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Hi all,
I'm a first year interpol PhD student in the UK (Wales specifically), in a small university with an even smaller community of fellow PhD folk. One of my biggest problems I've encountered is I'm struggling to develop my ideas/thinking because there is virtually no other PhD people whose research focus is near mine, so I have no one to bounce ideas off of or to feed me inspiration. My supervisors are fine, but I'm too intimidated by them and would feel more comfortable in a group of people of a similar level/age group (I'm 24).
Don't get me wrong, I love the community I have here and everyone is so interesting to listen to, but if I start talking about my ideas, people just politely nod because they (naturally) don't really know what I'm on about.
My question is, how would I go about finding people who do similar research to me so we can discuss (online or via Zoom/Teams or whatever) what we know, what we're reading etc.?! My research (broadly) concerns US-China relations, post-Western theory, and also theory of knowledge (Eurocentrism in IR and such).
Any advice much appreciated!

I know this isnt the best place to look for honest answers, but i hope you people are actually honest. Im moving again. Not out of this shithole state, but still, not surprised. It seems like every time i find decent people that give a shit about me some force of nature rips it out of my hands right before i get to appreciate it. Ive been pretty suicidal lately, and its one of the first things i think about when i wake up in the morning. Nobody else knows about it, and i prefer it that way. But ive been praying and praying nearly every day for god or someone to kill me in my sleep, yet it hasnt happened. But now, i think this is gods or whoever the fuck is up their's way of letting me decide. Im planning on doing it in august if i get the chance, my birthday is also in that month. Its either i leave everybody behind again and go through life completely alone, again. OR i just quit. Is there any reason i should put myself through more hell? Alone? Again? I mean all i really ever do is make my mom cry, my step father angry, and disappoint my real dad. So its not like im worried for them, theyll be alright.

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Possible TW: pulling pubic hair
Hey all,
I’m struggling with this relapse into much more frequent pulling, and don’t feel very hopeful right now about getting back to a more comfortable place.
After I generally had things under control for the past several months, I’m currently nearly constantly fighting the urge to pull my pubic hair, and losing hours of time when I can’t fight the urge.
It’s really remarkable how trich can go from being so far out of your mind, to a constant open tab in your brain.
I hate the feeling of wanting to stop but not being able to. I hate worrying that I’ll get ingrowns, irritation, or infection. I hate having to confront my trich every time I sit down to use the toilet. I hate wishing that I could handle stress in my life in a more “normal” way, and wishing that I felt comfortable talking about it with my partner or close friends.
Since the main area that I pull is my pubic hair, the summer months always tend to be more difficult with shorts/swimsuits/etc. It’s embarrassing that I’ve convinced myself that I’m “allowed” to pull at my bikini line because right now I can’t afford a professional wax (which I know tends to be much more triggering somehow anyways and hasn’t been a great solution for me in the past).
I also have performances coming up, and the briefs part of one of my costumes is cut quite high up on the legs/crotch. Logically, I know that if I pull too much I’ll irritate my skin, and irritation will be WAY more visible than tiny hairs that the audience won’t even be able to see. (Along with the pain/actual health issue of damaged/irritated skin in the pubic area).
I’m so frustrated by how much real estate this is taking up inside my head. And I feel so annoyed by the intersection of “it’s normal/faijustified to want to manage my pubic hair due to this costume” and “I don’t trust myself right now to manage my pubic hair without getting out of control”.
Thanks for reading if you’ve made it this far.
Good luck to anyone else who struggles more this time of year, and to anyone else is also a performer who struggles with trich before performances.
I’m very grateful for this page and this community of support.

So a few months ago in December I was in a really bad mood and so my friend, let’s call him T, invited me over to his place for some drinks and video games. My partner at the time had recently split with me and I was getting used to being alone for the first time in a long time.
He had some other friends over and one of them is a drug user, who knows everything there is to know about that type of thing. Let’s call him P. I had never met him before then and didn’t know much about that world. I smoked a bit of weed in high school but that was it.
My friend T is a stoner but that’s it. None of the people in our friend group did anything big. It was just this one person who I had never met before.
None of us were sober that night, I was drinking pretty heavily and P was high. My friend T told me he paid for an Uber for me and I was very thankful, but later on after everyone was inebriated he revealed he hadn’t actually planned on doing it. I called another friend but no one was available, so I decided to walk myself home. I live in a part of our city near where P lives, so we agreed to walk back together for safety reasons (I’m a short gay guy, and I was pretty drunk).
On the way back P ends up stopping somewhere and buying some drugs. I didn’t know what kind at the time. I wait with him for the person to bring it to him, and it was the first time I ever saw that sort of interaction, so I was scared. The guy said I was too drunk to be an undercover cop. The night gets fuzzy so I’m trying to get it all down.
Once P had what he had purchased, we made it to my place, and he asked to crash on my couch. I reluctantly agreed, but I was embarrassed by the mess that was my place.
He didn’t mind, and so we had one last round of beers and watched the end of a Harry Potter movie on tv, and that’s the last I remember. I woke up on the couch with him on the floor in front of me.
I was a little hungover but other than that it was a normal morning. I took a shower and by the time I was out he was gone. It was a little after ten so I made breakfast and tried to calm down.
I found a bag of powder he left on the floor near where he slept. It was a light brown and there was only a little bit there. I picked it up and planned on calling him to tell him. I went to work at one and got home after ten.
When I got home I found the bag because I had forgotten. I was in a pretty shit mood and my curiosity got the better of me. I’ve seen movies so the things I did that night were honestly embarrassing. I took a plastic straw from my kitchen and cut off the end. I dumped the powder onto my counter and lined it up using a Dunkin’ Donuts gift card. I thought long and hard, but I guess not enough, because I snorted it using the fucking end of the straw, and sat down at the table, cradling my head.
At first I felt nothing. I sat there for what must’ve been fifteen minutes just surprised. And then I stood up.
I think the moment I stood up was potentially the greatest moment of my life, when it hit me all at once, and I just stood in awe, complete euphoria, the greatest peace, I can’t even describe it. I had no pain, no worry, no sorrow, only pleasure. I laid down on the couch and soaked it all up. It was the greatest feeling ever.
I fell asleep not long after and honestly I hate myself for it. I should’ve stayed awake to appreciate and savor every second. The best feeling in my life and I slept through it.
I felt fine waking up but I called P to tell him what I did. I was preparing to pay him however much he wanted, but when we talked he wasn’t concerned about money. He was concerned about my health. Said it was fucking heroin, and how stupid I was for just snorting a powder I found on my floor, and especially not for telling him I was doing it. He basically yelled at me because he said I could’ve overdosed since I’m not used to it. I asked him if he had any more and he lost his shit at me, telling me I was ruining my life and shit. I was just in shock, because my friend T never seemed like the type to associate with a heroin junkie, and it wasn’t what I was preparing for. I don’t know what I had been thinking it was. Something more tame.
P refused to help me out and after talking to another friend I decided I wasn’t going to try to get high again, because I was afraid I’d hurt myself.
About a week and a half later I was babysitting my niece while my sister and her wife were out overnight. After my niece was in bed I was making myself a place to sleep and found a safe in the linen closet. I didn’t think. I just started to try to open it. And it was their wedding anniversary so it was easy to get into it. Inside they had a bunch of stuff, but I ignored the cash (like an idiot) and found a pill bottle of OxyContin, with my sister in law’s name on it. I opened it to nineteen pills, and took them all. I locked the safe back up with the pill bottle, now empty, still inside.
I hate the fact that I did this. But since it’s anonymous here, I’m telling the truth. One place I don’t have to lie.
The next day I snorted two pills and saw stars. It wasn’t quite as amazing as the first time with heroin, but it was pretty fucking spectacular. But I knew I only had a small amount so I focused on getting heroin.
I went back to the spot where P got heroin that night. I stood out in the snow for a few hours, checking my phone and playing stupid, before giving up. But my feet still hurt from it.
I called P and asked to meet him for lunch. Maybe he suspected something because he brought T along as well. We went to a nice restaurant where it was impossible for me to casually ask where to find heroin around. But I had become completely obsessive. It was the only thing that mattered to me anymore.
So I just asked. In front of T and the entire restaurant. “How do I contact that man we met” or something as cryptic and pathetic as that.
P gave me a phone number and I finally felt relieved.
I’ve been texting this man, call him L, for months now. I never had guessed how expensive it would be. I’m on top of it, like I don’t think my boss or my sister suspects anything. I’m managing to pay for it but I don’t have money for much else. I had to stop drinking coffee in the mornings and shit like that.
Looking back it’s actually so insane how this happened. I know it’s crazy. I had a moral code that I believed in that I threw out the window just to chase that feeling I had in December. That one goddamn feeling where they only thing that mattered was the pleasure.
I know it’s a problem but I can’t tell anyone in my real life because I know how scared they’d be. It sounds worse than it is. You hear heroin and you think the worst but I think I have it under control. I’m just disgusted with myself for lying and stealing.
Am I crazy, though? For thinking I can do this? Because it really feels like I can. It honestly feels like fate that I found it that night. It’s the only thing that makes me feel okay. The only thing. And if it kills me in the long run I guess I don’t really care because it gave me new life.

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Sorry for the long post! I (25f) moved into a new apartment 3 months ago. It is a large duplex - I live in the basement suite and the main/2nd floors are a separate suite. My upstairs neighbour S (mid-30's f) has been making my life very difficult ever since I moved in.
Some context: I've lived with roommates before, but this is my first time living on my own and I adopted a 2-year-old cat named Lucy when I moved into this apartment. S is a single mom with two young kids. I hear her yelling at her kids, swearing at them, and the kids crying nearly every day. S has a front door to the house with a doorbell camera, but there is also a side door that we both use to access our suites. I have the breaker box for the house in my apartment, so anytime a breaker flips (which happens semi-regularly), either myself or the landlord has to manually flip it at the breaker. All the fuses are labelled so we know which is which. One day shortly after I moved in, she had a breaker flip and came down to my apartment door, banging on it and asking me to let her in to flip the breaker. She noticed my cat's food dish and toys and asked if I had a cat. When I said yes, she was annoyed, saying "That's why my kids have been so f-ing sick since you moved in! They're allergic!" (We live in a pet-friendly building, and she has two dogs).
When I was having my wifi installed, she came down to complain that the wifi tech parked in her spot, demanding that he move immediately. She angrily told me that he should never have parked in her spot when I "didn't have permission" to allow him. He parked there of his own accord and I had no idea since he just showed up at my door. There were a couple of other times she came to my apartment to flip the breaker, with no major issues.
Now to the issue at hand! A couple of days ago, I got home after work, and within 5 minutes she was banging on my apartment door and yelling at me to stop messing with her. Through the door I asked her what she meant, saying I had no idea what she was talking about. She said her power was out again and to just turn it back on, then she went back to her apartment. I was very confused but looked at the breaker box and saw that all the switches were in the right position. A few minutes later, she came back and was even angrier. I opened my door so she could look at the breaker box herself thinking it would calm her down. It did the opposite. She started yelling saying she didn't know what she ever did to make me mess with her, why couldn't I just leave her alone...When I said I never touched the power and was not doing anything to her, she began yelling in my face. She called me a liar, saying that she had cameras and saw when I come or leave the house. She said if I didn't stop messing with her power, I would be sorry. She flipped all her breakers off and back on, then she left.
I immediately emailed my landlord describing what had happened. She called to apologize but said she was confused. She had instructed S to call her if she had power issues, so why was she coming to me? I mentioned it had happened before and the landlord told me that she would remind S not to come to me. After informing the landlord of the other interactions with her, she instructed me not to open the door and to call the police if S came down and would not leave me alone. Over the next few days, I felt more and more on edge and unsafe about the situation. So I emailed my landlord again saying that I felt unsafe and if S thought I was still messing with her, I was worried she would escalate and do something drastic. I said that because of how unsafe I felt, I was going to start looking for a new apartment, and hoped that they would allow me to break my lease without the penalties (2 months' rent) that were outlined in my lease agreement. Apparently, since S had not physically harmed me and I had no actual proof of what had happened, it was her word against mine. So if I decided to break my lease, I would have to pay the full penalty.
I cannot afford to move AND have to pay the fine, so what should I do?

So I went to a commercial casting call today for a household name shampoo. If I got the gig it would be a really big deal.
there were several panelists and 2 of them really liked my look. one of them even asked me who I thought I looked like and I said I didnt know and she said the name of a movie star (many people say this as I resemble her)
instead of being gracious and accepting the compliment I deflected it to the girl next to me by saying she looked like another famous movie star ( tbh she didnt it was the she had dark hair and pale skin - that was where the comparison ended but I was being the good polite girl uugghh!)
I literally saw the panelist faces fall and all of a sudden the atmosphere turned icy. this other girl meanwhile took it and started blabbing about how everyone says that and also that she looks like this other model too and another one when her hair is blonde etc, whilst simultaneously putting me down---- basically self promoting herself which is the correct thing to do because this is literally the business of self-promotion!
long story short, I didnt get out through but she did.
FML! I literally hate my middle class, polite self and my stupid life! All those weeks I spent in the gym getting myself physically ready but my mindset is nowhere near on par.
would really appreciate advice on how to self-promote myself and not help competitors in similar situations again.

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Before I get into the trip itself, I will just preface it by saying I'll only give you the general overview of the trip since, if I were to describe the specifics (which, to be honest with you, are pretty substantially more insane than the general overview), it would just take way too long. Anyway, here it is:
So I was seeing a good friend that I hadn't seen in a while, and we were planning to do a light dose since I had a rated chess game the following day. So he gave me a tab which he said was 60mg because the package said 300mg and he had 5 tabs... except, as I learnt almost immediately after I took the tab, 300mg was the dosage of a single tab. Anyway, the first part of the trip actually went amazingly well, but somehow, things took a sudden turn at some point and I became convinced that my friend and his girlfriend were going to take me to their basement and torture me. For around 2 hours, I was pretty much just freaking out with not much else happening, UNTIL... Okay, I'm going to have omit quite a few details here, but the short version is (yes, that's the short version lol): reality started morphing around me as I became increasingly sober until, when I sobered up completely, I found myself on an alien planet thousands of years more advanced than Earth. Everything was completely photorealistic and completely indistinguishable from reality in all the human senses - no trippy visuals, no altered state of consciousness, nothing; I was just there on an alien planet with my friend and his girlfriend. He explained that my entire life was a trip/simulation hand-crafted by him to teach me valuable life lessons, and that in true reality, the world is a utopia in which everything is possible through the power of fully immersive digital simulation. I got to explore the planet for a bit, seeing the alien wildlife, the insane tech, some of the surreal nature, etc, before he told me I'd get to live out my life in this utopia if I passed one final test that proved I had learnt all of his lessons. He proceeded to take complete control over my body and start triggering various uncomfortable sensations that I had experienced all throughout my life, if not making me straight-up relive whole episodes of my life (e.g. being choked in a judo competition when I was 10, experiencing incredibly unfair treatment from close friends, losing a heartbreaking chess tournament, etc) and my job was to remain perfectly calm. Once I passed the first round, I died, got resurrected, and then had to do the same thing except with sensations and memories from another version of me that had lived his whole life on this alien planet; naturally, the sensations got more intense and surreal. I had to go through FIFTEEN rounds of this, with each round featuring a significantly crazier and more sophisticated life than the last. Effectively, I got to live through fifteen separate lives, each in a different dimension. And then finally, after I passed the last round, extremely overwhelmed and exhausted... guess what? That fucker started torturing me lol. Basically, I have an endoscopy trauma, so he put me on a loop of undergoing the most painful endoscopy you can imagine, bleeding out and dying, and then going through the exact same thing again. I must have gone through at least 30 such loops before it dawned on me... I was going to be here FOREVER. Not for a month. Not for a year. Not even for a century. For ETERNITY. Can you imagine that realisation? I didn't know how to even begin to handle that. Anyway, a key detail is that every time I died, I got resurrected in a different simulated reality. Eventually, I got spawned back in my home reality and was able to break out of the loop. For a good day, I thought what I had gone through was totally real - that the simulation hypothesis was true, and that I got to meet the simulation's creators. Everything was so insanely real, and their explanations so superhumanly convincing, that there literally was just no other way. Of course, having had more time to critically evaluate the possibilities, it was obviously just a trip, but what a fucking trip it was lol. And like I said, I left out some of the most insane bits of this for the sake of brevity. So this description is just the tip of the iceberg.
I honestly have no idea how any of this is even possible. If I google "nociceptory illusions" - i.e. hallucinated pain - nothing comes up. Similarly, I have never heard of psychedelics manufacturing perfectly realistic universes from thin air. I have heard a lot about being transported to different dimensions, but these dimensions are usually very different from reality. In my case, though, if I literally physically travelled to an alien planet or got tortured using endoscopy, it would just feel the exact same as what I felt during my trip. I have never heard of anything like that, and I would be that last person that I'd expect this to happen to given that my visualisation ability is usually very weak, and my dreams have never come close to realism.
If anyone can explain any of this, please do. I'm still just as puzzled by this as I was a few months ago when this trip took place.

Me and my buddy are doing a cross country road trip in the US starting next week and I’ve been studying up on bear safety a lot since we’ll be in grizzly territory for at least part of our trip (Montana is the main spot I’m ‘worried’ about)
For on the trail, we have bear spray and both watched a lecture from a biologist with an expertise in bear behavior on what to do in a bear encounter to prevent an attack and how to avoid encounters entirely. We both have bear spray as well.
Does anyone have any advice however on what to do OFF the trail? Obviously we’ll end hiking for the day at some point and set up camp, in the same territory. I know the obvious things, such as set up the 100 yard bear triangle, don’t sleep in clothes you cooked in, and don’t go to the bathroom near your sleeping area, but what else is there?
Where do we put our backpacks at night? While our food and smellables will in theory be 100 yards away in a canister, our backpacks CARRY that food and those smellables, so should we keep our backpacks WITH our bear canister? What is the proper procedure if a bear finds it way into our campsite at night? Sometimes, a trails terrain may make it very difficult to set up that 100 yard triangle without difficulty (I.e very steep terrain with only small and infrequent flat areas for camping)… what do we do when properly setting up this triangle is hard or seemingly ‘impossible’? Any other advice that we should know prior to starting?

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Earlier today I (18f) saw my brother (16m), let’s call him Jake for the sake of privacy, eating Tim Horton's despite the fact that my mother (48f) told him to lay off on the restaurant food because it is expensive and he's draining his bank account on restaurant food because he's too lazy to make his own lunches. When I told him that if he didn't lay off the restaurant food, I'd tell mom, Jake threatened to dump his Orange Crush on my hair. (He often threatens me when I don't do what he likes).
I laugh it off and go get my stuff at my locker for my next class and very discreetly text my mother about the Tim's I saw him eat. My mother softly scolded me for stooling Jake, saying that it wasn't necessary.
Come dinner time, we are sitting at the table and my mother casually tells Jake that she's heard that he went to Tim Horton's for lunch. He tried to lie as he always does, but it fails. Jake as a massive spending issue and he needs to have his expenses monitored so he doesn't become broke and have nothing to pay his tuition with so mom brings up that she saw that he bought something at the gas station (gas station is near the Tim Horton's) and he starts screeching at her which is usually a good indication that he's lying about something.
My mother calmly tells Jake that about a month or so ago, he told me that I should respect the rules even if I don't like them. Jake angrily proclaims that she just wants him to be dehydrated because heaven forbid he be called out on his spending issues and storms off.
He's still sulking in the basement and I feel like I've created more issues within the family by speaking up. So I turn to you, fair Redditors, AITA for telling my mother that Jake went to a restaurant despite being told not to?

Wasn't it weird that Midnight Oil became such a global commercial success? I came across "Big Sky Mine" today and it was like...Australian folk music with late 80's power pop guitars and...a... harmonica. WTF? And I was kind of into it! Full disclosure, I was not fully clean and sober at the time. (It's my day off and after lunch, okay? STOP NAGGING, MOTHER.)
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
It's always interesting/weird to me when bands get huge commercial success with songs that are like CAPITALISM SUCKS. I certainly hear songs like this differently than I did when they were new and I was an unemployed child. I'm not going to claim that my job is anywhere near "miner" on the difficulty scale, but still: "the sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine" in-fucking-DEED.

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As someone who's been in the league for nearly two IRL years, it really is a great community. Everyone is willing to lend a hand to a newbie, the mods put a ton of time into running things smoothly, and there's plenty of casual activities and banter to keep things interesting.
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my dads cat (moki), is gonna be staying at my moms house for about a month. her and my other cat, pepper (who lives permanently at my moms house) never really got along. it's been a few days since moki's been here and she's acting perfectly fine. however, pepper has been acting really aggressive towards not just her, but me as well. every time i try to get near her now or pet her, she begins to growl and occasionally hiss at me. for now the cats are separated but i just don't know how to calm pepper down and get her to stop attacking me and moki. please give advice!

Hey, fellas. Been a while, huh?
Let's get this outta the way - High school, for me, is getting kinda wonky. I'm missing a lot of assignments that I should be catching up on, which is unfortunate. The good news is that the Xrd tournaments are back and better than ever with this new format I'm calling Strikedown.

• There are two teams with a symmetrical number of players.
  
• Each team gets seven points.
  
• Every round, a player can optionally spend up to three points to increase their health.
  
• The winning team keeps their player, and the losing team has to go to the next player.
  
• Repeat until one team loses all their players.
  

It was pretty fun, honestly, and made for some slightly in-depth metagames. Until the points ran out, then we just played regular Xrd with Squad Strike rules.
Jeremiah, a new contestant, burned all of his points from the start and blitzed through with Stylish Johnny. He was on Red Team, and only when meeting Adam was he able to be taken down (also he wasn't playing when he fought Adam but eeeh).
After Adam took down Jeremiah, he blazed through the remainder of the tournament. Except for me. I let him play Peter though, because I didn't want it to just end there and then. Blue Team won in that regard. (The one with Adam.)
The remainder of the games had the usual - rushdown at the start to burn a player's health, then retreating to fullscreen and walking forwards to approach. Eventually, they'll figure out how to dash, though. I know they will.
Here's the whole VOD if you're wondering: https://youtu.be/AvUADg0a5T4
Anyways, now that high school is almost over, I'm not sure if this will keep up, and I don't know how many more tourneys I can host before the end of the year. It's not as simple as counting the weeks, because sometimes we don't have enough students to play Xrd, and so I just put on Smash or something with four controllers and fool around. But I'm hoping I get to play more Xrd in the future. It's a fun game, and I'm glad I'm showing some other students the beauty of it.

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My boss and I are not friends, but he seems to be under the illusion that we have rapport. It’s become a requirement for me to endure at least ten minutes of excruciating small talk whenever I enter his office. He has a glass door and sometimes he beckons me as I walk past for no reason other than to ask how my ‘pussycat’ is doing. It’s fucking weird. I don’t even know how he found out I have a pet, let alone it’s species, but there’s just something about how he says ‘pussycat’ that rubs me the wrong way. I mean, are adults even supposed to call them that? He once left a realistic black mouse toy INSIDE my desk drawer for me to find when I came into work. I thought it was real and screamed loud enough for the entire office to hear. It was so embarrassing and when I composed myself enough to sit down and read the note beside it he was just smiling at me from his office when I looked up. The note said ‘for the lil kitty’. JUST CALL IT A CAT. Is this harassment? It’s seriously affecting my productivity. It’s gotten to the point I’m coming in late for work and nearly jogging past his office just to get to my desk. I had some of those family stickers on my car with my husband, myself and the cat but I took them all off out of sheer paranoia. I’m afraid to open my desk drawers for fear of more surprise gifts. I asked some of my colleagues and apparently their interactions with my boss are brief and professional outside of meetings. I’m at a loss. I want to go to HR but I honestly don’t know what I would tell them.

I (16nb) have for the last few months developed feelings for my friend (15M) who I'll call AL, me and Al have been friends for around 2 years but only in the last 7 months really have we become close after finding out he lives just up the road from me so we started walking home together, then back in November I started dating this guy and then I month later I set Al up with a close friend of mine as back then I didn't have feelings for him however around end of January start of February my feelings for him started to evolve but I ignored it as the relationship I was in just felt perfect, or at least from the outside but something just felt off, then on March 31st I broke up with my BF because I knew I didn't love him in the way I feel for AL, but Als relationship continued on, and I truly want to tell him how I feel or make a move on him because although he's in a relationship to me and a few others it just seems false and toxic and that they r still together because they feel like they have too, then recently this past few days before me typing this, me, Al and two other mates went camping together and in the first night in the tent we ended up lightly "cuddling" for warms under one cover, but really it wasn't that close, however on the second night me and him decided to sleep in the porch of the tent together as the night before our other mates where snoring like mad, but back to us, as u might of guessed because its the UK, the night was cold, so he suggested that we spoon for warmth, but not a moment's later we weren't just lying near eachother with maybe an arm over or not, we where very "close" and I had my arm wrapped around his chest and he was holding onto to it and I asked if I could stroke his hair he was more than happy to let me, then in the night he would constantly move around but then around midnight-ish I felt something, he was (while completely asleep) thrusting his 🍑 into my "privets" completely unaware, and when I spoke to him about what he was doing last night in the morning he had no memory of it as he was completely asleep, and yes I may be thinking to much into this, however me and him have sought of had a "flirty thing" where I would flirt with him and who would say a rude comment or something but in a jockey way but every now and then he would directly flirt back and yesterday me and my other two mates on the camping trip where making a joke a slapping als 🍑 and for some reason I went through with it but it just left him completely unphased and just didn't care yet had a massive smile afterwards, just like the rest of us but something to me just seemed different about his although we where all laughing greatly, So I suppose what I'm asking is do u tell him or not and do u think there's a chance he might like me back although he has a boyfriend?

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