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Happy Anniversary to me and my husband today!

38 years ago today we were 21 and 22. I had barely slept the night before - maybe a few hours and I woke up full of excitement and nerves.

It was a wild ride. We met at 19 and got engaged within a few months. Absolutely over the moon in love.

We spent a year and a half saving to have the wedding we wanted. It was amazing. The day after the wedding we went on a 5 week honeymoon (visiting family in various European countries). We had fun and our families enjoyed having us visit. They treated us so well and gave us amazing memories to hold in our hearts.

I love him more today than ever. He’s my rock, my best friend and my soulmate.

I can’t imagine my life without him. We’re not only married, but we also run a business and work together.

Even through the ups and downs I would not change a thing. 🩷🌸🩷

Edit: Our anniversary present to each other this year was redoing part of our backyard. No fancy dinner no anniversary trip we’re going have a picnic today on our new artificial grass surrounded by our newly planted flowers near my new vegetable garden. It’s the practical things that we gift each other now. 😂🩷😂

Hello, I’m an 18-year-old woman from Brazil, and I wanted to say something I genuinely admire about Americans: how much you protect young women and men my age.

Sometimes I see posts about it, and I honestly admire that a lot. In Brazil, relationships between teenage girls and much older men are often treated as normal, even when there’s a big age gap.

Many girls experience harassment very early because the laws here are more permissive. The age of consent in Brazil is 14, so age-gap relationships involving teenagers are often socially accepted depending on the situation and the family.

Seeing Americans treat 18-year-olds as still very young and deserving protection honestly surprised me in a positive way.

For example, drinking tea alone, evening walks, train rides, quiet conversations... Honestly, sometimes the little moments are more enjoyable than the big ones

It feels like a lot of the things people love most like junk food, social media, partying, procrastinating, even comfort itself, often come with hidden costs later on. Why is it like this?

The one you eat when you’re sad, stressed, tired, or just need to feel okay again.
Maybe it reminds you of a specific moment in your life, a person, or simply gives you that serotonin boost the second you taste it.

spread some positivity. What's a small thing that brought you joy this week?

Mine was finding my favorite snack on sale at the supermarket. Such a tiny thing but made my day.

Nobody tells you how much of life is just coffee, waiting, and pretending you know what you’re doing 😮‍💨☕

One day you’re a kid thinking adults have everything figured out…

Then suddenly you become one and realize most of us are just improvising and hoping for the best 😭

What’s the weirdest part of being an adult for you?

I remember when video calls felt straight out of a sci-fi movie.

Now people get annoyed if the camera quality isn’t super clear.

Kinda crazy how fast things become normal.

What’s something that blew your mind years ago… but feels totally normal today?

This app has completely cast a spell on me. I stumbled upon it by accident recently, and it feels like I’ve found the perfect app for me. I honestly wonder how I lived for 26 years without Reddit.
I love how open and honest people are here, and how many people I find who think exactly like I do.

Most of my friends and family seem to thrive on social interaction. I, on the other hand, tend to get over it after a couple hours and then feel completely drained when I eventually get back to my comfort zone (my bedroom lol). I don't know many introverts, probably because they're all home on the internet most of the time, like me 😆

Anyone else feel like they want to socialize but that it takes a lot of them at the same time?

I’m curious to know what the perfect start to the weekend looks like for you. Personally, I like to grab a pizza and some snacks and just have a completely relaxed start to the weekend.

8 months ago I moved to a big city. I don’t really know anyone here and now I’m looking to build a bit of a life here. Does anyone have any tips?

I have crippling anxiety and depression, so “okay” is hard to come by. I like to log when I’m okay to prove to myself that it can happen. Things are calm. Relaxing, in fact. Almost makes me emotional. This is nice.

I think people should talk about being okay more. just to prove it’s possible, ya know? Consider this a “you’ll be okay“ post.

Not saying I'm the best looking person in the office. But I do get the occasional flirty comment or invite to go out by coworkers. Does anyone have any good/bad experience in that ground? Should I just stray away from it totally?

Perhaps I’m just paying more attention, but it feels like more and more ads have switched from “this is why we’re great” to “this is why everyone else is terrible and we’re what you need”.

Is it something influencers have brought in? I know to be heard in social media you have to push something new and often they disavow other approaches.

Personally really not a fan, it casts so much negativity on everything, and will make a lot of people stressed.

So, here I am on reddit listening to him half die because he "doesn't have sleep apnea" don'tcha know. I would like to sleep but alas, my meds haven't kicked in yet. I am considering a wee toke...

Whats everyone else up to?

While I was talking to a friend, she told me she could smell ants. I was so surprised. I never knew they had a smell. She said she can smell them from some feet away, and that they smell like ink! My sister also said she could smell them. I'm wondering is this a rare ability people have or is it normal?? Can you smell ants?

She got an iPhone three weeks ago and switched from her old phone finally. My sisters and I had been begging her for years and she always said it was good enough. So now she texts sort of. She uses the swipe keyboard thing but somewhere along the way she figured out you could make the text look fancy in messages and now everything she sends me is in this weird italic cursive font. Good morning sweetheart but slanted or like did you eat in script. Birthday messages that look like they're written on a wedding invitation.

I was making coffee yesterday morning and one came through saying: just thinking of you in cursive. I stood there in my kitchen for a minute holding the mug because I realized she's doing it on purpose. She figured out the format menu by herself. Nobody showed her. She sat with a phone she didn't understand and she found the thing that lets her sign her texts the way she used to sign my birthday cards when I was little. I was playing on my phone last night and another one came through. Sleep well i love you in cursive of course. then the realization hit me all at once that she is 71 and she taught herself a new style alphabet at 71 just so the messages she sends her kids would feel a little more like her. I don't know its not like I'm not crying. I'm at work but if this is something other people's parents do can you tell me. I feel like I want to know I'm not the only one who got reduced to nothing by a font choice.

I’ll go with animated series. Indie animators, they all come from humble beginnings. SFM, Blender, Storytime, Gmod, Stop Motion Animation, etc.

Why is it that the second that they become famous with millions of fans that’s when things take a turn for the worst? Suddenly you find artists and animators you once admired taking shady sponsorships deals, pushing out at best low quality overpriced merch made from a sweat shop, and worst of all going corporate.

They trade their artstyle that once made them unique for a studio that pumps out the same cookie cutter generic corporate artstyle. Heck some just flat out go to AI because hey who cares about artistic integrity, everything is going AI.

It sucks. Nothing is good anymore. Everything is the same it’s all smokes and mirrors.

If I tell my parents that most of the stuff I learned from school is confusing and have a hard time understanding, they’ll be like “oh but you will figure it out”. No mom and dad, I can’t seem to figure it out. The only reason why I got good grades is because I memorized the words. But do I understand what I wrote? NOPE! I only rely on my good memory to get good grades. I genuinely don’t understand most of the curriculum. It’s hard and confusing. So the only way I could do well is memorize the words and what topic it belongs to. I didn’t know I was at this state until I got my first job. I don’t know how most of the stuff works, so my only solution is to rely on what my colleagues tells me. It’s embarrassing at my grown age, that I have to follow, listen and do what I’m told to do. Naturally, I developed this fear of stuff going out of order. I am now a person who only moves when I’m told to. When I tried to get creative, it always end badly.