u/mademoiselle_angel

Need some male perspective here.

I constantly feel tired and overthink about this. Life feels stagnant now.

I (27F) am truly in love with my man (30M).

We've talked about marriage and we both want to spend our lives with each other.

However, his family is orthodox and doesn't believe in inter-caste marriages.

He says he's trying, and I can see that this situation exhausts him. It hurts him that he hasn't been able to convince them. I understand his situation, and I genuinely believe his feelings are real.

I've been patient. But what really bothers me is that he doesn't reciprocate much when it comes to communication or effort. It's always been this way—it isn't something that changed suddenly.

And all this is making me crazy!

Am I waiting for something that will eventually happen, or am I just waiting for nothing?

Please be kind ✨🧿

Need help!

I don't know what happened.

I was playing so good in Bali, scoring well, having fun.

After the recent city update, maybe my brain can't function the new colors, I am seeing too many colors maybe and not yet adapted to the city.

The character gets caught so quickly, sometimes in a few seconds, I jump late or stump into the barriers 😭 Like a newbie.

This is causing me frustration.

Please suggest good alternatives for Whisper. I really miss that app.

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It helped me so much when I look back now.

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How do you guys talk to strangers/vent out?

Whisper secrets and hush aren't that good, they're rated literally 1.1 star over here.

Why did the founder decide to shut down whisper? 🙄

I could really use some advice.

I had a close friendship with a coworker. At one point, feelings were involved on both sides, but things never turned into a relationship.

Over time, a few things happened that hurt me, including being stood up twice.

Eventually, I ended the friendship because I felt it was no longer healthy for me. [He stood me up twice and I was agitated]

The issue is that we still work together and see each other regularly. [Same team, same group of friends]

We haven't spoken since. There has been no conversation about what happened, no apology, and no real closure.

I'm not looking to restart the friendship. Nor I want a relationship with him.

The feelings I am feeling are - hurt, agitated and frustrated. It's like an unfinished business and he acts so weird when I am around.

It's a very weird energy exchange when we're in the same group.

(And one of my friends told me he was criticizing me behind my back infront of others)

We don't even make an eye contact, real life ghosts to each other.

Need help! It's getting difficult to stay sane at work because of this.

I had a really good friend at work. We could talk for hours about literally anything, and over time I realized there was more than friendship between us.

Eventually, we both opened up about our feelings.

That's when things started going wrong.

The first time we planned to meet, he stood me up.

Later, we talked again, cleared the air, and even confessed our feelings properly. I thought maybe we'd finally move forward. We made plans to meet again.

He stood me up a second time.

That was the point where I started questioning everything.

What makes this even more frustrating is that we share the same friend circle at work. Instead of talking to me directly, he's apparently told some people that "he rejected me and I ended the friendship because of it."

That's not what happened.

Now we see each other every day. We sit in the same enclosed workspace, hear about each other through mutual friends, and sometimes even become the topic of jokes and gossip. But we don't speak.

I've blocked him, and he's blocked me too.

The feelings I had for him are pretty much gone now, mostly because of the lies and the way he's handled all of this. But the situation itself is becoming mentally exhausting.

What's confusing is that he seems angry and frustrated with me, and I genuinely don't understand why. I was the one who tried to fix things, initiate conversations, and make an effort after everything happened. He hasn't initiated contact even once since then.

At this point, I don't know whether to keep ignoring the situation and let time do its thing, or find a way to make peace with the awkwardness and move on.

I don't know what to do? He doesn't like seeing me, I don't like seeing him. Because the air between us is filled with grudges.... 🦦

I'm posting because I'm concerned about a close friend.

For the last few years, she's been convinced that there's some kind of negativity in her house. She doesn't mean negativity in a symbolic or spiritual sense. She literally believes that the negativity takes the form of dirt.

She often says that this dirt is different from normal dust or dirt. According to her, it's negativity itself appearing as dirt around the house. She believes that when it touches her feet, it causes anger, irritation, and a negative state of mind.

This belief has become quite strong over time. No matter how much I try to understand her perspective, I struggle to make sense of it. At the same time, I don't want to be dismissive because she genuinely believes it's happening.

I'm trying to understand whether anyone has seen something similar before and how to help someone who is so convinced that this is real.

Has anyone dealt with a friend or family member who believed something like this? How did you approach the situation without damaging the relationship?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Three first meetings. Three rejections.

In just last couple of weeks.

What hurts isn’t even the rejection itself anymore. It’s how it slowly changes the way I see myself.

You start overanalyzing everything — your looks, your personality, your way of speaking, even your natural self.

I walked into this process as a confident person. Now, I’m anxious about whether I’ll be “good enough” to be chosen.

At this point, I genuinely don’t feel like putting myself out there anymore.

How do you stop carrying one rejection into the next meeting?

Should I change my approach? What do you generally follow in AM setup?

What confuses me the most — none of these meetings felt awkward or forced.

They were warm, engaging, and honestly felt genuinely good. Those men extended the conversations, wanted to spend more time, and gave no sign of disinterest at all.

Which is why the sudden ghosting, avoidance, or rejection afterwards feels so hard to process.

Please be kind, open to opinions and suggestions 🌸🙂

Skin type: normal sensitive skin, neither oily nor dry

Routine:

1. Facewash

2. Moisturizer : Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel

3. Sunscreen: Minimalist Light Fluid sunscreen

4. Foundation: Lakme mousse / L'Oreal Paris Infallible Tinted Serum

5. And rest of the makeup follows such as blush, lipstick etc

I've tried skipping sunscreen which I think made the difference and didn't oxidise my face.

I've tried other sunscreens as well such as deconstruct and lakme.

But they all result in making my makeup look dull.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I switch to different foundation or a different suncreen?

Perhaps sunscreen spray?

TIA 🌷

Skin type: normal sensitive skin, neither oily nor dry

Routine:

1. Facewash

2. Moisturizer : Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel

3. Sunscreen: Minimalist Light Fluid sunscreen

4. Foundation: Lakme mousse / L'Oreal Paris Infallible Tinted Serum

5. And rest of the makeup follows such as blush, lipstick etc

I've tried skipping sunscreen which I think made the difference and didn't oxidise my face.

I've tried other sunscreens as well such as deconstruct and lakme.

But they all result in making my makeup look dull.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I switch to different foundation or a different suncreen?

Perhaps sunscreen spray?

TIA 🌷

Same as the heading.

I was traveling recently and had dinner on a superfast express train (won’t name it). I had opted for the veg meal, and this is what was served:

2 chapatis

Rice

Dal

Paneer sabzi (guessing it to be shahi paneer, but there was nothing “shahi” about it)

Dry aloo sabzi

Within 15–20 minutes of eating, I started experiencing stomach pain. Since then, I’ve been drinking plenty of water, but it hasn’t really helped.

In fact, the pain seems to get worse whenever I try to eat something.

Has anyone experienced something similar while traveling?

Any home remedies or suggestions that might help ease the discomfort?

Please send help 😭