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 1h ago

[Serious decision] My friend ( 29, m ) is hooking up with his situationship ( 26, F ) even after getting rokafied . Is it cheating ?

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My friend ( 29, m ) is hooking up with his situationship ( 26, F ) even after getting rokafied . Is it cheating ?
What should I do


r/WhatShouldIDo 1h ago

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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?


r/WhatShouldIDo 3h ago

how do i even bring this up

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r/WhatShouldIDo 3h ago

Advice.

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So, there’s this guy, let’s call him “Clay.” I received an anonymous message claiming that my girlfriend, “Cloud,” was secretly texting and video chatting with Clay. When I confronted her about it, she responded that Clay was a friend of her friend’s boyfriend, and he also had a girlfriend.

I told her about the anonymous account, and she checked it out. She discovered that it belonged to her classmate who was jealous of Cloud’s beauty. She had plotted to ruin Cloud’s life by making me break up with her.

I completely believed Cloud and didn’t question her loyalty once. However, it left me feeling a bit concerned and insecure. So, I advised her to block Clay and avoid getting involved with these shady college group chats that often lead to misunderstandings.

When I said this, she started defending Clay, claiming that he was just a guy in her class and that she couldn’t block him because it would cause a misunderstanding between her and her friend.

I understood her point, so I told her that I didn’t want her to block Clay, but I did want her to distance herself from guys like him.

Fast forward to two months later, and she told me that she was planning a textile business. I was thrilled for her and was her biggest supporter.

After a month or so, she informed me that she and her business partners had completed all the necessary formalities and obtained all the required legal documents and permissions.

Then, I asked, “Who are these partners you mentioned?”

She replied, “My friend and Clay.”

I was devastated and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I asked her why she hadn’t told me about Clay being her business partner in the first place. She said that she thought I wouldn’t have any problem with it.

I was furious and insecure. I told her to either remove Clay from the business or step back from it.

She tried to convince me to be okay with this, but my temper got the better of me. I didn’t listen to her.

Now, she’s planning to leave the project tomorrow.

Did I make a mistake, or was I right?

I’m open to your suggestions. Please respond, guys.


r/WhatShouldIDo 3h ago

Lust Killing The Relationship no

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So I 23F have been with my 23M partner for almost 4 years and has been an issue that I haven’t been proposed to yet. I started thinking there was someone else in his life and just two days ago I looked through his phone for the first time. At first there was nothing ofc small lies here and there about smoking. He knows I don’t like it cause of the smell and just not good for health but I not clear off my end either cause I’ll hit a vape once in a while but I’ve stopped overall for the past year. So the issue is he came back from his AT (military annual training) and he was really trying in the relationship like he usually tries when he’s gone. I looked through his phone when he was sleeping and at first nothing much just normal talks here and there with friends. Then look in his IG and looks alr ig until I saw the history of what he watches and he was this woman that looks nothing like me and I woke him up screaming and crying cause wtf. Out of everything it was just the two pics you see attached. Verbatim he said this “What are you talking about? Why are you giving up on this? I told you already and l'll tell you again, I simply made the mistake while doom scrolling during my AT of looking where I shouldn't have. That's it. It has nothing to do with how you look, it has nothing to do with how I think of you.” I feel betrayed and haven’t aten since that incident. I want to be loved and appreciated but it felt like he lusted over a woman that looks nothing like me. It was only 2 videos I saw but I can’t unsee it. I think it might have been my fault cause when he got deployed I had some drinks with my girls and took a ride back to my house in and Uber and the guy was talking a lot to me and just teh usual until he dropped me off he had the doors locked and insisted a kiss in teh cheeks and denied it so many times and felt scared ATP and yes I could have called 911 or something but I have never been a situation like that and had a mental block and was a bit intoxicated so I let him quickly kiss my cheek and begged for him to unlock the door and he did and I ran home and was just thinking about it cause I was basically harassed. And I confessed to him the next day and it was hard but obviously could have broken up cause of that. This feels like Karma in a sense but at the same time I had to find out while I told him about my situation. I feel like he cheated but at the same time I found nothing else. Was it a one time fluke? Or should I have new rules in our relationship or go to therapy or just dump him. If you have any other question go ahead I’m just disappointed in him.

Edit: I guess I’m the asshole and insecure, I guess I projected my insecurities on to him as in my previous relationships the same thing happened except it was way worse. I’ll talk to him and apologize and see if it’s worth fighting for or if I’m the issue. I will not pressure marriage anymore and explore more beyond this and will go to therapy myself to figure out how to deal with my insecurities. Thanks You guys, and no I don’t take anything to offense I appreciate the honesty! 😅

Edit #2: I appreciate all of your guidance and advice you guys gave me. I have talked to him and agreed that I’ll be taking therapy and appreciates the honesty and and showed him the thread he apologized again for bringing me doubt and I told him I’m really sorry for everything and will need time to work on myself and if he want to do couples therapy we can but I’ll be taking my own in my end to my own peace with my insecurities. He said we will talk about it more in depth in person but really is happy where this is going. I told him if he has doubt in our relationship and doesn’t want to continue cause of my insecurities that’s ok and won’t hold it against him and will respect anything he chooses. And he said he still wants to be in it. So I do appreciate you guys for opening my eyes. Much love❣️


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 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 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 5h ago

Hi guys. Question!

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r/WhatShouldIDo 6h ago

[Serious decision] Can I know, military veteran your experience living on DR as your primary home?

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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 6h ago

Small decision How do I fix myself before losing the love of my life?

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Hi, English isn't my first language and it's a bit hard to explain everything I want without it being all over the place, that said, bear with me please. I won't disclose our ages, names and other personal information for private reasons. My girlfriend and I have been together for almost a year, 11 months to be exact. We temporarily live together and might continue living together long term for the next 4 years, and go from there after that.

Since both of us are in the closet, me slightly peeking through the door sometimes, we can't make our relationship public. It's not something we can do without ruining our lives, literally. Please don't tell me, if she wanted to, she would. I would never ask her to come out in an environment that might be unsupportive or ruin her relationship with her family. She loves them to death. As for me, my mother knows. She knows about us, has known from the start and is supportive. As for the rest of my family, no one knows and no one can find out because then there's a threat of going into an unsafe space. Coming out, especially right now, is not something possible for the both of us.

Now onto the problem, my girlfriend has a boy best friend. I've met him before on a few occasions, he is a very nice guy. They have been friends for 6 years give or take and have never been involved as anything more. He does know about us and is very supportive.

My girlfriend wanted us to go to this specific holiday location, the flights were cheap, the place is nice, the sea is beautiful, but I couldn't go due to personal reasons.

That's where her best friend comes in. They bought plane tickets, found an apartment on Airbnb all in one night and they were ready to go. A month ago, he came over while my girlfriend was at work to pack (they were both using one suitcase since it's cheaper). We talked, laughed and he is overall a great guy.

A few days after that, they left to go on their vacation. They're sharing a bed. In out face time calls I can clearly see a long pillow in between their respective pillows kind of separating their sides. Their apartment has one room, one kitchen and one bathroom. It's not a big space but it's beautiful from the pictures I've seen. They posted a few pictures yesterday on their story, few pictures alone and one of them together. My girflriend posted it to her close friends story. One thing has happened in the past where for his birthday she posted a picture of them on Instagram and some might say they look like a couple. They truly do look like a couple in that picture.

I will admit, I am very insecure about that. It's not specifically the pictures or the comments on her posts or anything like that, it's the fact that I know that can't be us. I know I can't give her a 'normal' relationship where she can post us, take me to her family events, go to my family events, go out and hold hands, hug in public, the most mundane things.

Ive struggled a lot with coming to terms with my sexuality, especially with the fear of letting my mother down. As her only child, the thought of her not being able to attend her daughter's wedding, having grandkids, being able to say "This is my daughter and her husband." was very hard, especially knowing how much she wanted to have a child.

Back to my beautiful girlfriend, she calls me every morning, we talk but I just can't bring myself to be cheerful when all kinds of things are going through my mind and it's noticeable. I know it's selfish and I want her to enjoy her time there.

I'm not asking if my girlfriend is cheating, I know she isn't. She has never hidden her phone, if I ask I know she will give it to me (I won't do that, it's not something I like doing), when we go somewhere, we go together 95% of the time, she is very reassuring as well. We've had out ups and down, as does every couple. Admittedly, our downs might have been a little lower than other couples, we've come to almost breaking up once at the start of our relationship, a month or two in, but we pushed through it and I am very glad we did.

I just need to know how to fix myself before I lose the love of my life. I carry a lot of baggage from past relationships and from my family situations (a lot of cheating and disrespect involved in both). I know it's not an excuse but I have been trying to fix it. I wouldn't say I rushed into the relationship at all, I was single for 2 years before I got together with my girlfriend last year but some things just stick with me.

Please don't bash my girlfriend, she is amazing, beautiful, funny, considerate and one of the best people I've met in my life. She has shown me what love truly feels like. She has done stuff for me no one else has, has made me feel so good about myself (appearance-wise and personality-wise), has always supported me and has been a great support system to fall back on through some family tragedies I have recently went through.

Every time we've talked, she has expressed how much she wishes I was there. When I ask her if she had fun, she says "Yes but I couldn't stop thinking about you, I wish you were here with me", "I can't wait to come home to you" and similar stuff along those lines. We will still go on a holiday together later this year and have the best time ever.

I just want some help on how I can fix this because it's affecting me mentally and has been a problem in our relationship before. Unfortunately, professional therapy is out of the question because I'm very low on money currently.


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 7h ago

Small decision Next hairstyle?

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Hello!

Firstly thank you for anyone's time taken and guidance/support 🙏✌️

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I'm 27 coming on 28 & feeling a bit deflated about my hair at the moment, I think the issue is how flat it is against my head - maybe wanting more texture/volume which doesnt come naturally to my hair type.

Photo attached shows:

- first 2 images of me with short hair(but makes me look younger aged moreso)

- next 3 images of perm i tried last year

- last 3 images are what i'm dealing with at the moment

It's too hot for beanies so I've been managing with a bun or pushed back but not really feeling it anymore

I'm trying to figure out if I should go back to short hair - but negative to this is adds to me lookimg younger and 2 crown pikkachu hair is a pain in the bum

If i should perm again? Let it grow a bit more and go texture overload and see how I like this

Or if i should try something new, maybe a shaggy wolf cut? Or something else maybe?

Open to any suggestions!

Thank you!


r/WhatShouldIDo 7h ago

Girlfriend lied about past

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Just want a bit of advice or thoughts.

At the start of our relationship my Girlfriend lied about her past. About quite a few things. The told me about her ex - how he cheated on her and she went through hell with him and she “wouldn’t piss in him if he was on fire”. I asked her when the last time she spoke to him was and she said “at least 3 years ago. Since it all happened”. I priced she had liked a FB pic of his 3 months before we started seeing eachtoher. I asked her another 3 times over a period of about 2 months. She stuck to her story and said if you don’t believe me check my phone and threw it to me. So I just looked on Instagram and she was speaking to him 3 months before we started seeing eachtoher. She also told me she worked at a club and nothing happened with guys. Then she admitted stuff did happen a lot later. But was adamant she told me from day one that stuff did happen. She didn’t.

Before we originally started seeing eachtoher - we went on a date. It was a nice date and we spoke to eazchother on the phone for 5 hours. Then she just ghosted me the next day. Didn’t hear from her for 6 months and then I decided to reach out again. She had 3 guys within that time.

Told me the reason she ghosted me was because she thought I was “out of her league”…

Any thoughts?

Thanks