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Thank you for sharing your story and experiences. I’m glad you were able to persevere, accept help at your lowest point, and that things are better for you now.
Hopefully your dad is able to get things in order for himself, but it is fruitless if he isn’t willing to change his mindset. My friend’s parent is in a similar situation and it sucks.
So glad this ended the way it has. Sorry you’ve been going through it all, but good on you, good on your fam, good on everyone.
Wow. That was intense. Relieved you’re in a much better position now!
Sounds like things going right is karmic justice for doing your best to support the ones you care for. Good on you mate. Hope all is well.
My wife kidnapped me on a Saturday, me thinking we were going to Costco. She kept driving and I was like “wtf!” We eventually stopped at a nice hotel, where we did a spa day and had a nice dinner and overnight. She had packed bags and made all arrangements under my nose. What a woman
That is so sweet! Hope you had a nice time!
Got into a jam while working on the fence today. Neighbor came over and helped. Would not have been able to do it alone.
GF walked the dogs and made dinner while I finished working on the fence. Got some more to do but lots of time.
Also thank you to whomever invented Advil.
My wife turned her happy birthday sign into a happy father’s day sign in the simplest, cutest way. I loved it.
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Guess time: A capital B can be turned info a capital F by marking over part of it. Then turn “ir” into an “a” with a thick line over it.
My sister has her birthday and Christmas close together, so to show my father what that feels like, I got a fathers day card for him (his birthday is close) and cut it in half in a way you couldn’t tell if it was ‘Fathers’ or ‘Birth’, and gave him half for each.
My wife bought me the book “Wool”. I just started reading it and it’s really good.
One of my all time favorites. Glad you’re enjoying!
Best part of this book is that the rest are good, too
Someone complimented me on the brisket I smoked and said they had never tasted something so good in their entire life.
I brought a sample of some porchetta I made to a coworker and he said he was leaving his wife for me. One of the best compliments I’ve received.
Had a friend pick up the tab for lunch. We’ve been back and forth the past month with schedules always not quite lining up, so he was excited to finally chat so much that he insisted on taking the bill.
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Friends girlfriend lent me her hiking shoes when I picked him up to go hiking having forgotten mine.
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Payment was down at a hardware store and the manager just let me walk out with the $7 of screws I needed to finish my project that day
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That’s always appreciated considering how common the horrible act of ghosting is
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I’m sorry things didn’t work out. But hey, if you’ve got a woman who cares about you and is your friend, maybe she can help augment your dating life. That happened for me last year. I met a super cool chick, developed a crush on her, she shot me down, but then she gave me tons of useful advice which I went on to use in landing my current amazing gf.
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Obviously you don’t need to do anything you aren’t comfortable with, but there are lots of ways of having sex without worrying about having a kid. And plenty of people engage in serious relationships with the mutual understanding that they won’t have kids. Just putting it out there since it sounds like you are internally conflicted. I want to give you permission to seek love if you want to. It doesn’t have to look a certain way.
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I hope you find a way to open up and trust someone. I hope you find someone that makes you want to trust. It sounds like a very lonely and damaging way to live. Maybe you should look into therapy. It sounds like you have a lot of hangups from your past and have projected them into irrational assumptions about the people around you. Good luck, friend!
My friend invited me to the park for a bike ride and brought a joint (legal). I was not expecting that but we had a blast!
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Here in Germany we can also just smoke in public areas. There are some rules about it but no one really cares anyways (except the idiot politicians and cops in Bavaria)
Depends on the state. Here in California, people smoke it out in public just like cigarettes.
My mom stayed with me for a month after surgery to take care of me. I’m in my 30s and never expected to need so much help from my mom again but she was there for me. Also I was held in the hospital for 5 days instead of the expected 2-3. I was starting to lose it, no sense of time, drugged up to my eyeballs, okayish food, my mental health was nose diving. I had to be able to walk a certain amount before they would discharge me. Despite having been able to walk a previous day, the morning of the fifth day I couldn’t even stand. The nurses didn’t want me to push myself and were saying I may have to stay yet another day. I felt completely defeated like I’d be in the hospital forever. I texted someone I was having a difficult time and they called me, hyped me up, told me I could do it and everything would be okay. I managed to walk later that day and get out of the hospital because of that call
Godspeed on that recovery!
Thank you! It’s going pretty well so far no complications and I’m already able to walk a few miles a day. Now I just need to work on walking at speed instead of half my usual pace
One step at a time, one day at a time. You’ll be back on that skateboard before ya know it!
Someone was genuinely interested in how I’m doing.
Got the best selfmade birthday present in my whole life, from my girlfriend
Drove me to Maine for our annual family reunion. It was a blast!
Honestly I can’t remember anymore. It’s been years.
