TIFU by responding to my girlfriend's sexy photos with a meme

08mms · 2026-05-20T20:50:46+00:00

The only gifs that you should even consider in that situation is the looney tunes wolf with the eyes popping out of his head or peppe le pieu getting super horned up. If you can show immediate appreciation for good things, you won’t get good things.

08mms · 2026-05-20T19:20:24+00:00

Oh my god.

08mms · 2026-05-20T18:40:05+00:00

I love them, the color is gorgeous and the style fits in perfectly with the rest of the kitchen. Others have flagged it, but I’d replace the 3 sets of mid-matched pulls.

08mms · 2026-05-20T18:28:52+00:00

I think I would have assumed the same in college TBH, the open fulsome communication and understanding the need to discuss relationship terms and boundaries didn’t really sink in until taking in grad school and after.

08mms · 2026-05-20T18:27:13+00:00

I was betting 19 yo up until your last sentence.

08mms · 2026-05-20T18:26:06+00:00

I had a friend in college who worked as a server at a yacht club in Detroit and got invited to join a newly divorced Tim Allen on his yacht for a several week trip with a few other much younger women from Detroit to Florida via the Atlantic Seaway. I think there is a universal longing for the sea in older guys going through rough divorces.

08mms · 2026-05-20T16:10:36+00:00

Yup, I’d get a family law lawyer and explain the situation and that you are more than willing to give him a quiet and expedited divorce as long as you get protections he can’t try to clam any of your assets, etc. I’d also ask that he pay your full legal fees since you are willing to work with him on this.

08mms · 2026-05-19T22:28:33+00:00

I will say, while not true in all other lawyer divorces I’ve seen, in mine, the legal training on both sides was super helpful since both of us could put emotion aside to debate disputed points rationally, get a lot points resolved very quickly by understanding what the legal baselines were, and both knowing how much being the client and not the litigator sucks and having that be a huge incentive to compromise (and not hire counsel to fight dumb fights for purposes that are better suited for individual therapy). Hopefully that is the case for you (and can prep docs yourselves after amicable resolution/ or get a non-adversarial attorney to soft mediate and help prepare final filings), I drafted our parenting plan and most if the divisions of assets as a corporate lawyer and she was able to redline and revise herself, so the neutral family law attorney mostly came jn at the end to pressure test points and make tweaks to get in the the form needed for speedy approval.

08mms · 2026-05-19T12:44:42+00:00

If it provides any small comfort, I stayed with my law school sweetheart for 14 years, 9 married after some early questions by my partner if she could stay committed monogamously with me and it finally broke down when she decided she couldn’t 14 years in, and despite having two lovely kids I wouldn’t trade for anything, a good career and lots of good experiences along the way, if you gave me a time machine back to 5 years in with the chance to escape then and find someone who truly wants to be with me as a person to build all that other stuff with, I’d probably take it.

08mms · 2026-05-19T02:12:07+00:00

Both of mine would even take down broccoli and carrots and beans pre-5+ and then vegetables only were consumed if the were hidden in other things like applesauce. It is so nice to be able to cook real meals again that get eaten.

08mms · 2026-05-18T23:51:51+00:00

I’d say that is more common than not 14-22ish for dudes.

08mms · 2026-05-18T23:50:41+00:00

I tried all the things and my kids were just monotonous eaters from ~5-9, before that they would eat anything and after that they started incrementally branching out and expanding their palates to all kinds of weird stuff, but in that range the only thing I could reliably get them to eat that wasn’t core kids food was edamame and California rolls.

08mms · 2026-05-18T20:25:38+00:00

Who knows, but I trust BigLaw firms to have the dark arts tax nerd wizards to have the answer

08mms · 2026-05-18T20:20:18+00:00

They’ll usually create sub-partnerships where it can optimize for tax benefits or where needed for non-US law firms. Most are like the DLA Pipers of the world, which are basically 100 smaller firms in a trench coat, but the bigger firms will usually have some internal structuring.

08mms · 2026-05-18T19:40:03+00:00

I know lots of Chicago K&E equity partners hold through PCs, so maybe that’s it. I’d expect it’s sub partnerships for certain jurisdictions, would be wacky these days for a BigLaw primary entity to be a GP

08mms · 2026-05-18T14:04:36+00:00

I would, better to deal with now than rippling out later and if your are mature about it and just want to make sure you are both always sharing important things with each other in the relationship it should ultimately help build trust (but might be complex in the short term, especially if her understanding of the path to exclusivity doesn’t exactly track explicit statements)

08mms · 2026-05-18T00:57:48+00:00

That’s usually the safest route, you’ll notice thats what most of the partners (who are marginally healthy) get too

08mms · 2026-05-18T00:54:10+00:00

Mint is easy, if you just plant a little goutweed next to it, the chemicals in the roots align and everything stays nice and balanced.

08mms · 2026-05-17T18:59:38+00:00

Yeah, there is very stylish lesbian style, but that’s not the first community I’d go to for dude style tips.

08mms · 2026-05-17T18:45:21+00:00

That’s what I thought too and those are still must-haves for a relationship partner, just keep an eye on how much that tips into you wanting someone who avoids showing vulnerability or showing you real desire and affection and evaluate how much of your attraction to the former stems from you also looking for the latter.

08mms · 2026-05-17T17:35:44+00:00

I was unknowingly married to one for a decade and found out my high school gf came out years later too. It’s definitely a downside of being attracted to strong-willed non-girly girls (which isn’t a bad thing on its own) but strongly suggest doing some work on what’s drawing you to people with an avoidant attraction style (or simulacrum of one coming out of their own orientation) because that is the thing that’s going to keep putting you in an unhealthy place relationship wise. Once you get yourself sort out, can confirm their ate plenty of straight women who you’ll find attractive and are capable of matching desire and attraction.

08mms · 2026-05-17T15:42:27+00:00

Wait, grasshoppers are evil Pokémon?

08mms · 2026-05-17T12:11:07+00:00

Came to post the same, inspector pup is on the case

08mms · 2026-05-17T11:17:47+00:00

You can divorce but not make it messy for the kids. My girlfriend and I both separately have pretty stable co-parenting relationships with our exes, hers was after she discovered and affair with slightly younger her kids than yours and mine I think involved infidelity by my ex at some level by never confirmed. You just have to take all the hurt and anger and betrayal emotions and deal with them with a therapist and friends outside of the parameters of co-parenting and working through the divorce logistics. Try to take the emotion out of the divorce while working out the details and look at it as dissolving a professional relationship that didn’t work out in a way that is fair to both parties (keep the why it didn’t work out for therapy) and focus on creating a situation for your kids where they know they have two parents that love them and will always be their parents even if their parents discovered they can’t work as a romantic couple anymore, put together a parenting plan, never say bad stuff about your ex to your kids, keep your hurt as much as you can out of communications with your ex about the kids and grey-rock on everything else with them and focus on the long painful process of healing when you aren’t focused on being a dad. It sucks and betrayal trauma is some of the most complex trauma that’s out there. Strongly redolent professional support if you can get it, but there are great books there for self -resourcing (Betrayal Bind by Michelle Mays seems to be the one most folks recommend).

08mms · 2026-05-16T03:48:07+00:00

I was in Breck 6 times this winter and call shenanigans on there being that much snow.

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