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I have been in a relationship for more than 3 years now. Sex was good and we were both equally horny. Slowly over the last few months my girlfriend has turned cold towards sex. My libido is generally very high. The problem is she never initiates now and whenever I bring it up its always about me not doing anything she is not already anticipating. I've tried doing multiple new things like staycations, longer foreplays, different ways to turn her on (maybe I am missing a few things because I can't put it in words). the problem is its always one sided and most of the time I get shot down even before it begins. So my question is for long term couples how do you keep it alive? how do you keep yourself desirable? I have been feeling very unattractive recently due to being turned down almost every time. Suggestions welcome.

For people who are going to say that she is cheating on me or whatever. I am 100% sure that is not the case.

I have been researching pain points for households and one thing keeps coming up — expiration dates.

Not food. The expensive stuff nobody tracks:

• Passport expires, ruins a trip
• Warranty expires, $300 repair that would've been free
• FSA balance gone December 31st
• Car registration late fee
• Insurance renewed at a worse rate because you didn't catch it in time

I looked at what exists. There are apps for warranties only, apps for food only, apps for documents only. Nothing that says "here's everything in your household that will expire, sorted by what's coming up soonest."

So I'm building Life Shelf Life one dashboard, all of it, email reminders at 30 days / 7 days / 1 day before anything expires. $5/month for a household of up to 5.

I'm not American so I genuinely can't tell if this is a real pain or if I'm solving something people just deal with. That's why I'm here.

Is this something you'd pay for? What am I missing?

Something I keep noticing the people who run small engineering and manufacturing units auto parts, castings, machining, fasteners, that world are mostly good at making things, but lose the most time to everything *around* the making. A buyer sitting on a payment for months. Paperwork that's stuck. A supplier who flaked. Some rule nobody bothered to explain. And the maddening part is most of it is already solved someone two units over cracked it years ago. There's just nowhere they actually compare notes.

So I am starting a small room called **The Tool Room** — a no-spam group where people running these units help each other work through exactly this stuff. Not a promo board, not a lead-gen thing, no forwards. Someone posts a real problem, people who've hit it before weigh in. That's it.

It's early and deliberately small I'd rather have forty people who actually help each other than a thousand lurkers. Two things I'm genuinely curious about from this crowd:

1. If you run or work in a small manufacturing setup does this gap sound real, or am I inventing a problem that doesn't exist?
2. What's the one recurring headache that has nothing to do with your actual product but eats your week anyway?

Happy to add anyone who'd find it useful but honestly more interested right now in whether the idea holds up. Tell me if it's redundant.

Trying to get more disciplined about portfolio-level risk instead of trade-by-trade. The setup that makes sense to me: beta-weight every position's delta to SPY, then run the book at −5% / −10% to see aggregate P&L, margin hit, and how many assignments cluster.

Problem is my broker won't give me that view cleanly and doing it in Excel is pain. For those who actually run scenarios like this what's your process? And for the folks worried about correlation breaking in a real tail where beta-weighting arguably lies to you, how do you adjust?

Trying to get more disciplined about portfolio-level risk instead of trade-by-trade. The setup that makes sense to me: beta-weight every position's delta to SPY, then run the book at −5% / −10% to see aggregate P&L, margin hit, and how many assignments cluster.

Problem is my broker won't give me that view cleanly and doing it in Excel is pain. For those who actually run scenarios like this what's your process? And for the folks worried about correlation breaking in a real tail where beta-weighting arguably lies to you, how do you adjust?

Something I keep noticing the people who run small engineering and manufacturing units auto parts, castings, machining, fasteners, that world are mostly good at making things, but lose the most time to everything around the making. A buyer sitting on a payment for months. Paperwork that's stuck. A supplier who flaked. Some rule nobody bothered to explain. And the maddening part is most of it is already solved someone two units over cracked it years ago. There's just nowhere they actually compare notes.

So I am starting a small room called The Tool Room — a no-spam group where people running these units help each other work through exactly this stuff. Not a promo board, not a lead-gen thing, no forwards. Someone posts a real problem, people who've hit it before weigh in. That's it.

It's early and deliberately small I'd rather have forty people who actually help each other than a thousand lurkers. Two things I'm genuinely curious about from this crowd:

1. If you run or work in a small manufacturing setup does this gap sound real, or am I inventing a problem that doesn't exist?
2. What's the one recurring headache that has nothing to do with your actual product but eats your week anyway?

Happy to add anyone who'd find it useful but honestly more interested right now in whether the idea holds up. Tell me if it's redundant.

Something I keep noticing the people who run small engineering and manufacturing units auto parts, castings, machining, fasteners, that world are mostly good at making things, but lose the most time to everything around the making. A buyer sitting on a payment for months. Paperwork that's stuck. A supplier who flaked. Some rule nobody bothered to explain. And the maddening part is most of it is already solved someone two units over cracked it years ago. There's just nowhere they actually compare notes.

So I am starting a small room called The Tool Room — a no-spam group where people running these units help each other work through exactly this stuff. Not a promo board, not a lead-gen thing, no forwards. Someone posts a real problem, people who've hit it before weigh in. That's it.

It's early and deliberately small I'd rather have forty people who actually help each other than a thousand lurkers. Two things I'm genuinely curious about from this crowd:

1. If you run or work in a small manufacturing setup does this gap sound real, or am I inventing a problem that doesn't exist?
2. What's the one recurring headache that has nothing to do with your actual product but eats your week anyway?

Happy to add anyone who'd find it useful but honestly more interested right now in whether the idea holds up. Tell me if it's redundant.

I am looking to see how people are actually managing the risk as in which tools are we using that gives us a forward looking view of the risk our trades carry.

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M27 Have been dating my girl F26 for 3.5 years. Our sex life has become very boring. My girlfriend constantly blames me for that. I’ve tried doing different things like staycations, trying new things like teasing her for hours before initiating, toys and various other techniques to turn her on. The thing is for the last couple of months it is solely me who has been initiating any form of intimacy and get turned down most of the times which puts extra pressure on me for everything to be perfect always. She never initiates or tries new things. I’ve tried talking to her about this but the conversation always ends up on me not doing anything new or how I used to do certain things before. My question to long term couples is how do you manage the spark in relationship once the regular stuff gets boring?