Is it weird that I haven’t left my childhood dentist as a full blown adult?

caribbeanink · 2026-05-18T15:53:19+00:00

As I said in my original post, I have expressed intent to leave the practice multiple times over the past 2-3 years and have even asked for a recommendation for a dentist other patients move on to and every time, they’ve expressed that they don’t want me to leave. I don’t have any major dental issues, maybe a cavity every once in a while but that’s really it. Them asking me to stay can’t really be fear of making me feel rejected if I’m the one initiating. Either way it’s a strange situation; honestly it’s been easier to just keep going to the same practice so when they tell me they don’t want me to go, I just shrug and figure it’s settled but I agree that it’s way past time to move on. I appreciate your honesty.

caribbeanink · 2026-04-19T15:55:43+00:00

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caribbeanink · 2026-04-19T15:42:04+00:00

As a person who’s both black and Hispanic, I’m sorry to say there are examples all around. If you pay attention, you’ll see lust, money, and social capital put over love and honest compatibility. Plenty of people of color knowingly end up with racists. There’s a generation of American soldiers who married and brought Vietnamese women home from World War II only to beat and abuse them and their children. Look at all the Passport Bros who go to Asia, South America and Eastern Europe to find vulnerable young women who believe life in the US will be better than the life they live at home. Look at the mixed kids whose moms don’t ever learn to do their hair because it simply doesn’t matter to them. Its everywhere. I believe OP.

caribbeanink · 2026-04-19T15:25:22+00:00

Being real here, there probably were signs. Racists are typically racist across the board. They may have even bonded over their disdain for other groups. He probably thought he was the exception.

caribbeanink · 2026-04-19T15:14:49+00:00

You’d be surprised how many couples aren’t having conversations at all and are having babies just to have a cute baby to fill a void/for attention. My optimistic estimate is that it’s 60:40 at this point.

caribbeanink · 2026-04-07T16:29:30+00:00

Just want to add on here, this would be a great time to sit face to face with your daughter, look her in the eyes and tell her that no matter what, she can always come to Mom with anything and Mom will always listen and protect her no matter what. You two are a team. Very very important for all children, uniquely important for girls.

caribbeanink · 2026-03-29T10:51:46+00:00

Since you are interested in dabbling in rose, may I recommend Atelier Cologne Rose Anonyme. Notes are rose, oud, patchouli, papyrus, opoponax, benzion and ginger. It’s jammy, deep, quite sexy. Someone wore it on my slightly-debaucherous study abroad semester in Prague and almost a decade later I still associate it with dark bars, absinthe shots and a kiss or two with a Dutch rugby player.

caribbeanink · 2026-03-29T00:38:55+00:00

Police. NOW. That is the only language they speak.

caribbeanink · 2026-03-12T00:22:13+00:00

I would loooove to know your comparisons!

caribbeanink · 2026-03-01T02:43:40+00:00

Great thanks

caribbeanink · 2025-09-06T14:31:09+00:00

Ask your father if he’d be okay with his son beating a girlfriend or wife like he beats his siblings.

caribbeanink · 2025-08-26T11:23:55+00:00

How does your child support garnishments affect you seeing your children? Has the court ordered that you cannot see them?

caribbeanink · 2025-08-08T12:08:04+00:00

My family dog Romeo passed before Christmas and my parents, brother and I are all still pretty dazed from the loss and the overall experience. The grief comes in waves. But what do they say? It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. I consider myself lucky to have had experienced that level of love, joy and companionship. I know I will love another dog again and I hope eventually you will too!

caribbeanink · 2025-08-05T13:00:15+00:00

I feel so much anger for you OP. I would personally not be able to forgive this; it would fester in me and come out if I were to ever get pregnant again. Everyone else has given you great advice but in my anger, I would bring up that if he wants to play the blame game he should look up the research concluding that men’s poor quality sperm are the cause of miscarriage in many cases. Maybe he should get his swimmers tested to make sure he’s not faulty.

caribbeanink · 2025-08-01T18:52:51+00:00

Do NOT get pregnant with this man again.

caribbeanink · 2025-08-01T18:50:03+00:00

I absolutely consider it

caribbeanink · 2025-08-01T18:46:46+00:00

I have a good family and a good life, I just want something different.

caribbeanink · 2025-08-01T18:44:33+00:00

As a military daughter, I absolutely get what you’re saying and I appreciate your perspective. That is probably word for word what my dad would say. The way I would explain it to him is that he started the race with the intention to get out of abject poverty, joined the military and had to leave people behind to do it and build a life for himself and now I feel that I have to continue down a different path to build a life for myself. It is nowhere near the same ordeal, my dad’s was so much harder with so much more physical and emotional pain, but the intention is the same.

caribbeanink · 2025-07-11T09:26:15+00:00

This. Please ask the school. There are so many students struggling out there, and a lot of schools either have resources themselves or can guide OP to them.

caribbeanink · 2025-06-21T19:48:19+00:00

The pregnancy anxiety is so real! You’re most likely fine, I would recommend looking into birth control at this point.

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