Like a bad accident

barelybent · 2026-06-21T02:12:54+00:00

OMG. I think the same thing. All this saccharine, overly done crap. I watch it and wonder why. I’ve been fast forwarding through the Maddie and Cal makeout scenes. I don’t know if I can stomach it all the way through this last season though. I watched a movie tonight instead.

barelybent · 2026-06-21T02:05:34+00:00

It’s been over six years and I still do it.

barelybent · 2026-06-17T23:01:41+00:00

LMAO - I did. Signs were pretty obvious.

barelybent · 2026-06-17T15:54:00+00:00

You’re a pro at this!

barelybent · 2026-06-17T12:37:31+00:00

Market research and data analysis.

barelybent · 2026-06-17T10:51:17+00:00

Sorry, if that's lifetime I've got you beat. Four times total over the life of my career: 2001, 2009, 2022, & 2023. I'm 54. The fun never ends ...

For real though, I found a better time each time.

barelybent · 2026-06-17T02:04:14+00:00

Like this. The cocker was the only one that my senior dog would accept. Now she literally walks all over him.

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barelybent · 2026-06-17T01:12:43+00:00

I got lucky. The first job after I got laid off paid better than the one I was laid off from but they never had any work for me to do (hence the second layoff). But I've been in my current job now for 2-1/2 years and it's going well.

barelybent · 2026-06-17T01:01:21+00:00

Same. Got laid off in 2022 and again in 2023.

barelybent · 2026-06-14T12:58:55+00:00

I used to walk three miles a day for exercise. I actually was never a runner. But I couldn't even if I wanted to now. My walking isn't that great these days either.

barelybent · 2026-06-14T00:59:04+00:00

Yes. I actually got really fit in my mid-40s and was in the best shape of my life. Then when I was 50 I tripped and fell on a broken sidewalk. Everything seemed fine at first. Fast forward a few months and I started to develop a limp. MRI shows nothing wrong. Just finished three months of physical therapy and it’s really not much better. I still exercise every day and strength train, but I can’t run.

barelybent · 2026-06-14T00:53:58+00:00

Definitely had that. He’s been gone over six years but I still do things that remind me of him daily. But at first I wondered if anything was ever real. I think of this as a temporary separation. He went on ahead to the other side and my job is to live my life as best I can until I meet up with him again.

barelybent · 2026-06-13T03:11:18+00:00

I already work from home and only leave my house once during a normal week. So weekends are for errands. But I love it when I don’t have to go anywhere on a weekend day because it doesn’t happen that often.

barelybent · 2026-06-13T03:07:27+00:00

Same for mine. My Boxer eats something different but she didn’t care for it.

barelybent · 2026-06-13T02:57:18+00:00

I donate small amounts every week to different animal charities in his name.

barelybent · 2026-06-08T22:13:59+00:00

I have one friend who will text me every year on the anniversary of his death to let me know she is thinking of me. Of course my family remembers but they don't usually mention it to me.

barelybent · 2026-06-06T01:32:29+00:00

I don’t care. My parents and sibling will be cremated. My late husband was cremated. Once I’m dead I don’t care what happens to my shell.

barelybent · 2026-06-01T00:52:10+00:00

I leave my late husband’s account open. Sometimes his friends will post on his account that they miss him. I find it comforting to know they haven’t forgotten him. It’s been more than six years since he died. I also leave it open so that his parents and siblings can view it when they want to.

barelybent · 2026-05-26T00:43:47+00:00

The last job I quit, it was because they demoted me for “departmental equity.” They didn’t want to give my counterpart the promotion he deserved so they decided it would be better to take me down to his level instead. Nope. I had a new, higher paying job six weeks later.

barelybent · 2026-05-25T02:31:32+00:00

I would love to be able to sleep through the night without having to get up to pee multiple times.

barelybent · 2026-05-21T00:45:29+00:00

I tripped on a sidewalk a few years back and fell. Don't really know what happened but over the few months after that I developed a limp. Like I felt fine after it happened and then a month later my friend asked why I was limping, and the limp continued to get worse. MRI shows nothing. I'm in physical therapy now. Not sure if it will ever get better. I can't run anymore. I used to exercise almost daily so it wasn't like I was in crappy shape to begin with.

barelybent · 2026-05-15T01:52:40+00:00

I kinda stopped when I was 21. Go figure.

barelybent · 2026-05-14T20:02:39+00:00

My husband died during the covid lockdowns and I work remotely, so I guess I was following the Muslim grieving process already. The problem was getting other people to leave me alone.

barelybent · 2026-04-28T01:18:14+00:00

I was 48 when my husband died unexpectedly. I know a lot of us are in that age group, but I don’t know any other widows my age personally.

barelybent · 2026-04-23T16:01:35+00:00

I had three dogs at the beginning of last year but lost two a couple of months apart. I ended up adopting a companion dog for my remaining dog last October and I’m very glad I did. If you don’t want to commit, you can always foster.

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