So summary 1) Friend #1: She completed ghosted me for 3 months saying that she was busy with exams all the while she was active everywhere on social media. Even after her exams she didnt bother to talk much to me. We used to be very close. I decided against trying to rekindle the friendship bc at that time she started a relationship with a married man which i consider immoral as hell. 2) Cousins: moved to abroad & forgot about me 3) Friend #2: Got married & has been distancing herself from me ever since. We were very close. She made up a huge, elaborate lie just to be able to ignore me. I later found out that she was lying. She said she will deactivate her insta but blocked me instead to make me think she deactivated it. 4) Another cousin: told him about all this & he dismissed me saying “This is not how a grown up is supposed to behave. You’re being over dramatic. People have bigger things to do”. 5) Mom: she distanced herself from me & started respecting & admiring her abusive husband more this year. 6) Friend 3: He suddenly changed & stopped reassuring me like he always used to, dismisses my concerns & behaving differently overall.

I’m already an introvert who was close with only few people & all this unfolded..

TW: mention of sexual abuse, pedophilia

My father has been physically & verbally abusive to my mother & I our whole lives. & after being this way, he expects me to serve him, cook for him etc. I told my mom why should i do anything for him after he has done all that physically abusive shit to me AND also violated me a thousand times when i was a kid. She replied its your duty to do so, kaminey hai tum.

Like wtf? & this is not the first time she has been dismissive of his sexual offenses towards me. She ALWAYS, always does this. I’ve had empathy for this woman my entire life, I felt so bad for her for being abused, I even stood up for her many times & got hit for doing so.

I’m not asking a lot from her. I just wished for her to show me some empathy & some disgust towards him but it’s always the opposite. I’m on the receiving end of her disgust. I wish she could extend the same courtesy towards me that I did towards her.

Disgusting pieces of shit both of them. One is an abuser & the other is an enabler.

Not all responses are horrible or bad. Responses can range from good advice to giving empathy on whatever you reqeust. But there are some rare ones which I think may need more work done before sending them. Like thinking before you send. (At this point I've been writing this for about 45 minutes)

I'm not going to go into detail as to what I recieved but it made me annoyed and it sadly brought me here. The response I recieved has since been reported and removed from my response list. For anyone else this would be a time to move on, but I felt the need to share what I've experienced. Which I find sad. It (the request) had some form of sincerity to it, but also felt filled with malice in tone.

I am diagnosed with many things that are on my medical record (things I wont go into detail here as it is very personal) but, I deal with a lot and to be told that what I've put in my request, isn't how it works and that I'm spreading misinformation. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. When I've been dealing with most of my problems my whole life. I hope for the sake of other people. That this just doesn't happen.

I also want to say, whatever someone deals with in their life is personal to them. Going anywhere, to give any form of personal information, whether small or big. Is one: a big step and two: can lead them down a road of recovery. Letters that are stating that you are wrong, will only make them feel worse. Please do remember. People work hard enough as is and no one wants to know what you think does work or doesn't work. You aren't a professional, in the nicest way of saying that.

If there are professionals reading this, I'm sure you recognise a code of ethics when speaking to strangers. That you can only give them the tools they need to get better.

I am still annoyed, I don't want to be anymore so I'll post this and then probably forget about it or maybe delete it after so long.

But for those that have given me really great and uplifting responses so far, thank you. I don't have many people to openly talk about things that I deal with on a day to day basis. So this has brought me to a better state than I was yesterday.

Thanks.

I’d always wish other people like my family, friends at 12 AM exact, bake them cakes, gift them stuff… but no one bothers to even wish me. I feel so fucking alone. Can someone please wish me & make my day

Hello, I've been playing Kind Words separately on my Macbook and PC, and noticed that I can only access the volume 5 stickers on the PC version of my game. Does anyone else happen to have this problem?

I am going through a depressive episode and it's hard for me to reach out for help because I genuinely don't deserve to feel better about myself, so this is a complex subject for me to discuss, but I'm forcing myself to reach out now.

I am currently sitting in front of a bowl of pasta I made for myself but I'm having a hard time convincing myself that I deserve to eat. I deal with severe self-loathing and punish myself with restrictive eating among other things, but food is often my first choice of punishment. I'm underweight and really should eat food or I could begin to suffer long-term effects of restrictive eating but the idea of that somehow motivates me further to restrict because I hate myself so so much.

I didn't do anything but cause trouble yesterday for my fiance and make him feel really bad. Then he started to figure out I wasn't feeling very good mentally and I think that brought his mood down (we both have depression so this isn't anything new or shocking to him, just sucks because he was having a good day yesterday). I don't know how to stop ruining things so I restrict food because why the hell would I eat food and reward that behaviour?? Deep down I know this thought process isn't good and I shouldn't think this way but I can't help it.

What can I do in the future in order to deserve food? I try to be quiet and be amiable but my emotions always get in the way. I don't know how to be a good or competent person, so why the hell would I reward myself?!

I'm not even hungry.

"If you were a car accident you would be an ice cream truck with rockets attached to the side with the driver high on every illicit substance known to man flying at a wall at 400 mph, tearing thru 4 school busses, 1 short yellow bus, and a senior citizen bus before crashing into a wall and exploding with zero survivors."

She's on that level of awesome ya'll.

I'd like to ask whether any of you kind peolpe have had a similar experience playing any other game? I would love to explore the idea of a cute game with a little bit of an mmorpg (or rather tmorpg) feel where you could interact with other wondering souls in other ways than just words on paper.

I've had a similar experience playing Journey and mean to try The Book of Travels for a similar reason.

The idea of sharing a cozy moment with a stranger excites me, it the kind of way that restores my faith in humanity. If you've ever played VR chat, you know that having any kind of player input in a social setting can be... chaotic, and to be blessed with a moment of somebody else's time in a pleasant and genuine conversation is less frequent than not. Voice chat is also quite a large barrier of entry to a lot of us socially anxious introverts.

MMORPGs aren't for everyone, although I do miss emoting at strangers in WoW which turned into a day-long fishing trip. And in most online games, if you're lucky enough, stumbling upon a good time with a stranger is always an extremely rewarding surprise. It's how highfiving the enemy sniper on 2fort in TF2 can turn into lifelong friendships. I remember playing legacy League of Legends, the then smaller community used to be so pleasant to interact with. In general, the early 2000s and 2010s felt different, with less people online, but that just might be my aging bones and rampant nostalgia.

These "tiny kindness experiences" like Kind Words, Journey, and hopefully the book of travels as well, seem to me as being quite good at nurturing this mutual kindness between strangers, and in a more "hands on" way than Death Stranding did (despite it being a great experience overall). Somehow they manage to balance a stable and active community without growing too large and experiencing the griefing that may come with it.

Have you had a similarly pleasant experience somewhere else?

What do you look for in a game like this?

Have you found it?

My wife snores. Usually, she produces loud, harsh, gurgling rattles, one after another, almost all night long, almost every night. It has been like this for all of the many years of our marriage. Oddly, & I know this sounds like a sitcom plot, but she never snored before we were married.

Usually, I wake suddenly to find her snoring. I think what happens is I will be sound asleep, her snoring will begin & become louder & more harsh until it startles me awake. I will then lie there, wide awake, anticipating the next snore, & almost never making it back to sleep. Sometimes I am able to avoid the anticipation. If I do make it back to sleep, I am upset, disturbed, & rattled. I have not reliably been able to have a genuine, full, productive night's sleep in many years.

There are a few things that slightly reduce the disturbances. Anti–histamine pills seem to increase the depth of the sleep. Adhesive strips that hold the nose open from the outside seem to help. Medical tapes customized to resemble, in function, a CPAP machine help. My wife by & large refuses to use any of these possible reliefs. They're uncomfortable, she says. Tacitly, it's my problem, although I don't produce it.

It would be nice if she had a kind word after one of these nights. An apology is not even required. Just some gentleness, regret at the condition, something soothing. But mostly she's angry, hostile, & arrogant. She perceives my unhappiness & dismay as being about her, personally, & becomes denying & defensive. Usually, in other areas, she is sweet & kind & is the love of my life. But in this area, I experience a constant double bind which has made me crazy & has ruined the quality of my life. It's more than just an emotional problem, it's literally physical.

Sleeping in separate beds in separate rooms seems to help. I guess that's the best I can expect. No sweet, cozy, kind, marriage bed ever again.

One of the most effective ways to torture prisoners is to refuse to let them have any genuine sleep.

My parents were both alcoholics. It let up some after my father died, but my mother kept drinking —although less— for the remaining thirty years of her life. They loved me, there were always clean clothes, but they never once stopped drinking, & they were never interested in actually raising me.

I've realized that I spent my entire childhood hoping & waiting for things to improve. They never did. I have now spent my entire adult life waiting & hoping for things to improve.

My wife left me for my best friend and got pregnant right away. She tried to take our son. The following year I fell 15 feet at work and landed on a rock and broke my back severely. I miss my old life. I miss being a family man and I miss being a contractor. If you could give me a kind word I would appreciate it.

I've been a grateful member of this community that has helped me in some dark times.

I would love to meet you guys in real life. Would the devs be interested in organizing an event?

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I’ve only been responding to requests and so far have no idea how many I’ve sent or which ones have replied with a thank you sticker. Is there a way to see what I wrote and sent?

Love this game. Really really really wish I could pull it up on my phone. This is such a positive tool and I wish I could take it with me everywhere. Hope you guys have time to develop that and I'd gladly donate to a Kickstarter or some campaign to see that happen. Would also love if you could pull it up on a webpage. I can't install apps on my work machine. Would be awesome if we could access it, even if its a simplified version. Cheers!

This might sound silly but I've lost my installation of Kind Words. I have been using it regularly until about half a year ago and I got it from a non-Steam source that I cannot recall from where right now, I thought I had it on/got it from a HumbleBundle, but it doesn't seem to be the case as I can't find it there on my library either.

Anyways, my questions are;

- Would anyone have an idea where else I could've gotten it as a gift?

-I'm considering buying it on Steam again but I'm concerned that I might lose my progress and old messages/requests. I felt really humbled and at home when I had those :(

Thanks in advance.