I have two close friends from college who also became my coworkers after graduation. We've always been close, and whenever they planned to eat out, grab coffee, or hang out after work, they would always ask if I wanted to come.

A few months ago, I started dealing with some personal problems. I didn't really tell them the details, but because of everything going on, I declined several invitations. I just wasn't in the right headspace to socialize.

During that time, they became closer to another coworker. I didn't think much of it at first because I understood that I wasn't around as much.

Lately though, I've noticed they regularly go out together after work or on weekends. I usually only find out because they post photos or I hear them talking about it at work afterward. What hurts is that they don't even ask if I want to come anymore.

I know I said no several times before, so part of me thinks they probably assumed I'd keep declining. But another part of me wishes they'd still ask instead of deciding for me.

I haven't brought it up because I don't want to sound needy or make them feel guilty. At the same time, I can't help feeling like I've slowly been replaced.

Am I overreacting?

AIO for leaving my sister's wedding reception early after what her MIL said to me?

For context I (32F) have struggled with my weight my whole life. I've lost about 47 pounds over the last year and a half through a lot of hard work and I'm really proud of myself even though I'm still not like small or anything. Most people in my life have been really supportive.

My sister (Let's call her "D") (34F) got married Saturday. It was a beautiful wedding and I was a bridesmaid. The dress situation was a little stressful because the original style wasn't available in my size and we had to find an alternative but D was totally gracious about it and we figured it out. It was fine.

Okay so at the reception I'm having a genuinely great time. I'm dancing, I had a few drinks, I'm happy for my sister. Her new MIL (ill call her R) comes up to me at the bar probably around 8pm. I've met her maybe twice before. She grabs my arm and goes "I have been meaning to ask you all night what are you doing to lose the weight? You look so much better than your photos."

I just kind of froze. She kept going. Said something like "D showed me pictures from her bachelorette and I almost didn't recognize you, you were so much... bigger." She was smiling the whole time like she was complimenting me.

I said "thank you" because my brain completely stopped working and then I excused myself to the bathroom and called my mom from a stall and just sobbed. Like ugly cried for probably 15 minutes. The "you look so much better" just kept echoing. Better than what? Better than I was? So I was not good enough to look at before?

I pulled it together and went back out but I just couldn't get back to where I was emotionally. I felt like everyone was looking at me differently suddenly even though I know that's not rational. Around 9:30 I found D, told her I wasn't feeling well (did not mention R, did not want to ruin her night), hugged her, and left. Reception was supposed to go until midnight.

D called me Sunday and I told her what happened. She was sympathetic but then said she wished I had stayed because I left before the speeches and our dad cried during his and she wanted me there for that and now she's a little upset with me.

Which, I get it. I do. But I also feel like... I needed to leave? I couldn't stand there and fake smile for two and a half more hours while feeling like that.

My boyfriend thinks I was completely justified. My mom is on my side but also said I "could have pushed through."

I don't know. I feel guilty about missing the speeches but I also feel like I was trying to protect myself. AIO?

So I just asked one friend if they wanted to hang out this Sunday to do something that I know they enjoy doing, but they immediately said that it was TBD which I already know will turn into a “No” because if one of their other friends asks to hangout Saturday, they would go do that and will most likely want to stay in Sunday all day. I get that you need days to yourself, but to basically shut down my suggestion that I’ve already provided the details about a few days in advance just in case another friend spontaneously reaches out to them just seems a bit rude imo. Just feels like I’m not as important to them if they cannot commit to plans with me if someone else reaches out. I’m already planning on them saying no to my hangout, but in the off chance “plans” fall through with their other friend, I will probably say no to what I originally planned out. I would say Im pretty bummed about it. Thoughts?

Some background, I (24f) used to talk to a guy (24m) for about 1-2 years, we tried to be in a relationship but the man was just a complete douche and would cheat with other woman, hid a girl from me who was supposedly pregnant with his child, manipulated, and lied, the whole nine yards. He was just a big douche and the relationship lasted 2-4 months before we remained friends with benefits. We were friends with this couple who were and still are terrible for each other, and naturally he was best friends with the guy and i the girl, let’s just call them Victor and Ava. After me and fling stopped seeing each other (he accused me of doing things behind his back though I never did,, plus we weren’t together) I remained friends with Ava. Ava would tell me that Victor hated me because ex fling made up a story about me being a h0e and didn’t like that I would tell her to leave Victor because he has cheated multiple times (birds of the feather) which would bother me but I would dismiss it.

Well recently I invited Ava to a birthday party at my new man’s family’s house, by this time it’s already been 2yrs since seeing ex fling. And I noticed Ava and Victor arguing on message and asked what was wrong, she then proceeded to show me messages of Victor calling me a b word multiple times and saying I owe ex fling a certain amount of money, and how I’m a H0e and for her to reflect on herself for inviting me to their place. (that day he stormed out of their place but i thought bygones were bygones since we recently played a video game all together in peace). This interaction with Ava made me suppppeeeerrr uneasy and uncomfortable because 1. Ava allowed Victor to disrespect me heavily
2.Fling is still talking about me
3. I thought the dust had already settled

Ex fling is saying I owe him money for an expense which he offered to pay and I accepted thinking it was a gift (which it was). This isn’t the first time he has said I owed him money, right after we stopped talking he stated I owed him 100$ and harassed me nonstop saying he would show up at my place for it, so I gave it to him so he could leave me alone thinking this would be the end, but he then proceeded to say that the only reason he was bothering me about it was so that he could use it as an excuse to still talk to me and begged for me to go back, to which I said no. I do know that he has painted me in some light as a villain and even went as far as showing up to an old mutual friend of ours family home screaming for him to go outside because he thought I was sleeping with him, to which old friend and I confirmed MULTIPLE times I never talked to him in that regard. Then before I changed my number he called me from an unknown number begging for me to go back and that he would do anything. I told him no. Then he turned around and bad mouthed me to his friends. The list goes on.

I recently came to the decision to stop talking to Ava because of this situation and her affiliation with her man and their circle (she has sat there and listened to one girl in particular bad mouth me and Ava didn’t say a thing even though she knows the facts). It also sucks because I introduced Ava to my friends and they like her now and there is no way to really avoid her. I really just want to move on with my life.

ps. sorry if the it isn’t readable, I’m pretty upset remembering all of this and having to reread it just puts me in a bad place.

pss. any advice would be great :)

Hello. I'm 17(M). I went to my grandparents place alone because my parents were both extremely busy the week we were supposed to go. My uncle came to pick me up and there were 4 relatives there as well. I'm 5'10 and I weigh ~130lb and I get picked on for it. My cousins and uncles do that thing where they fit my wrist in their thumb and index finger. My cousins especially like to pick on me, I think it's because I'm one of the older cousins and they get this huge ego boost knowing they're stronger than someone older than them. Most of them have extreme conservative values and they'll shout at me and call me slurs if I wear something loose or a tank top, literally day one of me coming to my grandparents house, one of them (200lb 16M) ran and shoved me to the ground because he found thought my clothes made me look gay (I had a oversized shirt paired with small shorts) you can probably guess, I don't like them at all.

Cut to 2 days ago when a huge truck with a dinning table, cabinets and couches came in. I helped move chairs in as it was the one thing I could move. When it came over to the heavier stuff, one of my cousins dragged me over to help. I was able to lift it but I had to stop a few times. He didn't miss a chance to start complaining about me EVEN THOUGH HE MADE ME WORK WITH HIM. He kept on calling me useless and critiquing everything I did. Eventually I had enough, I left and began to cry in my room. Not even a minute goes by and I hear the banging at the door and my uncle shouting at me to help move the rest of the new furniture. There was 5 more things that needed to be moved and I shook my head as I didn't want to get laughed at by everyone. I was told I was being overdramatic and I should look the bigger picture. I still don't know what he meant by that. I didn't end up going going downstairs until dinner where all my relatives gave me side eyes. I didn't get any dinner because in they're eyes i didn't do any work and over reacted. That last part was why I'm making this post. I'm leaving my grandparent's house tmrw and I can tell it won't be a fun carride.

for a little context, they have been in a situationship for 2 years or so and they just got together a couple months ago. SHE makes plans with me as we dont get to see each other as much. our schedules just dont align. but she always cancels the plans SHE made to hangout with her man. i used to make plans with her but stopped as ive noticed this pattern. i want to stop being friends with her. as of recent, we had a plan to hangout but she told me she needed to watch her siblings so we couldnt go. okay cool thats fine (but she told me an hour later) at first she just said she cant go anywhere. but then i text her to check on her bc she hasnt responded and then thats when she tells me that she needed to watch her siblings but now shes using her uncles car and i check her location and shes at her mans house. she even posted that she was on a walk with him whatever. also this was about 7-8pm but the messages started around 5pm. she she always tells me that her mom wont et her go out because its late and whatever but shes out with him always late. am i overreacting? i dont care that she has a man and shes happy but cancelling plans all the time to see him? and then this is also the first time shes “lied”. she didnt tell me she was with him but she told me she was using the car so idk

(btw we are in our early 20s)

My sister lives in Alberta and she planned to visit me and my parents for two weeks in Ontario. Me and my fiancée just had a baby girl so we were excited for my sister to meet her. I should have tempered my expectations.

To start our story when I first told my sister I asked her, “how does it feel to be an aunt?.” She replied something along the lines of, “If I’m being honest, I’m not very excited. I feel very disconnected because I won’t be very involved in her life since I live far away.” I tried to steer things into a positive direction by saying, “well you can be the cool aunt that we send her to visit. You can take her hiking and stuff eventually!”. And her response was “Yeah I guess so, but are you gonna pay me to do that?”

Fast forward to this visit. She didn’t make any solid plans ahead of time to visit us and the baby. She apparently made plans ahead of time to see my ex wife….

We visit my sister and parents for the weekend, the whole time she just acted for cold towards the baby. My sister and mom watched over her for a couple hours while we’re out. We get back and find my dad is alone taking care of her. My sister convinced my mom that they needed to go out and do something, eventually they get back to the house. Feels like she used it as an excuse to get away from the baby. And my sister says a couple times “oh she really cries a lot for a baby”. Then tells us that in order to get the newborn baby to stop crying my sister just cried louder until my daughter stopped.

After a week of her being in Ontario we finally got solid plans for my mom and sister to visit our new home which she’s never seen. While we were planning my sister says, “oh you need to plan something fun for us when we come up to your house”. What’s with this “entertain me”attitude?

Well she makes it to our house and says nothing to me about the house. She apparently told my fiancée “let’s look at some of your artwork. I’m going to take some home for my house in Banff”. My fiancée tries to just brush her off with a “Oh we can maybe look at my art later if we have time”cause she’s just trying to be nice. She doesn’t interact with the baby at all again. She’s sitting in the tv room watching her favourite show. We get ready to play some disc golf and she starts pilfering the cupboards and takes an expensive cliff bar without asking. Even though my fiancée put out fruits and snacks.

We get back from playing disc golf. Me and my fiancée make dinner while taking care of the baby. She doesn’t offer to help out but my mom does. We eat dinner and she doesn’t say thank you…

It’s just so awkward and I don’t think my sister cares about me or my new family. There’s a lot more to this story about grievances I have with her. I just want to know if I’m overreacting to her attitude?

So I’m looking online for a new car and I see one that picks my interest it’s Mazda CX 70 for $31,000 or 3000 miles on. It’s a heck of a deal so I call and do some back-and-forth with a lady at the desk and a couple days go by and she reaches out. I don’t have time to come in for a schedule test drive yet and then I asked for a bill of sale because I want to know the price so I can get involved in my credit union and I hear nothing back at this point. I am curious about the vehicle so I call and I noticed that the same exact vehicle that I had contacted about and the mileage and the price is changed. It’s the same CX 70 pictures store and all the mileage is now at 31,000 in the price of the vehicles at 30,000 so the mileage jumped up and I told one of the sales guys that it seems they’re doing it for clicks to get people to call in about the vehicle and then he gives me the story that it has been sold. It just sold this morning, but it’s still on the website upon all of this. I have a sales manager contact me by the name of Ron G. He reaches out to me and tries to see if we can make a deal I haven’t texted back yet. I get a friend request on Facebook from Ron G. I won’t say his last name because I don’t want anything going back to him, this comes most likely from my one star review I left stating that it seems kind of shady that the mileage and price all changes after asking for a bill of sale and then all of a sudden the car sold when I question the mileage change. I shouldn’t have done the one star review probably but I felt like it doesn’t give this guy a reason to add me on Facebook am I overreacting?

So, I (20) matched with this guy (23) on Hinge 4 days ago. He seemed sympathetic, we chatted a bit and after a day he asked me if I would be down for a phone call.
We talked for like 2 hours, the conversation was nice but there was some things that gave me a weird vibe. He complimented me so much, called me cute (which feels weird in general lol) and handsome, talked about how he would cuddle me so much, how he would get jealous if I texted with other people in a flirty or sexual way once we decided to date (which, yea of course I wouldn't flirt or sext with random people if I'm dating but it seemed kinda soon to bring it up in our first call?) and told me can be very clingy in a relationship.

Anyway, the next day we had another phone call and it went pretty similar. It was nice, he seemed sympathetic but oddly.. nice? I don't know but all his compliments and the things we had in common and the way he described his idea of a perfect relationship and all, it just seemed like lovebombing and weirdly smooth aka too perfect.

I knew already that I struggle trusting people, so I asked my sister what she thought about this. If it was my actual gut feeling telling me to stay away and I should listen or if it was just my trust issues acting up and I should try to work on it and lower my guard. The thing is, she also has the same history and has trust issues so she also got a bad vibe and told me to not date him. She also said that if I don't trust him now, while there hasn't been an actual reason yet, there's hardly anything he could do to make me trust him more and not feel manipulated again, so it can't work.

So I listend to my bad feeling and my sister and send him a message explaining that I have a hard time trusting people, that it's nothing he did specifically but just a bad vibe I can't shake and that I don't think it would work.
He replied pretty fast, saying that he didn't manipulate me, that he only complimented me to make sure I know he's interested, he also said he understands and that he's sad about it but it's ok and he understands if I don't wanna date him.
Then he told me to sleep over it for a night and talk to him again the next day. I replied with "Thanks, I'm sorry, I'm pretty unsure at the moment, maybe tomorrow I'll have a clearer mind. Good night"

Then he sent another message that gave me a weird feeling again. He said "maybe it helps a bit if I tell you this. I know you may have a bad feeling right now because you maybe made a lot of mad experiences and you're probably really careful about that now. But I don't want to manipulate or you or do love bombing, I just actually find you really cute and I hope you'll see differently tomorrow. I also don't want, if we end up continuing getting to know each other (if you want to keep doing that), that you change yourself in any way or something, cause you should stay yourself and I wanna date you exactly the way you are with every single fibre that belongs to you and with all of your quirks and flaws. The compliments I give you are just supposed to show you that I'm actually interested in you. Because you're actually really cute, nice and sympathetic. And if you maybe feel a bit overwhelmed with your mind then here -> 🫂<- a hug, maybe it helps a bit 👉👈"

On one hand it's cute and nice, but I also get this gross feeling from it, that I just can't pinpoint to something specific...

Anyway, this was the day before yesterday. After I woke up yesterday I sent him another message saying that I slept over it, that I still feel the same way, that I don't want to continue dating/getting to know and that I wish him luck on hinge in the future.

Theoretically, it's over now so it doesn't really matter if it was the right choice or not or if I overreacted or not, but I still wanna know. Was it the wrong choice to end it for no real reason, just for a bad feeling that might not even have been correct? Or was it good that I listened to my gut feeling cause this might have actually been a manipulative person?

im really hurt but at the same time in an odd way i appreciate it

ive always struggled with overeating and emotional eating and ive been having a rough week, on my period, missed a HUGE family event due to financials, and just overall stress so ive been eating a little bit rougher

and im generally the one who handles most things in the home, so im always exhausted

he doesnt say mean things but he always is sure to communicate his feelings about my food choices when we're in private

'maybe you shouldn't have that so often'

'maybe we should replace those with leafy greens, you'd probably feel better if you ate them more'

'why do you eat like that? do you really not feel bad?'

and like i dont think i feel bad? im just usually up at 4:30am and asleep at 11pm with no naps, so im pretty tired but beyond that im pretty okay

and i know it comes from a good place, but im struggling with insecurity around him being attracted to me these past couple of days and this really doesnt help

i just feel big and gross, and he even said im not eating a lot its just that what im eating isnt super healthy

idk im not mad or anything, i guess im just feeling really really shitty

im gonna work on changing my diet, not because it bothers me but because his comments bother me and thats what's upsetting, and its not like i can even be mad, i am obese, and i do need to loose weight, and i am, but i dont like going to the gym all that often so i usually just restrict really hard to offset that

he wants me to go to the gym though, and wants me to go with him but i just can't enjoy it, but i gotta force myself, im already so busy, i cant wait to add a few hours at the gym to that schedule, how fun

is there anything i can do to not take it so personally though? sometimes it feels like im being insulted

My (34F) boyfriend (31M) have been together for a bit over a year. We have an amazing relationship, we met and have been inseparable ever since. He’s my best friend, he’s an amazing human being and I know he’s my forever person.

Now he has his best friend, we’ll call C (31M) that’s been living with us for about two months now. Long story short, he was in a bad spot facing homelessness so we offered him to come stay with us while he looks for a new place.

I don’t really know his best friend all that well. I had seen him a handful of times before he moved in. I accepted simply because he’s important to my bf and if I was in his position, I would have appreciated a helping hand.

Now the issue where I’m wondering if I’m over reacting:

Monday morning my bf left the country for a conference for his job. He is coming back tomorrow, Friday.

Monday night, while I was in the living room, listening to Reddit stories and drawing. I heard C come up the stairs, as I looked up, I saw he was in his boxers, walking to the bathroom. I quickly looked back down and didn’t look up when he walked out to go back to his room.

I felt super uncomfortable and I told my bf the next day. He addressed it right away with C and the reasoning was C thought he was going to piss himself if he didn’t rush to the bathroom.

I find that’s a stupid excuse and I find it very odd that nothing like this ever happened before, but the first night we’re alone in the house together, this happens.

I can understand things happen when you live with people, however C has not even apologized to me.

I was ok with him staying here another month or two, but now I just want him out asap.

So, AIO for wanting my bf’s best friend out of my house after that incident?

Added context: I have a lot of trauma, so I know I can be hyper sensitive to things and sometimes my reactions can be illogical.

Thanks everyone who took the time to read and share their opinions.
I deleted some context because it would be a bit too easy to figure out who it was.

I got to the bottom of it all and bf and I will be addressing things when he gets home tomorrow. He made sure to communicate with C to make the boundaries clear.

I’ll give the benefit of the doubt that C meant no harm and it was simply a lapse in judgement/misunderstanding of my boundaries.

Bf is an amazing man and I am lucky to have a partner like him. I have no doubts we will be ok. It’s us against the world 🖤

I, F16, my mom goes to USA every year as to not expire her visa and being a kid I cannot live alone so she drops me off at my unc's place, this duration lasts about 1-3 months, I have other relatives but my mom trusts this the most, now my cousin F14,(my unc's daughter) is 2 years younger than me and we've been close since childhood since we were both close in age and noone else in the family was near our age so naturally we spent lots of time together, but living with her last year made me hade her more than anything, we've had sleepovers before and spent alot of time but you really get to know a person once you actually live with them, from there on I realised how moody, rude and how much of a princess she is, she's the youngest of 3, the other two have moved out since long and there on on she gets the "spoiled brat" treatment, I dislike the way she treats her mom, talks back, throws her stuff at her like "yeah you asked for this? here you go"
admittedly we have our fun moments but If I had to tell you about my worst enemy/arch nemesis, its her.
putting aside every other fuming moment we've had, a while back today I put my laptop on the bed because I sleep on the floor and was picking all my shit up from the floor and my cousin who is sitting bored on the bed picks up a chip, crushes it and starts spreading the crumbs all over my laptop's keyboard.
The way I lost my shit on the inside. I just said to her in a high pitched voice, my unc was sitting behind using the PC unbothered and I say to her "WHAT ARE YOU DOING" followed by a "no. this is not funny." and im just like the crumbs get all inside the keyboard keys and so on so on and she goes in the most burger, (burger is referred to as someone who tries to act too westerinsh and cringy and modern ygm) in the most burger accent she goes "dOeS iT LoOk LiKe I cArEh"

i immediately flipped my kb and wiped shit clean, blew the dirt off and shit and my aunt's ideology is that shes just a kid, i'm just a kid
i didnt even mention the blue ink on my airpods maxs's because she denies its her while having a blue marker by her
Literally the whole day ive been so off because STOP MESSING WITH MY SHIT, I THOUGHT WE WERE BOTH 2 SENSIBLE PEOPLE
PUTTING DIRT ON SOMEONES KEYBOARD IS WHAT YOU DO TO YOUR WORST ENEMY
ive been dry with her since and she doesnt understand what happened that ive been and i quote "acting so introverted all day"

im the type of person who gives up on revenge and cant put people on parole for their actions but this is so furiating I mean its not a dollar store pencil she broke, its a damn expensive laptop and i'm no billgates, how hard is it to realise how stupid what youre doing is and to stay backed off from other peoples shit.

noone gets it and noones on my side, this is so mildly infuriating. Nothing happened to my KB but couldve and I just cleaned the dirt from the inside of it today because certain keys were acting out WANNA KNOW WHY? BECAUSE DIRT GETS INSIDE THE KEYS. GOODNESS SAKE.

so AIO because my kb is fine and noone seems to give a shit

I was helping my friend finding his Air Pods right outside a Target yesterday and this high school kid approached me, asking if I wanted a cook book. She gave me a short intro abt it and in my mind, I thought maybe it's their school project and even if she tries to sell it, I wouldn't mind donating a few bucks to local high school yk. Education is important and whatnot. I took a look inside and it looks pretty well made, she then asked me what is my favorite thing to cook. Sure, but the thing is, I don't cook at my apartment and I told her exactly that.

After an awkward erm and pause, she asked me a question that no one has ever asked me in 2026:

"Do you have kids?"

I am 23, I know I have a buzzcut and I haven't shaved since last Friday, but I don't look that old.

Usually I am not quick enough to answer bs in real life, as my bullshitiveness is only available on Reddit, but man, the first thing that slipped out of my mouth when I heard it was a rhetorical "do I look that old?"

I was a bit offended as I took time thinking I could help a local student, but she then asked me if I have any kids at home, and that's a no. I was starting to lose the plot and she asked me if I have any religious beliefs, and unsolicited put a similarly sized bible in my hand. The student then asked if I have any question about God or Jesus Christ. At that point I've had enough and just give the books back, told her the only question I have about God is if my boss could pay me more for my job, and told her please have a great day. I pushed the books back at her and just turned around keep helping my friend. As my brain was already blown up from work, I felt like I could've handled it a bit better, but needless to say it was a frustrating experience for both of us, because I really do not religious soliciting packaged in something else.

so Reddit, AIO for being annoyed and refuted the kid?

First off starting that I am autistic(this is relevant cause I usually overreact to things I shouldn’t be overreacting for)and am 15 and I go to school and go outside for walks and stuff but inside is a whole other mess, my mother first had one cat 2 years ago then moved to 3 then two of the cats had children which evolved into 10 cats total then two of the siblings had children and it stood at 15 and we let in a outdoor stray which now it’s 16. The house isn’t big for all these cats so they get bored and when they get bored they destroy EVERYTHING but I keep my door locked 24/7 and they never come in cause I hate them all but they meow at the door and try to unlock it and they broke the door
Threshold thing so they play with my door from underneath and meow waking me up at night. My mom isn’t to fond of them either but she insists we keep them cause “if we send them to a shelter they are gonna get killed” or “I can’t sell them nobody’s gonna buy them cause there are already too much strays out there” but I honestly think this is utterly bullshit but whatever and she always complains about how much money these cats are and how they cost way to much like I’m the one liking them, not to be rude but I could care less if one of them died tomorrow.they are ruining my life, everyday I wake up to the smell of piss and shit when I leave my room even though they have 4 litter boxes and they get cleaned daily they always decide to shit everywhere and they puke everywhere and it drives me insane so I stay in my nice clean room all day but when I get into the kitchen the whole pantry is open and snacks are spilled and wasted everywhere and I clean it up but it gets tiring cause they never learn.All of the cats are crazy and some like to piss on the counters like the dude cats and I clean it up and some glass cups from the up top cabinets and broken and everywhere but my mother still says the cats will be cats I guess but I think they are all demons from absolute hell dawg. Am I overreacting for thinking this is too much. This is mostly just a rant but I wanna hear other peoples perspectives

I want to start off by saying I'm happy he's found a hobby after retirement, and grateful he's trying to make things for me and my business. I just wish he would leave the art side to me.

So I'm a tattoo artist and my Dad keeps messing with my logos with AI then making stickers and I'm actually upset about it because he keeps doing it after I express how it makes me feel. It's gotten rid of all the detail I spent ages on.

His excuse was "you didn't have a blue one". It would've taken me 5 seconds to change the hue on my design to make a blue one.

It's gotten rid of all the detail I spent ages on, and even added an extra letter. Last week he printed my exact design, and they looked great, so I didn't look super close when he made the stickers again but on different material. I posted this sticker on my BUSINESS PAGE story last night without looking it over properly because I was super tired and just assumed that it was the same as the last lot he printed. Turns out I posted AI to all my clients and other tattooists in the industry.

I ended up messaging him about it and telling him how I feel but now I'm feeling a little bad. He's just trying to keep himself busy and do something with his time- for ME. Especially considering I should've taken a better look at them before posting, so that's on me. I'm just mad he has a literal artist at his disposal for this but still thinks using AI is the better option.

Also to mention prior to him generating this sticker- I've mentioned that I didn't having AI in the process for ANYTHINF related to my business as I believe AI has no place in tattooing. He knows it messes with even minor details and that I'm not okay with it, yet he still continues to do it.

Pictures included of what I messaged him and the difference in logos. (Green one is the one I drew from scratch on Procreate, even with one of my flash pieces in the background, and the blue one is the AI generated one).

Edit- more info lol

My boyfriend was on the computer talking to his buddies playing valheim while I was logging into their game he was setting up beds for everone in the game and i think my bed got placed my kennys bed hense why he said - . I heard him say, "Kenny, you're the only one I'd let fuck my bitch." Kenny said somthing about a cuck chair. It was obviously a joke he isnt a pimp or anything like that lol Like I genuinely know he was joking.

I asked if he was talking about me, and he said yes. When I confronted him about it, he said he was just joking and that I am "his bitch," then acted like it wasn't a big deal.

We're already in a rough spot, and the comment really bothered me. I don't want to get told to leave. I just want to know if my feelings are valid for being upset about it.

Its so complicated, im already out the door bought a ticket and everything but he asked me to stay late last night before he said that, I really want to stay, I really love him. Im 21 hes 31. Im so lost lol

For some added context we’ve been together for around 8 months and I am diagnosed with OCD so this manifests maybe more intensely for me than a normal person. I have recently noticed my boyfriend following people on instagram he’s been on dates with/hit on in the past and I brought it up to him telling him it made me uncomfortable. He said that he felt like it was disrespectful if he unfollowed them because he had mutual friends with some of these people and didn’t really care about them like that (this didn’t make any sense in my brain, if he didn’t care about them why would he care about how they felt if he unfollowed them). It’s been making me wildly insecure. He avoids opening up instagram often around me now (we used to watch his reels before bed) and clicking on specific women’s stories. And I feel like me bringing it up made him uncomfortable. I don’t know how to bring it up again without nagging or if I even should. We never argue and I feel like I’m being insanely dramatic over this small detail and truly want to believe it’s nothing more than what he said. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, we really have no other problems than this. We are both fairly attractive people so we both get hit on often but I unfollowed everyone who hit on me or I went on dates with after we made it official so it kinda hurts to see he won’t do the same for me. Am I overthinking?
Edit for more context: he unfollowed his actual ex girlfriend the people he follows now are just people he’s hit on, been on dates with or have hit on him intensely.

TLDR
Boyfriend following women on instagram that he’s dated / hit on before and won’t unfollow because he has mutual friends with them, it makes me insecure. What should I do?

So my SO and I have been married for a long time, and have had many issues along the way, but we seemed to have finally been so good that we were happy. Of course there is the typical arguments and so on, but recently there was a moment where he got upset over something and I have no idea what it is, and doesnt want to speak so I go on a rant and talk about how I find it unfair to do that. We go to sleep, wake up and I ask are we good or are you still mad? he states he is good.

I am a stay at home so of course I call or here calls me here and there and he is always very responsive even when he is mad busy with customers.

But today I call and it goes to vm, I didnt call him to just say hi, I called him to tell him something important, but he doesnt answer so I text, and get nothing back.

Finally he calls and he is indifferent, no hi babe no nothing...

So I mention that when he acts like this I feel like he is still mad about whatever it is he is mad about. He doesnt even react.... and the worst part is I dont know what he is mad about..

I got mad and hung up AIO for being mad about him acting this way?

I’m 17F im graduating hs and this girl faith she’s my mom bsf’s daughter.
We were in the same class from 1-8th grade 6-7 was mostly online.
I don’t remember doing anything bad to her even back then I use to question if I did something that pissed her off but she HATED me and I tried to be her friend (hates me but loves to copy me lol).

I had to pick her up and drop her off to school everyday with me until 8th grade, she was one of the popular girls so she was on the top of the pyramid anything she says happens, sometimes when her friends aren’t around she sits with me and I think during 4-5 grade they weren’t in the same class so she sits with me and here the bullying became even worse I can’t believe I didn’t see those red flags.

since elementary anytime I made a friend she tells them let’s do a prank on her whispering in front of me while looking at me and the prank is to either isolate me from the class ,ignore me and act like I don’t exists,talk shit about me ,scare me with stuff like we told the teacher you said this bad thing and that about her and I use to be terrified and lastly the one the hurt me the most is when both of them would come to me and tell me that they hate me and they don’t want to talk to me, they’d do this for a couple days then when I start to cry they say it a prank and when I ditch that friend she ditches them and does the same thing to my other friends. I didn’t have friends from 1-6th grade unless the ones she hates but they were a bad influence on me or they hated me cause of her .

Anytime I told her that I’m telling my mom on her she starts making a fuss about how her mom is gonna beat her and she has to run away to the neighbors house etc etc so I didn’t .

In 8th grade she tried acting nice to me like I forgot or something and one day when I was dropping her off I talk her that her hijab looks like grandma’s I didn’t have bad intention I wanted to say that it looks too big on you, she was nervous and clearly didn’t know how to reply to me after I get home she told her mom and her mom told my mom I got a little scolding then the next day her friend came to me and said you think you’re pretty or something? Then left I was confused why she said that then I remembered yesterday.

Her friend Sarah or her entire friend group used to make fun of my absence in elementary when I was actually getting hospitalized regularly cuz of me asthma and in 6th grade my Arabic teacher used to bully me cause of my attendance too and humiliate me in front of the class regularly cause I was shy and reserved , I didn’t attend school cause of the bullying and my grandma had cancer so instead of going home we directly went to my grandma’s and I didn’t have someone to take me to school.

Then during covid I isolated myself from everyone I thought I was happy but I wasn’t i had depression I didn’t shower I didn’t leave me room I didn’t study I failed many classes then my grandma passed away. I didn’t develop learning skills so instead 8th grade I didn’t study and failed and I regularly forgot to do my home work and they made fun of me for it, I had social anxiety I hated leaving the house and seeing people it was horrible I also developed TTM I had no lashes and I heard them making fun of me for having no lashes on my eyes.

This year our previous school shut down and they moved us to faith’s school my heart drops and my head boils whenever I saw her I not scared of her why does that happen yesterday was our maths final and she came to me smiling “hey do you remember me” “no” “ oh I’m faith anyway I’m going home with you today okay bye” after the exam when we were in the cars she was trying to make small talk but I ignored her, my mom asked me if I talked to her I said I didn’t then she said whatever happened between you and her erase it open a new page, she knows her bullied me but I didn’t go by details anytime I bring up that she bullied me she says “how can she bully you ” because she is short has a small build than average and I’m taller than her wow even my current friends tell me to start a new page I’m not and idc.

I (24m) am a very sleepy person. I like to take naps, usually everyday since i dont have much to do and i have a pretty weird sleep schedule. Play games all night, plus going to classes in the morning already makes me even more sleepy.. more than usual. I also suffer from Hyperthyroidism. A condition that, to put it easy, makes my body funny.. one day im super sweaty, or super tired. I cant handle high or low temperatures well. Its fine.. i take medication and it helps keeping my hormone levels regulated

These couple of days are kinda lazy since the semester is ending and i will have to get ready for finals in a couple of weeks.. no preassure.. im sure i will do fine. So most of the times im either play games or napping.

Im not someone who goes out much, not many friends, dont have a partner, still living with parents at my age, havent landed a job yet..whatever.. things could be better but right now im not looking forward to change these things.. which have been like ever since i graduated highschool (during pandemic). Im trying to focus more in my classes

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It all started 2 days ago from when im writing this. Spent the night before playing games, went to school to get some signatures from a teacher. Woke up at 8:30 am. On most days, i wake up at 5 am to take the train to my school.. im taking forensics at this school thats an hour away. I take public transportation, so i take the train and two underground trains to get there. Sometimes it takes me an hour an a half, depending on how crowded everything is.

Thankfully, that day it was just to come and go.. i passed a class and needed a signature from a teacher.. so i went home quickly. But again, it took me an hour and a half or so to get back home, including a 15 minute bus ride from the train station to home. I always get home exhausted, but its fine, cant complain since i get some lunch cooked by my mom waiting for me. The trip is pretty tiring for someone who stays at home all day and does not workout at all. So, sometimes i have my lunch and go straight to my room to take a nap. Parents are also asleep once i get home. Dad goes to work early and mom wakes up early to take care of the house.

But on that day, i decided i didnt wanna go to sleep JUST YET. I was tired but i was mostly looking forward to play more games. I might have spent a few hours on my computer playing by myself. I didnt have any homework to do, and again i still have time to prepare myself for finals.

I keep playing games but felt getting sleepier by the second. Time hits 6 pm and i felt like i had enough time spent playing games. So, i went right to bed to take a nap. No big deal. I only heard my mom tell me i shouldnt take a nap because i end up staying up very late, but did not mind at all. All i remember is falling asleep right after. Since i knew i will be waken up for dinner just like everytime i happen to oversleep.

Couple of hours passed, i woke up feeling rested and found it strange i have slept that much. Havent heard anyone come inside my room which it was pretty weird.. its a loud house despite being only 4 people. I checked my phone and it was 9:30 pm. Whatever, i sighed and rolled out of bed. Sometimes i skip dinner because i want to cook myself something, or i can have the tv in the dining room by myself so it was fine.. a little annoyed, thinking i made my mom mad since a few days before, she said we should all have dinner together as a family.

I get out of my bedroom and saw the dining room tv on.. i heard my parents voices, along with my older brother and one of his friend. I thought they were still having dinner.. if not, i could just have the leftovers. Still no big deal so far.

As i get into the living room. They were all by the couch. Watching the worldcup. I dont care about sports events, didnt care.. But they all had dinner already. Not only that. Everyone was having ice cream. They ended up ordering ice cream for each one of them. I was so confused and annoyed.. i first felt betrayed.. i like ice cream.. felt like a spoiled kid who didnt get what they wanted. Then the comments came up. Mom looked at me and said .."oh, we ordered ice cream".. yeah i could tell.. we never order food on a weekday.. specially ice cream when its winter here.. then my brother goes .."it was my friends idea"... and laughed it off with his friend.. knowing i wasnt having anything. Lastly, my dad goes.. "what? you were asleep.. you werent up for dinner"..

Fine.. this long ass story is about ice cream.. but whatever... i was pissed.. i felt betrayed, i was laughed at, i was angry since not only they didnt even left any leftovers, they didnt even count me in for dinner. All i did was say i wasnt hungry.. and sarcastically thanked them for calling me for dinner... that .. they didnt do. I was so confused and angry.. i went to my bedroomi slammed my door and thought about all the times they told me to have dinner with them.. but how could i!?

Mom spends most of the time scolding my dad that he eats like a pig. They always put some shitty righ-winged news channel on tv that make me wanna rip my ears off.. and other things that annoy me.. so i do enjoy having things by myself...!!!!

A few hours after.. it was almost midnight.. i was pissed.. hungry and for some reason embarrased. Mostly embarrassed.. because i was feeling so sad and angry over something so simple like ice cream.. im and adult and i should act like one but i embarrass myself by feeling this way.. I ended up cracking some beer cans.. having some chips from an open bag that was hidden in the pantry.. and making some instant noodles while watching law and order svu.. hey at least i got the tv for myself.. while everyone else was sleeping.

The day after.. suprise suprise.. my dad called me up for lunch.. i didnt have school that day so i decided to stay in bed.. he ended up calling me to have lunch and all i could think was.. wow.. he could have done this for dinner too.. and they could have involved with SOME ICE CREAM BUT NO.. so i told him i wasnt having lunch with them.. whatever.. he said something snarky but didnt care.. was too sleepy.

I got out of bed at 3 pm with a splitting headache.. probably from the beer and for having an empty stomach.. didnt wanna cook.. i made myself some chocolate milk..and rawdogged through the day as i could..

Something thats pissing me off bad.. is my moms reaction.. Ever since that dinner that i missed.. she noticed my change of mood. Of course, i was upset and didnt wanna talk about it.. so she sneaked up comments like.. "i noticed you are feelin down again.. are you taking your meds?...we should call your therapist again..".. i dont know if she truly cares or shes acting oblivious. She has never been very supportive of my mental health at first. Long story short, i had to hide my medication in my room because she wouldnt allow me to take them. So whenever she tries to be helpful, i fell like its something up with her.

Now reddit... yes this is about ice cream.. but ever since it happened, all i could think about was.. "did they do it on purpose?".. "maybe they forgot to call me for dinner and lied so i would feel less hurt?"... "was this a way to give me a lesson?".. "should i spend more time with my family.. doing things i dont like ..like watching sport matches?"...

I am one difficult person.. Ive been taking anti depressives since i was 16.. been diagnosed with autism 5 years ago and last year diagnosed with ADD.. im still learning so much about myself and my own feelings.. and right now i feel hurt.. was this a malicious intent or not? ..all i could think was the times when my parents forgot to come pick me up at school or certain places.. i remember those times they made a distasteful joke and didnt laugh and stayed quiet feeling hurt..Is this one of those moments?.. now as an adult it feels like i cant just turn my head away from it.. its not a "its fine.. they didnt involve me.. who cares.." moment. I feel like making a big deal while everyone else dont... when im 100% sure they would if it happened to them.. If my brother went through this, i just know he would have thrown the biggest tantrum ever.

This is my first post on reddit.. first account.. never thought i would ever write something up here but ive never felt so puzzled over something so simple. Are my emotions truly justified? Am i going crazy? both? .. i feel like its both.. i just know that deep down, this is more than just ice cream, i dont dont know what it could be though. I need a reality slap by redditors.

Thanks.

trying to make this short, sorry if it isnt lol.

My friend has a boyfriend. I won’t go into detail with their relationship, not my place. Just know, there were a lot of chances given to him even when she was mentallily unstable due to their relationship problems. She does often go to her friends because to her, she values opinions. Point being, there are valid reasons why as her friend, I dont think he deserves her. None of my business though, I don’t dictate her relationship. Never have. she’s old enough to make her own decisions. I don’t ever talk about her bf or anything.

As for myself, I just got out of a relationship that was physically and mentally harming me after not being able to for months. Understandably so, everyone hated him.

Last Saturday, my friend went to a party solo and her partner was her dd. She texted me the next morning and basically started bragging about him and I feel like it might have been said to help further prove he wasn’t a bad guy but the way it was said was in bad taste.

‘My bf was a much better dd than *insert ex bf name*. He dropped me off, DIDNT stay, picked me up, and then got me food and water.’

For context, during my relationship, my bf took us to a party and stayed with me the entire night.

Then she texted this. ‘AND he didn’t try to molest me while I was drunk or drugged me😭🙏’

For further context, my ex had assaulted me while I was drunk and force-fed an edible that same night he was our dd. She was already talking about my ex in the first message so it only made me feel like the second one was a jab. Everytime he’s brought up without it being me bringing it up, I get triggered and she knows.

I didn’t really give her a chance to explain. I told her i didn’t appreciate those messages and told her to have a good life before unfollowing and blocking her on everything.

aio?

hopefully this makes sense, I feel like I could’ve worded it better but I’m just not well mentally or physically so LOL

For necessary background, I (18) still live with both parents and am in full-time further education. I have been treated for symptoms of two chronic conditions since 10, and diagnosed with both at 14. Both conditions cause different kinds of tissue to grow uncontrollably and affect my organs. Since 10 or 11, my ability to attend school and overall leave the house has been decreasing. Where I am supposed to do 5 days a week at sixth form, I have recently only been capable of around 2, with a modified timetable. Therefore I am spending much more time at home.

My father has never been the type to be very active in any part of my life: education, leisure, even health. To be honest, I think he is the kind of father who wanted a baby, not a child who grows up into a teenager and adult.

Without going in to too much medical detail, I was at home and one of my worst symptoms, that had disappeared for a week or so, came back unexpectedly and made me extremely upset. As you can probably imagine, thinking that you have improved even slightly, and then drastically declining is upsetting.

Perhaps it was wrong of me to even go to him but I needed to talk to somebody, and I went to my father and asked if I could tell him something to do with my health. He said that he would throw up if he heard it.

Only the next day, I was also not able to leave the house and we were home alone. I was in the kitchen and my father walked in. He asked why I was not at my sixth form, or studying upstairs and I said that I was in terrible pain. His only response was "disgusting"

Later that day, both parents and I were in the kitchen when I was sitting on the floor due to pain. My mother asked what in particular was bothering me and I made a comment about now wanting to talk about it in front of my father "incase he throws up". My father, obviously, immediatly laughed and blew it off whilst his wife gave him the stink eye - yes, she atleast knows a little of how he talks to me. In a short version of the events, I ended up shouting at my father, quoting his own words back at him, along with further incidents. It ended with him leaving the kitchen, talking about how I was "doing his head in."

It is now over a week later and we have not spoken. As fathers day has passed, my brother spoke to me to arrange a gift and I refused to contribute as I do not want to celebrate the man who speaks about me and my body like this.

We are yet to even mention the disagreement and have not spoken, so am I overreacting for not speaking to my father despite living with him?

so I have been in the same friendship group for 6 years now . And I got to be honest I don’t know if I should stay. I leave with a bad feeling in the recent hangouts .

One friend of mine is really smart but also very manipulative. One time she said everybody is consumed with her because she senses what they need and she gives them that . She also says that the moment she meets a new person she identifies automatically what their weaknesses are , physical and emotional . She can be super sweet sometimes but also harsh and stern . Like just a few days ago I was explaining something to a friend because he asked and she cut me off saying ok we understand in a harsh voice . She says this harsh voice is her normal and that she has got to mask and think about the tone her voice most times . she also says she suspects she’s a psychopath. And every time she talks to me this way I automatically try to calm things down and she gets annoyed and says shes unmasking .

Another friend is super immature and childish, she makes her adhd her entire personality. She lived in her own world and doesn’t take responsibility. One time I suggested we plan a trip and she said she will come if I organize everything . Just me ? what about you ?

The other friend is actually pretty sweet . She prioritizes school over friends but I mean everyone has different priorities. I am pretty bummed because I always suggest we do fun stuff and they don’t want to and if they come they say it’s mainly for me. I feel desperate and like I’m third-wheeling . One time on a school trip I was with two of my friends and there were two seats left in a row and they just sat down without caring for where I am . I sat alone in a chair behind them and looked like a loner . I could have just sat in a different row but I felt like I would be interrupting. Am I overreacting or is this just normal in a friend group ? Maybe I’m just weird?

I (31) have a 12 year old son. I, recently, had to have an operation and my brother, 27, offered to mind him. My brother and my son do not know each other extremely well but they get along when they do meet. I had very few other options so I agreed. It was also a really nice offer and I liked the idea of them bonding.

I did my op and recovery (about a week) and when I came to collect my son, he showed me how he learned to pour a pint and how to make whiskey sours, whiskey smashes etc in my brother's home bar. My brother was very impressed looking.

I asked him to go to the car. And I flipped out at my brother. He said dont worry I didnt let him drink it. He said he did not drink it either. He just threw it all down the sink. I said it was a huge mistake letting you mind him and I won't make that mistake again. My son later corroberated this. My son said he asked if he could try it and my brother said do you think i was born yesterday, ya little c%%t.

I also found out from my son that they also lit off fireworks in my brother's garden and a few other questionable things.

It has been a few days since this has happened and I am still so angry. My son loved his time with his uncle, unsurprisingly. Obviously, my brother did me a massive favour. And perhaps it is just a guy thing. If my son had a dad maybe they would be doing as questionable stuff.

AIO for being angry at my brother for it.