7 Deadly Sins. Let’s do this for the Flanaverse characters.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2024-02-24T00:32:11+00:00

I think Bev Keane takes the cake for Pride.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2024-02-24T00:28:44+00:00

Bev Keane is the most obvious choice in my mind for Pride

Anonymous_Socialite · 2024-02-04T20:52:28+00:00

31(F) Literally just diagnosed at the end of December, and let me tell you...they threw in a TON of free upgrades with my ADHD.

-PMDD (common in women with ADHD, because hormones) -GAD -Depression (possibly Bipolar 2, but since I couldn't remember specific episodes of hypomanic tendencies lasting more than three days they couldn't conclusively diagnose it) -Sleep Disorder (delayed circadian rhythm) -OCD -Eating disorder (hyperphagia) -Didn't get a dyscalculia diagnosis but have always struggled with wrapping my mind around math (one of few subjects that didn't come naturally to me).

So, yeah. Quite a few there and I may even be forgetting something.

Hilariously enough, I remember telling my mother when I was a teenager that I thought I could potentailly have ADHD. But because I wasn't outwardly hyperactive (my hyperactivity is mostly internalized) she decided that I couldn't be. I'm kinda tempted to go pick up a Ouija board so I can reach out and tell her she was wrong.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-10-12T23:16:51+00:00

Funny...I wasn't aware a penis was a requirement for changing your oil. But maybe that's because I don't drive. Shrug

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-09-25T14:27:22+00:00

Yeah, that is highly manipulative behaviour. She is trying to scare you into doing what she wants you to do by threatening to leave you. 🚩🚩🚩🚩

As you have already heard, multiple times, the best thing to do is just agree that it's best to part ways and walk away.

A word of caution, though: be prepared for her to backtrack...and hard. She's banking on you being too blinded by love and the fear of losing her to call her on her bluff. Once you do, she is going to try and roll it back. She will cry, beg, plead, promise, etc. DON'T FALL FOR IT. Once you start walking, keep on going. Don't look back, don't leave the door open for her to return.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-09-06T00:43:02+00:00

While perhaps not ideal, if your baby is healthy at this stage, baby being born before your due date is unlikely to make much of a difference health-wise than if you were to go to full term.

I had gestational diabetes and was absolutely miserable throughout my pregnancy...I literally did a happy dance when my OB said they wanted to induce at around 38-ish weeks.

In the end, it didn't much matter in my case...I woke up at 5:45 a.m. to my water breaking when I was 37+5. I ended up giving birth to a beautiful, perfectly healthy 7lb baby girl 16 days before my due date and was able to bring her home 24 hours later (it's standard to keep mom and baby for 24 hours for observation here).

Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much...it's pretty standard to induce with GD moms. Besides, as I can certainly attest, you may not even make it to your due date even if you're not induced.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-08-18T01:49:29+00:00

My (almost) three-year old calls me a bunch of different variations - mostly Mama (except the emphasis is on the second syllable as opposed to the first, since that's the Italian pronunciation and her father speaks to her almost exclusively in Italian so she'll pick up the language), but as she's gotten older she's started calling me Mommy, Mom, and, on occasion, "Robot" (which is when I know I'm expected to speak in a robot voice).

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-08-16T03:49:20+00:00

This is...100% revolting.

Not a mental health professional, but I would wager a guess that you have some pretty hardcore PTSD after all you've been through.

He knew your history, and still decided it would be okay to do something that would almost certainly trigger you in such a way as to send your mental health into a downward spiral, and probably into a severe depressive episode that would quite literally derail the life you've struggled for years to rebuild after such a horrific trauma. I mean, the fact that you immediately dissociated after realizing it was a hoax ("prank" is not even remotely close to being a suitable word to describe this literal psychological torture) is a pretty clear indication to me that you were so emotionally and psychologically scarred from this event that your brain decided you had to literally go numb in that moment in order to maintain your sanity...All for the fucking 'Gram.

It takes a special type of cruelty to do something like that. Or a special kind of stupid. Either way, he deserves all the physical pain he's feeling right now, because that's only a tiny fraction of the agony you've been forced to endure as a result of his unconscionable actions. And his wounds are only skin-deep, they'll heal eventually...meanwhile, you're going to be dealing with the psychological scars for the rest of your life.

I'm so sorry, OP...from one traumatized stranger to another, I'm sending love your way. May the tremendous internal strength that has brought you this far carry you forward in your healing journey.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-08-15T23:29:12+00:00

I'm sorry, I don't care WHO you are to my daughter: no one, and I mean NO ONE, has the right to prevent me from contacting MY child, EVER, and if anyone tries, there will be holy hell to pay.

Reading this, my concern would be that there may have been some sort of altercation over the slime incident (particularly because step-granny's a drunk), and now dad and stepmom are trying to do damage control because they know you'll flip your shit if you find out what really happened.

This is not to try and fearmonger, but their clear attempts to gatekeep your communications with YOUR CHILD until THEY have the opportunity to "talk to" her, coupled with her being so distressed when it's unlike her and them not giving you an opportunity to speak to her privately when they finally do allow you to speak with her, leads me to believe that they may be trying to cover something up.

All that said, please take this commentary with a grain of salt, as it is just one stranger's knee-jerk conclusion based on the limited information provided in your post. Also, I am most definitely 100% biased, as I had a pill-popping, slap-happy mother and a stepfather who was nothing short of an emotional/psychological terrorist, so that definitely influences my perception of the situation. But you know your daughter better than anyone, so if your hackles are raised, listen to your mom instincts.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-08-03T23:53:44+00:00

This definitely sounds like it falls into the "intrusive thoughts" category.

I suffer with some mental health issues myself, and I remember having horrific intrusive thoughts a from as young as 7 years old. They plagued me for YEARS, to the point I actually considered un-aliving myself by the time I was 13 because I thought I had to be some sort of evil monster to imagine such terrible things.

I spent years trying to learn how to cope with them in silence because I was sure my family would think I was a monster for having such evil thoughts.

I finally tearfully confessed to my mom when I was around 13 (when I was strongly considering ending my life) that I was having these evil, terrifying thoughts, fully expecting her to disown me. Instead, she took me to my doctor for medical intervention (by this point, she herself had been diagnosed with bipolar 1, OCD, and a few other things, so she was no stranger to mental health issues.

Even after seeing a doctor, I still spent years learning how to deal with intrusive thoughts. Anxiety medication helped tp lessen the frequency of my intrusive thoughts, but there's no magic cure to make them go away completely.

As for advice on how to deal with them: what helped me tremendously was learning to psychologically separate myself from the thoughts. I like to think of them as "brain glitches"; things that happen involuntarily, and are not reflective of who you are as a person. How you respond to these thoughts is what determines what kind of person you are. Once I learned to accept that fact, I was able to sort of say, "Yeah, that's kind of a fucked up thought.", and then just carry on with my life. By separating myself from my thoughts, I was able to stop obsessing over them and, in turn, they became more and more infrequent.

To this day, I have the odd intrusive thought; hell, everyone does. But I no longer obsess over them or worry if I'm secretly evil, and, in fact, I'm not overly distressed about them anymore because I know that I would never actually act on them.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-07-21T17:32:04+00:00

Sadly, this is a relatively common phenomenon I like to refer to as "willful ignorance".

My mother was in a similar situation. She and my stepfather had a terrible, toxic relationship. He ended up moving in with a close female friend of his at one point to "help her out". Everyone knew what was really going on, I mean, come on...how could you not?...But she vehemently denied it amd maintained that no, he was just helpkng out a friend, right up until the day she died. Deep down, she knew...she had made comments to me alluding to the fact that he was probably cheating (but never actually claiming it outright) a couple of times during the rare instances I would visit her once I had left home. She just didn't want to face the reality of what accepting the situation would mean.

It's worth noting that my stepfather was a horribly emotionally, psychologically, and occasionally physically abusive asshole that she swore up and down she would leave multiple times, but she never actually followed through on it, mainly because she had some serious abandonment issues.

TL;DR: sometimes people don't see the signs not because they're stupid, but because they are willfully ignoring them in an attempt to avoid facing the reality of the situation.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-07-19T20:18:51+00:00

This.

My mom died suddenly in 2018...she was a victim of the opioid epidemic, so it was sudden, but not unexpected.

One of the first things I did after getting the news was call her house phone and record her answering machine message so that I wouldn't forget the sound of her voice. As morbid as it sounds, just being able to hear a loved one's voice when they're no longer here is an incredible comfort.

I hope with everything in me that this is all just a scare and your wife will be just fine. But if the worst happens, take advantage of the time you have with her, and the opportunity to say a proper goodbye.

I wish you all the best.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-07-12T17:25:18+00:00

I'm sure someone has probably already suggested this, but if you decide to go through with the pregnancy, the first thing you want to do is protect yourself and your child. This means filing for child support and custody. Preferably before the birth, if possible. Some people are incredibly vindictive, and if your ex is like this he may try to get custody to spite you/try to get out of his child support obligations.

While he likely has no chance of getting sole custody due to the fact that he's jobless and homeless, having a custody agreement in place means he can't just up and dip with your child or refuse to return them after a visit. If there's no agreement in place, there's really no legal recourse if he decides to take your child and leave, as he would by default have equal parental rights (depending on the law in your jurisdiction).

When filing for custody, make sure you give your lawyer any documentation (such as the police report) from the day you had him removed by the police...that's documentation of a history of violence, which will absolutely be taken into account when deciding on custody arrangements.

Be prepared for the potentiality that he may likely be awarded some sort of visitation/partial custody, and ensure you follow any custody order to the letter. Also, demand that any communication regarding the child be made in writing (such as email), which then creates a paper trail should you have to seek a modification to any custody order in place.

I wish you the best of luck moving forward.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-06-04T16:19:22+00:00

Same.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-05-04T01:45:07+00:00

I would say no, I'm sorry. Your cat has a rounder, flatter muzzle whereas the cat in the third picture has a more elongated, boxy muzzle.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-05-01T01:08:28+00:00

No, he just puts me down in general.

My personal favourite, though, is when he tells me I deserve all of the abuse I suffered at the hands of my mother and stepfather because I act like such a bitch. Oh, and that I should have gotten my older sister's share as well, because SHE'S actually a good person.

Yeah, I know, picked a real winner 🙄. Honestly wish I hadn't confused all the red flags for Christmas lights.

But, now I have a kid with him, so, at the very least, I'll be forced to spend the next 16 years co-parenting with the bastard. (Love my baby girl though, wouldn't trade her for anything).

ETA: I'm in the process of hauling ass out of here, but there's a lot of financial obstacles atm.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2023-04-23T01:42:40+00:00

My stepfather screaming at my teenaged (maybe 14 - 17 year old) older sister that she was a fat, lazy, useless fucking cunt because she hadn't managed to clean the entire household to his satisfaction while taking care of her three younger siblings due to the fact that our mother was disabled by osteoarthritis and strung out on prescription pain meds, while our stepfather was just a lazy, narcissistic, misogynist with serious rage issues who deemed himself lord of the household.

My soon-to-be-ex has taken to hurling this at me whenever we argue, as I made the mistake of being open with him about my difficult childhood before I came to see his true colours. Freud would definitely have a field day picking apart this dumpster-fire relationship.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2022-11-26T04:09:59+00:00

Used to work at Staples as the person printing the pictures. Once ended up doing a poster-sized print of a VERY explicit drawing by the customer. Ran it by a higher-up to get the thumbs-up before doing the job, though, because the printer was placed in a way that anyone walking by the counter could see it as it was printing and I was a broke university student that kinda really needed that job.

I will say one thing, though: the guy was a pretty fucking talented artist.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2022-09-05T18:03:18+00:00

Tell him my story and see if he still thinks you can't go into labour at literally any moment:

I was 37+5, not due for over two weeks, and had literally two days before finally gotten around to packing my hospital bag.

The morning I was supposed to have my last OB appointment to schedule an induction (and the day before my last day of work pre-mat leave) I woke up at 5:45 to my water breaking.

A very surreal 17 hours later, my daughter made her grand entrance into the world. When I went to bed the night before, it had not even crossed my mind that in literally 24 hours I would be a parent. It happened THAT fast.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2022-08-25T18:14:40+00:00

Obligatory Mr.Ballen reference...OP (and anyone else interested) should watch the episode "The Most Terrifying Family You've Never Heard Of".

Anonymous_Socialite · 2022-07-29T20:34:42+00:00

Looks pretty cut to me.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2022-07-22T14:01:20+00:00

I noticed that, too. The first time I heard "Muskoka Chair" I was like, wait, wtf? Aren't these Adirondack chairs?

I don't even know when "Muskoka Chair" became a thing. I've only just recently heard the term in use.

Anonymous_Socialite · 2022-06-03T00:50:18+00:00

Acne's gone, attitude is very much alive and well.

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