I'm mainly a lurker, but this recent event has really made me upset.
Recently, my friends (we are all around 20 years old in age, so very young) and I got in a pretty big argument over whether or not pits are dangerous and why they may attack.
TRDL: Friends tried to back up their pro-pit argument by claiming that their behavior is because of how they are raised. I argued that while this could be a contributing factor, there is a genetic component to why they attack. They denied my argument and accused me of wanting to hurt animals. Now I feel isolated and disrespected from the people whom I considered my friends.
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It started with someone (we will call A) sending a picture of pitbull in our group chat, saying that the pit was so nice so how could anyone hate them (A knew that I have a negative opinion of these animals). I responded saying that one individual cannot represent the population as a whole, and just because one of these animals is nice doesn't mean that this is (and has been) the most deadly dog breed. That's where things started to blow up.
B, C, and D all started responding, saying that its all in how these dogs are raised, saying that they are the most abused dog breed in the world (which is fact, they are the most abused breed, however I think there is more depth on why they might attack someone), and thus, if they are to attack, it's because of the way they are raised.
I responded saying that yes, abuse can be one of the factors that may cause a dog to attack, however, this certainly is not true for all attacks, and that there is a "genetic component" (which the FAQ for this subreddit also states) that cannot be ignored, backing up my claim with the breeding history of pits and other fighting dogs, and how, like several other species, these animals were just doing what they were bred to do (I used examples regarding several breeds of herding dogs, hunting dogs, etc, and how they were bred for these specific traits).
Of course, B, C, and D denied that genetics had any part in why pits might attack and continued to ignore my argument, then kept insisting that I didn't understand their argument. When I brought up the amount of people they kill per year (this is only reported deaths, not even attacks), D said that they had only killed about 300 people globally on average per year (i was INFURIATED because according to what D said, that is about 300 people PER YEAR who have died due to these animals, and D was treating it as if it was absolutely nothing). C also brought up an article which was from the ATTS (which the FAQ addressed to be useless and even said that the ATTS admitted that "the breed rankings are "not a measure of a breed's aggression," are not scientific, and hold no statistical significance"). C also equivalated the banning of gay marriage (C and I are both homosexuals) to pits bulls being banned, and just did not seem able to understand that pitbulls and humans are not the same.
B then ended the conversation by saying that I was twisting B's words into what I wanted them to say, and that I promote an agenda that wants to hurt and kill animals (which i thought was very hypocritical of B to say, considering that B was upset that I was apparently putting words in their mouth, which is then what they proceeded to do to me).
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Honestly, what went on in the argument isn't even important. I just feel disgusted, upset, and like an idiot by people who are (were?) my friends. The fact that they all literally "pitted" against me and denied my argument which I thought I had supported very well, even acknowledging their perspective, only to be entirely disregarded an treated like I was evil and an idiot.
The thing is, I wish I would have never even mentioned my opinion towards pits to them (I had mentioned that I disliked pits a few months prior, and we had seldom talked about it until now). I thought that as my friends, they would have the capability to accept that I have a different opinion (they wouldn't even have to necessarily agree with my argument), but instead, they ignored anything I had to say, disrespected survivors/victims of pitbull attacks, and just accused me of wanting to hurt and kill animals. These were my friends whom I trusted and I shared a great bond with, but the fact that they could be so blind disgusts and hurts me, and I can only imagine how the survivors and victims of pitbull attacks may feel, as well as their friends and family.
I feel that my bond with these people is permanently damaged, just based on the way they treated me and just how much they could be hurting others. I feel so isolated by them, and I think that a lot of respect they have for me and I have for them is gone. Whenever I think of the conversation, I feel sick at the thought that my own friends believe that nothing is wrong with these animals and now instead think I am an evil person who hates animals and wants them to be hurt and killed (which is not what I believe; I believe that we should stop the breeding of these animals and allow this dog breed to die out. This would not harm any existing pitbulls nor would involve abusing them).
Thankfully, one of my friends (who we will call E) messaged me later and told me that they thought I made some very good points, and while E might not agree with all my opinions regarding pitbulls, E still supports me. I am very thankful for E, even with B, C, D, (and even perhaps A) "pitting" against me.
I just can't help but feel like a bit of a horrible person (ironic right?), especially since B, C, and D think I would promote animals abuse. Of course, this has not changed my opinion on these animals, but I still feel so isolated from my friends, the people I so deeply trusted.
This experience truly has enlightened me in how people who defend these animals think. They literally denied evidence of these animals being inherently dangerous, disregarded the true impact of these animals to people, and even related pitbulls to humans in a way that they knew would affect me, then twisted the argument so that I was the bad guy.
Just so you know, I truly admire this community and those who have been affected in some way by these animals. I am so sorry to the survivors of these attacks, to the friends and family who have had a loved one affected by these animals, but know that I hold the upmost respect towards you.

Let's begin with the standard datamining reminders:

1. All datamined info of unreleased content counts as spoilers, so please do not discuss anything from this thread or any other datamining thread outside of clearly marked datamining threads. If it is necessary to bring something up outside of one of those threads, make to clearly mark the spoilers (and preferably indicate that it is a datamined spoiler). Not everyone is interested in datamined spoilers, and you should respect that.
2. All datamined content is unfinished (otherwise I'd probably be putting it in a guide), as such there is no guarantee that any content discussed in these threads will release in its current form or that it will even release at all. There is still content that I have datamined from 1.1, which may have been in the launch build, that is not available to players (e.g., Spirit Totem series and Sosiel Romance Follow Up Card Game), and anything I find now could potentially follow the same route.

Well this probably isn't as much content as last patch, but there are some eagerly awaited build options in here. And on that topic, I suddenly feel the urge to remind people I am just the messenger. No particular reason why, just felt like saying it. :P

DLC5

So I think I found the exchange for meeting Penta. Not going to spoil too much, but one of the translated lines made me laugh too much to not share: "My main specialization is music. The Tech League considered this area of work unproductive, and I was reprogrammed for research work in extreme conditions, as well as unquestioning obedience and respectful treatment. One of these three programs was installed correctly." Also I know this line will break a few hearts despite no one having seen her yet and her almost certainly being constrained to DLC5's stand alone campaign: "I offer mutually beneficial cooperation. Optional friendship. Romantic relationships - excluded."
More generally, I think I have the general flow for the DLC now. It looks like the goal is going to be to track down the seven shards of Sithhud so that you can kill/serve/usurp/w/e him. Honestly, the dialogue makes me think of Throne of Bhaal because it seems we'll be using portals to move in and out of our extraplanar home base to track down the bhaalsp... I mean missing shards and those who hold them.
I see some entries related to the Plane of Shadow, so I guess that we'll be making a trip there? No details at the moment beyond it exists.
And since it was a crowd pleaser last time, I'll mention that there are further mentions of goblins.

Archetypes

Hag Riven
Some new abilities from the entry last time

• Evil Eye - At 1st level, you can curse an opponent with a wicked glance. As a standard action, you can afflict one target within 30 feet that you can see, causing it to take a –2 penalty to AC and on attack rolls for 1 round per class level. A Will save reduces this to just 1 round (DC = 10 + half your bloodrager level + your Charisma modifier). You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. At 8th level the penalty increases to –4.
• Hag Fortitude - At 4th level, you become immune to mundane and magical diseases. At 8th level, you also become immune to poison.
• Hag Transformation - At 12th level, your form grows more twisted and powerful while bloodraging, but clumsy, blind aggression clouds your mind. You assume the form of annis hag, gaining a +2 racial bonus on Intimidate checks. Your morale bonus to Strength increases by 2, and you gain scent ability, but you take a –2 penalty to both Dexterity and Wisdom for the duration of your bloodrage.
  • At 16th level, you apply your morale bonus on Will saving throws while bloodraging to Fortitude and Reflex saving throws.
• Covenguard - At 16th level, you can cast bestow curse three times per day as a spell-like ability.
• Curse Conduit - At 20th level, you gain immunity to negative energy damage and all spells with the curse descriptor. Whenever you confirm a critical hit with a melee weapon, you can immediately target your opponent with a bestow curse spell-like ability with random curse effect.

Dark Sister
Dark Sisters are feared for their ability to bend minds and sow discord. Some say these witches can watch their enemies from afar and can even corrupt the minds of the most innocent or loyal, including newborn babes and cherished pets. Dark Sister can't have animal companion

• Dark Pact - Instead of choosing patron, dark sister forms a pact with specific Night Hag, this hag grants witch a familliar and bonus spells as patron feature does.
• Curdle Thoughts - At 2nd level, a Dark Sister can insert negative emotions into the mind of a single target.
  • She gains a +2 bonus on Persuasion checks due it's perfect ability to sow suspicion, hatred, or other forms of animosity. In addition, a Dark Sister increase the save DC of any spell with the fear descriptor she casts by 2.
  • This ability replaces the witch's 2nd-level hex.
• Sunder Hope - At 8th level, a Dark Sister can violently dismiss her curses to counter magical boons and impose her own capricious whims. Once per day, after the Dark Sister has successfully affected a creature within 30 feet with a mind-affecting spell, spell-like ability, or hex, she also affect creature with greater dispel magic. At 14th and 20th levels, a Dark Sister can use this ability an additional time per day.
• Hag Crony - At 12th level, a Dark Sister gains a blessing in the form of an alliance with a night hag special companion. This comanion progresses as dark sister gain more powers.
  • At 12-th level of Dark Sister, her Night Hag companion level is 12th and she gain following spells she can cast at will: Deep Slumber, Invisibility, Ray of Enfeeblement, Magic Missile
  • At 13-th level of Dark Sister, her Night Hag companion level is 13th and she Night Hag gain following spells she can cast at will: Blindness, Scare
  • At 14-th level of Dark Sister her Night Hag companion level is 14th and she Night Hag gain following spells she can cast at will: Hideous Laughter, Haste
  • At 15-th level of Dark Sister her Night Hag companion level is 16th and she Night Hag gain following spells she can cast at will: Dispel Magic, Vampiric Touch
  • At 16-th level of Dark Sister her Night Hag companion level is 18th and she Night Hag gain following spells she can cast at will: Slow, Contagion
  • At 17-th level of Dark Sister her Night Hag companion level is 19th and she Night Hag gain following spells she can cast at will: Crushing Despair, Fear
  • At 18-th level of Dark Sister her Night Hag companion level is 20th and she Night Hag gain following spells she can cast at will: Phantasmal Killer, Unholy Blight
  • At 19-th level of Dark Sister her Night Hag companion level is 21th and she Night Hag gain following spells she can cast at will: Enervation, Confusion
  • At 20-th level of Dark Sister her Night Hag companion level is 23th and she Night Hag gain following spells she can cast at will: Baleful Polymorph, Cone of Cold

Items

These are all probably DLC things.

• (draft) Belt of Lesser Shadowform - (draft) This belt grants its wearer a +2 enhancement bonus to Dexterity. Bonuses of the same type usually don't stack.
  • Furthermore, as a swift action, its wearer can become incorporeal. While incorporeal, he takes no damage from non-magic weapons, and takes only half damage from any source which deals neither ghost, holy, divine, or force damage. The wearer can remain incorporeal for up to 5 rounds per day. The rounds need not be consecutive.
• (draft) Dark Life Ring - (draft) A dark life ring grants its wearer a +2 profane bonus on Will saving throws against channeled negative energy and inflict spells (any spell with "inflict" in its name). In addition, ring grants the wearer resistance to negative energy 5.
• (draft) Sunless Shield - (draft) Whenever the wearer takes fire damage, the shield accumulates one energy charge. When the fifth charge accumulates, the shield casts a scorching ray, firing one ray at the creature that is the source of fire damage, as a level 10 caster.
• [Draft] Pearl of Power (variants exist for all spell levels) - [Draft] This seemingly normal pearl of average size and luster is a potent aid to all spellcasters who prepare spells (clerics, druids, rangers, paladins, and wizards). Once per day on command, a pearl of power enables the possessor to recall any one spell that she had prepared and then cast that day. The spell is then prepared again, just as if it had not been cast. The spell must be of a particular level, depending on the pearl.
• Quiver of Druchite Ammunition - The owner of this quiver can use it to shoot 50 units of druchite ammunition. Druchite ammunition grant their owner a 50% chance that the enemy will not notice the attack, as if the attacker were invisible.
• (draft) Aszite - (draft) The navy-blue ore known as aszite absorbs any light around itself.The wearer of aszite-veined armor gains a +5 circumstance bonus on Stealth checks. If the wearer uses a Druсhite weapon, the usual chance of an unnoticed attack with it, as if the attacker were invisible, increases to 20%.
• (draft) Absolute Darkness - (draft) Whenever the wearer of this +2 aszite full plate receives a critical hit, he gain partial concealment for 1 round.
• (draft) Dazzled Dagger - (draft) When this +2 bleed druchite dagger lands a hit on an enemy, the target becomes dazzled for 1 round.
• (draft) Midnight Flail - (draft) This +3 vicious druchite flail deals additional 1d6 unholy damage against enemies whose current number of HP is lower than the wielder's
• (draft) Ring of Shadow Stealing - (draft) Whenever the wearer of this ring kill an enemy, there is a 10% chance that it steal enemy`s shadow and use it to summon a CR9 Ravenous Greater Shadow to fight alongside the wearer for 5 rounds. When the shadow is stolen, this ability cannot be triggered for one minute.
• (draft) Dispelling Darkness - (draft) Each round, while the Dispelling Darkness is on, the stage of Shadow Madness decreases for you and your allies at 25 feet. It is impossible to use the Dispelling Darkness in areas of "full darkness".
  • Turning on the Dispelling Darkness can attract the attention of shadow demons.
• (draft) Dirgesinger's Choir - (draft) When the bard or skald using Dirgesinger's Choir and perform the Dirge of Doom, this performance has an additional effect. To be affected, an enemy must be able to hear the performance and be within 30 feet. Every round each enemy within range receives a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 the carrier's level + the carrier's spellcasting ability modifier) to negate the effect. If the save succeeds, the creature is immune to this ability for 24 hours. If the save fails, the living target takes 1d6 points of negative damage, and the undead target is staggered for 1 round.
• (draft) Druchite - (draft) The black-and-violet ore known as druchite is so dark that creatures can have extreme difficulty perceiving it. Druchite-veined melee weapons grant their wielder a 10% chance that the enemy will not notice the attack, as if the attacker were invisible.
• (draft) Tangible Shadow - (draft) This +1 quarterstaff grants the wielder an ability to cast shadow evocation spell 3 times per day as 9th level wizard.\nIn addition, the staff increase the shadowy substance used to form shadow conjuration and shadow evocation spells, making it are 10% more real.
• Crushing Burden - Whenever the wielder of this +5 vicious gnome hooked hammer lands 3 consecutive hits on the same enemy, the enemy must pass a Fortitude saving throw DC 28) or become fatigued. Whenever the wielder lands 3 consecutive hits on a fatigued enemy, that enemy must pass a Fortitude saving throw (DC 31) or become exhausted.

Spells/Abilities

• Meteor Swarm - Meteor swarm is a very powerful and spectacular spell that is similar to fireball in many aspects. When you cast it, you call for a rain of meteors withing the area, wich deals 8d6 points of blungeoning damage and 24d6 fire damage to every creature within the area.A successful Reflex save halves this . Meteor swarm ignores spell resistance.
• Repulsion - An invisible, mobile field 40 feet radius surrounds you and prevents creatures from movement. Any creature within or entering the field must attempt a save. If it fails, it becomes unable to move for the duration of the spell or untill it leaves the area. Repelled creatures' actions are not otherwise restricted. They can fight other creatures and can cast spells and attack you with ranged weapons. If you move closer to an affected creature, nothing happens. The creature is not forced back. The creature is free to make melee attacks against you if you come within reach.
• Symbol of Vulnerability - This rune is activated by any creatures. Once triggered, a symbol of vulnerability remains active for 10 minutes per caster level, it saps the defenses of all creatures within 30 feet. Affected creatures receive a –4 penalty to spell resistance and a –4 penalty on saving throws, and damage reduction (if any) are reduced by 10 each (to a minimum of 0) and any energy resistances are supressed. Once triggered, the symbol remains active for 10 minutes per level. The effects last as long as the creature is within area of effect, and for 1 round per caster level afterward.
• Symbol of Weakness - This rune is activated by any creatures. Once triggered, a symbol of vulnerability remains active for 10 minutes per caster level, every creature within 30 feet of a symbol of weakness suffers crippling weakness that deals 3d6 points of Strength damage. A creature can only be affected by this symbol once.

Build Options

I think most of these are mythic things, but not all of them are clearly marked as such so some could be normal build options. And we finally get mythic armor and poison support for all those asking for them!

• Armor Focus (Mythic)
  • Light
    • Assault - Your designed your light armor to ideally fit for your combat style. When you wearing light armor and finessable melee weapons, you gain attack bonus equal to your weared armor bonus to attack with finessable melee weapons.
    • Avoidance - When you wear light armor your max dex bonus increases to your myhic rank, also you gain 5% per mythic rank chance to dodge any attack, made against you
    • Endurance - "When you wear light armor you gain spell resistance equial to it's armor bonus, this spell resistance stacks with existing spell resistance
  • Medium
    • Assault - You master armor combat and midify your armor with spikes , when you successfully attack in melee combat while wearing medium armor you also deal additional 1d6+ armor bonus to AC piercing damage
    • Avoidance - When you wear medium armor your max dex bonus to AC is equial to your constitution modifier if it's hier
    • Endurance - When you wear medium armor you gain half of your weared armor AC bonus to AC and no longer reduce your speed
  • Heavy
    • Assault - You master armor combat and midify your armor with sharp blades , when you successfully attack in melee combat while wearing heavy armor you also deal additional 1d6+ armor bonus to AC slashing damage
    • Avoidance - When you wear heavy armor you loose your dexterity bonus to AC, making your character flat-footed in combat, but add half of your strength bonus to AC.
    • Endurance - When you wear heavy armor you gain special armor damage reduction wich stacks with existing damage reductions and equial to half armor AC + half Mythic rank (Both values are rounded UP)
• Dodge (Mythic) altered to - The bonus to AC from Dodge increases by 1. You gain +10 dodge bonus to AC against first attack every round.
• Caster Onslaught - After you cast a spell you get bonus equal to half you mythic rank to attack and damage roll on attack with a melee weapon until end of this round.
• Corrupter - Your poisons and diseases ignore immunities
• Explosive Expert - You master the art of explosion. When you using bombs you have 50% chance to immideatly restore reagents used to create this bomb. Also your bombs deal additional dice of damage.
• Mythic Inspire - Your music became more powerful and better inspire allies.
  • Benefit: Bonus of inspired abilities increases by half your mythic rank.
  • Bonus applied to Inspire Courage, Inspire Competence, Archaeologist's Luck, Inspire Ferosity, Inspire Tranquility, Inspired Rage, Insightful Contemplation
• Perfect Cavalry - When mounted and moving you and mount have immunity to attack of opportunity.
• School Tolerance - You no longer suffer penalty from opposite magic schools.

Assassin

So Assassin got some stuff. Not sure if any of it fixes the class's problems, but hey improvements! (I think)

• [Draft] Alter Ego - [Draft] Assassin can create copies of himself to distract the enemy. As long as at least one copy is present on the battlefield, all creatures attacked by the assassin take damage from the sneak attack. Otherwise, this ability works like a mirror image. An assassin can create one copy and one at a time for every three levels of assassin, counting from the 3rd, up to a maximum of 3 at 9th level, 1+Intelligence modifier per day.
• [Draft] Cold Minded - [Draft] Assasin is a soulless mechanism designed to kill without feelings or emotions. You gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against mind-affecting, compulsion, fear and emotion effects. At 5th level and 8th level, this bonus increases by 1 to +4.
• (Poison Use improvement) - If the target is someone with the Mark of Death, she must make two saving throws when poisoning and choose the worst result" and "At 8th level, the duration of the poisons increases by 1 round.
  • At 9th level, the number of successful saving throws needed to remove the poison increases to 3.
  • At 10th level, an assassin's poison target takes poison damage on a success Fortitude save.
• [Draft] Master Assassin - [Draft] You've mastered the art of assassination to the point where you can deliver the killing blow before your target can react. Your \"Assassinate Target\" ability now use as a standard action. You also add sneak attack damage to all attacks against your \"Mark of Death\" target, even if you don't have an advantage in numbers or they aren't flat-footed.
• [Draft] Assassinate Target - [Draft] As a full-round action, you can special hit the target with your Mark of Death. You aim target that doesn't know about the assassin, at the weakest point , making a successful attack very difficult (the assassin suffers a -2 penalty to this attack). If it hits, the creature immediately makes a Fortitude saving throw with a DC 10 + assassin level + Int modifier. On a failed save, the target dies immediately. If the target succeeds, the assassin's attack damage is treated as a critical hit (the assassin still has to confirm the critical hit). The target also realizes that he was on the verge of death and gains the Shaken condition for 1d4 rounds. In either case, the target becomes immune to "Assassinate target" for 1 day.
• [Draft] Public Execution - Your art of killing shocks those around you, making them feel the fear of imminent death. Whenever an assassin reduces a target to 0 HP or kills it with a ability "Assassinate Target" , she immediately make a Persuasion (intimidate) check to demoralize all foes within 30 feet who can see that kill. If the victim was Mark Of Death, the assassin gains a +2 bonus to this action.

Silly Stuff

• (draft) Gollum
• (draft) Gollum`s Brother
• "...And they are tormenting me because I am sad because of the death of the magician."

My parents (40s) are amazing people, individually. Together, however, they are just not happy. Like ever. There are a few core issues I can identify.
My dad's job and my mom's workload - this has been the bone of contention between them for years now. Luck has never been on his side in the matters of employment. He has tried a lot to get a good paying job with regular working hours, but it just doesn't seem to happen. My mom on the other hand is the bread winner of the family and because she gets home earlier, she bears the brunt of the house chores as well. My dad though helps, but my mom has the sole duty of the mental workload as well, which makes her bitter when he doesn't know what has to be done. My dad obviously has some internal feeling of not being able to provide for the family, and it hurts him.
My mother's overthinking and my dad's nonchalance- My mom has to deal with my extended family. She has all the mental workload of that as well. Taking care of the elderly grandparents, keeping in touch with the aunts and bear their gossips and schemes. She, thus, tends to overthink things. If my grandma. For instance, shall make a snarky remark (she does that a lot), my mom will think it over for days and try to discuss it with my dad who is very nonchalant about it because he doesn't have to deal with that.
Different temperaments - My mom has the attitude of finish everything before relaxing, while my dad likes to relax while working. He enjoys staying in bed till later and then getting up at leisure and listen to music etc. While my mom wakes up hours before him, cooks breakfast and lunch separately for each person in the house (everybody wants something different) and my dad, though helps, acts as an underling and needs to be told what to do and even then he'll spend a lot of time on his phone while doing that which my mom doesn't like
My mom's insistence on doing things a certain way - She does not like to go against the grain in any way. She will not allow my dad to cook or clean because she believes that's a woman's job, so my dad has to do other chores like clean up the messy rooms. He, however, doesn't mind a little mess, while my mother is adamant about having everything in the perfect order. ("What if guests come over suddenly?" which they never do)
They are not willing to change - She doesn't understand that some things are out of her control (I guess, so do I - trying to fix them), she'll constantly badger dad about being late or not having the ideal job etc. which he has no control over. He, on the other hand, enjoys his 'me time' more than spending time with her - probably because she keeps bringing up issues that have no solutions. This makes my mom very lonely. My mom will not let go of her incessant nature, and my dad refuses to spend time with her. When they do spend time together, my mom starts talking about her woes and my dad retreats to his phone and the fighting ensues.
My role in this - I have a younger brother(16M) whom I love dearly, they have left him to my care for years now. They, of course, provide for him and me, but are not very emotionally available for us, nor do they try to push us in our studies, yet they do expect good grades. My mom always talks to me about her woes in her marriage, I see her lonely all the time - she has no hobbies or friends. My dad too also talks to me about how much of a nag he finds mom. They fight all the time, when they are not fighting, they are just not speaking to one another. They make passive-aggressive remarks constantly. I don't remember the last normal conversation they had. Their fights seep into my life all the time, I am the one who breaks up their fights, I stay in the room whenever they are together to convert their passive-aggressive remarks to normal sentences. I protect my brother from their nonsense, specially because he is studying for his exams. I am tired, I have to study too. But, that always takes the backseat, I sit next to my ADHD (not diagnosed but its very clear) brother so that he focuses on his studies all day, in the evenings, I spend time with my mom because she gets lonely, and I can only study at night which is marred half the times when my parents start fighting, and I have to break it up. Sometimes I try to set up dates for them - painting tonight - but my dad declares that he is not interested, and my mom starts fighting with him over how I want them to do it. They do not let things go, when my mom is mad at my dad, for example - she takes it out on me as well. I need to shield my brother from this behaviour - I try to teach him that this is not the norm, fighting so constantly and that he should take them as an example of what not to be, but I am worried that he will learn from their behaviour.I am tired of being their therapist, I am tired of the mental workload, I am tired of playing the mental gymnastics of talking to both of them separately and placating their anger and sadness. I am of sitting in between them when they talk to convert their passive-aggressive remarks into normal sentences so a fight doesn't ensue. I am emotionally burnt out over their childish behaviour. Most of all, it is affecting my studies and mental health. It is affecting my brother, as much as I try to make it not so. Please help me, guide me in what way I can make it work. How to fix them and how to protect my brother and myself and our studies?
Note - Our culture does not permit divorce, therapy, children moving out before marriage. My extended family will eat us alive if any of the above happens.
TL;DR my parents fight constantly and use me as a therapist. How do I fix their marriage and protect my brother?

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March 22, 2019
After exiting the Sergeants office I headed to where mom and Miranda were waiting for me.
“Why did you stay?” asked mom who looked a fair bit and understandably concerned.
“Oh uh- just asking her something.” I said not wanting to worry them, which you could argue, how effective that was.
“Fucking aliens.” Miranda hissed while looking around there weren’t any of them around to hear her.
“Language!” mom said in a screaming whispering volume, not happy with the way her daughter was talking.
“Mom right now I don’t give three shits about my language, what I care is about those purple fucks invading our planet.” Said while pointing at the space surrounding us.
“Maybe you should lower your voice a little at least.” I said while looking at the people from the front desk starring our way even though she wasn't loud it was so quiet that you could hear a snail move.
“What about you huh? How many did you fuck already? Is that why you love talking to them so much?" Miranda said while making gestures with her head while having her arms crossed
“ENOUGH, WE ARE GOING TO THE ROOM.” mom screamed, it wasn’t unusual for her to scream, that was more of dad’s job.
After getting to the room the verbal brawl resumed.
“You shouldn’t even talk to those purple fucks, but maybe you already dipped the pen in the purple ink.”
“Can you shut the fuck up? At least once?” I said already fed up.
“Alright what in the God’s name is going on with your two, I have never heard y’all argue like this.” Mom said in a concerned tone but also mixed with her angry one.
“The problem is that the mister here present, is too bothered to hear me talking about those beasts outside, so it gets me to the conclusion that he’s been sleeping with them.”
Mom stared at her for a couple of seconds before looking at me with a phase that genuinely scared me, it was a mix of shock, anger, and disgust, I’ll never forget it that I’m sure.
“Jeriel Samuel Alvarez Mejia, please tell me that’s not true.” she said in the verge of tears.
“Of course I didn’t, she’s lying as always, every single fucking time she just either jumps straight to conclusions or straight up lies about everything, everything in order for her to be out of trouble, don’t let me remind you the time I was blamed and punished for breaking a window when I was at the summer camp 3 hours AWAY.”
“And if someone needs to be scolded for having sex SHE is the one that needs to be.” I said while pointing at her, I remember they would always put her first, unless it was for things that were not enjoyable, she could get not so great grades, while if I got anything under a B I had brought shame and disappointment to the family, I remember crying in my room when dad would take all my stuff away and then proceed to trauma dump on me retelling the story of the shitty life he had before becoming successful.
“What do you mean?” mom said while turning to her, adding tears to the mix “WHAT DOES HE MEAN?”
Miranda stayed quiet avoiding moms stare “Oh I’ll tell you what I mean, she’s been sneaking his boyfriend in for about 9 months now, I never said anything because I didn’t see point in it, it would somehow bounce back and be my fault somehow.” I said as I turned to be received by the room phone in the head.
“AHH FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?” I screamed as I grabbed my head.
"COME HERE YOU LITTLE SH-" as I was going to pick up speed I was stopped by mom who did her best to try and hold me back
“You mad that your fucking lie fell apart?” I told her as she backed away.
“ENOUGH, ENOUGH BOTH OF YOU!” she still found a way to include me into this.
“Miranda sweetie what’s going on?” see what I mean?
“What’s going on is that we’ve been invaded by fucking aliens and this piece of shit in front of me wants to defend them and get mad when THEY ARE THE REASON THAT DAD IS DEAD!”
Then everything got quiet.
“You know what? As far as I remember the aliens didn’t kill dad, he was live and well before the navy decided to vaporize him into oblivion.”
“And that was in their damn right, it’s like judging a person for using their gun to defend their home against a robber.” Miranda bit back.
“More like the husband killing his wife because one he has shitty ass fucking aim and two because he used a fucking shotgun to shoot the robber despite his wife being right next to the robber.”
“And now we have to move fucking somewhere else because some damn General MacArthur wanted to be a hero and get a stupid little medal for saving earth?”
As Miranda prepared to answer back mom cut her short “I’M DONE WITH BOTH OF YOU, DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD HAS IT BEING FOR ME, NOT JUST YOUR DADS DEATH, BUT ALSO MY HUSBAND'S? THAT NOW I NEED TO CARE FOR YOU BOTH ON MY OWN? THAT WE DONT HAVE A HOUSE OR A PLACE TO LIVE ANYMORE THAT BY THE GRACE OF GOD THEY ARE AT LEAST LETTING US GO SOMEWHERE ELSE AND NOT HAVE US TRAPPED HERE? I DO AND ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY SO I WOULD APPRECIATE SOME COLLABORATION FROM YOU TWO AND STOP ARGUING FOR TEN MINUTES, TEN MINUTES IS ALL I ASK.”
As we were both heading out we heard mom say between tears “Miranda I need to talk to you.” We looked at each other before she turned back, I exited and entered my own room because even though it was 11:00 AM I needed a nap to allow my brain to process what had happened today, but before that I had to get a band aid for my bruise.
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March 22-30, 2019
Things had been well... Things, after the fight and talking to Miranda mom came into my room to talk to me about everything, guess it went relatively well, I guess we all just had that buried inside, this was actually kind of a usual thing you know? this kind of fights between us two, minus the phone to the head obviously, but I still love them would do anything for them, but yeah this time we cranked it up to a new level, my relationship with Miranda had been rocky at best, we hadn't really talked for the past week, under the umbrella of new and/or different things that happened this week, breakfast changed, I knew it was bound to happen, so we've been eating what I assume are alien MRE's, that to be honest are not that bad, needs more salt though, maybe I should expect alien food to be different, and that explains the love for maple syrup, but one question stuck with me, if this was their "food" then how sweet are their deserts? another option is that this is just how the MRE's taste, maybe homemade food was different.
But anyways, I had been also having small talks with Delara here and there nothing too serious, but today was the day we were supposed to see Sergeant Lyria to get our IDs, there were just some regular questions, got our photos taken that this time I made sure to look good, despite the bruise on my forehead, I had to give many explanations, if I didn't want them to arrest Miranda, they seem to be really protective of males, but all in all I looked good in the picture, way better than any other I had taken before, and the IDs themselves were purple as most things seemed to be, that got me wondering what if we made our things on the skin tone scale, like they do to purple, or maybe it was another reason that wasn't so weird, I'll have to ask that next chance I get, but yeah in general terms things were... ok.
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I was laying down in the sofa of the hotel lobby, again I was reading, then I sit up as I see Delara coming my way "Hey Jeriiel."
Well at least she says it properly now or at least close to it, "Hi Delara." I said as I raised my fist to fist bump her which she had explained to me that it was the equivalent of handshakes.
"How are you doing?" she asked, her pronunciation having a substantial improvement.
"I'm doing fine, what about you?"
"Doing well, but how about your mother and sister, are things ok now?" she asked while sitting in the chair in front of the sofa across from the little coffee table, she had been checking up on me whenever she had the chance.
"Doing better, though mom is a little stressed with the moving thing, understandably so." I responded
"How about you though? heard y'all were also moving?" I asked sipping from a bottle of water.
"Oh yeah they stablished base and we live in two weeks, just enough to say goodbye." Delara said maybe with a little bit of sadness in her voice.
"I guess." I said a little sad that I wouldn't see my friend anymore, maybe she was an alien invader but I still considered my friend, and believe me that is something a needed quite a bit
Then we saw Miranda and mom coming back from a walk, with the lockdown lifted the first thing we did was walk somewhere, we have never been in North Carolina, what we did notice was the atmosphere felt weird, not the atmosphere as in the actual gas surrounding the planet but more in the vibes people gave, there some sketchy characters for sure, and some other people who clearly didn't like the new people, there were arrests, shootings, and other things I can't remember at the moment, I didn't know how their government worked or what laws they had, but if they took away guns, I couldn't not feel bad for whoever was put in charge of the south, long days were ahead of them.
"Bendición ma." I said as they walked through the door, "How did it go?"
"Really good actually, the weather is cooler now." she said while looking at me then noticed Delara sitting down.
"Oh uh- h- hello, D- De- Delara."
"Hi Mrs. M- Me- Mejia." she said while waving, to which my mom waved back.
"I'm going to the room." said Miranda avoiding Delara as much as possible
"I think I should go with her." said mom as she waved goodbye
**sigh* "*Hope things can get better." I said while returning to my book.
"I'm sure they will, me and my siblings fight all the time, and in the worst cases we are back to normal after a week or two." Delara said trying to support me.
"Yeah, I don't think this falls under the same category but thanks." I said as the communicator in her helmet buzzed
\Buzz* *buzz**
"I have to go." Delara said as she stoop up and fist bumped me, putting her helmet on and heading out
'At least she knows how to use I now'
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Surprise chapter, I guess?
I was feeling inspired and couldn't wait to post it next week.
As always any suggestions and corrections are welcomed.
Thanks again.

“I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you. "
“I understand the district court judge there either was an advocate of homosexual activity, or was a homosexual, had a wife. There was some connection, can you elucidate that?”
“Islam is a violent—I was going to say religion—but it’s not a religion. It’s a political system. It’s a violent political system bent on the overthrow of governments of the world and world domination,”
The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
“the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He [sic] is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into [our] institutions [today] are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions…”
More recently, Robertson called critical race theory “a monstrous evil” designed to give people of color “the whip handle” so that they can lord it over white people.
All words from the infamous bigot himself.
I hope you are in the very hell you designed for others Pat

I hate to say it, but really have one player that stands out among my group. They roleplay well, keep things interesting and light and are just a joy to DM for. Is that like a parent with a favorite kid? Does this make me a horrible DM?
Any other DMs out there have a favorite player?
Don't get me wrong... I still might kill their character, but I would be sad about it :-p

If depression and suicidal ideation go around in packs, then I guess I’m a good example. I entered my freshman year of college in fall of 2019 hoping for a positive experience. Idk what I was expecting, but I thought that the Ivies would have an engaged and curious student body.
It’s been anything but. Everyone around me is a neurotic and suicidal wreck, and I think it got worse due to COVID. I’m supposed to be graduating this week and starting my “adult” life, but I still have two years left of school because I’m a loser and took multiple leaves of absence because I’m depressed and suicidal.
One of my professors freshman fall killed himself. I started having intense suicidal ideation during Spring of 2020 when my college sent everyone home during COVID, and the suicidal urges and depression haven’t stopped. My sophomore year, during fall of 2020, I signed up to be a “virtual orientation leader” (fake and gay, I know) at my school — not because I was particularly enthusiastic about my college, but because it was a simple and easy job that pays surprisingly well.
I never checked up on any of my freshmen after orientation because they were literally scattered around everywhere — some were on campus, some were back at home. One of the freshmen I had who was living on campus killed himself at the end of his freshman fall. I feel this deep, empty void in me that doesn’t even feel like guilt anymore, not when so many other people I know killed themselves.
A guy from my freshman floor who I really hated and thought was super annoying killed himself last year. An upperclassmen friend and a mentor I had died of cancer a few months ago. One of my closest friends from college, someone who actually *is* graduating this week and is literally a genius (like she’s graduating as one of the valedictorians of an Ivy and got into Stanford Law School as a Knight-Hennessy scholar) calls me every now and then talking about her suicidal ideation. My other close friend also took a leave of absence because she’s suicidal, and I’m really worried about her. Someone in our friend group committed suicide a few months ago and I don’t know, I don’t know what to do or how to feel anymore. I was always suicidal anyways. The girl in my friend group who killed herself was also a socially isolated and slightly autistic only child like me, I can’t imagine how her parents feel.
I transferred to another Ivy at the beginning of my junior year (fall of 2021), and it’s been more suicides, depression, and despair. A hot, rich, and talented girl in this quirky lil DIY music club I was in killed herself, and I was stunned that someone so ethereal wanted to die. I spiraled, and I spiraled hard every single day I was at school.
Why was everyone around me so neurotic and anxious? Is it because it’s an Ivy in a notoriously stressful city? Or is it just the post-COVID malaise of knowing that nothing is stable, nothing is forever, and nothing is enough…
I took a leave of absence from school for a year (basically all of 2022) because I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t handle being in an environment where everyone was anxious and people I know were killing themselves and I was scared, scared all the time. For all of last year, I worked a few jobs and internships and did a gay ass DBT therapy program to “not be depressed anymore.”
Well it turns out that therapy doesn’t help you stop being depressed or suicidal if there’s nothing really left in your life to live for. Being in therapy and all those stupid DBT therapy groups just highlighted how empty and meaningless my life is. It made me angrier and even more suicidal, and I genuinely think that CBT/DBT is like some sort of psychological gaslighting for some (not all, or even many) patients…
I got back to school in January of 2023. I was just instantly demoralized by being in my environment and frequently fantasized about killing myself. I drifted in and out of the psych ward near my college until I took another leave of absence after two months.
I went back home in March and felt like a failure. One massive failure. How could I fail to hack it at school even after a year-long leave of absence? Something is profoundly wrong with me. Being a full-time college student is super easy; why can’t I handle it? Something is really wrong with me.
I later learned that a guy who lived ten floors above me jumped off our dorm building and killed himself. It was really sad, he seemed like a nice guy whenever I talked to him in the elevator. He was a football player and was planning on going into finance and all that, I really thought those people were the ones who had it together.
I literally cannot relate to other people at ALL. My life has been so far from anything resembling a normal life that I don’t even know how to form human bonds anymore. I’m depressed and suicidal and so is everyone else in my life.
I just want to be in a warm, nurturing place where all my friends aren’t on the verge of killing themselves. Everyone around me is a neurotic, anxious striver on the brink of collapse — they’re (literally) willing to kill themselves for whatever lofty goal they have set up.
Should I try to leave my current school? Or am I one of those miserable fuckers who is probably destined to be a suicidal bitch wherever I end up? Just the idea of going back to my insanely pretentious and cutthroat school is making me ill, but maybe this sub needs to tell me that I’m a weak little bitch and just need to get over it.
I feel empty all the time. I’ve been depressed before college but the past three years have introduced an emptiness and a death drive that I didn’t even think I was capable of having. Has anyone else been in a suicide cluster?

I've been a member of Reddit for well over 12 years across multiple usernames. With the upcoming changes to the API, and subsequent killing of third party apps (like Relay, which I use), I've just decided to quit using Reddit rather than switch to the official Reddit client, which I can't stand.
It makes me sad to go. I've met some amazing people through this site, had some great experiences, and even made some money because of Reddit, but this is quickly turning into a place I don't want to be a part of anymore.
Thanks for the memories Reddit!

This starts back 12 years ago when I was 16 and SIL was 14. SIL struggled to make friends and only had one friend. I enjoyed both my SIL and her friend so I started including them in my friend groups activities. This went on for a couple of years until my MIL started hating me and giving me the cold shoulder out of nowhere. Eventually SILs one friend stabbed her in the back and slept with SILs boyfriend. This ended that friendship and SIL was left with no friends, and very understandably devastated. I kept including her with my friends even though MIL was being so cold to me. Eventually I started feeling tension from my SIL, and this led to me cutting off all communication with her as well as with my MIL. My friends were obviously on my side and also stopped communicating with SIL. College happened, my husband and I moved in together and a few years pass of me having no contact with SIL or MIL. It was great, honestly. Well, then the friend who stabbed my SIL in the back ended up dating the cousin of my husband and SIL. My husband and I were super close with this cousin so this led to me getting close with SILs ex-friend. SIL was completely out of our lives by this time and she never had a close relationship to this cousin the way myself and my husband did. So none of us really thought anything of it. Plus, by this time, we are all into our 20s (including SIL). Well, one evening the 4 of us (myself, husband, his cousin, and SILs ex-friend) are eating at a restaurant, and MIL, FIL and SIL all walk in together. I guess, according to MIL, SIL burst into tears the moment they got seated. MIL made sure to text us and tell us how horrible we were being to SIL by eating with “those people”. We had ate several dinners with them at this point and were fairly removed from my husbands parents and sister. Anyways, we keep eating out with them (secretly) and they eventually get engaged. Of course, they want husband and I in their wedding. MIL catches wind of this and forbids us from even being guests at their wedding. She has the power of dangling my husbands inheritance and trust over his head, and she made sure to do that. Allll on behalf of SIL. She encouraged SIL to reach out to my friend group (still the same friends from when I was a teenager) to see if she could start getting included again. None of them responded to her. My MIL then writes letters and mailed them to my friends to ask if they can still include “sis”. None of them responded, and they were super weirded out at this point. Husband and I are forced to end communication with his cousin and SILs ex-friend (who at this point she now has the SAME last name as my husbands family 😂). This was a terribly sad distance to force and I cried many times. Well, now it’s been a few more years and husband and I have a daughter. Also, husbands cousin and his wife (SILs ex-friend) have a daughter. We have all been chatting again and we really want to get our daughters together to meet for the first time. MIL has absolutely forbid this and says we can count ourselves out of the inheritance if we do this. SIL and her husband live in a house at the end of MIL and FILs driveway. Idk what the big deal is if we reconnect with this cousin and his family.

Few days ago, my girlfriend called me out for a walk and i was bored sitting at my house so i followed up with her. It was a nice walk and when i felt tired, i went to take a seat, so did she.
Suddenly, her parents appear out of nowhere and i was a bit scared, but she said that its fine so just sit down. I calmed myself a bit and sat and greeted uncle. Uncle reciprocated nicely but when i went to greet the aunt, she escalated the matter saying that she told her not to come at this place but you dont listen to your parents. You dont value them. Whereas it was a simple walking track and a nursery where people walk so she asked her mother that she doesnt see it as a problem. There were some strangers who we didnt even knew and suddenly her mom started calling them thinking those strangers are our friends pretending to be strangers and followed up with my girlfriend.
I told her mother that they are just strangers and im just a friend of her because neither of the parents knew about our relationship. Her mother told me to stop hanging out with her and then proceeds to create a racket.
Moving on, while we were moving to the exit, her mother was going to the wrong way which is, in the jungle. My girlfriend told her that was the wrong route but her mother rudely replies with "who are you to direct me? I know from which direction i came from." We all followed up until her father said not to come any further because if i do the problem will increase. I had to take my leave but still i was in a lookout to see if they managed to get out. Once i found it out i went home right away.
On the other side, my girlfriend and her parents were on the way, her mother suddenly got lost and they were in the search. From here, i dont know if you guys would believe me but when they found her out, her mother was at the hilltop suddenly, her dad went to check if she is alright and started running away from him. She said, "it is either me or that guy". My girlfriend in the middle of her explanation, her mother started screaming, "my daughter doesnt love me. Shes comfortable with her friends than with me" while her father was chasing her down, my girlfriend went home to take a sip.
Suddenly, her mother rushes to her bedroom, locks her room and take a stool and proceeds to hang herself. Her mother blackmails and mentally tortures her since her childhood. And i believe her mother is a psychopath but in the other hand she lost hope in living because other than her daughter, she had many struggles in her family and in her own family she made. She called out her daughter's name and hunged herself. My girlfriend thought that it was her usual day of scaring her and thought she might be going to her village so she was happy that she might get peace there. I have also encountered this moment and i thought it would go back to normal, but nobody, not even her dad and sister thought that her mother would take such a big step. Even me. After some time, she knocked on her mothers door but she wasnt responding so she tried to look below the door and saw her legs were swinging to and fro so it felt pretty unusual for her so she called someone and broke the door and found her mother hanging for half an hour. She was already dead. She was devastated.
My girlfriend already was having trauma but encountering this tragedy made her scared to go back to her own place. She took the blame of her death whereas it was not her fault. It was no one's fault. Her mother took that selfish decision and hunged herself, without thinking about her family, her daughters and her mother. I have no empathy towards her mother because of what she has done to her but despite that, my girlfriend cried for straight 3 days, didnt sleep, didnt eat and was completely drained. She loved her mother despite that. I feel bad for her. I cried alot that day too. My parents shreaked upon her mother and hoped that she will burn in hell because suicide is a sin, but for my girlfriend, she engraved it as her fault and is still in denial. What a petty reason for suicide. I cant even process that her mother killed herself kuz of this. I seriously hate her mother but for her i'd do anything for her to heal even if it means not to speak truth about her mother not resting in peace and preach good on her. We might have different opinions but i love her so much and ill always be there for her as her moral support.
What do you guys think? Her mother killing herself was my girlfriend's fault or was her mother completely selfish?
Please let me know because i wanna let her know that:
"Her death was not her responsibility and it will never be her fault even if her mother called out her name and hunged herself." Even so her mother guilt trapped her own daughter for life and i hate her alot for that.

I think I figured out what Lili's blunder, which was actually a betrayal, was.
After the AK was defeated Joyboy managed to escape to Wano.
Here he met the Kozuki stonemasons and learnt of their ancient language and unbreakable stones. He decided to carve his story and the story of the void century into these stones to take with him on his final voyage around the world where he would drop them off to islands that were allied with him.
The WG got wind of this and knew they immediately had to stop him. They sent Nefertari Lili with the ancient weapon Pluton to go to Wano, destroy it, kill Joyboy and retrieve these stones.
Here in Wano she ended up meeting Joyboy and the Kozuki's and learnt the truth of the D clan and ultimately turned against the WG.
Not wanting the WG to get their hands on Pluton, she buried it deep under Wano and took the Poneglyph of it's location back to her home in Arabasta to be stored secretly under their temple. She refused to move to Mary Geoise so the Nefertari family could stay in Arabasta and continue protecting and hiding this Poneglyph throughout history. She left a letter to her descendants stressing the importance of protecting this Poneglyph and keeping it a secret from the WG.
She returned to the WG and said she was defeated and Pluton was lost. This is "blunder" that Imu talks about in 1085. Of course, it was actually a betrayal, and when Imu heard of the letter and confirmed she was a D it confirmed to him that it was a betrayal.

My neighbors dog wasn’t always aggressive until one day when My dog R got bumped by the four wheeler and yelped then Neighbors Dog M proceeds to attack my dog seemingly outa no where and went straight for my dogs throat. My dog was a bloody mess and we didn’t think he was going to make it. He pulled through after a vet visit and we thought that it was just a freak thing that happened and didn’t expect it to happen again. After that they agreed to keep their dog inside instead of putting him down or rehoming him. Sometime later though, one of our goats went missing and it was unlike her to go off far. We didn’t find her until after our second goat was attacked by Neighbors Dog M right infront of my Mother who barely got her car into park to separate them. The dog had gone for the throat and there was no hope of the goat making it with how much blood was present. We had to put the goat down and when my parents went looking for the other goat that went missing they found her little ways away from the house and her throat had been ripped out too. As we have no evidence we can only speculate from the patterns of the attacks and conclude that Neighbor’s Dog M was behind all the attacks with his signature go for the throat behavior. Not only did this cause outrage in our family the neighbors REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE ATTACKS AS THEIR DOGS FAULT. They called my mom a liar saying that there was no evidence proving that M attacked the goats. They told her she should have taken a picture of it and other nonsense. That’s not all, he got out AGAIN a few months ago and Attacked our other dog Z making a bone fragment dislodge and get stuck. We haven’t been able to get him the surgery he needs because our money is tight and it’s infuriating seeing Z limp all day long trying to get places. Not only that but M got out again a few days ago too and attacked R again! My dad had enough and shot at the dog twice to get it away and all the neighbors cared about was the fact that if they didn’t get home in time their dog would be dead. This wouldn’t be such an issue if not for the fact that I have a little sister who is the size of a dog currently and if she were outside and screamed from seeing M, M might come after and attack my sister. It’s only been animals now but how long before it isn’t just animals and also people? So far they have said they will leave but haven’t made any efforts to do so. They said the dog will stay no matter what and my parents have said the next time it happens the dog will be shot and killed. We also can’t sue them or anything like that because we have barely enough to get by and they were given the house and hardly have to pay anything. They don’t have money and it would be a waste to pursue a case. We don’t want to kill the dog but we are running out of options and money for vet bills.

Few days ago, my girlfriend called me out for a walk and i was bored sitting at my house so i followed up with her. It was a nice walk and when i felt tired, i went to take a seat, so did she.
Suddenly, her parents appear out of nowhere and i was a bit scared, but she said that its fine so just sit down. I calmed myself a bit and sat and greeted uncle. Uncle reciprocated nicely but when i went to greet the aunt, she escalated the matter saying that she told her not to come at this place but you dont listen to your parents. You dont value them. Whereas it was a simple walking track and a nursery where people walk so she asked her mother that she doesnt see it as a problem. There were some strangers who we didnt even knew and suddenly her mom started calling them thinking those strangers are our friends pretending to be strangers and followed up with my girlfriend.
I told her mother that they are just strangers and im just a friend of her because neither of the parents knew about our relationship. Her mother told me to stop hanging out with her and then proceeds to create a racket.
Moving on, while we were moving to the exit, her mother was going to the wrong way which is, in the jungle. My girlfriend told her that was the wrong route but her mother rudely replies with "who are you to direct me? I know from which direction i came from." We all followed up until her father said not to come any further because if i do the problem will increase. I had to take my leave but still i was in a lookout to see if they managed to get out. Once i found it out i went home right away.
On the other side, my girlfriend and her parents were on the way, her mother suddenly got lost and they were in the search. From here, i dont know if you guys would believe me but when they found her out, her mother was at the hilltop suddenly, her dad went to check if she is alright and started running away from him. She said, "it is either me or that guy". My girlfriend in the middle of her explanation, her mother started screaming, "my daughter doesnt love me. Shes comfortable with her friends than with me" while her father was chasing her down, my girlfriend went home to take a sip.
Suddenly, her mother rushes to her bedroom, locks her room and take a stool and proceeds to hang herself. Her mother blackmails and mentally tortures her since her childhood. And i believe her mother is a psychopath but in the other hand she lost hope in living because other than her daughter, she had many struggles in her family and in her own family she made. She called out her daughter's name and hunged herself. My girlfriend thought that it was her usual day of scaring her and thought she might be going to her village so she was happy that she might get peace there. I have also encountered this moment and i thought it would go back to normal, but nobody, not even her dad and sister thought that her mother would take such a big step. Even me. After some time, she knocked on her mothers door but she wasnt responding so she tried to look below the door and saw her legs were swinging to and fro so it felt pretty unusual for her so she called someone and broke the door and found her mother hanging for half an hour. She was already dead. She was devastated.
My girlfriend already was having trauma but encountering this tragedy made her scared to go back to her own place. She took the blame of her death whereas it was not her fault. It was no one's fault. Her mother took that selfish decision and hunged herself, without thinking about her family, her daughters and her mother. I have no empathy towards her mother because of what she has done to her but despite that, my girlfriend cried for straight 3 days, didnt sleep, didnt eat and was completely drained. She loved her mother despite that. I feel bad for her. I cried alot that day too. My parents shreaked upon her mother and hoped that she will burn in hell because suicide is a sin, but for my girlfriend, she engraved it as her fault and is still in denial. What a petty reason for suicide. I cant even process that her mother killed herself kuz of this. I seriously hate her mother but for her i'd do anything for her to heal even if it means not to speak truth about her mother not resting in peace and preach good on her. We might have different opinions but i love her so much and ill always be there for her as her moral support.
What do you guys think? Her mother killing herself was my girlfriend's fault or was her mother completely selfish?
Please let me know because i wanna let her know that:
"Her death was not her responsibility and it will never be her fault even if her mother called out her name and hunged herself." Even so her mother guilt trapped her own daughter for life and i hate her alot for that.

Little background, I am 28 M, oldest child of 4 and have been exmormon and living on my own since I was 17. At the time, me leaving the cult was extremely painful on me and my parents but after a few years our relationship healed and has gotten even better over the years.
My family is respectful of my views, they don't agree with my lifestyle or faith choices but they just don't ever bring it up anymore. I drink around them occasionally without a problem and they never preach to me, don't even invite me to church anymore. All great!
I'v watched a younger sister go to BUYI and then on a mission and recently watched my brother go back to the cult at 21 (after stepping away at 18) and then heading to BYUI. Went up for one semester came back with a GF (sister he was assigned to for FHE) and has bought a ring. Watching this makes me sad and angry but I also tried to distance myself somewhere along the way from the cult and just accepted that people have different views, choose to live different lives and thats ok.
At least until the recent investing scandal. Ever since I found out like a month ago, I'v been on this sub for hours of my day almost everyday. Strengthening my testimony that my family is in a cult, it makes me so ANGRY and I don't know what to do about it.
On one hand, I want to do everything I can to break this family out of a cult its been victim to for 150 years. I don't want to watch my little brother be trapped by his marriage and church obligations. I really don't want to watch nieces and nephews grow up and have to deal with the same shit. I want my family to be free!
On the other hand, does bringing this stuff up to my mormon siblings/parents mean that I'm just turning into the annoying proselytizing guy that wants you to believe what he believes? Especially when they don't preach to me.
I brought the SEC scandal up to my brother and asked if he wanted to read the article, he said no. Just straight no. Would any amount of discussion, evidence, even a logical powerpoint filled with historical evidence of social wrongdoing, conflicting accounts, proof of plagarism logical wtfs, even have any effect on people who want to stick their heads in the sand?
What do I do?
Be annoying af and speak my truth.
Don't say anything at all since I don't have good things to say.
Either one seems not great for a strong relationship.

My neighbors dog wasn’t always aggressive until one day when My dog R got bumped by the four wheeler and yelped then Neighbors Dog M proceeds to attack my dog seemingly outa no where and went straight for my dogs throat. My dog was a bloody mess and we didn’t think he was going to make it. He pulled through after a vet visit and we thought that it was just a freak thing that happened and didn’t expect it to happen again. After that they agreed to keep their dog inside instead of putting him down or rehoming him. Sometime later though, one of our goats went missing and it was unlike her to go off far. We didn’t find her until after our second goat was attacked by Neighbors Dog M right infront of my Mother who barely got her car into park to separate them. The dog had gone for the throat and there was no hope of the goat making it with how much blood was present. We had to put the goat down and when my parents went looking for the other goat that went missing they found her little ways away from the house and her throat had been ripped out too. As we have no evidence we can only speculate from the patterns of the attacks and conclude that Neighbor’s Dog M was behind all the attacks with his signature go for the throat behavior. Not only did this cause outrage in our family the neighbors REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE ATTACKS AS THEIR DOGS FAULT. They called my mom a liar saying that there was no evidence proving that M attacked the goats. They told her she should have taken a picture of it and other nonsense. That’s not all, he got out AGAIN a few months ago and Attacked our other dog Z making a bone fragment dislodge and get stuck. We haven’t been able to get him the surgery he needs because our money is tight and it’s infuriating seeing Z limp all day long trying to get places. Not only that but M got out again a few days ago too and attacked R again! My dad had enough and shot at the dog twice to get it away and all the neighbors cared about was the fact that if they didn’t get home in time their dog would be dead. This wouldn’t be such an issue if not for the fact that I have a little sister who is the size of a dog currently and if she were outside and screamed from seeing M, M might come after and attack my sister. It’s only been animals now but how long before it isn’t just animals and also people? So far they have said they will leave but haven’t made any efforts to do so. They said the dog will stay no matter what and my parents have said the next time it happens the dog will be shot and killed. We also can’t sue them or anything like that because we have barely enough to get by and they were given the house and hardly have to pay anything. They don’t have money and it would be a waste to pursue a case. We don’t want to kill the dog but we are running out of options and money for vet bills.

I am male 40. My partner is female 48. We got together 6 years ago, through tinder, as FWBs. We liked each other so much we became closer, and then had some pregnancy news...
Long story short, I moved into her apartment, in the expectation/hope we would be a family. It sadly proved not to be. It was unexpected but the biological clock is cruel. The first pregnancy which brought about me moving in after a year, ended prematurely as did the next few.
We really got on with each other and still do. I know this sounds obvious but it was just so easy compare to previous relationships.
Time wore on... hopes of a family had ended by covid. We were together 24/7 working from home and still got on well. Our sex life gradually nosedived after 2019 and we are now down to once a month or two. This is mostly down to me, I found it progressively harder to find her sexually attractive and in fact I barely engage sexually other than out of duty.
Despite being together so much we rarely talk about things deeply anymore and rarely mention past issues of the pregnancies.
She is deeply unhappy with me. She still loves me I believe and wants me to love her. I cannot find her sexually attractive anymore than out of duty and treat it as paying rent.
Currently I am 'between jobs' hoping to enter a new progression. I am her tenant and we live in a big expensive city. Things have come to a head after her frustration with me. Though some triggers seem ridiculous I am sure they have roots in our unhappy sex life and the fact I am obviously unhappy and have been for some time. For example the current argument bringing things to an impasse is me not liking her food which I tried to hide from her.
She has proposed we break up and I move out. But .. I cant move anymore. I am sure we can negotiate amicably but that would presuppose we confirm we are breaking up but living together for (I dont know:S)...
Deep down I know we should break up and perhaps should have done years ago. I had always wanted a family and it seems impossible with her. Yet I had fantastised and still do about having children with her, and had prayed so much she would get and stay pregnant.
I wake up in the middle of the night and think of leaving her every day, for years now. She senses it. She is the kindest most considerate woman and I feel so weak and cruel for both ending it now and not having ended it years ago (and probably for having started it in the first place).
There are so many practically considerations to this that I cannot even comprehend let alone the nightmare of potentially ending this relationship. It seems I should have ripped the band aid off years ago. It really seems I (and she) will probably end up paying for my own weakness.
I dont really have the first idea how to progress with things other than lay things out to her and let her decide which again is a cowards way out. I just really want to be friends with her but not lovers anymore.
This is is a long ramble... mostly therapeutic on my own part. Hopefully it makes sense to someone out there.
TL;DR - almost certainly have to end a relationship but dont know how without breaking both our hearts.
Edit: It may seem ridiculous that I (maybe) want t end this relationship now after 6 years yet wanted to have a family with this woman beforehand. If it was possible to have a family with her I think I would want to stay with her and have a family.
Edit: the 'moving out' part is a genuine practical concern though not the main reason and far from it, as to why I want to end this. It is not my main motivation for not wanting to end this relationship it just is a very real fear on my part.
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what would you do? Is there happiness in settling for a less than perfect relationship, agreeing some sex or discussing donor eggs pregnancy?

I think it is Samu other than the fact he killed him. He was shown to care for him and Samuel saw him crying. Besides, Benji told Sam what really happened.
And the least favorite is obviously Rebeka lol

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Is there anyone with a full manuscript (can be in any draft) that would want to trade critiques?
I'd love to get some critical fantasy eyes on my manuscript and I'd love to give some in return.
I'm a Communications Manager by trade and the novel I'd love to get eyes on is called With His Father's Sword.
I'll pop a very brief synopsis below:
When an executed man rises from the grave and kills Harald's family, he takes up his father's sword and swears revenge.
But how do you kill a man who's already dead?
With His Father's Sword charts Harald growth from a young man desperate to avenge his family's death, to a hardened soldier who might just be the kind of villain he'd swore he'd never be.