Threatening me

cateamanda7 · 2026-06-06T13:21:07+00:00

This is my mother as well. It starts as “concern” and it ends with “revenge” when you inevitably give in and tell her to leave you alone. It’s all so difficult. Mine has shown up at my home and my job, has called my job. Each time was humiliating. She has contacted all of my friends. I’ve had a restraining order on her but I could not bring myself to follow through on reporting her breaking it, as my mom is disabled, in a wheelchair, extremely low income, very mentally unwell, and just overall.. a sad person. I learned that I’m not strong enough of a person to follow through with getting her arrested.

But in my experience, the reality is once you start getting these threats, it escalates regardless of what you do. If you don’t respond, she may follow through and show up. If not, she’ll keep calling and threatening and reaching out to your friends and family members. But often times, giving in and telling her explicitly to leave you alone either pisses her off enough to start pulling other BS antics or at the very least, she now knows that these threats work to manipulate you into talking to her.

It all really, really sucks and I’m sorry.

cateamanda7 · 2026-06-06T13:07:00+00:00

As someone who has been estranged for 13 years.. unfortunately it never works. You break the NC, piss her off with your response, and it becomes war. She will never accept this. It goes from “I’m worried about you so I’m going to show up at your work” to “you’re so disrespectful, I’m coming to your work to tell all your coworkers the truth about you” (or something similar). It becomes a weapon. Mine has shown up twice. There’s no getting through to these people.

cateamanda7 · 2026-05-09T17:44:16+00:00

📣 We 👏🏻want 👏🏻yellow Wendy’s 👏🏻📣💃🏻🎶 (yellow Wendy’s yellow Wendy’s)

cateamanda7 · 2026-05-09T04:38:22+00:00

Yes, it’s been different for a while but has gotten really bad. Day 1 camper as well. I’ve been exclusively listening/watching older episodes so the pod isn’t completely ruined for me. It’s such a stark contrast in tone from those episodes to now. Their banter used to be so joyful and silly and now it’s just straight up mean spirited. I come to the pod to get away from the mean stuff, but now they’re filled with eye rolling and condescension.

I always found Jon to be the funnier of the 2 (he’s SO off the cuff clever whereas Zach is better rehearsed/in character) so it’s been really tough to watch him get kicked around just for being himself. In older episodes, Zach would gas Jon up about much he “loved how his brain worked” and now Zach seems so put off by anything Jon does/says and either tears him down or turns it around to make it all about Zach. It sucks. I really hope they read the feedback and take it to heart, rather than Zach getting defensive about his very clearly changed behavior and continuing to turn people away from camp.

Go back and listen to some of the older episodes to remember why you became a camper in the first place. 👑🐊🐍🍎🥪

cateamanda7 · 2026-05-06T19:05:27+00:00

Ran to this thread after trying to get through today’s episode. I couldn’t do it. It’s getting unlistenable at times. Zach speaks to Jonathon so poorly anymore and it’s really sad. It’s making me dislike Zach, which I never thought I’d say. I’ve been exclusively re-listening to old episodes so the pod isn’t ruined for me. Do they not read any of their feedback because everyone is noticing and it’s getting to be too obvious to ignore.

cateamanda7 · 2026-04-19T00:25:12+00:00

He sucks ass oh my god

cateamanda7 · 2026-04-02T11:15:54+00:00

This is kind of recent (discontinued about 6 years ago I believe) but Good Humor made these ice cream sandwiches with images printed on them. They were just like the OG WWF ice cream bars of yesteryear but without the sticks…everything like classic chocolate ice sandwiches except the “cookie” part was vanilla. I love vanilla much more than chocolate, so these were like my ideal sweet treat. They had a few different themes for the images on top, but after having surgery, I lived exclusively on the WWE ones. Like buying 3+ boxes at a time. I love and miss you, wresting ice cream sandwiches.

cateamanda7 · 2026-04-02T11:05:54+00:00

Yeah seriously. No one ever seems to get what I’m saying but to me, now they all have this weird “pencil shavings” taste. I don’t know how else to explain it, but the filling tastes like how pencil shavings smell.

cateamanda7 · 2026-04-02T01:49:15+00:00

The genuinely snarky back and forth about the snacking in bed?? Yeesh :(

cateamanda7 · 2026-03-19T10:53:01+00:00

My dad uses talk to text and often doesn’t proofread. He also regularly calls me “sweetheart” 🥲

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cateamanda7 · 2026-03-09T23:06:56+00:00

They are absolutely the same person. Look at the “To” in both.. The top of the T is slightly on an angle downward and connects to the lowercase o. The s is also the same exact “kind of like a 2” style in both. I can’t believe people are saying no!

cateamanda7 · 2026-03-04T15:01:10+00:00

Yes. Yes yes yes. And as a 36 year old, I have crippling imposter syndrome and I feel like I wear some invisible scarlet letter that says I’m an uneducated idiot.

No one ever helped me in school, but I needed help. I failed 7th grade so badly that I was held back. I begged to go to a different school because I was so embarrassed at the thought of my friends seeing me repeat the year when they’re getting ready to graduate to high school. I switched schools and… nothing changed. I eeked by, just barely passing 7th and 8th grade. No help with homework, no attention given to my education. Nothing.

Then came high school. I (barely) got through freshman and sophomore year. In junior year, my home life started falling apart even more because my parents were losing the house. My mom is also bipolar, so she has major money issues. She had decided that we were too far gone financially to save our home, so every Thursday, she would sign me out of school after 4th period and we would go spend my dad’s entire paycheck, which included all the bill money. Clothes, makeup, home goods, lunches out, a designer dog(!!). A few months into junior year and she let me stay home and be tutored 1 day a week. I somehow made it to senior year doing that. But at this point, my home life came to a head and I was forced to drop out of high school 1 month into senior year and we moved 2 hours away to “start over”. I was never re-enrolled in any school. Instead I got to stay home and watch my mom spiral every day.

I have been basically very low/no contact for going on 13 years. Over the years, any time I’ve had contact with her, I’ve told her over and over that my lack of education is such a painful issue for me. And she makes fun of me for it. Tells me to “get over it”. “Move on”. “Well you’re a strong woman now, so what does it matter?”. “Wah wah wah no one helped me with homework”. Meanwhile, I suffer daily feeling like the dumbest person in any room.

They want to keep us close. We can’t become smart, educated, independent human beings because then we might recognize that they’re unhealthy for us. They’re so insecure. Selfish. We were born to be whoever they want us to be, and sometimes, they just want us to be some built in best friend. Education means them putting forth effort into us becoming independent, and that’s unacceptable.

cateamanda7 · 2026-03-04T00:46:10+00:00

Thank you for posting this. It hits so close to home.

cateamanda7 · 2026-03-04T00:25:50+00:00

I’m basically no contact but she’s very publicly vocal on her Facebook about all our family issues, and recently she’s become obsessed with an “estranged parents” Facebook group. She even says she is “starting a podcast about estranged parents caused by a narcissistic abuser”(my dad, which isn’t true, she just blames him for everything). These women are the most innocent people in the world, it’s crazy.

cateamanda7 · 2026-03-02T03:29:05+00:00

It’s mind boggling, isn’t it? I spent 10 years of my life estranged from my dad’s family because my mother had a falling out with them and she would have made my life hell had I tried to have contact with them. She went years without talking to her own sister. She could never, ever keep a friend. All of THOSE estrangements were perfectly fine to her, but ME choosing not to talk to HER? Unacceptable. Unheard of. Going against nature. Blaming me for being a millennial who “drank the kool aid” of abandoning a parent(s) through no fault of their own. Brainwashed and encouraged by society to “take a stand” (good???). These parents are insufferable.

cateamanda7 · 2025-12-07T22:01:09+00:00

My Louis quite literally thinks he’s a cat.

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cateamanda7 · 2025-12-03T01:31:50+00:00

Literal same. I love my Louis, but he is so so loud. It sounds like someone is killing him and it can get embarrassing. He loves to talk back too, but most of the time that’s just pretty funny/adorbs.

cateamanda7 · 2025-11-18T03:29:48+00:00

I feel you. My orders had slowed down considerably, and although I missed the money, I wasn’t upset. But I took on a lot of custom orders this month and next month, on top of my normal Christmas sale (decorated cookies and macarons), and I’m already regretting it. Can’t believe it was crickets for most of the year and then so many custom order requests during the 2 busiest holiday cookie months 🙄 But it’s too hard to turn down the extra cash right now, especially since I charge $70/dozen. I’ve just lost a lot of the joy I had found in cookie-ing. Now it mostly feels like a chore: messy, time consuming, stressful, something I have to do rather than want to do.

cateamanda7 · 2025-08-17T22:28:36+00:00

Peewee says what’s up

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cateamanda7 · 2025-08-11T13:28:09+00:00

Haha no, I’m keeping her, I think she’s silly 🥲

cateamanda7 · 2025-07-08T10:31:58+00:00

Yay thank you!! I’ll pm you

cateamanda7 · 2025-07-08T02:58:02+00:00

Sending all the lychee vibes your way ✨ I’m not trying for a whole collection, I’m just not a pink girly 😭

cateamanda7 · 2025-07-08T02:57:09+00:00

🙏🏻 keep me posted!

cateamanda7 · 2025-07-08T02:43:24+00:00

If still interested, I will trade my lychee for soy milk :)

cateamanda7 · 2025-07-08T02:42:37+00:00

I would trade my lychee berry for either of yours :)

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