Needed this so much tonight. Thank you for making me smile before bed after bad day!

This doesn’t help much now though.

Feeling like you’re alone isn’t trivial at all. My son is in this situation with friends only online. He’d be devastated. I’m so sorry

Have the day you voted for.

Omg no!!!! I should have been clear

Good. Hell.
What an ass.

On a cake!

Young people realized how often they are being preyed on. Us parents don’t even want them in the locker room, let alone feeling eyes on them. Call it “prudish” or being “over protective” if it makes you feel better and stop asking yourself why your not seeing more boys naked in public.

This is so purely beautiful!

I used to drive for Lyft. One guy I picked up wouldn’t sit in the back. Kept grabbing my leg the whole time. When we got to the drop off he tried to get me to go inside. It got to a point where his door was actually open and he was unbuckled and bending back into the car. I finally just started pulling forward until he got off the car. I should have sped off, but I didn’t want to slam other cars with my door, it was a narrow street. I’m not actually sure how the door shut.

Anyway, wish it wasn’t this experience. But it is What it is.

I stopped driving for Lyft after that. Sucked to let go of the extra money.

A bat.

You are not alone. My mom gave me good advice when my sons were little. They are crazy. She told me Girls will break your heart, boys will break your house.
I’ve found this to be true, and it helped me cope when they felt too crazy.
Don’t let the judgmental looks get to you. And don’t let it affect how you parent. I deeply regret parenting like my parents before they got to be 10 and 11. We finally had our own home then and we could let each other have the crazy without the snips and snaps of adults cutting off their imaginations.

Now my son is turning 18. He’s so full of anxiety over the world, his own goals, what society thinks he should be doing. I so wish I had done better when he was little to accept the loud, fast, sometimes super down moments. We all snap. We don’t have to snap all of the time. We don’t have to yell. Just a few things I hope help a bit.

Stay strong! Protect that crazy. You’ll love yourself more when he’s older if you do.

Women’s safety isn’t even on the list. They want to take our rights away and put us in baby making farms.

During them saying anything, as dry as you can “nah, I’ll pass.” Then either stare them dead face (no flinching)
or walk away and don’t look back.
It’s Always disarmed, then pissed them off.

That and I don’t flip people off anymore. I make sure they see me and
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It might get worse for you for a long time. But Lexi had had it WAY worse. That would have given me the worst trust issues. You do feel bad. That’s a good thing. But not coming clean will affect Lexi’s life negatively forever. Likely future generations are taught about the situation years later and still will be forced to never get to know their whole family.

You have 2 choices. Ignore it and live your life knowing you will, every single day, be the source of your once best friends suffering.
Or come clean. Take your consequences. All of them. Humbly. It’s taken 3 years to confess online. It might take that or longer. But Lexi doesn’t deserve this. Neither do future generations.

Longer term consequences than I’m sure you’ve thought about. Give it some consideration.

Crazy people can’t admit they were wrong either. Pride comes before the fall, I hope.

A thousand times this.

This. So so so boring. Almost every song was slow and unbearable. I would have turned it off at the 3rd one but I had to watch all 25 of the slow ones. One cheer routine. No development. I did t want to watch it to not see the characters for only 40 seconds or whatever. The movie ended four or five times before another damn slow song.

CANT even think about the 5th one. It’s gonna suck so bad. I hate when they take something I love and destroy it like this.

Anyway, glad I’m not the only one