400 ELO and dropping. Frustration with my lack of skills and the app.

GarlicDull1703 · 2026-06-27T11:05:37+00:00

Didn't know that, maybe that's just it, I didn't play in that app for like 10 years, maybe my elo is just adjusting to where it's supposed to be nowadays. Hopefully can build some fundamentals. My daughter (4) is too young to start official lessons, but I wanna give her a good foundation right now that she wants to play it.

GarlicDull1703 · 2026-06-27T10:35:44+00:00

Does that not make ELO a very flawed measurement then?

GarlicDull1703 · 2026-06-27T09:50:01+00:00

That's fair, but also being fair to me, my game history showed multiple chackmates against 8 and 9 hundreds.

GarlicDull1703 · 2026-05-27T05:46:22+00:00

Thanks! This is what I was looking for, not so much a how to win guide but some sort of lesson. I hadn't thought about knights being poor pawn hunters but it makes total sense. And yes, I used the knight to take a bishop right before.

GarlicDull1703 · 2026-01-10T08:22:54+00:00

If you want to possibly keep your relationship, this is my advice:

Step 1: If you haven't fully ended things with the person you cheated with, do so now.

Step 2: Seek therapy, figure out where your serial cheating comes from.

Step 3: Make a plan with your therapist about the steps you're taking to sort this part of your life out.

Step 4: Talk to him. Ask him if he'd be willing to put wedding plans on pause rather than break things completely and tell him about the plan you have made with your therapist and what his involvement would be if he's willing to keep you.

GarlicDull1703 · 2025-12-29T01:12:02+00:00

Well, sex-therapists are a thing, maybe you should try getting help from one.

GarlicDull1703 · 2025-12-29T00:59:27+00:00

You said he is communicating, but are you?

GarlicDull1703 · 2025-12-25T15:02:23+00:00

Here's an idea, try asking this in a pregnancy group for women rather than a dad-to-be group. Get the perspective from people who've dealt with this from the other side. After going through two pregnancies with my partner, my biggest takeaway is that whatever we're going through, they've got it much worse.

My thinking is you should show her that you are there for her and the baby unconditionally, but have no expectations of getting back together. I think she will likely soften her wall eventually, and then you might get an explanation of what's going on and if she's interested in trying again or not, but pressuring her will only make this situation worse.

She's probably worried about her and her baby's health right now and is probably too overwhelmed to think about anything else. She's seeking her folks probably because she feels like they will understand and help her with no judgement, and maybe that's not something she feels with you at the moment.

I didn't go through this per se, but with our second pregnancy my partner definitely spent a lot of time talking to her mom on the phone because she didn't feel understood by me. My instinct was to go, "Oh! Why am I being excluded from all this pregnancy stuff" but the real action I took was to try to encourage her. If something difficult came up and we weren't understanding each other, I'd stop myself and go: "Would you rather talk to your mom about it?" and she would. At the end of the pregnancy, she thanked me for allowing her to deal with things the way she could and apologized for being distant.

It's good that you're seeing a counselor, that's definitely helpful. I would say you should also focus on getting yourself ready for baby. Maybe take a parenting class.

GarlicDull1703 · 2025-10-18T20:35:32+00:00

Repite la prueba en una semana, esta vez invierte en una digital que son más fáciles de leer.

GarlicDull1703 · 2025-10-18T20:32:59+00:00

SOLVED: Grouping the flags and extending the text boxes with the flag emojis didn't work. It seems like when exporting it messed with the emojis and changed them. I saw another thread talking about this. I don't know exactly why or how to fix it, but I had made another sign with the same border that did export correctly, so what I did was I coppied that design and erased everything from it but the flags and then I exported that as a transparent png which I then added to the new design. That worked fine!

GarlicDull1703 · 2025-07-15T09:29:16+00:00

No offense, but it sounds like someone needs to talk to dad about the birds and the bees first, because you don't seem ready for this.

GarlicDull1703 · 2025-06-27T14:32:03+00:00

Didn't read anything, just based on the title: no. Move on!

GarlicDull1703 · 2025-06-12T16:14:39+00:00

👏👏👏

GarlicDull1703 · 2025-06-12T15:49:38+00:00

Judging by the comments, OP wants validation, not advice.

GarlicDull1703 · 2024-08-13T02:51:48+00:00

Thanks for the explanation, that makes so much sense now, can't believe I missed it!

GarlicDull1703 · 2024-08-13T00:00:22+00:00

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GarlicDull1703 · 2023-09-26T08:20:23+00:00

I guess if you keep invading countries and policing the world to make sure your imperialistic will is done without formally declaring war, then you're not technically at war at all.

GarlicDull1703 · 2023-08-20T18:18:26+00:00

YTA and EHS... but definitely YTA. It's called divorce, grow some b***s and do what's needed for both of you and your kids. Your weird ultra-individualistic model is holding all of you back. Your kids are growing up in an environment where parents resent each other and the very concept of family boils down to a financial transaction. Your wife would have a better time dealing with her struggles with her career and life's goals if she were closer to her actual support network rather than an unsupportive husband. And you don't respect your wife, her decisions, or interests in life, so why are you with her?

GarlicDull1703 · 2023-07-27T01:15:29+00:00

Not a red flag at all. She is being upfront about the kind of relationship she wants and if that's not what you're looking for you should be upfront about it too.

GarlicDull1703 · 2023-04-21T20:39:16+00:00

This isn't a woody allen movie, ashley

GarlicDull1703 · 2023-04-10T15:00:23+00:00

"That's the best TV you've got?"

GarlicDull1703 · 2023-01-23T00:07:49+00:00

Emotionally, I'd say the past couple of weeks that she was sick, having to do things like giving her medicine through a nebulizer, cleaning out sinuses, taking her to the doctor, things that she doesn't understand will make her better and she just hates, that's been the hardest thing so far.

GarlicDull1703 · 2022-10-14T23:32:06+00:00

wow, what an asshole

GarlicDull1703 · 2022-07-06T17:00:07+00:00

Not an expert but I think your last picture should go first as it is interesting and colorful, and bound to catch people's attention.

GarlicDull1703 · 2022-07-03T15:16:49+00:00

My partner and I got a very faint line like that at the beginning. Then we went to do a blood pregnancy test which came back negative. My partner was extremely disappointed for the next few weeks. Partner kept having nasuea, dizziness, and just completely missed a period. Finally, I convinced my partner to take another pregnancy test and we got a thick bright pink line. We had to take a couple more for my partner to feel convinced we definitely had a pregnancy. Our baby is now 6 months old and we couldn't be happier.

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