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I am no longer with this narc and I've blocked out a lot of what happened in that relationship, so once in a while I'll randomly remember something horrible and absurd.
This morning I remembered how I would wake up to find he wasn't sleeping next to me. I'd find him on the couch, where he'd roll over and refuse to speak to me. After a couple of hours, he'd explain that he had a dream that I'd cheated on him (I never did irl). I got the silent treatment for the rest of the day. This happened about once a month.

I didn't mean to invade your privacy, baby, but I saw the notification that just came through on your phone. Did something bad happen at work today?
Oh, no! I'm so sorry, darling! I can't change what happened, but I can offer you my unconditional love and support. Let me soothe you and remind you of just how wonderful you are.
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So I am 20(f) . I had 2 relationships in past. My first one was when I was a minor, the guy wanted only sex from me, I tried having sex. Even my hymen broke but I wasn't able to, I was in immense pain and this instilled the fear in me for sex, and it wasn't love it was lust. We broke up.
After that I met this guy who seemed really amazing. We were together for 2 years, tried having penetrative sex several times but my body won't let it happen. My muscles would tight automatically, no matter what. Even I didn't liked giving oral to him. I had very low libido back then. First Time We would make out I would be in mood but for weeks I won't feel horny anymore. Once he was fingering me and he told me that what am I getting from this? I was like bro what?Bt then this guy turned out to be a cheater, he cheated on me multiple times. He even tried sexting my cousin and told her I don't let him have sex with me so he's sexting her. So I knew something was off with me, as I wasn't able to have penetration. I searched for it online and it was vaginismus. I knew I've this.
Then months after my breakup I met this wonderful person who's my current boyfriend. We first got connected emotionally. But the physical chemistry with him was different. I already told him regarding my problem. When we first started making out he would make sure I am comfortable. And even I liked giving oral to him. He would finger me and everything he did turned me on. I would always be in mood for him. So 3 months into the relationship we went to a frnds house and We got the chance to make out. There We tried having sex, and guess what we did it. And it felt so right. We finally cured my vaginismus with trust, support and our love for each other. And now I've a sex life which i thought I would never have.
Just wanted to share my experience with you guys.

I didn't mean to invade your privacy, baby, but I saw the notification that just came through on your phone. Did something bad happen at work today?
Oh, no! I'm so sorry, darling! I can't change what happened, but I can offer you my unconditional love and support. Let me soothe you and remind you of just how wonderful you are.
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I finally get it.
I finally understand what my parents and other adults meant when they would ask childhood me, “do you think I’m stupid? You must think I’m stupid” whenever I would try to lie.
Two days ago on the way home from school, my kids (boys aged 3 and 5) and I were talking about what they wanted for dinner. Tomato soup and grilled cheese it was decided.
When we arrive home, dinner is cooked, assembled and plated in record time. I set the boys up to eat and I stepped out for a second to take the dog outside.
“We’re finished! We’re ready for dessert!” they both said when I returned after only being gone for 3 minutes. Wow, this meal was a hit, I thought.
I requested that they take their plates to the sink and have a seat for dessert…but I noticed one of the plates is missing. No problem, sometimes the 3 year old puts the entire plate in the trash by mistake.
I went to retrieve the plate from the garbage bin, when I looked down, I saw that the boys only took a nibble each and threw the entire meal away. They threw the food away thinking I wouldn’t see anything and assume they just ate diner normally.
Me, furious: what…why is this in the trash?
Boys: what do you mean?
Me, confused: The food. Why is the food in the trash? It’s still warm!
Boys: …it, our teeth, the food hurt our teeth to eat and, we don’t want this food and…we want cookies, and…
Me, bewildered: BUT. YOU. ASKED. FOR. THIS.
Boys: can we have dessert now?
Me: 🫢🤌😵🤌🤡🖕🫣🤌🤯
Also me, once I collected myself: No dessert.
Boys: [scream in chaotic stomping and fallout] Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I met this wonderful women. We met in 2015 we were on and off out of each others life until 2018 was my best life change, she came out of no where again. It was always right person wrong time. Our relationship had its ups and down 2020 was a hard year. Staying home actually did us good but when everything opened back up and we went back to work it was arguments over little things. I had a rough past she knew about it. but with her I saw everything I never cheated on her. I thought she was everything for me. She wanted marriage but I wanted to get a house and not rent anymore before that change. We ended up breaking up may 2020 over me getting way too emotional I felt like she just wanted to constantly control me. She did hit me in the past but I forgave her because I love her more then anything in the world. I know it was toxic. August 2020 we met up again to talk she already had met someone else but wanted to fix what we had and she told me not to worry about the other person. I felt like I was home I was beyond happy. However I felt something off I was trying so hard with the effort to fix it I knew in my heart she was hiding something. Jan 2021 She said she wanted to go find herself and I accepted it. However 2 days after that in 2021 I found out she went back to the other person and my emotions got the best of me and I destroyed the apartment. It’s been years since we spoke I dream about her all the time and I hear she still talks about me. I truly believe she’s my soulmate. If I could go back with what I know now and with how much I’ve grown I know we would be amazing. I’d marry her right on the spot give her everything. It’s been years and I still feel like everything happened yesterday. I dance in my living room with a pillow pretending it’s her when I close my eyes cause we used to dance all the time. How do I get over her and move forward. I feel like I’m driving myself crazy when she’s constantly on my mind. Not a day goes by I don’t think of her and I nearly cry every single day. I don’t know how much more of this depression I can take. I dissociate a lot then wake up randomly with her not here. Please give advice cause I’m hanging on by a thread. I’ve already checked in before and went to meetings to keep going. I just want her here. Start over again.

So I am 20(f) . I had 2 relationships in past. My first one was when I was a minor, the guy wanted only sex from me, I tried having sex. Even my hymen broke but I wasn't able to, I was in immense pain and this instilled the fear in me for sex, and it wasn't love it was lust. We broke up.
After that I met this guy who seemed really amazing. We were together for 2 years, tried having penetrative sex several times but my body won't let it happen. My muscles would tight automatically, no matter what. Even I didn't liked giving oral to him. I had very low libido back then. First Time We would make out I would be in mood but for weeks I won't feel horny anymore. Once he was fingering me and he told me that what am I getting from this? I was like bro what?Bt then this guy turned out to be a cheater, he cheated on me multiple times. He even tried sexting my cousin and told her I don't let him have sex with me so he's sexting her. So I knew something was off with me, as I wasn't able to have penetration. I searched for it online and it was vaginismus. I knew I've this.
Then months after my breakup I met this wonderful person who's my current boyfriend. We first got connected emotionally. But the physical chemistry with him was different. I already told him regarding my problem. When we first started making out he would make sure I am comfortable. And even I liked giving oral to him. He would finger me and everything he did turned me on. I would always be in mood for him. So 3 months into the relationship we went to a frnds house and We got the chance to make out. There We tried having sex, and guess what we did it. And it felt so right. We finally cured my vaginismus with trust, support and our love for each other. And now I've a sex life which i thought I would never have.
Just wanted to share my experience with you guys.

I was playing a game of Purple Heart Lane and crashed (as often happens) and haven't been able to get past the title screen. It keeps saying network error.
Tried reinstalling and switching up between wired and wifi. Without succes.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can try out?

I dated her on/off for 9 months. Fell in love, or so I thought. I was trauma bonded all along.
I felt I got a disclosure that I was fine with after our nastiest breakup since we started dating. I was ready to move on. Spent a whole week or two, being LC, browsing this subreddit almost non-stop. It helped me to dissolve the trauma bond and realize what was truly going on in our relationship. The constant mindfuck that she was planting in my head started to make sense. This subreddit has been extremely helpful to come in terms what happened in our relationship.
Finally told her that it would be best for both of us if we were in no contact from here on out, and I was for three days, and started to feel better already. After one day of NC she tried to contact me in every possible way you can imagine. I stayed strong for couple of days but she finally managed to hoover me back in. She was more desperate I've ever seen her. Felt sorry for her and finally gave in and agreed to meet her. Maybe to get a more clearer disclosure. I don't know what I was thinking. My inner caretaker kicked in. MASSIVE mistake.
"Things" happened and now I'm back to square one. I'm back to being an anxious wreck like I used to be with her. I made so much progress in those couple of weeks of LC and finally NC.
One thing I learned meeting her is that the trauma bond is mostly broken now. Nothing felt the same when I saw her. I don't miss her. I don't hate her. I feel a little sorry for her but that's about it. I'm going to make a phone call to her tonight to tell her that we're done, NC is all that is in the menu from now on, and that I wish her good luck in the future.
Stay strong brothers and sisters! DO NOT break NC once you start it. Nothing good will come out of it.

I (22M) got broken up with by my (26F) (we will call her Tam) now ex-girlfriend exactly 41 days ago today. We broke up because for the last month of our relationship I noticed a shift in her mood and attitude towards the relationship (asking for more time apart, dryer text messages, lower sex drive (she’s always had a very high sex drive but not saying this is an end all be all) missed calls even tho she’s active on Instagram.) and due to my past relationship before Tam, I started to overthink a ton (i.e. constantly texting and calling and checking up on her to make sure she’s okay. Whenever there was too long of space without talking.) and worry that there’s someone else because these were all the signs from my last relationship before she left and immediately got with someone else. The overthinking got so bad I went through her phone while she was asleep and later in the day I told her that because I knew it was wrong.) Right before the breakup with Tam we communicated why I overthink and she was acting distant. I learned that this time of year (Jan-Mar) is a time where a lot of trauma in Tams life occurred. However move towards the day after Valentine’s Day. The overthinking still continued and the communication between us wasn’t fully there. And I told her how I was uncomfortable with her going to a bar with all of her guy friends and no girl friends and she told me to “get over the fuck over yourself” this of course lead to us lashing out at each other and her eventually calling it off. She promised we could talk when I came back from a work trip I was going on. But during that time of me being on our trip I learned Tam had signs of being pregnant and I began to overthink the future and over worry about Tam and her mental/Physical Health. Constantly trying to talk to her and eventually pushing her to forcing herself to block me before she took a pregnancy test but said she would unblock me to tell me the results. This in turn lead me to text one of her friends the night she was going to take the test because she never called me like she said she would. She got mad but sent me a picture of the results (negative) than told me she no longer wanted to speak with me when I got back not wanted me anymore and just wanted me to “fuck off.” That night I went clubbing with my buddies and got absolutely obliterated and texted that same friend and told her I was upset. She said “you’re my friend too if you need to vent. I’m here I won’t show her or tell her what you said. But I won’t respond.” So I texted her some awful things about Tam that I truly did not mean. I called Tam “A liar, other derogatory terms I wish I hadn’t said, and a woman who doesn’t know how to commit.” Fast forward to a week later and Tam messaged me saying “before I was just angry because I had a bad day than had to deal with you texting. But than I got to see this sends pictures of the text message I sent her friend and I truly never want to see or hear from you ever again. Goodbye.” I know ultimately my actions were my own. But I’m so angry at my first ex for all the mental and emotional abuse she put me through to where 3 years after when I finally got into a relationship again I still couldn’t shake the overthinking, overbearing, and over worrying that haunts me. I hate myself even more for knowing why it is that I do it and still can’t change it. I’m angry because Tam had her faults too but she was a shining light in this dark world, when we first started dating she knew how to reassure me and we knew how to communicate. By the end I fucked it all to hell and I blame myself but also my first ex. I also am mad at Tams friend for using my vulnerability against me to create more problems that didn’t need to happen. But in the end I know only myself is to blame.
TL;DR: I’m mad at my first ex for emotionally and mentally abusing me and causing me to self destruct my last relationship with overthinking, over worrying and overbearingness.

I'm sure we've all been in a scenario where you are trying to win a round but you have teammates who are talking in the background, complaining excessively, generally being loud, etc... and it prevents you from listening out for specific audio queues. Valorant gives us an option to bind a key to mute everyone in game but this can be problematic in scenarios like a 2v4 where you could still being trying to communicate and play off of the teammates still alive. This is an idea that allows for players who want to joke, complain, plan, etc. to do so without preventing their teammates from listening out for important info.We're all familiar with Valorant's 'party chat' and 'game chat'. We can bind two different keys to talk to our team vs those we are queued with. Some of you probably already see where I'm going with this but here it is.
My idea is that players who have died have an option to speak to other teammates who have died without being heard by the teammates still playing that round. This would allow players to talk about what they want to do next round, complain about this or that, or joke around without interfering with their teammates who are still trying to listen for audio queues. This doesn't mean dead players shouldn't be able to talk to teammates still playing. Players being able to make callouts like "one bullet left" or "you heard him ct" etc... would still be able to happen. The only difference is now players would be able to talk freely 'behind the scenes'.I don't know anything about what it would take to implement this in game but seeing that players already have a 'party' and 'in-game' voice option I imagine this wouldn't be too hard and if given the option to have a separate bind for 'death comms', whatever you want to call it, I think most players would take advantage of it.
I'm interested to hear everyone thoughts on this. Would you use it? Do you having different key bind for each voice channel would be hard? What are the downsides? Lets talk about it :)
For anyone who remembers playing MW2 on the Xbox 360 and being forced into game chat whenever you played Search and Destroy... this would be a lot like that. I know I have a lot of good memories shooting the shit with everyone while our friend was last alive or being the last one alive and hearing everyone's voices erupt after clutching a round. I know it wouldn't be the same since everyone will always be able to talk to each other (as it should be for obvious reasons) but something close would be cool.
TL:DR:Give players two options when speaking in game.
Option 1: The normal 'in-game' option were all used to to communicate with the entire team no matter if your dead or alive.Option2: Once you die in the round, have an option to speak in a separate voice channel that only other dead teammates can hear.
Outcome: Dead teammates can now talk freely amongst themselves while still being able to give callouts if need be.

Please be gentle and kind with me. I’ve been dealing with many curveballs this whole year and wasn’t planning for this to happen. I broke the pact and the promise that I made to myself: stay out of the dating scene and have celibate alone time to reflect and process for one full year after my breakup. I broke up with my narcissist ex when he ignored my birthday. Fast forward - I was supposed to wait one more week to reach the entire year, but I inadvertently got involved with a different guy who doesn’t care about having safe sex or my fear of getting pregnant. I made a mistake and feel like I’ve lost my bearings. I broke my own pact and was so close to completing the full year. I feel awful and sick to my stomach and need to get plan B. Can anyone share some advice or comforting words with me? Is it normal to put this strict pact on myself? Could it be a good thing that I let myself do what I naturally felt, even if it came with consequences? Just want to feel a bit less wretched about everything. Thank you.

Hey guys, been a One Piece fan since 2003, was anime only until 2010 but then have been following the manga RELIGIOUSLY ever since. I have always been a strong believer in Oda Sensei imma be real and I've never had critiques similar to how Youtubers have had because for me, at the end of the day this is an anime for kids and the whole point is for us to enjoy the journey rather than just talking shit throughout.
BUTTTT something has deeply upset me. In my eyes, powerscaling in One Piece is a completely arbitrary thing in the sense that when you get to the Top 10 in the verse, anybody can beat anybody depending on the circumstances. For example, I think the admirals are strong enough to take on the Yonkou in a 1 v 1 fight. They will MOST likely lose but it doesn't mean that they can't stand up to the Yonkou.
Now with regards to this specific post. I was always of the impression that Kaido was the STRONGEST creature alive and absolutely could not be defeated in a 1 v 1. To me, he was definitely the strongest character in the series up until the point he was defeated. For me, it made sense that Akainu, Blackbeard, and Luffy would be stronger than Kaido by the end of the series and Dragon too arguably but only because he's a mystery to me. In my head canon, the Yonko's strength levels went like this Whitebeard > Kaido > Big Mom > Shanks. This is to say in a 1 v 1, ALL of them are extremely close but Whitebeard would just barely edge Kaido, and Kaido would just barely beat Big Mom and so on.
I had Shanks as the weakest among the Yonko mostly because he was the newest but also for 2 very important reasons.

1. His clash with Blackbeard, I know this happened in the past but I don't think it takes away from Shanks' strength at all. We see that Shanks easily matches an old Whitebeard with his conquerors clash and is probably easily stronger than him at that point. I don't think Shanks magically grew a lot stronger in the 7 years between his visit to the village and his return back. He did become a Yonko at this point but I think it's more because of his crew and his role change instead of him just getting stronger. He got injured by Blackbeard in the past WHILE BEING SUPER CAREFUL but still got scarred by him. Shanks explicitly tells Whitebeard that he has a very uneasy feeling about Teach because he is deceptively strong. This doesn't mean Blackbeard is stronger than Shanks, all it means is that Blackbeard was capable of damaging Shanks even before he had the Yami Yami no mi.
2. His clashes with Mihawk. I'm not a huge fan of the thought that Shanks is a swordsman and Mihawk is the strongest swordsman hence Mihawk is stronger than Shanks. It's more of a portrayal thing, if Shanks and mihawk had duels that were evenly matched for a WHILE and were fabled all across the Grand Line for their intensity, we can AT LEAST say that Mihawk is just as strong as Shanks.

And then the question in your head changes and that was the problem I had. The LATEST chapter clearly establishes that Shanks was powerful enough to one shot Kidd, not kill him but knock him out. The SAME Kidd that was tanking direct attacks from Big Mom. Now Big Mom's attacks look a lot weaker because a worn out Kidd could handle them but a fresh Kidd got WRECKED by Shanks. In terms of portrayal at least, the recent chapters make it clear that Shanks is stronger than Big Mom. But given our previously noted logic, that would make both Blackbeard and Mihawk who are both at LEAST as strong as Shanks stronger than Big Mom. But Big Mom was portrayed to be just as strong as Kaido perhaps only a little weaker. But going from that logic, Shanks, Mihawk, AND Blackbeard are all stronger than Kaido most likely because of how Shanks is portrayed.
UNLESS, everything was wack and the past doesn't matter. Shanks is stronger than Mihawk and Blackbeard and Kaido and Big Mom. But if he's SO STRONG, what purpose does he serve in the story? What was the point of calling Kaido the strongest creature besides just hype? Why was it that you always bet on Kaido in a 1v1?? Why not Shanks? I don't know it feels like a ramble now. In my head, Kaido was the strongest alive right now and Blackbeard, Luffy, Sabo, and Akainu would basically surpass Kaido near the end of the story. But now it feels like Kaido's hype was bs, he wasnt even near the top 5 at the time luffy fought him because of how Shanks is portrayed now.
What do you guys think? Is Shanks stronger than Kaido? And if yes, does that mean that both Blackbeard and Mihawk are also likely to be stronger than Kaido? OR Shanks is on a different level to Mihawk? But if that's true why isn't he the strongest swordsman?

For years, I have terrible Chronic insomnia (onset & maint) and also a diagnosed REM Sleep Disorder, potentially Parkinson's. It's gotten so bad that nothing works properly to get or keep me asleep.
I've been tried benzos (clonazepam mostly) a number of times in the past for longer term durations between 0.25-1mg. At times I've also tried Ambien/Zolpidem CR and Lunesta. Only taken 1x at night.
They've all worked to a certain extent, but the problem I can't seem to stay on them is terrible side effects and what I can only describe as daily mini-withdrawl symptoms. The symptoms have become more severe each time I've gotten off them to try different medication treatment but end back on them because nothing else works (kindling?). I've tried other sleep meds trust me, everything in the book, and would be on something else if they worked or didn't have severe side effects.
They will all cause horrible to severe depression and hopelessness, especially later in the day. I will also get it where I have uncontrollable/unstoppable need to move or "jerk" my lower torso and legs to stop the disturbing feeling every few seconds. This happens in the last part of the early morning cycle (6-8am) when I can't get back to sleep. It's hell on earth and like akathisia. This repeats daily if I stay on it them, especially Ambien.
Am I getting mini withdrawals everyday? Is this a known thing with benzos-zdrugs? Does this happen to others?

I've been playing the sims for years. But, this one is new to me. Can someone help explain what is happening? Free Real Estate cheat doesn't work, the sims are brand new, fresh from CAS, but, apparently, can't afford jack rabbit. I've reloaded, remade, and I know my mods aren't interfering. Can someone please help?
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My (24F) now-ex girlfriend (24F) and I were together for almost two years, our second anniversary would have been this June. We broke up early this month but have been talking about how to move forward, and I don't know what to do.
We met on Tinder in May 2021 and instantly hit it off. I immediately fell for her, and she fell for me. We had an amazing relationship together; we had similar hobbies and interests and introduced each other to new things, we had fun together and went on lots of adventures, we learned so much from each other. Our relationship was always respectful, kind, and loving, and whenever we had an issue, we talked it out and did our best to work through it together. She was someone I wanted to marry and spend my life with, and she said she felt the same way about me.
The two biggest problems in our relationship were the imbalance in emotional vulnerability between us, and disagreements on how much time we spent together. I have always been more open and vulnerable talking about my emotions than she has, and it made me feel distant from her. She is also the type of person that schedules every second of her week with something, and I felt like I was just another person to check off her list of things to do in a week once the newness of the relationship wore off. I was also ready for taking bigger steps toward committment, and she was not; for instance, I wanted to start thinking about moving in together, and she was not ready for that.
My ex started getting more distant during February, and I brought up how I felt to her. After some thinking, she said that she can't be in a relationship with anyone right now, because she's struggling with her own mental health and she doesn't have the emotional energy for anyone else right now. She said she's struggling to trust me in the context of a romantic relationship, not because of anything I did, but because of her own insecurities. She said she needs time to work on her issues in therapy alone before she'd be able to commit to a relationship with anyone.
Obviously, I was heartbroken. After several talks over the past month, she told me that she still loves me deeply, that this isn't how she wanted things to end up between us, and that she still wants me in her life even if we're not in a relationship. She said she's open to the possibility of trying a relationship again, and going to couples' counseling if we do try again, but not right now. We spent hours brainstorming ideas on how to move forward this week. What I wanted was to set a date to check back in and see where we're at, like at the end of the year, but she disagreed to that because she said she didn't want to feel pressured to recommit to me if/when she wasn't ready because she wants to make me happy. If we get back together, she said she wants it to happen naturally. What we decided on was to break up, continue being in each other's lives as friends, and leave the opportunity to get back together open with no expectations of that happening, with the caveat that either one of us can take that potential to get back together off the table at any time.
I'm really struggling to be okay with this idea, and to understand where my ex is at. If I love her and she loves me, and we both still want a life together, I feel like that should be enough to stay together, but I logically know it isn't enough and that she needs time and space on her own. I'm struggling with the idea of "no expectation to get back together but it's still possible," because I want to get back together, but I feel like I'm going to get hurt if I allow myself that hope. To me, it would be unethical to see other people while the possibility of my ex and I getting back together is still there. If I were to see other people, that option would have to be fully closed off permanently, but I don't want that either.
Essentially my question I guess is, is it worth it for me to stick around and wait for her to be ready, or should I just nip it in the bud and never try again with her? I love her deeply and genuinely feel like she is my soulmate, and she has told me she feels the same. I don't know if I'm just being young and stupid, but I don't want to give up on someone I love so deeply, either. Any advice would be appreciated.

I’ve been in a calamity play through and I’ve got to the point where I need the star buster core and the wiki said that I needed to intersect a unicorn with a stellar clux and I manage to trap them in a box, but nothing happened. What are am I doing wrong and is there any other way to get it?