I don’t have access to money really. And I can’t leave my dogs. It’s absolutely terrible but I’m well and truly stuck, he’s wrecked my finances.

My SO. I work two jobs to keep us barely afloat due to cost of living and the financial wreck he’s landed us in. He’s basically a sociopath and I have no money to leave, despite me working night and day while he watches TV all night, and he does a zillion petty things in exchange for that, including for the last month giving me the silent treatment beyond administrative stuff, throwing potholders at me, shaking his fist in my face for not setting the temperature in the car the way he wants it and threatening to not pay the credit cards in my name, and basically starving my life. There’s a million other things but I’m so numb to it it’s hard to verbalize.

This question hurts so much because I’ve lost so much and I have absolutely no way of fixing any of it. I try so hard and I’m so tired of working so much for a total ingrate and having zero to show for it. Things are really, really bad. I see no way to fix anything.

My friend has little sons named Ray, Malcolm and Ernie. It suits them immensely to have these old man names and they are so adorable.

Even in mild cases of COVID in healthy younger people it has cognitive impacts. What you believe is false.

https://www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and-disorders/covid-19/2023/the-risks-of-even-mild-covid19-1-in-4-showing-cognitive-deficits-011723

Even having a mild case of COVID has cognitive impacts in healthy people. It’s really really really actually very terrifying.

https://www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and-disorders/covid-19/2023/the-risks-of-even-mild-covid19-1-in-4-showing-cognitive-deficits-011723

Vaccines. I gave up trying to gently educate my coworker and instead am waging an outright campaign via Facebook to terrorize her into vaccinating her poor sickly autistic son. Every journal article and news piece on preventable disease, I’m posting it, and am having long winded chats on my page about how measles wipes your immune memory and how a kid died of that in the community a few months ago. Parents of antivaxxers should have their children apprehended by CPS. It’s child abuse.

I deleted that dumpster fire the minute old Space Karen bought it. I wasn’t tweeting but I used it to read some people. But I’m ok to give that up to never ever support what fuckface does.

Dave Ramsey is an out of touch asshole though.

Thank you.

I wish my relationship wasn’t so very, very, very, very bad. And I wish I could be independent financially and not trapped as I am.

You honestly have no idea how bad it can get. Don’t ignore red flags.

Protect your head when doing contact activities,sports, etc. Brain injury and seizures are a terrible thing to live with.

Someone at work bought me macadamia nut milk when I went vegan, it was at Costco for a while, and man that was good. They don’t carry it anymore and it’s not in regular stores I’ve seen.

Every single day. I am someone who people just really open up to. I don’t know what it is but I have the craziest conversations.

Ignoring abuse.

I didn’t say it was healthy, I just said I’ve improved at it.

I thought I was smart. I’m not. I’m clever and good at figuring things out, but there is a difference.

Good for you because morning Mormons are batshit.

The fact I won’t be able to retire. I don’t have the money because of financial abuse from my SO. I honestly don’t know what I’ll ever do. People in my city are living in tents in the park and I assume I will have to do that. I’ll have a good pension but it won’t be enough for the cost of living as it is now.

(Please don’t suggest I leave, as kind as you all are, I cannot afford it).

I don’t think you can. I very gently tried to dissuade a church friend from weaponized disinformation websites by explaining what that was, and he unfriended me and stopped coming to our church and told the pastor we were too liberal. Well we always were so it was just a matter of time before that sunk in, so I don’t imagine anything would have stopped that, but I felt bad. I just didn’t want him getting sucked in to Tucker Carlson because he is a sweet guy and deserves better, but he also seems to have gotten religion because of a psychotic episode so I’m not sure any of this is a good idea for him.

We have those nesting here too, and you’re right!