Modern dating apps are my personal hell.

She abused me for 15+ years. I feel no sympathy for her.

I’m happy to say I’m in a much better place, more stable with the brightest outlook I’ve had on life in years. Getting divorced from her and her bad choices has sent my life in an upward trajectory. My only lament is that she is a pitiful mother to our son, who deserves so much more than she can offer him.

Equal parts narcissism, bad company, deteriorating mental health and poor decisions. I had a whole thing typed up, but I’ve aired this shitshow elsewhere before. The short version is she has been a problem at every job she ever held, so she opened her own bakery and proceeded to drive it into the ground within about six months. She hung out with some shady people who did shady things, and got wrapped up in her own wants and desires. She eventually walked out (after hitting me on camera) when I wouldn’t give her my car so she could go “work” (i.e. swing by her crack dealer’s place). She stayed away voluntarily for about a week or two before I found out about the crack usage; after that I told her she couldn’t come back and filed a police report for the domestic battery in order to protect myself and our son from her. Took me a while to admit to myself that I was stuck in an abusive relationship for 15+ years.

Or sometimes they already have a good life (house, kid, spouse, dogs, x2 cars and stable support) and instead they decide to burn it all down in favor of a two-week crack bender. She drained our bank account, caught a DV charge and we are now divorced, thank fuck.

Or, god help us, Joe Buck!

What’s wrong with walking around the block?

This is also a form of marketing yourself to the correct audience.

As a former ink stained wretch, I can confirm that is the reason.

Ah, yes, truly the sign that they’ve integrated into society.

yeah, it’s AP style guidelines.

So do deer, this is intended as a mental shortcut to roughly approximate size instead of a precise measurement.

They’re all too busy thinking “what if they could” and nobody stops to ask “what if they should”.

I’m so glad I was dumb before smart phones were this prevalent. Any video evidence of my antics is either relegated to some long forgotten drive, or is too low resolution to be of any real concern.

Could always just mark the emails as spam.

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kilroy was here

I’m people, does microcenter count?

K

Thanks for minimizing the abuse I went through. Fuck you. Maybe a big part of why men are underrepresented in abuse statistics is because we are considered the abuser by default and are expected to just suck it up and take it. Go eat a bag of dicks, apologist.

Again you’re completely right. I’m just saying that when it comes down to it, 99% of folks are not going to host their own system. And in my personal, specific case, I judged the rewards to heavily outweigh the risks, which ended up being correct. YMMV.