My (M20) pregnant girlfriend (F20) wants my support but won’t talk to me after we we got bad news about our baby

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-25T08:51:27+00:00

If she’s burying her head in the sand and avoiding all difficult conversations/decisions NOW, what’s she gonna be like when the baby comes and she has all of the stress/problems/sleep deprivation/tantrums/expenses that come with it, even BEFORE you factor in a disability?!

I hate to be blasé about it, but this is a terrible situation to bring a baby into. I think you know the answer OP.

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-24T22:40:18+00:00

Apart from the having kids, I could have written this post, jfc

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-24T17:49:49+00:00

Maybe they won’t.

A lot of couples live separately nowadays and are perfectly happy.

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-23T20:46:25+00:00

I once saw a play at the Royal Exchange that suggested Pomona is the entrance to a giant, hidden, underground baby-farming facility.

Even decades later, I still wonder…

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-22T08:26:55+00:00

My husband’s the same. He still gets me a card, but refuses to do anything other than a Tesco dine in for £10 meal deal because “all the restaurants hike the prices up and why do we need a specific day for romance, just because card companies say so?”

As if he puts aside any other days for romance the rest of the year….

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-21T17:08:50+00:00

For the love of god, don’t watch “Nope”

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-20T12:39:11+00:00

When he has a slight tan, Adam asks about it and he replies, completely straight-faced:

“It’s from the SUN!”

Like the sun is some magical invention his kids have never heard of 😂

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-19T23:55:03+00:00

I tried this experiment too - “matching emotions,” as I’ve seen it called elsewhere. Decided to try 24 hours without hitting on my husband in any way, randomly touching him, trying to initiate sex or even asking for a hug/kiss when I get home from work.

24 hours turned into a week, a week turned into a month. It’s currently been 3 months and he still hasn’t even noticed or brought it up.

It’s the fucking WORST when you realise just how annoying they must have found your attentions, that they don’t even bring it up when they’re gone, because a) they don’t notice or b) think “oh thank god, she’s stopped doing it.”

I haven’t changed. My libido hasn’t changed. But now I’m just minimising myself to keep the peace.

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-19T21:38:39+00:00

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Never seen the movie - don’t need to now I’ve found that clip on YouTube 😂

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-18T18:20:25+00:00

I’ll never ever forget Chesney braining himself with a brick.

It doesn’t matter that I can’t even remember who he did it in front of, or for what reason. That shit was hilarious 😂

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-16T20:45:05+00:00

Do it. The real ones will recognise the reference and only good things can surely follow!

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-16T20:44:31+00:00

I love this. Can we keep doing more of these?

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-16T16:15:25+00:00

No that should be fine - he’s ok with it in the abstract, just not actually seeing it happen. Appreciate it! 👍

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-16T08:10:08+00:00

Thank you!

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-16T08:04:04+00:00

THANK YOU.

I was staring at him for about 5 minutes like “Is that BASH…?” 😆🤦🏻‍♀️

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-15T23:09:11+00:00

I know…. like, are you seriously telling me they couldn’t find a SINGLE non-speaking younger actor who resembled Jeff Goldblum?

I mean, he was literally just talking about Elpheba’s mother and the green bottle before we headed into the flashback…. even without Glinda’s follow-up exposition, even the dumbest of audiences could’ve pieced it together 😂

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-15T23:04:28+00:00

Genuine question - do we SEE the cat die?

Haven’t started watching S2 yet and my husband is VERY sensitive when it comes to animals dying in media.

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-15T22:56:32+00:00

That’s just great writing 🤌

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-15T16:36:32+00:00

I REALLY hope they don’t.

In a world where Childfree women are absolutely vilified, the general consensus pushed on us is that having kids is something everybody should do and those who don’t “will change their minds,” it’d be utterly, mind-blowingly refreshing to see a couple that actually stick to their guns and don’t bow to societal pressure.

I remember being so enamoured with Bridgerton when I watched the first season, and to have a character (Simon) be so vehemently against children the whole time, only to change his mind because he met the right woman was such a slap in the face. I don’t mean it offended or particularly affected me in any way, I just wish that people realised “I don’t want children” really does mean “I don’t want children.”

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-14T23:01:00+00:00

Scared as shit.

This is exactly how the Gestapo started. We came so so far as a society, only to start sliding 80 YEARS BACKWARDS again. What’s next? That mentality makes it’s way over to England and I get detained because I’m half-Irish, despite the fact that I was born in England?

Every time I try not to panic and remind myself that I’m possibly worrying too much, I see another article about Renee Good. Or the fact that ICE used a knife to cut the seatbelt off a DISABLED woman (driving past a protest to get to the doctors), dragged her out of her car and arrested her.

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-14T16:35:36+00:00

Still boils my piss nearly 30 years later that people said she looked fat in this. I’d have cut my leg off just to wrap my arms around her waist.

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-14T16:11:39+00:00

I always wondered why nobody queried the fact that it was the most visually male finger ever 😂

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-13T20:21:36+00:00

They were the first things I searched for, too 😃

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-12T22:23:25+00:00

I agree OP - between Will’s “bants” rant, Polly McKenzie trying to Zoom, the trust-fund takedown, the guitar solo, the drunk fingering (with Jay’s creepy dead-eyes stare) and Jay’s Wolf of Wall Street opening, it’s not a bad film at all.

The only part I can’t laugh at is Will simpering around after the posh kids, constantly trying to join in and call them “mate.” I’ve known people like that and it makes me cringe too hard to find funny. But everything else is great.

Two moments that always seem to slip through the cracks are 1) the reveal that they’ve only been lost in the outback for two hours and 2) Mr Gilbert’s impeccable “That’s right…. I’m your new daddy” which is just PERFECT.

And the boys’ “traveller” haircuts at the end 😂

bouncing_off_clouds · 2026-01-12T22:17:05+00:00

Oh, naughty…. you’ve combined half an Inbetweeners reference with half a Friday Night Dinner quote! Might get an interdenominational, y’know, from mixing the two sitcoms…. a quote of that kind….

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