Two homeless men have been hanging around my walk-up apartment building at all hours, night and day, for a few weeks now. I'm a 26-year-old woman and live with female roommates. We obviously don't want to make anyone's life harder, but I don't feel particularly safe knowing that two men know where we live, and are in such close proximity to our building. Any advice for this kind of situation?
I'm looking for reading recommendations on the Reformed (or honestly just Protestant) accounts of sex. I find that a lot of the ones I've found are pretty undetailed. I generally find the Catholic position persuasive because of how detailed it goes, and I'd love to know where I can find something similar in-depth in Reformed and other Protestant theologies. Most reading I've found for laypeople for Protestants seems to treat sex as anything-goes within marriage, but I'm wondering if there's anything that goes into much depth regarding contraception, procreative/unitive ends of sex (to borrow the Catholic terms), etc that others would recommend?
Am I wrong in thinking this neckline looks...especially sloppy for an oversized sweater?
I don't know if this is the right place to talk about this, but I've been following this sub for some time and find that it is very supportive and provides generally sound advice. I am a Protestant woman and dating a wonderful Catholic guy. We started dating about a year ago; we've known each other for years before and went to college together. We have a number of mutual friends, both Catholic and Protestant. Both groups in our acquaintance skew theologically conservative.
I've been getting a lot of comments from some of our friends like "when are you converting" and was recently present at a party when a female Catholic friend told another Catholic friend not to date a Protestant because of the religious differences.
I'm having a very hard time with it; it feels as if our friends--who are very supportive of us dating to our faces--are secretly judging and thinking my boyfriend is making a huge mistake in dating me. My boyfriend and I discuss our religious differences often and they are central to us determining our future whether we stay together or not. Neither of us is trying to convert the other. It's been very discouraging to hear these comments from friends, and I find the idea of this being a component of all of my friendships in the future should we marry really disheartening. It's also making it hard for me to discern what is actually important to us versus other people. I don't know if people who make these comments realize how painful they are or how nosy and uncharitable they sound. Anyway, I just wanted to put it out there for any advice about this particular dynamic rather than specifically working out the differences in our expressions of faith.
I'm in my mid-20s, currently in development operations at a ~$5mil nonprofit in NYC. I've been here for a little over a year and would love to get some perspective on how to 1. move into proper fundraising from this with solicitations 2. how to move into general operations outside of nonprofits and 3. any general career advice people have! Neither of my parents went to college and I've found that I've really had to seek out advice from others because I don't really understand the workings of the world still. I have a BA and an MA from a very good school if that helps.
What's the closest Asian grocery store to the 80s? I tried Katagiri but they didn't have what I was looking for
I tried on the Rinna dress a few months ago in store and it was phenomenal, but I couldn't justify spending the money on it. I saw that it was on sale and seriously thought about it. I just got it new with tags for even cheaper on Poshmark! I think Ref is too expensive and not amazing quality for buying at full price--want to throw it out with the sale that you might be able to still find even better deals elsewhere
Last month I had the best sandwich I've ever had. It was the New York pastrami sandwich from Empire Diner near Chelsea Pier. I've been thinking about it every day. It was fried pastrami on rye with slaw, pickles, mustard, and swiss. It was $29 and I'm dying to find as good of a sandwich cheaper. Send me your recs. Bonus points for Upper East Side and midtown.
I went through a very difficult breakup a little over a year ago with the man I thought I would marry. He broke up with me, and in many ways he treated me very poorly, and I reacted I think normally--but now I really cringe when I think about it, and I feel deep shame and sadness. We were not chaste in our relationship, and even while I know it's good that I did not end up marrying him, it feels very profoundly wrong that things are so sour between us. I really regret how mean I was to him after we broke up. I reached out to apologize some months back, and he said there was nothing for me to apologize for, but I feel very guilty all the same. Wondering how others have dealt with this guilt when reaching out is probably suboptimal for mental health.
Hi! I work as the main Salesforce administrator at a smallish nonprofit. I don't have certifications and am self-teaching a lot to fit our needs using AI tools to walk me through different configurations, etc.
We want to store event information--attendees, who received invites, who registered, etc--in Salesforce. I think we would need to do uploads, and we'd like to be able to do reports that show us pretty easily who attended. I've been asking AI to walk me through this, and it keeps giving me incredibly operationally clunky ways of doing this that would require at least a day of work to get a single event and its attendees added. Having something operationally easy is necessary to get the system to stick in the case of staff turnover. Can anyone walk me through how they've done something similar? Thanks!
A friend of mine just had her first baby, and I'm taking her family some food next week! I'm thinking of making the breakfast sandwiches (I think I might use sausage instead of bacon, but TBD) and Sally's Baking's baked oat cups. Seeking advice from parents and cooks alike!
I want to make a great dinner for my boyfriend's birthday. He loves Italian and can probably cook Italian better than me--his family is Italian American, and he definitely knows good Italian food. He's also lactose intolerant. I want to make an appetizer, an impressive main, and a light dessert. Any suggestions welcome!
I have two Ivy League degrees (a BA and MA) in the humanities. I did decently in college and finished my master’s in 2025. I worked multiple part time jobs the entirety of grad school. When I graduated, I had applied to almost 200 jobs and only gotten 3 offers, the highest being $65k at a nonprofit in New York. I took it and am doing well there, but am wanting to pivot and earn more money and use other skills. I worry that by doing something at a nonprofit it will be impossible to pivot. I know I am blessed with my education, and was the second in my family to go to college (the first being my brother). I don’t know what I did wrong to not get any better offers before (my GPAs were both over 3.75). Any suggestions would be great!
I find myself often gossiping. For those who also struggle with this, how do you guard yourself against it? Practical and spiritual tips alike wanted!
My ex-boyfriend and I were together for two years. We broke up a little over a year ago. We slept together a lot but would both be so upset at our sin, and we ended up stopping the last six months of our relationship. Our breakup was very hard and I was not treated well, but I was so proud of us for stopping in our sin. I am still bothered by it though and find it is often on my mind, and I worry that I will never be free from the memories of this sin, and that my future marriage should I be so blessed to marry will be affected. I really want us having stopped in our sin to count for something. I’m not sure what it would count towards since we broke up.
Am thinking stuff like cotton sateen vs cotton poplin, or polyester satin vs polyester workout clothes vs polyester georgette
I know the City has a really slow hiring process but I wanted to check whether someone else has had this. I’ve applied to a few roles with the City recently and in my portal, all show “New” except one, which shows “Under Review.” Is this a sign that it is actually being considered?
