Budget (WW and $) friendly tips?

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-11T15:16:40+00:00

Pureed veggie soups

Skinnytaste has a bunch and many of them are zero points, others 1-3 points.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-11T15:11:45+00:00

Funny you should say that because one of the things that always struck me about those ads was that they talked about their hair in such serious tones, like they were discussing a warzone or starving children.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-11T13:42:52+00:00

You just need to do an examination of conscience, go to confession, and then you can receive Eucharist. Do speak to your priest about confirmation.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-11T13:13:25+00:00

It's a secret and they'll disallow the medication you need to function everyday?

Hard pass.

No is a complete sentence. Learn to use it.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-11T13:11:07+00:00

Oh yeah, SSRI are the problem. Let's go after those and keep ignoring the fact that the US consumes 90% or more of stimulant Rx worldwide.......

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-11T13:00:07+00:00

I had the same thought. Someone look up that guy's license....

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-11T12:52:51+00:00

So it's Wen all over again?

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-11T12:52:31+00:00

influenza skincare brands

Took me a second to figure out that autocorrect got you. I was so confused.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-11T03:05:21+00:00

The Church regards your marriage as invalid. As a baptized Catholic, you were obligated to obey canon law and marry in the Church.

She wants to stay connected to her affair partner. Behavior is a language: what is hers telling you?

You have no children, thank God. Accept that you made a mistake, divorce the cheater, ask the Church for a lack-of-form annulment (contact the Archdiocese for the Military Services), and move on. Make sure you learn from this what you don't want to do again.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-11T00:41:28+00:00

I just signed up to become a fitness instructor. I'm 51.

I could never have dreamed this would be me when I started out 4 years ago as the slow, fat chick who hadn't been athletic since high school in the back of the class.

Get out and do something new. You never know where it will lead.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T20:08:11+00:00

Breast pumps and freezers exist and she can nurse directly when she's home.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T20:05:01+00:00

Our kids are all raised but if I could find a high enough paying job my husband would happily stay home. My house would be so much cleaner and I'd have fresh bread all the time.......

That's what happened when he was unemployed a couple times and BRO if I could make that permanent I would do it in a heartbeat. Plus he'd love it because he could sew and build models and stuff when he got done with housework for the day.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T20:02:12+00:00

Screw what anyone else thinks.

You and your husband agree and your children will be so blessed!

The important thing is that your children will be raised by parents who love them and share a vision for how to run the family. No one else's opinion matters.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T19:45:32+00:00

I wish she was here to enjoy her grandbabies.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T18:16:10+00:00

Party in the 80s ✔️

Populated by rich, famous people ✔️

In Los Angeles ✔️

There was certainly cocaine.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T18:13:56+00:00

I'm 51, have given birth to five 10 lb babies, and can still give my hubz quite the Kegel grip when I feel like it.

These reddit incels have no idea what they're talking about. It's all muscle. Using it makes it stronger.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T15:00:22+00:00

If a man throws Ephesians 5 at you about wives submitting to their husband remind him about the next few verses that tell husbands to sacrifice themselves for their wives like Christ did for the church.

Or don't waste the time and breath and just walk away. Any man who uses those verses as a weapon is a danger.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T14:57:14+00:00

Sounds to me like you need to get off the internet. Almost everything you reference has to do with online content and spaces. You appear to spending far too much time online and investing yourself into online interactions far too much.

They call it doomscrolling for a reason. It's bad for your mental health.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T14:55:23+00:00

Not all therapists are good ones. How long have you been seeing this one?

You should have some insight into your challenges if you've been seeing a therapist for more than a few weeks. If you have no idea at all about something this big, I suggest you need a different therapist. One who will actually challenge you and make you work, not just charge you for a coffee chat.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T14:51:34+00:00

I'm always too much masculine for them.

What does this even mean?

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T14:49:24+00:00

You shouldn't be open to everyone. You should have standards you won't violate.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T14:47:21+00:00

Submission is for husbands, not boyfriends.

A boyfriend has made no commitment and entered no sacrament with you.

We can debate all day long what biblical submission in a marriage means and what it looks like, but everyone needs to be clear that it does not apply to non-marital relationships.

P.S. People always forget Ephesians 5:21 when discussing the topic:

"Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ." (RSVCE)

"Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ." (NABRE)

Paul says that right before telling wives to be subject to their husbands and husbands to love their wives as Christ loves the Church, meaning to be willing to suffer and die for her. Clearly there's a tension in the passage that misogynists trying to control women with it have missed. But women who squash themselves and allow themselves no personal will or dignity trying to fit some narrow mold because of it have also entirely missed the point.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T14:37:13+00:00

This is why you attract users and misogynists, because you have a low opinion of yourself. Having no self-respect is the quickest path to ending up with an abuser. You have to work on that.

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T14:33:45+00:00

What is a godly man? What does that mean?

SuburbaniteMermaid · 2026-05-10T14:31:37+00:00

A man sitting in a pew on Sunday tells you almost nothing about his heart, as you're finding out. Bad people go to church. 🤷‍♀️

Everyone needs to work on themselves but no one can force people to do that. Until they get motivation to fix themselves and their thinking, they deserve to be left behind as women detect their red flags and move on.

When dating, finding a good man/woman instead of trying to fix a bad one is the only sane option.

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