u/elisamartina

I'm not sure this belongs here, but I wanted to gift my bf a pottery class. Unfortunately I can't find anything near where I am, especially during this time of the year. The only thing I found is a 3 hour session where clay and instruments are already provided and you can experiment using clay on your own to create something. The website states it's suitable for everyone, both beginners and experts, but obviously you have to be comfortable with being unguided.

So what I'm asking is, how difficult is it to create a small simple object for first-timers? Like a mug or a plate, obviously by hand. There's the option to have it fired afterwards for a small supplement and then you can cone back for glazing if you like the piece. I mean, I can picture myself a fun experience together, or is it a bad idea?

Edit: I found this on the website too: A brief introduction about the medium will be given to new participants. They will be encouraged to explore the process.

About 2 months ago this stray we've been feeding has taken her one-week-old kittens in our garage. We've gotten her spayed last week, but we didn't manage to do so before her first litter. Anyway, we've been nurturing these sweet kittens since then. We gave them antibiotics and cleaned their eyes until they opened them, fed them, took them to the vet, etc. We love them with all our heart. Problem is, we live in a small apartment and we can't keep them all. Some people came to see them, but now we don't really know what to do.

Me and my family already have one 12 yo female cat in our apartment and she's pretty hostile. She's easily scared of other people and only tolerates my bf (too intrusive for her). So, the options are:

-Give the female kitten to a family of 3 who already has a dog and 2 cats and the 2 male kittens to a girl with her bf who has a dog. The female kitten would be kept indoors and the male ones both indoors/outdoors. The lady assured us the road is not near, but still.

-Take one in I guess, but that would mean to separate the 2 male kittens.

We've brought the kittens (one at a time) to our cat and she obviously started hissing as soon as she realized. I know that's to be expected.

What do we do? Has anyone had a similar experience? We want what's best for everyone involved but I'm crying at the thought they need to go.

We've been together more than 4 years. Recently we got a bit distant as we've been both very busy and live almost an hour away from each other. We still saw each other, but our conversations got sparse and less frequent as he's spending all day working on a project for college (which he took more seriously than requested) and also took up a group hobby. I feel like I'm the one always waiting but have never complained about this and still showed interest in his new activities.

About 2 weeks ago we had a pretty emotionally intense conversation about how we got distant, that he initiated. It ended up in me telling him I'm scared our future will look like this or even worse cause we won't have time for each other and that I started feeling a bit unwanted as he didn't compliment me/talked to me spontaneously/cuddle with me as much as before. He told me he wishes we could spend time together more intentionally instead of always focusing on our duties, said he's sad and doesn't know why, and that he feels we're navigating through a relationship crisis (I don't) and he's scared of the outcome. He then broke down crying and told me the fact I'm always negative about future and things I have to do made him feel overwhelmed and not able to express himself fully. He told me he missed me with a broken voice. I agreed to try and change my attitude and we also agreed to set some time for activities together. There were no other resolutions from his side, even though I had told him I felt alone and unchosen.

In these last 2 weeks I tried my best, never talked negatively about anything, texted him first, carrying on the conversation, suggesting some activities to do. We saw each other twice and he behaved pretty normally. We last met on Tuesday, and spent time together until yesterday morning (we love with our parents but they were away). We had a great time according to me, especially on Tuesday when we had more time for ourselves, and he also told me he loves me very much while hugging me. I thought we were coming out on the other side of this whole mess, but as we were discussing the weekend he kept postponing the decision whether to come or not to an event my dad had invited him to. He told me he feels guilty because he isn't doing his college stuff (never ever has he said it in all these years) and when I asked him whether he did not want to meet me he said that maybe it was better because he felt this sense of guilt. He has planned a dinner with the parents of his best friend on Sunday (planned more than a month ago). He asked me some days ago if I wanted to go and I said yes. Yesterday I said I don't know how to go there if we don't meet before and he said there's another problem too, that is to say I have to go to college on Monday and he was told yesterday he doesn't, so that makes it a bit difficult. He closed the call saying "We can still talk about it and take a decision tomorrow morning first thing" and has not contacted me yet. Not even a photo, a how are you, nothing.

I don't understand. How can I reopen the conversation about what's happening? I'm so scared he's given up.

25F, been with bf (25M) for 4 years. I'll try to keep it short.

Apart from a rough start (lack of initiative and communication on my side as I'm very shy and socially awkward, depression on his side) everything has been so great. I love him.

We're now approaching the end of our college years and working on our final dissertation. He's very busy with that and also picked up sport this year. These 2 things approximately started simultaneously 6 months ago and take a lot of his time, so we ended up seeing each other less and cutting on messaging. I'm stressed and overwhelmed as I'm very anxious and I'm struggling to meet deadlines, so when we see each other we feel like we have to study/write and don't do much else. I'm also a bit worried and fearful about what the future will hold (Will I have time? Will we have time to spend together?), so I've started having a negative perspective on the future and talking about my exhaustion and fear quite a bit. He got distant. I got distant in turn.

It all blew up last week and he told me he feels disconnected and alone (me too). We tried to get to the roots cause and he was telling me he didn't know. Then he told me he feels we're in the middle of a crisis and wouldn't answer when I tried to seek reassurance about the fact it was not that serious, or? He then told me it depends. We talked a bit more and he ended up crying and telling me when I show my sad side only he feels like that he can't express himself fully. He told me he understood that right in that moment. He then told me that everything will be good and started joking, a thing he does a lot. In the following days we were apart, and while he continued to text I feel like he didn't reach out as much.

Then we had to see each other for an appointment we had together and for 2 days, while we were with each other he hugged me or kissed my forehead and asked me to spend days together next week. At the same time he wasn't sweet with words and didn't tell me he loves me. We both ignored the previous conversation, I mean, we didn't explicitly talk about it. I'm trying to be more optimistic and reach out a lot, but I don't know whether it will be enough. I don't want to lose him, I love him so much. I don't even know if I should approach the topic again. Is is too late to do something? I'm so scared.

I take the combo pill and I'm experiencing terrible breast pain. It jas never happened to me like this. It's especially localized to the upper external part of the breast, near the axilla, but the nipple is also sore. I usually get breast pain before placebo days, but this time it's been lingering for a whole month and in the last couple of days it got worse (I finished the pack yesterday).

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I'm on the pill. A month and a half ago (April 3rd) I had severe cramps and diarrhea like 5 hours after taking the pill, twice. Please keep in mind mine is a delayed release pill and studies show it takes up to 8 hours to be absorbed. I then had sex on the 8th of April and I urged my bf to used a condom because of this, but there may have been some contact prior to condom wearing. I don't really remember, as it was more than a month ago. I mean, I'm sure he didn't fully go in, but I don't really remember whether there was just some genital brushing or he maybe pressed it on the opening. What are the chances?

I'm on the pill. A month and a half ago (April 3rd) I had severe cramps and diarrhea like 5 hours after taking the pill, twice. Please keep in mind mine is a delayed release pill and studies show it takes up to 8 hours to be absorbed. I then had sex on the 8th of April and I urged my bf to used a condom because of this, but there may have been some contact prior to condom wearing. I don't really remember, as it was more than a month ago. I mean, I'm sure he didn't fully go in, but I don't really remember whether there was just some genital brushing or he maybe pressed it on the opening. What are the chances?

Edit: sorry, I meant I had diarrhea twice in the span of a few hours, not that this whole thing happened twice. I realized I worded it in a weird way.

These days I need to go pee a lot. Like every hour. I feel like my bladder is full, even painful, and then when I go I actually have little to pee. Also because I literally don't drink any water during the day. Pretty sure it isn't a UTI as I have no other pain, burning or discomfort. Also never had a UTI. I'm on the pill but I'm an anxious person and since I do not want children for now, every time I have new symptoms I worry about it. I also have other symptoms compatible with pregnancy.

These days I need to go pee a lot. Like every hour. I feel like my bladder is full, even painful, and then when I go I actually have little to pee. Also because I literally don't drink any water during the day. Pretty sure it isn't a UTI as I have no other pain, burning or discomfort. Also never had a UTI. I'm on the pill but I'm an anxious person and since I do not want children for now, every time I have new symptoms I worry about it. I also have other symptoms compatible with pregnancy.

I know my chances should be low, but bare with me. I'm on the pill, but I left them in a hot car for a day. The only intercourse I had last month was protected by a condom and was more than a week before this mistake, but there was an instance like the next day where my bf removed his clothes and started grinding. I mean, I don't remember him entering, but let's say he pressed it at the opening. There may have been contact. I think I had my withdrawal bleeding but am now experiencing pregnancy symptoms (I was already while bleeding a week ago). Do I have to worry?

Please help, I'm experiencing terrible breast soreness. However, I usually feel it some days before my withdrawal bleeding and then goes away. Now I'm a week and a half past my withdrawal bleeding, so at the beginning of a new pack and my breasts hurt so nuch I can not lift my arms.

So, I'm having all the pregnancy symptoms you can think of (nausea, breast pain, gassiness, hunger, fatigue, etc). I'm on the pill (but since I have spotting more than one doctor suspected I don't absorb it correctly). We also used condoms. However, there may have been some genital contact prior to condom wearing. What do you think?

I've been taking the pill for a few years now and it's been a year of this specific combo pill.

Yesterday I started experiencing pain in my right breast, towards the axilla. Now, it isn't the first time this happens to me, but it's usually towards the end of my pill pack, in the days preceding my withdrawal bleeding. However, I'm now in the first week of my latest pill pack, so the timing is very weird. Before my last withdrawal bleeding I had bilateral breast pain, although a bit less than usual, and it subsided as usual during the bleeding days. Now it started again.

I'm very worried, also because I suffer from a constant pregnancy anxiety. I did not exercise, nor lifted anything, I didn't do anything that could cause this.

These days I'm so so hungry. Literally can't have enough food and I'm also having hypoglycemic episodes. I happen to also be so tired and sometimes nauseous. I randomly threw up the other day at midnight (but I also have to say I had a huge restaurant lunch for a family event, stopped eating at 4 p.m. and this happened right after waking up because I was sitting on my bed, I lied down and briefly fell asleep). I'm taking the pill and used condoms for the only time I had intercourse since my last withdrawal bleeding. However, my doctor isn't sure I absorb the pill correctly due to potential GI issues and I inadvertently left the pack in a hot car for a few hours 9 days after sex. The condom did not break to my knowledge. I had my withdrawal bleeding as expected on Saturday, even though it has become light in the last few months, so it always sparks a doubt as to whether it really is a withdrawal bleeding or not. I had cramps, but they were lighter and shorter than usual. I had a couple clots and the total blood loss was average compared to my recent withdrawal bleedings. I had breast pain and swelling that eased into my withdrawal bleeding.