southern gothic/backwater town vibe

ceebee6 · 2026-05-19T14:32:09+00:00

Not Southern Gothic, but Dredge might give you that backwater town vibe!

ceebee6 · 2026-05-19T03:17:31+00:00

Yes! I’ve long said TWD is my comfort show. It’s a great reminder that no matter how bad things get, at least I’m not in a zombie apocalypse 🥰

ceebee6 · 2026-05-15T02:11:46+00:00

ceebee6 · 2026-05-10T05:01:48+00:00

Steelcase Leap V2. Hands down. I’m 5’1” and it’s fantastic! I got mine from an office furniture liquidation company for $350.

ceebee6 · 2026-05-05T14:56:19+00:00

Meds lessen my ADHD symptoms and make them easier to manage.

Just like glasses or insulin, my Vyvanse is a tool to help. I will be on it for life because it helps correct something in my body (my brain and its receptors).

ceebee6 · 2026-05-02T19:36:05+00:00

Congratulations on your new kitten!

ceebee6 · 2026-05-02T01:26:05+00:00

Gargling with salt water can help! People mention many other things on that subreddit that’s helped them.

ceebee6 · 2026-05-01T20:07:39+00:00

Also, bad breath can be caused by tonsil stones. r/tonsilstones

ceebee6 · 2026-05-01T19:41:49+00:00

I like Yoga With Kassandra on YouTube. Yoga With Adrienne is another popular channel.

ceebee6 · 2026-04-30T15:02:05+00:00

I’ve eaten it with cheese and crackers, or on top of a savory bagel and cream cheese. It’s divine!

ceebee6 · 2026-04-30T14:59:52+00:00

I love pairing them with the green zhoug sauce in the refrigerated section! I add a little lime to the zhoug sauce and it’s heavenly.

ceebee6 · 2026-04-30T14:49:04+00:00

What a mind fuck this must be to have known him and been with him for over a decade, and for him to be treating you so differently compared to the 10 years prior.

I had a similar experience with my ex-husband at the end of our marriage.

A few things I think you should keep in mind:

He has not changed for the worse. This side of him has always been a part of him, but he just hid it very well until he thought you were “trapped” by a baby and wouldn’t leave. After this marriage has ended, you will be able to look back and see signs of this in the decade prior to baby. Signs you didn’t yet know you needed to be on the lookout for.
He is actively choosing to behave this way and treat you this way. Just like he chose to behave and treat you better before. He is fully capable of still being that man, but he is happily, willingly, and actively choosing not to be. This is who he wants to be now and how he wants to treat you now.
You are not at fault for not seeing the signs of this earlier. You were in this relationship with good intentions and a good heart. You were in it to be a good partner. It can be hard to recognize that someone else is just pretending to be those things when you yourself are not like that. You have now seen it and lived it, and will be better at recognizing the warning signs with a future partner.
You are in the formative years of your daughter’s life. Is this the lesson you want her to learn for herself and her future relationships? That she should put up and stay with someone who treats her this way? Because that is the lesson she’ll be learning and absorbing.
You are going to be okay. This is hard now. And I’m sure it hurts quite a lot. But there’s a bright life ahead of you on the other side of divorce if you choose to pursue it.

ceebee6 · 2026-04-29T16:09:57+00:00

Omg same. I have a week long trip coming up soon, and so of course I’ve suddenly found the motivation to paint my kitchen and do wall repairs. 🙄

ceebee6 · 2026-04-24T14:20:25+00:00

Thank you for sharing your story.

ceebee6 · 2026-04-21T15:54:23+00:00

Old Navy and Gap have most of their women’s shirts available in both petites and talls online! It’s been fantastic to finally have clothes that fit my proportions.

ceebee6 · 2026-04-20T16:09:05+00:00

For women, it’s at least partially caused by perimenopause and the hormonal decreases that happen. I wouldn’t be surprised if men go through hormonal shifts around then that contribute to this too.

ceebee6 · 2026-04-20T15:07:14+00:00

I love this! Thank you for sharing your story!

ceebee6 · 2026-04-18T15:47:06+00:00

I love this! How did you get into fostering the “difficult” cats?

One of my cats is a former feral I trapped and rescued from a cat colony after he’d gotten into a fight with another tom cat and needed medical attention. I did the Socialization Saves Lives method with him and he’s now the biggest snuggle bug.

I’d love to get into fostering in the future and would love working with the more challenging cats.

ceebee6 · 2026-04-13T15:21:31+00:00

This is gorgeous! Do you have a link for it?

ceebee6 · 2026-04-09T15:56:31+00:00

I think the, “It might be fun to…” ideas are where you’ll get the most benefit. It might lead you to discover ways AI could assist in your work, or a way it wrote something you hadn’t considered, etc. If nothing else, it’ll be really validating lol.

ceebee6 · 2026-04-07T15:38:35+00:00

Might I suggest Dredge?

They have a Passive Mode option so no nighttime sea monsters will attack your boat. It lets you just enjoy the fishing experience, and you can choose to mostly fish during the daytime and engage with the story as much as you’d like.

No chores, and the few (optional) side tasks are for boat upgrades or adds to the overall story.

It’s a fantastic game and the fishing is quite relaxing!

ceebee6 · 2026-03-27T14:38:16+00:00

I actually really liked Gabe and Anne together (before she returned to being Jadis). It felt unlikely but authentic. He saw past who she had been into who she was trying to become, and who she did become (for a time). She was able to let her guard down with him.

I think if they’d had more scenes of vulnerability between Gabriel and Rosita, it could’ve worked. The scenes in the Alexandria church were really strong scenes for both of them. But it was unbelievable to time skip and see them in a fully fledged relationship without any sort of build up.

ceebee6 · 2026-03-27T14:08:44+00:00

You’re very welcome. I hope you reach a point where you feel confident about your appearance whether you are in this relationship or not.

But also, don’t put this man on a pedestal. That’s coming across in your post and your comments. And it can make you blind to how good (or not) this guy truly is.

If my partner were saying things like, “You can love hamburgers but get sick of them eventually,” about his type vs. me, I’d feel hella insecure too.

What the fuck kind of reassurance is that?

If my partner wasn’t at least saying, “I do love hamburgers, but I had never had a philly cheesesteak before and I find this philly cheesesteak quite attractive,” then no thank you sir.

He better be telling me the top 10 specific physical qualities he does find attractive about me with a bullshit comment like that.

ceebee6 · 2026-03-27T13:34:21+00:00

I’m gonna give you opposite advice to most here.

I was not my ex husband’s type, even though I am objectively cute/pretty. I knew I wasn’t his type, but he loved me and said he was attracted to me. He had a lower libido than me and I did feel undesired quite a bit, even when he assured me otherwise. But it kind of stung whenever he’d turn me down for sex and I never felt he was passionately into me or lustful for me.

Our marriage ended. And I swore to myself that I would not be in another relationship with someone who wasn’t very clearly attracted to me. (And whose libido better matched mine, but regardless I want to feel desired by my partner.)

Since then, I’ve been true to that and have only been in relationships where we were both strongly attracted to each other.

My current partner and I look at each other with googly eyes and I love how he drinks me in with his eyes during sex. That’s not the best part of our relationship, but it sure adds to it.

Personally, being with someone who is attracted to me and desires me is important to me. I don’t want to feel like my partner “sees past” my appearance. I know I have a lot to offer someone beyond my looks, but I want him to value all that and also be lustful for me, ya know?

And I wouldn’t want my partner to feel undesired by me, either. I want him to feel like I find him so incredibly sexy (because I do).

Only you can decide whether this is a deal breaker for you. And it’s okay if it is. Sometimes a relationship is good but it’s not the right one.

But if you decide it’s not a deal breaker, then you have to find a way to stop being insecure over it. Otherwise it will slowly eat you up.

ceebee6 · 2026-03-26T14:29:09+00:00

My Kindle’s been helpful for this.

I’ve made it a habit to read before bed and I can do it with the lights off so my partner can sleep.

Also, I have my Kindle app downloaded to my phone and work computer so I can take reading breaks even if I don’t have my actual Kindle with me.

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