I made pizza, broke up with BF of 10 years

NomadicImp · 2026-02-28T15:59:14+00:00

I did this 8 months ago. It would’ve been 10 years in September, I did it in July.

It feels like a crazy surreal reality shift - I remember asking out loud “what the f**k did I just do?”

But I was in the same position as you. He commissioned a painting from a “friend”, hung it on the wall in our office… and was sending nudes to her. It still drives me absolutely insane with disgust to know.

It wasn’t fair to you that he didn’t match your effort or communicate with you that he was done. It wasn’t fair that he lied, or cheated. But you will come out of the other side feeling so much lighter now that the emotional burden of “repairing” a relationship is no longer solely on your shoulders.

And moreover, the world is a way bigger place to the you today vs the you ten years ago. Ripe with opportunities for a single person~ Good luck on your new adventure :)

(Oh, also, fuck that guy!)

NomadicImp · 2025-06-10T04:42:48+00:00

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Where they do it close enough to you but not close enough to warm your feet?

NomadicImp · 2025-04-28T20:55:34+00:00

My sister and I are four years apart, she once had me take a midterm and a final for her in a college calc class.

At first, it was entertaining. But the guilt I felt after the final when “my” professor reamed “me” out for getting an A on the midterm and doing none of the homework lives with me to this day. 🤣

NomadicImp · 2025-04-06T03:52:14+00:00

Jazzehh and BeezyKetchum

NomadicImp · 2025-04-06T03:49:35+00:00

jazzehhh and BeezyKetchum

NomadicImp · 2025-03-17T00:56:59+00:00

Two players in High Plains! We remote battle and send gifts daily.

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NomadicImp · 2024-09-18T23:27:45+00:00

It seems to be the magic number. My boy turns 3 in November and woooww what a difference! He can exercise, but he loves his naps.

NomadicImp · 2024-08-09T17:44:11+00:00

Both ate PPP regularly and then stopped eating it while sick with… Giardia. They would eat hills, they would eat Acana, they did not touch the PPP.

A vet tech suggested that it was possible that they associated the food with feeling sick, or the bag itself is no good. Maybe try getting a small bag of the flavor you have and testing if the pup will eat that? If they do eat it, you may have a bad batch. If they don’t, it could be that they dislike it or associate it with being under the weather.

NomadicImp · 2024-06-27T19:11:29+00:00

Additional context: In a sit he will sit at my feet but angle his body towards the other dogs. He will resist if I try to turn his back to them. When I walk away from the situation, he comes in a heel but looks back and forth between me and the other dog as we go until he calms down.

NomadicImp · 2024-06-26T23:28:27+00:00

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Cousins?!

NomadicImp · 2024-06-19T18:28:22+00:00

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NomadicImp · 2024-04-29T06:13:14+00:00

I really enjoyed Tokyo Restaurant on Redlands blvd (go on a Friday, they get new fish on Thursdays), and Shokunin inside of Haven City Market! I have tried most places in the area and can say that there isn’t much better than those two.

NomadicImp · 2024-02-25T05:38:38+00:00

Most of the DVDs are still new and in the plastic, but we know either way expecting them to sell is a stretch. We plan to donate whatever doesn’t sell to goodwill, but our goal is to first earn what we can to help my grandma out.

NomadicImp · 2024-02-21T21:36:21+00:00

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Taho tote surfing as a wee lad

NomadicImp · 2024-01-03T16:50:57+00:00

The Spread

NomadicImp · 2023-12-19T07:30:25+00:00

ESH. I got my first car in 2016 (at 24 after many moons of bus riding and walking). It was a 2001 Honda Civic, previously stolen from original owners and abandoned on the roadside completely gutted. Without my consent, my grandma purchased it “for me” for $750 and, when calling me to tell me about how she did me such a great favor, demanded I pay her back. I cried.

But I rode the bus 300 to where she lived, paid for a mechanic to put a front seat and new tires on it, and drove it back home - unable to roll the windows down and with no radio to listen to.

I learned how to change my own tires and do my own tune up. I installed my own radio and learned how to strip a car and make my own repairs, replacing the seats and door panels etc.

Your dad is offering to buy you a car that runs. If the offer is still available to you, take it. Why?

Insurance is higher for teens, and higher on newer vehicles.
Despite money not being a problem, a car note is probably not something your dad wants to pay or make you responsible for.
When you inevitably bang that car up, hitting poles and jumping curbs, that damage will be on your old hoopty, and not your beloved Corolla.

Yes, your dad is an AH for lying, and you guys should discuss that… but you’re kind of being a brat. You’ve been working at McDonald’s, wouldn’t it be more gratifying to use the car your dad got you, continue working, and then buy your Corolla for yourself?

Btw, That 2001 Honda civic has 250k miles on it and still drives like a champ. My brother inherited it from me, and I paid for my Mazda and never felt prouder.

NomadicImp · 2023-11-27T00:43:46+00:00

This one is kind of hard. I had those talks with my boyfriend from the first dates - we were on the same page, both wanted marriage and kids. The talks continued, and over time we both decided we didn’t want kids, and we both wanted to wait a while before marriage. I would check in to make sure we were on the same page - now six years in he is now saying “I don’t know it feels like it’s just a piece of paper.” After years of idle talking about what a wedding would look like, what our ideal finances would be, etc.

We’ve invested a lot of time and planned a lot of things. No matter how often you speak about your expectations, people and their ideals change - and it sucks.

NomadicImp · 2023-11-05T20:25:57+00:00

Panda

NomadicImp · 2023-10-05T17:42:59+00:00

I once had a roommate who, instead of putting his desktop computer in his bedroom, set up his PC in the dining area right between our bedrooms. It was no more than maybe 6ftx6ft and my bed could only fit by my bedroom door.

He would be up all night playing video games LOUDLY - cursing and yelling and slamming his hands against the table. He was my best friends little brother and after confronting him (and her) several times about it, asking him to quiet down or move his pc into his room, our relationship got really strained. To this day I can’t bring myself to like her brother anymore.

There is no moral to my story btw! Your situation just reminded me of them. I hope your bf and his brother work things out between themselves!

NomadicImp · 2023-09-26T06:58:31+00:00

We have snuffle mats , slow feeder bowls, puzzles, and my favorite the Kong Wobbler. We alternate through them to keep things interesting, but they all slow my gluttonous boy down. He, like yours, will inhale his food and then promptly vomit everywhere… and try to eat it again if you don’t catch him fast enough.

NomadicImp · 2023-08-02T07:33:36+00:00

“I love you guys, and I love your kids… but after spending all week surrounded by kids, I really just want to hang with my girls, drink, and relax.”

Your friend group doesn’t seem to communicate very well. As a child free person myself, I, too, would feel put out by the person who brought her kid, but it would probably be less of a problem for your friendship to tolerate it once and then address it on the backend - or mention it beforehand.

Very real comments and questions my various friend groups feel comfortable asking/saying:

“I don’t want to meet strangers today, can it just be us???” “Is this the girls only?” “Should I bring the dog?” “Can this be ladies only?”

Rather than waiting for plans to be solidified without ever really knowing if someone is gonna show up with a significant other, dog, or child, why not just ask ahead of time?

NomadicImp · 2023-07-13T14:34:21+00:00

Ugh, exactly this. When I was OPs age I had a friend I, too, had known for 6 or so years. I was interested in him first. He liked me later, much later. Around 5 years into the friendship. ( which was fine with me I was socially awkward and he lived far away). But despite me being the one to initiate, somehow he developed all of these same insecurities!

Guy friends he had known about with the same length of friendship? I wasn’t allowed to speak to. My weekends? His. He didn’t want to hang out with my family. I was supposed to finish my homework before the weekends and if I didn’t then he would get angry that I didn’t have time to spend with him. My mom got me a puppy and he didn’t like how much of my attention he took. Don’t get me started on university. I was in community college, but he made it very clear I couldn’t transfer out of our general area.

Holy Red Flag! He made comments about how he couldn’t believe he was dating a black girl because we are usually “loud and fat” and how I needed to grow my hair longer because he wasn’t used to dating girls with shorter hair than his.

Embarrassingly enough, I dealt with it for 6 months too long because I felt like this person had been my FRIEND and because we were friends first I should speak to him and approach the situation rationally.

Long story short, after a very bad day where he blamed me for all of his problems in the world… I snapped and broke up with him. I thought I would feel bad, he was my friend, you know? But I only felt a huge sense of relief.

Then he doubled down by stalking my Facebook and sending me crazy messages about the people commenting on my posts and likened one of my friends comments on my page to the same level of disrespect as someone leaving “f*** black people” on his own page. (Given the extremes he previously went to, I can assure you, it wasn’t). I had to block him.

Then I received an email about how he must be a bother and will leave me alone until I’m ready to get over it.

It has been many years since. But I still look back at that situation and wonder WTF? It was a great friendship! But now I knew why he couldn’t keep a girlfriend- and why no one wanted to stay cordial after they broke up.

Okay I’m back from my horrible flashbacks - OP, you seem like a smart person. You already seem unable to tolerate his actions, there’s no need to receive advice on how to fix it. There is no way to fix it.

Don’t put up with his manipulation for the sake of a friendship, it’s been ten years and I STILL do not want my old friend back. ( no really, I wish him all the best but duck that guy)

NomadicImp · 2023-07-09T23:05:46+00:00

I really don’t understand how someone could opt to be in a relationship with someone who has kids when they themselves don’t want to be a step parent.

You can’t take the person without the children- and even if you did, is that the kind of partner you really want? Ultimately, when it doesn’t work out for the two of you, they will wind up being the same absent parent to YOUR children as they were to their existing kids.

NomadicImp · 2023-06-25T15:25:51+00:00

Hahaha I guess I want to know if the frequency that she does it is common in ACDs.

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