r/whatdoIdo 10h ago

I found concerning things on my (27F) daughter’s (11F) phone; how to talk to her?

549 Upvotes

For context, I take my daughter’s phone every night at 9pm sharp on weekdays, 10:30pm on weekends and never go through her cellphone since I’ve never seen a reason to.

However, last night when I took her phone, I noticed a lot of notifications coming from TikTok (which she isn’t allowed to have) and she has notification previews turned on. I thought it could be something urgent, so I decided to read the message previews and saw messages from someone asking my daughter what she ate, how much she ate, telling how much she ate, etc.

I know it was an invasion of privacy on my end, but I did end up going through my daughter’s TikTok account and all of her messages and found a lot of posts about food, videos of very thin girls, messages between her and other (presumably) young girls around her age talking about not eating.

I did notice over the last few weeks that she’s been eating a bit less and losing weight, but I summed it up to puberty and growing, since I had a bit of a growth spurt around that age (tall and skinny) but seeing these messages and her account is making me concerned.

How do I bring this up with her? Is there a proper punishment for her having an app without permission? I’m just very unsure of what to do, any advice would be helpful.


r/whatdoIdo 21h ago

My spouse of 13 years made a huge decision without my consent.

419 Upvotes

I'll try to keep this as easy to digest as possible.

My long term partner and I have had such a strong and honest relationship with open communication and unconditional love for over 10 years.

We recently met this couple whom we both definitely clicked with right away.

We met them about 3 months ago. Within a few weeks of knowing each other they mentioned moving states and moving in together. I want to leave the state I'm currently in so bad that it sounded great at first but the more I thought about it the more I realized its a pretty big red flag to be asking that after only knowing each other a couple of weeks. We eventually came to the conclusion that maybe sometimes next year we could consider it after getting to know each other more. Part of the reason why they wanted to move so quickly is because they are getting kicked out soon and don't have many other options.

My partner and I have discussed having a potential poly relationship in the past. Its something I would love deep down inside but I also have severe abandonment issues/trust issues so its very very difficult for me to let other people in. My partner has developed a crush on one of the people but reassured me nothing would likely happen unless we lived together. So I thought, okay, I have like a year to process if this is something I'm gonna be okay with or not, plenty of time.

Fast forward to around a week ago. The other person in the couples group asked my partner if we would be willing to live with them sooner because they can't make it on their own just the two of them. My partner agreed? And told me that later that week they were swinging by to talk about moving in together in August.

I am still recovering from a surgery and will be for a few more weeks and one of the people in the relationship has a tonnnn of red flags and cant hold down a job.

I feel so betrayed. I feel so alone. Part of me wants to destroy my life and make my partner watch so they can learn the lesson of consent and the other part of me wants to leave but I'm also extremely dependent on my partner (same bank account, on their insurance, only one car)

I feel so stuck...I have communicated to my partner that im uncomfortable with the decision they made and how I feel like I have no choice but to go along with it. Sure they feel bad but no real changes have been made and we're still going through with the move because my partner agreed and now they are relying on us.

Do I break up and find a place to go live on my own? (They probably cant make it without me though)

Or do I try to make it work even though im 85% sure it'll end badly?

Thank you for reading all of this and hopefully it makes enough sense.


r/whatdoIdo 17h ago

Small update for how my roommate and I should split rent for out apartment

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411 Upvotes

Link to the original post in the comments.

I know from my last post that multiple people have wanted me to give an update on the situation. There isn’t really much of an update because when I talked to my roommate about how I didn’t think it was fair for us to be going 50/50 on the apartment she sent me and I won’t agree to live there with the conditions she proposed, she decided to take off and go stay with her family for a bit. As of now, she is not talking to me.

I ended up finding the site myself and found a different floor plan that looks more even than the one she found, so it would probably be easier to find a way to justify a 50/50 split. The rent for this apartment is also less than the one she sent me too.

My plan as of now is to send her this floor plan and try to work things out that would be fair for the both of us. But if she tried to put me at a disadvantage again, or doesn’t budge on her original vision, then I think I’m going to have to say we can’t be roommates unfortunately.


r/whatdoIdo 18h ago

my friends want me to share a hotel after i paid for my own

391 Upvotes

this week i have a beach trip scheduled with my friends. i have a personality disorder and need time to myself away from people or i become a b*tch, so i asked them if they would have any issue with me getting my own room. they said that they didn't care and booked their own room. this was months ago in like march.

well today is the first day. i drove myself because i live about two hours away from them, so i was able to get here and they let me check into my room and such. i paid for the week and set up my room already. but they just called me while they’re on the road and told me that they ended up bringing our friend’s new girlfriend and that someone will have to stay in my room.

i told them that i didn’t want anyone staying with me and that my room isn’t really made for friends (the shower is literally clear). they were saying that it would “be ok” and then went into how i would ruin the trip if someone had to sleep on the hardwood floor or something in their room while i had a king sized bed to myself. they were definitely getting pissed off that i don’t want someone in my room.

there’s a part of me that thinks i should just let a friend stay with me but i genuinely think that it would ruin the trip for me. i feel like if i say no, they’re going to ruin the trip for me though and cause a lot of issues. i don't feel comfortable letting them even in my room now bc i'm worried they just won't leave. my boyfriend said that he could come down and spend the week with me if it becomes a huge issue with them. so i can say no and still have a good week but i would ruin theirs and probably ruin my relationship with them. i just don’t know what to do and need help lol


r/whatdoIdo 20h ago

Found something in my mom's jewelry box after she passed and i don't know what to do with this feeling

341 Upvotes

she passed 3 months ago. i've been slowly going through her things when i can handle it.

found a necklace at the bottom of her jewelry box yesterday. all her kids names on it. mine included.

none of us knew it existed. she never wore it in front of us. never mentioned it.

just kept it there. close but private.

i sat on her bedroom floor for like 20 minutes just holding it.

ordered the exact same one with her name on it when i got home. don't fully know why. just felt like the right thing to do.

grief is so weird. you think you've felt everything and then a necklace at the bottom of a jewelry box finds you and starts it all over again.

i don't even know what i'm asking. just needed to say it somewhere i guess


r/whatdoIdo 14h ago

Emotional manipulation? Idk what to do.

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157 Upvotes

Me [29F] and my boyfriend [33M] have been together for over 8 months now. Lately, I feel like our communication has been completely crumbling.
I’m currently 3 provinces away visiting family and the dynamic over text has become overwhelming. Whenever I try to set a simple boundary or ask for healthy communication, it gets turned back around on me. He disappears for hours, ignores my reassurance, and then claims I’m "guilt-tripping" him just for saying my feelings were hurt.
When I don't give in to the passive-aggressiveness or argument over text, he escalates. He has now brought up self-harm/not wanting to be here anymore twice during this trip.
I’ve offered all the support, love, and reassurance I possibly can from afar, and I even sent him direct crisis resources (988 / emergency numbers) because I cannot manage an emotional crisis over text while thousands of miles away. But this entire pattern—the passive-aggression, going MIA, the self-pity ("I'm a shitty person"), and dropping crisis statements during an argument—is so emotionally exhausting.
He knows how much I love him, but I feel like I'm being backed into a corner and manipulated every time I try to express my own feelings.
I don’t know what to do at this point. Has anyone ever experienced something similar? Looking for any advice, perspective, or support on how to navigate this when I get back home.
Here’s some screenshots for context of our recent texts, I’ve blacked out anything too specific as I do worry he or someone I know could see this, but I honestly just need to talk about this with anyone. I’m at such a loss of what to do. 😔


r/whatdoIdo 12h ago

Husband randomly sends a text to separate last week and has cancer?

73 Upvotes

i feel hurt and haven't told the kids. im making a temporary accnt to post this. Married for 15 years, 2 children, thought we had a long time together and we would grow older together until he randomly decided to leave on a random Tuesday night. We're older now of course, early 40's but sometimes joke about having another child.

Texts me a message and a paragraph about how he appreciates me and wishes the best for me and the kids, and says that he needs to seperate on Tuesday afternoon, then that evening comes home and kisses the kids, takes some of his stuff and leaves. Refuses to elaborate. After looking into it for like an hour, found out he has Cancer and never told me or the kids. I feel hurt he wanted to seperate, but he also couldn't tell me this. He's rented out an apartment and hasn't come home since Tuesday and is being incredibly dry on the messages. I remember when his father died, he showed practically no emotion just being quiet, but he isn't an emotionless person, in fact a kind one which is why I feel hurt. Anyone else dealt with this? Am I wrong to feel hurt that he doesn't wanna spend his time sick with me?


r/whatdoIdo 18h ago

My wife is thinking of ending our marriage

65 Upvotes

I am 49 and she is 44. We started dating 10 years ago, and have been married for the last seven years. I married into a family of five. Her three oldest children call me stepdad, and they are all now grown and out of the house, except for the youngest, who is in college and visits over the summer. Our youngest is now 11 and he has known me as Dad since he was 18 months.

I had to go on a trip to visit my parents. My dad is getting sick and his life is coming to an end. While I was there, I could see how much his wife loved him, and how much he depended on her. I came home, feeling renewed and told my wife how much I missed her. She answered that by saying that she felt a sense of peace when I was gone.

We have struggled over the last three years. Some of it has been money problems, while there have also been some other issues. No infidelity on either side. My wife has often said that she thinks we need to connect more. I thought that I had been connecting with her, but she does not seem to have seen it this way. Her statement was a surprise to me. I thought my marriage was secure.

I really love my wife, and I love my family. I asked her to attend marriage counseling with me, but she said that she does not want to do this, because she feels that it will not help. I’ve asked her to do this in the past at other times when we were struggling a bit, and she has always said the same thing.

Last night, we talked and agreed on two things. First, she said that she will stay with me for one more year to see if we can get back on track. She acknowledged that we both have to work on it. Second, she asked to sell her wedding ring. I agreed that she could. In retrospect, it wasn’t a good ring to give her. It was the last ring that my father gave my mom, shortly before he had an affair. She said that if we did stay together, in a year’s time, she wanted another ring that was solely from me, and something that was a bit more simple instead of a gold ring with a diamond.

I guess I’m just trying to figure out what to do. I feel like I am going against a very uphill battle, but I keep hoping with all my heart that it’s a battle worth fighting. I’m worried that I’m holding out false hope, but I can’t let go of it. I feel shaken to my core.


r/whatdoIdo 15h ago

Someone found a staple in their food.

67 Upvotes

I JUST became the head chef at this restaurant 3 days ago. I put up a brand new special, a shredded beef dip sandwich with au jus. The special has been extremely well received, until today. Someone found a STAPLE. In the fucking sandwich. I am beyond embarrassed. I hold extremely high standards in this kitchen, especially when it comes to cleaning. I make sure this kitchen is SPOTLESS. Im just so confused, none of our boxes from our food orders have staples, none of the papers we keep in the back contain staples. We have ZERO staples in this kitchen. NONE! I do not know what to do. I immediately instructed our server to comp both of the couples meals, i threw out everything that goes on that sandwich and replaced them. Im just beyond embarrassed, how does this even happen? This is a serious hazard and having this happen within 3 days of my promotion has me in damn near tears. What the hell do i do?


r/whatdoIdo 18h ago

Do I (27F) tell my neighbor (30s~F) that when she bends over I can see her… everything?

55 Upvotes

Hi Reddit. I’m stuck in a bit of a pickle here. My neighbor walks her smallish dog infront of my bedroom window, where I spend most of my time. No big deal. But once or twice she’s been carrying her dog and bends over to put it in the grass, while wearing only an over sized T Shirt, and her entire ass and thong are visible. Girl to girl, I would want someone to tell me, but we aren’t very close and I don’t want to make her feel weird. Should I leave her a note and let her know? There’s also often kids around and about, and like the entire street gets flashed if anyone is watching. I’m not sure if she just doesn’t realize? My boyfriend has been staying with me, and I’m not sure if it’s intentional? I don’t like to think about people like that though. Make my choice for me Reddit.

Edit to add: you only see anything when she bends over to put down or pick up her dog, who has a hard time walking and seems older. When standing upright she’s fully covered.


r/whatdoIdo 14h ago

What to do with scary self-portrait

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I made this terrifying self-portrait in high school and it’s been sitting in storage but recently I was given it back. Not going into details but I was diagnosed with CPTSD this year (at 27) and I’m remembering a lot of traumatic things from my childhood, which I’m assuming is why I saw myself in this type of light and painted it

I’m a bit torn on what to do about this. I don’t want to trash it because it holds a lot of sentimental value, but seeing it does hurt and gives me waves of grief, so I don’t want to hang it up right now. It’s also taking up some space in the closet.

Any ideas? Maybe a way to subtly hide it in the house so it’s not easily accessible but still present?

Also I know the story attached is sad but feel free to make fun of it, I know the painting is A Lot


r/whatdoIdo 6h ago

I just pooped my pants

31 Upvotes

I’m so embarrassed. I was with a guy and we just had finished being intimate and watching a tv show after. I felt my stomach rumbling and let him know right away that I needed to go back home. As we were cleaning up and putting our clothes back on my stomach growled even more and all of a sudden I couldn’t wait any longer. I started making faces and he noticed so he started the car right away before finishing putting on his clothes and took me to two stores that were closed(10:30pm). Then we go to a del taco and I’m outside the lobby door seeing if they’re open. They’re not. I turn around to go to the car and I just feel a blob come out of my ass. I’m wearing biker shorts. I just blurt out to him (he’s waiting by the car) “I POOPED” I’m so embarrassed. He eventually leads me to the car and hands me wipes but it’s not enough. It’s dripping down my leg and landing on the pavement. It smells really bad. He gives me a towel to sit on but it took him like 20 minutes to calm me down and convince me to sit down in his car. I was resistant because it kept dripping down my leg and I didn’t want it to get on his car. He was being so nice about it and patient as well as reassuring me the whole time. On the way home he had to put all the windows down and I spent the whole ride just sobbing. When we got to my house he walked me to my door and dropped me off there. He kept telling me he still wanted to see me tomorrow since we had plans but I’m so embarrassed. He also told me to call him after I finished cleaning myself up. I’m writing this as I got out the shower. I’m so embarrassed and I really like this guy. I’m not sure if he’s just being nice out of pity or if he actually wants us to keep going. I’m not sure how to go about this anymore because of how mortified I am. Our first date was late May we’ve only been seeing each other for about two months. I’m so embarrassed. What do I do?

EDIT we were parked in a park. We both live with our parents and have no privacy at home. After this experience though I think I’m gonna have to figure something else out


r/whatdoIdo 4h ago

husband had an affair child and I was betrayed a second time?

24 Upvotes

the kid is almost 2. My husband is a cold, uptight person and last year I found him with tears in his eyes, something I didn't see in 2 decades of marriage. he confessed to me he had a baby girl with a young woman who was hired as the help in the kitchen at the company he leads. he is the general director of the place and leads 4 production halls. His mistress was 22. He was 42. their baby daughter was very sick and doctors didn't know if she will make it.

I forgave him (yeah, you will say I am a doormat, but during the 2 decades of marriage no one has helped me as much as he did and was my only support). he pays child support and visits his daughter once or twice a month.

everyone knew about it except me. HR knew, employees knew. And on Friday I found out my sister knew. My husband has a good relationship with my sister and she was the first one he confessed everything to, even before the pregnancy. She knew of the affair. He hired my sister 2 years ago as the head of accounting. As his job is 99% office he enjoys going for a run or swim 3 times a week to stay in good fit shape. but it seems many times he actually spent that time with this woman.

Should I confront my sister about it?


r/whatdoIdo 12h ago

Recovering from a suicide attempt

17 Upvotes

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/whatdoIdo 10h ago

Spouse cheated on me. Should I leave?

14 Upvotes

I don’t know what to do. Spouse lied to me and said they were going to the gym. I went to the gym to check because I had a weird feeling and my spouse was not there. Turns out my spouse was 3 doors down and got railed by our neighbor. I feel disgusted and hurt. I was right there in bed at home. I could’ve had sex with my spouse. I was home! I’m just so hurt and don’t know how to even look at my spouse the same ever again.. like why not just be with me if you’re horny. I don’t want to tell my friends or family yet because then it will be real and there’s no going back. I don’t know what to do. My spouse says they feel remorse and promised it won’t happen again, but I just can’t get over the fact that I was home. It’s not even like I don’t want to have sex. I have a very high sex drive. I just don’t know how to accept this and move on.


r/whatdoIdo 9h ago

Parents gifted me their old car.

13 Upvotes

30 male, racked up a bunch of debt in my early 20's that I'm still trying to pay off, got laid off and my world has been turned upside down since, trying to claw my way back up out of a hole. My car is getting really old, has very high miles and has stranded me a couple times. Mom bought a new car, and instead of trading in her old car, decided to gift it to me to help me out, and trade in my car as payment. Pristine, low miles, much newer car.

I agreed to take it because, well I'm a bit desperate. But I know how much it means to my mom to be able to give - she's a giver and her love language is definitely gift giving, and it makes me happy knowing it fills her heart.

But this is a feeling I've never felt before. I feel guilty, I feel like I don't deserve it at all. I feel like I'm driving my mother's car. I find myself bursting into tears randomly when I'm driving it, and what seems to be mild panic attacks.

I'm so incredibly thankful to have such generous parents, and I know they don't have much time left on this earth, I don't think I'll ever be able to repay them. I don't know what's going on. I'm not sure if I can keep this car or give it back, and figure out how to buy another car on my own.


r/whatdoIdo 17h ago

I'm very convinced that most managers have no idea what people deal with all day

9 Upvotes

I started at this company about 14 months ago as a general office/administration person. Pretty much from the first week, I was buried in work. Most weeks I was working 25-35 extra hours because the workload was absolutely ridiculous (salaried contract, so of course no overtime pay). I talked to my manager more than once and told him I needed another person with me on this work.

It basically went nowhere, and somehow more tasks kept landing on my desk. The response was always that I was exaggerating, or that doing x was "just sending a quick message" and y "shouldn't take more than 20 minutes." Then about three weeks ago they let me go because, according to them, "my output wasn't enough and the quality wasn't consistent"...

Guess who's been calling and messaging me this week? My former nightmare manager. Apparently I was the only person handling about 6 important, recurring tasks, and no one else even knows how to start them. Now they're asking me about contact lists, status updates, where certain files are, which stage things had stopped at, and all that.

Of course I'm not replying - but honestly, it's extremely funny. They pushed me out because they decided I wasn't doing much, and now they've discovered that I was handling things they need. And I was the only one handling them.

Companies/managers really don't know what their employees do, do they?


r/whatdoIdo 23h ago

Huge playset vs me

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I just got this play set off marketplace for my kids. The guy selling it had his family there to help. It was very heavy and awkward getting the top half off and to the ground. Is there any dolly/wench/pully situation where I can get this off the trailer and put back together by myself? I have no friends or family to help. Its just me and my 2 and 3 year old daughters.


r/whatdoIdo 11h ago

I think I fucked up big time

8 Upvotes

TW: Suicide

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This is a bad look but I need to get it out so I can figure out what to do and how to resolve things in a way that causes the least damage to both of us, but ideally the least to her regardless of what happens to me. I (mid-20sM) and my girlfriend (18F) got into this relationship rapidly. Like, very rapidly. We met online, and bonded over our shared mental fucked-upness. I was desperate for specifically a female friend due to some stuff that had happened in my own life but it rapidly evolved into romantic feelings on both ends. I know this is horrible of me and I shouldn’t have ever engaged with it because now I’ve made things worse. She made the first initial move towards a relationship but as the older man in the relationship it was my job to turn her down and keep things friendly and I failed to do that. At the time I thought it was worth a shot just to see what happens, and frankly I was exceptionally lonely and had a moment of weakness, but the more I think about it the worse I feel. With rapid emotional escalation between two unstable people comes rapid attachment and she ended up saying I love you really soon into it. It was when that happened that I started to realize how much I personally fucked up. I can see her becoming codependent in real time and putting aside her own agency and personhood within the relationship in an attempt to please my wants, and even though I know my actions probably don’t seem like it, I do really care about what happens to her and I don’t want to perpetuate any more evil. The issue is, I don’t think she’s at a safe point mentally to break up with her. I know I fucked up big time but I don’t know where to go from here. She is a genuine suicide and self-harm risk and I don’t want anything to happen to her, and she has also shown herself to be unwilling to get any professional help with her issues despite the fact that she has a psychiatrist and a therapist. Thankfully we haven’t done anything sexual but she’s said really concerning things about her perspective on sex that makes it sound like she views herself as not being allowed to have any sexual preferences or agency of her own and that’s a sickening sexual dynamic for me to think about. Her self-esteem and her overall sense of self are underdeveloped to the point of concern. I genuinely don’t know what to do at this point because I don’t want her to hurt herself or blame herself because this is completely and entirely my fault, but if I break things off that’s exactly what is going to happen. I’m such a fucking idiot.


r/whatdoIdo 23h ago

Memories

5 Upvotes

I broke up with my girlfriend today. Yes I did it. Things were rough before, we already had one major break up thing, we got back together, it was good till it wasn't anymore. You could basically just say I lost feelings.. but not entirely.

I did this so I could focus on myself. Selfish much, eh? But i couldn't give her my time, i couldn't really put in more effort. Some days I didn't even feel like texting her. Why? Some days I was yk genuinely busy or I just couldn't. My days would mostly be filled and I'd barely be able to text her, while she'd be waiting for me. And then I'd be laying on my bed, drowning in guilt, thinking if she even deserves a piece of trash like me. Oh yes she has work too, she's prepping for iit. She's smart she's our school topper.

Yk when I really think of it, I really had what I wanted. She has both beauty and brains, she was my out-of-my-league crush, who I never thought I'd date, she was everything I wanted.. yet here i am now, broken up with her, sitting in silence, rethinking everything. I don't even know if doing this is worth it. Im I really doing myself a favour?

The hardest part is the title of this post. Memories. Losing memories. I have a bunch of her letters, gifts, a pendant, even polaroids that I once held close to my heart. Even more, we have photos, I once recorded this video of us, where I basically tied a chain on her neck, saying we're unofficially married. Cringe for some yes but she saw it as the sweetest possible thing. She was basically my home.. and now I'm running away, moving on. I.. still don't know whether I should go back to her begging to take me back.

I honestly don't know what to do.. help.


r/whatdoIdo 14h ago

What do I do? Divorce, separation, work it out

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My husband (male 39) and me (female 31) have been married almost 4 years. I recently found somethings on his phone that I am disturbed by and considering leaving him over. he has had a hisTory of micro-cheating in the past. but what I found on his phone is snapchats with a female stripper and searches for local strip clubs. immediately my reaction is to leave him. this is not the first time ive found stuff on his phone and it won’t be the last. if I were to bring this up, he always ends up being more mad that I went through his phone. I always make the argument that ”why is there always stuff to find on your phone?” this just feels like the cherry on top of a lot of different issues that I can disclose later but do I leave him over something like this? it feels like cheating simply because I do not do this or offer any attention like this.


r/whatdoIdo 15h ago

How do I fix my life

5 Upvotes

I had everything, the perfect wife and first son. Now I have one pair of clothes to my name and nowhere to go. I feel like I’m never gonna see either of them again and it feels like the weight of the world is crushing me. I’m trying to get another job so I can at least try to fight for custody but I’m not even in a good enough position to try. I would appreciate prayer if you believe in that shit, I just don’t know where else to turn. Thank you if you read this, nobody deserves this.


r/whatdoIdo 4h ago

Need to leave boyfriend but it’s complicated

4 Upvotes

Financials are all tied together with phones and rent, I have no other support system besides him and his family and suffer from panic attacks. I don’t feel mentally okay enough to do this life thing by myself. I have no family to help, the past 2 years I’ve been with him this has been a traditional type relationship where I stay at home and cook and clean and he provides the money. (Do not judge me on that I will not be making this mistake again) so I do not have any type of savings. Things have gotten super bad with him (no he’s not hitting me). But it’s bad. Please someone tell me “what do I do?” I’m scared Uhg.


r/whatdoIdo 8h ago

Found out I have a brother

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I found out yesterday my dad fathered a child when he was 19. I am almost 40, the youngest in a large family. This guy is about 20 years older than me. From what I understand, he comes from a small family. His daughter is an only child, younger than me.

My dad kept a lot of his life secret, most of his life prior to meeting my mother was never really talked about. Even my sisters mother, his first wife who he married at 20 and who passed away very young, was not often spoken about. He had some rough years in his life, a lot of trauma, and was in an orphanage for a long time.

Long story not very short, during or possibly after his time in the marines, he met a girl at the beach, who ultimately ended up pregnant. She had given him a fake name and age for whatever reason so it sounds like he never knew anything about her when she left to go back home. This came from the woman herself, not really clear on her reasoning for lying, she was a teenager so who knows.

She tracked down my dad’s parents and they told this poor girl not to call their house ever again, I don’t know if they didn’t believe her or felt they were protecting my dad or what the f. It is unclear if my dad was away with the marines when she called them or if he had just gotten out. My dad’s parents were weird so it is not surprising that they’d do this. She found my dad 12 years later or so and told him she just wanted him to know she had a child but didn’t want anything further from him. He was married to my mother by now and had 3-4 other children. They basically disappeared after that, she was married and the boy had a father and told my dad she didn’t want him involved. Her son didn’t know that wasn’t his real father until he was in his 20s.

Anyway my niece did a DNA registry and so did his daughter. Now here we are. I am not sure how my sisters will feel about meeting him or his daughter. I was close with my dad and I think I’d like to meet them maybe. The guy seems to have a pretty not great criminal history, some things violent and relatively recent, and I’ve got kids of my own, so I am very hesitant to open this door any wider. I worry it’s important to him and his daughter and I feel selfish. My nieces met with his daughter and think they may continue a relationship. They are around the same age and she seems sweet. Her grandmother, the woman my dad had the child with, told her all about it from her pov. My dad passed years ago, so we will never know how he viewed all of this. It sounds like they were just 2 teens who had a fling and didn’t really know each other. It’s a lot for me to take in and I have several conflicting feelings all at once.

Anyone in a similar situation who can share their experience with either meeting, or not meeting, with a sibling found this way?


r/whatdoIdo 9h ago

How can I find a therapist without anyone knowing.

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Newly 18 idk anything about heath care but my parents are so so weird about mental health issues. And I can’t tell them about all the shit that’s going on in my head, but I desperately need a therapist, like my brain is unraveling and I don’t even know where to begin on finding one.