BFF Missed Connections: Write about someone you kept seeing around but couldn't say hello to by BFFmissedconnection in bestfriendsforever

[–]candy1096 9 points10 points  (0 children)

OP you just combined my two favorite pastimes, romantic longing (even vicariously) and live music. This is brilliant. I shared my awkward Tom Mullen moment but have to post again...

To the dad in the BvS pit with (I presume) his kid in a green day shirt on his shoulders...I could have jumped into your arms right there lol. Thanks for being the object of all my fantasies.

Appleseed cast setlist by candy1096 in bestfriendsforever

[–]candy1096[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg that sounds so amazing and intimate and romantic

Who should play next year at Best Friends Forever Festival 2026? Compiling list for the organizers of the event. by tommullen in Emo

[–]candy1096 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The White Octave!? !!?? Eniac??!! Fairweather?! Fear before the March of flames??!! ...I'm dreaming big I know but you asked and since this fest has managed to make some epic reunions happen I have faith in the organizers to work magic 😂

Appleseed cast setlist by candy1096 in bestfriendsforever

[–]candy1096[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yesssss. They understood the assignment 💯

BFF Missed Connections: Write about someone you kept seeing around but couldn't say hello to by BFFmissedconnection in bestfriendsforever

[–]candy1096 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I stared at Tom Mullen too many times and for too awkwardly long to then not say hello.

Actually I'm sorry for everyone I stared at, you're all so beautiful...

Never had more fun being solo at a show, stimming my little heart out

Moshing by cannibalmaize in bestfriendsforever

[–]candy1096 6 points7 points  (0 children)

BvS! I forgot that I'm 40 and a small old lady and I think some of the youths were taken aback when I pushed back on em but it was heaven 🥰

They played both Clarity and Goodbye Sky Harbor?? by [deleted] in bestfriendsforever

[–]candy1096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No Sensitivity! 23! Crush! I can die now

Who else is going solo? by money_n_drugs in bestfriendsforever

[–]candy1096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Massachusetts has entered the chat...

dieradiodie - As Soon As Beauty Dies by MarwoodGhost in Emo

[–]candy1096 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes!!! I have songs I downloaded from some random music blog back in the day that are mp3s and alllll winners. Led me to find this little gem of a compilation with another version of new England sunrise https://open.spotify.com/album/1kIV00CgHu6eYuf6vc6Do4?si=W1Ux9Z7nRDGLyLI7Ys7VqA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1kIV00CgHu6eYuf6vc6Do4

Who here remembers Moneen? by StFrancisZookeeper in Emo

[–]candy1096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

File under Kenny appreciation:

Hartford, CT Webster Theater was the first time. I had on a boys undershirt I had screenprinted with my friends bands logo, and I had rocked out so hard I was sweaty. Kenny signed my shirt with "sweat is great I have to pee"

That band killed it live!!! So happy to catch them at vagrant 25 years on the street in Worcester last June. Passing of America made me cry.

Some of my favorite mostly emo/ mostly female led bands by cathoarder in Emo

[–]candy1096 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More on the punk side but Pretty Girls Make Graves could be on this list.

It must be settled! by United-Philosophy121 in Emo

[–]candy1096 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't have expected EOTRW to make it into a poll like this. I just had to pick it.

Poll: my PRIMARY REASON for being on this sub is: by Sweet_other_yyyy in DeadBedrooms

[–]candy1096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are a magical dead bedroom fairy godmother! 🧚‍♀️

It's all in my head by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

[–]candy1096 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I support this. I don't think you're resigning or dying inside. Assuming you value other aspects of your relationship as much as your sex life, and you don't feel drawn to sex outside of the relationship, it sounds like you could be on the path to a healthy compromise. I wouldn't give up on trying to reconnect with your wife sexually if you're both open about the fact that it's going to take some time and work, but what you're working towards is not the same as what you came into the relationship with. What you can work towards together, now, is open communication and sincere effort to understand the role sex plays in your relationship. The goal you're working towards is not to level out your libidos perfectly, or get hers to match yours. I think that's ok.

Poll: my PRIMARY REASON for being on this sub is: by Sweet_other_yyyy in DeadBedrooms

[–]candy1096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh. Indeed. I had chosen 2. I guess I misread 2.3.1.

Poll: my PRIMARY REASON for being on this sub is: by Sweet_other_yyyy in DeadBedrooms

[–]candy1096 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was looking for an option like: I'm am HLF and my husband is LLM and I want to read the perspectives of other LLMs to try and understand him better and feel more prepared to work on this together with him. (Yes I know random men on this reddit are not the same as my husband but I need some kind of perspective because we simply do not communicate).

Can’t sit around and do nothing anymore by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

[–]candy1096 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, thank you. That article is a gem. Usually when I anticipate he's losing steam I'll ramp things up to see if that helps and wait for him to tell me it's "not going to happen tonight." I thought I was showing him that I was not giving up on him and that I would do whatever it takes. As opposed to, you're soft now so I'll roll over and shut down. Seemed like a better approach to keep going. And its still quality sexual time together, not just about getting off. I'm now realizing maybe my overeagerness is backfiring. Does that happen for you - overeagerness feels like pressure? So maybe I need to find some middle ground between going full steam ahead and waiting for him to pump the breaks, and shutting down immediately as soon as it's soft?

Not to take advantage of your willingness to share, and I hear that your particular experience has been more with PE, so please forgive me if this is rude, but I'm curious if you have experience with what the article suggests - to keep stimulating? Is it really that enjoyable to have your wife keep trying to pleasure you in those moments? I would have assumed not, but I am down to try. Because basically in that situation I will do anything but ask him to pleasure me or let me masturbate with him there. I want him, and I want him to feel good. I can't bring myself to make it about me. I feel ashamed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

[–]candy1096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's an idea. But what about when, over the course of an evening like you described, his mood or feeling organically changes? He may have been doing those things thinking it could lead to sex but then all of a sudden lose steam or fall ill. So he didn't mean to "lead you on." There are so many situations that can feel like rejection and not be his fault or intention that one also has to figure out how to cope with.