For starters- I’m still within the EEOC limits window. Also limiting details to protect myself.

Constructive discharge that even unemployment approved benefits for after they caught my employer lying to them to stop me from getting unemployment (I know it doesn’t hold water in this case- just more fuel for the fire as they’re a govt impartial entity) due to:

* (Everything listed includes email proof in hand) *
- Two different types of discrimination
- Harassment and retaliation
- Employer HR admitting fault in emails but refusing to resolve the situation and denied or ignored self-initiated accommodation requests to resolve it myself.

There’s many other things involved but I don’t know what the EEOC will actually pursue.

Interview is in a month. My timeline is legitimately a mess and spans over 18 months. While accurate and documented with emails, documents, phone call recordings, attempt to involve lawyers before I had to resign (constructive discharge).

I also have AuDHD. Meticulous, analytical, and unfortunately all over the place.

I don’t want to overwhelm the person during intake with a mess of documents. I also want to make certain there is an appropriate easy to read document if that helps.

Any experience you can share is greatly appreciated!

Did it help? What was your experience when doing the therapy not sitting right next to one another? How much does it differ from “regular couples therapy” when it’s specifically targeted towards LDRs? And yes, I was able to convince him to get into individual therapy, and he did. I’m proud of him. But it’s in the “worse before it gets better” phase. See context below-

Context: We both have a disorganized attachment style. Mine is more fearful leaning, his is more dismissive. I was able to finally get him into individual therapy but whatever is cracking open inside him, is enough to have dismantled the belief of things around him. The fear is dominating as the love keeps getting deeper and deeper between one another and blending families with his daughter, while the goal of the relocation gets closer. So the walls keep getting higher.

When I had suggested it before things were this rocky, he got frustrated thinking couples shouldn’t have to be in therapy nearly one year in. This is also both of our first times being in an LDR (we met in person first).

The type of couples therapy needed for LDR seems like it’d be much different in an approach but I guess I don’t know well enough to explain its benefits.

Would love some insight and recommendations on if it worked for anyone here!

Like the title says, the six month rule in any new relationship is on average a milestone where couples either end things, or fight to keep this alive- all because the commitment has become real and the stakes are higher. Long distance only exacerbates this** **milestone.
Did you and your partner get through it?

The honeymoon phase has worn off, and real emotions, communications, compatibility, and commitments come into play as you start to see the real version of your partner. Smaller things get noticed, love languages are either met or dismissed, arguments arise, values and expectations either sync or swim, and you start second guessing if it is worth it.

What was your experience?
Was it a compatibility issue or something disguised as it that you actually worked through?
Did you wish you handled it differently?
Did it end or make you stronger?

Context: Making a fairly complex DIY electronic NFC / Key Pad / App opening tactile frame for my partner for Father’s Day. I’m much better at the electric tinkering stuff.

I’ve never done dovetails. Always wanted to but this is for a gift for a standard issue piece of home protection. Based on weight (~ 3-4lbs with piece, electronics and additional mags), handle/barrel width of a ‘19, and this being mounted vertically, does corner construction matter here?

The box dimensions would be for a 12”x10” standard size photo frame that would flip upward with a mini gas strut. So all the mechanisms make me hesitant to go my comfort route.

Sorry for vagueness of wording. Wasn’t sure if specifics would make this NSFW.

This is a bragging-safe zone to show off & tell!

Please no “You should clean the litter box every day” comments. Hear me out first- Four cats, and four (hidden) litter boxes. They’ve managed to unanimously pick different boxes for number 1 and number 2.

That said, sometimes they choose to fill one or two up first before touching the other. Cats gon’ be cats I guess.

Standard I’d think to include/build:
- A weight sensor microcontroller build
- Each litter box weight status (resetting it to 0) after cleaning it)
- “clean litter box 4!” alerts
- Nice overview card for it

I’d love to see if anyone else has done this, and how they’ve integrated it/multiple existing integrations & what it looks like, and if you have any cool things you added to it?

I (37F - no children) am with my partner (33M) who’s got an almost 5 year old and things are very serious with all three of us. He’s been a single parent doing this on his own since she was born.

Just looking to discuss experiences and maybe anything to watch out for before we close the gap.