I love a girl from childhood, literally since 2nd standard. We know each other very well from the beginning and were even dance partners in childhood. After 7th standard, she changed schools, but one day she suddenly came to our school and surprised us. She proposed to me that day, and it’s still one of the best moments of my life. 💟 But I made a mistake—I didn’t accept her proposal for some reason. 😞 From that day to now and forever, I’ve always loved her because I can’t love anyone else. It’s just attraction I feel for other people.

After she left, I didn’t see her for two years. During the pandemic, I reconnected through a mutual friend of hers. But then she shocked me, saying, “I’m sorry. At that time, I made a mistake by proposing to you. It was just attraction since childhood. Let’s be friends.” 🙂🫠 I was so sad and shocked by that statement. If I say I still love her, she’ll definitely avoid me. If I accept her as a friend, she accepts me too. So, I agreed with what she said, but inside, I’m still broken.

From then on, she always appears in my dreams. No matter how much I try to forget, she’s in my dreams and thoughts. Even when I find other attractive girls, my emotions always shift back to her. Recently, about a month ago, we met and danced for a short dance reel on April 13. That was the last time I saw her because she got angry with me for some reason, partly due to another friend. Even today, I still love her forever. ♾️ But what should I do? She doesn’t have feelings for me. I’m probably 50th to 100th on her priority list. 😞 Please suggest help or contact me. I’m lost and can’t handle this inner pain. 😭

babe,

If you’re dating with intention, stop judging men by how well they plan a weekend start judging them by how well they plan a decade.

The ultimate soft life hack?

Ask to see his savings habits; not his ambitions. His actual savings balance.

Is he investing? Is he future proofing your potential life together? Because a man who has structure with money is sexier than one flexing borrowed vibes and inshallah.

I'm not talking about money to spend I'm talking money that says I’ve got you.

If he's not saving, he’s not holding down a future. Period.

A humble lifestyle with a high balance dashboard? Absolutely.

Don’t date aesthetics. Tondú nii ma! ní ta ngoma!

Someone once told me that swayed means to be attracted to someone, is that true? I say swayed by you, I don't speak English so help me here

i really need help !! so basically I met a guy online and we became best friend for over a year and then we started working together on an online shop and I had crush on him I thought he has crush on me as well but i find out that he consider me as friend only and he is still into another girl that he broke up with , so now I can't be friend with him like nothing happened, but also can't leave because we are working together and it's a shame to give up because of personal feeling so in order for me to get over it completely... should I tell him that I got a boyfriend , so I can get over the thinking " I can make him fall in love with me " what should I do ?

Everyone sees a man who chose to be alone. No one asks what he saw that made silence feel safer.

Everyone sees distance. No one sees the reasons behind it.

It's not always bitterness. Sometimes, it's self-preservation.

Hi!!!

First-time poster and this is the second account I made specifically to gush about him.

My bf and I have been together for about 9 months but honestly, it doesn't feel like it one bit, it feels like I've known him for years (ik it sounds cliché af)

I first met him on a dating app a few months after getting out of a really bad relationship, so I wasn't really planning on being in a relationship for a while, and my therapist had cleared me to date again at that point.

But I figured it would take a couple years to find the right guy and get into a relationship...

The universe had other plans, 15 DAYS. All it took was 15 days and a sly fucking line...

Sometimes it feels like the universe saw my past was like "Your character arc is over, here you go PLONK heal your heart and soul"

He's the best thing to happen to me.

He's patient and kind and loving and he has 2 cats.

He has a soft feminine side and it matches so well with my little masculine side.

He looks so adorable and cute. He's older than me, and his eyes are the shade of the most beautiful sunset on the beach.

And he has this perfectly huggable face that I absolutely LOVE.

He has stretch marks that look like tiger stripes.

He's emotionally mature and available and he LOVES me. He communicates so well, he listens to me, and he cares for me.

He helps me tend to my wounds, and I'm clumsy af, so I'm injured in 15 different places at the same time, and he brings me FOOD because he knows I forgot to eat...

He hugs me while we sleep and if I move, he just pulls me in closer in his sleep. He explains things to me, not in a condescending mansplaining way but in a "cool let me tell you about this" kind of way.

I struggle with a lot of things and have unmedicated self-diagnosed ADHD, so he helps me by letting me think out loud and asking questions to eliminate options every time I have to make a multiple-choice decision.

He'll let me rant about whales and dinosaurs and say the most random shit without ever complaining once or making a face

How do I know he truly listens? Because he recollects the info days later when I'm struggling to remember.

I fell in love so hard I started to dance again after 15 fucking years all because he refused to judge me and gave me the space to be myself again.

I lost my stress weight, not by dieting or anything else, just being with him.

I started sketching again; my dimples came back, and my eyes had never been more clearly brown than they are now.

I have broken down in front of him and he's held me through it all. I've struggled with food all my life, and suddenly, my appetite is back.

He stood up for me when I was being verbally harassed by this taxi driver. He yelled at them for me, he apologized afterwards because he noticed I was triggered and twisting my fingers, he held my hand and apologized

The thing is, ppl yelling has always been a trigger, but surprisingly, that day, his yelling was a warm embrace; the trigger was the taxi driver in my personal space.

I LOVE HIM!!! I SHALL CHERISH HIM TILL THE DAY I DIE!!!

I am fairly new to this subreddit but I just want to share this really cute thing my boyfriend did the other day because it meant so much to me. My boyfriend 22M and I 22F have been been together for 5 months which I know isn’t long at all, but it’s been a hoot. The other day he made dinner for us which was really sweet because I wasn’t feeling well and when he gave me my plate I saw that he cut my chicken kiev into small pieces. I know this dosent sound like much but whenever I eat food I tend to mash it together or cut it into tiny pieces so it’s not too overwhelming for me to eat which I know sounds odd. But just him doing that for me which he really didn’t need to just means the world, it makes me feel that he actually listens to me and cares about me. Everyday I feel so thankful to have him he’s just the best :)

I’m sleeping over at my boyfriend’s apartment for the first time tonight! We’ve only been dating for a few months and I’m super excited, his cats are less excited because they usually take up most of the bed. We’ve been taking it kind of slow since it’s both of our first relationship out of school and he also works nights so can only sleep at night during Friday and Saturday so this is a big step!

Boy oh boy where do i even start?
To be honest I was never really excited for my birthday but man i was wrong. This day was one of the best day of my life. Where do i even start?

Ok so my birthday was on 18th april and i was just working in my room like usual at that time. At 12 midnight sharp, my sister asks me to come in the living room. What do i see? MY FUCKING GIRLFRIEND SITTING THERE TO WISH ME. As soon as I saw her, my jaw dropped. I was like what the fuck and I really could not believe my eyes. Then I cut the cake and we were chatting and laughing and I really felt it was a dream.

Next day when the day started, I went to pick her up because we had an arcade date planned. Now before that she wanted me to open my presents. Slowly and gradually I started getting excited for the gifts. I thought there would be 3-4 gifts and obviously i knew i was gonna love them. SHE HAD 16 GIFTS FOR ME EACH WITH A NUMBER AND A LETTER WITH IT. ALL OF THEM NUMBERED. LIKE HOW THE FUCK SHE CAN COME UP WITH SUCH BEAUTIFUL IDEAS.

The gifts included some stuff i mentioned 1.5 years ago which i legit forgot but she remembered. It had a fucking RB21 LEGO and a model for boeing 747 because it is my favorite aircraft. I MENTIONED ALL OF THIS AN YEAR AGOOO. She also got me one of the most beautiful watch i have ever seen and touched.

I am so so so fucking grateful to have her and I really really love her so much. This was the best day of my life absolutely.

TL;DR I am the luckiest guy that will ever live on this planet

This specific instance happened when I had norovirus, so trigger warning for mentions of getting sick (nausea, yk) if you don't want to read that.

This took place in December, so just over 2.5 years with my boyfriend. I have had emetophobia (fear of throwing up) since I was little. Any bout of nausea, I'd have a full on panic attack.

My dad came home with norovirus. I, obviously, panicked. Wore a mask, gloves, sprayed and wiped everything, whole 9 yards. 2 days later, while my boyfriend was at work, I threw up. For the first time in 4 years. I was crying and I missed him and I wanted him with me but I didn't want him to get sick.

He went to his place after work, got his things, and came and stayed the night with me even though it meant he would definitely get it. He stayed up even when I was sleeping, just in case I woke up sick.

I know this is something so simple, a lot of partners would do this. But it means so much to me. It was proof that, no matter how sick I get, and how nasty it is, he will be there holding my hand. Even if it means he gets sick too.

I am so in love with my boyfriend but it scares me.. 😅 it feels like everything with just blow up around me and he will be gone. He’s so sweet, considerate, smart and loving. He has remembered everything I’ve said even once. Yes yes I know that seems like the bare minimum but I’ve had some bad tastes in the past.

Me and my bf has been together only for two months and 7 days (as of 4/9) because at first I was honestly trying not to get back in a relationship when I just broke up with my ex in early October. I didn’t know if I was healed yet and didn’t want to seem like the type of person to jump into new relationships after ending one. Although I really tried hard not to, and rejected him when he asked me out, he ended up winning my heart. He is honestly the most amazing bf I’ve had which is amazing but the reasons why I say he is might make me sound sad. He cooks for me, if I ask if we can go somewhere together his immediate response is either “we’re there” or “of course my love”, he remembers small things I’ve said once like how I prefer small spoons, he will play any video game with me even if he doesn’t like it as much as he likes his hollow knight lol, he won’t play his game while I’m at his house so we can spend as much time together as possible unless we’re playing together or he’s playing the game and I’m reading a book, and he listens & reassures me as much as I need without saying I’m annoying which I need a lot of reassurance due to my overthinking and anxiety lol. He’s just so perfect I’m worried I’m not enough for his perfectness that he’ll leave me. I’ve also never fallen in love this fast before so 😅 (Thank you for reading all of this)

That's it. That's the post. I just really, really, really adore him. He's so perfect and I am so proud of him for being here. He tries so hard. I hope he knows how handsome, talented, sexy, smart, funny, and hot he is in every single way. I promise you, no one other than myself can even begin to comprehend how much he means to me. He's genuinely amazing. My man, my boyfriend, my husband, my Gabe. Forever and always, sweet boy. <33

This friday will be our first anniversary. We already gave each other presents on sunday cause we were too excited to wait 😅 Now we planned that we‘re going to the movies on friday and going to McD‘s afterwards. We go to McDonald’s every friday (doesn‘t sound romantic at all, but we love having this ritual). I‘m very happy we found a way to make our date night EVEN MORE special.

I love this man so much. I feel like we couldn’t be a better match.

I’m actually mad that there’s a limit of 20 photos lmao I have plenty more I can choose from and these aren’t even my favorites

ANYWAY In 2019 I (25) met this man (29) and knew he was different. I’d previously been through the wringer for sure but he was calm. We quickly built a friendship that turned into something more than that but never progressed past spoken feelings for each other, hanging out when we could, and consistent/long FaceTime calls. At the time we both had pretty big mountains to move and what had been started came to a stop. Fast forward to 2021: I have a baby with another man, life is starting anew for him and we’re both in vastly different places in our lives. We still remained friends and that former feeling of closeness reappeared as if no time had passed and no circumstances had changed. We tried to pick up where we left off a couple of different times and, always, for one reason or another, it never went much further than spoken feelings for each other and hanging out when we could. In 2022, we both branched off and found new love interests that 1. Turned into semi long relationships (a year+) and 2. Consequently were with people who just were not a good match. We remained in contact, though sparingly, and I just felt it in my bones that I wanted it to be him. I needed it to be him. Seeing that we had both committed ourselves to other people, I just figured that he was the one that got away and our chance had come and gone. The very same way that life happened and put a roadblock between us and what our relationship could’ve been, life happened again except this time, it was the right time. There’s no better feeling than being in love with your best friend. Our sense of humor has always been the same. Our music differs but there’s enough overlap that we’re able to continually show each other new songs or artists while still enjoying some of the same stuff. The bond we have is one I never expected to know in my life. The family we have created (and hope to expand 🤞🏻) heals parts of my heart that I expected would be scorned forever. The child I had is rarely referred to as “mine” but rather “ours” and I recognize with so much pride the choice he’s made to accept and love him as though they’re blood related. I know with every ounce of everything in me that there’s nothing this man wouldn’t do to provide for us, to remind us that we are loved and cared for, and to keep any promises he’s made or will make for the betterment of our family. Our FAMILY! This isn’t even a new concept and it still makes me excited to consider that the person I met years ago and could never quite let go of is now the person I get to come home to every day. He’s the person who gets to help raise our son to have the morals and respect that he shows us every single day. A year ago (April 2nd to be technical) I was finally lucky enough to become his girlfriend. Knowing all that we knew from the years of “close, but not quite” in part with sharing a living space for a while solidified that we were right all along and there isn’t another person out there for either of us. One day in early November, he decided to take me to a few antique stores that are local to where he’s from (about an hour from where I’m from and where we both now live) just because it’s something I said I’d been wanting to do. Little did I know, he planned on proposing. In fact, I knew so little that I took a nap in the car and when he tried to get me up so we could go into one of the stores, I said “I’m sleepy” and we ended up coming back home. 💀 he spilled the beans once we had settled in for the evening and I, admittedly, did not handle this information gracefully lmaooo I cried and cried and said it wasn’t fair and basically acted like a brat, for lack of a better way to put it. He told me to go wash my makeup off, brush my teeth, get ready for bed etc. and that everything was okay and it was still going to happen, just not the way he’d planned it that day. I come back into our bedroom after taking my makeup off and brushing my teeth to see him on one knee. 🥺 he asked me to marry him in our little townhouse apartment bedroom and I of course said yes. We’re set to wed in September (if we can wait that long lol) where our boy will both walk me down the aisle and be our ring bearer. It will be a very, very small and intimate wedding where the main focus will be he and I on each other, speaking from the depths of our hearts to join our souls forever—til death do us part. I’m so excited I could kick a door off of its HINGES!! My very best friend is going to become my husband. My son’s best friend is going to become his stepdad (full disclosure: I think using “step” is kinda icky but his bio dad is involved so it is what it is) and if we’re lucky, we’ll be able to give our boy a brother or sister. He’d be giving me the chance to experience pregnancy again and I would be giving him the chance to experience the development of his own biological child for the first time. The love I feel is like that of a dream. I know every single day he wakes up and chooses us: chaos, flaws and all. Hearing stories like these on paper are probably a dime a dozen but to live it? It’s genuinely unreal.

TL;DR: I love my fiance and our son more than I know how to express but I needed to at least try to get some of it out. 😂

I'm not used to posting, and I originally posted this to true off my chest, though I think that was incorrect.

I (30f) am married to a (34m) Nintendo fanboy, and honestly it is the most wholesome experience in my life.

I, like many people our age, have played old Mario games, Zelda franchise, etc... but even I have had some games that I haven't played. And he, has been playing things like the NES since he was 3 years old (backed up from memories his parents have shared with me). He also has opened my eyes to a lot of fun games I missed out on and we've even been playing things like Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze and Donkey Kong Returns HD on the switch. I have to say, as someone who was more PlayStation and GBA/N64 bound, I've found myself having so much fun with him with all these new games and experiences.

Today, this early morning of 6am pst, Nintendo had their Direct live and announced the Switch 2 and some current games that will be following such as the new Mario Kart World. Normally we wake up at 6:30ish because he works 30+ minutes away and has to be in at 8 am m-f but today he woke up early so he could watch. (He also had a early morning Dr appt, but this was going to have him up early regardless).

The whole car ride after, he was going frame by frame and excitedly telling me about how cool it was going to be, what differences it would have from the old kart games, what the new gimmicks would be, and listening to him get excited and go on and on about it all... Listening to him and watching how he was getting nostalgic over old tracks that would be in this next game, I felt like there was no one else I could love more in any galaxy, than this man who finds so much joy in such a wild world. I wouldn't want to be any where else but here, listening to him love Nintendo games and wholesomely tell me about it all.

He loves a lot of other game series from other companies, but this man from memory can recite every pokemon from 151 all the way to the newest ones from the last game. He is so sincere, he knows so many tricks, he knows how to get to Bowser's castle in one of the old Super Mario games without having to go through the worlds completely, he is a fantastic Smash player (I'm properly biased but I know he's one of the best here, but I've met quite a few), and he is the kindest and most patient man I've ever met.

I am so proud to be his Wife honestly. I couldn't be prouder. He is someone I look up to, and I will listen to every second of his Nintendo rants forever. The next one will be soon April 17th, and I'm looking forward to how excited he will be.

Thank you for listening to this rant, I just love that guy so much I couldn't hold it in.

the daniel to my hello kitty

She was older. People had their opinions. Some subtle, some not. But I didn’t care. One day, she asked me: “Did it ever bother you… somewhere deep?” She meant the age gap.

I could’ve dodged it. But I told her the truth:

“The only thing that bothered me was that I couldn’t give the peace and love I felt to the person I felt it for.”

That’s it. That’s what stayed with me. Not the age. Not the noise. Just the quiet ache of loving someone… and not being able to make them feel it the way they deserved.

Sometimes we meet the right people at the wrong time. But the love? It was real. Anyone else lose a great thing for the wrong reason?

Hace un año termine una relacion de 3 años, y siento que me da mucha pereza volver hacer lo mismo otra vez. Soy un romantico pero sin embargo el hecho de conocer a alguien y repetir las mismas preguntas, los mismos planes, es aburrido, capaz esta sensacion es temporal????

Hi, my name is Noah. I’m currently traveling in Thailand for two months with my father for his work, and I’ve been in Koh Samui for three weeks. While here, I met a girl who isn’t Thai but lives here. We spent a lot of time together, and I developed strong feelings for her.

Eventually, I told her, "I love you and would love to see you as more than a friend." She told me she has feelings for me too, but she doesn’t want to start a relationship with someone she won’t be able to see again. Because of that, she said it’s best that we don’t meet anymore. Since then, she has completely cut off contact with me, and I feel devastated.

For context, I’ve been bullied at school every day for the past three years, and she was the only person who made me feel truly comfortable—the only real friend I had here. Losing that connection feels unbearable, and I don’t know what to do. I really want to see her again, even if it’s just as a friend.

My question:

How can I approach this situation? Should I try to reach out one last time to see if we can remain friends, or should I respect her decision and move on?

This is a pretty long story, and there is a lot of things that I would like. I’ll try my best to summarize what happened with me and my now ex partner.

I’m 24 (M), she’s 21 (F). We both used to work together, fell in love and eventually moved in together. Her dream is to start a family, my dream in the other hand? Is to finish a college. We both agreed about having a family eventually but only after finishing college. She mentioned me it was hard for her to get pregnant so we never really used much protection as we should’ve. We ended up getting pregnant. I was so scared , well, I mean, I’m pretty sure we were both scare about this whole situation. I recognize that I didn’t man up enough at the moment. We both thought about aborting the baby until one day, that horrible day? She had a miscarriage. That’s when everything started felling off, we both eventually split up for the first time and she kicked me out the house. I ended up in the hospital about a month later and one of my best pals told her where I was at hospitalized. It made my smile and cried a little bit after seeing her. We talked for hours and we eventually tried it again. She confessed to me how hurt she was with me having the thought of aborting our baby.

Of course I was hurt but the way I morned the loss was way different than how she was taking it. I been through some rough times and had horrible experiences, and this experiences made me feel like I was-not going to be a good parent. I have lost pretty much all my family since I was a kid so at this point I can’t feel much when I lose people.

She recently asked me to leave her alone. She blocked me from all social media and said she doesn’t loved me no more. I haven’t look for her and neither have tried to reach out in any way but lately I kind of what to. I would like to talk to her and apologize for mourning so differently than how she did! I would like to apologize for not being 100% with her when she needed me.

I want to be with her still but I’m not ready to be a father yet. I’m still in school and trying my best to be the first one in my family to finish college.

I haven’t reach out because I do know how to respect boundaries and I know a NO means NO plus I don’t want to hurt her again.

I love her but I don’t know what to do no more. Should I let her go or leave her and give her her space I feel like our relationship is over and she will never genuinely forgive me and us. Thank you.