I am seeking advice from anyone who can relate in any way, but mostly need to vent because this stuff actually lays heavy on me.
So, I (28f) have 2 siblings. My older sister (36), and younger brother (26). My parents have been together since they were 17. However their relationship/marriage has been anything but exemplary. My dad has always been very physically abusive towards my mother. I lived in one of those households where everyone feared my dad. Given my sister is 8 years older than I am, she witnessed and experienced way more in my home than I ever did in those short years before I was born. I have memories of seeing my dad beating my mom and sister on numerous occasions and for any reason. Sometimes it felt like he didn’t even need a reason. However, things in my household worked like a slinky going down stairs sometimes; where my dad would hurt my mom, my mom would in turn become offensive towards my sister and she turned around and was slightly abusive towards me. I was pretty depressed from an early age. For a period of time when I was small I truly felt like my family didn’t love me and I would often pretend to run away. My family found it funny at the time (I was probably about 5 or 6 when I felt this the most). My sis ended up leaving the house at 18, which was somewhat of a relief for me because she was always picking on me. A whole lot has changed since I was little. My dad is still a grouch, but he hasn’t hit my mom or anyone else since I was about 18. He grew up in a family that cusses a whole lot, and he remains that way to this day. But compared to all the physical stuff, words are just words at my parents house now. I’m sure anyone in that house would prefer to tolerate verbal abuse over anything else we have lived through on any given day.
It wasn’t until I was about 16 that my sister started showing more interest in building a closer relationship with me. Despite the way she used to treat me, it felt nice to finally have a good relationship with her. So we became close. She would let me in on the family secrets and gossip, and we would talk about our lives growing up. Eventually I brought up what she put me through as a kid in a conversation and she apologized. She also told me she had gone through the same type of conversation with my parents, where she confronted them for the way she was brought up. From what I gathered, there were lots of tears and apologies from both my parents.
Her family started growing pretty rapidly around that time, and as a single aunt I absolutely adored her children. She ended up moving to a neighboring city (about a 30 min drive), and it became slightly harder to visit her because of the distance. I basically went from being at her house every week- because she was about a 7 min walking distance away- to only being able to go over about once every 3 or 4 months due to the fact that our schedules hardly ever line up now. Sadly, I feel like we aren’t very close anymore.
Now to update you on more recent years; my sister now has 3 kids (16, 8, and 6). My younger brother has two kids (4 and 1), and I also have two kiddos (5 and 1). My brother- being 2 years younger- has always had the closest bond with me. We did everything together growing up, and now that we have kids all relatively close in age, we hangout about once a week or are in constant communication (we communicate through meme sharing on IG). Lol. My brother and I have a pretty close relationship with my mom. When we get together its nice. We have become a little tight knit family and help each other out whenever we need it. My dad and my sister have sort of decided to isolate themselves from the rest of the family though. My sis is very much “the black sheep” of our family, and my dad would rather just be alone. Speaking to him feels slightly awkward as he doesn’t really initiate conversation or express any interest in us. I feel like he might even be depressed, but because he has never really shown any true love for his family, none of us really bother to check up on him much. Still, I actually feel a little guilty for that too.
Things haven’t really started to bother me about my family until recently. Almost two years ago I got pregnant with my second child. Then a few months later we found out my brother was also expecting a child with his wife. Everyone was excited and of course we shared this news with our older sister, and she seemed happy for us when we announced it to her. However, she was a complete no show for both of our baby showers with zero explanations. We tried not to feel sour about it even though we knew for a fact she was off from work on those exact days. Then fast forward to this past winter. I got married. The venue we had chosen was coincidentally down the street from her house, literally like a 2 minute drive. However, she only stayed at the event long enough for me to see that she was present and she just upped and left with her whole family almost right after the whole bouquet toss thing. According to my brother who was sitting at the same table as her and her family, she left without even saying a word. I also wanted to mention how my father was nicely planted on a chair throughout most of the reception, and didn’t talk to anyone at all. He kinda just stared off into space or was fidgeting with a napkin on the table every time I caught a glimpse of him. I don’t know if I’m making it a bigger deal than it really was, but overall it was hard to not be a bit upset at them. I had a blast at my wedding regardless of this. I sure as heck wasn’t about to allow that from ruining what is supposed to be one of the happiest days of my life.
Then, after that it has just been nothing but no shows for the most part from both my sister and my Father. - My kids’ bday celebration held earlier this year; both didn’t show. - Easter family gathering; again. Both of them didn’t show. - My brother and his daughter’s bday celebration; Our dad finally showed. Sister did not.
At this point, my brother is fed up of trying to include our sister or our father in anything. Both have shown that they clearly don’t want to be involved in anything we do as a family. Even when it comes to doing something as simple as texting them just to know how they are… if someone else from the family doesn’t initiate the text, we will literally never hear from either of them. However, the only reason I keep insisting that we shouldn’t stop inviting her is because her children love spending time with us and all their little cousins. I have literally heard all of them begging their mom to bring them over to spend time with us. Not to mention that I have a pretty close relationship with my teenage niece (She kinda sees me as her ‘cool auntie’ and closest family member).
Should I just let my sister be? Should I keep pushing this idea that we could all one day become one big happy family? Like, it literally breaks my heart to think about our children not growing up around each other. The very few times that we have gotten together as a big family, it was so awesome. Everyone was so happy. I think?
I really don’t know what to think of all this. Any thoughts or advice on what to do would be nice. Sorry if this became very long to read or hard to follow. I just feel so strongly about my family and my thoughts about them are so jumbled.

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I’ve had dashpass for probably like 4 years now, because of delivery fees I had the mindset that I just needed to have a couple deliveries a month and it was worth it. I knew they marked up food but I didn’t really care. I figured it was like $2-3 per item, throw in a $5-$10 dollar tip. And sure I’m paying ~$10 more than if I picked up, but no problem, and never thought much of it.
Well recently, my wife and I didn’t doordash for probably 2 months and we ended up really not feeling like cooking or putting pants on, so we open up the app and go to order from one of our go-to restaurants, we punch in our order and saw it was $45 before tip.
Taking a doordash tolerance break must’ve reset my bullshit meter cus I thought, “huh $45 for 2 chicken and rice plates and a side? Seems kind of steep.”
So out of curiosity we go to the restaurants website and order for pick up and our exact same order was $26….
Almost 75% markup WITH dash pass, meanwhile the app has the audacity to say, “you’re saving $7.36 with dash pass”.
I swear I had double checked pick up vs ordering on doordash before and it’s never been this bad. So now I’m curious what’s the worst doordash markup you’ve ever seen?

Okay I’ll start this off by saying this is all hypothetical with unlimited casting budget and a spell to make all of them want to join/rejoin the show. I know I’ll get downvoted for some of these choices but remember we are watching for drama and entertainment not for a moral compass lesson. I truly believe Beverly Hills is flopping because of the same reason as KUWTK, the show has lost all relatability.
To bring some of this back, I’d heavily cut back on the filming of Glam Squads and focus more on the extravagant lifestyles they live, and their expensive parties. In this way, we still get the lifestyle porn we crave but not in a rediculous superficial way. Possible storylines at the bottom of post…

1. 𝐊𝐘𝐋𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒- the OG Beverly Hills housewife. It’s always good to have some familiarity in the show and I believe she’s a semi good pot stirrer for drama. I wouldn’t say she’s my favourite housewife but she’s a solid attribute to the show.
   
2. 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐀 𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐏𝐔𝐌𝐏- the master puppeteer bobby fisher. I think its undeniable no matter how much you love LVP that she does manipulate the storyline to some extent and that’s what we need. I also don’t think she’d stand for some of the ridiculous storylines we’ve seen such as Brandi and Denise or Erika bullying Sutton.
   
3. 𝐀𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐅- the classy voice of reason. Adrienne comes from old money, and she brings the lifestyle porn aspect. If we cast 8 rinnas and Brandis the show would just turn into a free for all, it’s always good to have some strong but not overly dramatic ladies among the cast.
   
4. 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐀 𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐀- Nutcracker Squirrel Crazy. Like many people I have a love hate relationship with rinna. Most of the things she does I do not agree with however as stated, we aren’t watching for moral compass, but for drama. Before Erika joined, rinna was crazy but she wasn’t the completely ethical-less human being she became after season 9. I think without Erika she will become less evil but still bring the storyline’s as she did in season 5 and 6.
   
5. 𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐕𝐀𝐈𝐒- I’m choosing garcelle for the same reasons as Adrienne, she’s a voice of reason and she’s also very unlikely to back down from her opinions and will always speak up when she disagrees with something. I like how she doesn’t tend to be a sheep and follow along with BS storyline’s simply because the other ladies are. Also brings a mom of teenagers aspect.
   
6. 𝐊𝐈𝐌 𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒- I think we all have a soft spot for Kim. She’s opinionated and outspoken and brings a cute little kooky aspect that Sutton is currently bringing. I think everyone wants to see how she’s doing and I really loved her on the show because she stands up for herself without creating unnecessary drama.
   
7. 𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐘 𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐓𝐎𝐍- I’m choosing Kathy because I feel it would create an interesting dynamic to have all the richards sisters on at once. I don’t know who I believe in the aspen accusations, however Kathy is RICH HUNNY. She’s classy whilst also adding the kooky and funny aspect whilst having a strong side.
   

𝟖. 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐈 𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄- Trashy, Messy but reality TV gold. Brandi by no means is a moral high ground however she truly is fun to watch. She’s not necessarily a vile human being (like rinna s12) but she also won’t take BS from anyone. I think it would be interesting to see her back in the show.
𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐎𝐅:
𝐊𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐉𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑- I think Kris Jenner on the show would be a ratings boom. She’s quite possibly the most well connected woman in America with endless wealth and class. I’m putting her as a friend of because as a housewife, I believe the woman would be simply to scared to go against her due to her fame and money. She’s got connections already to Faye Resnick, Kyle, Kathy, and Kim.
𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓 𝐊𝐄𝐌𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐘- I kinda love dorit but let’s be real she’s a bit boring. I think she’s a good voice of reason and is iconic at times and that’s why I’ve put her as a friend of.
𝐅𝐀𝐘𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊- The morally corrupt. Unpopular opinion but I think Faye would be a great housewife. I’m putting her as a friend of this season to see how she holds up. She’s not afraid of anyone and will call out what she believes to be wrong.
POSSIBLE STORYLINES:
I think early on Kyle would make drastic attempts to amend relationship with LVP. I think LVP would superficially pretend to move on, but there is no way in the world she would fully forgive. I think the pent up resentment would eventually lead to LVP turning the storyline to a Kyle takedown. After her previous actions I don’t think any of her sisters would do anything major to save her from drowning and it would basically be her, Faye and dorit against the rest of the cast with Kris staying somewhat neutral.
I feel Garcelle, Adrienne and Kathy would align themselves quickly to create a strong alliance that speaks up against BS.
Kim and Brandi are obviously already friends, maybe go against rinna.
Rinna without Erika will be forced to be nicer, but I don’t think she would tone it down to the point of boringness, probably align with Kyle simply to have a friend somewhere.
Lisa V will most likely befriend Kris, as well as Garcelle, Adrienne and Kathy. I don’t know if she will forgive Brandi, I don’t think she takes Brandi seriously enough to initiate a takedown of her but I highly doubt any form of true forgiveness.
Overall, I think this cast would be the end of Kyles time on the show. She has done too much to her sisters for them to save her from a takedown. I think this season would be super super interesting.

We have been together for 2.5 years and lived together for almost 2. We are almos 1 year legal partners.
Due to work and recently moved to a month we country, we have both gained some weight, but since we work out it’s mostly noticeable just on our bellies. I have noticed a decreased interest on our sex life for a while and although I have raised it several times, I eventually let it go, but his reasoning is that he is uncomfortable with his appearance and feeling ugly naked.
A couple of weeks ago I entered his office and saw a work chat with a gay colleague of his that works miles away across the ocean, however I saw some hearts. I brought it up but he said that there is nothing there.
I am against checking your significant other phones as I know it is an invasion of privacy, and he knows that I found out my long time ex boyfriend cheated on me and I found out through his social media and although he confessed, I later continued checking his phone and social media (very toxic).
Back to my current partner story, I couldn’t help it and I checked his phone and saw some messages with this colleague, that although were not sexual or super flirty from my partners end, the colleague said things like “you are hot”, “good morning handsome”, “I hope you had a beautiful weekend, you deserved it”, etc. My partner did compliment him a couple of times though.
Fast forward to last night, he was on a tram building with his regional colleagues, which is fine, but he arrived home quite late for his style for being a weekday event. We share locations so I saw he arrived, so I pretended to be sleeping already to surprise him. To my surprise, it took him around 15min to enter the house and when I saw the location, he was a block away from the house. I waiter a bit longer but I wasn’t feeling ok, I knew something was happening. I went out and confronted him and he was on the phone with his colleague in the middle of the night laughing and when he saw me he said “hey my husband just came to pick me up! Have a good night”, laughed and hung up.
I told him that cheating is not only sexual, there is also emotional cheating and that I didn’t feel good and even less when he knows I have been cheated before. He apologized but I asked to continue the conversation this morning.
Today she showed me his phone and let me check his conversations with his colleague, and asked me not to leave him. I asked to also show me the conversation on social media (that I already saw but he doesn’t know) and he said that he deleted it last night because he felt ashamed, and that I am right, that he unintentionally might have been talking to this guy without thinking of my feelings.
I explained how I felt and now k don’t know what to do.
I still love him like crazy, I think he makes me better and I make him better as well, I asked him to think about what he wants and tell me because I am not sure if I will be able to forgive and/or forget.
Am I overreacting? Technically he didn’t cheat, maybe it was just a platonic fling with a colleague but still.. what should I do?
Extra information: we have discussed several times we are not interested in opening the relationship, and that we both rather break up than cheat and or open it.
P.s i know probably this will only be covered (if ever) on a later episode, so I would like to ask for this community support

Hi, I’ve got a steam key for mortal kombat 11 I can’t activate, pls, PM me and confirm that it worked at least on your end. I hope I’m not breaking the rules of this sub, just really don’t know what to do with it:)

Hiya, another FHB post.
Planned to settle in August. It is a new build and unfortunately miss out on the new build schemes that ANZ and ASB offer as they end June 30th.
Our broker has advised us the below rates.
6 months fixed 7.06% pa 12 months fixed 7.00% pa 18 months fixed 6.49% pa 24 months fixed 6.55% pa 36 months fixed 6.29% pa
We are trying to decide if we fix for these rates or wait till after June 30th to see if there are new schemes that come out for new builds. Obviously leaning towards the crystal ball stuff but anyone in this similar position? What would you recommend? Our broker said its just bad timing all around. Quite depressing stuff when we should be excited.
Thanks in advance.

So basically 3 days ago I was chilling on the bed when my friend came in and tossed me some chocolate thinking he was being generous and wanted to give me some chocolate (he didn’t say anything about the chocolate just tossed it) and so I ate 3 pieces cause I was hungry and then 20 minutes later I started feeling weird and got anxious , called my mom and told her I’m feeling weird and scared that my hppd is getting worse but after I ended the call I started crying for a bit and then my friend walked in luckily and said if I’m sleeping and I said yes but I couldn’t sleep so I told him I’m feeling weird and he said “wanna take a walk?” I said sure and after he was looking for his candy saying did you see any candy? And I said I ate it but then he said bro it was shrooms (in a calm way) so then I got kinda shocked but relived that it wasn’t me going crazy so I had tripped for at least 6 hours (it was a rollercoaster) but I was handling it pretty well just tryna accept the trip but then I started kinda thinking what if my hppd gets worse but I wasn’t freaking out just thinking so after the trip came down I felt kinda anxious and when I woke up my hppd has gotten worse after effects has increased and white blood cells that float in your eye and still get anxious during time to time so I’m wondering will I be healed? I was sober for a month after quitting smoking and my hppd was getting better. But now it relapsed with some anxiety tryna be positive hopefully I can heal again. Also I felt out of my body which I hope doesn’t last forever.

When I was a young Air Force staff sergeant at a deployed location, I correctly applied Air Force Instruction (AFI) to a situation that inconvenienced a large group of contractors.
When my flight chief, a master sergeant, verbally reprimanded me for supposedly violating local policy, I pointed out that the local policy was unlawful and void on the basis that it contradicted AFI, which is the highest level of lawful order that can be given by anyone in the Air Force. Whereas local policy was an order given by a major, the AFI was an order that was given by a general. Thus, the local policy was an unlawful order insofar that it directed me to violated an order given by some superior in rank to the major.
Now, these days, AFI’s allow certain levels of command to waive certain AFI requirements, but they outline the level of higher command which must approve the deviation, and it’s a lengthy process of documentation. It’s not something that can just be waived willy-nilly by a commander because he or she can’t meet the requirement, which is what the case was at this particular location.
Anyway, I stood my ground and explained to Master Sergeant Z why I did what I did, using not only the AFI itself but thoughtful reasoning as to why my response ought to take precedence over the local policy, even if we were to ignore the superiority of AFI. He responded with, and I quote, “Listen STAFF SERGEANT (he said “staff sergeant” in a very condescending tone), when I give you an order, don’t think; just do.”
Fast forward to the tail end of the deployment. I was summoned to his office to sign a document. As I approached, someone was exiting the room and held the door open for me, so I entered. That’s when he started berating me for entering without knocking. He ordered me to exit the room; but this time, I was to knock and await instructions before opening the door.
So I promptly turned around and, in verbatim compliance with his directive, I knocked on the door and waited to be told to exit. He flipped his shit and yelled about how I was being a smart-ass insubordinate, and I informed him that I was simply doing as he ordered me to do without thinking, as he had previously ordered me to do.
Anyway, he issued a Letter of Counseling (LOC) which I delightfully rebutted by pointing out that I was simply complying with his orders. I got the LOC rescinded, and I we parted ways after the deployment had ended, never to meet again. I’m now retired and enjoying life, but I would occasionally tell this story to my colleagues as a warning about abusing one’s rank to “win” an argument and to ignore sound reasoning. Yes, there are times in the military when one must simply follow the orders that he or she is given, but those scenarios are usually restricted to combat and other emergency-type settings—which the one I described was not.

Wow, this series was frustrating to get through I know Im exaggerating but there were times my body just felt sore after certain chapters lol. I told my sister I gave this series a 7/10 to be nice but for me, it was around a 6.5/10. Futaba and especially Kou were very frustrating to read about in the second half of the story. Even with all that I still somewhat enjoyed the series and was happy to see Kou and Futaba together in the end but wished we got more chapters of them
Some other things I want to mention-
Kikuchi really set himself up for failure I felt bad for him but at the same time, he knew what he was in for.
WTF was up with Tanaka and Murao's storyline in my opinion I saw no point in it wish all those pages wasted were actually used for other things in the story. Every time Tanaka talked about Murao I just cringe. Also, did Kou even know about what was going on? I felt like storywise it was never mentioned by him because character-wise he would have called out his brother or something.
Kominato was the best character in the story he was a great friend and the only non-toxic person in the story.
My sister and I argue about this point but I do not get why Kou helping Narumi in the BEGINNING before we learn about the "manipulation" was seen as such a bad thing. Why was it made such a big deal that Kou was helping his friend that was going through loss and grief that had helped him before? I found it odd how before we learn the "truth" it was portrayed as something negative. I guess if Kou was more upfront with everything then we wouldn't have had any issues but that's just my opinion.
Personally don't think Kou made a wrong choice in trying to support a friend who he could understand what they were going through but he needed to understand the consequence of the choice he made which I don't think he did. This is just me nitpicking though because that is what literally drives the story of him trying to understand his feeling and choices which isn't a bad thing.
I binge-read this in 2 days so there may have been things I mention that I misunderstood or things I missed. I probably wouldn't have read this series if it wasn't for the deal I made with my sister but I don't regret reading this series or anything so I'm happy to add another series to the list of mangas I have read and now my sister has to read the webtoon The Girl Downstairs (Lee Duna).
Sidenote- I was shocked that this wasn't made but the same artist/author of Orange and the character designer and style were very similar so I had assumed It had some relation to the artist lol.

(20 f) I know this probably isn’t the best place to ask but I’m reaching my breaking point. My family situation has always been bad and I left at 17 and lived independently for 3 years while working full time, I was really struggling for a long time alone and needed support and didn’t have any. I ended up in the hospital and the only one I could fall back on was my mother. I know I messed up bad, I couldn’t even tell you everything that’s gone on the last few months I’ve been back but I need out. My mothers a serious alcoholic and I have to little siblings that have never been to school and need my support while she’s working or getting groceries, feel free to read my post history if you wanna know about my stepdad. I’ve been looking for work the entire time I’ve been more south and I can’t find anything yet despite my work experience and cert. I feel so stuck. I’m just trying to reach out to maybe find out what are my options if there’s any?

I was part of this dog shit program in my teens. They robbed me of everything. They convinced my parents to take me out of school, and quit my hobbies. I was, and am, not an addict. I'll never forget what their "inpatient program" looked like. These poor girls were pressured into talking about sexual assault in front of their male counterparts (me and our "counselor"). And i was forced to do the same. I could go on and on, but when I finally had the sense to leave, they convinced my parents to kick me out on the street (I was 16). I spent months sleeping in bushes, because all my "friends" were told that I "wasn't a winner". I did some interesting things for the next 15 years, but now things are quite, calm, and comfortable. That said, I still think about that shit hole and the rancid fucks involved, namely- Mike Conners or "Taste".

CBF = Childhood Best Friend
I need help to figure out if my female best friend of 16 years, may have feelings for me.
Backstory of our friendship: CBF and I have been friends since I was 6 and she was 5. To be honest I’m not sure how we met, but she recalls that we met while waiting for the school bus. All I know is that shes been part of my life for the past 16 years. We lived in the same neighborhood for 8 years and she lived in the house across from me. We also went to school together, From elementary to high school. Growing up we would get teased by family’s and friends because we were always together. I started to find her attractive during middle school years. One day I was dared to asked her to be my girlfriend for one day by my friends, and she said yes. It was awkward af, we both didn’t have experience in dating since I was in 7th grade and CBF was in the 6th grade. So nothing happened, no kiss, no holding hands. Since we only agreed to date one day, we went back to being friends the next day. Since then no kiss or any sexual act has ever happened between us. We both also dealt with depression when were teenagers. And it didn’t help that her parents and my mom don’t believe in depression, so we relied on each other. We were each other’s rock during our toughest time in life. We also never shared the same circle of friends. She has her own group of friends and I have my own. When we hang out it’s always just the 2 of us. We share our secrets, insecurities and goals with each other. We have a strong friendship bond.
Our rough patch: We had a rough patch when I went away for college. We didn’t talk much in my freshmen and sophomore years. Not until covid hit and I went 100% remotely to finish college. Because of this I moved back to my hometown. She chose to attend in our local hometown college and we reconnected when I moved back in my junior year. Since then we’ve been inseparable again.
Present: Were in our early twenties now, we’ve both been in relationships with other people and had flings with other people. We’ve always supported each other when it came to relationships, career, and Mental health. We also talked about our sex life, we’re very transparent with each other. We also never met each other’s bf/gf. We’re also only very comfortable to be vulnerable in each other’s presence. We grew up kinda poor, and we’re both the oldest sibling in our families. Our hispanic parents were hard on us and we had to grow up quick take care of our little siblings. Due to this we don’t have a very healthy relationship with our parents, so we rely on each other for emotional support. Also to add we rarely do physical contact, we rarely hug each other. A couple years ago we had the “talk” where we asked each other if we had feelings for each other. At the time we both said no. I lied, I did have feelings for her but I didn’t want to lose my CBF. So I buried those feelings, if she’s happy with just being friends with me then I’m okay with that. We hang out once or twice a week. But we constantly call or text each other.
This is where the mix signals start to show. In 2022 we started to casually see people. We’ve always supported each other when we started to date other people. But this time, she seemed jealous. She would make snarky comments about the person I was seeing. She would always say how I can do better. She would constantly message me when ever I went on a date with my partner. This seemed way out of character for her. On my birthday, my CBF made me a cake, made muffins and bought flowers for me. She also took me out to eat that day. Now here’s another big mix signal, while she was seeing her fling, she told me that he was jealous of me because CBF wouldn’t stop talking about me to him. One day CBF and I made plans to go to the beach at night and stargaze together. But I also invited my male best friend to hang out with us. Towards the end of the night my male best friend asked if CBF and I dated before. I said no, we’re just friends. He said that we playfully flirt with each other and that I should ask her out. Recently we’ve been joking around of how we act like a married couple, I would joke with her that I want a divorce and her response would be “never, you’re stuck with me forever.” CBF has also started to be more physical with me. When walking side by side she would bump into me with her shoulder constantly, she would also bump her foot with mine accidentally underneath the table to many times. A few days ago we shared a electric scooter together on her recommendation, and her butt was literally touching my crotch. She also recently started to call me sweetheart, and compliments me on my looks saying how cute I look with a beanie. One time we were thinking of moving in together, and her mom joked that we would hook up if we did. Usually CBF would make a gross comment about it or quickly shit the idea down, but this time she said “if it happens it happens.” My male best friend says that she definitely has feelings for me. He says by the way she looks at me and playfully flirts with me. So now I need other peoples opinions on this, does my CBF have feelings for me or am I just overthinking. I would hate to ruin this friendship due to misinterpretation. She’s one of the most important people in my life.
TLDR: Is my female best friend of 16 years giving me mix signals that she may have feelings for me. She playfully flirts with me and has started to call me sweetheart. Am i being oblivious or am I misinterpreting our friendship?

Hi there, looking for someone to be friends with that I can genuinely say I feel a connection between us. Someone that I'm pretty much always excited to chat with or spend time with when ever I have free time. It's always nice to have someone to look forward to telling something interesting that happened to you. Stuff I do often is gaming online (PC), going to the gym, and watching stuff on Netflix. I'm open to trying something new if we end up getting along. Anyway, send me a message if interested.

This girl and I were friends in school but she has kept in touch even after it ended. It was normal at first, she would text me something and I would reply. But after a while it became incredibly boring. She would send "hi" without any other message and then I would respond with a "hey, what's up?" and then she would say "nothing, wbu" and then it would be for me to give her an interesting reply. this shit would happen every single day and sometimes twice or thrice in the same day. so i made a post asking for help here on reddit and people told me to tell her that we should talk on email. this way she wouldn't know when I saw her messages and i could reply whenever i felt like it. this went on for about a year, but i guess she got fed up of it and then made an instagram account and found out my id and now for the past few months she keeps texting me there.
we have mutual friends so i cannot be completely honest with and tell her that i fking hate her messaging me every day and that she is boring as fucking fuck and she should make some other friends other than me. sometimes i reply after weeks have passed but she JUST DOES NOT get the hint. she immediately replies with another NPC like message.
i thought it would be awesome to have a girl keep wanting to talk to you so much but i did not expect something like this, ever. she has the worst personality combo anyone can ask for, she is boring, has no ambitions and no hobbies except for watching shit netflix shows, she is overweight and ugly to top it all. i am never rude with her, and i don't have the heart to tell her to stop talking to me. fortunately she does not have my phone number so i am safe there, so at this point the only way out i can see is to delete my instagram account and simply block her on email.

Hello all,
I'm new here and new to Youtube too (i'm in my 60's), so please excuse me if this is a stupid question or not the right place.
Yesterday I made the mistake of uploading a digitised version of an old (early 1990's) football VHS I had to Youtube. I didn't think anything of it as its an old tape which isn't available to watch online anywhere and obviously the VHS is not sold anymore. This is the first (and only) time I have ever uploaded anything to Youtube.
This morning I woke up to an email from Youtube saying that after a "manual review, a copyright owner has claimed some material in your video". It then went on to detail the copyright owner was UEFA and advise the video had been blocked. It gave me some options about appealing etc (which I won't be doing as it is a valid claim).
My question now is am I going to get a nasty lettefine or court case from anyone on this, or is this the end of the matter? I don't really understand this now so I'm quite worried I'll get a fine for using their material.
I did some searching online but it talks about "content ID" and "copyright strikes" and I couldn't really find any information I understand. Please forgive if this is a stupid question, I'm hoping its just my tired old brain going into overdrive.
Thank you.
I was told to add that I am in England.

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