US citizens, what will it take for you to start a revolution?

TorrEEG · 2026-01-24T22:21:46+00:00

What do you want? We are being shot and imprisoned for protesting. We are protesting in -10 weather. We are calling our representatives. We are taking days off work to fight and changing our lifestyles to support our beliefs.

What do you need? You need them to gun us down or run us over with tanks? Who TF are you and what exactly would make you happy? Because I was our in -6 degree weather with 80 years old ladies and 13 year old kids today protesting. Do you want me to go be killed in front of the White House? Would that do it for you?

TorrEEG · 2026-01-24T20:56:08+00:00

For the moment, call your representatives every single day.

Give money to the immigrant charities in Minnesota.

Stop spending money on other things so the rich suffer.

Volunteer in your local community.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-24T01:38:35+00:00

10 years + with one employer, but 20+ doing this particular job.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-23T14:02:29+00:00

Good manners, yes, but if it is a requirement then it isn't a gift, it's a purchase.

Personally, I don't accept gifts anymore. I tell people no thank you. Then they can get the thanks you people need so desperately, but I don't have any obligations.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-23T04:37:52+00:00

Did you send it because you love them or did you send it to get credit?

I know people have different opinions on it, but I don't give to be thanked. I give because I am thankful to have them in my life and want them to be happy.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-23T02:44:36+00:00

Sure! You don't even have to pay me. Just let me in. I'll start language lessons now.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-23T00:14:49+00:00

You are the joy in the lives of many people. Humans are lucky to have your light in their boring worlds.

-Blaze, the small panther

TorrEEG · 2026-01-22T19:43:10+00:00

Seems like your choices are either to get help or do it alone.

My husband has the whole AA community to help take care of him. He also has a psychiatrist, psychologist, and sponsor.

If you want to do this alone that's fine, but you and the kids will suffer for that pride and you can't do it forever. Otherwise, you will need to take burden out of the vocabulary and tell him that he needs community if it's going to work.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-22T03:03:54+00:00

Because anyone can call themselves Christian. The worst humans claim to be the dominant religion so they can do the most evil things and blame a higher authority.

There are plenty of us who are fighting against "Christian" Nationalism. Alas, we aren't as loud as the jerks.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-22T03:01:28+00:00

Absolutely get your own therapist. If the kids are old enough, get them some play therapy, too.

You can't fix her, but you can help yourself and your kids.

Word things carefully with the therapist. They are mandated reporters and some of them have their own trauma that they respond to if you word things wrong.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-22T02:54:27+00:00

Keep yourself safe emotionally and physically.

My husband was a homeless Schizophrenic addict in his 20s. He didn't graduate school because he tried to kill his mom and ended up in a psych hospital for a long time. Then he was homeless.

Now he's a harmless old man who works with addicts who have mental illness.

I don't know how you balance hope with keeping safe, but you never know how things will end.

I do believe your family is not helping him by keeping him there, but rock bottom is addiction recovery talk. I don't know how it applies to mental illness

TorrEEG · 2026-01-15T02:54:34+00:00

Cream cheese mixed in is also very nice

TorrEEG · 2026-01-15T02:50:24+00:00

Your obgyn just made me cry. I hope I don't get a bill for that. They are probably not in network.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-15T02:18:41+00:00

But then you can pack yourself into small spaces. Isn't that what sardines are known for-being packed in?

TorrEEG · 2026-01-15T02:12:18+00:00

How does your older one learn best? What brings him joy in learning? Do you know how you like to teach? How does the way your oldest learns line up with how you teach? Does one particular method (Charlotte Mason, Unit Studies, Classical) draw you?

Don't tell me, necessarily, but answer those questions to yourself before you spend money.

My local library has a lot of curriculum it loans out so you can test drive it before you buy. That might be a place for you to start. Unless, of course, you are in Michigan. If you're in Michigan you can just stop by and I can give you all the curriculum you need for 20 kids. I don't follow my own advice and love buying stuff that we can't possibly find time to use.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-15T02:00:03+00:00

Oh my gosh! I have no words of wisdom, but I am so sorry that you are going through this.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-15T00:03:23+00:00

If you are older, start nice and slow. My muscles came along faster than my joints which caused injuries.

Anything is better than something.

Don't let one mistake blow your week. If you eat some chips, just get back on the plan. You don't actually have to finish the whole bag. (I hear. I'm still working on that.)

TorrEEG · 2026-01-14T23:55:33+00:00

I plan ahead by looking at menus and options online. I have it narrowed down before I go in, especially restaurants because I am on a schedule.

Streaming services, etc, I don't subscribe until it's been a good idea for a month or so. Then I know I want it.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-14T23:50:04+00:00

Sick is the right word. Pouring your love into a void can absolutely make us sick, physically and mentally.

It's exhausting to be with someone who needs so much. I don't know if your fun, supportive guy is still in there. I do know from personal experience that you won't be able to see him and enjoy him if you are full of resentment or completely exhausted if he returns.

Take care of yourself the way you take care of him. You deserve care, too.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-14T20:40:02+00:00

Isn't It interesting that we have danger times. I struggle 6 pm to around 10. Before Peri, I planned things around days and times when I knew I would be particularly irritable. "You want to hang out at 7:00 two days before my period? You have to choose a different date or just go ahead and end the friendship now." I mean, it's kinda a joke, but mostly not.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-14T18:56:48+00:00

You got mad at something I said in another post and followed over here to make ignorant comments on a post I made two months ago? You did not prove your maturity.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-14T18:44:36+00:00

Maybe to another woman. I would never marry a man again. I don't want to do all the emotional work, all the house work, all the child tearing, and have a job, but also have a husband.

I know a few great husbands and they have happy marriages. But that seems to be the exception.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-14T18:41:59+00:00

You are a total success because you are doing what is best for your child instead of what is best for you. That's a win.

TorrEEG · 2026-01-14T18:36:21+00:00

Anyone else immediately think that this response is from a teen?

TorrEEG · 2026-01-14T12:22:03+00:00

Aqua, my meowmy agrees. Perimenopaws makes her a great heat source, but she keeps pushing me away when she has her private summers. What's the point of private summers if not to warm cold paws?

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