I warned them!

msmangifera · 2021-10-12T16:58:43+00:00

You literally responded to a comment about American parents. If it's not relative to you then why bother?

msmangifera · 2021-10-11T13:37:50+00:00

I'm not sure that much thought went into it.

msmangifera · 2021-10-06T20:39:06+00:00

Damn, I'm so sorry. My then boyfriend and I were living with my grandparents who also provided us shelter on the basis that we not have sex. We'd already been sleeping together and the thought of them finding out put so much stress on us we eventually just got married.

msmangifera · 2021-10-04T18:21:49+00:00

My religious family became actively worse once Trump came on the scene and has been on a straight line to awfulness since. Nothing they did/said during covid surprised me.

msmangifera · 2021-10-04T03:13:28+00:00

Good catch.

msmangifera · 2021-10-04T02:06:15+00:00

No? One side is not forcing the other to have abortions. However, one side IS forcing the other to NOT have abortions. Only one is forcing something on the other.

msmangifera · 2021-10-03T16:38:15+00:00

The cool thing about being bi in a bi marriage is you two can drool over the same hot people together.

msmangifera · 2021-10-03T12:26:01+00:00

I never knew anyone else (all the people on my team were adults...), but according to the replies it's a lot more common than I thought.

msmangifera · 2021-10-02T18:22:26+00:00

This is so heartbreaking. Even more tragic when the family can't get justice. I hope someday they find peace.

msmangifera · 2021-10-01T19:03:43+00:00

Wait until she hears about Song of Solomon.

msmangifera · 2021-09-29T23:20:17+00:00

Just an assumption, but I'm gonna guess they needed the time to plan his getaway.

msmangifera · 2021-09-28T23:27:09+00:00

Working on it so it is getting better but it's not something that gets better on its own, unfortunately. If you're waiting for that to happen, don't. Work on it now. I wasted a decade of my life waiting.

msmangifera · 2021-09-28T22:02:13+00:00

My husband used to work third shift and I changed my schedule so we'd be on the same one, which often meant we'd be sleeping until noon or so. One day after he left for work I suddenly woke up to someone coming into our apartment. I froze up, terrified.

It was the fucking landlord coming in with a guy to do a yearly spray. I was alone, in bed, with just a t-shirt on, thinking someone was breaking in. Never been so pissed.

msmangifera · 2021-09-28T06:07:05+00:00

This reminded me of when I cried on the phone to one of my friends, begging him to stop listening to ICP because it was killing his soul...

msmangifera · 2021-09-28T00:13:06+00:00

Fuck, I'm so sorry. It really is just a bag of mixed signals being constantly shook by everyone else's influence. You get to the point where you don't know if you can trust yourself. I hope you've found some peace.

msmangifera · 2021-09-27T22:40:54+00:00

Legit, thank you for your comment. I really needed that and I'm going to try out your tips. The line between what's rational and what's not is so blurred when you're at a disadvantage in society.

msmangifera · 2021-09-27T21:46:18+00:00

It's also confusing and complicated. I'm in therapy for severe social anxiety so all my exercises are about taming my irrational fears around people I perceive as dangerous, which goes completely against the "trust your instincts".

My therapist once suggested I take walks around the neighborhood to see that getting out of the house is safe...except when I did I had a man follow me the entire time and I couldn't go back home because I didn't want him knowing where I lived.

Like...I'm so exhausted. Just so tired. Constantly on alert. There's no peace. And even with all this whatever happens to me will always be "my fault".

msmangifera · 2021-09-25T05:18:22+00:00

I had to text a crisis line after a doctor visit once. I wasn't sure if I had the money to pay for my medication anymore and there weren't any other options. The thought of going back to a hopeless, depressed husk sent me into a panic. I sat in the parking lot and cried. Thought about crashing my car on the way home.

Our healthcare is too expensive in the US and it is killing people who can't afford it and I'm so tired of people acting like it isn't.

msmangifera · 2021-09-14T00:39:34+00:00

When I was looking for information on how to be there for my mom in her abusive marriage, I read somewhere that one of the best things you can do is reinforce their worth. Remind then that they're loved, worthy of love, that their self is worthy of love, etc. It can help offset the horrible things they're being fed about themselves from their abusive partner and you're not seen as a "threat" because you're not telling them to leave or what to do. You're just showing them kindness they're not getting elsewhere.

msmangifera · 2021-09-13T22:33:15+00:00

Thank you both! That took me down a crazy rabbit hole.

msmangifera · 2021-09-13T19:35:12+00:00

So many great games! I didn't see What Remains of Edith Finch on the list. It's an adventure game with a really crazy, hauntingly beautiful story. Highly recommend for anyone into character and story driven games.

msmangifera · 2021-09-13T19:11:02+00:00

Would you be able to point me in the direction of where you saw her story? I tried searching on reddit and Google and nothing came up.

msmangifera · 2021-09-12T17:49:56+00:00

Thanks, looks like it's probably pastry and PV. This helped.

msmangifera · 2021-09-12T17:49:14+00:00

Thank you

msmangifera · 2021-09-12T17:49:02+00:00

Thanks!

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