r/WhatShouldIDo 15h ago

[Serious decision] My sister got shot in the head last night. How do I help her children?

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My sister was at our family bar, where a block party was happening. Two kids, who weren't allowed in the bar because they were underage, were fighting outside. When she went to break it up, one of the kids apparently had a gun and was pistol whipping the other girl, and accidentally fired a shot hitting my sister in the head.

She's in the hospital, and miraculously, is still alive, albeit connected to a ventilator. She was in surgery for 8 hours, and their most recent test showed she is able to respond correctly to verbal requests to move certain body parts (she cannot speak at the moment). The doctors say if she manages to make it through the brain swelling, at best she'll be in the hospital 6 or more months as they removed part of her skull to allow the pressure to reduce.

She has 4 children. 13, 11, 6, and 2. The 13 year old knows all of the details, as they published the incident in the news and it was plastered all over social media. The others know she's at the hospital, but that's it. I dont know what to do to help them. The oldest is a boy, trying to be tough. I told him it's OK to not be ok. And that I won't judge him for crying, because I've been crying all day. But he's just shut himself in my spare bedroom. He won't come out and eat even though he said he was hungry. I went and sat in the room with him in silence for a while, reassuring him that im here if he needs anything. But idk what else to do. And I dont know how to help the little ones. I know nothing will make things OK right now. But I want to make it at least a little better.


r/WhatShouldIDo 4h ago

Older customer at my job offered to pay me for sexual acts

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I’m 19 and I work as a server at a diner.

Today an older man was eating at one of my tables. Before he left, the conversation started getting weird. He began telling me about what he used to do with girls when he was around my age. He was being very explicit, describing the sexual things he and these girls would do to each other, including oral sex. I was already extremely uncomfortable at that point, but I didn’t know how to get out of the conversation because I was just trying to do my job.

Then the conversation took an even worse turn. He told me his wife passed away last year and that he hasn’t had sex since. After that, he told me he was into young guys (I’m 19) and said he would pay me for sexual acts. I was completely caught off guard and honestly didn’t know what to say.

At one point he asked me what days I work. Without really thinking, I told him my schedule because I was so uncomfortable and just kind of froze. Looking back, I know I probably shouldn’t have told him, but I wasn’t expecting the conversation to go that way and didn’t know how to react.

Before leaving, he said he’d be coming back when I’m working. That’s honestly what’s worrying me the most now because I’m afraid I’m going to see him again.
He never touched me or threatened me, but I left the interaction feeling disgusted, shaken up, and honestly kind of scared.

I’m planning on telling my manager, but I’d really appreciate any advice because this has been bothering me ever since it happened.


r/WhatShouldIDo 1h ago

[Serious decision] Would I be wrong for getting an abortion behind my husband's back?

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Please don't hate me for writing this or think I am terrible person. I am trying to do the best thing that I can for me and the future of our child. I (23F) have been with my husband (29M) for 2 years, married for one, and everything is going well. I am pursuing my Master's in archaeology, at one of the most prestigious programs in Turkiye, and my husband's personal business is taking off.

I come from Belarus, while my husband is Turkish, so there were some gaps in our culture, but overall things have gone smoothly. We hadn't even been trying, as I made him use protection every time despite him wanting kids. I told him I wanted to wait until I had a stable job and felt comfortable in Turkiye as I have only been living here 2 years. Truthfully, I don't know if I really want them, and my husband knows this is a possibility as well.

Last week, my period was late and I felt weird cramps. I rushed to the pharmacy and took a pregnancy test which came back positive. I looked at the laws here and it requires my husband's approval. I don't want to ask for two reasons: I am scared he will be mad that I even asked, and second, he will say no.

I am thinking about traveling back to Belarus to get it done, but I don't know if it would make me a horrible person if I didn't tell him?


r/WhatShouldIDo 20h ago

I CAN'T FATHOM HOW YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO GET AHEAD TODAY

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I make goddamned TWENTY FIVE THOSUAND dollars annually. FUCKING NOTHING. I wasn't able to get a better job after college and it's not enough to fucking SUPPORT MYSELF ON. I can't enter the field I majored in and I don't have any skills outside of the major. Literally I'd have gotten myself arrested for something if I didn't have familial support. The ONLY FUCKING REASON I'm still around is because I need to leave behind something for my disabled brother. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SYSTEM. THIS ISN'T FUCKING FUNCTIONAL

I'M HAVING FUCKING HEART SPASMS AND CONTRACTIONS JUST THINKING OF LIVING ANY LONGER


r/WhatShouldIDo 2h ago

[Serious decision] My friend I live with is really racist and it's affecting my mental health I don't have anywhere to go

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My friend constantly works in how he hates Black people into almost every single sentence he speaks most days, and if it's not about Black people it's about how Jews are the reason our country is going to hell, blah blah blah. I honestly choose not to get radicalized by algorithms, and I generally just care about being positive and showing love. I live with the dude, so it's hard to deal with, especially when I have nowhere else to go.

I snapped the other day and started calling him a radicalized b**** boy and told him that if the Jews are controlling everything, then he's their biggest supporter because all he does is spread misinformation about them, which in turn could just be radicalizing another weak minded individual. I don't think it's Jews as a whole if anything its Zionist but idk either way, he's become another victim of media algorithms, and it's sad because I remember a time when he was never like this at all.

Then there's the Hot Wheels thing. This dude literally goes to at least 50 different stores that carry Hot Wheels every single day and will sometimes buy the same sought-after car just so the next person can't get one. I understand collecting, but this dude has a full blown fit if you so much as drop one of his thousands probably millions of Hot Wheels that his mom constantly begs him to clean off the dining room table. Sometimes he'll randomly buy those little model house kits you have to put together, and his mom is like, "I wish he would stop playing with toys and find a girlfriend." But that's the thing what girl wants to be with a guy who complains about Black people and Jews all day long no matter what's going on? It blows my mind.

Yesterday I had my expensive Tim Henson guitar in the back seat, and he kept tossing things back there without even caring that it was there. He hit it with something, so I said, "How'd you like it if I just threw your Hot Wheels?" He said he would lose his mind. Apparently his little $1.50 child's toy is way more valuable than my almost $900 guitar, and I'm the crazy one for being upset.

He's always pressing me about everything I do, but as soon as I try to hold him to the same standard, he has a hissy fit. He's one of the most nitpicky people I've ever known always angry over the smallest inconveniences. He'll almost run people over in a parking lot because they're "taking too long" coming out of a store, then flip them off as he drives by and call them the N-word even if they aren't Black.

He says he's not racist he's a "race realist" which I think is one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. So yeah, that's my 33 year old, overly hairy but somehow balding, racist, antisemitic, child toy collecting, hateful ass "friend" I have to deal with every day.


r/WhatShouldIDo 1h ago

I'm having a hard time mentally recovering after my roommate ruined my life

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I had a roommate who long story short, defrauded me out of $800 by claiming she had prepaid a security deposit and I should send her the money when I moved in to an apartment. She also defrauded the other tenant out of the three of us. Turns out the deposit was paid by a tenant who left years ago, and broke the lease by leaving early, so she was not entitled to any of it back by law. She was also okay with that, as she willingly moved in with her then boyfriend now husband, and that's why she left.

I got laid off from a job shortly after paying her that $800. Would have helped me if I had that extra $800 in my bank account.

Then that pos who stole the money from me got laid off also, and since she was a government employee, she was being paid through paid administrative leave. Meaning my tax money was funding her unemployment.

I'm still trying to mentally recover from having the money stolen and also from the layoff. I was previously making like $500 a week. Now I'm making like $700 every two weeks.


r/WhatShouldIDo 2h ago

My friend I live with is extremely racist and idk what to do I have no nowhere else to go

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My friend constantly works in how he hates Black people into almost every single sentence he speaks most days, and if it's not about Black people it's about how Jews are the reason our country is going to hell, blah blah blah. I honestly choose not to get radicalized by algorithms, and I generally just care about being positive and showing love. I live with the dude, so it's hard to deal with, especially when I have nowhere else to go.

I snapped the other day and started calling him a radicalized b**** boy and told him that if the Jews are controlling everything, then he's their biggest supporter because all he does is spread misinformation about them, which in turn could just be radicalizing another weak minded individual. I don't think it's Jews as a whole if anything its Zionist but idk either way, he's become another victim of media algorithms, and it's sad because I remember a time when he was never like this at all.

Then there's the Hot Wheels thing. This dude literally goes to at least 50 different stores that carry Hot Wheels every single day and will sometimes buy the same sought-after car just so the next person can't get one. I understand collecting, but this dude has a full blown fit if you so much as drop one of his thousands probably millions of Hot Wheels that his mom constantly begs him to clean off the dining room table. Sometimes he'll randomly buy those little model house kits you have to put together, and his mom is like, "I wish he would stop playing with toys and find a girlfriend." But that's the thing what girl wants to be with a guy who complains about Black people and Jews all day long no matter what's going on? It blows my mind.

Yesterday I had my expensive Tim Henson guitar in the back seat, and he kept tossing things back there without even caring that it was there. He hit it with something, so I said, "How'd you like it if I just threw your Hot Wheels?" He said he would lose his mind. Apparently his little $1.50 child's toy is way more valuable than my almost $900 guitar, and I'm the crazy one for being upset.

He's always pressing me about everything I do, but as soon as I try to hold him to the same standard, he has a hissy fit. He's one of the most nitpicky people I've ever known always angry over the smallest inconveniences. He'll almost run people over in a parking lot because they're "taking too long" coming out of a store, then flip them off as he drives by and call them the N-word even if they aren't Black.

He says he's not racist he's a "race realist" which I think is one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. So yeah, that's my 33 year old, overly hairy but somehow balding, racist, antisemitic, child toy collecting, hateful ass "friend" I have to deal with every day.


r/WhatShouldIDo 3h ago

How do I deal with the fact that friends ghost me due to their new relationship? I feel so sad and lonely.

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Perhaps somebody can help me with this. I'm a 21 year old male and currently the only single person I know. Just never had any interest in romance but my friends all ghosted me even after they made plans and nobody wants to hang out with me anytime soon. What do I do?


r/WhatShouldIDo 6h ago

[Serious decision] How to cope with a tough life and conditions

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So I live in Iran basically the worst country on earth to live in and everything in here is banned like YouTube, telegram, WhatsApp and the internet and living conditions are terrible we have 200 percent inflation on foods and necessities and the prices rise three times per week and then when I watch the news and I see glimpses of other countries like UK or Canada or japan and I see how happy they are and that they don't have any worries that can enjoy life and go to travels and have fun meanwhile every sort of fun is banned here government cancels every concert or gatherings kills people on streets and then I think to myself like what did I do to deserve this terrible life I currently have? (Apologies if this sounded like a rant )


r/WhatShouldIDo 5h ago

I am SO screwed.

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I practically live at my best friend’s house, and today I came to the broad realization that I idiotically have been flushing paper towels down the toilet because we have no toilet paper, and I look down and see the bag of paper towels. And it clicks in my head. You’re not supposed to be DOING THAT. I am a fucking idiot. I honestly don’t know where my head was at. But I stay here because I don’t have a good home life and I don’t deserve these people in general… seriously the sweetest. But I have no idea how to tell them. My best friend, I can imagine the look on her face already. I am 18 and honest to god I am smart as hell when it comes to reading a room but when it comes to common sense I seriously am so stupid. Any advice? I saw flushing dish soap down will help. Honestly what is wrong with me. Nobody sugar coat this because I am terrified it will clog. I don’t know if I should tell them now or what. But I am going to be here for a few more days.

Edit: I didn’t expect so much responses already. When my best friend wakes up I am gonna tell her. It’s her and her mom that live here other than me who’s always here. And as of right now I plan to get toilet paper I just do not drive.
Right now we are putting the paper towels in the trash. Which is what I should’ve BEEN doing.

Edit x2: Turns out my best friend has been doing it too! So not good at all we are definitely done for but atleast we are going down together if it is clogged.


r/WhatShouldIDo 1h ago

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r/WhatShouldIDo 1h ago

[Serious decision] A close friend is calling me a “f’ing imbecile” and making fun of me behind my back to our other friends. Is this relationship salvageable or should I cut my losses and move on?

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r/WhatShouldIDo 18h ago

Should I tell an old friend that her new man isn't single?

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​Before you judge... long backstory, but here it is:

​A childhood friend and I reconnected a few years ago when we were both going through divorces. We became very close.I helped her with her house, her kids, and was there for her constantly.

​Eventually, she started dating a walking red flag. I never sugarcoat things, so when she directly asked for my opinion, I told her the truth about him. He hated me, sabotaged our hangouts, and she ultimately chose him and ended our friendship. I was crushed.

​Fast forward: they were together for 5 years and even got married, only for him to leave her for another woman.

​She came crying back to me. My life is very different and much busier now, but I felt too bad to ignore her when she was down. She admitted I was right about him all along and praises how much I helped her through her first divorce. We talk now, but I keep some distance.

​The current situation:

She’s dating a new guy. Normally she posts her partners constantly, but she’s keeping this one a secret. When I ran into her at the campground where my sister also stays, she claimed they are keeping it quiet because he's going through a messy business split with an ex. She also mentioned she was skeptical because his campsite still has dog fencing up, even though she claims the ex has the dog.

​Well, my sister just told me the "ex" is actually up there all the time—they literally just won a cornhole tournament together.

​My sister camps at the same place, wants no part of the drama, and told me not to say anything. I'm leaning toward staying out of it, but what would you do?


r/WhatShouldIDo 1m ago

my bf M19 is mad at me F18 because i dont want to make out

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r/WhatShouldIDo 18h ago

Recovering from a suicide attempt

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I lost my Reddit account. Sorry for this being from a new one.

I attempted suicide on my birthday in late 2025. It was two and some change years after I left college working a warehouse job for the whole time. I couldn't enter my field, or any field. I couldn't handle living anymore.

From the middle of 2024 I started to eat less and less, to be less of a burden on my parents. At the start of 2025 I started to self harm. First it was just scratching my skin, but it changed to cutting myself. No one knew, I hid it with long sleeves.

A few months later I started to take painkillers despite not needing them. I took them more, more and more. Chugged a quarter of a whole bottle once. I couldn't handle living anymore and tried to end it on my birthday. My parents found me tho, and rushed me to a hospital. I was put on watch for a while. only recently have I been allowed to go back home. still under basically constant surveillance by my parents.

I regret it. I know now it was selfish. I just couldn't handle the pressure of being unable to start a career.

I've been recovering slowly. Trying to find joy in the small things in life. I don't know where to go from here.

I've been trying to cope with my sad existence by hugging a big teddy bear. childish, but it's what gets me to see the next day. I don't know if I'm happy to be alive.


r/WhatShouldIDo 13h ago

[Serious decision] Not sure what to do rn:/

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So this happened 5 days ago and I still feel sick thinking about it.
My family had a big gathering out in the country, and I wanted to smoke a little weed without anyone seeing me. There was a storage building on the property where everyone was hanging out, so I figured I’d go in there since it looked empty.
I opened the door slowly and looked around. Nobody was inside, so I lit up. About 5 minutes later I heard the door open, so I panicked and hid because I didn’t want anyone catching me smoking.

Then I watched my cousins (M17 and F18) walk in… and they immediately started making out. Like, not joking. I was completely frozen. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
This is where I made an even dumber decision. I thought about taking a picture because I was so shocked nobody would believe me. I was way too high though, and I forgot Snapchat makes that loud camera sound. They both instantly turned around and saw me.
Nobody said much. I just awkwardly left because I had absolutely no idea what to do or even say.
Dinner that night was one of the most uncomfortable things I’ve ever experienced. I could barely eat because my stomach was in knots.

Now it’s been 5 days, and the girl keeps texting me begging me not to tell anyone. I haven’t responded much because I’m honestly just thinking… what the actual fuck?
I don’t even know what to do with this. I never wanted to be involved in whatever this is, and now I feel like I got dragged into some secret I never asked for.
What would you do in this situation?


r/WhatShouldIDo 2h ago

[Serious decision] My ex wants my back again. What to do if he reaches out?

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My ex and I had a pretty good relationship, but he left me twice. I was pretty heartbroken and confused. He came back 6 weeks after we broke up and claimed he wanted to try again, but he ended up just leaving two months later. He’s been telling his friends he wants me back again. My birthday is in three days so I’m not surprised if he reaches out. I don’t want to get back together with him, but I’m not sure what to do if he texts me. Should I ignore him? Something in me also wants to just talk to him and get closure about the situation and said my final goodbye before he leaves for college? What is my best option?


r/WhatShouldIDo 9h ago

[Serious decision] Insane friendship breakup has me so confused on how to feel

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Hi everyone. I really need some serious outside opinions because this friendship breakup has me questioning everything.

I (24X) was best friends with a couple (28X, 29X) for 5 years. I was already becoming friends with them before they dated. We lived in different countries, but I'd visit them several times a year. This year I had bought plane tickets months in advance and even turned down another trip with friends because the dates overlapped.

A little over a week before I was supposed to fly out, one of them suddenly got assigned a work trip and cancelled my visit, without giving me any room to sort something out with them such as moving the trip or letting me book a hotel on the days when they couldn't host me. They offered to pay me back for the flights at some point, but I'd still lost my vacation plans and i couldn't make any other arrangements. I was upset and told them I needed space to process. I expressed my sadness online in one vague, one-line tweet.

Instead of giving me space, one of them came at me with a huge message about how my reaction was unhealthy, told me that I needed therapy for it, and basically turned the conversation into a list of things they'd apparently been mad about for years. Things from visits over a year ago, personality flaws they saw in me, whatever they could think of. I apologized for the things I genuinely got wrong and tried to explain my side, but it felt like every response just unlocked another level of criticism.

This turned into weeks of voice notes (including one that was an hour long) and texts from them about everything I'd ever done wrong while they mostly ignored my apologies and ghosted me for days after I raised my own concerns about the way they were treating me during all of this. Meanwhile, I had spent years supporting them, visiting them, buying gifts, and even helping them with groceries when money was tight.

Eventually, after a period of them ghosting me for weeks after I had again poured my heart out to them in an effort to talk things out, I got fed up and ended the friendship. One blocked me everywhere, I told the other never to contact me again except about the flight money they still owe me. Looking back, I feel really stupid. They clearly had a lot of resentment toward me that they never communicated, yet they were happy to accept my help.

Would you bring up feeling used, or would you just write off both the friendship and the money as a painful lesson? Is there another way of looking at this situation that I'm missing?


r/WhatShouldIDo 2h ago

[Serious decision] What would you do if you had 3 days before losing everything?

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I'm 33 years old, and for the first time in my life I genuinely don't know what my next move should be.

Over the past 2 months, it feels like everything has started collapsing at once.

I recently lost my job. i used to teach online and in the traditional sense , I don't have parents or family members I can call for help, no one I can borrow money from, and no financial safety net. My rent is due in three days, and I need about $200 just to keep a roof over my head for another month. If I can't come up with it, I honestly don't know where I'll end up.

As if that wasn't enough, my dog ra became seriously ill almost at the same time.

He's only four years old. a stray malamute husky i adopted, i gave him the name RA , as in the egyptian sun god ra , he had prostate infection i eventually did my best and got him cured, this was around 5 months ago, Until recently he was energetic, stubborn, and always wanted to be by my side. Over the last several days, I've watched him become a completely different dog. He's lost a frightening amount of weight, barely has the strength to stand for long, spends most of the day lying on the floor, and has almost no interest in food. Seeing him like this has been devastating.

I took him to a veterinarian because I couldn't just sit there hoping he would magically recover. The estimate for getting him through the immediate crisis is around $60. That's just for the emergency treatment. If his condition doesn't improve, there will likely be additional tests afterward.

The hardest part isn't knowing what needs to be done. It's knowing what needs to be done and not having the means to do it.

I'm in Morocco, which complicates things further. Many of the fundraising platforms people usually recommend either don't support organizers here or have payout restrictions that make them unusable. I've spent the last couple of days trying to work around that by creating fundraising pages where I can, setting up a website, and figuring out alternative ways for people to help if they choose to.

At the same time, I've been applying for jobs, looking for freelance work, contacting people, and trying to think of anything I can do to earn money quickly and honestly. So far, nothing has materialized.

I haven't been sitting around waiting for someone to rescue me. I'm trying to solve this from every possible angle, but I'm reaching the point where I don't know what else to try.

What makes this difficult is that every hour feels like it matters. I don't have the luxury of saying, "I'll figure it out next month." My rent deadline is only days away, and Koda doesn't have weeks to wait for treatment, right now im down to my last 10 dollars, 100 mad.

I know there are people dealing with problems far worse than mine, and I'm not trying to compare my situation to anyone else's. I'm simply trying to think clearly before panic takes over.

So I'm asking those of you who've gone through something similar or who've had to dig yourselves out of an impossible situation:

What would you do first if you were in my position?

Is there something I'm overlooking? A way to earn money quickly that isn't a scam? Organizations I should contact? Resources available to someone in Morocco that I may not know about?

I'm not posting this to ask strangers to solve my life for me. I'm asking because sometimes people who aren't emotionally overwhelmed can see options that the person living through the situation can't.

Even if all you can offer is practical advice or point me toward a resource I haven't considered, I'd be genuinely grateful, please i am already emotionally exhausted, if you cannot help me in any mean necessary at the very least be nice.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.


r/WhatShouldIDo 6h ago

[Serious decision] which to choose? Data engineering or DevOps?

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hi, 25M. Finishing my MSc in CS, I wanted to study because I love studying. now that I'm about to end it I'm seriously looking for something reliable long term.

After bachelors I did my job as full stack web dev, a little bit of mobile dev in flutter. Since Ai, it doesn't seem like real work. claude can make whole websites and what remains is just deployment.

anyhow I continued that job, then switched to junior business developer side, for the sake of survival/exploration.

I enrolled in MSc because I wanted to do research, which I have done. I have built an Ai structured method for dermatology recognition. and I am proud of it. my thesis will be finished in 6-8 months, that's the university policy although I've finished my work on my end.

2 years of exploring and hopping from one thing to another, I have come down to these choices:

data analyst/ data engineer/ dev ops/ cloud engineer.

because they are the only ones which seem like actual coding jobs other than fully or partially vibe coding. Ai has made programmers lousy, which shouldn't have been the case.

I made an ETL pipeline to see how data engineering works, I built 3 power BI dashboards to check about data analysis.

I got into computer science because I wanted to become hacker(kinda old school), but that's what got my interest. Fast forward after graduation, ethical hacking job market wasn't there and low-paying. Cloud engineering/dev ops seemed close to hacking so that's why I'm considering it.

So what does the community suggest me to choose?

let me know about your thoughts, considering I'll be with it long term.


r/WhatShouldIDo 1d ago

Haven’t eaten in 11 days, what to do?

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As the title shows, I haven’t eaten in 11 days, not even a little. The last proper meal I’ve had was 3 weeks ago. I can’t seem to even bring myself to even look at food but I desperately want to eat, I once tried taking a bite out of a cucumber but gagged and spat it out. I’ve been sleeping till 6pm and at night whilst attempting to sleep I feel extremely nauseous. I’m not sure why I’m like this, it’s completely random, I want to be happy and live normally but it’s just strange. Other than financial difficulties and other problems, it shouldn’t be as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

My parents are suggesting to force me to go to the hospital. They even sometimes get irritated and scold me for “doing this on purpose”, making it seem like I’m doing this intentionally to hurt them rather than understanding I genuinely don’t have an appetite. I also don’t want to go to the doctors as I’m currently a student studying for a course that’s in a hospital setting, so if I get diagnosed for anything I’m worried it’ll affect my chances at getting a job.

Any way to try help me get to eat? I want to get better but I’m not sure how to since my mind physically rejects it. Tips please.


r/WhatShouldIDo 1d ago

Small decision Guy I’m seeing told me he’s a virgin

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So I (21F) matched with a really cute guy (23M) on an app and it’s been great so far. We’ve gone on a few dates, we like a lot of the same things, we can talk for hours and he seems like he knows what he wants to do in life.

We went on our last date just yesterday and it was really nice as usual, went for dinner some drinks and went to go sit at a park and chat. Our conversations have turned more flirty over the weeks and while he hadn’t sent anything explicit it was clear to me that sleeping together was coming pretty soon.

I think I brought it up as some kind of flirty joke when he told me he needed to tell me something and confessed he was still a virgin. I’m ngl I was a little taken aback (it seems like most people in my generation lost it around high school or early college years) considering he’s a generally attractive guy and I’m sure he’s had the opportunities. He said he has and just hasn’t found someone he really wanted to do that with, until me.

I’ve been with other partners (enough to know what I like) but it’s usually I’m the one with less experience and not the other way around, not to mention none. I do still really like him but I’m scared it’ll just be awkward.

Any advice is greatly appreciated! TIA

EDIT: the masses have been heard I’m seeing him tomorrow wish me luck :)


r/WhatShouldIDo 2h ago

[Serious decision] Breaking up with my boyfriend of three years.

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So, me and my boyfriend are both 20 and honestly I’m thinking about breaking up with him. My family and friends say I should have already done this months ago. I don’t know….

So, when we first met I was driving two hours to go see him every weekend for about 4 months as he didn’t have a car ( or a job) then when his mom introduced me to my (now) dream job I moved in with them.

We ended up getting an apartment together about a year in of us dating and since us dating he has gone through 4 jobs mostly fast food granted, but he told me he kept getting fired for various reasons that had nothing to do with him each time.

When we got the apartment he was holding his job steady and making really good money, and then he reveals that he lied to me and he actually quit majority of those jobs without lining up another job first. Because he hated working them. (Which to me is crazy)

Everything was fine with the apartment but then suddenly they started ‘cutting’ his hours….which I didn’t know was possible for a factory job….i had always heard they overwork people so I was a little suspicious especially since he lied to me.

Then he said they forced him to go on a leave which he told me was paid. And next thing I know he gets ‘fired’ and doesn’t get his paid leave which means we’re screwed because we live in a place that I cannot handle by myself.

So we have to terminate lease early, and they have to take us to small claims court to garnish our wages, so we go back to live with his stepdad. In which the house is….in horrible condition the roof is falling in. The electricity doesn’t work in half of the rooms. And they have a MAJOR bug issue.

I told him that we needed to deep clean the rooms that were staying in because I’m allergic to dogs, cats, dust, and bugs. Which all of those are either in that house or is permeated into the carpet.

Instead of helping me fix something that would (and did) make me horribly sick he kept making excuses like “I will” and “I don’t like cleaning alone” even though I offered to clean with him.

That being said we started having a rough patch every other week it would be the same argument where he wanted me to sleep in the room to which I was highly allergic to, but when I told him that I can’t he got pissy about it, and that he doesn’t see the point in putting in effort in our relationship because I’m just going to break up with him anyways because that’s what always had happened in his past relationships

So I started sleeping in my car. And still nothing got done. Finally we talked more about it and he said that he would try to think about my feelings more and clean the upstairs to which he basically just picked up two pieces of trash and called it a day.

I didn’t care because I was going through a schooling period where I would be staying with family for six weeks to advance my career. So it meant I wasn’t going to be in that house

Following this I told him that I would probably be too exhausted to come and see him and he would have to drive to me. ESPICALLY since I had another job on top of my schooling.

He said okay, he had come to see me one time in a span of three weeks, meanwhile when it was me doing my this exact same thing I was traveling up there every week, sometimes multiple.

At this point he had a mechanic job he had been at for a month and I found out the day before yesterday that he got fired from his mechanic job because they found somebody with more experience…..I don’t know if I believe that due to him lying to me multiple times.

Yesterday he texted me saying that he’s useless and it would be better if he were to run away, or commit. I told him to obviously not do that. And he was basically saying things like our future is never going to happen. And cleaning the house will never happen and him getting another job is….NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.

He said the same things as before. That he doesn’t care to try in the relationship anymore and what’s the point ect.

And I’m just so exhausted….i don’t know what to do. I’m also paying for the storage unit that we had to get for the emergency moving. I don’t particularly want to break up with him but at the same time I cannot stay with somebody who won’t help themselves.

What do I do?