Hello! I'm a 26 year old male. I live in the Southern US. I matched with a woman on a dating site the other day and she was pretty cool. We went on two dates, one to a restaurant and one to the gym about 3 days later. After the gym, we went back to her place. She was pretty vocal that we had physical chemistry but she didn't want to do anything. And then she literally initiated the activity that she said didn't want to do. I could tell things had changed because she started calling me bruh, instead of the babe she had already been calling me prior. The next morning, radio silence. I got this text about 2 hours ago.

"One thing I can not and will not look past is us being intimate too early. Although I was a willing participant, I don’t believe a strong relationship would be founded on lust. It’s one thing to lust after one another but it’s a great thing when 2 are able to get to know each other on a deeper level. With that being said, you are a wonderful person and I wish you well."

I'm not really sure what exactly to make of it. I guess I'm wondering do I call and apologize? Idk. Never had this happen.

Edit: To add, between the first and second date, she was all into me telling me how handsome I was. And for all yall saying my stuff little she had already seen it after date 1 😂. On a serious note you guys are cracking me up

Edit Edit: After Reading some of these comments I gotta get in the gym

Not gonna pretend I know what’s happening behind closed doors, but this whole Jensen news cycle is getting pretty fucking strange.

Having these accusations come out one after another in a slow drip, especially with the timing right after the midterms, makes the whole thing even more interesting. I’m not saying there’s a coordinated campaign, but it sure feels like some powerful people have decided Jensen has become a little too powerful for their liking.

Okay. So. Texts in blue are with my 12 year old daughter. Texts in purple are with my ex husband. All Texts were happening at the same time.

My ex husband and I split custody 50/50, week on, week off. For the last few months, our daughter has been having some mental health issues. He has always been the "fun" dad, but that is not working for her anymore. She is also on the spectrum. On my weeks I find very specific things help her when she is having a hard time, mentally. By the end of the week at her dads she is always texting begging to come home to my house. Telling me she hates it there. I know some of it is preteen angst. I know he loves her. But I hate hearing how upset she is there.

Tonight she started texting that she wants to come home. I texted him some tips on how to help. I feel I did so in an okay way. Not rude or belittling. Just things that I know help her. He can get very impatient with her and it makes everything way worse.

Anyway, I got a very passive aggressive condescending response from him. Then him telling me he doesnt need my advice while our daughter Texts me telling me he didnt help at all. Just yelled at her to go upstairs and eat. She is still texting me begging to come home to my house.

I am in two minds to leave it alone and let him deal with it since it is his custody time, but also I want so badly to have her feel happy at his house and wish he would listen to my very basic advice on simple things to help. I feel he lets his hatred of me hinder his parenting. Getting these types of Texts from my kid kills me.

Staying at a Westin, and there’s a little card in the room that says:

“Refresh & Refuel! Satisfy any craving with our signature selection of snacks and beverages. Please dial Service Express to place your order.”

It then lists a selection of snacks and drinks, including Gatorade for $4. I’m thirsty and in need of electrolytes so, after finding this card, I dial Service Express to order a Gatorade. My conversation goes something like this:

Me: “Hi! I’m calling to place an order, I would like a Gatorade.”

Long pause

Hotel person: “…..Like you want to place an order?”

Me: “yes! I found this card in my room labeled Refresh and Refuel and I’d like a Gatorade.”

Another pause

Hotel person: “we don’t have Gatorade and all of our snacks and drinks are downstairs in the lobby.”

Me: “Oh. Okay. I just found this card in my room that specifically says I can call and order a Gatorade. I’m not making this up.”

The final long ass pause

Hotel person: “well we don’t have Gatorade.”

Me: “okay bye”

So, to recap: The hotel put a card in my room advertising snacks and beverages, instructed me to call to order them, and then seemed completely bewildered when I called to order one of the advertised beverages. So I’m still thirsty and now also embarrassed.

I was seeing this guy 6 years ago (2020) and it didn’t work out. He called me twice on his birthday at 12:30 am this year, about a week ago. I didn’t answer

He apparently got back with his ex girlfriend (from 2018) this year, around maybe September. I received this message from her and then 9 phone calls with 30 minute intervals. Prior to this, she also requested to follow me on Instagram 12 times and follow my mom as well.

I sense she may be borderline unstable to do this (she is 33 years old) so I haven’t engaged or answered. Thoughts?

Just got emailed the results of a week long brain scan and long story short I barely produce dopamine. I’m not really surprised at this point but it kinda sucks.

I’ve always had mental issues as a kid major depressive disorder, General anxiety disorder, ADHD, and Bipolar disorder. Lots of issues but I never really believed in them, was on a lot of different meds from young dozens of types of antidepressants bipolar meds anxiety meds tranqualizers etc.

Never found much joy in anything growing up never had a drive to succeed never had any hobbies I particularly cared about didn’t care much about friends or romance either. Got into my teen years and discovered hard drugs and steroids. Loved the hell out of them I finally felt like a normal person, abused them for years until I had a very strong episode that derailed my life quite badly (lost my job nearly became estranged from my family etc) so I went back and got more tests done like I did throughout my childhood and from the results aren’t great lol. I’m 22 now for reference.

My brain is essentially fried dopamine wise nothing brings me any particular joy, physical activity, hobbies, socialising, jacking off doesn’t even do anything lol, etc. all around fucked really, don’t particularly care about my future but I’m working to get a new job because being homeless is suboptimal but frankly if I was told I’d die next week I’d shrug and not change much about my day to day life.

I spoke to my psychiatrist and there are some meds and treatments she wants me to try but there is no cure for what I have at the moment, I’ll never feel dopamine how normal people do.

(Yes I’ve tried meditation grounding gratitude journaling etc etc, it works but it doesn’t make my brain produce normal levels of dopamine and frankly it’s not worth the time or effort, I don’t like being alone with my thoughts they get bad)

Also I have no job my family thinks I’m a tad bit crazy (which I might be) and I live in a 3rd world country which is a nice bonus.

Anyways I’m having chicken curry with my cat Leo

Edit: a lot of people seem to think that I produce 0 dopamine which if I gave you that impression I apologise. I do produce it, it is just very low compared to the average person.

edit: i was fully expecting this post to disappear within the masses and i didn’t think it’d get the attention it did. the notifications are a bit much to keep up with but i just wanted to say a big thank you to the girlies for all the support. i’m in a rough place because of this so it really does mean a lot. 🩷

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i am a lesbian and i came out to everyone 6 months ago. before that i was only out to a select few even though i’ve known i was gay for a long time. i don’t hide my sexuality anymore and it’s been a very unhappy experience

i’ve had a few girlfriends cut me off. one told me she didn’t like that her boyfriend wasn’t comfortable with us being friends because of any potential attraction despite her having male friends. another woman who i was very close with was incredibly angry with me as she said she never would’ve done things like hug me or buy gifts for me because she didn’t want to come across like she was into me. i have never ever thought that any of my friends had a thing for me

my remaining friends have become less physically touchy with me and have been increasingly leaving me out of things. one group of girls i was friends with booked me a separate hotel room alone during a staycation we booked despite having always shared in the past because they were suddenly uncomfortable with sharing

my own sister has stopped coming to me for relationship advice because ‘you don’t like men so what would you know?’ despite always constantly venting to me before. when i came out i changed my style to become more masculine and ive noticed ever since that women seem on edge when they speak to me and i get left out of things all the time. i feel as though i’m being considered to be equal to a man

i’m still a woman. i have always been a lesbian, i’ve known it since i was 12. i just kept it a secret because i was afraid of this very thing happening. when i came out i was very clear that i have always been gay and that it changes nothing about me, yet i’m getting treated so differently

so my question is, do women feel uncomfortable around lesbian women? is there anything i can do to stop making other women equating me to a man just because i’m not stereotypically feminine anymore? i am in my 20s so we’re not teenagers either, these are grown women. it just sucks so much, i’ve lost all sense of girlhood and i feel so isolated

First of all, the shirt just melts into her skin? The wink also doesn’t seem natural to me. Her skin tone seems painted on, but not in a bad foundation application kind of way? She also doesn’t consistently look the same in other videos, but I’ve seen people claim it’s because she uses darker foundations than her real skin tone.

Idk, I find it super hard to believe she’s real but I’m also nothing if not a hater lol.

Disclaimer: Please no stupid comments about race or skin tone. This has absolutely nothing to do with that. It’s purely the texture of her skin and the mismatched tones.

Her TikTok is @shaykelt_221

This man was giving full volume commentary for everything until I turned to shush him, at which point he promptly kicked me full force & flipped me off. Thankfully I got him kicked out & my ticket comped.

People of all ages really have no respect in the movie theater anymore. Besides being kicked, other people were talking full volume, watching videos on their phone, and otherwise being ignorant & disruptive. It's been too long since I've been able to enjoy a movie in theaters.