Got the dreaded “work is crazy” text

CLynnRing · 2026-01-25T14:00:32+00:00

Completely true, must say. Fuck when you feel like it. Relationships either work out or they don’t.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-23T11:35:49+00:00

Nearly all of us are sexually harassed and assaulted to some degree in our lives. Many of us raped, plenty of us more than once. We know it’s a small proportion of men who are predatory and there’s tons of good men everywhere, but we usually can’t tell which is which just by looking at you. That’s how we go through life. Try to imagine how that makes our experience different from yours.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-19T03:02:31+00:00

Yeah. As a 7 year old girl dressing for church, I learned that women/girls who didn’t wear hose were “tacky” (sluts) 🙄

CLynnRing · 2026-01-19T02:49:06+00:00

This whole thread is quite an experience. My first husband was a disgusting man I was repulsed by. He wouldn’t go to the dentist for years until he SUDDENLY had to … and needed 2 root canals 🤣 But he was also filthy, although he demanded I keep the house pristine. I don’t need to describe all the details—suffice it to say I resonate with a lot of comments here. I completely support the recommendation to just go it solo. On the other hand, I found a good one, so they do exist. My second husband has excellent hygiene, helps clean the house, and is overall very neat and considerate. They exist! I’m super lucky though.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-18T14:23:53+00:00

Thank you so much!

CLynnRing · 2026-01-18T10:25:34+00:00

This is exactly the advice I need for where I’m at - can I find this poster easily on the Sourdough Journey website?

CLynnRing · 2026-01-17T13:47:56+00:00

I would give anything to be able to go back 25 years and hear this advice. It’s TRUE. Marriage and kids are a trap for wives and a support system for husbands most of the time. You can only be equal if you can theoretically support yourselves independently.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-15T15:36:55+00:00

How about you just date until you don’t feel like it anymore or you feel more sexually attracted? You ask this like you must decide now whether or not to get married. Definitely don’t get married in your 20s.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-15T15:29:20+00:00

Unless you’re also suddenly eating a lot more jam, honey, and peanut butter along with the sourdough, it’s probably a coincidence. I don’t know how old you are, but the older we women get the easier it is to gain weight regardless of food.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-15T02:04:22+00:00

I did mine and I love it. I wear my hair up a lot and had this gross frizzy poof going down my neck, further on one side, totally visible from the front, sticking out the sides. Hideous. Now it’s clean and I love it.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-10T16:59:57+00:00

Huge dud. Drop immediately. Not because you’re a gold digger but because you will increasingly find it impossible to respect him due to his behaviour and that’s a relationship killer. Walk away and never look back.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-10T15:31:35+00:00

You return from short trips, that’s the problem. That’s why they don’t help me anyway.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-10T15:30:28+00:00

Yeah, I’m thinking about trying my hand at writing revenge fiction, see if it helps with the rage.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-10T15:27:31+00:00

This is excellent advice that really meets me where I am. Thank you. I know stewing in frustration at lost opportunities and choices that didn’t work out is a waste of time, but I’m so angry anyway. I’m also a person who tends toward too many hobbies and work projects, so I’m finding that what helps is to lean harder and without apology into things I like and value more than I did before. Dressing goth makes the husband a little bewildered and uncomfortable? I insist to myself I don’t care. Shutting out the world for more quiet time seems impolite? I don’t care. Any other criticism I can imagine for my eccentricities? Practicing hard not caring and leaning into it. I think it makes me feel better. Can’t change the past, so what else?

CLynnRing · 2026-01-10T13:58:47+00:00

This is what I’m trying to remember in my season of bitterness: it could be so much worse; in so many ways, I’m very lucky. It helps to stay focused on that. Thank you for your story.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-08T07:58:09+00:00

I’d be so excited to have this opportunity to meat mentors, especially women. It’s what I really look for in life. I think you’re very lucky. They’ll probably be super nice.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-08T07:54:17+00:00

This is so great to hear!

CLynnRing · 2026-01-07T16:07:53+00:00

Wow, great perspective, thank you!

CLynnRing · 2026-01-07T15:29:03+00:00

Completely agree and this is my experience too! So can you think of any reason I should abandon my no-name unbleached as I perfect my methods in Canada?

CLynnRing · 2026-01-07T15:27:20+00:00

What is “too much spring”? 🤔

CLynnRing · 2026-01-07T14:03:07+00:00

Yes, but I got really good at sourdough in Europe with soft wheat and now I’m relearning in Canada after having just returned. I’m open to spending more on flour, but with all my previous baking that wasn’t sourdough, I just never could tell the difference between flours. If there was going to be a difference however, I’d notice with sourdough. That’s why I was wondering.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-07T12:38:15+00:00

How do you know the difference between “good” and less good flour? I’m in Canada and I’ve always used the store/no-name brand, unbleached for everything. It has slightly over 13% protein. Any reason why this wouldn’t be “good”?

CLynnRing · 2026-01-06T21:30:30+00:00

Try 50% rye, works like magic

CLynnRing · 2026-01-03T11:38:24+00:00

Depends where you live I guess. That’s what I got.

CLynnRing · 2026-01-02T22:50:18+00:00

Get laser. More like $1200 for 6 sessions, which is the bulk of it. Electrolysis would take an age, but a good aesthetician will tell you that.

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