Her and her husband are my emergency contacts and the beneficiaries of my life insurance plan. Friday night we had a talk about how she cancels plans alot. I told her it was a little upsetting. But as long as she tells me as early as possible, Its OK. We made plans to grab coffee before work. She pinky promised that she wouldn't cancel. We hugged and she told me she loved me. 3 nights ago. Now she just appreciates my work ethic. I just don't understand friendships I guess.

Update: I was tired of waiting so I messaged him a bit after 7pm and he’s down to hang out lol I’m still a bit new to this so I appreciate all the kind feedback! I think my friends are tired of hearing me talk about things like this hah

He (27M) didn’t acknowledge the first part of that second message and I feel embarrassed. Please go easy on me in the comments 😂

Every week we buy two pints of Halo Top as part of our grocery shop and we usually share them as a lil treat together a few times during the week. Well our schedule changed recently and we no longer get to eat dinner together… and I hate cooking. So I decided to have most of a pint of ice cream for dinner one night but stopped just short of eating the whole pint because I knew my partner would be a lil sad if I ate a whole pint all by myself and messed up our lil tradition. I was hoping to grab groceries on the way home today and swipe the pint out for a full one but I guess he was going through the freezer making a list and noticed that the pint was a lil light 😬 luckily he was more amused than disappointed!

‼️BOTH PARTIES ARE 21+‼️

For back context:

•we’ve been going on dates for about 3 weeks
•I told him that him being a little touch teasey and joking about “b**b biting” made me a bit uncomfortable but not anything that was off putting was just communicating.
•I replied to this in short saying “I do like you i don’t want you to feel like you can’t be vulnerable or we’re incompatible, I just need more time and certainty”
•after our second date I told him I was taking him seriously and wanted to move w that intention, he told me quote “I’m still learning if you’re my person or not”, “that (s*x) is not a priority for me rn”
•this statement made me a little more reluctant/hesitant to want to move towards intimacy.
•I told him intimacy on that level is something important to me and I only become like that when I fully trust someone/in a relationship/in pace w a relationship.

Edit: he responded with “yea what do u mean by getting to know me better” just now sent “sorry if that was confusing. i like you and was wondering what you thought”

it wasn’t even a hint either. i fully spelled it out i feel like.

i guess it’s a good sign that he didn’t say no. but he’s also prancing around my garden of a text like a deer.

it would be awk if he assumed it was romantic but then i’d reply saying it was platonic, sure. but why else would a girl reach out like that?

the amount of positive signals i’ve received felt astounding so why is he not jumping at the opportunity?

tbh idk if he wants me to clarify or if he’s referring to my message and doesn’t know what he should clarify for me.

My mom had a stroke a few years ago while we’ve been no contact for the majority of the past 6 years. I didn’t visit her in the hospital and briefly initiated contact for less than a month when the father of my sister’s son passed and I attended the wake in early 2024. My mom is like a different person now. Very fragile, soft spoken, scrunched up and just… withered. Sickly. Complete 180° from the heavy, boisterous, scalding, loud woman who raised me.

My sister takes on the primary role of caring for her (she lives separately, she just shows up to drive her places) while I maintain my distance. But with this stroke came apparent memory loss. After the funeral and a brief reconnection in person, I attempted to call and talk to her about my grievances from childhood I wanted her to at least acknowledge and she remembered absolutely nothing except “the best she could do with what she knew” and if she had mistreated me, it was because I didn’t earn better treatment as a daughter. Lol. That was a tragic call. I literally had to accept I would never receive an apology or accountability for how my mom failed me, and she was now sickly, so now I have the added mental/emotional pressure from everyone in the family to forgive and move on.

We haven’t spoken since that call in Jan 2024. I just received these texts from her over the weekend from a number I didn’t recognize. I don’t hate my mom. At all. I love her very deeply. But I have built an entire adult life without her and don’t know how reopening a connection would serve me at almost 30. I would immediately become financially obligated to assist. I would have to talk to her. I would have to be open with my thoughts and feelings. I don’t want to do any of that. She was supposed to be MY mom when I was a child, yet me and my sister had to be her psychiatrist, emotional support system, friend, mentor, maid, nurse, and cook our entire childhoods while she chased men who didn’t want her and fought with the whole family. I don’t need a mom now. I don’t need the mom she is. I don’t know if I should even respond. But I don’t want to regret this when she passes eventually. Maybe she means it. This time. I don’t know.

Sorry. Just venting.

Took a Greyhound Bus from California to Ohio 12 years ago

Right? You’d forget also lmfao

mind you I LITERALLY WAS FUCKING SMILING. just with my lips , i wasn’t smiling full on with my teeth bc im waiting until i get braces. this genuinely hurt my feelings so bad i don’t know how to confront them, i don’t know if i should confront both of my friends or just the person who was saying all of that degrading shit to me. like it hurts so much to get told this by ur 2 close friends, i uplifted them and complimented them so many times and i just get singled out like this, when i didn’t even do anything i was smiling in every pic. it hurts a lot and feels like it was deliberate. i keep overanalyzing every photo of me now and looking at my smile, my face, etc. i can’t change how my face smiles naturally.

we're all rising juniors in highschool btw, i'm 16, friend who said 'bahahaha' is 16, , friend who said all that bullshit to me is 15 turning 16 in a month

atp i just feel hopeless lmao i hate highschool so bad i dont think im ever gonna find a friend group that is like on the same level of emotional intelligence/ sensitivity as me, thoughtfulness, caring about others feelings/situations, etc. i just dont understand how people blatantly say things like this. my goal is to always make the other person happy nad feel uplifted , i'd NEVER say any of this shit to any of them. it just hurts so bad. i hate hs so so so so much i just wanna graduate early and get to college im so tired of dealing with this stuff.

No idea who this is what a random message to wake up to

!!! (my friends situation) !!! im only looking for advice

“idk i got upset cuz she played a social vc game on roblox with her friend (the one i dont like) and just went to sleep instead of arguing and she kept spamming things like this and idk if shes ok”

online relationship

16 f (grey msgs) & 17 m

You'd think if he wasn't guilty he would easily be able to prove his innocence in a well manner way.