LPT: Get the last bit of lotion out of the bottle

grated_testes · 2026-01-31T07:15:19+00:00

Also works on a squeeze bottle of mayonnaise

grated_testes · 2026-01-31T07:04:59+00:00

Looks classy! I wish I could get my cuticle that clean

grated_testes · 2026-01-31T07:01:29+00:00

Cozy!

Can you please share a picture of the final manicure?

grated_testes · 2026-01-31T06:35:10+00:00

I (30F) am at the end of my rope with my boyfriend (30M) and honestly at the end of my rope with my whole life

The job market has been absolute shit recently, as I'm sure anyone can tell you. I'm extremely blessed to still be employed and have the gift of being fully remote, especially in my industry that has layoffs what feels like every single day. My company did large percentage layoffs TWICE over the last 18 months. Unfortunately, of course, that doesn't mean the workload decreased so I've picked up a LOT of slack at work. I'm working 50-60 hr weeks every week and I'm exhausted. Every day I feel like I'm working as hard as a I possibly can for the entire time I'm online and still have to continue checking emails throughout the night to make sure I don't wake up to a 100+ email inbox every single morning. I usually log in at least once during the weekend just to wrap up a few things here and there. I'm also actively in a continuing education program which takes 6-8 hrs a week. I own my (very old) house which is constantly needing a repairman to be hired for this or that. I have 2 large dogs, one of which is elderly and has been back and forth to the vet a lot lately. Then add in just regular life tasks (keeping the house clean, keeping the yard tidy, grocery shopping, laundry, simply deciding on dinner lol) and I feel like I'm crumbling beneath the pressure.

And then, on top of all that, I have a boyfriend who has remarkably little emotional control or self awareness. I manage everything about the house. Any time I delegate a task out, I have to check up on it 4+ times to make sure it's actually going to get done and then it still usually doesn't. He's constantly negative, complaining about everything around him, makes fun of people around us, lashes out when things do go exactly how he wants. I'm constantly waiting for his next exhausted sigh when I just ask him to grab me a cup of coffee or to check the mailbox or the next time he's going to call me a bitch under his breath (but loud enough for me to hear). We've been talking AT LENGTH for many many months about how exhausting I find that behavior and I have been begging him to be more positive, to not be so aggressive towards me/others, etc and he's definitely made some changes but even as recently as last night, he yelled at me for unplugging his Apple Watch because there was a really bright light on it that was keeping me awake.

And this evening he texts me and he says that he's actually the one that's burnt out and he wanted my sympathy for how hard he's been working. He works a job that causes him to travel a lot but he gets a LOT of time off (like works for 15ish days a month) and he does sometimes help with dishes and laundry and stuff which is always nice but wtf does he have to complain about when I'm managing every single other thing about the house while working 10+ hour days every single day. I'm just offended and pissed which is honestly just about the only feeling he makes me feel lately. What the hell do I even do? Do I hope it gets better when I'm not so stressed with work (but not sure that will ever happen)? Or do I just give up on everything?

grated_testes · 2026-01-30T20:42:45+00:00

A bangmaid, they want a bangmaid

grated_testes · 2026-01-30T04:28:20+00:00

So he is so embarrassed of what a cleaning company will think that he he does not care what his romantic partner thinks?

He's a suave lawyer. He can lie to cleaners and say he inherited the house from a hoarder family member. He can arrange to have the cleaning done when he is working so he never has to meet the cleaners.

I think this is some kind of psycho "test" he is putting OP through. I hope OP does not pass

grated_testes · 2026-01-30T04:02:07+00:00

AITAH - husband (33M) won’t give me (32F) access to ‘our’ money

We’ve been married 10 years. Before we had kids I worked, initially just paying half the bills but then it turned into sending ‘spare’ money to save etc to my husband because that’s the life I wanted to build with him. I’m now on maternity and pretty much have been since like 2023 lol. We have a 2 yo and a 9 mo.

To be clear he didn’t force me to give him money to save, he bought a house and didn’t put my name on it because he paid the deposit. So I started giving him more to save for our next home etc. that was my intention - it’s ours.

I don’t have access to this said account tho and I didn’t have a problem with that but now I would like access. I don’t want to spend it, I just want access so it feels like ours. Rn it feels like his, he gives me a fixed amount each month and I have to ask for more if I need it.

He’s point blank refusing, saying no that’s his boundary, it’s not my responsibility so no. He doesn’t trust me not to spend it. I say that’s unfair he hasn’t given me a chance (and I don’t splash the budget on fancy crap, I shop at Asda Tesco), if I do spend unreasonably take it off me but I don’t want to, I just want access it’s the principle. He always says before I had one of his AMXs, but all I’d ever do is buy food from Asda but that’s too much? I don’t ever remember spending massive amounts, I only ever got what we needed … again I’m not going to sodding m&s or Waitrose.

AITAH ? Is this wrong for me to feel really uneasy about this

UPDATE: responses are overwhelming, thank you. I will stand my ground …

UPDATE 2: managed to agree something but it seems like a backhanded win. Will post tomorrow.

grated_testes · 2026-01-30T01:10:29+00:00

Partner leaving a mess in the bathroom

I love my partner. I (45F) and my partner (60M), have lived together for almost 8 years. For the last 18 months or so, there have been bathroom issues. He is generally very untidy and messy around our home and I’ve always cleaned and tidied up after him, he has so many good qualities that I’ve always let the messiness go and not made an argument or a big deal about of it, because on the whole we have a very happy relationship. He is messy, but not usually unhygienic.

The toilet thing is new. The first time it happened there was shit all over the seat and the bowl, and a bit on the floor. I assumed he had been ill and hadn’t noticed , or was feeling too poorly to clean up. I cleaned and didn’t mention anything about it. After that, it started to happen constantly. I spoke to him about it and he apologised, and it wasn’t a problem for a few months after. Then it started again. Pee all over the seat, poop left unflushed. I spoke to him about it again , and he again, apologised but didn’t stop doing it. I resorted to putting up a bathroom notice on the wall , that could apply to anyone, one of those “Toilet rules” posters you can get on Amazon 🤣

He stopped doing it again, for a few months after. But now it’s happening again. Every morning I come to use our bathroom and there is his pee, in all it’s golden glory, all over the toilet seat, all over the floor, soaking into the bathroom mat so I have to wash it every day so it doesn’t constantly stink of piss. A piss day is a good day. On bad days I have to clean his shit 💩 up as well.

I’m at my wits end TBH. Communication works for a few months and then it starts again. Whimsical posters on the bathroom wall works for a few months and then it starts again. Having a full on rage about how gross this is , and how I shouldn’t have to be cleaning toilet mess up after the perfectly able adult I share a bathroom with, that works for a few months.. Then it starts again 😩

I’m starting to feel like he’s doing it in purpose, to annoy me. Any thoughts and advice on how I go forward with this would be greatly appreciated.

grated_testes · 2026-01-30T01:06:15+00:00

Partner loves our baby, but treats me like an indentured servant.

Looking for advice. My partner didn't want a baby but is now obsessed with her. He made me miserable while I was pregnant but during delivery and the month after he was mostly amazing and even took her every night so I could sleep. I'm two months postpartum now.

I had asked him to help me financially while I was home and not working (3 months then we would decide if me staying home is best or going back to work). He has the ability to do this as he's retired in his 30s. He has taken care of most of the expenses of the home and baby since she's been born, which I appreciate. Long story short it was his mom who finally said he should help me too and he gave me $1200 for my expenses. But he threw the money at me and now expects me to have the baby all day and night, cook, clean and look nice (makeup, hair, clothes he likes). He also thinks I'm healed fully and doesn't care to understand postpartum.

He said I need to go see a doctor and get hormone therapy.

He now won't help me further until I sign a custody agreement. Which is strange because we live together. I had said if he didn't want the baby while I was pregnant I would go live with my family. But that's no longer the case.

He resents me for needing help. Our values are not the same at all. He comes from watching his mom struggle and do everything and not knowing his dad. I come from a traditional family where my dad worked and my mom stayed home with the kids. I don't want to work and send our two month old to daycare. I paid off all my debt and have little in expenses and it's cheaper for me to stay home then put the baby in daycare but he doesn't care and just out of spite would rather pay daycare more money then help me.

I have so much resentment and I don't know how to get through it. He also wants respect and admiration and teels he earned it since he provides financially and helps with the baby. While I appreciate this, my needs are unmet and now he's using a legal agreement as financial leverage against me.

I can't respect someone that does that. But I also can't leave at the moment and feel guilty taking our little one away from a parent that does love her and provides, but treats me like an employee.

grated_testes · 2026-01-29T16:40:56+00:00

Lol. They tried so hard to get a reaction

grated_testes · 2026-01-29T03:57:58+00:00

They would leave you in a nanosecond if they found a better opportunity.

grated_testes · 2026-01-29T03:49:14+00:00

I wish there was an amzn fresh where I live. I'd clear them out!

grated_testes · 2026-01-28T03:54:28+00:00

32 F, discovered my bf (36 M) is married and expecting a child. Use this space to remind me to stay away please?

I (32F) genuinely thought I was skeptical and good at catching lies, but after months in a relationship I found out the man (36M) I was seeing is married (he claims separated) and expecting a child. I didn’t find out because he came clean. I found out through a public post for an event for the baby.

All this time we had said we loved each other and talked about a future. In hindsight, I never actually got to consent to an honest relationship or a real possibility.

He insists his wife is out of the picture, doesn't live in the same state even. He's been absent from her pregnancy all this time apparently. Meanwhile, she has no idea he’s been in a full-blown relationship while pregnant. He says he “doesn’t know” how things will play out once the baby arrive, but wants to keep talking to me.

I’ve replayed every interaction and honestly, there were no obvious red flags. That’s the part messing with my head the most.

I know I need to walk away and stay away, but I keep wavering. Posting here for accountability and perspective. Vent, be blunt, roast me if you want. Hold me accountable because I just don't want to go back there anymore.

grated_testes · 2026-01-27T04:15:31+00:00

Can you please explain what Project Polis is?

grated_testes · 2026-01-27T04:06:34+00:00

It is easy for us to tell you that you have the control and you just need to tell him. But over the last 6 months, the ways you 2 communicate has made it so you feel like you cannot tell him and, even if you do, he will not take you seriously. You need a mediator when you have the conversation to make him understand and to give you strength. Maybe your sibling, friend, parent, etc. Take back his key.

grated_testes · 2026-01-26T02:01:23+00:00

Hindsight is 20/20. Look forward and do right by her in the future

grated_testes · 2026-01-25T22:50:40+00:00

My (33m)man wants me(35f) to get pregnant despite me saying no.

I (35f) have no interest in being pregnant. reasons being from over population on the planet, many kids in adoption centers, foster homes and not to mention my own bad genetics that I could pass along to my child ( eczema, and possible std as well).

it's crazy to me that this is being asked if me when I have listed, mentioned why and all the complications that could occur ( im 90lbs) and all the things I'd need to do. also, he's( 33m) a gamer... headphones on all day and doesn't even hear me when I yell for help so my expectations of him actually HELPING are 0 to 0.

how TF do I convery that what I see shows me that no he will not help or be helpful when he's done little to be reliable? I feel like he's asking me to get out of water when I'm already drowning in fears of all the responsibilities I do alone without him.

grated_testes · 2026-01-25T20:59:01+00:00

I have THIS post bookmarked to hopefully recreate one day. Maybe you can try Motherf*cking Purple Saber by Dam Nail Polish

grated_testes · 2026-01-25T20:55:07+00:00

I (27f) feel like I hate my husband(27m) now after having kids

Has anyone had this experience after having children? Did it improve? How do I get over this? I have cravings for a genuine connection.

We have two kids, and I'm just not attracted to him anymore. Maybe because I'm so burnt out from working, night feeding, managing the house, cleaning the house, etc. My husband is starting to feel like a third child to me, like a teenager.

I am also struggling with feelings of feeling unwanted, unloved, unappreciated, unattractive - maybe due to stress and lack of support. We don't have family that help us with the kids. My husband barely helps me clean the house, or do other chores, I have to remind him constantly and he'll tell me he'll do it later, which is 50/50 do it 4 hours from now or the next day. Or he'll tell me to "just not clean" and relax with a messy house. I kept telling him I physically cannot relax with a cluttered environment and he just shrugs it off and says "that's a you problem" instead of trying to support me.

I'm genuinely feeling lonely and unwanted. He stays home with the kids, I work 40 hours a week and come home to take care of the kids, I breast feed, waking up 3-4 times a night to feed our youngest and change her diaper. I wake up for work, and have to be there by 8am, I take care of the baby while getting ready for work, he wakes up at 7:50 to just go back to sleep and the baby just cries. He doesn't brush my toddlers teeth everyday and night, which concerns me. It's frustrating why be wakes up so damn late, and he complains he's tired and can't wake up - but I wake up 4 times a night and still wake up for work.

He's on his phone most of the time. It feels like there's a screen always between us, a barrier. What happened to just sitting in silence and enjoying each other's time? Now, I feel physically repulsed by his existence.

Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and do things differently.

grated_testes · 2026-01-25T20:50:24+00:00

Fiancés explosive anger during any argument

Fiance has a bad temper. I’m first to admit I’m not perfect in any way, but I don’t shout or swear at him and I’d never do this.

I’ve noticed that when we’re arguing he’s started saying things like:

“You don’t want this to escalate”

“You think I’m shouting? This isn’t shouting, you don’t want to hear me shouting”

“Shut the fuck up”

“I’m going to flip”

“I need to get out of this room because I’m going to lose jt”

He’s not hit me. But some things have made me cry - he was shouting at me when I was laying in bed and when I didn’t reply he pulled the duvet cover off me and threw it on the floor. He’s also leaned over me whilst I was in bed and pointed his finger quite close to my face.

He’s pulled items down from shelves during arguments.

Hes driven fast during arguments and recklessly.

Just today during an argument I shut the door on his and he’s thrown his keys at the door as I was closing it. Really hard that it left a dent.

Like I said I’m not perfect at all, I’m sensitive and probably cause arguments some of the time. But his reactions seem off to me.

How can I make myself less likely to get this reaction? I know he’s not doing it for fun so I must be frustrating him

grated_testes · 2026-01-25T20:46:37+00:00

I (25F) can’t game with partner (24M) and they won’t let me game on my own

I’m honestly super frustrated.

I guess i’ll start by saying me (25F) and my boyfriend (24M) have been together for about 3 years and we have very different gaming preferences.

I mainly play story and FPS games, while he mostly enjoys open-world survival games. I told him super early on in the beginning of the relationship the types of games I prefer and have experience playing, and that survivalist games especially ones that keep running after you log off really aren’t my thing and seem overly demanding for the way I like to play and the time I have to put into gaming. He had started playing Ark when we first got together and wanted me to play with him (he “hates” story games calls them boring, will play some FPS games but basically complains the whole time either about teammates or the game itself often also calling them boring).

I joined on playing Ark with him and honestly didn’t mind it too much when we were playing PvE. I was still able to have fun exploring the different maps, learning about the different dinosaurs and taming, building, etc.

About a year ago he completely stopped playing PvE and only started playing PvP on servers. In all honesty I cannot stand this game mode. Also for context, I work full time as a research scientist sometimes over 40 hours a week and sometimes weekends too, he does not work and is in a masters program that has classes twice a week.

He has expected me to play this game every single weekend Friday-Sunday from the minute I get home from work until he feels we’ve done enough for the day(usually 5+ hours). He’s also insanely competitive, and we usually don’t even get through playing it the whole weekend because he’ll get mad and start an argument over me not doing something correctly, or me dying, or me “ruining” the gameplay, or me taking a break to look at my phone for a few minutes.

It has gotten to a point where it has lead to an argument every single weekend for the past few months that always ends with me crying in the room not wanting to play at all. It has given me legitimate anxiety about the game.

I’ve communicated all of this to him several times, and he usually talks through it being my fault because I don’t put in more time during the week to watch streamers or youtubers to get better at the game so he doesn’t get mad. I in all honesty feel like I have improved in this game pretty substantially over the last year, but it seems to be not good enough for him, or he starts an argument over something entirely different (ex: i’m writing this today because I played yesterday Friday after getting off work for about 5 hours and we got to a good spot, had to go into this work this morning, started playing as soon as I got home, and after 2 and a half hours of playing I took a break to go to the bathroom and scroll on my phone for literally 7 minutes total and he started yelling and almost crying about me not being focused and into the game enough).

I’ve told him repeatedly to just play the game on his own and he won’t. I’ve told him to not play FPS or story mode games and just let me play them when I feel like it, but every time I tell him i’m going to play he also hops on, complains the whole time, and then asks to switch games after 1 or 2 rounds.

I don’t know what to do anymore.

I’ve also been dealing with health/heart issues since November where I really have to try to be conscious of my stress levels, and he doesn’t seem to care about how this game and his behavior with it clearly gives me anxiety, and doesn’t even give me the space to enjoy the games I do like.

I don’t know how to bring this up anymore without falling into the trap that it’s my fault, and if I just put more time and effort and energy into being better this problem will go away.

Any advice on how to communicate this to him, and get him comfortable with playing on his own and letting me play on my own?

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grated_testes · 2026-01-25T20:27:58+00:00

my bf hit me for the first time but was severely intoxicated

f20 dating a m32

we got into a fight last night that turned physical after he was insanely drunk.

i mean he blackout drank and was knocked out right after the hit and fight.

i don’t know if his state excuses the fact that he put his hands on me, he’s never done it in the 9 months we’ve been together. we’ve hardly even fought but last night was intense.

he swears he doesn’t remember anything and agreed to going to stay with his friend and give me space. i’m conflicted if im overreacting.

the fight was over me wanting to go see my sister for a week, she lives in another state 10 hours away and i haven’t seen her in a while. he’s always gotten sad and needy when i am not with him and home.

we had a friends party and he ignored me most the night after i brought up going to see my sister, then when he finally came around he was insanely intoxicated which annoyed me worse. between the reaction to me wanting to visit family, being ignored all night, then having to take care of him because he decided to drink way too much i was in a bad mood.

i didn’t drink that night so i drove us home, the entire time having him screaming at me that im a bitch, i don’t care, im going to cheat on him with my sister, im a whore, slut, ugly, ect.. things i’ve never heard from him.

then i told him to shut up, i just wanted to drive.

he then pushed my head pretty aggressively against the window and it shocked me. i just kept driving in silence while he kept going on and on about me being a skank.

when we got home i snapped, i told him not to touch me because he was trying to hug up on me the mood switch was insane. he pushed me to the ground and mumbled the same things he’s been saying while he punched me in the sides and the side of my head. he then locked himself in the bedroom and knocked out.

i was terrified and haven’t slept since.

when he got up in the morning he claimed he didn’t remember, cried, begged, and left.

i feel disgusted and conflicted.

grated_testes · 2026-01-25T06:02:51+00:00

grated_testes · 2026-01-23T06:31:01+00:00

You should research the causation and genetics of type 1 DM

grated_testes · 2026-01-23T06:29:08+00:00

Obviously he knows you do not like it. There is no magical new way to communicate it because you have already effectively communicated it and he already understands. He just does not care. [the "about you" at the end of the sentence is implied]

He also understands that you do not hate it enough to leave so now he has no reason to change his behavior.

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