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r/relationships TITLE: I have told my friend[22M] that his gf[20f] cheated on him. Did i messed up or was it the right thing to do? POST: My best friend [22M] is dating my best female friend [20F] for 7 months. Few weeks ago, my other friend [21M] told me, that he slept with her. I've kept it for myself, becouse i didnt wanted to mess up their good relationship. Yesterday, when i was drunk, i have just accidentaly slipped it out to my 22M friend. Now, my 21M friend is mad at me as fuck, the 20f wont talk
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r/relationships TITLE: I [24M] lost my GF [22F] of 3.5 years three weeks ago due to being lackadaisical and emotionally distant. This is the biggest mistake of my life. How do I get her back? POST: This past weekend I fell apart. I basically begged for her back but she wouldn't listen. She's afraid if we ever get back together it will turn into the same thing. She's cut me off from facebook and wont return calls. I overwhelmed her over this past weekend. I've talked to several people and realize that I n
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, please help me! I don't know what to do! POST: First a little about me, I'm 23 and I just moved down to Los Angeles in the past 2 weeks to live with my girlfriend of ~8 months. A couple days ago she comes home very tired from work and I can tell something is wearing on her. I decide to let her cool off a little before she tells me that she's suspended from work and probably getting fired from her awful retail job because of a technicality, one that her manager was instructing eve
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r/relationships TITLE: I'm [17M] wondering how the action I just did will affect my relationship with this girl [16M] POST: * TL;DR:
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r/relationship_advice TITLE: [16/m] my sort of girlfriend (15/f) cheated on me POST: We've been together since about July but really began dating in around October. We lost our virginities to each other in December and have been having sex snice. This is my first serious relationship and I have no idea what to do. I love her. She's been lying to me for at least 3 weeks. She got extremely strange around when it began and wouldn't see me and would barely talk to me. Turns out she had been hooking up and havi
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r/relationship_advice TITLE: I'm [M/19] falling for a girl [F/18] who may well be gay. But I'm getting mixed signals from her. POST: Just started University 3 weeks ago, met a girl during Fresher's and who just clicked. I've never gotten on so well with anyone so spontaneously before. When we first met, we talked for 5 hours straight and we had a great time - we have loads in common and we laughed a lot. We've seen each other pretty much every day for a couple of hours at least, even if it's with other peo
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r/relationship_advice TITLE: (28/f) Need some perspective on my boyfriend (28/m) POST: I've been dating my boyfriend for 4 years, lived together for 2. When I first met my boyfriend, I had just gotten out of a very serious and heartbreaking relationship only a year earlier. Which seems like a long time. But I loved my ex and felt like he was the one who got away. We broke up due to long distance issues. Before I even started dating my current boyfriend, I told him the entire history with my ex. And that I
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r/relationship_advice TITLE: Boyfriend [29/m] needs space from me [25/f] but seeing each other once a week is not enough for me... POST: The basic issue I'm having is that my bf is saying he needs space. What this means is he doesn't want to spend all of his days off with me. I can understand that we don't have to spend ALL the time together, but for me what he seems to want or is okay with is not enough for me. We had spent a lot of time together recently because I had time off from work and this brought
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r/Advice TITLE: Should I leave a better job for one that makes me happier? POST: Sorry for the length, and thanks reddit peeps in advance for your advice on my current dilemma -- I'm 30, I have a young family to provide for -- a stay home wife and two kids. I just started a new job in IT for an international retailer that is contract-to-hire with a generous conversion salary after a six month contract blah blah blah. I'm getting a weird uber-professional 'office space' vibe from the place that makes me u
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r/relationships TITLE: Me[24M] wondering why my[22F] gf rarely interacts in a conversation with me POST: So here goes. I broke up with this girl a few months back because my heart really wasn't in it. I was too busy with school/work and felt like a horrible bf because I could rarely make time for her. I realized that I messed up and immediately pursued her again. She agreed, but said that she was going to be cautious and that we were going to take it slow. She comes over and visits often, but I find it dif
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r/travel TITLE: OK /r/travel, lets plan a trip from Southeast Asia to Europe. POST: Background: Just broke up with my girlfriend. Things are definitely over. All I have ever wanted to do is travel (which is partially what split us apart), and after a failed attempt at settling down, I need to get out. I am currently working a job that pays very well, but it is not what I want to do. I am also in a city that I am not crazy about. By the end of the year I should have $10,000 in the bank. Objective: Take the
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [25 M] with my 25[F], of 5 years broke up last night for the (13th?) time, and it all stems from her distrust in me, mostly due to the fact I cannot stop lying about everything POST: As the title states we have broken up again, and while this time might be permanent, historically, things will pan out. I love her more than anything, and she loves me too. However, since a very early lie in our relationship she never trusted me again. This leads to myriads of fights, but ultimately t
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r/relationships TITLE: Overprogrammed college student (21F) with excellent boyfriend (24M) of 2 months. He lives 30 minutes away, and I worry my friendships are suffering because I'm off campus so much. How can I improve my management of this situation? POST: Alright, so, I'm a senior in college. I have a full courseload, a job, and a thesis--basically, I'm totally overloaded, but it's all really intellectually stimulating and I'm enjoying it. At the beginning of the semester, I signed up for OkCupid, and
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r/dating_advice TITLE: Confused as to what is happening with this girl and I POST: (Sent here from r/relationships) I am 23 and she is 20. We met at a friends house 2 weeks ago and I helped her out of a sticky situation. The next day she found me on facebook and thanked me for helping her out. We messaged each other and then started texting over a week ago. We went on a date about 5 days ago. During the date she would say things like "oh we should do (such and such) together sometime." She sent me a text
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r/relationships TITLE: I [25M] was told by her [20F] that she liked me for a long time but moved on when nothing between us happened. How over is it? POST: This girl (we'll call her Liz) and I have known each other for almost 4-5 years now, and have been flirty but good friends the entire time. When I first met her, I was in an LTR and she (despite being attractive) was way too young to date. I could tell she really liked me so I kept in touch you know, just to keep that candle lit in case things went bad
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r/relationships TITLE: Close friend leaving soon, help. POST: My (22M) close friend (22F) is leaving the country soon. She was here to study, and now that shes graduated, she has to leave. Im not sure when i'll be seeing her next, and im finding it really hard to say goodbye. We've had on and off relationships in the past, and it never worked because i never fully appreciated her, and other people got involved. Despite all that, we're still able to be close friends with one another and we treat each other
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [mid20s F] with my siblings [early 20sM][mid 30sF][late 30sM], fed up with being pushed out of family, not sure what to do POST: I'm going to try to keep this succinct because I don't know how much back story is relevant. If something is blatantly missing or in question, feel free to ask for more info. I'm the 3rd child of 4 in our family and was the only one given up for adoption at birth. I was raised by other family members, while my 3 siblings more or less were raised togethe
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Hi Reddit. I'm pretty new here, but I was hoping I could get some help. POST: Alright, so I'm an 11th grader in HS. I'm fairly well known at my school, fairly popular, etc. There's this girl, Tracy, that has run on ASB (sometimes known as Student Council) for two years now. Everyone is so afraid of her that they don't even bother to run against her, and she automatically wins. I decided to run against her this year, but the big thing that has got me down is the video that every candidate
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r/relationships TITLE: Me[20F] and a new guy [20M] he's awesome except for one little thing POST: So I met this guy last year but never talked to him. He's living on campus at our college with one of my guy friends. This is how I've been getting to know him more. We've been texting since about Sept 4th. He's the one that started texting me and trying to get to know me better. I wasn't sure at first but I found that I was interested too. This past weekend at a party we ended up hooking up and did again on
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [18M] with my coworker [18F] , not quite sure how to initiate a first date. POST: Um, I think I did everything right as far as presentation. I mean, presentation is everything. This is my main throwaway account, which I guess defeats the purpose of a throwaway, but that's neither here nor there. Just to give some background, I will admit that I've never really had much experience with women, by that, I mean I've never had a girlfriend, much less been on a date. Moving along.
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r/relationships TITLE: [23M], having trouble with [20F] girlfriend, who I have recently moved in with in her home country, over playing video games. POST: Moved to Sweden with a girl I met in London. I was excited to move, it was equally for me as it was for her. I've done a lot to learn the language fit into her family and group of friends. Finally got internet in where we are living that's good enough to play online video games. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't party, I don't really have friends
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r/personalfinance TITLE: Move (a long ways) down in house to become become free? POST: My wife and I are both 24, graduated college In December of 2013, and our first (only) son just turned one a few weeks ago. We have leaved well below our means in college mode since we graduated and are completely debt free except our house. We built our house ourselves with a lot of help from my family and that put us in a great situation equity wise. We owe right at $120,000 on our house and after I am done finishing t
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r/relationships TITLE: Can my [21 M] decision to be patient with "steady" dating a [20 F] really pay off? POST: Being an engineering college student might afford me a level of "social awkwardness" when it comes to dating but hey, I've got a crush and I'm sticking to it! Here's the deal: I've been friends with a girl I have interest in for about three months now, both of us college students and both of us engineering majors (Mech and Nuke). We hang out, get to know each other, and eventually after I form
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r/relationship_advice TITLE: [25/m] My Girlfriend (25/f) gets upset when I end the conversation. POST: My Girlfriend and I have been going out for about 4 months now and we live in different cities. Since we live in different cities the only way we stay in touch during the week is Skype. The problem that I'm having is that she just simply wont end the conversation. I'm a fairly introverted person that struggles to hold a long conversation, while she is the exact opposite, she could talk forever. While this
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, can you help me understand why women are in charge of telling women what's "fashionable" or whatever? POST: >[Hendricks was named "the sexiest woman in the world" in 2010 in a poll of **female readers** taken by Esquire magazine.]( Why do we let girls continuously choose what's hot for other girls? Not that I particularly disagree with this quote, But still. Girls judging girls are the reasons behind [boob curtains] and [all of these] (Which, Ironically, I liked more of the "wo
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r/tifu TITLE: Tifu: by having a pre shower ritual POST: I fucked up just a few mins ago...I was about to take a shower but first I decided to sit on the edge of the tub and read my facebook, Twitter and news ( mind you butt naked, this is also my pre shower ritual everyday) and suddenly my brother opened the door like a maniac (forgot to lock the door and he was looking for something ) and he saw me in all my glory butt naked .. He was in shock and I just said "WTF" covered myaelf and he closed the door ..
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Friends aren't around the amount of time I want them to be around, what do? POST: Sounds like an incredibly selfish post, but let me explain. My good friend (best friend for 8 or so years now) is around way too much. So much that I can barely breathe. Every day he wants to do something: make a YouTube video, go to the deli.... well that's pretty much it, that's part of the problem too. My school friends, on the other hand, are around barely at all. They never seem to come calling outsi
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [M 19] unsure about my relationship with my girlfriend [F 17] of 9 months POST: My girlfriend and I have been together for 9 months now, I have been extremely happy up until last Sunday. She is very catholic and I am Lutheran, she told me that she couldn't be with someone who isn't catholic and broke up with me. A few hours passed and she called me in tears begging me to take her back, I did but I haven't felt the same since. I'm too afraid that she'll pull this again and break
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r/loseit TITLE: I was gonna post this NSV today, but typed it up for a comment. Posting anyway. POST: So, I'm older, and have been super thin, and pretty damn big (two pregnancies, both with significant weight gain). Here's what I JUST realized after 2.5 decades of eating disorders and now just over three years in recovery. Ya know how the weight just kinda creeeeps on? Like, ya don't really notice till one day, you go put something on and it doesn't fit? Well, that's the healthy way to lose weight. 1/2
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r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by sticking my dick in a jar of nutella POST: So this actually happened last week, but I decided to hold off posting it until I felt a bit more comfortable about the whole situation. Last week my parents weren't home so I decided to invite my girlfriend over to hangout and what not. We were watching tv and we got hungry so we decided to go make something to eat. I looked around the kitchen for something to eat and a brand new jar of Nutella sat right there in the middle of the snack shel
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [16 M] with a attractive person [15 F] , never met her, walks past me most days, what's a subtle way to start up a conversation? POST: I am a guy, and this really cute girl walks past me fairly regularly as I walk to the train station and she walks to the bus stop and essentially we walk by each other. I can't really just stop her and say "hi", because i think thats a bit odd and it will end with her awkwardly just saying back "ummm hello". So what do I do? The subtle bump into h
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r/relationships TITLE: My [17m] girlfriend [17f] is thinking of Scotland to study, while I support her I don't want our relationship to fall apart. POST: Hi people! We've been together for about eight months, but I hope us to be together at least a bit longer. We both live in Finland right now, studying at high school in an international program. She is on her senior year (she skipped one year in elementary) and I'm on my second year. She's graduating next spring. While she is applying to a chemistry dep
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Would it be possible to have your own private/personal military? POST: Ok, first of all I understand this is an entirely impossible situation. I am obviously not looking into fielding my own army, but I'm wondering how feasible it would be in some alternate world where money is no object. I started thinking about this when I read [this] article on a Royal Navy aircraft carrier "going up for sale". I thought to myself "Heh, it would be pretty cool to have your own fully functional aircra
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [19F] with my bf [20M] doesn't understand that I don't like certain pictures of me posted on facebook. POST: I flew myself out to LA from the east coast to see my BF, and everything has been fun. We took lots of pictures to remember the trip. But, while we where playing around we were play wrestling with my laptop and laughing about some pictures. But then he went on facebook and posted a pictures of us in bathing suits after we washed his car, and a picture of us kissing. I tol
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with my Ex / FWB [25F] of 3 months. Downgraded from BF to FWB :( What to do? POST: Was dating this girl, lets call her Sarah, and things were great. I really liked her, she really liked me, we have huge mutual respect, the sex was great, we said we loved each other, we were talking about moving in together. Then she broke up with me and disappeared, totally ghosted me. I was shocked. I tracked her down and we talked about it. She has anxiety, she can't handle a relationship
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r/relationships TITLE: How can I [21M] find common ground with the girl my friend introduced me to a few days ago. POST: My friend introduced me to one of his friends who recently became single. She turns out to be a really awesome girl and I'm definitely interested in getting to know her better. My friend (without my knowledge) added my number to her phone and told her to message me. She did, and we've been talking steadily throughout the last few days. From our messaging, I'm feeling she's at least somew
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r/relationship_advice TITLE: 28/f I have serious issues with love. POST: Once upon a time I was in love with someone in my group of friends. Obsessive, crazy, intense love. It was the sweetest thing I have ever felt in my life. He loved me too but we both acted like we were "too cool" for it all. We spent years sneaking off together.... playing as if we were little children, talking for hours, expressing our love with sighs and touches and tone of voice. We expressed it in other ways too (except he was a v
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r/relationships TITLE: Me (20M) and a close friend of 10+ years (21F) friendship is getting more and more romantic, but she is beimg abused by another guy she is seeing. POST: Me and 21F have been close friends for around 10 years now, same social circles, friends, everything. We have both moved away to different cities after High school and have been hooking up on occasion when we see each other. We chat over Skype often and it lead to the question "would you have ever dated me, 20M? " We both agreed t
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r/relationships TITLE: My [20m] girlfriend [20f] of 2 years believes I treat her as my second option. I see otherwise. What am I missing? POST: I've been together with my girlfriend for 2 years now and this always comes up as a problem. For the most part, I always hang out with my girlfriend we do stuff, go out to eat, see movies and whatever. I'm so busy with everything I rarely see my friends any more. But when I do, I tell my girlfriend in advance. Hell, I even don't do something with them because I'm d
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r/relationships TITLE: Dealing with jealousy? POST: I am 18 and my girlfriend of a few months is 17. I have been in a long term relationship that lasted over a year. This doesn't matter as much, besides the fact that I'm sure my view point is immature, and I want to fix it. Hell, I don't even know if this applies to my current girlfriend because as far as I know, she is a virgin with no experience in anything. But this is for future reference in case I meet another girl this applies to or find out someth
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r/relationship_advice TITLE: [25/m] gf [23/f] brought up idea of an open relationship POST: Obvious throwaway... Anyway, here's the deal: My gf (22) brought up the idea of having an open relationships. She wants to "explore sex" i.e having 3somes, and sex with other men and women. I am free to do the same, obviously, if this were to become a thing. I'm kind of blown away by this because she was a lot more conservative when we met. She was actually a virgin and we have been together 3.5 years in a long di
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r/relationships TITLE: My[25M] more then FWB[29F] randomly stopped talking to me POST: So a little background I said more then FWB because the girl just got divorced in August and insists that we not term what we are as boyfriend/girlfriend which I am fine with. That being said we have been talking everyday and spend most night at one or the others place. Even she has admitted that we aren't really just FWB. I have been seeing her since the beginning of October. Now on to the issue at hand. I went back h
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r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by asking for a straw. POST: Long time lurker, first time properly posting. This didn't happen today, but yesterday. A bit of background information. I live in Finland, and the language here is the hardest in Europe. i come from England, but am almost 100% fluent. After PE, we always have about 30-45 mins before the next lesson. Being a bit thirsty after basketball, I decide to go to the nearest Hesburger (basically McDonalds). I don't have that much money, so I order some small frie
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r/dating_advice TITLE: How to recover from coming on too strong? [M19] POST: I have been on 4 dates with this girl [17]. I am 1st year university and she is in highschool. First 3 dates went great, 4th date was sort of scattered and we watched a movie that I recommended but she didn't enjoy. A couple of make out sessions on 4th date if that makes any difference. Driving her home after 4th date I asked her if she wanted to do some the following week and she said yes, she would text me if she was free.
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Have you ever been brutally trolled by a random stranger, in a way that was a huge hindrance to you, but having absolutely no benefit to them? POST: When I was 8 years old, I worked as an extra in a movie with lots of soccer fans in a huge stadium throughout the early hours of the morning. Lots of very bored and tired kids and teenagers. Myself and the fans standing immediately around me were lucky enough to be near an amateur magician who amazed us with an assortment of card tricks. One
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r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by jizzing in a shared hotel room. POST: I am currently on a music tour in Italy, sharing a room with four other men. Obviously not having had sex since the day before we left for the one week trip, tensions were running high, and my extremely horny girlfriend back home was sending me intimate messages, which was not helping in any way. By day four of the trip, I was climbing up the walls with sexual frustration, not having had a wank in all of this time (this is not a long time i know,
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [23F] with my boyfriend [24M] of 8 months, should we have a wedding? POST: We've been friends since we were in our early teens, but only started our romantic relationship after we both graduated college & moved back to our hometown. We've both been in at least two very serious relationships with other people & also spent a good amount of time "playing the field" in college. When we reconnected after college, we realized how many of our values had aligned -- desire for stabilit
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r/relationships TITLE: I [27 M] read my GF's [26 F] diary. Got depressed by what I read about me POST: My GF and I have been living together for almost a year now. I'm happy, and until a few hours ago I had no reason to believe she wasn't happy as well. We've always encouraged having an open dialogue, and lately she hasn't let me know of anything about our relationship that needs fixing. Now, some of my biggest insecurities have always been that I don't have a ton of friends, and that I don't take a lot o
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r/relationships TITLE: [17F] Spent a year fawning over [18M], now that he is available I am having doubts. POST: **History:** We'd been interested in each other last year, however i backed out because i realised i liked him more as a friend. I do not regret this decision as in hindsight i realised that i barely knew him. From then we have become very close friends. In that time he had been dating another girl for maybe less than a year (it was never very official and did not develop at all). A few months a
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [26M] with my fiancée [25F] of one year, how do I stop getting upset at myself and requiring comfort when she's upset at me? POST: My fiancée is wonderful. She's caring, independent and pretty much what I love in a partner, all wrapped up in a sexy little package. I'm the cause of most of our problems. A lot of the time I do something to upset her (e.g. use idiolect she doesn't understand which causes a miscommunication, miss an important phone call from her, etc), I get sad and
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r/relationships TITLE: Recent ex [18f] wants another chance. Says she wants to make it up to me [20m] but I just met another girl [19f]. Just really confused. POST: Well I just end things last Monday with the ex. She played me good. Was trying to figure out who she wanted to be with. Me or another guy. I found out, confronted her about it, she'd lied about it, ended things on the spot. Then I get over it and met another girl who's super awesome. Things just clicked. Then ex hits me up and says she feels
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r/relationships TITLE: Me 20 [M], girlfriend [19F] best friends with her ex POST: Met the basically perfect girl, I had to move away and we decided to do long distance. Last time I did long distanced I was cheated on and already had jealousy issues before that (far from as bad as they are now). I trust her completely, what happened last time I should honestly have seen coming, me trusting her isnt the issue. I knew she was best friends with her ex, but I thought it was a childhood thing (12-14). Turns out
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r/dating_advice TITLE: Confused 16M (Like that's really new.) POST: Alright r/dating_advice, this is my first time posting to reddit, but I just don't know how to move along in this situation of mine. So I met this girl a year ago, and it was kind of that instant smitten thing, you know? (Still wasn't mature in the whole dating thing.) Managed to get her to come to one of my Military Balls, (I'm in a JROTC program in the United States, dance we have at the end of the year.) However, I completely blew it,
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r/AskReddit TITLE: How do I convince my roommate she should give up her dog? POST: I've been friends with her since middle school so I don't want to be too harsh when I bring it up. Some background info: Moved in together 2 months ago. Landlord said no pets, but did give roommate 1's dog the exception. My roommate 2 is getting a cat. (Our landlord doesn't actually CARE he just had to tell us 'no pets') I asked if I could have my cat, was told no, because it would be pushing the 'no animal' rule. When my
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r/relationships TITLE: Debating ending 3 year relationship with gf POST: So I am a 24m that's been in a 3 year relationship with a 22f. I'm mostly just trying to vent/ get advice on my situation. Over the past week my girlfriend has become very irrationally aggressive/angry with me. To a point where if I ask her basic things she'll snap on me. This is something that i've grown accustomed to as she can get moody. This particular time was bad, lots of yelling, or her getting mad at me for things I'd have no
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r/relationships TITLE: Long distance relationship is going to take even a lot longer than I thought before, What should I do about it? POST: I have been in a long distance relationship for nearly a year now. We've been physically together for about 6 weeks total out of that period although we communicate regularly (Skype,Gtalk, Viber every night, frequent emails etc) I am 27 and she's 33 and we're both very much in love with each other and quite frankly the whole long distance is a pain for both of us and
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r/AskReddit TITLE: How can I turn Emperor: Battle For Dune into a portable(usb) version? (x-post /AskGaming) POST: Greetings Everyone, I hope this is also the correct place, it isn't a yes or no question and search didn't show a similar topic, it is a bit of a challenge, but doesn't fit programming or gaming. This seemed to be the most fitting sub. -/-The Problem-\- I own Emperor: Battle For Dune and wanted to create a portable version, so I don't have to go around installing it on every computer I want
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r/tifu TITLE: TIFU by faking a seizure, then getting a real one. POST: So, this isn't something that happened in one day, and it didn't actually happen today, just like 99.9% of the TIFU's ever written. So here's the deal, back in high school I had the nickname, "Skuds." Basically, just a shortened version of my last name. Anyway, every time I would act a certain way all my friends would add an extra adjective to my name. Say if I was drunk, I would be referred to as "Drunk Skuds." So obviously, being
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r/relationships TITLE: Should I [18m] give my good friend [19f] an old present from when we were once together? POST: So, to make the story short, I asked this girl to prom last year and we ended up having a summer fling. Things got pretty serious and we tried to make it work through long distance in college and they ended up falling apart, as many young relationships do. However, the weekend before she broke up with me I bought her a stuffed animal that I never had the chance to give to her. She knows tha
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r/relationship_advice TITLE: [F/16] feel too self-conscious to see my boyfriend [m/19] recently after recovering from anorexia. POST: I recently got up to a healthy weight (overshooting it a bit, actually) after battling anorexia, bulimia and multiple hospitalizations for 2+ years. But ever since I achieved that, I've wanted to isolate myself from him because I feel disgusting. I've only been with him for about 10 months--not even close to when I was at my worst with the disease. When I'm with him I don't
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r/Advice TITLE: I feel like I cheated....I can't get the guilty feeling to go away POST: Alright, so short background. I had been with my ex for 12 years, we have 2 children together and 1 adopted. We've taken breaks in the past and always gotten back together. I still love her and deeply care about her. We had some issues that I'm not sure can be resolved (I don't want to go into specifics just in case she sees this) and we've broken up as of 1 week ago. I go to the house every day to spend time with my c
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r/relationships TITLE: My (F24) 5 year relationship with my bf (M23) technically ended last night, but I still have to stay in the same apartment until I can find a place. POST: You guys, I feel like my heart has broken into a million tiny pieces and I feel like I'm constantly in the throws of having an anxiety attack. I can't stop crying at the thought of not having him around even though the relationship should've ended a while ago. There's really nothing left between us, other than we were getting alo
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Here in America, it seems like we have all of these problems, and other countries like Canada and England are doing so well. Canadians and English of Reddit, what are some problems you have with your country? POST: For me, I'm disgusted with how much national debt we have and the fact that we spend over 50% of our federal budget on our military. We also have the widest gap between the rich and the poor in all of human history. CEO's are making something like 250 times more than their ave
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r/relationships TITLE: I [20M] cannot seem to let go of my ex [20F] that I broke up with last May POST: I've been lurking and thinking about asking you wonderful people for some advice, and finally decided I'd do it (nothing to lose!). The title is pretty self-explanatory and I'm going to try to explain my situation the best I can. I am now a Junior in College, pursuing an Education degree, and met my ex my Freshman year, in the Spring semester. We dated until last May, when I broke up with her. Things st
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r/relationships TITLE: (22M) My new SO (24F) is into some weird things I'm slightly freaked out by... (NSFW) POST: I have been with this woman for nearly two months now, and last night in bed, we were just playing around, and she knows I have a foot & bush fetish (my only ones), so I was massaging her feet. And then she began to pin me down and wanted me to eat her ass... I didn't think she would be so dominating and at first I was kind of taken aback because she's a really sweet and gentle girl normally,
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [33/M] with my [29/F] 4.5 years, how to move on. POST: If that link doesn't work I apologize. So just an update and looking for advice about how to go on. This was my first real adult relationship. My longest relationship. And now its over. My question is what comes next? I'm lost to the point I'm barely functioning. A lot of these post talk about with breakups all mention getting out and being active and such. The problem I have is all of my friends are friends who I met t
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r/relationships TITLE: So I [M26] think I need some feedback on dealing with being cheated on (sort of) by my GF [F27] POST: I'm just going to lay the facts down on this one, let you guys pick apart and judge accordingly. Months ago while I was out of town, I was really worried about my girlfriend cheating on me because I had found some sexually explicit texts sent between her and an ex of hers from a few years back. Yes, I saw them on her phone, I went through it after seeing his name pop up in passing.
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r/AskReddit TITLE: How does one improve a somewhat lonely post-college life? POST: Greet all, I don't think I had a great college life, but it was decent. I never lived on campus, but I made some close friends at the time (which, for whatever reason, are no longer my close friends today). I remember rolling into a few classes, sleeping through most of them, getting home and signing in on MSN and chatting til 2-3AM and then waking up at 6AM for classes. There was something pretty awesome about just hanging
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Reddit, what do you think of Disney movies? POST: My daughter is 9 months old and I am debating whether or not I should let her watch Disney movies. On the one hand, myself and my own mother grew up watching them. Whenever I am feeling a little down I find it very comforting to cuddle up with my daughter and throw on an old Disney classic like Cinderella or even one of the newer films like Tangled, which she also seems to really enjoy. On the other hand, I really feel like these films
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r/dating_advice TITLE: [16] sticky situation with the most awesome girl in my school POST: At a party last month I talked to this girl [17] for the first time, despite her being at my school, and we really hit it off, but I didn't get her number. At school the week after we exchanged smiles and 'hello's but nothing more, then at one point she came up to me and asked for maths help, to which I obliged. I was really thinking about her a lot, so I facebook messaged her some goofy thing along the lines of 'ho
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Today I was metaphorically stabbed in the face with the knife of racism. What is the most racist thing that's happend to you? POST: This isn't the most racist thing that's happened, but it's pretty terrible and happened today so I would like to vent. Ok, so check this out. While I was driving today, I let this lady merge into my lane. Not only did I literally slow down to let her in, she looked like a nice lady, so I firmly believed a courtesy wave was coming my way. But it didn't. I
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r/offmychest TITLE: The soft version of a morning after regret POST: Okay. I've got a long-distance relationship over 1 country. I met her in a language exchange and she's simply amazing. We're together for around 2 months now and apart for maybe 1,5 months. I love her and it would suck to lose her. Yesterday I went to a party of which I knew exactly someone. So I met a lot of people, we had a lot of fun. None of them knew about my relationship. We were around 7 people, so it wasn't a big party. There
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r/Advice TITLE: My mom got scammed (so I think) and now we don't know what to do POST: A few weeks back my mom got a call from vitamins store and told her she won $1000. They said they'll send her a few lotions and vitamins for free, she just has to pay for the shipping and security, all worth $150. She was real excited, my Father and I both told her its a scam. She didn't listen, neither did my sister, surprisingly my sister fell do it too. She's smart woman. Anyway, On my way! day the mail man came and e
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r/Advice TITLE: Coworker thinks I hacked his computer and apparently furious with me, despite the fact that I did not do anything to his computer. POST: I work at a school where every teacher has a computer in their room. I am possibly the tech savviest person at the school while the rest are miles away in regards to computer literacy. Even when I dumb it down in explaining things, they don't understand. Anyway, during my downtime I toy around with computers. At times, I bring my personal laptop to th
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r/relationships TITLE: My [23F] new co-worker [early-20sM] has very irritating habits, but one is worse than the rest POST: This may sound incredibly petty, but here it is. A new guy, Stephen [early-20s/M], started at my work a couple months back. He sits on the desk beside mine, and all-together I find him irritating and a rather useless worker. He's fresh out of university, and doesn't seem to know how to work. He spends a lot of time browsing random sites (which our supervisor has noticed and told hi
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r/relationships TITLE: Should I [18F] try to continue hanging out with my only friend [18F] despite her inability to make time for me POST: I'm not even mad at my friend, I just tired of her being a flake and being unable to make time for me, despite her saying that I'm her only "sane" friend. I've been friends with her for six years and it's always been a sort of low-maintenance friendship. I was always the one who planned stuff but that didn't bother me. She was my only friend and I felt like I owed her.
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [20's M] with girl I've been dating [20's F] for about a month, Unintentionally lied to her about my STD and lost her trust. POST: I have been seeing a girl for about a month now and things were going absolutely fantastic. We both feel/felt very strongly towards each other. Normally I sleep with girls I am seeing withing the first couple of dates, however I liked this girl so much that we held off on sex since we enjoyed each other company so genuinely much. Fast forward to last
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Is it abnormal to feel depressed after not having sex for say a month, and knowing your not going to for another month (fiance lives out of town) POST: So my fiance lives out of town, only a couple hours away. I'm finishing my last year of Uni, and we haven't had sex in a month, and I'm too bogged down to go up this weekend to see her with these damn papers i have to write (we'd even have the place to ourselves), and she's got an interview for a teaching job, which if she gets (i serious
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [27M] with a family friend's [50F] daughter [18F]. Her daughter wants me to come to go on a cruise with them. POST: This lady, Jane, is a close friend of my mother's. I met Jane's daughter, Christie, some time ago. Christie's parents are very conservative and traditional Asian parents. They don't like Christie meeting boys, and Jane keeps a VERY close eye on Christie. Jane basically knows where Christie is at all times. Christie's dad lives permanently in China, doing business,
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r/relationship_advice TITLE: I (30/m) met a new girl (30/f) recently, things went well but she says she's not ready. POST: This could get lengthy, but let me start by just saying dating again sucks! I moved to a new city about a year ago and really only knew one person living here when I relocated. Couple that with getting out of a really long relationship and it ended up not being the best year. So I started checking out some of those dating apps and talked to some girls and went on some dates but that w
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r/relationships TITLE: I (19 F) don't know how to handle my schedule while having a good time with my boyfriend (20 M) POST: My boyfriend of over a year has a very high libido and I do too. We're both in college and have classes and work to worry about most of the time. When we lived in the same dorm, we hung out all the time and had sex enough but this year, I move off campus. On top of that, I work a lot and only get done with the day at about 6 every day of the week. By the time I finish work, I want to
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r/relationship_advice TITLE: Im [22/f] unsure on how to begin relationship with father again POST: Background: Only child raised by a single parent and have only met my father a handful of times. When he found out my mom was pregnant he said he didn't want anything to do with me. When I was about 6 he decided he wanted to meet me so he came to visit me in my home state. It went well but since I was so young, I thought it was just super cool to be able to say that I had a dad. From ages 6-14 we talked ma
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r/relationships TITLE: My boss[??] is going to crush my[27] career and it's giving me a panic attack POST: Don't really know where to post this... My boss has 0 experience in management as far as I know. I think she's old and hasn't transitioned her approaches in a way that I can succeed. She's conferred in me that she has problems with stress. I only recently signed on and I'm still in probitionary status. We work in healthcare. She's a consultant, so her cred is based strictly on her subject knowledge,
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r/dating_advice TITLE: Me (33/m) Her (28/f?). I don't know much about her... should I leave a card/note on her car? POST: So, there's this girl that I've seen on my work campus from time to time, totally different building than I work in. Well one day, as I was grabbing a coffee with a friend of mine (and she was walking out), she came up to me and asked me if I was in a band. Now, me being naive and not really picking up the fact that she was hitting on me brushed it off and didn't exchange names. C
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [18 M] with my girlfriend [18 F] of 6 months, not telling off guys who make advances POST: In all honesty, I am writing this on here to know if I am overreacting, but I don't think I am. To start, I have problems with jealousy, but I am working on them which is perfect timing as my girlfriend and I just began attending different colleges. As such, there have been multiple guys and girls interested in us and it has begun to become a concern. However, we have both made a concerted e
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r/relationships TITLE: Did I [21M] let go of my soul mate [22F]? POST: First time poster here; looking for any advice on this emotionally confusing situation.. We first got together when we were 16 (we met in college) and were almost instantly head over heels in love. Staying up late messaging each other was how it began and I soon found myself completely infatuated with this girl. As I started seeing her more and more (going over to her house, going out etc..) these feelings got stronger and what start
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r/running TITLE: Tight legs after running slower and weird feeling in my toes POST: I started running about 1-2 months ago and have been running on and off. My longest distance is 8km and my general run is about 4.5km. I am 22 and overweight (172cm/85kg) but I want to pick up running as some sort of fitness I can really get into an enjoy. I would also like to apologize in advance that everything is in metric... sorry!! I have been lurking on this subreddit for as long as I have been running and am tryin
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r/AskReddit TITLE: Should the electoral college should be abolished? POST: (First post on my new account :) ) The (American) electoral college system of election is undemocratic, it has multiple times allowed presidents to be elected without the popular vote. ~~It allows government officials to manipulate votes by changing the borders of voting zones, as happened in Florida with Bush's brother.~~ There are other ways the system fails us, politicians can manipulate the vote in other ways (eg. New voting r
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r/relationships TITLE: I (33f) having trouble getting commitment out of guy I'm seeing (27m) POST: I came out of an 8 year relationship with a guy last year and decided to do a little online dating. I'm very picky about meeting a stranger. But nonetheless, I found a charming guy and we met. He was very attractive, 6'3, athletic, blond blue eyes,former wrestler in college. I soon found myself swayed by the emotion of the whole thing and we ended up together. Our schedules clash and it is a little diffic
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r/relationships TITLE: I'm (F22) not sure how to talk too/approach cute guy at work, advice please! POST: Title says it all! Recently I've been really attracted to a guy at my workplace. While I was sitting down with a friend I turned around to see him looking at me. I shot him a smile the second time I caught his eye and he looked surprised. After that he came up to me asking if I worked his shift (when I'm fairly certain he knows I don't, we've seen each other before this and his shift is a small grou
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r/relationships TITLE: What to do about my [18 F] abusive friends? POST: I want to cut my abusive friends out of my life - I am unable to forgive them for what they did; one of the many reasons is because they denied that they did anything. I think that cutting them out will be easy, except that I have a few events which I have to attend in a few months which I know they will be there. I'm not sure how ti handle the situation if they start asking questions. However, we do have some fun times and I hate t
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r/dating_advice TITLE: Not sure if I should date her or not; different viewpoints on sex POST: I [21M] have been talking to this girl [22F] for a while. We met in class during the spring and became friends. While we're away on summer, we've been emailing each other multiple times per day. Although I missed a few chances to date her at the very end of the year, we both confessed to liking each other over email. She ultimately said that she'd be open to dating, but wouldn't want to mess up our friendship
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [23 F] with my girlfriend [24 F] 8 months, she's been getting massages from college friend (23M) POST: I (23F) met a wonderful girl (25F) around thanksgiving last year, and we've been dating ever since. She is sweet, very smart, and we have a lot of fun together. We've even started talking about moving in together when my lease is up. She's had a couple close friends she's known since college. They spend a good amount of time together, and some were roommates. However, I just re
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r/relationships TITLE: I'm [18 M] having issues with my girlfriend [16 F] concerning the future. POST: Okay so me and my girlfriend have been dating for 8 months now and I just graduated high school this year. She still has two years to go but after that we have no idea what we are going to do. She wants to leave the state we are in because she hates it here, (Florida) and would want to go to a different state for college, if she can. I personally don't really care where I go for college because I'm stayin
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r/jobs TITLE: Need help assessing my situation POST: I just started working at the beginning of August through a recruitment agency in a temp-to-perm role. Just last week, I got called over by my supervisor so that I can talk to her privately on Thursday (we had Friday and Monday off). At first I thought I was going to get fired but it wasn't anywhere near that. My supervisor told me that the agency is billing them far more than what the permanent job is worth if I worked for the company. (In lame man's
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r/Parenting TITLE: 6YO Daughter - No Common Sense HELP! POST: Hi Everyone, I need some advice on how to deal with my daughter. She is a great kid and really sweet. That is, until you stop watching her 24/7. What is grinding my gears, is that is she is playing with others without adults any sense of logic or independent thinking goes out the window. For instance, they her and her brother are watching a movie while I am doing chores around the house and her 4YO brother asks her "how much can you spit?" so
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r/dating_advice TITLE: Me [28 M] with my FWB? [28 F] once a week for a little over a month. POST: I'm starting to see a pattern with this girl I met on Tinder (no shit Sherlock, right?). It seems like we only hang out during the week. Our times consist of dinner, sometimes drinks, and sex. We don't text too much, but when we do it's usually just to set up another date. She used to initiate a lot more with her texts and send me sexy pictures. Now it seems like she's pulled back a bit even though we just te
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r/relationships TITLE: Me [20/F] with my boyfriend [20/M] 2 years, tattoo vs relationship POST: My boyfriend of two years does not like tattoos. He thinks they are unattractive. I have a small tattoo on my wrist which I got just before I met him. He does not have a problem with it. I've been through a lot of emotional things and in and out of a few psychiatric hospitals and I've been clean for 1 and half years and sober for about 1 year and 2 months (horray me). There's been this quote, "destroy what des
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r/relationships TITLE: I [26 M] know that my coworker [23 F] is cheating on her boyfriend [27 M] for about a year on him throughout their 3 year relationship. POST: I have a coworker "S" that has been cheating on her boyfriend for about a year. She has been with her boyfriend for about 3 years. Even more so she has tried to make moves on me and has successfully kissed me, but after that incident we have remained just coworkers. She has since moved on to a new coworker "J" and she has blatantly told me th
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r/dogs TITLE: We need help! POST: Hi everyone, I just found this sub and I believe you guys might be able to help me. Me and my malamute, Rover, just recently moved from Mexico to a small town in Massachusetts. For a while everything was fine but recently Rover's behaviour has taken a turn for the worse as he has started to become aggressive towards me. He has bitten me twice already and yesterday he tried to again; there was no provocation from my part (I was only reaching for something that happened
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