Empty Nest Syndrome: Signs, Symptoms, & How to Cope (choosingtherapy.com) https://www.choosingtherapy.com/empty-nest-syndrome/
How to Thrive with an Empty Nest: 33 Things to do After the Kids Leave Home (jane-athome.com) https://jane-athome.com/empty-nest-what-to-do/
5 Tips for Dealing with an Adult Child Moving Home | HowStuffWorks https://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/family/parenting/parenting-tips/5-tips-for-dealing-with-adult-child-moving-home.htm
Plus this weeks dive into reddit
RELATIONSHIPS
After 2 years of dating and living together I am starting to hate him? Is that even possible? He has no job and definitely is not struggling to get one as he can easily be hired anywhere due to having job experiences. He refuses to, waits on government benefits and gambles it in a day or two. Frankly, I’m so sick of this repetitive cycle and we were supposed to go to this day festival market together and he supposedly gambled away everything and now he’s just sighing and whinging about having no money. Gets angry when I refuse to loan him money because I said he would definitely lose and he says I’m belittling him. I am at my wits ends and I am starting to resent him. I even told him today to go back to his mother’s house and he said “oh you really want me to go?” Literally sitting around all day as a 23 year old man and waiting for your girlfriend or government benefits is not the way to live life…I have had enough. I feel so suffocated. I used to find him so attractive now he just looks like a bum ass loser to me. How do I change him?
The past two weeks have been hell for me. We’re married since 9 years and have two beautiful kids. I caught my wife last week chatting with someone and when I confronted her she said it was just a casual talk with friend for stress relief and that it started a few months ago. As I dug up more evidence she has gradually admitted that the affair started four years ago and now has finally admitted that he was her ex lover in college. She has apologized and said that she will end for good and that she is ashamed of having continued it for so long. But I find myself obsessively rewinding all the things I did over the last four years. She had the affair through almost half of our married life, through the birth of our second child and even when I was hospitalized. How do I move past this?
I am a 54 year old man in a relationship with a 48 year old woman for about 18 months. We are both single parents, I have a 21 yr old daughter and she has a 25 year old daughter. Both daughters stay at home. We both own smallish houses ideally suited for 2 people, though hers is bigger (and of higher value) than mine. My girlfriend would like to quickly progress the relationship to marriage by: a) moving in with me and my daughter or; b) me selling my house to buy a bigger place and she would chip in with 20% of the price, but wants 50-50 ownership in both cases she would be handing over her existing house to her daughter While I’m ok with the idea of marriage, but I feel we should: a) wait till either of the daughters have moved out or; b) both contribute 50-50 to buy a bigger place; or c) wait till I can buy a bigger place on my own Please let me know if I am being unreasonable or if her suggestions are fair?
My partner (35m) over the course of our relationship has tried to put up cameras in the house on a few different occasions. Personally, I don't really like them. I (33f) work from home and don't want to be watched, which he will sometimes do. I know this because there's a talking option and sometimes he will say something to me, through the camera, randomly throughout the day. I don't like that. The camera set up in our living room started when we went out of town over the weekend. My dad was over for a day to bring our baby to daycare and watch over our older boys before they left for the day/evening. He was obsessed, watching the camera so much. Literally just watching my dad and the kids walk around hanging out. It was really weird. I didn't like that and I thought it was invading my dads privacy who was doing something nice for us (we wouldn't have been able to go away otherwiise) Now that we are back, the camera is still up. I unplugged it this morning and went back to the kitchen to see it plugged in again. He knows I don't like it. He had one in our room a few months ago and I told him to stop trying to put them up. Of course, I have nothing to hide, I just don't like the idea. Also want to add that he won't let me have the app to the camera, he told me only one user is allowed which I think is BS. How do I deal with this invasion of privacy?
PARENTING
Yesterday I was sick with the flu - had a fever, felt like I was hit by a bus, barely able to move, couldn’t even pick up my infant. I have two kids a 2.5 yr old and an 8 month old and yesterday my husband watched them all day. I am breastfeeding still so aside from feeding the baby, I was basically in bed the whole time. He did not cook a single thing, he did not do a single chore, did not clean a single dish. We ordered food all day. Am I expecting too much?
Is there a way we can get my child (7) to not share all our business with my mom? Under the heading of “this wasn’t a problem that existed when I was a kid”, he is able to do video calls on his tablet with his grandparents and he likes to chatter away about whatever. Usually once we get the call connected he wanders around the house and my spouse and I go back to whatever adult task we were doing. For the most part this is fine, I’m glad he has a better relationship with his grandparents than I had with mine (which wasn’t bad, it was just absent due to distance and long distance phone calls were $$$ then). But my mom requires firm boundaries or else she starts to meddle. I typically keep her on an information diet. That doesn’t really work with my child not having any sort of filter. Help!
My son is a sophomore this year. I've honestly never had to deal with this issue before. I've always had great relationships with my kids' teachers but this one has responded rudely right off the bat. I asked if my son could come in for help and the teacher basically said that he should not have taken the class (it's an honors class) and that no teachers offer help outside of class. First, my son is in and has been in other honors classes and has never had an issue before. Second, most if not all of his other teachers offer specific days that they meet with students. Some offer help every day in fact. Her making that statement is just untrue. How do I get her to help my son?
"I feel so bad I want to hit somebody" My 5 year old daughter has taken to saying this when she feels mad. She has never hit me (or anyone) when she's said it. She even sometimes says, "I know I can't" or "I know that's wrong" or something of the sort. I think she's just expressing that she needs to release some anger. Normal? Usually she stomps 2 or 3 times, usually on the way to time out since that is what has prompted the angry response, then breathe deeply a bit and is done. How else can I help her? The phrase is troubling!
SEX My favorite pornstar is literally in front of me right now--SHOULD I FUCKING SAY SOMETHING? I'm freaking tf out right now. There's this one amateur porn star I watch all the time, he's literally my fucking go-to and I'm staring at him right now in the flesh. I'm in a bookstore and he's in an aisle by himself and undoubtedly it's him. I want to say something so bad but I don't know if it'll be weird or not??? I guess a girl going up to a guy is a little less weird but wtf am I going to say, "Omg I love your work"?
A couple I’m friends with asked me to partake in a threesome with them. This is the third couple that’s asked. I’m quite flattered by the question, what would make someone ask? I always thought I gave off a bit of a frigid vibe. One of them were acquaintances/friends of friends and the other two are friends of mine. I’m on the spectrum, am I missing signs and hints being dropped and responding in a way that implies I’m down, or do people just go around scouting out people to have threesomes with and ask flat out to save time?
I'm not really sure how to word this exactly but I'll try my best lol. I've asked a couple similar questions to this recently and some of the advice was very helpful.. I'm not in a relationship nor do I want to be in one currently but I could see this affecting things down the road when I will be potentially ready. I've somewhat recently discovered I'm bisexual and with that came a lot of exploring of kinks and fetishes that I didn't realize even existed let alone me being into them (I was raised very sheltered). With women I'm extremely sexual and let my kinks be pretty well known. I'm extremely experimental with them and crave crazy unadulterated sex. With men I don't want any of that. I'm happy to please a boyfriend and be dutiful but I wouldn't want anything past vanilla sex and even that is pushing the envelope. So eventually when I do get into a relationship with a man do I grin and bear it? Is it not fair that I'm hyper sexual with women but not him? Do I go along to get along even though my heart isn't in it?
My girlfriend grabs my dick all the time, even in puplic places. It's not like a one second touch, she grabs it very passionately. But sometimes, when I initiate sex after she touches me, she would turn me down, saying she's tired. Don't get me wrong, I'm not upset at all, I'm just confused. We still have sex quite regularly (2-3 times/week, except when she's on her period) so we're not in a dead bedroom relationship. But why does she act so sexually if she's not horny?
WORK
I work in an office and we are all remote except one day a week where we go in because we need to have someone covering the receptionist desk. I always struggle asking for days off coz I feel like im asking too much. Is this okay to ask for a day off for a family matter?
im a barber (19) and for months and months my boss and my coworker have pressured me to speak to customers. basically they always tell me to start convos with all customers while cutting their hair. but whenever my boss is gone i can speak all i want without being nervous cause usually i feel like he listens to the conversation. im sick to my stomach (nervous) for tomorrow… what should i do?
Hey! I work in a office environment where we sit together. I’m probably overthinking. There was a co worker who were saying that if there is alot on the customer service chat just let me know and I will hop on. And I was wondering where he was sitting and I put my head up just to have a look. That guy who were sitting just over the table from the other side decided to side eye me. He first looked away and then we both got eye contact. I felt it was personal. What does it mean when a co-worker side eyes you like that?
After realizing how precious time is, I realized that I barely have any free time in my day working full time and studying full time for $1K a month. Work is far and a big portion of my salary goes towards gas. I don’t need to work, but having a salary/allowance is nice. Should I quit?
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