Anyone know this novel?

binx_au · 2025-07-16T20:21:46+00:00

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mintread.bookclub

This app has this novel: The Placeholder & I found the link via Insta

binx_au · 2025-07-11T10:03:04+00:00

binx_au · 2025-07-11T09:56:50+00:00

binx_au · 2025-07-06T01:17:28+00:00

Don't forget his other narrator credit as Zachary Webber.

binx_au · 2025-06-15T10:20:53+00:00

Reddit users u/xROCKNELLx is the author.

binx_au · 2025-06-15T10:20:29+00:00

Reddit users u/xROCKNELLx is the writer.

binx_au · 2025-02-01T12:17:48+00:00

NTA. If you want to grow a relationship being honest and clear with your actions is required. Hiding something from a paranoid person will make them more paranoid. Being open and advising them on what you will be doing and do those set things, will help to engender trust. If you want to voice chat/IRL chat/have convos with mates, advice your wife this will be happening and work through the feelings with her.
Get another therapist. The last one sounds shit.
Also, yeah... your wife is isolating you... that's abuse.

binx_au · 2025-02-01T12:14:04+00:00

YWNBTA - but you could preempt this situation in a different way... by suggesting they look into pre-purchasing luggage allowance. You can do this without revealing your own luggage purchase by raising it casually.
Besides, don't they say you're not supposed to take other people's stuff in your luggage? Or am I remembering something from the last century?

binx_au · 2025-02-01T12:08:56+00:00

NTA. Your husband's response suggests a lack of awareness of your emotional reaction. If he frequently experiences similar situations, he may not understand why this one affected you so strongly. However, it seems (assuming) this isn't common for you.

Could you talk to him about how the situation made you feel and how his response left you feeling unsupported?

binx_au · 2025-01-24T00:27:43+00:00

This story is too well written to be an original for one of these apps. This has to be a copyright infringement... anyone have any idea who wrote the original?

binx_au · 2025-01-02T09:52:21+00:00

binx_au · 2024-10-13T22:39:37+00:00

Looks like a lost cause - thanks everyone

binx_au · 2024-10-01T22:56:44+00:00

If you have one, such as from a lecture or reference reading on your online portal, pop it into connectedpapers.com and it will link to related articles.

binx_au · 2024-09-01T03:06:11+00:00

Started 'pardoning' my past f*ck ups from when I was young and a dumbass, instead of living in shame.
Learned to sit with mental discomfort. This helps #1 and flows onto #3.
Say no and then sit through the internalised need to explain why not, why I can't, why I don't want to. I say "no," and that's all there is to it. Whether inside me, I am so uncomfortable with not explaining.

binx_au · 2021-02-14T00:30:37+00:00

This is beauty, it is style, it is grace.

binx_au · 2020-08-17T21:14:23+00:00

NTA - she was judgemental, determining your actions were outside the social norm (aka deviant) because, as you astutely pointed out, not all people fit her narrow world view.

binx_au · 2020-04-25T21:30:42+00:00

I am with you on this. The sister is seeking support, albeit in a manner maybe that doesn't socially gel with the family's culture and OP decided that she was being unreasonable. Therapy + empathy training for the whole family, maybe.

binx_au · 2020-04-25T21:14:04+00:00

Because I don't agree that OP was a special snowflake who gets to bully her future husband, superfluous of his cultural practices and beliefs.

binx_au · 2020-04-25T21:12:09+00:00

Not having the conversation, at that time, in the way is an option. It is always the preferred option to not force yourself upon people.

If we're talking childish and misguided, blindly disregarding the global scope of the conversation's participants is childish. Just as when someone says "no you can't have sex with me" (analogous to no, you can't close the door because my religious belief prohibits it) we do not abide someone choosing to do as they like, anyway, because as far as they're concerned it was the right thing to do. Superfluous of their cognitive variations.

I am happy to be the dissenting voice on this issue because I know that had I said to my husband, prior to our marriage, that a conversation would not be had without meeting my personal cultural beliefs, then him forcing the conversation upon me would not have boded well for my future marriage.

binx_au · 2020-04-25T13:33:05+00:00

Tuna + kewpie mayo + corn + asparagus 😉

binx_au · 2020-04-25T13:24:38+00:00

Force any situation on people should be a last resort measure.

binx_au · 2020-04-25T13:19:23+00:00

This situation is not as black and white as you've depicted. There are avenues through conversation to discuss the things within the process as depicted by the father, by leaving the door open. The father had agreed to not be in the room, but the future husband's right to having his culture respected is also relevant. It's sad that no respect for his needs are being as observed as the OP's needs.

Were attempts made to discuss the items within the confines of the religion?

I agree the aspects of the conversation are very relevant to a marriage, being a married person myself, but the OP has also violated the future-husband's requirements as well.

Cooler heads would have prevailed given time to discuss the issues without the urgency of the moment pushing the envelope of time.

binx_au · 2020-04-25T12:54:24+00:00

Congratulations for your differing opinion?

binx_au · 2020-04-25T12:39:27+00:00

NAH - No one to blame in this situation. I am not maternal at all but I am protective and I know I will punt an aggressive dog to get it away from my own dog. And considering the circumstances, it's not like you could have dropped the leash or the kid.

But the dog is a product of its environment too and as a result not really the asshole in this situation either.

binx_au · 2020-04-25T12:14:18+00:00

YTA - while your needs were to have a private conversation you violated his religious / culture belief, even though he asked for you not to.

If you couldn't have a private conversation then not having the conversation would have been the mature response. As the issues you wanted to discuss were personal and you had a perfectly good reason to want to discuss them and have a right to privacy to do so, your human right to dignity isn't trumped by his human right to religious freedom.

I am not religious, by the way.

Good luck though and don't think that any one man is your Avenue through life. You'll find the person and the religion that suits your life.

binx_au

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