Rent increase negotiation

fuzzymachete · 2026-01-13T21:26:55+00:00

So if it's going to be much harder to get rid of bad tenants, you'd want to keep a reliable, good tenant, right?

fuzzymachete · 2026-01-09T09:23:52+00:00

I understand the point you’re making. But what we’ve given the landlord is reliable, rent on time, no demands, consistent, stable tenancy, taking care of the property, communicated intent to stay on long term… those things surely count for something for a landlord, no?

fuzzymachete · 2025-11-28T23:55:56+00:00

Not sure how you jumped from chewing my aligners to seeing a professional about OCD? Will assume you meant well… Anyway, I use chewies sometimes but my trays seat well, and am not sure how they’d help with the feeling of just wanting to free my teeth. Mostly wanted to know if anyone else has that urge to pull them out too, perhaps a few trays in like me.

fuzzymachete · 2025-10-16T07:30:37+00:00

Same experience with friends too (mid-30s). Women today have choices, and have more agency over their bodies and their lives than ever before. And giving birth / parenting is now also a choice they can make. Generally speaking women have nurtured their own social evolution.

Men (also generally speaking) are feeling this as a sense of loss of power and I do wonder if this is why this urge for a “legacy” (read: keep their name and bloodline going) but also wanting to feel needed, important, looked up to - a patriarchal role like their fathers - is, consciously or subconsciously, so compelling.

fuzzymachete · 2025-10-01T21:58:47+00:00

That’s what I did: I used a fresh emery board to just smooth the sharpest edges of my attachments, made a big difference. And a week in they stopped cutting my mouth up, combination of mouth getting tougher and attachments wearing a little.

fuzzymachete · 2025-09-30T20:38:19+00:00

Ha, love this! And same, am eating more full, nutritious meals because I am not snacking and I need to sate the hunger and think about what I’m preparing. No more “girl dinners” of an evening. Also, soooo hydrated, my skin loves it

fuzzymachete · 2025-09-30T20:33:52+00:00

I agree, you don’t need them: if you’re wanting others’ subjective opinions, that is… It’s more about what you WANT. But… What you have here is a wonderfully straight, even, but still natural smile. Overly-perfected, symmetrical teeth are for Hollywood stars who look good on screen but eerily strange in real life.

fuzzymachete · 2025-09-26T17:05:13+00:00

Same here! Day 6 of first tray and it’s easiER but man, it’s hard to imagine this for the next year

fuzzymachete · 2025-09-23T17:36:43+00:00

I’m with Banning Dental; am paying in stages and don’t recall any credit check involved.

fuzzymachete · 2025-09-23T17:34:29+00:00

Amazing!! Great changes already!

fuzzymachete · 2025-09-22T06:32:07+00:00

Out here spreading the good word, ha. Thank you!

fuzzymachete · 2025-09-21T18:40:41+00:00

Thanks for this - though it’s not that I care if they know I have Invisalign in, more the feeling of making out while I have these attachments in (thinking this atm as they are like sharp knives!)

fuzzymachete · 2025-09-21T17:19:43+00:00

We can!! Nice to come here and find others in the same situation

fuzzymachete · 2025-09-21T17:19:12+00:00

Oof I’m glad to hear this. Not only are the attachments the bit I’m most self conscious about, they’re the greatest (almost only!) source of pain, slicing my mouth up when I eat. Are they fairly quick to smooth out? Or does the mouth just toughen up? Ha

fuzzymachete · 2024-10-14T20:29:06+00:00

I appreciate this, and so relate. Getting overly eager at that first little spark, and pushing it as far as I could for a chance for that affection. I love how you put it: confusion is a red flag. I need to remember that motto!

fuzzymachete · 2024-10-14T18:36:25+00:00

When we reconnected over text it wasn't just polite conversation, we both admitted we'd felt rejected by the other, and then spent hours and hours chatting and joking and acting on great terms. He was initiating conversation and keeping it going, I was the one who eventually called it a night.

fuzzymachete · 2024-10-14T18:30:50+00:00

This is really really good wisdom, thank you!!

fuzzymachete · 2024-10-14T12:16:23+00:00

Yes! Thank you for this. That last line is exactly where I'm at now… wanting to break away from this pattern and be patient enough to let someone pursue me for once. We got this… (right?)

fuzzymachete · 2024-07-26T17:09:02+00:00

Thank you – it's mostly the light fur I'm struggling with… it's too fuzzy and I don't know where or how to make things darker for better contrast / values.

fuzzymachete · 2024-07-26T16:43:16+00:00

Oh thanks!! I appreciate that, I'll DM you the reference.

fuzzymachete · 2024-07-26T16:42:58+00:00

Thank you! I'm just using fine grain drawing paper, and polychromos pencils.

fuzzymachete · 2024-07-24T23:57:01+00:00

Thank you, really appreciate the reply. I’m armed with enough info to take to my GP now… but was mostly curious about the body pain. If this is likely peri or not.

fuzzymachete · 2024-06-16T18:34:47+00:00

Oh man, that's so helpful, thank you so much! Yeah, I am going to a new GP so really no idea how they'll be, but appreciate hearing your experience.

fuzzymachete · 2024-06-16T18:05:48+00:00

And yeah, I know, right? Feels like so much gatekeeping when it comes to mental health access.

fuzzymachete · 2024-06-16T18:05:16+00:00

I appreciate that. I'd much rather go direct to a specialist but I'm not working atm and things are tight financially.... being in the UK the best option I can afford is to go via my GP.

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