It's her bed though, and we agreed a long time ago that neither of us would in any circumstance take the floor or any other space that's less comfortable than the bed.
We will look into separate sleeping spaces in the future. It's not the closeness that bothers me as much as it is how she mumbles in her sleep. Nothing that she has ever said in her sleep hinted at this, and judging by last night it's probably not going to change. I don't think I'll be alright hearing it every night.
I can't say it would have changed much if I had known that she was questioning beforehand. She has expressed guilt over feeling like she experimented with me, but she has also stated that she said she wouldn't feel certain unless she gave us a chance.
I would have given her the chance if she had asked mostly due to how close we are.
As for family, they're maga, I have no ties with them. I have a couple of close friends. She seemed to have been preparing me for this as recently she was attempting to push me to socialize more outside of her own friends and family more.
If my family were involved they wouldn't be supportive, but I would not allow them to harm her in any regard.
I consider myself demi at the moment, but with just how much it takes for me to bond with anyone I do sometimes it feels that I may as well be aroace. It's hard to describe the amount of important aspects that we share together that made us functional together even if it only took one fault to make it impossible.
We're still going to live together for the time being. I might be more bothered by sharing the same bed than she is. We do want to separate at some point so she can pursue love on her own, although she doesn't feel a lot of confidence about that.
She wants me to try dating though, but I also just don't feel any confidence about finding anyone.
You flatter me. I don't really know how to take it like that. This is just two people being themselves. We haven't done anything wrong besides being incompatible in certain ways.
And I appreciate the kind wishes, I'm not sure if I'll try later. She is one of the only people in the world I can say I have ever felt comfortable being vulnerable around and I'm not sure that I could build up that trust with anyone in the future.
The collapse of the U.S. just makes the rat race feel even more real for everyone.
There is already a large amount of qualified graduates across various fields from India and China. Now we're adding a third sizable country's worth of graduates to that.
She didn't deserve that, and these glasses are so problematic. Too problematic for society, just like so much of the AI products being introduced.
Yes some of the glasses are supposed to have lights, but if you search online you can find plenty of ways to cover or conceal them.
Also myself and my significant other wear prescription glasses that have a similar shape to these. At what point do we have to start being anxious about people starting to slug anyone wearing glasses out of paranoid concerns for their privacy?
I don't want to deal with any of this. We live in such a dystopian world.
I had to check the date on this post due to the XIV avatar.
Definitely keep clean and use deo, but I remember the last major XIV convention in NA was so poorly planned out that it had massive lines of people waiting outside in the late July summer heat in Las Vegas. It's a bit of an unfortunate situation.
I'm surprised he has enough intelligence to even be able to understand that he had been called out. Him and the U.S. were not mentioned by name in Carney's speech at all, even if it was rather obvious.
Civil War suggests there will be organized resistance.
This is true, but there's more to it than that.
Around the time I first joined Lemmy a user on here recommended a book to me titled "How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them."
I'm oversimplifying the contents, but civil wars tend to be more common in countries that are in a status that is between autocracy and democracy. Overwhelming authoritarianism and overwhelming democracy are stabilizers that make it difficult for infighting that contests the leadership of the country.
There's a lot of ways to interpret the current atmosphere and where we are on that scale. I don't feel confident in my ability to judge it.
There is a lot of information missing. I am in no way saying that she deserved such treatment, but I agree that I'm not entirely sure what she expected either.
I'm assuming that the woman was neither conservative nor an agitator. Based on this statement she seems just like someone who went there in good faith potentially expecting open conversation.
“I’m an engaged community member and I often sit at (discussion) tables with people that have many points of view. I work hard to try to bridge the gaps and I have big worries these days about where we’re heading, particularly with what’s going on south of the border.”
I understand that there's more civility north of the border. Regardless, that was a conservative meeting featuring Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Canadian conservative party who regularly kisses Trump's ass.
People really, really need to learn that you cannot have open dialogue with conservatives. It doesn't matter what country they're from, how polite they might seem, or their position on the conservative scale, the agenda is ultimately the same. Spend your energy on meaningfully opposing them, rather than gratifying them with these impossible attempts at communication.
It won't stop them. Immigration and customs already had a large amount of unchecked power prior to this administration, but under this administration there isn't anything they care about. They've been murdering people in cold blood across multiple blue states for a while now.
Besides that, if people start panicking and trying this then the necessary venues that people have to go to for their first passport(you have to show up in person for your first passport) could become ICE targets or places they stalk. It's not exactly uncommon knowledge that conservatives tend to not bother getting passports either.
It's inevitable. No one should trust the U.S. right now, and countries should be attempting to strengthen relations with each other to deal with the fallout that is bound to occur.
Has he not been doing a decent job as fed chair head though?
I would say yes, even without considering how he has handled Trump. He's had to deal with the pandemic, in addition to pressure from the current markets, and then there's Trump. DOGE cleared out so many government agencies, has them working with skeleton crews which means there's less data for the fed to base their decisions on. Trump himself has been applying constant aggressive pressure even before this investigation.
And frankly even if he isn’t, Trump going after him in the position he’s in is extremely serious. I agree that he shouldn’t be lionized and it should be more about the position.
And yeah, that's really what it comes down to. Regardless of how you feel about Powell the federal reserve needs to be independent. The economy is fucked even harder than it is now the moment Trump takes control of it. Inflation will go out of control, savings will go up in smoke near instantly.
I sleep well as long as my wife is there. She can roll us from one side of the bed to the other or off it even and I'll continue sleeping like a rock. The moment she's sick or has trouble sleeping is when I also have trouble sleeping, which is fine with me.
I do sometimes miss being younger and sleeping any where, any time though.
I could believe this. Not saying the men's are much better as I'd say they're definitely just as bad, but my wife used to tell me horror stories about the women's restrooms before she swore off ever using one again outside of emergencies.
She probably would if I asked.
It's her bed though, and we agreed a long time ago that neither of us would in any circumstance take the floor or any other space that's less comfortable than the bed.
We will look into separate sleeping spaces in the future. It's not the closeness that bothers me as much as it is how she mumbles in her sleep. Nothing that she has ever said in her sleep hinted at this, and judging by last night it's probably not going to change. I don't think I'll be alright hearing it every night.