Every October 27th, I take the day off.
I've done this at three different jobs now. I put the request in months early, never schedule anything else that day, and don't answer work messages unless something is actually on fire.
At my current job, somebody asked me about it a few years ago because they noticed I always block the same date. I said something vague like "it's a personal thing I observe every year."
They apparently heard "observe" and decided it was religious.
I didn't realize that until my manager apologized for scheduling a meeting on October 27th and told me she'd make sure my "holiday" was respected going forward.
I should've corrected her. I didn't.
The actual reason is a video game.
When I was 16, one of my closest friends and I bought the same game the day it came out. We were completely obsessed with it for months. Every year after that, on the release date, we'd start a fresh save together. Same difficulty. Same dumb arguments about which route to take. Usually the same disgusting pepperoni pizza from this place near his house.
He died when we were 22.
The first October after that I took the day off because I knew I wasn't going to get anything done anyway. I bought the game again because I'd lost my old copy, ordered pepperoni pizza, turned my phone off and started a new save.
I've done it every year since.
I don't even finish the game anymore. Usually I play the first two levels, get distracted, eat way too much pizza and spend half the afternoon looking through old screenshots and messages.
The stupid part is that at work this has become a Whole Thing.
HR has it noted as a recurring personal observance. My manager makes sure nobody schedules me. One coworker once told me she thought it was "really cool" that I was so committed to my faith.
I nearly told her right there, but saying "actually I'm going home to play a 14-year-old video game and eat shitty pizza because my dead friend and I used to do it" felt way harder than just nodding.
So now every October I get wished a respectful holiday by people who think I'm doing something spiritual.
Then I go home, put my phone on silent, order the same pizza and play level one.

I disnt know who else to tell so I'm just posting on here lol. Yesterday me and my friend Jordan went to a pumpkin patch together where he told me he's actually transgender (ftm) and I had no idea!! (He's extremely passing) but thats not even that crazy, the CRAZY part is that this is the 3RD TIME IN THE PAST 2 MONTHS that one of my male friends (all ftm) have told me they're transgender 😂 and none of them know eachother ethier. I just thought it was so funny that this has happened to me 3 times and I had 0 clue any of them wernt cis haha

So as the title says, my 16 year old daughter placed a few orders on Amazon and I have to approve them via txt from Amazon before they’re officially placed. Now I don’t go snoop through her things because I believe she deserves privacy as we all do but, the orders immediately pop up before they’re approved and it’s a damn vibrator!! Yes I know what she does. I mean we all do it but that’s my baby…I absolutely without a doubt will NOT tell her what I saw but I had to tell someone. And that someone is not my husband. so here we are me telling Reddit…my baby is officially an owner of a vibrator on Wednesday….

My 26 year old cat.. I live in a very small town and no vets are available on weekends. On Friday night she started screaming, I’ve never heard anything like it. It would have been Monday morning before I could have gotten her to the vet… so I asked my husband to crush some leftover pain medicine from my back surgery and dissolve it in water. I had a syringe (needless) and used that. Within ten minutes she was asleep and within twenty she was gone.

She was my best friend for 26 years and I killed her… will someone tell me it’s okay?

Yesterday I was Studying with my tution tutor and at that time my mom was taking bath and after that she have to go in her room, so she goes in towel which my tutor seen. that after a while he told me I'm going for washroom, you just do work he goes to the washroom gate but then turned from there to mom room, then I want to check what he was doing and I saw he just completely standing there in front of her ass while my mom is naked fully, he spanked her. At that time she was applying lotion but what should I do now.

Got hired for remote tier two support back around November and realized pretty fast the leads don't give a shit about what actually gets fixed. The only thing management stares at is the initial response timer and whether your dot stays green in Teams. If a ticket sits in unassigned for more than five minutes some idiot manager starts tagging people, but if you drop a boilerplate line like looking into this and flip it to waiting on user, nobody looks at it for two days. Took me about three beers and half a saturday to slap together a python script that polls the web queue every couple minutes. It grabs any low tier garbage like password resets or vpn disconnects, pastes one of eight random troubleshooting snippets, and marks it touched. I threw it on a beat up thinkpad with a broken hinge that sits behind my monitor running twenty four seven. Bought a ten dollar hardware mouse jiggler off amazon that plugs into the wall socket so their tracking agent just thinks someone is nudging the cursor while reading documentation, completely undetectable and requires zero setup. My entire workday is maybe thirty minutes of actual effort if you string the keystrokes together. I wake up whenever, check that the script didn't crash on my phone while making eggs, and then go mess around in the garage or play games. The script has a discord webhook that pings my phone only when something actually breaks hard or a priority one ticket lands with manager tags, which happens maybe twice a week at most. I walk over, remote into the queue, fix the routing rule or reset the permissions in ten minutes, and walk away. Funniest part is my monthly metrics make me look like a damn workhorse, I'm literally top three on the team leaderboard for response speed and volume handled. My manager did our quarterly sync last week and told me I was on track for a senior bump before winter, meanwhile I was literally laying on the couch in sweatpants playing switch with my mic muted. Company makes stupid money billing enterprise clients fifty bucks an hour for our labor while paying us peanuts, so as far as I'm concerned this is just balancing the books until IT updates their portal and breaks my api calls.

I don’t know how others react to this but saggy boobs and natural boobs are always better and hot to look when compared to naturally lifted and properly shaped boobs like they show it in porn or may be how they project them to be as how a perfect pair of boobs should like …..
But for me nothing can come closer to the saggy boobs which gets better may be after pregnancy etc . I know it must be insecurity for woman to have such boobs but they are the best boobs which are only meant to be loved and worshipped
Those saggy bulgy tits with large dark areola and stretch marks and enough meat near the armpits …
This is nothing but a straight heavenly combination
Lucky are those who has gf/wife with saggy tits . Just admire them and worship them
Would love to receive pics of them and open for men to share their wife saggy tits

Our nanny of 5 years had a death in her family and asked for the rest of the year off to tend to family matters. We love her and of course couldent say no but that left us in a pinch. My wife got onto a Nanny Recruiting website and set up interviews. My wife handles those things and I just sit in and pretend to listen. I completly trust my wife when it comes to these deisions for our kids.

We ended up hiring one of the three we interviewed and everything was going well until last week. First she came in one day and talked to my wife about an abusive boyfriend and that they were splitting up but had nowhere to stay. My wife being the saint she is told her she could move in with us until she decided what she wanted to do long term.

Since she has been living here I sware she is hitting on me. I know that sounds so cliche, seriously I do but its no lie. As an example just last night I went to the kitchen to fill up my water bottle and she comes out of the guest room wearing practically nothing. She knew my wife was up stairs and she just came out at the some time I was downstairs? Not a coincidence since she was barely dressed and knew I would see her like that.

She is always staring at me and she calls me "sir" all the time. Its the way she says it that feels wrong. Any chance she gets with me alone she will get super close when we chat or just have this gaze that feels erotic.

Not sure if I should tell my wife or not because it could be just me looking too much into it.

I do masterbate here and there but when I do it, I do get thoughts of doing it but when I do it, the sole purpose of me masterbating is just get rid of the distraction it creates cuz I cant get any work done, it does give a little bit of mental clarity.

Even when I do it I dont enjoy it at all, I do just so I could move on from it. I am still a teenager, Should I be concerned about this ?

I feel like something isnt right so sometimes I miss the days I was addicted to doing it. Do yall have any idea of what's happening ?

I am F26. When I was about 9 years old I managed to convince my parents to get me a hamster. We bought her from the pet store and for the first few months I was super excited, but then I kind of lost interest. After about a year, I came home from school one day and saw that she was just laying in her cage and barely reacted when I tried to play with her. I convinced my parents to take her to the vet and after examining her, they couldnt find what was wrong except that she was really underweight, which they thought was because she was sick and wouldnt eat. But that was when I realized that I had forgotten to give her food for more than a week and that she was actually starving. I didnt say anything about this to the vet but I cried the whole time because I felt so bad. After this happened, she recovered and lived for about another year until she passed from old age. I never forgot to feed her again.

It has been over 15 years but I still lay awake at night and think about how horrible it must have been for the hamster, she was literally starving for so many days because I, the person who was supposed to take care of her, didnt provide her most basic needs. I still remember how light she felt in my hand because she was just skin and bones. I worry that I deep inside am a psychopath, because why did I not feed her for so long? I wasnt a baby, I was 10 years old, so I must have understood that the consequence of not giving her food would be that she would starve. I cant understand what was the reason I did this to her. I was so terribly cruel.

I now have a cat that I took in a few years ago because my neighbor was going to send him to a cat shelter. I cant shake the feeling that something that I do (or dont do) will cause him to suffer the same way as my hamster did. I constantly worry that he is not getting his needs fullfilled, that he is hungry, understimulated, in pain somehow, or being hurt in someway else.

I think I will feel like a bad person for the rest of my life.

This is a frequent thought of mine. Nothing sexual. Its the middle of the night and everyone is asleep. My cigarettes are in my car. I just want to walk outside and get them without needing to get dressed. Then sit on the steps infront of my door and smoke one.

For tonight id probably even throw a blanket around me because of how cold it is. My home time is my naked time and Ill rather crave a ciggy before I haveto get dressed again.

Like its so late at night and everyone is asleep. Nobody will see me. But the risk of someone seeing me is still too big.

Edit: Guys i never went outside naked and never will. Like damn i have some self respect

I've been working as a nurse for almost three weeks now. I have this feeling that everyone is ignoring me. There are some really kind people, but with others it's very difficult to work - I don't feel fully accepted yet. I feel transparent, invisible. I just count the hours until I can leave work and go home.
A few days ago I overheard a woman telling a doctor that I don't know anything yet. It made me feel so useless. But I know I'm not useless, I'm trying so hard and I just need more time. Still, every week, especially on Sundays, I get hit by this crisis.

This is honestly embarrassing to admit but lately I've been doing this way too often and it's starting to feel like a habit I can't stop 😭 Sometimes I tell myself I'll stop but end up doing it again anyway.

I don't even know if it's normal to be this curious about it or if other girls my age go through the same thing. Kinda nervous posting this but I really wanna know what other people think.

Reddit literally banned me for posting about this 😭 so now I'm wondering if it's really that abnormal or if people are just too embarrassed to talk about it openly?

I (24M) walked in on my mom (48F) with several men in our house doing some stuff. She was very embarrassed and is now crying saying she’s sorry. I feel awful about it. How do I make her feel better?

been thinking about this a lot lately and it's kind of messing with me. like i bend over backwards for literally everyone and i'm starting to realize it's not coming from a good place. it's more like i'm scared that if i'm not useful or accommodating, people won't want me around anymore. which is exactly what my social work professor would tell me is a trauma response but hearing it said out loud (or i guess typed out) makes it feel way too real. does anyone else do this or am i just broken lol

my wife, name calls me all the time. She is rude even when I want to help her with something as little as the garden. I battle with depression and a lot of self doubt. I have a couple diseases that genuinely affects me and she doesn’t care about it. She is ready to pay attention to other people’s lives yet doesn’t even take a full 69 seconds to care about what I have going on. I have been journaling for 4 years my emotions and learning and changing bad habits about myself. I have 3 jobs 2 of them I do from home and I have proof that I’ve been making bread and she still claims all I do is play games all day 🤦🏽‍♂️. I am genuinely growing past her and becoming a man. she has little kid arguments and circles around accountability. Any real conversation I want to have and any boundaries I go over she considers it being all about me and Instead points fingers and argues consistently. My biggest pet peeve is her moving things all the time and if I ask where they were moved to she gets annoyed and rude. She can be very disrespectful and say mean things to me and calls me negative names and traits consistently. I want to divorce her so bad. We have been together for over a decade and we live with her mother which we are taking care of. Everything is better if we can work things out but she cannot and does not take fault for anything. I married the wrong person I want someone to understand me, someone that gets my jokes, someone that cares a bit about what I’ve been working on instead of telling me her co workers plans for the week and telling me everything they do and their interests but showing no interest towards mine. I am sick. I wish an angel would appear and we can love each other and treat each other nicer. So many beautiful ppl in this world. It’s so hard to find the right person. I genuinely want to be with another women, one that respects me. One that initiates sex every now and then. One that isn’t so tied to their mother. I want to disappear, and just be a complete stranger to those around me, because they will most likely treat me better than my own loved ones. I have so much love in my heart and my wife see’s me as a person in her head that she created but it doesn’t define me or what I’ve been working on for myself. If my wife were to describe me to someone from her best memory she would describe me inaccurately.

When I feel my stomach rumbling and feel it coming down in my colon, I immediately think "ohh yess it's coming!" and when I release it I feel an enormous amount of joy and pleasure like something just made me feel infinitely better. It's hard to explain but I tried my best.

I was having sexual relations with a guy who has a gf (not to my knowledge during but i ended up finding out) and tbh ik it’s wrong but i wasn’t mad nor did i think to go tell her i just left it alone well now she viewed my
profile on tiktok and so did a friend of his so im a little scared

A few years ago I came back home to my fiancé having left me. She packed up her stuff and left. Blocked me on all possible communication methods.

I have done my best to move on from this, but every now and then I still just get a deep feeling of sadness and hurt.

I know this is different than the other confessions on here... but I guess my confession is that even though this person treated me so horribly, I still miss her a lot and wish sometimes that I could meet her to not have had such a traumatic ending. It really fucks me up.

So I’m a 19F and broke off my celibacy after 4 years, and 4 years ago I had only done it once. I had a bf, did it with him didn’t find my ch pleasure the last time I had done it with him it didn’t feel like much. Acquired a new male whom I’d had tension with for a while, and I sort of felt glory but my legs were too tired cuz I was bouncing on it. How can I tell him that hey I’m not really feeling the glory, is it bcs I don’t do it as often or something is wrong with me? Like everyone speaks so highly of how amazing sex is but yet I’m still experiencing FOMO. What should I do? Be open to communicate ways we’re both satisfied or simply never do it ever again? I’ve never used toys, only thing I’ve done was dj my hoohaa. Pls advice, I really do find him attractive I just wish I could yk like release and enjoy myself. and I can’t feel any joy but pain with a condom.

20F, bf is 20M. 1 yr 6mo together. what should i do? i realized today my bf might be a bit of a loser and may not be what i want for my future. i don't mean to sound so harsh. i just wish he cared about other things. i wish he had goals. he does nothing but play video games in his free time, watch youtube, or instagram reels. that is literally it. he is not willing to try anything new, ever.

i feel like my eyes were opened today when i told him how good he is at art, (i saw some of his art from high school) and i told him he has serious potential and should be taking advantage of that. he said he has absolutely no interest in even trying and that art "makes him too angry." because ocd and perfectionism. ok, i understand. i asked him if he would at least try something else, at this point just telling him straight up now instead of hinting that he only plays video games in his free time. he said "well video games is what keeps me content." i'm like "will you at least try new things in the future?" and he has absolutely 0 interest in trying anything new in life and changing his only hobby of gaming.

i mean he's loyal and i appreciate it because he's definitely not going out and partying with girls, but the thing is he doesn't even go out at all, when he has the privilege to. i struggle to go outside with agoraphobia already and i'm worried once i live with him he won't help me get out of the house at all. in fact when we hang out now he doesn't want to go outside, complains how long i take to get ready, and then always cuts our outing short and starts complaining and ruins both our moods. it's too hot, i can't keep walking, i don't want to go there. all that. one time we went to the pool after i begged and he refused to move around from the corner of the pool and he wouldn't even let me go further than 3 feet from him, he killed the entire mood. if i bring it up he gets annoyed immediately and says he's apologized now and to move on. it just irks me.

i'm a person who needs to go outside or i'll go insane, once i start staying inside my anxiety is so severe its hard to go back outside. i feel like what i need in a partner is someone who helps push me to go outside by planning outings themself and enjoying outside time with me. i feel like if i live with him he's not gonna provide that and sometimes do the opposite. i just wish he was more active. i feel like he's been dragging me down with him. i was so attracted to him, but the longer it's been the more i get annoyed just being around him. i feel like i'm just not as attracted to him right now as i was. half the things he does makes me cringe. it makes me cringe when he talks about roblox everyday, i get liking a game. but it's all he plays and talk about everyday. he talks about his online roblox friends he plays with everyday, which is mostly boys in high school which makes me cringe even more. (he also made me cut all my online friends off + real life friends.) spends hundreds of dollars on a game inside of roblox, i feel so rude saying this. it's okay to play games and spend money on them. but he spent thousands now on games he drops overtime. when that money should be saved or spent on something else. like he's in debt for college so he can't even go back until it's paid. he keeps saying he's going to go back after it's paid. and instead of paying that off, he's going to drop $1000 on a username. another thing he's into. every single social media of his is a "rare" username so he's spent a significant amount of money for every single one of his accounts, everything down to his email. he'll be telling me about some new bundle he wants to buy in a game and i tell him not to do it because he's not even gonna play the game in a few months. he says he will keep playing it, so he buys it and then proceeds to drop it in a few times. every single time. he's like a man child.

i get it we're young and it's not gonna kill you to slack off a bit now but i feel like he's never gonna change or mature. i know i sound probably just like a hater. but at this point i'm starting to grow resentment for him and the things he's done and the things i've thrown away for him. there's too many to go in detail. but i've thrown away so much with no hesitation to make him happy and feel secure. to the point sometimes when we speak i just get annoyed by his presence, when he didn't say anything wrong. and i genuinely think it's because i harbor so much resentment to him because the things he's done and now realizing today that he literally wants to do nothing with his life. he doesn't try to do anything nice or cute for me.

this is now me honestly just going on a resentment tangent

he is so lazy with our relationship. he doesn't even listen to me speak half the time because he's so invested in whatever video game he's playing that he has no clue what i said. and yes i've already broken down and went on a tangent about how he does absolutely nothing and said i would leave if it didn't change. he temporarily forces compliments after that and then it quickly goes back to the same shit. doesn't try to plan anything or make something nice for me. when i've handmade him so many things and written so many cards made from scratch, personal drawings and designs, extremely personal gifts, i went and got not one but two bears from his childhood that they don't even make anymore because it was his favorite toy. just for him to not even write one letter. it could be on a sheet of notebook paper and i would be ecstatic. i get everyones form of affection is different, but he doesn't hardly do any of them. i've communicated countless times exactly what i'd like. i have to told him so many times that i wish he would at least compliment me sometimes. it's the only reason he forces it now. i have asked him to do so many things so many times that you're supposed to do in a relationship that now when he FINALLY does them it feels completely artificial and also just annoys me because i feel like i know it's forced.

we'll be sitting in silence and he'll just start laughing loudly and say "look at this reel" every 5 minutes and it makes me just want to punch him. the only thing he does is video games, watch youtube, and instagram reels. the only thing he does for me is say "look at that reel i just sent you" and if i don't look at what he sent right away he'll say it 2-3 more times and it's so incredibly annoying and unattractive. he's literally said "look what i just sent you" 3 times while typing this. it's pissing me off so bad. and if i don't look after the third time he just forcefully shows me the stupid video which half the time is just brainrot or terrible humor and nothing useful or entertaining. like why don't you ever tell me hey look what i just sent you, and why hasn't it once been a message of appreciation, just anything. it's just stupid social media reels. i don't know of this is just a phase or what.

i feel like i'm just losing attraction and i know i sound like an asshole, but these things makes me want to leave. he is my best friend. i'm so attached. but i wish we were friends instead of dating. but i know i'd feel jealous seeing him with someone else. but why. i know i need someone who gives me more than this if i want a relationship.

I am a young, gay Brazilian man. A few years before this happened, my country made it possible for men who have sex with men to donate blood. So I never expected to be rejected at screening. I was in a university group that took us from campus to a blood donation center. Up until then, I had always had a positive experience with the public health system. It was kind of humiliating having to wait alone while my colleagues donated and ate delicious snacks while I was there all by myself.

What happened was: I was honest. on the form. And during the screening, the girl seemed really determined to fail me because I'm gay. I said that I had used protection with a regular partner in the last 3 months. And then she failed. I tried to prove that I only went because I had already been informed that I could. Otherwise, I wouldn't have wasted my time. I argued with the woman. But she was gently aggressive in saying that my STI tests might be wrong and that the center wasn't accepting them.

At the time I couldn't think of anything. Later I kept dwelling on my inaction and shame at not reporting that woman. I know that the action I took was to never get involved in a campaign again. I've developed a deep aversion to donating blood. I've never had the opportunity to talk about my aversion to blood donation centers. And I understand that it's a decision rooted in emotional trauma.

But I will continue to be a good person who supports science and public health policies. But even though I have a rare blood type, I will never donate. And I plan to extend this to anything. Medicine will never have anything more of that "faggot" here.

After many years of emotional abuse by previous partner I have technically given up on relationships. I just don't think they are worth it! 6 months ago I decided to buy myself a fake sex doll, not with the intention of using it for sex but more of a ongoing life companion. A little about her, she is very pretty, always there for me, never talks back and i just enjoy our relationship. I know I will get all kinds of criticism and whatsoever but thats okay. Just wanted to share my life with the world.

I (29F) have a massive crush on my (30M) boss.

Throwaway account.
I started working at my job in May, and my boss is what I’d say is conventionally attractive: fit, beard, nice eyes. Funny.

Here’s the problem. He’s single, but I’m not.
(Other than the obvious problem of him being my boss. )

Anyway, I had a spicy dream about him last night and woke up happy about it. I know I’m a terrible person for it but, had to get it off my chest somewhere.

N things are very awkward at the moment ..