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Investing, stock trading, and trying to create passive income are nearly impossible to do successfully unless you are already established financially with a lot of capitol. It's alluring but it's a soul sucking grind with no guarantee of success. It's more likely you'll dig yourself a hole you can't get out of. What you should be doing is looking at schooling to get a skill that pays decent and isn't easily replaceable, and a solid bump above minimum wage. Trucking and machine jobs that need licenses are good because they are cheapish (sub $1000) to get and can get you good jobs. Just finding low energy work like driving and other things to make extra cash will get you ahead. Most online businesses are just scams and scalping, it's fools gold. You're gonna have to work hard no matter what.

I highly doubt she is going to categorize you so harshly based off simply picking her up. Her impression of you will be up to how your time is together. If she is almost a 10/10 then it's probably worth figuring out how to secure meeting her again as fast as you can, if that means driving then so be it!

Gaslighting doesn't exist - it's just a catchy buzzword that caught on in our culture, typically used by those with a victim mindset who were left confused or frustrated from an interaction and look to deflect from questioning or taking emotional responsibility for the situation by levying assumptions of maliciousness onto the other party member. Of course manipulation exists and it happens, whether it's intentional and/or subtle or not. However this doesn't justify the recipient to completely dodge how they are present in the equation and not just a helpless mannequin. Even if you are on the defense and suffering from the situation, and have some reason to believe you are being manipulated. The idea of gaslighting just gives immature people a cover from recognizing their own faults. Almost every time I've seen it used it's people refusing to learn or improve the situation for themselves, the opposite of the personal development mindset. Reminds me of my ex and I. We had a really healthy relationship that was open and honest, however I remember on one occasion she accused me of gaslighting her about something. I was taken aback by it and wasn't sure how to react. I asked her if we could lay everything out on the table, I wanted to know her account and feelings about things, and what we could do to remedy it. No matter what approach I took to understand or pry her perspective, it didn't matter. She already preemptively decided how she felt and ANY move on my part was just "further gaslighting", including accepting how she felt . All there was left to do was laugh. I was losing at a game I wasn't even playing lol. Makes me think of this meme;

I'm sorry to hear that, try to stoke some optimism in having a gap year though! This is a great opportunity to work to save resources for the future, travel, and enjoy yourself! During this time you can discover different things you might want to do or NOT want to do. Who knows you may even find out you don't want to go to school again, or find another course you're more interested in. Living at home isn't all that bad, assuming she doesn't make you pay for a bunch of stuff. Getting a fulltime job would be amazing. You could save thousands a month and bank that money for your own car and other stuff to move you ahead in life. I remember at the time I felt like taking a gap year would make me a "loser", but in hindsight I'm kicking myself for not doing it.

Isn't it kind of obvious Mr.Girl is a narcissist? I mean I love the guy and he's probably my favorite internet personality but I was able to spot that shit from the first couple videos lol. He just has a certain charm and skill with manipulating peoples impression of him that he is able to hide it quite well. I don't think it's a damning label in the end. It takes a certain level of narcissism to be a streamer/youtuber and if you didn't have those tendencies you will develop them spending any time on the internet. The environment encourages it.

MrGirl being erased from youtube and twitch while so many spineless morons run free is beyond my understanding and makes me doubt there is justice in the world.

Cinematically this film was cool, the fighting scenes were brutal and well made. Makes me want to play Battlefield 1 again! But yeah the movie was boring and had no story or interesting character development. Just felt like a random bunch of scenes about WW1 put together. 1917 was worth watching, this isn't. IMO.

I'm balancing out the forces in the universe by deliberately having sex/masturbating/cumming every single day in November out of spite LOL I didn't even want to last night I was almost asleep then I remembered I had to do it. I chafed a bit but got the job done.

Who has time to watch Lord of the Rings length internet drama lmao. Unless they are having an in depth discussion about something important or interesting besides their relationship.

Yes it feels like even though technology has skyrocketed ahead relative to the past 200 years, culturally we are still very much in the dark ages. Even in the developed world, the average person is quite bigoted and limited in the mind.

Late green +. What does your question even mean though? Pedophiles already have the same rights as everyone else, unless they have been convicted. The title refers to someone with a specific sexual preference and act of potentially committing a crime. You mean a sort of funded social program to treat and reduce their condition, like legal injection sites for drug addicts?

Hate to break it to you but this is exactly the kind of leg humping puppy behavior that you want to avoid. Her "sure" is one of indifference and starting to wonder if you might be needy. You only want to say it was good talking to her or hanging out AFTER you've had your date. Until that point you've got to be a little coy, cold, playful, mysterious. It's annoying but it is what it is. Women don't want you to be yourself in the early attraction phases. You've got to work to put on a bit of a James Bond vibe to get her interested, to give her the impression she's lucky you even have the time for her. If you act like she's someone you already know as a friend, relationship, or acquaintance. You've lost the game.

You'll have to search that on your own dude. Look at what your bank is offering, it's easier to manage accounts if they are all in one place.

Just wait til tomorrow or the end of today to say something, and don't banter and mess around texting too much. Get straight to the point, you should send 1-2 texts at most. Be decisive and just suggest, "Hey I'm thinking we go to this place at X time, sound good :)?" Don't freak out or be desperate to make time for it either. It might be the case that your schedules don't match that well. In that case there is nothing you can do, don't worry be happy

Don't think of it so much as something to "deal" with. You were fine, just play it cool and enjoy yourselves but don't be an asshole and try to convince and push her too much for something she wasn't interested in. In that scenario myself I'd only try once initially and then once again in 5 minutes if the mood changes or heats up. After that boundary is up you gotta respect it. You've gotta communicate to her in that moment when the mood has peaked and you're both feeling good that you had a nice time and want to see her again. You'll get another chance you just need patience. I'd generally advise against first date sex as most self-respecting quality girls won't be into it and find it disrespectful, and sex changes the dynamic a lot which you might regret shortly after. You don't really know them after such a short time and might find out you don't really like her or are that good of a match. From my own experience it's just best to put it off til 2nd/3rd meet. My best relationship actually came from rejecting sex on the first date. I think the integrity made her cum in her pants right there !

I think he is condescending because he doesn't want to waste time explaining and prefacing everything, he already has thousands of hours of video going in depth for that. Anybody he is being condescending to shouldn't take it too personally either, it seems to be just part and parcel for the forum because he can only spend so much time here writing comments.

Idk exactly. It all depends heavily on the interest rates, market, and your credit score. But having great credit will save you thousands of dollars than having bad credit. Hell, if you have bad credit you might not even be able to buy a house at all because no bank or union will take you on or lend you money.

I'm quite good at filtering and know the types I'm looking for, it's just inevitable though you run into people that have unhealthy traits or attitudes but you don't see it on the surface because the initial game of courting is a lot of acting and being on best behavior. It sucks but it is what it is.

There is no such thing as healthy dating lol. You can be a personal development saint on your end, but the other person can end up being emotionally unstable or disrespectful and you won't know until you're already on the date and it's too late. You can try and filter but you simply won't know beforehand. Dating is a numbers games of slogging through mud to find the diamond.

Life is scary and we're all going to die. If you want to accomplish anything you need to ignore and master fear.

Sorry for what you're going through @Meditationdude. You know it's probably not what you want to hear, but it's not necessarily going "backwards" getting a job or some sort of career again. I'm sure you are qualified and can find something that will give you some level of fulfilment. It sounds like what you need is some stability in your life. You don't have to go all-in with a job. Find something to give you some balance, keep your van for travelling and enjoying life. 36 is not "old". Think about it, you have another 30 years before the classic retirement age of 65! That's basically your entire lifetime all over again, except now you've got all your experiences and wisdom to guide you now It's ok that you took the dive and it didn't work the way you thought it would. Be proud of yourself for going for it, most people never do. There are no guarantees so don't beat yourself up alright? Even for the people that are psychotically hard workers and sacrifice everything, it sometimes doesn't work out. It also takes a lot of luck, and being in the right place for opportunity. It does sound somewhat like you lost yourself trying to pursue an idea of who you were supposed to be, at least from this post. A perfect "actualized" version of yourself. Forgive me if I'm wrong. It's just something I've noticed in this community and in myself from my own life. Being too hasty and pressured and not realizing you have an entire lifetime to develop. Your journey will take whatever pace it needs to.

Alex Honnold climbed El Capitan in Yosemite national park without a rope. Probably the greatest individual accomplishment in all sports/athletics. Every time I watch the documentary it brings tears to my eyes how inspiring it is. You can drag and look around in the video too. Make sure you have something to dry your hands

Seeing Twitter collapse brings me so much joy. It's one of the most toxic technologies humans have invented and been a net negative for our species.

As brutal as it will be for you and her, you must gain independence and move out, and have the space and financial ability to set some hard boundaries. You have to honor your own life, not waste precious years in fear under her threats, stubbornness, and manipulations. While we should be grateful and respectful of our parents, do not fall in the trap of trying to appease her whims. Especially toxic ones. It's one thing to have certain expectations and wishes for the kind of life you want your child to have, but that can easily spiral into an unhealthy form of control as you now know. I see this a lot with people. They fail to self-actualize and live the life they might have wanted for themselves, so they take the easy road and default to having kids as a form of "life purpose", and try to mold that person into who THEY wanted to be. A twisted second chance at life, so to speak. You need to learn how to become radically individualistic, to the point of selfishness at times. Do not try to save her, some people can't be saved. Even family. The best you can do is try to be kind in helping her with her health issues, but work on your own life and serve as an example of love and contentment. If you are happy and healthy and living the life you want, maybe she will see that and start to change her perspective. I'll share something a little personal. My dad was an alcoholic growing up. Picture any terrible scenario you can imagine with alcoholism, and that happened on at least one occasion in my life with him. I spent a lot of years growing up crying and spending so much energy trying to help him and get him to change, or quit. It never worked. It took me so long to realize I can only truly control myself. He can barely drink anymore because his health finally caught up with him, it is actually dangerous for him and makes him sick because of the various medications he needs to take. What the whole experience did was influence me to make myself into the person that was healthier, and the opposite of what I saw. I am a sober person that helps people for a living and doesn't get involved in all the nonsense alcohol brings. I made myself into someone he can be proud, which hopefully brings some light into his life. You can also make yourself into someone your mother is proud of, and that can pierce through the cloud that's over her right now. Hope any of this helps.