I was trying to present his concerns as being relatable; I don't think he's unreasonable.
Marriage is pretty good. He's a good partner, a very moral person, and a great, involved father.
I think I'd rather die in a concentration camp than break up my family... At least, if I knew my kids would be okay. I don't think it's likely I'd be able to take my kids overseas with me if I left him over it anyway.
I am trying to talk my husband into moving. I can probably land the job in the EU I am interviewing for, but he does NOT want to move. He doesn't want to leave the small amount of community we have. He doesn't want to overreact in fear to this administration. He doesn't want to give up our home and our lifestyle (the EU pays substantially less across many industries). Our parents are getting older and sicker; it's hard to move abroad when you know there's probably only a handful of years left with them, especially when you have children.
I think the Internet discounts how difficult it can be to uproot.
I am kind of disappointing this is actually from 2023 though! It needs to cum again.
The reason behind priests not being allowed to marry originally had nothing to do with their faith though. It's because Catholic priests were bequeathing church assets to their children when they died. The church just put a thin veneer of dogma on top of the reasoning when they used the dictate of no marriage to stop the theft.
Does "bugs" have a scientific meaning? I was assuming it was a layman's term that I could abuse.
Not sure what your definition of people is, but Mexicans, Ugandan, and Koreans all eat grasshoppers (and probably others). I know crickets are eaten in Southeast Asia.
Ants seem too tiny to try to eat, but a Google search reveals they are eaten in South America and Southeast Asia.
Shrimp, lobsters, and crabs are kinds of bugs.
The population is being dumbed down by our education system and smart devices/ social media. In addition to that, Republicans' media strategy completely dominated with this election cycle. Democrat campaigns were being run like all of them were a bunch of seniors citizens who couldn't navigate the current media environment.
Republicans controlled the narrative on most all of the issues.
I can't really tell what your argument is here. Are you arguing that people substitute social media interactions for real life connection? And that they get enough from social media to not think vulnerability is worth it?
I guess I can agree to that in some general way for novices to social media (people like me in 2007 or young kids now), but in my generation I've observed people valuing it less as we age. Once you mature, if you mature, you can judge your own lack of fulfillment from hours spent on social media.
To quote (emphasis mine):
"I discovered that no one is looking for a meaningful connection or a serious conversation. Everyone wants to catered and be heard, no one wants to listen for just a second."
In no way does the first part of the post make it sound like the commenter is qualifying the statement to only the subset of people they have dated.
I'm happily married, and I know people I would enjoy spending time with if I wasn't. The world doesn't seem bereft of thoughtful, intelligent, generous people to me. To me, it sounds like it's a problem with the commenter.
I'm expecting downvotes for this.
While I agree with you that social media is very harmful to everyone but especially young people, I think we've also socialized an entire generation to pathologize mental distress instead of teaching them resiliency.
Celiac here. I get so annoyed when companies try to combine all dietary restrictions into a single food item, e.g., the GF cookie is also the vegan/ dairy free cookie. It's hard enough to make something edible with a single restriction, but when they try to lump all the restrictions into a single product it is almost always disgusting.