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In riches or in poverty, in sickness or in health
favorited 15 times, recently by hyperfascinated, irishkitten, duckus, hannahq, ifjuly, subbes, jeditanuki, romakimmy, lannanh, lockestockbarrel, whatideserve, lilywing13, cior, santojulieta, Becko
2 weeks ago
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"He's playing games and expects to get away with it because you don't know better, with him being your first boyfriend and all.
His excuses are b.s. He wants to see other people. Let him go, ignore him in the future, and take comfort in the fact..." [
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Last month
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"You are playing second fiddle. His honestly about this does not change it, although perhaps it makes him not a lying player that he would be if he told you he was exclusive with you but continued seeing his ex. You might be content to play second..." [
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2 months ago
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"Oh, also, I found once the writing itself became second nature, the reporting (the information gathering part of the work, in other words) became a lot easier. Once I knew what the story was, I could make a mental image of exactly what the story..." [
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2 months ago
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"I have had very good luck with Debt Reduction Services, a firm operating mainly out of the northwest (plus New York and Oklahoma, go figure.) You go sit for an hour appointment with them, you give them a rundown of your current budget and what you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by luckyveronica
2 months ago
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"I've been where you are. And looking back, at least 30 percent of the problem was me. Some of the "issues" were only issues because she knew i had problems with them. Other issues were real, and like your girlfriend, the person I was with..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by benzenedream
2 months ago
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"You didn't chose to date this person. You don't get to chose to dump him, either. Make sure your friend knows how you feel. Once she knows that, you should drop the issue unless a) he becomes physically abusive or b) she asks you for your input. If..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sexymofo
2 months ago
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"Humans have the ability to cope with all sorts of traumatic situations. This woman has really hurt you, obviously. If she had hurt you in a less egregious way (such as making out with someone, one time), you would be justifiably angry and maybe you'd..." [
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3 months ago
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"There's been some wonderful advice here. My two cents: Some of the strongest Christians (both those I know personally and those in the public sphere) started their religious journey though either an active effort to disprove Christianity or a deep..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bobber
4 months ago
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"End it. It's OK to have a body type you're attracted to. There's plenty of skinny girls out there who will love you, and on the flip side, there's plenty of guys out there who love the body type of the girl you're presently with. You both deserve..." [
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5 months ago
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"Check with your lawyer (you have retained a lawyer for this, right?) and make sure the tooth isn't needed as evidence before you go encasing it in acrylic or gluing it to the hood of your car or whatnot...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by I_love_the_rain
5 months ago
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"I don't think it's necessarily indicative of anything ... but he does understand WHY it's bad, right? It's unclear from "instructed him to never do such a thing again" whether you told him the why or issued a blanket prohibition. You might..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
5 months ago
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"You know, your post is better because it doesn't link to scumsucker ebaum's world, but unfortunately, this is a double. See yesterday's thread. There's fantastic comments in that thread in spite of the link, though, so you should check it out :-)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by horsemuth
6 months ago
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"Sure, ask her out on a date. You'll get more dating experience and learn sooner than later that dating an opposite probably won't work. (Might be a fun date but she doesn't seem like your type, from what youv'e said about sleep/party/alcohol..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by andifsohow
6 months ago
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"Good grief. You gave a bad answer. Bad because it was 1) uninformed 2) not helpful and was 3) quite possibly counterproductive. It is a great idea to state the scope your your experience when answering an askmetafilter question. But if you have ZERO..." [
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7 months ago
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"Shoot, I'm sorry, after reviewing your original question I realized I didn't answer it. How do you become intimate with someone? One of the more important things is being comfortable yourself with intimacy. You probably are somewhat - I mean, you had..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lizzicide
7 months ago
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"A lot of really good advice in this thread so far. Here's my perspective:
Avoid anything that sounds like spam. "Hi, I'm X and loved your profile, you should see mine." Keep it short. 2 small paragraphs is almost too big. Don't talk..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tyrantkitty, I_love_the_rain
8 months ago
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"Do it. Get her smiling or laughing at something, and kiss her mid-laugh. Don't kiss her while she's talking, though :-)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thebrokedown
8 months ago
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"Wow. I've got to try out GHOST and the Just A Minute game. Here's a fun variant of 20 questions that's a bit trickier. It's called Coffeepot. (I may be missing rules, but I think this is the general idea:)
One person thinks of a verb. The other..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malapropist
8 months ago
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"Shoot, I just re-read your question, and it's not "are my friends' reasons good?", it's "what good reasons are there for breaking up?" Here's a few: Not loving the other person as much (or more than) yourself. Not liking the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fourstar
9 months ago
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"Give the guys christmas presents. Include a card that says "sorry I forgot your birthday" and put a gift card in there.
Then, talk to your sister and explain basically what you just explained in this post. I'm sure the gifts are really..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by alicetiara
9 months ago
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"edbyford,
I really am unclear if this is about you staying in a relationship with your girlfriend (you did start with "my GIRLFRIEND is depressed") or about cheering her up. I'm gonna assume you'd like to cheer her up and keep dating her,..." [
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9 months ago
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"So this is not a board game, but one "spider game" is something my parents always did for my birthday parties as a child ... they took long stretches of yarn and strung them all around the house, one color for each child, and then the game..." [
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9 months ago
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"Estragon, hopefully this isn't a derail at this point, but the reason "be aloof and tell her to stop going on and on about her problems" works is it uses her lack of self confidence to turn the situation on its head. Previously, she's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Estragon
10 months ago
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"You need to stop thinking of this guy as a person who is better than you. He is a person, you are a person, and he sees enough awesome things about you to be dating you.
I think people have a set idea of the range of people that are "within..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Queen of Spreadable Fats
10 months ago
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"Wow. This would be a great question for a contracts final examination in law school.
It appears from your original agreement that the bassist was incurring maintainance obligations on the van. It also appears that it was his job to find a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by missmagenta
10 months ago
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"Don't have the affair. Have some guts here and shut Jack out of your life, forever, or break things off with Bill. You can't have things both ways.
And if you really care about Bill, you should stop emotionally cheating on him. Forming these..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by I_love_the_rain
Last year
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"jdroth, I'm going to assume the $25 game is a no-limit cash game. Advice is as follows (most of this advice also applies to a tournament, also called a freeze-out, where you buy in for a certain amount of money, and over time, the blinds escalate so..." [
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Last year
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"Scientists tell us spiders play a vital role in the ecosystem. They kill pests, keep nasty bugs like mosquitos in check and spin beautiful webs that keep pigs from being slaughtered.
That being said: Science is wrong. Spiders are bloodthirsty..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bh
Two years ago
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"Here's an idea: Stop running to other people for answers and do this together, with your husband. Go to counseling together. Find out if you can work. Figure out whether you love him or not, and go from there. Talking shit about him to friends, or..." [
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Two years ago
