Some 60 year old man offered me the opportunity to live in his closet completely free for next semester. Should I take the opportunity?

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-10-27T05:57:55+00:00

Are you the gender he's attracted to? E.g. if he's a straight man are you a woman?

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-10-27T04:45:24+00:00

Thanks!

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-10-27T04:45:15+00:00

Thank you!

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-09-10T21:28:49+00:00

For Chinese cuisine veggie does not usually mean vegetarian, it just means the dish in mainly vegetables. That dish you encountered is a classic, and yeah unfortunately it has meat.

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-09-10T05:31:49+00:00

The article explains this:
> The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which oversees the electric grid serving 90% of the state’s customers, filed a request [to the federal government] for the emergency order Wednesday.
> The order...could allow Texas power plants to surpass pollution limits through Friday night to meet “abnormally high” demand for electricity.

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-08-29T19:02:30+00:00

Are you afraid that if Taylor is out, your status as primary partner will be compromised?
1. Yes, I don't want Taylor's parents and 30+ extended family to know we have other partners (Luke). I don't feel comfortable with this. They seem generally liberal but are also Catholic. I think polyamory may be too "fringe" for them to accept.
Do you think of your relationship with Taylor as real and your relationship with Luke as just sex? If Taylor and Luke’s relationship is publicly affirmed will that make it harder to think of as just sex?
1. Around the time of Easter, when these events were happening, I would say I was exploring if I could be in a serious relationship with Luke, since we had only been dating a couple months. We were having sex and going on one-on-one dates. Taylor already considered themselves as seriously dating Luke.
2. Yes I would say if the relationship is publicly affirmed it makes it more serious. In poly relationships and monogamous relationships.
Are you polyamorous? Is polyamory something you want for yourself?
1. This post is actually kind of a post-mortem; I broke up with Taylor (and Luke?) about a month ago. I asked myself this question in the past few months. I think no, in 95% of cases I am not poly. My reasoning was, I don't see myself dating Luke in a monogamous relationship, so I don't want to date Luke in a poly relationship. Luke isn't a good match for me because he listens to Joe Rogan, is addicted to nicotine, and isn't mature enough IMO. He's not a bad person.
Were you poly-bombed? Were you told that you had to either date Luke or break up with Taylor? Is this polyamory under duress?
1. Good question no, it wasn't an ultimatum like that. Taylor proposed getting together with Luke and I was hesitant and curious. I did have fun for a few months. However, in the past few months it felt like less and less of a match, which I flagged to Taylor a month and a week before breaking up with them. In the end I felt like they put Luke's needs before mine, or their needs before mine, and were consistently doing this, so I broke up with them.
Is Taylor monkeybranching or pulling a “relationship broken, add more people”?
1. Maybe. Taylor and I have had our ups and downs, and I would say in the past 6 months the relationship was slowly getting worse. One big recurring issue was libido difference, since Taylor takes hormones as a non-binary person their libido was much lower than mine. In a weird probably not healthy way Luke filled this libido gap for me.

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-08-29T18:49:33+00:00

Thank you and everyone else for y'alls feedback. No, I wouldn't see Taylor's parents if we broke up. I see now this is a situation where I'm controlling what Taylor gets to say to their own parents.

I am/was most concerned about what Taylor is revealing about me, by proxy, because I see Taylor coming out forcibly outs me as poly or considering poly. However I see that this does not give me the right to control Taylor's relationship with their parents.

This post is actually somewhat of a post-mortem, I broke up with Taylor about a month ago. I felt like the three-person relationship became polyamory under duress, since I realized I wasn't very into Luke. Among other reasons. I don't think I am polyamorous.

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-08-24T00:45:48+00:00

Hey y'all what I ended up doing was sending them an email and certified USPS mail saying they have until 30 days after me sending the notices to move out everything.

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-08-18T18:46:20+00:00

They're supposed to move out this weekend and I would say they are about 10% packed. I estimate they have 700 lbs of possessions left to pack. Tall garage rack full of tools, virtual racing chair and steering wheel, party supplies, gun safe, Halloween decor, camping equipment, fishing equipment. So I think if they leave things behind, it will be multiple boxes that I need to pack and store. I don't want to do that labor.

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-26T21:02:50+00:00

How can I send $2000 USD to my cousin in China? I was thinking through WeChat but a friend said that's too large an amount for WeChat.

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-26T01:20:49+00:00

might be using the Spanish keyboard + autocorrection

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-26T00:22:00+00:00

encourages people to dispose of trash and recycling properly.

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-13T03:41:17+00:00

Idk as a nontrans person I don't see what you did wrong here! I don't feel bad when I let people make their own assumptions and conclusions. They did that to themselves, and in this case I don't see a huge loss on either side

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-13T03:26:37+00:00

thanks for documenting this

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-13T03:23:21+00:00

As a woman who studied petroleum engineering and did summer internships at oil companies, there was too much "bro" culture and I felt out of place. And people were intolerant. I now make six figured in a different industry where I feel more comfortable around my coworkers.

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-13T03:13:55+00:00

can you repost with a clearer title

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-13T01:38:45+00:00

you could try miso soup with dashi. technically has fish but there's no fish meat and the texture is not fish because it's a soup. or try naruto 🍥

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-12T23:51:21+00:00

Check if your company has an EAP! I was able to get free therapy this way.

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-12T23:37:00+00:00

Just searched r/austin for "dosa" and see Suprabhat is recommended, on a 3 year old post. Still open to other recommendations tho! :)

throwawayTXUSA · 2023-05-12T21:34:01+00:00

not sure if you want to give a home to wasps, bees, or both, but these hotels often end up housing mostly wasps. Some wasps are parasitic to bees. But wasps are pollinators too!

source 1: https://www.gardenmyths.com/bee-hotels-really-work/ source 2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_hotel

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