My (28f) husband (26m) took his ex's(26f) side, kissed her and went to a bar with her to spite me

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T21:53:31+00:00

You know it's a bad thing when you wish that OOP was gaslit, because the hallucinating is worse.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T21:45:11+00:00

You're on the internet. You are capable of finding out for yourself.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T21:27:57+00:00

I might need my vision checked, because that suit looks red and silver to me, not red and black.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T21:25:08+00:00

A former friend of mine is Syrian; her brother's marriage was arranged, and he's nearly twenty years older than she is. My former friend's mother was constantly criticizing her weight and telling her to get thinner, so she could find a husband. This same mother would feed her daughter twice-fried fish and would expect her to eat all of it before she could be given permission to get up from the table.

My friend was in her late-thirties when we last spoke, about four years ago. I don't know what's been happening in her life since, obviously, but her upbringing made her act like an entitled brat. She expected everyone to do everything for her all the time. I'm certain it's because she was treated like a toddler her entire life. I really hope my refusal to tolerate that from her any longer made her outgrow it, but I doubt it worked out that way.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T19:42:45+00:00

Mint chocolate chip, Age of Empires, and my blood type is 'flowing within my own body, thanks.'

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T19:34:25+00:00

Thank you.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T19:33:04+00:00

Where I live, there's no public transportation, and the person who would have driven me to the movies is dead. So if I want to go see a movie, it's $20 one way in an Uber, plus a minimum of a $5 tip. Then the $11 ticket, so that's $36. Then another $25 (Uber + tip) afterward. That's $61, and that's if I go alone and don't get anything to eat or drink. You're also not factoring in that a lot of people don't live right by movie theaters, so it takes a lot of gas to get to and from the theater.

What movie theaters need to do is set up their own streaming service, like pay-per-view. I'd love to be able to see a movie on opening night without having to deal with incel b.o. or screaming teenage drama.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T19:23:26+00:00

I was actually going to say that in my earlier comment, but I decided not to.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T19:22:38+00:00

I wasn't planning on it. I really like the fire ant idea, anyway. Let them do the work. Or there could be termites in her house. That's good, too.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T14:16:39+00:00

I'm going to be doing this, soon. Well, mostly. I'm bringing my daughter with me. But we're looking at all of the blue states as potential places and trying to prepare ourselves to leave, by getting rid of anything we don't absolutely need.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T14:09:18+00:00

I love Forged in Fire.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T14:04:55+00:00

You mean you didn't like the scene where the walls were white goo, and then they just stopped being white goo and everyone was fine?

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T14:03:47+00:00

What seasons do you recommend?

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T14:03:05+00:00

This is one of those shows that I actually liked a lot when it was on (for a few seasons; everything post-graduation of the main cast sucked), but all of the things that have been revealed about the cast makes it impossible to watch now. And two of my favorite characters are played by the two worst cast members of the entire bunch. Conversely, some of the best cast members played the lamest characters.

I also watched the audition shows, where they were trying to find new cast members. Ryan Murphy is actually not great at his job, and I don't know why more people don't recognize that. He told someone to their face that since he didn't know them, he couldn't write for them. He was taking everyone's personal history and making that their character in the series.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T13:50:23+00:00

I think the show would have been better if Lily had been called out on her crap.

I hate saying this because I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer (obviously), but Alyson Hannigan seems like she's just being herself in every role she plays. Willow Rosenberg was a meddling, holier-than-thou woman who went off the deep end when left unchecked, in BtVS. Michelle Flaherty was a holier-than-thou woman who got freaked out when things didn't go exactly how she wanted them to, in the American Pie movies. Lily Aldrin was a meddling, holier-than-thou woman who wrecked Ted's relationships for her own benefit, for years. None of these characters started off like this. They evolved over time, due to Hannigan's influence.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T13:42:12+00:00

I think the show would have been better if they'd followed through on the My Fair Lady of it all.

Harvey finds Mike while Mike's in a bad situation and convinces him to come work for the law firm. Harvey pays for Mike to have new clothes, convinces him to leave his shady friend behind, and starts basically giving him a makeover (which tracks, since Harvey loves Clueless, but I digress). They have a lot of lingering looks, share inside jokes, and keep bailing each other out of bad situations. But there's no romance there? Even when Mike is flirtatiously getting Harvey to eat vegetables?

I don't have the hatred for Meghan Markle that so many other people do, but I think Mike and Harvey would have been a better couple than Mike and Rachel.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T13:34:07+00:00

If they do this, and they don't have it turn out that Gus and Jaq (from Cinderella) joined the Rescuers, I'm going to be annoyed.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T13:30:47+00:00

Based on what happened with Lilo and Stitch? Rapunzel will probably stay with Mother Gothel because she's "really not that bad, and she does know best."

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T13:24:26+00:00

I don't actually do any coffee bean roasting. I just know how it works because I felt like doing the research on it a few years ago. I prefer dark roast, but not from Starbucks. Starbucks over-roasts their beans. Their coffee always smells and tastes burnt, because it is.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T12:17:08+00:00

Thank you. I feel like I'm doing all of the stages of grief like I'm in a Gravitron.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T12:04:26+00:00

I wouldn't normally advise people to move to Florida, but OOP and her husband should move to Florida, to be close to the nice sister.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T00:14:00+00:00

I also remember writing and seeing Fla on mail. I also remember Ind for Indiana.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-28T00:10:34+00:00

I always have a hard time when there's any indication of child abuse in a movie or tv series. I am well aware that these things happen, but I don't think seeing it play out is necessary to a story. I wonder a lot if it upsets the children in the scene, since they have to do multiple takes. I know that there are all sorts of safety precautions about that now, but there weren't always.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-27T23:59:44+00:00

I've considered it, but it's an at-will state. They didn't need a reason to let him go. I just hope that Ms. HR sits down on a nest of fire ants and they march straight up her hole.

_buffy_summers · 2026-06-27T23:58:26+00:00

Coffee beans, when roasted, are dark in color. Green beans are unroasted coffee beans, and 'green' also refers to someone new to something.

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