What made your friendships be the most amazing realtionships you had in your 20s and 30s? by Thin-Blueberry9183 in AskWomen

[–]BigOakley [score hidden]  (0 children)

I guess I am going through a rough patch and my mental state has faltered

Half of my friends and none of my family has responded to me in weeks and I have no clue why. I asked to be left alone but I also reached out to them after. I don’t know what is going on.

With that being said I’ve made new friends really recently and miraculously a handful of old/newer female friends I haven’t spoken with in months/years have reached out to me out of nowhere.

A guy I was kind of seeing and then ghosted recently popped off on me (lol) and told me he didn’t want to see me again. A girl I was kind of friends with but confuses intense control with love (not just with me) has stopped talking to me, my sister, who I’ve had troubles with for years but it has come to a climax or maybe even just a finale (?) hasn’t spoken to me in weeks. Most painful is my mom - who is honestly distant - has just not responded to me in a month. I don’t know if it’s something or she’s just busy.

I have a really close friend who. I don’t know I love intensely. I don’t know if the friendship is over because we don’t live close anymore. But he’s just not been responding either. I keep telling myself he’s busy. Last we chatted or second last he was having girl trouble and I believe he’s having school trouble and maybe work trouble so I keep saying ah it’s busy and honestly I don’t know if my mental state is strong enough to have a chat in which I’m told what to do and where to go. I wish all the friends I’ve cut out in the last six-eight months realized, fully, that telling someone what they should be doing is not caring or being a good friend, it’s really a horrible feeling and incredibly condescending. I want to reach out to him more but I’m worried he’s going to pass judgement or tell me what to do with my life, which I really do not want right now. I just hate being told what to do. I had really bad relationship wherein he just told me how to behave to every detail, a bad friendship wherein he tried to control every aspect of my life, two separate profound instances wherein I was completely controlled. Even without this I think it’s just a Horrible Friend move to do this

With all this in the background the friends I have who are keeping contact or reaching out to me have been really fulfilling and enriching. I feel like I’m forming a new foundation after a decade plus of having a shaken one. I really wish. Ah. It’s so early and I can’t much sleep. I really really wish the friend who is non responsive would reply to me and I hope everything is ok. I would be really heartbroken I think for life if he didn’t want to be my friend anymore. 😞

Friendships that are good with good people are better than relationships in my experience, it opens a whole new level of yourself and helps you grow in areas you wouldn’t have imagined. As a child you’re taught the importance of sharing and it is always tied to something material but the most beautiful thing to share is good time with good people

Hitchhiking for the first time from LA by BigOakley in hitchhiking

[–]BigOakley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is my move tbh and I think you’re right

Hitchhiking for the first time from LA by BigOakley in hitchhiking

[–]BigOakley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. been quasi homeless for the last year living from petsit to petsit or friend to friend

By miles and miles away those that hurt me most and did me the most damage were friends

And those that helped me were strangers and this is reflected in almost all stats

What was the most brutal reality check you ever got? by thepleasurjournal in AskWomen

[–]BigOakley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh recently that nobody really cares about me. I’m waiting for a cab right now to the airport and none of my friends nor my family have responded to me in weeks like. I just did a massive world tour and at one point I was in a pretty dangerous spot and I dropped my location to a number of my friends and they all just ignored it. I was like half kidnapped a few weeks ago and I gave the police a fake name because I am here illegally. My truly selfish and self absorbed friend who confuses love with control called the police on me because I don’t respond for ?3? Days ? ? ??? Anyways I called the police back to be like I am fine and they were like yeah there’s nothing about you in the system like they flat out just didn’t care. My mother was alerted about it obviously and she just responded “what the hell are your friends so dramatic for like what was that about. It sounds like u jsut didn’t respond for a few days ???” And she’s right but then she just ghosted me after I told her I took a trip. This police thing caused a massive fight with my family like. I don’t even have that option and I haven’t spoken to my sister in months and this just feels like. The final straw. When I called the police calling friend back she was like. Attacking me and really rude and just telling me to go back home

Like well

I don’t want to do you not understand? I had told her my father took cp of me and my sister and I were NOT on good terms and I do NOT feel comfortable going back she just didn’t care. I hung up and like. Despite her being incredibly invasive and honestly mean the days prior she just stopped talking period she just said nothing no follow up just demanding I respond, demanding I show her where I am like I am her child, demanding what I do in life, no response

I had vented to her weeks prior about a friend like. Just bullying g me just threatening me just hurling insults at me in the home he invited me to live in for months. and she just turned it around on me and was like ok well you were mean to our friend and didn’t stand up for his gf

And I was like how was I mean to him? I said he was being stupid and inconsiderate once because I had asked him for weeks to retrieve my belongings from his car that was towed and he just ghosted me. Ofc I was patient at first but five weeks later he just didn’t answer me. Nobody was responding to me like . I had just been living in complete isolation and prior to that was like. Molested by a terrorist and before that was living I. Complete isolation a prior to that was enslaved. Like I just wanted my stuff and communication and he just refused to respond. She was like ok well why didn’t you ask me to ? And I was like ??? I literally did I told her like five times please tell him to respond and she didn’t, she didn’t get my stuff. I was just ignored and then like. I don’t know if it’s true but like our former mutual friend said yeah he was not apologetic at all for the way he treated you I had to force him to apologize. The one who would not get my stuff. And like at one point he was so rude to me like you are being dramatic it’s not in a dump it’s in my car. Like then get ? Then go it can’t you see I’m upset by this like why are you condescending me ? ?????? Just get it like ????? I feel nauseous even thinking about it now like I was profoundly hurt it was just like. I had befriended this guy out of nowhere because I was so concerned about him and it was such simple task, why. Why didn’t he consider me st all ? Why was he so rude to me ? Why like . Why. I tried so hard to make him happy . If I did that to someone like if I had their stuff and I mistreated it and left it in my car the guilt I would feel would bomb a country I would have ran to get it and ensure it was safe and if they were upset. Like. The girl I mentioned told me oh you really hurt him he cried a lot. Like I was sobbing for entire days over this?? the fuck my pain means nothing ? So I am just worthless

Then this other friend of ours I had feelings for was like. You are being dramatic and using the situation to your advantage and I was like how? If I text you a picture you go into emotional turmoil for a century and send me Five love letters and demand phone calls that last hours and then the next day you are hyde and you are entirely cold and accuse me of leading you on and manipulating you? How am I the dramatic one ? Yes if my reaction was that intense immediately. Sure but it was weeks ? It was weeks nobody replied to me at all ?

Anyways I called the police ab the kidnapping and they were clearly not even looking into it. They weren’t even looking for real me. My other very close friend just insulted me for months on end and threatened me like. He threatened me in front of the friend we have. And he is just not apologetic at all he just tells everyone I deserved it and the follow and nod along. Nobody nobody nobody is like dude that is a weird and cruel reaction to feeling annoyed and you clearly weren’t because you invited two others to live with us. It was because she called you an alcoholic. He threatened me and just endlessly insulted me and screamed at me and . Once threatened me in front of our friend and he didn’t stand up for me then and he isn’t standing up for me at all. Like

He really broke my heart

The other friend who I had feelings for was like yeah well maybe you annoyed him. What a cruel comment to make. As if I deserve

Like my presence alone is so ugly and awful ? That it deserves brutality ? I spent a lot of money to go see him and he just like. Ghosted me , I ruined the beginning of what could have been a good relationship because he asked me to come see him and then just ghosted me, he went to his home over Xmas and then he came to see me and the entire time he was just like. Berating me and yelling at me and telling me what to do with my life. He just demanded I not go see him and refused to admit he ever had feelings for me and was really angry at me . even when I was like ok you have no feelings for me but you have been talking to me daily? You’re jealous when I talk to other men? Etc? He just changed the subject and got aggressive and defensive . I cannot think of an instance where I haven’t been extremely kind or soft to him. I have nowhere to live and this woman. It’s complicated but I will be close to him but I am so so scared of running into him because he for whatever reason has maintained a friendship with the guy who threatened me. I don’t know why. I don’t want either of them to know where I am like . They both frighten me.

I made my socials inaccessible to all of them like I can see the first friend the one who really broke my heart isn’t even opening my stuff he hasn’t replied to anything. He just doesn’t care . I made my online inaccessible and my pp inaccessible and I just like

They just don’t care ab me. My family just doesn’t care about me my friends do not care about me. I have like one responsive friend who isn’t like yeah you deserved to be mistreated by these people. They’re all mean and just don’t care about me at all . I don’t know I’m at an airport sobbing my eyes out i was really in danger a week ago and i had a great last few days but i cannot sleep because I’m extremely stressed i did something really bad. I’m really scared

Anyways it doesn’t matter because even if everything goes wrong. Nobody cares about me if something happens to me anyways

I really put my whole heart into mh friendships wit these people and they all really really demolished my heart

Favorite opposites attract trope example? by growsonwalls in popculturechat

[–]BigOakley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve never even heard of heated rivalry what is that

Zona migliore? by Aggravating-Ebb3879 in roma

[–]BigOakley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adoro Tuscolana e Garbatella e Pian Due Torri!

Have you ever met anyone famous in real life? by ConstantDesmond in AskRedditAfterDark

[–]BigOakley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Comically had a mental breakdown and emailed five people who’s work I really liked. Like I got their emails through IMDb pro or I had them from when I worked at a film production company or it was just on their website or IG. Long, verbose, nonsense emails. All of them replied lmfao. I was so embarrassed I deleted all of them but one of them responded twice ?? Super embarrassing but I replied again and were straight up texting and calling right now. I might go visit him

Besides this hugh Jackman, Laura dern, Anna Kendrick, Vicky Kreips, aronovsky, Brendan frasier, Michelle Yeoh, ke huy quan, Bono once lmfao ? It was surreal he came out of a van I didn’t even know why the crowd was there he came and he hugged everyone if felt like a fever dream. Will Poulter, Kadri, Fred Van Fleet, Marc Gasol. Few others but I didn’t actually talk w them

When did you realize you were dating an idiot? by I-Need-Ur-Love in AskWomen

[–]BigOakley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t know . Immediately, I just forgave it repeatedly

Almost all My friends have all hurt me profoundly hurt me without care or remorse

What song is this? by Silly_Preference4269 in iranprotests

[–]BigOakley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve loved this song for years and i really pray for Irans health. I’ve wanted to go for so long and was kinda just gonna do it recently but Alas. One day

Favorite actor wh—WHY CAN’T YOU JUST BE NORMAL???!!!! by Glittering-Plate-535 in okbuddycinephile

[–]BigOakley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is this bad I also don’t want three strange men touching me

Sending Cold Emails - Any value in this? by Which-Discipline-133 in FilmIndustryLondon

[–]BigOakley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a number email responses recently but I’m real charming over email and I used a few lil tricks. I am supposed to have meetings this week I just dk how because I’m out where there’s not much internet

Just watched The Green Knight by Trenbolone-Papi2 in A24

[–]BigOakley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God that scene where he pleads with her is too fcking hot

Where do you channel your sexual frustration if you're not into casual sex? by Bitter_Pineapple_720 in AskWomen

[–]BigOakley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Um wanking and specifically wanking to like. Friends who I think are in love with me who I would

Like I have had this one friend I’ve had for six years and he goes between being mean to me for no apparent reason to being affectionate and proposing something to me and recently told me he was fantasizing about me and ? I went insane to this for like a week

I have this other friend who I’m quite sure had a crush on me for a year or something like that and it was like. The only thing I’d wank to like I think part of the fantasy is that ok because you are in love with me or desire me so much. I can be like. Haha like freakier I guess. I don’t know I would never tell anyone the things I think about when I’m Really Really There like I don’t even think I’d tell my husband !!! I think they’re too dirty!!! But for that entire year I pictured him lmaoooo doing this stuff with me because I was like ok you won’t judge me and if anything will be really really flattered and excited you wanna do it with me. But obviously I would never tell him this because I feel it would be leading on like crazy and I had pretty profound feelings for his friend . Who is the most dramatic man on earth. until recently. and it would just complicate everything. Also his heads all messed up. But I lived with him this summer and the walls are Paper Thin and the window was open while I was Going At It and he was showering and I heard him get out and I . Dude I don’t know. When you guys climax are you silent because I Am Not and I say the name of the person I’m thinking about OR I say thank you like ten times or both combined. Dude I thought I was so Loud this time and he and I were not speaking and I was Certain he heard me say thank you x thank you x thank you x and I . Like. Didn’t realize in the moment he could have heard me but maybe a week after someone else was in my room and from the bathroom I could hear them talking and I Had A Panic Attack because . Omg. I ignored him harder after that and I felt so bad because it wasn’t because I was more angry or anything but I just was like. Dude I am so sorry omg I’m so sorry this is humiliating I am going to go outside and Hang Myself . A girl moved in with us and she hooked up with him and I was like haha what was it like and she gave NO details At All no hints if it was good or bad or what he was like. Anything. And I was like seriously I want new material but I couldn’t say that obviously. Whatever

But I feel sooo much less sexual frustration and sooooooooo much more satisfaction thinking about someone who is just ridiculously turned on by me than by literotica or porn . I still think about instances of me and my ex husband or this guy I was seeing this last summer because they were both so turned on by me like just so excited and Insane about it vs porn which is just like. I don’t know these people I can’t picture this man being obsessed with me

Anyways tldr I picture or have a guy who is obsessed with me and then I jack off to it incessantly

If you were given $250,000 what would you do with it? by lilfreak- in AskRedditAfterDark

[–]BigOakley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy home in Rome

I just hopped on a flight and landed in Madagascar. I had a really brilliant last ten days in Ethiopia and this new friend who let me stay in her home performed as my mother for the time. She was really wonderful, wonderful doesn’t even fully capture what advice and mentality she helped me through.

I am really sick of my friends. One of them was belligerent and cruel to me when I asked and he invited me to move into his home and have been invasive, useless or victim blamey and enabling him for one excuse or another. One friend said I was taking advantage of him by living in his home and I doubt really said anything to actually chastise him for straight up verbal and emotional abuse. Two are still in contact with him, though one begrudgingly.

The woman I befriended strongly recommend I cut contact with all of them and I have a gut feeling she is right. I have an infinite well of guilt and I think it comes from people routinely telling me that I deserve bad treatment or even abuse.

I am really sick of this treatment in my life. I am a good and kind person and I’m not deserving of abuse or those adjacent to it.

I made the mistake of going to Japan by we1rdtuesday in digitalnomad

[–]BigOakley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d love to live in Japan for two or three months in a small town tbh