u/porcelaindoll2002

how many platinum points can you earn per week/month/whenever it cycles on NSO? i haven’t had a subscription in a hot minute and am curious if it’s decent

i recently stumbled upon postcrossing, i love snail mail and i am super interested in joining!! however, i’m an adult, but i live with my parents (who almost always get the mail) and i worry i’ll receive something explicit. i haven’t made an account yet, but i have been looking on the site a bit and have stumbled across a lot of profiles of mostly men who are… very interested in erotic cards. which i have absolutely no desire to see lol. if it were just me i would just throw it out and report the account, but my parents would definitely have a lot of questions and want me to stop if they found any, understandably! how often is it that people are sent an unsolicited explicit card? i would it help if i added that i don’t want to see them in my bio, or would that make people more likely to send them out of spite?

long post, sorry.

early 20s, F, unbaptized PIMO. i have been forced to remain in the same place i was at 16 and i don’t even know what i can do anymore. i live with my parents and i don’t see any way to get out of here any time soon.

i don’t have a driver’s license because my mother seems dead set on keeping me from it. her current excuse is the price of insurance, and that would be reasonable if it weren’t for the fact that we are doing just fine financially and this is not the first thing she’s said to keep me from it, including but limited to that she wants me to get really good at driving first for safety reasons and that it’s not necessary because she can just drive me places (she doesn’t work right now.) these wouldn’t even be unreasonable if it weren’t for the fact that she refuses to get in the car with me driving, only my dad will take me out which is a pain in the ass because he actually works a job and that limits when i can go, and i have been practicing driving for years and am on my FOURTH PERMIT. my dad even agrees that i’m more than ready to get my license and drive on my own but he will do anything to appease my mother and keep the peace. she’s told me before that she will drive me to a job if i want to get one, and i can use that money to pay for insurance. ok, fair enough. so recently i’ve expressed interest in a summer job and she does everything she can to avoid the subject???? i live in an area with no public transportation or anything in walking distance, so without a license or a ride i can’t go anywhere.

i’m stuck. i am quite literally stuck in my house except for classes (my parents pay for my college, one of the only silver linings in my life lmao) and being dragged to the meetings (they force me to go, if i protest they continue to treat me like a child and take away my internet access, which i kind of need for school and any semblance of a social life 🫠.) i have very few friends and i can never see them because they’re “worldly” nor am i supposed to have any contact with them at all. there is a fucking wifi timer my parents have set for the router that applies to all of my devices so they can’t connect during the night, and i can’t keep any of them in my room, ever.

i’m losing my mind. i’m mentally ill and medicated but it only does so much when your life is kept inside a cage. i’m trying so fucking hard to be grateful for what i have and that i have a roof over my head and food to eat and my education is being paid for but i feel like utter shit all of the time. i stopped believing in this bullshit when i was 16 and haven’t been given any chance to get out of here!!! people tell you to just leave, but how am i supposed to do that???

i graduate next year but i worry that even when they have no choice but to let me get a job i’ll be stuck in a place where my mother drives me to work, and even with an income, if i can’t figure out how to get my license i’ll be stuck here.

has anyone else been in a situation like this? i feel as though i’m the only one i know who’s been restricted to the extent that i am and it’s so isolating and makes me feel so so hopeless. somehow i keep myself going but it just gets harder and harder. some days i wonder if i’m the subject of some social experiment because jesus christ.