u/Due_Pea2071

I moved to Japan to teach English before the great crash of the value of the yen. I also didn't know enough about loans at the time to realize that I was going to start accruing interest, and lots of it, very rapidly after August 2025. I haven't checked in awhile because last I checked, I accrued $2000 in a month. So, I'm avoiding it for now, because each month without sending money to my federal loans, I am living paycheck to paycheck. As of now, I have to send back money for my private student loans (Thank you Sallie Mae!) And now that the SAVE plan is gone, I really have no idea what step is next. My degree is worthless, I would not have gotten it if I knew how big a mistake I was making. I was 18 and naive. You can tell me that if you want but trust me I already know. I am asking for advice on what to do from here.

Well, is there any way I could file against the school and have my loans forgiven? The school provided no help in terms of internships or opportunities despite promising during intake that they would be helping graduates find careers post graduation. I've received no help since being in and out of school. My education quality was also really poor. Is there anything I can do?

My and my boyfriend have been dating for 3 months, but we have been friendly/flirting for about 5 1/2. We really get along well, I really like him, I feel like we have a lot of fun together and I don't see any major problems in our relationship.

Over the weekend, we went out with some friends. Well, actually, there is one friend that I've almost purposely created distance with when my boyfriend is around because, for some reason, I can't trust that she won't try something weird with him. I'm not super close with this girl but she's in our friend group. I was hanging out with another friend and she invited HER to our 3 person hang out, turning it into a 4 person hang out.... and I was immediately anxious! I just had a bad feeling that he would like her when they met.

They had met before but never really spoke to one another, so I tried to not overthink anything. After we arrived at the first location, we all sat in a square, me and him next to each other and my 2 friends across us. When they finally started talking, he turned his whole body to face her which made me a bit uncomfortable. I noticed I was leaning in towards him subconsciously and got embarrassed because he was more focused on her. I hardly got a word in!

Then we left to head to a restaurant. At that time, we had to run across the road because the traffic light changed, and people already started driving so we ran. I was in heels, so I was the slowest. When I looked up, he was walking next to her. He turned around and I smiled and looked up, thinking he was checking for my safety, but he was looking at the cars behind us. then he turned around and kept walking, not even glancing at me!

I was getting anxious but I don't like coming across that way, or seeming needy or insecure. We got to the restaurant and the seating arrangement was the same as before. She started asking him tons of questions, stuff she's never asked me despite us hanging out way more. I felt like she was trying to ask him "interesting" questions? And they weren't asking me or including me in on the conversations at all. He kept laughing at stuff she said, and he didn't look at me to see if I was laughing, too.

Even before we were getting together, he was super physically clingy. He liked to touch the small of my back, or put his legs to be touching mine. It was cute! At this time though, he was more distant than ever. He was sitting with his legs crossed but towards her! I noticed I was leaning in towards him again, but it was unreciprocated so I straightened up. A couple of times he did make efforts to rub my back or even pulled me in close to be nearer to him, which reassures me a bit.

I felt like she was pulling out all the stops though. She even ate her fortune cookie and pretended not to know there was a fortune in it. I couldn't believe she was acting like that. She said we should all watch a movie together, and despite knowing I needed to get up early, he agreed at first. (everyone knew) - so I felt a bit abandoned and anxious that he just wanted an opportunity to spend more time with her. Then he even suggested hanging out with them the next day, after my obligations in the morning. I felt a pit in my stomach, thinking... man, he wants to get to know her better. This sucks.

But then as we were leaving he said he wanted to go home and just spend time together. He said he didn't want to hold me back from doing something fun but he actually wanted to spend time with me. He was holding my hands, hugging me and stuff too. It was strange, like the warmth came back as soon as we left the restaurant.

Am I right, am I reading into things? I feel like everything went back to normal now, but I keep remembering that night and feeling sick.

From the ages of around 8-15 I had lice, off-and-on but I think likely on the entire time, it was just never completely taken care of. My mom would never buy the shampoo, saying it was too expensive and never worked. She insisted on combing through my hair with the comb and individually picking out each louse with her hands. (?) She wanted to keep my very long hair, so she refused to cut it, and used that as an excuse for manually picking out the lice.

eventually she graduated to using shower caps full of conditioner that I had to wear for at least 2 hour intervals. Obviously I couldn't leave the living area during my lice quarantines. The conditioner worked to suffocate them sometimes, but I don't think it got all of them as after a month or so, they'd be back.

I was even instructed to sit at the table, hunched over a white piece of paper, and to scratch my scalp to let the bugs fall down as well as nits, and to circle them on the paper. (??????) my mom also sprayed Pam cooking spray all over my scalp after finding out that pam kills lice. My scalp burned soooo bad, like all the bites from the lice were on fire.

One time we were going to a drive in theater, and my mom made me go out with the shower cap. she put a beanie on my head, but I still cried and cried in shame. She showed me my head with the big beanie covering the shower cap, I assume to show me it "wasn't that bad", but what girl doesn't want to look cute when they go out? I felt so ugly and I looked silly. You couldn't tell if I was bald or not under the cap and it was huge. It made me cry even more, which both my parents laughed at...

I had lice for years, and at times I remember them crawling in my eyebrows, all over my head... they were as big as my fingernails and so painful. I had marks around my hairline that showed how bad it had been getting.

my mom didn't fix it at it's worst when I was 15 because she was ashamed of her boyfriend finding out I had lice... My dad ended up coming to the house even though they separated to finally fix my hair. He hadn't done it before because he was scared of her and she always said it was her job.

I think she kept not finishing removing them because that way I couldn't stay at other people's houses....

it was so bad.