This is slightly complicated, and I really want a woman's perspective. I am a 24-year-old Caucasian male dating a 24-year-old Indian woman in the United States. We both met at work early 2022. We are now at different companies but are still dating, although we may break up. Her and her parents moved to the United States nearly a decade ago. She graduated college here and currently lives with her parents. She is financially supporting them as the 3 of them live together in an apartment. Our relationship, however, is complicated. We never really go on dates. We typically see each other for 30 minutes after work about 2-3 times per week and maybe once a month she comes over to my apartment for a couple of hours. Her parents do not know that she is dating me either. They do not even know I exist. She is also a shy, but polite woman. I deeply love her, and she is perfect for me in every other way, except for the circumstances above. I wish she would tell her parents. We have ended things a couple times because of the circumstances only for us to get back together. What should I do? Would you recommend I break up with her?

I started thinking about this scenario today and felt like sharing. My dad has no filter and no ability to sense how somebody feels so he always has to share how he plays hero and how I am stupid. I am adding a trigger warning to the title because some people cannot handle the mention of car accidents due to past tragedy and I 100% understand. See you on another post, friends.
Okay,
So when I was 15, almost 16, I got my sweet 16 vehicle early so I could start the school year fresh and basically flex. My ndad bought me a brand new car and I was so excited. Well, I wasn’t a licensed driver yet and he needed something brought to his location. Well, I was still a pretty inexperienced driver with about 1.5 years under my belt, I don’t know what I was thinking but I turned without paying attention and got t-boned really hard on my passenger side totaling my car. This man saw it happen and decided to swap me and say it was his fault (he didn’t want to go to prison and he didn’t want to have to drive me around for the next 5+ years because I lost my license.) Well, he got that figured out and got my car replaced. I actually haven’t been in an at fault wreck in almost 9 years now. That situation scared the living daylights out of me and I vowed to prioritize safety on the road.
Well, ndad thinks it’s fucking hilarious to bring up this car accident in front of me when he is telling somebody new and watch me get super triggered over how traumatic it was. He plays his whole “I’m a hero, you wouldn’t have had a license without me, I’m such a good father” schpiel and it pisses me off every time. To this day he will make comments toward me to drive safe and to remember 2014 and how I could have died. I was bruised up all over (collarbone, thigh, shin, foot, had signs of a concussion) but he did not want me to seek medical help. Though the other party was OK because they were in a large SUV, their child did slightly hop in their seat so they did have a bruise on their forehead. God I felt so horrible.
Yes, I’m grateful for him saving my ass but also I feel like I rarely had to face consequences because he was ready to play hero just to hold it over my head. As an adult I am way more careful in general doing anything. He is such a hypocrite, he constantly tells me about driving safely but he drives for a living, can’t put his cellphone down for the life of him because Facebook, messenger video and dating websites/texting hoors matters more to him. He drives 20-30 over the limit most of the time, has bad road rage, runs through lights and always has to take his car into the shop because he ruined his suspension or axle. He’s had an SR-22 because of how many tickets he’s had and he’s been in a ton of accidents in his life.
Any “nice” thing a narcissist does for you, they will ALWAYS hold it above your head for some reason pertaining to the future. They cannot genuinely be nice.

i just finished season five, and for the first part of the game (before arlo and meera appear) i thought it was fine. a little annoying that you don’t get much of a choice on LI, but other than that fine. i was on my dana route. i FINALLY get to a point as to which she actually wants to commit to me (up until then she’d flip all over the place - do i want suresh? eddie? maybe arlo?) and then i do one thing - NOT EVEN - with suresh, kat sees us, and now i’m in the doghouse.
okay, fine, i can fix this. THEN, dana the so called “only falling for you” LI is caught kissing eddie when all i did was TALK to suresh. okay pls kill yourself dana. AND BTW … dana is quite literally the ONLY person i’ve been flirting with this WHOLE TIME, i have no one to fall back on. instead of me being able to be pissed at her, SHES PISSED AT ME?!?! basically drops our relationship and then later gets with THE GIRL WHO SURESH CHEATED ON ME WITH.
and the worst part, the WORST FUCKING PART, is that fusebox ONLY allows me to be in a wlw relationship with DANA. i cant be with gabi, i cant be with arlo, but I CAN BE WITH DANA, the girl who can’t commit to shit?!?! please be serious fusebox. i never realized how hard they dropped the ball with this season until i thought abt how suresh and kat are the most likeable characters, AND THEY BOTH SUCK IMMENSELY.

Never posted before. I am 28 years old, very new to this disease and terrified.
I’ve had endometriosis symptoms ever since I got my first period at 10, but I did not know anything about this disease until about 3 months ago. I was able to find a gynecologist who specializes in minimally invasive surgery, treating endometriosis, fibroids, and pelvic organ prolapse. She suspects endometriosis but wants to start with the least invasive options, as she says surgery comes with risks. Right now, she has started me on a combined birth control pill, a muscle relaxer to take as needed, a lidocaine gel, and referred me to a pelvic floor physical therapist. I will do whatever she suggests since I am desperate for relief - she told me I need to give everything a good three months to start seeing improvement since this has likely been impacting my body for decades and change won’t happen overnight. It’s been 15 days - I get small relief from the muscle relaxers but I’ve been taking them multiple times daily and I worry it’s not sustainable.
However, within the last 3 weeks, my pain is excruciating and worsens every single day. I’m scared I won’t be able to take much more. I can no longer move or stand for more than 15 minutes, I’m taking the muscle relaxers and 2,000-3,000 mg of Tylenol daily, on top of weed edibles. I am in so much pain that I can’t sleep - my body couldn’t until 4 am this morning. I was scared I would need to go to the hospital and I’ve never been to the ER in my life. My doctor is supporting me with a leave of absence from work since I can’t walk or drive hardly at all. I don’t understand how I’ve gotten to this point in a matter of weeks.
This community is helping to save my life - it is horrifying to know how many people are experiencing this.
Has anyone else experienced such a rapid progression? Is this just what a flare up feels like or is something else worsening? I am so scared. I was walking a month ago - I don’t know what is happening to me.
Thank you 🩷

My worst fear when it comes to a Stormbringer adaptation is, yes, them butchering the entire story, but also the possibility they’ll ruin Rimbaud and Verlaine’s relationship. The stageplay removed a bit of context and some lines that really added to their relationship in the novel and I just know an anime/movie adaption will do the same and probably to a much worse degree
Like okay see, I like Soukoku, I like Fyolai, I like Ranpoe. I’m not a crazy fan of Skk, I don’t even ship it romantically, but I will defend it and support it. And I will always defend Fyolai as a ship no matter what people say about it I am obsessed with it. And everyone unanimously enjoys Ranpoe
But I am fully willing to accept these ships as platonic okay or that they’ll never be canon. I can understand why people see them as only platonic and I really don’t care. I don't have any issue with that. Any ship in this series I can say, “yeah, they’re just friends. Whatever. Who cares. It’s just an anime, it's not the end of the world if they aren’t romantically involved. They still have good and interesting relationships anyways it’s not worth having huge fits over it”
But Rimlaine? Platonic? Be fucking for real. Those two were SO IN LOVE
Absolutely no fuckin chance can you argue they were just friends. Those two were in love and it’s a tragedy
I don’t want Studio bones to make an adaptation of Stormbringer and ruin their relationship because then anime onlies won’t understand when I talk about this ship. They won’t understand why I adore them so much
In Fifteen, especially in the anime, Rimbaud came off as just some random villain guy who came into the picture to cause trouble and then try to kill Chuuya. But then Stormbringer completely overhauls his character
That man was so in love with Verlaine it hurts. He loved him so much. The way he just fawns over Verlaine and talks about wishing for him to have blessings and happiness in his life. He describes his heart beating with excitement when he first got Verlaine as a partner. When things were going wrong, never for even one second did Rimbaud stop loving him. He showed him nothing but care and compassion and loyalty til the very end
Like you anime onlies you just don’t get it, you only see a very watered down version of Rimbaud/Randou since the anime removed a lot of content from the Fifteen adaptation that mentioned Verlaine
What really happened in the Fifteen light novel is that Rimbaud did what he did for Verlaine. He wanted to find Verlaine. It wasn’t solely for his own selfish gain like the anime insisted. And when he died he was there mumbling to himself about Verlaine up to the very last second
I can understand why the anime changed this stuff. Stormbringer hadn’t come out yet and wouldn’t for a couple years so they just had no idea Verlaine would be so important and decided to cut out all mentions of him because they didn’t think it was necessary. Doesn’t mean I’m not still upset about it 😭
God I really can’t get into Verlaine’s side without massive spoilers but like. He insists he was resentful towards him, but Verlaine didn’t realize just how much he loved Rimbaud until it was too late. And after that point you really see how much it impacts Verlaine and god it’s so sgajshsgsjkskdjfkkdjd
That one scene where he just stares up into the starry sky, reminiscing about Rimbaud and how he would never betray him, how they were such great partners and so close. Like okay homo whatever
I think what really captures this relationship is this bit that Rimbaud says regarding Verlaine
“If it’s for my partner, I’ll gladly conquer any hell we come across. For as long as there’s a god in the sky and a bond in our hearts, the future will reach its hand out to us”
Stormbringer really is just Asagiri’s gay fanfic of Arthur Rimbaud x Paul Verlaine. He somehow managed to write the most beautiful yet tragic queer romance story I’ve ever seen in my life hidden away in this bungou stray dogs light novel about Chuuya’s backstory
And the biggest thing when it comes to this ship: The irl Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine were in a relationship. Like they were queer men and it’s a pretty well known thing they were together. It’s obvious Asagiri is aware of this as a lot of the events that happen in Stormbringer parallel events that happened between the irl Arthur and Paul. If Asagiri didn’t want to have two well known queer authors in his series he didn’t have to put them in but he did and then he wrote them like THIS. My dude Asagiri knew what he was doing.
Anyways that concludes my no spoilers deranged ramble about why Rimlaine are the most canon ship and I very normal about them and they totally don’t drive me insane. Happy pride month

Maldon was walking down the streets, simply perusing the market stalls that had been set up in preparation for the celebrations. He saw so many new and weird things, from the North to Norvos it seemed, people from all walks of life were wandering the streets.
It had been hours of wondering the Capital, there was just so much more to see than Maldon had been used to from Storm's End, and it took Maldon far too long to realize he was in a completely different section of the City than he had started in. Gone were the stalls that lined the wide and busy streets, after so many twists and turns he had entered a new back alley, with only minimal sunlight breaking through the tall stone buildings that caused this small section to feel all too claustrophobic to a man as big as Maldon.
The young Stag had heard of potential back street markets that could end up selling more curious and rare objects and baubles, the wild stories he had heard from those who claimed to visit such places were always such enthralling tales, and Maldon immediately began thinking about what he would do if he could stumble across one such "black market".
With such thoughts now filling his head, and a smile forming across his face, Maldon set out determined to find it. Such adventure was within his grasp, and he hoped he could find something worth telling his father about when he returned to Storm's End.

Hello! Long post incoming...
I'm looking for advice or if anyone has gone through this.
7 months ago, I had an ovarian cyst rupture and bleed. I ended up going to the ER at the time because I was worried it was appendicitis. The pain was sudden. I instantly got dizzy and nauseous, and even puked. At the ER, they were concerned it was ovarian torsion... turned out it was "just" a ruptured cyst.
I had a follow up with my OBGYN a month after the rupture. Ultrasound showed a larger than average cyst, but it wasn't big enough for surgery/not even needed. I was told unfortunately it's just a "wait and see" situation to see if this happens again.
Surprise! It did a couple days ago. Same symptoms. Thankfully, I have some pain medication left from the last ordeal. I did not go to the ER again because I don't have money for another $4k out of pocket. My OB is booked until next month.
Is there something I should ask at my appointment next month? Is this normal? I've never had a cyst rupture before (and I understand cysts are completely normal) and now I've had 2 painful bursts in 7 months.
Any advice is appreciated!

i’m just gonna ramble on a little story if anyone wants to read it. looking back at my life just say a year ago it was so much better. so insanely better but i was so depressed i wasn’t grateful of what was right in front of me.
but since then a lot of shit has happened. my girlfriend and i broke up. shes my other half and we thought we were each others true love. we were together for so long and never fought, always loved each other, and just had a really wholesome healthy relationship. every day was fun with her. but i ruined it. i’m so narcissistic and i’m just realizing it more now. i’m a narcissist. i don’t even know if i truly think this way or maybe my mind just conditioned myself to feel this way in order to get attention. i unknowingly put so much stress on her. she was so scared i was going to kill myself or cut myself all the time. i would be so dissociative with her sometimes she would be crying there crying for me and id just stare into space. holy hell. the last month we were together i had to be sober for a drug test so i was so insanely miserable from not being able to smoke. i made her feel like i didn’t like her anymore. but towards the end of the month i feel like my withdrawals went away i felt really calm and optimistic. but then she expressed how she’s been feeling to me. i’m so sorry. i just want to go back and take advantage of the best years of my life. i think she’s trying to move on, but she also still loves me. she just has mixed feelings about me. i just hurt her feelings and made her feel unloved for too long.
well anyways im in therapy now, i got medicated for adhd and i’ve been drinking a lot of caffeine too and it’s been helping me. i don’t have as much self deprecating thoughts. well i mean i do for mistreating her. but i’m trying to be nice to myself. i kinda have been. definitely a lot of improvement. but my life fucking sucks. sucks so much fucking more than it did when i was the most suicidal. i just feel numb and games and food are the only thing that brings me joy but at least i have some joy doing stuff. i’m not suicidal now and i have been self harming. i’m just so filled with guilt. it eats away at me. the missed opportunity i had. the life we could’ve spent together. i miss her so much. if i had just been better. i was so close to finally achieving happiness.
i just want to go back. i need to go back. it was so much simpler. just a year ago i was in the prime of my life. sure i was depressed as shit but my happy times were so happy. i just wanna go back. i miss her so much i miss my love. i hate not knowing how she’s feeling i’m so worried about her. she has depression too and i just wanna be there for her. i wanna be better for her. i wish she got to date a happy version of me.
okay i’m done writing

Anyone know how Spider-man’s timeline work? I read Spider-Man Life Story recently, and it got me thinking. How is everyone so young still in the Marvel Universe, but more specifically, Spider-Man?? i’ve been reading some comics, and you can literally see Peter grow and age as the comics go on. We start with him being a small teenager, to growing up into a handsome young man. The oldest i’ve seen him so far is in Kraven’s Last Hunt. By then he’s already like, around ~24 i’m guessing???? but he’s married to MJ and is obviously an adult. so i’m wondering when in the Marvel Comics timeline did our main OG Peter Parker basically stop aging? when did his character stop growing and basically get stuck in his mid 20s?

There is something natural about me (32M) that makes people upset and I don't know what to do with it anymore.
I've been bullied my whole life. For being fat, for being awkward. There was a deliberate effort among my classmates to get me to kill myself that lasted for years. I should have at the time.
I was put up for adoption as a baby and when I reached out to my bio mom as an adult she rejected me.
I can never keep friends and strangers snap at me all the time. All my coworkers treat me, from the first encounter onward, like my presence is deeply offensive to them. I feel like I can't even get a smile from anybody.
I gig sometimes playing in pit orchestras for local musical theater productions. These should in theory be people I have a lot in common with, but any time I open my mouth to speak, even if it's just asking a question about music or scheduling, everybody seems angry.
My wife abusive and cold. She's hyper critical and treats me like a burden even though I share an equal amount of the housework and bring in roughly equal pay. She can't even pretend to be happy to see me when I walk in the door and our sex life has been dead for years. When my friend from college died, I wasn't even allowed a day to grieve before she told me not to display pain to her because she "Couldn't fix it."
She said the same thing about my depression. Don't talk to her about it; go the therapy. So I did. But when I had to pay the copay for my session, all of $25, she told me I had to stop because it was too expensive...
She loved me once, but whatever it is about me upset her eventually too.
My five-year-old son even models her behavior. He snaps at me and blames me when things go wrong. He tells me to go away and won't let me help him, always going to her instead. He's going to hate me too, and I don't think I can do anything about it.
I am in pain and alone. I have nobody in my real life to talk to. Suicide isn't an option, as it would leave my son without a father. Divorce isn't an option because it would hurt to put him through it. Sometimes I reach out to the various subreddits for meeting people, but none of my friends I chat with ever last.
So, here I am just yelling into the internet ether. I would do almost anything for a hug.

So I 17 Nb have an ex 18 F let’s call her C okay so C and I used to date this is important for later. When we dated it was fun at first but I was starting to see a more toxic and more scary side. I have a lot of mental problems but I didn’t want her to leave me so we kept breaking up and getting back together after a while we broke up for real and I was heart broken but we stayed friends. About a month ago we had a big party and she got drunk and kissed me I was very upset about this because she was my ex and I finally got over her. She acted cold to me after that which upset me because I still cared for her as a friend. We had a big fight after a week later there was another party and I was laying on the floor half passed out and she left me laying there. After that it just went down hill she got angry at me every day at school saying stuff about my childhood. Last week she was yelling at me telling me she was gonna beat me up I got upset but I went home because I didn’t want to ruin whatever friendship was left. But later she texted me telling me I was a piece of shit and I got angry I was done with being nice so I told her she needs to leave me the fuck alone and that I wished I never saw her again and that she went back to her home country so I would never have to see her face again. She made a screenshot and sent it to all my friends now I lost my hole friendgroup because they think I was being racist towards her (I am black she is from a sister country) I didn’t mean it like I want her to go back to her country because she was being a bitch. What should I do my friends hate me and I don’t want to be hated by my friends because I got angry what do you think I should do? I need y’all’s advice.

I seriously can’t seem to figure this out. I have written many songs; I come up with a melody using random words and sometimes I keep 70% of the words that I sang in the end. After that I play and tug with the words for them to rhyme and be in sync.
Though for the life of me I can’t seem to create the music. I technically already did vocally because I know the melody (i have the song) yet I can’t create a piece that fits the melody or convert the melody into piano notes. I’ve been trying so many times I just end up very confused. I want to create music that is in sync with what I’m singing.
Does anyone have any helpful tips / videos/ software (AI)?

So we know that elliot went with tyrell and mastermind woke up in the car 3 days later, but stil, what happened there? Did the real elliot ever show up? Did we ever see him?

We went for Aliens fireteam. Highly recommended - PvE, up to 3 players, rich level of customisation and design, solid gameplay, beautiful looking.

Adult Nat and Lottie immediately had this comfort around each other that we haven’t seen either of them (mainly Nat) have with the other survivors. Before Lottie had her big break from reality (which escalated real fast and remains my main problem with the finale) it appeared she WAS actually helping Nat. She wanted to stay sober for the first time in who knows how long (whether it was cos she was playing the long game with Lottie or she genuinely was beginning the healing process is up to you). Which leads to what their teen wilderness relationship was like…
Nat has been declared the leader by Lottie. Nat now has a monumental shitstorm in front of her with the loss of their shelter, and we’ve seen her begin to lean into the idea of It as a way to cope with the horrible things they have done out there.
What if in season 3 we see Nat lean on Lottie for emotional support? Misty will be her right hand woman when it comes to the actual grisly tasks that are going to come up, but what if she forms a deep emotional connection with Lottie as a way to keep her sane, to keep her strong, to keep her able to lead. Lottie helps her then just like she was helping her in the present day.
What if us lottienat truthers aren’t completely delusional and there was something MORE between them in the past? What if it wasn’t all just Simone and Juliette being like “let’s kill the gays” before the director yelled action? What if they survived for each other and thanks to each other?
Then once they’re back to civilisation Lottie is ripped away back home, she stops speaking, she ends up in Switzerland. Nat ends up alone, without her support, so she turns to drugs and alcohol, she turns back to her relationship with Travis now which is now so toxic with the ghost of Javi.
Am I a delusional gay (yes) or is there a chance?

There is something natural about me (32M) that makes people upset and I don't know what to do with it anymore.
I've been bullied my whole life. For being fat, for being awkward. There was a deliberate effort among my classmates to get me to kill myself that lasted for years. I should have at the time.
I was put up for adoption as a baby and when I reached out to my bio mom as an adult she rejected me.
I can never keep friends and strangers snap at me all the time. All my coworkers treat me, from the first encounter onward, like my presence is deeply offensive to them. I feel like I can't even get a smile from anybody.
I gig sometimes playing in pit orchestras for local musical theater productions. These should in theory be people I have a lot in common with, but any time I open my mouth to speak, even if it's just asking a question about music or scheduling, everybody seems angry.
My wife abusive and cold. She's hyper critical and treats me like a burden even though I share an equal amount of the housework and bring in roughly equal pay. She can't even pretend to be happy to see me when I walk in the door and our sex life has been dead for years. When my friend from college died, I wasn't even allowed a day to grieve before she told me not to display pain to her because she "Couldn't fix it."
She said the same thing about my depression. Don't talk to her about it; go the therapy. So I did. But when I had to pay the copay for my session, all of $25, she told me I had to stop because it was too expensive...
She loved me once, but whatever it is about me upset her eventually too.
My five-year-old son even models her behavior. He snaps at me and blames me when things go wrong. He tells me to go away and won't let me help him, always going to her instead. He's going to hate me too, and I don't think I can do anything about it.
I am in pain and alone. I have nobody in my real life to talk to. Suicide isn't an option, as it would leave my son without a father. Divorce isn't an option because it would hurt to put him through it. Sometimes I reach out to the various subreddits for meeting people, but none of my friends I chat with ever last.
So, here I am just yelling into the internet ether. I would do almost anything for a hug.

Hi Everyone,
This is my (F22) first time posting on Reddit ever. I’ve been reaching out to crisis hotlines and counsellors but I’m having a hard time understanding if I was assaulted or not.
TW: I AM GOING INTO DETAIL HERE
I went to this guys house to hook up, I was a virgin. But he wanted to do anal and I said no but he did it anyway. I felt weird about it but thought it was normal rough sex. Then I went back to his house the next day and he held me down and did it again. I did consent to sex and went to his house a second time. So I’m wondering if it was an assault or not? I stayed in bed for two days and then went on with my life and it hit me two months ago when my mom forced the truth out of me. I don’t know I’m just confused. Thanks for all your help in advance.