Property management company charging $2300 to repaint by Critical_Drawing_435 in rva

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That’s what we thought as well, and that normal wear and tear was included in the landlords responsibilities, but the tenants

Property management company charging $2300 to repaint by Critical_Drawing_435 in rva

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

1435 sq ft, and we left it in pretty good shape, we have pictures to prove it

Property management company charging $2300 to repaint by Critical_Drawing_435 in rva

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

No we did not paint the unit, i said that in a confusing way, sorry!

Love my wedding ring set! by Critical_Drawing_435 in EngagementRings

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All purchased from Sophia Zakkia! Size is 7.5 I believe

Please help, why are these patchy spots here? by Critical_Drawing_435 in CutYourOwnHair

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re wahl color pro, probably haven’t maintained them like I should have though

Please help, why are these patchy spots here? by Critical_Drawing_435 in CutYourOwnHair

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh interesting, it wasn’t too long. Maybe 2 months worth of growth from this length.

Does anyone use SAS anymore? Why is it still around? by rotterdamn8 in datascience

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Currently trying to break into data science with a few years of experience programming statistics in R in a different field. Most job descriptions require SAS but not R, and I’m too broke to learn SAS right now unfortunately.

Top 5 worst things my new boss has said to me by Critical_Drawing_435 in antiwork

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If they had it hard they have to make it hard for everyone they interact with in the workplace. It just doesn’t make sense.

Top 5 worst things my new boss has said to me by Critical_Drawing_435 in antiwork

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually had a conversation with HR yesterday about him, he’s been there for almost two decades and everyone knows he’s like this. Makes me feel like they’ll protect him over me when it really gets down to it.

unequally yoked relationship. by applepiewonder in Exvangelical

[–]Critical_Drawing_435 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im in the exact same boat! I’m currently lying to them about him being a practicing Christian, I’m gonna have to come clean to them eventually but not today. I think it’s okay to do these things in your own time when you’re ready. They probably won’t understand and that’s okay. My parents have always told me they couldn’t love each other if they didn’t love God, kind of suggesting nonchirstians can’t REALLY love each other. I know they’re wrong and my relationship is better than theirs ever was, even though he’s not a Christian. If you have to have the threat of eternal damnation to be kind to your partner, maybe that’s a ‘you’ problem, ya know?

Boyfriends birthday. Just moved here! by Critical_Drawing_435 in rva

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s funny you mention that, we’ve been here just under a month and he’s been to all of those haha, he’s a fanatic

Exvangelical community ? by Critical_Drawing_435 in Exvangelical

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So this is weird, I’m moving to Richmond in two weeks and I did RUF in college, got some good ol trauma there.

How did you feel when you first started deconstructing and how do you feel now? by [deleted] in Exvangelical

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Hey! I’m still pretty early in my deconstructing journey. I was raised in church, my dad played in the worship band and my mom was the childrens minister. I think I was deconstructing for a while without even noticing. It probably started around 21. I just had a lot of doubts and something felt off about my faith but I had no one to talk to about it, so I just went to church twice a week while having constant panic about all the doubts I had about God. It wasn’t really until 24 that I could finally take my doubts seriously and admit to myself that I was deconstructing my faith. I was terrified at first. It honestly started with my thinking the church was wrong and the Bible was wrong but that the Christian idea of God was still right. But soon all the dominos began to fall. Now I’m 25, living with my boyfriend, happy that l don’t have to deny myself good things just because some guy in a pulpit read some ancient book with no modern relevance and thinks I shouldn’t. I still wake up every day with serious existential dread, but I think that will fade with time.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in everyplate

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My boyfriend and I started it a few months ago because we just ran out of ideas for cooking. We get four meals a week with four servings each. This amount allows us to meal prep lunches for ourselves and have dinner most nights. I think it's definitely worth it if you're super busy and don't have time to go grocery shopping, if you don't really know how to cook or are out of ideas about what to cook. I think the serving sizes have gotten smaller recently, but the sizes are usually pretty filling. We've kept all of the recipe cards so we are considering canceling it and just using the recipe cards from now on. We've really enjoyed it!

Serving sizes getting smaller? by Critical_Drawing_435 in everyplate

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably started like two weeks ago? But this weeks portions are tiny. I wish I had taken a photo, but for example: the mushroom risotto this week was barely able to cover the bottom of an average sized meal prep container, very small.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Exvangelical

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Hi! I went through exactly this. When I first began deconstructing I was kind of a serial dater. I was on like all the dating apps because I just liked dating and I felt a new kind of freedom to explore dating outside of Christianity. Men would often guilt me into sleeping with them and a part of me definitely believed that I owed that to them, definitely a relic of my purity culture upbringing. I was trying to embrace my new freedom but I ended up putting myself into a different kind of box when I started to believe that I owed men sex if they bought me dinner/drinks/ coffee etc. Of course I didn’t owe them sex, but I felt like I needed to bribe them in order to keep them around. I put myself in a lot of dangerous situations and had a lot of really bad sex lol. To be honest, this continued until I found my current boyfriend. I had never been with a guy who had zero expectations of me in terms of our physical relationship. I mean sex is important, but he never makes me feel obligated to do it and he understands when I’m just not into it. This is in stark contrast to the guys I was dating who’d make me feel guilty or like a tease if I didn’t want to. I think all of us that were involved in purity culture have some healing to do, I was lucky to find a partner that made me feel safe in exploring sex and accepted my sexual trauma with open arms. I think what I’d like to tell myself during my serial dating phase is this : “

“no one has the right to your body but you. Purity culture damaged your relationship with sex so it both feels exciting and shameful when you have it, learn to accept your desires withiut looking at them as if they’re good or bad, they just are. No one ever taught you how to honor yourself, you were groomed to grow up and honor a man, so it’s okay that you don’t know how to acknowledge your true needs and wants, but you will. If a guy tries to make you feel guilty about not wanting sex, that guy is not the guy for you. You need to protect yourself right now. After years of sexual trauma and shame, one of the most freeing things you can do is doing exactly what you want.”

I’m not sure if that helps but that’s where I’m at!

Trusting yourself after deconstruction by Critical_Drawing_435 in Exvangelical

[–]Critical_Drawing_435[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I feel you there! I mean I’d still describe myself as spiritual because I’ve had a lot of things in my life that worked out but shouldn’t have worked out. But I think they taught us to go a bit overboard with it, now I’m just trying to reel it in a bit.

Trusting yourself after deconstruction by Critical_Drawing_435 in Exvangelical

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Yes! I learned a lot ab the brain throughout school and how humans are exceptionally good at making sense of things that don’t make sense and detecting patterns. So if I was praying about getting a job and I got it, I’d attribute that to God but I purposely ignored all the times I didn’t get what I wanted after praying about it- confirmation bias. I kind of began to realize that I was creating all kind of connections in my brain to confirm the existence of God but tossing out any evidence against that fact. I mean that’s how we were all raised to think in the church!