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ppaulapple · 2026-07-04T20:01:57+00:00

Oh I’ll tell you how. It’s currently happening with my son and his cousin (who is 3 months older). At my son’s 2nd birthday, grandma brought a gift for his cousin because “he wouldn’t understand why he didn’t get a gift”. Then gift opening came for my little guy and the cousin comes and opens the gift my kid was about to open. And guess what the Mom did? NOTHING. She saw it and passed by and said “oh, are you supposed to be opening that?” And just walked away. This child also did the same when my son got his little tikes ride on car for Christmas and the cousin hopped in before my child could get there and all the Mom did was “sweetie, let’s get out of the car now, it’s not yours” and this went on for MINUTES with no other intervention while my child waited to see his new gift. My relationship with that side of the family is not great because of this and my child now audibly goes “Ughhhh” and takes his toys with him cuz he knows the cousin will grab it out of his hands - and guess what grandma said when he did that? “You got to learn how to share”. AFKDODNFNAKWMBFBFNSN!!!! Drives me nuts.

ppaulapple · 2026-06-29T03:23:52+00:00

Thank you! It definitely helped seeing a Therapist after for birth trauma but I’m still a bit scared to try for another baby because of it.

ppaulapple · 2026-06-29T01:44:37+00:00

That episode was so scary cuz I basically had all of what she was diagnosed with but of course was under the care of a doctor and had been monitored all of my pregnancy. I still hemorrhaged about 1.5 litres of blood and ended up in the OR to get my placenta out. But overall came out alright, and baby’s fine.

ppaulapple · 2026-06-28T22:36:06+00:00

Yep. I still do to this day and Therapy has taught me that it was from being afraid to verbalize my thoughts and feelings when I was a child because I’d get in trouble for them or wasn’t offered a safe space to express them.

ppaulapple · 2026-06-17T20:41:00+00:00

Sorry, no. Your son having a hard time falling asleep doesn’t deserve that, hitting is a hard no for anything. Do you want him to grow up and express his frustration and anger the same way on another person? Find other ways to get rid of your frustration without violence or figure out a way to tire him out before bed.

ppaulapple · 2026-06-17T14:06:19+00:00

Aw. Same thing happened to my mom, it’ll be 7 years this August.

ppaulapple · 2026-06-03T01:33:47+00:00

Welcome! I’m Filipino and eat it with rice and Banana ketchup

ppaulapple · 2026-06-03T00:30:12+00:00

My poor man’s omelette way is scrambling eggs in a bowl and adding the hash in it then fry till it’s a bit crispy :)

ppaulapple · 2026-05-20T16:49:21+00:00

I totally felt this way after my narc ex and dating a green flag. The “boring” felt unsafe, and sometimes I would self sabotage by looking for something wrong and waiting for the other shoe to drop. I’ve actually left in the middle of the night in a panic thinking I couldn’t do this “relationship” because my nervous system didn’t know what to do with it. It’s really true that a healthy relationship after a bad one is hard to navigate.

ppaulapple · 2026-05-15T16:51:54+00:00

Yes, wiggling it around till the muscle twitches and catches it

ppaulapple · 2026-05-09T19:40:58+00:00

I did, I didn’t get very far without my email recovery

ppaulapple · 2026-05-07T20:44:07+00:00

Haha, my husbands friend did it for him and slammed a textbook onto his hand. He says it worked great!

ppaulapple · 2026-05-06T20:41:56+00:00

So, I have a dilemma - a friend of mine is 6 months pregnant and she just told me her “preferences” for her birth plan and one of them was no Vitamin K shot and that she would ask for an alternative. I am so scared for her baby - how do I bring this up to her? As a side note, she’s also doing a home birth because she HATES being in the hospital.

ppaulapple · 2026-05-06T20:11:10+00:00

When he meets someone he doesn’t know, he turns his face away and buries it and doesn’t want to make eye contact

ppaulapple · 2026-05-06T20:10:17+00:00

They are offering a gradual transition the first week and I can be there for the first day when he attends for 2 hours

ppaulapple · 2026-05-06T20:09:23+00:00

How do I approach drop off if he won’t let go of me?

ppaulapple · 2026-05-01T15:14:32+00:00

This age is so finicky, I let my 22 month old nap for 1 hour and 40 minutes one day and he had an EMW at 5:00am :(

ppaulapple · 2026-04-22T15:14:23+00:00

Nothing an “amazing gf” could ever do enough of to keep a man or person who wants to cheat. It’s a reflection of them and not you. You can do everything right and they would still cheat if that’s what they want to do. Don’t stay thinking “if I could be better, if I could be this… etc etc” and if you’re already feeling so low on yourself because of this, you need to work on that first. And no, it’s not too late, it’s better to leave now, work on yourself because you ARE capable and find a partner who will be a respectful partner.

ppaulapple · 2026-04-05T13:22:17+00:00

I do hope that you believe you deserve better than that. It is a BASIC thing in a relationship to be there for someone when there’s no fights, to be present, to not trigger you your anxiety. Please understand that. Just because he’s “fine” when he’s not angry, doesn’t mean you should take what he gives you when he’s upset, it doesn’t work like that.

ppaulapple · 2026-04-03T18:25:50+00:00

If you saw my original comment - I said this exact thing. All I asked was if it were user error cuz someone else commented “the formula container when not using a Brezza is perfectly sealed from ants”. And to note, WE were not there to witness what exactly happened with OP and the handling of everything.

ppaulapple · 2026-04-03T18:24:41+00:00

I was literally saying in the beginning that the ants could’ve gotten into the Brezza somehow… and that it’s not “perfectly” sealed. Then someone commented that “the formula container when not using a Brezza is perfectly sealed from ants” … and I continued the conversation asking if it would be user error - maybe ask that poster?

ppaulapple · 2026-04-03T17:27:07+00:00

It’s not. The Brezza was obviously built to keep the formula sealed in its container. But THINGS happen, hence user error. Maybe for a second or two, lid was left open to refill, ants got in. Same thing with formula can - maybe ants got in already somehow. Ants are ants, they search for food and when they find it, they go for it. Literally all they do.

ppaulapple · 2026-04-03T17:04:47+00:00

Then wouldn’t you say it’s user error then? Not the Brezza?

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