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So if I'm breaking any rule, apologies in advance.

I have never done hoopinf before and it turns out I can't due to a spinal issue. Did some research and read that I could still do off body hopping which didn't involve moving my hips & spine. I wanted to know from people who actually do it whether this would be a safer alternative and what size would I need if I'm not going to move the hoop with my hips.

Thank you

My family member is going through a divorce so I want to be supportive. But this person has a tendency (prior to and even now) to go off on very negative spirals where they will simply rage at people. The other day she called me and raged about an unrealistic deadline she had set in her own head about divorce proceedings, then raged at me when I tried to console her. Yesterday she called me and raged about her circumstance, made me listen to some very angry calls to her lawyer where she's raging at him for no reason. In the end I asked her what she wanted from me. She didn't want anything. It is incredibly draining when I've been going through a very hard time myself for the last 3-4 years nonstop.

I had promised to be there for her first hearing but honestly now I'm reconsidering because I don't want to end up carrying the weight off her negativity which she has done before, including very bad bullying. It's all very off putting

Three days ago, I hit my boiling point and indulged in a habit that I've stayed away from for at least 4-5 years now. Consequently my legs are covered in scabs (thin lines). It's summer so I'm wearing shorts. My partner has still not noticed.

I didn't do it for him to notice. But when I first did it, I thought I should cover my legs in case he kicks up a fuss about it. Now I don't even bother because I don't think he's looked at me in the last two months. Or I suppose the worst part would be if he has seen but doesn't care. Well... It is what it is

Husband (dx, 32) has been absent for the last four years and I feel so lonely. We'll have a good day or even a good weekend and then I'm back to myself. I'm also in a situation where a majority of my small support network collapsed. My workplace is hostile and when I come home, my husband is either sad or working or doom scrolling.

I put my hand on my cheek the other day and I started crying because I haven't felt an affectionate touch (sexual/non sexual) for so long. I don't want to face life. Just want to sleep and not face the fact that I'm so alone. I just sleepwalk through the day and do what's required of me and go home and just try to pass out. But my husband has made the house atmosphere so tense with his anxiety and depression that I find it impossible to fall asleep and if I try to sleep on the couch, he says I'm being passive aggressive. I can't function. I can't breathe.

My boss is an extremely nervous person. He is also extremely overworked. He seems to be extremely scared of getting yelled at.

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Unfortunately he passes the buck to me. He will call me to his office under the guise of work but mostly it becomes him sharing his doubts over and over again and then me repeatedly reassuring him that the work is ready to submit eg agonizing over boilerplate emails for an hour and asking me repeatedly if he can send it.

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I did this a few times before I caught on and now i refuse to entertain i.e. I answer actual work questions but I dont answer his weird anxiety ramblings.

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Today I deflected all his requests for assurance to the point where he had to open a pdf, and he refused to open it and kept asking me "is this the file" even when the preview showed it was the correct file and ofc even if it was the wrong file, no one is going to kill him for it. Or he'll make me read the same document over and over again and then keep asking me if he email the document over and over again. There is no explicit request of "im so scared", it's all in the subtext. He gets doubtful and then channels that energy by asking nonsensical doubts repeatedly until he calms down. This takes a toll on me.

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My coworkers said they feel sorry for him for being so overworked and that it's part of my job to manage his anxiety? Except I feel emotionally drained after interacting with this guy and also it's not my job? If i had to reassure him once and he got over it, it would be fine. It started become a daily thing and I didnt have bandwidth to do my actual work.

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It has come to the point where im actually rude to him when he starts off with his anxiety rants. But he keeps latching onto me because my teammate is so aggressive that he doesnt bother her with his shit.

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Thoughts?

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It's a pattern with my husband - stress emerges and he'll stop living. He will sit on his bed all day, doom scroll and sleep. When I point out that he's being an absent partner, he blames me and calls me needy. I feel emotionally drained by how much it have to lift him up. Been with him 7 years- won't seek therapy, doesnt have friends, doesnt have interests, does nothing (even in the best of times) to improve his life.

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Says he doesnt need to look out for friends because all he needs in his life is me. But then that puts pressure on me to be his everything. I cant! I can barely figure out my own life, let alone play all these roles in his (therapist, friend, wife, mother). And this is when things are good! When things are bad the pressure is unbearable. And heaven forbid that I have any kind of "misstep", it's all "im going through so much and you cant even support me". It's like he cant handle stresses so he wants to exist in a vacuum and so then the pressure is on me to behave like im in a vacuum and couldnt possibly have complaints/tough times of my own.

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I am emotionally drained. He is a wonderful guy but his inability to create good emotional and social buffers for himself is killing me slowly. I literally feel more energized by talking to my colleagues who im not even very close to and then I come home to him and its like the atmosphere of the house just drains me. He's so miserable all the time that now ive started having trouble sleeping because the house feels so negative. I feel like im.running on empty - physically, mentally, emotionally.

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Has anyone been through this? What did you do?

Edit: wanted to add that now ive given up and am.just living my own life. Doing my own thing, finding new activities to do, meeting new people. Otherwise I can see that we are both drowning and ive worked too hard to lose my best years for this.

Genuinely curious. How does it feel? How does it impact your life? How does it impact your choice of partner?

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I find myself with no friends today who are willing to go dancing with me. My partner hates dancing. I REALLY want to go and just forget the world and dance. It's been a tough year and today i felt like i might explode in office. Is it weird if I go alone?

(TW - SA) i got groped by a man when I was shopping this week and it really shook me. When I came home, my husband was just perfect - offering to go beat the guy up- but when I said I just needed him to just be my safe space, he just held me, told me it was not my fault and that he finds me perfect and beautiful.

NSWF- yesterday I wanted him to just handle my body so that I could feel a touch that I had consented to. We ended up making love and there was this moment where I didnt realize I was going to climax but I lost my ability to speak, then think, then even my body wasnt mine anymore and I just gave in without a struggle or anything because I guess my brain knew i was okay with him, he is safe and he would never do anything to hurt me.

And i zoned out to the world and when I came back, he was there, still above me, still so much in love with me. It was like i just gave him the keys to my person and he could have done anything in that moment - he could have chosen to strangle me and i wouldnt have been able to react, let alone protect myself. Except he just continued to make me feel so loved and safe (and really satisfied lol). I just took my time like really slow to get back to earth and at that point he did ask if I was alright - and I was more than alright. He's so amazing, he makes me cry 😢 ❤️

I went to buy a dress. Man showing me dress just caught and squeezed my breasts. I did nothing. Just said "What are you doing?" He stopped. And I just acted like nothing happened because im an idiot.

Now I feel grossed out by my breasts. Any time i remember they're there, all i can think about is that disgusting man's disgusting hands on them. And since the freaking things are attached to me, I feel gross all day. I wish I could just cut them off and throw them far away from me (im not gonna self harm, dont worry) but I just haaattttteee that they are there just sticking to my chest and people can see them and probably there are some other disgusting people out there thinking in their heads to do the same thing to me. They dont feel like a part of my body anymore. I just want that horrible horrible persons touch off me. What do I do? Please help. I feel disgusted.

When she got molested by that dentist and Blanche tells her she was taken advantage of. And Rose quips "and speaking of taken advantage of, look who's talking". Ick!

Firstly blanche is trying to help Rose. Secondly the implication that just because blanche sleeps around, she has no ground to call out a man's predatory behavior. Just icky all around.

Although I get it that she must have been so conflicted and confused about the whole experience so she snapped at Blanche more so to avoid the idea of confronting the guy. I just assume in my head cannon that later she cleared the air with Blanche about that awful comment

I went to a shop and I wasnt sure a dress would fit me. The guy was showing how the dress would stretch across and he put it against my chest to show how it would stretch once I wore it. Then he caught my breasts and then they would fill out the dress. I told him "what are you doing" and then he just went on explaining the dress about the dress. And I just stood there and did nothing. I was confused that I couldnt even process what happened. Then I texted some friends and they were horrified. Then I came home and I started crying out of the blue. My husband was great and supportive and ready to go and punch the guy. But im not in a head space to think about anything. Im just so horrified at my own response to do absolutely nothing while some random dude squeezed my breasts in public. Like wtf is wrong with me??

So movies where the love angle is not overplayed and not too dramatic.

So some of the movies i really like which have this:

- brooklyn (the romance between the main characters feels very realistic)

- The Men (the movie with Marlon brando, not the horror movie)

- before midnight (the ending is very beautiful)

- the opening of Up

- Wall E (yes its animated but its very lovely)

- the romantic subplot of Conjuring 2

- Julie & Julia (Meryl streep-stanely tuccis marriage)

And how did you know it was the right decision for you?

So had 16 years of therapy to recover from my nightmare upbringing. Finally 2026, my therapist said my nervous system had "reset". And I could absolutely see it, i was not anxious all the time, I was okay with myself, i was actually vibing with life and it felt so so good to enjoy life and have a baseline for my nervous system that wasn't depths of anxiety.

So anyway two weeks ago I have a car accident. No one is hurt. But all the years of work seemed to have reversed. Im anxious, cant sleep, irritable and ready to cry on the smallest of things and I feel constantly overwhelmed.

Great. What now? A few months of not feeling like a total nutjob and feeling happy to being alive. Now my subscription to normal life seems to have been revoked and im back to where I seem to be destined to remain.

I feel anxious and I feel unable to unwind. My moods are a rollercoaster. I've lost interest in most things. My tolerance to stress is so terribly low. I have no apetite. The few things that I am finding helpful is meditating, colouring books, and writing. And yeah im watching a lot of movies too ..Kurt Russell's filmography has been a strange refuge lol

Maybe i will get to therapy eventually. Right now i just cant. But i do know i need to take steps to be okay. Any suggestions?

I and my loved ones are uninjured so I just have my mental health to work on. Its been 2 weeks since the accident.

Got into a life or death accident last week on the highway but came out without a scratch. Obviously its been a rough time mentally so yesterday i decided to meditate. It was fine till I was focusing on my heart Chakra. At which point i could my chest tightening and when I continued to keep breathing, the pressure went up my neck and head. Next thing i know my face looks like its been stung all over by bees!! I slept on it, hoping it'll go away by morning but its still there.

Has anyone experienced something like this

Please help :(

(No HR at my workplace) Ive been going through a lot lately, so im just doing more quiet things at my workplace eg during lunch i tend to read or do breathing exercises. My focus is really on maintaining my peace. Today two separate ppl said I was boring. One person asked me why all ppl my age are boring. Then later in the day a senior was talking to my boss and then joked that I am permanently depressed.

I was a little shocked because while im quiet and just more so focused on things that are bringing me joy in my overwhelmed state, im not rude to anyone. Im polite, make a little bit of small talk - although not as much as i should i guess.

At the end of the day I know their opinion is just an opinion. But this just caught me out of the blue and is bothering me. I dont know how to make it hurt a little less