The woman I’ve been with for the last decade is an emotional woman, but she’s smart, capable, and stable.

The one I spent my late teens through 32, man oh man. It was always something with her. I’d be at work thinking everything was ok, get home and find she had left. I mean, she dealt with a lot of shit out of me, but damn.

Our last big breakup took 3 years. We were a signature away from closing on a loan for a home. She left me over and over again. Cheated with more people than I even know about. Didn’t want me at all until I found someone else and then all hell broke loose.

To give you an example of how much cheating went on at the end (maybe throughout, I never spied on her). 2 years after we had split for good an old mutual friend approached me at a gas station and apologized to me haha. I didn’t even know anything had happened between them.

Poor girl died from breast cancer 4 years after we split.

Life is chaos. It really is.

I’m only worth anything in a crisis.

It’s why my last relationship worked for so long. Girl was a living crisis.

I prefer to mate, thank you.

Man, I should have became an authoritarian ruler.

Instead I became isolated and I haven’t had a visitor in over a decade.

Fuck it. Vote for theangryseal!

For real though, maybe if I hadn’t ever used drugs haha. I had a lot of “friends” when I was living in that world. Might have stopped me. :p

I don’t remember the details but my mom’s first cousin called me once to fix her computer when I was a teenager.

No matter what she typed it came out as, “I AM FUCKING GAY!”

Seems like all I had to do was type “stop”.

Nah they’re all in there. I’ve known them since I was about 5 years old.

They legit just stopped cleaning it. The last time I went in there I noticed thick black dirt in front of the drink cooler, so I peered over the counter and it was the same all the way back in the kitchen. I couldn’t even eat my food.

It sucks too because it has always been my favorite spot to eat. I used to take my daughter every weekend.

She still eats there haha. She says she don’t care, it’s too good to give up.

The counters and cookers all look clean, they just stopped mopping the place it seems.

My local Chinese restaurant doesn’t accept cards.

Up until recently it wasn’t a big deal, they’d point to the ATM at the grocery store next door and say, “ATM right there! No card! No card!” while tapping the cash only sign.

Unfortunately that grocery store closed last month. I hope they make it because I love the family that owns the place.

After Covid though, the cleanliness went downhill big time there. I mean, to a shocking degree.

During the peak of the pandemic they stuck a table in front of the doors and trusted customers to pay and take correct change themselves. That meant the world to me.

Buuuuut. They went from the cleanest restaurant in town to a place that looks like it hasn’t been mopped since 2019. It’s like the pandemic made them lazy and they never recovered.

Kick a narcissist out of your home and tell them you don’t want them anymore, and if they manage to get back in, you won’t ever forget you crossed them.

Wouldn’t work.

That is unless they go all in and start carrying crosses around and talking about Jesus nonstop and somehow convince those folks that their opposition are all secret Satanists.

Makes my stomach hurt.

I mean, yeah, but he spent his whole workday riding around in the woods on an atv. He came to my little gas station to fill up his truck and atv and he was always happy.

He also inspected mines, I think most of his job was about looking for runoff from the mines.

Hey, it’s ya lemmy anniversary.

That one is your mom’s. She too voted her dick off.

I knew a guy who did that around here and I never seen anything but a smile on his face.

I am from a very poor place in WV where most people are on assistance because there are no jobs.

Trump flags everywhere. Cars driving down the road with no tags or insurance, but Trump stickers all over.

I don’t get it. Well, actually I do.

Religion. The preacher says the gay is bad. Preacher says the trans is bad. Democrats want to extend basic rights to those people and preacher says god don’t like that.

The pixels told me that.

It’s been going around awhile.

It definitely does.

That man is a Budweiser. Someone waved a magic wand and a Budweiser came to life.

The reason he looks this way is because he still isn’t a real boy.

Well, I’m 40. At that time we all thought there was something to be ashamed of. As much as it pains me to know I ever felt that way, I lived in constant humiliation like I wasn’t a real man or something.

My step dad (who I love and have a thousand reasons to defend when you look over the course of my life. He seems evil without context) also put me through it. “Daddy’s little girl” “little fag like his father”. Good lord, i type that out and he seems irredeemable, but he did redeem himself, honestly. Somehow he did. It turns out he went through the same thing, was the dumbest man I ever knew, and just wanted me to be as manly as I could be because that’s what it takes to keep from getting your head stomped in the world we come from. Believe it or not, it came from a place of love which somehow makes the trauma worse.

I don’t know. Life is long, and it’s tremendous. I heard that in a song years ago and it stuck out to me. I mean, we know it’s short, but some things make some times so so so long.

Is what it is. I have a drop dead gorgeous 10 out of 10 wife that any straight man would envy me for. I have kids who love me. This world is a beautiful place once you make your way, despite all of the ugly chaos.

My step dad loved me or he wouldn’t have walked to a crappy job every day just to buy my Christmas presents. He was just misguided and abused himself, and he wasn’t smart enough to see that. The way it was, that was just the way it was for him and he wasn’t smart enough to look at it any other way.

I am a straight man. I have lived as a straight man all my life. I have only been with women.

Yet, I was somehow bullied for being gay in high school until I just dropped out. I mean, there was more to it than that, but that was the reason I vomited when I seen the school sign.

Nirvana In Utero is my favorite record of all time.

They aren’t my favorite band, but my god that record hits me right where I need it.

Not trying to throw an unrelated comment, just hoping the commenter gives it a go too.