Kindergarteners say some interesting things. The amount of times I had to “yup, okay, anyways this neat (redirection)” were daily. But you work with them long enough and you know their family secrets without asking for sure.

The mud pits are a test of strength!

I am going to get to a point where I just to back to botw for the gameplay lol.

My posting hours are evenings, and visits to the bathroom. Occasionally a slow weekend.

I see you’ve got the standard warthogs handling experience.

The ones most sensitive to price increases are the ones who consistently vote to for these types of leaders. They are visceral, reactive, and planning for the future is just paycheck-to-paycheck. They are reactionary. I worry most about what they do when they can no longer afford necessities, and how many ways that will be blamed on their levelheaded neighbors.

Still dipping below freezing. I can’t wait to see anything spring like. Bring on the insects and their mighty hordes.

I’ll join!

I guess the dungeoneering itself. It’s probably the main thing I wish was different if I could change anything. Getting keys, compasses, each room being a puzzle, relying on the map, and the final boss really being earned is probably more work though…I love the shrines of course.

Johnny booth

The one explaining a permanent tolerable level of unhappiness.

Aviana

Between the two I still favor botw, but once I learned to make gadgets I spent a lot of time making stupid things which was pretty entertaining. Especially with rockets.

The play certainly isn’t what old school games were. I do wish there were more dungeons.

This is so funny because my kids have been doing the same thing. Why won’t I just go to the next checkpoint? To them it’s nuts.

I’ve seen just a handful of “I know it’s a comment chain from Reddit, but….” posts.

1. Buy the house for my kids I’ve been saving for
2. Set us all a reasonable allowance and a rainy day fund so we never have to worry
3. Find a way to donate the majority to underserved families of children with disabilities

1. Your ability to get sexualized/ male attention does not make you more or less of a woman, more or less beautiful, or more or less worthy. Simply put, take them out of the equation of your self-worth. Small or big, you’ve got what you’ve got. And a lot of us struggle with feelings about this.

2. Your ability to engage in domestic chores does not make your more or less of a woman. I can understand from the perspective of wanting to help out with chores but household tasks are not “women jobs” by default although a lot of people are raised to think this way. I honestly don’t trust anyone with my happiness if they pretend like they can’t do domestic work.

3. This one is so hard. Mother/daughter relationships have the same issues a lot of our relationships have except many of us always want our mothers no matter how they may make us feel or whether what they want for us is objectively good. Don’t feel like this being hard is a reflection of you, a lot of people genuinely struggle with this one.

4. Make-up is another one of those things that doesn’t make you a woman. A lot of what your see online is super high maintenance stuff. Most people were minimal makeup. Many of us don’t wear it every day. If you’re chasing beauty standards of people you see online you will probably always be knocking yourself. Between filters and heavy makeup and most of this stuff is fake.

I tried to go point by point of your thoughts here. But my main takeaway is I hope you can come to a point where you realize external things don’t make you a woman. You are a woman. Lack of third party validation doesn’t change that. Being sexualized doesn’t change that. Being a good homemaker doesn’t change that. Personally I would fail 3/4 of your points here.

I feel like the crazy people in blue states are extra. In a similar area and I had an optometrist try to sell me a bunch of miracle cures for autism. He was so predatory.

Mom here.

Plan B: Yes …and…!

Go to the health dept/gyno and get tested. If you haven’t had an HPV vaccine you’ve also been exposed (and exposing others). HPV can cause cancer, which develops slowly with no symptoms. Make sure you get routine paps. Get on birth control, ASAP.

And yes I’d say you have things to process, being as you’re doing this knowing it will feel bad and scary later. Therapy is expensive and all, but I’d look into why you might do things to yourself that are clearly self-sabotaging.

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