I'm terrified that I'm going to have to ask to borrow money from my parents to cover a broker's fee for an apartment (any apartment, though I seemingly can't find one still) and that I'm going to have to have that conversation and that added financial help and connection because I really like both jobs I'm doing but they're not making me enough ( Read more... )

Ah, the dull apathetic feeling of not wanting to be alive ( Read more... )

Going back to a more casual model, because long distance sucks and long distance relationships are hard ( Read more... )

If you're going to have a conversation with me about how you feel like we rushed into this a little, how you are having trouble with the long distance, and how you never want to lose me as a friend, and how you are wondering if the person you turned down for me might not be a better option for you at the moment, while very much saying that you are ( Read more... )

Never a good idea? But when have I been one for good ideas ( Read more... )

My friend pointed out last night that she can tell I've lost weight by how thin my arms have gotten. All I keep seeing in the mirror is that my stomach still protrudes a bit, so I must not be "thin". Yay internalized bias and societal expectations of incredibly unrealistic/impossible beauty standards ( Read more... )

talk about a player coming out of literally nowhere ( Read more... )

Man how I have missed this. Overt flirting with someone who seems super compatible in a scary amount of ways. Compliments and cute puns and good hair, if only he didn't't live 9 hours away ( Read more... )

The more bullshit that comes to light, the more it becomes clear that the entire break up conversation could have been as simple as "I don't think we communicate well and I'm not willing to work on this because I also don't find you romantically attractive anymore", which would not have been pleasant to hear, but at least then I would not have to ( Read more... )

Pro tip: if you want to give your ex life advice on how to be a better girlfriend/friend, maybe wait longer than a month after you broke up with her and then told her you wanted to date one of her best friends and then asked her for swing dance lessons, which was one of the big reasons you broke up in the first place, because you refused to even ( Read more... )