Hey everyone, I recently tried flaxseed for the first time and it tasted like a sh*t😭
So what happened is I roasted a few flaxseeds and then after grinding them I put it in the curd and tried to eat them, not gonna lie I couldn't take a spoon of it 😭😭
Please tell me any nice way to eat them so that I can also enjoy it and eat them regularly.
We are a LGBTQ couple from India, and I know this isn’t simply about religion or atheism. At the heart of it, we are two people who genuinely love and care about each other, and I really don’t want our differences in beliefs to become the reason our relationship ends.My partner is an atheist, while I come from a Hindu/religious background. Over time, our different beliefs have become increasingly complicated, and sometimes we end up having conflicts because of them.
I want to make it very clear that I have absolutely no hatred or resentment towards him for being an atheist. I respect him, I respect his way of seeing the world, and I want him to be able to be himself without ever feeling pressured to believe what I believe. At the same time, I want to be able to explore and understand my own beliefs without that becoming a threat to our relationship.
Being from India also adds another layer to this because religion, family expectations, traditions, festivals, marriage, and cultural practices can be deeply connected here. So I'm especially interested in hearing from people who have dealt with similar cultural pressures, whether you're from India or anywhere else in the world.
I know we can't possibly be the first couple to go through something like this. There must be many couples around the world where one person is religious or spiritual and the other is atheist, agnostic, or follows a completely different belief system — and some of those couples must have found ways to build genuinely happy and healthy lives together.
That's why I would really appreciate hearing from people who have actually experienced this.
How did you make it work? How do you handle disagreements about religion or spirituality? What boundaries did you establish? How do you make sure neither person feels pressured to change? How do you deal with festivals, religious practices, families, marriage, children, and other future decisions where these differences might become more significant?
What compromises worked for you, and what things did you realize should never require compromise? How did you learn to disagree without those disagreements turning into fights or making either person feel that their identity was being rejected?
I'm not looking for someone to tell me that one of us needs to convert, become religious, become atheist, or simply end the relationship.
I'm looking for perspectives from people who have found a way to love each other without requiring each other to see the world in exactly the same way.
If you're in a relationship like this and have managed to build a happy life together, I would genuinely love to hear your story — including the struggles, mistakes, boundaries, compromises, and lessons that helped you get there.
We love each other, and I don't want us to give up on something meaningful just because our beliefs are different. I want to understand how couples who have been through this learned to navigate those differences while still allowing each other to be themselves.
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Hi everyone, 20 M I’m reaching out because I really need some advice and support from LGBTQ+ interfaith couples who have been through something similar.
My boyfriend 20M and I 20M are currently going through a very difficult phase, and we’re almost at the point of considering a breakup after 3 months. A major part of our struggle is that our beliefs have become very tangled with our relationship. I’m Hindu, while my boyfriend is an atheist, and lately I’ve been struggling to understand how we can respect and live with those differences without them coming between us.
I’ve also recently stepped away from ISKCON, and honestly, I’m going through a pretty intense existential crisis because of it. I spent a significant amount of time involved with ISKCON, and I genuinely felt happy there, especially when I was serving and being part of the community. There are still aspects of that experience that I value and feel emotionally attached to. At the same time, I don’t want to involve myself in ISKCON fully again or go back to the same level of commitment I had before.
Since leaving, I’ve been questioning so many things—God, religion, spirituality, science, morality, sexuality, and what I actually believe for myself. I’m trying to separate my own thoughts and values from things I was taught, but I find myself getting easily influenced and confused. Sometimes I don’t even know whether a belief is genuinely mine or something I have internalized from my previous environment.
This has also started affecting my relationship. My boyfriend is an atheist, and I’m still figuring out what I believe. Sometimes I worry that our differences are simply too big to overcome. At the same time, I love him deeply and I really don’t want to lose our relationship just because we haven’t figured out how to navigate these differences yet.
So I’m specifically hoping to hear from LGBTQ+ interfaith couples—or couples where one person is religious/spiritual and the other is atheist—who have managed to make their relationship work.
How did you handle differences in beliefs? Did you set boundaries around religion and spirituality? How did you deal with marriage, family, children, festivals, religious practices, and values? How did you make sure neither person felt pressured to change the other?
And if one partner was going through a major change in their beliefs or leaving a religious community, how did you support each other through that?
I would really appreciate honest experiences, including things that didn’t work. I’m not looking for someone to tell me that one of us is right and the other is wrong. I’m trying to understand whether it is possible to build a healthy relationship when two people have very different beliefs.
I really want to save this relationship, but I also want to do it in a healthy way rather than holding onto it out of fear. If anyone has been through something similar, I would genuinely be grateful if you could share your experience or message me privately.
I really need some perspective right now.
How did you deal with the existential crisis after leaving ISKCON? And how did you reconcile science and religion?
I recently left ISKCON after spending around 3 years deeply involved in it. Since leaving, I have been going through a lot of questioning and an existential crisis.
One of the main reasons I decided to leave was because I was beginning to realize that I’m gay, and I was becoming increasingly worried that staying in an environment where homosexuality was viewed negatively would hurt me emotionally and psychologically in the future. I also started feeling like I was being controlled in certain aspects of my life and that I wasn’t really making some of my decisions independently.
For a long time, ISKCON gave me answers about God, the soul, reincarnation, karma, morality, the purpose of life, etc. I accepted many of these things as truth. Now that I’m outside that environment, I’m questioning a lot of them and trying to figure out what I actually believe.
One thing I’m particularly struggling with is science vs. the religious beliefs I was taught. I’ve been learning about evolution, cosmology, consciousness, the origins of life, neuroscience, and other scientific topics, but sometimes I still find myself falling back into the old way of thinking—wondering whether I’m missing something or whether science is somehow incomplete or wrong.
I’m also learning to accept myself and interact more with people outside the ISKCON environment. This has brought up a lot of internalized guilt, fear, and confusion about things I was taught were wrong or sinful.
For those who have left ISKCON:
- How did you deal with the existential crisis afterward?
- How did you decide what you actually believe?
- How did you reconcile scientific thinking with beliefs you were taught in ISKCON?
- Did you become atheist, agnostic, spiritual, or something else?
- How did you deal with the fear that you might be making a terrible spiritual mistake by leaving?
- What helped you rebuild your sense of identity and purpose?
I would really appreciate hearing from people who have gone through this. I’m not necessarily looking for arguments against ISKCON I am more interested in hearing how you personally navigated life after leaving.
Hey everyone I wanted to ask if there are any writers groups or communities that meet regularly to discuss ideas, writing, or just share their progress , maybe a WhatsApp community or something similar.
My boyfriend is a writer currently working on his first novel, and he sometimes struggles with ideas and feels the lack of association with other writers. I’d really like to help him connect with other writers and have a space where he can share ideas and interact with people who understand the process.
I also wanted to ask if there aren’t any such groups, how can I personally help and support him as he works on his novel? Any suggestions from writers or people who have supported someone through their first book would be really appreciated.
If you know of any writers groups, or even some ways I can help him stay motivated and overcome creative blocks, please let me know ❤️
Hey fellas,
It’s been 2 weeks since I joined this BPO MNC as a fresher. At first, I was really excited to make new friends and experience corporate life.
But honestly, as someone who doesn’t smoke or drink because of health concerns, and who has never been into clubbing either, the office culture came as a shock to me. Almost everyone around me from juniors to seniors seems involved in smoking or drinking in some way.
One of my friends smokes during almost every break. On my first few days, I used to go with my batchmates to the smoking area just to socialize. I never smoked; I would just stand there and listen to their conversations. But somehow, I always felt out of place — like I was physically there but not really part of the group.
They would often joke around saying things like, “You’ll start smoking too in a few days,” which honestly made me uncomfortable.
Another thing that surprised me was how openly people talk about hookups, relationships, sex, drinking challenges, and things like that almost like it’s a competition about who has done more in life. Maybe it’s normal for them, but for me it felt very overwhelming.
After a few days, I started feeling stressed and even got headaches just from hanging around in the smoking area, so I stopped going there altogether.
But now I keep wondering if is this kind of environment everywhere in corporate life? Has anyone else felt the same way when they first entered this world? If yes, how did you deal with it?
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