u/Historical_Creme_125

I’m looking for a book I read in the mid 2010s while I was in middle school. It was on IBook, and for free. It must have been written between 2010-2015 at the latest.

It was about a girl who had some type of scent that made men obsessed with her? She would constantly have men ask her out, stare at her, ect. Women hated her because of the men all being drawn to her. I think it turns out she had this pull because she was supernatural in some way, like fae?

There was a male love interest, and I think he was also supernatural. He came to her first, kind of revealing her origins. I think she lived in something like NYC, with a female relative. Something like an aunt.

I’ve tried to find this everywhere, but because I read so so so many random free iBooks from 4th-8th grade I have no idea which one this was. I’ve been looking for so long. Thank you!!

So I have been thinking about what I want to see in season three, after analyzing season one and two and kind of noticing how big of a jerk Robby was to everyone for some reason. It took me three re watches to notice something was up with him before I just couldn’t ignore it anymore. So now, I’m basically hoping they introduce a plot line where as he is coming into work a giant anvil falls on top of his head and a big ol bump rises realllllllyyyy high into the air causing pretty blue birds swirl around his head. I really think that could maybe work me down the path of forgiving him (and Noah, of course).

Thoughts?

Venting, because I think I’m starting to annoy my husband with my constant mentioning of this…but it’s frustrating. and I don’t know if I’m being unreasonable or not.

For the last week, my MIL has been asking what our plans are for Mother’s Day. It’s my first MD with my son (technically second because I was pregnant with him last year, but still) and I do not want to share it with her, I just don’t.

Every time she calls, she asks at least twice. I keep telling her I don’t know yet, and that DH has a surprise planned for me and our son for just us three as a family. I don’t feel like sharing any more details with her, so I keep it at that.

Well, tonight, she just flat out asks “What are you doing for Mother’s Day.” the second I answer the phone. I ONCE again (I know I don’t owe her explanations, I just have a bad habit of people pleasing that ive been working on) tell her DH has something planned. I can tell she wants me to invite her, or something like that. I just KNOW it. It’s in the tone of her voice.

So, to see what she’s going to say, I ask her what HER plans are. I already had hyped myself up to say “MIL, this year we will be celebrating Mother’s Day just DH, LO, and I.” If she openly said she wanted to come, but instead she says she doesn’t know, and might go visit SIL but she “doesn’t know yet”.

I said sounds good, you should do that. She goes: “…well, okay then . I guess I’ll let you guys celebrate it without me.”

…I knew it. I KNEW IT. She’s been waiting for an invitation for our Mother’s Day plans, I just don’t even understand why. I didn’t celebrate Mother’s Day with my mom *and* grandma growing up, not anything like a whole outing of us all together.

Obviously she is DHs mom, and he plans on sending flowers (we live hours away) and that’s perfectly fine! I’ll be wishing her a happy Mother’s Day as well….but WHY is she trying to come celebrate and drive over here and stay the whole weekend. Because it wouldn’t just be the one day — it would be a suitcase and at minimum four days at my house.

I feel like I’m constantly the bad guy here. DH only agrees with me sometimes when her behavior crosses the line, and this isn’t anything near the things she usually does but still. It’s just another pushy thing I have to go against.

Edit: MIL flat out said she wants to come for Mother’s Day today through a flying monkey. I said NO. it will just be my nuclear family. Im exhausted.

I’ve always been a people pleaser, even when I absolutely don’t want to be. Tipping has always been difficult for me to avoid, because of expectation and fear of a reaction. I’ve had a horrible haircut, still tipped. Terrible service, tipped. Why? I just was so uncomfortable with the thought of not tipping even though I didn’t WANT to, that I would do it.

My breaking point was last year, when i was pregnant with my LO. We decided to do the specialty ultrasound, where you go ahead and get a 3D scan of baby and a more intimate view rather than the quick one at the doctors.

It was 15 minutes, and over a hundred dollars. And right there, as I’m checking out, it prompts me for a tip. My husband was outside pulling up the car, and so I’m left there staring at the screen while the woman who did my scan is just STARING at me. I hit tip. I was so mad at myself, I just sat there and tipped this woman at least twenty dollars, on top of the hundred something I had already spent. My husband couldn’t understand why I would do something like that, and said it was absolutely ridiculous they even have that prompt. They don’t NEED TO BE TIPPED. If he had been there that absolutely would not have happened. But I was so stupid I just did it 😭

My husband doesn’t believe in tipping, and has really helped me get out of the habit of just awkwardly throwing my money away for nothing because I just can’t handle my anxiety. But then I found this sub, and every time I see a post I remember that day and get so upset. I haven’t left a tip anywhere since.