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I would love a circle for parents to help each other address dealing with a child who is either experiencing gender confusion or are trying to understand gender issues and how to deal with peers who are fully on board with gender ideology.
Every year about the time sweater season begins I get pissed at my ex all over again. I used to have this super convenient 3-tiered sweater-drying rack that was long and narrow instead of square, and folded up so it didn't take up much floor space. My ex destroyed it when he hung a full load of his heavy wet jeans from it, despite the fact that I had another, sturdier one that could have handled the weight and was better designed for hanging stuff. Asshole just liked destroying my shit. I've never been able to find a replacement. This was over 15 years ago and I'm still irked every time I deal with a drying rack less-suited to laying sweaters flat or piling my lay-flat-to-dry shirts on top of each other.
Finally planning a trip with my best friend, just us two. We're nailing down the details but it's on the calendar and I have my flights! Going on a trip with her about a year and a half ago helped give me the clarity and strength to leave my shitty marriage. We've been friends 20 years now.
Does the flatulence that comes with daily Metamucil ever calm down or go away?!!! šØ
I feel sorry for laughing but yet here I am laughing
My god, as I get older I swear the health choices get weirder! š āyou donāt want diarrhea every day? Take Metamucil and get abdominal-distending gas every day insteadā. You can have solid stools or a flat stomach, but not both. Never both.
Metamucil farts feel like someone is pulling a dishcloth from your colon!
Iām going on a date after one year and a half single . My last relationship was with a girl and now Iām going out with a guy and Iām honestly kind nervous. I have trust issues and as I get older the more I long for a very slow moving relationship instead of having sex at the second date like a currency to keep the company around, Iāve been there. Iām not getting any younger either and know relationships move quicker as you age, but I donāt know I just wanted to try to develop feelings first and intimacy after? Is that unrealistic?
How to create trust when you donāt know the person well?, plus I feel he has no need to āwait on meā while he probably has other options for sex.
know relationships move quicker as you age,
Where did you get this idea from? People get older, they have actual lives, it's harder to blend those lives together, than when you're in high school together, or college.
Why wouldn't he want to also develop feelings first also? Maybe he's been burned a few times by jumping into things too fast. He's aging too.
YOU have other options for sex as well.
For cat owners who knit or crochet: How do you keep your cats from laying on your projects while it's blocking?
what's your current blocking setup? I don't make things that absolutely require blocking so I haven't had this issue. is it possible to put the project in another room that the cats aren't allowed in?
I lay the project on a drying rack or have it pinned down on a blocking board. There might not be enough space in areas with a door, but I could try putting it in a place where she don't usually go.
Does anyone else feel like this country (USA) is shit right now? The economy is inflated, wages are low, people get laid off and canāt find jobs, our election coming up is between a felon and rainbowTRAs, and I donāt see any light at the end of the tunnel. Things are worse for women now than they have been for the pastā¦ā¦erm 40 years? I donāt know how any of this is sustainable.
I think for someone in your age group it likely is. My daughter is in her 20s, has a masters degree and a profession but it's pretty difficult to buy a home. I was able to buy a home almost 20 years ago as a single mother. It can't be done in my area anymore on a single average wage.
I also agree about the double attack on women Republicans for abortion and Democrats for elevating mentally ill men and demanding they come into our locker rooms, sports and prisons.
I also was reading a comments section about the evacuation from Florida and honestly, some people just can't afford to do this. They work low wage jobs that don't give them enough time to evacuate and if they try, can they afford a hotel or place to stay? Average US citizens are squeezed enough as it is with paying too much for necessary things like insurance, health care, housing, food. Gen X here. I agree with you.
Sorry, no.
Think about 1965. We had seen a President assassinated, with Civil rights activist assassination and more political assassination still to come. The Vietnam war.
Lake Erie was so polluted, hardly anything was alive. Rivers literally caught fire due to pollution.
Major!!!! Major misogyny. Single women were not allowed to be prescribed birth control for several more years. The list goes on and on.
Do you remember the gas lines from the Arab oil embargo?
In about 1980 (would need to look it up), the unemployment rate exceeded 10%, interest rates were 15% or higher.
I am not saying that there aren't problems now and that I am not concerned for the future, your future especially. But as a young women when I expressed concerns, an older woman I was friends with reminded me of what WWIi felt like for them. News was slower, so maybe that helped, maybe not. She didn't know if her brothers were alive or not for weeks on end. And they didn't know what the future held, Germany could have won and we would be in a very different world now.
The future is always unknown. All you can do is fight for what you believe in while keeping your own mental health intact. And hope that there is at least a little progress each year.
I donāt agree with this take. My parentsā generation (boomers) didnāt deal with the kind of unsustainable prices and income inequality that we see today. They could actually afford to go to college and buy a house. The only reason Iām not completely screwed is because Iām expecting to inherit something from them. If I didnāt have that I would consider being a NEET or just leave America altogether.
I donāt think you understand the kind of hopelessness and nihilism the younger generations are feeling about the state of our country today.
Every country's media currently is promoting concerns about inflation, unaffordable housing, workers getting priced out of neighborhoods, aging populations, not enough babies being born, etc etc etc. Seriously, pick a country and go look at their media.
I'm not American, but as an outsider, it always looks like there are seriously vested interests whose job it is to deliberately promote social divisions. Both internally and externally.
The thing is, at least here in Canada, you don't actually need them to be reporting on it, because you can just notice it in how the chocolate bars that were $1 earlier this year are now $1.69, and nearly everything else has been on the same upward trend in price such that your grocery bill is getting bigger while your budget can't keep up. Same with housing and rental costs. They don't need to "promote" concerns about these things, because concern is already existent!
In the USA back in 2018 I could buy an entire weeks worth of groceries for a dollars over $100.
Now only a few snacks and maybe some juice and water that would maybe last a 2-3 days is close to $100. Not even spending to make a meal, just food alone
yes same here, and at the same time, all the multinationals that are putting those food products in the supermarkets are still making record profits. Not a little bit of profit, record amounts. So when it comes to bottom lines, there ain't nobody at the top suffering - they are seriously making bank by siphoning it up from us wage earners. When challenged they will mumble some shit like covid, middle east wars, costs of production - Look over there!
Disaster capitalists are out of control, and our governments haven't the legislation yet to stop the runaway train.
I'm American and think you're exactly right, and it's happening to other countries too.
Yes, some things are inarguably shit right now, and yet in my lifetime, it's been worse in this country (and at other times better). Cycles happen.
Have you seen anything worse and more destabilizing than Donald Trump being president? I think the last time we had something as destabilizing for the country was the Civil War.
Many people, globally, felt a snap so hard that a good deal still believe time fractured and we are in another timeline š³
I think things have always been bad, but I think we Gen Xers and maybe elder millennials lived through a kind of Golden Era in which it seemed like everything was going to get better (late 90s to mid-2001), very similarly to the optimism of the1950s in the US, from what I understand: the opening of Eastern Europe, a break between wars, problems that seemed solvable, and a golden age of technology. We even had the added bonus of apparently achievable equality between the sexes.
But if it was even real, it was only a little flame, and technology allowing all the dark parts of humanity, particularly the worst misogyny, to flourish freely, if underground at first, eventually extinguished it.
No society can be healthy and strong if women arenāt truly equal and respected; as long as misogyny runs rampant and unchecked, everything will be rotten at the core.
Mini rant: someone in one of my local subreddits posted about the EU's stance against porn and plan to ask for some sort of identity verification in order to access it. The whole thread was filled with how will I be able to masturbate, poor me, the EU is denying the rights of teenagers to jerk off, et cetera. I replied to one of these saying you don't need porn to masturbate and I'm currently sitting at -22 downvotes. Depressing.
tbf, it's reddit. that's 22 manchildren who think women are sex objects that you pissed off, well done!