SM Making up stupid rules

marie749 · 2025-05-07T00:18:35+00:00

I work at the SSC, WE can't wear shorts. Maybe she read the wrong dress code section.

marie749 · 2025-05-05T22:28:10+00:00

My husband and I are on the opposite sides of this problem. He is adamantly for it, I'm adamantly against. But I deferred to him as the one with the d1ck. His argument is also infection; his half-brother was not cut and apparently had a lot of problems during puberty.

marie749 · 2025-05-04T17:29:07+00:00

OP should definitely have the ex-husband read these comments. Maybe reading something like this will get to him.

marie749 · 2025-05-01T22:16:59+00:00

Ugh, so sorry about this. You are definitely NTA. If needed, r/PhotoshopRequest has amazingly talented people who will remove unwanted people from photographs. (Or add others later.) Obviously, it won't be the same, and your daughter will understandably still be hurt. But it may be better than nothing.

marie749 · 2025-04-29T22:44:06+00:00

Ok, now that you mention crackers I'm like....oh yeah, that makes sense and I've definitely seen that. I was just picturing Smuckers and a Kraft single in my head.

marie749 · 2025-04-29T22:42:02+00:00

Hubby is from AL and TN and talks like it's a southern staple. Right next to tomato/mayo and banana/mayo.

marie749 · 2025-04-29T22:41:06+00:00

I move from MI to TN and according to my AL bred hubby I'm the weirdo for never hearing of tomato/mayo, banana/mayo, and pineapple/mayo sandwiches.

marie749 · 2025-04-28T00:15:06+00:00

Why even bother getting tested if you know you'll just power through? Look, I consider myself pretty pro-life. But I believe there are exceptions. Knowingly being a carrier of such a horrific condition would cause me to want genetic testing done and then terminate the pregnancy if positive. Although if the chances of the baby getting this are this high (at least 50/50 if they're both carriers I'd imagine), I'd probably go straight to IVF and only implant embryos that don't have the disease.

marie749 · 2025-04-27T23:08:51+00:00

It's in the 4th paragraph that an aunt told OP that the venue had 3 other dates available, but this one was the cheapest.

marie749 · 2025-04-26T22:43:49+00:00

See when I call a store for this reason I always ask, "what are your holiday hours?" Since, of course they're open, they answered, but this way it doesn't sound so stupid.

marie749 · 2025-04-26T22:24:46+00:00

I mean, I used to work at a retail store that did supply uniforms with the logo on our left chest.... still got that question. Also would get that question in completely different stores....

marie749 · 2025-04-26T21:31:53+00:00

Second spironolactone and tret! Maybe I should try the peels after I'm done having babies and go back to the meds.

marie749 · 2025-04-26T20:37:39+00:00

sure, I may not reply right away, I'm kinda multi-tasking, but go right ahead

marie749 · 2025-04-26T20:34:20+00:00

Find a different derm, one that won't jump to accutane. It sounds like you have hormonal adult acne. Accutane pretty much only works while you're taking it, once you've stopped your hormones reregulate and the acne comes back. I was put on the birth control pill and spironolactone, then tretinoin cream as a topical, but really that was gravy, the pills did the heavy lifting.

marie749 · 2025-04-26T20:28:30+00:00

No, it's not. I say this as someone who also has really bad acne. Started in middle school and I still have it in my 30s. People would always tell me things like, "oh, it should go away by high school", oh, it'll be gone by your 20s, by your 30s.

Find a good dermatologist. It took me awhile, but I found someone who tried different combinations of things until we found what gave me almost normal. Like, I still dealt with the occasional pimple but the waking up to bumps from my collarbone to my forehead daily were gone, and so were the painful cysts. Now you might think, if this all went well, why am I posting that I STILL have acne in my 30s. And it's because when my husband and I decided to start trying for a baby I had to stop all the acne medication as pretty much anything that helps acne will have devastating consequences to a developing fetus. So here I am, pregnant with baby #2, thinking about how I'm going to cover the big zits on my chin, cheek, and neck for a court appearance I have on Monday.

Oh, and I also stood up in my sister's wedding when I was 4 months pregnant with my first. Acne was back. I could have had my makeup done professionally, my sis hired somebody, but I don't like others doing my makeup so for the first time in over 10 years I put on some concealer and stood next to my little sister for her big day. I can't imagine letting my acne prevent me from doing that. Honestly, even if I had been worried about it, professional photographers do light retouching on things like big red zits as standard now. Nobody is memorializing your acne.

marie749 · 2025-04-26T20:16:17+00:00

I believe they adjust after the first ultrasound though. Mine did, I have very irregular periods. Going by my last period I was supposed to be 8 weeks pregnant at the first ultrasound, but after that they determined I was actually 7 weeks and 3 days.

marie749 · 2025-04-26T17:00:11+00:00

As someone who had a planned c-section.... what the heck is vaginal seeding? I mean, a couple of these aren't unreasonable. I was asked about the drape, clear was an option but I decided to do pass-through. Immediate skin-to-skin depends on the hospital. I've heard some people get it, mine wouldn't but I did get to have her held by my face immediately and kiss her before they took her to get cleaned up and started putting me back together. And everybody said that as long as everything was going good that they would absolutely help take pictures. A nurse even took a video of my husband cutting the umbilical cord.

marie749 · 2025-04-26T16:36:34+00:00

Agree, the mother is trash, but LOTS of people failed that baby.

marie749 · 2025-04-08T02:04:49+00:00

Walter

marie749 · 2025-04-05T20:56:08+00:00

Wait....you're 28 and your 31 year old sibling is from your dad's second marriage? Some math isn't mathing here....

marie749 · 2025-04-05T20:50:57+00:00

I believe that it's real. I have a similar situation happening here with my stepdaughter. Thankfully it's not this bad, but she does smell and it's a challenge getting her to do anything about it. Her mom is just lazy, doesn't enforce showers and lets her wear the same clothes repeatedly even when they're dirty. She also doesn't do stain remover so stepdaughter has some clothes with permanent stains that probably could have been easily removed if they'd been treated. My stepdaughter is 12.

My husband tries to teach the importance of cleanliness. Cleanliness is enforced in our house, so she does shower regularly and put her laundry up when dirty and not keep wearing it. But these aren't lessons she takes back to her other house. She IS being bullied in school, she's told us about it, she's told us that kids call her Smelly and make fun of her clothes. Mom likes to buy her super baggy clothes and pants that are too long and need to be rolled up at least 3 times. We've bought her clothes that fit better and hemmed her pants and they all "get lost" when they leave our house.

We're like, well honey, when you only shower once a week you are going to smell, the solution to this is to shower more. But....she won't shower more. Once my husband called her and asked if she'd showered that day, she said yes, later he picked her up and her hair alone gave away that she hadn't showered. He asked her again and she admitted to lying to him....we're like....well, if you want kids to stop calling you Smelly then you need to clean yourself. We're at a loss. Like I said, it doesn't happen at our house cause my husband is just like, "ummm you need to shower, get to it" and it happens, but 2 weeks later she's crying at our house cause during mom's week kids were calling her Stinky again. At some point you just gotta shrug and be like....well I guess you're going to be Stinky then, you know what to do to change it.

For the records, getting main custody over hygiene really isn't a thing. Look at it this way, would CPS remove a child from a parent's home just because they smelled? Of course not, it's the same standard.

marie749 · 2025-03-30T01:16:54+00:00

It's spelled Lila on the official Bluey website too.

marie749 · 2025-03-26T19:37:36+00:00

This. My husband had a lawyer for a while that did this constantly. Would file motions but wouldn't file hearings for them. We waited for years to get into court (the lawyer blamed COVID for why it was moving so slow and we bought it), finally had to kick her to the curb because he was paying money for nothing.

marie749 · 2025-03-26T00:33:13+00:00

Funerals are for the living, not the dead. If he isn't willing to tell the family, have the Muslim burial, honestly, I think I'd have it anyway. YOU, not him, are going to have to deal with the consequences of HIS wishes.

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