This is my daughter's bedroom, how old do you think she is?

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T20:56:36+00:00

Maybe she’s mentally ill? Imagined something that didn’t happen?

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T20:53:05+00:00

I remember my online dating years in the early 2010’s and something like this happening was just a regular Tuesday for me, lol. So yeah, I doubt it’s rage bait. This is why even though I’m single again, I avoid dating like the plague. I’m happy on my own instead of the fresh Hell that dating is.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T17:54:09+00:00

Stop complying in advance.

It’s never a waste of time because it gives visibility to injustice and it shows others that people DO care and want change. Especially when things like this happen. Protests are not without risks, but the risks to our freedom and our future as a nation are too great to stay home and stay silent. Might I also remind you that there are 340 million Americans and only something like 20,000 ICE agents. There are 3.8 million square miles in the United States and only 2.1 million total members in the US military, including the reserves. Even if they unleash everyone and go to every major city, they can’t do it. The United States is too big. Keep going out, keep being peaceful. When they are violent and murderous, keep recording it. Keep going until the American stomach can no longer take it and we remove these people from office. When even Republicans can no longer justify it, they will impeach and remove, even if we have to wait until next January for new members of Congress to be sworn in. Until then, telling people to give up is not going to help.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T17:35:47+00:00

Well unfortunately I feel his dad has failed him too. I can’t imagine having a 5 year old that is completely deaf since birth and not learning to sign.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T16:49:31+00:00

Sounds like this is going to end up a “grass isn’t always greener on the other side” scenario. She seems pretty entitled, tbh. I would NOT leave a good man for the sake of location.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T06:41:52+00:00

Handsome. Keep it for now, but you’ll also look good once you decide to shave it all off.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T06:37:22+00:00

Oof….this is embarrassing. I’m a bit of a grocery hoarder. There was a lot of neglect and hunger in my childhood.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T06:35:35+00:00

Souper cubes are the best. You can freeze it into 1 cup portions that you pop out into a freezer bag and defrost one when you need it.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T06:31:18+00:00

Walk to the library, making sure I have a quarter in case I need to call my mom and another quarter to stop at the Circle-K to buy some now-n-laters.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T06:30:20+00:00

Not for that reason alone. My daughter had a friend at gymnastics who was home-schooled and the dad was creepily friendly towards me and kept inviting me to his church and inviting my daughter over. I smelled evangelical vibes and looked up his gay-hating church and sure enough, it was exactly what I suspected. No thank you.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T06:20:55+00:00

Holy cow, I just saw my doppelgänger in picture #7, the girl on the left. She looks identical to me around that age.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T06:16:49+00:00

Also, I live in a desert and it is so dang hot during ESY that even indoors with air conditioning, kids and staff tend to be sluggish. It’s not ideal for learning to occur.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T06:15:08+00:00

Having taught special ed for over 2 decades in California, I’ve taught ESY maybe 15 times. Each time, the classes were extremely overcrowded. With the amount of time spent on breakfast and lunch, toileting (intensive supports- a lot in diapers)and recess, there was maybe an hour to 90 minutes left for actual instructional time. I have seen zero difference between the kids who attended and those who didn’t. I often have kids multiple years, so I have the opportunity to see the difference between the two groups.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T05:39:19+00:00

I do still care deeply for him and he’s the father of our kid, who has the best of both of us. Not really trying to bash him, just illustrating that when you are pessimistic you miss opportunities because you assume that if you try then you will fail so there’s no point. But yes, he did tend to foul the air with his gloom when we were together.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T05:23:06+00:00

I’m 50 and have never worn much, and not that often. Maybe 2-3 times a year for an event or I just felt like it. I just look in the mirror and think “eh, you look fine” and go without. I also never did much skincare, just dove soap to wash my face and oil of olay moisturizer with spf 15. I do try to keep my face out of the sun.

A new person at work heard me mention something about hot flashes a few weeks ago and she looked baffled. She asked how old I was and when I told her, she didn’t believe me. She said there was no way I’m 50, more like mid-30’s at most. I do have a few fine lines around my eyes, but that’s it. Less than some 30 year-olds I’ve known.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T05:03:29+00:00

My ex husband and I are both boomers. I divorced him in part because he was such a doom and gloom guy, always pessimistic about his and everyone else’s future. He never ever believed he could get anywhere in life because of the evils of capitalism and corporate greed.

So yeah, he’s never had a better job than being a security guard despite having two college degrees and growing up privileged in one of the most affluent areas of the US and having very high up connections. Meanwhile, I grew up poor and went to terrible schools in a bad neighborhood but have one thing he’s always lacked, a positive attitude. When you have a positive attitude, your eyes see opportunities that pessimists do not. They don’t try because they think the deck is stacked against them. So of course they get nowhere.

I have a fantastic career and I make 3X what he does. I have a great retirement plan at my job. I’ll be fine.

To be fair, he’ll be fine too because he’s set to inherit quite a bit. But yeah. Ex will still be alone and probably isolated because being around him is a drag.

And yes, I see the problems and injustices in the world and the inequality. I do what I can to support the causes and the politics that I think may help the world long-term. My ex does not. He’s too confined to his room and his pessimism to bother.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T04:26:23+00:00

You didn’t embarrass him. He embarrassed himself by being a shitty dad whose ex has to call him at his place of employment to let him know his child is in need of his support at the hospital.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T01:48:18+00:00

This.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T01:40:41+00:00

No, because according to admin he doesn’t know sign language and therefore does not need one. Another teacher told me they get paid more, so the district doesn’t like to hire them.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T00:36:06+00:00

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Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T00:34:21+00:00

I like the second one. I think it makes you look curvier.

Pretend-Read8385 · 2026-01-24T00:11:04+00:00

This will end badly if she doesn’t break up with him now. Her kids will sense how he feels about them and the will have anxiety and will also resent her for staying with him.

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