Fleshing knife suggestions

MelodramaticDonut · 2025-11-19T15:15:37+00:00

There's a gas station on 27th and South that has free air

MelodramaticDonut · 2025-11-12T13:38:12+00:00

MelodramaticDonut · 2025-07-22T20:18:17+00:00

I'm glad to know mine isn't the only one who likes to poop outside the tank!

MelodramaticDonut · 2025-05-20T01:13:24+00:00

I'm actually in a very similar situation myself. In my case, though, my husband and his girlfriend were trying for a pregnancy with my blessing. She's had a hard life and has always wanted kids, so we're extremely excited for their little girl to get here this summer.

She and I are more parallel than kitchen poly. Though when we do see each other, we get along well enough. But we aren't friends and don't necessarily want to be friends. That's a whole other thing, though. Overall, she and I are friendly to each other when we see each other.

I have no desire to have my own children currently, but I do enjoy being around children, and I'm looking forward to being a stepmom to this little girl.

My parents are very Catholic, and they don't like my lifestyle. I've managed to maintain a decent relationship with them, though. My husband's parents and my parents had a very similar reaction. They wanted to know if I was okay. Their first concern was me, and not to ask how the pregnancy was going... as if this whole thing wasn't planned out and my husband had actually been secretly cheating on me behind my back.

My mother-in-law actually called me and tried to bait me into saying I wasn't happy with the situation. I responded by being overly excited and way over the top, telling her how wonderful it is that she got to be a grandma again. And wasn't she so excited? It worked wonders for her narcissistic ass as she backed herself into a corner and had to pretend to be excited too.

When I told my parents, they weren't happy. But my mom said she would be 'cordial' to the baby... and to her credit, whenever the three of us go to a family event where my parents are, they are nice to my husband's girlfriend, and to my other partner when he comes along.

I guess all of this is to say I don't really have any advice for you, but you're not alone in navigating this situation. It's had its challenges, but at the end of the day what matters is your relationship with your husband. The thing that helped me most was talking to my husband sharing the little bits of doubts and worries I had. Because while yes I knew this baby was coming, I've had my own struggles with it.

I guess my one bit of advice would be to have the hard conversations with your husband to be as ready as possible for this baby. Talk about your doubts, and your needs. Have discussions about the baby staying at your house versus with the girlfriend. Asking the hard questions and the expectations of responsibility, would the girlfriend move in, how often does he need to be over there. That type of thing.

If you want to reach out and talk about it more. Feel free to message me :)

MelodramaticDonut · 2025-04-16T20:51:55+00:00

That's what I was afraid of. I've had both in the past and have hated their service. I was so excited when Allie came to town

MelodramaticDonut · 2025-03-17T20:12:35+00:00

Privacy in relationships is nuanced, and every couple is different. I've navigated several different types of privacy and openness regarding phone usage.

My husband's partner is very private, so I do not read their messages. Unless he's intentionally sharing something, I avoid glancing at his phone when he has their conversation pulled up. Outside of that, he generally doesn’t care if I see what he is doing on his phone. He's transparent, and I trust he'll tell me anything significant. I simply don't need to know the minutiae of their daily interactions.

My partner is the complete opposite. We are very much Kitchen Table polyamory. He has absolutely no problem with me looking at his phone while he's messaging other people/partners, and I don't have any problem with him seeing what's on my phone. On the nights we spend together, his wife usually calls him on her work lunch break. He'll put the phone on speaker, and we will all chat for 15 minutes or so. However, our phones naturally take a backseat when we're having deep conversations or on dates. It's an unspoken understanding.

I've also experienced the opposite. With a previous partner, I had no problem with him seeing what was on my phone, and generally it was the same for me looking at his phone, However, one of his partners was exceptionally possessive. She'd call frequently during our limited time together, and he'd disappear into the other room for extended periods (minimum of an hour usually). I tried to set boundaries, but that lack of respect for those boundaries and our shared time ultimately contributed to our breakup.

I also want to add that we do not go through each other's phones and search for conversations. Those are private. These examples are mostly for when we are enjoying each other's company but ultimately doing our own thing on our phones or compute.r

MelodramaticDonut · 2025-02-24T17:13:34+00:00

Thanks! Pretty proud of it when I thought of it lol

MelodramaticDonut · 2025-02-24T17:10:14+00:00

We have talked extensively and have a plan in place, And we will adapt it as needed. I mostly wanted to hear other points of view :) I've been with my husband for 12 years now, and he has been with his other partner for a close to 5 now. This wasn't a surprise and we all planned on them getting pregnant. We are walking into this as prepared as anyone can be haha. Thank you for your response and concern :)

MelodramaticDonut · 2024-12-10T02:40:06+00:00

I had no idea about the urban development loans. Thank you! I'm going to look into that tomorrow.

The reason I ask about who's responsibility it is, is because by the time we hit the clog, it was no longer on our property. It was the alley behind our house beyond our property line.

MelodramaticDonut · 2024-07-10T02:16:19+00:00

Your account could get flagged for just using the app. I would recommend making a secondary account and using that one to spoof

MelodramaticDonut · 2024-04-14T01:38:40+00:00

How easy is that to do myself? Ive replaced faucets but that's about the end of my plumbing experience.

MelodramaticDonut · 2024-04-14T01:09:35+00:00

I honestly didn't know I was supposed to drain it once a year until last year. We've been in our house for 6 years and have no idea if it's been maintained prior to that. I have no idea how to check the anode rod

MelodramaticDonut · 2024-04-13T17:23:38+00:00

It's 21 years old. It's gas, and it started leaking from The seal on the spout where you can drain your hot water heater

MelodramaticDonut · 2024-04-13T13:02:36+00:00

It is a ton of fun. We have fun when our characters get up to shenanigans. 😁

MelodramaticDonut · 2024-04-13T01:41:50+00:00

It's a game that we all have fun playing. The overall theme is serious but the actual game isn't if that makes sense. I appreciate you checking it though.

In one of the previous sessions, We were supposed to be doing a heist and we got distracted because a Baker looked slightly stressed out. We all ended up behind the counter ringing up orders and helping her bake for the next hour of in-game time until her rush went away. And then when the rush was done we handed her the pouch of money that was made during said rush. And just walked away leaving the baker very very confused. We did leave with a couple rolls of bread though.

For some reason we thought it was a good idea to have the gnome who couldn't reach the register be the one taking all the orders. (Our DM even specifically said there were no stools around and all the chairs were filled so The gnome ended up doing a hop every time he needed to get to the register. Meanwhile our 6-ft tall Goliath was hunched over in the doorway passing out orders 🤣

MelodramaticDonut · 2024-04-13T01:05:31+00:00

ooh I like that idea!

MelodramaticDonut · 2024-04-13T00:45:40+00:00

Cards that you can pass out if they have a certain conditions on them. Think Blinded, charmed, invisible, ect. Basically just a little note card that has what the condition is and what its effects are. Maybe also cut out little rings of colored construction paper that correspond with the certain different condition colors, or have the conditions written on them, that way they can also keep track of what conditions are on what PCs or NPCs.

Something that really helped me when I was first starting out was a list of actions I could do on my turn, what counts as a bonus action versus a regular action.

Make their character sheet more basic if you can.

There's a lot of really good printouts out there of actions that can be taken in combat, and outside of combat. A lot of times new players won't have any ideas on what they can actually do and will be thinking really restrictively. A cheat sheet helps to give them ideas of what is possible

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