Been tattooing on fake skin for three months, mentor said I was ready for real skin. A friend of mine offered her arm for some practice. Both my mentor and my friend loved it, inside I was panicking…
Fine line is so hard dude. Any advice is appreciated.
I see a lot of discussion online about a growing “male loneliness epidemic,” but I’m curious how much of that reflects real life. Do you feel it’s perpetuated by standards set on you by other men?
For those of you who have experienced loneliness, what do you think is driving it? Is it dating, friendships, work, social media, changing expectations of masculinity, or something else entirely?
And if there are things women can do that genuinely help, what are they? I’m interested in hearing honest experiences from men of all ages!
Edit*: little bit of context as to why I’m asking—*
I recently had an experience with some male friends of mine at a bonfire, they really opened up to us girls. Not only about their struggles with relationships, but the pressure they feel they’re put under. Really opened up my eyes, and I think it brought us much closer as friends.
I’m also in a long term relationship with a man who recently lost his job. I wanted to support him as best I could, but he was really struggling and told me that he was feeling like he “couldn’t provide”.
After a while I talked him into inviting some of his friends over, and they really talked him out of a dark place. Those guys were able to do something I realized women just can’t do! It made me realize how important it is for men to have support from other men, not just their partners.
Me and my partner have plans to get engaged, and it led me to think about how I can support my kids, especially if I have a boy.
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I really like my roommate, but I’ve been noticing some really disgusting things lately.
We’re both in our early twenties, and we’ve lived together for about three years. Everyone has little quirks and traits that can annoy others, I’m not perfect either— but this is really bothering me.
Almost every time I go to the bathroom there’s something left over on the toilet seat. Pubes, poop, or pee. She’s a heavyset woman, and I’ve read that sometimes it can be difficult to wipe and have lint build up over the day.
But then I started noticing fingernail clippings everywhere. She bites her fingernails and throws them on the ground I think.
Also, I was in her room the other day when we were hanging out, and I noticed boogers on the wall…
I spoke to her about the toilet seat early on and she adamantly denied it being her… I’m the kind of person that takes the toilet brush and scrubs my poop streaks from the toilet bowl!
I spoke to her about it again, mentioning the fingernail clippings, and she also claimed it wasn’t her? We have guests over a lot for parties and game nights… but I’ve noticed it in the past couple months.
She’s a good roommate, makes her rent on time, helps me clean, keeps her stuff tidy, and we go out and I would consider us friends. It’s time to renew the lease, and I think I want to live on my own… AIO?