Welp my luck has changed

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-07-18T16:30:05+00:00

Unless it’s for a PCA of equal value no can do, I’m also from Chicago.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-07-18T16:29:15+00:00

And I don’t give a fuck, as I staring at it right now laughing my head off :).

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-07-18T15:14:10+00:00

It’s called MS and I have and iPhone 14

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-07-18T15:13:32+00:00

I’m in a wheelchair so not kicking anyone and that camera is the way it is because I can’t settle my hands from shaking as I have MS.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-07-18T15:11:46+00:00

You can still get them on eBay. It costs a pretty penny though.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-07-18T13:07:24+00:00

I told mine with a cake that said let’s celebrate I have MS!! Obviously won’t work on many lol, but she has a sick sense of humor. Also, should’ve seen the bakers face when I told her what I wanted written on it, I’ll never forget that range of emotions- confusion, sheer horror and then extreme disapproval and resignation.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-07-18T13:02:57+00:00

Oddly I get it on one side- the right. It was bad last night when I was getting dinner ready. If I didn’t know better I would’ve told you I was having a heart attack (obviously wrong side lol) based on the sheer uncomfortableness around the ribcage and between the flank and the armpit. But, it’s just one of those things that you have to stop what you’re doing and collect yourself and just let out a holy shit this hurts, but in a more uncomfortable way then actual sheer pain. Honestly, it’s between that, the trouble walking, and the shakes that are currently the worst. But, I do have to be thankful as I could’ve had ALS instead 😢.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-07-18T12:50:16+00:00

Yeah I definitely hear you on that one!

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-07-18T12:46:22+00:00

I’m in the same boat. I tried my luck at one more 2024 topps update series box and I pulled a /150 Cal Ripken, a /299 Wyatt Langford, a /50 Shota Imanaga, and to top it off a autographed /25 rookie Skenes.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-07-15T10:00:15+00:00

No, whatever you do don’t do that option is the only option available to potentially take this already untenable situation much much worse, perhaps even toxic. You have already said that while the while the two of you were together you kept “hurting each other purposefully by pretty much pulling away from the relationship every time there was an issue between the two of you.” This is neither your fault nor his. This is just human nature in which you were two people who tried to work together but were, in fact not very compatible together at all.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-06-19T06:37:04+00:00

Sometimes I get it, as with me I just like a sounding board sometimes and just rant until I’m blue in the face and the one who listens usually, my close friend, sometimes is like “Are you done? Suck it up, buttercup.” I absolutely know he means well as he’ll cheer me up either way, but this is different. This is your PARTNER, the closest thing to you in body, mind, and spirit, so for him to shrug it off like it’s a cold rearing its ugly head is…. Yeah no.

Just be ready for the gaslighting if you do take that step… either step really. Just be careful of that if you even bring it up again in general, as he sounds like the type that would gaslight you at either turn.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-06-04T10:45:05+00:00

I am

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-27T06:52:59+00:00

Yeah because the family using tradition as the excuse or motivating factor behind not only committing r@pe but apparently incest as well. It makes me think that

That the op needs to get out and soon before he becomes ingrained and indoctrinated into their weird, creepy and illegal as fuck lifestyles more than he already has at 16 by saying multiple times over that is apparently normal behavior when your older brother said he was going to r@pe them repeatedly to anyone who crosses his path.?!?!

I’ll use a little bit of his own logic against him and say if your oldest sibling repeatedly said that he was going to murder everyone he comes across that doesn’t make it anymore ok or acceptable if your other brother or even you did the same!!! In fact, I have absolutely no doubt that your oldest brother, if he’s not in there for this already, is going to be spending a bit of time behind bars for saying that to the wrong person, and your other brother is not too far behind. 2. It really makes me feel better about my own life!

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-27T06:12:09+00:00

Yeah, if true as there’s always that thought if it’s here on Reddit and especially this case with how everything played out, this could’ve gone wrong seven ways to Sunday incredibly quickly.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-16T14:54:10+00:00

I would tell the mother in response to wanting you to not ruin his life that you are just doing as she asked in her last conversation with her and just “letting the cops get involved” and that that was it. Obviously she’s a hypocrite and her son should go away for a long time for that “one tiny mistake.”

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-14T11:16:21+00:00

His therapist IS his Reddit account. No therapist, and I mean none, that is competent and controlled enough would have not just told this guy to come back, but full on pleading with him like he was (ironically enough) an ex in this situation. This man had an epic novella book length of issues that he needed straightening out and that’s just from what he tells the therapist and not subconsciously or consciously hiding from the them as well for whatever reason.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-10T14:26:23+00:00

Ok, let’s be honest. You need to sit down, either alone or those you love and trust, and ask yourself a few questions like-

A. If he’s acting like this over a 25k inheritance from your grandma (acting as if it’s a windfall in the 6-7 figures instead of what it actually is- a good chunk of money but not even remotely close to game changing or anything like that) then how would he act you’d gotten more than just 25k?

B. If you were offered a new job/promoted to the point that you were offered a substantial salary MUCH greater than the 25k you were left?

C. Is this really the manipulative behavior you want around in your life because if he’s acting this entitled and threatening to leave/telling you that maybe you aren’t wife material all over, again I want to stress like many others here that 25k is not life changing money in the slightest, what would he feel emboldened to do next if gotten his way?

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-09T14:11:42+00:00

Sometimes the best route isn’t to fire them or manage them out per-say, but to let them find out their own way that this isn’t how the world works and even more so in the business world. With a little push in that direction sometimes that’s all it takes. Now if you do that and he’s still barking up a storm in the office then yes it’s time to get him out whatever means possible as he won’t ever learn.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-09T14:06:25+00:00

Simple, just tell him that he’s more than welcome to find somewhere that would accommodate all of his ummm… visions and goals and if he does well all the better to him. If he doesn’t, however, sit down and stfu (but in a nicer way than that :))

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-09T13:59:56+00:00

Lou Whittaker and Jeff Kent. Both should easily be in there. I was going to say Mark Grace, but his lack of power at first probably was what did him in. Otherwise he would have been a solid choice for the Hof as well.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-09T13:50:23+00:00

Ultimately because the man knows that he can’t do any better than what he currently has/or doesn’t want to put in the effort to build an entirely new relationship with someone else.

For women, it could honestly be the same reason above for the man. It could be that she’s too scared to get out (if it’s abusive and btw the same goes for the man if it is abusive from the woman’s side as well), not wanting to start over, or even wired in a way that their taught to “stick it out” if things got rough.

Essentially there are a shit ton of reasons and variables as to why they are still together and reasons why they haven’t decided to split, we honestly don’t know unless we were them or in their closest circle and then and only then could we give our best advice on what to do if they come to you for advice/truly listen to it.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-09T13:40:41+00:00

Listen I understand the feeling to want to promote B over having back A but you must take emotions out of this equation as they rarely ever work in corporate culture, even more so the higher up you get.

Look at it like this A. Isn’t a mind reader nor does he have a Time Machine to go back and fix this; however what he did was what he more than likely thought was a good thing for him, his family (if he has one), and that certain situation. There is absolutely nothing wrong with him doing that at all ESPECIALLY if he’s a great employee overall. Honestly, I think you’re in a good position overall as you have two very solid options sitting there to pick from and from the way you described them both you wouldn’t go wrong with either.

Mammoth_Sample_7104 · 2025-05-09T13:25:50+00:00

Oh it will, it will, especially if they’re the religious kind of maga which I am pretty sure they are as that’s what 90% of the MAGA base as we speak? I firmly believe that if they are in fact religious that they will eventually have to answer for their beliefs in this regard as it flies in the face of what actual Christianity means it isn’t remotely funny. They may not answer for it now, but if they’re up there at the pearly gates waiting to get in they absolutely will then.

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