u/BuckeyeFoodie

I'll go first, and I have two:

#1: QH Congress is in my home town, so I go every year to stock up on supplies. Sometimes I wander in to the arena and see what's showing. A few years ago I popped into the coliseum and western pleasure was showing. I sit down and am quietly watching these horses walk around the ring, so I ask the lady sitting a few chairs down "when are they going to start jogging?"

Her reply? "They *are* jogging".

Oops!

#2: At congress again to shop many many years ago, one of the first years they had pleasure driving. Two things to know - one, I've been showing Hackneys and Saddlebreds in driving since I was four and was harnessing as soon as I could reach the pony's back, and two, the main warm up arena is right outside the major shopping building.

I'm with a few non-horse friends, we're watching the Jr Ex pleasure driving horses warm up, and I point out this one horse because it's harness was on ALL WRONG. I'm standing there saying to my friends "that's wrong, that's wrong, that's on *upside down* somehow", when the woman standing next to me on the rail grabs my arm and says "That's MY HORSE!"

I think I'm about to get punched.

Instead she launches into a story about how their trainer abandoned the clients the day before to run away with his mistress, they had never actually harnessed and hooked before by themselves with the show harness, and did I know how to do it and could I tell them how to fix it?

I immediately offered to hop in and fix the harness up. The horse was a complete sweetie, and the kid driving was really attentive and asked good questions. And I didn't get punched!

So, what are your stories?

Pre-Tuna-Meltdown Shane and Ilya get voluntold by the MLH that they will be partners on a celeb athlete edition of The Amazing Race. They are trying to keep their friendship and relationship hidden (badly), while also being their hypercompetitive selves.

I forgot to bookmark it, and my subscription list is as long as AO3 is old, soooooo...

I have an appointment coming up with my doctor to discuss the new higher dose that's available, but I wanted to see if anyone else has worked out a solution to my problem before I talk with him.

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I started in March '24, I lost 60 pounds while dosing up (stepped up monthly as was recommended), but I plateaued HARD once I hit 2.4. I have maintained my weight within a 10-pound range for two years, but realistically I need to lose 70-100 more pounds.

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I exercise (competitive horseback rider, plus daily farm work, plus working out 3-6 days per week), I've maintained a calorie deficit. Food noise never went away for me, but I'm pretty good at keeping my "bad" choices within my calorie range.

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Not sure what options I have (switching to another GLP1 is not an option, F you very much CVS Caremark..), but I'm also nervous about going to the 7.2 dose as I still get insane nausea from 2.4 (had to take 7 Zofran yesterday to survive my work day).

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Has anyone had luck breaking a long-term plateau? Is anyone on the higher dose?

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Edited because typo

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My boyfriend (M38) and I (F29) have only been together for 2 months. We became “official” pretty quickly and are even Facebook official. We both have kids, and our kids have already met each other.

This morning really upset me and I’m sitting here crying while he gets ready and I genuinely don’t know if I’m overreacting.

We were supposed to go to church this morning together. I tried waking him up multiple times but he kept going back to sleep. I got myself ready and went into the room and said, “Hey babe, I’m going to leave soon.”

He immediately got mad and said, “What? Why the hell didn’t you wake me up?”

I told him I tried multiple times and he wouldn’t wake up. Then I asked if he was going to get up because I wanted him to come with me.

He then told me, “Get the fuck out of my face.”

I said, “I don’t like when you talk to me like that.”

And he responded with, “I don’t like when you’re in my face bitching. Leave me the fuck alone.”

For context: I never yell at him. I’ve never told him to shut up or cursed at him like that. But when he gets angry, he yells and says really hurtful things. This isn’t the first time he’s spoken to me like this.

What’s messing with me is I already struggle with feeling like I can’t make relationships work. My parents make comments like “you can’t keep anyone,” and I’ve had a lot of shorter relationships. Now I feel embarrassed that my daughter already met him and I’m scared I messed things up for her by introducing someone too soon.

This feels wrong to me, but part of me keeps wondering if I was being annoying and somehow caused this. Is this normal conflict in relationships, or is this a red flag I shouldn’t ignore? I don’t get it, he used to be so sweet and emotional with me up until a week ago or so, when we started fighting more and I think he’s just frustrated with me still?

Any honest advice would help because I feel really confused right now.