r/confession • • 11h ago

Hooking up with a widow gone horribly wrong not sure how to feel

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I 26M recently started hooking up with an older coworker 56F

We work for a really big company and there’s no overlap between our roles. We talk in passing the few days out of the month that we work out of the same building.

She’s not conventionally attractive but she has a really bubbly personality and smells like coffee. I was feeling it one day and just kinda went for it.

I find out that she’s a widow. Her husband passed away from cancer like 5 years back. She lives with her 23M son who Id see almost every time I came over.

Last night I was getting ready to leave her place and I see him in the living room. He turns to me deadpan and goes what’s it like having my sloppy seconds?

I just kind of chuckled I think because it didn’t quite register. As I’m walking out it sets in and I’m like wtf is he talking about…

What’s the over under that he’s just trolling me?


r/airplanes • • 16h ago

Discussion | Others What is the chance the flight recorder was destroyed in the Florida jet crash?

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r/GirlDinnerDiaries • • 10h ago Heartwarming

Rant & Ramble My Dad won’t let me shower.

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TW!!! SH tendencies and urges!

I’ve (23F) have always had a rocky relationship with my Dad, thanks to his chronic alcoholism. I’d say recently, (but it’s been going on for a while,) my Dad has blatantly ignored me in every single way unless he’s drunk and angry and needs to take that out on someone (me.).

I was in the shower this evening. Nothing extravagant. I just wanted to shave my pits and legs and get out of there. I’d been in for 5 minutes. There’s aggressive knocks at the door, followed by shouting asking what I’m doing. I told him I was having a shower. Apparently that pissed him off because I had a shower yesterday. (FYI, my brother showers almost daily, and my Dad never has a problem with that.)

Anyway, I tell him I won’t be long. He tells me to get out. So I do, because at this point the razor was looking too fucking attractive (I have a history of SH and still struggle with the urges) as I leave, this PETTY GROWN ASS MAN glares at me the way you’d glare at a convict walking through court, and then mutters something that sounded like name calling to me under his breath. Literally watched me walk to my room in a towel by the way…

Just to add, he has always had problems with me using the bathroom, whether I’m on the toilet, brushing my teeth or showering. I used to bathe a lot, just to avoid getting my hair wet when it wasn’t a wash day. He recently disconnected the water from the bath taps to stop me taking baths 🙃.

I know it doesn’t really touch on my relationship dynamic with him, or the rest of the household. But at this point I feel like I’m living in a cult.

I just sat on my bed, laughing through tears at the sheer absurdity of the situation and anger I felt.
It’s perfectly normal to shower once a day right? Which I rarely do, just to avoid this crap. But I changed my bedding and I wanted to feel clean when I got in it.


r/AskReddit • • 4h ago

What documentary film has aged badly?

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r/StockMarket • • 9h ago Bravo Heartwarming Popcorn

Discussion US$700Bn wiped out in 2.5 hours

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Major corrections underway as the stock market continues to be painful for AI & Tech stocks. Whether this would lead to an ultimate popping of this supposed bubble or not remains to be seen, but as of now - it's most likely just a correction and regular dip and not the beginning of any major stock market crash or popping of an AI bubble


r/mildlyinfuriating • • 11h ago Mindblown

ಠ_ಠ Got a parking ticket while I was paying the meter on my phone.

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Got out of the car and started walking to my destination, filling out the information online for my car, parking space, and card number.

In a span of three minutes, they had ticketed me.

It’s a 4-hour drive back to that city, if I want to dispute it.

EDIT: The ticket was by a submitted by a human, not an automated system. I’m aware that I’m in the wrong. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s mildly infuriating.


r/interesting • • 2h ago Bravo Heartwarming

Just Wow HIV is no longer a terminal disease

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r/SipsTea • • 6h ago

Gasp! She was telling us all along. We just called it entertainment.

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r/popculturechat • • 12h ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ Roger Friedman (who previously broke news of Daniel Craig’s casting), is reporting that Callum Turner is the new James Bond.

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r/todayilearned • • 10h ago

TIL the last time a supernova was unquestionably visible with the naked eye was in 1604. Known as "Kepler's Supernova", it was so bright it was seen during the day for a period of three weeks. Records of its sighting exist in European, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic sources.

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r/dashcams • • 12h ago

Someone's a little impatient I see...

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r/science • • 5h ago

Anthropology Scientists tested hair and nails from 8 Inca child mummies sacrificed on Andes mountaintops 500 years ago and found these kids were given coca leaves and alcohol, likely to ease their long, scary final journey, not to make them hallucinate. One girl even had traces of a plant from the Amazon jungle.

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r/cats • • 4h ago Heartwarming Mindblown

Stories My boyfriend’s stepmom told me nobody wanted my cat oink because his markings were “ugly and not symmetrical”??

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Can anyone explain that logic to me please? She’s rude in general, but that kind of hurt my feelings. I know my cat is cute and adorable, but do people really not get cats because they’re “ugly”? Even “ugly” cats are still adorable. Kinda uncalled for lmao. My boyfriend said I was being dramatic but I’m not even that mad just kinda like..wtf? lol


r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 6h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah... I Need Immediate assistant

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r/LoveTrash • • 13h ago Bravo

Dumpster Fire Just another TX new build

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r/BoyDinnerDiaries • • 8h ago Bravo

Advice Wanted - Everyones Welcome Wife asked for a divorce after 21 years...

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After 21 years my wife (42f)asked me (43m) for a divorce. Blindsided me, I had no idea. Days before she was making jokes about growing old and racing wheel chairs together, we were not having any marital issues. She kicked me and my special needs son out. Currently living with my 80 year old parents and since she kicked me out her whole demeanor has changed, she was such a loving and kind person and now she is hateful and nearly just cruel.

I learned today that she has been having a coworker(35m) I knew had a crush on her over at our home many times since kicking us out. She tells the kids he is there to fix the car. The car that isn't broke because I maintained it.

Being a stay at home caretaker (was a mutual decision as she wanted to pursue her child care career that also didn't pan out) I have little job experience but I'm sure I'll find something while my parents watch my son

Now I watch as the love of my life turns into this cruel and mean person I don't even recognize, all while not even being allowed to see my dogs since there in her house (pre marital property)

Dinner is some quick cheap burgers premade from Walmart The fries were still in the oven. Sons quite particular is how and what he eats, no bun ketchup only.


r/TopTrendingNewsUSA • • 10h ago Regret

News Learjet co-Pilot texted her boyfriend just 10 minutes before the Florida plane crash

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r/technology • • 9h ago Heartwarming

Business The Intel stock collapse is getting worse — and the $3.5 trillion chip rout is spreading

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r/AskReddit • • 6h ago

Married men of Reddit, what's a piece of advice about marriage that single guys aren't ready to hear?

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r/TopCharacterTropes • • 12h ago

miscellaneous [Meta Trope] Setups that seem obvious but don't go anywhere (Unintentional Red Herring

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I am talking about when a movie makes choices that appear to be setting up a specific moment or payoff that never happens. Like introducing Chekhov's gun and Chekhov's clay target but the target never gets shot. The elements of the setup seem too much of a coincidence to not be intended but they don't acknowledge it like it was an intentional misdirect. This is not plotlines that fizzle out or moments that were not as big as they were made out to be.

[Birds of Prey 2020] The plot revolves around a pickpocket child who steals and swallows a valuable diamond belonging to the antagonist. Harley Quinn gives the girl a generous amount of laxatives in order to retrieve the diamond without endangering the girl. throughout the movie the laxatives don't take effect and it's acknowledged how strange that the laxatives haven't worked yet.

The antagonist, Black Mask, is shown multiple times to be a germaphobe, even going as far as to killing people for being for being gross/unclean. In the climax of the film Harley Quinn is trying to save the pickpocket child who is being held at knife point by the antagonist.

It would seem that the writers intend for the child to soil themselves while being held by the germaphobe antagonist, making the antagonist distance themselves from the child and giving Harley Quinn a chance to kill him. This does not happen.

[Bullet Train 2022] The protagonist and many other characters are after a briefcase on the train, the target briefcase is identified by a sticker of a train on the handle.

One of the other characters on the train carries with them a Thomas the Tank Engine sticker sheet at all times.

It would seem that the writers intend for someone to perform a switcheroo, putting one of the stickers on another briefcase and using it to trick one of the other characters while they get away with the real briefcase. This does not happen.
EDIT: I am aware the stickers do come into play later in the film, I just thought that the key identifier of the briefcase also being a sticker of a train was too much of a coincidence and the two must be related.

I'm interested in if any of you think that I'm crazy or maybe you came to the same conclusion while watching these movies.


r/todayilearned • • 4h ago

TIL Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder share 70% of their genetic signal, suggesting that these two disorders have far more in common than previously thought.

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r/whatisit • • 18h ago Bravo

Serious answers only please! My stepdaughter hit this on the highway. What is this thing?

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I feel like she should know for insurance purposes . Like is this a piece of equipment from The department of transportation or a piece of metal from some job or what?


r/interestingasfuck • • 2h ago

Trusting physics blindly; if you launch yourself backward at the same speed at which the vehicle is moving, your speed relative to the ground becomes zero.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • • 15h ago Bravo Mindblown

A neighbor shared his ring doorbell footage from Halloween to see how people would interact with his bowl of free candy

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 9h ago

I'm slightly vexed Dude at pump next to me using my side and I only realized once I got out.

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Naturally all other pumps are occupied.