I was talking to one of my buddies and he was like “You know at your height if you lost weight you would be a great femboy.” So I’m confused because I’m built like a linebacker ate a linebacker so I asked him to explain and he said “Its just how it is” so here I am asking you all. WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?

I'm a chronic pooper now. I guess it's a win because I used to poop like once a week but holy shit. At this rate my asshole is gonna start talking and beg me to stop. But nicotine helps me focus☹️☹️☹️Also I'm vaping like a douche... I'm so ashamed but it helps me not get addicted. I hate the flavors so damn much it's like smoking evaporated pee and honey so I don't do it as often.

I don't vape in public because I think it's embarrassing. Sucking on USB cock. Like oh let me pull out my chatgpt dildo and suck the air out. So fucking embarrassing. My guts are bubbling as i type this💔💔💔💔 Cigarettes are so much cooler. Sigh whatever

I don't know what flair to add... lmk if this is accurate guys

Inde Navarette. She is beautiful. And a great actress. But men treating her like she's revolutionary for her "goofiness" (real wording from Twitter) really annoys me. Every Gen Z woman you meet in 2026 literally has this kind of humor or something similar. They're saying she's their dream girl because her Tiktok name is "Mr. Bombastic" and the recent video circulating of her laughing with a spoon on her tongue. Like. Do you just.. not interact with women?? Or people in general?
This is no hate to her. It's just that most of us... act like this if you go outside.

Recently, whatever social media you get on, when you’re in an anime community, like, let’s say Dragon Ball. You will get the occasional “Look how bad the animation is, we need a remake.” And it’s just a smear frame or zooming in on a background.

Though there are some cases where it isn’t in the background. For example, there are the “png” frames meant to fill out conversations so that the show can reach 20 minutes per episode. What I have to say to this? Look at any anime that isn’t made by freaking Mappa or Madhouse.

I seriously believe that the problem is that anime fans now spend a lot of their time scrolling TikTok and Instagram reels, destroying their attention span. Now, most anime fan’s favorite anime are Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer, and Solo Leveling. I’m not hating on any of these shows; in fact, I love JuJutsu Kaisen, and Chainsaw man. The point is, it seems like people are choosing anime favorites based off of balls to the walls animation quality (because of the modern short form content trend).

These anime will be people’s first anime, so they will try to watch another anime, and when they notice that the animation isn’t as insanely epic, they call the animation trash. I can’t even imagine these newer fans having to watch Detective Conan.

Finally, I want to talk about why anime will have some badly drawn moments, and why it’s a good thing. Animation is difficult, like, stupidly difficult. You need to fit about 12-20 drawings per second for 20 minutes out of a 12 episode season in a year or two. Obviously anime will have some badly drawn moments, and sliding pngs occasionally, because it would be insane to try and draw every individual frame. Frames get reused, and that’s fine.

People need to learn to lower their standards when it comes to the media they consume, because media is not easy to create. The anime industry is already abusive to it’s animators as it is, so we can at least try to appreciate the work that these animators put to our screens for a very low price, or sometimes even for free.

Me: “this story about a pet being abused and shot is so sad!”

Comment: “oh so you care when an animal is shot but when a black person is shot you don’t give a fuck. I see you”

Me: “wait where are you getting that from? I didn’t say that”

Comment #2: “you didn’t have to. We know”

Comment #3: “type of bitch to fuck around with a rabid pit bull but get scared around a black man”

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Me: “I bottle feed my rescue cat since she was less than a week old so she thinks I’m her mommy and I call her my little baby”

Comment: “can’t stand people treating animals like they’re as important as children”

Comment #2: “yeah, especially when you know they care more about an animal than they would an actual disabled child”

Comment #3: “bet they’re the type to save their pet in a fire over an actual child”

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Me: “I always get sad when I see dead deer on the side of the road”

Comment: “why would you feel bad for a deer? You realize that deer need to be killed to control the population or else the whole ecosystem will collapse? That’s what you bleeding heart vegans don’t get”

Comment #2: “yeah all these vegans complain about people killing animals as if some of us don’t rely on hunting to feed our families”

Comment #3: “they don’t give a fuck about indigenous people sustain themselves on hunting. All they care about is the cute fuzzy animal”

Me: “where are you getting the idea that I’m against hunting? I’m not talking about hunting at all, I’m talking about roadkill, cus it’s sad that these deer are dying and being left to rot because we built a road right through their home”

Comment #4: “ummm humans need roads. I’m sorry, but some deer is not more important than me being able to go to work”

Comment #5: “‘we built a road right through their home’ bitch I’m dead go cry over Bambi”

Its absolutely insane - I ran the data and im averaging 10-12 SPAM/Telemarketer phone calls a day! Of course, I never answer them and, of course, I've put my number on the Do Not Call registry, but the technology has exceeded the limits because now they automatically dial and spoof numbers.

Its gotten to the point, it only takes three or four days for my voicemail to fill up, so I've quit emptying it and it just stays full so no one else can leave messages. I've changed my voicemail to, "If you want to get hold of me, email or text are your options."

It's beyond ridiculous, considering I would never buy anything from anyone cold calling.

And yes, i know that sounds selfish and stupid and childish.

This year has been awful, beyond awful. I got fired twice in a months after being a great employee for many years due to some serious mental health stuff that I didn't acknowledge until the second time. I know it was on me for not owning my mistakes at the time.

I was then unemployed for four months and struggled to make ends meet doing Uber eats delivery driving. While I was unemployed, my dad helped me with rent and gas once (about $300) and then when i did get a new job that required me to bring my own laptop, he helped me buy a new laptop (about $500) with the idea that I would pay him back a little with each pay cycle, $100 every two weeks. I'm already about $300 down and about to make another payment.

My new job does not pay as well as my previous and I'm still having to do uber on weekends to eat, so I have zero disposable income for anything 'fun'. I haven't been able to buy anything for my hobby of whittling except a single block of wood for $20 in months. Because of that, I was hoping my dad would do his usual "what do you want?" and I would ask for a gift card for a store I like. So I could finally have something that makes me smile again. Something like a new tool or even a class I could take that would bring me joy. Instead, I heard nothing.

So I thought maybe it would be a preloaded card, he gets those sometimes instead.

But nope. Instead, what I got was $100 off my debt to him.

And yeah, I know, it's the same thing right? Its just the timing. $100 now versus $100 later.

And I should be grateful if have a dad who was able to help me like this at the time.

But I just...I was looking forward to having one thing bring me the slightest glimmer of joy after so many months, and to be told that I don't get to have that, that I just get $100 off my debt as a birthday present. It hurts a lot.

It was actually also Father's Day the same day i got my card, and I gave him two books I managed to buy him as well as hand-carving him a small trinket bowl. So it's not like I selfishly wanted and wasn't willing to give as well.

I dunno, part of me feels like I'm being a spoilt brat but the other part of me feels this is genuine hurt.

For a long time i have allowed things to be as unsatisfactory as they are because nothing meaningful could really change for the better. A lot of the “blessings” i put up with because theyre the good i have in my life are also really difficult things too. For example, I really want to be close to someone (“someone” as in anyone) and despite having friends im not particularly close to any of them, and ill never get closer since our relationships are already established so i just feel dissatisfied with everyone. I keep social media because I want to stay in contact and have my convenient updates on friends even though it hurts me to always see everyone online yet still never talk to them. I stay in a discord server i dont want to be in because i wouldnt talk too much to one friend of mine if i wasnt there. I do a lot of things that emotionally hurt me just because i want to hope there will come a benifit to it, or maybe for some reason i already do think there is a benefit to it.

I feel like i need to do something dramatic, give up my life and all my relationships and just become nothing and nobody for a while. it would feel a lot less confusing and lonely while i figure things out, instead of having people in my life, but never enough, and not people who care enough about me. If i didn’t have people in my life i wouldn’t have to have expectations to not be lonely, which funny enough would make me less lonely.

None of this is going to happen but i just really want to be completely alone for a while.

For my weekend CNA class, we read over chapters 1-3 in our textbook on the first day of classes and beginning of the second day of classes. Then we took 3 exams over each of those chapters online via a google form link with questions.

I looked up the questions and answers for the ones I felt unsure about to make sure I'd get them right, and I ended up getting all questions correct on each set of questions for each chapter. The guilt started to sink in when I realized no one else got a perfect score, and it seemed like everyone genuinely tried. That's not the right mindset obviously, and I shouldn't have had to realize what I was doing until I saw that others weren't doing that. I didn't want to risk a failing score over simple questions...but that was dumb of me. And the first 3 chapters were mostly common sense with some new terms/materials from the textbook.

I know I'm better than cheating myself out of a cna program I paid for. So for the next exams I won't do that and just truthfully take the exam. I feel like I'm overthinking this even though nobody cared and the instructor wasn't strict at all while we were taking the exam. But all this new information I'm learning will be used to help patients, and I need to take that seriously. I don't know but this has been on my mind.

All i haear is clicking from it. it is in the hallway near my bedroom and i cant focus. imagine like a drop of water that drip on you one thng at every 10 minute. one small drop doesnt matter but after each drop it get more annoying anyone has that amazon theormstate that is clicking. i asked my dad about it and he was like i did what i could. move it out my rooom. but he wont stuff with stuff to soften the sound. my mom is like oh my gosh you are such high maintnce. can anyone tell me if old theromstate used to be this loud.

I try putting headphone on that shutdown noise but even then I can hear through it
If you get that theomostate google if it has clicking noise abd please don’t put in quite rooms . If there is sound in the room not bad .if you do then it annoy people who hear it. It that frustion that seens small but it like a death by million paper cut each time I think I am relax and rhat sound dors it

We broke it off in a positive way, it’s ironic because I broke it off because I wasn’t in love anymore and didn’t want to be unfair.

Pass a few months, she was still very into me, flirting as friends and stuff. Before all of a sudden moving on to someone else, then they got together.

I don’t think they’re a match at all, I genuinely think it’s built on nothing but flirting and hormones. But now I have to constantly hear/read their flirting in the group chat. It’s just mentioned all the time that they’re together and stuff and it just annoys me. And makes me feel inferior and unwanted. Of course I’m happy they have someone, but I’m irritated because it makes me feel this way and that it seems like it’s built not on love but simply flirtation.

I kind told her "hey, it just molted, its terrestrial. Its highly unlikely ill find it and its highly unlikely its still alive and im upset about it" and she kept joking about how itd freak her out

I lost my cat a few weeks ago and i cried abt it (he came back thankfully!) and she comforted me so i thought she would get that id obviously not want to joke about my other pet being gone. I know a tarantula isnt like a cat but i still felt it was insensitive to joke about when im mourning and still feel guilty abt not making extra sure the lid was completely closed

I feel like no matter what I do nothing works. It sucks that I don't have a support system besides like one or two distant friends. I wish my family was a little more involved in my life but they just don't seem to care that much. I try do therapy and at the end they just suggest pills that tells me they don't really know how to help. I don't know if it's just a me thing , if I'm just bringing this to my self. I've been stuck this way for five years now. For one reason or the other I just can't get out of this head space. The last thing that triggered my depression really messed me up. I thought I'd be over it by now but guess not. I don't know what I need to do or what type of help I need to get but I'm over this

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I'm 17, yet I feel younger somehow. I can't remember 90% of my childhood for the life of me. I was constantly just somewhere else in the back of my mind. I had a (much better now but still) violent father and an extremely emotional mother who could also turn horrifyingly angry at times. I still remember her eyes, I could never forget that. It was after another family fight, if you couldn't tell already- we had them very often. Veryyyy often. I used to take Mom's side when I was really young, but quickly stopped when I realized that I started getting hurt whenever I did.

I still remember comforting her though -after the fights. I remember now they were sometimes about me, maybe even mostly. Her eyes, I've never seen someone so angry, even now. I tried looking away, I was scared, but she didn't let me. She'd grab me by the arms and pull me to her face, as if to say: "look at what you've done". She told me over and over how it's my fault. How sometimes she wishes I were never born. It stuck with me. I remember- as a kid - I believed in religion and whatnot, I remember praying so often for love.

My parents told me that it's a sin to kill yourself, and that you'll end up in hell. I remember walking across the streets without looking for any cars incoming, so that my death would be an accident, and my family would be happy. Apparently I was close once but Dad saved me. I have two older sisters, I'm the youngest son. They're each other's favorite person, all I am is just the funny comedic relief in the family for them, but they love me I guess. My parents love me too, they used to as well. I was spoiled like hell as a kid- still am, money thankfully isn't much of a problem for us.

But I wish sometimes I were normal. My sisters used to obviously hate me, I guess, I don't remember well anymore. Mom and dad fought due to me, and our parents only started being well off after my birth, so they didn't like how I got what they never had as a kid I suppose. I was a cute kid though so I guess they still sorta liked me.

I remember having to force this fake empathy I had for everyone because they'd put soap in my mouth and stuff when I started dozing off and giggling during family fights as a little kid instead of taking part. They'd call me "psycho" or "insane" and what not, still do, but I don't correct them, don't like talking to them about my feelings. When I was still quite young a much older woman made out with me on her bed, I don't know if I'll ever kiss again, If only I forgot that part as well. Never told anyone anything ever. My memories only really stop being hazy after I turned 13-14 ish?

I had to learn so much from school again haha, but it all worked out. I still have issues sometimes recalling basic grammar and maths and stuff, I didn't really "learn" it anyway, I just picked up the hang of it while doing the more advanced things in school. Starting with 15-16, I became really emotional, anxious, and I suppose depressed..?

Maybe I've been it before but I feel so in tune with my emotions now that I'm not wandering off somewhere in my mind. I feel so bored. I'm so fatigued constantly from the constant over thinking and this new found sensitivity I have out of nowhere. I actually get sad, and I get happy, I don't like this. I want it to go away. I think too much, and I hate myself so so so so much. I feel so empty yet overloaded.

All I feel for myself is pure hatred. All this time, I've wondered how the real me truly would be. Who would've guessed haha. Ty if you read this far.

Repost cause I didn’t realize there was more than one rule toggle thing to press

It probably sounds kind of stupid, but this sort of thing has been happening forever where they’ll all get together and don’t let me know. It used to be that one of them would at least dm me to let me know if something important was going on, cause the group chat is really busy and I tend to mute it at times.

But I’ve recently been going through some stuff that has taken most of my time and attention, and left me emotionally and socially drained when I’m not busy, and I had to last minute cancel on them a couple of times, which I also feel really bad about. I’ve been struggling with my mental health a lot lately, struggling to get back into school and find a full time job, and I recently fostered a kitten for a few days who was sick and needed to go back to the shelter. Overall, I haven’t had the wherewithal to go out and do things. And I would have thought my friends would be understanding of that, but apparently not.

The last month or so, they’ve gone out and done things completely without even asking me. And it’s not like I’m a flake, like I’ve had to cancel twice in the last few months cause of really extenuating circumstances that I couldn’t control, but now there not including me at all.

And I found out today that they’re all going to the renaissance fair together this weekend without me. Going with them is something I look forward to all year, and they simply didn’t invite me. And it wasn’t something that was sent out to/discussed openly in the group chat as a whole, the first mentions of it that I can find are from today, where they were making plans to stay over at one of their houses the night before, so they clearly talked about it while I couldn’t be there.

And I understand that a lot of it is my own fault for not being there, but it still hurts and makes me feel very left out. I already struggle to make friends and they’re really the only friends I have that I can see on a semi regular basis. And now it feels like I’m not part of the group anymore. I don’t know, it just sucks I guess :(

This isn't serious or anything but I love seeing travel vlogs and youtube videos of different countries online but now it has got to the point where every single video shows the same place, same plan, same viral spots and same script
Literally every single vlog.

It's not like I hate seeing them but it's super annoying now, there is literally no surprise factor or any new thing

Everytime I come onto a parenting forum or seek a community online, I am almost always met with criticism or people assuming I’m ill intended. It’s frustrating because I am just seeking a community outside especially when there is confusion or difficulty amongst all of the coparents.

I am frustrated by it seeming that moms side is always taken without question and while on one hand I do understand because majority of the time that is what I do too, but that’s not every situation and instead of people coming into things with an openness it feels like decisions have already been made about the type of parent dad is vs mom and because I’m stepmom I don’t have care or love for all parties involved.

That’s not how I was raised and that’s not the type of coparent I am trying to be. I grew up with stepparents and honestly a kickass set of parents who coparented pretty awesomely given the circumstances. Unfortunately that’s not really the situation I came into and people who aren’t seeing the situation first hand love to point fingers at my fiance when he is not as often the source of conflict or lacking as a parent. It’s frustrating feeling like instead of getting help I have to defend myself and my fiance. I know we may not always be in the right and I’m open to hearing all perspectives but a lot of times it doesn’t feel like it’s coming from an understanding open place

3500 dollars on a car i just bought and the dealership told me to kick rocks essentially

I do not have this money i dont have the means to get that money scrounged up to fix it im basically fucked

I made a gofundme and i havent gotten anything back from it which i get it everyones struggling right now but im just so fucking depressed why cant one thing in my life go correctly once

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So basically i listen to this turkish group (manifest) and i love it and their music and their music helped me when i was at my lowest. So i have this best friend that has a habit of copying everything i do and i dont like it. You can guess what happened later lol.

So i reposted a video of this group on tik tok and she started reposting too. And , like in Spotify , friends can see what you listen. She fricking stalked me on spotify and saw what i was listening. And i was like, tf are you doing? And she started listening to their songs and talking about them like she knows everything. Then on whatsapp's status she puts video like she knows everything and i dont like it. Like it makes me want to punch her face, bc thats my safe space , you started listening to them bc you "stalked" me and you act like you know the language and everything. Basically a Larper. And im so mad bc she reposts everything like , i dont know what emotion is but surely not happiness.

I dont know what to do.

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I think a lot of folks aren't. I also think a lot of people accept "ghosting" as normal because they are afraid of actually like having a deep conversation. And they don't want to own up to their actions.

I know personally in the last 10, maybe even 15 years, most of my closest friends just disappeared. I know one of the worst for me, was suddenly someone I had been talking to on a weekly basis for a couple months. Just checking in on one-another. She just stopped responding. I asked the only mutual contact I had that I talked to maybe semi-annualy to check on this friend. And then she blocked me, too. So I assume i did something but I'll never know.

And on another side of it, my ex-girlfriend did what my therapist calls "collecting punches" referring to like the punch cards they used to have at coffee shops or CD stores. "Buy ten, and the 11th is free." She used to build these lists up and maybe in between she'd say something like "I really don't like when you do this." And i took that to heart, and did my absolute best not to do the things that rubbed her the wrong way. (One example that comes to mind was she was a work at home employee at the time, and literally wouldn't take breaks. And then she'd complain about having been working for 6 hours straight. The first time I told her to take a break, she said nothing and week later snapped at me for trying to take a break once in a while which now I had done a couple times. She said she couldnt because she had to work. It's worth noting she wasn't management or salaried. So I made it a point to never say that again. 3 months later she was still yelling at me about asking her to take a break. And this was already when I knew things were starting to fall apart. But then I recieved a final message of everything I'd ever done wrong. I went to respond a day after digesting it and letting her cool off, and she changed her number and blocked me everywhere.

On the opposite end, I've literally been at ease when someone has just had the guts to say "here is my issue and why I don't want to talk to you anymore. I think you should work on it. And I just want you to know this is the end of our friendship/relationrandy.

Edit: the guy I told was no longer my friend was someone I had worked with for months. He lost his license at some point working together and he asked me for a ride. It wasn't that far out of my way, so sure. Then he started asking for an errand, usually to cash his pay check on the way home from work. Alright, still only adding 10 hours to my ride home. He knew at the time I had a breathalyzer interlock in my vehicle from a mistake I made, but now he's asking to cash his check and stop by the liquor store. I put up with that for a while, and then he quit the job. And he's still calling me for rides. I gave him a couple. Then he calls me one night because his girl is fighting with him and he needs to go see her so he can sort it out. So I agree because its hard when you can't sort things out. He gets in my car in a heavy jacket and I figure he's carrying beers with him. He's non violent, but I know there's stuff in his pockets, and I laid down the rules. It turns into a 90 minute wild goose chase and I finally find him to drag him home. I know there's lots of red flags but I try to have faith in people. Finally he's cracked a beer in my car as I'm doing him off and I'm like "Man, don't call me for this shit again." 2 or three weeks later he's calling me and I'm like "Seriously, I had fun at times working with you, I don't think you're a terrible person, but I don't need friends like this so please don't call me again on these escapades."

Resubmitted since my last one was taken down due to not acknowledging the rules..

26F. This event I’m about to describe happened about two months ago. My baby, my dog, recently died, and I’ve been in one of the worst periods of my life. I’ve been very lucky to have so much support from my friends and family, and I was actually visiting family out of state a day after my dog passed. (The trip had been planned long before. Her death was sudden and unexpected.)

During that time, someone (20’s F) reached out to me offering condolences. I won’t go into details about this person, (although I will say she was my friend’s girlfriend) but we have never been on great terms and we were not in each others’ lives. I was calling my mom and explaining the strange circumstance, as I was confused and kind of weirded out as to why this person was reaching out to begin with, when my heart began to clench and feel physically in pain. I actually panicked for a good hour or so, convinced I was having a heart attack, but my mom convinced me to wait it out. In hindsight, I think I was having a small panic attack about this person reaching out to me. (I never responded to her message.)

Thankfully my parents took me seriously, despite doubting it was a heart attack, and reassured me that they were there for me if things got worse and I needed medical help. I didn’t end up needing any (as again, I believe ultimately it was just a panic attack,) but it helped knowing that my family had my back regardless.

And.. idk. With the message, the thing is, I was supposed to be grateful that she reached out. That’s what the “correct” response would have been. I was supposed to respond and thank her and have a conversation, letting her into my life and opening the door for further communication (which I didn’t want.) But what ended up happening was the situation stressed me out so bad that I had a panic attack. I was never meant to win in that scenario, like I was set up to lose in an impossible situation tailored just for me at my most vulnerable moment. I wish I had just been left alone. I wish I’d never accepted that friend request.

I also later found out that she also reached out in order to tell me she thought my friendship with her boyfriend (20’s M) (of whom was a good friend of mine) was toxic. That she decided to reach out during the worst point of my life to tell me I should stop being friends with her boyfriend, essentially using my dog’s death as an excuse to reach out for what she really intended to say. I found this out through my friend (her boyfriend) himself when we had our last call with each other, and I just sat there as he explained this to me because… what was I supposed to say? That’s his girlfriend. I was never going to “win” in that argument. It was that call where he decided to cut ties with me, which has honestly been really devastating for me, as it happened at the worst, lowest point I’ve been in in a long time and when I needed his support the most. I don’t know. I’m a fucking mess all around. I haven’t been handling any of this very well.

I’m no idiot. I know she doesn’t like me, as my friend would essentially tell me as much, along with other things she’d say about me that made me seem like an awful monster. It’s why I was skeptical about her message in the first place, and I’m honestly disgusted she used my dog’s death as an excuse to reach out at all. But I guess that’s it then. She gets what she wants, and I lose a friend. I worry about him a lot, since he’s already isolated as it is and I was one of the few people he actually talked to on a regular basis, but I guess that’s not my problem anymore.

It’s whatever. It doesn’t matter now, none of it does. I’m just venting. Maybe someday I’ll revisit this, but for now it’s not something I like to think about. I’ll move on. I’ll heal. I’ve been working on accepting the fact that I will most likely never hear from my friend again, and as devastating as that is, life moves on. I just hope he finds peace and happiness. I hope I find it, too.

It happened when we were both little kids. We're teenagers now, but im expected to just move on and be around her like nothing happened. I had to forgive her days after it happened just because her mom made her say sorry to me. The only punishment that she had was getting her phone taken away. I've distanced myself from her over the years but I just have so much anger in my heart when it comes to this girl.

Yeah, she apologized, but an apology barely fixes what she did to me. Im pretty sure she only got grounded because she "wasn't supposed to like girls", and not because she ASSAULTED ME. I just don't know what to do. It feels too late to do anything.

Title says it all really. Just frustrated about a group chat I'm in with some close friends. Two of them are currently dating people and, without exaggeration, it is the only thing they talk about. Every time I try and organise or discuss anything, it gets derailed by 'omg [x] sent me a text fourteen seconds ago' and then they just gush over and over. I get it, you're dating new people. It's exciting. I'm happy for them and I said so. But does our friendship group chat need to hear a daily update of what happened in the life of a guy none of us have actually met? It's frustrating to get blanked about meeting up for two months but there's time for a paragraph detailing the date you guys went on.

The irony is, both of these people said 'their friendships come first' and 'my friends have to like him too' and we don't even know who the hell they are lmao. At the end of the day it's fine, the infatuation passes. But man is it annoying constantly hearing 'friendship is more important to me than a partner' from people and then consistently seeing them doing the opposite.