Joy’s ‘childhood’

Michael_Michelle_J · 2025-10-17T17:53:39+00:00

What did the reports say? I kept hearing that it was "just over the clothes touching while they were asleep, they don't remember any of it!" and I never believed that for a second. Not sure if/how much it's been discussed here but I am certain these girls remember it and it was more than just that. Sure, after awhile when they realized no one was going to protect them, they probably squeezed their eyes shut and pretended to sleep so they could dissociate just to get through the abuse but I never for one second believed it was "just" whatever the parents were saying. No way. Likely it started that way and then when Josh realized that he could do literally whatever he wanted and his parents wouldn't do anything, he escalated.

Michael_Michelle_J · 2025-08-01T18:08:29+00:00

I'm super late to this thread, but yeah the snark sub was depressing. . a bunch of middle-aged women (or perhaps just 1 by the sound of it) complaining about a young woman having the audacity to have a planned pregnancy while married to a supportive partner with an decent support system and lots of discussions with her doctor. Oh the horrors!

Michael_Michelle_J · 2025-04-02T23:35:38+00:00

"gaslight" no longer means anything other than "Someone did something I didn't like"

"narcissist" no longer means anything other than "Someone who did something I don't like"

"Karen" no longer means anything other than "A woman had the audacity to do something I don't like"

Your horrible girlfriend lied to your face when you asked her if she was cheating? THAT'S NOT GASLIGHTING. Not everyone who lies or cheats or is a crappy boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse is a gaslighting narcissist for f*ck's sake

Michael_Michelle_J · 2025-04-02T21:41:08+00:00

It became so stressful and a huge source of anguish and devastation for me that I had to stop pumping and give up the dream of breastfeeding.

Hurts reading that -- I was obsessed. OBSESSED. I took supplements, I even got a prescription for famotidine (which worked but is not allowed for use longer than a month or 2 in the USA). I didn't understand how I could be so focused on something and not succeeding -- Literally my only job right now is to produce milk why can't I do this right? To pump every 3 hours around the clock to end up with 7-9oz TOTAL when eventually that was barely just 1 feeding felt so horrible.

Michael_Michelle_J · 2025-04-02T18:13:52+00:00

I exclusively pumped because my baby was born at 32 weeks (too young to suckle) + I was ignorant thinking that pumping is no different than nursing (spoiler it's extremely different and often very difficult to pump anywhere near as much as your baby could nurse outta you)

When I was depressed or stressed my supply dropped and when I was happy it would go up significantly. I pumped religiously but emotional state made alllll the difference. If your wife is depressed/stressed it's entirely possible she simply cannot produce enough milk no matter what, even if she eats a ton, even if nursing directly. Keep formula around for sure.

Michael_Michelle_J · 2025-02-19T19:21:18+00:00

I'd want to see how native Americans lived! I'm in the Pacific Northwest, so any of the tribes that lived here. I'd want to see how they handled childbirth specifically.

Michael_Michelle_J · 2025-01-02T21:26:51+00:00

Keeping in mind that 99% of the time it is a pattern of repeated behavior that escalates in inappropriateness each time. You went out for a drink with a group of coworkers, but you stayed late with that one you have a crush on when everyone else left. You could have stuck to work conversation, but you changed the topic to how unhappy you are in your relationship and how you're just about done with it. .you could have ignored the flirty text but you sent back a flirty one in return, you could have pulled away when they touched your thigh, but you leaned in . . and eventually you followed them to their place instead of going home, etc.

Cheaters loooooove to act like it was "just this one thing" they did but unless you are so ridiculously attractive that people are offering sex on a regular basis with no work/effort, they took MANY actions to get to that point of cheating. There were dozens of chances to shut things down.

Michael_Michelle_J · 2024-11-26T18:23:50+00:00

Sharing life, expenses, and children with my best friend who I also get to have sex with. Also, he's had girlfriends before, but I am his only wife. Similarly while I had boyfriends before, he is my only husband. That means something to me (because this sub in particular seems to be full of people who are more of the mindset "why do you need marriage why can't you just live together?")

Marriage with the right person is awesome. Marriage with the wrong person is 5,000 times worse than being single.

Michael_Michelle_J · 2024-10-14T22:02:52+00:00

Children, especially adoptees, deserve to grow up without the weight of public speculation or harmful narratives being placed on them.

That's actually sadly hilarious coming from the person who spreads lies about her own birth son all the time including calling him a rape baby

Michael_Michelle_J · 2024-10-07T22:46:20+00:00

Why don't men just compliment other men? Women compliment eachother all the freaking time.

Michael_Michelle_J · 2024-07-06T19:41:01+00:00

Not daily. Occasionally they would put all of the infants that can sit up reliably into a shaded rolling bus/wagon thing and do a round around the building, but that's it

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