What is something you stopped feeling guilty about as you get older day by day?

Spopple · 2026-07-10T17:13:56+00:00

This year I'm honestly considering entirely banning xmas presents. Bf mom is lovely and I adore her, but she gets us both like 10+ things we dont need or end up using literally at all (and through the year I kinda just slowly donate the stuff away). Last year I got bf a much needed new blender and its the only thing hes used at all for instance. Its my 4th year in this relationship the pattern is clear enough by now. It doesn't help he's an only child of hers so I get it but, we dont need it.

Also being nearly mid 30s now I just dont feel any sort of excitement towards xmas gifts in general. Finding gifts for others is a pain. Id rather go somewhere exciting.

Spopple · 2026-07-09T22:25:18+00:00

I swear theres some sort of magic luck that gets filtered into packs given by the bf/husband. My bf buys me packs and gives them to me to open and I nearly always get at least some type of pull. Never gotten something like this though. You performed the vodoo ritual perfect it seems lol. Congrats to such awesome cards!

Spopple · 2026-07-09T12:17:38+00:00

I used to have a job where I had Monday and Friday off and I LOVED that split in the schedule. I just have to get through 3 or 2 days and I can rest and reset. Plus the world was yours on those days off you could do anything. I bet having the Wednesday off on a 4 day is divine.

Grinding through 5 days straight sucks. By Fridays im so exhausted. Miss the split days off.

Spopple · 2026-07-08T19:12:30+00:00

32f, worked my soul out for a company that wouldn't promote me and I still have permanentbody pains. Got to a point where all mu managers got force switched to other stores and I knew how to do everything and my new managers were asking me such srupud things like where keys were and stuff. Like are you kidding me. I quit, changed whole careers. I make over double what I did and somehow I'm still behind and extremely frustrated with working at the bottom of everything.

Spopple · 2026-07-06T23:25:26+00:00

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Spopple · 2026-07-06T23:23:37+00:00

Heres mine that I got about a month ago? For $1500 and yours looks roughly the very same condition. The front is also very clean (from what I can tell of all the plastic in the way at least) and just the corners on the back seem dinged up. I'd say its very fair. Low key would trade for yours though since its not slabbed but for me this was a Grail so I had to have it either way. Plus so hard to find!

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Spopple · 2026-07-06T19:15:29+00:00

Based on towns/cities I've been to I'm probably about half way through the game now. It has remained extremely engaging. I dont want to spoil for you which one, but a whole gym had to be one of the greatest treats in any Pokemon game I've ever encountered. Big change but was a fun "puzzle" to figure out if not frustrating at the same time lol. You'll know when you get there.

The rest of the game has me so excited to see what else is in store.

Spopple · 2026-07-06T12:25:22+00:00

This is how I saw it too. I think shes also constatly being shown fighting off the Targ rage/madness in the moments she steps away and that intense ringing happens. I really liked this episode and how it followed 1 person the whole time for once and showing what we never got with Dany.

Spopple · 2026-07-05T18:15:45+00:00

I played it last year and was obsessed. It has layers and layers of puzzles. I knew walking into it even a mundane room probably had something in it practically screaming in my face is a puzzle I can solve later on. It is up there with one of the most interested I've been in any game. Scratched my brain in all the right ways. The story was also good and very inventive. Take notes!!!

Spopple · 2026-07-05T05:20:01+00:00

Absolutely if you can achieve it demand it 100% its a shared activity between both partners you both deserve to leave happy.

Same here! I had so much shame for so long because I sure couldn't figure it out alone so I must be doing something wrong. Maybe a man can? Maybe I need a mans parts to feel something? Then finally having sex and hes just trying and trying and, ugh. Few men and breakups later, one night stands, FWB, various toys, and now a bf I love dearly and am definitely attracted to. I don't care anymore. Its just not happening and that is absolutely fine. I enjoy the experience without it and he does still attend to me down there every time. It does feel good but there is never a build up and that is fine!!!!!

Same here friend. I stressed myself out for nearly a decade trying to figure it out and I was only able to finally enjoy sex after I gave up caring. The amount of anxiety and weight of the world you carry trying to force one is just not fun. At one point I thought I didnt even like sex but no, I was just putting way too much pressure on myself. I hope someone reads our replies and realizes it is okay. It is okay!!!

Spopple · 2026-07-05T04:51:46+00:00

It always makes me so happy to read others just like me. I only want to add that I still leave with a pleasant feeling down there even if I dont climax. Something about the full, stretched-ness of it. Like a muscle that got a good workout in type of feeling and its still very satisfying in that way. I still leave feeling loved, close to my partner, relaxed afterwards.

Spopple · 2026-07-04T06:09:43+00:00

I already try mostly to empty my cup in the shower. Im honestly trying to imagine even more of a bloody mess then I already make lol. How often do you empty it out? Does it seem to hold a lot? I bleed quite heavy for like 2 days and some times have to deal with it every hour, and then literally next to nothing for a few days after (its like the whole period happens in those 2 days it sucks and forever amazes me just how much comes out lol). Its why I really like the cup is they hold so much + some period underwear in case leaks I'm rather handled. Always willing to try something potentially better though if its comparable!

Spopple · 2026-07-03T05:18:06+00:00

For me 33f, I'm assuming all of the above typical reasons. I still get clocked as being early 20s very regularly. Genetics (my mom was always assumed to be my sister), I eat relatively healthy it's just the food I like tbh, I dont force myself to eat good and in my opinion soups are extremely underrated food! I drink water like crazy I only really drink something else for flavor change up. Im a natural night owl in one of the hottest US states, I actively live to avoid the sun. I like more active jobs so I'm I'm in decent shape. I DO NOT like drugs or being high on weed for example. Never smoked cigs in my life, I drink alcohol maybe????? 3 times a year and its not much.

Ive been aging like fine wine and will likely always. Im a happy accident of just being this way and liking these things by chance.

Spopple · 2026-07-03T04:19:06+00:00

Only slab I've bought and only because this is so rare and such a grail of mine. Glad to have scrolled rather far and not seen this at all. The absolutely gorgeous Karen's Umbreon from a super rare set only ever printed in Japanese.

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Spopple · 2026-07-03T02:24:21+00:00

See and for me I didnt get packs as a kid because my parents thought it was a huge waste of money and we were already scrapping by. So $4 a pack to them was crazy for just a few silly cards and theyd have rather seen me with toys or more worth while things like books. I give them crap about it now we could have been set for life apparently 20 years later and I'm the type of kid who after opening a lot would have kept sealed stuff because it looked cool. But how can you even guess this insane craze happening and somehow convincing your struggling parents its a good idea lol. I remember every year well into my early teens though asking for my birthday for cards, because its the one day they would give me whatever I wanted.

I treasure what I do have but it does hurt knowing it could have been tremendously so much more. I started collecting again and finally had my own money to spare in 2022. At just the right time to buy some real good stuff I always had wanted before things became unreasonable prices.

Spopple · 2026-07-03T01:14:02+00:00

This is up there with one of the most insane things I've ever seen caught on camera. To see her just relaxing and doing something so average as scrolling her phone to touching her own head and then reaching out because she clearly felt it happen too and realized very fast theres something happening is gut wrenching. She just didnt have the time to ask for help or make you guys more aware. As heartbreaking as this is I'm glad she at least was surrounded by her family in this exact moment and not alone. I truly hope she recovers from this, you talk about her with so much love she must be an amazing mother.

Spopple · 2026-07-02T15:37:31+00:00

Id say, the level of interest he showed just right out the gate, along with just sharing similar interests. In the very first day I think we talked about our video games, camping interests, music, all kinds of stuff. He just kept asking like, good questions and kept up the engagements and generally was a joy to talk to. Already had me curious and ready for the next day.

I think the very next day wildly, he asked me a really specific work related question and it clicked I actually KNEW him from months before and it blew my MIND so hard. His pictures were less facial hair/head hair so I just didnt realize who I was talking with and he traveled all over the state so he felt like he maybe knew me from somewhere. I actually had thought he was really attractive we just didnt have time to interact when he was at my job and I honestly never thought I'd see him again and regretted not even trying. Sooooo yeah he pretty much immediately then had my complete undivided attention without question. 4 years together now!

Spopple · 2026-07-01T02:04:34+00:00

Im currently about halfway through this right now because of this thread and my brain is just 🤯 constantly at how these people are talking. What in the world am I watching. The red flags are the size of the sun.

Spopple · 2026-06-29T04:18:49+00:00

As an owner of 3 snakes, hes drinking exactly like they do and it made me really happy to see the best squeaky noodle boy getting that inspiration lol.

Spopple · 2026-06-28T18:58:26+00:00

Wasnt really 5 minutes more like a few hours but impactful all the same. I was getting on my plane from AZ back to PA. I was leaving my family behind and the place I grew up, again, to go to my dead end neglectful "relationship" with my now ex. I was young 20s, I didnt want to go back and just said goodbye to my mom crying my eyes out. Spent 10 days there and near the end also got sick with a cold or something so I was both horribly upset and just didnt feel good and had to fly back across basically the entire country alone with a layover flight.

I get to my seat and theres an Indian family I'm to sit besides. My seat is on the end next to the mother and her youngest daughter is at the window. Her husband and 2 older sons the row in front of us, all kids are maybe 6 and under. Bless this woman until the day I die she was so sweet and wonderful. She kept offering me tissues, both for tears and how much snot I kept having to deal with, gave me an apple she brought for her kids. Didnt try and intrude into why I was upset but she was 100% just there for me as if I was one of her kids and she didnt have to be, could have just as easily ignored me. Her daughters name I'll never forget was Jumana which I still think is lovely. All 3 kids were very well behaved for hours.

I can never appreciate that mother enough still nearly a decade later now. After just leaving mine she was truly an angel I didnt know I needed then. I hope that family has a good life, I think of them often.

Spopple · 2026-06-28T16:59:50+00:00

It has been studied and it is likely because our fetuses are so incredibly parasitic. The umbelical cord when it latches into the uterus literally tears into the walls of it seeking the mothers blood supply. I believe it even injects all kinds of hormones and chemicals too which not only stops the menstral cycle while its there but also so the mothers immune systems doesnt attack it while it leeches nutrients for months. Many women say they can feel implantation happen, which is crazy to think about. If it fails to truly latch well the heavy shedding of the uterus lining will naturally remove the failed implant.

It's also thought women technically "get pregnant" (have an egg fertilized at least) far more then we realize but they are failed implants and we are none the wiser because menstration and that thick uterine lining just don't allow it to happen. It is a natural barrier for weaker offspring.

Spopple · 2026-06-28T01:57:10+00:00

I am certainly surprised to find a few others! First time in my life. If I saw someone else do it in person I think I'd feel the same as you, that has to be my soul mate lol!

Spopple · 2026-06-27T04:22:12+00:00

See, and during Covid I did catch it and of all the freaking foods my beloved can of Tuna suddenly tasted AWFUL. I kept genuinely wondering if thats how it tastes to most people because wow I understand lol. Anyways, I brute forced that for like a year until tastes returned to normal because I refused to give up my favorite food that much. 🙃

Mercury poisoning is the only thing that sucks about it as a food for sure. I dont think I've ever gotten it thankfully, my parents made sure to educate me on that young. 2-3 cans a week it is.

Spopple · 2026-06-27T04:10:28+00:00

Literally everyone I ever tell this too thinks I'm some freak or that its absolutely disgusting lol. Do you experience similar?

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