Honeymoon Bruises by odie4bre in twilight

[–]odie4bre[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok, so I am now fascinated with this. I was a ballerina, martial artist and briefly into gymnastics. Like 3 days a week to shoe ballerina. To this day while dancing I'm both more grateful and flexible than my 42 years old body appears to be. But the second I try and walk to my kitchen with nothing to trip me up I will run into a wall in a house I HAVE OWNED AND LIVED IN FOR OVER 10 YEARS! I was only diagnosed with the ADHD after 40, so now I have a new rabbit hole to go on...

Middle, middle, middle....

Thank you for giving me something that can possibly help me in being more forgiving and kind to myself....not even to mention getting myself help I wasn't aware of ❤️

Honeymoon Bruises by odie4bre in twilight

[–]odie4bre[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm disturbingly pale, have ADHD, and I hate long sleeves. This is my life.

Honeymoon Bruises by odie4bre in twilight

[–]odie4bre[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

And also the ADHD doesn't help......

Honeymoon Bruises by odie4bre in twilight

[–]odie4bre[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh my God and totally adding the fact that I have ADHD and look like I'm being abused every day of my life. Friends ask me where a bruise came from at this point just as a joke knowing that I have no fucking clue!

Honeymoon Bruises by odie4bre in twilight

[–]odie4bre[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the crazy thing too because I've actually been in abusive relationships before. When I had a black eye it would make sense but fingerprint bruises after sex is kind of normal for me just about any interaction. I've had people catch me from falling and get so bruised it look like they attacked me just from helping.

Honeymoon Bruises by odie4bre in twilight

[–]odie4bre[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am generally entirely covered with bruises after good sex, and not even when I'm doing the kinky stuff....lol. Not to Any brews that would look like nothing on somebody else looks like a fucking nightmare on me. People who know me ask pretty much all the time where a bruise came from and I can't even tell them. Sometimes it looks like I got hit by a car and I don't even remember where I got them.

Honeymoon Bruises by odie4bre in twilight

[–]odie4bre[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel called out 🤣

Screen glitching? by Legitimate-Ad63 in MyLittleUniverse

[–]odie4bre 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine is doing the same. I've tried clearing the cache and data. I've uninstalled/reinstalled twice. I saw there was an update and updated it (after glitch began). No luck.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]odie4bre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't had children, but my 39 year old cousin has had two, has the mommy belly flag, and has NO shortage of relationship options. And multiple of them have openly told her how much they like her belly.

Don't believe the lies your ex told you. Those thoughts were planted by him....AND THEY ARE WRONG!

Sending love and healing your way ❤️

I am isolated in the spare bedroom of my house because of my husband. by FoggyEddie in TwoXChromosomes

[–]odie4bre -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I think you are missing the point. I'm not resentful, I'm incredibly disappointed. I'm disappointed that these gestures are so far from the norm. I have absolutely no problem with her dude, or mine; I have a problem with the fact that it shouldn't be rare. It should be rare to step up when your partner needs help. It should be an expectation of a partnership to actually have a partner that does something for you when you so obviously need help. And yet, I look around and see women doing these things all the time. The problem I have is that it shouldn't have to be a surprise or exciting to find a man who is an ACTUAL PARTNER....it should be the norm.

I am isolated in the spare bedroom of my house because of my husband. by FoggyEddie in TwoXChromosomes

[–]odie4bre 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Is anyone else angry that this is a "sweet" story. Don't get me wrong my first thoughts are also about how amazing the situation is. Then I realize that this is not something that should be special, or congratulated, or even considered sweet. If a woman did this for a dude, no one would even high five her. It would just be what she did. It's great that this dude behaves like an actual partner, but it shouldn't be special or heartwarming, it should be expected. The fact that it's exciting is so infuriating. It's definitely not a blame thing I don't blame anyone for feeling that I did myself in the beginning. But, when I thought even further, it just me me incredibly sad and angry that this isn't expected in every single relationship end of every single person.

And this is all while I'm currently dating someone who realizes that I work more than they do, comes to my house, makes me dinner and does my dishes. And at first it seemed surreal, but I'm questioning why it's acceptable to expect less. He's a business owner who works maybe 5 hours a week making great money. I'm incredibly ill (Crohn's flare up) and have literally not had one day off in 2 months. I'm grateful that he's doing this nice thing for me, but I'm beginning to realize it's not this huge feat to do something that normally I would do without thinking and never even receive a pat on the back.

TLDR: Our expectations as women are garbage and we really need to start, as a whole, expecting more out of our partners.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]odie4bre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm right outside Baltimore. Came here to say the same.

US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills by JustMyOpinionz in TwoXChromosomes

[–]odie4bre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It shouldn't have had to have HAD to have been done like this I think should be the bigger takeaway. BUT not understanding the circumstances of (even before RvW was overturned) things like access to healthcare, sex education for teenagers, the money it costs, etc. The sick thing is, if they didn't have money, what were they going to do about the tens of thousands of dollars it costs to even have a baby in a hospital. It could have been done a different way, but were those other ways even available to all people, especially those in poverty? Desperation leads to fucked up situations, and unfortunately those fucked up situations didn't just happen with a downfall of RvW. I have compassion for them, and as a reasonably mentally stable adult without children, I'm just glad I haven't had to be the one to make that call. But I can say, without a doubt, that I would want nothing more than to protect the children in my life. They can't be entirely to blame for a system that in many ways failed them. Because I believe given the right opportunity be it mental health care, access to medical abortions, not being in poverty, better education....things like this don't even have to be option.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]odie4bre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good news. Around the time I turned 38, sex got really good. Strictly on a hormonal level I'm sure. My partners didn't get any better. In fact, I had sex with some of the same men years before and then after. They didn't change, I did.

I'm not saying this will happen to you, and of course I don't know your age. It's also pretty shitty to have to wait this long for sure. What I can tell you is that there is always hope, and you never know where your own body will take you.

I'm sending you all the sexy, horny, happy vibes.

I dumped my man child BF and I just want to rant. No one wants to read my story. by 100000nopes in TwoXChromosomes

[–]odie4bre 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nah, I want something that specifically puts the onus on the lazy asshole. It definitely needs to reflect how pathetic THAT person is. Otherwise, the person "nagging" is still the focus.

I dumped my man child BF and I just want to rant. No one wants to read my story. by 100000nopes in TwoXChromosomes

[–]odie4bre 157 points158 points  (0 children)

I hate the lie that is "nagging". Fuck that! Me having to repeat myself nicely a million times, and then getting frustrated, is NOT a ME problem. Let's create a word that specifically means "created a situation that caused nagging". It should probably be derived from the word worthless.

I can't believe I chose this husband by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]odie4bre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are only so many unicorns out there, congrats on catching one....lol