“My mom says I’m obligated to her because she born me”
Earlier today, my mother just scream at me.
She screamed, “A child who thought that parents are not children’s obligation is a useless child. Why? Because everything that the parents did to their children when they were still a kid must be paid by their children.
They have to pay the parents. And they mustn’t keep their salary a secret, because the parents have the right to know their salary, the parents have right to know if it’s increases… To really know, how much money they must have from their children.
Children need to pay their parents from the day they were born to the day how they earned money.”
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“My wife’s best friend embarrassed me”
My (32M) wife (40F) and her best friend (43F) were all hanging out at the house with a few of her other friends. Her best friend kept trying to pull me off the couch to take a shot.
She grabbed both my legs and pulled me right off the couch we started like play wrestling . We were drunk and it was all out of fun. I’m 5’3 and about 130 pounds . She’s the same height as me but weighs more.
I tried grabbing her legs and tackling her but she just pushed me to the ground and had me pinned. I was trying as hard as I could to get up and started turning bright red and my wife and all her friends started laughing so hard. Her friend was barely trying and was able to just keep me pinned there.
Porn and Sexualized Content Steal From You
I used to think porn was harmless. Just a little dopamine detour. A victimless habit. No big deal. I wasn’t hurting anyone. I wasn’t cheating. I was just… blowing off steam. Literally and metaphorically.
But after years of this quiet, private ritual, I started to notice something uncomfortable:
Something was missing. Or more accurately, something was being taken from me.
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Let’s Take A Stroll Through The Art Museum – Ned Hardy
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The Dumping Grounds
Is Having Children Worth It?
There’s a certain question that follows people like a ghost with unfinished business. You don’t ask it out loud. You don’t bring it up at barbecues or family reunions. You just carry it around in the quieter corners of your mind, pulling it out when you’re too tired to be productive but too restless to sleep: Is having kids worth it?
I don’t mean in the abstract. I mean you. Your life. The only one you’ll ever get.
The Middle Class is Bleeding Out, One Tiny Wound at a Time
It’s not dramatic. It doesn’t announce itself. There’s no single moment where the middle class collapses. It just gradually erodes. Quietly. Relentlessly. One expense at a time.
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