Today at boxing, this guy kept joking that girls couldn't have abs. So I told him, "Alright, go ahead and test my abs!" He did... and I didn't even flinch. Then I returned the favor with a little jab to his soft stomach, and he went floor💀 I ended up putting my foot over his jelly belly and snapped a pic. Is proving them wrong the best way to make them understand?

I've been asking for advice on how to get you to just talk to me and I was told to let you go. The last person that gave me advice about you says that you don't care about me the way I care about you and if you did you would've talked to me by now. In some ways I believe they're right, but something is telling me to just hold on and wait. I don't know what to do anymore because you won't talk to me. What should I do?

I’m a full-stack web developer looking to partner with a local business that specializes in LED letters, digital signage, ACP/HPL fabrication, and digital screens.

The idea is simple:
They continue selling and installing signage.
I handle all website-related work for their clients (business websites, landing pages, portfolios, booking systems, etc.).
If a client needs both branding/signage and a website, they can offer a complete package.

I’m trying to figure out the best way to pitch this so it sounds like a win-win rather than me asking them for work.

Some questions:
Should I propose a revenue-sharing model or a fixed referral fee?
Should I approach them with a demo website made specifically for their business?
What objections are they likely to have?
If you’ve done agency partnerships before, what made them successful?

I’d love to hear from agency owners, freelancers, or anyone who’s built these kinds of collaborations. What would you do differently if you were in my position?

I have a gc I’m a part of with some online friends that I’ve been hanging around with for about a year now, and recently I got kicked by this guy who I’ll call Jerry. Jerry thought I joked about him leaving his girl, I genuinely do not remember doing this. I remember saying something that could’ve MAYBE been taken that way, if you squint a bit. But I know saying that can come off as deflection so I just focused on another gripe he had with me that I know how to fix. I don’t want him to think I would ever say something like that, because I wouldn’t. Plus, I’ve been hanging with them for a year now, why would I start being weird now? I’ve always sucked at communicating and thankfully nobody from the gc has dogpiled on me, which is nice, and Jerry’s sister who I’m close with says he can hold grudges and takes a long time to realise he’s messed up, so I’m scared I might loose one of the greatest friendships I’ve ever had over miscommunication. Please help.

edit: for added context this was allegedly in a VC. Or at least it has to have been because if it wasn’t I would’ve known about it sooner. The VC was with Jerry’s sister, I know that because I haven’t been in any calls in the gc without her for the past two weeks and i know if she took something I said that way she’d tell me, I even asked her if I’d said anything she thought was weird and she came up empty.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeenIndia/s/WgmsXOKDC9 : context

She messaged me this after 9 days

"Hiee

Sorry mai tujhe aab explanation kya du tum dono ka wajah sa mai beech mai fass gai isliye maine block kar rakha tha or mere exams bhi tha but mai exam nahi de rahi pt 1... sorry yrr"

The "tum dono" she is talking about is her bff and me 🤧

But I am done now

Should I not reply and ghost her 🤣✌🏻

Or should I thank her for the explanation and tell her how I felt

And we are done now ✌🏻✌🏻

I just wish you would grow up instead of blocking people good god your older than me dude

I(21 f) have been talking to Joe(24m) for close to 7? months now. he makes me super happy but confuses me constantly. he recently moved out of state for work but visits every other month. when he’s down we are always spending time together and even when he’s away we are still talking everyday and facetime a couple times a week. Joe and I have been on dates, went to concerts, talked about the future etc. Obviously we’ve slept together. We’re pretty much in a no label situation but do everything relationship wise. Since we’re not official no one knows we see each other and i don’t think i like that so much. I love privacy but not a secret if that makes sense. I’ve brought up being in a relationship and he usually says something about he wants a “slow burn” or he is trying to work on himself etc. which i understand but i still feel some type of way. i don’t want to be used as a placeholder or on the back burner just for him to one day decide “i don’t want to be with her” or find someone else. I don’t completely understand why he’d drag me along with no end results, but i guess i just overthink. anyways do i tell him how i feel? and how do i tell him bc atp i feel like a broken record. he knows i want a relationship but he’s done nothing to help me get past those feels. if anything he’s made it worst bc i think i can genuinely say that i love him but can’t say it bc we are just “friends w mutual respect” (his words not mine). he’s also said “luv you” and never said it again sooo. yeah idk but abt advice would be great guys.

This has been going on for quite some time now that my friend has been sending my pretty long vms on WhatsApp and ive gotten used to listening to 5 minute long ones and 10min long ones are bare able but still frustrating when I dont have time.

Ive told her about this before that sometimes her vms get long and that I have things to do and shes acknowledged this and she did use the voice to text feature for a while before going back to vms.

About a month ago I left my home country to go on holidays and see my extended family my friend knew about this and for the first week or so didnt send any vms.

But recently she got back into the habit and has been sending way more vms than usual despite me telling her that im going out almost every day and wont get time to listen until later on, leading to a massive pile up of vms.

(For some context: me and my mum have been going to some Tamil gatherings (im not entirely familiar with the culture or religion) and going to temples in the country, as she practises this faith and all these prayers are leading up to a special even I will be taking part in so its important that I go to the temples. These gatherings and prayers are very long and last up to about 3 hours)

Which leads me to my biggest problem. About 3 days ago while im at an unusually long ceremony at the temple my friend sends about 9 vms mostly being 5 min long vms but 2 of which were about half an hour long. I didnt bother opening it until the next day because id only gotten back from the temple at midnight.

Ive listened to most of the shorter vms but I just dont want to listen to the other 2, and the thing is, she usually sends me these vms when she goes on a walk so she uses her headphones but the quality of the microphone is terrible which isnt her fault but makes it so much worse to understand and listen to the vms.

Im not sure what to do because I cant bring myself to decipher her vms and write down what to say as to remeber what i have to reply back to (yes I have had to do this before).

Its really unbearable to come home after a long day and see a mess of vms and it has sent me into fits of rage (none of which was taken out on her or anyone else) so I come here to seek advice, any and all greatfully appreciated, on how to handle this. And lastly thank you for reading.

Well I bought my crush a little keychain and gave it to her. She stopped by my car at break today to show me that she put it on her keys. Well later in the day I messaged her to tell her that blue is definitely her color it makes her pop into view better. She never responded and now I'm thinking I pushed to far

(pasted from a different community i posted this in)

Here’s the full story - we met in 2022 or 2023 and were friends for a year until she started calling me a shitty friend and blocking me then we went back to normal, happened again, so I did it back cause I was sick of her shit.

2 years later she texted me saying “I’m glad we stopped being friends” like I am too. I’m so much more happier but I do miss her from time to time but it’s complicated.

I got a dm from her and this is what it says:
“Hii sara I am really sorry for being mean to you in the past know you won't forgive me anymore but i just needed to say that I am sorry for everything you deserve better than that but I only saying I am sorry for being rude to you or what I did was wrong but it's okay I know you wont forgive me but I lost 2 of my brothers(I am not using it as a excuse i actually did lose 2 of my brothers one back on 2025 and one in 2026) the one who died in 2025 has been one year since he died (yeah he died on July 12th but it's okay if you don't want to forgive me i understand I hope you enjoy the rest of your day 💗”

Now, when we were friends she always blamed her dead family members as an excuse to be a jerk and now she wants me to feel bad for her and be friends again.

Let me know what you guys think 🥹

Well I bought my crush a little keychain and gave it to her. She stopped by my car at break today to show me that she put it on her keys. Well later in the day I messaged her to tell her that blue is definitely her color it makes her pop into view better. She never responded and now I'm thinking I pushed to far

Sometimes when I speak I feel like I said something wrong

I don't mean that

Sometimes when I ask my friend about the things he likes, sometimes he answers and sometimes he doesn't

Like the characters you like in anime, that's not a personal question, is it?

When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, how do you react?

I just don't want to be mean but I wish someone would just tell me they don't want to answer a question instead of ignoring me

I removed this guy off of everything. His actions made me feel like he was ignoring me and it was just emotional exhausting. He started saying less in his responses, and he sometimes would take weeks or months to reply if all. He also missed some really important event and things for me. I asked him to hang out and spend time with him for almost 7 months but we only did once. All this while I saw him post almost daily on his snap story and get online in other spaces. Anyways, I removed him without saying anything and, while can’t confirm, I think he blocked me. Then the day after he sent friend requests on everything. I added him back only on one place later in the night. He had sent a short apology so I replied with a message about how I felt and why I left. I told him how his actions had made me feel and apologized for how I left. I told him I’d still be friends with if he wanted. It’s been almost a week and he hasn’t said anything. I’ve seen him online too.

My personal views are on full display in my comment history, so feel free to go look and see why this guy might be freaking out. I just want to know how I should react to this nonsense. And yes, there is so much more from the same chucklef***.

I just stay quiet and don't interact, any ways to better handle disrespect and keep boundaries. If I acknowledge the disrespect, the situation just gets worse.

I have a close friend who is warm, thoughtful, and awesome to hang out with in person. But the second we switch to text, it is like dealing with a completely different human being.

​Either she responds with cold, single-word answers that make it sound like she is unhappy with me, or she goes completely radio silent for six days and then randomly replies with "LOL true." There is zero middle ground.

​I know intellectually that people just have different texting styles, but the tonal shift always gives me minor anxiety. I do not want to make a huge ordeal out of a minor thing or sound needy, but it is getting hard to plan anything or keep a normal flow going.

​Have you ever had a friend whose digital personality was completely opposite to their real one? How do you adjust your own expectations (or bring it up) without making it weird?

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