirty to each other fairly often - I really turn her on by telling her what I'd do to her based on what seems natural to me - but w",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: Career Advice - Horrible Boss, Manipulated into Mgmt POST: Hi there. So here's the story: I work at a fast growing company. I was hired as the first person on my team, aside from my boss, to begin building an entire team (doing something the company previously outsourced, and is now doing in-house). For the first 3 months, no one else was hired ( i was told we would have 6 other members by the 2nd week). I worked 65 hour weeks & weekends, all because it was only little old me. Now, oth",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it absolutely wrong to evade compulsory military service, even if conditions are shitty? Please advise POST: Background: I am a recently graduated medical doctor in a third-world Arab country. My pay is basically nil. I am not exaggerating . As an intern, I get paid the equivalent of 40 US dollars a month. Yes, 40. Next year, I will start my residency. In my country, at that age, all males must serve a 2-year military service, which is virtually unpaid (same pay as internship, give",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Babies Can't Wait - Great resource for children under 3 years old that might need therapy POST: Babies Can't Wait (BCW) is a federally mandated, state run program for children under 3 years old. They provide free evaluation for the children first by a BCW coordinator and then by a specialist. Speech, physical, ocupational, feeding, etc. therapies are available. A physician or a parent can request evaluation. At local level, BCW contracts with private therapy clinics that agree to charge",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Break up? POST: I've [20 F] been in love this guy(x) [20 M] for 4, almost 5 years now. And trust me when I say it's hopeless. I've tried pretty much everything, including trying to move one. Nothing seems to work. I've even tried to go out with other people (3 so far,) none of them seems to last. But then I met this guy(y) [25 M]. I do like y and we are going out, it's just that I still haven't forgot about (x) completely and it just doesn't seem fair to (y). So should I break up, ta",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My autistic brother [14M] always kisses me [18F] on the lips and hugs me too much, I HATE IT! Am I a bad person? POST: My brother Tyler has really bad autism, I love him to death, I mean it, I would die for him. But he can sometimes be just too frickin' much too handle. He can barely talk a few words, he shouts and screams when he gets really angry. Our dad is only home a few days a year and our mom never seems to spend any time with him. I really love him but it's too much. He",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my best friend [20 M] of 2 years, fooled around and I don't know where to go from here? POST: This all happened last night. We were going for a night out of drinking with some other friends and towards the end of the night me, my best friend (who we'll call Bill) and one other mate who was with us decide we'd come back to my student house and smoke some weed. The night goes on and the other friend heads home so its just me and Bill in the front room. Out of nowhere I ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by meeting with an old school friend POST: I've been on this subreddit for quite a while time and I'd thought I'd share a TIFU moment with you guys. So this fuck up happened today. Last week I found the number of an old friend of mine through the school year book. I sent her a message and we decided to meet up at her house. So fast forward to today, I was a bit late (since I had a few errands to do before leaving) and I was rushing, now let me tell you something; my house is really far ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [30/M] Happy in relationship with long-term, live-in girlfriend [30/F] but struggling with mutual attraction to colleague at work. POST: I have been with my amazing girlfriend for 9 years. We have a great sex life, and lots of great friends together. Though, not many activities in common together, other than some TV shows we like. Other than that, things are very good. We've lived together for 2.5 years, and I was hoping to be able to afford a nice engagement ring for her this ye",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I(19f) think my SO (20m) is bored with me, and possibly trying to end things but he's doing by avoiding me and it's making me feel crazy. POST: So I've been in a monogamous relationship for about 5 months now, it's a bit long distance by about 20 minutes and neither of us had cars. We started by seeing each other once a week and we had fun, then it dwindled to once a month. Now it's been about 2 months since I've even seen him. I've talked to him and I know he is upset about somethin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[24F] and my boyfriend[25M] of 8 months had our first big disagreement. Afterwards, he ran to his ex/good friend. POST: We had our first big disagreement over something silly and partly due to a miscommunication on google hangouts. In summary, I told him in confidence that I thought one of his female friends/ex girlfriend had low self esteem because of some stuff she did in her past, which is irrelevant now. After our disagreement, he went over to said ex's house and told her exac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My BF [49M] got drunk at a party and left me [40F] there. POST: We have been together for almost 3 years. We were at a party (really, more like a get-together. There were about 10 people) and he got pretty drunk. I was drunk too but not as much as he was. I was looking for him and discovered that his car was gone. One of my friends told me that he just left. Without me. My purse was in the car. While the relationship is pretty good, he has always kept his distance emotionally. I und",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my GF [22 F] 4 yr, graduated from the same college, and she broke up with me, presumably because she is leaving for a job in a far away state, like 24 hr drive away. POST: So we had been together in the best kind of relationship for 3 years and 6 months-ish. We were/are best friends. I mean we really were best friends, there is no one on the planet that I can say that about besides her. And she would say the same about me. Our areas of study are both engineering, and w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22] feel like I don't know anyone, and I'm about to graduate college. POST: Was a bit nervous posting here but I just wanted some more outside opinion on this problem that I have. About four weeks ago, roughly before my senior year of college started, my SO of four and a half years broke up with me out of the blue. We were in an LDR and we were planning on getting married after I finished up my summer semester and I would move to his state to be with him. This came as a complete ",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Impatient man gets swift karma in drive thru POST: Note: please pardon my formatting or spelling mistakes as I am posting from my phone. I was going to the drive though at burger place named after a board game. Now it was a Thursday night, and being the only one of this burger place for quite a few miles, it was busy. I got in line in my car, two cars back from the microphone. After 15 minutes of waiting, it's my turn to place my order. As I drive up, the lady over the microphone",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19] needs help getting over my ex [17] but we don't hate each other. We dated for 4 years prior, broke up 2 weeks ago today POST: So we broke up. The relationship wasn't working and we both knew it and one day I exploded and said mean things to her that I knew she would get mad at/hurt by and at that moment we both had a revalation that the situation we were in was not good for us, but especially not for her. So I got her to meet me somewhere to talk through things, thinking that",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24M] randomly hooked up with [28F], haven't heard from her in 4 days POST: Earlier this week (Tuesday), I went out for some drinks with a friend and he invited a bunch of folks from his job. Me (24M) and one of his coworkers (28F) hit it off and ended up sleeping together that night. The thing is, I sent her a text yesterday around noon saying, ""Heyy, how has your week been?"", yet I haven't heard anything from her. Should I just chalk this up as a one night stand? We had a lot i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: going to see my friend [17f] who i really like in a few days, need advice on what to do [16m] POST: Hey Reddit! This is my first post so bear with me here. In short, I'm going to California to visit a friend of mine [17f] who I've known for 4 years now. Here's my problem, I'm going to her house for a week in a few days to just hang out before the summer ends (she lives in California, I live in Colorado). She's the only girl who I've dated that I've really really liked (don't want t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [36F] husband [41M] of six years is aimless and unfulfilled, and I don't know how to help him, but the anger it's causing is getting bad. POST: We'll start from the end. Yesterday he blew up about pens. Specifically, he didn't like where I keep them in my office because the baby [>2F] could get to them. I tried to tell him we could talk about it later, as the baby was fussy and made any discussion near impossible. He took this as me shutting him down, which turned into him tellin",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by locking Easter lunch in my car POST: So today my family is having a very large Easter lunch as we do every year and there are about thirty of us that attend. My only job today was to pick up the finished turkey, ham and desserts and drive it out to my grandmothers where we were having lunch. Lately the automatic lock and unlock button on my car has not been working so when I get out of my car I just hit the lock button on the door of the car, close the door and unlock it with the key",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit! What is the post (or posts) that got you interested in Reddit in the beginning? POST: Hey Reddit! What is the post (or posts) that got you interested in Reddit in the beginning? The reason I ended up on the website in the first place was a comment I saw on the [Tosh.o blog] where someone basically said that the Tosh editors steal all their material from Reddit. So I came and decided to check it out. I remember one of the first images in [/r/funny] I looked at was of a house",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M/F] with my GFs [19 and 18 M/F]. I study abroad and have two girlfriends, one abroad and one at home. Both on birth control and don't know about each other. POST: I am from France and I study in the Netherlands. I started a relationship with a girl here two years ago, and one year and a half ago another with a girl in the Netherlands. I was feeling alone and the opportunity presented itself, non of them could find out so I didn't object. I feel like I am with them just so th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When is a time you've felt violated reddit? I'll start... POST: I recently moved far from home to a new university where I don't really know many people. Lately I have taken to using the popular random video chat website ''omegle'' to help pass the down time between homework and classes. One night I was on the site for quite a while getting pretty tired of all the nonsense (mostly dudes ''touching'' themselves) so switched to a new window and started doing homework. After about 20 minute",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (M24) Her (21F) broke up 3 months ago. I deleted my ex off of social media a couple days ago and I still miss her. I know it's for the best, and I want to make contact. Is it normal to still miss an ex this long, and should I try and make contact? POST: Our relationship was a very fast and intense 6 months. It crashed hard and burned like a wild fire. We ultimately broke up (more like her breaking up with me) because of a lack of communication, and rather than work on that, she en",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Senior Highschool troubles POST: Hi! I am 17yo, in September to start my third (final) year in Senior Highschool and take final exam in mid 2015 to determine which university I will attend to, if at all. I finished junior highschool with good grades, with the average of over 5.6 (where 6 is A and 1 is F) and B's only in unimportant subjects. Despite having annoying health problems (suffering to this day) I aced the final exams and scored in top 1% in every subject. I applied to the bes",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] just broke up with my boyfriend [25M] of nearly 3 years because I need to ""figure myself out."" What he doesn't know if that I cheated on him nearly 6 months ago. Do I tell him or try to work through it by myself? POST: Things were amazing for the first ~2 years of our relationship. But things started to get dull as we started to focus more on ourselves than our relationship. Fast forward, and a silly work crush turns into a heated make out and sleepover (no sex) while BF is",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] advice on [20F] POST: *Warning I am a horrible writer* lmao Hello there just need some quick advice on my situation. In a nutshell, me and my girlfriend broke up 2 months ago. Decided that I should throw myself out there on the dating scene and start having fun again (I am very much moved on from my ex). However the tricky part is that my ex left me for my ex bestfriend and the girl I'm seeing is his first love. I know tri-fecta of scandulous behavior, right? lol I didn't",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not telling my friends that my Mom was in my room POST: So this weekend my mom decided to come up to New Hampshire to attend some meetings and to check in on me (I go to a boarding school.) So we had a wonderful dinner, and then she came back to help clean up my room. As we were having a conversation about my younger sisters, my friends barge in. ""Munzini, you're a whore!"" one yells, my mom stuck behind the door. ""Lol stop masturbating!"" another says. My mum's face gapes wide op",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my Girlfriend[16 F] of 3 weeks. I haven't kissed her yet, and I have no idea of how to initiate it without being awkward POST: I have been dating this girl for 3 weeks, we were best friends before we got together. My friend asked her while i was gone if we had Kissed yet, and when she said no, my friend was pressuring her into doing it that day after school before I drove home. Now, I've only taken this girl on 2 dates so far, and before I kissed her I wanted to make",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: My son takes nothing seriously POST: My oldest son (11) has been accused by my daughter (8) of showing her porn and trying to get her to give him a bj. The police are involved and he will likely be charged by the ada. He has to go stay with his dad for the time being. Since this situation developed about a week ago, my son has continued to act as though nothing has happened. He got in trouble at school. He ignored his responsibilities. He goofs off and laughs. I am sick and can't",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Rude comment by a former friend has me feeling down POST: I'll start this out by saying this is far from the worst thing in the world. I'm just feeling really down about it and needed someone to lend an ear. Thanks for listening! So my fiancé and I had a couple friend who are actually responsible for introducing us. Unfortunately, the husband half of the duo did some bad stuff and they're now getting divorced. We've been supportive of the wife and have limited contact with the hus",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by adding cool animations to my PowerPoint. POST: So, backstory. My group and I in our BSc Psychology course have to do a presentation module, based on research and journals and blah blah blah. Because I'm the only one technologically proficient, it was my role to splice everyone's work onto the PowerPoint. Today's presentation was our final one of this semester. I figured that I would make this one special, so I added the exploding slide transition to every slide, I made every sentence ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Having family dynamic issues with my [26 F] dad [ 52 M] and his girlfriend [48 F], how can his ever work? POST: Basically, my dad cheated on my mom through many years of their relationship and they finally divorced after he left her for a woman, let's call her Kate in 2014. Almost two years down the road my dad and Kate are still together and he often expresses how badly he wants myself and my sister [18 F] to have a closer relationship with them. He says he isn't interested in marr",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] Long distance relationship with (22/m) isn't working. What's the nicest way to let him down? POST: We started dating last February. In November, he moved 2,000 miles away. I care about him, but I am certain that long distance is not enough for me, and I have made up my mind to end it. The way I see it, I have two choices: 1. I could break it off 2,000 miles away, via skype or a phone call. This seems really insensitive, particularly seeing as we've been dating abou",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting a zero on my SAT2 POST: I know most of reddit doesnt like teenagers to be on here but id like to share this story regardless. To give you a background, im a freshman in high school and the test i took was a subject test for biology; its based on information that i havnt learned yet (that i will learn in AP biology), but its still a good test to take because if you do well you can share your grade with colleges. I lost track of when the test was and about three weeks ago i fou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [33F] guy [34 M] (1 year) is leaving for the Navy in April. Married/attached, current/ex-military members, how do you make a relationship work? POST: My guy and I got together about a year ago. He mentioned that he had wanted to go into the military when he was young and had first gotten married but his family told him if he did so, he would be harming his new wife and their marriage and they convinced him that the only way to do right by her was not to enlist. So, needless to say",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I[M21] forge a mature long term relationship with my SO [F20] POST: We have been together for six months, I'm not saying I'm ready to settle down but that is the path I want to begin to take. My prior experiences all stem from high-school. mainly a three year relationship, however i was never really happy or in it (long story but I had to work on myself and made good choices for myself like ending the relationship) So I really have no clue on how to start putting the right th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my GF [20F] of 2 years, recently feels like a battle to keep attention/interest POST: Ok I'll try to keep this short and concise. Been in a Happy, great relationship with plenty of mutual enjoyment going about for the last couple of years. We don't fight often (and it's generally not major), we listen to eachother and are respectful of any issues. Everything seems good. I trust her but this has been eating at me. I really like this Girl, however recently (over the las",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girlfriend wants to lose weight. How to encourage? POST: Hi reddit, Title says it all. My girlfriend [19/f] has expressed interest to lose weight. She has steadily gained a total of about 15 lbs over the past year. Probably due to some medication side effects which make her have a bigger appetite and less energy so she exercises less. I [22/m] think she looks great but I'd like for her to lose a couple pounds to be honest. I suggested she'd take this summer to exercise and get",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 F] with my BF[27 M] 4 months, and I got hit with Chemo. >.< POST: So here's my story in a nutshell: I have recently been diagnosed with Stage 1A of Ovarian Cancer. I started chemo last week and it's really bitten me in the behind. My BF has been the most amazing and supportive person in my corner and I am extremely grateful that I have him, but at the same time I am scared that this will be too much for him. He wants me to lean on him and use him as my support system but I don",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] feel awful for not telling my boyfriend [22M] about a friendly peck on the cheek. POST: Me and my boyfriend get on great. We have been together for 5 years and he is the rock in my life. He helps me get by and deal with all of my problems and I also do the same for him. A while ago, me and my boyfriend went out for a few drinks. We both recognized people we knew there and got taking to others and basically had fun, as well as really drunk. At the bar, I was getting a few dr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I just being anxious? POST: Me: 19/M, Him: 23/M. We've been dating for about five months. Two weeks ago, it was my birthday, and when he didn't wish me happy birthday immediately after starting our IM online, I flipped out, signed off and passive-aggressively told him, ""Thanks for wishing me a happy birthday."" He was hurt and upset, and last Friday we spent the day together, and I ended up crying, telling him I was so sorry for being rude to him and hurting his feelings. He just",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to give my cats some fresh air. POST: So my family and I are in the process of moving, and we *were* attempting to pack the UHAUL truck today. Therefore, we had the doors of the house wide open. To make sure they didn't get out, we took our cats, Lily, Bentley, and Nolan, to my sister's room to hangout during the move. In my sister's room, she was in the process of painting to ensure that we got the security deposit back, and we decided to crack the window so the fumes wouldn't",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my boyfriend [26M] of one year, I know it's early for us, but I've gotten ""proposal-crazy"" - is there a way back? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for almost a year now and living together almost since the beginning. It's been perfect. I love him to bits, we have great communication, had a few arguments but haven't fought, most amazing sex of my life - everything just works. He made my life better in so many great ways. We have somewhat talked about the futur",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [27f] need to break up with my fiancé [30m] but I paid for part of the ring on my credit card, waiting for him to finish paying me back. What do I do? POST: When we got engaged, he had bought the ring but not the diamond. Told me I'd get it in 3 weeks. Well 3 weeks go by and when we get to the jewelry store, he tells me he can't afford it, but I really want it (the cubic looked like crap) so we agreed to put it on my credit card and he would pay me back. He's given me over 1/3 of t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29M] am worried that my wife [29F] of 5 years is cheating on me. Am I being crazy or is my marriage over? POST: Quite a short story. Over the last few months, I've noticed that my wife has been getting less and less interested in intimacy. Now it has stopped (nothing in the last month, even nothing on our wedding anniversary a week ago) with the excuse always being she is too sore, too tired, etc. I work quite long hours and in the last couple of weeks she has started taking lots",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Medical/Military personnel, I desperately need your insight please! POST: Hello there, thank you so much for taking the time to click on this post. I'll try to keep this as short and simple as I can! I'm currently a 20 year old resident living in Massachusetts with a very large interest in choosing a career in the medical field. I either want to become a nurse to get my foot in the door, then try to become a doctor afterwards. Unless it's smarter to just go to school to become a doctor? I'",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/m] I'm not sure how to handle this am I over reacting? [18/f] POST: So my girlfriend of the last 3 years since we were and highschool and I broke up around 3 months ago. It wasn't an easy breakup and infact it was quite brutal. I didn't go to work for a week, I've been diagnosed with depression since and just generally my life is falling apart. I've gotten drunk a few times and both times broke down and done stupid shit relating to her. It wasn't more the the fact we broke ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31F] BF [31M] Classic work vs relationship POST: Ok so heres some background info - we've been together for about a year and moved in together about 4 mos into the relationship. He's amazing- everything I have ever wanted and treats me better than any previous boyfriend. We met at work, where I was a contractor, and I have been on unemployment since my contract ended a few months ago. I've been looking for work here and I have one promising lead but it would again be contracting ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Shunned for no reason? POST: I know this is an unusual /r/realtionship post but I've been having trouble with a group of friends and I thought you guys could give me soem advice. I am part of a lolita (the fashion style) group on livejournal and a few of my friends joined with me at the same time. We went to a small meet for tea in August and have been trying to post actively since. I decided to run my own event (where I'm from in a city about an hour from where most of the group mem",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] am really hurt that my girlfriend of 6 years [19F] broke up with me, and hooked up with another guy. We're back together, but I can't stop thinking about it. How do I approach this? POST: Let me start by saying I love her. We grew up together, essentially, and until now I thought I she was the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Within the past couple of years, I became very depressed (and still am). Admittedly, I was probably not a very nice person to be aroun",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my now ex-girlfriend [17 F] she broke up with me and said she's depressed POST: So I've known this girl for 3 years now When we first met she was in a relationship with this verbally abusive guy. Last summer she broke up with him and she needed me for support. I liked her, but I stayed away while they were together. I respect relationships, even if they're as unhealthy as theirs was. Well I was there for her and we started going out like 2 weeks later. Things are going",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 M] with my finace [32 F] 12 years, proposed a few weeks ago, now feeling guilty for acting like a douche when I was younger. POST: This might sound weird, melodramatic, over-the-top or whatever. I'm half-hoping it does. I've been with my GF for 12 years, we've grown up from essentially being kids to adults. I love her without doubt, she is the one for me - this is why I'm such a mess. When I was in my early 20's I didn't take the relationship so seriously, I would go out g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Neighbor kids [8-10 M/F] play on the stairs and landing outside my [28F] apartment, driving me crazy POST: The building that I live in is two stories, with apartments on the top and bottom (ground) floors. The stairs to get to my apartment are on the outside of my building, and lead up to a small landing where my apartment door and my neighbor's door are. Right below us is a family with a few kids -- I'm not sure how many. These kids play with the other neighborhood kids outside a",negative " r/running TITLE: Road vs. Sidewalk: why my right knee prefers the sidewalk POST: A couple weeks ago, after a fantastic 19 mile run, I noticed my right knee was starting to hurt quite a bit. I suspected it was due to a new loop I had recently added on to my regular route to shake things up a bit. My regular route is almost entirely on sidewalk, but this new loop took me on a road with a nice wide run/bike lane for about 3/4 mile. I'd been running on that new loop quite a bit, and had done it 5 times on this",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] Me [22 M] with my fiancée [23 F]. Experiencing more frequent problems. POST: Original: So we had a serious talk. She genuinely feels I've been pushing her away and not opening up to her. Not sure what to do about that. Brought up couples counselling and she completely rejected the idea. Like no-way-in-hell over-my-dead-body rejected the idea. She said I could get counselling if I thought it would help, but she would not go by herself or with me. :/ I asked her if that m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (19f) bestfriend (19f) sending me pictures that feel really insensitive. POST: Rather new to this subreddit but I love it and think you guys are awesome. I have always been overweight the whole time I have known ""Jess"" and have talked to her many times about how ugly it makes me feel and how hard it is to try my hardest and still not loose hardly any weight. Jess on the other hand is naturally skinny but sometimes has really down days so I try to boost her self image and tell he",positive " r/relationships TITLE: We're planning a trip out of the country and my SO (M/34) wants me to help pay, I (F/33) don't think I should have too. POST: Obligatory throwaway account. I think this is pretty straight forward but thought to poll the internet, maybe get another point of view. Bit of background: We've been together 3+ years, been friends for over 10years. Live together, have a dog & cute little house. It's great. He makes significantly more money than I do, I do contribute as much to our shared ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M/F] and my boyfriend [16 M] 2 months, I need help understanding why I feel the way I feel. POST: First of all I'd like to say that I think he's a really great guy; I really care about him. Basically, we've known each other for about 7 months now and we started going out 2 months ago; I love hanging out with him and I miss him when we're not together. Although we only get to see each other atleast once a week because we go to different schools and we have exams to prepare for",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can you gain more weight than the amount of food you consume? POST: So just chatting along with a friend when we got on the topic of diet (as in what you eat, not ""dieting"") and weight. She was under the impression that you can not gain more weight than the weight of the food you consume. I said that my understanding was that it didnt matter how much the food weighed before you ate it, that it's the amount of calories per day that affect your weight gain. As an example, I took rice cris",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my brother [24 M], I just did the math on his wife's pregnancy, and they were broken up during conception. POST: My brother just got married a couple weeks ago. He eloped with his now wife, and it was a surprise to almost everyone. It was shocking to me because they had been broken up from mid may to late July. They got back together, quickly eloped, and then announced that they were pregnant. The whole situation made more sense after we found out she was pregnant. W",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Advice for starting a career in computers (repair, progamming, etc.) POST: So my brother is down on his luck. He recently moved out of our hometown to get away from all the deadbeats he was hanging out with and try to make a new life by staying with family in another state. I've recently learned that the family members he's staying with are causing unnecessary drama and he wants to get out of a bad situation. He hasn't been able to find a decent job (I think he's working in some fast foo",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: The vet killed our dog and there's little we can do about it. POST: Two weeks ago we had to get our dog, Chewy, get a vaccination as was required by a dog boarding place we will be using soon. He just turned 13 years old and was in really great shape with no problems to speak of at all. Within 1 week of receiving the vaccine (LeptoVax4), he developed autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), lost 3 lbs in 4 days and received his terminal diagnosis for the following weekend. In 1.5 weeks, my d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] and my boyfriend [29 M] of 3 months, are having sex issues... POST: So I started seeing my boyfriend 3 months ago. We hit it off right away, and despite him being a bit older than me we are pretty compatible. He really is everything I could want in a guy. He listens, he is respectful, and I can tell he truly cares about my feelings. We do a lot of stuff together, and I love being around him... it's like the start to something really great. He wanted to wait a month or two",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: This one is a doozy [24]M and [23]F POST: So I need some advice and I really have no where to turn. My girlfriend cheated on me with an ex bf. Normally I'll just walk away from it all because that kind of thing is unacceptable to me. But the same night she told me that she also said that she is pregnant. So we did research and came the conclusion that there is a very good possibility that the child is mine (funny how when things hit home you learn how to find out things like",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Myself 20 F, and my 26 BF. POST: Would it be a deal breaker for you if your SO had to work and go to school nonstop so that you only see them once a week? I feel like I'm in a LDR although I'm only 35 minutes away from him I see my boyfriend on average once a week, its been two and a half as of right now and I know he loves me and would do anything for me but he can't cut back on school or work right now to make time for us to be together. Essentially I thought we would be togethe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] think I'm falling in love with a girl [17] who is thinking about leaving her boyfriend for me POST: Hey, some backstory for ya, I am a guy who loves playing my tuba and is not so great with relationships, though i just got out of a pretty stressful relationship that lasted about a year and a couple months. That was a few months ago however and I'm pretty over that mess. Anyways the real problem... I had one of the greatest opportunities of my life this summer by being asked",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I tell my [24F] boyfriend [25 M] of over a year that he has an STD? POST: Hi guys, Long time lurker, first time poster. As the title says, my boyfriend and I have been together for over a year now, and our relationship is great. We communicate beautifully, take interest in each other's hobbies, have great sexual chemistry, and are very supportive and respectful of each other's needs and desires. When we started dating, I noticed that my boyfriend had what I thought were """,positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [F/20] fear that I am starting to resent my SO [22] of 3 years after a hard year. I need your advice, Reddit. POST: I have been in a relationship for 3 years with my boyfriend [22] and will have lived with him for 1 year this December. It's been a hard year for us and I have been feeling less and less attracted to him as the days go on. I used to never want to be without him, now I am looking for reasons to leave the house and be alone and it upsets me greatly. I still deeply care ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (21F) am feeling guilty and disgusted about my sexual behavior with my boyfriend (21M) of 2.5 years POST: Long story short. I was on SSRIs for a few months. Completely killed my sex drive. My boyfriend and I usually have sex every Saturday and I just couldn't do it, so we went without for several months. He was very good to me and forgiving. Now, I'm off the meds and my sex drive is coming back. But with it comes less than savory behavior. I want to be more dignified when I ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Boyfriend of 3 years leaves for college in 2 weeks...most likely breaking up...I'm a mess and need help! POST: So my boyfriend and I have been going steady for 3 years. 2 of which have been long distance (loved each other more and more each year), however, the circumstances have changed and this year may not work. I lost my virginity to him and he means the absolute world to me. There is really no reason to break up other than distance (not a viable reason to me) and because we",negative " r/jobs TITLE: I just more than doubled my workload. What kind of raise should I look for? POST: I am currently the Fleet Manager for a small-mid sized company. My salary as Fleet Manager is $40,000. My job description includes managing a vehicle fleet of around 300 vehicles and assisting in insurance and risk management decisions the company makes. My boss just told me that in the next few months he would like for me to take over the demand forecasting and inventory management duties for one of our compa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I've been in love with two girls the past several months. What do I do? POST: For the past several months, I've been in love with my girlfriend...and our mutual girl best friend. My interest has gradually shifted from my girlfriend and to my friend. Now, I have a serious dilemma. I want to switch. I want my best friend. We are a much better match. I believe that I cannot continue my relationship with my girlfriend. It's not fair to her. Actually, it's not quite fair to m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most awkward, but awesome experience you've ever had? POST: For me, It was Friday night. I was 15. My friend *(let's call him Joe)* was hosting a house party for his birthday. Me and my girlfriend were both invited. We were downstairs for a while having a good time, until I looked around, and my girlfriend was nowhere to be seen. I asked around, someone told me she was crying upstairs. I went up, there she was, sitting on Joe's 11 year old brother's bed, weeping. I asked her ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 F] am concerned about my relationship with my girlfriends [20 F] daughter [5 f] POST: I've been with Lucy for around a year now, we were friends for 5 months after which started having bouncy fun time. Lucy has a five year old daughter Anna. I've only meet Anna about 3-4 times throughout our relationship not counting the times I saw her in passing with her Mom. In the times when I actually talked with her she was the sweetest most adorable little thing evea. Thing is I have",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my best friend/ room mate [21 M] 2 years, is in an abusive relationship and he needs to get out of it. How do I/ other friends help him? POST: My best friend and room mate has a horrible girlfriend who is living with his sister. The girlfriend (We'll call her GF) has a horribly negative view on everything and does not seem capable of basic hygiene, etc. My room mate (I'll call him dude) is honestly one of the most amazing guys ever and puts up with all of her problems,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my friend [23 M] I feel like we are too close and I don't want to hurt his girlfriend. POST: I have a friend. Let's call him Sam. There is history between us, he asked me out but I didn't reciprocate his feelings. About 4 months afterward, when I was away, he got a girlfriend. She is a nice girl, I mean genuinely not fake, and she's a little shy. I figured he was over me so I mentioned that I had feelings for one of his friends. Well he may not have been as over me as I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Two years ago I [29 M] left my wife [27 F] for another woman POST: As the title says I left my wife to be with someone who I knew from HS. I left because I was cheating with current gf and unhappy, but now I regret my decision and miss my wife I realized the grass isn't greener and I would go back in a hearbeat. I think about her daily and I'm very unhappy in my current relationship. My current rerlationship is now on the rocks and I'm not sure I can hold it together. She (current GF",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's the shortest time you've ever spent at a job? POST: I'll start. About a week ago I was at a friend of a friend's house and made a half-serious comment in passing about being a broke college student. The friend of a friend was, as it happened, the manager of a woman's clothing store and later that night offered me a position 'unloading freight.' ""Can't be too bad, I thought, and it pays more than my main job."" So I gave it a shot. This was the most boring job I've ever w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] have been with my fiancé [23M] for over 2.5 years. We're planning a wedding for this December, are we too young? POST: Hello! Alrighty, so: My FH and I met my freshman year of college. We were friends for that year before beginning to date. We've now been together a bit more than 2.5 yearsyears (lived together for a year of that) and we're very happy. Last August, he proposed and I accepted. He graduated with his BS last May and got a job making $60k+ per year. I graduated ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My ex-boyfriend (20) is guilting me (f18) into a friendship I'm not sure I can handle. Need perspective POST: In the past when we had broken up, we always said we would remain friends (ha!) and would hang out occasionally. Each time, however, he would kiss me, hug me, and initiate sex because he knows I can't say no. This last breakup, however, is final. I haven't seen him for a month and I've never been happier. I take a lot of advanced classes, volunteer almost every day, and",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I want to recover a drawing I made in high school... not sure where else to ask POST: In 10th grade I spent the entire school year in history class drawing a map of an imaginary continent in the last page of my notebook. Later on I ripped the back page out and made a few copies of the map, but I must have accidentally thrown them out this year when I was cleaning because now I can't find them anywhere. However I did manage to find the notebook that the page came out of, and on the 2nd ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: My credit union charged me $50 in overdraft fees when I didn't overcharge. Can anyone explain this to me? POST: Okay, here's the low down. I'm 18 years old and go through a local credit union. I recently got a job and had to buy dress pants and black socks. The next day (a Thursday), I bought myself dinner at Burger King after a long day at work. Friday, I had to get gas at a gas station to get home. I used a debit card at all of these places, and I always checked before going out ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear WATMM guitarists; help a sister guitarist out? POST: Hey WATMM, I've been playing guitar for... perhaps four years? More? Never really set any serious goals with it. There have been times when I practiced consistently and for good amounts of time, and there have been other times when I haven't. I've played (or tried to play, in some cases) everything from Neil Young to Coheed and Cambria to Rage Against the Machine to Liz Phair. I'm pretty sure I don't suck. My problem is, I've ne",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Private Student Loan Co-Signer Release Question POST: Hello all--I was wondering if any of you here have had experience releasing a cosigner from your private loan. I took out 3 loans form Navient during undergrad for 38k, 22k, and 20k respectively. My mom was the co-signer on these loans. Thank god I studied engineering and got a decent job after college (didn't go onto med school because I didn't want more private loans). I've managed to pay off the 18k loan completely as it ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26M] am going on a business trip for two days and I'm sharing the hotel apartment with 4 other work mates (2M, 2F).My GF [25 F] flipped. Am I unreasonable? POST: Well the title kinda explains it. Been with my GF for 4 years, we live together, very serious, even talked about marriage and stuff. I'm going on an important business trip with 2 guys and 2 girls (colleagues of mine from the office) and the company booked us a hotel apartment, obviously everybody with their own rooms T",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: $160 ticket for driving during the day with no lights on, because there was fog. POST: Let's start out by saying my car has automatic lights that generally come on way before I ever need them. So I usually rely on them to turn the lights on because they are nothing but effective. Second it was 8:00 am and the sun had already risen, there was a small degree of fog on the roads, but living in Florida this is very normal and it usually completely dissipates by 9:00 am. So the fog was in n",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by driving...2 times in one day POST: So. Second FU of the day. As some of you read previously, I haven't slept at ALL. Which leads to this FU. Im driving along, doing my job, and all of the sudden I can't stop. Yep, my brakes went out. Right in front of a cop. He pretended to ignore me and drove away even though i honked and had my hazards on. Stopped as soon as my car let me using my E Brake. I popped open my hood and out comes a cloud of smoke. I forgot to add brake fluid tho morning",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling a famous client that my Navy sweatshirt wasn't mine, it was my boyfriend's. POST: This didn't happen today, it actually happened about two years ago. So I used to be in the Navy and I still wear my smirfs sweatshirt (blue hoodie with NAVY written on it) around when its cold. I have always wanted to someone to ask me if I was in the Navy while I was wearing it so I could use my ever so cleaver response... Well today was that day. I was wearing the sweatshirt and my client (a p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [24F] thinking it might be time to give up on dating. Any advice? POST: I was in a very serious relationship for 2.5 years. We broke up last June and since then I've struggled to find even companionship. I have friends but sometimes I get lonely and long for something more. This usually leads to me finding someone who I connect with but for some reason of another it doesn't work. I've found myself getting either attached too quickly or not feeling anything at all. It usually al",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my gf [26 F] 1 year LDR, I can't take it anymore. POST: So i've been dating this girl for a year and things have been... well i won't lie... bumpy. However they have smoothed out and now the issue is that i can't handle the LDR. There is no end to the distance in sight. She's doing her career thing and I'm doing mine. We're live a little over an hour apart. I'm to the point where whenever she leaves i sometimes cry myself to sleep at the end of the weekend",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my girlfriend [26 F] been dating 6 months, I'm a bit worried about her relationship with her ex POST: I'm unsure of what to do here because I've had some problems with jealousy in the past and I don't want to make any decisions clouded by my own over the top emotions. I met this girl at the end of last year and since then we've become extremely close. Everything has been great so far. We both live in different cities, I'm moving to be with her (other reasons as well su",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] want to break up with my BF [21 M] of 1,5 years. He is depressed at the moment. POST: Hey. My bf and me are together since 1,5 years, we met each other online. Shortly before we came together he quit his job to spend more time with me (we live around 1000km away from each other. It's a long distance relationship) In this whole time I was as happy as never before. But since he started to look for a new job months ago he got depressed all the time. I visited him for the 3",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My partner [37/F] regularly blames me [31/M] for being unhappy after moving in with me. POST: My partner is very caring, I care for her deeply, and we love each other very much. However, my partner has jealousy, trust and self-esteem issues. She received little or no care from her parents, and her family is shattered. She was, and is, mostly without a family. Often when she is unhappy, she will mention that she moved here for me (or us), and that things would have been different if",negative " r/Advice TITLE: What's my best course of action? POST: Hi fellow Redditors, I run my own tutoring business, where I cater to a whole host of students from all different age groups. I currently tutor two boys from the same family, one young and one older, and I initially discounted my hourly price due to seeing their single mother trying to support them both in a low socio-economic area (I also thought that since I was getting multiple clients, the lowering of my cost would be beneficial for both sides). ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [23F] deal with guy friends wanting more POST: I love talking to new people, finding out about them, their past, hopes, and plans for the future. I like to be available so I give out my number to anyone who asks. The problem is when I do that, guys think there might be something else. There isn't. Currently, I gave my number to a guy and we talk about conspiracy theories in film and history, we don't take it too seriously, have a good laugh or two and then he tries to push",negative " r/relationships TITLE: First 3 months great. Fourth month was a disaster. Blip or bail? Talk or ignore? [29M] POST: So my girlfriend and I started great, I distinctly remember telling a friend I never had such an ""easy"" relationship. She wasn't needy but when we made an effort to see each other when we could and it was fun when we did. Here's the rub, she's divorced [29 also] and although she's dated and slept with other guys, I'm the first ""boyfriend"" since her divorce. Around month 4, January, she start",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I live with two roommates who fuck each other. They have 4 dogs and a cat between them. I have a separate bathroom, but the cat shits in my shower and the dogs piss all over the bathroom floor. What do I do? POST: To be fair, we are all good friends. This isn't the typical ""I fucking hate my roommates"" cry for help. Although, laziness is definitely a factor. In the past, its taken over a week for one of them to take care of similar messes. I can deal with the living room and the kitchen ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25f] bf [27m] of 1 yr doesn't believe I love him? POST: Last night my boyfriend was upset and I think having a panic attack (or bordering on one). But right as he was starting to cry/really get upset I told him gently that I loved him and he said ""No,"" and then when I asked him if he really believed I didn't, he said ""You hate me, you hate everything about me."" I don't know how to feel. I love so many things about him. I tell him and show him this all the time. It hurt so badly ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with ex [26M], been carrying this shitty torch for 5 years and need help on how to let go POST: Hey there /r/relationships. 5 years ago, I met the guy who would become my first love and first serious relationship. We dated for a year and a half, broke up for a year, dated for another year, and finally broke up last year. I've had other flings and relationships yet here I am, still completely in love with him, and dude has moved on (can't blame him). Obviously this relations",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My SO [22/F] just made a hint that she was suicidal. What can I [25/M] do to get her help? (Details in the comments) POST: My SO and I had a fight today about having independence in our relationship. It started when I wanted to watch a sports game a couple weeks back and asked her friend if she would invite her out so I could spend the day to myself. At first I didn't think anything wrong of it and thought I was trying to be considerate by asking a friend of hers to invite her ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [30F] undress and change clothes in the locker room at the university where I teach? POST: I am a graduate student and teaching associate at a university. I teach an introductory course with about 100 students. Prior to attending graduate school, I taught high school in this city for several years, so there are some of my former high school students who attend this university. I work out 3-4 times a week at the recreation center on campus, typically between classes and othe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23m] want to rebuild my relationship with my wife [22] POST: Ok, bit of a story but I'll try to be as brief as I can. I have been married since 2009. We have been dating since 2007. I have been cheating almost all of those years. I was sent to Korea as a miltary duty station and ended up getting a girl pregnant. My wife found out and now she knows everything. For whatever reason, she wants to stay with me. (that sounds bad but you know what I mean. I don't deserve her). I want to ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, how can I, a concerned citizen, speak on the floor of the House of Representatives? POST: Recent events have led me to believe that no matter what America says, Congress will not listen. My belief is they are far too busy acting like toddlers to give a single shit about anything that doesn't advance their personal agenda (what with the endless name-calling and blatant sabotage of anything ""the other side"" proposes), and are consequently damaging the country beyond repair. Every ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by calling my aunt the wrong name POST: Today was Lunar New Year (Tet) and I called my relatives to say Happy New Year. I have three aunts who I'll refer to now as Aunt Mary, Aunt Suzy, and Aunt Jessica. Aunt Mary and Suzy are like the fun aunts and Aunt Jessica is kind of a curt person. I called Aunt Mary and she picks up; we talk a bit. Then I call Aunt Suzy, but she doesn't pick up, so I move on to call Aunt Jessica (these are all back-to-back calls). I don't talk to Aunt Jessica muc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] repairing things with my [22F] of 1 year, what more can I do to fix the damage? POST: I'll keep this short. Dated my SO for almost a year. She found out about me posting on craigslist looking for sex. I was ashamed and lied about it. I had really poor communication skills, I just clammed up or lied more. We broke up, out of contact for about 5 months. It still stands as the best and most loving and compatible relationship I've ever had. She thinks so too. We've been seeing ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Wireless surveillance from another angle POST: Ok, so the FBI is allowed to stick a GPS monitor on your car to track you, and they are allowed to do this because they don't get any extra information from the device compared to standard tailing. But these GPS devices are pretty large with the batteries on the outside, and they are typically stuck in places you wouldn't see them like on the underside of the car. Now the underside of the car typically is flat(ish) to take advantage of the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [20f] overreacting over my boyfriend's [24m] actions last night? POST: Picked him and his friend's drunk asses up from a downtown bar. Drive them to local bar where their friends are. (I'm not from here, I come down every weekend) Everything is fine except my boyfriend is pretty intoxicated .. not really an out of the ordinary thing for the weekend.. A little backstory: Boyfriends best friend is dating Maggie, who dated my boyfriend back in high school but ended up cheating on",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: End of my rope... POST: I have lurked around here for a while and events have been building up in my life to where I cannot take anymore. I am so mentally drained that I can't shed a tear over my girlfriend telling me that she enjoys the company of other people, not me, and proceeds to break up with me. I am let down, hurt and beyond pissed. I supported her for nearly 1.5 years. I had been there when her mother had gone off the deep end several times, every time her family looked as if ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to confirm a rumour POST: So the other day a friend asked me to help her unload the truck she is bringing into town and move into a new place. The plan was this Saturday to do that. During the week people asked what I'm doing on the weekend. I explained my minor (and only) plan and people are looking at me worried and asking me ""have you heard about the bedbugs?"". Now, having them once before was bad enough and only wish it upon my worst enemies when I wish cancer upon them. B",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28M] doesn't see the upside of exclusivity POST: I'm a 28M in grad school and am actively dating. It's super easy for me to have casual sex, but a lot of women seem to expect some sort of exclusivity or ""relationship"" after we've seen each other for a month or two. What is the upside to this? I'm not ready to start a family and would really rather just focus on school right now. Dating and falling in love are fun, but everyone is busy, and I can't really commit to seeing somebo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25M] girlfriend [22F] of 2 months suffers from anxiety and depression - Hoping for advice POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for just over 2 months now, and I'm realizing that she suffers from anxiety and depression, with random mood swings without warning. She's aware of her condition, and hates that she can't have more control over her emotions. She revealed to me that she was abused in her last relationship. The relationship lasted for about 3 or 4 years on and off",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [22M] finally found the courage to ask my student colleague [23F] out & got the 'lets be friends' response. What next ? POST: So let me elaborate a bit; I've been working with this girl for a couple of months now and realised I had feelings for her. I'd call her every now and then, we'd talk on the phone for ages, whenever we'd hang out I got the impression she enjoyed my company, felt like we had a connection. Recently though, she wouldn't really reply to my messages and pick up m",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not peeing before sleeping POST: Technically it was half fuck up last night half fuck up today. So I've been in a musical and two nights ago was closing night. After that the one of the other actors had an after party which involved a lot of singing and no sleep. So in my sleep deprived state I head to breakfast with my girlfriend then back to hers for a bit. I then came home and had a nap, woke up, ate and then fell back asleep. This is where the first half of the fuck up comes in. B",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26/F] don't like the gift my boyfriend [28/M] got me. Would it be wrong to suggest that he keep it for himself? POST: I don't want to give specifics about the gift I received, because my boyfriend is an avid redditor, but suffice to say that it is a rather expensive item. I'm not sure what made my boyfriend buy this particular gift for me. He thought I would be really excited about it, but the truth is it's not something that I really want or need. I probably will get very litt",negative " r/running TITLE: I'm tired of being fat, I'm tired of being slow. Can running help me? POST: Hey guys - after years of powerlifting on/off (and therefore being too obsessed with lifts to do any cardio), after eating like crap over the last ~12 years and being a depressed piece of shit, I've finally gotten past the depression phase of my life and am now ready to deal with the physical aspect of myself. I've started eating better, which is great, but I want to go much further. I'm 315 lbs, a former football",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [KS] I am 15 and my boyfriend is 17, can we legally have sex? POST: I am 15, male, and he is 17. He will turn 18 in December, and I will turn 16 in January. We both reside in Kansas, so if you know about laws, please inform me. Google searching revealed very little. Also, does age of consent also require parental consent? Will we only be able to when I turn 16? What does the Romeo and Juliet law mean? What is that law in Kansas? Please only bring objective facts, and not opinions. In a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my bf [24M] of two years - asked him to deliver a gift and he absentmindedly left said gift on the train. POST: I'm a baker and I spent about 4 or 5 hours making fresh croissants for a friend who hired my bf as a thank you. I entrusted him with the delivery as he was going to work anyway. He left the box of croissants sitting on the seat because he was tired and ""didn't think"". I have sympathy for forgetting things, but I cannot help but feel extremely irritated and up",negative " r/relationships TITLE: She(16F) broke up with me(16M) because of her parents(She still likes me) POST: She has an older brother, but something happened when her brother was in high school dating one time, and now bc of her brother,she's not allowed to date. In high school. We've only been dating for less than 3 weeks, but her mom found out.Her mom didn't say anything, but she feels guilty about not telling her. She said although I treated her well, she felt sorry that she couldn't do the same and she f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [26m] GF [27f] loves to travel, we come from very different backgrounds POST: We've been together for a year and half, she comes from a prominent family in the middle eastern part of the world. She was born in the same city as me though (Boston), but has lived in Europe, Australia, and traveled ALL over the world. So last year she had planned a trip and went away for two months. Our relationship was somewhat new at the time so I said Ok, we'll keep in touch with Skype and I'll ju",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my almost but not anymore girlfriend [20 F] 4 months, We stopped talking. POST: Me and this girl started talking like 4 months ago. We used to talk and hangout all the time. We got to the point where we were holding hands and stuff basically dating without the title. The thing is she is moving across the country. She sent me a text like 2 weeks ago saying she does not want to start anything (make official) since she is moving to cali and asked if we can still be friend",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What is the best/wittiest/clever way to make people stop asking ""when are you getting married""? POST: Just a little background: my boyfriend(24) and I(female, 25) have been together 8+ years, since sophomore year of highschool. We have recently graduated college and I've found a full time job while he is still looking. For about the last 5-6 years we have known we will be together and get married one day but we've always said we'll wait till after college and we both have jobs to su",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by having managers think i'm a pothead POST: Throwaway, but here's the story. I work for a mid sized software company (about 500 employees, based in a southern state) that produces and sells business software. I work in corporate development (meaning it's my job to find other software companies to acquire, and then potentially acquire them). Yesterday my boss (the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and an Executive Team member) sent me a company to take a look at and add to o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I screwed up so, so badly [M/18] and am so extremely afraid of the fallout with my girlfriend [F/18] POST: While my girlfriend was on a trip (at the time we had been dating for about 2 months), I skyped this girl I had met around March from across the world. Never met the girl, never want to, but we chatted occasionally. Well, I fucked up. She asked to see my nether regions and I complied, doing nothing sexual, just dropping the britches for a brief second. Now, directly after, I del",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My mom is coming back from Africa and staying with me. How do I deal? POST: I'm 24. She moved to Africa two years ago to be with her dating scammer boyfriend, now husband. The whole family pooled to get her to come back, but no one wants the responsibility of having to help get her off her feet (she has burned a lot of bridges, myself included). I... don't know what to feel. She is mad at me for not letting her take my car on a 7 hour round trip journey, I am mad at her for lying to",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: When/how to tell my 5 year old that the cats are going back to their original owner? POST: I'm currently hosting two cats in my apartment (it's a studio). They are great cats and are very patient with my 5 year old and he has become somewhat attached to them. They have been with us for 9 months and he feeds them and they come over in the mornings for pets and he carries them around and hugs them (he's very gentle). He always knew the cats were going to go back and would ask me if we stil",positive " r/weddingplanning TITLE: A band I am considering invited me to come see them play.....at someone else's wedding?!?!?! POST: So I've been in contact with a band and everything seems to be going pretty well. Before I signed them, I wanted to see them in action. I live out of the state, so my mom and sister offered to go see them for me. I emailed the band member and asked if they had any public show cases coming up for my family to come see them play. He said there was one coming up in a few weeks, and he wo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Are drunk words/actions really sober thoughts? Me - [M21], her - [F21] POST: I'm [M21] and she's [F21]. We've been best friends for like 4 years. So, we went to a club with a bunch of people last night. After drinking and grinding (she's never done that with me or anybody else before) for a while she dragged me up to the roof. When we sat down she immediately started to cuddle with me. Wrapped her legs around me and stuff. In the middle of talking to me, she started making out",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Western Union is charging me $627 in fees for a refund/charge denying the transactions took place. Help? POST: Hi guys, If anyone has experience dealing with Western Union please let me know. I'm in Canada, and I paid a transaction to a business (school) in the UK and the business uses Western Union to accept/send money transfers. My initial charge for sending £5000 was over $9,342.40 which is an exchange rate of 5000.00 GBP @ 1.8684 , which is no where near accurate. I was overch",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] received strange messages from a random number about my girlfriend [18F] POST: About an hour ago some guy texted me that I should ""keep an eye"" on my girlfriend. His number is from California and my girlfriend and I live on the east cost. I was confused and thought he was pranking me and so I asked him what my girlfriends name is. He said her full name. I was creeped out and I couldn't text my girlfriend cause she usually goes to sleep around ten. He makes it seem like she's ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my potential hookup [18 F], unsure how to proceed POST: Matched with a girl on a dating app, there was some dirty talk and she mentioned she was really turned on by being eaten out and there was talk about me going over. However, it's been about a week, and although we've been texting on and off, when I tried to schedule a time, she kinda curved me. Essentially she isn't sure when she is going to have the house free / doesn't often have the house free. It's 100% believ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What can i do to solve my serious roommate problem? POST: In short, i want to murder my roommate, i can't find another place because i already signed the lease, and making him move would be more trouble than i am capable of handling with a civil demeanor. My current roommate must have some sort of mental issue or something, because he is the most overly confident prick you could ever meet, but the kicker is that he is the exact opposite of how he talks and it pisses me off to the point",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I overreacting? Need some advice on seeing people with kids. POST: I met this girl early last year (Her 30, me 26), she was still with her previous bf who she has 2 kids with (ages 2 and 3), she was off limits. Eventually that fell through (she moved out) and a few months later we kinda floated together and hooked up. I talked with her about the situation and we both said we didnt want anything serious. Things were going ok, we'd hang out, talk most days, I felt important, I was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (18f) ex-step dad (37m) doesn't trust me and is controlling my life. POST: My ex step dad raised me when my mom was an alcoholic and abusive toward me, and my dad lived out of state. He's a very nice guy and cares for my wellbeing, but I'm getting the feeling he is taking it too far. I am 18 and about to graduate high school and live in an apartment across town from him that his family pays for. I've been winning my battle with depression and anxiety, but it's made my life diffic",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Struggling with my bff's bf and not sure if this is normal POST: Me and my bestfriend have been friends for almost 5 years. In that time she's had a long term relationship with an abusive asshole and one other shorter relationship and now this new man. In that time ive had 2 1 year long relationships. Now neither of us have ever liked the other's partner. I especially have gone off on the men in her life, for good reason! but none the less i have never liked any of them. Due t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What am I doing wrong, in terms of meeting a girl who is interested in me? (M/20) POST: - Little to no self esteem issues (except the fact that I don't have a girlfriend) - Very social around nearly everybody - Doing awesome in engineering school - Workout very intensely and have significant muscle mass - Part of numerous clubs, and constantly meeting new people - Pretty good fashion sense/hygiene. I wear cologne and wash my hair thoroughly. I do not think I am ugly; one of my gay fr",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I gave $10 to a possible drug addict (story inside). When have you helped someone with sketchy intentions? POST: I was really frustrated with how my day was going. As I was leaving a cellphone store after an unsavory experience, this beat up old car pulls up and a girl in her mid to late twenties gets out and tells me this story. ""My and my friend are from Cincinnati and we got stuck down here because her purse got stolen. Can you help us out?"" So I gave her the $10 I had in my wallet no",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by checking out my ass in a public bathroom POST: Obligatory 'this happened on Thursday not today.' To give a little background, I have been working out at a neighborhood gym for around a month or so now. Sadly, I don't have a full length mirror at my place and the only one we have is in the bathroom where I cannot possibly checkout my lower half (especially since I am only 5 ft 2 inches). Me and my boyfriend have been planning to get a full length mirror for a while now but somehow we ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (15/m) I cant get these bitches to stop messing with me and my girlfriend (15/F) POST: So I me and this girl have been together for over a year now. Around mid way through I made a mad post saying that I didnt want to be with her and that I liked someone else. It wasnt true and only caused more problems in our relationship. 3 weeks ago she confessed she liked someone else. Things went down and ended with me keeping her. Thats a whole nother story by itself Now today I was in t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my boyfriend [25M] of a year, i had an anxiety attack at his birthday party and now he wants to break up POST: ok so we have been dating for close to a year. we live together and have a dog together. yesterday was his birthday and we drove ~30minutes to his friend's house for a party for him. i didn't know anyone there (~20 people) and felt really awkward, sat by myself and no one said a word to me for hours. i had a 25oz strawberrita and once he came over and brought m",negative " r/self TITLE: Just got a great new job, I hate it! POST: I've had a number of menial jobs over the years. My last one was working in a post room. I worked there for 4months and although I was eager to leave eventually I grew to really enjoy it. This new position is in IT, I got it through and internal restructuring. It's a lot better paid, but literally from Day 1 I've hated it. It's only day 3 now and I feel awful, anxious and brutally depressed Is it too early to ask for my old job back? I know people",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21f) boyfriend (21m) of 2 yrs broke up with me because he was not sure. Now I don't know what to do with myself. POST: We had a class together and that's how we met. I was his first gf ever and now he is gone. The reason being is he could not see us in the future because he did not know what he was doing with and for me was love or just himself. So now he wants to go out and find someone to see what his feelings for me are. I thought he was the one I'd spend the rest of my life w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my girlfriend [20F] of 8 months, am I right to be angry? POST: This isn't a long one, but basically this guy has constantly hit on my girlfriend since they met. It reached a point where he was rubbing her shoulders and blatantly flirting with her in class (they go to the same university), and I asked her to tell him to stop as it made me extremely uncomfortable. However, I just learned that my girlfriend went to dinner with him tonight at a restaurant off campus after c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend uninterested in moving in after a little over 2 years POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating a little over 2 years. We've had a great relationship but a few significant bumps in the past 3 months. We had a small period where we were unsure if things were going to work out between us. We've both put a lot of effort into the relationship since then and have become so much better. My lease is up in December, his is up in April. We're both 25 and I'm ready to move in togeth",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [15/m] My Girlfriend (16/f) Said she wants a break from relationships POST: Alright so this is probably fairly petty compared to some posts in this subreddit but this has really been bugging me. So I went to my dads house (out of state) monday-friday over this thanksgiving break. She was going to come over to my house on saturday when I got back; she usually comes over every weekend but I was really excited about this because I havent seen her for a week and I really REALLY lik",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [help][personality issues] I(24m) am able to bond physically with other people, but cant ever bond emotionally. What is wrong with me? POST: So this occured to me mainly because i slept with someone new a week ago and immediately felt like i was bonding with this girl. We hit it off pretty well and everything was really smooth, it just felt right i guess. Now i would like to go further with this person, but i dont really want to spend time to get to know her better etc etc, although ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [15/m] need to break up with my highly sensitive girlfriend [15/f] without upsetting her POST: out relationship has gone on for about a month. My friend set me up with her and through partially his doing, we became very close after just two days and attended a school dance. We talked and called a lot, but only had another actual ""date"" in about two weeks. She has had other boyfriends who left her who she said were terrible people. I had promised I wouldn't be like that, s",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Is keto the best way to keep the pounds melting off, or can carb-heavier diets do the same with control? POST: Hey guys, I started my journey of weight loss Dec.08th of 2011, and so far I have dropped about 35 pounds (270 to 235) I'm male and 6'0. I recently started going to the gym with my more fit friends (we go 3 days a week starting off with 20 min cardio, then chest shoulders one day, legs lower back etc the next) and they keep telling me that I need to eat a lot more carbs (current",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [17/m] have a crush on a girl [16/f] in my class. I only want to be friends with her. What do I do? POST: I started higher education (don't know what to call it in english, all you need to know is that it's a new school with new classmates) last year. I immediately made new friends, one of which I now realize have have a really bad crush on. I don't want to pursue a relationship with someone I go to class with, and as such I only want to be friends with her. The problem is ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] with my girlfriend [19F] of over a year recently had an abortion...our relationship has taken a nose dive since. What do I do? POST: Sorry if the formatting is wrong this is my first post and I'm doing it from my phone so I hope it's okay. My girlfriend and I have been together for over a year now and up until now have a had a very loving and caring relationship. About 6 weeks ago we found out she was pregnant....we have no idea how it happened as we have been very careful w",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How do I get help being motivated? POST: So I have gone through life never needing to put effort into... anything. I graduated from private grade school easily, went to one of the best high schools in the State, and graduated with an engineering degree never putting more than 2 hours of studying in for any test. I also passed the first of 2 State exams to be a licensed engineer (need to wait 2 more years to take the 2nd exam). I took kung fu for a year and a half, swing dance for 2 years, g",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: (Me [19m], Her [16f] So we had our first date and we didn't kiss, it would be our first kiss for both of us. Is this bad? POST: [This is the updated post] The relevant stuff is at the bottom update. > I picked her up at 7:40PM, from there we went walking to the movies, the movie was for 20:05PM, and we watched Chronicles (BTW the movie is pretty good), I paid for the popcorn and water (neither of us drinks soda) :3 Well, when we went out we decided to go to eat something, so we went",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(25f) boyfriends(22m)of 3 months brother(26m) has gone off the deep end. How do i support my bf through it? POST: Last night my bf and I were getting ready for bed and his older brother called. We'll call him Adam. Adam was ranting about Panic attacks and how much better he is than my bf. He mentioned having overdosed on meth(?!) Over the holidays. He was all over the place and sounded really fucked up. My bf asked a bunch of questions and told Adam he needed to get help. Adam b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17] have a lot of emotional baggage and he [17] has none. Will this work? POST: My boyfriend [17] and I [17] are in a long distance relationship; I've known him since I was in 4th grade and we even dated in 5th grade, but I moved before middle school and we lost contact for about 7 years. We're both seniors in high school now and we randomly reconnected (primarily because of LoL), and now we've only been dating for about five months. We've been able to see each other for about a w",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Need help regarding medical POST: My health coverage lapsed a couple of days ago and my new coverage starts in a few more days. I figured it wouldn't be a big deal to go uncovered for a week. I appear to have gotten a spider bite two nights ago. I woke up yesterday morning with a knot and some redness. I work midnight so I went to work last night and by the time I got off work this morning it has more than tripped in size. I am now running a fever and vomiting. The area is super ho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my Room mate [25 M] Is he incredibly immature or do i have a stick up my ass? POST: So, I moved in with my room mate in august and he is the kind of person who only orders takeout with a dead end job and until today (we are moving to a new place) 90% of the stuff in the apartment was trash. we took 4 car loads of junk to the dump because we are moving. FOUR I am not a super social person and prefer to spend my free time by myself. My room mate is incredibly social but",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [19/M] have a crush on my best friend [19/F]. Could turn sour. POST: Hey guys, so basically I have become really good friends with this girl I met about a year ago. Since then I have found out we have a lot in common, gaming, fitness and we even have similar attitudes/ethics/morals. She is also a virgin, like myself.   Recently, we have become really close and I consider her probably my closest friend. Her and I have started taking beach walks twice a week and all we do is",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [23F] co-worker likes me [22M] and her friend [23M]. She can't decide who she likes best... POST: I've been working at this place. Met this co-worker. Nice gal. We hit it off pretty well. Invited her for a couple of drinks. Fun times were had. So down the line I asked her to be my girlfriend. Then I found out she's been sort of seeing this friend of 3 years, and while she likes me, she also likes him. So she said she needs time to make a choice. My question is: do I back off?",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I wrong for kicking my girlfriend out? POST: Ok, I'm 20, she's 19. We've been dating for just over 2 years. She lives in a dorm but spends a lot of her free time at my apartment. Here's the story: Today, while I was at work, she went over to my friends' apartment (4 guys, 3 single [my friends, not really hers]) and slept. Then, she went out to eat with a couple of them and one of their girlfriend's (the not single guy). We text all the time while I'm at work and she's at home, but she",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How to NOT string out a client(Business Advice) POST: I have a client that signed on for an open ended development project. like many - at the start, when budget isn't a consideration, everyone wants everything. but towards the end, when budget is a major consideration, budget becomes everything. We took on a project, with a significant workload, and we've already been paid an irreversible amount. (and we're grateful) but we're towards the end of the project and there is... still a signifi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/21] am a little bit worried about my 'to be' girlfriend[F/19] POST: So I know this girl for a Month now but our contact and interest in each other has grown with every time we meet up. Let's call her Sophie. She is a very attractive girl but also naïeve and that is a dangerous combination. Recently, for the last 4 months, she joined a friendsgroup with a lot of guys and some girls. All of them use drugs and now Sophie does so too. Last Saturday, Sophie asked me to come to a b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 M] father [53 M] is plotting to steal/ruin me POST: Some background before I get into what I've uncovered. My father has been out of prison 4 years now, and I have supported him from day one. He is currently living with me, I've provided him with endless money, support and guidance since day 1. I've worked hard since 16 and run a small business which does very nicely for me. This past week my father has been acting very strange. Deliberately causing friction. The atmosphere h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my fiancee [27 F] complains I 'wake her up' when I get ready for work. POST: I've been with her for four years now, but I'm seriously reconsidering the marriage thing at this point. We live in a one-bedroom apartment. I work a typical office job, and have to be out the door by 7:30 at the absolute latest. This means that I get up anywhere from 6:00 to 6:30, shower, shave, and then come back to the bedroom to get ready. Because it's fall, it's dark in the mornings n",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [18/M] and really need advice on getting over someone [18/F]. POST: I am a first year at a decently large college, and I met a girl the first week, of school. We have a lot in common, taste in music, among other things. But she acts somewhat weird around me, in a way like, she really cares about what I think of her. She won't call me to hang out and insists i text or call her when its good for me when she suggests it, as if she doesn't want to impose (or maybe just doesn't ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend away at college HELP POST: So I (17/m) have been dating my girlfriend (18/f) for 7 months now and we are both very happy and love each other very much. This year she started her first year of college. The school is 3 hours away from our hometown. Things are tough to say the least. So now that she's at college she's drinking and partying which I understand (hey, its college) but she was never like this as long as we've been dating. I dont know why but I worry about her ",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: About to take NCLEX-RN for RN License - Scared, Very Scared, Need Advice / Tips on how to pass. POST: Throw away account - however, I really do need some sound advice. I'm about to take the NCLEX-RN in a few days. I've been studying as much as I can take for about 4 hours every day for the last 3 weeks. I don't know how many questions I've done from my Saunder's CD - I would estimate about 2000 with varying success (30%-90%, mostly around 70-80% though). I also went through the Kapla",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I contact this guy [21M] from high school? [20F] POST: This should be quick(ish). In the last few months of my senior year of high school, I got to be somewhat friends with a guy in my year who I hadn't really spoken to much before grade 12. We'd talk between classes and on fb. A couple of days after we graduated, he sent me this message on fb saying he was into me and we went on a date a couple weeks later. I'd never dated at all, and he had a bit of a reputation as someone w",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Psychologists, therapists, religious and non, do any of you think it's possible to have spiritual or religious related ptsd or something with similar symptoms? POST: For example, say someone gets the anxious or depressed every time they walk into a church or religious function. They feel woozy, stomach and headaches. What if this happens when it involved all religious or spiritual things, such as attempting to read a religious book or listening to sermons, or watch worship clips. Would t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20] with my girlfriend [20F] 1 month, asked if I would do a threesome POST: First off let me start by apologizing if this isn't the best writing, I understand how hard it can be to help someone who doesn't present his or her issue in a very easily read way. However I just woke up and I'm a bit worried. This is also only my third post on Reddit. So me and this girl have been dating. We both have never dated anyone before and even though it's only been a month we really love each ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Girlfriend [16F] is crazy about me. I [17M] want to end the relationship. POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for over 6 months... I think that our interests have grown to be different since we started dating, I dread going on dates with her and when she talks I find myself zoning out... She doesn't think that way and keeps on constantly texting/calling me. I want to end the relationship before she falls anymore for me... What freaked me out is that yesterday she told me sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my potential internet hookup [18 F] after talking for 3 days. POST: For the last three days I've been talking to a girl, let's call her Beth, on an anonymous messaging app. It turns out Beth lives in the same city as me and is incredibly horny and wants to meet up at my flat. Beth sounds really cute and is funny , probably would be quite a good match. However I'd be really worried about meeting up with a stranger with her having the intention to go straight to sex. ",negative " r/self TITLE: So I have and interesting network problem... POST: I'm failry well versed in computer hardware and software. I am by no means an expert but I have done my fair share of repairs and troubleshooting but I have a problem I cannot seem to solve. We have a wireless router which has up to 5 computers using it, some more than others. Last week we started to get intermittent internet outages still maintaining a connection the the WLAN. Keep in mind this router had worked fine for nearly a couple of ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Last night, I drunk hitchhiked home from a party... POST: I am a male, and was with a friend who is also a male. We were both insanely drunk, and heading to the same place. We had just exited a jungle juice party, and were walking home. A few moments later my friend asked to stop and sit down so his stomach could settle; without thinking, I stick out my arm with my thumb up, in typical hitchhiker fashion. Within 15 seconds, a van pulled up, asked where we were going (The same place, co",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: This is what you GET POST: Okay, so, a little back story. I am adopted,and was in an abusive relationship. My adoption stemmed from neglectful and drug addicted parents, and my abusive ex boyfriend spent a lot o time degrading me, making me feel like dying, etc. So one day, I saw a confession bear post. It said, ""I think women argue how they do because they know they won't get hit."" This bothered me for several reasons, two of which are listed above. I have lived in fear of getting hi",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Job Advice: Possible inside track POST: Here's the situation. I applied for an IT job with a particular department within the county, the director if IT for *all* the departments of the same county said he would recommend me for the position; this all happened a few days ago. I also have the contact information of the guy screening the applicants. I know this sounds like a basic question but what should I do next? Should I contact the screener? Should I contact the director to see if he mad",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Thinking about getting back together with my exboyfriend....but something is really bothering me. POST: Long story short we almost dated for a year (Me [18 F] and him [21 M] but he broke up with me after a trip to Cancun with his friends for spring break. He really is trying to win me back but something I notice more keeps bothering me. I really never liked how racist he was or how much of a homophobe he was, but I put up with it. I really think a lot of the things that come out of h",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Anybody out there have good experience with consolidating school loans? POST: Unfortunately I found myself in a bit of debt trying to better myself by going to college. Now, the private school loan is in collections and I'm trying to find a way to pay them off. However, every consolidation program I look into seems like they are a scam that end up hurting your credit. Some horror stories also include certain companies taking out consolidation loans with out your consent. So I was",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my girlfriend [25 F] of two years, I have been progressively confessing more and more about myself to her and I'm worried if I'm coming across as attention seeking (or crying wolf) POST: So first I confessed to having had slept around between my previous relationship and now...then I finally mustered the courage to reveal to her that I was bisexual and I still have strong attractions to men sometimes. Then months later I came clean that I've actually been with men in t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your worst experience with a company/business that made you want to shut them down, and how did you handle it? POST: I just had an AWFUL experience with UPS and their delivery service. I had a package worth about $400 shipped to my house. Waited 12 hours after the package boarded the delivery truck, and figured I could leave the house for a quick moment to grab dinner. Once I got the notice on my phone (via text) that my package made it to my front door, I quickly made my way back",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [22/F] had a few dates with someone [22/M] but can't tell if we're moving towards friends? How do I change this? POST: Throwaway! I've had two dates with a guy I met on tinder who is awesome and we get on really well. He's said to me that he's really awkward and he's not really been with anyone in the last few years and I can see he's awkward but our silences aren't awkward and I also don't mind silence. After our first date he told me he thought I was beautiful, that he'd nev",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Leave me to clean YOUR mess,eh? Fines! Fines for everyone!! POST: I was but a simple college student,living in a dorm. It was time to leave the dorm,and I was the last one to leave,since my family takes their sweet time to pick me up from ~~college~~ anything,anyway. I was the only one left when I realized the common room of the suite was still a mess,with paper and long straight hair all on the floor. Needless to say,I was highly pissed. I am a hermit,with an afro,who does not enjo",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Rare health problem solved: found a great dog food to acidify beagle's urine POST: Hey guys, I just wanted to share this because I found almost no help online when I was researching this problem a couple months ago. I am the proud first time dog owner of a wonderful Blue Tick Beagle named Jordan. He was a rescue and is now 10 months old and in fine health. However, just a few months ago, the vet told use that his urine was too basic (High pH). She stated that this was probably caused by his ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: 401k Funds Changing POST: My 401k is swapping out two Vanguard Funds for a different Vanguard Fund. Should I just ride along with the targeted transfer date and let the 401k take care of the transaction automatically? Or should I jump the gun on the projected transaction date by a week or so and move the money around myself? My reason for wondering - if the 401k is going to sell all of their holdings in those funds on one day would the price dip as a result? By selling my small ch",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[22 F] boyfriend [22 M] of a year no longer wants sex. POST: In the beginning of our relationship, he couldn't get his hands off me. We had a long distance relationship, but when we were together we had sex every day, sometimes more than once a day. As time went on it naturally died down a bit, but now his desire for me is gone almost altogether. We live near each other now and see each other every day, but have sex *maybe* once a week. And I'm always the one to initiate. Half the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf[19] has been smoking marijuana at least 5-10 times a day while at college POST: I [20] live in the Philadelphia area where my gf [19] and I met. She is now in her sophomore year of college out in Pittsburg (6 hour drive away). Excluding original separation problems of our relationship last year, we have always had a good relationship. I used to be a pothead in high school but sobered up before she and I started our relationship. She still enjoys smoking marijuana, and I will jo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] mom [55f] lent me money and is now making me feel guilty. POST: I was sued after my roommate and I broke a lease. He pressured me into leaving and had his lawyer send a letter to our landlord saying we were moving out. I couldn't stay there alone (too expensive for 1 person) and he is one of my best friends, so I did what he and his lawyer said. Fast-forward a few years laters and we finally settled out of court. He said the whole time he would pay my portion because I had n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm confused, please help POST: Im 20 [M] and she is [21]. Background: So I probably have been friendzoned for maybe a year and half. So i met this girl about 2 years ago in the library sitting across from me. I went up to her to chat and since we were in similar programs it was not that bad. I got her number we chatted a bit and after 2 months i asked her out and made it obvious I wanted to be more than friends. She replied ""No you're cool and funny but I prefer if we stayed frie",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22M] slightly freaking out and being anxious after having sex with a girl [23F] POST: Hi, A bit of background story. I'm 22 and I got dumped by my GF of 4 years a few months ago. I'm definitely not over it but I'm doing much, much better than I was before. Before her I had one short relationship and hooked up with a few girls, but that's all. I had sex the other night with a girl who I had flirted a bit with the last few weeks. It just happened, we both didn't really plan to h",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (f21) know that my co-worker/friend (f20) is cheating on her husband, not sure what to do. POST: So I recently befriended a co-worker and we've become extremely close in the last month, I'll call her, Lily. Lily is been married less than a year with her husband for less than a year (they dated for four). She opened up to me and told be they were forced to be married by their families and their church because of their sexual relationship. It's against their religion to be inti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO [18M] tells me I [F18] take our relationship too seriously. Am I being unreasonable? POST: We've been together for just over 3 months, which doesn't seem like much but have also been best friends for almost a year. When we spend time together it's always great and we have a wonderful time. I can tell him anything and feel so at ease around him. Anyway, he's a very secretive and non talking person. I'll try to talk things over with him when there's an issue and he'll say nothin",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/M] with little to no relationship experience. POST: History: • One girlfriend • ""Together"" 6 months • Apparently she wanted to dump me for the last three • Denied that she wanted to dump me back when she now says it first stated (not accidentally wasting my time) • Saw her once in 90 days • she stood me up (I waited at the place for an hour friends showed up and I felt like a fool) • She dumps me Now: • I've made an OKC profile (I have 1 match!) • T",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I want to meet my friend's lesbian friend(I'm lesbian too). We made plans to meet in person but my friend and his friend stopped talking. Should I go message her on Facebook? POST: Hi everybody. So, a while ago I'm hanging out with my friend, we'll call him Bob. Bob and I are talking and I ask him what plans he's got for tomorrow. He says, ""oh and I'm hanging out with a friend. Haven't seen her in a while"". So I tease him, ""Oo good luck!!"" ""Haha nah, she's a lesbian"". I'm also a lesbian",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Information on old Japanese child show. Please if you're Japanese read this. Noppo and Gonta できるかな Dekirukana POST: Hello reddit. There's this show called できるかな Dekirukana, featuring Noppo and Gonta. I have found LOTS of info and videos of that show, but nothing about a segment (so far I think that it was a segment of the show) fetured in the show. There were some kids on it, I'm mexican and here (Mexico) they here called Kiko, Kika, and Taro. I vaguely remember about this kids, going o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (19F) girlfriend is extremely concerned about me(19M) and her being apart(different colleges). POST: I'll start by saying my girlfriend is awesome! She is fun-filled, adventurous, loves to help others and is a great lover. No doubt that she is someone special. We have been dating for 5 years now. We have attested seperate high schools for the last four years, and have maintained a steady and healthy relationship. She has her friends and I have mine, and although our friend groups",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How to build a social network from scratch in a new city [F 19]? POST: In 3 months, I'm moving out to a capital of a different country and I want a really wide circle, I'm not talking about having 10 close friends, that's an easy part, but the one I don't know how to go on about is having a circle of literally 5000 people who know who you are and please don't say go clubbing or hit every bar, because I lose touch with people I meet in such places in under 2-3 months and that's not wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 M] My parents are having trouble, [51 M] [47 F]and I need somewhere to get help. i hope you can help me here. POST: I made a throwaway just in case. Our economical situation is very bad. We live like middle class, however my dad has been struck with a very very bad chain of events, and basically we have no money. I believe my mother is depressive. She sleeps all day, and because of that my father gets angry, and does not understand that she is sad and maybe depressive. I thin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Wanting perspective about possible end to a long friendship. Both 24(M) POST: Basically friend and I have been friends since high school. Recently we had a bit of a falling out as I had my birthday and he didn't attend the event. We tried reorganising it several times, and each time he kept canceling on me at the last minute (one of those times was because of his kids, which I understood). After the third time I told him not to bother because it's a bit pointless because my birth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] am not sure what to do about my feelings for my [19 F] friend of 3 months... POST: Hi Relationships! I met this girl at an art class 3 months ago. We instantly hit it off and are super great friends - she invites me over to her house (just us) at least two times a week. She wants to watch movies with me, play piano together (and sing), drive in my car, go out for frozen yogurt/coffee, etc. She even said she wants to ""draw on me"" sometime. However, she has a long-distance ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Can't stop worrying about potential break up and it's interfering with my daily life. POST: I (22 F) have been with my boyfriend (20 M) for about a year. Recently, we have been talking and he is starting to feel emotionless (says he can't control it and doesn't know anything that will help make it go away) and told me he wants to give our relationship some time to see if things can improve before we end up breaking up. Ever since we've had this talk (about a week ago), I have been ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23f)am a shit girlfriend and I want to make it up to him (28m) POST: Been together for a year and he is my best friend. But I don't treat him very well, I throw tantrums, I snap, I get paranoid and jealous when there is no need. I'm clingy and needy even though I've tried really hard not to be. I make a mess of things and then self-flagellate to try make up. I play the victim, I am angry and bitter I got really jealous today and we had quite a big argument. He told me I was repul",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by stretching during a game of beer pong POST: Thia fu did not happen today. So, I was at a good girl friend's house playing some beer pong. The game was pretty close and I decided I needed to loosen up before my next shot. My stretch of choice was terrible. It's the one where you turn your upper body while leaving your hips and legs planted. Being quite a few beers in and feeling good, I left my arms loose. I'm 6'2 with a wingspan that's longer than my height. I get a few rotations in ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I want to break up with my girlfriend who REALLY, TOTALLY adores me (wants me to be a father of her children etc.). Assistance & advices needed. POST: I've never noticed this subreddit before, good thing I have now because I need your help Redditors. I'm 18, she's almost 21, we've been together for 11 months. She's my first girlfriend, I've never broken up with anyone before... For the past few months I've no longer been feeling the same way about her as I felt before and I haven't ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by walking out of an interview. POST: This might the closest thing I have done to accidentally walking out at intermission. This is fucking royal. I had an on site interview on Friday evening. I showed up, met HR for a minute, and then met with the hiring manager and the VP at the same time. The interview was for 90 minutes. It was a thorough and enlightening interview. It was great. We were all aware that not only was it Friday evening, but it was Friday evening before a three day week",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: mini amp to push smartphone audio to car speakers? POST: My car is a 94 integra and it's been stolen 4 times! Everything I leave in there gets stolen. The stereo is the stock tape deck and has been yanked out but wasn't taken. So I just pushed it back in. I originally took apart one of those cassette to 3.5mm adapters apart and wired it directly into the deck to try to eliminate the buzzing but the whole thing sucks and now I want to get creative. ;) Anyways, I want to get an amp small ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] of 2 years, have both decided to attend the same college next year. Should we stay together or should we break up? POST: We are both happy, in-love highschooler's who have been dating for almost 2 years now. We both have decided upon our school of choice, and its the same college. I'm a little concerned that she chose the same school to be with me, but that is not my main worry. 50% of the people I've discussed this with say that if we are happy, w",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: No Contact Rule, sure, but I see him all the time.... POST: Dumped a bit over a week ago. (me:28f; him:28m) Hid him on IM, FB, etc. Great. Recovering slowly but steadily. Exercising, eating, going out, knowing I will be loved again, and all that jazz. Except...we are in school together. This means: * We have a small seminar together. I have to see him there four times a week. We sit facing each other. (We pretend we don't see each other.) * We have the same best friends. They unde",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Kitty has a swollen, (bloody-ish) paw :(. Help POST: Hi Reddit! So there's a neighborhood cat that gets really friendly with the people here. His owners moved and left him here about 2 years ago :(. But he's making do! Needless to say though, he's getting into fights with other cats and getting himself hurt. Usually he heals up just fine but a few days ago he came back with a swollen paw that he wouldn't even put on the ground. The paw had a little clear pus and blood coming from it last nigh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my (22f) boyfriend (24m) won't let himself be loved POST: we have been together ~7 months now, and the first few months were bliss. he was in school at the time and when we first started arguing, he blamed it on stress. our arguments have largely consisted of him being insecure about my past (I have a lot more experience than he does), and him being scared that I'm going to find someone better and leave him. we had a very deep conversation today and we came to the conclusion that h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (17M) was told something by my ex (18F) that I have no idea what it means. POST: So I dated this girl when I was just ending grade 10 in the summer up untill January of grade 11 for me (I am now in grade 12) it was a week off of being 7 months. She is a year older then me and we were very good together never got In fights or anything like that. We broke up because she thought she was going to St Catherines for school (I live in Newmarket she lives in Toronto) and it wouldn't be ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [19/M] that keeps having dreams a [18/F] POST: So there's this girl, she's super beautiful and me and her are so much alike. In the past we have gone on a date and I really enjoyed myself. I can't say the same for her but she told me she did as well. Over the past couple of weeks, my friends would always post embarrassing pictures of me on twitter and tag her in them including her own tweets. Because of this, she no longer talks to me and probably things I'm really weird. I",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, I'm going to tour Europe with a friend the summer after next, ideas or advice? POST: We've been saving up to spend the Summer after our freshman year in college (the one after this upcoming one) going across Europe using eurorail. We'd like to start planning now. If any of you have any experience, we would love to hear it. So, currently as high school students, we're a bit low on cash (We should each have about $5000 minus $750 for the eurorail pass and $750 for the plane t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (M17) go back to being friends with her (F18)? POST: Just to start off, I'm in high school. Yea I know all high schoolers have their heartbreaks and whatnot, but I'm still confused. So I work at this movie theater by my house and love the job. I'm super into movies so it makes sense to me. I met another girl who was new this summer, and she was honestly the best friend I've ever had. We both have had similar histories that I'll avoid going into detail on, we helped each othe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] am getting married to my boyfriend [3.5yrs, 27M] but I'm not allowed to tell anyone. Lots of feelings and stuff?? POST: Extremely happy relationship. Finished building a house with the man of my dreams. Now to seal the last step right? Well, sort of. His reasons aren't what you would think in the typical ""two men are getting married"" thing. Both of our family's are over the moon and we're all one big happy family. Well, minus the marriage thing. We announced our engageme",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Redditors (and probably a few trolls) How do I ask out the girl that works at the gas station? POST: So here's the deal. There is this gas station by my house (Phillips 66) that has this very cute, short haired girl working there. Just 100% good looking, and quite nice. I chat her up a little bit when I see her, and I usually get smiles (and sometimes a free soda or something), so I think she is interested. Problem is the place is always busy and its hard to get a good conversation",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] have been dating a coworker [27F]. Is she just playing with me? POST: I met this amazing girl at work. We have gone out in some dates, and everything went just great. We always have lunch together, and we always hang out after work. Just her and me. It's all awesome. We go for beers, a cup of coffee, a movie, etc. It's all fun and good. Today I told her I would like to see her a lot more, like in the weekends or holidays, but she told me she is busy during the weekends, a",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU ... when i fancily dressed as Archer and everyone thought that I was a terrorist. POST: So while on a skiing trip I went on a cartoon themed dress-up night out. Naturally, I wanted to dress as the alcohol fueled man machine himself; lacking in such chiseled features I myself crafted a bespoke name-tag bearing the word, ""ISIS"". In my naivety, I thought that the general public would take note of my black turtleneck (aka tactleneck) and realise that I had not dressed as a fighter of the Isl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17F] with my mother [47F], I feel like she is making our family life miserable POST: I live with my mother, stepdad [48M] and stepbrother [20M]. My mother and stepbrother have never been close and her attitude towards him has only gotten worse over the years. She often nags about him in a mean manner, complaining about him being lazy, not looking for a job, not being good at school etc. Recently, she has started to say that he needs to find a job so he could aid us financially.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] am in a great relationship with my girlfriend [21F] of 1.5 years. I might end things so I can travel the country. POST: I'm a 21 year old dude, and I've got a 21 year old girlfriend. We've been dating for a year and a half and things have been great. That being said, things have been rocky lately. Lots of fights, life issues on her end (she's currently 20k in debt and jobless because she left her job at Wendy's without 2 weeks notice), etc. We have plans on moving away togeth",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I Need you HELP Reddit! Don't Fail Me Now POST: Hey there, men and women of Reddit, I need you help more than ever. I am in a Human Geography class at Worcester State University in Massachusetts. I am a 3rd year Criminal Justice major who needs to take this class as a graduation advancement. Here's what i need help on. I am writing a paper on Environmental Degradation and have to find 5 people who grew up in other parts of the world, (meaning people who have not grown up in The United St",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Met my SO [25M] online and ""lied"" about my [23 F] name... POST: I met my bf on an online dating site and said my name was ""X"", which is actually my middle name. I didn't want to use my first name ""Y"" on the internet for security reasons or whatever, plus I never really thought we would work out and to be honest I like my middle name more. We started dating and things went pretty well and we are together till now. Eventually, I told him that ""X"" was my middle name and ""Y"" is my firs",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [16M] gf [16F] was unhappy with my relationship with other girl, to a point were my friend just stopped talking to me. Now, my gf has male friends and I can't deal with that. POST: On the first month of our relationship, I got very close to another girl, and we were big friends. However, my gf was very jealous and pushed her away from me, while she maintained a good friendship with the same girl that was my friend. I never did anything like this to her. However, these past few da",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my boyfriend [31 M] of 4 months is saying I treat him like shit for not being ready to move in together POST: We have been having a long distance relationship. I just moved closer to him though because I am starting a Masters program that is intense. Basically we've been having a relationship over the telephone. I have driven 7 hours each way to go visit him. He has yet to come see me. However, he is ready for a serious commitment right now. I am not quite ready for th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[21F] pro sport boyfriend[32M] of 2 years suddenly doesn't respect my career and belittles me for being on the road so much. I am a wrestler. POST: Throwaway for obvious reasons. Any advise I get in the real world is heavily slanted so I come to strangers for help! I am a wrestler in a smaller company that's not so small you may not have heard of it but not one you see on Monday nights. My boyfriend plays for a pro basketball team. We have been together 2 wonderful years. When we s",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Budgeting for inexperienced medical student POST: Hey everyone, I'm an MS1 (first year medical student) in the states. Never really had a financially savvy person in my life, so looking for feedback/advice. Fortunately for me, I have my hundreds of thousands of dollars of tuition covered via the Military route, as well as exactly $2,000 dollars (after taxes/net) for a stipend per month. My rent/utilities is $1048 per month, car insurance $125 (no car payment), groceries close t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I caught my 60 year old co-worker printing pornographic literature at work.... POST: ...I came back to the office after an end of the day meeting to find the printer out of paper. Upon putting paper in the printer, the front page of THIS comes out ( I quickly asked the only other officemates around if it was theirs, no questions asked. By that time, a whole lot of it had printed. Upon checking her desktop (which wasn't passlocked), I saw the PDF right there clearly labelled o",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is something your parents won't believe about you even though it is the absolute truth? POST: Example: My best friend is one of my brother's ex-girlfriends. She is 4 years older than me and is in college and of course parties. My parents have heard rumors of it, but mostly let me hang out with her whenever. Except, they think we drink and smoke weed together, so I am not allowed to hang out with her for excessive amounts of time. To be clear: I have never smoked weed in my life. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my unknown [18 F] I really like her... But I don't know how she feels. POST: So I met this girl, we went out on the weekend for the first time I paid for our launch and movie. I thought it went ok. Although I am very shy and there were a few moments that it was very awkward. We like all the same things, we get along very well but I feel she is bored of me and doesn't really want a bf. even if that's the case I still want to be friends with her. We have been chatting ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sending my grandma to the hospital POST: To start off, let me make it known sugar looks EXACTLY like salt. Moving on, today I decided to make a banana creme pie for my grandma on her birthday. It was a normal creme pie, flour, eggs, 4 CUPS OF SUGAR, the usual. I brought it to my grandma's house and as the birthday girl, she tried it first. My grandma is no skimpy eater and she gets a huge piece of pie for her first bite. The most terrifying thing happened after. She fell off he",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How to make a good impression on the guy I like? POST: Backstory: The guy I really like right now is a good friend of mine, we're both part of a really close friend circle. We see each other all of the time, and hang out as a group at least once a day. We've hung out a few times just the two of us, but it hasn't been very much. Last week, we were studying together, and one thing sort of led to another and we ended up making out. He seemed really into and was reciprocating, but got a",positive " r/Parenting TITLE: Should I make certain mistakes ""public"" information? POST: My son, a 16-year-old, performs poorly in school (though they are all advanced placement courses) and I occasionally catch him high on weed. The bad grades are not due to a lack of intelligence, but a slew of zeros for not turning in assignments. He's admitted to just not studying for tests/quizzes often. In terms of drugs, he doesn't have much of an explanation. I've noticed that every time I've confronted him about these or oth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: This just can't be summer love... POST: ...but it will be. I'm a 16 y/o guy dating a 17 y/o who is going to be leaving for university at the end of August. So I have a few questions: - this is is a busy week with her because she has commencement on friday and work during the rest of the week. What I'm worried about though is that we're not going to hang out until this time next week, which may be irrational, but then it extends out and I worry that since we're not hanging out at",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by pooping in Paris POST: This actually happened a year ago when I was on a college study abroad program in France. I had a one-week break in March for us to travel around, so I decided to spend it with my host family in Paris from an exchange I did in high school. This was the first time I'd been with them in four years, and they were (and still are) the nicest people I've ever met. Anyways, one afternoon, I go to use the bathroom in their chic Parisian apartment. After taking a dump",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my girlfriend [25 M/F] for 6 months, fighting a lot recently POST: Hi, We met through online dating. We hit it off really well. We had a few fights on the way. One month ago I found out that she is going through depression for a long time and she is on medication for a while. She also has anxiety issues. We have been fighting a lot recently. Basically this is what happens. - I do something that she doesn't like unknowingly - However small the thing is we end up discu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I/How do I tell my best friend to piss off? POST: So this might be a little long but here we go. I have this girl who is one of my best friends and has been for a few years. When I moved back within two hours of her she was stoked so we could hang out more. She has three kids, but they aren't with her very often, but hanging out still means me and my fiancee driving the two hours to meet her. Even when we offer to pay for a train ticket to come and stay with us for a time, to help",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Fainted the other night... should I be worried? POST: So background info first: I'm 21 y/o male, 170lbs, athletic and in good shape. No real past medical history. So the other night I was out drinking with my apartmentmates. We got drunk before we left and went out to a bar. I had one beer while I was there. This was, by no means, a very drunk night for me - I probably had 8 beers over the course of 4 or 5 hours. At about 2:00, we hit the McDonalds down the block and were planning on goi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Skinny dipping, how to not get caught? POST: **Background:** My SO and I live pretty close to a beach which after dark is more or less completely empty, and I'm talking a huge peninsula so it's not just like a small little lake. They have the occasional park patrol that tosses people out after dark and we had been there long enough to realize it was completely abandoned and DARK, I mean really dark. So she says we should skinny dip, I say sure lets do this. Then it becomes a theoret",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do you get rid of ""relationship stuff"" after a break up? POST: Broke up with now ex-girlfriend 2 months ago, put all physical objects/gifts related to the relationship including 50+ pages of essentially love notes in a box and into storage. I'm fucked up about the whole thing ending as is so I'm having trouble gauging whether I'm just making things more difficult for myself by keeping these things, albeit out of sight/reach. Since this was my first serious, long term relationship I j",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] girlfriend's [22F] parents are in denial about us moving in together. POST: It's mainly her dad, but they are pretty much in denial of us moving in together. She comes from a pretty religious family. Her older sister had to hide the fact that she moved in with her boyfriend and eventually fiancé before they were officially married (I forget where she told them she was living). According to my girlfriend, if they found out, they would have completely stopped helping her fi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why can't I forget her? POST: A little bit of info: there's this girl I've liked for a while now (a few months). She liked me last year, during the school year. I asked her to be my girlfriend last summer, and she said she wanted to wait until school started (we're in highschool). So September rolls around and I waited. I don't know why. Then when November comes along, I ask her again, except she shoots me down. Now whenever I think about dating or relationships, all I can think about is",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19/M] guess i've made some enemies [19F/19F] POST: It's kind of weird. So here I am, seeking for help. We have a different education system so i need to go to a private school (make you prepared for entrance exams of university). Anyway. It has been almost 3 months that we started and I was at best class. So Everything was fine at first. Managment said there will be exam. I couldn't do anything so they transfer me to 2nd class. So here it starts. At the first class there was one ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [26m] Girlfriend [26f] and her family still close to her ex. POST: The ex has been best friends with her brother since they were nine. He didn't have an easy home situation so my girlfriend's family practically adopted him. He was in the same group of friends as my girlfriend and they were very close friends before they started actually dating. He and my girlfriend dated from seventeen until shortly after college. But he's still a pseudo member of the family, because he was her broth",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: House got Rolled 4 times in 6 days by juniors in highschool. Caught them and turns out the mom was the driver POST: Hey guys. So a little backstory is a kid I used to go school with got pissed at me for a reason my family has yet to figure out. He then decides to roll( cover trees, gate, and such with toilet paper) my house. They also threw eggs and were all around just a nuisance. On the 4th night we installed security cameras and caught then. In my county, it is a misdemeanor to r",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Help figuring out Wife's Social Security problem POST: Hello PF, long time lurker, first time poster. I am having a lot of trouble in regaurds to my wife's social security number. I am 20 and she is 19 (Yes, married young and we are fine). These are the problems that we have made the issue obvious. 1. When trying to get her health insurance online she was rejected as they could not verify her identity through her social security number. 2. We are unable to file our state taxes ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trusting www.fiverr.com with my resume' POST: This is an ongoing fuck-up brought about by my laziness. I came across fiverr.com and was amazed at what people would do for $5. Realizing that my resume' was pretty shabby, I found someone who agreed to make it pretty for the small price of $5. A few days after going through the motions of paying and sending the resume', I received a pretty resume' in my fiverr inbox. I was a bit too happy. I immediately went online and started ap",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm fed up with my sisters making dicks of themselves on Facebook!!! POST: It's cringe worthy and embarassing. Sister 1: age 39. Constantly takes selfies where she is pouting and doing this squinty eyes thing which she thinks makes her look sexy. Literally piles on the (prostitute) makeup for no reason other than to do this for 'likes' and 'wow ur so pretty' Part of what makes this sad is that she was. I'll be straight up honest about 60lb and 15 years ago she was. Now it just oozes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [25f] motivate my boyfriend [26m] to look for a job? POST: I just finished grad school and we moved back in with my dad until we can both find jobs. We're both looking, but he's not looking as hard as he should be. He keeps pinning all his hopes on specific jobs and then getting unmotivated about continuing to apply. We can both do better in looking for work, but I'm worried because he isn't very excited about the process and doesn't have a positive outlook on his future c",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I may have made a very wrong choice in an ultimatum. POST: Edit Title: My [18/M] Girlfriend [16/F] put me in an ultimatum between herself and her ex-friend [17/F] Late in March I broke up with my at the time girlfriend (we'll call her Marsha) because she treated me poorly. Following the break up, up until May, I began getting closer to her ex-friend (we'll call her Susan). Susan helped me out through the break up and we hung out a little. I never really liked Susan personality wise that mu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Gf (18) doesn't want to have sex POST: GF: 18 Me: 19 Duration of relationship: 8 months Okay so I don't really know where to start. My GF refuses to have sex, when I asked her why she said she doesn't know why and then somehow we always start arguing and it ends with her crying and me being frustrated. She always tells me how much she loves me and I do REALLY love her the whole situation is just so damn frustrating for me (I could imagine that it really is frustrating for her aswell",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [31/F] My Friend [39/M] keeps driving whilst drunk POST: One of my very close friends keeps drink driving. Every time he does it he just says: ""Yes I Know"" ""Yes it's fine"" ""I don't mind"" He is just so dismissive over the fact the he could kill someone, cripple them or just be pulled over; given a DUI and then he would lose his job. I'm so worried and scared that he is going to kill himself or someone else, this happens quite regularly he has also moved out of town now so the l",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I believe my neighbor is stealing my cats. [Details Inside] What can I do about this? POST: Since December 2011, my neighbor across the street has been placing animal food and water on my property (I live in rural Kansas, so it is a bit strange to me to go from ones property to your neighbors than how it might be perceived in the city). Now, this would not have been a big deal to me if it were not for that fact that it attracts skunks and all other sorts of nasty critters of the country.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What can I do with my love of knowledge? POST: Apparently colleges don't see reading articles/redditing as a productive use of my time... but this is what I love to do. I like learning about all kinds of things. I, like most of reddit, am extremely curious. As a post on the front page said before, ""There is no cure for curiosity"". People are impressed by my vast expertise in seemingly random topics and while I love random facts, I also like focused subjects such as psychology, psycho-pha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I, 26F, have two kids (from a previous marriage) & a wonderful boyfriend (26). Father's Day is coming up and I have a question. POST: My son is 3 and my daughter will be 2. I don't know if I should get my boyfriend (who is not their father) anything for Father's Day. He's been an incredible person in my children's lives & mine. This is really the only person my daughter knows as a ""dad."" For Mother's Day, my boyfriend got two bouquets of flowers, one from my kids and one from him & t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (24F) boyfriend (25F) of 6 months is often sick and unable to work, won't look into disability. I'm drained financially as a result. POST: I've been with my boyfriend, Mark, for 6 months. Emotionally and physically, he makes me happier than anyone I've ever been with. However, like many posts here, there's one glaring issue. He has a slew of digestive issues and a generally weak immune system. I'd say he's sick about 50% of the time. A lot of times, we'll make plans but they won'",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Struggling trying to figure out what to major in? Computer Science or Information Technology? POST: I don't want to go to college and get a degree that I'll have trouble getting a job with. I wanted to go with Computer Science at first but then when I told people about it, I was told it would be a waste and that getting jobs in that field was nigh impossible. Sadly I've been feeling down since hearing that. I've never been good at anything else and the one thing that I thought I could make ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I don't want to forgive an acquaintance for sexual harassment POST: I recently went camping with a large group of people. Some friends, some acquaintances, some strangers. For a couple of months ahead of time he had been acting weird around me and saying a few things that were weird, but I did my best to ignore it. I wasn't sure if it was him just being weird. While we were camping, things just got out of hand. He said things to me repeatedly that made me uncomfortable and then accu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 f] and this guy from college [19 m].. wondering if I should talk to him again. POST: The first night we spoke, we found a thousand things in common with each other. He was an artist. I was a writer. Same music with different edges and we introduced each other to new things. I made him laugh, he left some effect on me. Great, right? I am not good with romantic relationships. I just don't like them. I don't even know if I want one. But it happened with us and it became too much",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend has become distant, how do I tell him I'm concerned without sounding like I'm attacking him? 24F and 24M, been together a year. POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for a little over a year. He was the first to tell me he loved me, although he never says it anymore. When I asked him about this, he said he ""shows"" me he loves me and that should be enough. He was right, I've always felt loved so I let it go, but I've never understood why it suddenly became impossible ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Too helpful around the house? POST: Throwaway because I feel this is a stupid question. M 29 F 26 (I'm F) New relationship, 2 months. His place is a mess. He's letting me crash for a few weeks while I'm between addresses which I am incredibly appreciative of. I'm helping with living costs here though, I'm very conscious of imposing on him. I helped make the mess, there is no doubt about that, but there would be a mess whether I'm here or not. I want to help, I want to clean up, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] of 1+ year, doesn't want an abortion, but I do POST: My girlfriend and I found out we were pregnant recently, and it's been very hard on us. I don't feel like either of us were excited like we were supposed to be. This is an unplanned pregnancy, and we had always said that if this happened, we would terminate it. My girlfriend was always under the impression that she could not conceive, but of course that's never how that goes. Things have obviou",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My (21F) boyfriends (24M) temper is making me doubt our relationship. Not sure what to do or how to approach this POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for nearly 2 years, we're for the most part quite loved up and happy, but of course there is an issue. He has some problems with anger, some days all it will take is me saying one wrong thing for him to completely flip out at me (verbally) and then either refuse to speak to me, or if we're out together at the time he'll j",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[25/M] with my wife [25/F]; no kids - Is it normal/acceptable to take rare trips in which I'd be away from my wife for several days at a time - pursuing passions? POST: Backstory TL;DR: ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I recently found out that my sister and her boyfriend gave their dogs to the pound where they were euthanized shortly after. Is it wrong of me to be upset? POST: I moved away from home (like, to a different state) two years ago. My sister had her dog for six years, her boyfriend had his for nine. They were the sweetest things, always so loyal and loving. My sister's dog was a bit skiddish around other dogs, but never had anything towards the other, and never EVER bit anyone or even growl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19M] girlfriend [17F] of 3 months hardly texts anymore. :( POST: We've known each other for 5 months and been together 3. Before we started dating and maybe a month after our first date we would text each other like crazy, literally every minute of every day. I've noticed it slowing down as time goes on but it didn't phase me too much. In the past week i'm lucky if i'll get 5 texts in a day and each reply can take hours. I miss the way things were but don't want to mention it jus",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is accepted etiqutte for bringing an item to a work 'party'? POST: So we had a team ice cream social at work today. We all signed up for what items we would bring (spoons, chocolate syrup, sprinkles, etc). Well, me being the health conscious nut (pun to come) I signed up for Granola (with the knowledge that our tem leader would be supplying ice cream AND frozen yogurt); So I brought organic honey granola (sweet and yummy) and apparently this is NOT okay. People made jokes and over",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I think I screwed up a friendship and I need help to mend it. POST: Hey guys, so basically me and this girl (I'm a guy btw) started talking like a month and a half ago and had a really good friendship going. A few days ago, I decide to ask her out. She rejects me. Now I feel a disconnect between us and I really don't know why. I feel okay with being just friends because she's cool and she's a girl I'd like to be friends with. I'm over the whole rejection, but she just seems a lot more di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[26f] best friend [26f] is cheating on my boyfriend's [26m] best friend [26m] POST: So Jane Doe and I have been best buddies for 20 years now. My boyfriend and I have been together for 4 years. One year into the relationship, while bf and I were living with boyfriend's best friend ""Jason,"" Jane and Jason got together. A couple years ensued of intermittent alcoholic antics from jason, shit talking from jane, and fights between the two of them. Now Jane has informed me she's cheatin",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [First Post] I'm [19/M] here going through break up with first love [19/F], needs advice on how to cope? POST: Hey there, This is my first post, so I apologize if I am missing any formalities of this website, or if I posted this in the wrong spot. 2 days ago, me and the girl I love broke up. Background is that we really only dated for 4 months, but had dated the previous year and I never really forgot about her. We began dating long distance while at different colleges last se",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [36/F] Am I being ridiculous over a (mostly) theoretical argument with my husband (34M)? POST: I'm having trouble explaining to my H why this is bothering me so much. Maybe I'm just being stupid. A couple of years ago, we had what I refer to as ""The Year Of Hell"" where he basically treated me like absolute crap until I snapped and ended the marriage. We ended up getting back together but it's slow progress. One of the issues we had was that he had what he calls ""a crush"" an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22/m] made the mistake of hanging out with my ex [22/f] POST: So I dated this girl for only about a year and we both mutually cut it off because we were both busy with school and full time jobs. About 5 months passed by and this past week we spent a few days together. I knew I would start developing feelings for her again and I did, she was my best friend and truly has most qualities I look for in a partner. She called me last night asking if I wanted to get out of the city and go",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Our old car's transmission is dying, and we're saving up for a house. Trying to decide which direction to go in getting a new (used) one. POST: My wife and I have one car between us, an old 2000 VW Beetle whose transmission we recently learned is failing. We live in the city and drive very little, so it's happening in slow motion, but it's becoming clear the time is now to get a new car. Quick summary of our financial situation: between us, we are currently saving about $2600/month",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: should i call my employer and ask about the results? POST: I need some advice and I'm going nuts trying to figure this out on my own. On sept 12, 2014 I went to harris teeter for an interview. After the interview they had me do a mouth swab drug test, and told me they would call me back or if they didn't I knew why. Here's the problem I've been clean for months now. Last time I did something was at the end of school which was in July. I know I passed the test, and it's been a week alrea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/M] with my fiance [25/F], she still has a tattoo for her ex husband on the back of her neck. POST: So I'm about to marry this woman. Excellent girl. We have our differences here and there. But I know I want to be with her for the rest of my life. The only problem is that she still has her ex husbands tattoo on the back of her neck. She got married before when she was young and she tells me she regrets it every moment. For the most part I just shove it in the back of my head. (",negative " r/self TITLE: College student attempting to sleep every OTHER night, is this terribly unhealthy? POST: I'm a college student who just recently transferred to the University of California Santa Cruz, and I've been having some major sleeping troubles. For a variety of reasons (new living quarters, two roommates, time change) I've been unable to fall asleep until well into the night, sometimes not until after sunrise. Once I fall asleep I don't have trouble staying asleep, but the problem is I end up sleeping",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Overheating? Anyone else ever do this? POST: About a year ago I went to an air show. Being out in the scorching sun all day. I went home did some exhausting things then went to bed. The next day my internal body temperature felt like it was off the charts. It felt awful and I needed a cold shower, several pints of water and lots of cold packs. It wore off after those things. But now every once in a while it pops up again, my internal temp sky rockets and I feel like shit. I can't really ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Trying to make sense of my credit card fees, but feeling overwhelmed. Clever people of r/personalfinance, help a guy out. (UK) POST: In April this year I got a credit card. It's a Barclaycard Platinum Visa with a starting balance of £2k (which they have now increased to £3k - not by my request may I add). I'm not struggling with payments, in fact most of the time I am paying over the minimum (trying to pay a flat £50 a month unless my circumstances don't allow). What I am strug",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25 F] has cheated on me 3 times now. I have decided to stay with her each time because of her daughter [5 F]. POST: My girlfriend of 4 years has a daughter and I have been apart of both of their lives for almost the entire duration of the kids life. My girlfriend has cheat on me 3 times that I know of, and it does not look like she is going to change. I decided to stay with her after the first 2 times because of mine and the daughters relationship. After the most recent event I h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] and my ex-boyfriend [21M] recently (almost 2 months ago) broke up after 6 years together. He's already planned a trip with another girl.. POST: I guess I'm posting here because I'm incredibly heartbroken. We broke up at the end of July after going on a trip ourselves in June and I don't seem to matter to him at all anymore. I thought we were indestructible, and would be together forever. I went through his Facebook (I know, shitty move) and saw that he'd told his friend he",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Wife has poor credit because of past medical bills POST: So to cut straight to the chase...about 9 years ago my wife lost both of her parents. She had recently moved to a new city to start a new career, but this sudden loss caused her to go into a severe depression. She ended up quitting her job and moving in with her sister. She had money left to her by her parents but she was in and out of the hospital for the next 4 or so years. Her medical bills began to pile up, and she has no",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit! I need some advice... POST: First, thanks for taking the time to click on my post. I am just about to begin my senior year in college. My major is psychology. A lot of my course work I have found very interesting, but recently I am seriously doubting my desire to take up a career is research or counseling. Obtaining my BA in Psych now seems worthless, as I have no relevant work experience in any other field, and opportunities for just a BA in psych seem to be confined to soc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [22F] of almost 6 years says she'd leave me [24M] if I don't inevitably get an adequate job POST: We're both currently in college, though she's younger than me. I've been in college for more years than I'd like to admit because I've been so indecisive about a major (majority of those years at a community college until last year). I'm about to get a psychology degree, but everyone knows you can't go anywhere with that, so I've contemplated going for a marketing degree ..",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] dumped by my gf[18F] 1 week ago, now im alone, no family nor friends and alone in foreign country POST: Okay, so...i'll be introducing a little bit about myself Im a male, 18 years old. Studying in college. My family abandonned me for exact one year ago and moved to another country. At this time i didn't know what to do but i had a gf, which i could stay with her family for several months. Then i got enough of it (it was hard for me and for her family for keeping me in thei",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Deeply anxious about interview and resume exaggerations POST: Hey reddit, apart from working a little for my mother's company, and doing full time volunteer work (current), I don't have employment experience. I quit university after first year last year, and spent nearly a year doing very little. I recently applied for a Summer outdoor instructor position (equivalent of like $11 an hour). Anyway, I got an interview. My main fears are that I stated I was out doing landscaping work over Summer,",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by leaving tea in my locker for 5 or so months POST: This is a while ago when I was in 8th grade. So about 2 years, but I read the crockpot story and brought this lovely little story to mind. Anyways, story time. 13 year old me loveloveloved hot tea, every morning. One day I took my dad's really nice coffee cup. No big deal. Done it many times before. But, that morning I added too much creamer, not enough sugar, so it was just bleh. I then decided to sit it in my locker on the top shel",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My mother (46f) stole my (23f) identity and ran my credit to shit. Need help dealing with this situation. POST: I'm probably a shitty young adult, because I've never checked my credit before as I've had no reason, but I started house hunting with my boyfriend recently and decided to check my credit score last week. I was horrendously confused because it stated I had an open credit card with a bank I had an account with as a minor and my credit itself is absolute garbage. I've never a",negative " r/self TITLE: Something in my neck is driving me crazy and I can't describe it well enough to Google it. POST: I'm not sure what subreddit this would go in ideally. But anyway... For a while now, I've been getting this weird ""snagging"" sensation in a really specific yet really difficult-to-pinpoint location by my collar bone on the left side. I'll be talking or yawning or chewing or swallowing and some sinewy stringy nervy thing will ""catch"", like there's a little hook there, and (usually) immediately ""sn",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Help. I maxed out my credit cards and thought my financial aid would cover it this semester but it won't. POST: So I was an idiot and lived off of credit cards the past year or so. I thought my excess financial aid / student loans would have covered it, but it wasn't enough. I have about $14,000 in credit card loans. I am about to start my last year of school (abroad), and will only get about $5000 in excess student loans this year. I thought I was going to get more but actually w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: At a loss with how to approach my bf(m34) (f28) POST: We've been together ten months, living together seven. My boyfriend sighs & immediately gets defensive when I try to bring an issue up. I've asked him not to sigh too many times, I given him reasons, he has said he'll try not to, he still does. We've discussed the defensive thing, he said he knows it's an issue & said he would try to work on it. He hasn't. He's asked me to bring up issues ASAP so they don't compound & we end up ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [15/M] My (i have no idea what)[18/F] is going to college, and I'm freaking out. POST: I(a 15 year old male) through a series of fortunate/unfortunate events, have fallen into a relationship with an 18 year old girl. This has been going on for about a month and a half now, we've gone to lunch, book shopped, etc..... Just extraneously, she also happened to by my first kiss. HOWEVER. She's going off to college in a few weeks, and I have no idea what to do. We've already establish",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Where can I learn about the Ontario/Canadian Legal System? I recently got in trouble and I have no clue how anything works. POST: I was recently charged with Break and Enter. Was drunk with some friends at university and we were on our way home from the bar and wandered into a recently shut down high school. It was unlocked and we weren't stealing anything. Anyway that's not the point... So I've been to court twice now and spoke with the duty council who just keeps telling me to hir",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29F] with my 33M 4month boyfriend-slow fade? Or just tired? POST: I've been divorced over a year from my high school sweetheart, I have two kids from that marriage and never learned to date as an adult. I've been with my BF for four months and while he treats me well, he's admitted he's terrible about expressing how he feels. He's extremely quiet and introverted and said women have misread his quietness for lack of interest when I asked him a few weeks ago if he was still into ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Update to: My [27F] wife's [29f] roommate [23f] may be abusing prescription pills and pot, but my wife wants to keep living with her next year. POST: [OP here]( Thanks to those who gave advice. The situation handled itself oddly enough without me being involved. The roommate has basically ""broken up"" with my wife and their friendship is dead. It was a tough couple of weeks for my wife because she takes rejection pretty hard. But! that's helped my wife remove the rose-tinted glasse",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Do I go on this date tonight? POST: So I met a guy at a club on Wednesday night and we got along quite well. He's not really my type but we hung out and it was fun. We were quite close the whole night and when he left he took my number and kissed me goodbye - first problem: honestly the worst kisser ever. He texted me a little later at around 4:00am saying he was sorry it was such a bad kiss but he was overly drunk. I replied but it took him a while to reply. I then texted him the next n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [M19] girlfriend [F20] makes me wear lifts when we go out. Is this something I just have to deal with? POST: We've been together for a bit over a year. We have a pretty good relationship. We generally stay in, but we go out every now and again. When we just get dinner or any kind of casual outing, she's fine with me wearing whatever shoes I want, but if we go to any kind of formal event she insists that I wear 2"" lifts with thick soled shoes. She's done it 4 times now. The first ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my [32F] of 3 years, won't speak my 'love languages' and I don't know what to do. POST: BLUF: My girlfriend doesn't speak my 'love languages' of words and touch and doesn't seem to be willing or able to do anything to change that - I often feel insecure and unloved. She tells me that isn't the case, but frankly we hardly ever talk about anything because she really hates talking, or gets really defensive and says I'm just always making her the bad guy…then she feels bad ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33/F] with my boyfriend [30 M] 8 months. Our relationship hasn't been great the last three months or so. He refuses to talk about it or to break up. POST: We had a major argument in the spring, and things have gone downhill since. He broke up with me a month ago, then a week later came back without an explanation. I broke things off last week as I had had enough of his stonewalling and was ready to move on, but he showed up at my place the same night at 6am saying he couldn't sle",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [19/M] Went on a date a week ago, really hit it off. Haven't heard back from her [19/F] POST: Relevant username. I had a rough childhood and missed out on the whole dating thing until now. Anyways I went on my first date about a week ago. We meet outside a local restaurant and talked for a while. We had planned on eating but we got so lost in conversation we both forgot why we went there in the first place. We talked and talked for about 4 hours. We borh left after hours of talking a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How big and personal of a birthday present can I [18] give my gf/ex-gf [17]? POST: So the thing is. I was together with my ex girlfriend for 7 months, and we became really close. At my 18 year old birthday, and around 6 month into our relationship she gave me a really personal present. We split up 7 months into our relationship (1 month after the present) and were apart for 4 months. We just started dating again last month, and her birthday is coming up. I really want to give her a ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Meeting up with a girl POST: So I've been talking to this girl which I met through one my mates who is also a girl ( but we never had a thing or what I thought was a thing) and we've been talking everyday for the past week now. Not just by text but by other social medias and image related chat which were having till like 6-7 in the morning till one of us falls asleep. Basically she told her friend that we were talking and they now have some beef and she wants me to come over to",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I stop being afraid of the future/failure/succeeding? POST: Hi, I am a 25 year old female. I am a highschool drop out, a university drop out, I can't seem to hold down a job without getting bored and quitting out of the blue, even though I do well with my work and have had fantastic and well paying jobs (despite my lack of formal education). In the last 5 years, I've finally found something I actually stick to, and it is possibly that I have a good future in this. I've decided",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: do my roommates know im fapping in the room next to them? POST: Late at night when I think everyone is sleeping, ill fap. Duty calls. But can my roommates hear me? I'd be surprised if they haven't since I like to talk back to the screen while doing my business. But the last few days, my asian roommates are acting different around me. It might be because they've grow disturbed of my behavior but they are the type of people that would put up with my shit. But the thing is, I don't want",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 M] feelings for a coworker [24 F] POST: I've worked with this gal for about a year now and have really started liking her the last couple of months. What's holding my back is that our workplace is small and we see each other much of the time every day. I don't know which is worse. The burning desire to be with her or the risk of destroying our group dynamics after an ugly breakup. I'm sure rejection would also hurt and there's some strange peace of mind in delusionally not kno",positive " r/self TITLE: I have uncontrollable fits of depression. POST: (not really sure if this belongs here.) WARNING: LONG RAMBLING POST AHEAD: I was wondering if you guys had any solutions for this, or anything at all that would help. I'm not really sure what's causing it, I have a pretty good life, loving family, great friends, awesome girlfriend, everything I could want. One thing I think it might be caused by is my Girlfriend lives in Alabama and I live in Illinois. We ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: NSV - no pizza, cakes, crisps, chocolate, or anything unhealthy for over six weeks POST: I set myself this target on New Year's Day, to not eat ANY unhealthy food until February 14th (not even realising it was Valentine's Day, just needed a good sounding date that wasn't too far away or too close). I am happy to report that I did it!! As a person who snacks A LOT (and not always healthily) this is a huge achievement to me, mostly because it proves that I do have the willpower to do somethi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [19f] friend [18m] didnt invite me on a weekend outing at his cottage that everyone else is going on. POST: Backstory: Last year, my boyfriend introduced me to his group of friends. Over he months, we all got incredibly close. Eventually, we (the whole group of us) were invited up to Patrick's cottage. It was a blast, and several others brought thier girlfriends, as they were invited too. Today, I found out that none of the girlfriends were invited. I would understand if he eith",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ask Reddit...Dear Reddit, My girlfriend just moved to my city and starts a new job Tuesday. Help me surprise her? POST: My girlfriend just moved here and starts a new job on Tuesday. This is her first proper move away from her hometown (and family) and she is friends with a handful of my friends, but knows no one of ""her own"" and is very nervous to start her new job (the job is in her field, but it's new people, different from her last job, new city, etc). I want to surprise her with s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my crush [24 F] 1 Year knowing each other, unsure of she likes me! POST: Dear reddit gods, I need some advice on to see if this girl likes me or not. I met her last year at a concert with a bunch of other friends. When I broke up with my ex of 4 years last year, she was the one who always cheered me up and brought me out to parties and meeting her friends. Ever since then, we've been really close to each other, talking literally every day and getting to know each oth",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I've exhausted all my options and I think you're my last chance! POST: I know it's a long shot, but I really need help right now. It's nothing too dramatic or important (generally speaking..) but I really have to get some **tulips**. It's a long story but I just really, *really* want to get some tulips for a girl I...stopped talking to, for many reasons. She mentioned she liked tulips but I wasn't able to get them last Valentines. I've searched around my country's flower shops. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 M] and my BF [27F] Don't seem to be friends anymore. POST: 10 years ago I became fast friends with a girl from work. Since then we hung out twice a week and talked/texted most days. We were confused kids, chainsmoking and rambling around LA night after night. She tended to lean harder on me but it was ok. We were screw ups, but we grew out of that together. I helped her with college papers when I could, she helped me build my driving buisness. Lately things have gone g",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm shy and I could use some advice POST: I am 26yo, M, decently good looking, a bit nerdy and a bit shy. Still hold my V card (gosh). Obviously not very good at relationships - over time I began to kind of get scared and distance myself when things get interesting with a girl. I don't particularly enjoy being alone, but I can enjoy myself anyway, so I am not the desperate type. I met this girl by chance a month ago. Same age. She's great. She's funny, unpredictable and blunt",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (27/m) went on great first date with 24/f, but tried to move too fast afterwards. Salvageable? POST: Hey there. Long story short, I met a girl online and we agreed to get a drink Thursday evening. We met at 7 and everything was great. Drinks turned into dinner. At 10 pm, we left the restaurant and I asked her if she wanted to grab one more drink, but also gave her the opportunity to duck out by telling her, ""I know you've had a long day so if you're ready to head home, I completely",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Meet a girl on bumble; started txt'ing then nothing POST: /r/dating_advice - Recently met this amazing girl on Bumble. After a two days of simple chats through the app I gave her my number and suggested if that was easier she could txt me; which she did. Txt's were going ok and she would responded right away or within the hour. The other day, feeling like it was time to meet in person, I asked if she had plans for the weekend and her response was just for Friday. After a few more s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my (20/f) boyfriend (22/m) just confessed to sending another girl dic pics last night. POST: My boyfriend and I have currently been dating for a year and a half. We have never had any major issues, and we are both very committed to the relationship. However, last night we got into a fight. The fight was about how much time we spend together. We usually see each other for a little bit every day. I like to see him a little more than he does, and he has admitted before to wanting m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My wife [F25] and I [M26] are having trouble with family planning/planned parenthood POST: When my wife and I got married three years ago neither of us wanted children, so we never discussed any details of child rearing. Now we both want kids, but we have a problem. My wife is pro-choice, but would choose not to abort if prenatal testing determined severe mental or physical defects. I am not okay with that. We both have a history with disabled individuals, but she has made a care",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [25F] stumbled upon pics of my ex that I [27M] emailed myself before we were official. She doesn't think she can do this anymore. POST: My gf and I met in late December and went on a few dates, but it has mostly been long distance since. We talked (and still talk) on the phone/skype every day and both had strong feelings for each other. Last month we had a weekend to get together. We didn't have a title going in, we just wanted to make sure we still clicked for a whole weekend.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[27M] GF [26F] of 1 yr wanted to take a ""secret"" pic of another woman. I felt it was inappropriate and now we are arguing. POST: Throwaway Today, my GF and I were driving in a busy area of town. At a very busy intersection, a lady and her BF were broken down and were trying to get their car to start. While doing so, the larger looking lady, who was wearing a very short dress, was bent over and we (and the rest of the world) could see her underwear/butt/crotch, etc. My GF asked for",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just discovered that there is a subreddit called ""jalbait"" that encourages people to post pictures of prepubescent girls. Why is this accepted in the Reddit community? POST: As a new Redditor (and first-time poster), I have thus far enjoyed the stories, links, creation and propagation of interesting memes and the collective hivemind mentality of Reddit. People seem to be genuinely interested in each other in both success and plight. Redditors can at once celebrate and share their fo",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How should I[22M] confess my feelings to my quite long time friend[21F] ? POST: Hi Reddit, I think I need your advices, I am pretty inexperienced, I only had one relationship and it ended quite badly. There is a friend I know for nearly 2 years now and I feel differently about her since last month. I think I should tell her how I feel but I don't know how. Here are some background details: I met her at a party but we didn't speak that much. Actually she is pretty shy and… Wel",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Urgent - Need help with my boerboel jumping at the doorbell. POST: My dog (2~ years old) has been attacking my front door every time a doorbell rings. I live with my parents and I have tried everything to get this dog to stop attacking other than getting a remote shock collar. She has been leaving scratches on the doors and windows (when she sees squirrels/birds outside) and I have been trying to break her of this habit. Now, however, it has gotten to the point where my father is threa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [22 M] & [26 F] - Is she being friendly or flirting? POST: A few months ago, I (22 M) was introduced to her (26 F), through a mutual friend. Over the past few months we've gotten to know each other better and have built a good friendship. We don't spend alone time together, but when we're out with friends we'll strike up a good conversation. I was talking to her a couple days ago, and during the conversation she reached her arm around my arm and placed her hand on the inside of my u",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 M] have known my friend [18 F] for a few years and now that she's legal we are going on a date. POST: We met about 6 years ago in my town and have been friends since then but haven't ever hung out in person, we just speak online or via text. I knew she had a crush on me but I was clear that if anything ever come of it she would have to be at least 18. Even though the legal age is 16 where I'm from I felt like 18 was the minimum age for it to be ""okay"". Well she's been 18 for a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: A few months ago I [29/M] caught my wife [28/F] of 5 years on singles sites claiming to be divorced. Yesterday I founf out she has emailed at least 2 guys off of Craigslist personals. POST: We have not had the best marriage, but we always work through what problems we have, or so I thought. Back in March she told me she wanted to separate for a few months. It was out of the blue and confusing for me. She just needed to ""find herself"" Well in the past she had talked to other gu",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: I'm being charged a utility bill that was under my name... What should I do? POST: Hey guys, so I have a small issue. I moved out of my apartment last week of July and had a utility under my name. I called in and ask to cancel my service and moved out. The roomates that I lived with, currently still live there and were using the utilities. I received a bill for august and called the electric company and asked why I received it when I cancelled my service. They said they had no record o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M,27] have been having problems with my gf [F,28] about one of her male friends she wants me to meet. POST: So I (Born in the US, live in the US) have been dating my gf (Polish, dual citizenship, born in the us raised in Poland) for about 4 months and she wants me to meet all of her friends and have them become my friends. I've met a lot of her friends who I have no problems with. She is here by herself and has some friends here and some family about 2 hours away. She doesn't have",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Feeling bad when girlfriend is going out. Possible trust issues? POST: Note: Please forgive me if you spot any spelling or grammar mistakes as English isn't my first language. I'm 21(m) and my gf is 19. We are in LDR for more than 3 years now, but our relationship turned into proper one only 6 months ago. One of the tutorials for people in LDRs I've found online says being overly suspicious when partner decides to go out for a drink or she didn't get back to you right away when y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my bf [10 M] 1 and 1/2 yrs, sometimes think I'm being too clingy and paranoid and feeling insecure POST: When we started dating, he wasn't working and didn't have too many friends so we would be together all the time. Now I go away to school and he stays home and is attending community college and works. When I'm at school, I obviously miss him a lot but I had my friends and life to distract me so it doesn't really bother me. But whenever I'm home all I want is to be w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 F] terminally ill mom [50s F] is going on a bizarro trip to a third-world country to 'seek healing.' POST: My mom has been sick for as long as I can remember but the doctors were never able to pinpoint a diagnosis. Until she went to the Mayo Clinic this spring. They diagnosed her with a terminal neurodegenerative disease for which there is no treatment. We are all devastated by the news, we knew for a few years that there was something seriously wrong but didn't know what it w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] broke up with my GF [25 F] of 1yr, Possible to be friends? POST: About 6 months ago i was offered position in my company that required me to move. She had already moved 2hrs away a month before and my move would have made the move 5hrs. We had a good relationship, we had a few arguments but nothing major i just didn't think it would survive the distance. So i broke up with her to make it clean instead of having to go through the slow death spiral of the relationship. At fir",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my ex GF[24 F] of four months. Break up in a small expat community. How to socialize and avoid a bad rep? POST: I had gf for a short time. Early in the relationship she told me that an ex was visiting and he would be staying with her. I protested and the situation changed to him staying with her friend. We live in a foreign country that is very far away. Cancelling the trip was out of the question and she wanted to speak to him to clear up some things. It was a bad br",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[32M] with my wife[34F] of 10 years (8 married), she's having an emotional affair POST: My wife told me she has been resenting me for the past 2 years because I haven't made her a priority in my life against my kids, hobbies etc. She has a point and I have screwed up. We had one counseling session and I've been told I'm codependent. That aside, I found her cell phone bill (under my name) was high. Went to check the calls and found long distance calls for long durations. Turns out",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22M] worried my girlfriend [20F] is going to find out something she doesn't need to. POST: Long story short, before she and I started dated, there was a girl on Tumblr I had talked to a few times. As far as I can remember, nothing serious. But now the two of them message back and forth. As far as I know I haven't come up yet, but I'm afraid I may. And I don't want to to think that I was ever cheating on her or ever wanted another girl. (At the time, I honestly didn't. I'm mainly",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 21(m) and my 21(f) girlfriend of one year going through a ""passion-less"" time. POST: Hi- I have been officially dating this girl for about one year now. We are absolutely great together. Never have any fights, issues, or really any problems. This is my third one year+ relationship and I can joyfully say that this one is the easiest, best, and most reasonable.... But that's also kind of becoming a problem. She feels that there isn't very much passion in our relationship- no inte",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I get Redditor's to help me out by sending a postcard for my daughters Christmas gift? POST: I will preface this by saying that I have already solicited my small group of friends and family, but a few postcards doesn't really seem like an ideal gift. My 10 year old step daughter Kayla has been collecting postcards for the last year. I was unaware of this and I found them when I was cleaning her book shelf a few weeks ago. After going through them I realized only three of them we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I choosing work over love? Trouble with long distance relationship POST: Hi, I don't know where to go for advice (I will explain why in the post) and am really hoping my fellow redditors might be able to help. I'll start with the backstory. I met my gf in college and we both just graduated (we're both 22). We have been dating for 3 years and have had a mostly happy relationship. We have had some rough patches, mostly involving my family. My family really doesn't like her and for",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27 F] chatterbox husband [28 M] (together 5 years) won't stop talking during sex POST: My husband is extremely talkative, he always has been: I remember he was famous for this in college (people used to joke about him being a coke fiend, which he's not). He's a smart guy with a very active mind and lots of interests that he likes to share + discuss, and this leads him to being an almost non-stop talker: the only time he doesn't talk is when he's reading or sleeping. I love this ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My husband [25M] is becoming depressed, and I [24F] need to know how to drag him out of it. POST: We've been together about 2.5 years. My husband hates his job, and it is really dragging him down. First of all--he can't quit without MAJOR repercussions (Military). He no doubt has physical and emotional damage, and absolutely wants out. It started after his first deployment began in early 2011 (but had already reenlisted), so his contract isn't up until December of next year. There",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Me [24m] with my girlfriend [23F] of 2 years...worried cheating in past relationships is preventing me from moving forward. POST: so, a year before i met my current SO, I broke up with my long-term girlfriend. We had been together 3 years. we were making mac and cheese. I saw that her phone buzzed and recognized my bestfriend of 6 years at-the-time's number literally thought ""oh, the woman i love and the dude who's always got my back. they must be planning a surprise or having a sill",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] got dumped by my now ex gf [17F] after dating for 1 year because she only wants to be friends. POST: 2 days ago my gf told me to come with her for coffee after school, so I said ok. We went and she took me to the train station which was empty so we can speak. Without any intros or anything she just said ""I really only wanna be friends with you"" I obviously laughed and grabbed her to kiss her but she backed off and said i am serious. I laughed again and actually kissed h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my bestfriend [29 M] of 20 years, he wants to start a restaurant business, but he isn't have high business acumen POST: I've known this guy since we were in elementary school. His parents have ran restaurant businesses for over a decade. In the 90s and 2000s when business was booming, they were rolling in the cash. When the economy tanked, they filled for bankruptcy. His mom and dad divorced, so his mom could keep the house and his dad would take the hit. After that t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [31f] ask my ex [26m] ""wot went wrong?"" POST: Posting this here instead of /r/breakups because I've been over the breakup for awhile and b) this is affecting new relationships. Long story short, I dated someone for a few months, it was intense, I thought things were good and he dumped me (seemingly, to me) out of the blue. The reason he gave me was, to be blunt, a lie. So, I'm sad for awhile. When relationships ended for me before, thee was an obvious break down of the re",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (21M) girlfriend (21F) wanted a break and now we are broken up. I'm confused, please help! POST: My girlfriend of 3 years and I were on a break for about 3 weeks. She was the one who wanted the break in the first place. I was so stressed from waiting and felt like I was just becoming her back up/safety net. So I told her that I don't think this break is a good idea anymore and that if we are not getting back together then we should strictly break up. Also that we should have no co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27F] boyfriend [28M] and I saw a friend of ours [20sF] with another man [50s??M]. My boyfriend wants to tell her boyfriend, I think he shouldn't. POST: My boyfriend and I were walking around downtown when we spotted our friend ""Alice"" hugging a man and talking very excitedly to him. We watched for a couple of seconds, but nothing else happened except for them talking. We left without saying anything to Alice, and my boyfriend wondered whether Alice's boyfriend, our friend Steve, ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I own a mortgage free house in the SF Bay area earning ~4% net based on current property values. Should I sell and invest in the market or get a mortgage and buy more property? POST: My sister and I inherited our uncle's house when he passed away and we're trying to set up something to both preserve and increase the value of the assets we've inherited. For the last 3 years we've been renting out the property via a property management company that claims 8% of the gross rents. Both ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Best way (F27) to break up with BF (M28)? Please Help POST: I love my boyfriend very deeply, and am head over heels for him, and he loves me very much as well. We've been together for 2 years and have had our obstacles and challenges, but ultimately got past them all. He's become my world, and there is no one else in my heart but him. But I don't think we're right for each other, and want to end it. I'm 28 and feel like this is the right decision for me/us, but he recently had surger",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I just sat there and watched him eat it POST: I was the a baseball game over the weekend with a bunch of friends. There was this couple in front of us. mid 30's, that were very nice, eating a ""helmet of nachos"" (a plastic baseball helmet filled with nachos). Well they got up and put the helmet on the ground. An inning goes by and they aren't back and i have to go pee, so instead of making everyone get up i climb down a row. I saw the helmet full of nachos and cheese, i tried to avoid it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: In need of advice on how to tell a friend of many years how I really feel about her. POST: I've know this girl for about four years and have always liked her very much, we are both in our early 20s, the only problem was that she was in a very serious relationship then, so out of respect I held my peace. They recently called it quits after months of it just going terribly downhill, fast forward three months and its where we started to spend time with each other. We talk for hours abou",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to cook potatoes POST: Mandatory this didn't happen today, it actually happened about a year ago. So my mum was cooking dinner and all of a sudden she remembered she had to go somewhere (I don't remember where but it's not important). She asked me to boil some potatoes to eat for dinner, she had already peeled them and everything so all I had to do was stick 'em in water, wait for them to boil and turn the gas off when they do. Easy right? I turn the gas on, put the potatoes ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I 26F have recently started dating someone 29M 2 months after a bad relationship, not sure if he's behavior is weird or I'm paranoid. POST: I'm back! You guys did such a great job with my last relationship issue, and so I'm back for some advice about my new relationship. Tom and I met at a nurse practloner conference 3 months ago. We really hit it off and have been exclusive.for 3 months. It's been really fun. Ive stayed off of Facebook and social media because I don't see the poi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: This isn't what I signed up for POST: I [29m] met my girlfriend [30f] 2.5 years ago. We had both just moved to the a new area, although it's an area she grew up in. We both arrived for new jobs and life looked exciting. We're both active, outdoorsy types so dating and exploring the area was a natural fit. She grew up here and was able show me around, and we found some adventures that were new for both of us. My life over the past few years has been great. My job is working out ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going home to poop POST: So this is actually my friend's story, it happened to him a couple days ago. He told me the story, and I said he should post it here but he didn't want it on his account because he's got other identifying information there. So anyways, here goes! Apartment life took an interesting turn on Friday. The day started out as a normal payday for him. He walked into work 25 minutes late, hair swept by the wind, eyes red by the blunt. He sat at his desk sipping coffe",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Is she trying to friendzone me [M/21] or is she [F/21] confused? POST: So me and this girl dated in grade 12 for 6 months, and then when the whole University thing came around, I broke up with her because we were in different cities. Now, nearing graduation we've been going out on dates and hanging out. This has been for about 8 months. For the most part, it wasn't romantic until last week when it rekindled. We have always been very open and honest with each other and she says she tr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my HS girlfriend [17 F] 2 years: Approaching 12th grade, should I keep up the relationship into college? POST: Hi, I'm just looking for observations or experiences from others to help my SO and I. We've known each other for 4 years, and started dating 2 years ago. We are very close, and I feel that we've grown through many experiences together. I've seen many comments around reddit in college advice posts saying that most people cannot follow through with their relatio",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am a healthy, young American male, and I considering opting out of the work provided health benefits, and NOT obtaining medical insurance outside of work. Is this ""illegal"" under ObamaCare? Details inside. POST: As stated in the title, I am a young, single, dependant free male. I am not overweight, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs, I rarely drink, I dont take any medication, I don't have any chronic pain, I don't have any known conditions or diseases, I am not sexually active (thereby s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my boyfriend [29 M] together 4 months, my boyfriend wants TO explore the unknown and get a taste of some others fruit POST: Hello, I have a lot of relationship experience I recently got out of a long term abusive relationship with a narcissistic carcass. I had to deal with my fair share of emotional and verbal abuse in that relationship. In my past relationship, he also had a wandering eye and often flirted with several women via texts and Facebook. He did eventually ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 m] with my SO [29 f] a year, break up due to lack of physical attraction on my side. POST: I was with this girl fof almost a year, we had a great relationship most of the time, we would stay up all night talking or having sex. We would text each other everyday, spend all day talking, when together we would kiss and hug constantly. I liked a lot of things about her both physically and emotionally. The only issue I had was naked I didn't find her that physically appealing and i",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling my son he is mentally retarded POST: I am a 47 year old mother and I got 3 sons. Only my youngest son (16) still lives with me and my husband. This morning I stood up very early as always and walked across my son's room all his stuff was on the floor of his room and he was still asleep. He came home drunk again, I heard him coming home about 4am. Forward 2 hours when I hear him stumbling out of his room into the kitchen to make himself his morning coffee. I ask him where he w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18/M] girlfriend [18/F] of 3 months has a drug problem and appears to be increasingly unstable. POST: My girlfriend and I have always been really close in our relationship, but lately she has been increasingly unstable and this morning it all culminated. In the past, she has spent extravagant amounts of money on drugs, to the point that she has tried to hide it from me. Last night she got more, and asked me to do some with her. I said no, maybe another day and she refused to talk",negative " r/cats TITLE: I can't stand the cat, help? POST: I realize this subreddit is full of cat-lovers, so please forgive me for being a sub-human-cat-hater or whatnot. I'm just looking for help on how to tolerate living with a cat... if it attacks the Festivus tree one more time I think I will explode! Long story short, I got a cat for my husband who loves cats. I didn't think this would be a problem, as I've known plenty of cats and while I didn't really like them, I didn't hate them. I figured a cat would ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: LDR girlfriend ignoring me since her cat died. [M:23 F:18] POST: Hello, throwaway account because that's how I roll. So my long-distance girlfriend had this cat for 15 or so years and then one day it gets sick and dies. I knew it was going to die from her description of what it was doing (not eating, being slow, not responding) but of course I pretended it was going to be okay to placate her. Girlfriend and I talk **every day** on Skype etc and text each other all the time. We're r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [25f] is not too healthy, I [24m] insist on a healthy lifestyle. POST: I started dating my gf (5'7, 173lb / 174cm, 78kg) one year ago. I love her body. I did in the beginning and I still do. She is thick, but I think she carries her weight very well. Some girls look awful when they're thick, my gf looks amazing. She eats healthy, generally even more so than me. The problem is that she has no motivation to do any physical activity. She knows that she needs to exercise more, but ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (33/M) oldest son (13/M) has developed a crush on my girlfriend (25/F) - not sure how to properly address this. POST: My ex and I have been split up for over two years, and my son (and daughter) travel back and forth each week - we share custody right down the middle. I've had a girlfriend for about 1 1/2 years (she now lives with me, with her kids too) - and she met my kids almost right away. They get along great, no big communication issues or anything. My girlfriend texted m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Stuck in a sticky situation... POST: I don't want to name any names as both parties are on reddit. If they see this then whatever, I'm willing to take the risk. I was seeing a girl about four months ago for around a week or two. We didn't do anything due to the fact that she informed me that she had an STI. I broke it off with her after learning this as I wasn't really looking for anything serious and didn't want to endanger myself. I promised her I wouldn't tell anyone about her condit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] Mentally Unhealthy to know how Relationships and Life work. POST: I'm living and empty life so far. What do I really want in life. My dream girl, I can not settle for less because i'll still feel empty. So why don't I go for a girl of my dreams. Work. Well ofcourse it takes hard work for you to be able to land your dream girl. But how can I really know if she's a dream girl if she won't even let me interact with her before I judge. The answer always sounds so simple, I wan",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Has anyone ever had problems with coming off as ""rude"" when you were just a bit shy/feeling uncomfortable in a situation. How did you overcome these habits? POST: I am a very shy person and I like to keep to myself. I don't really act on things unless I am spoken to/told to do something. I'm very outgoing around the people I am very close to but that's only when I know I can trust someone. I have some family and family of friends that I feel uncomfortable around. I don't necessarily ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: It is abnormal how afraid of relationships/intimacy I am. How do I get over this? POST: I am a 22 year old guy. Never been in a romantic relationship. Furthest I have ever got with a girl was in 8th grade summer, where a girl kissed me a few times. I have recently come to terms with the thought that all my depression (and whatever other mental illnesses I think I may have) stem directly from lack of a romantic relationship. (And before anybody comments saying that previous statemen",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I (22/F) break it off with someone I've been dating for about a month (30/M)? POST: This might seem like a really dumb question, but I'm approaching territory I have never waded in before. I've broken up with people before, been broken up with as well, I know how that basically goes. But those have always been solid relationships. It's been established that we are boyfriend/girlfriend, met the parents, did the whole serious relationship thing. However, since my last re",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (28M) having trouble dealing with some resentment towards my wife (28f)..could marriage counseling help? POST: My wife and I have been married for 3 years. At least one of which was entirely consumed with an episode of depression which left me out of work for 5 months and on paid leave for 7. It was a rough time but I really tried my best to keep it together for her. She knew about my mental health issues long before, however during that time she felt that she never knew it co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my boyfriend [23M] of a year, not sure how to broach texting issue while he is out of town working. POST: Hi folks, I am one of the worst texters. Ever. I don't like texting unless its people I *really* don't want to talk to. I don't check my phone all day and most of the time I leave it at home because I feel like a phone is a constant ball and chain. Plus at work texting or using phones in general is a big no. It drives me nuts when people are constantly texting me",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Advice wanted: is it right to leave a job I just accepted for a better paying one? POST: Some background info: I just graduated from University and I very recently accepted a minimum wage barista job after a month of applications to positions related to my field. Throughout the month, I didn't hear back from any of the places I applied to and I started to get worried. I decided to just take a minimum wage job so that I can pay for rent and groceries while I kept on applying elsewhere. And the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Need some advice POST: Well I have been seeing this woman for a couple months now. Everything is great, we compliment each other very well. She tells me she needs to leave and go on vacation for the summer. She's just running away from her problems it is obvious. She was a victim of a sexual attack by multiple people when she was a teenager and was physically abused in some of her previous relationships. She already left and tells me we will get through this and I should hang on.",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [NJ] Roofing company will not stop harassing us at our home POST: I live in a small neighborhood with my parents. About two weeks ago a guy dressed in casual clothes parked across the street in an unmarked gray Nissan (small neighborhood street) and came to the door. My mother was a bit creeped out and we aren't even sure if it's legal to do door-to-door sales in my town so no one answered. He then went and sat in his car for an hour and a half then came back to the front door and w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 M] girlfriend [22 F] wants to string her ex [22 M] along and hurt him for what he did to her. POST: Yes you read the title right. Me and my girlfriend have been dating for 1.5 years now and i really love her a lot. she is very beautiful and got a job offer for modeling (she doesn't know if she wants to do it yet) for a big company. she dated a guy before me (he was a piece of shit and used to get violent with her) and he cheated on her all the time. he recently found out tha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] keep attracting women who keep messing me around... It's getting too me! POST: I seem to have this knack where I will be single and enjoying my life and some chick will come along, start flirting with me and saying lots of cute crap, this then progresses to treating each other like bf/gf, meet up and sleep together for a bit and then after a while they always just leave for someone else??? This most recent time was with a chick I knew on facebook for a very long time, and ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are you afraid of physical confrontation or are intimidated easily, and if yes, do you view this as a positive trait? POST: I was curious how many people are afraid to fight and the implications this has on their self esteem. To be honest, I am. Whenever I am menaced, I usually try to ignore the aggressor but admittedly am scared even though I have self defense training. I believe the fear is learned from being aware of the sometimes deadly consequences of physical altercations no matter",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 M] will have to move across the country for a job, I just wanted to visit my ex-gf, and I don't know if I still have feelings for my ex-gf [28 F] POST: I met my ex-gf about a year ago. We were both in extremely shitty places, and startet a relationship pretty fast. We both hated the system around us because we practically had to work all day and couldn't built up any real social life. I later quit, because she was overly attached and never wanted to go out and only do stuff in ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hi Askreddit, I need some technical advice on building a display case for video art. POST: A friend of mine is a director/artist and he has made a piece of video art, for which he is constructing a display case atm. His current setup is a wall-mounted plexiglass case with a dell monitor in it and a macmini that will be used to run the video. The technical problem he needs some advice on though, is that you currently need to manually boot the macmini (and have the boot sequence and dell ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (26/f) bf (29/m) acting shady about a girl (friend)? POST: I've been living with my bf for a few years. He predominately has guy friends and has told me about all his exes (that I know of). He has gone into deep detail as to why they all didn't work out. About a year ago we added each other to Facebook and being a girlfriend i couldn't help but scroll through his past posts before we started dating. On his wall was a girl who he seemed to compliment ALOT (calling sweetie, cupcake)",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I don't want this to ruin our relationship.. POST: So a little back story, I (f24) live with my fiance (m40) and his mom lives in our home with us. In January she had a stroke which made her very limited in what she could do, but she could get to the bathroom herself and function without much help from us even though she is wheelchair bound. We had people that would come in and bathe her, do her laundry etc. OK fast forward to a few weeks ago, she fell and broke her arm, it's now cas",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I think my housemate is abusing my animals POST: My husband and I invited a close friend to come stay with us while he gets back on his feet. We'd already had our dog and cat when he moved in. He's been here for about 9 months, and in the past few months my cat and dog have avoided him, casting back furtive glances at him whenever he walks by. They do this to no one else. The cat has now started to poop in places other than his litter box. Today in particular he has been incredibly cuddly, ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can I get [CA] in-state tuition if I graduated as a resident...two years ago? POST: I graduated High School in California in 2009. I had lived there 2 1/2 years total. I was of course a resident by the time I graduated, but shortly after graduating I had to move back to my birth-state of Wisconsin because of family emergencies. I've read into California Law AB540, however that doesn't exactly apply to me because I am a legal citizen of the United States, and also, it states that I need ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Becoming disinterested with my SO [18m/19f] POST: Backstory: This is my first ever relationship. I met her in one of my classes at uni, and we really hit it off. She had JUST gotten out of a relationship of two years, and so we saw each other for about a month before we were in any sort of official relationship. Dilemma: Fast forward about a month. Things had been going rather well, she's very sweet and is very VERY into me. From the start she was always much more committed to thi",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I'm a bisexual female [21f] unsure whether to make contact with a girl [23f] I met 3 months ago POST: I'm bisexual but not out to many and I have never been with a girl, although I have wanted to for a long time. At a festival I volunteered at 3 months ago I was put on shift with a girl I'll call Hannah. Me and Hannah spent a lot of time together on shift and using her sharp gaydar I'm pretty sure she began to suspect I liked girls, so she dropped a few hints that she was gay and the",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm having some major family problems and I need some advice. Can you help me? POST: I'm going to do my best to shorten this story as much as possible, and I thank you in advance for taking the time to read it. My brother is a drug addict, and just had a baby with another drug addict. That baby is currently under care of family members since the mother is very ill. My family and I are concerned that neither of them are fit to care for a child, even once the mother recovers from",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [29 M] girlfriend [24 F] of six years doesn't want to get married POST: We've been together for six years and have a good relationship. We barely fight, share the same interests, love each other and can't think of living a life without each other. Last year we started planning our wedding. I wanted to move abroad for work and we thought it would be great time to just put a ring on it and take this adventure on together. She started getting doubts about the move and about getting",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: I'm a US citizen. 3 months after a hospital visit in QC, Canada, I received a bill for $50 threatening to send my case to collection services unless they received the payment by June 11. I got the bill on June 19. What legal actions would be taken against me? POST: So it's a little bit more complicated than the title suggests: I broke my leg skiing up near Montreal about 3 months ago and went to a nearby hospital. I paid around $400 for x-rays and put down a $1200 deposit before they ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to be handy POST: This happened less than a week ago. My wife and I recently moved to a new (to us) house and I've been really going above and beyond to make it feel like it's ""ours"". So I've been installing shelving, organizing stuff and I even built some cool shelves from old pallets. This day I was on a roll. My wife was at work and I'd already installed some shelving in the laundry room and a new wall-mounted coat rack. Next up: an old mirror had started to separate fro",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: How likely am I to get pregnant?? POST: Ok so here's the story. I had a uti, so I got five day antibiotics, and kept taking my birth control but me and my bf didn't have sex because I told him that antibiotics took down the effectiveness of birth control. Then I developed a yeast infection from the antibiotics so still no sex while finished the antibiotics. So for the past three days I haven't taken my birth control because my period is due to start next week so I just figured I would le",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do you think having children is immoral or unethical in any way? POST: In a response to someone asking why people without children have decided to (not) do so, I said that having children was, in my opinion, immoral; this doesn't mean that I think you or your parents are bad people, but hear me out. If you indirectly ensure the suffering, illness, or death of another person by, for example, not turning the lever that would stop a train from hitting them or not giving them an antidote wh",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Should I [21m] move on or tell her [21f] how I feel? POST: I am best friends with this awesome girl that I have known for 2 years now. Earlier this year, I realized that I have strong feelings for her, but I was afraid of changing the relationship drastically. We spend a lot of time together, and share a lot of mutual friends. I explained how I feel to one of our friends a couple months ago. The other night, that friend told me that my being a potential boyfriend came up. My crush ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [24/F] boyfriend [30 M] of 1+ year recently told me of his family's wealth and I'm afraid it may cause problems. POST: My boyfriend and I have been in a happy and healthy relationship for a little over a year. We're both eager for more years to come. As we've gotten more serious, we're sharing more of our closely guarded intimate details. One detail he shared with me is that he comes from a very affluent family. Both his parents are deceased and as a result he inherited their wea",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: About to give up, Should I join the military? POST: A little back-story, I'm not here to complain, just to ask advice of someone whose maybe been in my spot. I'm 22, with no degree. Tried to go back to school to finish up, but moving so much made my financial aid get all screwed up so I cant go until next semester. I work as a professional server, where at my last job was doing around 30k a year, moving to A smaller city in NY im only making about 20K now. I can hardly afford my bills,",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I ignore weird coincidences with my ex? POST: We were super close but she broke up with me about a year ago after a year of dating. 3 months afterwards heartbroken me sent her a text asking about other boyfriends, and it turned out that she had just been asked out the night before. Strange coincidence that I text right after she gets a boyfriend, but I ignore it and move on. Then the other day I get a short haircut after having long hair for 5 years because I wanted a change, an",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I need out of my job but it's only been 3 weeks POST: I'm so conflicted. I haven't been doing so well with my own startup but as of lately, I've been taking much needed steps to fix that. And I was really making progress. Then, because it seemed attractive and the boss was a good salesman (he sold the position to me), I accepted a job in my industry. Thing is, I took it on a whim 3 weeks ago and I'm fucking *hating* it. Disregarding me being far from friends, family and my long term gir",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I[30/f] don't know what to make of boyfriend's [30/m] communication patterns. POST: I have been seeing a guy for the past 4 months. When we are together, we have a great time- good conversation, fun adventures, lots of satisfying physical intimacy, and he is all about snuggling (win!). He brought up exclusivity, which gave my heart a flutter. When he travels a lot for work (offshore) and pleasure (wilderness trips) for weeks at a time, the only proof of life is a series of sce",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[f19]think I'm losing my mom[41]emotionally.In need of desperate help! POST: Hello reddit people. First of all I'll give u some important info about me.My parents are divorced since 10 years,I live with my mom and grandparents,my dad abandoned us since then.So my mom works to make a living,im an only child and im in university now and our society is kinda closed one.I would say my relationship with my mom is turning into hell day after day,although im 19 but everyone knows im more ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My brother [16/M] is getting high with my sister [31/f]. POST: This is going to be a long fucking post, but just bear with me. My little brother has been doing weed. The first time, I told my dad about it, and he told him ""Don't do it again. And don't tell your mom."" I was pissed about the verdict, but I had to deal with it. He told me he quit, but now it's summer and he has a job. My sister is dating this guy who does weed almost every day. I'm confident my brother is getting it f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] want to try having a relationship with a girl but am not experienced with women POST: I've known since childhood that I'm attracted to men and have been in two serious, long-term relationships with guys. Both of them were close friends first, and our mutual attraction evolved organically over time. I'm currently single though and am interested in exploring the side of me that has always been somewhat - to a lesser degree - attracted to women. However, there have been very f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend is fighting some mental demons and doesn't think I know POST: Hey reddit, I need some help. My boyfriend and I have been dating for about a year, and have lived together for 7 months or so. I'm 19 and he's 24. Today I was reading some of his song lyrics on our shared computer, when I came across a journal entry of sorts. I couldn't tell it was a journal entry until too late, because he often writes opinion papers and I assumed it was one of those. Instead what I found was",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Revenge at the county clerk POST: I was driving to visit a FWB at 3 in the morning. I was just a mile from her place when I get pulled over because my license plate light is burnt out. Also doesn't help that I just moved to Texas, had Texas plates but out of state ID. I get tickets for the light and my license. The following week, I go get my license and bulb fixed, go to the clerk's office and she says I have to pay $280 for driving without a license. I told her I had one, it wa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Patent Lawyers of reddit, i could use some advice. POST: Ill keep this short. Me and my dad currently hold a patent in the area of airplane safety. If implemented, it should (more like will, but im not attempting to brag here) revolutionise the field. At the moment, we are trying to find a licensing company which will sell the patent for us and give us a share of the money. What is a good percentage to ask for (in terms of what they sell it for) and is it acceptable to ask for money u",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] dating a girl [24 F] for 4 months, confused on lack (suddenly) of communication. POST: So I've been dating this girl for about 3 months, we were not exclusive, and were friends for a while beforehand. For the first two and a half months or so, we talked every day for 2+ hours, sent 3-4 texts everyday, and saw each other 2-3 times a week generally due to time issues. For about the last two weeks though, communication has gone almost down to nothing. I still see here twice ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: looking for help POST: I was looking for some advice with my relationship because I'm not feeling so great about it anymore. Basically my boyfriend is incredibly insensitive and I am pretty sensitive. If I am upset, he might try to console me a bit, but consistently stares over at the computer screen to see whats going on in his game. He will then do whatever I was upset about but make sure to make the point that he is only doing it to make me shut up. I feel like he should be doi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Geeks of reddit, do you ever see socially awkward youths and just want to tell them that everything will work out? POST: I saw a kid at the library the other day who reminded me a lot of myself when I was younger. By this I mean chubby, awkward and extremely Self-conscious. He used the bathroom to change into workout close and when he came out he just had this look like ""please nobody look at me and make fun of me. I feeling I have felt many times in my life. I large part of me wanted to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Been with my boyfriend(30/m) for 4 years. We live together and I (21/f) love him but have some serious issues and he doesn't want what I want. Should I leave the relationship? POST: So, as I said my boyfriend and I have been together for 4 years and we've lived together for a little over 3 of those years. In the beginning, he was affectionate and romantic and hinted at wanting marriage one day. Fast forward to now, where he is admittedly against marriage and kids, although that's lik",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24m) was just told by my gf (26f) that she has herpes. She waited after it would already matter. Would you still trust her? POST: We've already had unprotected sex/i've given her lots of oral. She just told me this morning over breakfast. We've been dating for 4 months, I'm getting tested tomorrow. According to her, she hasn't had an outbreak in 4 years, and I guess transmission rates aren't very high if you're not having an outbreak. The herpes is something I could work around, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my GF[19F] together for over a year, how do I break up with her? POST: I met my girlfriend in highschool and we connected instantly, we were good friends before we started dating which made our relationship so good to begin with. The first 6 months of our relationship was perfect, our sex life was brilliant, we were always happy and never argued, we got along perfectly. From about 2 months in we were sleeping at each others house everyday without a night apart and t",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My car was towed unjustly, what are my options? POST: So here's the situation. I live in Chicago. Apparently I managed to accumulate 3 parking tickets over the course of the last year and a half that I never even noticed as being on my car. So anyways, they all show up. 2 of these are absolutely ridiculous and I chose to contest them; the other I thought was actually legitimate. So I type out a my case, write a check and send this off in the envelope they provided. Then out of the ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: [Serious] As a non-religious person, how do I speak to a priest or go to confession? POST: EDIT: Thank you all for your responses. You've been very helpful, and I'm significantly less nervous about doing this than I was before I asked the question. . To give everyone some background: I'm a 21 year old woman currently finishing up my last year in college. Neither me nor my immediate family are religious; I went to a Unitarian Sunday school for a bit as a kid and I read through some of ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Has anyone else had a Curb Your Enthusiasm-esque argument? POST: I've had a few zingers, but my personal favorite follows... I was at a Border's and after about 20min. of browsing I had to take that compulsory bookstore whiz. I get to the john and standing at the urinal next to me is a day trader with a Twilight book under his arm chatting on his cell-phone. So after beginning to drain the lizard, I feel this guy giving me the stink-eye. Once we make eye contact, the following conversat",negative " r/loseit TITLE: NSV - Clothes fitting better, renewed mindset POST: So, this is actually sticking. For the past 3 years I've just kind of thrown my hands up and decided that every time I went out to eat it was a ""treat yo self"" occasion. BUT this weekend I realized that I can eat ""treat"" foods if I plan for them and I also accept that I can not eat an entire meal of treats. So for instance, we went out to a restaurant that has a fantastic grilled cheese sandwhich on the menu. It comes with fries, but you c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm 25M, she's 22M. What's the most effective way to say ""It's come to my attention that I made not have made my feelings 100% clear. In case there was any confusion, I'm quite fond of you. If the feelings aren't mutual, it's cool, but I just wanted to make sure you knew."" POST: Oops, **22F.** Sorry. I realize the message I just put in the title is no where near what it should actually say (I think), i was just trying to explain it to you guys. Basically, had a couple of dates with",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: My mom wants to divorce my sociopathic father BUT he owes thousands of dollars to the IRS and others. Any advice on how to go about this? POST: My father is a sociopath. He is very intelligent and knows how to act like a normal human being on the outside. He made good money as an electrical engineer for several years but rarely paid his taxes (owes somewhere around 30k or more). He also went back to school and took out several thousand of dollars in loans (20k is a good guess). The pro",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [f 22] had to pick between my best friend [f 24] and boyfriend [m 26] POST: She acts like my boyfriend, people have always assumed we're a lesbian couple, which is definitely not the case... it's because she pays for our food at restaurants, buys me roses for things, smokes her pot with me. Even when I live far she comes regularly to see me. Well every time we try to live together it's a total disaster and we hate each other in no time at all! I asked my boyfriend to let her live",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Can I [22 F] ask my boyfriend of 5 months [22/M] to move countries with me? POST: I got a fantastic scholarship opportunity to carry out my PhD in Australia (I live in NZ), I would be moving early next year. If my boyfriend wasn't in the picture I would 100% accept. However, I'm in a relationship with the most incredible guy I've ever met. We love each other, and he tells me everyday how beautiful and amazing I am. We click. We both work as scientists in the same building (different",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (21F) hate my SO's (23M) family. They hate me. How should I handle it? POST: I'll try to keep this brief (even though I could write a damn novel about how awful they are). My SO and I have been together for three years. At first I thought his family was nice. Later on down the road I found out the truth. They are all insane. His mother and sister are the most unstable people in the world. His dad is a controlling narcissist. They are just awful. And they hate me. Naturally they fee",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 F] with my boyfriend [30 M] of 3 years, difficulty keeping it together long-distance POST: My boyfriend has moved to another city for work (common story) and it seems our pre-existing difficulties with communication are making this really hard. Both he and I suffer from depression - I'm medicated, he's not, but both of us hit a big reactive low in the weeks following the move. Sometimes we talk on the phone and it's all good, but sometimes he gets frustrated with how I condu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [21f] not sure how to handle this situation with [25m] POST: Long story short, my ex bf cheated on me with his 11 year old niece. It truly disgusts me. I now have a new bf, with whom I've been with for 2 and a half years. His little sister [11] practically worships him and is constantly all over him and wanting his attention. I know part of this is because that is how kids are, but I can't help but feel threatened by it. I barely want to spend any time with her, and I get truly",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it reasonable for me [19F] to lose trust in my boyfriend [21M] for this? POST: So my boyfriend hid from me that he tried a drug (not weed) for two weeks, and he only told me a few days ago because i found out from him that he tried weed for the 2nd time again, which I also didn't know. He said he was afraid of telling me cause he was afraid of my judgement. I can understand that, but how can he not respect me enough to tell me something of that importance. To be honest, I still ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I think my fiancé either has or is developing a drinking problem. I don't know what to do. POST: Throwaway, obviously. Sorry, but he's a redditor, and I'm not sure if I want him to read this yet. So, we've been together for over 6 years. We got engaged last year and are planning on getting married next summer. Last year was pretty rough for us. I miscarried our first child, and although it was horrible at the time, I feel like we've been dealing with it really well. There's some other ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [F28] found out my boyfriend [M36] of one year is addicted to sexting other women POST: So about me. I have been cheated big time in my previous relationships, which has made me really strict about infidelity. It's a no-go. My previous relationship of seven years ended two years ago, and I have been together for a year with this guy. He has a history of short relationships only. My boyfriend is really private when it comes to his phone and laptop, which in my previous relationshi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my GF [26/F] dating 5 months, I'm transgender (female to male) and need to bring up a conversation about sex POST: Hey all, first time posting in here So I'm transgender, born with lady parts and have been about 7 months on testosterone. I look like a dude but have the parts of a chick. My girlfriend identifies as bisexual which is pretty ideal but has very limited experience in terms of sex and says she's a prude. Long story short, I do things to her but she has yet ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: M[18]: F[18] who I had been hanging out with asked me to find her a hook up. POST: I'm a freshman in college. During the first week of school I met these two girls who were roommates. Lets call them Sue and Debra. I really like Debra but I have no classes with her, so I hung out with Sue because I knew Sue and Debra hung out together. So now a few weeks into school I hang out with them on the regular. Here's where it gets weird. For the first week I didn't know Debra had a bo",negative " r/jobs TITLE: (Xpost from r/self) I want to quit my job that I got at 5 months ago. POST: I was working at Starbucks for about 10 months before I accepted a bar tending position downtown where I was making even more money. I left on good terms with my boss and he said if I ever wanted to go back I would have a spot. 6 months later the job ended up falling through and I came back to Starbucks looking for a job quick that would pay my rent and help me survive. It's had its ups and downs so far, he's been tel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [25 M], intimidated by the dating process, and not sure what my ""type"" is POST: I was homeschooled K-12, and had a lot of abuse (mostly emotional) by my mom. Until a year ago, I would sometimes shake around women. I'd never had close female friends, but then I got a best friend who was a really sweet woman, and just hanging out with her helped a lot. Also, my mom suddenly did a 180 and became nicer, which helped too. I'm introverted, but not extremely. I'm just very inexperi",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Mixing low-carb lifestyle and long distance endurance activities X-post from r/fitness POST: Sorry not sure where to post this, kinda falls into loseit and bicycling but this is more of an all around issue that could be relevant to anyone in my situation and with different activities. I am currently about half-way through my weight loss journey lost 64 pounds so far. I have gotten into bicycle touring on and off road which means long, slow distance sometimes extremely intense. I am having",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Took me 1.5 years to woo my ex. Moved to California and she began to accuse me of cheating all the time. I was faithful. Couldn't handle the mistrust mixed with pressure of long distance and training. Broke up. 5 months later she had a new boyfriend. POST: I don't really have anyone to talk with about this. Can someone just...give me some insight? Maybe I shouldn't even care. Little bit of background. It was a high school relationship. We were both 19 at the time. I moved west because I ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Can't stop having feelings for this guy while I know I probably shouldn't.. What to do, Reddit? POST: 20 year old female here. I've been friends with this guy (18 yo) for about a year now, and a couple of months ago I started to feel more than friendship. After some time I started to think that maybe he felt the same for me, but I wasn't sure. Then, on a night some weeks ago, we kissed. We spent the whole night making out, lying in each other's arms. For the record, both of us hadn'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 22m and 21f gf. over 4 years together, problem has occurred with me affecting our relationship. POST: So I've been with my girlfriend for 4 and a bit years. I'm 22 she's 21. we love each other and usually have fun together. We have been on holidays together and done everything together, but also not forgetting seeing our friends. Last year i graduated, and was ready to start work soon after, however thing didn't work out and I'm still stuck with my part time job not doing what i wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my girlfriend [19F] 2.5 years, currently in a LDR and having trouble getting more intimate POST: I started dating my gf at the end of high school, and we really hit it off. But with us both being extremely shy / cautious and neither having slept with anyone before, we didn't try anything too intimate while in high school. Graduation comes, and we decide to try an LDR despite getting into different schools over 500 miles apart. Fast-forward 2 years, and although we've ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] met a guy [30M] one day who seems a little needy (frequent messages) and I want it to stop but I don't want to be mean. POST: I went to visit my friend who lives 2 1/2 hours away one weekend and we went out one night and I met this guy. Everything was fun that night hanging out, I gave him my number and left. I went back home and he asked me to add him on facebook so I was like whatever, he's nice and lives 2 1/2 hours away, no big deal. Well the next week he was texting m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Been with SO for three years. Drunkenly kissed someone else three weeks ago and confessed. We are staying together. What should I do/expect? POST: I (21F) have been with my boyfriend (22M) for three years. I think he is one of the most amazing people I have ever met and love him dearly. We have been through long-distance at various points of our relationship, and have made it through them successfully. We were in talks of moving in together and creating a life together until I got ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm the least favorite in my group of friends. POST: I know this isn't a reddit for friendships but its a relationship too damnit and I couldn't find a good reddit for this so here goes. Like I said, I feel like the least favorite in my group of friends. I have 3 best friends that I spend 90% of my hangout time with. 2 of them are a couple and the other is a girl. The 2 girls ( the one in the relationship and the other one) are basically in a relationship. They finish each others se",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [19 M] My girlfriend [19 F] told me she hooked up with a guy who had a girlfriend before. Red flag or just am I just being insecure? POST: She actually brought this up before we knew each other pretty well (we we're still like casually dating, nothing official yet). Tbh I didn't expect us to end up being together, but it happened lol. We have been dating for 5 months, became official in December. Anyways I thought about this earlier today ... One time we talked about how we've had o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25 M] fiance [21 F] of 2 years, goes to school full time and works full time, trying to figure out what else i can do to help her feel less stressed. POST: Me and my fiance are getting married in about a week, she currently works more than full time (has been doing as much OT as she can at the hospital where she works and regularly works weekend), and will soon be going back to school (2 classes a day), and has to deal with all of that on top of making sure we get everything toge",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 23M with my GF 27F dating for 6 months, hates my job/hobbies. POST: Not sure how to really explain this one but I need help and not sure who else to ask. Basically I'm a young network engineer who loves my job and works every day 7-4, afterwards I go cycling because I race and need to train.. GF doesn't like this very much and says I don't care about her or spend enough time with her because I cannot sleep over every night (I still live with my parents). I literally spend all my ti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [18F] and [20M] is heading away for college after a three year relationship POST: We have been together for three years in what I consider to be a serious relationship. She is heading ~3000 miles across the country to attend college. Everyone always says long distance doesn't work and is not worth trying, but I want to marry this girl one day. I know neither of us are financially stable (I am going to college as well) so that isn't viable at this point in the relations",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (21f) with my boyfriend (23m) of 9 months. Need to break up, not sure how to proceed. POST: So, I still care about him a lot, my feelings for him haven't changed but i feel unable to continue in this relationship for a lot of reasons. Such as: We barely talk/text/see each other as we do not live close by. He is bad at communication anyway but at the moment he's working very long days. What we are left with is not what i would call a relationship. I don't really know whats happeni",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Father in law ( late 50s ) has just bought home a female drug addict after weird out of character visits to the bar. POST: Hi all, I've been concerned about this lady ( late 30s? ) my father in law ( late 50s ) has bought home. I understand he probably feels sorry for her, but my fiance and I ( 20 and 24 ) are weirded out. First of all, his wife ( also late 50s ) has been gone for nearly two weeks, attending to her dying sister in Virginia ( mid 50s ), and my fiance's father has been",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Moving gone completely wrong, any stories people want to share and make me feel better about my disaster? POST: So after my terrible apartment management company threatened to increase my rent by 50% (I wish I was kidding) unless I signed a year long lease, I decided to finally move. I could have fought with my apartment management, but I was getting of my apartment, with consistent issues. Apartment hunting was awful, rents have sky rocketed even though I am still making the same. Any",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [21 M] break off an appointment with her [19 F] as she doesn't seem interested? POST: The girl goes to the same uni and is fun to talk with. I told her that we should get lunch sometime, she agreed, and we set up a tentative date of next week. Today when she sees me she tells me that there's another guy interested in her and that right now, she sees both of us as friends. I know what I want and it's not a platonic relationship. I've more or less made up my mind that I pro",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21/F] with my best[21F] 11years, i feel insecure around my bff all the time and i don't know how to fix it. POST: So first off, this is entirely my issue. My best friend Elaina has never said or done anything to contribute to this, it's just me. In fact she's always been supportive, complimenting me when I get new clothes or if my make up looks nice. Elaina is super pretty, like she's incredibly cute. I'm overweight, with messy hair and glasses. Every time I'm around her I keep ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (28f) my best friend (29f) is the sister of my ex(28m). I want her to meet my husband (27m). POST: So my best friend of 15 years is my ex's sister and they are very close. We all were friends once and then his brother and i started dating and were in a serious relationship for almost five years. We both then broke up about five years ago and I got married to my husband. My breakup was very ugly and my husband played a major role in that (just to clarify i never cheated on m",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/m] I have insecurity issues. POST: I've been dating this girl for 6 months now, and I've read enough RA threads to know that I have major insecurity issues. Whenever we're away from each other, especially if she's with guy friends, I can't help but think something is going to happen. The thing is though, she's never done anything to make me feel this way, and I'm sure she never will. This is completely on me. It's happened with relationships in the past, to the point where ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm an Indian in South Carolina. The other day I experienced blatant racism. You guys ever experienced racism to the face? POST: I was driving down the road in my Honda Accord (generic Indian car) and I pulled up to a stoplight. As I was sitting there, I see a car pull up next to me with three guys in it. They're sitting in their Honda Civic and ask me to roll my window down, to which I do accordingly thinking they might need directions. Then this: ""Hey man, that's a nice camel you're ri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: As a 25M how do I show interest without appearing desperate POST: I'm on mobile so there may be some typos. I'm a guy who's been single over a year. I'm finally ready to date again. My problem is the opposite of most guys... I know how to not act desperate. In fact I'm so good at it I think women lose interest. I legit don't ""need"" a woman. I can take care of myself, have fun with friends, consciously override desire for sex or watch porn. I'm a very independent person but a gf wou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24f) got dumped by my fiancee (29m) of 3 years and i don't know what to do. POST: The first two or so years was amazing. We always said we wouldnt give up on each other and people didnt know anymore how to stick through shit together. He proposed told me to leave my hellhole job which i stupidly did and we were just about to get a new place where we were going to raise kids as the current lease was going to run out next month. We have been fighting a bit for a few months but he",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the biggest hole you've dug yourself out of? POST: Hey AskReddit! What is the biggest hole you've dug yourself out of? What I mean by that is pretty much what's the biggest amount of trouble you got out of/conquered/stuff like that. It can be financial, physical, whatever! I'm currently in a whole and looking for success stories for encouragement. I doubt my hole isn't that extreme, but here it is. About a month ago my car broke down while I was still in college. It's pretty mu",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Got injured at work. Got sent to ER. Think I have radial nerve palsy. POST: Backstory: I was at work and got my arm stuck between a pallet and some conveyors. After freeing arm, was not able to fully extend my middle, ring, and pinky fingers. I can make a fist just can't fully extend my hand. Pinky is still numb at times. I figured I cut off the circulation and blood wasn't flowing to my hand. I have abrasions on my arm from the pressure of the two objects. My arm feels tender and sor",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I met up with my Ex yesterday after two years of no contact, found out she did ""fetish modeling"". POST: Edit: Posted this back in /r/relationships but decided to post it here too. So I've been with this girl for over 7 months two years back. It was a rocky road tbh. She's a very independent girl who talks a lot of crap about other people, very confident and caring, but very insensitive. Her confidence is what made me very attracted to her in the first place. She's also very be",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Something is *seriously* wrong with my pets.. POST: So we had a boy cat named Cerberus and we have a girl cat named P.J. Cerberus would constantly hold P.J. down against her will and rape her and *spray* on her back. ALL THE TIME. So we got rid of him because he was *spraying* everywhere and ruining furniture. We also have a female **DOG** named Shadow. Once we got rid of Cerberus, Shadow started raping P.J. a lot! It's really messed up because Shadow will hold P.J. down with her paws ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/f]- Am I just being paranoid? POST: My boyfriend [23/m] and I have been dating for about 2 1/2 years - we met while he was in college, since he graduated last year we now live about an hour away from each other. I was using his computer looking up a gift for him, but went through the history to delete is so he has no idea about it. But while I was searching through the history I ended up finding all sorts of links to porn. I understand watching porn is natural in our soci",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend's [31F] sister keeps teasing my boyfriend [26M] and me [24F] about getting married. POST: We've been together for 2 years this August. When we met, he had a high-paying job at an accounting firm, but realized that he hated the isolation and boredom and decided to go back to school. I recently completed my bachelor's degree and am looking into graduate school as well. Basically, we're not in any position to get married right now, even though we love each other and the ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What criteria determines whether someone is a ""bad person"" ? POST: I'm posting this from a throwaway account, because to properly set the context for this question, I have to give away a few too many personal details. I took steps to end a very one sided marriage on Monday. She is a drug addict who has been relapsing on and off for the last year. It started with cocaine, alcohol, and various psychedelics. This eventually led to a night where she messed around with another guy while she",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] have a crush on my best friend [18F] who has just come out of a relationship and has several guys who like her. I'm not sure how to proceed. POST: Just some information to give context to the situation: I've known this girl for nearly five years. Very close friends, often staying up until 4am on Skype after a game of Cards Against Humanity. Same dark sense of humor, similar tastes in partners, and I've known her for a while - bare-bones, I know, those are just a few of the re",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, my parents went through a divorce lately and I think my mom's going through depression. I need your help. POST: Hi there, reddit. Like I said, my parents went through a rather nasty divorce lately and it's taking a huge toll on my mom. For my entire life she's always done what she thought was best for me and my brother. Now, under the weight of a near-minimum wage job and the fear of living the rest of her life alone, I'm beginning to fear for her. She's expressed a desire t",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Everything about this is complicated. [M18] POST: Anal_Lemur needs your help. This female added me on Facebook about 3 years ago. She has a tough time speaking English but I can understand her well enough. From the first time we talked I kind of felt something. She lives in Colombia. Just kidding. Anyway, we kind of stopped talking for a bit but recently we have been going at it again. I've talked to her everyday for at least 15 minutes a day. She's beautiful, funny, and I think she'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [21f] coping with my break-up by buying clothes. A lot of clothes. POST: It's been less than a week since my ex and I broke it off after 1.5 years, and I haven't been taking it too well. I can't concentrate on anything, I'll periodically release wimpy, pathetic sobs that last only a minute or two, I haven't been finishing my schoolwork, and nothing motivates me. Except online shopping. I've spent $150 yesterday and $40 today. It's the only thing that will really distract me from",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my GF [22 F] of 1 year, I've found out is planning to marry her ex-boyfriend. POST: So for the past year, I've been living with my girlfriend and her parents. I was divorced last year and afterwards we hooked up after we professed our love for one another 11 months later she had my son. Before all this about 4 years ago she had a child with her BF at the time. I didn't pay much attention to this as he was married and there didn't seem to be a problem. However he also d",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have almost no confidence, what can I do to help this? POST: I'm in high school and I don't really have any friends. I don't have any siblings and I'm introverted. I'm a very non-social person (not anti-social). I'm fine with just sitting with a small group of people and just thinking to myself. But I'm also very shy. But now onto my question. It seems like all the kids in my school are dating (even the nerdy kids that I thought would never get a girlfriend), and I've never been ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] having trouble making friends who are girls after moving to a new city. POST: I just graduated University and moved to a new city (Woohoo adulting!). I thought my biggest obstacle here was going to be meeting people or making guy friends.. But I'm finding that's not the case. I'm very outgoing, friendly, and interested in other people's hobbies/backgrounds so I've met plenty of new friends. I get along great with all of the dudes.... but it seems that my biggest struggle is",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25F] boyfriend's [23M] depression is making him feel like a bad partner POST: We have been dating for about six months and by all standards this was an otherwise very healthy relationship, we love each other very much but things have gotten difficult. We live together for all intents and purposes. Around one month ago he started becoming very withdrawn, didnt want any physical contact or affection. He started getting more reckless, like drinking too much and staying out late wit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm 27m feeling guilty about a crush 23f POST: Self explanatory up top. I'm (27m) in a serious relationship (2.6 years) with my lovely girlfriend 25f but I have a crush on this girl 23f at work. We seem to always make eye contact and say or wave hi to each other in a bashful shy manner. We'll talk every now and then but not in-depth cause I don't want it to go any further than that. our conversations are pretty short and feel awkward on my end cause I try not to flirt and also caus",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [m25] cant find the middle ground with women POST: I've been in 7 relationships of various lengths since I was a senior in high school and the game ender has always been the same - either the girl has an incredibly low sex drive or it's so high that she ends up cheating or trying to cheat on me. I'm the type that would never cheat on my SO, I'm not abusive, I'm an attractive guy with a good size that performs well, so I don't give these women any reason to cheat on me. They just d",negative " r/self TITLE: Under Google's new privacy policies, if you wish to delete your account, you will be denied service to youtube and google entirely? POST: So I went to make a comment on a youtube video today and was prompted to sign into my youtube account, which apparently is also linked with my google account, and after reading the details about the new privacy policy I decided I would rather delete my account. Before deleting my account, there was a warning: ""Delete Google Account Please read this carefu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I would appreciate the shit out of you guys if you would help me get healthier. POST: So, today my friend told me I should start working out, so, basically in the nicest way possible he said I'm getting fat. I went home and noticed it too. I've gained a bunch of weight over the years, and as I just finished my first year of college, well, long story short: junk-food and coffee fucked me over. I have from now until late August, and I want to become much leaner, stronger, faster, and most",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [26F] having a really hard time letting go and keep convincing myself not to. [30M] POST: First off, this guy is my best friend. I love him, but we've always fought. Sometimes as little as once in a few months, sometimes as often as four or five times in a week. Regardless, fights have been a regular thing. They usually revolve around disparity in social needs (I want more time together; he wants more time alone) and exes (that one has been solved for the most part). Latel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What's the deal? Both 19yrs old POST: My gf(19F) and I(19M) have been together for about two and a half years, including this past winter when we took a break for about three months. Anyways, one thing kind of bothers me about our relationship. I feel like I do more of the work than she does. She cares less, so she's in charge. You know? For example, if she were to say that she misses me, I would just tell her back, ""I miss you too."" Where as, if I tell her I miss her, she'll tell me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: So kinda freaked out [M/21] about my roommate's decision [M/28] POST: So I've known my roommate for a year and a half now. I met him through college apartment housing. It's cheap rent able rooms with 3 other roommates and you have to live with them for a year. We instantly became good friends and had fun with no troubles for the year of our lease, halfway through that we agreed we know no one that's a better roommate choice than the other. A few months ago we signed a lease on a 1,10",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking a super sexy Walmart employee where Gushers were. POST: OK, so I go to Walmart for one sole purpose. Gushers. I get there and I spend literally around 30 minutes looking for them. After a long time of searching for Gushers I had no luck so I decide to ask an employee. There were many out there but I went to this girl in particular. Super hot, my height too and that's rare, bro. I start to head her way. On the way I decide to drink the soda I had in my hand to freshen up my m",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My dad is lonely, and falling back into drinking habbits post-divorce - how can I make him go into treatment? POST: My dad always had a tendency to drink a little more than he should. A beer after work, a beer along with dinner, and a couple of beers during the evening. The result was usually the same: he ended up falling asleep in front of the computer, and I would have to wake him up before I went to bed. My mom talked with him about his drinking habits, and he tried to end them multi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (17F) have absolutely no idea how to move on after losing SO (19M) after 4 years together, despite him treating me awfully. POST: I don't know what to do. No matter what I do or tell myself I can't stop loving him and thinking about him. He broke up with a month ago and I lost my home, sanity and most of my belongings in the process. I do not want to love him anymore. He has made it clear that he doesn't love me. He treats me awfully. He cheated on me twice and then continued to ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to recover a non-existent hard drive POST: So, my hard drive on my laptop failed. I finally got around to diagnosing it and trying to recover files from it. I spent the past 2 hours using various bootable recovery programs to try and do so. One problem though; the hard drive wasn'te even showing up. After the 2 hours had passed, I got fed up and slammed the lid shut on my laptop. I looked around and laid eyes on my computer desk. This is where I saw the hard drive. The hard dri",negative " r/self TITLE: Damnit UPS. POST: This is just a rant. A very, very angry rant. So two weeks ago I order three books for my new classes. A few days later (I ordered the overnight for $20 extra, but they managed to fuck that up and sent them three days later), the books finally come in and one of them is fucked up beyond belief. I mean, missing the first twenty five pages, and it is written in. So I tell textbooks.com and they send me out another book. They don't overnight it and so I have to wait another we",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Landlord withholding portion of deposit for removal of abandoned couches. No real itemized list (MN) POST: Hello, My former landlord is withholding and unknown amount of a joint damage deposit (5 guys each paid 1/5th). And my roommates are keeping it all to themselves. IN MINNESOTA I moved out of the house over a year ago and subleased my room (which worked out fine) I was in a two year lease leaving one year early. When the guys moved out I was informed 9 days after the lease ended",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Male cat urinary tract obstruction aftercare questions & guilt (x post) POST: Today I took my 4 year old, neutered cat to the vet because he had blood on his 'area' and was acting funny. She explained that his urethra was blocked and his bladder was very large and hard and sent me to an emergency hospital. Due to financial limitations I was unable to have him stay there for the recommended 36-48 hours with a catheter and bag the whole time, opting instead for an outpatient procedure to unbloc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (18f) am getting pissed at ""going Dutch""with BF (20m) POST: Okay, so I don't want to seem like an ungrateful gold digging type of person, because that's not it. I also understand that it's the 21st century blah blah blah... However, at a certain point I think it is okay to expect to not have to pay. Now this could be my mother finally getting her relationship ideals into my head, but I don't think that's it. I'm all for paying on dates, and with this particular guy it's been happe",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/m] seeing long time friend of 6 years [18/f] POST: So up until about a month ago I was very close friends with a girl I basically grew up with in high school. We had previously slept together a couple of times when we were drunk but nothing more concrete than that. We have both watched each other in relationships and given advice about it, but there's always been something there. About a month ago we were out and she basically suggested we give things a try and acknowledge",negative " r/relationships TITLE: A girl [20F] broke up with me because she sees me [25M] as a friend and now I'm not sure what to do. POST: I [previously posted here] because I started dating a girl I really-really liked. We met a few days ago and she explained that she sees me more like a friend and we should continue being friends. I was very disappointed by this but I told her I'm not angry at her (I'm not). A friend of mine (who is a big womanizer) told me that I shouldn't contact her for a few days (as in, I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend has just got a high-flying job and I'm worried I will get left behind. What should/could I do? POST: My boyfriend just graduated and got a high-flying job for a multinational company. He moved about an hour and a half away, I'm still 2 years until the end of my degree. We are now 'long distance' (it's not that far away) and plan to see each other every weekend. I'm really worried he will leave me as he will consider me to be beneath him and below him, perhaps not in such a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [16F] Cheated on Me [19M] 3 Weeks Ago, I Forgave Her, is it Realistic to Trust Her Again? POST: First serious relationship for both of us. Almost 6 months. After the first month, I was out of the country for a month, but we picked up from where we were right away. The day before our 5 months, she goes to one of my friends parties, and gets really drunk. And also said ""Don't lie, your jealous I slept with ____"" (We've had sex, but have not been able to sleep over yet) ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Looking for some help or advice. Anything really. 17/m POST: Hi. This is my first time posting, sorry for any errors in advance. I've come across some trouble in my life, I have no idea what to do or what to say. I have a girlfriend of 16 months (16/f) and I share a big group of friends with her. Before we started dating I was always the party-goer of the two (at that age? What a joke right?) I loved to chill, meet random girls and just have a great time. My girlfriend and I met ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23f) hurt my neck and called out of work. Husband (28m) replys with hurtful answer. Not sure what to do. (Married 1.25 years) POST: Helpful background: husband is genius smart and has high pain tolerance. He has trouble with empathy sometimes. Married one year, four months. Throwaway account. My job is based on photoing newborns so no babies means no work. Today was one of those days. So last night I pulled my neck in a weird spot. My job consists of me lifting newborn humans. Th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21F] Jealous of Girls that like Boyfriend's [20M] Pics on Instagram POST: My boyfriend who I've been with for 2 months is pretty active on social media (Instagram/Tumblr) and he gets a lot of girls liking his pictures and commenting and stuff. They don't comment anything extremely offensive but some of them seem flirty, and it pisses me off really badly. He found out that I had went on his account and blocked some girls who were regular commentors on his pictures, and he got angry a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [26M] Ex [25F] wants to be part of my life again, but I have a gf [22F], and I'm afraid I'll fall in love with my ex again POST: So I met my ex in high school. We had an intense relationship, but when I went to college, we broke it off, and it turned into a FWB kind of thing whenever I was home. We really loved each other, but we agreed that we wouldn't do the long distance thing. A few years after this, she got married and had a kid. However, she had an open marriage and kept s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] broke up with my girlfriend [23 F] of 4 1/2 years, I think I might want to reconcile, doesn't feel like it should be the end and the spark is still there. POST: My girlfriend and I had been together for 4 1/2 years, got together young/highschool sweat-heart kind of deal. We lived together for over half of this time and always got along great and had fun together. We loved going hiking and going away together for the weekend and things like that. The past 6 months we were bo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Does my friend [18 F] like me [18 M]more than a friend? POST: I've been friends with this girl that lived in my dorm for the past 6 months. I think she likes me more than a friend but I don't I feel the same way. She texts me a lot and always asks me for favors, meanwhile, she has plenty of other friends to ask for help. I don't understand why she always asks me. I also noticed that her eyes dart away from mine whenever I make eye contact with her when we're at lunch or dinner. She a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Reddit, Am I a dick or was is this girl just crazy? POST: A few nights ago I had this girl Ive fooled around with once over in my room after a night drinking. We start hooking up going slow for a while but after 40 minutes or so I had her naked. While she is on top of me sucking the very skin of my face off she suddenly stops, gets down, gets dressed and locks herself in my bathroom. For the next 20 minutes she is moaning and crying hysterically, but in a muffled sort of way. She fi",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [22/f] went on date [22/m] now what POST: posted something similar in the relationship subreddit but then i found this one so met a guy through tinder. had seen him around town before since we live really close, was very attracted to him but didn't approach him. i actually ended up running into him (physically) in a place and then we matched on tinder a few months later. so we met up for a ""date"" which turned out to be a double date. it went really really well, and we even hung out ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My mother [60/F] thinks my BF [49/M] of a few months, is too old for me [32/F]. POST: We've been dating since October 2014. I'm 32, he's 49. He used to be a chef and can cook anything and everything. He treats me really well! He's divorced and has 10-year-old fraternal twins, who he sees every other weekend. I haven't met them yet, which is fine with me. He makes me really happy! In late January/early February I told my mom about him, and while I knew she would have to get used to t",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting the cops called for making a YouTube video POST: Like many of these, this didn't happen today. More like 9 months ago, but I thought the story belonged here. My friends and I have a small unknown channel that we make videos for in our spare time. We were in the process of filming the final scene at a local park, which involved putting my girlfriend in the trunk of my car, driving up into a parking lot, and carrying her out of the trunk and into the woods. We noticed when film",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO BREAK CHECK ME WHEN YOU STARTED THIS SHIT? POST: I'm driving down the street and an old man in a Cadillac is driving extremely slow in front of me, and about to turn right. That's fine, it's an old man in a Cadillac, it's his fucking job to drive slow. But, the second the old man in the Cadillac turns right SOME MOTHER FUCKER cuts me off with about 2 feet of clearance from the front of my car. I tailgate the shit out of him. He break checks me over and over, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[25F] in amazing long term relationship, but tempted to cheat POST: I'm in a 5 year relationship with the love of my life. I adore him, we have a very open, communicative, supporting relationship. We live together, the sex is good. Couldn't ask for a better partner in life. BUT, there is this one guy that I have such an intense physical attraction to. I used to work with him (we're now both at different companies) but we are still friends and see each other from time to time. Whe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Yesterday was my (25F) birthday - friends didn't really acknowledge it, should I say anything? POST: Yesterday was my 25th birthday, my three closest friends (also female) live pretty far away now. We all usually get together on each other's birthdays (last year I spent $600+ traveling for each person's bday) but this time my friends couldn't make it to see me for my bday or to visit me this weekend. We also usually exchange gifts (about a $20-$50 range). My friends didn't send any",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] Going on vacation away from dog for first time -- how to find a good boarding kennel? POST: I have a three year old pit bull that I've had since he was a puppy, and the one time I've gone on vacation since, I brought him with me. It was a difficult process, so it might be easier to leave him back this time around, no matter how much it'll hurt me (and him). He has minor separation anxiety, so I'm a bit afraid to leave him. Since he's a family dog, my parents want to leave him with a c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[18M] with my girlfriend [18F], asking for ideas to melt her heart (We're moving to college) POST: My girlfriend and I are both moving off to college, and as is usual for most teenagers, she is a bit scared. I am moving down with her, and we'll be attending nearby schools and I'll have a place near both of our schools for the two of us (she'll be living in a dorm as well). She left this morning at 6am, and I don't leave until tomorrow at 6pm (I'm flying, she drove) and I won't see ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (26/m) friend is making a big deal about hanging out with my gf's (26) ex, and putting me in the middle of the drama POST: My friend im'd me out of nowhere asking if my girlfriend (26) and I (26; we've been dating 9 months) were going to an upcoming party. She never asks if I'll be at places, and it's clearly because she's been hanging out with my gf's ex and doesn't want to run into us. She's been playing up the weirdness between them ever since a couple months ago, when the th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: DAE think that some ""unions"" are in conspiractory cahoots with the very corporations and/or agencies of which its workers is represented by? POST: I just thought of this all of a sudden, dunno why. To clarify what I meant, I've noticed union dues have been skyrocketing in relative to the service they offer. This could just be due to incompetance. The inquisitive nature in me can't help but ask are some of these unions working with large corporations or factory owners in a shady, theatric",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Has anyone's teachers done something awesome? POST: I'll start. In middle school, I had one awesome teacher. I'll call her Mrs.V. Mrs.V is in her 60's, and has lived in Korea and China. She had to deal with a lot of rude students over the year, so I was nice to her and sometimes smacked a kid. One day Mrs.V, knowing I liked anime at the time, asked me to teach the class one day, because finals were over and no one cared much. I was to teach, ""Anime and How it Reflects Japanese Culture",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me: [23F]. Boyfriend [37] spends all his time at a bar. Financially irresponsible because of it... I'm ready to move out. POST: He is obsessed with drinking and being out always. It's always been a problem. When we first started dating, he would get close-the-bar-pass-out-on-the-sidewalk drunk a few nights a week. It has slowed down over the last two years, however he still drinks everyday, and never spends any time at home. As a result, I have found my self drinking more because I w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] am not sure whether I should commit to a possible long term relationship now or Should I not get a relationship and wait a year then have a experience of getting laid with lots of girls while traveling around the world ? POST: So in school me and this girl who I have had a crush on for about two years are kinda hitting it off we have good conversations and have tons of the same interests games and shows wise I believe she could be like the one if that's how you would term i",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU and narced on and old lady to a cop. POST: So, this actually happened today. I was just going on break from work. My co-worker told me to go cash my check at the bank across the street to go check out this ""ugly"" teller. I was going to deposit it into MY bank but I had to have a look. A bit rugged in the face but she had some great boobies :) She was actually fairly actractive and really nice. I joked with her and yadayadaya onto the FU. I was coming back to grab my jeep when I noticed ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [20/m] and I feel like i want to be friends with my ex [20/f] POST: I broke up with my girlfriend recently because i found out that she was trying to hook up with other guys using the app called Tinder. She said she was only trying to make friends but I know that these were not her intentions, i'm also pretty sure she never did cheat on me, but she tried to, which is the same thing. I was already planning on breaking up with her because i was not as attracted to her as I u",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [18/m] like both my current girlfriend and another girl, any advice? POST: So some information, I have been dating my girlfriend for about couple years, and it has been enjoyable, although sometimes I'm skeptical. I'm no sure if 'skeptical' is the word, but I'll continue. I really think the relationship is more towards her benefit and happiness, but that's the way I make it. I suppose I don't mind that I don't get too much in return. It's not like she treats me like crap or ",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Help with ""friends"" POST: Hello! Recently I've been dealing with some issues with a group of friends. I'm not super close with all of them, but I've known three of them for years, so I consider myself to be kinda friends with them. Anyways, I've had a feeling that they've been talking behind my back in the last two months. I thought I was paranoid at first, and that we were just growing apart, but a few of them have grown increasingly ruder to me. Recently, they also had a party. I didn't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17F] with my parents [45/47 M/F] ; Am I in the wrong here? (sorry quite long) POST: Have been having lots of arguments with my parents recently and it feels like they're criticizing me for everything. Today (sunday) I woke up early with a headache and sore legs. I had been out to a party on the friday and on saturday I got up early to do a 15 mile bike ride. My dad called down around half an hour after I had woken up that he would take me for a car ride/practice before I do m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] with my GF [23F] of 2 years. She's testing me and I failed it. I am really not okay with being 'tested'. POST: I'll make this short and snappy. Long distance relationship of 2 years. Today, we were playing a game online. There were multiple players. She ran away from me and started playing with another guy who was in the game with us. So far so good. I decide to quit the game because I'm tired and bored. Little did I know it'd be a long night ahead of me. She gets angry b",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [27m] just found out I'm the other guy while my gf [25f] maintained a long distance relationship. POST: So I moved out of the country for a job opportunity and when I got there I met a girl in the same situation as me, from the US in a new country, new job and not knowing a lot of people. We clicked right away and were dating within a couple weeks. Fast forward 3 months to today and everything has been great. I spent the night at her place this previous Saturday and was go",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling a LUSH employee I had taco bell for lunch POST: So some friends and I decided it would be a nice study break from exams to go to the mall and do some christmas shopping. We left at 1 PM and every guy knows how shopping drains the life force from you so we decided to follow the golden rule of never shopping on an empty stomach and hit the food court first. Taco bell was actually ranking above christmas shopping so we all chowed down and decided to do a lap around the mall. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my boyfriend [26M] of 2 years. His mom is upset because we are planning our own trip POST: My boyfriend, Jack, and I have been together 2 years, lived together 1 year, and have a strong and happy relationship. My question is actually regarding his mom. Jack and I have been saving up for a while now for a trip to another country. Neither have us have been before and we have been dreaming about it for a while. Jack's mom offered to help us build our itinerary as she's pla",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling my girlfriend that there are better looking people then her and I. POST: So last night and into today I had been in a an argument with my girlfriend. In the past her and I had had some fights about other people and well, let me give you an example. I was hanging with some friends in the basement, sitting next to my girlfriend, and we somehow got on the topic of my girlfriends best friend. My friend (we'll call him John) asked me if she was hot and I said ya she is(or somethi",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: If you get a notice from your bank about anything other than an update to their privacy policy, read it, then sign in and check over your account. Also, I am grateful for overdraft protection. POST: I got free overdraft protection on my first bank account when I started it. I only used it once in an emergency (dead car battery 400 miles from home) and immediately paid it off, 9 years ago. I got a notice from the bank about my overdraft protection last week. It looked like a normal",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: gf (18female) says she does not love me(19m) anymore, but we are still together. what to do? POST: hello. me and my gf have been together for a year now. and we have been through alot together, including an abortion. during the abortion she said i was the greatest person she had ever met, and every girl must be jealous of her for having such a loving and caring boyfriend. we have been fighting alot lately... 3 weeks ago she told me she loved me, and 1 week later and she have j",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [22 F] 2 years. She says she wants to take a break. POST: Okay, so things between me and my SO have been pretty rough the last few months. Although through the last couple of weeks they have gotten much better. However she told me she wants to take a break. She wants freedom for a little bit. She essentially told me she wants to break things off for a month and in her words ""sleep with other guys"" she keeps telling me she loves me she just wants to have o",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26/f] He (29/m) put me in the friend zone a year ago. Now sending mixed signals. POST: I was 16 when we met. I was attracted to him immediately in my teens, but we had a brief friendship and lost touch. Last year I ran into him and we began hanging out. Again.. I found myself attracted to everything about him. I let him know that I liked him. He said he wasn't looking for a girlfriend. He had just come out of something 6 months before we met up and so I understood his hes",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Illinois misdemeanor class a POST: i was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor class a. The general police report, or booking report says ""notacriminal1 struck victim in the chin with his head"". I was at a bar, got drunk, ripped a poster off a class door, got kicked out, got threatened by what i remember being bouncers friend with a ""44 magnum"" got in his face, bouncer got inbetween us, I may have headbutted him in the face (i dont remember doing this), he had me in a choke hold, cop",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My roommate is getting laid right now, and that's okay. POST: As I type this, my roommate, who seems to have great genes overall without trying to hard, is having sex with a girl. The girl is moaning and about to orgasm, and have little animosity toward them. Why is this you ask? Because we live different lives, and love having to bust my ass to make it on this planet. Yeah, I was a fat kid and that caused me to have a stunted childhood. Fixed that. I freeze up when trying to interact",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (f/21) complaints are pushing my s/o (m/23) away. POST: My s/o and I are the loves of each others lives. We've both changed for the better and want to be better people because of the other. He's probably the best boyfriend I can ask for and gives me everything he can but he's started to become less affectionate and has been less loving. I thought that this was because our honeymoon phase was going away and I wasn't used to it; I'm used to him being affectionate most of the time, p",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I need to get out of my comfort zone and I need some advice. POST: So here's my situation, I'm 26 and have been living in Connecticut all my life. I moved out of my parents house after graduating high school and have lived in 5 different apartments within a few towns away. I dropped out of college after about a year and regret doing so, however debt / constantly moving made it difficult for me to focus on schooling and even just making it to my classes. I work paycheck to paychec",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/f] I don't know how to ask my [20/m] boyfriend to move in without pressuring him. POST: So, we've been seriously dating for almost a year. He has a key to my apartment and we get along great. He helps me out financially whenever I need help and usually I can pay him back. He's brought up the future for us and I see myself marrying him. I transferred apartments this past year to try and save money but it's still difficult to keep up with the rest of my bills. I love him ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [M17] have a bug issue with a promposal. POST: I want to ask this girl [F17] to prom. This normally wouldn't be an issue, but there are a few complications. Firstly, I happened to ask this guy [M17] friend of mine whom he was asking, and he named this girl (DRAMA). He had apparently talked to her near new years (not a promposal) and they agreed to go to prom together. I have very recently [2 months] become closer with this girl since we are dance partners for a club. I asked some m",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [M 27] No experience with dating beyond the first date. POST: So, I'm getting a little depressed with my dating life right now. I come from a background of avoiding relationships for most of my life, never really wanting anything from a relationship until recently. Background: I moved out of my parent's house earlier this month, have had a career job for a year, graduated with a CS degree, cleared out all my debts and been on OKC for the past 4 months. (Same username if you want to ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Tips on hitting on a girl/starting conversation with her? POST: Okay so I need help here, there's this girl in college that I like she is really good looking and cute but I don't know her. I don't know anything about her apart from her name, I see her around sometimes but she is usually with someone so that's one of the reason I don't go and talk to her. The outer reason is that I don't have much confidence, I wouldn't know what to talk about and it would be like socially awkward pengu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29/F] married to [35 M] have developed feelings for a M friend, and want it to stop. POST: Ok so It's not that complicated really, i love my husband, our marriage is great, we never fight. But Ive met a man that makes my heart beat harder and with whom I've been able to talk about things that i never had before. Im so annoyed that I have developed feelings for this person, since i would so much want to have him in my life (our lives!), but i know this wont work even though the ",positive " r/loseit TITLE: I ate 1500 calories over my target yesterday. But today is a new day. POST: So yesterday I was about 50 calories under my limit for the day, and thought I was done eating. Well, I ended up trading shifts with a coworker of mine so that I could see my girlfriend for a bit last night and not have to wake up at 3:15 this morning. So I go out with the girlfriend to this little fruteria (Mexican fruit/ice cream/dessert shop) in her neighborhood, with plans on getting a little tropical fruit wi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [22 M] be upset that my bf [25 M] didn't get me anything for Christmas? POST: We've basically been seeing each other since March (going on dates, seeing only each other, etc), but didn't call it a relationship until July. On his birthday I got him a stuffed version of his favorite type of dog and a card; when I wasn't going to see him for several weeks in the summer I sent him a small package with snacks and a music CD had I burned; and for Christmas I gave him a gift and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] want to be empathetic to a friend of mine [21F] after a breakup she had a week ago. We are not as close as we used to be. What should I do? Details inside. POST: Me and my friend (we will call her Joy) have been friends since I was in 9th grade and her being in 7th. So that's about 6-7 years now. Her friend circle and my friend circle are the same and I see her and talk to her a few days during the week and mostly on weekends. And we talk sometimes but it is not deep conversa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my boyfriend [31 M] of 7 months, need advice on technicalities of breaking up after taking a break POST: As the title says, we've been dating for 7 months and have had a multitude of issues, around him working demanding, odd hours, sexual incompatibility, and most significantly, him being a selfish/unthoughtful/emotionless robot and me being too attached. He knew that I wasn't happy about many things. I tried breaking up once before and could not go through with it. ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by bending over. POST: I am at a large family gathering yesterday; it is the annual reunion so its frowned upon for missing the event. I've been at the gathering for about 15 minutes and haven't even done the rounds saying hi to everybody. I bend over to pick up something off the floor, my brother bursts out laughing and says ""You are freaking balding?"" I am confused and tell him off because I assume he is being a smart ass. I head to the bathroom and take a photo of the top of my head w",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: don't beep at me POST: i was driving to work today and ended up behind a bus at a red light photo enforced intersection. there was a car in front of it making a left turn so it took a while for the bus to get around, but then the guy behind me starts beeping at me to go, obviously not caring that there is a bus in front of me. so i slow down and look at him in my rear view mirror and wait about 2 seconds after the yellow light comes on and then quickly proceeded with my turn. have fun",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/F] and my long-distance bf [25/M] had a massive fight and now he won't see me POST: I posted this originally in the long distance relationships reddit, which I think might not be as frequented? My bf and I have been long distance from the beginning, and we've been dating for a few months now. We live 6hrs away so we alternate on who's driving to visit and see each other every 2 weeks or so for 2-3 days. It's been stressful since I work 2 jobs and have to plan well in advance,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27/F] with my boyfriend [29/ M] are dealing with his soon to be ex wife [29/F]. A mutual friend [27/F] provided her with an innocent photograph of us hanging out with friends before we started dating. Do I reply to this mutual friends outreach to me asking why I've blocked them? POST: We are concerned that responding will worsen the situation. There are children involved and ex wife has acquired a lawyer, claiming we were together before they separated. I wasn't even considered a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] feel shameful about the ending of a 4 month relationship with [19F] POST: We went out almost every week to bi-weekly for three months. I left for the states for 2 weeks and in the mean time she left the town for 3 weeks. The overlap meant we didn't see each other for about a month. While away she texted me twice to see how I was doing, after I asked why she never initiated any contact. She had also asked if I could call long distance, because I was from out of province. I f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with my partner [25 M] 6 months, everything is pretty much fine, still unhappy? POST: I have been seeing this guy for nearly 7 months. This is definitely the most serious I have ever been with someone (maybe not longest quite yet). We have so much in common, from our drug interests to our professional ambitions, and for the most part he is really quite good to me. He is sexy, albeit a bit clumsy at times in bed, but we do have sex as much as possible still. But I just get ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by twerking for my girlfriend NSFW POST: TIFU by twerking for my girlfriend. My girlfriend of two and a half weeks came over yesterday for a taco night. She thinks I'm an amazing cook when really I'm just too poor to take her out. We headed to my room after dinner and I put on my best playlist for inducing horniness. Backflip by Casey Veggies started to play. I love that song. I started playfully shaking my ass (I'm bootyliscious), and she challenged me to a twerking contest. So I put ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [34/M] at my wits end with my 1 year girlfriend's [27/F] drug-addicted ex. POST: I'm going to keep this brief and state the facts. My girlfriend has a big heart. She wants to help everyone. Including her drug-addicted ex; who has come over multiple times and shown his ass. I should preface this by mentioning that I've gone out of my way to extend assistance to people in her life up to and including food and shelter. Most of her friends are genuinely awesome people who see",positive " r/self TITLE: I am afraid of going Viral :( POST: I was always somewhat camera shy, I preferred to be behind the lens. I got Bell's Palsy when I was 13 and never fully recovered all mobility in my face. So my whole life I was very guarded and hated being photographed and filmed. So now I have grown up having lived in a South American country for the last 5 years and out of the general pop culture loop now face coming back to smart phones, cringe pics, vines and being camera stalked everywhere you go by any",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I'm 19 years old and my parents are in significant debt. What should I do? POST: Hi Reddit, I am not sure if this is the right place, but I need help. I'm a 19 year old currently working full time over the summer and going to college during the school year. I love my parents. They are the most selfless, nicest and hardworking human beings I know. They came to America for the sole purpose of building a better future for their kids and their children's kids. Everything was fine u",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25m] recently started dating a [40+f] virgin co-worker. POST: For about a month now I've been seeing an older woman who's never had any real experience in relationships and being intimate. I've had quite a few relationships and have had multiple partners. She's somewhat religious and has kept her purity all this time. She's quite shy and hasn't attempted to have a relationship for 10 years. She opened up to me and told me she has feelings for me. We've spent some time together an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my BF [22 M] together 2 years, debating breaking up due to graduation POST: Hi Reddit! I've lurked for a long time, but finally had a reason to post. My boyfriend and I have been together for 2 years, and have had a solid relationship. Like most couples we've had a few spats, but he's my best friend and has become my total support system. He's my first real relationship, and one of the few people I feel totally comfortable with. We're graduating in 5 weeks, and I'",positive " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] Adopted puppy, turns out he has parvovirus, looking for some advice. POST: Hi /r/dogs, I adopted a 4 month old Great Pyrenees puppy from a local humane society on 9/2. He was super happy and playful when I got him home, and on through the night. The following day was a different story. He was very lethargic, would not eat his food, and puked several times. Unsure of what might be causing him to be ill, me and my dad decided to take him to a local 24 hour vet late that afternoon. Turn",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Oh ok, I'll move slower. POST: I recently injured my hand at work. Its purple, double in size, and I cannot bend 3 of my fingers. But I cannot take time off soo....here I am. Im still working but I am slowed down since I only have the use of my one hand. Its VERY obvious that i am wearing a giant white bandage that covers 3 fingers. I am also in a shit ton of pain. Especially when I am forced to use the slicer. Today a woman comes up to me and asks me to slice some bread for her. So ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my roommate [31F] need a good response to my roommate. Her actions pissed me off and she doesn't understand why what she did ead wrong. POST: She constantly frustrates me in I one way or another with her moods but this just drew the line. I told her earlier that I *might* meet up with a guy later. Later on she's like 'so when are you leaving?' I might not, thinking to work on homework and sleep. 'REALLY?' (Annoyed tone) umm, I never said I was going for sure just th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help me, Reddit! POST: My life up until now has been generally uneventful. For the majority of my youth, I've played video games and basically wasted my life away. About two years ago, (I'm 16 male) I got serious in school and get straight As and all, pretty much assuring I have a very successful life. However, I have, for some reason or other, fallen in love with a celebrity. Now, I know this sounds cheesy or mundane, but I can't change the fact. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, bu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/M] have to work very often, to the point where my girlfriend [20/F] feels neglected emotionally. POST: The title does a good job of explaining the situation. We currently live together. My girlfriend feels extremely lonely while I am at work, and I have to work very often. I leave before she wakes up and don't return home until 8 or so. Sometimes I get home as late as midnight. I cannot stay up late because I get too tired from working and she feels like we never talk or do any",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/f] My boyfriend [30/m] of 8 months just told me he is secretly bi, not sure how to feel about it. POST: Hello all! I have been with my boyfriend for 8 months, our relationship has been great and our sex life even better. I've never felt more comfortable with anyone in my life, we have a judgement-free zone when it comes to sex and so far everything we've tried has been great. A few days ago he asked me what I thought about bisexuality and sharing, I told him that I didn't r",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 F] broke up with my bf [28 M] of 4-years, did I make the right decision? Where do I go from here? POST: Hi friends, I just broke up with my live-in boyfriend of 4 years. I basically told him that I felt like we were on different paths and that I felt different. I told him that I didn't know who I was anymore, that I knew I was his partner and I knew I was my brother's sister, etc. I told him that it wasn't right for me to stay with him if I didn't know these things and that I ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm looking into buying a home and my boyfriend thinks it's only fair that he also gets to share the investment. What do you think? POST: We've been together for two years, living together for a year, and I've been house hunting for about the past six months. Currently we split the rent and utilities in half, but I had always assumed that if I purchased a home it would be in my name and he would just pay ""rent."" We finally had a conversation about it and he wants a return on his investm",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my s/o[25 M] of a few months, feeling incredibly anxious. Can anyone relate? POST: So I don't even know how to put this in words, I'm sorry if it doesn't make much sense. I began dating when I was 22, and since then I've had many casual relationships (just dating, nothing really further) that didn't turn into anything substantial due to lack of chemistry, etc. Well, I began dating a guy a few months ago, and while I know that that is a very short time, we have spent",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (22 f) mom (49 f) constantly wants to discuss the fact my boyfriend (22 m) is jewish POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for 11 months. I can honestly say I am so happy with how our relationship is progressing. Here's the thing. My boyfriend is jewish, I'm not. I was raised to not follow a particular belief (however we did go to church from the ages of 5 - 9ish). Not only is he jewish, but his family also keeps kosher. It's not a huge deal to me at all and I'm totally us",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I quit my serving job by calling a ""guest"" a female dog and throwing her food on the floor. Felt good. POST: OK so I've been working here for over half a year it's one of the more upscale thechilifridaygarden (not those though). Last night was absolutely hell normally we only have 3 tables because we have to serve everyone absolutely everything. Tonight the front which the general manager was helping decided to give me 5 tables all close to each other...OK everyone else has 3 but I can ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: drunkenly messed around with a friend's bf POST: I'm at 25 yr old female, been with my boyfriend for ~6 years, he's the same age. Recently at a party, I sat on the lap of my female friend's boyfriend (they've been together for about 8 years, both are one year older than me) and kissed his neck while everyone else was out getting fast food. I was near-blackout drunk and I did remember sitting on his lap, but I don't remember kissing his neck. That was about three months ago. My boyf",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M18] don't know if I should come out to my girlfriend [F19] POST: So early on in our relationship (we've been together for 3 or 4 years now) I was confused about my sexuality and as a result I didn't know if I was attracted to her or not. I thought that if I acted really shitty towards her I would be able to get her to break up with me and save her even more pain later on down the road (not the best logic on my part). However she didn't and we've still been dating and I've recentl",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Concerning my father, the username is relevant. POST: **NSFW? I'm not entirely sure.** I'm a 21 year old male. All my life I've looked up to my father, and have been made to believe that he is a beacon of morality and righteousness. He's never done drugs, and he only drinks rarely(cultural occasions) Every night he comes home, he always brings us gifts(usually food) and always, *always* reasserts how much he loves us. ""I'm always thinking about my kids and my family!"" is something he ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32M] with my gf[25F] of 8 months wants to have a girls night out but we had plans. should i be upset? POST: We talked yesterday about hanging out and we never have quality time together. We haven't had time to hang out because she's been so busy with other things. We talked about her coming over today and maybe watching a movie. Then she asked me earlier today if its okay if she goes out with her girls instead. I was a little hurt but she said that today is her good friend's bd",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [F22] best friend [F21] isn't talking to me POST: And it's upsetting me since I'm very attached to her. First of all I had an abortion recently and she's upset with me because I feel casually about it whereas for her the abortion she had when she was 17 deeply affected her. ""JUST get an abortion, yeah?"" When I said I'll just get an abortion upon discovering my pregnancy. This, coupled with the fact that I've never had a relationship, hookup with guys all the time, sleep with our",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Internship as a purely summer job POST: I'm currently a student finishing up my accounting degree this December. Upon graduating, I am planning on moving a few states further south from where I currently live to get into a little warmer winters. I am having an interview for a internship coming in the next few weeks close to home. I would like to get this internship for a few reasons including being able to stay with my parents (last summer I worked out of town pretty much the entire su",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [~27m] wife [25f] and one of my best friend/coworkers [28m] are trying to force me to go out for by birthday this Friday. POST: The problem is, currently my wife and I are set to relocate in December and are saving for the move and all expenses that will come with it. We are already in financial hard times, we had to put some bills on credit, and after November rent is paid I'll be sitting on $22 until I'm paid two weeks later. I understand that it is my birthday and people want ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with [25 M], not sure if I cut things off... POST: (I meant ""not sure if I *should* cut things off"". Oops.) Incredibly long story short, this guy (let's call him John) and I have known each other for about three years now. John's pretty much the ideal person I'd want to date. We always end up being extremely flirtatious and usually cuddly even, but as soon as he brings up the possibility of a relationship, I freak the flip out and run away. This website describes philop",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my friend [24 F]. Can my friend get this guy? POST: If this is not the right thread please direct me to it. Hey, so my friend Carol (who hates love and corny people) was on an event/party of a fairly popular humor blog, a month ago and she saw a guy who she was interested in (she refered to it as ""love as first sight"" which is super weird coming from her). They never talked. Later she found out he's friends with the ex of a friend. The guy is one of the writers of th",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [UK] Car Insurer Threatening Not To Pay After Authorising Repairs POST: Last month I was involved in a fairly minor traffic accident. Essentially a car was indicating left at a roundabout (only options were straight and left) but carried on straight over. I had moved out, assuming they were turning left. My fault. I accept that. Now the insurance company said that they would do all their checks (including indemnity) before authorising repairs. Eventually (about 2 weeks later) they aut",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 F] don't know how to approach this situation without being an ass. POST: Sorry about the bad wording, I'm a pretty bad writer. Quick backstory, I've only had one relationship prior to this, and it was so horrible that I now dislike being in relationships. Long story short he was incredibly immature and borderline abusive, and I regret it because I was so unhappy the whole time and it took me four months to get the courage to break up with him. I didn't like the feeling of havi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My mom [52F] wants me [18F] to be babysat while she's gone for the weekend. Is this normal? POST: I just need some perspective on this. Basically, my mom raised me as a Jehovah's Witness, but I finally admitted that I wasn't happy with that last year. We have 3-day ""conventions"" every year, and I've always gone with her. But this time, I am not going with her. She's never left me home alone for more than a day, and she is absolutely against leaving me here for 3. She's mainly concern",negative " r/relationships TITLE: So how do I [19M] get over my fear of asking her [19F] out? POST: I posted about her in the past and this is more a follow-up to my last post asking for advice. Usually I see the usual, ""Ask her out!"" sort of stuff coming from here, but I'm stuck at this part. I've wanted to ask her out, but I always felt weird when I had a chance and didn't want to press anything, and I never knew how to bring it up. Basically, quick jist of things is that we're good friends, and I feel I still h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 M] GF [23 F] 1.5 years doesn't want to hear any of my advice. Wants to take a break. POST: She's studying in film school and I'm working as engineer. She stopped school last year temporarily to work. She quits work earlier this year (January) citing she has to finish requirements for school but she's really not doing anything. Her requirements are already been up for a year but she's not doing anything about it. She'd rather read a nice book or edit pictures to post on faceboo",negative " r/loseit TITLE: I get it now, plateau-ers. POST: I've been reading r/loseit as long as I've been working on losing weight, and find a lot of support and motivation from it. But I have to admit, whenever a post about a 2-, 3-, or 4-week plateau came around, I couldn't relate yet. I knew it would come eventually, and tried to file away the advice for when I inevitably hit a plateau, but honestly always wondered ""how have you plateaued for three weeks and not tried something different yet?"" Well, I get that ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do porn websites (e.g. Brazzers, BangBros, ElegantAngel, etc.) make a profit? Any way to run the numbers? POST: I've seen this question asked in various forms, and have thought about it myself as well, but I don't think I've ever really seen a good answer to this. Take Brazzers for example. They release something like 3 or 4 new scenes a day. Many of their scenes are pretty popular girls in the industry, so I have to assume the cost is fairly high, yeah? I don't have any idea what t",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Single dad. Sons mother is moving out of state. What are my options? POST: Single dad in Ohio here. My sons mother and I have been separated for about the last 3 years. I've had a child support order in effect for almost 2 years now. Recently, my sons mother informed me that she would be relocating, with my son to Florida, to live with family there. I've paid child support for the last year without missing a beat, even caught up on some back support that built up while I wasn't working",negative " r/Pets TITLE: So my cat has started eating her own poop.... POST: We've had this cat for almost 2 years. She is approximately 5 years old. I came home from work a couple of weeks ago and I hear this strange noise coming from under the table. I look below to find my cat in a hunched position and about to throw up onto our rug. I pull her out onto the tiled area and she throws up what looks and smells like poop. She continued to stagger around the house vomiting some more, but no more poop. Today. I find her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [37 M] with my wife [36 F] 5 years, i feel guilty because i have been spending time with my coworker [30 F]. POST: I love my wife a lot we have 3 kids together, who i also love a lot and a cat who is a pain in the ass. we have a good marriage, and we are still very much in love with each other. i don't get a lot of attention though I'm usually on the bottom of her list most of the time. this year she forgot my birthday, she only realized until a week later and apologized and tri",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My girlfriend [18f] and I [19m] are currently in long distance and I don't know what to think about her plans for tonight. POST: So far I've been okay with handling being apart, we've been in a long distance relationship for a few months now since we've both gone off to different schools after graduating. We only see each other on things like holidays and we always try to make the most of our time together. Her school is a lot closer to home so it's way easier for her to just h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My HR department messed up, how far should I pursue this? POST: To make a long story short... I was told upon hiring so save up my sick days because we were not eligible for disability from the state. I saved up five years of time. The rebel that I am, applied for state funds and received notification i was eligible. Every week i would check my balance and it would be $0. I wrote to the state and asked if there was a mix up. They said that every week they would ask my job if i returned",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, my institute of study has just banned laptops in class. I can type at 70 words per minute, but can only hand-write at around 15-20 at best. How screwed am I, and what can I do about it? POST: A bit of background information first: I'm a 19 year old student currently completing a diploma of Justice, and while I can type at around 70 WPM, my handwriting is horribly illegible and slow. Today we were informed that laptops were no longer allowed in class. While for most people this ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife and I had a birthday misunderstanding, am I at fault? Could I have handled this better? POST: Throwaway account So my wife's birthday was earlier this week. Prior to this we had made plans to do something nice this coming Saturday (tomorrow) when my parents could watch our 12 month old. The night of her birthday we get home and she's expecting me to take her somewhere. I pointed out that we had planned to do something on Saturday (even canceled other plans with friends) ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Has you ever had important items that were stolen returned to them in some galant fashion? I need your triumphs to cheer me up! POST: I recently had my home burglarized and only my laptop was taken in Berkeley. I used the find my Mac iCloud software to find the address was in Oakland, Ca. The cops told me to go to the location and wait outside. It was super shady. The cops arrived three hours later and told me since they couldn't get a fresh ping, I.E. the iCloud software locked my devic",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: How to raise money for my fiance to have hair on our wedding day? POST: This is my first time posting so sorry if I'm doing this wrong or in the wrong sub. My fiance is absolutely gorgeous and I tell her this every day, but she has always had problems with her self esteem as she was seriously abused as a child and has had a really tough life. Last March she shaved her head for charity and donated the hair to a charity which makes wigs for children, and she looked beautiful with no hair",negative " r/self TITLE: I need to tell someone my story... POST: I don't know where to start this... but here goes nothing. I have spent the last 17 years of my life in a lie. I have never admitted this to anyone, not even to myself, but I'm finally ready. Reddit, I am a 17 year old bisexual guy... possibly gay. That isn't even the biggest part of all this... I'm actually a 17 year old bisexual guy in a relationship with a 45 year old married man. To make my life even more fucked up than it already is, this man liv",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I use amazon.com's ""subscribe and save"" to buy toiletries, but my fiancee says that this leaves a huge carbon footprint. Is she right? POST: my logic: things like toothbrushes and deodorant (which I have delivered via amazon) are shipped to stores from warehouses all the time. going to the store in a car uses gas, which leaves a carbon footprint. I say that having it delivered cuts out the middleman and actually reduces the footprint since the UPS truck (or whoever) is already out there ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [37 F] with my brother [45 M] 10 weeks ago I had to put down my [17F] dog. He surprised me with a new puppy. I don't feel ready to own a new dog. Not sure what to do POST: My brother is an amazing person who always wants to make poeple happy if he can. So I know he was just trying to be nice. 10 weeks ago, I had to put down my 17 year old dog. I loved her, she loved me. I miss her everyday. I miss hearing her walking, I miss her barking, I miss hugging her. I miss her. My brothe",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by leaving my phone unguarded around my slightly overweight girlfriend POST: This is my first post on Reddit, ever... Anyways, My girlfriend and I have been together for close to 7 years. We have been living together for almost 6. We are registered domestic partners and have plans to get married after I graduate college in June. I love her... That being said, when we first started dating, she was drop-dead gorgeous and weighed around 130 lbs. After she graduated college she got a very st",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My gf says she loves me, but is unsure is she wants to be with me POST: Throwaway here. We are on a break now(Although she did not want us to flirt/have sex, so it is not the traditional break), and every day feels really bad. She says this is not the end just yet..There is still hope. She still loves me. But my imagination keeps fearing the worst..And honestly my simple man brain cannot fully understand how you can love someone and not want to be with them. We have been toget",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my best friend [20 M] of six years, he's leaving in a week for six months and has been spending that week with my ex. POST: A month ago I broke up with my boyfriend of almost 3 years. It was amicable, I wasn't really ready for a relationship and he understood. However, prior to our getting together in junior year he was a total asshole and 'friend-bullied' (essentially bullied him but thought he was friends with my friend and my friend was too nice to stand up to him) ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [57/m] with my son [27/m], he had twins with his girlfriend and announced to me that he's not going to allow his stepmom of 19 years meet them because she's ""abusive"". POST: He and his younger brother have always hated my wife because she's not their real mom. Growing up, she was strict to them and demanded respect when they needed it. No abuse occurred. She never laid a hand on either of them. I've had to take them aside so many times and explain that their step mom loves them a",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Neighbors putting their junk on our lawn & parents don't want to deal with them head on. POST: This has been going on for a week. We're currently renting a home with another family. We live in the front half and get the garage while the other family gets the back half. My mom is a vietnamese immigrant that sews to make a living and thus uses the garage to sew. This past week, our neighbors put their old black leather furniture (looks like a leg rest or something) on our lawn. It was origi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Almost our two year anniversary POST: My boyfriend is 18 and I (female) am 17. We have been going out for 1 year and 10 months now. There have been so many ups and downs due to my boyfriend cheating on me. In total he has cheated on me 3 times. 1. In the beginning of our relationship he was constantly flirting with a girl from a different school. They were on and off for quite awhile. He never admitted to actually flirting with this girl until a little over a year in our relationsh",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: (19M) Not sure how to proceed POST: Hey Reddit, A couple of days ago i've met a really nice girl during an anime-con. We have spent about 3 hours together there getting to know each other, we both have quite a lot in common, and I felt we really clicked. Eventually it was getting late so we decided to leave, so we walked together to the bus station until we had to split up, and we hugged and she said it was really nice getting to know me, and i told her we should keep in touch and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] and my boyfriend [18M] 1yr 8months are long distance and having a spat about visitation logistics. Please can I have some insight? POST: Ok so basically, me and my boyfriend have been dating a year and 8 months and are in love. Now 99% of the time I drive down to visit him. It's about a 7 hour drive and while it sucks, I do it because I love him. The reason I do the drive most of the time is because I live with my parents while he rents, so we have more space and alone time ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30F] and my boyfriend [46M] do not communicate much, but I want more conact. Is this normal because of our age difference? POST: My boyfriend and I are 16 years apart. We have been off and on over the last 2 years. But recently we decided to give it a go again. We live an hour away from each other so we mainly only see each other on the weekends. During the week we keep in light contact mostly through text and 2-3 phone calls. This is not normal for me though because I'm used t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21/m/gay] Why doesn't the guy [20/m] I've been talking to for two months ask questions about me? POST: I met a guy (20/m) on OKCupid two months ago, and we soon moved our conversation onto Facebook. After chatting for a while and observing one another's online personality for a couple weeks, we then had a Skype date. We live about 6 hours away, but I told him that I would like to visit him. He was excited, and we have since set a date for an upcoming weekend. We text everyday, and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20f], my bf [m19] watches my friends on Webcam sites POST: Okay so back story, I have some female friends who are camgirls and are quite popular on a famous cam site. I've been with my boyfriend for just over a year now, we're moving in together in a few months. I told my bf about my friends that cam, I can't remember why but it came up months and months ago. Shortly after that I found out he had been watching their cam shows and looking on their twitter profiles a few tines a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (f 23) and my husband (m 29) married for almost a year, got into a motorcycle accident back in may and he's admitted to me that he has no interest in anything including me. POST: I'm crying my eyes out so please bare with me. Me and my husband got into a motorcycle accident back in may and I got some road rash nothing too serious but he suffered a concussion, but for the most part we walked away from it which I'm extremely thankful for. After the accident he started gettin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(17m) gf(17f) has said quite a few things to me and when my friend made a joke about her she got mad at me. POST: So right now I'm sitting at a friends birthday party and it's getting late. I'm sitting in the shed with a friend while she's out partying with everyone else. So as the story goes all day today she's made comments. Only when at the party though and only when she's around friends. The comment my friend made was that I should be prom queen (haha funny I know) and she ins",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Petty revenge against my father POST: First post btw --- So me and my family had gone to our holiday house, where we spend summer holidays due to the fact that it's super close to the beach and in a warmer weather than the normal one. My father is a very VERY hairy man and kept all the windows on our house open, even at night (9~~11pm) when I asked him to close them because I felt cold, and he just ignored me. This also caused a lot of mosquitos to wander in and to annoy me and my bro",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Did I mess up here? POST: I work at this place, and there are these two girls there. Lets call one D and the other M. At this place, we have staff outings. One of them is to a theme park. Me and M are just friends, and I don't plan on taking it any further than that. D on the other hand, I've already asked out, but she wasn't ready, but there's still a strong chance that we might become more than friends. Anyway, Me and M have been ""Roller Coaster Buddies"" every year we've gone to th",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I think I might have some serious anger issues... POST: This may be the wrong place but... I'm normally a happy-go-lucky guy. I take as much shit from other people as I suppose the rest of us do. I still maintain a smile. I have old school principles on a lot of things, mostly chivalrous things. I'd help an old lady across the street, I'd open doors for anyone behind me, and often for those heading my way too. I'm the same as any normal guy in most respects. Turns out though, that even",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [29M] wife [27F] (3yrs) is upset because I am not genuinely interested in her work-life. POST: My wife and I have a very happy marriage, we are compatible socially, romantically, sexually and recreationally. One of the areas we differ in is our approach towards work: * I believe that it's purely a mechanism to live life outside of a 9-5, and I am taking measures to secure our financial independence which she is 100% agreed with. I do not enjoy my job, but am sticking with it t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my ex's sister[19 F], going on a date but I'm not sure if its just asking for trouble POST: Hello all, I'd just like to apologize if I format this wrongly in advance. So my ex's sister, we'll call her megan, has been keeping in touch with me since my ex, and we'll call her ann, and I broke up roughly 2 months ago. Its not daily but its been consistent enough and she said she would like to hang out sometime. Personally, I did not think I would ever talk to her family ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How to Move Away and Distance Yourself Without Being the Bad Guy? POST: I am currently living in Colorado, but I'm moving to Washington State for school in late August. I moved to CO to stay with my mom, she's got some hardcore anxiety/insecurity/codependence, and I moved in under the impression things would be better and that she had changed. However, she's still pretty nuts. She cries over really mundane things, gets paranoid, and makes impulsive life decisions. She's the type that will w",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: A relationship with my polar opposite....can this continue?!? M/26 and F/22 POST: 5 months ago I started dating a girl whom I knew was my complete opposite. I'm an outgoing, talkative, social, exploring, emotional, romantic kinda guy, and she's more of a passive personality - laid back, semi introverted, quiet, shy, and anti drama. We have had a great relationship so far, we complement each other and love hanging out and doing couple stuff. But sometimes, I just get really anno",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (26M) dating (30F) and feeling conflicted about our relationship. Plot twist: girl I've always had a crush on walks back into my life after 2 years. What to do? POST: Throwaway! So I've been dating this girl for about six months. There are lots of things I like about her and some that I don't. We started out as fuck buddies that met on POF and started spending enough time together that one thing led to another. Bam! Relationship status official. I've been married and divorced b",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: x/post from r/landlord: No policy in lease agreement regarding pets. What is the default policy? POST: When my girlfriend and I moved into this place in March, we did so with the intention of finding a puppy/dog in the near future. The landlord, a property management company, said in the ad that pets were allowable with an additional, refundable $500 deposit . Okay, not big deal. Jump to labor day weekend and we rescue a fine looking golden retriever that appears to be between 1 and 2",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Help me I'm going Crazy POST: Reddit I'm scared. I'm scared I'm going to be forever alone. I feel like, I need someone to make me complete, and I know that's not right. I was with my ex for 7 ½ years, we were engaged, everything seems to be going great until last winter and something happened. He called off the engagement this spring but claimed he hasn't give up on us. I just found out this last weekend he was cheating on me earlier this spring prior to calling off the engagement. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [23F] face my father [53M] for the holidays after what he did to my mom [49F]? POST: Long time lurker, first time poster on this sub. Throwaway because my family gets on reddit. My parents have seeming had a stable relationship the past couple years up until my mother found out he was sending inappropriate messages on dating apps and facebook. My dad also cheated on my mom while they were dating. He apparently has a sex addiction or something where he just wants to send pi",negative " r/running TITLE: Appendix is out and so am I for the majority of the season... POST: So the story is August 8th, 2013 I walked into the hospital with stomach pains I've been having all week. We figured it would pass soon enough but my mother being a nurse she realized once I had a fever it would be all downhill from there so that's why we went. After a cat scan the doctors claimed I had a possibly ruptured appendix.Not bursting but rupturing. Apparently there is a difference, I forget why. Anyways in a sho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] looking for reasons to break up with my gf[20 M]. Or should I be looking for reasons to stay together? POST: Over the past few months I have not been completely honest with my gf. We have been together on and off over the past 2 years. She always asks me if I'm okay with our relationship and I have told her I am, although this isn't 100% true. I have a lot of personal issues I am dealing with right now and I find it hard to separate those from her (i.e. don't know what I'm ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my ""girlfriend"" [21 F] 1 month, sent me a snap that was meant for her best friend saying she was his? POST: Hello and happy holidays. I'm a 19 year old male and I've been seeing this girl that i met at the work place. She is fairly attractive and i like her a lot. We have not had sex yet, as we were interrupted when we were about to. She is now on vacation with her family, and she sends me a snap saying something like:"" I will always be yours for 100 years:** "" And",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey reddit, I have a cockroach infestation problem in my apartment and I need some help! POST: We moved into our apartment in the fall of '09. We were told from people across the hall that there was a roach problem in this building. We didn't notice any roaches for the first two semesters we were there, and thought nothing of it. However, once summer rolled around and the temperature rose, we started to enouncter the little (big) fuckers. One night my roommate said he went out into the l",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/M] got rejected by my crush [21/F] don't undersand why. POST: I've liked this girl since junior year in highschool (both juniors in college now) We are similar in a multitude of ways and have natural chemistry. She goes to school 12 hours away and hadn't seen each other in ages until October when she came home. We both got drunk and ended up cuddling for the night. Since then we have been talking constantly via text. She came home for winter break, we were drunk again and t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[17/M] like this girl[17/F] who rides my bus! How do I start? POST: I just moved to a new school in germany. The school is on the airforce base. I don't think this really matters xD Anyway my first day of school, I got on the bus and watched as we picked up the other kids. We got to this one stop, and I looked out the window and saw the prettiest girl I've ever seen in my entire life. She had literally ALL the things I like in a girl (looks wise). So she gets on the bus and sits a f",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: apartment management has kept my deposit for quite a while POST: first, i must admit that this was my first time renting an apartment. i needed a place closer to school and los angeles earlier this year to this mid june. it was a nice room for the price. there were a few complains like how dirty the carpet was and how hot the room got, but that didn't outweigh the fact that i needed a place to stay. management told me in the beginning that they shampooed it and that definitely wasn'",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Had sex. Got dumped. Need support, Reddit. POST: Long complicated story, but the basics: I just turned 25, and have been with a girl for a year. I finally reconsidered being a virgin, and decided she was worth having sex with for the first time. This made her really happy. Things were at an all time high, we ""loved"" each other, and I thought we had a perfect balance. Two weeks later, I told her I was going to spend my bday with my parents, not her, because they were a priority. She tol",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [25/F] new bf [29/M] of 1.5 months might move to Washington D.C. this summer. Help with our first struggle? POST: Hello r/relationships, I started dating this amazing man for just a month and a half now. Things have been going great, but we are still at the stage of discovering more about each other. Yesterday, he let me know that he finally has the opportunity to apply for his dream job in June. If he gets it, he has to move to Washington D.C. for 2 years. (We are in Ve",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by exfoliating POST: Yeah this happened Monday sorry not sorry. So Tuesday and today (wednesday) have been the job fair for my college. Cut to Monday me in the shower. I want to look sharp so I'm cleaning myself extra well, taking my time shaving, browsing my girlfriends extensive skin care selection as I do from time to time. I find a new loofah which looks like it is designed for deep exfoliation. She's at work so rather than asking I just use it. The loofah is essentially the shower e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 F] want to do something special for my boyfriend[22 M] of 9 months. POST: My boyfriend and I met our first day of classes and started dating a few weeks later it was an awkward meeting but our friends still laugh about it. He went from a 4 year relationship where he was sexually active to one with me where I grew up on the idea that you save yourself for at least engagement if not marriage. Any way he has always been patient with me and understanding. He never pushes me into t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: why is my (26f) boyfriend (28m) together with me? POST: We've been together in a long distance relationship for two years, and it's been a bit of a mess the entire time to be honest. He hasn't been satisfied sexually (neither have I, but it's been in the shadow), which has infected every part of our relationship. A lot of fights, passive agressive anger, ruined holidays and so on. Lately I've seen things I wasn't meant to see. He praised one of his ex girlfriends here on reddit,",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by farting in front of (what I thought) was an abandoned Tesla Coil. POST: I was on a road trip with a friend of mine to the east coast. It was just a casual trip to visit some of his family in the D.C. area, and we ended up having a lot of down time to explore nearby cities, etc. On one particular day, we randomly found a science museum and decided to check it out. While walking amongst various exhibits, I noticed my stomach becoming a bit sour. We had subsisted primarily on terribl",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Ohio 26[M], full-time grad student, divorce. What's next? POST: I just found out my wife had an affair. We've been together ten years (married 1.5). She's a nurse and I'm a public school teacher, but since it's the summer I'm taking full-time grad classes, expecting to graduate this August. She left the house and took half of her stuff. She said ""good luck paying the bills"" knowing that I'm not making money right now due to the fact that we discussed getting a master's would be in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[18 M] struggling to become friends with an introvert[19F]. POST: There's a really shy girl in my group project in university with a gorgeous smile and I really want to get to know her (probably a light crush). None of her friends came to her uni either, so I want to try reach out to her. We both catch the same bus to the train station after our class. Most of the group does. I'm afraid that my attempts at talking to her more so than the others might weird her out. I spoke to he",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24f] just dumped by boyfriend [26m] of 4 months ish. Alone in new city and not sure what to do POST: I moved to a new state for a job in October, and it was hard starting completely anew with no friends or anything within 1000 miles. Within a week I met Josh. My life was great. I loved the job and mt new place.. Josh was hesitant to get in a relationship but as time passed he seemed to warm up to the idea and we became exclusive in November. Since then my life has been incredib",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most awkward thing you've had to do while with a significant other/person of interest? (They don't necessarily have to have seen) POST: I recently went and stayed with my gf at her place for the first time. We're still in a ""awkward to poop around each other phase. However, while at her apartment I got a rumbling in my stomach and realized there was no holding back the beast inside. I excused myself to go to her bathroom and discretely handled my business. Unfortunately when i",negative " r/self TITLE: hi. in a little more than 24 hours, i will be getting on a plane for the first time in my life. POST: all the way across the country. I am 25 years old and I've never flown in a plane. I do not know how to properly get through an airport and am afraid I am going to slow others down. I believe I have made gates and flight numbers super complicated and am afraid I will end up all the way on the other side of the airport and miss my flight. I have to pee ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME and am worried I'",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (19/m) In a confusing relationship with friend. (19/f) POST: Im in the middle of starting a relationship with a girl that is a very good friend. She knows that I like her and I know that she likes me. I admitted that I really liked her when I was drunk (i know im fucking stupid). I want to ask her out but her room mate tells me that she wants to talk about whats happening between us first. I want to talk to her but I don't know what to bring up. She already knows I like her I j",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I was determined to be At Fault for an accident I was in. What do I do now? POST: Yesterday I was driving down a hill and the truck in front of me stopped suddenly so I had to stomp on the brakes to avoid rear-ending it. As such, there was a very small distance between my front bumper and their rear bumper. While waiting for the light to change I looked down to mess with my radio and unknowingly lifted my foot off of the brake. I ended up rolling in to the truck's rear bumper. I immediat",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31F] with my boss(?) [55M] of 4 years; I broke his sander how do I make up for it? POST: This is not a typical r/relationships problem but I'd love some insight because I don't know what to do and don't want to damage this relationship. I bought my first house last year and I have been renovating it since. One of my superiors at work who is also a work friend (he visits me during the work day and we go for drinks occasionally but never hang out outside of work) lent me a few too",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (22F) have been faking orgasms with my bf (27m) help! NSFW? POST: Hi reddit. So I have a bit of a situation that I need advice on. Please bare with me as I am on mobile. My bf and I have been dating for a little under 9 months. He's great in bed, I am serious when I say that. Before him, I didn't care for sex and it didn't appeal to me. With my ex I dreaded even the thought of being intimate but with him, I crave it and love it. We communicate great, and he has helped",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a married M[35] crushing on a 22[F]....why?!?!?! POST: So, I'm happily married M[35] to a wonderful, beautiful woman and we have 2 great kids. She is my best friend , we've been together for 10 years, and have never(to the best of my knowledge) had any infidelity issues. Things are really good, and I'm lucky and I'm blessed. But here's my problem. A few months ago I noticed a younger woman with whom I share a work commute. She's an attractive, recent college grad and at some poi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [17M]Me and [17F]my girlfriend aren't on the same page. POST: Hey guys, so the situation is my girlfriend (of about 6 months) and I aren't seeing eye to eye in the relationship. She asked if I wanted to marry her in a very indirect and roundabout way. Basically asking if I could see us ever getting married, or if that's what I want. I tried to placate her by saying I'm just worrying about the now, and not later; which I am. She was still upset to know her love for me isn't fully reci",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/m] Question about getting back together. POST: Well as you know, I've broke up about 2 months ago and thought i was coping along nicely until i've started to talk with my ex again (long story short: the reason is I still love her and we broke up because i was too scared to face my own problems which relied on her too much up to the point where she actually gave up.). After chatting (she's coming back for summer holidays) over few days it started off as a simple ""how you've ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What are some tips to help me (F/22) control my irrational jealousy? POST: Hey Redditors. I need your help, this is really doing my head in and I'd like some advice on how I can maintain my sanity and avoid harming my relationship. background: My SO (M/29) and I have been seeing each other for about 8 months. Its had its ups and downs but all in all I really adore him and I feel like he cares for me a lot. I'm going to be honest and say I can be prone to jealousy, but as a rule keep",positive " r/self TITLE: In all of this shit I forgot myself, but now, now I remember. [Long as shit so ya, your couch is now involved az well.] POST: I will no longer take myself for granted, I will no longer sell myself short because I have found that part of myself which you took away, that part for which I journeyed far and wide to discover. I understand my importance and I understand my worth. I am better than what your world has offered me and so, I venture forth in search of my own world, not one that I have",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Moving in with GF - Need to discuss with and convince her religious parents it's a good idea. POST: Been discussing moving in with my GF and her brother for about 6 months now. We have been looking for places to live and we finally found a great place that's both affordable and meets our wants/needs perfectly. We're both in our mid-20's and she's never lived outside her parents house before so this will be her first step away from them. She's agnostic and I'm an atheist while her parents ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My Fiancee [21/F] wants to have a MMF threesome. I [22/M] am hurt and don't understand the fantasy. POST: We've been together 7 months. I can understand the appeal of ""two ~~chicks~~ dudes at the same time, man"". Having two hot chicks do sexy things to me would be a memorable experience to be sure! However, I see it as something one does while single where the chance of confused feelings/someone getting deeply hurt is minimal/nonexistent. She's brought it up twice over the course o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] now ex-gf (sort of) [23 F] about 2 years, so confused POST: We met online and almost instantly hit it off. We talked back and forth for a couple of months before meeting and instantly feeling attraction. We dated for a year and finally decided to move in with each other around February. She was going to school and we got an apartment on student loans. The problem came when no one in the area was hiring and I couldn't find a job. I ended up losing my car, and she was unwilli",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my girlfriend [19F] of less than a month are ridiculously comfortable with one another already, is this normal? POST: To try and clarify, we started dating a few weeks back after talking a bit online through online dating. We want the same things out of this relationship and I've found myself (her also feeling the same) already extremely comfortable. We are overly okay with our bodies, the things they do (purposely or accidentally :P) and talking about things I wouldn'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 F] with awesome guy [34 M] Relationship With Great Potential but Bad Timing POST: I met an absolutely wonderful guy whose mother passed away a couple weeks ago. He's grieving, and this is something that will be with him forever. He needs his space to feel and to deal with his life changing in such a huge way. He was close to his mother, and talked about her, and then BOOM, she was gone. I asked /r/dating_advice reddit if they thought I did the right thing by walking away, and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Ex-bf [20] scared to re-commit, (together 3 years, broken up for 6 months). What should I do? POST: My bf and I had been together for about 3 years when I ended things with him. Our relationship had become strained after I transferred to a new school about 2 hours away (I moved back in January). A few days after ending things, I started seeing another guy [21m]. I was just never really into him, and ended things when he started getting more 'serious'. A couple weeks after I ended i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [F21] unsure of future with boyfriend [22] due to desire to be single. POST: I've been with my boyfriend for 4 years, he's my only long term boyfriend and sexual partner. I find myself thinking about how much I might enjoy being single, as I haven't been since high school. I'm longing to enjoy my younger years and honestly find out who I am without the security of my partner. My hesitation is from how compatible we are and how much we love each other. He does everything he can t",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: My now-ex has said one of the most harmful things I have ever heard. I'm done. POST: 20M with 20F, 8 months in the relationship. *Repost since my other one got removed for being in the wrong subrreddit(still new to reddit, my bad) This is a followup to my old [post:]( After having talked with her, it is clear she has never viewed me as a boyfriend, let alone her lover. I have straight up asked her if she ever found me physically attractive, and she has said NO. I think this is the fina",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Boy, does the Shit Fairy, love my door step or what?! POST: So, because my job sucks and my class has been basically given permission by admin. to be vile it should come as no surprise that 2 students decided that throwing things at me was a good idea. Why not, if the kid who closed my hand in the door 4 of the last 6 school days got off scott free, what's a little projectile? or a threat to punch me and then actually posturing... Then, because the universe has a sick sense of humor, I s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my father [51M], how do I get him to accept my relationship with my boyfriend [31M] POST: Some background of my relationship: I have been with my boyfriend for 2 years now and still going strong. We have an amazing relationship and I know this is the guy I want to spend the rest of my life with. We have discussed marriage and are comfortable with it happening sometime with in the next couple of years (currently long distance due to job situations, and we plan on moving ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [F 17] somewhat leading a guy [M 17] on while also in a relationship with someone else [M 17]. HELP!! POST: I've been in a relationship with my [F 17] boyfriend, Jake [M 17], for only about three months, but have known him and my feelings for him for 3 years so it definitely feels like more. In August 2015, I kind of started talking to this guy Taylor [M 17] as more than a friend. I did have feelings for him but never really expected it to go anywhere. We've been talking like ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [30/m] girlfriend [28/f] got pregnant by a married man POST: I will keep this relatively short. My girlfriend and I have been dating for about 4 1/2 years, everything was seemingly great over that time, we both make good money and would go on nice vacations, eat at fine dining restaurants, etc. She comes from a messed up family, thats putting it nicely, dad was in prison most his life and sexually abused her and her mom is a lifetime crack addict and perpetual liar and stil",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [19 F] won't let me [21 M], of 1 year, fix her computer from very simple virus problems. POST: We both play alot of online video games together, and spend quite a great deal of time online - probably because we *met* on an online game. Luckily she lives only a couple hours away and we've made it work for a year and some odd months. Now out of everything in our relationship the only thing that really bothers me is this computer situation. We love our gaming, but her c",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: College math help needed. How important is knowing Algebra & Geometry when taking Trigonometry? POST: Reddit I have a huge problem that I need your help with because advisors have really been no help to me. I've never really had a problem in Math. I've always been about to get B's and C's without applying myself. When I got into college my advisor put me in a higher math than Algebra because of how well I did in the entrance exam so I was placed in INTRO DATA ANALY CTW and got an A. I wi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever had an argument in public with someone you didn't know? POST: This happened to me quite a while ago, although it's suddenly just popped up in my head. I was in London with my mum, about to visit this photography workshop we were going to. I was in a good mood and normally I'm quite calm and reserved. We were queuing up for the bus as normal and once it arrived, we got on. This woman was behind us, who looked foreign and probably about 40. She said to us *""you know in this",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [16M] I think this girl [16F] may have had feelings for me, but I'm not positive. Feedback would be appreciated. POST: So this one girl in my grade at school may or may not have had some feelings for me at one point. I think she may have, but I'm not positive. I'd like to hear what you all think. Here's some reasons why I think she had feelings for me. - Seemed like she was asking me about homework and what we needed for classes more than usual recently (her locker is right above mi",positive " r/running TITLE: Had a scary/painful experience while running today? Advice appreciated. POST: So normally, I run around my block 1.5 times (so about 3/4 of a mile.) I usually run every other day, and have been trying to increase my distance and shorten my time in the past month. I ran yesterday, and today should have been my lazy day, but I was feeling extremely stressed, so I decided to go for a run. (Knew for a fact it probably wasn't a good idea) But I went anyways. So I make it to the point where I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Rumours about my (17f) best friend (19m) is starting to cause issues at school. I truly don't know what to do. POST: I have two very important men in my life. My boyfriend (also 19m) who I've been with for about a month but not counting our break up, almost 2 years and my best friend who I've been close with almost as long. My boyfriend and I are long distance. He has a full time job and I'm lucky to see him every couple weeks. My best friend is in almost the exact same situation w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Does this guy [26/m] like me [26/f] ? POST: I started talking to this guy from an online dating website and he asked for my number on the first day of talking and I gave it to him. Since then we have been texting each other everyday - it has been a month now. A week or so after our first conversation, he asked me when we will be able to see each other and I asked him when he will be free but he said he is very busy this week so possibly the week after. That week comes along and he do",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: How do I tell my sister in law we've picked our wedding date? POST: Hey weddit! I'm so glad to be a part of this community :) My sister in law (to be) got engaged to her fantastic boyfriend in January of 2015. She has asked me to be one of her bridesmaids, as we are very close. We threw them an engagement party in May and had a blast. My SO and I got engaged a couple of weeks ago (yay!) and have started looking at venues as we know the dates go fast in our city. We have tentativ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend of a year and a half is suddenly demanding to know in detail my entire sexual history and I don't want to talk about it POST: Is this reasonable? If so, what can I tell her to get her to lay off it? Background. We've been dating for a year and a half. She's 22, I'm 24. It has been a really great relationship, we trust each other. She knows about all the significant relationships I ever had. Last weekend, she was at a bar and she ran into a girl we both knew from ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Gf (20/f) is always upset and dissatisfied with my (20/m) efforts to make her happy POST: I've been with my gf for about 2 years now and for a while, I've been feeling inadequate and as if I can't make her happy. Right now we're both very comfortable with each other but I feel as though I'm never going to be good enough for her. She's an entirely different person to who she appeared to be at the start. She's rarely affectionate to me anymore and I crave for and miss how she used to",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Why do I [29/M] have a double standard when it comes to my girlfriend[24/F] and partying? And how can I stop it? POST: I realized today that i'm not very fair to my girlfriend. For some reason I'm okay going with my friends and drinking and being a little crazy. But when she does it or tells me stories about her past doing the same, I get bothered and admittedly bent out of shape. I never say anything because I know it's not fair. But it's like when she and I are out in a grou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [21 M] get my act together after breaking up with my cheating girlfriend [21 F] of two years,failed at everything else and battling HOCD? POST: I broke up with my girlfriend after finding out she cheated on me. This was the only good thing that was going in my life as i didn't have a job. This also makes me feel lonely and worthless. This has just increased my insecurities. The worst part was the first few days after the breakup. She had called me gay a couple of times bec",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21f] brother [28m] is intent on ruining my life and I'm terrified. POST: Usually I would confide in my boyfriend but he is asleep and I am sat here trembling. I've no idea what to do. Our papa died about 7 months ago (I'm adopted, brother is not) and since then he has been very very unstable. He has PTSD amongst over things but I refuse to let that be his excuse. He's done many things to me, including trying to get me cut out of my father's will and trying to destroy my relatio",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I (24F) get over my shyness and initiate sex with my boyfriend of 2 years (24M) POST: This is probably more of an r/ sex question but I think knowing about our relationship will help the situation too. I'm a shy girl with a boyfriend of a couple years. I used to think he never had much of a sex drive, but not only was confirmation bias working against me, but he's just the anxious type. We had a talk that confirmed that we're both eager to be intimate again once our LDR is o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my boyfriend [28 M] of 1 year, I want to know how many women he has had sex with POST: I was 23 when I met my boyfriend and I was a virgin, and had very little experience. He is 4 years older than me and he never disclosed how many women he has had sex with. I asked about STD's of course. And the closest intrusive question Ive asked him about previous sexual experiences, is if he has ever had a threesome, or been with a man. He said no to both of these. But what I find",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 M] (ex) boyfriend [19 M] is angry with me because I lied about herpes but he might be the one who gave them to me. POST: Let's call my ex boyfriend Dave. The first time I had sex was last year and it was with Dave. I didn't know him at the time and it was just a one time thing. The second time was about a week after that with a different guy. This guy did anal with me for the first time and it was so rough that I ended up getting an anal fissure (I was asking him to go that r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (21M) with my Ex(21F); trying to move on POST: Hi reddit. I'm kind of at a loss for what to do right now, and could really use some advice. So about a month ago, my ex GF and I broke up. We were together for a year, and for the most part the breakup was pretty clean. As for why we ended things, it was mostly because we're just two different people who want different things out of life. Anyway, we chose to remain good friends and because she already chipped in for the latest mont",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with (maybe) my [27 F] girlfriend unsure if its going to work POST: I got out of a very long relationship (8 years) and although its been about a year now, I still think about her from time to time. I am however ready to move on and as many more out there know, Its really hard out there to meet someone once you are out of school!. Turns out I met someone who I am very keen on dating and we are having a great time together. We enjoy similar activities and like each other c",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Going To a School Dance POST: This FU didn't happen today but last Friday. Here is some context: I am a high schooler and every few months my school throws a school dance. Now I don't know if you guys have experienced this, but my these dances are just one big grind fest with music. At first I frowned upon this but as I got older (and hornier) I have come to accept it. Fast foward to last Friday, that night was the black light dance. Me and my best friend from another school decide to",positive " r/college TITLE: Study tips for managing multiple science courses? POST: I'm 25. I graduated from college in 2011 with a BS in Psychology and returned to school this fall to pursue a BS in Animal Science. I'm taking Gen. Bio. I, Gen. Physics I, and Gen. Chem. I with labs this semester. As expected, all of these classes are tailored to college freshmen who just got out of their high school sciences courses with the fundamentals under their belt, so the course material is not starting from square one. I'm f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How should I help my girlfriend[18f] approach the over-the-top strictness of her parents? POST: My girlfriends mom is over the top strict. She just turned 18, and her mom won't let her be out on weekends even past 8. Otherwise she get absolutely screamed at. My girlfriend also has anxiety and depression issues, a lot caused by the harshness of her parents ruling. I just find it ridiculous that her mom won't let her 18(now an adult) daughter go out past 8 on the weekends, needing to k",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [22 M] getting feelings for my friend [21 F]? What should I do? POST: Okay let me start off by saying I have a girlfriend. We have been together for 3 years now, and we are in a happy relationship. Here's where it gets complicated. I am good friends with another girl (let's call her Jen) and I think I am falling for her. Normally I would ignore these feelings and probably back away a bit. But so far, I have been trying to do so and it doesn't seem to work. To make things worse",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My fwb (m/26) and I (f/24) fool around. Lately he's been rejecting that, leaving me hurt and confused. POST: So, I have a friend's with benefits. We haven't gone all the way because he is a virgin and I am not, and I respect that and don't want to push him to lose it if he doesn't. We cuddle, kiss, make out, and have fooled around. In fact, he was the one to initiate all of it. I am the first girl he's been able to do these things to, and although there was a time when we thought",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[22F] SO[23M] told me he wants to be able to have casual sex with other woman occasionally, now I feel shitty. Help? POST: Hi there! Background: My boyfriend and I have been together for almost a year and a half, and have lived toether for the past year. The love I feel for him is incridibly deep and I feel he fufils me in ways I never imagined. We make a great team and over all get along remarkably well. This isn't either of our first relationship and we've both had multipleo",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I Need Some Advice On Laptops. POST: Hey, guys. There's a very small chance that anybody is going to see this, but maybe somebody can help me out. I've been looking to buy a laptop for a while now, but there are a lot of options. I've always been a Mac user, and I almost feel it would be blasphemous for me to get anything *but* a Mac, but I'm a broke college student who can't afford to shell out a few grand for a new laptop. Plus, I've been meaning to get more into PC gaming as I've alwa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] and my boyfriend [21M] of 3 years have suddenly lost our sex life POST: My boyfriend and I have had a pretty great sex life for the past 3 years. We're creative and not afraid to communicate what we want, so even after the honeymoon phase ended things were still pretty good. Typically my boyfriend and I would have sex ~3 times a week with both of us climaxing. About a month ago my boyfriend finished without returning the favor four consecutive sexy-times in a row. It's not ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/f] dating my BF [23/m] for almost 2 months now. I'm afraid he might have a STI. Is it unreasonable to get him to get tested? POST: We've been dating for almost two months, and we've gotten so close over the course of it (we've known each other for a year prior to dating). I feel like I'm ready to start having sex with him, and he's been so patient with me by not pressuring me into it. But I only started thinking, what if he has a STI? Before us, he had a friends with benefi",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm terrified I'm not good enough POST: My spouse and I got married in February, not too long after finding out I was pregnant with our first child. I've been in love with my spouse for awhile, despite my own anxiety and commitment issues (I never cheat, I just have a track record of leaving before I get too attached), but obviously me marrying someone means I'm pretty serious about them. And it's great, because I got to marry my best friend and we get to raise a family together. Howe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Thought my (m/23) ex (f/23) moved on. But she sent me our letters last night. POST: After 3 years we had some differences and ended things. She found a rebound very soon after and it broke my heart. I initiated no contact for a month and pretty much accepted that she was happy with someone else. Last night she messaged me out nowhere, and attached some letters we had sent each other. They were written during a time when we were madly in love and I was surprised she kept them. I was o",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit! I'm moving apartments soon - how do I tell my current flatmate they can't rely on me to find them space at the new place? POST: The situation is thus: At the moment I'm living with two other girls ('Sue' and 'Lesley') in an apartment in the middle of the city. Our lease expires at the end of June. Sue has decided to go overseas to university for a year and leaves at the start of September, and is staying in the city until then working full time to earn money. So Lesley and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: So my girlfriend{17} broke up with me{17} but says she still loves me. I'm really confused and lost. POST: Hey guys, I'm really confused and heartbroken right now. The past couple days she has barely said anything to me, and told me we need to talk face to face today. Well today comes around, and she says she's sick and can't meet up today. After a couple hours she texts me saying there's a lot going on right now, to much for her to handle, and that she needs to worry about herself f",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: College Problems POST: So I live on the wellness floor with a socially awkward roommate who plays starcraft, takes naps at 8pm only to stay up till 4 in the morning, has no real friends that i have ever seen and is a hypochondriac (he has had his bloodwork done like 4 times within the past semester). I got stuck on the wellness floor because my college has a shitty housing process and this was the only way i could avoid living in an all boys dorm which is a dead zone if there ever was on",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Should I/How do I quit a Job I just started POST: (I assume this is the right sub-reddit for this, if not point me in the right Direction): I started this week on Monday and have found this whole week that its not really what I was sold on. I'm a Computer Tech, and had a pretty awesome job before this one offered more money and had the title and description pretty close inline with what a technician does, however when I started I found out that the whole department is in a transitional stage",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16 M] am unclear on what my Neighbor [15 F] is thinking. POST: I have lived in my current house for a little over the month and since then have noticed I have a pretty big crush on the next door neighbor. I haven't really spoken to her yet but she knows I exist. I go for jogs in the morning, and when she goes to school I sometimes time it so she will see me. Today, we crossed each over and I smiled at her, she smiled back. That's pretty much all we have come in contact with each o",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need to lose 35lbs...in three weeks. How? POST: Hey, Reddit. I've never asked you for anything, though, you wouldn't know because this account is a throwaway. I'm in the military, U.S. Marines to be exact, and I need to lose 35 pounds in 3 weeks. I've been in the Marine Corps for just under 3-years now and I actually enjoy it. I want to stay in, but the threat of being Administratively Separated is looming over my head. I exercise multiple times a day and have been doing everything in",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Weirded out by job scam(?) POST: I've been trying to look for a job the past month and in the past I've always found them through my school's job engine. However, this time around, I'm older (an alumni already) and I just wasn't having any success on my school's trusty CSM so I went on job boards and craigslist. I must have unknowingly applied to some scam because I received an email from this organization that I never applied to. I kind of just assumed that since not all job listings have ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: how do I [21F] tell my SO [22 M] that I love him, when he constantly uses humor as a guise when it comes to talking about emotions? POST: my boyfriend and I get along famously. we've known each other since we were 11 years old, dated once when we were 16 but it didn't quite work (I was an experienced dater, whereas I was his first girlfriend and first kiss), but since then have been best friends. we recently started dating this past November, after being somewhat of a physical affa",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by standing up POST: I took early bird PE which is were you show up to school 45 minutes early for PE so you can take an extra class. I showed up on the first day (which was tuesday). All we did was sit down on the gym floor for 30 minutes and read the syallabus. Then it was time for a tour of the stuff. (For the disgusting freshmen that hadn't done gym yet at the high school). I realized both my legs were asleep from the thigh down. Not the tingly asleep, but the can't feel them at all",negative " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by deleting my company's entire budget POST: Okay so this tifu happened a long time ago when I used to intern at a project management company. It happened during my first week of work. So the company had a main server that contained all the files that people could access and these files were shared among all the employees. I had been specifically told not to touch those files and save them to my computer before using them. I get assigned some procurement work to finish which requires",negative " r/dogs TITLE: My dog was hit by a car. Now paralyzed in her back legs and can't control her bowels. Any tips for how to cope with this or make it easier? POST: * TL;DR: ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How do I make my girlfriend feel sexy again? POST: Throw away because she knows my reddit info. My girlfriend, let's call her Jane, has been getting more and more distant from me in the bedroom department over the last year. We have been dating for about 4 years, living together for 2. In the last year, we had sex less than we were having every week before. First, things slowed down because I accidentally pulled my foreskin too far back and ripped it a little making getting an stiffy ve",negative " r/self TITLE: At 24, I quit my job to be an artist, despite having no artistic skill POST: I'm 24 (female); dropped out of uni and have been mostly unemployed for the past 3 years. I'm on benefits, and recently I've been living in a dilapidated house for £80 a month in my home town. I have quite severe social problems which were largely disregarded growing up. I don't even know how to explain it, perhaps extremely inhibited and untrusting. I'm very uncomfortable with group and employment situations and ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A question about teaching English to Arabic speakers and/or Muslims. POST: Hey Reddit - I have sort of a complex issue that those familiar with Arabic and/or Islamic culture might be able to shed some light on. I have volunteered to be an ESL tutor at a local community center and I start next week. I just found out yesterday that I have been assigned two gentlemen who speak Arabic as their first language. Not that I am one to make assumptions (as I know that there are Arabic speakers ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Breaking up with live-in partner. Help. POST: Okay, ME: 25/m, HER: 25/f. So I've decided (I think), that I am going to end things with my partner. We've been an item for almost 4 years, and have lived together through most of that. Currently we have our own rented place. We're mid 20's. Reasons for separation are various, but boil down to the relationship having run its course. There is no animosity or ill-will here, its just not working (for me at least), and I do not see things ",negative " r/travel TITLE: Can anyone help me find travel programs that offer art/architecture tours anywhere in Europe? POST: I'm 18 years old (currently in college) and I'm trying to find art tours in Europe that cater to people in my age range. I recently went on a birthright trip to Israel with participants ranging in ages from 18-27 and very much enjoyed it. However it seems that most of the tours that I can find through google have a mean age of 65 for their participants. I don't know to learn the legitimacy ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Asking a girl in my class to study? POST: So there's this girl I talked to a few weeks back who I have back-to-back classes with. The first class finished up early so the next class didn't start for 20 minutes or so. I made up some bogus excuse to talk to the girl sitting next to me during this time and we talked for roughly 20 minutes. She seemed into the conversation, especially surprising since the first class start at 8 am. Today, she finally sat next to me again (she gets there ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/m] We both (18/f) have feelings for each other but I don't know where it's heading. POST: Well we've been talking for almost 6 months now. We're extremely close. We'd probably spend up to half our day talking to each other on Facebook and/or the phone, this is probably everyday too. We both know we like each other, we expressed our feelings towards each other about 2 months ago. The main problem is that although we like each other, she's in an unfortunate situation (full-ti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23m] have been dating my girl [22f] for almost 5 years, but till now she never wanted to have sex, even i want it. [nsfw] POST: i [23m] am in a long relationship, we've been dating since 2008 and next month is our 5th anniv's. Now at my age i really want to get laid with my girl [22f], but she didn't want to, i ever ask her about that, and she always ask for apologize because she cant accept my request, she only want to do it until she got married. it really make me confuse becaus",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 27/F in love with an addict 27/M POST: I guess I'm just looking for support. At first I wanted to ask you all what I should do, but I already know I'll be told to break up with him. We've been together for 3 years. Living together 1 year and 3 months. He's a recovering heroin addict. He's had one relapse (that I know of) in the last 18 months. Even when he is clean and following his program, I create scenarios in my head and convince myself he's using. I caught him using in the fal",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it necessary to [22 M] tell my wonderful, loving parents [50's M/F] that I believe their parenting technique is damaging my sister [18 F] POST: At the age of 18 I had a breakdown centred around exam stress. 5 years later and now fully recovered my SO and I are both studying to become teachers. Within our course we studied a parenting technique that my parents use and which I believe explains why I suffered with such deep anxiety over exams that I had a breakdown. At the time I dec",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I (21F) get over the man I love? (22m) POST: Basically, I met him through work and fell in love with him pretty quickly. We both ended our relationships with current partners to be with each other. Things have been rocky since day 1, but i've stood by him through all the shit. He's not to blame for everything, i'm no saint, but the majority of our r/s issues were due to things he had done. i.e: dumped me for his ex, then came running back, had girls stay over his house w",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: Rough breakup left me bitter, 18m newly seperated from 18F POST: Hi all, I'm not much of a story teller, but here it goes: so basically I liked this girl since middle school sometime, not in the ""i'm in love with her"" sense but in the ""oh look at her walking in the room I'm going to talk to her until she gets annoyed"" sense. Admittedly I could be clingy but you get the idea, 4 years later (3 of which I was literally her best friend (her words not mine) for), We started going out and it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I still have feelings for a long time friend and I want to know that things are going to get better. POST: Hey everyone. I've posted a few times about this already in the past. You can refer to my history for more of a background. I can't seem to get over this. I'm 23M and she's 23F. We've been friends since high school. I've always had feelings towards her ever since we met, but I didn't actually mind it until I fell for her 2 years ago. During that time I told her and she shot me",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Help me get off this roller coaster ride to weight loss! POST: Food and I, we have a love/hate relationship. I love eating, but hate that food always sticks around after I'm done enjoying it. As the weight packed on, my body got sluggish and I'm constantly tired. I started exercising after I graduated college when I was the heaviest I've ever been-220 pounds. I lost 50 pounds and started feeling great again, but then started letting the fat girl inside me eat. Then, the stress of grad schoo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girlfriend [21/f] and I [23/m] talked two days ago about possibly breaking up, but since then she's been acting normal and hasn't mentioned it. POST: She's seemed bothered by something lately so a couple days ago I asked her and she admitted that she's not sure if we should keep seeing each other. She said she may not like me as much as I like her, which I was pretty devastated about, but I told her she could take her time and think about whether she wants to keep it going. We",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is a great way to propose to my girlfriend without an engagement ring? Not as bad as it sounds, details in post. POST: I'm finally doing it, I'm popping the question to my girl! The problem? She manages a jewellery store and is responsible for all of their jewellery design. So the title probably sounds like I am not serious about this, but if you're still reading here is the deal. We've been together for over a year and a half and have been living together for around 12 months. We",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit I need your help. I just got screwed out of $400 by Town Fair Tire and I need to know if there's anything I can do about it. POST: So I went into Town Fair Tire with my car which for the past 2 weeks has had an odd problem where the wheel shakes violently. The guy at TFT looks at the car and says, ""seems to be a simple alignment problem."" which is what I thought it was too. I followed the guy inside where i proceeded to purchase 4 brand tires, alignment and all the extra fees for ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Car broke down and tuition to pay. What should I do? POST: I apologize about my crappy writing skills. I'm 19 and I live with my parents. I go to school full-time, and I have a part time job that pays $8.50/hr. My car's engine is useless and replacing it is more than the worth of the car (the car already had several expensive repairs). I need a new car to get to work and school. My first year of college was paid for by my parents. They are now refusing to help me any longer, and I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] left my sort-of girlfriend [21 F] and need some insight in how to proceed with another woman[23 F]. POST: So I will try to make this as quick as possible but if you're reading then thank you. Since October of 2015 I have been in a weird sort of relationship with my ex (Alex 21/F) that I dated from January 2013 - December 2014. I wanted to make things work, I was in therapy, reading love-help books, etc. Fairly quickly I learned I wanted to break up with her again because I ",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Advice needed on keeping a dog entertained? POST: Hi all, I made this account just so I could post this because I'm really quite worried about this. I have a newfoundlander, he's 14 months old now. My family's had newfoundlanders for over 30 years so we know the race by now. Only it's the first one that actually lives with us in the house 24/7, the others were always in pairs and we kept them downstairs because of the chaos they would make inside the house. It's also the first dog I'm activel",negative " r/cats TITLE: Serious issue with cat urinating & now pooping on my bed. Advice really really welcome. Looking for some insight. POST: Well, basically today my cat pooped on my bed. I was in the room when he did it, and that didn't seem to phase him. I cleaned it up and brushed off the incident, as it was the first time that it had occurred. I thought that perhaps it was because I vacuumed earlier and it made him upset. All was well until a few minutes ago, when he peed on my bed, something which he *has* d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my Fiancee [28F] of 3 months, caught her reading conversations with ex-fiancee POST: My fiancee of three months and I had a tiny argument last night over something trivial. Afterwards she was trying to tell me about this article she read that day, but couldn't find. We pull up the laptop and she opens the history of the browser and finds the article. That day I had left mid-day for a few meetings and came back a few hours later. The history showed that while I was work",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why is it every time my [19 M] girlfriend [19F] try to get some alone time, everyone assumes we're having sex. POST: This may be somewhat of a rant, but every time we try to get some time together someone tries to stop it because they think we're having sex. If I'm at her house late, my mom thinks we're having sex and calls angrily and tells me I'm stupid. When we stay out late( my mom dislikes us together so I don't take her to my place much) her grandma assumes we're having sex. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit: What are suggestions you have that will make me a better conversationalist or a better story teller? POST: I think I am of fairly average to above average intelligence. I graduated from college and I have two graduate degrees. I read a lot and I like to keep informed on things happening around the world. All that said, I find it difficult to strike up conversations with strangers at parties (a little anxiety I guess) and then I find it difficult to keep the conversation going. ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Ask again or move on? POST: Took a summer class with this girl(23f) and she seemed interesting. I(23m) started to ask about her and what not and responses were good. She had follow up questions as well. She would laugh at my jokes (even though they were whatever) and even mimicked my jokes back at me. I did offer to help her study but she never actually took it until near the final. When I finished the final (about an hour earlier than her) I waited for her and when she came out, I a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my GF [22 F] of 1.6 years, distant every-time after sex. POST: Ill try to explain as best as I can. I had been friends with my girlfriend Kay for five years before we even started our romantic relationship. We were always good friends and were always around the same group of people. Years later and now I am in a serious relationship with Kay and she is the most amazing and perfect person for me. We are almost a perfect match and have so much in common and basically ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sitting in the front of the class POST: Today was the first day I sat at the front of the class in years. I've always gotten late to my classes or either everyone's always early. I was ecstatic to finally be able to hear what the teacher was saying clearly and to see the white board close up without using my glasses. However, I was tired as crap. I was up all night doing my assignments and I got 4 hours of sleep only. My eyes started to get cloudy and I found myself yawning over and o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my EX SO [28 F] 6 Months, Left me with no explanation, her friend messaged me and told me it was because she was in love with another guy. POST: It's been over ten months since she left me, I tried my best to win her back, last attempt I bought her flowers and tried to meet with her, she simply saw me, ran to her car, and peeled out, then texted me telling me she never wants to see me again. (This was 2 months after the break up, since then I have gone 8 months with No",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] Just found out that my year and a half boyfriend [26/m] cheated on me at the beginning of our relationship POST: Today as I was trying to take pictures on my boyfriend's computer I accidentally found proof that he cheated on me with his ex girlfriend when we started dating. He has naked pictures of her and a video with him LITERALLY saying that he had just fucked her and that he would keep doing it for the next couple of month ( the video was taken 4 days after we starte",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My husband whom I've [24] been with for 3 years is emotionally abusive and I would like someone who has experienced this to talk to. POST: My husband is [27, M] and I am a [F]. I made this throwaway because I hope to find someone who has worked through or escaped from an emotionally abusive relationship to talk about this with. I don't want to end the marriage at this point, but as time goes on I see this as an increasingly likely solution. I've started seeing a therapist at school ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: GF [22f] is intensly jealous POST: So me [25m] and GF [22f] are together for 1 year and 8 month. She always has been quite jealous, and the current situation is like this. I want to meet a girl who is in our circle of friends sometime to play chess. Because nobody else plays and because she is nice. I don't have any emotions for her whatsoever and i don't find her attractive at all. I have also never cheated on somebody EVER in my life. Now my GF is diagnosed with BPD and t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [21f] get over knowing my boyfriend [21m] finds a slew of other girls we know more attractive than me? POST: We've been in a relationship for almost a year. My boyfriend is very open about who he finds attractive. There are ex-girlfriends, girls that he attempted to pursue, girls that are simply friends with him or who work with him, girls that are friends of mine... just so many girls that I know he finds more attractive than me. He never compares me to them, but I know ",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Make fun of me when I'm sleeping, too bad your bedtime is at 8 o'clock and I'm bored! POST: My friend is recovering from her recent cancer surgery and could use any help during this busy time of year. I happen to have a few days off and decided to stay at her house for the next few days. She has an adorable eight year old daughter who loves when I come and visit. Her mother even calls her my shadow so I guess we can call her that to. Yesterday, I was coerced to watch Shadow do a m",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Just got keys to my new apartment and it's infested with rats and water damage...what do I do to get out of the lease? POST: Apartment is located in West philadelphia, pa. The apartment was absolutely disgusting. Upon entering I smelled something just plain bad. Like mildew. I also heard immediately the scurrying of what sounded like a lot of rats or something! Then I walked in and It had rat droppings everywhere.... And I really mean everywhere. Every nook and cranny. The bedroom carp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/F] don't approve of my twin's GF[34/F] and I don't want to help them. POST: Me and my brother have always been close but we live in different province due to school and drifted a bit. We went home this summer and about two weeks ago before leaving he told me he has been seeing a girl and I was obviously curios and happy. He told me he has been seeing her for 4 months now, I got a bit upset bec he never said anything, his social medias never indicated any relationship whatsoever",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: If I died and have no will could my father (parents divorced) get a share of my estate?? POST: Hello all, Using a throwaway because of personal info. I was born in Europe but I'm a US citizen. I used to live in Illinois but have lived in New York State for past 10 years. I'm only in my mid 20s but travel a lot and recently started worrying about what would happen to all my things if I suddenly died in car crash or something like that. I don't own a home or car, just have a decent savi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my boyfriend [22 M], is he going to be like The Danish Girl POST: Before I say anything about my relationship, I'm going to clarify first that I have absolutely nothing against homosexuality, transgenders, or any sexuality at all. If I by accident offend anyone with my post, I apologize in advance. When I got together with my boyfriend around three years ago, I revealed to him my sexual history, which I had felt a bit ashamed of as I had been rather promiscuous in the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My father recently passed away and I [19/F] don't know how I can help my mum [44/F] POST: My father's death was very sudden. He died of some heart infection that had to symptoms (not heart attack). In the beginning, my mum (suffered postpartum depression once) would cry everyday. Ever since the start of my school term, I haven't been able to accompany/keep an eye on her. Although, I have 2 younger brothers at home, they are too caught up with gaming and anime to help me watch over o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What do I (24F) say to someone (25M) who's convinced that it's more important to not take risks than to be happy? POST: I've been dating Josh for 2.5 years, and we've been best friends for maybe 6. It has always been long distance but recently (last year) became significantly less long distance to the point where we see each other multiple weekends in a month (usually 2). I'm in school for a couple of more years and he doesn't want to move to my city, but I (independently of him) wa",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: My 10yo stepson has an unhealthy desire for legal intoxicants (whippits, helium, etc) POST: He's a good kid most of the time but within the last few months he's been expressing desire to get helium balloons at the store, canned whip cream also. Obviously we don't enable him in this regard but he pulled one over on me last night at the store. Said he really wanted whip cream for ice cream. I got a red flag in my mind but decided maybe he just wants whip cream. Nope. Between me putting g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Non-romantic: Why don't I (20/F) have friends? I do everything ""right"", I put forth the effort... Help me find my hang ups? POST: I am in art school right now and I consider myself a very outgoing person. I give lots of compliments, invite people to do things, and I'm very friendly with everyone I meet. I am never involved in any drama. I accept all people as they are and are kind to them even if they annoy me. Over-all, though it sounds conceited, I consider myself a really cool per",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by watching the WOW Leeroy Jenkins video in the restroom with the volume too loud.. POST: This happened about 3 hour's ago. To fully understand why this is a pretty bad FU, i was in my JROTC class period and the restroom is right across the hall from the armory which is somewhat of a hangout spot for cadets not doing anything. This will come back later... There I was, bored in the back of the class when the urge to browse Reddit overwhelmed me. I think to my genius self, ""what better p",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My gf[19/f] got a job at a bar yesterday, on her first day a man offered her $500 to leave me[21/m] and hook up with him. Any advice on how to cope with her new job? POST: My gf got a job at a bar yesterday, on her first day a man offered her $500 to leave me and hook up with him. I am pretty insecure about her getting hit on by guys who are probably a lot more attractive than me, every night. And not getting home until 3 am. I know it boils down to trust and support. I have ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/F] I had sex with the guy (20/m) I'm seeing and then things got weird. POST: I met this guy on tinder (I know, I know), but immediately knew he was different because he didn't bring up sex and would have long conversations with me about whatever randomness I wanted to discuss. Anyway, he had gotten out of a one year relationship only about 3 months prior. We started hanging out and hooked up some, but waited tip we had known each other a month to have sex. He would ask, b",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not getting mad... POST: Some background: 3 days ago my ladyfriend started a cycle known as the period. A few weeks ago we were having a normal conversation and she started acting weird for around 2 hours. Naturally, being the clingy nosey person that I am (that she some how puts up with) asked what was wrong. She kept saying that she had messed up, I keep digging to find that she had sent some NSFW pictures to one of her ex's and that she had been horribly depressed a few years befor",negative " r/travel TITLE: Beware Your Own Country: A True Story POST: Patriotism. Turns out even having small inklings is hazardous for your well being. I arrived in Tallinn safe and sound. The weather was beautiful, and for once I was very happy to actually be walking outside in this beautiful Baltic town. I stopped in at my favorite pub in the old town district, and gorged myself at the cheap food, as well as had a beer or two (the prices are just SO much better then Finland's). After I finished my meal, I de",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] met an awesome girl [23 F] online. We've been close friends for 7 months, but ever since I've begun to care about her so much, I wonder if the latest conversation will be our last. How do I change this mindset? POST: I became very ill in 2008 (I was 18), and about 95% of my friends vanished from my life. People I loved, who had cried on my shoulders and myself on theirs. People I had spent my entire teenage life growing up with. People I thought were solid. I was sick, an",negative " r/loseit TITLE: My[27/f] boyfriend [27/m] has been struggling with losing weight while not changing his entire lifestyle. POST: Hi Loseit My boyfriend is somewhere around the 230lbs range and about 5'5 or so, and together, we have been trying to lose weight for the past 3 months. He started this journey about 1 month before me, simply by increasing exercise for the first month with a stationary bike. In month 2, we both started going to the gym and were using the elliptical for 30-60 minutes a few times a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 21m wondering how much texting is appropriate in this situation with 21f? POST: This girl and I have been really close the last couple months and seemed to be heading for a relationship. She had just gotten out of a long relationship when we first got together, but things seemed to be going really well even if it was a bit fast. Then she found out her ex already has a new girlfriend, and she realized she's not ready to be with anyone. She was up front and honest with me about t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my ex gf [22 F], funny how things work POST: After meeting our freshman year of college, things were great. She was my first love and my real first GF. We got into some fights here and there but it we always recovered. As our junior year started, feelings and doubt began to enter the picture. We were great but there were some things about our personalities that didn't quite mesh. I wanted to focus on myself and really try being single in school. I didn't want to regre",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/F] with my boyfriend [28/M] feel like my self worth depends on others--especially him POST: Hi All, first time poster here. :) My boyfriend and I have been together for a little over a year. He's been pointing throughout much of that time that I have codependency issues. I am clingy and insecure and get extremely jealous, but I feel like I'm slowly handling these issues better since becoming aware of them. However, ""handling them better"" doesn't mean the same thing as feeling",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my SO [20F] for 4 months, her ex-boyfriend's grandmother passed away POST: Well, the grandmother of my SO's ex-boyfriend passed away, and she's travelling to the funeral. I respect a lot how much she still cares about him (he is a self-destructive mess), and that she decided to still be friends, in case he started doing something stupid. The thing is, that he stills has obvious feelings for her, and as a matter of fact, he told her the other day, that the only way of ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Long distance ""Bae"" is making me [18/M] reluctant to ask out girl I'm interested in [19/F], how should I approach this. POST: Before I start, thank you for reading this reddit. So around 1 year ago I met a girl through a mutual friend, we'll call her ""Lisa"". I initially didn't have an interest romantically in her, but over the course of time till now we became good friends, talked a lot on fb, texted and even though she was in college and I'm now a senior in high school, w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me 30s female with my 60s privacy invading parents. POST: First of all, I am a very private person. I'm in my early 30s, and my parents are in their 60s. I've suffered from severe anxiety and depression since I was about 11, and was hospitalized about 6 months ago due to the severity of it. My parents have never given me any privacy. I live 1,200 miles away and they have still found ways to invade it. They are visiting about 40 miles away for the summer. I am moving and thought I hi",positive " r/Advice TITLE: School Issues and Family Issues intertwined POST: So I've been skipping school for 2 weeks now, and my teachers have been sending emails to my Mom, which I know her password to her email and was replying to them, now she recieved another email she saw it and it said that I was missing from classes and they were wondering if I was still attending school, now my dad and my mom sat down and talked with me and I said I only missed school for half a week and was just late for attendance, now the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (M23) Sort of messed up my relationship with my boyfriend (M21) using the app Scruff POST: I was in a relationship for two months with this amazing guy. We met at the restaurant we both work at and hit it off really fast. We spent the night together the first night we really met, and a few weeks later I'm meeting his parents. Here's where the situation goes south. I download the app Scruff for my phone which is essentially a gay dating app, but there are a lot of folks on it who ar",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: The Arrogant Asshole POST: I'm in high school and have chemistry and English class with one of the most annoying people I have ever met. He is incredibly arrogant and strives to be correct and tell everybody off for not knowing something. Therefore, he has few friends, he sits next to me in Chemistry although his presence doesn't really bother me. He makes a few stupid jokes now and then but I usually put up with him to sit next to my friend on the right. One day, the asshole in doub",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My BF's [M28] hair makes me cringe and I [F27] wish he would change it. POST: I feel like an awful person for saying that. We haven't been dating for a very long time (since November), and I know most of all I'm attracted to his kind, sensitive, thoughtful personality. But. He's mentioned several times that his hair is thinning - and whilst I don't care - it kind of bugs me that he styles it in such a way that doesn't flatter him at all. That is to say, he doesn't style it at all. ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Girl [21] might like a guy [20], but her friend [19F] had a crush on him POST: Hey Reddit, so I feel like I might like this guy; I've talked to him a couple times, he's really cute and funny, and he makes a point of noticing me so he might like me, too. However, my good friend had a crush on him earlier this year and talked to me at length about it. She's how I met him, actually. She's said she's not into him anymore, but I feel like it would be wrong for me to go out with this guy",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [27M] ex-wife sent me a late night text. Should I tell my current[26/F] girlfriend? POST: Last night around 1030pm I received a text from an unknown number wanting to know if it was still my number. I answered this morning. The short conversation went like this. [last night]Her: Is this still Latenighttext? [this morning]Me: Yes. Who is this? Her: It's Ex-wife. Sorry I was drunk and found your number. I wanted to know if you still had it. Me: Oh ok. Her: I was at my parents h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my crazy girlfriend [22 F] for three years, have a one year old baby after an accidental pregnancy, and i have no idea how to make our life work. Please help. POST: Hi Reddit, I'm here for some help and advice for my troubled family life. A little background: I'm a 25 male in graduate school, with at least two years left before I graduate. About two years ago my girlfriend got pregnant (yes it's mine, and yes it was an accident). We now have a beautiful little boy n",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [21 f] of 3 years told me she doesn't love me [21m] anymore POST: We had been dating since senior year of high school and everythingwas great. The past couple years we've been away from each other on and off due to school and other activities but always kept in contact and expressed our feelings for each other. A few months ago i was accepted to the college she was going to and decided this would be a great time to be with her. She seemed so excited for me to come up for thes",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [26 F] be mad with my Boyfriend [24 M] of 6 months because he refuses to have sex with me while I'm menstruating? POST: Him and I have been together for quite a while and everything is usually pretty good. However, we both work a lot and he's not all that sexual so I hardly get to have sex with him as it is. We only get weekends together, both of our days off, due to him working swing shifts and me working days. So sex is few and far between. Sometimes I won't even get to ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Other men fantasising about my girlfriend F/19 is really bothering me. What can I do about it? POST: Hi my first girlfriend and i (M/19) have been together for three years but the one thing that has been bothering me is that she's extremely pretty when we were not together many guys have tried to hit on her and even said disrespectful things to her such as wanting to have sex with her.She even used to post revealing pictures of herself online. Although now she does not receive such ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 F] with my boyfriend [31 M] nearly two years and has had an emotional affair and seems to want attention from other girls. POST: I am divorced with a young child and have been seeing my boyfriend almost two years. We've broken up 3 times over the relationship due to potential life changing circumstances (he wanted to move for a career or was being less than a friendly other half). I just found out that over a year ago while we were together, he had a very significant emotion",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where to go with a little over $2000 POST: So Reddit I was wondering if you could help my find a nice place to go with a little over $2000. I guess a little bit about me so that your advice might be more directed I guess. I just turned 16 years old and for my birthday my parents promised to give me 2k to take myself and one other person(probably one of them) on a trip somewhere in the world. After some research I've discovered that airfare is...well...expensive...and ive landed on Ista",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20F) didn't know it , but I helped him (19m) cheat in his girlfriend. POST: I have been friends with benefits with a guy for 6 months . He decided he wanted to make it into a thing . We got a hotel room to celebrate and spend some much needed *ahem* time together. We slept together and had sex of a Bdsm nature. Which requires lots of trust and respect. We had a wonderful night and the next morning, he had to leave to finish his speech ( we go to the same school ) , I left for ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by playing Russian Roulette POST: This was when I was in high school around 1993. We were in a friends basement playing pool and having a few beers. My friend's brother lived in the basement but wasnt home and had left his 38 snub nose revolver sitting on the mantle. My friend picked up the gun and jokingly said ""Anyone wanna play Russian Roulette?"" I jokingly said ""yes"". Now I had no intention of really playing, I was trying to shock them. First I snuck a look at the gun to see wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my GF [26 F] x3 years, went ""networking"" but I think it was a date. POST: She has been trying to break into the restaurant mgmt industry and went to lunch with a single restaurant owner / operator. They ended up going to a very high end sushi restaurant, ate/drank and he paid for it all. There is no position open it was just to talk about good. I also find out they have been texting a ton. Once again the majority of it being about food. But I definitely feel like she h",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: (US) Is personal gift money considered eligible income for a Roth IRA contribution? POST: Hello, I recently opened a Roth IRA and contributed a relatively small amount towards the 2013 tax contribution limit. However, I just started a part-time job today (I'm currently a college student) and did not have any formal income last year other than cash gifts that well exceed the contribution I made. The cash itself is in a checking account that is co-signed by a parent. I assumed this ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling by brother my gf is more attracted to him POST: So this happened a few days ago. I have been dating this really hot girl for a few months now, we didn't had any sex all this time because she said she wanted to get comfortable with me. I did really like her so I ran with the idea anyways fast forward to last weekend when I brought her to our flat (sharing with my brother). My brother and I are very open to each other like best friends so he knew the gist and he have a gf for th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30/M] with my _friend with benefits __ [30/F] Should I apologize to a friend with benefits for expecting sex POST: I have a friend that I occasionally have sex with. this has been going of for several years.about a year ago I started expecting sex every time we would hang out and I feel like it put a strain on are friendship.she has never mentioned she feels annoyed by it but I sometimes feel my frustration is apparent if we do not have sex and causes tension between us. and I ju",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23m] looking to ask a [22f] out. I'm sort of lost. POST: So, my last relationship lasted 5.5 years. The relationship started in highschool, so I'm not quite sure how to start something new after college. This girl and I had a project together during a college class, and we had a lot of fun, but I haven't talked to her for a while. We seemed to have a lot of fun during a project, and I liked being around her. I've never tried to ask anyone out since highschool. I'm still growing,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I M[22] am hooking up with a F[20] and getting emotionally involved, she's definitely planning on getting back together with her ex... POST: Setting: I have been hooking up with this girl for about 2 months, we are studying abroad together. She is smart, attractive, and nice when she wants to be. I maintain that we are not exclusive and just FWB, she's cool with that, no problem right? Except that I'm getting emotionally attached, too much for my comfort, especially because I have ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: New girlfriend wants to continue having phone sex with a long time partner POST: Hello folks, I've got a bit of a conundrum. I've been dating a lovely girl for about a month. We (me: 24 her: 21) are both crazy about each other and see some definite long term potential here. However there are some things that I am having some trouble with. The first thing I should mention is that she has recently (but well before I had met her) begun a fairly successful run at being a camgirl. Th",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: So it turns out my best friend (19f) is having thoughts of being with me (19m). I feel the exact same way and the other night we told each other, there is just one catch... POST: She has told me multiple times that she is attracted to girls, but she is confused by how she feels for me and has told me multiple times that I'm her exception (though I thought she was just joking around). A little background; We have been friends since around the middle of our junior year of high school.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When I was twelve years old, I pretended to be religious just to mess with a self-righteous, very religious teacher. Reddit, what are your childhood stories of triumph? POST: This did not take place in a religious school, by the way, so it was especially annoying. This one teacher was super right-wing and unbearably smug. She would not permit the word ""god"" in her classroom--even if it were contained in some secular phrase like ""oh my god"". As I was in middle school, this was a common ph",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Keyboard wanted: a Logitech UltraX doppelganger without the numpad (or with the numpad on the left). Is there such a beast? POST: I've been addicted to the UltraX for years, but sadly my last one is slowly dying, and I'm looking for a replacement. I've spent way too much time searching and reading about keyboards, still haven't found anything that fits my needs. I've had a quick bout of RSI some time ago, which seems to be alleviated by the laptop size (half-size) key format. At the same",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Hi, r/dogs, I need some help with breed choice. POST: My family is looking for a new dog. We have always had giant Newfoundlands. My dad would like something similar to Newfoundlands, or, at the very least, a ""respectable"" dog. My mom wants something considerably smaller and more manageable. They agree that the dog has to be easily trainable and nonagressive. I will be leaving for college in the autumn of next year, so they will have plenty of time for an active dog, and would prefer somethin",negative " r/loseit TITLE: how often do you treat yourself? POST: So, I am on my third day of weight watchers.. I haven't had a problem staying within my points and I have so many ""extra"" points for the week still. Today I had oatmeal for breakfast (5 points) and then didn't eat all day. Later, I was out running errands and was curious about how many points I could get away with at Wendy's. My favorite is the spicy chicken sandwich. I was able to order the sandwich (sans mayo, not for dietary reasons.. i just hate ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: depressed after 'break up', and realised that I've always been depressed (x-post from r.depression) POST: I (26/m) had sort of been in a relationship with my college mate (24/f), and the two of us used to spend inordinate amounts of time together. Now we've 'broken up' and she decided we should spend lesser time together. Leaving aside the heartbreak (which I'm getting used to), I am still a total wreck as I have no clue what to do with this huge extra space that I have in my life no",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Should I quit? POST: Here is my situation: I have pretty exceptional experience in strategy roles. Exceptional as in presented at conferences and quoted in newspapers as an industry analyst, at a relatively young age. After a short time as an analyst I realized I wanted to be IN the industry as an actual product manager or strategy lead, something like that. Wanted to get my hands dirty. Took a job that was touted as ""very important"" to my new department and my company. Found out that, unf",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my ex gf[27 F] 1.5 yrs,4mo Post BU, Getting pointless texts - help POST: Work at same place. Breakup was mild. I went NC for 30 days. She broke the NC, we spoke a bunch. Had a good convo about being friends. Started out fine i.e jolly text messages, frequent throughout the week. Some phone calls, work related mostly. Some hang outs at my place/hers to work on projects. Now as of about a week ago, messages are no longer ""jolly"" they are pointless dead end texts. Here i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/m] am in a relationship with [19/f], but there might be another on my sights! [21/f] POST: Throwaway account, yay! I am a college student. I have been with my girlfriend for almost a year now. It's fun, the sex is good but there is a problem. Well besides normal couple problems (she is the jealous type but not too bad), there is a girl from my hometown that has always shown interest in me. We dated for a while (3 months) but we called it off because we were not sure that a d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] stuck in the orbit of a [23 F] for months, tell me end it and move on. POST: She's not my girlfriend. I used the word orbit because we follow the same path every two months or so. 1. We start casually talking again after one of us breaks under an imposed (but never talked about) silence. 2. We meet up a couple of times for drinks or a movie ect. (We split the bills pretty equally, surprisingly.) 3. The texts start to ramp up again. Flirting is less subtle. I'm gettin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Has anyone ever experienced reverse culture shock? I'm feeling it and it is hitting me hard. POST: I didn't even know reverse culture shock existed, and that I was actually going through it. The story is,I did study abroad for a year. I went there and it changed my life! I had the best experience I've ever had. Made the best friends I ever have in my life. I've been back for a couple months and its starting to dawn on me how much my life back at home isnt exciting. I've been feeling depr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Need Advice POST: So, here is my issue Reddit. I (m/27) have been friends with my roommate (m/28) for the last eight years, seven of which we have spent as roommates. He is a nice enough guy, but in the last year we've been beginning to grow apart. He really likes to party, get drunk and smoke a lot of weed, and I can't really do that... also, I've started seeing somebody. It's been just under a year and we're head over heals in love. The gf (f/25) and I are not in the same locatio",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girlfriend [19/f] and I [19/m] have decided to go on a break. Any advice? [UPDATE] POST: Original post: Thanks to all that commented. I'm not too great with replies, but I read and took on board what you all said, so thank you. So a couple of days ago, we broke up completely. Although we both thought it would be best, she wasn't going to bring it up. I said that given she doesn't think we'll be able to fix what feels is missing, it would be wise for us to call it off. She sa",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Renting an apartment from someone across seas and they want money before sending me the key. What do? POST: So I found a beautiful apartment in an amazing neighborhood in New York City on Craigslist. The rent advertised isn't completely ridiculous, but the situation has smelt sketchy to me since the first email. The folks renting it out are an old couple that are retiring to Dublin Ireland and were looking for someone responsible and committed to rent to. That's where I come in. After ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] and my crush/friend [23F] met on an exchange, tell her my feelings begore we leave? POST: Situation: So we're both college students on an exchange in an East-Asian country, but both originally from (different) western countries. The exchanged has lasted 4 months now, and will last for another 2 weeks. She also has a boyfriend in the Asian country, but in a different city. She doesn't like to talk about him and doesn't really seem to care about their relationship. Still, the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16M] with my crush[16F] of over a year, don't want to ask her out, get rejected and ruin our incredible friendship. POST: Ok, so I am currently a Junior in High school, and this crush of mine is also a Junior. I met her in a math class last year and she ended up also being in my Spanish class. We ended up taking a bit, not much, and she eventually gave me her number so I could text her a school thing I had. We texted a bit, mostly about school at the beginning, but eventually to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend (20F) and I (22M) shared a bit of a moment, and now her boyfriend is coming to visit. POST: First post here so go easy on me. A bit of backstory, I just moved to a new city for school and met this girl In my program (we'll call her Ashe). We immediately hit it off from the start, tons of common interests, same sense of humour, the whole 9 yards. I had never met someone like her before. We had several movie and study nights where we cuddled on her couch and drank together (d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my GF [20 F] of 2 years, i want to work overseas, how do i tell her. POST: Hey guys i am a 22 year old veterinary student and it's looking like at the end of my degree next year i have a job lined up in Canada. I really want to take this job and i think not doing so will stifle my career and i may regret not challenging this adventure when older. The issue is i have a Gf of 2 years who i do love and care for deeply, however i know that when it comes time i will choos",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] have fallen for a friend/coworker [23F] but dont know what to do POST: we have been friends for over a year, we met as coworkers and have grown closer ever since. we have special nicknames for each other so ill use those. my name is snoopy, her name is woodstock. woodstock and i have developed a very good friendship. we message each other every day and we hang out from time to time. its difficult to do this often cause of her busy schedule. sometimes we go out for dinner aft",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking the price of a Wii POST: TIFU happened about 8 years ago My family and I went on a vacation in Hong Kong and while we were there my siblings wanted to buy a Wii cause it was cheaper there. So when we were there about to buy it we couldn't decide which sibling should ask how much the Wii was. So me being forgetful, I forgot that we weren't in our home country anymore so I went up to the register and asked ""Tag pila ang Wii?""(""How much is the Wii?"") and they cash register was ju",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the most strange yet hilarious thing to happen at your school? POST: I'll start. For the past month or so our school has been raising money for the custodian who was diagnosed with Colin cancer. We had raised over $4000 through fund raisers. One in particular that had got a lot of attention was referred to as ""cow chippin'"". As you read the description of this, please bare in mind that this school is in southern Indiana. Any ways we all buy a three foot by three foot square of t",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I exploiting friendships? POST: early 20's male here (throwaway acct) . I think I've got a problem with being a ""taker"" when it comes to relationships. I have a long term friendship with a girl and it seems to have evolved into a ""you feed me, I hang out with you"" kind of deal. Literally every time I hang out with her I get fed, be it at at her house or out. I don't try to be a mooch, but I'm a really cheap guy, and always hungry. In fact I'm embarrassed by the fact tha",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: First Post - Any suggestions for helping a dog that snaps when woken from sleep? POST: Our pack includes a 3-yr old mixed breed lab/hound/(pit?) named Tails. She roams the house freely during the day and is SUPER sweet to everyone... except when you wake her up. The most extreme case was when my wife came in one morning to wake Tails up and send her outside for her morning potty break (we have a huge fenced in back yard, so we just send her out to do her business then let her back in ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17/F] have a problem with my classmate POST: Hello there I'll try to be quick: a few days ago we've switched some seats in my classroom and now I'm staying alone (which is perfectly fine), but my ex-deskmate thinks that she has done something wrong, I tried to reassure her that it's not true and that I just wanted to be closer to the blackboard etc. She's often quite sad and, well, annoying, if she feels sick she dramatizes and just stays here suffering not daring to tell the te",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A *decent* mail client? POST: Not sure if this is the right place, but... hey, it *is* a question. I'm a Windows user, and have been using Thunderbird for a while, much to my annoyance. Ideally, I'd like something that can 1) run in the background (systray), 2) actually let me know when email arrives, and 3) handle IMAP accounts. Thunderbird fails on 1 and 2. 1 was somewhat possible - but slightly buggy - until a recent update broke the relevant Extension, 2 has been highly random/bug",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] getting to know [23F] maybe advice of what to do? POST: Going to do this as short as possible. Recently find myself single and sign up to a dating site. After awhile I eventually find a local girl who seems really cool. we message a bit and trade numbers. Now through texts I've tried to talk and get to know her but she takes forever to respond. Consistently, so it's not like a fluke thing. Anyway I'm trying to get to know her, but she doesn't seem to be doing the same. I k",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My girlfriend was raped and I have to see the guy that did it every day of the week. POST: So I met this girl a year and a half ago. She was perfect, we clicked instantly. I've never had a relationship before because I like to keep to myself. My girlfriend has had boyfriends and other relations before me, which hurts but it's something I've come to accept. One thing still hurts though. My girlfriend, young and naive, went into a friends-with-benefits relationship with a guy in her math ",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Did I do This Right? POST: Had an interview this afternoon (only my third in three years job hunting and first in a year), for a company that was doing open interviews for a new branch in my area. The interviewer asked me what my salary expectations were. I was a bit thrown by the question but said, ""Whatever the range is for the job,"" then added, ""If you're asking for a specific number, $10 per hour."" (The job listing on Indeed said all positions would be paid $9 per hour.) Now I'm wonderin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend (23) is dating my brother (23) but I've recently heard some disturbing news about their relationship. I don't know what to do! POST: Recently my best friend (F, 23) started dating my fraternal twin brother (M, 23). All is going well and I'm happy that they are both happy. However, my current boyfriend (M, 23, he's also my brothers best friend) told me recently that my brother isn't that into her, but just wants to sleep with her. He told me this in confidence and I'm suppos",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling my mom I would eat her out POST: OK, this still to this day makes me sick to think about. But I thought this forum is probably the place it belongs. This didn't happen today, it actually happened about 12 years ago. I was really into smoking weed. I smoked everyday for about 3 years. So me and my friends would constantly say ""Oh he smoked me out"", ""Will you smoke me out?"", etc.. So one day I'm high as a kite and I have a friend over and I'm trying to convince my mom to let h",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by accidentally opening a NSFW image in front of my mom POST: Was laying in bed on Reddit. Mom knocks. I say ""come in"" Mom comes in. Asks me to pick up my sister after school. We are talking for about thirty seconds. I'm still casually browsing reddit from the front page (I'm subscribed to a few... shall we say risqué subreddits). I see a NSFW link and click on it without thinking (no thumbnail as I am on the front page), as this is now my basic, primal instinct when using Reddit.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23m) had date and I think it went well but she (22f) didn't respond to the most recent text. Am I reading too much into it? POST: So I went on a date with this girl I met on Tinder. I personally thought it went really well and think she's great. I'm unsure of what she thought because she's very on reserve when it comes to showing her feelings about stuff, but I think she thought it went well to. No hand holding or kissing, but it was the first time we met. We texted yesterday and ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Redditors, Do you have any genius ideas for a plausible invention? POST: Hi reddit, I'm 19 and I currently go to Virginia Tech University in the U.S. Ever since I was little i would always come up with inventions in my mind that I didn't have the ability to make myself and would never share for no particular reason with people that could. One that I remember, that recently I found out had been invented was a machine that would tell people how many parking spaces were available and where ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my GF [29 F] constant fighting and money problems. POST: Me and my gf have discussed moving in for awhile. I have been pouring money into savings and working as much as I can to provide us with funding to do what we wish. This has resulted in a heavy strain on me, I work 8 hour days 6 days per week and sometimes I work well beyhond that. The shifts are all over the place, some days I start at 5am and some I start around noon and work until 10pm. My issue is this: my G",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] have fallen in love with my good friend [18 F] POST: I have fallen in love with my friend that helped me cope with the loss of my dog in November. I met her in July or August. I never noticed I had developed feelings for her until around New Years. She was there for me, so I feel the need to be there for her too. As a result, I help her whenever she has a bad day, and she really values my friendship. The problem is that she has a boyfriend [20 M], and she wants to marry him",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU because I couldn't tell the difference betweeen dreams and reality. POST: Have you ever woken up confused? I don't mean 'I got blackout drunk-what happened last night?' I mean when you wake up, but you think you're still dreaming and you don't realize you're awake. Well, last night I guess I was having a nightmare about being attacked by a small animal (about the size of a squirrell) when I was woken up by thunder and lightning (but I didn't realize it at the time). I scrambled around,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] make fun of everything because I'm a cynic and enjoy making others laugh at my own misfortunes, but how can I not have everyone think I'm a negative person? POST: I do standup comedy and I'm a natural cynic. Some people internalize things that bother them, some talk shit to their friends, some just deal with it and don't tell anyone. For me, I use things that bother me to make a joke about them and hopefully have people think I'm funny. It's how I've always done things. How",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 25F, 26M, 3 years: Boyfriend is getting his bar results tomorrow, how can I be supportive? POST: Hi everyone! My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years (the entire time he was in law school), living together for the majority. He's getting his bar results tomorrow and I want to help congratulate/console him if at all possible. Normally I would get him a small gift or something but a) I'm not sure a gift is appropriate in case he doesn't pass and b) I'm doing AmeriCorps right",positive " r/relationships TITLE: SO has had many partners, not sure how to feel. POST: My SO (22m) and I (18f) have been together for 5 months now. When we first hung out he told me about how he slept with countless girls but I thought he was just showing off. He told me later he remembered sleeping with 16 or so girls. Finally I asked about his past sex life in more details. I learned that he would get black out drunk and wake up in weird houses. At that point I stopped asking. I know he spent many years traveling ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help me help my friend get clean? POST: It has become evident that a lifelong friend of mine has developed an addiction to ""roxys"" or ""oxys"", a drug that I am not familiar with in the slightest, however I do understand the danger involved in addiction. He has spent the last 4 years in Uni, every time I saw him over holidays he looked worse than the last. In high school he was very social, athletic, and somewhat smart. Now all of those qualities have deteriorated. He thinks that nobod",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my GF [25 F] 2 years, she wants me to support her even though I think she's wrong. What should I do? POST: My GF has a friend that has been inviting us to her parties each time she has them. These are board game nights with ~4 people invited. My GF and I are both introverts and don't like going out much, especially to social events like parties. Twice we've told her friend that we're busy but yesterday there was another party. The day of, I expressed to my GF that ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Which Kindle is the best to buy? POST: There are so many, it's crazy! Kindle 4 Kindle Touch Kindle Keyboard Kindle Keyboard XL (Do not want). Kindle Fire (Do not want). So it comes down to the Kindle 4, Touch, Keyboard. I've heard negatives of all three but of course that will happen. I set stone on the kindle keyboard, but I really don't think the keyboard will be used all that much but then I look at the Kindle 4, looks nice and slick but it feels like a lack of button. As for th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it normal for for a girl with a boyfriend to spend hours cuddling another guy in your bed? POST: Throwaway account, I have friends on here. The girl is pretty social and pretty touchy with most guys, but it seems like she's taken an extra liking to me. She'd make obvious remarks about how we're always enjoying each other's good company and that I should have grabbed her number when she was single (mind you she's been dating someone for 4 years so its way in the past). I've essential",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my Girlfriend [27 F] of 4 years, have finally moved in together in her country, but i don't want to live here.. POST: Me and my Norwegian girlfriend have been having a long distance relationship for about 3 years. After studying abroad in Norway, and meeting her there, I fell in love. I visited her about 4 times a year, and I just finished college. I moved in with her in her home country of Norway, and I have been here for a few months. She spend her time studying for ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My employer hasn't paid me since I started working over two months ago. What can I do, Reddit? Please, you're my only hope. POST: Hey guys, I am extremely desperate and about to lose my shit hardcore here. So here's the situation. I am a licensed practical nurse (LPN) working for a home health agency in Miami, FL. as an independent contractor. Through this agency, I have two Medicare HMO patients I see twice daily, seven days a week to monitor their overall health (vital signs, medicatio",negative " r/travel TITLE: Any advice on India is appreciated! POST: Could you offer any general advice/tips about travelling India? 25/M/American (korean descent) General safety: Although I am not a woman, I can't help but worry about my safety, especially after the news came out about the American tourist. The media/friends/family doesn't help either. Street food: I love food. I love to try new food. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to change pants all the time. Bargaining: What is a good percentage to bargain w",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Reddit, I broke up with someone who was infatuated with me, he is devastated and I am worried POST: Here is the story: I have been dating this guy for a month and while I had a great time in his company, there was something missing. We were physical too, and every time after we had sex, I felt dirty. The only time I ever felt dirty after sex was after my first and last one night stand. This guy was very infatuated with me. He told me he would marry me, and he even said he loved",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Help dealing with disrespect POST: This will be a wall of text. When I was 19 I took over a management position at a photography studio in my hometown. I took the position from but was first trained by person N. Things go well for sometime but some of the people in the studio resent me for my age and the face that our attendees like me more. Person N is one of those people. N and the others that dislike me stop attending(which no one minds). The owner of this studio is Person R. R and N ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Very late on my car payments - what should I do? POST: Hi Reddit, Made this account just for this question. I bought a new Mazda 5 in 2012 - put $2000 down on a standard 5-year loan to pay it off. But I have been extremely delinquent in my payments - after paying for the first few months I basically stopped paying because I couldn't make ends meet. First the bank and then collection agencies started calling - after a year I had the money again and contacted the bank and got c",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Anyone hear of sleep eating? POST: So I live with a girl here in Ontario while i'm away for school. She has said she sleep eats, that is, she sleep walks and eats and has no recollection of it in the morning. The only thing she eats when does this is peanut butter, thing is thats the only time she eats it, she doesn't touch it during the day. I took it with a grain of salt until one day in our old apartment she apologized and I never knew what for until I saw an empty jar of peanut butt",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my ex-GF [21 F] 1 month, we can't be just friends POST: I went on a trip with my GF this past week to new orleans on our spring break. The first night I went kind of cray on bourbon street, I blacked out and did a bunch of things I really regret. She still wanted to stay the full time but I kind of knew things were over. I still really love her, and she texted me saying she still wants to hang out with me but just as friends. How do I tell her I still have feelings a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28/F] and my husband [29/M] with our church small group [20s and 30s/M&F]. We had agreed to not have kids come to the end of season party, but now everyone is bringing their kids. POST: Backstory: My husband and I are the only ones who do not have kids in our church small group. Kids are welcome every week and a babysitter is provided. At the end of each group the kids come down stairs and they run and scream and it makes me really uncomfortable. I can't hear the person I'm talki",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my (ex)girlfriend [26 F] 7 years, she said she would be willing to give it another go if I earned her trust back. POST: So I'm the bad guy here and I really screwed up 2 years ago and lost a perfect woman. 7 years ago I met a very cute girl she was from London and, was new to the area. We got to know each other more and eventually fell in love and had a little girl together. I screwed up after a long night of working I went to a bar and went home with another woman. ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Need some advice about asking out a girl in my class POST: I (23) am attracted to a girl in my college class. I don't have much opportunity to approach her, and as of now we have never spoken. I smile and make eye contact sometimes, and she smiled back a few times, but I don't maintain it or try to be flirty about it. I have yet to have an opportunity to speak with her, because everyone in class always sits in the same place and works in the same lab groups. I am not on campus ofte",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (29/m) found an opened condom wrapper under me and my wife's (26/f) bed that I am unaware of. POST: I recently came back from a 2 week business trip and just yesterday I found an opened condom wrapper (it was empty) under our bed while my wife was in the shower. I panicked and took it but didn't tell my wife about the it, I was nervous and now I am paranoid that she might be cheating on me. This felt really coincidental because I had recently came back from a business trip so fin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: One sided pleasure, okay or not? Overreacting? POST: I'm a 23 year old male that have been dating a girl (also 23) for 4 months, we have ""been official"" for three months. This girl was my first, she took my virginity. She lost her virginity at 16 and has had more than ten partners. I have no issues with that. For the first few weeks I was unable to orgasm due to nervousnes and unfamiliarity. This resolved itself. The last month or so she has been unable to reach orgasm, due to stres",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Dog aggression questions POST: Hi Reddit, My wife and I just (today) rescued a 10-month old lab/beagle mix who is showing unusual behavior we were hoping we could get some insight on. We previously had a lab who passed away about a month ago who had aggression issues with other dogs (kill or be killed mentality) and we fear somehow re-creating those habits with this dog. About the rescue: The humane society said they found her with a jug over her head (as though they caught her in the mi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting menthol in my ass POST: I'm a web app developer, so most of my time involves sitting in one spot and typing all day. I also occasionally like to go commando, which, combined with the whole sitting in one spot thing, can lead to a gnarly case of monkey butt. Enter Goldbond. For those who don't know, Goldbond is a body powder that chills the skin it's applied to. Gentlemen, if you haven't tried Goldbond, go and buy some. It feels like little elves blowing on your junk. I apply",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Middle Eastern college student [19 M] with absolutely no game due to religious parents stunting social skills, seeking advice and help POST: I'd consider myself an above average looking male yet when it comes to flirting or proceeding in the right direction with girls, I just cannot do it. I even managed to push away girls who would take it upon themselves to approach me and start flirting. Now I blame this on my upbringing due to the fact that my Muslim parents heavily imposed their",negative " r/college TITLE: Anything I can do about my college changing my schedule? POST: I scheduled my classes last month at orientation ""I'm an incoming freshmen"". I deliberately tried to have all my classes at the same time each day, so everyday I have a class at 11am, 2pm, and 5pm...but varying classes each day. It worked out well, I avoided all the professors with bad reviews on ratemyprofessor, and I had no 8AM classes because I knew I'd have trouble with that. Pretty much, I took advice from recommendations ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [25 M] trying to make peace with my ex [20 F] about the future of our daughter/arrangement. POST: Her and I have been in a mutually accepted 50/50 schedule (2 days on, 2 days off, alternating weekends) since August 1st. Due to her own circumstances, I've had our daughter in my care for ten days total since we began.   She's starting to act like I owe her time, now, when we never agreed to trading days, she just couldn't or wasn't showing up on her scheduled days. This is mostly",negative " r/Pets TITLE: My brother just threatened to kill my cat. Should I be worried? POST: Let me start off by explaining some of the backstory. I just recently went through a divorce about a year ago, and I'm still picking up the pieces. I moved back in with my parents, and my cats came with me. Although they don't have any severe behavioral problems, they're still somewhat young and very curious cats. (They're both indoor cats). They like to explore the house and walk into other bedrooms and such. My oldest one",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By trying to stop having a panic attack by going to a bar. POST: I was having a panic attack last night and was literally rocking back and forth alone in my room (dont ask me why I have theories but that is all they are). I had not gone out drinking in a a few days (something I do every 2-3 days) so I figured ""Hell! maybe I just need a beer!"". That was a horrific mistake. Ended up having 2 beers a shot of fireball and a rum and coke. At the same time my friend was getting off of he",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My dad is having problems with boss - possible defamation in the workplace (Michigan) POST: I am totally new to this subreddit so excuse me and also my grammar, I am tired. My dad told me today about a problem he is having at work and I just can't stand seeing him go on with his life at work with what happened. I was hoping to get a little advice since I have no idea what employee laws are in Michigan. My dad had jury duty for a trial last week which was scheduled for 3 days. He said",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the point of expressions? POST: This is basically the question asked by my high school students today. I asked the class if anyone knew where the expression ""turn a blind eye"" came from? Not only did nobody know where it came from, not one student had even *heard* of the expression. I was a little concerned and asked if they knew other common expressions like ""don't count your chickens before they hatch"" and ""the straw that broke the camel's back."" Again, nothing. When I explained",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15M] with my [14F], relationship only 7 weeks, 5 months later, it still haunts me.. POST: So my girlfriend and I broke up about 5 months ago. It wasn't that long or really that meaningful of a relationship. A lot of texting!! The breakup was over the phone, and it went fairly smoothly, ""lets just be friends."" So 5 months later, I still cant stop thinking about her. Granted I see her everyday at school, but we haven't talked since we broke up... I don't know why this is. I had ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Why would a man want to switch from FWB to boyfriend? POST: I'm just pretty confused. My friend of ten years, friend with benefits for nearly six, has just asked me to be his girlfriend. I'm 25, he's 26. He's a pretty loosey goosey guy, while I'm more monogamous, and it had been clear from the start that the arrangement was good for the both of us and precisely what we wanted. Yet for some reason he's decided he wants to be in a committed relationship with me now. I just don't k",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [23F] meeting my estranged Grandfather [late80s?] for the first time. Problem is, he abused all of his kids and it leaked into my life. POST: Apologies if my wording is confusing...I have a lot of thoughts rattling around at once. I'm due to attend a wedding cross country next weekend and my mother has requested (nay demanded) I meet my estranged grandfather who lives in that area. I never knew he existed until about a year ago when my mother (still in deep depression from a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 F] may have pissed off my boyfriend [19 M] of 2.5 years, but I don't know what to do POST: Be sure to explain in detail with line breaks. So on Skype tonight, my boyfriend mentioned his large porn collection. He knows that I don't really like the porn that he watches because he comments on how hot the girls are, and neglects any such comments to me. About three months back, I started to post on /r/gonewild during a rough patch in out relationship (throwaway b/c you don't need ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Update: I'm [19 F] planning to ask out my (classmate? friend? crush?) [18 M] but don't know how I'll react if he says no. POST: Original: I asked him out tonight. He does want to be friends and to hang out, but he's not looking for dating right now. Friend is something I'm happy with. Rejection sucks. He says he's not in a place to date right now, so I don't know what would happen if he *was* in a place for dating, but now it's up to him. For now, I'm assuming that even if ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I get my two cats to become friends/get along? POST: I have a 7 month old kitten which I got about 2 months ago who is the greatest cat I've ever owned (I had a few cats when I lived with the parents, but they always only had one at time). She's never shown any agression or tried to bite me, etc. Well today, my girlfriend and I decided to add another kitten to the family so that our cat can have a friend. Well, I got the kitten, which is a 7 week old male, and brought him home. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [18M] tell my ex girlfriend [18F] that I don't want to be friends? POST: My ex girlfriend broke up with me a little over a month ago, she no longer wanted a relationship and wanted to have the freedom to do whatever she wanted. We dated for about a year and it devasted me. During this last month, I finally started getting back to normal. I didn't think about her 24/7, didn't wander what she was doing and who she was with. Just in general things were better for me. When she",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Coworker called me out for being quiet/soft spoken POST: I started a job in food service a little while ago, and I'm still in training. I was working the drive thru then one of my coworkers gave me some advice on how to do things better. Everything was fine when he told me to sound more pleasant and speak a little louder, until he dropped a comment that I shouldn't be acting the way I am because I'm in my 20s. He was referring to the fact that I'm quiet and haven't tried to really befr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I,[18/F] tell my new boyfriend [23 M] that I was molested? POST: So when I was younger, I was molested. No one knows, and I've never spoken to anyone about it because it doesn't affect in any aspect of my life except my ""sexual"" one. (Which has never been a problem until now since I'm still a ""virgin"", technically.) I've entered into a ldr relationship with this really sweet guy, and I know that when we get to see each other he'll want to have sex, because it's been about 4 m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Dating my girlfriend for a while now, and I have an urge in the back of my mind to cheat on her... POST: I wanted to come here because I know that I don't want to cheat, but I have the urge to. I have been dating my girlfriend for a year now, and we have an awesome relationship. She's basically what every guy wants, the normal funny, sweet, caring, etc. We have not fought once over the year we have been dating. She is out of the state for another couple weeks (and has been for",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [M23] very happy with girlfriend [23F] of 16 months but concerned about long term relationship POST: My girlfriend and I get along very well and always make each other laugh. I've been comfortable before but never this comfortable. I even sing in front of her which, as silly as it sounds, is a pretty big deal for me. She is the most loyal and compassionate person I have ever met, and that is truly what I want from a wife in the future. However, she kinda comes off as ditzy, although ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my ex [19 F] of 13 months, went out to dinner tonight as friends. POST: So, my ex and I went out to dinner tonight as friends. We broke up because I think it was all getting a little bit too much for her, I was in a bad state (and still am but I'm seeking professional help) and during all this the spark had died. I think she needed some space on her own, we both did. It's been a few weeks since and we decided to go out to dinner. She told me there was a possibility of ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Girlfriend wants ""break"" for unknown reasons. Still love each other, need advice POST: My girlfriend [21] and I [19] have been dating for around 6 months now and everything has been going great. I am the happiest I have ever been when I am with her and I know that she is very happy when she is with me too. She went to another state to visit some family (where she still is right now) and while she was gone idk what exactly happened, but she says she wants to go on a ""break"". ""Breaks neve",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (22/F) don't see how this is fair (22/M) POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 14 months. During this time, I've abandoned all male friends besides random chitchat with one ex-best male friends and my girl friend's boyfriends. My boyfriend, likewise, has abandoned most of his girl friendships (who were also his crushes), but this was prior to he and I even considering dating. However, he still has these ladies added on Facebook. I'm wondering if it is me overreactin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Questions about maintaining multiple facebook accounts POST: I work in an A/V company, and everyone I work with has smart phones and most of them are facebook friends with each other. Since I go to different offices fairly often and attend pretty much all of our training sessions, I meet a lot of employees. They ask me to add them to facebook and I politely decline because I don't need my co-workers eyeballing pictures of me drunk and stupid. So I opened a Twitter account and made that ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [25F] tell my bf [24M] that I cheated on my ex [30M] w/ him when we first started dating? POST: My current boyfriend and I have been dating for 2 years. We are happy as can be and I am ridiculously in love with this man and definitely see myself marrying him in the future. We have an extremely open, honest relationship and tell each other everything. Almost everything, at least. When I was dating my last boyfriend several years ago, I met my current boyfriend and ended up ch",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my boyfriend [22 M] of one year. Is he being controlling? POST: Like the title says, I've been in a relationship with this guy for a year. We love each other and hope (a couple years down the line) to get married. We have pictured a life together for some time now, and our relationship is wonderful. However, recently there has been a bump in the road. I am coming into a substantial amount of money as a gift from a close friend [28 M]. Part of the money, he said, is t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] see potential with a girl [21 F], but she has kids. What are your thoughts on taking on someone else's kids? POST: I normally don't need to ask for advice, and in a sense I'm not asking for advice, but I do want to see what people think. I've recently started talking to a girl and we hit it off. I'm 19, she's 21, and she has kids. I realize that there are plenty of people out there with ""step parents"", and I have absolutely no issue with that. Yes, I'm young, and yes I coul",positive " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by having sex with my girlfriend after making her breakfast in bed. POST: So since I recently had shoulder surgery I've been unable to do many things for myself. My girlfriend has been nothing short of amazing in doing things to take care of me. Laundry, cooking, cleaning and things of that like. Destiny was recently released and since I can't do much else right now, I've dumped many, many hours into my gaming career. Last night I was running a raid when she returned home from work. I wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] am in a long distance relationship with my gf of 4 months [20F] and lost complete contact. POST: Recently, my girlfriend's brother was arrested and she is also being held accountable to some degree.Her parents started monitoring her activities on the internet, especially talking with people. She said that she wasn't legally able to tell me what was exactly going on. The night that we last talked, she slapped her stepmother across the face during an argument and had to spend t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Reddit: our upstairs neighbor plays piano and sings REALLY POORLY. POST: just about every day, we hear our upstairs neighbor play piano and sing. i actually think he recently started using a microphone when he practices singing, because sometimes it is way louder than others. he sings *terribly*. like, really, if i ran into him (i don't know what he looks like, but my boyfriend does), i'd be too embarrassed to even engage in polite conversation, having heard his terrible singing on ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[19M] had a lot of eye contact with a lady worker[24?] at school POST: It was a normal day at my community college and I went to the transfer center to ask questions on transferring. In the back of my head, I saw the a beautiful girl on the other side. While we were talking, she talked a little quieter and slower and laughed at things I said that weren't meant to be funny. I think we had something called ""eye sex""(I'm sorry if this is a vulgar thing to say, I don't know how else t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Any advice for navigating with ""shy"" 33M? POST: Texting for a week with 33M that I (29F) met online. He's opened up to me and told me he was really shy from the very beginning. He initiates conversation, we talk about a variety of things - both curious in each other and seem to have an understanding for a lot of each other's views, opinions, and decisions. We have the same career and really value that aspect about one another. We've spent a good deal of time talking about sex",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Had some friends over for a party and they broke my stuff. Not sure if I can say anything. POST: Last night I had a big birthday party for my boyfriend. We invited all of our friends and I spent a good deal of time planning. The entire thing cost me a few hundred dollars in food, top shelf alcohol, and decorations. Unfortunately I did not foresee figuring in the cost of expensive broken dishes. We had about twenty to thirty people over. Now I've had parties with this group before, ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (22/f) dated a boy (21/m) for short time and it didn't work out, but we decided to be friends. Now I can't tell if he's also a crappy friend. POST: I (22/f) met a boy (21/m), and we dated for a few months. We broke up because he wasn't sure how he felt and also our dating and communication styles were different. We decided to be friends (his suggestion), and I was fine with that because I like hanging out with him and he's generally a fun and interesting person. However, he's",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I, [23M] am active duty USN, about to go on leave for the first time in a year. Havent seen my wife [20F] of 2 years (4 Years together) in 7 months. POST: I am Active Duty Military, About to go on leave and haven't seen my wife in 7 months. WE have Facebooked, and Skyped and been in contact with each other, but about 4 months ago, She started messaging less and less. About 1.5 months ago, my Leave (Vacation) was approved and I told her I was coming home to see her. When I did t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20/M] with my girlfriend [20/F] went out for a month, she was in to me before we started dating, but quickly wanted to break up without explanation? POST: So I'm a 20 year old guy and I was going out for about a month (a short time, I know) with this girl, lets call her Sara. So I knew Sara for a couple months before I started going out with her, and during most of this time it was fairly obvious that she was into me. Finally, we went out to a club with some friends, got smashed,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (32f) am in the process of seperating from my (35m) husband.... I am leaving because he is an alcoholic who racked up 30k of debt behind my back, he has told his family I have cheated on him. POST: So some background, I'm 32F and I am married to a 35M alcoholic. For the past 6 months I have been honest and telling him I can't go on like we are. It got to the point where he was consuming anywhere from 15 to 30 standard drinks a night. Enough was enough. I had tried everything, beggi",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: [NSFW language][NAW] That was truly dusturbing to read... POST: Just stumbled upon a wifeswapping story. Maybe I'm completely oblivious to what a true relationship/marriage is, but I believe what seperates two people from being merely good friends and being in a relationship are strict static boundaries. How can you plan and *watch* another man ""passionately kiss and fuck"" your wife? If other dudes are plowing your wife and you ""feel the jealousy, but it's part of the thrill"", how can y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Need advice on how to handle coworkers! POST: So I(20f) started work at a casino/hotel as a housekeeper about a month ago and since I started I've had my manager come talk to me twice about me smelling like sweat because someone complained. I was very concerned at first and started using more deodorant during the day but again she came and talked me to and let me know that ""she would hate to let me go"" because of this. But I don't think that I'm actually the problem, like I said I've",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (20/f) best friend (20/f) will get super pissed if I date this guy (21/m) POST: My best friend and I have a very rocky relationship, that, to be honest, probably wouldn't last if we weren't roommates. She had sex with this guy, Mitch, and then she dropped him and she moved on to another guy. They only had sex twice, and that was last year. Ever since, she's tried to push us together, she'd tell me we'd be really cute together. I kind of agree with her, but I would always laugh it ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [25f] break up with my boyfriend [28m] and tell him he needs professional help in a positive way? POST: The dude in question and I have been together for almost four months. He's a really lovely guy in many ways but lately I have realized that for me, the attraction just is not there - that's one thing. I also feel that we are just not compatible, or maybe we are actually a little too similar? Whatever the case, I don't want to be with him romantically anymore and it's time ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19M] girlfriend [18F] have been dating for over 2 years and she admitted two weeks ago to cheating on me a week before that. POST: What happened was I was at a party, she was hanging with her friends somewhere else and they were bored so I invited them to the party. After a while my girlfriend and I head upstairs to do the deed but we were interrupted mid thrust by a couple drunk people. She didn't seem phased but I stopped right then and we just hung out until the party finishe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 26 not sure what to do to meet new people POST: So I'm a guy in my mid twenties and I'd like to date someone seriously-ish eventually. Right now, I'm pretty socially isolated, so I'm open to both meeting people platonically or romantically (preferably a bit of both). I've never really been good at meeting women romantically, they've always approached me (though that hasn't happened for the past few years now) and I don't know how to turn a stranger into a potential date very wel",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Male (18) and female (17) and an awkward love triangle POST: Hey reddit so me, this girl Claire , and Brian have all been good friends throughout highschool. I've been really into her but unfortunately she only has eyes for brian, to put a little backstory in Brian is an extremely cool kid. He's the guy everyone wants to be, he's smart, funny, cool, muscular, and has a great future lined up in front of him. Claire is the same she's hot, funny, cool, and has a bright future. Brian d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my FWB/ex [23 M] of a few weeks, previous relationship was approx. 4 years ago. He kissed me in public. What does this mean for our FWB relationship? POST: When I [20 F] was 17, I dated this guy [23 M] who was 20. We got along really well, but due to being at different places in our lives and feeling like neither of us had enough time to actually explore the relationship. Prior to dating, he and I had been friends for a year. --- After we broke up, we stayed in tou",negative " r/self TITLE: Dont know where else to put this, but I can't seem to get my toes back in the dating pool POST: Back when I was in school (middle school and some of high school) I had a very low image of myself and had no ability to talk to the fairer sex or even get a date. Eventually, though I was able to get out of my shell and became a serial dater, dating a new person every month or so. It got worse when I was in college, I became egotistical and would constantly be dating and flirting with every girl ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my [18 F] of 2 years ,I need suggestions on how to be less insecure in my relationship POST: Me and Girlfriend have been involved for 2 years now, and have been very involved and for the majority very happy spending our time together. In March however, with stress from university and confusion about what i truly could cope with i broke up with her. For me this was the biggest mistake i ever made, and she knows that and so do i. To cut a long story short, after 3 mont",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] boyfriend [21M] is insecure about the number of partners he thinks I've had, but I've actually had more. POST: Hi /r/Relationships, I need some insight please! I am in love with my boyfriend (Let's call him Brian), that I've been with for 6 months, who is wonderful, loving, intelligent, just all around great guy. Recently we've been talking about having sex, and he expressed his insecurities to me. He's a virgin, plus he's also never had a relationship before. I told him tha",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Not ready for grad school, don't have any alternatives POST: Because of some extremely fucked up circumstances, I had to quit a full-time job that I was working over the summer after graduating with a BA in liberal-arts-uselessness and move back in with my parents. I went back to school this fall because my long term plan was to go to grad school but I needed to make up some prerequisites before applying. I couldn't find a job so I felt like I didn't have a choice. I still haven't been able",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19F] roommate [20F] of 4 months thinks my soda is sexist. POST: I've been living with my roommate since summer. We live in a dorm which is one room. We generally get along well, few complaints so far. Unfortunately, there is one big issue. She always keeps a lot of soda and stuff in the fridge, and I put a few of my Coke Zeros in the fridge the other day that I got for Halloween. The only cans that are sold in the grocery store here are the ones that say ""Share a Coke with a/you",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [23M] somehow reconnected with an old high-school crush [22F] and now she's coming over tonight with a bottle of wine, how do I keep cool!? POST: So I've been on a dry spell as far as relationships go, on and off, for the last two years. Before that, I had dated a sincerely, emotionally disturbed individual for two+ years, who just devastated my self-confidence to the point of not existing. After we broke up, I was so completely out of the dating element that I really lost all ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: (Iowa) Court failed to find all previous convictions. POST: I am a 20 year old who recently got caught with marijuana and was charged with possesion of a controlled substance, as well as paraphernalia. This is a serious misdemeanor. My trial is still ongoing, but my public defender told me the state is offering a deferred judgment. She also told me that the court didn't find anything outstanding on my record. I then told her about a possession conviction I received about 4 months ago i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16M] has a crush on a girl [16F] but I can't tell if she likes me because she's possibly lesbian? POST: Hey /r/relationships ! This began at the beginning of the school year, where I found this attractive girl. I began to talk to her and find out a lot about her past and personality. After a while I began to develop a crush on her. After asking some of my friends about her, I found out she was lesbian. I was pretty disappointed, but the stubborn guy in me wouldn't give u",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: How quickly can I re-finance mortgage with different bank POST: RANT INCOMING - Ok so I have owned my home for 10 months now. Everything is fantastic with my home, I love it. But my mortgage is through Wells Fargo and I have come to absolutely despise them. For the first several months making payments online was easy enough. Then they changed their login policy to add security questions that ask about property I've lived at, cars I've owned, etc etc EVERY single time you log in.Wel",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My dad, his wife, and the will he doesn't have. (GA) POST: We're in Georgia, for the record. So my dad has heart problems and diabetes and a horrible wife with whom neither I or my brother are on good terms. She's emotionally abusive, but that's on him to resolve. My concern is if he has another heart attack and dies. He does not have a will in place, though my brother and I are the beneficiaries of his life insurance policies. (I am under the impression that means the money goes to u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (24f) him (29m) controlling already After 1 month. POST: I posted a few months ago about my crazy jealous ex bf. He was controlling and never let me go out without constant tabs on me. And I had broken up with him and moved on. I moved in fact to this new guy who I'd known as a friend from 3 years previous. Tonight I tell new bf I can't see him straight after work because I a work dinner. I did some work on a project that helped out a manager and she was so grateful she asked me",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Acquiring EU citizenship through ancestry, possible, to escape a horrible living situation and start my new life? POST: I am Italian. My family is Italian. I recently graduated from college. And now I want out. My family life is not that great. My friends have all moved on with their lives, I am young and I am free and I just need to get away and start shop somewhere new. I am wondering if individuals could apply for citizenship through ancestry for the European Union, one of the member",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[20 F] not sure how to break-up with my best friend/roommate[20 F]. POST: I met one of my very best friends three years ago in a college course. We quickly became inseparable. Shortly after, lets say six months or so, we decided to move in together and have been living together ever since and do currently. I have been irritated with the way she lives since the very beginning. She is very messy, she doesn't clean up after herself. Her room is full of clean/dirty laundry, she do",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [17f] uncle [56m] gets mad at me for nothing almost every day. POST: I have been living with my uncle for almost 6 months now because of a bad breakup with my ex and thereafter becoming homeless. He took me in even when I had no money to pay the rent with, no school, work or anything else. I do chores every day to help him since he is in really bad shape, almost can't stand up and uses a cane when he walks since his knee joints are almost gone (he's going to be operated next year)",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm causing my parents to get a divorce and my mother openly blames me. I'm 16 (male) and need help. POST: Throw-away Account **FOR REFERENCE**- I am not full of myself, these are qualities that test results have told my parents and such. I assure you I'm not trying to build myself up. I live in a completely functional household. My dad has his own business and makes more than enough money. My parents are extremely good people and I love them. I am athletic, I have a girlfriend, and am",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36 M] with my crush [37 F] for 7 months, crush mess how do I hint I like her? POST: Right so I've got a crush on a friend, we met via my best friend. We've hung out together and pretty much like the same things. For example we both like Doctor Who, Both a similar age, both like going to museums, cinemas, clubs on occasion and hanging out etc. A few times this person had taken me home and we had some what deepish talks during the journey. For example asked each other question",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is he(28M) trying to tell me(28F) something with a Latte? POST: Background: knew this guy, will call him Matt, in high school, we were friends but not super close. Matt was there for me during a break up and helped me out. He asked me to grad, but I turned him down. He was a little geeky and not really part of my crowd. Currently: now 10/11 years later, we've remain acquaintances, through social media. Matt now runs and operates a coffeehouse, outside my city. Me and some girlfri",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: College Student Seeking Advice POST: Here's the scene: -18M in college. -College is in a major city, tuition is expensive out the ass (65K/year). -Brother is in pre-med. He's on scholarships now but no telling what'll happen if he gets into med school. ---- I unwittingly screwed up this semester and am now behind by about 6 credits. It's not much but it's enough to postpone my graduation date a year (long story as to why.) I haven't gotten any scholarships (but am applying for",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [M21] sort of invited a girl [F20] to go play basketball sometime, I'm a bit unsure of what the best way to set it up without coming off too much like its a date.. POST: Okay so I met her over a year ago, just once, we chatted a little but not much and that was it, didn't see her again till about last week, when we got a little more time to know each other at a volunteer event... Anyways I added her on Facebook, couple days passed, she accepted and then commented on a status I had",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/16] Have A Crush On My Friend [F/16] And I Don't Know What To Do. POST: Recently I've developed a crush on one of my friends. I first met her a few months ago when she was introduced to me by one of my other friends, who she was dating at the time. It wasn't long before they broke up, and I continued to remain friends with her. Recently, around a few weeks ago, I realized that I had a huge crush on her. I'm mainly worried about how our friendship would be affected if I were to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My friend died, I [F, 20's] saw it, I feel like crap and now my other friend [M, 20's] won't talk to me. Is this relation worth my time? POST: To keep long story short, several days ago my friend died in car accident. I saw it all. Other friend in question was the first person I've called to after coming home and asked him to come and, well, support me a bit. He did, but left shortly after. After that he.. stopped talking to me, except for one time I've stumbled upon him - I was clea",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: MIL with early Alzheimer's financed a car at 55%. Any idea how to get her out of it? POST: I would appreciate any advice. My MIL purchased a car on 10/27/15. Sticker price plus tax and tags=$24, 855, and financing=$13,745. She has undiagnosed/undocumented early alzheimers. I do not think she was taken advantage of, necessarily. She is with it enough to seem mentally okay out in public. But now that we are helping her with her bills, we are discovering some strange and poor choices",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (F/24) have recently began dating a guy (M/27), but is it too soon? POST: Hi everyone. I recently met a great guy and we've been dating for just under a month. We get on well, have great chemistry and he seems like a decent guy. The only problem is, I recently learned he just broke up with his ex girlfriend 2 month ago, and they were together for 2 years before they split. And this has put a seed of doubt in my mind over whether I could just be a ""rebound"". I know everyone move",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (22F) can't get over a text my BF (23M) may have sent or received a year ago. POST: We have been dating for a year and a half and overall have an amazing relationship. It has been long distance for most of the time so that puts extra stress on things. Last fall I was texting myself a picture from his phone and because the iphone shows the last text sent or received I saw a text from a girl he had done a summer internship with that said something along the lines of ""I'm glad you're ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my girlfriend [26F] of 6 years, now has a new boyfriend, trying to figure out if I should be angry. POST: So my girlfriend and I had been dating for just over six years when circumstance got in the way. She had itchy feet and wanted to do a lot of travel in a hurry, I wanted to go but it was established that some recent health issues were blocking me from any major travel any time soon. We both decided that because we don't have kids or a house or anything we could just",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Advice on how to plan a few decent events in a short time span. POST: Hey reddit! Thanks for reading. I am currently struggling to plan some upcoming events. I have a wedding coming up 10-11-12 (yes we're silly.) Our plan is to just get married at the court with parents there with us to share the moment. I'm okay with not shoveling money into a ceremony, but we would like to have a celebration with family and friends on the following Sunday. This where i get stuck. I am not skilled at a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 F] feel like I'm desperately chasing my boyfriend [22 M] of 6 months POST: I'm almost always the first person to message, text, and/or call. I always want sex and he is sometimes not in the mood for it. He once told me he was like Ryan Gosling and I was like Tina Fey. Doesn't listen or care about my day, never has anything to say about his. Talks to me 90% less than about 3 months ago. I feel like I'm falling out of love with him because I feel unloved and under appreciated. It",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Im [21/M] Melting into an emotional puddle after Breaking up with my ex[21/F], how did you cope with a breakup? POST: I broke up with my Gf of two years roughly 6 months ago due to me feeling like things were too serious for such a young age (20). I was fine for probably 4-5 months but recently I can't stop thinking about the woman. I have tried everything to push out these depressing thoughts, exercise, eating better, going out, xanax, but nothing is working. Just a couple of ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: How much time do you spend with your SO? POST: I've lived with my boyfriend for 2 years now and this morning he said something which has unsettled me (Me - F27, Him M31). He told me that he thinks the amount of time we spend together is 'unnatural' and that he'd 'struggle to find another couple who spend the amount of time we do together'. So my question is - is the below unnatural?! MIDWEEK: I work out before work so I leave the house before 6am and get back until 6:30pm at the ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I want to bang my friend's ex. POST: This girl used to 'like' me but I couldn't act on it because she used to be with one of my best friends, and he was still in love with her so I left it, not wanting to ruin our friendship. The other day in a lesson, she was sitting to the side of me and leaning over to see the writing on the board, and so I stared down her top. I seen nipple and she seen me staring at her, made eye contact and didn't say anything. Then later on in the day, we're ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to have ""subreddit folders""? POST: There are so many subreddits now on so many different subjects that it seems like this would make sense. The idea is that you can put your subreddit subscriptions in categories or ""folders"" for easier top story browsing. Rather than having one big front page with the top stories from your subscriptions and then having to browse each subreddit individually to see the other top stories that wouldn't fit on ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] and her [17F], need your opinion reddit and details inside POST: So I met this girl, let's call her Claire, over my winter break in college. I started talking to her and thought she was awesome. As we talked I found out she is a 17 year old junior in high school. I want to know if us dating eventually would be creepy. Here are the details 1) She is technically supposed to be a senior and I am young enough to still be in high school. 2) She turns 18 in September and I turn",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Issues with another guy... POST: So my girlfriend (15) and I (16) have been dating for about a little under a month now. Her ex-boyfriend took the relationship too far when they were dating and cheated on her, then broke up with her, then asked if they could be fwb's (not actually having sex, just have a relationship where all they do is hang out and kiss pretty much). Well she said yes, and I tried to warn her where this was going and she didn't believe me, well, not so surprisingly",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my GF [24 F] of 8 years, she wants to date other people POST: I'm at lost of what to do and I truly, truly need advice or just to vent. My GF and I have been dating for 8 years, ever since High School. She was my first, but she's dated other guys before me. We even went to the same university together. We both loved each other very much, or at least I loved her very much and still do. I've been struggling with depression and anxiety for a past few months, and my GF wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my ex-girlfriend [24 F], not knowing how to respond when feelings are hurt. POST: I started dating a girl from one of the big online apps about a month ago. We went on a few dates and since everything seemed to be going well, I decided to introduce her to my friends at a booze cruise (traveling around the city harbor in a yacht) birthday for a friend. When we arrived I realized that there were a lot more people than I was expecting, most of whom were acquaintances. I i",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Physical boundaries in a 6 month relationship POST: I'm [16/M], my girlfriend [17/F] and I could not be more close than we are now. We've been dating for over six months now and she persistently says she will not go further (physically) than we already have. Her last boyfriend of 18 months had received handjobs and got the chance to finger her. It deeply hurts me to hear that she won't let me please her like her ex-boyfriend did, even though I ""am the best boyfriend she's ev",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my BF [22 M] 6month duration, getting over the jealous feeling when BF picks friends over me POST: Me and my BF haven't been together for very long but i know my own pitfall is that i really want to be with him 24/7 you know. And i actually ruined a relationship before with that so i am very very aware not to be like that ever again. Thats why i am so super confused if this is behaviour i shouldn't mind or if i should adress this? this is basicly the main question Now ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (22M) having trouble moving on since my breakup with my ex (22F) POST: So to summarize a very long story; I dated a girl for 3 years, lived with her for two as we finished college. Post-graduation things degraded and we ended up breaking up. She kept the apartment, I kept the dogs. Fast forward 3 months and I still think about her everyday, not as much as before though (hooray some sort of progress). Sometimes she'll post pictures on facebook and it's clear she's made new fri",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need to get out of the living situation I'm currently in. Reddit, I want to move somewhere on the West Coast (nothing below San Luis Obispo). Any suggestions? More details inside. POST: I'm currently a graduate student doing a social work program that allows me to finish my degree anywhere in the US. I have to wait until the second semester (end of December) to move, however. Right now I'm living with my parents and younger brothers in the same town as my older brother and his family",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: My Motivational Goal - the time is now. POST: I told myself that I would spend last summer bettering myself; instead, I spent it ""partying."" And what do I have to show for it? Absolutely nothing. Well, I'm a freshman in college now, and starting next Friday we have a month off of school; I will have zero coursework, and most of my friends will be far away. Therefore, I **am** going to improve myself. I want to make an open PROMISE to myself and to you fellow wolves that I will do this",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24M) have lost sexual interest in my gf (27f) even though it's a perfect relationship otherwise. POST: Me and my gf have a FANTASTIC relationship, we see eye to eye on so many things and I can't imagine being with anyone but her. Being with her is pretty much everything I've ever dreamed of in a relationship. But since we have been together she has let herself go to such an extent I am losing sexual interest. In her defense she had a severe spinal cord injury and it is difficult f",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to do sexy times on prom night NSFW POST: First time posting here, but thought this was well deserved. So my prom was last night, and I went with this guy who I've been seeing for a while. I did my hair, got a kick ass dress, heels, basically the whole nine yards. We go to the dance, have a great time, and then decide we want to go have a little sexy time fun. By a lake. At like midnight. His idea. So we're sitting there, all horny and stupid, and he starts just....going to to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [17/m] ask a friend (who likes someone else) [17/f] out? Or at the very least tell her my feelings? POST: I have been close friends with this girl for about a year now, we talk everyday but I can guarantee that I am not in the friend zone because she talks to her other best friends about her crush (not in our circle of friends) but if I check our chat we literally have 0 mentions of the guy. We have talked about deep stuff every now and then. I have thought of asking her ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Did I fall in love too soon? POST: Okay, well. I'm wrapping up my freshman year in college. Just about 19 years old. At the beginning of the year, I met a guy who I absolutely fell head over heels for, and he did for me as well. We became so close, very quickly, felt like we'd known each other for years and years. We have had a wonderful relationship. He is just ending his sophomore year and will be twenty soon. During his freshman year, he had quite the ""experience"". He went clubbing, ba",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Is it safe to take Trazodone with Aleve? POST: **Very simple question**: I have had serious sleep troubles the past week, I found an old bottle of trazodone in my drawer. I quit this med back in August but the pill bottle says it doesn't expire until July. Today, on top of sleep deprivation I have also been having flu like symptoms and a very bad headache, so I took some Aleve at 6PM tonight. I was wondering if it would be safe to take half a Trazodone tablet (50mg) after taking the Aleve ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, will I ever be able to return to the US? POST: A little backstory, last winter I went to New York for the first time (I live in south america) with 2 friends. One day we decided to go to The Cloisters. Once there, we realized we just pretty much wasted a day to see some tapestry's which 2 of us didn't care about, and this is here we turn stupid. For some stupid reason I decided that shoplifting a calendar from the gift shop would be a good way to spice things up. We left the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (29m) pushed my wife (33f) to change jobs. It's so bad she's starting antidepressants and I feel guilty. POST: I don't know if I want advice or to just get this off my chest, but I feel so terrible about it. To be brief, my wife is a teacher. She was having issues at her old school with mold in her room and bad administration making things insufferable. An opportunity to move to another school in the district opened up, which I encouraged her to take saying it can't be any worse. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Meeting my biological father for the first time since early childhood. What the heck do I do? POST: Firstly, some background info: I (18yo female) am the result of my fathers marital affair with my mother. She decided to keep me, he obviously didn't like the idea, but didn't completely abandon me, providing my mother with financial help when needed until she got together with my stepfather when I was eight. His family never found out about me. Mum didn't really speak to him, unti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I make my BF stop saying a word that I hate! POST: Gawd I feel ridiculous even posting this, but here it goes. Me [30 F], Him [37 M] I have been going out with this supersweet guy for about 2 months. He is fantastic and I am very happy in the relationship so far. However, there is one thing which annoys me to no end. That is when he uses the word ""snotty"", as in full of mucus. For example a while ago I was sick and he commented that I sounded quite snotty, and then he was",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just got screwed by my water company (Carlsbad, CA). What can I do? POST: So an hour ago, I found out that the City of Carlsbad decided to turn off my water. I (had sent my bill out around a week ago) called them to complain. I was greeted by a less than pleasant person to discuss my current situation. I paid over the phone the entire required balance to get my water turned back on, and was discussing what recourse I have to contest my water being turned off. After 10 minutes of d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Need breakup advice really bad!!Help! POST: Okay sorry but this is probably going to be quiet long. The story goes that me (M21) and my ex (F21) have been going out for three years since high school, and we never really had any really bad points in our relationship. Fast forward to 5 months ago and out of nowhere she just tells me that we should have a break, and every time i would ask her opinion on people taking ""breaks"" she said she did not believe in that, which meant that it was",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by inadvertently jizzing on my flatmate's face POST: I feel bad. So for some context, I work in a resort as a dive instructor, and share rooms with a colleague. There aren't really any walls, so when you feel the need to release the dragon and the room mate is home, the shower is the best option. It's a rare occurance for me, but some of my divers that day were hot girls in bikinis. So naturally, I had to crank the shank. Later that evening, the shower blocked. Maybe my man sauce was t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (21m) with my girlfriend (20f). I feel i'm not good enough for her, and that she deserves better. Need advice. POST: Background: We're together for a year and a half next weekend, and for the last few month it feels i'm not good enough for her, not because of her, but because of me. She is amazing, mature, smart, sexy, beautiful girl. I give her everything I can, but because I don't have high income (We both serve in the IDF, at the same base, and we get home each day. She lives a",negative " r/running TITLE: Throwing up repeatedly after long runs POST: Hey fellow runners. I'm currently training for the Chicago Marathon-my first marathon-and for the most part my training has been going great. However, I've started to develop a really nasty trend I'm hoping I can get some advice on. For the past three weekends, I've really struggled on my long runs. I've done up to 15 miles with no trouble, but three weeks ago, after a 13 miler, I came home and got sick, repeatedly for about two hours. I cha",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My mom's friend just sent $8,000 dollars via Western Union to a scammer in Cambodia. Is there anything she can do? POST: My mom's friend has been going on about this guy she met online who apparently is an engineer working out of Cambodia. After a couple months of talking, he said he was stuck in Cambodia and needed money to come visit her. So, what does she do? SHE WIRES HIM $8,000 DOLLARS AND SENDS HIM HER BANK ACCOUNT AND ROUTING NUMBER. We tried telling her it was a scam from the get",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (16M) How to get over a past abusive relationship? POST: Hello reddit. About a year ago I began a relationship with a girl (16M) who was about a year older than me. She was extremely confident, assertive, and intelligent, and seemed perfect. I was looking past the fact that she was a well known drug user and very promiscuous (I'm also very into the drug scene, so her drug use didn't concern me.) Anyway, it turns out that she was only using me for pills. I got upset and dumped her. ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [16/m] am uncomfortable with my girlfriend's (16/f)party side of life POST: So it comes out. After repeatedly denying it, I'm saying it. I know that she wouldn't do anything with other guys but, it's the girls that worry me. She understands my point of view when I described it at cheating. I'm fairly trusting with all of that but, there are other things. If I ever text her or call her when she's at a party, she seems so distant and rejecting. It only ever happens at parties a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever met someone who confessed to a crime they did not commit? POST: Back in college in the dorms, this weird ass girl with emotional issues used to come by and drink/party with us. She was pretty enough, just really crazy. She was the type who couldn't stop talking, never took a hint, and had real emotional issues that she was very open about. One day my roomate is fucking around with a fire extinguisher while we are up late drunk at 4am on a Tuesday Night. He opened up my do",positive " r/travel TITLE: Need help deciding where to travel on the week of September 7th POST: I am taking a week of holiday on the week of September 7th and I am currently having trouble deciding where to go. My ideal budget would be under $2,000 (including flight) from Texas and the max travel time to my destination (including layovers) would be 16 hours. I really like historical landmarks, but I also like high-adventure type things (ziplining, white water rafting, ect.). One of the big things I am also hoping",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Reddit, what were some of your most most profoundly lonely experiences. POST: And i do mean profoundly lonley experiences, I'm not just talking about the moments in between company. I grew up in a highly isolated place, it took the bus over an hour to get to school in the mornings. There was no particular reason my parents lived there other than they liked it. We had only one television station and no internet, there were no other kids my age ( or any age). I remember during the s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Alright Redditors, I've got two, count 'em, TWO tech questions for ya. One involves pokemon. haha POST: Question One: Hhhokay, so, I have a major project I was just assigned, and it kinda sounds like it would have a simple solution to it. I work for a company that utilizes direct mail as part of their marketing campaign. Unfortunately, they're pretty dumb and manual about it. I'm hoping to create a system that automates the whole process. Here are some details: Our clientele includes nur",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Career Advice: Corporation malarkey POST: I currently work for a company as an LMS technical trainer. In the middle of August, I met with one of the associate vice presidents in charge of our company's e-learning division who told me that the company would be acquiring a new LMS (different than the one I train in) and gauged my interest about a possible position change. I was receptive and starting researching the product. I continued to email back and forth and meet periodically with t",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How can I [23/m] dial back my feelings while she (20/f) spends a year abroad, and wants to just be friends? POST: It's still a very new relationship (about 2 months). Things went fast because we knew she was leaving. Since she left we talked constantly at first and were headed toward a long distance relationship. At some point she realized she doesn't want to do that and deal with the time commitment, expectations, and constant longing to be somewhere she isn't. The feelings be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my Best Friend [19F] has ditched me for her boyfriend [24M] POST: So I've been best friends with my housemate for about 9 months. We've been really close as we've both moved away to this new city and not really known that many people. We spent loads of time together, had a real laugh and would tell each other everything! She was really important for my support network in this new place. However, she got a boyfriend about in March. Since then, everything has changed. S",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Capital One 360 Fraud or Scam? POST: So I figured to come to you guys for help, maybe somebody knows more than me or Google with helping me out. So over the past week I've gotten two letters from Capital One about a supposed ""360"" checking account that I've opened. I chalked this off as being a scammer trying to get me to call and get my information and ignored the letter. I figured it was a scam because the zip code was wrong and my address wasn't filled in all the way. Also the e",negative " r/running TITLE: I need to run for wrestling, but I hate running. Also, I'd like to join the cross country team next year. POST: So I don't hate the concept of running, I actually find it quite enjoyable, but the actual act of running brings me physical and emotional pain (the emotional pain being me asking myself what the fuck am I doing running in this hot weather, and the physical being me watching my calves die a fiery death). I have pretty good stamina and can finish a run no problem, but I am slow. I",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Sunglasses switched/stolen by company [Florida] POST: **SOLVED** Thanks again to Sir_topem_hat. I was hoping I could get some insight on what to do with a current situation I'm in. I went to a prescription eyeglasses store and had them put in prescription lenses on my Costa Del Mar sunglasses. They made me aware that it would take a little while as they have to send them off to another company to add the lenses. That was fine with me. Today I went to get them and immediately noti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Unique breakup situation. Is it possible to get her back? ex [F19] [M19] POST: Yesterday my girlfriend broke up with me. Now, to start off, we're both freshmen in college, so obviously we both have a lot going on in our lives. We both transferred halfway through the previous semester, both for different reasons, but we both came home on the same weekend. We both knew each other at our previous college, but then we started talking once we realized we were both home for good and eventu",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I got dared to ask a hot girl at my school out, she unexpectedly said yes. I've never been in a relationship before, what do I do? POST: Back in the day when I was still a Muslim I was taught to stay away from having a girlfriend, drinking, smoking, just 'Haram' things in general, since I came out to my parents they were at first angry but then OK with my atheism. A few of my friends dared me to ask out one of the hottest girls at my school and she unexpectedly said yes. I need reddit's",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How to cope without GF [19 F] of 6 months when she's in Asia for 3 months? POST: First time poster here. My GF [19 F] of half a year is backpacking in Asia for 3 months, and we won't be able to see each other in this time. We have a very intimate and good relationship, but she's afraid I'm [20 M] going to find some other girl while she's away. I think she's just a little insecure about herself, because I would never find another girl while she's away. How should I handle her little i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Need some advice. Didn't exactly catch him cheating but not that far off POST: Both mid twenties, six month relationship still [f]airly new. So We don't get to see other to terribly much. Maybe once a week. Usually everything is great. We don't argue too much, have the same interests and usually communicate like champs. This weekend we were suppose to go out drinking in his hometown with his friends (which I haven't met) and spend the following day together. This is a rare occurance",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] in search of a roommate [20-25 probably F] in a big city. What do I ask/look for in terms of finding a roommate I'll get along with? POST: I hope this is the correct place to post. I see so many posts on here about people having roommate issues and while of course, not all issues can be avoided, I want to start on as good a foot as I can. Friends who have done similar things have told me that if i post on the university's facebook page or something that I'll surely get a lot",positive " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by letting (potential) new gf grind on me (nsfw) POST: This tifu actually occurred late xmas eve and i didnt discover the consequences until yesterday morning. I've been single in a new town for a few months now and didn't really start dating til now. Enter this girl who we'll call leia. We hit it off pretty well whenever we spoke, and long story short she wound up spending the night at my place, and i did the same the following night. Here's where the fu comes in: she didn't want to go ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24/F] ex-boyfriend/hook-up [23/M] promised that he would help pay for birth control. Am I in the wrong? POST: Background: we've known each other for five years. He took my virginity when I was twenty and we had an off and on friendship/flirtationship for four years. When I moved to my current city we started dating and were together for four months. We broke up but continued sleeping together regularly until recently, when it's tapered off to once every two or so weeks. I got",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by chasing a girl while screaming ""HELGA"" POST: I swear these days girls be wearing the same hair like where do y'all shop for your weaves smh. Anyways, lets begin. So I was at school when I saw this girl rush passed me and down the stairs. I thought it was my friend who I call ""Helga"" for jokes n giggles. I could have swore it was her from the back of the head ugh. (No she is not Russian, no she does not have a uni-brow, no she does not wear pigtails, no she does not eat rusty nails ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I slept with my colleague's best friend. Need some advice when I go back to work tomorrow. POST: Hi all, It was my birthday on Saturday and I went out with my work friends for a few drinks. Long story short, I slept with a colleague's best friend (we'll call her Jane). I was drunk but knew what I was doing; Jane was not drunk. Jane does not work for the same organisation as us, she is almost 15 years older than me, separated from her husband and has two children. I am 21 years old",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I don't know why some of my guy friends long distance try to talk cute/relationshipy to me, I'm never doing a long distance again. POST: I've invested in two long distance relationships only for them to fail and I put my all into both of them. So when a guy tries to ""holler"" at me from afar it's like why even? I had a pen pal friend who I met on a community forum and he became extremely aggressive toward me for no reason at all. I never plan to travel to his neck of the words for job",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Help on choosing between two cars!!! Old vs newer POST: I have the option right now to go after a 2006 grand prix with 127k miles that's 4500, or go after 2013 Dodge dart with 27k miles and is still under the 100k warranty and has a brand new stock turbo and a piece that was fixed in the transmission that was giving it issues. The car was taken in under lemon law for a defective turbo. They replaced it with a brand new one and did something to the transmission and put a brand new b",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Michigan] Best Buy demanding I return a purchased item or face legal repercussion POST: A buddy of a friend I know works for Best Buy. One day, my friend messaged me and asked if I wanted to pick up a new TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my SO [27/M] 8months. I am disgusted by the porn he watches. POST: **Let me preface this by saying I couldn't give two shits less that he watches porn.** I watch porn. Most people watch porn. No damage done there. But seeing as we both have each other's computer passcodes and such I have seen his search history. It's all ""jailbait pussy"", ""teen gets fucked by teacher"" or some other shit like that. These females look like malnourished little girls to me. It could be beca",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I get a kitten? POST: So I'm a real cat lover, was raised with them and always have been, and would really love to have one of my own. I'm also a graduate student and work all the time. I haven't had a cat since I moved out of my parents place before college, and I'm not sure if I will have the time to devote to the thing. My life: When I'm around town i tend to work ~12 hours a day, ~6 days a week. I have to travel here and there a few times a term. I have a roomate (who isn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf thinks I'm a robot, does not compute :/ POST: I'm a 24 y.o. male. Been in my relationship for 9 months. We have a long distance relationship and we get to see each other every 2/3 weeks, about a month ago my gf broke up with me and we were both so upset that we somehow got back together again in the same day. She says I'm way too logical and not creative (despite making things for her and being pretty creative with presents etc) and even said that she thinks I've got asperger",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I avoid threesome awkwardness? POST: Met a girl this year, became best friends. Both attracted to each other, spend all our time together, made out in a bar once. This weekend, somewhat drunk after a party, had full-on threesome with my boyfriend (yes, it was extremely hot). None of us are excessively experienced sexually, haven't done anything remotely like this before, but we're open people who like sex. The next night, we made out again at her place, but her dog got upset and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (22M) Girlfriend (20M) is studying overseas and I feel ignored. POST: My girlfriend is studying in another country and has been inundated with new friends and new experiences. These new experiences and things she has to accustom to have obviously put our relationship on the back pedal. Now, I feel like I'm putting more effort into creating genuine connections through either FB messenger or Skype because I really do miss her. Like I will send her little memos throughout the day of ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A question about night terrors. POST: Hi Friends. My lady friend sees things in the room at night. Really messed up shit. About twice a week she'll wake up around 3am and start calling my name in a panic because there's ""something"" somewhere nearby and it's freaking her out. Sometimes she'll become fully awake and it'll still be there, sometimes it'll fade as she comes out of it. Usually I'm able to put her back to sleep in a few minutes, but there have been more than a few times in whic",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the worst thing a friends parent or older acquaintance did to you as a kid? POST: I remember back in 1990 or so, I was 7 and the Fred Savage movie ""The Wizard"" had just come out. A friend and his dad went with me to a showing (my dad had something come up) and like any Nintendo obsessed nerdling, I was awash with excitement after the movie. For those who don't know, the movie climaxes with a final time battle for a huge game competition with a *new game*. The new game in fact w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my [21 F] 9 months, on the verge of a breakup. Communication Breakdown. POST: Hello fellow redditors, I don't usually post on reddit but I feel like I have nowhere to to turn at this point and I need help but don't know where to start. Bare with me as I was never a great writer. First of all, I'd like to give you a bit of background of myself. I've never been a super outgoing kid growing up. I've kept myself to a tight and trustworthy group of friends. I grew up my a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm a 22-year-old IT professional who was just laid off. I'm also a rapper, comedian, and writer. I've had enough of IT and want to pursue the latter now. How should I go about this? POST: So, as the title says, I was an IT consultant for a large company and was making big bucks. It required lots of travel, time, and generally wore me down... sure the money was nice, but at the expense of all my other dreams, passions, and hobbies bring put to the side I do not want to seek anoth",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Has anyone gotten cortisone shots in their back? POST: So, I've had back problems for about 10 years or so. It started off mild and got worse until I finally couldn't walk, had to leave school and get tons of tests done. After MRIs and X-Rays they told me i had 3 herniated disks, spinal stenosis, sciatica, mild scoliosis, and degenerative disk disease. I'm only 24 now, was about 18 when i got the diagnosis. Some problems were because of genetic defects, some were due to my weight. I was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Clueless, lonely, and confused but wanting a girlfriend[M20] POST: I am really bad with relationships/dating. During high school, I somehow managed to a girlfriend. We were together for about a year and a half, but we broke up when we went to separate colleges (additionally, we really didn't have anything in common.) It's about a year later, and I'd love to find a new girlfriend, but I don't know what to do. I know that I am supposed to join clubs/social events, go to parties, ect.",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/f] My boyfriend [16/m] is hardly ever in the mood POST: I'm seventeen and my boyfriend of about four months is sixteen. We are only a couple of months apart. He is not my first boyfriend, and I didn't lose my virginity to him. However, I'm really falling for him and he's admitted to feeling the same about me. Anyway, our sex-life was, initially, very romantic and spontaneous. It felt like we were 'making love' rather than just having sex. He would hold me and tell me how be",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My older brother is a former drug-dealer, has 2 children and girlfriend to attend to. He just graduated college and is still pursuing higher education and climbing the ranks of his new job. Reddit, who pushes you indirectly to strive in life? POST: Around the time of his high school years, he started selling weed, which wasn't that terrible, but still not good. He was never the one to actually use drugs, he only sold them (I know, it sounded a bit ironic to me.) But after a while, he esc",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, why is it okay to be bigoted toward all of Islam? After reading hundreds of comments tonight, I am ashamed to be a part of you. POST: Seriously, since when is it okay to start grouping all of Islam into one cluster, yet they can't do it to us? 9/11 seems to have brought out the worst in everyone, especially American Redditors. I have seen absolutely the most ridiculously hypocritical comments tonight on [these] [three] [threads]( Comments about how U.S. Marines should have ope",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: The perfect three weeks thrown away. POST: Okay, let's start with the beginning of my ninth grade year, I was a 15 year old, and I met this 18 year old girl... Let's call her Emily... After knowing Emily for a month I found out that she was the perfect girl for me. She was smart, funny, great personality, never had a negative attitude, and was fairly attractive. (the last one doesn't matter in the least to me though) I became Emily's best friend and literally followed her around ever",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my SO [24F] 3.5yrs, In need of some advice POST: Hi Reddit. I am a 23yr old Male, who has been in a very successful relationship with my SO for 3.5 years. Last night she told me that she doesn't think that I Am ""The One"" and that she doesn't think that she wants to have a family with me. In the past her and I have talked about this ind of thing and have agreed and both wanted these things. And she told me about a week ago she had a moment where she realized this is th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear AskReddit, I found this dead squirrel in my yard, and I'm not sure what killed it [NSFW/L/My eyes] POST: My mother actually found it, I'm just home for summer, and she needed help removing it from the dog's pen. It was laying on one of the 8 foot tall posts. We immediately found it odd because: 1. No blood anywhere, 2. Its head is basically caved in, then pulled outward down to almost its chest. 3. It was laying perfectly on the post. I'm not really sure if an animal actually kill",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (21F) and have feelings for a friend (25M) but its a complicated situation. Need advice. POST: I have a friend we'll call him Nathan. Nathan is in the military and far from home, Nathan is also married to a high school friend of mine we'll call her Alexis. However they got married while Alexis was still in highschool, after she graduated and started college they had financial issues so Nathan joined the military and he was sent to basic then sent to a base. Alexis had cheated on Na",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Insecurity about girlfriend's past relationships. What the hell can I do? POST: I'll try to keep this brief. The bare background is that I've been with my girlfriend for about a year now, I'm 21 (male) and she's 22, and it's been going pretty well thus far. She's my first girlfriend, but she's had a few other relationships before me. I know that this is to be expected, and that there's nothing I can do about it, but knowing it tends to make me feel weird and insecure. I don't fully ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I(29F) am in love with my FWB(28m) we have been 'seeing each other' for about a year.The best piece of advice I've been given is to get pregnant.help me!!! POST: Backstory: we met on a dating site. legit dating for a month or so, once we started having sex, it became only sex. recently,he has stated that he likes his independence and isn't really looking for a girlfriend. we meet up at least once a week. typically he picks me up, takes me to his house,we talk, have drink, make ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] need help setting boundaries with my [49M, 46F] parents. POST: I'm a college student that currently lives at home. My original plan was to move out and get an apartment with some friends due to lack of privacy, but my parents talked me out of that and insisted if I stayed things would improve. They have, for the most part. They understand I'm an adult, can make my own choices, and treat me as such. The problem is I have no ""alone time"" in the house. Being a nursing student, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (22F) and a foot fetished stalker (old?m) keeps bothering me POST: Okay so I am currently on a quick visit to my uni town until me and my boyfriend move back here in early September. We got a lot of new furniture coming when we move up so when I got here I put up some furniture up for grabs on a local Facebook group for anyone who would like to pick them up for free and take them. A man came over to see a shelf and a TV-stand but declined them because they were too big, he left an",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: A great friend or something more? POST: I'm male, 23, she's 21. This has been going on in my mind for a while now, I'm not sure if she is just a really good friend or if she is, or is becoming, something more to me. I feel happier when she's around, I'm happy to just be with her even if we're not doing anything particularly interesting. She's one of the few, and by few I mean only, people I miss when they're not around for a few days. She just left the house to be away until Sunda",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do you deal with former fwb (still friends) not being into you sexually or any thing beyond friends. POST: Im (m27) shes (f23). Used to be fwb, still friends. But she doesn't want to have sex with me, actively looks for men to flirt with when we hang out at clubs or bars. Claims to not be jealous if I was to hit on or date one of her friends. Tells me about the two guys shes into and is banging. I think I may have made a big mistake. I live with this girl thinking I could do ju",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Child drama] Our 40sF friend has invited my 5 y/o daughter to party but not my 6y/o...6y/o is HEARTBROKEN. POST: Hi y'all! This is a little bit different situation than the standard cheating/lying/murdering stories here. Me (29M) and my wife (32F) are good friends with Mary (40sF) and her husband. We are all involved in the same church groups and our children all play together. They have 4 kids as do we. Their 4 y/o girl Lily is having her 5th birthday. Mary spoke with my wife ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by giving my friend a high five. POST: As everything in this thread, this didn't happen today. A month or so ago, two of my friends and I were sitting with each other at lunch. I was speaking to one of them, let's call her H, while the other one who we'll call B was busy eating and watching something on her phone. Now while i was talking with H I could see B in my peripherals, so out of the corner of my eye I saw her raise her hand up to what I *thought* was going to be either A. a hig",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is my [22M] ex [18F] sending mixed messages, or am I just confused? POST: We'd only been dating a few months and broke up two weeks ago because she went away to school and didn't want to deal with the distance. On Friday night, she texted me ""Oh my god I'm fucking in love with you."" and ""I just want to hear that you love me."" We didn't really talk again until Sunday evening when she said, pretty much out of the blue, that she'd had sex with someone on Saturday night. I understand th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [27 M] meeting my ex-girlfriend [25F] for lunch. I want her back. How should I play it to give myself a chance? with my ___ [00 M/F] duration, short-description POST: I had been dating this girl for over a year. She seriously was the best thing that ever happened to me. However, we had a few problems towards the end. Basically, I was moved for work to London briefly, and this brief period went into a few months. During this time, I was supposed to go and visit her, and her family",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need help picking engineering discipline :( POST: Yo reddit what to do :S? I'm currently in my first year of university doing a bachelor of engineering. The first year course at my uni is a common first year across all types of engineering, I need to pick by the end of this semester what field I want to go into. I've been set on doing Mechatronics and robotics and was happily going to pick this, I've always been interested in almost every type of engineering so this course seems like a g",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 28/f trying desperately to overcome anxiety, dependency issues, and slight depression. POST: I'm in a relationship and absolutely head over heels for this man. We have been seeing each other over a year and at this point it's safe to say if he asked me to marry him, I'd say yes in a heartbeat. The problem is, I am currently suffering from some very real separation anxiety and just general anxiety and depression. When we are not together, I feel like the walls are closing in o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure what to do anymore, me [24f] with bf [24m], together 2 years POST: Ok. So I will try to keep this neat and not so all over the place. My bf and I have been together two years and the first year went rather well. The problem is I struggle with a lot of personal problems. I have severe depression and anxiety, to the point where I often struggle to get out of bed. I have a dependent personality, get extremely jealous, and am constantly insecure. If he even talks to another girl",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting road head POST: Old story but it came up today. About a year ago the ex and I decided to drive to the nearest casino. With it being a 3 hour drive, we where in the car for a while. She decides to make it interesting and says she wants to blow me. Typical male that I am, I quickly agree. A little while later the deed was done and we arrive at the casino. It is about 8PM so it is pretty dark. As I walk in I notice everyone starring at my crotch. As I look down I see my pants c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a [22m] with a [19gf] who's best friend is another male who she's hooked up with in the past, should i be worried? POST: I'm 22 and my gf is 19. We've been together for 3 months now. My girlfriend used to have a best friend who is a guy that she has previously hooked up with at the start of this year. They may have even had a previous relationship together very early this year (but she denies this) as i've seen many photos of them kissing each other and seen lots of gifts he's gi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18f] get violent feelings towards girls who talk to my bf [17m] POST: This is probably going to make me sound like a psycho but I get violent feelings towards other girls who talk to or hang out with ny boyfriend. I've acted on it once, Because of a girl who kept texting him and she acknowledged that he had a gf but she still wanted to pursue him and I confronted her, she got defensive, and I hit her. I get these really angry emotions building up whenever I hear about or see ano",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(F19) and my bf(M20) have differing views on what's appropriate. POST: We've been together a year and three months. So a little background info, we met in college and the first few months were great no issues we enjoyed each other's company, all cats and unicorns. Fastforward to last October, he drops a bombshell on me telling me that he had sex with another girl from his work back in Jan, the guilt was getting to him and he finally told me. Well like an idiot I forgave him since",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Friend's daughter has one of the worst teachers I've ever heard of, but school staff won't take action. Any ideas? POST: Said friend originally made this post on Facebook that caught my attention: ""According to my daughter's teacher, 'weather' is actually spelled 'wether', and 'trying' is actually spelled 'trieing'. Apparently, this rule also applies for any word that ends in ""y"" and you need to add -ing to it. Lieing, crieing, dieing.... Now I finally get why people want to homeschool",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I love my new job except for this one rude coworker POST: I'm not in school although I am 21 and living in a college town. There's nothing I'm so interested in that I could spend tens of thousands of dollars on. I work a minimum wage retail job and I fucking love it. I love being a cashier, I meet so many people, I get to have hundreds of conversations a day with people from all walks of life. I typically work through the early afternoon into the evening, the portion of day that most p",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by texting my buddy's GF POST: Ok. So my buddy live in let's just say London. I live in France. We went to university together in London and been buds since. He's currently taking Master's degree and well as he seems to have several problems with his GF, I thought why not go and surprise him as he was not expecting me go to London (which I will in the next day after tomorrow). I text his GF (live in France too) and say that I'll be going to London to meet her BF. Let's just say his GF i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (Late 20sM) with my friend (Late 20sF). I have to distance myself but need advice on how to do it. POST: For the last year I've gotten close with my friend from high school and her sisters (early-mid 20s). They helped when one of my parents passed away, as they've been through the same thing. Full Disclosure: For several reasons they're the only people I hang out with (another issue entirely). Her sisters usually have 1-5 friends over when I'm there, whether that counts/matters o",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by brushing my teeth [NSFW] POST: Of course this didn't happen today. This happened in the new years eve before 2011, I was 13 at the time. My parents had some friends staying over that live in Argentina, a family of three: The dad, and two daughters who didn't speak english very well at all aged 8 and 6. It was about 1AM as I was staying up online and I was about to start going to sleep, so I go to brush my teeth. I don't normally sleep with pyjamas on and I was certain that everyon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my boyfriend [19M] 3 months, are we wasting our time? POST: I met my boyfriend at university through a mutual friend. We became friends quickly and confessed to liking each other. We talk on skype every night and fall asleep with skype still on, he was my first kiss etc etc. He's really sweet and very caring/considerate, the problem is that he's moving really quickly. We've talked a lot about saying 'I love you' and he really wants to say it but I've asked him to hold o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I Over-reacting? POST: My (37F) ex husband (44M) and I share 50/50 custody of our two sons 8 & 10. The boys went to their dad's place on Sunday evening as usual. On Monday while dropping off some shoes at the school for my older son I discovered my younger son had lice. Gross but now totally horrible. This happened once before so I took my son home and spent an hour combing a lice treatment through his hair, shampooing, drying and combing some more. I called my ex-husband to ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling an elderly woman that I was going to throw her in a tank full of electric eels. POST: So this happened over the weekend. It is my best friends birthday so he decided that we should take a trip to Chicago. I told him we *must* go to Shedds Aquarium, because I've been there once before & theroughlly enjoyed it. A little back story, me & my friend are constantly joking around & always trying to one up each other. We have fun everywhere we go. So we were walking around looking at",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (20F) need to quit my job before I go insane but I'm not sure how POST: I'm a 20 year old junior at a major university who just started an 8am-10am student job M-F at the university child development center. I'm in band, secretary of my sorority, taking 18 credits, so I'm writing this off of 4 hours of sleep and please forgive me if I don't make much sense. Over the summer, I worked full time in Ireland as an unpaid intern at a preschool for children from disadvantaged background",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I want to help my brother, how do I make money at age 12? POST: Technically he is my half brother, but his dad left him at a very young age, at which point when my mom (his too) and my dad got together he adopted my brother. They had a huge fight a couple years back and haven't talked since. I am about to get the new 3DS from my dad and have been talking about it non-stop. My mom later pointed out to me that it was uncool, (i didnt notice, i was just really excited) because he didn't ge",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/m] Not sure what to do with her [21/f] POST: My girlfriend late last night asked to use my computer to do something for school, and of course I agreed. Unfortunately, earlier I'd been googling ""signs your girlfriend is cheating on you"" for reasons I'll elaborate on later. I went to bed, and she saw this after I fell asleep. I woke up to a horribly heart broken, depressed girlfriend. I tried to console her, let her know I love her and that I didn't think she was cheating, on",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I personally give money to someone who needs it without it being awkward? POST: I'm an average guy making an average living (teacher) but I have some savings that I can spare and recently I've been considering to donate some money to a family I've become friends with during the past two years. To give you some background: The husband and wife, parents of two young children, are relatively old and they sell fried chicken in a tiny booth by the side of the road 7 days a week for a ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm 16. I recently started going out with a 20 year old. Her mom found out, need some help. POST: Long story short, we had sex at her apartment. She just moved into said apartment so her mom went there after I left and found a condom/wrapper. She then got yelled at by her mom (who knew that I was 16) because of the age difference. The result being that her mom made a few offers; us never talk again / never see each other again, her move to California, or basically never leave her apartme",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] just found out that my ex [24 M] is in a serious relationship after breaking up with me because he didn't want one. now what? POST: My ex and I broke up 2 years ago because he was about to go to medical school and didn't want to be in a relationship. he felt he wouldn't have time for a relationship and it would be a long-distance since he was moving out of state so we broke up (after dating 4 years). We decided to stay friends because we didn't have issues against each othe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (32M) wife's (29F) ex (31M) is going to be in a wedding that my wife is going to be in. Bachelor party for the groom is approaching and myself and her ex are going. Need advice please. POST: So I'll try and keep this relatively short and concise. When my wife and her ex BF were together they had a couple they hung out with a lot. The male in this couple was best friends with my wife's ex. My wife and her ex split, my wife and I got together. In the beginning of our relations",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Since Everyone Else is Having NSVs, Thought I'd Share Mine POST: My husband and I went out for dinner and a movie to celebrate our anniversary yesterday. I had feared I would overeat at dinner, because I have a history of bingeing when I feel I've overeaten (the whole, ""Well I ate Junkfood X, the whole day's shot now, might as well eat everything in sight"" mindset). But it didn't happen! I ate about half my supper (restaurant portions have always been too big for me), then after a little w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (F25) have a huge crush on friend (M27). But he's sworn off love after being cheated on two years ago. POST: Throwaway account! A few months ago, I (F25) met a guy (M27) through mutual friends. He hangs out in our group all the time now. He's really handsome, smart, funny, and sweet. He's a *really* great catch. However, he's completely sworn off love. I mean completely. This means no sex, flirting, relationships, etc. Our friend told me that his ex girlfriend of two year",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By mentioning that my parents beat me POST: So as with the majority of these posts, this didn't happen today, if you want the specific date, then it was the day Harry potter: chamber of secrets was released. I was in elementary school, my mom that morning had given me a surprise and told me that she would pick me up early from school and take me to see the new harry potter movie, I was beyond excited. however I had a meeting with a guidance councillor during recess or something, where",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Reasons for not messaging back after a great (imo) night? POST: Hi all, I am in pieces over this. On new years I went to an event with my sister, it was basically just a club and I had some drinks. This beautiful half irish/half indian woman pulls me aside and starts chatting to me. She invites me to dance, and I do so, terribly. I was then pretty much joined at the hip with her for the rest of the night. My friend came over, he distracted her friend, and I grabbed her and kis",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [21 m] thinking about ending things with my weird friend [21 f] with benefits POST: My friend and I hooked up about a week before she left to study abroad. She just got out of a bad relationship (about a year ago), and we both agreed long distance sucks and that a relationship would be shitty. But, we started to talk everyday for the entire semester and realized we get along great. We rarely if ever argue about important issues (religion, politics, family values, etc). It got to",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: anyone know how i would go about finding a postal address for Richard Branson or his PA or something? its for a good cause! POST: So this little boy in my class comes from a reeeeeally bad, violent depressing background. He's a really nice boy but due to where he comes from, his mum's economic situation and the anger issues he is starting to show he is unlikely to be successful in life. His big ambition is to be a pilot, so the children were writing letters to their heroes this week and ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Can My Friend Be Implicated In A Crime Simply Because Law Enforcement Knows He Knows Information Used in the Crime? POST: Ok so my friend was recently laid off from his job at a frozen yogurt place. He's really pissed off because he says he was the hardest worker there and he worked past midnight for them like 4 days a week. Anyways, he knows the code to unlock the store and the registers inside. He is planning on using the code to get in and take all the money in the registers. He is ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can someone give me an idea of what a BA program in Computer Science entails? I'm thinking of changing majors. POST: Hey everyone. College student here. Going into my junior year this fall. Live in SF. I'm currently a Photojournalism major. My story: I've been having serious fears/regrets/thoughts about sticking it out as a Photojournalism major. Firstly, while I love journalism and photography, I'm realizing more and more daily that the job market for those two things (either separate",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[22] and my GF[21] of 1 year decided to go on a break, can a couple survive one? POST: Me [22] and my GF[21] of a year decided to go on a break for a while to see if we could work as a couple. GF said she got worried about how close we were getting as a couple after saying that I loved her. She has said that she has had problems with long term relationships in the past and usually has commitment anxiety when she finds herself in a relationship that lasts longer than a month. This",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] and Girlfriend [19F] just ended a 3 year relationship. do you think she'll eventually miss me and come back? POST: to keep this as short as possible. we dated for 3 years, and lived together for 1. our lease is almost up and money issues started to cause problems. we have ""broken up"" (more like just separated for a few days) about 3 or 4 times, each time it turns into a pretty vulgar screaming match, and then one of us goes and stays with a freind for a few days, then we f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my ex(dated 2 years)[22 F], haven't spoken in 6 months, ended on good terms. I'd really like to be friends. Is asking her to meet for coffee a good idea? POST: Hey guys, let's talk about the background here. I dated a wonderful girl for a couple of years, but we eventually realized that we weren't going to make it in the long run and ended things peacefully. We had both become incredibly busy with our educations and respective young professional lives, and considerin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] really do not know what to do about my GF [18 F] of about 2 months and the [19 F] best friend I've been in love with for over 2 years. POST: I'll try to make it short but its a long story and I need help. I've been in love with my best friend Jen for over two years. Crazy in love like she is absolutely perfect to me. I told her how I felt about 2 years ago and she wasn't about a relationship at all. After not talking to her for a while we are now best friends again and h",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Does he want to date or just hook up? POST: I'm a female (21), and the person in question is male (22). Relevant data: We go to school together; he's a senior, I'm a junior, we work together on campus. We've known each other for about a year and a half, and he started expressing interest in being more than friends around New Year's. Since around February, we'e been hooking up on a fairly consistent basis, went out to dinner a couple times, and spend a lot of extra time at work toge",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17F] have resolved to move out of my family's house and life due to my religious beliefs (or lack thereof). How do I succeed? POST: As the title says, I'm an 17 year old girl. I live in Ontario, Canada with my family [12-45 M and F]. They are Muslim. I am not, but they don't know. I have been atheist since I was 15 years old, and I've been hiding it all this time. Because of my family's conservative views, I have reason to believe that I'll be disowned if they find out. I've sto",negative " r/self TITLE: Put on anti-depressants yesterday and very confused POST: So yesterday I went to the doctor with some health questions (having issues with ED). After meeting her we talked about everything in my life and she decided it would be best to put me on some anti-depressants. I have thought I needed depressants before but I really wasn't expecting it. And then I went and talked with the girl I have been seeing and that turned out to be a terrible idea. I kinda was freaking out when I went over to tal",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: [19M] Trying to end a good relationship with [22F] POST: I met this girl at a club and we've known each other for 2 months now, From the start I knew we had no mutual interests and were not suited for each other, I knew our relationship was purely physical attraction. I told her this from the start but we continued to see each other. We are both very intimate and when we're together our behaviour mimics those that have been in a relationship for years. Though we have nothing in common t",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: I made a dumb, but I think it can be fixed - question about implications of selling stock in my IRA. POST: Ok, I fucked up a bit last may. Firstly, I was daft and forgot to treat my IRA like a retirement account, not a recreational investment account. Secondly, I bought into hype/hoopla about a stock, which was dumb. I realize this. Last May, I bought 15 shares of Fannie Mae stock at $2.30 a share. Anytime I'd look at my balance (more often than I should for a retirement accou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [27 M] can't get over ""her number"" [26 F] dating exclusively for 2 months POST: I can't help but think about this, after finding out a few weeks ago. It seems my girlfriend has had a pretty past 2 years, she found Tinder a while before she met me and had several hookups (assured me no one-night stands) but with guys she thought she'd date so that seems fair. She also has only had 1 semi-long relationship (about a year) and has had a couple Friends with Benefits situations in the re",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I think my boyfriend might propose tomorrow. POST: As the title states, I think my boyfriend (28m) might propose to me (29f) tomorrow. We've been together for about a year and a half but we were good friends for a couple years before we got together. I love him tremendously. He's a wonderful man. We talk all the time about our future. We talk about our wedding, our marriage, our future children...he calls me his fiancee-to-be. So a proposal is inevitable. But it could actually be to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (32m) girlfriend (28f) runs an... interesting business, and the family who've met her have a big issue with it. POST: Jessica and I have been together for 3 years now, and we're headed towards marriage. We have no issues in our own relationship, truly. I have no issue with her work, in fact I find it interesting and unique. The issue is with my family, and with ""public appearances"" and one of my family members in local politican office. Jessica helps run one of those shops tha",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I recently reminisced of all the times that I could have died because of accidents when I was a little kid. What accidents occurred to you that could have killed you? I'll start. POST: I'll basically go through a list of the accidents that I suffered, in chronological order. First, at age two, I was playing right outside my apartment. My apartment was located on the second floor (it was only a two-floor apartment building with six units) and I was around the start of the stairs at the t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [20F] of 10 months and I [20M] had a conversation about relationship issues and what we can do to fix them, and we couldn't find a solution besides moving in together early POST: So I posted here about an issue I was having regarding promise rings blah blah, and now I've come to a new question and a difficult answer. My girlfriend and I have been dating for 10 months and so far, I thought it was fairly decent considering the circumstances surrounding our relationship.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 M] with my partner [36 F] of 4 years, can't have kids of our own and thinking about leaving POST: My partner has three daughters from a previous relationship, but before we met, she had surgery so as not to have any more. I wasn't even thinking about having kids when we met, but I guess living with her family I saw how much fun they can be. Eventually we started talking about the possibility of having a child together. We've tried IVF twice, with no success. Neither of us wan",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] with my crush [22F] who I need to ask out soon. POST: I met this girl in class last semester and only spoke to her a few times. Whenever I approached her after class she seemed happy to talk with me and I couldn't tell if she was just being nice or giving me signs of interest. The semester ended and I didn't ask her out because I didn't think she was feeling me. Just the other day I found out she has a class before me in the same room. As I was walking in, she was walking ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Always just end up getting to casual hookups but nothing more POST: So yeah, I've been seeing quite a few girls over the past year, perhaps 4 in all. Every time I start seeing them and it progresses into something more than just ""dating"" (i.e we start hooking up etc) they flake out on me. I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong, for example, one of the girls said we were moving too fast (slept with each other in a week) and then this most recent girl I met off OkCupid said we weren'",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How do I [F/26] approach a guy [M/28] without seeming to needy? POST: My best friend lives about 300 miles away from me & I typically try to see her once a month. When I was down there in July I went to a family function of hers and I met her cousin. We started talking and got along real well. He added me on FB & I gave him my phone number. The whole weekend he was the one who initiated the texting and I ended up going over to his house & hooking up. He texted me as I left and then t",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why do people have the mentality that highschool sucks and college is great? Is there a social/psychological explanation for this? POST: I'm a freshman in college. I was browsing r/highschool, and a lot of the comments there share the same theme. Things like how all the assholes you meet in highschool (and invariably, the opinion is that they are always everywhere in highschool) will be gone once you enter college. Someone commented in r/highschool, ""all the assholes you meet in highscho",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: You know you're nerdy when you not only understand the dialogue of Big Bang Theory that is supposed to be incomprehensible but annoyed at the error. What errors did you find in the dialogue of Big Bang Theory? POST: I was flipping channels and watched a bit of an episode of Big Bang Theory and to within a few minutes I was already annoyed by an error in what was meant to be a complex line of dialogue. My specific example was a misapplication of a logical term (having a philosophy degree ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Partner (27f) has no trust in me (32m) POST: Throw away for reasons, I've been with my partner (we will call her Gnurf) for one year on then one year off then on again. The first year was great but she had issues with the way my female friends would talk to me to the point it split us up despite me trying to fix the issue (having stern talks with my friends/unfriending them both online and in person) . We took time away from each other until we decided to try with a clean slate. I d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 F] with my crush [30 M] 3mos, won't stop contacting me POST: I started talking to someone I met online in June. We didn't actually meet in person until August because we live in different states. We'd been talking about six nights per week for at least two hours, either by text, email, or phone. We were never officially in a relationship but each had feelings for each other up until about three weeks ago when we agreed we were better off as friends. I've always had stronger fe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24M] with my acquaintance [21F], don't know why we made plans... POST: So I had asked a girl [22] who I'm interested in to hangout this weekend, but she is busy (gave a valid reason, but I initially thought she wasn't interested back). Me, being single for 3 months and just wanting to spend some time with a girl tonight, texted this girl [21] I met about a year ago. We hooked up (everything except for sex), and she gave me her number and told me to phone her. I never did because",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Brookstone Frog-o-Sphere: a color leaching death trap? POST: Ok, so I work at a large chain pet store where we sell a ton of animals, but also lots of live freshwater fish. This customer came in a few days ago and I helped her get a live plant and some water conditioner so she could do a water change on her [Brookstone Frog-o-sphere]( Anyway, we chat for a bit, then she buys her stuff and leaves. Then yesterday she comes back with a very sad look on her face. She said she did her parti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19/M] Have no idea what to do... POST: To help you understand a little more I'll go back a little bit... In my first real relationship I was with her for like 8 months...things were great mostly throughout but for some reason the relationship ended up dying and she didn't seem to care about it any-more, so it ended quite badly..After 2 years of emotional repair (I really feel hard for this girl) I'm where I basically am now. A month ago I started dating someone who I met on-line ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 F] am in love with my best friend [20F] and she will never love me back. POST: We have been friends since we were 8 and best friends since we were around 12. We do everything together, sleep at each other's house at least four nights a week, went to Europe and South America together. We haven't spent more that two nights apart in the last 12 months which may seem really excessive but she helps me and I help her. We are really close and I love have someone I can always count on.",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Need Help Making a Move (My First 2nd Date) & Being Unnecessarily Doubtful POST: Last month, I (22M) met a shy Asian girl (25F) at a dinner party and managed to hit it off with her, getting her # by the end of the night. We had our 1st date last week and I think it went well. I complimented her, did some light kino (shoulder touch) just to build some more attraction. Despite doing this, I'm still quite inexperienced. These past few days, I feel mixed (like it's too good to be true) ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Are these feelings just normal when you like someone a lot? POST: It took me a long time to overcome a lot of some social anxiety issues, so I need to know if this is normal behavior, or if I'm extra sensitive or something. I have only dated one other guy, and we knew each other beforehand so unlike this time, there was no ""dating""/getting to know each other process. I have been talking to a guy since around Sept of last year. We're in our 20s. We have hung out almost on a weekly ba",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my Ex[24F] confused, unsure of life POST: Hey Relationships, hoping someone here could give me some general advice but specific advice would be great too. Recently me and my first love, longest girlfriend (2 years), and former best friend have been in contact and seeing each other more frequently. We broke up a few years ago due to distance as we were attending different universities. I have unfortunately redeveloped feelings for her. I have made these feelings k",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Asking for a raise: How do I make my best case? POST: I work for the state government as an analyst. I really enjoy my job, and the large majority of the people I get to work with, and I'd like to stay with the organization, if they can meet my salary requirements. In recent months, I've been put in a situation where I'm overseeing programs in two different departments, with two different supervisors. This can be stressful, as both have a habit of demanding 100% of my time and att",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU, by not knowing how to drive a manual POST: Today was another class where I am being trained as a Diesel mechanic and the first time we would be working on an 18 wheeler. The added bonus was the manual transmission and the fact that this rig was sitting for a very long time. After replacing the battery we tried to start the engine but failed. At first someone didn't know how to shift into neutral and kept letting go of the Start Engine button too soon. I decided to give it a go and man",negative " r/jobs TITLE: First year college student with virtually nothing to put on a resume. Suggestions? POST: I'm a first year student going after my CS degree, but I need a job over the summer. The thing is I don't live in a big city. I have basically two towns close enough for work, and nether have more than 15k people. I'm pretty much limited to retail work (Grocery store type work) which is what I'm in right now, but they don't give me enough hours (15 - 20/w). I've scoured every job listing site I can find a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [23 M] Unsure where to go from here. POST: So my romantic relationship with my ex ended around 14 months ago and we stayed friends ever since. We both still have feelings for each other to this day and it made our friendship a bit odd to say the least. She gave up on us because having a long distant relationship was putting too much strain on her emotionally for 2 years and we had 3 moments where she broke up with me for a day or so between that. We stayed friends because of our larg",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [m26] don't know how to progress the relationship with my guy [m29] POST: First, a little backstory: I have been dating this guy for a couple months, and I'm ready to make the jump into a more serious relationship. He isn't quite ready, because he went through a bad breakup shortly after we met (before you ask, it had nothing to do with me). At first I thought I would just be a rebound, but it's definitely more than that now. He was originally going to move back home at the beginin",positive " r/Advice TITLE: As a guy, how should I respectfully signal I am not interested in a girl AND cut off the seemingly developing friendship? POST: So I'm working in new city for the summer and I met a girl who goes to my college. I made it clear that I was looking for friends, and so she asked to hang out one afternoon. I figured she could be a new pal; nothing else occurred to me. So we walked around and got lunch. Then I realized she was interested in something more and I did not even want to be friends wit",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: NEED ADVICE. Cleaning service van rams our car and gets away with not paying damages in court. Now they're threatening to sue US for ramming THEIR van. POST: So a cleaning service van and our car were stopped side-by-side in a single-lane intersection, with him sitting directly left of us. We both turned right at the same time, trapping our car between his van and the curb, and our vehicles collided, resulting in deep scratches on his car and a trashed bumper on our car. We got the poli",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: F(21) need advice on how to deal with/explain to partners my need to go very, very slow POST: I just got out of a 3 year long relationship with a female partner. Prior to my relationship with her, I had only had one sexual experience with a guy (I'm bisexual, but more interested in men) and it was not a good one. Basically, he pushed me into it, I wasn't ready, he didn't stop when asked, and we didn't speak after. Because of this, I'm reluctant to be involved with men sexually withou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my [17 F] of three years. I have the nagging feeling she's cheating. POST: Maybe I'm just paranoid but I can't help but think there's something going on. We've been together a long time, and she's amazing, I love her to death, but over the last year or so, we started getting into sex and that sort of thing. At first it was clumsy and awkward, as it is for everyone's first times, but then, after awhile, she started getting good, noticeably good, and she would do things",positive " r/college TITLE: Parents estranged. How to get FAFSA grants? POST: Basically: I am estranged from my parents. Haven't spoken to them in a year or so. I am wondering how to get FAFSA grants. Last year, I applied to FAFSA and a dependent and only got loans even though I haven't spoken to them for maybe a month. My parents pay for absolutely nothing, I haven't seen them in a while now. Don't even know what they are doing. Everything I have, I pay for. They probably took me off their insurance, too. Don't kn",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/m] Need Relationship/Life Advice on Moving On [19/f] POST: As read above I'm a 19 year old male and I am struggling with moving on from this amazing girl. Some background information, I've known her for two years almost now. We worked together back when we were 17 years old. If you look at this [post] you can get a lot more information about how we meet and got to this point. Rather then spacing myself from Molly after telling her how I felt, we got even closer. We both got",positive " r/Advice TITLE: [F] College Student who doesn't know what to do with her life POST: I'm currently studying neuroscience and theatre, planning on becoming a neurosurgeon but recently, it seems that I have lost interest in the medical field. I've been planning to become a doctor since the 5th grade and my family is really excited about it. It'd be the first high-earner/science major in the family. I feel like I'd let them down if I quit, but I don't think that going to med school and residency is for me; fin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my SO [26 M] of 5 months, he says we're dating, but we're not boyfriends POST: I've been dating jack for about 5 months now. We met at a bar, and about a month in, when it became clear we were getting serious, I asked if we were dating. He responded with an ""i don't want to complicate things with titles but i like you very much and care for you"" answer. He then had to travel for work for ten days, and was texting me non stop. When he returned, he told me he missed me s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[18F] want to take the relationship further with him [20M] POST: I met this guy at the beginning of the summer, and we started off as friends. We met on Facebook through mutual friends, and we hung out in person once with a group of other people, and it went really well. The next time I saw him, we were alone, and we ended up hooking up. This was last week. We've hooked up a total of 4 times in the past week. And by hooking up, I mean that we've had everything except actual sexual ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: M23 F20 Dated2Months Should I date this girl again? POST: Im the male and we dated for 2 months exclusively. We are both religious and going into the relationship I anticipated we would both be practicing abstinence. about a month into the relationship she started suggesting that she would like to have sex and I refused. My family does not like her and that bothers her a lot. Her family loves me though. She had mentioned several times early in the relationship that I had a lot of the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [18 M] Boyfriend broke up with me [18 F] after a year and wants nothing to do with me. I have something of his that means a lot to me and am unsure of what to do with it... POST: I [18F] need advice. When I was going out with my ex [18M] of a year and friend for 4 years previously, he gave me his longboard deck to paint, which I did, and I put my all into it to give it back as a present to someone who I loved. However, he has since broken up with me and I am still unknowing of the re",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting a 2 year old steal from my shop. POST: This happened about a year ago. A little background: I used to work at a school equipment store. every summer we have a big stall in the middle of the mall so people can look at items from the shop and buy. One day I was working at the stall. It was a fairly quiet day so I wasn't really prepared for anything, when a little girl starts walking slowly near the backpacks. She slowly looks at the backpacks and since its a little girl I jus",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My 22m gf 24f chats with her ex frequently. POST: I just recently moved in with my SO but I've always had this underlying issue about her texting and snapchatting her ex boyfriend. Some backstory on their relationship: they went to high school together and he moved to Portland. She ended up going and moving in with him out there. Their relationship ended because he happens to be a heroin addict, but she's still friends with and talks to him. I don't like to be the jealous type. I",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/f], I feel like I'm crazy and have no idea what to do. POST: Boyfriend (23,m) and I have been together for 5 years. We live together and have been best friends for a long time. Our relationship had its ups and downs, and lately it's been going downhill. We had a fight last week and he told me he was done, and I agreed, but we still live together so it's been rough (I moved into the second bedroom). I was fine, until today - I got extremely sad and couldn't stop crying, I mi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Soo my gf [18F] just told me [17M] that two days ago another guy kissed her and she didn't stop him immediately POST: Today I was supposed to go home to my girlfriends house, we would meet at the local station & take the bus together (She had slept over at a friend's house the day before). I arrive and kiss her on the forehead as i hug her and tell her I missed her. She just has this super serious look on her face, and i can tell she's been crying. She tells me that at a work ""party",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Help me[F18] make my boyfriend[M18] believe he is beautiful. POST: I need advice. My boyfriend is seriously the most beautiful man I have ever seen.. but he doesn't believe me whenever I tell him that he is attractive and it makes me sad because he really just hates how he looks, he thinks he is too fat and he hates his gorgeous curly hair, he hates his voice.. ok so the list really could go on. He has had some people say mean things to him in the past and through school, it wasn't ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I deal with my literally insane ex? POST: I dated a guy for about a year, and we broke up because he was abusive and I found out he had cheated on me multiple multiple times. This was about 8 months ago. After we broke up, he was calling me hundreds of times, texting me hundreds of times, threatening to kill me and my family. He even showed up outside our house several times, sitting in our driveway or texting me with descriptions of my car parking or asking where my car was. We ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Lost my wallet today, only to have it back within the hour thanks to a complete stranger. Reddit, what has a stranger done for you that made you think there are still good people out there? POST: I was playing tennis with my girlfriend, and I guess I left the zipper open on my carrying case for my racket (which had my wallet in it). As I was driving home, we went to stop into a comic store to grab some MTG cards, when I realized my wallet was gone. Went back to the tennis court, and as ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] met an wonderful girl[19F] at a concert. Next day won't answer me POST: So one friday night I went to a concert with my friends. While dancing I noticed from distance a girl looking at me but I didn't think that she like me, until she and her friend came closer to my group. I didn't do anything at first, but a friend said ""dude that check is into you, dance with her"". So did I. And he was right, she liked me, smiling and laughing at my silly jokes, though she couldn't underst",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (21,F) Brother (24) hit me today and threw things at me, I do not feel safe anymore but I am worried to file a police report because I know he will hurt me if he finds out POST: Today, I got into an argument with my brother. We do not really get along and we both live with my mother in her home. My brother and I got into a simple argument over him letting my cat run outside when I asked him not to and it escalated from there, that is when he started throwing kitchen items at me. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my best friend [24 F], worried about her seeing a 17 year old. POST: My best friend, who is 24, is currently dating her neighbors( close friend of hers) 17 year old brother. They shared their first kiss in February of this year, and have been seeing each other ever since. She is someone who wants marriage and kids, and she wants these things pretty badly. So what is going on his her head that is saying,"" yeah, I'll get these things with a 17 year old high school seni",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19 F) like the cashier a lot in my local shop, what should I do? POST: The moment we see each other we smile, if the line is long and he notices me, our eyes often meet and I can feel that uhm.. buzz. But I never know when it's his shift, so its always a pleasant surprise to see him. I enjoy this situation right now, and I was wondering, if I should take the first step, start a small talk maybe, or should I just let him whenever he feels like it. I'm afraid that once the first ste",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to throw out a beanbag chair POST: This happened two hours ago, and it's pretty tame in comparison to most other posts on this thread. I've had a beanbag chair for around three years now. It's purple, made of shitty felt, and has already started literally parting at the seams even though it hasn't been used too much. Today I decided to get rid of it, as there's a few holes that continuously spill out small amounts of styrofoam beans that stick EVERYWHERE, and I was sick of cle",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Weirdest/ most uncommon place you've ever fapped? Story in the description. (First post FYI) POST: So last night was my Dads 60th Bday dinner. We all went to Capital Grille which (if you're from the Phoenix, AZ area) is a pretty damn fancy restaurant. Needed to use the take a deuce so I proceeded to go over to the Men's room. Now as expected from a fancy establishment I expected a really nice facility but damn...this place was SUPER nice. Especially the private stalls. And when I say pri",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting in a stranger's car POST: I'm an American who is on a work trip in Abu Dhabi. This morning I got into a cab and noticed the driver was wearing National Dress (robe and head wrap thing, you know). Cool! Super authentic. I ask him if he knows where [my destination] is? No. [Something near my destination]? Stares at me. So I get out this crudely drawn map I have. Do you understand this map? And he asks, ""How you get in my car?"" Uh, the door... Good thing I decided not to be a wis",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me (24/m), girlfriend (23/f). I'm thinking about going on a 'solo' adventure for 1-3 months. POST: Hi Reddit. So I've been with my girlfriend for almost two years now. She feels really strongly towards me and I really enjoy the time I spend with her. The trouble is I'm thinking about leaving my place of work because I've saved up a decent amount having been living at home and would like to travel somewhere like SE Asia on my own for 1-3 months. I'm not leaving to get away fr",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: Really, Cull0, you unblocked me to harass me some more and then reblocked me?! POST: My ex broke NC the other day to accuse me of some hinky shit that I think he just made up, frankly. So I let him have it, no holds barred-he's gone out of his way to insult and belittle me for still being sad because it was 'only 2 years' and we'd been broken up 'for a month'...mind you we lived together and shared custody of his daughter so this wasn't just a break up, this was the abrupt dissolution of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Just Advice Needed POST: Hi, I know the following scenario was probably posted a bunch but I couldn't really find a post to match it or I felt as if writing the post might help qualm my stress on it. The story is brief I guess. I am a student and close to graduation. There is this girl who I've gotten know who isn't so close to graduation. Anyways, over the course of the hanging out we became friends and I increasingly developed feelings for her. Anyways, here is where the problems",negative " r/self TITLE: Dear reddit, I need job interview advice! POST: I've had 2 long term jobs before (both lasted 3 years) and was hired at another place but since they closed down and unionized they had to take on other ppl thus me and 16 other people not getting a job there. Anyway, every place that i have been hired at the interviews have always been short, simple and very relaxed considering they were all pretty much min wage retail, food or grocery. Since i am in school i only need a part time job but i've ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: APB to all Redditors: My girlfriend's MacBook got stolen. POST: Hey guys...I know this is a very, very long shot, but I've seen miracles performed on here before. My girlfriend and I went to a movie at 8:00 PM on Sunday, 3/20, at the Orlando Waterford Lakes Regal Cinemas. We came back to the car at 10:05 and found that the rear driver's-side door was open. She looked where she buried her MacBook and it was gone. We're working to get the serial number now. We have filed a police report. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I get my roommate to do something about his teeth grinding? POST: I'm a junior in college and I've had the same roommate since freshman year. It's a little like when you have to pick a partner for a group project, and you desperately jump for the person how sits next to you because you know at least s/he shows up to class sober and gets C's. Plus, we have enough similarities that it works. That being said, we're both pretty guarded and do not have a confrontational relationship o",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Y sister holds a knife to my face and all my parents care about is me cursing and flipping out POST: I got into an argument over her not paying me back money I lent her. During the argument she throws the food I was making in the trash, so I shove her, she grabs a knife and holds it to my face. My mom yells stop and I flip out cursing. What the fuck what the fuck. My parents start yelling at me to stop flipping out and cursing. I'm yelling she had a fucking knife to my face, why aren't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18/M] boyfriend is depressed, won't get help, and it's really hurting me [17/F] and our relationship. POST: Me and my long distance SO have been together for a couple of months, and his depression has recently become something that we've been dealing with. It's affecting our relationship in that he's always tired and conversation is often really slow because he's burnt out. And others in long-distance relationships surely know this, conversation can be slow anyways, so this is ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26F] ran away from a forced marriage. I helped my sister [19F] escape as well. She's having a difficult time adjusting to life in the US. POST: When I was 17 I was given to a 37 year old man by my parents. I had no choice in the matter. I actually didn't talk to him until after we were married. All I did after that was to stay on birth control so that I wouldn't get pregnant, I eventually was able to contact some human rights organizations and they put me in touch with the right p",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[18] potential gf [18] might be pregnant with her current boyfriends baby. POST: Ive been attracted to her for the past few months and she has similar feelings for me. We've kissed on several occasions and we hang out almost 3/4 times a week. This is all possible because her current boyfriend lives 45 minutes away and he's going to be attending a college thats 300+ miles away, while me and her are going to the same school. She tells me she loves me and that shes confused and she wa",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: It may be insignificant to you, but to me it's a huge deal. POST: My parents are wealthy, but regardless of this, I've never been spoiled and hold sentimental things dearly. I also hate visiting them because they always want to eat out and I want a home cooked meal. Years ago, my parents were purchasing new furniture and decided to give me a dining room table set, which I consider an heirloom since it was in the family for many years, I have many fond memories around that table. This",positive " r/cats TITLE: Advice on how to introduce two cats to a new home? POST: Hello cat-loving Redditors! Looking for some advice here... My SO and I each have one cat. They are currently living separately, but we will be moving them in to the same house next month. They have spent a good amount of time living together for a week or so at a time here and there, so we know that they do not get along too well. They mostly just avoid each other, but every so often one will chase the other out of the room. We want ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28/F] have trouble dealing with my brother and his bf POST: For financial reasons I'm having to live at home with my parents and my brother was living with us to but he moved out about a month ago to move in with his bf. My brother (24) came out as gay early last year, there was no warning - just I'm Gay and have a boyfriend. Before that he had never dated anyone, so I figured he was asexual like me. I never had any problem with anyones sexuality before so suddenly having an is",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: We used to be close, but now she doesn't try anymore? POST: Okay, lets go back a bit. So there is this girl whom I've had a crush on for about 5 months now (by the way, she's known that I like her for about 2ish months). I really think I do love her, and my female friends who are close to her told (this was about two months ago) me that they think she likes me back. We were talking heaps and heaps, literally til late hours of the morning, then a bit at school and again after. She wou",negative " r/self TITLE: Why the fuck.. POST: So i am currently in a relationship with a girl who lives 8217 miles away from me in New Zealand. We have been dating nearly a year. Today she told her parents that she was moving out (she is 19) which i have been trying hard to convince her to do because she lives in an abusive household. Her parents told her to quit her job and quit school and never leave the house, and if she ignored that warning that they would never talk to her again. Well she is still going through ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] am too embarrassed to be honest with my therapist [60M] POST: I've been going to the same therapist for a little over a year and so far have made some good (if slow) progress with certain things in my subconscious which have been holding me back in life. I'm honest with my therapist but am too uncomfortable to talk about certain things I'd like to, like recreational drug use or specifics about my relationship with my boyfriend. Mostly we talk about family issues, and there's ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] recently started dating [19M] now says he's not ready. POST: Met this guy through friends at uni, he was the one to ask me out. I have been single for a year after leaving a 4 year relationship that ended badly. I was scared at first, because I didn't think I was ready and I still don't. We got on and continued to see each other. I was told by my friend that he's never been in a relationship, so I wasn't expecting much, but we ended up sleeping together, and he stayed at my p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M/F] with my Girlfriend [19 M/F] of 2 years, is in a long distance relationship and she told me she grinded with another guy. I feel really weird about it. POST: So basically i'm in a long distance relationship with her and she went out to a party last night. She was dancing had a good time, had a couple of drinks when a guy came up behind her and started grinding on her. Now she told me that she tried to get away and she did the first time, but a while later the same guy came",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21M] My [21F] GF is constantly hurt and by her addict mom and I have no clue how to help her. POST: Me and my GF have been dating for 6 months now. We were best friends 6 months before that and she's been everything and more than I could dream of or ask for in a partner. She came from a rough life and came out of it a very strong person and managed to escape her turbulent home life. However she still talks to her family(mostly her little brother and father who are both healthy indiv",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [16/m] really like someone [18/f], but don't know what to do. POST: First time here on reddit, and don't even know if I'm posting this in the right place, but here it goes: Basically, I met this amazing girl back in August. We had lots in common, and became quite good friends. We'd chat a lot, and really grew fond of each other, despite the fact that we only saw each other maybe three times a week (We were volunteering at the time, and were sometimes on different shifts). One ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I went to the wrong school, got the wrong degree program, and have essentially screwed the rest of my life up. POST: So, I went to school for two years, dropped out and worked for a year, and went back to community college. I graduate from there this summer, and am attending a fairly ""prestigious"" university in the fall (the ""quotes"" are because the school is a tough school academically, but no where nearly as prestigious as they want you to think it is). I'm a psychology student, and ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by doing laundry. POST: My wife and I rounded up all the clothes for laundry and had quite a huge basket of dirty clothes. We're lazy as fuck so we tossed everything in the washer, as it is one of the newer model washers that can handle a load like a street corner hooker. She pushes the start button and we here a bit of clunking around - but we look at each other and say ""eh, fuck it. it's a lot of clothes"" and carry on with our business. An hour later, I go back in the wash room to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16 M] have been with my girlifriend [15 F] for 1.5 years, I just accidentally found out she made profiles on BDSM chat sites 2 months into our relationship. POST: We were in a FWB type of thing for a year and just fell in love. I've known her for the past 2.5 years. She used to be a compulsive liar, but everything's good now, at least on that front. Today, I accidentally ended up on profiles she had made on 3 BDSM chat sites. She hasn't had any chats. She lists her preferences as",positive " r/relationships TITLE: GF broke up with me because she is not happy with the person she is becoming POST: My Ex GF and I are both 21 and have been dating for about a year. Yesterday she came over to my house and broke up with me. What really caught me off guard, was we have had our ups and downs lately. But she said its been the last 2 days when she made her decision. She kept saying that I haven't done anything, its just that she gets so pissed/annoyed/angry towards me for no real reason. However, her hou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24/F] can't seem to keep dates interested. Help! POST: I'm relatively new to the dating world. Over the last year I've gone out on a bunch of dates with different people. I seem to have these really *amazing* first dates. Things feel natural, I never feel nervous or weird. I leave with the impression that the guys had fun and are enthusiastic about me. From then on the guys lose enthusiasm/interest and fade away. I've gone out on a few second/third/fourth dates but they're ne",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By accepting free coffee at POST: I work security at a collage and have always been nice and courteous to the staff and students. Occasionally the staff that I am friendly with are really sweet and drop off things like coffee and treats on stressful days. Today one of the staff members came by my kiosk with a black coffee for my coworker (I'll call him Gomer) and an iced cap for me. Since Gomer was out on patrol and I was working the kiosk, the staff member asked me to let Gomer know th",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (25F/25M) Swinging to no swinging? Why? POST: I'm the female. I've been dating this guy for the past 8 months. We were pretty casual in the beginning, and he wasn't looking for a relationship... I was just out of a very abusive LTR. The past couple of months things have changed. Started hanging out with friends together, staying over at his place all the time. Trips together, etc. No ""L"" bombs. He has always mentioned the fantasy of having a swinging relationship. Our ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my gf [18 M/F] of alomost 2 months are trying long distance. Looking for tips on how to make things easier for us to stay together. POST: My gf and I have known each other for over 5 years now (starting in middle -school) and have been best friends ever since. We like the same things and always talk about the same stuff and always look out for each other. We only recently decided to try a romantic relationship. we love each other very much and really want to make thi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I find out if it's legal for Social Services to tell someone I was the person who called?(details inside) POST: Okay, so my neighbors moved in around June or July and ever since then we've had problems with them. Their child is constantly screaming and crying, sometimes for 5-6 hours, non-stop. The parents fight often, screaming and throwing things, they are banging their cupboards all of the time. We've talked to the land lord about this many times and he finally just told us to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend(22M) just told me(21F) he used to have a thing for this other girl we work with and I really don't want to be a crazy bitch about it. POST: First of all, I know I shouldn't be so insecure/jealous/upset but I can't help it. My and my boyfriend have been together for seven months now. We're in love and have an awesome relationship. He gives me absolutely no reason to be jealous or not to trust him. Tonight when we were lying in bed he mentioned that he was ""thinking about",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Really Need Advice: Fallen for a sort-of FWB. POST: I'm 21, F, and I'm currently in an odd FWB relationship with a good friend of mine (23, M). Problem is, I want it our relationship to be more than that. I realize that the kind of emotional attachment I have right now in a FWB benefit relationship can be a bit of a no-no. However, we never laid out any boundaries and we never really defined it as friends with benefits. In fact, I don't think either of us are really sure what",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How much is an inappropriate/uncomfortable amount to give to a friend to help with medical bills? POST: Context: A friend of mine's parent is in the hospital in really bad condition. The medical bills are going to be outrageous at best. I and some friends are going to chip in some money for the expenses, and I like to chip in something substantial (several hundred to a thousand dollars), but I don't want it to be weird or uncomfortable for the friend... I'm already planning on get",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [24 M] an a hole for feeling less inclined to commit after hearing about her [23 f] past hook ups? POST: So, i met this girl a month and a half ago while we were both on holiday, and although we only spent about 8 hours together we really connected and decided to stay in touch. after talking almost everyday for a month i decided to visit my brother who happens to live in the same country, and same neighborhood, as she does. one afternoon she and i were hanging out at my brother",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [22f] is asking someone else for a reference, and I [25m] feel a little offended she didn't ask me. POST: We've been together for a year, been good friends for 4 years. I'm a medical student, and she is currently applying, and needed a character reference for an application. I knew this ahead of time and offered her my services, and told her that I would be glad to write one for her...and she declined. I figured that maybe asking a boyfriend would be weird, so I relented, on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (28m) fiancée (25f) is leaving me. Don't know what to do POST: She told me 2 months ago that things needed to change if she was going to stay, and that even if they changed she wasn't sure if it would be enough. Well, I broke my promise that I would change, I did something I promised I wouldn't, I lied about it at first but then finally admitted it to her. She told me that she's done. We've been together for 8+ years. 8 years 2 months and 28 days. And she is taking a flight hom",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [30sM] and I [20sF] have mismatched libidos and it's making me miserable. Don't know what to say to him. POST: We've been together for three years. We have a baby. The problem is that I have a much higher libido than he does...but only in this relationship. I don't want to have sex with anyone else, just him. And ideally I want to have sex 2 times a day, and he's okay with 2-3 times a week if that. I don't know why I need it so much but I think it's because it's the on",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Slightly worried I am missing out on being a young 20-something... POST: I'm a 24/f, dating a guy a few years older. I am fairly certain we will end up getting married, and this has nothing to do with wanting to break up and ""explore"" the dating world more, but these same feelings keep creeping up. My boyfriend has recently voiced concerns sporadically that he feels he's holding me back from being young and having fun. He travels for work fairly often so I do want to be with",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by texting an employee (NSFW) POST: So this didn't happen today but about about a month ago. Let me start with some back story. I work in a residence hall so a lot (or pretty much everyone) of the people that I supervise or work with are 18 or 19 years old. I supervise the student front desks and the RA staff and generally like what I do. I have been working where I am for about two years now so I have a good relationship with some of the students that live in the building. OK, So I",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Cops enter my house without warrant, while I'm not there, find pipe, give ticket; advice? POST: So just the other day a few friends were at my house and I went to go get a soda. When I returned the cops were in my house, they had found a pipe that they had supposedly saw through a closed window blind. Upon their arrival they knocked on the door. The cops had asked my friends where i was at the time, and they said that i wasn't there. After that the cops backed them into the house in a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] Friend [20F] Changed Since Getting BF [20M] & She is Overprotective of Him POST: My bestfriend has been dating this guy for 4 months and ever since she's started dating him she's been acting different. She prioritizes spending time with him over me, and she is extremely possessive of him. I said a joke asking him about their sex life and she got all pissed at me and said how disrespectful saying it was, after I repeatedly apologized and said it was just meant as a joke. And ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: If YOU'RE going to break up with me, YOU get over it POST: So this isn't a super devastating thing in my life or anything, but I just need to rant. Note: My ex and I are rising juniors in high school. About a week and a half ago my girlfriend of two years broke up with me without any warning. She still wants to be friends though, and I'm more than happy to be her friend. It hurt for the first few days, but we both got some space and I got over it. I'll never regret our relationship an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (17m) boyfriend wants to take a break with me.. (16f) and I'm confused. POST: So today my boyfriend (ex?) had a talk with me. He told me he wanted to take a break. We will both be starting a new school soon on August 28. Before that time he is going to a 10 day camp, then going to his fathers house for a few days and then we will be going to a new school. We have been together for a year and a half, friends for a year before we started our relationship. I know we are young and it ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by hitting Reply-All POST: I work at a software company, and we just celebrated a milestone release with cake. Naturally, someone sent out an email and said, CAKE'S READY. So, we all enjoy some cake. It was pretty damn good. Now I go back to reddit, see what's new. I find this little [GEM] in /r/TheSimpsons, and I think it's pretty damn applicable to how I feel after 2 pieces of cake. Now, my super and I are pretty tight, and he was the one who originally sent the CAKE'S READY emai",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (22/f): is it possible to overcome years of weird eating habits by myself? (update/question) POST: Previous TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend (21f), told me (20m) she has withheld feelings for me for quite some time. Only issue or not is her live-in boyfriend (23m) POST: First off, I never intended to be the other guy and refuse to be him. We have done absolutely nothing aside from confess to being into each other. Background: We met because she was friends with my ex. She lives out of State but only a state away. My ex and her already have a very little of a relationship and wouldn't devastate anyone if we were",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [33M] planned a 10 day, no-contact vacation and didn't tell me. How can I get over it? [25F] POST: My boyfriend is generally a great guy. Extremely generous, supports me financially quite a bit, always there to help etc, etc. We had Easter plans to have his aunt over, bought a turkey, blah blah blah. One week ago his brother is over and they are talking about their upcoming trip? Whaa? He finally tells me he is going for around 10 days to visit family out of town. I wa",negative " r/tifu TITLE: nsfw TIFU by triggering a gag reflex during a threesome POST: Im so excited to actually tell the world about this finally, because its been a couple weeks and it gets more cringey every time i think about it. My wife and I found a match on 3nder for a girl in our area interested in a 3 way. She is super hot (awesome) and super excited to be with us. For a week, I thought it was too good to be true and we were being catfished. I asked for so many pictures at random times and compared backgroun",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I let go of huge rage against someone who hurt me? POST: I *know* that to move on and get over what happened I need to 'forgive' and 'let go', but I have no idea how. The gist of my story is that my ex introduced me to drugs (many, from weed to coke) and supplied me with free everything (he was secretly a dealer, NOT an electrician like I thought). After two years together he cheated on me with my best friend. They sobered up and are happy as shit together still, and I'm sober ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M 26] was implicit in cheating with a lady [F 27] behind her boyfriend's back and feel awful. POST: I'm acquainted with F and her boyfriend and see them socially from time to time, work parties mostly. F's boyfriend was not present at the most recent party, and everybody was quite tipsy. F was coming on to me really overtly, to the point that I called her out on it. She was offended but didn't stop. I've been cheated on before and it was devastating. Debilitating. I told myself",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] GF of 3 months kinda kossed another guy, what do? POST: Long story short: We were at a party, I had to leave early (1 am) because I had a family event early the next day. Some guy initiated a kiss on her and they kissed ""before she could react"" - she called me (3 am) and told me about it and I got angry and felt really let down so I told her Id rather talk about it the next day. She said she would never cheat on me etc etc. But we have only been toghether ~3 months. I care ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do I tell the GF (~30F) about being the other woman (~28F)? If so, how? POST: Boy meets girl (me), boy woos girl for several months. I am generally aware that boy is sort of in a relationship, but it is long distance and I am led to believe that it is not serious and on its last legs, with all but the official stuff needing to be taken care of. We become intimate. I know this is wrong, and I own that - after a couple weeks, boy's story changes. He loves her, doesn't want to lea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 M] girlfriend [20 F] chats with other guys. POST: We did get a relationship after over half a year of dating. At the start of our relationship I saw on her phone that she talked to many other guys on whatsapp, I read her conversations and some where flirtatious. When I told her this she sort of denied the flirting but did apologize and said she would stop talking to them if that was what I wanted. I told her to just stop the flirting. Then, a few months later, she still talked",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [ 19/F] with my boyfriend [19/M] have been having trouble getting over each other's past relationships. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for 11 months now. We've known each other since we were both in grade 10. Grade 10 was the year that we pretty much fell in love with each other. He was ready to commit to me, but I wasn't ready for him. Mostly scared I guess. Since I couldn't commit to him, I went off and did my own thing (talking / seeing other people). We never s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my BF [27 M] 1.5 years, told me something horrible about his past while drunk and it's breaking my heart. POST: I've been with my boyfriend for a year and a half now and I think it's going really well. We moved in together recently and it's wonderful! Here's the thing. We were drinking together one night and talking about our pasts or whatever and he mentioned his step father. He had previously told me the his step father abused him until he left the house at 17 but h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] have had my girlfriend [21F] since year 11 of high school and I have lost a lot of feeling for her. POST: So I've had my girlfriend since high school and we are both young adults now. The first 2 years were great and we were very intimate and close. Nowadays, I feel uncomfortable with being sexually intimate with her because I am no longer really attracted to her and that really upsets her. (my sex drive has also been severely hampered by my dickhole anti-depressant medicati",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22/M] have cancer, my girlfriend [24/F] wants to shave her head in support. I don't want her to. POST: Hey guys. To keep it short, I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. It's started spreading. I found out last week I will need to undergo chemotherapy, and like most I will encounter hair loss. Now, my girlfriend is telling me how she wants to shave her head with me in support and to show she has my back. I'll be honest, though, I don't want her to. It won't help the situation, an",negative " r/college TITLE: Need help with a really weird grade situation POST: I'm currently attending the University of South Florida, and this past spring I took a stats class that I passed with an even C. I really struggled with it, mostly because the instructor was terrible, but I need it for my major. I checked my school's grade tracker over the summer and everything was fine. Fast forward to Sept. and the C is suddenly listed as a D+, which is bizarre because our learning management system, Canvas, still list",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, What spider is this. POST: I was getting ready to shower, and saw something floating around mid air about a foot from my arm. It was a tiny spider, I promptly destroyed it. I then felt something on my foot. Shaking it off, I realized it was another one. I went into the shower, and began peering out and spotted a good 5-10 crawling on the walls. They're only tiny. It's clear that a big one has given birth somewhere either in or near by bathroom, but I have no idea what to look f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (m19) Doesn't know Im a girl gamer (f19) When and how do I tell him? POST: Throw away just cos. My Boyfriend (19) of 1 month doesn't know I am a girl gamer. He has always dated very girly women so I'm a bit different from his usual type. I know I should tell him seeing as a do record and post on youtube its not just a hobby thing I do. I earn money from it and he i always asking me how I get money since he knows I don't have parents and I don't have a job so he is startin",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Looking for some advice to start losing weight. POST: I'm having a lot of trouble trying to figure out what to eat. I have a VERY strict budget when it comes to buying groceries. So, for my first step I've decided to only eat less. I eat a bowl of cereal in the morning, a lunch and a dinner. This cuts out all of the ""eating because I'm bored."" I've actually been fairly surprised with the amount of control I've been able to have with this. My problem is ls that, sometimes I will get legiti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my GF [20 F] 7 Months, my insecurity POST: Me and my girlfriend have been dating for almost 7 months coming to 8 i have made a recent post about our relationship break before, but now i know why i went all crazy.... i am always insecure about stuff, when we started i trusted her allot and that i know she will be safe because she is a strong person. some time has passed and i stopped trusting her, there was no reason for me to not trust her, she has always been honest w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend is extremely self conscious. Is there anything I can do to help? POST: So my boyfriend (m18) and I (f19) have been dating for about 8 months. The problem is that he is very self conscious about his appearance due to him being a little chubby (which I really love and always tell him I do). He is usually insulted because of his looks by friends and family and it's having a very negative impact on our relationship. I love him so much. I hate him being sad all the time. I just ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By getting drunk and not speaking french POST: I went to France when i just turned 16 (former legal drinking age where im from). I was really excited about my first drinking vacation. First few days of my arrival i made a bunch of older friends. One of the nights we decided to get super wasted, it was around 4 in the morning when i noticed that i was very dizzy and decide to the cabin im staying at. On my way home i decide to sit down for a brief moment because my head was spinning and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: So this girl I really like [15F] and I [16M] have been really close for a while. [2ish years] We have been slowly moving apart. POST: It's to the point that I have to assert myself into her life. I think things have really gone down hill since she found out I had a thing for her. Yesterday, she actually talked to me. And it was about our relationship. I've brought it up in the past, telling her I always have and would be there if she needed me and got a 'k' reply. Anyways, she brou",positive " r/self TITLE: Adrenaline rant POST: Ever since I was little I can remember looking at people on motorcycles, jumping out of planes and surfing, snowboarding, f1 racing, everything. I remember looking and just thinking god that looks like so much fun! I have yet to do anything, I'm 23 and I lust for adventure! Not necessarily travel, but traveling and doing. I want to see the world for what it is! Its mountains! It's nature! It's waterfalls! The desserts in dune buggies! The coast in jet skis! The clouds ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 F] almost dream cheated on my [24 M] boyfriend of two years and feel guilty. POST: So last night I had a dream where I almost cheated on my boyfriend. I feel guilty, because the guy in the dream is someone who had been in my class(haven,'t seen him since) and I thought he was cute and in the dream there was temptation there and part of me wanted to see what is would be like. However, I remember in the dream when he asked me if I love my boyfriend and I told him that I do and(",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can't apply to my dream job (FBI Special Agent) for another two and a half years because of one very minor transgression - advice? Anyone here actually work at the FBI? POST: I'm a junior in college who just figured out what I wanted to do with my life this year. I started out as a Finance Major, but then picked up Russian as a Second Major, realized I loved it, and now I hope to eventually work for the FBI as a Language Specialist Special Agent. I found an opportunity for a paid summ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] really into good friend [20 F] of several years, not sure what to do POST: Well, to start at the beginning, when I was in high school I met a girl who I thought was really amazing. She's pretty, and she gets my humor more than anyone I've ever met, and I actually find her funny which is pretty rare for me. We hung out for several months, she was in a relationship and I didn't want to be ""that guy"" and hit on her while she was dating someone else, so I simply admired her fro",positive " r/Advice TITLE: I'd like to be taken seriously. POST: So I can say with unfortunate confidence that I am not taken seriously with a vast majority of people I know. I will take a concern/fear, analyze it in great detail and with every possible angle, bring the issue to the table and then be shrugged off as though it's meaningless... OR it starts a fight because of course there is NO WAY I could be right in the way I think or feel; that what I'm thinking/feeling is a manipulation of my mind... In some instan",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[25 M] only personal time is at work because my girlfriend[24 F] doesn't have any hobbies or close friends. POST: I feel like i'm in between a rock and a hard place. I recently (2 months ago) moved into a one bedroom apartment with my girlfriend of 3 years and the only alone time I have had is walking to and from work each day. She doesn't have any hobbies and no close friends, which means the second i'm off work, i'm pretty much hanging out with her until I go to sleep. I have ho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] am graduating soon and am NC with my mother [40sF]. I feel guilty. POST: I live with my father and stepmother full time. Have been for 2 years. I went no contact with my mother over 6 months ago. High school graduation is rapidly approaching and I just realized my mother wouldn't be there. It's especially important because I struggled really really hard throughout school. My mother helped me and put a lot of energy into making sure I did well. I feel guilty. I can't imagi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] ex's [22M] girlfriend [20F] keeps trying to get us to talk about our sexual past. It's weird and she won't stop. POST: My ex and I dated for about 6 months 2 years ago. We have since stayed friends. We're pretty close. Not best friends, but we hang out together somewhat frequently. Ex started dating current gf a few months ago. She often comes with ex whenever our group of friends hangs out. At first she was pretty chill. She knew we used to date, was cool with it, said sh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Gf [20F] is abroad for a month. We aren't very good communicating via phone/internet and it's making me [22M] a bit nervous. POST: Title pretty much explains the situation. It's been two weeks since she went with her parents and brother to France, she isn't really good at communicating via chat and doesn't get on facebook/computer much so we haven't been talking there. I just called her (phone calls are expensive, that doesn't help either) and talked 10 minutes but it felt kinda a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my gf [19 F] of 3 months, I feel like she lies too much. POST: I'm unsure how big of a deal it should be, hence I'm asking for thoughts and opinions here. Please no angry feminist rants or reading between the lines accusations ಠ_ಠ . It all really started when I found out last week that she didn't have 2 previous sexual partners, but actually 11. I always had a slight suspicion that she was lying because she often talked about favorite/least favorite positions, which ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [M19] stop relying on my ex [F18] emotionally? It only hurts her. POST: My ex is also my best friend, she is doing her own thing and has a lot of friends but I don't and only really have her. She is an amazing person and really my only friend. Because i have been relying on her so much, and her on me, it put a strain on our friendship. That coupled with hooking up frequently led me to develop feelings for her I know she doesn't have for me. She knows I have feelings for her",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: After 2 years POST: I met my wife while she was away from her family at school. It wasn't possible to meet them because of finances and long distance. We dated and eventually got married. Now that I have met them they are a total mess. I understood from my wife that they were a little outside of optimal but after meeting them I get a full understanding of what she meant. Come to find out, her father and mother were both very abusive and she has developed, rightly so, severe anxiety an",negative " r/college TITLE: Reconsidering my major, help. [HS Senior] POST: One day, I was in pre-calculus with a substitute teacher. She struck a conversation with me about my future plans and where I wanted to go for college. I told her that I wanted to pursue social work. For me, it was great because I've had experience working with kids (my mom is a foster parent) and the school of social work at my University gave me an $8,000 scholarship. She proceeded to tell me that I won't be making ""jack squat"" doing that a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (22M) think that my relationship with my girlfriend (22F) is on life support. I don't know how to pull the plug. POST: I have been with my girlfriend for just about 6 years. She has seen me through so many ups and downs and has always been there for me. But inevitably all those changes left me as someone who I can barely recognize when I look in the mirror. I don't know if it's me or her, but I'm feeling like the love we once had is growing ever distant. I am a full time student s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the main reason parents send their kids to private schools for middle school and high school? POST: I had a debate earlier about what the main reason parents like private school is. I am somewhat of a cynic and said that, on the most basic level, parents send their kids to private schools in order to separate their kids from (for lack of a better word) the poor/lower middle class kids. From my own experience, parents that can afford private schools seem to think that their kids",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] broke up with my girlfriend [19F] because I wasn't attracted to her. POST: I feel awful now, because she's my best friend. I love spending time with her and I love her, but I'm not sexually attracted to her. I have some intimacy issues, incredibly low libido, and I hate kissing her. I broke up with her because I want to see whether I'll have the same problems with someone else. I've been in love with her for years before we got together, and it's the first relationship for u",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my abusive BF [27 M] 2 years, I just need to vent to somewhere about the craziness I've dealt with tonight POST: My bf is abusive. There is no more doubt. Yesterday I left him without saying a word. I packed a small suitcase from the apartment we shared and I left to my parents house a few hours away. He has texted me all night about how worthless, shitty and terrible I am. He sent me photos of him smashing my belongings. Shredding my clothes and artwork. Smashing th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being depressed and having no proof of masculinity for my mother POST: I've been depressed on-and-off for a few years now and my mother has grown more and more worried about me. I'm in my 20's and I'm a scrawny looking guy without a girlfriend. On top of that, I'm really into theater and I love to swim and sing. Basically, I'm what people in my culture call ""effeminate"" since I don't work in a coal mine and drink booze till I'm blacked out. This lead my mom to come to my room about t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by looking like a mugger. POST: So earlier I was doing my laundry, in the building laundry room. Given I do my wash late at night on weekdays and there are washer/dryer hookups in the apartments, usually I never even see signs of other users. This time I behold that the one remaining working washer is in use. And it looks to be by someone hot, since there is a pile of tiny thongs set aside for who knows what reason. Piques my interest, since I hadn't noticed anyone like that living ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] don't know how to be in a relationship with [18M]. POST: A bit of background information... I've been in three proper relationships in my life since I was 15. The longest was about two years on and off with another girl. Even during all that time I had trouble throwing myself fully into a relationship, so I don't know if this is a ""time will fix it"" issue. Moving to present day, I've been seeing my boyfriend since the end of December, and we made things ""official"" in February",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (F-18) wants to break up with me (M-21) for the third time in a week. Three days ago she said that she wants to get married with me someday and have children. POST: So, I'm heartbroken. She always is finding a reason to fight. This time, it was because I got diarrhea, and I didn't went to her house two days in a row. Every single time we fight, she says horrible things about my weight, my looks and that she doesn't wants to be my girlfriend anymore...since 2 years ago",negative " r/relationships TITLE: This Might Possibly be the dumbest thing posted here but.... (M/19 F/18) POST: All right so here goes nothing We've been dating for a month now, so we're pretty much still acquaintances at this point. Anyways we're talking about our (sexual) history and basically while all my buddies were chasing girls in high school I was just playing music so I don't have any history with a girlfriend(s) or anything like that. But according to her I'm nailing the whole boyfriend thing. The thing",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [23M] contact her [21F] POST: Hey so a little back story. I met this girl online. She lives in Minnesota and I live in Texas. We met on one of those chatting websites and instantly clicked. We started texting and then it became texting non stop everyday. For like 2 years, she was like my best friend. We talked on the phone like literally a couple of times and we Skyped a few times. Then about a year into it, it got complicated. She told me she had feelings for me...I had fee",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] recently lost my phone/wallet. My bfs (of 1 yr) parents have decided to get me a new one which I dont want POST: After 4 years of playing around with my old, cheap and barely functional phone I decided to indulge and get a new phone that was very expensive for me (saved up for ages). Now to be honest, I didnt really use it much more than my older phone as I dont play games in it but I got into pokemon go and I liked that the new phone didnt freeze every second day, my alarm a",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [M21] interested in [F20] POST: So i'm in my first year away from school at a university and the first week I met this girl and we started hanging out and texting a lot. when I say a lot I mean like 8+ hours together for the first couple of weekends and 3-4 together on schooldays. I really liked this girl and my friends were trying to help me work up the courage to ask her out when we find out she has a boyfriend, then one day she starts telling me about how her boyfriend, who lives ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [19M] wait for my ex girlfriend [17F] of two and a half years, and show her that I have changed? POST: Hi r/relationships. Just a little over 3 weeks ago, me and my girlfriend of two a half years broke up. It was mutual at first. But now, I'm lost. Here's the story. She's a senior in high school, I'm in my second year of college. I only live an hour away so we've always been able to make it work. One weekend, she asked me to come home, and I said I really didn't care to, a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my girlfriend [20F] of 1.5 years, I think she's still talking to the guy she cheated with. POST: My girlfriend and I are both in our third year of college, and have been dating for a year and a half. We are very close, and spend a great deal of time together. (quite possibly too much?) Our sex life is decent, but used to be a lot better, and she often complains that it's not very fulfilling anymore. I feel the same way, but neither of us know exactly what's wrong. Any",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my GF [30 F] of 3 years, I've decided I want to break up. POST: My GF and I live together, been dating for 3 years and we have had our ups and downs. The last year and a half has been rough so we decided to go to therapy. Things have gotten better in the sense that we don't argue as much but I feel it's too little too late. My GF is a great girl, she's caring and loving and is truly in love with me which is why this is so hard. She hasn't really done anything wrong to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (M17) have no way to communicate with my girlfriend (F16) POST: Me and my girlfriend have been a long distance relationship now for about 5-6 months. Yesterday she got in a big fight with her parents, and they took away her phone and computer (my only two means of communication with her). Yesterday I was texting her and she suddenly stopped replying, and when I went to bed I texted her saying ""goodnight I love you so much, hope everything's okay"" and in the morning I got a text say",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a [19 M] who gets unattracted to people that like me back, or find me attractive at all. POST: Ever since my freshman year of high school I've dealt with being single due to a variety of factors, but the biggest reason is that I can't like someone that likes me. I've been searching for the answer for a long time, but I have found none. --- For example, I had a girlfriend in the second semester of high school that I couldn't get out of my head, but once I realized how much sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [24M] of 9 months has been unemployed for 4 months, and I [19/F] just need some advice. POST: My boyfriend was fired from his job a little over 4 months ago, and hasn't really been looking for a new one. He has applied at a few places, but he hasn't got much of a response back. I've been paying for mainly everything (food, etc) besides his rent, which I didn't mind at the beginning. He already has a large amount of credit card debt he has to pay off, and just recently h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my crush [20 F] 1month, don't know how to proceed POST: i've been seeing this girl around for the past 8 months or so and i found her really attractive. but i was attached so i didnt talk to her until recently. we've been talking for awhile now but i cant seem to get a read on if shes interested or not. i dont know if i should try asking her out or not... also since we're in the midst of exams now, would it be bad to wait until next year before asking her out? she liv",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my boyfriend [24 M/F] of 2 years, I have only met his parents once. Should I be worried? POST: He is my first boyfriend so there is so much that I don't know. This is one of the things that are starting to worry me. I don't know if this is normal or not. I invite him over my house for Christmas after dating for 6 months, not that I was timing it anything. I just felt ready to introduce him to my family. And I would think that after dating for 2 years, he'd be ready? Ho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 19F looking for dating advice POST: Any advice/criticism/anecdotes are very much appreciated! I have had a boyfriend since I was in 2nd grade, most of the relationships lasting about a year. Obviously the majority of those ""relationships"" were just holding hands and going to the roller rink together, but from 14-16 I was in an abusive relationship and from 16-19 I was in an extremely intense relationship where we lived together for a year and a half. It was a really horrible breaku",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by tasting my butthole POST: This TIFU happened about 30ish minutes ago. Slight backstory: I have been prescribed a rectal suppository due to some slight inflammation. Basically, I shove a little pill up my butt twice a day and sit there for 10-15 minutes to let it melt and coat my rectum. I generally wake up at around 5:30-5:45 AM to get ready for work. Lately I have been setting an alarm to take the suppository and then I will fall back asleep for 10-15 minutes until my next alarm g",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Medical people and social workers of reddit. What would you do if you saw an unconscious person on a bus? POST: I was riding a bus, and a young man was out cold in his seat. He was drooling on himself and was clearly not waking up any time soon. I know if you have a concussion, it's important that you remain awake. I had a feeling this guy might have been doped up, but I didn't wanna take any chances. So I spent a while shaking him and talking to him. He finally opened his eyes but was quic",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He [27M] left me [27F] because there's a chance he may have to move in a few months. POST: We met on a dating site and immediately clicked. After our first date, we spent as much time as possible with each other as we could (initiated by both of us). We even talked (more than once) about the fact that we were both looking for the real deal (marriage, kids, etc) and didn't want to just date for the sake of dating...this led to some really great conversations about what we wanted for",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/F] with my [24/M] boyfriend of 10 years, I think he's slowly downgrading me to a FWB POST: When I was little, I found all of these ""high school sweetheart"" stories to be absolutely fascinating. It's always what I wanted to happen to me. I never thought it would, but then I met Ravi. Ravi and I met when I was in grade 10 and he was in grade 9. We were friends for that whole year, and he asked me out at the end of grade 9 (for him). We've been together ever since then and have",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Reddit; In light of the recent (and not so recent) privacy issues with Facebook I'm looking for a replacement...any suggestions? POST: So, my friends and I use facebook for pretty much every trip or get together we plan...camping trips, pickup sports events like flag football or kickball, birthday parties, etc. It's convienent and we live all over the place so we don't get to see eachother every week or anything. I've been reading alot on here about privacy issues with FB and it",negative " r/Advice TITLE: So I need some advice about a budding relationship...I'll put the rest in the text. POST: I'm getting into a relationship that I never really thought would happen. I'm a guy and I've known this girl since high school. We were in the same graduating class, and we worked at the same place after high school. We even went to the same college and had a few classes together. We had been friends through all of this but she had an on/off boyfriend the whole time, and i had been in a semi-serious re",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So much love..... but..... reddit help? POST: Alright, So here is the thing. I am an over-emotional guy who has a lot of love to give. I'm just an idiot. I enjoy relationships, but generally only have a relationship once a year (approx.) I really love being with girls, I love everything about the ones that mean something to me. I am very optimistic and very open minded. I have just... hit a snag. I have NO idea what to do here. About 6 months ago I contracted an STI. Now it's not aids",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by eating old McDonald's POST: This actually happened yesterday but it's a pretty bad fuck up. So I was at my frat house for a not-so-casual night of drinking and general drunken debauchery. I showed up around 8 with a few other people and someone had bought nearly 10 McChickens for some reason. Fast forward to around 12 and I'm pretty drunk and kind of hungry. I walk upstairs into the kitchen and what do I see? *Motherfucking McChickens* in all of their crispy, shitty, third-world count",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [34/m] frustrate my wife [29/f] during disagreements, and I don't know how to change. We both feel hopeless about resolving this, but there has to be a way! POST: My wife and I have been married 3.5 years. We love each other dearly, but we have a pattern in our relationship that causes us a tremendous amount of stress. I think it is mostly my fault; I want to change and grow, but I haven't been able to yet. Sometimes our disagreements escalate into arguments. Usually, this escalat",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] have a huge crush on my coworker [20M] and don't know how to deal with it. Advice? POST: A couple different issues going on here. I appreciate if you can offer advice at all. I also apologize in advance if this is disorganized, I have worked way too many hours this week. I can't seem to get over this huge crush I have on my coworker. I don't even know why I feel this way, it's like a middle school crush. I know almost nothing about him. I used to feel this way about boys whe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure if she's the right one and I'm making a mistake POST: Hey Guys, I've currently been with my partner (20F) for 2 and a bit years now and I (20M) am finding myself slowly becoming tired of the relationship and suspect she may be too. I get caught up on whether she is the right one for me and breaking it off with her is a big mistake. She has been my first serious relationship and I don't know if this is the usual kind of feeling most get when they leave something they have sp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 F] am really happy with my relationship with my SO [19 F], but am not sure if I'm being irresponsible by being with her. POST: We'll call her Emmie. We met/became fast friends when she was 17 and I was 23, and got closer over the next two years. At first it was definitely somewhere between a mentor/friend role, but over time it developed into a genuine friendship, especially post high-school. We've always been extremely compatible, but we were both in long term relationships.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [25 M] get my coworker [40s M] to pull his weight on a project? POST: I've been at my job for about 3 years, now and have had bad experiences with my coworker in the past. He acts charming and talks the talk, but I can't tell whether he actually does any work. Every time I go to him for help (well within his job description), he just deflects it to someone else or says he's too busy. On top of that, he used to get me involved in projects saying ""the experience would be ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need Help! Isabel's University Health Insurance Denies Her Doctor's recommended Cancer Treatment. POST: Isabel is a beautiful and smart 28 year phD student at the University of California Davis. She was my TA last quarter, and now has a tumor on her neck. The UC Davis Oncology Center recommended she get Proton Beam Radiation Therapy (PBRT), but the school's insurance department is refusing to pay for the treatment (even though its own doctors are saying something else entirely). Isabel",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: X-posted via r/relationships: Sister wants to get married to her fiance who is from a different country POST: Sister and I live in Minnesota, fiance is from Chile Hi, I'm asking this on behalf of my sister because she doesn't go on reddit so I asked her if it was okay that I posted about this; I will be showing her the responses. So my sister has been with her fiance for just over a year, they met when she was studying abroad in Chile. They met and hit it off right away, stayed toge",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's your favorite/most random bar story. POST: This one time my kitchen staff went out for some drinks. Four of us spent some time with our executive chef, knocking back a few (or more than) before we hit the bar/club. Now, our prep-cook, Billy Bob (a man we all considered to be polite and reserved at work), was the stealthiest drinker I've ever encountered. Before we left the apartment, we realized that one of the whiskey bottles was empty, and no one had had more than one",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: WTF customer service stories. whats yours POST: So I called United Airlines today for a quick question regarding my friends flight. I spoke to this agent who from my opinion was inadequate as he was unable to pull up the flight information up after 10mins on his system when I was able to pull it up on their site in less than a min. Ask to speak to his manager and he puts me on hold for 10 mins, comes back and says that the manger is busy and unable to answer my call. I was pissed at this",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F], bad dream about ex [21M] brings up bad feelings, life disrupted POST: My ex broke up with me about a year ago in what was mostly an amicable break up, and I've had a lot of time to get over it. A few days ago after seeing him again I had a bad dream about him, where, in the dream, I was still in love with him and he was breaking up with me again, and his neck was covered in lipstick. It was really traumatizing. I woke up feeling awful, worse than I had ever since the actua",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I approach the situation where I'm going to have a background check done on me for a career worthy job I was offered but I have multiple felony arrests and no convictions? POST: My charges were as followed: * 1. Dealing in Stolen Property * 2. Defrauding a Pawn Broker * 3. Grand Theft * 4. Petty Theft ( I violated my initial probation for this with new theft charges so I was adjudicated guilty for this charge.) I have no other charges other than these. I have a valid driver's l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31M] with my girlfriend [35F] of eight months, too dependent on her. POST: I am in a relationship, and it has been going very well. We are committed to each other, our time together is romantic \ erotic \ sexy, and we are very emotionally connected in our lives. This woman is a dream to me and I know I rely on her too much in my life. Those of you that know my Reddit posting history would know that I struggle with things in my relationship … things that some would consider a p",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Brother had a stroke today, kinda freaked out about the whole thing. POST: So while shopping, my brother had a stroke. He has never had a stroke before. Although longterm use of his medications said it might happen, and maybe the hip injections he had today could have caused it. I was about three feet away at a different self check out when out of the corner of my eye I saw him throw the things in his hands, fell backwards and started to seize up. I did what my nurse of a sister-in-law tol",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm competing with my friend over the same girl. What should I do? POST: Me and my buddy (Jim) have been best friends for a very long time. He started to have feelings for our mutual friend (lets just say Mary) around a year ago but she didn't feel the same way. They talked it out, and they were done with it from what I know, still hanging out but never going back to that aspect of their friendship. Soon after, Mary and I started to hang out consistently and I started developing pretty s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [20F] talk to my boyfriend [20M] and make him feel like I'm not fighting/cornering him? POST: Yesterday my boyfriend of one year and I were suppose to hang out. We had a friends party to go to and then after we were suppose to go to dinner, go back to his place, and I was going to spend the night. Instead, he watched football all day with his roommates/friends (which is fine since we weren't doing anything during the day) and started drinking. Around 2:30pm he texted me say",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 F] slept with my guy friend who is in a longterm relationship [25] in their home... Not looking for harsh judgement as it's not all black and white, just a couple questions.. POST: As a single person, I obviously hang out with many friends that are coupled. Over the past few months I have been spending a lot of time with one couple - Admittedly in part because I was attracted to my friend Rob. Also because we all have fun together. Rob and Katie's relationship seems relatively",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I think my friend and I are interested in the same girl. POST: I've known both of them for one semester of graduate school. I've been close friends with the girl who I'll call Jane and mildly good friends with guy who I'll call John. They met each other through me during the last month or so of the semester. Anyway I've thinking about asking her out at the beginning of next semester. John has been hanging out more with my closer group of friends recently and I'm pretty sure it",positive " r/self TITLE: I can't sleep. POST: I was the passenger in my boyfriend's car when we were in a minor collision. We were sitting at a red light to make a legal U turn. When the light finally turned green, we waited a few seconds to make sure it was safe for us to make the turn. As my boyfriend was completing the turn, I saw a vehicle driving at a consistent slow pace from the side window. The driver of that vehicle drove through her red light and collided with us. I did not notify my boyfriend because I as",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I still love my Ex who only loves women who treat him like shit POST: I'm 19 and a girl, He's 20 and one dumb boy. We dated on and off for 2 years and are currently trying to be friends. We've known each other for about 3 years. Anyway,I don't get it. He even admits to it ( what im talking about in the title). I was his first actual girlfriend and we we're each others first everything. yet close to when the relationship ended he chased a girl who called him fat and never responded to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Fell in love with girl on the side [M19] (4 year relationship) both girls F19 POST: I spent some years with a girl that I truly love (let's call her Susan for anonymity purposes). I cheated on Susan with another girl (let's call her Amy) and now I love this girl. Me and Amy basically had a relationship. We slept together every night, we talked about everything, we talked about problems we had in each others lives, we comforted each other and we're there for each other. This went on",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How to tactfully decline girls online who want to remain friends after it doesn't work out? POST: I've (29m) been doing some online dating and have yet to find that girl that I really click with. Regardless of who decided it wasn't going to work, a number of them want to stay friends after we've had this talk about it not working out. (And continue doing activities and basically dates without labeling it as such) How can I tactfully decline a suggestion like this? This feels kind o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[22F] have been sleeping with a guy[21M] for three months and he wont go down on me POST: I just got out of a committed relationship (2 years) and started casually dating this german guy. We started having sex immediately and its been a fairly steady thing. We've talked about it, and have determined we will be exclusive, but neither of us are calling it a ""boyfriend/girlfriend"" situation. Not for any particular reason. He's asked me how I get off because I dont from sex, and i've m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] and my girlfriend [25 F] of six years are going two totally different directions. POST: Okay, so, the situation goes as follows: She just got promoted to store manager of where she works almost a month ago. Me? I'm currently unemployed, and can't hold a job. We both have been considering cutting it off but believe we have invested too much into the relationship. Her: She has the capacity to be one of those strong, independent types of women, which is one of the amazing th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 F] Boyfriend of 2.5 yrs has been on swinging sites for casual meetups and has at least been giving men oral sex. Most likely more has happened. How to deal with this? [29 M] POST: I'm currently breaking down. I'm quite in shock so I apologise for the poor typing etc. I've been with my boyfriend (29) for two and a half years. We've had our ups and downs. I found out two days ago that he had been using reddit and a swinging site to arrange elicit meetups with men. He has always",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [16M] be clear with my intentions without saying them outright? POST: For some context: In my junior year of high school. This girl, A, who is in a couple of my classes, messages me one day over Facebook with the pretense of homework. She begins flirting with me and I continue to talk to her. I found out by checking her Facebook that she was in a relationship at that time. However, a few days later she breaks up with the guy she was dating. We begin talking more but nothin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Roommate is currently asking landlord to remove me from the lease so he can kick me out, I'm not in a position to move, what can I do? POST: I've been living with my roommate for about a year and a half, our original lease was for 1 year and we've been on month-to-month for the last 6 months. My roommate and his girlfriend decided they wanted to look at getting a place by themselves but after looking they decided that they couldn't find anything and didn't want to leave. That was fine bu",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Need advice: Possible MS diagnosis, and boyfriend is being offered position in a new city. POST: I want to start off with the disclosure that I have not yet been diagnosed. I started out seeing an ENT for hearing and vestibular problems, but it has since progressed to include pain, tingling, and numbness in my limbs, among other issues. I have had an MRI and they found a couple ""spots"" and I have an appointment with a neurologist upcoming on the 29th. Meanwhile, while all my doctor v",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Feel like BF messed up BIG time and he won't admit it. I can't let it go. POST: We are both in our mid-30s, heteros, together one year (known each other for three). My boyfriend has known since April 2010 that he needed to find a new job by the end of this August. He only started looking a few months ago and, as a result, he is down to the wire and finally got an offer. This job is far away, in another country, where I cannot work. This new contract is for a year and a h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (28m) having no conversation/sex with my live-in girlfriend(29f) of 4 years and no idea how to fix it. POST: **W**e've been together for 4 years this past may, lived together for just about as long: **W**henever it's just us we have little to nothing to say to each other: Our jobs are repetitive so ""how was work,"" is answered pretty much the same every day and then the conversation stops. **W**e hung out at a bar, just the two of us, for my birthday, in near silence mostly ei",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [20 M] starting to be healthy with my girlfriend [21 F] of 2 years POST: I Love to spoil my girlfriend. I'm a pastry chef and have a problem of always bringing home 'extra' desserts for her to munch on. I've always been a big man myself at about 300, and her much smaller at about 150 now. Recently we've had much less sex than what we used to, (2-4 times every other time we were with each other, to no penetration sex for at least a month and no oral sex in about 2 week) I feel l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[29/F] not sure if I should tell the guy[31/M] I'm possibly losing my virginity to, that I despise how my body looks? POST: And that I don't believe he's actually attracted to it? I already know I probably shouldn't say it that way. And I'm sure most are going to say I shouldn't say anything at all, and go to therapy, etc, but I feel like I should really tell him something because I feel like there's a chance I could freeze up when things happen or get upset. I guess I'm wonderin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] really thought I would be over him [19M] by now. POST: Accidentally deleted original post; will rewrite later. A short summary: Dated a guy for six months. It was the most passionate, exciting, and fun relationship I've had (the only other relationship I had was for 3 years, and it had never been as great). He dumped me for reasons that I can understand and accept but still feel very hurt over-- we were going to be long distance (I was moving 50 miles away for college); he,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (25m) need help with this LDR relationship with a (21F). POST: So, after 2 weeks of being in a relationship with her, she had to unexpectedly fly back home halfway across the country. In the beginning, she said she would be back by the middle of this summer so we decided to keep at it, because what's 3-4 months right? Well, then other things came up. The anxiety and mood issues she's had became amplified due to her really strained relationship with a family member she's moved bac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22m] get anxious whenever the gf [21f] mentions another guy. POST: We've been together for about 1.5 yrs. We've had a few bumps in the road, as she's had trouble saying, ""No,"" to guys that hit on her or flirt with her. She just takes it as them being nice, and also to avoid causing an awkward situation with people. Example 1: When a coworker asked her to coffee, she agreed, and explained to me that it was just a friendly gesture. After two coffee meetings and a lunch, he asked",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26F] moved in with my siblings [20F/23F] and am having an issue. POST: I'm a graduate student down in a big university city. I have one sister who was here last year as a freshman and is here again a a sophomore and the other transferred down. I lived on my own for a few years before this year, but this year, we decided to live together and split the cost of an apartment to save money. I'm worried about having to play ""mom"" and take care of them and it's already presenting itsel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] with my boyfriend [26 M] duration 5.5 years, we decided to take a month break. Has a a break ever helped anyone's relationship? POST: My boyfriend wants to take a month-long break to figure things out. We've been together for 5.5 years. I thought everything was going great. Sure, we had our up and downs, but overall, I thought we were on our way to marriage. He thinks differently. He said he could date me for the rest of my life, but isn't sure about marriage because he gr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Non-romantic]How do I [24 M] tell my sister-in-law [19 F] of a few months that I do not like her boyfriend without offending her. POST: Hi all, I got married about 2 months ago and my wife's younger sister has recently been seeing a guy that I do not particular care for. Alittle background: This guy has a pretty shady past (yes I know people can change) and he is a regular member of our friend group however he is known as the flaky guy that no one really trusts. One of my other f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [18F] confront my mom [50sF] about her past abuse? POST: Basically I lived with her most of my life, then when I was 16 I moved in with my dad and she now lives across the country with her husband. We have had a bit of a rocky relationship lately because she doesn't feel she is able to help me with my mental health issues or my school problems from so far away, but we haven't argued in a long time. The issue is from around the time I was aged 8-13, I was constantly afraid o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 M] wife [23 F] has completely lost her sexual desire after a few months of marriage. What are my options for help? POST: My lovely wife and I have been together throughout high school and all of college (7-ish years). We got married ~6 months ago after graduating, right before moving away to start new jobs. A couple months after getting married, my wife lost all desire to have sex with me. She has told me that she finds it to be a hassle. She has also told me that it is gross",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20F] Friend [20F] is Mean to my Boyfriend [20M] POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for 10 months, and one of my closest friends doesn't like him. She's said mean stuff about him, to me and to his face. When he was unemployed for a month she be really condescending and basically insult him, he's ""straight edge"" and she has tried pressuring him into drinking and makes fun of him for not wanting to do so, and she also makes homophobic comments (even though he's straight) ab",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Us [25F, 33M] with our overbearing stepmother/in law [58 F], she's a realtor, we're buying a house, how to not hurt her feelings about not wanting her involved? POST: We got married in October, and about June of last year, they (25F's dad and stepmother) said they'd pay for our (small) wedding that we'd been planning for over a year, but stepmother tried to take over the wedding to the point that there was a bust up and we had to lay down the law and give them their money back. Issue",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32M] with my wife [30F] of 9 years, has difficulty with jealousy surrounding my achievements POST: My wife and I share many common interests, but she is extremely competitive in comparing our results in all of our endeavors. Recently I've decided I was going to get into fitness/nutrition. I've never been fat really, but I know I can do better for myself, and could stand to lose a couple of pounds. I start on a new program. It's pretty extreme, and right out of the gate I have ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I was 'The Other Woman', how do I apologize? POST: Two years ago I got out of a relationship, at that time my ex from a long time ago contacted me. He was my first love from high school and he disappeared (I never really got over it). When he contacted me he was living alone by himself and wanted to catch up with me and smooth things over. Turns out at that time his wife was living in another state and was her family. When I found out he was married I tried to friend zoned him. We stil",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my BF [23 M] 8 months, acts like he is listening, but completely forgets many conversations. POST: I'm not sure if this is a memory issue or something more, but it seems like he doesn't take me seriously during a lot of conversations. For example, our plans for the weekend, or me telling him ""don't make plans for this day because I have a surprise"". He seems to either disregard them (like he's patting me on the head and saying ""okayyy little girl whatever you say"") or ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Advice on suing my fiancé's parents. POST: Straight to it. My fiancé got deployed in the fall of 2012. Before doing so he made his mother the power of attorney. During his 9 month deployment she asked him if she could borrow money which accumulated to about 2 grand. He has Facebook messages saying that she would pay him back. Im not sure if in those messages she said a specific date or just a ""Ill pay you when you get back"" type of thing. He's had a series of bad events that called f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] has been fantasizing about her [21F] for more than 10 years; can't get her out of my head. POST: There's this girl I've known since we both were 5 years old (I'm 21 now). I've had a crush on her ever since I was 10. I've never had the guts to tell her this. My main problem is that I think about her all the time.I imagine myself to be her and have conversations with a fictional,much better version of myself. I keep fantasizing about kissing her,having sex with her etc. The me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my [18] brother. He just found out he and his girlfriend are expecting. His girlfriend does not want me to talk to him. POST: This is my younger brother's second girlfriend. They've been together about a year. She is 18 as well. My brother and I did not grow up together (different mothers) but we were always close when we did get to see each other, since he lives three hours away. Since he and his girlfriend have gotten together, I have seen my brother once. We text o",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What was the pivot point in your life? POST: I have come to realize that my life's pivot point is one of the most casual and baffingly lighthearted choices I have made in my life. In France, the end of the lycée (high school) is where everyone gets separated and you have to make your first real orientation choice. Backtracking after that point is hard. I was a kid completely hooked up to a computer in general, but I had never dived into programming, save for some BASIC programs. I had ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit I think my girlfriend/girl that I have a relationship is cheating on me and I'm clueless and feel terrible, help please ? POST: A little history. We've been dating on and off for the last 3 years and till a few weeks ago I thought we really had something. Now here's the story. So we're both high school seniors and yesterday she was on her facebook on my tablet during class and it was a usual day but today I opened up my tablet and realized she was still logged on. There was a n",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I don't like Children's Hospital and I don't know why. POST: I've been trying to determine why exactly the show isn't funny. It isn't because I don't like the actors. Many of whom are from Party Down, which was a well written and very funny show. The writing isn't always the problem either because I loved Stella, and other David Wain joints. I typically don't like hospital shows, House/Grey's/Scrubs, but this show isn't really that much of one and I do like Darkplace, which is a bit of a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend f/20 doesn't let me break up with her, but doesn't act like she cares about me or relationship m/28 POST: So we've been dating for almost a year. Over the past 2 months we've seen each other a 3-4 times when before that we'd see each other 5 days out of the week. We don't even speak that often maybe 3-4 times a week. We live in the same city. She says its becaus of her schoolwork and I proposed a break and she started crying telling me that it actually was her schoolwork ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making my friend cry. POST: Like most people on here, I occasionally partake in smoking the devil's lettuce. My friend Bryan somehow gets the most red eyes i've ever seen, so naturally he always makes sure that someone has eyedrops when we smoke and is always the first one to ask to use them. So he asked me to use the drops after and he starts putting them in and says ""God damn these really burn! are these Rotos?"" and my baked ass says ""quit being a pussy."" As he's putting them in his",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Destroyed GPA. Any hope for grad school? POST: I tanked my college gpa over the last two semesters...I am sitting at a 1.7 and I'm almost a junior. I've been on my own with this whole college experience, since I have no family. I once had grand plans to get into a masters program for clinical psychology, but now I'm not even sure if I could get into ANY program, even if I pulled A's until I graduate. Now I'm afraid that I might have a useless major in something I can't even get into gr",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My gf (22/F) is not accepted by my parents because of several (dumb) reasons (me 21/M). POST: Hi everyone, long time lurker, first time poster here: When I was 16 I met my gf at a party. We got drunk, kissed and that was that. After a few weeks she added me on social media and ever since we've had a (sometimes not so) amazing relationship. I am originally from Hungary, but we now live in Germany. Her family has been amazing (asking me along on ski trips, always inviting me t",negative " r/loseit TITLE: List of foods by calorie density POST: I just thought I would share this spreadsheet I put together. It's fairly simple. All I wanted was a list of foods by calorie density and I could not find a decent one anywhere^1, so I grabbed [this list] and added some simple calculations to display the number of calories per 100 grams of food, thereby allowing me to compare the number of calories in different foods on a one-to-one scale (at least in relation to weight). It also shows the amount of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] inadvertently made my girlfriend [22F] feel really self-conscious. I feel bad and helpless knowing there's nothing I can do. POST: My girlfriend and I have been in a relationship for about 2 months now, but we've known each other longer. She's been in many relationships before, but this is my first relationship. This past week, my girlfriend has been hitting a stress point with work, her bosses overloading her and making her spend ridiculous hours after work. Me, being naive",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it wrong to wait for my [20F] GF to tell me she loves me [22M] first? POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for about 7 months and we still have not said I love you yet. I know that's a long time to go without saying it. Personally, I know that I love her and have been struggling with whether or not I should tell her yet. The main reason being it would be so much more special to me if I heard her say it to me first unprompted instead of just hearing a ""me too"" or something al",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU - making a payment POST: Technically this happened Friday, occurred yesterday, and finally, the realization today. So Friday, I get paid, make my usual payments and a few extra (tis the season). The first payment I made was my car payment. As I recently moved away from the only state that has this particular financial institution, I made the payment online while being walked through my first online payment with a representitive on the phone with me. She apparently failed to mention it wi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why do they like him? POST: My teenage son has slow processing speed and ADD. He struggles with every part of his life, but the teen girls in his school are always texting him. My wife and I can't understand what they see in him. He doesn't want his hair cut, so it is a shaggy unkempt mess. He doesn't wash it, so it's always greasy and stinks. He doesn't wear deodorant, doesn't wash every day, and wears dirty clothes. He is 17 and we gave him a car when he was 15, but we just ended ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, I just found out I require open heart surgery within the next few months to repair a congenital heart defect. Any Redditors out there know what I can expect? Details within. POST: Last year, my school offered free EKG tests for students. I took it on impulse to get out of my gym class for a day, and the test found that I have an Atrial Septal Defect (details [here] ). Basically, the defect is a whole in the septum dividing the left and right atria in the heart. Upon further i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Long-Time Girlfriend Wants a Hall Pass POST: I wrote this big, long post but at the end of the day I just have to sum this up: My girlfriend of 6 years wants to sleep with another man. She doesn't have a person in mind, and she didn't really ask me, but she did express interest in sleeping with another man. We broke up for about a year and during that time I lost my virginity and she did not. Now we live together and love each other very much, but she feels like she missed out o",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A friend in the military needs help covering rent and would get more $ if they were married. Any downsides to marrying him to help him out? POST: Hey Reddit. The short of it is I have a good friend in the military stationed overseas; he's going to be over there for another year, and is having trouble paying for his apartment back here in the states. It came up while talking that he'd make more ($1500ish more per month I think?) if he were married, which would be enough to cover his plac",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Teaching doggy language... To a dog? POST: Is it possible to teach an adult dog to read dog body language? We are currently fostering a female 3 year old staffy/lab lab mix with our resident 4 year old male pit/ACD mix. Their first meeting went ok, we did a side by side walk and after about 2 hours they were wrestling and playing together. Fast forward a few days and our resident dog has hurt his ankle (nothing unusual, speed of an ACD handling of a pit causes a few rolled ankles) and is a ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by flashing the corniest smile I ever made to a hot stranger. POST: So it started off as a normal trip for me to Japan. This happened yesterday, but I had just came back from Japan so I was feeling too tired to write this. Anyways, on the last day of my trip, my parents, together with me and my brother, decided to take a train to a nearby shopping mall. After shopping for about 4 hours or so, we had to go back to the hotel to checkout, then head over to the airport. We bought our tick",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend yells. I feel distressed by yelling and know there are more effective means of communication. She disagrees. POST: She disagrees that it is yelling at all. When I rephrase it and say that okay, sorry, maybe it isn't yelling, unfortunately the tone still leaves me not feeling like an equal. Like I'm a school boy and she is my strict teacher. When I finally get my point across, she feels like I'm trying to tell her she's not allowed to show emotion. This is obviously upse",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My roommate [19F] refuses to leave so I [19F] can spend time with my boyfriend [21M] POST: So my roommate [19 F] refuses to leave the room for a couple of hours so I can spend alone time with my boyfriend who drove 2 and a half hours to see me. Our friend said she could hang out in her room as long as she wants because she doesn't have a roommate. but she doesn't want to leave and expects me to leave when hers comes in a few weeks and is going to stay here for a week. What am I suppo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ""GF"" (25f) cheated on me(26m) with another guy(24m),the guy doesn't know and is planning to marry her. X-post from /askreddit POST: Around 3 months ago I(26m) met my ""girlfriend"", lets call her Liz(25f). I say she's my ""girlfriend"" because we met and we slept together, she starts declaring me her boyfriend, I didn't really approve but went along with it as I was single anyway. I didn't really care for her, although she was the complete opposite but I can't find myself to be commit",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Any Weimaraner and/or Doberman owners? Agility/obedience? POST: Hi! I am looking to possibly bring a canine into my life. I have previously had a rescue doberman (best dog ever!) but he was older when I got him (7 years) and died around four years ago. He was a huge coach potato, but among the ten or so dogs I have rescued, the one who stands out. I started doing more research on the breed recently, and learned he was more of an exception when it came to his low energy (which I attribute t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By not turning off Autosave on PS3 POST: This happened this morning, or last night to everyone else. I play a lot of video games, and PlayStation is my choice to play. Now, I've been playing Skyrim for months, and after 100+ hours of leveling, I'd finished all three main quests, and was on my way to finish a few misc. quests. Well, I didn't want to start all over, but I wanted a new game to keep me busy while I worked on the first. Unfortunately, I forgot to disable autosave. It'd been g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [21 M] broke up with me [20 F] on my birthday yesterday after 10 months, I need guidance POST: I'm having a difficult time getting over how it ended so quickly and why he went from ""I love you"" to ""I'm not attracted to you any more and I don't love you any more"" in a matter of two weeks. I always figured it would be me to end the relationship if it were to come to that point because he always pushes me to my limits. I'm a very forgiving person though so I always brushed it of",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (M/20) How do I let a girl (F/19) know that I don't want a serious relationship. POST: Just broke up with my girlfriend of a year and some months. Last thing that I want is a relationship and this new girl knows that. We have hung out a few times and kissed a couple of times. Its pretty obvious that we're gonna take it up a notch pretty soon. Here's the problem, this new girl is an ex girlfriend from a few years ago. She cheated on me, so that amplifies the fact that I do not",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (17M) friend (17F) has a very confused love life and I don't know what to do. We are somewhat very close to each other. POST: So last week I went to my friends house to celebrate his birthday and I met this girl I really like. We went out to dinner (there were 7 of us) at a buffet and had a really fun time mixing the worst things into a drink and drinking it. After that we went to the movies and watched some horror movie that wasn't that scary. We cuddled the whole time during the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (19) has big dreams and a bright future, me (19/F) not so much. POST: Alright, so I am together with my boyfriend for a year and we are living together, everything is going perfect right now, life could not be any better honestly. We are on same terms regarding everything, and we both can see ourselves getting married in the future. Thing is my boyfriend is really ambitious. Maybe it's because his parents are great role models for him, both succesful individuals. He alrea",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Pressure washer scratched my car. Can i sue if he refuses to pay. POST: I stop at a drive through taco joint that recently started serving breakfast. While i was at the window waiting on my food, the guy pressure washing the drive thru put his washer on top of the bushes on the other side of the drive thru. When i pulled out i did not know that the hose from his machine had caught on the under side of my car. so when i spend out into traffic it caused the gun handle (the part that hit",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what crazy/stupid things have you found yourself doing after being awake for 24+ hours? POST: So, I'm leaving from college for home tomorrow since I had my last final today. I had 2 individually wrapped packs of meat in tinfoil and didn't want to open the biggest one so I could eat it all. I knew one weighed about 1 pound and the other about 1.5 pounds. So naturally I decided my best bet was finding an object and calculating the weight difference by feel. It inevitably ended with",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 F] with my partner [31 M] 3.5 years, partner got back in touch with female ""friend"" POST: A bit of background: Partner and I have been together for 3.5 years, and living together for almost 2 years. He tried to hit on this girl when they were working together in mid-2012. I sort of confronted and warned him (we were only dating for 4 months back then). By end of 2012, he then changed jobs and did not meet that girl since. 3 years later (now), all of the sudden he contacted h",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Where to start?? POST: Huzzah! I just discovered this subreddit and I've been looking for something just like this! and I'm quite excited to start getting my arse into gear! there are a few things I don't agree with like the keto diet thing but apart from that it looks like jus the kind of place I NEED to be. Ok to the point... I am a 23 year old male 180cm (er 5 feet 10 inches?) 91kg (200 pounds?) (sorry hate imperial) and since I'm broke and I study abroad (only a few friends left back ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (21m) chose to keep a work gift for himself and I'm (21f) upset? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together a little less than a year. Recently, one of my friends won a Fitbit at work and texted me and asked if my boyfriend wanted it to use as a giveaway for his startup. He said yes. TL;DR: ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I've been seeing my best friend's brother for about a month now. When/how should I tell her? POST: My best friend (both F/25) have known each other for about 10 years and are extremely close even though we currently live in different cities. I have always felt included with her family and I get along particularly well with her mom. However, until about two months ago I had little to no contact with her brother (M/27). While I had a bit of a crush on the brother when I was a teenager",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I come from an almost rich family, and I will probably be homeless or poor in the future POST: I was spoiled since I was a kid, I've never had many big problems with my parents and they are very forgiving with anything I do. They have given me things I want for a long time. When I wanted Lego I got it, when I asked for an xbox I got it for my birthday, when I asked if I could build a gaming computer I was given the funds for it. When I was younger, about 7 years old, I was one of the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm the youngest in my grade it seems to be turning into a proble POST: I'm 14(m) and I'm about to finish my O levels, every one who I befriended is 1 to 3 years older than me which means I'm not always invited to places they go or in there group fun days. Nearly all of them have had a go in the relationship game. I am younger than every girl and I do not know any one to we'll outside of the school to ask them out. Though I never let mundane things like these get to me recently it's",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my girlfriend (18f) asked me about my (18m) previous sexual experience, I was honest, she freaked out.... POST: Last night my girlfriend of 2 months had a wine night with all her friends. They got a little too drunk I think, and she ended up sloppily texting me. She asked me about my sexual history. I asked her if she really thought this was a good time to have this conversation over text and hammered, which she said yeS. I was still hesitant, until she just told me to tell the tr",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Troubles Moving On After Messy 4 year Relationship, Desperate For Advice POST: 23 (F) here, ex is 24 (m). Please be patient to read this tangle of thorns... We had dated nearly 2 years between 2008 and 2010, then broke up in May 2010, got back together again, and dated for a another year. We then broke up in April of 2011, then spent all of last summer hooking up every couple of weeks (very low and embarrassing, felt really used, but wanted to be with him). Fall 2011 came around and w",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Should I feel bad for not (always) sharing my car? POST: So I'm registered on this carpooling or car ride sharing platform where you can offer other people seats in your car if you go somewhere. I usually put any longer ride online, since I was hitchhiking a lot when I was younger and I'd have been glad if there had been an opportunity like this. So I know what it is like to rely on an overpriced, unefficient railway network and that car ride sharing So today I will have a 5 hour trip, g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] want to help my [19 F] (soon to be girlfriend?) with her relationship issues. POST: A girl that I think I am falling in love with who I know has some feelings for me could end up in a relationship with me. She has told me more than she tells anyone else, even past relationships, but she has some issues that I really want to help her to get through and I don't know how to help her, these issues are part of the reason we might not get together too because shes afraid of boggin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [28/F] just called me [29/F] a shitty girlfriend POST: We've been dating for 2 years, have been living together for 9 months. I love her with all my being. But she's sarcastic and sometimes makes me feel like complete shit (happy V day). One of our good friends came over today for dinner and we were bickering. It escalated into a full-blown argument between me and my girlfriend when she started being condescending and disrespectful and aimed personal jabs at me. I star",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [19], bisexual, of one year has been great to me. However, his best friend is a girl(18), who he dated previously for a couple of months. To me, he seems like he has still not let her go. How should I handle this? POST: I am a 21 year old female. Both my boyfriend and his girl best friend are bisexual. I am completely accepting of his sexuality, however it bothers me that he talks about her and hangs out with her all the time. He has hundreds of pictures with her on face",positive " r/loseit TITLE: SV: Broke the 210 barrier POST: That barrier has been the bane of my workout for the better part of a year. No matter what I did, how hard I worked out, changed my diet around, it didn't seem like I could push through 210 and get my weight down below it. Skip to today. Been on vacation for a week and a half, travelling for the past four days. Noom reminded me yesterday that I was due for my weekly weigh-in. Problem: No scale (obviously not on my 'to pack' list). Staying down in NC, there's",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [19/f] my mate (20/m) is struggling to get out of an emotionally abusive relationship with another man POST: *Reposted from [r/relationship_advice] because I'd like more opinions.* My mate, questioning his polyamory, has come to the conclusion that he wants to be exclusively involved with me but is having trouble cutting ties with another partner, a man much older than both of us. What my mate describes to me seems to be a very unequal relationship where his partner has always been ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my brother [15 M] think he is dating friend [18M] who we live with and I'm concerned POST: People in this situation: Liam- my 15 year old brother Brett- Me (18) Jonah- my friend who i think is dating liam (18) Aiden- a friend who is living with us. Liam, jonah, aiden and i all live together. My dad was abusive, so my mom let me move out with Liam when i turned 16. He was 13. Jonah also moved in with us because his parents were abusive. This year aiden moved in. We all",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] got broken up with by my GF [18 F] of 1 year without much explanation. Is it right to ask for one? POST: So after about a year long relationship through my senior year of high school, my girlfriend broke up with me kinda suddenly. We were fighting a little bit more towards the end of the year than we normally did but they were usually really silly/not serious issues she never seemed to hold any kind of anger about any of them. However, last week, she told me that she ""need ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (19f) fix things with my bf(19m)? POST: My boyfriend(19m) and I(19f) have been together for a little more than 2.5 years now. We met in high school and had fun but when we left for college we went to different schools. The first year apart wasn't great but we made it through to the summer and things went back to normal. About a month into our second year of college (still at different schools) I started getting attention from another guy. I had gone to high school with ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/F,virgin] stupid intimacy anxiety with my long-term (18/M) boyfriend. POST: All my life, I have had anxiety. It usually arises when new things come around. And at this point, well, getting handsy is definitely a new thing. I've been dating a wonderful guy for a year and six months, Both of us are virgins and plan to have sex some time soon. Anyway there've been plenty of hot makeouts, etc. and him touching me, and recently he's been gently egging me to touch him back. I jus",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with [25M] made a joke about hitting me and I'm upset about it. Am I in the wrong? POST: Alright, so it's a LDR relationship for about a year now. I told him I had gotten pink eye recently and he told me, ""Well you better not give it to me or I'll give you a black eye hehe!"" This just stirred me the wrong way since I read so many stories about how women struggle to leave abusive relationships. I called him an idiot and such and informed him that in no way I wanted to be in a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you noticed that there are more homeless men than women? Why is that? POST: Every weekend I do laundry at laundromat near a shopping center and have a cigarette outside while enjoying the scenery, there are occasionally few hot girls there because of beauty salons next to the laundromat =) . So every-time I am there, I see this same homeless guy sitting on the bench. So this past weekend, it was a little cold outside in the bay area so I decided to ask if this guy was hungry and if ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [15M] and my other friend [15F] (6 Months) just broke up. [15M] is very confused and upset, I would like to help him, I just don't know how. POST: Hi everyone. My friend E(recently moved away to another state) has just broken up with her boyfriend, J. E feels extremely guilty. E feels guilty because J deactivated his fb temporarily, then reactivated it, and started asking questions like ""when did you stop liking me"". So in a dramatic fit, he kind of just shut himself in",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Embarrassment/avoidance/not sure what his deal is POST: I am a 35 yo F, he is a 40 yo M. I am divorced after 10 years of marriage, he hasn't been in a relationship for about 5 years. So, we have been friends for about a year. We had always been attracted to one another, but never acted on those feelings until the divorce process really started rolling. We had mutually agreed to take things slowly and things appeared to be fine. We would text/talk every couple of days. This has",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it weird for me [22f] to go out with an alumni frat brother? [29m] POST: I've personally never been in a realtionship, so I'm unsure if this is weird or not, or maybe I'm just overthinking things. Anyways, back in April I met an Alumni Frat Brother [29m] at a meeting. I just finished my first year in grad school, whereas he has completed and is a few years out of school. He's been messaging me and has asked me to go out with him twice. The first time I did because I sort of felt",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23M) am Hindu and she (23F) is Sikh. Her parents won't agree to a mixed wedding but I'm okay with just having the Sikh wedding to make them happy POST: I have been dating this girl for 2.5 years and everything is perfect, I definitely want to get married to her some time in the future. The issue lies with our religion as I'm Hindu and she is Sikh. By no means are we practicing our faiths, and to be more specific we would probably be very passive. We don't really adhere to the rul",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [15/M] In a bit of a pinch here (15/F)(15/F) POST: Im in a bit of a pinch... In about two weeks time, there is going to be a dance at my high school, but the thing is that for this dance, the girls ask the guys out. I was asked by my friend (15/F), and I said yes, not knowing that I was going to get asked by another extremely pretty girl today (15/F). Weirdly enough, I liked the second girl better because I had actually developed some feelings for her, where as with the first",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Help with classification as a non-exempt vs exempt employee POST: /r/legaladvice, this is my first time coming here, but I'm hoping someone can steer me in the proper direction. I guess this is actually more to do with my fiancee, but I'm trying to help her figure out what to do - I'll try to keep it concise. We live in a city in south-western, Pennsylvania (I don't want to get her in trouble), and she works for a large company. She's been employed there as a salaried employee for ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I Don't Understand The Logic My School Has POST: I'm a 16 year old junior currently in high school. In my school, if you do good in your science class, you get put in the harder classes, which makes sense at first. But there is one very big fact that seems to go over the heads of every fucking faculty member. The teachers *suck*. And when I say they suck, boy do I really mean it. Every year, both sophomores and juniors get Chemistry, which I am ranting about right now. While an ama",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [32 F] boyfriend [28 M] of 1 year is really struggling to motivate himself - how do I help? POST: My partner has always had awful self esteem, he genuinely seems to believe he's worthless, unattractive and useless. In reality he's good looking, smart and a general pleasure to be around. I've always been pretty well motivated as a person, have a decent career and am starting to build up some side income too. As a result, I earn a fair bit more than he does. He's not far off from",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Feel as if i am being emotionally abused, and dont know what to do... POST: My boyfriend and me have been together for 10 years now. We just started living with each other this past year. While we are in the same house my boyfriend is super nice to me; he cooks me dinner he also gives me massages and things. But sometimes he calls me names like stupid, useless, and whore. Especially if i make a mistake like i over cook the beef in dinner he will call me a stupid and useless woman. Whe",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Huge procrastination issues. Can't stay focused. 20 year old high school drop out. (x-post from r/motivation) POST: Backstory, I'm a 20 year old high school drop out. I dropped out at 16 for no reason whatsoever. My parents never made me do my homework; my parents always told me that I'm smart, so I figured ""why do it?"". Looking back, I wish I would have done things so much differently, but if I could reverse time, I don't know if it would be even possible for me to do anything different. I",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [AL] Working off the Clock? Please Advise. POST: So, my current employers are amazing at creating new, confusing policies that I'm not even sure are legal or not. They just enacted a new transparent pay scale. And with that, every department you are trained in, you get 25 cents added to your base pay. To maintain that pay, you must work a 6 hour shift in every department and take tests every year. Here's where it gets tricky. My employer expects me to read 140+ pages per test. For ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (25f) boyfriend (30M) thinks I don't trust him and gets upset, but I do! POST: I grew in an abusive and neglectful enviroment. This kind of enviroment where the children served the parents, no new clothes, no doctors appt, dentist, basic hygiene, and a lot of times no food. I was given attention when they were angry or when they needed something, so you know, you just stay under the radar and be good. My boyfriend is the sweetest man in the world, incredibly loving, but we have a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How old were you during your first sexual experience? Is it normal for this to be at a very young age? POST: Hey guys, I'm well aware I probably could have found statistics on this through Google in a matter of seconds, but I'm looking for a more representative sample of people closer matched to me (that's you guys, reddit!). I have thought this for a long time, but is it very ultra common for people to have had sexual experiences when they were like ~8-12? My first time ever getting i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[20M] is going out on a date with a girl [23F] and she has a kid. How do I handle that exactly? POST: So I was at work yesterday, pretty quiet, money handling place (don't know if I should go into further detail, doesn't matter). Cute girl came in to cash some birthday checks. I just started working there and so I was new to the system on the computer and that gave her the ability to start a conversation by being sassy in a flirty way. I was flirty back. We talked for a while, we w",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help me Effectively Argue for a Grade POST: Hey all, I am an undergraduate student at Penn State. I am a hardworking redditor who feels like I deserve an A in this basic Human Development and Family Studies class. Let me explain... I have received a 100, 94, 94, and 86 on the exams. The class is also composed of one-minute papers which are essentially little bull shit responses to questions that the teacher presents. In order to get an A in the class, I needed to receive 5/5 points for ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [F27] feeling really guilty. I feel like the worst fucking girlfriend. He [M28] did so much for me. How can I make it up to him? POST: You guys are going to think I'm stupid but I think the girls will understand. Over the past couple of days, I've been really stressed out and have taken it out my boyfriend of 18 months. He did something super sweet for me today and I'm feeling extremely guilty because I didn't deserve it, especially considering how bitchy I've been towards him.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23/F] little sister [17/F] asked me for advice about a boy, I have no idea what to tell her. Kind of a weird situation. POST: Basically, my little sister Becca* is into a guy at her highschool, call him Travis*. I know his family and his older sister, for the record he seems like a nice kid. Anyway, Travis and Becca have been ""talking"" for a while, and this weekend she asked him if he wanted to be her boyfriend. He asked her if she was a virgin, which she is and she told him so.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriends overprotective father makes me really uncomfortable with threats, am I overreacting? POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for a little over 7 months. I'm 18, she is 16. Once in a while her dad has ""private"" drunken discussions with me saying that he'll rip my balls off if I don't take the relationship seriously. I know many fathers protect their daughters and assume all guys are there for sex, and I understand it, but constantly having those talks, and him saying ho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: To forgive or not forgive, that is the question. POST: Going to make this long story as brief as possible. I am a seventeen year old girl who is a senior in high school. I decided to run cross country this year, after three years of track. My longtime friend, Matt (18 and a senior), one of our best distance runners, had taken notice of my hard work... He started displaying clear interest in me and I rejected him. The last time I rejected him was in sixth grade. He didn't take thi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[24F] new boyfriend[31M] took back his invitation of me going to his work party... POST: Hi reddit, first time poser here, but I've read many posts and good comments before, now it's my turn asking for advice... I[24F] have been with my BF[31M] for 1.5 months now, we met online and immediately clicked. We talk, laugh a lot and enjoy each other's company very much, also have great mutual physical attraction. Last weekend when we were on a date, he invited me to his company's (big",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my girlfriend[20F] 3 years, going through trouble for a long time now POST: We started dating at the end of high school and did a long distance relationship off an on because of university commitments, we've now been living in the same house for almost 2 years, things were going ok but not great after the fist 8 months, I was starting to notice her mood swings and they became increasingly annoying (tried talking to her about them many times but to no avail). The end o",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Sister-In-Law was blacklisted from hospital for actions by her now Ex-boyfriend. How does one get off the black list? POST: So, my Sister-In-Law has been having a lot of health issues over the last year or so. She doesn't have any medical insurance, and all her medical stuff is on some kind of government assistance. She has been experiencing numbness in her hands, and other similar symptoms. For months and months doctors have been telling her it was all in her head, and giving her BS ad",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Thinking about breaking up, but we live together and share ownership of the house. POST: I (28) am thinking of breaking up with my Fiance (26) and one of my concerns is where do I go after I end my relationship with her? Most of the previous posts on this forum mentioning either moving out, or getting the other person to move out. But we live away from friends/family so neither of us have anywhere to go. What do I do in this case? When we bought the house we both put our names on",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sniffing my dads ball sweat POST: Oh gosh. I can still smell it. *shudders* Before I throw up, let me tell you the story (however brief) of how I managed to heartily sniff the sweaty, stankiness that is my dads ball sweat. My dad decided it would be a GREAT idea to buy us a pair of the same underwear because he swore they were incredibly comfortable and whatnot. I went along with it thinking, ""Hey, maybe the old man is right. This could be comfy."" Flash forward to last night. W",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] and my friend [20 M] of four years, both met a girl [17 F] on the weekend and are both attracted to her POST: So my friend and I were at a convention on the weekend, and we both met this girl, we all chatted and got to know each other and now my friend and I both have her on phone, social media etc. So as the title says, we are both interested in her, my friend has voiced that he is into her to me, but I haven't mentioned it to him that I like her too because I am not good",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by giving my friend painkillers POST: So this happened about 5 hours ago. The school I go to has a strict no drug policy where even if you only get caught with paracetamol, there will be pretty tough consequences and giving drugs to other people is a big no no. Anyway, I was recently prescribed Tramadol (a strong painkiller) by my doctor to help with the pain of my broken foot and I was made to hand some in to the school nurse so I could go to her and take some if needed. However I thoug",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M16] have a group of friends and two of the girls [F16] [F15] like me. What should I do? POST: I'm [M16] currently in highschool and have a good group of friends that always hangout. Its about 12 people, 4 guys and 8 girls. I had liked one of the girls [F15] a couple months ago but gave up on it. A month after, a different girl [F16] that I kind of like told me she liked me also. And recently, I'm starting to think the first girl likes me now too. I really don't know what to do.",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by working at a Water Park and having to Poop POST: Little backstory of my job, half of the time you rotate to the top of a slide at the edge of the park where you tell kids to go down for a half hour. So this is where the fuck up happens, about 5 minutes after I rotated to the slide I get the feeling that I have to shit. I start to worry as I have another 25 minutes to hold this log in. A couple minutes go by and the clenching really begins with my toes digging into my sandals to hel",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My best friend isn't being the best. POST: My best friend hurt me really badly by saying I was different and that I was too sensitive about what she told me. I didn't like something she said, and she said it later anyway, so I got really upset. Then she said she wished I was the person she became friends with, because they wouldn't get that upset about it. I had relationship problems with someone and she said I could talk to her about it, so I did. A lot. She said I'd changed, and that all ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Im afraid to convey emotions. POST: Laying here at 5:11 am and thinking as one does, My mind comes up with a theory. I don't convey emotions well. This has two parts. Firstly: I don't see emotional signals. I have a hard time noticing when people are getting upset, although I am much better now then i used to be. If people are interested in me they practically have to hit me in the face with a chair to get my attention. I dont notice signals and as far as i know no one has ever shown i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What should i [17M] do about my new girlfriends [17F] ex [17M] who just wont let go? POST: Here is the story. So they were together for 4 years and recently broke up. Well i had recently gone through one as well. We started walking in the halls at school together and passed him to which he texted her and said some things that werent very polite. He has seen us walking now and i sit about 6 people down from him at lunch so we will see each other on a daily basis. He has never given ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My mind is has been having an internal struggle every day since a month ago. [19M] [19F] POST: Hello there, I've been in a relationship for almost 2 years with my girlfriend. Every day for the past month or so, a part of me has wanted to break up with her. Here's the thing, our relationship is quite healthy. We love each other, we communicate very well and we spend a lot of time together. Sometimes I do find her sexy and we do have enough sex. Recently, I have been starting to lose",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I can't get over strip clubs! POST: I [F 23] have been dating my SO [M 26] for almost a year and a half. We've been living together for almost six months and for the most part we have a great relationship. We fight occasionally, but lately I've noticed a lot of explosive fights stemming from upcoming bachelor parties. After high school he attended a close knit college where he was heavily involved in his fraternity. I took a different path and joined the Navy, where I spent almost t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [16M] of 8 months has lied to me [16F] about talking to this girl [16F] for over 2 months POST: So previously my boyfriend liked this girl but she did not like him back, we have been going out for over 8 months now. I recently found out the worst news possible, he has been messaging her by changing her name to a boys name so I would not suspect him. He has deceived me for over 2 months by doing this and within these two months he has promised me that he will never lie ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My relationship with my parents is making stress and is harshly,negatively affecting my mood POST: So these past few days have been a struggle because of my (male, 15) grades in school. I have been trying to put up with my parent's ( age 40) verbal abuse due to these ""bad grades"". They keep on saying how I'll grow up to be nothing and live in the streets and even when I do my best to bring home good grades, they still antagonize me. In the beginning of school, I was very positive an",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/F] with ex boyfriend [25/M] seeking advice about where you see us standing because he is unsure about what he wants, and I keep allowing us to go back and forth. POST: My ex boyfriend and I have had quite the story. To make it short, we were together a year and a half, he never fell in love with me and was never that interested in me. We lived together until 7 weeks ago. He wanted to sleep with other women and see what else is out there. We didn't talk much for the first 4 ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What have you secretly done that could potentially ruin a friendship? POST: Mine goes like this: Way back in high school, I crashed at my best friend's house. His room was small, and since the family knew me well, his mom trusted me enough to let me sleep in his older sister's room because she was away at school. I hate to admit it, but I have a vicious panty fetish, and at around 3AM I woke up feeling curious. I dug around her room, and ended up messing with every thong she owned, even ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26f] was invited to go on vacation with my friend [29m] to his home town. Ahhh what? POST: Sorry about the format! Doing this from my phone. To give a little background. We met about 6 years ago by way of his job. He initially asked me out on a couple of dates. In a rather round about way we decided to just be friends. We hung out a lot over the years. Frequent lunches to talk and a few misc outings. This lasted about 3 years. Both of us in various stages of relationships throu",negative " r/college TITLE: Failed all of my classes. Need next step advice. POST: Okay so this could be a long story. After college I was very excited to go to my ""dream school"", a large private catholic college in Chicago. I attended for a year put my parents in a large amount of debt as well as myself. During the first 2 trimesters I did fairly well. The first one I got all A's and a B+, the second all B's and a C. After that I had realized that I no longer wished to pursue Political Science and became undecided",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: 8 Month Old Lab Pup Won't Stop Shredding Crate Bedding POST: I had purchased a nice memory foam bed in preparation for our puppy. Once she'd made good progress with house training, we introduced it to her crate so it would be softer for her at night than towels. She ripped a nice big hole in the side of it and made confetti of the foam shortly thereafter, so we threw it away and went back to towels, which she continued to dig at and rip with her teeth. That was months ago. I just toda",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [M21] girlfriend [F20] has jealousy issues with my friend [F19] POST: Hey Reddit, I need opinions and figured I'd ask here after noticing the advice you lot gave others, so here goes. I have been with my girlfriend for 5 months today, it's an LDR due to the fact I'm at university. I don't get to see her often (every few weeks, for maybe a few hours because she can't leave her dog, because of the snow etc etc) and she takes a bit of an issue with one of my best friends, it's the o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] want to know if I should make a move on my ex[22F]. Am I over-analyzing things? POST: Not much of a story. My ex and I are not together anymore, we both have come to the conclusion we want to see other people/explore/be independent (her more than me but I still agree). We had a long relationship, and I still am in her life, we text occasionally. But we basically share a dog, which lives with her. So she's going away this Saturday, and since I know the family well and they t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF/fiancée [33 F] did not jump on my bones after I [36 M] got a tattoo of her nickname POST: Been with her almost six years. During that time we had many problems including me cheating and getting caught. We have broken up many times but always got back together within a few days. Last ~~May~~ March she broke up with me and was seeing somebody by April. I did not deal with this well for a few months then went through a major depressive crisis in August when I found out they were ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to a company party and got wasted. POST: Yo Reddit! This happened a month ago when we were having our account party. This is like a major TIFU and totally scarred my rep at work. Things started out fine as the party was beginning. I participated as a dancer for our account's contest and mind you, the venue for the party was at a high-end club in our city. After doing our dance, the party started. Drinks were flooding the club and I started moving over from table to table 'caus",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my Ex [20F] 2 years, Literally the only person who makes me feel bad about my life. POST: Her and I broke up 1 year ago and have stayed good friends with intention of getting back together, But often she makes me feel so bad about my job/roommates/income. I don't think its her intention to do make me feel so bad. She just always asks why I don't strive for more. her and I have had very different lives. I left home at 15 and have taken care of myself since then complete",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Girlfriend[20 F] dating for a year and a half, going to be apart for the summer, living together next semester. POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for a while now, and we've had our ups and downs, but we work pretty well together. We're going to be living together next year, partly because we want to and partly because we had to due to other roommate possibilities falling through. I'm terrified, as is she, that we're going to end up hating each other, and I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] was just dumped after a year long relationship, and now have two guys [22M] and [30M] who are both interested in me... what should I do? POST: So I was just dumped by the man of my dreams a couple of weeks ago. We were dating for about a year. I'm still not 100% over him and I am not interested in being in another relationship. I just want something casual so I'm not so lonely. I started seeing a guy I know [22M], because he just got out of a long relationship too and we we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] have been talking to a girl 1 [19] for 3 months, how do I tell her my feelings, from the other side of the world? POST: So just after Easter, I matched with a girl on tinder. And started talking to her. This went on fire a short while, finding out we have very similar interests etc... After a couple of weeks we arranged to meet. I study in a city, she lives just out side of the city, so we meet at the station and went to a bar, with the intention of playing chess and chattin",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [F,27] can't deal with my parents[M,51][F,52] lack of financial clue, getting depressed by their accusations and dependence. POST: A little bit of background history, I don't live with my parents, in fact since I was 14 I wanted to live alone because of their financial and emotional instability. When I was 18 I moved to another State and lived alone since then. Met my husband, got married, now I am back at parents for a few months because me and husband are moving to another ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my [21 F] girlfriend of 3.5 years, I want to break up with her but something is holding me back POST: I've been dating a girl for 3.5 years now, things have been rocky for a while. Our schedules are hectic and for months at a time we will be apart from one another. We spend holidays together when we can but travel times and distances keep us apart more often than I would like. For a while, our relationship was slightly unstable but it worked. She always had issues wi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] think my gf [19 F] may have a bisexual relationship with her bestfriend unknowingly. POST: A little background: before dating me, my girlfriend had a threesome with her best friend and her boyfriend. While that is a key detail it is a non-issue for me since it happened in the past. However, I did find out that, while we were dating, her and her friend hooked. My girlfriend got fingered by her friend while she was home on a school break. I found out when her friend told me",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Who the fuck cares if Chick-Fil-A supports anti-LGBT groups, or Oreo supports LGBT groups? I still enjoy their chicken, and their cookies, respectively, so it's still worth my money. What gives? POST: Seriously. On the one hand, I think businesses should stay neutral in politics and not pick a side because by doing that they eliminate potentially half of their customers, so it's stupid for them to publicly go out and say what they do or do not support or where their money goes. On the ot",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Ex broke the no contact rule to send me some pictures. Not sure why I care. POST: I [26f] broke up with my boyfriend [23m] almost exactly a month ago. We talked a little the first week and a half or so and haven't talked at all since. No texting, blocked on facebook, no calls, and we hang out at different places. This guy was very, very mean last time we talked. He made fun of me for being sad, called me names, and completely squashed any desire I had to want him in my life. I've been do",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by reading no sleep before going to my night shift job. POST: So, I work at a homeless shelter. I'm a 5'4 girl, and my shift is from 1 am to 9 am. I work my shift completely alone and don't have much to do until earlier in the morning, aside from signing people in and doing laundry. Everyone sleeps upstairs, and the downstairs is completely empty during the night. There had been movement on the downstairs camera, but it was dark and I thought I had been imagining it in my fear. Downstair",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [25f] wants me [23m] to go to a music festival with all sorts of drugs for our 1 year anniversary and is upset that I might not want to go. POST: My girlfriend has been going to this music festival for 8 years in a row and has a blast every single time. It's *very* important to her. She has tons of friends that go and they really let loose and have fun together. She doesn't do drugs regularly besides smoke weed here and there, which doesn't bother me even though I don't smoke.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24/F] with my now ex bf [23/M] of 3 years and 4 months, broke up and he's already moving on in one week. POST: I'm honestly just hurt. We've lived together and including with his 5 year old daughter for over 3 years and its all over now.. Its been a week and I found out he's been talking and possibly already seeing his ex of 8 years ago. And he went to her the day after we broke up and he admitted that he's seeing her but not for a relationship. Thats bull. I just need some posit",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Advice on approaching someone I hit it off well with at the store? POST: Quick backstory: Met girl at retail store. She was helping me pick stuff out. We talked for a good two hours while I was there, really seemed to hit it off. Somewhat flirty with each other, at least that is how I read it. I went back last week to pick up something she had to order in for me, she remembered my name and everything and we chatted until other people came in and She got busy. She specifically mentioned ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: If a guy I meet off a dating site has posted highly inaccurate and old photos of himself, is this a red flag or should I put up with it? POST: I know a lot of people put old pics of themselves on online dating sites, so my attitude in the past has been, well, this seems to be the norm. Fwiw, all my online dating pics are less than a year old. But I was like, hey, maybe I shouldn't hold it against people who do this. I should mentiog that I am looking for an LTR and not a fling. If I ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: GF [16,F] has not-so-healthy obsession over some bands, nothing wrong with that. It gets bad when she tells me she had many dreams about kissing them POST: So today i found out that my girlfriend [16], has been having a lot of dreams about kissing her idols like Alex Turner, Jimmy Page, David Trennant, etc. I find this heart-breaking, i do nothing wrong, i give all my love into our relationship, i'm kind and sweet, yet she still goes on just freaking loving those guys so much ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are ""for pay"" colleges worth it for film students? POST: Personal reason for knowing: I am 26, I've been out of high school since 2005, and right after high school I didn't go to college, and now I don't even know where to start to apply to college. I don't really want to go to my local community college. 8% graduation rate, not to mention all of my friends have been there, all without any type of degree or transfer credit. Including my sister who has been stuck at it for 10+ years. It",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Who's the bitch now? POST: Hey fellow revenge-lovers, here's a quick one, that happened about an hour ago. The instigator and your hero ~~(OP)~~ are both in college, but let's admit that we all can be juvenile before we go any further. So, during my P. Chem class, my friend reached over and wrote *Bitch* my big eraser, one of [these] ( to be exact. She even had the gall to do it in blue ink and it was rather unexpected. I was shocked but began calmly planning vengeance all behind a l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 17M Does my 16F best friend have feelings for me? POST: I sent my girl best friend a picture a while back and I had a hickey in it. She never noticed until today when she sent it to me while we were talking on the phone saying ""you look cute in this"" and I said ""nah, I don't like it bc I have a hickey in it."" She then said ""oh... haha.... *hesitates for a moment* yeah I don't like it much either haha... I'm gonna delete it."" I then said wait hold on and I took the picture and drew o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my now ex [24 M] of 1 year, How could he just decide he didn't want a relationship? POST: I need to get this off my chest. I was with my ex for a year and we were so happy, talked about getting married in the future and I honestly thought he was the guy I was going to spend the rest of my life with (I have never felt like this previously). I moved my whole life to be with him, I sold my car, left my job my friends my gym membership etc to move to London with him and h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My husband (29M) of nearly five years says we are not emotionally compatible. Is that true? How can we work on this? (29F). POST: * TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (25F) want to travel the world. My SO (24M) does not. POST: I've been with my SO for 3 years and most things are great. Last year, I moved across the globe to join him for a year in another country (he had a job lined up there, I found something upon arriving). It was great! We lived together, travelled around for awhile and after a year returned to our home in the US. I felt conflicted about returning and we talked about staying another year, but ultimately we decided to ret",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my partner [22 M] few months, I have never been in a relationship before and can't tell if we are doomed or not POST: We are in the same state but different cities. He is honestly one of THE nicest guys I have ever met and is genuinely such a good person. I have recognized that we cant talk about a lot of different things because I have been privileged enough to have been exposed to and develop opinions on things he has never been exposed to ( art and the opera etc e",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Codependent Best Friend POST: My closest friend and roommate (f21) is incredibly codependent, and aware of it. She struggled with self esteem and feeling guilty when she doesn't allow herself to be manipulated. My main concern for her is her relationship with this guy. She met Jack about 2 years ago and immediately liked him. He was everything she thought she wanted- suave, ""cool"", confident. Having known this guy for equally as long, I can tell you he is 100% a douche. He is a sale",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: Should I [27F] email ex [26F] to apologize? POST: I [27F] broke up with my [26F] ex a year ago. The break-up was kind of emotional, and I admit that I treated her like shit and did terrible things. For example, I kicked her out of my house after she flew 2,000 miles to see me. There was yelling and crying, but I think even though she was hurt and angry, she kind of understood where I was coming from (at least I hope she did). Anyways, the last conversation we had she seemed calm and res",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I wrong? Are my parents right? Can they take 3,000$ from me!? POST: First question: I got in a car crash (with my 2 other brothers oldest driving to school) 1 almost 2 years ago, it pretty bad and well my moms insurance covered the bills but I got a 8,000$ personal injury check that was put in a bank account until I am 18 well my parents used the 3,000$ they got from the insurance company to PAY THE MEDICAL BILLS for the down payment on the house we are renting because we just moved. ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Feeling Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place [31 and 28] POST: AGES: 31 & 28 I'm currently deployed to Afghanistan, and I started talking to this very sexy woman back in the US a month ago. We spend hours talking online and on the phone each day, and we have great chemistry with tons in common. I'm definitely falling for her, which is crazy because we've never even met. She definitely has feelings for me too. I don't want to ask her to ""commit"" to me in any fashion, because we have",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: How do I [19 m] tell my new girlfriend [18 f] that I'm slowly finding her less attractive due to letting herself go a bit POST: First thing, I am not shallow. She's a great person, and I still find her attractive, but certain things she's been doing have made me reconsider our relationship and I've no idea what to do. We've been seeing each other for less than 4 weeks, and made it official a week and a half ago. We get along great and she has a fantastic personality. But sadly her p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do I bring it up? POST: My (25m) ex (25f) and I have recently established contact again. We were together for about a year before things ended. We still spend time together from time to time and it's just like how it used to be. We haven't really discussed getting back together. We live 5 hours apart and there is no day in sight that we would get back together officially. I haven't dated or slept with anyone since our split, I'm very selective with my partners. Should I tell her if ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend just told me he has an ex-fiancee. How do I cope with this information? POST: So my BF (27) and I (24) are in a long distance relationship (we started dating in person and have been together about 9 months). Today he casually started a story with ""my ex-fiancee came into the bar last night..."". I hadn't previously known that he had been engaged. I'm not upset about him not telling me until now or anything like that, I just don't know how to handle this new information - ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Brigham Young University auto-enrolls me in their insurance plan and sends me to collections because I don't take the time to fill out a waiver. Do I have any options? Utah POST: My University requires all students to have medical insurance. They automatically enroll every student in their own university health care plan and make you fill out a waiver if you don't want it. I hate this practice, as it is just a scam to get my money and I was going through a lazy phase and didn't want to",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Help me [27m] save my sisters [29f] relationship with my parents. POST: Look, I'm going to make this as brief as possible, because a lot of shit has gone down recently between my sister and parents. Firstly, she was supposed to get married in April. She got nervous around november/december, and decided that she didnt want to be with her fiance. So they called off the wedding. My parents were furious as they invested a good amount of money in the wedding. They got over it, she",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29M] with my fiance [30F] (dating 6 yrs), looking for advice on what to discuss before we get married POST: My fiance and I have been together 6 1/2 years, and we got engaged in December. Getting married in September this year. We've lived together for more then half of our time together, so we know each other pretty well. But we haven't completely integrated our lives. We still have totally separate bank accounts, for example. We aren't doing a traditional religious ceremony, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Feel like my boyfriend is always thinking of his ex wife... POST: Ok, I'll try to keep this concise. My boyfriend and I (29M and 24F) have been together over a year. We're in love and plan to spend our lives together. This is it for us. He has a daughter from a previous marriage. They met in high school, and are 29 now...so they're obviously very close. I am jealous by nature. I've been trying to relax and just enjoy our relationship and believe him when he says I'm the love of his",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Should I room with my high school best friend in college? POST: I have been friends with this girl for around 7 years. We have the same sense of humor and we like similar things. Sometimes she can really tick me off, or make me feel bad. Recently we had a huge argument about things I won't get into detail about but she got mad enough to the point of saying she didn't want to be my roommate anymore. I was upset at first but I began to see the positives of not having her as a roommate. When i",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Switching careers from social media marketing to programming, any advice? POST: Hey y'all. I'm a 23 F Global Studies B.A graduate who's landed her first entry level job at a mid-size startup as a small scale social media marketer. The pay's okay for now but I feel like I'm not learning anymore and being challenged enough so I started getting interested in expanding my skill sets in the tech world by learning some programming. I started jumping into some free tutorials and courses online",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (F22) have been in a relationship with my SO (M23) for over a year, we live together, i have a daughter(not his) how to ease boredom at home? POST: Been with my boyfriend for over a year, I love him very much, we have no issues in our relationship, we communicate, have fun with each other, our sex life is fantastic, we have sex almost every night, overall it's a great relationship. Here's our problem, I'm in college, I am due to finish soon, he was doing the same course but decided",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Insured, went to my primary care doc for a physical, ended up with a $700 bill... Help! POST: I went in for a physical in October for the first time in years (mother's health insurance was recently reinstated), same primary provider as always. I got the routine blood/urinalysis work done as well as a pap smear as recommended by the doctor. The blood and urine tests were done at the diagnostic center on the same floor with a referral from my primary physician. The physical itself an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my wife [30 F] married for 2 years, not being able to communicate entirely. POST: We have been together for over 6 years, married for the last 2. I tried as hard as I could to grow and maintain a solid communication channel between us during our early days. Other than a couple of total emotional breakdowns and ""I want to breakup with you"" and then coming back and apologizing for everything, I did not see anything that would keep me from marrying her. I have discussed ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by showing my teacher her panties (NSFW) POST: Okay, so this happened about a year ago and it's why I'm currently being home-schooled (out of shame, not out of punishment). So I was in biology and my extremely attractive teacher bends over to look in the microscope at my table. Also at the table are my asshole friend (call him Maine) and a girl I have an extremely flirtatious/on-the-verge-of-fwb relationship with (call her Cali). Cali is very aware that I'm a warm blooded male and since",positive " r/tifu TITLE: (Then)IFU-- 20 years ago and I still remember when I made fun of the strange kid to try being cool. POST: I was reminded of my moment of shame when I read [this] today. Tonight, for me at least, TIFU is more of a 'Then I fucked up', being that this was around twenty years ago, give or take one. In elementary school, there was a male student that walked in an unusual way; almost strutting, with their chest protruding, all muscles taut and tense. I remember it because what happened after I c",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Anyone have multiple, severe, concussion? Q about symptom, not sure if it's related POST: I'm in my late 30's. In my life I recall 3 severe concussions, and at least 4 minors. The first severe one was as a child when I crashed my bike and, as was the norm in the early 80's, didn't have a helmet and smacked my head on the sidewalk. 2nd was as a teen via a kick to the head (the several minor concussions were also at the hands of a violent home life), the final was in 1999 in a very serious",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [21F] date a guy [23M] who has cheated in past relationships? POST: Hi, So for the past three weeks or so I've been seeing this guy and since it'll be a month pretty soon that we've been dating, I'm deciding if I want to take things further and get more serious or not. This guy treats me better than anyone I've ever dated OR had a relationship with. He has more respect, is more considerate, and we have a deeper personal connection than I have ever had with ANYONE. There is",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Filed a complaint with the BBB about Best Buy voiding my warranty based on speculation. Got a coupon for the full amount of my computer + tax! POST: Just wanted to provide a friendly APB to everyone, going to the BBB when you have been honestly wronged will help you get the redemption you deserve! The story: I had a computer that was liquid damaged (soda and vodka). I took it to geek squad because I had black tie protection that covered liquid damage. They sent it out and I waited for i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My husband [m/35] of 12 years has been having angry outbursts at me[f/29] usually on days we don't have sex POST: This is my first post here, so I hope I'm doing this right! Back story: We have a strange kind of ""dead bedroom"" situation (yes I know about the subreddit), to super simplify it: he is a 3 times a day guy, and I'm more of a 2 times a week girl. It has created a lot of tough patches in our relationship, but we are best friends, very dedicated to each other, and are both t",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to fix my cars headliner POST: So for the past 6 months the headliner (ceiling) to my car has been sagging a bit from the front, which wasn't a huge deal but it needed to get fixed. So about two months ago I bought some fabric and some adhesive with the expectations of doing it soon.. months later and today comes..I gain the courage to tackle this daunting task. Bolt by bolt, piece by piece, undo the lighting fixture, visors, mid panel thingy. Take out the headliner, rip that d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 F] have intimacy issues, and I have no idea where should I start fixing myself. POST: I could never really bond with anyone (childhood stuff), so I keep repeating the same relationship patterns. My first boyfriend was an abusive jerk, but i managed to leave him. Then there were emotionless one night stands, that made me feel like crap, but it was still safer than bonding. And now, I'm in love with a guy who is aroused by hurting me (though he doesnt do it without my consent)",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Are most people in your early 20's, generally poor friends? POST: I'm currently 20 year old female and I've had two best friends in my life who were non romantic. I've been spending a long time searching for genuine friends. I know it's silly but that is probably my number one thing I want in my life, just a genuine friend. I don't know if it is something I'm doing. I just want a friend who if they have a problem with me, will tell me instead of gossiping behind my back. Someone w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with a new girl [25 F] I'm dating. I'm possibly moving away in a year and afraid of commitment. POST: Here's the story: I'm 28 years old and just starting my fourth year of medical school in a large city in the US. This summer, I'll be applying for residency programs, which begin in June 2017. I consider myself successful, but I'm not the most competitive applicant compared to some of the people I'm rotating with. I recently met this girl slightly over a month ago in my c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 M] with my colleague [20 F] of over a year, she's being annoyingly flirty. POST: I'm new into a relationship of one month's standing now with my girlfriend. Everything's brilliant, and I couldn't be happier. However, my female colleague, who at 20 years old and being far out of my age range, suddenly changed her behaviour toward me. Last time I saw her, she kept on blowing down the back of my neck and tickling the same spot. Suffice as to say, that's girlfriend territory a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my brother [25 M], difficulties living together with him POST: My brother, Brett, moved in with me about a year and a half ago so he could have a fresh start. He put a lot of burden on me and my girlfriend. To name a few burdens: lack of transportation, a dog, and lack of general responsibility. I took care of him and his dog. He did contribute a bit financially but not very much, basically living for free the whole time. I am proud of him for picking himself back up a",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [20f] have no idea how to make friends. POST: Particularly, I'm not quite sure about one relationship I'm trying to form. I make casual friendships easily with people I see often, and those usually turn into very good friends. However, a ~21F acquaintance of mine goes to a certain school that I recently transferred to, and when we both realized that the other attends the same school, we reached out to each other and the both of us talked about how awesome it would be to be be",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Brother zoned POST: I've been friends with this girl for 6+ years were like best friends we can tell eachother anything I've liked her for about 2 ish years now she knows I like her but she just says that I'm like a brother to her so it would just be weird, personally I don't see why it would be weird we would be good together everyone thinks that well everyone but her, we're both 14 and I were going to be going to the same highschool (I moved schools for a year) and I want to show h",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: New car woes. POST: So I bought a used car on Monday. Seems to be in really good condition for a 97 with 150k+ miles (don't hate, I'm broke as fuck and my parents are even broke-r). Clean carfax, drives nice, etc.. Had to drive it straight to work the night I got it. Got off work and went to go home, to find it's literally *stuck* in Park. Nothing would get the shifter to move. Eventually my buddy/coworker and I remembered hearing someone with the same problem pushing the car to get it ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Did my naked ass become a meme of some sort? POST: First off reddit.... I lied to you. I made a post on /r/wtf about a month ago and basically I replaced ""my drunk friend"" with myself. The real story is that i got pissed about a very expensive traffic ticket i got and I tackled my chair and my roommate got pissed and left. A dumb story came up in my mind and I decided to completely trash my chair and run electrical tape all around my house and take a pic of ""my naked ass"" with the timer",negative " r/running TITLE: Looking for ways to encourage my sisters, who are training for their first race! POST: I have been running for about a decade now, and my three older sisters and I have decided to all run a half marathon together later this year. They have never been runners and are all in their 30s. I've started them off on the C25K track, and then will be moving them onto a half marathon training plan when the time comes. We all live in different parts of the country, so I'm trying to be as supportive ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend's [21/M] family hates me [21/f] and now that we've been dating for over a year, it's becoming a problem. POST: My boyfriend and I are complete opposites when it comes to lifestyle. I've been on my own since I was 14 and he's lived at home with his dad his whole life. He has always had family problems (bipolar sister, alcoholic dad, etc.) but of course they all love each other and try to work through things as best they can. We were roommates before we began dating. I l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my SO [20 M] (now ex-SO) over a year, he somehow found my Reddit username last night and used posts from almost a year ago against me. POST: Mostly I feel violated. Reddit is an anonymous forum that I think a lot of people use as a sort of diary. There were a few posts from before we were dating even where I called him clingy and immature. But that was 10 months ago! I also posted a month or so ago about an incident that had happened with him when he was blacked out.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is a biology degree good for? POST: I am a fourth year at a top US public university and I'm getting my degree in biology. The ""degree option"", which is the specification that you are required to choose, for my degree is option IV: Neurobiology. I am interested in neurobiology, and I was thinking of going to graduate school and then going into research afterward. I recently (an hour ago) spoke with a neurobiologist here at my university about what I should do in the coming months ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my friend [23 F], concerned she may have an eating disorder. POST: Hey everyone, thanks for taking a look. Basically I've been seeing a friend for the better part of 7-8 months. We meet each other for dinner/movie/coffee probably every three weeks or so. We get along quite well and I consider her a pretty good friend, we also share many similar interests. So here's the thing, she really likes food and I mean *really* likes food. This is all cool but, sometimes the amo",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Just out of college, very modest amount of money, looking for the best bank for checking/savings POST: I'm 21 and just graduated from college with no debt (yay!) and a few thousand dollars in two separate savings accounts. I currently have my checking account and credit card with Wells Fargo, but I'm thinking of switching. The thing is, I'm moving across the country and don't know where life is going to take me in the next few years, so I want a bank that will have branches in ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can't control my dog when he sees another dog. Please help. POST: Hi reddit. I really need your help. I have two dogs. An 11 yr old chi-weenie-like-mutt and an 8 yr old Jack Russel. From puppies up until 6 months ago, we lived with my parents. My dad's way of letting dogs live was to just let them run around the backyard and let them do whatever they wanted and also bark at whatever they wanted. Now I live in an apartment complex and have been trying to get them to calm down whenever ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Her ""friend"" warned me about her. POST: I'm a 16 year old guy, and today I found out that this 17 year old girl (who we'll call Gab) I've been digging for a while is planning on ""going for me"" or whatever. I find it hard to say things like that without sounding like a douche. I've never really been in a serious, let alone legitimate relationship before. Today this other girl who I thought was Gab's friend told me about their history. Apparently they were talking behind each other's",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Need help deciding if it's worth the move? POST: So, I'm not going to go into extreme details unless you guys end up needing more info. The gist is that I currently work in Tampa, FL and my company is offering me a promotion to move to Ft. Lauderdale, FL. They plan to shorten the hours of my current position in the Tampa office. I currently make $13 an hour - 40 hours a week. They are offering me 35k and I guess a little help on the moving. After doing some research about the cost of living",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Should I get a degree? Or keep going with sales? POST: I really do have a go-getter personality and I have been the top sales man every month for every company I have ever been with so far. I am 23 years old with a girl friend and we live together. I make $20 an hour now at my full time call center job. I feel like I can get bigger and better. I am only a half year into a bachelors degree for criminal justice but I have a 2.8 GPA. I don't think school is for me and I just want to be succes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my married friend(?) [30sF]. Have been quite flirty with her, but now she's leaving her husband and wants to sleep with me POST: First of all, I'm posting for a friend who is Reddit illiterate, so I don't know all the details. He came to me for advice, but I don't know what to tell him. Basically, it's like this. Friend (we'll call him Tony) sends me a message asking me for advice. Apparently, he's been talking to a lady in her early 30s (let's call her April) and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (20F) end friendship with (20M) on a good/neutral note? POST: i met someone in my first year of college. he seemed really nice/chill/smart/might be fake, and everyone else seems to think so, but i'm one of the only people who sees his dark side. so: we have been friends 1.5 years. he's mega fake, likes seeing people suffer or go through hardships, and has no respect for anyone, has a god complex, and you can't even argue with him. he's perpetually stuck in high school and i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When did you realize that someone was ""the one who got away""? POST: So a little over 3 years ago I seriously fucked up my relationship with my girlfriend at the time. I was leading my life down the wrong track and told her she ""deserved someome better."" About a month later I decides I could be that someone better, but it was too late and I broke her heart. We managed to remain friends until I left for Basic Training (Currently in the National Guard). After I came back home we ran into ea",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I(f) have a crush on my study buddy (m) and I'm having trouble with his ""mixed signals"". POST: I promised myself I was not going to do this, but the suspense is killing me. (F/20 here crushing on M/20) So there's this guy (obviously) that I met because we're together in a couple classes. He transfered from another uni and I decided to approach him and talk to him. Since then we became friends and study buddies, texting each other all the time, talking through facebook, etc. In the b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Serious roommate problems. My roommate M[35] is taking advantage of me F[27] and yet he passively aggressively complains about me. POST: I made the worst mistake, a blind move-in from craigslist. My roommate has been an utter nightmare... Since I moved in I have purchased - 3 new couches. He has taken over and sleeps on the biggest one even though I told him not to - Dishes from IKEA - Knives - Pots and pans (told him to stop using mine because it was getting scorched) - Silverwa",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Sweating A Few Days After A Cold? POST: First, let's get the info out of the way. I don't think this is a medical emergency, just curiosity: Age: 27 Sex: F Height: 5'11"" Weight: 238 Race: Caucasian Duration of complaint: Today Location (Geographic and on body): South-Central CA, and all over Any existing relevant medical issues (if any): Cold on Monday/Tuesday Current medications (if any): Levothyroxin 100 mcg, taken daily, Allegra OTC one per day, Qlearquil Day, every four hours",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Fiance POST: (Me F 18) (Fiance M 20). He treats me like a kid and always acts like he is better than me. I try to give him advice and he doesn't listen until he has tried and failed with his own advice... 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POST: My (23F) boyfriend (24M) of two years is still a mystery to me. When we first met, he chased me and compromised a lot of things to me. He would do what you'd call Grand Romantic Gestures almost everyday just to get me to talk to him. He was romantic, he would sing praises to me and how he thought I was the most special girl ever, and he'd avoid inconveniencing me",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [23/f] and cannot feel anything for any guy I am trying to date. I think I am ""emotionally unavailable"". Help and advice? POST: Okay so. I have been single for about two and a half years, and I have not had a serious relationship since 2010. I want a relationship very badly because I am pretty lonely. I want someone to talk to, hang out with, play video games with, and cuddle/other things. :P I am on OkCupid and have met many guys on there. It is always the same though. Dat",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, should I keep using Propecia, or not? Help me make an important life decision. POST: Hey guys, I am a 19 year old, almost 20. I have been taking Propecia for hair loss for about a year and a half, and it has really helped me look better. However, I am also aware that, according to official studies, there is a small (~2%) chance of experiencing sexual side effects from it, including erectile dysfunction, loss of libido, etc. About 2 months ago, I started to experience these types ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My friend [39F] has fled her own home because her boyfriend's [42M] 18-yr-old son threatened her when she asked him to move out--cops say he has squatter's rights. State of MN. Advice? POST: A friend of mine is dating a man who has an 18-year-old son with Asberger's--they've been together three years. The guy and the son moved into her home last year. She enforces basic rules in the house, but overall she has taken this kid on trips, bought him clothes, food, supported him, you name it",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What if the world (or at least America) went to a 24 hour schedule? POST: I joined a 24 hour gym, and I can honestly say it was the best move I have ever made. I don't have to schedule in gym time, I can go when its convenient (and I do go to the gym 5-6 times a week). This morning, I ran to the bank at 11, and it was 101 degrees outside. I wanted to run other errands, but it was just too hot too, so I just went home and wasted time. In the afternoon, in 105 degree heat, I went to the st",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my husband [20 M] married for 2 years, violent outbursts not sure if I should keep trying? POST: Hi, I got married when I was still pretty young and it was an impulsive dissuasion on both of our parts and probably not the best choice during that time. During the first 6 months of the marriage my husband would push and shove me every time we got into an argument and then just leave and ignore me. After about a year he pressed me against the door so hard by the arms I ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [24M] buy house with my family POST: I currently live in New Zealand. My mum and sister live in Melbourne, Australia and my dad lives in Brisbane, Australia. I have got a great job and $50,000 saved up with no debts. I really want to travel and work in Europe and Canada over the next 4 years. This will increase my market value substantially. However, my family is in financial trouble especially my mother. She believes it would be a waste of money for me to ignore their si",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Anyone else get back pain while driving? If so, what are your useful methods of fixing the problem? POST: I'm a 17 year old female, driving a 2005 jeep grand cherokee. 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I spent the last 12 months doing virtually nothing and have made no steps to improve myself and have finally made the turn around and started university, a new job and just generally trying to better myself. I have a goal in mind of where I want to be with myself in the coming year, but I don't know how to get there. So my plan is to perhaps drop out of university and focus on this goal and hopef",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I (F/18) cut ties with my boss-person (m/23)? POST: I am a sophomore in college and I have been working with a start up for a year. I never expected payment; this was primarily for learning. I learned the owner was paying other for the same amount of work I was doing. I feel like I should be paid. The owner is looking into investors and making a solid team. He wants me on his team. This would involve me owning equity and remaining in the business for 2 to 5 years. I do graph",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Our school district refuses to support our FIRST Robotics team at the same level as they do for athletics and band. What can we do? POST: We have a 37 person team with most students at one high school, but a few at another high school in the same district. They provide no support for Regionals (beyond one school bus for one of two competitions), as they says it is local and requires no support. However, one competition that was ""local"" was about 200 miles away. The other (as we atten",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is one of hardest choices you have ever had to make? I am currently reflecting on mine and it still hurts. POST: Back in 2008-2009 I spent about 7 months volunteering in an orphanage down in Juarez, Mexico. In the middle of february I came home for a break because I wanted to see my family and everyone. Upon leaving I had two little girls and a little boy that looked up to me and loved me - they had completely stolen my heart. Shortly after returning I came to the realizatio",negative " r/self TITLE: A red pickup truck honked at a disabled student while on the pedestrian crossing POST: I am physically challenged, because I have muscular dystrophy. Luckily I can still get around everywhere, I even commute by car to my university. I walk significantly slower than average. Between classes I was crossing the street using the pedestrian crossing. A pickup truck that had just been salting the local area, revved its engine and honked at me to hurry up. After I crossed a few more feet I turned ar",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girl says she'll let me know if she's free to meet? POST: Hi, I'm 21, I met a girl at my sisters party on Sunday just gone (she's a friend of hers) and she told my sister she liked the look of me etc and wanted to talk, she left before I had the chance too. 2 hours or so after she left she messages me on Facebook and we start talking. On Wednesday I asked her if she was free at all on the weekend to go for a drink and she replied she might have plans but she'll let me know... It b",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Office workers I need your ideas. What cool stuff does your office have which makes life better? POST: Fellow Redditors, My company is moving into new digs soon and has kindly asked each of its employees what kinds of quirky, cool things we might want to have. This seems like a great opportunity and I'd hate to pass it up but so far I'm drawing a blank. 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I guess all in all, I'm rusty at ""dating"". We met online and didn't know each other very well before meeting in person, so I understand wanting to takes things slow. We ended up kissing goodnight at the end of our last (3rd) dat",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my friend [24 F] of 4 years, is she interested in me? POST: So I'm a guy and there is this girl, let's call her Hannah, that I've been crushing on for 4 years. We've been friends for the whole time and we've gotten close, but not too close. Hannah has been dating the same guy steadily for the last 4 years and they are engaged now. From day one, it seemed like Hannah and I have always clicked really well together. Our minds are on the same wavelength constantly, we have",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm tired of fighting. POST: My fiancé (F/21) and I (M/23) are having problems. We have fights but most couples do. The thing is she will not let the past go. She will bring up girls I've dated in the past and said ""I be if I was *ex's name* you'd do this."" And it's not true. She is also convinced that I'm going to leave her for my ex girlfriends which causes her to be upset and want to break off our engagement. The fights last between a day to a day and a half. The truth is ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Sorry pops, but your little girl loves an anarchist (M/24 /F/24) POST: My girlfriend and I met in late September through a mutual friend and sparks flew instantly. She lived five hours away at the time and we still managed to find time to see one another. After a month of that she moved and is 45 minutes away, but is now living with her father. I moved to the area from across the country in February and we are scheduling a move out west in March of next year. Her dad is a controlling",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 5 year relationship falling apart, need some advice?? POST: (Yes im jusy still a teenager but hes my best friend and i dont want to lose him) My [19F] partner [19M] of 5 years and i are on the verge of breaking up and its breaking my heart. I dont know what i should do so i am coming here. He is the sweetest guy i know hes my best friend and he makes me feel loved, when he wants to. We do fight allot about petty things and he does make fun of me quite often but i dont love him any ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can I move up in my higher education career? POST: I am currently an american student studying math at a tier 2 university which is a system school of a major state university and I just completed my frshman year. In high school i didnt do too well, i graduated in the top 25% and my grades did have a positive trend as I went from on level courses to AP courses as a senior, but it was not enough to get into any major schools here. As I make my way through years of school I realize more an",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Ages (22+) M&F. Really want some input… POST: Hello! Hopefully this is the right subreddit. First post here, but you all have given phenomenal advice to countless posts that have helped me in numerous ways. The advice I'm seeking is not necessarily for me as it is for my best friend and perhaps my own peace of mind. My best friend (I've known her since we were in preschool together) is married to one of my good friends from high school and he has always been a naturally flirty ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (19M) worried I lost my ability to love/care properly POST: To keep a short post short, since I guess it almost sounds kind of stupid. I used to have a natural affinity to get along with people, and immerse myself in their interests and lives. Like really caring about what's going on with them. Like my life had two centers, my education and my friends. I got out of a relationship, slowly, that was probably the most serious I've ever been with someone. But I was pretty badly 'b",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need a reliable place to get cheap Blu Ray movies. POST: Thing is I really don't care for the whole Blu Ray thing. For whatever reason a lot of movies in hd on BR seem to break the fourth wall when it comes to their clarity. In some cases it's not too bad. But more often, than not, it is way too noticeable. Some directors/producers seem to realize that a little grit and grain go a long way, and post that stuff in. In those movies, I'm pretty ok with BR. As it stands, I have a t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (26/m) and my now ex (25/f) just broke up yesterday after 2.5 years. We live together. What now? POST: Hi Reddit. I actually don't think this is going to be so long, because I'm not really needing to vent everything on my mind.. at least right now. The breakup was mostly on her end, but we both saw it coming. Things got stale, she's been bettering her life and health while I continue to work a job I hate and drink more often lately because of said job/general outlook on my life. I",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Told my SO I thought one her friends was kind of hot, freak out ensues. Please advise! POST: So we were laying down just chillin and she starts telling me about a photo shoot she has coming up. She mentions one of her friends will be there too (nude shoot). I say she probably has a nice body. Kicks me out of her room. So i understand i'm a huge idiot here, but i don't know how to fix this now. I can't complement her because she thinks i'm just playing up to her, and i obvious",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by throwing a quarter at a moving car POST: Let me preface this by saying I have been trying to rid my world of violence. No micro-aggressions against people, I even stopped playing Destiny because it's gun-based. So needless to say, someone didn't let me merge even though I was coming up to a parked car, and I honked at him. He responded the typical way, by slowing down to 5 miles per hour in a 40 mile per hour zone. We were coming up to a redlight, and we would be right next to eacho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (31M) listed every flaw he finds in me (30F). Having a hard time not being hurt. POST: We were talking the other night about us and somehow this topic came up. He listed out a few things about me he's not happy about and wishes were different. These are very superficial things (like my arms aren't completely toned), but it still hurt to hear it since he seemed to have hit the parts of myself I'm working on. I'm in good shape and thin but can be more toned. He listed off a f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [26 M] GF [32 F] (2y3m) told me that I'm it for her, but I want to break up POST: We almost broke up about six months ago, but we agreed to try and work through it, but, especially over the last month, I've realized that we really don't have a future together, partly because our goals are too far apart, but that's another story. We talked the other day about us, since we've been struggling of late, and she said to me, in no uncertain terms, that I'm absolutely it for her; that wi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [17f] [16m] My Boyfriend Doesn't Trust Me POST: Hi, my boyfriend and I broke up in the beginning of December because of a cheating thing kind of, he said he wanted nothing to do with me but I really wanted to stay together so I begged him and offered for him to be able to look through my phone and everything whenever he wants to and that I'd be open about everything from now on. He agreed to get back together with me. It's now been about a month and he still goes through it sometimes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23f] relationship with my on-again boyfriend [24m] is ending (has ended?) and I need your help POST: My boyfriend and I met summer of 2012. Our relationship was complicated by the fact that he was one of my close friends exes (I didn't know them when they were together, he and I just got wrapped up in it, excuses, yaddayadda). Anyways, after about half a year of dating, he started to pull away, became distant and, over the course of a few weeks, we broke up. He claimed we were ju",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(23f) boyfriend(28m) of 3.5 years gets mad when I try to talk about our sex life POST: So I've been dating my man for almost 4 years and besides the bedroom our relationship is literally perfect! Our sex life was great for the first 1.5 years and since then it's been a lot of ups and downs. We spent almost a year travelling and during this time stress among other things kind of put sex on the way back burner. Now we are(or should I say, I am) trying to get things back on track. Th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My dad [M 55] is getting married for the third time later this summer. Am I missing something? POST: My dad really is a smart, successful guy. He doesn't live a glamorous life by any means but he does well for himself and lives a happy life. He's been with his current partner [F 55] for three years, and they decided to get married this past february. Anyway, I've talked a bit to my dad about it, but I [F 22] feel like I'm just not getting something.. assuming you're in a great, healt",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to the homecoming football game POST: so im a freshman in college and just before college started my girlfriend of 3 and half years broke up with me and i was devastated and quite honestly i still am. I'm not over her yet. its only been a little over a month since the breakup which left both of us sobbing. So this fuck up just happened minutes ago when i went back to my high schools homecoming game with my friends from back in high school and my best friend shows up and were tal",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend[24 F] of 3 years. I'm I wrong for not letting her go to a after work party? POST: To keep it short several weeks ago she went for Christmas party her job organized. In one of the bar in town. Her phone battery died and she got me worried sick till 2AM when she finally came home. (PS. we dont live together). Today she asked me if she could go to another party (someone from her work is leaving so they going to the bar again to wish him good luck and have fe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] need help with my ex [26F] (4 year relationship) regarding possibly moving across country for work together. POST: We were each other's first relationship. We're both from the same hometown but never met until we were both at home for summer break during university. We were attending different universities but since we had a ridiculous amount in common I transferred. We lived together for 3 1/2 years and went through alot together including: her mental illness, our finan",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23f] with my blind date[23M] Is this guy kinda pushy, or am I being touchy? POST: I want to preface this post with a note that I have a history of growing up with abuse and attracting abusive men. I am working hard on recognizing healthy behaviors, not being so skittish, and establishing boundaries when needed. Anyway, I've been sending myself on a series of blind dates. The last guy I went on a date with this Tuesday. We had a good conversation on the website we met on. When w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my gf [23 F] 3 years, I am going to break up with her but insure of how POST: Quick background: Been with my girlfriend for 3 years, we are both reasonably passive people when it comes to relationships so we've never fought really, save a few minor things. I've come to the realisation over the last 6 months that I can't see a future together. I am not happy in the relationship even though nothing is wrong, she is amazing to me, and I feel sad that I can't return that ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16F] with a friend [16M] 6 month crush POST: I've liked this guy for 4 months. I'm 16 this year and he is the first guy I have ever liked. I wanted to do something special for him. Something that will make him go awww. So I folded 100 paper cranes, and put a note in there saying I liked him. I just don't know how I should give it to him... I am on the chubby side and I feel like I have no chance with him... I'm just depressed with myself. I want to give these cranes to him next w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (19F) go about being friends with my ex (19M)? POST: So, I met a guy at the beginning of college and we hit it off immediately. Long story short, we dated for about 8 months. We broke up Saturday (though I started the moving on process Friday, but that's a long story). I was pretty pissed/hurt/upset for most of the weekend but after the wonderful support from friends (plus acing my finals...I'm pretty proud) I'm feeling much better and am basically over the whole ordeal. ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by saying the first I Love You during sex, TWICE, and forgot. [NSFW] POST: (Not today, but I just learned about half of this) I had kept my mushy love feelings toward my boyfriend relatively under wraps for a while but the L word was in my brain. One day maybe 6 or 7 weeks in we were getting pretty intimate. We've always been very talkative during sex, it really gets us going, so we're talking dirty and passionately and in the middle of him fingering me, all hot and bothered, the next th",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [M/19] I just need some help with the current situation I'm having with this girl [F/18] POST: Posting from a throwaway because she does get on reddit and knows my usual online username. Semi-lengthy post incoming: So about a few weeks ago me and this girl, who I've been friends with since our sophomore year of high school (we just graduated) and went to prom with, basically told each other that we have some strong feelings for one another. However, we haven't started dating ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I started following this random girl on Twitter and she's perfect. What should I do? POST: 19 year old here and apologies if any of this sounds ""stalkerish"" but I started following this girl on Twitter randomly a few months ago because I was following a hashtag at the time on a show I liked, she tweeted something really funny so I followed her. At the time I didn't really think much towards her; she was a compete stranger, but she was kinda cute. But that was all I knew about her an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My ex gf [22F] of 2.5 years and I [23M] have been broken up for two months now and haven't talked since the breakup. Is this enough time for me to talk to her? POST: Started dating in college and brokeup right before she graduated in May (I graduated last year). It was kind of an odd breakup; things hadn't been right for a couple of months as I transitioned into the real world and she was still in school. We're from the same hometown and I'm back living at home (#StudentLoanProbs) so",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU- I punched my best friend in the face, breaking his nose POST: (Last night) Three of us were watching a scary movie. A fourth friend came in during the movie but I was really into the movie so I didn't realize. I went pee and when I got back nobody was there.. The fourth friend grabbed my hips to scare me and I immediately turned around and clocked him directly in the face. He fell back and blood was everywhere. My other friends came out and were laughing because it was pretty funny. T",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So I recently found out that my little sisters' friends have blogs (10 years old, she wants one). What are your thoughts on this subject and what would you do in this situation? POST: So as my little sister was playing club penguin, going to meet with her friends from school on the site, she told me that they have websites. I then went on these ""websites"" (they were blogs from wordpress.com) and I found some information that shouldn't be on the internet, let alone from a 9 or 10 year old",negative " r/relationships TITLE: ME (22/F) screwed things up with the guy (27/M) I've been seeing for 4 months by being clingy POST: I had just got out of a 2 yr relationship prior seeing this guy who lives in another city. The break up was still fresh and I was quick to move on. I met this guy on a dating app and at first I didn't like him at all but when I finally met him, I gotten to know him more and started to fall for him. Keep in mind, I had just broken up with my ex and we were still talking. My ex found ",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I (26/m) like this girl, she seems to like me... We don't talk... How the heck do I talk to her?! POST: Ok so this girl seems to like me. At first I didn't really pay attention to her, as she's quite attractive and I didn't really feel there was a chance in hell--I've never been with anyone before and so I have no confidence with women I like at all. She's very attractive, quiet and has a stone-faced demeanour about her, so she's slightly intimidating to be around, especially since",negative " r/college TITLE: Living in an off-campus house with a small bedroom, I need ideas for the setup POST: So I am living in an off-campus house in august for my sophomore year at the University of Delaware. I went down to check out the place and hang out with my roommates who have already moved in a couple of weeks ago. The house is great but my room is kind of small. The dimensions are 8ft long X 7ft 6in wide X 8ft high, and don't think I could even fit a full bed in there. However, I am not complaining, si",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to fix my earbuds POST: On a mobile device so excuse any formatting errors. This also happened today a few hours ago. I've a pair of ear buds I used to use a lot, like at least 6-7 hours a day (Not sure if that's normal for every one but it's seems like a lot) listening to music, YouTube, etc. They've been working fine up until now, because of its continual use, you can imagine it would start to die out, and die it did. It started off slowly but extremely annoying. You know t",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: [PA] Any advantages or unnecessary risks of ""buying"" my parents' house? How can we do it while minimizing expenses? (x-post /r/legaladvice) POST: The [original post] is worth a read, but it really comes down to identifying ways to transfer my parents' house to me while incurring as little tax, interest, and other costs as possible. One idea I had was to purchase their home from them on mortgage. They then pass the proceeds back to me. I use the proceeds to pay off the mortgage on ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (24/f) boyfriend (23/m) of 5 1/2 years doesn't want to move back to our hometown. POST: As the title says, my boyfriend of 5 years doesn't feel like he can move back to our hometown, which is San Antonio, Texas. We've lived together for nearly two years. He moved to my college town for a year so I wouldn't have to deal with crappy roommates . At this point he was already done with school and looking for work in the area. He ended up finding a really good job in austin and We end",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] am terrified that I may just be a rebound from my boyfriends previous relationship [23M]. Am I crazy for feeling this way? POST: I [23F] have been dating my boyfriend [23M] for about a year now and we have been living together for about 3 or 4 months. Everything has been going very well, our relationship is great. My family loves him and his family (that I have met so far) love me. He's the sweetest, kindest man that I have ever dated and he is incredibly respectful. We rarel",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Boyfriend [22M] has suddenly become with drawn from me [22F] POST: My boyfriend and I have seen each other almost daily since we started dating two years ago. We spend most nights together, and usually eat dinner together. Recently, he suggested we move in together for the summer since we will be interning at the same office. I was a hesitant because I don't really feel ready for that, but eventually agreed. About a week later, he goes off on me about how he thinks moving ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: am i [f22] expecting too much from my socially anxious girlfriend [f21]? POST: any advice would be greatly appeciated. so here goes without going into much detail... my girlfriend has some social anxiety issues that she takes some pills for and is waiting to see a therapist. however ive had some issues of my own with my health and in the last couple of months i have had to go into hospital for a couple procedures and surgery. she wasnt there for me. my family didnt like the fa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Guy I'm seeing[43M] wants me[24F] to meet kids, affectionate, brings me around his friends etc but rarely communicates when not together POST: I've been seeing this guy after months of flirting and chemistry, and it has been great. He is extremely affectionate when he sees me, wants me to meet his children, jokes about marrying me in front of his friends... ...but when we aren't together, he rarely texts me. Sometimes we will even be in a conversation via text and he'll leave me han",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: best (F) friend is showing affection towards me (M) POST: I have a strong felling that she is starting to have romantic feelings about me and while I was once into her and still like her a lot I'm not sure if I'm too comfortable with the situation. She was in a relationship for several years that she's currently ending and I'm not sure if she's only looking for someone so as not to be alone or if she is actually ending the relationship because she has feelings for me. My rela",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Next step for me (re. gauging her interest). POST: I'm a 21 year old in my final year of university. Pretty much all year I've had my eye on a girl in one of my classes. Last week I finally had the balls and talk to her after class. We've spoken a couple of times since but they tend to be mostly small talk, and last only a minute or so as we both have to rush off to catch other classes. The problem I'm having is that I only have this class with her twice a week and don't see her ot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend was talking to someone while we were in a relationship POST: My boyfriend (m21) and i(f20) have been in a relationship for about 8 months now and i feel like the ship is sinking. We have our ups and downs like a normal relationship but what he did to me was completely wrong in my opinion. We were laughing and messing around the other day and i tried grabbing his phone from him and that's when he got very defensive. He then began to go on snap chat to delete something and th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [48F] with my boyfriend [57 M] almost two years duration, last night he told me he thinks I love him a lot more than he loves me. But that he still loves me, and doesn't want to break up. POST: In my mind, this means it is time for a break up. I don't feel like I can even look at him or face him now that he has said this. He didn't say a little - he said A LOT. But then he said, ""but I do care about you very much and I do love you. I just think you love me a lot more."" This m",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: why is She(22F) upset at me(22M) for not talking to her recently. POST: Me and this girl have been friends for a little bit. I felt like there has been an attraction between us so I asked her if she thought so. She said she thinks there is something between us but she doesn't want to pressure it. I asked her if her if she wanted to see where it could go, no pressure. Then she said she's doesn't know and wants to stay friends. I'm okay with that. So I wanted to pull back a lit",negative " r/college TITLE: Research in freshman year POST: Hi guys! So I will be a freshman next fall in CS. I was talking to my counselor about my major and she suggested talking to a faculty (she told me which) and after I talked to him, he liked me so much that he suggested getting involved in one of his research teams starting freshman year! I did not expect this at all and I was wondering how hard is to be part of a research team your freshman year? I am going to work 10h/week ($8.5/h), but I want to rush for a",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going off the diving board (nsfw) POST: This isn't anything SUPER embarrassing but it was a pretty awful moment. Today the Iowa heat was hot and humid, it was the perfect pool day and I wanted to wear my victoria secret swim suit (which I later discovered was more of a tanning suit) for the first time. I hadn't planned on getting in the water but my brothers and their friends decided to play diving board tag and I wanted to kick their asses while releasing my inner child and nostalgia",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Can I take my previous employer to court? POST: Hi folks, Earlier this year I lost my job. According to the employers, I was fired because I had gone through my file (the file cabinet was unlocked in a common area). I had gone through my file, but only because I had showed up to work that day and found that I had been removed from the schedule, effective immediately. I had no warning, but had been blamed for a scheduling error over the weekend. I was writing the schedule at the time",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF does not feel anything (emotionally) POST: Me: 18 GF: 16 Been together: 5,6 months. I love my GF and I remember at the beginning of the relationship she told me something about how she doesn't feel anything emotionally, like she is detached emotionally and nothing affects her. She said her father is like that and maybe that's how she got that way. I accepted that and we carried on with our relationships. Months pass and I tell her I love her (I really feel this way) and she s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (F25) am very jealous all the time, and I need advice on how not to be. My boyfriend (32M) of 9 months is wonderful. POST: Hey guys, I would like some advice on how to be less jealous. My partner (M32) and I (F25) have been together for 9 months and we live together. Our relationship is very special and unlike anything I've ever experienced before. We knew each other about two years before we started dating. He is an amazing man. He is sweet, honest, confident, intelligent, amb",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my GF [19] (~1 month), starting to have doubts POST: I met my GF a few months ago. After a few months of going on dates, hanging out, etc., we finally became official a few weeks ago. The thing is, there's this girl I work with who I've had strong feelings for. This girl and I started to grow close at around the same time I met my GF, but through a combination of us being co-workers/thinking she only wanted to be friends, I didn't court her. Last week, this girl conf",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [24m] feel like i'm not relationshipmaterial for my GF [22] POST: It's not just with my current girlfriend, but my exes as well. I don't want/need a lot of friends. Currently I have one best friend, my girlffriend and people I talk to at school and work. I don't feel the need for more interaction with people as it is. I'd love to focus my entire life on myself or my relationship. I want the two of us to live in a bubble. I feel very insecure when my gf does things outside",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How weird would it be to send a message to a random chick at school? POST: So I've been eyeing this cute chick at school and I didn't really have the guts to walk up to her and say something, at least not before the summer break. So one day I was like what ever let's add her on facebook. And so now I've added her and a couple of weeks have passed. And I thought once more what ever, what am I going to lose on sending her this message. But I didn't want to make it sound creppy so I never s",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking a dump in my boss's garden POST: This actually happened today, and I am still extremely embarrassed. My boss asked me if I wanted to make a bit of extra cash by spending the day cleaning the outside of his new house. I didn't have any plans and could do with the cash so agreed. I turn up and get to work cleaning the outside of the windows while my boss and his wife are unpacking inside. A few hours in and I feel that feeling in my gut. Yesterday's huge roast dinner is coming",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My Stepfather Unexpectedly Passed Away. What Do I Do? POST: Teddy (my stepfather) had a seizure and stopped breathing. He was only 42 years old. My mother and the EMT crew did all they could to try and bring him back. Nothing worked. I'm the oldest of the three sons. Eric (20) has the same father as me, but this was my youngest brother's father. First off how the fuck do I deal with losing one of the most important people in my life when it was already screwed up to begin with? I doubt I'll",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[21F] having a hard time getting over my ex[22m] when he keeps contacting me POST: We met last summer, and it was an instant connection for the two of us. We had a great relationship, and I could honestly see myself spending the rest of my life with him. Things started changing for him about just after a year. He started being very distant and would have bouts of depression and talk about ""the future"" and commitment and missing out on opportunities (he mentioned dating opportuni",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] don't know if I should break up with my girlfriend [21 F] of almost two years. Big Problems in the beginning. Worked a lot out. Problems again. POST: We met freshman year of college. She was in a relationship, and I had been single for almost a year from a long term relationship. We started out as friends, kind of. I knew I liked her and I flirted a lot. I made it very evident and when we talked about her relationship she said it had been bad for a long time. Long story short",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm upset at my[20F] boyfriend[21M] because he is playing WOW. POST: I'm going to make this short. Basically we want to hang out, but since we're broke and still live at home there's not much to do. So we decided that we would just chill out at his place doing our own respective stuff. That's fine. Except I'm a little upset because he got on WOW as soon as I got here and has been on it for the last 3 and a half hours and has basically ignored me. I feel like it's misplaced beca",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hello, reddit. I've been crazy about this girl, who has recently accepted that she loved me, but hasn't accepted to be my girlfriend (details inside). My question is: How to win her heart? You can tell me anything about it, I'm willing to do it all. POST: You see, there's this girl with whom I've been in love with (and that has been in love with me) for a year. We normally talk everyday from 8pm to 6:30 am, something that I love. I, after a month of knowing how I feel, told her that I'd ",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Weird serendipitous discovery about networking POST: I recently graduated and found a job in another. I was looking for roommates in the area on Craigslist and attached a resume to give the other person a general sense about who I am (I know it sounds weird, but I find that it is at least informative). I also explained that, due to the low pay of my first job I would be looking for part-time work on weekends to repay loans. Well, one person whom I sent a resume to said that, while they alrea",negative " r/loseit TITLE: What should I do (help)? POST: my bf and i are both overweight (there's no question or doubt about that). i have several health problems, so i'm trying to become healthier and slimmer. my bf supports me and wants to do the same for himself. i admit we become lazy about it and put it off sometimes, but i think i feel stronger about it than he does. he constantly complains about his weight and denies his weight to be a factor in minor health problems that he has. i care about him and don't wa",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not using common sense w/ a login POST: University exams, fun™ right? I had no idea if the exam was written on paper, oral, multiple choice, nothing. It's an elective so I did study but never got really immersed in it. Nothing clicks even after I see that it'll be in a computer room. It was multiple choice on PC. You need your uni account login for that, from which I have two, and because security reasons, have to change both every few months. Normally I know both, or get it right af",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my Best Friend[20 M] Is it wrong to expect my friend to be considerate and to do things that I want to do? POST: Hi reddit! This may seem weird but my best friend is somebody I met online through gaming and ever since we've been best friends. I know most of the consolidation is for IRL relationships, but if you can help me out I'd really appreciate it. Let's refer to my best friend as Joe. On a daily basis, we game about 6-8 hours a day. Now, I'm the person that typi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What can I do with my chemical engineering major (not the stereotypical stuff but more broad based I guess)? POST: I'm graduating in 2013 or 2012 depending on whether or not I get a coop. I've got a triple minor going (not bragging, it only takes 4 additional classes) in Green Engineering, Math and Chemistry. I'm doing well academically but the job market of the future scares me. I'm also international, so while I don't hope to settle down in the US, I do eventually want to work here for",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: I need help dealing with a possible blackmail/extortion from my boss. POST: Some background because its semi important. So around this time last year, I started working a new job. My boss and I got along well until a few months ago when he got into some legal trouble and a lot of bad things happened to him. Well somewhere in the fold, my boss decided that I was responsible for the legal trouble he faces now. Every day I have to deal with threats to my way of life. I have been told that",negative " r/relationships TITLE: i (f29) am confused about friendship with ex (26m) because he's technically married and i am smitten with another guy (m23) POST: my ex and i have been broken up for over a year. we were together for a year and a half, lived together even. after he broke up with me, we still hooked up for months. i didn't officially get over him until this summer. he moved away for work and it made my life easier. anyway, he met and fell in love with a girl he ended up marrying. i was totally happy f",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by cutting a hornets nest in half with a hedge trimmer POST: Well, it was actually two weeks ago but anyway.. I'm a seasonal maintenance worker at the local conservation district when i'm home for the Summer, and a big part of the job is trimming back trails. On this particular Friday afternoon we were minutes from heading back to our shop and with Loverboy's timeless classic, ""Working For the Weekend"" coursing through my head, I was jogging along the trail trimming left and right while ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am unsure if I am being groomed or he is just a good (older) friend and is just being nice... POST: I am a 17 year old male. My mother has many colleauges at her workplace who are also her close friends. One of these girls has a husband called 'Joe' (26 years old). Now every so often, usually to celebrate the end of the work year, my mother will host an evening at my house where all the girls from work will come round for drinks and some dinner. It's a very enjoyable evening as al",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Was my first date with SO of 1.5 years suppose to be better? POST: Hello r/relationships! Tonight, me (17F) and my boyfriend (18M) went on our first real date after being together for 2 years. Crazy, I know. We just never had the opportunity or means of transportation or money. Tonight we went to dinner and then a movie. We did get a little naughty for the movie theatre but it was only us in there. Throughout the entire night he was telling me how much he loves me and how his life ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I dump my current gf of 3 months for a girl that i had a crush on for a yr and is fresh out of a LTR? POST: I've been dating my current gf for 3 months.. she's an awesome girlfriend. Cooks cleans etc without me even asking.. sweetest person ever, nonjudgmental, i'm completely comfortable around her. I didn't really have to work for her though, we just started hooking up after meeting at a cpl of parties and she asked me out basically. This other girl is someone ive had a huge cru",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [M25] found pictures of my girlfriend [F23] on gonewild POST: Basically what the title says. I don't even go on gonewild specifically, I was on r/all and came across a post that was on my front page. Recognized our bedroom in the background. We have been dating for 3 years, living together for about 1 year. She has never mentioned posting on gonewild to me. When I saw the picture I went to the account and looked through the other posts… she hasn't posted her face but it's defin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24/F] roommate's [22/m] girlfriend might be coming over too much. POST: Throwaway account since he's on reddit. Moved in with roommate about a month ago, and things are going pretty smoothly. He and I get along great and his girlfriend is nice. He and I have been pretty straightforward with each other about any issues that pop up, but I don't really know what to do with this one. One of the things I told him when we got to know each other to see if we were a good fit was that I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [26m] might have met someone else... POST: I feel like an asshole for even writing this, but eh... Me and my girlfriend [32f] have been living together for 3 years now. We bonded at first through our common life philosophies, our interest in theatre and the fact that we were both looking at settling down sooner than later. Everything was perfect for the first 2 years. Last year took an...interesting...turn of events when she gave up on being an highschool teacher and went back t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 /F] with [35/M] duration -5months, Mixed feelings about this guy with two kids. POST: I am talking to this guy that has two kids, one is 14yrs and the other is 4yrs. From two different mothers. I don't have any kids of my own, but intend to have some soon with the right person after completing my school (I am a FT student) whenever I think of going any further with him, I hesitate - because I am afraid things aren't going to be exciting as they would had he not had any kids be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My date [19 F] is going back to her home country. What should I [24 M] do? POST: I just got a call from the girl I'm dating. I know her for two weeks. She is going back to her home country. I told her I was very sad to hear that. She isn't planning to come back. I tried to reach her again and talk to her. I sent her text messages and she didn't respond. I called her and couple of hours later she called me back. This is what happened: I asked couple of questions like if she is coming",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30F] dating [30m] for two months. He told me HERPES! Much needed advice/experiences POST: Hi guys. So I've been dating a great guy for a couple months now. We talked every day for a couple months before we started dating he told me after us taking it very slow for the first month doing nothing but kissing and hanging out, going to shows, drives just talking and going to the gym together etc. That he has herpes and has for approximately two years. I was really taken back and did n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20M] Should I Ask My [20F] Current FWB on a ""Date""? We Used to Have a Thing. POST: This girl and I have hooked up a few times. We had a thing at one point but she ended because she didn't like people knowing about it. So there was a break. We recently started hooking up again but have been secretive about it. None of our friends know. The most recent time we were lying in bed and she said she still wanted to grab donuts with me, the closest DD is a good hour away. When we had a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I lied about my age, today we started a committed relationship, how to tell the truth? POST: I'm 22, but have my life pretty straighten out, live by myself, make my own money, own a small business, etc. I'm used to tell some people that I have 26 years old. For all sorts of reasons, it avoids jealousy, makes me look more serious (what I am, but the young age always leaves some doubt), makes my lifestyle and my histories more reliable. Drunk one month ago, I met the amazing 22 years ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU buy not holding on to a pole on a nyc bus POST: This happened just now, and I am shamefully walking to my next bus. I was reading Reddit on the bus like I usually do, but decided that I could just not hold onto a pole as it was extremely crowded. Now I have done this before, for multiple stops actually, and this bus only had to go half a block more. The swerve this bus took made me fall on to an older lady and a guy (who was holding his crotch when I got on). The old lady looked at m",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to be clean. POST: So, I was hungry and wanted a snack, but also wanted to watch the dankest Super Mario World player to have walked the earth. So, what I decided to do was get my snack [Chips and salsa], move my keyboard, and cover my desk in tissues, because God forbid if my keyboard got salsa on it I would have to buy a new one. So I finished eating, and went to put the dishes away. I came back upstairs to a very confused and concerned face from my grandma. I think you know ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My odd girlfriend related question... 26/M POST: Ill try to keep this brief. Last year my girlfriend mentioned, while buzzed, that she would want another girl in the bedroom with us. Not for me though. So she can experience a girl going down on her. I joked how I would be involved and she said maybe there would be some rules involving, well, involvement. Months later, she makes the same comment and reminded me she brought it up before and is still interested. The question is.... How ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf (m22) and I (f22) got into an argument and agreed to talk things out on Sunday. I want to text him now but should I wait? POST: Long story short, my boyfriend of a year and I got into a fight that we both left feeling angry and unresolved. The day after we agreed to speak about things this coming Sunday. Mostly because that's when we are both free to sit down and have a discussion, but also it will give us both time to sit and cool down. However, he is my best friend and I d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is it okay for me [26F] to talk to my friends [28M, 27F] about their kids' unhealthy weight gain? POST: I've been friends with ""Ash"" and ""Kate"" for about five years now, so I've been around to see their children [8M, 5F, 3M] grow up. They do a good job of raising them, though both of them refuse to discipline the kids. Kate doesn't want to be the nagging mum stereotype and Ash says he works so much that he wants to be ""fun dad"" when he's with them. It doesn't seem great but the kids ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Want to promote/bring traffic to my friends' comedy website. What's the best way to do so without spamming? POST: Basically some of my friends are launching a new comedy website that features their own little videos and webseries. They asked me to help promote it and bring traffic in. Problem is I don't have a lot of cash to spend (any, I'm not getting paid.) But I really want to help them. I'm not going to post the website here because I don't want people to think I'm spamming it here. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit. Fed and drove a homeless man. Stupid or generous? POST: So tonight i was at walgreens buying supplies to make a top hat(another story) and walking in I saw a homeless man standing by the door. I thought to my self that maybe I should offer help but at the time I didn't know for sure he was homeless. On the way out he asked for some money, I gave him the change I had with me from my purchase. I made my hat in the parking lot then went to throw away my trash when he asked if I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[19M] parents gave me an ultimatum between my GF [19F] and my family. I don't know what to do. POST: I[19M] have been dating my GF[19F] for about 1.5 years now. I have kept her a secret from my family this entire time knowing that they would disapprove because she is Muslim and my family is Hindu. I couldn't take the pressure anymore so I caved in and told my parents. My parents were incredibly upset and reacted far worse than I anticipated. They cannot stand the idea of my GF bec",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25 F] Wife [25 F] is having minor surgery next week, and I have a dilemma. POST: My wife is having minor knee surgery (1 hr, outpatient, no general anesthesia) on the 22nd. It's completely elective, to address some pain issues that have bothered her on and off for the past three years. She decided to schedule this surgery right before Christmas for a number of (good) reasons, but it conflicted with our plans to spend the holiday with my family several states away. My family was",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Not sure how many of you care, but here's an Update: Minnesota - Landlord hasn't fixed radiator heating, known about it for nearly four months POST: OP: Last Thursday was October 15th, so I called the Saint Paul Inspection Department that was listed in the link that /u/gnfnrf provided and gave them the relevant information. The lady on the phone sounded utterly uninterested, and when I finished, she merely asked ""So...you want to file a complaint?"" Yes. Yes I do. She then told me tha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Does 'going on a break' ever benefit? POST: Ok, so my girlfriend and I have been going out for a little over a year. I'm 22 and she's 21. This past May, I graduated from a university and she has 1 maybe 1.5 more years to go. She is absolutely incredible...so much more beautiful and smart than she realizes, and so much fun to hang out with, even just cuddling and watching a movie is awesome with her. The thing is, she hasn't been 'single' in the past five years. About 2 months inbet",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey reddit, what helped you through the toughest times of your life? POST: (Story time) Hey reddit, I'm going to cut straight to the point. **I feel like my life is in a rutt and I don't know where else to turn**. I'm 20. I'm out of school. I was a good high school student, with good grades, but my passion was never in school. I'm starting a clothing company (trying). I think that I'm finally on the other side of a nearly 3 year on and off relationship with a girl who was manipulative",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [29/f] just got out of a manipulative relationship with someone (28/m). I need tips on staying strong so I don't end up back in it. POST: We met when we were in high school and it was a very passionate thing from the start. Due to the many ups and downs of life and growing up it just never quite worked out the way we wanted. We were in and out of each others lives. About two years ago we met back up and it was like we never parted. We finally had a real chance to make it go s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [34 M] have been dating a new girl [28 F] for a few weeks, and I feel like she has a very troubled past but not sure how to approach it. POST: So brief backstory: A few months ago I met this girl at a local bar where I go to get a quick bite to eat and a beer after work once or twice a week. I moved here not too long ago after my fiancé broke off our engagement and I don't really know anyone in the area or have any friends close by. We were friendly and would say hi and chat when",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] fantasise about certain male friends, despite being in a 4 year relationship with my [20F] fiancée POST: My fiancée and I have been together a while. We've had a few threesomes (male and female), but the male one involved no contact between myself and the other male. I found it arousing as a voyeur and a participant, but found myself wishing the other male was interested in experimenting. Since then, I have fantasised about certain male friends who I find attractive. I don't",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By running out of cat food. POST: This fuck up actually happened today, and is currently happening as I take a break to write this. So this morning I woke up late and was running a little late for work, the usual. My 2 cats wake follow me around every morning until I've finally put breakfast in their bowls and I leave for work. I realize that after I put food in their two bowls I would be completely out of cat food. I made a mental note to grab some on the way home from work. As a side n",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Help! Neighbor is a fuck-a-holic. A LOUD one. POST: I need some ideas on how to tackle this. I live in a 4-flat. The girl above me is the worst neighbor alive. She has guys over almost every single night, sometimes multiple guys at once, and I have to spend roughly 70% of my time at home listening to her get busy. Her bed must be about 100 years old, because it squeaks obnoxiously. Seriously, WD-40, bitch. In addition to that, this girls SCREAMS at the top of her lungs (fake ass faker),",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Lucid dreaming: have you tried it? What was your experience? POST: So let me prefix this by saying I am **definitely** not the ""new-age"" type -- much the opposite. I looked into lucid dreaming because my father, an academic-type, told me about it. So I figured it was a credible phenomenon and decided to read about it. It is essentially a different state of consciousness, where you are ""awake"" in a dream and thus can actively participate. It is well documented and studied. I tried l",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Need advice on what to do now that high school is over. POST: So I'm a 17 year old guy, Shes 18. We've been fairly good friends throughout high school and I've always had a little crush on her but I never thought anything of it, until prom came along and she wanted to go with me so we went last week. We spent most of the night together taking pictures and dancing, but there were many signs she didn't want me to make a move so I didn't. But now that it's over I can't help but fee",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: What is a charge-off on a credit report? I have one for a medical collection I paid in full. [credit] [collections] POST: Hey PF, In June 2013 I had a hospital stay at St. Louis University. I moved from St. Louis to another city shortly thereafter and never received the bill. Fast forward to February 2015 and I start getting nasty calls from a collections agency, Central Financial Control. After arguing, trying to do a pay-for-delete for a few months, I pay it off in full in May 2",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17/M] cheated on my girlfriend [18/F]. POST: I have been dating my girlfriend for just under one year and one month. I absolutely love her to death and I truly believe that she is my soulmate. I know she feels the same way about me. We're both in grade 12, and this week she went to Cuba for her grad trip. I miss her so much. I've never felt this way about any girl before. Today, a friend of mine [16/F] who I've known for a while asked to hangout. My girlfriend and I both know ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: ive [22 M] been in love with my best friend [21 F] for over a year and i feel like I should say something POST: Ive been friends with her for over 2 years now and we live together with two other people. We pretty much do everything together, rarely is their a day we dont do things together. We've also been planning a week holiday together over summer. I feel like i should say something now because recently i've noticed her grabbing my hand more often to hold and being generally fli",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [18 M] Apprehensive about asking out coworker [18 F] POST: Alright so I'm leaving my job in about 2 weeks and plan on asking out my coworker for a lunch date/coffee. Problem is recently she's been really close with another guy at my work. I've overheard people mentioning both their names together frequently and they seem to be laughing a bit when I see them talking. I'm pretty sure they're not dating, but there looks like there's something there and I'm not sure if I should inter",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [14 F] with my boyfriend [14 M] duration, almost a year, there is another guy messaging me on Facebook being a creep, how can I tell him that I'm in a relationship and to leave me alone? POST: I don't know if this is the right subreddit to post this but I'm stuck in a conversation with a guy who is in a few of my classes, and I think he might like me. I'm currently in a happy relationship and I want to tell this guy messaging me on facebook to get off my dick. My boyfriend is ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] like my girlfriend [20F] so much, but sometimes I wish she'd be mad at me. POST: My girlfriend is one of those girls you wish you always had. She's so patient, honest, intelligent and loves me so much. We know each other since primary school but went different paths and met again 11 years later. We're together for almost 2 years now. She is beautiful, we laugh a lot, cry together but never argue although I can get on people's nerves really bad. She really is an ocean of patie",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by singing Happy Birthday to my Step-Dad POST: This happened a few months ago… Earlier this summer, my step-dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer with approximately 3 months to live. All around terrible situation. But my mom and him generally have pretty good attitudes about life and made the most of his time left. Well, about a month after his diagnosis, his birthday comes around. I live out of the country and there's about an 8-hour time difference, so to call and wish him a Happy ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Academic Probation POST: I really fucked up this semester. And not because I wasn't working hard or partying too much, but because the courses I took really screwed me over. With the entire grade dependent on the exams, and me being a terrible test taker, I failed one of my courses and I barely passed another. This severely hurt my GPA, putting me on Academic Probation. I'm so stressed and I'm freaking out. I know I just have to change the way I study and I'm taking better classes next ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: HELP. I (20f) am bisexual and in a relationship (20m). Constantly attracted to other people. Not the first relationship for this to happen. POST: Okay, backstory. I have been in many relationships before and I always feel trapped, but at the same time I am longing for someone else even when I'm in a relationship. I feel like I'm attracted to all of my cute friends. I have cheated on my boyfriend of one year (yes, he knows), whom I love deeply, and I don't know how to control myself. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I've got a wedding problem I need help solving. POST: **Background:** - My Fiance and I have been together for over four years now (and still happily together!) - Our wedding date is July 14^th, 2012 - I work three jobs and have a very high anxiety level, and have very little time for planning anything much else our own wedding. - For his ring, i was given an important heirloom (old beaten up ring that needs to be melted down and re-made). - He used to work at a school where",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my GF [25 F] duration, tried to break up for wrong reasons, need to make it up. POST: I've been dating my girlfriend for almost 8 months. I have a lot of life experience for my age and can say with conviction that she is conceivably my future wife. I did a lot of work to get sober and fix myself three years ago and have been doing work to get even better lately. I let go of a lot of baggage and realized a lot of my decisions were based on fear. So I listened to tha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] In a bit of a moral situation. POST: Don't know if this is the right sub-reddit so sorry if i am wrong. Sorry if its long i just want to include everything I'm 17, currently in my second year studying IT business, i absolutely HATE it, i did the first year and got B overall, but i cannot stand to finish the second year, no ""oh just finish power through"" i cannot stand it, full stop. I am quitting within the next week. My dad can have my working part or full time at his bu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Since a peculiar trip with our father 20 years ago, my sister has never respected him and refuses to communicate with him. Can you guys help me make sense of the situation? POST: -throwaway account- So my parents got divorced when I was around 2 and my sister, 5. Soon after, my father took us on a trip across Europe to visit his family and friends. His side of the story: I had a bad asthma attack and the doctors wouldn't let me fly on a plane for a month (he has paperwork from some do",negative " r/travel TITLE: Recently got back from a 4 month backpacking trip around Europe. Been feeling really depressed. Home doesn't feel like home anymore. How do you guys cope with that? POST: I just don't get the same satisfaction being here any more. I've realized most of the friends I had before leaving were friends out of convenience rather than true friends. They don't really care about me and sadly, I've realized I feel the same about them. It was only due to us working together that we ever went out. The",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Fluctuating weight and lacking motivation. POST: So about 4 years ago, I was 105lbs at 5'3. I started taking Paxil in 2009 and by Christmas of 2013, I was 150lbs. My GW as of today is 130lbs, my CW is 139lbs. I noticed my weight fluctuates - a lot. I was excited to be 136lbs about a week or 2 ago, but as of yesterday, I'm back to 139. I exercise about 3 times a week for two hours (I've been doing Muay Thai for about 1.5 years). When my weight goes back up, I find my motivation goes down",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [21 F] am prepare for a breakup with my boyfriend [22 M] of 2.5 years upon his college graduation? POST: Hi reddit. My boyfriend (Tim) and I go to college together, I am and junior, and he is a senior who will be graduating in May. He will be moving away for his job, thus we have decided to break up- we both know it's for the best. Neither of us want to do long distance (we tried it before when I studied abroad in the fall) as we do not plan on being in the same place after ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29/M], newly single. Does anyone else feel like monogamy is unnatural? POST: I was with my ex for about 4 years, and I don't know what happened - it could have a lot to do with her mental problems, her high sex drive, or something...but after about 2 years, I stopped having sexual desire for her. I still found her attractive, but I just felt like...I dunno, she made it too easy, and I just didn't care to fuck her. It's like I would rather look at porn because at least then I have",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by winning the celebrity name game and ALMOST meeting Michael J Fox POST: Obligatory this didn't just happen but it happened a couple years ago. Long time reader, first time poster. So, I'm in my parents shop in the LA area helping them out on Sunday all by myself. It's a pretty normal day (a few customers walking in buying some stuff and moving on). I talk to this one lady and her daughter about buying some wall art and the mom says she'll send her husband by a little later. Fine, what",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I packed my life up and moved across the country to DC, and now I can't find a place to live, what do I do? POST: A little back story. I graduated a couple years ago from the University of Washington in poly-sci. I had great grades and then got accepted to Columbia for grad school, but decided to stay for a girl that I had just fallen for. Now I'm engaged to the same girl, but after 2 years of stagnation in Seattle I needed a change. I had been to DC briefly before, and it's where I al",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28M] with my wife [26F] of 2 years, she's never been ""madly in love"" with me POST: Hi r/relationships, here's some background on us. We've been together for 4 years, living together for 3, married for 2. Both work at steady jobs. Good financial situation. Communicate well. Rarely fight. Recently, we had a conversation about our future. Many things came out in that conversation. *Sometimes, she feels sad about our future, that we won't be able to become as successful as we would",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my GF [23 F], had an argument regarding her eating disorder. I let my frustrations get the best of me. How do I move on from this and can I salvage this relationship? POST: Sadly, I let my frustrations get the best of me and I said things that hurt my girl, things that I read in Eating Disorder support FAQs that I should never fucking talk about, but I did. I should have been a better man but I let the ED be the focus of our relationship and she hated it. She hates it ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What should I do after a fiancee dumps me? Help me be awesome! POST: Background: A fiancee, an only child to 48 year old parents. Now shes 29 and they are 75-76. Been dumped because they spoiled the crap out of her (naturally) and she's never learnt to play nice or compromise or sacrifice, wouldn't allow intimacy (old fashioned). She told me she loved me after knowing each other for 5 years, 3 years dating, proposed, big engagement party, wedding plans done and paid for, now she dumps me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Life, relationships, and growing up. POST: Well reddit I have been a long time lurker and now it is time to spill it. I(m26) am married(25f) for five years. I want to see what everyone thinks is it in my head or do I have something to fear. This all started about two years ago, was vacationing at the beach with my SO our children and my SO's mother and stepfather. The second day we are there she informs me she would no longer like to be married. I get no explanation other than she ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [22 M] I just asked a girl I really like out on valentine's day, and her reply was ""I don't know"" . I don't know how to proceed. POST: I have liked this girl for many months now and I recently asked her to a dance on valentine's day. She smiled when I asked her, but she said ""I don't know, I'm going with my housemate, but he's my friend..."". I assumed that her housemate just wants to go as friends, so I made it clear that I wanted to go as her date and not as her friend. She kept say",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex-friend (F20) hates my boyfriend(M21) and I (F21) POST: So I apologize in advance if this becomes a text wall. I had a friend in high school (F now 20) who was emotionally abusive to me and the other people in our friend group, she was also a serial liar and attention whore.( I kind of get this to an extent as her trying to compensate for being in a wheelchair) We all strongly disliked her and had to call her out on things multiple times. fast forward a year from our graduation a",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I packed up my life and moved to L.A. for an internship... and it was a mistake. POST: I'm a 25 year old college student and Air Force veteran. I chose to go to school in Fort Collins and when it came time to select the internship site for my final semester I decided to aim for Los Angeles. I thought it would be an adventure, I figured it wouldn't be saturated with fellow graduates from the exact same program, I thought I would LOVE the aerial arts environment out here. Reality check. The",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 17M with my GF 17F for 10 months, How do I convince her that she is intelligent? (Self-esteem issues) POST: What would I say to my GF with self-esteem/self-confidence issues to make her truly believe in herself? What do you think is the most effective or psychologically sound method? She believes she is not a smart person, and believes she is known by others for not being a smart person. I do not believe this at all, not being biased as they boyfriend. Her brother has a PhD in ma",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Left Hanging for Valentines POST: I've been casually dating this girl since just after the New Year, we've had 5 dates. I felt like things were going really well, and she seemed super into me (and visa-versa). Anyways here's the recent chain of events: 1) Last Friday, we had dinner and watched a movie in her dorm (she asked me out) 2) Sunday, she asked me to watch the Superbowl with her, but cancelled last minute and said she was sick, which seemed fair enough. She also seemed enth",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Ex [27/F] contacted me[23/M] tonight after 3.5 months of no contact, confused about outcome... POST: So reddit, some advice would definitely be appreciated here. As in the title, I broke up with my ex roughly 3 and a half months ago. It was a mutually agreed break up, after only a couple months of actually seeing each other (we'd been dating for 4 months before hand though). She was far too busy to sink time into a relationship, we only really saw each other two or so times a month, ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I [24/m] bring up my desire for us to have sex with other people to my wife?(24/f) POST: My wife and I have a very open-minded relationship and I've brought up that I don't see sex as a symbol of Love, which she somewhat agreed with me about. I've talked about having a foursome and she said she thinks it's weird that I would want to swing. And I'll even joke around with my friend in front of her about meeting up a getting some chicks downtown, which lately she just laugh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] found out my boyfriend [24M] is cheating. I'm a wreck, but I can't confront him yet. POST: My boyfriend of 2 years is away on a work trip right now. He left his laptop behind, and yesterday I opened it, his facebook was still up, and there was a message from his ex asking when he'd be back so they could have sex. Really direct, no way to misinterpret it. So I got through the denial pretty quickly, sobbed most of the day yesterday, and now I'm at anger. I'm *pissed*. All I wa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why can't all professors all just upload their syllabus online? It saves paper, and mostly frustration. POST: In college, the first day of classes typically involves the teacher handing out the most important piece of material for the semester, the syllabus, a.k.a the sheet that tells you how to get an A. However, this is the 21st century, and for as long as I can remember, people end up throwing away or out right ignoring the paper soon after receiving it, yet these same people never kn",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Wedding Question: The ""Plus One"" a privilege or a right? POST: I'm getting married in September. When we got engaged my fiance's sister was involved with a guy. We naturally set aside room for her to bring him. However, this relationship ended before we sent our the invites. (Still haven't yet.) We then took him off the guest list and brought someone from our standby list on. My fiance and her sister are close and often talk about the wedding. It came up that we no longer were expectin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[M20s] don't even know how to describe this situation[F20s] [F20s] POST: I have 2 FWBs going on. Let's call them Zelda and Peach. Everything is on the up and up, they both know about eachother but don't know eachother. All mid 20s. Peach caught feelings but I've been pretty clear it's not going to happen. I know, I know I should probably be the bigger man and end it but she says she's ok with it and insists continuing. She's also quite a bit resentful of Zelda because of it. Zelda",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (22) terrified of my grandpa's (82) driving habits. POST: I hope this is the correct location. So, my grandpa is 82 years old and is the worst driver I've ever seen. He constantly cuts across lanes of traffic without blinkers. He drives 50 in 75s because ""it's better gas mileage. He stops at Green lights sometimes because he doesn't realize they're green. He has driven through red lights because he is talking. He constantly swerves in and out of lanes and has even gone the wrong",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Justified reactions or not? I think I fucked up. (M18>F17) POST: Okay, here goes. Started talking to a chick, even went on a date that went pretty well, she seemed quite into me. After that though she started saying she was busy and stopped replying to texts (getting replies back after 8-12 hours later, if at all). After about 2 or 3 weeks of that and after waiting half a day for a response I just said ""Fuck it, you win, I won't bother anymore"" That's my first part: is my reaction ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I being abused? POST: My husband is passive aggressive. He'll never actually gets angry. Instead he quietly seeths. If something happens that he doesn't like, he'll either belittle, or act out physically. He's never actually hit me, but he'll do weird things. An example, I was in bed working in photoshop (graphic design) He walks in and wants to go to bed. Instead of asking me and waiting for me to get up/save/shutdown, he sits on my legs (He's 6ft 300lbs) and shuts my laptop off. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [25 M] compares my body to other women :( let me know if I'm overreacting! POST: Hey redditors! This is my first post, so here goes. My boyfriend and I [27 F] have been dating for a year..and although things have been a bit rocky lately... But yesterday we had a pretty bad fight. We've been dating a year. Before getting into this relationship, I always knew he had a thing for big butts. I'm a skinny lady with big boobs but a tiny butt :( it wasn't an issue until he",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Throwaway time: We've all been the scumbag at some point. What scumbag things have you done? POST: Time to get it off your chest, you scumbag. My biggest scumbag moment would have to be when I first came to college. Little bit of backstory: I was always pretty unpopular, but towards the end of school the popular kids took me under their wing and stopped people bullying me, always hung out with me and invited me to parties. However I was still definitely not 'cool' by anyone's standards",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (26/f) am worried my boyfriend (29/m) plays too many computer games and it is ruining our relationship POST: I have been with my boyfriend for over 18 months now and although we quite frequently have minor disagreements, I am pretty happy. However, there is one problem that seems to represent a bigger problem. He is just finishing up his degree and now dedicates a large chunk of his time towards playing LoL (a computer game). When he's not playing that, he's playing somethin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does anyone know ways to cheat Via-rail's system? POST: So I want to split the purchase of a Via-rail pass but as far as I know they tell you that they're non-transferable. I want to split the cost between my friend and I (I live in Kingston Ontario and he lives in London Ontario) because all that you're really purchasing is a passcode you use to make reservations. The catch is that the passcode is registered under one name, so between a guy and a girl... anyone know how cheatable their ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] not sure if i should text her today? POST: Last night i had a few people over, and of course we had girls and alcohol. There was this one girl who was really cute, early in the night she had to much to drink a threw up, after one of her girlfriends helped back to reality, i gave her my clothes. Well for the rest of the night she kind of just sat beside me and snuggled? at the end of the night 5 am she was about to leave, and we made out. This girls to good for me, she added",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I want to learn another language - which one do you think will benefit me the most? POST: Hello Askreddit! I started studying Real Estate Business this year, and my university offers complimentary language courses for all students. I can choose between 4 languages: - French - Russian - Spanish - Chinese I already speak English, German and French, therefore French is not an option. I also don't think Spanish will benefit me that much in the future, so I want either Russian or Chinese. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my SO [23F] 1 yr wants to move in with male friend POST: They have known each other for a long time, since high school. He will be living in his parents house for two years while they travel and he has asked her to move in rent free during that time to keep him company while his parents are gone. There would be nobody else moving in so just the two of them in the place. She had already told him that she will likely move in (she said this before talking with me about i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Going to be living in DC from January - March... Help.. What should I do there!? POST: I will be traveling to Washington DC and living near the University of California Washington Center (Rhode Island Avenue?). I will be holding an AWESOME and my dream internship at National Geographic Magazine (kids and original publication). I have never ever been to DC or anywhere on the East Coast except New York. I have no idea what to expect, except that it will be freaking freezing, or what to d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[20M] have been thinking about ending it with [19F] of three years. Am I making a terrible decision? POST: So I met the girl I am currently dating senior year of high school. Some of my friends and family advised me to end it before leaving for college but I didn't, and I definitely suffered for it. A lot of the time that I could have spent making friends I spent on skype with her or other messaging services. Sophomore year was rough but we made it through it without many problems;",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [19 F] thinks she has hurt me [18 M] and wants to break up POST: So, to start with a little backstory: She has had some tough times in the past, and sometimes her demons come back to haunt her. This mostly happens when we are cuddling or taking a nap together. The problem is that she will get really sad and hide her face from me. I get concerned and ask, ""What's wrong?"" She refuses to respond but I know exactly what it is because it's the same thing in her flashbacks ever",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My (27/m) boyfriend won't listen to me (22/f) anymore. POST: Let me start off by saying that I am almost 8 months pregnant. Please be gentle. I'm in a fragile state. When my boyfriend and I first met we partied a lot. He still hadn't grown up yet. We had only been together 3 months before we found out I was pregnant. At first things were a little rocky. He would still go out all the time and I would get pissed. Since then things have slowed down a lot. He hardly goes out anymor",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not controlling my anger POST: This just happened a few hours ago. I just woke up due to really loud noise that my dad was making while taking a nap (he was cleaning or something very loudly). A little backstory: I have a bit of anger management and am not well at controlling it, especially at home. I then proceeded to have a fit of anger (pretty common when I'm suddenly awoken for some reason) and decided to punch everything in arms length of me, including the wall. I made a massive ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] with my GF [24F] of 3.5 years. How can I help her experience a wider range of emotions? POST: Hi reddit, I am looking for advice on how to help my girlfriend experience a wider range of emotions. By nature I am a calm and even keeled person. One of my biggest strengths as identified by others is how calm and composed I stay even during stressful situations. This is great and all, but I feel that from a personal relationship standpoint this can be interpreted as ""boring"". ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: SV: I'm down 90lbs today from my heaviest (2 years ago)! 6'5""M / SW:410lbs / CW:320lbs / GW:250lbs Progress pics! (possibly NSFW, fat guy in underwear) POST: Two years ago I was extremely depressed and alcholic. I let myself balloon up to 410lbs from a low of 260lbs. My diet consisted of almost exclusively of alcohol, pizza, and fast food. I remember I would order the 5-5-5 deal from Domino's (3 medium 1 topping pizzas) and eat all three in the course of 1 evening and put down at least a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (18M) girlfriend (16F) of 6 months is acting distant POST: Our relationship started out wonderfully. Everything was innocent and fine until recently when her mother caught us kissing and freaked out. Now her mother doesn't want me within 9 miles of her and none of my convincing has worked on her so far. Worst yet, my girlfriend is acting different, sad. I want to get things back to the way they were before. I want my girlfriend to be happy, and I would like for her mom ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 F] with my boyfriend [33M] 9 years, I want to end it but guilt is stopping me as he has a lack of support network POST: ill keep t short because I'm on my cell phone. We've been together a long time and live together. Due to some health issues but also his personality he's not sociable and spends most of his time after work playing computer games and smoking a few joints. I am the opposite, I love socialising and going on adventures, I love trying new things and music and danc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is he [38M] a bad kisser, or am I [31F] crazy? POST: I've gone on a few very nice dates with a nice (perhaps ""too nice"") guy. We finally kissed on the fourth date, when we were back at his place, and even then it happened only after I verbally prompted him to do so. He seems a bit lacking in courage and initiative. Anyway, the kissing was kind of awkward and he basically just kissed my UPPER lip in very gentle, quickly repeated pecks. On the fifth date, again with my prompting, t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: The director at my work has proclaimed the US flag at half-mast for a fallen agent. From my research, this is against Flag code. Should I bring this up to someone or let it be? POST: So, I work for a state Government agency (won't say much more about it because of the personal information rule). A special agent from the state recently passed (I think in the line of duty) and so the director has proclaimed that the entire agency should lower US flags to half-mast for the day. From my ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf[m/18] will break up with me f[/21] if i move away. POST: Alright my dad lost his job, and we have basically no money to stay here in IL. He can not find a job here and mom wants to relocate to maybe West Virginia or Texas within the next 2 months. I told my bf (been with for a year)who lives in Iowa right now about whats going on and he told me that if i end up moving that he would not be able to stay with me even though he loves me because its hard enough as it is to only",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Mint.com budgeting ""Left over in budget?"" POST: I recently joined mint.com, love it so far for tracking my spending and helping me finally get a grip on how much I spend on what. One question though, there is a section that says amount left over. That is money I have not budgeted to anything else. Down at the bottom, there is ""everything else"" which is money i've *spent* but haven't budgeted. As ""everything else"" increases does ""amount left over"" decrease, or do I have to keep ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I get angrier and angrier at my boyfriend the closer it gets to when he goes home to Germany. POST: My boyfriend is an exchange student living with my family and we clicked almost right away. Naturally a relationship followed a couple months later. He is leaving in about a month and constantly is telling me to give him some space. He is definitely an introvert (INTJ) and I am very much an extrovert (ENFP) so that has caused a bit of strain before since he likes his space and I hate bei",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20/M) spent a day with my friend's (20/M) parents and was too comfortable with them and revealed that I knew more than they expected me to. As what is said is said, what is best way to continue from here. POST: I met the parents of one of my closest friends recently. We were watching him play a sports game and as we're both in university and our parents live abroad, they do not visit often. My friend wanted me to meet his parents as did I. I have known my friend for 3 years and w",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [21/m] want to propose to my girlfriend [21/f], but her sister [23/f] just got engaged a few months ago. Would it be rude to propose now? POST: Ok, so our 5-year anniversary is coming up. I've been planning for like a year and a half to propose to my girlfriend on that day. However, my gf's sister just got engaged a couple months ago, but won't be married until next August (2017). So is it rude to propose to my gf now? Would that be ""stealing the thunder""? Or should I just wa",negative " r/cats TITLE: Cat got out for the first time today, scared the $%#! out of me. What do I do if it happens again? POST: First time cat owner here, had my adorable cat for about a month and a half now, and she got outside today. I didn't mean for it to happen. I was giving my dog outside a biscuit and she was doing her usual thing, peeking around the corner and stuff curious, but she had never actually gone outside before, so I wasn't that scared, but then she darted outside. My dog chased her to one end, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my boyfriend [24 M] 2 years, have different views on where to settle down POST: Friends for 4 years, dating for 2 years. We both work in tech and my bf lives in San Francisco while I live in Palo Alto. Everything in our relationship is going well. He's my best friend, best sex partner I've ever had, all that. As we're planning our hypothetical futures, he wants to live in SF forever. While I (if I have kids) would want to settle down eventually in the bay area so these",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Have I hurt her too much? POST: The short answer is yes, but I need to hear some opinions from some who may have been in her[24f] shoes, or mine[27m]. I was with my ex for a little over a year, with her and I not being exclusive for about six months before that. A little over a month ago. I made what I now know to be a terrible decision. I left her. I had many reasons why I did it at the time, but something still felt wrong. I stubborned up, and did it anyway. The hardest part wa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm in a long distance relationship and my boyfriend is thinking about breaking up with me. What the fuck should I do? POST: My boyfriend and I have been in a relationship for three months, of which two weeks have been long distance. (He goes to school 1,000 miles away from me.) He doesn't mind me hanging out with my guy friends, but when I did once, I forgot to tell him that this guy who likes me was there. When my boyfriend later found out Guy Who Likes Me was there and I didn't tell h",negative " r/travel TITLE: Language Barrier - Tokyo Travel POST: I'm in the preliminary stages of organizing a solo backpacking trip at the beginning of March next year (two weeks duration), and I really have my heart set on travelling to Tokyo. My main reservation/concern is my lack of knowledge of the language/alphabet; I don't know any Japanese. Do you think this trip is feasible on that basis? Obviously I fear not getting full value out of it for a short duration if I can't navigate/communicate well. I backpacke",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21/F] boyfriend [21/M] and I are in a great relationship and we both really like and care about each other, but we haven't had sex to completion and I don't know what to do POST: We started dating a week after we officially started hanging out. It was weird for me, I'm not normally a relationship type of person (I've had 14 sexual partners) but when he asked me out I said yes. It's been about a month now and I love being with him, it's made me the happiest I've ever been. We ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [20M] ask her [21F] on a second date? POST: Over the weekend (Saturday) this girl and I went on a date. We went to dinner and ice cream. We walked around for a bit and talked for a while. Towards the end she started to talk about what we should be doing on our next date. I didn't want to start planning it, coming off as desperate but I also wanted to allow her to entertain the fact of another date. So we hugged and said bye. Monday on snapchat she started to type a message t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [M21] cut off my friend [F19] because of her jealous boyfriend?[M20] POST: Hello so I have a question for you guys. My friend T, has a boyfriend, N. N and T have been together for 5 months now, and he has recently deployed in the army. I have met him a handful of times, so it's not like we're strangers. About a week ago N face timed T and she told him we were hanging out together. It was just us two alone at her apartment around 11 at night, so in N's eyes that look bad. The",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I feel really, really bad for ugly people, and guilty because I could have just as easily been one of them. POST: I'm in college, and whenever I see a really unattractive person around campus I feel bad for them, and I just don't know how they manage to go on looking the way they do. There's a few guys I see routinely who just got absolutely shit on in the genetic lottery- I'm talking about bald or severely balding, short, overweight, unattractive face, hunched back, etc. I have OCD",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [48 M] with my wife[ 48 F] Married 24 years, she wants to have sex with other men POST: wife went to a bar last week with friend and got hit on, took guys phone number, she told me this the next day and said the guy wants to have sex with her. Yesterday she texts me she's not going to because it's cheating. Her bff texts me yesterday too saying we need to talk so I address this with her and she confirms wife says she loves me and would never leave me but wants that thrill and exc",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Setting up my ex with my friend POST: My ex-boyfriend, T (28), and I (27) broke up last November but have been having a kinky casual sexual relationship since then. We don't have feelings for each other anymore, we just like the same things sexually and although we've both had sex with other people since we broke up, we come back to each other from time to time to do it. While we were dating, I found it irksome that he paid a little too much attention to our mutual long-time friend, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] don't know when or how to tell my boyfriend [26M] of 5M that I love him and I'm freaking out. POST: So we have been dating for about 5 months. When we started dating he seemed to want to move slowly in terms of becoming official. We are very close, started off almost right away seeing each other 4x a week. He adores my family, and promises that I will meet his in the near future. (He says he has taken girls home too soon in the past and things would fall apart shortly after).",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Is this emotional cheating? (25/m, 22/f) POST: (Throwaway for obvious reasons) When I'm with my go things are (mostly) great, but it's when we're apart I start to feel insecure. While her best friend is a male her ages and she's SWORN to me she'd never cheat, I can't help always feeling second best. When we talk on fb chat, I'm always getting abrupt and 1 word answers, while at the same time she's having lengthy conversations with him from the minute so goes online until she ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] need help deciding if my engagement to my fiance [27F] is over or I should fight for it POST: Let me preface this by saying that we are Indian...which makes the gravity of breaking it off worse (culturally once you are engaged or married there's no such thing as divorce) I met my fiance a year ago through a friend and we got off to a really fast start...she said she loved me within 3 dates and we were both looking for marriage so we kind of went at light speed. We got enga",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [M 20] with my gf [19 F] of 9 months, I am not sure if I should break up with her POST: Me and my girlfriend have been dating for 9 months now. I orginially felt like it was going great. So we decided to move in with each other. we had an awesome sex life and everything was amazing with her. I felt like I truly found my soul mate. I had originially left my ex for her because she was so amazing. I made the mistake of contacting my ex just three months into our relationship or so.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [f19] boyfriend [m20] is kind of mean to me, he calls me a bitch and stupid and chooses weed and computer games over me, breaks his promises and keeps things from me. POST: Title pretty much said it all, whenever we fight my boyfriend will call me a bitch or retarded he's also called me a c*nt while we were travelling because i wanted to pack our bags and leave them in the lobby before check out and he wanted to go to central park first .... which causes more fights and name calli",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Nervous Boss Will Drug Test Me Today POST: I'm a working mid-level professional, big company, random drug test policy is rarely enforced (seems to be used ""judiciously""). I was late last Monday last week after 4th of July & boss noticed. I was going to try to just make up the time after work same day and it was a situation that went from 1hr to 2hrs late as I was actually a bit nauseous, but don't think it was hangover. Then I mixed up my timesheet so I think he scheduled a vague ""admin"" m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: The anniversary of my [24M] GF's [20F] dad's passing is coming up soon. How/can I comfort her during this time? POST: Hello, Been dating the gf for just under a year and I love her to bits. Her dad passed away a few years ago in a car crash that left her and her mother quite injured and very grief-stricken. They're both coping very well given the circumstances but the anniversary of his death is coming up and she's not feeling great about it; her texts are more and more curt and she",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: 18m. In all likelihood my ex (19f) who I still have feelings for is sleeping with someone else right now. POST: Was with my ex for about a year and a half, and we fought a lot but mostly it was pretty good because we like each other as people and have a lot of common interests and had really good sex. But one of the biggest things we fought about frequently was this guy she met on skype and would spend A LOT of time talking to, for most of our relationship. Recently found out that she got",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend and I (both 22) have been dating 1.5yrs, she doesn't go out of her way for me and tells me she'll do things but never does. What should I do, am I asking too much? POST: So I've been dating this girl for over a a year and a half. She really likes me, she's always telling me how good I look, how smart I am, *ect*. In addition, we have a lot in common which is awesome. However, I'm having trouble with the fact that unless the occasion calls for it (birthday, anniversary, *et",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my friend_ [25M] whose fiance cheated and broke up with him almost 2 yrs ago. How do we help him cope? POST: Ok, so our friend was with this girl for 8 yrs. They met in high school, she even moved in with his family. She had her own family drama at 16, so his parents took her in. They were 16/17 so they never shared a room or anything. Fast forward to 2010. My friends parents divorce after 20yrs of marriage. He and his siblings take it very hard. It wasn't the best di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I(f22) ask about the future with my boyfriend(m22) of 6 years without sound desperate or needy? POST: My boyfriend(m22) is terrible at planning ahead. Terrible. We started dating when we were 16, we've been relatively happy for the whole time. We've survived college (mostly) and will both be graduating next Spring. We've never had to dealt with a huge change in our relationship. We go to college in the same city (but we don't go to the same school.) We have our own friends, i",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is more important: your happiness or the happiness of your loved one(s)? POST: Here's the situation: I have a very protective family. Religious. I am a 24 year old female. I'm not allowed to move out until I'm married or else I will be disowned. My family would literally never speak to me again if I decide to move out. I want to move to another state and start my own life. I've lived in the same state pretty much all of my life. I feel trapped. I want to start over. But I've been r",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I think my cat died and my dad is lying about it. Please give me advice... POST: Um I'll try to make this simple I guess I went on vacation alone for two weeks, and when I came back, my dad said that my cat had worms and they took him to the vet a week ago. I said okay and when will he be back etc My dad is a compulsive liar, I almost never believe anything he says and if you ask him for anything, he will say ""tomorrow"" and keep saying tomorrow until you eventually stop asking. I refuse t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: tifu by thinking that my classmate was a secret admirer. POST: I had a chat with someone from the Planet romeo gay dating site. He keeps on saying that he knows me and that he will just give me a sign one day when he wants to meet up with me. There was this classmate of mine whom I really admire. Sometimes he gives me mixed messages with jokes and innuendos. One day, the dude from Planet romeo asks me if I'm busy today. I answered that I'm till the afternoon. After my class, my crush goes to",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting my son go through my parents junk drawer POST: This is throwaway account to save my brother from this embarrassing fuck up. My 3 year old son likes to go through change and collect the largest coins, silver dollars in this case, and this morning he wanted to do that when we were at my parents house. I had no problem with it so I showed him the drawer that my parents have with all of their change, which is in the nightstand next to their bed. So, I'm in their bathroom while ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [17M] deal with rejection? POST: So, a little ""backstory"" here. I've always been unlucky with girls, to a point that I even got beat by girls. So, in the course of my (little) life I've liked few girls, most of them not only rejected me but called me names. Fair enough, I suppose so. Okay then, few weeks ago I met a girl, and I really liked her, I really did. Well, I wouldn't say love, but you people understand me. Then, yesterday I decided to ask if she likes me and if sh",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Thanks anyway, I guess. POST: Though It hadn't been confirmed until recently, (I kind of knew anyway) My dad is gay. Which would be fine if he were not such a massive Jerkface. I don't know if it's because it was the 80's ( the AIDS crisis) or what... you don't need to keep denying who you are Dad, stop lying. Added to all the other crap, that you will of course deny, It's a wonder I still care about you at all. (I do by the way.) At least I know how to contact you If I want. I also w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [M/22] right in making my GF [F/29] feel bad for something bad she had done in the past with no remorse, or am I just being an asshole? POST: Before being in a relationship with me, she was in a relationship with this other guy, they started hooking up while this guy had a girlfriend. Kinda shitty thing to do but never mind, we were close friends for a year before we started dating so I already knew this stuff and it didn't bother me then. So anyway we were lying in bed chattin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My brother [32 M] just broke up with his fiance of five years [21 F]. It destroyed him but one month later he's dating a 16 year old. Again. POST: My brother started dating my little sister's best friend when she was 16 and he was 27. The whole family strongly opposed this relationship for obvious reasons but as they got serious and he proposed we eventually came to accept it and tried to heal the rift. Predictably, as soon as this girl finished university she dumped him (officially",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Long lasting dog treats/meal type homemade treats? POST: Ok so let em explain a little, because I'm sure that might have been a little confusing. I have a blue heeler, roughly about 3 years old. If he had a choice he would chew till he died. During meal times (because I have young children and I dont want him eating the food they 'give' him also begging drives me CRAZY) I have him go to his bed until I call him back in to eat whats fallen on the floor. I'm kind of looking for a treat I can m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He [21M] broke up with me [20 F], might be getting back together. Moral issue? POST: We've been together for two years, and have had our ups and downs. It's been a hard summer and I probably wasn't the best girlfriend, we were long distance for several months and we grew distant, the rest of the summer we spent most of our time fighting. He decided we should break up, I was pretty torn up since I felt we could get through it. After many discussions, he said he's reconsidering and j",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (22F) boyfriend (24M) makes me feel so unimportant POST: Posting this might just be me helping myself wallow but I feel so hurt and alone right now. We've been dating about a year. He tends to want to do things that are convenient to what he likes and his schedule. I go with him a lot because we're in a relationship, and I want to do things to make him happy. I don't feel that he reciprocates, only does things for mw when they coincide with what he wants. I've had depression fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 M] girlfriend [23 F] of 6 months, is busy and needs ""space"" POST: Not to long ago my girlfriend of 6 months had asked for space due to what's going on in her life, I am her first boyfriend. She recently lost a family pet which dramatically effected her studies (she has 19 upper division units), she is also experiencing some medical problems which is causing her to have depression. She is very introverted and timid and said she needed space to focus on her hobbies as she is an ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31M] with my wife [32F] of 1.5 years duration, are getting a divorce. What are my next steps? POST: Hey guys, I'm just going to keep this short, since I won't bore you with the details. My wife wants a divorce, it's my fault (I drove her away as we grew apart), and even though I want to fix things, it's just a little too late with her. She has, in her own defence, told me almost right when we got married that she wasn't happy with how things were going (we had dated for 10 year",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: i love her, and i hate her for that POST: so, we've always kinda had a thing, (at least for like, 2+ years.) and then we dated for 6. some complicated confusing shit happened, we broke up. then a few weeks later, i tried to be friends with her. we were working at things pretty good, but i mean, i just had no trust towards her. she's a spiteful person, knows just what to do to make you hurt. i already had trust issues with her (when we dated, we only got to see each other on weekends due",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 M] with my friend [23 F] of 6 months, She keeps inviting me out to hang out with her friends and introduce me to guys she likes or dates. They usually see us together and ask ""what's up?"" POST: When we get drunk we joke that we'll probably get married, she admits she likes me but just wants to explore life. I'm completely fine with us doing our seperate thing until we are both ready. There's a great chemistry we both admit to feeling the first day, and honestly fine with jus",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [30m]Don't know where to go with life with SO (27f) POST: Long story here, but i need to get it off my chest. Me and my SO have been together for over 6y,but start from the beginning: she was suffering from anorexia, and had't been doing too good in that department. But I stuck around, tried to help her as much I could, and we loved eachother. Rented a house, moved in together, things were good.More sex, more friends over (which is something she had issues with before), general",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [M17] am quite confused about her [F17] selective responsiveness. POST: I met this girl a while ago (Should be noted we don't go to the same school) and we've been hanging out whenever we have the time, and she seems to have a great time, and I have a great time so this rather confuses me. I told her that I had feelings for her after a bonfire on the beach one day and she invited me to a dance, we had a great time, danced, socialized with some plebs, and even hung out into the nigh",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm trying to lose weight and my mom is making it absolutely miserable. How do I get her to let me make my own choices? POST: *please no comments about subreddits, I'm aware they exist.* I eat pretty healthily, maybe about 1800 calories a day. I ride an exercise bike about 5 times a week for 30-45 minutes, and I walk my dog. Things are going alright, it's just my mom will NOT stop harping on me. No matter what I'm doing to lose weight, it's not enough to her. I retook my SATs an",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Might be going into business need advice. POST: I (22F) was approached by a family friend to invest in a distributing business. I am interested but the way he explained seems a little odd to me. He wants me to take out a personal loan (hoping to get 100,000 and up) and he says he'll use that for buying new trucks and other things the business will need since they are expanding. He does have a bachelors in business, a background in different businesses, and he just started this busi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20/M) need advice on how to keep my mind off her (18/F) after breaking up POST: It's been 10 days since we ""officially"" broke up, but that was just the day when we had ""the talk"", there'd been an argument a week or so before and we hadn't really spoken or seen each other for that time either I'm a student at uni, so I have a lot of free time, before I would just spend it with her and we'd watch a film or hang out somewhere But now we aren't together I have literally no clue what",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My friend is in an abusive relationship and I need help POST: My friend is a very Christian woman. So Christian, that she believes divorce is only okay if her husband cheats. Her husband has severe anger issues and refuses to address them at all. Tiny, minute things will somehow flip a switch in his brain and he goes ballistic. I'm talking, breaking things, shattering glass, choking her, telling her he's going to kill her, pointing guns in her face, you name it. She called me bawling tod",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He (30M) barely talks to me (30F) between dates. Is this normal or him not interested? POST: I have been dating him for 1 month now, and when we're together everything is great. We have a good time, lots in common, sex is great. Between dates though it's like he's a completely different person communication wise. I'm not sure if he just dislikes sending texts or finds it unnecessary or he's really not that interested. Part of the problem is my ex that I broke up with late last ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [25 M] of 5 years and I [26 F] stuck in a horrible cycle of trust issues POST: My boyfriend has never done anything to break my trust. My self esteem has never been high, but plummeted when something happened a year into dating my bf (not having to do with my bf). My bf knows that I've been struggling with my confidence and has been trying to give me as much verbal affirmation to show me he loves me, but I've become anxiety ridden and always got jealous. 90% of our figh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf 26f is going to break up with me 20m but I'm still in love with her. POST: This girl and I although, not an official couple, have been seeing each other for several months now. She has moved about 1 hour away from me a few months back, and works 7 days a week at four jobs, making seeing each other difficult. Whenever the opportunity would arise, I'd make it a point to see her, calling out of work, skipping class, and borrowing cars if mine was in the shop. Whenever we would b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [27F] I don't know how to solve problems or have healthy conflict in relationships. POST: I have always known I don't like fighting/arguments/disagreement. In fact, I have such an extreme aversion to it that I will defer to other people to avoid any sort of conflict, even if I strongly believe I am right. Recently, however, I have begun to understand that this isn't healthy and I am seeking therapy for my issues. Conflict makes me so upset I get sick, I have panic and anxiety about i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [25F] not sure how to handle my husband's [26M] reactions. Men of reddit, I need some advice about sex. POST: My husband and I have been together for six years. I have a lower libido than my husband, but I try to compromise to make him happy. On average, I'd say we have sex (or I please him) at least twice a week if not more. My problem is that sometimes when I'm not in the mood, he gets upset with me. It turns into an argument, and I don't know if I'm wrong for not being in the ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: This is my story, give me your advice. POST: Ok, I'm 30 and I have a long history with a 25 year old woman. We used to date, then we lived together. She has a daughter who also lived with us and called me her daddy. Here's the rub. I had some major issues, psychological issues. I ultimately ended up cheating of this woman numerous times. Eventually she found out and they left me. Following that though we continued to see each other despite living apart. Recently I got help an",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How can I [17/M] tell if im bored in my relationship with my [19/F] girlfriend? POST: Me and my girlfriend have been together for 2 years, shes 19 im 17, im scared that I might have lost feelings for my girlfriend. I don't really feel a want to see her that much. We have 4 set days when we see each other, because of her schedule with work, and it seems like I look forward to the days when I don't see her, and I get kinda disappointed when its a day that I do see her. When im ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] Virgin coming out of almost 14 years of depression, I need to rebuild my life POST: I'm looking for a place to vent, so here it goes. After 14 years of depression, I'm recovering. I have no job, no close friends, and live with my parents. In my early teens my parents, entrepreneurs, had a falling out with their business partner. It led to my dad working incredibly long hours, effectively taking him out of my life. The few friends I had I let drift away. Through highschoo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: New boyfriend, do I have a right to be upset or am I overreacting? M22 F18 POST: So I have this new boyfriend, he is a really sweet and funny guy. He lives about 3 hours away, so we agree to meet every 2 weeks on a Saturday. We have been talking for about 2 months. Today we were texting and he said he was really horny for some reason. Joking, I said it must be all the gonewild on Reddit. He said maybe... I was only kidding, but got annoyed by this. I told him I felt like I should be ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Out of my head POST: I don't know if this even qualifies as getting something off my chest, I really just need some help to get it sorted out in my head. Here goes: When I was little, my mother and her boyfriend were fairly intensely into drugs (crack, pot, etc.) and the boyfriend was a heavy drinker. It was a regular occurrence for him to physically abuse my mother, my brothers and I - things often escalating to punching and choking us. In one instance, he put my mother's head through",negative " r/relationships TITLE: /r/relationships My GF (27) missed her BC. She never mentioned it (27). Now we're getting an abortion. I don't know how to feel... POST: First, I am one hundred percent of supportive of my girlfriend. We've been in a relationship for nearly 4 years and we both decided if it ever came down to it, we'd get an abortion. Now we're having one, and the reason I'm confused about my feelings is this: I've caught her missing her BC before. It was maybe a year and a half ago. I told her how s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] of 3.5 years, she made out with another man. POST: So my first girlfriend and I have been dating for 3.5 years and I think we've been going well, but she apparently has been a little unhappy in the relationship over little things, that we always end up solving when they come up. She was upset when i went on a three week vacation, and when i came back, she was about to go on a one week vacation as well. While she was away we didn't really talk muc",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: How do i bring the most attention to a cause while walking from coast to coast? POST: I'm planning to walk from seattle to ny soon and i was wondering what the most entertaining way to record it would be for the people watching. I am doing this as my way to ""take the steps"" against fighting depression and promote self love. I havent worked everything out though. I've noticed others who walk the country dont nearly bring as much attention to their causes as they initially imagined. How c",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Help! Confronting my girlfriend in 4 hours. POST: So I (23 year old male) am confronting my girlfriend (22 year old female) about an issue that has been recurring for the past few months. We have been dating for just over a year now. I have a friend (23 year old female) that lives of of the country that decided to come to visit the area with her boyfriend. I did have a small crush on this visiting friend at one point, but after getting to know her better the attraction died quickly",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (18F) right to 'monitor' my boyfriend (19M) of 2 years' conversations with his friend? (19F) POST: His friend, who is also a part of my friend group, made me feel very insecure and in the beginning I was not entirely happy with her hanging out with him alone. We spoke about it, and he understood, and they remained friends. Just recently I've become very close to this girl, and my insecurity faded as I realised nothing would happen between the two of them. I trust my boyfriend",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [32 F] girlfriend has a problem with my [31 M] salary, job, and thinks I'm cheap. Help? POST: I've been dating this girl for a couple years and we're planning to move in together soon, but she's always had a problem with me in terms of finances. I make close to $30k more than her and work a few less hours a week than she does, and this is a point of contention for her. She thinks it isn't fair and is angry about it, but she knows it is her problem and doesn't know how to deal with",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [26F] long term boyfriend [29M] got angry at me when I told him I wanted to raise our future children vegan POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 4 years and living together for 1. We are very compatible in all areas except for one: our diets. I am strictly vegan and he is a meat eater. I believe that eating meat is morally wrong and tried to convert him to no avail. At this point I have accepted that he and I will never agree on this one subject. We have made compromises ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I right to be miffed? POST: I'm a 17 year old girl who's been dating a guy from the inter net for nearly three years. We visit each other bi-yearly, and talk nightly. Now, since I live in the deep south, and he's in the northeast, he visits me during the winter. This year he's coming in on the 17 of Dec and staying until...well, no idea when he's leaving. January is a seperate college semester for him, and he's spending it doing an internship in Texas. So proud of him. <3 HIS MOM IS",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I was born in Asia but emigrated at a young age to a western country. The cultural differences of the two countries are enough for me to feel like I don't 100% 'belong' in either society. Any other Redditors in a cultural pickle? POST: I am of purely central Asian descent and thus I blatantly look Asian. It is visually blatant that I'm not 'from' the predominantly Caucasian western country I immigrated to, grew up and currently reside in. It's not a common occurrence for Caucasian peopl",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by falling through thin ice trying to protect ducks from danger POST: Yesterday I was fortunate enough to have a family members deaf dog dumped into my ownership, but thats another story. Today I got home from work, and went inside to let my dogs out. Out of general carelessness I let new deaf dog out with my two other dogs, assuming that she would be preoccupied by them and run around in the yard, surely needing to burn off some steam after being in a crate all day. We live in New E",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my BF[28M] of 2 years, he has a non-sexual compulsive privates touching disorder. POST: I live with my boyfriend and we have been together for two years. When he is in lounge mode, he has a habit of tugging at his balls and dick (non-sexual). I find it highly irritating for a grown man to be addicted to whipping out his dick randomly for play. I would compare this behavior to nail biting or hair twirling but on a way grosser and inappropriate level. He gets offended wh",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Landlord trying to sue me for the contract I broke. POST: Hello everyone, I want some real help on this problem. If you're going to come in here and give vague advice or point me to a link that will provide no specific advice, then don't bother commenting. Also, this thread is not for telling me about the mistakes I made. What's done is done, so let's move on. Story: I moved into this house in Aug 2014. I moved out without contacting the landlord in Jan 2015. I paid rent for Jan 201",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my new boss, not sure whether I should tell her about my allergies. POST: I'm sorry if this doesn't belong in this sub, but I wasn't sure where else to post it. I just got a new job working at a seafood restaurant. I'm from a retail background - no hospitality experience at all; my friend got me the job there and I love it. Because I have no experience and I was only just offered the job I'm very tentative to tell my boss that I am allergic to salmon and trout - both o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [21 F] ask him[27 M] to go out again or move on? POST: So I have issues with never knowing what I want. I went out on a date with this guy like three weeks ago and had fun. He tried to go out again and I was always busy. He gave up and I did not contact him because I did not know what I wanted. Now I regret that. He texted me a week and a half ago and I was busy. I texted him a few days later to go for a drink and he was going to some function and invited me. I didn't want ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Is my fitness center lying to me? POST: In january, I took it upon myself to go workout. Since I am very impulsive I kind of rushed into it since it was New Years. Classic right? Anyways, I went to a professional center because I assumed I was going to need help to get the right schedules going and all that so it was really expensive. When I went in to enroll myself in their center I asked to pay monthly. When they gave me my contract it said; It was recurring payments every month for a y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17f] just moved in with a family friend [43f] and her daughter. I love them, but their apartment is disgusting!! POST: My parents moved away to the suburbs because of a job, and I was lucky enough to have a family friend who I have known since I was 5 suggest that I live in her spare room for my last year of high school. However, their apartment is truly nasty... And for a clean freak like me with a really bad mold/rotting food phobia and a history of restrictive eating disorders",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: So I caught my younger brother watching anime porn, and I'm not sure how to react. POST: I (female) completely understand that guys his age watching porn is completely normal. So I come home today after a weekend conference, and find my laptop unplugged, but still sitting on my desk. So I start it up, and find that it's in recovery mode. Now it has a three year-old battery, so everytime someone unplugs it for longer than half an hour it dies and goes into recovery mode when you plug it ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [34M] friend[37M] just decided to divorce his wife [34F] basically for another woman POST: I'm gonna try and write this as objectively as I can. He (R) messaged this to me and a few other friends today that he's divorcing his wife (H). They've been married for about 4 years and have 2 kids aged 2 and 4. I talked to him about it in person earlier this evening and he said basically that he felt like he was losing more and more of himself every day, that it was tiring him out and ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I (F21) can't tell if he (M25) is loosing interest or not... POST: So, here's the story. I met this guy about a month and a half ago. We've been going on dates, had a few sleepovers, he's told me he likes me, etc. Recently though, I can't tell what's going on. So, first I should start by saying he is bad with his phone and doesn't check it very much so I'm trying to factor that in. Anyways, he usually will text me sometime mid-week to see how I am, chat a bit, and make plans. This ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Men of reddit! Help! POST: Hey redditors, I am a female in my 20's, am fairly attractive (been told, and I have done some modeling) and seem to have the worst luck in relationships. I recently got out of one because the guy said he was depressed. I believe him, but here's where things get sticky. Even though he is depressed, he says he likes me a lot..more than a friend, but doesnt feel he can be in a relationship (he won't say why). But yet, while he says this he goes out to get drunk e",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Copyright infringement lawsuit POST: **[MA]** I've recently got into a case of copyright infringement. I didn't get served anything directly just yet, just the email from Google informing me there's a case against me from a tube site company (as an unidentified John Doe) and they've gotten a subpoena to release my information. Also, this is just an alternate account I rarely use so there's no real information about me on it. More details, I uploaded some porn on a tube site around 2 ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my Online Date[25 F] of 2 weeks, tried to meet up in person for the first time. POST: So first time posting on this sub, and using a throwaway account. So I met this girl online, we texted back and forth for about two weeks. Last Wednesday I texted her saying hey maybe we should meet up for some food. She agreed and seemed pretty excited about it. I figured since I met her online and it's only been two weeks, to take it a little lighthearted and not take this too ser",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my friend [18 M] who's bein POST: Okay so to start off I came back home for college for thanksgiving weekend and hung out with my friends. We'll call one of them Sam. So I talked to him throughout the whole week(Wed-Sat) and then suddenly on facebook messenger his replies were all just one or two words. So monday the next week, I'm on skype with him along with a few other friends. And he just straight up ignores me. No responses at all. Let me say that this my friends",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I (16/M) deal with her (15/F) ex-boyfriend? POST: So I met this girl around four weeks ago. We hit it off immediately and I got her number. We started texting each other, and Skyping from time to time, and I can honestly say I really like her. We quickly became extremely good friends and have actually started dating as of this past Monday. She told me when we first met that she had a boyfriend who moved away around five months ago. They have been together for ten months.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My roomate and FWB [26F] said to me [26M] ""I love you"" casually in bed, and I've been freaking out as I suddenly realise our friendship is becoming like a relationship. POST: This girl I've been living with for a year and have become FWBs with. Basically we didn't know each other before hand, but we became friends after we started renting together and one thing led to another and we started having sex. It was nothing serious, from the start I told her I didn't want a relationship o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [19F] let a guy [??M] from work go, without getting in a bad situation at work? POST: There is this really cute guy at work, i had a crush on. I'm not that good at making the first move, so instead I glanced at him from afar, trying to get him to come talk to me. Its seemed to work, he would sometimes smile to me, but never actually talk to me. In the meantime I now started dating a guy I met at college. I didn't want to lead the guy from work on anymore, so I stopped retur",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25F] boyfriend [24M] of 11mo. never says he misses me/cares about me/etc, but he did say it to his ex POST: My boyfriend is a great guy. He definitely cares about me a lot. He puts up with me and my insecurities and he takes me out, plans great dates and all that good stuff. We've had a pretty good ~1yr but for one thing. He never, ever, ever says he misses me, or cares about me, likes me, is lucky to have me around... Nothing. He'll compliment me sexually and regarding my school",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] and my ex-girlfriend [21 F] of 2.5+ years recently broke up because I lost interest. I have a lot of regret, because I might have regained interest. How do I proceed from here? POST: Hi everyone, New here, but have been lurking for some time. So my girlfriend and I of 2.5 years, who I lived with for ~2 years, broke up recently. We both were abroad 4 months ago, so we did a long distance (open) relationship for the 6 months prior. Unfortunately, two of the last nights a g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[24M] with my girlfriend [24F] 5 years, brink of breaking up due to interfaith relationship POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for about five years, and things have been serious (marriage, family, etc.) for the last four. However, she's Catholic and I'm Protestant. Although we're both Christians, the issues of marriage and children have come up since we're getting closer to the stage of engagement. Her family is very Catholic (generations) and many people have converted t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I've [22 F] been dating a guy [23M] short term who is constantly talking about how hot other girls are POST: So I've been talking to this guy for a little while, and while he's fun and friendly...I don't know him well enough to know if I could even take him seriously. We are literally just getting to know each other. Anyway, I've noticed him talking about other girls a lot. He's always saying how all these girls are sexy and this one is hot. And how he has to be careful around certai",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going #2 with no where to go. POST: Okay, so I would guess this would be considered a bodily discharge and it isn't the weekend. This also happened when I was in high school, over 6 years ago. So if this is removed, I'll understand. One summer day, a coworker/bro and I decided to go hiking in a wooded area/nature preserve in the middle of a small city close to OKC. Later that day we were supposed to both attend a mandatory meeting and decided a short hike down a mile or so trail and ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My ex-girlfriend (25/f) and I (25/m) decided to start mutually hooking up POST: I am new to this subreddit so please forgive me. My ex-girlfriend and I broke up when I moved away for a job after college, I was 22 at the time. I moved back to the west coast and the same city as her a year later. We have been friendly to each other for the past year and a half. However, in the past few months things have changed. We have been sleeping with each other on and off for the past 8 mo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend's female friend moving in next door, I don't trust her. POST: So. Me and my BF have been together for a year, we're both 21. When he was in a previous relationship he toed the line with a female friend of his. They flirted heavily and actually decided to be some form of fuck buddies. I´ve talked to him about this, and he told me they never actually had sex, and became friends instead. It doesn't change the fact that they were picking out a time and place for a hookup, and ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Pursue, or give up? POST: Hi, and apologies in advance as this is a somewhat complicated question, based on a complicated relationship/lack thereof. Background: About a year ago, I saw a girl that I instantly took a liking to. Since then, we've been chatting a bit, but it wasn't until last December that anything worthwhile happened. We hooked up at a party, as in super drunk, and I failed to capitalize on it whatsoever. Since then we've still been chatting, meeting from time to time",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [25/f] boyfriend [29/m] didn't come home last night, doesn't think it's a big deal POST: My boyfriend didn't come home last night, his phone was off and didn't answer anywhere. He said he was supposed to come home at 7, I told him I would have dinner with my parents around then but get home afterwards. He then decided to stay out longer because of this but didn't bother to tell me. His phone was dead the whole time. This morning he got online and saw my many worried messages",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] having hard time to introduce my gf[33F] to my sisters... POST: This is the first time that I'm going to introduce a girlfriend of 5 months to my sisters. I do have 4 sisters. My sisters are very protective of me since I'm the youngest. They are good at sneaking and investigating someone else on Facebook. Here's the problem. My girlfriend's facebook has lot of her ex's pictures since 2010. She's also narcissistic and we hated it (me and my sisters) having lots of 'selfies'. S",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27M] just need some helpful tips and good advice on ending a relationship with my lover and best friend [24F]. POST: I've been in a relationship with the most wonderful girl for over a year. We're absolute best friends, but it's time (for me) to end the romantic relationship and live the bachelor life. This is going to be extremely hard on both of us - but it's something I feel I need to do. This girl is a huge part of my life and I know once we end out romantic relationship sh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Want to gently pressure my 26F ex to meet me (28M) again POST: Basically, it's been a while (years) since my ex and I broke up. We've both dated other people, but somehow we always end up re-visiting old issues and discussing the possibility of getting back together. An additional complication is that we live on opposite sides of the country now, but we have visited each other a couple of times already (and both times we have gotten along pretty well). At this point, I would say she",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] am factoring my girlfriend [21F] of 10 months in my long-term plans. Am I making a mistake? POST: We've been dating for the last 10 months, all of which have gone by effortlessly. We've become quite serious about one-another, and have plans to move in together within the next year or so. I'll be done school as of August (licensed to work as of September) and have a well-paying job lined up where I currently live. While I want to move to a bigger city, I want to wait for my gi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Need advice on how to move on.. Please read.. I'm desperate POST: He (22) broke up with me (F 21) about 8 months ago. We had been a couple for 3.5 years and were very close friends for 5. We were each others firsts in most things. I was his first kiss and we lost our virginity together. Our sex life was fantastic and we very rarely fought. I never smothered him and encouraged him to hang out with his friends. But at the same time he knew all he had to do was call and I would be there",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [21/m] What do I do about these feelings? POST: I have an amazing relationship with my girlfriend (20/f). We've been dating for around 1.5 years. I don't go out (downtown, bars, etc.) as much as I used and when I do it's normally with her. Sometimes though it's nice to have a night out with just the guys and sometimes she just won't be able to come out with me. Now I don't mean to brag here, but I'm sure that I'm not the only guy in the world who undergoes the phenomenon of being a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] with my friend(?) [18 F] of one week, not sure about sending a card on V-Day POST: About a week and a half ago this very nice girl messaged me on OkCupid. We send a few essay like messages and had a Skype conversation yesterday. All went well. We added each other on social media, etc. I'd say we're in the get to know/friend stage now. In the Skype call she said this was going to be the worst valentines day ever, because she just broke up with her 11 month girlfriend. I h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Yesterday I was ridiculed for helping someone fix part of their car. What helpful act have you received the opposite of good karma for? POST: Me bad three friends were spilling into one of their cars. What can only be described as a strip of plastic there for aesthetic purposes was discovered to be hanging off. I went into my back pack which I use for work, gym, everything really and got out some super glue I had and used it to glue the strip back on. The others in the car also noticed I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: So close to breaching no contact, just want some sense put into me POST: I'm shaking and nervous and crying. Broke up (25/F) with my ex (25/M) five months ago. It was the second official time I had broken up with him (both times I initiated) in the two years duration we'd been together. First break up lasted three months before we reconciled. In those three months we were in contact and I went back and forth on whether I wanted to be with him. This time around we've been no contact",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What is your idea of the best possible breakup scenario? (22/F&30/M) POST: So I've been seeing this guy for a month. He's 8 years older than I am but we are at similar points in our careers. He is a very kind person and I had enjoyed spending time with him but he has becoming increasingly attached over the past couple weeks. He has frequently mentioned his future plans, how he wants marriage and a family and a house. He has dropped hints that he may be ""falling in love with [me]"" I",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Should I uproot my life for trade school? POST: Let me begin by explaining my current life: I have a very cushy lifestyle right now and I love it. I live with my grandparents in their 6 bedroom (3 master) 4.5 bathroom home paying them a cheap rent without them asking but I feel I should be helping out financially. I live in a wealthy suburban city, lax and easy going and I do enjoy it here. I am a manager at a watch and jewelry repair shop making $15/hr (no state income tax) about 45 hours ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Does she [20F] need some time? POST: Met a girl [20F] through a group of friends. She was with someone for two months. It wasn't a good one but they were connected [he wasn't a good guy, no morals]. She broke up with him a couple weeks ago and I [22M] made my move to get closer to her (I know, too soon. My mistake). She told me she had a crush on me when she first met me but didn't pursue anything because I didn't express any interest (I was, just didn't show it out of respect for he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/f] met this guy [19/m] online two weeks ago, yesterday he told me he booked a flight to see me and today he landed. I'm not sure how to feel about this... POST: I've already posted this question in r/Long_Distance but I feel like you guys can help more. He lives in the US and I live in Canada, we only met two weeks ago and although we kept in touch for two weeks, we didn't really msg each other everyday. So I don't know much about him except for what he looks like, his age, w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (25f) am moving to a new city where my best friend(25f) is working. I want to start doing the work she is doing but want to approach the situation sensitively and tactfully. Help would be great! POST: Hi everyone, so I'm moving next month to be closer to friends, family and my boyfriend. My best friend has a pretty cool job and where we live the industry in which she works in is booming. It's also extremely good money (not staying what it is because she is a redditor) basically I w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (23M) gf(23F) has been feeling down lately and just got prescribed anti-depressants and I feel partly responsible. POST: To start, I'm not abusive or an asshole to my GF but I am a bit annoying because I have ADHD and within the last year I've had a lot of unfortunate events occur that have been outside of my control. These events have caused me to have an overall negative outlook on life, though I've been this way my entire life and had things happen to me my entire life so I kn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M/F] with my GF [34 M/F] of 8 Months are trying to be FWB after a breakup POST: Me and my GF were together for around 8 months, but had both noticed we have a lot of extreme differences. We have very little in common and overall in some respects I had a lot of doubts about us lasting forever. I try to be very open in my relationships and she continued to reassure me that she understood and we could get through everything. Near the end she changed her mind and we had 2 weeks or",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29F] saw my engagement ring from my BF [31M] and I'm disappointed POST: Bf and I have been together for 2.5 years, living together for 1.5. Our relationship is great, we're open about everything, this is it for me. We've been talking about our future for a while with lots of specifics including me literally showing him a ring I like. I'm not superficial or anything, just picky and he knows this so he asked me to go ahead and show him. So it was kinda a surprise when over the week",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [23M] best friend [22M] is about to be homeless. He wants to temporarily move in with me, but I'm uncomfortable with that POST: My best friend of roughly 10 years lost his job recently and is on the verge of homelessness, as he has no money saved. He lives paycheck to paycheck, but not because he wasn't being paid enough to get by; he blows all his money on beer, cigarettes, and weed. He never saves any money. He says he just needs a place to get back on his feet for a month or s",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU on a Craigslist Sale POST: I posted an ad on Craigslist last night for an item, and got a call today afternoon. A buyer wanted to meet me ASAP today while he was on his way home with his family. He instructs me to meet him at a Jack-in-the-Box at ""A Drive"" on ""B Street"" (street names falsified for anonymity). Upon receiving the call, I was hungry for skipping lunch, and slightly disgruntled at the nasty weather (raining). My mind probably wasn't at its A game, but I went ahead to meet ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What strange, creepy, or just plain interesting connection have you had to a book or movie you've read/watched? I'll start. POST: I recently took a train trip from Oklahoma up to Chicago riding on Amtrak's Texas Eagle train. The trip is about a 24 hour ride on this one train, so you have to sleep on the train. Keep in mind this train travels through the middle of nowhere, through deserted woodlands. I was bored on the ride and it was extremely late - about 12 or 1 in the morning. I sta",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I've lost my directions on where to go in life. I know everyone has that moment but it seems it doesn't last as long as it has for me. What are your experiences and how did you overcome them? POST: I am 22, graduated high school and went through a year of community college, a year of a technical school. I quit the college because I had no ambition, the school had my money and that's what their first priority was and also seemed to be the only care they had. I left my tech school because",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27F] friend [32F] is obsessed with my boss but I know he doesn't want more than friendship POST: My boss and my friend (who I have only known for 7 months) are friends through a long period of time. I have been working with my boss for almost 3 years but never had any personal contact with him. He just got a divorce 3 months ago after of marriage of 7 years. My friend has always had a crush on him, so when he got a divorce she was obsessed about hooking up with him. And they did.",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: 26, Overpaid for Degree w Student Loans. Considering Military. Am I thinking properly? POST: Background: 5 1/2 years of college, Associates Degree in Going to Class, 50k in student loan debt, 2.2k in credit debt. Making 21k a year. So here I am buried in debt, needing a replacement vehicle soon (I just have this feeling that mines about had it), with no way to prove my skills on paper. Half my student loans are from before a 2 year break and want money NOW. Going with income based",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my GF [32 F] of 1 years, father [55 M]. At her brothers wedding this past weekend, and I think I made a huge mistake. POST: The Wedding itself was beautiful. Absolutely amazing, and it doesn't help that I am helplessly in love with this woman. Despite the problems that we've had, the most important thing to me isn't that the problems are fixed or gone. The most important thing is that we're both putting in the work to fix these things. After the ceremony, I was stand",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [Dating] Crush of 2 Yrs is finally attending my university next semester, but I'll be studying abroad. POST: She (now 18 F) was in a relationship the first year I liked her but I (now 19 M) never made any type of move and let her believe I only wanted to be friends. I helped her through the break, without being bias. She broke up with bf just before college started so there wasn't a good chance to start anything. I decided I would study abroad just in time for her to decide she will ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] was talking to [20 f] for a few weeks and then she didn't want to move further. Texted me last night. POST: So I was talking to this girl for about a month or maybe a little longer. We never went on a date and met though facebook. So we exchanged numbers and I asked her out a few times after talking for a week or two and she didn't want to and then brushed it off. Then the last time I asked if like she really wanted to or what she said it didn't feel right or whatever. Ok c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'd [16 M] hate to have feelings for her[16 M] POST: I know, I know, it is generic. We have known each other for about 5 years now, and in that time we have become the best of friends. We've established that no matter what happens in our friendship, that we will never cuddle, kiss, or have feelings for each other. But recently we have been communicating non-stop and sometimes I just feel like I may have feelings for this person. But I am afraid to say something about it or point it o",negative " r/dogs TITLE: blood in new dogs diarrhea? Should I take him to the vet immediately? POST: I have a new dog I adopted last saturday. Last night during his leash training I used cheese. It was mild cheddar and the total amount was probably 1-2 tablespoons. He is 52 pounds. This morning his poop was pure liquid. On his walk he went twice more and both times it was liquid with some bright red blood drops. He only ate half his kibble and is now sleeping (he normally sleeps all morning so this is pretty normal).",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28M] just found out my girlfriend of 4.5 years [27F] cheated on me. She confessed and regrets it. Don't know what to think. POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for a long time. She came back from a long business trip to another state and confessed that she slept with another guy for a couple weeks. I had been busy with work and kind of distant, and she had been wondering if I would ever be ready for marriage. She didn't know I was making plans to propose. This other guy ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[22M] FWB[21F] is getting clingy. Don't want to a relationship but also don't want to hurt her feelings POST: I'm FWB with a really sweet girl. Over time she has been starting to call me to talk about her life, trying to go out on dates with me, texting me throughout the day etc. I don't mean to sound like a pig but I don't want any of that. I want to have sex and then go. The thing is I don't want to be so blunt with her because she is very sweet and pure-heated, I feel like it wo",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: My puppy just went after my other dog because she ate some of his food.. POST: Alright, so today we picked up on of those rolling treat dispensers that has to be pushed around for the food to fall out. Our puppy, a 5 month old Pit Bull, was given his lunch in it and then his dinner. It was pretty much empty, and there was some food he missed on the floor. Our other dog, a 7 yr old Lab was in the room too, and had eaten some of the food on the floor. Well, the puppy saw her, and he kind",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How do I tell if this girl I like have the same feelings for me and whether I should ask her out? POST: Here's the background story. So I started liking her around a month ago. We're both 18 and currently studying for a major exam coming up in November. (NOTE:this exam decides if we can get into college or we have wasted our 2 years studying for it) We hardly meet up and the only time we do is during our club activities in school or during breaks where we just say hi to each other. ",negative " r/books TITLE: About Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon POST: First of all I'd like to point out that despite what you may have heard, read, or even believed, after reading the description on the back, Swan Song is not a knock off of the Stand by Stephen King. I have read both and enjoyed each for their own merit. The Stand is a popular book around here, well known and well loved. I hear little of this affection for Swan Song. It is a beautifully written experience with it's own nuances, themes and d",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is the one thing you miss the most from your childhood? POST: Growing up with 3 brothers (1 older and 2 younger) and doing literally everything with them from when I was born til when I graduated high school and went off to college, I would say I miss being with them every day the most. My whole childhood my brothers were my best friends and I never really needed friends. Of course I had friends and still do, but I've always been kind of introverted and would prefer being wi",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Anything you can do I can do better... Including being obnoxious! POST: I live in an apartment and the room of my neighbor & my room share a thin wall. She likes to talk loudly, play loud music or have the TV on loud at extremely inconsiderate hours. On the lease, it's not allowed to be loud before and after certain hours but she doesn't care. I bang on her wall to try to make her aware about her loudness and she just bangs back which leads to us banging on our walls for a few minutes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] am moving out from my partner [23M] of 4 years, how do I break it to him? POST: I've finally had enough of living with my partner, he acts like a child and has tantrums when he doesn't get his way. I've secured my dream apartment and signed the lease, I move in on the 1st of July. Do I tell him now and sleep on the couch for a week? Or wait until the day before to break it to him? Even more confusing is that I know I still love him (but am not in love with him) so I can't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 29[M], GF (28) is upset I haven't said ""I love you"" after 4 months POST: We were friends 2 years prior to dating, one of us was always in a relationship, but I think the attraction was always there. We're 4 months into a relationship and she's told me she thinks we should ""be there"" by now. I've expressed that I take that kind of thing seriously and want to give it time before I say something like that. She's convinced that I should be more excited, and that if I was I would have sa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help a nerd get revenge on his brother? POST: So, I'm 20, almost 21, and as the title states, I am a (computer) nerd. I don't drink, and find alcohol kind of disgusting. My brother, on the other hand, loves to drink, is almost 25, still lives at home, and has a bunch of his friends over pretty much every weekend to play beer pong and video games until 4-5 in the morning. I am a very light sleeper, and when that sound goes up the vent from the basement to my room, I hear everything. Depe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [19F] doesn't seem to care about me much until I [23M] try to leave POST: I am always telling my girlfriend of three months that I love her but she won't say it back. We chat on kik messenger a lot and often times it will say she's read my message but she doesn't respond. I just feel like I put so much more effort into the relationship than she does and she just enjoys my attention and is kind of stringing me along. Sometimes I get annoyed because she never wants to do ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (18F) in college and I feel bad about myself. POST: So I just started college this year, been at it for about a month and while things are really fun, a lot of my insecurities have returned that I got over in high school. I think the main cause is that I'm in this program and I have to live and interact with the same people quite often (both the freshmen and sophomore groups mainly). And within the sophomore bunch, there is this one girl in particular who seems to gather the att",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend[25 F] mad at me for suggesting a facial during sex. POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for about one year and our sex life has been wonderful. Last night we were having sex and I suggested trying a facial. She has always been open to trying new things in the bedroom. She seemed shocked that I would ask her saying that they're degrading to women. I love her and would never put her in a position of disrespect so I didn't argue and thought nothing of",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M/F] and this [18 M/F] can't come out of the pre dating phase. POST: So basically I hooked up with a really really hot girl at a party once and I turned out to be her first, which was crazy for me. So It turns out shes still interested in me, so i play it well. 'Bit of treat them mean keep them keen' you know. Not overly talking to her and pretty much letting her know I'm in control. So we Meet up again and things were great in person, talking for hours then followed by mo",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Work as a nurse or continue studying to become a doctor? POST: I don't know if this is right sub to post to, but I've been having this delemma for months. I just finished nursing school, got my degree, will be graduating in a few month's time. I still don't know where I'll be working - they still have to send us our ward posts; I'm just enjoying my holidays at the moment. My lifelong dream (still not sure whether it still is) was to become a doctor. I don't know if I'll be satisfied for y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F/21] Feel like my my boyfriend [M/24] finds my body unattractive POST: Hello everyone! A bit of back story! I'm roughly 5'2 and 112 pounds. My boyfriend pretty thin himself and somewhat health conscious. (He watches what he eats and goes to the gym once or twice a week, but nothing too crazy) I play a sport (soccer) and I'm very passionate about it, however recently, I haven't been as active as I usually am. I've been working all summer (at a job that I HATE) and taking a summe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my girlfriend [23F] of one year dumped me... POST: This happened on Friday. My in the middle of our facetime, I offer to play guitar for her, to cheer her up. She tells me to stop trying to make her feel better because it makes her feel worse about her rejecting my efforts. For the past two weeks she had been having doubts about us, she mentioned that all of the arguments that we've ever had was replaying in her head constantly. She started acting a bit distant and I t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (18F) seem to not be able to please my boyfriend (18M) POST: I have been dating my boyfriend for over a year now and it seems as of late he has many things that seem to bother him about me and how I act. I apologize for the length. The first one is that I do not initiate as much during sex as he does or when I do initiate it is the same thing (blowjob or telling him to get on top). Honestly at times, I am not in the mood for sex, but it seems a day cannot go by without sex ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [24] tends to fall asleep whenever I [21] want to hang out. POST: My bf and I have been dating for a year now and this issue has come up many times, most of which I never really talk to him about. My bf has a 9 hr work schedule from 8-5, similar to mine. We don't live together so we try to find time to go to each other's house to hang. (On average, we hangout for 3-5 hours a day, 5 days a week). We would arrive at each other's house, go out for dinner, come back, play vi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what was something little that somebody did for you that meant a lot? POST: When I was a kid, I would go down to my grandma's and grandpa's house for Easter with the rest of my family. Whenever they did an egg hunt some of the eggs would have money in them ( mostly just a dollar or two ) and every kid in the family wanted to find an Easter egg that was like that. After the egg hunt it was revealed to me that I didn't get an egg that had money in it, and it made me mopey. My aunt ",negative " r/college TITLE: Is it a bad idea to take some time off from college to figure out what I want to do? POST: So a little background, Im a college student and I come from a background that expects high expectations of me. (Two older brothers who have both gone to college.) My mother came from a different country and has been quite successful, my dad too has a similar story(so you can imagine they anything other than a college degree is unacceptable.). Here is where my problem comes in. Im coming into my clos",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me (17M) being passed upon by friend (17F) POST: Background info: I used to have feelings for this girl, but they're long in the past and I made is absolutely clear that our friendship would stay the way it is, she completely agreed. She has accepted that the past is in the past. But also, She has been ignoring my texts and leaving them for later (her friends (multiple) will tell me they received texts from her while mines goes Unreplied for 4-5hours sometimes.) On 12/30, I m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (F/23) am trying to open myself up to friendships because I don't have many, but I don't know what to do because people are proving to be extremely unreliable. POST: I've had trouble making friends my entire life. I don't really know why; maybe it's my quirkiness, maybe it's because I'm kinda quiet... Either way, I attract/seek seemingly good people who end up being very unreliable. I don't understand why I keep finding these kinds of people, and this sounds dramatic (and I'm s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: in FWB relationship type thing and I[22f] am starting to get jealous. He's 29m POST: * So this guy and I started out as going on dates and hanging out in January, but three months into it I needed to know what was going on. I asked him, and he said he was having fun and stuff, but 'didn't see us dating.' Everything has carried on as usual, hanging out a couple/few times a week and one of us always sleeps over with the other when we hang out. * We've got a house booked this Fall for",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[22F] girlfriend of 3 years abandoned our plans to end our 1 year LDR 2 days before she was to see me [22M] POST: Hi, Need to get some other perspectives because I am distraught. Met my GF in college where we dated for 2 years. I was a year ahead of her and got a job in midwest. She promised to do all she could to come live with me. We then proceed to do a LDR for one year which was tough. She just graduated and received a great job that is about 2 hours from me. Not perfect, ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My son has a Sensory Processing Disorder(Doesn't Autism). Any Advice? How do you handle it. POST: He has these tantrums. Everyday And He Does some dangerous things while having them. Such as banging his head wherever he can. normaly He also gets so mad, He runs head first into walls. He also gets frustrated he will hit will hit himself and/or claw his face/bodySensory Processing Disorder Ex At the store he was frustrated that the seat belt in the cart. Was bothering so he stearted havin",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by ruining my friends birthday within an ~hour of her waking up. Oh boy. POST: Well, fuck. It's ten in the morning here now. About an hour ago, I went up to my friends college to wish her a happy birthday. A tiny bit of backstory: She and I have an extremely childish sense of humor, we are stupid together and are never serious. This will explain the reason I was handicapped later on. Okay back to a little while ago: I walk to her dorm, and her friends are there all wishing her a happ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Why do I want to hurt this boy who is weaker than I am, even though I like him? Any thoughts? POST: I'm a girl at college. There's this boy I've met at college. He's brilliant, absolutely adorable, and the sweetest human being I've ever met. I mean, this kid will run himself ragged and put himself at risk to help random people. Rather than kill a bug indoors, he'll spend an hour trying to get it outside safely. He was brutally beaten and when he discovered that his attacker was poor",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure if I [24F] just ruined a friendship with [24M] -- how do I proceed? POST: Note: hey guys I posted this a couple of days ago but accidentally deleted it using mobile. Just trying it again from a computer. Backstory: we were close friends for years and talked constantly even after we moved to different cities. After my boyfriend and I broke up we started testing the waters and talked more romantically. Things were going really awesome, but then we got into different grad sch",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27/F] with a [35/M] have gone on about 4 dates, been talking constantly for months, but every time we've gone out it ends in a hug and I just can't read him. Time to give up? POST: Update: So I really don't think there will be a next time. Haven't heard from him really and when I tried to ask him out again was denied. :( I guess the problem was me :( So a few months ago I met this guy. We talked/chatted constantly, finally went on a couple of dates. Mutual like was established (",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I(19) have been having doubts about almost 3yr relationship with gf(19). POST: So there's a girl I met in 8th grade. We became good friends for many years until I move away in 11th grade and we, ironically, start dating. Now things have been just peachy and we've been together for just shy of 3 years (more like 2 3/4) and in the last 2 or 3 months I've been having doubts about our relationship. I feel like my experiences during my first year at the university have changed me as a per",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (19M) tell my FWB(20F) to actually be in the moment instead of spending her time on the phone? POST: So I'm sort of seeing this girl who's also seeing 2 other guys. We aren't dating but i sure as hell get jealous at times. Whenever her and i hang out she always seems to be on the phone. But whenever she's with the other guys she never seems to respond. My question is if i should think much of it or try to shove those feelings aside? I feel as though I'm not as important ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[21f] told my boyfriend[21m] that I don't think our relationship has a future, but he wants to continue dating until the 'expiry date.' POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 2.5 years, and we are both about to be seniors in college. 3 months ago, I realized that we were too different to stay together long-term/ after college but didn't want to break his heart by telling him during the summer. Our differences include interests, career goals, lifestyle preferences, etc. Two w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[29M] with my ex [20F] of 1 year, I'm having trouble staying just her friend POST: My friendship with her isn't as strong as it used to be. I was in a dark place and so was she. We helped each other gain confidence and get over our personal issues. Now she's broken up with me and I'm in pain. Due to this being a long distance relationship and her not wanting to lack a physical relationship for another extended period of time she wants to breakup. I understand, but it's very hard ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my long distance boyfriend[25 M] duration, constant conflict over how often we should talk to each other. POST: I am currently at college and my boyfriend is out of state working full time. Before he got this job we used to skype everyday for hours. I felt so connected to him even though we were so far apart. Ever since he got this job, he is always tired and I practically have to beg or bargain with him to skype that day. I get extremely anxious (for no particular reas",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (22 M) not sure if my friend (22 F) is interested in me despite us both having partners POST: So, I've known my friend for a few months now and we got along well together right off the bat. Our relationship has become really flirty towards each other recently and even though we've not known each other for a long time we can talk about anything with each other. Here's where things get complicated. We both have long term relationships going on and are both living with out partners",positive " r/relationships TITLE: She's become very intimate but still has a boyfriend-- what do I do? [22m/20f] POST: Long story short I met someone online who lives 3 hours away by plane. We grew to be such great friends and then I visited her. Things got really intimate and we had such a great time together-- yet she has a boyfriend who didn't want to have anything to do with us while I was there. After I went home we just turned and became a lot closer (we basically did everything a normal couple does except f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [27 M] GF [26 F] walked out in the middle of a fight POST: First a little background. We've dated for about a year and lived together for the past 3 months. I have been cheated on before and am a little suspicious at times. Yesterday morning on a whim I picked up her tablet and looked at her email. The inbox was normal but in the trash I found a number of emails between her and her ex bf. There were no major warning flags, most of it was civil general conversation. The pro",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [21M] of 8 months, first time sex and condom broke POST: I wanted to wait a while to have sex and he patiently obliged. Last night was our first time. I was/am intending on getting on the pill, but figured it would safe enough to use a condom just once (still a small risk, I know). We also agreed that he would not finish inside me, something I thought we wouldn't have a problem with considering it was my first time having sex ever and it probably wouldn't b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20 Male) don't remember a lot that happened the other night and I'm worried POST: So last night some friends and I were drinking, and I got very drunk. I got so drunk that I blacked out, and don't remember some of the night. I met this girl during the course of the night (she is friends with this girl I know from one of my classes), and things really clicked for us. We eventually headed back to my place. We started making out for a few minutes, I put my hand down her pants, but th",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Situation with bereaved friend, help POST: I met and made a new friend a couple of months ago. We've become really close and we've shared things, particularly around depression and mental illness, that I haven't shared with friend I've know for 10+ years. His dad passed away ten years ago. He always speaks highly of his dad , but the date of his death has never come up in conversation. Due to the nature of his death though, it was reported in some of the national press. Perhaps stupidly, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20F] experiencing some trouble figuring out what to do for anniversary with bf [22m] of one year POST: Hey all! So my boyfriend and I have been dating for a year now (our anniversary is next week, yikes) and I want to do something for him to show how much I love and appreciate him. At first, I was going to make him a card and give him a homemade present (writing reasons why I love him on 50 pieces of our favorite candy). I was satisfied with this idea UNTIL I found out from a mutu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Working up the nerve... POST: 25/m and 24/f. Just under 3 yrs. together. We've lived together for about a year and half. My SO is becoming increasingly active in the local theater community. It's what she went to college for so it's obviously something she cares a great deal about and wants to do as a career. The problem is this increase in rehearsals, events, and meetings has her free time completely tied up leaving me sitting at home alone most nights waiting for her just so I ca",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [25f] Skeptical of my boyfriend's [27m] relationship with a past fling. POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for about three months now. Prior to this, we were sleeping together/hanging out for almost a year. A few months before we had started dating, I had asked him if he was sleeping with anyone else (I knew we weren't exclusive, I was curious because we were having unprotected sex and I need to know for my own health reasons). He said no, and it was just me. I believed him. A",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is my landlady allowed to do this? POST: So I moved into an apartment 2 months ago with 3 other girls. There are no animals allowed but one day, my roommate's friend brought their dog over for a few hours and left the dog's food bowl at our place. Our landlady's a tiny bit psycho to begin with - she's screamed at every tenant in our complex at least once for small reasons. She also has a tendency to barge into our apartments uninvited. Anyway, the other day, my roommate was the only pers",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Americans, when did people start going bat-S crazy over a little snow? POST: A little background- I'm a 20-something living in a major city in the Midwest. We regularly have snowstorms that bring 6+ inches in a one-day span. I remember when I was in elementary school in the mid-late 1990's and they didn't cancel school/work/church/etc. until the morning OF the snowstorm. You had to wake up and watch your school closing scroll at the bottom of the screen. And even then, we could get 4 or ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Ex boyfriend is stalking me, but police arn't helping? POST: I broke up with my boyfriend about 8 months ago. When we broke up, he was sending me hundreds of texts and calls. Most of them were threatening, he was going to kill me/my family. He would even show up in our driveway, and send me texts describing my car parking or text me as to why my car wasnt at my house, and where was I? We went to the police with all of these texts, and they did absolutely nothing. The officer who was ru",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27M] Gf [22F] broke up about 2 months ago. She wants to be friends. What could this mean? POST: My gf and I broke up about 2 months ago. I love her very much, but did not know how to handle the burden of school, work, and a relationship. I understand breaking up was the wrong decision, so I tried to mend things but she said she does not want to be in a relationship with me. Maybe in the future, but for now she wants to be alone. However, she was very intent on being friends becau",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19m) don't like the way my SO dresses (19f) POST: I love my so dearly and respect her a lot, but I really dislike the way she dresses. For the most part, she wears super tight and bright leggings by themselves that really show off her ""stuff"" which seems really inappropriate. Also likes wearing incredibly short shorts and skirts which I'm not really a fan of. I don't know how to bring this up and if I should at all, or just suck it up. She would probably tell me she doesn't want a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] and my GF [21 F] just broke up after 9 months, talking but I can't decide how to proceed. POST: So here's the deal. We met Spring semester, away for Summer with no problems. After we came back for Fall things began to go south. She broke up with me and we were on a break for a week. I got tired of her bullshit and broke up with her. Now she is not leaving me alone and wants to be together. ----------------------------------------------- She just got done telling me she di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24m] have two moms and my roommates [21-23] aren't the most open minded POST: Hello reddit I need some advice. I just moved up to a college town to transfer to a university in the spring. I have 3 roommates and they are all cool guys, except for the fact that they are ""muricans"" and not very accepting of alternative lifestyles and have the occasional ""coon talk"". Now for a little backstory. When I was 18 my parents divorced, six years later my dads remarried, and my mom is about t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32F] with my live-in boyfriend [33 M] of 2 years, my lack of communication and shittonne of grief is ruining my relationship POST: I'll try and keep this short. My dad died on Monday morning. He was terminal and in palliative care when he passed. It wasn't a shock but it still is utterly painful. We also expect one of my brothers to pass away in the next 48 hours. This is my first parent to pass, and my fourth sibling that I've lost in the last 20 years (big family, shitty genes!",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33 M] with my wife [30 F] of 3yrs (together 12). I think she's having an affair: how do I bring it up? POST: She recently got a new job and is now working with someone [50s M] prestigious in her field. Through reading her texts between the two of them, I know she is emotionally involved but not sure about the physical aspect. I didn't want to read her texts until we had a blow up argument last week and when I mentioned him, she got really defensive. I don't want to bring it up n",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: I wrote a letter to my boss, worried about being fired and what my options would be. POST: I work at a restaurant as a server in Oklahoma. I have been a server for 4 years and have worked in the restaurant business for 12. I just started working at this restaurant a month ago. I have seen many things wrong with the restaurant concerning the disconnect between the management and their servers. I also spoke with a majority of the servers how they felt about these concerns and they agreed",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M/F] with my friend [16 M/F] Just met somewhat recently POST: So I haven't dated much at all (One 2 month online relationship and single date with a girl i didnt end up being into to), but this valentines day i asked this super cute girl to get coffee with me. We didnt really know each other, but i thought she was adorable so i figured i'd see if we had anything in common. She ended up txting me later saying she was up for coffee as friends. We txted here and there up until ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: My[23F] gf recently broke up with me [22M] after 5 and half years. I still love her. POST: Jes and me were together since high school. We have been through so much together. She was there when my mother went to the hospital, and was there when I had nowhere to go. Our dynamic was great and we could talk about anything. Then came last year. In October, her grandmother died and it sent her into a depression. This was only hightened when I failed to respond to her because I was too busy wit",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling my God daughter I wish she hadn't been born POST: So this happened about 5 hours ago. Her mom just had another baby and I offered to take her out to lunch to give her mom a break. She turns 14 this weekend and as a 27 year old man I was already struggling to find ways to relate to her. She started asking who would be responsible for her if something happened to her mom. I told her that it would probably be whoever can best provide care for her and it would most likely be her",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My mom found her husband was hiding money from her and is now demanding a divorce, she went in debt bailing him out years ago. Advice? POST: Long story, but basically my mom married a guy who at the time was in debt, and she was doing okay. She bailed him out as much as possible, and soon he became solvent. As time went by (married 6 years) he began making more money, but they always seemed to be broke. they kept separate accounts as well so my mom didn't know what he had coming in/g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] am hurting my relationship with my girlfriend of two years [20F] and want to stop. POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for a little over two years. We both love each other very much and talk about moving in together after we graduate from the college we both go to. Our sex life has declined over the past year or so, and after several talks about it, these are her feelings on the issue: • Whenever we're together and she declines sex because she's tired or just not fee",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What would you do in my situation, you beautiful redditors? POST: Sorry for another relationship related Q in this section but I'm in need of some help, my friends' advice has bbeen useless so far... Basically I've just run home 3k in the pouring rain from the local night clubs, because of a girl. Surprise surprise. This girl has been hinting at me for a month and a half (or thereabouts) that she's into me and her friends have been blatantly telling me, however whenever I try to talk t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [24m] absolutely and illogically horrified of something similar to but not rejection. POST: I only get so far and run away and I don't understand why. Most situations are completely in my favor, and I have even had people physically push me in the right direction. I don't know what to do at this point in my life because I have never had a sexual relation ship of any kind. Therefore I'm poor at reading body language, conversation, obviously zero sexual experience, I never kn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(18M) friend(17F), which I truly love is having difficult times with her family and its preventing us from having a lover relationship. POST: Hello. I (18M) met her (17F) 2 months ago after a two year break up with my old girlfriend and i think we love each other but somehow i get the feeling that i love her way more. I'm saying that i get this feeling because she usually gets depressed because of her boyfriend that too left her 6 months ago and shes way too self-conscious about he",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What was your most uncomfortable dating experience? POST: Last night I went on a date. We met for dinner and drinks at a place by his house. Things were going good, we had the same taste in music and movies and had lots to talk about. He was a little socially awkward, but since I'm no beacon of social confidence, I always try to give those guys a chance. He ended up asking me over to watch a movie and I agreed. He lived about six blocks away, walk up to his house. Everything seems fine.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my Ex girlfriend [20F] 1 year, and the conundrum of love POST: So basically my and my girlfriend broke up about 2 months ago after a year being together. We were in love with each other and quite happy but an unexpected break up from her resulted in my contemplating love and the different takes on it. I deem myself a bit of a hopeless romantic that will put everything I have into the relationship and even when things aren't going so smooth I'll still stick in there an",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Update: [m24] Arranged a date and it was postponed. Am I wasting my time? POST: Original thread: Summary so far: met girl, arranged to meetup twice, postponed/declined twice. Left it there. Nearly two weeks later and since the last communication, she texts me, we make small talk and she says she's working fewer days the next week and then has two weeks off. Mates concluded that this is her saying ""I'm free, ask me again!"" so I put the ball back in her court and received a posi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my friend [24 M]. Despite having a girlfriend he has gone full on romantic potential creeper. POST: This is a follow up to: Hi again everyone.. So I talked to the guy and straight up told him that it wasn't fair for him to do this to his girlfriend and that I wasn't interested in being strung along or involved in him cheating. At first I thought it went really well, he seemed to understand where I was coming from and confessed in the past he had been a player (LOL do",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it ""ok"" to record people's memories of the deceased at a visitation service? My Grandmother's service is today and I'd like to record the impact she's had on people's lives. POST: My Grandmother passed away this past Monday. The public visitation service is today. She knew a wide range of people and we're expecting a fairly large crowd. I shoot video and record audio for a lot of personal projects, and the idea came to me to possibly set up an area to allow people to record a memory ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Financially clueless husband [24M] always leaves me [27F] holding the bag to maintain his pride. POST: My husband suffers from chronic depression. It is under control now and he is back at school and receiving student loans from the government, but for many years he had no job and I was the sole provider. Endebting myself and then paying off my debts, but never really being able to put money aside for more fun things. The thing is, his computer broke down and his parents offered to ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Me [19M] and her [18F] had a falling out after dating for 5 days POST: So I really don't understand where I went wrong. The girl I really like who actually initially came on to me told me the other day that she ""just wanted to be friends"", ""didn't want to be tied down to one guy right now"", and ""didn't want any of the stress of having to deal with a relationship"". The night before she asked what we were and I said I had no idea but I'm not seeing someone else and she said she wasn",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: She seems like she's interested, then turns me down when I ask her out. Do you think she was just teasing me? POST: She's 21 and I'm 19[M]. I've wanted to date her for as long as I can remember, but stopped myself from ever asking her out because she's had a boyfriend for most of the time I've known her. She's always treated me differently than a casual ""buddy"" would.. She compliments my looks all the time, plays with my hair and touches me for no reason, snuggles close to me on the",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I am the most perfectly normal, average middle-of-the-road guy ever. I hate it. POST: I'm not allowed to complain. I grew up in a very wealthy place. I have no debt. I went to really fantastic schools. I have a great job. I have an incredible wife. I have a beautiful, healthy son who will have every opportunity in the world, just as I have had. Yet I am totally, unapologetically unfulfilled. I am totally unsatisfied. I have had life handed to me on a silver platter, with every safety ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever had a game that you could not get enough of? Liking it more than just ""Wow this is a really good game""? POST: When I played Fallout 3 I experienced this. Most people admit that it was a pretty good game, but for me it was something more. I earnestly wanted to fix the capital wasteland, and help the people, I wanted to restore humanity to the land. I played through the game probably 10+ times, each time trying for better outcomes in the world and to enhance max out my charac",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 F] I lost a lot of money gambling and I'm getting married (fiance: [32M]) POST: Throaway account Last year I got many family problems, basically a very close family member broke my heart with his behavior. That took me to gambling, at first for fun but then became a huge problem I'm getting married soon and I do have money for the reception but I had to make a loan for it; yesterday I gambled more than my own salary, so I have little money left for the next month My fiance ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35F] with my [37M] duration 1.5 yrs, broke up with me. Should I ask for my money back? POST: My ex broke up with me a day before Valentine's day saying I'm not the right person for him. Lots of crying and tears from both sides, lots of emotional drama from my side. A few days later gave back each others' stuff and now we are in no-contact. No emails/text/calls nothing. Today I realized that my ex needs to return nearly $800 of mine. Actually maybe a lot more than that, but at t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend (30f) and I (37m) have been fighting constantly. Should I take some time off? POST: Some backstory. I met my friend about five years ago, and while we live in different states now, we still chat pretty often online. The problem is that we've been fighting a lot over the past few months. At the start I said some things that hurt her deeply. There was a political issue that was really important to her, and I outright discounted it. Since then it's built into a vicious circle:",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ""girlthing""(20/F) broke up with me (20/M) and I'm lost in her vagueness/thought process. POST: Ok reddy. So we have been seeing each other for about two months. We had an alright think going. Never really spoke about labels but spent maybe 2-3 days of the week together with a lot of texting every day. Things were going okay. Until, yesterday after we hangout and she leaves my home, she doesn't text me she got in or to talk. I give her space because whatever she could be busy or ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by calling a midget adorable. POST: Alright so this actually happened today. I was at work like always doing my usual thing. I work in the deli so we sell all kinds of things as far as hot foods, deli meats and the like. As you may or may not know, if you've ever been to a deli. The place where they keep all the meats and foods are quite tall. They go right about to where an average persons chest is. Today was like any other day. I was making sandwiches for the floor when all of a su",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Old friend owes me money, not sure if I have any legal recourse POST: I live in Chicago, Illinois, and I've worked myself into a silly situation. Before anybody asks, I do realize that my handling of this situation was pretty dumb and probably a little bit illegal. I'm assuming I'm out of luck here, but I figured I'd see if there's anything I can do. **Backstory: April 2013** - Due to some unrelated circumstances, I was unable to open a bank account for myself. My friend offered to op",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I could really use your help reddit... POST: i'll try to make this as short as possible.... I've been talking to this gurl for a good couple of months now & up until a couple days ago we finally met. It was pretty much the 1st time being around each other. But we've been talking/texting for several months... We just made the official introduction couple nights ago. Throughout these txt msgs & phone calls we talked about meeting up, cuddling & all tht other oey goey stuff. things that w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/M] and my gf [21/F] are at a crossroads in our 3 year relationship POST: My girlfriend and I have been together since sophomore year in college. We have had our problems, but mostly great times. A couple of months ago, she started feeling unsure about our relationship. She truly loves me and I love her back, but she has had this urge to be single and know the world around her without being committed to a serious relationship. Let's say she feels 50/50 about this. This is a c",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Room-mates friend using our house as her second home... need advice POST: I appreciate any advice you can give me. My room mate has a friend that lives a ten minute walk from a bus stop that would take her to our university campus. She feels that such a walk is too long for her, therefore she drives her car to our house and parks there for the duration of her school day and takes our bus. She then comes back to our house at the end of the day on the bus and drives her car home. She doesn",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by losing my neighbour's gerbil. POST: My neighbour's 7 year old daughter owns a male albino gerbil that she absolutely loves to bits. Anyway, they had to be out of the country for a few days, to attend a foreign relative's funeral. They said they would pay me to look after this gerbil, and I thought that I could use a bit of money. I picked up the gerbil's cage and they gave me instructions on how to care for gerbils. Easy enough. But on the second day I had to care for it, it somehow",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24/M] am not sure i am in love with my [26/F] girlfriend and i don't feel physically attracted to her anymore POST: So, i'm finding that i don't find my girlfriend of 7 years physically attractive anymore and haven't for about a year or so, i feel that's because she has put on a bit of weight over the past couple of years , i know how shallow that sounds and that i should be able to see past this but i can't. I also don't know if we even connect on an emotional level anymore, we ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need some help with a financial decision please. Basically, how bad does a debt collection account effect credit score? POST: I'm a college graduate, home owner, and I have a decent credit score. I just received a letter from a collection agency claiming I owe upwards of $700 on a delinquent debt from an apartment I lived in my last year of college (2.5 years ago). There were three of us in the apartment. We were signed in with a joint lease (I know now how evil they are). One of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my bf [24M] of 2.5yrs, do I stay in a relationship with no future? POST: Basically my boyfriend has commitment issues from his past relationships. I asked him whether he could see me being somebody important to him/have a future together on two instances recently in the past 4-5months. Both of the times the response was that he didn't know but was leaning more towards probably not. I need some perspectives to help me decide whether to stay or not and things to think a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: SO(M31) and I (F26) have been together for 4 years and I no longer see a future POST: He has a complicated past, no job, no education, and no f*cks to give. When we argue, he calls me names, constantly says 'f u' , will slam doors/tables, hang up on me if we're on the phone, scream at me in front of his family/in public...I know it takes two to fight, but I have consistently asked him to not use disrespectful language, intimidate me, ect. He has a teenage child and although he has to",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Unsure how to gracefully say ""I want job X but I will take job Y if necessary."" POST: Backstory: I'm 26 and I've worked as a veterinary receptionist, and then front desk manager, for 4 years total (with other jobs in between). I moved to a new city a few months ago and I've been looking for job NOT in the veterinary field, but nothing seems to be panning out. I was really burnt out at my previous vet (mostly because of other employees) and I thought a change would be helpful. But now I'm con",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking my friend if he was going to propose to his girlfriend. POST: This just happened.   A little back story... My wife and I are visiting my parents in a small town in Colorado for Christmas. My childhood friend stopped by on his way moving back from the east coast. He made the trip with his girlfriend of two years who is from back east. Before they visit his parents, they're spending two nights in a quaint mountain town tonight and tomorrow night.   They came by and we hung ou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] regarding my coworker[24 M]: *Warning* Cheesy FB-related question - He changed his status from ""in a relationship"" to ""single,"" yet he still has a GF? POST: Long story short, a coworker I like recently changed his Facebook status from ""in a relationship"" to ""single"" - not too long after he initially changed it from ""single"" to ""in a relationship."" However, he seems to still be with his GF. Huh? I'm not sure how to interpret this... I'm interested in him and know he's inter",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26/M] My Girlfriend[26/F] says something is ""holding her back"" from letting me in. What can I do? POST: My Girlfriend and I have been dating for a little over a year. When we got together she was fresh out of a long-term relationship and we worked together, so we agreed to take it slow. We've been exclusive the whole time, and had no serious problems, other than her not fully letting me into her life. I have never met her family, and I have only met about two of her close frie",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my SO [19M] of 1.5 years, I fell out of love but I still want friendship...help! POST: Hello there....sorry in advance for all this writing... So, me and my boyfriend were very close friends before we starting dating, all with the same tight-knit group of mutual friends. After I experienced a bad breakup and was an emotional wreck, we started seeing each other as more than friends and became very serious. I loved him more than I thought possible, and every second was b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my GF [25 F], what's wrong with me? POST: I've been friends with this girl for 10 years, we dated way back in the day and it didn't work out. Turns out we both had crazy demons from our past. I'm over mine and in a much better place now. Our bond always stayed intact and we kept in touch. I ended up getting an invite from her sister to her niece's birthday last year and I reconnected with her and we began dating again. It's been a bumpy year, to say the least, but th",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the best *real* vigilante story you know of? POST: What is the best vigilante story you know of? I'm interested in hearing your stories where the law was taken into someone's own hands and some form of ""justice"" was dealt outside the law system. Remember to exercise caution with names and specifics. To kick these off I'll share a personal story: Back in 1970-something my friend's mother had a problem when walking home from junior high. A creepy man started following her, day af",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Islam/Non-Islam Relationships POST: I have been in love with a girl for over three years, but our relationship has deteriorated recently due to coming to terms with the fact that we might never be able to be together. Her family will never accept me because I am not muslim, nor do I ever plan to be. I don't care for any organized religion at all, much less one that has institutionalized the degradation of women. She is not a practicing muslim, but her parents actually grew up in Pakistan",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: UK family law advice POST: Hey Reddit I'm 26 years old and living in the UK, Father to a beautiful 4 year old girl whom i love and cherish more than anything in the world. About 2 years ago i separated from her mother after i found her sleeping with one of my ""friends"" To begin with contact with my daughter was great and regular and fair and as time rolled by this continued. i moved onto working nights and still kept up the schedule of seeing her and having the most wonderfully close f",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by drinking water POST: A few weeks ago I was told by my boss that I was going to be hired full time (currently a temp) and that I would need to pass a drug test and background check. Which was no big deal since I don't do drugs and have no criminal history. I was told the papers would be finalized in about a month. Last week I contacted my friend who is a personal trainer and was telling him I wanted to change my lifestyle and was seeking his advice on diet and exercise. He told me I ne",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by swiping right on Tinder POST: This TIFU was more like Two weeks ago I Fucked Up...so I landed an internship in NYC for the summer. I was super stoked to get to live in the big city. I got kinda lonely so I started swiping on Tinder and just like any guy I swiped right on any chick that looked fuckable. About two weeks ago this hot brunette matched with me on Tinder and we started talking. A day after that we met for drinks after work and one thing led to another. This past weekend wa",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by eating ketchup out of the bottle POST: So I have something called sleep related eating disorder, which is exactly what it sounds like. A couple times a week I wake up and head straight to the kitchen and rapidly eat high caloric and strange foods while I'm asleep. It can be a bit of a bummer because I have devoured some pretty gourmet leftovers while I wasn't even awake to enjoy it. I recently started dating this amazing guy, named Chase, and things have been going swimmingly. Fun fac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M], did I cheat on my girlfriend with Omegle? POST: She's been out of town on a family trip for almost two weeks, and I have been very horny. Today I got carried away, went on Omegle and sexted (just text, no pics or video) with a girl for less than 5 minutes before I realized how wrong what I was doing was. At the time I viewed it no differently than watching porn, which she is okay with, but then I thought about it and googled it and all seem to say it is indeed cheating. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30F] with my boyfriend of increasing seriousness [29M] of half a year. I earn more than him and want us to have adventures. POST: This awesome guy and I have known each other for about a year, starting really casual and slowly moving into more serious dating (even though we're not *officially* together yet), calling him a boyfriend out of convenience here. I have a really amazing job that pays a lot of money and he has a more normal job that pays almost half as much. At the end ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: 23 6 student loans 1 credit card a few dumb mistakes. need help POST: Basically in the last few months Since Jan. my Score went from a 580-468. I lost my job and was unable to keep up with my student loans (which are around 8k). I only have 1 credit card with a limit of 200 which ive kept close to paid off and always paid on time. But seeing how I havent been able to pay my loans since November 2014. the lateness took points off my score. What I want to know is I now have a job wh",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I tell my office-mate that he has disgusting /annoying eating habits? POST: I share an office with 5 other people in our college. This is a relatively small closed room -- there are no windows, but just a door. Let's call one of my office-mates John. Everyone, except John, eats their lunch outside the office to avoid the office from smelling like a kitchen. John, on the other hand, insists on eating his breakfast/lunch/dinner in the office. Every time he does this, the entire offi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22m] girlfriend of 4 months starts a new job and wants to end things but still talk POST: Sorry if poor formatting I'm on mobile but I started seeing a girl 4 months ago about 2 months before her college graduation. She received a job offer 2 weeks after we started seeing each other and I knew that the relationship wasn't going to last much beyond when she started working so I didn't want to get too emotionally invested. I have one semester left of school before returning to wher",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Spilling Some Coke & Totaled My Car POST: So, I'm driving home from janitorial work, it's after midnight. I stop at Jack-in-a-Box for some dinner. My car is a 1996 Suzuki, the cupholder is a pop out thing that only hold the bottom of the cup. I continue on my way home, hoping to spend the night playing Fallout 4 and enjoy my chicken sandwich. I notice that my gas is low, so I make my way to gas station, that was up the road of the freeway. I turn, and my coke spills into the passenge",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I quit drugs today. Enough was enough. POST: For the past 6 months I've been mentally addicted to a generic form of adderall. I had a steady supply of 30 tablets each month (not prescribed to me), and would finish the 30-day supply each month within the first 10 days I got my hands on it. After those 10 days I spent the next week mentally and physically drained from lack of sleep and food. Then I'd start counting down the days for my next supply to come in. I hid this addiction from ev",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Some advice on Protein POST: Hello all!   I've searched through this subreddit and found several comments on protein shakes, but this is an area that has always been vague for me. Last time I was very successful on my weight loss journey my wife got me convinced to try Herbalife. I replaced two meals a day with their shakes and lost weight. Big shocker, once I stopped with the shakes I put weight back on.   This time around, I'm trying to eat normal foods, just be more careful about",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What is going on with me? I am 25(m) and my GF is 22(f) POST: What is going on with me? I am 25(m) and my GF is 22(f) I have been with my GF for over 3 years.. started out AMAZING, still is ok but we hit that rut about a year ago.. we started fighting more, a lot more. Our biggest issue is she does not agree with my career (Law enforcement) as she is well on her way to med school, she gets pressure from family (assumption) that I should do something more 'prestigious'.. but LE is w",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/m] I met a girl [17/F] and don't know if it was meaningless, nor how to progress. POST: Firstly, I am 17. I spent the day camped out with some of my friends for a good view of the fireworks, and we got a really good spot. We had a small amount to drink, so I was feeling a little more confident than usual. A large group of girls of a similar age soon entered the area, and we switched to alphamode and started talking to them. They had had a bit to drink, but similar to use no",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 23F newly dating a coworker 32M (one month), need advice! POST: So I've been working with my company for 7 months now and have recently started dating a guy in my division. Background: we had been chatting on the office communicator for 2 months or so before it switched to him texting me outside of work, then to grabbing dinner after work, then to finally, after 1-2 months more of innocently hanging out (he would always pay), him finally asking me on a ""real date"". So there's been",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I've (20/m) recently become enamored with this girl (20/f), and she really likes me too. I have one reservation, though, and I'm wondering how to go forward. POST: It's been crazy how quickly this started and has been moving. She's pretty much exactly my type - intelligent, confident, extroverted, very pretty, adventurous - and our personalities really play off each other. I think the coolest thing is that she's one of the only people I've ever met who I've felt comfortable b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: A guy (24M) that i'm (24F) dating lives with his parents, and i'm really not interested in the awkwardness of meeting them at this stage. He wants me to come around tonight but don't know what to do. POST: Been dating a guy I know for a couple of weeks. Been on some awesome dates, and I have actually been back to his place once but that was when his parents were away for the weekend. I could hear his brother walking around the house but I never met him. Well, he wants me to come aro",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why do so many claim reddit is full o neckbeards, nerds and the socially awkward despite a plethora of examples to the contrary? POST: Having spent many hours trawling reddit, I can safely assume that nearly everyone and anyone from everywhere is represented on reddit. From the homeless to the famous, from beauty to the beast and from dwarf to giant. Yet you get statements like the following far too often: 'Imagine all the nerds, dorks, geeks and weirdos from your school, then make a w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [46M] with my son [18 M] for 17 years think he is hiding relationship from me with [21M] UPDATE POST: FIRST POST : Well, it's been a month and lots has happened. Been very busy with end of school year and haven't had time to update. The day after I made the original post I took Alex to get his first tattoo. While he was getting it done, I noticed it seemed quite similar to one of Oliver's. (Rose and dagger in same style) and I asked him if they were related. And he just started",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 16 F with my friends 16 F's, friends since age 11. Kissed a guy and had him back to my house after a party when my friend liked and had 'claimed' him. No memories of the night. 3 weeks later and I have no friends left. POST: I went to a party with a good friend of mine (P) and hadn't eaten that day so got drunker then I'd ever been. Somehow, the boy P liked ended up coming back to my house, and we kissed (supposedly.) I have no memory of the night and the events of it but I woke u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] not sure how to ask [20 F] out on a date through email. POST: So hey guys, I was on the fence for awhile but I need advice on how to ask this girl out on a date through email. I met her through a class we had together, and I only have her email. Classes have ended and email is the only way I can contact her. We aren't too close, but I'm attracted to her, and I'm sure she's at least a little attracted to me. Problem is, I know face-to-face is the way to do it, but since that",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by falling asleep while watching twitch POST: So yeah, i came home from a party at around 4am. Not drunken anymore but still not sober. I went to the bed and started the twitch app on my smartphone because i couldnt fall asleep. I was watching some dota 2 stream and did not plug the phone to the power supply. I felt asleep. When i woke up, my smartphone was turned off. So i turned it on and got a message from my provider that i reached my mobile data limit and a second one where my prov",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[17/M] want to break up with my girlfriend[17F] of 2 years on Friday but I can't avoid her questions. POST: So my girlfriend and I have been together for two years and some months. She's been talking seriously about our relationship but I'm planning to end it because I don't feel the same way. The problem is that we talk online/text a lot. And she's always saying things like she wants to kiss me and shit which I usually dodge by changing the subject or saying that's sweet. She's n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (27 M) with my girlfriend (28 F) almost 7 years; how do I separate personal from relationship issues with depression apathy? POST: I'm looking for some outside perspective and advice from the sages on /r/Relationships on when it's time to give up. For background, I've been dating my SO for going on 7 years, and we've been living together for about 5. We had some periods where things were going pretty well, but there have always been issues. Over the summer, we were essentially br",negative " r/relationships TITLE: We (F, 18 and M, 18) still love each other... POST: So me and this guy started dating 2 years ago (November 12, 2010). We broke up 6 months in because he still liked his ex, but we got back together a few days later. In January he broke up with me and I had to go to a psychiatric facility for 24 days. He started dating another girl, and we talked for the first time again in April. He broke up with her and we started going back out. In August I decided I didn't want to be in the relat",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my fiancee [26 F] together for 5 years, wants me to give up martial arts before we get married POST: Me and Jenny have been together for 5 years. She's truly the one I wish to spend the rest of my life with. 3 months ago I asked her to marry me and obviously she said yes. I've been doing martial arts for around 11 years. I train 6 days a week with 2 of those days dedicated to lifting. This has never been a problem between me and Jenny, she's watched me compete and has",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 F] boyfriend [22 M] of a year shared graphic sexual details of our sex life with a friend. He's lying about it. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for a year, and very happy. I have no complaints there. Recently, however, I backed myself into a bit of a corner. I'm curious to a fault, and that sometimes leads to me snooping, which I realize is bad and I shouldn't do. This is the first time I've ever snooped on my boyfriend's messages, but I felt compelled to check his",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [18/M] am not sure of what to get my SO (17/F) for our one year. POST: We're coming up on our one year since we've started dating and we are both still very much in love with each other. Only a few issues are really creeping up on us. She works after school with the Robotics department and helps kids do their homework and experience the world of robotics. She only gets paid $40 a week for this and doesn't have any job outside of that. She has roughly $500 between her savings",negative " r/relationships TITLE: SO wants to move away, I'm stuck here, please help reddit POST: I'm 26/m she is 22/f, in NY, I recently moved back home to the town we both live in from Florida to be with her and finish school. We started a relationship before I moved and kind of did our own thing for a couple months until she came to visit, both of our choices. After the visit, we realized we cared far to much for eachother to not be together, and we decided to be exclusive. Our relationship began long distanc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my girl [24 F] looking to know where we're at [4 months] POST: Hello guys, so, I recently completed 4 months with my girl. We've decided when it was 1month and a half long, that we would be only with one another. I fell in love with her, introduced her to my family, and we get along really well. When we're together, we're super, it flows naturally and we have a lot of great times. She wants to see me every weekend. Yet, in a recent discussion, I came to know she's no",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: [M23] Haven't gotten any action in a while but I just got two numbers from two cute girls [F23]+[F22] tonight and I have no idea what I'm doing POST: The problem is F[23], the girl I like (tonight was the second time I saw her) told me that she has a boyfriend. But he just took off and went to Asia for a while by himself. She gave me her number but said we would only be friends, but I think she might at the very least think I'm interesting. She brought up hanging out next weekend, an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Question about me (18m) with my ex (18f) - why the hell do I even care? POST: Ok, ffs man. We broke up like what, 8-9 months ago now, and we tried to make it work again but a lot of real bad things happened, hurting each other etc that made it impossible for me to trust her and for her to move on from our previous problems. So we went no contact and have been for the past....like month and a half or so now? I don't know, I guess it's obvious that I'm not over her yet, so It's a stup",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F22] am not sure how to handle his [M23] sudden lack of communication POST: Hi Reddit. I have been dating this guy for a while now. We didn't have the relationship talk (yet) but we both know that we like each other and that we are dating exclusively. At least, I was very certain of this until he suddenly gave off a bit of a negative vibe. I am not even sure what it was about, I think it was more my intuition than his exact actions. He just seemed less bubbly, more tired, more si",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 22m FWB with 20F; she hooked up with someone else and I feel terrible POST: This probably crops up a lot. There's not too much to tell. We've been hooking up for around 2 months. We had feelings for each other in the past, but never dated (I would probably have defined myself as ""in love"" with her 6 months ago, but it didn't work out and I sort of moved on). As we've been hanging out and hooking up, we've been acting more and more like a couple. A stupid trap to fall into, but I fool",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/m] I'm far away from the girl I believe I should be with [19/f] POST: This girl has always been a little crush of mine since I first saw her when I was freshman in high school. Into my sophmore year I kind of let on her that I liked her. She let on a little that she did as well, then turned around started dating another guy. I was pretty upset because I felt that she played me, but I was young so I let it go. She's two years older than me so she graduated that year, and ove",negative " r/Advice TITLE: GF is pregnant and broke up with me Update POST: okay so that was my post about 1 week ago. I have some updates recently I started to tell people who knew me i was going to be a dad, of course the mother of my child started to say oh now you care, and stop putting on a show. She's saying i just recently wanted to be involved. when in reality she didn't want to make things work between us (for the better now) and we would argue with each other each time we spoke. I am not working two jobs an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I deal with my boyfriend (20m) not wanting to have sex with me (20f) anymore? POST: Aiden and I have been together for two years (living together for a year), but for the last few months sex has gone from 3-5 times a week to once a week if I'm lucky. I've told him exactly how I've felt, and we communicated thoroughly about this with him promising to make more of an effort. but nothing has changed... I sometimes feel as if I have to wave my arms around wildly while naked in fro",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Should I pay back my student loans before going back to school for a new program? (CA) POST: Hi PF! I'm a new subscriber, and new to budgeting - I'm trying to get better, though. So, for some description - I'm currently in a Master's program and I'm also working full-time at an ok job. I'm hoping to be done my MA in January. Since starting the MA, I've given lots of thought to what I want to do - and I'm now realizing that I really don't want to remain in this field, and that I'd ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25/f] boyfriend [26/m] and I are long distance, but he's thinking of making the distance even longer. POST: My boyfriend and I have only been ""officially"" dating for 8 months. I am in love with him but haven't told him and I think I'm more committed to the relationship than he is. We have a lot of fun together and I know he cares about me. He's never been in love, though he's been in a 3 year relationship before. He tells me that I worry about things too much. Our long distance i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/M] wants to take her [19/F] on a 2nd date, but don't want to be a nuisance. POST: I'm an American and she's Ukranian, and we've both recently moved to England. I met her at a club over the weekend, and we really hit it off. We went on a date the following day and it also went over successfully. Both nights, we ended up sitting on the beach, cuddling, kissing, and talking about lives. We meant to grab a coffee yesterday, when I left campus to work in my lab, but our late nights",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What does it mean when we identify ourselves or other individuals as 'pranksters'? POST: My SO and I were in the kitchen. I admitted that I had the insatiable urge to pour my cold beer down the back of his butt crack. To me, this kind of nonsense is simply delightful, no matter what the circumstance. I know that everyone has 'urges', and what-not. I wonder if I'm wrong for wanting to goof with people? I see videos online, all the time where bf's film themselves pranking their girlfriends",positive " r/college TITLE: Maybe Someone Can Ease My Mind About PC POST: A little background story might be helpful. After being waitlisted at Providence College and about to attend a school I was less than thrilled about (UMass Amherst), I was accepted and decided to go. It was initially one of my top choice schools and I was very excited to get in. However, I recently came across a few things and now I have a few qualms about attending. It is a Catholic school and I am Catholic (actively participates in a youth gr",positive " r/travel TITLE: R/travel, don't fail me now! I won a trip, but to where? POST: Long story short, I won a trip for 2500 USD. I can go anywhere I want provided I don't exceed that amount (presumably I could go over that if I wanted to shell out my own money). Additionally, I am in the process of converting my SO to enjoying the art of traveling. His childhood vacations were very regimented and he tends to associate travel with stress and discomfort more than anything. Also, he's a foodie. So here's t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 M] boyfriend told me [23 F] that he needs a ""break"". When is it ok to ask him if we can talk? POST: My boyfriend of nearly 2 years texted me on Sunday that he needed a break and some space. I immediately demanded a phone call, which he agreed to, and he went off about how I'm always upset with what he does, he can't do anything right ect. ect. ect. Nothing he was talking about really made any sense because I haven't been upset with him in a couple of weeks. Anyway, at the en",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21M) dad (50M) has been cheating on my mom (50F) POST: God. Fucking. Damnit. Here we go. I walked into my house after taking out the trash about 15 minutes ago to see my dad sitting in his armchair as always watching TV. He was sending an email on his phone and I just happened to lean in to see what was written. It said something like ""I can't wait to see you, work has been hectic, etc."" So real quick. My parents have been married for 27 years. I'm pretty sure they have sex regu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: DC Security Deposit Issue - Small Claims Suit? POST: My roommates and I rented a place in DC up until January 30 (lease end date). The landlord got back to us 46 days later saying that 1. He is deducting $1255 from our $3000 ($2500 + $500 pet) deposit for painting, cleaning, lightbulb replacement, and pet damage; and 2. The checks are in the mail. Now, first, in DC its my reading of the law that not only did he take too long to respond to us (and did it via email), but he did not follow",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Marriage seems to be falling apart, and I'm at a loss when it comes to fixing it. POST: I'm 25/f, he's 27/m. We got married very young (I was 20) and have a 3-year-old son and another child on the way. Our marriage isn't necessarily bad, it's just...lacking. We had a lot of issues while we were dating and engaged that we managed to work through, but our marriage has been pretty smooth sailing as far as getting along goes. We don't argue much and we're able to communicate our differe",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I need about all the advice I can get POST: As a senior guy in highschool who has never had a girlfriend, I must face the reality that I am doing something wrong. A bit about myself: I play the viola as one of the top players in my state, run varsity cross country and track, and achieve straight A's in the highest classes of my shool (international baccalaureate for those who know the program.) I don't even think I'm *that* bad looking. I just feel I have been blessed(?) with the nic",positive " r/relationships TITLE: She [F18] has contact with my [19] ""replacement"". POST: Currently I am dating, lets call her Anna, for about 4 weeks. We met after she found out that my ex cheated on me. (they go to the same school and share classes) We really have a click and we already kissed. The only thing that bothers me is that she is in contact with the guy my ex cheated on me for and is currently dating my ex. Ex since about 5 weeks, afaik, maybe even longer. They share classes on the same school so I am ju",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32M], extremely insecure because of outbreak of psoriasis before going to visit sorta-LDR gf [27F] POST: In the last six months I found myself single, and got back in touch with an ex, ""Jane"", who is also single. We broke up quite amicably a few years ago when we ended up in cities thousands of miles apart and neither of us wanted to do long-distance indefinitely. While we're both single, we tend to be in contact a lot, and quite flirty. Because I had some savings I could afford",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (31f) looking for advice on how to support my best friend (31f) whose husband may go to jail for a year. POST: I tried to post this in a different sub, said this would be the better one to go to. My first post I did get comments about how she should just drop him, but that didn't address the question: How can *I* help my friend? No sentence has been set yet. He did not do anything violent, nor did he steal anything. I'd rather not say his specific crime, but it is considered a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Drunk driving: an absolute deal-breaker? POST: My brother (24) has been dating his girlfriend (same age-ish) for about six months. They are *great* together, clicked immediately, and are both pretty awesome people. About two weeks ago, she went out with some co-workers for margaritas and drove home drunk (without incident, luckily). She wasn't just tipsy: she was pretty damn smashed, and got sick later that night. To my and my brother's knowledge, it's the first time she's ever d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22f] want to break up with my boyfriend [24], but he's moving away in 2 weeks. Should I wait? POST: We've been dating about 8 months now, with the understanding that we'd break up when he moved away. I'm his first long-term girlfriend, and he says he's in love. I don't dislike him, he hasn't done anything wrong, we're just moving in different directions. I would feel really bad about the pain he'd feel if I were to break up with him, but at the same time I'd feel really awful lyin",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] Etiquette of boarding with breeder? POST: My breeder is great and when I got my puppy he said he is happy to board him any time I need. I assumed he would want to be paid and am happy to pay because it's way better than putting him in a kennel. He has boarded Theo for me twice now, once at 10 weeks which we agreed on before Theo was born because the litter was earlier than I planned for, and once a couple weeks ago. The first time I knew it would be free because of the circumstances, ",positive " r/Advice TITLE: How should I respond to this? POST: Hello /r/Advice. I would like to apologise in advance for my poor formulation. Im in the process of getting an internship. I had an interview online yesterday with a major corporation about getting my internship there at a really exciting project which is everything I've ever dreamed about. The interview seemed to go really well. They seemed very impressed at my portfolio and the stuff I sent to them to show off my skills. Plus a HR person I've been in ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[18M] am in a long distance relationship with my girlfriend [18F] of one year. I'm in Illinois and she's in California. Any advice? POST: We started dating the summer before senior year. We were decent friends and within a month, best friends. Finally started dating in July of 2012. Now we're in college and I'm in Illinois while she's in California... 2000+ miles and I'll see her for one day during Thanksgiving break (3 months from now). We try to call and text whenever we can and",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my boyfriend [32 M] 3.5 years, I don't know how to end it. POST: We are complete opposites. He doesn't try or care anymore. Yes..he pays the bills...but he doesn't give me anything emotionally and/or physically. I think we are in a love/hate relationship, and I can't do this anymore. I have been asking him to try, he says he will, but he never does. He is a person who is all talk but takes no action. How do I end a relationship with someone who you live with. I know it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my 4 month [17 F], she doesnt love me like before POST: So,me and my gf have been in a relationship for almost 4 months.We met on a fieldtrip in Italy and she had a crush on me,we dated for 2 weeks. First month we were realy shy but then we totaly opened up to eachother and felt like we knew eachother since birth.We could disscus about everything and everything we did didnt feel wierd at all.We know everything about eachother and we really loved eachother.We feel like",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/F] can't seem to make friends that want to hang out with me later. POST: I've realized right after my 21st birthday that I have nobody that wants to hang out with me when spent that weekend alone. I'll make friends in my classes and we'll talk about our lives and stuff and just be comfortable towards each other. But I just can't seem to make plans. Even when I hit it off with customers at work and coworkers, even getting to the point of exchanging numbers, I can't get to tha",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [California] Bank didn't notify me of DMV registration and now wants me to pay late fees POST: I just purchased a used car and financed through the bank. They are holding the title and haven't added me to the paperwork yet because they say they are still transferring paperwork from FL (where the last owner had it registered). It has been 7 months and they say there is still a delay. I went down to pay the DMV registration the other day because I noticed that it was expired. I never re",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by drowning in the toilet POST: So, a little context about my bathroom. It's a nice one, pretty large, except my shower area is literally a cubicle around 3 feet by 3 feet and it has a glass door that latches shut (water tight so that water doesn't leak during showers). So I had just gotten back from school and I told my mom that I was going in for a long shower. So I went to the bathroom, shut the door, locked it, went to the cubicle, locked that too and turned on the nice hot water on",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 F] am worried about very stubborn brother's [20 M] well-being and that might end up living in my parent's basement for most of his life. POST: Hi I am new to reddit but I have some worries about my younger brother. A brief background on him first: when he was a kid he got diagnosed with some type of learning disability and a mild form of tourrets syndrome. He has always been in classes lower than his grade level. My parents never did anything about that though, partly because m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Question for fellow 'Other guy' or 'Other girl' folks out there. POST: I've been friends with a girl for a while. I've wanted to be with her for most of that, but she's had a boyfriend the whole time (year and a half now, give or take). After deciding I'd hate myself for not giving it a shot, she is now cheating on her S.O. with me. I could sit here all day and say that I never intended it to go so far, but it has. Of course, there's different kinds of cheating. It's about a ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Should i go to westafrica (or India)? POST: I(18,m) just finished school, and i wanted to do something else after school, before i begin to study(chemistry). Therefore i applied for a programm at an organisation, which would send me to Benin(a country in Westafrica) for half a year. During my stay there i would be at an orphanage home and help the people there, and live at a host family and just live the life the people in Benin live. So i prepared for my stay there, learned a bit french, t",negative " r/jobs TITLE: First world problem...When do I stop accepting interviews? POST: I know a lot of people here are really struggling to find work, and I almost feel bad posting this. I'm just not really sure what the right approach is. So, please, don't read this if it is going to make you feel bitter about where you are in the process. I am always happy to provide tips where I can, though, if anyone has questions. So, I will be graduating in December (finally!), and have been pretty steady on the job hunt",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I meet with my biological father after 19 years of being abandoned? POST: I am a 23 year old male, I have been raised the last 19 years of my life by my mother and my step father, the last time I saw my bio father was in 1993, he was suppose to have me and my sister every other weekend than stopped calling, refused to pick my sister and I up. Then eventually just disappeared. No attempt at contact (other than one or two drunken calls to my mother about 8-10 years ago) Child supp",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By waking up late, blowing a snot rocket in the shower and rushing to work. POST: Woke up about 40 minutes later than I notmally do. I rushed up and got right in the shower. I've had a cold lately so I'm really stuffed up. This is where my fuck up begins. I blow a huge snot rocket in the shower. In the winter like many men start to grow a beard. Well, being late and all I rush to the car grabbing my tooth brush for the road, knowing I have a 9:00 am meeting. I show up at 9:10ish, alr",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not standing up for my coworker POST: Like most of these, they didn't happen today this event happened yesterday and is irritating me to the point of not sleeping. So just some backstory my coworker we will name her Jill(not real name) has worked at that gas station that I had worked at for the past year. She is a very worrisome person and she can't help it. Now Jill and I are in a relationship and our boss who we will name Tina is truly a horrible person, and I thought I was a horrib",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I don't know if I should break up with my girlfriend. POST: Me (20 year old male) has been going out with my girlfriend (19 year old female) for about a year now. The strange thing about our relationship is that we are long distance, and met online. My friend knew her so he introduced me via online and we've been together since. We've been madly in love with each other for a long time and we're basically each other's best friends in a way cuz we can share anything with each other. B",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most horrible thing that people you thought you could trust have done to you? POST: I was never very popular in high school, the only time people outside of my small group of friends would talk to me is if they had problems with their computers. One week last year I was feeling really depressed. I can't even remember why, I just feel low sometimes. for the first time, I figured I needed help so i posted something on facebook along the line of ""I can't keep my depression a secr",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: We have great sex, but she acts completely uninterested POST: I'm 22/male; she's 21 and we both have fairly hectic lives. We've been seeing each other about once a week (maybe a bit less) for about two months. This probably fits neatly into some sort of pursuer/pursued model. We're essentially buddies who get together at night, fuck, sleep, and go our separate ways in the morning. The sex is, for me, absolutely the best ever, and it's probably at least satisfactory for her giv",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my now ex-gf [23F] of almost one year, dumped out of the blue POST: I thought she was the one I would marry, the one I would spend the rest of my life with... My job has required me to travel a lot in the past month and this has lead to my girlfriend to have a lot of time to be alone and have life without me. However, she works very much as was kept as busy as I was, so it wasn't as though I was completely out of her life, and I returned on weekends. I came home yest",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17F] with my parents [56M/54F] since November, have been constantly putting me down and making comments about my school work and study habits POST: Hi /r/relationships. I'm a junior in high school. I'm a smart person and a good student, but admittedly I have a MAJOR time-management and procrastination problem. Which, ultimately, led me to fail a half of a credit of honors English. In addition to that, I'm failing algebra 2, chemistry, and AP world history. My grades are not wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [40F] recently moved in with my fiance [38M]. My two step daughters [16F] have an award ceremony on tonight the same time my son [15M] has his practice football game. Both expect me to come and I have no idea what to do. POST: This may seem like such a small problem but I am torn right now. I recently moved in with my fiancé and that means gaining two new children twins. Bridgett and Skye they have been nice and I think they are just happy to have another female in the house. My ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Considering debt consolidation (CA) POST: Hello guys, I'm a freelance marketer and journalist and have amassed too much credit card debt. I spent a lot of money in the last year after a bad break up, and travelled the world, and tried to make a documentary film. I have 3 credit cards all of them maxed. I have $7000 cash which Im afraid of spending on all my CC debt at once since I am not sure of when or how I will get cash in the future. I know I should probably pay down my CC ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my ex-girlfriend [19 F] 3 weeks, ex wants me back. POST: (Posting for a friend) Dated girl A for 18 months. Eventually things turned sour, she got back into class A drugs, after 18 months off and then started being really secretive. I wasn't happy with the relationship towards the end up still loved her so didn't want to let go. Girl A broke it off because she wanted to be ""free"" and enjoy being young. Girl B is gorgeous, really ambitious, super nice and generally r",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My Mom Is For All Intents And Purposes Disowning Me POST: Some background. I'm a 21 y/o male. Me and my GF have a 1 year old son and we've been staying at my Mom's for just 3 months. We are going to move out in June or July, because you know, it's time i do what i have to do for my new growing family. Anyway, yesterday my mom asked me what i did with the Vita my brother got me for my birthday in April. I told her i had sold it because i didn't like it as much as i had anticipated and bes",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Women of reddit - is this as strange as I think? POST: A few months back some friends and I stopped into a local brewery for a couple beers and nachos on the way back from a day skiing. Working at the brewery as a waitress was my high school girlfriend. Now, we haven't seen nor spoken in over 10 years, so it was somewhat of a ""HOLYWTFBBQ?"" kind of moment. We exchanged pleasantries and a slightly awkward hug and went our separate ways. Fast forward about an hour, and she stops by our tabl",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: I have a hard time reading and learning, Constant moodiness and rapid changing emotions, frequent headaches POST: So this has been going on for 6 months, when I read something I have a very hard time keeping concentration and I get headaches at the back of my head and at my forehead when I try to read, and when I realize i cant concentrate I get really tense and angry then I get really mad at myself for being well an Idiot then (I hate to admit it) I hit myself sometimes in the chest but m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My abusive ex [22/M] contacted the guy I've been dating [31/M] for 3 months, and told him a bunch of lies. Now he's not talking to me [27/F]. POST: So I got out of a physically and verbally abusive relationship and started dating this great guy. He lives an hour away so we only saw each other a few times a month but text daily. I was planning on telling him about my abusive ex this weekend but... A week ago my abusive ex somehow got the new guys number and Texted him lies about me b",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: credit card approved at 1k limit POST: Background: * I'm a recent college grad and recently started a job at 60k as an engineer. * I had a car accident without health insurance and couldn't pay my medical bill for a year and now have low credit score (transunion 627 (chase freedom rejected me and provided this) and equifax 705 (from credit karma)) * The only credit card I had was Amazon card that I got about 2 years ago. I've been looking to increase my credit lately so I deci",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my Lover [21 F], an open relationship studying abroad but i can't handle the jealousy POST: Okay, so i am studying abroad for a year far away from anything i am used to. With 23 i had no relationships till now and wanting to change myself coming here i ventured out to find a girl with success. So i have been dating her now for a month she says really sweet things on one hand but on the other hand tells me it's an open relationship because i will have to leave after m",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Advice about a Social Worker POST: So my roommate and best friend has a CPS case that is 2 years old. Long story short, she was on drugs, but is now 100% clean and has been for 12 months. The court terminated her reunification services back in January, and my friend fought to have them reinstated with her attorney and a 388 petition and won in the beginning of November. Her social worker is a real tool, and fought against the return of services based on zero evidence... based it entire",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Why being rejected never feels better? POST: I went with the idea of *being rejected multiple times makes it hurt less*, so I kept getting rejected like a champ to realize.. its doesn't feel any better. It hurt as much as the first time. About two years ago I asked a girl out, it was brutal, it was my first time and she flat out said no. For about a week I was pretty depressed, I really felt depressed. I read somewhere that the more practice you get, it wont matter to you anymore. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my 21[F] girlfriend of 1,5 year. Gf wants to have semi-open relationship. not sure how to handle. POST: Currently the relationship is set up this way: she can be with other girls but so can i. She says she wants this type of relationship because we're still young, and she fears that if we're monogamous the relationship might not last as long. She has been with one girl so far and wants to be with the same girl again (a coworker of hers) and it fucking hurt last tim",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [28/m] My g/f (25/f) broke it off Wednesday after almost 3 years. POST: My girlfriend and I had been dating for 3 years. We have had sort of a rough patch since she graduated college and has had a hard time finding a job in her field anywhere. She is a full time bartender at nights and I work typical 9-5 days so our schedules are opposite. She has volleyball leagues twice a week so our time together is very limited. I could tell she has been depressed and having self esteem i",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by hot gluing my finger to my lip POST: My daughters birthday is coming up so we decided to make a pinata out of cardboard. Well taping it wasn't working so we decided to hot glue some of the places that the tape didn't want to stay on. Well hot glue dribbled down the side so I used my finger, like the genius I am, to stop it from running all over the pinata. It really hurt so I put it up to my lip...Now I have a piece of my lip burnt off and my finger is starting to bubble. I really don",negative " r/college TITLE: I have no relevant experience or job in my field, what can I put on my résumé? POST: In my early days of college, I didn't really apply myself to my schooling, and was and still am working full-time or just under full-time. Back then I was ok with a C as long as I passed the class. Fast forward to the present, my Senior year (Information Systems major), I've gotten myself back on track and made school my number 1 priority. Increasing grades and GPA over the past year, straight A's in all 4",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19M] girlfriend got so drunk and said she wanted to fuck other guys POST: Hey guys, my girlfriend and I have been dating for 1.5 years. She is in high school and I'm in college. We met in high school talked for a long time then finally started dating. Last night she had a party at her house. I didn't go. She invited me, but I didn't feel like going. So apparently she got blackout drunk and did some stupid stuff. She threw up, and made a fool of herself. I trust her. I decided to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [18F] and I [21M] broke up for a few weeks, now it's different. POST: So I have been with this girl for 2 and a half years total, but last month she broke up with me because I didn't want her talking to a certain guy. I've caught her talking to him 5 times already (I know doesn't seem worth coming back to but I love her) anyways, the last time was the worst. She left me for about two weeks and went to hang out with him and admitted to having sex with him. She texted me ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: She [24 F] totally blew off our Skype date and I'm [28 M] not OK with it. POST: I've been in a LDR with a girl living in china for a little over a month now, and we've been very happy with high levels of interaction until we both got very busy with our jobs. The past 2 weeks we barely have the chance to spend any time with each other (skype, call, even text), much less hold a legitimate conversation with each other. So, this morning we had scheduled a Skype date so we could cam and ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: What does it mean when a guy(M26) messages with a girl(F24) several hours a day? POST: I met a guy at my previous work place 2 years ago. He has self-diagnosed schizoid personality disorder. Shortly summed up it means he doesn't really want to form any social bonds and thinks that friendships are tiring. So back to us, I fell in love with him immediately because he is extremely good looking, intelligent, funny, just about the whole package. We started facebook messaging each other ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I am SO sick of my family POST: This is a long story, so I'll try to condense it as much as possible while still making sense. A little over a year ago my husband and I moved to Illinois after I graduated (While we were still dating) and we moved in with my grandma to help her save money. We were promised by her and my dad that she would be moving to Arizona in a couple months. So cool, we needed a place to stay. About a month after we moved in, she quit her job. She went to ONE open",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Moving forward with girl I know POST: I have been talking to a girl for about 6 months now and we are at the point where we hang out about every week. Up till now we have been just friends but I have noticed that I wish to date her more each time we hang out. Problem is I don't want to make her feel awkward or ruin the relationship that we have already so my question is should I come out and tell her that I like her, or is there a way for me to hint to this person my desires wi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, lets talk about people behind their backs. What is the most idiotic reason you've seen someone get upset about? I'll start POST: Backstory: A couple years ago, I had just entered middle school. They have special program where every quarter you have a different elective (e.g. Art, Drama, Technology, etc.). Now this one quarter (I had Technology that quarter) I sit next to this girl who for privacy's sake, we'll call Kristin. Now Kristin was a smart girl and such. Now our teac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[24m] am not cool with my gf[21f] hanging out with old flings. POST: We have been arguing about this because she has hung out with guys she used to fool around with to and continues to talk to two of them and it really upsets me. I've told her this but she says their just friends and I need to trust her and she wants to be with me. I don't see the point of talking/hanging out with old flings as nothing good can come of it. I know these guys only want one thing and are just waiting",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my coworkers [20-30s], I am one of the few people who have a car and am sick of being pressured to give everyone rides POST: I've been working at a restaurant in a town 20 minutes away for about a year and a half now. It's a major tourist destination in the summer, and during the summer season you make bank so it's worth staying through the current slow season. In the summer, there are at least 10 servers on per shift, whereas right now there is only 1-2 servers per shi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I was in an open relationship and ""cheated"" POST: Right now I am trying to figure out what Reddit might think of my situation. I'm not proud of it nor am I trying to make excuses. I would appreciate your objective feedback and opinions. Background: I am female who has just returned from a short trip to a large city in Nevada where liquor flows freely and men overtly flirt with women in order to bed them. I will never see the man I slept with again as he lives somewhere far awa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (F22) am crazy jealous and get anxious whenever my (M22) boyfriend does anything... POST: We've been dating for 2.5 years. We both just graduated college. He got a job in the big city, and I'm in a suburb 50 minutes away. I'm living at home, he's got a cool apartment. He works with all these young, hip people, and I work with middle-aged moms lol. Basically, he's always going to happy hours with his pretty female co-workers (and male co-workers, but I'm obviously not as bothered)",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My new girlfriend[19] cant seem to stop texting her ex and its driving me insane. Im 23 POST: We were seeing each other for a while without a title and have decided to be exclusive since around Christmas time. We met in June and I noticed she would message her ex on Facebook quite a bit, but I didn't let it bother me because he lived out of the country. He has recently moved back and we bumped into them at a night club. He has a new gf also and I could tell it was upsetting her to s",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: So my first meaningful relationship ended in me getting used. Where do I go from here? POST: I'll sum this up best I can. To start, and what was probably a bad idea to begin with, I got involved with a girl online. Talked to her for a few months, ended up caring about her. She felt the same way so we became an item. Had a great time, perfect happy little couple and all. The only flaw was that there was a great distance. No ocean or anything; just lots of land. Cue to around the end. She",negative " r/self TITLE: I need you best ways to make some extra cash.Need money for my family, because NO ONE is hiring. POST: I am kind of stuck. I live with my parents while I go to school to get my AA and have been trying to find employment here and there for the past couple of months. But recently things have taken a turn for the worst. Our water heater is being finicky, and just yesterday our AC broke. The estimate for the water heater is $1200 and the AC $4500-7000. I JUST REALLY NEED A WAY TO GET SOME MONEY! ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Avast, ye landlubbers! Help me help my BIL. POST: On August 31st, my Brother-in-Law was involved in a motorcycle accident. Details about the accident were published in the [Windsor Star]( Due to the extensive injuries sustained in the crash, the doctors had to amputate his left leg below the knee. His left hip was also severely injured and doctors had to rebuild the hip joint. He has been at Hotel Dieu for the past month recovering from surgery and will be moved to a rehab facility late",negative " r/travel TITLE: Cancun Vacation Help for my 21st! POST: **Our Details** - We will be flying out of Savannah, Ga. - 3 guys, 21 y/o. - We each have $2500-$3000 to spend but prefer to spend less if possible. - Looking to party a lot but also do some other stuff like the Xel-Ha park and visit the Tulim ruins. - Planning on staying a week and we'll probably arrive the 19th of June. **Minor Details** Me and two friends are looking to go down to Cancun for my 21st and have a blast. We want to party/drink, chil",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: How can I get rid of my Feelings for her...? (xpost from r/relationships) POST: Hey there guys, M/F 24, yes, this is M! I Hope i'm doing this xpost Thing right!!! Original Post from r/relationships: After this Post i confronted her And we Talked about it. I said that I'm extremly insecure to where I am and that I want to know her point of the Situation. She responded by saying she wants to be alone at the moment and that I shouldnt make myself any hopes of getting our relationship goin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I have herpes and an asshole decided to write me and tell me I am disgusting and wrong in the head because I was honest about it. POST: I am sick of it. People think that people who have herpes are disgusting, dirty, and it's okay to insult us and use herpes as a punchline to jokes. IT'S NOT. There are people who have gotten herpes from being cheated on, by rape (that is how one of my girlfriend's got herpes), when they were born because their Mom had herpes and they got it when g",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey, Reddit - How were YOU disciplined as a child? POST: Inspired by the [""Family law judge beats own daughter for using Internet""] video over on WTF, let's talk about discipline - more specifically, how were YOU disciplined as a child? I noticed a lot of Redditors over there commenting about how they had been treated similarly as children, but hadn't realized that it wasn't actually considered ""normal."" I'd be interested to see how our different experiences stack up against each other",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36M] with my SO [36F] of 19 years, I'm no longer in love, how do I end this?? POST: So I've been together with my girlfriend for coming on 20 years. We have a child together and everyone around us thinks we are the match made in heaven. Problem is that I'm miserable and no longer in love with her. I'm in love with what we had in the past, but I've been checked out of this relationship for at least the past 8 years. This was the first girl I ever dated and we have been together",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my Boyfriend [20M] of 1 year trying to move past cheating. POST: I was with my boyfriend for 9 months at the time when I discovered he was cheating on me with a girl that he used to be involved with before me. I gave him a second chance immediately after I found out because I truly believed he was sorry and I am In love with him without a doubt. However I offered no consequence to the fact that he had made a mistake and let things persist without actually dealing with ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my GF [22 F] of 6 years are on a break as of now. Avoiding contact with her but her parents don't know. Advice? POST: Hey all, My GF and I are on a break. Most likely will not take her back due to her hanging out with this dude at a party **the whole night**, got drunk and kissed that dude and continued to hang out with him the following day. She also didn't tell me until a few days later. I don't think I can trust her as of now because when I think of her, I think ",negative " r/college TITLE: [21F] College Drop-Out, what next? POST: So, as the title suggests, I am at a crossroads in my life and I would really appreciate some insight. For two years I went to a local FL college in order to complete my prerequisites and apply to a program that I unfortunately was not accepted into. After the blow from that, I failed a semester due to complete lack of motivation. I was also dealing with some personal heartbreak at this time; I had no idea what to do next and was dealing with my de",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Questions about myfitnesspal and 'cure' for snacking? POST: Okay, im new here. New to reddit as well, so im sorry if someone already has asked this things. But as the title says. We all want to be happy about ourselves, don't we? Well, i recently turned 18 and im tired of being sad and angry over my body and decided that im actually going to start doing something to stop the weight from going up. 1. About myfitnesspal, i got registred and i believe it can be very useful... except that i",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [M] How do I keep myself from getting jealous of my GF's party lifestyle? POST: I'm very lucky to have found a woman I'm absolutely in love with. She goes to a University close to my community college. Because I work/study full time, I have never experienced the true American ""College Culture"" and I don't think I ever will. I find myself in this situation because I am the son of Clinically Depressed Alcoholic Immigrant parents. My GF on the other hand, has a wonderful and ric",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Can a guy text TOO much? [22M] is obviously into me but jerks in the past have messed me [23F] up I think. POST: There's an obvious connection between us but since meeting, he's already asked me to hang out, confirmed numerous times (""When are you free?"" ""When are we gonna hang out?"" ""What do you wanna do?"") and I know these questions are all normal but I feel very overwhelmed. Now he's texting me random pics of his day and I don't know what to think. It's only been 3 days. Could i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my crush [19F] 1week, How do I get to know her better? POST: Last week my semester started, by a stroke of luck my crush from my previous class last semester was in one of my classes this semester. On the first day of class I walked in and she noticed me and said hello and and asked me how my break was. I sat down next to her and we chatted for a long time until class started. We hit it off really well and I found out that we have tons in common, and she seemed to be in",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my girlfriend[29 F] 1 year relationship. Should I tell everything. POST: Me and my girlfriend have been fighting a lot lately. I think it is because we both drink together and I know for me this brings out the worst in me. Last week we were at a party and I had to much to drink and I wanted to go, she took offence to this thinking I wanted to leave her and it ended in a big fight with her saying our relationship is done. I left, and I tried to talk to her the nex",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Probate issues POST: I have a few probate issues with my mother's New Jersey estate. I am one of seven siblings all are equal beneficiaries. The two oldest are executors. Our mother passed away six years ago and they are only just settling the estate now. Two of us have requested documentation to support the expenses they are claiming as well as value of assets. She had several stocks, a mortgage free home which was rented out then sold, additional monetary assets, and minimal debt. Th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by gingerly tossing my phone on the couch POST: Everyday when I come home from work, I lightly toss my phone across the room onto the couch, where I intend to sit once I take my pants off. I do this to keep a flow and to save time. I have done this so many times, I have the method, spin, speed, and distance fairly perfect. I realize this is unnecessary. This time I put a little too much zing on the toss and the phone spiraled 1 foot above my target. It hit the wall just above my co",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My boyfriend read my text messages and found nothing; does he not trust me? Is this the beginning of the end? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for about a year, and we have had a solid and healthy relationship up to this point. I have never given him any reason to doubt me before, and have been completely faithful to him - I also do not have a history of cheating/lying/deception in my past relationships. I value trust in a committed relationship, and have not acted s",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, how do I help out an awesome guy with extreme self-esteem issues? POST: I've been dating my boyfriend for almost a year now and I've gotten pretty close with his friends. One of his friends is this really awesome guy, slightly nerdy, with incredible interests, amazingly intelligent, good, kind, pretty decent looking, overall an amazing guy, and I couldn't be happier that my boyfriend has him among his friends. However, this guy is a 24-year old virgin. He has never once had a g",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's something you've experienced that completely changed your view on the future? POST: I'm a Junior, on Friday I spent the day with 4th graders. I was talking to one who seemed entirely normal. I asked her what year she was born in, she said 2002. It was then that I realized that the generation of kids born in that year will not know the tragedy of the 9/11/2001 attack. Elementary teachers in my area do not teach it as they kids are seen as being impressionable; students lear",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Google has failed me... Reddit please help! POST: So I have been seeing this girl for a couple of months now, and she has been dealing with some problems with an ex-boyfriend from back home (her and I attend college together). They haven't been together for a while but he still bothers her and keeps trying to reconnect with her. After she has gone through countless fights and attempts at smoothing things over with him, he has finally realized that he never wants to talk to her again. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M]am I in love with my best friend ?she's [29F] please help POST: this is my story with my female friend. we met 4 years ago, we were roomates for 6 month, since the first time i saw her visit the place i was attracted to her but since we were roomates i got friendzoned since the beginning it was 4 of us sharing a flat she moved out after 6 months . we kept in touch after and we started hanging out more often , going to concerts , movies , piknik on sundays etc she is beauti",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 20M. Is it bad to want to make someone feel jealous? POST: So a few months ago, the girl who worked next door to me rejected me when I asked her out. I went through all kinds of feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, issues with self worth, etc. About a month ago, I started working out and eating healthier, and I've been pretty consistent with it, never having days where I don't feel like doing it or not being motivated to do it. But recently I've just started thinking about why I star",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [18/M] jealous of my girlfriend's [18/F] bestfriend who is a guy [19/M]. POST: We started dating a couple months ago. Things are going decent so far but there's one issue that's making me feel shitty: her bestfriend is a guy. And I mean BEST friend. They hangout everyday at school, she carpools with him, they talk every night on the phone. They've been friends for like a year. She always asks for his opinion on things and if I ever am too busy to hangout she just says ""That's oka",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [18/F] doesn't know what to do about [18/F] who refuses to talk to me face to face POST: This girl is a bit socially awkward, not the best looking in appearance, it's obvious she has low self esteem and jealousy issues. She has a wide circle of acquaintances and is very outgoing and funny with them. With me, every time I am in the same space as her, she stares and stares and will not look away even if we make eye contact. I really like her and she really likes me but she refuses ",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Nipples too big? POST: Preface: I'm 5'5"" and weigh about 155, but I'm very proportionate. I'm losing weight and exercising, but ever since I can remember I've had large areolas. They've shrunk a little since I've been losing weight (about 20 lbs in the last 8 months), but recently my boyfriend (of 8 months) told me that he can't wait for me to lose more weight so my areolas get smaller because that's what he prefers. I guess I'm just feeling self-conscious now, especially since I wa",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Why can't my fiancee get approved for credit? POST: So both I and my fiance are 18 years old, yet only I've been approved for credit (twice!). The first one was just a Khols credit card, which we used and paid off with our joint checking account like normal and on time. The Kohls card is in my name, so I assume it was building up my credit... Clearly, it must have or the Credit Chiefs of the Cosmos are looking out for me because a couple months ago I got my fiance a new stereo for",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriends pride affecting her negatively POST: Me [M19] Her [F19] in a LDR because of college. Dating over four months. We have a great relationship and we love one another very much. There are a few issues that come up from time to time, but we always talk about them and always do what we need to do to right the wrongs. She is very dedicated to her school work. She is driven to get a 4.0GPA in university and I am very proud of her.(I tell her that too!) She keeps falling short b",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [28/F] Some sensible relationship and professional advice please? Re: older guy who's highly accomplished in my field. POST: I'm a young lawyer. A couple of months ago, I and another female coworker were sent to an out-of-town assignment. We were joined in by a partner of an international firm; we'll call him ""John."" John is single, maybe in his late 40s, and as mentioned, highly accomplished in his field. Notwithstanding, this guy is incredibly down-to-earth and we ended up ge",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me 25M should I keep seeing someone (25F) I'm not feeling super sparky about? POST: It's been a long-ish time since my last relationship, which was one that was the first-love type firey-sparky romance that ended in an unhealthy realization that the two of us were way too serious and only 22, and that we were way too young to get married. Since that breakup, I have to admit that I've been a little scared that I'll never really fall in love again in that perfect ""this feels right"" wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (19M) Her (19F) Casual relationship for about 2 years. Will you marry me? Wait I mean be my friend with benefits. Same thing right? POST: Ok so my problem is I'm in the military and I wont be in town for much longer but I'd really like to start a relationship with one of the most gorgeous girls I know. As a teenage guy my craving for sex is fairly average it's just whenever I think about her it's just kinda primal like I legitimately just want to throw her over my shoulder, take",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How to get over a girl you can never have? POST: Wall of text is coming. So there is this girl at work, and I have fallen for her. I have a massive crush on her. She never used to cross my mind at first, but after talking with her, and being around her more, I notice I really like her. All the guys at said workplace know I like her, and always make jokes about me and her around her, so I presume she must know. Here is the thing though. I found out that she is in fact a lesbian and is dat",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [M26] told me [F23] that I'm not the best sex he's had. How can I get over this? POST: About six months ago, I (very regrettably, in retrospect) asked my boyfriend of almost two years what his best sexual encounter was. This was after I had tried to boost his ego, and very honestly thought he would say me - I was in need of some confidence at the time. He told me it was from a girl that he was seeing before me and went into detail - it lasted 8 hours, it was incredible ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] I told my boyfriend of 9 months [29/m] that I'm uncomfortable with him commenting on gonewild pics. He says its none of my buisness. POST: I'm not here to offend any gonewild girls. Right now I am quite upset and am hoping to get some opinions about this. My boyfriend, like most guys watches porn and I am okay with that but when I found out he browses gone wild often it made me uncomfortable because it seemed more personal. I told him this and he said it's the same as ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sentencing a spider to asphyxiation and feces POST: Note: Posted on the day it occurred, but removed due to rule 3. Posting on the weekend now. Like many good TIFUs, this one all started out on the toilet. A casual night playing games and browsing reddit took a turn for the worse, when I turned down my hall into the lavatory. Starting out as fine as always (No doubt thanks to my healthy prostate), the previous days meals had caught up to me, and they demanded release. I could imagine",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [34 M] with my girfriend [30 F] of 1.5 years, Financial dispute over her child has her break up with me POST: We have been together for 1.5 years and she is very close with her ex. They vacation together and meet up several times a week to exchange the kid or just hang out. We live together in an apartment, her, her kid [8], and me. She got herself into some debt that she is very antsy to get out of. He ex makes more than 100K a year and pays her to take care of the kid so she d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[20F] boss[40F] was discussing my medication to the new girl at work...What to do? POST: So I work a part time job at a retail store, and iv'e been there for almost 3 years now while I go to college. My boss (store manager) and I have a great relationship and we talk to each other about everything. I have ADHD, and I was diagnosed when I was 12. I don't take my medication unless I have class. I didn't take summer school classes this year, so I haven't taken my medicine all summer e",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Get Her Back? POST: Okay so I'm a 20 year old male and I have a few questions I hope you all here can help me with. There was this girl I met a few months ago, a little younger than me (2 years) that I seemed to develop a crush on. We hit it off great and made plans for a first date, but it was bad timing on my part. Well we lost contact due to difference in schedules; I work overnight and sleep during the day normally and she doesn't work anymore; and that was it. I didn't think ",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Feeling guilty about leaving because I love my coworkers. POST: I (27F) have worked at the same hospital for 5+ years, gradually working my way up the ladder and eventually getting my Masters degree and licensure. The pay is notoriously terrible in comparison to other organizations, but this hospital is prestigious and excellent at what they do, so being part of it is (supposedly) worth the crappy salary. I've hung around working on an inpatient unit all this time mostly because it's comfo",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: A pawn shop is holding my boss' chainsaw hostage. Do we have any course of action?? POST: I am a landscaper/arborist. Which means I make a majority of my money during the spring and summer, as work drops off drastically during colder months. My boss pawned one of his chainsaws for the winter for some extra cash and storage space, thinking it wouldn't be any trouble to get a few extensions on the pawn and then get it back this spring, and it wasn't his only saw. Well, he was wrong. The pa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M/F] with my girlfriend [21F] for 3 months, am I being silly? Or is there something I should think about. POST: So I finally am in a relationship with the girl I have crushed on for 3 years, when I thought I was over the crush (had multiple relations in between when we last saw eachother regularly) we got back in proper contact, and I finally asked her out. Anyway, things have been going really well, but the communication seems (to me) to be all off. I know she is very busy, a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm skeptical about trying weed, am I irrational? POST: Hey, I'm currently in a bit of a pickle, and I would like you guys to help me see whether I'm being totally irrational or not. For years I've been quite anti-weed, not to the extent of me wanting it to be always illegal, but enough for me to never try it myself, while also feeling slightly disapproving when friends take it. I usually see myself as a fairly laid back guy, but for some reason I get quite touchy/conservative on the is",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21f] think the guy [22] I've been seeing may be a virgin, how do I approach this situation without offending him? POST: I [21f] have been seeing this guy [22] for almost a month now, and I really like him, but I suspect he may be a virgin. The reason i think this is because whenever things start to get heated, he never escalates things and becomes very shy. This, compounded with the fact that he has ""performance issues"" once we get into things makes me think that it's possible tha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Over 2 months since I [28/M] have had sex with my gf [25/F] POST: Been with my girlfriend for 9 months. The last time we had sex was on our 6 month anniversary. She has issues around men and major daddy issues. As far as I understand he never physically or sexually assaulted her, but apparently he did a lot of psycological damage to her and it prevents her from being able to physically connect. Well, it's been a couple months now and no sign of progress. Things seem to be getting wo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] Dating my Friend's [19F] Brother [16M], She Doesn't Approve POST: I've been friends with this girl for 6 months and ever since I'd met her brother I've had a crush on him, him and I added each other on Snapchat a couple months ago and would talk all the time on there and I found out he likes me back. We've been dating for 3 weeks now and his sister just found out about it, and she texted me yesterday saying. ""Why didn't you tell me you're dating my little brother...?"" And I ",negative " r/college TITLE: Can't decide on a major. Need help! POST: Hello everyone. So I am currently going to college. I am active duty military working in the medical field... For a long time I was certain I wanted to be in the medical field (I'm an LVN right now). The past three years I have completed all of basic courses and started on a path to becom a physician assistant. Majoring in health sciences right now. However I'm slowly starting to feel like maybe something medical is not what I want to do. I'm sca",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 M] want to pursue her [24 F], but not so sure after what she said last time. Please advise want would be the right thing to do. POST: So, I've working at the same organization for the last 5 year, and the company went through a major re-structuring about 4 months ago. As per the new norms, we have an HR who sits along with us to ensure that all our employee problems are resolved in time. I have a crush on the new HR lady and have been talking to her for the last 1 month or so.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] feel...jealous? about her [25F] friend. POST: Basically we're in an LDR, 3000 miles away. The friend is also slightly further from her, 4 years older. he's a cool guy, I'm friends with him myself, but I don't know why I feel what I think is jealousy. My girlfriend loves me, we have a stable relationship, and I love her. We've been together eight months. Recently they've both gotten into Tumblr, with them making jokey articles about each other (I don't use Tumblr.) I don't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my exgf[26F] 1year, still heavily involved in peoples lives close to me and i hate it POST: She broke up with me shortly after i got depression when my grandad died. I lost all my friends through her bad mouthing me. I sucked up and tried to win her back for ages, making a huge fool out of myself but i was unstable. The death of my Grandad, dealing with illness and my best friend dying a couple of years previous done me in. I thought she was the victim she portrayed but",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[23M] scared she's [22F] ready to leave, and there's nothing I can say to convince her not to POST: It's been 3 years. She's been the love of my life since I met her in college. I'm so incredibly in love with her I knew she was the one for me after a few short months. But I haven't been the perfect boyfriend and I don't think she is able to keep forgiving me for all the times I've accidentally hurt her. I'm in such emotional torment from thinking that it's over, but she keeps giv",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Becoming a first-time father - what should I know/expect? POST: After 3.5 years of not preventing and a year of actively trying (timing with ovulation, temperature, etc) my wife and I were resigned to the fact that we would have to seek medical assistance to conceive. My father-in-law said we were full of shit and that she'd be just like her mother and it would happen after she turned 25 just like it did for them. She turned 25 in December, in March we find out she's 6 weeks pregnant (",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [18M]Found out my girlfriend [18F] smoked behind my back, what should I do? POST: First to start off, we had an agreement later on in our relationship that both of us would not smoke (weed) without each other, and basically stopped smoking altogether because she would get drug tested constantly by her parents. I messed up a couple months in with our relationship (we've been dating for 6 months) and smoked two times separately with my teammates and violated her trust. I admitted to h",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Cheating ex [20/F] contacted me after 3 months of no contact. I [23/M] don't know what to make of it. POST: My Ex and I dated for 4 and half years. I was basically her high school sweet heart. We were each others first love, and 3 months ago she cheated on me with some guy she met a month prior. I had found out because she had come home really late from a trip and she had been acting really weird, paranoid me checked her phone and sure enough, she was texting the guy she slept ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Getting over my [24 M] relationship with [23 F] ex of 5 years POST: So I've recently broken up from a relationship that lasted for a little over 5 years and I'm having difficulties adjusting to the change. I have contemplated enough and thought through my decision to know that I broke it off for the right reasons. It really felt that it won't work out in the long run (based on fights and how well we've interacted with each other for the duration of the relationship). We didn't live i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Just found out that my GF cheated on me POST: Well, we have a ~16 months long relationship, I've never done anything that I could be ashamed, never even called ex's and shit, and just some 30 mins ago I've found that she have fucked the shit out off some guy some 10 months ago. I've cheated before, she had also, but I've guessed that this time it would be different. I'm 27 and she's 31, we're living together paying bills and shit...the more serious relationship(t) that I've ever had.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [18M] broke up with me [19F] because he found long distance too difficult. He wants to stay friends but I still love him. POST: M 18 broke up with me F 19 because he suddenly decided long distance was too hard, he gave no warning and his reasons were bullshit. I can't suddenly stop being in love with him and it hurts not even being able to talk. I don't know whether to just contact him and say how I don't want to break up and hopefully change his mind, or to just leave it until I t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M22] am scared as hell because of a new relationship (one month) with a fantastic girl [F23] POST: I am a 22 years old guy, and I just started dating with a 23 year old girl. We've been seeing each other almost every other day in the past moth, and things are going pretty nicely. So what's the problem? the problem is I fell in love with her at first sight, and I'm scared shitless. I like her a lot more then I'm comfortable with, and this makes me restless. I can't get her out of",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Just recently I [23M] started to see my exgirlfiend [24F], but her ability to text me back is starting to get frustrating POST: Okay, I'll first explain that we had a mutual break up back in 2012 because we realized we were in different places. Since then she has dated someone else and so have I. Recently we've gotten back in touch, and we're both single. From our conversations we feel like we're on the same page with life and want to give this another shot. Our chemistry was always ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [first post] F(18) should I be worried about my boyfriends m(19) habit to text this one girl every time we fight? POST: Me and my boyfriend have been dating for a little over a year now. We got into our first argument about 3 months into our relationship over something stupid and he decided to have a party at his house. The next day he dumps me and then I see he has pictures with him and his ""family friend"" holding each other and what not. About a week later we got back together and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F23] am falling for someone [M24] with ADHD. POST: **Background**: We've been friends for around 5 years, fell out of touch when living apart, and recently both moved to the same area & reconnected. He's expressed interest in the past, and not long after we reconnected we started sleeping together. We've been ""Friends With Benefits"" for the past few months, and genuinely enjoy spending time together outside of having sex as well. I am interested in pursuing something more, but the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [F25] girlfriend [F25] is extremely messy but wants to move in together POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for about a year and a half and we've been thinking about moving in together by summer. I love her so much but I cannot handle her messiness. I am not a neat freak by any means and I am known for being a little cluttered. We're both artists so it's expected that things will often be left messy, but she has gotten to the point of being dirty. Sometimes I go to her apa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I briefly blacked out saying goodbye to an attractive co-worker, and I'm wondering what the hell I said, because she was laughing as she walked away. What kind of boneheaded things have you said without realizing it until later? POST: I work in retail and frequently interact with people. A customer approaches me when said co-worker says goodbye as she leaves for the day. I get kindof anxious when i get a customer, so I quickly blurt out something to my co-worker and then receive the cu",negative " r/self TITLE: Another theft post (x-post from Ask) POST: Cross post from askreddit, probably should have put this here. Here's the story: My car got broken into last night outside my apartment. It auto locks whenever my keys get a few yards or so away, and I didn't go back to my car so it's safe to say that my car was locked when I went to bed. I woke up to have the following stolen from my car: ~$20 in change in a plastic cup an old 40Gb iPod an 80w JBL system amp a McPherson 4.0 acoustic electric ($",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26M] broke up with girlfriend [25 F] of 4 duration and she wants to try and work things out. How do you see this working out? POST: We have been together for 4 years and living together for one of those. I feel like I can't do the things I want to do because she always wants to be together and do everything together. That wouldn't be a problem but we don't exactly want to do the same things together so most of the time we end up in front of the TV and even if I want to read dur",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16/M] is growing feelings for another girl, still want to be with my girlfriend [16/F] POST: I know this is probably just your typical teenage hormone problem, but I would really like an outside perspective from others who have been there before. I have been with my girlfriend for over a year; we were each other's first time and have many memories together. However, we seem to argue semi-regularly, which I think is slightly more than usual than is healthy. Lately, I've grown fee",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Abnormal spicy food digestion problems POST: I'll get into my normal routine first. I easily spend $30-50 a month on hot sauces. After my brother introduced me at a young age, I was hooked. Never had bathroom problems with painful diarrhea or or anything until I got to spicy pepper sauces and peppers like Habanero. Years later (I'm now 19), I have eaten sauces with ghost pepper extract, full ghost peppers, and the like. Now those came with painful bathroom experiences, like no other. But",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Psychologist/Psychiatrist please answer. POST: Hey Doctors of reddit. I am pretty drunk right now, which I am sure is part of my fucked-up-ness. I had a pretty deep conversation with my roommate today about myself. I feel like I am over analytic about a lot of things, and I really can't let things go. I can't let something hang in the air without it being completely clarified/explained or the joke is just over. Another part of my psyche is afraid of success and what it might mean to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (22/M) just hit himself in the face-- with my hand (21/F). POST: We've been together a year and a half. We were having an argument over productivity and taking care of business. I have trouble overcoming my fear of applying for freelance jobs and working on learning more skills in my field, he has trouble cleaning up after himself, cooking for himself, working regularly (he has a steady freelance job but only works about 10 hours a week on $40 an hour). and has trouble ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] with my ex [17F] of 3 years, broke up and I need help with something POST: So, after three years of happiness and love we both decided to end it. At the time it felt so right because we both didn't feel happy and really it was a spur of the moment kind of thing. After a month of the break up and trying to be friends she decided it would be best if we just didn't talk for a bit. I said okay even though all I wanted to do was still keep on talking. Now here comes the real par",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Myfitness pal issues/questions POST: So I've been calorie counting on my own for about two months now and it's been very successful (360 to 335 since May 15th). However, after seeing so many people talk about how great myfitness pal I decided to give it a try. I made one back in February but only looked at it once and never actually used it. (Alas, if I understood back then what I found out this summer about how easy calorie counting is, I'd be doing even better. Can't get hung up on the pa",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By using my vibrator in the shower. POST: I'm a College Student who attends University in the same city I grew up in, so to save money I'm living with my parents until I graduate. Yesterday I came home from class to find no one home, so I decided I could use a little ""me-time"" in the shower. I grabbed my shampoo and the little purple vibrator my boyfriend gave me (how romantic) and got freaky with it. fast forward almost 24 hours. I wake up, ready for a new day, step into the shower and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] and my BF [30 M] of 1 year, we broke up 2 weeks ago, and I'm devastated. POST: We had been together for a little over a year. The first 6 months were amazing. The last 6 months, I felt like he loved me less. He had an exgirlfriend of 7 years that broke up with him 6 years ago. That break up was really really hard on him. In the last 6 months, I felt like he still loved her / missed her / didn't love me as much as he used to. Near the end of our relationship, I became a bi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can someone please help me find this short film? Spoilers inevitable, sorry. POST: There was this one short film I saw on Youtube a while back and it's been bothering me that I cannot relocate it. It goes like this: (full of spoilers of course) guy is in a car driving through a suburban town. He pops a few pills, and when he's driving he begins to see everyone as mannequins. He sees them perfectly still until he looks back when they are in a different position. He hits a girl, but he see",negative " r/Advice TITLE: There's a pigeon on my balcony but... POST: ... I think I'm giving too much stress towards it? I've read something about pigeons that they may abandon their nest and its eggs if they become too stressed (due to feeling too threatened or 'prey' bothering them too much up close). My balcony is over 5 metres long (one floor apartment) and the pigeons decided to build a nest next to my kitchen/dining room window instead of somewhere else. I try to be as quiet as possible when I cook and eat bot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [40F] husband [39M] of fifteen years is often disinterested, tired or 'short' but always provides reason POST: His job demands a lot of his time, his emotions and his energy and so often there's just not much left for 'us'. I always try to be understanding; giving him time and space to himself or not bombarding him with conversation. I take great interest in his job and always show that I remember what he told me in the past and ask questions when he wants to talk work. I work f",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Emotionally cheated on girlfriend, she took me back but... POST: Me (21) her (22) dating (2.4 years) I emotionally cheated on her over facebook with another girl. Stupid stupid stupid. Regret it more everyday. I seriously love my girl to death and she loves me back the same way. What happened was we were going through a hard time in our relationship and I fucked up and talked to this other girl because I felt like our relationship could end soon and I was just so frustrated. O",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] with my ex-girlfriend [18 F] of 9 months, texts me out of the blue to have a conversation, then stops replying. POST: My ex girlfriend and I broke up about 9 months ago, essentially because she was starting college and I was in high school, she needed to focus on school etc.. I still have very strong feelings for her and want her back but we haven't spoken in about 4 months. The other day she texted me to say she finished college, moved out, ask me questions about my life. B",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: I think my younger sister is being exploited for free labor. (Indiana) POST: My younger sister has suffered from some mental trauma since she was a child. She had a really difficult time getting through high school, but she did graduate and her grades were great. She didn't finish college. She's very bright, she just struggles sometimes. She's 24, has never had a real job, and lives with my parents. We're trying to find her a good psychologist (we had some bad luck with some shitty on",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[28M] Downward spiraling relationship with my Best friends Wife [27F]. How to deal with this unusual issue ? POST: I have a friend who I am best buddy with. We see each other every day , train together , studied together at UNI so know each other's secrets and are also very understanding about each other and always try and help each other. We are both males. My friends got married recently to a girl that I have never met before. An arranged king of a marriage. His wife is very pos",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me 30 yo male with my 28 yo girlfriend for 1.5 yrs. We are very happy together but this has been weighing on my mind. POST: Hey guys, long story short I was out with my girlfriend and friends last weekend one of the guys who ended up joining us basically had been trying to hit on my girlfriend and she was basically oblivious and just thought he was being friendly, it really bothered me but I just ignored it. A week later the guy says he wants to actively pursue her even though he kn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [22F] only slept with my partner [24M] and am a bit confused. POST: So I have only slept with my boyfriend, who I have been with for 5 years, and have never had a problem with this fact ( and never thought I would) until recently. I am starting to get curious, more so just to see the difference and what it would be like with someone else. I have never and will never cheat by the way. Now we have been talking about marriage a lot, and I want to spend the rest of my life with him,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: MI [24F] am about to break up with my boyfriend [24M] of 5 months, how do I make sure he doesn't distribute naked pictures of me afterwards? POST: Title pretty much says it. We just don't click as much as I would want us to, even though we get along really well. I've decided heavy-heartedly to break it off with my boyfriend rather sooner than later, before wasting anyone's time... Now foolish me likes sending my boyfriends sexy pictures and he has also taken a few (partly clothed) o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My BF/GF [18F] and I [18M] decided on an open relationship. Not sure how I feel about it.... POST: A little bit of backstory: Friends for 3 years, good friends for 2 years, best friends for a year, and lovers for the past month and a half. We started dating after unexpected feelings caused by sex. ANYWAYS.... Her and I recently discussed an open relationship because she has a thing for a boy at school (college). I am ok with the idea of adapting to an open relationship but now that i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Gf [f20] may not find me [m19] attractive? POST: So I'm gonna preface this by saying my girlfriend and I have been dating almost a year now. It has been a wonderful relationship so far, we communicate, share the same relationship goals, and love each other a lot. However tonight I fucked up really bad and snooped (I'm terrible yes I know but I had a gut feeling I had to pursue). I found in my girlfriends Internet history 'my boyfriend isn't cute but I love him'. This kinda broke me u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] her [20??F] not dating but i want something with her. POST: so i have this girl in 2 of my classes that i really want to pursue something with. we haven't really talked just an occasional hi or hello. but i noticed this weird little hair flick she always does in my direction. i could be on opposite sides everyday and it is always in the direction I'm in. I'm not sure if she is looking back at me or whatever. i usually don't have problems walking up and talking to people bbu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] don't think I want to be in a relationship. POST: I broke up with my ex [23M] a month ago and a week later, I met my current boyfriend [19M] on OKC. We spent New Year's together and have been seeing each other a lot since then. After a dozen dates, i'm still not feeling it. Even in my last relationship I never had any strong feelings or emotional attachment. I felt emotionally drained most the time and I still do now. I don't know why since we get along great and I typicall",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I accidentally caught my 48 year old father masturbating. What weird things have you walked in on people doing. POST: I came home from a class and my Dad happened to be home from work for lunch (rare occurrence). I walked into my room at the front of the house and I hear him shouting from the rear of our home. I didn't answer immediately because I was putting books away. As I head out of my room I see my Dad leaving his bedroom laptop in hand, shirt un-tucked, fast walking towards the li",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I can't stop cracking my back - it's driving me nuts POST: About a year and a half, maybe 2 years ago I started having back issues, mainly right between my shoulder blades. It basically feels like I my spine is not aligned properly and I can't help but fidgit around. I stretch or bend and fidgit in an attempt to re-align it, when i do this it cracks, allowing me a few seconds of relief followed by an uncontrollable urge to try and crack it again. It feels like I can't just sit back and",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Need advice about being friends with women POST: I've been trying to find the best subreddit to ask this question, and I'm hoping this one works out. I have been thinking a lot lately about the types and kinds of people I relate to best and enjoy being around, and the response keeps coming up that I enjoy hanging out with women best. A little background, I am a 27 year old male, grew up in the rural US on a farm and was homeschooled the majority of my childhood. I have one older br",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my ex/bf [27 M] of a year, and I think I've just confirmed he's been lying to me and has had another woman. POST: We started a relationship August last year. Things we're going great. Not ecstatic but not bad. A couple months later a lady wrote me saying that he had a girlfriend. She talked about how she [41 F] was with him and how he had wanted to have a younger woman. After this he stopped speaking to me for a couple of weeks. He later starts talking to me again and ",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: It wasn't intentional, but it was a good addition POST: This happened last year but I didn't find out about this sub until today! So I was dating this girl freshman for about 4 months and things were going well. We had normal issues, one being she would take hours to text me back, which I would be ok with, but it would also be with stuff about plans for the night and I didn't want to make plans then find out she wasn't doing anything and leave her alone. So I got a little clingy. One ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19m] am in love for the second time with with a friend [18f] and it is killing me; can we continue to be friends? POST: Past: I ask a girl to homecoming sophomore year of high school that I really like and my friend knows this. Two months later he dates (long term) her. They get to second base in the back of my car while I am driving. Really hurt me. Then prom my senior year I ask a different girl that I am really into. She isn't interested in me romantically. Never felt like that",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] like this [19? F] girl who goes to my university, but I'm pretty certain she doesn't even know I exist POST: The girl is roughly the same age as me, but I'm not sure if she's 19 or 20. We were both freshmen last semester and she graduated high school the same year I did, so she can't be *too* old. Anyway, she's a very beautiful girl and seems to be very friendly and caring. I, on the other hand, am not the greatest looking guy. I had class with her last semester, but it was",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Protocol for applying to a new position within my current company, but in a different department POST: Last summer, I took a job doing maintenance work for a fairly large real estate company. Shortly after taking the job, I found out that I had been accepted back into university to finish my undergraduate business degree. I had previously let my admission lapse while travelling, and had never been able to complete my last 2 courses via correspondence. I told my managers about everything, and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: She (19f) ended our 5 year relationship. I don't know what to do. I'm 22m. POST: I just wanted a little bit of advice and to share to someone what's going on. She called me 3 days ago to tell me she thinks we should break up. We were very much in love and I still love her and she possibly still loves me too. The reasons confuse me and here's why, they've been bouncing around in my head so much they've lost any meaning to me, I don't understand. First she's moved to uni and she can",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 F]have been engaged to a [34 M] for 8 years now, and now out of nowhere I have developed feeling for a friend [20 m] and don't know what to do I love them both POST: I have been engaged for 8 years now, like any relationship my fiancé and I have had our ups and downs, this last years was especially difficult. My fiancé [34 M] was drinking all the time and seemed to have no time for me, when I say it was months in between us having sex I am not lying and on a few occasions when",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Advice on mutual funds? POST: So I am a 19 year old college student, currently at home and working for the summer. I have a great job that pulls in ~$400 a week. I also received an inheritance of $21,000 and have college paid for between scholarships and my parents. So I feel very lucky to be in the situation I'm in. My question comes from a discussion I've been having with my father. He's very financially savvy, with the frugalness growing up on a farm gets you, and in general I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Want to break up with gf of 6 months; however, she's moved to live with me from another country and has nowhere else to live POST: Hi /r/relationships. I'll start with some background. I [22M] met my current gf [22F] summer last year, just before she moved off to another country to work. When she left, we'd been sleeping with each other for a couple of months but had no intention of carrying on the relationship. Fast forward to New Year; she comes back for a visit. We hang out on ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I [28/m] tell my recent ex [25/f] that I just came into a lot of money? POST: Mind you, I'm not talking enough money to quit my job and live off of, but it would be enough to pay off all of our debts (student loans, credit cards, family, etc) and still have quite a bit left to enjoy ourselves for a while. My girlfriend left me a little over two months ago, moved out pretty much when I was at work. She was justified because I had become too complacent in our relationshi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Together for 3yrs but now temporarily is a LDR; I'm feeling confused POST: My bf and I are both in our early twenties and have been together for a little over 3 years. We met in college and are in the same year. Our relationship is great, and I feel incredibly comfortable with him. We're really good about discussing things if there is something bothering one of us, and are used to seeing each other almost every day. However this past semester my bf had to go home (over 7 hrs away ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: me [22m] and my so[21f] are both depressed and i dont know what to do POST: title sums it up pretty much. both of us are depressed - me from graduating and not being able to find a job all this time, and her from being alone for the school year now that I had to move back with my parents. when we were together for 2 years in undergrad, we shared an apartment and even when we had bad slumps we could just get better just by each other's company. now that we are apart I feel like we are",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever lost someone important to you to themselves? POST: For me it was my best friend. We are no longer friends, but we used to be very close and even lived together for sometime. I remember the very moment the realization dawned on me that she was not the person I thought I knew anymore. We were in the kitchen and she was saying ""I'm fine, I'm fine"" right before falling right to the floor and rolling around because she could not get up on her own. She was extremely drunk at 1p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Crush [21 M/F] 8 Months, gifted her on her birthday. But she didn't do the same. POST: English is not my main language and i might have poor sentence structure. Sorry in advance I met my crush on August 2015, ever since that day we are constantly talking to each other and hanging out. Also, we Skype call each other for hours. On January 2016 (after 4 months), her birthday came up. I wished her a happy birthday and gave her a gift in her day (30$ worth necklace with",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Mom-starved children POST: My wife is a nurse and works typically three to four 12 hour shifts a week, though she goes in at 5:30am and sometimes doesn't get home until after 7pm. My children (daughter 3yrs, and son 11mo) usually wake up early, but there are times when they don't wake up early enough to spend time with their mom. Even if they are up early enough, the time they get to spend with my wife is not quality time as she is frantically getting everything ready to leave on time. S",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Hurt my knee... Training on hold... Going nuts... POST: I had hurt it getting off my couch about a month ago. Yes, you read that correctly. Twisted it a funny angle and pop. Its been up and down since then. I was back in to Sambo last wednesday, but aggravated my knee situation during free rolls. At that time I had been back to MMA training for almost a week with no incident but the first time I come back to Sambo I twist it wrong. I haven't done any training since, just resting the t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I show my dad I appreciate what he does for me? POST: Hey guys, I'm a college student who goes to school very far away from where I grew up and where my parents still live. Because of this, I'm home about four weeks out of the entire year. My dad works very hard, and one of the reasons he does is to pay for my college and help me with living expenses until I graduate. Tonight after he got home, we were talking, and I was casually watching TV. I seemed more focused on the TV tha",negative " r/self TITLE: Please Help Me Think of a Tasteful Gift POST: So here's the story: I went to Norway for about a month this summer and I stayed with my past girlfriend. For about 2 weeks we went to her parents house and they have been really, **really** nice to me. They fed me, drove me around, took me out on their boat, clothed me, etc. etc. I have a really nice card to send them but I want to get them something nice. Basically, it has to be **small**(for mailing purposes), somewhat **American** in nat",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my boyfriend [25 M] of 2 years - I'm having second thoughts about moving across the country in 2 weeks POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for two years. We've lived together in NYC for the majority of that time. I've been finishing college here and next week is my graduation. We are planning on moving to Los Angeles (his hometown) on June 1st. We are packing, have a mover scheduled etc... Suddenly, I feel really unsure of whether or not I want to go. Moving ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22F) am uncomfortable with my SO (25M) female friend. More in post. POST: I don't really know how to begin this, but all I can say now is that I really don't like the fact my boyfriend still talks to a girl he was after months ago before we started dating. yes they're friends, but I don't like it. Have I expressed my opinion? no. Only because he's the combative type and will come back at me saying I talk to my other guy friends. Also, we have been dating for 8 months. However th",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I think I [20f] am being used for money by my SO [24m] POST: I've been dating/with him for 2 months. Maybe a month ago he said his pin number got locked out and asked for $20. He needed cash for a toll the day following. NBD. He also bought me dinner that night using credit. Maybe 3 weeks ago I got drunk with my friend. We didn't sober up fast enough for one of us to drive her to work that night. I asked him for a ride, he had no problem with it. I also said I'd give him gas mo",negative " r/self TITLE: I'm having massive anxiety that my dad is eventually going to die. I'm 25, he's 67. POST: I don't know, but one day it occured to me. I think it was a year ago. I was living a shitty life. Didn't have a job because I had fucked my back and ears up. I was smoking weed to cope with the pain. My sister called me and we talked about life in general. Somehow we began to talk about dad... I told her that I've began noticing how he's getting older... It's wasn't like he has Alzheimer or anything. J",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by buying a short sale property POST: This is happening as we speak. We just completed a short sale on a run down house today. We knew that the place had a lot of issues that we would need to resolve. Tons of garbage inside the house, bad roof leak, etc, it was unlivable. However, we learned that those issues would be the least of our worries when we went to go change the locks. Turns out the previous owner's son was inside and he tells us that he let a lady stay there. She would ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I[f24] cheated on my first boyfriend 2 years ago [m24] and still want him back. Need advice. POST: We started dating when we were both 19. We lived together for about a year and a half on campus residence and loved each other very much. He was my first boyfriend and I his first girlfriend. I was also young and completely stupid. After about a year I felt trapped in the relationship. Even though I knew I loved him, I was wondering about how it would be like to date other people. Long story",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [24] wants to quit work and concentrate on writing books, the problem is that her stories are bad and she doesn't have a big vocabulary. How do I approach this without hurting her? POST: We have been together for 4 years, she thinks she can write awesome stories because her family keeps saying that she's can write perfectly and that her stories are interesting. I've read [24] some of her stories and noticed that she has a very small vocabulary and keeps using the same",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Roommate had become distant POST: We've been friends since high school. I'm 22 now and sharing an apartment with him. It's been about a year now and for the first 9-10 months of it everything was dandy, we hung out all the time never had trouble with apartment chores or any other responsibilities that might need to be split. In that last 2 months or so though he broke up with his first girlfriend and now he seems distant. It's been about 4 or 5 months since the breakup but ever since he's b",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by meeting George Michael POST: Well, it was not today, but 2-3 years back when I didn't look on reddit much. This was back when I was in Uni (college for US). I was working part time as a waiter for a gay night club in central London. I had one of those in-ear radios and I was told by my manager that George Michael may come that night. To my shame I didn't know how he looked recently so I didn't care much, I imagined that if he would come there would be a huge commotion around him anywa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Can't find anyone interested despite having the right advice, personality and attitude. (I think...) POST: I recently graduated from university and throughout my undergrad and have had a lot of trouble in getting finding girls who are interested in me. I've never been in a relationship and am a virgin, I'm 5'10"" (178cm) and 23 years old. Overall, I would consider myself to be a 7/10 with a little extra weight, but I present myself well with good hygiene, grooming and dress. In ter",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Handling credit card debt with a personal loan/refinancing debt? Is it worth it? POST: First time poster here, looking for advise on debt. I'll try to make it as succinct as I can with relevant information. My fiance and I recently purchased a condo, closed last November (2015), so there is a mortgage involved but we both make this priority number 1. Admittedly it does make me financially tight month to month (~45% of my paycheck.) The issue is that I am in about $7000 credit ca",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] am VERY into this girl [18F] but I need to have her as a friend. POST: I know this is a common problem here, but I want to type it all out for my sanity. I just moved into my dorm and started college. I'm an out of state student, and came here by myself. So for the past week I've been putting forth my best effort to meet people and make friends. On tuesday I met a guy who quickly became one of my only friends here. He has a big group of friends from his high school here, so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] have had constant problems with a friend of my girlfriend [20 F] of 3 years. POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for a while now and we've had our fair share of problems. Despite that, our relationship is strong because we've been open and upfront about everything. Recently however she made a new friend and he's been a problem for me and it's affected our relationship negatively. At first I was okay with the guy, I knew he liked her and he had invited her on dates",positive " r/dogs TITLE: Advice on telling people not to let their small children pet my dog. POST: I'm the proud owner of a beautiful Australian Kelpie and he is generally the sweetest dog I've ever owned. He is seriously a big baby, and generally shy around new people. When he was younger, he spent some time around my (then) six year old nephew who would not leave him alone and drove him crazy. Since then, he really doesn't like small children, even though he has never shown aggression towards them. He also pre",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] might have drunkenly half-slept through my [21 F] girlfriend saying she loved me POST: This is a weird one. I went out with my girl last night, had a great time, and we went home together as usual. As soon as we got home I got really tired and was struggling to keep my eyes open. I had a lot of strange dreams, but there is one thing I remember not being a dream. I'm fairly certain at some point my girlfriend (who was still slightly buzzed) told me she loved me. However, I w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my GF [24 F] for 7 years, will not clean up after herself when over my house, extremely lazy too. POST: Hello all. I am just seeking some advice on what to do with my GF who will not clean up at all. She comes over my house (well I share it with my dad) around 5 days a week and stays over atleast 1 of those nights. We have been together for 7 years now and she has been doing this for years now. She will not clean up after herself, she leaves her dishes/garbage next to ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Can we ever just be friends again? POST: I ended a 2 year relationship just over a month ago. Both of us are early 20's, finished with undergrad, and most of the relationship has been long distance. Neither of us wanted the other person to have to compromise career/life goals and I couldn't see a situation in which we both ended up in the same place with both of us happy. She was upset when I broke things off, and hasn't spoken to me during the past month. Last night she texted me saying",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ive [27M] known my friend and his sister [18F] for 5 years, recently she's become extra flirty and teasy, and now she's being direct with her wishes for something more. POST: I've known (fake name) Rebecca's brother for five years, she was always around playing video games with us etc. Almost right after she turned 18 she appeared to become very interested in me, looking back she probably was before but I think she's been making an extra effort to be noticed. I'm not very observant",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[26M] with my girlfriend [25F] are 2.5 years together, had a conversation that made me very concerned. POST: My girlfriend asked me to pass an online test (unrelated to relationships). One of the questions was ""If you could cheat your partner with guarantee to be uncaught, how likely would you"". After I completed and discussed result with her, I asked what she answered to that question. First she tried to change the topic, second she answered that she tried test several times out",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[20M] GF [20F] of 6 months was raped exactly one year ago, what to do? POST: Hey all, So not long after we first started dating, my GF told me that she had been raped at a 4th of July party this past year. We are both college students, and the assailant goes to the same college, but is a year ahead of us. She tells me that the next day after the incident, she had went in to medical, and both filed a restricted report (which means basically that she can get medical coverage, but th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [18F] boyfriend [18M] wouldn't shut up about how hot another woman is yesterday. POST: We're in a long distance relationship and have been in a relationship for a year. I was in a Skype call with him and a friend. I walked away to see if the Xbox was clear. When I came back, my boyfriend said ""Oh hey Holly, I was just telling Michael how hot this girl my friend Jasmine is friends with is. She's literally so beautiful that she modeled for Spencer's as Marilyn Monroe! ...Hold on, M",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [27/m] My wife (23/f) of nearly 6 months has been taking risque photos that are not sent to me.. again. POST: Long time lurker, first time poster.. was using wifes iPad the other day and noticed there was a photo of her from the chest up with one of my guns pressed against her taken while I was at work one night.. this photo was not sent to me. Thought it was weird. Moved on. Next day; go to work, come home, on iPad, another photo appears, this time up her skirt she wore to an ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20F] sex drive is low and I don't know how to fix it. POST: Quick background: I have been in a relationship for ten months with my boyfriend 21M]. He is amazing and lovely and I love him. It's my first relationship, but not his. I've had depression for about six years and been on medication this whole time. I've been on my current medication for four years and it works really well for me. I absolutely do not want to change medications. I've also been on the same birth contro",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Do I [23F] have unrealistic expectations for a husband? POST: I've been with my fiancee for going on five years now and I just can't say that I'm ecstatic about the idea of spending the rest of my life with him anymore. Let me start by saying he is kind to me and supportive of my goals. He's attractive and an overall decent person, but there are a number of facets to his personality I just don't know if I'll be able to stand in the long haul. He isn't motivated towards any particular",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it too soon for him [20] to tell me he loves me [17,f]? POST: Met him about 3 weeks ago, we talk for hours on the phone everyday and we have spent only about 8 hours together in person (he lives about an hour and a half away so seeing each other is not easy). We are not officially together, although he keeps saying things like ""So when are you going to be my girlfriend, huh?"". I just got out of relationship the day before meeting him and I prefer to take things slowly, which is wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my good friend [23 F] acute, I'm slowly realizing how much she complains about how she is afflicted with EVERYTHING... POST: To keep it short, I've been friends with this girl for almost 3 years now. After spending more and more time with her, I'm realizing lately sometimes she's off putting. Basically, she seems very 'sensitive' in that almost every affliction (whether it be sickness, bugs, some bone issue, disease, etc) that we talk about, she seems to have/had or be",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by leaving my friend outside a Mcdonalds at 4AM. POST: Last night, me and some friends went out for drinks. The night started out good, until the point I stopped to remember. I blacked out after my fourth drink, and literally remember zero. Come to wake up this morning and my friend tells me that at some point last night, me and my boyfriend decide to go home and take one of our friends too. I, passed out in the front seat do not remember anything, my boyfriend apparently got the munchie",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using a condom (NSFWish) POST: So this is actually happening as we speak. I have just been away with my girlfriends family for a few days at a ""Eco Lodge"" in the middle of no where, there isn't even a sewage line so drop toilets have been in use . Since there were family there we couldn't really you know find the room to engage in the Easter spirit so we left it. We came home Saturday afternoon because we had work that night, the rest of her family stayed up there, we were home alone",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How do I get on with my life? POST: I thought going back to school and really figuring out what I wanted out of life would make things better, but it hasn't. It's like I'm stuck in a rut and the worse part is, is that I'm the one who got myself stuck there. For example, there's a girl I like and even though I know I come off incredibly strong, I still persist. She through me a birthday party last year and how did I return the favor? I told her we couldn't be friends anymore. That's not even",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [29 M] being unreasonable about utility bill with my brother [27 M] POST: Hey everyone, I'll keep this short but have a question. I recently moved to another state and currently live with my brother in a two bedroom apartment. Last month our electric bill was $140 which to me is incredibly high. I'm used to paying no more then $50 max for an equivalent rental. My brother was equally shocked at the high electric bill. When we both saw it we decided to try and cut down on any elec",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [24/F] am not sure how to get my sister [26/F] to stop talking about our parents [50s]. POST: My sister and I are pretty close, we talk a couple times a week on the phone and text daily. I no longer have a relationship with my parents. Recently my sister has been talking a lot about our parents. Apparently my mom is having an affair with a someone my sister thinks is a real loser. My sister is very upset about it. I've asked her repeatedly not to talk about my parents. I've hu",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: What Shall I Save My Money For? (19M) POST: So I'm 19M from the UK, got a car and a middle class family on a average income for my age. Living at home free of charge. Been working since September and I'm easily saving about £500 a month into a savings account. Currently got £1600 saved. My gf and I are pretty serious, we've been together a year and a half, she's half way through her second year at 6th form and is strongly considering going to university to study Pharmacy. We'd lik",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my ex [25F] of ~2 years, I broke up with her last Saturday and she still lives with me and says she is moving out (I don't trust her) and that she is staying in the small area i'm in. POST: I just broke up with me g/f of approximately two years. It was an extremely toxic relationship and I just finally realized it was not going anywhere and we were just hurting each other. So, I broke up with her and she immediately went out. I have no idea where and I know it's not",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] started Flings/Hookups with [21 F][22 F] aver the last week, they're leaving soon but I may have shit were I eat. POST: So I've been flirting with Jane for a bit and we head back to my room after party last weekend, she tell me to text her before she leaves. And she wants to hang out again this weekend Then early this week I also hook up with a Jill from europe and we've been a bit touchy feely with a few PDAs here and there.(although nothing overt when there's a lot of peo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my girlfriend [20 F] of 2 years, went on a ""break"", only lasted a week before everything went back to normal, don't know if we are together again or not POST: My girlfriend asked to go on a break because we are in university and she says this is the time to be single and experience different things on your own. I didn't want to do this but couldn't really do much about it. After only a week she asked me to go out to dinner with her and things have gone back to normal a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20M) am trying to get over my friend (19F) who classifies as a lesbian. POST: Okay, so me and my friend are close. As close as two people can be without being romantically involved. But the issue is, I've fallen for her. It was about a year ago when we started actually hanging out and such, but we've known each other for about 4-5 years, we just sort of lost touch with each other in high school. Now my issue is that she was just out of a straight relationship once I reconnected wi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/F] Should I leave boyfriend [21/M]? POST: So I've been with my boyfriend for almost three years and lately has gotten himself into a depression that he refuses to get out of. He has pushed everyone away and now he's pushing me away. He has no motivation for anything and he has told me that I should break up with him because he knows I'm not attracted to him anymore and that I should find a strong motivated man. Is he being serious or is this some sort of test? I've tried ev",negative " r/self TITLE: Hello reddit... got played and I don't know what to do.. POST: On Tuesday night a semi good looking girl decides to randomly message me on Facebook... being single and everything I decide to message back. Turns out she's a big flirt and talking all about fucking me the day after we talked. Being 8 months since I did anything i was like ""fuck it"" and had her come over Thursday night. Although during this time her and her ""bf"" were having issues and she told me she just wanted to do it to get i",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Punched a 'friend' in the face -- Legal Consequences (Australia)? POST: I live in Australia and over a year ago after drinking heavily with some friends we decided we'd head to Mcdonald's. At Mcdonald's I started to complain about a friend's sister since she wouldn't drive us to the bottle store earlier that day. Another 'friend' went off about how I whinged about everything constantly, I warned him to stop multiple times which he responded by 'bring it on.' After having just lost our famil",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my girlfriend [17 F] of two months, how do I stop being so emotional? POST: Little bit of background; My girlfriend, let's call her Jane for name's sake, and I are in a relationship, but it's not an open one. This means that we don't act like we're in a relationship in school because right now, it's only between us. Jane and I decided to keep it this way because she currently has a plethora of issues concerning other guys and felt as if being in an open relationship w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M/F] with my ? [24 F] 3 weeks, confused by her mixed signals and walls up. POST: Hi guys/gals, I have recently connected with a girl I was once talking to in high school this is about 6 years ago. We recently connected by swiping right on each other on tinder. We have hung out about 3 times due to me going away on vacation. And have spoken everyday during these 3 weeks. Here is where I am having trouble. After hanging out with her this last time I asked her where she saw us ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How long after one relationship to announce another? POST: Despite the old adage don't shit where you eat, I find myself in an awkward situation. I would like reddit's take on it. I ended a three year relationship and then started a friends with benefits/rebound situation with a sweet, non-threatening coworker. I tried not to imply that it was anything serious, but he may have misinterpreted our arrangement. I ended it about three months later when I realized I had strong feelings for a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20/M] the girl [23/F] I've just started dating has told me she's already seeing someone, but it's not a problem apparently. POST: Alright, I honestly have no idea what to think about this and I would really appreciate any perspectives any of you unique people may have to offer. So, context. I've been texting this girl a LOT over the last two weeks, and we've been on two dates so far. We haven't discussed it, and I'm not really sure where we are on the spectrum of casual to being",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] broke up with my boyfriend [22M] of 3 months and I feel terrible about it. Seeking guidance and wisdom from others who have breakup experience. POST: I began dating my now ex boyfriend at the beginning of the semester and things were great at first. But then he wanted something more serious and I wasn't sure I was ready for that and I told him so. He told me that I could either be in a relationship with him or not see him at all. I really liked him and didn't want to lose eve",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Psychiatrist falsified information on my medical records POST: Greetings reddit. I hospitalized myself originally for insomnia which actually turned out to be psychosis. However, when I accessed my records, it turns out that they falsified statements made by my family and my self. They were making assumptions about failing drug tests from certain job opportunities which never happened. I haven't touched Marijuana since I was 19.(Only six times). They also claimed that I was depressed ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Help on deciding if I(19M) should I try something POST: Well here is my story I(19M) had a cheater(made out drunk with a lad(19M)) ex(19F and together for half a year) who f*cked a ""friend""(18M) the day we broke up. This was about a month ago (in wich she kept sleeping with him and trying to get me back). Now I have a classmate(18F) that I think I like but I am still confused because I just got out of a relationship... Any advice on what should I do redditors? I dont know if",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: First love help. [long] [18/f] [17/m] POST: I'm posting this on my throwaway cause friends know my account. Also I'm on mobile so forgive spelling mistakes My girlfriend and I started dating at the beginning of my junior year (11th grade) and her senior year (12th grade) and we were inseparable. She has really bad anxiety issues and I have been trying very very hard to get her past them. We have been together a little over a year, and she started at a major university, 4 hou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (26f) boyfriend (28m) thinks I had sex more times than I told him. How do I make him believe me? POST: Hi Reddit. My bf and Ihave been together for 4 years. Today he told me he is totally sure that I had a crazy past and that I fucked a lot of guys (even that I had something with one of my girl friends). He's not mad or anything with this, he's just like 'c'mon tell me the truth'... The problem is that I DON'T, I've been totally honest with him and told him the times I had sex (",negative " r/loseit TITLE: I need some help with accountability. 21/M/5'11 POST: So! I'm a 21 year old male, the last time I checked I weighed around 230. Not good. I've been trying to lose weight for pretty much as long as I can remember, but I always ALWAYS get off track. I had a few weeks in the summer where I was doing really well, than all of a sudden I just lost all motivation. I've been trying to start back up again ever since just been going further and further down hill. I think one of my main problems is th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (19M) ex gf (20F) (1Y2M) wanna date with me again but her don't wanna a serious relationship again POST: Hello guys! Oh yes, I'm not an English native, sorry for any mistake! Last year I've been in a relationship with a girl of another city. We saw each, other like three to four times a month. We've broke basically because she have said she felt so lonely and after a time, often our relationship became only charges for one part to another, with common discussions of stupid things.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My fiancee [20 F] has said that she wants to have a threesome with a mutual friend of ours [22 M] that lives out of state POST: My bisexual Fiancee [20 F] and I [22 M] have been engaged for two years and have been living together for just as long. Recently she re-introduced the topic of threesomes, something we'd kinda tossed around as a thought before but had never really firmly decided on. She first reintroduced the idea a week ago, out of the blue. She asked if I'd still consider",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 y/o F] [24 y/o M] casual date of 1 month abruptly stops talking to me. Feeling confused and dissapointed POST: Last semester in one of my college classes, I made friends with one guy. I didn't think too much of him but thought he was friendly and easy to talk to. We would talk casually before class, but nothing too profound. Again, I didn't think much of him. After summer break however, I saw him in the library and I was really surprised when he struck up conversation with ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by masterbating in friend's shower... POST: So at my friend's place, and his GF is there, and I sure do have the hots for her. So we had just just gotten back from the beach (surfing) and I went to take a shower. Thoughts of his GF popped in my head, and other things started popping up too (literally). Next thing you know, I'm squeezing one out real quick. But I'm considerate, didn't want to get it on his shower floor or his drain, so made sure to palm all of it, and opened the s",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Investments After Retirement Accounts POST: I have a small amount of money in a TD Ameritrade account that was given to me as a gift by my parents. They bought a few reasonably high profile stocks some have done well, some not (WMT, HPQ, MSFT). This was after high school and the intent was to give me some exposure to the investing/saving concepts. For several years that account has gone unchanged and it hasn't done great, but not poorly either. That being said, I am attempting to ",negative " r/running TITLE: What the hell happened to me today? POST: I'm training for my first marathon, and everything was going pretty great until today's run. A little background: As I said, this will (hopefully) be my first marathon. I was training for the same race last year, but got injured. I had made it up to 15 miles for the LSD. I'm a long time runner - started running track and cross country when I was 13, and I've never taken more than about 3 months off of running since then (I'm 26 now). So, while th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] and my fiance(first ever girlfriend) [25 F] of 5 years, are about to break up, and i am not sure what to do POST: Hello Reddit, I am living together with my fiance of 5 years, and we have a son who is 4 years old. Since the beginnig of the relationship i felt like I investet much more into the relationship then her. Since we had a kid so early I worked my ass off to get a decent job and to keep our heads above water. Finally last year i finished my aprenticeship and my job",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19m) went to a friend's party (20f) and a professor (40s?m) was there as well. Feel a bit weird POST: So I don't really even know what I'm looking for with this, but here goes So a friend/acquaintance from uni invited me to a party the other night, she's pretty cool, I like hanging out with her, so I said sure. We've known each other maybe a year (?) but only at classes or getting a drink after, so not all that well So I went along to the thing, it was pretty small, maybe 20-25 ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I had a terrifying experience with sleep paralysis this morning that has left me shaken. What experiences with sleep paralysis or night terrors have you had? POST: I'm going to start out by saying I have experienced sleep paralysis before, so I knew what was going on. Regardless I am still shaken. My dad had an appointment for a biopsy this morning to see if he has lymphoma (test came back positive). But since his appointment was around 5 am, he insisted I drop him off at the hospital ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] am moving to NYC, how do I ask my boyfriend [24M] if he will come with me? POST: My boyfriend and I have talked about moving to New York together for several months, but never set anything in stone. About three months ago he very seriously told me he was really considering moving back (to New York, he lived there a few years ago) soon, not giving me a timeline but that he was thinking about it. We talked about it together a little, he told me he wanted to live alone but woul",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I (M25) can't tell if she (F26) is interested... POST: Hello all, I moved abroad about 6 months ago and have met an amazing woman. We have excellent conversations and she is stunningly gorgeous. At times I catch her staring at me or messaging me out of the blue but I can't tell if she is interested in more with me. We often have deeper discussions with one another than we do with anyone else here. I know that were she to be interested I would start a relationship with her but I jus",positive " r/dogs TITLE: Is this natural prey drive, or reason to engage a professional? POST: I have two dogs who are by and large good dogs but today they killed my neighbor's pet rabbit. Normally I'd just sort of chalk this up to dogs being dogs, but this is their 3rd kill in the last 9 months. (1 Raccoon, 1 Squirrel, 1 pet rabbit) and there may be one additional wild rabbit that they've taken down as well. The raccoon and the squirrel were in my yard, but the pet rabbit was in my neighbor's yard. The dogs broke",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm going in for interview #2 in less than 12 hours for what would be the start of an awesome career, do you have any last minute advice for interviewing with higher-ups? POST: To clarify, this position would be for a great company, but come with a ton of responsibility. Two of the people I've already interviewed with told me that it would most likely take up to a year to get used to the work since there's so much involved. The pay/benefits would be great (I already make more th",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the worst thing a family member as ever done to you? POST: This pisses me off to the point that i can't see straight to this day. A little background first. My mother and father never stayed together after i was born (they were 19) some years later my mother met and married my step dad but always had a grudge against my biological father. Well cut to years later, I just got engaged everything is awesome and 4 months later we find out we're having my daughter. So naturally my wife ",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Received a phone call from my sons principal saying he assaulted a girl at school. POST: So I got the phone call and immediately called the principal back. Apparently my son had gone up to a girl and gave her ""purple nirples."" He said he saw it on the show ""chowder."" I am beyond livid and embarrassed. My son is currently with his dad and I won't see him for a couple days. I'm trying to stay calm and come up with the appropriate actions we need to take to get past this and make sure he u",negative " r/cats TITLE: What to do with a very aggressive and misbehaving cat? Family is beginning to say we should replace him? POST: I'm at the end of my line, reddit. I found this adorable stray a year and a half ago meowing at night on my front lawn and now this guy is becoming my nightmare. He regularly attacks me (and no one else in the family) and very aggressively bites my arms or legs (ears back and all). My forearms now look like I cut myself because of his attacks (seriously). I've tried pushing him awa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [40 F] with my codependent(?) roommates. POST: I live with an elderly woman and her disabled-ish daughter. Elderly woman has no friends or hobbies, spends all her time cleaning up after daughter and working on house projects that were put off after her move a couple years ago. Daughter has a few physical limitations, but nothing I'd call crippling, she's got time and energy to go to social gatherings, shop, cook and bake and make huge messes doing so, but insists she doesn't hav",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does anyone suffer or have any knowledge of stills disease? POST: I don't know what to think really, my partners 10 year old son has been in pain for weeks now and has had blood tests and urine samples tested. There is blood in the urine and he has been waiting for 3 weeks for an ultrasound of his kidneys. This came about after being in agnosing joint pain which was accompanied with a temperature. The blood test results have come back now also and the doctor has said it's pointing to sti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] met a girl [18f] and am crazy about her. How do I approach the one issue I have with her so we can build something really strong? POST: I moved into college three weeks ago, and immediately met a girl who I had a great connection with. We have the same major, same sense of humor, and I love being around her. Our chemistry is great, and we've definitely moved past the point of being just friends. However, tonight I got a text from a girl I was close with in high school- she'll",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [26F] with [30M] 2 dates in want to take things slow without just confusing him. POST: So, I'm kind of shy/bad at intimacy/cat lady, and all of my romantic experiments have kind of sucked (things move faster than I'm comfortable with, I freak out and bail after awkward and unsatisfying sex is the general pattern). After the last fellow I decided that THIS TIME I will be the one setting the pace and getting what I want. Btw my pace is basically glacial. A couple of weeks ago I met",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What has infuriated you lately ? POST: Here's my little story, Woke up one morning, noticed my driver side door was not shut properly, both front doors are unlocked and not the back ones (indicating that I did indeed lock all doors to the vehicle, only way to do so is by using the key to lock the 4 doors at once). Someone during the night got inside, and took the faceplate off of my stereo system. The only item taken, which renders my stereo system unusable, and the faceplate on it's ow",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm pretty pathetic POST: I'm in love with another guy. Let's call him, uhh, Borg. I've been involved in a relationship with my current boyfriend (Hagred?) for 3+ years... Hagred and I have been hitting a rough patch lately (both of our faults) and I feel like we would be better off not together. I have no idea what to do, because generally I react on impulses wayy too often. I really don't want to consider breaking up with Hagred because he tends to get clingy to me, and has confidenc",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Is it too soon to give wrapped gifts to my[m28] girlfriend[F34]? POST: Hi, Me(M28) and my girlfriend(F34) have been together for the last 2 and half months. We are in a sort of LDR(~50miles) and we can only see eachother once a week. We have been randomly exchanging tiny gifts: she gave me one of hers DVD, a tiny keychain-flashlight that she already had and a hair clip. I already gave her a very personal Lanyard keychain, one of my pens, and a keyring. We have never gave brand ne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22f) discovered my SO's (27m) secret, but he hasn't told me himself. Dating around 3 years. How to help? POST: So my boyfriend and I have been dating for three years now. Long distance on and off, currently on. We have a very honest and supportive relationship (except right now apparently but it's more of a foggy area and I can understand why). A week or so ago I found out my SO has a gambling addiction. I knew he liked to bet on sports sites and whatnot, but I didn't know it was",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[21 M] unable to connect with others POST: This seems a bit silly, but it has been bugging me lately so I decided I would put this here and maybe see if there is some good advice or someone who went through the same thing. For the past few years I've slowly grown apart from other people. I can interact just fine, and I like to think I am fairly charismatic and at least decently attractive since I get hit on occasionally(that is my only basis, I have no idea what makes men attract",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/m] should I care about what my girlfriend posts on tumblr POST: It's been 3 months. We have decent relationship otherwise. she always texts, stays the night, occasionally talks about how much she likes me, and i feel like i can trust her. However she has a tumblr that occasionally she posts stuff like ""boo hoo im so sad about my shitty ex-bf"" (not literally that, but just stuff similar to that). I understand that she might occasionally think about getting fucked over and wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[21M] have been close with her[21F] for the past couple years, and I don't know if she even thinks of me that way POST: I first met her a couple years ago working at a summer camp that I work at each summer. She's the type of girl that always has guy friends around her; not the typical girly girl. Last summer she helped me match up with my current roommate, who, coincidentally, had an apartment in the same complex as her. I've always had an attraction to her, but it was never more ",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Delay my caffeine?!?! POST: I woke up... and remembered i was out of milk. I dont function without coffee so off i went to the local fast food chain to purchase some substitute heaven in a cup. They have a double lane drive through, which you can access from the left or right. Doesnt really matter. But today as i am pulling in to the drivethru entrance, some guy [need for speed] comes speeding from the other side of the carpark and cuts me off to enter the drivethru. Its rude. Its ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26M] think I need raise my siblings [13 M & 16F] because they're both failing out POST: After leaving for college it seems like my parents has given up entirely in raising my siblings. I went away for about 4-5 years and in that span it seems that my siblings have given up on school entirely and has been doing other nefarious things, drugs, skipping school, among st many others. I've never really had a close relationship with my siblings because of the large age gap. But it seem",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (17M) want to ask a girl out (17F) but keep finding excuses not to. POST: This may sound really strange but I want to date this girl but I don't. She is a great person, nice, funny and really freaken cute, but we don't have much in common. I think it'd be amazing for us to date, but I fear heartbreak. Me and a girl had a odd thing going on where I had a crush on her she had a crush on me and we where best friends. Well she reached a point where she didn't romantically like me any",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [17m] is allowed to sleep with other girls; but i'm [17f] not allowed to sleep with other guys? POST: This is understandably a really, really odd situation. Throwaway cause boyfriend's on reddit. But i do check this account often. Basically me and my boyfriend have been together for 2.5 years, and we were each other's first everything. We are quite sexually mature, we partake in a lot of light BDSM type stuff, choking, rope and tape, humiliation... You know, regular tee",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My ex (M, 23) won't stop harassing me (F, 22) about getting back together. I need it to stop POST: To briefly explain the breakup, we never had great communication and were together for a 2 years but he never got along that well with my family, among other issues. He would constantly take out his anger and frustrations on me so I decided to end things to try to get myself out of the situation. That's where everything went from bad to worse. He started texting me, begging me to get ",negative " r/self TITLE: Hey Reddit, recently a good friend of mine just had her world turned upside down, and now she needs your help. POST: I'm posting this under self because I'm not here for any sort of Karma. Instead one of my good friends, that I've worked with and known for many years now, just had her life turned around on her in the matter of a month. A week or so before Christmas her mother found out that she has stage 4 breast cancer engrossing her lungs, liver and brain with well over 10-12 tumors in all.",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Not sure if I [21 F] should end complicated relationship with bf [24 M]... POST: Bf [24M] and I [21F] have been together for a little over a year. He has a great personality, is incredibly loving, committed, smart, funny, and is, obviously, my best friend. I've never been loved like this before, but our relationship has been FAR less than perfect... About half way through our relationship, I got severe depression, which ended up reducing my libido drastically. After having man",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] sort of dating [22 F] how do I state my intentions without being too forward? POST: Met this girl through a mutual friend, and we've been kind of ""set up"" and ended up cuddling during a movie the other night. We are having dinner with a couple tomorrow and I want to show/tell her that I'm interested in dating her, but I don't want to come off as too intense. What's the best way to do this? As an aside, she is very fit and I'm a doughy man do I even have a chance? Any",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my Girlfriend [19 F] of 1 year, I love her but hung up on attractiveness am I being superficial? POST: So I'm with this girl and our relationship is pretty great overall, we get along have similar interests and just have a good connection. Now we went through a breakup once but we both agreed that our relationship was worth trying again and I guess what I'm hung up on isn't her looks per say but the way she presents herself. Like when we did break up one of the big th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] was with a guy [34 M] who I was told was 22. POST: So I met a guy a while ago while volunteering for a lgbt youth support group, he was essentially my volunteer supervisor. And things were going real well. He told me he was 22 and we eventually got involved. It was going great, he met friends, family. And then on a trip I learned his first name was actually his middle name.... Okay, I get it, lgbt people go through shit, he changed it to escape the past. But then today I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I feel like my girlfriend (17F) and I (18M) of almost 16 months, are at the point where breaking up is our best option, but I'm completely torn and confused. POST: We tend to argue often over the smallest things. For a while we would make up afterwards, but now I feel like I just don't want to deal with it anymore. Don't get me wrong, I love her more than anything, but with so much going on in my life right now I feel like I don't need the drama. I don't want to be selfish about it. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I think Ima Rebound guy, What should i do???? =\ POST: So I've never been in this position before and if anyone can relate or share your experiences/advice I'd really appreciate it. Aight so my friend recently broke up with her BF of 2 years (he broke up with her because of long distance issues) I come into the picture and through a series of IM's and txt we find out we are both mutually attracted to each other. We wound up having sex 20 or so times in the course of 4 weeks, t",positive " r/running TITLE: How do I quickly ramp-up to a marathon after (forced) time off? POST: I broke my collarbone this time last week, by crashing my bike on one of my final mega training rides, for Ironman Australia (first time), in three weeks time. FML. I'm out of action for about six weeks. I'm also booked in for the Gold Coast Marathon six weeks after that, which I originally thought was a dumb idea to go ahead with, but toying with it now. My legs are fine, well,; the stitches in the knee are an issue, b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I find a new social group when all my current friends are disliked? POST: Hi, I'm a 17 year old male from England that is studying at a Sixth form, I've been at my current school for the past six years and developed two main groups of friends which is making people dislike me. The first group I starting talking to some of them when I first joined and over the years due to their behaviour and actions people have disliked/hated, but I have stayed friends with them for years. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [33M] tell her [28F] that my feelings are stronger towards her? POST: We live 100 miles away from each other, distance has been an issue and although I have been seeing her for about six months on and off, lately it's been off. Because the last time we saw each other I, for some bizarre reason, was down in the dumps that day and acted like a muppet. I was behaving like a miserable teenager and didn't treat her like a gentleman should. She came all the way to visit me and I p",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: How Much Should I Tell My Girlfriend? POST: me: 28 --- gf: 22 length of relationship: 1 year G'day Ladies, I work in a lot of different bars and clubs as a musician and I get a fair amount of attention from girls from time to time. Last night I had 2 beautiful girls on separate occasions walk up to me in between our sets and without saying a word, looking me in the eye, reaching for my hand and slipping me their phone number on a piece of paper. Now, I'm in a great relationship a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[23M] with my Ex [24F] 4.5 years relationship, She has feelings for someone I know. POST: Hi all, She / we broke up 3 months ago after 4 and half years, we had issues around misunderstandings, in the bedroom, jealousy (she cheated on me and I talked to one of my ex's). For the past 3 months we had a rocky road, me being jealous of her, and demanding explanations about her behaviour, I became obsessive, till she told me that I was pushing her away. I decided to give her space til",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girl wants to bang, I wouldn't mind... BUT! she's my buddy's sister. (20/M) POST: So I see this chick (19 yrs) fairly often recently at the bar. Known her for a while is she is a (formerly) close friend's (22 yrs) sister. He's not particularly close to her (he's been away from home for about 5 years); however I see him on campus often as we grew up together and are in the same program (I'm in first year, he's in third). Her and I almost left together tonight but I kind of avoided it ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31M] with my girlfriend[36F]of 2.5 years, been having little sex lately, she feels like a bad partner for me masturbating. How to convince her it is ok? POST: My girlfriend is paralyzed and has been in a wheelchair for 15 years. This causes a lot of pain. She and I have had a lot of extra stress in our lives lately, and she has a fairly high stress job. We are also training a 3 month old puppy to be her new service dog, and he has a lot of energy. The stress is causing her pain ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Too young to get married, but seeking something more. POST: My boyfriend (23M) and I (20F) have been dating for nearly two years. I love him, he's the one, no doubt about it. We're both full time students living at home and don't have all that much money. Our families are in some ways strict, as we're not allowed to sleep over at each other's place and I have a curfew. Due to our busy schedules we see each other 1-2 times a week for a few hours. We've both talked about marria",positive " r/relationships TITLE: She [17/f] is extremely hostile towards me[17/m] POST: So me and this girl dated a bit, lets name her Jess, but decided to broke it off. Jess knows my share of the story with my ex, lets call her Emma. (I have been treated like shit). At a point when we dated Jess talked with Emma. I have no idea what they talked about. Then me and Emma became ""friends"" again. Well, ever since that, Jess has been extreme hostile, arguing all the god damn time about anything. Emma said that she want",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] am starting to have doubts about my relationship with my girlfriend [22F] of 6 years short-description POST: Hey r/relationships, my issue is nowhere near as complicated as other things I've read on this sub, but I'm hoping someone may he able to help me come to a decision. I've been living with my girlfriend for the past 3 months and it hasn't been too bad by any means. My problem is that she was my very first girlfriend, and we got together when I was 16. I feel as thou",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most fucked up situation someone you know has gotten their selves into? I'll Start. POST: Background: I used to volunteer for a sober party called Res (Resurrection) back in my ""home town"". It was held by a hardcore DJ and it was mostly younger kids who went to listen to Gabber, Hardcore, Techno etc. Anyways, they were thrown in little community halls and we had pretty strict rules about in's and out's as we were trying our best to keep it as sober free and drug free as possi",negative " r/travel TITLE: Need advice and mom's approval to go to Paris POST: Since I was 12 years old I have been dreaming day after day to go to Paris. My entire room is decorated with all things Paris and it is a constant reminder of how badly I want to go. I have been saving for a long time and me [17F] and my boyfriend [17M] are trying to work out a plan to go next summer. My mom is apprehensive of the safety aspect of it all but she knows that I've been wanting to go for a long time. She would like me to go wi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my girlfriend [30 F] 2 years and on the fence about proposing POST: I am on the fence about proposing to my GF. She is putting a bit of pressure on me in terms of whether I'll do it and when I'll do it. On paper, she is pretty close to my ideal companion. Pluses: She is the most gorgeous girl I know, smart, funny, great to hang out with, most of my family pretty much encourage me to marry her. When I met her, she was unemployed with no ambition, now, she graduated wit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] with my [21 F] friend/ex hook-up, feel like she's been avoiding me. Should I ask her about it? POST: I'll keep this as short as possible. Me and a girl I met started an FWB relationship during the summer when we were both at school. She still visits very occasionally, and we usually talk and have hooked up while she visited. This time, however, she confessed that she had been getting feelings for me and we had to dial back the physical side, which I was perfectly okay with s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [32 M] with my GF [33 F] 5 years, her health and nutrition views are killing our relationship. POST: My girlfriend and her family are very much into health and nutrition. They have always leaned to alternitive medicine and organic food. I even acquiesced when she didn't want to get my son vaccinations. Last year she dragged me to a health seminar with her sister, mother and brother-in-law. Which ended up being a cult. They were talking about how sickness was caused from sin, or f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [26F] What do you talk about on a date, casual and not? POST: I have a lot of male friends (21 to 30) and occasionally they'll suggest we grab lunch some time one-on-one. Even with girls, the thought of eating immediately makes me anxious. It reminds me of a date, which reminds me of an interview, where the flow of talking has to be consistent and whatever. I'm pretty extroverted. I try to keep things interesting. I am way better in groups however, because I'm good at feeding off th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What's wrong with me? [19F] POST: I am a cheater. Not in the physical sense - I don't actually cheat on my partners. But I want to. And it's been like this for as long as I've had romantic feelings for people. It's like, no matter how wonderful my partner is, when I'm in a position where I'm mutually attracted to someone else, my relationship mentally fades away. This new person is all that matters to me, even if I only just met them. When I was 15 or 16, I had two simultaneous, em",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend's roommate(30M) hasn't opened gifts yet POST: I've literally never had this happen to me before. On Christmas my boyfriend and I met at his house and exchanged gifts. We had presents for his roommate so we gave them to him as he was in the same room. He didn't act all that grateful, just set them aside. At the time I didn't really know what to think so I just assumed he was tired or was the type who doesn't like to open presents in front of people (I've known similar peop",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Today, I found out a woman I know has faked a pregnancy, uses doll as baby, and last night jumped off a boat claiming her new born baby fell in. She was arrested today for wasting police time. What is the lowest you have seen people stoop to for attention? POST: So, this woman has always been known to be a compulsive liar but never this extreme. A few months ago she started telling people she was pregnant, (she faked this because she just wanted the money/gifts you get when having a chil",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M43] don't know what to do about this relationship with her [F36]. POST: She's a 36-year-old mother of two. I'm a 43-year-old guy with no children. We've known each other for years and have been great friends with no hint of any attraction. Last year, she split up with her husband after she realised he was an abusive ass. Nasty to their kids... I helped her through that. Was her ""rock"" as best as I could be and she was really grateful. She's now divorced and definitely happy abo",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Best way to let current roommate know I have no plans to room with him in the future? POST: So I have this roommate, we'll call him Mike. Mike and I have known eachother since freshman year when he met his current girlfriend, Shawna. We didn't hang out much then but lived on the same floor. Last year (sophomore) he and shawna would come over frequently and hangout. Both myself and my roommate at the time become closer with him and shawna. This past year I lived in a triple room with",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/20] am having troubles comforting my [F/20] under family stress POST: Okay so here's the deal... So my girlfriend still lives with her folks, along with her younger sisters who are 14 and 17. We've been together for over a year, and for the last month or so, my girlfriend has been talking about how much her family bothers her, how they're constantly making her feel like shit, (I.E, her parents still don't let her be alone with me, yelling at her for no reason, her sisters are ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/m] worried that my boyfriend (21/m) is cheating on me POST: The background: * Never dated much/ played the field in college * Recently moved to a big city * Met a great guy who is still a senior in college * Been dating for 3 months (longest relationship I've had) * Feel like I'm not the one in control (very different from previous relationships) Now he's home for the holidays, and I'm left with my own worst enemy: my mind. I have no reason to suspect him of cheating ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] am not sure how to navigate my fiancé [21M]'s health and weight stuff. POST: My fiancé has had psychological issues regarding his weight for most of his life. He was apparently overweight as a kid, with a family history of eating disorders, was working out and normal entering college, very quickly devolved into borderline anorexia, and has since gained 30 lbs in 3 years. He finally seems to be content with his life and his body--yesterday, we went to a water park and he kept ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my best friend [29/F] started dating a guy she barely knows [24/M] and I am feeling hurt POST: my best friend who, I have feelings for just met this guy 3 weeks ago and decided was to be his girlfriend a couple of days ago. Friend was on vacation for awhile and I told her my feelings during that. She said we would discuss this when she got back and I remained hopeful. But she choose him because had this strong instant connection and we did not even have a chance to discuss it. Hell w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most embarrassing thing you've overheard a complete stranger say about you? POST: I was at a Vampire Weekend/Beach House concert by myself (I'm sorta forever alone), and I was in the very front row of an intensely packed crowd, shoulder to shoulder, front to back. The crowd was relatively restless, which caused me to continually be shoved against the railing and shoved into the people on either side of me. Directly to my left was a group of four or so girls, slightly younger t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How likely/ difficult is it to stay in a relationship after both going separate ways after college? POST: After graduation, I'm [17F] leaving for college that is about 5 hours away. My boyfriend [18M] is staying here to get some classes done at a community college. Whenever the topic of anything slightly college related comes up he just gets upset and shuts me out because he's afraid of losing me. We've been together for about a year and I've never felt this connection with anyone e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: People in happy, long-term relationships: how do you cope with the possibility of breaking up? POST: My boyfriend and I (20 M, 20 F) have been together for two years, being each other's firsts of everything and I honestly have never been happier. I feel so complete and at peace when we're together AND apart, that I'd imagine if we ever break up, I'd be devastated. I know everything is going well at the moment, and that we both try our best to resolve our differences, but at our age t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My bf [22/M] broke up with me [20/F] after 8 months. Do I move on or hold on? POST: My boyfriend and I started dating at the beginning of the year. We got extremely close quickly and soon were spending most of our time with each other. Despite having a very different dating history - he had lots of short relationships, I had one which ended badly- we had a great relationship -we were always honest, had great communication and solved arguments easily. However he is prone to depressi",positive " r/jobs TITLE: General Construction vs Residential POST: I am 25 years old with a Civil Engineering degree and have my LEED AP BD+C and my EIT. I have been working in the general contracting business for ~ 2.5 years and have primarily worked on large commercial projects such as shopping centers, offices, etc. Lately I have been looking to make a career move to something I think I'd like better. I like the construction side of things but don't enjoy the large money/large company aspect of it all. I have don",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I think my coworker is out to get me.(FIRED) POST: I have worked at a non profit organization for over the last year. Most of my coworkers have either worked here their entire lives or have at least 10 or 15 years with the company. During the last year I have been given more responsibility and projects to complete with a multitude of different people. IMO, you could call me the jack of all trades at my company, however, as I have gained more experience I have felt more of a watching p",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Credit Score dropped 31 Points. Can't Explain Why. POST: Didn't see anything about this in the FAQ, I use credit karma (I'm aware it's more an estimate and not as good as the yearly requested report) for general monitoring of my credit score. As of today, it dropped 31 points, and the only activity is ""The following inquiries have been added and removed since your last score update on Jul 28, 2014: Lender: Industry: Inquiry Date: Status: 1. DISCOVER Finance May 2, 2013 ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[22M] with my gf[28F] 4yrs, she gets attention and I dont, I feel like I'm inferior and our relationship is doomed. POST: So she leaves her fb logged on and shes out drinking while I'm sick at home. so I keep getting pop ups of this guy sending her gifs. I know that he kissed her one night a few months ago, but nothing in the messages is heading that way, its all just friendly stuff. And I dont think shes really keen (she has told me so and is sending me messages of love at the sam",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Table foods for toddler difficulty POST: My son will be 16 months old soon. He's been eating purées since 6 months. We tried introducing table food at 8 months & consistently failed. His pediatrician is not concerned because ""some kids just don't like texture & he's getting all his fruits, veggies and meats"" and he seems ""lazy."" But it's recommended that kids eat table foods by 12 months and I started freaking out around then. He sees an occupational therapist weekly because of my concer",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: In an extremely happy relationship but I never wanted to get into a relationship in the first place. We've been together 7 months, happiest I have ever been but I feel smothered. I'm 18F, hes 22M. POST: Hes a redditor so I made a throwaway. I'm a freshman Comp Sci major and hes a senior in Civil Engineering at the same university. We met online and have been dating since my senior year. We can talk for hours and never be bored and have nearly identical interests with just enoug",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Confused about Roth IRA contributions. I want to be taxed accurately. POST: I have a Roth IRA that I opened with a previous employer. The company deducted my contribution before taxes and matched it, dumping the total into the account for me. Now I'm with a different employer that does a 401k that way but doesn't seem to offer the option of deducting a portion of my pre-tax pay to my now-personal IRA. I am maxed on the new company's match for the 401k, but would like to continue ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [16F] dad [46M] brought my brother [13M] a quad bike to upset my mum [35F] POST: My dad and mum split up shortly after my brother was born. Since then we have spent every second weekend and every other week on holidays at my dads. My parents really don't get along and used to have to meet in public spaces to swap us over to avoid getting into fights. My mum grew up in a rural part of australia, her brother died when he was fourteen riding a quad bike. He was riding with his fri",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Need legal advice on minimal working hours (MI). POST: Some backstory: I turned in my resignation last Thursday at Domino's. My manager called me up as I was getting out of my second job and asked me not to quit. I turned him down, but he told me to come in this week for the remainder of the posted schedule. I come in today (Thursday) expecting to see him, and the assistant manager is there instead. Apparently the manager himself quit, and had returned to his home state. The as",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] discovered a disgusting secret about my boyfriend [18 M] of a year. I want to throw up. POST: So my boyfriend is currently recovering from a severe porn addiction that damaged our relationship. He actually self-diagnosed the addiction, even before we started dating. When he told me I was all, ""What? Porn addiction can't be a thing, masturbating is awesome!"". So he had read a bunch of articles and discovered for himself that what he was doing wasn't healthy. I didn't force him",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my ex-GF [25 F] 6 months, preventing this in the future POST: I got into my first serious relationship along with my first sexual experience with this girl, who I had liked for a long time. Things were great, well, better than great, for 5 months. There were some oddities (e.g. one day I walked in unannounced to find another guy in her bed, under the covers...but we talked about this and settled it) and some frustrations (most notably, I couldn't get over the fact that",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Seeking Legal Advice on Speeding Tickets and Being Probation in Illinois POST: Hey reddit. So basically I am from Illinois and I""m going to pharmacy school in a city near Chicago. I received a speeding ticket in November for going 20mph-30mph above the speed limit, which was 30. In my defense, every street around this street had a 50mph speed limit. It was my first speeding ticket so I was able to take traffic school online and be put on probation. Last night, I received another speeding",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 26M with my girlfriend 35F of 1 month can't breakup and i'm confused POST: I met a girl that is 9 years older than me. We have great chemistry and hanging out with her is a lot of fun. I feel comfortable with her hanging out. But there are also some very big differences between us. She has been in a couple of very long relationships, is unemployed and is out with girlfriends a couple times a week partying or having drinks. She feels that is just a fase and has to do with her bein",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Have I invested too much into this? POST: 26 male / 22 female We met through mutual friends and have been seeing each other for about two months. The title of the post pretty much says it all with what I need help rationalizing. We really hit it off and have lots of things in common. We went out two or three times a week on what I would constitute actual dates for about three weeks, but things have changed lately. We haven't gone out on the weekend (Friday/Saturday) for about fi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by driving into the exit of the parking lot at my polling place. POST: It was at an elementary school that I'd driven past but never actually been to, and the entrance was on a side that I'd never really seen. I saw a little lawn sign that said, ""Polling Place"", and I followed the arrow by turning right into the parking lot. The sidewalk wasn't ramped at that spot, but I thought that just meant it was a shitty sidewalk. The only arrow I could see on the pavement was one pointing out towa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 M] with my mother [60 F] , struggling to keep motivated for school with my mother's micromanagement. POST: So, I'm currently a sophomore and last year my grades weren't great (two d's and a few c's). I really wasn't into school at all and I just slacked it off like an idiot. So, after that, my parents took away my phone, and I'm only able to use my labtop for programming or school (right in front of my mom's chair where she can watch TV and my screen at the same time). Anyways",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] Am Realizing I Cannot Have Friends POST: In February, I quit my job and decided to go back to college. Between then and August, I mostly stopped hanging out with my friends but I was happy. There's a certain satisfaction in not thinking about other people and finally just being your genuine self. The thing about this is that I suffer through depression, caused by negative thoughts about the people I know (like my mom is getting old, why would my friends like me, etc.) If I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I need advice POST: I (f/19) met my SO (m/27) back in January. When we first met I told him i didn't want anything other than sex and i didn't want a one night stand either, after a week of just pure sex he decided he wanted more and i gave in but still stated i wanted NOTHING serious. Well in the beginning of March my lease was up and all the time we spent together it just made more sense to pay one set of bills than 2. Well now I fell in love with him. I've never felt like this bef",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My coworkers [21M] girlfriend [20F] called me [21F] to establish boundaries. POST: Hey r/relationships! So I'm really good friends with a male coworker and just as friends do we hang out outside of work. Just a little background, this coworker and I have never dated. Recently he's been dating this new girl and for some reason she feels I'm a threat. Yesterday I get a voicemail from my coworker and his girlfriend. It was pretty harmless as all of us coworkers had been texting him ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: At a crossroads here, Reddit. What should I do? POST: I graduated from college last May, 2011, and started working for a company that I'm still at (11 months later) less than 20 days after graduating. I was fortunate to say the least. The company is great, above average benefits, and I could definitely see myself being here for more years if I got into a position I truly enjoyed. Right now I'm at this entry level position, but my co-workers that have the same title as me, have been doing",positive " r/loseit TITLE: I can feel myself slipping back into my old way-- help? POST: Last year, I lost 35 pounds (went from 160 to 125 as a 5'3"" woman) and felt and looked better than I have in my life. In August, I started grad school, and I can feel myself slipping. There is always free food at school-- cookies, brownies, bagels, pizza, burritos...-- and when I get home in the evenings I'm so tired and burned out at the end of the day that I wind up eating and eating and eating. I work out for about an hour a d",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Older Littermates Recognizing One Another? POST: Hey there, my girlfriend and I recently adopted an older cat, about 7 years of age. The cat that we chose was brought there by a couple whose living situation changed that wouldn't allow pets. The thing is they had two cats who were sisters. From time to time I get on the shelter's website to see what all they have available for fun and I see after 3-4 months after adopting, the sister cat has yet to be adopted (being older she is probably bein",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24M] Can't determine if the girl I've been dating [26F] is a lost cause. POST: I've been seeing this girl about once a week for 5 weeks now. We hang out alone and sometimes with her room mates. After the second time we hung out, she told me that she liked me, as more than a friend. Fast forward to when she confides in me that she's been a lesbian since high school (seeing only women for 10 years and breaking off an engagement 2 years ago) and even more recently that she's unsure ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I haven't spoken to my mom for 9 years and need advice regarding if I should reach out again. POST: I stopped talking to my mom 9 years ago due to her physical/emotional abuse that was often fueled by drugs ( mostly alcohol and cocaine). I don't necessarily blame her for this since she had an extremely rough childhood compounded with several mental disorders (Dissociative identity disorder & PTSD). As a defensive mechanism, when I was only 15 years old I vowed to never speak ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my friend [48 F] 4 years, How to tell her I'm not her therapist? POST: I have a friend of mine who's a little bit older older than I am. She has been going through some bad relationship problems over the past year and a half. Although throughout everything, I have always supported her and listened to her as she needed me (usually entails a once a week drinking and listening fest). About a month ago, I moved to another city and her relationship issues have gotten worse",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [50sF] with my BF[50s M] 11 months, we're in a fight because I'm always the one who initiates dates POST: So, we are not exclusive and he refuses to commit completely because of other things in his life that are not related. But we love each other so that's not a big deal. We talk 5 or 6 times a day and see each other 1 or 2 times a week. He used to text first thing in the morning and last thing at night, but he stopped a few months ago. If I text him he answers right away, but he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[21F] girlfriend of 3 months broke up with me [21 M] a month ago, cant move on. POST: It has now been a month since I broke up with my ex and I really can't stop thinking about her. The relationship was long distance and only lasted for 3 months but we had been friends for 6 years, altho we were not talking for a while before we got together again. Even though it only lasted for 3 months, I have more trouble getting over this relationship than I have ever had in the past, mainly ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What subreddit did you subscribe to that totally changed your view on a subject? POST: I unsubscribed from /r/atheism and subscribed to /r/islam and /r/Christianity even though I am neither Muslim nor Christian. What I found was a very supportive community of believers, who were leaning on each other to figure out how to lives their lives according to their understanding of their faiths. It is actually kind of nice to read their posts, very human. It was very eye opening. The saddest p",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Friend changes dinner plans without telling reason. POST: I recieved a text from one of the two friends I would to make dinner together with, whom which we had planned and prepared everything for a week, today texting only: ""Could we have the dinner later this week?"". Low on cash I awaited the call as I wanted to know why. Then I said couldn't you have included the reason to why you want to move it in the text? I mean we have planned this for a week. She answered that it shouldn't ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My kitchen exploded! Need help! POST: Hey there redditors... Last night around 10 PM I tried to make some dulce de leche by boiling a can of evaporated milk... (4-5 hours of boiling). Stupid me forgets the thing on the electric stove and went to watch a movie. I eventually passed out around 2 AM. Next thing I know, there was a big boom in the kitchen and loads of smoke... I rush into the kitchen to turn off the stove and evaluate the damage. There is a big circular hole (maybe 5 inches",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: Question: How do I feel PSYCHED about the work required for long term goals? POST: How does one feel psyched about long term goals? I am motivated about having certain goals REALIZED in my life - but how does one get motivated about DOING THE ACTUAL WORK that these long term goals require? Example - you want to be extremely fit, but how do you translate the keenness for the outcome into day-to-day desire to exercise? Example - you want to have a successful business, but how do you ",negative " r/self TITLE: I'm having a hard time deciding if I should quit my job... POST: I work as a waiter in a Steak House kind of Restaurant. My Co-Workers are nice, but I don't feel like I fit in with a 'Team'. Not only this, but lately for whatever reason customers tell my managers that I am rude. I am never given specific ways I am, and I don't think I am. I always speak with manners to everyone. I'm just really confused as to what to do... I don't feel like I fit in, I am slowly becoming depressed going to ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (19/M) was going to ask out guy (20/M) only to find out his ex (20/M) is moving in POST: I'm a student at college and I was going to confess all my sappy gooey feelings to a guy (Let's call him Mike) and ask him out. We hang out as much as we can on weekends. I've known Mike for a few months now and like I said, gooey feely blah - I was going to ask him out. So as we were driving to a restaurant for dinner, he tells me about his new roommate(let's say Joey). Joey and Mike go ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex girlfriend [22 F] adds me on facebook out of the blue I [23 M] want to know what she wants POST: My ex added me on facebook recently without any explanation. I thought she might want to say something to me and so I told her that I was sorry for what had happened and that she can tell me anything she wants, She unadded me and tell me that she was just curious to see what I was doing, 2 years since we last talked. I feel that I want an explanation and talk it through because I feel ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is (me 32M) rescheduling a first date (with 28F) considered bad or rude? POST: I (32M) set up a date with a new girl (28F with mutual friends) for tomorrow, but realized I double booked. So I asked to reschedule and now I hear she's not interested in going out with me anymore. Is rescheduling a first date considered bad, rude, or a deal-breaker? Please help me understand this one. People change their minds, reschedule, and cancel on me ALL THE TIME. I don't think it's a big deal as ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/f] I worry that my SO [20/m] of three years never outwardly shows his love for me, what do I do? POST: I've been dating my boyfriend since highschool and we've worked seemingly perfectly (no fights, shave views, things in common, etc). My problem is that I can't seem to shake the feeling that he doesn't really love me anymore, let alone like me. Lately, it's gotten worse because I've started to notice how unbalanced out relationship is as I praise him all the time, initiat",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [00 M/F] with my ___ [00 M/F] duration, short-description POST: My BF [20M] and I [22F] have been together 7 months. Previous to our relationship, we were best friends. When we first met in Summer 12' he was dating his now ex [21F]. His ex cheated on him several months later and he broke up with her. Flash forward to this past summer when we realized we were perfect for one another and fell in love. Here's the thing: I cannot stop thinking about her or their past. I'm jealous of ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [20 F] wants to be friends with me [22 M] after 1.5 years of not talking but my GF [22 F] hates her. POST: Myex-girlfriend, call her Alex, and I used to be great friends before and after we broke up. We used to see each other often and once in a while fool around. When she got into her relationship with her boyfriend [20 M], she stopped contacting me. She told me that her boyfriend didn't want her talking to me and I respected that since I didn't want to cause any dramas in h",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: How to help a Mother-in-Law... for selfish reasons POST: My mother-in-law inherited ~$2MM in paintings 25 years ago. With the incremental proceeds from sale of most of those paintings, a deceased husbands pension, and now social security, she raised 5 kids on her own and now lives what I would call an expensive, but not extravagant lifestyle on her own ($100-150k per year). The paintings are running out, there are complex issues and claims against the estate that holds the painti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I feel like my family is taking over my life and relying on me and my husband too much. POST: Okay, so.. I moved out a few years ago and got married, had a baby and all that stuff. I am a stay-at-home mom and my husband works 64+ hours a week and usually only gets 1 or 2 days off a week, so we're very limited in the free time we have. Our baby also has special medical needs, so we're busy seeing doctors and specialists quite often.. so what little ""free time"" we have still isn't actu",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by calling making fun of my friends Dad POST: Obligatory ""this didn't happen today"", but actually a few months ago. This started probably in October of last year, we travelled from where we live to visit my friends parents, My friend had lived with me at one point so our families are pretty close. His Dad has a really sweet man cave, complete with pool table, air hockey, darts, etc. We had been drinking, and eventually his dad told us to rack the table, he was going to go for a smoke, h",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Is there anything I can do about my parents fighting multiple times a week? [17/f] POST: Hi! Not sure if this is the right place, but I thought it'd be my best bet. Sorry if this is riddled with errors, I'm exhausted right now. My parents argue with each other multiple times a week over basically the same set of things. My mom (50 years old) has a job and supports our whole family, while my dad is unemployed and probably not getting a job anywhere else anytime soon (he's almos",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26 M] am still angry over 6 month abusive relationship that ended almost 2 years ago. POST: I still have angry thoughts about an abusive girl I dated back in 2014 and there is not a single day where I don't think about her. I hate it. It is like she has become a part of my conscience and is on my shoulder telling me her negative opinion about anything I come across. I have no positive feelings left for her, and I have even had another much more loving relationship with another w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is Religion More Important Than Safety? POST: I work as a lab tech at a small college that has university transfer programs to a few larger universities, with some trades and 2 year diploma programs. Today my boss got an e-mail from our program chair about a student who did not want to wear pants to her labs because of her religion. With our college being smaller I guess this has never happened before, but the school makes a lot of effort to respect other cultures and religions (prayer r",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm a [22/M] and my coworker [22/F] have been attracted to each other for some time. We've come to a fork in the road where she either picks me or the other guy. Advice? Details in the description. POST: So my friend and I have been chatting back and forth for over a year now. She has expressed interest before but since she was seeing someone at the time, we simply maintained a good friendship and didn't pursue anything further. About two months ago, she broke up with her ex.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 25M I keep being attracted to women that look like my exes POST: After talking to my one of my friends today, I pointed out a girl I had a big crush on. I haven't been in a super serious relationship in a while, and my last one almost ended in an engagement. My friends all sort of looked at me and one of them was finally like ""listen, you keep liking these girls, and we hate to say it, but they all look exactly like X."" It was pretty scary from two perspectives. First, I've be",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my BF [21M] of six months, broke up with me via text message because of miscommunication of our LDR POST: Hello r/relationships, I have been dating my boyfriend for six months and to be clear I love(d) him very much. I just graduated college this month and he will be continuing on his senior year this coming fall at the same institution. We discussed how our relationship would continue after my graduation and we came to the following conclusions: 1) We will still t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Gf [22F] told me [20M] that she needed space and time to think about things, im extremely depressed. POST: Well basically we got in an argument yesterday over something small and stupid, I brought up something I thought was suspicious at the time, and just wouldn't let it go, which ln return made her think I still don't trust her 3 years into this relationship. I was on my way out the door and she said ""well I guess I'll get my things"" I just kept walking and said kinda cold he",negative " r/travel TITLE: Moving FROM (not to) the Caribbean at 18 years old. I need a lot of advise. POST: So, I did a google search and there are **TONS** of articles about moving to this tropical paradise, but I didn't find **ANY** on moving out! I am an 18 year old from the island of Saint Lucia. I have lived here all my life and, quite frankly, I *fricken* love it here! It's amazing to be able to walk to a beach from my house anytime I want. It's awesome to be able to grab some fruits off of the trees in my b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my coworker [24F] both have significant others but have been spending time together POST: my coworker and I have been spending a lot of time lately and talk all day every day. We agree that we compliment each other really well, and have been doing a lot of fun things. I'm extremely interested in said person, Sarah, and have lost all interest in my current girlfriend of 3 months Beth. Sarah and I have only been friends for a short time, but we've been going out and dri",positive " r/relationships TITLE: We(23/f)(25/m) were planning to move to California, until he got a big promotion at work... POST: My boyfriend and I have been friends for years. But we started sleeping together early last year fell in love and started officially dating. We have a great relationship. He is an amazing guy. I admit I have alot of problems..I have anxiety and depression and frequent migraines.He always takes care of me when I am feeling down or have a horrible migraine. Right now I don't have a car so ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Ex-girlfriend [F24] and I [M23] broke up 2 years ago and she has been living at my parent's house since POST: Hi, this is my first post here. Throwaway just in case. I [M23] broke up with my girlfriend [F24] 2 years ago. Three months before we broke up she starting living at my parent's house due to financial strains. I had been moved out of my house for 4 years at that point and my parents were fine with it (she took my old room). Fast forward 2 years later to today and she is s",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Break ups hurt. POST: I was dating this girl for a year and a half. I was planning on switching schools (I'm in my third year of high school) and going to a boarding school, where we wouldn't have been able to see each other, and would most likely have had to break up. I told her back in May, and she became extremely sad and practically begged me to stay. So I told her I would try to figure something out, and I ended up staying. We continued dating for a while, but there was a month ov",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I handle my INCREDIBLY passive-aggressive roommate? POST: She is the friend of my friend (they both moved in together with me two months ago) and she is incredibly sensitive. She is also a total know-it-all and has to be right about every topic, all of the time. She regularly corrects my grammar and tells me that I'm wrong about one thing or another. She also refuses to speak about what is really bothering her and instead chooses to hide behind self-diagnosed excuses (""I have inso",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Please help Reddit! Looking for Hangover Cure. POST: I am pretty sure I didn't dream this. I saw a thread whilst drunk about a hangover cure in pink packaging. I believe it was from Germany? The author and everyone else who had used it concurred it worked very well. I cannot remember the name of it for the life of me! Search bar has shown no results thus far :( Also I believe I recall a name along the lines of Kayley Kite? The original post included an ""all the things"" meme of buying a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (22m) approach a girl (24f) a second time without coming across as a stalker? POST: If this is the wrong sub I'm sorry and please tell me where to post elsewhere. Tonight I(22m) met a woman(24f), named Molly. She was in a sticky situation in one of the bar districts in my city. Her friends were leaving with some other guys and she needed to get home to sleep so she could get to work in the morning. After calming her down, I told her I could drive her home. She lives about ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: [How] Are new MJ legalisation laws 'grandfathering' previously convicted poor slobs born 10-20 years off the mark? POST: Personally, I'm packing to move to Colorado as we speak. And I don't even USE marijuana. But while the issue remains complicated for now (federal law utterly conflicting with states', awaiting removal as a top-tier evil drug on the books, etc, etc), these are *huge* steps in the right direction, IMHO. Still, I wonder - and haven't read/seen - where the discussion is",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Question about Fitbit and Exercise Calories POST: 25M 6'5"" SW:375 CW:348 GW:220-240 BF%29 Hi /r/loseit, This is my first time posting and I'm having a hard time figuring out exercise calories. I have a pretty typical desk job at a power company, but I do get to go out in the field a bit every week. I have recently decided to get serious about losing weight and met with a nutritionist and set a good meal plan. On top of this i also wanted to start running. I got a Fitbit Charge HR to help ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Want a healthy vacation POST: My MIL is awesomely taking my husband and me to the gulf coast this weekend. Awesome! Sort of... I am very grateful for her taking us, make no mistake. However, I just started my mental and physical turn-around from a decade of overeating. My MIL is the kind of person always makes excuses for overeating. ""I've had a rough day"" ""It's the weekend"" and yes...""We are on vacation."" She also is apt to make comments when someone eats healthy around her that make their",positive " r/running TITLE: Can only afford 1 pair of shoes. Should I get running shoes or some kind of average-good-at-everything? POST: As the title states I'm looking into buying new shoes. I can only afford 1 pair so buying running, gym and free time shoes isn't an option as I'd like to buy good shoes. My main use is to walk to work, run on treadmill and run in urban enviroments (some parks, mostly asphalt or gravel). I'm almost 19 years old, ~70kg and 178cm if that matters and I have over-pronation (correct te",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By poking a kid. POST: As most TIFU stories, this happened last May. School was close to ending, and I hadn't gotten into trouble all of junior high. So me and my friend were in study hall. He sits two seats over, and we were talking (Our study hall was a joke) and while he was talking he was messing with the string on his hoodie. I guess it accidentally hit this douche sitting nearby. So naturally he told him ""You do that again and I will kick your ass"". Fast forward to the end of Study",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Parents considering voluntarily foreclosing.... POST: Last time I talked to my parents my mother voiced to me that she's concerned for their financial standing. She sounded concerned about her mortgage. Despite excellent credit and decent income, they are nervous about their property value and mortgage. They're upside down in their mortgage, owing between $20-40k more than the home is worth. They took out their mortgage in 2006, right before the mortgage crisis. They have less th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My EX-BF (19M) is acting very weird with me (19F): acting very flirty and outrageous on social media. Is he tying to get back at me? POST: My BF (19M) and I (19F) broke up after a year and a half of being together. While we were dating, he was this super mature, awesomely funny, adorable, smart guy. We were in love, and everything was amazing etc.. Our breakup was really good, if thats even a thing. We hadn't seen each other in a while, and we'd been drifting apart, we started to ch",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M/F] with my live-in boyfriend [25 M/F] of 4.5 years--how do I explain why I need time alone? POST: We've been living together since I was 18. I love him and enjoy his company, but I've been really attached to my alone time since I was a young child. I'm able to focus more and get more done when I have long stretches of time to myself. In addition, neither of us have friends that we spend time with or any kind of activities we do separately outside of school. I feel like we're",positive " r/self TITLE: Tough Situation. POST: Hey, I'm in a bit of a hard situation here and I need advice. I was searching through my brothers room who is 17 a while ago and I was looking for a CD. I was trying to find it when a large collection of CD's from one band fell on my lap. I picked it up and I've seen this box before, I picked it up and the top of it was off. About to put it back on I looked inside and found a 'Pax Ploom'. I was curious to what this is, so I looked inside the box and found a instruction ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] fucked up, all trust has gone, what do i do with her? [20F] POST: I've known my girlfriend for about 5 years. I saw my girlfriends post of this before and have now decided to post a question. My girlfriend has hypoplasia, her breasts didn't develop and it's been a constant issue for her due to her so called ""friends"" bringing it up, making her feel like crap about it (She has since cut them out of her life.) She's completely fine with me looking at pornography, but asked m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21M) girlfriend (20F) of 2.5 years keeps having bad dreams and cries over them a lot. POST: My girlfriend always has nightmares but usually they're just a little scary and she forgets about it within an hour of waking up. Lately, she's been having dreams about me cheating on her. She's always had trust issues with me and she has been cheated on **by another guy** before our relationship. I have never cheated. So lately she's been having these dreams and she gets really sad and s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: This girl I just met [19F] and I [19F] have great chemistry but she's overwhelmingly clingy.. Should I still pursue her? POST: Last month, I met this girl on the Plenty Of Fish dating website. We have a lot in common and we clicked instantly, and I sense some real potential here. We video chat every night. She constantly makes me laugh. She's caring, such a sweetheart, and everything would be perfect if only she weren't so clingy. We haven't met in person yet due to her living a lit",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just chased off two would-be thieves after they entered my house and grabbed some belongings. They dropped everything and ran when I caught them. What are some of your 'it could have been worse' moments? POST: I want to start off by admitting that I made it far too easy for them. My house has an 'inner' front door leading to an area enclosed by security screen which has another 'outer' security screen door. I was awake at my computer in my office and left the inner door open going out ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (29F) husband (28M) has a bad habit of always being ""disrespected"" by someone. What can I do? How can I help him out of this? POST: I've been married around six years now to a great guy, but he has this one minor character flaw that's driving me crazy as of late and I'm not sure what to do with him. He had some bad luck about two years ago and got stabbed in the back at his old job and it kind of became a big set back in his career. It wasn't his fault at all, but ever since the",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/M] My GF (21/F) is a Complaint Box. Fights all the time. What's a good way to deal with it? POST: She picks out very tiny problems and it becomes huge. A fight ensues. And usually we fight till 3 in the morning. **When our relation started and we fought, I used to let her win. I took all the blame and solve it, just so that the fight would end.** I think this was my biggest mistake. Now whenever there's a fight, even if I'm right, **she expects me to ""solve"" it and take th",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24/f] Been dating and live with my boyfriend (27/m) of 3.5 years, but never have been sexually attracted to him. Do I stay or go? POST: I've been together with my boyfriend for 3.5 years, been living with him for about a year. I do love him and we work great as a couple. We get along famously, want the same things out of life (kids, marriage, etc), rarely fight, and surprisingly haven't gotten sick of each other yet. The only problem is that I do not find him sexually attracti",positive " r/dogs TITLE: Puppy only pees when left alone in room POST: My boyfriend and I rescued a 5 month old puppy, Leela, this past Wednesday. At the AC&C, the adoption coordinator told us that she was already pad trained. The first day we took her home, she had no problem peeing at will on the pads whenever she needed to go. We praised her and gave her treats every time she did it. However, on Thursday we left her alone in her crate for a few minutes and she pooped and peed in her crate. Since then, she's been ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/M] I'm really worried my friend (21/M) is being emotionally manipulated by his boyfriend (32/M) and I don't know how to help. POST: So this evening I'm going to be having a discussion with this guy; let's call him Pat, (who is my flatmate/roommate) about his desire to move out and move in with his boyfriend, let's call him Roy. This has stemmed out of a desire to save money in an expensive city as well as spend more time with his boyfriend (which I totally understand). I'v",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My mom won't let me go over my friend's house. Explanation of situation inside. Advice needed. POST: Just to clarify, I'm 16. So I've had feelings for my best friend's sister for a while, but due to her being older than me and simply being my best friend's sister, I've decided not pursue any relationship. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done. I know it's the right decision, but it's been getting me down. I'm also really close with my mom, and I talk to her about everything, so she ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Good friend/potential relationship (M/24) got a girlfriend and is now ignoring me (F/20). Did he ever even care about me at all? ): POST: My neighbor (M/24) and I (F/20) were really close, we would hang out alone all the time, spending countless hours together staying up till the early morning, and then spending the night together. We never got physical, never even kissed, but it was a bit of a joke/agreement that we were cuddle buddies, and everyone knew there was SOMETHING going on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: A close friend (21F) of mine (21M) is coming over to stay at my place tonight - I've had feelings for her in the past and don't know if I should make a move or not? POST: We're both current university students - she's working for the upcoming term and as a result has her apartment rented out. We're really close, so she reached out to me and asked if she could stay over at my place tonight, due to the fact she has an exam tomorrow. We first started talking a couple years ago because I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [24M] a really happy, confident, and well-rounded person, but my romantic relationships almost never last more than a couple months. What can I do to change this? POST: Title really says it all. I'm a pretty happy dude just living my life. I have a really enjoyable job, my hobbies are really fun and rewarding, I'm in great shape (climber and biker), and I take care of myself. I've done graduated university, traveled all over the country... I'm honestly really satisfied with where",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/m] girlfriends [20/f] mother is a deadbeat. Child custody dilemna. POST: My significant other has a sister who's mother is not looking out for her. She sees the girl as a time sink, not her flesh and blood, and it is making my SO's life miserable. The mother is more interested in pursuing her love interests of the moment (which change every several months) rather than taking care of her multiple sons and daughters shes had. The father is already taking care of two of their ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Some children are raised horribly. Have you had an experience where a kid acted so out of line, you wanted to beat the crap out of them, but couldn't because of age? POST: After reading the teacher vs. horrible parent thread, I saw a lot of behavior by children that I was quite disgusted with. So much to the point where I would want to teach that kid a lesson for being such an ass. Obviously you can't hit children, but sometimes they are asking for it. What have you seen a kid do that c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] am starting to really believe I don't deserve love, or even friendship. POST: I've been victim to a long, long, LONG string of shitty relationships. Cheated on, unknowingly made the side bitch, had lies spread about me, had people date me just as a prank, sexually assaulted, the works. Now, just when I'd found a nice boy and things were going alright with him, I found out he likes another girl (who also likes him back) and it just feels like the last straw. I'm losing hope in",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Is two weeks notice always the way to go? POST: I live on the east coast with my girlfriend and just recently accepted a job offer across the country (and my girlfriend will accompany me when I go). My girlfriend's supervisor knew my PhD program was ending soon and that I'd be applying for jobs, and has been asking my girlfriend if I've gotten any offers yet. The new position doesn't start for the next 5 months but my girlfriend doesn't know how much longer she can keep the information from h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Economics question about cash and debt, on the macro level POST: Ok, so let me preface this question with a broad overview. People own credit cards which are forms of potential debt. They charge these cards with cash they (hopefully) have, or cash they don't have currently. It is done by everyone in one way or another whether the medium is a credit card, bank loan, or any other general liability. I can't find any solid information on this topic relevant to my question which is; does th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it just me(21f), or does reddit think it's odd that my bf(25m) of 3 years will not share his past relationship history nor does he want to hear mine? POST: Basically what the title says. We met when I was visiting family across the country and kept in touch online for a year until he moved across the country to be with me. So since we have no previous connection (work, school, friend of friend etc) and I am not close with his friends or family I only know what he chooses to share ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Stuck trying to prove who I was is no longer who I am. POST: So my boyfriend (22, M) and I (22, F) started dating as freshmen in college. We're a year out now, so just about 4 years, and it's been a trip. As a young female out on my own in the world for the first time, I was headstrong and selfish. I was reluctant to give up any opportunity to test myself, and my new-found freedom. I'm not saying there haven't been great times; in fact, more often than not, our relationship has been every",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] rejected sex from my drunk close friend [21F] POST: There's not really a question in here. I guess I just want to let it out and hear some comments. The other day I was out with a female friend who I like very much. I've been wanting to be something more with her for a while but our life situations don't fit and so I'd decided to leave it as a just-friends relationship. We were outdoors drinking wine and having a good time. Perhaps a wee bit too much wine. On the way home, ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: To those of you who have broken up with someone: any regrets? POST: 24M, 20F. I just broke up with my gf of 2 years. She was my first love. We were really good together but due to timing and immaturity (did and said things we can't take back) things will not be working out. I broke up with her today. She begged me to give her one more chance. I want to more than anything but know deep down it won't work. I'm hoping after some time apart (1 year?) if we realize we still both love e",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Musicians/bands, cheap way of getting your albums printed? POST: I'm about to rant, my **actual** question is at the bottom, so avert your eyes until you get there if you don't want to hear me bitch! About 6 years ago a friend and I used CafePress to create a custom jewelcase CD with all the album art and such. It was great, good quality, professionally made, and to top it off you don't have to buy bulk. So, now, after ten years or more of creating my own music as a solo artist I wanted",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Introduced my gf (27F) to my coworkers as my(26F) ""friend"" today POST: I know I messed up. My coworker was having a party and my girlfriend and I went and met some of my other coworkers there. I introduced her as my friend. We've been dating for 8 months, have lived together for 2. It wasn't something I consciously wanted to do. It just came out of my mouth. I wasn't even thinking when I said it. In hindsight, I'm a massive idiot for not knowing I would have to introduce her. I'm ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Need some advice POST: Hey Reddit, I've [34] Male been dating this woman [33] for a year or so. When I met her she was going through a divorce. Well in the year she's cheated on me with the EX. Then decided to reconcile her marriage and move 800 miles away. That lasted around 2 months. So she came back and I let her move in with me. So 3 months of that and she planned on moving back to NY behind my back and says it's because she can be closer to her kids. I don't understand why she d",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU with Deadpool POST: Today at work it turned out that I got leave work early, by full 2 hours. YES, the news was as good as it sounded. So I thought about what should I do with this time. First thing came to mind is that I can go watch Deadpool and the cinema was practically about 100 meters away from where I work. To tell you about my excitement, I have not been to a movie that is not Animated (pixar, and dreamworks, etc) since my daughter was born. Which was 8 years ago. Sure I could g",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Need advice on whether or not to try to contact a girl... POST: Okay so I recently moved to a new town and don't have very many people to hang out with. There's a coffee shop that I kept going to for about a month or two and there was a cute girl that always kept a conversation going with me. She had a bunch of aspect about her I liked and she even somehow seemed nervous around me! But anyways the last time I saw her I was in a hurry and as she was putting the cash in the regis",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my ex [21 M] getting back together for summer; how to deal with a relationship with a short time limit? POST: My ex and I are planning to get back together for summer. We were together last summer and only broke up because we go to college really far away from each other. It was really hard dealing with the split but we spent the year chatting and flirting, and recently decided we should get back together for this upcoming summer. As excited as I am to be back with hi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] have been dating a girl [24 F] for about a month. She recently lost her younger sister, and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. POST: Hello! So I started dating a girl about a month ago. I discovered that her sister died in a car accident earlier this year. She is having a rough time with the loss of her sister, and tends to get very emotional at times. As a person, my initial instinct is to try to comfort her. However, I also have a feeling that this is none of my busines",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife(28/F) is accusing me(28/M) of having an emotional affair. POST: My wife and I have been together for 3 years before we got married last June. Everything was fantastic and we were getting ready to go on our honeymoon but a week before we were supposed to go I was in a car accident. The accident itself wasn't so bad, my injuries healed after a month, and my wife did everything she could to help me. She has been wonderful and understanding so no complaints there. Physicall I wa",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Was I avoiding, or just not obsessing? POST: Somewhat short story: I [22M] met some people I go to school with a couple months back, but about a month ago I started hanging out with them more. I ended up hitting it off with one of them [24F], with the friends saying to go for it. Ended up making out at a party, then went on a real date like a week later as time permitted. It was a good date, with dinner and long talks enjoyed by all. That weekend we hung out a bit with the group of f",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [23f] just discovered that my sister [20f] is dangerously bulimic. POST: My sister and I have never been on very good terms, sharing as little of each others' lives as possible, though we've lived most of our lives together. This summer, we're both living with our parents, me while looking for a job and her while on summer break for college. We've always known she had issues with food, and she went to counselling around the age of eleven or twelve for it. This, however, is",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Parents want me to stay in college, what should I do? POST: I'm currently a college student but I don't feel I really belong at college. My parents have been pushing me to go to college all my life and I know I'm capable of graduating (4.0 in High School) but I don't enjoy the world of academia. What I'd really love to do is work at a bar, either as a bartender, manager, or even owner while I also play with various bands. (I'm a musician) I told my parents this and they said that I can w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (25/M) meth head neighbor (50ish/M) grabbed my wife (25/F) while he was tweaked out so I threw him into the ground. POST: I live in an apartment complex and one of my neighbors is always smoking meth (he does it openly in the parking lot) and tweaking out. It snowed a couple days ago so my wife and I were brushing snow off of her car to go to the store. The guy came out of the house fully strung out and started yelling unintelligibly at us. Then he came right up to us and asked ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Did i [22m] make a mistake breaking up with my girlfriend [26f]? She has a new bf and i cant get her out of my head POST: Me (22M) and my girlfriend (26F) went through a long drawn out breakup lasting about 6 months after being together for about 1.5 years. We broke up because of the age difference between us and her wanting a long term commitment from me. I was worried if i settled with her in my early 20s i would later regret it, that i didnt want to be thinking about marri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [27f] accept my SO's [28m] inability to verbalize his feelings for me? POST: Open and honest communication is really important to me, and my SO of 5 months says it's important to him to. If I ask him a question about tough stuff from his past - his mom who passed away, fighting in Iraq - he'll tell me about it, which is really amazing. He also does sweet things for me like picking up shifts from his old job to pay for a special weekend for us, cooks for me, and helped me mov",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sending my son to school covered in vaseline POST: Happened yesterday. Was getting my toddler ready for preschool and noticed my wife had left out a tube of sun tan lotion (wasn't suntan lotion) right next to my son's shoes. Figured because it was a super sunny day she wanted me to lather him up since he goes outside a few times during his day. I didn't think this was weird at all, but I noticed something was weird with the lotion, it was more like an ointment. It definitely had a ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: By taping a Yugioh Card to the wall. POST: This happened yesterday, my bad for not posting on time. Anyways, I got assigned a random group in I.T Class (Currently I am Sophomore in High School) which consisted of Seniors. In the middle of our work, one of my team members left to use the rest room and another team member started searching his back pack. Aside from the usual school material he used, he found a bunch of Yugioh Cards, I got one and taped it to the wall, hoping to prank the",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I move in with my girlfriend? POST: I really don't know how to decide this so I'm looking to you redditors for guidance! By the title you can guess what my question is. Long story short, my girlfriend currently lives with her mother who drives her absolutely insane. I'm talking breakdowns and rage fits on a weekly basis. Her mother is the only person that I know that has the power to do this to her because she's absolutely an amazing person and easy to be with on all oth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M], after drunken shenanigans, fell asleep/spooned with my new roommate [22F]. How to proceed? POST: My (21M) best buddy moved out of the house last month, and a new girl, ""La"" (22F) took his place. I now live with two girls, La and Fa (20F). La and I both, within the last month, got out of long term relationships and are currently feeling the Sting of Heartbreak. Last night we all got drunk on wine and had a great time boxing each other, bareknuckle. Just kidding we had o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (M24) girlfriend (F21) is going through a really hard time, and I'm out of ideas as to help the situation POST: So last night at 12:15 am, my girlfriend calls me and says that her mother has finally made the decision to leave her father after catching him lying and cheating for the third time. Today, she's super stand-offish, doesn't seem like she wants to talk, doesn't want to go anywhere or do anything with anyone (not even me), and I'm running out of ideas. If I had the money,",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Team Sports Athletes, a captain needs help on disciplining a high school laX team. Any helpful advice? (Details inside) POST: Alright, for those who are wondering: This is a junior varsity lacrosse team, and we're all sophomores and freshman (I'm a sophomore.) I just came back from a game of which we should of won 10+ to 0, but instead we barely won in overtime. When we came back to the lockerroom, I was appalled by my guy's behavior: acting like little leaguers who won the biggest tourn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Looking for advice regarding getting together with a girl [22f] after she breaks up with a friend [23m] of mine [25 m] to maintain social order POST: I have decided I am going to try to get with friend's girlfriend but I've run into a bit of snag. I've known this girl for years and had a thing for her for nearly as long. I came to the conclusion that so far there hasn't been a 'good time' for me to make a move and so I recently told her how I felt. She told me that she felt the same",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [22M] of 6 months wants to move in with me (21F), I'm completely torn POST: My boyfriend and I have been seeing each other pretty seriously for the past 6 months. I am the first girlfriend he has ever really been serious about, I just got out of a 3 year nightmare last January (incredibly serious, terribly drawn out- mostly because I was too chicken to end it). I'm graduating college this May and have no immediate plans. He works full time at the moment but is willing t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help Reddit, I found a memory card; then something really strange happened... (UPDATE) POST: I was out on Saturday night in the beer garden of a Dublin pub. It was pretty packed and I was talking to a friend of mine when a guy bumped me from behind, making me spill my drink on myself. I turned around to say something but he'd already disappeared, I started to wipe some of the beer off of my shirt when I noticed what looked like an SD memory card on the ground. It looked pretty beat up, s",negative " r/Pets TITLE: one of my cats is getting really fat. realized it's because she's the only one who hunts. POST: i have three cats- one is indoor only, and onyx (1/f) and her kitten (6m/m) are indoor/outdoor. there are several other neighborhood outdoor cats as well, and as of recently, 2 pit bull puppies next door. we had a slight mouse problem indoors for a while, and onyx singlehandedly took care of that. our neighbors have all remarked to me and my bf that their cats/dogs basically ignore pests like mi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/m] Need relationship/life advice on moving on from someone I was never with [19/f] POST: As read above I'm a 19 year old male and I am struggling with moving on from this amazing girl. Some background information, I've known her for two years almost now. We worked together back when we were 17 years old. If you look at this [post] you can get a lot more information about how we meet and got to this point. Rather then spacing myself from Molly after telling her how I felt,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 F] girlfriend of 4 years out of nowhere wants to break up with me [19 M], I believe due to depression/anxiety. POST: Well, for starters me and my girlfriend have been dating since freshman year of high school and we are about to have been dating for 4 years. We have had the best relationship you could ask for, we are best friends in every sense of the word and have had a deep love/connection the whole time. We are each others rocks and need each other. I even got her a ring fo",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever had to pay a bribe to someone? POST: So in short I recently did. I was trying to get on a flight for a work related trip, and I missed my flight by a few minutes. That much is my own fault. Because I have few miles in the air, I don't get priority on the Standby list. And of course the other 2 flights out that day are full. I waited Standby for the next flight, and only a few people got on and I wasn't one of them. Looking at the situation where I might not be on the next a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Professor just changed the rules for an assignment, what should I do about it? POST: I'm in a filmmaking class this semester, and our final project is a short, narrative film of three to five minutes in length. So far we've had a month to work on it, and it isn't due until May 7. I took this to mean that within these two months, we have relative freedom of when to get it done. I thought she gave us this much time in case we couldn't film right away. Well, I haven't been able to film any",negative " r/cats TITLE: How long can cat fleas live after the cat is put down? POST: My roommate cant stand my next door neighbor (also my good friend) who recently put her cat down. The cat was almost never in our house, and definitely never in his room. The poor thing got really sick and had to be put down at a young age (cancer) and this was over 3weeks ago. Recently something has bitten my roommate and he decided to blame it on my neighbor's now dead cat. I told him she used frontline regularly and she has h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my Roommate [24M] how do we tell our other Roommate [24M] that we don't want to continue being roommates with him? POST: I'm really sorry if this isn't the right subreddit for this, but I feel as though, it's a good fit? So our lease isn't up until March and me and one roommate wish to not continue rooming with the other male, mainly because he's really lazy (he doesn't do his chores he even forgot to pay bills at one point, cause us to fall behind), he constantly talk",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Wife doesn't want to have kids anymore. How should I deal with it? POST: So, I've always wanted a family of my own. When I met and at the time of my marriage to my wife she said she wanted a family as well. We discussed it in great length. We've been together for about 3 years now and she has recently started to make it pretty clear that she doesn't want kids. Natural or adopted. She hasn't come right out and said that we will never have kids but I think she is putting it off indefinitel",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Mentally Ill, Paranoid, and ARMED neighbor..please help! POST: Dear Reddit, I'm a 23 year old medical student in the Southeast United States who made this throwaway account. I live in a housing community that includes students and others who work in the area. Because of medical school studies, I rarely get opportunities to hang out with the neighbors, but I have noticed that one of them - a single male in his 60's - sits outside ALL day, and spends hours washing his car, fixing it, walk",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (17M) drunkenly kissed my friend (16M) to help him figure out his sexuality. I have a girlfriend (17F) POST: I have been together with my girlfriend for 19 months. I love her more than anything in the world. She is my first (and so far only) love. Last night, something really bad happened. I was drinking with my friend (private property with parental permission, so it was legal in our state) and he got really emotional. He confessed that he was pretty sure he was gay. He lives in ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my potential girlfriend [18 F] Went on first date, went good until the end. Did I mess up? POST: So I recently went on a date with this girl I know and have been talking to for a little while now. I had the time of my life and all we did was get coffee. We shared a slice of tiramisu while we talked and exchanged stories. Then when we were leaving and almost at my house she got a call from her mother telling her to pick up her brother. I thought that this was the end ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am a 16 year old who is 21 weeks pregnant as a result of rape. Reddit, what is the worst situation you have overcome, and what gave you hope in your darker hours? POST: This is my full story. I have been a lurker for a long time now and I am happy to be joining up and sharing my experience. soz if bad grammer :) I am 16 and in my last year of high school (UK). Last November I fell pregnant after being raped by a person I knew through a friend. It was a very distressing and scary exper",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My father died very recently. I am grieving horribly. How can I avoid making my [19 M] girlfriend [20 F] feel neglected in our relationship of two months? POST: Oh gosh, here we go. Before I start, I just want to say that this isn't a grieving post. Feel free to give me personal advice, but this is about me and her, not just myself. My father has had heart disease for the past 10 years, and it finally hit him on august 22nd. So, yesterday as of writing this. My girlfriend saw basica",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (27M) girlfriend (27f) of ~8 years is visiting me from Germany over Christmas break. When should I tell her I want to end it? POST: My GF and I met during freshman year of college. We were together all four years. We graduated in May 2009. After graduation, we went back to our respective cities (me: Boston, her: Anchorage, Alaska). We remained an exclusive couple, seeing each other about once-twice a year for 3-4 weeks at a time. (Long distance sucks) In 2011, she was accepted ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27/M] ended a 5 year relationship with my now ex gf [30/F]. Starting to feel lonely and full of regret, but there is no going back. How to not feel bleak? POST: A few months ago, I broke up with my now ex-gf of five years. We had been living together for 4 years. I felt that the relationship got to a point where I wasn't seeing her as a romantic partner anymore and I felt I needed space to work on myself. I was starting to experience some crippling anxiety and somewhat of a quarte",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: [21M] how do i make the ""first move""? POST: so im a 21yo ""man"", i have ADD, aspergers and some depression issues, i live on my own. I hate being alone and im shy, awkward and have low selfasteem. I spend most of my free time at the computer most often playing games, wich isnt the most popular subject for girls/women of my age. I wish to have a relationship but ive never really had the courage to find someone else. I met a girl in a class a couple of months ago, talked to her breif",negative " r/loseit TITLE: [F/21/5'2] Hit a plateau, needing advice. POST: I started at 131 pounds 2 months ago. Since then I've lost around 10 pounds & have been hovering around 120-122 for about 2 1/2 weeks. My BMR is 1370, and I consume around 1100 calories a day. Days I run or do pilates I consume an extra allotted amount of calories. My problem is I don't know how to break this plateau. Things are the things I've tried. * cutting down to 800/day * giving my muscles a break from exercise * completely cut out ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my mother [54 F], she blames me for cat peeing in house and tells everyone POST: About 7 or so years ago, I went to the animal shelter with my mother and brother to pick out a new kitten. There were two there. One, an orange cat, was incredibly loud and scratchy. The other, a black cat, was more calm. My brother wanted the orange cat, but I did not on account of it being scratchy and meowing a lot. So, we ended up getting the black cat. Flash forward 7 years. Th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever had an incredibly embarrassing moment that somehow went unnoticed? POST: During my senior year of high school, I was involved in the Torch Honor Society. One of our main objectives was to put together a dance specifically for the Special Needs students at the school. There was dinner, dancing, etc. Out on the dance floor, we had a DJ table set up. Me and a couple other friends decided that the only thing missing from the event was ""The Safety Dance."" Unfortunately, the DJ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] am in ""arrested development"": how can I stop being a child and become an emotionally healthy adult? POST: Basically I don't have a model for successful relationships. My parents are first-gen immigrants who resent the country they came to 20+ yrs ago, and have never tried to make friends or network, even inside the immigrant community. Their relationship with each other is more a habit than compatibility, especially since they are getting old. I never really made friends th",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Living at home and still going to college at 23. Am I getting to old for this? POST: For some background, I went to a community college for about 3 years, transferred to a local university about a year and a half ago and i'm pursuing a teaching degree in secondary. I've got roughly 24-30 credit hours left before I can graduate (including some clinical experience). This will probably take me at least another year to achieve as I also work a part time job. Now this doesn't sound too bad ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Falling for my best friend POST: Hey Reddit, long time lurker but this is first post. I met this girl around a year ago and she quickly became my best friend, we bonded over everything from games to even talking about previous relationships and our friendship just developed from there. Now that time has passed she has a boyfriend (dating for 1month) and they are in that honeymoon phase and at first I was happy for her, but now I am starting to develop feelings for this person, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My Gf [21F] keeps making these awkward humble brags (?) about some basic stuff I do at home. How do I shut it down without seeming rude? POST: Not a massive problem, but a bit embarrassing. The dilemma is my gf Maisie ripped a shirt she had at home so I offered to stitch it back together. It's a small rip and my mum taught me this when I was a kid. I also spent a lot time in India so I learnt to cook there. Maisie loves the food I make which is nice, but most people cook food so it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] am having issues with a strong sex drive that might come off as persistent or annoying to my girlfriend [18F] POST: Hello reddit I'm a long time lurker and first time poster on r/relationships. I had a question i could use some help on. I've been in a relationship with my girlfriend for a year now and things are very healthy between us, good communication, understanding and speaking our minds, our physical and sexual relationship is very healthy too. The issue I have is th",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I think my friend may be faking miscarriages. What should I do? POST: My friend, who is engaged to a man old enough to be her dad, tells me one night that she thinks she had a miscarriage about a week ago but she wasn't sure. Two weeks pass.. she calls me to say she took a home pregnancy test a week ago and she was pregnant, but had a miscarriage a few days ago. She tells me this sobbing and not a minute later she is back to normal talking about work. She also mentions her doctor telli",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] am having trouble dealing with what my gf [21F] did during a two-week break up POST: So we had been going out for a bit over a year and a half when she told me that she didn't want to keep trying to make our relationship work, that I wasn't giving her enough of what she wanted. We broke up and over the next two weeks I kept trying to get her back. I talked to her every day insisting that I could be a better boyfriend and eventually she took me back, and we've been happy toget",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: (CAN) Baba passed away 10 months ago and have no clue what happened with the will. POST: I'll try to explain the best I can as I really have no idea where to start with this. My dad (stepson) told me he was the beneficiary but he quickly appointed the power to my aunt (only living offspring). Dad told me it was in the courts hands and these things take time as their was lots of details as the government had control of her assets a few years before she passed because of mental ill",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is my employer poisoning me? POST: I work at a small hotel as a valet. Our parking garage is located in our basement taking up almost the entire footprint of the building, which is a nearly hundred year old former apartment building. It's roughly 2,000 square feet with space for 32 cars. Other than the opening of a retracting garage door at street level, at the top of a ramp, there is a 2'x4' window that is propped open at about a 30 degree angle. That's it. I have overheard random comm",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Can a parent of a legal adult (age 18) give consent to search a home via a phone call. [NYS] POST: **RESOLVED** Location: Hypothetically NY / USA So, I've been trying to tackle this problem but can't quite come to an objective conclusion. Kid throws party with too many people. No one is actually breaking the law minus a noise complaint (certainly not grounds to enter home--if someone answers the door) and one kid underage drinking that is in no way visible to the outside. Neig",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Ex fiasco (US FL) POST: I have recently separated from this woman. She came to my place of work, and demanded I leave with her to aquire the possessions she had left at my apartment. I refused, and offered to drop them off the upcoming weekend. All I needed from her was a list of items she was inquiring for. She refused, stating I wasn't trustworthy enough. I asked her to leave, before a scene was made. I went back to an employee only section. She followed shortly after, and continued ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I had a disturbing reaction to diazepam (Valium). Should I be worried about future use? POST: Here's a bit of context. I have a phobia of flying and am prescribed diazepam tablets for my trips. I was given 2mg tabs and recommended two each dose. I do not fly often, And have not needed these for two years, However this summer I traveled america and had a lot of lights. So took a lot of these tablets. On my very last flight back home I took only one tablet so I'd still be able to make my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] recently learn that my girlfriend [21F] was bisexual. I'd love some advice and have some questions ! POST: Hi everyone ! :D I've been with my girlfriend for almost 2 month and she recently confess to me that she was bisexual. She's very clear on the subject, it's not just a one time experience she liked with a girl, she dated a girl for several months. Though i'm okay about her preferences, I have some serious questions and doubt that you guys can maybe help me with ! ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my close friend [19 F], How can i help her dealing with depression? POST: A very close friend of mine is currently struggling with depression. She has a hard time motivating herself to do stuff for school, sleeping on a regular schedule, going outside, meeting friends, overthinking, feeling worthless/not loveable, being honest..etc. She recently wrote me this, which kinda resembles her mood, but also that i might be in a position to support her. She wrote this as one o",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do you think that the music you listen to is influenced by the people you associate with? Do you consider this a good or bad thing? POST: In my high school years, I was forced to go to a private school. Most of the kids were black and into the whole ""urban music"" (hip/hop, pop, rap, ect.) I'm (mainly) Indian, so I guess my parents thought since we all had brown skin, I'd fit right in; I didn't. I basically just listened to what my friends listened to or the popular artists. About the end",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 M] (I'm 23 F, dating two years) brings up ex girlfriends and other passive aggressive issues when he's stressed POST: Whenever we're in a period of stress, my boyfriend will bring up ex relationships. I do not mind him being in contact with ex partners, but it's the idea he has to bring up the past so constantly. It's always after I've asked him to do something or asked something of him. For example, I asked him not to forget to bring a container I left at his apartment so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my GF [19 F] 3 weeks, She Still Talks to An Old Lover POST: So I have been dating this girl for three weeks but I am a little worried. For four years she's been ""in love""with this guy. He's never reciprocated those feelings and they would mostly just hang out and have sex. In my mind hes used her. He took her virginity and never even looked at her the whole time. Anyways, they still talk. Maybe twice or thee times they've texted while I was with her. Also one night we ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M,26] am very concerned for SO [F,27] after break up to concentrate on healing from her depression POST: We've been together for 5 years, and she is the woman I would marry and spend my life with in a heartbeat. But in the last year she has become more and more depressed due to various issues. She feels the only way of solving this is to break up, have her own space to heal and move on. At first I was taking things better than expected, knowing it was all for her to heal. I love ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [23 M] responded weirdly when I [20 F] said I missed being with him POST: Basically he said that he missed me and wanted to plan for dinner and to see me when he came to my city, he lives seven hours from me but was coming home for the summer. We have been on bad terms for a while (we have a complicated history), but we had a really candid talk and he said he missed me and was sorry for everything that occurred, and I missed him a fucking lot because he means everything to me. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my girlfriend [25 F] of about a month, I'm not attracted to her physically, but she is otherwise perfect POST: I have been seeing a girl exclusively for about a month now. In a nutshell: we met through friends and I initially didn't even see her in a romantic light. After some other friends canceled on us last minute the two of us ended up hanging out alone one night and hitting things off. The two of us have hung out a bunch of times since then. She is smart, funny,",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can I get some life advice please? POST: I'm kind of in a lull right now. I want to get my life started but I'm getting older and don't know exactly what I should do. Here's why I can't decide. I live with my parents and don't have a job or go to school. I want to eventually get to all 3 (living on my own, working, and going to school). However I don't know where to begin. I've never had a real job so I have nothing to put on resumes. I've never filled out a resume or know anything ot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: BF[21] wants to go to Reno for Thanksgiving without me [25] POST: Little more detail. My bf and I have been together for 10 months, will be 11 by Thanksgiving. About a month ago I mentioned to him that I want to spend Thanksgiving/Christmas with me. As in, he can celebrate with his family first since he is very family oriented, but after I want to spend time with him. He said we'll talk about it later on. Okay. I brought this question up 2 weeks ago and just yesterday too. I remin",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: 2 people spending over $500 on groceries a month. Ridiculous. POST: Okay, so... not really interested in posting my whole budget, but I've noticed one category is completely out of control: groceries. I will say that ""groceries"" also includes things like personal care items, e.g. soap, dental floss, detergent, that sort of thing. We shop at Walmart, one-stop shop, so it's not like we're going to a ridiculously-priced grocer. We also only do shopping once a week, usually Sundays. W",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24/f] and him [25/m] invited another woman into our relationship for fun, but... POST: Whenever I'm not around he texts her and gets off with her. We met her off of craigslist and still have yet to even figure out if she is a SHE and if SHE is in fact real. We made a deal any messages sent to her would be openly communicated with each other. No hiding messages, no deleting history of texts. The rules were broken a few times on his part, I've let them go and decided to believe t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/18] am having trouble with some of my high school friends. They openly talk about having parties at their house/gaming sessions/going out to do something and actively invite each other in front of me but never invite me...am I missing something? POST: So yeah, my group of friends (about 6 of us) talk a lot at school and have been hanging out since 10th grade. We are now in 12th grade. They usually have parties at my friend Kevin's house and invite everyone in our group of friend",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: I am underage and got pulled over last night, help... POST: So last night I was driving with my cousin at 2am to drop off a friend down the street from a family party. A cop pulled me over and told me that I didn't have my headlights on. The thing is that I am underage and does not have a license. I am 17 years old. My cousin who is 18 does have a license but it wasn't on him at the time. So the only id I had was my school id. He got both of our names and address. Later he tells us to s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is one of the most amusing coincidental moments you have ever been apart of or witnessed? POST: When I was nine years old, I was left home alone with my sister. I can't remember exactly what happened, but something had startled me that was outside the house before my parents left. My sister knew this and being the wonderful sister she is, decided to scare me. I was on the computer in a room where the computer was positioned close to a window. She snuck outside and beat on t",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am kinda in a grandma's boy situation here... Help? POST: Almost a year ago I moved in with 2 guys and this girl, the 2 guys I have lived with and there is no problem. Its this chick and for this lets call her Fupa because thats what we call her. Anyways I live here without a lease and I am not supposed to be here. The house is for 3 people and no pets. There is 4 people and 2 dogs, whoops. Back to the point. Us guys give our money in cash (I know bad idea) to fupa each month to pay ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not knowing how to put a straw in my drink POST: This happened about half an hour ago :) I frequently ride my skateboard up to Chick-fil-a to get some lunch on Saturdays. And today was no exception. I order my food sit down and go to put my straw in my drink (Dr Pepper), but it wont go in all the way becuase the ice is in the way. Normally if you just force it in it'll cooperate, but this straw was different. I started pushing it down into my drink and moments later liquid starts gus",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Going back to school, defer or not while making payments on loans? POST: Hi everyone I checked the wiki, the FAQ, and did a quick search about my question. I currently have about 20k at 6.8% in loans from grad school (paid out of pocket for first undergrad degree). Now I am back in school for pre-reqs for a new career (nursing) and received notice today from MyFedLoan that I am now in deferment because I am in school. Yes, I did apply for additional loans for my current schooling.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] have a sort of crush on a co worker [25M], but I have a boyfriend [25M] and I don't want to ruin my relationship. POST: So I want to start by saying I have absolutely no plan to act on my feelings. I am completely in love with my boyfriend, and I will never cheat on him. I am mostly asking about how to handle this. I started a new job last year. My job consists of caring for a house of 4 older men who have developmental disabilities. They need supervision 24/7 and there are",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being tickled during a blackout. POST: This actually happened two weeks ago, but I'm still recovering from it! To set the scene, I need to give you a brief outline of my living room. My boyfriend and I actually sleep in the living room on a mattress on the floor. Immediately to the left of the bed is a couch, and to the immediate right is an 8 foot tall heavy wooden display cabinet. There was a power outage at my house due to a thunderstorm. I had just come home from work and my bo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What do they do about false debt collection? POST: My coworker recently received a letter of debt collection for over 3K on a credit card they never opened. They payed off all their debt in 1994 and this card was opened in 2002, even though they have always paid cash for everything since becoming debt-free. The letter was received within the last 48 hours and the collections company was contacted about the situation. To which they said to open a dispute for the situation to be checked o",negative " r/running TITLE: Ankle and foot pain when not running, but no pain when running. POST: I'm trying to determine if I should go to the doctor. Has anyone else experienced this? When I run, I feel fine. When I'm not running, the sides of my ankles hurt and feel really tight, and the tops of my feet hurt. Yesterday I was wearing shoes with a low heel, and it all really hurt. When I got home and took off my shoes, my ankles and tops of my feet were a little bit swollen. Today, I'm wearing higher heels (boots wi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What would you think in this situation? POST: I'm 23 and live with my boyfriend. My mom and her boyfriend and my younger siblings all went away for a trip to Ottawa. I would have loved to go because I don't get out much, but I wasn't going to be a brat about it. I figured I'm an adult so I can go on my own trips. They asked me to watch their dog and cat. I love them, so of course I said yes. I had them for almost a week, had to go for walks and stuff and clean up after them. All wa",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by embarrassing myself in front of my girlfriends family. POST: So this didn't actually happen today, it happened a few months ago. I was invited out to attend a meal with my girlfriend and most of her family, all of which I hadn't met besides her parents and sister. So first off I'm running a bit late, I rush through the door of the pub/restaurant and see my girlfriend and her family already seated and involved in conversation, I walk over and allow my girlfriends mum to introduce me a",negative " r/loseit TITLE: sobbing because I need to stop eating sugar, what's wrong with me? POST: I'm sitting here sobbing looking up articles about how to quit sugar. I've had metabolic syndrome and PCOS since I was 13. then I found out I'm highly allergic to gluten, dairy, pinto beans, pineapple, cranberries and various other things. now I realize even if I work out 3 times a week I won't lose more that 20lbs. I need to stop eating sugar. I've know this for a long time because, who doesn't need to cut down on sug",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by saying the wrong words to a woman POST: One evening last summer I was in my backyard building a garden box against the neighbor's fence. I don't have a fence except for that one side, and I was working at the back corner of the yard next to the neighbor's fence, so anyone in the back lane directly behind my yard could see me, but if they walked past it far enough, the fence would block our line of sight. I was facing the fence and pondering a problem in my project when I heard someo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with guy I'm dating [23 M] 3 months - both came out of breakups but I can tell he wants more. Are we doomed? POST: Met a guy soon after going through a breakup; I told him straight up that I was still getting over it/wasn't looking for anything serious and hey it turned out he was going through the same thing. Great! Fast-forward a few months and I'm still not looking for a relationship, in fact I'm happier now focusing on myself (career, fitness, etc). Problem is I can",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I'm a girl (21F) and I have no idea how to navigate guys. Any advice for how I should approach one (23M)? POST: Sooo I met this guy through a friend and we have been hanging out almost every weekend for the past couple months. He texts me a lot and I can tell he really likes me, the problem? I have no idea if I'm going about this the wrong way. I can tell he's very inexperienced sexually and I'm not attracted to him in that sense. Our conversations still seem formulated like when you",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to mess with my brother on an airplane POST: This FU was quite a while back, probably about 15 years ago. I was on a long flight, and at some point my brother (who was sitting next to me) decided to go to the toilet. After about three minutes I decide to go and mess with him a bit. I had noticed that you could easily unlock the door from outsite by rotating the vacant/free sign thingy with your finger, so I went over to the toilet and unlocked the door. He quickly locked it aga",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I need advice about the best way to go about switching work supervisors. POST: I'll start off by saying that I'm not sure if this is the best subreddit to post this to, but I'm not really sure where to turn about this. I'm a student at a university and I'm working on-campus. I'm also dating my boss, which leads to obvious conflicts with the campus policy. I love my job and my boss would like to keep me on because I'm reliable and it takes a long time to train people to work there. I've l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Unsure about feelings towards now Ex-boyfriend. (17m) (17f) 1.5 years. POST: So he broke up with me last week after 1.5 years together. we were awesome for the first 6 months but then things started going downhill. for the past 6 months hes been verbally and emotional abusive towards me as well as neglecting me. there were major trust issues. then he always got upset at me for becoming more and more sensitive and crying all the time, however, the only reason i would cry is because he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24F] boyfriend [26M] is planning a trip to Cedar Point for us, but I am terrified of rollercoasters. POST: My boyfriend is a huge thrill seeker type. We have been together for 2 years, and it's great, but when we've gone to six flags here in Texas it's been pretty bad for me. I like some rides, and small rollercoasters, but he likes mostly the rollercoasters and the big ones. The day we went to six flags was miserable for him because I only went on one rollercoaster. I have expre",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 F] SO [21 M] of 3 months has a lot of close female friends that he may or may not have fooled around with in the past. Is it crazy for me to ask for clarification here? POST: We're not official, but we've been dating pretty exclusively for the past few months and the fact that some of his best friends are female didn't bother me until recently. He knows a lot of them through a school club that also vacations together bi-annually. He's talked about these trips, but never in d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Long distance assholes need advice on how to communicate. POST: I'm 27 female and he is 25 male. We have been together for 2.5 years. We need help communicating with each other. He works 10 days away from home,12 hour work days, is home for 4 days, and is often tired and sore. This is the way things are 7 months of the year while the rest of the year he is home working in town. I work nights as well as take care of everything at home. We own our house. I get very emotional when he ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[M24] have been dating my girlfriend[F23] for 4 years and have never met in person. POST: Alright first off let me introduce myself my name is nick and I have been dating my girlfriend breyanne for 4 years we met online and were just friends for about a year talking everyday and skyping everyday until one day I decided she was the girl I wanted to spend the rest of my life with the only problem is I am from Michigan she is from Washington and I don't really have the money to go visi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] Him [22M] Confusion? Allusion? POST: So it all started through a social networking site and he randomly (ironic i know) saw me visit the store he works at and from there he asked for my number and we got texting. It's been a good few months and we often speak here and there but usually I have to initiate the conversation and start things going. Sometimes he doesn't bother replying. But when he needs something ie interview tips or tips on employment he'll ensure the conversa",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How to I help a friend who is manipulating me to give her pity and attention? POST: Hey everyone. I've been close friends with a girl from my high school for about three years. I am 18 years old; she is 17. This girl has a crappy home life - she had an awful childhood, her parents are divorcing, and her mom/brother are just complete assholes to her. It is getting to the point where she is drawing a ton of attention to herself because she knows people take pity on her for what she is goin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 F] with my boyfriend [38 M] 7 months dating / 2 months living together - he won't tell his parents we're shacked up POST: Hi, Reddit. I've been dating my boyfriend since June. I wasn't officially his ""girlfriend"" until October. Soon after I became his ""girlfriend"", we exchanged keys to our respective homes, since we spend the night together most of the time, anyway (mostly at my place). He is a wonderful boyfriend, but one thing is bothering me: he hasn't told his parents ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being honest with my GF POST: Before going into the story itself I have to give a bit of background. One of the important part of my work is going to professional conferences, parties or trade shows. It's a fairly small world so I end up meeting the same 100 people at least once a week in a social setting (think open bar and free food). Naturaly after a few years like that you start making aquaintances/drinking friends, especially among the few people among my age. One of these peop",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my girlfriend [31 F] 3 years, her parents oppose interracial relationship POST: I am in love with my girlfriend and we're beginning to think about marriage together. She has acknowledged, though, that her parents -- both of whom are from China -- do not support us together because I am not Chinese. Her parents cite language and culture as barriers that I am unlikely to overcome. In fact, each night when my girlfriend's parents talk to her on the phone, her father sugge",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Thinking of applying for a Masters (LLM in Human Rights/International law) in a Scandinavian country. Any fellow redditors out there with experience to share? POST: I have been doing some research on LLMs (taught in english) in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark. I've found this [thread] very helpful. My question basically relates to the ''teaching methods'' in the Nordic countries' Universities; as in the academic aspect of a Masters degree. Here is some personal information that i thi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [43F] am dying. My family disowned me 20 years ago for being lesbian. Should I contact them? POST: I've been diagnosed with CJD a few days ago, and unless some miracle happens this will be my last Christmas. I haven't told anyone yet (really there aren't many people to tell in my life, either). I'm debating whether to tell my family or not... I had a good childhood with them, they were nice people but they were very traditional and conservative. When I was 22 I came out to them a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend (16M) shutting people out from his life to be with his online boyfriend (~22M). POST: I have a friend, 16M who has been in an online relationship with somebody ~22M (not exactly sure on his age) for about 4 years. The two of them are constantly playing multiplayer games together on Steam, and if they're not doing that they're watching anime together or just talking to one another via Skype. My friend is a great dude in real life, but when he's home on his computer, he very rar",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend's family [23F, etc] asked me [24F] be in their family photo, am I stepping over a line? POST: My friend's family, who I'm quite close to, and have spent a lot of time with, asked me to be in their yearly family photo, but I can't help but feel like I'm overstepping some boundary. Should I politely decline? I've been friends with her for about ten years or so, and the past three or four years, I've been with them at Christmas, Easter, 4th of July, etc, and they like me, (I hav",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M], She [20 F] kind of seeing each other, says she doesn't know what she want's, I don't think she want's anything.. Need help.. POST: I have been seeing this girl for a couple of months, we have progressed to seeing each other pretty much every day for the past couple of weeks and kissing each other and all that stuff.. But last night we spoke on the phone and I asked her something and she didn't want to answer, this turned into a whole conversation lasting 3 hours and in th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Interested in a man whose son died 2 months ago. [F37] [M39] POST: Just as the title says. I have known this man for about 15 years. We never dated in the past because he was a boyfriend of one of my friends. One day, recently, he came into my place of employment to buy supplies for his company. We talked a little bit, and that was it. He then immediately added me to Facebook and started flirting. Eventually the flirting turned into downright propositions. I really do like this gu",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: He broke up with me... POST: We never had the perfect relationship, but it was always really, really worth it. Over the summer, we didn't get to see each other much, but I didn't care, nothing could change the way I feel about him. Not even after about a month ago, when he broke up with me, over text... The reason being we had a few arguments over things, mostly him being jealous over me hanging out with a guy friend... He claimed that he wanted me, but not the relationship. Af",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] exchanged dirty pictures with my friend [37 M] and now I feel weird. POST: I have this friend who I mostly speak to online. I've known him for a couple of years now and I value the friendship. He is nice, but I absolutely do not like him in a sexual way (he's pretty fat and a lot older) and I've told him this. We met through an online sex-themed forum, so we talk about our sex lives sometimes and I'm cool with that. I have rejected his sexual offers on a number of occasions",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What single act of kindness has restored your faith in humanity? POST: A few years ago my friend and I are driving back from Houston to San Antonio. I am determined to stop at [Buc-ee's] With a 1/4 of a tank I decide I can make it. About 9 miles shy of Buc-ee's I run out of gas. We get out of the car and start walking. No less that a football field away from my car a pick up truck pulls over on the side of the road infront of us. They ask us if that was are car back there and if we neede",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [20/m] eats a lot of my food? POST: My boyfriend (20/m) and I (20/f) are in college and he typically sleeps with me in my place (because he has a roommate that is always there and mine is usually gone) but he always eats a ton of my food... For example, my grandma sent me a package of cookies last weekend, two dozen, and he really ate like all of them over the course of a few days to where I barely had any. I mean I understand that by me having him over, as a host, I'm s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[M 30] have neglected my relationship with my [28 F] wife of 3 years and my friends POST: For a while now I have been more or less mindless. I went to work, I came home and I sat on my computer, when I went out I stared at my phone or something else. This summer my brother died, the year before my dad died, when I was 18 my other brother died and when I was 11 my mom died. I have struggled for a long time and I had shut down to the point that I was shutting out those I love. My w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my BF [23 M/F] of 2 months, accidentally insulted my body. Having trouble getting over it. POST: The other day my BF and I were sitting playing around and talking when he claimed he ""loves my pepperoni nipples."" We are not the type of couple to insult each other even jokingly, as we are both very sensitive people. I am very insecure, which he is mostly aware of. The second I heard that I immediately felt incredibly hurt. He did not say it jokingly what so ever. H",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: New to dating, what are the unwritten rules if say POST: So I've been socially awkward most my life (23yrs/f) and finally got it together to get on a dating site. Been in no serious relationships so not sure on how that goes, past experience 2 dates. Surprise Surprise, I was asked out on a few dates with someone IRL and then someone else starts chatting to me on okcupid, great. I decided to see how things go with both, since in the past things didn't work out early on. Turns out t",positive " r/jobs TITLE: What are good decent paying jobs for people who don't learn very fast? POST: I guess that may be a simple question from a simple man. I'm a graduate in psych/marketing, I'm working in management right now and I HATE it. I miss so many little things so frequently, it's likely because of my adhd (I am diagnosed and I have chosen to not be medicated) and I can never really thing straight. Details KILL me. Before I graduated I worked a job where all I did is lift and throw things while runn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] want advice on making a relationship with my prom date [17 F] prior to prom. POST: This might be a tough question to answer, so I'll answer any questions you guys have. So, I asked this girl to prom in December who I sorta know from grade 8, but haven't talked much since then because we never really had classes together since. Since I don't talk to girls much, she was my first pick. The problem I have is that I was told she didn't have a date by her friend. I don't really k",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21/M] unable to let go of previous girls while in new relationships POST: It all began with one girl(let's call her Amy) in middle school - we have liked each other for many years and it never worked out for multiple reasons(bad timing, immaturity). I'd always imagined I'd lose my virginity to her, go to prom with her, marry her, etc. And every summer since high school, I hope that we'll get back together. So, in my mind, i know I'm leaving a door open for her. Well, we didnt ge",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [18/M] unsure what I want out of a relationship. Casual flings or get back with ex. POST: In short, I don't know whether I want a casual thing (FWB/ONS) or a girlfriend. On the one hand I believe that I could discover what I want by just going with the flow. I met a girl a week back who I believe does not want a relationship, just casual sex (she told me), and we both seem to be into each other. So I could satisfy my sexual needs through her and other people, learn about ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend is a bombshell, has a great degree a great job and i am stuck in juco doing awful, working for 11 an hour. what do? POST: We are both 23, been together for 6 years. When i say bombshell imean, shes a (no bias), nine out of ten. I am a 6 or 7, definetly a 6 soon, I am balding. I dont know if thats relevant or accurate. I felt like it was. She went away to college, I didnt. I had jealousy or trust issues throughout some of the first 2 years of college, But nothing serious",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Target stole my money and still hasn't sent me a GPS system I ordered on Black Friday after numerous problems and complications. POST: Anyone know what I should do in this situation? Here the email I plan on sending them. >To whom this may concern, > On November 25, 2010 I placed an order for a '""Garmin nüvi 1450 LMT Portable GPS Navigation System with 5"" Touch Screen Electronics"" for a total of $144.92 including shipping and handling. >The order number was XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX and it ",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Am I a control freak? My spouse seems to think so. Only want my kid to be healthy. Advice? POST: So I'm not the greatest at nutrition. I was literally raised on fast food five nights a week and never learned to eat well. As a result, I seem to be okay for now, but I gain at least ten pounds a year. As a result I vowed that I would not raise my child like that. Unfortunately he has also hit that picky stage. So one thing I know is good for him is a juice I buy that has a serving of veget",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/m] considering asking co-worker [21/f] on a date via text. Any advice? POST: We both work part time at this pretty small place. We don't have the exact same job so we're not together all the time (and hardly ever alone together), but we see each other regularly enough that we're well acquainted and there's definitely some chemistry. Some work-do a few weeks ago I got really stupidly drunk, spent some time with her and we traded numbers. Texted her some drunk garbage that w",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit. My best friend is getting married in Austin TX at the end of march and I Live in Illinois. I can barely afford to feed myself. What is the cheapest way possible to get down there? POST: Hi all. Here's the situation. I'm a poor college student in the middle of my final semester of school. I live in central Illinois. My best friend from high school lives and works in Austin TX. When he announced his engagement he and his fiancee's plan was to get married in the fall of 2012. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] is totally into her [24/F] but the situation is complicated POST: I just met her a few months ago and for me it was love at first sight. I love everything about her and her smile is enough to melt away. I think she likes me too, cause there are those vibes between us when we are together. The chemistry fits perfectly. **The problem is:** until a few days ago she had a boyfriend and she still loves him. She told me alot about him and their relationship and he's a total ass",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] having trouble initiating sex with my boyfriend [33 M] of 1 month. POST: My boyfriend and I have only been seeing each other for a month but we are typically together 4 or more nights a week. We get along really well, have great conversations, I feel extremely comfortable around him. The sex is great. In fact, he is the only man I've been with who could get me to climax. But today he expressed that he is tired of always being the one to initiate sex and it's starting to mak",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [25M] keeps telling me I [23F]should try out drugs... What should I do? POST: I'll do my best to explain the situation. My boyfriend and I have known each other for quite a while and have been dating a few months now. It's currently a long distance relationship but he'll be moving here before the end of the year. We have already met in real life and spent about a month together. We get along great there are never any fights between us even when we were friends. Currentl",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: You don't understand - what things do people say that does nothing aggravates you? POST: I'm applying for certain jobs/programs to do after college, and I decide to apply for non-profit/paid volunteer-type jobs (such as AmeriCorps) for after I graduate next year. I put this on Facebook, only to have my older sibling tell me why this is a bad idea. Now, she asks me why I want to do it and I give her an answer saying that before I go to law school (my ultimate career path) I would like to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M18] need help getting back out there after my first serious relationship. POST: I had my first serious relationship end back in Early December after a few months of back and forth, and I just need advice on putting myself back out there. I'm 18 years old and I go to a local community college and I'm having trouble just finding people I connect with. My first relationship was a girl I met online that lasted almost a year and after we broke up I went through a bunch of ups",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Living with ex-husband, no intimacy. POST: My husband [M, 42] and I [F, 38] split over a year and a half ago because we fought too much and had a lot of communication issues. We have a 3 yr old son together. Late last year, I realized I still have feelings and talked to him about it. He said his feelings for me were still there but that we had a lot of stuff to work on. We agreed that me staying at his house might help us repair our relationship. We are co-parenting my son and we ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Dating] Me [M/18] Does this girl like me? Is it friendliness or flirting? HELPZ!?!?! POST: It is always hard to know if a girl likes me or not, I think a lot of others can say the same. So this girl started working at my workplace about a month and half ago. Unfortunately we only work together one day of the week, however every time we talk, we really hit it off. Every time I see her, she is looking at me and smiling, she seems to enjoy my company a lot. I even asked her once, ""wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] seeing [27 F] for over a month. She's really scarred emotionally from previous relationships. Ned advice. POST: I've been seeing her for just over a month. Everything has been great, we each have a goofy, silly sense of humor. I get her jokes, she gets mine. We have similar interests but also open to different things, like she's into country and although I like country, it's never been a big thing to me. And vice versa, she wasn't as into some sports teams/things as I was b",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting pee in my girlfriends mouth POST: Background: Me (M/18) and my gf are seniors in highschool and still virgins. She has a cousin who is very... Sexually outgoing, and has given blowjobs to her bf before. My girlfriend and her cousin have talked about bj's before and my gf was told that dick apparently tasted like nothing (I say apparently because, well I've never tasted a dick before). So today my girlfriend was home alone and texted me asking if I want to hangout. I quickly t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How to make a 20 year old realize that she is not the only person on earth. POST: My 20 year old sister who lives at home could be one of the most selfish people I've ever met. She recently got in a car accident (her fault, car totaled) and now my father is buying a new one ""for the family"" (read: for her). This is not the first accident she has been in since she is a terrible driver. I just found out that she was in tears because she more than likely will not be getting the same type of",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [42 M] with my wife(?) [40 F] 20 years, I'm beginning to fall in love with her again. POST: First time using reddit. Me and my wife, were together for 20 years and she had my heart firmly grasped. Last year i began to fall out of love with her, the spark felt like it was gone and i didn't think it would come back. This year i initiated the divorce and she was devastated, i just told her what i was feeling. I didn't think my feelings for her would come back, she had a hard time b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Myex [20F] has no feeling for me [22M], but I still love her. What should I do? POST: I am still in love with my ex even though she has no feelings for me whatsoever. She explicitly told me that 5 months ago when we broke up, we recently exchanged a few texts (it was her birthday). She told me that she's become a workaholic since then, and I want to tell her she can talk to me/if she feels lonely/has no one to talk to. What's the best way to phrase it without offending her or making ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I figured it out. I figured out my kryptonite. POST: ***This might become a wall of text, sorry if it does, I need to write this down*** After yet another long night of my mind racing and making me feel like shit, I've come to a realization that I confirmed with a bit of backtracking. I've only been fortunate enough to have two girlfriends, yet had the misfortune of one cheating on me and me neglecting the other, but those are two other stories that are not for now. I've also had my f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [00 M/F] with my ___ [00 M/F] duration, short-description POST: I know I am young, however I make sure she realizes that I support her and will happily help her make that career path part of our lifestyle. However I worry about my family or anyone else looking down on this choice. I am planning on going into more of a high salary job (Engineering or actuarial sciences). Do you feel there is anything wrong with one of the people within a relationship to be there bread winner if t",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Choosing between my ex and a new guy POST: My boyfriend [M/20] of almost a year broke up with me [F/19] about 3 weeks ago. His reasons for breaking up were logical (busy school year coming up and long distance would be hard) and because of this there was not any serious bad blood. Our relationship previous to this had been sweet, normal, and healthy. About 2 weeks after the breakup, he expressed that he wants to get back together and that he has made a new mistake. He has been very ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] am having some serious clingy issues with my ex [21M] of 6 months. POST: My ex and I were dating for a few months after being friends for a while. We liked each other and decided to give it a try even knowing he had to move away for work in a few weeks. We tried long distance, but unfortunately he had a lot of trust issues and his jealousy got the best of him. He ended it, but we remained on good terms. I was pretty devastated because I really liked him, but it was for the be",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend has told me he can't fall in love with me. What now? POST: My boyfriend [M21] and I [F20] have been in a relationship for almost three months. I've really been enjoying my time with him. Last night we had a long conversation (spurred by him) of which the point was to tell me that due to his own confusion about love and his failure to connect on a deeper level with people, he didn't think he would ever fall in love with me. I his past relationships (which lasted 4 y",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend [21 F] 4 months, I don't know if it's alright to feel jealous over this small problem POST: My girlfriend's best friend (older male) had to leave for a couple of years and she is very sad over this. She has been wearing a necklace (a necklace that she wears a half of, and he the other) that he gave her a long time ago 24/7 for the past couple of weeks, I don't mind this but the damn necklace is in every single nude. It really bothers me, the idea of my gi",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Please help my poor Collie:( POST: My 9 year old Border Collie started becoming unwell around a week ago, we have had him since he was 3 and he is often a little quieter with a dry nose and we thought it was just one of those times but he has deteriorated a lot, he can barely stand, he refuses to eat, drinks little and he can't climb stairs or even onto my bed and I'm really concerned he won't live until tomorrow when my Granddad is able to take him to the vets. Just last week he was fine, ch",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my ex-girlfriend [18 F] we've been together for 2 years, she felt she's not ready for a relationship/commitment yet after we're together for 2 years. POST: I'm heart broken now that we're about to break up. She told me she isn't ready to have a relationship despite we having relationship for 2 years. Those 2 years spent with laughter, tears, adventure and romance that she never experienced before, and she was grateful for me. Until one day. After taking her space fr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] looked through my boyfriend's [26M] (of 2 years) internet history and did not like what I saw POST: Okay so a week ago my boyfriend left with his computer on (he NEVER does this). So this horrible curiosity crept up in me to look through it, I have never done this before btw. I have never looked through his phone or anything, I trust him. But for some reason something came over me that compelled me to look. (REGRET!) I basically found that he specifically looks at chubby/BBW",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/m] Currently seeing a girl [19/f] who does not want to be a thing, despite us both being physically and emotionally involved POST: We've known each other for a few years now just from having mutual friends but we only first hung out as friends back at the end of May. We really hit it off and has slowly progressed to us being closer and closer but she is opposed to us actually being a couple, and I'm not really sure what to do We spend lots of time together, and enjoy doin",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: How do I make it happen? POST: As you have probably guessed, I need advice. First, the low down: I'm a female. I have a close (male) friend who I see 4-5 days a week when catching the bus. I'm interested at making something happen, but I haven't known him for so long and I'm quite shy. An extremely close, you could say best, friend of mine also wants him. She has a better chance than me because of her looks but I haven't given up yet. My main problem is this person is moving away f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girls of reddit, i need help. My girl has stopped trying, i need to fix it. POST: I'm in a very serious relationship of about a yr and a half, with alot of discussion about getting married soon. My girlfriend, recently, has put on about 20 lbs, stopped wearing make-up 98% of the time, and in general, just seems to have stopped caring about her looks. I dont know if she's in the ""i've got a guy, i can stop trying"" mentality, or what, but its making me less attracted to her. I really l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21 F] Moving from friends to dating with [21 M] after multiple failed attempts POST: I just don't really know how to do this. We are both really inexperienced at dating, but have been friends for a while. We started being romantic about 6 months ago but then I wasn't sure what to do and freezed up and stop talking to him. We repaired our friendship and I told him I wasn't sure if I wanted to date/stay friends and he said that he was into me but respected that. Later that year after ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] might be moving away from the town my boyfriend[32 M] lives in, and I have need some advice about an LDR or moving in together (7 month relationship) POST: I applied for a job that is located 3 hours away from where my boyfriend and I currently live. I will be relocating if I get this job (which I believe I have a good chance of being offered) and my boyfriend said he would follow me. He has no ties to the town we are currently in and is willing to move to this new city. We",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] have been really shitty to my girlfriend [18F] the past few days and I feel horrible. (Been together for 4.5 years) POST: My girlfriend and I have been together since high school and she is the biggest sweetheart and such a kindhearted person. I try to be extra gentle with her, especially with what I say, because she is a bit sensitive and I don't want to hurt her feelings. Three days ago she told me that I've been criticizing her a lot lately and we argued over it",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have your parents ever done anything to make you feel unwanted? POST: Tonight I found out through facebook that my step-father and mother purchased a BMW for my cousin (without telling me beforehand) for graduating college. Let's put it this way shall we.... My mother didn't even come to my eighth grade graduation. She refused to hold a graduation party in my name do to ""financial trouble."" I have to BEG to get half my tuition for college paid for and a $50 allowance per month. Wheneve",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I am haunted everyday by what I can estimate is a 7-8 month old breakup. Three months of which I cannot remember at all. (X-posted by request from r/relationships). POST: Reddit, I am at the end of my rope. I don't know if its the fact that I'm too poor to pay my bills, and strung out over life or if its just the fact that I have to the day, spent the loneliest 6-7 months of my life. To be honest though, I can't remember at least three months of my life and I can't remember most of what ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Relationship Advice: Friendzoned by girl for a long time, escalates to on/off relationship. She's now in the Air Force and says she's absolutely in love with me, but she can't 'be with me' for 6yrs until she's out of the Air Force, so she wants to have an open relationship until then. POST: Really conflicted. I'll call her Jane. Jane and I always got along great, and were friends almost instantly. She's had a lot of bad luck and fall outs with people and I'm really the only one who's st",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] Me [23M] trying to right my wrongs with past relationships and move on with my life POST: link to previous post: [ So during the past week, I took off some time from work and took Stella to Vegas, Grand Canyon, LA, SD, etc. I spent probably $4-5K and a lot of physical investment (time/stress/lack of sleep) due to an incident during the trip. All in all, I have no regrets and we've both moved past that incident during the trip. Since there were some outlying incidents that ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Moving Across the Country Without Breaking the Bank? POST: Hey everyone! My boyfriend is moving from KY to CA in late July to live with me and we're trying to figure out the logistics of the move. Neither of us have much money right now so we're trying to keep costs down as low as possible. He's got a compact car that he'll need to bring, along with some guitars, a bike, a keyboard, and other personal stuff. No large furniture. But the stuff he is bringing with him will not fit into his car",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] am suffering from recent breakup with my ex [18F] of 2.5 yrs POST: As you might have guessed, yes, it's that dreaded ""college"" thing. We went to different colleges (in different states) and long-distance didn't work long. I knew she had a need for physical closeness but she wanted to try long distance, so I agreed. Less than a month in she's met a guy she likes, tells me she can't handle being so far away and that long distance isn't working for her. Okay, I say, I understa",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I [21F] asked to get set up with a guy but I don't know what to do next? POST: Hi everyone! For context: I'm in my final year at University and we have a dance to celebrate our graduation at the end of the year. During my whole stay at Uni, I was very active in extracurriculars and barely had any time to date. Anyway-- to cut a long story short, I spotted a photo of a cute guy on my facebook newsfeed a couple of weeks ago and asked our mutual friends to set us up. I even jokingly ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] and my best friend [18M] used to be very close but are drifting, what can I do to salvage this? POST: My best friend and I have been very close all through high school, but since the start of this year things have felt very different. He's started dating a common friend of both of us and I don't see him much anymore. In fact, if I didn't initiate with him, I would never see him outside of school except to give him or his girlfriend a ride. When we talked about this, he see",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 25/m Feeling like I'm losing the ""chase"" with 23/f - Compiling a rules set for myself - Any advice? POST: 25/m Been dating 23/f for 3 months including lot's time with her family. We kicked it off so well the first month. Her family loves me we haven't squabbled about a single thing and have genuinely appreciated each other's company through this time. Thanksgiving came and things got physical between us fast. She isn't the friends with benefits kind of girl, but the heat was tu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] ended the relationship, but my now ex [21F] is having trouble accepting it. POST: I ended my 4 year relationship last week. I had fallen out of love, I still care about her immensely but no longer romantically. I change and grew throughout the relationship but she relatively stayed the same, I have grown out of the relationship. I realized we wanted different things in life, our lifestyles were too fundamentally different and that neither of us could fulfill certain needs ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my Dating Partner/GF pretty much[26 F] of a few months, continues to mention how attractive other men are, and sometimes makes comments that make me question what she is thinking. POST: I understand this has probably been mentioned many times before but would like a fresh perspective. This woman I have been seeing for a few months and have actually known her for longer over a couple years seemingly HAS to mention about an attractive guy she saw or has seen every singl",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by wandering off drunk in Ecuador POST: So the SO and I are in Ecuador on vacation and we are flying out to Panama City and 6 am the following morning. We've been on a bit of a day drunk and he's tired and I'm bored. I decide to wander off to an internet cafe where I end up meeting some fun travellers and we head off to a bar. We drink more and more.. and more. Fast forward I'm stumbling around and I can't find the condo we are renting for the life of me. I'm trying to ask around my Span",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My BF insists we spend the exactly same amount on xmas gifts for each other and coordinate specific budgets, is that strange? Me (23/F), Him (27/M) POST: This will be my second Christmas with my boyfriend, we will have been dating almost two years by Christmas. Last year, he urged that we put a monetary value on how much each of us will spend on gifts and I said $100 (because that is what I could afford). No problem, we had a nice Christmas. Now again this year, my boyfriend asked ho",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [27/M] tried to move too quickly with girl [24] after 3 dates and spooked her, but she's agreed to meet. Advice needed! POST: Hello, Reddit! Long story short, I met an amazing girl recently and we went on three dates over the course of a couple weeks. After date number three, I was too aggressive in terms of texting, calling, and professing feelings for her. It was silly and completely unlike me, as I usually take a very measured approach to dating. I simply got swept up by this gi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [25 M] be giving my dad money [48 M]? POST: * TL;DR: ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am discovering things in a house I'm remodeling that weren't disclosed to me. What can I do? POST: I did not buy the house, nor am I renting it from the person directly. My grandfather purchased the house next door to him as an investment, and is allowing my boyfriend and I to rent it from him. I am extremely fortunate to have my grandfather helping me out--he is paying for everything to be remodeled because it is an old house that was built in 1956 and has not been taken care of ver",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 F] need help, I can't move on... [31 M] Feeling sad and obsessed. POST: *** English is not my main language... so SORRY for english mistakes. Dated a guy briefly, he wasn't ready for relationship then came back to me and say we should be friend first by building connection and memories. But that does not work as he doesn't seem that interested in me and is looking for other girls on dating website. It sucks. He rarely ask me out now. Rarely text me like he used to. I feel reje",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Linguists, Physicists, And Astronomers- College Advice Required. POST: I'm having an internal dilemma here, Reddit. Currently, I am an Astronomy major attending my last year in a California Community College. I'll be transferring at the end of spring, since I just finished my mathematics requirements. anyway, here's what's prompted this post: I finally qualified to take a Physics class this summer (I finished Trigonometry). I loved the discussions, the videos, the ideas, and even the pr",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: So why does Reddit love space research and exploration so much? POST: First post! Been lurking for a while but never really understood this. I have always wondered this because I personally have never really seen that much benefit in space research and exploration for humanity. I majored in Environmental Engineering and studied a lot of water resources and water treatment. It baffles me how little we know about water treatment and how much staggering research there is to be done. It seem",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Paid extra by previous employer, now they're trying to reclaim it. POST: This happened in New York, USA I resigned from my previous job on June 15th and received paychecks on June 15th, June 30th, and July 15th. On July 15th I was concerned that this payment was in error. I contacted the HR/accounting person who was responsible for paychecks and they told me everything was legit and the check I received on July 15th was for my final days and my remaining PTO(this conversation happened",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Drop out of college for long distance relationship or drop girl for college? POST: I've been with my current girlfriend for the past 3 years, and the entire time its been a long distance relationship. I met her when I was still in the Navy stationed in Japan (she's Japanese), and for some miraculous reason, we managed to hold a relationship for this long. I've been in school for the last year or so and have about 3 more years left until i graduate. Lately (being about the last 6 mont",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [19M] is jealous and mad at me [18F] because I accepted a completely innocent drink from guys with my friend [F]. POST: I live in a university hall and yesterday was the night where previous residents return for a formal dinner / drinks etc. I was chatting with my friend [18F] in her room when these two guys came around telling everyone that they were buying all first years' free drinks (this included some guys, and they made it clear one of them had a girlfriend). My fr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: ""I love you so much but things don't work anymore"". I (F23) lost my first love (M23)? POST: Throwaway because both are active Redditors and post history. I had a three year relationship with my ex. We were each other's first girlfriend/boyfriend. I loved this man more than life and most of the time, things were great. Last summer we got to a breaking point. I was working 70+ weeks, not because I am a workaholic but because I temporary had no other choice. After traveling 3 hours on",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [25 M] admitted he has feelings for me [18 F] out of the blue while he has a girlfriend. POST: Me and my friend have known each other for maybe 3 months. We met at work and have had a good relationship. Well, he's been going through some shitty stuff in life, and I've been trying my best to cheer him up and stop him from doing unmentionable things. As I was talking to him, he messages me his feelings for him. Since I can't post the screen shots, here are the messages as t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with a guy I've been seeing [24M] duration, We haven't said that we're exclusive, but I've slept with someone else and I feel so guilty. What do I do? POST: Edit**Duration = 3 months I got out of a 3 year long relationship 4 months ago. The break up was pretty bad and dragged on for months. 3 months ago, I started hooking up with someone from work (Steve). It has been a lot of fun and at the beginning all I wanted was something not serious at all. We haven't talked about be",negative " r/travel TITLE: Canadians, be aware when booking on Hotwire. I got ripped off. POST: Just wanted to share my experience with fellow Canadians over an issue I had with Hotwire, which could cost you quite a bit of money. Last week, I tried to book a hotel here in Canada with Hotwire. I was on their site and the prices were showing in Canadian dollars. Unfortunately, when I went to accept the rate, the price nearly doubled. I called and spoke to an employee over the phone. She apologized and said that becaus",negative " r/self TITLE: Yesterday I logged into my old mail acc. and read my old love ""letters"" POST: Jesus. My lord. Maybe I should post this to cringe. It definitely is the most cringe worthy thing I've read in past 5361 years. I mean, dear lord. The emails are 7 years old, I understand people change but holy smokes if that was me. LOL. To make things better (worse), those emails are even more interesting due to the fact they document the breakup of a relationship. LOL LOL again. I took a glance of few messages",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Separated for a year (32m), starting to date. Is it going well or am I just rusty or am I second guessing myself? POST: I am a 32m, have a 2.5 year old son, and have been separated from my wife for a year. I'm working on the final paperwork. I recently asked out an acquaintance (31f divorced w/ 2 kids) and it went surprisingly well. We talked a lot (I listened to her); We shared some margaritas and then went back to my place for Trees. The body language seemed there and my ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my friend [16 F] . I don't know if shes dropping a hint to go to homecoming with me or not. POST: Alright i should explain, i'm in high school currently and this upcoming week (Friday) is homecoming, now I wasn't planning on going until last Friday during class this girl (we will call her Sally) walks up to me one day and asks me and a friend (who happened to be sitting next to me), "" sooo, what about this upcoming dance"" while looking at me full eye contact and smilin",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not paying attention in class. POST: I was in a general paper class, and the teacher gave us some quiz on like privacy and stuff. we just got a new teacher for GP since the last one went abroad for further studies. It was the last lesson of the day so I was abit tired and unable to think straight, and I basically wanted to have a laugh, so [I did this] I showed it to the guy sitting next to me, and he definitely judged me. So i took a pic and sent it to other friends on whatsapp. (Tha",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by throwing away my tax refund POST: The TIFU happened last week, but the realization of the FU dawned on me about fifteen minutes ago I used TurboTax this year to do my taxes. I didn't get a huge refund back but any amount is fine as long as I didn't owe anything. However, when I did my taxes, the website had a screw up of its own apparently and it said that I never filed at all. So I planned on doing it the old fashioned way once I got the time. Now, my apartment does housekeeping i",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Oh. You're missing the shit you didn't put away? How terrible. POST: I live in a town house. My next door neighbor is a mentally unstable drama whore single mom. She has three kids. The younger two boys (maybe 8 & 9 yo) are annoying. They are always making crazy shrill noises out the window while I mow the lawn or screaming random nonsense at the top of their lungs for no reason what so ever. And they are mean to my 8 year old daughter. I hate them. I hate them all. These boys l",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What did you do with your degree in biological/medical sciences? POST: Hey everyone, just some background here: I've got a bachelor of science in neuroscience and I'm just about to start the second year of my master's program in which I'm studying molecular biology and genetics. I've worked in a lab environment for about 4 years now, split between two different labs with fairly different focuses. My first was a neurophysiology lab, and this current one is mostly molecular biology and gen",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my GF [22 F] 4 months. She says she's in it for the long haul, I still have yet to figure out if that's something I want right now. POST: Not gonna be too long. It's pretty much in the description. She wants to have a serious, long term relationship, but at the moment I am undecided as to what I want. I have discussed this with her and I've stated my thoughts as clearly as I could. How I want to see where it goes and enjoy it as it is, etc. She has said that she under",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [40/m] am extremely attracted to one of my former students [21/f]. Now that she's graduated i could technically approach her about it, but it just seems wrong. POST: Throwaway for obvious reasons. Without giving away too much information, I am a professor a fairly small private school in the US. Like other schools, there is a definite policy against students and professors from having inappropriate relationships. This has never been an issue for me. I am 40, divorced, bald... not",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [25/f] Decided I have to move out. Worried I'm going to forget something... POST: Been 3 years, some great times, but a long period of lonely depressing times, with the odd sunny day... So, I need advice on how to remember what to take with me, or maybe some things most people forget to take after living together for a long time? Sorry if this sounds dumb, I am just terrible at forgetting things anyway. I can't leave and return for things as he is quite dramatic, and I don't c",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: ER did not treat at all but are asking for $1000 in payment, can I do something here? POST: So last year, I had an infection, it was quite awful. Doc prescribed me antibiotics, I felt worse on them. Then one night I woke up with pain in my lower half and pins and needles all over. I got scared and went to ER. ER in California folks took bp and pulse and asked me to pee in a cup. Doc came and said you dont have any rashes its probably just anxiety. And sent me home with anxiety pills. ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not holding the door open POST: So, today a gorgeous tall man said hello to me in the elevator. I awkwardly responded Hi, wondering why such an attractive male was speaking to me, especially considering he was interrupting his conversation with his friend to do so. I was leaving my lab for the day and wanted to catch my bus so I speed walked in my normal fashion out of the elevator, and reached the front door with extremely inopportune timing. Seeing as how I was still shocked from t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 M] relationship with my SO [19 F] is dead after nearly 2.5 years. Need advice. Should I end it? POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for around 2.5 years now. Our relationship has gone from amazingly perfect to completely mundane and boring and even slightly annoying. We got together in summer 2012 and everything was perfect. We got on so well together as we were both into photography and cycling. We'd spend most of our time out on our bikes or at her house. When I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 26m/26f Pregnant, casual relationship, may not be mine. POST: Im seeing this girl as a ""friends with benefits"" situation, tried to go further then just friends with benefits but she was afraid of being hurt and thought I couldn't handle her past baggage, I re-assured her that I could and even though we didnt decide on anything she seemed into the idea.. Fast forward a few days, she wasn't feeling well and after *peeing on a stick, it turns out she's pregnant. We have been doing thi",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Question about an application form POST: I'm a rising senior in college and applying for a summer internship. After a phone interview, they're giving me an in person interview and an application form. There are four spots for previous employment and three for references. My concern is that I cant fill all of these spots and that it looks bad to leave them blank. My sense is that this is the same form they give to people who -- how do I put this -- have actually had real jobs/are looking for l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my ... [19 F] 2 weeks going on a year: I am that guy. POST: Over a year ago, I cheated. I was in a relationship that I knew would end. I drank too much. She was two days fresh out of a high school sweet-heart relationship. I always thought she was cute, but that barrier had finally dissolved. I immediately returned home and told the previous relationship the awful thing I had done with Myrtle. This was the start of a 6 month relationship. Myrtle and I had a lot of fu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my perfect girl [19 F] of 3 and a half years POST: So i have been with my girlfriend since i graduated high school and she has always been my best friend that i could trust with anything, as its supposed to be in a relationship. Sadly i was a colossal D-bag early on in our relationship and have had pretty consistent trust issues. So a while back she passed the idea of an ""open"" relationship past me. Obviously I immediately thought trap, and very expressively explained",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Family drama and I don't know WTF to do POST: My brother in law has been dating a woman for about 4 years. Until March, it was long distance with both of them in different states but about 2hrs driving distance away. From the day they met they've had this ""10 year plan"". He's her personal Gumby. She's molding him into the man she wants for her life plan, instead of finding a guy who is already what she wants. He goes right along with it, not even realizing that he's nothing like he was ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Did I [15M] just get rejected? Reddit what do? POST: I suggest you take a quick look at my other [post] first Backstory: So I've been talking with this girl alot, I installed Snapchat and we had happy conversations. Then, I went to a sleepover birthday party and there literally everyone said that we would be a dream pair etc. The next day, I felt like talking to her again and told her about what happened at the party just to get the conversation started (happened end of december). ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Please help me make things right. POST: Before I met this girl, I had not had a girlfriend in 3 years. No girl was interesting to me, until I met her. I fell for unconditionally. We haven't been together for too long. I have been afraid to show her that I love her too much, because I don't want to overwhelm her. But I have never been so happy, as when I'm spending time with her. Everything was going well until I began messing up. She thinks I spend too much time and energy on m",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Straight men, and even those who might be homophobic, what should I do? (No, I'm not asking for crush advice.) POST: Okay, so the story is, I have a friend that I met last fall, who I've become pretty good friends with. I, myself, am bisexual (open to most of my family and old friends). I really enjoy this friend's company and companionship, and he's a really great person. I don't however have a crush on him, or want to start a relationship with him. Now, my friend has shows slight homo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my SO [31M] for 3 years, I'd like to get married soon but not sure how to bring it up POST: My [27F] boyfriend [31M] and I have been together for about 3 years now. We've always had a healthy and stable relationship built on trust and great communication. After about a year or so of dating, we started talking seriously about marriage. It's always been a question of *when* moreso than *if* after that point. We've had many discussions about values, finances, future kids,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [22/f] & [22/m] I don't know how to fight. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for a little over a year and moved in together 8 months after we started dating. Everything has been good, other than a few ""fights"". It's hard to even call those fights because the few times he did something wrong and I called him out on it or I did something wrong and he called me out on it. There was no shades of gray on what we did, so it was easy to say ""you messed up"" and for the other to say",positive " r/relationships TITLE: me[23F] has feelings for two men POST: I was in a relationship with a guy for close to one and half years. Life was good. I was happy and life was kinda monotonous in a good way. During that phase, I met this other guy during a business trip. I instantly attracted to him. I could not do anything with guy 2 cos I was in a relationship with the first guy. Then, later I broke up with the first guy cos' I felt like i wasn't doing justice to that relationship + I was not ready for commitm",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Looking for legal representation is a full time ducking job and it's not fair POST: I was told I need to hire a lawyer to receive my unemployment compensation. I was verbally and physically harassed on a daily basis. I had a gun pulled on me. By the same person who later threatened my life and the safety of my ex, who is in the military. I've documented every fucking step of the way in every channel I could possibly manage. My phone records are with my manager and with the public safety",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] met my now ex [20 F] of three years first time after breakup, can't handle my emotions. POST: So one month ago while on a business trip i got a text from my SO basically telling me she could not cope anymore. We've had some issues over the years but i thought we had a turning point two-three months ago and i was looking forward to a summer and all the things we had planned (festivals etc). Being 800 miles from home and her, I was shocked and could not get myself together",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Wife recently got mad at me for agreeing with her, won't tell me why? (weird) POST: Quick rundown: Married for 6 years, no major issues to date. Ages: 26 (male, me), 27 (female, her) 2 kids: Girl (9 yr. old. from her previous), Boy (3 yr. old, from our relationship) The story is simple: recently we were discussing getting a cell phone, but she felt we couldn't afford it. I asked that we simply go look at prices to get an understanding of how much it'd cost (we've never owned o",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [California] Unemployment? Or Disability? POST: Hey there, So about a year ago I started working for my friend's dad, who owns a landscaping business. It's been very physical work, but overall rewarding, unfortunately the work seems to have flared up an old back injury of mine. I began physical therapy while I was working, and continued to do so for about 2 months with no improvement. Then one Tuesday I woke up and I was pretty much unable to get out of bed. The acute injury and s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [23M] break up with my long distance girlfriend [22F] of 5 months POST: My girlfriend and I started dating 5 months ago. From the start there were occasional red flags, things I ignored, and things I didn't care about because I knew I was moving away. We decided to go long distance because after about a month of dating things started going really well, but now 3 weeks after long distance, it's clear I want to end things. I found out some unfavorable news a few days ago, ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I just found out my ex is engaged to the girl he was cheating on me with. I know he's a d-bag, but I still feel terrible about it. Any ideas why I would be feeling this way? How does one get over such a thing? POST: the back story: both in our late 20's, he and i were dating for 2.5 years. we lived on the north east coast, he got a job transfer and we moved together across the country. I went to go spend some time with family for a little bit while looking for a job. After two months, he ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [22f] is in love with me [24m], don't know what to do POST: I have a very close friend, let's call her Bonnie. Bonnie and I met 4 years ago at college and have pretty much got steadily closer over time until today she's one of my closest friends. Bonnie was going through some tough shit a couple of years ago, depression and stuff, which I helped her get through. I started getting attracted to Bonnie round late last year. Bunch of reasons: both she and I matured somewhat, g",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by looking like an ass in my first class POST: Today was my first day back to class after a long winter break. We started off class like most first days, going around the room and answering questions about ourselves. Everyone listed their major(s), classes they're taking this quarter, and what year they are. As this is a required upper level course for my major, most students are in their junior or senior year. This is also predominately known as an ""easy"" major. As we went around the r",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [18M] ex gf [18F] has contacted me twice after our break up and I don't understand why? POST: If you want to see backstory on our relationship and breakup, you can look at my past posts. She broke up with me after making me think she still loved me when she didn't for 2 months. She contacted me the day after our break up apologizing for everything and asking to still be a part of each other's lives in friendship, to which I told her I need time as what she did hurt me. I t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] feeling depressed because of [18 F] slept with someone else, unsure how to truly get over it/stop feeling like shit. POST: This weekend the first girl that I've ever showed interest in/the first girl whose ever shown interest in me got drunk at a party and slept with another guy. While technically we weren't dating, we were close. It went from her texting me everyday and being excited to see me to just nothing. That's it. I'm crushed that for the past few months Apparantl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 m] with my Ex [17 F] 2 years. Should I cut her out of my life for good? POST: I'll make this short and sweet. We were together for 2 years. I went head over heels for her. Thought I was going to marry her one day. She randomly breaks up with me because ""she's not good enough and she can only give me a friendship"". She also told me she would never move on yet she did a month after we broke up to a guy who is scared to come out of the closet. After we broke up she wanted nothi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (25f) boyf (25m) says he doesn't love me. POST: We've been together for 9 months. I told him I loved him about 4 months in. I knew I meant it when I said it but he never reciprocated and I was ok with it. This was never a problem for me since I know people reach that point at different times. Moving forward to yesterday. We were in bed talking and he was upset (jokingly) that he wasn't my best friend but I was his. And he said ""How can you love me and I'm not your best friend?"" I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[19M] with my new relationship [22M] have been talking for a month, he does recreational drugs and I don't....will it be awkward? POST: I've always been very reserved with my personal life and never looked at someone romantically. However, I met this guy a month ago and we've been talking a lot and things are starting to escalate more and more. The more I talk with him the more I realize how happy we are around each other and that I've been enjoying spending a lot of time with hi",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to please my (ex) girlfriend POST: I had been in a relationship with this particular girl for about five years when she said to me ""Tossaway5445, ever consider getting circumcised? I didn't ask before, but because we are now probably going to spend the rest of our lives together, I think you should get it done. It will mean more spontaneous sex."" I was against the idea at first, but then began to accept it as I was the happiest I had ever been and wanted her to be happy as wel",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, Should I stay put, or explore new possibilities? POST: So, Reddit, I have a query for you. I am twenty years old, I have worked for the same company building high voltage electrical components for two years, I have good job security here, my employer, and the owner of the company like me personally, and are satisfied with my work. It's somewhat of a dead-end however. The best paid technicians, which is what I am, only make $35-40k a year. I could stay there and be financially sec",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22M] scared that I won't really be able to ever get over her [20F] POST: About a half year ago, I tried a LDR with someone I had very strong feelings for, but it ended pretty badly. We only went on one real date before I left for my internship and did an LDR for a month. If I guess why we truly broke up from my point of view it will look like I'm blaming her for something I'm not sure on so I'd rather not. Anyways, she said maybe when I return to town we could try being in love ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M24] trying to deal with SOs [F27] relationship with her close friend POST: Hey all, the situation pretty much is the following. My GF [27, been with her for about 2 months] has a friend who's helped her through a lot before we met. I understand that he's a played a big part in her life and I can't just tell her to stop seeing him. However my concern is that she's willing to do a lot just to not lose her friendship with him, even if it means spending less time with me. I know that t",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Can I fix this wage negotiation faux-pas? POST: Today I attended an open house for a non profit staffing agency. I'm a recent college grad looking for temp work while I explore other permanent opportunities. I've never had a salary before, and the highest I was ever paid was 9/hr. Of course, that was before I had to start paying back my student loans. Anyway, when the recruiter asked me my salary requirements, I froze. I said I'm an entry level professional and hadn't really thought about my",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Cyclers of Reddit: Help me choose a bike for a x-mas gift, please! POST: My girlfriend's dad wanted a good bicycle for xmas. He's training for one of those iron man competitions next year and needed a better bike. When we asked what he wanted to christmas, he jokingly said ""this"" and showed us the bike he was already looking at on his PC. We got the whole family to throw in so that we could make it a reality. We bought a Dawes Lightning 1000 (the bike he was looking at): Last night, ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by having an overly attached cat friend [nsfw] POST: Ok background: So this happened several years ago. A couple months after my SO and I moved in together I brought home a kitten. While she's always lived with both of us she's always been more of my cat. She sleeps next to me most nights and always comes to me when she wants pets and snuggles. If my SO and I argue (because all couples argue sometimes) she switches back and forth between sitting on my lap purring trying to calm me down ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Wife needs space and time...what to do? POST: Married for 12 years, together for 20. 2 kids (6 and 10). Normal marriage, not arguing, or aware of issues in the past, just the everyday stress or life. Wife says she does not feel the attraction she once did. And she feels like she does not have the opportunity to be herself. Finds joy in others (friends). She works from home part time and kids take up the rest apart from her time a gym and the nights with friends, mostly at house of on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What should I do? POST: Me [23 M] , Well it all starts from a girl that I met offline. We were talking for a year and finally met. I very much like her but she has to move to another state where I can't reach her. Because I am terrible at meeting other people or other people don't seem to enjoy my company depressed. It took me a year to be able to get so far with her and she is leaving. I feel as if I am lowest on the totem pole and defective since other members of my family and frie",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] with my wife [24F] of 3 years, may be coming to an end. Would like some opinions. POST: A history, I'm a 23 year old male, my wife(24) have been married just over 3 years together for almost 5.5 years. Our problems started when we were first moved in together, it was a long distance thing, she moved here, we got an apartment, neither of us had ever lived with someone of the opposite sex before. I admit now that we were niave, but in love none the less. I started doing thing",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (M25) have no idea whats going on in this girl(F23)'s brain. Met 3 years ago POST: A few years back, I met this girl, through a mutual friend at a party. She's complicated, and cute and stubborn and we have so much of the same outlook on life. We're both outgoing enough but I think when it comes to relationships theres a mutual anxiety around intamacy and dating thats difficult to overcome. It's made things kind of difficult and somewhat awkward at times. Initially we went on two",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What's your reaction of how a promiscuous male [46 M] deceived his wife [26 F] with the divorce POST: This is not for me personally. I found this story from a biography I'm reading. ""I was down in Miami Beach in our winter home, and he came and said he was going to lose his money,"" said [name redacted, the wife] in our interview. ""The government was going to sue him for nonpayment of taxes. A big deal back in those days. He wanted me to get a divorce so he could put the money in fun",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Accomplishments going unnoticed POST: I was wondering what type of things you guys... and ladies have done that no one believes you did. For example I was at the basketball court shooting around with friends and we were all trying to make crazy shots. As soon as everyone got over it they went to go get water while I stayed determined in making a shot. The moment they looked away I happened to make the shot and started yelling and running around super happy. I told them that I had made th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my suitemate [19 F] -- My suitemate asked me to go somewhere other than our bathroom to blow dry my hair in the morning. I'm not sure what's the fair response to this. POST: Here's my living setup right now at college: I and my roommate have an adjoining bathroom with our two suitemates. One door in each room leads into the bathroom directly. Today, my roommate told me that one of our suitemates stopped by to tell me (although I wasn't here: my roommate passed on the m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [25/f] balance personal needs supporting my stressed out SO [27/m] POST: Hi all, When I meant my partner he was unemployed and I was working 2 jobs and studying for my masters degree. Since then I've graduated (!!!) and he's been gainfully employed (!!!) which are great steps. I am currently looking for a job that will offer more financial stability and he's looking into graduate school himself. We live separately but are looking into getting a space together when our leas",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [33 F] and I [25 M] have been dating for 2 months and have quite the age gap. What challenges might this bring to our relationship? POST: I don't have any major questions or issues to speak of, I'm just curious as to potential challenges we may face with our age difference. Our age gap is 7 years 9.5 months. She's been a math teacher for about 6 years and I've been an engineer for just over 1 year. We were acquaintances before we really started talking. We are both part",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is 'just being with me should make you happy' a selfish thing to say? My ex (22f) said this to me (22m) POST: We dated for two years and I just felt like I was the only person putting in the effort, so I ended things about a month ago. A few weeks after she agreed to see me and talk for a little while. It felt good to get some things off my chest and have one neutral interaction. But she said something that really bothered me during our talk. She said 'I thought just being with me w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my girlfriend [18F] of almost 1 year, she went way further with another guy from the dorm who she promised to stay away from except class or study hall. POST: We've had a great year. She's a freshman. I love her and she loves me. I heard things from some other people about her and her study partner. He is a frat guy type. I asked her about it, she said nothing much. Finally it came out that when we had started dating that she had gone with him for a night of studying t",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by laughing in the 9/11 memorial museum. POST: So like a ton of TIFU this did not happen today, this happened a few months ago. So my family decided to take a trip to the 9/11 memorial museum in New York City. We are walking around and enjoying ourselves when me and my brother decided to go into a room where they show all the people who passed on during 9/11, in the center of this room is another room to which they have a projector that says the person's name, shows a picture of them, ",positive " r/Advice TITLE: 24M living with ex gf with no friends or job. What do I do. POST: My ex girlfriend and I are still sharing an apartment. I used to be her only good friend in college for 2 years and she almost always only hung out with me. When we broke up a few months ago it was mainly due to her saying she wanted to be free and basically meet a financially stable guy and meet many different guys. I was laid off from my sales job a few months back and am currently dealing with finishing my exam and looking",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [30 M] don't know how to tell [30 F] co-worker that I don't want to come to her wedding POST: The invitations were sent out over a week ago, and the RSVP dude date is in a couple weeks. We are the only two employees at our work, so we chat every day, and she brings up the wedding a lot. Problem is, I really don't want to go. For one thing I don't have anyone to go with, for another the only people I am going to know there are old co-workers, a lot of whom I really didn't get al",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Will I [23F] scare him [23M] away by asking this question? POST: I have been hooking up with a guy intermittently for about 9 months, and it started to move into relationship territory in the last two months or so. I have spent quite a bit of time at his house get along very very well with his siblings and parents. Being with this guy has been making me the happiest I've been in a long time-- I love spending time with him, crazy awesome sex, etc. We're still in the bubbly new phase ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (25f) supporting my boyfriend of 2 years (26m) while he heals from his compulsive behavior POST: Oh god, where to start. I love this man. He's like my true family and my best friend (my biological family sucks). He supported me as I worked through my PTSD and I got so much better, I dreamed of stuff I never thought would happen to me (to own a house, get married, start a family) and felt so happy. He's a recovering alcoholic who has been sober for a while. He struggled with sexua",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [00 M/F] with my ___ [00 M/F] duration, short-description POST: Ok 1st I'll start with a back story, I have only had one BF before this he was the 1st guy to take interest in me and the 1st guy I've ever had a ""romantic"" interest in I use quotes because this guy was extremely religious, I on the other hand was not. That relationship lasted 9 months strictly platonic until my 1st kiss ever! Well 3 days after he ended it by saying I wasn't religious enough...but he'll pray for me…re",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Invoking Rule 34: Is there manatee porn out there? POST: Disclaimer: my boyfriend and I have a bit of a weird sex life. We were having a bath today and the whole sex in a large bath thing was a bit hilarious with sloshing water and odd positions so we decided to start making manatee noises. This led us both to wonder if rule 34 applies and there's actually any manatee porn out there. Not involving real manatees, but just people having sex in water acting like manatees. Any insight would ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 F] was an asshole to my friend [21 M] of over a year (a few years ago), see him sometimes, should I say sorry? POST: I was friends with this guy ""Charlie"" since the beginning of college, he was really the first person to go out of their way to talk to me and be a true friend to me. When other people were assholes, he stuck up for me. Halfway through sophomore year, Charlie said something to me about my boyfriend ""John"" that really unsettled me, and I kinda stopped responding t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/m] Stupid in love with Filipina girl, and hoping not to screw this up. Advice? POST: I'm stupid, head over heels, in love with this girl. My family loves her. Her family (because they're back in country) doesn't know me so well, but they like me. She's only been here for a year and a half, so her cultural heritage is still really strong and I recognize that I'm an ignorant American man. Is there anything I should know about being in a relationship with a Filipina BEFOR",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 M] with a woman I'm dating [30 F] for over a month, I tested positive for HSV-1. Need advice please. POST: I've been dating this awesome woman for the past 5 weeks and have done everything right when it comes to being honest about myself and honest with my feelings for her. I was fully tested for all STD and was clean except for HSV-1. Being the honest man I am, I let her know as it could affect her someday. She said she needed time to process this and I'll give here the time.",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Advice about how to proceed. POST: Before I begin, I ask for mercy and guidance instead of condemnation. I feel wretched about what I am about to describe and am not looking to rationalize it. Freshman year I contracted HSV-1 from a lady friend. It really undermined my self-confidence and self-image and I pretty much gave up on the idea someone would ever care for me. Since then, I have turned down multiple opportunities to have relations because I don't feel good about wagering my nigh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my friend [22 F] who admittedly likes me but can't get over her ex POST: I met this girl in my last semester of college through a group of mutual friends and we really started to hit it off from the get go. This girl has become very special to me over the past few months. We text non-stop, talk on the phone for hours on end most nights, and we have hooked up on multiple occasions. However, she still has another year at school and has been balking at the idea of taki",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [39 F] with my BF [39 M] 8 years, no trust after cheating POST: I know he cheated with an old friend a couple of times early on in our relationship. It was before I met his parents and he would go to visit on his own. They hooked up a couple of times. I know this 100%, but he denies it to this day. Recently, I saw some texts on his phone indicating he and a co-worker are up to something. They have feelings for each other, but would never date. They have hooked up in the past. Abo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (32) told me (29) that I'm fat and don't do enough housewife things last night while he was drunk. POST: Last night my (29) boyfriend (32) of 1 year 9 months came home buzzed for the umpteenth time in the past several weeks. I've been trying to be patient with him as he's had alcohol issues in the past which we worked through together. He's really come a long way. However, my patience has been wearing thin during this episode and last night when he came home I didn't explod",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I think I got scammed by a company... what can I do? POST: I bought a required text from Pearson/Benjamin Cummings (A.D.A.M Interactive Anatomy) that comes with a CD for the installation of an in depth anatomy program. The whole course is based off this disc, the book really isn't important. The problem is this disc simply will not work with anything newer than Windows XP. Nowhere on the book or any of the ads online does it say this, it says it won't work with MAC, but will work wit",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Do I need closure? Does he? POST: Hi all, So two years ago, an ex ended things with me over Facebook, after a week of acting strange, avoiding me, ignoring me. I know I know—should've seen the signs and knew what was coming. I was sad about it for awhile, before I realized that he is a real wimp for not having the courage to do it face to face. A couple days after the breakup, he was really bipolar about his feelings—he wanted to get back together, and then he hated me, and wanted to burn ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[F19] am feeling more like his[M26] fuck buddy than his girlfriend :/ POST: I (f19) have been with my bf(M26) for about 5 months. We have had our ups and downs but we have worked things out in our own way. Lately I have been feeling more and more like a part-time girlfriend. We both go to the same college and we both live on campus, so distance isn't the issue. I completely understand that we are both here to learn, so school comes first and that space is a good thing in a relatio",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (19/m) My girlfriend (18/f) of over one year lost sexual attraction to me, and now wants to end things. Hoping /r/relationship_advice can help. POST: Okay some background information. My girlfriend has had a traumatic life and has had chronic depression. Her father was an alcoholic, though he never sexually abused her. Neither me, nor my girlfriend, were virgins when we began dating, however she didn't want to have sex when she did. That being said, the guy she lost her virgini",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I get my girlfriend to go see my family for Christmas eve ? POST: I (17m) want to my girlfriend (17) to go with my parents and I to see family and celebrate Christmas on Christmas eve and then come back Christmas day. (We have been together for a year and a half now) We did this last year but now she isn't allowed to go with my this year because I didn't go to her dinner with her family on Christmas night. I've messed up on several occasions now on not going to her family g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife (23F) is pressuring me (24M) into having a baby. POST: Let me preface that I absolutely do want to have a baby with her. We've been married for 4 months, been together total for 3 1/2 years. My only reservation is that I want to sell my car. It costs us over $550 a month in finance payments and insurance just for my car. I've had it listed on Craigslist for a while and have been shopping it around, but with no luck so far. She wants to start trying RIGHT NOW to have a baby,",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by unintentionally insulting my boss POST: I have a tendency to lack a filter between my brain and my mouth, and honestly, even with the best intentions and *thinking* I'm using a filter, I always fuck it up. This happened about a month ago and I'd been at my new job for about 2 months? 11am I made some comment that I'd been overtaken on the way to work with some guy doing three times the speed limit at least. I said, ""man, and the bastard was ginger too, always the angriest"" (completel",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Identical social networking profiles? What's up with this? POST: I got two friend suggestions from Facebook which led me to obviously fake profiles with identical ""about me"" essays. I got curious and searched for other pages with the same ""about"" essay. The list below is just a starter set, but notice that they come from a range of networking sites. I don't want to get all conspiracy-theoryesque on you, but can somebody explain to me what is going on here? The identical essays read as f",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I've been asked to play guitar at my sister's wedding. Need some suggestions on what to play during the reception. POST: So, I'm going to be playing guitar at my sister's wedding in a few weeks. Ever since I've started to REALLY play guitar she's wanted me to play while she walks down the aisle. I already know which songs I'll be playing during the ceremony, but the groom's side of the family has never heard me play, and they'd like for me to play during the reception as well. Here's whe",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by dancing alone in my room POST: I should preface this by saying this happened on the 21st of Febuary. So I had just eaten a meal of macaroni and cheese and was on my computer whilst listening to music on my phone. The youtube playlist switches to Madeon's newest song ""Pay No Mind"" at this moment I come up with the bright idea that I should practice my dancing moves before prom comes around. I am looking at myself in the mirror as I am doing some weird pop and locking moves. Then my fu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I a jerk for not allowing a cut in line? POST: So I had been waiting in a particularly long line at the University convenience store and after a while I'm finally about 2 people away from checking out. Some guy walks to the sandwich stand directly next to me then proceeds to say: ""I have class in a minute could you purchase this and then I'll give you cash."" I respond by saying, ""I think you should ask all of the other people waiting in line,"" (gesturing to at least 25 people behind m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend said he wouldnt wait for me.... POST: So a little background: Im 21 (f) and my SO is 29, We have been together 3 and 1/2 years. I have severe clinical depression and anxiety and have been confused about my relationship with him for awhile because my mother keeps telling me he doesnt love me. (She has borderline personality disorder and is insane) and I tend to believe/listen to my mother more often than I should. My boyfriend is supportive and kind but also is stubborn an",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How should I deal with an old friend who has become a mooch and is entirely overstaying his welcome? POST: I have been good friends with a guy who I will call Mark since I was in high school. He never went to college and has worked some odd jobs in the past few years, but for the majority of his adult life he has lived on the couches of our friends with no job and no motivation to get one. I moved into my house in May with two good friends of mine who are brothers, and soon after we moved i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 F] boyfriend [27 M] of 6 years suddenly wants to move out, but still date? POST: This whole story is very complicated, but I'm looking for some clarity since I feel like I'm not processing the situation rationally. My boyfriend (27 M) of six years and I have lived together for about two years and recently we moved to a new city so that I could attend medical school there. He is an attorney and sacrificed a lot to move there for me - he's been living in our house solo (since my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He's [37M] into me [34F], but not really... POST: I've been dating a guy for about a year. We see each other most days, talk every day and spend a lot of time together. I'm the first person he calls when something happens, good or bad - I'm the person he wants to tell his news to. I'm in love and it sounds like he's into me, right? I'm just not sure - this man struggles to tell me he loves me. We rarely have sex and when we do, without being graphic, he doesn't touch me. That said, h",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24/m] An old high school chick(24/f) has me questioning all of my current plans POST: So I recently got out of the military and moved back home. ~2 weeks later I find out that this chick i went to highschool with, we'll say Lissandra, also recently became single and started to hangout with my friend and I. One drunk night Lissandra tells me that she's into me and that night ruled. The next day we hung out again and I made sure that it wasnt just drunk Lissandra talking prev",negative " r/loseit TITLE: How much is too much? POST: I made a serious change to my diet two weeks ago today - I cut out all processed sugar and am eating as few carbs as I can in general, while focusing on eating more protein. I've been using MyFitnessPal to count calories, and it told me I should be eating about 1900 calories a day to lose two pounds a week. I thought to myself, ""Man, that seems too high"", and have actually been eating between 1200 and 1500 a day. I stepped on the scale this morning to find th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend of mine [26/F] doesn't want me to sleep with one her friends [28/F] that I hit it off with. I [25/M] am at odds with how to proceed. POST: For simplicity sake, I'll refer to [26/F] as Ashley and [28/F] as Laura. So I've been friends with Ashley for 4 years. We've always been strictly platonic, refer to each other as ""bro"", not a shred of romance there. We'll often go to each other for relationship advice when we need perspective from the opposite sex. She's currently in a l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My sister [19F] Seems to be abandoning my family, is this just a phase? POST: Hey Reddit, I would just like to get some of your perspectives on an issue that is going down in my family regarding my sister, and if what she's doing is normal behaviour or just a phase that is typical to go through. My sister, who is 19, has just done her first year of University and ever since it started in September she has been extremely distant with my family, to the point where since Christmas we'v",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you feel about receiving oral sex? POST: I've been married for over four years. However, before marriage, I had a few occasions of oral sex with several girls (we were all inexperience and it was high school/early college). I never orgasmed during those times and I doubt that they did. Fast forward to my wife. I love giving her oral sex. However, I don't particularly enjoy receiving oral sex from her (only orgasmed twice). I'd much rather prefer to have vaginal sex. In fact",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by saying my wife's shirt had a ""hippie"" vibe POST: The actual TIFU happened about a week ago, but it came to a head today so it kind of still counts. My wife subscribes to an online clothing rental service that sends her fun clothes (that she picks out) every few days. She likes to try interesting/exciting looking shirts and dresses from time to time and the one she wore that day was similar to one that would be worn to a festival in the 60s or 70s. So later that day we were out and ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Reddit, I need Advice POST: Hey Reddit, Im a 16 year old, somewhat good looking high schooler. Ive had a couple small relationships, but nothing serious. Earlier this year, I meat a girl I really liked. I pursued her, and we became friends (not that great of friends, but friends nonetheless). She could tell I was crushing, but she continued to accept me as a friend. So when dance season came around I asked her out. She said maybe, and it took her 3 weeks to get back to me, but ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] Me [23 M] with my [24F] broke up, no contact for 3 weeks, seeing each other again, and I some need advice. POST: [Update to this]( So after the three weeks of no contact with my ex girlfriend, she texted me on day 20 that she wants to meet up and see me. So I met up with her at 10pm at her place and when I saw her she almost cried. We hugged each other for a while, and talked about all the things that we've done in the past three weeks. All happy things, we did not bring ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: First time I have the potential for a relationship; not sure how to proceed. Advice needed. POST: So I'm a junior at university (just turned 20, male), and a couple weekends ago I made out with a freshman girl (17, turning 18 in a couple weeks). When the party was over, I asked her if I'd see her again, and she mentioned that we would see a movie together that we had been talking about at the party. Since then, I've met her one more time. We took a walk through the nature trail behi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24f] with my ex [28m] we dated for a year over 4 years ago. Can't stop dreaming of thinking about him. I made a terrible mistake and can't get over it. POST: Dreaming or* thinking about him As the title says. We dated for about a year. He dumped me for another girl because I couldn't visit. I was still under my parents thumb as they were supporting me financially. A couple months after he dumped me and I started college, he drove 7 hours to see me and we went out for dinner and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] had a date with a pretty awesome guy [20 M], but I'm pretty sure he's sucked into a pyramid scheme. POST: I went on a date with a guy a few days ago (we met on Tinder, a hookup/dating app, and we've been messaging each other a lot), and he seemed really awesome. We had a lot in common, and he's gorgeous, but obviously, that's not a problem. What *is* a problem, however, is that I think he's sucked in to a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme (YOR Health, specifically). I sc",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to be politically correct POST: I'd like to preface this by saying that I have matured at lot since this happened so bear with me please... This story took place two and a halfish years ago in my college level physics class (I just graduated from HS so sophomore year?). So I came into class that day and our derpy teacher gave us our lesson, gave us some homework, and then proceeded to dick off on his computer or something of that nature. I routinely went and sat next to my bes",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the most dishonest thing you have seen someone do? POST: I'll start, on Sunday I went to the theater to go see a movie, the theater was near full capacity. During the previews a woman who appeared to be in her mid-30s approached a man who had cerbral palsy in the handicapped seat and sort of demanded (not asked) that he give up his seat to her. He kindly asked why, she took an awkward pause and said that she had later stage Muscular Dystrophy and she wanted his seat since it was ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I really need your help. I'm a 20yr old college student and LA fitness just screwed me out of $600 because an employee lied to me. POST: Back in November I was talked into doing some personal training sessions at about $200 a month for 6 months( about $1,200 total). I had just moved to Florida because I transfered schools and figured I'd get a job and could afford it. I didn't get a job and this turned out to be too much to handle so I went to talk about canceling. The girl I tal",negative " r/running TITLE: Possible recovery suggestions from more experienced runners? POST: So, I've been training for my first marathon over the past month or so. Everything has been good, up until yesterday. Went out for a good 12 mile run. Well about 8 miles into it (also going uphill at this point) I get this sharp pain in my left upper thigh. Now I know I should have stopped, but stubborn and stupid me decided to just push thru the pain until it eventually went away, and it did. Finally get home and rest. Nex",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [Serious] During Sexual Activity My SO[21/f] Has Some Sort of Panic Attack, Please Help[23/m]. Xpost from r/sex POST: I am a male(23) and I am writing for help on behalf of my female partner(21) a non redditor. Since we have been sexually active she has been having a recurring issue that is affecting the physical intimacy aspect of our relationship and I am writing for advice that anyone has to offer, to see if anyone has experienced this as well, and to see whether or not we n",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Roommate moving in at least one man and possibly his family, has not even discussed or mentioned to other roommates POST: We've had a lot of issues with this roommate already, this takes the cake, though. She's currently got an older man walking around touring the house, talking about where he's going to put his couches. None of us know this man. Our lease states we can have guests stay for no more than two weeks, and only with all housemates and landlords giving permission. No one has",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've[16/M] been talking with a really sweet girl [15/F] for almost a year now. Is it too late to make a move? POST: So, as the title says, i'm a sophomore and I haven't been in a relationship in 2 years. Around this time last year, I introduced myself to a very quiet and calm girl who's around my age. We started off as friends, and we continually got closer and closer to each other throughout the year. Over the summer, I joined my school's marching band(she was already in it, but nev",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my GF [19 F] of 2.3 years. She slept in the bed with a guy friend POST: Hi /r/relationships I need some help. My girlfriend and I have been dating for a little over 2 years. She lives in a dorm at a Uni and I live off campus at the same Uni. Anyways she has some guy friends that I don't like. One guy in particular, but I don't let it bother me too much. Anyway, he came up for the weekend to hangout with her and do some other stuff, and at the end of the night, they sle",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] don't know if I really am attracted to her[19 F] POST: First off, let me say sorry if this is in the wrong place, or not ""relationship worthy"" to ask. Ok here goes nothing! This girl, let's call her Potato, is a very very good friend of mine. We both have sibling-zoned each other. This entire fiasco takes place abt 2-3 months after my previous break-up. So in my previous relationship, it was a really pleasant one. I won't go into detail, but you could pretty much say it wa",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What could this dream mean? POST: So yesterday I dreamed that I was hanging with some friends then I met a girl. She tagged along with us and we all hung out for some time. Well it started to get dark and she didn't have a place to go so she came home with me. She went to the bed almost instantly then I was getting undressed and she pulled me to her and we were all up on each other. Then when it was all going to plan. I woke up, and was left with the a feeling of desire and wanting to kn",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Any advice for the boyfriend of top model Arizona Muse desperate to get custody of their infant son? POST: ""Arizona had a breakdown September 2011… I was away from NYC, but she called me desperately, pleading for help. At that time, Nikko had three nannies because she was working so often and trotting him along from country to country with her. She begged me to rush to NY so I could care for my son full time, I was more than happy… I dropped everything and moved immediately. She had/has",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Is this too creepy? POST: Hi everyone. I'm a 19 year old male and I'm interested in a 19 year old female. We have known each other for almost 2 years, since we were seniors in high school. Little back story: She asked me to saddie hawkins dance, and we went and a pretty good time, but nothing physical happened. We kind of just remained friends. Then we both went off to college in different states and didn't really talk. Now I'm home for summer, and subsequently will stay here for s",negative " r/self TITLE: Some kind strangers helped me today. POST: I was driving to my parents house on an icy sideroad and I was about a mile away and I wanted to see how icey the road was. I spun the tires on my truck while driving so I could slide around on the ice for a bit. It was fun while it lasted. 30 seconds later and my 2 wheel drive S-10 is halfway in the ditch. I'm not new to testing road conditions. I knew going into the ditch was a possibility so I kept the speed under 20 mph. I've never been stuck in ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] can't seem to shake my nice guy image POST: Let me start off by just stating that I have horrible success with women. I throw the bait out there and never get any bites. I've talked to a few of my female friends about this and they all say that it's because I'm such a 'nice guy'. They meant it as a compliment, but we all know what being a nice guy means, and to be honest I never really thought of myself this way. I wouldn't believe it, but the girls that told me were all from",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19 M) got a text from my ex yesterday and I don't know what to do. POST: Okay, so quick back story. I've known this girl for going on 9 years. In January we started seriously talking to each other about dating. A few months later, we started dating. She was fired from her job, so I got her a job as a server in a restaurant that worked at. She made friends really quick, and was good at her job. Then I found out that she was a bit too friendly with some of our male co-workers, if ya",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22/M], GF [22/F] - what is considered too fast? POST: Throwaway... I've been dating this girl for about two months. We hit it off quick and after about a month of seeing her (including me going over to her house, texting every day, going places, home-cooked dinners, as well as me going on a trip for a week), we told each other that we liked each other and we were officially dating. Lately, our hangouts have been pretty intimate and has been escalating. One day, I invited her ov",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am a minor league baseball player and just got released by the Philadelphia Phillies. I'm at a bit of a cross roads in life and wouldn't mind some advice from my fellow Redditors... POST: Hey everyone, So despite being laughed at and asked what I really wanted to do in life, I have known I was going to be a professional baseball player since I was a young child despite people laughing in my face when I told them. That dream became a reality 3 years ago, but I have just hit a bump in t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 F] can not seem to stop thinking about an old friend [20 M] and want to reach out, but feel as though it's weird POST: I used to be best friends with this guy. We were close for about a year and a half, and then I decided that I wanted to try sleeping with him. We did, and then I left for a while. We tried to stay close while I was away, but I got frustrated that he was talking about girls while I was having a lot of personal issues. I got frustrated with him and lashed ou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [32F] go about issuing a therapy ultimatum to my husband [32M] of 8 years? POST: My husband has been in a long battle with depression. He has confided in me that he wants to kill himself, and the only reason he hasn't is so he doesn't put me and his mother through the pain of dealing with his loss. But he's refusing to take any action to help himself despite all the begging and pleading in the world from myself and his family. I asked him yesterday, during a particularly bad",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [16/m] am finding difficulty with the girl[15/F] of interest not informing her parents about me and instead her ex having sex. POST: It really bothers me that her parents and barely any of her family knows of me. However, they all know of the exes and whatnot immediately when she talks to them. This girl I'm talking to may have a mother with terminal cancer and all along with the rape incident but now I'm starting to think she isn't going to ever reveal me. We've been talki",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: My ex-husband is leaving our 7 and 9 (almost 10) year old children home alone. Am I overreacting? (throwaway) POST: My ex-husband and I get along pretty well when it comes to things concerning our kids. I live an hour away from them and sometimes I feel a little left out of decision making/discipline. Since they primarily live with their dad and his wife, I let a lot of it slide. Two years ago it became known to me that my children (then 5 and 7) were being left home alone after school.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Really need some logistical advice after heartbreaking split. POST: Never thought I'd post to this sub, even during the past few months when things haven't been right. My bf (m25) of over three years broke it off with me (f27) last night after I confronted him about his lack of interest in me and the relationship for the last few months. I approached it thinking that we would try to make things better, never thinking that he might actually be done with me. He's the most loving, kind",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Job switch questions POST: Hey PF, I have some questions regarding a potential job switch and I need some advice. Currently, I'm a mortgage loan officer and sales assistant at a small firm that was recently purchased by a local bank of ~600 employees. I have a base of $37,750 with a potential 10% annual bonus and 0.5% commission on all loans I bring in. I have an offer at a HUGE multinational bank (one of the biggest, rhymes with shmay shmee shmorgan) for a two year ""finance anal",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my roommate [31F] need a good response to my roommate. Her actions pissed me off and she doesn't understand why what she did was wrong. POST: She constantly frustrates me in one way or another with her moods but this just drew the line. I told her earlier that I might meet up with a guy later. Later on she's like 'so when are you leaving?' I might not, thinking to work on homework and sleep. 'REALLY?' (Annoyed tone, like 'and you couldn't have told me this soon",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By trying to be a good person and clean a beach. POST: This happened many years ago, when I was about 6. My family were staying in accomadation that was located adjacent to the beach. The beach was absolutely beautiful, and I loved it down there. One evening after dinner we decide to work down to said beach. I was appalled by how dirty the beach was. Not litter. No, pebbles. Being the kind soul I was as well as loving that beach I began to try to clean the beach. It was quite a while b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [30 M] have a strange desire to feel brokenhearted or that feeling you get when you first discover the person you like also likes you. POST: So a little background... I am 30 and have been married for 4 years to someone I have been with for 14 years. I have two kids, boy 3 and girl 2 months. I am in a loving a relationship and for the most part we are both happy. We have good days and bad days just like any normal married couple. Lately things have been a little rough with the new",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [16F] got into a massive fight with my step brother [16M] last night and I need a way to fix the tension because we are going to be alone all summer break. POST: To clarify our parents are going away on vacation over the summer break to Hawaii and they are leaving us here in Oregon. It is just going to be the two of us and our aunt checking in on us every day. We got into a massive argument over something so stupid. I thought my step brother went into my room and stole money from",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (24M) loves to cuddle and I'm (21F) statring to hate it. POST: I'll try to keep this brief. I'm not a very touchy feely person. I express my love for someone through telling them, kisses (which I actually like better than cuddles or hugs) and doing nice things for them like surprising them with lunch at work. My boyfriend loves being touchy. I've compromised on hand holding for him even though it makes me squirm, but I'm at the end of my rope regarding cuddling. I'm ok",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [21 M] being too sensitive or are my Housemates [27, 24 F, M] A-holes? POST: I have no idea which is correct and I need an answer, I'll explain some situations as unbiased as I can, and can you try to diagnose the situation? Shelock Homies. So we're pretty close, and I do like them, but sometimes I find them pretty taxing since I'm introverted and enjoy spending time by myself. Sometimes they order food and ask me if I want to get some with them, if I say no they'll try to pres",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [27m] and I [25f] never spend time at his place for legit reasons. Is this weird? (Together 9 months) POST: My boyfriend and I have been together 9 months, and it has been amazing. He's my first real relationship (I had mostly just had flings before) and he's had a few year+ long relationships. We like hanging out with each others' friends, my family has welcomed him with open arms, his family lives across the country but I've already met them several times, and we're st",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [15/M] I need help with my online friend [15/F] POST: Well, first things first: She's lesbian if that makes any difference. About six months ago, I met this girl on /r/needafriend . She was looking for a long-term friendship, and I was too, so I pm'd her. Turns out we're really alike. We both love the same things, we both hate the same things, we're real great friends. Anyway, as of the last two month, she hasn't been messaging me as often. Now, when I say that, I mean she doe",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why are people generally more pessimistic and cynical, rather then optimistic and hopeful? POST: I mean this for both online and the real world. Every day I see people being pessimistic and cynical to the world around them. Even if it's played for humour, the majority of people I see go for the pessimistic outlook and say overly cynical things, rather then find something good, or optimistic to focus on. I'm just wondering if theres a cultural reason, or if it's just the way the majority ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend's (f29) ex calls and texts her *very* late at night POST: This happens at 2 or 3AM, and at least once around 4AM. She either ignores them, or tells him she's not available. This currently happens once every couple weeks, but in the beginning of our relationship 7 months ago, he would text or call at least once or twice a week. As far as I know, he doesn't contact her during the day. I'm not worried about things on her end -- what she says and does shows she's quite in ",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: How can I tell if a girl is a virgin without asking directly and/or coming over like a creep? POST: I am at the wedding of my older cousin this saturday and I'd like to hit on the bride's sister. She is single , good looking and recently turned 17 (I am 18, so age shouldn't be a problem). I just want to know if she's a virgin or not as it won't be worth the hassle trying to have a ONS with a virgin imo - don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound like a douche, but **in my experien",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [26F] Boyfriend [30M] of 2 years constantly pesters me about being bisexual, except the thing is I am 100% straight. POST: Throwaway since he reddits. So Reid and I have been together for 2 great years. We are best friends and I love him. But lately and I mean only the last say 2-3 months he has developed this really shitty problem and I don't even know how to handle it. So when I watch 'naughty' vids, I only watch girl on girl. Because I think boobs are neat. And I'm not a fan ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My best friend [19 F] keeps bringing up and talking to my [19 F] ex boyfriend [19M] POST: My ex and I had a extremely messy on and off, toxic relationship that brought out the worst in both of us that lasted around 2 and a half years. We are currently going no contact, and are both wanting to move on. I especially have had issues with coping with our breakup, and dealing with this in a healthy way. I am trying really hard to move forward and learn from stupid mistakes I have made. M",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [17F] is emotionally confused about being with me [18M] after 9 months because of a on and off ex [18M] of 3 years telling her he still loves her. POST: So this is like my first actual post, so sorry for anything bad. I [18M] guess I should start with the relationship. It had been 9 months and she [17F] is visiting her family in another country where she has a house and citizenship. We were madly in love before she left and she told me she was afraid it would break us a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Got involved with the wrong kind of right person and now I'm walking away. Tell me if I'm doing the right thing? POST: Me 26/m her 24/f. I made up my mind but I would like to run it through you sensible people to see if I missed anything. Basically I started getting involved with an acquaintance who very quickly became a friend and even quicker more than friends. Turns out some time between friends and more than friends she reveals that she has a boyfriend 34/m for 5 years. We",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My husband [30 M] and I [24 F] have a friend [28 M]who is basically stalking his girlfriend/ex[20s F] were tired of it and need advice POST: Hey Reddit... My husband and I have a friend{28m] who started dating a girl in March. Of course the very beginning of their relationship was good.. He always calls her his wife, says they're going to get married, etc. She seems on board with all of it most of the time. But for the past 3 months, she breaks up with him almost every weekend so s",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How would you spend Groundhog's day? POST: I'm sure most of you are familiar with the movie, and I'd bet that many of you who haven't seen it, are at least aware of the plot. If not, spend some time watching TV today, I'm sure a hundred channels are going to be playing Groundhog's day on repeat for the next 24 hours. If I recall correctly, in the movie, If Bill Murray was awake past midnight, he would still loop back to Groundhog's Day when he woke up, so for the sake of this post - Wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] with my Father [46M] Am i over reacting? POST: Hey guys, firstly I should say that I'm currently living away from home (because I'm attending uni), living with a couple of room mates about 3 hours away from my father, I also have 3 step brothers or sisters (3,8,9). Also, my mother left me when I was 5 (she ran off) and so I lived with my dad. I also have a step mum who has been around for 10 years, though I never truly thought of her as my mum. My father never went to uni a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Update: I [23m] decided to break things off with my FWB [23f] because I'm planning to make things exclusive with another girl I'm going to start dating. POST: Old post: Okay really quick and short TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (21f) and my ex (21m) we bought tickets separately to a concert and he asked to buy mine POST: Judging by the title, this whole thing seems pretty petty, and it probably is, I just need some perspective. We only dated for three months and he broke up with me a week ago because he ""couldn't give me what I need"". Anyway, today he contacted me asking how I was. I shouldn't have replied, but I did. We talked about the break up a little, him trying to justify things mostly. He fina",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Talk me off steroids, please - Looks, age and personal advice POST: This month I'm turning 22, and have always been interested in being a big guy (musclewise). Before puberty I was fat, and during i got underweight due to weight issues. January this year, I finally started working out, and I have become obsessed with bodybuilding. Fucking love that shit. But unfortunately, I suffer from jealousy... I am jealous of the people who, at an age of 21 like myself, or younger, have massive gun",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Sick of living with my mates. POST: For over a year now I've been living with 2 of my best mates, and for quite a while now I've just been over it. I barely even see them, as I work late afternoon so they're asleep when I get home and I'm asleep when they go to work, but when I do wake up and hear them out in the house, I usually avoid leaving my room for as long as possible unless I know they're in their room. I see them for a few hours on weekends and iv feel that this is more than ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: To any handicapped Redditors, have you ever had to make someone let you use handicapped facilities? have you ever had any problems or funny stories to tell about it? POST: Yesterday, I was just getting out of a movie and really needed to use the bathroom. I think something I ate didn't quite agree with me and my stomach felt horrible. I rushed to the bathroom and when I entered I saw I might have a problem getting a stall. Everyone seemed to be using this bathroom and the only stall left",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfirend [19] of 3 years let me[20] go for another guy POST: Girlfriend of three years has been seeing another guy for the past few months, i tried saving us but it was obvious it wasnt going to happen. This was a girl that told me explicitly she would never cheat or go behind my back as she wouldnt want the same thing ot happen to her. Glad she held her word. Its been a couple weeks, i keep very loose ties with her as i know talking to her only makes the pain so much worse. Shes ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My LDR girlfriend is feeling lonely, her friends ditched her. How do I motivate her to find new ones? She says she lost the desire to make new ones. POST: * Me: male, 19 * Her: 19 * Relationship length: about 6 months My girlfriend used to be a very social outgoing person with loads of friends. She had at least two or three close friends whom she loved. Recently though ~~they~~ her roommates have all been ditching her. She lives together with like 8 people in a house. Recently her r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24/f) want to save our relationship of ~4 years (23/m), don't know what else I can do. POST: When I ask him he says he feels like things are okay. I don't think they are. When I met him he took care of himself and the place he stayed. We used to talk all the time, he is one of few people I've really opened up to. We never spent more than 24 hours apart since we started dating, except for one time we broke up a year or so ago. I left him because I felt like I came last on his prior",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Reddit, I'm so scared right now. I [M,20] am about to meet with my ex [F,19] who dated for 2.7 years. Advice? POST: Okay, so we broke up 3 months ago because she wanted to focus on her career options and find a job that actually pays well. Prior she was only working like 5 hours a week at a restaurant. Well the relationship was amazing the whole way through, and we fought twice over something major and the rest was normal squabbles. She initiated the breakup and it tore me down t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend is really self conscious about her body, how can I help her self esteem without pressuring her? POST: I'm 23 and she's 21. We've been dating for about four months now and things have been going well. Personality wise, we tend to click. We like the same music, movies, and can have long conversations that last well into the night. However when we get into the bedroom girlfriend becomes really self conscious, especially about her chest, which I guess isn't as full as she w",positive " r/travel TITLE: Sightseeing through Canada, should I use VIA rail (Toronto to Vancouver) or car (Chicago to Vancouver)? POST: I want to travel through Canada, possibly during the Women's World Cup (June 6 to July 6), to see some games and explore different cities. My friend recommended that I drive through Canada to enjoy the scenery, instead of just flying to Vancouver to see a game. Then another friend told me that there is a train that goes through Canada, so I wouldn't have to worry about a car. My que",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where can i make new friends? POST: My small knit group of friends never wants to do anything interesting and are content with staying at home everyday playing video games with each other. While i do enjoy playing games as much as the next 21yo male, its getting pathetic. At this point i'd be happier with their douchebag stage where all we did was go to clubs/bars and try to hook up with girls. I've tried going to a local bar in my city, but everyone looks at the random guy who went to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] tend to avoid relationships with girls because I'm very insecure POST: If a girl likes me or shows interest I always push them away not because I don't want a relationship but more because im a very insecure person. I'm 19 and a virgin because im afraid once my clothes come off and they see things such as Clothes off: -stretch marks near my thighs -im a lil chubby (not fat but no 6 pack) -backne scars Etc... The only feature I hate with my clothes on is my forehead/skin g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] always, compulsively, look for flaws in girls I like. What's my problem? POST: I just realized this about myself. Whenever I find a girl I like I try to find everything that is wrong with her without even thinking about it. From her looks to her personality to her intelligence and even to her family. I just can't seem to help it. I realize it might be this wall I've put up since my first relationship ending, about 4 years ago, was very hard to go through but I can't seem",negative " r/tifu TITLE: Today I fucked up by organizing a date and then not realize that I was supposed to be there. POST: So I have recently moved to a new country and have been using tinder among other things as a way of meeting new people and making new friends. There was this girl I have been speaking to on the phone and texting for the last week and a bit and tonight I suggested that we catch up for starbucks after she finishes work. As she finishes work she sends me a text message saying ""I'm just driving ho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 M] with my girlfriend [32 F] 6 years, Big weight gain due to self-destructive eating habits. Need help with how to speak to her about it. POST: My gf and I have been together for nearly 6 years. I'm fit, and she has always been slim, although not necessarily active. She has always been a comfortable 110lbs at about 5'4"", and looks fabulous. I'm not a superficial person, and have dated heavier women in the past. I hope I won't be judged as an asshole for my post, but we'll ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20m] need to get control over my stupid situation POST: I've been complaining about being dumped for a fair amount of time now. I've been allowing bread crumbs to rule my life. She was abusive to me. Hit me, stabbed me twice, and was overall controlling and rude to me. My actions post being dumped are definitely obsessive. I was obsessed with what she was doing and that she was moving on so quickly. I broke no contact occasionally, as recently as today. She would basically ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] don't know how to handle my boyfriend's [22M] depression. POST: I know the title sounds selfish but I didn't know how else to sum it up, sorry. My boyfriend and I met in high school and we've been basically inseparable ever since, pretty much everything we do, we do together, and he's the best friend I've ever had. Recently he was diagnosed with depression and everything has changed. I never see him anymore. He doesn't come to see me, he doesn't ask me to do anything with h",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting down my dad. POST: So to start things off, my dad is my idol, he's strong, funny, generous, successful, happy, grateful, smart, and can make the best decisions in the worst of times. I know my dad isn't perfect, he has done some things, we all have and he realizes I won't he perfect either, and my entire family is Mormon, born into it and I believe in what we believe, but that doesn't mean I can't rebel from time to time (16 male). I'm not sheltered too much, so I have friends",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: [23/M] Adolescent infatuations have really hindered my ability to feel interested in a girl POST: I grew up in a broken home, and often felt lonely. I feel this really attributed to the way I prusued girls when I was younger. I was the type to quickly ""fall in love"". This never stopped me from being successful with finding girlfriends. Of course, I also ended up dating a lot of girls with the crazy-eyes. That said, I've never had a relationship that lasted even a year. I've since g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19M] girlfriend [17F] of 3 months is playing the silent game on me after an incident. POST: First post, I apologize if there's any problems with the text. It's been an uphill struggle with me recently as I've been suffering from depression, its been building up over the last month. I've rarely seen my girlfriend and the one weekend we see each other is at a friends party. Naturally I wanted to tell her how I was feeling but she thought I was ignoring her because whenever she'd a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/M] feel a bit betrayed by my partner [22/F] who slept with someone while I was abroad. POST: I had been seeing my girlfriend for about a year, before I received a competitive fellowship to work/study for a year in East Asia. Due to the prestigious nature of this fellowship, my girlfriend pushed me to go aborad while she stayed in America to get her Master's. We decided a LDR may be too difficult, so we ""broke up"" at its onset last Summer. Although we were no longer together off",negative " r/running TITLE: Running watch? Running history? POST: So I have used the Nike+ Sports watch for what seems like years now - looking back, it's been since early 2013. I've owned three versions of the watch, and have generally liked it. It seems like Nike is going to be dropping the watch and other wearable tech in the next year here. No accounts as to when as far as I can find, but late last year they reveled that wearable tech is not going to be their deal in the future. So - I know that DC Rainmaker ha",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I was robbed on an RTD a couple months ago. They stole my computer, tablet and school work. Today a complete stranger bought me a 2,300 computer. How do I thank him? POST: On March 22nd I was riding the bus home when two individuals grabbed my backpack as the bus came to a stop and the doors opened. They took off running into the ghetto of Denver. I chased them, was shown a knife, and backed the FUCK off. They stole my Macbook Pro, Galaxy Tab, ALLLLLLLLLLL my school work and left me pret",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Not sure if she's shy or uninterested... POST: We both work in the creative field and occasionally end up working together. I met her in the spring when I first asked her out, but in her words was ""kind of seeing someone"" but said she was down to chill. My last relationship had a multitude of problems, including non-exclusiveness, so I avoid relationships that don't have that - perhaps to extremes. I just let the possibilities of anything die until last month we ended up workin",negative " r/cats TITLE: It's breaking my heart thinking that I may have to leave my best friend,my baby behind :'( POST: September 2011 my partner and I after much thought decided to get a Bengal kitten from a breeder. As we're both a long way from our home country (Australia) it was the best decision we made. We named him Ocelotl and he is the love of our lives from the minute we met him. [Imgur]( He has us wrapped around his little paw and despite the fact that Bengals aren't typically ""lap cats"" he loves to spen",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: (17M) Interested in a long time friend and I'd like a second (or third...or fourth even) opinion. POST: This has just really got me bummed out lately...again. Once again I'm interested in the girl that I've liked on and off for years now. She and I were best friends way back in 1st grade. It was a private school and we both left the school that year but lived in different towns, so we were separated by schools. We went our ways and eventually met up at the church I used to go to at",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: [24M] Dating [22F] for over a month - Second time I haven't heard from her in a span of 3-4 days... POST: So a little over a month ago I [24] started dating this girl [22]. Things have actually been going super great for the most part compared to the people I had been attempting to date previously to her. We've been on many dates, had a few day trips, she's slept over, I've slept over.. when we hangout everything is pretty much awesome. We had also both previously agreed that commun",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [M25] boyfriend [26] didn't see me as an outlet for emotional support, tensions result. POST: My boyfriend has been very distant lately, which made me stress about our relationship [7 months] and whether or not he still wants to be in it. I confronted him about this, admittedly being a little more blunt than I could have been. He responded saying he was sorry, and that he was having a rough week due to hearing some bad news. I told him I'd back off and give him some space, and I'",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Facing 23k in loans my first year of college. What should I do? POST: I'm 18, about to start college in 3 months. I already accepted my offer and filled out housing information. The thing is, I'm going to have to take out $23,000 in loans ($9,000 National Stafford loan + $14,000 from a private lender). This scares the hell out of me. My parents declared bankruptcy around 3 years ago, so there's no help coming from their end. And they make too much ($130,000/year) to qualify me f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22/M] Girlfriend [22/F] is starting to question our relationship due to difference in beliefs POST: Hi, reddit. I've been with my girlfriend for two and a half years. She is a Christian and I'm an atheist. We've talked about our differences before and to the best of my knowledge, she has always been okay with having a nonbeliever for a boyfriend (we've talked about this many times). We always talk about getting married and starting a life together some day, and although we have s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21] accidentally found pictures of a semi-ex on my boyfriend's [23] computer. POST: Some background info: My boyfriend and I have been dating for about nine months, but he was my best friend for about a year before that. He had a really rough time getting over his first ex and put off asking me out until he was sure he was over it. I live at his house with him and his immediate family. Our relationship is fantastic! We've both mostly had terrible experiences with previous relation",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My ex-boyfriend (27) was jealous of my best friend and had me (20F) stop talking to him. Should I talk to him again? POST: I used to have a crush on my best friend. He got a girlfriend. The crush went away. We were still best friends. (We were friends for a year and a half) Later, I met my ex and we started dating. He found out I used to have a crush on my best friend and got jealous and demanded that I stop talking to him. After 2 months of arguments, I caved and stopped talking to",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by caring for a sick child POST: I'm an EMR and I work as a medic during the summer at a small overnight camp for children aged 8-16 out in the mountains. One day, I had an 8 year old boy come to me complaining of severe abdominal pain. My gut instinct in these cases is always constipation -- it's more common than you'd think -- so I asked him if he'd been pooping. He shakes his head no. My next thought is some kind of stomach flu, but I decide to rule out appendicitis with my handy-",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [24F] Poll: do you pick your head or your heart? POST: Hypothetical question, please don't try to read into it too much. If you had to choose one, do you choose: the one that you love unconditionally, but has fucked up royally? Maybe does something like lies occasionally or has cheated, but the level of passion/feelings is soulmate status. Does the big things. OR Best friend. More like your companion. Always there, loyal, never fight, would do anything and everything for you. But ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are some of your stories that you love yet hate to tell? POST: Mine was my thirteenth birthday. We had just got to Great Wolf Lodge. After a good five hours of straight up playing in the water, we went to eat dinner at the GWL food area. I ordered a salad which had some really bad tasting dressing, yet I finished it. We went back to our room as my mom told me, ""You need to use the restroom before you go back!"" We only stayed one day and night, so I didn't want to waste a second. Now",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: SIL is afraid to tell me she's pregnant because she thinks it will make me sad that she got pregnant first. POST: Buckle in for a story.... Last week my younger brother told me that he and his new wife are expecting their first child. I was beyond excited for him! Our parents divorce 12 years ago was really rough on him and really turned him against marriage and having kids, until he met his now wife. He wasn't supposed to tell me yet, but he couldn't help him self. Part of the reason ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my only brother [35M] is not supporting me while I care for our sick mother [64F] POST: I still live at home while I finish studying while my older brother lives on the other side of the world. My mother has just had major surgery and will soon be recovering at home for the next six weeks (she's still in hospital atm). I'm taking a few weeks leave from my degree (final year grad school) so I can at home all the time to help her dress, shower, cook for her etc and I have",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [33 M/F] was dating[29F] for almost 2 months. Not speaking, hard moving on... POST: I was dating this girl for about a month and a half. Everything was great for the first month. We each often told each other how much we liked each other. It was really sweet. Things looked to be going very well. I had to go into a very stressful situation at work. I was basically away for 3 weeks. I was stressed and started acting a little needy. Of course, she started pulling away, and ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My GF is battling OCD-like issues. Anyone else here in a similar situation, and/or what's the best way to deal with it? POST: Hi all. My girlfriend of almost 3 years is currently in the throes of a fierce battle with OCD. She hasn't been diagnosed with it by name, but was a few years back (before we met). Things went great for most of our time together, but the last 4-5 months her tendencies have intensified. For the record I know we'll marry and be together until we die. She also say",negative " r/relationships TITLE: FWB with an ex with history, more drama than it's worth? POST: Back in October I [f17] became friends with a group of guys [m17/18] who liked gaming as none of my friends were really into that kinda stuff. One guy C who I quickly became really close friends with, and another guy A [m18] who I ended up getting closer with and eventually we started dating and basically got to everything but sex. Due to a number of reasons, such as jealousy, not knowing where we stood with eachother, a",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Just looking for some general input/advice POST: Hey everyone, i made a post a while ago looking for input on my dogs behaviour I chose to save up and seek a professional dog trainers help to tackle some of the issues my dog was posing. I looked around and found a dog trainer in my area via Yeah i live in Toronto, Canada -_-. So i found a guy named Tom his pretty well known i even had a friend vouch for him. So i set up an appointment and on the first day he worked with me and the dog teac",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I'm getting paid $200 a week for the next 50 weeks, what should I do with it? POST: I'm a college kid who just won a settlement that will be paying me 200 a week for the next 50 weeks. Don't really have anyone else helping me financially but through work I have enough money for lifestyle I live and have no real use of the extra money at this time. There are a few medical supplies I will have to purchase costing around $500, so the first three weeks will go toways that expense but",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [30 M] haven't seen my [of almost 4 years] girlfriend [24 F] in over two months and am having a conflict of romance vs. Logic please help! POST: I'm a commercial fisherman in Alaska, and live in Seattle. I haven't been home in a couple of months and my girlfriend wanted to pick me up from the airport. There were no flights before or after her work schedule and she is super bummed out because she's ""been dreaming all summer of waiting for [me] at the airport"". So here comes the di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My FWB (22f) loves me (25m), I just want to have fun. Is it time to end things? POST: I don't want to be a douche, I care about this girl, but I don't love her and I don't want anything serious. I told her the very FIRST night before we hooked up ""I don't want anything serious so don't fall in love with me, you will have a bad time."" She knows I'm seeing other girls and I have opened up 100% about my life to her and let her know everything I do, because I believe honesty and open com",positive " r/dogs TITLE: What kind of do is this. Found him tied up in the woods. http://i.imgur.com/8rUbrid.png POST: Hi I'm a land surveyor and while I was working my helper saw this dog tied to a tree with no food or water, the owners were outside so I asked them if they were going to feed them. They said they didn't have enough money to buy him food, he said all this while standing next to his king ranch pick up truck. When I told them I was going to have to call the spca they tied the dog across the street so I ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: $148,000 in Federal Student Loans: Should I Refinance? POST: I have $148,000 in debt from undergrad/law school and make about $47,500 a year. You can read more about my backstory and why I was considering permanently enrolling IBR [here]( Anyway, after much thought, I agree with a lot of people that IBR/PAYE comes with too much risk, and my best bet is to increase my income and get rid of my student loan debt as soon as possible. Thus, I'm currently looking at several ways to incr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21F], supposed to move in with best friend [21M] and [25M] in a month; best friend's brother [19M] interfering. POST: My best friend and his brother have been very close for a long time. His brother is rather immature, manipulative and possessive of my best friend - regularly making him feel horrible for spending a night out with some friends, for example, because he's away from the brother; appearing very offended if my best friend disagrees with him in any way, and so on. His lat",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are some of your stories of sibling rivalry? I'll start. POST: Sibling rivalry for my twin sister and i started early. We always fought, but she usually won, not because she was stronger, but because if i fought back, she would cry and tell mom and dad and i would get in trouble because i'm a boy and she's a girl. When we were about two, my mom came into the nursery because she heard me crying, when she got in there, she found my sister lying on top of me and me screaming my head o",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How do I find true friends? POST: If you've seen the movie/read the book ""The Perks of Being a Wallflower"", I'm basically Charlie. I'm quiet and reflective, but have a side of me that wants to get more out of life and be social. I have no idea how to go about making the friends I want to have. I'm a pretty nerdy and quiet person with most people I meet. I always feel really distant from new people and we never seem to click. It's gotten to the point where I feel I'm being utterly fake in al",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my new boyfriend [32M] acts condescending about my mental health issues. POST: We've been together for just about a month now. Recently I've been suffering from some very serious depression and it's gotten to the point where I've started telling important people in my life and trying to seek professional help. Well when I try to talk to my boyfriend about it he says things that make me feel worse like ""All girls have emotional issues, you'll be fine"" and shooting me d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My best friend [18 F] of 4 years blew up on me [18 F] last night. I don't know if we're going to be friends anymore. POST: My best friend and her ex [18 M] of a year broke up on Tuesday. I was kind of glad that they did because they were a terrible couple: they fought all the time and they just weren't compatible. We usually all hang out with my other friend [17 M] and they always ruined it by arguing with each other. After they broke up, they decided to be friends. So last night I ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My parents separated 10 years ago. Ever since, I have found myself more and more distant from my Dad. Dear Reddit, in dire need I ask you, how can I bond with my father? POST: I was 9 when my parents separated and I moved literary to the other side of the globe to live with my Mom. I am a 19 year old male and I really miss a father figure, to whom I can talk to openly. My Dad is very busy and I only see him maybe once in every 2 years or so, just because he is so far away. Everytime I c",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [23 m] never dated and i sort of believe that ""love"" just isnt for me POST: Never really had crushes growing up, maybe 2 lifelong and only one has progressed past the longing from afar stage. No girlfriends, no fwb, no ""talking"" I simply dont have the drive other guys do. I realize in hindsight that ive been approached and pursued but i've all but rejected each person haha. I guess im curious as to how I'm supposed to approach the whole thing and maybe develop the drive that othe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [20F] having mixed feelings about my boyfriend [22 M] of 3 years and I'm not sure what to do. POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating since I was a senior in high school. I didn't really know him when he asked me out, but I had never had a boyfriend before and thought he was attractive/nice so I'd give it a shot. Turns out he had had a crush on me for a few years and hence treated me amazingly. To this day, I'm not sure if anyone could love me/treat me so well. My problem, how",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: [19M] Employer from summer job not paying my commission and locked me out of the system so that I can't even see how much I am owed POST: Over the summer I worked as a sales lead generator, basically finding people who were interested in HVAC services and setting them up for appointments with actual technicians. My contractual commission is $10 per appointment set up, plus 1% of the sales of any new system installations (which range between $5000-$8000, resulting in $50 to $80 of ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [15/M] getting back to normal POST: I'm sure most of this is going to sound really hormonal or stupid to most of you thanks for bearing with me. (First post on relationship_advice!) I've been texting this girl for a couple months. I've been flirty since day 1, thought I was doing a good job. Been completely honest since the beginning, and she knows exactly how I feel about her. She's really really really freaking beautiful which is great for me but also means that like 10 other",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My good friend [M/26] is still with the girl he chose over me [F/25]. How do I stop my crazy? POST: One of my best male friends and I had a really intense attraction/flirtation but timing-wise, we could never make it work. I was pretty emotionally involved, but about a year ago he found someone else he liked spending time with and moved on pretty quickly. We're still friends and I really do want him to be happy, but some days I hear news about their relationship and its like I'm righ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: [Advice] I'm a 20year old student looking to start my own sustainable home business while going to school; is it possible reddit? (Help me out and I'll include a picture of a cat -- I promise) POST: Reddit; So I'm posting today to get some help on my current situation, and I figured the hive mind would be able to give some advice. I'm currently a 20 year old student living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, taking a Bachelors degree in science, and working a job that is pretty depressing. I don'",negative " r/self TITLE: This is my Love story POST: Me(21) and my husband(also 21) grew up in a small town, and we have been good friends since Kindergarten. We went to elementary school, Jr. high, and graduated High school together and have always had the same friends. Our Jr. year of high school, we decided to start dating. We went through all of the typical ""new"" relationship drama while still in high school. He went into the Air Force shortly after we graduated and when he came back from basic and tech school we",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 19M How to gain confidence without coming off as creepy? POST: I've never been that confident around girls. However the other night I was at a concert and I was having a good time and it started getting hot so I rolled up my sleeves. (I work out on a regular basis so I'd say I'm somewhat fit) anyway I'm all dancing and I feel a girl behind squeeze my arm right after I rolled up my sleeves and I was flattered so I turn around and she points to her friend they are both pretty cute. But",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I (20M) want to get back together with my ex girlfriend (21F) and need advice on how to approach my situation POST: Hey everyone! i'll keep this short because i've told this story on reddit like 5 times already. Basically i broke things off with my girlfriend of almost 2 years a month ago, because of personal issues i needed to fix. I am now well on my way to fixing all of the issues and i deeply regret breaking up with my girlfriend :( We talked a bit after the breakup but now we a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the point of establishing fake social network profiles with identical ""about"" essays? POST: I got two friend suggestions from Facebook which led me to obviously fake profiles with identical ""about me"" essays. I got curious and searched for other pages with the same ""about"" essay. The list below is just a starter set, but notice that they come from a range of networking sites. I don't want to get all conspiracy-theoryesque on you, but can somebody explain to me what is going on her",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I Need Net Neutrality Interviews POST: I figured I might as well get that out in the open. I'm in high school right now and to graduate, I need to do a Senior Project. For those of you who don't know what that means, I have to write a long paper, give an 10 minute speech and conduct 2 interviews about the topic of my choice. I chose to focus on the fight for net neutrality, which becomes more complicated the more I read about it. Here's the problem. I need to interview people who are at",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my ex [21F], am I an asshole? POST: Hey reddit, just wanted to ask a question about my behavior and situation currently to get some advice. So a few months ago, my ex of a little over a year and I broke up after she admitted to cheating on me multiple times. I started seeing someone else shortly after, and unfortunately that fizzled away after a few months. Recently (we've become casual friends), she told me that she has officially started dating the guy she cheated",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by farting too hard POST: Hey guess what this actually happened today! woot! So this happened about 20 min ago when I got home. I was out all day with my friend, we went to a hockey game and a few other things, and I get home and I think; ""Well I should change my underwear because why not!"". Just so you know, these underwear are brand new, no stains, no holes, no nothing, just out of the package. So I change my underwear and then I realize I have to take the biggest shit ever, and on th",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Graduated from school last year, $200k in pharmacy school debt, and I'm having problems finding work as a pharmacist in my area. How do I handle this? POST: Hi personalfinance! This is my first time posting here, so please excuse any formatting rules I might be breaking. So here's what's up: I graduated from pharmacy school last year and I got $200k (all federal loans) in debt along with my diploma. I took the board exams, got fully licenced to practice in my state, and applied f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] ex [20F] wants me to meet her new BF [20sM], how can I tell her I don't want to without being harsh? POST: I am probably being really immature about this but a few days ago my ex (we broke up 6 months ago after going out for 6 months but it was a very intense 6 months) who is now my friend told me a few days ago she has a new BF and at the same time told me she wants me to meet him. I guess I should be ok with this as we are friends but I don't see any good that can come of",negative " r/loseit TITLE: NSV: A favorite customer at work didn't recognize me. POST: I know it seems ridiculous, but whatever. There's this lady that used to come in to where I work quite frequently, but hasn't lately hardly at all. I hadn't seen her in a few months, at least. Probably 4-5, realistically. Me and her have always gotten along really well. She's not a huge fan of my coworkers, but she loves me. Probably because we have similar heritage. Anyway, I didn't go straight over to her at first because I d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (19M) just found out she (19F) doesn't want to get too serious. And I love her. So yeah POST: After a long, complicated series of events, my now girlfriend ""Rose"" broke up with her long term boyfriend to start a real relationship with me. Now, their relationship was already pretty rocky due to distance issues, and Rose and I had become best friends over our first semester of college, so it wasn't as though I broke them up, it just fizzled (perhaps more rapidly) because she started ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (m23) was a creep towards by sister (f24) as a teenager. Am I a terrible person? POST: Im 23 now and my sisters 18 months older than me, I was creepy towards her when I was a teenager and I feel bad thinking about the way I treated her. We are not close at all now and I believe this may be the reason why. When our parents sent us to bed of a night I would often sneak into my sisters room and cuddle in her bed and watch tv, it was completely innocent on her part but I used to get o",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: So.. I just found out this amazingly pretty girl would go on a date with me. [17] POST: So today has been a pretty great day for me. I'm 17, male. A few months ago, I weighed 250 pounds. Now, I'm 156 pounds. I've cut my hair, styled it, and starting to gain more confidence. Today, a friend comes up to me and tells me he asked a girl I liked what she thought of me, and if she would go out with me. She apparently said I'm handsome and ''would go out with me if I asked her'' apparently ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my recently married [27 F] wife - Just had awkward conversation with my sister-in-law where I think she implied I had hit on her. POST: I've been married for about a year, and was dating my wife for the 3 years prior to that. For full disclosure, I'm madly in love with my wife, but would be lying if I didn't admit that her sister is a looker. My SIL is not a terrible person, but we're not super close either. She can be pretty mean to her family at times, and we all",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: help! running a psychology study and am having java problems POST: I'm a senior at William and Mary and am working on a Psychology Honors Thesis. The experiment involves participants solving a maze game; it's necessary for the project for there to be a ""check progress"" function available. I'm trying to elicit cheating behavior (so I need a maze with a cheating button); previous studies have used the Yahooligans maze, and I'd very much love to use it, too. (It's better for a study to use ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30M] with my girlfriend [26F] of 1.5 years, she feels overwhelmingly lonely and I don't know how to help her. POST: Hi all. So I've been seeing my girlfriend for a little over a year and a half now. Our relationship so far has been pretty stellar--we're both in love and very happy with each other. But I should preface that we have very different personalities--she's very sociable and loves going out, whereas I'm very introverted and love being a homebody. Initially, we lived in",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [M25] with [F22] for 3 years. Huge crush taking over mind. POST: Throwaway here, main account can be found. I've been with my gf for 3 years. Recently, like about a month, things have been just a touch shaky. She's been getting clingy and it's been pressuring me just a touch. We've had the space talk before. I am happy with her overall, so is she, but sometimes I feel as if we are together because there is nothing else sometimes. This is my first relationship that has gone past",positive " r/relationships TITLE: BF (20) says he has a lot on his mind won't talk to me (F 20) about it. POST: I am a 20 year old female, he's a 20 year old male. Like any relationship we've had our ups and downs including one very short breakup after a long summer break (we are college students) and a stressful first week of classes. I love him so much. We've been dating for 22 months. We just saw each other for the first time after a month apart the other day. We talked on the phone sometimes during the summer, ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [15/m] My girlfriend [15/f] has all but stopped replying to my text messages, is spending lots of time with another guy, talks about him lots and seemingly uninterested in me. POST: I've talked to all of our mutual friends (that I trust) about what seems to happening. I've come to the same conclusion with all of them; that she either still has feelings for me AND this other guy and can't decide - or - she has completely fallen for him but doesn't want to break up with me for wh",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why is this a competition? I'm letting you go first! POST: Do you ever find yourself in an ambiguous right-of-way situation and decide to be amicable by allowing the other person to go first, in traffic, for example, or at the supermarket? Please explain to me, then, why some people, when you wave them through (offer to let them go first), respond by *waving you through*. *No, you first. No, you! I said you can go, so go. No, please, you go first? GO GODDAMMITT!!!* Is it some kind of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I doing too much for my friends? POST: I'm 20 years old and male. I recently made two really close new friends (Both 20, one male and female) and we've become a really close group of friends at our university, but things are progressing weirdly. Too be honest, I don't have many friends. I've always thought of myself as an unlovable dork and my two new friends seem really hip and cool and most of the time they seem to genuinely like me and enjoy my company, which I cherish more th",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: copyright, trademark, what the hell? POST: Here's the backstory: I'm a personal trainer for a local fitness company. We do onsite fitness classes for big corporations in the area. We have a ""program"" that we sell to companies, which is similar to the biggest loser television show. We offer fitness classes, nutrition education, etc. I've recently coded a pretty large script that allows users to register, update their weights after our weekly weighins, manage attendance, food journals, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with someone I've been dating [19 F] for a couple weeks--I'd like to escalate but don't know where to go for privacy POST: Hey everyone! So I've gone out twice with someone, let's call her Jane, and really enjoyed it each time. The first time, we met in our school's student union--we're both college students--and at the end we shared a hug. The second time, we met out in town, in an open space with a low density of other city residents, and towards the end got more physic",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [26F] Broke up with cheating ex [27M], we lived together. How do I make him pay half of the expenses he owes? I have to break NC and I'm dreading it (96 days NC) POST: My ex D, and I lived together for 2 years. Everything went well, we got along awesome. D started to act a little strange, and it turns out D was active on dating sites and you know the rest. He hid all Facebook posts and pictures from me so they wouldn't see them etc... I printed off the evidence, and broke it off and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my [19F] of 2 years, cheating lie POST: When our relationship started about 2 years ago, a few weeks into it, I didn't feel ready for a long distance relationship and sometimes thought she'd be better off without me, so me being the idiot that I am, decided to lie and said I kissed my ex girlfriend, in order to break up with her. She was hurt but stayed with me and we're now really happy together. Sometimes she'll bring it up in an argument that starts over one of my f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] have a problem with my gf's[21 F] affection for other people (mainly men) POST: I am in a relationship with my girlfriend for about 4 months now. It is going very well between us. The only problem I have is my envy. Here is why: My gf is a person who is affected to EVERYONE. She still has contact to ALL her ex bf's (about 7), which is not a real problem to me, but she is this kind of person who cuddles all of her friends. It is the hardest thing for me, when we are visitin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: GF [20]F broke up with me [21]M after 1 year claiming we met too early. Too early for a 2nd chance? POST: A little over 2 months ago, my girlfriend of a year broke up with me for a few reasons, one of which was that we met too early in life and that she'd like to keep things open for the future. Although it's only been a few months, I grew up a lot over the summer and have fixed the problems I had that led to our breakup. I have moved on and we have both been talking to other peopl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend thinks she's fat [m27, f28] POST: Basics are: me(27) and girl(28) have been together for a little more than a year and a half. Ups and downs and the like, but she's the one I want to marry. She was super-skinny when we started hooking up, but since started medication for depression and gained some weight from it, around 15 pounds but since she started so skinny it barely shows. Problem is, she notices. And fuck, does she ever notice. We cannot have a conversation where s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] found a hard drive full of girls' FB/IG photos on my BF's [29 M] computer. Is this normal? POST: I've been dating my BF for 2.5 years. This morning when he was at work (I took the day off, and stayed the night at his place), I was using his computer and found a folder in one of his hard drive's that had over a hundred folders of different girls/women sorted by name, alphabetically. Each folder was full of their Facebook/Instagram photos. Nothing overly provocative, and I didn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (30M) am in love with my best friend (F28) but I have the best girlfriend possible. What to do? POST: When I was 18 I went on a trip and met this girl, who was 16 and we felt very comfortable with each other and finally became best friends. But I was slowly getting in love with her, while her signals where unconvincing in both ways. A few years later, when I was 22 and she was 20, something happened and we had a consented sexual ""approach"" (we got to second base) but it didn't go f",negative " r/self TITLE: Here's a list : part 2 POST: [Here's my previous list] This one is more ""superficial"" and ""for noobs"". I hope you know most of those but as a SAP I had to learn them on my own. Also, for guys only. * Get a tongue scratcher. Most people don't realize they have a bad breath, this is a must have. * Your eyebrows! If I learned something about girls, it's that they focus on insignificant details (for us males) and you should know what are those details. You shouldn't focus too much on it because",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where Can I Get 3d printing done for a small plastic piece that is no longer made for my car, that wont cost a fortune? POST: I have a '89 crx, and behind my seat there is a piece that has 2 sliders on both sides and then folds down so you can access the contents in the trunk. when I took my hatch apart I must have lost the one for the right side, and honda does not make or carry that paticular piece anymore. I do not know how to render 3d CAD drawings. The piece is not big its a tri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure whether to tell my [24F] new bf [25M] of 2 months about past infidelity? POST: So I'm 2 months into a relationship with a new guy who I really like and definitely want things to work with. In my last relationship I cheated. I know it was wrong, I don't need to discuss that and believe me when I say I have NO intention of getting myself into that situation again. Brief overview of last relationship: Our relationship was good, and he [24M] was my best friend, but we had very",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [23m] girlfriend [25f] made me go to her race and I'm not sure how I should feel about it. POST: My girlfriend is running a half marathon today along with her parents and a few of her friends. She really wanted me to go with her to support her and said she would be really upset with me if I didn't. I've been to several of her races before because I want to support her and like that she has a hobby she enjoys, but those have mostly been 5ks which only last about 30 minutes. With ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my crush [20 F] of 5 months, I feel like I am putting myself out there to lead to getting hurt. POST: I met my crush through an online dating website. When we first started talking she had told me she just got out of a relationship and was just looking for friends. I was fine with this since she lived far away. For the first few months we were just friends. And I listened to everything she had to say about her past relationship. And then we really started getting to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my girlfriend [26 F] duration 2 years. We can't live without each other, but I don't respect her and she hates me...confused! POST: Recently she has realized that I don't trust her to do certain things. for example I can't trust her to find our way on a map and I can't trust her to be tidy and make something neatly. She feels that in proper relationships, the love you have for each other is enough to completely trust them with anything. My mind has been likened to a c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [F20] be worried that I'm my boyfriend's [M23] rebound girlfriend? POST: My boyfriend and I have been going out for about two months and everything is great. We got together really quickly - he asked me to go steady with him five days after meeting him. He is my first serious boyfriend/relationship and he treats me really well; I really couldn't ask for more. He's attentive, kind, doesn't pressure him into doing anything I am uncomfortable with, etc. The problem is that I k",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (22F) with my boyfriend (19M) of a little less than two months. Is this a weird or hypocritical agreement? POST: I'm an openly bisexual woman and have been with my boyfriend for a little less than a couple months. Neither he nor I has ever been with another girl before, so I told him I would be okay with threesomes on a few conditions: 1.) Only with bisexual girls - he is straight and it would not be fair for me or him to essentially have sex with someone while the other watched; ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My father is threatening to cut me off financially if I change my major to computer science. Reddit, I need your help arguing against him. POST: I know there are probably better subreddits to bring this up in, but fuck it this one seems as good as the rest. So first a little background. I just finished my junior year of a history degree and will be senior come this fall. Unfortunately it just dawned on me that I am going down the wrong track, and would like to switch my major. Don't get",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Young Dog, Lots of Energy POST: Hello all, my wife and I are looking for ideas on how to handle our pup (shar pei / lab mix). She is about a year old and has some obedience training (knows sit on her terms and is 95% house trained. We have a wire crate that we tried to put her in while we were gone at first. She broke through and bent several bars. We tried leaving her out, and she did good for the most part. 2 weeks later she started chewing on shoes and other stuff left in her reac",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24m] reached out to my ex [22F] from 2014 and am wondering where to go from here. She seemed lukewarm but didn't freeze me out. Looking for perspective. POST: Around two years ago I dated this girl for about three months. It was a shit show. I was going through depression and stress from questioning my vocational and educational choices and wasn't really there for her at all. She liked me a lot, deep down I liked her, but it just didn't work. She ended things one night by saying I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (24M) with girlfriend (21F). Won't discuss anything negative about our relationship unless I first make her angry/upset enough to engage. POST: The issue is basically in the title. We're semi-LDR as she lives a ways out of town so keeping in touch is important to me. We used to talk about everything and anything, sometimes even totalling as many as 300+ messages a day. Yeah, that's a bit much, I know, but we cherished every moment. Talking about each other's day used to be a high",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (24F) absolutely baffled. Bf (28M) said he cheated on me, broke up with me, begged for me back, turns out he never cheated. POST: I'm confused. It feels like I've forgotten how to process emotions, because I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be feeling right now. So let's start with the basics. We dated for a year, moved in together two months ago. I got pregnant, but got an abortion because....well, I thought it was because I didn't want kids, but I kind of did. But that's no",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36 M] with my GF [25 F], wants to be friends with an ex-boyfriend. POST: Hello, long-time listener...first-time caller to /r/relationships. A little background, I have been dating my GF for over two years and we live together. She has had only one serious BF prior to me with whom she also dated for years and lived with. The ex-BF has texted her randomly over the past six months. We (GF & myself) both agree that it's been flirtatious and he's made a sexual comment etc. My G",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30M] with my long-term work crush [29F] - tomorrow is her last day, how/if to approach it? POST: Hey /r/relationships, I wanted to seek guidance from the hoard :) I've been working at the same company as this coworker, we'll call her Becca, for about six years now. Over that time, I've always admired Becca and have been interested in asking her out one of these days. She's beautiful, feminine, smart and a little bit nerdy... I'm really interested to get to know her more. I've a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (F25) just found out from my sisters (33&29) that my brother (32) and my parents (M56/F55) are doing meth. POST: I live several states away from my parents and brother, who stayed in a very small town (~1500 pop.) and recently have gotten deeply into smoking meth. My oldest sister was briefly addicted to it in her teens and early 20's but sobered up and found better purpose in life. My mother used to smoke it with her but subsequently stopped when she did, we think. My brother re",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do you hate sluts and whores? POST: So here is the situation... these two girls, lets call them Amy and Carrie (for simplicity's sake), are best friends... they have been best friends since early elementary school. They do EVERYTHING together, shop, take all the same classes, hang around the same people... everything that *best friends do*. Now that you have a little background... this is what recently happened. Amy was dating a guy... and they ended up having sex like most horny teenage",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ever completely embarrass yourself in front of one of your ""idols""? POST: My story is this: I've been a musician almost my whole life. 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My girlfriend has",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] want to handle a breakup with my ex [16 F] of 4 months, but we have the same group of friends. POST: Before I begin, I'll admit that I'm not a perfect human being. I've had a horrible temper since I could remember, which was quelled well up until the middle of February. When she broke up with me, she mentioned that I became extremely hostile when she cracked jokes (e.g. playfully mentioning I was retarded or being stupid). Since then, I began seeking therapy again after sev",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by feeding a customer lotion... POST: I work at a chain grocery store and was checking out one of our regular customers this evening and he had a buddy with him. Regular is probably in his fifties and this other guy was older, maybe his uncle or who knows. Mr. R was buying some bread, a couple other random items and our best selling lotion, ""A Midsummer Night's Cream"". As I'm scanning items, Mr. R (from what I remember hearing) says to his friend something about how the lotion is gre",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [advice/relationship] (15m) been sat next a girl. Acting weirdly towards me but no I really don't think she's hitting on me. But.... POST: So for me the new school year started a couple weeks ago and I've been sat next to the girl in quite a few of my lessons. Now just to clear this up I'm Fat Disabled Ugly Probably the most awkward person you'll ever meet. Now. For the first week of being next to her we talked a little bit. (my definition of a little bit is probably less than",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: How to go about garnering firm/investor interest in my market model? POST: I have been developing a market model which can predict the next-day High value for almost any stock, with 98% accuracy. I've back-tested my model on over 20 stocks utilizing 10-15+ years of historical data, and needless to say it has proven to be incredibly accurate. From basic projections, it's predicted to gain an upwards of 400% on the initial investment, annually, if used correctly. My question for r/f",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting three children rob me. POST: Today I was riding my bike home on one of the main streets in my home town of Richmond, Virginia. As I approached a corner, I saw three boys who were probably around 6 or 7 years old toting Nerf guns, pointing them at cars and yelling ""put your hands up!"" as they sped past. Thinking quickly, I decided to play into their game, just because I was in a good mood and felt like making some kid's day. I also have a soft spot for underprivileged kids, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [25F] of 3.5 years wants me [26M] to treat everybody the way I treat her or it's a dealbreaker. POST: As the title says, I've been dating my girlfriend for 3.5 years. Our relationship I'd say is a pretty strong one! We get along great, we rarely fight, our communication is strong, we enjoy our time together, and we constantly plan for a future together. I was visiting with her parents over the holidays (whom I also get along great with). A few days ago, relatively out of",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my 22 [M] dated for 10 months, been broken up for a month and my anxiety has gone off the charts POST: Basically my boyfriend broke up with me a month ago. It sucked, but until a week ago, I was really getting over it and feeling happ.y A week ago, he approached me at a party and started crying at me, telling me he really missed me and wanted to talk to me. All my feelings flooded back again. So we started talking again. We met in person, but because we were both pret",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Junior Year Prom, I was a complete bitch to my prom date. I regret this (and swear I'm a nicer person now) but have no way of going back and telling the guy that I'm sorry. Reddit, what's one instance that you regret in which you hurt another person but you can't do anything about it now? POST: Currently a junior in university, so this happened 4 years ago. Background: I was really awkward in high school when it came to guys. It was a small school so I was either friends with or not frie",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [17M] girlfriend [18F] broke up with me. How do I move on? POST: Just a week ago, my girlfriend of 7 months broke up with me over text. Text seems like a horrible way to end things. We are both young, it was my first relationship, and it was everything special to me. We were happy and loved each other. As our relationship progressed, she became increasingly and increasingly busy. I wasn't experienced or mature enough to handle such a drastic change and I grew dependent/needy/inse",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: It's been a year since I broke up with him and I [22 F] still miss him [20 M] like crazy. Considering breaking NC. POST: We were together for three years and one day. We broke up a year ago yesterday. He had failed almost all of his classes for the third semester in a row even after I tried to find him help, and I couldn't handle it anymore. He transferred schools to be near me and moved into a hall near mine. We saw each other all the time and didn't go a day without texting for three ye",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my ex [23M] broken up 2.5 years, want to ask him to see a show with me POST: I dated this guys for 3 months in college, we broke up, and we basically fell out of touch. We were both with other people for a pretty substantial period of time. He had been trying to contact me on and off the last few months but I ignored him because I was with someone else and didn't really wish to talk to my ex. My most recent boyfriend and I had a messy breakup in July (after 1.5 years o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex [16F] broke up with me [17M] last month and I don't know how to feel or what to do. POST: We dated for 5 months, she was basically my first real relationship and my first love. I feel so sad and upset. School has just started and I have to see her every single day. I have my last two classes with her too. I try not to make it awkward but I just see her and instantly think about her. I want her back so bad and I just think about about all the memories we made and all the good times",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (21/M) I think my girlfriend is emotional abusive (21/F) POST: We have been together since we were seniors in high school. It was both of ours first serious relationship and we have had a lot of firsts together. It seems like the past year and a half I haven't felt normal, and I don't even know what normal is supposed to feel like. I feel like everything I do is not good enough for her. Often times I feel like I can't tell her exactly what I am thinking because I think it will",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have a LOT of BRAND NEW clothes I want to donate to other countries, where do I start? POST: Background story. I have my own clothing line and a screen printing business. Many times our prints wouldn't pass our quality requirements. This leaves us with a lot of unworn perfect t-shirts, jackets, sweatpants etc. with just a slight mistake in the printed design. Although we want to donate it to those who needs it the most, we decided its better for the company to not donate to local thrif",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My dad (60M) wants to have a better relationship with me (21M) even though we always fight and argue. POST: Ever since I was a child I knew I'm not his favorite, he always treated me differently, it was obvious that he didn't like me, literally even when I was a child I noticed that the way he looked at me was with judgment. Now that I'm older, for some reason he wants us to have a better relationship, he wants me to hangout with him and talk about stuff, which is great, except we ab",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I run in the opposite direction from this guy? POST: I've been dating this guy since June, let's call him Steve, and we're very close. I consider him one of my best friends, way before we even began getting together. So everything has been going really well, and I'm starting to really like him. I'm not at a stage in my life where I want a relationship, and he isn't either, but it's getting to a point where I would try anything with him. Well anyways, there is one big pr",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Don't know if I should try texting. POST: Okay here is the deal. I am painfully introverted. There is a girl in 3 of my classes in college who recently fell out of a 3 year relationship. We went out drinking St. Pattys day and I was going to attempt to make a move then. However, she was hammered before I got there so I decided it was gentlemanly to wait. I thought I made it pretty clear she was why I wanted to go go out drinking as well. Heres the problem! Now I am on spring b",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Perennial Failure POST: I feel like I'm at the end of my rope. I have been working my ass off all winter and can't seem to get ahead. 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He's been my rock through my illness and I want to surprise him, any ideas? POST: Me (22/f) and my boyfriend (23/m) have been together for almost 2 years. We are alike the usual young couple who enjoy experiencing things together and experimenting however there's something very different about our relationship. I am chronically ill. He's never known my any different, I've always been sick since he's known me. He's been",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] with my 38 [F] professor... flirting? POST: I have always thought I was attracted to girls, but I ignored it, mostly because I hadn't surrounded myself with a network or any one that is interested. In other words, I hadn't pursued it. But, this semester, my last semester ever, I fell in love with my female professor. I know, i know, the all-too-common love because of a ""power relation"". But, let me explain. I sat at the front, because I always do. Every week. Towards the e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] feel like things will never be ""OK"" with my gf [21F] of 9 months. POST: To begin with, I am not a very emotionally wired person. I mostly experience emotions like a slow moving tide, while my gf is pretty much the opposite. She feels emotions like an avalanche and sometimes it seems like when she becomes overwhelmed with whatever she is experiencing. Well, she often deals with a lot of anxiety which seems to be compounded with our ldr and my poor emotional awareness. She is",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36 M] with my girl [38F] 13 years, phone # stored as 🤕😡💤 after questioning who is this. Please read POST: My girl and I was recently a restaurant when she asked me to pass her phone and when I did I saw a Facebook message from someone I've never heard of before. I said you got a message from John and she shrugged her shoulders and said okay. I asked who is he and she said a friend from the block. The message was about where does he fit in her life. He goes 1st kids, 2nd work, 3rd",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I am worried about the child living upstairs. What can I do? POST: I live in the downstairs apartment and there's a family with a young child upstairs. Sometimes everything is fine and I can hear the child playing. However, most of the time the child is crying, sometimes hysterically. I can hear the parents yelling at the child ""Shut the fuck up!"" and it leaves me with a bad feeling. I know that kids sometimes cry but this really seems above average. Most of the time, the parents leave the ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [49 M] with my girlfriend [42 F], happy but at very different intellectual levels. Can it work. POST: I hesitate to post a question like this. It's a sensitive topic and I know I'll sound like a jackass. I've been with my girlfriend for 3 years now. The relationship is good in that we love, care and support each other emotionally. We have a great sex life as well, and we're in agreement about our worldview and politics (although we don't talk politics much). The problem is mos",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Longer-distance relationship. I'd [23 M] like her [22 F] to let me know how she is on her own, without me asking every time like it's a police questioning. We're together for more than a year and right now and this problem is destroying the relationship. POST: I always thought this was just her being inexperienced in relationships. She told me herself she's not used to this since she had bunch of boyfriends but nothing really longer than a few months. I didn't see it as a problem, at",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 M] with my wife [40 F] of 11 years, hates my family POST: My wife and I have had trouble with this issue most of our marriage and almost split some years ago. We patched up and finally decided to have some kids. We would visit my parents on on occasion, not all the time, but it was fine with me. From the start, my mother did not like my wife, for various reasons, but I enjoyed being with her. At first I didn't take my wife's side, and made mistakes, which I have since corr",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being a drunk, horny young man. POST: On Friday night I went home from university for the first time in a few weeks to go on a night out for my friend's birthday. Over the course of the night, I noticed that another friend of mine, who we'll refer to as L, was a little, shall we say *flirtier* than usual. As it turned out, she had broken up with her boyfriend of four and a half YEARS just 3 weeks earlier. Over the course of the night, the two of us (and everyone else) get steadily mo",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by playing League of Legends POST: Not today but a little over a year ago (just found this subreddit), was around 1-2 AM on the weekend in my double in a dorm. Was playing a game of League with my headphones on and couldn't really hear much. Heard someone moving around, but I thought it was my roommate so I didn't really give it any thought. Suddenly, I hear the door close and lock. Now, my roommate only locks the door before we go to sleep and usually tells me beforehand, so thought it",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever felt totally disrespected by the company you work for? POST: A few years ago I took it upon myself and created a facebook page for the media company I work for. My bosses allowed me to do it, but didn't care to much about it at first. I didn't ask for more money, I was just passionate about our product and wanted to promote it on social media. The page got pretty popular and it actually helped us reach more people. I also managed our twitter/google+ account. A few weeks ag",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Hey LoseIt, what's the worst that could happen? POST: So last winter I went through a pretty severe depression which caused me to lose my appetite almost altogether. Food made me nauseated, and often the crying caused me to have dry heaves anyway, only when I did eat, they weren't dry. If I had been at a normal weight then, people would have been really worried about me. But at that point in my life, by standard definitions, I was morbidly obese. But that episode caused me to lose a lot o",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by crop dusting the cleaning lady POST: This happened about an hour ago and I can still feel the shame. So I work in an office building and it generally clears out pretty quick after 5. No one was around so I decided that would be a good time to let a few rip that I had been holding onto this afternoon. Well no sooner do I fill my area with a solid cloud of stench then the cleaning lady comes around the corner down the hallway. I know she is coming by to change out my trash which she",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [24f] SO [27m] seems to think the heart emoji is too much of a commitment. POST: So I've been dating my SO for around 8 months now. He said I love you very early on, and I said it back. But he's hardly said it since. We've had a lot of ups and downs, but basically I wasn't too worried about it because he acts like he loves me. He's there to support me, and cares about what I have to say. He does a lot of nice things for me, and is generally a good boyfriend. He's been st",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] have been approached by a friend [20F] to be in a threesome with her and her boyfriend [20M] POST: Hello /r/relationships, throwaway because reasons. Context: I am close friends with both of them. She is more open to me about everything whereas he is much more private. Their relationship has been a bit rocky lately, and she often turns to me for advice since I am close friends with both of them. I also have strong feelings for her, which she knows about (and I think he does ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a [M 20] and my [19 F] girl friend just told me her friends and family don't like me. Her parents wanted her to see another guy this weekend while I was gone for work functions. Feel really empty inside, need advice. POST: I work 9 hours a day Monday-Friday while my girl friend is at home in a city nearby, unable to do anything since she's recovering from surgery. I've come to see her every other weekend or so when I've been able to, and things have been great. Though, tonight s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[29M] broke up with my long distance Girlfriend [38F] of 3 1/2 years. Update 2 POST: [Update 1]( I am at a loss. I know that we need to not talk for a while, I know this. She doesn't agree though. She wants to pick up our friendship right off the bat, and she wants to start a friends with benefits situation. I told her again yesterday that we needed to back off from each other, or we will never be able to be friends. She followed this with a string of texts about how horney she wa",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Feeling Strange POST: Age - 17 Sex - Male Height - 6'0"" Weight - 285 lbs Race - Caucasian Duration - Several Days Location - Georgia, USA Existing Illness - Asthma (Haven't taken any medication for it in months, and haven't felt like I needed to.) I've been experiencing some chest and inner back (lung area) pain and spontaneous sharp pains throughout my body. I have also been experiencing heartburn, heart palpitations, intermittent upset stomach, and some shortness of breath (every",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Advice needed on diversifying a new Roth IRA. (Prepare for a shotgun blast of loosely related questions) POST: I've recently open a Roth IRA. My first investment was $4000 into VTI which I feel fine with. Since then I've added an additional $6000 to max it out for the rest of the year. I'm wondering, with a young IRA, how important is diversification? Should I be seeking to fulfill International, Small Cap, and Medium cap areas, bonds, etc.? Would I be just as fine throwing the rem",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I know I [24 M] love my girlfriend [20 F], but I do things that hurts her anyway. So do I really love her? POST: Hi, I have been in a relationship for almost 3 years now, and I love my girlfriend more than anything, I just feel this. But still I do things that does not make sense if I actually love her. --- For example, I watched porn for 2 years and lied about it to her. And even when she told me to stop, I still did it for 3-5 months. I can sometime still feel that I",negative " r/jobs TITLE: First time internship hunting - What does ""encouraged to apply"" in the job description imply? POST: Hey guys, So this is my first time hunting for internships. I'm in Australia, and i'm applying for a 'research internship' with a university for a project in electricity energy market economics (price forecasting). It's niche, and i really want (need remains to be seen) this particular research internship. So the 'job description' states that ""those with a WAM of or above 75 are encouraged t",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: So confused about a girl I think I am seeing. Looking to see what people think. POST: I am a 22 year old guy and she just turned 21 last week. We met at a gig a mutual friend was playing at and hit it off talking etc and she ended up inviting me to her birthday and we added each other on facebook. In the first week we talked daily by facebook messaging and texts. (Quick background that I need to get a minor operation in a few weeks) She even offered in facebook chat to come look afte",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Looking for low impact exercise ideas POST: I need some help y'all! I'm a 5'7"" female who recently started dieting, and I'm happy to report that I've lost 15 pounds in a little over a month on diet alone (260 lbs to 245 lbs)! I am a vegan (have been for 4 years now) who ate awfully most of her life (french fries are vegan and terrible for you at the same time apparently). I recently started seeing a dietitian at my university and we set up a meal plan that seems to be working, but she w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Which nootropics have had a profound impact on your life? POST: Recently, as a college sophomore, I'm having a serious problem with my ability to focus on anything, or to start or finish any task. All of my grades are still fine, but only because I expend every bit of energy to slowly grind out all of studying and projects. Its honestly almost like drawing and quartering my mind. I cannot seem to learn and remember things like I used to, nor can I even finish a page in a book without re-",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (33/f) am finally seeking help with depression and anxiety. Wondering about what changes to expect in my marriage and relationships with others POST: Husband is 33, together 7 years and married for 2. Ive struggled with what I now recognize as depression for a long time. Last year I started seeing a therapist who diagnosed me with mild depression and dysthymia. Some things that were huge stressors (work and financial issues) took a turn for the amazing last summer when my husband ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Lost a majority of financial aid, ""technically"" financially independent but not to FAFSA. How to pay for last year of college? POST: Hi PF, daily lurker but this time I need your help!   I am going to be a senior in the fall and that means I will max out my limit for Stafford Loans. Currently borrowing $32,500 and will take out the last 12,500 (as my father is denied to Parent PLUS loan, I automatically am granted funds as Independent). This year thanks to my wonderful father a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How can I (24F) be the most supportive of my boyfriend (29M) of a year who was recently diagnosed with Mild Depression and Anxiety? POST: My boyfriend of a little over a year has felt like he's had high anxiety and possibly ADHD for some time but now has insurance through work so he went to the doctor. They did a short psych eval and diagnosed him with mild depression and anxiety. He's started taking welbutrin (sp?) twice daily for depression and had some negative side effects (hallu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [31 F] hooked up with a guy [31 M] I met at a club. We discovered we had A LOT in common and started dating casually. After 1.5 months, he's not really into me sexually, but wants to be friends AND still wants to cuddle, kiss, and sleep together, just with no sex. I'm not sure what to do. POST: We met at a dance party. I ended up heading home with him and his neighbor, hooking up with him (which I'd never done before, but it just felt right) and spending the next afternoon with him",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Asked for a girls number, she stopped responding... POST: First time in this subreddit but I am looking for some general advice on communicating with girls. The first girl I dated was around sophomore year of high school (I am 21 now). Neither of us really knew what we were doing and the relationship was just terrible. Since her, I have never really had a relationship with a girl. That being said, my friends and I stopped at a local restaurant late at night for shakes. Our waitress",negative " r/Advice TITLE: After graduation, What should I do? POST: Hey Reddit, First time poster here. I am in a stalemate in my mind in which job I should take after a graduate my undergrad. (I have always had the same problem in RPGs as well.) There are 3 options: 1st Option- A job in OKC which will pay me 70k, it is a growing company has recently exploded, growing 40% in the last 4 months. It is 50 minutes away from my home, my social network, and my lover who is still studying. It is not a very well known comp",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I get whois history data removed from DomainTools - I'm being defamed POST: Somebody has been trying to defame my name using various methods online. They have been posting blog articles with untrue statements about me. Recently I found out they registered some very inappropriate domain names using my name and contact information as another way of trying to ruin my reputation. They posted the DomainTools history on several forums. Is there any way to get this removed from DomainTo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my (21f) life has gotten 100 times better since my ex broke up with me but I still love him POST: my ex boyfriend (dated 4 years) broke up with me a year ago after he cheated on me with another girl. I saw it coming cause we had a very emotional/ always fighting relationship . it ended very nasty with both saying mean things to eachother (and I admitting that I cheated also.) He ended up staying with the girl he cheated on me with and it seems like they are happy. Being with this ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [FL] Manipulative mother took money for a car but registered it in her name POST: About two years ago my mother came up with the idea of her paying for a third of a car for me, with my dad paying another third, and myself paying the rest. She told us both that this would be my car, not hers, and that I could keep it to go to college. After all of the money was collected, I asked to go buy the car with her then register it but she said that I had school and that she would do it for me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How should I [20M] tell my future roommate [19F] that I'm not comfortable living with her next year? POST: (it's funny - I just made another post in this subreddit about my breakup, but this is another problem I'm having) So I'm gonna be a 3rd year in college, next year. Room draw is over, so I'm already matched up with a couple other students. We made friends with each other this year and signed up together. The thing is, they're a year younger than me, but they also seem slightl",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: If you were in 12th grade and peed in your seat during class, what would you do the next day when you see your classmates? (this happened to me today) POST: So today in class, I had to go and thought I could hold it for a couple of minutes until the teacher stopped talking but as hard as I tried, I couldn't. Then it started dripping on the tile and this guy next to me just looked at me then looked away, didn't talk to me for the rest of the period. About half the people just looked at ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[22M] with my GF/ExGF [23F] 2yr relationship, breakup trouble POST: So we have dated for a long time and right now we are both at different stages of our life and would be separated by long distance (a few hours) if we decided to continue dating. This would mean we see each other maybe one weekend of the month. I used to really love her and I'm not sure what happened by SOMETHING happened and the spark went out a bit. She was a bit batty at times and I think that contributed to it",positive " r/Advice TITLE: out of the blue 'friend zone', still like her. POST: So I'll start from the beginning. I met this girl via a friend, we first just skyped together, me not really knowing her. Since I'm still in school and she is too, the same one, I did know who she was and we started talking irl too. Not too long after we were talking on skype about movies and she suggested we go see a movie, I said yes and we went to the movie (as friends). After I started to like her a lot and we kept watching movies, at",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (27F) want to break up with my bf (28M) but we still have 6 months on our lease, what should I do? POST: I want to break up with my boyfriend. I love him more than anything, but he's lying to me and I think he's cheating on me (he doesn't know that I know yet). I'm afraid to do this because we still have 6 months left on our lease and neither of us have anywhere to go, so the only option we have would be to still live together. The rent is too much for either of us to afford on ou",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I also don't care about what Stephen Hawking does. POST: I was scrolling down the comments section of the [pic] about the two ""retards"" commenting on facebook about Stephen Hawking being of no importance to humanity, I realize that I was apparently alone on Reddit who actually agreed with the idea that Hawking's work is useless. Reddit am I the only one here who thinks that way? I seriously don't give a shit about what Stephen Hawking does. I don't give a shit about his accomplishments",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Need advice on how to approach a friend I had feelings for, for a very long time POST: Hey Reddit I normally wouldn't do this but I am running out of options and would like to know what everyone else thinks I should do. Both of us are 19, we went to the same elementary and high school and had known each other for a very long time. I had always had a crush on her since maybe the 5th grade? I can't remember, at one point I went retard and told one of my friends that I liked her and b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF(20F)'s EX Boyfriend still texts & flirt with her and she keeps on entertaining him (in a slightly flirtatious way). I confronted her about it and she begged for forgiveness. Is it wrong for me to ask her to stop being friends with the EX? POST: I'm 22, my gf is 20, her ex is 20. The first time I caught the conversation, I let it slide. The second time, it was getting more intense. I confronted both my gf and her ex about this. I told my gf off about this in an infuriating way",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit have you ever felt so connected to someone you can sense when they are near you? POST: I've fallen hard for this one girl and there have been a countless amount of times when I would just feel like she was near me. It's pretty strange. I tend to be on my computer for long periods of time and then I get the sudden urge to look out the window and there she is. I'm a pretty logical guy and considering we live pretty close by and go to the same school I tend to assume it's just mere ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/m] am scared of my atheism causing a rift between me and my Catholic gf [19/f]. POST: I'm an atheist. I've never grown up in a religious family, and when we did attend to church it was to be social. I don't have resentment towards religious folks, it's just never been a big part of my life. Then I started dating Liz (we'll call her that), around a year ago. She is a very devoted Catholic, mostly because of her (half) Hispanic heritage. She attends a private Catholic college, i",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever lived next door to a hard drug abuser? POST: I recently moved to rural Colorado from across the country and have been renting a nice duplex here for about a week. Gradually, I have noticed my neighbor's habits are becoming increasingly bothersome and rather frightening. I usually work late, meaning I get home and go to bed around 12 or 1 a.m. Last night, someone was pacing around the house yelling, hitting walls and banging on doors. This continued well into the early morn",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Possible to take the temperature of where a person is at w.o having The Talk? POST: I (26) met a guy (25). I think he's super nice, genuine, attractive, and I'm into him. We've been on four or five dates. I want to ask gracefully and without pressure, where he's at with us right now. Things are not clear to me. Situation: We were having sex the last time were together. He was having some... performance issues and he expressed that he gets nervous the first few times with a new partne",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: What the don't tell you about traumatic brain injuries POST: I had two head injuries within a month of each other ending with a traumatic brain injury diagnosis. I was in a car accident as a passenger and later had a work accident. Knocked out both times. Since then my ability to handle stress or even leave my house to work has been getting worse. I work full time but it's temporary. This is on top of years of being tested for stomach conditions. I don't have anyone to really talk to ab",negative " r/books TITLE: [Request] Looking for a book on dinosaurs for an adult! POST: My girlfriend grew up homeschooled and I took her last month to the Museum of Natural History for her first time. I didn't even think of it as she stood silently in front of the skeletons of the prehistoric beasts. She was in awe, and had a million questions I couldn't answer. She can't wrap her head around how they find, date, reconstruct etc! There was a book in the store that explained how the dinosaurs were dated, and how we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I f(20) being used emotionally by m(25)? POST: So I'll start by saying I've known this individual for about four years. He was my long term ex-boyfriend's close friend during the duration of our relationship(3.5 years). Since I split with my ex-boyfriend a year ago I have maintained contact with his once close friend through text. Overtime our conversation became more intimate regarding each other's life situations. In turn he told me about how empty and unhappy he is with his cur",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My future father-in-law [72M] constantly gives my fiance [27M] and I [26F] financial advice that we are not interested in. Fiance says it's easier to just smile and nod, but it gets on my nerves. POST: My fiance and I are pretty well financially. His father has some idea of his income, but seems to have no idea of my income. He recently made a comment suggesting that he thinks I make less than 30k a year, apparently having no idea how lucrative my field is (I make six figures, so d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my Girlfriend [16 F] 8 Months, insecurity POST: So recently my girlfriends parents have decided that she must get a job, that's all fine and dandy but her parents made her apply at a local swim lessons place for kids and she got the job as a person working up front. I get upset because I am not exactly fit and it bothers the hell out of me when my girlfriend sees guys who are super fit and way more in shape than I am, and I know that her working at the swim place will ",negative " r/travel TITLE: Tip: if you are travelling around South America, fly home via Venezuela. POST: This really only applies to backpackers, as you need to have a slightly flexible schedule, and ideally not have a ticket out of the country. Due to currency controls the Venezuelan currency is traded at an artificially high value officially (6bsf to 1usd). However there is thriving black market within Venezuela for foreign currency, which has resulted in the there being a black market rate of 31bsf to 1usd. Mos",negative " r/college TITLE: Midwest high school senior needing help finding a community college. POST: I'm a senior at a high school in western Wisconsin. I've been doing some research and I've decided that attending a two-year college before transferring to a university is the right choice for me, mostly due to my high school experience. To be completely honest, I've kinda slacked the past four years. Despite having a (relatively) high ACT composite score of 29 that I think any community college will accept, my grad",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: What are some of the best banks to take out a student loan from in NY, or where can I find some? POST: Right now, I have just completed 2 years at a community college with an AS in comp sci and now I'm going to go to UB for computer science bachelors. I am going to be living on campus for the first year there and going to be living off for the second year hopefully. I have 6.5k in debt right now, and I estimate this next two years will be approximately 25-30k more in debt, probably",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Ive [M22] been seeing a girl [F22] for a few weeks. Not sure how to proceed. POST: We have been hooking up and spending time together a few times a week for a few weeks now. Early on we had a conversation which resulted in us both agreeing that we don't want a relationship and we just want sex and cuddles w/e. I was totally cool about this, I like to go out and meet girls so do not want to commit to anyone at all. At least not right now, so this decision we agreed on was perf",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 32 [M] trying to re-discover how to date again POST: I'm not sure if this is the right sub for this but anyway. Essentially, I've been single for six years now. I've moved locations and in the past I didn't have much of a desire for a relationship, however, new location is very much geared towards more of a family oriented lifestyle and it's sort of rekindled the desire again or perhaps it's just loneliness. A little background, I was married fairly young at 18. At a time when I co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm(M22) Having trouble sorting my emotions and guilt about a dumb hookup with a friend I met online(F22) POST: I[M22] met a girl[22] online playing video games as I was being introduced into a group of friends that played from different corners of the country. Right off the bat I could tell she liked me. She eventually asked me about my sex life and we both established that we were virgins. I'd seen pictures of her and I wasn't attracted to her physically but I was starting like her",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I failed a drug test, wrongfully so I have been sober for over 6 years. Is there anything I can do to fight back? POST: I got a job offer, a quiet lucrative one at that and was required to go through the hoops of their hiring process including: Background check, Driving record check, and lastly a drug test. I found out today that the reason I had not heard back from the company for over 2 weeks was that I failed the drug test. I'm seriously upset right...this isn't possible. Reddit, I c",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I applied for an Amex card today... POST: Hi PF, long time lurker here... Long story short, I have been browsing credit cards lately and my SO recommended American Express blue cash for a number of reasons. I have a 730+ credit score, and currently only have one USAA credit card with a $1500 credit limit. No other loans/credit lines. I never carry a balance on this one card, I always always pay in full. So I applied. I was approved, hooray, and will be getting my card in the mail",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (16/f) friend's dad(50s?/m) has been coming onto me really aggressively and I'm very very uncomfortable around him. POST: I have been friends with a guy for about 7 years and we're really close and I would consider him my best friend. Our parents are also really close and for the past 7 years or so my friends dad has been like a second dad to me. Over the past few weeks he's been hitting on me and flirting with me and he's just gotten more and more aggressive with it as time go",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I M(20) need help with how to sort this situation with my G(19). Seriously don't know what to do. POST: I feel like I'm in a real predicament the last few weeks. I've been with my girlfriend for 3 years and I feel like things are starting to taper off the last few weeks, even though their not at the same time. We both go to college in the same city which makes it so much easier as we can see each other as often as we like. Things have been great between us ever since day one and we",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Was I being a dick? POST: Okay so I'm at a party with my gf and we're happy, having fun, dancing, the whole shabang. And this one guy I know from band, located in the middle area between being a friend and a stranger, comes over and starts dancing a little bit with my gf. Just mild rave stuff, so I blow it off, no big deal. Then a little later he comes back while I'm dancing next to her, and starts dancing again, but then progresses to rubbing his butt up against my gf. Within the next c",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How do I make good on my screw up? POST: So Im 22 and graduated college in the spring. met this wonderful girl and everything was going well. But I havent had a more than temporary job in a while. It really takes its toll on me. Recently I had a job interview that went very poorly. It sent me into a tail spin. I also got sick at the same time. Im an athlete and my inability to train, loneliness over all my friends being back at school, and lack of employment made for severe depressio",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: My girlfriend [23] of 8 years left me [25] for another guy. POST: We have been living together for 2 years and just moved in to a new house. I don't understand why someone could throw a relationship like that away. I didn't really see it coming. She left me on saturday and I'm going to talk to her tonight because I have remaining questions. She didn't tell me she has someone else but I found out through her family and friends. I will confront her tonight. But how will I get over all ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] found out my dad [45ishM] ""borrowed"" over $1000 from me without asking. POST: I'm 18, just graduated high school, and I'm saving up my money to go to college in a year. I took a few paychecks and the money I got for graduation, opened a savings account and deposited $1,165.87 about a month ago. Tonight I was cleaning my room and found the paperwork from the bank, which had instructions on how to look up your bank account and info and all that stuff online. I got it set up, ",negative " r/travel TITLE: Going to the USA for a month, any advice? POST: Hey Reddit, How are you all? Good? **Background:** I just finished my thesis and only have one semester of university left. So I thought, fuck it, I'm gonna go on a holiday to the USA. I am going from June 29 to July 28. I fly into LA and out from NYC. That is all I have actually booked in. I'm thinking of doing something like this: * LA - June 29 to July 1 * San Francisco - 1st - 6th * LA - to the 7th (to meet up with a mate) * Las Vegas",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24M] with my Girlfriend [23F] 4 years. I've grown up a lot. She hasn't. POST: I think I know what I should do but have a hard time convincing myself of it. I'm a hard working student (20 hours part time work a week and a full courseload every term). I'm hoping to have a solid job when I graduate and make OK money. I live well within my means and still manage to do alright. My girl however is really dependent. She has problems with money - she likes spending it, not making it",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling my girlfriend she is a 9 POST: I can't remember how we got on the subject but I told her she was a 9/10 (referring to her looks). Knowing my own scale, I consider a 9 to be a big compliment. I rate hot celebrities like Rachel Bilson 9. A 9 is amazing. Damn near any guy would love for their girlfriend to be a 9. This is not how she took it. She instantly wanted to know why she wasn't a 10. When I stalled she asked me who was a 10. I blurt out Emily Ratajowski without thinking. ",positive " r/Parenting TITLE: Not a parent, but could use some advice. POST: Hey redditor parents! Like the title says, I'm not a parent, but I could really use some advice, so here goes. I'm 19, and I have a half brother, who's about 4 and a half. I look after him a lot, but I guess because I'm so much older I've tended to take on a more parental role. For example I do a lot of disciplining, I try and teach him things (life lessons, I guess you could call them >.>). Like, just earlier today, I spoke to him about ho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [22F] struggling to open up with my new [23M] SO. Looking for advice. POST: We've been exclusively dating for almost two months now. I feel close to him but this is still pretty new. What I'm struggling to bring up is this: I was born with a deformed ear amongst many other less noticeable complications at birth. I underwent reconstructive surgery on my ear as a kid. It didn't go well and now what I have is arguably just as deformed before. You'd think it'd be the first thing people ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/M] Recently broke up with my girlfriend[20/F] and I don't know how to get over her POST: I'll spare you all the story of our entire relationship from start to finish, but basically me and my girlfriend of about 6 months broke up. Not the longest relationship I've had by any means. However, I can't seem to get over this girl in particular. I don't know why. She's not really that nice to me, and I know that shes already seeing other people. I guess the reason I'm having prob",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 M] began dating a friend [24 F] of many years since high school, things were going well but now she has cut contact with me. POST: So, I have a friend who I have known since high school...we always got along great, everything in common etc. and just generally loved being around each other. Due in part to timing with other relationships, school, etc, we just never really considered each other that way until recently. She had recently gotten out of a bad relationship, and I had b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My SO [25M] won't say 'I love you' anymore; should I [20F] stop saying it? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for a total of 2 years, but not consecutively. He broke up with me for a 3 month period because he wasn't feeling right about us and we have now been back together for another 3 months. He used to tell me he loved me when we were together before, but now he says he's not ready to say it again. I know I probably shouldn't say it because it hurts when he doesn't say i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my [26 M] year long boyfriend, having a trust issue with facebook POST: Hi all, Basically, I have an issue with facebook. I can't stand it. I have been betrayed in past relationships via facebook, I just honestly do not trust it. I feel like that if you are a grown adult well out of college and high school, there is no reason to frequent facebook every day or every other day for that matter. Once in a while, fine. But definitely not a couple times a week. I know the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21f) boyfriend (23m) and his toxic friend (24m) POST: I have been trying to get my boyfriend, Chad, of a year to rid himself (or go controlled/ partial contact) with his extremely toxic friend. They have been friends since before age 8. However as an adult, his friend Julian, is an utter ass hole. He is controlling, he physically and emotionally abuses his girlfriend, emotionally abuses others, is petty, selfish, narcissistic. The list of all of his poor attributes would take f",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: i'd really love to kill some people right now, but instead i'm going to ask for some legal advice regarding nursing home litigation.. POST: I know lawyers can't legally give me counsel here, but I'd like your advice to the extent that you're allowed to give it. Here's the story: My mother used to manage a nursing home in California. A few months after the left the job, she got a call from the nursing home owner's (her former boss') attorney. He told her that a former resident's family ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is it about your favorite restaurant that keeps you coming back again and again? POST: I'm working on a restaurant concept idea for my culinary school and I need some inspiration for my restaurant. I'm trying to figure what really sticks out to the general public when they go out to eat. My favorite place was this bar in my college town. There was nothing fancy about the decor, no big sign out front, it was literally just a hole in the wall. They had amazing wings there which is why",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, im just a kid, but how can I accomplish a dream? POST: So yeah, this might sound kinda soppy but hell with it. Im 16 in the tenth grade. I take Honers/honers gifted classes. and have straight A's and one or two B's. My entire Family and teachers keep telling me i should be a Doctor, lawyer, engineer..Blah..BLah...BLah. I get it, good grades=good job=lots of money=better life. I see it diferently, How can i enjoy my life if I spent most of my life at a job I hate. What I really",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20's M] with my acquaintance [20's F] 5 years, She is not taking internet safety seriously POST: Acquaintance [20'sF] has a site on a popular social media site and from what I can gather is semi-popular. We met in high school but aren't in touch anymore, I randomly found her blog looking through a niche section of blogs from our hometown. She regularly posts photos of herself in her underwear, talks about taking drugs, and gives away personal information that would be really ea",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Reddit, I am desperate for help. I am having huge issues all of a sudden with trusting my SO. Your advice is desperately needed. POST: Me and my girlfriend broke up July 9th when she left for Europe (Birthright then traveling Europe). The reason being that we didn't know if the relationship would still work when she would be getting back from her trip. She is Jewish and I am not. Her family does not know we are together and she will be living at home when she got back. While ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16 M] suspect my girlfriend [15 F] might be cheating on me. POST: I think my girlfriend of one year is cheating on me due to some things she's posted on r/sex, r/gonewild, etc. on r/ sex She had said around one month ago that she was currently single with three ""friends with benefits"". And it was about them trying to make her squirt in vivid detail. She doesn't know i've been looking at her reddit and if i brought it up she'd probably get pissed. We've also been having sex for qui",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my brother's [21 M] girlfriend [21 F]; she made an offensive comment about my SO [21 M] [Non-Romantic] POST: Last night I [F 22] went to dinner with my brother, Chandler [M 21], his girlfriend, Amelie [F 21], and my bf of 5 years Daniel [M 21]. My brother and his girlfriend were telling us about their passports, and how the pictures were rolled out in such a way that made their faces look wide and fat. I wondered aloud what would happen to a face that was already fat, ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Ex [21/f] continues contact? POST: My last message to her was asking my ex to get in touch with me when she was back from travelling so we could properly organise a meet up. She told me it would be on the 10th and that she's definitely up for a catch up. Yet 2 days later she sends me a random message letting me know she's going to watch a football game and is very excited. It's almost as if she can't stand not talking. She's been initiating 100% of the time. We had a nice chat an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (M26) want to start a relationship with a girl (F23). We're very good friends but are already long-distance. POST: I met her through an online game we both moderate, and over the past few weeks we've gotten very close. We chat online for hours at a time, multiple times a week, doing things entirely unrelated to our common moderation work. I'd basically like to ask her out to dinner or a movie, but we're geographically very far apart, so I just don't know what to say. Asking ""would ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (22M) broke up with my girlfriend (20F) 6 months ago. Lately she's been sending me texts and we're going out for coffee tomorrow. Not sure what this means. POST: Just for a little backstory, we had been dating a year when things started going south. The last month of our relationship was nonstop fights and arguments so I ended it before it became what I thought was ""too dysfunctional."" I've seen way too many couples get in a cycle of dysfunctional arguments that harmed both p",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I[m/19] am in love with good friend[m/21] but he's busy dating [m/26] POST: To start off, I'd like to say thank anyone for any help they could offer. That being said I have known [m/21] for four to five months since I transferred to a new university. We hit it off very quickly, and soon become good friends who get together on a daily basis. We share similar ambitions and a perception of the world, we even love watching Japanese anime, reading similar books, playing the same typ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[25F] with fiancé [29M] 6 years, don't know if I should stay with him anymore. POST: This is my first time posting because I need unbiased advice. My fiancé does not know that I found out why he really got fired and it bothers me that he has not come clean. We had a similar experience about two years ago where I confronted him about it and he kept lying until he accepted that I already knew. We have been trying to start a life together but we can't because we can't afford it. This ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure how to go forward...[xpost from RA] POST: Not sure how many people read one and not the other here, but figured I need as much help as I can get...I really care about her and do not want to screw this up. I (23M) broke up with my ex girlfriend (22F) about six months ago because I'd received a job overseas and she was going to be entering her senior year of university. Six months of time has given me some perspective on the relationship, and about a month ago, I started to ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most simultaneously lucky and unlucky thing that's happened to you? POST: I was headed over to a store about 10 minutes away just now to buy some beer cause the closer store has been out of mine since Thursday. I'm cruising along at about the speed limit and I see a deer on the edge of the road. I switch into the other lane since there is no oncoming traffic and the damn thing charges me and headbutts the passenger frontside of the car. It's brains go flying everywhere and it ",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Don't Honk at Me POST: I woke up one morning a bit later than I needed to which I knew would make me late for work unless I hightailed it the whole way there. I hurried and got my stuff and got into my car and proceeded to leave as. I was at the entrance of my apartment complex looking for oncoming cars when I heard some impatient prick blow at me. Now I know this is normal when someone is not paying attention and won't go if traffic is clear. However in my case I have to take a bit o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[23F] with my boyfriend [29M] 3 years-2 living together, won't share his financial history with me (story inside) POST: To begin we have been together for over 3 years, living together in a house he bought for 2. He pays mortage and I pay all utilities, grocercies, and all cleaning/laundry. We have talked about marriage plenty of times, usually he brings it up and he wants to have a kid with me. (btw these subjects are almost always brought up by him, every few weeks). Last fall",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [25 M] hit it off with a girl [23 F] for 2 months until she stopped relying POST: Hi everyone, I started seeing this girl and hit it off immediately. Saw her two more times and continued to text and call after the third date. She would be the one who texted first a good amount of the time. After that date, her personal situation changed and she would cancel dates with me. She would apologize and assure me she would still like to get together. After about a month of this, she did ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my bf [22 M] 6 months, first time relationship, want to breakup, feel we don't have enough in common? POST: We've been together for a little over 6 months and I'm starting to realise that we just don't have that much in common. This is mostly regarding our interests, and has caused many long awkward conversation pauses due to neither of us having anything to talk about. Additionally, things that I used to find endearing in him are just becoming annoying. When I go on ",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Lost my job due to mental health/stress issues - advice on finding a new job? POST: So, for as long as I've been alive, I've suffered from depression and anxiety. About a year ago, I decided enough was enough, and began taking medication (Cipralex) and seeing a therapist. Now, prior to this, I had a few financial issues (my salary was cut, I was run over, house flooded, mother got cancer, then lost her job) - okay, a LOT of financial issues - that left me with a sizeable debt load (",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 24M how do you reject people politely POST: I haven't done much dating in my day, I was kind of a late bloomer. I dated my first serious girlfriend for a few years, and after I broke up I went through a time where I didn't date anyone for almost a year. I've been dating recently, and I've realized how hard it is to meet a random person you click with. I'm not expecting anything out of it, but I'd like a relationship again, and I figure that if I'm not going out on dates then it",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I never had the chance to meet my grandpa, an internet stanger creates the only colour photo of him I have. Has anyone else been touched by a selfless kind act of a redditor? POST: This is a thank you post for Less_than_5, you have brought sunshine to a rainy English day. A little background. I am a 21 year old student from England, two days ago I was round my grandma's house helping her with the new laptop she had bought to use with her silver surfer friends from her church group. I wa",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (22f) feel used by my ex (26m) POST: We were together for around 11 months and he broke up with me in February (he didn't really tell me why). After two months of no contact, we bumped into each other on campus and we ended up spending the day together and sleeping together. After that, we saw each other every few weeks. 2 weeks ago, he called me and asked me to help him with an assignment he had to do for the next day because he would have been kicked out of university if he d",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Can anyone justify Dave Ramsey's Credit Card Policy? POST: I just read ""The Total Money Makeover"" after getting several recommendations from friends and deciding that I need to be more intentional with my financial planning. I loved it, it's been the most practical info on financial planning that I've read. He changed my mind on car leasing, retirement savings, and woke me up to the power of a well managed income (even if that income is average or below average). That said, I'm not",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] was using my boyfriends [21 M] computer yesterday and found some questionable stuff. POST: Hey. I was using my BF of two years' computer recently for uni work (after he said I could) and went to login to my Gmail account but there was one already logged in. It looks like he made a secondary account or something? Anyway the inbox popped up automatically and I saw some account creation emails from Chaturbate and some other cam website? Should I be concerned? If he was just vi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: SO (26/m) completely blindsided me (24/f) today. Wants to break up. I feel ready to just flop over and die. POST: I'm pretty torn up. I feel completely blindsided. I thought we had a happy relationship, and I'm still completely in love with him. We had our two year anniversary about 4 months ago and right around that time we touched base about where we saw the relationship going, and we were very much in agreement about how we felt and future desires. I feel so shitty and broken up. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my ex-girlfriend [20 F] of 3 months, left me out of the blue to be with her Ex and still wants to be close. POST: We met at my work place and hit it off really well, and she had recently broken up with her ex. 3 months go by and we are having the times of our lives- i couldnt have been happier. We had planned Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Spring Break together and it looked like that this relationship might last. Then in a 2 day period, she chose to be with her E",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/F] have been dating my [24 M] boyfriend for almost 8 months and have met his close friends, but not his parents even though he says his mom will like me. POST: I have met his best friends and stay the night at his place a few times a week and have been for monthssss, now. I was 19 when we started dating, at which point he said his mom would not approve of the age gap (which I understand, given that I had the ""teen"" at the end of my age haha). From time to time he has told me ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I can't choose a major in college, what have you done to help yourself make a decision? POST: As in the title, I am a 20 year old that has not been able to choose a major. I have taken classes in Aviation (geared towards ATC), Culinary Arts, Photography and Biology. At first they interest me because I have never been exposed to the presented materials before with the exception of biology (I've always been interested in it). But after a few classes I lose almost all interest.
I have ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (24) and I (M, 28) have never fought. Ever. Is this unhealthy? POST: Believe it or not, this is not a bragging post, or anything like it. It's not my intent to rub anything in anyone's faces. This is legitimately a topic of concern for me. I had a couple relationships prior to my current one, and they were chock full of a lot of fighting, albeit far more than one might consider ""normal"" and over a lot of trivial things. I'd always heard that fighting is a ""normal and h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [19F] stay in touch with my ex's friends [20sM]? POST: Hey, thanks in advance for any advice. A little backstory: I dated my ex for about a year and a half, then we broke up amicably because of long distance considerations (basically). We spent another year staying friends and then he started dating someone else, I realized I'm not over him, and had to totally cut all contact with him to try and heal. I most likely won't be talking to him for at least a few years even tho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [28F] eventually wants a tattoo. I'm [30M] adamantly against it. POST: So my gf, who I love and basically see my self marrying, is thinking about getting a tattoo. The problem is I am very against them. Other people have them and that's ok. I have several friends with tattoos. I have a problem with a girl I'm seriously dating getting one. I think she sees getting tattoos as something fun to do where she gets a matching one with a girlfriend. I see it as her destroying an area ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (24M) mother is very very sick with cancer. I (27F) want to help and could use some advice. POST: My bf's mom was diagnosed in the last year with breast cancer, stage III. It progressed far faster than anyone expected and her entire breast is essentially a tumor now. I do not expect her to go through further chemo/surgery/radiation at this point since they opted to do holistic treatment when the diagnosis was made. We have been dating a little over 2 years and I am cl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [27 M] explain to my close friend [37F] just met over a month ago, that I just want to be friends without hurting her feelings? POST: First off, I apologize for my English - I am trying my best to make it clear. OK so we have been introduced through someone because we are both new expats in the same country. So we met at the airport - it was our first day here. We went apartment searching together, went furniture shopping together, and mainly went through all the 'expat",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [BC Canada] Landlord is bringing sniffing dogs into apartment and we're not allowed home POST: So landlords are coming to my friend's apartment in the morning for some alleged ""emergency"" to negate the 24 hour notice requirement. That's all we know that they will be here somewhere randomly between 9-5. Then the next day they've scheduled dogs to come in and sniff for bedbugs apparently. The neighboring unit did have some problems with a now evicted tenant which resulted in renovatio",negative " r/jobs TITLE: How to deal with a long period of unemployment on the resume/CV? POST: I've now been without a job for over a year (sigh). I've barely been able to get interviews recently, and the longer the unemployment, the more difficult it is to actually get anywhere in the first place. It's one thing to acknowledge and/or explain the unemployment during an interview, but before that, you've gotta go through the resume part of it. And [people won't seriously consider your application] as soon as they se",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [M20] with my GF [F18] in college having trust/jealousy issues. POST: So we've been together for over 2 years, she just went to college on the other side of the country and I'm a year older. Basically she told me she feels on a leash and held back in the going out to parties sense. I'm really OK with her going out and I've told her that and so we've been working on me not getting too jealous (I recognize that I have jealousy issues to get over) and allowing her to have her freedom",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Two years abroad learning Mandarin in Taiwan, should I go back now or stay another year and teach English? POST: Hi guys, I'm 24 and have been living a bubble most of my life, and am just now beginning to emerge into the real world. Based on my understanding of the current job market in the US, it seems my life has been a series of poor choices regarding my employability. Here's my story: I have a BA in Linguistics from a UC. In school I took 2 years of Mandarin courses, then after graduation",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Question about bridesmaid dresses being different POST: Originally I had a small uneven bridal party that I told to choose whatever they would like to wear as long as it was red or blue (our wedding colors). However for certain reasons the party has doubled and I asked for the girls to be in red but still choose whatever shade and style they would like. Two of the three boys will be in black tuxes and blue vests. The other groomsmen is in the navy so he will be wearing his dinner",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] have fallen in love with my best friend [19 F]. I've felt like this for 4 years, and I dont know how to get over it without loosing her as a friend. POST: So.. Hi, I guess. Never really thought that I'd post here myself, but after being a frequent reader of this sub of the past 6 months I've seen that some of you guys really can be incredibly helpful. As you read in the title, I[19m] have fallen in love with my best friend[19f]. This have really beaten me down. She's probab",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: BF broke up with me, I feel lost and don't know if I'll ever be able to trust anyone again POST: Hello everyone, My Boyfriend and I broke up a few weeks ago. Honestly our relationship wasn't so great for the past few months. He was being distant, always out partying with friends and without me. So in a way I was expecting our relationship to end soon, but when he told me he didn't love me anymore, it was still hard. I felt, and I still feel like I messed up something, like I did things w",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: I think I injured my lower back doing deadlifts improperly yesterday, what to do? POST: So yesterday I was weightlifting and one of the guys I was lifting with wanted me to do deadlifts. The form he showed me felt off but I went with it, legs straight and at shoulder width back bent when picking up the weight. After a few reps I felt a twinge on the lower right side of my back, initially I didn't realize what it was because it wasn't excessively painful, but I soon stopped when I realized ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do we [me 22M][gf 22F] need to break up? POST: In April, we will have been together for a year. Here's the thing: we are in a long distance relationship. We met online, and we really hit it off, though I can't remember how. It could have been just pure excitement from being with someone who wasn't my abusive ex. I used to call and text her often, and visit her once or twice a month, but then things happened to both of us, in which both of our cars stopped working, we both lost our",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Need some post-graduation advice on acquiring a puppy and working a full-time job. POST: Howdy, /r/dogs. I need some advice. It's my senior year of college. I'm graduating soon, and I'm moving from Texas to Louisiana for my job. I will, most likely, be living alone, due to situation and preference. However, I have grown up all my life surrounded by dogs (currently have a Ridgeback, black Lab, and Dachshund that live with my family), and I really have completely hated how little interaction I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (18/M) am not allowed to hang out with my friends amymore because of my (18/F) girlfriend POST: Ok so heres the story, when i met her i was smoking weed every single day with my friends and she didnt like that but she never made it that big of a deal. She would always hint and say stuff like ""i find it so unnatractive that you smoke everyday"" but i never cared. It actually took me like 3 months to even ask her out because i just wanted to do whatever i wanted. So when i finally did",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Need advice dealing with a company that screwed me over and is doing highly illegal activities. POST: I worked for a company that screwed me over. They hospitalized me due to their negligence and failed to compensate me in anyway. I was in the hospital for 4 days and lost $20K+. I tried to find a legal remedy but I was ignored and turned away by lawyers. Most told me, ""I know it's wrong and illegal what's happening, but it's a tough break and this is difficult-impossible to prove."" I w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: If you could beat the crap out of anyone and get away with it, who would it be and why ? POST: I grew up in Britain. When I was 9, my family moved to Lebanon and put me in an private American school. One time, in the school cafeteria, I asked the guy at the counter for a Double Decker chocolate bar in my typical English accent when all of a sudden, I hear an utterly obnoxious laugh followed by a ""he wants a double decka! hahaha!"". I turn around and I see this huge, fat blob (must have be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Don't want to get over my (27/f) ex (30/m)...what do I do? POST: Hi Reddit. Throwaway... I sent the ""final goodbye"" email to my on/off ex about a month and a half ago. For everything wrong I did in our tumultuous three year relationship, I realized his behavior was either mentally abusive or just not compatible with my personality. I had to cut him off completely, thinking either he would step up to the plate and change, or leave me alone to heal. There were a lot of trust and in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My BF [M/23] of a year admitted to trying to hook up with my [F/23] best friend [F/21], I feel like it's my fault POST: We dated for about 8 months during our senior year of college. I broke up with him before I left undergrad to pursue graduate school in another state. He offered to move with me but I said no, because I knew deep down that although I loved him, he wasn't the one for me. We maintained contact and were basically dating even after the breakup. Then we tried to go no-co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (28/m) need advice on my bf, who is (18/m) POST: It hasn't been long since I came out (1 year ago), and 6 months ago I met an amazing guy. Two months ago, I left my wife of three years. Trouble is, he's 10 years younger than me and he's 55 miles away. Also, he doesn't have a job currently (just moved into the area, hasn't found anything yet). Also, he doesn't drive, due to some family issues that I would rather keep private. He's currently living with his parents, and working on his ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What should I do with my life? POST: I have been given the opportunity to start over, what should I do? Here's the story: I have been working as a financial advisor for a year now at a local independent firm. I started the day after I graduated with my BS in Maths. I am going through a divorce- but I will actually be ending up at ground zero- with my debt and his being separated. I have to worry about Student loans in the future, but other than that- My parental units have offered ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sending a message while taking a piss. POST: So this just happened 20 mins ago. This FU might not be as big as some of the others posted here but yeah just thought it'll be fun to submit one. So basically my best friends(lets call him Jack) birthday is coming up this week and his uni mates and I have been corresponding on planning a big birthday surprise. So I get a text 30 mins ago from my correspondent informing me of the details for his SURPRISE party while i was walking to the t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/m] Diffusing a situation with a customer[?/f], SO[21/f] upset with me for considering to call customer to diffuse situation POST: My girlfriend[21/f] and I[22/m] have been dating for just about 3 years, currently doing LDR. The other day a customer gave me her phone number on a piece of paper. Kinda just put me on the spot and couldn't really react quickly. Note said ""call me. seriously"" and had her number. So my first instinct is to call her up and tell her I'm not inter",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Getting back together with my [24F] ex [29M] (together 5 years, broken up for 5 months). Herpes is now a factor. HELP! POST: Let me start out by saying, I was the one that did the breaking up. ""The grass is greener"" got to me and we broke off our 5 year relationship because I was acting like a little girl. It was a clean break, but after months apart and lots of communication, we both feel that we are happy together and would like to be a couple again. During our time apart we bot",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Decided to break up, but when to do it? POST: Me (22M) decided to break up with my gf (24F) after 5.5 years. Now I truly love her and want to hurt her no more then I already have to. So my question is, when to break up? And I don't mean what time of day, more what date. Like holidays are coming up (I'm in the netherlands so we got ""Sinterklaas"" comming up at the 5th of december) And I know her parents already bought presents for me and stuff, after that we will be close to christ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife [28 F] and I [27 M] have been together for 6 years, and married for 6 months. She deploys frequently and it is beginning to worry me. POST: Our relationship has been great. We have been through two other deployments together. There has only been one hiccup during one of those deployments. It involved drinking and another individual, but I trust that no lines were crossed and she has always been faithful to me. I am comfortable in trusting this because I married her, and I kno",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] and this girl [19F] have been on a one date but need advice on the future. POST: Alright so i met this girl on tinder, shes pretty great and seems to be very interested in me and i am also very interested in her. We've been talking alot over the past week and even had a date that went pretty well. Now i have another date with her on Saturday but theres one issue i need advice on. Shes in the air force and based on her past she relocates alot, shes originally from Califor",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, can I get a little advice about an idea that I have? POST: So I know the owner of a small shop which manufactures some pretty cool things. Now I have an idea that I feel would really sell a lot and I want to approach him about this. I don't want to come off like a jerk selling him an idea, because he's a nice guy and I would also like him to make me one of these. However, I don't just want to hand over the idea and not have any compensation. How do I approach him? Would yo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my LDR GF of 3 months [19F], she left for uni and is spending a lot of time with only one guy, getting high. POST: GF went to uni for her first year, I knew I would be uncomfortable with her spending time with other guys and the attention she would receive. Suggested we break up before she left but she was adamant she wanted to stay with me as I am her first love. Now she is at uni her attitude towards us/me has lessened as she has other things keeping her interest. S",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] of 2 years have grown apart POST: We have been together for 2 years now and I'm starting to notice that we are growing apart. We don't live together, she still lives at home but we are starting to just grown away from one another. I'm almost ready to break-up with her as I don't think I can see a long term future with her, we have talked about it but she is so bad with doing things on time (she lost her last job due to being late every day for a mo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Just found out the age of the girl i'm seeing POST: Backstory: I'm 20. The other week, I met a girl at a party in a university residence. We get to chatting and hit it off. She tells me she's turning 19 this year (at least this is what I recall) and we proceed to spend the night talking/kissing. I decide this girl is cool so I pursue further. Go out a couple times, and I'm starting to really dig this girl. Then all of a sudden she drops a bomb. ""Me and my siblings are 2 years",positive " r/self TITLE: I have reached a new level of Friend Zone.... POST: OK So my wife and I ended our relationship mid November. This was through no fault of my own. She fell in love with her co-worker. Top things off I moved to Dallas for her since her family all lives here. ( I am from Minnesota) The last week in December I decided to sign up for match.com. I hit things off pretty quick with a nice lady on that. We went on a fun date to play mini-golf, and race go-karts. Follow it up with a lovely dinner the f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (18) told me (18) about her sex life and I don't know what to do. POST: I might be asking the wrong subreddit. Long time lurker and first time poster so I apologize on any mistakes I make. My whole life I have been with girls that are virgins because the thought of someone being in there not scares me but kind of disgust me. Recently, I began to date this girl, 2 months now, great girl but has been with other guys (3) Yesterday, she told me on how she messed up and how ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (16f) badly need help getting back my sister's (23F) trust. POST: The worst of the story is that I had sex (with a condom) and she found out by accident through a journal entry. I did not tell her nor family about this boyfriend or any intent to have sex. My sister has told me frequently that I am not to have sex until 18. The reason why she is so parental is that my parents do not speak English and are very busy with work to watch over me. She is angry that I had sex so young and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I (19F) let men always carry my stuff if they ask to? POST: I met my friends' friends for the first time and we all went out to eat and I got to know this one friend (21M) better and we had fun and we just clicked immediately. After eating I took and carried the leftovers and he said that he can carry those. I said thanks, you don't need to. He smiled politely back and got quiet. And then I started thinking that oh no, did I just ""lower"" his manliness by not letting him help ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling a girl I liked her the night after I found out she was dating someone POST: So, as usual, this happened a long time ago. I was in high school, so about four years ago. I was a senior, and had liked this girl since sophomore year, but never told her or even hunted at anything bc back then I still couldn't talk to girls. Anyway, we were friends I guess, as in we were friendly and chatted in our 2 classes we had together, and I had her number. And it pretty much ended there. ",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Broke UV flourescent lamp in room, what should I do next? (MERCURY!) POST: I stupidly broke a UV lamp in my room. My room doesn't have any windows so I'm funneling air from my room into the room next to it, which has a window. It is currently pretty hot, so I'm hoping the mercury evaporates and is siphoned outside. I cleaned up the glass shards and broken cord, but I bet there's still micro-particles of mercury-glass still hanging out. I was thinking I would vacuum my room to clean up any ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Im [24,F] and I dont know how to talk to my [27,M] boyfriend about the next step in our relationship of 4 years. What do I say? POST: We have been together for 4 years. We have a house. We have 3 dogs. Its like we are practically married already. We have spoken about marriage. I feel like over time though he may have changed his mind about it. His dad even said you need to be really sure. My boyfriend says his dad doesnt like me. His dad isnt apart of this realtionship. But I f",negative " r/self TITLE: My girlfriend is telling her parents we are moving in together. What to expect? POST: My girlfriend and I are both 20, have been together for three years and plan on moving to Austin in a couple of months. We are both financially stable, and have money set aside in case anything happens. The only thing we didn't really plan for is telling her strict conservative parents and how they would react. Since we are young this is the first time both of us are moving out of our parents houses. Also,",negative " r/self TITLE: I'm afraid of growing up... POST: It was brought to my attention a few months back by a good friend of mine that we have no choice but to grow up in the end, eventually all our friends mature or change, forcing you to do the same. And ever since then I have been seeing how drastically things are changing, a lot of my friends are engaged or in serious relationships and some have even started families, none of them are careless and free like we were just 2 years ago. These people who I used t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend booked and overseas trip without me and without talking to me about it. I'm insecure. Should I ask her to reassure me? Can you reassure me? POST: My [29M] partner [25F] of 18 months recently booked flights overseas with a girlfriend of hers without really talking to me about it, which upset me at the time. I felt like as a couple we should at least have talked about it. She earns a lot more than me and said that she decided we couldn't afford for both of us to go, an",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So...I have the Army Uniform of a transgendered man who has gone on to be a woman. What do? POST: My parents are packing up their house and moving out to florida or some such place. This means that my old room is being emptied out and left for the garbage men. I really have no connection to any of this stuff. However, I have a military suit that I feel has an important history attached to it. Background: Years ago, an older guy, perhaps in his 40 or even 50's, showed up at my community",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my boyfriend[20] of 3 years, did I fall out of love? POST: I've known him since I was 12, and I fell in love with him when we first talked. He was different, interesting, mysterious. We started dating when I started high school. I loved him a lot. He was my first real love, my first at everything. I used to get butterflies when he called me, messaged me, when I saw him. You know that feeling when you look at someone and you think ""God I love him SO much!"" and you hug ",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I thought you would be better than this. POST: I guess I should have known from the start that this wouldn't be anything I wanted, when you told me you had just ended things with your fwb. But we both said we were looking for something more serious. So I gave this a chance. I opened up to you about so much. It was all so easy with you, talking to you and spending hour together. It made me feel good about myself knowing I had someone to care about me. But that was all a lie. You would ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is it too late for him (25M) to say sorry? (25F) POST: My Ex and I broke up around a year ago. We were in a rocky 3-year relationship. Towards the end I thought things were getting better, talking about our future and how serious he was about me. He very abruptly ended things with me saying he hasn't loved me for the past year and within two months had a new gf. I haven't spoken to him since he started dating her. A few months after then he blocked me on Instagram but began to follow",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (26F) moved in with my parents (50s M/F) recently. I hear them having sex a lot. I'm feeling really awkward. POST: As the title states, I recently moved back in with my parents. I was living in City A, they are in City B. The cities are about two hours apart. I got a fantastic job in City B, moved out of my apartment, and started my new job last week. The reason I moved back in with my parents is because I didn't find an apartment in time, I'm still paying rent on my old place and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my MIL [68 F] She has fallen for a Military Romance Scam has violated our privacy and ignored our please to cease contact with them. What can I do? POST: My MIL lives with us and is generally a homebody. She gets SS and has a part time job at walgreens. Recently she began acting strangely and secretive about her computer. She asked my wife if she could help her scan a document and send it to someone. When she went to help she hid her screen and told her to just tell he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife (27F) and I (27M) haven't had sex since our child (2F) was born...and I don't really miss it? POST: So, my wife and I have been married for three years and been together since high school. I still love her, more and more every day in fact. She's very loving and caring with everything she does. When she was pregnant neither of us were really interested in having sex, it freaked us both out a bit. I was in the room when she delivered but I didn't actually see the crowning",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by doing the Spinaroonie POST: Or, TIFU by fucking up the spinaroonie. After a long day of celebrating my awesome mother, Redditing, and watching old wrestling pay per views (on the award winning WWE network, available for the low price of $9.99) i decided to settle in for a nice slumber. I changed into my sleepwear (just a pair of booty shorts, it's hot don't judge me) and brushed my teeth/washed my face/all the rest of that jazz that will get me glowing like a fucking angel when I wak",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (31/f) boyfriend (25/m) is upset that we'll be working together. I'm kinda pissed. Should I be? POST: We've been together for 4 months. We both work at the same restaurant. I'm a server, he's a cook. I've been serving for about 10 years, and lately I've been getting tired of it. So I approached management about giving cooking a try. They jumped at my offer and said I'd be a great addition to the kitchen. So I'm stoked, right? More money. Change of scenery. I couldn't be more excit",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/m] Continuing to date my girlfriend (16/f) when I go to college POST: So here's the deal quite simply. I'm a senior in High School who will be turning 18 at the end of this month. My girlfriend is 16, and sophomore, giving us about a one year, 8 month age difference. I live in Arizona. Before I continue, according to the Arizona Statute nicknamed the ""Romeo and Juliet"" statute, I need not worry about issues once I turn 18. I am essentially in a new relationship with her. ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: Driving in a snowstorm POST: Earlier this month, my children flooded our upstairs bathroom with the water from their bath. It seeped down into the basement, and we ended up having to call water mitigation. In the process of fixing things, they tore out the bathroom floor, leaving the home temporarily without a working bathroom, so my wife & children are staying with my in-laws. The team responsible for putting in the new floor is scheduled to arrive tomorrow, early in the morning. I le",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My ex-gf (f/22) and I (22/m) have been close friends for 5 years now and suddenly she has decided to stop spending time with me. I don't understand. POST: My ex-girlfriend and I met our senior year in high school and dated for a year. After that, she went out of state for college while I stayed in our hometown. A few months passed after we broke up before we started talking again. Once we did, we quickly rekindled our friendship. We've been in touch all throughout college: call",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [23M] friend [25M] asked me months ago to be in his wedding, now he's changed his mind POST: I have a good friend that I've known for a little over a year now. About 8 months ago we were drinking and talking about relationships, and he told me that when he gets married he'd like me to be one of his groomsmen, but since they weren't engaged yet it was an ""unofficial asking"" (his words). Fast-forward to last week: He and I were going over his proposal plan and he brought up who wo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: After 7 year relationship ends how do you move on? There are complications POST: So i had the same girlfriend since I was a freshman in high school. She was a year older than me and when she graduated she moved 2 hours away to go to the state college, no big deal. The next year I ended up going to college 6 hours away. So we didn't get to see each other much. But we decided we were going to make it work and keep it together. So this year she started grad school an hour away and we ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Louisiana: Question About Attorney for Public Intoxication POST: I managed to get arrested for Public Intoxication last week. My charges are Public Intoxication and Disturbing the Peace. Both charges are municipal misdemeanors. I want to hire an attorney to take care of it with the goal of getting the charges dismissed and keeping it off my record as much as possible. I have seen two attorneys and need your advice on whom to choose. Attorney A: Is asking a flat fee of $750 per a charg",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How to get closer to this girl? POST: Hey guys, so I'm an 18 year old guy going into my senior year of high school. There's this girl in my class who's 17 and I had 2 classes with her this previous year. I didn't really talk to her that much until the end of the year when we kind of starting flirting with each other. She kind of acts like she likes me. Well, the problem is, I didn't get her number before school got out and she's rarely on Facebook, so I have no way of really getting",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [22 M] not sure if my friend [23 F] wants me to ask her out/not sure if I should POST: First of all I apologize for spelling and formatting problems, im on my phone at work. I'll try to edit for mistakes. So, just some quick background. Ive been friends with her through college for the last 3.5-4 years. Both of us just graduated in may, and we are two of the few of our friends who are done with education (not staying for more degrees) but are also staying in the same area. We w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my LDR[22 F] in limbo POST: So i met my girlfriend from living in the same apartment and we lived together for over a year. I have just moved for work an hour away and she is still at school. We had this amazing connection but she started to get distant and never communicated much. I later found out that she had strong feeling for some new guy she met and was confused because she thought she would never have feelings for anyone else. Found out she cheated on me when sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [22/f] tell him [24/m] that I still have feelings for him? POST: I broke up with him over a year ago after he told me the cliche ""he loves me but isn't in love with me."" We were together for almost a year and he's the love of my life thus far. We had a really good relationship and he made me a better person. However when we broke up I was devastated and excercised some crazy ex behaviour in the months proceeding. The first incident I drunkenly bumped into one of his friend",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Sexted once in a relationship and feeling extreme guilt. Advice? POST: Hey guys, I'm a 24 M and my girlfriend is 22. We've been together for about 3 years now. Awhile ago, a friend told me about a message app called Kik and I've been using it for about a couple weeks, never before for sexting or anything like that although I've now learned that's one of the main purposes of this thing. Anyway, I won't get into exactly how because that would be a pretty long story, but I got a woman'",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Grandparents gravesite is a wreck...can I contact someone? POST: In January my mother's mom passed away, a couple weeks later in February we buried her in the same plot where my grandpa is buried. I was in the area of the site today and thought to leave a flower, as nobody had stopped by recently since feelings were still raw. I was shocked at the state of the grave. It's like the gravediggers didn't even put the dirt away. They shoveled it back haphazardly, there were areas where ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23/M) have developed feelings for my best friends' (23/M and 23/F) older sister (27/F) POST: For some background, I found out roughly a year ago that I have a brain tumor. It isn't growing out causing any issues in my daily life but that could all change at any time. Even though it doesn't pose an immediate problem, I still feel the need to get my life together as best I can. One thing i had to do was tell my close friends and family about my situation. This is where my friends e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [25] of 6 months admits she hasn't ever really liked a lot of how I [M, 25] behave, feels bad man. POST: We met via internet dating, talked non-stop over Skype for 3 months whilst she was travelling the world, fell head over heels for each other, got together as soon as she came back home and have been going out ever since (6 months). We've had ups and downs and little squabbles like any couple but I didn't think anything of it. We're different people, like different thin",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making a lot of bad decision all day POST: Surprise! This happened today. I didn't think I'd ever write one of these that was recent but damn, I just got home and I have the need to write about it so I won't forget. My day started pretty normal. I woke up, checked my phone and email, got up, got a sandwich and started my day. I got a call from my friend asking if I could give him a ride. So I go get him and we go to this house that is apparently his dealer's. We went to pick up a ""pac",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to comfort a girl on the phone late at night POST: So this story begins when a girl who has friend zoned the crap out of me calls late at night stressed out. We have a really nice conversation and everything is great until we both get really tired. Now I like this girl so hearing her tired voice was really nice and I fall asleep. Apparently my breathing is really comforting too. So the next day I wake up thinking about how great the convo was and THE CALL IS STILL GOING. Six ho",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [22 F] of 2 years, broke up over nothing(?) POST: We have been going out for the last two years, the last year of college and another year away from each other meeting once around 3-4 months. She has been going through some stuff professionally and I could sense she was losing interest(fewer messages etc.) in keeping this going especially since we lived very far from each other, in a different country sometimes. We met after 3 months, yesterday and she ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf has no motivation or aspirations. POST: Hi everyone!! I [18F] have been with my boyfriend [18M] for almost two years. It's been a great relationship so far -- healthy frequency of disagreements/arguments, lots of communication, and mutual respect. However, there has been one prevailing problem throughout the relationship. My boyfriend, putting it nicely, is very laid-back. More bluntly, he has no desire to do anything with his life. If given the opportunity, he would be perf",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is my neighbor socially awkward or just downright creepy? POST: I have this neighbor in his 50s who lives across the street from me. He divorced his wife and for some reason his son has never come home after going to college a couple years back. I literally never saw the son again after he left for college. He seemed eccentric, but harmless. The Christmas before last, he came over with gifts. After he left, we opened them and realized they weren't for the family, but instead all just for",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26/F] with my boyfriend [43/M], worried about getting him an inapproriate/too expensive Christmas gift POST: So Christmas is coming up and it's my first one with a boyfriend. I want to get him something special and a little bit extravagant/unnecessary as he never spends money on himself. He's still trying to get himself back on his feet after a recent divorce and most of his funds go towards his two teenage daughters, his mother, and paying the bills for his old house (ex-wife do",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What was said to you that the speaker meant to be comforting but to you and everyone else clearly was not? POST: I had never met my fathers dad. My dad hates him and until the day my dad dies will always hate him. So I have never met him. When I was about 20(Still lived at home) my girlfriend was there as was my sister. My grandfather called the house and said he was coming over to drop something off. My girlfriend calls me and tells me this, so I leave work and head home. When I get hom",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21 F] having difficulty with boyfriend[20 M] of 8 years. POST: Hi guys! I have been with this guy, Alex, for just shy of 8 years now. It has been a struggle. We have been on and off for that length of time. I dated during the off periods while he did not. Each time we have rekindled the relationship, it seems to be 100x better. I have been studying abroad in Ireland for the past 9 months and have come to a place where I am stuck. I have been finding myself to be more independent ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Found out my cousin's fiancee is cheating POST: For starters, I will say that my wife and I have an open marriage. This is something that we both agreed on, but none of our family knows, nor will they ever. Last night my wife was talking to a guy online and he sent her some pics and was a bit odd. My wife showed me some of their conversation and the pics. I immediately recognized him as my younger cousin's fiancee, whom I've only actually met once. He gave my wife some personal info that",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Life Insurance Investment POST: Hey all, I'm cross-posting from r/insurance but I guess I realized this is more about the investment than the insurance. I'm quite young (20s), pretty healthy, so I've never thought too much about life insurance for this point in time. Anyway I got a message from my father and need help deciphering it. I'm posting the message almost verbatim (just removing personal info) and will post the status of our relationship below you can start with an unbia",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] think I might use ""the L word (Love)"" too early due to my use of it with family and friends POST: Feel free to look at my previous post to have a better idea of my situation (not related to ""the L word""): __________ So I tend to use ""the L word"" very freely, if I am saying how great my group of friends are I might say ""aww I love you guys"", same with family. I haven't ever said it to a girl (because I have never even got as much as a kiss), so I feel that when I do go a b",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: 23(M) Short-Term Career purely for money? POST: I'm a 23(M) trying to set up my future, I don't have very large aspirations for wealth, I am wanting to spend the next 3-5(Will consider more/less) years working my ass off to set up future investments/savings the problem is I have zero clue what field to pursue. There is no career path that I ""want"" to pursue my aspirations entail things that do not pay or pay very little, my only requirement for a job is that the majority of people ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my [20 F] gf of one year, dont know what to do as she wants me to be more fun, afraid she will cheat POST: Hi So I've been dating my gf for over a year now. In september my father was diagnosed with cancer, so I went back to living with my parents to help them. My gf is at university and just finished her year by failing some important competitive exam she was preparing for years. Now she has the whole summer of free-time. I've been pretty much depressed by my situatio",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is cheating forgivable? help me Reddit, you are my only hope POST: My girlfriend [21F] and I [21M] have been going strong for 8 months. We had to do long distance in the summer because of school (university) and over the summer she cheated on me with a past friend when she went to visit him. I tried not to bring it up even though it made me uncomfortable but I finally told her that I wasn't comfortable. She told me nothing would happen and that was the end of it. A month later, I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18m] think everyday of ending it with [19F] POST: I want to know if I should end it, I know every reason is a reason to end this relationship, but I want to hear opinion on my situation. We've been on and off for 6 years, now finnaly 1 year long. When we get along its fun, we enjoy eachother, laugh, do things we enjoy... but thats it.. no sexual connection.. I feel like your friend, because you know? you got a friend[18M] who you are exactly threating like me. What am I? Wheneve",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [26F] have a serious problem with being alone. I need help, and don't see my therapist til Tues POST: I have a serious problem. In the past 5 years I have ""seriously dated"" about 12 people, and casually dated about 5-10 more people (since I need their ages, all M w/in 0-3 years of my own age at the time). My most recent relationship started 3 days after the one before it ended. I broke up 2 days ago; and am already thinking about who should I date next. I've got about 3 of my frie",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (29f) and I (31m) are supposed to goto a wedding of her best friend in 3 months. I just found out that her ex is invited as well, and now my gf is saying that all of the other brides maids arent bringing their SOs to the wedding. POST: I know that my title is convoluted and confusing. My gf of 6 years and I were invited to a wedding several states away. Originally we had planned on going together. Today two things happened. I found out that her ex boyfriend, who she still has cont",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: [Catering] Ideas for our Menu POST: Hi all, I'm just hoping to get some ideas. We're having a meeting with our caterer tomorrow for our September wedding. Our caterer isn't super traditional since it's a friend of FH who has experience as a head chef at a restaurant they used to work at together as well as some side catering experience. He said we really can just write anything down and he can do it. He will have helpers the day of and is only charging us the cost of the food sinc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19F] boyfriend [19M] did something incredibly mean to another woman POST: Jack and I have been dating about a year. Jack is in a fraternity at school. We were walking through campus yesterday and we ran into one of his brothers, Damian. They were talking and Damian said something along the lines of ""how about that chick in the bathroom last Thursday!!!"" And then they both laughed about it. When we got back to my place, I asked what Damian meant about that specific exclamation, so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [16/M] in love with my best friend [16/M] even though I know I have no chance POST: So at the beginning of this school year I met a guy who we will call Aaron. We got to know each other over the next few months and ended up having a lot in common. Recently (I'd say 1 1/2 months ago) I realized I had feelings for him. This wasn't new stuff for me but it was different because 1. I was/am straight, and have never had romantic feelings for a boy, and 2. He is Female-to-Male Transge",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My mother, while babysitting, explained to my daughter that gay means a boy who wants to be a girl. How the fuck do I undo this ignorance? POST: The title pretty much sums it up. I imagine this situation arose from television. My mother is a 65-yo old-fashioned Catholic woman who constantly has on. There's daytime shows that have transgender entertainers and the rest is probably history. I hadn't approached sexuality with my daughter yet as she is 5. I want my daug",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] moved to Norway 2 years ago for college. My parents [50s] are clingy and begging me to come back to the U.S. POST: I moved to Norway 2 years ago when I was almost 18 to attend the University of Tromsø. My parents wanted me to go to Old Dominion in Virginia where I was raised. I'm now in my second year of college and I couldn't love my life more. I am financially independent and I don't regret leaving the U.S. at all. I would travel back to Virginia every semester to visit the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I being too protective? POST: My girlfriend is 18 as well as me. I'm about 6 months older than her. We have been dating for about 10 months but have been best friends for about a year and a half. So my girlfriend (not to brag) is a very beautiful young woman and is interested in modeling. She recently made a profile on Model Mayhem and she got some offers. She did get a couple of local offers but she also got one (and I expect there to be more) for a shoot in LA, (we live in Iow",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [26 M] Need to make up for a fatal error in texting a girl for the first time. POST: Got a girls number at the bar. check. Texted her the next day and response? Double Check. Ok now it gets interesting. She starts asking me about my job and I keep giving her answers to her question. This happens for 40 minutes. And her responses are extremely quick 3 to 5 minute intervals. This girl is into me. maybe? After awhile, i want to show that I have interest in her life and I ask her what",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my ex-gf [22 F] were in a relationship, broke up because of distance, hard time getting over each other. Good idea to pursue long distance for 3 years? POST: I met her when I was in my third year of college and was absolutely smitten. My god, I never felt any way for anybody until I first met her. That was when I knew what falling for someone was like. I even told here before she left for her abroad program that I feel like one day I could love her. And during that tim",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Should I get the hint and move on, or am I just being paranoid? POST: So met a guy about three weeks ago. He was extremely attractive, I'm a bit above average on the attractiveness scale. Neither of us were looking for relationships and we became FWB about a week later. We got together once, I gave him a few BJ's and we did other things; didn't go all the way, I said to give me another week, he seemed okay with that. He seemed to really enjoy the BJ's though, I only had trouble makin",positive " r/dogs TITLE: What breed of dog should I be looking to get? POST: Hello Reddit; My town home owner has finally agreed to allow a dog in the house. Ever since I was 3 years old I've had a love for Irish Wolfhounds. However, my current living situation would not be a great environment for one; small yard. In the past I've owned a Black Lab, and a Border Collie, loved both of them. My lab, Hamilton (RIP), passed away peacefully, and my Collie was given to my cousin when I had to move across the country (5",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can anybody recommend a nail polish that reduces nail/skin biting? POST: I realized, from [this post] that nail/skin biting can be considered a type of OCD. I've been doing it since elementary school and i'm in college now. The past few years, i've been trying to stop, but I don't think I was serious enough. I was kind of awakened by the post because I found a lot of things that ran true. The fact that it can be considered a type of OCD was odd because I do have those urges to bite off",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [64M] daughter [30F] plans to adopt. I do not support this. POST: My daughter Stephanie is 30 and got married to Daniel two years ago. I like Daniel, he's pretty cool for the most part. He's the son I never had because Stephanie is an only child. Up until this debacle, Stephanie and I were pretty close. Her mom died when Stephanie was in her teens and I never remarried. That's just a bit of background info I guess. My main problem is that Stephanie and Daniel don't want biologica",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How could I find any information on a mysterious virus I has when i was kindergarten? (I was the first person in the United States to get it.) POST: when i was in kindergarten i got incredibly sick for a 6 month period. doctors kept dismissing it as the flu and i continued to get worse and worse. constantly throwing up blood, losing weight, ect. Finally i was diagnosed with a virus not yet seen in the united states. After i was properly diagnosed I recovered. Since i was the first perso",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: One of my best friends is finally trying to get past a severe eating disorder. What are the best ways for me to help? POST: One of my closest friends is struggling with an eating disorder, which I have always been sensitive towards, but she has never wanted to take the steps to get healthy. She kind of hit rock bottom, and I finally confronted her about the eating disorder and we talked about how it is effecting her life. She is really trying to get help now. What can I do as a friend to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: He (23/M) left me (F/23) after two months for his ex (20/F). We ended on good terms but somehow it makes it harder for me to move on, she's the polar opposite of me. POST: Everything was going extremely well between us. We were very similar in our interest and believes and I was really starting to fall for him. He was the first man in my life that I had such a connection with. He however suddenly got very distant and when I approached him about it he came clean to me how recently he ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24/m] Going in a new relationship with personal battlescars (18/f) POST: The story up until now: My ex has borderline and I turned into a 'yes-man'. I was always afraid that every time it didn't go as she intended, she would switch moods from extremely happy to wanting to kill me. I adapted by reading every little signal from her and became very skilled at keeping her happy. She always threatened with breaking up and I became a weak person. Two years after the break-up: I m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Help my save my friend's job! He is about to get fired by a cheating wife. POST: My friend is in a high ranking position in the ballet world. The Executive Director, who has been married for 10 years, is having an affair with a dancer from another city, but wants to fire my friend so she can put her sportfuck friend in his position. I want to out her and save my friends job. My idea is to send an anonymous email to her husband with all the information about the affair. She will have ",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Ankle injury flare up months after accident POST: In December of 2015 I fell about ten feet onto my feet. I'm a 22yo male of average height and weight. One of my feet landed on grass and was not injured. The other foot landed on a patch of concrete. I was wearing shoes with very little padding at the time, and ended up with quite an injury. The diagnosis was that there was inflammation in the joint and on the bottom of my heel. No breaks. The ligaments were definitely strained but nothing",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 M] am talking once in a while to my ex [26 F], and will see her in a few days. Any advice? POST: So after breaking up a few years ago, somehow my ex and I ended up staying in touch, and have toyed with the idea of getting back together. Initially it seems like our interest in trying things again was mutual. I have noticed, however, a gradual but steady decrease in interest on her part. A few months ago I suggested a visit, and everything got booked right away. In the meantime, ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why should I have to go to church twice on a Sunday? POST: Reddit, I'm not here to discuss whether or not I should go to church at all, that's a whole other story. I moved out of my parents house a few months ago and I've been living in a dorm at my University. I've taken this opportunity (Whether on purpose or not) to slack on my church going. I was raised in a Christian home where my church had a morning and evening service, and my parents always required me to go to both services s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M/17] am getting ready for a CASUAL date with [F/18] should I bring flowers? POST: Hey there /r/relationships! I'm getting ready to go on a date with a friend tomorrow, she asked me if I'd like to go get coffee with her and hangout downtown and I happily said yes (she's quite attractive) and I'm actually pretty pumped. This is my first date since getting out of a long-term relationship in which I was quite unhappy most of the time. Here's the dilemma: She's leaving for college ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] need help on how to tell her [42F] that I'm no longer interested without sounding like a dick. POST: Did that 23 year age difference catch your eye? I bet it did. Well, it's true, I unknowingly have gained the affection of a woman more than twice my age. Back story: She came into my work one day and we chatted for awhile, had a few laughs and connected fairly well. I assumed she was in her early 30s, maybe even late 20s and that didn't particularly bother me, I've been invol",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Love interest finally kisses me, and now won't return my texts. Can I prevent the forever alone? POST: Long story but here it goes. I'm 28, and start work at a restaurant. Hostess (19) starts working at said restaurant, she's super cute, and just moved to town with her boyfriend (32). I flirt, but am respectful. Before she leaves for Christmas, we spend the day together, almost make out, but I stay respectful. She comes back, says that her relationship is fine, and a week later",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Infidelity - Coworker [42 M] rarely mentions wife, other coworker [45 M] thinks his behavior is weird/marriage is failing POST: A married male coworker ""Tim"", 42, talks about his two kids and non-work activities often at work but very rarely mentions his wife, ""Joan,"" either by name or otherwise. I think this is no big deal, maybe Tim's just private about his marriage. This is true for everyone Tim talks to in the office, not just one person (like never mentioning Joan to a cute youn",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Did I [18/M] screw it up with my [18/F] friend at prom? POST: So I have known this girl for a while now and we have been talking a lot. About a month ago we had our high school prom (in which she was my date) and things were going really well. After the after party, us and a group of friends all went back to my house afterwards and I ended up sleeping with her. It was all going well until we decided to go the extra step and I lost my erection before we could do anything (I had a fe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (23f) unsure about moving with bf(23m) POST: We have been together for two years and living together for a year. We are moving again at the end of the month. The problem is the relationship has flaws and I'm worried about getting into a lease and having to live together if we break up. He has already voiced that we will break up if we get our own places. I want to stay together, but we need to work on the relationship. I feel moving together isn't the best for my sake. A bigger p",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making legal submissions to the ""Supreme Cunt"" POST: This happened today; I am a lawyer in training, I don't want to say in which country, but it's a common law jurisdiction. We have a Supreme Court and generally junior lawyers don't get to prepare documents for the highest court in the land, however it's a really cool boutique litigation firm that does regular submissions to the Supreme Court and I got a chance to work on a motion. Motions are simple documents, there are precedents ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (M21) am in love with my GF (F21), but wondering if I should be experiencing my youth more. POST: I have been with my Gf for 3+ years. We are compatible in every way and deeply in love. We spend almost every day together, and our sex life is incredible. She is exactly the type of girl I'd love to end up with. The problem is that this is the type of relationship that I'd like to have in, say, 10 years. I have never had another romantic partner of any real significance, she has had o",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Thank PF for helping a spoiled girl grow up! POST: Thanks to all the lesson I have learned in PF. I am totally changing my life and I wanted to thank you. Since my last post, (roughly a year ago), I moved back in my family and started aggressively saving/paying off bills. I am a full time grad student and working an administrative assistant position where I roughly make 40,000 a year. My parents also gifted me some cash (which I allocated to my ROTH/Tuition). In a span of this y",positive " r/relationships TITLE: An ex (22m) made a move on me (21f), what's it mean? POST: We were together for about 5 months. We never officially said we were boyfriend or girlfriend, but we hung out a lot, we were intimate with each other, and very open and friendly. Long story short, 5 months later I go to pick up my stuff that he had. I've moved on at this point, he broke things off with me, and while it was painful I still knew it was for the best. Continuing: He invited me in, said he wanted to see how ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29F] Just found out I'm pregnant with my boyfriends baby[23 M]. Am I ruining his life if I have this baby? POST: I just found out I'm pregnant and my initial reaction is to keep it. I'm 29 years old, I have a decent job and I just can't find a good enough excuse to get rid of it. My bf however is only 23 and wants me to ""take care of it"". We've been together for almost a year and recently moved in together. I feel so guilty right now. I want to have the baby but I feel like If I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (32m) mother (60ishF) doesn't leave anyone in my family alone. She's always commanding us to do something POST: I have no idea how to handle this. It started when I moved back home in Feb. i wasn't allowed to vape inside because she found it ""irritating"" to her throat. If she even comes in contact with one of my closed/sealed bottles, she has a coughing fit and says it's making her choke to death. So I obliged, and took my stuff outside. Then it started with her bugging me about",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by having a mixture of respect and fear for public toilets. POST: This happened over a year ago and I am finally coming to terms with it. My senior year of high school I worked for a fancy steak restaurant in Washington DC as a ""guest assistant"" which is basically a glorified bus boy. The uniform was all black, convenient for most spills because nothing but white sticks out. Well I was in the middle of an 8 hour shift and my intestines gave me the ole ""hey you won't be able to hold this ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Made out with friend's gf... POST: I was recently out with a bunch of friends. Among them was a friend and his ex. They had recently split up, but were still friends and hung out. She was quite clearly into me, which is saying a lot since I am utterly useless at picking up hints. So when we end up a bit out of sight from the rest of the group, I lean in and kiss her. And she kisses me back! We start making out and hands go places where they probably shouldn't in such a public setting. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (26/f) naive or insensitive? POST: Ok, have been in 3 relationships now (4 years, 1 year, 4 months), but seem to be always blindsided when they break up with me (yep, I'm the one who always gets dumped.) They always surprise me because what usually happens from my point of view is that everything is going smoothly, we're having fun, when suddenly we have a petty fight which leads to something more serious and then we break up. After 3 relationships ending the same way, I've st",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Why did she(16f) start ignoring me(16f) after I started chasing after her if she liked me? POST: Here are some things she(15f) has done two years ago that seemed to suggest that she liked me(15f): * always laughs at whatever I say * says I'm funny * always smiles a lot when I'm with her * gave me some cake she baked in one of her classes * looks at me quite a bit when she thinks i'm not looking * when she notices me looking at her, she quickly turns away and smiles to herself",positive " r/self TITLE: Steamtown 2011 ... or Bust POST: I signed up for the Steamtown Marathon this morning. I originally had planned to run it in 2009, but when I was laid off in the spring of that year I scrapped my plans and poured all of my energies into finding a new job. It was a hard year. In many ways, I felt like I had let my wife and kids down, that I'd failed them. My weekly exercise dwindled to nothing; I slept little. Then for the seven months I worked at a temporary job I was lucky to exercise at all.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [25f] at a bachelorette party. Feels weird. POST: Hi everyone. My gf [25f] of one year is at a bachelorette party in Miami. I get updates from her every now and then, and they all seem to be having a great time so far, except...last night, they met up with a bachelor party, and they're now spending the weekend together, planning events and going out and such. It just so happens that there are 6 guys and 6 girls, kinda matching up the parties together. I trust my girlfriend,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (27/M) am seeking advice on how to handle a situation with a co-worker (29/F) who has confessed her love for me. POST: A co-worker who I hardly know confessed her love for me in a text message last night. I am engaged and she is married with two kids. We have never seen each other or spoken outside of work. Even at work we hardly talk to one another. I have never flirted with her or done anything that would show an interest, and we only discuss work related topics. She states ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] girlfriend [18F] broke up with me right before prom, but still wants to go? Should I? POST: So 2 weeks ago me and my ex broke up. Our relationship lasted 8 months and it ended due to the fact that she just didn't feel as strongly about me as I did about her at this moment. In my room after she broke up with me she apologized or whatever and said ""I still really want to go to prom with you, and enjoy the end of our senior year together but right now i just don't know about",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [22M] New to the whole online dating initiation thing, could use some advice POST: So I've had a online dating accounts on various sites, and I've never found anyone that has seemed like they'd click well with me. That is until recently. Found someone that seems extremely down to earth, and I would really like to meet her. Even if she ends up not being interested, and we just become friends that's fine with me. My predicament, is that she doesn't reply much to be able to get to know ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Awkward situation between me [22 M] and my ex [22 F] who i still live with just arose today Details below, please help..... POST: FYI i have heard ""don't live with your ex"" from lots of people, so please don't say that --- My girlfriend of 3 years and I broke up this past July over control, trust, and independence issues. I have been trying to at least be a friend to her, but she sees it as me trying to get back together with her. We have been on a week by week basis for our friendsh",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Who else had a miserable Christmas? POST: Mine started with my wife kneeing me in the shins while we were both asleep Christmas morning. Like any normal person I yelled in pain along with a couple curse words, then rolled over and went back to sleep. Later I got up and was given a cold shoulder by her after my workout because apparently she thought MY reaction to getting kneed in the shins was inappropriate and expected an apology. Naturally I found this quite ridiculous and absurd. Whi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Would you consider this nonsense cheating? POST: I'm 39 f never married, been dating someone for around 7 months (45 m) who has been divorced 5 years has two kids. I've been having second thoughts for a few weeks about him but just thought it was my own issues. Cut to this weekend. I drop my phone in the toilet (clean water!) at his place. He has an extra iPhone that I can have turned on to use until I get my replacement. Later that weekend,I take a picture of his kids to send to h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my ""friend"" [ 19 F] few weeks, still has feelings for ex POST: Essentially, been seeing this girl for a few weeks. We've made out a few times and hung out but recently she said she had feelings for her ex (who broke up with her about a month ago). Claims confusion and recommends we just be friends even though she clearly flirts and likes me. Classic ""too soon to be in a relationship"". She's obviously very conflicted, I would like to date her but I don't know what to d",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the worst thing you've ever done to your parents as a child? POST: When I was about 6, my cousin Koko lived a few houses down from us, so she would usually go on trips with us. One day we went to the store, and Koko decided to buy rice patties. When we got back in our Buick Station Wagon, she offered all of us one. We had never had rice patties before that day, and I never will again. I had always had extreme texture issues with my food, but this was the worst experience ever",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] need advice on being a stepdad. POST: I've been dating this Girl[24F] for 6 months now, And I still don't know how to deal with the fact that she has a kid[6F]. To make it worse her kid said on several occasions that she doesn't like me. Not to me directly but I hear her talking to her mom. I don't think I did anything to her, Maybe its because she's not getting all of her moms attention or something. I try not to exclude her from any activities that we're planning to do but ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my bestfriend [16 F] are thinking of a solution to be together POST: So here's the situation. This girl is my best friend. There is instantly a connection when we hangout and have known each other for just over a month. I have feelings for my best friend, let's call her sam, and she has feelings for me as well. She's everything you could ask for in a girl, beautiful, sweet, smart, understand, very funny, etc etc. Here's the problem. She is very close with my ex of a ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] want to get closer with one of my friends [16 F] but don't want to rush things/overstep my boundaries POST: I'll try to keep this as simple as I can c: So, this is going to sound very awkward, but there is this girl that I like, but she has a boyfriend. He is in college and they never see eachother and rarely talk. She is coming over this weekend to play some games and watch some movies along with my friends. She always talks about how she likes to cuddle and watch disney m",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Whats your ""I almost died"" story? I'll start. POST: When I was around 12-14 me and a couple friends were playing around in a house that was being built. It was winter and there was a couple inches of snow on the ground. We were on the first floor, but the house was on a hill so there was a second story window in the kitchen. We were throwing these two foot metal spikes tied to string we found down from the window, trying to spear cardboard that was in a pile of construction garbage. We ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Will a law school look unfavorably on me if I went from University A to University B, and then back to University A? POST: So I am a second year student at a major state university. This school was my ""dream school"" when I was in the application process. I wanted to go here more than anything. I was not admitted here for the fall semester of my freshman year, but rather was give spring admission (which is what they do instead of sending people to branch campuses.) I wanted to come here",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M/F] with my Ex [23 M/F], Okay, this hurts. :( POST: Had amazing holiday romance with a guy I met online. I was swept off my feet. Nothing went wrong. Out of the blue, he tells me he's just not that into me that much anymore, and after 6 glorious weeks, he dumps me. I was devastated but took it well. I haven't contacted him since the breakup because I'm trying my best to get over him and not be that clingy ex-gf. I've accepted that we both had a good time and no regrets were h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M]: How do I move on? Ex [19f], dated two years, has new BF after one month. POST: Hello r/relationships I don't know if this is the best place for this, but I just needed to vent. My ex, we'll call her Kate, and I dated for two years. In December, just before Christmas, we spoke on the phone (we go to separate universities now), and she told me that she was no longer sexually attracted to me, and that her heart had moved on and she didn't love me anymore. Fast forward a mon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure how to have a happy anniversary POST: So July 24th my hubby and I will have been married 3 years. With everything thats been going on... I don't think its going to be a happy one.. He hasn't said anything about doing anything or having a ""at home date"" since money is tight. But something new has started to kinda bug me. Not because of who it is..but because of where they go. One of his younger brothers has been coming around more..yesterday I was out with friends that I h",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by putting lube in my bag. POST: This morning I fucked up. I bought some lube a few weeks ago for sexy time with the girlfriend. I was going to spend the night at her house so I just threw the lube in my gym bag side pocket where I also had some pens. Anyways, I get to school today (Community College) and while in my car I realized I didn't have a pen so I grabbed one from my gym bag and realized lube leaked a little bit in that pocket so my pen was a bit slippery. I figure it won't mat",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [27/F] wants to give her [28/M] FWB the best day of his life POST: x-post from [/r/sex]( I have been seeing this guy for a few months but because of my emotional makeup, I am getting attached to him and would like more. I know this is bad news because he made it clear he wants to keep things casual and he is still inlove with his ex-gf whom he communicates due to their long distance. He will be spending some time over during the weekend and I wanted to make it special. I kno",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22M) can't seem to get over my ex(22F) of 5 years after break up 1.5 years ago. POST: Me and my girlfriend broke up because we felt we drifted apart in our last year of college. Its been almost a year and a half and much has happened in both our lives. I finished school, lost a massive amount of weight, joined the military as an officer. She finished school and honestly I don't know what else. I know emotionally she moved on because she is getting engaged. I on the other hand have",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Referencing a YouTube Video to a Coworker POST: So my friend and I really like YouTube Poop videos. If you don't know what that is, it's a heavily edited clip where the person who made the video creates funny sayings and moments by splicing together seconds from an otherwise normal scene. A few weeks ago, friend sent me a link on Facebook to this video: And as we do, every once in a while one of us will text the other a quote from a recent video we've shared. Laughs are had. We'r",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I deal with a death.... POST: Yesterday, my aunt (dad's sister) died in the UK. She lived in Somalia all her life until she became sick and needed medical care and moved to the UK. My dad has been there for a month trying to be with her till the end. When I found out this morning, I really did not know what to feel. I have never met her in my 19 years of life (I live in the USA) and rarely, if ever, talked to her. A few moments ago, my mom called me to talk to my aunt's kids, who ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22m) just realised my mum (55F) was/is a helicopter parent. Finding it hard to speak to her after realising how much stuff I put up with. POST: So I have been travelling for the past 3 months and am headed home next week. A few weeks ago I read an AskReddit post that was to do with helicopter parents. Halfway through reading I realised that it was pretty much my mum. I'd never held anything she did against her and even now I support her when she needs me etc. But after reading t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 M] have recently reconnected with an old girlfriend [26 F] after the recent dissolution of a 2 year relationship. Coming to some interesting realisations about the role chemistry plays in relationships. POST: So I'm currently in the strange period after the end of a long term live in relationship which went sour. Been licking my wounds and started talking to an old flame again online after no contact for years. It's made me realise how important chemistry actually is when cho",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 F] hooked up with a close friend [25 M] years ago and he is now with a close friend I introduced him to [24 F] and she is insecure about it POST: Yes, me and my friend, we'll call him Kyle, have been good friends since 7th grade. We aren't best friends but have been close friends and have even survived a break up where I was dating his best friend. He is no longer friends with him cause new GF is crazy controlling. After the best friend break up we messed around ONCE. And the",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by tripping on DXM POST: So I tried DXM (for those who don't know, its taking a bunch of Robitussin) last night for the second time. I've done my research regarding the dosage and legality (its legal where I live). So I took 600mg which was slated to give me a nice 3rd Plateau experience. The last time I did 600mg I laid in bed the entire time, experiencing closed eye visuals. This time however, I walked into the kitchen about 1 hour into the trip to get some water. My roommates saw me w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is this a normal salary for someone with an Associate's degree, or am I being underpaid? POST: I worked as an intern for the company that I'm currently employed at. Technically, my job title is ""IT Support Specialist""; however, I do much more than that. I re-designed their whole website for them and am currently re-coding a portion of the backbone code that they use for their websites. They began paying my ~$11.00/hour for my internship hours, which was great. I could afford to quit my ",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Strangers want to pierce my toddler's ears and plait her hair... POST: Ok, not exactly strangers, but ladies from my church, my MIL, my brother in law's girlfriend, all have something to say about my baby's hair. ""Why don't you plait her? You should plait her!"" Let me add that we're black, and it seems all black baby girls have plaited hair and ribbons and all that. My baby (18 months old) doesn't like her hair getting touched, honestly, I've tried. So her daddy and I resolved to just co",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Tuscaloosa, AL] Did a hit and run and want to make it right POST: One year ago (in Bibb County), I was cited for speeding and driving with an expired license. I missed my court date last November because I couldn't afford the tickets at the time. Consequently, a bench warrant was issued for my arrest. Fast forward to July 25, when moving out of my apartment, I had my truck loaded such that the gate of the bed needed to be down. When backing out, I forgot to account for this and did a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [21F] an alcoholic. My girlfriend [27F] is sick of it. She wants me to go to therapy. How can I fix a relationship I've jeopardized? POST: I've had past history with drug abuse and started having problems with alcohol months ago. I'm a college student and my college experience has been filled with psych ward stays and antidepressants. It's been very, very hard. So this summer, I had an internship in another state and was away from my girlfriend for 3 months. The drinking started",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by saying the words 'carbon monoxide' to my utility company. POST: So, I had an interesting post-christmas! Yesterday I woke up to my CO alarm going off for the first time ever, then again when the furnace came back on. My 2 year old is sleeping in the next room so I get him out of bed and we call the non emerency number of the fire dept to see if they can send someone to check it out. They come out, are very cool, and say they can't detect anything. OK no problem. Fast forward to late",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Crush from work [18 F] need to know if I should tell her my feelings for her now or it's too late. POST: So after being my awkward self the cute girl from work talks to me on facebook. We hit it off a bit for we both like a band. After hanging out twice I feel as maybe she thinks I see her as a friend since both times we have hung out I never give her a hug when we leave. I'm not exactly the ladies man for this is the first time since my senior year in high school,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] of 4 months, thinking of breaking it off POST: My girlfriend has been a lot of fun and the relationship is kind of new, I suppose I'm trying to get a second opinion on if I am just being crazy or what. So this is my first serious relationship, we got pretty serious pretty quick. As I am getting to know her more she seems to have very little overall motivation for achieving anything post high school. She talks as if she is very pessimistic abou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my SO [24 F] 8 Months, I turned to her for help about feelings for Ex-Wife. SO left me. POST: I understand that no one wants to hear that you're in a relationship with someone and your SO still has something for someone else especially an Ex. I did my best to deal with this on my own but I still have to see her every week because of we have a son together. I didn't leave my ex-wife because i thought she was unattractive, I left her because of all the problems we had t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (26/M) girlfriend of 7 months (22/F) just stormed out of the house and drove off somewhere without her phone or telling me where she's going POST: I'm freaking out so I need some advice on what to do here. Me and my girlfriend live together. My girlfriend has apparently been seething at me all day about me not taking her to Disney after work (we have annual passes). I told her we wouldn't have enough time to enjoy it and I had a headache. She went to bed and has been giving me sil",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (M25) girlfriend (23) is often mean and rude to me because ""she likes me so much"" Confronted her. Wants time to think. POST: Hello Reddit, I need some relationship advice. Background info: I'm a 25 year old male working in South Korea. About 3-4 months ago I started dating a Korean girl. It started out as a hook up, but we eventually developed feelings for each other. Our relationship will probably only last a little over a year. She wants to go to America to get her Master's De",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Next steps (update from older post) POST: Hello again, some of you may have seen my post 3 weeks ago in [Planning]. I've been trying pretty hard these past couple of weeks, but I could still use more help. I got a lot of comments saying I should look into government assistance and I've done that but nothing's really come along so far. I'm still trying to be a proper regular guy. In the last three weeks I rented a car and got my driver's license. I think the woman doing the test m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with my ""its complicated"" [21 M] for 3 yrs, always get mad when plays fifa, accidentally hit me with controller, didn't apologise, what do i do? POST: So I was with my ""boyfriend"" last night (in quotes because it is complicated), and he plays FIFA. He has been getting ridiculously fucking angry over the game and it always makes me feel super uncomfortable. Once, I tried expressing how nervous it made me feel but he doesn't seem to care because he has not made an effort to co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my bf [24 M] just had a fight, and I fantasized about us breaking up. Does that mean what I think it does? POST: Stupid fight, but I feel so strangled by his opinions of what I ""should"" say and what I ""should"" do. After he left, I imagined him coming back and saying we shouldn't be together. And then all of the things I would do to start my life over. It felt really good. But I still love him. And I know that we are more than our fights. I'm just not sure he loves me",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I met this amazing, beautiful girl that likes me alot, but... POST: ...she told me today she has HPV. I was stunned, and couldn't say anything at first. I thought ""well this is it. It can't possibly work"". But then I did something I never thought I'd do. I told myself I would research her condition, ask reddit if they had any advice whatsoever, and give this girl a fair chance. I really like her guys, and I don't think that it's a mature thing to cut her out because she got dealt a bad h",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Question about usage of racist words in the UK POST: As an American, I have had various debates with other Americans about the political correctness of the term ""black"" or ""black person."" And as both Dave Chappelle and Maddox have commented on this, it seems the logical consensus is that labeling someone as black makes more sense than African-American, as one cannot assume someone identifies with being American or African without first getting to know them first, AND being ""black"" is doe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] change my personality and physical appearance everytime I read a book or watch a movie. POST: I know this problem of mine might come off as the very cliched ""i have no clue who I am"" dilemma but I actually have no clue as to who am I. So everytime I read a book, I can't help but copy the personality of the heroine or basically anyone who I think is attainable. Like for example, I've read a book about a girl who goes MIA, cut all her communications with her family and friend",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my GF [19 F] 6 months, went from having sex twice daily to nothing at all. fights when brought up. POST: So me and my SO have been dating a few months and everything was going perfectly. sex was great, outside of the bedroom was great as well. Over the course of the past few months she has went from wanting it all the time, to no sex drive at all. Anything physical has a chance to bother her, from a simple hug to a kiss. She seems annoyed and thinks all i want her for ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a 26m who's in a long distance relationship while she's 24f finishing college... But POST: Long story short I have been dating this woman for almost a year now. We don't really have any problems other than this. Yet we have all the same interest and life views. Incredibly smart girl working on her double major. Currently right now it's a long distance relationship because she's off at college. Plans on moving out here with me in the next 4 months. Now here's the problem. She lov",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Confused...thinking of breaking no-contact with ex POST: I (29 year old male) got dumped about 3 months ago after 6 years of being with my ex...she's also 29 and it was our first serious relationship. We had talked privately about getting married before (even got a ring) but 9 months later she said our relationship wasn't going anywhere and there are fundamental problems. I asked if we could work through them and she said we could but at that point she didn't want to and wanted to be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [23F] always cancels plans with me [25F]. Should I just give up? POST: Throwaway because she reddits too. Basically the title says it all. We became friends over a year ago when we joined a gym class together. We text fairly often, ask how each other's days went, talk about boys, etc. We're great pen pals I guess--but we never get to hang out. She's always tired or busy or wants to spend time with her cat. On the rare occasions where we agree on a date, ""Hey let's hang out",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend(?) [18 F] 1 year 5 months, taking a break due to stress. POST: Some background information, the first year of our relationship was amazing. We spent lots of time together, went on a few short breaks and we very quickly fell in love. We have loads of great memories together. The problems started last October / November time, she had just started university but still living at home - so no difference to distance. However, she also now has a job so she can ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] of 2 months, has mood swing issues and I can't handle it. POST: Hello Reddit, I'm a fairly easy-going guy but my gf is someone who gets stressed and paranoid very easily. I love every part of her except for this part. My gf has deep set daddy issues which she blames for her mood swings and emotional instability which make me feel very frustrated. An example is yesterday she calls me over then jokingly tells me to 'F*** off' and kicks me every so o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M, 19] am a college student who is a bit shy in a huge college and I'm looking for advice on how to start a conversation with a girl who always locks eyes with me but I don't even know her name. POST: The title says most all of it. We live in the same tower and we always lock eyes. I'm not saying that means she likes me but I know I like her and that's why I always lock eyes with her so perhaps it's the same reason? Even if that's debatable I'd still like to talk to her and I'm pr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my_ [25 F] duration, short-description POST: So I have been dating my girlfriend for about 2 years now. Seems to be going good most of the time but we have one main issue that keeps coming up. She hates one of my friends who is a girl. This girl has been my friend for 6-7 years all through college and the years after. Me and this friend have never had sex or kissed or dated or anything, it has always been strictly friendship. After a while my girlfriend told me sh",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Tip on quitting my job(possibly) POST: I currently have two jobs right now and I am looking to quit one of them if they are unwilling to give me time off for the holidays. The job I am looking to possibly quit is in retail so they have a ""no time off during the holidays"" rule. I need to leave the country for a few weeks to visit family members for the holidays, which I haven't been able to do for the past few years. I do not actually want to quit this job, but if they are unwilling to giv",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by ramming a child's face at Walmart. POST: A couple hours ago I was at Walmart and it was fairly crowded as usual, but I don't really care about that. However some aisles are very close to each other and narrow. Well I was coming out of one turning to my left and a kid about 6 or 7 comes running out and I hit him in the face with my shopping cart. His face was blank right after it happened but then he starts crying and his nose starts bleeding. I've never been in a situation like this, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Husband (22M) says I should forget all the terrible things he said to me (21F) in the past after I gave him a second chance. Is this a reasonable request? POST: A few months ago, I left my husband (married for a year and a half) after the manipulative behavior and emotional abuse got to be too much for me. He apologized countless times and I ended up giving him a second chance after things seemed to be changing. A few days ago, he was being irrational and I told him it was just like ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24M) have recently been finishing too early in bed, Girlfriend (22F) and I have been frustrated. What can I do to improve this? POST: We haven't always had this problem we've been together almost 2 years now, but over the last few months I have been going very quickly during sex. In the past I would usually last an average of about 7 minutes which was great for both of us. However now it's been roughly a minute before I end up finishing. Naturally this is disappointing for her, I ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Do you regret your first time being special? Does it have to be special? POST: Im 16m and there are 2 girls that want to have sex with me (separate haha) but there kinda easy girls and i dont really want to think back on my first time being with one of them. On the other hand there is one girl who im friends with that i really want my first time to be with but there is no telling how long i will have to wait. I like her alot but she hasnt ever returned the feelings and she is always going f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26/M] Had an emotional affair with a girl [23/F] 2500 miles away, who has a bf. She broke it off. Should I tell him? POST: I met this girl online about a few months ago. We clicked instantly and after a few weeks were talking constantly. We're both from opposite ends of US so weren't able to meet but we skyped almost daily. I quickly fell for her. She was always upfront about having a boyfriend, but as time went on we'd joke and flirt and tell each other stories about our pasts ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A New Years conundrum, turning to Reddit for advice. POST: Hello everyone, Thanks for taking the time to read this and help me out, so i'll keep it short and to the point. I'm stuck between two options, on one hand my best friend and all my closest friends are having a huge blowout party at their place to ring in the new year as well as my best friends birthday. This sounds like a great time until you factor in that I can't bring the girl I'm extremely interested in and have also made l",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Reddit, What is the proper etiquette when a first date falls through? POST: Met a girl on Saturday. She seemed cool and we had a lot of common interests. Buddy left the bar at midnight, she and I closed it down. She initiated the exchange of numbers out in the parking lot. Asking for mine and then calling me so I have hers. That night we had made plans for Wednesday to go out and grab a drink and some sushi. Called her once Tuesday and once Wednesday (as I said I probably",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Old hookup (21M) texts me (25F) out of the blue. I did the right thing... right? POST: So, out of nowhere today I received a text from this guy I hadn't spoken to in a couple of months. Actually, we hooked up back in early March and and I haven't seen him since. Every time I tried to make plans with him, he'd talk about how busy he was with school and what not and then he'd get back to me later in the week -- which, of course, he never did. Then, I decided to try one more time (actua",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[18M] and my girlfriend[18F], have been together for almost 9 months, and recently have been going downhill. POST: About 5 days ago, she told me that I was getting a little clingy lately, so I told her I was sorry and I would give her some space. So she went to a friends and got high, and called me. We talked and I told her that I was having some family issues (my dad left when I was little and I have recently been brought back into his life), and it was a lot to deal with. She tol",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm sorta confused here? M(17) about F(17) POST: We are not dating! Short catch up: known each other for like 7 years, she has a boyfriend (they've been together for around 2 years). Now we arnt really close, not like we used to be. Back in grade school we were best friends but I didn't know anything then. Then high school happened and we're not really close anymore. We just branched off, we didn't argue or anything like that, just different ways. ANYWAY, I've seen her in the halls a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What's your view on healthy assertiveness vs. Dominance in a relationship? How do you know when you've gone too far? POST: Hey Reddit! I'm 20; he's 19. We've been dating for about 9 months, the most recent month being a LDR. We're pretty durn happy with one another; we're on skype nightly for about five hours playing online games with one another (MMO's etc.) My one and only frustration in our relationship is the lack of assertiveness on his side. I feel like whenever we do som",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A possibly harsh question.. POST: Is it just me or is the ease and availability of networking with strangers on the internet just giving immature people solace that they are special no matter what they do, even though what they do is fucking nothing, and they really aren't that special. I think deep down these people know that, and are just unwilling to go through any personal development that might lead to them being special, or what they like to call ""changing themselves"" like it's a b",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by drawing at work POST: Hey guys, my first TIFU I want to submit. And it happend today. Yesterday my friends and me were chatting along in our groupchat and friend (female) of mine mentioned that she will have a date tomorrow and that she hopes for more then only a nice dinner if u know what i mean. Naturally we all go full apeshit and mucking around and throw all insider jokes we have on her. Then we adviced her to make safer sex, and for safer sex she absolutly needs a full face hel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] am afraid of my GF [18F] of two months potentially going to college in another state POST: I'll keep this short. ________ **Background** I'm crazy about this girl. She's crazy about me. I'm a sophomore in college and she's a senior in high school. She lives 50 miles away (from me) with her parents. We see each other four or five days out of the week. __________ **Story** She's applying to colleges right now. She's applying to seven or eight schools, half of which are in C",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How can I get my flatmates to be less messy? POST: I'm a guy that has been living with a group of girls for a semester now and I've got another semester to go before I can move out with a couple of my cleaner friends. Our flat has a joint living room / kitchen deal where the two rooms are essentially one. Since we moved in back in September I've had friends over once and cooked in the kitchen three times because the place was always too messy or the kitchen was in a state where I couldn't u",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Any advice for a young woman suffering from depression and extreme feelings of worthlessness? POST: I've been suffering from depression and anxiety for the last year and a half. For the last few weeks, I've felt hopeless, worthless, and like a waste of space who does nothing but worry and burden those few people who love me. I'm sick of crying fits that lead to panic attacks so intense that I hyperventilate to the point of losing feeling in my hands and face. I have had to leave 2 job",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 M] have been flip flopping about a trip to Canada with my SO [22 F] for the past few months. POST: Preface, we've been dating for almost two years now. Back in March my SO and I started talking about how cool a trip to Canada, Vancouver to be exact, would be in late August. I realized a week up there would be a little pricey but if i saved up it could be worth it. Throughout these past few months I've lightly expressed my concerns about maybe not going due to financial reason",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by leaving my room's window open POST: A little back story, happpened 3 days ago was tryin to get some paper work done for my internship abroad and it was takin a lot of time to finish all of them (going from there to there) so that morning i got up washed my face, brushing theets the usual things i was in hurry so i left my window open and didn't bother my self to tidy my room.. Fast forward 3 hours later suddenly there it's the sky teared apart and setting free every litter of water i",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Relocation deductions when employer provided a relocation package? POST: I took a job this year that required I relocate to a different part of the country. The relocation was handled by a third party who reimbursed me for any approved expenses (movers, hotels, transportation of goods, DMV fees, etc). I was looking at my paystub today and noticed int the YTD section there were two entries, one for relocation taxable and one for relocation non-taxable. There are two big questions ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [23/F] been dating my boyfriend [33/M] for about 5 months now. I've recently came across his online dating profile. We've never talked about being exclusive. Do I have a right to be upset? POST: So as the title states I've been dating this guy for about 5 months now. We've known each other for almost a year and flirted for about 3 months before we started to date. We're at a point where we're pretty comfortable with each other. We text daily, see each other almost every other ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I am overwhelmingly complimented by older women and gay men, are there any groups of people that seem more attracted to you than you to them? POST: And no, the old ladies are not complimenting me for ""being such a nice young man, and handsome too!"" I'm talking about older women who remark, loudly, about how nice my body is, usually followed by an ass grab-n-squeeze. Since I'm such a cool person and spent Cinco de Mayo grocery shopping instead of replacing my blood with tequila,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[19M] can never get alone time with girlfriend[19F] because of her friend[20M] POST: So me and my girlfriend have been going out for about a month now and I can say it's been going fine except for one aspect, her annoying friend. We are both college students and our schedules don't exactly line up so when we get free time it's maybe for like 1 or 2 hours twice a week. Lately though her friend has been coming over when I go to see her. It's not like I fear she's cheating on me or any",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Reddit, I just broke up with my girlfriend of a year. Anything you can do to maybe make me feel better about it? POST: I posted before in here saying this: I'm 18 and in my freshman year of college, and I finally decided to end it with my girlfriend(17) because I legitimately felt like I might end up cheating on her, which I didn't want to do at all. It wouldn't have lasted much longer so I decided to just go through with it. It still depresses me because she's been such a huge part of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 27M talked to another girl before current girlfriend[25F] and I were serious. Shes upset about it. POST: Current girlfriend and I have been dating a year. Officially for 6 months. When we first started seeing each of her she told me she didn't want a relationship. I was really into her and over time we ended up growing closer and now weve been officially dating for 6months. She had asked d me about a girl I met at the bar when we first started dating. I told her then I had met her a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 F] how do you forgive yourself/move on after an unhealthy relationship? POST: I was your stereotypical young girl looking for validation from a boy. First boy I dated pressured me for sex, we did it, he broke up with me. Next boyfriend straight up told me he did not have the emotional capacity to love me, but I stayed with him for 4 year-ish, putting my needs to the side hoping to love him enough to fix him. He was cold and distant. Next seriously relationship was a real mind ",positive " r/Cooking TITLE: Im sorry, but I have to do this rant POST: Right now I live in an apartment with one other roommate. I consider myself to be a clean and organized person for most aspects of my life; especially cooking. If there is one thing I hate, it is a dirty kitchen. My roommate washes his dishes once a month, maybe, and lets them pile up the rest of the time. Even if he does wash them, he neglects to put them away. They just sit in the dish drainer. Forever. The tools that i need to cook will be buri",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: To my girlfriend´s ""best"" friend preaching feminism POST: You really don´t like me now do you? You tell her that I´m not the right one for her. And never even dare asking about anything she is doing with me. You just change the topic when she tells that the both of us were on vacation and you never ask about how we are doing. I can live with that, I wouldn´t have any problem if I wouldn´t know the reason for your behavior towards me. The first time we met we had a discussion about femi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my now ex-boyfriend [21 M] broke up last night and I don't know where to go from here. POST: We first met on OkCupid about 15 months again, as soon as we went on our first day everything seemed perfect. We've had our ups and downs and I've gone through a lot of stuff, but I still thought everything was okay. This last weekend we spent most of our time together. I have a lot of schoolwork and he kept me company, everything was perfectly fine. Yesterday he left to go d",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Why does this woman look like she is going to punch me in the face? Is she going to punch me in the face? POST: Longish story. I (32 year old man) became friends with a woman (28) I work with about 2 years ago. We became close very quickly, but never dated. She would visit or message me every day (we work for the same company but not for the same things, for the most part we do not have to see each other.) and I would constantly get lines like ""you're so understanding, you're the t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I (27F) message a guy (??M) I went on a date with then lost a few months back? POST: So earlier this year, about March, I went on a date with this guy I met on Tinder. He seemed really cool and it was a good date and we texted a bit after and were making plans for another date and then I LOST MY DAMN PHONE. I got a new one a few days later, but I lost about half of my contacts (including his), and I couldn't get Tinder to work on my new phone, so I haven't spoken to him or hea",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU really, really bad. Twice. POST: A little background. I (M15) attend an Australian public school. The Australian government spends too little on education. So the schools have outdated, inadequate infrastructure. In particular, school computers run extremely old versions of Windows, process things slower than Gregory Goyle, and have poor hardware to complement their software. Anyway, I had a group project on time. We had to use MO Powerpoint to make the presentation, and I was grabbing s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with my Fiance [25F] 5 years - she has mental health issues and I don't want to get married next month. POST: New account just to post this - it looks like she has depression, which she has been before, and I am not sure if it really went away. She has seen psychiatrists and psychologists in the passed (for a multitude of issues) and she is still so negative. I try to help her, I try my best, but even though she is graduating a great school with a high end degree this year s",negative " r/loseit TITLE: F/22/5'3' I don't care how small, it's the first real progress I've seen in a while! Right as I met someone! POST: So I was down 20 pounds in summer 2012 and loved to jog in my sunny home. Then I went to a University of rainy cold days and stopped jogging, sat on my ass studying all the time and eating. Went back up 15 with the delicious junk food I live on. But in just the past week I've gone down **5 pounds**! I know it's not a lot, and I may get down voted, but my weight hasn't budged fo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I thought of a possibly great idea for a South park episode. How would I go about pitching this to Matt Stone and Trey Parker? POST: I've heard that they don't read or listen to any suggestions made by the public, really. But I've run this past a lot of my friends and they would love to see a South Park episode like this. 1. Would I be able to get any money from this idea if they take it? I'm not in it for money, but it'd be nice either way. 2. If I stated the idea here in this thread",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF [21/F] goes out to bars with friends sometimes. I [20/M] don't care, but am puzzled why so many see it as a problem. POST: So I've been dating girlfriend for almost 2 years now. We have a fantastic relationship, and apart from a hiccup a year ago, we've basically never left the honeymoon stage. She turned 21 in December, and since then has sometimes went out to bars with her girlfriends who want her to go. She's taken me a few times. I've never cared she went out to bars. I've ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24/M] would appreciate any advice on preparing my girlfriend [24/F] of 2.5 years for a disappointment. POST: My girlfriend is running for Miss World Brazil tonight. She's has the looks and is an incredible person altogether, but I know there are other very beautiful girls competing and that the crown doesn't always go to the most deserving girl due to the niche politics and other interests. Therefore, I'm not sure if she's going to win or even rank in the top 17 (out of 42). Tha",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I (M/22) just her (F/21) back-up? POST: Hey all. Thank you for your time up front. So I (M/22) know this girl (F/21) and we've been friends for a long time. We met at freshmen orientation and have been friends ever since. I always found her cute but one of us was always dating someone else so we never gave it much thought. So 2 months ago, she broke up with her boyfriend of a year, and we had a night together. Well one night, turned into multiple and we started hanging o",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My neighbors drunk friend went crazy and tried to kick in a door and also put some holes in walls. Should we press charges? POST: Here's the story. At about 4am my wife woke me up because she heard some noise. I went to investigate and I discovered that my neighbors across the hall were having a party and had a guest who had drank way to much. They called him a cab and sent him home. Well he made it out to the hallway and then decided to try and kick his way back into their place. In t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Religious girl [22] refused to advance our friendship due to my [23] lack of faith, but now I think she's changed her mind? POST: Last week I told a girl I liked her and want to be more than friends (we've been friends for a little while). She said religion is a big part of her identity, and she said it wouldn't work out between us because of (my lack of) it. So we remained friends, learning little by little about each other. During the last few nights though after our class we go",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33 F] is considering getting into a relationship with my friend of 6 years [36 F], wondering if it is a good idea. POST: I have been having increasing feelings for one of my best friends over the last few months. We have been friends for over 7 years and in that time neither of us have had a serious relationship. We have both had dates / short term relationships in that time but none of them have lasted, my last 2 attempts in the last 3 years have both flamed out in less then 2 m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19/F] boss's [40s/F] husband passed away. Not sure how to interact in the new office dynamic. POST: I've been working at this job for about six months. I'm a student working under a salaried supervisor and our ""boss."" My question is pretty simple: what the hell do you say to someone whose husband passed away without warning? She hasn't been in to work (and I work weird hours anyway) but the whole dynamic has shifted a lot. The people who have worked with her a long time are b",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Christmas gift for my best friend who is engaged! POST: Hello Ladies, I saw this idea on pintrest back in the summer of doing a christmas ornament made out of a couple's wedding invitation as a nice keepsake. My best friend and I have started doing no gifts for xmas. I want to get her something sentimental and I thought this would be a perfect idea. Here's the problem, my best friend's wedding is in March. I feel weird cutting up the invitation before the wedding is over even tho",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need help! Proposal postponed because a cash for gold place chipped my family heirloom diamond. They say they can't help me! POST: My mom promised me my great-grandmother's diamond to be set in a ring when I propose to my girlfriend. The diamond was originally in a ring, but then converted to a necklace. My mom took the necklace to Gold Buyers of America to be removed from the gold and they chipped the perfect diamond, unbeknownst to my bad eyesight mom! The guy even said to her that",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(14F) Dad(40M) doesn't trust my online friend(14M) because he looks Middle Eastern POST: My friendship with this boy, we'll call him Jack, has grown since the few months I've met him. We've become close as friends and trust each other. He's trusted me enough to show his face on webcam and while I was chatting to him one day, my dad walked in and saw his face. He seemed alarmed by him. Let me mention I own no webcam and am on a monitor, he insists there are possibilities of him se",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Moving back to Canada from the US POST: Hello! So to get to the point, my boyfriend and I are considering moving to Nova Scotia in about 3 years (When I finish school). Now, I was originally born in Nova Scotia and have been a Michigan resident since 2005. I officially became US citizen this summer. I wish I would have thought it through, but I did not get dual citizenship. I honestly never dreamed I would want to live in Canada again. Nova Scotia is beautiful, houses are cheap, I ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20F) want to get a pixie cut but am afraid of the fallout from my parents (48F/50M) and boyfriend (20M) POST: I've always been curious as to what a pixie cut would look like on me. I don't have a delicate, heart-shaped face, but I feel my bone structure is somewhat feminine enough. And I figured college would be the best time to try it out, and if I don't like it, I'd have time to grow it out before graduation. On a whim I called a hair salon and made an appointment for later t",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [17M] told my girlfriend [17F] that I felt obligated to see her in the past, don't know where to go from here. More inside. POST: We've been going through some tough conversations lately trying to figure everything out. I'm a bad communicator and sometimes get stuck on very simply conversational clues, which she finds immensely frustrating. I also tend to make up excuses and get defensive without good reason, most of the time I won't even notice that I'm acting that way. We'v",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to shake a guys missing hand POST: (YESTERDAY-REALLY) I am in Montana to meet my new boyfriend's family for the first time. As we drove from the airport...we discussed his family and childhood memories. He reminded me his brother lost his right arm (from the elbow down) in a farming accident. 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We even lived together for about 8 months and we just did everything together. She has a boyfriend who lives on the other side of the country, whom she has been able to see in the last week or so. However, she has completely gone off the grid since then. She hasn't messaged me in three weeks and I move co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my crush [19 M] 2 months, says he doesn't know how he feels POST: We met at my new job and when we did we instantly clicked and started going on some dates. About two weeks or so in he said he wanted to be an official couple eventually but for now just wanted to keep things slow, and I said that was fine. We would kiss, hold hands, go on dates, and eventually started going further than just making out (while not all the way) and act like a couple- and the entire time ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] kissed my colleague [25 F] after Friday night out drinking. Next day she apologized. What does it mean? POST: So it was a usual Friday night out but we got a little more drunk than usual and ended up kissing. She initiated it (I was flirty through out and she was sitting on my lap in a crammed up car), I obliged. I texted her after reaching home - just asked if she is home fine. She replied and said that she had a good time with me. Next day, she messages me, apologizing a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My fiancé (26M) and I (23F) can't agree on a wedding. POST: My fiancé and I just recently started planning our wedding. I originally wanted to have a 75 person wedding at an all-exclusive venue. After realizing how much it would cost, I cut the list to 35. Even so, we really can't afford it. He is completely clueless about money. Even with 35 or so people, it would still cost around 5k. We want to buy a house too. There's no way we can afford both a wedding and a down paymen",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I learned my roommate used my sock to ""yank it,"" by putting said sock on, what should I do? POST: So, I took off my shoes and socks yesterday in favor of some flip-flops, came back later when it had become too cold for exposed toes, and attempted to rewear my previous pair of socks, as they were only on my feet for around fifty-minutes, just long enough for class. I got my left one on, and everything was normal; donning the second, I realized too late that I was not alone in my sock, and",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (23/m) Started dating a (22/f) girl after a couple years away from the game and nerves are getting to me POST: When I first started high school I started dating this girl and we really hit it off. Like really really hit it off. In fact, we dated all through high school and most of the way through college. However, after about 7 years that girl cheated on me and left right out of the blue. One night her stuff was in my apartment and everything was fine, the next night it was",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I don't want to ruin things with a new girl. I need some advice please :) POST: Hi guys. This is my first post, so be nice :D I worked with a really cool girl for 6 months recently, who became a good friend. We spent a lot of time out doing stuff, but always surrounded by other friends from the office. I know we had a real good connection though. Saw her last night with friends again, and really want to ask her out. But I'm now living two hours drive away, and we're both really bus",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is there any way to obtain a copy of the credit report a potential landlord says he has of me? POST: So my fiance and I are trying to find a place to rent in Los Angeles and recently we got a call from a guy who said he was turning us down based on my credit. Originally he just said that there was a problem with my credit but when pressed he said that I had some ""delinquencies."" I naturally freaked out, ran home and checked my credit on freecreditreport.com and found that not only do I h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] feel like I cannot cope anymore with girlfriend [20F] with BPD. POST: A little background I suffer from depression and not two months ago I got away from my emotionally abusive mother and step dad. Since then I've started to do things I want to do and not feel guilty about thinking about myself for a change I got support from my girlfriend and my father plus my elder sister which I'm grateful for and I now live with my father who my mother has not allowed me to contact since ",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: Hey Reddit, I really need help about what to do tomorrow (Story in Comments) POST: Hey reddit, so i have a little problem. I'm not sure if this is the right sub but I'm just going to leave it here. I was driving home from school today and this car in front of me stopped short and I had to slam on my breaks. So what did my Idiot self decide to do tail gate this car for the next 15-20 seconds. I eventually back off after I cool down and everything is ok for the next couple of minutes. How",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever had a teacher/professor give you something so easy you felt like you were being insulted? If so, what happened? POST: For me it was a Biochemistry class with a comprehensive final. I studied my ass off and I knew everything there was to know going into the final. The professor comes in, tells everybody the exam is easy and it shouldn't take long then proceeds to hand out 10 multiple choice questions about rudimentary biochemistry knowledge. Up to this point all of the quiz",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I right to be mad? POST: So Reddit, one of my co-workers went on vacay this week. We run a small retail shop and it's delivery week. My boss, in full infinite wisdom, decided to hire a temp for a day to help me haul the inbound delivery - probably 12K+ in booze. Here's the caveat. The boss is paying the temp more than me (15/hr). I feel insulted; its about 2 dollars more an hour than me. Hiring a temp creates more work for me actually as I have to babysit and instruct for half of my d",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: The Story about my friend and his sister POST: First time I met my friends sister(before I got to know my friend) I hooked up with her but no sex (he never got angry or cared it happened). Kind of tried to get something going (relationship wise) but she was not digging it so I let it be,(I told one thing to another mate who blabbed it about to everyone so she was not impressed with me, idiot me). She started banging a mutual friend on and off. During one of the off periods (which I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (22-28M) Rough couple of years (22-30F) Drugs and Alcohol POST: Okay, so I have actually gone through a couple of posts regarding partners with dependency issues. Firstly.... I would just like to say that if you have NOT BEEN through hell itself and lost every single emotion due to excessive drug usage dont even dare call your partner a Narcissist, liar or anything along those lines. We go through just as much hell as you do! Now, to get to my story; I met a beautiful blonde girl abo",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: [27M lost 28F] Have you ever give a guy a second chance after coming on too strong? POST: I had two wonderful dates with a woman, but we had some complex issues since I hooked up with her friend seven months earlier. She felt guilty regarding this and told me she needed time to think and felt really bad about it all, so of course I tried to solve the problem. I did this by proving the first woman didn't mind (after talking to her), which was true. But with these concerns, I panicked",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Not sure where this is going POST: I'm 22M, shes 21F. We met off of Okcupid, after a day of messages, which she admits is the fastest shes ever decided to meet someone. The first date went well, we went out to eat and walked around aimlessly for an hour just talking. She mentioned to me up front that she's ""not looking for anything serious"", which is the cause of my confusion. The date ended with plans to meet possibly the next day or two, and we would text when she got home. Over ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I a fuck buddy and don't realize it? POST: I could have sworn things with this guy were going in a direction. He's 21, I'm 18, and we've been talking for a couple months now. Over winter break I briefly stopped responding to his text messages and he sent me an adorable message asking how my break was, saying how much he enjoying talking to me and implying I should get back in touch. Since school started back up we've been talking every day, he's spent the night multiple times (som",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I think I've lost the love of my life and I don't know what to do... POST: I'm a 19 F and my boyfriend or well ex now maybe is 19 as well. We have a long history through when I was dating another guy and I cheated on that guy with my boyfriend. Yeah it was stupid but it happened. We didn't start dating till about 7 or so months after the cheating incident and it was about a month after the other guy and I had broken up. Now I know this guy is for me. I have never meant anyone like hi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my ___ [20 F] 2 years , broke up out of the blue with no good reason POST: My girlfriends of 2 years broke up with me out of the blue, The week she broke up with me she was texting me the previous days making plans for us on the weekend. Then one day she tells me we have to meet and just breaks up with me. I felt like we got along really well. Not just my on my side, if anything she seemed more into me. I tried asking her why and she told me ""I don't want to be in a r",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Just found out my wife was sexually abused by her brothers throughout her childhood. What should I/ what can I do? POST: Long story short: my wife has been fighting depression for a while now and has finally gained the courage to write me a letter telling me that she was sexually abused by her brothers. I've known one of her brothers longer than I've known her, and he actually was the one who got us together, but after she told me what happened to her, and how she's been so ashamed and",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: 24/m Finally stable enough to try dating again, but I'm basically starting from scratch. POST: Long story short, I am bipolar with PTSD as a result of a history of physical and sexual abuse from my family (who I am slowly phasing out of my life). I have been getting help for a litte over a year and the doctors have finally found a cocktail that has eliminated most of my symptoms. Things have been going well, and I'd like to start dating. Obviously I won't overload her with everyth",negative " r/loseit TITLE: SV (and non-SV's!): lost a stone (14lbs), no longer ""obese"", feel amazing, palette changed! POST: Hi hi :) So I finally gave in and decided to give my fitness pal a go after seeing several friends use and like it including one of my best friends and band mate losing over 6 and a half stone!! I LOVE IT. I lost 7lbs the first week, 14lbs in 3.5 weeks and at the end of the 4th week I have lost a total of 15.8lbs :) And nothing extreme! I cook from scratch, I eat a lot of veg, I enjoy my meal",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I want some revenge, what can I do reddit? POST: A couple of months ago I went to a party my friend was having. I've been to his many times before, but this time his brother was staying with him before he left for Europe the next day. I had never met him before, but at the time he seemed like a relatively cool and intelligent guy as it turned out he was heading to Europe to continue some piloting course. The next morning I wake up without my ipod touch and my friend's brother has already",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Help. I [17M] need to get over my ex [18F] who just moved away to college. Yet we talk every day. POST: Well, it was only 8 months long and we knew it was coming but it really didn't change anything. We both still love each other incredible amounts. We tried an open relationship first but that ended quickly since from both sides we were incredibly anxious and hurt thinking about each other with another person. When that ""ended"" and she suggested we just be friends, it really is no ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] was adopted to a loving family, but want to know about my biological parents. How do I ask my parents without offending them? POST: So I, my brother [17 M], and sister [14 F] were all adopted from birth to a loving home that has given us every opportunity in life. My parents are the best, and I wouldn't trade my life for anything, but their is a part of me that wants to know about my biological parents. I don't want to leave the life I have, its really just curiosity as to w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My father paid for my sisters University fees but not mine [29 M] POST: Imagine your sisters got huge student loans, partied and studied for 4-5 years, lived away from home, halls of residence etc. Rack up huge loans. Then imagine, you live at home with your parents to save, you work 1 and sometimes 2 jobs to pay for things you want and need yourself. Then you pay off your loan by yourself. Entirely. Then your Dad sees that your sisters loans are gaining interest because they're n",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] dating busy [26 F] not sure if I am interpreting correctly. POST: Hello reddit, I met a wonderful girl whom I get along quite nicely with and have many common interests with. We started hanging out a few weeks ago and see each other often, but never for long periods of time. I've hung out with her a few times and recently asked her out on a date to which she said yes, apparently every time before was a date, but I was oblivious. Since then she has gotten quite busy and we'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I - 20/M - feel as if my gf - 20/F - cheated on me POST: I've been dating this girl for a few months now. We were friends in high school and I think things are really good. We don't fight and I have a lot of fun when I'm with her. When we first started going on dates, we were both about a month or two out of a relationship. She said she was going to see other people as well, and that was ok with me at the time. However I felt we had a great connection and things escalated fairly qui",positive " r/dogs TITLE: Guarding? My dog bit my husband. I need help!! ( x-post form /r/dogtraining) POST: We have let our dog sleep in our bed since we got him last year ago. My husband works overnights, so on the weekends I'm still in bed when he gets home. When he comes into the bedroom on these days usually our dog gets nervous and barks at him for a few moments. It's almost like our dog goes into such a state that he doesn't even recognize my husband. Usually I grab the dog and have him lay still for a few minu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Losing my girlfriend POST: Me and my girlfriend have been dating for over a year and a half, and we are in our freshman year at college. Problem is, she has stopped being sexual with me; its been over a month, and she won't even make out with me. We had a talk, and she feels like we are going in different directions, and that she loves me, but she feels like I'm more of a best friend. I don't know what to do! I love her so much, I can't handle being just her best friend. She want",positive " r/Parenting TITLE: Shameless plug for an app that will change the way you track the health of your child. From one Reddit parent to another. POST: Dear fellow Mothers and Fathers of Reddit, I have been working very hard the last few months to design and develop an app called Baby Zoe. Baby Zoe is an incredible tool for parents to track, manage and share the health of their children. It allows parents to keep up with trackable info on their children so pediatricians will be able to make the most out of the",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Bosque County TX] Appearing in court for failure to provide insurance, but have no registration POST: Hi, I bought a Ford Mustang in August '13 in California (licence based in CA too) from a private seller and never registered it. In November '13 I moved to Louisiana and did a country road trip to bring the car to my new home at February '14, figured I'd transfer the title and register it in the new state. While I was crossing rural texas I didn't notice the speed limit dropping and t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Does my boyfriend want me to break up with him? POST: 28/f 25/m together for 8 months. He's a typical momma's boy. Without getting too into detail, I would like to say during minor fights over nothing really serious he constantly has been threatening to dump me. He then takes it back right away and tells me it will be ok and that he loves me and we will work through it. This happened last night, and then told me he wanted to work through it and it'll be ok.. Tonight we had a ta",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [21/f] Told my boyfriend[21/m] that I think I may be too accommodating towards him? POST: I've been with my b/f for quite a while and in general everythings great. Tonight I went to hang out with him, everything went well. I wanted to tell him a story and just chat for a bit, but before I knew it we were just having sex and watching a movie. We did that and of course cuddled after till he said he was sleepy and would drive me home. I was a bit upset that he didn't like the movie and ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Is she worth losing my brother over? POST: I am a 16M. I am on the brink of a relationship that may tear apart my relationship with my brother, if he doesn't decide to kill himself. My brother(19) started dating a girl(18, lets call her C) about a 15 months ago and she broke up with him after about 3 months. For some strange reason my bro decided to become completely obsessed with her, and he has not left her alone for a year. After my bro went off to college, C and I became close ",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: I don't know what else to do. I need advice POST: Hey guys, I hope this isn't too long winded I just didn't know where to go or what to say to anyone. I just can't seem to get my shit together. I'm what you would consider to be the epitome of fat suburban nerd. I just turned 25 a few days ago and I'm a full time student at community college. I'm studying business administration on what was supposed to be a transfer program but now I'm not sure.. I have a shitty GPA. I also lost my j",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to Chick-fil-A before a funeral POST: I come from a rather traditional Southern family, one that involves a massive extended family. My second cousin once removed passed away unexpectedly due to a car accident so my mother asked me to accompany her to the funeral since my father is away on business. I felt obligated so I agreed to go. The funeral began at six so naturally we decided to get dinner beforehand. It turns out that there is a Chick-fil-A about half a mile from the fun",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] I'm really attractive to this girl I've come across [19 F] been a few weeks since I came across her through social media, very confused on how to approach this situation. (More in detail below) POST: I was browsing Facebook one night, and I came across this picture of a girl with another girl I met in high school. We are all in post secondary. I am in a different school than the other two. I barely said a word to the girl throughout high school, but am friends with them ",positive " r/Pets TITLE: My cat is sick with a 104 fever! Help! (Update) POST: Here is the original thread: His temperature went back up to 106 and I took him to the vet this morning. They are stumped. The only symptoms he is showing is persistent fever and lethargy. The vet has pretty much ruled out viruses and parasites as he has no respiratory or digestive issues and the fact no other cats are sick. She looked in his mouth and all was good in there and she felt around his body to check for tumors, soreness, or a",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Can I fix my fuck up or should I just deal with it? POST: I (25f) broke up with my boyfriend (28m) of five months a few days ago. We never really spent more than a few hours two or three days a week together. I would've liked to spend more time with him and he knew that. I kind of felt like things were always on his terms as far as when we hung out, when plans changed, when we talked about things that were bothering us, etc. Last week we had a hiccup with me not finding something t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/m] questions of loyalty and a vague sense of lost honour, girlfriend (22/f) still in contact with several of her ex' POST: Throwaway for obvious reasons. I'm driving myself up the wall here, been living with my gf for about a year now, together for two yrs. From get-go I let her know that I'm not the type of person who is okay with seeing people with whom one has previously been involved. Let it be clear, i love this girl with all my heart, but it hurts like hell to see her",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My 16 year old brother is still smoking weed even after being caught by our parents. POST: On a throw away since my brother is also a redditor. Basically, for the past 6 or so months my brother has been smoking almost daily, our parents eventually found out because they checked his text messages. He was punished severely...(phone taken away, about $3000 taken from him that he earned working at a grocery store (to be returned after Christmas of 2011), because its now 'drug money', he can",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Need help choosing bridesmaids!! POST: OY, so I have been dreading choosing bridesmaids since before I got engaged; for years, really. At this point in my life I don't have any super close female friends. I'll list below who I have to choose from. Numbers don't really matter to me, but my FH will have 3 most likely. Old best friends: H and J- these two were my closest friends for about 7 years. Towards the end of college and within the past few years we kind of grew apart as we mo",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: please, really urgent, need help getting over a boy. POST: We were just messaging on facebook, and he told me I should 'just hate him, things would be better for the both of us that way.' 'he has other things going on.' 'tried to be my friend but I obviously couldn't handle it' TWO WEEKS AGO I told him we should try to be friends and HE was the one who was broken up about it. Then, he stopped contacting me through snap chat, texting and facebook. I noticed on his insta a new girl was p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] Manager [40'sF] is Pressuring Me to let her Daughter [14F] Babysit my Son [3M] POST: I've been working at this restaurant for a little over a year now, and my manager has mentioned how her daughter wants to babysit and wants some experience. I've told her a few times that I've never left my son with anyone outside of family and wasn't comfortable with doing that, but she's pressuring me more & more and I worry if I don't let her then I might lose my job. Am I just being unr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [26F] keeps having dreams about ex-boyfriend[25M]. Make it stop! POST: My ex of almost 3.5 years broke with me 8 months ago and we do not keep in touch. The last conversation we had was via email 6 months ago. About 1.5 weeks ago he began appearing in my dreams and has made an appearance in my dreams every night since this started. I definitely don't feel the way I used to feel when we dated. Two of the dreams I've had have consisted of him trying to get back with me. Does anyo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why do I feel light-headed/pass out when discussing certain topics? POST: I wasn't quite sure where to put this, as I don't consider it particularly serious, so I put it here. Apologies if this is the wrong subreddit. About 2 and a half years ago, I managed to pass out in a sex education class when contraception was being discussed. In the following 2 weeks, I passed out in every class (Only one class a week, but that's not really the point). Pregnancy and words to describe different le",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: How do I ask my in-laws for grocery money? POST: My in laws (husband's brother and his girlfriend) have lived with us almost 2 years now. We initially let them move in to help them get on their feet, but since then they've bought 2 new cars and are always out spending money in their free time. They have no kids, they both work, and they pay only half the rent and light. Not water. My husband and I have 2 kids and just found out we're expecting another :) He is the breadwinner for our fa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (22M) used to date my ex (23F) for 8 months. She broke up with me, what to do. POST: I used to know this girl for three years. She was one of my best friends and Even though I had feelings for her, I kept my distance. Two years ago we started dating. I did lots of mistakes towards her ( no cheating! ). By mistakes i didnt give her the attention she needed and sometimes i choosed video games over her. I am not proud of this and I know that the things I did is so wrong and I never m",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hunting dogs are being killed in my area, and probably yours. What can I do? POST: 1. It is common for dogs who are not good at their job (hunting) to be shot instead of re-homed. 2. There are also hunters who kill their dogs at the end of hunting season so they don't have to take care of them during off season, then they just buy new ones next year. 3. It is also common for dogs who are caught in the woods without collars and id tags on, to be shot and killed. The other day me and m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my FWB [21M]. I think he's leading on another girl. I've stopped sleeping with him because of this, but I want to say something in defense of this younger woman. POST: MY FWB had mentioned that there was this persistent girl who really wanted him. He said he doesn't like her and can't see themselves dating, but he'll ""take whatever comes."" Now he's confessed that they're seeing each other and are having sex, but he's ""not sure about the relationship."" I suspect that th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27M] girlfriend [23F] rarely shaves her legs and it bothers me POST: Im attracted to my girlfriend, but anytime I reach down and feel or see hair it grosses me out. I've tried to nicely ask her to shave more, but she just brushes me off and says she will try, sometimes she will shave them consecutively for a few days, but then she falls back into her old habits. I told her that most women shave their legs everyday and she laughed and told me I was silly and that every 5 days or",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [23F] tell my friend [21F] that her boyfriend [21M] tried cheating on her? POST: Okay. Here's the context. Her boyfriend is a douchebag. I thought he had grown up and changed but seems like he didn't. Before they were dating, this guy strung along one of my friends with no intention of dating her, another friend liked him and even went down on him and he up and ditched her. The douchebaggy part is that he sits here and pretends he's this wonderful Catholic boy who talks abou",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are these legitimate grounds for suing the hospital (Or the doctors)? POST: Three years ago, my uncle died of a stroke. He was admitted to the hospital, and couldn't move anything but his eyes and his hands. He could sort of move his tongue and lips, but it was difficult to understand what he was saying. He quickly faded into a vegetated state, and by the end of the week, all he could move was his right hand. He couldn't even talk. The doctors insisted on leaving it up to him to decide",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [28M] doesn't text/call me [27F] when he's away with friends/on business POST: My boyfriend and I have been together a little over six months and he is not much of a texter. I knew this from the beginning, I'll admit. It's a big difference compared to me who has my phone on me (and replies to messages) prettymuch 24\7. He almost always calls me when he's on his way home from work on days we don't see each other, so normally it didn't bother me. But when he's away on busi",negative " r/travel TITLE: Las Vegas Redditors, I need your help, give me your secrets! Please! POST: Okay, here's the situation: I will be travelling with two buddies (all of us are 22/M) to the great city of sin in about a week. We're roadtripping from Vancouver, BC (flying/packaging a deal isn't an option as this stop is part of a larger road trip) and we plan on staying for about 4 days. I keep hearing people talk about the proper ways to talk your way into a stellar walk-up deal on rooms of various quality in an",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Is this job considered ""toxic""? POST: Hi redditors, this is my first post on reddit so if I have done anything wrong, do let me know. I would like to say this subreddit has been immensely useful in my job search (I'm a fresh grad). So this job isn't mine but it belongs to someone close to me. Academia isn't my field (I'm in Computer Science) so I""m sure if this is considered normal. Some background: * 25 M, mechanical engineering graduate (2013) from an Australian uni. * Currently pursuing ",negative " r/travel TITLE: Hey, Help a 20 year old pick where to volunteer in Zimbabwe? POST: Yo! I am a student who is going into his second year of college in the United States. Last year I went to a State of Maine school, and this year I transfered to another one. I don't know what I want to do at all, but I get a very good deal for tuition for these schools, so I figure no reason not to. But I think that I actually want to do something more interesting, and travel somewhere. I thought about going to school in ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[M] 21, dating a 21 [F] for over a year, and I'm wondering if I'm getting used to long term or if the sparks not strong enough and I'm settling POST: Am I skeptical or settling? She's 20F and really fantastic. We've been dating for over a year now. We get along really well on our own, and we hang out relatively well together in public, although I'm much more gregarious than she is. She's cute, amazing, and reliable. We communicate with and treat each other really well, and I ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [23 M] feel like my SO [21 F] doesn't give a fuck about us. POST: Thank you for taking the time to read this when I feel almost every answer to these kinds of problems is essentially the genie talktoher.gif. We've been dating for about half a year now, and lately, my girlfriend seems like she is wanting an impossible combination of wanting more of me, or less of me. She wants me to open up about myself more, but she also doesn't seem to really listen when I do. To be perfec",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: US Redditors, how do I obtain health insurance? POST: I am a video game concept art freelancer and I am doing well, contract wise. I work from home. I attempted to get insurance from a major provider. The entire experience was very rude. They gave me times to call them and did not offer to work with my schedule. They called me randomly, without scheduling the calls. During the main interview they recorded me for ""possible use in court"", okay I'll understand this one. They were very ru",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am a [22 M] with a 3 month girlfriend [23F], not sure how to bring up sex again since she said ""I'll think about it"" a few weeks ago POST: Hey y'all, I'm a college senior and have had a girlfriend for about 3-4 months. So fair, it's been a wonderful ride with only minor speedbumps, but we haven't had sex. As far as I know, both of us are virgins, so the topic is a little weird to bring up. About two weeks ago, I asked her if she wanted to have sex, and she replied ""I'll think abo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My (30/f) boyfriend (25) pretended to choke me on New Years Eve but says he was just kidding. Am I overreacting? POST: We've been together about 2 months. We went out on New Years and started the night by hanging at a friend's house and having some drinks before we went downtown to watch the ball drop. He had 4 or 5 shots the first hour we were there, which was fine. It was New Years and we were there to party. I'm only including that information because it may be relevant. S",negative " r/running TITLE: Trail 5k + Mud + Vibrams = injury? POST: I'm running my first 5k in the am, happens to be a trail run. I'm very comfortable with the distance, but I haven't ever run an organized 5k and I haven't run on a trail in a long time. Wasn't actually planning on running a 5k but I've been training for a 10k in April and this race happened to come up so I signed on. The problem: It's going to rain all day today. Second problem: since really starting to run in December, I've only run in vibrams",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by living in an old house and being hungry at 3:00am POST: This happened roughly 20 minutes ago. So as anybody who lives in the Lawton Oklahoma area will know We have had a bit of flooding the past few days, and because of that flooding my uncle his wife and the five kids they have are staying with me for a while. Now my house was built in in the 1940s it is not in the best conditions especially the floor very squeaky. earlier this night I had already woken up the 3 month old baby becau",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30F] with my SO[25M] 5 months, guidelines for seeing ex? POST: My SO's last relationship ended when his ex cheated with his best friend. Obviously, he was very torn up over this. However, he misses and loves this friend, and wants to repair the friendship. I haven't met this guy, and honestly don't have a very high opinion of him considering what he did. He's also flaked several times when they've made plans in the past few weeks/month. But I want to be supportive, and I want my",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Do I have a shitty friend? POST: I [22F] have been really good friends with my roommate in college [21F] for the last 4 years. We consider each other best friends (both said it unprovoked). We both don't have many other friends, just have both had a few relationships with guys that were far from serious. I had been respectful: only having him over late at night (I made sure we were very quiet), and mostly going to his place. My friend has a guy (which she claims she doesn't want t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (21, M) Confused about relationship feelings POST: Hello Reddit, I'd like to talk about something a bit personal here. So for the past month I've been dating a beautiful and hilarious girl that I'd wanted to date for the longest time. She's perfect in almost every way and even is as crazy as I am in bed. We spent Christmas and New Years together, and she's falling for me pretty hard, as I did. However, for the last day or two, I've been thinking about my last ex, I'll call her",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Finally something I can eat from Taco Bell! POST: My husband and I LOVE Taco Bell. When I realized I need to lose about 120 lbs, I started looking at the foods I eat and decided I just had to cut Taco Bell (along with all other fast food places) out of my diet all together. At work today, my coworkers decided they were getting it, and I forgot my lunch. So, I found their nutrition info and decided to find something small and low-cal-ish to eat so my blood sugar wouldn't drop. I discovered ",negative " r/self TITLE: To Counter act all the Bank of America Hate that I saw in the past year POST: Hi all, I use BOA, I know I should have left during the whole drop this ""fascist bank day"" thing but I was in the process of extricating an IRA and forgot after we all moved on to more cat pictures. Well to combat some of that forgotten hate, I have to tell you all about what happened today. I called up to close my savings account, and downgrade my checking, because I could no longer meet the minimums that avoide",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my ? [24 F] 1 month, I'm just not sure how I feel and I need someone to talk to about this POST: So I met this girl, and we hit it off rather quickly. She's very nice, and very intelligent. In the past when I've met a girl like this, I've been very happy and can't shut up about her. While she's very nice, and I enjoy spending time with her, I don't feel this way. I think. We've spent a lot of time together in just the last week, and it was truly fun. You might ask, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20/F] I want to be in a relationship, but I can't find the right guy, any advice? POST: I just turned 20 2 days ago and I've just been really depressed Because I miss being in a relationship so much :( I jist want a Serious relationship but I never seem to attract that :/ idk what It is. I just get guys that want to use me. there's this guy that I Like so much idk why, we just hook up and stuff but I want him More than that. I just feel like I'm not good enough/pretty",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girlfriend said she would feel less stress by being given a free pass... what to do? POST: For the past 7 months that I have been dating my girlfriend we have had the occasional fight here and there. It came as no surprise because of our personalities have always rubbed up against each other, but we have always worked it out. Lately, the fights have been greater and more challenging to say the least. She recently informed me while having a fight about me not giving her an ans",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] is a really bad texter POST: Hey everyone, so I've been in a relationship with this girl for about 4 months. And she's a really bad texter or atleast in my opinion she is and I need an outside viewpoint. We're both in our freshman year of university and we're both pretty busy so when we text I put in the effort to have a good conversation with her, asking how her day was and telling her about mine etc. When she texts back she always uses short answ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Females of Reddit: Did you feel that having a kid ruined your life and body or is it a worthwhile risk? POST: (Throwaway Account) I am just wondering because my childbearing years are fast coming to an end and I never got the ""baby fever"" that I've seen all my friends go through. But in reality, even my younger cousin is settling down and making babies. She's 6 years younger. In my 20s, I thought to myself, ""How lucky I am not having kids. I can do what I want, I can travel (and I did),",negative " r/running TITLE: Shoe question POST: I started out running and worked my way up in a pair of Nike Run Free+'s (3 and then 5). I worked my milage up. I currently run around 11-12 miles a week. Two 3 mile (5k) runs on week days, and then a longer run on the weekend to however far I can take myself (5 miles or so, so far). I started having trouble in my Run Free 5's with my heels or other parts of my feet falling asleep. I assumed this was due to impact. Im a dude, 5'11 195lbs. So -- I bought a pair of Br",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Should I take this potential job? POST: Hi Reddit, Just asking for some friendly advice. I'm 22, I was recently called in for an interview for a web developer position at a local company. Great right? Here's my dilemma. About 6 months ago I left my web developer position at a different company locally, for several reasons. One, I hated the work environment, it was quite restricive, no opportunities to improve myself, and it was almost soul sucking. Second, I didn't want to be a web develope",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey guys, my friends just found my collection of furry porn. How can I minimize the damage that will come from this? POST: My friends are pretty liberal people but I think this is so far out of their realm of understanding that I will be endlessly mocked for this. How do I ensure that my reputation is not ruined from this discovery? I don't want to have to leave town or anything, purely on principle. Because I don't think a man's harmless sexual fantasy's should have such a large impact ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Investor Breach of Contract? (WA, USA) POST: Back in February I was seeking investors for a small agricultural company (renovating the family farm), I was able to secure a 50,000$ loan from a private investor but he hasn't kept up his end of the contract he signed. (Namely, that he didn't provide the promised finances during the promised time period stipulated in the contract). He gave us a small portion of what he promised but it was drawn out over 16 weeks rather than the 5-8 weeks t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by aggravating a buff guy by nearly poisoning his Pomeranian POST: Today was lovely and hot and I had organised a trip to go on a date with a girl I've liked for a while and our first thing I'd planned was to share an ice-cream from a local stall that was manned by a mutual friend of ours. Therefore the portion we received was ridiculously inflated compared to the amount we paid for it and we left with almost half a liter of raspberry ripple perched precariously on the end of a cone. We",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Is my company's 401k charging me too much? POST: Hi. I'm beginning to learn about investing and I've been starting to look at where my investments are actually going. I've had a 401k at my company (small-to mid-sized) for a while. When I signed up I didn't know anything and since it's a Target Date Fund I'd assumed you can set it and forget it. However, having looked at it I notice 3 things: 1. In the last year (3/1/12--3/1/13) they have charged ~1.03% in fees. Small to Medium Pl",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm chasing a girl in my dreams and I'm pretty sure I love her. Dream help. POST: Last night I had a dream that had a few memorable moments where I was in bedroom with 3 other people; 1 male and 2 female. I had the most interaction with a blonde woman who seemed my age (18), she had a very pretty face and pretty blonde hair which seemed to almost be in some braids. I met her again in the dream I had the night after and her face seemed almost nordic but I can't describe nor can I remembe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: gf(24) seems to just want me for sex male(24) POST: My gf(24) if she can be called that anymore have been together bf(24) for 4 months. I have been friends with her for atleast 14 years and only hooked up with her when we both confessed we have had crushes on each other. Dont get me wrong I love sex she is by far the best I've ever had but all she wants to do is have sex and when Im not around she doesnt seem to want to talk to me or return my texts/calls. Before we did it the first ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [16/m] My new girlfriend's [17/f] mother disapproves of me because of my age! POST: I'm in love with a 17 year old (female) who's out of school, I'm 16 (male) and in year 11. We'd been flirting for ages and we finally talked it out this week, so we've only really been a thing for a couple days but it's still incredibly complicated. Basically, it's the definition of ""It's Complicated."" There isn't really an issue here except when she told her mother she wasn't very supportive an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What is a normal, healthy relationship/marriage? [27F] POST: I've tried posting about my marriage/relationship on here for quite some time. I have a [25M] self admitted possessive and controlling husband. I never end up hitting the ""post"" button because I already know what the comments would be. • That's not normal • Leave him • He is controlling... etc. This is my first and only relationship I've ever been in and now we are married (worst decision i've made). It didn't even full",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Every time my SO's best friend comes around, he ends up barfing. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for about 2 1/2 years, and he's been best friends with this guy since they were like 12 (about 14 years ago). The bestie lives about 45 minutes away, so they don't see each other very often. So when he comes up to visit us, they always end up getting wasted, and my boyfriend is always the one in the bathroom puking his brains out I want this to stop, like immediately, ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I go back to school after 12 years? POST: So here's some background: I studied music in college and almost completed the degree. By almost I mean that I did everything except for the final senior recital. By that time I had been in school for 7 years, had accumulated over 300 credits and had my financial aid cut off. I only was able to finish that last year by taking out federal student loans. I left the music school and exited the university and got a job, paid all of my deb",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I miscarried in January, and my due date would have been this week. POST: In January of this year I found out that I was pregnant, I and miscarried later that week. I found out from the doctors that I had been about 7-8 weeks along, so I was able to count ahead and approximate my due date. I can't explain why I did that . . . morbid curiousity after the fact, I guess, but I've not been able to forget it. The first few weeks after the miscarriage were very difficult. I was emotional, a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] told my straight best friend [21 M] I had/have a crush on him, now I just feel like I've wrecked it. POST: After reading [a post] on the front page of this sub for gay guys about how its not a good idea to tell a straight friend you have a crush on him, it made me wonder about what I told my best friend a month ago. I came out to my best friend of a few years about a month ago, and we got talking really well and we started to talk about friends and what I think about them. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M] 22 Broke up after a Month [F 20] and got back in contact after 2. POST: As you can guess it's a throwaway for obvious reasons. This ones a tricky one, it's not the easiest scenario i've been in so far either. We met about 9-10months ago, she was dating a guy, at first I thought she was serious / engaged etc. She wasn't, I won't deny it made me smile and I did try to stay away at first, but one or two of the nights we'd stay up skyping all night. Her boyfriend was an ass (albeit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] don't know how to deal with my bestfriend [19F] after some stuff has happened. POST: So I've known this girl for over a year, she's always had a boyfriend so we were always platonic. Sure I had the occasional thought here and there, but not much more. We were at University together, and her boyfriend was an hour away at her home. In January she started getting flirty, and I knew it was wrong, but I did too. This went on until about May. We exchanged nudes once, she said she w",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Side-effects of MetaCam, or something else? POST: Hi everyone. Recently, my cat had an operation to have abscess drained from her front-right arm, and is currently on the pain-medicine MetaCam (prescribed by the vet). I've noticed that ever since the operation, she's been very inactive. It's been just under 36 hours, and she hasn't had an appetite, and just seems to spend the whole day lying down throughout different parts of the house, hours at a time. She doesn't really respond when I call ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Does your SO ever send sketchy messages? My [20 F] boyfriend [23 M] of a year and a half does. POST: My boyfriend and I live in different cities that are approximately an hour and a half apart. I go to see him every Thursday after my last class. I leave my city every week at the same time to go meet him. It's not ideal, but it's what we are currently working with while we are both in school. Not too long ago, he sends me a text out of the blue. Sort of. We had been talking recently ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not saying ""no"" POST: I'm still a bit upset seeing as how this happened less than an hour ago. My day consists of waking up, getting ready for work, getting the little one up for school and leaving before her father takes her to her bus stop. I get home about an hour before I have to pick up the little one from her bus stop, so sometimes I'll relax or run errands. I've gotten to know a few regulars who wait for their children at the bus stop. One person in particular has become very ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I (23m) wrong for feeling unhappy with my gf (22f)? POST: My gf of about three years and I have always been super close and gotten along so amazingly well. We were in a long distance relationship deal but we made it work and neither of us minded. During her last semester of college though, things started to change After she went back to school I quickly noticed that she was distance herself from me by not always wanting to talk on the phone, not asking/caring about some big",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [22F] am holding onto a ""relationship"" with a man [25M] who won't even commit to being my boyfriend. POST: Okay reddit I'm gonna keep this as short as possible. I met this guy 4 months ago and we've been seeing one another for a few nights a week ever since. He won't commit to being my boyfriend, I think because I'm a little overweight (but have been working hard at it) and his pride gets the best of him-he is fit and makes sure he stays fit. He had tried twice to break it of",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [21F] Things started hot, now insanely mixed signals from my coworker [24M] POST: So, we've worked together for over a year now. When we first met he had a girlfriend of two years and I was newly single. He and his gf broke up last November and he's been showing weird signs of depression every now and then. He's always been very sweet and we occasionally trade books. During the holiday season we went to a party together and ended up making out, but nothing more than that. We met",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [17M] girlfriend [17F] broke up with me. I ""tortured her"" by talking to another girl [16F] despite the fact she was dating [17M]. People think I am a jerk because I unknowingly made her cry POST: Hi first time user, and I am dyslexic so please forgive any spelling errors. Three months ago my girlfriend broke up with me at school, she did not say why. We dated for three years and it was completely unexpected. Before summer vacation I watched as she walked around with this new guy",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Incredibly attracted to co-worker, currently living with GF, unsure of what I want/need/am looking for... much confusion! POST: Hey Reddit, So, I am 24y/o guy in a decent 5-6 month relationship with 26y/o girl. We recently moved in together (about 3 months ago?) and things have been going well enough. I am a workaholic and rarely home, but gf was ok with this earlier in the relationship. The intense initial spark is gone for me, but I do love her and care for her very much. I'",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27/M], my ex [27/F] and my colleague/crush [43/F] POST: I was with my ex for over 5 years (known her for 10), and we broke up this last June. We had discussions about moving in together, marriage and children, and I told her that I wasn't sure that I wanted the same things she did. Things weren't so great between us, and in the meantime I had been talking to one of my colleagues about my ongoing issues with my now ex. I've known this person for 7+ years, and although we've alw",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (f 19) have been with my SO (m 19) for almost three years, but I'm about to break up with him... I think. POST: What can I do to soften the blow? How can I help him with the breakup? And yes, I really want us to remain friends. We have been best friends for a long time and I don't want to loose that. I truly do love him, and I will truly miss him if he decides he doesn't want to be friends after the breakup. He is my first love, we used to be so great together, snuggling with",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my girlfriend [19F] (1-year) talking about being long distant in the future POST: Hi, any advice would be great, basically in the first year on Uni I got into a relationship with my girlfriend, we are both the same age and have been together just under a year. Anyway, after a few initial problems (mainly with religion that are now fine) we're crazy in love, both our first real boyfriend/girlfriend and it feels like we've been together years, I know cliche stuff. So tod",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16M] have a crush on a girl [18F] and don't know how to go about asking her out POST: I work at a day camp that ends Friday and there is this girl who I think is really cute and has a great personality, etc., etc. I have a bit of a crush on her. I really don't want to end camp without having at least gotten her number, but I get really flustered around girls I have a crush on (who doesn't?) so I am a little shy about that sort of thing. Another issue is that I'm a lifeguard and s",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I don't want to die alone and not knowing what love feels like. POST: I'm so lonely. I've never ever experienced being in love and being in a relationship. I haven't even had my first kiss. I've been approached multiple times but.. I'm still pretty young (16) and I told my parents that I wanted to focus on my studies instead of dating. (My parents would like that also) Sure, part of me wants that but it hurts and I feel so lonely. I don't have a close relationship with my family so I ha",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Alright so I [19/m] need help to ask this guy [17/FtM] out. POST: He's trans (F to M) and just the sweetiest and funniest guy I've ever met. I literally can not stop smiling around him and we just keep laughing together and there isn't a dull moment. Even when we're just absolutely bored out of our minds we make things better for one another. He's got a very specific taste in what he wants and I know I fill out every aspect but he doesn't entirely realize it yet due to me and h",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Feeling extremely lonely, no clue how to even interact w people POST: I'm a 21 year old female who moved to Austin almost a year ago now and still haven't made any friends. I thought by now i would have at least a couple people to hang out with. But i haven't met anyone, and i don't even have online friends to talk to. I literally have no friends! My last friend group kind of just forgot about me when they all moved to a different city at once, and then i moved even further away (we all liv",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (16m) am becoming ver attracted to my coworker (17f), what do I do next? POST: There is this girl, a good friend of mine. She is a senior this year and I am a junior. We work together in the drama department at my school and pass by each other in classes. We've been friends for the last three years, but this year things are getting complicated on my end, I am starting to have feelings for her. Now, personally I would rather be friends, but my feelings are beginning to affect my j",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey reddit! What have you ever done in your life that you regret to this day? POST: Mine was back in middle school, a kid who was nothing but nice to me (letting me borrow pencil's in class as I always misplaced them) was getting bullied because he was a redhead. Wanting to impress a girl I liked so I started making stupid fake imitations about him. Everyone laughed but him. He still let me borrow pencils, but now I know it wasn't because he was being nice, but because he was scared wha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] >1 year, found out she is a social smoker and am freaking out. Help me understand my reaction POST: My girlfriend and I were talking last night and I mentioned that I had now gone 3 weeks without a cigarette. To my surprise, she seemed a litte taken aback that I smoked tobacco at all. I explained that my habit had been perhaps 2-5 cigarettes in the evening, either alone or out with friends. Although I'd never hidden this from her - I smoked one in ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Where the hell do you draw the line with trust violations and breaking up? POST: 2 year relationship; she's 23, and I'm 26. I've watched her struggle with drinking our entire relationship and don't judge, but it's finally started causing problems. We've got newish friends, a couple; the wife can't control her drinking either and loves having a mutual enabler around. So 2 nights ago we're drinking at their place with some others. I try to pass out early. Can't sleep, get up to smoke",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My Overweight Mom Refuses to See Doctors POST: My Mom is overweight and has refused to go to any kind of doctor for the past few years. She says she's sick of doctor after doctor telling her how unhealthy she is and how she has to lose weight. She also has bad knees, and that makes it extremely hard for her to exercise (or even to walk for long periods of time). She could try swimming, but she's too embarrassed to be seen in a swimsuit. Her mother died of some kind of cancer, but they ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [18M] trying to get my [18F] girlfriend to exercise with me. POST: No matter what I say, my girlfriend refuses to workout with me. She's not overweight by any means. She's actually really thin. However, I've been trying to explain that exercising isn't only for people who want to lose weight. Also I think that it would help us bond more. Naturally she gets offended every time I ask her if she wants to run with me because apparently all of her friends ask her if she wants to go ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [25F] end a toxic friendship with my friend [30F] on good terms? POST: The last month has been fairly telling on who I've become friends with. When her and I first started talking (we met at work) we almost instantly clicked. Always talking, texting and started to hang out outside of work as well. I thought for sure this woman was my new best friend. I felt like we connected on a lot of things that I hadn't with any other woman (I usually have guy friends). So this was neat",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [16M] close friend [17F] faced a major disappointment, not responding to anyone POST: My close friend had been working really hard the whole year to make the team, putting in lots of hours every week and even sacrificing a lot to train and get better. But she didn't make it and I guess she took it really badly. School's out so no one can really get in touch with her in person. She isn't responding to anyone's texts or messages, even her close female friends'. I tried asking about",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (38 f) SIL(27/f) just canceled our Thanksgiving celebration at her house. Am I being unreasonable? POST: My family usually gathers at one of my siblings houses for Thanksgiving, and we usually do this at the biggest house or if one of us has moved into a new house, we go there. My brother (31/m) and his wife (27/f) just bought a new (very nice) house and since it's been a tradition to go to the new house for Thanksgiving, we all figured that we would go to their house, but apparen",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20F) don't know what my boyfriend (26M) of one year should do when I go abroad. POST: Okay, so to start off, my boyfriend and I have been together a little over a year and things are great. We have amazing chemistry when we're together, we always do stuff together, and we never have extended fights. I love him so much and I can definitely say he's one of my best friends. We live about 90 minutes apart but we see each other every weekend (more or less). He's originally from Bra",positive " r/relationships TITLE: my [23f] boyfriend [25m] is moving out of state. POST: My boyfriend is moving out of state from NC to NY. I talked to him and we decided to continue our relationship long distance. I couldn't be happier because I really don't want to lose him. He is the kind of person that likes to play things by ear and see what happens, and I like to plan things to the very last detail. I have a few things I want to ask him before he goes just so that I know that continuing our relationship is t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21,m] recently checked my GF of 2 yrs [21,f] email and saw she sent explicit pics to her ex BEFORE we got together. POST: I was checking her email to go check her schedule as I normally do. I just happened to click on the link that said Pictures and it showed plenty of pics of her that show off her body. I don't have a problem that the pictures were sent, because the last one was sent months before we even met. We've been together for 2 years so maybe anything that would've happen",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by leaving a receipt in the car dashboard POST: So this happened on July 1st, Canada day. I went to the liquor store (LCBO) to grab some Molson (Canadian eh) for the big day as we were to have a barbecue at my friends student house at university. I picked up because I was borrowing my parents car that week. Now usually I'm pretty good at paying in cash only, but being the dumbass teenager I am, I became complacent and paid with debit instead. I also decided to leave the receipt in the c",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU Telling my GF I wanted to move out but still stay together POST: Some background. My girlfriend and I have been going out for ~ 3 years and we have had our shares of ups and downs. This is someone who I envisioned asking to be my wife in the not to distant future. We recently moved in together (about 6 months ago) and things have been somewhat of a struggle. She has a full time job and I will be starting grad school in a few weeks. For the past couple of weeks, I have had a lot of",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Finally saying goodbye 2 years after breaking up. Did I make the right decision? (He's 22 I'm 24) POST: My ex and I dated starting his senior year in high school and my first year of college. He is [22M] and I am [24F] now. We dated for 4+ years and broke up just about 2 years ago. We tried to be friends after the break up because we had emotionally grown together from teenagers into adults so we become emotionally dependent on each other. The friends thing worked out sometimes, not othe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19F] boyfriend [23M] of two years wants to have a foursome to get his virgin friend [24M] laid... POST: My boyfriend and I have been discussing the possibility of having a threesome for a while. However, we were discussing having a threesome with another girl, which I was completely on board with. When he brought this up, I thought he was joking because we are going on a trip with him and another of our friends [21F] soon. I laughed it off, but I soon realized that he was serious",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By biting my phone POST: So this actually happened last night. A group of friends and I drove out to a local creek with nothing but liquor and Mountain Dew. A clear recipe for a good time. I don't drink very much so I was wasted after just a few shots. I have a bad habit of mindlessly chewing on things. Usually it's the string of my hoodie or something of that nature. With that being said I started to nibble on the edge of my phone case. I'm super blasted at this point. We're half w",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Do I have any chance of getting my ex-boyfriend back? POST: My ex boyfriend just broke up with me. We were together for almost two years and I loved him the whole time and still do. He's just broken up with me as he said over the last month or so, he no longer sees me romantically and didn't feel like we were a couple. It was his first relationship so he also didn't know what he wanted and felt like he's changed since we got together. The whole time we were in a relationship, we we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Otherwise awesome relationship tripped up by my [31F] boyfriend's [30M] sensitivity about unemployment POST: Reddit, I've tried talking to my boyfriend about this issue already, and it was a gentle, constructive conversation, but still nothing is happening. My boyfriend quit his old job (a reliable one, in a company whose fortunes are exploding) for what I considered flippant reasons. He then took a job in a totally different, niche industry, doing sales with one other guy in an off",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 25[M] married feeling like I may be falling for another woman POST: This is a throwaway for obvious reason. I will preface my confession with some important facts about myself and my relationship with my wife. I have been married a little over a year now to my wife who I still love, and we have a toddler together(he was born before our marriage). I've never had sex with any other woman other than my wife and we've been together since I was 19. She is an amazing person and my best fr",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by seeing someone who looked like a celebrity and commenting on it... POST: I'm prone to saying weird and sometimes inappropriate things for the sake of humor, especially to my husband. But I am usually tactful enough to keep them private. I was waiting in line at a rather popular taco place for about 20 minutes with my husband and several friends. We all watch Game of Thrones together when the new ones come out and went to the GoT Exhibit when it was in town etc etc...to say we like th",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (36F) may want children but he (37m) has implied in public social interactions that he doesn't. POST: We've been living together for a couple years and been together for a few. I'm perfectly happy with everything in the relationship but there seems to be some stress about whether or not we're planning for children. When we first met children were a hard 'no' in his life. After a few months he said it was a possibility if the right woman came along. He still tells people now ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [19 M] Asked a girl out for the first time today, now what? POST: Hi, today I finally asked a girl from my school if she wanted to get coffee. Liked her for weeks, wanted to ask her on Facebook but I knew I had to do it in person. I bumped into her today at school, finally. I was a nervous wreck, but she just said ""I would like that, yes"" and I asked her when she's free. She said she will let me know on Facebook, we've been using that to talk for some time now. I don't know if I shou",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not tightening some bolts POST: Specifically the ones that hold my front driver side wheel to my car. I was changing my oil today and had taken the wheel off to put under the car as backup to my jack stands (can't be too safe). Put the wheel on while the car was up on the stands still, meaning I didn't have the ability to tighten the studs down completely with the wheel spinning freely. I then completely forgot about it once the car was on the ground. Wheel came off at 40mph, shot acr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] with my friend [18 M] duration, everyone says we'd be a cute couple, but he's out of my league! POST: My friend [18 M] and I [18 F] have been friends for like 10 years, and we're on the same sports team and are co-workers. Other friends/coworkers always tell me that we'd be a cute couple or ask if we're dating. We never have dated or really talked about dating and I really value our friendship. I we banter and joke around with each other a lot and get along really well, but",positive " r/Advice TITLE: I can't eat squishy or slimy meat? POST: So yesterday my mom made something new, Shrimp Scampi. Now we don't normally have shrimp and I was quite excited to try it. Last time I had it, it was fried so okay, wasn't the best but I thought my taste buds woudld have changed a bit. But when I ate this, I HATED it. The noodles were good, but for some reason I couldn't nearly stomach the shrimp but I couldn't figure out why. The outside taste/seasoning of the shrimp was good, And then it hit me, I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 25/M cheated on 20/F - finds out later, will it matter? Even with a baby in the mix, is it more excused? POST: Would it matter to you if someone waited until you were a year in a relationship to tell you that your current boyfriend cheated on you in the beginning of your relationship (the first time a week into it, then the 2nd period of time a couple months into it)? Would it make a different whether you stayed/leave/worked it out, etc. Add onto the fact, you became pregnant a coup",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] angry at my (supposedly now ex) SO [23 F]. She never came through for me. POST: Long story short: I had a really rough time the other night. Anxiety, depression, etc etc. I was texting her all the awhile because talking with her was always helpful. Even the day before she said, explicitly, that she'd always be there, whenever, wherever I needed. The same night we're chatting, she happens to be out with friends. I'm not doing very well and the only thing keeping me positiv",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit my doctor is deliberately misinforming young women about their means of accessing an abortion in my province, what can I do? POST: I have evidence of a local doctor deliberately providing pregnant girls with misinformation regarding their access to abortion and how to obtain one in my province (he has told several girls to self-refer when this is not allowed, you must be referred by a physician as abortions are currently only provided at our hospital, there are no private clinics ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22m] feel like I'm being avoided by GF [20f] POST: So a bit of a preface, I guess. The GF [20f] and I [22m] have dated once before, two years ago, and it lasted about four years. I had an intense breakdown and ended the relationship, something I regretted for the years after. She moved away. Now the GF had wanted to come back to this town and I offered her a job at the restaurant I manage. I never fell out of love with her but I was sure I could deal with a strict employee relati",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22, F] have a crush on my ex of three years' [24, M] best friend [24,M]. He might like me too. Not sure what the right move is. POST: I'm going to try and keep this sort and not bore you with details. I haven't had a crush on someone in years. ""Crush"" seems fitting because normally I'd go after the person I like but now it seems wrong too. Its been almost a year since my ex and I broke up. It took me too long to realize he was a complete jerk. My ex's friend (let's just say Eric",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] and my GF [19 F] are about to have sex for the first time. (She has done it before, I have not) Any tips, expectations or comments on what to do to make it good? POST: Hello, me and my GF are bout to be intimate for the first time. She has already has sex in the past, but it is the first time for me. I am a little nervous, but I want to make it a good experience for her. We have made out and touched a lot before and every time, she begins to breath deeply and we have almo",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU because I suck at humaning POST: happened today, extra points? this is my goto throwaway cuz friends know my reddit account. Met a girl a few years ago, thought she was pretty af, never had more than fb. Was crazy enough that she had a crush on me this year, and my retarded self decided even though she confessed, I ain't gonna date her. Somehow, she ended up as my prom date and she's a year younger. Day after prom, she told me she has a crush on someone else; retarded self",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] have no idea how to handle mixed feelings about my SO [18 F] of 2 years. POST: Since around 18 months into our relationship, I have constantly found myself becoming angry/upset/frustrated at ""Jane"" for bizarre reasons that I shouldn't be. Some days are okay but most are not. None are spectacular. One thing I am sure of is that I'm not happy anymore. I've had strong feelings towards Jane and half of me thinks deep down that I still do, but the other half of me feels that it's",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 F] am cut off from many of my friends as they don't know that my ex [21 M] and I were dating and then broke up POST: Before the end of the year I started dating someone in my group of friends who I had known for a long time. We will call him Dan. We were both initially more comfortable with keeping it to ourselves as we were both freshly out of relationships and didn't want to hurt anyone. This was especially the case because Dan's ex is mutual friends with all of our friends. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M], my roommate [22 M], and the girl I'm dating now [21 F]. They used to be friends but had a big falling out over some really shitty things my roommate said. I haven't told him. How do I handle this from here on? POST: So this story starts about 4 months ago. I was still with my (now ex) gf of nearly 4 years when I moved in with my roommate, S. When we moved in he had a lot of people over all the time, one of them being B, the girl I am now dating. At first they seemed to b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21/F] puzzled by a professor's [30-ish/M] behavior. POST: College student who just returned from break and feels like one of my professors is behaving a little oddly (possibly even flirty) and I'm not sure what to do. I have had numerous classes with this person and even asked them to be my academic advisor, so we have talked a lot and are rather friendly. He is one of the youngest and most personable professors on campus, so naturally he is pretty popular with other students, to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [30M] girlfriend [24] of 5 years, obsesses and worries about me cheating. Has no trust even though I've never done anything wrong. POST: We have dated for 5 years, and she's lived with me for 2 years now. When we were long distance, she didn't seem to worry about anything. But now we live together, and if we go out to eat.. She's drives herself crazy looking around at a girl she thinks I might find attractive. And first off, I have never cheated on any girlfriend I've ever had. I'",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by volunteering for a fundraiser half marathon without knowing the run route. POST: Last Saturday I volunteered to be a worker for a half marathon race fundraiser. After I checked in I was driven to the last water point, at a T intersection about 2 km from the finish, so I was told. But I was told nothing else and I asked no further questions. Within 15 minutes a pack of very fast runners begin to approach. Their leader yelled to me ""Which way?"" Well, I had no fucking idea. I could eit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my GF [28 F] 1 year+, worked together then FIRED... POST: My girlfriend and I met at our job. We fell deeply in love with one another instantly. Fast forward 3 months and we have reason to think the employers know, but we always kept the relationship extremely professional at work. I ended up getting fired for essentially no reason (""not a good fit"" / ""not what we're looking for"" etc) with no explanation—except we can only imagine they didn't want coworkers dating. I'm",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/m] I like a girl[19/f] but she told me she likes another, she does not know I like her POST: Hey reddit, I consider myself a reddit noob and this is my first post. Here we gooo :D I am a 20 year old male that recently moved out because of uni. I met the first day a cute girl that I immediately got feelings for, everything about her was perfect (except that she doesn't like that I smoke pot xP ) and it felt like she also liked me or atleast was interested. We talked more an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24M] with my gf [21F] of three years are having issues. I need help. POST: Hello Reddit. We have been together for 3 years, one of which was normal and the last two have been long distance. She is in her first semester of her major and I'm currently across the country serving. We have been having communication issues for a few weeks stemming from 6 months ago. she would say that she felt like we weren't talking enough, and i didn't really understand her until recently. We spoke ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Sister is in wheelchair and house needs renovations to make it more wheelchair accessible. Is there any sort of assistance for home renovations for disabled persons? POST: My sister is wheelchair bound after a botched brain tumor surgery that caused her to have a stroke during surgery (THIS is not the topic for discussion). She and her husband bought the house around 10 years ago. The house has depreciated in value since their purchase which means they cannot take out a loan against the hou",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Looking for a bank or credit union to start moving my money into. Any suggestions? POST: I've got meddling parents that are helping me with my college tuition and living expenses that have become increasingly difficult to work with. I've started to save up money and I'd like to keep their hands off of it, so I'm looking for a decent bank or credit union that I can start using to save money to. I live in California currently, but will be moving to Washington state in a few years, so havi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] can't open up with my family(parents + sisters) [66F][64M][27F][22F] POST: I'm a 25 year old guy that has just completed university, and in August I'm starting a job. While not having a large social circle, I have a number of friends; and would say that I manage to get along with most people, and am generally quite happy. For some reason I find it really difficult to open up to my family and share the details of my life with them, and this is something that I have always had",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: [20F] Tiring bfs[20M] company POST: Hello I've got a little problem with my bf, he is too cuddly, too chummy, he needs a whole lot of attention that I can not give to him. When we meet everything is ok but after a few hours I am tired of his presence but he insists on keeping me company. Whenever I leave him, you know, end the date earlier because I'm tired, he's upset, sometimes he acts like a baby whose toy has been taken. Look I really like him and enjoy his company but I am a ve",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] and my girlfriend [20F] are too attached to each other, and will soon be separated (physically) POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for 14 months, with about 4 months in the middle of that being long distance. As with most relationships, we've grown closer and closer to each other over time. We've gotten to the point where we absolutely love being with each other, I'm sure if it were more realistic we'd quit more activities and bum around together. However, we're",negative " r/relationships TITLE: One of my (25f) friends (26f) started a discussion with me about her boyfriend (27m). Did I do the right thing? POST: My friend Krissy had been with her bf Joe for 6 years. She posted on my Facebook wall asking me to have one of my Facebook friends (this girl Amanda that was friends with my sister, i don't know her that well) check her inbox. Krissy then sent me a message asking what i knew about this girl. She found text messages between Amanda and Joe that seemed flirty and",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Have I (23/F) screwed it up with (25/M)? POST: We've been dating for around a month. Have been getting on really well and he's said that he's never felt like this about a girl straightaway, he's never had such a laugh with a girl before, etc. I'm a bit insecure after a bad breakup and having been messed around by a guy quite badly. I'm incredibly into this new guy and he invited me along to a gathering with lots of his friends over the weekend. Almost all of them seemed to know who ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Would like some advice POST: I have a friend, with whom I enjoy spending time with. She is smart, attractive and fun to be around. In the summer she broke up with her boyfriend of a few years. Since I had known her during the time she was dating him I had worked hard to just not place her into a romantic light in my eyes. Now I am pretty sure you can fill in some blanks here so I will skip ahead. Anyway after hanging out in a fairly platonic context, the default setting of our i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: During my high school graduation I should have been flying high. Instead, I broke down and cried while waiting for the ceremony. My question is; Have you felt terrible at a time you should have felt overjoyed? What were you doing and why? POST: Shortly before my graduation, I got into a fight with my father. He was angry at me for getting into an accident on my bike with a car. In the school's parking lot, another student confused drive with reverse and broke my front fender. No one was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 F] boyfriend [22 M/F] of 4 years, acts like we are going to get married in the future but doesnt pay attention to me in the `now` POST: We are in a long-distance relationship (2 hours away) because of university and this December he is coming home from school for good. He suggested we start to live together and I would have been thrilled if he was usually paying more attention to me. Even though the distance is not so big we see each other every other weekend and he doesnt ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25/M] was diagnosed with HPV and it brought my dating life to a screeching halt. POST: So, I got the kind of HPV that gives you warts, and my dating life came to a screeching halt because I don't want to tell anybody about it. I know it is unlikely but I don't want to risk it getting out there that I have an STD and I know that if I date somebody I have to tell them eventually. I got my first wart more than a year ago, and it looked nothing like the pictures on the internet. Min",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why the hell wouldn't he [25/M] tell me [23/F] he had surgery? POST: My boyfriend of 10 months was being extremely evasive over the last 10 days or so and I couldn't figure out why. He made it sound like he had a really busy week and couldn't hang out. We live in the same city and we usually see each other every other day, so I was suspicious. Yesterday, I FINALLY got to see him and he was happy to see me and everything seemed cool/normal. We were eating lunch together and a deli",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [25 F] tells me [27 M] that she's afraid of me becoming a friend after 1 year POST: Hi all, So I had a minor argument with the girlfriend this Sunday gone. She breaks down and tells me she's afraid that I'm becoming a best friend more than a boyfriend. The root cause of this, in my head, is that she's been content with the relationship, and has put on some weight. This doesn't bother me, but she is so very conscious of it all the time. This is severely affecting her con",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: no contact/contact/no contact... help POST: me[F 21] him[M 21] I broke up with my boyfriend about 6 weeks ago for a variety of reasons. We kept to the ""no contact"" rule(for the most part) which was easy since he's away at school. I got into a minor car accident Valentine's day and I called him just to let him know. Last week I asked him for help in reviewing/proofreading some essays for a program I applied to. We chatted for a good long while and it was really nice. It felt like nothin",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking my roommate to work POST: I was woken up this morning by my roommate asking me to take her to work because the other car in the house wasn't working. I said sure and to wake me up when she needed to go. Keep in mind my girlfriend was in my bed sleeping next to me and she was to come with us. I had just bought my car on Thursday and I haven't transferred the title (don't have it yet), got new plates, and I don't have insurance. There were all kinds of wrong with me driving my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33/F] with my now ex friend[33 M]. He's a lazy freeloader and a subtle racist/misogynist. Was I hasty in blocking him/ending the friendship? POST: I reconnected via facebook with a friend I went to high school with awhile ago. We hung out all the time when we first reconnected, circa 2009, after I had moved back to our hometown. However, I went back to college and graduated in 2011, and got a job in New York. At the end of February 2014, I came back because of ailing family membe",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the best way to tackle the dispute with a credit card company. POST: My girlfriend has an amazon (GE) store card with ridiculous interest rate (24.99%). By the end of january she had about $1300 charged on it. Now, she has been paying minimum amount for the few months. After looking at the interest rate, I recommended her to pay it down as fast as possible. So she paid about $100 more than the minimum payment last month, and even then her balance, rose to about $1480. I did all t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: She (22/F) left me (22/M) after showing me a year of perfection, what do I do now? POST: I'm a 22 male and my girlfriend just left me a few days ago, and I'm completely lost right now. She gave me the absolute best months of my life, we connected on ways that I didn't even know were possible, I gave her 100% of me every single day. I never stopped giving a full effort. I gave her everything and now she's taking it with her. To explain: Last week, her mother died and she was taking",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am becoming trapped by panic attacks, can reddit give me some advice please? POST: I had my first panic attack aged 18, at the time I didn't understand fully what it wad and sgrugged it off. I was on my first driving lesson and after being taken straight home by my instructer and him explaining what had happened to me I assumed it would probably never happen again. I was wrong. 8 years later I suddenly started to have attacks quite often whilst with an ex boyfriend (last year) he stre",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: relaxing 'date' tonight not quite sure what to talk about worried this will lead to a fadeaway [25f/24m] POST: I know that what we are doing is just for fun no strings (I am still playing for the long haul) He is very busy with grad school and and job, I try not to bug him too much but this has led to me questioning his interest, tonight is the first night in three weeks we have been able to meet up. I feel like I will have nothing to talk to him about. I do want to keep him interes",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I think I have a drinking problem... POST: I haven't really told anyone about this and it's so horrifying and embarrassing and I am so disgusted with myself. I'm not an alcoholic. I don't drink everyday. What does happen to me is I'll have a drink, and then I'll have another drink, and then another, and even if I PROMISE myself I'm not gonna have anymore, this fucking *thing* takes over and next thing I know I'm blacking out for chunks of the night, puking, and finding myself in some very d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28F] with my [27 M] great friend is an awful roommate. Advice? POST: So, I have a few roommates and we were really good friends with this guy, we'll name Cal. Cal hung out with us a lot, and we always had an amazing time together. We would play video games, board games, go out to eat...it was always great. My roommates and I thought it would be awesome if Cal moved in, so there would be endless video game and junk food eating fun!!! Right??? Wrong. Cal is a horrible roomma",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] am dating a girl [20 F] with an absurdly wealthy family and it's making me uncomfortable. Can anyone relate? POST: Hi all! First off I just want to say thanks to you guys. I started dating this girl based on some advice that I got in this subreddit. We are about six months in and things are going really well; I'm happier than I have been in a long time. Most people (it would seem) would be thrilled to be dating someone with such a financially stable, affluent family but it",positive " r/Advice TITLE: I [M/28] am not very close to my mother and would like to change that, but I'm not really sure how. POST: My dad died at age 12 and I never really got to know him. I'd like to prevent the same from happening with my mom. The problem is, we're not close at all (to the point of near-awkward silences on occasion). After my dad died, I spent the rest of my teen years withdrawn and depressed, and then at age 18 I moved cities and haven't really gone back to my hometown that often...it's small ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: How do I make $100k/yr work in San Francisco? POST: Hi /r/pf. I've been lurking on this subreddit for years and I consider myself pretty decent with money. I took a great (required) personal finance class in high school back in 2013. However, something crazy has come up and I'm not sure how to make it work. There's an unnamed company that has offered $100k/yr to me, but they're located around the southwest of the Bay. I've been slinking around Zillow and Trulia looking for a place",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Friends wants more than friendship. What do I do? POST: I've been friends with a girl for about half a year. We get along great. I'm not particularly interested in anything more but I can't say the same for her. She brought up how much she likes me/attracted to me. We talked about this before and she even told me she wouldn't mind a friendly sexual relationship. I told her I would think about it because I don't want to be an asshole. Maybe I am crazy, but I am pretty sure this ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [late-20s M] made my long-term, on-again off-again GF [mid-20s] cry and feel abandoned and minimized again, for the thousandth time, and I feel like a terrible person now and wish I didn't exist. POST: Not sure what else to add. Basically, I'm really unavailable because I'm an extreme introvert and also have a demanding work/school schedule. We see one another on the weekends these days - totally a shitty way to be in a relationship. I should be more available, but I'm not. W",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24m) really screwed up with a girl (22f) who I have been dating. Would it be super weird to send one last message apologizing? POST: Basically, I screwed up. I tried to come off as someone I wasn't to impress her and it ultimately backfired and things fell through after the 3rd date. She basically just one day out of the blue I guess had it and blocked my number, Facebook, and Twitter. She wasn't completely perfect herself, but what I did was wrong/worse nonetheless. I told th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I prove my mom's boyfriend is a con artist? POST: My mom started dating ""Chris"" (not his real name obviously) about a year and a half ago and things didn't add up from the very beginning. My mom had just gotten out of a painful divorce and I think she was blinded by her hopes for happiness. Chris has always talked a big game and has said he works for X company and that he owns businesses all over town and the world. Obviously, when a guy seems like a big shot--you google him. Th",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Mouthing. My dog loves it, it is generally frowned upon, but I don't mind it. Should I stop it? If so, how? POST: Hey there, I adopted a terrier/pit bull mutt thing about a year and a half ago. [Pics] He is a little over three now and weighs 42 lbs or so and he loves mouthing. He has since the day I got him. I was told the best way to avoid this was to just have a dog toy in hand. He is pretty well trained with the clicker and he listens very well. Although the terminology isn't standa",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I've [21 M] developed a crush on someone [25 F] who's already taken. POST: I've recently met someone new and have gotten to know them well over the last couple of months. However, at the time of my meeting them they were going through some things, and were asking me for help/advice on a lot of their situations. Naturally I felt for them, and appreciated she trusted me so much. However, she already has a boyfriend and I'm not a jerk. I need to figure out a way to handle these feeling",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[M30s] want to break off my relationship with FWB[F23] POST: We had been seeing each other since I moved to France and it's almost two months. We met through a friend of hers who works with me. It was a fun and good experience until she decided it's appropriate to tell about a part of her past which no one else knows about. She told me by an email that four months before I've met her, she was raped while she was serving in Military as a doctor. I still didn't respond to her email. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] of ~15 months are drifting apart after entering a LDR. Need some impartial advice. POST: The situation is that she is at uni in another city and I work full time to fund future travelling. So we hardly see each other and when we do it is only for a day as both of us have to get back to our respective lives. This is after about 8 months where we saw each other all the time and became super close. She is also a foreign national so she often goes bac",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Questions for women who have completed Insanity? POST: Hey Everyone! I love this subreddit, and you are all inspirations! What I am about to say may sound silly to some but it's an unfortunate genuine concern of mine. I really would love to do insanity, but I am afraid that even though I may see great results in my body, the number on the scale will not drastically change. I wish I could say I wasn't focused on the number but I am only 5'3 and it is a TERRIFYING number to look at. So, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is there any chance my [27/F] boyfriend [30 M] of a year will stop wanting to fuck other people? POST: I've always been a long-term relationships person. My boyfriend has always been a casual sex/casual dating person. We met a bit over a year ago and have had a wonderful relationship ever since. He is great and I love him - he is smart, funny, good at communicating, and usually makes me feel loved and cared for. But he really wants to keep fucking other people. We talked about swin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My wife[29F] is asking me[34m] to move out to figure things out POST: Me[34m] and my wife[29f] have been together for 8 years, married for 5, with a 3 year old son. About a year ago we noticed things haven't been too good, so we separated for a few months, then reconciled. Things were pretty good for a while, but then they turned sour again. 3 Weeks ago she said that right now she's 'emotionally disconnected from me' and we got together too fast and need to take more time to figur",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 F] with my Bestfriend with benefits [19 M]. I'm inlove with him, he only sees me as a bestfriend. POST: I gave him my virginity when I was 15. Throughout these past 2 years we've been friends with benefits and it's really quite great. I've been with him through thick and thin, consoled him through heartbreaks when the girl he really wanted didn't want him back and I've been inlove with him since day one. He knows about my feelings and has always treated me kindly for them. I'",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Good Faith Deposit Info [Tennessee] POST: My husband and I are trying to buy a house. We are first time buyers and have no idea what we're doing. We found the house we want, we fell in love with the house. We got preapproved by a mortgage company and we're getting our application submitted to get approved for this house. We are putting down a good faith deposit tomorrow to keep the house from selling. I have a few questions about all this to make sure we won't get screwed over. If we p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [m] 17 stuck in a situation I know is bad, but I don't know what to do... POST: Ok, me and this girl, also 17, dated for about 10 months. She eventually started talking to another guy, which led to us breaking up. I moved on after about a month, but this past week, she has told me that she regrets breaking up with me, and that it was a giant mistake. She also told me that she wants to be friends with benefits. Being a 17 year old guy, I said yes, so now that's currently happening. Bu",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Just started dating this super gorgeous girl, and suddenly everything changed for no reason. Whyyyy? POST: So, a few weeks ago, I started dating this absolutely beautiful girl that a friend introduced me to. Like she's easily a solid 9, just gorgeous. I almost can't believe my luck. I live in a very large city, and used to hot girls, but this one is the sort that I usually think ""won't bother, she's out of my league"". Anyway, the first 9-10 days go fantastically well. We have 3-4 da",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my wife [28 F] temporarily long-distance - how can I support her? POST: My wife and I are doing well in general, and I am trying to avoid fighting with her in a way that has become a pattern and to try to support her better. I am really trying to do my part. The pattern: she would be upset (finished grad school and has had trouble finding a job, also has depression), I would try to be supportive (the way I knew how) and try to very patiently talk to her about her situ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22] with my co-workers [22-24 M/F]. I have been getting invited to hang out with everyone too much and can't make excuses to get out of it. How do I tell people no? POST: I want to preface this by saying that I know this is a very small problem in the scheme of things and I know I should be grateful to have people invite me to things, but I am very introverted and need my alone/down-time. I have been getting invited to do things with my coworkers for several weeks now and have",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [22M] move on from a three year relationship? POST: I have recently broken up with my girlfriend of three years. It was a long time coming, and we are both very comfortable that we made the right decision. However, it has been a difficult last few weeks. I am emotionally drained. I have missed being with her. I have missed the good times, and forgotten the bad times. I know that we shouldn't be together, but I am just finding it so hard to move on and I am feeling very lon",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F22) went to a music festival with BF [M26]- should I be mad he ditched me? POST: Sorry in advance because on mobile. My boyfriend [M26] of 1 year and I [F22] went to a music festival together recently. It was also our anniversary (this is important later). The day before our anniversary there was an artist performing who I really wanted to see with my BF, it's the only set I specifically asked him to go to with me. Instead, when I left for 10 minutes about an hour before the se",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to my cousin's wedding POST: so this happened about a year ago, I was 19, a bit of background: I'm the youngest out of my cousins by about 5 years, so since I've been 18 they've always ended up getting me quite drunk, anyway one of my male cousins decided to go and get married, great, another excuse to get trashed. now the FU: so the ceremony is really nice, blah blah, and then we sit down for the meal, I'm sat at a table with a few people and a relatively attractive bridesmaid,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: (18m) My girlfriend (15f) would rather end our relationship than attempt to fix it, any advice on how to convince her to give us a chance to fix things? POST: My girlfriend of the past 7 months told me several days ago that she wants to break up with me due to her feeling that she always puts my happiness ahead of hers. I've talked to her several times since then in an effort to convince her to give us a chance to fix things and make her happier, but she seems determined to simply ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [M29] lost $4,500 in a poker game last night. At what point do I [F28] get to have a say in his finances? POST: Serious two year relationship. Talking about moving in together in the very near term. We'd both like to get married someday. First of all, my boyfriend **very rarely gambles**. However, last night, he lost $4,500 in a game of poker. Unfortunately, I was not with him at the time because it happened during ""guy's night."" I think he's crossed into some scary ter",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24f] am thinking about taking Valentine's Day off the table with [33m] I'm dating POST: So, I've been dating this guy for a little while. We've been on four dates in three weeks. Things seem just on the verge of possibly serious (we talk everyday and I've even met a little of his family), and I really don't wanna fuck things up. I'm really worried that the pressure of a big couple holiday this early on will negatively impact our getting to know each other, so I was thinking about ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I found this little dude in bed with me tonight, whats his species and can I keep him? POST: I named him Peppy. I think there's an issue if it's male T.T I don't know what though. I know it's a desert dwelling tarantula but I don't know the species. ""This is a tarantula called Aphonopelma. It kind of looks like a A.Hentzi male."" info provided by the ever so helpful struckanerve5 Also, right now I am building it a nicer place to live than the koolaid pitcher. TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F25 ] just had sex with a long time friend [M25]... Things got weird, should I ignore him from now on? POST: Hi everyone. I apologize in advance if this seems trivial, but my feelings are hurt right now and I could use some advice. A little background first. I have been friends with Jeff (name changed) for a while, maybe 7 years. We went to high school together. We were strictly friends, nothing ever happened between us. I think we only went to see a movie once. We kind of lost ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] am dating a girl [18 F] who is backing off and I don't know why POST: I have been friends with this girl for a couple of years, and recently (within the last couple of months) have started to talk to her more and more. We started going out regularly with each other about two or three weeks ago (parties, dates, etc.) and have hooked up a couple times and I thought it was going great. She suggests we go to a concert this weekend together, so I did. We went out on Thursday bu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm not happy in the relationship anymore, but the opposite could be said about my SO - X-Post from r/BreakUps POST: I (21M) have been with my girlfriend(19) for nearly 3 years now, but in the last 6 months or so I've been turned off by a lot of her actions. She ""loves"" me, and I guess I love her too, but at some point you have to realize that love doesn't necessarily mean you have to be together.. I put quotations on love because lately it seems she doesn't love me, but the securit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [46 F] with my boyfriend [51 M] of 3 years, his Ex [58 F] wants a set amount of $ every month while 2 adult children live at home, rent free. POST: My boyfriend and I have been living together for about 3 years. His kids (ages 25 & 27) and ex live in a different state. Him and his ex have been divorced for 15 years. Last year her and the kids moved into a 3 bedroom house (they were in an apartment before). For the past 5 or 6 months she has been asking him for $300 a month. She sa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I pulled a funny internet prank I think reddit would like, but I don't know if I can present it without reddit ultimately finding out too much personal information. Advice? POST: So my buddy welshed on a bet and in response I bought the domain www.hisname.com and I started blogging on it as him. The limited audience that's seen it thinks its pretty hilarious. He thinks its pretty hilarious, but he's also reasonably concerned because it makes him look pretty stupid. I thought about put",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19, M] with no idea of what to do. POST: I know this is a very cliche phenomena. Essentially, I like a really good friend of mine, and I don't want to risk my friendship by confessing that I like her. The thing is, I know she doesn't like me in that way at all. You guys might say, ""well how do you know?"" I know because I'm a tiny wimp, while she is super fit and much taller than me. She is one of those people who guys fall for really easily because she is both attractive and l",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Should I [18F] invite him[23M] to be my dance partner? POST: Okay... I really want to start swing dancing. However, as I am a girl, and there is always a lack of gents in those swing classes, I cannot enroll without a partner. So I was thinking of asking one of my guy friends to be my partner. The thing is - we are not really that close - he is more of an acquaintance. We have talked no more than 3 or 4 times. However, last time - a week ago - we met accidently, while I was out with",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does reddit have any subs that help solve the really specific (but ultimately uninteresting) problems that arise with every day life? POST: Basically what has happened is this: I've been invited to go to a concert, and I'm trying to buy the tickets on Ticketmaster. The ticket is about 85 dollars. I do not have a credit card and would rather not use my debit card, because I have sufficient paypal cash. Ticketmaster doesn't accept paypal cash, only credit/debit and ticketmaster gift cards",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[26F] have gone on 6 dates with [36M] and things sped past my comfort zone yesterday POST: I recently started dating a (so far) very sweet guy who is a fair amount older than I am. I don't see that as much of an issue, however, since we have a lot of the more important values, goals and interests in common. We met through a mutual friend [27M] who vouched for him, and we have a few friends in common but mostly run in different circles. Last night, I visited his house for the first",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How do I tell if he's just flirtatious? POST: I met this guy a few months ago, and recently we started hanging out at my house almost every single day. We watch movies, cook and browse reddit together. We occasionally go out to get dinner or coffee together, as well. I see him everyday at school, and he texts me every night around 11. He flirts a lot with me, which I chalked up to him being a flirtatious guy, but recently things have gotten weirder. He'll be in my room and he'll tick",positive " r/relationships TITLE: This [25F] girl i'm seeing didn't cry but got a little teary eyed after sex. POST: I'm [25M] we met through OKC, this was our 5th date , had a nice night , finally got intimate together , up till this point it was just making out. We get down.. hard, one of the better performances i've had and she did comment twice about my size . After we finished the first time she seemed a little out of it and had tears in her eyes. She said something along the lines of just feeling really vulner",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] and my BF [28 M] medical students of currently 9mo will be moving in together in May for residency - tips for living together? POST: Both medical students; will graduate and finally become doctors in May. Moving in in April -- but will not be living there till June. May to June we will be backpacking across Asia w/my best friend. Residency training starts for us in July. We will be working at the same hospital, but I will be a OBGYN resident and he will be a intern for gen ",positive " r/running TITLE: How do you know if it's time to quit running? POST: Here's the backstory to my question: I started running in 2007 and ran fairly consistently until the spring of 2012. I varied between 3-5 runs a week and did a mix of tempo, intervals, easy runs and long runs when I was training for something. (I also dabbled in swimming, weight training, yoga, cycling, etc.). I did three halfs, with a PB of 2:29:37 in 2010. (Yes, I am quite slow.) In 2012, I decided to do a marathon. The injuries started",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: BF spends lots of time with another girl. Story inside. POST: I'm a 21/f in my first relationship, so I'm new to all of this. My boyfriend hangs around with another girl a lot, and it makes me uncomfortable. She puts out a lot and is obsessed with sex, one of those girls who never stops talking about it and proudly refers to herself as a slut. The thing is, I'm not sure about the details but she's actually not fully biologically female. My boyfriend let it slip so all I know is that she'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33 M] with my wife [27 F] married for 3 1/2 years, how do I deal with her anger, insensitivity and threats of revenge POST: Not sure where to start, but I guess I've waited too long to seek help. I was under the impression that she may be a little immature and thought that she'd be more reasonable as time passes. But that hasn't happened. I've been reading reditt relationships posts for the past few weeks and from what I read I'm thinking that people might suggest counseling at l",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [18M] Requesting advice on how to deal with this situation POST: Senior high school, this girl is in the same class I am in. She's smart, cute, and introverted. I have a weakness for this kind of girl but I've never really manned up and went to ask her out. Anyway, recently, we have made a LOT of eye contacts. I just know that she's eyeballing me, with her obvious don't-mind-me-i'm-just-taking-a-quick-look-around-the-class, or 0.1-second-stare-and-then-look-away. I'm usually prett",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [19/m] feel like I'm slipping into, if not already in, the friend-zone with a complicated [19/f]. POST: Recently, a girl I like ended up staying at my house. I fell asleep with her sitting next to me and woke up an hour later to her cuddling me. Wake up the next day, make out for a bit, and ask her to go on a date with me a few days later. Fast Forward. Date comes up and it went really well! We hung out after dinner some. Kissed her a few times ask her if she wanted to do thi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My best friend [F/23] and I [F/23] are being pulled into drama by her Ex's [M/23] wife [F/21] POST: My best friend (call her Kate) started a relationship 8 years ago with this guy (call him John) over Myspace. They had a constant on and off relationship because he constantly cheated on Kate with a few different girls. They never cut off communication with each other because whenever John would cheat on Kate and that fling wouldn't last he would run back to Kate and beg for forgivenes",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Why contact me at all? [Me 30F Him 35M] POST: I dated ""Bob"" for about 7 years off and on but mostly on. We broke up last September (2012) after I was tired of being separated from his social life. I was devastated. I still miss him a little every day but in retrospect, although it was dramatic when it happened, leaving him was the right thing to do. We spoke here an there over the past few months but nothing deep. I don't have his phone number because I deleted it every time he cont",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Wisdom Teeth Extracted. Worried about bleeding? POST: I had my wisdom teeth extract about 14 hours ago and I'm still bleeding. Unfortunately I wasn't expecting the removal, but it was urgent because the teeth (both erupted) were cutting into my cheek. So I had to finish some lab work afterwards (I'm 4 weeks from thesis submission), this involved a bit of physical work walking around the labs/uni etc and I think it may of impacted the clotting. I got home about 6 hours after the extraction a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Would you abandon your passion for your significant other? POST: I am in a very long-term relationship. My significant other (""**SO**"") and I get along very well. We rely on each other emotionally and financially and have a very strong and long-lasting relationship. Since I was a very young child, I have been passionate about writing fiction. Since I was about ten years old, I have written close to 4000 pages of prose. Today, I work on a serious novel about once a year. I have not sough",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: It'll be nice to send this thought out into the 'verse. POST: To quote a cinema classic starring Jim Carrey, ""We all wear masks."" I wear one, maybe you do too - it's nothing special, there are things we just don't want people to know about us. Entering adulthood, I feel my mask thickening, weighing heavier on my decisions. I'm a very happy person, with or without the mask, but the longer I go wearing this figurative facade, the harder it is to connect with other people on any sort of ""r",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Caffeine and due diligence. POST: Hey, reddit. I have something of a hypothetical question after a recent incident. Located in Tennessee, and a couple of weeks ago, I stopped at a popular coffee chain and bought my husband and I each a drink. I specified to the barista several times that my husband's drink needed to be decaf, and she repeated the order back to me to verify. It might be worth mentioning that this is one of those chain locations in a grocery store, so it wasn't very busy",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Let's talk booster seats!! POST: I guess I'm in the market (or deciding if I'm in the market) for a new booster seat for my little Peanut. She'll be 6 in less than 3 months, and she's at about 43lbs (she goes between 42-43). She's currently in a 5-point harness car seat, but the weight limit for the harness belt is 40lbs. We live in Washington and I could have switched her to a booster at 4 years old, but wanted to keep her in the 5-point as long as possible. The car seat she has is ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, HOW do I crawl out of this health insurance hole? POST: I'm a freelancer, living in Jersey, working in NYC. I pay a little over $1000 a month for Amerihealth insurance which ""covers"" my stay-at-home-wife and me. We currently pay out-of-pocket for my 5-year-old. In September, I received a diagnosis which required tests and procedures, and I soon found that my $2500 deductible was actually not the limit. The fine print said I'd also be required to pay my wife's $2500 deductib",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I[20F] get my boyfriend[23M] of 5 years to open up to me? POST: We've been together for 5 years now and this has always been a major problem in our relationship. I'm not asking him to tell me every little secret, we all have a right to privacy. But every time something is bothering him he bottles it up and doesn't tell me what's wrong. This always ends in him being frustrated over something and it usually ends in an argument. I've been waiting patiently for 5 years for him to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: ExGF [25F] texted me [25M] about our relationship POST: Some background -- I dated this girl for a year and a half, senior year of HS to mid-first year of college. My first real relationship, lost our virginities to each other, head over heels in love, etc etc. Took me a long time to get over her. We broke up ""mutually,"" but if she hadn't pushed for it, I would have married her, probably. We both live in NYC now, and get together ~1x a year to catch up. We got a drink last Thurs",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is this guy trying to scam me? POST: Now I responded to a craigslist ad looking for a computer repair guy. I was then told that he needed 7 laptops setup with windows and a few basic programs. So far so good. Then I get this e-mail and it mentions sending me money, then I send money via western union to get the laptops to me. Any time I am sending money via western union I am scared. Here's the e-mail that made me suspicious. Thanks for the patience, I want to let you know that the pay",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20M] Girlfriend [20F] has gotten really into African American rights and it kind of makes me uncomfortable? POST: I've been dating my girlfriend who is black/African American for like over 3 years. (I'm white) Our relationship is pretty good but she's recently changed in a way and I don't know if I'm completely comfortable with it. She has recently gotten really into African American rights/black issues which she wasn't really that into before. Like before she was just a person",positive " r/relationships TITLE: NEED OPINIONS AND INSIGHT!! Halp reddit POST: So, me 18 bf 20. He is a future doctor. I'm not choosing such an ambitious career path like him. Anyways, lately we've been talking about our future (been a little more than a year together) because we've been getting into arguments (or me just being angry because I feel unloved and neglected for) because he is busy studying for his mcat. He is a stubborn man. Not really willing to change things. Doesn't take things to seriously. And ve",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I need all the advice I can get. (x/post from r/relationships) POST: Ten months ago my girlfriend of nearly two years and I broke up. Her and I were perfect for each other. We got along better than I've ever gotten along with anyone, and we had more fun than you could imagine. We clicked- any problem that we had we could always work through. She made me feel a way I could never explain. I love her with all my heart, and I know that I will never again meet anyone as incredible as she was, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my boyfriend 19 [M] of two years, I hate his behavior at college for reasons I can't pinpoint. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together about 2.5 years. We met in high school and are going to different colleges. It is long distance. We don't get to see each other all that often, once a month at most. I can't tell if I am just being paranoid, but his behavior at college bothers me. He is always out with friends (like, every single night) and these friends always see",negative " r/self TITLE: The whole Bernie vs Clinton Qualification Spar is just about miscommunication POST: Clinton says Bernie is not qualified cus his answers on breaking up big banks wasn't good enough (even tho, when she was asked the same question a while back, she basically gave the same answer...) She is saying his ability to do something is lacking; he can't do the right thing. Bernie fires back saying she's not qualified because of all the money interest and influence she's involved with. He is saying sh",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (25/f) my boyfriend (26/m) and i constantly over-analyze. Help! POST: My bf and I recently became official but not without some complications. Before coming to an agreement, I had brought up the subject multiple times (twice) and both times he's stated that he would rather be in a relationship with me if the other choice was me walking away. Way to warm a girl's heart right? Anyway, after airing out some doubts on both our sides we became an item. But now he's said that he ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Both 20, 2yr relationship, 6months after breakup. A truly amazing unexpected happy moment of letting go :D POST: So basically something just happened and I want to shout out I guess :P My first love and I broke up, after 2 years, 6 months ago. We had agreed to try again in the near future and such and so I held hope for this relationship for so very long. I realised 2months in that nothing was going to change, but deep down I still hoped. So I started trying to see other people etc ",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I'm (m25) seeing this girl (20) and don't know how to respectfully break off with her POST: I've been dating this girl for about 2 months now and a couple weeks back, as we talked about our situation, we decided it would be too early to call it a relationship. But since we're pretty fond of each other, we'll make it something exclusive. We've kept seeing each other and sleeping with each other and I do like her but, I don't really see myself in a relationship with her, that could la",positive " r/relationships TITLE: (Infidelity)(breakups)I [28 M] am separating from my wife [28 F] of 6 years. She has had two affairs with the same married man, and I need help deciding if/how I should tell the dudes wife. POST: My wife and I are separating because she has had two affairs and continues to lie to me. This all happened right as I was experiencing some of the worst health issues in my life (possible death, very scary stuff). Both affairs were with the same man, who is married. After I discovered the se",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [16/f] What are some good ways to say I'm sorry to my boyfriend [18/m]? POST: I was suppose to see my boyfriend today but I had to cancel. I didn't tell him until later after he declined an invitation to go out with his friends because he thought we were going to spend the afternoon together. I felt really bad that I postponed telling him since he had to spend the afternoon alone and he seemed really bummed out about it and still seems like it. I thought about showing up at his",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I was recently laid off by my start-up. How much should I charge when they ask me to consult? POST: I've been working for a very small start-up for the past few years. For the past year, they've been circling the drain due to terrible, terrible management. Last week, I was informed they're closing the office where I work and laying off the employees there. The company is less than twenty people, and the office represented roughly a quarter of the employees. Now, I have little d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend thinks she's fat and un-sexy so she doesn't want to have sex. POST: I am 26 and my girlfriend is 26. She recently has been obsessed with her body saying that she thinks she's fat and she hates the way she looks. When I first met her seven months ago, we couldn't keep our hands off each other and she never said anything about her feeling fat. I really don't think she has put on that much weight if any since we started dating but she said that one day she just noticed h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/F] Is this comment something to be concerned about? POST: After about two months of going on several dates with this guy - I ended things. It remained innocent, there was no relationship. Although, seemed to mean more to him. There were a few reasons I broke it off, other than the fact, I didn't have romantic intentions with him. Some of his antics raised red flags for me. Anyway, I asked to meet with him and explained why it couldn't continue. It was all fine, aside from one ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is it still a rebound if she left me for him? POST: My ex gf left me when i went away for work. She got feelings for someone else. She ended it for him. I'm living my life and dating again. It's just something I am curious about. She doesn't text me anymore, she would text me her problems before and small texts like that. I cut contact with her and now she is very cold and thinks the worst of me. So I'm leaving her be. Let her new relationship either grow or fall apart. They hav",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (24F) dating a guy (24M) but have residual feelings for a friend (24F) POST: Okay, so here's the deal. In college, I moved in with some friends of mine, and became attracted to one of them. She became one of my best friends, and I love her to death as a friend. The only problem is that for a while, I developed very strong feelings for her and to be honest, it was really hard to shake them. I never wanted to say anything because we were roommates, and I really cherish her friends",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 3 year relationship with GF (34F) and I've decided for no ""good"" reason that I (34M) want to end it now. How? POST: We've been inseparable for 3 years. We live 5 minutes from each other (we both own our own homes). We have talked about it and we are (were) going to put both up for sale and buy a home together by the Fall. We get along well, are sexually compatible, have fun. I cannot explain this but I just know I don't want to be with her anymore. For no good reason. I just sud",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: I don't know if this is the right place for it but need advice POST: So it all started using the app called Plenty of fish(Pof). Saw this girl and I thought it looked fake but I went with it. She ask for my number and I gave it to her. We start talking and we swap pics. Next she sends me nudes but I notice something different about the picture but I was like ok I went with it and I sent one as well. None of her pictures had her face. Then we start talking and she said we should me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] got her [22 F] number, now what.. POST: I will keep this short because it is kind of a dumb question! I was in my first relationship for 3 years...and it started pretty easily because my EX was pretty blatantly interested in me. Now I am single. Anyways, this girl is someone I saw all through college, but she was dating someone, then I was dating someone. We always waved and said hello to eachother. Last Monday at the senior party, I finally asked for her number, and I got",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (f/18) doesn't show she appreciates me (m/19) at all. How do I ask her to start doing stuff for me to show she appreciates me? POST: So my girlfriend of 8 months doesn't do jack shit for me. I have bought her roses numerous times, gotten her teddy bears, taken her out to dinner many times, and have done so much for her emotionally (she's had terrible anxiety for a while,and I was her go-to person for venting and advice). However, I know I've never asked her for anyth",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [34m] am having trouble communicating constructively with my wife [29f] POST: I have been with my wife for 6 years and married for 2. I think we have a great relationship and believe that she would too. Herein lies the problem. Whenever something bothers me and I confront her about it she accuses me of treating her like I'm a parent and she's a kid instead of as my wife and partner. She says I tend to lecture her instead of talking the problem out with her. Frankly, I can see wher",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [25 M] a bad friend for not helping my friend [25 F] get her green card? POST: So I have a lot of guilt for not assisting my friend in gaining her green card. She was offering to pay me a large sum of money to marry her in order to help her on the road to citizenship. I know this is highly illegal, but I had to seriously consider because I have student loans I would love to pay off, plus I'm returning to get another degree, so the money was very tempting. I decided against it, ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Agression on the bus, what's right? POST: Some bloke, as he got on the bus, was pulling and then hitting his girl. Immediately everyone jumped between them and got him off her, only making him hit them instead. Everyone got on the bus, and after some pushing, pulling, and threatening things subdued. The bus driver sold a ticket to the man. During the twenty minutes between towns, the man kept on raging (presumably under the influence of drugs) against his girl, threatening to continue """,negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (25F) with my SO (50M) for a year and a half. Having communication issues which lead to volatile arguments. Help! POST: I've been with my partner for a year and a half now. As the title states we are May - Decembers. Our relationship started out very connected and sexual but as time has passed and we have gotten more serious the differences in emotional vocabularies have caused us to disconnect in many ways, including volatile arguments. I am very honest and direct with my thought",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[27M] don't mind my wife[26F] (6 yrs) tagging along with my friends and I when we go out, but my best friend [26M] thinks women are the devil. What do? POST: Hi /r/relationships, I have a slight problem between my wife and my best friend. I quite like to spend time with my wife and would take her wherever I go if it was up to me. My best friend has a prejudice against women having been screwed over in many relationships. He always tells me ""don't bring your wife"" when we go out a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [F/26] was asked by her best friend's BF [F&M both 24ish] to help him propose, but she already knows the proposal will result in denial POST: Hey guys, I am asking on behalf of my girlfriend because English is not her first language. So basically she was asked by her best friend's boyfriend to help him propose, we are all flying out to Sri Lanka for a holiday later this year. He wasn't coming but he wants to show up and surprise his gal and then freaking propose to he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] have a question about girl [23F] I have been dating and a work event POST: One of my coworkers is moving internationally. They're having ""going away"" drinks this upcoming weekend. I've been seeing this girl for about a month and a half. We've had sex a few times, she's stayed here a few times, and I think I see us being in a relationship in a few months, but right now we're both content casually dating (we've discussed this). I had plans with her this Friday night (dinner),",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36/M] with my FW [26/F] together 8 years, FW wants a baby and I do not, what should i do? POST: We have been together for along time, we got engaged a year and a half ago and are very much in love and each others best friend ect... everything is amazing and iwonderful except that my soon to be wife really wants to have kid/s in the near future and i do not. i have always said i didn't want kids and she was well informed right from the start but since we have been engaged she has",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Really confused about what my calorie intake should be. [F/27/5'3"", 195lbs] POST: SW: 250. CW: 195. GW: 125-130. Some background is that I went from a fairly active job that involved a lot of moving around and lifting things, etc, to a job that now requires me to stand in place and not exert much effort at all. (For reference, I went from averaging about 25k steps a day on my fitbit to now about 8k). I was losing pretty steadily eating from 1300-1500 calories, but I was also exercising p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My best friend [22F] wants to date me [23M]. Am I being unrealistic by turning her down? POST: Let's call her Sarah. She's definitely attractive, and I sometimes have a crush on her, but she's not thaaaaaat close to my type. However, idk if I'm being too picky and unrealistic. A few points about me: * I get hit on a lot (biceps...lol), but I've never had a girlfriend. Mostly cuz of homeschooling, but since then, 90% of the time I'm the one not interested. Still, the end result ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 25F Breaking with Boyfriend. We share a lease, I'm moving out and need advice! POST: Hi Everyone! This may not be the place to ask. My live in boyfriend and I are parting ways. We live in an apartment in NYC. We're both on the lease with our parents as guarantors. Our lease ends in November. I'm moving out. We're planning not to break the lease. I've found a room in another apartment where I'll be subleasing month to month. However my ex and I are working out an agreement for ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [19 M] What to say with nothing to say? (am I clueless?) POST: Sorry to those reading but this will be a slight wall. Some quick history : I've had a few relationships both long and short over the past few years, I'm no stranger to female interaction but recently I don't seem to be able to really talk with girls that aren't my close friends. For example, recently I was out at a pub(read: bar) waiting to get a drink and was felt up (read: groped) by a fairly attractive girl who info",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I dont know if I(33,f) did the right thing POST: In november, Ive loaned an amount of money (1600$) to a 'friend'(41, F). We know each other for many years and I tough everything will go smoothly. She was suppose to give it back when her child support check would come, ( due to the holidays, it came earlier on the 13th of december instead of the 20th). I called her on the 15th , becausde since I had loaned her the money she had dissapear from the face of earth. I acted cool and i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: i [22F] hooked up with random guy [24 M] last night, but still living with the ex. POST: its been six months since my ex and i broke up. We're still really good friends. actually we're still living together. but we both know that it would never work out between us, because we want different things. so we broke up, but ended on good terms. we're going to move our separate ways in 2 weeks though. but yesterday, there is this guy I met from work, who i barely know, we ended up hooking ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/M]Can't decide whether or not to break it off with high school girlfriend[18/F] I brought to college POST: I was a bit of a late bloomer in high school, I was pretty damn awkward and nerdy until puberty let loose its pimply grip on me. Junior year I got a job and a car and started to gain some confidence. I worked up the courage to ask out this girl I really liked and she said yes. We hit it off and she was my first everything; date, kiss, sex etc. long story short she chea",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 M] best friend [20 M] is infatuated with a detestable woman [19 F] and I want to break them apart. POST: So my friend we'll call Mark is head over heels for this girl who we'll call Stacy and has been for over a year. The problem is that Stacy is a human monster, she is ignorant, selfish, and unapologetically dumb. The worst part however is she knows how obsessed Mark is yet continues to lead him on, she'll say stuff to him like ""I really like you but I'm just not ready for US",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I feel trapped in my relationship and need some advice (financial and emotional). POST: I am a 20 year old woman who is currently dating a 27 year old guy (we'll call him G). We've been together two and a half years, and have lived together for about a year and a half. We've been in a rocky patch for quite a while now and despite trying to work things out, I'm having doubts about our ability to make it work in the long term. I'm falling in love with a person who I've known fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 16M confused by 15F who may like me? Or just wants friendship? Need advice POST: EDIT: Oops! Im 16F NOT 16M!! My typo I'm sorry! So I go to a high school with ~3500 students. I've known this girl since last year, but we only really started talking now. She has been flirty in the past, but does this mean anything? She came up to me from behind. I was surprised to see her but more surprised to see her ENTIRE group of friends just feet behind me, whom I had not noticed before. I was o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Everything was great for the first [2 years] then suddenly depression, lack of sex, and jealousy shows up.[23M(me), 22F] POST: Like I said, the first two years of this relationship have been lovely. More than I could have ever asked for. I had/still have serious intentions of getting married. Then slowly, after a year or so of working a new job, my girlfriend began to become more and more depressed. She's prescribed depression medication, but it isn't helping much. She turns to smoki",negative " r/running TITLE: Looking for real Karma? Help our team run a Ragnar POST: Hey Runnit, 10 of my friends and I are running the next New England Ragnar. We're all college students at Northeastern University and the costs (including entrance fees, safety gear, vans, etc) are piling up. We're trying to raise enough money by the day of to compensate for these expenses. Thought I'd turn to my favorite subreddit for some help. Even a dollar or two will help. Anything over 50, we could put your name/organiza",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Biologists, let's settle this once and for all. Do lobsters feel pain? POST: Preface, I had a steamed lobster dinner tonight, and I have also killed lobsters myself for my family's traditional lobster and red sauce around Christmastime. I've always been wary with how I kill them, as I want to make sure it's as humane as possible (I used to think a knife to the head would do it, but now I'm having second thoughts). From some, I've heard that lobsters do not feel pain due to not having a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [44/F] with my husband[47M] He rented his apartment to a retired co-worker for cheap POST: My husband (Sam) and I with our child live in a single family house that I own. He owns his own apartment that he rents out. I am a stay at home mom so I have no income. He has a good paying job. Both properties are paid off. Sam rented out his apartment to a recently divorced retired female co-worker (Ann). Ann is old enough to be our parents. They worked for the same company and knew",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (15M) am pretty sure a girl (16F) is into me, but I have no idea how to ask her out. POST: I've known this girl for the better part of a year now, and have had a crush on her since pretty much the first day I knew her. We became good friends. Now whenever we are together we always sit really close, she touches my knee with her's, rests her head on my shoulder, and is really giggly. Also, when a mutual friend told her that we would be cute together, she said,""Oh my god, stop, you'r",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Weirdest relationship (18) with the best girl (19) what do? POST: I'll try to be brief here but there's a lot to say. I've had eyes for this girl since the ninth grade (I'm now in my sophomore year of college) I'm very shy, though, and never made a move until she finally moved to Seattle at the end of the 10th grade. I tried to move on but she had something special I couldn't quite find in anyone else. Gradually, across three dates over the last three years, I found out she felt t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (M27) found oral contraceptives in my girlfriend's (F26) purse POST: Me and my girlfriend have been together for 7 years. We don't see each other much often lately due to opposing work shifts. Plus she's been coming home late most of the time. Because of this, the sex has been quite infrequent and has been rather tame mostly on her part. Growing suspicious, I snooped around her purse and found a pack of Gestodene with 5 pills taken. I immediately regret this action and I don't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[26M] am still not over my ex [24F] of 7 years. What do I do now? POST: This is the first time I've had to go through a breakup in a long term relationship. We were together 7 years. I was pretty much prepared to love only this girl for the rest of my life. Long story short, we broke up in September. What I've done to try to get over her: starting learning guitar, went back to school and starting dating other women. The last woman I was with was really into me, but I couldn't return",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20M] GF [20F] of 2 years, had an emotional break down and has been feeling guilty because she can't give me the attention she thinks I deserve and is worried about the things that are 'bigger' than us. POST: We've been dating for 2 years now and as far as relationships go we've been pretty damn solid throughout. No serious arguments or fallouts. She's recently gone back to Uni(Which is about a 5 hour drive away) and she's now unsure if she can give me the time I deserve and fee",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are any of you freelance consultants/have you hired a freelance consultant? Can you offer me some advice? POST: Here's my situation: I'm about 6 months away from having a PhD in English and among other things I have experience in teaching business writing/professional communication. One of my friends who works at a large corporation was telling me that they often bring in a person to give workshops on professional communication, writing skills, etc, as a kind of employee development t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I deal with my fiance's bitch ex wife? POST: Alright here's the deal - they have a kid together so the bitch isn't going anywhere. We have been VERY nice and VERY accomodating but she keeps changing the schedule of shared visitation. SO much so that I made a Google calendar because my regular kitchen calendar is full of scribbles. I shared this calendar with my fiance and his ex so we can all be on the same page. She changes our weekends because her bf has his kids (new bf of le",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22/m] don't know what I'm feeling for my family friend [18/f]. It's been a year already. POST: Jess and I have known each other for our entire lives. Our parents were friends in college so we'd always spend time together. However, for the past couple of years, I have been busy with college, so I never actually went out with that family whenever my parents went. Last summer, we spent the weekend at their house and this was probably the first time I actually noticed her as someon",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting a girl look at my phone POST: Relevant Backstory: My friends and I have a chat group where we pretty much post stupid photos of each other on animals or animals in provocative positions as a joke. Its just something that we did in high school that continued through college. I was in lab today and this girl decided to use my phone. I really thought she was going to use it as a calculator, but that is not what she did. She decided to look through my photos, which I was okay wit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (M 19) discovered that the girl (F 18) I've been talking to had a sexual relationship with a 40 year old man POST: I met this beautiful girl about a month ago and immediately we hit it off. She's intelligent, sophisticated and has a strong personality. She can be obnoxious at times, but mostly sparks me as a spunky and playfully sarcastic girl. We've been getting to know each this month. She's fun to be around, thoughtful and I discovered she's very sexual too. We're definitely f",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my [27M] 1+ years, are we exclusive, are we not?? POST: Ok so the age difference doesn't matter as much as it may with other couples because we are in the same stage of life. Due to a little advancements on my part and some delay on his. Now, when we first got together, it was extremely intense sexually and emotionally. A LOT happened very quickly and from afar was wont to crash and burn. We have come really far from how we started and have managed to finagle somethin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 25M with LD SO 37F trouble booking brand new vacation POST: My SO and I have been Long distance for almost 3 years and we've spent most of that time apart. We're finally getting closer on the distance and what better way to celebrate than by taking a vacation right? Well I was thinking of Thailand because she's mentioned it before and although it's costly to fly there it is so much cheaper than anything else around here day to day. Now I thought she would be excited for this and ",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Can a long distance relationship be successful IRL? POST: About a year ago, I downloaded an app on my iPod where you could chat with strangers from all around the world. There, I met a girl who lives in a different country than mine, but we really have a good chemistry. We've been chatting almost everyday ever since, and we developped something greater than friendship together. She plans on coming to my country to go to college, she already applied (but she wanted to do that even bef",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: You are a lousy sister, and I kinda hate you. POST: We agreed that I was going to lace up your dress for your wedding day. You had me do it three times before hand. And on the day of your wedding, I am ignored, forgotten, and discarded. I find out when we are getting ready, that you are getting your friend to do it. The friend who had never laced you up, or laced up anything like it until that moment. Because you shut me out I had to go outside and try not to cry. Our mother wanted to w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend wants to propose! Help what should I do? POST: Throw away account: My girlfriend (F) (21) and I (M) (25) have been together for 9 months. I know that may seem too short of a time span for most to consider getting engaged. We love each other immensely and know we want to spend our lives together. We have both been through long relationships in the past. This is the first time either of us have felt a serious desire to tie the knot. We have started to talk about getting mar",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my friend [25 F] of 6 years, traveling together and my self esteem has become destroyed. Need to act before this turns into severe depression. POST: I am a normal cute girl. 5""4, could stand to lose 10lbs but still in mostly good shape, no incredibly offensive or incredibly striking features, but cute. She's 5""9, great body and striking facial features. She stands out in a crowd. Somehow this was never an issue back home, we hang out a few times a month and it's norma",positive " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Opinions on DIY wedding cakes... POST: I'm a huge baker regardless of what the dish is. Wedding cakes are really expensive all things considered. I made my fiance's parents 25th anniversary renew vows wedding cake (almost 6 years ago?), which wasn't that bad - worse that I hadn't properly made a stacked cake before but was quite easy and not that labour intensive. And my FH was thinking cupcakes are great idea as no cutting is actually required (though the venue is not charging for",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My fiance (29M) of 2 years wishes to spend Christmas with his local family instead of mine out of state (29F) POST: My fiance and I have been together for 2 years. For the last 8 months, we have had a long distance relationship. With FI's blessing, I got a job and relocated from Maryland to South Carolina to help my mother care for my aging/ill grandparents, who have both since passed away. He has made great efforts to spend as much time as possible with me in this tough situation, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girl [25F] who lives with me [29M] and does my chores told me she has feelings for me POST: Background: I met this girl at work. We flirted for a while and when I told her I paid a housekeeper and pretty much never cook she told me she would do that stuff (and more) for me in exchange for letting her live with me rent free. We live in a city where rent is insane and we were already friends at work so I figured why not. She does the cooking, cleaning, errands etc and we also have se",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [30/m] Here. Still having issues letting go of my ex [22/f] of 9 years and mother of my child.... POST: *****She's 29******** Typo!! She [29/F actually] broke up with me almost 3 years ago. NC was close to impossible due to our responsibilities with our child. She's been in a committed relationship since that time. I still have a hard time letting go of her. I caused the mistakes during the initial stages of the relationship and then she turned around and made her own w",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Need some advice, how to see if my crush likes me back POST: I'm 17 male, she's turned 18 two days ago(so I think I can say she's my age). I like this girl, that happens to be a friend of mine, that I've known for about 3 years, and what some months ago I started developing a felling for her. We go swimming together, we go to school together with another guy, that she isn't very fond of, but she's in a different class. And I also give her math lessons, and nothing ever happened whi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] am losing my friends [18F,18F and 19F] over something so stupid POST: ***English is not my first language*** I've known them since 6th grade. We have a strong bound but we do see each other less often because of school and everything. Two weeks ago we had our usual pizza night. Its always fun because sometimes we dont see each other for a month. That pizza night took quite a turn when my friend dropped a bomb on us : shes pregnant. At 18. I was of course so happy for her but ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [M] with my ex [F] of 2.5 years, recently dumped and want some perspective with the things she did post dump. POST: Simply put, she dumped me recently and the short end of it was that I was depressed, it took a toll on the relationship, we weren't quite too compatible, and our lives were heading in different directions. We fought quite a bit but while we weren't fighting, we were the perfect couple. It was quite black and white. We had a history of breaking up and getting back tog",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by riding my bike to work POST: There was inclement weather in the morning and I thought to myself, ""I could make it, right?"" Five seconds after walking out the door with a bike, the rain is already getting to me. But I say f it, let's do it anyway (work is only 15 minutes away by bike). Also, I'm slightly running late, so I start. I pedal 90% of the way and find myself at the last hill, a nice slope downhill- make it through without slipping or any weird stuff like my bike flipping..",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My dumb lawn. My problem or is my landlord in any way responsible? POST: So, in my lease it states that I'm responsible for lawn maintenance. To me maintenance is the key word that sorta implies there should be an actual lawn when I start maintaining it. When I moved here, sight unseen, from 1200 miles away, there was a foot of snow on the ground, so I never got an idea of the lawn issue. May happens, the lawn starts to grow for mowing season but not a stitch of grass in the entire fron",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24f) am pregnant from a two night stand with (25m) who has since moved back to France. I don't know what I should do. POST: Just took a pregnancy test and I don't think it has sunk in properly yet. I met the father a few months ago, a friend of a friend. He's French and was only going to be living in my country for a few months more before going back to France. I was really smitten with him after talking to him the first night and nothing physical happened. The next time we bumped",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Haven't spoken to my ex (28F) since October 2013. Get a text from her accusing me of hacking her facebook POST: So yeah, as the title goes. We broke up in October and it was a pretty mutual although hurtful break up. Her friend's told me she tried dating some guy shortly after we broke up and he was only using her. I've been living with a friend since and have been doing really well in life. Some ups and downs, but overall I'm a way happier person than I was in the 2 years we wer",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 F] What is it that's making me mostly attracted to younger guys? POST: By that I mean guys whose ages range from 20-24. Ever since I was around 22, I've developed this ""fetish"" that I could never explain on the whole, ""older woman with younger man"" relationship. It has been 5 years and I have not changed. Most of the guys I sleep with now are about 21-24 years old (3-6 years younger). It's not that they are random 20 something guys either. They are actually a bit mature for ",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Am I stupid for passing on a job I don't like? POST: Before I start I would like make a point that I apologize if I come off as self-entitled, as i understand many would very much appreciate getting this job position. I am a full time uni student and have worked in telco part time for a little over a year. After the business closing down I applied for another and it appears I may be successful (Just checking my references). The thing is, I don't think I want it. It pays well, good benefits",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Help! I've [23f] got baby on the brain and we [27m] aren't in the same page POST: Let me first say I'm in no way ready for a baby right now. Mentally or financially. I've been in my current relationship 3 years. It's a very happy relationship. I wake up every morning with a smile on my face because he's there next to me. The past few weeks I've been dreaming hard about babies. Now usually when I have a dream about babies it's them somehow dying in my care or I lose them. But my ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: tifu by eating vegetables. POST: I'll provide a sentence of backstory so you don't all deem me a monstrosity but I'll keep it brief. I refused food when I was young and survived exclusively on milk, the calcium made my bones, teeth and nails freakishly strong and now at sixteen I still have three baby teeth. So fuck up time. I was at my sister's for tea and my nephews insisted I ate with them. All was well until they began to refuse their carrots (cheap freezer stuff. The recession hit us h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my recent ex [20 F] of 3 years. She just ended it and I really don't know how to proceed POST: Little backstory... We fell madly in love my senior year in high school, and she even knows that i already have a lot of money saved up from a ring. We talked about marriage, where we were gonna move to after college all the time. She has struggled with clinically diagnosed depression and I'm not perfect my self. She recently transferred to a college over 10 hours away, and ",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: [Tool] Habitica, an app that makes your tasks and habits into a game! POST: [Habitica.com] By doing your tasks you get experience and gold that will help your character in game. It is encouraging you to do more tasks in hope to level up and to buy the newest equipment so you can fight bigger monsters in the quests. I guess it would be easy to cheat, making up tasks and to check off things you haven't done, but if you're serious in trying to improve yourself, then this app is pretty ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (26/m) had been dating a bisexual (29/f) for about 10 months. She became distant and then said she can't stand the thought of men and might be gay. Since then she has blocked me out and been seeing her ex girlfriend. POST: What do i do? I have been dating a girl for about 10 months who is bi. She became distant about a month and half ago and found out she's been hanging with her ex girlfriend. Then one night she said she thinks she may be gay and can't stand the idea of a man right",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] am unable to hold any sort of relationship POST: So I'm 17 years old and just ended my fifth relationship. This one lasted a little over a week and was with a girl I hardly knew, the one before it was about a month and I broke it off with a girl I had known for years. Before that the relationship was a little under a month, and before that the same. And so on and so forth. This time it's because she felt I made a disrespectful joke (which I really did.) I feel like an ass b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it okay to warn the girl[f/22],and friend, I[m/24]like about a guy that she likes POST: I've known her for quite some time now (a few years). We work together on the weekends, but that will end in the end of this year. Past months we've been getting increasingly flirty. Peaks during work, days after work we text and this repeats itself every week. Lately I'm feeling like I'm finally making progress with her, and I think that something could definitely happen if the barrier of wo",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Do I go to a party that my ex will be attending? POST: The basics are, i'm 21 year old guy in college and broke up with / got dumped by my girlfriend about 8 months ago after an 8 month relationship, my first real girlfriend. We've had almost no contact during that time. I went out to a bar with my friends last night and saw her there towards the end of the night, she didn't see me. I immediately felt my face turn red, my heart started pounding and it felt like i couldn't br",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what are some tricks you use to quell your anxiety? POST: I have had anxiety or worry for most of my life, as far back as I remember. My father left my mother when I was born, I've suffered molestation, lived in an abusive home, and have had family members battling drug and alcohol abuse most of my life. I constantly felt alone, and frightened. As I got older, I started having debilitating anxiety. I had panic attacks so strong I passed out at work. I am very happy and proud to",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26/f] My boyfriend [26/m] has been stealing condoms from me. POST: I guess the title says it all. But here's the long version. We started dating about three months ago. When we first started dating I had just bought a new box of 40 condoms. After using about 1 or 2, we decided to date exclusively and I haven't touched the box since then. About a month ago, I found a condom on my living room floor ( the same type that I had in my nightstand). So I asked my boyfriend what it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [18M] having sex drive troubles with my [18F] girlfriend of two years because of recent pregnancy scares. POST: So, My girlfriend and I have been together for two years and have been sexually active for one. When we first had sex, she wasn't on birth control and it was both of our first times. After about 20 minutes of intercourse and foreplay I look down and my condom looked like it was leaking and that killed the mood. Even if it wasn't and I was just foolish. Then a few tim",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] want my [22 F] best friend and ex back in my life. It doesn't look good. POST: **Backstory** Moved to a new country and we started dating the next month. She was offered the chance to move to Australia for a year (other side of the world). We decided we'd end it at that point. A few months ago, we decided to stay together for the year and move in when she got back. Problem is, she said she would have tried to get with me again when she got back, but planned to sleep around",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife (30f) and I (25f), having behavioral issues with our son (11m). POST: To start, my wife and I have been together for 6 years. We have 3 children total (11m, 7f, 3f). My wife got pregnant right after high school with our oldest and his dad wasn't around at all until recently. He will call occasionally and has actually met up with his son twice in the last 2 years. Not sure if this plays a part in the issues we are having. Son was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age but wasn't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my [19F] of about 5-6 months are having long-distance trouble POST: My girlfriend and I met over this past summer and started dating in early June. I love her dearly, but unfortunately we attend separate universities which are about 3 hours drive apart. We made a deal to visit each other once a month so we could see each other every other week. I understand that with university life comes a lot of responsibilities, but I have tried my hardest to keep up with this and ",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Doctors, lawyers, etc... of Reddit. Would it be/ has it been a problem with your SO if they are not as professional/Successful as you are? POST: About 8 months ago I (32/M) started dating an attorney (29F). She is heavily involved in Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, of course, her practice, and is getting ready to start up a non-profit to assist with estate planning and care for the elderly. I am 100% supportive of everything that she does. I can dress up and go to the functions, and prese",positive " r/self TITLE: My grandmother lost her teeth to gingivitis. Now I have a mild case of it. I heard it's partly genetic. Anyone have any experience dealing with this? POST: **Here's a little background info:** I've spent the last 5 years dealing with TMJ from a botched occlusion adjustment. I sued the dentist and because the jury had no idea what they were doing they basically sided with him. He got a license to kill because there was no written standard of care. So I'm $50k in the whole, I have braces for th",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Why am I[f/20] attracted to the wrong guy? POST: The problem isn't necessarily that I attract the wrong guy, the problem is that I'm attracted to the wrong guy. And in this case, the wrong guy is someone who doesn't want to be with me. So there's only been two guys that I actually wanted to be with. Both of these guys have been my friend before i started getting feelings. Both have not ended successfully and both have been my friends (still are). The first guy [m/22] I was ve",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Boyfriend is friends with an ex POST: I (27f) just started dating my bf (29m) and so far things are good. We get along great, same sense of humor, all that good stuff. What bothers me is that he's still good friends with a girl that he used to date and says that the reason they split is because she was turning into a possessive, jealous type of girl and that she wasn't naturally like that. Normally I wouldn't have a problem because he's a stand up guy. I don't believe that he w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My SO[21M]told Me[23F] that I got fat and that i don't take him seriously by not going to the gym, how can he tactfuly motivate me? POST: we've been together for a year, he's living 400 km away from me so we see each other every 2- 3 weeks. We recently had some trouble, he was having doubts about us but then changed his mind and states that he does really love me. Last night while skyping he told me ""you were skinnier this summer, that used to suit you better, don't get fatter that ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29/F] broke up with boyfriend [30/M] 4 years ago after 8 years together. Now I find out he's expecting a baby and I'm crushed. POST: I was with my first true love for nearly 8 years from age 18-26, 6 of those years, we lived together but the last 2 years we lived apart and the long distance broke us along with other reasons. I was crushed as I thought he was the one. This is 4 years ago. I tried to move on, took me 2 years of dating. Now, I'm with a guy now for almost 1 year LDR",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with breast deformities and wanting to be intimate with guy I am dating. How/when to tell him? POST: Regular poster on here but due to the sensitive nature of this topic I have created a throwaway. Background: I had an infection in both breasts about a year ago and I have some deformities as a result of the infection. I had to have multiple debridement surgeries to get rid of the infection. I am now left with scars and deformed ""nipples"". I wouldn't even call them nipples ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling a girl things were moving fast POST: so this didn't happen today but it happend 2 days ago. I met this girl on okcupid a month ago and we kept talking and stuff like that. She goes to my college but not on the days that I go so it was hard for me to see her and cause I don't drive I never got a chance to see her. We stopped talking for a while and last tuesday she calls me up and says let's meet at a mall cause she wanted to go shopping. I told her I'd meet her, so my cousin d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (20F) sister (17F) throws tantrums that are affecting my relationship with our mother (40sF) POST: My mother and sister recently came to visit my university for an open day. I'm currently on a placement year for my degree, but made arrangements to meet them for lunch. I offered to take them on a tour of the campus, but my sister wanted to go around by herself - which I was happy to agree with. However, once I met up with them my sister threw a tantrum (and I mean screaming/crying",negative " r/self TITLE: Most things tend to be in a greater state of mayhem than usual. Anyone have evidence to the contrary? POST: This is in the wake of everything that's been happening with Tunisia/Egypt/Bahrain/Libya. Also, this is somewhat on the back of the earthquakes in Canterbury (I'm a New Zealander) - I don't remember hearing of a single earthquake happening in Christchurch and we've suddenly had two fairly serious ones in the last six months. It *seems* that the world is experiencing a lot more in the wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [29M] gf [32F] constantly complains about her job's time off policy POST: My gf and I have been dating for a little over a year, and she's been at her current job for going on a year. She started as a temp and was hired on full time around late March. Her job's vacation / PTO policy is insanely ridiculous, in that all vacation requests for the following year must be submitted by October of current year. She requested some time off in various weekends to do some traveling we'd like",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by mistakenly thinking that my friend's dad was her granddad POST: Well Reddit, when I was attending college, I lived with a group of 8 girls in a house. It was super fun, we really got along and developed a strong friendship through the years. So, this year we decided to throw a family party, where every girl would bring her family members: parents, siblings, uncles, cousins, grandparents, any family member they want. The goal was to make our families interact with each other. The par",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[17f] don't know if it's worth trying to keep my relationship with my boyfriend[18m] going. POST: We met at the beginning of last school year while I was in grade 11 and he was in grade 12, had instant chemistry, and started dating within a month or two. We've had a lot of ups and downs but we both really love each other. Over the summer we talked a lot about what we would do when he went away for college (his school is too far too drive for visits) and after breaking up for a day",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [25M] bf is afraid of me watching him go to the bathroom, but watches me [21F] even when I ask for privacy. Dafuq? POST: Me: 21F, Him: 25M, Relationship: 1 year --- I live with my boyfriend of almost one year and things are perfectly fine except that he seems to lack respect for my personal bathroom time. I go to the bathroom 3-4 times a day, and every morning when I wake up I have to use the toilet. This wasn't a problem until we moved in together. When I am using the toilet i",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: NYS 18 month license revocation period ends on Oct 15th; wondering if I will be denied or permitted POST: Backstory: I was charged with an aggravated misdemeanor DWI in April of 2015. This was my second offense as my first was in October of 2009. I have two DWI charges on my record, but no other dents on my record minus a speeding ticket or two, all under 20 MPH. The DWI's did not result in any accidents or injury (thank God). I am on probation and I know probation and the judge will ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (29m) dont think i want to marry my gf (26f) of 2 years. Is our relationship as good as over? POST: Ive been together with my SO for about 2 years. Im 29 shes 26. I know she wants to get married within the next 5 years but im not sure if I want to get married at all and if I did im not sure it would be to her. We have a good relationship, weve had our bumps but weve always been able to make things work. Im just scare of how divorce can affect me because I already own my house and h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] 1.5 years, are fighting more, and I'm getting doubts. POST: Geez I don't really know where to start. We started dating in college, I graduated and stayed to work in the same city to be close to her. We fought often and I decided to move back home to focus on my career. We continued to do long distance but made it work. She has met my family and gets along with them, my family really likes her. But I haven't met her family since she is from a far aw",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] with my ex [18F] Broke up Nov 2012, Just can't get her out of my head no matter what. Is it just me being stupid? POST: I was with her for ~2 years when we broke up, for what was a completely valid reason but she did it in a real shitty way (over Facebook and when I called her up that night, not seen the message by that time, didn't even want to stay on the line with me) I can go weeks without even thinking of her, but then something will remind me of her and I'll get dead ",negative " r/running TITLE: new shoes, arch pain? POST: Hey guys, I did a lot of googling and searching on here first, but I'm not sure if what I found answers my specific question/problem. If anyone with more experience has advice, that'd be great! Been running for about two months, gradually increasing to about 20 miles/week, 2-5 mile runs each day, about 6 days/week. I was running in a friends old running shoes for the first month and a half. They felt OK - I didn't have any injuries or pain except one spot th",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Please help me. What did I do wrong? POST: Hello reddit, I'm a student about to move to another city, and through a common friend, a couple of weeks ago I wrote to a girl that lives there and will go to my same university. We were getting along really really well, and were texting each other almost continuously for a week. Last week I went to the above-mentioned city to visit the university and I met her in person. She was so much better than I could imagine and even in person we w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [19M] long distance girlfriend [16F] thinks i might have cheated on her POST: Ok so i went to a party last night and before i went she said she was scared that i might cheat on her but i assured her i loved her and would never do that to her, btw her ex boyfriend cheated on her so she has trust issues and is insecure. When i got back i messaged her ""back from party and i didnt cheat lol"", she replied with ""lol"". We talked the next day for a few hours and i randomly asked ""what do ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 F] need advice for possible sexual harassment at work with [~28 M] co-worker POST: I am a supervisor at a retail store. Last night an employee (22 M) came to me asking if I had another worker's (28 M) phone number. I informed him no I do not have his phone number. He (22 M) said the other co-worker (28 M) showed him a text message on his phone from ""me"" saying ""Are you coming over tonight?"" I do not give out my phone number to any of my employees so this obviously was not a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21F) boyfriend's (22M) mother (56F) is sending him porn POST: Alright, I guess it's time for a throwaway. Long story short, me and my boyfriend are both in college, we have been together for almost two years now. I've stayed over at his house for extended periods of time and have created a decent relationship with his family members (including his extended family). The only person I don't get along with so well is his mother (surprise!). So far she's been passive-aggressive towa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my girlfriend [24 F] of 1 year, discussing future (school, marriage, kids) POST: Hi! Long time lurker decided to create an account and enlist reddit's help. I (26M) was discussing the future (school, marriage, kids) with my girlfriend (24F) of 1 year. Some background information: I graduated university 4 years ago and have a stable job, good income, and recently purchased my first home. She graduated university 1 year ago and has begun working but has realized her ",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Things that cashiers should say? POST: Hi, I recently got a job at a hot dog restaurant. I think I'm doing pretty well, but my interactions with customers at the register are a bit awkward for me. The customers give their orders to somebody else, and mostly they just see me to pay. I say, ""Your total is $_____."" Then I either slide their card or put their cash in and give change. Then I say, ""Would you like your receipt?"" because we don't give them automatically, to save ink since the pla",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21f) boyfriend (26m) had sex with a friend of his (23f) while we were getting together, and I am worried. POST: I've now been with my boyfriend for around 4 months. We were friends for a while before it happened, during which he had a different girlfriend who I didn't know. We realised we both liked each other a lot and he subsequently broke up with his old girlfriend to be with me - I must add this was completely under his own duress and I didn't pressure him in any way. When ",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: How can I get rid of the poop water in my air vents? POST: My four year old niece came to visit me and asked to use the bathroom. About less than five minutes later, the toilet regurgitated a whole roll of toilet paper, poop, pee and a LOT of water. She proceeded to try and plunge it herself and *flushed* it while plunging. Apparently a whole roll of toilet paper was not enough to cover her issue. I was downstairs and discovered what had happened because I heard water running through ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [M] girlfriend says she needs public displays of affection, but I feel really awkward and uncomfortable about pda. What do I do POST: From the sounds of it, my girlfriend [21] is ready to breakup with me [21] over the fact that I treat her like one of the guys. I consider her my best friend but recently we came back from school (where she would be over at my rented place 24/7) to our hometown where we live with our parents on the opposite sides of the city. She wants me to kiss",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm not sure how he feels about me. POST: I'm extremely paranoid he'll see this but what the hell. Also I pre-apologize for the generic-ass 'Do you think he likes me?' question. So I've(21F) have known this guy(19M) for a couple of years. When I first met him he had a slight crush on me but I wasn't interested because I was leaving for college and he was still in high school I also had just gotten out of a serious relationship so we just kinda stopped talking. So fast forward to thi",negative " r/self TITLE: How do I beat complacency POST: I'm 25 years old, have a great job, a girlfriend, good friends and have no real urge to do anything or persue any hobbies as of lately. I've fallen into the popular routine amongst people my age of comming home from work, sitting in front of the tv watching torrented tvshows 'n' movies and melting into the couch all evening. This has all become to routine. It was never always like this though. In my teens and early twenties I was a raging ball of energy which ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [24F] really into an older man [37M] that I met through professional networking and have no idea how to let him know I'm interested, or if its a good idea POST: I met this man through a professional network a few months ago. We're in the same field but not the same discipline (I don't want to give too much information away but basically we'd never actually work together). I actually didn't know how old he was until I added him on Facebook. I knew he was older than me but I figure",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Anybody else's dog have upset stomach from Blue Buffalo? POST: I have a medium-sized pit-chow mix who I fed Blue Buffalo's large breed puppy food up until this month when I switched her to the adult chicken formula. The entire time she's been on their food, she has had diarrhea. It's really not cool because when she's in the house she keeps farting and it smells AWFUL. If I feed her a different (cheap) brand of dog food, her poops are solid and normal-looking and she doesn't get the farts. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my fiance looks very single on facebook... POST: my fiance and i have been together for almost 2 years. he is 35, i am 30 (and female). during this time i have posted several pictures of us together on my fb page. i even went through the process of tagging him in each of them. about a month ago my sister happened to click the link to his fb page and noticed something strange: i am nowhere on there! none of the photos i have tagged are there... not one. i mentioned this to him and",negative " r/college TITLE: Need some help with a question on financial aid, apparently I owe the school 400$. POST: Okay, so, I applied for financial aid and I got two grants. One from my school and the other from the pell grant, however, even though they both cover ALL of my tuition and fees and I'm even supposed to get refunded something like 700$ back I apparently owe the college around 400$. I thought it may be because I failed a class, but I looked up on my school website how that's handled and apparently fina",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (23F) BF (31M) feels left out of my social life POST: BF and I have been in a relationship for a year. We met at college where I was an undergrad and he was teaching. I graduated early and we started dating a couple of months later. In this time, I have met almost all of his friends and family. He has met many of my friends and my family as well. However, I waited to introduce him to my friends from college, mostly because he is a teacher at their school and most of the time I wo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How should I [20F] give boyfriend [23M] ipad? POST: I am getting a Ipad for my S.O.'s birthday next month. His birthday is also our 1 year anniversary. He just got a new job, and was thinking about getting one since he's always wanted one, but I told him it was too much money to waste for a device that won't be practical for anything (in order to throw him off). He agreed and is not going to get one in the near future; hence, this is going to surprise the crap out of him. He doesn't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I break up with a girl I've been dating for 6 months 3 days before her birthday - or wait until after her birthday? And should I buy her a gift? POST: It's just not working out, we've been dating and it has been physically and emotionally close too, but in the end I just can bring myself to love her. But I really care about her. She is so sweet and she has been fighting so hard to keep me around and interested. She has grown a lot as a person since I've started to know her,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [33F] lose my temper with my [41M] husband, trying to change but it's so hard due in part to his behaviour. POST: We are for the most part a happily married couple, been together for 5 years. As the description says I find that I'm verbally snapping at my husband and I want to stop but it's very difficult. I know my snapping bothers him so I'm trying to change it. The big flash point I have is when he doesn't listen to me. His not listening makes me feel very frustrated and ign",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28F] and date [30M] and his long time Ex. POST: Story: Dated this guy for 3 weeks (met online). (2nd week into dating) Took him to a rooftop dinner in this remote area. As we were leaving we bumped into his long time ex that he has dated on and off for 10 years. Few days later, we had a chat. He told me the back story that he broke up with her 3 times in the past 10 years. Moved to the big city in Feb this year in hopes to reconnect with her, she refused since she didn't trust hi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 23/M in love with my guy bestfriend of 1 year. What should I do POST: I've fell in love with one of my bestfriend who is a guy. I'm bi however he isn't gay. We had a talk before and he told me that he was emotionally in love with me. However that was a few weeks ago. Recently he's fallen in love with this new girl and we've been talking a lot less and I feel like i'm going to loose him. If he says that he's emotional in love with me but he's not gay and will never do anything with me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/F] with my BF [26 M/F] of 2.5 years, should I tell him I slept with a coworker before we started dating POST: I met my boyfriend when we started working for the same company. At the time, he had a girlfriend. I had a huge crush on him but tried to ignore it because I knew he was dating someone. On a night out with some coworkers (my now-BF was not there), I ended up hooking with another guy from our company (but in neither of our departments - we both had met him once or twice",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18\F] with my boyfriend [24\M] I lied to him about my age, and now we're taking a confusing break. POST: My boyfriend have been together for 1.4 years, and I lied to him when I first met him about my age. I was 17 when I met him, and lied and said I was 19. There were so many times I wanted to fess up and tell him the truth but I was scared of losing him. The thought of losing him was heart wrenching and unbearable. Literally days before I was going to tell him the truth, he foun",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I tell my step-mother, in a nice way, that I do not want to give her our new address for Christmas stuff? POST: So my step-mom is asking for my address to send Christmas gifts and cards, however she doesn't seem to realize that I don't want her to contact me. Reason is, my father was very abusive to me and my mother during my childhood. They divorced when I was 10, I had no contact with him for 13 years or so. He got remarried, new wife wants us to be a happy family. I did exp",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [23M] of 4 years is going on a vacation with his friends without me [24F]. Am I overreacting? POST: My boyfriend have been going through a rocky period for a few months now. He has been planning a solo road trip vacation for 2 weeks to see his extended family. I offered to go with him but he wanted to use the trip as ""breathing space"" and he would be going on his motorcycle anyway. We don't live together. A few days ago, I found out that two of his new friends (same ag",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F,18] asked my [M, 28] SO the number of women he has slept with. He didn't give me a straight answer. I am mildly bothered and extremely curious. POST: I've had sex with 2 people, including him. We have we dating monogamously for 5 months. I know he's had more partners than me, and I am okay with that. Even if it was 100 women, I wouldn't dump him for it, and he knows that. Anyway, the conversation came up today. He told me he would tell me if I asked, but when I did the only th",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Hit with an abundance overdraft fees, WF only returned half. Where to go from here? POST: I recently opened up a savings account with Wells Fargo, and was under the impression it would be linked with my checkings account for overdraft. I was hit with 9 overdraft fees from Wells Fargo because my savings and checkings account were not linked. They were only able to waive/refund $164.00 of the $315 that I was hit with. So I was hit with overdraft charges while I had the money. Is ther",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Screwed up and used a topical flea prevention which didn't work, now I can't give my dog Comfortis like I should have for at least another 2 weeks. Suggestions? POST: I was stupid and, while in a very vulnerable/exhausted state, took the suggestion from a vet tech to use First Shield Trio because I had found a tick on my dog. She said it would kill any other ticks that might have latched on, because my other option (a collar) would not do that. And that First Shield Trio would prevent fleas.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is dating in your 20's bound for the same outcome until women figure out themselves? I [24/M] have had the same exact outcome of a relationship three times in a row now. POST: I, about a year ago, was left by my girlfriend of 6 years as she wanted to be single and try to figure out who she is. Another girl I dated for a few weeks said the same thing and got lost in her studies (I am still friends with her and this is definitely the case). And just tonight, this girl I was dating ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by ""playing"" with a puffer fish POST: This actually happened around two years ago but I still feel pretty bad about it. I was at my then-girlfriend's aunt and uncle's house being bored as shit while she babysat her cousins. Her youngest cousin was probably around four at this time and was super excited to show us the two puffer fish he just got. Their names were Flag and Flagpole and they were pretty small, average goldfish size. So anyways I'm checking out these fish and they're pret",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my boyfriend [24 F] of almost 4 years are having really bad arguments and I'm scared and insecure. POST: Basically we've had our ups and downs for the past 4 years. We get into arguements only when we've been drinking. I get really easily upset and has panic attacks which I feel shit about but at the same time my negative thinking spirals into thinking I'm using this to get at my bf. Anyways, we've had a chat about the drinking issues and how we should resolve that. Af",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My public middle school forces me to sing Muslim prayers in choir class or else i will fail POST: I have a default choir class that everyone is automatically signed up for. In this class, the teacher makes us sing Muslim prayers or else we get bad grades. I talked to the principal about this and she said ""students who are offended can request to be switched out of the class"". This however, does not change the fact that this is still the default music program. I feel that religion should ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 24[f] worried about [25 m] boyfriend's weight issues. POST: My wonderful boyfriend of four years is very, very overweight. He's tall so he wears it well but he's clearly obese. He's been overweight since we started dating but it seems to get a little bit worse every year. He's from the south and he was never raised to eat right or to do sports/fitness. He did some stuff for fun like horseback riding and he is actually a great dancer, and danced a lot in college, so got a ton of exe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18f] want to hook up with my ex [19m] again. How do I go about it? POST: We dated for about a year and broke up only because of college...blah blah blah first loves you've probably heard this a million times. We didn't speak for 3 months and then hooked up over Thanksgiving break. I started texting him first but he's the one who asked me to come over. I was going to try and act unattached but he pretty much broke all the rules. His parents hugged me, he brought up multiple inside ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [19 M] show more affection towards my girlfriend [20 F]? POST: So I've been seeing this girl for about two months now, and we feel strongly about each other already. Neither of us have been in a real long term relationship before, so we're taking things slowly. But a major roadblock in moving things along is how I don't show enough affection for her (whereas she's very expressive). She's brought it up a couple times already, and apparently I'm hard to read. The problem is, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[23F] friend[24F] has told me she's become friends with my ex-bf[25M] who used to hit me. POST: My good friend from college, lets call her Olivia, started working at a company after college in the city we work this May when she graduated. My ex-boyfriend, lets call him Steve, from a relationship that ended a year ago also works at this company. Olivia and I hang out every week, help each other through tough situations, go drinking, etc. Backstory: Before we broke up Steve had bee",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29F] with my friends - the catch 22 of hiding your feelings and being ""closed off"", and being open and being ""negative"". POST: Something that's really been bothering me lately is my friendships. I have several friends that I've been close to over the years, and I've had lots of acquaintances. In my close friendships, I've been criticized for not being open with my feelings, and being closed off (I can easily put on a ""happy face"" regardless of how I really feel, but I unfortunate",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (24m) dating someone (25f) with ADD. How can that affect a relationship? POST: I've been dating her for about 2.5 months now, and it's my first attempt at a relationship for various reasons. At first we focused a lot on each other, spending entire weekends together and talking every day through phone or text. To be honest it was almost too much, but we learned a lot about each other and were very open. We'd have sex every time we saw each other too, and it was great. Now, we see",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/M] I can't seem to find the right girl without disaster like repercussions. POST: I've gotten my first kiss at 15 and ever since I've wanted a lasting relationship (who doesn't?). After being treated like shit and constantly ignored by my first kiss/first ""love"" for a year, I got over her. This wound up making me stronger in the sense that my emotions became jaded. So skipping to when I was 16, I tried dating a good friend of mine who was really cute. Within a month she che",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my ex [23 M] 2 yrs, possible cheating. desperately need closure POST: in january, i broke up from a 2 year long relationship (me 24 F, him 23 M). he said all the sweet nothings, how he wanted to stay good friends and how i will always have a special space in my heart. he wanted to be friends. i didnt. but then i thought he was a decent guy, we talked it out and i decided that i should try to take the high road, i should try to be friends with him. i knew things weren",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: Any advice on getting kids to sleep in the same room? Is it possible at these ages? POST: My daughters are two and four months. The younger one is a pro at sleeping. I can put her down when she is awake and she'll fall asleep on her own. She has a very tight schedule of her naps and bedtimes. She is just starting to sleep mostly through the night and I was thinking ahead to putting them in the same room in a month or two. But the older one is a monster at bed and nap time! She jum",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] met a cute girl [18F] at a party and don't know how to ask her out. POST: Went to my friend's birthday party and met a cute girl there who I have never seen before, who was my friend's friend from school, and we kinda hit it off. So I was chatting a lot with this girl and cuddling up with her on the couch while we watched tv with everybody, however we kinda usually get on top of eachother and really close so that might not mean that much. We talked a lot and I cuddled her ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Help with Insanity and Diet POST: Hello my first post since lurking in the thread. I (5'5"" M 23) just started my diet on 7/8/13 using MFP limiting myself to about 1300 cal/day. Within the first 3 weeks I dropped 9 lbs from 215 to 206 and I have been steadily declining hopefully no plateau for a while. I just started the Insanity workout and literally just got done with day 3 but have been wondering since it is so much that I get just about fatigued half way through should I substitute easi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by assuming things at work POST: This story actually happened roughly about a year ago, and it's not awful but it's one of those things my brain brings up every time I accidentally think about my most embarrassing moments. Anyway, on to the story! Background: this happened at work, at the small hardware store I am a cashier at. At the time this occurred, I had been at the job for about 3 months, and had just started taking closing shifts. Closing shifts are different because it's just ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: an ex (21m) owes me (22f) a lot of money.... and I'm worried he's forgotten about it POST: Using a throwaway because I know my ex knows my reddit username. Last year I lent an ex a lot of money- around $1200. It was money I barely had. For a while right after that, he would pay me back what he could, $50 here and there. not much of it got paid, I think it was $250 or so, but it was totally fine because a little would come in every couple weeks or so. We both are struggling financial",negative " r/travel TITLE: Tips on layover tourism. POST: I've been searching the webs for helpful guides on making the most of an extended layover. I'm thinking of something with cheap activities near or within the airport. Do any of you folks have experience in doing something like that? My long layover will be in either Frankfurt, Paris, or Abu Dhabi depending on how long of a trip/how cheap I feel when I finally put my money down. The decision will be made easier by having something to do but I can't find a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I feel as if I need to break up with my girlfriend. POST: As of May 6th,2014, I have had a girlfriend. We're both young, me being 16, and her being 15. I know that as man I have to do everything I can to make her happy, but honestly I haven't been happy myself. I tried breaking up with her once, but she pulled the depression card on me which made me feel terrible. I gave her a second Chance. I know I shouldve said no. Well, I'm just not a selfish person. I put everyone before me.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Relationship] Is it right to feel ""upset"" POST: Me (27M) and my gf (26f) have been dating for about a year now. We used to have sex somewhat regularly, nowadays its more like once a week. I'm usually the one to initiate, she very rarely asks for it and I've never said no to her but she's rejected me several times. It's always that she's tired or has too much schoolwork to do, which wouldn't bother me too much if she would just not promise one thing and do another. She promises sex q",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [20 F] I made a mistake, now seeking advice. POST: I have been with my girlfriend for about 2 months now, so a short term relationship. Recently I developed feelings for someone else, I didn't see it going anywhere and thought it was a fleeting ""crush"". Last night it went somewhere, and we both said we have feelings for eachother. I have been considering the idea of ending it with my girlfriend for some time now and am now certain it is the right thing ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Together for a year and BF (22M) hasn't introduced me to his family. POST: I (22F) have been with my boyfriend (22M) for about a year, and he hasn't introduced me to his family yet or even told them about me. While that may not seem like a huge deal, I've only met and hung out with his closest friends once...which is pretty weird. I see him about 3-5 times a week, and we have a good relationship. He's told me before that he won't introduce just anyone to his family, which is ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can we (as redditors) do more? POST: Hi Reddit! My question is simple, how can we do more than simply make threads and post comments, how do we make a difference? I realize Reddit does get recognition from news sources (major and minor) but we have a large community of tech savvy and ingenious users. I say Lets Do Something!!! I believe this community is capable of great things that we are not yet doing. Is it possible for Reddit to become more than what it currently is? I am",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My dad wants to let his house insurance lapse. Why should I bother dissuading him? POST: My dad pays about $1000 a year on insurance and wants to call it quits, and I'm not convinced I should try and dissuade him. The house is probably worth $150K if he's lucky. His insurance covered one claim in the past 15 years or so (during which time he spent about $20K on insurance for two houses). It was a fallen tree branch which got him about $500. His only other claim was something about hail/w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24/F] was dumped 4 months ago by my ex-boyfriend [24/M]. I didn't see it coming. He said it was him. Marriage was on the agenda. TLDR; should I bother getting closure? this breakup has put me in deep depression. POST: The only indications of uncertainty in our relationship was a week leading up to the breakup. I thought he needed space but he said that was the last thing he wanted. The night he broke up with me he started that same conversation with ""I really want to fight for thi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: People have been flirting with my girlfriend[F15] of 2 months and it's opening up a bit of my[M16] insecurities POST: Before our relationship, I was pretty self secure and I wasn't really affected by other people's comments and their status. I'm not very experienced and this is my first relationship, so I've come to /r/relationships for help. I don't know how to build my self esteem back up and I'm not sure I feel comfortable with her flirting with other guys. She's had boyfriends ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Do I tell my (22f) new boyfriend (25m) about friends I've slept with if I still hang out with them? POST: Right, so I'm in a fresh relationship (dating for a month, just recently got together). So far he has not seemed interested in talking about past sexual experiences, which I don't mind. The thing is, on a regular basis I hang out with a couple of friends that I used to either date, be fuck buddies with or at least have slept with. He knows about one because that's his friend to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] have a small fortune but my girlfriend [24F] of almost 2 years doesn't allow me to spend it. POST: So, I have about 1.3 million dollars in my savings account. This is a combination of my job, and from an inheritance from a deceased family member. My girlfriend is a down to earth person. She doesn't care about my money, and I know this because she's never once asked about it and didn't know about it prior to dating me or knowing me. We live together and split finances. Anyway,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my girl roommate [25 F] 7 years, she is afraid to make it official that we are together. POST: We have been good friends for 7 years. She has seen me through 3 relationships with other women, none of whom she liked. We are affectionate toward each other. She is always flirting, sitting on my lap in public, talking close to me, occasionally holding hands. Four months ago we moved in together into a beautiful house. A month ago we rescued a puppy together. We used to",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the craziest/funniest/scariest situation you've ever gotten yourself into because of the opposite sex? NSFW POST: I was about 17 and at this girl's house, just us. Let's call her Jen. Jen was modeling some new panties for me and doing some sexy dancing. We were in her room, music blasting. Her boyfriend kept calling but she wouldn't pick up. Finally she turns down the music for the latest phone call, and that's when we hear a guy's voice yell ""JEN!!?"" from downstairs. The front d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with my ex [25F] of almost 4 years, trying but failing to move on. POST: I learned that my ex had been cheating on me almost one year ago (it will be exactly one year in two weeks). She started seeing somebody else a month or two later, so I guess we broke up then. There has literally only been a single day since that I don't explicitly remember thinking about her, even though I very likely did on that day, too, but simply forgot about it. Yes, it's usually not the same, pre",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: What is the difference between a discussion and a fight? POST: So, this doesn't have a whole lot of bearing on any decision I'm trying to make, but I'd like to have a general idea of a woman's perception of the difference between the two. Context: I wished an ex a happy birthday to which she responded warmly. We talked a little bit more and then she suddenly got quiet. I let it go thinking I might've crossed the line or something, NBD. On my birthday she sends me a message and we s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] was invited to a christmas party by my friend [25 F] and I'm not sure I should go POST: Hello, A friend of mine at my university invited me to a christmas party later this month. I used to hang out with a group of her friends frequently, we were good friends, I enjoyed the time I was with them, and they said they did too. But then it just kind of stopped a few months ago. It was fairly abrupt. They just stopped talking to me, or trying to make plans with me. When I tried t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Non-American Redditors: Is your country Exceptional? POST: During my Seminar, we had a debate about American Exceptionalism. For those of you who don't know, it's the idea that America is uniquely the best nation in the world, socially, economically, and politically. However, American Exceptionalism is easily one of the most attacked ideas BY Americans. Half of America hates the other half that worships it. We were similarly split in class (leaning towards non-exceptionalism) However",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it wrong to try to contact my ex? POST: I am currently in a relationship with my SO of 10 months and he is 23m I am 22f. Lately it seems like all we do is fight with each other though. Our conversations and time together mostly consist of disagreements and I'm pretty sure we are still together because we both feel we have invested time into this relationship. Neither of us really feel happy, or at least I can confirm that I am not. Now, this is where I am unsure of myself. I had",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my girlfriend [22F] of a year. She has slept with over 30 guys but is shy and inexperienced when it comes to sex. Never seen anything like it, is this odd? (x-post from Askmen) POST: My girlfriend (I'll call her M) has slept with about 30 guys from the age of 16 - 21, (UK and legal) yet she has a very shy and prudish regard to sex and intimacy. She will give blowjobs when drunk, and almost always go along with it if I initiate sex..but she will never be the one to enga",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Advice for me [22F] having feelings for my long-time friend [23 M] who's living abroad this year POST: I wanted to get an outside opinion on what's goin' on here. So I have feelings for a friend of mine who's taking his masters abroad this year. We dated for a while in high school, and I ended it, being too emotionally immature and not ready for a relationship. It's been several years since then, and we are good friends now. This past summer we were spending lots of time together,",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not wiping my ass. POST: A LITTLE BACKSTORY: My Grandma owns a cleaning service. She usually calls my parents and ask them if they'd like a cleaning for free, and knowing my mom she always says yes. They usually clean my downstairs room, which consists of my computer, tv, xbox, drums and all that jazz. THE TIFU PART: So, at 7:00 I was sleeping soundly in my bed, and awoke to my dog barking at people outside. My mom opens the door and greets the cleaning ladies. No big deal. I was lay",negative " r/self TITLE: Geeky Identity Thieves POST: So I was going to check my bank account online and see $300+ charged to ThinkGeek. Then i noticed a one dollar charge to the WikimediaFoundation. Knowing damn well I did not order anything from ThinkGeek I call them up to check it out. They tell me one charge was already canceled, but the other has gone through so I need to call my bank. He adds that my card is likely compromised because the orders were to ship to the Ukraine. O_o Card is canceled now, and I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (first) GF [24F] has an unusual request for me [23 M] to prove my attraction POST: Around a month and half ago, I met a girl on Coffee Meets Bagel. We hit it off and get along really well. We have been on several dates since then and like each other a lot. We communicate really well and talk about everything very openly. We have progressed pretty far both emotionally and physically. A little background: I am a little shy/introverted/whatever and haven't been very prolific in the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Working for my [21F] father [57M] is suffocating. He can't turn off being an overbearing father. POST: Be sure to explain in detail with line breaks. I've been working admin part time at my dad's small business for the past year and while the job itself is fine, I'm getting so fed up of him. He speaks very sharply and cuttingly and raises his voice to me in front of the other employees in a way he would never dream to with them. He pulls me up on mistakes that I make while other em",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (23f) and girlfriend (24f) are trying to plan for the future. POST: Basically we have had a pretty successful 2 year relationship so far, no major problems other then a little internalized homophobia on her part due to a really religious family. We have both been feeling a little depressed lately and we realized that it is because we have no idea where we want to go from here. I know that I want to continue studying, but I am currently trying to figure out exactly what/where and w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22f) need some ideas for things to do with my boyfriend (23m) of 4 years, that we will both enjoy. Please help! POST: Hi guys :) No major problem here, no drama and no scandal. Basically, my boyfriend and I have hit a bit of a lull when it comes to fun stuff to do together. I'm sick of 'hanging out' (I.e doing nothing) when we are together, however we can never agree on something to do. He enjoys fixing/building things, going diving and hunting, playing video games etc. I enjo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: A man I'm dating [48 M] was in an abusive relationship. How do I [33 F] make him feel safe? POST: A few weeks ago, an old friend called me out of the blue and asked me out for drinks. I knew that he ended his 7-year relationship and moved out, but I didn't know the details. We've gone out a few times now, and it has been consistently fun and fulfilling. Except for the part when he told me his ex would regularly berate him, humiliate him, call him names, and even physically harm him",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Facebook - check, Gym - check, reddit? POST: Ok I'm 26m, my gf (25f) broke up with me a couple months ago. At first we tried remaining friends, until she shattered my heart by telling me she was fucking her coworker. I defriended her from Facebook, deleted her contact info, got rid of everything that reminded me of her and hit the gym. Things got better for a while, and then she started contacting me. She tried calling but I didn't pick up (btw, deleting her contact info+foto h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Only girl in IT dept, feeling left out POST: I started a new job a few weeks ago working in the IT department of a company. I am the first girl they've had there in years, out of around 10-15 guys. It seems like most of them are friends with each other, hang out outside of work, and talk about their lives outside of work amongst each other. I feel quite excluded from these conversations, and no one really talks to me except if it's about work, and when it's not, it's just a few words. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friends [34f] 16 year old cat is dying. So is my mom and I don't give a crap about my friends cat. POST: She really wants me to call her and talk to her about her cat. I get that a pet dying sucks, especially one you've had for 16 years. I don't want to minimize her loss. I have dogs, I know it hurts like hell when they die. But I haven't slept more than four hours in a row in a week. From the time I wake up to the time I go to bed I'm thinking about everything I need to do to ta",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Last night my [23f] with my SO [23m] initiated sex with me in my sleep. POST: I live with Boo and we have been dating for six years. Last night after getting into an argument I decided to have three shots and a beer over the course of 4 hours. I went to bed and pretty much passed out around 11pm. I woke up to Boo behind me going to town on me with his hands. At this point I'm very confused and still drunk. He keeps going and I was overcome with awareness of how good I felt. B",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Sad and need to vent. My (36f) BF (35m) dumped me but we still love each other POST: I posted earlier what happened. We had tried for the second time (2 years) but he was still depressed and his situation was shitty. I couldn't make him happy and he felt he couldn't deal with his life with me being another source of stress (he didn't have enough time and was exhausted). He was broke with no prospects and an unsopportive family he couldn't break free from. We broke up after hours of b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I worrying and nagging too much about the (near) future with my SO? (f,22 & m, 25) POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for over three years. We have both agreed we want to get married and spend the future together. In December, we'll both be graduating from the same university, me with my Bachelors and him with his Masters. I am worried because as of right now, we don't have a plan. I know I should be applying for jobs right now or looking into grad school, but since the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my girlfriend [20 F] 8months, Im not happy with relationship, want to end with minimum damage. POST: Hey everyone, first time poster and hope to be around here for advice. So anyways we've been dating for 8 months or so but throughout my relationships I've never had to break it off. She's a sweet girl but she's a little to much for me. I don't really dislike her I dislike the relationship with her. I don't really get my own time and she always wants to be around me and",positive " r/self TITLE: I'm tired of being disappointed. POST: I've never used reddit to vent, but today is a good day to start. My older brother is 40 and has spent the last decade in prison because of drugs, with a few months here and there when he was paroled and then sent back for failed drug tests. He was paroled again last September and has made it 7 months out, and living a seemingly on track life. He met a woman during his last stint (her brother was in with him) and they fell in love. A month ago they got m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [21F] explain to my boyfriend [21M] I don't care for his friend? POST: Let me preface this by saying I feel pretty shitty that I'm even writing this post. But I just don't want to deal with this any longer. The last time I visited my boyfriend in March he introduced me to one of his close-ish friends. I particularly didn't care for him at first and by the end of our first encounter I knew I just didn't want to personally be around him unless it was necessary. He rubbed me t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] ex-girlfriend and I [21M] broke up a month ago and I want to contact her. POST: I am sure many of you have had a similar problem or this is a common issue, but I would appreciate some insight. A little over a month ago my girlfriend and I of almost a year broke up. Mainly reasons I blame myself since I worried a lot about the relationship at the time. Anyway it wasn't a bad break-up, we agreed to it and that was it. She wanted to remain friends after awhile which I agreed b",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I think I want to be a teacher, but I'm not sure... POST: I'm getting myself out of a somewhat major bout of depression, and for the first time in two years I'm thinking about my future again. For the past few months, I've been strongly considering becoming a high school science teacher. I've always been passionate about science, and my own science teacher in high school was my favorite teacher. I also want to help do my part to reverse the sad state of science education in America. ",positive " r/dogs TITLE: Hope might be my first dog POST: Hi Doggit! My wife and I have been fostering Hope ([pictures here] a few nights each week. We are seriously considering adopting her full time. It would be the first dog for both of us and all we know about dogs we are learning from the foster program and our time with Hope. We both work full time (we're on Long Island, NY) so she would be home alone in our house for most of the day. Your thoughts on that are welcome.... Now about Hope. The program I work wi",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by saying I hate Jesus POST: So like most stories on here, this happened a long time ago. This was probably when I was 8 or 9. We were still fairly new to Canada, we moved from Ukraine so my family and I had very thick accents. Now, as a kid I watched a lot of TV so my English got pretty good. My parents on the other hand, not so much. My mom had/has (its been like 16 years) an accent that was exceptionally thick. So anyways we were in an elevator going home, and I usually like to tune o",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I just fell for one of my best friends. (again) Anyone else been in the same boat? What should I do. POST: A little backstory: I soon started liking her after we met and kind of pursued it, asking her out once but got rejected. We kept talking and soon became very good friends and a little while after she got a boyfriend. I was angry at first but soon came to accept the fate. I soon came to see her as a friend instead of a love interest but I never truly lost feelings for her. ",positive " r/Dogtraining TITLE: My dog goes bananas on walks when it sees other dogs. POST: Just discovered this subreddit. How great that this is here! My wife and I adopted a yorkie/dachshund mix who is a little under two years old. She was about a year old when we got her. She's very obedient at home, and an absolute sweetheart. When we take her on walks though, it's a different story. If she sees another dog coming in her path, she will become absolutely fixated on it and start barking like crazy. She'll s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [19F] maintain a friendship with former FWB [20M]? POST: I had an FWB for over a year. FWB may actually be the wrong word because we never really hung out, other than when we were having sex. However, we didn't just have sex - we did talk a lot whenever we were together. But we didn't text regularly or anything like that. We ended things a few weeks ago, and it was sad, but it was mutual. He offered his friendship. I am starting to get over him but I really would like to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 F] boyfriend [28 M] told me in confidence he missed my old hair. I'm not mad at him but it made me insecure. How do I get over it? POST: Hi guys. Pretty self explanatory. Boyfriend and I have an awesome relationship - I'm the happiest gal with him. I do suffer from PTSD, depression, and most of all anxiety so there's a bunch of insecurities I'm dealing with. Bf and I were having a nice, romantic, and kinky evening this past weekend. We were chatting, getting into more seri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28F] can't stand my [28f] best friend anymore. POST: My best friend became a mum 4 years ago, and again a year and a half ago, which would be fine, but she's not just a mum, she's a crazy mum. The kind of mum that puts the toddler on the phone, the kind that cancels on every dinner or coffee date, the kind that can't talk about anything other than her childrens poo and dance lessons. She's a shell of the person that I used to know, we have nothing in common anymore. I had a hor",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Did I do the wrong thing? POST: Two months after I broke up with my girlfriend of 4 years, I had sex with one of her friends. A few months later, I told her what had happened because I didn't want to hear about it from someone else. Even though we were broken up, I felt enormous guilt about the situation as though I had thrown away all the good memories from our relationship and replaced them with the memory of one drunken, irresponsible night. Naturally, my ex was really upset about wha",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Looking for work, not much experience (more in post) and I would like some advice. POST: I am just out of my Job Council training program for becoming a Certified Nursing Assistant but I found out that I HATE nursing, a LOT, so I am looking for something new. These are some of my skills. What do you think? I am 21 and have held a position on the Leadership Council for about six months, been through life skills classes, have basic life support training, a lot of volunteer experience, my GED, M",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [M 24] girlfriend [F 22] of 5 months is still in contact with a guy she used to hook up with. POST: So I guess this starts with my girlfriend's relationship to this guy. She was in this program for the last 4 summers where she would go out and prepare for a set of musical performances all over the country. Needless to say she got close to a lot of people throughout his process and as it turns out used to hook up with this one guy in that group. The tricky part here is that she now",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (26f) with my boyfriend (30m) of one year hooked up with friend while we were not exclusive POST: I am having a hard time with this and I can't ask my friends because I don't want them to hate him and they will not be objective. My boyfriend made out with his friend while him and I were just talking (we met online) while we were close, we had not met yet. This did not come out until about 8 months into our relationship. I had asked him weeks prior if they ever had anything betwee",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (F 33) am feeling suffocated and controlled by my husband (M 38) POST: My husband and I both work in very stressful jobs with long hours, plus we have the added stress (and joy, yes I should be grateful of having a 3 year old child. We have set up our schedules so that we have two days off together each week in spite of our shift work. I have realized over the years that my husband is a very controlling person (I believe this stems from issues with his family growing up m",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where should I go this summer? POST: There are some limitations here, the big two being financial and that I'm traveling alone. The deal is I'm 27 and I have no friends where I am because I moved here for a PhD program two years ago and have been buried under work ever since. This summer, I need to get the fuck out for a bit. I'm from a big city but will be spending minimal time there this year because my ex is friends with all my friends there, and seeing her wouldn't be good. I hav",negative " r/self TITLE: I'm assuming this goes here ... So sorry if it doesn't ! POST: So, like I said ... I don't really know where to put this ... I really like a guy, and he's a bit older . We're talking 3 years . Not that bad . I never talked to him much, but my friend did ... Everyday ... I told her that I liked him and she pulls some kind of middle/high school drama . She tells him ""wild"" rumours and now he won't talk with me at all :/ . It really hurts because this is the 3rd time something like this has happ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17M] Going on a ""date"" with a girl [17F] this weekend, but think I'm falling for another female friend POST: To start off, I'll explain the ""date"" AKA Molly. It started off with me and the girl im going on a date with. We started chatting, and after some time she said she wanted to double date with me and my friend, and Molly and her friend (Me dateing her friend). This was just for fun. Then my friend started seeing another girl. Molly decided that she could go with me inst",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Failure to create openness/communication in relationship POST: So I'm with this guy. Mostly everything's going dandy, but there's one thing that's missing for me. Basically, I notice I feel nervous around him at times, I'm afraid to share personal things with him and be vulnerable, because my brain thinks that if I do or say stuff he doesn't like, he might not like me as much. I still do try to share things, in part because I find that tends to be the most efficient way to work things out",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Im 20. No money, no job, working on a communication degree. Want to live in austin or LA when i graduate and make movies and music for fun. 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Is it ok for me to be with her ? POST: I've been friend with that guy for 4 years now. 2 years ago he met that girl, had a crush but didn't say a word. More than a later he told her he had feelings. She basically said they were only friends. A few months after this i met the girl and we started going out together. When things started being serious I asked my friend if he was OK with our relationship, he said yes. More t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [23M/F] with my ex lover [21M/F] two months, shall I send her a nice text? POST: Okay, so i dated a girl a few weeks back and it kinda went a bit sour. (it was her fault - she had feelings for her ex) Anyway we broke up and I saw her out a few weeks later and got pretty drunk and said some, not nasty, but silly things. We haven't spoken since then and i'm over her but I was thinking of sending her a text along the lines of: 'Hi, i'm sorry we didn't end on the best terms, but I thi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Had a fight with my [28M] girlfriend[26F] of 2 years, I am not sure what to do. POST: I don't even know where to begin. I guess I'll start by giving you a little background info. So, my ex-girlfriend and I have been dating for about 2 years. 2 months ago, we moved into an apartment together. After about a week, we started arguing. After about a month, it turned into physical abuse. She would start hitting me, screaming at me, and I couldn't do anything about it. Last night, I decid",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (21M) wondering what to do when you meet someone who seems really great but you might not get the chance to be near them in the near future POST: So I'm going back to school pretty soon. This break, I met a girl who I thought seemed really special. I got to interact with her a bit over a few days, but not in a one-on-one type of setting. She definitely piqued my interest. At this point, I kinda have a pretty good idea of what I'm looking for and what kind of girl I would go toget",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Said something in my sleep, need advice. (26m, 20f) POST: I've been dating my gf for over a year, and we've been living together for a few months. The first few months of our relationship were rocky, mostly my fault because I was afraid to commit, but we've been fine since. I'm divorced, my ex wife cheated on me when I was on deployment, and I'm happy to have finally met the woman of my dreams. Things are going well. Last night though, I was dead asleep, pulled my gf in close and sa",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Need advice on my Auto Loan situation. POST: I have recently run into some unfortunate circumstances that have caused my monthly car payments to become a very overwhelming bill that I've got to endure for the next 50 months, (already have payed for 26 months of the loan). To start off, I currently make anywhere from $1600 - $2000 a month, depending on how the tips are. The loan is set at 20.55 percent APR. My monthly car payment is $324.00. That, ontop of my $205.00 insurance pay",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18F] father [49M] gets very angry if the smallest thing happens and i don't immediately ring him. POST: Everytime something minor happens (I need to go to the doctor for something, or the hospital.) if my dad finds out, he's immediately angry that he wasn't called first. Basically, i went to the hospital due to not being able to get a full breathe in. Everything was fine, they put it down to medication i was taking. Got home at around 11:30pm. Wrote a status on facebook just t",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Do I study something I'm semi-passionate about or something with more certain career prospects? POST: I finished high school not too long ago, and I've done pretty well in all of my final exams etc. I've managed to get myself decent enough marks to study anything available really, given it's in my country (Australia). My strongest subject has always been English Literature and I love reading and writing. Problem is, I'm at a point where I need to decide whether or not I should take advanta",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my 23 [F] of two years, she doesn't show me off and actually kind of ""hides"" me POST: So I've been in a relationship for over two years now and not once has my girlfriend I guess ""shown me off"" on a social media website. Now it's not that important for me, but not once has she ever posted a picture of us two together. We don't have the relationship status thing on facebook, no pictures of me on her instagram (about a million of herself and her dog), or any other websit",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Which martial art for 5'2"" 110 lb female? POST: Hey all. I am 5'2"" 110lb female, and am trying to figure out which martial art to pursue. First, some background. I work in a daycare-like setting at a church two days a week. Myself and another teacher are in charge of 8 babies at a time for six hours. We have a half door as the entrance to our room that is always locked. One of our parents brought up a concern about lack of security for the kids. True, anyone can enter the facilities,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(F18) stepmother(F34) cheated on my father(M35) with my cousin(M29) who sexually abused me. POST: The title pretty much sums it up. I found out only because she made a Facebook post about it tonight. I talked to my dad about it and apparently this has happened before with others. They live in a small town where pretty much everyone knows everyone. My cousin is from my mom's side of the family. My step mom also used to date my other cousin who is the stepbrother to the one she che",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [21] angry at me for masturbating [Male, 21] POST: My girlfriend is 21, so am I. We are a heterosexual couple who have been together for 4 years. Last night the topic of masturbation came up. My girlfriend and I have differing sexual appetites (me very high, hers is low). I masturbate frequently, something I think is normal for a 21 year old male. My girlfriend stated several times that she didn't mind if I masturbated but it quickly became apparent that she does mind. S",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Too soon to look for a new job? POST: Hey everyone - long time lurker, first time poster. I've been at my current job for about nine months. It's my first ""real"" gig after college -- I graduated in 2011 and spent about three years (same company) in retail management & B2B sales, before moving to my current position doing events and marketing for a non-profit. I don't love my job, but I don't hate it either. For the most part, I like the people I work with and the load isn't too s",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not knowing how Facebook Chats work POST: This happened a few months ago, and I only recently remembered it. Basically, me and a group of friends have a group chat on Facebook, where we talk about a pretty wide variety of things. Because we're close friends, we tell each other secrets, diss other people, and basically just talk about dumb things because we're teenagers and we though we were cooler than the other people around us. The fuck up happened because as a joke, one member in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex-Girlfriend [23 F] left Me [23 M] after 2.5 years, before she went on a 3 week vacation and right after I lost my Job... Feeling discarded POST: Like the title says we had been together for 2.5 years. two weeks ago I lost my Job due to downsizing and was feeling really down because of the whole situation. She was there helping me feel better then 5 days later boom, I don't love you anymore and I've been feeling this way for about a month and a half, I don't want to be in a relatio",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 F] still have trust issues due to my ex [19 M] cheating on me for ~5 months POST: We were casual acquaintances for several in my sophomore year of high school, his junior, before we started dating over the summer. It was my first relationship, I hadn't even gone on a date or kissed anybody before. He knew this and was very reassuring. Everything about the relationship seemed perfect at the time. A little background on me: I've known for a long time that I probably have an undi",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How much should I charge for writing articles for a new magazine? I've never done professional writing before. POST: Hey guys, I recently got picked up for a non-paid internship with a soon-to-launch magazine (out of Vancouver) called HUSH Magazine ( in the capacity of a PR/marketing position. I would be competing with about 15 other interns for a single or few positions in a 3 month long internship, and it would be a lot of work. I have little problem with this, and think it would be",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29/M] with my girlfriend [32/F] 2 years, wants to hang out with her ex-boyfriends family. POST: my current girlfriend of two years as a close relationship with her ex-boyfriends family. And she wants to go hang out with them (ex won't be present) me personally don't like the idea and I think is wrong and disrespectful. She knows I don't like it that's why she has not seen them since we been together but still talks to them biweekly at least once. She invited me to come with her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[ 17M ] with my Girlfriend[ 16 F ] Parents Angry at me POST: Hello everybody! I've been a lurker here for years, so finally the time has come for me to consult the people of reddit! Okay I'm going to make it as short as possible here, so here we go. I've been dating my girlfriend for a little over 5 months now, and my GF's parents are against the relationship due to her ""needing to focus on her studies"" and all that, since it's a major exam. Now here's the thing, her parents are",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help Me Save My Friend! POST: My best friend just got this online girlfriend, and it's totally ruining him. He is now pawning action figures to take a Greyhound to visit her, and pay his multitude of bills. He seems to be less concerned with finding a job, and when we hang out he's either fighting with her on the phone or telling her how much he loves her on the phone. He's only been aware of this girl's presence on Earth for about a month and a half and they already say ""I love you."" Ev",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Shen Calm - Any success? POST: Has anyone ever had success with this stuff for severe anxiety/stress? The back story: We got a rescue dog at the beginning of June. She was a year old at that time, and spent her entire life (until rescue) in a puppy mill. She's adorable, sweet, super timid, very submissive, not aggressive in the least. Over the months, she's opened up to me - but not my husband - and she's actually a super goofy dog. She plays with our other dog (almost 4 years old), ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By getting a glass of water POST: This certainly isn't the biggest of fuck ups, but still wanted to share this stupid little moment of mine that happened a couple minutes ago. It all started after I went for my afternoon jog. I like to have music on the background when I stretch after a work out, so I turn on the radio. The radio I listen to (a major dutch radio station) has this thing where they'll get a fairly unknown song and people have to send in a 'repeat' or 'niet' (means not in ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What does she [19 F] want out of me [22 M]? POST: Hey guys. Here's a condensed (but I guess not really condensed) backstory leading to my question. I've recently started seeing this girl who I've know for a few months. She is totally the coolest and most attractive girl I've ever been into. Mid January we went to a party, made out and then came back to my place. She slept over but we didn't have sex. The next morning we cuddled and made out for a few hours. That night she went campi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] have been talking with a crush [18 F] [~4 weeks], don't know if she is interested. POST: I have been talking to this girl, mainly about what we are interested in. My friends have told me that it's obvious we are interested in each other, but i'm not sure. I've been talking to her mainly in two classes and in one of our clubs. Just today one of her friends looked at me and said ""Oh you are (my name)"". I'm still not completely sure because I am oblivious, and if she is into me",negative " r/self TITLE: Help me, Reddit! Kids are vandalizing my purple toilet!!! POST: In my front yard I have a purple toilet that will be a planter this summer. I'm extremely excited about it. I live near a Junior High School and kids walk past my house every day. 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We have had to start crating him when we leave the house cause when it all started he began chewing up things when we left him alone. We have always crated him, he is crate trained but the past few years he crys when we leave and trys to break out of his crate. He will grab the bars with his mouth and shake and pull (like tug of war) and he has even g",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Am I Psychic? No Seriously! POST: So yesterday I went out to dinner with my friend and we were talking about our relationships etc. My SO is from New Jersey and I had recently visited his state. So I was telling her how New Jersey has no real capital. Like Ontario has Toronto, a real city; New York has New York City; Texas has Austin...but Trenton is like...nothing. So anyway we get on the subway and we do the crossword in one those free metro papers. Today I do the crossword for the da",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I have a small moral dilemma that I would like a few opinions on. It has to do with drinking underage in the United States. Any bartenders on Reddit? POST: I feel as though I know what the answer to this predicament will be but I figure reading a couple opinions can't hurt. Reddit, I have less than four months until my 21st birthday. However, I of course engage in underage drinking (although I would say not very often because I'm pretty busy.) I can count on one hand how many tim",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [M23] GF [F20] doesn't want me to tag along with her to a festival POST: Posting in mobile, so I might miss a thing or two. So my GF of 1 year (who I adore) is going to a really popular festival in 2 months with her university friends. I'm currently working, and our relationship is long-distance, but I'm thinking of going along. Never been to one before, and really want to experience a festival with her, I suggested that I fly in and attend it with her. She is hesitant, saying",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: A happy post: I said ""I love you"" and meant it for the first time in a long time. POST: I worked on the east coast in a hospital with a guy with whom I shared a really flirty work relationship. Nothing inappropriate, just harmless flirting. After a year and a half of working together, he announced he was moving to California and made the big move last September. Coincidentally, I had planned on moving to California to rejoin my parents after college ended and we talked for some time abo",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/f]me[32/m]him [2yrs. together]Age gap ending my relationship POST: Boyfriend and I have been living together for 7 months now, a few weeks ago we were discussing our plans for the future and the inevitable came up, his and my plans are not that compatible. I'm still a college student, expecting to graduate in two more years. He is a business owner and told me that he would like to start a family in the next four to five years; I am absolutely certain that I don't want to be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19/M] have a huge crush on [?/F] POST: Hello, first time doing this but I'll try to be as clear as possible. I need advice on what to do with this huge crush I have... here's some info: we look alike, I don't talk to her, I don't even know how old she es, we've both caught eachother staring... I don't really know much about this girl, I know her ex-boyfriend and I know she's dating some dude. I first noticed her because she has math with a friend of mine who told me about her, h",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By eavesdropping on my parents on Christmas eve. POST: Ok so first I'll set the scene I am a fairly innocent 10 year old child who is unbelievably excited for Christmas. So as any young kid would do I thought of spying on my parents to hear what information they would drop on the **Christmas-Bomb** I sneaked down the stairs like a thief and put one ear to the door. To hear what has scarred me to this day. No therapist could save me from this. I was in need of Marty Mcfly to travel back",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I get motivated to study? I have friends who make 6 figures with little more than a high school diploma. POST: Medical student, 3rd year. Currently in the middle of attempting to clear my board exams.... I am from a town in Northern Alberta, where you can literally make a 6 figure salary with little to no education out on the oil rigs... I've been in school for 6 years now, and even if I do clear my board exams, I still have a year of unpaid internship to complete. After that ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [f22] tell my boyfriend [m25] that I love him? POST: This is my first serious relationship. I've had a lot of dates and some very short lived relationships that ended for reasons such as a creepily involved mother and surprise unmedicated mental illness. So this is really my first stable, longish term, happy relationship. We've been together for 9 months. My boyfriend was in the military and like many men in the military decided to get married young and fast. She was a high",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit...help settle this skirmish between my girlfriend and I. POST: I am going to try to keep this as brief and objective as possible. Every year, my girlfriend, her sister (and her boyfriend), her little brother, and I go skiiing/snowboarding at a local ski place. Its a lot of fun. We were going to go last weekend but the weather was too warm to do so. So we thought we would ""shoot for"" (as in tentatively plan for) next weekend. We decided this Friday night. Fast forward to Sunday",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my friends and roommates [21 M]. How do I tell them I will change universities and leaving the dorm too? POST: Hey Reddit! I've been living with 3 other guys during the last two semesters in a dorm. I couldn't ask for better roommates, we are really compatible with each other and became close friends. We learn/interested the same things and this one year was one of my bests at the university because of this little community of ours. Sadly the last semester went horrib",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by drinking my own piss. POST: Before I begin, I would like to state as a fact that I have no psychological or mental issues. Anyway, this happened a couple of years ago, when I was about 13 years old. Like most people in my school, I was a procrastinator, yet I sometimes took my laziness to the extreme. What do I mean the extreme? It would take me hours and hours into the night to complete a single homework assignment. You know. The typical Youtube or 9GAG trap where you constantly tell",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my gf [21 F] 5 months, am I being crazy and overly sensitive here? POST: I have a problem with the way my GF talks to me. She criticizes me, curses at me, and is sarcastic in ways I don't like. One time she made a sarcastic joke about her trying me out in bed and me not being very good. She says I'm autistic in a joking way. She keeps trying to put her finger in my butt. She calls me a ho and thinks it's funny. Gives me the middle finger and thinks it's funny. She rand",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20F] My Boyfriend [19M] is Sick, I was supposed to see Friends tonight POST: I'm torn about what I should do. My boyfriend and I live together, and have been dating for 2 years. He has been very sick the past couple days, bed-ridden so I've been taking care of him. A couple of my friends from high school, who I haven't seen since graduating (they moved for college) are going to be in town Friday and I was supposed to meet them to go out for dinner. We had made these plans almost a m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My(18F) high school sweetheart(18M) dumped me right before we leave to college. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together since the 10 grade. Before we started dating, he had been my best friend since 7th. He broke up with me out of no where telling me that he ""Does't feel the way he used to, he's still in love with me but not enough to pursue a long distance relationship"" and he won't change his mind. I honestly right now, feel like something just killed me. I can't eat, I c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my friend [17 F] one week, not sure if it's too soon to ask her out. POST: I apologize for posting about high school drama, but I just want a second opinion. A couple weeks ago my friend decided that he wanted to help me get a girl. So he asked one of his friends if she knows anyone that she thinks would be interested in me. One girl came to mind, so she told her about me and showed her a picture of me. When my friend asked her if her friend is interested, her exact wo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 F] ex girlfriend (who I live with) is getting with my [22 M] friend and I [21 M] am not sure if I am comfortable with it. POST: I'm not sure if this post belongs in /r/relationships, but I'll give it a shot anyways. I broke up with my girlfriend about 8-months ago, but we live in a shared house and had already signed this years contract before breaking up. I consider myself fully over her and I've been pursuing other romantic interests for a long while now. I don't consider m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19/M] with my gf [18/F] of 3 years, are having major issues after a trip to the beach involved cheating. POST: So I have been dating my girlfriend for three years. She recently graduated high school and at our high school all the seniors go to Myrtle Beach to celebrate. It involves non-stop drinking all day every day. I wasn't able to go for the first 4 days because my mom wouldn't allow it. The first night she texted me and said she only wanted to date me forever. The next day i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: When I [21 M] am apart from SO [21 F] for too long I start not wanting to see her. POST: We've been together about 4 years and she means a lot to me. I recently moved away and due to her work and mine we won't be able to see each other very much this year and perhaps next year. I've been missing her a lot, really struggling but now it's looking to be over a 3 Month gap as a visit at the 2 month is at a really bad time for me. The thing is now I don't think I want her to visit any",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend wants to wait till marriage suddenly POST: So I just turned 18 and am fresh outta high school, so a young-un I guess. I've been dating this girl for a few months, and she is the love of my life. I lost my virginity to her, and we both told each other we loved each other. I had chances to lose my virginity before, but I had been waiting until I really felt special about someone, so sex isn't exactly something casual to me. This is the happiest we've both been in a long time",positive " r/jobs TITLE: How do I get management skills to run a pub or bar? POST: Since I was about 17 I've had this fascination with pubs and bars. I used to sit in this dive of a pub every week because my friend worked there - and my mind was bursting with ideas of how to bring this dump back to life. Since then I've liked the prospect of managing my own pub or bar. I graduated from University with a (pretty useless) web development degree and I'm looking for something new, and I think this is it. But I'd like to",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit: What is the most awkward thing you have discovered about a fellow Redditor you know in real life? (NSFW) POST: So, it's been kind of a joke between my best friend and I to not tell each other our usernames. Not that it really matters to either of us, but we always pretend to make a big deal about it. Every so often I'll come across a response that really sounds a lot like something he would say so I'll creep on that user only to discover that, to my disappointment, it is not him",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] broke up with my gf [21F] of 1.5 yrs, now what? POST: Sorry if this is a little all over the place, it happened pretty recently and I've been cycling between trying to be optimistic and breaking down crying. Just a few days I called it off with my girlfriend (let's call her Sarah) after 1.5 yrs of dating and 2 yrs of knowing each other. We started out as friends in college but obviously liked each other, she went away for the summer but we stayed in touch while she was aw",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [24F] receiving criticism for visiting a country known for violating human rights and not sure how to handle it POST: Hey /r/Relationships, I just got back from an amazing trip to visit a close friend who has recently relocated across the world. While the purpose was to see her, we also did a few touristy things together and visited 2 countries in the surrounding area. After getting home I loaded up some pictures to facebook and was more than happy to share my experiences with",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Her[23F] and I[25M] have scheduling problems POST: Disclaimer: Using my defunct porn account for the anonymous aspect. My main has friends and her So we started dating mid September, and both were(are) really into each other. Unfortunately our schedules weren't meeting up, but we were meeting once or twice a week anyway. Then some high level of stress went down on her side, and she became quite busy. When we did meet (once a week now), she seemed exhausted from long work hours and f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [17 M] ask out my friend [18 F] when I see her this summer, even though I haven't seen her in almost a year? POST: Using a throwaway for this. I'm a senior in high school, and last school year (my junior year) I joined my school's robotics team. Overall a great decision, made a lot of great, close friends, some older, younger, same age. This is how I met the girl in question. She was a grade above me and had been on the team for all 4 years of high school, so she was one of",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking a snapchat of a crying baby at a basketball game. POST: I'm writing this on mobile so sorry about any errors. This happened a few months ago but the post about the guy taking a picture of the kid on the subway reminded me of this. It was the end of the basketball season and my sister got a killer deal on some lower level seats for a good game. As a basketball fan I was excited this was the lowest I ever got to sit at a game and the best team I got to watch. I was enjoying t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I(20m) am insecure about my gfs(20) past. Need help getting over it. POST: Me and my gf have been together for 10 months. Our relationship has always been kinda rocky but we always compromised and worked through things. She is my first everything and I love her very very much but at times I can't help but think she misses the guys in her past. She had a few relationships before me but said that she only loved one of them which was her first love. When we run into someone from her pa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [15 M] with my ""friend"" [15 M] about a year, been getting left out over and over again until the point where we are almost not friends. POST: So me and my ""friend"" have been freinds since birth really. About last summer things started to change quite a bit. I admit some of it was my fault but not all So ever now and then he would be going to a lake that we live by and Id turn him down because im busy. I told him that I was busy with my girlfriend which demands me to see her every",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Help! Me [24M] with my date(?) [22F], got her number but now it's hit a bit of a hitch... POST: Met this girl at work, she came through on an internship. She just seems like a genuinely sweet person. I got to know her a bit as I was able to chat with her when it was quiet at work, and was attracted to her. Waited about a month to ask her out (the end of the internship - I didn't want to be distracted at work!), which I have never really done before and got her number. She seemed mayb",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me, 21F, with my ex, 22M. When we broke up and went NC, I stupidly promised to tell him when I'm seeing someone else. Now I am, but I seriously don't think it will do anything good for him and is not his business. Do I tell him? POST: My ex was a pretty crappy bf, low EQ, poor communicator, etc. We were long distance by countries so we were doomed to fail. Even after months of me telling him this rship was making me miserable, he was blind sided when I finally broke up with him and v",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Want to play piano (highly sound muffled) with a very sound-sensitive upstairs neighbor POST: Hello wonderful Reddit legal people, It's my first post on Reddit about an issue that's causing me tons of strife. After the end of a 5 year relationship, I'm moving back to an apartment that I've kept. I've rented this apartment for 18 years. I live in mid-century building where sounds carries a lot. My upstairs neighbor is extraordinarily sensitive to noise. Previously, she'd requested th",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: If I have $250k liquid and I'd like around 10% return per year (liquid), what should I do with my money? POST: So I'm just finishing up school now (aerospace) and have no debt and a car that's paid off with no dependents. We're starting at zero. Here's the idea: Once I graduate I figure I'll earn an average income in the low 70's per year with living costs of ~25K/yr (this is after factoring in a 5K fudge factor) and the tax man taking somewhere around 20K/yr. This leaves me wit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my boyfriend [30M] together 1.5 years. He wants to move in, but told me I have to get rid of my cat. This is my late sister's pet. I feel so torn. POST: My sister was always a huge cat lover. When she died, she didn't have much. But she left me her 4 year old Siamese cat, Lollypop. I have bonded with this cat so much. The first few months we were both inconsolible and this cat was the only reason I didn't fall off the edge of the world or go back to drinking (3 years so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'[m] (23) having problems with my room[m]ate (26) about smoking in our tiny kitchen POST: I have been living with three roommates since September, two 20 year olds and a 26 year old, we'll call him Abdul. Since it is getting cold where I live, Abdul has taken to smoking in our tiny kitchen. When I first noticed I went to Abdul and asked him if he could smoke in his room instead of in the kitchen. I thought this was going to be a cut and dry issue. Instead I was met with the followin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[35M] with my GF[28F] of ~2 months talking about kids and marriage. Worried we may be moving too fast. POST: First I should say that our relationship is going great and we are madly in love. We are extremely compatible and she has everything I am looking for. The only ""problem"" is that we are already talking about getting married and having kids. I say ""problem"" in quotes because I'm not sure it is one. I do want to marry her and have kids, but is it normal to feel that way so quic",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (29f) have 2 friends (bith 29m) I've known since kindergarten, the three of us are extemely close...one is openly in love with me and I'm falling for the other... POST: I (29f) have 2 friends Chris (29m) and Sean (29m) who I've known since kindergarten. 2 years ago Sean told me that he was in love with me and wanted to be with me. I don't have the same feelings for him so we lost touch until recently where he again shared the same feelings. In the last month I find myself increa",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by congratulating my teacher's pregnancy POST: *Male teacher, its his wife's, but I couldn't write a good title with that. Also this happened like a week ago* TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [18M] tell a girl I've been dating [18F] that I don't want to see her anymore? POST: Hey reddit. So I [18M] have been dating this girl [18F] for about a month now. We've gone out on maybe six dates and hung out at my place a few times. She's really nice, and probably the most beautiful girl I know. We aren't officially dating (No title), but we've talked about not seeing other people. The problem is that she doesn't have any hobbies, and we don't really share any common in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17m] with my girlfriend [18f], we need to make decisions for the future? POST: Hello Reddit. I have been a lurker on /r/relationships for sometime but never decided to post until now. I am a 17 year old senior in high school. My girlfriend is a 18 year old senior at a different high school. We have been together for a year and two months and honestly it's been pretty great. We see each other at least 3 times a week and I couldn't be happier for the most part. So I am talking to",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Can't stop thinking about past, it's really distracting... POST: Recently, and mostly during class, I'll start thinking of things I did in the past. Not something like my 10th birthday or the day I got my drivers license, but... Well, to be blatantly honest, past hook-ups. This past summer I spent an amazing few months just not giving a fuck about anything, and now it's all coming back to me and I think 'why the fuck did I do that??' and 'how did I ever let myself become like that?' I ca",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I really enjoy cuddling with friends, but am terrible at explaining why and I lose friends because of it. Help? POST: Okay. Little awkward to talk about this, but lets do this. So I'm sixteen. Male. And…well, I really like cuddling. Nothing makes me happier than cuddling/hugging/holding hands/etc. with a female friend. It's how I show I love them, and I have a fuckton of love to show. Unless its my girlfriend, there are no romantic reasons whatsoever for the cuddles. But I never d",positive " r/GetMotivated TITLE: Today i moved a step forward in becoming more assertive POST: I will admit before i start this story being assertive and not being confrontational has always been a big weakness of mine that being said today i moved a big step in not being afraid of confrontation Ok story time. On Wednesday a young girl recently died of brain cancer. Most of the school was grieving. except for one lovely neckbeard who decided to blurt out this lovely statement for the entire class to hear Why shoul",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33m] with my Ex [29F] of 10 years, broke up and I drunk text/called her and don't remember the conversations and I want to contact her to apologize is that wrong? POST: Me and my ex girlfriend off and on agian of ten years broke up and she moved back to California to be with another guy; an old flame. We left on somewhat good terms and were still texting. I still had passwords to some of her accounts and found out when she was going to go visit this guy and got upset. So when I w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18/F] with my boyfriend [20 M] of six or so months, Found a large stash of souvenirs from his last relationship, should I be concerned? POST: Ok, to start a little background, we have been together for a little over six months and it has been a very easy and happy relationship the best relationship i have ever been in, he is polite, smart, funny and respectful of me which means a lot due to an abusive past relationship, we also get on like a house on fire and i couldn't imagine a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help dealing with my sister Overweight, angry, flunking college, and unwillingly to listen to anyone else. POST: My younger sister has always been a problem, having been spoiled by my now deceased grandmother. I was always the one who would be on her case to do things. Once she reached age 16 or so, she stopped, since she's gained weight, she's distanced herself from the family blaming my mother of child abuse. Anything that goes wrong in my sister's life is blamed on my mother. Fa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Just moved in to new place. How do I get flatmate to remove her hair from the drain after she showers? POST: Pretty much explained in the title. So I just moved in to this new place and I share a bathroom with another girl. One of my biggest pet peeves is hair in the drain. I hate it. It causes clogs and poses a bigger problem in the future so I make it a point to remove mine after every shower. I've been here for two days and what happens is, she takes a shower, leaves hair on drai",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Bad Sexual Experiences Tainting Current Relationship [25 F] [nsfw] POST: A lot of my past ""relationships"" have been abusive/creepy/self-centered/just all around unpleasant. For example a boy attempted to set me up as a 'pet' for his girlfriend, I have been with a few people trying to piss off or excite their gf/bf, been bullied into being a beard, and been with someone who would insist on giving me head as an excuse to pester me into returning the ""favor"" because he knew I hated to. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What to do reddit, what to do? POST: Hokay, so 22 yo male here. Ex of 5 years (off and on) broke it off about three months ago because ""things shouldn't be this hard."" Now this was strange because that had always been my line in the past, and the tables had apparently turned. Anywho, we made a relatively clean break, and I assume she has found someone else and moved on with her life, so I proceed to do the same, albeit after a rough few weeks. Fast forward to this past weekend. She ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: It was 3AM when I heard some noises from our living room. I find some RANDOM ASS drunk dude throwing up on our living room floor. After making him leave, I had to clean up his Friday night mistake... Reddit, what situations have made you want to SLAP A BITCH? POST: I live in a dorm of 3 girls. I come home late, go straight to shower and was about to go to bed when I hear someone getting sick from within our suite. I go to the living room and I find some RANDOM ASS MAN throwing up all ove",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My roommate [25 M] has gone tin foil hat crazy, is it ok to bail on short notice? POST: So I've lived with my current roommates for just about a year. Recently one self medicated due to some lower back issues (to speed up the healing) with a steroid he was prescribed for something else a few months back. The problem apparently this steroid can cause someone to become bipolar if they have a predisposition towards it. Without the proper help (which he is refusing) it can become perm",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [20f] has had 14 sexual partners before me [20m] and It bothers me. We've been together 6 months. POST: My girlfriend and I have an AMAZING serious relationship, we are complete best friends and I am so madly in love with her, as she is with me. Let me also state that I'm not and would not ever consider breaking up with her over the fact that she has had so many sexual partners before me. I know she loves me and is very committed to only me. The thing is, it just st",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by eating at a sketchy Indian restaurant. POST: My first TIFU post. This is a poop story, happened last month. The Chinese food story reminded me of that: I was with my family and I met them at an Indian restaurant and I met up with my friends afterwords. As soon as I got there, I started sweating and I was pale and they asked me if I was okay. My stomach hurt but I have IBS so it usually passes. But this was different. So I told them I'm heading home and as soon as I sat down, it hit m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: To the under-22 y/o redditors on r/relationships: POST: You are very YOUNG. I have been seeing a lot of posts by people aged 18-22 about marriage, ""the future,"" children, etc. When you enter a relationship at such a young age, it is unfortunately possible to feel ""stuck"" in a bad system, or a cycle of unhappiness. I'm not implying that this is always the case, but it can warp your judgement when it comes to making that break-up decision. I just wanted to remind everyone that you have",negative " r/relationships TITLE: First time posting [M22] I am currently just into a month relationship with this my girlfriend [F20] and I feel like I am fault for feeling frustrated with something she does and would like some guidance. POST: Hey guys, I am just into a relationship with this girl as the title indicates and while we were getting to know her she was insanely awesome (Still is) and when we started dating it was even more awesome. That being said, my girlfriend is very complacent about nearly every",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my Roommate [50+ M] of 2 months, doesn't do anything besides sleeps all day and night and it's beginning to get annoying... POST: I recently moved into a transitional/halfway house with 6 other guys (I make 7) about two months ago. I fit in pretty well with everybody here, especially my eccentric house manager who just yells when he speaks. As for my roommate, it took him some time to get used to me. He mentioned a few times that he liked having a room to himself for t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (28f) husband (26m) of 3.5 yearsis a little flirty with other women. How do I react better? POST: So, it doesn't happen a lot, but I sometimes pick one husband if he is being friendly to other women. He and all the males in his family have a way of interacting with females (mostly attractive ones) in a familiar, jocular, and often flirtatious manner. He'll call them pet names, expound on their good traits, tell them how much he missed them. He used to do this much more earlier on ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex-girlfriend [20 F] of 6 months duration wants to meet Me [22 M] before I go Abroad for 2 Years POST: Hello fellow redditors, I was in a relationship with a girl for about 6 months 1.5 years back and though the relationship ended weirdly(she couldn't find time for us is the excuse she gave) and it really hit me hard because it was random and we were having the time of our lives. And this happened sadly a day before I had planned to surprise visit her(she lived a 1000 miles away),",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [19M] scared to date because I'm not really into sex. POST: I'm not asexual, but I'm just not in the mood for sex most of the time. My last relationship did not work out too well, and one of the reasons is because my ex wanted sex every other day and I would put off sex for ever because I was never in the mood, even though I would always get an erection when she tried to initate sex. I really was only in the mood for sex maybe once a week. Now I'm scared to date because I'm afr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf (19F) asked me (19M) for a time to think how we can make things better. POST: Me and my gf broke up a couple of months ago for 1 month. We got back together and since then I've been a little bit paranoid about trying to do things right this time (a little bit too much). We spoke about it and she asked for some time, so both of us can think about what's wrong and how we can do better. I'm a little bit scares with ""time outs"" because I'm always afraid of what it really means. She",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (20/f/m, 3 years) My relationship is falling apart, and I'd like some help. POST: We've been together for 3 years. About a year ago she was diagnosed with lupus, and her emotional responses to things have been a little skewed. I'm trying to be unbiased. We're in the middle of discussions on whether or not we (read I) want to make this work. It's not that I don't love her. I do. I just don't know what to do. She hasn't seemed happy for a long time, but extenuating circumstances ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my bf [24M] 4 years, I don't know how to end it. POST: We have been together for 4 years, and long distance off and on for 2. Our relationship started out great, and I really thought we would eventually get married. I continued feeling this way until very recently. On one of my trips abroad, I developed feeling for someone else. This was the first time this happened to me since we've been together. I didn't do anything with this other guy, but I really wanted to, and pr",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I've been given the opportunity to take a year out of University due to personal loss. I'm not rich, I'm not well connected, but I'm willing to work my hands to the bone to travel and make this a year worth remembering for the right reasons. Have you got any ideas for me? POST: Hello everyone. I'm currently a 19 year old student in Scotland studying space and cool shit like that. I'll keep the sob part of the story to a minimum because I'm sure you've all had enough of them, bu",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Peanut allergy POST: I am an 18 year old female. I was diagnosed with a peanut/tree nut allergy at the age of 18 months old. At the time my peanut allergy was rated a 4 (out of six). When I was 16 I was re-tested, and I am not allergic to ALL legumes and tree nuts. My peanut allergy was a 5 out of 6 (91 kU/L). I had not gotten a skin test since I was five years old until two weeks ago. After the skin test there appeared to be no positives, but te blood test showed that things actually got ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by falling asleep at work and shitting myself POST: This actually happened yesterday. I have a tendency to get really, really bored at work - because we have long periods of downtime. To keep myself awake I try to make myself physically uncomfortable. On my way in yesterday morning, I knew I had to drop a deuce, so I figured I'd hold it til after work to get me through the day. It didn't help. About 10am, I'm staring at the clock waiting for my next task to be ready. A minute later my ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] with my boyfriend [26M] of two years are talking tonight, how do I convince him that we can fix things? POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 2.5 years. We have been madly in love, but we've also had hard times. Around the year mark I cheated on him, physically. It crushed him because his dad left his mother for a mistress when he was a freshman in college and it's messed up his concept of trust. Slightly thereafter he cheated on me, though I didn't know about it unt",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (21m) my girlfriend (22) just asked me if I was gay. POST: OK so I just got home and got accused of being gay because some bath soap she didn't know I had, must have fallen from the cabinet when I grabbed my shampoo. It was under my towel I used. Normally I would have hung it up but was late for work. Anyways this isn't the first time she has accused me of being gay. Last time she said because I never try and have sex with her. Well, that is kind of true. I tried telling her ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my fiance [22 M] of three years long distance, how do I tactfully break it off? POST: Hello there. Throw-away because I'm unsure of who knows my account name. I have been with my fiance for three years, engaged for almost one. He is a very nice guy but I don't think he's the right one for me. He is starting to be much more immature, lazy, and I don't think we want the same things, well, I don't think he is willing to work for the things we want. I don't want to hurt hi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What should i do? Advice on arguing friends, being the mediator between them. POST: I feel like I'm lost here. My best friend of 14 years and her ex BF are past arguing, where even a simple conversation turns into a huge thing. He wants to fix them and she says she doesn't care (obvious to me she does) Now she found someone to talk to online from a forum, they are getting along well, long talks, cyber, whatever. He is letting it get to him and taking his anger out by saying spiteful th",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: I had postpartum depression. My child is five and I still don't feel bonded to him. POST: I got pregnant unintentionally amidst dealing with other health issues, so on the tail of that stress it's no surprise that I was eventually diagnosed with postpartum depression after my son was born. The pregnancy was full of lots of what-ifs. For some reason, abortion didn't feel like an option and I felt like adoption was the right choice. But my family, my child's father, and his family were ada",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27 M] ex-girlfriend [24 F] just called me in tears begging to get back together. Broke up two weeks ago and agreed to be friends. Please help. POST: Together for two and a half years, lived together for one year. We were arguing a lot, and I admit to being quick to lose my temper over small things although we both played our parts in making these petty fights worse. Anyway, tonight she calls me in tears saying she's miserable, misses me, just wants things to go back to the way ",negative " r/self TITLE: Reddit, I've spent my entire life trying to get to this point, I need your help. POST: Hi, My name is Andrew. I was born and raised in Middletown, OH, this tiny town just north of Cincinnati. My whole family, from as far back as I know, has been steel workers. My dad, my grandpa's on either side, great grandfather, etc. Obviously, the steel economy hasn't really maintained over the years, so I grew up relatively poor but with a truly wonderful, supportive mother who was behind me in ever",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I[18/M] stop talking to her[18/F] or remain friends: What do I do? POST: Hi guys, I mostly lurk, and this is my first time making a post like this. So I've liked this girl for the last 2 years or so. We've been good friends, we share the same interests, same sense of humour, etc. She has been one of my best friends these last few years of high school, and I even took her to prom. I haven't had the courage to confess my feelings for her, and now it's too late. She's fal",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18/M] with my friend [18/F] want to take it to the next level but there is interest from my other friend [18/M] POST: I've always had an eye on this girl ""lissa"" and we've been friend/acquaintances for a while. I'll see her nearly every day and well say hey and small talk for a bit before we go our separate ways. *We have prom coming up* A week or so ago I was just having another one of those nice short convos when her and I realised stuff I hadn't realised before. She had pr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] have a crush on someone [~20F] in my club and I have no idea if it's okay to ask her out or how to ask her out for that matter. POST: First off some background. I have been part of club (for a big engineering design competition. $100k yearly budget big) on campus for the past 3 years and this year, I am in charge of said club. I spend about 20-30 hours a week working on club stuff. The club is pretty corporate in structure (the ladder would be Me -> her sub-system manager (al",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's the best and worst investment you've ever made? (Not necessarily financial) POST: Let's be honest there's plenty of investments that are not financial. Some will say the investment they've made in their relationship (time investment maybe) is the best they've ever made. Others may argue that it was the worst (financial investment) they've made. Anyways, I'll have to say my biggest and probably best investment was college. My worst investment I can't really pinpoint (I'm s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: It's been 4 years since I [M/25] have been in a serious relationship with another woman. POST: I miss being in a relationship, I hate sleeping alone, coming to work to an empty apartment. Back then it was high school love with just one other person. I can't do this hookup culture that Tinder has bred. I've tried it out and no luck. Had a close call to a relationship but because the timing of where we both were going to be living, a long distance relationship wasn't in the cards. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my __boyfriend_ [19 M] of a year,argue a lot but don't want to break up. POST: Ive been with him for a year now and throughout that year I've always been glad I met him and we have had a lot of good memories thus far together. But also a lot of arguments,long ones,everywhere(including on holiday together). They stem from my insecurities(cheating,looking at girls etc/porn usage etc..) and from different ways of looking at things-I focus more on emotional and he is prett",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Disappointed in SOs ability to take care of himself academically. What do I do with these feelings? POST: Me (F) 20, Him 20, together 3 years, LDR for 1.5 My SO has problems with getting himself to class, studying, doing his homework, and all around being a good student. He recently failed two classes and just had to drop one because he was already failing (4 weeks into the term). I am incredibly disappointed in him to the point where I find him slightly less attractive as a partn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my bf [24M] of 7 years will be planning wedding soon but freaking out about what to do about bridesmaids with only two close friends. POST: Hi all, My boyfriend, or should i say fiancé have been together a while now and recently finally been able to get a place together and discusses our next step to get married. We just began talking about it so we have no details worked out, or a date. Nonetheless, I am so excited! But I am worried as well. I have no friends. Before",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] I (24M) addressed my CEO (60sM) informally, and was subsequently rebuked by another executive (40sF). What happens now? POST: Link to original: First of all, thank you to everyone who took the time to reply to my original post! The general consensus was that I had handled the situation well, or at least as best as I could have, given my situation and experience. Even those of you who thought I'd screwed up said so in a way that was sensitive and respectful. So thank yous a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my bf [34 m] 6 mos, Is he cheap? POST: My boyfriend has quite a bit of money in his savings... something I just recently found out because he told me. I always thought I was better off, but he is 200x better off it turns out. Anyway, at the beginning of our relationship I spent a lot of money on plane tickets to see him and fun things for us to do since I thought he was unable to. I didn't complain but I did feel like he should contribute more, but instead of saying a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My fiancé [28m] want me [25F] to watch porn with him. How do I get over insecurities? POST: My fiancé and I have been together for almost 3 years. Last night he mentioned that he wants to spice up our sex life by watching porn together. Even though we watch it separately, watching it together makes me feel insecure. I guess I feel like he's just looking at another woman in front of me to get off. I would like to get over this feeling to make him happy. I don't want him to think of m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21] I can't seem to make a relationship last over a year because i lose interest. POST: I have had a few relationships, one that was at the back end of senior year of high school that was quite great for a while, yet towards the end of it i had a hard time putting up with my SO in one-on-one, non sexual situations. The same thing happened with my last relationship. Things tend to start off great, but over time I just get annoyed with the other person. Yet this isn't really a reason ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I don't really know what to do and I don't have anyone to ask advice from without feeling like I'm being judged. Help? POST: Hey Reddit, this may be a lot to read but if you have the time I would love your help. Little background: I'm in grade 10, 16 years old. I have a girlfriend I really like, awesome friends, one of the most popular kids in my school, a nice looking life on the out side. But, I feel I have no one to ever ask for help, and I really need it. Mt father passed away when I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [38 F] with my recent exboyfriend [40 M] of one year..I w ant to get over him but I can't and it's killing me. POST: So I'm now regular here..which in itself should have been a warning sign from the outset. I've had to delete my posts because he was trawling through my FB and Reddit posts on his iPad and he knew what I had been saying. We had an argument about his ill-treatment and verbal abuse of his aspergers child. Then he proceeded to wipe the floor with me and remove all si",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Please Help. I don't know how to date. I'm lost, depressed, and scared. POST: I'm a 24 year old girl, and recently got out of a 6 year relationship. It was not only my first serious relationship, but my first and only relationship at all. I'm crushed, heartbroken, and lonely. Absolutely destroyed by this. I made a Tinder account, as well as an OkCupid account. I quickly realized that I'm not quite ready to date yet. I need to heal. However, I also realized that I don't know HOW to ",negative " r/self TITLE: On hating being single despite being happy with your own life... POST: So I've had two really meaningful relationships. Both missing the 3 year mark by a few months. I'm in my early 20s, the first meaningful one was a high school relationship that ended when one of us went off to college. It really hurt, and it took a long time for me to be okay with everything, but it happened and I got through it. This second serious relationship just ended a few weeks ago. It ended because my partner need",negative " r/Advice TITLE: 22 year old guy with some controlling Asian parents in need of advice. POST: Hello I am a 22 year old (turning 23 in a couple of weeks) Asian guy living under his parents roof. I am currently a part time student taking online classes majoring in IT at the same time I have a part time job working as a field specialist for an IT company. On my daily routine I wake up between the hours of 8-12 am and I get myself ready for a day of work. Usually I leave around 12 because the customers I schedu",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [20/m] girlfriend [18/f] has become distant and i think shes hiding something from me. POST: Alright so i dont even know where to start or how im gonna make this cohesive enough. Me and my girlfriend have been dating for a little over a year now and up until about lets say a month ago everything felt awesome. We are totally open with each other and always say whats on our mind. for the past month, maybe more, though she stopped wanting to have sex, which i eventually learne",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/F] moved to a new city 1.5 years ago with my partner [28/m] and we are completely unable to make friends. POST: So I moved across the entire country from where I grew up, and where I lived on my own for the first time (about 1-2 hours from where I grew up depending on traffic). When I moved I decided to go back to college to open up social opportunities and give me something to do while I settled in, while also giving me a concrete reason to be thousands of miles away. And I ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (16 M) and this girl (17 F) have a confusing relationship and I want to label it, but she doesn't POST: Me and this girl are seniors now and we have been friends since sophomore year of high school. Last year we became pretty close, but she had a boyfriend. There was still always this tension between that I felt and apparently she had too. So before this year started and her and her boyfriend broke up we started to hookup and then that transitioned into a relationship for about tw",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[21M] find myself extremely attracted to a good friend[32F] of [3 months] but we know it is not a mutual attraction. How do I deal with this without compromising the friendship? POST: We met 3 months ago and have had trouble figuring out whether we are just friends or more. In just a short time we have become rather intimate with our thoughts and feelings and up until now I have perceived this as potential for being more than friends. She had been in a very physically deprived mar",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] look a lot younger than my boyfriend [24M] and it's frustrating. POST: Sorry I don't know where to post this. If there is another subreddit I should post this then please redirect me. I'm 19F and I look about 15 and it's so annoying! (and being short doesn't help!) My boyfriend is 24 with a beard and all and he looks a lot older than me. So many people have asked and sometimes I feel so ashamed that I am like this. It even got to the point that his mom thought I was underage",negative " r/cats TITLE: Story of a shelter cat. POST: Hey, i have been subscribed to this subreddit for a while and i thought i would share my story. About 4 months ago, my family cat of 15 years died of colon cancer. He was my mother's best daily companion ever since i moved away to college. After 3 months (for those who don't want to do math, a month ago) we decided to go to the local shelter to try and find a cat. Enter buddy. Now, here's the reason i am posting this story. In the shelter, buddy was a bit wit",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: I [23m] need advice on breaking up with girlfriend [23] of 3.5 years POST: I have been with my girlfriend for 3.5 years and I have questioned if she was right for me for a long time. She considers me her soul mate, wants to get married and have children down the road, and be with me for the rest of our lives. I obviously do not reciprocate those feelings at this time. I will forgo listing the reasons that I need to end the relationship as it would be unnecessary; I need to stop dragging t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my girlfriend [17F] of *3 months*, having depression issues. POST: First off, we are unofficially dating. We are christians, and her parents are very strict with her. I would love too ask her out, and make it official, but she requests I have her parents permission. I have known her for ~5 months. I say we have been ""dating"" for 3 months because thats when things got serious. We are in love. I will marry this girl. She has saved me from many heart-breaks. And many ot",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [29F] find online dating difficult and live in a small town. POST: I have been single for the past 4 years, going on 5 in the new year. I have been living in a rural area for the past 3, made a few friends and dated a bit through their set-ups, unsuccessfully. I have been off and on a few dating sites over the past 3 years and have met a lot of nice men, although I have not been able to connect with them long-term for one reason or another (lack of attraction, intolerable behaviour",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by pretending I'm an exchange student looking for weed POST: **I live in Europe and English is not my first language** Last night I was at our regular class meeting in my fairly small hometown. After few drinks, me and my best friend wanted to smoke some pot, so we went outside and started to think about where to get it. I remembered that one dude who is used to blaze a lot was telling me something about dirty vietnamese bar in the middle of city where they sell weed. So we went out and",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever had a dream in which he actions in the dream, happen in reality? POST: When I originally moved to this area, I moved with my boyfriend at the time, he turned into a manipulative, lying, mind game playing, psychopath, who extorted me for money and tried to force me into prostitution. When I moved out the cops got involved, he kept most of my stuff I had to finance through him ( bed, dresser, etc) and refused to give them to me. He ended up selling everything but I still had",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my boyfriend [18M] of 8 months, he has very poor self esteem and finds it hard to believe I care about him POST: Hello there :D I have a boyfriend, who I adore the shit out of. He's my best friend, I have a deep admiration of him as a person, he's the most attractive person I have ever laid eyes on. I tell him all this frequently (specific compliments are very important to him). His self esteem is in the toilet. I know he spent all of his high school years (we have b",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: How do I comfort my friend [F19] from afar, whose boyfriend [M 20] will be leaving her in a month after more than two years together? POST: The context: My best friend and her boyfriend have been together for more than two years. They go to the same college a couple states away from where I go to college. I got a text message this morning that simply said ""Help."" and nothing. But I slept through it until 1:00PM and when I was finally on the phone she told me what happened. Her boyfriend",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [33M] married a beautiful woman [30F] I'm really attached to, but I find myself attracted to other women. POST: I know my wife for 7 years and we got married, almost on impulse 2 years ago. I cannot say I regret that decision, even though she is a bit 'too jealous and moody at times, but I realize I find myself increasingly attracted from other women. For now, I have resisted having extramarital relations, but I do not think this will last long. I feel less and less att",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Are earphones killing music? POST: Look at it this way, nowadays with earphones, everyone can listen to music anywhere, anytime with not much hassle. But I seem to notice a certain trend, that is people would listen to earphones a lot when outside, but when once they are at home, most people just chunk their earphones away and forget about it. It seems like many people just listen to the earphones for the sake of doing so, or just listening to the nicely mixed 'noise' I like to call ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] and my bf [22 M] been together 1 month, I don't like where its going. POST: I met this guy on okc and we've been going out for a month. Hes a really sweet charming guy but I really don't like how the relationship is going. His father passed away when he was young and its just him and his mom. Understandably they are close but its to the point where its disturbing and getting in the way of our relationship. Most of the time we hang out at his house because he doesn't have a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] am falling for this guy [29M] who is still not officially divorced POST: Backstory: I started to be friends with this guy right after his ex cheated on him and left him with some guy she met online. It recently didn't end well and now she's back in the area to live with her family. Right now we're technically just friends, but I'm finding myself to be more and more into him. We go out to movies and dinner, hang out all the time, he's meeting my parents, he drove me to the h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my Husband [25 M] 3 years, he owns his own business and stays at home while I work. He doesn't bring in any money but also doesn't do any chores. Am I being unreasonable in asking him to do one or the other? POST: My husband owns his own business but it's still young and he only makes around 200 dollars a month. I want to be supportive but according to his partner, it will be several years before they begin to see more personal profit. He stays at home all day and do",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using gasoline to start charcoal POST: The obligatory it didn't happen recently but a long time ago in high school. So it was a nice summer day, me and several of my friends wanted to barbecue. We decided why not, it's a nice day we have nothing better to do so we did. We went and bought all the typical things for a sweet day of barbecuing(charcoal, hot dogs, hamburgers, and other things). We get back to my friends house and went outside to get the charcoal started. This is where I f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my BF___ [18M] have been together for two years we broke it off for a year now we're back together, However Mom and Dad never liked him! What should I do? broke it off a year ago and now POST: For Two years I had dated my boyfriend (lets call him Robert) and we broke up for a year due to some personal issues he was going through, also he was a bit of a jerk and never really cared about me. Now, we're back together and everything has changed, he is quite the nice guy he ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my ex [24 M] seven months, he is sending me romantic messages POST: We had an intense amount of communication during our relationship, sending books, letters, music, writing, drawings, etc. multiple times a day. He broke up with me to work on himself. I asked for NC two months. We communicate occasionally as we have similar professional interests and live in a small town. (There is no way to NOT see each other.) I also introduced him to my mentor because knowing each",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [20/M] keep my depression from wrecking my relationship with my girlfriend [23/F]? POST: My girlfriend [23/F] and I [20/M] have been together for five months. She's honestly the most compatible woman I've met. We're both a special kind of ""weird"", and I feel like I belong when I'm with her. I never run out of things to talk about with her all night, while my conversations with other people often fall short. My girlfriend is like the other piece to my jigsaw puzzle that I fin",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Need to move out ASAP POST: I'm not sure which sub to post this in so apologies in advance if this is the wrong one. Here is my situation: I am currently living in a very hostile environment with people who are driving me to the brink of insanity. I do not have enough money to support even my most basic needs (food), let alone pay rent and such. I have read numerous articles online about how to accomplish a move with no money, and they all say to check with friends and see if they",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me (20/f) and my SO/boss (25/m) are two compatible people with totally incompatible futures. Do I break it off now? POST: My bf and I have been dating for about 9 months and it's been kind of a roller coaster. He was the biggest crush I've ever had and we work together (he's technically the manager) and it's been amazing to know that not only did he choose to like me back, but to love me as well. We have a very mature relationship, we never fight or lose our tempers, but this",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the most awesome thing you've done that you can never prove to anyone? POST: When I was about 16 I went to some resort with my parents and some girl there liked me and we ended up going on a little date there. We played a game of pool. Here is the awesome: I made a jump shot that split 2 balls in to 2 end corners. 1 ball went straight in the corner pocked, and the other ball went in the other corner and knocked down a ball that was near the corner pocket already, before it fel",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Do I move (temporarily) to a place I despise to be debt free or stay home and continue living poor......? POST: So right now I am living as an aspiring actor in Vancouver, working part time as a Barista, barely making $1,200/mo. Half of which goes towards rent. That leaves $600 for groceries, my student loan payments to the bank, my student loan payments to the government, and payments to the credit card company. All together I owe about $33,000. I love Vancouver. I have great friends, a g",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Having problems with my boyfriend, but I have no clue what to do about it. Please help... :( POST: I'll just start off by saying that I'm a girl. My boyfriend and I have been dating for almost two years, and recently he has been very stressed out with school. He never calls me or texts me, I always call him first and what not, sometimes he will ignore me all day even though I can see he is on facebook all the time. I'm not sure if I'm overreacting- I hope I'm not being a crazy bitch ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28F] am moving in with an SO [33M] of nearly 2 years for the first time and am nervous about it. What is some advice/tips to make the process go smoothly? POST: Basically exactly what it says on the tin. I will be moving in with my boyfriend next month. I've never lived with a SO before and this relationship is my longest one, so I'm nervous about how it will all work out. So far, we have discussed finances and will be splitting living expenses 50/50, as he wanted to keep everyt",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my parents, don't like Internet relationship and everything related to meeting someone on Internet POST: Hi, So i'm 22 and i live with my parents and i love them but i have something who make me feel not very okay with them. With internet and everything i have begun to make friends and even dated some people that i have meet first online and after i have see them. But my parents doesn't like this, so most of the time i have to lie to them because of how i meet the pe",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [15/m] I am in quite a conundrum, any help wanted.. POST: I am a 15 year old boy who, despite my younger age, has the look, voice, and attitude of a 17 year old. Most people make this mistake, and while they quickly fix it, some girls act flirtier towards me, either because of my looks or my attitude. I am a generally nice guy, but like to take things pretty far pretty quickly. I have trouble keeping a relationship or friendship because of this, and thusly have an extremely tou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my Friend [18 F] Is this a Date or no? POST: This friend of mine was a classmate of mine for Senior year only as she came up for only that year. I sat aside from her in only one of classes and we rarely talked. During this year I had a crush on her. But it never led to anything. She wasn't looking for a relationship. After about a year out of High school though I message her out of a dark place and she was there to help me. Set me straight and pretty much say what the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: After much reflection, I (29F) have realised I am too selfish in romantic and friend relationships. How can I help myself? POST: My bf and I broke up last week, see: I've been doing a lot of thinking about myself - who I am and how I act. Not to fix this relationship specifically, but mainly to stop this from happening in future relationships and make myself a better person. After a lot of thinking, I wonder if i am too selfish with my needs. After a break up, lots of advice is to",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by allowing lustful guests to use my bathroom. POST: So I'm an easy going gal. I let guests and their partners stay at my house as they wish. I let them utilize the house however they may... but that stops today. I let two stay over and they arrived when I was at work. When I came home they were in my room and I kindly escorted them to the guest room. I rarely ever saw the two, they'd typically be in the room or scavenging for food. What I wasn't really expecting was for them to partak",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [25F] Personal Issues with casual encounters and a lack of relationship POST: Hello. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but I'm trying my luck. I am a 25-year old female. My last relationship was 6 years ago, which lasted about a year. After that breakup, I focused on my academics. When I was done with all that, I started having casual encouters, or hookups, since I have *needs*. And ever since, that's all I've gotten. In a span of 2 years, I've been with 15 men, so",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] very tired of rejection, need advice. POST: I'll preface this by giving a little background of... Past self: For the majority of my life (up until the age of 15) I was over weight and very unconfident. I had trouble even holding conversations with girls. Current self: I am not going to say I am some sort of Arnold Schwarzenegger but I have become quite ""ripped"". I no longer have any confidence issues, in fact, I have become extremely confident in myself and have literally",negative " r/books TITLE: Kobo question POST: /r/ereader is pretty dead so I thought I might post this here. I got a kobo at xmas (a gift, I probably wouldn't have bought one myself).. Anyway it appears to be bricked. It's stuck at the ""eReadering: anything. anyplace"" screen. I've tried resetting it with the recessed reset button on the back. Tried while pressing the d-button and the reset button. Tried turning the power off. Charged it for 5 hours. Nothing. Anyone know of any fix for this? If not, what do",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] has a serious problem with farting on my boyfriend [24 M] of about a year when we go to sleep. POST: I find that if I ""go"" at my boyfriend's place I am so terrified of letting out a fart or him hearing me pooping (his bathroom echoes quite a bit, even with the tap on) that I am unable to ""go"" a lot of the time, or not fully empty what I need to. Which has lead to a much greater issue: farting in bed. I am terrified of farting in bed and yet in this relationship I'm farting",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (17F) My Boyfriend And Female Friend Hug? POST: Hey, my English is not sogood so please bear with me :) My boyfriend (17M) has had a close friend who's a girl, for years. And I know that they have dated for a few months, years ago. so there must be some attraction between them. And they hug eachother, often. I don't like that, and the other day I was with my boyfriend at school and she came up to him and hugged him, when I was right there, and it made me feel uncomfortable. I don't w",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Want to break lease Landlord gives notice to vacate. POST: Kansas City Missouri 3 months ago my apartment was broken into, this scared the shit out of me and my wife. Nothing was stolen, just the people left some really creepy stuff around. After this happened we asked the landlord to replace the two locks in our apartment, the one to apartment building and the one to our apartment. They waited 3 days to replace the lock on our apartment door, then waiting two months they took the doo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Who is right? Me or my mom? POST: Me: 25/male Gf: 24/female Mom: 60/female Dad: 63/male Hey all. I have been with my gf for 4 years. My mom has long thought friends should not be left alone in the house while she or my dad are not home. She does not usually apply this rule to my gf though, who has generally been trusted by my family. Me and my mom go to church every Sunday, and my gf sleeps in until I get back home. We only see each other friday-sunday each week. My mom is sayi",negative " r/loseit TITLE: When to Rest POST: Hey guys, I'm not sure if this question belongs here or in somewhere like r/fitness but I'm working out mostly to get healthier and stronger and but I really need to lose weight. My question is really about your gym schedules and when you listen to your body and when to push yourself. I wake up early to go to the gym at least 3-4 times during the work week. My work outs are usually 30 mins of cardio + 30+ mins of weight traning. I rotate my days to focus on upper body a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: After 7 hours of sleep in 2 days, 2 Red Bull Vodkas and a 5-hour energy, I fainted at my friends family Christmas party. How did you ruin Christmas, Reddit? POST: So every year I attend my family friends Christmas party. The party took place on Saturday, Christmas eve. My buddy and I went out Thursday and Friday. We returned late night both nights and in those 2 nights I got a total of 7 hours of drunken sleep (3 on Thursday night, 4 on Friday night). I gathered myself and began chuggi",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Short Term Advice: Relocated w/o a job lined up, Savings Dwindling POST: Hey personalfinance, I'm a woman in my mid-20's in need of some wisdom. Breakdown of my situation is below:   • My SO and I recently moved to a different state this past July. We moved because my S.O. was transferring offices w/in his company. • Since moving, I've been actively trying to find a new job. I've have had some interviews, made some promising network contacts, still pushing through, staying mot",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm mostly confined to my home for the next few months with limited transportation. I'm sick of spending my days watching TV and playing video games. What's something productive/awesome I can do? POST: So last week I got into a car accident. My car is totaled and the insurance company didn't give me anything for it. Luckily my college semester was over, so I didn't miss any school. Another plus is that I live about 10 minutes from work (walking distance). I don't have quite enough money",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by calling a little girl with cancer a skinhead POST: TIFU By calling a little girl with cancer a skinhead. This happened a few years ago, me and a few of my friends were joking around and just having a good time at our middle school. A bit of backstory, we at the time had a friend (we will call him John) who liked to shave off his hair. So when we joked around we usually referred to him as skinhead. This was all in good fun, and John would just laugh and insu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my friend [23 F] of over 10 years, not seeing eye to eye. POST: Okay so i've been friends with this girl for years, been through heaps of ups and downs with her. She once badmouthed my brother with his friend just to get closer to that guy. I found out and she acted remorseful but clearly wasn't. Anyway i forgave her and just kept my distance. Anytime we talk its just me talking and keeping the conversation alive, her input is very unnecessary and trivial. She also lik",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Lifting everyday and feeling great! POST: I know this may be a stupid question but I have become addicted to lifting. So much that I want to do it everyday so great for weight loss! My gains/loss in weight have been very good. Almost a solid 10 kg lost and every single one my lifts are stronger. But I decided to lift upper and lower every day, and I have not gotten any alarming signs. Although last week I felt so weak and felt like shit during one of my upper days. I am not sure if that",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is it normal for my [18/F] boyfriend [19/M] to act differently with his guys than he does with me? POST: I've never wanted to be that girl to change a guy. And I didn't think I had changed my boyfriend so much until his brother mentioned something. I guess even his brother got upset that my boyfriend acts completely different with me than he does with his guy friends. I didn't really think much of it; and my boyfriend reassured me by telling me that he can be completely open with me ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is it wrong for me [f20] to not want to know when bf [m21] is flirted with? POST: Vague title I know, but here's the story... Me [f20] and bf [m21] have been dating a little over a year and overall our relationship has been amazing (good communication no big fights etc.) Given the fact that he's 21, he goes to bars/out drinking with friends on the weekend which is perfectly fine with me...except for when he'll text me something along the lines of ""some girl just tried to hit on me an",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [17F] Boyfriend [20] Now Owes Me Money POST: First post. Yay. :p I'm 17 and I've been dating this guy for six months. He's incredibly important to me and we get along very well. About a month ago he was arrested for possessing marijuana and was released on bail. While my boyfriend was still in jail, his friend (we'll call him Thomas) approached me about helping to pay to get my boyfriend's car out of impound. I have a part time job in fast food and usually have a decent amount o",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: How can I find out if my record has been expunged? (FL) POST: When I was about 14, I got caught at school with a small baggie of pot, due to being a very unlucky dumbass. I was sent to Teen Court, where I completed my sentence and all that jazz. That was the one and only issue I've ever had with the law- I've never even gotten a speeding ticket. So. Now, at age 25 as a premed student, I'm applying for some volunteer positions, including one as a sexual assault advocate at a local cris",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By fratting too hard at a hotel POST: So we were in Chicago for a Model UN conference (college). On the first night, my friend and I ate a bunch of edibles, and then invited the delegation into our room for drinks (mind you, the hotel has a strict no alcohol policy). We then proceed to receive noise complaint after noise complaint, until the hotel night manager decides she's had enough and brings a security guard up to our room. She then starts pounding on the door, at which my my frie",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I have a shitty professor. What are my options? POST: I signed up for an innocuous enough class (Greco Roman Humanities) with the intent of expanding my horizons and better understanding how Western Civilization developed. I played the diligent student part and looked the class and professor up online. Rave reviews. The guy is great! Unfortunately, these reviews couldn't be farther from the truth. I checked online for the syllabus and discovered that we needed two books for his c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: May have blown it with a new relationship... M(21) POST: So, after a month and a half-ish of dating (all really wonderfully were on date number eight I think?) with this girl, I was planning on having the exclusive talk with her tonight but she cancelled on me. We had some weirdness last night when I almost went to a mutual friend's birthday party. (I was invited by a friend of mine). Anyway, she seemed uncomfortable with me going because she has anxiety disorder and it comes out re",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] am getting ""bored"" with my relationship with her [20F] of one year POST: Throwaway because. She is my first real meaningful LTR and also the first person that I have had sex with and a significant sexual relationship. Lately I have been thinking more and more of wanting to have relations with other women, romantically and sexually. I'm conflicted. On one hand, I love her (At least how I see it, you be the judge given the context...) and we have a very decent relationship",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Going too far? (f's26,23) POST: Grew up the only girl in a house full of boys, and learned from an early age to give as good as I got. Only I'm in a weird situation now. My gf (lesbianism as a result of living around so much testosterone? offensive?) *loves* to dish it out. I mean, sets the table, roasts the pig, and gives you a nice hunk o pork. She has the meanest, bluest mouth I've ever seen (great to kiss mind and...). But! The minute I turn around and give her a bit of it back (",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Help with fraud POST: A couple years ago my girlfriend, now fiancé took a job with Aerus Electrolux in Georgia. I had a great job, made plenty of of money, she just wanted a job to kill time and meet people. (We had just moved) I thought nothing more of it, and we lived our lives. Fast forward a few months and we start realizing we are going to move again. This is when I find out her boss has opened numerous lines if credit with her name and SSN. These alwere for equipment, and to ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: How do I go about fighting CPS for my rights to my siblings? POST: I'm 19 years old in Washington State, USA. I've hit so many walls and I think it's finally time to start fighting. The backstory: My mom was arrested on August 26th, 2015 for allegations of distribution of child pornography (which she will be facing 5+ years in federal prison for) the FBI raided our house, arrested her, and Child Protective Services removed my minor siblings from the home and sent them to relatives in a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Extra room in my new house; Reddit, what should I do with it? POST: I moved out of my old apartment into a new house. It's just me, one roommate (we're both male), and my dog. Now here's the problem... it's a 3 bedroom house for only two of us. What should we do with the extra room? I'm not very creative so I don't have any idea. I hate the fact that there is an empty room just sitting there going to waste. Here's some info that might help you guys come up with some ideas: We're colle",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend [37 M] with his I don't know what [58 F] 13 years need advice POST: Maybe this is the wrong place to put this but need some feedback and see what others think. If I should even step in or just let it continue to be. My friend is an attractive 37 year old male who has a seemingly unhealthy sexual attachment to a 58 year old female. He laments that he deserves an attractive smart woman in his life that is worthy of him but he continues to go to this 58 year old trollish woman",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23, F] am getting weirded out by the affection shown by him [28, M] after only meeting for a week POST: Hi everybody. Like the title says, I'm getting weirded out by the amount of affection this guy has been showing me after only knowing me for about a week! We've gone on dates but he acts like he's been dating me for months with this gestures (holding hands, kissing me very spontaneously, saying very very sweet things etc.). We kind of barely know each other and I don't want to m",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Contesting a will in the U.K. POST: Hi all, I'm writing on behalf of my 80 year-old grandmother, a U.K. native who's lived in the U.S. (MD) for ~30 years now. Most of her family is still in the U.K., which is why this question concerns the law over there. Kind of a complicated story: Just a few weeks ago, her older brother (Let's call him Charles) passed away. He was 82 and lived alone, as his wife passed away years ago and they had no children. About 6 weeks before his death, (thi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my sister [13F]. She was struggles after being bullied, how to help her? POST: I'm really sorry if this comes out as choppy and with bad english, as it's not my first language and I haven't really thought of how to explain the situation. My sister has been bullied at school for a long, long time. I don't remember when it startet, but it was in second, maybe third grade, and it continued through to seventh grade before the teachers reacted and in year eight she was prom",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I(21m) be allowed to go through my girlfriends(24f) phone? POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 8 months and things have been going well. The only problem that I've really noticed is that she is a bit sketchy with her phone. When we are together she always has it away from me, in her purse, or on the other side of the room face down. When someone calls her she doesn't answer it and when she gets a text or a notification she seems to turn the screen away from my vi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO cheated...and I might be okay with it? Looking for outside perspective. POST: Context: We're young, I'm 18f and he's 20. I've just graduated HS and am going to college out of state in the fall. He's out of school and working. He and I have been dating for almost 3 years, had some difficult times last year, learned, genuinely matured from it. I consider him my closest friend and I thought we have been in a really fun and awesome place, emotionally speaking. Brief summary; he t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my newly ex boyfriend [30M] of ~2 years just broke up, but we still work together, rekindling a lot of emotions. POST: I am getting out of a ~2 year relationship with my boyfriend whom I also work with. We always had a healthy relationship, talking through problems and listening to one another. However, he has always had a problem with opiates. He still lives at home with his parents so he can straighten himself out. (he has been clean for almost 2 years) He is severely",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Can my ex (27/M) take my/our dog from me (20/F)? POST: I don't know if this goes here or r/dogs. Guess we'll try both. We were together 3 years, recently broken up for the third and final time, and he's made it well known that -he- would be taking the dog. Now I would understand under other circumstances that -if it was before we were together - he would obviously take the dog. But, I gave him 800 $ for the dog, the dog was 775 $ so it did more than pay for him. I put in the effort",negative " r/relationships TITLE: SO [25M] and I [21F] (together 3 years) were on a different page in our relationship. We communicated and figured it all out, but now is it wrong for me to want to stop doing certain sexual things? If it is wrong, how do I become okay with it again? POST: Hi, reddit. Please help me out here. My SO [25M] and I [21F] have been together for 3 years. Recently it was discovered that we had been having a miscommunication and had different ideas on where the relationship is on. Now, I wan",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [25/m] asked a colleague [26/f] out on a date. She wanted to hookup but not date, I did not get it at first and hinted that I wanted a relationship. Now it is awkward at work and getting on my nervous. What do? POST: Pretty much what the title says. I asked her out on a date; and she hinted that she does not want a relationship, only to hook up. I took it as a sign that she likes me and asked her later on a second date, hinting that I want a relationship. She said yes, only t",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Trying to find ""the"" dress and David's Bridal is incredibly unhelpful. POST: Just need to vent! I have tried on probably 15 or so dresses since getting engaged. I haven't found the ""one"" yet, but I do have a pretty good idea of what styles/materials I like best. So I was pretty happy when I found (what I think will be) the one while looking through David's Bridal's newest releases. Sweetheart neckline, structured top, ballgown silhouette but not *too* poofy, tulle skirt. Gorgeous ",positive " r/Advice TITLE: [24-M] Physically assaulted by ex-girlfriend [24-F].. Need advice. POST: Hey everyone. I know this might seem a bit absurd, but I really don't know where else to reach out. I was recently attacked by my ex-girlfriend. I was driving on the thruway, and she reached over as the passenger and struck me across the face. She is a person of ""*local fame*"" and some respect, while also being an advocate for ""**Domestic Violence**"". So, to prove it actually happening. I recorded her admitting to th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Tomorrow I'm hooking up with a friend who has a boyfriend. We've been hitting on each other for months and it has become inevitable. What's your ""breaking the bro code"" story? POST: So this is the thing. I've met her on college the past semester and we hit it on almost instantly. I had a girlfriend at the time and she had a boyfriend too, so we just kept it at that. There's been this underlying sexual tension that we didn't care to avoid and it has escalated to a point of no return. She'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my ex girlfriend [34 F], I left her at a few months pregnant. Will need to visit soon, awkward POST: We both wanted this child. We tried to conceive for months and when we finally did I was beyond happy. I still want to be a part of the child's life. That has never changed. We had a great relationship WHILE we were trying to get pregnant and before, I just couldn't stand who she became about a month after she got pregnant. She showed her true colors. Nothing I did wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my friend's friend that I met once, [17 F] who posts about her eating disorder online. POST: My friend Allie (18 F) is sort of twitter famous. She has a high follow count and she has made a lot of friends off Twitter. Last year, one of her internet friends, Madison (17 f), came to visit our town. Allie invited Madison to hang out with our friend group. She followed me on Twitter and I follow her back. She posts tweets often throughout the day. She posts a lot in deta",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [early 20s, M] am attracted to my best friend's sister [late teens] and I don't know what to do about it POST: He and I have been friends for about 10 years now and we're in our early 20s. His sister is a few years younger than us. I get along well with their family, they're practically family to me, and that's probably why I'm not sure what to do about this. I'm not afraid of being rejected and I don't care if it makes things weird between me and her... I just don't want to mess t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Advice I (23M) her (24F) involves a child which is hers and another guy not mine POST: Allright reddit, I just moved out to Phoenix AZ about a year ago. I pretty much just picked up and moved so that's where I am at today. However before I moved out here I was talking to this woman and hit it off very well never really hung out with her just talked to her a lot at work and after work. When we decided to hang out and everything she backed down because she found out she was pregnant a",positive " r/travel TITLE: Japan or France? POST: I'm a junior at an American university that requires a trip abroad, which I love, but I just decided to graduate a year earlier than I had expected (I dropped a major) so I now have to rush and pick a trip. One of my friends is going to France for a month, while one of my professors is taking a group to Japan. I know a little French and am going to pursue that no matter what, but I've always wanted to visit Japan and learn that language, too. I know that both have gre",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What started out as a non-serious relationship is getting complicated. What should I do? POST: I started hanging out and sleeping with a guy and we've been pretty inseparable for the past several weeks. We have never gone official or anything. He is a musician and is starting a band with a girl who is literally the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, I mean it's ridiculous. I told him that I was uncomfortable with it, but that I didn't think I had the right to ask him not to sleep wi",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My friend's boss has sexually explicit photos of her from when she was 17 and older. POST: Hey Reddit I made this account because I genuinely need help. I recently just found out something that's caused someone I care about lot of pain. My friend posted some sexually explicit pictures of herself online about three years ago, some when she was seventeen and some after. I understand this isn't her most proud decision but she was really going through a lot and people sometimes make bad de",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] having trouble getting over gf [25 F] past sexual history. POST: We have been together for just about a year, and had a very open ( I thought) relationship early on as friends. We had similar pasts in terms of recent breakup from a ltr. I am not nearly as sexually experienced as her, and she told me about a few people she was with. She had just gotten back from a month long trip from europe and worked at a hospital prior to us meeting, but I had recently found a journal (I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ever since a friend teased me about me [21 M] and a friend [20 F] I asked to hang out, she's been relatively unresponsive. POST: So a while back, I asked girl A to hang out. However, due to a huge exam coming up, I could not get the time. So we planned for something after my major exam. Since then, we talked a little on Facebook. Once my other friend discovered that I asked her to hang out, she teased me about it, as if we're a couple. I didn't know who told her that, so I asked girl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my (f - 24) brother (m - 23) doesn't talk to me anymore... POST: hi guys, like mentioned in the title, my little brother doesn't talk to me anymore. i'm devastated. we've always been best friends, and we used to tell each other everything. in january, he got together with his girlfriend (24). let's call her chelsea. chelsea and me have been in high school together, and we never really liked each other. even if i tried, i couldn't tell you why... ever since they got together, he's",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my friend[18F]: Am I crazy, and was my roommate right? POST: I'm 19 year old freshman in college. In the first semester, I had had next to no luck with dating, with most of my ""relationships"" lasting one date. During this, I met this awesome girl in one of my classes. She had really similar interests that I had, but was dating somebody at the time. A bit after second semester started, I started to hang out with her more. We stayed up late watching movies cuddling, and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16M] and my girlfriend [16F] dating for 1y and 3 months, I don't know how to talk about a mess up POST: Before I started dating her(about 2 years ago) I had ended up masturbating with one of my friends, also a guy. We only did it twice at the time and it was awkward and uncomfortable, so it stopped. We never did anything more. After dating my girlfriend for a few months I told her about it and she was obviously not happy about it, but she was understanding and said it's fine as l",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20/F] with my friend/fwb [20/F], We're so inexperienced that we don't know how to kiss or even begin to. POST: I am a lesbian, and so is my friend. We've tried to date before but neither are interested in a proper relationship right now. We are both inexperienced with intimacy- neither have been in a relationship before, mostly due to being in the closet in high school. We're both ready and willing to hook up, and actually attempted to yesterday, but we hit a roadblock: We don'",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Can we sue our old landlord for not doing anything about bedbugs? POST: So around two years ago our old neighbors came over to show us a bedbug he had found in his apartment(duplex). Flash forward a year and our apartment had bedbugs too. Contacted the landlord multiple times, and told him that it originated next door and when they spoke with the other tenants, they denied it. Since they denied it, the landlord didn't do anything but drop a bottle of alcohol off and told us to use that",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Partner [24F] has no ambition whatsoever compared to me [25M] and it's killing our relationship POST: As the title says really. I've been with my partner for a two years and we've been pursuing a relationship with each other for years before we got together as we were so well suited (Although previously we were living long distance, now we're not). Now we've been together for an extended period of time it's dawned on me how little ambition my partner has. She's had the same minim",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] alone for the first time in 2 years after breaking up with [18 F]. This is my first real breakup. What are some do´s and dont´s? POST: So, we broke up 3 weeks ago. After we broke up we continued as normal minus the sex. Lots of cuddle, movies and talking. Just like before. She left three days ago.We have talked a fair amount about this in the past also, so it wasn´t really unexpected. We moved together to a new city and she didn´t get into a school and just sat at home for 6",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: What are my rights to my academic records? POST: I would appreciate any input as I'm at my wit's end with trying to get a copy of my transcript and I'm wondering what my legal rights are. My apologies if this is long, I'm trying to be complete. I am in the US. *The Details:* I am currently enrolled as an online undergraduate at a university in Utah. Around the same time I started taking classes casually at that school before I was admitted, I took classes in American Sign Language ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by loudly declaring my love of virgins to a packed college library POST: Context - I am a medical student and sometimes I make audio notes of the topics that I am studying using a dictaphone. I try to make the recordings somewhat dramatic to help memorise them. Sometimes I also use mnemonics to help me remember. I'm currently studying neurology and was learning about the cranial nerves. There are 12 of them and the mnemonics to help you learn them are all quite dirty ([examples] I was wa",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [25f] worried my 8 month exclusive relationship with [26m] is a convenient rebound situation POST: I met the man of my dreams several years ago and we became social media friends since we were both in relationships. I watched him date about two other girls this way. His last relationship was very serious and meant a lot to him. They broke up in July of 2014. I saw him at a bar in September of that year and after a few innocent meet ups we became friends with benefits. --------",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I [22/f] ask if he's [24/m] okay, or just leave it alone? POST: I've been dating a guy for about three weeks now. We don't text/talk every single day, but when I text him he always texts me back, and vice-versa. Well, last time I heard from him was last night (on NYE). I actually got a little snippy with him because we were talking through text and he stopped responding, so I sent something along the lines of ""Ok, nevermind then,"" to which he responded and said he was bu",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: advice for a (24/m)dating a a girl(24/f) who does coke occasionally POST: Started dating this girl 4 months ago, liked her for awhile, shes like me for a very long time also. Things are great. Very much in love, I stay over at hers frequently and its fantiastic. However she does coke occasionally. I find that super unattractive, She knows I dont like it, and has promised to cut back/stop eventually. She also wont do it if I'm with her, knowing it bums me out to see it. Hones",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How is your No Contact going :( ? POST: After four months of embarrassing, toe cringing chasing of the (20/F) girl I love, (20/M) I finally initiated No Contact last night. She is an ex of four months btw. Everything she has done up till now has pointed me towards moving on, forgetting her and to stop being her ""back-up guy"". Reddit, research, and friends have all said the same. It's sad though... because I know she has a good heart. She is a good person, or at least wants to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] was dating this guy [23M] but he suddenly stopped contacting me. What should I do? POST: I started seeing this guy a few weeks ago. First date went really well. Saw him again a couple of days later for a quick lunch and then the next day I went round to his to chill. I met his roommates and got on with them. Ended up staying over and we fooled around a bit. A few days later I went round to his again and we had food and some drinks. I stayed over again, we had sex a couple o",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need a way to show my appreciation to my friends for helping me out. Any suggestions? POST: My new car, purchased less than 4 months ago, already has air bag, transmission, and engine issues. It is undrivable and so is in the shop. My friends, a married couple, have been driving me back and forth from work everyday for the past week. Long story short, they will have an extra car tomorrow that they are going to let me use it until my car is fixed. I have only lived in this town for",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Best friends, Banging and Boundaries; A question regarding the trifecta of awkward roommate situations. POST: Long story short, my roommate (of 3 months)/best friend for 2 years fucked a guy I had hooked up with (the night before and day of that she fucked him, she was well aware) in my bed. They used my condoms, he jizzed all over my sheets and then they discarded their used condoms around my room (including all over my childhood blankie, which is incredibly disturbing to me). I s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I, [18M] Stay with my [19F] Girlfriend? Leaving for Navy Soon as Well POST: Hello, I've never posted here before or talked to anyone about the situation. It's not pateicularaly unique or nail biting. But it's what I got. So here it goes. I am 18, male, finishing high school. Yes, I am young, and I'm leaving for naval basic training in late summer in Illinois. I have currently been with my girlfriend, 19, for close to two years and currently live together. I love her, but it'",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by forgetting about Google Chrome search history POST: So this all played out yesterday, but before I begin I'll give you guys a little background. So about a week ago I (M 22) went to this work party with this cute girl (F 19) from work. There was also another guy from work with us so I had no intentions. Then after the party I planned to stay on her couch because I was a bit too intoxicated to drive. A couple of back rubs later we end up having sex. So this has me thinking alot the ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Guy friend I like talks about his ex with me while we hang out? POST: I've been hanging out with my guy friend for a while. This is my second year knowing him, and we're good friends, share a lot of common interests (even classes), and live together in a shared house. I see him all the time, we hang out and text a lot, study together at coffee shops from time to time, and do school work together outside of class time. I have huge affections for this guy. But lately, I've been gettin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend of two years [F33] and I [M28] are at a tough point. We had decided to not have children, but a turn of events has changed her mind. It is putting a strain on our relationship. POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for almost 2 years. She has three children from her ex-husband, who she was with for 10 years. About six months ago she had told me that she doesn't plan on having children, and I thought that was a good idea. She is currently working towards her deg",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [m19] don't know how to feel about my girlfriend [f19] going to a rave POST: So we've been together 11 months and she's been to a few raves before we got together and stuff but I'm not sure how to feel about her going to one this weekend. She didn't invite me because she says she doesn't want to mix our relationship and her social life. I have no experience with raving and don't club very much either. My main concern is, while I trust her sober, she can act weird and kind of less ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Uninvited acquaintance [M, 23] keeps showing up at my house [F, 21]. What do I do? POST: Guy I knew from High School, 23, is the kind of person that has a very good heart but is constantly described as ""overbearing"". Let's call him ""J"". The thing is, ""J"" has no other contact besides me and a few other people from Texas. I talked to him a few times in high school because I felt bad he was sitting alone during AV Club. (He is bi polar and semi-autistic) I feel sorry for him because his",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my HUGE Crush [17 F]. POST: So I have had a crush on this girl, we can call her Sam, for about 5 months and don't really know how to talk to her or get her attention. Let me explain: We are currently both seniors in high school. I have know her since elementary school and have always liked her but my feelings for her really grew at the end of my junior year. I had gotten my seat changed in my math class as we would every semester and I got a seat next to her. I starte",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I need opinions on a 2.5 year sexless relationship between my SO[25m] and myself[23F] POST: My boyfriend [25M] and I [23F] have been together for just over 2.5 years. Our relationship has always been sexless, we have had sex only 3 times and all three times didn't seem to 'work' something on his end always went wrong. He thinks that always having sex will take away the appeal of it all. However.. He never does anything to initiate, and if he does.. I end up doing all the work. He",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [17, M] Parents [56/54, M/F] won't let me live on my own for a few weeks because they don't believe I am responsible enough. POST: This summer I plan on taking some classes at the local community college to get some credits out of the way for my last year of high school. Every summer my family and I go on vacation and visit relatives for the majority of the break. This summer looks as if I'm going to stay home and take these courses. Although I am going to fly out and visit with r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My angry outbursts are hurting my life and the people I care about. POST: When I was 17, I came home from a walk I took with my first boyfriend, which I kept a secret from my parents. I thought I'd be home before they came back from church, but unluckily they were already back. They physically beat me in a way much worse than the kind I was used to. Both my parents dragged me out onto the street by my hair, screaming that I tell them where this boy lived. By the end of it I was ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to stop my new puppy from barking... POST: TIFU when I awoke to my new puppy barking like a maniac at the bottom of the staircase and ran down to stop her howling. Here's the little one in question: Of course she was already in a fierce rage by the time I got to her, and she wouldn't let up- and I had no idea what the barking was about besides that she hates being down there alone and my gf had just left for work. As I tried to calm her she went for any sort of bite she co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] am scared to say 'I love you' to my new bf [23 M]. POST: I've been dating my current bf for the past 3 months. When I started off the relationship, I told myself I was going to take it slow. I am still dealing with the emotional wake from my breakup with my ex of 4.5 years. I explained the situation to my current bf when we started dating, and he was very supportive, telling me to take as much time as I needed. I'm now dealing with some very conflicting emotions. On one hand",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (16/m) Don't Know What To Do; My Ex [18/f] Stays On My Mind POST: OK. So I went out with this girl for about 2 months, and she is a senior and I'm a sophomore. We both said that we liked each other a lot and really fast, and that we wished we had started dating sooner. She had a lot more stress on her mind, and couldn't go out as much as we wanted to. She ended up breaking it off b/c of some trust issues and external pressure. I was sad, but quickly got over it b/c it was so sh",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By mentioning acquaintance's parents POST: First off, excuse any grammatical errors since english is my second language. This all happened a few months back. My mother has this friend who has a son she basically adopted around five years ago since his parents were drug addics and couldn't take care of him. Let's call him ""B"". We are both in our late teens and I very rarely meet him or his ""mother"". One more thing that is important to mention is that I'm VERY bad with remembering names. S",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: (USA/Missouri) Wife responsible for deceased husband's debts? POST: My sister's husband died a week and a half ago (2nd marriages, both in their 60s). He did not have a will. He did not have any assets. She long ago decided to hand over their financial affairs to him (he was retired, she works making $70,000 year) because it was easier than arguing with him about things. She made a decision to turn a blind eye to their finances. Upon his death, she found out their house was alm",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I(25/f) attracted to the idea of dating a friend or am I attracted to him(25/m)? Advice please. POST: Hey all, I have been conflicted for a few months now and have decided to ask for advice here. Since the beginning of this year I've reconnected with a friend from high school and we since have become very close. Just about every weekend we go out to a local pizza place and stay out late talking and trying out new beers. Its been apparent for a few months now that he has ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Been had by immigrant husband? Need legal advice. Help, please! POST: I don't even know what to do, or if to believe it. If it's true, how do I find out if it's true or not? I'm so confused, and I don't know what recourse I have. Here's the back story. My husband is Filipino. He's in the Philippines right now, 'studying' so that he can take the NCLEX when he gets home and get a nursing job. Things have always been pretty good between us. We've been best friends and confidantes. I've be",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my ""Coworker"" [? F]. How can i know her better / ask her out ? POST: Hi, i will try to explain the situation. Me : I'm a young male, fairly inexperienced about relationships. I'm living in a place and i work at another one, so my daily commute is quite long ( 3 to 4 hours each day) Her : One day while taking a bus i saw a really good looking girl (she seems to be a bit older than me 3 to 4 years maximum, she could be only 1 year older than me, quite hard to tell) and",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Coping with chronic pain while trying to lose weight POST: I have chronic headaches and find that when I do not have a headache, I'm good about eating well and I don't have much in the way of cravings. I enjoy healthy food, and am a driven person... when I am not in pain or depressed about work. Unfortunately, I am limited to how much pain medication I can use per week (to avoid rebound headaches, which are worse), so I always end up with a few days of pain once in a while when I can't do",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 27 M with my wife 26, 11 years together, 4 years married. Should I leave her? POST: Today I read a message that my wife sent another man. Telling him that he looked cute today in the uniform that he was wearing. I am in the military as well and I guess he felt the need to tell his fellow battle what was going on since he knew she was married. He sent me a picture of the message and told me she had been flirty at work. (Wife is a leasing agent and he is a tenant in those apartments",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] close friend [20 F] just broke up with her boyfriend POST: Hey all, ill try to give a bit of background info before i ask my question. In my last year of high school me and this girl got really close and were talking for about 6 months. We hung out a few times and then she went away for about 2 months in which this time period we didnt talk. She came back from her trip and about a month or so later she got together with this guy. We continued to talk but not as much and I d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (32m) with my fiance (31f) fight over my daughter (9f) wanting to attend a birthday party. POST: Some background. My fiance and I have been in a 4 year legal battle for custody of my two older children. Their mother wants to eventually leave town with them and obviously I won't allow that. Right now we have every second weekend and a Wednesday visitation with my kids. My ex recently asked if my daughter could attend a birthday party on one of the weekends we have access. Rather ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my friend [24F] duration, since she had her baby we're always late! How do I approach this? POST: Hi Reddit! So my best friend had a baby a couple months ago. It's a beautiful baby girl and whom I care about very much. We'll call my friend Jessica, and her daughter Holly. Jessica's husband has a very busy job and I've been around a bit to help out. Holly is still to young for daycare so usually when we do something together we take her with us. We live in a very baby-",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm incredibly scared of going to many social events because I'm afraid/self-conscious of dancing. What can I do to get over it? POST: Hey guys. I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, and realize that the solution could be to just ""get over it"", but its just not that easy for me. Since as long as I can remember, I have been absolutely petrified of the dance floor. I avoided any and all school dances from Grade 8-12, and even for Grade 12 prom I was scared shitless to get on the dancefl",negative " r/Pets TITLE: How to feed 2 cats separate diets POST: Hello r/pets. Today we took our almost 5 year old girly cat to the vet. She had been peeing outside the box almost her whole life. We summed this up to us getting her really young. Recently we noticed her pee seemed kind of orange, then after closer inspection, we realized it was blood. At the vet, they informed us that my kitty has FLUTD. (or Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease) My kitty now has to be on a separate diet than the other cat at home. She",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Hoping someone might have a similar issue with advice/solution: Odd, partial vision loss doctors can't figure out after a car accident. POST: Hello, thank you for taking your time to read this. I had an accident in Feb and, amongst other damage, I hit my head twice (no air bags deployed on my side for some reason) and sudden partial vision loss. I've seen my doctor, an ophthalmologist, had CT scan and a deep CT scan (forget what it's called) and nothing showed. I was assured that I w",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by confusing David Cameron and James Cameron POST: This happened yesterday. Was getting my haircut. Was talking to my hairdresser about a number of things, then I brought up the topic of the Panama Papers Scandal, wanting to sound smart or something. Now, I had read a number of articles on reddit - or had read their headlines and comments - and thought I had the gist of what had happened. I knew powerful people were involved, celebrities, CEOs, government officials, and David Cameron and",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When someone tells you ""I have ADHD,"" what do you think of them? POST: Hey Reddit, This is a question I have always wanted to get an anonymous opinion on. I was diagnosed with ADHD in elementary school and I am now in my twenties. I understand many people don't take ADHD seriously, and view it as an excuse for laziness and special treatment. I believe it is over-diagnosed and my opinions are complicated regarding its categorization as a ""disorder"". My behaviors when it comes to getting",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my girlfriend [16 F] 1 month, she just said she was too busy to date POST: We went on a first date about a month ago but since then she's consistently had some tournament in sports or debate and we haven't gone on a second date, even though we have talked about it a lot. Then today, she tells me she's sorry she's been so busy but she just can't date till probably the end of the school year (late May). I've said it's ok and i'm willing to wait but she seems to ignore t",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [30/m/gay] Dating makes me feel shallow and gives me anxiety attacks. POST: I've been on several dates where the guy was sweet, funny, employed, and we share similar interests... but I was just not physically attracted to him. They're not ugly, they're just not my type of handsome. I've left these dates feeling really crappy, like there's something wrong with me for not wanting a second date with a good guy, like I led them on or made them feel like crap too. Oftentimes when I walk",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Said ""I love you"" without return... POST: I (20F) told my boyfriend (19) of 3+ months (known each other for ~1 yr) that I loved him tonight, and he didn't say it back. I've felt it for a while, but didn't want to say it too soon or something, and wanted to wait until a moment felt right. Tonight he was at my apartment, I made dinner, we were cuddling and watching Netflix after. He whispered in my ear and told me that I was really cute(it's a mushy thing we both do to each other), ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I need your opinion on my situation Reddit. Please help me! POST: Ok.. here goes... (For my own sake and yours.. I'm gonna keep it relatively simple.) I'd been dating this lovely lady for 3 years. I'm not exaggerating, this woman is the only one I've ever truly loved out of any I've dated. In my eyes, she is the perfect girlfriend. I don't want anyone else. I have been completely faithful to this woman for the entire time we were were together. I've been nothing but supportive",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I help my [17M] SO [17F] and her issues with insecurity? POST: So, my girlfriend of one year is having some issues with her self-esteem. She's pretty, beautiful and quite attractive. Apparently she has gained some weight since we got together and this is now tearing her apart, I feel really bad for her as I can't seem to help her or get her to realise how amazing she is. We have hade some fights a while ago when she didn't believe my compliments or words of appreciation (I tri",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Can't tell if I am being played or not....help! POST: I (20/f) was in a relationship for a year and half with my ex (21/m). He cheated on me: he had sex a few times with his ex-girlfriend from high school and lied about it. He recently started confessing the truth. Its been about 3.5 weeks since the split, I spoke to him yesterday. He said he did not like her and it did not mean anything, but the temptation was too much. He says that I am the right girl for him. He wants to try again and",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24/m] Met girl at Starbucks who I want to get to know more but don't know how [~21?/f] POST: On Thursday I met a barista at a sbux location on campus that I frequently visit. When I saw her I completely forgot what I was thinking or trying to say at the moment. She just blew me away. I can go on and on about what I liked about her, the point is that I really fell for her. She looks to be maybe 1-2 years younger than me (I'm 24m). I feel that baristas probably get flirted enou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [F23] exchanged numbers with a pretty cool dude [M23] the other night. What do I do now? POST: Went to a party the other night with some friends, and I met this neat-o guy there. We talked about music and stuff all night long, had a great conversational flow and all that jazz. We ended up exchanging numbers, and I texted him once I got home that night saying it was good to meet him and we should jam sometime. He seemed into the idea and called me cute, aand that was that. I've alw",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [50F] with my longtime BF [50M] have utterly nothing in common but have been together going on 10 years. I want out. Advice? POST: The problem is the embarrassingly long time I have stayed in an unfulfilling relationship. He'll use his social connections to make things uncomfortable for me. It's difficult to explain but everyone in town knows him and I have been treated pretty badly in this town as it is. Go ahead and be brutal. I'm not bothering to use a throw-away because this ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex[24f] ended it with me[25M] of 3.5 years and started dating another guy 2 days later, question for the ladies: Does rebounding make the pain of your previous relationship last longer? POST: I'm going NC with my ex of 3.5 years. We haven't contacted each other in a few weeks but before I cut off all contact I found out she was already dating another guy. She broke it off with me because ""she didn't want better, but something different."" NC has done wonders for me so far (I'm s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] am finding it hard to enjoy my honeymoon because my mom [44F] is getting a heart transplant. POST: My mom has an artificial heart pump [LVAD] and she's been waiting two years to get her heart transplant. She's been placed off the list several times because her antibodies are too high. I got married in Las Vegas, NV on Saturday and on their way out of town on Sunday she got the call. She drove 10 hours to get to San Francisco to receive her heart while I drove 9 to Lake Taho",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Being friends after I was rejected, how do I not mess this up? POST: OK, so yesterday I (28 M) asked her (someone I met at work and have socialised with a bit for a few months) out (30-something F) and got a ""I'm not at that stage yet, I'm still in denial about my ex"", which I'm fully aware is ""I don't want a relationship with you"" in code (friend zone or whatever). I don't know if I've suddenly matured or whatever, but I do actually want to remain friends after this (never have bef",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my GF [30 F] 7 years long term, infatuated with another woman. Million dollar business on the line. POST: I've been with my gf for 7 years and for some reason I feel lonely. I feel we don't talk much even though it seems like we do. Our sex life is also struggling as she has a very low libido and I'm have a high one. She is also co-owner of a business I run which is now worth more than a million dollars, which complicates matters extremely more. Yet I feel lonely and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] started seeing a guy [28M] and I'm trying to find the best way to tell him about my past POST: I recently started seeing this guy whom I'm starting to like. However, I've been fairly distant with him and I'm trying not to get attached because of my past. My first sexual experience was at 22 from a guy I was shortly seeing and who forced himself on me. Because of this situation I've developed PTSD associated with intimacy. I've only dated one guy since that situation and he ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] don't know how to tell my girlfriend [21 F] 2 years, that I don't want to marry her in the long run. POST: It started as a casual college relationship but for a while my girlfriend's been hinting that she wants something concretely long term, asking me to move in with her repeatedly once we graduate. We're seniors at a good college, both hired to work in the tri-state area. Of course, we have the normal amount of small issues that couples have, but things have generally bee",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Thanks to my employers poor facility maintenance practices I ended up with a concussion. Please help. POST: As I was preparing to leave work yesterday I was closing the gate to one of the receiving bay doors. It's a roll up gate door that works on a chain / pulley system and as I was closing it the pulley (consisting of a 20 pound cast iron gear, smaller gear, chain housing and the chain itself) came crashing down on the top of my head. After all was said and done I left the hospital w",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: [RANT] How hard is it to book your freaking hotel? POST: We booked 2 hotel blocks, clearly provided directions on the enclosure card and the website, and emailed the guests a week before the block deal ended telling them to book. We are also planning on providing shuttles to and from the hotels.. And yet, nearly half didn't book a hotel with either of our hotels! I don't know where they're staying...but I felt like we did all we could. So now I am anxious about people not being ab",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [28/M] post-breakup and get nervous when women approach me, but that's silly, right? POST: In my life I've had three serious long-term relationships (2 years, 4 years, and recently 2 years with about a year in-between each), and dated casually a few times, with varying levels of success (some lame dates, some that went ok, one that turned into a short lived physical relationship). The serious relationships I've had I feel like I kind of ""fell into"", there was a mutual attractio",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A friend of mine stole an army helmet from a museum gift shop. Can anyone tell me more about the helmet? (Story/pics inside) POST: Earlier in high school, we went on a field trip to a museum. The museum was full of WWII/DDay/Vietnam/Korean/etc stuff (like any other museum). After we took a tour through the museum, we ended up in the gift shop. One of my friends spotted this army helmet that was relaxing on a table next to some merchandise. He put it on his head and walked out. Nobod",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why do we, as a society, tend to glorify warfare but condemn war in general? POST: First off, I'm not trying to criticize anyone's opinion with this post; I'm just curious as to why and when the dichotomy between the way in which we (by and large) perceive warfare (i.e. cool gadgets, covert operations, freddiew videos, the idea of being ""hardcore""...), and the realities of armed conflict (soldiers coming home in caskets, disabled veterans battling for their entitled benefits, entire fami",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19, M] fucked up with my friend [18, F] POST: This is my first time posting here, so sorry if this feels choppy or if it doesn't flow. The situation is kind of tough to explain. I hope you all understand. I have two friends who were in a relationship and had broken up three weeks ago. The female in the relationship had gotten very depressed that her boyfriend would break up with her. I decide to help her cope and get over everything. Flash forward to last Saturday and I decide t",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: He doesn't prioritize me at all and I'm a little sad. POST: So I posted here Saturday saying a guy I've been seeing for a while lied about what he was going to do on the Friday (essentially he said he was grabbing a beer with some old friends he hadn't seen in a while and was heading to bed early, but instead went to a huge house party and went to bed at 6AM. I think he lied so I wouldn't ask if I could join) and didn't show up at my place on the Saturday like he said he would. He ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] am not ready for sex with [23M]. POST: I feel like I've been coming to you guys a lot recently but I really need help. So in my other post, I mentioned a guy named Chris. Chris and I have been seeing each other for a few weeks now and things going extremely well. I really like him. However, we've hit kind of a snag. We both live at home with family. He's white, so his mom is little more open with him about his sexual conquests and has woken up to his one night stands on m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [23M] Dad [52M] is really upset at my entire family for feeling neglected on his birthday. Not sure what to do POST: So this morning is my dad's birthday, but because my mum had to work tonight she took dad out to dinner last night. She never asked my brother and I, who both live at home with my parents, to come - and I just assumed they wanted to have dinner between just the both of them - although I know we should of known better. Anyway apparently my dad got really angry and sa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[19/M] and my girlfriend[19/F] are 2 different persons POST: hi reddit, I've been with my SO for 4 months now, things were great until recently, we got into lots of fights about stupid little things. these fights made me question whether she is the right one for me, this is due the many differences we have, for example: -I am very outgoing (like to drink, have fun etc.) , she is more of an introvert (doesn't like parties, drinking, likes to just stay at home, shy) -she keeps per",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (27F) was the other woman. Should I try to warn her? POST: I'm going to try to keep this short. I met an older man and became his FWB for a full year. I wanted to be more, but he constantly gave me excuses (""I'm too busy"", ""I'm not ready""). I was confused because he took me on trips, spent holidays with me, took me to his home on weekends, introduced me to friends, kissed me and cuddled with me, called me ""Beautiful"", etc. Things that I thought were hallmarks of a relationship. Bu",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by thinking a raccoon peed on my ceiling POST: This has been going on for a week, but I realized my fuck up today. Alright, so in December. I heard scratching on my roof almost every time it snowed in what I thought was the attic. We thought it went away but then we see [this] on my ceiling about a week ago (I've heard scratching throughout Jan-Feb when it snowed). It looked yellow and it freaked me out. I had the rest of my family come in to look at it and we all thought it was raccoon",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Pay off student loans with extra cash or use extra cash instead of additional loans? POST: I am a rising senior at a large state university earning a BSBA in a business field. I am currently interning this summer and earning ~$24 a hour so by the end of the summer I will have a decent sum of cash sitting around. There are two different ways I can use some of this money at the end of the summer and just looking to see if I am heading down the right road. Option 1: I can spend ~$5,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24f] new bf [41m] won't let me talk to a recent ex [24m] POST: So I started seeing someone way older than me, as you can see, about a month ago (Mitch). I've been honest with him and told him that I saw someone my age (Marcus) a week before we went on our first date. I didn't expect a relationship when we (Mitch and I) first went out for a drink to chat but that's what it turned into. Anyways, he freaked out when I told him that Marcus was a recent thing and that we still talk. H",negative " r/Pets TITLE: My new 9 month old kitten is neutered, but pees on this 1 chair. What can be done? POST: I have a large [papasan] chair, and my fairly new (beginning of May) 9 month old Kitten jumps on the chair and peed in it twice (that I am aware of). I neutered him about a month ago, and I haven't noticed him peeing anywhere else in the house - no odor, and I've never caught him. I have blatantly caught him peeing in this chair, he sees me, and runs away. **History:** I got the chair at a yard sale befo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How to know when to move on and how to know when to wait it out? Actions are not matching words. POST: 29/f and 26/m together for 1 year and 8 months. Living together for 8 months. My bf knows I would eventually like to get married and have kids, as would he. Yesterday he said he's just not ready and is 98% sure we won't sign another lease at the end of ours in 5 months. He said he doesn't want to be with anyone else, and left the ball in my court if I want to stay with him fo",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by showing my boobs in front of 150+ people in a church POST: This actually happened yesterday, but just roll with it. There's a bit of backstory here: I have been singing in a choir for over 8 years, it's a choir that only performs (Religious) classical music, and it's one of the highest ranked ones of my country. Our choir recently celebrated it's 25-year anniversary, so we had an anniversirary concert which was lead by a famous guy who ""Translates"" religious medieval music to modern",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] I keep pushing women away. POST: I'd like to think I have things that women desire. I'm tall, in good shape, confident, decent looking, I'm balding but I wear hats most of the time anyway. I am genuinely interested in what women have to say, at least the women that I take out, I enjoy being a vent or debating or getting in deep conversations. I can really hold my own on the first initial dates, but for some reason like a light switch they just lose all interest. I don't g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my girlfriend for 8 months[20F], she says that I've been controlling asshole, wants a break POST: I've known her for 2 years. We started as just friends, but our personalities clicked and she eventually kissed me. I know she finds white men more attractive (I'm asian/latino). We starting officially dating about 8 months ago, and since then she has accused me of being really jealous, annoying, possesive, and controlling, and asking for sex when shes obviously not ready.",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU for not having toilet paper POST: I'm only sharing this 'cause I'm drunk as fu**, it's my first post on reddit at all and this is embarrassing. So, two years ago when I started college I rented an apartment and shared it with a friend. We're great friends and get along really well. He has a long term girlfriend and she is/was a constant presence here at home. About two months ago, they had some trouble and ended the relationship. He was devastated. Still I really thought that sooner or ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I need your help. POST: Okay, Reddit. One thing I've learned from this site so far is that when someone asks for help and advice, you guys always deliver. I'm hoping my perceptions were right. This might get a little long but I would really appreciate your ideas so bear with me. I am a 26 y/o female teacher. It is my third year teaching and I absolutely love it. I work in a pretty small school where everybody knows each other really well and I have a great relationship with all ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18m]Close friend at college - does she [18f] want more? POST: So there's a close friend who I've known since the start of the fall term this year at college. 4 weeks ago we went up to my room to watch the finale of a TV show that both of us like - pretty standard behavior for friends. Following that, we started to hang out in each others rooms a little more, and from 2 weeks ago we've spent time each night watching various comedians and TV shows after going out with other fri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] just found out my boyfriend [25M] of 3 years has been sexting with a coworker. No sex, but still hurts. Should I end it or work it out? POST: So my boyfriend and I have been together for about 3 years and have lived together for a little over a year. We get along pretty well, only the occasional fights, although the sex has definitely dwindled since moving in together. Today while sitting on the couch, I saw his phone light up with a picture. Our phones look really similar,",negative " r/travel TITLE: Car rental companies? Was all set for mine but then they screwed me over. POST: (did this all yesterday) Originally have it planned to pick up in Stockholm at Bromma Airport, and drop off in the same place (company didnt do different pickup/dropoff locations) on June 5th - August 5th, (We had it set to 15th, but they couldnt allow that because its only a month at a time and if we did from the 5-15 it would cost just as much as a month). But our price for everything with tax included was 2",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by playing Call of Duty POST: Alright, not sure if this post will make you cringe, but sure as *hell* made me cringe. So I'm attending a dance tonight, and I though to myself, ""Hey, why not play some video games to chillax for a bit?"" I hop on the 'ole Xbox and launch the first game that catches my eye in my half-assed collection: Call of Duty Black Ops II. First mistake. I'm a notoriously loud serial rager, and have one helluva potty mouth to boot. Second mistake? Deciding to try and r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my casual date [20 F] 1.5 months, we are casually dating but she is also casually dating her ex POST: So I've been dating this girl for a a little over a month and we are just seeing each other casually. At the same time though she is casually seeing her ex who she broke up with a while ago (her first long term boyfriend). I know this isn't a normal situation but I really like her and think she is super down to earth so I want to be exclusive with her. I've been playin",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I need help now. I have no idea how to handle this. I (17/m) was just asked to be in an open relationship by my girlfriend (16/f) POST: So, I'll try and keep the backstory short. I met my girlfriend over a year ago over a forum. We started dating during the summer and the following summer (last summer) i went and lived with her for 2 months. It was the happiest 2 months of my life. I lost my virginity to her and I love her more than anything in the world. Now, what i never said",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Update: Me[25M] with my SO [25/F] 2 years in sept., Every time we argue she suggests breaking up POST: Update to this post I had a sit down with my gf about this behavior and she explained that it has always been an instinct for her to push someone away when they are mad. She also explained to me there were a few guys she dated who made her mad and she just never talked to again. Im her first serious long term boyfriend, so although she has pushed away she is able to reign it in ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Please help! Wife threatening divorce - how to show her I love her? POST: My wife (29F) of 1.5 years and I (31M) have been having trouble since well before we got married. Long story with many twists and turns, most of it some version of me being a jerk or uncaring. I feel terrible about it and have tried to change, but I keeping sliding back into old habits. No infidelity, physical abuse or stuff like that. But various patterns of not caring about her or the relationship that ha",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: As a closeted gay man, would it be deceptive to propose to a woman I love? POST: What is the deception if I won't ever act on the homosexual attractions? Hear me out. I'm a twenty something closeted gay dude who has no plans of ever coming out. I've accepted that part of it is cowardice on my part, as I'm afraid that my extremely conservative family will disown me and I'm not willing to endure a lifetime of ostracism by others. I know I shouldn't give a fuck about what other people thin",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Seasoned Reddit veterans: how to REALLY use Reddit (considering societal faux pas, etc.)?? POST: Any asshole can use Reddit; OK, that's not true. Some assholes are too dumb for even Reddit. But, your average asshole? Definitely capable of clicking a series of links and chuckling to self. Yeah, we got that part down. BUT, you experienced Redditors, you...you're finnicky bastards man (and I mean that in the most endearing way possible). Navigating this site can be a high pressure situation",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [16F] doesn't think I [16M] care about her. She says I don't love her, or even care about her. How can I help fix our relationship? POST: My SO and I have been dating for 5 months and known each other for 10. We began talking at the beginning of my sophomore year and we've been dating since valentines day. Fast forward to about 3 weeks ago. I was at a small party with a few of my friends getting drunk, and she asked if I wanted to break up with her. Drunk me said yes, and",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to save a squirell POST: Ok so I was walking around the back of the warehouse I work at a while back, and there is a dumpster. I was throwing some boxes away. All of a sudden I hear a sound in the dumpster. It sort of sounded like scratching. I look into the dumpster and it is pretty empty, except there is a frickin squirrel inside. This thing is wigging out, trying to escape, but it cant. Me being the dumb animal lover I am. I decide to jump into this dumpster and pick th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21/F] ex [22/m] is having surgery... Should I go? POST: My ex is having the fourth and final operation in a series of eye surgeries that have taken place over the last year. After this procedure, he will be completely blind for about a week. I supported him through the other three surgeries, which happened while we were in a relationship and living together. We were together for over two and a half years, and I broke up with him about a month ago. He is still struggling to get o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (27m) think a girl (25f) has stopped seeing me because she's 'out of my league' and it really hurts POST: Hey, Bit of background - I recently moved to NYC from Atlanta and I met a girl after a few months I connected insanely well with. Whilst I've had long term relationships, this was the fastest, deepest connection I've formed. We've been together for three months, but she's distancing herself now and I think it's over. The girl moves in quite fancy circles, has 'famous' friend",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my girlfrield [28 F] of four years, Planning to to propose this weekend but she has found out. POST: My girlfriend has stated that she wants to have that surprise proposal moment. This is difficult because we've talked about it and finally decided that yes we want to be married and went ring shopping. I decided to ask her family to come into town while the ring is being resized and try to convince my girlfriend that, of course, I couldn't propose this weekend, the ring",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30F] with my SO [34 M] of 5 months. How can I stop dreaming (literal dreaming during sleep) about someone else? POST: Background info: I met Luke about 6 years ago and there was an instant connection. For the 2-3 years after meeting we had maybe 10-15 romantic/sexual ""meetups"" - both while single and while in relationships (yes, we both cheated, but believe it or not I am reformed). We never tried to have a real relationship because the timing was never right, and we are kind of ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm having a dilemma about what degree I should get. How did your liberal arts degree help you? POST: Okay, so there might be a wall of text here, not sure yet. Going to ramble and hope my thoughts get across. I came to college two and half years ago, we'll call it Schmoregon State University. I came here for a music education degree and quickly decided that it wasn't for me even though the staff was great. I bounced over to English because I've always been a stellar student in ",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Does this happen to anyone else? POST: O.k., I weigh myself once a week. If/when I weighed more often, the daily fluctuations made me crazy. So, I weigh once a week with similar circumstances (time of day, clothing etc.) I am aiming for a 1-1.5lb a week loss, so when the scale shows I have lost about a pound, I am satisfied. But, I am also worried. I mean, what if the weight it is showing I lost is just because I was a bit dehydrated or something? What if the next week, I'm the same or",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is something you learned about your family that blew you away? POST: For me, it was my grandfather. He was in the German army during World War II, fought in Stalingrad, was horribly injured when Soviet artillery hit his Panzer yet he still dragged his crew out despite being on fire. That's all he ever told me about his past when I asked about his scars when I was younger. That isn't what blew me away though. I just got back from Germany last week where I attended his funeral, and t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your most embarrassing internet story? POST: In the nineties when I was a teenager, we weren't blessed with the blistering fast internet speeds that we know and love today. Along with this and the absence of porn streaming sites like Redtube, porn feens were stuck waiting ages for grainy minute long porn videos to download. It wasn't all bad, as you could preview the clips prior to them completely downloading and get your fap underway. Anyway, one particular clip I remember was o",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Finally got the courage to [21/F] break up with him [25/M] but I'm sliding back. POST: We dated for a total of 9 months. It took about 4 months for him to be able to touch me in public, let alone actually associate with me. It seemed like it was like he was hiding me but he was actually incredibly awkward and uncomfortable with PDA. As a result, I let him take the relationship at his pace because I didn't want him to feel pressured. In addition to the awkwardness, he didn't really show mu",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Need help with my bf's unintentionally racist/ignorant family! POST: Going to see the bf's family next week for Thanksgiving (oh joy). Please excuse me if I sound like a weenie, as that is not my intention. My bf and his family are white, (and according to him some of his relatives are considered 'rednecks'). I'm asian, and first generation so my parents although they've been here for more than half their lives still have a strong accent (although their grammar is perfect since",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24F] I'm in love with someone[24m] who kinda likes me but doesn't want anything serious. I'm going all crazy and emo inside and I want it to stop. POST: Like I said, i'm getting all emo, and I hate it! I'm a pretty cool chick, one of the guys, etc. Not bad looking either. But my self esteem has been shattered by this situation. The situation in a nutshell: He and I have been hanging out on a regular basis, having amazing sex and a great time. And he wants to keep it at that.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am [20F] Birds and the Bees .. Help POST: Hello kind of new to reddit but here we go Ive never been in a serious relationship but kind of enjoy being single although i am very flirtatious and seem to get satisfaction is teasing people but never pulling through ...it does get me in a little bit of trouble sometimes MY problem is I can't get myself to engage ion sexual activities with people no matter how much i like them. Im not saying im a virgin, I've been with 4 people but n",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I find enjoyment and appreciation out of life? POST: I am a responsible, about to be 30yo adult, that is a workaholic, spends my life pleasing others for validation, am super critical of myself, and cynical of others. I would say I am a Debbie Downer / Eeyor type that looks for the negatives in things because I was raised very independent and that is my defense mechanism. I am over-responsible because of how I grew up - having to help out my sister and parents, send myself to sc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [34 M] to go on date with [29 F] today, another friend [29 F] gets really pissed and now im conflicted POST: So I told a friend of mine, lets call her Karen, that I am going on a date with this girl , lets call her Susy, and Karen gets really angry and pissy about it. I ask her whats up and she says that she knows Susy and once confided some secret to her and she broke that trust and now hates her. She says it was not a big secret, but it was a big deal . She basically tells me t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [18/M] with a longterm one-sided crush on my [18/F] friend. I just want a way out now. POST: Ok so I've had a very strange relationship with a girl that was in my class in hs. I think I've been strongly in love with her for the good part of these past two years. We've gone through being ridiculously close, spending all our free time between classes together, smoking together, doing psychedelics among other things. To not talking for days at a time, doing things to spite one another i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does everyone in the South (U.S.) talk about their pets all the time? POST: Some background: I'm from California and my girlfriend of three years is from Texas, raised in Alabama. I've been to Alabama with her to meet her adopted parents, old childhood friends and the like and everywhere we went, everyone just couldn't stop talking about their pets. In Texas, when we go out to dinner with her biological family, without fail, pets are almost the dominating topic (with the family business",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (23F) tell my sister (26F) to stop looking at her phone while she's driving? POST: throwaway because she looks at reddit My sister and I have an odd relationship. Sometimes we're close and sometimes I just can't wait for her to leave the house (we both live at home with our parents right now). We often go places together whether it's an appointment or going to Starbucks to chill and read. But she has the worst habit. She always has her phone with her, as do I. However, she",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I accidentally did something to my flash drive earlier and now I can't access important files. Help? POST: So, I use a 16g flash drive for multiple things on my Macbook, PC, and Xbox 360. School work, save games, movies, etc. Earlier today, I was attempting to put Ubuntu on the flash drive while using my Macbook and I was following the instructions for putting Ubuntu on a USB stick provided on the [Ubuntu] site. I got to the end with no apparent problems. I'm pretty sure I succes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my ex-girlfriend [21 F] of 1.5 years, what am i facing and what should i do POST: Me and my ex-girlfriend (now FWB) are from different countries and we meet oversea where we study. Our relationship last almost 2 years, we did broke up once for few months for what I did (flirting with her friend). After getting back together I change myself for the better although it not the best but I am commit to this girl no more talking or flirting with anyone. Few months ago she",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: My nephew keeps calling me ""daddy""... what should I do? POST: So his dad's a fuckhead and he's not around and the kid's parents are going through a divorce. The kid is 2 and every time he sees me he runs towards me saying ""daddy, daddy!"" and looking very happy with his arms out. He stays with his dad a couple of days a week but still calls me daddy. I've told him I'm his uncle, and not his daddy, and tried to explain things as best I can but it still happens. In fact, the other day when",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Cheating wife. You piece this together and tell me what you think. POST: Ok.... I'm [28/M] married to [27/F] been together for 12 years. October I found out my wife was talking to some other guy from her hometown (overseas). Saw some messages in her phone and she was mad/arguing at him for not wishing her happy B-day. I think obviously for her to get mad, means they were more than just friends. November she claimed she stopped talking to him. December no developments. I assume",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure what to make of this POST: Me 17M, her same age. Dating for a year and a half. Yesterday, she and I were hanging out at my house, and she came upon some comics that I made in fourth grade, that while they were not important, I begged her not to give them back and to leave them alone because I was very embarrassed of them. She grabbed one and ran, and read it, then called me a baby because I didn't want her to see them. I tried to talk to her about it, because I was upset ab",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [19m] am clingy to my [19f] and it is driving me crazy. POST: Hello fine people of relationship_advice. I am clingy to my girlfriend as stated in the title. Now I know it may seem like it should be the other way around but I am going crazy with my self. LONG STORY SHORT, I was dating this girl and i was so controlling and so clingy she broke up with a psycho like me. Fast foward to today and I am dating my current girlfriend and we couldn't be happier! Except everytime she go",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Need ideas to see if a friend isn't really my friend. POST: Last month my best friend said her friend could get me an ounce of for $200. It's crazy expensive around here ($50 an 8th for dried up comercial) so I jumped on it. I got ripped off. Her friend I never brought it and haven't been able to catch up with her since. Like I said this person who's friend it was is my best friend so I believed her that she didn't know it would go down like that. Last week my friend tell me about",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Help! I'm a 23[F] and I'm not sure if my 21 [M] friend is flirting with me, or just craving attention! POST: Okay, so [ Repost due to late submission!] I've known this guy for about 5 years and he's become one of my really good friends. But last year he's been really like flirty (to me) like touching me constantly, my face, my hair,making nicknames for me, my legs ( non creepy) and always near me and just being somewhat clingy which made me start liking him. Sometimes I'm not sur",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Bike hit my car as I was taking a right. Am I in the right? POST: I live in Texas, and I was taking a right turn on a green light at an intersection. I had my blinker on, and the crosswalk was clear, and I began to make my turn. As I was finishing my turn, a bicyclist who was on the sidewalk (traveling the same direction as I was before I turned) hit the rear door on my right side just in front of my rear right tire. He was okay, he never fell off his bike, and rode on a little bit b",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 F] messed up. What are examples of actions I can take to earn my boyfriend [24 M] of 8 month's trust back. POST: I won't explain too many details because that would take forever and it would sound like I'm making pathetic excuses. Essentially, I went out without my boyfriend, got way too drunk, lied to him on the phone multiple times, and something horrible that I do not want to get into occurred…it's in my recent history if you're curious. Anyways, I know that this is the man",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M/] with my girlfriend [17 F]- 1 month- we want to last a long time but she doesn't trust me that i like only her. POST: So me and my girlfriend have been going out for a little while now. we started of as just friends but gradually our relationship grew more and more until finally we started dating. We do have really strong feelings for each other, we start to miss each other straight away when not around each other. The problem is that she doesnt fully trust me and trust th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By thinking my neighbor was hot. (NSFW?) POST: Rewind the clocks 10+ years to ten year old me, just entering puberty. I was a little sheltered and timid, and i had rarely, if ever, seen a pair of boobs before, nor did i have much concept of what ""hot"" meant in a girl. This is where the story starts getting pervy. This isn't a throwaway cause #YOLO. Well, my neighbors across the street were immigrants from Mexico, their kids, my own age, were first generation American Citizens. The",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my older brother [23 M] who is a real annoyance in my life POST: my brother is a guy who i loved as a kid, and he loved me back. as i got older though i ""matured"" and now i still love my family but i prefer not to be as touchy as before. my brother still expects me to act that way, and starting a few years ago he really started to get on my bad side, and since then i decided to ignore him as much as possible. he always stands behind me and watches me on the pc when he ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How am I (18F) meant to deal with my actor boyfriend (19M) kissing other girls? POST: Together 5 years, moved cross-country together for our studies/careers recently and it's working super well. He's just started going to an acting class where the other people are really talented and he obviously wants to get up on that level. Of course I'm extremely supportive and proud of him and really happy he's finally able to exercise his passion for acting properly (our hometown didn't have th",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Should I [30/m] call out my wife's [29/f] lies? POST: My wife is planning a weekend get-away that I was interested in doing with her. I asked if I would be imposing by going with her and she said ""it's just going to be a girl thing"". I asked her who was going and she said Rose, Margret, and some of Margret's friends (not their real names). I did some snooping on Facebook and discovered that Rose would not be able to attend and that a Charlie (male) would be attending. I hav",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by swallowing a half dollar... POST: So, to start off I am 13 years old and this all happened last sunday. I was messing around, not thinking, and was swirling a half dollar in between my teeth. As unlucky as I was, it slipped in between my teeth, went down my throat, tried to cough it up, made it even worse, and completely swallowed the damned thing without a problem. I still wonder how I did not choke on it. Well I tell my parents that it was just a qauter to lessen tension on them and",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Can I get woman's point of view on my situation? POST: My ex of 4 years broke up with me 2 1/2 months ago because she said ""It felt like it doesn't even matter if I was in your life or not"" I stopped giving her my attention like I used to which was true I began to get comfortable. I did the entire do's and don'ts of break ups like beg, cry etc. So I began NC, did it for 5 weeks I went to talk to her it was little weird at first but then it was ok small chats I tried to become her f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (30M) have tried moving on but now self doubt and second guessing is ruining me. POST: For ten years I was married and to the surprise of many due to stereotypes was the subject of verbal and mental abuse for close to half of the marriage from my ex-wife. I moved on though after finally not being able to take it anymore one day and left her. Last year I entered my first deep and meaningful relationship since then and fell in love with someone who truly loves me and I love her. Sh",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Me [22F] with my boyfriend [27M] of a few months. Are we too busy to date? What can I do to keep this relationship healthy, happy, and moving forward? POST: We started dating a few months ago immediately after meeting, and right off the bat we quickly became exclusive due to strong feelings for each other. I was planning on moving away, which I disclosed from the start, but due to a family emergency, that was postponed. We don't live far from each other, but with traffic it takes abo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Hi (25/f) here and I would really like some advice on this guy (29/m) I've recently started talking to. POST: So we met through a mutual friend about a 2 months ago. We have only hung out twice, but keep in contact. He lives a couple towns over and is in a weird situation currently so we don't get to see each other. This post is more about the communication side of things though. I haven't dated in awhile, about 2 years now. I think I might really like this guy and I kind of d",positive " r/jobs TITLE: Anyone familiar with the Amazon Warehouse hiring Process? POST: I recently was hired at a new Amazon Fulfillment Center in my state, and it's been nearly a month since I've heard back from them. The last email I got confirmed my offer with them, but it told me nothing of when or how long until I might be headed to orientation. I've tried asking for help on their job site but I keep receiving the same answer I received in the email. *""We are still in the process of finalizing New Hire Orientat",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [30m] Trying to rebuild relationship with [30f] wife POST: We've been married for 7 years together for 10. For the last few we've had increasing problems that began because of my personality flaws (passive, selfish, often clueless about social cues), and that has lead to the growth of resentment and lack of respect or appreciation for me in my wife. There has been no physical betrayal but she feels like I have emotionally betrayed her by not offering support in the way she need",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I noticed something small and metallic in a tree in my backyard and have no idea what it is? Any redditors ever heard of something like this? POST: So this weekend as my wife and I were returning from a walk with our doggie, we look up and notice what appears to be a silver or grey kind of kite sitting in a tree in my backyard, probably a good 100 or so feet up. It's pretty damn tall, probably about only 20 or so feet from the very top of the trees. Whatever it is, it was metallic and i",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I don't know where to go from here POST: My boyfriend (18)of two and a half years and I (19) broke up yesterday. We've broken up before and hes dated another girl and i've made some mistakes. I know I have hurt him but he has hurt me just as much. We have been living together and just yesterday he told me he couldn't deal with what I have done and it was making him miserable. I was genuinely happy and thats great because i hadnt been in a long time. He made me believe everything was going",positive " r/Advice TITLE: [Serious] I'm 21/F taking a trip with a platonic male friend and I'm scared my parents will find out. POST: Okay so a little background, I'm from India and live with my parents because that's what Indian kids do. My parents are super supportive of what I do and I have this ""seminar"" of sorts I need to attend in Bombay so I'm heading there with 20 other people. The friend who's also coming used to work with me and is one of my best friends. But for my parents, boy best friend means boyfriend",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Successful relationships in which both partners have a (different) mental illness POST: Hello all, thanks for clicking! I'm really just looking for a sense of community, since my google searches haven't yielded much. Basically, both I (f/21) and my partner (m/22) have a mental illness, but not the same one. I have depression and am on my way out of a bout; he has ADHD-C, and has been on medication successfully for a long time. We have been together for 2.5 years, and are going st",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] and my girlfriend [21 F] of 3 years, are going down hill and need help POST: So starting in December my girlfriend and I finally had some time to spend with each other since it was winter break from college. This is when she decided to throw at me that our relationship has lost it's spark and that when we kiss the feeling we had isn't there. Well after we tried fixing that problem, which turns out to be one of a few, and things seemed to be going fine two weeks ago. Today I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm alone after being in a relationship for over 2 years... Help me.. POST: Last night my boyfriend and I of 9 months broke up. It was sort of mutual.. It broke my heart to do it but he lives 2 hours away, and we've been fighting so much we don't even enjoy time spent together. Prior to our relationship, I had a relationship that lasted about 2 years. I almost went from one relationship to the other with only 3 weeks or so in between. (I realize this was bad, but I had been emotional",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] seem to have done the impossible and friendzoned a [23F]. Whoops. Lets get out of this... POST: Ah, the good ole friendzone. I've been here before but this time it seems different. Reason being, I think I am actually the one who friendzoned her. Here is the story... About two years ago I met this girl. I knew immediately that I needed to get her. So, thats exactly what I did. But, as it turned out, she had a boyfriend, so I broke all sexual tension as quickly as possible, bu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I tell my new employee that I once saved her from being raped 8 years ago? POST: I'm a manager at a shipping store and have recently hired an old high school classmate named Claire (not her real name). I have just remembered, after hiring her, that I saved her from a possible rape situation in high school. The rape situation: Flashback to high school. I received a frantic phone call from one of her friends, saying that she and Claire were drunk at a party and needed to leave. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 F] boyfriend [34 M/F] is a touring musician, how do I be a good girlfriend/supportive? POST: I have been dating my boyfriend for about 9 months. Things are going great. I am happier and in a better place than I ever have been. I have had a rough life so far, and have never felt this loved and appreciated. I feel like I deserve it. My boyfriend is hands-down one of the best people I have ever met. He is a musician and composer, he is very hard working and focused on his caree",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my boyfriend[22 M] of 1 year, are going through are very first real fight. POST: So me and my boyfriend have been dating for a year, last weekend he went off to Vegas for a friends birthday. I was totally fine with it because I trust and love him so much. Me and him had talked about strip clubs before and I have always been okay with him going an you know looking and having fun with his boys. So during this trip he went to the strip club for the very first time, befor",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My mom (50f) embarrassed me (27f) by yelling at my coworker POST: My mom picked me up from work, and apparently on the way there a woman was driving crazily in front of her -- speeding, weaving through traffic, ran a red light, etc. My mom said she almost hit her. The woman pulled into my work parking lot right ahead of my mom, and my mom got out of her car and started yelling at her - ""You fucking idiot, you drive crazy"" blah blah blah. This was LOUD. There was a lot of people in ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: In a non-committed relationship but have feelings for someone else POST: So I posted in another thread but got no worthy response since people were being dicks. Anyway, I've been seeing this girl on and off for about a year now, there were complications early on due to hers and my working arrangements meaning I had to call the initial relationship off. However after a few months we started talking again and came to a relative decision (basically friends with benefits). Let me",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/m] need help with my long time (17/f) friend POST: Hey RA, throwaway here as she knows my real account name. So there is that girl that i know since the elementary school. She is the most emotional person i know, and ive always liked her in some way. We have been speaking somewhat a lot for the past 3~ years, and during that time she has admitted liking me and after some time - liking another guy, but i didnt really that stuff seriously as she is so moody. Lately we got",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: the girl i was with [19f] ended things with me [21m] and I'm unsure why POST: Before I begin, I just want to say I'm not trying to win her back, I accept that it's ended, but due to the circumstances I can't help but keep wondering about how everything happened. Basically we were together for about 6 months. We hit it off right away and after a month or so we both said we were only interested in seeing each other. It stayed that way for awhile and everything was fine. I felt no nee",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is the MOST pathetic thing anyone's ever pulled on you? POST: OK Reddit, I was shopping with my best friend, when we ran into her boyfriend and his cousin by coincidence. We BREIFLY, said hi, exchanged friendly smiles and went our separate ways. About 4 days later I got a text from the cousin. He told me he went through a lot of trouble to get my number from my friend's SO. He asked me if I'd like to hang out, and I thought he was decent. Until I started talking to my friend",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by watching the grudge. POST: First of all you need to know that i'm 16 and i have ASD. Link for those interested: Anyway this happened 2 days ago when I came home from school and my parents were off to some dinner and my brother and sisters were on holiday etc. anyway i was bored so i decided to watch a movie as my parents were gone and there was nobody around to nag about choosing a film, i decided to watch 'the grudge'. now it is important that you know that i'm not someone who watc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: So, I [20M] used to date this girl [22F] POST: As the title says, this girl and I used to date. We dated off and on for four years, when we were both teenagers with a lot of issues. We have known eachother for roughly eleven years, and talked sporadically since we finished dating. Well. I recently had to go to training for my job in the city she lives in, and we met and caught up. At the time, she was engaged. Fast forward about a month or so since we started talking again. She broke",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit please help, what would you do about an alcoholic roommate? POST: I'm a 20 year old female living with my best friend (no one ever move in with their best friend just an FYI) and she is almost 24 and also a female. We've been living together since January and ever since then it's been downhill. More so, I've noticed her drinking going uphill. She is supposed to be taking Anabuse which is a drug that her parents buy for her that is $200 a bottle that will make you insanely sick if",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by literally waking up on the wrong side of the bed. POST: It all started last night. My SO got wasted drunk and made a bed of towels in the bathroom. This gave me the opportunity to take up the entire bed. (It started as pure bliss.) I woke up feeling alive and refreshed and all the way on the opposite side than my usual position. I checked on my SO and went to let the dog out for her morning potty break. Low and behold she had already handled her business at the top of the stairs. S",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27/m] am uncomfortable with my gf [24/F] getting drunk with male coworkers POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 4+ years, and are a week away from moving in with one another. She works as a waitress at a restaurant/popular drinking establishment. She had told me she was invited out for some drinks after work by female coworkers. When she called me at 2:30am, the time she arrived home, she revealed that a few male 'regulars' from work and chefs went with them to ano",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [30F] Girlfriend doesn't feel attractive. How do I [29M] help change this? POST: Happily in a relationship with GF over the past year, with a break in the summer, but she often complains that she isn't sexy/attractive etc. She does practical work, and doesn't really own dresses or things. Most/all of her clothes are ancient/from charity shops with some cool items. She negatively compares herself a lot to her sisters and best friend (who happens to be a model) that spend more time on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[21F] on a small break with my current SO [25M] and he won't keep the watch I got while we are on break. He normally keeps his exes' gifts. Why? Does this mean he's trying to break it up with me completely?( together 10 months) POST: We're on a slight break due to the fact that he needs time to sort things out since he is mentally unhealthy. We had an emotion fallout and broke up for 3 days so I did take the watch back. He hurt me a lot emotionally but we decided we could work thr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is my ex gf[F24] (current best friend) still in love with me[M26]? POST: I had a long distance relationship with my current best friend[F24] for over a year about 5 years ago. After we broke up we managed to stay friends.. She is currently in a relationship, about 9 months now, and I'm still 500 miles away from her, and she tells me that she loves her boyfriend[M25], that he is a really good and handsome guy, like me, her words, not mine.. She used to compare us all the time until I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Mil [37F] wants to discharge herself from hospital so SO [19M] Myself [19F] and our child [5monthsF] can be there to look after her. POST: I've known my mother in law for about 4 years. Mother in law went to hospital due to having a hip infection, it had risen from her leg which is totally clotted due to years and years of drug use. She rang this morning at around 9:40 am, and told SO she was going to discharge herself and wanted us to stay at her house for a week to look after her",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What can a girl do to make themselves not be a target of sexual harassment/assault? POST: Ok so.. I live in Germany. Since I arrived here a year ago I have been sexually accosted 3 separate times. The first was, really, just a crime of opportunity. A friend and I were walking in a park late one evening to get some tea and a group of youths attacked us. We were sexually assaulted and my friend had her bag stolen. I was beaten up and she was bitten. Police were involved, no arrests were e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [18M] relationship with my [16F] may be coming to an end. POST: My girlfriend and I have been going out for about 3 months now. I asked her out after 4 days because we connected so well. We haven't had ANY problems and now we're going to encounter our first in a couple months that may end in a breakup. No doubt that this relationship can even lead to maybe something big as a marriage. Our communication with one another is really good. Anything that bothers the other will end in us t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My dad died. How do I comfort my mother [50]? POST: My dad died unexpectedly. My mother is only 50 and is afraid of living alone. She wants to move in with me and my girlfriend. My gf and her are polar opposites and my mom drives her nuts. I feel sad for my mom but what can I do in this situation? She's afraid of dogs btw. I can temporarily have her with us but her moving in long term...I'm afraid will impact my future family negatively as she's very stubborn and old fashioned. Wha",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking my cousin mini putting. POST: So this actually happened last night. My wife has her younger cousin (25m) here visiting from Italy, of course we were tasked with taking him out for an evening. Mother in law told us he had a degenerative eye disease but that nobody was ""supposed"" to know... he seems to see fine and we were told it would likely be an issue as he gets older...that he was okay for now. Anyways, my wife suggests we go to play glow-in-the-dark mini putt, to be sure i",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Am I (20M) coming across as too clingy to her (18f) in texting? I'm not sure what she is thinking, and I need a good way to handle the situation. POST: I posted in /r/dating_advice but thought I'd post here. So I have been known to be clingy in the past. I'll start off by saying that. Recently we realized it won't work out and that we should stay friends. After we decided that we continued texting and such and we were super friendly with eachother, and flirty and all of that. W",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf [22 M] of 7 months, invites me [20 F] when he goes out with his friends etc, and I kind of need advice.. POST: My bf has invited me when he goes out with his friends many times, and I am happy that he does that, but I am super shy..and awkward at times. I have already met a couple of his friends, as well as his family, and it was a bit awkward most of the time... I just want them to like me, but I'm shy and don't know what to talk about. Now a lot of his friends are guys, and ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Flakes as she has no money but goes on night out with friends POST: Hey all Just looking for a bit of advice really. Normally with flakes I don't reply and that's the last they'll hear from me but I've been dating this girl for about 4 months now. We see each other 1-2 times a week and have had sex and I've stayed over. Now we were supposed to meet up yesterday (Friday) and she cancelled a day before stating she had no money and wanted to save so wouldn't be able to see me. At the t",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: How to deal with those pesky, persistent, potentially bullying debtors? Question about paying off (xpost from r/debt) POST: Hello r/debtfree. I'm hoping you can give input. I'm finally going to start paying off my debt, and I'm strangely scared of these guys. I'm afraid that I'll call this company tomorrow to pay off my debt, and they'll surprise me with extra fees, or act bullying, or threaten that if I don't pay immediately they'll sue (it's happened before). This debtor I wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (27F) know its time to break up with him (28M) POST: I (27F) have been seeing my bf (28M) for 2 years. We live together along with my friend. I've got to the stage where I know we need to break up. Earlier in the relationship we went out, socialised with his friends and mine, went for nice dinners and saw movies, went camping, etc. He was nice to me and considerate and was a source of comfort when I was nervous or sad. I was the same to him. I remember people commenting on our c",positive " r/Advice TITLE: Military now or later? POST: I want to join the military, but I'm not sure if enlisting or commissioning would be the better option. I've been in college for two years, but withdrew because I really haven't been into it. I'm $20k in debt and I'm trying to figure out the next move. Enlisted: Many of the MOS's I'm interested in are enlisted jobs (medic, EOD, linguist). If I went, I would get a break from school, and I could use my salary to pay off my student loans, then the GI bill to retu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Buying birthday presents in a casual relationship? POST: I [23M] am casually seeing a girl [20sF] whose birthday is in a couple weeks. It's been going on for a couple months and there are some feelings involved but we both agreed we cannot start a relationship right now due to various circumstances in our lives. I don't feel obligated to buy her anything by any means but I figured it would be a nice surprise. I was going to go to a glass blowing class where they make a flower for ",positive " r/self TITLE: New workplace working with a cute girl POST: So basically, I(23m) quit my old job, and got a new one. I started last week. It's a kickass place for a factory. AC, chairs, my own computer, and a ton of responsibility for an entry level position. It's literally the best place within 50 miles of my house that doesn't require a degree or a ton of physical labor. For some reason, they fired a bunch of people in my area, which is how I landed the job. Anyway, this week, a really cute girl started. ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by telling my girlfriend I didnt want to watch her have sex with a girl in front of me. POST: This actually happened last night,and I know a bunch of tifus like these aren't true,but as a random internet stranger,I promise you this is. Anyways,to my story. Last night me and my gf went to bed,we talk for a little while about random stuff then she randomly asks me if I would ever want to have a threesome..now I know the answer I want to say,but its not the answer that should be said. I tol",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Tax questions about selling property, moved out and rented out my apartment but tenant is moving out so I'm thinking of just selling it outright POST: I'll try to make this short * Bought a studio for about $225K in 2007 in a co op (I didn't really know about the restrictions about a co op when I bought, I was young and naive). * Put in about 30K in renovations * I got an entirely remote job so I'm planning on living outside of the US for months at a time. * Could probably sell m",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm so ashamed. POST: I'm 22 and I rely on what little my parents can give me to live. Unfortunately, this is upwards of $200/month. I look for jobs for hours a day, but there's nothing in my area (which goes up to a 50-mile radius since I live in the middle of nowhere) that would be able to cover the gas to get there and back daily and pay for everything else. I don't know if I'm looking in the wrong places, or what, but it's embarrassing to keep relying on my parents when they live 20",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] with my [19F] dating problems, insecurities and sex. POST: We met over Facebook after not talking to each other for years since high school. She was in the army when we started talking and we noticed we liked each other. After a couple weeks we start dating. After a month of dating we start saying we love each other and can't wait to see each other and make love etc.. Being the the type of guy I am, I don't party, smoke, or drink(long history of personal problems) but she ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29f] with my BF [29M] 3 years. Put on some nice lingerie he acted uninterested then suggested we go without sex for a month, I'm feeling unattractive and very hurt. POST: Me and Dallas have been together for 3 years. It is great, we have an awesome relationship and time together. Dallas has a high sex drive when it comes to getting off to porn, but not so much with me anymore. He tells me I'm sexy and that he loves having sex with me, but it really doesn't happen. He loves ling",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] received a strange text from my girlfriend [20 F] of about one year last night while she was a little tipsy, not sure how to respond POST: The texts she sends are these Her: >""I feel like you can do so much better than me >Sometimes I treat you so badly >You deserve someone who treats you like a prince"" Her: >""I am so in love with you >But I feel like you need a new lover someoen who treats you better"" Her: >""I am so scared"" Her: >""[My name] you are a great fucking am",negative " r/relationships TITLE: HELP ME FAST! Me [19M] going on a date for a cup of coffee with a beautiful model [18F]. POST: Hey guys. I need your help fast. Yesterday this girl liked many of my pictures on fb (recently added her as a friend) and started a conversation today with her. Ended up talking for a bit, and agreed to meet up for some coffee today. I already did all the physical preparation that I could (Took a shower, brushed my teeth, have some fitting comfortable but good looking clothes) but I need",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: There's a puppy above me that the neighbors constantly leave out. POST: Around Saturday, some new neighbors moved into our apartment complex. They're incredibly loud but I'm fairly sure they have kids. My mother and I hear constant, loud running noises and thudding sounds. I'm trying to ignore this and just chalk it up to they have kids and don't have the decency to ask them to please try and keep quiet. Although their kids seem to stay up rather late, as the noises continue around 11 PM",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (15f) and I (15m) have been dating for nearly a year. She's suddenly becoming really religious and it's making me feel kinda weird and I'm not quite sure what to do. POST: So when we started dating, I knew she went to church. She wanted me to go with her, which I didn't mind. She didn't seem to be too deeply religious, like me. Fast forward about 7 months and we're starting to go further, getting to 3rd base. This goes on for a while, until summer. Then after returning ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] of 4 months is having a hard time learning how to trust again. POST: Here is a bit of backstory. About a year and a half ago I was with a girl named K for about 9 months. I trusted this girl 100%. I let her hangout with who she wanted, she did whatever she wanted and I never stopped her. In that sense, she would party, hangout with other people etc and I trusted her. Then I find out she has been cheating on me for 6 of the 9 months we were togeth",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by having bad hearing POST: So this happened a couple of years ago in college during in the first day of a typical introductory course. It was a small class; give or take 20 students. So as usual, our professor had us start with some ice breakers to get to know each other. And you were paired up with whomever was next to you. The information we had to give each other was pretty common: name, age, major, and an interesting fact about yourself. It just so happened that I was next to this c",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [31/M]Engaged With Child to the Wrong Person [25/F] - Advice needed! POST: This could be lengthy, but I'll try and keep it short. I'm a [31/M] engaged to a [25/F]. We've been engaged for about a year, and are set to be married in a month's time. I've known for a couple years now (as she has probably) that we're doing this because the alternatives seem far more worse. Aside from going into detail on 'why' we got engaged and how we got to here - let's just say it's very much been",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my Girlfriend [19F] of 5 months. I don't know if I can handle being continuously rejected for sex. POST: We've been having issues with sex lately. I have a problem where I last too long and she gets bored and then I have to finish myself and that makes her feel inadequate. Not to mention she starts to hurt after a while because she's small and i'm big. I believe my issue stems from growing up masturbating waaaayy too much and now my brain thinks that's the only way I ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the best (well, worst) thing to happen to an ex after a breakup... POST: I'll begin. I was with a girl I was sure was ""the one"" for quite some time (until 3 weeks ago). Well, she ended up being quite a lying bitch, and cheated on me. My brother saw her macking on some other dude, and then go in a bathroom with him at a bar, and even had 3 pictures of them making out. So when she came home I sent her packing. Fast forward to earlier today. She said she missed me and wanted to come",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (27F) husband (28) doesn't want my stepfather (60M) to be our child's grandfather. POST: By the time my mom and my stepfather ""Noah"" got married, I was too old to really think of Noah as my dad, but he is a great guy so we do have a very good relationship that is appropriate for our situation. I am pregnant, and even though I don't really think of Noah as my dad, I still want him to be my baby's grandfather. The baby will know him from the very beginning, my bio father is comple",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: By not keeping my temper in check NSFW POST: I am a female version of J.D from Scrubs with a male janitor at work (an assisted living facility) who hates me and I equally dislike him. When I first met him he would try to flirt and made comments such as ""if I had known it was your birthday I would have given you your birthday spankings"". I quickly put him in his place and reminded him that I was married. He stopped making comments, so I just chose to ignore him and carry on with me day.",negative " r/running TITLE: Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I have a question about abdomen pain while running. POST: I just recently started running consistently for the past 2 weeks, but during the past 4 runs I have been experiencing a pain in my right abdomen once I start breathing heavy, I noticed it after I ran VERY hard one night, the furthest I have gone. Now the pain eventually forces me to stop, and I usually cant get going again once it's there. People are telling me it's just because I ju",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend keeps on forgetting really important things. [22f/22m] POST: 22f/22m, together for 4ish years. We're currently long-distance, although weren't for the past 4 years and hopefully will be ending the long-distance soon. My boyfriend always seems to forget big events in my life. My aunt died last week and the funeral was yesterday. My boyfriend forgot about the funeral! We were iming yesterday and I mentioned that I was tired/run-down and he didn't remember that her fun",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I'm (19H) really don't know what to do with this girl (20F) / I need your advice POST: Hi reddit! I'm from Chile and I need your advice. Here's my story. I'm a college student, and I have never been good in the dating environment because I used to be a fat guy on school so now that I'm on college i started working out on the gym, eating healthy but there's a thing that I can't do... and that's to get a date, but last summer I was on the beach with a few friends and one day i met a ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: What do I do with a creepy-stalker? POST: Long story short, I have my own creepy stalker-of-sorts. I met this person on a social media app several months ago. I was very upfront about how I wanted nothing more than a friendship (as I am in a serious LTR) and they were fine with it at first. After chatting online, we exchanged phone numbers and we began texting. Within a couple of days, I was regretting things because he started talking about inappropriate things, to which I always asked to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my Ex-GF [23 F] of 2 years, tips on not accepting her pleads to get back with me. POST: Okay a little background, this is my second LTR (first one was 4 years). I dated this girl over the past two years and it was on/off after the first 6 months, which was a bad sign from the start. A problem I have is I often like to see the good in people so I give them too many chances. So far there has been 3 separate occasions where we ended because she wanted to date another guy",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26 F] have a threesome etiquette question: I was in a threesome with a couple (boyfriend/girlfriend) and the guy sent me a friend request, but not the girl. Should I send her a friend request as well? POST: Title pretty well sums it up. I met a guy through online dating, I wasn't really looking for a threesome, but I was open to the idea. (I'm a unicorn!) He had a girlfriend and suggested that we go on a date. We did. It was fun. We all hooked up (it was AMAZING). I have since",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by believing I could actually control my friends dog's gassy 'explosions' POST: Yesterday, I went to my friends house. Its like my second home, my second family, so I went straight to doing work and to my daily routine. As I went downstairs to grab a midnight snack, their family precious beagle found me and followed me up. It was an omen that I was having a fiber bar, but fuck me right? I laid down on the couch and soon after eating my snack, I was fast asleep. But I awoke to the crazi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Found underwear pics on my[20F] cousins[16F] phone. Should I talk her about this? POST: Hi /r/relationships. I'll keep this short and sweet. Being it's winter break, I've been hanging out with my family a lot. Last night we were all over my aunts house, when my cousin(I'll call her stacy) handed me her phone to show me a picture of her dog. I went back to her main photo library to go back to the camera section so I could take a picture of me making a silly face just to annoy her, wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my BF [24M] of 8mo, on him wanting to explore his bisexuality. Can you have your cake and eat it too?? POST: My boyfriend (we'll call him Andrew) and I have been together for over 8 months now, and have been very good about talking through things that have come up in our relationship thus far. Most recently, he says that his thoughts about a sexual encounter with another man have been lingering in the back of his mind. Quick backstory: Andrew had a very brief encounter",positive " r/Advice TITLE: What are some work at home jobs where I could actually make decent money as an actual employee? I need help POST: So, I'm 22 and slowly trying to get through school. I take all of my classes online and am chronically ill (CFS, an autoimmune disease, severe back problems due to a tumor I had on my spine when I was 14). I can't stand for long periods, and my immune system doesn't really work very well. I'm on social security but I'm trying to get off of it. I want to support myself and I rece",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: 23 [f] going crazy seeing 35 [m] who is driving me up the wall with a laundry list of pet peeves POST: My boyfriend has a ton of pet peeves. Some of them are little, but some of them are very frustrating. I know I need to talk to him, but I wanted help I do not want to break up with him, so if that is your advice please don't leave a response. That's not a solution. Little things like he doesn't like how fast I eat... we got wings the other day and we had to get boneless ones and eat",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Which things do you think cost more than you think they should, but don't know why? POST: There's been discussions before on things that are obviously overpriced, like HDMI cables and printer ink. *However* there are some things that are universally expensive (at least in the US) that we don't think should be, but don't know why (or are way cheaper in other countries). Some items that come to mind * avocados .. really? $1 to $2 each?? * kids shoes .. costs as much as adult shoes * ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my gf [24 F] 4 months, she not only cancelled our date but went on to slap another dude's ass right in front of me. Am i overreacting or is she blatantly disrespectful? POST: Me [26 M] with my gf [24 F] 4 months, she not only cancelled our date which i told her a week before and kept reminding her to not make any plans but went on to slap another dude's ass right in front of me. I blew up and couldn't keep my cool. I talked to her after and told her that i didn't like",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [19M] Lost the love of my life of 3 years [18F] now she wants me back but there's a problem POST: So around 4 or so months ago I lost the ""love of my life"" we were dating for 3 years and I was (and still am) madly in love with her We've been talking since we broke up, casually as friends and it's been super hard, I've had a lot of personal issues since we broke up such as depression ect and life's been really hard. I ended up around 2-3 weeks ago in another relationship, i figured ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to the dentist POST: This happened this morning. I was going to my dentist to get one of my wisdom teeth pulled out. The actual 'pulling out' went fine and when they were finished I asked if I could have my tooth back. Yeah, no problem with that they gave it to me so I could see it. The dentist told me to keep a swab on the place where the tooth was to keep the blood from running. Next thing I know I'm back at school and bump into my gang (a few girls there too). One of them ask",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by pissing my bed & destroying my $300 iPhone POST: So TIFU when I pissed my bed earlier this morning, I decided last night to do a three-hour workout followed by a painful shit thanks to a home made pre workout. Once I finished my shit I heard that you should stay hydrated especially after a workout, therefor I drank 3 bottles of water. A few hours pass and I settle into bed felling as if I am forgetting something but am to tired to realize. I wake up drenched in a somewhat cold liquid ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24m] with my boyfriend [36m] 9mo, do I have any business suggesting he tone up a little? POST: Using a throwaway because I tend to leave Reddit logged in on my laptop and I don't want the BF to come across this by accident and have his feelings hurt. I am very attracted to my boyfriend and have been for a long time. We met as coworkers several years ago and I always harbored a little crush on him. He is a bit older than me, yes, but his diet is very health-conscious and he looks",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26F] with my friend [29M], fancy a friend of a friend, but not sure how to go about it POST: I have never really been in a relationship before or asked anyone out because of my own insecurities, which has also led to me ""missing the boat"" a few times with other guys. Now I've been feeling ready to sort of try and leave that scared me behind & go after what I want (not only relationship-wise). Here's the problem though, he's a (sort of) friend who I know through my longtime bes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] feel like I've lost my identity and feel like I'm constantly living my boyfriend's [M23] life and not my own. POST: We've been together for a year and five months. Our relationship has been extremely unique and I've sacrificed a lot to be with him. I moved to a different state to be near him almost a year ago while he finishes up graduate school. He's been offered a job in our home state for when he graduates in May. We're both really excited to be near our friends and family",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] and my (ex?) girlfriend [21 F] of 6 months are taking time apart so she can ""take time to think"" POST: Long story short, my girlfriend, who I've been seeing since October, but officially dating for about 6 months, interpreted my text of ""Then I can't stick around"" as me breaking up with her, even though that was not my intention and I texted her 20 minutes later saying ""I'm crazy about you, I just need you to be honest with me"", and other things to make it seem like that wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me[19M] with Ex-Girlfriend(?)[19F]. Talking about getting back together but she may have sleep with others. How do to get over this? POST: Hi /r/relationships, a couple months ago my girlfriend of a bit more than a year and I broke up due to faults on my half. We recently begun talking about the possibility of getting back together and I don't know how to get over the fact that she most likely slept with other people during the time in between. I realize that she is single and free",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Student. 23. I've got two overdrafts and don't know how I'm ever going to clear them. Please help :( POST: Hi guys. I've been reading a lot of the posts on this page and there seems to be a lot of sound advice on here. I've been trying to formulate a plan to get rid of my debt but I'm struggling. When I was 18 I got myself an overdraft. This is the biggest regret I've ever had. I don't have a job at the moment (though I am looking). I'm on summer break from university and so won'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is this feeling I [20M] am having normal? How do I get rid of it? POST: I broke up with my ex about a year and a half ago, I'm over her, and very much in love with my current girlfriend. After my ex I went on a bit of a spree, seeing a couple of girls, none of which I developed feelings for, although they did for me. I did ""try"" to see if I just wasn't realizing that I had feelings for them, but honestly there was no chemistry. I enjoyed that for a while because I was enjoying someon",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19F]I'm really insecure about my boyfriend's [22M] porn collection. POST: I was browsing the web one day on his computer and decided to check out tumblr to look at some tags. He was logged into his account and his dashboard was flooded with porn. I don't see him on tumblr often so at first this didn't really bother me. Then another day I wanted to go back to a site I had been on before, but didn't remember the site. So I checked browser history to find it. It was all porn tumb",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with an ex colleague [22 F] whom I had a crush on but never really talked too POST: I had a crush on this girl, but was in a relationship back than, so I distanced myself pretty quickly. one year later, not working in the same place anymore, started talking with her accidentally when I was drunk, anyway we chatted almost daily, right when I was about to ask her out for a date, she completely disapeared, I left her a couple of messages saying that I missed talking to her, b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23F) feel uncomfortable when my BF (33M) touches other girls, how do I deal with this? POST: My BF and I have known each other for 3 years and we've always had a thing for each other. A month ago we started dating. He is a pretty touchy-feely kind of guy, and I'm not that way at all. The only people I touch beyond a quick hug are people I'm dating. We went to a party together this weekend and at one point I saw him and his female friend stand back to back and stick their asses o",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Today, I rode down to a garage to get my motorcycle inspected, and the key broke in half. Who else has already been having a bad day? POST: I didn't have anyone else to call, and since the extra key was in my old room at my mother's house, I had to call my mother's unemployed boyfriend to drive out and bring me the spare. Of course I thanked him, and I don't have an issue with him, but my parents divorced when I was 16. Our encounters are understandably awkward. Anyways, after all of th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How to deal with overly conservative/strict parents POST: I know this will get buried and may not turn up one comment, but here goes. My parents have very high expectations for me and my sisters. They expect straight A's from elementary school, scholarship to college, out in four years making over $100,000. I'm the oldest and I didn't work out like that. Right now I am looking at five years of college with $30,000 in loans to get a marketing degree, then possibly get a job with the uni",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by playing ""Crossy Road"" before the ACTs POST: For those of you the don't know, the ACTs are one of the most common entrance exams you need to do to get into college in the US This happened last week, but the results were just finalized today. This past saturday, I wake up at 6:30 am, hop in the car, and drive to the nearest school to take my test. I got there a bit early, so I decide to pull out my phone and play a few games before the testing begins. Cue ""crossy road"", a game similar ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Not sure if I should breakup or not. M[32], F[27]. POST: I[32] met my girlfriend[27] on the internet 2 years ago and because of the distance, she moved in with me 2 months after we started dating. We get along great, we have many similar interests and hobbies, and things are great in the bedroom, etc. That being said, I have several concerns about her. 1) She is very clingy and dependent on me. I never see my friends and if I do, she comes along. She hates being in the apartment by",negative " r/running TITLE: Why does RoadRunnerSports use such SLOW shipping? POST: Runnit, Roadrunnersports.com, which I generally like, especially for their good return policy and their decent prices (after coupons), uses the most frustrating shipping services! Using their VIP service, they promise that they'll get your order shipped off to you in 2 hours, which seems great. But then they ship it by smartpost, which defeats the whole point of the quick service in the first place. For example, I'm currently wait",negative " r/self TITLE: What's your most ""Oh. No...no, no, no, that's not at all what I meant by that"" story? POST: An ex girlfriend of mine told me a story that prompted this question, and here is that - very short - tale: She loves horses, always had them, showed them, and now manages a stud farm (I think? I don't know, something with collecting champion horse semen and breeding them), so it's fair to say that she's one of those ""horse girls"" - and don't act like you don't know any of these girls, I know you know",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Final Update: Me [57 M] my step-daughter [24 F] she's married to total deadbeat (34 M) for 5 years and I'll be kicking her out in 2 days. POST: Original: TL;DR: ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19F] mother may disapprove of my relationship with my boyfriend [20] of 4 months if she finds out of his family problems POST: My boyfriend and his mother don't speak to each other very much because he resents that she beat him and his sister as children and because of her toxic argumentative and paranoid attitude, as well as arguments with her husband (that never get violent). Thus, she doesn't interfere or speak much the couple times I've gone over and she's there. My mom is ve",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my roommate [26F] wants to turn our extra bedroom into an art studio but doesn't want to pay for the extra room POST: My two roommates and I just moved into a new apartment about 2 months ago. There are 4 bedrooms, but 3 of us. My one roommate, we'll call her Jenna, wants to turn the 4th bedroom into her art studio. My other roommate and I would prefer to find a 4th person to occupy this space. Rent is $1600/mo. Jenna pays $600/mo (she has the biggest room) while my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my exgf [24 F] dated 3 years, been split for about 7 months, cannot stop the feelings that I want her back, is it normal? POST: So, met my ex at my last job. We hit it off and started hanging out. We ended up getting serious after a few months of casually seeing each other. She ended up getting a new job, but we stayed together. It had its ups and downs, but I always cared for her. Yes, there were nights we would argue and have disagreements, and sometimes they involve",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [20F] boyfriend [22M] is going on holiday, and I'm not sure what to think POST: In late December, my boyfriend is going on holiday with a college club. This holiday involves a lot of drinking and partying, and also requires everyone to share rooms. I spoke to Steven about who he was sharing with last week, and he told me that he would be sharing a room with one male friend (who is single, if that makes any difference) and two of his female friends. Despite initially feeling ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (21/m) haven't spoken to my mum (f/42 for 4 years. POST: So when I was 18 my mum went away for a holiday and had an affair, she came home and was very distant. Couple months later and my parents tell me they're getting a divorce. Things started to fall apart between the family. My mum started staying at a new place while my dad was at work. Then eventually only stayed there. At the time and sometimes I wonder if still today, this had quite the impact on my life. Right in the middl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [20M] ask her [19F] what's up? POST: I'm currently conflicted with myself about whether I should contact a really ""good"" friend of mine or not. So the situation is that I moved out of the country for a four months because of uni, and this girl who is a really good friend of mine sort of seems to be steadily cutting contact with me. And I feel like I care much more about her than she cares about me and that gives me an odd feeling inside. We used to be pretty close talkin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (29/M), of 3 months, just told me (25/F) that he does not like my tattoos or that I'm vegetarian and that it's actually annoying. POST: I started dating my friend of 5 years in March. Our friendship started off quickly and full of spontaneity in 2008 and we became really close on a roadtrip, where we got matching tattoos. Our relationship has come on pretty quickly and strongly. It's like nothing I've ever experienced, which is a great thing. He makes me happy and feel c",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [18F] invite him[23M] to be my dance partner? POST: Okay... I really want to start swing dancing. However, as I am a girl, and there is always a lack of gents in those swing classes, I cannot enroll without a partner. So I was thinking of asking one of my guy friends to be my partner. The thing is - we are not really that close - he is more of an acquaintance. We have talked no more than 3 or 4 times. However, last time - a week ago - we met accidently, while I was out with ",negative " r/self TITLE: Is anyone else an inverted version of ""forever alone""? How do I fix it? POST: **(Feel free to skip over this part)** Background: I am a 19 year old male, so I'm not too worried about any of this, I've got plenty of time ahead of me. I would consider myself self confident, independent and fairly intelligent (modest, I know). I'm also kind of, er, eccentric I guess. I don't try to be, but I'm known as ""the weird kid"" by almost all of my friends. I can make friends fairly easily. I've been told",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: By not going to my cousins wedding. POST: So, like most TIFU'S, this happened a couple of weeks ago but is still ongoing. So Last year I was told by my dad that my cousin (We will call him richard) was getting married in spring. Me and my sister were not given an invitation but instead, a card from hallmark was sent to my dad's house with; me, my sister's name my dad and his girlfriend. Me and my sister were having reservations about the event because we don't like that side of the fami",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my husband [22M] almost 2 years, won't let me, be me. POST: with the wonderful new year fast approaching my husband's [22M] friends decided that instead of spending New Years at home we should all go out and party. I am all for it, but that's just my personality [19F] After talking to my husband about it he makes the decision that it's ""for my best interest"" that I do not attend and stay home and watch him playing halo with his friends all night. With even more discussi",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by playing Ultimate Frisbee POST: This happened a few years ago. I was in high school at the time and we were playing UF. I was going for a catch and was running forward with my head turned around. I was about to catch the Frisbee when I collided with a metal bench. My shin made impact with the 'seat' part of the bench, and I somersaulted over the back of the bench. I landed face first onto the rubber track, did a scorpion, and finally came to rest. Part of the skin on my leg tore off",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18/m] always fail to get the girl because none want what I want. POST: I'm an 18 year old recent high school graduate. I have been in several relationships before, but it seems I always struggle mightily to seal the deal. I do not have trouble attracting girls, and never had, but as we get closer and start moving along, once they realize I'm looking for something serious and I'm not going to be the ""college party"" type boyfriend, they either get scared or lose interest. I've been ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: When have you witnessed or realized something that seems ordinary but when it hits, is really sad? POST: I know, that's a confusing question because it is worded so shitty. I'll give you some examples. I remember when I was about 12, I was in a low end department store. I know people rank on Wal-Mart but this place made Wal-Mart look like paradise. I walked by the lay-away counter and I saw a guy put a basketball on hold. I'm not talking about high end leather basketballs. This was",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Lost my wallet on Wednesday, what can I do to make sure that I am legally safe from identity fraud and the like? POST: So this past Wednesday I went out with some friends and managed to lose my wallet in one of two locations, my local gym and a nearby Applebees. I've called both of these places and neither one has had a wallet returned to them. I've checked my car as well since I used it to get between the two buildings but had no luck finding it. I called 911 on Wednesday to report t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M/F] with my BF [30 M/F] 1 Month, Need to break up but the relationship moved so fast that I don't know how to cut it POST: I met a guy online and we chatted for a while, things went really great. We met after a few weeks, and I immediately knew that something was ""off"" with our connection, but I felt like I should give it a chance since our connection was so solid by email/phone. I'm now a few weeks into this and he's really attached, and I know for sure I need to break this ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I am in an interesting predicament. POST: I am caught in a conundrum:the choice is laid upon me whether to improve our nation's (the United States') youth, or to support myself. I watch two children, one aged 5 and the other aged 2. They are not, in any sense of the word, civilized. One is a chronic liar (which is to be expected at her age, I'm told by her mother), and the other is still malleable (age 2, if you haven't guessed). I get paid $40 a week to watch these children. The",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my first Date [20 F] - What to talk about? POST: So I am a really shy guy in general, I prefer not to talk alot and neither do I talk alot. I always have a great time with this woman and we always laugh together, so I decided to take her out on a date, and she said yes ofcourse ( ^^Yay ), however, we already talked alot with eachother, like ALOT, (we spent around 8 hours together each day on the weeks (mon-fri) at work. But I honestly don't know what to talk about, we",negative " r/loseit TITLE: I've finally lost 15lbs... for the second time in my life. (F/5'8""/169) [long post warning] POST: So back in high school when I first realized I needed to lose weight, I was 5'8"", 185 lbs, and had never set foot in a gym. I started calorie counting, slowly got down to 155 and then actually started going to the gym, focused on lifting and cardio. That combined with a pretty rough break up hurtled me down to 140 lbs. I was really thin for my height/build and had an unhealthy relationship with",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by cleaning out my cats litter box. POST: This actually happened 2 nights ago (*I know, I wish I had posted this the night it happened, but had placed it in a different sub*) So, since the holidays have come around, and the grocery prices have skyrocketed, my fridge and cabinets are completely empty near the end of the month. I get food stamps so I had to wait for them to refill, so like every end of the month I am usually on a limit of what I eat, and all I had in my fridge was food for",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [30/m]I guess I Have forgotten how to talk to people [Specifically a Female] and now because of it it looks like I am home doing nothing tonight. POST: I posted [last night] and [earlier yesterday] where you can get some back story. Also I have only ever talked to her in person over like two different nights at concerts. Anyways I Have been texting this person and trying to hang out with her but I can never seem to have any success. I asked her what she was doing tonight earli",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (20F) had a fling with (19M) that ended and now in an awkward friendsish stage POST: I had a short fling with one of my guy friends that ended a couple of months ago. While we were ""dating"" we would cuddle and hook up but we never actually had sex. It ended because I was unsure about how invested he was in what was going on and didn't know how to proceed. He did the slow fade and we stopped talking for a while. I bought him a birthday gift before it ended and decided to give it t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] broke up with the perfect girl [23F] after 6 months, please tell me I did the right thing... POST: My girlfriend and I were together for about 6 months. It was a super intense relationship, we met 2 months before she was going out of state for 3 months. She fell kind of head over heels and we decided to try long distance. I liked her a lot but didn't feel that instant connection, it usually takes me quite a while to develop strong feelings for people and kind of figured the m",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by catching feelings POST: Before starting I just want to say that I would never actually act on these feelings and I'm extremely happy with my life at the moment, however, I don't know how to shake this. So this happened a short while ago while we were on a family vacation. Slight back story injection, 1. I'm clearly married 2. I have kids 3. While I've known my SIL for years and we've always gotten along I honestly only ever saw her as a sibling. Someone I could comfortably joke wi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Help! I'm [24/F] afraid of what will happen when he [21/M] (my friend for 6 years) wakes up tomorrow morning. POST: I'll make it simple. He liked me back in high school. He never told me. I liked him back, too. I never told him... but we've been best bros since as far back as I can remember. I guess both of us just didn't want to ruin a good friendship. I even took on the roll of wing-man for him several times. However, during homecoming dance he kissed me. We've always called",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with a girl [17 F] not dating, don't know how to introduce. POST: There's a girl that I follow on Instagram, with her following me back as well. I have never met this girl in person, nor have I ever spoken about her with that mutual friend. Despite this, she is incredibly beautiful and seems like a really nice girl, and I would really like to get to know her. She has her Snapchat in her bio, and like I said, we follow each other, but I don't know how I would go about dming ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by accidentally plagiarizing myself. POST: This is my first ever Reddit worthy fuck up, so bear with me guys! I'm a sophomore at one of the top journalism schools in the US. I'm also in an honors program, so my classes can be pretty tough. This semester I'm in an honors Journalism Law class, and our midterm project was a 35 page research paper. Now last year, I did a research paper on FCC regulations and censorship, but on a much smaller scale (only 5 pages.) Since this first paper s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] and [16 F] misunderstood each other (I really hate texting) and I'm not sure what to do. POST: I met this girl at school, I'm a junior and she's a sophmore, and we've been hitting it off really well the past couple of weeks. We both like each other and we're planning on going out soon, but today I messed up (at least I think I did) with this last convo. I texted that I needed to go and she replied goodbye and all that but she called me, 'love,' in her goodbye. Reading it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 F] with my boyfriend [20 M] 4 months, feeling neglected/ignored coupled with jealousy/anxiety POST: Hello! I have been ""officially"" dating my current boyfriend for about 4 months, though we were casually dating for a long time before that. He's recently (in the last couple of weeks), wanted more time alone than what I would call ""usual"". He says he just needs time to be completely alone. I understand that, because I am like that with most people. But with him, I don't fin",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by keeping a secret from my SO for 1.5 years. POST: We had been dating for about 6 months. He told me he planned to leave. For a year. I had never been in love before, and was scared of getting hurt. I knew if he left we wouldn't last, because long distance never works. So I paniced. And broke it off. I figured it'd hurt less this way. We were broken up for about two weeks. During this time he wouldn't talk to me. I regretted it the moment I said it, but I was too late to take back. I sp",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [23M] keep trying to get a hold of the girl [21F] I'm dating with zero success. I need help. POST: **Background:** I'm dating my most recent ex-girlfriend and the relationship is now taking a dark turn we dated originally for 8 months and that ended because I had changed and I pushed her away. soon after I realized I had made a rather large mistake and I'm to bettering myself for her and for my future. We are in a long distance relationship where I am in the KS and she is in ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Am I being screwed out of shares by a startup in my past? (CA) POST: A year(ish) ago I left working for a startup that had given me an amount of shares (~3%). A little over 9 months after leaving it closed down, which was no surprise to anyone there; the founder was a brilliant person but just kept switching the vision for the company every two weeks or so. No progress on anything, and it was that for many months before I left and then the rest...etc etc. It's worth nothing that the fo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my (23m) dad (49m) had a huge fight with me pretenda he has no son and i have no dad POST: hi reddit im not sure how to structure this or where to start.. so here goes.. a little background about me. I live with both of my parents, my dad came back into the picture when i turned 8 and i moved to new Zealand. this happened about a week ago, after my parents had a fight. my dad usually dont cook if hes angry or some shit. he gets offended easily and hold grudges. well last wednesday",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my friend [20 F], hookup w/obvious interest shown then later not so much? POST: So I met this girl not too long ago, at a party. We hooked up but it wasn't like any other hookup I've ever had, we had great chemistry and a really good connection. Afterwords, that night, we just talked, for a really long time into the morning and she made it clear that both a) She was interested in me and b) she never does hookups, that this was a very rare thing for her. I didn't outri",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Any advice on preventing myself from ""relapsing"" into junk food? (Plus some SV) POST: First of all, greetings to the whole community. It's been a little over 3 weeks now since I started what appears to be one of my most significant efforts to lose weight. I need to lose quite a lot, and my first target is around 20kgs; enough to bring me to a two-digit number. I think I got past the first stage, which most of you should be familiar with. I don't know how I did it, but the ""first few hard ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, how do you wipe your ass after you shit? POST: Recently I was talking to my roommates (don't know how this conversation came about) and it seems I am the only person that does this. When I shit I wipe my ass by reaching in between my legs while sitting and wipe ass to balls. I find this way much easier and that is why I do it like that. So Reddit, I am asking you and for some reason curious to see how you wipe your ass when shitting to prove to my roommates that I am not weird. B",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/M] How do I proceed with my relationship from here? POST: I dated this girl for a year before I moved to Texas. We stayed really close friends, and there was always talk of us picking up our relationship when I moved back. After returning, I never officially patched up our relationship. The other day, I caught her cuddled up with and kissing my roommate. I didn't have any right to be upset with her actions, since we weren't together technically, but it made my heart stop an",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Dating for 4 yrs, he [28/m] says ""I dont know"" to idea of marriage. I'm [25/f] POST: I've been dating who I think is my dream guy for 4 years. We have a great relationship and all of our friends and family even hint at ""oh, when are you guys going to get married?"" and comment how great we are together. When I finally sat down with him and asked him what he thought about marriage, he first replied ""I don't know"". Then he kept making more excuses saying ""maybe when I'm older"" (h",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I feel like she is emotionally cheating on me. POST: M 30 and F 31, dating for 6 months (I'm the male). Hello reddit. My girlfriend is undertaking a very stressful master's degree (I have already done the same degree, so I know how difficult it is... which is how we met). She has made a very good (single) male friend from her course, and he does seem like an okay guy. I am concerned, however, that their friendship has become something more and I feel emotionally cheated upo",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Problem with friends' group chat POST: My group of 'friends' uses an app called Whatsapp for group chats. There are 3: One for all the boys, one for all the girls, and a big one for everyone. I (A boy) am in the boys' chat, but not the girls' chat. I am also not in the big group chat. The admin of the big chat is a small boy that doesn't have many friends outside of the group as people see him for what he is; Selfish, manipulative, misogynistic (He thought it was funny to slap his drunk gi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by snuggling with a close friend in front of my ex. POST: There isn't anything super raunchy, funny, or spectacular about my fuck up, but I wanted to share it to get it off my chest cause wow do I feel awful. So basically I was dating someone in our friend group for 3 years but we broke up when I felt it just wasn't working anymore. We all have tickets to a music festival and we stay in the same vacation house for it, so ex and I promised to be civil and whatnot. So we're all able to",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Lost for words on the phone? And future plans. POST: I'm frequently away for research (geologist) for periods often extending up to 3 months, depending on the scope of the project, this is generally once a year but often other small projects/consultants/conferences etc come up that are very rarely longer than 2 weeks. Obviously it isn't an ideal situation but I love what I do and I'm not about to stop right now, but I'm frequently lost for words on the phone when talking to my s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30F] with my BF [32 M] of 5 years are planning an intimate wedding. My parents [60s] feel like my side of the family is underrepresented. POST: My BF and I are not wedding people, we typically don't like attending them and neither of us has a particular interest in planning one. We do however, want to get married. We threw around the idea of elopement, but decided that we would like our immediate family to be there. Parents, siblings and their spouses and kids. We found a great p",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 F] with my mother and rest of family [43 f] , family seems to think getting a bf can improve my life and somewhat make it better? POST: So this is the thing, I have been having a real hard time for the past three years. Graduated college, moved to a completely new city for graduate school. Since then I have been pretty miserable, scientific research has broken me in every possible way, I have no real friends and I it takes all of my willpower to get me through each day. Now my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [14/f] know if I'm bi or lesbian? Im starting to think I might not be totally straight? POST: I hope this is ok because it's not about one relationship but its kind of about all my relationships at once. This feels so weird to be asking. I never thought at all i would be anything but straight until a little while ago. I guess i thought that every girl felt and thought what i did but i just found out they don't. So at school a while ago we had a big week with meetings and p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (20female) Think my ex (20 male) has screwed my mind up about dating POST: So basically I am 20 years old female who has been split up from my ex for over a year now. I've known him for over 10 years and every year he used to message me to get in contact but I never responded until last year. We dated briefly (around 5 months) but he got an offer for university that year that was 5 hours away and j couldn't let him turn it down so I made sure he accepted it. However it was a four y",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is there a way I [23/f] can politely decline a birthday invite from a sensitive friend[24/f]? POST: I somewhat recently joined a new group of friends, they are all from out of state and we met through work, but most of them don't work for the same company anymore. I am from the area and I have a lot of small friend groups, but for them this is their major group in this city. One of the girls in the group was a little hesitant towards being friends with me. I can come off as a littl",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: M(25) and F(26) recent breakup POST: So it's been about three weeks since my gf and I broke up. I was really into her and I'm still recovering from the whole thing. We were going out about 6 months. I'm still getting over the rejection etc... I need advice because I already slept with one person and I'm working on more. But, with summer work coming up, I may not have time for women anymore. It feels weird, almost wrong to not keep trying with these girls. I feel almost pressured to keep p",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: After watching the ""Thrive Movement"", can someone explain to me how they don't believe the Fed, IMF, and World Bank aren't evil? POST: I am a Finance student finishing up my last year and am currently taking ""International Finance"" this summer. I recently watched the Thrive Movement on youtube and found it very interesting. While a lot of people might not agree with the Aliens/Torus part in the beginning, how does anyone disagree with what our Monetary system is doing? We can see this ha",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU sitting in an autistic kid's spot POST: Hello fellow redditors. I've come with another fuckup. A couple years ago, at my younger cousin's birthday party everyone on both sides of my aunt and uncle's family all went to their house for (like I previously mentioned) it was my younger cousin's birthday. On my uncle's side, he has a sorta kinda mildly autistic. This guy gets kinda crazy and I'm the apparently the only person that doesn't know how to handle him. So after dinner, we all decide",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf(18) has recently been talking to many new guys and it's making me feel slightly uncomfortable POST: My gf and I (18) have been dating for almost 9 months. We've endured difficult times (mainly due to distance) but the majority of the beginning 6 months of the relationship had been good. After 6 months, we both started uni together, although at different institutes. She began to meet new friends and talk to many new ones, mainly male. Before we had discussed what was going to ha",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Borrowed my father's car. Rear ended by uninsured driver. Uninsured myself. What can I do? POST: This all happened in Texas. I was hit at a stop light by an uninsured driver. We were at a stop light and the line was slowly moving forward. This big SUV started swerving ahead of me so I slowed down and pulled to the side to make sure I didn't hit them. Well seconds later this car plows into me and pushes me further into the median. The damage done to both vehicles makes it obvious wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] relationship of 10 months with my girlfriend [16F] is basically perfect. And I feel POST: I've been dating my girlfriend for 10 months now and our relationship is almost perfect. My girlfriend is super attractive and super attracted to me and it's great. We've had a fairy tale relationship so far. We've laughed, cried, and loved each other. We've had nothing but complete respect and understanding for each other, and I love hanging out with her. There's only one problem. I ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Making a Nerf Mini-gun need help! POST: First, the reason why I want to build one. My buddy and I were hanging out and his younger brother came down stairs with his new Nerf gun, had a magazine clip, pump action riffle, and started pelting us with it. After he was done we checked it out, and it was pretty cool, and the buddy and I were like why didn't we have Nerf guns that where this bad ass when we where kids. So it was cool at first. But then after a couple weeks of him doing this we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 F] ended it with my bf [28 M] because of his lack of affection and sex drive. I am second guessing my choice and am fearful that I will end up alone. POST: Can your sex life make or break your relationship? How important is it to you? I wonder how many redditors are unhappy with their relationship because of the lack of affection and sex and if they think they will be able to last being bored in the bedroom? I connected with my past boyfriend on all levels except for the sex ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Recent LDR with GF(19f) met in Mexico, she works @ a gym, frequented by her exes (M22) POST: Alright let me give you a little back ground Recently met I believe to be the girl of my dreams this past week while on vacation in Mexico. This girl has it all the body, brains, personality, and genuine caring atitiude you look for in a girlfriend,did I mention shes a personal trainer, so she even has the brawn that I require as well. It was love at first sight we completely clicked, and I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: GF [24/F] of 1.5yrs won't help me [24/F] around the house, says I don't love her enough. POST: The past two weeks, she has just 100% stopped helping. Completely. I tried to talk about it multiple times, but it gets ignored or turned into something about how emotionally stunted I am. (E.g., ""Can you do the dishes? I've done them for the past six days."" ""WHAT IF I GOT SICK? I can't trust that you'd take care of me!"") I've tried everything I can think of. She doesn't want a schedule be",negative " r/self TITLE: The local dairy(convenience store etc) owner got held up again... POST: So there's a guy who owns one of the dairies in my suburb got held up at knifepoint again just over a day ago, and it wasn't the first time. He's been there for many years now, and some total scumbag decides it's a good idea to head on in there and take some tobacco. To show how long he's been in there, I went in earlier today to see if he was okay, and he was telling me about how he thinks its someone outside of the subu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I think she's lying.. POST: 20(m) & 18(f) We've been together for about 6 months, love being with her and she loves it too. She went to a party in the country and didn't want me to go, I fought against it but in the end she went alone. She got really drunk and I had to pick her up at around 4am. When I got there, nothing seemed right and when I went in she came out of the bathroom, she didn't even remember that I went in to get her. She took some pictures with guys and ki",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Office pranks to get back at co-worker, without getting fired?? POST: A co-worker and I have a feud going and he is stomping me because I am easily startled. He, however, is not ""scareable"". I need some creative ideas to prank him, or something epic to scare him. I've done the basics: stole his car keys, put tape over the mouse laser, stole every pen from his office, but nothing satisfies! What have you guys done in the past that gets their goats? His office is also in the back w",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I [F21] got back together with my ex [M23] of one year after 8 months apart, about 2 months ago. How does somebody let go of the past and the pain that was caused? POST: He broke up with me, and was the one to pursue the reconnection. Not only was the breakup very hurtful, we had a few run-ins over the time we were apart where one of us (or both) were too drunk to not make a scene, (and ones that were just fine), started a hands-off ""friendship"", and had ex-sex (with I love you's a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 F] am always interested in someone. Is something wrong with me? POST: Here is a little background about me. I grew up in a single family household, where my dad passed away when I was still a child. My mom was constantly working and began dating when I was in middle school. Ever since middle school, I developed crushes. I had non-serious dating relationships, where both the guy and I reciprocated our ""puppy-love"" feelings. During high school, I began seriously dating and had ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [Late 20's F] with my dad [60's M] and family, my dad has asked me for money multiple times recently. I don't know how to keep saying no. POST: Throw away for obvious reasons. I am late 20's, living with my SO in a house about 5 minutes from my parents. I don't want to give too many details because I have family on reddit. Basically, my father has asked me for money multiple times. My SO is very against lending money, even to family. I am at a point where I have some money saved",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My university's student math club is planning a festival in honor of Pi Day (March 14), redditors of the world, I could use your help (details inside). POST: Remember [this guy]( We're taking the idea of that roaming gnome and mixing it with math. As some of you may know, March 14 (3/14) is international Pi day (because pi is 3.14159265...) The student math club at my university is organizing a Pi Week / Mathematics Festival for March 5-9 (They're on break the following week, so the eve",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should my(19F) bf (19M) be paranoid? POST: First off, I'm not too sure if this is the right subreddit so if you don't mind kindly redirecting me to a better suited one, that would be great. 8 pm last night I met up with a girl to sell her an event ticket. On the bus ride back home after meeting her, I decided to visit my boyfriend at work instead of going straight home. I got off the bus and I briefly caught a glimpse of a van pulling in from right behind me. I didn't think much of ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] Single POST: Not sure if there is a better sub, if there is let me know. I am turning 25 this month, still a virgin, I have not gone out on a date in 5 years. I feel anxious and not well when dealing with people, I probably have social anxiety disorder of some sort but the 3 therapists I saw last year all told me I was fine and the psychologist told me that he would not prescribe me any medication because there ""might be bad side effects"". I am an engineer so there are p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: ways I can show him I love him? POST: 26F (me) about 28M (boyfriend) hi there, so i've been dating a handsome, caring fellow for 6 months (as of yesterday). the thing is, he doesn't like gifts (grad student on a budget) and I need helping thinking of thoughtful things to show/do/tell him that would demonstrate how much I care and love him. we haven't said ""i love you"" but we often say ""I'm so lucky to be with you"" or ""I like you a lot"" sort of thing. i'm traveling for 2 weeks ov",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Can a confused guy [19/M] get a resolution? POST: So about a week ago, my girlfriend [19/F] of 2 years broke up with me. We would meet up to talk about what happened and at times just hangout. Well, the last time we had a talk about our relationship, we both admitted that we still love each other and wish we could do couple stuff with each other again (kissing, taking naps together, holding hands, ect.). So in the heat of the moment we both starting kissing and though we both",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] watched incest porn in adolescence and I'm worried it had lasting damage on my relationship with my family. POST: Hello everyone, Like most boys, I watched a good amount of porn when I was growing up. I got caught a couple times but it was never a big deal. My family was understanding and ultimately I don't think porn itself damaged my growth in any way. I don't really watch porn anymore and I have normal, healthy relationships with my peers including a couple monogamous sex",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my Gf [19 F] Girlfriend seeing her boss out of work, should i be worried? POST: So my girlfriend of 6 months has had this job for about 5 months and i remember when she started that she said she heard rumors about her boss sleeping with employees and not to mention, this guy is married.. And when she first started, he'd always be flirting with her and such and he still does but i'll get to that here. I noticed the whole little ""relationship"" between them got weirdly ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My previously best friend is ruining my life... POST: I'm going to try to spare you all the details, simply because it would be too much to read otherwise. But for starters, ill let you know that I am a 17 y/o male, living in the northern parts of Europe. When I was around 5 I met the person who were to become my best friend for the most part of my childhood, up until recently. Sure, we've always had our ups and down, but during the last year, things took a hard turn as my friend start",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/m] I'm considering a relationship with someone (21/f), but am unsure if it's a good idea. POST: Okay, first I need to give a little background about myself. I don't really seem to have the same emotional responses as everyone else. My happy moments seem to be less than most people and my sad moments seem to be less sad than most people have. That being said, I've never really felt ""love"" in the traditional sense (i.e. no heart skipping a beat, or face flushing, or butterfli",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend can't keep in touch, respect my family or make any extra effort... but I still love him. How can I tell him that it's him that needs to change? [20 years old] POST: My boyfriend and I are both 20, and we have been together for two years. As most of you will know, no long term relationship is a total picnic. Everyone has fights and problems; good qualities and bad. But I'm beginning to feel like I'm at the end of my tether and I just need someone to confirm that what I'm",negative " r/cats TITLE: When to switch from kitten to cat food POST: Hello, another question. I trust Reddit on cat information. I'm planning on adopting a new cat this Friday, because my 10.5-month old needs a friend. I'm planning on getting someone a little older than her. Do I need to make sure to get separate food for him? My current kitty is pretty much done growing at this point, and has started eating less (I fill her bowl up twice a day and she hasn't finished it in 30 minutes anymore), so I was wondering i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my mother [F] pressuring me to come out of the closet to my dad POST: So basically, I'm gay and I came out to my mom. She is more or less having trouble processing it because she keeps badgering me about how being gay and living the ""gay lifestyle"" is dangerous, risky, and will lead to an unfulfilled stinted life emotionally. She has trouble understanding and coming to terms with the fact that I'm sexually attracted to men. We argue a lot about my sexuality, but that i",negative " r/loseit TITLE: In a Calorie Deficit but I don't feel hungry? POST: Hey guys long time lurker but actually got started on doing some work on myself I apologize for the long post . I have been extremely in active the past 3 years because of my job and that in conjunction with free food/laziness/lack of discipline I gained about 80 pounds. My brother ended up losing 40 pounds on weight watchers and I wanted to try something similar. I been going to the gym twice a week the past 3 weeks and this past week I h",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Throat closes while sleeping and can't breathe POST: I'm a mid 30's male, healthy, 6'0"" not overweight. As the title reads my throat closes during sleep and I can't breathe. It's happened before but this month has happened twice. Last time I had to crawl out of bed to get my roommate to help me. It's very scary and I never heard about this happening to anyone. I searched online and the most similar thing I found was ""Obstructive Sleep Apnea"" but I couldn't find anything about the throat's",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (18F) my (18M) ex is messing with my head. Two years together, first everything. POST: My ex and I were together for two years and recently broke up at the end of December. He found a new girlfriend two weeks later. He continued to contact me over things I had posted to my personal blog. I was simply venting my feelings. Things were messy for a time but we have since made up as friends. The other day I contacted him asking for a couple of my things back from his house. He offere",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can you help a guy out with a tough decision? England or Australia? POST: Hi everyone, I was recently accepted to my favorite college but the only problem is that I was accepted as a spring applicant. The college has a program where you study abroad for your first semester and come back for the spring semester back in the states. As an engineering student I have two options, go to Australia and study at the Swinburne Institute of Technology in Melbourne or go to London and study at th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I found about my husband's past which he hid from me and now I'm confused how to handle. What to do? POST: Hey Reddit, I'm a 22 year old girl. Got married on papers in February this year. The guy lives in Canada. We haven't lived together for once as he had to go back for his job. My husband and I talk to each other via skype etc. He asked me if I had any previous relationships and I told him honestly that never in my life I had any interest towards the relationships before marriage",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my Girlfriend [19 F] together for 8 months, and she has attachment issues..? POST: She is very timid and self conscious as of late, doesn't like spending much time with any of her friends and has become a house hermit after finding a decent paying job, all her effort goes to that and she is left very drained... she has admitted depression as some days she gets very down, and also admits to have attachment problems, showing emotion and says she was raised not to let any",negative " r/books TITLE: With the announcement of the new book, I'll go ahead and say this: I loved the ending to The Dark Tower. POST: [In case you haven't heard.] **Spoilers, if you haven't finished the series, read no further, you've been warned!** I liked the ending. IMO, it was one of the best endings I've ever read. I didn't like *everything* about it. For instance, the Crimson King was so anti-climactic. But I understand what SK was going for. The King was mad, absolutely insane in his solitude. ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/m] with my new gal [18/f], she stopped almost all communications with me. Very confused. POST: So here's the deal. I just graduated high school, she's going in to her senior year. We had a thing a few years ago, but I was too slow to say the least. She ended up dating some other guy (who ended up being a real asshole, not just saying that because it's her ex either. He really was.) for awhile, and when they broke up I decided it was time for me to try again. We ended up ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: ME [ M/27], was wondering is it worth breaking no contact; to wish the girl I love [F/25] a happy birthday? Don't want to come off, looking like a jerk. POST: Before I get into more detail; I am going to post my original post and update, so people can see were I am coming from. Original post! Updatepost! This is just a basic question, that has bothered me for the last two days. Should I break my no contact rule, to wish the girl I love ( unrequitedly), a happy birthday? To gi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by putting the wrong type of gas in my car. POST: I've had my license for four days. I just never got it because I never had a car, and my dad was always able to drive and pick me up from places. My mom got a new car so now I have her old one, and since I'm starting college next week I finally learned and got my license. So I had to get gas for the first time today. I've seen my dad/bf/mom do it for years so I thought I totally had it down. Well, I went up, paid ahead inside, And went to",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by wanting Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream POST: First post ever so excuse any mistakes I have made, please feel free to correct me. Anyway to the story, so I'm on my lunch break and decide to go the shops for food, I grab some stuff including a box of hot spicy chicken wings, and as I'm walking past the milk section I notice a crate full of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, me and my empty belly decide you know what you deserve some ice cream so, I grab a pot and head to the checkout. 10 minutes later ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Dude [23 M] asked me [21 F] to go on a 3 day skii trip after knowing me for 4 hours POST: Everything is wack. My close girl friend Annie got a new boyfriend two days after she broke up with her ex boyfriend of 8 months, who she started dating two weeks after breaking up with her ex boyfriend of two years. Let's call her new guy John. Turns out John has a close guy friend too, named Dakota. I met John and Dakota for the first time two days ago.   I guess Annie and John pushed Dakot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do you cope with being in a relationship where both have luggage from past relationships [M26, F27] POST: Hi reddit, This might be a silly question, but last year I came out of a long term relationship of 8 years, a girl with whom I experienced my first everything. It was our first real relationship for both. Now I've met a new girl [27] and we've been dating for over a month, she has been single for 5 years but had 2 serious relationships: First was 2 years, second was 4 year",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my BF [25 M] of 6 months, I got really drunk on NYE and said some awful things I didn't mean. POST: Throwaway. My bf and I have been together for 6 months and so far it's been amazing. He's kind, gentle, and loving...I know it's early but he's the kind of person I want to share my life with. I very very rarely drink anymore because I don't mix well with liquor, but this NYE we were going to a party with a bunch of his friends, and I gave in. I had a shot and a few glas",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (21,F) have got myself into a kind-of relationship I don't want with (25,M). How do I get out without hurting his feelings? POST: So I've known this guy for about 6 months, he sometimes works the odd shift in my work so we see each other occasionally there. Recently we started going out drinking after work, like once a week. One night after being out drinking we ended up back at my house and had sex. He came over again the next night and it happened again. He stays overnigh",negative " r/dogs TITLE: [Help] Dog won't stop licking himself and I noticed discoloration and scab-like hardness POST: So I made a vet appointment but they can't see us until Monday, I'm wondering if this is some kind of infection that needs to be adressed by the emergency vet or it will go away as long as I clean it and prevent him from licking. There is no discharge or anything like that and he doesn't seem to be in any pain or have any sensitivity to touch. It actually feels kind of like a scab. Things worth ment",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my crush [19 F] how do I tell her I am sorry for acting immature and foolish? POST: Hey all, Was seeing this girl. She complimented me on all things, my clothes, my face, my character. I was a sweet and nice looking guy she said. We cuddled sometimes, but never went as far as a kiss yet... It didn't come to that because I fucked it up real badly. I acting immature and foolish, I disrespected her. She became real annoyed with me and said it wasn't working out. She was",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my girlfriend[26 F] together 10 months, breaking my heart to breakup with her POST: I've been with my gf for 10months now and she is such an amazing person. I love her but I know that she isn't the one who im going to marry... I just don't feel it. It isn't her... This sucks. I don't want to waste her time, I don't want hurt her either. We've talked about the relationship direction and she wants to be married in a couple years from now. The longer I stay with her ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] snooped through my girlfriend's [17F] phone and found evidence of her cheating. Please help. POST: Hello everyone, I was worried that my girlfriend of 9 months was cheating on me a few days ago. She was always on her phone texting away and whenever we would text, she takes long to respond now. After too many times of this happening I asked her why she is taking so longer than usual to reply, and she just said shes busy alot of the times. When I last went to her house which ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My BF[22] is moving to New York and I[19F] have no idea what to do. POST: So we've together for almost 2 years and it has been rough, but we made it through. Recently, we went through something tough and he wanted a break. I agreed, but wasn't happy about it. I have asked for breaks in our relationship and he would never agree to it, so I stayed with him through out all my own and our troubles. Now he wants a break and it's his way or the highway. We got into an argument about som",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (F/19) have been dating this guy (M/18)--I don't want the same amount of contact as he does, is this normal? POST: I've recently started dating this guy, we went out on our second date this past Friday. At the end of the first date (first time we've ever met in person) we kissed, at first it was a peck and I was fine with that but then he opened his mouth to deepen the kiss and I just wasn't comfortable with that so I said no. On the second date he tried making out with me again an",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Advice/ideas on alcohol at wedding with different family ideals? POST: Hello everyone, So my current issue is deciding how much or even to supply alcohol at all. My fiancé and I both like to have drinks about once a week. We both feel that a moderate amount of alcohol at the wedding (whether a signature cocktail or just beers) would be something we'd like to do. However, most of my fiances direct and extended family members who would attend the wedding are Mormon, and would at th",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Can I afford to live in Seattle, while working one minimum wage job? POST: So I guess I'll throw out my story, my story that led to the title. I graduated High School in June of this year, about 3 months ago. This whole Summer I was planning on enlisting in the Armed Services, since I did the Delayed Entry Program since January. Well, that didn't work out, I got DQ'd for some medication I took, and the resulting complications. So now I'm in a kinda of a bind. My parents are figur",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] and a girl I meet on OKC [20 F] were really hitting it off for a couple weeks, but then her phone broke POST: So we messaged on OKC for a couple days and she gave me her number because I was the only person she said she'd actually talked to on it. So ever since then we texted pretty consistantly every day. Excitedly made plans to hang out (she cancelled the first one bc miserable weather and she later told me she hadn't showered). So we made plans to try and hang out this",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my Fiance [25 F] 6 years, she doesn't support my emotional needs POST: I've been doing a lot of maturing and growing over the last year and have become more in tune with my own emotions. Unfortunately, my fiance doesn't seem capable of dealing with my needs. She is a victim of childhood sexual abuse and is in therapy now for PTSD. While I understand that it is difficult for her and it is not going to be fixed overnight, it is very difficult for me while she is in th",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: For the past 3 years as a college student, every girl I've met and knew were all in a relationship and it's driving me nuts. POST: You know how people tell you that by the time you're in college, your dating situation will improve drastically? Well surprise! Nearly every women I've met and gotten to know throughout my 3 years as a college student were all in a relationship. Those that weren't were pretty much old enough to be my mom (or grandmother in some cases), or weren't interest",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Reddit, help me not fuck this up POST: I met a really awesome girl this past weekend and I'd like nothing more than to end up dating her long-term. I'm 22, she is 20. We met through mutual friends and I asked her to accompany me as a as a ""date"" to a wedding, expecting to be nothing more than friends and didn't take it too seriously. To make a long story short, we had an amazing time together. I ended up sleeping over at her place that night. We fooled around a little but didn't have",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: What is she after? POST: First of all, I should state that I am a very socially inept guy and I am horrible at picking up on signals and hints from everyone...ever, even at the age of 30. Anyway, for four years I worked at a local college and during the course of that became very recognizable to many of the students I helped. Fast forward to today and I am still working with the public and I occasionally see someone who recognizes me from my previous job. Last week a student I h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My friend is going into kidney failure and the hospital told her to come back when she is dying, can she do anything to get help? POST: So my friend, 22 F, sort of started breaking down and went to a clinic. They told her she was pill seeking and sent her away. She got worse and wound up in a hospital. She has no insurance, and medicaid turned her down twice. She was there for a few weeks. Her kidney protien something something is really high. Her kidneys are going to fail. They did no",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, yesterday I saw a dog get hit by a car and I can't stop thinking about it. How do am I supposed to get over it? POST: The worst part is the dog didn't die. But before the accident the dog ran to me (Across a road) and then did a complete turn around me back into the street, where it was hit. The owner and his dog ran together. But is saw every second of the accident, all alone in the dark. In the head lights I saw some blood come out of the dog. But the sound was extremely haunti",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Landed in a predicament with 2 girls POST: So I am seeing a girl (dating). She leaves in February. She is best friends with my best friends girlfriend. She had one stipulation - Don't sleep with anyone else. On top of that I know she is beginning to like me. When we first started dating she told me not to get to attached as she was leaving. So I have been cutting away all feelings after each time I see her but recently things have started to linger really heavily. Well. I became real",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I have stepped in? Best Buy employee lied and used scare tactics on a customer next to me... POST: I was at a Best Buy purchasing a new wireless router to replace one that finally died. As I was looking at the available routers, an older man (guessing late 60s) was also looking to purchase a wireless router. The best buy employee immediately steered him to a $200 model, and told the older man it was much better. When he asked why, the employee said ""This one is IPv6 ready. The int",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to give away my couches for free POST: My husband and I recently bought a new couch and we're trying to decide what to do with the old ones. We decided to put them out front and mark them as free since we live in a pretty low income neighborhood and thought someone could benefit from them. Within the hour a guy came along and asked if he could take one. My husband said sure and he said he had to run home and get his truck. He said he'd just take the cushions for now and would b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Don't know where to go. But my (f20) boyfriend (m22) threatened to take me to court if I left him with out child (1month f) POST: Hi, redirect me if I'm in the wrong subreddit unless someone can help... Also typo in the title. It's supposed to be with our child I'm 20 and my boyfriend is 22 we have a month old child together. The other day we got into a big argument which resulted in me leaving and going to my mothers house with our baby and leaving him at our house. While I was get",negative " r/jobs TITLE: I [18M] want to get a job but my mother is forcing me to go on a trip back to my country POST: I have recently finished my A levels and wanted to get an hourly paid job to improve many skills and gain work experience. I also really need the money to fund my plans for the summer and first year of uni (exercise, piano lessons, cycling club, art tools ect). I know my parents don't have the money to pay for all those things and I want to become more financially independent. The problem is I was",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: I've put myself in a position where I could break the #1 rule of credit card use, and I could use some advise. POST: Background: I'm a 3rd year college student set to graduate next December with prospects of a well paying job. I got my first credit card a year and 8 months ago. Since then, I've obtained 2 more credit cards. They have credit limits of $7,000, $3,800, and $2,200 limit. One of my majors is finance, and although we haven't gotten into most of the investing classes",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I lose my friends? POST: Hi reddit, I made this throwaway account to ask for your help. I am currently a student in my final year of mechanical engineering with a decent GPA. Over the last few years, I have made lots of friends at my university. I have always enjoyed smoking marijuana occasionally (once a week) but I always kept it to myself and did so in a responsible manner. With my new friends, many of them enjoy smoking daily, and they insist that I join them. Furthermore, th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my girlfriend [21 F] of 2 years, she is upset over a platonic friendship. Am I acting wrong? POST: This isn't the first time in our relationship that jealousy has been an issue, but this situation is getting kind of unbearable so I'm trying to find some advice. I love my girlfriend and I love our relationship and don't want to break up. I'm a good person and I've tried to act right and be a good boyfriend. I've made mistakes, but I've never slept with anyone else whi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Please help out my wife and show her how super groovy you redditors can be POST: My wife is a member of the National Comedy Theater, an improv group in Arizona. 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Any advice on casual dating, friends with benefits, apps like Tinder, random hook ups, etc? POST: I have not tried any of these things yet and am not sure if I would be comfortable with them, but I do know another serious relationship is not what I need right now. I really want to try out the whole single life and everything that entails, especially given that I have missed out on it and independent personal growth. Any tips ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] have major anxiety over my teeth... POST: Hey, I'm a 18 year old girl and I have crippling anxiety over my teeth. Seriously, I cry over them. There are noticeable plaque stains on them and Im afraid after reading some other posts on reddit that I disgust guys/am never going to find someone for me.... I've had only one boyfriend before and I've had some guys interested in me but it never lead to anything serious. It seriously freaks me out that something like my te",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [18F] is confusing the shit out of me [19]. POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for a year and nine months. We used to have phone calls every night just talking about stuff, but I've been losing sleep. So I would tell her, ""Maybe not tonight babe, I'm really tired."" We finally had a phone call tonight after not having one for such a long period of time and we got on the topic of a particular occurrence where she felt jealous. Our friend usually depends on me whe",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (17/M) think I got my girlfriend (16/F) pregnant.! POST: My girlfriend has delayed periods, she has missed her period for 3 months while being a virgin so no way she could of been pregnant. She doesn't really keep track of her cyles but I know its usually the 3rd or 4th week of the month. When she lost her virginity to me, she did have a delayed period. We had sex on the 29th of November, right before her period was going to start. I did notice when I came the condom was hal",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by deleting 23,000 crucial company part files POST: I work in IT at company lets call it A. I had a user who was having problems with there modeling program. After trying a few fixes I decided to reinstall the program, doing so required deleting a data folder on his c drive. Since all of our users are redirected I saw no issue in deleting this folder since no user files are supposed to be stored there. WELL I was wrong, and in the process deleted 23,000 crucial part files from the mach",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F], used to deal with mental health related 'issues' and I'm just wondering if it eventually comes back? POST: About four years ago, I ended up developing PTSD related symptoms from bottling up too many things for far too long. I had to seek help from 2 psychologists, a psychiatrist that specialized in trauma, and a psychiatric nurse. Most people have no idea about this and I haven't had to see any mental health professional for quite some time now, but I can't help but wonde",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my gf [18 F] of a year--gf identifies as lesbian POST: That much is pretty simple. My girlfriend has always identified as a lesbian. This always bothered me because it legitimizes our relationship in my eyes, and I'm sure in the eyes of others, and implies that she cannot love and/or be attracted to me, which would create problems. However, for the first ten months or so I kept mostly quiet about it because I understand sexual identity is an important piece of a person",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [16/M] Recently single. No idea what to do or how to be single. POST: Hello. A while back, I broke up with my first (serious) girlfriend of five months. We had known each other already for a long time. I really loved her, and I still somewhat do. I made the stupid decision of texting her literally minutes before posting this, and I realized that I'm screwed. I have no idea how to be single at all. I hadn't had a single girlfriend before her, and I have no idea how to get into ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [14/m] I am socially awkward in unfamiliar situations/with girls POST: Most people see me as being very one of the most outgoing/open/social kids in the school, but at times that is not really the case. I am very social with my group of friends [obviously], and I am very talkative and easygoing in class [where my reputation comes from]. I can also be very social if I am warmed up and comfortable in a certain situation. When I am feeling social and confident, I am very funny and",positive " r/needadvice TITLE: Need advice on altering my life to achieve happiness. POST: Backstory: I have been working in Customer Service for over 11 years. 8 of those years have been with IT Support, a mix of call center and desk side support. While I have never enjoyed this profession I do have to say it has helped me get by and it pays the bills. Here is the issue, I do not have a degree from an accredited university. I attended a tech school and graduated with decent marks in 2008 but the school is not accr",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Manager is changing my hours after the fact to keep me under 40- what can I do POST: I live and work in Maryland at a hospital and I just started a new job a few months ago. My team and I (there is a big batch of employees that started together in this role) have been told since the beginning that we should be staying under 40 hours a week as hourly employees, however, in the last pay period I went over by .3 hours because of my workload. On Monday I checked my time card and my hours w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ever wake up in the morning to a phone call that ends up making you feel like you got punched in the balls? POST: At about 10:15 this morning we received a phone call from our landlord notifying us that he placed the unit we are renting up for sale yesterday, and people are going to be coming to view it today. We received no prior notification that the owner was even planning to sell the property, and put the property up for listing on the MLS yesterday. My business partner/roomate, my",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Relationship advice (and a long story) POST: My name is April and I fell in love with my best friend 2 years ago. He had a girlfriend at the time though, so I did not make any advances. Her name is Sam. She hated me because she knew I loved him. How she found out, was probably through her brother, Dylan, a good friend of mine who I confided the secret to. Later into the summer, after one year of their relationship, Tanner (who this is about), started sending me texts saying t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My brother has a mild case of aspergers and needs some help with his interpersonal skills. Any advice, reddit? POST: My brother has a mild case of aspergers. It doesn't really affect his ability to learn, aside from the fact that he needs some extra time on tests and things of that sort, but he has a really hard time making friends and I worry about him. He has a fear of opening up to people that comes from his disorder and from terrible bullying throughout elementary school and middle ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my SO [28M] of 8 months. How soon is too soon to drop the L-Bomb? POST: My SO [28M] and I [27F] have been together now for 8 months. Our relationship is fantastic in every way possible. We are both serious and committed to one another, and on the same page when it comes to the direction our relationship is heading towards. We recently got back from our first two-week vacation together, and we have plans to move in together when my lease is up in December (we'll be toget",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I a bad person? POST: I just had a rollercoaster of a 6 month relationship end 2 days ago (he's 23m, I'm 24f.) We fought, we couldn't understand each other anymore, and it was too frustrating to try, so I gave him back the key to his apartment and left, dying inside. He cried too. I was fucking devastated to the point of nausea. He's got a whole hell of a lot on his plate right now and basically no time for a relationship. I hold hardly anything against him. It just got to a point",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: New Roommate Won't Sleep in His Room, Only the Couch POST: So here's the deal, my actual roommate is abroad and her room is being rented by a sub-leaser who is a friend of a friend. He is a fairly normal dude, but I recently discovered he doesn't sleep in his room. He waits until after I have gone to my room for the night and then brings his comforter and pillow out to the couch and sleeps with the TV on. He must have the TV timer on, because I have never noticed it playing when I get u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22F] am pretty sure that I dated a string of narcissists and sociopaths and now I don't want to date again POST: My ex fits all of the criteria for antisocial-personality disorder. He had violent tendencies, impulsive behaviours, lied, created false personas, joked about violence towards animals and others, stole, broke the law, treated women as a boost to his ego, mirrored me to build my trust, had no close friends or family, was irresponsible with no solid career goals... He a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Do you think that language, apart from purpose is a contradiction? POST: Every word used in every sentence are simply my construct of the logical use of vocab and grammar. However, whatever was interpreted is solely on your end, I have little influence over your perspective. Thus, a little bit of faith has to be involved, hoping that my sentence structure will be reproduced just as I hope to successfully communicate what I wanted to say or mean. Apart from the purpose of language, do yo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [58 M] ex-wife [52 F] wants to be friends now, 2 years after our divorce. Here's the thing: I know she had an affair up to, during and after the divorce but she doesn't know that I know. I'm not sure if I can be friends with her without telling her that I know. POST: After she asked me for a divorce, I was of course hurt and confused. This was a big surprise to me. And before I was out of the house, I secretly read her journal and found out she was seeing someone, or at least sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My[20F] boyfriend[20M] of 3 years hates that I drink. POST: Hey r/relationships, longtime lurker. My bf and I have been going back and forth over this issue, so here's the sitch: My bf, Sam, lives at home and attends university in our home state. I live about 1,000 miles away to attend university, and we have had fantastic 3-year LDR. Sam is a complete straight-edge and has never touched a drop of alcohol in his 20 years. I, on the other hand, began drinking casually about a yea",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [19 F] need help with a strange situation with my TA [24??M] POST: Hi /r/relationship_advice, I have a strange situation that I need some advice on. A TA I have for one of my classes right now just so happens to look extremely similar to my boyfriend. So similar that I texted my mom/some friends a pic of the TA (from the college's web page, not as creepy as it sounds) and they were like ""When did {boyfriend} give a presentation at {my college}?"" Because of this, I literal",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should his supervisor be this friendly? (M27 F22) POST: Bfs supervisor sent him home from work because he was sick, when he got home he logged onto his work server and she was IMing him, he wasn't trying to hide it or anything, she said to let her know when he got home and he told her he was home, she said for him to let her know how he's feeling because she wants to know.. she was the one who sent him home. She used cute little emote icons while talking to him too. Maybe I'm just in",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] cheated on my long-distance BF [26M]. Should I say anything? POST: I still see my [28M] ex frequently (unavoidable situation that will be remedied soon). We slept together and it was a dumb moment that I regret. I definitely don't want it to happen again. My current boyfriend and I have always been long distance and we have some issues because of it. Sometimes I don't feel very connected to him. He definitely doesn't deserve this, and some of my friends are telling me ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: Sad Sims Social Story :( POST: I am 27, she is 26. We used to play Sims Social on Facebook together (mostly for her). Over the couple of weeks which led to our breakup, I stopped paying attention to Sims Social. Until today... I got online, and decided to respond to the 50+ requests i got from her and my other friends. As soon as the game finished loading a message popped up from her Sim saying ""You don't love me anymore?"" :( For those of you who don't know, these messages pop up occasi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend with benefits is my ex boyfriend making for a confusing situation. POST: So my [21] ""boyfriend"" and I [19f] have been together for 2 years. I say he's my ""boyfriend"" because we broke up about two months ago and recently have become friends with benefits but yet we aren't talking to other people. Basically we're dating without the actual title. I have expressed to him so many times about how this relationship is confusing because if he sees that I'm having a conversation wit",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [27M] caused a girl to cheat on her bf...not sure what to say to her POST: Last night a friend invited me out to chill with a girl he's been seeing and one of her friends. It was sort of a double-date, but not really pitched that way to either me or this other girl. Anyway, the night gets started and I really hit it off with this friend. She and I are joking, laughing, and just really having a great time. There's some major natural attraction going on and both of us know it. ",positive " r/Pets TITLE: Cats fighting after dog's death? POST: Around a year ago my dog of almost 15 years had to be put down due to some major medical issues. We are doing a bit better and about five to six months ago decided to get a new dog. We got a new puppy and my older cat is *terrified* of the puppy. It can't be in the same room as the puppy without being on a counter or something. The puppy is not violent in the slightest and gets along with my little cat just fine. The little cat and the puppy will ta",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [21/M] GF [20/F] thinks that I think she's boring when we kiss. POST: I also wanted to mention that she is my first girlfriend who was also my first kiss. We've been together for a month, almost 2, and she's told me that I'm a great kisser but she just feels as though I get bored of her when we kiss. I've told her that I just wasn't used to marathon kissing or kissing in general lol, so I guess I would just feel awkward at times because I would start thinking too much about it. Bu",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [22/m] and I have a medical condition that stops me from meeting new people. What should I do? POST: I'm 22 years old, male, currently at university. I have hyperhidrosis. This means that I SWEAT AN AWFUL LOT, almost all the time when I start moving. Even after walking a short distance, my back and face is wet. It's a lot worse in Summer. It's really hot where I live right now. I don't even go outside. The problem is, that even in Winter, I sweat so much. Luckily, my hands ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] am falling for a girl [22F]. Does she like me too? POST: So there's this girl that I didn't get to talk to as much as I'd like. So to break the ice, I asked her to go with me to a salsa class, and surprisingly, she said yes. Unfortunately, the lesson was cancelled due to bad weather, but it seemed I piqued her interest because we started talking a lot. We started out Facebook messaging, but then she gave me her number. I told her I wish I got to talk to her more, and she sugg",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My neighbors [40s M+F] scream at each other all the time and I'm worried it's getting violent POST: I live in a pretty small one-bedroom apartment, and my next door neighbors are a family of two parents in their 40s with a 12-year-old son living in a mirror image of my apartment. I barely have enough space for my stuff, so I can't even imagine what it must be like to fit a family of three in there. Still, it doesn't seem to have been a problem for them until a few weeks ago, when the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [21 f] constantly paranoid that my boyfriend [26 m] is cheating on me POST: Preface: I'm the most insecure girl in the world. You know that ""gut feeling"" everyone says they have when they are asked, ""How did you know she/he was cheating on you?"" Well I have that feeling all the time. Whether it be a missed call from an unknown number, to the passenger seat in his car not being positioned exactly as I remembered it. I conjure a lot of shit up in my head. I know a lot of it is in ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: He [21M] broke up with me [20F] just as I was getting help and starting new meds. POST: My boyfriend and I have gone through some rocky times, mostly due to my anxiety. We were together for over a year. I hated being alone, and he was one of my only friends (along with his friends) because I suffer from social phobia as well. I guess I pushed him too far and hurt him (this is what he said). I told him I would try to get better. I was trying, but none of my methods worked. I then had a bre",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my GF [23 F] 5yrs, dependency issues and lack of consideration. POST: So this girl is my first real girlfriend. Things got serious fast and I ended up isolating myself from my current friends and hanging with her practically 24/7 (my old friends were bad news, so no real huge loss). Anyways the big issue is that, well, I think I misjudged her from the start. She's never worked full time for more than a few weeks since I've met her. Fine because for the first long b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am a 16 [M] who has just started dating a 16 [F] but am not sure whether or not I'm attracted to her POST: Recently a 16 [F] (we'll call her Isabelle) asked if I could be her boyfriend. I didn't really know her but we have been chatting a lot over Facebook and are good friends now. I have recently been second-guessing myself and wondering if I am actually attracted to her or if the only reason I'm in this relationship is because I didn't want to disappoint her. It's not that I di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my girlfriend [23F] 1.5 years together, moved in and now doubting me POST: Met my girlfriend when in college. Shortly after meeting I had to relocate because of a job after graduating. Due to the reality of the situation I proposed she move in with me where my new job is. She agreed. We both know we rushed into it but felt it is worth the risk. We moved in about 6 months after dating. Have been dating for almost 1.5 years and it has been great. Of course we have had ou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] regret being the nice guy to my ex [21 F] after she ripped my heart out over a year ago. POST: Hey, So I'm not a very confrontational person and I feel that it's come to bite me in the ass a bit. My ex left me for someone else about a year ago and I haven't been the same since. This guy was an ex boyfriend to rub salt in the wound. My trust in people is rock bottom. I don't like who I am with girls any more etc etc. I'm sure that part of it is because I was too nice about ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (17M) met a girl (16F) and I think she was leading me on. POST: My best female friend introduced me to her best friend and I found out after she thought I was very attractive and she asked for my number. She texted me everyday ( her texting me first) all last week then her and her friend hung out with me and my friend but my friend got to drunk and we all had to take care of him and ever since then she has only texted me once (again first) but she still said she had alot of fun t",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: Ending an almost 4 year relationship POST: I feel like I need to do this for myself more than anyone else. So please feel free to ignore this. I just need somewhere that I can write this down and get it straight in my head. For obvious reasons this is a throwaway. So I've been in a relationship for almost four years. We were apart for about six months of that when I broke up with her but then we got back together. I am fairly happy with her but I don't feel that excited to see her. We liv",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: We (him20, me21) broke up about 6 months ago, but talked throughout. I miss him now that we don't talk, just need some words of encouragement :( POST: Well, we are no longer in contact. Sometimes I really miss him since we would text all the time, but I'm fed up that he never really cared much... I'm going to have to see him in a class that we have together and I'm really not looking forward to this at all. I'm not sure how I'll even deal with it since I don't want it to get in the way o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] lied to my girlfriend [20 F] of 10 months, and am unsure of what to do POST: Basically I lied to my girlfriend about a girl that I occasionally talk to. She asked me if we had any history and for some reason I claimed we didn't, when in reality we had a short relationship. I think the reason was that it was easier to just say that than have her possibly get upset about me messaging an ex when in reality I have absolutely no romantic feelings for her any more, though I'm unsu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I (21F) being crazily paranoid or will my newish (3 months) boyfriend (25M) have future anger problems? POST: Okay, I'm pretty sure my parents don't approve of him, but they've always been extremely protective of me, so it's unlikely they'll properly approve of anyone. They haven't out-right told me to break up with him, or said they don't like him. Anyway, I was seeing my parents this weekend, so my Dad picked me up from my boyfriend's house. I thought my Dad was acting normal a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (30F) moving in with SO (38M) and his kids: how to split expenses? POST: My SO and I have known each other for several years, dated for one. We're talking about me moving in to the house he owns, and we're looking for a fair way to split expenses. Due to some of the household and relationship dynamics, we're not sure what would be fair. Here are the factors we're currently considering: - House is 2,000 square feet: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, kitchen, dining, living room, 2-car g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M and boring dude] who's never had a girlfriend, needs some advice POST: Hey guys, I'm a 25 year old male that's currently back to attending college after taking a hiatus. I've never had a girlfriend before in the past due to always being relatively shy and overweight (was a big part of it). I used to be about 280, and currently about 180, after a year and a half in the gym. Anyways, the weight loss coincided with my new motivation to head back to school, and with the promises",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] girlfriend [19F] has strict Asian parents [50+M/F] and I'm not sure how to help her POST: I am a white 18 year old male and have been dating my girlfriend that is 19 for a couple of years. Her parents have never really made a point to get to know me, but for the most part they have seemed to be okay with me. My girlfriend goes to the prestigious state school while I go to the local university. Her parents have always had the A's only rule when it comes to grades. She got a C",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I being selfish in my relationship? [F19] POST: This is my throw away account because my boyfriend knows my username and has looked through my comments before. I've been dating my boyfriend of 21 for a little over 4 months. It's been a wild ride and I love his passionate personality. We fell in love very quickly and I have been staying with him pretty much since we met. However, I'm about to finish up community college in the next year and I have already applied to several s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [16M] miss my ex of about 2 months [15F] and I have no idea what to do POST: I understand I'm very young and all of that, but this girl and I dated for a year and a few months and when we broke up, it was a mutual thing. We both decided we weren't happy in the relationship but we've continued to stay friends. About a couple of days ago, she started talking to a new guy and I heard and my feelings are crushed. I keep reminiscing on the times we had and I can't imagine getting along ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Bought stuff, didn't receive. What do I do next? Chat log with Dell CS expert, details, inside. POST: I had placed an order for an Alienware desktop last week. During the checkout process they offered me some Razer products that were cheaper through Dell, so I took advantage of this opportunity. I had received part of my order, but no mouse, so I was wondering where it went. I was greeted with an expertly trained CS representative who wanted to cancel the mouse and have me purchase one ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Hindrance of a relationship, should I end it? POST: I'm 14/f and he's 15/m. We've been going out for a month and a half. We'd known each other for a bit before we started going out. I honestly didn't want anything so serious, but I probably should have said that. I'm 14, so I really just wanted a, ""Hey, you seem like a nice guy, want to go to the movies?"" kind of thing. He wanted a lovey dovey, extreme PDA, kind of relationship. It makes me so uncomfortable, and he wants me to make ",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Help! What else can I do? I'm totally panicking! (Fleas) (Long) POST: So, I agreed to dog-sit for some friends. After swearing to me that he was up-to-date with his flea prevention, I went ahead and brought him to my house. Within the first three hours I notice him itching... a lot. So I grab the flea comb and sure enough! A flea. So I go into Def Con Five. Unforunately it was like, seven at night so I was limited in my purchases. I ended up with Adams Home Spray, Sergeants Flea and Tick for ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by finding a way to hit my head while in a semi drunken state POST: So, a bit of a precursor. I pinched my leg at work, got a bruise, and the blood from it settled in my foot. It's not painful at all. It just looks like I have a severely sprained ankle. The advice from the doctor was to elevate it. So at night I put a couple pillows under my foot to keep it up. This had been working great until last night/this morning. My bed is about waist height. Perfect for rolling out and standing u",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (21 m) of a year had feelings for another girl while long distance and I (23 f) can't get over it. POST: My boyfriend (21 m) and I (23 f) have been dating for about a year and things are great, for the most part. He's one of the best people I've ever met and we have a great time together, but this summer he had an internship halfway across the country and we didn't get to talk much. I trusted him completely and wanted to give him space to grow and mature so I tried to focu",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (19) told my girlfriend (17) that I love her for the first time last night, now what? POST: So today happens to be our 2 month anniversary (whatever you want to call it..) and last night we were caught in a major makeout session and she had to leave soon and before she left I told her I loved her for the first time. I told her I didn't expect her to say it back or anything, which she didn't, but after I popped the L word her response was great by pulling me really close and continu",positive " r/Cooking TITLE: College kid and want to learn how to cook POST: So, I'm in my second year of college and I pretty much have no idea how to cook. Last year if I wasn't eating on campus or at a restaurant off campus, the only things I actually made for myself were canned soups, sandwiches and cereal. This year I have access to a full kitchen with everything but a blender and a toaster. I also have a crockpot which I intend to use a lot. So how can I get started? I was hoping you guys had some tips or super ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19/M] can't bring my [19/F] girlfriend home because of my [53/M] father. POST: Before anything, sorry for my poor english, not native. I have been with my girlfriend for around 5 months now, I have never been so happy in a relationship. Since she lives kind of far away from my place (1hr with the subway), it's kind of difficult to see eachother a lot, because of our respective studies/works etc. That's why we would both prefer being able to sometimes go at eachother's place, so w",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by bleaching my ass. POST: I work in a small fire station. When I need to do my business in the bathroom there (or anywhere in public for that matter) I cant stand the thought of my bare ass touching the same seat that so many other bare asses have sat. Being at my station I know where all of the cleaning supplies are, so instead of building a toilet paper nest on the seat, I just use the cleaner spray real quick to kill all the ass germs, and don't have to mess with the tp. I start my ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by squashing my dog's shit barefoot POST: Happened like an 1 hour ago so the story is still fresh. (backstory) Sometimes when I feel like I've got something in my mouth I just spit it out. Normal right? But sometimes I'm too lazy to go up to the bathroom or outside so I spit on the carpet under me and wipe it. I know, I'm gross but please tell me I'm not the only one... So I was just sitting in front of the computer like every boring morning. and I felt something wet under my feet. I t",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: THIRD DATE POST: , I'll reference my last post for backstory. Anywho... Went on that 3rd date last night and it was REALLY good. We saw a movie and laughed and talked throughout the whole thing. He was sweet and smart and attentive and I just like him so much. He walked me to my car. I gave him some cookies that I'd baked for him and some anti-stress tea because he's been under a lot of stress at work lately. Then he kissed me!! It was kind of a sneak attack, but it was nice...very",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [22M] of a year, won't talk to me because I couldn't move in with him POST: I've been dating my boyfriend for a year. He lives 4 hours away and suggested me moving in with him a few months ago. I agreed, although my dad was strictly against it (my family is Arabic, my boyfriend's family is just... Canadian). About a week before the move, my dad had a heart attack because I was stressing him out so much. He wouldn't sleep and couldn't look at me. I explained",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: My [21m] ex-gf's [19f] friends contacted me and said my ex-gf is depressed that we have not remained friends POST: We were together six months, she ended it. the breakup wasn't bitter or anything. she wanted to continue being friends. i told her to give it some time. she texted me like 5 times over the next two weeks asking if we can be friends. i wasn't really interested in that but i finally said yes because i do want to remain on at least friendly terms, and I was getting sick of",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Neighbors complaining about trash bins, put up sarcastic sign. How do I respond? POST: History: I had noticed a few times that someone had moved my neighbor and I's trash bins away from the fence area, and sat them right next to his patio. I didn't think anything of it, but habits die hard, and I put them by the fence again. A week goes by, and they go missing. Someone had moved them to the curb (half full). I moved them back to the fence, and within days they were back by my neighbor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: So I [20 M] have slept with [20 F] a few days ago. What's some good advice? POST: What are some easy ways to bring up and talk about what she'd like to happen between us. In the past I've always been extremely direct and just asked the people that I'm involved with what they'd like. I've since been told that that can be off-putting. So what I'd really like to know are easy ways to bring this up in conversation or some easy tells to find out what she'd like to happen. **Backstory:** ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How to Accept Being Friends POST: So, for some background information, back in September my long-term girlfriend and I broke up. I soon met another girl and from the first time we talked I knew we would be friends. That friendship quickly developed into me really liking this girl a whole lot...we had classes together and would meet to do homework and had a great time together. We have a ton in common and I felt like I finally found a girl I could be in a relationship with (this has always b",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by offending my sisters boyfriends family POST: So my sister's boyfriends family came to visit her graduate college. They are from Nicaragua the mom and dad are illegal immigrants and don't speak english, but the son and daughter speak English and we're born here. The day before they were leaving we decided to hangout together. So we came back from bowling and went back to the my sisters place for pizza and stuff. We are playing a game like taboo where someone gives you clues to gues",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Help a girl out please!! POST: I just started dating a guy prior to Thanksgiving we met online. I am 27 almost 28 and he is 31. He has told me he has not had very many relationships (maybe just one, not too sure). All we have done is kiss no tongue 4 or 5 times New Years being the first time. Do you think he does like me or is he just being nice? On New Years he did say something about he was rusty and he was sorry, I told him I didn't care and liked him not matter what, but still no",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 F] bf [23 M] of 3 years doesn't wash his hands after using the bathroom. Is that normal? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years. We have a great relationship and on the whole I'm very happy. This is just a minor issue that has been getting to me. We started living together in September and I noticed that he doesn't always wash his hands after using the bathroom. At first I assumed he'd just forgotten (he's pretty forgetful), and I'd remind him. But as time",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does anyone know a cheaper way to change the date on some tickets with Orbitz? I'm going to Free Culture X with four friends and we made a huge mistake... POST: So, dear Reddit. Please, someone here has to know of a way they can help us. We're the Puerto Rican chapter of Free Culture (FC@UPRM/Puerto Rico), and five of us were going to leave Puerto Rico on the 12'th, and return to Puerto Rico on the 15'th. This was so we could participate in all the conferences and activities in Washingt",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/f] Boyfriend (21/m) said my bestfriend's name during sex POST: Went out drinking with my boyfriend and bestfriend. When we came home we were having sex and he said my (female) bestfriend's name. Our names sound nothing alike. Very early in the night he had made an overt sexual joke about her which I'd found a bit unsettling but I just laughed it off, not wanting to be that jealous girlfriend. He is really friendly with her and has told me how awesome he thinks she is. But h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 31M what type of contact with my ex [32F] is good POST: So here is the situation. I have been broken up with my ex for quite awhile now (We been together over a year). I haven't seen her since April of 2011 in person though we do live relatively close. 2 weeks ago she had sent me an email asking me how I was doing etc. She obviously has an insight to my life as she did send flowers to my mothers funeral in February. I know she is currently seeing someone as I have heard from a friend",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I fell for it. And it's pissing me off! POST: I've been saving up to move closer to where I grew up and where I will be finishing off university and able to be closer to my SO (in a LDR currently). I've been checking online for apartments or suites to rent almost every hour for the passed few weeks (as you can tell I'm quite excited to be moving). All the listings that I see are around $600-$900 a month and that's a pretty scary thing to look at seeing as I'm (22yo male) working and sav",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Could you help me out? It feels like anything I do I'll push her [F19] away for me [M21] POST: Basically my GF of 5 months has been sorta seeing another guy...She met him at work and since it's been summer time, I haven't seen her a ton besides the occasional text. I'm not terribly chatty when it comes to txts and we've really run out of things to say via txt it seems. I work/live about half hour from her, but I work evenings/nights. When I'm on campus (where she works) we go out, ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, how do I ask a gay guy at a bar I work at to back off without coming across as homophobic? POST: *Apologies for any grammar/spelling issues, I've been awake for quite a while.* Ok so I perform at this bar once a week, and there's a guy who works there full time, let's call him Alan. Alan is a lovely guy, I know he means well, but he holds a very different view on personal space than I do. Now I have no problem with gay people whatsoever, not in the slightest, nor do I want this",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: So this ""Client"" wants to sue me, any advice? (Ont, CAN) POST: Legal Matter in Ontario, Canada So as the title states, this guy I did some work for wants to sue me. What happened was, he needed some stairs built, so I built them. He was not happy with the work, so I offered to do the repairs for free, which is pretty standard for anyone. He denied, stated he wanted me to remove the work I had done and pay him $700, when he only had paid me $400. The additional $300 was for half the ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] got some advice from a close friend [16 M] of mine and I need your guys opinion POST: Hi so my friend always get mad at me when I don't follow his advice, sometimes I think he's trying to get me to rush things. So here's what he recently told me. Okay so the scenario is that I went up to this girl after school and started talking to her. We had a short convo and I walked her to her block, I asked her if she would be interested in going on a date with me, she said ""let's get",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (31,m) don't think my wife (29f) should be giving relationship advice based on our relationship. POST: No throwaway, cause fuck it. That title may have sounded harsh, but I actually kind of mean it in a positive way. My wife and I met when she was 19 and I was 21. As far as relationships go, ours has been amazing. We were officially married last October on our 10 year anniversary... However, we really beat the odds. We met about a week before we attended a mutual party, slept tog",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] am an emotional wreck after my [23F] girlfriend left me after seven happy months. I could use some advice. POST: Update: Couldn't sleep, and it's 4 am. So what did I do? Let the irrational portion of my brain talk me into driving past her place. Guys car is still there. I don't know if I'd have been happier not knowing. Sorry for the sucky grammar. My girlfriend broke up with me after a week of difficulties. They were really our first big problem. On the first night, sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] get very uncomfortable around boyfriend's [22M] family. POST: First I would like to mention that my boyfriend and I come from two completely different cultures. I am Asian and my boyfriend is Hispanic American. Anyways, I get extremely uncomfortable being in my boyfriend's house when his parents are there because they ask me questions about my culture and make it seem like a whole race thing. I think one of the questions that made me extremely uncomfortable was when they aske",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I live in the second story of a two story apartment complex. Do my first story neighbors have a legitimate reason to complain about hearing us walk? POST: The people that live underneath us are extremely loud, but we have never said anything to them because we realize that they can probably hear us walking sometimes. My boyfriend and I aren't very confrontational people, either. That being said, our neighbors are rather obnoxious. The man that lives there drives this rather nice mustang",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend [17 F] duration, 2 years. short-description grown bored POST: We have been dating for 2 years and i often find myself bored with the relationship and thinking about other woman. I have tried talking to her about it before but all she does is cry and make me feel like an ass. I grew up with 5 sisters so i hate crying woman. She is also a senior in high school and involved in more drama that i just dont care about. We have gone on a few vacations and they",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Had to leave before I was interviewed, what should I do? POST: 2 days ago, I was called in last second for an interview for a cashier position at Fry's Electronics. I received the call 2 hours before they wanted me to come in, but I went in anyway. They wanted me to show up at 12:30 to interview and I got there at around 12:00, but I waited until about 1:30 before I had to leave (someone spoke to me about my application, but it wasn't the interview). Before I left, I told them I had to go and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (m18) and my girlfriend (f18) of over a year are having a fairly long rough stretch POST: Hey all, I've never posted on this subreddit before, but I'm sure you will be able to help me. My (f18) girlfriend and I are having a lot of trouble recently. We have been arguing and fighting a lot and she has expressed how she is often unhappy with how our relationship is standing. I personally have a self-confidence problem and when I promise to change things to make her happy, I often ge",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why do conservatives, those who claim to expouse the philosophy of individual freedoms, oppose the legalization of marijuana and other social issues, resulting in larger government intervention? POST: I was raised by conservative parents. When I asked my dad to explain his conservative values, he explained ""small government, individual freedoms - let people do what they want so long as their actions don't limit the freedoms of others"". Makes sense. So I'm a Republican. Right? It was 4 y",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not buying a new plunger POST: A little over a month ago my roommates and I moved into a new apartment. In the process of moving we realized that our plunger was basically falling apart so we ditched it and failed to buy a new one. Fast forward to this morning when I was getting ready before going to class (I'm a college student if you didn't gather that already). I slept in a little bit and was running a late so I take my morning shit which was especially potent considering I had a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] want to end my toxic best friend relationship with [18 F] without making drama and making her understand that's it. POST: I'm seriously tired. We have been friends for 3 years now. We have dealt with problems before and even thought that we were in love. But now she doesn't care at all, I like her, but I'm super tired of having to deal with her indiference lately, she was never indiferent I bearly recognize her now a days, that really kills me inside, but putting it aside I",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Finally set a date with her POST: Hi /r/dating_advice, Next sunday I'm [23m] finally meeting a women [20F] I met on Tinder. Because she has really bad experience with men and Tinderdates she wanted to text for a while before meeting. We did exchange phone numbers and we've been texting for a while now (4 weeks now). We've exchanged some Snapchat pictures (so we'd both know we're not being catfished) and we're really getting along. Last weekend a friend of her convinced her it wa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: my EX is holding my stuff hostage … POST: My Ex and I are on stand off she is holding my stuff in exchange for family photos and videos. A little background so we got divorce a couple years ago, in the settlement there was a clause for me to make copies of family photo albums and videos at her expense. This was supposed to happen within 30 days of the settlement but she sat on her ass and never happened. I was supposed to provide a quote and she was suppose to pay for it. About a year",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boss(37M) is an asshole but I (25F)have little choice because I'm a foreigner in this country for my SO (27M). I think I'm gonna die of anger soon. POST: So. Like the titled said, my boss is an asshole and says things like 1) make sure your instructions are clear, your generation of people does not know how to communicate (in an occasion when he was away from the country and asks me to give instructions to suppliers) 2)fuck (on whatsapp, after my colleague quitted) 3) your gene",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] tomorrow will decide whether or not to break up with my GF [17 F] of 7 months POST: First of all I apologise for my bad english I've been in a relationship with this girl named Anne for over 7 months around the fifth month she became friend with a group of people (male and females) with whom she was already friend in the past but she lost contact with them 2 months before the start of our relationship Every time she wanted too hang out with her friend (without me) I would ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Seriously why did that truck and display glass have to hit me? POST: I had two head injuries within a month of each other ending with a traumatic brain injury diagnosis. I was in a car accident as a passenger and later had a work accident. Knocked out both times. Since then my ability to handle stress or even leave my house to work has been getting worse. I work full time but it's temporary. This is on top of years of being tested for stomach conditions. I don't have anyone to really ta",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I assumed any inconsistency in communication to be a sign of the worst. What do I do? POST: Throwaway, of course. I am carrying issues from previous relationships into my 5 month relationship. He's been really great and understanding, for the most part, but I feel like I am slowly destroying something really good. My boyfriend has a job that requires his cellphone to be locked up during the duration of the work day. This means, at times, I won't hear from him all day until we talk ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting my friend jump on me in my high school cafeteria. POST: Obligatory this didn't actually happen today, this was a few years ago when I was in high school. So I attended a high school with about 1200 students and they would split lunch into four 300 student sections. I had decided I wanted to be super comfortable that day, so I opted to wear loose boxers, sweatpants, and a t-shirt to school that day. So about halfway through lunch I'm standing besides one of the tables near th",negative " r/self TITLE: My mom abuses me (mostly mentally, sometimes physically) and I need out of the situation. What should I do? ): POST: My mom is constantly on me. I don't know what to do anymore. I have manic depression, and an anxiety disorder. Basically she calls me out on everything. When I don't want to do something for her, I'm a lazy bitch and my life is going no where, when in reality she does literally nothing other than talk care of my baby brother, as she is on unemployment. She calls me names consta",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] found out my partner [23F] of 7 months worked as a stripper. I'm not sure I'm okay with that. Not sure how to explain it to her in the right way. POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 7 months. A few days ago we were chatting and she mentioned she worked as a stripper for a while when she was 21 cause she needed the money for school. It seemed like no big deal to her, she just kind of laughed it off like it was an incidental detail of her past. Anyhow, I'm not s",negative " r/loseit TITLE: My stats are good, but my weight isn't and I need all the help I can get POST: Hi loseit! I'm sorry if this is the kind of post you hate to see here, but I really really need some help in order to lose weight. I've been reading the posts here, especially the 'how to get started' wiki, but I still can't wrap my head around everything. So I hope it's ok if I post my issues here and ask for some extra help from you guys. * I am a 27 year old lady who just moved to Tokyo. I weigh 93kg and my B",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] am addicted to drugs and don't know how to tell my SO [21F] that I need help detoxing (possible triggers?) POST: Please tell me if this isn't the correct place to post this, I was a little unsure. Just last year my girlfriend (who was also a friend of my current girlfriend) passed away from a drug overdose. Fast forward a year and after months of me being clean after what had happened, a friend of mine quit drugs and trusted that I would dispose of a bottle of 350 oxy's. (If",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend didn't do/get anything for me for my birthday today. His birthday is in a week and I already bought him something. Should I be upset/feel awkward about giving him a present? POST: My boyfriend (22) and I (21) have only been together for 3 months. I wasn't expecting much from him for my birthday, but I was hoping for at least a card or SOMETHING. He showed up to a group dinner that I organized with a bunch of friends, but only paid for his own meal and left early. I only ",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: [19/M] Girl I think I love just started seeing someone don't know what to do/feel[19/F] POST: I could really use some advice on what to do with this girl I like who's a really good friend *Short Version* So for about 2 months I've been talking with this girl I met via Online lets call her Cait. In that time we really hit it off, we'd text all through out the day and video chat nightly almost everyday and tell each other eveything. We haven't met in person yet because of work and sc",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I be worried about my caffeine intake? POST: In high school, I would make sure to grab a cup of coffee on my way to school. That little pick-me-up got me through my first couple of classes until gym/lunch woke me up. Now that I am in college, however, my coffee intake has gone through the roof. I make sure to fill up my thermos on the way out to my first class. That lasts me about half an hour. Between classes, I fill up at the coffee shop. I drink a cup or two to perk me up for",negative " r/self TITLE: So apparently this really pretty girl from my work uses reddit.. POST: I honestly have never met a girl who uses reddit in real life. I've been on it for about a year and only have one friend who uses it. I've never even met a girl who even knows what reddit. I was asking this girl about her other social media job and suggested she check out reddit. Well apparently she's on it all the time. Ugh this girl is really pretty and intriguing but I doubt I have a shot with her and have to assume is ",positive " r/running TITLE: I'm back baby! New attitude shaved 4 min off my last 5k POST: After coming down with gout late last year I had to take some time from running. Over the time I got lazy and fat. Packed on about 15 pounds. Last month I decided enough was enough and I needed to be a runner again. Carrying that extra weight sure made it hard. I got back to 5km pretty quick, but I sure was not quick. I'm fact I was about four minutes slower than my previous years average. This weekend the wife and I took a",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling my teacher I saw 50 Shades of Grey POST: I've been lurking on r/tifu for quite some time, and finally have something embarrassing enough to contribute! Though the FU happened today, it needs a bit of back-story. I went to watch 50 Shades of Grey with one of my best girlfriends over the long weekend (it's really more funny than arousing) and while waiting for popcorn, I happened to see my very Greek Orthodox physics teacher. I waved and prayed to the gods that he wasn't expand",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [17M] little sister [14F] is dating our potential step-brother [17M]. I'm the only one bothered by this. Am I overreacting? POST: Hi guys. My mom [43F] has been dating this guy [40sM] for about 5 months now, and I recently found out that my sister [14F] is dating his son [17M]. I'm not sure how long they have been dating, but it has to have been at least 2 months. Besides the age difference (which I think is a bit too large) I don't have any problem with the relationship itself. H",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Strange markings on my back. POST: to begin with, I have been to both a medical doctor and a dermatologist about the markings on my back and both have given me different answers (which I will answer soon) and I do not know what they are. The markings showed up maybe 2-3 years ago, completely out of the blue. I have never been beaten to have scars, only a smack on the butt or something general. They are essentially reddish looking lines that appear across the left side of my back. When I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF (27f) doesn't feel safe with me (19m) and is on the verge of breaking up POST: Hi Reddit, I'm quite new here but anyway here's my story(English is not my first language but I'll do my best) : As you read in the title, she is 27 and I am 19. While it may seem like a big gap, we have already been dating for 1 year and 7 months and it seemed like living in paradise. Even though I am younger I have somehow always been a bit more mature than my age since I was thrown out earlier",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend forgot it was Mother's Day.. Again. POST: We have a toddler together. And one on the way. And we're not exactly financially fit to splurge on days like today.. But thoughtfulness cost $0.00.. No foot rub. No 50 cent card. No breakfast in bed. He didn't even TELL ME happy Mother's Day. The whole thing has left me feeling extremely unappreciated.. I feel like nothing special. It's the one day of the year where it's about me, and not everyone else. And I was looking f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Would it be wrong if I[19F] hooked up with someone [19-20M] in the same major as me and my[19M] ex? POST: Hi all, this is the first time I've posted in this subreddit, so apologies if I didn't format this correctly, but here goes. Last year, I dated this great guy that happens to also be in my film major at my university. We got intimate really quickly and fell for each other, hard and fast. We were together for over six months, not to mention the long period of time we were on a br",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How corny can a GF be? POST: So I'm a first time poster on reddit, but my bf loves reddit. He pretty much eats, sleeps, poops it out and eats it again. So I thought I'd get everyone's advice on a goodbye present. So I'm going to start with a little background info on us. I first saw my future bf my 3rd year of college. He was a transfer student into my major, which is new and really small. The first thing I thought when I first saw him was ""Damnit! Why is there another Asian in our cla",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I (19M) was kissed by a girl (20) who has previously displayed no real interest in me. POST: I was over at a friend's house with a girl I've been interested in for a couple of years now. She knows that I'm interested in her, as everyone else does. I'm kind of obvious I guess. While she was playing a board game with his family, he and I were talking about TV shows and stuff. I was kind of zoned out and tired when this happened, so I wasn't really paying attention to what was going on ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My Mother got Engaged for the 4th time POST: Let me start off saying, I love my mother. She's my number one fan, I make her laugh, and we have a great relationship. However, sometimes she boggles my mind. She's been remarried 3 times and now a possible 4. She started off with my father, didn't work out. Then my step-father, didn't work out. Then another step-father, died of cancer. Now she's been dating this guy, off and on for quite some time. He comes to all of our family even",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Finding information on past 'forgiven and/or forgotten debts' in my name. POST: I am from Massachusetts. Over the past few years I practiced financial irresponsibility, and now that I have cleaned up I'm trying to clear my record as much as possible. I have two main causes for concern. Firstly I signed a contract about two years ago for an expensive gym membership. I stopped going to the gym but did not contact them to cancel my contract for another 3 months, aka $650 in monthly me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex [23M] and I [20F] had to break up due to long distance and I need your help to get me over him. POST: Throwaway as ex is a redditor. He's 23 and I'm 20 and we really haven't been seeing each other that long, only 3 months and official for 2 months. We were long distance to start of with but we managed to see each other every other weekend. He's moving to a whole new country in a few months for 2 years, there's no way either of us can afford plane tickets to see each other so we",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I recently met my father and I think he's lying to me about a child support related issue. POST: About a month ago I met my father for the first time in my twenty years of existence. Seemed like a really cool, genuine dude. He'd obviously been through some shit and I'm interested to get to know him better. The night we met he had briefly talked to me about getting my mother to cancel the child support he was ordered to pay. I didn't really think much of it. I brought it up to my mom and",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your funniest reason for venturing into the principal's office! POST: I was thinking back on all the times I was sent to the principal's office in middle and high school and feel that lots of people have some good stories to share. It isn't the best but here's mine: It was 8th grade and me and my friends thought we were the shit. We sat at our own lunch table and every lunch period was an unending vortex of laughter. One day we decided to make a concoction. We had mixed into a",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: just broke up with my girlfriend after i found out she was cheating on me POST: So my ex (26) is traveling at the moment and i'm (28) at home looking after her stuff. We had been together for around a year and she was talking about moving in together when she got back, i was a bit dubious, i thought that since she was going to be overseas for quite a while it would be a good idea to just date for a few months again when she got back rather than shift in together. Any way she gave me a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dislocated left shoulder 4 times from workout injury. POST: It all started when i tried doing wide grip chin ups with no warmup whatsoever. i pulled/tore the left ligament on my shoulder. physiotherapy did absolutely nothing and i wasted around $400. I've then had an extremely ""loose"" shoulder, it would slip out a bit and crunch when i moved my shoulder around. i dislocated it for the first time when i was doing shoulder raises TWICE, arm wrestling, and just leaning on my elbow on my bed",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my boyfriend 20 M of 1 year. We're invited to his best friend's party I'm afraid my anxiety will ruin everything. POST: Hello reddit. It is me again with another social anxiety dilemma. I am happy to say it has gotten better in the past six months but still, parties are terrifying for me. This weekend is bf's best friends party since they're old crew is back in town. I don't know these people very well despite going to high school together. It's suppose to be close to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [18/F] get closure from my ex [18/M] and start dating again? POST: I broke up with my ex about a year ago because I found out he was lying to me about his car being broken, when in reality he was just with friends. Our relationship ended abruptly, over text message, since he didn't want to come and meet up with me to talk about it. We dated about 2 months, but he was my first kiss and first boyfriend. I had really strong feelings for him and sometimes I wish we hadn't broke",negative " r/relationships TITLE: SO (28M) didn't invite me (32F) to his work Christmas party POST: So I've been dating Matt since the middle of September, about 3 months. It's still a pretty new relationship. We haven't had ""the big talk"" yet about what we are, but we act pretty relationship-y. We see each other about 3xs a week. I sleep over at his place. We hang out. Text all day throughout the day. The kind of normal new beginning of a relationship type of stuff. I really like him a lot, and I know he has feeling",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [21M] apologize to her [20F]? POST: Our LDR didn't work. The distance and timing was terrible since I left for an internship, and it caused me to be insecure which caused her to back off. She said maybe one day we can be in love the right way, but ""now is not the time and space is better right now."" That happened a month and a half ago. We haven't spoken since, except she used to look at my snap stories (doesn't seem to anymore) and this Sunday she put a new profile picture",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 30F flirting with my acquaintance 32M for weeks, he's disclosed a mental health condition. POST: The guy ""Eric"" is attractive and hilarious and I'm interested. He works with one of my friends and we've been running into each other at group stuff almost every weekend. The second time we talked, Eric volunteered that he doesn't drink because of a mood stabilizer he takes. It's for bipolar disorder. That's the only information I have about his health. We've been texting a little and I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (23F) just found a stash of nudes on my boyfriend's (23M) computer of his ex in his ""recently viewed"" folder on his computer. What should I do? POST: So my boyfriend is in class and I have the day off and he has an office in our apartment with a computer I sometimes use. In the ""recent places"" in his computer was a folder called ""meow"". Curious, and honestly thinking it was silly pictures of cats or something knowing him, I open it and it is a huge stash of nudes from his ex. Loo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it bad that I'm (22F) not -physically- attracted to my boyfriend (22M)? (Together for 2 years) POST: I don't find my boyfriend that much to look at, but I still love him and love being with him. I always ask my sister if it's bad that I'm not physically attracted to my boyfriend, but she always responds with ""why don't you break up with him?"" [kinda irrational] which is something I certainly don't want to do. ...So I'm asking here. .__. I'm usually not all that concerned with loo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Sleeping Paralysis POST: So just like 5 minutes ago I was lying down in my bed and I don't exactly know what I was doing, but I was tired from my day so I started to sleep. I felt like I was dreaming (not lucid or anything just normal) but nothing played out in my head, however I could hear a voice which I could tell wasn't a human voice because it was in my head, I just know. And so I wanted to get up but I couldn't. I wanted to go out of my bed but I couldn't and I still felt like I wa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 /F] cannot find closure after my boyfriend [30 M] has cheated on me and found the love of his life POST: I was together with my boyfriend for a year before he became really weird and sometimes really rude. He barely had time for me and always found excuses for not seeing me. However, whenever I told him that this relationship is not working for me anymore, he was love bombing me and did not want to let me go. The situation got worse and worse. I was madly in love with him and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (21M) am unsure how to tell my religious parents (56F,60M) I don't agree with them about premarital sex and living with my SO (21F) POST: Basically I (21M) have been dating my current Gf (21F) for 5 nearly 6 months. We have been intimate and live together we are both okay with it, and couldn't be happier. After 3 reasonably serious failed relationships of 6 months each, I believe i have finally found someone I wouldn't want to live without. Initially it wasn't much of an issue, be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] feels like I don't really feel love and it's really starting to affect me. Really need some advice. POST: Hello, I've had a bad childhood and that rendered me alone and made me love myself and who I am. I'm the kind of person who could go eat/cinema etc alone and not care. A lot of people say they can't. The problem I'm having is when something fatal goes down with me and my SO and I tell my best friend for advice he says something like ""What are you losing if you lose her",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Should I buy a house with every last penny I have and no retirement fund? (Here are my numbers.) POST: 29 and married with no kids. Income: $6.5k/month take home (Joint, after taxes). Savings: $80k Debt: $5k student loans at 5%. (payments = $217/month) No other debt. Cars: 1 new and 1 old that may need to be replaced soon. (We can get by with 1 car if we have to.). My wife and I have been living in a very tiny apartment. This place would be tiny for one person. We've been livi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] and my coworker [25M] - I like him but his autistic nature is completely messing with my head POST: We've known each other for about 6 months now but in the past month we've been talking a lot. We chat all day at work, sometimes for an hour or more at a time (and we work at a tech startup so it's not like we should be doing that in the first place). Then we chat for hours more in the evening when we're at home. If it were anyone else but this guy, I would be 100% certain he ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my boyfriend [23M] of 6 months, and a crazy ""ex"" POST: So last September, I went out with a guy for ~3 weeks. I didn't sleep with him. I realized he was a bit too crazy for my liking. He's been contacting me 1-2 times a month (not TOO much I guess) for the past 10 months, telling me he's still in love with me, asking me if I'd like to go to events with him, etc. I've been very frank in letting him know I don't want anything to do with him. I've blocked him on Facebook, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend[20F] told me[21M], she cheated on me when we dated earlier. I can't get over that and considering breaking up with her. POST: I met this girl in high school when I was about 17 and we dated for a couple of months. Things were great. I really cared about this girl and I loved her a lot which is why I didn't really see the break up coming. At that time I wasn't in the country so she broke up with me via email. She made up some bullshit excuse at that time but I believed it. ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I was caught eating my boogers at work and I don't know what to do now, Reddit what are some of your worst and embarrassing habits that nobody really knows about? POST: I teach part time at one of the local adult schools in my city. Classes are in the evenings so I get there at about 6 o'clock in the afternoon. I've had the horrible habit of eating my boogers ever since I can remember. Yesterday I was reading a book in my classroom before the students arrived and it was fairly early so n",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Not to be a complete a-hole, but am I the only one who questions if ""LucidEnding"" is for real? POST: If I am shown to be completely wrong, I apologize profusely to LucidEnding and all others who take offense to this. According to his post, LucidEnding discovered Reddit yesterday through a nephew, and felt compelled to post. I just find this a little hard to believe, and I'm shocked by how, if this is true, quickly he became very well-versed in Reddit culture. Obviously, I have no intere",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18/M] with good friend [23/F] 1.5 year friendship POST: Some back story first, I [18/M] met my friend [23/F] about a year and a half ago we share a lot of interests. We play video games and watch anime together. I have inevitably fallen for her but I am either too scared to tell her my feelings because of being turned down or scared of losing my friendship altogether. She has gotten a lot closer physically in the last month. Laying her head on my shoulders, slowly getting closer ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Quick question about expungement in Oregon. POST: Hi! When I was a youngster, I was sort of dumb. I did a lot of graffiti. I got arrested shortly after I was eighteen. I did so much damage, it counted as a felony charge (Criminal Mischief I). I went through the hoops without dragging my heels or making a fuss. I paid my restitution, took care of the community service I was required to do. I have not gotten into any more trouble since. At the one and a half year mark, I went back to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18/F] with my family and mainly sister [26/F] POST: my life turned upside down due to religion/culture in my family because of a mistake i did in highschool when they discovered that I chat with a few schoolmates(mostly girls but some boys) and online friends on a chatapp and now i was forced to quit a game and gave up my phone and tablet. i was cut ties with all my school friends and any friend i make new because of their lack of trust in me. i don't know how to get that trust b",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Is it time to call it quits? POST: I have been dating my boyfriend for about three years now and we currently live together and our in our early 20s. We do get along well, and I find we are more like very good friends most of the time but then every so often we will get into these malicious fights that most of the time stem from nothing. Normally, he is very kind and patient but when he is in an argument he hits until it hurts, bringing up past relationships, insulting friends,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my Ex GF [27 F] 1 year, 1st day sleeping at new place SUCCESS POST: A brief explanation of the relationship. In my recent relationship my ex gf said small things she didn't like about me caused her to fall out of romantic love with me. I tried for three months to save the relationship while emotionally beating myself up trying to win her love back (which won't happen again). She was the first women I have lived with for relationship reasons. The last three months she ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my boyfriend [19M] of 7 months. Not sure if being honest about my infidelity is the right thing to do. POST: I've been with my boyfriend now for 7 months, and we had been going through some rough times over the last month or so. I have discussed my feelings about our relationship with him, and we've both made some changes to our relationship, and I feel like things are going a lot better. However, about a week and a half ago, I was upset with him and had been drinking.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my gf [20 F] 1yr, un-sure whether to break up due to feeling more interested than she is. POST: Ok so have been going out with my gf for 1 yr nearly and she is the only girl I have ever loved and still do. We met at uni however 6 months ago I had to start a placement year 3 hours and a half drive away. We decided to stay together and I have been driving to see her most weekends and she as come to me a couple of times but it is loads more expensive for her to come to m",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I want to know what happens when someone does or does not follow my well-developed advice, don't you? POST: So I read a lot of r/relationship_advice. I find it very interesting, yes, a good deal of that is for my own entertainment (who isn't entertained by other people's drama?), but also, I learn a bit about relationships from it. I develop a bit of perspective on my own through hearing about others'. On top of this, I appreciate the network of support, should I ever need it, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My neighbor [30sF] is a gossip. Do I [27F] tell the woman [30sF] who is the subject of her gossip? POST: I'm relatively new to my neighborhood. I've known both Bebe and Cora for the two years that I've lived here; they've both been sweet and supportive. However, I found out pretty early on that Bebe was a bit of a gossip. Nothing dramatic or scandalous -- the kind of ""harmless"" neighbor gossip that makes you feel included in a group. Things about how she always saw another neighbor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: SO (23M) says he doesn't have to seduce me (20F) anymore. POST: Not in a sexual way, more like he means he doesn't need to romance me or anything. I know he can be romantic, he's told me how he's sent girlfriends letters in the past and done other little things for them. Now we are long distance and tried not to be super serious but we are still together after 8 months and when I said it would be sweet if he wrote me a letter he said he ""doesn't need to seduce me"". I find that kind o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [28M] of 15 months is incredibly cheap and it's starting to really bother me [28F] POST: At first I thought my boyfriend was just frugal. He lives pretty far below his means; for example, where we live he could afford to rent a 4 bedroom house in the burbs, but he lives in a one bedroom apartment in kind of a crappy neighborhood. That's no big deal, it makes sense not to have a ton of space you don't need. But he's like that in every other aspect. On the rare occasion th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my bf[43 M] of 3 months, Am I Just Being A Shallow Asshole? POST: So this story is pretty short. I met this guy back in November and we started dating in late December. He lives about 4 hours from me, but I just went through with it anyways. Since we started dating I've driven down to his home to spend the weekend with him twice, and I've stumbled upon an issue. I really really like him a lot. He's pretty much everything I could want in a guy from what I've seen so f",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My university has scheduled class for the day following Remembrance Day (Nov 12), despite it being recognized as the public holiday. How can we make it happen? POST: My university, located in a province that recognizes Remembrance Day as a public statutory holiday, has not cancelled classes for the following day (where the stat falls on a Sunday, the holiday is observed on the following Monday). This is not only outrageous as this is a commemorative day in place to recall and respect the",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[22F] with my girlfriend[21F] of 1 year, she said I'm ugly and I can't get over it POST: So about a week or so ago my gf (let's call her Anna) and I were talking about exes -- I know, mistake number one, right? -- and I said something along the lines of how she's the most beautiful girl I've ever dated. She got really quiet. I've always had self-esteem and jealousy problems, and I admit that leading her into this corner is my fault and it was immature and wrong of me to do it. But",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I need help breaking up with someone... POST: Ok so I (a girl) have been dating this girl since late september. She is 19 and I am 18. For a while everything was going great etc. Since about halfway through May, we have barely talked at all and she has been basically ignoring me. I am at home from college so she is 5 hours away therefore I can't talk to her outside of IMimg. Sometimes I know she is around because I see her posting or something on a site but when I try to talk to her she ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: HELP!! We both see that we are falling apart and if we don't change something we won't be able to fix it. POST: I don't know where to start. We both know that we're headed down the wrong path and we want to fix it, but we don't know where to start. Some history: We have been dating for a little over a year and a half, 23 f & 34 m. We moved in together soon after we met. We lived together for about 4 months and then I moved out with a mutual friend. We consistently see each other ev",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ask Reddit, what money saving advice can you give me? POST: To preface my issues, I'm currently 18 years old and about to enter a decent university in-state. I am a ""hardcore"" gamer and anime purveyor, generally purchasing between 2-10+ new titles a month. I've held a small job as a cashier at a local grocery store, but have not saved a dime of it, however I am leaving my job in a few weeks as classes are starting soon. I will receive a small amount of money back from my college, in add",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, I was just turned down by a renter trying sublet a friend's apartment because the apartment I lived in over a year ago had bed bugs. Is that legal? Please help! POST: When I went to sign the sublet lease they told me they'd need to a do a background check for things like previous evictions, etc.. and then she mentioned bed bugs. I told her up front that I had had bed bugs in the apartment I had lived in before I studied abroad for a year in Germany but the entire unit (all fl",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/F] First date ever. I asked him [22/M] out. Any advice? POST: Hi. So I am having coffee with a guy from my psychology class. Let's call him Jim. Jim and I are both shy and awkward, but we did have a few good conversations throughout the semester. I had a crush on him since the first time we talked. I didn't get his number by the time the class ended, so I asked his friend for Jim's number. I texted Jim casually and he seemed happy to talk to me. Never asked how I got his n",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24/F] Confused about ending 4 yr relationship w/SO [23/M] POST: My SO and I have been together for 4 years and have lived together for 3 of them. He is my best friend, I tell him everything (and vice versa), I LOVE to spend time with him no matter the activity, and he makes me laugh. About 6 months ago I started to get feelings that I wasn't sure if we should still be together. We have very different views on how to keep a home, he is more of an introvert where I am much mor",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with gf [25 F] recently became exclusive, now I have no idea what happens...any advice? POST: So I have dated my now gf for about two months. We finally got around to having the conversation and deciding that we'd really like to be together, exclusively. So I'm really excited, but also kind of scared. After about a 4 year relationship I was single for nearly two years and was dating for about a year of that time. I have had serious long term relationships in the past and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I get over my extreme jealousy issues? POST: My [24/m] boyfriend of 3 years has never cheated on me. I thought I should start off by saying that. He has this one friend [24/f] who has had a crush on him since before I even met him. At first I didn't pay any attention to her, but then it caught my attention that she flirted with him a lot, and he didn't really do much about it. I don't know if he really flirts back with her, but I get a feeling that he has feelings for her or s",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by duct taping my girlfriends room to the roof POST: SO i thought this would be a cool prank, Having seen mythbusters i thought it would be funny to tape everything in my girlfriends room to the ceiling of her room , So basically it looked like walking into an upside down room. My friend helped me get everything up onto the ceiling, e.g. desks whilst i stuck everything down, It was a perfect plan, Fast forward an hour, she returns from her first day of Uni, Walks upstairs whilst me a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [26F] break up with my boyfriend [26M] of nearly a year in the least damaging way? POST: Pretty sure my relationship is coming to an end, and it's going to be a painfully one-sided breakup. He adores me, and I care for him deeply, but he's not what I need, and I've realized I can't support him in the ways he needs. This boy has been very good to me overall, and I know I'm going to hurt him and I just want to do the least amount of damage when I go. I have no experience wi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Alarming Headline about Victimization/Injustice/Cruelty! What should I do? POST: Throwaway for obvious reasons. So, I normally never submit anything on Reddit, but *horrible event* has shattered my worldview and shaken my faith in humanity. I don't know who else to turn to. Here is the story: Insert long story about how *disenfranchised person or group* has been horribly treated by *evil villain character*. Make sure to include no information as to **why** *evil villain character* acte",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Roommate is borrowing and not returning my clothes. This is an update from a post I deleted. POST: I deleted an earlier post regarding this because I was nervous she might find it. Anyway long story short. My roommate and I(both early 20s) borrow each others clothes but she often fails to return them. I've asked her twice, once before and once after my last post, in the last month if she has any of my clothes,I even described a few my missing clothes and both times she says she",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm a freshmen in college, and an aspiring musician. (Question in text) POST: I have to keep working on my voice (also guitar). I live in a dorm and its very hard to practice, as i like to sing loud because i am a hard rock and roll player. It's too loud, and i don't like people to hear me practicing... i like people to hear me at my best, especially the people i will bust the ol' git-ar out in front of at parties. Where can i go that i can be loud as i want, and no one can hear me? Is ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/m] Just broke up with my girlfriend [23/f]. Any advice to make this easier on her? POST: I have been dating this girl for about 5 months. Things were good early on but I just haven't been as interested lately. She's a really sweet, traditional, supportive, and loving girl and I know she's head over heels for me which makes this harder. I just don't feel like the relationship is going anywhere. This happened with the last girlfriend I had as well. I could tell within the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend [21m] cheating on girlfriend [19] with ex girlfriend [19] POST: (I hope this is ok here since I'm am not directly affected by this) My friend/roommate was dating this girl for part of high school/college. They were dating for about 1.5-2 years before she went to college where she promptly turned to a huge alcoholic/drug addict and cheated on him to obtain drugs. She broke up with him but did not tell him about this. She came back down for break and they hooked up and got back ",positive " r/self TITLE: Just had the best night of my life. POST: Hey reddit. It's 4:35 AM and I haven't been to sleep yet. Today is my last day of highschool. Earlier this morning, a large part of my senior class and I(about 100 people all together) met at an absolutely empty Ihop at 2 AM and had pancakes, the look on the supervisors face was absolutely priceless. From there we drove to school, hopped our fence, and proceeded to paint what we call ""the rock"". It's really nothing more than that, just a big rock near",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: The manager at my university's bookstore waived $343 Dollars In Late Fees I was charged for not returning two rentals on time. Reddit, What Retail / Customer Service Experiences have gone much better than expected? POST: I received a call from a debt collection agency this morning, claiming that I owed $343 for not retuning two of rental books from last semester. Naturally, I was very skeptical, especially when they asked me to pay by telling them my bank account and routing numbers, whi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: It is wrong for me (24m) to ask my gf (21f) to see his private chats from a private social media account she has been hiding from me long time ago? Suspicious thoughs in the description POST: First, sorry if my english is bad, this is a bit rushed and it is not my native language :). 1 year ago, me and my GF (""Sarah"") had problems with some shit, I discovered she published some nude photos anonimaly in Social Media (the typical accounts that has someone uploading photos of people wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] looked through my GFs [18 F] of 3 months, i think she has something with another guy POST: Weve had some trouble in the last week, and tbh i was a bit suspisious about that Daniel, his name, since she once mentioned it was her ex.. she asked me one month into our relationship if she could meetup with him, since appearatnly they were good friends too or something. I was hesitant, but who am i to tell her no? Anyway because of all that i did this slightly creepy move, and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Tips for keeping a conversation? POST: So recently, I (m20) started talking to this girl (f20) on an online dating site. I introduced myself, and her, herself. We are extremely ""similar"" according to the websites questionnaire, and I'd tend to agree. But before we can get past the shaky introductions and trying to get to know each other, she stops talking to me. No idea why, i asked her about her work and she answered then stopped talking to me. Did I really mess this up before we c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[17M] and a good friend [17F] have been flirting heavily for the past year-or-so, but she is constantly texting, talking about and recieving favors from her friend[18M]. POST: She(Let's call her Hanna) and I have known eachother since kindergarden, and through grades 5-8 we had a rather negative relationship. Hanna and I have only started to talk to eachother on good terms at the beginning of grade 11, but whenever we talk she is always blushing and smiling, and when we talk at her ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] best friend [21F] is constantly getting mad at me, cause she thinks I'm always going out and partying POST: My best friend, Roxanne, is constantly getting pissed at me. A little back story-ish: I've known Roxanne for 5 years, we got pretty close about 2 years in and really close lately, to the point we see each other every other day and message each other whenever we're awake, and it's been fine, great actually, but she's been getting mad at me a lot lately. I go out and p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Getting back together with EX, some things have stated to bother me, what do I do? POST: 25/m and 21/F Dated for a year then she fell for the lies from another guy 400 miles away and left me for him. After that went sour, we started talking again, this lead to us deciding to try being in a relationship again. During the time we started talking she ended up in a relationship with another guy, who she says she has nothing for..... Last Monday she told him she couldn't be with him anym",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] getting over my ex [27F] and feelings for my close friend [22F] POST: 2 years ago I met a girl while backpacking in another country and we developed mutual feelings for each other. A few months later, which was exactly a year ago, she came to visit me to get to know me better, spend time together, etc. We both had strong feelings for each other so we were both excited yet apprehensive (we were both well aware of the distance between us but we thought ""lets just see what happ",positive " r/loseit TITLE: SV- stopped calorie counting 3 weeks ago... POST: F/5'5/125 Today I weighed myself for the first time in about 3 weeks. 125 lbs! I have successfully maintained my weight loss without calorie counting for the last few weeks. I know it's not a long time, but I feel like I finally have self control and awareness of what I am shoving into my face now. For a little background information... I started around the end of last September at 163 pounds (down from 210 in November 2012 when I had my ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking selfies at a funeral. POST: This happened a year ago. It just came up last night in a conversation, and I figured this subreddit may like my story. So I'm traveling through the Southern part of India and landed in a coastal city called Mangalore. It's a port town with Portuguese heritage and some beautiful churches scattered around the city. I, with my sister, walk into this beautiful Roman Catholic church in this upmarket part of the city. There's a bunch of people gathered i",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How should I [20M] deal with a girl at school [19F]? POST: I often hang out with a girl a grade younger than me at school. We are sort of in the same friend group and see each other usually every other day for a while. I had a feeling she liked me, and her friends told me she did, so I went after her, but maybe a little too strongly. We ended up not doing anything past a couple dates, but still see each other regularly. We flirt a lot when in a group, to the point where others notice",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: New friend (M, 23) turned clingy, constantly texting me flirty messages(F, 25), despite having met my boyfriend. POST: I met a guy when out with my boyfriend. The guy started hitting on me until I introduced him to my boyfriend. Had a laugh about it and decided to be friends because we have so many of the same interests. He only had my boyfriend's number for a long time, met up again and everything was fine. He asked my boyfriend for my number and so I gave it to him. Ever sinc",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my boyfriend [19 M] 5 months, he won't do ""long distance"" POST: Hi everyone, I don't know what to do about my relationship. I'm moving about an hour and a half away for college in a month or so, and my boyfriend and I have been dating for about 5 months and are very happy. He's funny, caring, nerdy, and my family loves him just as much as I do. The thing is, we've talked about what's going to happen when I move, and he absolutely refuses to continue the relationship o",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [25/m] like coworker [28/f], but she has long distance relationship. Should i let her go? POST: She recently said to me that she has ""sort of boyfriend"", that leaves in other city. She obviously has some problems with him, but she don't want to talk about that. She said that she needs to think about what she is going to do. She knows that i like her, but she is not very comfortable because of her age (thinks that she is too old for me). Sometimes she is very flirty with me b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] am worried that I've messed up my relationship with my [18 F] girlfriend (8 months) POST: She's been going through a lot, namely the death of a family friend, the death of her dog, and a general feeling of uselessness. I've been trying to do my best to appraise the situation and help her when I can, but this has become difficult with my own clinical depression. She isn't mentally unhealthy like myself, merely going through a rough patch. Last night things got a lot tenser t",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Nice guy saved my day. POST: This morning I was biking down a pretty steep hill and was almost to campus; I had an important exam and I didn't want to be late. Lo and behold this idiot steps right into my path. Does not even look up from his stupid phone. I had to slam my brakes and swerve right to avoid hitting the dude. My bike brakes lock up right as I cleared the guy and I went down hard onto concrete. The stupid pedestrian glanced back, *saw what happened* and then kept walking",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He(m27) has a DateHookUp profile. I(f27) am trying to figure this out. POST: We are married and have two kids together. We were separated for six months and recently got back together. I understand that he might have created this profile while we were separated, but it seems like he is still using it. It shows that he was online yesterday, does this mean he was actually using his datehookup profile yesterday? We have been together for one month now. I was aware of his datehookup prof",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Don't know if I'm missing the hint or overthinking it. POST: I've been on 2 dates with this girl and everything has gone really well. Both times we had a lot of fun and really have no reason to not continue it. But, when we text each other she takes forever to respond. Usually a day between each text, and it has me curious if she actually really does like going out with me even though she says she does and I can tell she really enjoys going out. Her texts are also very enthusiastic and she",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I should be happy (x-post from /r/depression) POST: I battled with depression about a couple years ago. I ended up getting prescribed SSRIs from a psychiatrist. I tried that for a while but I didn't feel any better so I went off of them. I slowly started feeling better and better. I still had moments where I felt depressed but I was relatively done with it. I got a girlfriend, graduated from college, moved to California with my girlfriend, and got a job after a couple months of looking.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most ignorant thing you have heard post-election? POST: I live in Texas. Needless to say many people I know were rather perturbed by the re-election of Obama. Several people I know busted out the liquor when the results came in, but not in celebration mind you. Today in class one girl who was angry about the results said with a smug confidence ""I'd rather have a communist president than a socialist one."" I didn't even respond, I merely sat there in amazement at the depth of th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Most awkward ""So i ran into my ex.."" story? POST: I'll get it started.. Last night me and a few friends were trying to get a video game so we ran over to walmart to check and see if they had it. Turns out they didn't so we went to gamestop to see if they were still open (It was 9:30pm). Turns out they weren't so we decided to make a trip out to the closest target, about a 10 minute drive. We get into target and make a lap around the store trying to find the electronics section and when",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Just spoke with the photographer, am I overreacting? POST: Back ground: We got married May 31, 2014. We picked our photographer because she was really sweet, has pretty good pictures for our price range, and offered a second shooter. We paid around $1200 to have her and her husband take pictures all day (4-11ish). Since the wedding we've seen our ""sneak peeks"" but I haven't heard anything other than that from her. I've seen her post other wedding sneak peaks and family/baby picture",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I want to make a move on a girl I've known for a long time.. Is it worth it? POST: I'm a 20 year old male and I've recently transferred to the same college as a 20 year old female friend that I've known since my freshman year in high school. We were never really more than casual friends in high school and I was in an fairly serious relationship with her best friend for about 2 years that ended in a really messy emotional breakup that left me not wanting to date anyone for a long time",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: US 23 years old just sold my house what do I do with profit? POST: I am 23 years old living in the middle of the country. I had 2 houses, just sold my second one and moved into an apartment. My apartment rent is $1,100/month. The house I sold was purchased for 170k, sold for 212k will have about 40k cash after the transaction. My other house, I have rented out making $1,100 a month and the mortgage is about $950. It was purchased for 123k, I still owe about 110k on it. I have a 201",negative " r/relationships TITLE: A girl I like[15 F] seemed like she liked me [15 M], earlier in the year, but now she just randomly seemed to stop and kinda seems to dislike me now. POST: I am not a crazily unattractive guy. I am not overweight, I have a decent amount of muscle, fit, etc. I am kinda quiet yet I'm not shy, it's just that I often have nothing to say. There's this girl [15 F] I've liked for a while. At the beginning of the school year, I talked to her and it really, rrreeaaally seemed like she liked m",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 F] broke up with my [27 M] boyfriend of 5 months last night- not sure I've made the right decision POST: I'll keep this short. I'm very much in love with the man I broke up with last night- he's almost perfect, but we're the same age (I usually only ever date older men) and that has always bothered me. I'm very insecure and have always believed men my age will just end up leaving me for someone younger- especially if they have money. I broke up with him as a pre-emptive strike",negative " r/relationships TITLE: In need of advice in dealing with my (25m) girlfriend (32f) of just under a year POST: When we first started dating she was quite submissive in doing a lot of what I wanted and very open to my ideas. As time progressed this stopped and things began to tilt more in her direction of control. I will be the first to admit that I have a tough time hearing ""no"". But I work on that and most situations can take a step back and consider the other persons perspective. One of my hardest thing",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What was the most idiotic thing you did when it would have been easier and healthier to sit out? POST: This morning, I woke up, did my morning work/jobs around the house. I then proceeded to scarf down a large amount (several bowls) of Honey Bunches of Oats. After that, I stretched and went for my morning run. I sprinted the entire mile, developing an insane cramp in my side. Afterward, I went to a large party in a roller skating building. Not wanting to be the odd man out, I put on ska",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Anyone else think this is extremely wrong like WTF NJ? POST: [look before you read] WTF this is completely wrong and when i saw this at the store today i couldn't believe what i saw. i actually told the cashier whilst point at the lottery ticket saying 'they're obviously targeting the younger ones' the fucking cashier acknowledge and chuckled 'you're right'. Gambling is a addiction and by selling lottery tickets like ""New Royals"" with young attractive, well dressed, hip people its a fu",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By trying to take a picture of a girls ass in gym POST: So today during gym class, there was this one girl who had what could be considered leggings more than yoga pants because when ever she bent any direction you could see her thong. Smart me, thinking, ""oh hey, that's a nice ass I could take a picture of and use it later,"" decided to whip out my phone and since it was an iPhone, I could sneakily snap a nice picture of her while she was stretching. Regardless, that was perverted bu",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [18/M] think I just lost my best friend [19/F] and I'm not sure what my next step should be. POST: So my best friend and I had to stop talking because her boyfriend has major trust issues and he doesn't like me at all. We've been friends for around 5 years now and I did love her more than a friend at the beginning of our friendship, but I realised I was friend zoned so I stopped trying. After that, we grew more as friends and I didn't think anything of her in that sense. But ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting my friend banned from twitch. POST: So unlike a lot of Fuck Ups, this one happened about 15 minutes ago. Me and two other friends (One male, one female) Wanted to watch a movie. Looking around, we agreed upon Mean Girls. Two of us havent seen it yet, we have heard good things. Well we are all on skype and we weren't willing to drive to one another's home to watch it. And we all wanted to watch it together. We tried screen sharing in skype. Too laggy, pretty shitty. T",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU trying not to vomit in a strangers apartment POST: It was my friends birthday and a friend of hers decided to host. What a nice time that will be! I worked a long shift (0700-1900) so I went straight home changed and headed to the party. I also invited a guy I kind of like (great opportunity for kisses). So I get there I'm chatting and visiting with everyone and enjoying the snacks provided. I want to emphasize that I was not drinking much and was only sipping on some wine. Little later ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Resources for getting over traumatic experience with ex? (29 F) POST: I was humiliatingly left for my best friend by my ex. This happened 6 years ago, so it's been quite enough time to get over it. Me (23), him (29) and her (25), now all 7 years older. They are still together. I'm in another great relationship. I'm not in contact with either. I am happy to live my life without thinking about either of them, however we run in the same work (and sometimes social) circles and their ",positive " r/self TITLE: Reddit's ad box seems to have overpowered my cruise's pay-for-internet scheme. POST: Seriously. Apparently, it redirects the first page that loads when I click the url, so it redirects the ads and the login page is now just below the description of every subreddit. I've been trying to work out a way to load pages in frames or something via manipulating my personal subreddit's CSS, but it's hard because I don't actually _know_ CSS. So, if you have any idea of how to do this or how to load some",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [f/25]current mental stability is making me question my relationship [m/25] POST: I've been seeing my bf for about 3 years, overall a good relationship. I love him to death and I have a hard time seeing myself without him. But lately I've noticed myself becoming more abd more mentally unstable. I have made an appointment to see a therapist on Wednesday because its become a really big problem. Anyway the way I've been feeling lately is that I'm not really mentally fit to be in a s",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Reddit I need advice about my Father. POST: My dad is about to turn 53 next month. I love him with every ounce of my existence, and tonight everything really snapped into reality. My father started his construction and home improvement company with his own hands. He taught me everything I know today, I've never met someone who has so much knowledge in everyday life, and in his field of work. We live in a house we use to be able to afford, now that the economy and overall income has diminish",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it better to be more humble or more detached? POST: I understand the virtues of being humble but I find myself wishing that I didn't care so much sometimes. For instance, the more attached I am to something or someone, the more it pains me to lose that thing or person. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of caring less though because I think it will somehow make me feel less than human. I notice that there are a lot of people in my society (American) who don't seem to care what other pe",negative " r/loseit TITLE: NSV: I ran nearly 2 miles tonight. POST: I'm too heavy, so I started running last saturday. I've run every day since. Usually I walk every half mile or so and usually finish at 1.5ish miles. Tonight after a busy day I got to run and didn't really stop. I ran 1.9 miles around my college campus. I use Runmeter on my phone and it said I ran faster than I every have before. I've been loosely dieting (eating less at the cafeteria), but my impulse control is shit and I couldn't resist getti",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me (f/17) and my boyfriend (m/18) are assholes to each other. How do we work on this? POST: Basically, my boyfriend and I are great together. We started off as friends and we ended up dating, he is a great, attentive boyfriend, except for one thing: he can be insulting with his words. I, who left a previous relationship which was abusive, have a defense mechanism, where I will behave somewhat bipolar when somebody hurts me. I will love them with all I have, then at other times",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have pretty much no knowledge of my city. Will this be awkward in conversations when I get older? POST: I live in New York City (albeit Staten Island, but regardless). I've never been to Central Park, been on the Brooklyn Bridge, been to the Statue of Liberty, ridden public transportation anywhere in the city (though I have in London and DC), been to the Empire State Building, been to pretty much any of the museums there. I live in Staten Island and I've never been on the Staten Island",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24M) just met the girl (21) of my dreams last night. The only problem? She lives in another state and is leaving in 1 week. What do? POST: We met at a bar and just.. Wow, did we hit it off. We ended up spending the next six hours just drunkenly getting to know each other and having an amazing time. I didn't really find out about the location thing until later that night, but I didn't think much of it and didn't let it bother me.  Well, I sobered up today and it bothers me. I kno",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [26 F] ex [30 M] used and cheated on me with his new girlfriend and has changed for her now - I feel like I cannot move on POST: I was dating my bf for around 8months when he started to act really strangely. I decided to stay away from him but he would not let me go, I blamed me for everything. I was naïve and felt bad about it so I apologised and went back to him again and again. I was super naïve and in love. One night he texted me to come over to his place, he pretended that e",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (22M) need advice with long term friend/attraction (22F) POST: I have been friends with this girl since high school and have always had a thing for her but in high school I decided not to get into a relationship with her, after high school we lost touch. However about 2 years ago I texted her out of the blue and we have been steadily texting and staying in contact all of those two years, over those years I have always wanted a relationship with her and have vocalized that howev",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: Why do people do this? I do not understand... POST: So I'm a 26m doing online dating and have been on a few dates here and there, nothing too successful. Anyways I start talking to this 27f and we send long messages back and forth every day for about a week until she gives me her number without me asking. ( we seemed to have a LOT in common so things were promising ). After a long phone conversation that seems to go great I invite her out to some coffee and she enthusiastically acc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Breakups] My ex girlfriend (26) is really messing with my (27m) head. POST: I've posted about this situation before. But it's gotten worse. My ex said that she wanted to get back together, and she told me to trust her. The next day she texted me that she slept with someone else. On Tuesday, she told me that she was sick of her life here and wanted to elope and start our family. Yesterday, she took all of that back after texting all day about how she couldn't wait for our family to s",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: About to be disowned by my family for moving in with my boyfriend POST: Tomorrow I'll be telling my very Catholic mother that I'm moving in with my boyfriend in 2 months. My boyfriend and I have been dating for almost 2 years and doing long distance for almost 6 months. I have an AMAZING job set up for me once I move, a job that I would probably never get if I stayed here. I tried telling my mom that I was moving a few months back. It didn't go well and she kicked me out of the hous",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 25M my lack of closure from a breakup is holding me back POST: Around a year ago I broke up with my first significant girlfriend. We had only dated for a little over a year, but it had been pretty passionate, and we'd been living together about eight months. Things got too intense and started to get a little involved a little quickly. She told me she felt scared that she wasn't giving herself a chance to live her life, and we broke up. It definitely was *not* mutual, though I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [28/f] relationship with my partner [35/f] of seven years is deteriorating because I am in graduate school, and I'm heartbroken. Not sure what to do. POST: My partner and I have been together for seven years in a semi-long distance relationship. She lives about an hour and a half away from me, but we have always had an agreement to see each other on Fridays and weekends should our schedules allow. Of course we have had our disagreements, our good and bad moments, and we've always ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Some punk ass kid yelled at me to get a job POST: I am doing my job. My second job at 2 in the morning pounding real estate signs for a grand a month. Im tired as shit because I was at my day job since 8 am. I do this Fridays and Sundays because that was the price to pay to save my sons life. I'm ten grand in the hole from medical bills but my second son is 5 months and healthy now besides some expensive ass formula. He just graduated to doctor appointments every other month. He was pre",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17/M] want to make a cover of a song that my crush [15/F] herself wrote. Is that pushing it a little? POST: There's this girl that I met in my sophomore year in high school (her freshman) in a study hall class. We had a lot to talk about, so things hit off nicely for us. After the semester and after the class, we didn't have anything else together. I am typically a keep-to-myself guy and am bad at small talk so not much happened, but my interest in her developed. Junior year hits ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [19m] in college student in Illinois State and I want to try to date one of my best friend's best friend [19f] that goes to Iowa State POST: My friend Maggie is closer to me than almost everyone besides two other people and she has a personality exactly like mine. She has a best friend since second grade and they have always been together. I have been around her a couple of times and we have gotten along great and I am pretty sure it is because I have almost the same personality as o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my two roomates [~20Fs]. Moving out first time ever, how do I handle an upcoming uncomfortable situation? POST: Hi everyone, I've always been a lurker on reddit relationships but I've never needed to ask the community for advice....until now. This upcoming week I'll be moving into an apartment as part of an internship that I had landed for the summer. The apartment is being paid by the company I am working for. This is the first time I won't be living at home and I'",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by running away from a shiny Pokemon POST: This happened literally 5 minutes ago, and since then I've been sitting here numbly, standing in the tall grass, kicking myself for being such a dumbass. I was playing B2W2 and (warning for post-game spoilers kinda) running through the Pinwheel Forest with Cheren in post-game. I was wading through the tall grass after retrieving an item and, of course, random wild encounter. Standard annoyance. Since Cheren's there, we get a double wild ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Community service and working a job POST: I was arrested in January of this year in Colorado for theft. It's my first offence. My hearing is next month. Long story short, I bought a computer that turned out to be stolen, and when I realized that the computer I had purchased was stolen, I disposed of it. But they police record showed they had evidence of the computer being within my home, and also used the webcam to take pictures, and they know I had it in my possession. I don't have",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M/F] with my ex [26 M/F] 9 months, I ended it but having a hard time dealing with it POST: I broke up with my boyfriend in January because I wasn't in love with him even though I liked him very much. See original post here: The thing is I still believe we're not right for each other, but I miss him so much. I think what I probably really miss is the comfort and security of being in a relationship. We work in the same company and live about 5 minutes from each other. We're o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21/M) mom (50/F) always calls me to vent because she is divorced and has no on else to talk to. Starting to make me depressed. POST: Gonna make this short. My mom divorced my dad because my dad never talked to my mom, he would be gone all day at work, sleep, then go back to work. It was a bad marriage. She goes out on dates now (she's really good looking for her age) with a bunch of guys who just end up using her. She vents all of her problems to me and it is starting to weigh on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [45 M] with my ___ [46 F] wife of 10 years - I'm thinking of being more controlling about money POST: My wife hasn't worked for our entire marriage for various lame reasons. I was concerned about retirement planning and budget and we met with a financial planner at the beginning of this year - she and I both agreed on the budget, long-term financial goals and the planner said it would be feasible with my single income. At this point, we have saved $0 instead of the $3k we should",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 F] with my _husband__ [27 M] married for 3 years POST: My husband and I have been married for 3 years, two years ago we emigrated from the UK to Canada. I finished up my schooling and he has another 9 months left. I have been offered my dream job on the other side of Canada (Vancouver, we currently live in Ontario) and after discussing it with him, I have decided to accept and we will do long distance until he finishes school. Unfortunately finances are tight so regular visiti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my girlfriend [16 F] of 4 months, are in a LDR that may not be sustainable. POST: Hi /r/relationships! I'm currently with my long distance girlfriend (UK/US) and we do love each other a lot. However, recently, I've felt that we've had less to talk about and I don't love her as much as I did at the start of the relationship or even before. We have to spend at least 4-5 years in a LDR but I do believe married life with her would be awesome. However, I think I'm developi",negative " r/running TITLE: Ramping up my running fast - with slight ankle tweak POST: I've been running on and off for the last 2 and a half years or so, with a year long break that ended when I left a job that was killing me 6 weeks ago. A friend of mine told me he was running the Staten Island Half Marathon on Oct 13th, so I've been using that as motivation. But in the course of training, I've become super-hooked and decided to try to make a late run at the 9+1 qualifier for the 2004 NYC Marathon (9 qualifying r",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] My GF [24/F] broke up with me [25/M] after 1.5 years be single for the first time, is grieving hard POST: I suck at formatting, but here is the [first post]( Long story short. My gf broke up with me last week after feeling increasingly depressed and unsure about the situation she was in. Her job, me, etc. She said she wanted to be able to be single for once and rely on herself. I understood her decision but disagreed and did not want it to happen. Since then, she's gone th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] am jealous about my [21 F] girlfriend, need advice POST: This is my second relationship and both have been long ones, and I always find myself jealous about seeing (let's call her Alice) Alice talking or hanging out with male friends, the worst part is that I'm 100% sure that I have nothing to worry about, but still, It still keeps eating me up. I told her at the beginning of our relationship that I am a very jealous man, she said that she doesn't like that, and we kept at ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, can you help/have any ideas to break through prejudice? POST: Background: I've had a guy friend since my Sophomore year in high school. We've always talked through out the years that have passed, and he's an amazing guy. Recently he asked me to go on a date with him. I more than happily accepted. The problem lies in my mother, father, and family. I don't come from the most open minded place on Earth. He's African-American, and I'm Caucasian. I'm currently staying with my mother,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend of 4 years [23F] repeatedly gets sick due to stress and gets angry when I [23M] keep my distance. What gives? POST: For as long as I can remember I have been weary of sick people and being sick myself. Hate hospitals, clinics... Ect. My gf knows this and jokes I'm a 'sick-a-phobe'. I am generally a pretty healthy guy and get sick independently of her very rarely but she gets sick fairly often due to stress. Whenever she does I keep my distance, don't kiss her and don't",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] girlfriend [20F] fight all the time and we don't know how to stop POST: So me and my girlfriend have been together for about 9 months and for about half the time it's been great. But the other half of the relationship is just fighting all the time. Over anything too. I don't want to put the blame entirely on her but she's really stubborn and not willing to compromise. She also always says that the fights are my fault. For example, one time she was tickling me while we were l",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [m-17] How to deal with Girlfriend [f-18] feelings for ex POST: My girlfriend and her ex were together for 4 years, so yes from 13 to just before her 18th birthday. However, he never took her on a date, nor did he even simply buy her flowers, and he was totally unsupportive of her life goals. He was nice to her and kept her happy, but honestly it sounded like the most.. er.. uncomfortable relationship. The sex was also awful I'm informed. To me it just seems like they were together a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am[18 M] studying with my Crush [19 F]. I have been friends for a while but we have never hanged out just the two of us. Reddit, please help me. POST: I'm studying for 6 hours or so with her. I had some friends ask her and she was neutral towards me. She was into me but she was not against me. We are both in grade 13 and are taking calculus together. To be honest, I have no idea what I'm doing. I think she knows this but she still accepted my offer to study together. I'm not the be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend's boyfriend [28m] is a cheater. I need to help my friend [32F] realize she doesn't have to put up with it! POST: My friend is super awesome and her dude is not. She had Thanksgiving with my family because her dude ditched her and her 9 year old son the night before, took the only car (hers) and drove to his family's 4 hours away (and we later found out there was a girl he used to fool around with at his dad's.) and refused to answer her calls. Until she locked him out of hi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17m] am having troubles with my father [late 50s]. Divorced parent wants to spend time with me but I want to go on a trip with my girlfriend. POST: This entire post is going to be a quick summary. My dad wants to spend as much time with me as possible and this weekend is a 4 day weekend from school. My girlfriend invited me to her cabin with her family for the break and I want to go but my dad is pulling the ""I don't get to see you enough card"". How do I tell him I want to go wit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [27F] ended things with me [28M], saw it coming... Think I still want to be friends. POST: We were friends for over four years, kept in touch while she was travelling for a year, and when our paths crossed again this year, we tried dating. Things were good, we obviously have similar interests and enjoy each others' company... But it didn't work out. 6 months, some ups and down, back and forth, time apart then back together, we like, respect, and care for each other, but aren't in lov",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my boyfriend [27 M] living together for 6 months, no longer speaks to me and he quit his job. POST: Two weeks ago, he told me I should quit my job because I had a lot on my plate with classes and trying to find another job that better suits me. Last week, we had an nasty argument about the way he treated me the night before when he was fairly intoxicated. He told me I'm worthless. He called me a c***. He told me I was only after his money. He yelled in my face and t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm an average lazy 20' y old.What's the best way to start working at home in the graphic domain? POST: My usual day starts at 13:00, wake up , play either CS:GO/HON/Darksiders 2 or TF2, I wait until the night comes and then cruise around town and meet up with my friends. The thing is I am tired to live off my parents money, not that they wouldn't provide, it's just to make something of myself. I know alot of things to do but not good at anything. I learned photoshop all by myself and w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf(26) just broke up with me(25). What should I do? POST: Hi all, My gf (F 26) of almost 4 years just broke up with me (M 25). So the story is, we moved in together about two years ago. I was very unsatisfied with my old job so I asked her if she would move to me to middle of nowhere if I could find a better one. She said yes, find a job first. I applied and got an interview so things where moving forward at that point. Progressively, I scored the job and she encouraged me to tak",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I just need to get this out POST: I tried to post this before but fucked up and erased everything, so this may suck even more. Alright. So I'm 21[m] and she's 20. We had been dating for s little over 9 months which I know isn't that long. But I really loved her. She made me feel so good. Made me want to be better. Made me smile so easily. She was so fucking great. Well. Over Christmas break her friend from Canada came down we live in Oregon. He stayed with her for 4 days while I ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me [27/M], my ex [27/F] and my colleague/crush [43/F] POST: I was with my ex for over 5 years (known her for 10), and we broke up this last June. We had discussions about moving in together, marriage and children, and I told her that I wasn't sure that I wanted the same things she did. Things weren't so great between us, and in the meantime I had been talking to one of my colleagues about my ongoing issues with my now ex. I've known this person for 7+ years, and although we've ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: First post here. Need help POST: Okay. So there's this girl I've been friends with for about 4 years. The last year or so we haven't talked much. Well there's a concert coming up that were both going to and she messaged me on Twitter around Halloween asking if I'd like to meet up during the festival and hangout. I said yes we chatted for a while and that was that. Well she messaged me again this last Saturday and said her and her boyfriend broke up and was wondering if she could go t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my SO [21 F] off/on for three years, Told me that while she loves me, she would be unfaithful if tied down. Confused. POST: I [M 21] started talking to and got back together with my SO [F 21] after a three month break of no talking. We have know each other for 3 years and have been off and on until recently. However during this period she messaged me a few times talking about our love and asked my roommates about me. So when I started talking to her again I was happy",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] and my boyfriend[30M] are thinking about getting a prenuptial agreement before we get engaged... smart or manipulative? POST: A friend of ours recently explained that her and her fiancé had a prenuptial agreement drafted before they were engaged to make sure that they would uphold the contingencies of marriage. At first I thought the whole idea was manipulative, taking money from a man who isn't married to you because he broke a sexual agreement sounded wrong. The only con",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend gets depressed when I stay over for long periods of time. POST: Background: We are both in our early 20's and have been dating for 4 years. We are both engineering majors, and attend the same college. During the school year we are both so busy with school work that the weekends are the only time we can really hang out. The current situation: I like to be able to hang out with him for the whole weekend since I don't have time to talk with him during the week. I don't mean ",positive " r/jobs TITLE: People tell me to do something that stands out from the rest of the candidates so they pick me, I'm tempted to do this (but I'm not going to, ha): POST: Look, I am sick of your little BS questions you ask that don't even have anything to do with the job. I would be wasting my time and your time if I applied to a job I didn't know how to do. I applied because I know I can do this job. It's up to you to find out by hiring me. Don't ask me why I have a degree in so and",negative " r/Advice TITLE: College student who lost his motivation and needs advice on what to do next with his life and how to approach it POST: Hello Reddit, this will be my first and only post on reddit most likely so bear with me (long story incoming). I have always browsed reddit to see news, have a laugh, or maybe just learn something new, but sometimes I see reddit helping someone out who needs it and today I really need the help. I am 18 years old turning 19 next month, I attend the university of arizona and ",negative " r/self TITLE: Applying for my dream job tomorrow - a porn store. POST: Well, close enough to my dream job. I've wanted to work in the adult retail industry for awhile, because it has always facinated me. I like working retail, and I'm just about the most lax/open person I know when it comes to sexuality. I applied for jobs in countless porn stores in my hometown (Portland, OR. Known for its parks, strip clubs, and sex scene.) but my best friend's mom was the general manager of the biggest chain of retail s",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me[22F] with my friends with benefits [37M]. considering asking him if I can stay at his house for a week while I wait for my apartment to become available. POST: Several months ago I foud myself in an unpredictable situation that plopped me back down in my hometown and my mother's home. It's an unhealthy living situation with my mother being somewhat emotionally abusive and controlling. I'm finally getting back on my feet and signed a lease last week for an apartment that will be a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [28m] fiancé [31f], of 3 years, is pregnant and has recently been diagnosed with chlamydia. Did she cheat? POST: I've been with my girlfriend for three years now. She is pregnant with our second child. We have a 2 year old. She is 12 weeks pregnant and has been very distant for the last 7 months. No more texts saying she loves me or extreme affection like the first couple of years. Our relationship has been rocky with a lot of fighting. I figured it was being of the morning sickne",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex-SO [20 F] of 2 yrs keeps contacting Me [22 M], it never stops POST: There really isn't much to say here. We met online but never met up. Over the course of two years, we talked and divuldged all. I made the mistake of trusting her with my secrets and she became abusive by threatning to reveal them and insulting me USING those secrets. Even after the breakup, she calls me names whenver she gets mad. I finally got my email to auto-redirect her emails to my trash. BUT how is she ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my friend [20 M] is having a power trip. POST: So I have two friends that live on campus together and I commute to college so I live at home. So every weekend I stay at their place and sleep and what not. Now one of my friends who live there is saying if I want to stay at his place I have to do ""chores"" for him. I really don't understand why he would do that when I don't make a mess or anything. When Im there if I make my own food, I clean the pan and my plate after,",negative " r/self TITLE: She's annoying me... POST: I don't even really know why I'm writing this here. But whatever, at least I can get it off my chest. So, this chick I met a month ago came into my business and we chatted up a bit. She seemed like a genuinely nice girl. She told me she was leaving town for a bit but would be back in a week. I got her number before she left and we chatted a little here and there. She told me that we would hang out after she got back. I said great. She came back but I didn't want to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My(33f) husband(44m) invited his drug addict friend over to our house without asking me if I was ok with it. They are outside talking, and have been for about 2 hours. How do I tell him this is not ok? POST: This guy has been friends with my husband for about 20 years. They lost contact for about 10 years of that and found each other via Facebook around 5 years ago. We were dating at the time and we would make trips to go see his friend and his wife. They seemed cool enough but I alw",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Company defrauded of tens of thousands maybe more, need help POST: Throwaway for potential legal reasons, but I am in a very odd and unique situation. I have some evidence that has shown a vendor of our has defrauded us of potentially up to a hundred thousand dollars of stolen commission through some tricky technical means that might be hard to explain to authorities and for which I am not 100% sure is even illegal. Let me explain. We run a mid-sized ecommerce site that works with sev",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it unforgivable to date mutual friends after a divorce? POST: Me and my husband are in the process of a divorce due to to me wanting kids and him not. It's amicable in the sense that I suspect I will always love him and regret that we couldn't want the same things- I think he feels the same way. However, being 27 and wanting 2 children I've began to think (not act just ponder) how and when I should begin dating again. While I know it won't be anytime in the forseeable future, I find ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] not coping that well with my first breakup with boyfriend [26M] of almost 1 year. POST: This is my first break-up, and it was with a guy who got all of my other firsts (I'm a late-bloomer due to a long battle with depression). We called it a ""break"", where we would spend some time focusing on ourselves and then see if we wanted to get back together, but I got the sense that he didn't want to get back together. I'm not coping that well. I'm ruminating on all of the things tha",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are some ways to lessen the cost of more drinking water for my school? POST: I am a teacher at a small private high school in Massachusetts. In recent weeks, faculty use of the water cooler has become an issue with administration. Many of us on the faculty carry Nalgenes and other water bottles around the school. The faculty room is the only water cooler we have access to, and it's two stories below some of our classrooms. Administration has responded that teachers aren't to tak",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my recent possible love interest [29/F]. Is this a red flag? POST: This is a pretty simple question. I have been talking to a girl for a couple of weeks now and we've been on one date. I think she's interested in me because she tells me good morning every morning and we've made a game of who says it first in the morning. We were talking about our affection for one another and she told me she ""would like to tell me to run"" as in away from her. I feel like this is a red ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (26/m) can't get her (28/f) out of my head! POST: Obvious throwaway. So, basically, I have this ex-girlfriend, who I still see and have sex with. You know, when she has a *scratch* she needs itching, she calls me up. Anyway, she comes over one day and we watch some TV. We start fooling around and everything. I'm about to come and she says: ""I'm on my period, you can come inside of me"". No biggie, done it before. So. A couple of weeks passed. Called her about a month later ",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: [serious] Need advice on suggesting medical marijuana to my mom. POST: My mom has just gotten the news that her cancer is back. This is the third time in the last 5 years. The second time was almost one year ago. The last time she went through chemo, she almost didn't make it. Mind you, it wasn't the cancer that almost killed her but all the side effects of the chemotherapy and its toll on her will to keep trying. It was horrible. She's almost 70 now and honestly has so much to keep goi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend (29/F) went into bank accounts & email without my (29/F) permission. POST: I gave my boyfriend my laptop last week for repairing. He gave it back to me today. I was transferring files from my Chromebook to my regular laptop by emailing myself files, then downloading them. I got a notification that a couple of pdf's were downloaded the day before on my regular laptop. They were credit card statements from the last three months. I also have Gmail which keeps a log of activ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (19f) am still in love with my ex (23m) who is also my best friend POST: We were seeing each other for 7 months. The main reasons for us not working out were timing issues for both of us, and him still not being completely over his ex. I am still in love with him and see the potential for a great relationship one day. For now, we are still friends, and we are eachothers support as we are both going through a rough time. I want to be there for him for what he is dealing with, eve",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: My ex left me and now wants me to pay her out for the equity in the home we purchased together but she never made a single mortgage payment to me POST: This is in Edmonton, Alberta. My ex and I bought a house together 1.5 years ago so we are joint tenants. The mortgage and title are under both of our names.The mortgage payments have always been automatically withdrawn from my personal bank account. During the course of our time together for 2.5 years with a house, she never made a sin",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I feel like i'm going to lose my job today, how do you guys deal with bad bosses & gonna-get-fired-paranoia? POST: I work for a pretty big computer company, let's say it rhymes with HELL and well i'm stationed at a hospital. Unfortunately, i work under a tech lead and he's been working for quite awhile now and has a certain way of getting things done. I'm not even allowed to be 100% honest of time it actually takes to solve an issue due to fear of idle time. I can't remotely solve a iss",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by cutting the tip of my finger off... Citrus fruit is evil. POST: Reddit, Today... I fucked up. Well, actually, it wasn't today. It was about 6 years ago when I was dating my neighbour. I shall tell you a story, a funny story, a BLOODY story, of my sheer retarded actions involving a knife... and an orange. I was in the kitchen, after seeing my father peel an orange with a swiss army knife. I had the same swiss army knife and was terribly failing at peeling the orange. I slip the kni",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 F] have been with my BF [29 M] for 9 years, and sometimes I have doubts about marrying him. Are my reservations legitimate or normal growing pains? POST: My [28F] boyfriend [29M] and I have been dating for 9 years and we have built a lovely little life together. We have great friends and have been accepted into each others' families. We have talked about kids and marriage, although we both aren't in a huge rush to go there just yet. I am getting to the age where marriage is on ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting a girl get kicked by a zebra POST: This actually happened a few years ago but I decided to submit it anyways. One summer I was at a camp that specialized in horseback riding. We were taught how to muck stalls, how to turn horses out to pasture, and how to ride after all of our daily tasks were complete. This farm was not your run-of-the-mill princess party setting. There were 'exotic' animals. This included George the horny Llama, who frequently escaped only to find him tryin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (21F) found saved snapchat videos/photos of a porn star on my boyfriend's (21M) phone. POST: What I found was: Diana Prince XXX. One snapchat video of her singing with her bare tits bouncing, and two photos of her, yet again, bare tits out. The problem: While I don't have any issues with my boyfriend watching porn, finding saved images/videos from a pornstar on snapchat is infuriating. I've watched porn alongside my significant other of three years, and I know that he wanks to it",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my boyfriend [27M] of one month: when is long distance worth it? POST: My boyfriend and I are both in the military and met at school. Neither of us intended to fall as hard or as fast as we did. Now I'm leaving in a few days and he's here for another month or two. We don't know where he'll get orders to, but it seems unlikely that he'll go to the same place as me. I'll be there for at least two years. We've briefly discussed long distance, but he always says that he wou",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: When a girl says she is ""unsure of her feelings"" POST: So i just finished my first semester at college and for the whole duration of it, I've been talking to this one girl. We pretty much see each other everyday and hang out so we naturally became really close. I started to develop feelings for her early on and she found out when my friend facebooked me about it while we were looking on my laptop together. Even after knowing this, it wasn't really weird or anything and we always flir",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you organise your digital photos? POST: I'm finally getting together all my digital photos from about 1999/2000 to present, taken from two laptops and two desktops, as well as countless memory cards and mobile phones. I'm having trouble getting a good organised system together though. I'm starting by getting folders for each year, then subfolders for each month. The problem is that I've found miscellaneous photo folders on old laptops that are usually named something like ""New F",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20M] girlfriend [20F] and I are having control issues. POST: (Keep in mind this doesn't have anything to do with jealousy or that kind of 'controlling') Hi. So my girlfriend and I have been dating for just over a year. She had a really tough childhood with a very controlling and angry father. Understandably she gets upset when she feels that I am trying to control or change her. However, this has gotten out of control in the past few months. For example, today I asked her ""hey h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [25f] tell my co-worker[35m] I'm not interested, politely? POST: I've been working at my job for 5 years. He's [35m] in a relationship, but he keeps asking me [25f] to hang out, presumably with him and his gf. What makes things weirder is I asked him out when I first started working at the company, and he turned me down, as he rightfully should have, because it would have been unprofessional. It was my first professional job and I didn't know not to dip in the company ink",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 F] boyfriend [24 M] was cheated on about 7 years ago by his ex girlfriend with my good friend... POST: This is a fuckton of info and this is a throwaway account because my boyfriend knows my reddit username. Characters: Me [24 F] Boyfriend Ryan [24 M] His ex Natalie [24 F] Our mutual good friend Sara [24 F] Timeline: I've known Sara since 5th grade. I've known my Ryan since 12th grade. Sara, Natalie, and Ryan friends since 10th grade. Ryan and I didn't start dating til this",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Guys, how would you respond if your girlfriend asked you how she could best love you? I, [21/f] am thinking of asking my [21/m] boyfriend this POST: We have been friends for a year and we just started officially dating a few weeks ago. It might be weird to say, but I feel that I am very much in love with this person. Maybe it's because we have been getting to know each other for a while but I feel very much attached to him and connected to him in such a deep way and it feels ve",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: [Hot] Teachers of Reddit, what comments do you use to discourage sexual comments directed towards you from your students? POST: I'm a [23/F] and I recently finished my student teaching at the end of the fall semester and as such, haven't been able to find a full time job. I started working as a sub and landed a two month long position teaching freshmen and seniors. The freshmen are great. The seniors... Classroom management is my *biggest* weakness, and although I went into the classroo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] of three years. Girlfriend wants to take a break. What to do? POST: Hi guys, My girlfriend and I are both college students who have been together since high school. We have had a very positive, serious relationship thus far. Last week, out of nowhere, she asked if I wanted to take a break. I really didn't understand why since we are on very good terms, but her reasoning is that she wants to spend the rest of her life with me (the feeling is mutua",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: /r/music didn't help me out at all. Can you guys help me with this important copyright question? POST: Hey there. So I'm not sure if this would be the right place to post this but i didn't really know where else. So I have a youtube channel (not music related I play video games) but i'm going to be doing a Legend of Zelda parody of Coldplay's song ""Charlie Brown"". I've done a parody before but I played my own music. This time I planned on having an instrumental version of the song and ju",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to get out of an assignment POST: So.. TIFU about fifteen minutes ago, when I was doing my 2000 word essay for school. I'm just sitting there, procrastinating away, about 400 words in. I have a glass of water in my hand, and I just think to myself, 'If I was to just.. give this glass of water.. the slightest tip.. I would have the perfect excuse for not doing this essay' (Keep in mind that this is very late at night and I'm incredibly sleep deprived). I have one hand supporting",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [27 F] ask my boyfriend [29 M] to not be so clingy without hurting his feelings? POST: I am in a relationship that is currently a LDR (we've been talking and seeing each other for years, made it ""official"" in name about a month ago). When we are together, we are fine. He is the sweetest guy I have ever been with and I'm happy. But we're in two different countries now and will be for awhile, and I feel like he constantly blows up my phone with How are you and I love you's. He",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: My employer hasn't been deducting my health insurance premiums and I'm about to leave the company (MA) POST: When I started my job 15 months ago I signed up for health and dental insurance. Everything has been working as it should (i.e. I used it successfully and received the relevant tax forms). However, HR just pulled me aside and disclosed that they made a mistake and haven't been deducting the premium from my paycheck. Yes, I could have caught this if I studied my pay stubs more cl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(22f) boyfriend(21M) is upset at me because I was avoiding his calls. We've been together 3 years. POST: Hi guys, excuse the errors, I'm secretly writing this at work. Basically, I have had an excrutiating headache for over 4 days now and it's terrible to work as a receptionist with all the phones buzzing in my ears and people asking questions I don't know how to answer and abusing me when I don't give a substantial response. Our company is going through a big change and I've been",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by running head first into a metal gate POST: This happened about when I was about 14 so around 4 years ago now, I was in secondary school (high school for the Americans) and there was a group of around 11/12 that all played manhunt (tag but on a much bigger scale) during our lunch break. This particular day, I was chosen to be on at the beginning and everyone else had run off by the time I'd finished counting. I spotted a group of them on the other side of the school tennis courts so I ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Somebody is framing me for sending an email I didn't send, is this possible? POST: Back in early February I quit my old job and started a new one in a completely different field. (Old - retail, new - tv installation technician) Today I received a call from my boss accusing me of sending an email to everyone in the company in reponse to an angry email a different employee sent after he was fired. Apparently he thought it would be a good idea to send off an email to everybody in the comp",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [F/21] met a guy I *really* liked Friday night!! I can't remember his name or if we exchanged numbers. There's a mystery contact in my phone though that I think is him. How do I approach this? POST: I have 2 numbers in my contacts that I have no idea who they are and I am 80% sure he is one of them, unfortunately I was too drunk to remember if it is actually him/if it's his right name. He was Hispanic and the contact in my phone is Hispanic and it has the right area code and I know",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32M] with girl [25F], has been a hard road but need some advice on proceeding from here... POST: Background....briefly met a girl at gym about 3 months ago whom in the very beginning was completely oblivious that I existed (almost disdainful were some of the looks)....over the last 3 months, after chatting her up occasionally at front desk and talks in the lounging area, the shift amazingly has gotten to the point when she giddily greets me even before I get in the door and tells",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Quitting my job soon, what will REALLY happen if I take some things I built on my way out? POST: Let me explain. Over the last 5 years I've helped to form and improve my company's process. Additionally, I've single-handedly formed up a large number of new product offerings here, which has taken the form of quite a few Word, Excel, etc templates that document deliverable process, provide a structure for the deliverable, and make executing each deliverable a hundred times easier. I easily go ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [24 M] Recent breakup, confused, commitment issues? other issues? help? POST: I'm struggling. This morning ended a short lived, fairly official unofficial thing with a 34F. She's awesome. Seriously. We started casual, became not casual, and both enjoyed it. I've had a lot of questions lately and nobody to ask, so I figured reddit might help. 1. What's the difference between liking Somebody and liking being with somebody in general? I feel I could have stayed with 34F for a while (1-",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My wife is leaving me in two days. I don't know whether to fight or just give in. Please, help me. POST: I'm 25m, she's 21f. She's already booked her plane ticket and leaves Wednesday. We broke up around this time last year, and got together again in February. While we were separated, I had sex with six women, and she says that due to that and the breakup, she no longer values our marriage and doesn't think it can ever be the same. She's not sure if she still loves me or even kno",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21M] observed abuse between two [18-19M&F] new friends at club. POST: Backstory: A relatively new friend of mine invited me out clubbing with her other friends. Late into the night, my friend left the scene but I carried on partying with her friends.   Later in the night, I saw the [18-19?M] hold his girlfriend [18-19?F] up against the wall by her throat. She looked uncomfortable. Minutes later they were up against the same wall kissing.   The entire situa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] not sure when to ask out potential girlfriend [16 F]. POST: I met this girl at school and have known her about a month but it's been pretty casual between us. I wasn't sure if she liked me but we are in the same group of friends going to homecoming together so I decided to ask her. Since I am kind of friends with her brother I drove to her house and asked her. I assumed that she would say yes because she didn't have a date but I didn't know if she actually liked me. I end",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] am confused with a friend [20 F] seeming interested in me but talking to other guys. POST: Hi everyone, So I am confused at the moment. I have been talking to this girl I am friends with for a little while now. It has been good, we get along really well and have a lot of the same interests and she is a really cool girl. She always texts me or send me snapchats making it obvious that she wants me to see a picture of her. Also, if I know she is almost off work and I'm in ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [27/f] tell my boyfriend [26/m] that I want to experience sex with a woman? POST: Just to clarify, I am not a closeted lesbian or anything of that sort, but for a long time I have felt that I am on the bisexual spectrum due to the sexual attraction I will occasionally feel for a woman I meet. However, I was raised in a very conservative household and spent years brushing off those feelings, never attempting to be with a woman, despite having lesbian friends tell me that I s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What should I do about my neighbor? POST: So my neighbor keeps tearing down fence pickets saying that it is a bush that knocked it off. Then he will call the code enforcement because I have an in-ground pool and it violates not having a fence around it. I have replaced the whole panel twice now because he keeps ripping them down. My fence aligns with a cul de sac so it basically is on his front yard so it leaves it open to the public, which is the main reason we get cited. I have no ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Afraid I [22F] will never find someone who knows me as well as my ex [23M] after our 4 year relationship POST: My boyfriend and I just broke off our relationship after 4 years together. We met freshmen year in college and dated until that first summer, when I broke it off with him because I was scared about how serious we were getting and thought we were too young for such intense commitment. However, sophomore year rolled around and I realized that all I wanted was him so we got bac",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [20M] and her [19/F] acts like couples but not exclusive, not sure if it is the right time to ask to be exclusive. POST: Hi. I met this girl at Uni about two months+ ago, we talked on the first day, and we hit it off pretty fast at an event party (neither of us were drunk). After the first two dates, she told me she likes me and I told I her I like her. We act like couples in public such as campus, and in front of her friends. One day, we were joking about if girls try to mak",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just got called a ""disrespectful piece of shit"" for no reason. Reddit, what's the angriest reaction you've ever had from a stranger with no warning? POST: Today I had to go to a ""mid-semester checkup"" where freshman basically had to sit and listen to boring, pointless presentations just because my uni thinks it's a good idea. There were time management ones, study habit ones, etc. Naturally I used the time to reddit on my phone (I was in the back row so I *thought* I wouldn't be bothe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girl[15] all of a sudden stopped talking to me?[16] POST: So basically this girl I really like and we used to go out for about 6 months and I started talking again about two months ago. About 3 weeks ago she texted me saying she thought she annoyed me and I assured her she doesnt and told her I thought the same, she replied saying she loves talking to me and I will never annoy her. But recently about the past 5 days she just wont seem to talk to me, the only time we spoke is on chri",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Who else has gone travelling with two other people only to realise you're the third wheel once you've landed in the foreign country? POST: I am speaking from experience and from a potential re -experiencing. I've gone travelling in South America with two people in my year at highschool, (one was a good friend, other was a friend of this friend). I wasn't aware of their mutual interest in each other until we landed in Peru and we were spending 24 hours around each other. Things became ten",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [19/M] I have no idea whether I want to be with my girlfriend [19/F] POST: Essentially, I was something of a socially awkward loner (though to an extent I still am) until I came to University, where I came out of my shell, especially, with regards to girls, having flings and one night stands all over the place. It was exciting, it was exhilirating - for the first time in my life, I felt properly alive. I was almost addicted to the feeling of endless opportunity, of going out wi",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me sisters [27F] best friend [26F] sent me [19M] several nude pictures of herself to me POST: So recently I broke my neck, it was a pretty scary situation. It was raining and I fell down some steps. I am extremely lucky not to be in a wheel chair. I go to university but I am staying with my mom at the moment. Just until my neck is 100% better. Friday night while my mom was out with her friends. My sister best friend Claire showed up at my place. She said "" I wanted to check on yo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [36/f] with my girlfriend [33/f] of about 10 months, she wants to lose weight but she sabotages herself. I really want to help. POST: My girlfriend is a bit overweight. She's 5'5"" and about 165 lbs. I think she looks great, but lately she's been down on herself for gaining about 10 lbs in the past few months. She always says she's going to watch what she eats more closely and exercise more often. For the most part, we are both pretty healthy. We get outside and walk or hike w",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: It's not fair. POST: No one ever wants to hang out with me anymore. I do not get invited anywhere by my so called ""friends"". I always see them making plans on Facebook or Twitter and yet they never invite me. I have not hung out with any of my ""friends"" in 2-3 months. The person I consider my ""best friend"" has made a new life in San Marcos. They only come down during the summer since they are in college. I have started to believe the reason why no one wants to hang out with me is beca",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to take a nice, relaxing poop at work. POST: Hi /r/tifu! Long time listener, first time caller, let me share what transpired about an hour ago: I went to the bathroom at work (which is an office with roughly 90 employees) to take a poop. We have two bathrooms, and I lucked out this morning and had one all to myself, any stall of my choosing, and the cleaning company had been in last night so all the shitters are sparkly fresh. I grabbed a stall, sat down, and spent some qualit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21m] don't know how to confirm if a friend [18f] is actually interested in me. POST: So here's the story, I've been talking to this girl for about 3 months mainly online like Skype , steam, teamspeak, because she doesn't live in my country , she lives in NZ but after Christmas she is coming back to Australia. About 4 days ago she said she loved me, I was skeptical, we had a chat about it and I essentially told her to confirm her feelings and then come back to me , then the next d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/F] am uncomfortable with how much more my lady friend [27/f] cares about me than I do about her POST: Alright, yes, I know it sounds like the worst kind of humble brag (guys, she just constantly tells me how great I am and how much she likes me, poor me), but it's really getting to the point where I'm thinking about having a talk about not seeing one another anymore. We've been seeing one another about four months now. It's completely open, and I said from the start that I did",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16F] don't know what to do with my best friend [18F] when she 'avoids' me with her boyfriend POST: Alright Reddit, this one is a bit of a doozy. I love my best friend like a sister. She treated me like a sister ever since I met her. Now she is really making me stressed. Recently she and her boyfriend got into an argument over what girl he was talking to on Snapchat. They sat in the car for over 2 hours trying to resolve things. I know I sound really selfish, but I **rarely get t",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Help please. POST: I don't know if I'm looking for advice or just needed to get something off my chest. I'm 27 and I'm not exactly where I'd thought I'd be. Throughout college I had a pretty abusive relationship with my weight and food. Throughout freshman year I lost 102 lbs through starvation and some exercise but regardless it was desperate and unhealthy. After that I discovered weed and gained it all back and more through the munchies and binging which is something Ive been doing since ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my so [23 F] - How do you learn to live with someone? POST: I have to start by saying I love my gf, and we have what I think of is an extremely healthy, loving, open and honest relationship. We never fight, we get along great, and we often talk of a long and happy future together. Currently we live in separate apartments but when our leases are up in a few months, we plan to move in together and I'm nervous. Right now we spend a lot of time together; probably five/si",positive " r/relationships TITLE: (Breakups) Boyfriend [21M] of 5 month broke up with me [18F] out of the blue 3 months before i go to basic training. Feeling lost POST: Everything was fine and he decided that it was worth it. we had plans all through out summer for road trips and shit. he broke with me out of the blue right before his 21st birthday which is on the 6th of this month. He was absolutely perfect and i adored him in every way. We played video games together all the time like Runescape and World of warcr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28F] with my co-worker [??M] I'm beginning to like him, how to stop feeling that way. POST: I'm 5 weeks into a new job and am finding myself beginning to like one of my co workers. He's holds a leadership role in the company, but isn't my boss of any sorts. I work in a male dominated field and went into this job with the whole ""I'm not allowing anyone to to think I advanced because of certain actions"". Basically I don't want to bee seen as sleeping my way to the top, I want to ma",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] and [21F] have been talking for a 2 weeks now and I'm just wondering if I should drop it. POST: So me and this girl (we can call Ana) have been talking for a little over a week now. We have met 2 times. The 1st time was at her cousins New Years party which had us ending up drunkenly flirting and cuddleing with each other near a fire, I had taken her too her room but dint sleep or make out with her because I dint think she was in the mood for it and she had mentioned that s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I (F24) help my BF (M24) get more motivated about life? POST: I'm really worried for him. He is in grad school and has a full time engineering job (mostly office work). Last night he told me how he wished he liked engineering more because he's finding out that it bores him. I asked him what he did during the weekend and he said that he pretty much didn't get anything done--just video games and laundry and cooking. He didn't feel motivated to work on his homework and said th",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: How to get a loan when you don't have any credit or proof of income. POST: Basically, I live in Colorado, I need a small loan ($3,000). I don't have proof of income because I am a nanny and get paid under the table... like an idiot I've never declared it on my taxes. I don't have any credit because I'm only 20, so I don't have any large bills to pay. I get paid in cash by my families and make about $1,000 a month. I've gone to two banks so far to apply for a loan, first was Wells Fargo ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: There's a weird vibe in my creative writing class, I don't know if I should quit or stay. POST: I have a bachelor in creative writing. I spend most of my time working as a waiter, playing Street Fighter and smoking pot. Sometimes I write but no more than a couple of sentences to calm my guilty conscience. After I heard two former classmates had published their second book I signed up for a workshop. The workshop seemed legit as it was given by a published author. I'd never read any of the a",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: What do I do when my 4 year old stepson tells me he is possibly being abused? POST: Keeping things short, after a week with his Dad and myself, I was dropping my stepson off at daycare. I told him that Mommy would be picking him up and asked if he was excited to see her (since he hadn't seen her all week). He said no. I asked why and he told me ""I get sick because of my feelings"". When I asked what feelings he was talking about he said ""they hit me"" and he got very embarrassed and di",negative " r/travel TITLE: Please help with itinerary for two weeks in Ireland POST: My wife and I will be traveling to Ireland for 2 weeks this June. We are flying round trip to/from Dublin along with our 2 teenage daughters. We will be renting a car and enjoy traveling slowly to soak up the culture and the scenery. We would like to hike, go whale watching, see castles and other historic sites, maybe a trip to the Aran Islands, and generally just enjoy ourselves in the small towns. Ideally, we'd like to stay in a ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 F] with my boyfriend [19 M] of 9 months, I'm too immature to be in a relationship POST: He is my first boyfriend and I am his first girlfriend. He's perfect: funny, intelligent, kind, supportive. I really couldn't picture a better boyfriend or one that is more perfect for me. But ever since the beginning of our relationship, I've been so immature. For example, last night, when we were cuddling in bed, I tried to advance upon him for some fun kissing and he rebuffed me because ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hosting and being a house-guest: What's your take? POST: My husband and I live in the United States and have a guest who is staying with us from Northern Europe for about a week. To preface, we love this guy and everything about the stay has been close to perfect. A few days ago, we were both still sleeping in the mid-morning while our guest woke up (time differences make our waking and sleeping hours still a bit different), and started doing his own thing downstairs, making coffee, pla",positive " r/relationships TITLE: SO (M22) left me (F23) alone during one of the worst weeks of my life so he could go out drinking. POST: My mum had an accident at the beginning of the week and went into hospital. She is in a bad way and we are extremely close so it has been absolutely devastating for me seeing her in so much pain. Aside from that, she has been treated terribly at the hospital and I am furious and upset by the way the staff have neglected her. I almost lost her to cancer three years ago so I am quit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (22F) boyfriend (21M) of three years got a lap dance from a stripper at a birthday party. He lied about it for six months. POST: Last January, my 21 year old boyfriend went to a birthday party at a friends house. I saw him untag himself from pictures with a woman shortly after they were uploaded on Facebook which made me suspicious. I asked him about the party and if there was anything he'd like to share, but he kept denying. A few months later (after I persistently harassed him) ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: F22 thinks boyfriend, M24, seems to believe time does not matter and there's no need to plan - what can I do? POST: I love him and all that, but here's the deal: 1: We live almost an hour apart (I live downtown, he lives in the suburbs) 2: I've been at his place for a couple of days, thus having a lot of my stuff here. 3: He invites me to a New Year's Eve party/dinner with some of his friends downtown. I agree. 5: Before we go there tonight, we'll have to go by my p",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My BF [22] and I [F 21] have been going out for a year now. His family is awful to him and it carries over into our relationship. Please help! POST: My boyfriend of about a year has a lot of self esteem issues mostly because of his family and they carry over into our relationship. He had to drop out of college for a year and start back up again. Because of this his parents constantly talk down to him and let him know he's worthless and how much of a burden and bother he is compared t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my GF [24F] of 3 years, Read my Fb messges of me flirting with other girls. POST: Never posted on Reddit before, but I need all the advice I can get. Yesterday while I was at soccer practice my GF came home from work. I left my FB open. She went through my messages and found out that I had been flirting with other females. I was talking to an Ex, but it was nothing explicit or sexual. Just remember old times we had and a few jokes. Like I said nothing explicit. Th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm grounded for 2 months because of a snitch...I need advice. POST: Long story short, one of my smoke buddies got caught by his parents and in order to make himself not look like the bad guy, not only did he rat me and two of my other friends out, but he lied and told his parents that I'm his dealer (I'm not a dealer, I just smoke). His parents called my friends' parents and they called my dad, in order to make my father believe that I'm not a dealer I told him that I've smoked a few ti",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: The rented house in California we just moved into is a lemon. All repairs are being done by landlord's friends of family and we we just told that the gas cannot be safely turned on for multiple reasons. What can we do? POST: Let me start out by saying that the house seemed like a steal for rent in Los Angeles. The Landlord is an old lady who renovated the house to get it back into shape to be rented out. We looked through the place a few times while it was the process of renovation an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my now ex gf [21F] just broke up..... POST: because she just got accepted to be a flight attendant she is and finishing up school. This is all new to her and she has a lot going on. The other day she told me that she wanted to break up because her emotions were not in the relationship and she needed to focus on her career. She suffers from anxiety as well so this flight attendant training is really stressing her out. She told me typical story about how I will find some",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Mystery pooper solved! Help solve this crime and teach this guy a lesson. POST: I was taking a break from yard work, gazing out the front window, and saw a guy jogging with his toy poodle. As nature would have it, the poodle pooped on my lawn, which I am fine with as long as the dog owner cleans up the mess. After finishing its business, the guy resumes his jog down my block. I yelled at him, he looked back, and kept on jogging. I hop in my car and casually follow him on his jog (saw som",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my bf [24 M] of 14 months, help me to stop being emotionally abusive to him POST: Last night my boyfriend and I got into a big fight about how he was spending his Friday nights. He goes out with his ex and two other (flirtatious, notably) girls to a local bar about two blocks down, and I'm never supposed to come with. He says that it is just a day to relax and catch up with each other, and that it doesn't pertain to me. I didn't believe this and told him that I wasn't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 M] with my GF [28 F] almost at one year anniversary. I am feeling very sexually frustrated and I don't know what to do. POST: We've been seeing each other for a year later this month, and we've been living together for a couple months. She is the love of my life, and we have an intense emotional connection. We've only had sex 6 times the whole relationship, but there's been lots of hand and mouth play, so I haven't had a problem. After we moved in, she suggested that whenev",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my recent almost-gf [29 F] in love too quick? POST: I've been single a while, (about 6 years), only had casual sex. But i met this girl on tinder, spent last week chatting with her on a skype call, we developed a huge sexual tension via skype and she wanted to talk to me everyday. She looks like Mila Kunis sister. **[Friday]** First date, movies, we kissed 5 minutes after meeting before going in the movies. She couldn't stop kissing me. After the movies, we spent ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: He (M30) has contacted me (F23) daily since our first date, but balks at making concrete plans. What am I missing? POST: I went out with this guy on Friday, after meeting him through a popular dating site. After lots of really stimulating conversation, we decide to go back to his place to watch movies. Later on, we had sex. He asked me to spend the night and I did (I did not give any indication or drop any hints that I wanted to spend the night, mind. He invited me of his own acc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25M] girlfriend [23F] of 3 years is angry/embarrassed that my first Instagram photo is of another girl POST: Some context: I'm visiting one of my best friends for the weekend and went out with him and his girlfriend last night. At one point I wanted to take a picture of something trivial at the bar, and having recently decided to download Instagram, decided to Instagram it. My friend's girlfriend is in the shot, interacting with what I was taking a photo of. It is in no way seduc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my ex [19 F] 5 Months, She left me for her ex-boyfriend POST: I've had a previous post where I was having trouble and I should have cut it off there. But to make a long story short Tuesday morning I get a text about how she hates lies and comes clean about how she got too drunk to drive and had her ex-boyfriend pick her up. She ends up crashing at his place but not before he makes a move and kisses her and she kisses him back. I'm looking back at the texts now and they",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: How to keep a shopping date friend-zone free? POST: Hey guys, 21 year old male here. A few days ago I went on a coffee ""date"" with a girl I met online. ""Date"" is in quotations because I made the mistake of walking in to the coffee shop, getting myself a cup and then sat down while waiting for her. She then walked in without me noticing and bought her own cup. Since I didn't pay for her I don't really know if that was a date. (It went pretty good for those of you wondering,but no hug/",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32M] and my friend/romantic interest[28F] says that I stress her out POST: I've been interested in this woman for a long time (9 years) and it's sort of been a long and drawn out cluster-feck for a while. We've gotten to a sort of stable friendship-not-quite-friendship now and she told me tonight that I stress her out. She wouldn't elaborate beyond the fact that I 'ask too many questions' which makes her doubt herself and her choices. Now, I want to ask what exactly she means a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Parents/guardians/teachers/siblings of Reddit.... in what way has your toddler or small child innocently defied your reverse psychology? POST: My three year old brother lately has been refusing to use the restroom like a ""big boy""; where a month or so ago he was already regularly going by himself and recognizing he needed to go, he now keeps going in his pull-ups only to immediately notify my mom, ""I pooped in my pants."".... I'm pretty sure it's just a phase he's going through that he'll",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my boyfriend [21 M] of 1.5 years. I want to throw my low-maintenance & introverted boyfriend a party that he will enjoy WHILE impressing his very wild friends who are coming to visit him! POST: So, pretty much as the title explains, my boyfriend is introverted and chill but has extroverted, party-going, and somewhat wild friends that are coming to visit him for his birthday. His sister (19f) and I want to throw him a party for his 21st birthday down where she lives bec",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Pregnancy Revealing POST: My wife[20] and I[23] are expecting our first child in mid October. Just a little backstory. We got married in a very small ceremony back in May with just a couple friends attending. Because we had only known each other for about 5 months before actually getting married. We decided to wait to tell my Mom[62] until this past January since I knew the outcome of that way before it happened. She's always been very over protective and if she doesn't get al",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Friends? What should I do? M/26 POST: So I'm 27 in a month and I've not been in a relationship sense I was 21. I haven't had sex in 3 years. (kinda) And I've met a girl that I really dig. Thing is it's complicated. She's in my college class and we dated for a week. then she gives me the ""just friends"" speech. Fine, I'm a big boy. I can handle that so I left her alone. Problem. She asked me to go out to music with her and was kinda flirty in texts. Well I was down to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my [20m] girlfriend [18f] thinks that she is going to make a living from a blog????? POST: my girlfriend does that beauty blogger malarky. she has a medium sized following she said, so i'm guessing she does pretty well, but wants to expand into youtube because 'thats where the money is'. she is saying that she is going to make money off it and actually expects to make money off it? so basically i'm a guy, so i don't really understand it, but don't you need a LOT of followers for tha",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I (20M) may be in WAYYYY over my head here POST: Storytime! I (20M)think I am in love with one of my friends. I met her (19F) a few months ago when she started at my job. As one of the more seasoned people there, I approach her trying too be friendly and introduce myself too her off the clock. We click and I think 'awesome, this is a coworker I'm not gonna secretly hate!' Time goes on and she's still a mystery too everyone at work. Keeps too herself, never brings up her past, etc. Sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18M] girlfriend [18F] is overly apologetic. POST: Throughout our entire relationship she has been much too hard on herself (I tell her often not to be), and makes it sound like she's done something terrible and rude. Her apologies and pseudo pity parties are more of an annoyance than whatever happened (which, frequently, wasn't even a bother AT ALL). If I tell her that she doesn't need to apologize because she's done nothing wrong, or that she's being too hard on herself, she com",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Most embarrassing/annoying moment in a classroom? POST: Mine was senior year in high school. (About 2 years ago) Backstory: About 2 weeks prior to the embarrassing moment I had bought an ipod nano (the one with the camera) so I wanted to test the camera. The next day in English class my English teacher (Dr. Miller, and yes she refuses to be referred to by any other prefix) decided to show off her yoga infront of class. So I decided to make a video of this and interviewed some people i",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I have found out that the love of my life has a crush on another guy. Help? POST: I can't tell the whole **6-year** long story, so I'll try to make it as short as possible. We've had our ups and downs, and since our last breakup and getting back together (Feb-Mar 2012), everything seemed to be going fine. Now I've found out that the guy she had a crush on (and was one of the reasons we broke up back then) is still making her ""act like a little girl"". They never hooked up, they weren",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [f/24]: my mom [f/54] has kind of empty nest syndrome and I need help! POST: Two years ago I moved out because my parents didn't treat me any different since I went to school and I wanted to be treated more like an adult person. So moved into an not far located apartment. I still talked to my parents about problems and visited every weekend. Since beginning of 2012 I don't see my parents on the weekends any longer (because I have a serious long distance relationship and visit ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I [19/M] get to know my crush [19/F] better, but i'm always blocked by her friend [19/F] POST: Last week my semester started, by a stroke of luck my crush from my previous class last semester was in one of my classes this semester. On the first day of class I walked in and she noticed me and said hello and and asked me how my break was. I sat down next to her and we chatted for a long time until class started. We hit it off really well and I found out that we have tons i",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: So you want to illegally park in my parking spot? Hmmmm POST: So basically I came home this morning from crashing at my boyfriend's place overnight and I live in a house of about 40 people in an extremely parking-competitive college town. About ten people in the house don't get parking, so having a parking spot is a valuable commodity, and I am fortunate enough to have gotten one. Now on a fairly regular basis people from neighboring apartments will park in our spots in the private lo",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By (almost) hitting a pedestrian POST: This actully happened twenty minutes ago. Sorry for the formatting as I am typing this on my phone in my organic chem class. Well there I was, slightly late for school. My school must have a hard on thinking about four way stops because my school has about 40 of them.No one in this state knows how a four way stops work. It was my turn to go and 40-year old John Jenkins who is way too old to be going to school tried to force his way into the middle (",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Male here, Need relationship 'break' advice POST: Over 2 weeks ago my gf went out with one of her friends because her friend was having some relationship problems. I went to sleep and she texted a few hours later. I woke up and blew up her phone with ""hey and guys hit on you"" ""tell me about about the creeps"" etc etc. i know it was all my bad and it was dumb. This was over 2 weeks ago while i was out of state. I came back home Monday and saw her for a few hours then, but not since the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] I am a black activist, NAACP member, attend a black church and realize I only am attracted to white women. POST: I'm not sure what's happened. But somewhere between high school and post grad life I have found that I am only attracted to white women. It's kinda bizarre and it's taken me a long time to accept. I don't know how to even speak to people about this because it usually ends up being some weird fetish based conversation. I just strongly prefer white women when it ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I befriend a girl at the gym? POST: Hi. I am an extremely ugly guy who is a little pudgy (my ideal weight would be to drop 12-20pounds). I have pretty much 0 female friends. I can easily befriend girls online but in person i'm awkward and it's difficult. I know she'll think I'll try to flirt/date her but I really just want female friends and perhaps be set up on a blind date with her friends or meet her friends and make my social circle bigger. The girl I want to befriend is e",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My peripheral vision is able to focus on too much at once, it's ruining my social/everyday life.. POST: I'm not sure if this is something that be helped but I feel as though my peripheral vision is I guess, stretched to see wider than usual? This makes it so that if I'm just trying to focus on the blackboard, I also focus on everything or everyone around it. It makes it really hard for me because I notice how I make people uncomfortable from them feeling like I'm looking at them but I'm not",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My sister was told she is being reported to the police for child neglect, I think the threat has no merit. What do you think, Reddit? POST: A few details: My sister is 11 years older than me, she has two kids, one is almost 8 and the other is one and a half. She works part time when she can find babysitters, but is usually at home with the kids while her husband works. Today she had to go pick up some paper work while both of her sons were with her, so she pulled up to the office an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] wanna know if I am wrong for getting upset about my wife [28F](2 years) liking ex flings comments on Facebook calling her sexy. POST: So after 2 years of trying to tell my wife how much I wish she woulD stop spending so much time on Facebook and her pretty much ignoring that, she posted a picture of herself(just a face picture), and an old fling said she still looks sexy. Naturally I got mad about this and her response was he lives in another state and that she is loyal. To",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Boyfriend's Birthday Card Help?? POST: Dear Reddit, My boyfriend's birthday is next week and I wanted to make him a card rather than buy one. When I sat down to do this at the computer I realized I really don't know what I'm doing and it would end up being a print out from Word using clip art. So what I'm asking here is if anyone has nothing to do/is savvy with design on computers or Photoshop and feels like wasting some time on making a birthday card for someone you don't know I would ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my girlfriend [17 F], 1.5 yrs, I tried to communicate something to her and it hurt her feelings really bad. POST: My girlfriend and I have had a very fulfilling relationship so far. We were our each other's firsts for everything and I really do love her. We live very close to each other which helps our relationship function a lot easier. The story is, we went to a party together last night and had a good time with all our friends. However, as we were about to leave, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my girlfriend [22 F] of 2 months, having a hard time accepting her past POST: Hello. I'm guessing this wont be the first insecure guy asking for advice with his relationship so please bear with me. First off, my girlfriend is fantastic. She's supportive, fun, outgoing, hardworking, intelligent, gets along with everyone, and is just an all around good person. She has some flaws, obviously, but is easily one of the best people I've ever met in my life. I'm struggling a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] want to have a friendship with my ex-girlfriend [22F] POST: I met this woman few months ago and we were good friends at the beginning, we tried to have a long distance relationship between us but at the end that didn't work for her and she broke up with me, a couple of days after that she told me that she was cheating on me and since then I've not spoken to her, she confessed to one of her friends that she didn't cheated on me and that she told me that because she was angry, ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it unusual to never have received a ""sex"" or ""drug"" talk from your parents? POST: Growing up (and still to this day), I have great parents. They were involved in my life, they helped me with HW, they supported me financially my whole life, they were always there for me, we celebrated holidays, we ate dinner together, they paid for my college etc. But growing up, I always saw TV shows with parents giving ""the talk"" or friends have told me about receiving ""the talk."" I don't do drugs o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is my SO a cheapskate? POST: Firstly I want to say that this is not a huge issues but I've been thinking about this and I am a tinsy wincy bit ""annoyed""? by his behaviour. He shares a flat with two of his workmates. One of them is a girl who is having a birthday dinner and party this weekend. He didn't want to go to the dinner or participate in the party but I encouraged him to go because the party is being held at their flat and it might be awkward if he just sits in his room while",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] just cut off all ties with my also gay best friend [21 M] whom I've been in love with for the past 2 and a half years. Reddit, tell me something uplifting/motivational POST: So longish story short, I've been madly in love with my best friend since our second year of college. We've spent nearly every day together, have all the same interests and hobbies, traveled to Europe together, spent holidays with each other, and know each other's family members by first name. He was t",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by calling the wrong Chad. POST: Created account to post this: This past weekend I went to see my favourite NHL team play. At the game I end up sitting next to a young couple, both of them around my age, and we hit it off and start making small talk. This guy, Chad, and his wife got married the past summer and I'm getting married this coming summer, so we have a bit in common, same stage of life type thing. Chad suggests we go on a double date when my fiance gets back from some time ov",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I save the internets, reddit? POST: I am 19, and I haven't had any sort of idea of what I want to do with my life. The past few months I have realized that I have unlimited potential and it is all being wasted in this dead end job, but I have had no idea what to do. All that I have ever been interested in in my life was/is the internet, videogames, and girls. All of these things to me are greatly impacted by, well the internet, and communications. It also seems like everything is",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling my classmates I use Grindr. POST: Typing on mobile so excuse poor formatting. So this fuck up did in fact happen today but starts yesterday when a friend suggested I try online dating - I listened to their advice and now I regret everything. So I downloaded the App and set up my profile. I start getting several people talking to me at once and its all cool so after some hours I set my phone down and head off to bed. The next day, today, I go to college feeling quite self c",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm Travelling To The U.S. Soon And I Need Some Advice POST: In about a month I'll be going to visit my brother in California, and I also want to go and see some sights/do some travelling on my own for around two weeks. He advised me to fly to LAX (I'm flying from London), stay there a bit, then meet him and afterwards go traveling, maybe to San Francisco, Washington and New York, i.e. the major sights. The advice I need is primarily how to go about it all (rather broad question, I know",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (20F) having issues with my neighbor's son (12M) POST: Hello! Recently I've been having issues with my neighbor's son. Myself and my boyfriend are on friendly terms with his parents. One day their son asked to come inside and play Xbox. My boyfriend allowed him to come in and play, but since that day, every weekend the child is constantly ringing our doorbell. While I feel bad for him that he just wants to hang out, we're both busy on the weekends and want to relax in whatever fr",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to drunkenly intiate sex by telling my SO ""but it's cock-toberfest!"" POST: Pretty much the title line folks... My alcohol tolerance has gone down since I've been working and working out like crazy. I used to be able to have two drinks and only be a little tipsy but half of a drink in and I was getting a little rowdy. My boyfriend has been working crazy hours and was a little tired for sex before we left. Being drunk makes me horny. I made the mistake of finishing my drink befo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [27 F] attracted to this guy [26 M] I've known since Jan '15 - how can I become friends for now? POST: I am attending a non-traditional school (trade school), and I'm super attracted to one of the instructors. We are both shy people, but have been lightly flirting (and I've definitely been on the receiving end of stares from him). We are both professional, though, so it's never gotten out of hand, and I don't think anyone else has a clue. Needless to say, it wouldn't be good f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] 2 years, I read some texts... POST: So, I was over at my girlfriends house the other day and grabbed her iPad and started flipping through it, saw some texts that kinda got my attention. Here is a transcript: - Nov 7th, He sends her a picture with a million candy crush invites and asks ""really?"" - She doesn't respond - Nov 10th after a sort of fight we had read like this Her ""I'm drunk"" Him ""and no invite? How rude"" Her ""Invite"" Him ""do",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] feel like I'm just losing interest in [21F] for no reason. POST: My girlfriend and I have only been dating for four months. Everything is totally fine, actually, which is why I feel so horrible and don't know what to do. I'm leaving to work in NYC (we live in California) for the next year, so I'll be leaving in september, and I already know I don't want to keep things going long distance. At the beginning, everything was great. great sex. great times. everything was awesom",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My husband [25 M] and I [23 F] are in a dispute over a complicated friendship that I've recently ended. POST: My husband and I have been married for two years but have been together for four years. The back story is that during my freshman year of college, before my husband and I started dating, I was close friends with a guy that I will call Roy [23 M]. Roy was very interested in dating me but due to the timing of certain things it never worked out. While I did have feelings for R",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Failure to launch - friends to dating [26f] [32m] POST: I had a friend for a few years who I could tell was attracted to me, but I never felt like I knew how to feel since we were always in relationships when the other was single. He kind of hovered in this zone where he would be very obviously interested (hands shaking when we first met, friends told me he would light up at parties when we talked, often left his gf at home, talked to me about things he didn't like about her, would t",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Question For Duck Toller owners in the U.S. POST: Hey everyone! So I'm 24 now and I've legitimately known that I want a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling retriever for at least 12 of those years. I'm from Canada orginally (Kanata to be exact... Yes it's spelled Kanata) and moved to the US in 2002. When I was younger I was really cool and would get dog breed books for christmas with directories of breeders in the back and I had found a Duck Toller breeder about 15 minutes from my house in Canada. I ema",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28F] with my [29M] husband married 3.5 years, no communication and no feelings POST: This is hard to explain, but we're both military and had a quick marriage without ever living with eachother. We spent the first 6 months on the opposite sides of the planet, had a few arguments over text. He comes to live with me and it was kind of stressful for me but I kept telling myself it would get better and I would get used to being married. We moved overseas and I was very hopefu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23/F] with my boyfriend [23M] for almost four years, and I still have issues with his past love/life POST: Throwaway because hubby is a redditor. I've been with my BF for almost 4 years, and we are pretty much inseparable. We have a perfectly healthy relationship, we love we argue and we order late night pizza. I want to stress that this is my issue, not his. I have a pretty conservative past, only been with 3 men (including him). Not for any reason except my awkward social skil",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Tips for [28 F] on how to let go of a friendship with my [31 M] friend [Non-Romantic, friends/colleagues] POST: A friend of mine recently decided he didn't want to be friends with me unless there was the possibility of something romantic. In the long run, this is a good thing because he's manipulative and rarely treated me well in the first place. However, we still need to work together, which means I'm around him and sometimes needing to interact with him. I realize this may not re",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [27/m] Saw someone else post about being ""the other guy"", so here's my story... it's a bit different, cuz love. [27/f] POST: Gonna spare you the incredibly long, drawn-out, full story of how we got into this current situation and just jump right in. She married this guy (we'll call him Steve) earlier this year. Steve is the guy she dated after breaking up with me a year prior to the wedding. Steve turned out to be a controlling, possessive, manipulative, neglectful, emotionall",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being tired and rejecting a girl's invitation to Homecoming POST: So, unlike most other submissions in this subreddit, this actually happened today. So, let me give a small backstory, I am a high school senior, and so is this girl (just for privacy's sake, let's name her ""Mary""), who is easily one of the most attractive people in the school. We both have Advanced Placement Computer Science class at the end of the day. I tend to keep to myself most of the time, unless someone needs he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: When would be a good time for DTR? POST: DTR = define the relationship I (21/f) met this guy (25/m) at a concert through my brother and sister-in-law. We immediately hit it off and by the end of the night were holding hands. This was on March 23rd. Since then we have been going on dates and started a sexual relationship on April 1st. We only get to see each other really on the weekends, as he is the morning reporter for a local news station and has to go into work at 2AM and I h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I Pursue a PhD in Biochemistry, or an MD? POST: I'm not sure if this is the right sub reddit, but I figured it'd be a good starting place. I'm a biochemistry undergrad student. I'm about a year and a half from completing my degree and I have a 3.88 GPA. I would love a research position. I love bench work, and I love crunching numbers afterwards. I want to do what I feel is meaningful research, and I think biochemistry offers me just that. The only thing is that money isn't exactly",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not packing my 7 year old proper clothes. POST: My girlfriend spent three weeks out of town to do her practical work for school. During that time my mom and sister help out with my daughter during my working hours. The monday before my girlfriend is to return (that saturday) I get laid off. Stupid low oil prices. I find out of town work two days after my layoff notice, so I call my girlfriend and tell her ill be leaving sunday for work. So we spend a brief night together saturday",negative " r/relationships TITLE: It's slightly complicated, but the short number is ""I might be in love."" POST: Sooo, the longer story (details edited out for privacy): I was out someplace with a buncha folks, and met someone about two degrees/three people from me (a friend of a friend of a friend). There's talk of ""love at first sight"" in certain places, and I was certainly no believer in such crap. I still technically am, I guess; on this situation, I'm of the belief (and fear) that it's NOT love, and that it'll g",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/f] My boyfriend [22/m] says he doesn't feel as passionately for me as I do, but yet is still in love with me. Will he ever? POST: My boyfriend (22M) told me that he doesn't feel as passionately about me as I(22F) do him and that he doesn't know if he has the capacity to be as passionate as I am. Dating over a year. Says he's in love with me, but not to the ""degree"" that I am in love with him. Am I wrong to think that he will develop that passion over time? Will he ever be",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Orbitz is making me pay a 180 dollar change fee for a one way ticket that costs 150 dollars. Am I doing something wrong? POST: Last december I purchased a ticket to surprise my girlfriend in NYC a few days before Christmas. Unfortunately my plans were ruined by an accident where my hand was severely cut when I fell on a glass and had to have immediate surgery. The original ticket was purchased on october 11th of 2011 and was for Dec 22 through Jan 2. I would have spent Christmas and New ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My bf [24] and I [20] are having some issues in the bedroom, and I'm not sure what I should do to fix it. POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating since July or so, and for the duration of our relationship sex has NOT at all been a prominent thing in our relationship. It does bother me from time to time, but for some reason not as much as I figured it would. In the beginning (before we had sex the first time) every time we were together we would always stay up and act sexual t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, how do I tell my boyfriend that I love him? POST: I know it's often in the female's best interest to wait for the guy to say it first, so that he won't be ""scared"" by it. But I'm confident that he truly loves me, too... he's just too shy to say anything. We don't really talk about ""romantic"" things ever, but have a great and very sweet relationship. We've been dating for a while and as it approaches a year, I'd really like to tell him I love him. People always say, ""If you lo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Does anyone have success stories about getting through a relationship rut? My bf [28 M] of 5 months and I [23 F] are experiencing one now. POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 6 months, and things are going pretty well. About a month ago, he started getting really stressed by work, and when he gets stressed, he clams up and keeps to himself. I'm being supportive by giving him the space he needs, but I'm also feeling neglected. Logically, I know that he's trying to maintain t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my fiance [22 F] of two years, upset that I answered her question about breasts. POST: Last night my fiance asked me if her breasts were the biggest that I could ever like, and if bigger or smaller would be a deal breaker for me if I ever dated anyone if something happened to her. I knew this question was going to cause problems, but in the interest of being honest I told her that I thought her breasts (C's) were perfect, but that smaller or bigger wouldn't be preferre",negative " r/college TITLE: Failing College Algebra, Feeling that I won't get accepted into FSU POST: Backstory, I've never been good at math. Last fall I took Intermediate algebra with the ALEKS program and made an A, literally the only A I've ever made in math. This semester I got back from a long vacation late and due to my ignorance didn't know I could take other math classes. This year the professor I chose decided he was going to use the book and not ALEKS (later telling me he will be going back to ALEKS next ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/F] am way too controlling, jealous, etc and I'm suffocating my bf [20/M] of 5 months. POST: Had a big fight with my bf last night. The biggest we've had. I am controlling him too much. Asking him where he goes, what he's doing at that exact moment, taking screenshots of conversation with this one particular girl (someone he had a thing with, which made me not trust him as much but he says he's over her). I've gotten even more panicky in the last few days. He's been going ove",negative " r/dogs TITLE: Rescued this cute Pit-x off the side of the road, need some med advice about how to proceed. POST: I'm going to take her to the no kill shelter tomorrow, but for the next 12 hours, I need some advice. [Blurry pics!]( Hard to keep her still because she's trying so hard to ingratiate herself. I have two other pit mixes, like her but bigger. They seem to like her alright. I gave her a pill to get the fleas off of her, so they shouldn't be a problem. My dogs get worm meds every month becaus",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by using an alarm clock POST: I set my alarm for 5, two hours before my parents actually wake me up, and I usually click the snooze or the actual off button. However for some reason I woke up holding the alarm going off so loud my ears rebelled in pain. So I just thought, SHIT, my heart was beating so fast. I decided to just turn it off. BUT I FUCKING FORGOT HOW TO. I remembered how to press snooze, but when I pressed snooze the music was still going(at max volume btw). I remembered I co",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, my girlfriend snores and I can't sleep. Every time I confront her about it she gets defensive. What do I do? POST: So in the 2 years we've been living together shes always been a snorer. It's just that over the past year shes put on some weight (about 35 lbs) and I swear it's making things worse. I could handle it at first, a pillow over the head as needed, but that doesn't help anymore. I find myself constantly nudging her **in the 1-2 hours it takes me to get to sleep if she fa",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by finding weed and giving it to my teacher. POST: this happened 3 months ago So while on a trip to an annual student conference in San Francisco, we (me and 13 others including my teachers) were staying at a Hilton. The first few days went by without a hitch. However things changed when one of the two friends I was rooming with was looking for an ID under the desk (the desk setup was this: [ to give you an idea) And just so happened to grab hold of a full on starter kit. Equipped with ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: This will sound incredibly insensitive..But do you think the rebuilding effort will help Japan pull out of their 20 year stagnation? POST: First, best wishes to all the people who had to suffer through this and will continue to suffer in the future. Hope they can rebuild at least some part of what they've lost. My reasoning is as follows: The massive rebuilding of Europe after World War II helped fuel the go-go years of the 1950s, both in Europe and in America, which benefited due to t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I can't see a future with current relationship, should I end it? POST: So the past couple weeks I have been really conflicted with my current relationship. My Boyfriend(24) and I (F/21) have been dating for the past 2 years. We met in College and he graduated last year while I'm in my senior year (and I have another year of school after that to finish up a 2nd degree). He has a job on a tugboat working two weeks on and two weeks off and when he is not working he stays at his pa",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Explain to me. What's with the reposting hate? POST: Let me start by saying that I am a relatively new member of the reddit community (7 months). I now come here almost daily to check in on the cool stuff around the internet. However, many of the interesting posts that I have seen have comments that say 'screw the reposters' or some such thing. I have a problem with this sentiment. Isn't the whole point of the upvote/downvote system to make things that a majority of people like more vis",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 F] with my fiancé [37 M] 1yr, just moved overseas together and I am feeling unsettled POST: My fiance and I got engaged quickly and both think the world of each other, definitely feel like it is meant to be. We recently undertook a big move overseas together. My job here has not been the best experience, but he has been very supportive. It has been two months, but lately I have felt just very unhappy, and unsettled. I can tell that he is at a loss of what to do since I constan",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Fiancee [27F] mistreats me [26 M] when I am trying to give her support, threatens to break it off (Dating 4 years, Engaged 6 months) POST: My fiancee and I are getting married in about a year and 8 months. We are currently long distance due to work and school (she moved away for a job 5 months ago and I am working on my masters), and see each other almost every weekend, sometimes every other (5 hour drive). We should be back living with each other in a year and a half. She has rec",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my friend [20F] are pretty much dating but she doesn't want to make it official POST: Backstory: We were pretty good friends throughout high school but strayed away our senior year, we still talked, just not as often. We continued to talk once in a while after graduating in 2013. This past September we started talking everyday, and hanging out often almost weekly. We are both students at different universities ~30 miles apart. Anyways, we both developed feelings for ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: (Georgia/Kansas Explanation in Comments) My dad has a lawsuit against him and the Lawyer is harassing me asking for my personal statements and bank information when I'm a 22 year old adult. POST: First things first, this case started in Kansas where my dad owned a business with some partners and now we are living in Georgia and I am getting subpoenas asking for my bank information from my county here in Georgia. It feels like my privacy is being violated and its really frustrating bec",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I tell if an old ex has feelings for me without her knowing? POST: The short version of our past; we were both in high school and I met her through my best friend. I could only see her at school and her mom hated me. After a couple of month of wonder and rough times, I was sent away for 13 months. Upon returning, she was already with someone else. We had our fights after we broke up. Now back to present, u saw her leaving the airport a few weeks ago and we talked for a few second",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [19/f] don't want to work at second job as well as first with my boyfriend [20/m] POST: I've been dating my boyfriend for about a year and a half, he's great, we have our usual ups and downs but there are no major problems (I feel) that are going on. I have two jobs at the moment, one that I've been at for about 8 months and my boyfriend has as well. I see him there, but we take calls for a living so there's not a ton of interaction there. Recently I applied for a second job,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [update] Me [47 M] with my GF [37,F] and GF [36,F] and another girl [34,F] and soon to be ex-wife [49,F] and no idea how to stop lying to eveyoneRelationships POST: Hi all I'm following-up on my post 7 months ago : So I was with the gorgeous girls for 5 months. We lived together. It was a nightmare. She has been lying all the way long and she made me miserable, ending only last week when I found she was chatting online with a guy with very romantic words. She denied everything but",negative " r/running TITLE: Had food poisoning yesterday, should I skip my training today? POST: So, Saturday I eat some carpaccio (raw meat, cooked in lemon) and yesterday I had a bad food poisoning with high fever (39.5°C) puking and diarrhea included. All my muscles hurted too. It's been a nightmare. But anyway I managed to go to work my 8hrs shaft at work. This morning the fever was completely gone and I feel really fine, like yesterday nothing ever happened. I'm drinking a lot of water and gatorade to get back ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] accidentally told my girlfriend [18 F] of one year that I want sex with other women POST: Long story short I've been seeing my girlfriend for little over a year. She's pretty great. My family loves her too. Let's call her *Sophie*. I wasn't so lucky with girls before I met Sophie, just the occasional hookup. However, we have been working out alot and recently, I am getting more and more female attention. I'm more attractive than I were when I met her. Sadly, that sometime",positive " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: The Rolling Roadblock of Doom POST: So last weekend, I was going to a wedding. For various reasons, we had about 6 cars all moving together to the wedding, which was about an hour and a half from where we met up. As road caravans are wont to do, it got a little spread out over the first half hour. Eventually, there's a big group call over the cell phones. Turns out there's an asshole coming, zipping around without a turn signal, cutting people off, the works. So we formulate our maste",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Please lend me your ears and help this (18/M) POST: So I have had a major crush on my friend (18/F) for about 3 months now and eventually started going out with her just us two for a while. When I was finally sure that I was going to tell her how I feel something in my head told me not to, I love having her as a friend and she makes me feel a way that no other thing in this world could replicate. Now I'm at a new college and she leaves for a college 5 hours a way in a few days,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [18M] about to go to university, my girlfriend [18F] who is a grade behind asked me if I wanted to be in an open relationship, so that I don't miss out on all the wild fun at freshers week. Opinions? POST: We went to dinner last night, and towards the end of the night she asked me that. She said she didn't want me to miss out on any of the wild uni fun, that I may end up regretting. Apparantley all her uni friends said uni is a chance to go wild. I said no, as in my head none o",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I don't know if I should contact my half-brother that I have never met POST: When my parents were married my father had an affair with a very nice lady he worked with. He had told her that he was in the process of getting a divorce which was a lie. I even got to meet her but was too young to realize what was going on. Eventually my mother found out and we moved away so my parents could try to work it out. Later my father started to receive letters from her letting him know she was pregn",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my Girlfriend[20 F] of 9 months, long distance. She's distraught over what she sees to be the end of a friendship. POST: I met my girlfriend at college last year and we've been dating since May. I'm currently taking a year off from school to work, and live 3 hours away. We have a very close-knit group of friends who attend the college with her, including her best friend. Today my girlfriend called me, crying and hysteric because her best friend told her that won't be ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] am being teased by my classmate [18F]. How can I get back at her in the same way? POST: I sit next to this girl in class and she must know I find her attractive because she's been teasing me on snapchat by showing me cleavage (and just generally looking seductive) while we have normal conversation. She also wears really revealing clothes in class. I swear she's just doing it to tease me. Unfortunately it's working...really well Also she has a boyfriend. This is the main reas",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (25f) getting married, parents hate each other, how do I avoid confrontation? POST: I am getting married early next year, and both my biological parents hate each other. My existence is the result of a short fling, ending with my father returning to his long-time girlfriend, and getting her pregnant a month after my mother got pregnant with me. My mother took this as a personal offence, and cut all ties to do with him, including not allowing him to visit me. When I turned 21, I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I 24M broke up with my girlfriend [22F] of a year in a depressive episode how can I make her see It was just the depression talking? POST: a week ago the day before new years I was having a depressive episode and rang my girlfriend to see about getting some space and to take a step back from the relationship because I couldn't handle stress of making her happy when I was having trouble making myself happy. she takes this to mean we have broken up properly. New years Eve I realise",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my ex [22F] contacted me [25M] a few days ago on facebook after 3 years. I'm in panic mode need guidance? POST: So here is the background, I cheated on my ex three years ago. one year and half of being together. I still feel guilty not because we are separated but for the pain that it caused her . I won't do it again. We broke up and I moved to a different city. She has a boyfriend for two years and half and Im glad for her. Life went on and since time heals wounds. She writes me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (24f) with my boyfriend (26m) .. anxiety is getting the best of me. [Advice needed] POST: So as the title says, my anxiety has been way out of control. I met my boyfriend, let's call him John in high school. We were in total different social groups. He was a jock, super good looking etc. I on the other hand was not. I was shy and quiet. I had feelings for him, but never acted on them for fear of rejection. We always dated different people. He moved away got engaged and all that j",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What to write on a IT infrastructure report for a 5-star Hotel. POST: I have joined a big firm with Hotel and other business, am in their IT team, my first work at this firm is to evaluate the IT infrastructure in one of their 5-star Hotel. The main thing about this report should be details on the current IT infrastructure and what needed to change/add to make it even better. I had a day there, and got all the details required (IT Hardware/Software, PABX, IPTV etc). The problem is, i don",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I 24 (F) just found out boyfriend 24 (M) is into transsexuals POST: So I 24(F) have been dating this guy 24(M) for six months. He's amazing and we get along very well. Hes my first sexual partner and I'm having a lot of fun with him. We are talking about our future together so I know we both are on the same page when it comes to that. However a couple of nights ago he mentioned he needed to talk to me about something. I felt a little uneasy but I wasn't expecting this! So he's been ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Help] Neurologically impaired brother thought he was taking out a loan, now charged with 3 counts of Third degree charges. POST: My brother is neurologically impaired and makes less than $23k a year. He wrote a check in his own name to himself and tried to cash it at his own bank. The checks were for 25k on one day and a few days later 30k. He obtained money in excess of $500 one of those times. He is being charged with 2 counts of forgery and 1 count of theft by deception, all 3rd ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] found out my girlfriend [20F] kissed a guy she met 1 year ago at a mental hospital POST: My girlfriend [20F] and I met about 4 years ago as friends. We got in touch this summer and we started a wonderful relationship (relationship for about 4 months now). I learned she has some mental issues dealing with dreams/delusions and had been in a mental hospital. While in the mental hospital, she met a guy who shared similar delusions. Both of them went out for about 3 months, endin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me 41M with my to me strange story POST: First, some of the required background. I have been separated a year, divorced for five months. Before I even moved out, my ex started dating her best friends husband, and my belief is destroyed their marriage. Needless to say, this person is no long on speaking terms with her, and the my ex's relationship with the husband has since reached a point she no longer speaks with either of them. Now, my kids happen to be best friends with their kid",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/F] just ended my 13 month relationship with my gf [21/F] and I'm not sure if I made the right decision... POST: We started dating in June of 2012. It was my first real, long term relationship with a girl, and I had never been happier in my life. There was a long period of the relationship (9-10 months of it) where everything was as perfect as I could imagine. We were so in love, and I believe we still are.. Until everything started falling apart. Her mother is a struggling alc",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I got threatened today by a mad driver. Then I realized how much I loved my brother, who was my co-pilot. Reddit, what events has caused you to realize how much you love somebody? POST: The story is not that much spectacular. I was driving/chilling with my brother to pick my sister up from school. Then, some lady started to tailgate me. I was driving at the speed limit and she was making a big deal about it. When approaching to one intersection, I had to slow down and turn to the right. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] have been feeling distant from my [23 F] gf of 2 years, now she has male flat mates POST: Hi r/relationships, My gf of 2 years and I are currently long distance (we were together for one year and then went to different grad schools). We have seen each other four times for 1-2 weeks at a time in the past 10 months. At first we skyped almost every day. As we both adjusted to the new situation skype became less frequent, that was fine because we were both making new friends an",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18f] Unsure about long distance [22m] boyfriend. He seems distant. Should I call him out or give him space? POST: He and I live about 8 hours apart (He's from Louisiana, I'm from Texas) so we obviously don't get to talk in person much. We met through a friend about a year ago and became friends, we flirted and then about 4 months ago he told me he likes me and wanted to be exclusive. I agreed. Everything seemed good. We texted about 5-6 out of 7 days and sometimes we texte",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [25/m] EXTREMELY generous gift from ""casual"" girlfriend[25/f] ...not sure how to respond. POST: My girlfriend is in law school several hours away from where I live. We agreed to see each other casually (exclusive, but not call-every-day type of dating). We went to a rare book fair (we're nerds) and I offhandedly said I would instantly buy a certain book if I saw it. It's very rare and extremely expensive, so it was a bit of an exaggeration. A week later she says she was in a r",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My alcoholic father is in the hospital for a heart attack, wont stay unless a family member smuggles in liquor for him. Has anyone dealt with this before? Any advice? POST: My dad is an incredibly unhealthy person and had a laundry list of issues. He had a heart attack on Saturday afternoon and left the hospital against medical advice, signed a waiver and everything. That night, he had a super fatty dinner a ton of alcohol (He drinks about a liter of vodka a night and a bottle of wine",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] need advice about whether to ask out someone [18 F] now, or to wait about 4 months. POST: Hey guys, I'm an 18 year old male and just started uni about 3 weeks ago. Due to an accident, I have broken my arm which required surgery to fix. There is an incredibly strong chance that I will have to withdraw from this semester of study - I'm studying something that requires both arms to be functioning properly. Anyway, there's this girl studying the same thing I am and I've had a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [23M] eeling a little bit uneasy how a friend texts my GF [22F] POST: First I hope I worded it well enough to understand, English is not my nativ language. I don't know if I should feel uneasy about this or if I'm just too insecure. We play sometimes Online games (Overwatch) together, a few weeks ago a new guy [19M] started to play regularly with our group too. He is a nice guy and funny to play with. We have a group chat where we talk about regular stuff or share things ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Trying to get back on the wagon in a strange environment- advice welcome! POST: Hi everyone, This is my first post here and I don't really know where to begin, but hoping someone might have a similar experience and is able to shed some light. I'm an American 23 year old female from the US. I've been chubby (like 20 lbs overweight) my entire life, but always very active with sports, spinning, and other exercise. My weight hasn't changed much in the past 8 years- I can successfully lose 8",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my girlfriend [23 F] of 3 years, have problems with my time with my parents POST: This is probably my throwaway account in case she gets wind of this or if this gets too raw for me. Background: I live in a apartment in Country X my parents own when I was studying in Country X. They (my parents) live in say, Country Y. After graduation, I found a job in Country X and am currently working. I've met my girlfriend when I was in my studies, and we just hooked up because of",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24/m] Need some quick advice on my current attempts to salvage my marriage POST: So here's the thing. Long story short: My insecurity, pessimism and taking certain things for granted has pushed my wife away. Three weeks ago she went from seeming happy and in total love with me to pulling a 180 and asking for time apart, then two weeks ago said she didn't want to be married anymore. In that time I made the mistake of pursuing her and trying to get her to change her mind. What ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Am I being clingy and paranoid? POST: I've (16F) recently started dating this guy (17M) that I like. We were best friends before we started dating, so we are super close already. I'm bi, so sometimes we look at girls together and talk about how hot they are. I love being that cool girlfriend. All his friends think it's awesome that we're so open with each other. I tell him about guys I think are hot, and him being straight doesn't comment, but listens and sometimes laughs. I like him",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [20m] college department chairman [49m] wants to ""work with me"" and I'm very uncomfortable POST: I am an undergrad student in the department of electrical engineering at a certain university that I will not disclose. I received a personal email from my department chairman, which obviously is a bit nerve-wracking for me. In the email, he explains that he wants to meet up with me and chat about my classes and my future and whatnot. I have a lot of friends in the same department and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19M] has a crush on [18F] in my dorm floor, 1 month, matched on tinder now she smiles and says hi to me everytime I see her, don't know where to start. POST: Be sure to explain in detail with line breaks. So recently I matched with a girl on tinder in my hall (same floor) on tinder. This girl is an easy 9/9.5 and now i'm sitting here clueless what to say. Ever since we have match (about a week ago) every time I see her around campus she smiles and says hi to me. We have met bef",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my estranged friend [25 M] of many years. How to build back the friendship. POST: So I used to be good friends with this guy, but near the end of 2014 I broke up with my ex, and learned she was going to see him the very next day and try to hook up, I wasn't sure if he was gonna do it but she said he wanted to. I got pissed at both of them and stopped talking to my friend, after a long grieving time I realized I shouldn't have gotten pissed at my friend as my ex was th",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Landlord: Tenant leaving without notice in California: Serious POST: I am not sure if this is the best place to post this but I will give it a shot. So to start from the beginning, My father owns an apartment unit and rents it month to month. On Saturday night the tenant called that they have already moved out all of their belongings and were officially moving out Monday (1/11/16). I do not know much about the legal side of this but, they did not bother giving us proper notice on movi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 F] just found out that I got an STD and my boyfriend [19 M] of 8 months is livid because of a prior infidelity issue. POST: Today I received a call from my OB/GYN saying that I tested positive for Chlamydia when I took a pee test on my appointment on Tuesday. The receptionist said that she would send a prescription for a one dose antibiotic to my pharmacy and that once I took it everything would be fine. I called my boyfriend immediately and he is absolutely furious with me. I",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by accidentally attempting to steal POST: SORRY FOR GRAMMAR IN ADVANCE. ALSO WALL OF TEXT ;) So I am at the grocery store today. It is a pretty ghetto neighborhood and you see some interesting characters. This certain store is an attraction for extra ghetto people to. So me, being paranoid, as always, am trying to not make eye contact and just go through the store getting what I need. The reason I go to this store is because it has really good deals... I wonder why. So after I get my th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend's [24F] boyfriend [27M] tells her what she can and can not wear. Big red flag? POST: My friend [24F] and her boyfriend [27M] have been together for about two years. They have their ups and downs like any couple, but generally, their relationship is stable and happy. However, he is definitely the jealous type and often gets upset with her when she chooses to wear clothes that he deems are too revealing, provocative, or risque. As we all know, it's the summer, and MOST girls ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend (22) will jokingly hit on guys while drunk, is it normal for me (22) to feel jealous? POST: Hello, so my girlfriend of 8 months now is great, I love her and weve been friends for more than a year before we started dating. However at parties she can get drunk and rather flirty. As far as I can tell she is just being silly and I seriously doubt that she means anything else by such behavior other than to be silly. However, when she is rather flirty (such as winking at guys or",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU With airsoft POST: So today I was bored and just laying around and browsing on my phone. Then I randomly find one of my airaoft BB's on my bed and while I'm laying there on my phone just start to mess around with it in my hand. Then I put it by my ear and set it in the little gap part. Then as I go to take it put my finger knocks it in and it falls down into my ear canal. I then proceed to try and take it out but it's already lodged in. So now I'm on my way to the emergency room after tr",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Why am I so afraid to tell him that I love him? (F19, M19) POST: So I'm 19f, he's 19m. We've been together for 6 months. There were some complications during the start of the relationship. I almost broke up with him but we worked it out and are really solid now as a result. After we resolved our issues, we really started to grow close and some serious feelings developed but he had to go out of the country for a month and a half. This has been kind of difficult for us because o",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My depression is beginning to hurt my relationship. Reddit, what can I do to make things easier for my SO? POST: I'm currently in a committed relationship with a wonderful man. We've been together for just over a year and are both feeling confident about our future together. There's just one problem--I have trouble with depression/anxiety, and despite the help of the prescription drugs I grudgingly take, I'm still unable to completely control my emotions. I tear up for no reason, am ove",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Moving On? POST: Hello, I [19F], have a best friend [21M], who I fell -and am still slightly in / feel I will always be- deeply in love with. I know he doesn't like me that way, and I have been trying for about half a year now to just move on. I even go on dates, but most of the guys I go out with I legitimately can't see dating, and even if I find a nice guy, I will question if I 'want this' or if i am using people as a distractions from my all-still-there heartbreak. I'm cons",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (19f) boyfriend of three years/father (21m) of our daughter (1f) won't stop watching porn behind my back and lieing about it for almost our whole relationship. I don't know what do do. POST: My (19f) boyfriend (21m) of three watches porn behind my back even though I say it's fine. He has been doing this for just about our whole relationship. I am fit and very attractive I know that for a fact. But no matter what I do he just won't stop. Sometimes he will stop for a few months th",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Askreddit, what is your best 'How are you still alive?!' story. I'll start. POST: My younger brother, when he was 12 or 13 - old enough to know better - decided to help out by mowing the lawn. When he needed to fill up the mower with gasoline, he couldn't get the lid off the metal container. I don't know what the fuck he was thinking but he somehow decided it would be a good idea to use a *blowtorch* to open *the metal container full of a highly flammable substance.* It did not go well.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my good friend [20F] situation with new potential girl. POST: I am very good friends with this girl. She and I are at the same uni and have been close friends for about a year now. We have discussed the potential of us dating but never became more than that mostly because of her being on and off with her long time bf. Now I tell her last week that there is a girl I am interested in and wish to ask out. She gives me, in my opinion, a quick and fake ""I'm happy for you"" k",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Eviction notice, no reason POST: Hi Reddit, I wanted to explain a situation which I'm currently involved in and ask for advice. I am a college student and live in California (Santa Cruz) and I moved into this apartment in the middle of May and signed a month-to-month **Rental Agreement** (1400/mo and 1400 S.D.). The lease does not include me as tenant, but instead is a parent with me staying on their behalf. My landlord and I had encountered a few issues when I wanted to get a pet (an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] feeling a little used by guy [36M] that I have been seeing POST: I had been dating a guy for a few months and really fell for him. He was really sweet to me, but he wouldn't be my boyfriend because he worried he would end up hurting me (not on purpose). I think that was just an excuse for some other reason. I don't know if maybe he doesn't like me very much, if he's afraid of getting hurt because his long term gf cheated on him, or if that event left him feeling inadequate i",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit I need your help. Girlfriend works for a BS company who doesn't pay minimum wage wage. POST: Ok, she works at a hair salon in MO. Her pay checks are payed every other week (bi-weekly). On these pay checks her pay varies from 200-400 dollars. The problem is that she works a forty plus hour work week EACH WEEK. According to my math she should be paid 290 per week, which would equal 580 dollars every two weeks. Some of her pay is from commission but most of her haircuts are free hair",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: who is in the wrong here? POST: Recently I went to subway at a food court in Australia where I am on vacation. I proceeded to purchase a sub and a raspberry soda which I filled at the refilling station. I ate my sub merrily, however upon drinking the soda I noticed that it had no flavor. It was pink but tasted like soda water. I decided I should go back and tell subway about it and change drinks. So here is the situation.... There was a couple of people going down the line getting thei",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking my son to play golf with his grandfather POST: So this happened a few months ago. My son is 6 and they were having this night out for his school at a local small time amusement park. Well, earlier that day, he and I had gone to the golf course with my dad. While I was across the fairway hitting a shot, my son had to pee. So my dad, being the resourceful man that he is, takes my son behind a bush and lets him pee. Any man who golfs has done this on a golf course, and it's no big",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I dont know if my gf [19f] just broke up with me [20m], or she just wants a break.. POST: We have been together about 4 months, and things are (were?) really great. We never once argued, I made sure to make her know I really cared for her, ect.. She is in college atm, and I can tell she did not anticipate how busy should would be right now. When we first started out, we would be together every night, but nowdays its about twice a week between her schoolwork, her job, and she ju",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by mistaking a womans prosthetic leg for a leg cast. POST: So I work as a grocery clerk and was asked to help a woman bring a pack of bottled water to her car. I do so, and she proceeds to thank me, even gave me 4 dollars ( which i took, after refusing at first). I smiled and said, "" Well, have a great day"", while examining her I noticed she had a leg ""cast"", I continued my sentence by saying "" I hope your leg heals up soon"". She then says, "" Oh i only have 1 leg, this is my prosthetic ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] boyfriend [27M] starting new career, putting our relationship on hold? POST: This might get a little long, so I apologize in advance. My boyfriend and I have been together for 2 years. We've had a pretty normal relationship. We've had our fights, but the good times outweigh the bad by far. We've talked about moving in together, getting engaged and our future together a lot. We were both on the same page. We had a plan. Move in together this summer, get engaged in a year an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Advice on Dealing with Wife's Past POST: My wife and I are both 25 and have been married for two years, together for seven. When we first started dating, she told me that she lost her virginity at 16, and had two previous sexual partners who she was in committed relationships with. However, last night she broke down and told me that this was a lie, and that she has instead been with nine other men, seven of whom she had not been dating at the time. I honestly can't be mad at her f",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I like rough sex, but my fiance doesn't. Is it shallow to want to leave him? POST: I'm Female. He's male. I'm 20 years old. We've been together almost 2 years. And I love him very much. But I am not happy. I'm not happy because I like to have rough sex and he won't give it to me. I mean he won't bite me, he won't spank me. I don't want a lot, but I just need a little pain... (I guess I'm a bit of a freak because I'm finding it increasingly difficult to get off without thinking a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (18f) turned down a guy (18m) that I ended up falling for afterwards POST: First time poster, long time lurker, whatever. A backstory: I was homeschooled throughout high school due to being sick and unable to make it through the school day most of the time, so my parents pulled me out and started homeschooling me. During my junior year we moved halfway across the country after my dad accepted a new job, and since I didn't know anyone my age in the area, my mom found a group whe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24M] with my gf [23F] 3 months, confided part of her sexual past that keeps bugging me. POST: A few weeks ago my gf and I got into a deep/tipsy conversation about our previous relationships. Yeah I know dangerous waters to tread while drunk. Anyways... she told me that a few years back, after a break up, went through an intense rebound phase with more then just a few FWBs/partners around the same time. I was caught a bit off guard so I just responded with a ""Daaaang playaaaa!"". I",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Medical problem, what to do? POST: Greetings, mighty fine people of reddit! I'm having quite a serious problem and I'm not sure what to do. Yesterday I felt quite vicious pain in my very right abdominal area, on my flank to be precise. It was stingy/crampy and constant. I didn't know how it started though, but it wasn't an instant rush of pain. I took some painkillers and woke up today, still with pain, but a lot more minor. I washed the dishes, shopped for groceries and got into tickle-wa",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Advice on raise please (long) (UK) POST: I am a technical manager - basically anything technical for this company i do. Upward + downward management, Programming (php, html, javascript, jquery, css etc), image editing, development, networking, Computer maintenance, 1st, 2nd, 3rd line support + client interaction are some of the many qualities i offer for a company which have recently had to lay some employees off. I was on 21k at the time. Before talks of redundancy i approached m",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Not sure what to think or how to go forward... POST: I (20m) am in a weird situation with this girl (20f) I've been into and I'm not sure what to think of it. Over the last month or so I've been developing feelings for her. We've had a super flirty friendship, lots of cuddling and hugging and touching, though no kissing. Over the weekend, we ended up drunkenly hooking up a party, which was something I was pretty excited about. We met up for coffee to talk about what had happened ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [18 M] girlfriend[18 F] of a few years is in college and spend most of the week out until 3 AM or later. POST: Okay, so, my girlfriend and I just started college. We're going to different schools, but we both agreed to try an open long distance relationship. The school she's going to is known for partying and she's consistently staying up until 3 am, drinking, and sleeping with people. I really really love her (more than I honestly thought I could love someone) and I just want her",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Update: Me(20M) and my potential cheating LDR GF (22F) Meeting her guy friend (22M) POST: Original thread: I confronted my gf about the matter. I asked why she's distancing her self from me still, why she's relying on the guy friend so much, and why they pretty much went on a cinema date together. I had the replies of ""lolol, cinema date? really? also how am i relying on him?"" I replied with ""Talking to him way more than me, and you're not even bothering replying to me anymore.""",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Utah] Car was towed from apartment complex for not having proper stickers POST: I have an apartment in West Valley City where my fully functional 2011 BMW sits (or sat, rather). I've been at my apartment for about 5 days (December 23rd - 28th) since November 30th (Been working in Nevada). I just asked a friend to go take the car for a spin, put the stickers on it, and check on my apartment. The vehicle is registered in TN, and I had my mom go renew the registration and mail me the sti",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: 1800flowers is the worst company in the world. Cancelled order without notification or explanation! Grandma never received a gift because of 1800flowers! POST: I ordered from 1800flowers on the 14th for flowers to be delivered to my grandmother for her birthday today. I received an email confirmation saying that they authorized Paypal for the charge and that the flowers would be delivered today, 1/16/15. Tonight, after hearing that my grandmother never received them, I called 1800flower",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [29F] dad [55M] and i have been estranged for 6 years. He's in the trauma unit with massive brain hemorrhaging. Do I visit? POST: My father was very abusive to me for a long time. My adolescent self had black outs, and it wasn't until my parents were fighting and separated that I started having flashbacks of the abuse. After many years of therapy and refinding myself, I've put myself back together, and my life is really great. I've been estranged from him for the better part of 6 ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 23(F)inding myself unexpectedly bummed about not being invited for Thanksgiving with 29(m) POST: I'm not sure if this requires much background, but I've been dating my boyfriend exclusively for 6 months and we've been really happy. I assumed going in to the holiday season we wouldn't be spending a lot of it together as he has family out of town from where we are and has a lot of crazy obligations (works 12 hour night shifts). I've met and spent time with most of his family and even h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Gf [20f] said that I [22m] do a lot of things to upset her but she doesn't mention them because she doesn't want me to get annoyed by the constant moaning. POST: I don't know what to do.I don't like the fact that she hides things which upset her from me. It make me Think is she actually happy with me? I've tried to talk to her and tell her to tell me every time she has an issue but she refuses. She's says she doesn't want to be seen as annoying or whiny so she doesn't tell me when I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my crush [34 M] i think i scared off an incredibly attractive guy by talking about my open marriage and other stuff POST: I am married, in an open relationship, and about a month ago I slept with a guy I really liked and wanted to see again. I told him I was married the night we hooked up and he told me I should have lied to him, then we talked more about my marriage and the idea of group sex. We were both really drunk but I'm scared that it might be the reason he neve",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [23M] and I [23F] are planning to move in together - I'm excited but also scared at the same time. POST: I've been with my boyfriend for six years now, and throughout college we had a semi-LDR where we'd see each other once or twice a month. Sine we started working, we'd see each other once or twice on the weeknights and then spend the weekend together at his place (since I currently rent a room in a house with other people while he has a studio to himself). His lease is",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex-bf [27M] whom I [28F] dated for nearly 1.5yrs, still following me on social media but refuses to speak to me POST: I recently (2 weeks ago) had a falling out with my significant other, which has resulted in what I can assume is a breakup. I say assume because, it didn't end in a ""this is over"", ""let's break up"", ""I don't want to be in a relationship anymore""; it ended with a bit of ""sage advice"" on what I should do with myself/life and ""Goodbye"". Via text btw. He hasn't unfri",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I[24 Male] Wait For Her[21] To Graduate? POST: So we've been on and off, and it lasted about 2-3 weeks. We've known each other for 5 months and we built a friendship fast and a strong one. We're very understanding of each other and pretty optimistic about our future. We became 'official' a few weeks ago. I brought up the fact that her parents might not approve because of my cultural background. She brought them up but was eventually told that she has to finish first (so we're",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/M] [22/F] Been with the same girl for 8 years and now she wants to move across the country for a job. POST: Ok so here's the situation: My girlfriend and I have been dating for around 8 years... We've dated all through HS and College. Both of us are getting ready to move into the work world. I'm still looking for a job and she's got two offers. One in NY and the other is way down south... I love this girl but as much as I want her to stay close to me in NY (where I'll lik",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do you know when it is truly time to end the relationship? I (22F) can't help but feel if I break up with my boyfriend (25M) i'll be taking a HUGE risk!! POST: My boyfriend is great, he truly his. We've been together 6 months and for a long time within that 6 months we talking about marriage and being together forever. But now I feel it's time to move on. Lately I feel I have been disconnected from my friends, I have felt more and more like I want to be single again and I get in",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How have you changed such a negative event in your life to come positive? POST: Some of you may have me tagged as the guy hit by a drunk driver. Well, I was hit by a drunk driver almost 2 years ago and I'm finally getting back on my feet. The accident caused me to lose nearly everything but I look at it now and am taking advantage of the situation. Since I lost almost everything I don't have a whole lot of bills, I don't have an hour commute to work, and I don't have a 500 dollar car pay",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] have a crush on a girl [17F] that I won't see again for 4 months. POST: I'm a college-bound high school senior, and I recently met this really cool girl during my college's visiting weekend (where accepted high school seniors can visit their college for several days). Let's call this girl ""Jane"". Jane and I talked, hung out, and basically enjoyed each other's company (and also enjoyed the college's events) for a good portion of the visiting weekend. Her personality has got ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: me [20/m] getting lots of mixed signals from a girl I've been talking to for a couple weeks [19/f] POST: I'm gonna try to keep this short, and I'm bad at writing out my thoughts, so I'll give this my best Met a girl on OKCupid, we've been hanging out almost every day and spending the night for about 10 days or so. We haven't had sex or anything but every time we hang out we do something more if you catch my drift. Anyway, the way she talks it seems like she wants me to date he",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I'm doing all the right things they say... 27[M] - Life after college POST: I've not had a lot of single life experience as most relationships came about naturally through school. I ended a 3 year relationship that I thought might be my last back in Feb. Since then I have: joined 2 coed soccer leagues and a coed kickball league, signed back up at the gym, and continued my yoga practice weekly at the local studio. What more can I do? I'm trying to expand my social circles with males ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27M] sister [24F] may be moving in with me... need advice on setting rules POST: She is a mother of a three year old boy who is currently being taken care of by my mother almost 24/7 because my sister works/sleeps/parties most of the time. She recently lost her jobs thinking she was getting a dream job 4 hours away on the coast, but it fell through at the last moment. She is bad with money, doesn't want a job beneath her 'self worth' and has a taste for expensive products. She h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Mother-in-law (F 59) is overly sensitive with my wife (27 F) and me (m 27). POST: My [m 27] mother-in-law feels like we don't prioritize her enough. She also feels like we like my mom more - not true, but she's becoming increasingly dramatic and hard to deal with here. We currently live out-of-town, and we work hard to make sure both sets of parents get equal time. We also have friends in our hometown that we like to visit, but the bulk of our time is spent at our parent's houses. I",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Currently in college, looking at mutual funds and IRAs POST: **About:** Hello r/personalfinance! I'm a student in his penultimate year at a US university who currently has ~ in savings (all in regular savings or checking accounts). I make ~ during the school year doing web development work and tutoring on the side. This summer I will be doing an internship that will probably pay me . Given that all my money is in either savings or checking accounts, I'm pretty sure inflation isn'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [15M] have a friend [15F] that I don't want to be friends with anymore, but she doesn't have any other friends. POST: I have known this girl for about a year and a half, and she has always been a little awkward, but I didn't really mind. But recently, she has been trying to spend more time with me and talk with me more to the point where she walks me to all of my classes at school. Whenever I walk with other friends, she ignores them and talks to me only, and I have to try to hold",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] always seem to get stuck in Casual Sex Relationships. Latest with [24F] but I want to confirm it so I can quit before I get involved POST: Hey there, So for the past 2 years I've been casually dating/sleeping with different girls, Tinder has been a great help to actually talk to someone without being socially awkward, and has boosted my confidence greatly. The past year though I've wanted more, I'm over sleeping around and ultimately would like a relationship with someone, ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [15 M] Girlfriend's [15 F] mom [? F] accused her of sending nudes, and has cut off communication with me completely. POST: Ok, so I am pretty heated right now. I have been seeing this girl, lets call her B. B and me have been seeing each other for around 2 months, and a few hours ago I received a text basically saying how her mom found pictures of her in her bra dancing(I don't know exactly what they were of) and accused her of sending nudes and called her disgusting along with ot",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] am trying to arrange a second date with a woman [19F] who works seven days a week. How do you plan a date with somebody that busy? POST: She's a friend of a friend and so we bump into each other once in a blue moon. I invited her for a couple drinks at a pub. We had a great time and we sort of agreed to say it was a date as we were heading back. I've been trying to organize a second time out but the thing is she has two jobs and is working every single day. I've sent a text ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, why have I suddenly become a clingy, jealous bastard? POST: I don't know what happened. I've never felt like this before. For the past week I've been having extremely clingy and jealous thoughts regarding my girlfriend. I'd known she stayed friends with a couple exes but she told me something he said (thinking I would find it funny since all it was was a clip from an IM conversation) and I just died inside for some reason. The past week I've been feeling absolute shit and can't s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17 M] like my friend [17 F] of 2-3 months, but don't know what to do next. POST: There is this [17 F] friend of mine who have known each other for the last two years but only really started talking to in the last month or so. We were in the same class but we have just graduated and probably wont meet outside of school except for a dinner, formal and after party in about a weeks time. As above we only just started talking in the last few weeks. We get along really well, talk a lot",positive " r/relationships TITLE: relationship help greatly needed POST: Hello everybody, I've been with my SO (I'm 24, shes 19) for almost 2 years now and it has really been great up until a few months back. Now I'm in the situation I'm in and i do not really know what to do despite family advice. So until recently (like I said) everything was great. Then my SO started getting really controlling. I'm sure this probably started to happen from me allowing it to happen. I'm a very laid back person. If my SO brought u",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] feel like I should break up with my boyfriend [21M] because I'm depressed. POST: Our relationship was shitty at the start; I grew very dependent on him whilst he spent more time with his friends than with me, which obviously caused massive clashes and arguments. I felt unwanted and he felt trapped. It culminated in a cycle of him attempting to break up with me and then changing his mind repeatedly. This went on for about a year and a half. Suddenly, fuck knows how, everythi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by leaving my car unlocked POST: I came home late Sunday night from volunteering at the Nikes Women's Half Marathon in DC. I ate some dinner and went to bed. It was raining all day on Monday so I spent the day home applying to jobs. I just recently finished up my last class over the weekend and I am graduating next month so my priorities are to find work. Tuesday morning I get into my car to go get a hair cut and I noticed that my center armrest was wide open....and empty. I was a b",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Me [24 M] crush on stage partner [22 F], don't know if asking out is the right choice..? POST: Hi all, basically, I joined drama group a short while ago and am getting along well with everyone. Immediately sensed a connection with one girl. We'll actually be playing a couple in the next play and it's working really well. I enjoy being on stage with her and off stage and I really want something to happen. However, everyone is so comfortable around each other and since I don't want a",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/m] Have serious feelings for an old flame, but just ended a bad relationship 2 weeks ago. Am in no shape for a relationship at the moment, but I really care about this girl. POST: 2 and a half years ago, me and a girl (we'll call her L) were seeing each other, and we were super close and really connected and happy. It wasn't official, because she was confused about what she wanted in life. Eventually, she broke it off with me to figure it out, and I was completely crushed. ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Driving from San Diego to Montreal to get back the one I love. Advice? POST: Back Story! Was married two years, relationship for four. A year ago, we separated, and though the contact has been on and off for the past twelve months, we are on very good terms at the moment. As far as feelings go, she seems to go up and down, not willing to admit she cares about me simply because she is afraid I will never ever move to Montreal (her home.) I, as with most idiotic people willing to try som",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by dropping my friend on her head. POST: So this happened a couple of months ago , but it was a pretty big fuck up so I will post it anyways. Me and a female friend of mine ( both in our 20's ) were goofing around between classes in front of our university and while I was sitting on a bench she jumps on my back and me , being the strong fucker I thought I was , tried to stand up and carry her . Of course I lost balance , tumbled forward and she face-planted the concrete floor from 2 met",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29 M] with my... I don't know [29 F] almost 1 year, things going too damn slow. POST: Hi. First of all I want to apologise for my english. I'm spaniard and a little short of english. I've been in this hellish relationship for too long. Dont misunderstand me, I love this girl. Really love her. I had a crush for her for more than 3 years, when i was in a long term relationship and her as well was. We got to be really close friends, and when we break up with our old couples things ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: (update) My [30m] girlfriend [28] of 5 years has progressed with her ""holistic"" beliefs to the point where she saves my sperm for her personal use. POST: [Original post here]( It's been about a month since I originally posted about my girlfriend and our issues. After reading all your comments I have let the dust settle for a few weeks in order to see where she would end up with this stuff thinking it could just be a phase she is going through. Here is where we are now: I decided th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being raised by my dad POST: So my dad always liked cats and he always wanted one, but he could never have one since he is EXTREMELY allergic to them. Well as a child he always bought me books about cats despite the fact that we NEVER WOULD get a cat. He read about cats to me. He'd even show me videos of cats and stuff. Well considering I was like seven or eight years old I guess it was normal for me to think I was a cat and start acting like one for a short while. But the problem is,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [20/f] girls at me work hate me, but I'm quiet and keep to myself. What am I doing wrong? POST: Hi, all. I'm a 20F working as a diet technician at a hospital. I do this full time as I go to nursing school. I'm not in my clinicals yet, that's next year. I pay for college myself but I live in an affluent area. There's a few girls at my work, all ranging from 19-23, who basically hate me. They also work in the nutrition department but are relatively new. They've been telling other co-w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can anyone help me with a job-related problem? POST: I graduated from college back in May and landed a full time job in August. It wasn't in a field that was direct to what I wanted (I work as an application specialist but I want to go into editing/writing) I've been working here for 3 months and let's just say that I'm pretty miserable - it's hard for me to get to work just because i'm so unhappy and the culture of the company is...quirky. Regardless I really loathe my job and am even s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 21/m & my Ex 18/f Lost. (X-Post from /r/love) POST: My girlfriend broke up on new years eve. We were living in a long-distance-relationship. It just came all of a sudden. I was with her just last week. She told me she lost her feelings for me.. On march 31st it would have been 4 years. Imo she was my chosen one. We wanted to move together. Damn i wanted to propose to her, after moving together. I know, its quite fresh, after 2 days. But f#ck, i just cant forget her. Everywhere i am",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Senior in high school searching for career advice POST: I am going to be a senior in high school this next year and have been putting a lot of thought into my future college options and potential career. I have always loved working with numbers, math, and especially money so I think that a career in engineering or finance would suit me well. I have the stats to get into basically any college of my choosing (33 ACT/2300 SAT) and am extremely driven so I believe I can succeed in any ",positive " r/dogs TITLE: Well-behaved dog with one issue POST: We've had our pitty mix for about a month and a half. We were told the dog was neglected and may have had been mildly abused. He's skittish around men (I'm a guy) The dog is very well behaved - it took about 2 weeks to finally hear him bark once. The dog loves me fiancee and follows her everywhere. With that being said, the dog doesn't absolutely hate me. He lets me pet him, pick him up like a baby (he's 60lbs lol), he'll sit on command for me and d",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do i pretend i'm social? POST: So... i was really shy when i was younger. I used to be really social at my old city, and i became quiet once i moved. I never ignored anyone or didn't answer. I was just never a loud kid. I would sit and do my homework, and speak when someone was talking to me. After a year or two, (this being 3rd/4th grade) i began to talk but someone would always say, ""WOW, you can talk?"" Then would laugh. It would happen every time i said something. I despised every",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU Too busy chatting and enjoying beer to notice signs... POST: TIFU My first post here, and like most others this happened a few years ago. I was crewing on a ship with a rather well known environmental organization and had been at sea for a few weeks when we finally got into a port in a country where we are VERY popular. We make a beeline to a bar and I start chatting with a few local guys at the bar, and they end up buying me a beer and chatting to me about the work we do. I feel a hand",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17F] with my boyfriend [18M] of a year and a half. Boyfriend of a year and a half [18M] is at bootcamp and wrote me a letter accusing me of cheating. POST: My boyfriend has been at boot camp for 2 and a half months now. I've been writing him everyday and his letters have been very positive and he was doing great. Then, apparently, one of his friends wrote to him and told him that i've ""been fucking other guys"" which isn't true AT ALL. I received a really angry and disrespectf",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My sister-in-law accidentally bought over $450 worth of beef jerky while on vacation last weekend. What horrible and embarrassing cases of buyers' remorse do you have? POST: So my brother and his wife were out of town for a weekend and they wanted to get gifts and souvenirs. They ended up going to a famous shopping center and browsing there. My brother decided to wander around while his wife was pestered into a jerky store. The prices were not listed and the reps were giving her and thei",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] am suspicious that my bf [20M] of 6 months is cheating (again) POST: Long story short, we dated a year ago for 8 months. He cheated on me and ended up dating the other girl once we broke up. We got back together in January of this year. He swore he changed, went to therapy, and wanted to treat me better this time. Things have been amazing up until a month ago. He used to be very open and honest about who he was texting, but now he'll lock the screen immediately if I happen t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 F] feel guilty about not attending events with friends because ex [19 M] is there. POST: Some background information: we are both college students who have a weekly club meeting. At this meeting is all of our friends (which we share). It goes from 6pm til late. I have only attended one meeting since the breakup a month ago. It was plain awful seeing him again. School ends in two weeks and I don't want to miss out on my friends. Yet it is clear I'm not over him and it isn't fai",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My (30f) lover (21m) ran away to a different country because it got too real now wants to work it out POST: It all started as friends with benefits one winter in a ski resort and it was great, no emotions, no information about each other, just pure fun. After three months or so I had to leave because my visa expired. I went to a city in a neighboring country which I have always wanted to visit. As it turns out, he happened to be from that city, so after he finished his work at ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] am paranoid that my crush [19F] is losing interest in me. POST: Recently I started talking to my crush by asking her on a date. We talked for 5 days prior to going on the date. In those 5 days we became comfortable with each other and started to flirt a little bit. The night after the date had ended we were flirting non-stop and things seemed to be looking up. A couple days after the date however, she began working a lot and was becoming very tired which I understood but sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [30F] have trust issues with my husband [30M] POST: I've been with my husband for 15 years (married for 5). We have young kids together and have always had a pretty strong relationships. Just recently though I'm having some trust issues and I can't work out how to bring it up with him, or if I even should. He has a female friend that he guarantees me is only a friend. She is also friendly to me and chats to me online at times but only ever about her kids, housework, chores etc.",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25M] with my former roommate [27m], I think he has been lying to me about our deposit. POST: A few months ago I moved out of my old apartment so my girlfriend and I could get a place together on our own. I didn't know where I was moving to when we filled out our move-out paperwork, so we used my old roommate Bob's parent's address as our forwarding address since they still lived in town. I changed my forwarding address when I moved in, but I didn't hear anything back from our lan",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] had a 6 month relationship with a girl [21F], we broke up in december, now she's kissing with one of my closest friend. POST: What's the normal reaction for this? They have been friends for quite a while, but with frequent months of no talking between them. Now we're broken up, I still need to get over it, and he and her are keep going out and I'm okay with that, but he just disclosed to me that they kissed and hold hands. If they ever get in a relationship one of my greates",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I just tried to get scammed. What's the best way I can try to report this or get them back? POST: A little background. I was sitting at work, when I get a phone call from an unknown number. It looked like a strange number, but I answered anyway, thinking it was something about my grandmother, who is in the hospital. It was someone calling on regards to the US Treasury. They said they were offering me a grant of $7000.00 US because I have no criminal record, have paid my bi",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Self Esteem Issues. POST: So, I graduated from college last May in graphic design and photography. Haven't found a job but have been freelancing like a boss and making anywhere from 900$-1500$ a month. I live with my parents and also am starting a book. Im 26 and feel that no woman would want to date me for the fact that im living with my parents. I dont have a room to myself because my room was turned into a storage area for extra stuff and work related things. It would be financi",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Attendant Issues... POST: So I'm going to try and make this short and sweet.. My mom's side of the family is big-ish. I have like 20 first cousins. And growing up there were 4 of us who would hang out regularly. We, 4, are the youngest of the families with 3 children and are all girls. So far 2 of the 4 of us have gotten married. I'm next. We have always said we'd be in each others weddings. And I have been in the two girls who have gotten married weddings. Now that wedding ",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Hey there r/loseit, here's what is going on. POST: Last fall, I was having lots of success with dieting using the Lose it! app until the stress from my ridiculously busy life caught up with me. I chose to stop counting calories because I felt like I needed to allow myself some freedom in at least one area of my life. I had lost 20 pounds that time around, and then gained back 10 more. I knew that I needed to start again. I have been overweight/obese for my entire life, and I am tired of fe",negative " r/books TITLE: Slaughterhouse Five Appreciation POST: I think I'm experiencing a feeling towards a book that I've never felt before. After reading Slaughterhouse Five (by Kurt Vonnegut) about two weeks ago, I immediately felt disappointed. The narrative was incredibly difficult to follow, and I simply didn't understand or care about Billy's adventures through space and time. If you were to ask my my rating for the book, at that time, it would've probably been a 6/10, and I would've told you to not waste yo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What do you call people who can't concentrate without music/video playing in the background? POST: Dear Reddit, I have a feeling I'm not the only who is like this. Is there a name for the type of people who needs multiple audio or video stimulation to calm her/him down or just to concentrate. I mean, sometimes I end up playing two youtube videos and listening to music at the same time. That is however an extreme case. I don't think it's ADD. Maybe it's a form of ADD. Another example i",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I(m20) don't want to see her(f19) with someone else. POST: Yesterday morning my girlfriend of 2 and a half years, (and good friend for five years) broke up with me. I know if I talked to her we could work it out and get back together, but the past few weeks I've been thinking about what it'd be like to see other people. Now that I'm single that's a scary prospect, and I know seeing my ex with someone else would tear me up inside. I know if I'm going to get back together with my",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Orange County, CA - Went through a red light with a camera last night. I tried to stop, but I realized I would've ended up in the middle of the intersection if I stopped all the way. POST: Last night, around 12 in the morning, I was driving home with a couple of my friends / coworkers after work. The streets were really empty; not any cars with me in the intersection or on the road. I didn't see any cars on the opposing ends of the intersection. Anyway, the light was beginning to chan",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [19F]is lying to me [19M]. POST: I've been dealing with bipolar depression for little over a year now and it's hard, so at the very least you could say I have trust issues. So my girlfriend started keeping things from me she thought would make me mad and I can't understand it. We noticed after the first lie, a guy I hate (an ex of hers) texted her asking to be friends and she said no and deleted the messages then I found out a few days later, we talked about it and I ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Upcoming exam resit monday POST: Hey guys, gonna try to make this as short as possible. I have a mathematics resit exam that I've failed the previous semester this coming monday. It's really quite difficult (""basic"" university level mathematics). It's more or less like highschool math to be honest, but like, ALL highschool material in just one exam... I've already failed the previous attempt and this is a sort of ""do or die"" situation, in that if I do not succeed (I don't even need a ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: A new friend [22 M] says he never thought of me [23 F] as just a friend, but I have a bf [23 M] of >4 years. Can we stay friends? POST: To interview prep for professional school, I meet with a bunch of different people to practise. I met this one guy a month ago, and I guess prep was a super fast way to get to know someone (we'd practise questions like ""tell me about yourself"") and through what started as small talk between practise questions, we've found that we have a compatible se",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [Update] I (21F) suggested taking a break from the relationship with my boyfriend (23M) of 5 years. POST: So about 3 months ago I posted here with a little [story] about how my **I** believed that my boyfriends hobbies affected our relationship negatively. Like many of you said, the mature thing to do is to talk to him and let him know how I personally felt about the whole situation. And that I did. He understood where I was coming from and how I did not like; but was supportive of",positive " r/Pets TITLE: Need a way to take care of a dog in an apartment POST: Don't want to go really into the details why I'm in this situation, but I live in a studio apartment with a walk in closet and a balcony. It isn't huge, but sufficient for my boyfriend and I to live comfortably. My boyfriend says I can bring my dog down to live with us if I can figure out how to let her out or otherwise give her a way to go to the bathroom, since we both work the same job and have to work from 8:30 am to about 6:45 pm wee",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17M] have no idea what to do with my [18F] ex-girlfriend POST: I dated this girl for a few months, we'd known each other for 4 years and I moved away. We knew we were going to see each other in a year so we decided to pospone things until then. I had friends with benefits, she knew that, and she had someone to. But when I came back, she just didn't want to let go of him. We had sex a few times (I was there for 4 weeks), and since then she told me she didn't care about me and wante",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Things came to a head and my step-dad threatened to kill me. POST: Well about 10 mins ago I was sitting at the table, messaging on FB and eating chili. Actually lets start with a little backstory. My step-dad suggested we (him, myself, and my two younger brothers) all pitch in money to purchase a 5th generation Ipod Touch for my mother for christmas. All of us except Dale (step-dad) had our share of money allocated. Well after he inquired about the progress of our purchase I told him t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 F] am seeking answers about infidelity. What do you think? POST: Infidelity has come up in a number of relationships I've seen. My dad cheated on my mom, my friends have cheated on their partners, I have been cheated on and I have made the mistake myself -- biggest regret of my life. So what do you think, Reddit? 1. Can infidelity ever really be forgiven? 2. Is there a difference between a black-out-drunk one nighter with a stranger and a longer, emotional/sexual affair that",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[22M] had a date with[22F] and we ended up in the bedroom, how do I behave on a second date? POST: Hi! So I had a date with this really really hot girl last week and everything went smooth as we ended up going to my place to ""watch a movie"". We have been texting each other a bit and I invited her out to help me pick out a nice shirt for an event im going to. I have had some ONS before but never really cared about dating them, just having some more sex and then we never hear from ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my boyfriend [23 M] of 4 weeks, unfounded fear that he's going to leave. POST: [Gay - me 26 m / him 23 m] I just exited (4 months ago) a 6-year relationship that I thought was going to be life-long (with a manipulative alcoholic narcissist). I was single for a few months. Now, I'm dating this sweet, loving dude who I have amazing sex with (I actually thought I was asexual for most of my adult life, but apparently I just never found the right partner...) He really val",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is my next move Reddit? POST: Backstory: My dad was a Captain at American eagle for 16 years, but since my parents got divorced, he had to resign from that job to take a flight instruction job to be able to take care of my adopted sister. This was fine, because at the time, my parents lived near each other and were still good friends. Enter me, a 16 year old (at the time) attending highschool, with good friends , a good job, and some social standing, planning to go to college at the",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Unsure what [18/F] wants from [19/M] POST: We've known each other for nearly a year and have been just nothing more then friends. Recently we both developed an interest in each other. We started seeing each other, showing more affection and talking more. Over this past week she has acted different leaving me uncertain. After confronting her she said she loves getting to know me and really really likes me as a friend but has to work out some stuff and it isn't fair for you to ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: WTF is wrong with movie/tv audio production?? Spoken dialogue scene: inaudible. Action scene: Oh sorry, now you're deaf. POST: Seriously. Sound producers of reddit, will you please fucking explain this for me? Classics (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The Godfather) and modern movies/tv (From Dusk Till Dawn, The Walking Dead) alike commit one of the most annoying acts I can consider a first world problem: Why do you have to make dialogue scenes so fucking quiet and action scenes so fuck",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with her [25F] for 3 mths, friendship or relationship? POST: My job takes me to various locations and I met and got the phone number from this girl at one of the sites I visit. A couple of days after getting her number, we went out and since then we've been hanging out a lot, in fact, we see each other nearly every day, the time we spend together ranges from 1 hr to 12 hrs and it's been like this (and still is) for 3 months now. I admit I may have moved in too fast, after ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my girlfriend [21F] 6 month, asking for space, still taking need advice, what to do? POST: Started seeing my now girlfriend in the summer, august (UK) we are from totally different backgrounds, but both passionate about horses. Summer ended, I'm back at university, she is working. Things continued at a slower pace but the excitement of seeing each other was pretty awesome.. I would come back from uni most weekends and we would do all the ""normal couple stuff"" I've met ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I think my boyfriend (25m) is cheating on me (24f) with a (19f) co-worker POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for 2 1/2 years now, and we have never had any major fights or problems, just some bickering every now and then.We have even been living together for over a year now. Unfortunately, for the past two weeks he has completely changed. He hasn't been coming home until about 2am. I'm not a big drinker myself and have always let him go out with his guy friends, but recen",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is the most screwed up thing someone has said to you in a horrible situation? POST: I'll start: Sadly, I had to put my dog of fourteen years to sleep this weekend due to terminal cancer. She could no longer walk, see, eat or properly use the restroom without.. Well. You probably catch my drift. I sat in the lobby at the vets clearly post-balling my eyes out with my lovely dog laying at my feet. Her breathing was hoarse and she could barely lift her head. This scumbag w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I am a [17/M], she is a [16/F] Should I ask this girl to prom? Does she even like me? POST: I've known this girl as a friend for a while now. She is sixteen and I am seventeen. So we aren't in the same grade. The only class we have together is Drama/Theater for an hour for a couple of days a week. I have no clue if she admires me or not. Our drama class went to competition this January and I was able to take first in my category. But I don't know if that was enough to impress her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Conflicting situation with best friend [f20] and boyfriend [m20] who don't really get along. POST: So long story short both me and the BF (been together almost 2 years) are both going home for break, he lives across the state while I only live about an hour away from the uni we both attend. He will be flying back to stay with me at my family's house for the last week, which we agreed on a month ago. Fast forward to this week, my best friend who moved across the country for college ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [36/m] took a coworker [22?/m] home on lunch break to help me grab some tools. Surprised wife [40/f] and she lost it. POST: So on lunch I realized I needed something from home and asked coworker to come along for the ride. When we got there I could hear my wife of 2 years blow drying her hair in bathroom, I called hello and she replied. I did not knock on door and tell her my coworker was with me, I went straight to garage and commenced rummaging. After locating the tool coworke",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19M] have a friend in common with a girl [19F] who has gotten my number and been dumping her problems on me over text. I don't want really talk to her at all, but I feel guilty blowing her off. POST: So one of my friends had a romantic relationship with a girl who you could say has ""slept around"". He broker up with her, she somehow got my number, and we used to converse over text every once in a while. I sort of became disinterested and tried to talk to her less and less. Now, a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it normal for girls (21f) to tell me (m23) to do stuff with OTHER girls? POST: So I just wana know if this is part of the norm that girls would tell guys to go do stuff with another girl because they cant go themselves For eg, I tell this girl to go dinner. I would see this as something special between me and her. she cant make it and asks me to go dinner with this other girl. Immediated I feel upset. Now, It doesnt have to be dinner, can be anything. So i just wana know wheth",positive " r/running TITLE: Moving forward... Slowly. POST: During my finals week this year, I found myself completely devoid of energy and motivation. I'd sit around staring at the wall, wander around my room, pretty much anything other than what I was supposed to be doing. I decided it was finally time for a change, and promised myself I'd pick up running when I went back home. It's now been two weeks since I made that promise, and today I finally went out and got myself a pair of running shoes. I ran for the sake",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21F]""You're the kind of girl that guys marry."" What do you mean by this, exactly? Is it a consolation, just to be nice? POST: I've had male acquaintances say to me a couple times, ""Oh, you're single because you're the kind of girl that guys marry."" I wondered if it was the male way of showing pity, and was just said to be nice, instead of a straight out, ""No one wants to date you."" Or if this was a common thought process for guys. Men do treat me differently than my friends when w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with a [22 F] - confused and kind of anxious POST: I'm a junior in college, there's this senior girl who I asked out *right* before the break. In retrospect, this was a bad idea because I'm thinking about her so much and I can't do anything about it till the middle of January. I originally wanted to go to an art exhibition with her and she agreed. She cancelled at the last minute because she was cramming for a final, commencing a series of alternating-party cancellations ",negative " r/self TITLE: I work in IT, and now I hate computers. I want the love back, but I'm nervous about switching careers. Are there any redditors here who previously worked an IT job, but switched to something completely different? POST: (this is a xpost from AskReddit, as it disappeared into the muck there) If so, how did it work out? Did you stick with the trade, or eventually come back to IT? I'm a 29 year old software developer, and have been working with computers in some form for around 8 years. I've be",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] is in a position that I may get back with my ex [18F] POST: My ex broke up with me a little over a year ago as we sort of faded away and stopped being as close as we were for the beginning. Keeping in mind this was only a 3 month relationship, we were at school together in a program that divided 20 of the students (including us two) from the rest of the college students, which made the damage last more than the duration of the relationship. She was the one who broke it off,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is my [22F] relationship with my boss [32M] inappropriate? POST: So my boss recently sat down with me and said that he'd been told by his boss that someone had complained to him that my relationship with my boss is inappropriate and that we have to keep a very strictly professional relationship from now on. He said he personally didn't agree but that's just how it is. So I'm essentially my boss' assistant. I work directly for him only and I'm the only person who works for him. So we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (27f) have just found out something that is a huge turn off about my SO (29m). How do I deal? POST: ... I've been talking to a guy I met online for almost a year now, and I really love him and have genuine feelings for him (and was looking forward to meeting him very soon) but I just saw a video of him walking and he has a real walking issue. People could be mean and call it a ""duck"" walk where he sort of waddles and turns his feet out. I hate to say it, but it makes him look like ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me (M, 20) unsure what to do about relationship with girlfriend (21) POST: So my girlfriend and I have been dating for over 2 years now. She has been my first serious girlfriend and for the most part the relationship has been heaven. I lost my virginity to her as well if that's relevant. Recently, however, I feel like my feelings towards her have changed slightly. I think that she is extremely intelligent, kind and pretty. Sometimes she does frustrate me, and her family is pre",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [31M] am casually dating a girl [27F] for 1 month, but plan on leaving country in 6 months for long-term travelling. How should I handle it? POST: So I met a wonderful girl 1 month ago and we've hit it off pretty well so far. We're both pretty compatible and we definitively have potential for something serious at the rate we're going. But here's the dilemma, at my company we have a policy that lets us work remote full time after a year and I'm 6-months away. If I get there, I think",positive " r/Advice TITLE: My boyfriend is considering a new career, but doesn't know where to start and I really want to help. POST: Almost 2 years ago my boyfriend tried starting his own business with a friend. The business is clearly not working out in multiple ways. First, my boyfriend is in pretty bad debt and has no assets. He never finished college and is still paying off his debt from school. Since the business is still just getting started, they can barely afford to pay themselves so he has a second jo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I give boyfriend of 1.5 years a second chance/believe him? POST: I found my boyfriend of 1.5 years' Ok Cupid account. I knew he had one before we started dating, but thought he wouldn't be using it. His date last active was July 26. I confronted him about it, and he denied being online in July, showed me all his messages, and closed the account. He had sent messages to girls in February(during our brief breakup), and in October (a time when we were arguing a lot). I would have",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Haven't finished college, so what technology-related skill can I teach myself that I can start making money within 1 year? POST: Not gonna get into the whole spiel, but suffice it to say I'm not in a position to go back to school right now and I work a dead-end job at Waffle House. I'm technologically inclined; I ""wrote"" HTML back in high-school, I'm somewhat proficient in Photoshop. What skill/language can I start to teach myself and actually begin generating some kind of revenue in th",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: Dogs off leash POST: Context: My girlfriend brought a 2 year old chow chow, named Yogi , from Ecuador to southern CA. She got the dog while she was in the peace corps so Yogi was raised in a rural green environment with a nearby river and barely used a leash. Now Yogi lives with me and my girlfriend in a townhouse in a very conservative and planned suburb. Orange County has no forests nor rivers and the dog culture here is to keep the dog on a leash unless you're at a dog park. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I[23/m] tell my ex[22/f] (that I'm trying to win back) about the girls I slept with during our time apart (we broke up and were single)? If so, how do I approach it? POST: We broke up because of distance... I moved to SF from NYC and I wasn't sure if I was returning. 3 months in, I realized I wanted to be back in New York and she means the world to me. However, during that time I had sex with a number of girls but most of the time drunk and they mean absolutely nothing to me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my gf [21 F] of 5 years, issues arose in the bedroom..not sure how to feel POST: Hey all, I'm using a throwaway since my gf uses reddit. My gf and I have been together for 5 years. She is absolutely amazing and perfect and I can't see myself spending the rest of my life with someone else other than her. She is my life and I spoil her as much as I possibly can. However, there is one tiny thing that's been the cause of a few complaints lately. Her libido has been goi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm fighting a parking ticket in Columbus, OH. Any advice would be appreciated. POST: Good afternoon. I parked on a cross street with High to go to a coffee shop. Most of the parallel spots had white ""Permit Only"" no parking signs AND red ""No on Football Days Except Permit F"" signs. However, three blocks down a spot had a handicapped sign. After the handicapped spot were two signs, one with an arrow indicating before the sign= handicapped. The other sign was one of the red ""P",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my University Girlfriend[20 F]: Can't have sex for at least 6 months. POST: Hi, so I have been dating a girl for a few weeks now. We're both first years in University and we have the most amazing connection. We get along really well, we both like eachother's friends a lot, and we both have a pretty high sex drive. Our relationship has gotten really serious really quickly, but in the best way possible. However, there's one issue... Since a few months before dating, she",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21, F] am trying to figure out a good present for my LDR boyfriend [21, M] of 2+ years to be delivered on Valentine's Day...help? POST: I've been dating my boyfriend for just over two years. We live about 1 1/2 hours away from each other and we can often see each other on the weekends. We both work in the restaurant industry so unfortunately this year we're both working Valentine's Day and can't be together. We're planning to get together a different weekend in February and have a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] with my 17 [F] dating for about 3 months, end everything last night. Need your guys opinion. POST: Basically my girlfriend wanted to start a break this past saturday. Later that night at a small party I wasn't at she makes out with a different guy who she's always has had a little thing with. I thought they always had been friends, she regrets it now completely. She then comes to tell me all this last night, and I give in and forgive her if some rules are made involving her ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Maybe I made a mistake... POST: I work in the type of environment where employees date other employees all the time. Managers date employees, everyone seems to date everyone, it's a weird business. So...there's this girl who seems a lot more intelligent and mature than most women I've ever met. She is good looking, we seem to have a lot in common, and she seems to be sending signals that she is interested. A few days ago I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep, and at work she started giv",positive " r/relationships TITLE: M[22] and M[22] 8 months. I just found out my boyfriend is cheating what next? POST: So I've noticed my boyfriend has been acting strangely lately and while I've been trying to get past my trust issues I still decided to check in on him because it was driving me crazy. Every once in awhile I see where he looks at chat sites but -thought nothing of it. Since he has been acting strange (removing me from Facebook, pushing me away, getting home late, mood changes, and a lot more secretiv",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [17F] with my boyfriend [18M] of a year and a half. Boyfriend of a year and a half [18M] is at bootcamp and wrote me a letter accusing me [17F] of cheating. POST: My boyfriend has been at boot camp for 2 and a half months now. I've been writing him everyday and his letters have been very positive and he was doing great. Then, apparently, one of his friends wrote to him and told him that i've ""been fucking other guys"" which isn't true AT ALL. I received a really angry and disrespect",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [18/F] don't know what to do with my boyfriend [18/M] and our relationship. POST: So let's start with how I met him. It was my freshman year and my German teacher puts me in a group with my now boyfriend (let's call him John). I developed a crush on him, but after the project was over we stopped talking... Until last year.   I was hanging out with my ex and a couple of friends when they say their friend was coming by with his car and we were going to ride around with him. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me [24M] and a girl [21F] I met online a year ago, who lives far away just met for the first time. Feeling destroyed - it was THAT good POST: I met her online accidentally and we started talking. She was with someone at that time but we were understanding each other in every matter so good, we spoke for hours daily. We had so good relations, and talked about relationships, and how does she feel that eventually she broke up with this guy - just 1,5 month ago. Today we met for th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [24 F] of 1 year rarely talks to me [24 M] when she is upset about something POST: We have an amazing relationship, as we are both best friends and great lovers. My only qualm with her is that she never talks to me about things that are bothering her. Often if I do something that upsets or annoys her, she will visibly show signs of it and refuses to talk about it. I ask her directly what I did wrong, and if she wants to talk, but she shrugs it off and often says ""now is not th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23m] and my friend [21f] just had our first date and I think it didn't go very well. POST: Sunday I finally had the guts to call my 3 year friend to a date, and she accepted and said that she was expecting this for a long time. We arranged to meet in a Ice cream parlor, and I think it didn't have ended well. The thing is that it's my first date, I never had time or tried that with anyone, but I really like this girl and have decided to try. During the date we chatted for more th",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: My Landlord has threatened to sue me over an accidental fire caused by his space heater. POST: Hello- I'm in Texas. Landlord lets me borrow space heater (because my unit does not have working heat) He says maintenance man will come tomorrow. I plug it in and leave it on for 2 hours. I leave to go to my friends and I thought i turned it off. 2 hours later I get calls saying there's been a fire. Landlord says that I am responsible because I had the space heater. He wants $100",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [29F] snooped through my boyfriends [27 M] old phone and found out he would cheat on me in other cities POST: He had an old phone I happened to know the password to. He's out of town right now and my curiosity got the better of me. Now I just feel sick. The backstory is that last year in February we broke up for a few months. He broke up with me because he was showing symptoms of hpv and he thought I'd given it to him. He said he couldn't have sex with me anymore and that we need",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M]don't know how to address this issue regarding my best friends [23M; 22M] POST: I just graduated from University and don't know whether to antagonise my best friends (whom I met at university four years before) regarding failed holiday plans. They're 3, I shall refer to them as B, G and A. Just before finishing exams we agreed that we would go to Croatia for a week. This fell through as A finished exams later than I expected and I was flying back home. A few months before A",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Would anyone be interested in paying me through paypal and I buy you what you want on Amazon? POST: I am on the verge of trading in some old textbooks to Amazon, which means I will be stuck with some Amazon gift cards that I can only use on my account. I would love to turn these gift cards into some moolah in my bank account. The only way that I could think of is buying someone what they want from Amazon.com with my gift card ammounts and that person can pay me the same ammount to my P",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Caterer is the worst [rant] POST: So we had to pick one of 6 caterers with the venue. No problem, I didn't really care that much as long as it was in our budget. Picked one because the prices were in our range and the food sounded way better than the comparatively priced option. The online reviews all say the food is delicious too, so success! A couple of the reviews say their communication dropped off, which is fine because we have a planner to hound them. And hounding she's bee",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [17/M] Is it worth trying to win her over? POST: Alright, so I just found out that the girl [17/F] that I like likes another guy from another school. I really know nothing about him, how much she likes him, or if he likes her back. Our friend just brought him up. So my question is, is it worth putting out the effort to try and get her to like me? Or just kind of let her do her own thing, and move on to the next one? If I had any sort of certainty about the existence of her feel",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 21M wanting insight into, how to deal with 20F having to kiss another guy. POST: This relationship has been moving at a million miles an hour since the moment we met face to face ( we met on tinder , talked for 2 months , met up and after 3 weeks all the big milestones which ussually takes months are behind us, can't say whether thats good or bad at this point!) 2 weeks offical now. I was in a 3 year relationship , 5 months ago so I do have a understanding of what I'm doing jus",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (23F) Ex's friend (26M) & I are falling for each other POST: I've been casual friends with one of my ex's best friends for years, but for whatever reason we have ""clicked"" recently and have been spending a good part of every day together since. Up until that point I had been very adamant about not becoming romantically involved with anyone. My ex and I have been split up for over a year and have maintained a civil friendship out of necessity (don't want to go into too many deta",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: My gift card was used in a different city. Where do I report it? Who do I report this to?!? POST: I'm going in circles here. Maybe someone can give me more insight. Bought an Apple Gift Card worth $1300 off someone on Macrumors.com forum. Code was sent via Macrumors messages, and physical card was mailed to my parents in Albany NY (permanent address). I currently live in NYC for work. I was planning on purchasing a new computer online, so I didn't bother with the card being sent to me.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [26/m] have better conversation skills with ex[23/f](possibly getting back together) POST: Me and this girl dated about 6 months and everything was great. When we were together I was good and even when we talked over the past year we texted quite a bit. She recently got out of a 1 year relationship and we've started talking regularly again but my talking skills are lacking both over the phone and through text. She is feeling like I don't really want her back because I dont ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Boyfriend doesn't realize how much better he could have but I do POST: I do this really weird thing where sometimes I'll meet another woman and can instantly know that my boyfriend would have to fight against flirting with her because she's his ""type"". It is sometimes compounded by finding out she shares an interest of his that I don't. Today I met a girl that is super hot, super nice, skinnier than me, and brews her own beer as a hobby. If my bf met her, he'd probably lose h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [26 f] managed to upset my husband [35 m] and I don't know how to fix it POST: This isn't as dramatic as most of the stuff in the sub, but I don't know where else to post it. I'm married to a wonderful man, who lost his job last April. This last week he yelled at me for telling someone at a party I work 60 hours a week and hasn't spoken to me since. The guy at the party was asking about my maternity leave (I'm 7 months pregnant) and I was telling him how I couldn't afford to be o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my Friend [18 F], Unrequited Love POST: HI there r/relationships, my heart's been aching for a bit now. I wanted to just say it out loud here. I love my friend. I want to hold her and I don't want to see her with any other guy but me... maybe that's a little too selfish... I've known her since 3rd grade but she moved away at the end of 4th grade. We met again in 10th grade and started going on these so called ""meet ups"". Everyone teases me that they are dates and it's",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] has been invited to a wedding by my good friend [24 F], will my recent girlfriend of 1 month [21 F] be alright with it? POST: So one of my really good friends from out of town has flown in this week for her friends wedding. At the last moment her date has ditched her and she has asked me to go with her to the wedding this Saturday. Me and my friend have the type of relationship were we probably skype 2-3 times a month, and we both look at each other like brother and sister",positive " r/relationships TITLE: my [23m] wife [21f] is trying to take our daughter from me and leave. please help me! POST: this is my first post so please bare with me. I really need help people! we have always had issues with our marriage but it has just been usual marriage things. or at least I think so anyway. until recently, for the last couple of months, whenever we argue or fight about something, she tells me how she wants to leave but won't without our daughter. I will not lay over and just let her take",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18F] with a close friend of a friend [18 M] who just doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with me. POST: There's a guy I know (I'll call him Ser) in my friendship circle who is very close friends with my best friend, they've known each other for nearly their whole lives whereas I've known the both of them only six months now. The thing with Ser though is that I get the pressing feeling that he really does not like me. My reasons? 1. Sent him a FB friend request when I firs",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: HELP! Trying to gauge status of FWB relationship. 31M with 28F. POST: Is there a non needy way to ask if a FWB is seeing and sleeping with other dudes? I've been seeing this girl for about a month and a half. We get together a couple times a week, usually just to have sex and grab a bite or see a movie. Only really text to make plans. Very casual and very chill. But I feel like I'm developing feelings for her. I have gone out with a couple other girls during this period but have rea",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: International Relations, Economics, or Computer Science, and why? POST: At the moment, I am determining where to place my major and minor concentrations. Due to the restrictions at my institution, I can either have 1. A major and a minor, 2. A major and two minors, or 3. A double major. Between International Relations, Economics, and Computer Science (I am at the point in my college career that I can make any of these 3 fit into one of the above listed configurations without delaying ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19 M] am having serious conflicts with my aunt [61 F] and cousin[40 F] POST: Last February my uncle passed away from Lung Cancer. My dad went out to San Francisco in September of 2012 to get him so he could be home, where he could be surrounded by family and not have to be stressed out about living in a big city before he died. For a while he was living at my dad's place so my dad could provide for him, etc. After a month of living at my dad's, my uncle decided to move in with my ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (23f) boyfriend (33m) got caught seeing another woman behind my back...again. POST: I met my boyfriend a year ago. Things got serious very fast and every day since I've met him has been incredible. Every day I go to bed feeling lucky to have him and I saw myself being with him forever. About 4 months into our relationship he suddenly broke up with me. I was so devastated that I had to miss work for a week. He wouldn't provide me with answers. The two weeks before that I could fe",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by telling a co-worker her baby reminded me of a demon. POST: This happened about a year ago. A little background: My then-cubicle neighbor and I got along very well. We are both the same age (24) and female and we are both paralegals. The major differences between us were that she was pregnant and married and very religious and I was none of those things. When I say ""very religious"" I mean she goes to church at least twice a week, never had pre-marital sex, doesn't swear or eat meat on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] boyfriend [20M] and I just broke up, and I have no one to talk to POST: My boyfriend of two years and I broke up last Monday. It was mutual and there were no hard feelings, but we still decided that we should probably have no contact for a while. We were best friends and we do eventually want to be friends again. The problem is, I just moved away for graduate school (boyfriend is still at our undergrad), and now have no one to talk to. I don't feel comfortable talking with a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I woke up 2 days ago extremely uncoordinated, and it hasn't gone away yet, any ideas? POST: Disclaimer: This isn't life threatening, and I'm not driving a car till I feel better, so don't worry. I went out Thursday night and had 3 drinks, by all means a tame night, had a slight buzz, not drunk. I woke up Friday and felt dizzy. I can't walk straight, I can't turn my head quickly or I lose balance. When I'm sitting, or standing and not moving my head, I'm fine, but if I move my head ""q",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (18F) am in at a social dead end. I have very few friends and very few hobbies. POST: I have a couple of friends with which I share little in common anymore; I also do not get to see them very often. I have a boyfriend of a year who I depend on for most of my social needs. I am genuinely jealous of the fact that he sees his friends once a week. I am lucky if I see anybody but him once a month. I have recently got a job at a bar and there are a couple of people there I get along wi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] ex-girlfriend [22F] and have started seeing each other again but she wants to stay single POST: My girlfriend and I dated for about a year and a half during university and after we graduated, moved away to jobs in cities 4-5 hours away from each other. We continued dating for a few weeks and broke up and a month or two later we got in touch again. I've been visiting her at least one weekend a month for the past 3 months and she's visited me once. I want to get back in the r",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [23 F] hard drive is full of naked pictures and videos of my ex [34 M] POST: I was in an online non-exclusive relationship (1.5 years) before meeting my current boyfriend (1 year so far). My ex and I exchanged countless nudes, videos, and emails in the time we had together. He always said he would never post mine online, and I believed him. His ex before me had spread his nudes to his family and destroyed him, though, and he said he would keep my nudes on his hard drive to protect",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with my Coworker [19F] of about three months, should I get romantically involved? POST: I work at a restaurant/bar that is mostly staffed by college students. At the beginning of the year there is always a group of new hires when people graduate and start their real lives and students return for school. I mostly wait tables, but I work one day a week I work and train new hires in the sub shop/to go part of the restaurant (I'm not actually their superior, I'm just good at my",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] suspect that my roommate [25F] (or her boyfriend) is using my toothbrush. POST: So the other day I noticed that my toothbrush was wet in the morning when I hadn't used it (I had last brushed my teeth the night before at 8pm). I compared it to my boyfriend's toothbrush and his was obviously dry. My bathroom is in the hallway and my other roommates have a bathroom attached to their room. A lot of the time they'll use my bathroom in the hall when one of them is sleeping and th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] cheated on my girlfriend [19 F] of 3 years, looking for advice POST: Well, last night I had a girl [25 F] over and one thing led to another and we started kissing and such, and ended up having sex. I've been unhappy with my relationship for some time now, and the 6 hour distance between us doesn't help either. This girl was essentially the girl of my dreams, she was super cute, all the same interests as me, you name it. After spending the day with this girl, it became clea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (21F) broke and have been casually dating a wealthy man (25m) for about three months now. Struggling to keep up but don't want to whine about money. Is it okay to mention that I'm not doing well financially? POST: He earns a huge salary and is currently living rent free at his parents for a couple of irrelevant reasons. But point is, he has *a lot* of disposable income because he has virtually no expenses at the moment, and hasn't for a few months. I'm a full time student worki",negative " r/relationships TITLE: me [19m] broke up with [19f] over long distance situation POST: Hey so my ex and I broke up during fall semester last year due to the long distance of our relationship. It wasn't due to any wrong doing by either party. I think it was due to me having trust issues and low self esteem that led to crippling aniexty over the relationship. I made it through spring semester alright with minimal contact. But now I'm back in our hometown for the summer and we had some deep conversations and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: At a crushing crossroads with SO POST: Me: mid-20s F, him: late-20s M, together about a year. The situation: we've known each other for a while and have been together for a year, living together for most of that time. When we first got together he had a great job and was considering going back to school. Now he's back in school and has been floating around odd jobs for months, hasn't been able to contribute much to covering bills and that's been extremely stressful for me. I have a ",negative " r/self TITLE: My widowed step-grandmother is going full wicked witch on my 6-year-old nephew over his homework. POST: So darling grandma has been helping my nephew with his homework. I watched. She demanded. She threatened. He rebelled. He had to practice writing the numeral 6. She said he was not getting a candy bar because he wouldn't draw the six from line to line on the paper and begin the character at the point indicated by the instructions. I came in, and she siezed the opportunity to get him to t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: I took my iPod out of my pocket for and put it on my desk. POST: Back one day: I was having some problems with my iPod going slow, so I disabled location services, which disabled ""Find my iPhone"". Today: Towards the end of my 9th period class, we were being dismissed 10 minutes early to go clean out our lockers. Right before the announcement, I had taken my iPod touch out (along with the rest of the contents of my pocket) and someone swiped it. I didn't realize this until I was like ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[23M] am feeling insecure about the fact that my girlfriend [24 F] was ready to marry her ex after 3 months and we just hit the same milestone and she doesn't feel that way with me yet. POST: My bisexual girlfriend was with an ex who was a girl for 3 years; they were best friends for a year before dating. A couple months into actually dating my girlfriend felt very strongly that she would end up marrying this girl (they broke up because her partner fell out of love after some time; ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How do I combat bathroom anxiety? POST: So I'm a 26 year old woman and I've been suffering with bathroom anxiety for about 9 years...what happens is that I always have a fear that I'll need to use a bathroom and not be near one enough enough time and end up having an accident. Now usually I've been able to work through this and it's not really been a problem. Ive been dating my boyfriend for a while now and been staying over... Now the mornings are where my anxiety really kicks in and every",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M27] feel like my GF [F30] has given me an ultimatum and I don't know what do to. POST: I am dating a wonderful lady. We've been dating about 8 months and we're both very much in love. Everything is great except for one issue. First here is some back I broke up with my ex [f25] a year ago. Things didnt end the greatest and we no longer talk, see each other etc... In fact, I have her blocked on FB. I have no desire to talk to her. Before we broke up we, we talked about doing an ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F]not sure how to bring this up with[37M] him POST: My boyfriend and I are open sexually with each other a lot. So, this starts off with the fact that we opened up an adultfriendfinder account together. THe day we are on it, he comes across his ex-wife, no biggie, it killed the mood so we logged off and did something else. Then, we come back to the website and he goes searching for his ex wife again. Uh, okay, sure, I felt weird by it but didn't think much of it. At this point,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My ex gf (18F) and I (20M) are still physically involved after breaking up POST: We had a great relatively short (~6 month) relationship that ended on good terms. The breakup was initiated by her but mutual in nature due to her unhappiness with her social and family life and my need for space and concentration on school. She was unhappy due to several uncontrollable factors outside of the relationship that she needs to sort out, which in turn proved to be a great stressor on me. We s",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Door slamming neighbors POST: Our neighbors are alright (as in, we don't know them, speak to them, hear from them otherwise, though they seem like ok people), and we live in a pleasant, 'classy', not-cheap, grown-up apt complex. But there's a lingering problem: they slam the door LOUDLY and wall-shakingly every time they enter and exit their apartment. It's jarring, disruptive, and annoying - not really messing with our sleep or terrorizing us by any means but still super irritating and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [22-F] stop being insecure and over-talkative, and be 'cool' like my flatmates [21-23F]? POST: I've just started flatting with three really cool girls from my work. They are super socially amazing, have tons of friends, always going to parties etc. Meanwhile I'm not totally shy or awkward but I am introverted and not socially 'clued-up,' like I talk too much sometimes and am a pretty nervous person. They adore me and are always lovely to me, but I'm noticing a certain dynam",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being hardcore passive-aggro to the regional manager POST: So I work for an international corporation. I show up for work on Thursday and this is when it all went down. Obligatory background: The Lab I work in doesn't have enough parking so the pleb scientists have to park streetside to make room for marketing. Fuck those assholes. Anyway, I have a spot I'm always in because I show up early and it's super close to the building. So, I show up to work and king douche is parked behi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: i (22) have snooped through my boyfriends (25) email and Ii feel so guilty. POST: i feel SO guilty. I honestly dont know what to do we have been dating for 4 years. my best friend got cheated on and i think that is what has spurred my paranoia. i have not found anything that has to do with cheating but there are other things. like I found out he has lied to me a few times. Nothing big but he will tell me he can't hangout because of school and instead he goes out with friends. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my girlfriend [28 F] 2 months, thinking of breaking up, but haven't dumped anyone in over a decade POST: Title says just about everything, except for the fact that I feel like an asshole. We've been dating for 2 months and everything's has honestly been great, but I'm just not feeling it. Yesterday I helped her move and then we had sex, but right in the middle of sex it just popped in my head, ""I'm not really attracted to this person, not anything to do with looks. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] and my gf [16F] have been together for 3 months. Tips on actually 'meeting' the dad. POST: Me and my girlfriend enjoy each others company and just hanging out along with dating, but we constantly run into a problem, she's the baby of the family with an overprotective (in her and her mom's words) introvert father. I've met him at church, and at a family get together for Easter she invited me to. The thing is, we've met without actually meeting. I learned his name at the East",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Help! I've fallen for a girl who isn't interested in me, and I want the feelings to stop. POST: So I'm completely head over heels for this girl I know. It's to the point where it's hard for me to say no to anything she asks. She's super nice and never asks for anything unreasonable. I just couldn't say no if I wanted to. I thought for a bit we might have a connection and was considering asking her out, but she has tried to set me up with other people three times now. It drives me crazy. Eve",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Did 9/11 Influence Your Choice to Serve? POST: I'm not posting this to discuss the politics of this tragedy or whether the subsquent wars were right or wrong. My question is posed to the Marines, Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen that made the decision to serve after 9/11 and what kind of impact did it have on you? I was in the 6th grade when 9/11 happened. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was getting ready for school, at this point it had only been about a week since it started for fa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my [20/F] She has really bad depression and I need some advice POST: I met this girl while I was in high school. Let's call her Ellie. (Some history )Well, we met online ages ago during freshman year. Got into a relationship during sophmore. During the duration of our three year relationship, we went through hell and back just to try and stay together. In the end we had to split due to her leaving the country. Anyways, I've usually been really good about helping her (I",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [26m] Not sure if just cold feet or if I should re-evaluate being with my gf [23f] POST: I have been living with my gf for almost 2 years now and dating for almost 3. It's about time to get married and I have already started saving up for a ring. The problem I seem to be having is this: I go through waves of certainty. I know she will be a great wife and the best mother in the world. We get along and like to do the same things. Most of the time I know it would be a good match",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Got a gift for my SO, Mom said it was ugly made me get a different one, now I have 2 and don't know which one to give. POST: So last week I went to Korea and I got a scarf for this girl that I've been talking to for awhile now. We aren't dating just yet but its looking really good. I showed my mom the scarf and she said it was ugly. a few days later in the city my mom found a nicer one and made me get it for her. (she handed me money and said get her one of these) so I picked one ou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [23/F] out of my wheelhouse going into a first date with [M/31]. Advice? POST: I have a coffee date this weekend with Nicholas*. I met him doing a hobby that we have in common, and I thought he was really hot so I asked him out before really talking with him very much. This is the first date I've ever been on with someone who I didn't meet on the internet or from having been friends first, and I just realized that I don't know what I'm doing. Aside from the one hobby I know we ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me[19/M] and my ex [19/F] broke up last week while i was overseas because of our arguments. I'm seeing her for the first time tonight, is it salvageable? POST: **Back story:** Me and my gf were in a great relationship for about 6 months. I treated her like gold and she treated me like i was the best person for her. We started having arguments because i was having trust issues and was becoming jealous of her spending time alone with her male friends. I left for an overseas holi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I've been dating a guy for 6 months and he left for boot camp 3 weeks ago. I think he wanted the relationship for the wrong reasons. POST: I'm a 20 year old girl and he's 24. I've known him through a friend for years. I already knew he signed up for the military when when we started dating 6 months ago. Here's what irks me: We started talking a week or so after he had broken up with his previous gf for cheating on him. Every one of the 4 serious relationships he ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] and my ex [20 F] of almost 4 years broke up last June POST: I dated this girl for about 4 years and I cannot seem to get over her. I guess I'm getting better with handling it I don't think about it much anymore but it seems no matter what I do to help myself I can't get her out of my head. She's constantly trying to add/follow my new SO and her friends on social media networks. I have her blocked on all of my pages and don't know what else to do. She was my HS sweet heart ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Sexually, things are being forced backwards between me [M 18] and my girlfriend [F 18] for religious reasons. Should I be ok with it? POST: My girlfriend and I have been dating for the better part of the last four months now. I knew going in to the relationship that she was against pre-marital sex for religious reasons, and I am ok with that and respect it. Now that these four months have gone by, we have fallen in love with each other. Like legitmate, complete and total love. We had",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Getting back with Ex-Girlfriend, should I give her money to help her career? POST: My (M 33) ex (F 30) is an anthropologist and lives in a different country from me. Recently we have started getting back together and I would like to support her trip as part of her phd studies to go and live somewhere else for 5 months to do her research. She needs a sum of money to do this which is equivalent to 1 month's pay for me and I have the money already saved up and ready to go. However, she ",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Lung problems post-sinus infection, could be related to nodules POST: First things first; I am a 21 year old female who is 4'10'' grossly overweight. I have always have problems with my sinuses due to pressure from an inverted crossbite, so sinus infections always hit me very hard. I contracted one a couple of months ago; typically, I have the most problems with my nose because of my jaw, but this time I experienced a lot of chest pain. Long after the ear/nose/throat problems and antibioti",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: The store I was working for just shut down without any kind of warning at all, what are my options? POST: Well the title pretty much says it. I (used) to work for Cold Stone Creamery. Today I got a facebook message from a coworker telling me that I needed to call her immediately and that it was important. I think to myself ""great... she's going to bust my balls into getting me to take over her shift."" She tells me that she went to open the store this morning and thought that somebody had",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[22M] want to ask out a girl [F20] but find myself in an unusual situation. POST: Ahh, this is a strange situation that I find myself in. I [M22] met this fem [20] online and we have been chatting away, hitting it off, and we've come to the stage where I feel that I should ask her out and meet in person. But I'm not sure I want to just yet. It's a medical thing, at the moment I have a mild scalp and face condition. I have been seeing the doctor and I am about to visit again to see",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Ex-bf (28/M) and I want to try to reconcile. But he says it's not my business who he sleeps with since I (24/F) broke up with him. POST: We dated two years most of which was good. We broke up a month ago after a prolonged argument from a long spat of arguments. I left crying from his house. I got home at 3 AM, had a moment of clarity called him and dumped him. Then I went over and we talked it out and I explained the breakup in person. Obviously he was hurt but he agreed it was prob",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16/m] with my girlfriend [16/m] of over a year, is kind of emotionally cheating on me. POST: Hello, this is my first post here so thanks for any help. I have been dating my current girlfriend for about 1 year and 3 months we have had a steady relationship but since about 4 months ago we have been arguing more often but nothing we couldn't reconcile ourselves. So, there is this kid in out school who I know a little bit because I have a class with him and he looks very similar to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: ""Polyamorous"" [23 M] with my ""Monogamous"" girlfriend [20 F] of eight months, want to change myself POST: Disclaimer: Despite describing myself as polyamorous everything I've read suggests that it isn't actually healthy on any level and I have a feeling that even if it were my need for multiple relationships stems from a lot of weird childhood issues regarding being isolated from people, not knowing how to interact with women except on a sexual level (although I do have genuine female",negative " r/needadvice TITLE: How do you keep yourself from going too far in conversations? From talking about things people don't care about? POST: I just finished a two hour long conversation with my mother. There were really good points, but some of the low points were things like her saying: >""Aj, you're very smart, but people don't want to hear facts all the time. At your work for instance, everyone loves you,but like our puppy, she's cute and we love her, but she can be annoying."" > It's really frustrating t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [24 M] been seeing a girl [23 F] for almost two months, but she's acting strange lately POST: I met this girl in grad school, she's a year below me, but we really hit it off. We have a lot in common unrelated to the program we're in. She would get stressed out because of the exams, and since I've been there, I was able to be a really good consoling, relaxing force for her. That's really how we started. When we first started seeing each other, she got very distant very randomly",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Trademarking a musician/artist name? POST: So I was doing some reasearch into the legal matters of the music business and saw that a trademark is a big big part of staying safe and not getting into trouble with the law. I wanted to trademark my artist name but it's quite expensive for me to do that at the moment. However, there seems to be somebody else using a name very very very similar to mine. The person has obviously been promoting their product under that name for a longer time t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: The purpose of Omegle? NSFW possibly... POST: I get that the short answer to this is ""to chat"". However, I gave it a try yesterday and found it interesting and uninteresting all at the same time. More often than not, I am presented with the ""asl"" question and to no surprise the ""32 m"" response results in quite a few disconnects. One alleged 16yr old girl mentioned ""dirty talk"" and one mentioned doing some video thing. So I started asking ""what do you use this for?"" as my first line a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Trust problems... POST: Tried making a throwaway for this but screw it. Me, F (19) and BF (20) have been together for nearly three years. This is my first proper relationship (I had a sort of LDR when I was younger) and his first girlfriend, kiss, everything. I'll skip the long story but we've had some on and off times and some troubles with the relationship, with trust, and with privacy issues, on BOTH sides. At the moment we are MORE than good as a relationship, we have both dec",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] I'm pretty sure that I'm a serial monogamist. Can someone please help explain to me why this may be bad? POST: I'm 23 and just got out of a 6 month relationship. My previous relationship lasted 2 years, my one before that lasted 3 years with a couple other shorter relationships mixed in, all pretty much back to back. I think I exhibit the classic signs of being a serial monogamist. I'm really quick to want to be in another relationship after exiting the previous, and when ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (25m) have been sleeping with and going on casual dates with a friend ive known (25f) for years. She just asked me on a legit date. POST: I just got out of a long term relationship of 3 years and moved back home to go to college. I have been hooking up on and off with a her and going with her to events with mutual friends. Shes been hot and cold until recently when she spent the night and I made her a fucking awesome breakfast in the morning before she left for work. However sh",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making my wife think there was a rope wielding murderer in our house POST: This story takes place earlier this morning. I took off for work around 5 and headed to grab some gas. Unfortunately I realized that it is very hard to buy gas when your wallet is sitting at your house so I turned around and headed back. My wife was still home sleeping so I text her to tell her I was dropping by and don't be scared like she normally would. However, my text read "" just roping in don't be scared""",negative " r/relationships TITLE: please help me keep my love POST: so I (18F) been dating my girlfriend (19F) for just shy of a year and a half. we both love each other so much. but recently she's been upset. she says that we don't talk enough about useful things. can someone suggest what to talk about more? she says my parents get in the way of me seeing her (which they do, they treat me like a child with the excuse that they pay for everything). does anyone have any advice on how to handle them? she says that s",negative " r/self TITLE: Apparently having a pit bull is a threat to a communities well being. POST: A few days ago I was hanging out at my friend Cory's house. He lives in St. Louis, which is a fairly large city, and I live in a city right across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, so I'm not used to a lot of people walking down the street at all hours, but frankly its one of those things i enjoy. Cory and his lady friend have a pet pit bull named Dylan (after Bob Dylan), and we frequently have to take Dylan out o",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [California] UTMA Account In My Name, Custodian Locked It Until 21? POST: Hey All! (Firstly, I created a throwaway because I have close family that knows my normal account) Basically, My grandfather created two UTMA accounts for my sister and myself in 1996. They now both have substantial value, but they are mutual fund based. My sister is over 21 so she does not have this issue, however I am 18. It is a Wells Fargo UTMA (Until 21) Account. Over the past two years the financial adv",negative " r/self TITLE: Caused a car crash yesterday. I can't get over the guilt. POST: I'm a 16 year old living in Minnesota. Yesterday, I was coming home from work. I got to an intersection, looked at the light, and I couldn't see what color it was. The glare from the sun was too bright and I had no idea what color it was. To my right only a grey van and a volkswagen were going through. I though they were running the red light, but I guess I was. The grey van got away, and I fendered the volkswagen. Lucky, no one ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] was sodomized by my maternal uncle [now ~30] in my childhood. POST: I don't know how to say this, I was merely a 6-7 year old then and he and I were like brothers then. We used to play games with other family members (my cousins and brother). This thing never haunted me till 2 years ago, it was like I never cared about it then one day I told this dark secret to my GF and then I realized what I have gone thru, till date only him, I and my GF knows this. The day I told her th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] broke things off with the girl [20F] I was dating for 5 months about a week ago and now I fear it was because I was scared of the commitment of a serious relationship POST: Whenever we would hang out, I'd have a great time. She was really down to earth, non-judgmental and easy to be around. We had fun, and she is a really nice girl. I just thought I should end things, because it became time to decide whether I wanted a serious relationship with her. I feel like maybe I wanted",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [F24] snooped on my Bf [24] ex, now feel disgusted POST: Me [F24] and my bf [24] have been dating a year, he is my first relationship. My bf has one previous gf from about two year ago, who he doesn't talk about. His friends have made multiple comments to me about her implying she wasn't good for him and that they are glad I'm dating my bf. The other day, while my bf was out, I accessed his fb and read through messages to find out her name, what she is like and how she looks. She ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: guy staying at her place is gay (actually is not) POST: First of all I apologize for my english as it is not my first language The issue is very simple, I have been in an ldr with a girl for almost a year after we both had to move away from our country for our respective jobs. in 6 months we could be back toghether and we are working for this to happen. problem is a few months ago and againg a few weeks ago a guy (old friend of her) stayed for a few days at her place. that w",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I confront my roommate about her bad hygiene? Her terrible habits are slowly getting to me. POST: I'm a female college student living in a residential hall. I'm sort of a hygiene freak, which I was worried about when I got into college. Pubes are like my worst nightmare. I was randomly assigned to a roommate for the year and personality wise, we click pretty well (but we haven't clicked to the degree of being best friends). The year is pretty much coming to an end, and the hygiene",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By leaving the car running all night in the garage. POST: This just happened. Literally 15 minutes ago. It's 2:00AM here and I fucked to really badly. I'm a guy. Living on my own. With responsibilities and shit. Probably the first mistake of the story. Me and my older brother have been talking about making our own website. I had made part of the website earlier in the evening and it's all that's been on my mind. I was just getting home late, and I pulled into my garage last night a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16F] with my boyfriend [M 17] of two year's little brother [14 M], making me uncomfortable, not sure how to handle it. POST: I'm typing on an iPod, I apologize for any format errors. Let me start of by saying my boyfriend's little brother is a sweet kid, I love him like he's my own family, but he has an Autism Spectrum Disorder, PDD to be exact, so his social skills and behavior aren't really what people would consider ""normal"", he's socially inept, and fixates on things, as so",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what is the most random and fucked up thing that has ever happened to you? POST: I don't know how else to word it other than random and fucked up, but I just had a girl who I went to school with last year show up in my room at 1:30 and start to have a breakdown. I learned early last year that once she left high school, she went to school in Toronto for an engineering program and was diagnosed with schizophrenia... or something along the lines of that. Anyways, she was institutio",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 24 [m] doubting myself with a 21 [f] POST: We've been friends for 6 years from HS We never really hooked up and she admitted to using me as a way to emotionally vent. I admitted to laying things on thick such as romanticizing or impatience. She has trouble communicating and I'm trying to figure out what she means though context clues. We got physical but never sex a few times last year then We had a conversation on Sunday through IM and in it she admits to wanting to have sex ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] trying to figure you girls out. General questions. POST: So, I really like a girl I had a class with last semester, and we have spent a little time together since, (went and got coffee and talked about Christmas break) but I can't tell if she likes me too. This gets me to my questions based on the only advice my friends(girls) have told me. **Short History** Saw her early in the year in class, sat by her, talked almost every day, began hanging out after class sometimes,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] ended relationship of 6 years with ex [23 M] one month ago. He wants to maybe try again but is not sure. What should I do? POST: He broke up with me a month ago. We haven't seen each other since and we've only texted a few times. As you can tell, I want to make it work. I want to be together. I saw our problems as fixable. He said he doesn't know what he wants and feels bad about it. When I respond and say ""okay, I will move on"" he always responds back ""I didn't say I've ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my boyfriend [24 M] for almost 3 years, think I am ready to end it. POST: He is Cuban and I am white. Last year was a rough patch. We were living in a one bedroom apartment together, constantly fighting... often physical (he)... I cheated on him with a black dude in my car and he found out. He cheated on me with an older man ""to get back at me."" We somewhat recovered by moving to a bigger house, giving each other space, talking more. But other problems still exist... ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Breakups] My now ex [18f] has broken up with me [18m] 2 months ago after a 1.5 year relationship, and i can't help but feel alone. POST: So I [18m] have broken up with my now ex-girlfriend [18f] in December of 2014. To this day I sometimes feel incredibly alone and it happens mostly at night. My ex and I had been dating for one and a half years prior to the breakup. We would see each other almost every day during the relationship, I felt a strong connection with her and she is th",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Help me figure this out POST: Anyways me (22f) and my bf (24) have been fighting for two days straight arguing because i found out he was phone cheating on me with his baby's mom and twice with his ex fling . I just found out yesterday I agreed that i didnt want to fight and he apologized and i dont think i truly forgave him. Because everytime i see his face im so angry just want to slap it for hurting me lying to me and making me feel like a fool Will i ever be able to shake this ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Roommate [24M] doesn't help with living expenses, and I [25M] am getting tired and I want my space again. He may be able to help but I still want to be alone. Should I ask him to leave? POST: Hi there, new to reddit and not a native English speaker, so excuse my grammar. I'm a 5th semester university student. I used to live alone since I started studying (with support of my parents), but a year and a half ago I started to share apartment with my roommate, who I met when we were 17 o",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Why can't I (M, 28) see mine and my girlfriends(F, 24) stuff as ""ours""? POST: I live with my girlfriend of 2.5 years. This is my first long term relationship, however I've had a few other relationships before. Typically I was a single man, and liked it before meeting her. She moved in after about 8 or 9 months of dating, into the house I bought when I was single. I also adopted a dog before meeting her, whom she has come to love as her own. I have no intentions of leaving her no",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should we break up? :( POST: I'm Female 22 and my boyfriend is 22 as well. We have been long distance for 5 months (dating 10 months total). I love him. I thought he was going to be transferring to my college next year and he promised me he was. We talked about it a lot. Yesterday he told his parents he wanted to transfer and they flipped shit. They basically came up with endless reasons why he shouldn't. Now he doesn't want to. I'm so confused. We wanted the same things in life: to ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the best horror movie that I have never seen? POST: I am calling upon my fellow movie buffs here. I am trying to find a *scary* movie to watch. This is not restricted only to the horror genre. I want to see a movie that will give me that old fashion, edge of my seat, sense of dread. For me personally, I tend to find suspense more scary than gore. There is so much gore floating around these days, I have become fairly desensitized. I have also seen what I believe is an above ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I rejected someone and I know he still wants to be with me. Is it cruel to keep him as a friend even if I have no intention of ever dating him? POST: So a little background. We're both in high school, and I started talking to him in hallways and eating lunch with his friends, with no relation before this. I'm someone who's naturally nice to everyone and when I started talking to him, never flirting unless you count being pleasant. I was just looking for another friend. (I'm happily i",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit, have any of you out there escaped the friend zone? Also, how? POST: I have a friend who I have been growing closer to over the course of the last year. We are each other's best friend, I mean we would do anything for the other. We laugh, cook, even lend a hug and a shoulder to cry on when needed. We literally have not spent a day without seeing each other in about a year. I recently told that friend that I see them as more, and I can't see a life without my best friend by my ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [23/m] need to get over my friend [22/f] POST: I'm in love with my best friend, I know she'll never see me as more than a friend. I get clingy and possessive and insecure, I always think she's ignoring me and someone else is getting the attention. It's caused a lot of fights in the past. Recently I found out she's in love with her best friend, I'm not sure who it is, it's left me confused that it could be me, that she refuses to talk about it and has said ""It's out there now and w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] don't know if I should keep casually dating [M25] or if I should just move on? POST: I just moved to a new town for my job and I am having the time of my life. I am dating this guy I knew from college but we are super casual. We are on the same page with not wanting a relationship but we are exclusive when it comes to sex. I think we are equally attracted to each other. Enough to keep seeing each other, but not enough to seriously date. We have casually dated for about a mont",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [20 F] was skyping and snapchatting with someone behind my [20 M] back... And idk what to do. POST: My girlfriend had been really weird and distant since I'd been out of town for two weeks at the beginning of this month. She's always really protective of her phone but when she fell asleep way before me last night, my drunken curiosity got the better of me and I looked. I found out that there was this guy like 1000 miles from where we live that she'd basically been sexti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 F] with my girlfriend [40 F] of 4 years, she doesn't think I am sexy anymore POST: As early as I can remember, I've had issues with body confidence. My girlfriend has been very much aware of my issues, and overall supportive and patient with me as my confidence builds and falls. Over the last several weeks, she and I have been on a mission to live a healthier lifestyle. We've both lost some weight, look and feel great, and have been much happier individually and as a couple. ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I(19m) am worried about my father(49) and his lack of a social life. POST: Reasons that have made me worry: 1. I have not once seen him hang out with friends that weren't parents of my friends. 2. He joined a church and became religious a couple years ago, but I still haven't seen him hang out with anyone outside of church activities. 3. His dating life is nonexistent as every woman he shows interest in has some flaw or another(according to him) that keeps him from going further. 4",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by having discreet shower sex POST: Many a time, I have indulged in the agreeable activity of passionate shower sex. Like having sex in the rain, except in the comfort of your own home and steamier. Culminating in plenty of slippery pounding, suppressed moaning and perhaps a couple of wet-flesh-upon-wet-flesh slapping sounds here and there. You get the idea. Not only is there the appeal of ease in clean up, but the sound of the (quite loud in my house) running water disguises many sins w",positive " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: Should I [27/M] confront her [26/F] as to why she is ignoring me POST: I'm 1/2 Japanese and I met this Japanese girl in Paris. She went back to japan but we kept in regular contact and went out a twice, once in Paris and once in Japan. The 2nd time we spent all night just talking and I felt we really got to know each other. 2 weeks ago she drunk calls me, then apologies the next day saying ""I missed you"" and ""I just wanted to hear your voice"". At this point I'm really happy because ",positive " r/Parenting TITLE: How much soothing for 4 month old? POST: So my wife and I differ a bit in parenting approaches. She's probably going to be the child-centric parent, while I'm probably leaning towards being more parent-centric. I'm not at the CIO sleep training level of extremes, but my wife is at the extreme let-food-burn-on-the-stove-because-baby-crying levels I feel like. While I'm fully on-board with new age fruity stuff like holding/wearing the baby at all times, feeding on cue, and generally being",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I don't want to hear about my best friend [24 f] and her bf/ex bf [23 m] anymore. How do I say it politely? POST: My best friend [24 f]and I [25 f] have been friends for eight years. She got a boyfriend [23] about two years ago and I was very thrilled for her. She deserved someone who appreciated how great she is. After the honeymoon stage, things were never good. He is extremely insecure and unappreciative and she has some attachment issues. Anyway, I listened to her on and off agai",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My SO (19/F) was upset I (19/M) went out with friends. POST: So tonight I went out to see a movie with a few friends (all guys not sure if that matters). I hadn't talked or seen her since the morning and when I told her I was going to the movies after work, she was upset because she hadn't seen or talked to me all day and now she has to wait even longer. So after the movie I call her she says shes fine but was just upset because she missed me and wanted to talk because she had",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Irrational feelings? POST: I broke up with you because I found out I was pregnant. I knew that I couldn't support a child, and my lifestyle spelled nothing but trouble for that baby. I pushed you away because I didn't think it was fair that you had to deal with such a heavy burden. I loved you so much, I didn't want you to face the pain that I was and I didn't think you'd stick with me in the end anyway. At the clinic, the technician did the ultrasound to date the pregnancy and confirm",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Waiting for the other shoe to drop, things can't stay this good forever M[27] F[26] POST: My fiancée and I have a recurring (though not constant) nagging feeling that our lives are too perfect and we are on the precipice of losing everything. The recent bout of adviceanimal memes about people who had their wives/husbands suddenly screw them over after long and apparently happy relationships has only served to intensify this fear. We are past what would generally be called the ""hone",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Last night I had and extremely vivid 'waking dream'. I woke up to find a shadow figure looming over my bed... Has anyone else experienced a waking dream? What was it like? POST: Last night at around 3 in the morning, I woke up in my bed. Next to me, looming over my bed was a figure... It was completely black, opaque and looked two-dimensional. It had an exaggeratedly large mouth with sharp teeth, and was raising a claw-like hand... no eyes or any other features. It didn't make a sound, b",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by waking up 3,500 people. POST: This happened at about 6am this morning. I was at this girls dorm all night long and I was using my recently acquired vape. I was getting comfortable with it and decided to try some heavy smoke tricks (you can see where this is going) and eventually the smoke rose right above me, right into the smoke detector. All of a sudden it starts beeping and the girl looks at me and tells me to get into her closet. I sprint to her closet, barely fit, and wait as I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31 M] with my Wife [30 F] of 8 years, told her she needs help or I'm done. Don't know what to do. POST: I don't know where to begin. My wife has always been a large woman (300lbs) who is insecure and depressed. She has always had a bad, dark, sarcastic attitude. We love each other but during an argument I told her I'm very tired of the emotional roller coaster and she/we need to go see someone for help and maybe she needs to go back on medication. I told her if something doesn'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23M] with my GF [22F] of 3 years, doing long distance and talking about moving in together POST: My girlfriend and I have been going out for 3 years now. We have a good relationship and both our families like each other. Recently she just moved back home so we are now doing long distance. I've talked about moving out to where she lives and working out there. I have already applied for a few jobs and received a few phone interviews. We were discussing us getting an apartment toget",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [29/m] I find it hard to show excitement and it's makng my wife [28/f] depressed POST: I've always had trouble expressing my emotions growing up. When I'm sad, I never cry. When I am excited, I feel it but what comes out is just a, ""That's nice."" I try to force it sometimes but my wife knows better. So most of the time, she just gets a monotone response. Being as she moved out of state to New York and has no friends or family here, I'm the only one she has and she feels I am ta",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22M] going out with [20F] and I'm making my lack of sexual experience weird... POST: I've gone out with this girl about five times now but having known for longer it feels like more. Last week I went for this kiss which I was extremely nervous about that didn't go that well which she pointed out. I really liked that she did point it out but now I'm even more nervous. I then explained a few days later that I'm a virgin and my experience is significantly less than hers which I hone",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] with my SO [24 M] of 5 years are having a facebook friendship dispute POST: My SO and I went to hang out with a friend and her roomate. We met the roomate for the first time that night. A few days later he added her (the roomate) on facebook. I can't see past how I as a woman (not that all women think this way) perceive this. I would only add a male person on facebook is we are 1) good friends 2) colleagues. He said she just showed up on his ""people you may know"" catego",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25 M] can't socialize with my socially awkward girlfriend[23 F] of three years POST: I'm hoping somebody can help me with this issue. I love my girlfriend. She's kind, sweet, and great to be around. Only, she's terrible in social situations. She gets very nervous and doesn't know what to say. I, on the other hand, am very relaxed socially. I really enjoy talking to new people and, having once been very shy, really feel that I can be dropped into any situation and make friends. O",positive " r/loseit TITLE: [Help] 2 steps forward, 1.9 steps back... POST: Hi Loseit, About a month ago I hit 345 after being 339 for years. It was the motivation I needed to get me ass in gear and finally eat right and lose weight. I haven't had a single cheat meal in a month. I only drink water and haven't had any bread, potatoes, or rice in a month either. I drink 2 Herbalife shakes a day and 1 normal (not unhealthy) meal. Minimal semi-healthy snacks throughout the day. My BMR is 2793. I've been eating about 1,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my partner [25 M] unsure of what to do in terms of our long-distance relationship POST: There's no doubt about it, we want to stick together. My partner and I did long-distance for about 7 months (I'm Canadian, he is Australian). I was finished university and just completed an internship, was free to do whatever my heart desired so I hopped on the plane and moved down under. My visa was pretty easy, I just got the working holiday visa and was good to go for a year, I go",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [26/F] am ""friends"" with my ex [26M] (of a few months) - but I'm sorta regretting breaking up - need advice on if there's any point in trying again! POST: *by ""friends"" i don't mean we're hooking up LOL - just that we're Friendly, but not actual friends.. Really need some opinions here, please! :) I'm fairly extroverted, and I ended up in a relationship with a pretty introverted guy. He was super intelligent and super cute, and we had alot of fun, but I had so many ups/downs about",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [18f] mum's [46f] married boyfriend is leaving her and she is going into a self destructive spiral POST: My dad died 9 years ago, and my mum was left ccompletely alone and stuff. So, somehow, she wound up in an extramarital affair with this married guy, and has been in it for the past 4 years. I know that you all will scream about the morality, etc etc but she and I went over it already, that led to a very big rift in our family and basically nothing could deter her because both",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 24m cheated on 24f gf POST: Hello, I've been dating my gf for about 4 months. Before that we were really good friends and I'm extremely close with her. We've had some issues but overall I really care about her a ton. Last weekend I went to a show in Toronto (a few hours from us) with some friends. Guys + girls but gf couldn't come. We got absolutely shit faced, in a drunken stupor ended up taking some mdma. In these shows you're dancing super close to everyone. Anyway, I ended up",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [17/F] Boyfriend [19/M] Is SO Boring. POST: I'm getting REALLY bored with my boyfriend of almost a year. He's messy, lazy, and all he does all day is play video games. When he's not playing video games, he's on his phone updating the statistics and general foundations FOR his video games. When we first started dating, he was so sweet. All he paid attention to was me. Obviously, that's how every relationship starts out. We just moved way too quickly. We were only dating for",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by basically showing two girls in my chemistry class my balls POST: Was in my chemistry class this afternoon, and it was the last lesson of the day, so I was pretty tired, and wasn't doing much work. Instead, I was being a typical teenager boy, and talking about all things inappropriate with the two girls and boy sat on my table. We got on to a conversation about the slutty girls in the school, and, in particular, how high they would wear their skirts up. Straight out of nowhere, I sta",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My bf [22/m] makes me feel bad, when I point out he makes me[22/f] feel insecure POST: I'm his first girlfriend (I've had two serious relationships before him, one of two years). We've been friends for years and are together for 5 months now. I'm used to boyfriends that pamper me/give me compliments/are jealous. My current bf doesn't do that and that makes me feel very insecure. An example might be better here: I wanted my bf to come over this weekend. I texted him to ask tha",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What unreasonable reactions have your parents had to something you did? POST: My mom was the most unreasonable person when I was growing up and even more so when I was in high school. Here's one reason why: When I was finishing up my Spring semester at a local community college, I decided that I wanted to go to our state university. I got everything taken care of, (applied, financial aid for full coverage, etc), but couldn't tell her I was doing this because I knew she would flip out. ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by scheduling an interview POST: This happened an hour ago. I manage a data entry team at an information service company and I'm losing two people on my team next week. I've been doing phone screenings for resumes I've received and just started scheduling face to face interviews. There was this sweet girl that I had spoken with a couple of times who was fresh out of high school and working at a fast food joint. She was really nice and handled herself well on the phone, but I didn't neces",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Brother [29M] constantly makes me [22M] feel useless, inferior and finds way to 'correct me', and usually in an aggressive manner. POST: Okay so i want to begin with a disclaimer to say- I love my brother. There are so many good qualities about him, and sure, redeeming characteristics that allow me to forget his flaws. Furthermore I am the furthest thing from perfect myself so I am no judging him. I'm just in a difficult position because I want to be there for him but he constantly ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (21 yr old) ex-gf moving in with her new bf after TWO WEEKS! What kind of issues could this be? POST: I dated a girl for 2 months, things were great the entire time. She was kinda clingy and always wanted to be around me. Then she randomly loses feelings for me over the course of a couple weeks. She broke up with me, only to start dating a new guy that she JUST met a few days later. (She wasn't cheating on me, as I know for a fact through her friends & my friends that she never me",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] cheated on my [24 M] boyfriend of five years. Feel terrible, need help on next steps. POST: Last night I was hanging out with a friend of mine and we were tipsy and drunk touchiness went a little too far-- no sex, just some kissing and fondling. It was with a mutual friend of ours who has admitted drunkenly to having feelings for me. I shouldn't have let things go where they did. I was feeling sorry for him, he has been having a hard time lately, and wanted to make him",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by kissing my ex boyfriend on top of a little boy. POST: This actually happened a month ago. My ex and I have been on and off for quite a while now. The other day we were at my friend's house when she fell asleep. So my ex and I thought we would go into the guest bedroom and start to... Ya know, do stuff. So we get into the bedroom and it is in pristine condition... The bed has a dozen different frilly pillows on it and the bed is very well made.... So we start kissing on the bed. And ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My 22f boyfriend 25m of 4 years broke up with me out of fear of commitment POST: He recntly moved 3 hours away and he wanted me to come with him. I packed all my stuff in my car and drove up to his new place. The first few days were great, 2 days after I showed up he woke me up my coddling me and crying. He told me he wanted to marry me but was to scared to commit to me and that he wanted to see other women. Pretty much telling me he wants me but wants to make sure. He said he wanted",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] feel like my insecurities are ruining my chances of her [20F] ever wanting to be with me. POST: Some background on the girl and I: we've been involved basically since the night she became my manager at our job in October. There was instant chemistry between us but I never expected it to take us where we are now. It has been a roller coaster of emotions and just so many ups and downs from almost the start. We're both still dealing with the emotional aftermath from our last ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My mom thinks my brother is brainwashing me to be a dick to my brother POST: So for last year or so my brother has been doing nothing but smoking pot when my parents leave. My dad knows, does not approve but can't really do anything because my mom will get mad at him for telling my brother ( lets call him bob). My half brother ( lets call him Dan) is shipping out to army. My mom thinks he has been telling me that my brother is bad person, to take away things blah blah blah. I am changing",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my girlfriend [19F] of 6 months, is paranoid but 'trusts me'? POST: My girlfriend of 6 months has recently told me that she is paranoid about my friendship with one of my flatmates. I live with 4 flatmates and previous to my current relationship I kissed one of my flatmates and she had a romantic interest in me which she made abundantly clear shortly after I started seeing my current GF. My GF has said that she is paranoid when she sees a message to me with her name on",positive " r/travel TITLE: Prague to Dubrovnik and everything in between? POST: I'm planning a trip to Europe for May, and was wondering if any experienced travellers could give me some tips. I'm planning to spend four weeks there. For the first week I'll be in Prague with my parents, and for the other three I'll be either with my sister or alone. Probably relevant: I'm a 19 year old girl looking to do things fairly cheap. So far the only solid idea that I have is that I know I want to go to Croatia. If anyone ha",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by breaking into a restaurant. POST: Everyday I wait in the same place for my bus, my back leaning up against the door of this restaurant. The door has always been locked so it's never been a problem for me, and it's convenient as it's always shaded from rain or the sun. Today I walked down to my bus stop, the usual routine, and leant on the door. This time, someone forgot to lock the door. I fell into the room about as gracefully as a sloth, looking around, slightly bewildered, unt",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (M:24) approach this girl going forward (F:24) POST: Girl from high school I haven't seen/talked to in 7 years msgs me on facebook for help with an assignment for a grad school program I just finished. I helped her out, we continue texting, she sends some flirty texts and now I'm interested. Even in high school, me and this girl never really talked or hung out, just knew each other, now we text every couple of days. So last night I was at my friends place and she knew abou",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by wanting some tasty, tasty bbq. POST: This actually just happened, and the firemen just left. I picked the lady up from work, and I'd been defrosting some juicy lamb, chicken and a few sausages to put on the bbq all day in anticipation of a delicious feast. I put the meat on, then thought, you know what, I want a burger, too! So I got a burger, and put it on the bbq. Now, our grill is normally a fiesty motherfucker, causing me to jump back on the best of days, but today would be th",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by proclaiming I was crippled next to a kid in a wheelchair POST: Hi Reddit, been lurking on this site for a few months now, this is actually my first post! Anyways, on to the fuck up (which actually happened today believe it or not!) Me and my friends were walking through the corridor at school, when I smashed my hip on the frame of a door (a tiny fuck up within the bigger fuck up to come), me being the idiot I am, fell on the floor and started screaming like I'd been shot (overreactin",negative " r/loseit TITLE: So, I need some help and advice please! POST: Okay. So. I have a problem. I am 23 years old, 174cm tall (just shy of 5'8""), and i weigh 95kg (209lbs). I have always thought of myself as chubby, I wasn't deluded into thinking that i was healthy or anything, but after spending a bunch of time on reddit and talking to people that I know (doctor not inclusive) I realised that I am obese. For almost 12 months I was doing really well. I had cut out most soft drinks and junk food from my diet, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25/M] and my girlfriend [25/F] dated for 3 years. She broke up with me 4 days ago. POST: Technically she wanted a break, but I told her that there are no breaks, she's either with me or without me. She chose without. Left. I start drinking heavily, everyday for 3 days. I've been with her for 3 years, I feel like she's been my life and I just can't stop crying. I go out to a bar with a couple friends. I had no idea she was there. As soon as I got there, she got out of there. I las",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I don't know how to interpret this girl's ""signal"", do you? POST: First of all, if I'm asking this in a wrong subreddit, please tell me. So, a new semester at my college has just started and we all have new classes. At this first lecture of one class I entered the auditorium and sat at the very beginning of one of the rows that are the farthest from the board. I got there about 5-10 minutes early and there were people still standing around, talking, waiting.. about 10% of the seats were ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I Have Jealousy Issues POST: I will try and keep this short. I have no idea what to do about it. I am a 25 year old male and I have aways had jealousy issues. Over the tiniest, dumbest things. I have decent looks and have never had any trouble with the ladies, but I have lost many girlfriends due to jealous feelings. My girlfriends have always been attractive, and everywhere we go, people notice. They are always getting looks, compliments, and getting hit on sometimes. I am in a fair",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I need to know if this is really creepy or not. POST: I was at work today, and this really cute girl walked in to send a fax. She needed some help getting the machine to do what it needed to, and i offered to help her. During the course of what i admittedly dragged out into what must have been a 45 minute transaction, I got to talking to her, and she seemed super interesting. I was really flirting with her, and I think she was even flirting back with me during the course of the",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Why do people think it's so abnormal for a man to be attracted to a 15 year old? POST: Ok, for any other species once a female is able to sexually reproduce they start having sex and making babies. This is normal. This is how we evolved. It would be a waste of energy to be able to have babies and not have babies. Having sex with a prepubescent female would be abnormal of course because there is no chance of procreation, but once a female has gone through puberty it makes logical sense",negative " r/relationships TITLE: weird to message a guy (24 m) a month and half after we met(28 f)? I really wanna put my face on his face. POST: In july at a party I met a cute guy, We talked for a couple of hours, there was some hardcore flirting and he walked me home at 2 am. I added him onn facebook and we exchanged a few messages before conversation fizzled as he was travelling. I am looking for something casual and according to mutual friend he is a player who is also fooling around. I was attracted to him an",negative " r/books TITLE: I am approaching the halfway point of The Stand, and I have a question before I continue with the book. [possible spoilers] POST: I have thoroughly enjoyed the book thus far, but have reached the point in the book where people first meet Mother Abigail and they decide to journey west, and this is where I have decided that I am becoming disappointing in the book. I guess I should have read more about the book first, but I didn't want to spoil the story for myself. Specifically, it's gotten w",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How can I tell my classmates at school that I have to retake a class? POST: I'm a college student studying computer science, and I failed my discrete math course. I feel very embarrassed about it, but since the CS department is so tight-knit, it's inevitable that people will find out, especially since some of my friends will TA the course. I get really anxious whenever people talk about taking a course together that requires discrete math as a prereq, and have to say things ""I don't feel li",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Im loosing my mind. F[22] M[27] Married 8 months, together two years. POST: Ok I'll try to keep this as short as possible but give all info needed. I f[22] got married to m [27] about 8 months ago. We were together for a little over a year before hand. All of a sudden, about a month after we got married our bedroom starts getting less and less active. At first I thought it was due to work and stress. Then possibly some weirdness of ptsd (we both got back from a deoloyment a month",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by pissing, shitting, and barfing POST: *this was my friend but I think it's worthy of a post So we were camping one weekend and my friend and I are in the tent taking a few shots before going back out to chill with everyone else. I'm not one to drink rum or much hard alcohol for that matter but I decided that since it's all we have I'd go for it, a few shots wouldn't hurt. After it's all said and done we go back out and sit around the campfire with everyone else. Now this is where I ma",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [21f] Cheated on my new boyfriend [24m] with my recent ex [23m]. I feel like absolute shit, should have just said no. Advice please? POST: Throwaway since my friends know about my main account. I dated my ex for ~3 years. Great relationship, can talk about anything, his family loves me. We've experimented with open relationships and I had the green light to explore. Met my current bf shortly before leaving for 3 months for an internship. We moved quickly and decided to date. I told ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [18M] initiate a date/relationship with a girl [17F] I recently became friends with? POST: I had health with this girl (let's call her Mary) in 8th grade, we hung out in there but didn't have much in common. Fast forward 4 years, and that has changed (she is no longer super Christian and is in to lots of the same shit I am). We re-met each other at my friends house, when my friend, his girlfriend, Mary (her friend), and I were swimming. A couple drinks were had, and ther",negative " r/loseit TITLE: If you feel like you're doing the right things but seeing no progress, Go to a Doctor! POST: Here's my story 6'7"" 310lbs: I'm a former college athlete, played basketball at a University and used to be in great shape. Ever since joining the business world I've seen my weight steadily increase. The past few years I've really seen it go up. I've also been somewhat active but I decided ""Let's DO THIS!"" and the past 6 weeks I have been working out like crazy. Two nights of competitive leagu",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dads of Reddit, are there particular things that your daughter's boyfriend does that you absolutely hate? POST: Well here's my story. Today, I rode the city bus home with my girlfriend as we do everyday because we go to parochial school and don't have a chartered bus service. We got off the bus and walked to her house like we do everyday, we sit outside and wait for her parents to get home. Her dad gets home and we both get in his truck and he takes me home (I live too far to walk). So h",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by screwing my friend over in Chemistry POST: My friend (we'll call him Dave) and I are both in the same chemistry honors class. After months of laborious efforts and grueling tests, we finally make it to the final. Both of us are hanging on to A-'s for dear life. So we take the final, and we both proceed to pretty much bomb it. Sick. Now the grade I have in the class is an 88.57, which is a B+. Needless to say, as a 15-year old asian male living in one of the most demanding school ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your best arcade experience? (Game Arcades/Chuck E Cheese/Magic Mountain/Laser Tag/Similar Places) POST: For me this happened at [Magic Mountain] I figured out how to win 100 tickets every time on this one Sonic the Hedgehog game (I actually found a picture online [Here] The game was you put one token into the slot and it went down the track. These lights flashed on the different ticket amounts. I figured out how to time it right to where I won the jackpot every time... I've had t",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/F] Update. In love with my roommate from sophomore year of college. POST: Wanted to let those who are following this know what's happening now! Believe it or not it has escalated but still no kiss. I lay on top of her watching movies, we snuggle, we hold hands, I kiss her neck and vice versa. I don't know why a kiss has not happened! I know we're both scared but it all feels so natural. There have been a few times our lips have even grazed each other. It's driving me crazy",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: 21M. Never dated. Talking to a new girl. Need help. POST: I just got out of a serious 3 year relationship and I have never dated before. My ex and I just jumped into the relationship without ever going out on a date together. After 2 months I decided that it was time to get back out there. I met this girl on Tinder 2 weeks ago and we have talked every day since we matched. I got her number one day after matching. We seem to get along well but we haven't met in person. She always resp",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help! I can't figure out if I'm crazy, infatuated, or crazily infatuated. POST: As most stories start, I met someone. He was in town visiting family, he hits me up on an app (used mainly for hookups) on my phone. Seems nice, we meet up for a walk on the beach. After a short while, I'm terribly enamored with him (and he reciprocates, so it's not just a one-sided thing). We get to know eachother, screw eachothers brains out, cuddle... best date I've had in a while. The catch? He lives in",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Great boyfriend, but have emotional problema from last relationship. POST: Hi Reddit, I have a wonderful boyfriend- We're both 18- that I care deeply for. He is very sweet to me and makes me feel like the most beautiful and amazing girl in the world. I am very lucky to have him. However, my last relationship was the opposite. The male in it constantly tore me down and was verbally and emotionally abusive. To top it off I was having other stress, with school and my mother. He did not ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 M] need advice on how to address with my boyfriend [31 M] of 7 months his unhealthy lifestyle. POST: So I need some advice. I am around 6'4 210 lbs while my boyfriend, Mark, is around 6'1 300 lbs. Mark has struggled with his weight his entire life and has some terrible eating habits: putting butter, cheese, and salt on everything. I've tried to make healthier meals for us but he thinks they are all too bland. He drinks several drinks every day after work, which I don't mind exc",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20/m] and my girlfriend [16/f] broke up, but i still miss her, should i talk back? POST: I was in a relationship with my girl for almost a year. One day she started to ignore me but i didn't understand why she is ignoring me so i asked her best friend and she told me she's broke up because you don't give her much time and that was true. But I was little bit shocked too because she never complained about this thing. So right after, i talked to her and things settled down and we ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23F] am struggling with reacting to my fathers [65M] infidelity POST: Apologies for formatting/length, on mobile. Throwaway used for this topic before. I have known that my dad cheated on my mum 7 years ago for a couple of weeks now and I am really struggling with my reaction to it. I used to be a bit of a daddy's girl (not to minimise how close me and my mum are, tbh I just get on great with my parents) and so having to reconcile this image I had of my dad who was sometimes p",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (19F) girlfriend doesnt want me(22M) to go the bar with my friend(21F). POST: The background is that ever since my friend has turned 21 she and I have been wanting to go to the bar together. We are really good friends and this alone makes my girlfriend jealous and uneasy. The problem is that to go out with my 21 friend I would have to leave my girlfriend behind. She doesn't have a problem if I go out with my friends who are 21 and male, but every time I hint at wanting to go out",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Sleep Problems... Please help, Reddit. POST: I am 18 years old and am currently in college. I couldn't find any place on the web that had answers for this but I have problems over-sleeping. I will sleep through the sound of my alarm clock, mobile phone, loud noises, and often times my voice being called. I also sleep about 12-14 hours on average and just recently woke up from a sleep that lasted 20 and a half hours. I constantly have headaches when I wake up (could be from dehydration?).",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 23 m 21f, i female am downright heartbroken. . . POST: Me and my SO are happy, for the most part, but i cant seem to shake the ghost of his ex gf. Heres some background. Nov 2010 we started dating. Both got out of some pretty lengthy relationships, 2yrs for me 3 for him. This girl is the epitomy of shady. But thats for later. Anyway, i fall head over feet. But in march, we break up, for like a week, he tells me he hangouts with her, and how i probably dont wanna see him, false i care",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27F] am dating a guy [32M] that wants to take it slow, how do I communicate my needs? POST: The man I'm seeing has told me he wants to ""take it slow,"" when I asked the big, scary question of how he defines this relationship. I'm fine with taking is slow, but my big issue is I don't know how to properly communicate my needs. I feel fine having these conversations, but he's not so comfortable with it and it makes it difficult to bring up things. When we talked, I was sure to make",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I consider going back to Digg? POST: Reddit was great when I first got here. The load was about the same as Digg and the layout was practically what I was used to (with the old Digg)..everything was smooth and there were actually better topics on the front page. I was in starting to fall in love, but then it seems a few things have started to change..or fade? The speed has dropped to slower than hi-speed dial up! The front page is still probably overall better than Diggs, but how ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit- I'm moving out and leaving 2 roommates behind. I need your help avoiding bad blood. POST: Hey Reddit- So here's the situation: around 3 months ago, I started living with my boyfriend for a variety of reasons: closer to school, nicer place, problems with one of the roommates, the landlord not repairing anything including our fridge and last-but-not-least loving each other. I've finally decided to make it official and move in with him. HOWEVER, me and my roomies are locked",positive " r/jobs TITLE: I keep getting overlooked... POST: Hi family. Here's the deal. For five years, i've been out of university and I got only ONE job in my field (Radio, TV, and Film). During my time in school, I worked MANY a/v related jobs and internships to get experience (like The System said to do). I graduate, cater my resume to whatever job i'm looking at and I get the same, tired message: ""Thanks for applying. We found someone more suitable for the job. We'll keep your resume on hold, blah blah blah"". ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Please give me some advice. Stuck in a break up dilemma for nearly 2 years. POST: This is my first post at Reddit. Hope that I can get some help. Here is my story: We are both 19 this year. I broke up with my first girlfriend (Started liking her since 12 and only got together after 5 years of waiting) nearly about 2 years ago. I broke up with her out of sadness and anger. (I am quite certain that my decision making system got clouded by my emotions that very day) As far as I can t",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I was accepted for Teach For America! But now, what do I do? POST: Hey guys, you have always been one of the most helpful subreddits around, and I want to know what some of you would do in my situation. I am from Chicago, applied for TFA, and was assigned to the Bay Area. Which sounds awesome. Dilemma: My mom just died in May, and my family is still relatively shattered by that. My Dad was just diagnosed with an autoimmune disease (Sjögren's syndrome) and seems to already be on his las",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Ex-criminal, ex-addict woes [20] POST: I was heavily involved in the sale of narcotics since I was 15. I spent the last two years heavily dependant on opioids. I came out of rehab this May and, except for one slip, have been clean since. I only have a very minor criminal record. I'm in school now. I don't have any trouble picking up women. I'm pretty successful at it, I always have been. It's just that I really want more, I'm 20 (nearly 21) now and have never had a meaningful relati",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can anyone help with my car issue? Details inside. POST: My car, Mercury Sable 2002, doesn't exactly run perfectly under normal conditions, but today it started to shit the bed. I turned my car on after it was parked and I immediately noticed something was wrong. **It wasn't nearly as loud as normal, in fact, it was almost completely silent, as it ran at about 500 rpm.** I don't know the exact number, but my car normally idles at around 800-900 (I think) and can make some funny noises ti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (21F). My boyfriend (20M) described another girl as ""perfect"" and I can't seem to get over it. Help? We've been dating two years. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for two years, and nine moths of that were long distance. Early in our long distance period, around September last year, he was visiting me in my city. We were on the subway together and I was telling him something then noticed he wasn't responding. I looked up and he was staring at a girl across from us. Sh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29/F] and my [30/M] fiance have a great relationship, but how do I express that I need more physical affection without seeming needy? POST: My fiance and I have been together for 7 years. I love him dearly and our relationship is really great. We have so much fun together. There is one pain point for me, however, and I feel like whenever I bring it up, I just sound pathetic. I need more physical affection. I want more (by more I mean *any*) spontaneous hugs, I want him to put his",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (26F) with my husband (32M) Told him to stop singing in a joking manner, he says this is controlling POST: This is so stupid my head hurts but I could really use some feedback. So we were having a good evening and then my husband was singing in an annoying voice and I said ""Come on, stop"" jokingly, and he stopped, but looked offended. I asked him what the matter was and he said he never tells me what to do, that it's not okay for me to say it because I shouldn't control his life ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my crush? [21 M], should I message him or let things go POST: Okay so, I went out with a group of my friend's friends one night and this guy, Tim, who I never met before was there. We got along very well and we hung out for a few hours. I felt there was a connection and I really liked him and felt he liked me as well but we are both very reserved so the night ended without an exchange of numbers etc. So that night I added him on facebook to see if he'd message me. He di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [31M] need advice talking to [24F] about what her intentions are right now with POST: Hi everyone - So a few months ago I ended a really bad relationship. Then about a month ago I started seeing someone new. We're both in school so we haven't has much time to connect, but we've hung out a few times. Sushi twice (first my treat, second hers), and then we volunteered together at a recent Santa parade. Apart from that, we text every few days or so. It's really, really light. Wha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [26 M] have an issue with attraction. Is it wrong to only be attracted to certain types of girls? POST: The first few girls I dated and slept with were all of the skinny, athletic build with small breasts. It wasn't that I sought out this type of girl, but that our personalities aligned and we ended up getting together. My most recent relationship was a girl who was a more natural figure with large breasts (D cup and had a reduction prior). I had never been with a girl with large ",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [US] Seeking advice for friend POST: Hello, /r/legaladvice, I'd like to present a case to you, though I'd rather keep some details as private as possible. I am a student in a medical profession program and will be graduating in 2016. My girlfriend is a classmate of mine as well. We recently took our boards examinations and got some of our scores back. I passed my test without issue. My girlfriend, however, received an email stating her scores were not going to be released due to a sta",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (17M) grandfather (18M) has recently been admitted to a home with dementia and need advice with how to cope POST: I have known about My grandfathers dementia for around 5 years now, when i first heard i was distraught, i knew what was going to happen eventually and at the time i was very upset. Skip forward to now, he has just been admitted to a palliative care home, i have visited him a few time with my family, but today i went by myself after school. Right now he is still ok, a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] Dating a [22 F] is she ghosting me? Some insight please POST: So I met this girl on bumble recently moved to my area, we hit it off after a week or 2 of chatting we met up, we had a great time and agreed to do something the following week. Met up again for a baseball game and spent the entire day together, she wanted to come back to my place and we made out a bit. Left it off again with the intention to meet up the following week. We talked all week I was set to go to her p",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm scared of sex and everything sucks. POST: About a month ago I broke up with my SO of 1.5 years. We both agreed on it and even now we still talk, but it hurts like hell when I think back to the relationship. I decided to end it because I had grown more and more distant from him - almost every physical interaction we had was sexually loaded, and I'm just not comfortable at all with that. I'm pretty sure I fall somewhere on the asexual spectrum because about 97% of the time I'm just re",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] don't know how to break up with my [22 F] girlfriend of two years. POST: I have dated this girl long-distance for two years, and typically see her at least one weekend or one full week per month. In every instance, we have fought against the circumstances and elevate our relationship beyond superficiality and petty fights. We have found ways to make it work and are incredibly supportive. As a result I have a lot of love and respect for her, and she never done anything parti",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [16 M] My 5 really great [16 M/F] friends didn't invite me over to their place. POST: I'm in need of help, i'm really confused and i don't know what to think of the whole situation. Just a heads up, i'm a bit paranoid sometimes. Me and 5 of my other friends get along really well. Recently, one of the friends didn't have parents at home, so he decided to invite his friends. He invited the 4 other friends, just not me. That made me feel unbelievably sad, because i just don't get it why",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: I am a programmer who signed an NDA, and I need advice. POST: Ok, so here's the situation. It's a bit messy. I was contacted to work on a project for a group of close friends, with one of them holding majority stake. The group of friends created an LLC. I signed an NDA, and I signed a contract outlining what work I need to do. None of the work actually got done. Since that point in time, the group of friends tried to kick out the majority stakeholder, and he was having none of it. T",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I tell my boyfriend I'm not interested in a 'forever' with him? POST: F(24) dating M (20) for almost 6 months. For the last 3 weeks or so, I've recently realized that my boyfriend is not ""the one."" We have fun, the sex is great, similar interests, but the communication seems wrong about 75% of the time. We just don't think in the same way and the commitment levels are different. When we first started dating, all my chips were on the table and I was very willing to get person",negative " r/relationships TITLE: When your closest friends complain about life, how much is too much? POST: We're both in our mid/late twenties and I've known him for at least 15 years. These days it seems that most of what he says are complaints about various things: his job, living situation, family, etc. He's my closest friend, and I get that I need to be there for him. But this past weekend he went on for 40 minutes talking about his living arrangement (his landlord raised the rent and he fortuitously ended up ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Yesterday I [25F] told my BF [23M] I loved him but the feelings weren't reciprocated POST: I think this is a pretty classic issue, so I'm hoping someone has some advice for me on this. I went to visit my boyfriend over the weekend (we're long distance). We've been together for about four months and I really think he's perfect for me in just about every way. I had been kind of going back and forth over the past month or so about whether I loved him, but I solidified these feelings o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [27F] boyfriend [25M] wants to get married; I'm considering breaking up POST: We starting dating a little over two years ago. Our relationship overlapped a bit with my previous one (with an emotionally manipulative, cheating ex who had 2 children with other women during our 6 years together). It got very serious very fast, and we talked about marriage way too quickly. Now I think I might be ready to be single again. We've never had any serious fights. He is literally the sweetes",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [18m] SO [17f] and I are both at separate colleges, I have the opportunity to transfer to one much closer but she told me not to. POST: Let me be clear, this woman is my life. I cannot be without her, she's my sunshine and I truly love her. But yesterday I told her about my opportunity to be able to transfer to a college that is significantly closer to hers compared to the one I'm at now (10 hours v 10 minutes). I was so excited to tell her, but she said that she didn't want me to",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Harassment at work. What do? POST: First off I'm a guy and the incident is verbal. I would appreciate your opinions and ideas on how to deal with it. Context: I'm the new guy at work and am surrounded by guys and a few women 20 years older than I am. The workplace is professional in all aspects except behavior. I haven't had acne for over 4 years but recently some has come back. The medication I take for it dries my skin out a bit so therefore I bring a little travel bottle of Ceta",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My [18/F] girlfriend and I [20/M] broke up today because we ran out of things to talk about POST: We only dated for a month, but this is my first relationship that has ever gone over a week, and I fell madly in love with this girl because of how she was, i loved her personality and the way she acted around me and others. She was different, a true ace in the hole. When we first started talking (3 months ago) we were great, we talked about all kinds of stupid and funny and just",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] with nice girl [20 F] I met tonight. She gave me her phone number, should I call her tomorrow, or wait another day? Don't just want sex, don't want to seem creepy - just want a friend! POST: I know there's no right or wrong answer to this, but I've never really been in this situation before - never been in a relationship with someone I didn't already see every day. I met a wonderful girl at the bookstore tonight; she got my number and gave me hers. I'd love to see her again",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm quite worried, but I think this type of worry is too normal... POST: and really gets thrown to the side when brought up. I'm a 16 year old male and I really don't know how to go about getting a girlfriend, I have never had a girlfriend but I have hooked up with a few girls. The few girls I interacted with were never serious and I was the only one really interested. I am also very bad at small talk, I am just unable to think of anything relevant or interesting to talk about whenever I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my boyfriend [25M] of 1.5 years, just moved in with him last month, he gives himself more meat than me. POST: I know the title sounds really weird, but this is driving me crazy. My boyfriend and I have been seeing each other for just under a year and a half, and we recently took the step to move in with each other! Great, right? He's a loving, caring guy, who really looks out for my best interests (most of the time), makes time for me, etc. But there's one annoying, an",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I've been building a graphic novel but sadly lack the funds to finish and publish it. Would the fellow Redditors be willing to help? (Rewards are involved) POST: Ive been wanting to build this for awhile now, ever since i was a kid all i could think about was comic book and the art that drew me into a world of fantasy and wonder. Im now hoping to spread those fantasies i had as a kid to people around the world, im planning to build a graphic novel but sadly i lack the funds to get it pub",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26/F]...Can anyone shed light on why (men, specifically), disappear after a great first date? POST: I'm sure that women are just as guilty of this, too...but from a male perspective i'm rather curious. I've been on a few great first-dates over the past couple of months, and I've noticed a weird pattern. Date will be going amazing, great conversation, a lot in common; HE initiates getting my number, tells me he wants to go out again, even goes as far as to see when my schedule i",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Couple moving apart after college - what to do? POST: My BF (22) and I (21) both go to the same university and have been dating for the past year. We're both second semester seniors and are graduating this May. I love him but am worried about potentially having to deal with a long distance relationship after college. He has already accepted a job in California, while I am planning on staying in state near my family in Texas. We have already discussed this somewhat but he keep",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So I'm about a month away from graduation when my university says they accidentally gave me too much money and now I owe them $2,000. Reddit, is this even legal? POST: Basically what the title says. Sometime either this semester or last semester my university screwed up my financial aid and gave me too much money. It seems that they've just realized their mistake and now they're saying I have to pay them back $2,000. They're saying it has something to do with me being a full time stude",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] is no longer invited to christmas dinner with my friend group of 4 years POST: So i'm friends with a group of about 15 fellow creative people. We are all actors, filmmakers and/or animators. We've been friends for over 4 years now. We hang out and do stuff at least 2/3 times a week usually. But for the last two months I've hardly seen them. They keep organising stuff and days out and don't tell me about them. I see all the pictures on facebook and twitter though. In the l",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: 26/f Journey to degree has separated my partner 27/m and I. Advice? POST: Have been married for 6 years to husband 27/m. I am almost done with Bachelors degree and am having a bit of a crisis. My journey to obtain this degree has put the two of us on totally different paths. We have little in common anymore which is a problem. The bigger issue is that we were supposed to be doing this together, this was supposed to be a journey we both took. Husband didn't continue with his edu",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My landlord is trying to take back furniture he said came with my apartment. I need advice on how to keep it. POST: I'm renting an apartment that upon moving in my landlord said a couch, a futon, and two desk came with. He said the futon would be being picked up by the previous owner and asked if it could stay there. I said sure and the previous owner picked it up a week or two later. 2 months later the previous owner is saying that she is coming back for this couch. I say no, and th",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, have you ever stumbled upon a friend in NSFW material, and if so, let's hear your story. POST: Whether it be as simple as accidentally walking in on someone while they were changing, saw a picture online (found someone on gonewild even), or hacked your way into getting your hand son some photographic evidence of an acquaintances nether-regions, let's hear your story. My username is a throwaway, but represents what stumbled upon. I was doing my typical daily internet browsing, an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [29 f] Boyfriend [32 m] of 3 months just broke up with me via text message. POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for three months and things (I thought) were going really well. About a month ago at a bar, I introduced him to a long time friend (Male) that we ran into. This friend used to jokingly tease me a lot about being man-less, and during our brief convo, I joked ""See, I have a boyfriend now! He's real!"" Laughs were had by said friend and I, boyfriend is not amused. Late",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 F] have been seeing [30 M] for a very short time but feel he is losing interest - should I confront him about it? POST: I have been seeing a guy for a very short time - two weeks - but the relationship started off extremely intense. I guess there was a strong attraction at first - we met on a whim, we dont even live in the same city, but since then we have been in very close contact with each other every single day texting and phoning and video chatting. The first week of us ev",positive " r/AskDocs TITLE: Hair loss at age 21 (possibly from stress) POST: Ok, I'm 21, a male, and in college. I had a girlfriend for awhile, and was feeling pretty stressed with school and her. I started losing hair. First in a small patch, then it got a lot worse. There was a period when a handful of hair would come out every time I showered. That only stressed me out more. Me and my girlfriend broke up, and I have felt less stressed; I'm still losing hair, though. I have been losing hair for around a month and a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Some kind of spiritual awakening has left me [m/24] thoroughly confused and lost... Don't know how to move forward with my [F/20] ex. POST: I recently woke up, and realized that everything is Love. I subsequently lost my shit. Due to this realization, I no longer identify with jealousy. Monogamy no longer holds the appeal it once did, I feel that, if I am honest with myself, I am capable of loving multiple people, openly. So I dumped my girlfriend, and began meeting other women. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm[18M] with a [15F], we've been together for 2 months, But I still haven't told my family or friends about her. POST: A little background here: Before this relationship I've never had a GF before and she's (let's call her L) never had a BF before. I met L through twitter (I know), and we started talking a lot and after 2 months of talking and making sure I wasn't being catfished I finally met up with her and we sorta fell in love and now we're together. I still haven't told my fr",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by watching CSI. POST: So, here's the scenario: I'm the only one in the family (Mum and Dad, 2 sisters and me) not going to a wedding that's 2 hours away by hired coach. Instead, I'm home alone, playing games and watching TV. Also, just for relevance I had given my younger sister my cell because hers had broken and let her use it in case of an emergency. That's the set-up finished. So, the idea is that the family will be away until the end of the party (read: they'll come home at 2 in t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] have been seing a girl [20F] for the past 2 weeks. I just discovered that her brother [23 M] has a tattoo of her name on his bicep. What does that mean? POST: I have met a lot of people in my life but I never saw something similar. I have a sister and I love her, but I never imagine myself tattooing her name on me. I asked the opinion of some of my friends and they told me that it is really weird. I have been told that this girl and her brother, slept in one double bed for ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: Hey r/Loseit, I'm at 265 and wanna be at 225 by bathing suit season[M].. Is this a sensible breakfast for a calorie restricted diet and other stuff..story inside POST: -2 hard boiled eggs w. yolk (140 cals) -2 slices of whole wheat toast w. artificial butter spray (120 cals) -1 naval orange(80 cals) -2 tall glases of water (0 cal) -1 cup of black coffee (0 cal) - Total: 340 calories... -using my fitness pal it says i should be eating 2,020 calories a day. Sometimes i feel like its too ",negative " r/Dogtraining TITLE: GSD/Rott mix exhibiting dominance in another dog's territory, trying to understand the situation POST: So this week was the first week I brought my 2yr old GSD/Rott mix (Bailey) to work with me at a large plant nursery. She has spent a lot of time acclimating and testing her boundaries, but has generally been pretty great with keeping close and responding when called. However, today she did something that left me confused. Across the road from the nursery is a home with a friendly f",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Advice on Guardianship of my God-daughter? POST: Kia Ora (Hello!) from New Zealand redditors! A few days ago I was talking with one of my best mates (lets call her Rose), whose wee girl is my god-daughter. Somehow, Rose and I went into the topic of if something disastrous had happened to her and her partner and they weren't here anymore, then who the guardians would be for their child. Since I have known my god-daughter when she was baby and have an awesome relationship with her and",positive " r/Pets TITLE: Anyone have dealt with a sprained hind leg on a black lab or other medium breed? POST: My poor puppy, whose birthday is tomorrow, hurt his hind leg while running today. He started limping after yelping when he reached the end of his leash at almost a full sprint. He flipped around to face me when he reached end of the leash about two bounds from where he started off running. Maybe 5 feet. Now he barely uses his right hind leg and is having trouble laying down. Anyone ever deal with this probl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M15] have fallen in love with my friend [M16], and I don't know what to do about it. POST: I [M15] have always liked girls, both physically and emotionally. About a year ago I thought that I might be attracted to guys, but I quickly dismissed that, realizing that if I had been, I surely would have noticed it by now. But recently, I have become good friends with another guy [M16], and I realized I was starting to develop feelings towards him, physically and emotionally. I think h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I (25f) love my partner (26m) but I'm not 'in love' with him? POST: Been together 3.5 years, lived together for 2. Over the past few months our sex life has been slowing down, mainly due to myself not wanting to have sex, he's up for it everyday and isn't afraid to tell me that. He also is always asking for more blow jobs/to try more kinky stuff in bedroom which I'm not comfortable with. We argue every few weeks on this topic. I feel like sex is becoming a chore and I'm starting to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (F/20 something) tell my drug addict cousin (M/30 something) that he is not coming to my wedding? POST: I'm having a large wedding, almost everyone in my family is invited...except for my cousin, lets call him Bob. Bob has been an on and off drug addict and probably a dealer throughout his life, has a serious problem with self-control and alcohol. He is in his mid thirties and is physically aggressive, casual/part time racist/sexist, in summation, a total train wreck of a pe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [19 M] girlfriend [19 F] of almost 9 months texts my friend who is interested sexually in her POST: So my girlfriend that I met in uni really wanted to get close to my friends from high school so she came to a party with me, and met all of my friends that I always told her about. She got really close with one of my friends who I was never really close with and they started texting all the time. He has a history of not caring about a girl's relationship status and falling for girls",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: Pull a bait-and-switch on me? Enjoy your bad reviews. POST: A few years ago, my piece of crap car from high school finally broke down. I live in the Midwest, so you kinda need a car to get around. For a month, I had to borrow my friends' cars or bum rides to visit dealerships. Since I had to do this at other people's convenience, I did as much research online as possible - what (used) cars were available, how much they were, CarFax, etc. At one point, I found a pretty good price on a",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22F] Considered breaking up with [24M] a while ago, thinking back I don't know what to feel POST: We have been in a relationship for two years. We have lived with each other since late last year, and now we are in a house together with two other roommates. A while ago, I lost sight of our relationship's long-term potential. The things I used to see as amazing in him didn't seem as fantastic anymore. We got on eachother's nerves a lot more, and I lost a bit of my emotional and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My fiance makes decisions without asking me. POST: My fiance (27) and I (26) have been together for a little more than a year. We live in Japan, and while my Japanese is passable for everyday conversation, I need a translator when I visit the doctor. Whenever we go to the doctor, he always starts by explaining my symptoms to the doctor, then the doctor responds, and then they start to have a conversation about my health without my understanding what is going on. My fiance doesn'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Was this girl[24/F] hitting on me[19/M]? POST: I've always been awful at telling when women are attracted to me, so I figured I would see what this subreddit thinks. I was riding the bus back to campus from my apartment. There was only one other person on the bus besides this girl, I smile at her and she smiles back. We don't talk much at all until the bus driver stops in front of a building and gets out to go piss. She starts conversation asking me about the violin I was carrying o",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [23/f] tired of cleaning up after my extremely messy boyfriend [24/m], sick of being the maid... POST: Hey Relationship_Advice - I'll make this short and sweet, my SO and I have been living together for 2 years now (3 year relationship - 23yo&24yo) and he is a little piggy. I love him dearly, I have tried numerous times to get him to be more tidy and clean up after himself. I have tried: Not cleaning (end up cleaning after a week cause our apartment is disgusting), making",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is there a way my boyfriend and I [29/F, 28/M] ask our crappy roommate [31/F] to move out without burning bridges? POST: Hi reddit! A while ago, I posted about my crappy roommate not paying rent on time. (thanks for all of your advice!) That situation has been resolved, and she's totally caught up on rent. Since then she's basically been an OK roommate for the rest of the year, (we've just been taking care of her cat, she honestly comes home for about an hour once a week) but he",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what are some ways I can be better around babies? POST: For thanksgiving I am going to see my sister and brother in law and celebrate thanksgiving there. I just became an uncle (for the first time) a few weeks ago and this will be my first time seeing the baby. I am really good with kids in elementary school from like 3rd grade to high school to my age (I'm 23). But I have never had much experience with babies and don't really know how to treat/act around them. I'm nervous about",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I stop being such an asshole? POST: No idea where to post this, so I am going to give it a shot. My fiancé and I recently moved in together. Things are going okay to say the least. We have always been that couple that bickers back and forth, but that is just who we are. Lately though she has been getting way more upset with me over some things. I realize this is quite vague so I will try to give you an example. Last night she and I agreed to get to school the next day by le",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [22F] struggling to open up with my new [23 M] SO. Looking for advice. POST: We've been exclusively dating for almost two months now. I feel close to him but this is still all very new. What I'm struggling to bring up is this: I was born with a deformed ear amongst many other less noticeable complications at birth. I underwent reconstructive surgery on my ear as a kid. It didn't go well and now what I have is arguably just as deformed before. You'd think it'd be the first thing peo",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My girlfriend and I have been in a 2 year long relationship. I am a stoner/occasional drug user and she is very anti drugs. Its the only major problem our relationship has had and we haven't been able to work anything out. She binge drinks and I have to take care of her weekly because shes so drunk. POST: We constantly fight about my use of marijuana and recently I've had the option to take shrooms which I have once before and the effects of them were the most enjoyable long lasting effects",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35F] with my son [9M] I resent my only child POST: I love him, and wouldn't let him know my feelings. But my child is so normal. All his friends in class seem to have amazing abilities, and alls my son seems overly good with is playing on games. I love him, he's a great kid. But I hate him, he took away my best years, uses up so much money and is just himself. He loves me and always runs in smiling and happy, but damn he's so typical it's sad. All the the other mothers in his",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My kid's ""father"" is not his real dad and I have feelings for the real father. What should I do? POST: I had my first kid when I was 18 while dating Joe (not his real name) but he wasn't the father. The guy I had been dating previously, Dave (not his real name) is the father. Unfortunately, I was young and dumb and my father told everyone that Joe was the father and I didn't want to seem like a whore by saying some other man was instead. Joe and I broke up shortly after the birth of my d",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not taking the hint and cockblocking myself POST: So this just happened this weekend. It was my friends birthday party and rougly 10 of us gathered at her house to celebrate it. There was this girl at the party. Lets call her Jenna. Me and Jenna knew each other and were pretty good friends. The only thing was that I was really in love with her. Fast forward a couple of hours, we started getting pretty drunk, then all of a sudden Jenna started kissing me, and biting me on my cheek et",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my Ex-GF [24/F] duration, short-description POST: Hey Relationships, hoping someone here could give me some general advice but specific advice would be great too. Recently me and my first love, longest girlfriend (2 years), and former best friend have been in contact and seeing each other more frequently. We broke up a few years ago due to distance as we were attending different universities. I have unfortunately redeveloped feelings for her. I have made these fe",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Arthritis? POST: Hello docs, I am a 27 year old male, I weigh 220 (down from 260 at my heaviest) I have started having pain all over my body the past couple of years following a wreck. It started with lower back pain, which I attributed to my weight. Then my knees began hurting. All of my joints get stiff after sitting for a while, and I wake up feeling like my joints are rusty. After any physical activity my back feels like I have a piece of metal poking into the base of my spine, an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] need to know how to straightforwardly express my feelings to my crush/neighbor [20F] POST: Hey /r/relationships! Long-time lurker first time post here. I just want to start off by saying this is one of my favorite subs on reddit. So thanks for making this community so great guys :-). Ok I guess I should start with my post. There is this girl who lives in my neighborhood. We went to middle school and high school together but we never really talked much (I'm really shy until y",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my gf [20 F] of about 3 weeks, has fallen in love with me and I have not. POST: My girlfriend last night has confessed to me that she has fallen in love with me. I told her that right now I do not feel the same way. While she did appreciate my honesty of my feelings, this was essentially one of her biggest fears coming to fruition. She has told me on multiple occasions that one of her biggest fears is that I will not able to fall in love with her and decide to walk out",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your public bathroom etiquette? POST: I would like to know how you size up a public pisshouse, your urinal code of conduct and possibly any wierd stories you might have. Here, I will start. I fancy myself as a ""Public Restroom Connoisseur"". I use each bathroom according to its facilities and how it is populated. Such as: If there are standing urinals and I only need to piss, I will count how many there are and use the middle most urinal. Due to male insecurity, these are typica",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [21 F] of two years cancelled on me [24 M] last minute. Am I justified in being upset? POST: My partner and I are in different cities at the moment, we haven't seen each other in a few weeks. We planned several months ago to go to a gig together in my City, with a few of our friends, then today she cancelled on me just a few hours before the gig was due to start. She is a student and has exams coming up that she feels she can't afford to sacrifice time at the gig for, which I ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Unsure how to approach a new guy POST: I'm a 23/f who has a less than stellar dating history. I just move across the country to my home city because I woke up one morning to my exboyfriend trying to choke me to death. Thankfully, I made it out of that awful situation and came home to reset myself. I didn't think I'd have any desire to pursue another relationship for quite some time, but 6 months after my last awful relationship, I think I'm ready. When I first came home, I wasn't i",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by overthinking, overreacting, and almost scaring off an awesome girl. POST: So I met this girl online and we hit things off really well. We both fell for each other really fast. We talked about how crazy it was how fast things seemed to happen but initially were both okay with it. Eventually, she messaged me saying ""Its scaring me how fast things are moving, I think we need to slow down."" My mind immediately goes into over drive, ""SHES GOING TO DITCH YOU. YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE HER. YOU",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I go to regular college, 2 years of community college, or go into the Army Reserve? POST: I'm a high school senior and I'm starting to have to really make some choices that will alter how my future goes. My choices are go to regular college, go to community college for 2 years, or go into the Army Reserve. Regular college: I want to major in engineering but I'm missing one class so any college I go to, I'll have to spend an extra year to get that class finished. Also, since my da",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (M/24) ex (F/21) doesn't want to meet up. What should I do? POST: We were together for 3 years. We had a lot of great times but in the end I wasn't feeling it anymore and I ended things with her about 8 months ago. She was devastated, and I was, to have hurt her so badly. I felt very guilty and thought it best to give her space to heal, but I will always care for her so I wanted to re-connect after some breathing space as friends. I contacted her recently asking if she was free ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M]. Has anybody else ever had a single person who dominated much of their youth love-life. How did you deal when it was over? POST: I don't mean dominated like domineering. I mean like they were the person who's relationship or presence was most significant during your dating years. The story is, I met this girl in high school, we dated on/off not seriously through high school, she followed me to college, we hooked up a lot in college and ended dating my senior year and then f",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [24/m] can't stop thinking over analyzing odd relationship with [24/f] girl. Any ideas of how to stop? POST: History: Me and this girl were friends through our freshmen year of college and never hung out but ended up having sex on the last night of school. Then a few times over the summer. Then sophmore year started and we started having sex again. Most times it was her calling me when she was drunk, and a few times she called to come over but just to hang out. She never once ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Update: Australian[f19] and not sure if I'm being accepting or a pushover with my Indian boyfriend [m28]. POST: [Original post.]( Everything went better than expected. At the time of my last post, we were preemptively broken up. I met with him and made it clear that I wanted to face this as a couple, so we got back together officially and he continued to try and speak to his parents. Eventually he managed to get through, and I learned that he had used some pretty bad phrasing (doh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [15 M] asked out [15 F] even though I had no feelings for her. Have an inquiry regarding my experience. POST: About a month ago, I asked out a girl I didn't have any feelings for. This was my first time asking a girl out. I did it because I was frustrated that my sophomore year of high school was coming to a close and I had accomplished almost nothing throughout the entirety of my HS years so far. I figured that there's no risk since I don't have any feelings for her so I don't nee",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My son's [20M] girlfriend [17F] is driving me crazy and now my son wants to propose to her. POST: My oldest son (we will call him Andrew) and his girlfriend (let's call her Allie) have been together for three years. The first year she was on her best behavior and was so lovely and polite. After the first year, it all went downhill. Ever since then, Andrew is never home. Allie has very lenient parents and they allow my son to spend the night at her house. Rarely does our ",negative " r/GetMotivated TITLE: I have trouble waking up in the morning and it is causing me to waste a lot of the day. POST: I typically can sleep for 10 hours before I am comfortable getting out of bed. I feel well-rested after this point, and if I wake up earlier than this I have absolutely no difficulty falling asleep. This annoys me because, although I enjoy sleep, I absolutely do not feel like I am seizing the day. I'm not very energized by the morning and do most of my studying comfortably at nighttime. But ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (25m) made out with girl (30f) I've been seeing for a few months. Giving confusing signals after making out. POST: Hi. I've been dating this girl for 3 months already. I live in a very conservative country where anything sexual is hard to discuss. We haven't had sex yet or anything remotely that. Anyway, we were making out a few days ago in my car and things got very touchy. She was wearing a skirt and my hands were getting very frisky with her legs. Slowly I try to reach higher a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] am uncomfortable with the sexual past of the person I'm developing a relationship with [25 F] POST: I've been in a ""long-distance""-like relationship (started off as friendship, which then developed into something different: both of us are aware of that and are slowly figuring that out) for about a year. During this time, because we ended up opening up to each other about all sorts of things, one of those things from her side was the relationship with her (now) ex-boyfriend. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] can't figure out why I never feel like having sex with my boyfriend [19M] anymore POST: I [20F] have been with my boyfriend [19M] for over a year now and I've completely lost my sex drive. When I first met him, I thought he was the sexiest guy I've ever met, and I couldn't even look at him without having dirty thoughts. We ended up being friends with benefits because I just couldn't keep my hands off of him, and then we officially got together a few weeks later after feelin",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by adding a picture of my ""crotch"" to mystory on my snapchat. NSFW 'ish POST: Minor note: I am a boy, he is a boy (not gay) and i have gotten a new bigger phone (harder to handle with one hand) So me and a friend of mine have been sending ""snaps"" all day to each other we sent weird stuff in the backgruond of the tekst (he has a severd doll hand which show a thumbs up idk why) and i send pictures of my (no skin) just for fun. As we send saps betwen us he keep's intensefying his doll arm",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it better to have a similar or differing personalities? [19M] considering a [18F] long-term relationship. POST: I'm considering getting into a long-term relationship with a friend I've had since high school. We've known each other for six years, but we recently started hanging out a lot more frequently over the past four months. It's to the point where I think I need to clarify the relationship status with her. The main hook of our relationship is that we come from almost identic",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] dad's [49M] relationship with his young girlfriend [25F] is starting to weird me out. POST: My parents have been divorced for about 8 years now. They were always quite different but just grew even further apart in personalities over the years. Since the breakup my dad's had a few girlfriends (all his own age) me and my brother [16M] thought suited him really well. However, quite recently he met this younger girl, I'll call her Hannah, and is now in a relationship with her. ",positive " r/self TITLE: Backpacking in Europe for 5 more weeks not sure if I have the cash. Advice if you have it. POST: Did numbers crunching after a few weeks and realizing everything was more expensive than I had thought. My girlfriend and I looked through our tour books (to double check) and it's was even more expensive than it even said. We rarely eat out. Usually have a free breakfast where we stay, no lunch, and I make dinner when we get back to the hostel. Have a 2 month train ticket paid for and we are stay",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] am having feelings for FWB [27M]. POST: I became friends with this guy in the spring at the university we attend, both students in the same major. About a month into our friendship we got drunk on some red wine and slept together. After that, we started hooking up regularly on the weekends. At first I enjoyed our Friends with Benefits perks of no commitment and great sex, but the more we hang out together the more I've grown to like him than more than just a friend. However",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Why is my GF (20F) is acting towards me (20M) the same way her ex-BF acted towards her? POST: This girl and I have been friends for about two and a half years now, but were never particularly close until recently. From January to August of this year, she was dating a member of our group of friends. She's said that she wasn't particularly interested in him, but was pressured into it by our friends, who thought the relationship would be good for them (or at least him; he was rather dep",negative " r/cats TITLE: Help! My cat acting strangely! POST: About a week ago, my one-year-old cat seemed to be very sensitive to touch around his left ear and shoulder. I thought he had just hurt himself and didn't think too much of it. Now he still seems to be hurt in some way, but is also very lethargic and somewhat glassy eyed. All he wants to do is sleep (and I've been letting him), and when he moves to go eat or something, he moves incredibly slowly as if he's totally stiff. He had been playing quite a bi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have reason to believe that one of my brothers stole a pair of my dirty panties. Not only were they one of my favorite pairs, but it makes me incredibly uncomfortable, considering what I'm assuming he's doing with it. How do I go about to fix this? POST: Well my brothers and I share a bathroom. One night I took a shower and left my dirty clothes on the floor, with the intention of putting them in the laundry the next morning. The next morning, I noticed that the pair of pants I wore wa",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do I balance including an asocial BF while not being isolated from my friends? POST: So I have been dating my BF for just under a year now. He is a fantastic, smart, grounded, creative, trustworthy guy. Sometimes he has issues showing/expressing emotion, but so do I, so I can't judge. When we hang out, our conversations and personalities seem to just click. I have never been as comfortable or open with another person and I think I love him. Here is the issue. He doesn't re",positive " r/relationships TITLE: GF broke small promise, how should i react? POST: both 21, dating just under a year. An Imax just came to our city, and I asked her if we could go together for the first time. She said yes, and I was pumped. Last weekend we saw a movie together, not at Imax, tonight she went to see the same movie with one of her girlfriends, (doesn't matter she is seeing the same movie), but what upsets me, is that it is at the Imax. I tried calling her before she left, but did not get a hold of h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [23M] girlfriend [21F] wants me to motivate her to lose weight. POST: To start off, me and my girlfriend have known each other for 6 years over the internet through gaming. 3 months ago, I went to meet her and we immediately clicked (we flirted for months prior). We have now been in a committed relationship for a month now and we couldn't be happier. My girlfriend has always been active. She ran track in high school for years but she has gained a little weight over the years and ",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: [19M] Need help figuring out how to approach first date with french girl in her mid to late 20s... POST: I am on exchange right now in France and am loving it. Friday night I was out with a bunch of my guy friends barhopping. Sitting at the bar, this French girl (friends contentiously debated her age, I didn't ask) came by to order a drink and ended up talking to me for a good half an hour, mostly about politics and her wanting to be a lawyer. I was a bit drunk, but thought she might",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [23/F] argue with my Grandad [86/M] about religion or just let it lie? POST: So my Popa (Grandad) has sent me as well as other members of my family, personalized letters, broadly outlining how we're all going to hell if we don't accept Jesus as Lord, etc. He puts it sweetly but the message is the same. I love my Popa, and he lost my Grandma about 7 years ago, and has been getting steadily more Evangelical (I think, or maybe he is just more open about it). Now I don't know wh",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [25m] Fighting for a relationship with my SO [21m] by letting go? POST: 18 months into this relationship, I am both ready to call it quits and still want it to last forever. He has everything I am looking for, he's gorgeous, he's kind, funny, we have a passion for gaming. Everything's perfect **except** he is an objectively terrible boyfriend. Disinterested in sex beyond handjobs, unwilling to share the more private parts of his personality (unless we're really, really drunk), ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [20 F] ex/ now ""friend"" seems to be getting more distant from me[20 M] -worried I might lose her POST: Ok so this girl and I started dating in Highschool around the beginning of sophomore year and it was great. We had great times together and it was everything a teenager could ask for. Then college loomed. I ended up attending school in Texas and her in Pennsylvania and I had made up in my mind that I was going to experience college to the fullest. (not be tied down in a relatio",positive " r/cats TITLE: Help! How do I trim my cat's claws? POST: I haven't been able to trim Tofu's claws in months. I'm worried that someday she'll get stuck to whatever she's jumping down from and rip her foot off. Yesterday, she slid off the couch on a blanket because she lost her balance and couldn't get unstuck from the blanket. She's really clumsy... The problem is she squeaks in sadness every time I try to trim her front claws. I've tried laying next to/on top of her a little to keep her from going anywhere",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [F 22] and I [M 25] (together for 1 year) have started going into a more cuddly phase in the past few months. Will this ruin our relationship? POST: So I find this is a pattern that I encounter in all of my relationships I've had. We go from having fiery passionate sex to well... now instead of both of us commenting on how we want to fuck each other it has turned more into a ""aw you're so cute"" type of phase. At first I was fine with it, but it's starting to feel t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my boyfriend [22M] 9 months, think he's going to propose and I don't know what to do. POST: Title pretty much says it all, but I'll give you my reasoning so you can make sense of the situation! We have an amazing, amazing relationship. I know you're thinking that we're possibly still in the honeymoon phase, but we *do* fight when we have to, make up when we have to, and discuss things when we need to. We live together, and have done so from about 2 months in. We've t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Why is my [32m] wife [31f] of 5 years acting like an immature brat? POST: She went out last Saturday night for a girls night. Something she hasn't done in a while. She's been blowing off her single friends because she's no longer in her party phase. Her words not mine. Anyway she goes out gets way too drunk, ends up making out with a guy!! And then pukes all over my car when I go pick her up. Believe it or not the make out doesn't concern me much. She was fairly wasted and in our ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [23 M] dating a friends[24 M] ex-GF [22 F], and don't know how to approach the situation. POST: So my friend dated this girl for around 3 years, and she broke up with him a few months ago due to him attempting to cheat and his borderline controlling/manipulative behavior. While he's not a very good boyfriend ever since I've known him, he's completely different as a friend and his friendship is something I value. Over this 3 year period, this girl became a part of our group of fr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33 M] with new acquaintance [30 F]. How to deal with lingering third wheels? POST: Okay, so my question is mainly about how to deal with that one person that just hangs around and doesn't leave when it would otherwise just be me and this lady. I met this awesome lady at a wedding reception last night. We hit it off like I have never experienced before, danced together all night, same sense of humor, it was great. She was crashing in my roommate/the bride's room and I was to br",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I betrayed my boyfriend's trust POST: I've been with my boyfriend for over a year now. We're both in our 20's. I love him very much and I feel that he's the one I want to marry and spend the rest of my life with. About a month ago, we started talking about having an open relationship. I told him what my rules for him was, but we didn't discuss the rules for me. In the last two weeks, I've become interested in hooking up with a friend, and I told him about it. My boyfriend isn't the t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my Ex [20 F] duration, 1 year later POST: I dated my ex for three years, she dumped me on our third year anniversary after I found out she had been seeing another guy behind my back by driving down to surprise her. It took a while, but I've been recently dating and seeing other people after 9 months in the dumps. I'm preparing to move out of state after graduating from college this semester and I'm cleaning out all my junk, and I found a ton of old love letters and no",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with a new job that is really stressing me out POST: I just got a new job in a wonderful custodial field. I make about double my old job. It's my first full time job, and I'm still in training right now. For 6 months this job requires me in probation, but all it feels like is me disappointing my co-workers (Korean ladies mostly) because I didn't come from the same experience. I used to work at the mall as a house keeper for 2 and a half years before this job. I had the q",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my best friend [20F] of 6 years, I'm quickly losing interest in our friendship, but I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. POST: A little backstory: My best friend and I were extremely close all throughout high school and now into our college years. She moved away for college, but returns every summer to our hometown, and I fly out to visit her every spring break. Despite the distance we've kept extremely close throughout the years. However, during my most recent vis",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Why does he [17] ignore me? POST: Basically, I'm coming to reddit today in order to ask a friendship question. Here's the scoop: I've [17f] been friends with this guy [17m] for about 3 years now. We've been super close, had our ups and downs, and rebuilt our friendship - a.k.a. we're in a vicious circle. Recently, I found out that he actually has feelings for me. For years, I've been crushing on him. So, with this information, I decided to go for it. Without me saying anything, he",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Men (and women) of reddit: When you give a girl a compliment on her appearance, how often is it sincere vs. bullshitting? POST: My friend is super suspicious of anyone who compliments her (in general, but particularly on her appearance). She generally assumes there is a hidden agenda, or that the person is actually a jerk (e.g., that scene from Mean Girls where Regina George compliments the bracelet that's ""So retro!"" and then says it's the ugliest f'ing thing she's ever seen). So I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19/F] with my boyfriend [21/M] of 2 years are on the verge of breaking up for good. What do I do? POST: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 2 years, and I thought that we had a good relationship, but apparently he has been hiding a lot from me. He moved with me to a different city about 7 hours away from his hometown, and he has become extremely homesick. He feels as though he has to go home right away even though he has 6 more weeks left of this semester. I feel like it ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I M[22] am getting very confused over my best friend F[23] advice would be appreciated POST: I've known this friend let's call her Virginia for around a year and a half now and she has a boyfriend let's call him Tom for around the same amount of time, I'll come right out and say it I really like her, like ALOT and from what I can tell she likes me back, this is where my confusion starts. Me and Virginia flirt when we chat it's just the kind of people we are I know its probably not t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I 22F, being too negative about my boyfriend 24 drinking? POST: I grew up in a family who had a severe drinking problem...and still does. My father, 59, is a binge drinker and my mother, 51, starts drinking when she wakes up. My parents drink everyday, and my dad would start once he got home from work. My boyfriend, 24, and I enjoy grabbing drinks. However, he drinks more regularly than I do. I'll admit that I have been getting more and more opinionated on his drinking, and ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32 M ] with my girlfriend [31 F] 5 years, caught me masturbating to violent porn. It is causing some weirdness. POST: My girlfriend walked in on me exploring some simulated violent pornography. She was sexual abused in her younger years so it was definitely a shock for her. She says it makes her uncomfortable and me trying to explain to her that it was a one time, let's give this a try thing is not working. Is there anything I can say to her to make this better? Or to make her",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] feel like I can't have girls over thanks to how I sleep POST: Ever since I can remember I have always snored in my sleep. My snoring is incredibly loud and frequent, constantly sounding like I'm choking. I'm so loud that my roommate had to move out my first year in college as he couldn't sleep. I also move a lot in my sleep. This isn't just regular tossing and turning, it's rolling all across the bed. I have even rolled off the top of my bunkbed, luckily without injury, ",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Bridal & Grooms party with mixed genders? HELP! POST: My fiancee and I both are having 4 people in our bridal and grooms party. I am having my best man, 2 grooms men, and one groomswoman. My fiancee is having a maid of honor, 2 bridesmaids, and 1 bridesman. The issue we're facing is getting ready the morning of the wedding. The male in her party (Mark) obviously doesn't need to fully get ready with them (no hair and make-up needed), but the woman in my party (Maria) obviously can'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I Tell My GF of 3yrs That I Do Drugs? POST: So i have been dating my girlfriend since freshman year of college (now 21) and I have since sophomore or junior year begun experimenting with drugs. I mostly smoke weed though but am going to try shrooms and hope to try acid in the near future. I know my girlfriend pretty well, she is chill and very accepting of everything. It's more that she personally is kind of a saint. She doesn't drink or do drugs of any kind and is fit. I have",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being a responsible nice guy POST: The Where: NYC company holiday party at a hip joint in Manhattan(read Open Bar) The Who: Many drunk 20 somethings(myself included) and their bosses(including the CEO of the whole damn company) The What: Co-worker, lets call her Leslie, gets shitfaced and I see her being brought to the bathroom by the bouncer. I go and check wassup. She is not okay, not hospital trip 'not okay,' but still not good. An hour and a half; 3 glasses of water; sever",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [m/27] told me [f/24] he's a commitmentphobe. POST: Hi /r/relationships, looking for some insight or thoughts. My boyfriend and I have been dating for about 8 months. We met online and everything was so amazing at the start. Similar backgrounds, similar lifestyles, grew up in the same area. Things were amazing and I met his family within about a month and a half of dating. Met his friends before that. Anyway, for the past few weeks / months, I've felt less important to ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 F] with my best friend [21 M] of 3 years, has become too clingy POST: So basically my best friend, has become too clingy. It gets annoying sometimes because he wants to hang out like every other day. I am more introverted and don't like going out on weekdays or nights before I have work. But he tells me its ""ugly"" that I don't wanna hang out with him. I'm just getting tired of it and don't want to offend him because he gets offended easily and thinks I don't want to ha",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Essential Cell Biology, 3rd Edition by Bruce Alberts et al.... Where can I find it? POST: So ebay fucked up my textbook order and I have no idea where it is, and I have no idea how to contact anyone about this. I called ebay to no avail, FedEx (the carrier) who said they didn't know where it was, and the seller is closed at the moment because it's the weekend. I am in desperate need of this textbook right now and I have to finish my homework as soon as I can. Is there anyone who can find",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] and a new date [29 M], We went on a date a month ago and I told him I'd like to see him again. He seemed taken aback and said he was busy for the next few weeks... POST: For whatever reason, me exclaiming that I'd like to hang out with him somehow made it awkward for him. I asked him later if he simply was avoiding discomfort in rejecting me by saying yes, but that he was busy. He said no, and that was that. Well it's been a month and through the weeks he had not once cont",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF is afraid of her feelings for me... should I stay or go? POST: Basically I've [22M] had a GF [20F] about a year now and I'm in love with her.. but yesterday we had a talk about our relationship and why we do certain things and what we could do to be better bf/GF to each other. So anyways she told me she's too laid back in the relationship and she's not bothered to do certain things for me and that she feels lazy. I noticed this before but I thought that was just how she was (",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf (M, 22), of a year, and I (F, 18) are going to break up if I can't stop arguing with him about small things. Help! POST: We argue from time to time usually about little things. I'm not going to lie, usually I'm the one that's pissed about something. I just feel like he never takes responsibility for doing anything wrong. Every time that I get mad instead of apologizing or reflecting on what he did, he just puts the blame on me and says that I get mad at everything. Today we got",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Girlfriend is depressed, upset about her weight. How do I help her? POST: First of all, throw-away account. I'm an active member of /r/LoseIt. I've lost nearly 50 lbs in the last 5 months through a slight diet change and a boat load of exercise. I started biking to work and running. I'm currently up to running 6 miles in an hour. I did all this because my girlfriend and I made a pact in January to lose weight. I kept up my end of the bargain and she went the opposite way: she gained 30 lb",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (22f) feel awkward after sending my boyfriend (m22) some naked photos. POST: Last night I was messing around taking selfies with different filters. It escalated and I ended up taking some (I thought pretty) nudes of myself. My boyfriend of eight months called me while I was in the act, so I told him and asked him if he wanted to see them. He seemed a bit surprised, but enthusiastic. I said I would email them to him and hung up - then spent a while trying to pick out the nicest on",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I need advice....(16/m and 16/f) POST: We first dated about a year ago. She was waaaaaaaaay out of my league and pretty much perfect (in my eyes). Unfortunately that only lasted for about a month (until finals). She said she was too stressed to be 'more than friends', so I let her go. We talked over the summer and hung out every once in a while, but things didn't really get serious again. Things died down during the school year and we stopped talking, but last week she texted m",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with [26M] in a serious LDR for over 2 years. I was moving to him next month. I just broke up with him. POST: 22f. 26m. We were together for 2 years, all long distance. He's in a place where he has family, grad school, and a great job. I have family, a crap job and savings. It was our mutual decision for me to move out to his city in my own apartment. He planed to come early Dec so we can talk and get into specifics on financials, what we expect, how much he's helping me wit",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to be honest (little league of legends context) POST: So, fuck up was from yesterday, but all of this started like 3 or 4 days ago. I'm League of Legends player who wants to have fun playing games (mostly ranked games) with normal people. I thought i had managed to find a normal person. Until yesterday. Everything seemed normal, we started a game and all was good. In first minutes of the match he said ""I am "" I ignored it mostly because we had a troll in the game and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 29 M with my 28 F of 4-months have some differences about what is weird when it pertains to go-go dancing POST: So my girlfriend who was at first really quiet and shy has told me a bunch of weird things about her past but this one in particular bugged me and I'm not sure if I'm overreacting. We're sitting on the couch just having a normal discussion when she starts telling me about how she used to go-go dance. When she tells me it's not in a shameful manner it is as if she is boas",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Today I just witnessed one of those most stupidest things a human being could ever utter about human sexuality. Reddit, what is the most unintellectual thing you've ever heard? POST: So here I am on my bus after school just about to plug in my iPod to jam out to some Pendulum, when I hear these two girls two seats behind me arguing pretty noticeably loudly about the topic of people with same gender ""partners."" They keep going on and on and the dumber one eventually yells out, ""ONLY A MA",negative " r/travel TITLE: PSA: Do not connect through Boston when traveling into US. POST: Recently flew through Boston on my way from Europe. The experience was one of the worst I have ever had entering the US. When flying into US (even if just connecting through to another US destination), everyone has to go through passport control and get their bag. The passport control line for US citizens was over 400 people long, with one passport control staff serving the entire line. It took 55 minutes just to clear it. T",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: For the 1st time in 4 years I actually despised my patient (emt) for still being alive POST: Im an emt at a Inter-Facility Transport (IFT) ambulance company and tonight my first call was a pickup at an ER to Convalescent Home. Ive been doing this for over 4 years so ive seen and become accustomed to alot of pointless suffering. What I mean by that is a family members inability to recognize the proper time to accept fate and let their loved one pass with whatever respect and dignity they",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by pushing a hot girl down the stairs on accident POST: Today I fucked up, Reddit. Just now. It all started after my 1rd period. I was walking to my next class and this hot girl that I helped out earlier looked behind at me with a wink. I'm thinking in my head O.O, and then she ""dropped"" her pen, and I swear it was on purpose because she bent over when I was right behind her. So in this split second decision I chose to stay behind her instead of moving to the side. This is where we bot",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting a kid deported back to Mexico. POST: So in classic TIFU fashion this didn't actually happen today, but happened a long time ago back in the 5th Grade. So back in the first half of 5th Grade there was a kid named Erick, and he constantly would bully me with his friends. I gotta tell you Reddit I may not have been the strongest kid, but I definitely was the sliest. So he in his friends were at the playground and I edge him on into a fight. I took a fall and let him beat me up. N",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [27/m] Didn't ask her in time. POST: I've recently (~2 months ago) broken up with a girlfriend. Once broken up, and hanging out with an ex I realized that yes, I did in fact have very strong feelings for her. (The reasons we broke up are gone) And I was pretty sure based on the amount of flirting going on between us that she felt the same way. I didn't tell her, thinking I'd wait for at least a month to make sure Id' properly moved on (both wanting to make sure she didn't becom",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I am being accused of sexual assault. Story inside. Anyone have any advice for my course of action? POST: I was at my friends house and it was late and I sat on love seat and I fell asleep. I'm not sure how long I was asleep but I was woken up by a girl getting up off the couch. While I was sleeping I moved around and was leaning toward her on the couch. When she got up it woke me and that was the first time I noticed that she was even on the couch. She left the room, I don't know where ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I help my brother, who is a recovering drug addict, feel welcome and stay clean while living with me? POST: Hi redditors! I hope I am not posting this in the wrong place. My brother (23) who has been clean for three months had a seizure Saturday. This is his first seizure and they think it is related to withdrawal. There were no drugs in his system when they tested his blood at the hospital. So, he's been on drugs for a couple years...about 5~7 years, actually. We haven't talke",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24, F) had an affair with a married man (30, M) last year. Should I tell his wife? (30, F) POST: Last year, I (24, F) had a six-week long affair with a married man (30, M) while he was in the middle of being away from his wife for six months. (they saw each other about once every two weeks.) I know, this is terrible of me and I am a terrible person for sleeping with him. However, I felt like it was his responsibility to be faithful to his wife, and I wasn't interested in a seri",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by keeping my job POST: My company just slashed hours to 'optimize sales opportunities'. When this announcement was made, I was on vacation and knew absolutely nothing about what was going on, and couldn't get any answers from anyone in regards to whether come the switch day, I still had hours, when those may be and even if I still had a job. Today, my first day back, I tried again to get in contact with someone and still no luck. Finally, I go on lunch break and about 10 minutes in I g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22F] with my friend [22m] friends 6 months, I want to know if cuddling with him would be cheating POST: so I used to be a serial cheater. a lot of this was because I was a drug addict. I am clean now and have a promising new relationship. However a friend from my old life is coming to town and asked if we could at least cuddle and watch movies even though I'm not single. We always had a thing going but were too far away. My sense of what's normal and what isn't is rather skewed.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: how do you deal POST: Look, I'm a smart fucker. I have a high IQ (don't know what it is now though), I was in the gifted program growing up, etc.. I'm an introvert, I have ADD that I take Ritalin for (and it helps IMMENSELY). I despise small talk. The thing is I was raised by parents who grew up as farm folk. I have little to no social graces, and what's more, I HATE the game of life. I don't kiss ass or play politics. That's burned me many times and continues to burn me. I value honesty",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by helping a friend sell stolen jewelry. POST: TIFU by, well, this happened this year april. I was good friends with a guy named Devin. Devin had never lied to me and we had always been honest with each other. Devin came to me one day asking to help him sell jewelry his grandmother gave him. Now, knowing Devin, I didn't question what he was saying. So we headed off to some pawn shops to get the best quote. We found a place that would buy this jewelry for $1,500. So we go to sell the jewe",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27F] with my ex [32 M] broke up, issues still trying to be friends. Help with anger? POST: My ex and I have been broken up now for about four months after a two-ish year relationship and have managed to keep things civil and even friendly. We talk regularly, do stuff together from time to time and are still on good terms. The issue I'm having is that due to a lot of stuff that happened during our relationship, I have a lot of unresolved feelings of anger, hurt, betrayal and sadn",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My sister [18 F] just left for college. I [17 M] am actually pretty sad. POST: So my sister left for college today and I'm pretty sad. I'm the youngest kid of 4 and I've always had people in my house to play with, entertain, talk to, and just to be with. I know I'm going to be home alone all day by myself because my mom works all day. We shared friends and most of my friends were older and are off to college while I still have 1 year of high school left. I'm just dreading thi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My wife [20F] won't talk to me [20M] what do I do? POST: My wife is back home taking care of her mom (she's been there for about 6 weeks) and she's supposed to come home next Monday. However for the past 3 weeks she hasn't been replying to my texts and when she does its only 1 word messages. We've been together about 9 months total and married 6 months on the 15th. The only things that have changed is her moving here. I'm in the army and she had to move to NC from WA. She says she'",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How to stop thinking? POST: Well here it goes, I'm the kind of person that constantly replays everything in his head. Different scenarios to every situation, past and present. Like what I could have said instead of what I did say, or for a future conversation I will have, I will try to come up with a response to every plausible thing that other person may say. I recently just turned 25,and am feeling discontent with my life. I cant stop contemplating my life and the girl I'm with and my ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My best friend [19/F] is turning to me for advice on falling in love with a 38 year old. I'm not sure what to say and how to put it lightly. POST: My roommate and best friend recently started dating a 38 year-old man that she met through school. She is 19. Her teacher was looking for a student to give Italian lessons in exchange for english lessons for her friend. This friend turned out to be the guy and he and my roommate had been exchanging lessons at his restaurant for a cou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my fiancee [26 F] 1.5yrs, I have negative kissing feelings. POST: Met my fiancee a year and a half ago. Asked her to be my wife about 6 months ago. I love her dearly. But we had a fight last night and we went to bed angry and that let my mind race. I started thinking about lots of things. Most troubling is I'm not getting those happy feelings when we kiss. If we're playing around or maybe have a little disagreement she stands in front of me, and demands that we kiss. ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My new girl gets sexual blackouts and sexual rage. POST: This may be more suited to a psychological thread or the like, not sure. I've been dating a girl for a month, whom has some anxiety issues. With me, she is happy as pie and very sexual - we're extremely compatible. Sometimes when having extremely good sex, she will deeply orgasmand pretty much black out in a minute or two. She doesn't remember anything from when she black out, but awakens hyperventilating and a little ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My LDR BF [27m] of <1 year has lost interest in sexting with me [27f] POST: Background: Met online, were together for three months, really intense then broke up for about four. In that time, we remained close and talked most of the time. Recently back together, happier than before. The break was good and necessary. We've spent plenty of time together in person. The gap is expected to be closed as of September. Everything is great in general, except for this. Before the break-up, he ",positive " r/loseit TITLE: [SV] WTF?!? Ate maintenance in Las Vegas for a week... lost 6 1/2 LBS when I got back! (Advice Inside) POST: I have been eating about 1200 calories per day since August 14th and had lost 21lbs (240lbs down to 219lbs). My weight loss had slowed down a bit. I came back from Vegas after a week over eating normally (not over eating, but not eating healthy - burgers, fries, fish and chips, jack in the box, big sandwiches). I came back to see the scale read 213lbs! What?!?! I would have been happ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my BF [31M] 3 years. Never compliments me. Does romance die after some time? POST: my boyfriend is the best thing that has happened to me an continues to be. I am at the best place of my life right now, and I couldn't have done it without him or his support. We've been together for 3 years and it's had its ups and downs, but overall it's been good. But I remember in the early early stages of our relationship how he would often tell me how beautiful I was. It meant so mu",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Don't be afraid of food like I was (a lesson learned) POST: After loosing almost 15kg in around 6 months with the help of crossfit, I had developed a good idea of what I can and can't eat. I was afraid if I eat ice-cream, or a big bowl of pasta I would put on an insane amount of weight, ruining my weekly progress. Well last weekend I was treated to an amazing trip to Geelong with my Boyfriend, and safe to say I ate a few 'no-no' foods because what they offer there isn't available where we",negative " r/travel TITLE: Need a new USA passport in BKK quickly POST: Hi, So I recently arrived in Thailand for a trip around SEA for a few weeks. I left from the Netherlands, and I had 2 full blank pages in my passport with a few stamp places left. When leaving the EU I asked the guy to please stamp one of the empty slots and leave the pages blank, he totally ignored me and stamped a blank page. Then I arrived in Thailand, tried to do the same thing. Also got totally ignored and they stamped THE OTH",negative " r/Parenting TITLE: W-sit: yet another sign of autism spectrum disorder...? POST: My MIL is a teacher, and a few months ago she pointed out that our son (now 22 mo) sits with his legs [in a W position] We looked it up online and saw it's bad for hips and knees, so we correct him when we see it, but it's still his go-to position. Now apparently it's a possible sign of ASD? She also pointed out a few other red flags: occasionally runs on tip toe (we correct this, too), sometimes ignores us if he's playing, l",negative " r/cats TITLE: Need help with an unwanted ""friend"" POST: My neighbor's cat will not go away!!! I don't pet the cat, basically ignore it. My cat absolutely hates him, trying to attack through the door & when he does go outside he immediately attacks her cat. They are both neutered males. The biggest problem with the cat being here is that it's attacking [the stray cat]( I've been feeding & trying to steal his food. I've been feeding the stray for over 6 months & still can't touch him. He's finally let me ge",negative " r/self TITLE: Family Member Uses Personal Info For ID Fraud POST: Hey Reddit, first post ever (finally, sat on the sideline for months) so please forgive any mistakes in my etiquette. Today I responded to a plea from a facebook friend of mine asking for people to delete their private info from a site called ""spokeo.com."" Bored at work, I decided to give it a shot. Sure enough I was on there with all kinds of info that really creeped me out. I'm sure this is / will be a problem in itself but the thing t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [27/M] thinking of breaking things off with [27/F] a girl I've kinda been seeing. POST: So about 3 months ago, I met this girl online that lives about 3 hours away from me. I decided to go see her (I also have friends in that town so it was win-win), and we hit things off. We've been on a couple of dates, we talk everyday, I had met her mom last time I was there, so on so forth. We aren't exclusive btw. My dilemma is I'm thinking of ending things with her. I'm really falling for",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friends [23F],[23M] together several years, should not be getting married. POST: Two of my close friends are getting married in a few months. They are absolutely perfect for each other, however, neither of them is in a good enough emotional state to be taking this step. The girl in particular is having an incredibly hard time dealing with it. She often tells her fiancé that she doesn't want to get married. He wants kids, she doesn't. I think he thinks he can convince her otherwise",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: MWAHAHAHA THAT is what you get for not letting me into your group! POST: I'm currently in class with these two girls that I knew from last semester. We are pretty good friends. This semester, the professor allowed us to choose our own groups for a project. When I asked the girls about starting the group, they told me that they already formed a group with someone they just met. I was very annoyed.. but I understood why they did that. I was kind of lazy this semester. I didn't even fee",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My best friend [16M] and I [21M] are on really shaky ground and I don't know what to do to save our relationship. POST: My best friend [16M] and I [21M] have been fighting A LOT recently. We've been best friends for about a year and a half now and as of late, things have been really rocky. Our relationship is odd... I've never experienced anything like it before. We're really close. We basically know everything about each other and normally spend time every single day together.",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Women of Reddit, can you offer us men advice on dressing for romantic success? POST: Many of us are single, many of us want to attract potential mates, and many of us are clueless when it comes to fashion. I've heard all kinds of advice from some of the women in my life, but I'm curious what you ladies might offer. I personally, am in my mid 20's. Generally I end up wearing t-shirts, nice jeans (the more stylish variety), Adidas shoes. I think it's important to dress well and present yo",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Almost died today... POST: So, today I was stopped at a red light, waiting to turn left and continue my voyage home. But, as soon as the light turned green and i went to accelerate, my truck started spinning/hydroplaning. While this was happening, it was like I left my body and was watching myself steer into the drift (from what I learned in driving school on how to get out of this situation) and my music just drained from my ears and it was complete silence and a really weird feeling. A",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So... Apparently certain staff and students at my high school thought I was either gay, or going to come out of the closet later in life. What shocking rumors did you find out about yourself or someone else after high school? True or untrue, I genuinely want to hear them! POST: Just for clarification, I was very athletic in highschool. I ran track, powerlifted, played baseball, and football. However, I was raised in an environment where I was taught to not only respect LGBT people, but t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] was ignored and was told to apologize to my boyfriend [25M] for spraying him with body splash POST: I have been dating this guy for almost 5 years and I know he has been particular about some things, but this caught me off guard. We were lying in bed getting ready to go to sleep and we were randomly talking about showering and he said he didn't get to that day since he was really busy working. Forward to me putting on lotion and I have a body splash perfume from BBW and spray",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU at my school POST: I am in 8th grade, and I'm pretty short. I have a tall friend, who's 4-5 inches taller than me. We were walking back to our lockers at the end of the day, just under 2 hours ago, when I pulled out a disc golf disc that I had stowed in my binder. I also had my lunchbox, which had a thermos in it. I passed the disc to my friend, who placed it on top of my locker. I couldn't reach it and I was holding my lunchbox so I decided to try to knock it down with that. There are w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: M 19 thinking of breaking up with F 18 POST: Hello and thanks for reading. I've been dating my girlfriend for almost 2 years and we have great chemistry but lately I've been curious of what it's like with other girls. I've just entered into college and while we're able to still see each other, I see other girls all the time and meet new ones in classes and can't help but wonder what potential they have. The thing with my girlfriend is that I'm a little bored of her... but it both",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How do I [21 F ] try to initiate a kiss or even just physical contact with a new guy? POST: I've been seeing a new guy [23 sorry] for the past two weeks. We've been on two dates and I really like him. I think he likes me too since he keeps asking to hang out. In fact we have plans for dinner this Friday. Anyways, the two dates we've had have been going to bonfires so there's a lot of standing and chatting with people. We always seem to have like a 1ft gap between us if we're standi",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: I am the losing plaintiff in a Small Claims case in California. Which is the better bet for a 2nd chance, ""Request to Correct Judgement"" or ""Petition for a Writ of Review""? POST: I lost a very good small claims case against my SBA lender (the defendant) in LA Superior Court on March 1st on a claim for damages per California Civil Code, Section 1785.25-1785.26.(Notice of negative credit reporting) Admittedly, I brought a complicated case involving ""Promissory Estoppel"" to the Small Cl",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Chick-Fil-A: ""My Pleasure"" .. or is it? POST: Looked around for other threads about this, but none of the results satisfied me. So here I ask... Why do Chick-Fil-A employees all have to say ""my pleasure?"" Personally I think there is less sincerity in the phrase since they have to say it as per corporate, and since it's said multiple times in one sale, loses more and more sincerity every time I say thank you for something (handing my credit card back to me, handing me my food, etc.). I'd ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Where is the weirdest place you've ever had sex? POST: Last summer, my current boyfriend and I had just gotten together and still in the honeymoon phase, were really horny. I still lived at home, and he was living at his grandparents' house for the summer so we were pretty limited in the privacy department. So we decided to get a little creative. It was a hot afternoon in August and we were driving around looking for a secluded place to do our thing. We found a car wash (right next to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28 M] am seeing my ex-gf's [27 F] friend post break up. Advice? POST: Had this in break up but I think it applies more to relationship. Im over the break up. Me[28M] and my ex-gf [27F] dated for 6 years. We hard a few rough patches and breaks. A few months ago she leaves me for another guy. At first I try and convince her to reconsider and that we can work this out. After the conversation she asks for time to consider my words. The next day she sends and email saying ""I think its",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Just found out the guy[17m] that I[16f] have been dating is probably bipolar POST: Okay so about 3 weeks back I started dating Paul. We went to a movie ""as friends"", but afterwards we agreed that neither of us were ready for commitment, but we still wanted to date. So we've only been on 2 dates for now, but I really do like him. Today we were talking about dating, and he mentioned that he wouldn't want to have a girlfriend for a long time (this kinda stung, as I half considered him ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not holding the elevator POST: I had just bought food on the lower level of my office and got into the elevator alone, headed back up to eat at my desk. As the doors were closing some Guy Fieri looking woman with a bright pink silk collared shirt yells, ""Hold the elevator!"". I start spamming the close button while saying to her through the closing gap, ""The open button isn't working!"". The doors come to a close and I start to ascend with a maniacal smirk on my face. As I lean back th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is not having a cell phone a deal-breaker for me (18m)? POST: I'm new to Reddit, sorry for any issues! I (18m) recently hit it off with a girl (19f) I know from university. We were attracted to each other, shared interests, etc.; however, when she found out that I don't have a cell phone, she thought it was a bit weird and creepy and seemed to lose interest in me. I'm not upset about it because we had just met and I wasn't really emotionally attached to her, but it's kind of stickin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my (ex?)gf [18 F] of 1.5 years, fucked two other guys. POST: Let's call her X. X and I have been dating for about one and a half years now, but recently we've had some trouble. X and I got into a fight about a month ago and ended up breaking up. The fight was about just a bunch of little things and it escalated to the break up. I cut off all contact with her, but a week after the break up she begged me to get back with her. I ended up giving her another chance, and f",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] am about to screw my ex's [20 F] best friend POST: My ex of 3 years on and off [more on than off as a whole, but more off lately] just broke up with me last week, saying she just doesn't care about me enough anymore and can't stand to make my life full of anxiety. There's a lot of details to us, I've done things to hurt her, she's done things to hurt me [more recently]. I'll spare everyone, but she's one of those girls I just can't shake off my thoughts of the future no matt",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Finally Got the Balls...Part Deux POST: So it didn't pan out with (let's call her) S. That's fine, we're still friends, etc etc. At work (finally got a job, woo!) The other day, I was doing some prep for the next day, and I was in the back. Couldn't see anything going on up front, but I could hear everything in case I was needed. Girl walks in and starts ordering. ""Hey, she sounds cute."" Was my first thought. As she was ordering, she said, ""this is going to sound gross, but I used to wo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 F] girlfriend will not stop talking about getting married and I'm [27 M] not ready for it. POST: It's been a rough relationship. In the first six months of our relationship, we experienced a lost pregnancy via miscarriage. As if relationship wasn't complicated enough, we live and work together. She comes from a traditional family who was not happy to hear that she was living with her boyfriend of eight months. She is under a lot of pressure from her family to get engaged and",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17M] with my crush [17F] of one month, don't know to leave it or pursue it. POST: The story is this. I've never had a crush before, like ever. And for the longest time I thought this was the way it should be and that I was happy. I really like, and still do like spending alot of time alone biking, reading about nerd things (I'm very into Physics and Philosophy and work as a White Hat (in house hacker)) etc and just being by myself. But I got seated next to this girl in one of my ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [17F] am very worried about my long distance boyfriend's [17M] health. POST: Hey guys. So I have been in a long distance relationship for nearly 8 months now. It's an hour difference between our countries. Everything is going great between us. There are ups and downs here and there but we always reassure each other to stay positive and strong. Recently, he refuses to eat a proper meal his parents have made for him. He chooses to make something for himself instead but it's a reall",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm in a bit of a dilemma and need advice on where to start. POST: Recently my parents completely invaded my privacy and went through all my stuff and found my drugs. Their reasoning was that they could ""smell"" my pills. I had just returned from nocturnal (a massive rave) and they were just being overly suspicious parents. We had a talk and they basically set the ground rules that I should not have drugs ever, blah blah, but they were still willing to pay for my education and I could sti",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do I (28/f) tactfully explain to my brother (40/m) that he cannot be around my future child? (I'm pregnant) POST: I know some of you will probably think that I shouldn't be worried about this yet, but I want to have a response prepared in case I'm faced with this interaction. I rarely ever talk to or see my brother, even though he works nearby where I live. He doesn't know that I'm pregnant and I know my mother is going to tell him, which is no big deal. I feel like there is a 5",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to use post shave stuff POST: TIFU by trying to put on the post-shave stuff from dollar shave club. I had just gotten out of the shower after nicely shaving my legs and armpits, I decided since I was going to wear a dress I would make my skin nice and soft. I fucked up. As I was trying to get it out of the bottle thing and it wouldn't come out, after making the stuff go to the top I squeezed. Really really hard. Almost the whole bottle came out on to my expensive sheets and exp",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, please help. I need some advice on possible attorney extortion. POST: So I'll try to make this as short as possible. My dad started a company the beginning of last year selling a bottle opener called ""MyTopOff."" (www.mytopoff.com it's hard to explain what it does) He ran a few television commercials last year and didn't have much success. He has been doing a bit of online marketing and hasn't broken even yet on his investment for getting this all started. He even packs and ship",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Standing on a Urinal POST: Like most post this didn't happen recently. I am 18 and this incident actually happened back in the 4th grade when all kids are susceptible to peer pressure. So it was an normal elementary school. The bathroom was nasty and being young and stupid a lot of kids thought they were cool for using the rest room on the floor and other places its not supposed to go. With stuff like this happening the whole place smelled terrible and everyone pretty much started to",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [17M] I have a crush, but I'm worried about time management and social barriers. POST: I've had a crush on this girl for about a month now. She's 16 or 17 as well, but we aren't super well acquainted. We've been in the same class and school district for the past 4 or 5 years, and as badly as I want to ask her out and get to know her, I haven't. Aside from the classic jitters of asking a pretty girl out and my own inexperience, I am concerned I might not be able to handle a relations",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 M] cheated on my SO [20 F] and we broke up. I'm a horrible perdon. How do I get over this? POST: When K and I first started dating, a close friend of mine, E, and I coincidentally became sexual. After a month, I couldn't handle the guilt and told K what happened. She forgave me and told me to never talk to E again. We dated for 1.5 years and K was the best thing that ever happened to me. She was perfect in every way possible and my family absolutely loved her. However, I still ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (17m) am crushing on my taken friend (16f) who is in a complicated relationship POST: I've known my friend for quite some time now. She knows more about me than I know myself, and I know more about her than she does herself. However, she's in a long distance relationship right now. But she isn't happy. Her boyfriend rarely chats with her online because he's playing video games, and every time he's brought up in our convos, she's always and only talking about what she doesn't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Looking for some advice for my awkward situation POST: Alright everyone, I've been with my girlfriend for just over 2 years now. For the past few months I feel like I've fallen out of love with her in a way. But I'm stuck in a cycle. Every few months we'll get into an argument or something and I'll consider breaking things off really seriously. After I tell her this she'll always say something and be all caring and I'll feel back in love with her, but after a few days I'll just feel ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Myself [19 F] and a friend friend [20 M] had a brief fling a while ago, which ended on good terms, but now that I've started seeing other people he seems to want to bring it back POST: Myself and Conor have been friends for about a year, since we both started college. He's been my best friend for about half that time, we tell each other everything and he knows me better than some people I had been friends with for all of my secondary school years. We've been there for each other thro",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Well, here goes nothin' POST: I'm finally getting serious about losing the poundage, I'm sick of just staying in the house because I don't have nice clothes that fit me or I'm too embarrassed about the way I look. I'm 20 years old, 5'6, and 215 lbs. I'm looking to get down to about 130 (or somewhere around there, depending how I feel!), so I've got about 85 lbs to lose (yikes!). I've already started consciously eating healthier (no more fast food for me!) and making more active decision",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25M] girlfriend [25F] of 1 year went on vacation and I'm worried she cheated POST: Like I said my [25M] girlfriend [25F] of 1 year went on vacation for two weeks with two of her friends (F) back home (another country). Before she left our relationship had been amazing. We celebrated our 1 year anniversary and said I love you to each other for the first time about 2 months ago. She had this trip planned back home for a while and I wasn't invited. She said she was visiting her ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] trying to figure out if this is something I need to tell my boyfriend [22M] POST: I met my boyfriend at a bar and we are in love and inseperable. However, the only reason I originally gave him the time of day is because a boy that I was more or less in love with (at the time I would've said it was love, now I just say stupidity), broke my heart again. He lives across the country for school and I would check his FB here and there this summer to see if he was going to be i",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making another man touch my underwear. POST: So I'm in the change room at the gym. It's a fairly small boutique ""executive"" style gym shoehorned into the second floor of a pedestrian mall. Did I mention it's small? So is the changeroom. The lockers are very tall and narrow so that people will need the bench space of three or four lockers when they are changing. There is a little lounge area with a couple of club chairs and a tv where you can wait until space clears out if you want. I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21m] girlfriend [18f] has a cold sore, and I don't want to kiss her. How can I tell her without hurting her feelings? POST: I rarely get to see my girlfriend, and we're both excited about our date tonight. However, I saw her earlier this week and she had a cold sore on her lip. I've kissed her before when she's had a cold sore, even though she warned me about it. I figured I already had the virus so it didn't matter. However, I got curious and a couple minutes ago I did some res",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: I really wish I could stop POST: First I'd like to state that I am a confident person, I have a full time job that I love, and a family that's amazing. Now, for a year now, there's been this girl in my life, a friend, a close friend. It started out as a bite to eat with friends, then I saw her, about 5'9"" blonde hair, blue eyes, she waited on our table, she was corky and funny. After that I was hooked, I wanted to get to know her (which I have), I wanted to become her friend. Flash",positive " r/relationships TITLE: [21 M] feeling like my [20 F] S/O is holding out for ""better options"" POST: I've been with this girl for 3 months now, and they've been 3 amazing months. We've done so much together, and see each other as best friends. I've never had so much fun with one person, and we genuinely feel like a match made in heaven. We say our ""I love you""s too many times to count a day, and share moments stronger than any other. We both have gone on and on about how much fun this relationship has been",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Today I found out I will be inheriting $130,000 in a week's time. So Reddit, if you were in my position what would you do with the money? POST: I found out today that a Life Insurance Trust that had been set up after my mother passed away will be distributed to me on my 25th birthday. Being as this is going to be a completely new experience for me, I was just curious if any fellow redditors could offer any advice or interesting ideas. Some background information if you're interested:",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [35 M] used a dating app to find ""friendship only"" and now I'm into her [33 F] head over heels. I'm going mad, what should I do? POST: I got out of a relationship a year ago and I was not ready to give it a go yet. Few months ago, I used a very popular dating app to look for a female friend. I know this sounds silly but I only did it after reading that many people have been able to form friendships that way so I decided to give it a try and I did find one that accepted to be a ""f",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Mixed signals in a very small environment. POST: A guy I'm interested in has been hanging out with me a lot with his friends and mine. We're both in a military-style program, 4 year trade school so it's a very very small place with very few women, a small percentage of whom are straight. It's considered good policy not to date 'within the gate' (yeah we stole it from the military but it fits) Anyway, he's gone out of his way a few times to help me out such as after hanging out in my",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 F] think I've been 'friendzoned' by a guy from Tinder [25 M] Didn't think that was possible. POST: I met this guy on Tinder over two months ago. We've been texting just about every day, sometimes with really good conversations other times with boring ones. We've hung out a few times and it's been consistently fun. I'm really attracted t him and I think he's an awesome person even aside from that. However, there has been no physical stuff whatsoever. He doesn't even flirt with ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: All Mixed Emotions not sure Stay or Go POST: So I'm 33yr old male and 24 year old fiancé have been dating 4 years. She comes from a difficult childhood but is amazing in many ways. She is going to be very successful in her profession one day. Right now I pay for almost everything. Like 90%. She does not budget or save anything with the little she makes. My issue is she has had stretches with depression and anxiety that make it tough for her to work or really do anything. She routin",positive " r/dogs TITLE: I need help with my little old man POST: I have a very old, very sick siztsu poodle mix, my bf thinks hes around 20 maybe older, he had his mom got him when my bf was a kid, my bf is 33 now. TThe poor guy is blind and deaf, and I think his mind is gone, maybe doggy alzheimers? He never knows where he is or why hes there. He's lost all control of his bladder and bowels, and he doesn't like to leave his one little area of the house, so he ends up going and then laying right in it to sleep. I tr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Please help! I [16F] want to cut ties with my toxic family as soon as I turn 18. How can I achieve this? POST: ** **Note**: I'm going to put ""family"" in quotation marks because, honestly, we are anything but. But they are my biological ""family"", unfortunately. **Background:** I am currently a junior in high school. Technically, when I graduate I'll only be 17. However, only a little while after that, I'll turn 18. I don't want to get into specifics of my situation with my family b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Afraid I [M/24] won't be able to make friends in a relationship POST: I had a relationship a few years ago, it went decent, bt I never really had the opportunity to make friends during this relatinoship. Mostly because of a mix of already having good friends, spending time with the girlfriend, some jealousy on her part if I hung out with a girl one-on-one. After that relationship ended, I started dating a bunch of people. And I loved it. A lot of the girls I dated didn't turn out to",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: People of reddit, have you ever fallen for your lesbian/gay/bi best friend? If so what'd you do? POST: I'll explain it a bit.. Met this girl a while back. Long distance friends for years. We talk all the time, I saw her a few times on weekends and holidays, but not much else. Within the first few months of talking to each other she said she got an odd feeling talking to me because we're so alike. It is kinda odd, our thought processes even tend to follow the same patterns. Anyways, I",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit! So my room mate and I have had a sort of passive 'real life RPG' running, and we're looking to expand the idea. Here it is so far... POST: So! We've had the idea of awarding each other pointless XP and leveling up doing things like dishes, cooking dinner for both (or ordering pizza), lending money, watching LOTR extended all the way through, etc. We were talking and we want to expand on the idea. We were thinking about making a multi-verse with all of our favorite fantasy/s",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I [22F] like a friend [23M] who has asked me out a few times, but for I am not physically attracted to him at all... POST: To start off with, I've never been in a relationship, or anything close to a relationship before because I was raised in a pretty conservative environment, so if I say anything that sounds naive or stupid, please forgive me. I've known this guy since we started high school, and we've always gotten along well, and both went to the local university, where on and o",positive " r/running TITLE: Finding my proper place in the starting lineup POST: As of today I have 3 5k's under my belt. 2 of the 3 have had around 1000 participants, give or take, and I've noticed a trend. In both of these races I spend the first 3/4 to 1 mile dodging and passing tons of people, waiting for gaps to open, hopping off-road or outside of boundary cones to pass bunches of people etc. It's the longest zig-zag ever. In today's race, the race officials asked us all the kindly try to line up according to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My SO [24M] doesn't want to help me [19F] pay for school POST: Like the title says, he's 24 and I'm 19. We have been dating for over a year and a half now. Our relationship has been rocky over the past few months, but things have been good lately and we are both doing alright financially for the first time. I'm a full time student working part-time. He just started a small business and makes a decent amount of money from it. During the beginning of our relationship, he struggled wit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my ex-girlfriend [20 F] of 2 years, had an odd breakup. Don't know if I made a mistake. POST: So I dated my ex for 2 years and we have had our fair share of arguments etc. About a week ago we got into an argument and she decided to list off some things that I should be doing or else we couldn't be together. Some were things like cute texts, little things, but one thing was that she wanted me to get mad at guys hitting on her at the club but she would still go and I sho",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (20/M) broke up with GF (19F) of 1 year due to logistical issues. We're still best friends. Is this a red flag? Details Inside. POST: My GF and I broke up a month ago due to logistical issues. We are perfect for each other (friends have also said this, its not just us thinking this) and she is literally everything i ever wanted in another human being. We still act like we used to, text each other every day and hang out. There is something i think i should bring up, we slept ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU - High at the psychiatrist POST: Before I start the story i need you to know this about me: Former cannabis-""addict"" which led to depression Depression is returning - am i bipolar? - that is way i want to see a psychiatrist obviously. The last weekend i have been working for a disabled guy. He has been using CBD-oil for a long time and talks greatly about it. It led me to get curious about how I might benefit from eating the oil. I mean., the oil can cure cancer, sclerose, depression ",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [20/m] with [20/f] Wait a time to become official?, I need some advices please. POST: So, I've been a lot of time into a girl, for two years now, she's from college, we're studying the same thing, I don't know if you believe me, but from the moment I saw her i thought ""she's the one"", now, we've been close friends for more than a year, and being emotionally close for about 7 months, you know, behaving like we're a couple, when we're not, going out on dates, going to her house, ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Some more Facebook relationship status nonsense (25f 29m) POST: So I know Facebook relationship statuses are fairly meaningless, and I'm probably overthinking this, but I'd like to get r/relationships' feedback. My boyfriend (29) didn't display his relationship status on Facebook when we got together a year ago. Normally, I don't think it's a big deal as he claims he doesn't want his personal life splayed on the Internet, especially to the gleaning eyes of his coworkers, though he cl",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your best poop story? POST: I always thought mine was pretty good but I know you guys have some that can top it. I was in kindergarten and was out on the playground at recces. I REALLY had to take a shit, the really bad kind where you just know it's diarrhea, but I was too afraid to go inside during recces because I thought I'd get yelled at. I have no idea why I thought I'd get yelled at for that, but kindergarten, etc. Anyway, I decide just to hold it since recess was only abou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Husband [34 M] upset that I would like my [30 F] x-mas gift this year to be the ability to participate in the Reddit Secret Santa Gift Exchange. POST: We're not rich people, but I love love love to buy gifts. He said he wants to buy my present; I said ""Isn't it (my gift) supposed to be about what I want?"", and apparently now I'm selfish because I want to use the money he would have spent on me to spend on someone else. I'm just tired of the argument and a little sore that the thing",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Call centre employee. Help, Please! POST: Hi there, I currently work for a large Satellite provider in the UK as a retention advisor. Basically I take 20+ calls a day from customers looking to cancel their subscription. My Job is to maintain them as customers with offers to reduce their price. **This is my first job** I have been working here for 4 months now and I can honestly say I have never been so depressed in my life. I feel like crying every night, knowing I have to get up in the ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need to chose between security (a prerequisite of happiness), and happiness (while living in fear and insecurity) POST: Hi Reddit, I just wanted to get this off my chest. I just quit university because of surgery and a lack of money, so I have to go back to work. My wife and I are both semi-profesionals (she is a mental health worker and I'm a welder). We live above the poverty line, but like many, we struggle with money. I'm faced with a choice. I can work overtime night shift for 6",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Can I avoid capital gains by gifting stock to my fiance? POST: I've been accumulating ESPP shares for about five years and made some considerable gains. I don't have any immediate need to sell them, but I know i'll eventually have to (and I'm getting pretty undiversified by keeping so much). When I do sell them, I'll owe regular tax on the ESPP discount amount (15% discount) as well as capital gains (they made between 30%-60%). I make around $100k/yr, so my marginal tax is 28% wit",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30M] have to commit to a [30F]. By most measures, she is the perfect partner for me, but somehow my gut tells me to run away screaming. POST: This woman is my best friend. We do almost everything together. She gets me. I'm comfortable around her. We've been together in one form or another for over five years. We share friend groups. She knows how to make me happy, and she uses that knowledge to my advantage. She will literally bring me food at work. She actively makes me a better",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Trying to fix a computer but seem to be stuck on the simplest part. Can you help with any of your knowledge? (X post computer) POST: Desktop computer that will not connect to the internet and wont perform a virus scan (I am assuming it's a virus problem). I bought an USB to IDE cable with power supply. I Have disconnected infected hard drive and when I plug it into my running computer, Windows will not pick it up. Everywhere I am reading, people say once you plug it in it should show in ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Is a 15 or 30 Year Mortgage Right For Me? POST: * I make about $57,500 a year, 10% of which goes to a 401K. * I just bought a $209,000 house, which I'm able to put 20% down on (leaving about $10,000 in the bank). All appliances are included. * Mortgage rates here are 3% for 15 years, 3.5% for 20, and 3.75% for 30. * My job is stable but I only get 1.5% raises a year. * I'm in a relationship - our current agreement is that she provides $75 a month to help cover utilities... I may as",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by scaring the shit out of a random driver on Valentine's Day POST: This happened today, of course. So I was driving home from the store, coming to an intersection, when I saw my best friend, in the lane opposite me. I honked my horn a couple of times, to get his attention. But for some reason, he wasn't looking up. I did it again, and rolled down my windows and shouted his name. He looks up, but is really startled. I didn't see what was wrong. Then, he reaches into his passenger ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [25 M] Ex-Girlfriend [29 F] Birthday is comming up, and she is visiting me. POST: We had a 5 year relationship than broke of about 6 months ago. I moved away and we have a great friendship right now. We have visited eachother 2 times and it all went well. I dont want to get back together, and i think neither does she. She is turning 30 and are comming to visit me for a couple of days. The thing is i dont know if i should get her a present. 30 is kind of a big deal to turn and peo",positive " r/relationships TITLE: When is it cool for me [19F] to ask my neighbor [20M] if we're cool after turning him down for a date? POST: Hey y'all. I'm a college student, I live in dorms. I've been good friends w/ my nextdoor neighbor pretty much all year -- we were acquaintances who accidentally ended up living next to each other, we take a lot of the same classes, play the same club sport, are part of the same hall 'family'. It's been pretty evident for a while that he has a crush on me, or so I thought. A g",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How to deal with neighbors that may be neglecting their toddler. More in comments. POST: Hi /r/Advice I really have no idea where to go with this. It is such a weird situation that I hope you can help. I apologize for the long story. Around two months ago, my boyfriend and I started waking up to our neighbors toddler crying and screaming. We figured maybe he hurt himself or had a bad dream. So, we ignored it. The screaming started getting worse over time. After 3 weeks, the kid would scre",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Tinder deleted a month and a half worth of conversation I [24M] had with a girl [23F]. Should I try and contact her on Facebook? POST: So here's the story. I got to know this person over a series of weeks and chats between the two of us. After a couple of weeks of talk between us, she tells me that she isn't quite ready to get back into a relationship after meeting back up with an ex. While I was more than willing to stop contacting her, I asked if she'd like coffee as a friend. Su",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23M] think I'm about to make the biggest mistake of my life by going to law school and don't know how to tell my parents [54M and 51F] POST: As the title says, I am about to start law school fairly soon, but I just realized I have no desire to do it and have only been doing things to become a lawyer to keep my parents calm and happy. I've been through a lot in the past 6 months from a very messy break up to two stints in rehab to work on my drug addiction. Because of these things,",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [20/m] just had a fight with my girlfriend [20/f] POST: I called her while I was on my way back from class to wake her up from her usual nap that way we could go eat lunch together. She said she wasn't really hungry but she would come with me. I said, ""Okay, well I think I'm going to go to x. See you there?"" She said something to the effect of ""I don't really want x."" I was confused as she had just told me she would come with me anyways. She basically told me to just eat alon",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: $6,000 was taken from us in 2010. Is there anything I could do? POST: Okay well, I dont know many details, so Im apologizing in advance. Back in 2010 we were expecting near $6,000 for our tax refund. We really needed the money, but were surprised when we got only around $700. We were in a tough situation with our bills, and the money kind of helped. Anyway recently we looked into it. The IRS said that we got the money, but we didnt, after arguing for a bit we took it up with Liberty Mutu",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my GF [20 F] for 3y (LDR for 4 m), she wants a pause suddenly POST: Dear r/relationships, I (19M) study in London and my GF (20F) is finishing her high school in Slovakia. We were in a relationship for almost 3 years when I got accepted to UoL and therefore we have had a LDR. Two days ago she called me saying that the pressure on her (school, job, uni applications) are unbearable for her and she is fed up with me hurting her [in the past I used to make fun of her, ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [28F] boyfriend [31M] told me he doesn't want to marry me - what now? POST: I don't want to get into details for anonymity's sake (and because I'm just not in the mood to do so), but my boyfriend and I have been dating for just over a year now. At the start of our relationship, when we were just getting to know each other, we talked about things like marriage, kids, etc. He was 100% set on eventually getting married to someone, having kids, the whole deal. I was less sure and was ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (16f) boyfriend (16m) of three months is making me doubt myself POST: My boyfriend had previously told me that I couldn't go to the movies with my best friend (16f) and her two friends who are guys our age after I had asked my boyfriend if he was fine with it. I suspect it's bc the male friends had admitted that they were attracted to me but they were aware that I wasn't interested. Still, my boyfriend said that I couldn't go and that if I went it would be bc I didn't respect h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M31] My girlfriend [F27] is upset that I would begrugingly accept a lap dance at my Batchelor Party (hypothetical) POST: Well Reddit, after a big argument, I need someone to talk to. I was out with the GF just now and the topic of lap dances at Batchelor parties came up. She asked if I would get one and i replied that would be up to my Best Man, even if I don't want it (tell him not to, protest heavily, etc). It boiled down to that I would accept it eventually since the best man an",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] met an amazing girl [19F] at a coffee shop a week ago and shes in an awkward situation, I want to know if its worth sticking it out! POST: I was on my way to the city to have a nice day alone and stopped for coffee. While I was waiting this adorable little blonde comes up and sparks up some conversation. We ended up going into town together and spent the whole day having an amazing time. We've hung out almost every day since then, and we've been really connecting in unbelieva",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24/F] with my ex[22/M] dated 2 1/2 years, confusing breakup POST: After two and a half years of dating and four years of work put into this relationship, my ex breaks up with me out of the blue. I say out of the blue because everything seemed to be fine on Tuesday, and then he broke up with me on Thursday. During our long conversation, there were lots of tears from both of us, and he said he just wanted to be alone. That's ok, I can understand wanting to grow outside the relati",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21 F] have a crush on a married man [26 M] and I feel awful about it. POST: I've known my friend Miles for about a year now. We met through a mutual friend and we clicked instantly. He's funny, smart, fun to talk to, and just a great guy. I feel like a homewrecking whore, even though absolutely nothing has happened between us. Him and his wife have a rocky relationship. He's told me that she's been talking to her ex, and she'll sit in bed and send him novel length texts while sh",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What do I want for Christmas? POST: I know it's early to be thinking about it, but my SO has been asking me what I want and the truth is that I don't know... Help me decide reddit! I'm into all the usual indoor things like music and gaming an that. Skyrim would be a possibility aside from the fact that I'd have to wait (hell no)! Flavour of the week seems to be photography and I've been pining after a DSLR, nothing too fancy but still a little too expensive. I've recently borrowed a Pe",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Help me catch my untrustworthy roommate POST: My roommate has gone off the deep end. I've started locking my room when I'm gone to insure that she or any of her drunken friends don't steal any of my stuff. Recently I started setting booby traps, and she has set several of them off, indicating that she's been breaking into my room while I'm gone. I assume it's to use my computer, because nothing is missing and she doesn't have one. If she would just ask me, I would let her use it, but not",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear Reddit-Landia (Redditia?), what is the story of how you came to find reddit? Who, what, where,when,why and how were you first introduced?? AKA: When exactly did your social life and work efficiency begin its demise due to reddit? POST: For myself, I was visiting back home from real-world land with, jobs and whatnot. So, while watching a tennis match with my life-long friends and their family, my friend Tyler and his brother begin discussing all things awesome from the internets. I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21F] am worried that my boyfriend [21M] has gained weight and that I might be losing my attraction to him. POST: So we have been together for four and a half years now, at the beginning he was really attractive. He did a lot of cycling and although he ate a lot he was a teenager so he didn't gain any weight. However, since we moved to university two years ago he has put on a fair amount of weight, probably around 50/60lbs, I'm not sure exactly but it's noticeable. I think it's tha",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[18/M] like a friend[18F], but it's awkward/odd POST: I have been classmates with this girl for 6-7 months now. We are friends, kind of anyway. We almost exclusively communicate by phone outside of group projes, which are fairly frequent in my school, although we are not always in the same group. We share a number of hobbies, and get along just fine. The problem is, a few months ago, because I was having my own issues, I inadvertedly latched onto her. Basically, I was overbearing a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I've [24M] been dating my co-worker [28F] for 4 weeks, do I need to be more aggressive? POST: We have been dating for awhile now. I know she really likes me and I obviously really like her as well. We see each other at work but we only hang out exclusively on one day of the weekend, so last night we went on a date. Went to dinner, walked around beautiful mansions and it was awesome. We made out by the water and got really into it and were pretty much dry humping. I figured there'",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by going to the Eastern States Expo (The Big E) when it was making history. POST: So today I spent about 3 hours in traffic on the way there, about 45mins in line waiting for tickets just to enter. Then waited approx. 15mins to an hour at any given time a clusterfuck of 1,000-10,000 people decided to move in different directions at once. An hour here to wait for the circus, a half-hour to leave it. Lets not forget we're all walking at half-strides, shoulder to shoulder, slowly making you",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [29F] mother [50F] spent all my hard-earned salary, I am shocked! POST: Our family is middle class, I make as much money as my father but the difference is that he has to support my 2 younger sisters and my mother. My mother was always an angel, she never ever asks for money and when we go shopping together she hates it when I pay and she keeps saying that she should be supporting her daughter rather than the other way around. On my part I am always taking my sisters shopping, w",positive " r/relationships TITLE: The guy [26M] that I [25F] am seeing asked me if it'd bother me if he hooked up with an old flame: red flag or acceptable behavior if we haven't officially committed yet? POST: We've been seeing each other for about 2 months now - meeting about once a week due to our work schedules. It's been going pretty well but we haven't actually had ""that talk"" yet so I guess we're technically not ""official"" and haven't formally mutually agreed to be exclusive (although as far as I know, neither",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I'd like your opinions; how should I proceed? POST: Background: I'm a 26/M dating a 24/F I met online. We've been dating, basically once a week, for the last 5-6 weeks. I'd like to see her more. She used to initiate contact with me over texts, and even asked me out for our third date. But more recently she's been relying on me to initiate contact and ask her out. Overall, she has declined my invitations more than half the time. She always has a reason, and I've been really underst",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's the most unexpected thing that's made you cry? POST: A few years back I was suffering from severe anxiety and depression and one day I found myself watching ""A Clockwork Orange"" for the first time. The main character, Alex De Large, portrayed by Malcolm McDowell, was so free spirited that it brought me to tears. I wanted so badly to be as unconcerned and carefree as him that I just started balling. The weird thing was that this feeling seemed to hit me during the scene where Alex",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Getting a divorce, need advice... POST: Throwaway account... So a few months ago the ex and myself decided things weren't going to work out and we decided to split up. She moved out about 3 weeks ago. The divorce is actually going really well, we're both happy about it even though it's a tough thing to go through. We don't have children so that makes it relatively easy. We got the house appraised and I am giving her half of the equity and keeping it. She also took most of the furniture a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] with my ex (now best mates girlfriend) [19 F]. We hooked up twice last night and I don't know what to do. POST: Hi all, (using a throwaway). About 18 months ago I was going out with this girl called Tina. We only lasted about 2 months and it was more casual hookups rather than a proper relationship, no biggie. We broke up and then shortly after (2-3 months) she started a relationship with one of my best friends of 10 years. They have been going out for around 14-15 months n",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I went all psycho ex D: POST: So we had been dating for a year and 3 months. Broke up last week on Thursday. He was 19 and I'm 18 right now. It was a pretty smooth breakup, though he told me that he still loved me and I was perfect for him and that he just didn't think he was good for me anymore since he was always making me unhappy in some way. I kind of already knew we weren't going to work out but I still wanted to try. Finally after asking him if he still wanted us, he said he just co",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What are the specific dangers of photos of underage drinking on facebook? POST: You hear news stories all the time of kids busted for having pics of themselves boozing it up on Facebook, but what specifically can you get in trouble for? Is it enough to be seen in the same album as people at a party with alcohol, or do you have to be caught red (solo cup)-handed? Has this kind of thing ever come up in a court of law? The stories I usually hear are of high school kids getting caught by the",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I need some help cleaning up my front page and joining smaller/alternate subreddits. Can you make some suggestions? Reasoning inside.. POST: It's Reddit's recent growth I think. Just as one example, I used to love going to the comments on every single submission on the front page. I was always entertained or my knowledge improved. Now.. it gets harder and harder to find the good comments. [""Best"" comment example] (if sorted by ""best""). I like the idea of a videos only subreddit,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: The president [50sM] of my company walks too closely behind me [25F] POST: Throwaway account probably wasn't needed for this, there's nothing scandalous in this post. I've been with my current company (marketing agency) for about two years now. I work pretty closely with the president of my company, as it's a pretty small organization. He's not flirtatious or anything with me, he's been happily married for over 30 years, has two kids, it's nothing like that causing my problem. But t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [m22] with girlfriend [f22] of one month. Worried she's not ready. POST: So my girlfriend and I started dating about a month ago. 2 months before we started dating her boyfriend at the time cheated on her and she left him and had not talked to him after that. Now things are getting serious and she has been feeling guilty about the way she just left and didn't even say a word to him. We are happy together and everything is going really well it's just that she feels scared because",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [23M] not sure if my girlfriend [23F] of 3 years respects me/cares about my feelings enough. POST: Hi everyone. Basically my girlfriend does some things that make me doubt that she respects me. But i'm not sure if I'm just being oversensitive or something, I really can't tell. I think have issues with the notion of respect and self-love as a whole, actually. These things are kinda small(I think...) when you look at them individually, but here is one of them. By the way, I want ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M22] can't stop saying mean things to my SO about her [F23] past. POST: I've been seeing my girlfriend for over 9 months and we've been in a relationship for 5. The first night we met each other, we all got really drunk and high on MDMA and she got with my best friend all night and ended up giving him 2 blow jobs (one of which I was in the room for). At this point we weren't seeing each other so it didn't bother me, but after we got together it became a real issue. I couldn't sto",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Can you help me [F31] through this issue with my husband [M37]? POST: My husband and I have been together for over five years but have been married for just over a year. He's Irish and we've just been through the immigration process - we live in LA and are professional musicians. Here's where our problem lies..... During the immigration process I had to put so much of my life on hold. I didn't mind it then at all, I enjoyed it, but now I'm struggling to find work and because he's ""t",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I sincerely do not feel love for many people, I am mostly alone, yet happy. My closest friends all believe something is seriously wrong with me. I do not. POST: So the title pretty much says it all. I really do not feel love or much other 'warm fuzzy' feelings for many. For the few that I do love, it means a great deal to me. I do 'care', 'like' and 'tolerate' many. I am fine with this small amount of closeness. I have often states ' I just don't care' for most people. Those that are cl",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by not locking the bathroom door POST: This didn't happen today. This happened about 5 years ago, I was 16 at the time. I was shaving in the bathroom (yes I had a beard at 16) with a straight razor (I used those back then because I thought they looked cool). Anyway our bathroom door used to stick a bit so sometimes you had to push it hard to get it open and the sink was in a position where the door would be right on my left. So as I'm shaving my mom decides to come into the bathroom fo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Messed up love triangle with one of my best friends. HELP. POST: Okay, so me (a female) and one of my best male friends are in a bit of a weird situation. He's living with his girlfriend, I recently got through a terrible relationship and moved back home with my parents. We've been friends for a while and there's always been a connection there. Nothing done about it sober... Him and I after a few drinks is a different story, particularly after this weekend. Prior to this weeke",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] am worried that my girlfriend [21 F] is a person who attracts/creates drama. POST: We've been together one year. Here's a representative example of what happens: Family member of mine had a major surgery and I just needed one weekend to go back home and support my family without feeling like I was abondoning my girlfriend. She told me to go and that I could call her any time. I called her once at about 10:30pm to tell her things were looking up and hear about her day. Not ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can you end up living happily ever after with someone you don't fall in love with early on in your relationship? POST: I don't mean love at first sight, but I've been dating my boyfriend for 6 months and I don't feel giddy around him, and I love being with him but I'm fine spending several days apart, even if neither of us have anything else going on. I love him, he's very stable, he's funny, we have a great time together, I think I could see myself spending the rest of my life with him ",positive " r/self TITLE: Need to vent really quick, Reddit. POST: So I have been an intern at a large company for the last six months. I have worked over 40 hours a week, (and only logging 40 hours), working my ass off for HALF A YEAR starting in February. Never even took a day off. Flash forward to June, a bunch of summer interns come into this company and there's only 2 others that have the same type of job as me. Since I was there for 6-months, I had long, important projects. These interns were given bullshit, b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He [33] is moving back in with his wife but wants me [26] in his life. POST: So. I met him at my work about six months ago. We fell in love. Actual love. This is honestly true and we feel like we will find our way to eachother one way or another. But, did I mention he's married to a wife who is pregnant with twins? Yeah, so there's that. She's due soon. And he has to move back home with her to get the twins settled, which would take around six months or so. Before you guys attack ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what's the worst thing an employer fucked you over with? how did you retaliate? POST: so hear me out, I was working for a car rental company. I just bought a new house and needed to move some furniture so I asked for one of the big vans (a Merc Sprinter) so I could move everything I needed in one go. so far so good. I get the car and they say I just need to pay for the fuel I use. so I get in the car and imidiately notice the gastank is only half full. I instantly go back to te",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I want her to leave her boyfriend for me, but we live far away and I want her to be happy when I leave. What do I do/say? (21m/21f) POST: Hi everyone, I feel like I'm falling head over heels for a friend I met who lives in Australia (I am in the US). We spend hours together on skype and always talk about being together. I think though that we both realize that it's impossible to be together because of money and distance. That said, there are obviously some strong feelings between us",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Was my car illegally towed tonight? POST: This took place in the state of Florida. I was over at a friends apartment visiting, and sometime around 4AM, my car was towed from the complex. I parked in a regular parking spot with no reserved parking signs at all. This complex does have reserved parking spots with a marked ""RESERVED"" sign above each spot, but this was not one of those spots. There IS a ""Tow-away Zone"" sign at the entrance of the complex, but I can't help but feel like they s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] am considering not taking a summer job because of my intense feelings for my friend [23 F] POST: I feel so silly for even posting this, but it's been on my mind for days. I have a friend that I am very interested in (yes, she knows), we've kind of been in that weird cat and mouse thing when it has come to going beyond a friendship to dating, and right meow I'm the cat. Recently I've discovered my feelings have been escalating from normal interest. I haven't had real feeli",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/F] tend to stalk people who I have some emotional inclination towards. How to deal with paranoia over what I find? POST: I won't go into too much unnecessary detail. I Internet stalk people who I have romantic feelings for and I can't stop. It's at a bad enough level that I find out the quirks and mechanics of every site/platform/messenger they use so I can know the most about what they're doing, where they are, with whom, if they are online, when they were last online etc. It'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend [25m] talks to his ex at a party for 20 minutes alone. This makes me [24f] feel very insecure. POST: I get very uncomfortable when my boyfriend goes to a party by himself, and I am worried until he gets back home. I am particularly insecure about this because even when I am at parties with him he will sometimes go off and talk to his ex 1 on 1, for up to 20 minutes. I feel as though a party is not an inappropriate environment to be interacting with an ex (alone anyway) b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24F] with my ex boyfriend [25M] of 4 years, found out was cheating me the entire relationship. POST: I will try to make this short. I dated my ex for a little over 4 years. We had a lot of issues because he was battling depression. I took care of him. I paid his rent a few times when he lost jobs, bought him groceries and drove him to work when his car broke down. I put up with a lot more than anyone ever should of but I loved him. Recently, my father died from a heart attack. I ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [21M] am bothered by my girlfriend [21F] of 6 month's past (cheating). Do I tell her? POST: Everything about our relationship has been going great. She has given me no reason not to trust her, and we're moving steadily. My parents and friends love her, and we're planning on moving in together come April. When we first started talking, she was completely upfront about how she cheated in a past relationship. She was 18, just turning 19 at the time, and dated the guy for about 8 month",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [32/F] with a guy I like [37/M]; Getting mixed signals, don't know what to do? POST: This guy I have casually known for about 2 years now, he pulled me aside one day and told me that he really likes me, and has liked me, for a very long time. He's spoken to mutual friends about how much he likes me, and I have been told he's made songs about me (all of which I find adorable). I was a bit blindsided by this confession, definitely didn't see it coming, at all, but I was receptive t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: should I [22f] ask my boyfriend [27m] if there is something going on between him and his friend [24f]? POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for four months. He used to own a cat, but it died a few months before we started dating and he felt so bad about it. He has an acquaintance who lives a block away from his house who had a cat and who leaves the cat with him when she is out working. My boyfriend Loves the cat as he missed his old pet. I have met this friend and the cat and",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Oh, Reddit, is my job allowed to suck this much? POST: So I work 3 jobs. One being the main job I went to school for (a chain salon) and I also work retail and nanny on the side. My salon job gives me my schedule usually about a month in advance. However in the last few months, these schedules have been randomly changed, making me work at different salons in the area without even asking if I can. Don't get me wrong, I love helping out. But I have 2 other jobs that my salon job knows abo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I being ridiculous about anal sex? POST: I am 30f and he is 36. I consider myself fairly open about sex and everything that comes with it. I am a huge fan of anal. I am in a new relationship and at some point we had a fairly fantastic round of anal sex. It was pretty spectacular actually. A few days later, the Sig Other posts on reddit about anal sex. I won't directly quote as I am not entirely sure he wants to be put out in the spotlight about the topic but he described ana",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How can I [19 M] show more affection with a girl [20 F] I'm dating POST: So I've been seeing this girl for about two months now, and we feel strongly about each other already. Neither of us have been in a real long term relationship before, so we're taking things slowly. But a major roadblock in moving things along is how I don't show enough affection for her (whereas she's very expressive). She's brought it up a couple times already, and apparently I'm hard to read. The problem is,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Does my female friend[21F] have a thing for me[22M]? POST: I should start off and say I'm terrible with women and can't read signs for the life of me. I've been fairly good friends with this girl for a couple of months now after knowing her for about a year. We've gone out drinking with mutual friends in these past few months and I've always felt as though she may like me. She makes lots of strong eye contact, but I feel she does this with everyone. Can catch her looking at me when I",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [21 F] of almost 3 years calls me [21 M] just to complain. POST: I am usually fine when she calls. Previously , she would call , talk about her day in university and her friends and the likes. Occasionally , she would call to complain, but hey , that's fine right ? Everyone one needs to get something off their chest once in awhile. But now , since the last 4 or 5 months , she has been calling all just to complain. And i do my best to listen.. and occasionally encourage her on",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How should my boyfriend [17M] and I [18F] approach a situation involving another female who continues to flirt with him? POST: Hey Reddit! I've been a long time lurker on r/relationships and am finally posting as my boyfriend and I are in need of outside opinions. Long-story short, my boyfriend is apart of a Youth Programme and will be for the next 10 weeks along with 7 other teenagers around his age (6 of them being female, with only one other male teen). Due to the nature of this ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Question about how reddits main page works. POST: So I'm a relative newbie to reddit, prolly only been a follower for like 6 months, however I am highly addicted. With that said I havent really gotten very in depth with it. I go to reddit.com I read what looks interesting and I come back to it bout an hour later. My question is how are the things I see on that first page determined? To my knowledge I have never clicked any ""+frontpage"" buttons yet about 20 subreddits have the ""-frontpag",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: HR Managers of Reddit... What The Hell POST: I'm just trying to figure out my next move. I applied to a startup in December and had an interview that month (it went great). Since the holidays were coming up, I planned on hearing back sometime in January. Mid Jan rolls around and I finally get the HR on the phone and she tells me they will be making a decision in a week or two. I hear absolutely nothing for several weeks. I check their website to see the job I pitched them during my int",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Double vision in one eye. POST: Hi! I'm a 27 year old male. I never had major health issues in the past. So, last year is the first time i noticed it. Basically with my right eye , instead of one image i see two. Like for instance, writing this message for each line of text i see another one bellow it. The further i get from the screen, the bigger the gap between the lines. The second image is just bellow the regular one, and it's a bit more transparent. I have the same issue with the left",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My brother was sentenced to six months in jail by a judge. While in there, his parole officer visited and made a promise he will do everything in his power to send him to prison for the rest of his life when he gets out. What can we do? POST: I won't make a lot of excuses for him. He's a bit of an idiot. He never grew up after the age of about 14 and he's still there mentally. As such he can't keep a job, he doesn't know how to do anything other than play, and he was tossed in jail for d",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Help out a confused 16 year old guy if you feel like it. POST: I'll try to make it short. Since I'm only 16 I don't expect to be taken too seriously, but I'd like to avoid being ridiculed if possible. I've been going out with this girl for 7 months, and I'm still clearly in love with her. She's very sensitive and very reliant on me. Something that's been nagging me for a couple of months is that no matter how amazing she is, I don't think I'm ready to decide if I want to spend my w",positive " r/self TITLE: Local police harassed and illegally searched my vehicle, any action I can take after the fact? POST: Little backstory. Me, my girlfriend and another couple got pulled over after leaving a local supermarket tonight and got pulled over promptly after leaving the parking lot. The police ordered me and the other male out of the car almost immediately (other male was driving) and patted us down. At first they would not tell us why we were pulled over or what they were suspicious about, but after s",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sharing my screen POST: Throwaway account for obvious reasons. This morning I was on a WebEx with a member of management (not my manager) and our clients. Lets call her Kim. I was asked to share my screen to show a new report we had mocked up. Things were going fine when the client asked timing on when we could complete this. Kim laughed arrogantly and let them know since they delivered late we were unsure when we could actually get the report completed. This type of behavior is typic",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22F] boyfriend [24M] gropes me whenever I'm upset with him POST: I noticed that whenever I'm upset with my boyfriend, instead of hugging me or caressing my arm (or something that makes more sense in my mind), he tries, for example, to grope my boobs. It makes me feel like he's trying to gloss over the issue at hand. I've noticed this pattern and it is rubbing me the wrong way. I'm not really sure what to think. Is this a more normal phenomenon? Has anyone else experienced this? H",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Being prepared... POST: The way I live my life I'm not prepared for things. People coming over in an hour and my rooms messy? > I'll do it in a bit. 8:30 pm half/none of my homework isn't done? > I'll probably start it and 9 or 10. See where I'm going with this? I don't prepare, it's just how I work. I do what I can and deal with the consequences of it, is how its always been. The thing is when I am prepared it's weird. It's almost like I don't know what to do. Well there's not",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by admitting to theft I didn't commit. POST: I'm still in shock. I understand why people say your own brain is your worst enemy. So not even an hour ago, I was checking out at my local Coles supermarket. **Fuck up #1** I'm in the self-serve section and I complet*ely* forget to scan 2 items that I've put to one side, as they are heavy, will crush my veggies and I'm not paying another goddamn 15c for a second reusable bag; I have spent well over $200 on those fucking reusable bags and h",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by purchasing HuniePop.. POST: Wait no, it's not like that, I can explain. So, this was kind of yesterday, but I only realized it was a fuck up today.. It's my birthday soon, but, because it's on a Monday, I had all my buddies over yesterday. Kicked the parents out, sisters off camping: let's party. So, as you can imagine, non of us were in the best state of mind, so it seemed like a perfect idea to purchase HuniePop. For those of you who don't know, HuniePop is what you would get if",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Am I [18f] being manipulated in my relationship with my boyfriend[19m]? POST: So, I'm in a very happy relationship with my boyfriend of going on 6 months (Good friends with for over a year). We have disagreements but don't fight, but one disagreement I was a bit meh with and told my girl friends about. I would very much love to get nipple piercings, tongue split, genital piercings, etc. but he just is not into it at all and said I shouldn't. Ok fair enough. Now, I'm also very ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Me (33/M) Conjuring Magic on Her (32/F) POST: Hello. This is my first post and I hope to convey my thoughts about my current interest. She's my classmate in elementary school and I think she was my seatmate before. I remember that we used to share pencils and papers. Talked IIRC. We were never been together since then. But I got her facebook and see the updates happening in her life. So she recently moved to NYC and now were just a subway or 2 away. But I'm not on speaking ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by texting my crush after getting really high POST: So this happened a few years ago back when I was in high school, but seeing another post on here reminded me of this fuck up. So I was hanging out with my best friend and his gf at his house, and had been texting my crush, lets call her larissa, that day. I made plans with her to hang out later so i was pretty happy. Day goes on and its getting close to when I'm supposed to chill with her. Around this time the 3 of us also pick up som",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hey Reddit: What sort of Halloween prank should I play on my neighbors and their unsecured wifi router? POST: I discovered my neighbors' factory default Netgear router about a month ago while troubleshooting the wireless connection on my daughter's laptop. When I saw it was unsecured with relatively high signal strength, I suspected it was the older folks next door. I took a quick peak after finding the default password on Google and was able to confirm the identity via the ISP creden",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being a woman... POST: This happened last night. Last. Effing. Night. I have recently undergone a lot of changes and I've started dating. Which I hate. I hate dating - it is the worst goddamned sport ever. I have a hard time finding people I click well with and usually I just run into people that are clingy as fuq and need a goddamned adjustment. Or people aren't interested in me. Whatever, we all have our problems. So imagine my surprise when I encountered someone that I don't wan",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] made my boyfriend [33 M] of 2 years mad by pointing out facts. [Relationships] POST: Yesterday, my boyfriend was ranting about a guy that I have on my Facebook and used to hang out with. I was 17 and the friend was 24 when we would hang out (in groups). My boyfriend was talking about how ""creepy"" it was that this guy would hang out with me when I was only 17 and he was 24 (we were only friends, nothing else). I proceeded to tell him that he is forgetting that he started d",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do you deal with someone afraid of commitment? POST: dating this girl for four months now, and she told me from the start she has commitment issues, her mother has even mentioned it. Due to certain circumstances, we see each other EVERYDAY, even if its just for 15-20 minutes(she lost her license, I help her get around). She has said it, she has commitment issues and said it as ""I'm like a wild mustang, I like to be running free"". She said shes getting used to it though. An",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF puts little effort into relationship, don't know what to do POST: 23m (me), 20f I love her and i'm pretty certain she loves me but i'm just tired of doing everything in our relationship. I am always the one initiating...well pretty much anything. I can't recall one time in all of our time together where she has gone out of her way to try and see me, it has always been me who asks her to come over or go out, and most of the time i have to fucking fight with her to do these things",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my girlfriend [24 F] 8 months, I want a child in the future, she is pretty adamant that she does not...am I wasting my time? Is it too early into relationship to worry about? POST: My girlfriend and I have been going out for 8 months. Certainly not a long period of time, but enough to have engendered deep feelings for one another. When I'm with her, she makes me a better person and is the most intelligent and funny girl I've personally met. And now, because of the len",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [21/f] Is my guy friend chickening out, and how should I proceed? POST: I know, another silly relationship question. But I'm stuck. None of my other guy friends can even give me advice other then just shrugging. Sorry if this is long. I'm good friends with this guy, have known him almost 2 years at this point [he is 19]. We work together but not closely & only a few days a week (different departments), & he used to be really into me when we first met. I didn't know him well en",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by being my smooth self POST: So today I was working in a park, using cable-ties to cover mesh fences with plastic sheets. I was working with another dude who was pretty chill and we were talking while working. It's summer right now, so the women that were walking past with less clothes than usual. My workmate kept greeting the women jovially as they passed by with ""Good morning!"", and when they were *out* of earshot following with ""Dayum, I love summer"". I just kept working, but I didn'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [15M] going to meet an acquaintance/new friend [18F] for a church-related activity POST: I've started to go to this thing for people in high school at church just because I don't actually like church and don't feel like sitting around for a few hours doing nothing. I've talked to a few people and I made friends(?) with a senior (We hang out for a little bit any time I'm there). She keeps me around for whatever reason. We were invited to go to this thing tomorrow where we meet up ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20F] think my boyfriend [20M] is a little distant? POST: I've been with this guy for a month, and I notice lately he just seems a little distant. He's had some troubles recently too, so I figured that is what is attributing to the distancing but people are (who don't know him) are telling me otherwise. We usually talk all the time but lately it's usually if I text him first, and so forth. My own mother said it sounds like he's tired of me and it's brought on some anxiety because I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25m] won 2 tickets to the Super Bowl. My girlfriend [25f] is very upset that I'm taking my brother [31m] and not her. POST: A couple days ago I won a trivia contest that gave me and all expense paid trip for 2 to the Super Bowl. As you could imagine I was so excited, but it's gotten to the point where I wish there was a way I could sell the package and forget about it. My brother and I were together and decided to try for tickets from this local contest. I was the official conte",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Need advice for science undergraduate working as summer research assistant. POST: My grades and smooth interview got me this job. It is a summer job as a research assistant in a lab at my school. It is great in terms of pay and the environment. I was interested mainly because of the practical experience (I love the field), and how it would look on my resume (it is a great place: brand new, lots of awesome professional connections, with an obscene amount of money for research). Myself and a fe",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I just had one of the most unpleasant morning after experiences of my life. What are yours? POST: So, went out drinking with some co-workers after work last night. Needless to say, copious amounts of alcohol was consumed. This morning, whilst being extremely hungover, I decide moving my bowels will be the ticket to helping myself feel better. Retrieving appropriate reading material, I sit down to exercise the demons. About halfway through said pooping, I feel that familiar gurg",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: A cop gave me a self-filing report after learning I was driving my girlfriends car with only a permit POST: The other day my girlfriend was busy and I asked to borrow her car in order to pick up some friends who were drinking and could not drive. After picking them up and backing out of the driveway in order to avoid an oncoming car I pulled forward and the front left tire went into a muddy gully/ditch leaving me stuck. An off duty cop soon drove by, asked if I was alright and called ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Complicated with my ex POST: So, my junior year of high school, I dated a senior (woo go me! No, it's not that cool) girl for about 7 months. We never went extremely far or anything, but had a good time - then broke up as she headed off to college across the country. Fast forward two years (I'm now a freshman in college) - we're still good friends, and talk fairly often and very openly. Although I finally had sex with the girl I was dating my senior year, my ex still hasn't. She's t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My (f:23) boyfriend (m:23) says hurtful things to me and doesn't understand why they're hurtful. How can I rectify this situation? POST: My (f:23) boyfriend (m:23) and I have officially been together for a little over a month now, but it can be said we've been dating for 8 months. He was a friend of a friend, and we started hanging out after a boyfriend and I broke up last April. Everything was fantastic before we made it ""official"", and by saying that I don't mean stupid ""facebook o",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I'm (24F) trying to get over my ex (26M). Would seeing him again benefit me? POST: A few years ago I met a guy who was temporarily living in the same country as me. We met on his first night in this country and saw each other almost every day until he left (roughly six months). I'd had long term relationships before meeting him but never felt for them as I did for this guy. Long distance was never an option for financial reasons and I am unable to move there as I have shared custody ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friends with benefit (25m) made a request and I (21f) feel kind of offended. Should I be? POST: I'm 21f and he is 25m. We've been friends for about a year and FWBs for 3 months. We actually decided to date and that was going well, but he didn't want a relationship and I was going to travel over the holidays so we agreed to become FWBs. Its been good and we have great sex and its fun. Nothing is really wrong so much with the benefits part of things. Last week, him and his roommat",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girl that I like [19 F] of 2 years, I haven't spoken to her for a year. Do I contact her? POST: This girl who I absolutely adore has depression and hasn't seen me for a year. About a year ago she sent me a text saying that she can't see anyone, is a 'bitch' and a bad person and doesn't want to see me. She said she has one friend and she treats even this one friend really badly. All due to her depression. Insane depression. She failed year 12, and doesn't get out of ",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: In the process of buying a home, just found out wife's credit score is way lower than mine. POST: We're currently looking into purchasing a house. We have two cars in both of our names and my wife had a Student Loan that she has paid in full (otherwise no other credit history). My score is around 780 and I just decided to run her report and found that a hospital bill she had from before we were married had went into collections and was basically unpaid. She had been paying $10 a mo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I could use some advice on employee harassment. How would you handle a hateful text? POST: Today I was looking for a coworker to cover a shift for me at the cafe I work at on my campus. I fell ill in the afternoon and I figured that customers would not appreciate me sneezing and coughing into their food or around it for that matter. All of the girls, who I consider friends as well, said they were unavailable (Can't blame them. It is a Friday night). The very last person I tried was a gi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My Bf[22] doesn't seem like to give effort on allotting more time for me[21] POST: So all started with me leaving my own country, friend and family to be with him here in the US. Went under an exchange student visa wherein I have to work my ass off so I could stay here and be with him. He didn't have a job since he's studying and is living with his parents. We decided that he's gonna live with me, since where I work is far from his parents house... So I work while he wait till I get",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: So I (24M) just got out of a 7.5 year old relationship and don't know what to do next POST: My girlfriend and I just broke up about a month ago. She was my one and only (we started dating when I was 16, we were each other's first/only sexual partner). Though our breakup was amicable and respectful, we had irreconcilable differences (issues with sexual compatibility, career choices, weight problems, me wanting to live in a big city whereas she didn't, etc). I have no desire to ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [28 F] annoyed with my BF [34 M] of 10 months because of fricking Facebook weirdness. POST: We have been seeing each other for about 18 months but dating exclusively for about 10 months. We are slowly moving forwards (meeting each other's family, talking about getting a place together within next couple of years). The point is, we are getting serious but not married yet, however the understanding was we are exclusive. He seems to have a very different understanding of ""cheating",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [m24] have fun with my gf[f30] sober but not when she drinks POST: Background: - My mom: selfish, cheating, and an alcoholic - My dad: enabler - Her mom: selfish, cheating, alcoholic, and drug abuser - Her dad: overly sensitive, alcoholic, and drug abuser We've had a few large problems with drinking and her family/friends would mention it but it never made an effect until I brought it up because I assured her she was in a safe place and at a couple points I had to bring it to ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to carry 100 pounds of cat litter down three flights of stairs POST: So my apartment complex is doing home inspections starting tomorrow. I have been a bit lazy for a few months and every time I empty my cat's litter box, I've been placing the trash bag of 15 pounds of cat litter on my back porch. I never go out there, so I would forget they were there and they began to accumulate. Well, I didn't want to look like a complete slob, so I had the bright idea to grab a 50(ish) gall",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My bf [37M] blurted out proposal plan during argument w me [35F] POST: This is our second attempt at dating. We dated after college briefly (he cheated). We didn't talk for twelve years. He attempted to apologize, but I wasn't interested in apologies. Two years ago I was single & he reached out to apologize again. I finally agree to meet & listen to his apology face to face. The relationship rekindled. I forgave him (forgetting has been the hard part). I was a stupid 22 year old onc",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [00 M/F] with my ___ [00 M/F] duration, short-description POST: I am a 23 year old college student, and my girlfriend [21] and I have been exclusively together for about three months. We had been seeing each other for about three months before becoming exclusive as well. All in all, she is great. We have similar personalities and hobbies, so there isn't much conflict. Most importantly, we are very comfortable around each other. Since we are similar in many ways, each of us can be ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22 F] boyfriend [23 M] of 3 months sent texts about me to a friend and I saw. POST: I've been in a relationship with my boyfriend for 3 months. Everything has been good lately and things seem pretty serious. We've both met each other's families, and he tells me regularly that he loves me. However, the other day I saw one of his friends instagramed a screenshot of a text conversation between her and my boyfriend (we don't follow each other so she had no idea that I would see it,",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, I'm Getting Scammed - How Do I Mess With These Guys? POST: My wife and I have been looking for an apartment in the Pittsburgh area and came across a craigs list ad (the URL has just been flagged for removal :( Basically their story is that they are missionaries that would like to rent out their house while they're in Nigeria. That seemed okay (maybe a little shady) until we got an email saying to send them money and they would send us a key to check the place out. That's when ",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: Illegal Offshore Activities POST: This is a cross-comment from this [thread] that piqued my interest. Disclaimer (for the DEA types who could actually stupidly think I'd do this:) No I'm not; it's just an idea. I pose this question to my future admiralty law attorney self in 3 years (or anyone who knows the answer now) as its in international waters (I assume, don't care too much if it is in actuality) does this make the 'loot' on board salvageable to whomever gets it first? As long",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My sort of f.w.b [21F] keeps yo-yoing with me [26M]. Really not sure how to go about things. POST: We've known each other for a long time, recently revealed crushes, and things got going fast. I never intended for things to get physical so quickly, but they have. However, she got distant and said she wasn't looking for a relationship. I was kind of crushed, but we agreed to stay friends. Next hang out, we had an awesome day. At the end of it, she asks if we can kiss, I say yes, and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Am I [F/20] being unreasonable for not wanting my bf [M/20] to sleep over at his good friend's [F/20-something] house? POST: Hello Reddit, this is a throwaway, I decided to make to ask for your help. First of all, English is not my native language, please excuse me. My bf and I have been together for a bit longer than two months. That doesn't sound too long, but we've actually known each other for years before we started going out. We are very open with each other, and have no pro",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M26] seeking advice to how to make move. POST: First off little background: I'm 26 year old male who hasn't been serious relationship yet. I cannot explain why, but I think my flame was ignited on the last year and wasn't interested before that I guess. I think I'm OK looking guy and I'm pretty active nowdays. I like floorball, gym, cooking and skating also hangout with friends quite often. So I have been on tinder dates with 4 girls and continued with two after first date. Long st",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my ex 1 month after 3 month relationship, After texting her to find out what went wrong, was I controlling?Personal issues POST: Previous: Due to some bad advice of a friend, I ended up breaking NC to find out what I did wrong. I was told I was too controlling and didn't trust her. So assuming I was, was this behavior too controlling. After I start noticing the two talk more and more, I started to lose trust as it was my first one. She rather spent time with him rat",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you argue make an argument for black people, or any other minority. POST: First of all, I'm not a racist. I love people of all races. I have friends who don't think very highly of black people. When I try to defend blacks, they bring up the fact that blacks are poor and they put themselves in that situation. They use the example of asians vs blacks. When asians first came to north america, they had to fight against racism and they were poor. With their discipline and hard work, th",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Need to get my head around this... also small NSV POST: Quick background: Year and a half-ish ago at my heaviest I was 349, got serious about losing weight and got down to 298 by Jan. of this year. Then things tarted going badly. I had some health problems and got depressed about going blind, etc. you know, small stuff... diet and exercise tanked, and I got back to 320. At that point, I got fed up and got down to 300 again within about 3wks, then the eyesight took a major turn for the wor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with my (ex)girlfriend[16 F], 1yr, broke up, feel like I've put her in a bad situation POST: I just broke up with my girlfriend because I just didn't have the same level of feeling towards her as she did towards me, break went ok I guess, don't really have anything to compare it to. I feel like she wont have anyone to turn to, and that this is gonna affect her life, particularly school life, and unhealthy amount. Her friends are pretty distant with her so I just feel wor",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Which internship should I take? POST: Last year I was a Production Management Intern with [Cintas] For those of you that dont know they create, rent out, and clean uniforms for other companies like mechanic shops, restaurants, and power plants (at least my division of Cintas did anyway). I was making $13/hr but wasn't really satisfied there, so I applied places that would best fit my career goals. I got a call from [General Dynamics Land Systems] and, long story short, I got an o",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Hitting a fork in the road. POST: I'm 27 and feeling a bit lost. Feeling a bit of analysis paralysis which I fear might keep me stuck for years (thinking about it, it already has) I graduated from graphic design in 2011, and after a brief stint in a call centre found myself working as an in-house designer for a University department. My portfolio after my degree wasn't strong, but as the only creative professional in the building I didn't have to prove myself all that much. Fast forward 4",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (F21) kissed another guy, don't know what I should do or if I should tell my (M22) boyfriend? POST: We've been dating for over a year. Our relationship has been pretty rocky lately. Just found out he lied to me about a few things, one of them a private stripper who he got a lap dance from. I was thinking about breaking up with him as he was dishonest and as I don't know if I have the same feelings for him anymore, but I didn't. That night, I went to the bar and met an amazi",negative " r/tifu TITLE: Tifu by working out for the first time in 5 years. POST: Actually it was yesterday, but the ""fucked up"" part applies to today. As the title says, I worked out for the first time in 5 years. I just recently got a gym membership, and yesterday was my first day going there. I went with my friend who has already been going there. It was ""leg day"", so 90% of what we did was leg activities. Well, we went through our routine and it was tough, but I felt good. Accomplished. (Side note - I'm not fa",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [19/M] left me [19/F] a week ago after 4 years, am confused and hurt and want closure POST: I thought our relationship was going really well, we've been happily together for four years and talked about the future, if anything he was more invested in the relationship than I was. Suddenly a month ago he changes, starts saying he doesn't love me but refuses to dump me. (Around this time he lost two family members, it didn't seem to affect him apart from his feelings towards ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [17/F], who I [17/M] fell in love with started to ignore me. POST: We are friends for about 3 years, I have feelings for her for about a year, never had the guts to say to her. We were really close friends, but about a month ago she started to ignore me and treat me like she hates me I can't talk to her, she either ignores me or say something that ruin my day. I have no idea what to do, she means everything to me, I can't afford to lose her. This is destroying me, I can't",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF is a survivor of rape. How do I not hurt her feelings? POST: Sorry if this sounds really stupid, I'm willing to be more specific if you ask and English is not my first language. I'm 19 and GF is 18. We have known each other for a year but only really started dating 6 months ago and it's long distance. We had unprotected sex before. From all the past she has told me she has been raped around 10 times by different people. During the last 4 months or so she was raped by 3 differen",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How does one handle drastic differences in libido between oneself and a SO? POST: As the title says, I'm in a long term relationship (about 5 years) and since as long as I can remember I have had a much more demanding libido than my partner. I'd say as a good guess I require about three times the sessions as he does to stay satisfied. I understand this isn't the only reason for a relationship and all that and we've had several discussions about it (e.g. libido enhancing drugs, open rel",negative " r/Advice TITLE: My husband is mad at me all the time. What do I do? POST: Today he is very mad at me because I don't want to drive him to his friend's house. (He doesn't have a license and I have back pain today from being pregnant so I don't feel like driving) He is mad at me on other days because I don't want to waste the little money I get on videogames, cigarettes and other bullshit items. We are both unemployed and I get very little money so I like to spend it on things we NEED like shampoo, underwea",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] went for coffee with a girl at my school/work [20 F]. Liked her a lot so I told her how I felt in a letter. Need help with what to do now. POST: Sup guys, need some advice: I basically had a crush on at my school for a while before I asked her out. We went for coffee and and had a good time. We had a nice time and she definitely did not show any signs of disinterest. I realized that I really liked her and wanted to talk to her more so I figured I'd do something nice for her",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [F/19] have trouble indicating romantic interest. Help! POST: Hey guys! I'm 19 and I've never been in a serious relationship. I know that guys have reciprocated my interest before, but it never works out primarily due to me not knowing how to act. Also, when I'm interested in someone, they never pick up on it simply because I don't know how to express it. For example, with the last guy I liked, I did try to take initiative. Asked him to senior prom, to the movies etc. He later tol",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Asked a girl out, she said yes definitely, now she ignores me? POST: Ages: me 29m; her 22ish (not sure of her exact age) A little back story, I had saw her around before and thought she was cute but didn't really bother with her. I had frequented her place of work before started working there. For the most part we just keep things all business. After awhile she kind of seemed a little flirty towards me so I started flirting with her too. Over the course of a few months we began ask",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (24F) pick my bf (24M) up from work but he is consistently late out. Am I wrong to be frustrated? POST: I work day shifts whilst my boyfriend works evenings. I can get the bus home from work and it takes around half an hour but it takes him an hour and a half each way, and I'm the only one that drives. Since he finishes late (9/10pm, sometimes as late as 1am), so I generally pick him up from work. Partly for safety, and partly just to be kind because 20 mins in the car is a lot e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [17 M] not sure if I'm on the hook or not. POST: i have never had a kiss much less a girlfriend. me and this one girl were getting real close, then i realized she had a boyfriend so i backed down a little. she broke up with him within the month and i figured it was because she had feelings for me. so i waited two weeks then i started flirting with her and everything (which i helplessly suck at). just last night i asked her to go out with me and she said she was ""burnt out"". she had b",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Teacher asks a weird Question POST: The other day my AP Statistics teacher asked my friend and me a very strange question as we walked out of a school bus. Before I dive into the story, I'll let you all know my friend and I are good buddies, work together, we joke around and travel together, etc. Our Statistics teacher is victim to our shenanigans, so he knows we are both strong parnters in crime. Our High School junior class took a field trip, and of course my friend and I sat with e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: First Relationship: My GF (24F) of 6 months told me (26M) ""I love you"" and a day later, I'm internally freaking out. POST: This is both of our first relationship. GF is very bubbly, super positive, all about the cuddles, and everything that goes with being a bright personality. I am more stoic, analytical, patient, not as touchy (though she is the exception), and not one to wear my heart on my sleeve. Things have been going great with my GF so far, and when we were just cuddling on ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M/] with my girlfriend [19/F] 7 months, falling asleep.. POST: Right, my girlfriend struggles to stay up past 9pm...sometimes she is falling asleep as early as 8pm...it seriously pisses me off...Like just now I was just sat in my room while she slept for 2 hours for me to take her home, I spent 2 hours with her talking/eating, and the rest of the time with an unconscious body, this happens nearly every weekday that we see each other which is usually a Wednesday and a Friday. I",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: i have a brain disorder that murders use as their defense...AMA POST: so i have [intermittent explosive disorder] i was diagnosed when i was a small child (about 6) after a number of outbursts. a quick description of the disorder is that i have a funny frontal lobe. so my brain has difficulty dealing with emotions and i can reach ""overload"" if i don't actively address feelings that i have. if i don't, then i can begin to interpret experiences wrong and getting upset and have a disproport",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What can I do to entertain myself? POST: So I'm stuck in a very small place in Australia visiting my grandma. I love my grandma but it's incredibly boring here and there isn't much to do. I have a shitty caravan park internet that ranges from 0kbps - 60kbps. Really I'm here to ask you, can you guys think of ways to entertain me? The internet is very spotty but I can play stuff like Cookie Clicker (I have a very bad and old laptop) and other small html like games. I know you guys are goin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Keep trying to end my dysfunctional relationship with my boyfriend [m/22] but he keeps winning me [f/21] back. POST: Total length of relationship: 10+ years Length of romantic relationship: 7 years I would get into why I'm unhappy, but I've actually posted about our relationship on Reddit before and have always gotten the collective ""dump him"" response. After much thought over the past couple weeks, I've decided that is indeed what I have to do if I want to be happy again. I didn'",negative " r/weddingplanning TITLE: Groom-to-be needs help planning the honeymoon! POST: Hello all! My fiancee and I are getting married in April of next year, and we are in full planning mode right now. I have been very involved in that planning, with the exception of the bridal gown, but my fiancee has asked me to take care of the wedding night accommodations and the honeymoon. I selected a few wedding night spots (we are getting married at our church and our reception is at a private clubhouse, so no hotel deals)",positive " r/relationships TITLE: 23[M] don't want to travel with partner 23[F] POST: We have been in a relationship for almost two years now. About a month ago I decided I wanted to go to Europe for half a year, leaving in January. I never specifically asked her to come, but she assumed that she was coming. Eventually I said I'd be happy to go with her. She will be there for 6-8 weeks. We are planning on booking flights in the next few days. Now the more I've thought about it the more I've realised I'm not happy wi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I don't know what to do anymore (me m/18, her f/18). POST: We've been together just over a year now but her immaturity, among other things, is killing me and I don't know what to do. I still say I love her but I'm not sure anymore. Around 9 months into our relationship I reluctantly moved into a house with her. Since then she's said she wants to hurt herself to the point we had to take her to the hospital and she's now on anti depressants and sleeping pills. She still hasn't found a",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just got scammed. What should I do? POST: Ugh, I'm kinda angry right now. Last week I won some items in an online auction when a local company was closing down and auctioning off all their assets. My winnings included a lot labeled '3x Anglepoise' lamps. Anglepoise desk lamps sell for over £150 each, so I was happy to win three of them for around £100. I collected the items yesterday, and soon noticed that the 'Anglepoise' lamps were in fact cheap imitations, which can be bought new",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend [22] of 4 years found my[23] internet post history where i said some pretty horrible things... POST: Im not a very open person and have always used internet anonymity as some kind of therapy service instead of talking to people. Over the course of my relationship with my girlfriend i posted alot of stuff about her and us on the internet assuming she would never find it. It was pretty bad stuff and i really regret the horrible shit she found; thoughts about her weight gain;",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [F25] boyfriend's [M30] coworker [F39] is affecting our time together. How can we solve this? POST: My boyfriend works as a specialist for a government institution and is relatively new to his department. Some years before his arrival, his senior colleague ""Jane"" had a child and made it clear to the department head that motherhood was her first priority so she switched her work schedule to 30 hours per week. When my boyfriend started working at the department, he quickly noticed",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Two Guys [32,30] That now? [f,30] POST: I(f,30)´m in a relationship with a really nice guy (m,32) for 6 months now. I like him, he makes me laugh and he cares for me. He could be the perfect partner for me. Only one thing is missing - the ""big zing"", but that was okay until now. Last week everything changed. I met an old ""crush"" (m,30) from years ago. (At that time me both were in relationships with other partners and we decided to ignore our feelings for each other. We stopped meet",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Update: My (26/f) friend (29/f) is pregnant with her fiancé (30/m). She is keeping the baby and I am completely opposed to her bringing a child into her current situation. POST: Original: So it's been a month or so. I am starting to feel excited for the baby, but still am disgusted by Rick. I have not expressed my disgust, and I am not going to say anything. In fact, I didn't even have to, apparently. Her parents did. Crystal and Rick came over a couple nights ago. Crystal t",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [Madrid,Spain] My rent is a flat rate that is all utilities included. My landlord entered my apartment without notice, saw my LED christmas lights and fan on, and is threatening to charge me more for ""waste of electricity"". What can I do? POST: So I live in what is essentially an attic and it gets unreasonably dark and humid here all the time. I am okay with this because the fan helps and the lights keep it cozy. I specifically chose to rent this space because the utilities( water, ele",negative " r/askwomenadvice TITLE: I'm currently in a situation, would appreciate some advice POST: Hey, never really done anything like this. But here it goes, I just started College this year and everything has pretty much gone great. I've never been a confident guy and never really considered myself ""attractive"", but in College I've been hit on one a few occasions, which was quite strange, but my confidence is still relatively low when it comes to talking to girls. This is where my problem comes in, I know this ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, my mom borrowed $300 over a month ago from me. Right after she borrowed it, I got laid off from my job and I'm supposed to moving 14 hours away at the beginning of October. When I ask about the money, she yells about it. Does anyone know of a way to make quick money? POST: As stated in the question, a month ago my mom asked to borrow $300 due to her having AC and car troubles with no extra money. As my mom has borrowed money before but always paid me back, I let her borrow it. No",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's a good alternative to PayPal that won't leave me (the buyer) screwed if something goes wrong? POST: I'm buying an aquarium from someone in another state who will ship it to me. He apparently has had terrible luck with paypal in the past and refuses to use it. I wanedt to use paypal because if box of glass shards shows up at my house I can file a dispute with paypal and get my money back. He suggested a money order or cashiers checks, two methods I don't think are smart because",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] thinking about breaking up with my GF [20 F] POST: So we've been going out for several months now. Heres where i'm at. I'm wondering whether or not I should break up with my girlfriend, for the reason that she doesn't seem to enjoy getting sexual. She allows me to have sex with her and she does other things for me, but at the same time she doesn't try to ""turn me on"" in a sense. It's hard to have sex with someone who just seems to do it because I only feel like doing it. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I would like to master the art of badassery POST: I am a 19-year-old female who is a sophomore in college. I live on campus, I am fairly social/friendly, and I have a boyfriend who I've been seeing for over a year. Pretty normal. My problem is that I am constantly referred to as being ""innocent"" and a ""goody goody"", and I have been for most of my high school/college life. It frustrates me so much when people I barely even know label me as this. It causes them to either a) ignore me b) fe",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] of 2 years, getting in fights due to sex drive difference POST: Be sure to explain in detail with line breaks. Hello people of reddit. I am am 19 year old guy and my girlfriend is 18 years old, and our difference in sex drives caused alot of problems. Actually our biggest problem is this following point: We can only have sex when she comes to my house, and often she keeps asking me to come to her house, then i explain to her that at her house th",negative " r/travel TITLE: Traveling Eastern Europe by rail with a train pass POST: So throughout my travels, I've heard so many awesome things about the rail systems in all of Europe and how convenient they are as well as how affordable the monthly international passes are. Now I'm sold on a trip there. I have committed on a trip (we pick vacation by seniority at my job a year in advance, which we just did recently) at the end of September through mid-late October. I have a friend in Germany that wants me to visit",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22/F] husband [23/M] of 2 years is at his mother's beck and call POST: We're spending our Christmas break in town with family. Both of our families live in the same city, so things can be tricky. We try to do our best to spend equal amounts of time with both families. We just stayed at his house for several days. The past couple days we stayed at my house, he's gone back over to his house every single day for several hours. Mostly just because his mom wants him to. My house is ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my 23(m) boyfriend of 3 months finds any excure to not be intimate with me (21)f POST: So I recently started dating this guy and right from the beginning he told me he wanted to take things slow. but then 3 weeks after meeting we took a vacation together and spend all our time together. He's really great and is one of the most responsible and sweetest person i've met. im used to dating really terrible guys who really treat me bad and I can honestly say hes the first guy i've dated t",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22f] just found out that mySO [23m] has been lying about not masturbating. He agreed to stop after he realized he had a porn addiction. POST: I would just like to note I have no problem with porn or masturbation. However about two months ago, I realized that it was affecting our sex life and relationship in a very real way. He would turn me down for sex and I would catch him an hour later jerking it. It really hurt and we both agreed that he should not watch porn or masturbate. He",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I gave a lonely man whom I felt sorry for my number, now I regret it. POST: Just to get some background i'm going to be honest with you in the hope you'll hold back your judgements. I'm a dancer in a gentleman's club at the weekends. I feel like a very empathetic person who likes to listen to other's problem and help them out. Anyway last night I got chatting to a 40 year old man, we got along well, had alot in common including walking dogs and being out in nature. He was also telling me ho",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] and BF [21M] of 3 years are considering giving each other one free pass(I technically get 2) POST: So me and my boyfriend, I will call him Ross have been together for 3 years, and we were both each others first. He had a hear attack about a month ago and it caused him to bring up a conversation we had had before about open relationships, basically I was reading about polymory and we had a discussion about how we felt about them, with both of us saying that we thought they ma",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My friend [21, F] is seeing a married man [47, M] who is using her. What should I [19, F] do about this situation? POST: She has been fooling around online with this married man old enough to be her father for about 6 months. He has been a terrible influence on her. He ignores his family in real life to play around with her and several other girls our age. She knows he is married, how old he is, that he has children her age and that he does this with other young women but she still c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [19 M] a Foreveralone guy- How to start dating? POST: This is a crosspost from foreveralone and dating advice since neither of the two gave any results or serious answers. So let's assume an FA guy magically has all the social confidence/social skills he needs to be socially normal. Realistically, how would we go about asking someone out? I'm asking this because if I'm a nbk virgin with no dating experience, I feel like I'd be shortchanging them and it'd fall apart quickly you know?",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (18M) and my girlfriend (17F) of 2 months, relationship now feeling a bit one-sided POST: Hey reddit, thanks for checking this thread out. So to keep this short, we've been going out and have been through a few things that hurt both parties but all seems to be back to normal. I wasn't too sure about my feelings for her but sort of reconciled, and [last Saturday] then she asked me to come over to her house where bed stuff happened, both were virgins. And this is where I started ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [28m] am nervous about my wife [25F] of 2 years getting pregnant because of medication she is taking. POST: My wife and I dated for 2 years and have been very happily married for 2 years. We have decided we would both like to start our family. She is my best friend, the relationship is fulfilling in every way I ever hoped for. When my wife was a teenager she was diagnosed with serious OCD, which was eventually well controlled through therapy/medication. When she is on her medicat",positive " r/relationships TITLE: The guy [23M] who I[22F] was seeing for almost a month visited his ex, and still has feelings for her POST: So I met this guy, we really hit it off and we started 'dating'. As in, going on dates and having sex and all that good stuff. We were having a blast and things were going well. A couple of weeks ago he mentioned that for his fall break he had made plans to see an ex-FWB in another state. He assured me it was platonic now and that he told the ex that he was dating me. Since we ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Over Idealistic? POST: Hey people, I've never done something like this and thought I'd take a swing at it, so bare with me. I'm 19, male, and have never dated anyone. I've never kissed or done anything romantic. Closest I ever got was asking out a friend when I was 15 and getting rejected, something I'm actually happy happened as we're better as friends in my opinion. Ironically enough, I'm a hopeless romantic, which may be my problem. I have a picture of my dream girl/soul mate in",positive " r/relationships TITLE: What's wrong with me [22 F], do I not love my boyfriend [22 M] of four years? POST: I'm gonna just bare it all, I want to hear exactly what my problem is. My boyfriend's love for me is so beautiful and true, and he shows it everyday through his actions. Caring about my safety/well-being (more than I do), constantly trying/caring about making me smile/happy, making my sadness his sadness saying we're a team and I'm not alone, never criticizes or tries to change me, never holding gr",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [33M] trying to be just friends with my ex [33F], think she wants relatiinship again. Advice? POST: I [33M] dated a girl [33F] for a little over a year. I broke up with her this past June. There was nothing wrong with her or our relationship, i just felt like she wasn't the ""one"". She was completely devastated by the break up. We had very little contact after breaking up aside from a few events at mutual friends houses. When we did talk, i told her that i hope one day to be f",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm in a weird situation, Reddit, what should I do? POST: (obvious throwaway) - Two nights ago, a friend's wife and I were chatting and she offered to motivate my weight loss goals by setting up a fuck session if I lost 100 lbs. Background: She and I were friends before she married my friend and former co-worker. She admitted she wished I had pursued her more aggressively after my divorce, but I was leaving town for graduate school etc. and read her vibes incorrectly, which lead to us j",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Looking for advice keeping new employees engaged during a start-up project POST: Bit of a unique, specific situation here. Maybe not the right forum but here goes nothing. Some background: I work for a large food manufacturing company. Recently promoted to a supervisory role in a new plant that was purchased by my company. Among other responsibilities will be overseeing our analytical lab and the quality assurance lab technicians. We'll be doing doing analytical tests on food such as moist",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 F] with my friend [23 F] 4 months, I'm in love POST: So I've been friends with this girl for about 4 months now, we are both trans women, which is only pertinent because transition is a hellish process that is taking it's toll on the both of us. Because I spent so many years in denial, I've never been in love or even had intimacy with anyone. And now I'm feeling real, powerful attraction to people like I never have before. She had her heart ripped out by her ex-fiancé, who ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Ladies of reddit, how do you tell your male friend he needs a trash can in his bathroom? POST: So I am having a miserable day. Segued from hardcore PMSing to first day period-ness. I had previously-established plans with male friend to play videogames at his place. This friend and these activities are awesome and comforting even on a bad day. So, basically, this is the one thing I would want to do today other than lie on my own damn couch. The problem is, male friend does not have a tras",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So my probation officer says that everything going digital means that I cannot get my mugshot. Does anyone know if I am entitled to get a copy of it? POST: I want my mugshot back mostly because I forced the most intense grimace that I could muster. Before anyone asks what I did, I was drunk and climbed a tree, an officer cited me for public intoxication and Criminal mischief, both 3rd degree misdemeanors. I went to jail and payed my 400 dollars of fines and did my 20 hours of community s",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 F] friend's [28 M] girlfriend [29 F] got publicly humiliated and fired from her job, she blames me and he is backing her POST: My friend, let's call him Ted, and his girlfriend have been in a long distance for many years. The girl, let's call her Ellen, quit her job 8 months ago and came to live with him. During this entire time, Ted and I have been reaching out to everyone we know to help her get a job. A few months ago, I noticed that the name of her last company was incor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my 27F of 8 months; ex and another friend visiting for a week? POST: So, her and I moved in together a few months a go and since then it has become common for either of us to have visitors from out of town staying for short periods of time. I set a clear boundary right away that never more than 2 people at a time due to space constraints. Recently she asked me if two college friends and her university ex boyfriend from a year ago could visit and stay a week, starting ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] wondering how to further pursue [21 F]! POST: Hey guys! I don't have much experience in the dating world because I had a girlfriend all through high school/beginning of college, but I split with her 6 months ago and now have a girl I'm really interested in at school. We've followed each other/interacted on social media for a year or so, but I just started getting to know her when she invited me to be on an intramural co-ed football team with her and her friends. I real",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my boyfriend [22M], he's very into the bar scene and drinking, I can't be included POST: I've been dating my current boyfriend for 6 months now and I like him a lot. However, he's a big drinker and so are most of his friends, so oftentimes there are plans to meetup and bars and such. Since I'm 19, I'm unable to even enter most of their bars in the area without a parent. My boyfriend has tried to suggest to his friend to drink at his place (He lives in a house with a co",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: How do i get over being so insecure. 26f POST: So i am 26f and my bf is 25m, we are about to hit our 1 year anniversary but my insecurities have been causing problems as of lately. The problems are not to bad but i dont want them to continue hindering our progress. He is the best guy to have ever come into my life and i shouldnt be insecure when it comes to him but i am because other past relationships and being hurt. Some of it also comes from me feeling like im not hot enou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 Q] and my partner [21 F] of two months, have similar values with very different habits and ways of dealing with situations. POST: I'm a genderqueer individual (that explains the Q) in a relatively new relationship with my partner. This is a question about expectations for the future. Firstly, its important to know this relationship is long distance and will be for the forseeable future. She and I are both very passionate feminists and have many other shared interests and thus",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Losing my (16M) virginity to my best friends ex (17F) and feel really guilty. What should I do? POST: So, my best friend met a girl in summer who he eventually started dating after around 2 weeks or so of being together. However, he had to move away to another country halfway across the world at the end of summer, and after trying long distance for a while, they eventually decided it wasn't working and broke up. Recently I have been talking with her and things began to get more sexua",negative " r/relationships TITLE: GF [27] of 5yrs refuses to engage me [M, 27] in any sexual activity, won't/can't explain POST: I [M, 27] have been with my gf [27] for 5 years, and we've always maintained a certain level of sexual activity, usually at least a few times each week. Starting about a month ago, that all changed. She began to act uncomfortable whenever I made advances, even becoming uncomfortable with kissing, so I backed off. I figured it would change with time. It hasn't, and when I finally told her h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do you console someone whose life and dreams have been royally F'd over? POST: My friend was a tattoo apprentice at one of the best shops in all of my city. Hes a passionate artist, a truly talented designer, and he has been working for 7 months, 12-14 hours a day for free at the shop. He has had outstanding reviews and never had issues with anyone in the shop as to his performance, potential, attitude, or ability. His car was a broken down piece of shit to start with but it is all ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] with my girlfriend [19 F] 2 years, we argue perpetually and we're not sure why or what to do. POST: I have been with my girlfriend for a couple of years now, and we are really happy together when things are going good, but then the mood can change very quickly. I'm not sure who is at fault, if not both of us, and as a result, we can't seem to come up with a solution to our problems. When we are arguing, we get very upset with each other, which is compounded by the fact th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [17 M] my ex ""best fwb"" [17 F] of 3 months, can I tell her how I feel? POST: I had a fwb with a friend and we would text and hang out basically everyday, she was basically my girlfriend although she constantly reminded me she didn't want a relationship. I got too attached and pushed her away and we went from talking non stop to barely talking at all within one week. I'm pretty sure she's already hooking up with someone else and reconnected with her old best guy friend. Basically I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I a[M24] a guy who was in a relationship for 5 years...wondering how to start again with someone new. POST: Met a girl in Uni and stayed together for 5 years, she was the girl I lost my virginity to and she had one partner before me so we were both pretty inexperienced. I didnt know it then but I suffer from anxiety issues and had several ""performance related issues"" shall we say...fuck it its a throwawy, sometimes I couldnt get it up and often I would launch the business too soon,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [M24] have lost a substantial amount of weight and now have asked my gf [F23] to do the same POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for just over 2 years now. I am 5' 7"" and she is around 5' 5"". When we began our relationship I was around 200 pounds and she was around 150. I lifted weights and wanted to gain weight to gain strength. I bulked up to 220 but most of that was in my gut. My girlfriend expressed concern over my health and eating habits but even if she didn't say sh",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by Eating Salad POST: This fuck-up occurred last night. I work at a mall. Weekends in November are madness, as everyone and their mothers need to buy holiday gifts. My shift was 2pm to close (about 10pm or so) and it was too crowded to park in my usual lot, so I parked pretty far away on some rooftop parking I had never seen before and pretty much had to run to work. On my break, I went to a brand new salad bar, ordered a delicious looking custom salad, and ate the entire thing. Two hou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] think that I screwed up a opportunity with [20 F] woman, what the heck do I? POST: Before I begin, I will actually point whomever reads this to the two previous posts that I have posted here so that you may understand the full context of this post right here. As such, I have continued to speak with ""Melissa"" via Facebook and on Thursday, I truly believed I was making significant progress after I comforted her on how she carried herself during our presentation the previous d",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My bf [24M] of 8 years has a high sex drive than I [24F] and blames me for lack of sex. Help? POST: My bf and I have been together for 8 years. I have been on contraceptives for 8 years and was recently diagnosed with Polycystic Ovaries. I am mentioning this because these are two causes for low sex drives in women and feel they definitely affect my sex drive. Here's the problem. My bf has a higher sex drive than I, he can get horny everyday. I, on the other hand, cannot get horny e",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [25 F] of 7 years and I [26 M] ended things 3 days ago. Now she says she wants to change and work on things, but I don't know if she actually will and unsure if I want to take the risk. POST: I posted here a few days ago about my girlfriend and my relationship troubles. [here] is the link to the original article I posted. Today, I received a call from her saying that she didn't realize that sports were that big of a deal to me, and that she wants to try and start watc",negative " r/Advice TITLE: How does one go about recording game footage with recorded commentary on top, and uploading it to a site of choice? Pls Help! POST: So i'm totally unaware of what goes into (for lack of a better example) those youtube gameplay or twitch live stream videos where people joke around and play video games. I've recently been into the idea as a side hobby for fun, but I haven't the slightest clue where to start. What equipment do I need? What microphones/ recording devices are recommended? I've d",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: Girl I hate trying to replace me and become best friends with my current bestie, who is one of the only people who can support me. POST: First im not really sure if this is the right sub, i honestly could not find a better one to post this in. Some background info: Me and my whole friendship group have had this problem before with this girl. we will call this girl i hate M. In the past few weeks M has been sucking up to my best friend. they can be friends thats none of my business. But",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: So, I have just over a month to raise £400 to surprise my long-distance Girlfriend. How? POST: Okay, me and my girlfriend have been together for a few years now - but she lives 3,500 miles away. We originally met when she came to my University on an exchange visit, we got together and just never broke it off. It's been two years now since we've been able to see each other in person due to commitments to our school lives, as well as financial issues. So, as luck would have it I've just ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21F] with my BF [22M] for 4 years, abuse, rape and cheating POST: Long story short, boyfriend of four years (that has sexually, verbally and otherwise abused me) claims he ""didn't know"" messaging other girls on here telling them they look like goddesses and have perfect asses, talking to them in great detail about my mother (including disgusting fantasies that i got to read, hoo fucking ray) and calling them my pet name would ""hurt me as bad as it seemed to"". He's done this befor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[20M] just got told by my girlfriend [19F] of 4 1/2 years that she is no longer in love with me. I'm devastated. POST: we had been together for over 4 years, and since we're both in college and working a lot we almost never got the time to see each other. We had talked about taking a break for a little bit, just to get a handle on things and then we'd get back together. We had done it before and it was never a big deal. So we did that a few months ago. We had still remained close ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: There have been a few posts about parents saying terrible things to their children, but what terrible things have you said to your parents/heard someone else say? POST: The worst thing I ever said was when I was 12. For some context, my mother had neuro-surgery when I was around 8. At the time I didn't understand death or illness, and I didn't really get what happened to her or why she was in hospital. Apparently it was a 30% survival rate, but she made it (thank fuck!). Anyway I had a h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] girlfriend's [22F] abusive ex sent me her nudes. Do I tell her? POST: Alright, here's the deal. I've been dating my girlfriend for about 4 months at this point. Everything is great, except for one thing: her psycho ex has been harassing her, causing scenes and talking behind her back to her friends. This has been going on for the past year or so, but lately it seems to have ceased. When we first started dating, she asked me if the dude had tried to contact me in any way. I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My GF [20 F] of 6 months broke up with me [20 M], said she loves me but needs space to learn to love herself. POST: My girlfriend and I had been dating for about 6 months, we had a great relationship and very compatible personalities. I have never felt this way about someone She had always struggled with anxiety issues and depression. She broke up with me this week and told me she needed to learn to love herself before she could be with someone. She told me she loved me, and that sh",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's something you wish you had photo proof of? (Possibly NSFW) POST: I was driving to the gym with my friend yesterday. I pull into the side entrance and notice a red Camaro with the wipers on, door flung open, and a girl leaning on the door facing towards the car (away from us). It's about this time we stop in the middle of the road and just kinda ...stare. She isn't wearing anything whatsoever below the waist. Her pants are on the ground and panties around her ankles. After about 10",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 M] have a serious crush on this girl in college. Can anyone give me some advice? POST: So Ive been really interested in this girl in my college. Shes the most attractive woman I've ever seen. The only problem is we have no friends in common, no way to indirectly get to know each other. So i thought I should just walk up one day and ask her out somehow, but I've heard that can be off putting, a strange guy approaching you, and could be considered creepy. Anyone able to give me ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: After 2.5 years, my first love [23 F] left me [26 M] on Christmas Eve. POST: This is a throwaway account. I'm mostly posting this because I lack family/friends to talk to, and I'd like some guidance [mostly] and reassurance. I'm going to be brief, because the grieving process is preventing me from gaining any objective understanding at this time. I think any explanation would be a rationalization. My girlfriend broke up with me not five days ago. Ever since then I've felt this terri",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Please help me find a solution to the roommate from hell POST: I share an apartment with two girls, one of which is my best friend, and one who has transformed my living space into the 9th circle of hell. I am getting ready to graduate, and crazy roommate is staying on for another lease term. Some examples of the crazy involve marking lines on her orange juice after pouring because she thought we were stealing it (seriously, it's not even pulp free. no thanks), making giant messes and ge",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [21/F] offered to cook me [21/M] something, need some insight POST: Brief intro, I've always been a shy introverted person so I don't have much experience with this and would like some insight. Basically, I took this activity group where I met a girl. I only chatted with her briefly after the first lesson, but after the second one we had a good 1 hour chat, and she seemed honestly interested in what I was saying (although she did do a lot of the talking, which I prefer but I made sur",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Remember those 'friends' at school who would use you and never contact you until they need something else? Redditors,how do you decide if someone doesn't like you and isnjust using you? POST: I just finished school and i'm about to go to college. In school i knew more than a handful of 'friends' who would act really friendly and chat until they asked for help I dunedin and when i did help them, they would thank me and then 'disappear' if you know what i mean. The problem was they really ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: Not being paid properly or on time POST: My situation is pretty complicated but I'll try to put it into bullet points to avoid a wall of text. -I manage a small store and get paid a salary -My boss has been wire transferring my pay into my account and I am continually having to remind him to pay me -I asked for direct deposit and keep getting roundabout answers (he thinks that wiring me $ is direct deposit and I get charged $15 in bank fees every time i recieve one) -My boss claims he i",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Would it be ok to quit my job POST: Without going into too much detail, I've been at my job for 3 years now and was offered a management position about 2 years ago. That promotion never happened. Last week the new GM was doing reviews and everyone expected me to get promoted but instead I got a .25 cent raise and 3 other people got promoted over me (all of which actually told the GM they thought I should have been promoted). And yes, I'm serious when I say this. A .25 cent rais",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My ex (21F) broke up with me (23M) 3 months ago after 4 and a half years. I've moved on but she keeps contacting me. Its been a while now since any contact, what if she tries again? POST: My fiancee (21F) broke up with me (23M) in Sept. to be with another guy. They were sleeping together while i was still in the house in the process of moving out. She put me through a lot of shit, but it's hard to forget 5 years. To get over her i blocked her on everything, yet she still found ways t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24 M] girlfriend [23 F] of 5 years wont stop talking about marriage and moving in together; i however want to breakup POST: We have been dating for over 5 years now. We moved away from home for college and stayed together despite our long distance relationship. We both have jobs and she has started talking about longer term commitments, potentially marriage but mainly moving in with each other. However, i feel like i want to break up. The last year or so things have gotten sta",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20F] with my friend since highschool [19F], just had her mother pass away from cancer. How can I be there for her without adding to the stress? I am scared for her mental health after this traumatic event POST: My best friend's mom passed away last night after fighting cancer for 5 years. We honestly never really thought the day would come... We went over after they took her body away and my friend was uncontrollably sobbing for a few hours. She had mentioned before her mom pas",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (18F) GF pretty much wants to save herself until marriage but maintain a GF/BF relationship with me (18M). I am very sexual, and I don't think I can do what she is doing. She went from loving physical touch to calling me a sinner if I try to engage. What should I do? POST: Hey guys, good to see you all doing well. So she took a drastic change and went from making out and being sexually intimate together, to saving herself for marriage and even the slightest touching or kissing is ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [M23] not sure if just bored with GF [F 21] or questioning our future POST: I have been on and off with my girlfriend (Ally) for about 16 months. The first 4 months I was considering moving home after I graduated college so she pulled away. We didn't communicate well and eventually broke up. I later found out that Ally cheated on me during those first 4 months. I wasn't even angry as it was a dysfunctional relationship (we were very distant, it was more friends with benefits than BF",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I think my (18m) gf (18f) of 6 months wants to break up with me and until she either does or definitely doesn't I'm stuck feeling miserable POST: Basically my gf moved to uni on the 12th and since then her texts have become increasingly blunter and have less effection, emotion and are very in frequent. I moved to the same city (but different uni) on the 20th and I asked if she wanted to meet up but she said she was busy sat, sun and lectures start on Monday. I said we should meet u",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [23/m] don't know where to take my relationship with a friend [22/f] POST: About a month ago, a friend of mine from college (24/f) (let's call her Jennifer) introduced me to her friend from work (22/f) (let's call her Stacy). We all hung out quite a bit in the last month. Recently on two occasions, when we planned to hang out, Jennifer decided that she didn't want to go. To my surprise, Stacy wasn't even fazed by this, and was okay with hanging out with me alone. She would sa",positive " r/dating_advice TITLE: [28 M] need help with courting a girl I've been into for 2 years. POST: Thanks for taking the time to read, I don't have any personal friends that I can ask for advice and my family seems set on me dating girls way out of my league. I have been visiting a cafe near my home for roughly 2 years, sometimes every day for weeks at a time. In addition to their cost effective pile of great food I can look forward to, I have been infatuated with the daughter of the owner for the entire time",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [M21] trying to help my gf[F21] be more assertive, any tips? google is slacking on me POST: I have been with My girlfriend for 2 months and everything is awesome. Only problem is she is not assertive enough either when she gets hit on, with friends who want to sleep with her, or her family hitting her up for money when she is broke as shit. She is extremely sweet, buying bums food all the time type of sweet and she doesn't want to ""hurt feelings"" I told her they are disrespect",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Can we write a movie together on Reddit? How? POST: I'm a young comedy writer and director. I've always wanted to produce a crowd-sourced script, but I never knew how to start it. I just recently joined Reddit and it kinda seems like a no-brainer to try and do it here. I've never laughed as hard at people's comments and replies as I have while reading posts on this site; neither have I been as touched as I have been by some of the more emotional topics. So, being a rookie in this commun",positive " r/loseit TITLE: r/loseit newb POST: Alright, after reading the FAQ, I didn't really see anything that answers my question. I'm an 18 year old, 4'11""-5'0"", female that's pretty unhappy about the way I look. Unlimited college food and my horrible portion control did me in. I went into college at 122 lbs. Still a little overweight for my size (according to BMI), but not by much (I think it was recommended that I be between 115-117 lbs). I didn't do much for activity aside from walking to my friend's house (",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [18M] have a friend [18F] has attraction to me, but unsure on if she wants to take the next step POST: I'd rather not use names for personal paranoia purposes (I hope that is fine with this sub reddit). I've known this woman, who will be called Silver, for almost five months.. We've become really close and she has become really affectionate towards me in the past few weeks.. Most of our communication was done via webcam on Skype since she is in a college almost two hours wher",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by falling asleep in the shower. POST: I went out for drinks last night and had a little bit too much. I hadn't eaten a lot the entire day and was out until 8am so I was completely shitfaced. When I came home, I wanted to take a relaxing shower and go to bed. Well, turns out the shower was too relaxing. I remember thinking ""Maybe I'll just sit down for a while and let the warm water run over me"". Mistake. The next thing I remember is hearing voices and when I looked up, the janitor (who",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Finally decided to break up with my shit girlfriend that I love, need help on how to get over her. POST: I still love her, but she keeps talking and flirting to other guys, I drew the line a few months ago and told her I simply didn't like it, she's been progressing by talking to them more than me etc, i dont want to know what else she's done. I need help on how I get over somebody that I really love, I've spent a fair amount of time with this girl and I've held her so close,",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me (m/31), long time friend (M/41) asked me for money. POST: We've been pretty good pals since working together about 10 years ago (it was an overseas contract job in a really small tight knit community). I've traveled the world with this guy, been through a lot, and know him as well as a brother. He's in town helping his ill mother and while meeting up for drinks he asks me how I'd feel about lending him some money (about a grand). I don't consider that this would be a ""loan"" as m",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I tell my Partner I have HSV2 After We've Already Had Sex? [x-post from AskWomen] POST: Before you flame me and send me to hell, this is not what I wanted to happen. To make a long story short, I met this great girl yesterday. We met for lunch and ended up spending the entire day together and went back to her place. I had no intention of doing anything sexual with this girl and even when we went back to her place I didn't think we were going to do much. I normally won't have sex",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by 'asking' someone to be my Valentine the day after Valentine's Day in the weirdest possible way. Yay. POST: There is this girl I really like, and we've been texting/talking and flirting for about a month or so. On Valentine's Day, I thought, ""Hey, why not? She likes me, I like her, so I'll ask her to be me Valentine."" I bought a bouquet of roses for her, then made an Adventure Time-themed V-Day card(she really likes the show). Sadly, our schedules were a bit messed up that day, so w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My(19M) mother (51F) set up a dinner with my ex(18F) and her family without my consent. POST: Over half a year ago, I(19M) was in a long distance relationship with my ex(18F). It lasted almost two years, until she brutally dumped me. Our families got along tremendously, and there were never any problems. And although we still keep in contact (we were good friends before and after the break up), we havent seen each other since the break up. Although I still talk to my ex and her fam",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my 2 month gf [23 F], experience interracial couple problems in London POST: I am normal looking man, just turned 24 studying in London. She is a normal looking 23 year old woman. People when asked about each one of us seperately will say we look normal or cute. We are not appearing as aggresive or weird in any way (clothing, grooming etc) and are civilised. However, people in random different areas will stare at us or go even further by touching their noses or scr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [28] Japanese girlfriend [35] of 1 year thinks unprotected sex is the only sex that feels good and wants to do it on ""safe days"" POST: Girlfriend and I live together in Japan since a couple months ago, together for 1 year. About 2 months of that year were long distance. We've been using condoms all this time because the pill is not an option for her because it's unnatural and bad for your health. The pill seems to be generally disliked in Japan and while I think that's weird I'm ",negative " r/self TITLE: The whole fedora/neckbeard thing has gone too far. POST: When this started, it was basically a way of mocking /r/atheism and /r/theredpill. The fedora was being abused by fat losers in order to make them seem superior, and it deserved the hate it got. Then this stuff hit 4chan. IT became conflated with the term ""neckbeard"", which was originally a term of endearment on /tg/, and became even more of a stereotype. Bronies, Magic players, and the PC Master Race crowd joined this stereotype. Thi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: BF [23/M] has slept with many different girls how do I get past the feeling of disgust over it. POST: I [23/F] have been with my boyfriend for about a year. When I met him, I didn't think that he was the type to sleep around or sleep with multiple girls. He made himself seem like the good Christian boy type. Lately I've been finding out just how many girls he's slept with from before me and while we were on a break (long story). Anytime something about his past encounters comes",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (30F) husband (31M) threatened to kill me and himself, I can't bring myself to tell anyone I know. POST: Update: I told my boss at work. I'm going to ask my best friend tonight if I can move in with her for a bit, but she is at work and can't talk at the moment. I've been putting on an act for James so I think I'll be okay for a day or so. I hope to be out of the house by the weekend. ------------ My husband and I have been together for 3.5 years. We'll call him James. Things ha",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (f/19) boyfriend (m/21) is taking me to a football game with his dad for our one year anniversary. [Relationships] POST: I understand that it's a big game, and tickets were pretty expensive. It's the one at the Rose Bowl on New Years day if that matters. Although I appreciate how much money his dad spent on tickets, I feel like this is something that my boyfriend and his dad want to go to, and I'm just invited because it happens to fall on our anniversary. My boyfriend just says",positive " r/relationships TITLE: my parents [55] threw away some of my [18M] things. POST: I moved out of my house after getting back from a hospitalization (psyc) and am now living with someone else. My parents didn't give me a chance to get my personal belongings. Now my parents are religious and i recently came out to them as bi. They reacted ok but made it clear that its a sin and they are not ok with it. Now i asked my mom yesterday if i could come to get some of my belongings. I wanted some of my sexual item",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking a leak on my girlfriend POST: I went over to my girlfriends house hoping for some sexy times only to find out her mom didn't have work today and was home. So we decided to just chill and watch some TV which was totally cool with me since I enjoy just being with her. Out of no where she starts tickling me in my armpit which I'm not really used to. She's never done it before and i dont know why she was starting to do it now. I haven't been tickled in a while. I let her know that ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Any advice for or experience with biology related volunteer opportunities? POST: I just finished my undergrad degree in Biology - specifically ecology and evolution - and want to take some time off to get some experience while at the same time just trying something totally new. I'm looking for something that I can spend somewhere in the neighbourhood of a few months to a year in a place completely different and far away (I'm in Montreal). I've been looking for good volunteer spots for ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/F] have a semi-estranged sister [32/F] and just found out she's pregnant. POST: My sister is estranged from my family because of her relationship with my parents. Obviously, there's a pretty big age gap between us. When she was growing up my parents were abusive, neglectful, and honestly too young and emotionally immature to be parents. They've somehow done better with me. I do question if they should even be parents sometimes and they've caused me a significant amount of pain",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My roommate [28,m] won't let me have overnight guests [22,f] POST: A bit of context. I've been living with my roommate for 10 months now and quite frankly, I've tried but it is horrible. Right now I am the only one cleaning shared spaces. My roommate's contribution is that he takes care of the cat litter and occasionally takes out the garbage. I vacuum, do the dishes, and clean the bathroom 100% of the time. It's not a fair distribution but I've given up on it. My roommate di",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [23 M] am having a hard time moving on after being dumped by my fiancee[23 F] (7 years together) POST: So i know that the typical advice for someone who is going through a break up is to cut off all contact. Well i can't exactly do that because we have a child together. We have handled child support and visitation outside the court system because we are both very understanding of each other's financial situation and schedules. I'm not concerned at all in the slightest when it co",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with my date [32 M] showed up at work after the first date. How crazy was that? POST: I'm relatively new in the dating game because i had to deal with some serious social phobia issues in the past and i had to deal with them before i could deal with any romantic interests. I had met this guy online and had a date with him. We watched a movie together, cuddled, kissed and had a fun night together. So far no problem. In the evening we talked a bit about our jobs and beca",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My SO (26M) wants me (25F) to move for him but doesn't want to live together yet. Is that a bad sign? POST: My SO and I have been together for over two years. He is planning on moving across the country in the summer and has said he would ideally want me to move too. Although he isn't pressuring me to move, he's just open to it. He is hesitant in general because he says that he'd feel guilty if anything happened to us and I'd be stuck in another state with no friends and no family, w",positive " r/Parenting TITLE: 2.5 year old vs. Daycare Naps: Cagematch POST: Short and sweet because I have to go to bed. Toddler: hates naps. Toddler is allowed to sit quietly and read at school on his cot. Toddler has recently decided that this is horse shit. Today, teacher told me that he not only persisted in jumping around, talking, etc., but he actually flipped his cot over to play on it and woke another child on purpose. Toddler is an angel, otherwise. Well behaved, intelligent, polite, friendly - the wo",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Dear reddit, what's the wierdest conversation you've overheard? POST: So i was going to see a buddy 30 minutes away by train, i sit down, turn up the music on my headphones, ready to chill for a little, but suddenly out of nowhere comes 2 male strippers (at least that's what it looked like) and sits down one row away from me. Both wearing the sickest leather outfits that outclasses any german letherhosen-porn on the internetz. They just small talk, but after a while one of the guys says",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21 M] girlfriend [19 F] changes her Whatsapp profile picture immediately she gets off work at 9 pm. Am I just insecure and paranoid, or is there something here? POST: Yeah, so my girlfriend works with different kind of people, which most of are men. She don't really use her phone for eight hours every day, and now when she gets off work, immediately her WA profile picture has been changed, and when I ask, all she says that she tried to look for an another similar profile picture,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25m] have exceedingly high expectations from people, thus it limits my ability to be happy in relationships. POST: Throwaway. I am currently in a relationship with a [24f] for the past year and overall, she's pretty great. One thing, however, is that she sometimes doesn't lives up to my expectations. Let me explain. I have ALWAYS had extremely high expectations of people that I deem close to me. Best friends, family, girlfriends, etc. If the dishes aren't done the way I want",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 M] trying to suprise my wife[22F] of 4 years for V-Day. Any suggestions POST: Been with my significant other for a total of 5 years now and after a while we have some trouble trying to do something different for the other. Every year I do the normal routine of flowers and a heart shaped box of sushi. This year I want to personally make her something. She is a Pinterest junky and I want to show here that I enjoy seeing her make things that she is proud of. I personally can get ",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Tired of hearing ""You don't need to lose any weight, you are too skinny"" /r/loseit - give me your opinion POST: I'm 30/F, 5'1ish. I started out at 170lbs (obviously that took some time to GET to 170, lol) and worked hard to get down to 129. I would like to get down a little further to a nice, comfortable weight. I don't know what that is yet - anything between 115-120 will probably feel ""comfortable"" to me. I'm doing keto right now (I like it, I feel good on it, end of story) and I lost a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] found on my boyfriend[24M] of 1.5years, naked photos of his (multiple) exes after asking him to delete them over a year ago POST: About a 1.5 years ago I found naked photos of exes in my boyfriends computer (two different girls). I asked him to delete them, not only as a jealousy factor, but out of respect for the girls because I would be really uneasy with an ex having naked photos of me, regardless of the nature of the breakup. He swore to me up and down that they were dele",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [17m] am having an issue with my gf [17f] of 6 months. She puts herself in situations on the internet that could get her in trouble. POST: So to begin I have posted here before about this but this is different. In the past I said I was uncomfortable with how she conducted herself and her response was basically ""it's my life"". So now I am having an issue with how out there she is. She basically LIVES online. I mean you type her username and the first 2 pages of Google are all her. ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: My mom told my sister and I today and my dad just last night that she is moving out and into a hotel for a month for a kind of trial separation. I'm kind of confused and upset and could use some advice. Can you help or relate at all? POST: Alright so I have had a very good life for the most part. Happy family but not perfect. My father is an excellent provider, he's my hero and his success is my inspiration and motive in my own life. My mom still worked just because she would go cra",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[25F] accidentally rejected a kiss from someone[late20sM] that I like POST: Last night, a coworker that I've known for about six months came by to hang out and drink a little bit. We got pretty drunk and he got a little flirty-when I was showing him the guest room and helping to get him settled, he would pull me down into the bed with him whenever I tried to leave. Eventually he just ended up laying in my bed with me, watching a movie. Like I said, I was pretty drunk and I was in th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He (31/m) is much older than I (23/f) am. How would you approach this? POST: My friends and I went out a few weeks ago. We met up with some of her brother's friends and I met this guy ""Ben"". He seemed very outgoing and fun. Was very nice to me and everyone else that was there. I thought he was pretty great and we clicked really well. I didn't think I'd see him again though so I didn't really think too much about it. The next day, ""Ben"" adds me on Facebook along with everyone else in",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: Threatened to kill girl who posted my nudes if she didn't take it down. (kansas) POST: Basically a girl posted a picture of my dick on facebook and after i asked her to take it down (well, it was more of begging) i told her i would get my uncles gun and kill her if she didn't take it down. obviously this was a bluff to get her to take it down (and just f.y.i she infact called my bluff and didn't take it down untill after 4hours and over 30people came and bullied me). The next day i wa",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: [St. Paul, Minnesota] Appliance store sold me a broken refrigerator and want me to pay more for another one or settle for a lesser type. POST: Hello everyone. I recently bought a refurbished refrigerator from a large retailer in the midwest and they delivered it no problem while taking away my old one. I just found out that the cooling system in it doesn't work so I went back to the store to see what they could do about it. I had bought the extended warranty and had them deliver it t",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I had to trespass what I thought was a homeless guy at my work POST: I had to trespass a guy from my work today. Hes been asking every customer for money so he could buy ""food"". Normally I dont care, homeless or not ask whomever but he was bothering several customers and I told him to leave several times. He kept coming back. Every time he would come in and buy beer and then ask people for change. Finally Im outside, and someone gives him money and he looks right at me with disdain in h",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [16M] Earlier today my dad [46M] told me he doesn't love my stepmum [41F] anymore. I don't know how to feel. POST: I'm a 16 year old guy who lives with my dad, stepmum and 6-month old baby sister. They've been married for almost 3 years, anniversary at the end of this month. This afternoon, my dad came into my bedroom crying. He sat down, hugged me and said ""I'm sorry, son. I don't love [stepmum, his wife] anymore"" I was speechless. I'm not one for showing emotion in front of other",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30M] with my GF [26F] with [M] BF. When is it too close for opposite sex friends. POST: Where to begin, prior to my current Relationship I was involved in a very Long term relationship turned Marriage that ended in Divorce due to an affair at work, her not me, that experienced opened my eyes to a lot of things, I guess you could say I was very naïve. Now currently my gf and I live together and have been dating about 4 yrs. The issue is with her male best friend from HS th",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19m] with my ex[18f] together 9 months, broke up 6 months. confused with what to do POST: My ex was my first love, first kiss, and pretty much first everything, and I was hers. We broke up because she wanted to be single in college and ""go crazy"" her words not mine. The breakup was a bad one and we stopped talking until we felt ready and tried to be friends again. We hooked up a lot and we were practically dating until we realized it was just going to hurt us if we continued si",negative " r/AskDocs TITLE: Weird mini-seizures, possibly hypoglycemia? POST: 24 F 5'4"" 117 pounds Caucasian When I was a kid I used to get little episodes where I'd be standing and suddenly have to lie down for 5-10 minutes before I could move again, I felt kind of frozen and numb the whole time. I started noticing that it happened more when I hadn't eaten in a while, and so I kind of self-treated myself by getting a snack when I started to feel faint, and eventually this stopped happening. I still get that kind",negative " r/self TITLE: Fellow Redditors, what are some scams we should all be aware of? POST: I'll go first: I'm currently looking to sublet an apartment for the summer and since I started I've had several e-mails from people claiming to be from a different country who need a place to stay as soon as possible. These e-mails tend to have really poor spelling and grammar errors. Many phrases don't make much sense. Without asking for any pictures or details of the apartment, most of them eagerly agree to commit thems",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [18M] lost the love of my life [18F] and have no idea what to do... POST: We both just entered our first year of college together. We have been dating for 3 years currently and 5 and 1/2 years total. She meant everything to me. We broke up because I got jealous about her being around other guys and hanging with them. She got defensive. I was stupid. I should have realized that she just wanted friends and not to be stuck with me all the time. I spoke to her dad about this and he t",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU: By making a cheese toastie in the toaster at 3am POST: So some of you may have read the life hack where you turn your toaster on its side and put a sandwich in and it makes a toasted sandwich, no special machine needed and sounds great right? Wrong. As I was doing my usual wandering of the house at 3am I ended it by deciding to make a cheese sandwich and then go back to my room. This is when I remembered the aforementioned toasted sandwich trick. I made the sandwich and turned the toa",negative " r/tifu TITLE: [M] TIFU by trying to break out of my shell. POST: This happened about a year back. I've got severe depression and anxiety, and have for over 5 years. So, I was away at college and had met a girl. You know how it goes. A few months later we're dating, but the problem is I'm very anxious, particularly socially. My girlfriend invited me over to her best friend's birthday party. Her and his boyfriend had become friends to me too. The party died down and it was just us four. It was really late a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [M17] constantly rethinking relationship with girlfriend [F17] POST: So me [M17] and my girlfriend [F17] have been together 1 year now, and the whole experience has been amazing. Our relationship has always been strong and is still going great as it is. But lately I have been getting all kinds of different thoughts and I feel bad about it and don't know wire what to do. Mainly I've been thinking about sex, we've been having sex as long as we've been together and she was basically ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My ex-boyfriend is still in love with me, advice? POST: We broke up over a year ago after a 2-year relationship and it was a mutual decision (no really, if anything he broke up with me!). It started out well, we decided to be friends and for a while it worked... Then it stopped working. It started with him getting jealous if I talked to a guy and he would constantly ask me if I was dating anyone and basically was just all up in my business. That's when I broke off all contact, told him ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Boyfriend [20/M] of 4 years broke up with me [20/F] to 'figure out his life' POST: So my boyfriend of 4 years broke up with me last night because he needs to figure out his life (fair enough), but apparently I'm not allowed to join. It all started with the fact that we had been planning to move out together an hour from our home town, I had even got a job close and was ready to settle in. Then last night he comes over and says he needs to move out alone because I will be holding him",negative " r/relationships TITLE: MY [20F] wants to take a break with me [23M] POST: So last night my ex(?) girlfriend surprised me that we should take a break. She says that she is currently suffering from depression and needs to work on her self and find out who she is by her self. We started dating when she was a freshman about halfway through the first semester. I asked her what the difference is between a break up and taking a break and she responded with a break up has no intention of getting back together whil",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: All My Friends Are Guys? (20M) POST: My roommates and other close friends constantly hang out with girls or bring them over to our apartment. They constantly talk about stories they hear from their female friends and I just have to awkwardly sit and listen because the only time I really converse with girls is through my roommates. I've never had a girlfriend and just always sort of played it off because most of my hobbies are generally male dominated (boxing, weight lifting, etc.) B",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [16 M] meet her[17 F] a few weeks ago and don't know what to do POST: Disclaimer: first time posting, sorry if I do something wrong. Hi reddit, I (16 M) have been taking an Astronomy class at a local community college over the summer for fun. In the class I meet this young girl (17 F), lets call her Jane, in my class and we seemed to hit off pretty well. We both had similar interests (Astronomy and science in general, reading, video games, martial arts, ect) and coincidentally we",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I just found out that I'm going to be an uncle, and am in serious need of advice. POST: Ok. I found out a few hours ago that my (19 year old) younger brother got his (18 year old) girlfriend pregnant, and the kid is due some time around the first of May. This is a major issue because both my brother and his girlfriend are lazy high school drop-out potheads. They aren't the worthless degenerate sort by any means, but they have certainly done almost nothing to counter the poor hands the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 M] have a newly taken crush [28 F] (known each other 10 + years) and am curious if I can at least say I'm interested if things change. POST: I have a friend I've crushed on a long time. We've had moments verging on ""more than friends"" here and there. I wanted to officially ask her out but I wanted to get more of my life secure first. I wish I hadn't waited, because she recently got with someone else. I don't want to try to steal her or any of that, and I understand I wouldn't ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: i'm [24, F] not sure if i can commit to him [28] for marriage. [9 months] POST: i think about this so often, it's driving me crazy. basically my boyfriend has lead a very rough life. he's usually very grumpy and sad and have some terrible life habits involving drugs and alcohol, but he's gotten much better since he met me. in contrast, i've had my ups and downs, but i'm relatively successful, healthy and happy. he's yet to bring me down, and is in fact, very supportive of how succe",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (20/M) It's been almost a year and I thought it was over POST: Not sure where else to turn for advice But my me and my long term girlfriend of ~3 years broke up at the end of last year. I was in a really bad place and pretty much just threw it all away and didn't give a shit. I was over her and didn't give a shit about anything in my life really. Since she has gotten a boyfriend and idk if they're still together or not, I'm not one to look further in to it. I've ""heard"" a cou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is it wrong that I don't want to be friends with her [23/f] unless sex is involved? [24/m] POST: About 2 years ago, I met a girl that I was pretty immediately attracted to. Despite some hints early on, I got the feeling that she wasn't truly into me romantically/sexually, and so I never really expressed my interest in her. As we started spending more time together, though, I became quite infatuated with her (especially physically/sexually) - and so I finally admitted my attraction ~8",negative " r/legaladvice TITLE: My roommate is a sociopath and a drug dealer POST: Nashville, TN My roommate's behavior over the last few months has caused me a great deal of stress. She deals MDMA and coke, and regularly invites her clients (needless to say, not people I feel very safe around) in to our apartment, where they have used my shower (not hers), eaten my food and drank my wine while I was out of the house. She is often not even there at the same time as her clients, giving them the keys to the apartment ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by eating a spoonful of salsa POST: The other day my mom made some really delicious salsa. There was tomatoes, and jalapenos and onions, cilantro; all that good stuff. I was about to get ready for bed but I figured I would have a small bowl of salsa before i brushed my face and washed my teeth and everything, so I was enjoying it immensely with a tortilla, and when i finished the tortilla there was still a little bit of salsa in the bowl, so I thought it would be a pretty decent idea to ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to be a leader POST: This may not seem too big of an issue to many of you, but its been bugging me for quite the while now so I'm just going to share what happened with all of you. So basically, I'm in a school leadership club, and today we were running a special class for the younger students. I was really passionate in this class and have been planning it for months. Because i'm one of those underdog kids who are usually always inferior to others and are never noticed, I was",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by doing a recursive delete POST: I've been writing a PowerShell script to find and delete redundant $RECYCLE.BIN files in our thousands of user personal folders. The script is going well. It works perfectly fine. It takes a matter of minutes and gives beautiful log and error output info. Then I notice that I'm not using the same standardised variable name for the folder I'm trying to clear out, so I edit one of my functions to bring it into line. Great, now the function should use",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [23/m] & [21/f] - Ladies of Reddit - What would you want?! POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for about 3 months now (we've known each other and been really close for about 6 months) - we see each other all the time and have grown very close, however this is her first relationship so things move forward VERY slowly especially compared to what I'm used to. She has a pretty strong stance on most physical stuff, never done anything before and doesn't really even talking",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is the best way to deal with your roommate's d-bag friend who is always at the house? POST: So here's what's going on... I moved in with my 2 roommates last year around this time and everything was going great. Everyone gets along, we all have the same interests, we're all very clean and do our parts, and it's amazing. I have a *great* deal on rent, plenty of space, and no interests in breaking my lease or moving out. My problem is my one roommate's douche-bag friend. We'll call hi",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Please help me [23/m]. Is this the end of the road for me and my fiance? [31/m] POST: Throwaway as SO is a serial redditor! So we've been together four and a bit years. We've had our ups and downs just like any couple, both changed as people in many ways. Lately though, we just don't seem to click. We don't work together as a team, we don't agree on anything and generally just don't see eye to eye. Whenever we argue, the arguments are ALWAYS about the same things. It feel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20/F] can't help but feel neglected by my LDR boyfriend [22/M] of 4 months when he plays videogames with his friends POST: Now normally I wouldn't mind, because as a gamer myself I understand that some games really demand a lot of focusing and not to mention he needs some time with his friends too. However, as of recently, he's taken it upon himself to ignore my requests to call him on Skype because ""he's busy/can't/isn't sure if he can"" for whatever the reason. He did this toda",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: [AskReddit] Girls, do you 'dig' piercings on guys? What's your opinion on the whole piercing issue? POST: Are you for them? Or against them? I'm attempting to win an argument against my friend here, so he doesn't get one himself, especially because the whole 'girls will like me for it' is the only reason he's thought of/given me for getting a face piercing. Honestly, I don't like the idea of piercings, I'm fine if it's in a girl's ears, but nearly nowhere else. I'm absolutely fine with ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me (18/F) with new boyfriend (19/M), it seems like he's trying to invest more in our relationship than he should be right now. POST: So, I'm in my last year of high school, he's in college, and we work together in a pretty casual setting. (I don't know if that's necessary info) We stared hanging out a few months ago, and it turns out we both liked each other, so we started dating a couple weeks ago. This is my first relationship. I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I will most l",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Taxes POST: Hi all. Lifeprotips didn't like this info a few years ago under an alt, but here it is. I'm going to try to help you out with my experience. **H&R Block** This is basically a scam. I'm really not kidding. A friend of mine ended up owing the IRS nearly $3,000 because H&R Block made a mistake - and they refused to honor the insurance she had purchased. They totally left her holding the bag. I urged her to get an attorney but she felt she couldn't afford it. Another fri",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by trying to be rough during sexy time. POST: My current bf is the first guy I've had any sexual experience with, he however is not new to the act so I tend to feel obligated to go all out, be a bit aggressive and playful, talk dirty, the works, just really make it a wonderful experience that doesn't highlight the fact that I'm new at it. So today we were on round 2 and I was being extra rough like he likes, nails in his back, pulling his hair, I was on top and I got a little too into it",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU probably messing up my only chance with this girl POST: So long story short, there's a girl that lives across from me in my condo building. She's a hottie. Anyways, today is memorial day so everything closed early and after a long days worth of drinking, i'm starved. Seeing that everything is closed i go across the street to a convenience store which only had frozen food. I pick out a borrito heated it up in my condo and ate it. 20 min later i remembered i forgot my phone in my car, on t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21f] ""best friend"" [21f] of 10 years won't respond to my texts/any attempted communication, wants to ""shut off from the world"" POST: I'm feeling guilty because she has some real issues going on - her bf is having trouble with a long-term illness, and she has occasional mental health issues herself (actual OCD, depression). But I'm feeling really lonely at the moment, and I want my best friend back. I want to help her, and I want to be there for her, but it feels like she's just ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20 M] with my ex-girlfriend [19 M/F] of 3 years, upcoming NYE encounter POST: I have been broken up with my first GF for about 2 months after 3 years of dating. Tonight I am DJ-ing at a private party for about 100 people, and I have heard through the grapevine my Ex will be there. We ended on cold terms, and haven't spoken or seen each other in about 1.5 months. Originally, the idea of her being there, dancing with other guys, probably watching her make out with other guys didn'",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by taking a snapping a pic of my girlfriend's roommate's ass. POST: My gf and I are both in college and I visit her occasionally. She had this super hot roommate with an amazing ass. She is on her bed and I'm on my gf's bed. Then she gets down to go and pee and I instinctively grab my phone to take a few shots of her ass. Thinking my camera shutter sound was deactivated, I press the button which takes multiple shots at the same time. To my horror, my phone gives up on me and she both h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What's your ancestral ""I shouldn't be alive"" story? POST: Inspired by a post in AMA, some stories are really interesting. I'll start. In 1993, a bomb went off in the World Trade Center. It was an act of terrorism, however people tend to forget it since it only killed around 20 people (from what I remember). Anyway, the day after my father found out my mom was pregnant with my brother, was the day the bomb went off. He worked in the tower where the bomb was, and it was detonated in in t",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: My husband and I are moving from Charlotte, NC to Huntsville, Alabama. First time movers, have no idea what we are doing and I am panicking. Help? POST: So, some back story. We got married and graduated in May and since then we have been looking non-stop for career jobs. He's a 3D Modeler, so we knew we would have to move because there is nothing in Charlotte for him. He finally found one in Huntsville, Alabama. Yay. Bad thing is, we both live in a Studio Apartment in the baseme",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [22/m] My girlfriend (22/f) and I want to get teaching jobs in different states POST: Girlfriend of 4 years and I just graduated and are looking for teaching jobs. We both student-taught at my hometown school and we loved it. She was unofficially offered a job at the same school and was planning to accept it as soon as possible. Anyway, she is from a state a few thousand miles away and she recently went home to visit her parents. While there, her parents encouraged her to appl",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Photographers - Help me find a Digital Camera POST: Hello All! Im looking to buy a new Digital Camera, I know 0% about cameras however i would love to start taking alot more pictures, however i am broke and would like to spend < £100(cheaper the better!), now i know that doesn't go anywhere near pro level cameras and so am looking for something that would be good at shots of sunsets, it would be nice although not needed if it allowed video recording as well. so thank you in advance and l",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Hi Reddit, how did/do you find your passion? POST: I feel like im wasting my time doing a job I hate and to which I am not suited. I do a crappy job because it's hard to get motivated for this, not necessarily because I like doing crappy work. I've always been told to follow my passion, and this will lead to opportunities I find more interesting, that I would find a job I WANTED to do. But what is it? I like lots of stuff, and I'm good a lots of stuff if I try (In fact, in school I was",negative " r/jobs TITLE: Returning to the job hunt: Been out of the game/my field for a year. How do I explain this? POST: I graduated with a degree in graphic design in may 2011. I immediately got a part time job working in a kitchen just to pay the bills, which became a full time job pretty soon. In the beginning I was applying for new jobs, but I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted, and it showed. Got nothing. Also important to note, at this time I had no car and no car access. My kitchen job was walking distance fr",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [19F] would like to cool down a FWB with [19M] without losing the friendship. Is it possible? POST: Hello /r/relationships! I [19F] am in my first year of college, and have been able to befriend some fantastic people. Specifically, my question concerns a friend [19M] with whom I've been getting closer since December. That is when our involvement started. He and I began flirting and going on dates, but I was clear from the beginning that I wasn't looking for a committed relationsh",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My(18F) family is always fighting, and it usually gets blamed on me, even if there is no possible way I could have started the fight. What do I do? POST: So, I recently turned 18, graduated HS and am currently working full time at a day care. I can't move out yet, as there are no apartments in my price range in the town I live in and I'd lose my income if I were to move. I pay rent to my parents, it's very obvious that's the only reason they let me stay. Of course, I am actually to b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: 18M, need advice on an ex [17F] turned FWB. This is my first relationship. (xpost from /r/relationship_advice) POST: Several months ago, my girlfriend and I of a year broke up because she left for a semester to study in a different state. The breakup was fairly amicable, but we grew more distant as time went by and did things we both now regret. Since she got back, she has said repeatedly she only wants to be friends, although she knows I really want to get back together with her. W",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22M] just broke up with my girlfriend [22F] of 2 years for not sticking up for me to her parents repeatedly. POST: Hey, I'm new to this subreddit so please forgive me for any formatting errors. So basically I've been dating this girl for nearly two years. Everything was going great up until about 9 months ago. Her Mom decides that I am too similar (in vague/ambiguous ways) to her ex-husband who was abusive. She tells my girlfriend to leave me. My girlfriend tells her mom that she",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: (19/f) Why would a guy (19/m) who appeared to be interested in me suddenly not respond to my texts? POST: So in late July this guy that I was developing a bit of a crush on struck up a random conversation with me, which led me to believe that he was interested. So a couple of days later I messaged him on Facebook and he responded and we chatted for just a little while. That happened a couple more times over the next couple of weeks and then I gathered up the courage to ask him ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does Anyone Recognize This Suspicious Dating-Site Photo? POST: So, a buddy mine approached me today, asking for a favor. He's was on Plenty of Fish and met a cool girl he really liked and got along with. He started messaging back and forth with her, but noted there was something... off about her. Her living location kept changing, and her Skype profile says she's located in Sweden. Growing suspicious, he asked her for a photo confirming her identity. Note: Photo has been altered to ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I need some outside input...help please POST: So, I've(m18) been best friends with this girl(19) for about 2 years now. We have had an on off thing up until then, we had never really gotten on the subject of dating. However, at the beginning of the summer we tried it out and I panicked. I was freaking out because I wasn't ready to settle down, as I was about to move to college and I didn't know what it had in store for me (we go to the same college by the way). After we broke u",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [20F] been with my LDR partner [29 M] 1 1/2 years but feel like I'm putting in most of the effort. POST: Me and my partner (Harry) met online through a mutual friend and instantly clicked, met up after a month and have been dating since then. We both live at home with parents due to my education/both our lack of money and are about 2 hours away from each other via public transport. This would be bearable but neither of our sets of parents approve of our relationship and so vis",negative " r/relationships TITLE: We've [23F's] been friends for 10 years and have an amazing friendship with few issues...but I just can't get over those issues... POST: This girl is the closest person in my life. I tell her everything and she's a very kind and caring person. However, about a year ago, I found some very mean emails from her to one of our mutual friends saying some very mean things about me. They were discussing how I was essentially a horrible, selfish person. She was saying things that were complet",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Glued to his [m33] phone and suspicious things found [f25] POST: So I moved from Germany to Korea to be with a guy and moved in. We have known each other for quite a while but never intimately. He is always on his phone... glued to it actually. So one night I snooped around and saw that he was speaking to another girl, I confronted him about it and he said sorry and that it was innapropriate and he wouldn't do it again. Well at this point trust has kind of been broken already and my ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend blackmails me to stay with him. (16F, 20M) POST: I'm not sure if this belongs here or not, but I am terrified of my SO. He is kind for the most part but is extremely malicious and cruel when provoked. He always tells me that he doesn't want to hold me back and would give me freedom if asked, but he's told my friend that if I even so much as think to leave him he'll send my nudes to everyone I know. I don't know what to do about it, I'm scared. I'm still a kid, I'm only 1",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: 36M needs a step-by-step manual to casual dating POST: Me: 36M, divorced, custody of one kid. So, after a long-ass divorce I'm finally done and ready to get back into the game. I posted a question a [while ago] about an early dating experience before I was actually divorced, and I learned a lot as that relationship cratered. The key takeaway (pointed out by AMerrickanGirl in that thread) was don't let your emotions get ahead of you, and don't get too emotionally invested before you",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it fair for a teacher to get a second job during summer break? POST: Intro: I work as an electric/gas meter reader for my provincial Government. I've been doing this for 5 years. I am not a teacher and it's my fulltime employment. Story: A coworker of mine, who actually trained me, just came back to work for the summer. She had started out as a meter reader years before I started and had worked part-time with us as she was going to school. It's not uncommon that teachers or seasonal ",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: My girlfriend really pisses me off sometimes. POST: I've been dating this girl for a little over 2 years now, and we're relatively young, but it's a pretty stable relationship, and normally I'm happy with it. She cheated on me a couple weeks ago, and ruined the best friendship I've ever had. I'm working on forgiving her and being able to trust her again (Also, by cheated I mean she let him kiss her). Just last night, she was having a movienight with her friends, that was perfectly fine ",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sending 26 pictures to my best girl friend, of which three are my girlfriend sucking my dick, and 8 are of my naked girlfriend. POST: I broke my smartphone recently. I had a shitty phone to replace it, and now that I have a new one, my girlfriend sent me pictures on messenger that I could not save before : us laying down in bed, me walking in a shop, my face, her doing a slutty face with her boobs showing, etc. She sent it all in one message; I think this is where you guess the fuck",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [22F] pregnant and tired of neglectful bf[25M] POST: 8months pregnant and my bf seems to be pulling away. He works at least a 9-5 everyday, so I understand that he needs his ""me-time"" so I give it to him happily. But he thinks watching an episode of a TV show with me is good enough. Then spends the rest of his hours off on his game, even on the weekends it becomes all hours of the day only to come out for food. We no longer talk or have conversations about things we used to. Its usu",negative " r/Advice TITLE: I couldn't get it up one night, and now my girlfriend thinks I'm unattracted to her. POST: Back story - we're a long distance couple who just met IRL, and let's just say our first week was... active. Horizontally. You know what I mean. Anyway, at the end of one of the days I visited I couldn't get it up. It's the first time this has ever happened to me, and it was so weird - had a semi hard-on before we entered the bedroom, but when I got on top, just... Nothing. It couldn't be maintained ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [20M] Don't know how I feel about continuing dating my best friend [21F] POST: I started dating my best friend. When I began doing so I was wary that I would want to remain single through the rest of college, but I thought I made up my mind and decided I wanted to date her. Recently those feeling have been coming back, and I feel bad because we tell each other we love each other but I am starting to no view her that way anymore. She has liked me as long as I have known her, and I ",negative " r/Pets TITLE: Doberman or German Shepherd Dog/Alsatian owners, I have a few questions. POST: There has been a string of robberies around my neighborhood, and while I feel better having miniature dachshunds as alert dogs I am looking for a dog that will strike fear in a robber. I have read so many things about the loyalty of these dogs and their natural protective instinct, however they are still extremely powerful dogs. I have a 4yo child who does well with the little dogs but I am a little wary of havin",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18F] with my parents [50'sM&F], dragging me into fights. POST: A bit of a description of my parents. My mom is very eccentric, rather out there when it comes to outfits and personality. Stark contrast to my father who is very cookie cutter in a sense. They've been together for 30 years. They get in fights, ordinary couple fights, but they solve it by coming to me. My mom will usually call me and cry about it, which I am fine about being a shoulder to cry on, but then she will a",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I get my CD tray on my laptop to open? POST: So just today when I turned on my laptop I decided I wanted to play Sims. I tried to open the CD tray like normal and I pressed the button to open it. It didn't open and it made some weird noises like it was trying to open but it couldn't bc it was stuck. I then tried the pin method and that opened it and I checked around to see if anything was stuck in the tray but there was nothing so I closed it again but it still doesn't open when I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How can I encourage my [~30M] wife [~30F] (3 years married, 8 years together) to stick to our agreed budget? POST: My wife and I have been married for 3 years, and have shared a joint account during that time (before that, we had separate accounts but I used to transfer money to her to pay for shared expenses that she paid for). We are a single income family - I work and she doesn't. We have shared financial goals and a shared budget which we both agreed on that includes a certain a",negative " r/loseit TITLE: I was doing good until I fell off a raft. POST: Last year I realized I've reached the weight of 220 lbs after I came back from a trip to mexico with my boyfriends family. I was having trouble breathing and going up and down the three steps to my bedroom and I was just constantly eating non stop because I either felt anxious or bored and there seemed to be nothing else for me to do. Nobody seems to have interest in hiring fat people around here so I also don't have a job, which sucks on mult",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting Kim Thayil of Soundgarden denied of free beer. POST: I noticed that the T of TIFU doesn't really apply, so here goes: This was back in the late 80s when all the Seattle bands we all know and love were all playing tiny venues. I had no idea what any of these guys looked like, I just knew that they sounded frikkin awesome! One night I went to see Sound Garden open for Soul Asylum at a Belltown venue that must have held 100 people max, and that would have been one big mosh pit.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [21 M] with my Girlfriend [19F] 5years, Different wants from life POST: I'm 21, she's 19. We've been dating for 5 years and recently over the last year she's been talking about travelling the world etc. At first I admit I threw a wobbly, got upset and needed some time to collect myself. I think it should be said I'm having some issues with myself at the moment, I think I have depression. I'm constantly putting myself down and don't feel too good about myself. After some time I",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm (19/M) not sure how to talk to my GF (18/F) about the sexual side of our relationship. NSFW-ish. POST: Me and my girlfriend are currently in our freshman year of college, with both of us being from out of state, with the two of us being from two different states (about a 2.5 hour drive away from one another). As such, we are going to start having a long distance relationship over this summer (which for once is not the source of the relationship problems). The two of us were",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What is your best robbery/shoplifting story? POST: So this once day a guy (around 30 years old) decided to steal a few simple products nothing special probaby not even worth more than 10$. But we caught him shoplifting and that's where the trouble started, he did everything to escape and wouldn't shutup and tried to run away as soon as we looked the other way. Since we had to wait for the police my boss decided to tie him up to a chair with a bunch of zip ties ( since there where only 3 ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, need a recommendation for a personal GPS tracker. Help? POST: x-posted to r/technology All, My GF's grandfather is senile and lives in Russia, near Moscow. He will randomly wander away. He got lost once for days; police refused to help because they couldn't afford a great bribe; surmised that he was probably eaten by wolves after a few days. Turns out he was laying face down in a ditch. Alive, but weak and very confused. Of course, her grandparents would take him to a doctor,",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [17M[ Main group of friends gradually stopped hanging out with me, but we're still friendly. Is it acceptable to ask them about this? POST: My friends and I used to be on a ""what are we doing this weekend?"" basis instead of a ""do you want to hang out"" type of thing, and we used to do plenty of activities like golf together. Now, though, they've stopped inviting me to hang out with them and they resist when I invite them to do things (make excuses, say no without explaining, or just d",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: I'm new at work, about 4 weeks, and everyone keeps saying a beautiful woman and friend there (34) is into me. I (M35) at first thought they were just jokes from coworkers but it seems more real. How do I convince myself to ask her/ask her out? POST: I started working at this place about 4 weeks ago TL;DR: ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: AVATAR is close to being the highest grossing film world wide...but by what standards? POST: It seems that nowadays every new movie that comes out that is even mildly popular is NOW ONE OF THE HIGHEST GROSSING MOVIES OF ALL TIME! When you look at the worldwide stats, Avatar has impressive results: [ ...but when it's not adjusted for inflation, couldn't any new popular movie be the next ""highest grossing movie of the year?"" Most particularly, any movie that lures viewers to see it in I",positive " r/Pets TITLE: my cat was peeing on my couch constantly. i made a change and she has used the box since then. advice follows. POST: 95% of the time, when a cat pees or defecates outside of the litter box, it's because they're pissed off. at least that's my experience. i was extremely sick from about december-april. in april, i went and got allergy tests, i'm allergic to a ton of things like oak, elm, dust mites, roaches (which unfortunately are present in my house), components in hair dye, citrus fruits.",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] feel inferior to my boyfriend [29M] of two years POST: First of all, sorry for my english! My boyfriend and I are together since two years. He is a really clever and mature boy. He's in a very bright phase of his life. He's doing his PhD abroad, working on a subject he loves, often traveling for work (which is my dream). He feels fulfilled with his life. At the contrary, I am in a very dark moment. I'm still studying Law in our hometown, where it's a challenging yet usele",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25F] broke up with my SO [28M] after 5 years of dating POST: I have been in a loving, faithful, and committed relationship with a great guy. It's been 5 long years of dating, 3 years of cohabitation. We have two cats. The idea of disentangling my life from his is so damn painful. It may have been insidious for a long time, but I finally got to the point where I could be honest to myself (and him) about not feeling satisfied by the relationship. It was never bad. It's just been ve",positive " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By Eating a Whole Habanero Pepper then Wiping my ass. POST: So this whole thing happened a few hours ago, Now before i go on i would say i'm moderate when it comes to how hot food is but this was over the top. I was in Kroger's passing the veggie's and fruits when i seen they were selling whole habanero peppers, i've never tried one before and wanted to experience it, I'm gazing at them up close now and see a pretty decent sized one and decide to get it, I didn't want to wait till i got",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (21F) want to ask my boyfriend (21M) of 2.5 years if we can sleep in separate beds. Bad idea? POST: My boyfriend and I are university students currently abroad. Back home, we go to a university where there are men only and women only dorms. So we never get to spend the night together. Here abroad, we were able to get a flat together. The flat is 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, and a kitchen. We share it with 4 other people, so everyone technically has their own room. However, at nig",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (24f) ex apologized to me (24m). POST: I'm honestly unsure what to do. Two months ago we had a falling out. I assumed it was because she started getting attention from other guys (she did). I began getting super clingy, insecure, and obsessive because of the lack of communication with her. Anyway, over time I began to focus more on myself and would occasionally try to talk to her to tell her I still wanted her as a friend. She just would say mean things and call me obsessive. ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35 M] with a problem with a girl [late 20sF]. I want to ask her out but I messed up. POST: I won't get too deep into my own problems and reasons as to why this became a problem. But, I have a Day job that I work at, In walks one of the most adorable, breathtaking women I have ever seen. Almost like she jumped form my dreams and walked into my life. She introduced her self to me and then we proceeded to have a normal customer relationship at first, but her personality captured me.",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have a date with a bully that doesn't recognize me. Need plans. POST: Just a little backstory - when I was in highschool I was huge. I had horrible acne, nothing helped, and only one friend. I don't even think he was really even my friend, I think he just kept me around to feel better about himself. I had moved there when I was about 14, and I don't think a day went by that I wished I wasn't alive. I was shy, no confidence, no back bone. To make matters a whole lot worse, and this stor",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my boyfriend [26M] of 2.5 years. I'm overly sensitive, and he's overly critical. Are we doomed? POST: My boyfriend and I have a great relationship, pretty much only tarnished by this one issue. Very loving, and in general, he's very supportive. Any time we get into an argument, it pretty much stems from the same thing: him being overly critical of SOMETHING, whether it's something I've done or said, or something that I like or am passionate about. Then I get my pantie",positive " r/loseit TITLE: Natural Eating Rhythm? POST: I'm loath to knock what's working, but I just wanted to double-check if this is something normal. I abruptly changed my unhealthy diet into a healthy one about two months ago. Every other time I've tried losing weight, I tried following all the common advice out there: eat breakfast, eat several small meals throughout the day, eat no less than 1200 calories every day, all that stuff. And every time, I was miserable, irritable, constantly ate well over my calori",negative " r/personalfinance TITLE: Car totaled, looking for a new one in a reasonably strict budget. Tips/advice, please? POST: Hey, PF! So I'm new to this whole ""adulting"" thing. My fiancee and I owned one car between the two of us, a 2010 Hyundai Elantra. It got totaled this week in an accident, and we're now getting about 6.5k back for it (it was worth about 7.5k but they took out our $500 deductible and another ~500 in ""existing damages"" to the car-- mostly interior cosmetic stuff, but w/e). (And yes, before y'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I 25M need advice on a fight I had with my LDR 25F of 2 years. Am I crazy? POST: I'm going to give you guys the gist of what's going on and if more info is needed I will provide it. I'm a 25M in the military and have been dating my 25F Long Distance for 2+ years. I apologize if this is all over the place. About 2 weeks ago I was on a crazy schedule, night shift, 12 hours on 12 hours off. During that time I would wake up about an hour before my shift to get ready and call my GF. Dur",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [20 M] met a awesome girl[19F] on a dating app, but her ex's name is my name POST: Matched with a girl, literally the same day we matched decided to hang out, we hit it off REALLY well in the messages, and even better in person, who were laughing to the point of not being able to breath, amazing time. The kicker here is... She and her Ex of almost 2 years broke up about 2 weeks before hand, and his name is the same as mine. We end up running into her dad at the place we were at, a",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My (21/F) boyfriend (23/M) of nine months has left the country for a month. How do I deal with the loneliness? POST: I know it sounds kind of lame, but he's only been gone three days, and already I'm feeling lonely. We can message back and forth a little bit, but he's normally my rock, and I have finals and performances coming up, and I'm afraid the stress will overwhelm me completely without him here. He's pretty much my best friend, and looking forward to spend the weekend ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My gf [20F]broke up with me [20M] together for 4.5 years. POST: We've had our ups and downs just like any relationship. We grew up together. We have problems that we cannot seem to solve but we both love each other very much and we don't want to give up. When she gets mad she breaks up with me like nothing. I sometimes don't want to talk about my emotions or talk it out, I'm the type of person to just get over it and that is my flaw. She feels like I don't care at times, I feel like ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my Long-Distance GF [27F] of 1 year -- seemingly no reason to break up, but I want to POST: I've been going out with this great girl for a little more than a year now. I've broken up with her twice for different reasons, but I kept coming back and re-starting because I felt lonely and missed having her in my life. Well, for the past month I've been thinking about breaking up with her **for good.** I feel that my reasons are selfish and immature, and they don't seem str",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (19 M) gf (19F) and I broke up about 5 months ago. I am not over her and want her back, what should I do? POST: so I had been dating her for almost 3 years when we decided to break up. It was mutual, but I'm looking back and I miss her, I miss the great times we had. When we first broke up about 5 months ago, I felt like things would work back out and we would get back together. We still talked and things seemed like they would workout. Well now she is dating someone else, and I'",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24F] have a crush on my acquaintance/friend [24M] whom I've known for years. POST: I have a male acquaintance/friend who went to high school with one of my best friends. He and I were introduced freshman year of college and he would sometimes join me and my best friend when we went out, but I didn't really pay attention to him because he had a girlfriend at the time. Fast forward, we all have jobs and are living in the same city, and he has not had a girlfriend in over a year. We ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I want to be a kitty foster mom instead of making human babies POST: My bf (30m) and I (26f) have been together for five years and have had many discussions about procreating. We both kinda want kids, but are scared of the financial, physical, and emotional burden. I have health issues that would complicate a pregnancy, and I am not sure I am mentally and physically ready to have kids. There is a high chance I would not be able to work during the pregnancy as well. I think he would b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [24 M] think my girlfriend [26 F] of 2yrs has serious mental health issues that have gone untreated POST: For the first year everything seemed alright... Then we start spending a lot more time together and now I can tell when she gets into a manic state. It's not often, and it isn't a situation where anyone is in danger, *but it isn't her*. She said she has been to a psychiatrist when she was younger (16-18?). She was told she was most likely bi-polar after the first few visits, b",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Someone [22M] I'm seeing who is polyamorous wants to start a relationship with me [19F] but I don't know what to do POST: Throwaway for all the usual reasons. I'm a college freshman biology student who has been seeing a graduate student (who I'll call John) who studies music (I'll never have to take any class he teaches so I'm comfortable with that aspect of the relationship). It's been a few weeks and I really like him: he's smart, interesting, funny, respectful, and fun to be arou",positive " r/relationships TITLE: How to help myself [20F] and my parents [57M, 49F] through the loss of our dog? POST: Saturday my 13 year old sweetheart puppy had to be put down. It still hasn't hit me. I feel like there's a hole in my life right now but it doesn't feel real. My mom is devastated. She can't focus at work and she's not eating or sleeping, just crying all day and night. I think she's having the hardest time. I don't understand why it's not harder for me. When she died she looked more alive",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How is it that we all see the 'Diplomat vehicle runs down 20+' video so differently? POST: Original Video Link: What I saw: Vehicle starts next to building in far left (driver pov). The marked road is 2 lanes to his right. Vehicle pushes slowly at first through crowd, until crowd members block path. 0.22, Impact from projectiles begin. 0.23, Right side of windsceen is shattered. Driver accelerates toward right hand lanes where the marked road is. Crowd opens up. 0.27, Center of winds",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Life is stressful for me (36F) and my Partner (40M) of 2 years. He isn't supportive and I don't know what to do. POST: Life is stressful for me right now, parental death, selling parental real estate, starting a very stressful and intense new job, moving to a new state for my partner, massive home renovations leaving us with no kitchen, living room or quiet. Trying to talk about my stress levels to my partner is so frustrating and depressing. He gets defensive, gets angry I'm not ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [28 M] with my old friend [26 F] should I rekindle her old crush? POST: I (28M) am about to finish my last semester in college. (I returned to pursue another degree, hence the old age.) I was recently invited to my hometown, which is fairly nearby, to visit with some old high school buddies. Both are females that I was close to during high school and the early parts of my first college. One has since become engaged, the other (26F) was someone I had a rather flirtatious friendship",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Help me see something, please? POST: One of my best friends has made me so mad tonight. As a person, canceling plans or changing them without telling all the people involved just upsets me to a point where it can ruin my day. We made plans over 24 hours ago to meet at pace A and hang out and play our favorite video game. Not only did he not tell me he would be late because he decided to go somewhere else last second, but when he does show up, he doesn't even bother to tell me or say hi ",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I make my friends understand smoking weed all day everyday isin't the solution to everything? POST: I used to smoke weed every day for 3 maybe 4 years with my friends. At one point when I was flunking out of school, all my money and time went to weed I realized there is more to life. Two of my best friends however, have continued smoking all day everyday for a number of years now. I know it's their choice to do it, but I care for them and I want to help them. In their minds Mar",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My [22M] fiance [21F] cheated on me with her friend. We've been together for 7 years, am I wrong for staying or will the fear I have pass given enough time? POST: My fiance and I have been together for 7 and a half years and were supposed to get married this coming summer. We got together when we were teenagers and essentially grew up together. Starting roughly a month ago, she expressed concerns that we had only been sexually involved with each other, and no one else and wanted to c",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my ___ [22 F] 2 year, my girlfriend has anxiety that is troubling our relationship and I do not know how to address it. POST: My girlfriend has severe anxiety. Because of this she is not able to make friends, go out to social events or even connect to new roommates, hallmates, and people in general. As a result of this I am her only friend. I love her but I think she has built a dependency on my being around to the point that I cannot have a night with my guy friends ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: My girlfriend has found she has clamydia and she´s acusing me of cheating. POST: So English is not my native language so I´ll try to explain this simply. I´m on a long distance relationship with my girlfriend. We stayed seven months without seeing each other, during this period I did not cheat her, didnt have any sexual contact at all apart from just masturbating. So I went to see her for new years eve and stayed with her one month. After 15 days more or less she started to bl",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [20F] boyfriend [26M] has expressed his intentions to sleep with girls to be a 'good wingman.' POST: We've been together for 10 months and this is my first relationship. Boyfriend had several 'serious' relationships. He'll be heading to a conference with several of his friends in another state. One friend in particular has expressed his wishes to get laid. Boyfriend brought up the possibility to get a ""pass"" so he'd be able to sleep with someone in order to ""help (friend) get lai",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Friend (26 F) planning to move-in with her boyfriend (28 M), after only 6 weeks of dating POST: My friend just got divorced from a loveless marriage. She seems to be over it, but now she is seeing this guy who was in love with her from a distance while she was married. I was never a fan of him. He strikes me as a guy who tries to hard to impress people, very salesy. He is constantly buying or leasing luxury cars, he keeps saying he's owned/leased 22 cars. She was very frugal before ",negative " r/loseit TITLE: 10k Steps a Day - Fact or Fiction? POST: Hello there, /r/loseit! Getting back on the wagon with many a tool in my belt - healthy kitchen, myfitnesspal, C25K, and FitBit. I'm trying to ease into this and not become defeated if I miss anything (please reference the above ""back on the wagon"") and give up. Giving up is not an option. I am planning on 3 weekly sessions of C25K as well as two days of strength training. In addition to the running plan I want to hit my daily steps. So here I ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: I screwed up. How can I win her back? POST: Me 22M, Her 20F. I was in a relationship with a girl for about a year(our anniversary is in 2 weeks) we ran into some problems around august.(mainly my fault) I let a girl kiss me and stopped her before things got out of hand(I know its still not an excuse). Then we went on a break because my grandmother passed away and I needed time to reevaluate my life. She got used to not having me around(as she told me) and didnt want to continue the relat",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [22 F] miss my ex's friends that he abandoned [mid 20's F's and M's]. Should I text them? POST: Ex and I broke up 3 months ago. It was mutual. We live 2 hours from his friends, but I will move back home soon so I will live an hour from there. (We moved together for college but it did not work out between us.) He did not contact his friends all year, but I miss them. Our relationships: 2 years (3 with ex). I think he will stay in this town, and he does not seem to care about them a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: He [M35] usually initiates contact but he hasn't messaged me for the past couple of nights. Should I [F21] message him or is it too pushy? POST: So I've become really close with a university classmate of mine over the past few months. We have coffee at least once a week, sit together in class and he'll always walk me to the train, try to pay for my coffee or give me his coat when I'm cold. Usually at night he'll message me and we will talk for a few hours before bed about everything",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [22/M] recently became the other guy with her [20/F]. Please help me understand! POST: So I'm the other guy. We've been friends for a while now and have had some building sexual tension. Things just got secretly more serious very recently, when we actually did something about that tension. I like her and she likes me, but she also likes her boyfriend. She and her boyfriend are currently in a long distance relationship and have been dating for a few years (I think). I don't re",positive " r/Pets TITLE: Ethical dilemma involving my elderly senile & incontinent cat. POST: My cat is about 16 years old. I've had her since I was a young teen and she's been with me through school, 4 serious relationships, and a cross-country move. She's my baby girl. But she's never been a healthy cat. She was a pet store impulse buy and never very healthy from day one, so though you might be thinking ""16 isn't very old"", she basically reached elderly critical mass several years ago. She weighs about 5lbs now an",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Letter from internet provider about copyright infringement. POST: I got that infamous letter and I haven't called or anything, I've heard from multiple people in the past that it's basically just a warning letter so if you just knock it if off you'll be fine. My internet is back on so all is well. Question is, after you get these letters do they watch you more closely, or is strictly a matter of what you download? To be fair I wasn't using my brain and left something up for a while whic",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/M]Help with my [17/F] girlfriend POST: I'm typing this from my phone so please excuse any errors. So she and I have been together for 10 months. We have been through a lot in that small amount of time including 2 ex BF and 3 ex GF trying to interfere with our relationship. Through it all we have stayed with eachother because we make eachother happy and love eachother. However, I have moved away recently and we no longer have as much physical contact as before. As such, we ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[21M] don't know how to handle my girlfriend[21F] demanding apologies from other people from me. How does this even work? POST: Backstory: Been dating my GF for almost a year now (11 months exact), and she's recently begun this troubling tendency of demanding apologies. She's not even demanding them from the offending party, but she's demanding that they need to apologize while talking to me. I can't even follow this train of logic, personally. I've offered to go and talk to the o",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by helping my friend with math POST: This was about 3 days ago. So my friend, James, asked for help on the math program my school uses, ALEKS, so I was like ""Aight, give me your user and pass and I'll tell you what you're fucking up"" so he wrote it down on a piece of paper and I put it in my notebook. Later in the day, during math, I open my notebook to go to a fresh page to start doing my work, and my teacher, spots the paper while I was going through the notebook, she takes it and ask",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (f20) had a fight with my boyfriend (m23) of 7 month because he said I'll be back soon, but took 4 hours POST: My boyfriend lives 4 hours away from me, so we have to communicate using social media most of the time. We had fight, then he said he had to go out, I was a little annoyed because we were in the middle of talking about a problem. I wait an hour, then text him to ask if he'll he out all night because he didn't specify when he won't be back or where he was going. I assmsed",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by letting my boss pay me on my phone POST: This happened about an hour ago when I was getting off work. So here's a bit of a back story. I work in an office with 2 other women, 1 of them my boss. My boss is also ridiculously lazy. She'll come in between 9 and 10 sometimes later or not at all, put off work until the last minute she feels is too difficult, won't read long emails and avoids phone calls from clients. I've actually seen her run into the bathroom to avoid someone's call. Sin",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (M23) mother says my partner (F21) is Anorexic. It's messing with my mind. Help? POST: So my girlfriend is 21, 5'3-5'4 and weighs in the mid 80 lb range. I know she's super slim, but I never once thought she was anorexic. I introduced her to my mother and my mother basically told me she was anorexic and is very concerned. I initially laughed and brushed her off, but then I put my girl's stats into a BMI calculator and it says she's very underweight. Every time I'm with my girl she",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How many of you have been trapped in extremely hot/cold places, without any way to fix the situation? Tell your stories! I'll start it off! POST: Alright! Me and a few friends were talking about this today. Reddit, what stories have you lived to tell? Here's mine! So I was invited to a sleepover at some hotel with some friends. (I have no idea why we were at a hotel; but IDGAF. It was awesome.) Anyways, about time for sleep, some girl takes all of our blankets and sleeps on the couch w",positive " r/legaladvice TITLE: [IL] My apartment building hasn't paid the utilities in over a year. My building's services to be shut off soon. POST: Hello r/legaladvice, I'm a student in Chicago studying video game design and came here from out of state. It's my last couple weeks of school before I graduate and I get this in my mailbox (see link). Now it should be worth noting that I still have about $173 that I owe on my rent (that I was going to pay next week). I'm also not in a position to simply move out or ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [Emotional Abuse] Me a [23M] have been emotionally abusing my gf [20F]. I need help. POST: Hey guys I'm new here, but I just found out yesterday that I've been emotionally abusing my gf. What I mean by emotionally abusing is, always thinking I'm right, controlling, saying apparently offensive things, pushing what I think is right on her etc. Truth be told she told me a while ago because I was controlling to a point, and when she did, I stopped being controlling thinking hey this w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [f20] want to be able to go on a trip without my boyfriend [m25] but he is not having it. POST: We've been together about six months and since I just had spring break it came up that I have been planning to go on a spring break trip next year with some friends of mine from school. My friend group has been talking about this senior spring break trip since we were all freshman. The majority of the group is interested in going to Las Vegas, and although I'm not particularly in to Vega",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Is this inappropriate for my older friend [30M] to be saying/suggesting to me [18F]? POST: I have a friend I see all the time at the gym. We're good friends since we see each other every day and hang out for like an hour or so at the gym. we're both really into powerlifting and smoking weed and such. he's always been a little flirty when we joke around but he has started calling me ""hot"" and saying my ""body is fucking perfect"" and talking about my ass and such. he says he only comes",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Really need some help! POST: Hi, I am a 17 year old guy in junior year of high school, and the other day I might have done something not all that great. I have this friend named (lets call her Patrice) who has this really shitty boyfriend(lets call him Doug) who has forced her to do some really terrible things, for instance he forced her to suck his dick, and when she asked to stop, he told her to shut up and consistently sends dick pics to other girls. To further add details o",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: What seemingly untrue stereotype was ultimately confirmed in your experience? I'll start. POST: So I was minding my own business driving my Prius to work when a guy in a big pick up truck with a huge muffler coming out of the right side slows down in front of me and intentionally emits soot from his diesel engine three or four times. I thought ,""What a dumbass"" and sped up to get around him. He followed me. I drove around a big group of cars, hoping he wouldn't match my speed (15 over) t",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend (F17) broke up with me (M17) because she wants to ""fix herself"". What should Ibdo? POST: So my girlfriend of over a year broke up with me because she wants to ""fix herself"". We were picture perfect, we were absolutely crazy about each other. We didnt even have our first fight until about 9 months into the relationship. But then we started fighting about littlw stupid things and I stopped caring and putting in effort. Over that time we fought a bit. She wanted to take a",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [35F] with my EX-BF [35M] 7 years, do I owe him money? POST: I had been with my boyfriend for 7 years and we broke up 3 months ago. There are many issues, but the main is that we live together and I pay 70% of the bills. He was unemployed for 2.5 years (lost job shortly after we moved in together) and then last year got a part time job. When we broke up I said that I would give him back his half of the security deposit ($400) on our place as I was signing a new lease without him. ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by making my friends think i was raped POST: throwaway for obvious reasons.. Let me start off by saying that I'm an introvert person. I don't like to go out much but I do it on occasional basis to keep up with my friends. Anyway so there is this one friend I have who is a total party boy. Every month there is a party in his house and he expects me to be there. We live 2 hours away from each other. However the traveling is not the part makes me nervous, the ""partying"" itself is. A we",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [19 M] with my GF [18 F] of 2.5 years, not enough sex for me. POST: Hi everyone. So my girlfriend an I have been dating for a reasonably long time considering our age and I'm getting to the point where, for me, the amount of sex we have is frustratingly low. She said she doesn't enjoy it and doesn't want to be something she is forced to do. I understand that so I back off. We have sex about once or twice a month. In the first year and a half of our relationship we would do it o",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have to do an online 'numerical reasoning test' for a job application. I really suck at maths. Does anyone know what these type of tests involve and how to do well? POST: I have to do an online 'numerical reasoning test' for a job application I made. The job is a graduate job with a section of the UK government. The requirements did not specify a numerical degree (maths/science/engineering) and my degree background is in history. Moreover, I haven't done any maths since age 16 and I fi",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: First Mother's day ended in tears POST: Hi all, So I just had my first mother's day with my wife and young baby. For a number of reasons it didn't end well. My wife is really upset and had a pretty crap day. My idea for Mother's day was sleep in as late as she wanted, a nice card and a gift 'from bub' and to spend time as a family enjoying the things we love to do with our daughter and not doing anything we don't want to do. (housework, cooking changing nappies etc) I was g",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I [21/M] have ruined any foreseeable future with the woman[22/F] I want to marry. POST: She and I have known each other for about five years now. We fucked around when I was in high school and she had just started college, then I found out that I loved her. We stopped talking for a couple years or so, and everyday passing I thought more and more about her. Then, in September of 2014, she found my number in her phone and texted me thinking I was someone else. But, I still had",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] with [22F] for 4 mths - recently broke up. She begged me back. I said I wanted some space to think about it, but leaned towards getting back with her. Today she slept with someone else. POST: After a week of emotional rollercoaster, I broke up with her. I didn't discuss or give reasons, I just ended it. I didn't want to risk my temper flaring and saying anything hurtful. A few days later she calls me, we talk for an hour. Tears are shed, apologies are made. I made her own",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I appeal to my Asian girlfriend's racist mother? POST: Hey reddit, I am dating this incredible cute Chinese girl. Everything is fine between us with the exception that her mother completely hates me just on the fact that I am hispanic. Her mother has never seen me nor has she ever spoken to me but she is stuck on the mind set that all hispanics, blacks, arabs, etc are horrible horrible people and that she should never ever date someone who is not Chinese. So how do you guys th",positive " r/weddingplanning TITLE: PSA For Massachusetts Brides with a One-Day Solemnizer. POST: 1. Make sure that you send in the marriage license to the town in which you got it from ASAP. My advice here is to do this yourself, and not entrust it to someone else. You may end up calling to get your certificate to change your name and being told ""...We don't have it."" 2. Send in a copy of the Solemnizer's one-day certificate with your license. We were not told this when we got the license, nor was my Solemnizer",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [29F] with my boyfriend [29M] of 6 months, he masturbates to his ex girlfriends Facebook pictures :/ POST: I love my boyfriend very much. We have open and honest communication. We have a lot of fun together, and we also have a great sex life - once a day, at least. So I know my boyfriend is a frequent masturbater. This is fine, and doesn't bother me, as it doesn't get in the way of our sex life. Buttttt.... We have been thinking about getting a dog. Recently he mentioned th",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: Journalist needs advice on current job situation POST: Hello Reddit, longtime user but first time for asking advice. I currently work as a journalist in Oklahoma and make around $27,000 a year, probably less. I've been there about a year now, there's talk of my department being put back on furlough (which only effects me technically) and there's been nothing but problems with out advertising department since I've been there. It's one of the more successful, though smaller, newspa",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Is my [F21] jealousy justified?Boyfriend is abroad for two weeks [M22] POST: My Boyfriend is staying in Singapore for two weeks and we've been talking everyday. But today, we didn't talk at all today when i messaged him. So I asked him ""Are you going to be busy all day?"" and he said ""Yeah lol"".And then I said ""I can't the be only one making the effort to communicate"" and then he said ""Yeah I'll try."" Then sends me smiley face and whatnot. I figured he was busy traveling. But then w",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [24F] 2yr relationship with my boyfriend [25M] ended... and I was the toxic one. POST: My boyfriend and I had a pretty good relationship, but last January one of our mutual friends accused him of cheating on me (just kissing someone drunk) and I was never the same though I never found out the truth. I became incredibly toxic - giving him ultimatums, making him choose between me vs friends, asking for constant whereabouts, not letting him go out, etc. It was bad and I am thoroughly",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [30 F] with my __husband_ [30 M]of 10+years, I think he might be interested in his coworker POST: I've never had a reason to think he would cheat. He has however been dishonest with me before. He was addicted to porn/masturbation for years that resulted in a dead bedroom situation. Things have slightly improved in that department. The only reason I bring it up is to demonstrate that he's capable of deception. He travels a lot and when he came home recently he started gushing abo",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [21F] with my bf[22M] of 2 months, may not be able to love and there's a minimal sex life POST: Me and my boyfriend have been dating for 2 months. I'll start out with the sex life thing, I'm a sexual person and I tried to make a move like 2 weeks or so into our relationship and he said he's awkward and it takes him awhile to feel comfortable. I respect this, but 2 months pass and it's making me a little worried so I bring it up to him. This leads to a conversation of him saying he",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm [31 M] having trust issues with my gf [32 F] because of an ex POST: I (31m) am currently dating a girl (32f) that I really like, I think it's going well but I'm having an internal struggle to not let my past relationship affect this one. So my relationship right before this I was cheated on. I found out much later that she was dating both of us for a few months, lied about where she was all the time and had no problems sleeping with me within a few hours of being with him etc. ",negative " r/BreakUps TITLE: BF lied to me, don't know what to do POST: **Me, female, both 18, together for over a year and a half.** Well our relationship is usually good.. at the start though he had lied to me about stuff (which he said doesn't matter cause it was either for a friend or so I didn't get upset) but we've had an argument today, and he's really upset about something. Yesterday he said if he did get upset over the thing today that he was gonna come round and see me, partly because he has my back door ",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I can't sleep. I just... can't. POST: I seriously need reddits help or advice. I went to bed today at 1:17am. I know this because I checked before I fell asleep. My brother calls me at 3:37am asking me if I can let the dogs out so he doesn't wake the parents. This is a usual thing so I didn't think much of it. I go outside let him in and there's a girl with him. Didn't feel like dealing with his general whore/fuck buddy bullshit so I went back upstairs into my bed. I laid there for 2 hou",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I've [23F] recently started having minor feelings for my [24 M] of 5 years who I know has or had feelings for me. POST: Long story short. My friend and I have been friends for around 5 years and have lots of mutual friends. He liked me a few years ago, but I didn't seem him as more than a friend. About 5 months ago after I broke up with my most recent boyfriend my friend expressed interest in me again, but at the time I wasn't ready for anything new, and especially not my friend. B",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 M] with my friend's ex-girlfriend [23 F] freaked out when I set boundaries about sleeping in the same bed (yeah wut?) - still at my house, need help for damage control POST: Short and sweet: - Friend of mine, happens to be a guy friend's ex-girlfriend of many years, nasty breakup - Is at my house visiting others, comes into my room due to ""can't sleep"" and climbs into my bed - Is drunk - Proceeds to pour heart out about depression, breakup with ex, alienation from fri",negative " r/travel TITLE: Suggestions for Rome/Naples/Palermo POST: I'm booking a trip to Italy with my brother and will be 3 nights in rome, train to naples and then on to palermo by train (5 nights between the two including overnight train). We are going in January. Can anyone suggest any cool things they have done in or near any of these places ? is vesuvius normally Ok in winter - can you do the trip to the top or is it too cold ? Looking for cool history things (apart from the obvious coliseum, pompei... ) ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I (18/M) am falling for my friend (18/F) of 3 weeks. POST: Hey. This is basically a much cleaner repost of an earlier discussion. Basically, I am falling for my friend of three weeks or so now, and she's taken. I'm not going to try to undermine their relationship. She's very happy in it, and I'm glad for her. But the feelings came out of nowhere. Any time I'm with her, I get these feelings. The butterflies and whatnot. But I don't want them. So, I'm thinking of distancing mysel",negative " r/relationships TITLE: [23/M] Advice for dealing with confusing emotions after first ""hook up"". POST: Last weekend I traveled to nearby city to see a show and ended up meeting a girl who I was instantly VERY attracted to, which is pretty unusual for me. I could tell right away that the feelings were mutual, and we talked and danced late into the night. I was really impressed by her appearance, attitude and overall personality. We ended up sleeping together. I had never experienced such a short time betwe",positive " r/running TITLE: I want to learn to enjoy running, but it's only ever been pain and nausea for me. POST: I spent the last hour or so looking around on this sub; I've read the FAQ/beginner guides/couch25k and so on but I'm still not feeling too convinced. A bit about me: I'm a high school student with a pretty heavy course load (""college level"" classes), so I tend to not sleep enough and I'm tired all the time (and now very unfit). At my best, I was able to run a 9 minute mile a year ago - no way I could ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me 30M and her 20F. Not sure I'm happy or if I'm fooling myself POST: Was hoping some of you could give me some advice. I've been dating a girl for 14 months now, and she is honestly amazing. She's sweet, beautiful, caring, loving, innocent.. Really just the whole package. I just don't seem to be happy though, and lately I can see myself snapping at her for no reason. I also miss my ex a lot sometimes. I know that sounds terrible of me, but it's the truth. As much as I try be h",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] farted next to my partner [26F] and she caught me at my most vulnerable. How do you feel about bodily functions around someone you're dating? POST: Of course you wouldn't rip one out in public, but when I did around my partner for the first time, after dating for a month, we laughed it off and felt more comfortable around each other. One time while we were going at it and she was on top she let one rip and I couldn't stop laughing. Sexy times resumed of course. Then one mor",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Business Majors of Reddit (Which emphasis should I go into?) POST: * I`m nipping at the heels of having to choose and emphasis. I am trying to figure out which will be beneficial in the long run. * Right now my sites are set between International business (My school is ranked top 15 in this) or ditching the whole business side and going into Informational Sciences. Other emphasis include: Accounting, Finance, Logistics & Operations Management, Management, Marketing. * I have job exper",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm a 21/f and I have a weird situation beginning to unfold between my housemates [22f, 22m and 31m], as the Land Lady, I'm wondering if I should intervene before shit hits the fan. POST: So here's the story, names changed for privacy. I live with a couple, Evan [the 22m] and Aria [22f]. Aria's friend Michael [30m] recently moved in with us. Michael is not only Aria's friend, but also her ex-boyfriend. It's been 2 years since they dated, they've been friends in the meantime, and Evan",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU By masturbating in the shower. POST: So I get off work and take my usual morning dump before I shower, it's about 6:30am. I usually shower and go to bed with my GF until she goes to class. Today I was feeling particularly horny, so I decided to jerk off in the shower. So I jerk off, and when I finish I notice it's not wanting to flow with the water down the drain. So I have to kind of push it with my foot to get it to go toward the drain, and now I have some stuck to my foot, no big deal",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: Did I just mess up my friendship with a girl by asking her out? POST: So Friday night, I (male, mid 20s) asked my friend of about half a year (female, early 20s) out on a date at the end of the night. I've been developing feelings for her in the last month or so and have been wanting to explore a relationship. I finally worked up the courage to ask her out, and was frankly prepared for her to reject me and say let's just be friends. What I wasn't expecting was what actually happened",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: A Question About ""People You May Know"" on Facebook POST: About three weeks ago or so I created a new account on Facebook (I had deleted the old one). There's a section on the right-hand side of the screen suggesting ""People You May Know"". Used to be called Suggested Friends, I think. Anyway, these ""suggestions"" are typical contingent upon a high degree of mutual friends, but lately I've noticed a few things that are strange. I met this girl on OkCupid about 2-3 months ago and ditched ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [27 M] with my LDR girlfriend [25 F] 8 months, need perspective if my need for communication is too controlling. POST: Simply put, we're a long-distance couple that met online and has spent a total of 4 weeks together in person over our 8 month relationship. We are quite in love with each other and are committed to a long-term relationship. Things are mostly good between us, but now and then there's a communication issue. This issue is that we'll be talking throughout the day, and",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [22/M] just got dumped for the second time in one month. Having dark thoughts. POST: A little backstory: I am a 22 year old university student who lives a lone in TX. Last summer I visited my highschool crush [22F] in Boston and we hit it off ~ started a LDR, flew out to see eachother 5 or 6 times over the span of 4 months, fell deeply and mind-blowingly in mutual love. About 3 months into the relationship she started distancing herself away from me and eventually she called me abo",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: Girl appears interested, but has an ex (my friend) she still sees. Advice? POST: Reddit, I am recently single and have started talking and spending more time with a girl I have known for a while. We have gotten drunk together a few times and cooked lunch. When inebriated I expressed my affection for her, and she replied positively but also vaguely. She responds well to my flirting, and tells me that she loves spending time with me. Usually accepts my invitations to hang out, a",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My parents (M+F 40's) are trying to run my (M 20) life and it's damaging my relationship with my girlfriend (20 F) POST: Shortly after I introduced my girlfriend to my parents, my parents have only caused strain on our relationship. They do this by constantly planning over our pre-arranged plans in spite of them knowing about it, constantly criticizing me over how I conduct my relationship (apparently it's ""too serious"" because we like to spend time indoors watching Netflix as oppose",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 F] with my boyfriend [18 M] of a year and a half, I'm thinking about breaking up with him but I have no other friends. POST: Ever since my boyfriend left for college about 45 minutes away from me, it feels like he became a different person. He is paranoid, clingy, and keeps picking fights with me and makes me look like I always do something wrong, and he is the victim. To get an idea of what is happening I've posted these recently on r/relationships: I've gotten a lot of feed",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Should I [24F] tell my bf [26M] 3mo that I will be sleeping in a room with 2 exes? POST: I'm going to a wedding in another state later this month, which my bf will not be attending. I'm excited to see several of my old college friends, and we have all rented out a large apartment for the occasion. Two of my exes (one I dated for about a month, another I had my only one night stand with) will be staying in this apartment as well. It would be too expensive to back out of the group apar",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I[25 M] hooked up with my GF's[21F] best friend/roommate[20F]. I've been having feelings and told her friend last night. POST: Me, my GF, and her best friend celebrated my GF's 21st birthday last year around this time. We all got very drunk, and my GF passed out, and we dragged her up the stairs. We made it to 3rd base, but I was very whiskey dick, otherwise we would have done the deed. The day after her friend and I talked about went on, and nothing has happened since then. Recent",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My girlfriend [23 F] asked me [23M] to go to church with her. She asked why I said no, now won't really say anything. POST: So my girlfriend and I have been in a relationship for about 4 months now. She and her family are very religious. I, however, am not. In my family religion isn't that big of a deal. We don't pray or say grace at the table. It doesn't bother me that she is so religious . I have gone to church events with her before. She asked me out of the blue to go to church wi",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm fine when away from my Ex [25/m] but when I [23/f] see him my world falls apart. POST: So six months back my SO [25/m] and I [23/f] had a chat and as adults decided to call our relationship to an end. Mutual break up due to long distance and careers not giving any spare time to see each other. Love of my life, gone. Two years of bliss and laughter at an end just because I started my new business in one part of the country and he began a new path in a new department of his job wh",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I[18/M] need help on how to talk to my dad[49/M] about his new girlfriend[45ish?/F] POST: I'm not really sure if this is the correct subreddit and if it is not I apologize and could you point me in the correct direction? Anyway my mom and dad have been divorced since I was 4. I am 18 now and my dad for about 3 months or so has been dating this girl. It's the first girl he's daten since the divorce and I'm worried. She knows he has a good amount of money and I'm worried that he will ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Girlfriend treats me cruel POST: My Girflfriend(16) and I(16) are about 6 months into our relationship. I know that this will seem trivial, but I want to keep her as long as possible. She is great most of the time, but a lot of times she treats me cruel. She expects me to rub her feet when she says, won't talk to me with any tone of kindness, or think of my opinion. I confronted her and she told me that she treats me like this because I don't force her to do otherwise. What should I ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I'm not sure if my friend [17F] only talks to me to keep our snapchat streak POST: Firstly, I apologize for any typos/autocorrect errors because I did this on my phone. Hi Reddit, I'm back again. So basically I have this friend who we've talked for a long time, and had a snapchat streak for 61 days. However, I've recently noticed that she doesn't even open my snapchats for a while, and her snapchat score goes up dramatically (the amount of snapchats she's sent/received). Sometime",positive " r/BreakUps TITLE: The end of my almost 8 year relationship; I'm turning 27 and her 26. How do you cope with being alone after 8 years, what should I expect, any insight on what will go on in her mind in the near future? POST: So I've been dating my girlfriend for almost 8 years now, living together for almost 4 of them. We're still relatively young (me turning 27 and her 26 this year). So she's decided to move out and end things, saying she's lost feelings for me, among other things, and wants to see what",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25F] with my ex-fiancee [28 M] of almost 2 years pulled the long con against me. Help me with red flags POST: I thought my relationship with my ex-fiancee was perfect. He was the most supportive, giving, and caring person. Until I moved in with him. His personality completely changed. The smallest/most innocent things I would say would be twisted until I was somehow insulting him. He became controlling and tried to cut me off from my family. It was like a switch went off. I hav",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Should I ask my evil sister to leave the hospital so I can have some quiet alone time with my mom? POST: Here's my last thread: I really need some quick advice! My sister is attached to my mom's hip and I can't talk to my mom without my sister butting in every damn conversation. Me and my wife have come to really dislike my sister (see previous thread) My wife refuses to visit my mom in the hospital after surgery if my sister is there. She has asked me to call my sister and say somethi",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Does anyone here ever feel major anxiety over their age/aging? POST: I'm 24 years old right now, I'll be 25 this year. Sometimes when I think about the fact that I'm getting older, I panic. I feel like I should have so much more to show by my age - I can remember being 19,20, and picturing my life at 25... and this is not at all what I pictured. I also think that ages ago, it was quite typical to be married/have kids by now. And many people I know do, but I also know that times have chan",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My [27 F] boyfriend [25 M]'s friends were rude to me and he just tells me to forget about it. POST: My SO and I went on a trip with another couple. My SO is really close to this couple and he respects the guy a lot. I have met these people a few times and I thought they were nice people. The four of us had lunch and then we started talking. Then they switched to Spanish, a language which I knew nothing about so I decided to check on my phone and stuff. I don't typically mind when the",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [26 M] went on a date with this girl [24 F] few months ago but it didn't work then; now we are back in touch. How to proceed? POST: I went on a date with this girl a few months ago. We didn't click together and didn't continue after that. But now we are back in touch over text messages. I have thought about this girl over and over for quite some time after the date. Based on our conversations I think I like her, and I think I would like to date her again. But I don't know what to ",positive " r/personalfinance TITLE: How to pick a first credit card? POST: So I am 27, with my first real job in the US at a Japanese company. Up until this last month I have been working in Japan. Personal / family reasons at the time have me back to the states, with very little savings as I wasn't making very much and was paying down my student loans. I am now down to only a little over 4 K over three various loans (3980 / 488 / 99) I believe are the actual amount of debit. I bought a car in December and when ",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by watching ""Gone Girl"" on a first date with a girl I hardly knew (Spoiler) POST: Hey so i recently matched with this girl via tinder and we've been texting for about a week. Lets call her ""Amy"". Things seem to be going well so we decided to meet and go on a date at the movies. All my friends had watched ""Gone Girl"" and told me it was a good movie, so seeing as I had no idea what it was about I decided to trust my friends and ask ""Amy"" out to see the movie. For those have you who have no",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Did I(22M) do something inappropriate by telling a married woman (29F) that I would miss her? POST: I'm attending graduate school. I've made a good amount of friends, of my favorites one being a woman and one being a man. The woman and I have gotten along very well since last August, we make each other laugh and always sit by each other. I've never done anything remotely close to flirting. Today she finished her final before me and we did not get to say by before the three month brea",positive " r/relationships TITLE: I [18 M] Am the Last Single Person In my Social Circle, need advice POST: I'm only male 18 and I'm capable when talking to girls I just don't really know how to interpret their messages and so I never really make a move on them but recently all my friends and even all my siblings have gotten into relationships, for Christ sake even my mum got back in the game my friends date my other friends and the only single girl i know who has been my friend/crush forever recently got a boyfrien",negative " r/dating_advice TITLE: 23M looking to start ""dating"" for the first time, need some advice. POST: Now, hopefully the title isn't too misleading, as I've been in a serious long-term relationship. Right out of high school, I started dating one of my best friends. We hung out all the time and were both attracted to each other, so why not? Long story short, we dated three-and-a-half years and lived together two of those. We eventually broke up because we weren't really ""in love,"" if that makes sense. She and I",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [21/f] feel like I have to choose between a new guy and an old flame... POST: So I have a friend (let's call him Pete) who I dated 6 years ago. He was my first love and remains to be one of the first people I go to when I need to talk about anything. However, Pete lives in Europe, so we only see each other every couple of years or so. Back in November I booked a flight to visit him in his home country for the first time at the end of April. I am SO excited to just be traveling and ",positive " r/relationships TITLE: My[23/M] father[52/M] wants me to take care of him for the summer, but I hold a lot of resentment and distaste for him. POST: When I was 10 my parents got a divorce because of my father's infidelity. I later learned from my sister(26) that he had cheated on mom several times before and had been caught(going out in public with his girlfriends and stuff) and she had forgiven him, but finally she had enough. My sister said he was so stupid about it that people in her class made fun of h",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: I have ruined my relationship with my fiance. I need advice POST: So here's the deal I am typing this all on my phone at work so bare with me. So my fiance soon to be ex and I have been together for two years we have been through some hard times recently. One night we were in a huge argument and I went out with a buddy who mentioned he was going to bring his friend and she is cool. So I figure whatever just more drinking buddies. Anyways I think she's cute I text my buddy and let him",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sleeping in POST: Usually I start work after my two co-workers, they're here to open up, and then I stay and lock up at the end of the day. I'd arranged to swap shifts with one of them today, but had skipped my lunch break earlier in the week so I could still start at the later time as usual, just leave an hour earlier. This morning I woke up to a text from my co-worker (the only one who was left opening today) to find that he's sick and won't be coming in, so could I go in and open",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: I'm sorry I lied for so long about eating sausages and hamburgers POST: About 3 years ago my wife and I became vegetarian. At first I was totally against not eating meat. She was reading a lot of literature on it at the time, and eventually I gave in and read some of the books she had and found myself revolted by meat. So one thing led to another and we decided to stop eating meat together. I lasted one year without meat. I really felt strong about not eating it and had no temptations ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [24 M] with my ex[21F]. Was I the crazy ex? POST: There was an Askreddit question about 'crazy exes' and I guess that got me thinking, was I the crazy ex? My ex and I had been living together for close to a year. She has a group of friends (girls and guys) that she always hangs out with that I've never met and that she doesnt let me meet. I know one of the guys in the group likes her and shes admitted this before. This makes me grow increasingly anxious about whats going on and l",negative " r/AskReddit TITLE: Parents won't let me go out alone........what can I do? POST: Ok Reddit here it goes.... I'm 17 Years old already and my parents haven't let me gone out alone without them anywhere since about a year ago. I don't know how or where this started but they used to let me go out before. Now they won't let me go anywhere if one of them doesnt go. They always say yes but then say that they will be going in too. It was ok the first couple of times but now its a pain in the ass to be dealing with",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: I'm doing a film interview with a respected Buddhist lama. What should I ask? POST: So, I'm making a documentary on the topic of Buddhism in America. When we set out we expected to most interview religious professors & teachers and local practicing Buddhists. Shockingly, we seemed to have acquired an exciting interview with a well-known [lama] here in the USA, who is believed to be the reincarnation of a renowned [tertön] So, he does not speak English and we will be doing the intervie",negative " r/relationships TITLE: my [21M] and my girlfriend [21F] of 3 years have been having issues, could use some advice. POST: Okay so my girlfriend and I have been dating for 3 years but have been together for close to 4 now and she's absolutely perfect for me. We go to college 1000 miles away and have for close to 2 years now, and it was never an issue. Recently however I was home in between semesters and noticed she didn't want to be sexual all to often and I figured it was nothing and didn't nag her. I am n",positive " r/AskReddit TITLE: Will a court offer a continuance if there was a planned out of the country vacation beforehand? POST: Smart people of Reddit: I have a friend who is a single mother. The ex-husband does not pay his child support (3 kids) and is now trying to get his child support reduced. He has the money to pay it, but he is clever about hiding how much he makes. He even put his new wife's name on the house so it would look like he didn't own it. Anyway, he's going to take her to court to lower the chil",positive " r/relationships TITLE: Me [22 F] broke up with my now Ex [23 M] of two years, how do I let go of the emotional abuse that occurred? POST: I am 22 years old and I have been in a relationship with my now-ex for two years. For almost a year and half, I have been plagued with what many would consider emotional abuse. He has horrible anger management and would not spare anyone when he is on a rampage. Not even his mother. I have seen him throw things, tipping over tables and screaming when his mother asked him ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My boyfriend (22M) and I (21F) are fighting because my novel is crap. POST: My boyfriend and I have been together for four years. He and I are opposites in a lot of ways but also very compatible, and I love him a lot. One of our major differences is determination. I have a tendency to give up easily, whereas he sees tasks through to the bitter end. I am an English major with a creative thesis draft due in December. Since I'll be filling out grad school applications during the ye",positive " r/offmychest TITLE: Don't you know?! POST: You can't talk to me anymore. You can't email me anymore. You can't touch me anymore. You lost that privileged when you picked her. We had it all. I was on cloud nine when I saw your smile, now I get sick when I see your face. I loved you more than I loved breathing. As soon as she needed something, you were gone. How did you expect me to stay? That's not love, that's torture. I stay and a year pasts. I have a ton of things go on and you feel completely helpless",negative " r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 F] with my husband [26 M] together 3 years married 1 month, living in same area as my EX and this is a sore area. how to handle encounters? POST: Hello you wonderful people. Made this throwaway to ask a question. So, right before leaving my home country and starting up a relationship with my now-husband, I briefly dated—not even dated, had a fling with—this dude I worked with. It lasted like 2 weeks or so, but we had fun. He tried to keep in touch with affectionate emails but",positive " r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (29m) need advice on dealing with my (27f) socially awkward fiancé. POST: We have been together four years and have been engaged for 6 months. She is very reserved and quiet socially and it hasn't been an issue until recently. My mother went with us to an NBA game and my fiancé just sat there and didn't engage in conversation. My mother asked me if she was upset and I told her no, she is just a quiet person. We went to a concert and another couple went with us and they too co",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sneezing POST: This fuck up happened yesterday but nevertheless I'll go on. I was in my local Tesco (the equivelant of Walmart in Ireland and UK) and I was walking through all the aisles. I had some pretty bad allergies that day so I was sneezing non stop. So I feel a sneeze coming on, for whatever reason I closed my eyes and walked slowly while waiting for my sneeze to arrive. Thanks to my luck I walked right into a security guard and my sneeze came suddenly without me realising and ",negative " r/Advice TITLE: r/Advice, my roommate just broke up with her boyfriend...who pays half of her rent and bills. What do? POST: So, my roommate's boyfriend usually works out of state. Today she broke up with him. The problem is, she is horrible with her money, he makes A LOT, and a he pays half her rent and bills as well as most of her other expenses. I'm really concerned about paying rent and bills from here on out. I'm in school and I work, and I can't afford to eat sometimes, much less pick up any slack on",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I [27 M] am thinking about dating sister [22 F] of girl who I was interested in. POST: So to give some background, I [27M] have never being in a relationship or have gone on a date before. I grew up in a small town church where everyone pretty knows each other. After growing up in same groups and spending a lot of time with Emma [26F], I developed strong feelings for her, however, I did not make any moves or told her about how I feel. In the end she ended up dating another guy and g",negative " r/relationships TITLE: What is the best way for me [F26] to approach my friend [F24] about her constant ""I hate my job"" style posts on Facebook? POST: My friend, we'll call her S, has a job many people would kill for in the fashion industry. She's only been there a year and unfortunately it's more ""Devil Wears Prada"" than ""The Hills"". I get that sometimes after a really bad day you need a good vent. That's what friends and family are for, not Facebook. Not to mention that she's on the hunt for a new job ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do you keep the vibe in a LDR? POST: I[20M] met a girl[22F] abroad and ended up spending quite a few days with her. Only problem is, she had to go back to New-Zealand after a while. I live in Europe. Fast forward 1 month and a half. We have talked a lot each and every day during this time. We both feel like it's not really a fling and want to meet up. She starts making arrangements to come study where I live instead of where she lives. Only problem is: she needs to save up a su",negative " r/relationships TITLE: I need help Reddit, What should I do? POST: Me and my Girlfriend are in are 20's and we are from kentucky and do not live with each other, We have been in the relationship for about 1.5 years. Recently I have come to an emotional halt with my girlfriend. Like all feelings have vanished and I have no clue what to do, if I should let it continue and my feelings will magically fix themselves, or let her go because its not fair for her if she has emotions that I don't have for her or ev",negative " r/pettyrevenge TITLE: I didn't know I was done shooting hoops. POST: So I recently moved to a new place. It's has a nice community area with a playground, tennis court and basketball court. The weather here was so nice today I decided to go to the basketball court and just shoot around for a bit. I get there and no one else is around. I am running from hoop to hoop just shooting lay ups when I notice some kids walking towards the court with a ball. I then went to one half and stayed there. The kids start",negative " r/offmychest TITLE: It's kind of a bummer, but I'm proud of myself. POST: I found out today that a girl I've had a crush on for a while now has a new boyfriend. Normally, I would be sad and probably go binge eating. But you see, I'm a changed man(boy?) So instead, I'm gonna go out on my scheduled run. The past few months, I've been eating healthy and losing weight by going to gym and running. It makes me feel good about myself and I'm also working on my conversation skills just so I can more accurately por",positive " r/jobs TITLE: My Name on a list with a disgusting title POST: Hello, I've recently started this new job at a school summer camp ( 3rd week ). I was referred by a friend and i know a handful of the workers from before starting work. At the office they call me throughout the day for little tasks. such as bringing them papers from other rooms, escorting the kids back to their classrooms, once even making me go get them coffee and taking the tissues out of a clogged sink. I understand since I am new its fair ",negative " r/relationships TITLE: My (20f) boyfriend (22m) of one year is currently battling a bad drug problem of three years, don't know what to believe anymore, and I don't know how to give him the help he needs... POST: Sorry guys, this is a little long... We've been together for one year, and have been living together for the whole entire time. Recently it has come to light that my boyfriend's heroin problem (which I knew about from the beginning but I thought was over) never went away, and our roommates (8 men",negative " r/relationships TITLE: How do you guys balance time between SO and friends? POST: I apologize in advance for the rocky wording, I have been trying to figure out how to get this thought out for a while and it's a little choppy... I am a 25/F and live with my 26/M SO (been together for almost 2 years). I find myself panic ridden thinking about what others expect of me because if I don't make time for my girl friends, they make it very clear to me that they think I have ""changed,"" or I am becoming too ""compl",negative " r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by getting kicked out of Chipotle POST: So, this was about a week ago, and I was recovering from an illness, so, while I felt fine, my nose was extremely stuffed up. I ordered a burrito, and swallowed the first bite down my air-pipe, and had a coughing fit for around ten seconds, and then felt fine. Little did I know, when I was coughing, bits of rice went up into the very back of my nose. This became apparent to me quickly, because every couple minutes or so, I sniffed my nose, only to ",negative " r/relationship_advice TITLE: [18/f] Should I fight for (19/m) or just try and move on? POST: I don't know how to put this, so I'll try my best. My boyfriend, who I was dating for over a year, broke up with me about 3 weeks ago. Just out of the blue. He had been having a tough time making a big life choice. We dated while I was in my senior year of high school, and he started his freshmen year of college. He didn't like it, or his major, so he was deciding to not return to that school again. That was his bi",negative