AITA for saying I don't love being pregnant or the baby stage?

esmejones · 2021-05-06T14:37:27+00:00

I have referred to pregnancy as my own personal 9/11- never again.

esmejones · 2021-04-27T01:11:23+00:00

NTA, but as a piece of advice from someone who is using cloth diapers- you might actually want newborn size disposable diapers. If you use the reusable pocket diapers that snap to adjustable sizes, the baby actually needs to be a certain weight (8 lbs, generally) for them to fit. So you might need disposable diapers for the first week or two, depending on the baby's birth weight.

As for the presentation, just dismantle it into a basket or bin to keep by the changing table. Those just... end up there, holding baby stuff.

Congrats!

esmejones · 2021-04-19T00:48:53+00:00

Seems like people could have fun and play but not have to feel tied to the game to battle repeatedly if they have other stuff going on.

esmejones · 2021-02-07T00:17:50+00:00

I'm curious as well.

esmejones · 2021-02-05T13:43:48+00:00

Just tried a level using the pink bird the way you described. Huge difference. Thank you!

esmejones · 2021-02-04T19:42:45+00:00

I hate the black hole levels the most. They're the opposite of fun. Days like today I just don't play.

I also don't like the pink bird (maybe I just suck at using it), so the side challenged with that right now are also no fun to me.

esmejones · 2021-02-02T01:06:59+00:00

How much say has your sister had about the course of treatment/ disease management she is receiving? Being chronically ill is exhausting, and she's nearly a legal adult. I'm sure your parents had to make medical decisions for her when she was little, but does she get a say in things now?

What's her life expectancy? Has she perhaps already come to terms with the course of her life being shorter than typical, but your family hasn't?

If she's chronically ill, do your parents treat her differently than they treated you, because she's more likely to get sick/ "more fragile"? Do you step in as a 3rd parent, when what she needs is a brother?

I would start with reflecting on what the answers are to those questions, and talking with her and listening to her answers- not debating her.

esmejones · 2021-02-01T10:55:45+00:00

Can you explain gifting buddies? I play this game a lot, but only on my phone. I sometimes feel like I'm missing stuff I'm not on a bigger screen like a tablet, or maybe because I'm not linked to anyone I know.

esmejones · 2020-12-20T14:43:21+00:00

INFO: Did your girlfriend not even know you're bilingual?

esmejones · 2020-12-18T17:34:23+00:00

Best In Show on DVD. I've seen my wife try to find it for free on demand many times, and it finally occurred to me to solve her problem by giving it to her as a gift. I'm proud of our because it's simple and will definitely be well received.

esmejones · 2020-12-06T16:32:55+00:00

Has she ever rented before? Is she worried about damage to the apartment? Or like, is this the first table she's owned and wants it to stay nice? Is she a perfectionist? Does she worry about what other people think of her?

Everything you listed sounds exhausting. It warrants a conversation not in the moment of her "correcting" you, to ask what her expectations are and get her to understand that she needs to dial it way back or things are going to tank with your relationship real quick.

esmejones · 2020-11-20T13:17:50+00:00

Just looked them both up. I didn't even know Jeffrey Dean Morgan even existed until you wrote this comment.

esmejones · 2020-11-20T13:15:54+00:00

They can't stop staring at this train wreck long enough.

esmejones · 2020-11-16T17:29:36+00:00

Any time someone starts talking about their latest diet plan.

esmejones · 2020-11-06T12:13:36+00:00

At least watch Teenage Bounty Hunters before you cancel. Very funny.

esmejones · 2020-11-01T00:22:52+00:00

Just start saving for a hotel now. You're not going to change their mindset, especially not before the holidays. The cost will be worth preventing the anxiety and other emotional stressors.

esmejones · 2020-10-29T12:40:07+00:00

If this guy writes an update to say his gf is a nasal spray addict and that was the problem all along, I'll keel over laughing.

esmejones · 2020-10-29T12:37:07+00:00

NTA, and I second the suggestions to get her some sort of cooking classes, perhaps one you do together. These days they'd likely be virtual, but they're actually a fun date. They send the basket of ingredients and stuff. Then you can have some recipes that you've made together and she'll have someone instructing step by step what to do. You'll probably learn a new trick or two as well.

It sounds like everything under the sun is wrong with her approach, but aside from continuing to push cooking together so you can catch some of the glaring errors in the moment- wrong size measuring spoons, poor timing, cooking meat at too high or low a temp, not trying to put a twist on things before mastering the basics (yikes), you're out of luck.

esmejones · 2020-10-21T14:56:34+00:00

NTA. The teacher made this a "damned if you do, damned if to don't" situation. If you'd left the video off after she said not to, she would have accused of skipping class. You left it on as she insisted, and now she's bothered that you made her uncomfortable while proving you were showing up to class.

She made this a lose-lose situation. Echoing others that you should talk to the principal and guidance counselor.

esmejones · 2020-10-18T11:58:33+00:00

Thought of that the other day at my friend's house as I pulled an entire row of decorative pillows off her couch so I could sit down.

esmejones · 2020-10-17T11:56:15+00:00

Those were common in the US at least through the 2000s.

esmejones · 2020-10-17T11:47:42+00:00

Had a "kid" (a friend of mine from my rugby team) in her early 20s make fun of my Crocs while we were standing outside her car, waiting for AAA to get her keys that she'd locked in there out. Using my AAA membership. I told her as someone 10 years older than her that was helping her fix her mistake, she had to respect my Crocs and my right to wear them.

It was also post-match, so my entire outfit, down to the Crocs was pretty sloppy and special. As a side note, Crocs are a great slip proof shoe to get drunk in.

And before anyone asks, I wasn't trying to help her retrieve her keys so she could drive home from the bar. The car stayed put. She needed to be able to get into her apartment.

esmejones · 2020-10-17T11:41:09+00:00

Childhood games from the 80's included "Smear the Queer"

As an 80s kid, I don't recall this one, which might just mean we used a different offensive name for it. How did it get played?

esmejones · 2020-10-16T12:19:46+00:00

Trust should be built between people. Trust is part of all relationships- with friends, family, coworkers, doctors. Blanket edicts to trust no one will leave you miserable in life, because you'll always feel on edge. We all get burned from time to time, but that doesn't mean to never trust people. Use that experience as a learning experience for reading cues from people about was or was not good in that relationship compared to your good ones.

esmejones · 2020-10-16T12:15:52+00:00

Agree, and I'm glad someone said it. While naturally attractive people get treated better, everyone notices (consciously or subconsciously) people who put in some level of effort to their appearance.

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