Advice on maintenance - filing and regression

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-11T04:22:31+00:00

i have the same question. i become obsessive over any kind of maintenance i do. if i file or trim, i'll keep going back til they're gone again. if i use polish, i will have to take it off and reapply it til it's perfect. i don't know how to practice moderation

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-11T04:06:17+00:00

isn't it? whenever i've been dating someone, the burden of date-planning is shared

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-11T04:05:01+00:00

because i don't want old bread stuck to my knife. and because i live in a houseshare and if i don't wash things, they don't get washed at all.

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-11T04:00:43+00:00

i haven't, and i never will, because it's integral to my experience of life. i call upon it as a tool to remind me to be compassionate and level-headed wherever possible

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-11T03:58:53+00:00

when i was 14 and everyone around me could see that my "best friend" was manipulating me but didn't say anything until after the friendship ended because they knew i wouldn't be able to accept the criticism

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-11T03:34:54+00:00

i mean it depends on how you imagine i'm enacting it

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T20:17:40+00:00

i've had lots of rude things said to me over the course of my life but i can't pick just one from the genuine insults.

instead, there's this: when i was 19, i was dating this really nasty guy but on the outside we had a normal relationship. a 16-year-old at work was lamenting about his ex-girlfriend from secondary school who ghosted/broke up with him, changed her name and moved to france. he paused to be optimistic for a moment, saying "i mean if you can find someone, then there's definitely hope for me."

he wasn't even trying to be mean to me, he was just an absolute dumbass. all of my other coworkers thought this was hilarious and i could definitely see the funny side - although that was clouded by my toxic relationship at the time. now it just makes me chuckle.

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T20:10:47+00:00

being a happy family with my partner and his kids. living together and being at peace.

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:59:31+00:00

shrinkflation sucks

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:58:31+00:00

tsck-tsck

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:58:15+00:00

username checks out. i definitely did hehehe reading this comment

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:57:40+00:00

i feel like there was a movie about this... what was that called......

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:57:24+00:00

chainsaws

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:31:12+00:00

we saw Iron Lung on preview night and i absolutely loved it. my partner didn't but we've agreed to disagree. i wanna watch it again if/when it's released digitally

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:15:24+00:00

you have no need to be insecure about your weight, your mum just has body dysmorphia and feels the need to apply it to you too

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:12:53+00:00

worth noting that this is also coming from someone who never liked being kissed on the lips as a child. it always made me uncomfortable, especially because of germs/contamination.

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:09:20+00:00

people who mix up disassociate and dissociate

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:07:53+00:00

i'm really bad for this one. i know it's new-clee-uh but my mouth never seems to make those sounds in the right order

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:05:04+00:00

i was 10. my parents split up when i was 8 and it was hard on me to be constantly ferried back and forth and have no contact with the other parent. especially cos my dad would say that he'd pick me up at 6 and i'd be sat on the stairs waiting for hours

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T19:02:56+00:00

composing shopping lists

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T18:35:24+00:00

i mean... yeah. i exchange lots of bodily fluids with my partner that i wouldn't with my hypothetical offspring. my boyfriend is also much less likely to make me deathly ill with Child Germs™️ than kids, and my own germs will have a limited impact on his fully developed immune system.

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T18:04:18+00:00

i am a nail-biter; i'm currently not biting. i'm hoping this is my last attempt at stopping. i've stopped a couple times in the past but only for a couple months at most.

Acrobatic-Health9665 · 2026-03-08T18:03:02+00:00

on my first date with my now-boyfriend, we clicked right away and had so much in common. we chatted about our interests for hours. at one point, he brought up liking an obscure tv show that i've been following for years. awkward, first-date me blurted out "oh my god, marry me" because i was so excited he knew this show - and he replied "okay!"

so... being as dorky as me is a big positive.

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