Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:25 year marriage is millimeters from falling over the rail.
Expenses are skyrocketing and income has never been lower.
Assets are not selling.
There’s a pressure in my chest that will occasionally radiate into my left arm.
I have a molar that needs to come out and I can’t afford to do so.
PLEASE find a way to get your tooth taken care of. I don’t mean to scare you, but something similar happened to a friend. He got an infection from a bad tooth— it turned sepsis and he died (extremely suddenly) at the age of 26. Again, I don’t mean to scare you, but it can turn dangerous really fast. Best of luck.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kids hate me. I try to keep busy around the clock so I won’t cry as much. My heart is broken and I feel like my life has no meaning. I wish I could get a second chance at parenting.
What would you have done differently if you got a second chance at parenting?
Anonymous wrote:My kids hate me. I try to keep busy around the clock so I won’t cry as much. My heart is broken and I feel like my life has no meaning. I wish I could get a second chance at parenting.
Anonymous wrote:I visited Florida for the first time last week and felt deeply unhappy and lonely there. I'm an immigrant from Europe and always felt fine in DC and other states I've visited, but FL was inexplicably depressive.
Anonymous wrote:My parents had favorites growing up and pitted the siblings against each other. We're now in our late 30s and 40s and it's become clear that none of have functioning relationships. It's all coming to a head this holiday season with the parts of the family no longer speaking with each other.
I don't think there's any way we'll ever really be a family again. The favored siblings are narcissistic. The disfavored siblings are angry and hurt, cutting themselves off from the family. My parents continue to escalate and play favorites. Apparently the new boundaries by the hurt siblings have my mom saying she wants to die, but it's unclear if she's really suicidal or if it's more manipulation.
It's so hard to decide to walk away from the mess and give up on having a family (and grandparents for your kids) or to keep engaging with the endless drama, bullying, favortism, and hurt feelings. Partial boundaries haven't worked.
Anonymous wrote:37F and I think I'm too skinny (5'3", 108 lbs), but the compliments keep rolling in. I've never been this thin in my whole adult life. You can see the outline of my breastbone. Men irl hit on me more than they ever have before. The positive reinforcement is intoxicating. My orthostatic hypotension is so bad that my whole field of vision goes black for 7-10 seconds nearly every time I stand up, which is very annoying. I should try to gain some weight, but I'll miss the compliments.
Anonymous wrote:Had miracle identical twins after 3 losses and was so, so happy. I felt like I was living my dream. Then the delays started to manifest and they just stopped progressing in their development, and they were diagnosed w profound autism. I am crushed.
Anonymous wrote:Terminally ill spouse and an autistic child. The stresses of caretaking are more than I ever imagined. I also work full time. There are some days where I don't know how much more I can take. Driving to everyone's appointments, school drop offs and pick ups, and taking care of home is exhausting. In all of this, I'm grieving my spouse's condition. The person I married is suddenly very frail and the new, huge changes in our relationship (physically, emotionally) were sudden. If I allow myself to understand and think about how our relationship will never be the same and is marching toward the end, it crushes me. So I can't think about it. But, I know I have to and I know I have to prepare my kids.