Wednesday's Most Active Posts

Yesterday's threads with the most engagement included one involving Florida and several relationship topics. While I noticed the thread titled, "Why do people like Florida?" that was posted in the "Off-Topic" forum, I hadn't read it until just now. I did see that the thread was growing rapidly and I thought that it would be a top thread. Indeed, it reached 15 pages by this morning. I assumed that it had turned political — everything involving Florida does these days — and that is exactly what had happened. So, after reading just a few posts this morning, I locked the thread. We have two very active political forums and if posters want to have political discussions, they are more than welcome to do so in those forums. However, political discussions in other forums are not appreciated. Florida has been getting so much attention on DCUM over the past several weeks that I should probably consider a dedicated Florida forum.

The thread with the second highest number of replies, though a little lower in views was titled, "Anyone else feel guilty for marrying someone less successful?" and was posted in the "Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)" forum. The original poster describes feeling resentment towards her husband because she earns about four times as much as he does. She says that she married him while he was pursuing an advanced degree and she assumed he would "do well". Apparently that didn't work out. I can't bring myself to read this thread beyond the first post so I don't know what type of reception it received. But, it stood out to me how "success" seemed to be defined purely in monetary terms. That probably lit a fire under the MRAs and incels that haunt our relationship forum.

The thread with the third highest number of replies was also posted in the "Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)" forum. Titled, "Why not me?", the thread was also third in number of views. The original post describes the poster's frustration with having reached her 30s but not having found a spouse. She claims to have all the right characteristics to have found a match, but it just hasn't worked out. While I have significantly more sympathy for this poster than the previous one, I am really not into relationship threads so I haven't read this one either. As such, I don't know what type of responses she received. I would think that only a close friend could really provide useful answers in this situation that would likely require the sort of honesty that might result in the end, or at least straining, of the friendship. Nevertheless, DCUM can provide a relatively safe sounding board for such a discussion so hopefully something useful came from the thread.

Second in number of views and fourth in number of replies was a thread titled, "Permanently canceling annual trip". This thread deals with a relationship, but was posted in the "Off-Topic" forum. The original post is quite long, describing the original poster's anger towards her husband's lifelong friend's wife. The two families — both have kids of similar ages — vacation together annually at the original poster's summer house. The original poster can simply no longer stand to be around the other wife and wants to stop inviting the other family to vacation with them. She is bothered that this might ruin her husband's and children's friendships with the other family. Again, this is not my type of thread and I haven't read it. The only thing that I got out of the original post is that the poster must be relatively new to DCUM because she chose the pseudonyms "Hank" and "Flo" for the other couple rather than the DCUM traditional "Larlo" and "Larla". To be honest, that really ruined the post for me.