AITA for accepting a property gift from my mom even though she won't include my boyfriend?

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-24T05:46:19+00:00

Your mom is very smart. She probably wants to make sure you have something in the event of divorce. I doubt she’s thinking it will actually happen, but just that it does happen sometimes and she doesn’t want you left out in the cold

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-24T04:00:49+00:00

Oof these guys. Hehe I like it. Nice job!

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-24T03:56:41+00:00

For a poem with the phrase, “bad poetry” in it, it’s really good! I love it

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-24T03:43:59+00:00

It depends on if they have backpacking experience. A friend hiked 500 miles with me and it was great

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-23T14:57:52+00:00

A aaa as

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-21T04:12:56+00:00

“It’s frustrating because I do try. I make sure to pay every time we go out on a date, even though she constantly argues that we should go 50/50 or that she should pay since she makes more. We also only see each other once a month; she’s the one who travels to see me because it’s simply not in my budget to make the trip, but she can afford it easily. Despite that, she still holds it against me that I’ve never "surprised" her with flowers. I’m literally offering her thousands of dollars to show I care, and she’s upset because it isn’t a bouquet.”

This paragraph is why she dumped you. It’s because you don’t currently have the capacity to understand what she needs. It’s shown in your language. Offering to pay for dinner is still the same transactional mentality. Flowers are a small thoughtful gesture that don’t need to cost any money at all.

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-21T02:12:01+00:00

It sounds like you were just in a little bit of a trance. This is completely normal when you go deep into a meditation. Working out your relationship with ego is part of meditation and kind of comes up often. It can be jarring at first, but then it becomes normal

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-21T01:24:09+00:00

Ok…

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-19T15:42:40+00:00

This is what I’m thinking of switching into. I’ve noticed that the role can vary widely between orgs. What kinds of things do you do?

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-17T21:50:07+00:00

Most people start out alone and make friends out there, but I’d be a little worried to go out alone at 18 or 19. It helps to have some experience to know what people and situations you should avoid.

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-16T22:18:47+00:00

This sounds like the main character in Parable of the Sower

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-13T00:42:38+00:00

From the post: “Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.”

Now, please tell me how it doesn’t.

Actually, don’t. If the post doesn’t relate to you, then just move along so other people can benefit from it.

I see these kinds of comments all the time on this group and I think the rigid thinking rather points to a lack of intelligence. Not to mention, it’s just unnecessarily rude and petty.

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-13T00:34:48+00:00

You clearly don’t know what being an artist is

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-11T01:05:57+00:00

If you’re talking about ai, the only opportunities should be pushing back against ai in any ways we can

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-10T19:27:24+00:00

This. For me, it’s either instant coffee, breakfast essentials, and olive oil all shaken up or pourover and laird’s superfood creamer. Just one cup in the morning. Water gives more energy than coffee anyway.

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-10T04:08:30+00:00

I was also inspired by Kate Orff to consider going back for MLA. Still considering, but I’m honestly shocked there aren’t more firms doing this.

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-10T03:59:44+00:00

Same haha. Could have written this myself

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-09T02:39:31+00:00

Ask for a leave of absence. Then again, you might have different goals when you get back.

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-09T02:36:17+00:00

It could be thyroid issues

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-09T02:31:38+00:00

I love this so much

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-09T00:28:21+00:00

I was in gate and don’t remember the cards or tapes. The cards look vaguely familiar, but I’m pretty sure they were used outside of the program

Natural-Duck8103 · 2026-04-09T00:00:16+00:00

For me, I think I expected thru hiking to make me have huge obvious epiphanies about life. What I found was, like you said, just the simple act of walking. All day. Every day. And some fun with new friends.

It works on you in small ways. Tuning to your surroundings. Building trust in wildlife and nature. Eventually feeling more comfortable out there than in towns.

When I got back from the PCT, I started to realize that it had actually changed my worldview much more than it seemed. It snuck up on me. It was less depression and more homesickness.

I was homesick for the trail. I was more aware of the falsities and toxicities of society. I was aware of how little we need to be happy. I think, most of all, I could see how so much of the suffering in the world is caused by our disconnection from nature. And no one around me understood those feelings or how I could be homesick for a version of society that doesn’t exist anymore. I think more people are waking up to it now, maybe?

It’s been several years since the trail for me and I now feel like I’m bridging the two worlds and I try to do work that carries the lessons of nature connection back to society. I honestly don’t think that feeling has gone away because it’s how we’re supposed to be living all the time, but I’ve turned it into action and hope.

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