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The Dumping Grounds
“Am I wrong for feeling betrayed after she said she wasn’t looking for anything?”
I’m a 24 year old guy, and I hate my job aside from my coworkers. I’ve been there about seven months. A couple months ago, a new woman started on our shift. I’ll call her Ashley. She’s 28, beautiful, funny, sassy, and pretty much everyone likes her.
We work third shift in different areas, so we mostly started talking during breaks. A couple coworkers and I invited her to Waffle House after work, and she started coming with us. Eventually we exchanged socials and started talking constantly.
15 Book Quotes That Stick With You Long After You Read Them
They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak. They carried infections. They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct. They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. They carried lice and ringworm and leeches and paddy algae and various rots and molds. They carried the land itself—Vietnam, the place, the soil—a powdery orange-red dust that covered their boots and fatigues and faces. They carried the sky.
― Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
The Dumping Grounds
“My husband gives me the silent treatment whenever we have a conflict”
My husband gives me the silent treatment whenever we have a conflict. It doesn’t matter if he’s mad at me or if I’m upset about something—his go-to reaction is to shut down and ignore me.
We’ve been together for 13 years, and this has been his pattern from the start. After four or five days of silence, I usually end up begging him to talk to me. Most of the time, the only thing that gets him to engage is when I say I’m done and can’t take it anymore. Then suddenly, he’ll talk.
Last year, we separated for five months. I told him I couldn’t live like this anymore. When we got back together, things seemed better. At first, during conflict, he’d go quiet for a couple of hours—but he’d eventually come talk to me. Now we’re back to square one. It’s day four of silence again, and I don’t know what to do.
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There is a loneliness epidemic happening right now, and most people misunderstand it.
Loneliness is not simply being alone. Plenty of people enjoy solitude. Loneliness is the ache that comes from not feeling known. It is the feeling that nobody sees you, chooses you, or carries part of your burden.
The Dumping Grounds
LOL
I thought I’d be able to sneak away and update the site today, but I
wildly overestimated how much free time I’d have. 😅
Turns out having a newborn means every plan is really just a suggestion.
I’ll be back at it as soon as I can. Thanks for your emails and for sticking with me!
Update
Hey Everybody,
Just wanted to give you an update on my whereabouts for the past week. Me and my wife just had a baby! And so the site, sleep and sanity have taken a backseat to her. We recently got to a point where we can have some consistency in our schedules and I think I can resume updating again tomorrow! Thanks for your patience over the past week!