u/Eraserhead36

Hi all! So bear with me for a moment because I have a story to tell you all and since therapy costs money and Reddit is free, I decided to come here.

So a while ago, fuck I think back in January of this year, I(39m) was texting with a girl that I met on match.com. I think that it’s going well but she texts me confessing that she was texting another dude while she was texting me who she thought was her soulmate but it turns out she was just trauma bonded with a narcissist and she hopes that we could be friends.

On my life, I swear to god that’s what she said. Now, as anyone who has ever dated anyone knows that saying “I hope we can be friends” is the international sign for “fuck off” so I don’t take this seriously and I wish her luck.

Cut to a few weeks later she texts me “hi! How’s it going?” Now I’m legitimately stunned because I never thought she was serious. However I say, look I appreciate the fact that she wanted to be friends, but I have enough friends and that I tried being friends with my ex and it didn’t work. I still want to be nice and I said I sincerely do wish her well.

Now I finally believe that this is well and done but she texts me again a while after that saying that she’s sorry if she had hurt my feelings, that wasn’t her intention etc. Now this is where my patience has worn thin. She didn’t at first hurt my feelings but after thinking about I text her saying that on some level she did because I think things are going well, (I should mention that we haven’t actually gone on a date yet), but she blind sides me with that whole trauma bonded with a narcissist shit which I still don’t understand that. I mention also that if I thought that we could be friends I don’t think that we even should be friends. I mention that I still wish her luck despite everything.

Cut to today, yep today may 16 2026, I get a text from a number that is not saved in my phone but in the back of my mind I slightly recognize. I’m thinking to myself,”nah it can’t be her”, so I text back “who’s this”. I’m thinking no way it’s fucking her.

It was.

She says that she imagines that I hate her and she understands if I did but she wanted me to know that she’s genuinely sorry for what happened and that her intentions were pure. I didn’t deserve what happened and that she realized that being trauma bonded wasn’t love or whatever. She also ended up wishing me the best.

Sigh 😮‍💨

Now, there was a part of me that wanted to text her cursing her out. But, I’m still trying to be a good person and if im being honest believe that karma is real text that essentially I was surprised that this is still bothering you. However, I don’t actually hate you. I appreciate the apology and I accept her apology. She hasn’t texted me back and I’m not entirely sure that I want her to.

So that’s it. If you actually read to the end of this rant I appreciate it. Like I said, therapy costs money and Reddit is free. If I’ve learned anything from this lunacy I’m 100% positive now that I would have never worked and I completely understand why she was trauma bonded with a narcissist because I’m certain she is one. Im also blocking her number whether I get a response or not. I’ve had enough of this shit.

Hey all. So for context, I’ve played and beat this game twice. A while ago I’ve also been doing a binge of the various cartoons that critical role produces as well as falling down the rabbit hole of the various YouTube videos that they produce.

That being said, I already knew that Laura, Travis and Matt Mercer had their roles on the game obviously. I found out that Sam, Ashley, taliesan, Liam and marisha have parts as well. It seems obvious in hindsight but it’s still cool.

So as someone who did a binge of vox machina, I’ve been recently working my way through the mighty Nein finishing episode 5. I’m finding the relationship between Caleb and Nott fascinating for the lack of a better term. You never would have guessed at the beginning of the show that they two of them would be that close but to hear her admit to beau that she watches over Caleb is just something.

In case anyone is wondering I never watched any of the campaign videos, but I’ve seen a lot of random vids so I know I’m missing a lot from that.

So even though I’m currently working a contract job I’ve been trying to get something full time. After talking with someone she said that networking with more people on LinkedIn is a good way to get the ball rolling.

Anyone have any good tips on doing so? It can’t be as simple as just messaging random people on LinkedIn.

Hey all, so it’s as the title suggests. I’ve never played d&d before but I have a bag of dice because I once bought a hellfire club box of merch at nycc and it came with a bag of dice. I was hoping for it tbh. Recently I also bought a vox Machina shirt from the crit store and a bag of their dice too. I still haven’t played d&d but since I’ve become a fan of this brand I wanted some of their dice.

So I was basically wondering if anyone else collects the dice?

So yeah, I need some outside perspective on this. I was talking with a career coach I meet on LinkedIn who I was considering working with…..until she hit me with her price of 6000 dollars. She then offered to knock it down to 4000.

Yeah, not much better.

The problem is that she made me realize that the way ive been applying has not been getting me anywhere and there are things that i need to change but fuck me not for 6000 dollars! 💀

So I come here to reddit to ask if anyone has worked with a career coach and see if it actually helped? Also as a follow up how much did it cost you?

Update: so now that the shock wore off i already messaged her saying I won’t be working with her. God given truth I would have paid if it was like a couple of hundred but thousand…..no fucking way.

Now I imagine that they’re obviously going to give us all sorts of transformations for the main characters, but I hope they give us the orange form for our namekian.

Tbh I always felt that the whole grow giant thing was just lame. Especially compared to SSJ, gold and super buu transformations.