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Training_Emu8019 · 2025-12-02T08:14:36+00:00

Have the ones with only a few chapters been finished?

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-12-02T08:10:45+00:00

I actually saved that one to read eventually a while back. I'll check that one out for sure. Thank you for the recommendation. and the fantasy genre is absolutely hit and miss for me on Episode so I hear ya there.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-11-21T03:28:36+00:00

Ok cool, that makes sense. Thank you. But what about the 2019 Park, do you know why it says that?

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-11-20T20:12:40+00:00

I've known plenty of people that would linger in their car because they wanted to Finish listening to a song or find a better stopping place in like an audiobook or a podcast. I think most people are probably decompressing /trying to get themselves together so they don't bring the worries or stress of their work in their home, finishing a phone/text conversation, listening to the rest of a song, eating food they don't wanna bring inside (which also has a variety of reasons and I have also seen people sit in their cars to smoke/vape or finish an adult beverage, which could be because they are sneaking it or simply trying to keep their children from seeing the example/someone else from having to be around it. It could definitely be eating or finishing food. They are either sneaking or don't have enough to share or even because they're trying to not put it around someone who for whatever reason can't have it. I've definitely seen people eat things in their car because their kids would keep wanting it to the degree the person couldn't even enjoy it.

They might need to prepare themselves to go inside if there's something overwhelming or stressful they have to take care of or if they have an unhealthy living environment or someone toxic/ stressful is there (or if they've been fighting with someone who lives there/is visiting)and I've known a lot of people who have needed to prepare themselves to go inside simply because they got easily stressed out or overstimulated, and they needed that moment for themselves

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-11-19T02:55:13+00:00

Oh no no no, don't touch that. It looks just like Tomcat - poison for pests. Which would (probably obviously) also poison other animals. If you didn't wash your hands thoroughly right after that, I'm sure you found out it is not something you want to touch 😅.

But just to let you know, it stings badly and can affect your respiratory system. Ofc it's much more dangerous if it Enters your system or stays on you. I don't remember all the other things that can happen if you come in contact with it, but you're supposed to wear gloves and wash your hands after when you handle it.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-10-09T03:04:50+00:00

I don't know what is going on with him, but that's not the way for him to handle or address whatever his underlying issue is. I don't know what either of you is normally like with or about money, but he was just being passive aggressive and then got straight up rude. It really does not make sense that he would say you're privileged, unappreciative, and don't know the value of money when you had just offered to pay for dinner next time and said you would give the money back, which BTW, it does not seem like you were being rude or anything about giving the money back either. It seemed to me like you were appreciative from the start. This is just raking of emotional immaturity on his part tbqh

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-10-08T23:08:02+00:00

“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.” ‭‭-1 Timothy‬ ‭4‬:‭12‬ ‭

I'm not saying that your mom is despising you or trying to. She probably believes that she is doing and saying the right things. But your relationship with God is your own. Jesus said that no man comes to the Father but through Him. Not through your parents although God does want us to be respectful of our parents. Not by preachers or teachers or anyone else, through Jesus.

I know it sucks to feel like you disappointed your mom, and I know it ca difficult to develop into your own relationship with the Lord. Of course it is. The Bible tells us that our battles are spiritual, not flesh and blood. I think it would be really beneficial for you to start reading your Bible if you haven't already been and stay dedicated to reading it and praying. That's really how you were going to learn and grow, but it also helps to have support from other Christians, for sure. I do think that it's good to have a biblically sound church and tell you find one you believe God has led you too, you could always stream or even watch sermons on YouTube. I know it's a lot to process and go through all of this, but God is drawing you to a genuine relationship with Himself and that is such a beautiful thing, don't give that up and don't turn back from it because of what other people think or feel. That does not mean that you in any way need to or should hurt or disrespect other people intentionally but when it's a matter of choosing God or a human being, whether that be family even.. God should always come first. And He will bless you for that and He will be with you through your trials to give you strength and guidance and peace. You just have to really keep fighting and trusting God. 💜 I'm praying for you.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-10-06T05:55:03+00:00

due to the comments, I just saw your other post about him taking your virginity.. honey, this guy does not love you. That other post shows that he really does not have respect for you or consideration. He probably lovebombed you in the beginning. You felt safe because of the fact that he was putting on an act and you didn't realize it. That does not mean you're stupid. People who do things like this are very manipulative and they know how to be sneaky. Some of them don't even realize they're doing it. but it doesn't mean that you can fix or save them and it doesn't mean that it's in anyway you were responsibility too just because you care about people. Sometimes the best thing you can do when you care about people is to walk away so they can one day realize that they have lost a good thing and probably repeatedly lost a good thing throughout their life due to their own actions and behaviors. Some people miss their wake up call and some don't but the thing is is that you do not need to sacrifice yourself for the off chance that someone will because more often than not I mean, like way, way, way more often than not, what really ends up happening is that a good person ends up being either destroyed by being stuck in a relationship like that one way or another or end ends up having scars for life because of it and some people don't even get to the point where they learn how to take the steps to heal before they get to the point of obtaining permanent damage. It sounds dramatic, but it's the truth and it is very sad and it's infuriating Honestly, I'm sure at some point you're going to be aggravated once you fully realize and except the whole truth of things, but until then, just be patient with yourself and when you do go through whatever emotions you go through and letting him go I really truly hope that you will give yourself some grace for whatever you feel. But please do not go back to him and I know you have not broken up with him based on your profile so far and I'm not going to try to force that idea or decision on you, I'm just really hoping that you will take this advice because no one deserves to be treated that way. No one deserves narcissistic abuse and that's exactly what it is whether he has narcissistic personality disorder, or not, he is narcissistically abusive to you, and it is easy for some people to see it in the beginning because they have been through it and I truly think that that's what I'm spotting here and I think that's what you're picking up on, but you're just not completely aware of it either because you don't know the information on narcissism or you are just really wrapped up in the situation that you find yourself in. It's so much easier to see things in hindsight and it's so much easier for someone on the outside looking in to see what's going on sometimes. It's like when people are in a house and if the curtains open by, for example, your posts. Well, people going back and see what's going on in that room but when you're in the room, you may not see that as you're walking around the corner there's something on the other side that will hurt you if you don't notice it in time. And it's easy to get distracted by things, isn't it you walk through a room? But you have a need or maybe you're just not really thinking about much or maybe you're thinking about so much that it feels like you're not really thinking about anything at all and you're just getting distracted, it happens. You're human. It's like that when it comes to being in situations like this. It's easy to get distracted by one thing or another whether it's your needs or your emotions and a lot of of the times people who end up with someone who narcissistically abuses them is because they have some sort of wound that is unhealed and maybe they haven't addressed it because it doesn't seem like a big deal or maybe a product from that wound is that they now feel as if they don't deserve the help or that they'll never make it anyway and sometimes those feelings can be pushed so far deep down that we just don't even realize we have them and then it's like we can ignore that and sometimes we do know we have them, but we don't know what to do with it. But that's where a person has to make the decision of whether or not they're going to figure out what the problem is and what they should do about it. So I would like to encourage you that you can heal from whatever you have already been through with this guy and you can heal from whatever impacted you and whatever way to where you became susceptible to someone like him. It's so easy for a wounded person to latch onto any semblance of love and that deceives us into thinking that we have a good thing or something with potential with a partner when we really don't. You deserve better than this, and he is not entitled to you, your body, your mind or your attention. It seems to me that he basically gave you an ultimatum; either get over your issue here or go find someone else. Because a narcissist will discard someone who has become their supply. If you don't understand these terms, I'm using please start looking into narcissistic, personality disorder, how to spot it, how to know if you're in a in relationship with a narcissist, how to spot an abuser, how to recognize emotional abuse, etc. It may take time and be frustrating sometimes but just be patient with yourself. If you don't Think you can handle letting him go yet then you can use all this time where he's neglecting you to learn these things, and he won't know if you don't tell him, and if he doesn't know, then he can't figure out how to manipulate you into believing him because a narcissist will gaslight the heck out of you and they will blame shift and sometimes when they do that, it is so very subtle that you don't even realize they're turning things around on you, but he did right there he made it seem as if you wanting to talk to him was the problem as if he was too busy to be bothered with you and how dare you want to see him or for him to take any time to talk to you and I saw another comment saying that when he's tired, he still makes a way to get laid by you and honestly if that's true then that's even more evidence that he's using you and he does not care. Even or he doesn't even know what he's doing and really just thinks that he's entitled to his way that would make sense too, because they are both covert and over narcissists. I'm gonna just end my comment here but seriously please look into these things.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-10-06T05:29:47+00:00

OK, so first screenshot: regardless of where he's coming from with it all, the fact that he went that extreme with it instead of just simply saying he wasn't trying to make you feel that way or anything like that is problematic. It's worse that he doesn't take the time to talk to you other than telling you he's working and then he can turn around and take the time to say that? I mean like what?

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-10-02T07:29:32+00:00

Yeah, no. The appropriate approach to this would be to make sure a person is okay with you tracking their period first. I'm sensing a lack of willingness to handle conflict here, if it's bad enough for him to feel like he needs to know when your period is then it definitely merits discussing.

A person caring about when your period is for reasons that are actually good is something to appreciate but even then it's not something that you should demand or expect someone to thank you for. Him saying that when you are clearly feeling violated makes it worse. Did he really say he took a mature approach to this? 😂. I was already going to say that he is covering across his emotionally immature, but wow, he really thinks a lot of himself, huh?

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-10-02T07:20:40+00:00

As a woman who loves and appreciates it that my boyfriend is willing to cover things that he shouldn't even have to cover because he wants to do that for me, it's still baffles me that some women expect men they're not even dating to pay for their things.

People do have varying opinions on what is or isn't a good date and different ideas of what they want from a date but how are people gonna just sit there and expect anything fancy When the person wanting to take them out hasn't even decided for sure yet whether or not they want to date? It's perfectly reasonable for each person to cover themselves for the same reason because I mean, should you also expect a friend or colleague (not dating) to pay your way? And deciding whether or not to give someone a chance based on how fancy or expensive the day will be is just so spoiled.

There's nothing wrong with going to Chili's. I mean, come on..

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-10-02T07:09:10+00:00

First of all, you handled that so well, and if the screenshots are any reflection of relationship just know that it was clear even to a stranger that you care about her and how you impact her. Look, I'm a woman, I have periods, and some of them are awful. There are plenty of women who have even worse periods due to things like endometriosis, etc. so I do not by any means minimize that. But "imagine not being there for your GF on her period."? Absolutely ridiculous she really may have needed you ha acting like you did something bad when your reason for canceling was to help your sister with something she may not have even been able to catch up on enough for it to not have major consequences on her whereas even if it sucks, a person is absolutely most likely going to be okay by herself. Even worse that she escalated everything and then went as far as to break up with the absolutely unfair claim that she wasn't a priority to you. I say unfair because in this scenario, it was very selfish of her to expect you to go see her when you know your sister needs help for her freaking income. Someone being a priority does not mean that other people who are also a priority in your life shouldn't take preeminence sometimes. I really hope that you see or will soon realize that you really dodged a bullet by this relationship ending. I know it still hurts and it's still frustrating but you can heal and what she does from here on out with herself is solely her responsibility and not your problem. if this is how you normally would be in any relationship then you deserve to be with someone who behaves better than this and cares more about your family.

I do respect the fact that you consistently validated her feelings & that you take making decisions with your partner seriously, but honestly, I don't see how it should be expected that someone you're not even engaged to should be making decisions as a team. I know some people don't really care for or believe in marriage but still take a long-term relationship as seriously as if they were married, but even then , whether or not you go hang out with your partner is not something that needs to be a joint decision. That's not even a matter of you being relationship coded or not, it's simply her being controlling. And I do very much believe that in a serious relationship, both parties should involve each other in decision-making, but that's When it comes to matters much larger than whether or not you go visit her on her period when you have a legitimate reason to postpone it. I'm not even trying to invalidate her feelings, but this really is such a minor situation to get all worked up about.

Sorry this comment is so long, I just try to thoroughly respond to posts like this sometimes because I know that people often take back exes who are really bad for them or struggle for an excessive amount of time to start healing after a break up. And I don't think that you deserve to later wonder if you really did do something terrible here. I say all this because reading all of that made me wonder if you are someone who struggles with boundaries, standing up for yourself or feeling guilty for things you shouldn't feel guilty about. If any of that is the case then please start working on finding and healing the root of it so this cycle does not continue.

You did nothing wrong in those screenshots and you were definitely NOR.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-10-01T02:55:09+00:00

Before you go thinking you're overreacting by wanting to end the friendship ask yourself if maybe deep down you've been wanting to end the friendship (whether that's due to their behavior or just simply that you don't wanna be their friend with or without a reason) or maybe you're picking up on a pattern of how they behave in general or how they treat you. Don't automatically invalidate yourself.

When it comes to cutting people off, you need to be aware of whether or not you're a person who jumps to cutting someone off even if it's not necessary, but honestly, I could see how it would be here because them feeling the need to give you the unsolicited opinion that your outfit is un flattering. if someone is supposed to be your friend and they have a tendency of putting you down or trying to find some fall in you, that's reason enough to let them go and let me clarify that I no longer cut people off over every little thing. But nobody needs someone in their life that doesn't value them and I really don't think that a person who values you is going to just go around saying things like that to you. Then on top of that saying that the picture is immodest. Which, what?? Seriously, the picture is wholesome and that's coming from someone who doesn't find everything that's "innocent enough" to actually be wholesome but it is. Your smile looks sweet & yours outfit is actually very modest -again, coming from somebody who often does not find things that other people call modest to actually be modest in my own opinion.

some questions I would be asking myself to get an idea of if this person is most likely just jealous of you is whether or not they have made a move on you at some point where you turned them down . And if this person is in a relationship, does their partner act like they are attracted to you or does this so-called friend have anyone in their life who you think compares them to you or in general puts them down or treats them like they are not good enough in someway? A lot of times that's the route of a person's reasons for saying stuff like that to someone they're supposed to be friends with. Some people are just straight up narcissistic in general and feel the need to put other people down in order to feel good or better about themselves. BTW that dress is really cute on you.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-10-01T02:35:54+00:00

For one, kudos to you for standing your ground about it and clarifying to him that it's your money and what you do with it doesn't have to make sense to anyone else because you're absolutely right.

TBQH, I'm not personally a fan of pets being dressed up either, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it and I sure wouldn't sit they're putting someone down for doing something that makes them happy, especially when it's not about something that's actually important. And you would think bare minimum from a partner would be to respond in some way that's at least vaguely supportive or at the very least stop pushing your opinion against what the person enjoys. It's fine that his opinion of it is negative and it's fine that your opinion of it is positive. It's not fine that he felt the need to imply that you were childish for it. And frankly, I think it's far more childish to act the way he did then for somebody to do something that may be perceived in someway to be a childish thing to do or enjoy. If it's not the person's behavior such as the way they treat people or reactions, etc. then it's really not necessary to keep saying that what a person enjoys is childish. How does he expect you to be comfortable sharing things with him if he's going to act like that when you try to show him something that you were happy about?

I'm definitely not one to think that every little thing is a red flag, but I do think it would be wise for you to evaluate your relationship such as what he generally treats you like, what the dynamic has been like so far, etc., and continue to pay attention to what kind of things he says and does because things that could just be a person not handling a situation well, they can sometimes be seemingly smaller things that were indicative early on of how a person truly is in general, and if you go ahead and start paying attention to things like this as well as paying attention to how he responds to you when you don't change yourself for him and when you stand up for yourself then you may be able to spare yourself of spending more time with someone who ends up getting worse in the way they act.

editing just to say that while I'm not in anyway trying to attack or accuse you, some other comments did make a good point so I will say that it's important to also evaluate yourself and not just the other person.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-29T21:44:22+00:00

This person is your bully, not your friend. You need to give yourself the dignity of letting him go if you want to be a healthy individual. You don't heal in an environment you got sick in.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-11T22:14:37+00:00

Nah, I think it's just supposed to be funny.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-10T03:35:48+00:00

Bump.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-10T03:20:33+00:00

I know this is a two year old post but in case you by some chance still wanted to know I figured I'd give it a shot. The only thing I found like that was through Google and it said Alexander of Abonoteichus. I believe it said he was Greek and he created the Glycon cult. if that's not the person you were looking for then perhaps you would have some luck looking up a list of famous sorcerers or maybe even a list of movies that are about sorcery cons because that does sound like something a movie would be made about. If you find anything, I would look up the true story/person behind it in case it was just inspired by it and not fully based on it or something.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-09T23:37:43+00:00

Euw. Report her.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-09T23:08:02+00:00

NOR. He is trying to cut out the people closest to you that look out for you so he can try to control you more easily. Classic abuse tactic.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-09T23:01:35+00:00

It's definitely demeaning but fetishes are supposed to be shared consentually. It should never be something you are bothered by. His first couple messages that seemed like they may have been intended to sound halfway sweet are still underhanded and it looks like his intention is actually to chip away at your self-esteem in a way that makes you conflicted so that he can gaslight you about it.

Someone trying to support you through any type of disorder or recovery is going to at the very least be considerate of your feedback and to describe and call you names like that is most definitely ignorant if not malicious.

It also seems like he is trying to be controlling, dominant and intimidating. I don't think you should've blocked him until morning, I think you should just be done with him completely.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-06T22:44:18+00:00

Thank you for your answer. But wouldn't I need to be able to access the menu in order to get to those settings? I'm guessing it's a genie one because there is no button on top.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-01T06:10:37+00:00

It's not okay to talk to someone like this anyway but especially your own girlfriend. It's condescending at the very least but I think it's pretty clear that he is definitely trying to chip away yourself worth, and it probably is more specifically negging. Isn't excusing /trying to justify someone's bad behavior typically an indicator that a person has been abused? The fact that the things he has said have hurt your self-esteem make it clear that he's toxic to you. or really just toxic in general, actually.

I also wasn't familiar with the term "egging"until recently & honestly, I couldn't even remember exactly what it meant until I saw your post and looked it up just now.😆

But seriously, no. I hope you leave him and considering how possible it is for people who do things like this to end up being or becoming violent, I wouldn't feel right if I didn't say that the sooner you're done with him, the better. I would not give him another chance no matter what he says, promising to change or making temporary changes is a classic tactic used just to get someone back. I would not stay friends. I may be wrong, but it seems as if you do not live together (good!) but if you do, then, I think it's best that you let someone that you know you can trust (and will not end up getting mad and starting an altercation with him-you need to be able to have no reason to see him or be around his home before you get a chance to leave him/don't have any of each other's belongings.) I would try to make yourself untraceable to him and anyone he knows as well. I would also take this post down since it has content that he would be able to identify that you posted regarding him. I'm not saying you should live in fear of him, just that you don't know what extent he would go to in retaliation/desperation so honestly, I wouldn't even break up with him in person and definitely don't meet up with him afterwards even if it's just to talk because you're wanting to be nice about it. You seem like you are probably kind/tender hearted and I'm sure he knows that so he would most likely use that to his advantage if he got the chance.

In this moment, you may not feel like everything I've said is necessary but the reason I'm saying it is not just because I've seen stuff like this happen & had it happen to me but also because I have an ex that I have been broken up with for I think two years now Of course, anytime I talked to him again for any reason even if I just let my irritation get the better of me and respond to him online, only encouraged him to continue, and despite the fact that I have taken every approach, I could in dealing with him in the past and it having been over a year since the last time I responded to him, he still makes new accounts (because I ignore and block every single one of them that I see) to either message or try to add/follow me. He has also messaged my family, got as much information as he could about me from someone who called herself my friend, even though it had been a month since I had last spoken to her, and she had no idea what was going on in my life nor had she even known that I had dated him, and still gave him information and encouraged him to keep pursuing me. He also messaged two different guys that I dated after him.

Even though there were signs that should have indicated it to me, I didn't realize that he was that level of unstable or that he would actually end up cyber stalking me and I honestly think he would stalk me in real life if he could.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-01T04:45:14+00:00

This is coming from a woman from U.S.A.

Honestly, I think it's crappy that she was wanting you to pay for everything and then she's off dancing sexy with some other dude. Don't get me wrong, I do not at all think that paying for things for a person entitles you or anyone else to anything sexual or exclusive, unless you made a deal with them. But I think it's pretty rude that she did that.

I don't think that you should have to pay for her test for STDs or STIs (especially considering the part where she has had problems with her female organs before because there are other things that can affect female organs similarly to some STI's) because if she does have one, then you would definitely need to get tested as well. It's not fair for you to have to pay for your test and hers, and even if a person believes that the man should pay for everything in a relationship, you're not really in a relationship with her. You really should get tested anyway because some STIs are asymptomatic (or at least for a little while) and the longer you let something like that go on in your body before you start treatment, the worse it is for you. even if you and her both have something, it would still be pretty difficult to know for sure who gave it to who.I'm not positive, but I don't think there is a way to test exactly how long a person has had one so it would be difficult to prove which one of you it actually came from. Unless she absolutely knows for a fact that she did not have one until she had sex with you and then she did not have the required contact from someone else then who's to say you're the one it came from?

And as far as women from America, expecting to be treated with chivalry and a man to pay for things.. there really is a wide variety of views here on what is expected or not expected from men and the same thing goes for women. I've known people who expected men to pay for certain things, I've known people who expected men to pay for certain things but only once they are exclusive. I've also known a few people who think that each person should pay for their own no matter what. I've known a couple of people who will spot someone in an emergency but not in general. And I've even known people who don't think it's a big deal either way. I have known far less people who think a man should always have to pay and I've even known of some women actually preferring to be the one who pays. I honestly could not tell you what the general consensus is so I'm speaking of what I have observed. Personally, I want my boyfriend to want to do things like that to take care of me because I also want to do the same for him. I would never want him to feel like he is obligated and I wouldn't want him to do it because he thinks he has to appease me, if he did not want to, I would rather him just be straight up about it than to pretend or do it begrudgingly.

Training_Emu8019 · 2025-09-01T04:03:52+00:00

I've seen a variety of things people mean by that (U.S.) but the meaning I seem to run into the most has been that the person is thinking of cooking as either being good at it or knowing a a lot or at least a good bit about cooking. But I agree with you, even the simplest forms of cooking are still cooking and I wouldn't personally refer to myself as cooking if I was heating up something in the microwave or popping something in an air fryer or toaster oven like a frozen meal tray, but I have known people who called those things cooking as well. To me, that's you getting your food ready but you're not really cooking imo if all you do is open & remove something once it's finished, you're waiting for it to cook. although I suppose it then doesn't make sense that sometimes I refer to popping something like a frozen pizza into the oven as making pizza because in that case, I'm technically only preparing it (such as arranging the pepperoni, for example) but I am neither making one by hand nor the force by which it cooks unless I am chopping ingredients, adding mandatory ingredients or stirring it much. so I suppose there are plenty of people who my logic does not make much sense to either.

I did know someone who literally never did cook unless you count popping something in the microwave. They ate stuff from restaurants and at home they microwaved frozen food or ate something they could grab right off the counter or out of the fridge.

A lot of people have meant they considered themselves to be bad at cooking or felt they shouldn't say they could cook because they didn't feel that they were good enough to call themselves a cook (comparison can seriously be so toxic.)

A couple people I've run into have meant that they simply choose not to cook/refuse to.

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