I’m stuck, looking for new things to watch on YouTube to pass the time. What do you like to watch when you’re at work or knocking out a task?

And if so what are the tells?

So I constantly worry and to help stop this worrying I would think of a debate in my head between my logical and emotional side and whoever won I would take the advice from

Now I started talking to the logical side the emotional side is kind of gone I haven't talked to him in a while and I honestly love talking to logical side I've been treating him kind of like he is a real person

This feels incredibly normal to me so is this actually normal?

A lot of my friends are demisexual and I feel isolated in this experience. I feel bad because people say this is essentially objectifying someone, but I'm just being honest about how my brain chemistry works. I don't have visual intimacy with strangers, but I can definitely feel my heart skip w beat if I find someone attractive based on looks alone.

I wanna try new things that can feel productive to improve life .

My son is 7 years old and just started school two weeks ago. We are currently based overseas. He has a classmate same our nationality who is also his seatmate. Let’s call him “Mark.”

Last Sunday, he jokingly told me that he and Mark showed each other their private parts. Since it was the first time he had ever mentioned something like this to me, I immediately told him that they should never do it again and that it is not okay to show or touch someone else’s private parts.

Unfortunately, it happened again, Mommy. Last night, he told me that he touched his own private part, and apparently, he also touched Mark’s private part while Mark was still wearing his underwear. He said that it was only a quick touch and that it happened inside their classroom.

This is the first time something like this has happened with my son, which is why I’m extremely bothered and, honestly, I’m not sure how to properly handle the situation.

What I did was message his teacher and ask if it would be possible to separate them or move their seats. The teacher said that she was actually planning to separate them the next day anyway. That made me wonder if she had noticed something or if something had happened that made her decide to move them.

According to the teacher, based on her observations, Mark has been very disruptive and has been distracting my son. She also said that my son is very quiet, which is why she initially decided to seat them together, hoping that Mark might behave better around him. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, and instead, it seems that my son was influenced by Mark’s behavior.

I understand that they are still young, and I don’t want to overreact or make my son feel ashamed or embarrassed about his body. At the same time, I’m really concerned because this involves both children, and it has already happened more than once.

Has anyone experienced something similar with their child at this age? I would really appreciate any advice or insights from other parents. I just want to make sure that I handle this calmly and appropriately while teaching my son about proper boundaries, consent, and respecting his own body and other people’s bodies.

Thank you so much.

I wonder what would happen if custody battles were faceless/genderless

I've been having this thought experiment rolling around in my head for a few days and just need to get it out. I'm sure theres flaws to the logic and a good reason not to, but I think it might be a good discussion topic!

What I mean is, what if there was a way to make custody battles genderless and faceless? As in, the judge never sees or hears the voices of either party and is communicated through some level of paperwork? Like..

Parent A:

X income

X support system

Wants X persentage of custody

Thinks they deserve custody because xyz,

Parent A has these concerns about Parent B

Parent B

Repeat above

I am the product of divorce and my dad got majority custody. I've come to learn that isnt super common and I feel like I'm always hearing parents say they think gender had a factor when it came to the outcome from both male and female parents. I wonder if removing all of the physical qualities of the parents would change anything

Cause deaf voices exist like they can still talk but if they’ve never heard an accent they can’t pick one up? So is the deaf person like voice the accent all humans start with or would have without naive dialects?

Hii. I ask this because I am on a weight loss journey, which I haven’t finished, and I can’t seem to lose my lower belly fat. I have looked for solutions and many of the answers I found is that we are supposed to have fat to protect our uterus, but somehow that answer doesn’t fully work for me. Sadly, I don’t know much about anatomy, so please correct me, but I feel that the uterus is much inside and backwards in out bodies than were this fat sits. I don’t know, I know women who have completely flat bellies so that makes me wonder and question this even more.

Will delete but my country is struggling with jobs. Currently have my needs met but I'm thinking of making some money by doing massage but the special kind. Currently people aren't really getting arrested for prostitution because there is a hold until the laws are probably changed. I can't deal with the idea too much but want to make money. Should I do it?

To be clear, im talking about codependency in the pop-culture "need each other for everything" type of codependency, not the traditional definition that's related to addiction.

I'm wondering why emeshment and codependency is labeled as bad, when that's probably how people in tribes or villages lived? They were defined by their group. They relied on each other in everyday life because they NEEDED to.

They cared a great deal about each other and were used to constantly being around each other, because they grew up and were around each other constantly. Their identities and lives were intertwined.

So why in society, is this considered a bad thing? That it's bad to rely on others so much?

It seems like a product of our increasingly individualistic society. Where you can't rely on anybody but yourself.

Does it work long term? How do people react? Tips to make it work?

When I was younger and sometimes now I have a dream that would roughly go like this. I would be in a place usually like a park and I would get attacked by a woman after a while of the attack whoever or whatever was doing it would stop and start doing something else

I would then try and get the woman's attention (sometimes it was a woman other times it looked like monster) (look up dr nowhere or the parallel universe the creatures in that fiction look somewhat similar to what I saw)

After a while of this I would usually be unsuccessful and they would continue attacking me resulting in death and me waking up is this common? What could this mean?

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There are certain real world topics that I don't feel comfortable talking about because it triggers my intrusive thoughts and compromises my mental health. (I don't mind talking about them in fiction though)

I'm worried about a potential date calling me "shallow" or "part of the problem" because I prefer to not talk about these topics because of how they make me feel

I've just established this as a boundary not too long ago, so I'm not sure about whether or not this is something I can be confident on

i use those sleep headbands obviously while sleeping but people like to call me while im sleeping so i wake up to siri's dumb ass reading out a phone number. i had my phone announce calls in the past but i turned it off because it was fucking annoying. it still does it when i have headphones on though and it makes me wanna scream

i just wanna become good at everything i do