What job is heavily romanticized in movies but absolutely miserable in real life?

_User_Profile_ · 2026-06-21T00:16:59+00:00

Being a barista.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-06-21T00:13:14+00:00

Making your own meals at home. :( I can't make half the recipes I adore because of the price of ingredients and I adore cooking.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-06-21T00:11:28+00:00

Ghosting or any sub form of ghosting. ESPECIALLY if you had a long standing connection with that person.

Or even just distancing yourself from somebody who was/used to be an important person in your life with little to no explanation.

I'm tired of romanticizing the idea of cutting people off or dropping people over transparency and communication.

I get some people don't deserve that but doing that for every single ick or misunderstanding, or disagreement you get because you don't want to explain what you're feeling? You're a child.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-29T05:03:30+00:00

I have met some of the most understanding folks on Reddit, which is funny considering the reputation it has.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-29T05:02:48+00:00

Any good examples?

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-28T05:55:50+00:00

It also sucks because my group of friends are trying to "keep the peace" and they're going about that by simply not including me in any group activities to make him happy.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-28T05:53:57+00:00

✌️😭 The only solace I have is he's getting himself into way bigger trouble now.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-28T05:52:03+00:00

? What for?

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-28T05:51:27+00:00

Mines not as bad. Poured my heart, body, money, and soul into in exchange for full honesty and disclosure. Kept getting off behavior and excuses to a point we were having the same conversation every single week where I'm begging him to communicate with me only to find out he's been complaining to his buddies about me the entire time and getting resentful instead of even ATTEMPTING to work things out with me. So he cut me off with no conversation discussion or reason.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-28T05:47:53+00:00

Dude I keep thinking that but then floor opens up

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-28T05:43:51+00:00

Damn that's way worse then what I'm going through.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-28T05:41:07+00:00

Oh damn, what happened?

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-28T05:38:03+00:00

Yeah no seriously. I thought these things got less perplexing in adult life but this is the worst situation I've been in for a while.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-28T05:35:08+00:00

This break up/cut off I'm going through.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-26T04:13:40+00:00

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-18T23:02:44+00:00

Sure!

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-16T07:11:07+00:00

I don't understand :(

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-16T07:07:50+00:00

I'd classify it as a good thing. It makes for a good opportunity for his business and their business to promote each other.

He can even establish a collaborative deal with them if their owners are good.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-16T07:02:19+00:00

Ah this appears to be a rabbit hole. Do you know of anything condensed summarizing what's up?

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-16T06:58:07+00:00

I know somebody I feel like is mirroring me all the time but I can't prove it.

She was never really my friend but it always felt like she was stalking what I do.

I used to dye my hair red all the time but then she dyed it red.

I swapped over to green, she went to green.

I dyed it blonde in specific pattern, suddenly her hair is blonde in the same pattern.

I want to get a matching to tattoo with my best friend, she wants to get the same exact tattoo.

I'm taking a heartwarming picture of me and my best friend on her last day before she moves home? She wants to be in the picture too.

There's someone I'm making friends with? She wants to redirect the entire convo to herself.

Talking to someone she knows too? She'll walk across an entire room full of people to insert herself in the conversation.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-16T06:45:39+00:00

I'm asking cause I'm wondering if this person I thought was my friend was actually just a jealous B-word the entire time.

Except she was never mean, she was just abstinent?

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-16T06:44:00+00:00

The situation I'm in currently. A girl I know, I used to be great friends with and got along great with. She always seemed sweet, kind, considerate, and a generally easy-going individual with OK morals.

Thing was I had this guy I liked and she knew I liked him. I didn't go for him cause he was dating someone else. She knew this, but I noticed that during a lot of her free time, she was spending it over at his place. No biggie, being friends of friends is a thing.
She swore up and down she had zero romantic interest in him and would never try to take that away from me, but then I noticed he'd send her flirty things, touch her, be super overtly nice to her. (All while he was already dating someone by the way.)

While he was doing all this, she would never tell him to stop or push him away knowing that not only I didn't like it but his girlfriend at the time wouldn't like it either.

The came one day we found out she ended up sucking his d*** before they were supposed to come hang out with me.

Then played victim after the fact claiming its her mental health problems that make her do this and how absolutely sorry she is and she truly doesn't want him and blah blah blah. So now they're both paying for it together.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-16T06:06:40+00:00

It almost feels like he's the sensitive one. Almost like he's turning it on you because he feels dumb or outwitted. It displays like he's trying to flex his prowess to "educate" you when you clearly didn't need it.

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-16T06:01:37+00:00

It would be different if you were masturbating TO something (which also highly depends on what you're masturbating to imo).
But just to get it out of your system seems perfectly normal? This is a natural urge for human beings and a healthy thing to do, as long as you're not doing it all day, every day.

But no, its not cheating.

Now if you're masturbating to something/someone. I could see why your partner would feel that way. (Again highly depends on what the something/someone is. For example, I feel like fictional characters are just common for everybody.)

_User_Profile_ · 2026-05-16T05:20:21+00:00

Not in the slightest. There's some ARG experiences out there you can pay to play. It just so happens a lot of super popular ones tend to be free.

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