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Hi, my main source is actually lived experience. I come from a veeery colonized country in Asia. I was the product of colonizer-imposed religious and education systems which literally sought to eradic…
advise on how to promote a social feed app to specific communities (i will not promote) — hi Folks, Over the years, I have been toying with code and platforms etc. and recently I had sometime and with the help of copilot + and external help I have been able to create a very low cost, scale…
How do people become emotionally immature? — I was raised by and surrounded by emotionally immature adults my whole life, while living in a toxic and abusive household created mainly by my father’s abuse towards my mother, and her compliance and…
Out of curiosity, do your parents even fit the "demanding in-law" stereotype?" — This is a reason often levied against AM for not wanting to date them, but the Asian generation I know who are 1.5 generation onwards are honestly very chill and easy going. And this is doubly true fo…
"Men Can't Be Men Anymore" — A week ago, I [posted about the Louis Theroux documentary on the “Manosphere,”](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/comments/1rtveyg/the_manosphere/) noting my surprise at the scale of the phenomenon, u…
Epictetus and Blame — I have been trying to work through past regrets and found this quote that I think might be help me out: > Uneducated people blame others when they are doing badly. Those whose education is underway b…
I (f 22) tested positive for an std after years of being clean and consistent testing and my bf (m 24) of 2 years says it’s “impossible” it’s because of him despite not being tested for 5 years and now we’re not okay. — \*\*\*UPDATE\*\*\* After a long 3 days my results came back and they were all negative. I, of course, told my boyfriend and he was relived much like I was. He was supportive of me and he apologized …
Better city to date women for me: Houston or Atlanta? — Hello. I (34M) am a south asian man primarily attracted to asian or white woman. I have a good career in medicine and value fitness (5'10 and lean). I was born abroad but have been here for most of …
Ouch. Starting over, into the lonely void of dating — I'm 38M and picking up the pieces after abruptly being discarded by an avoidant two days ago. She told me I'm in different 'tier' of people who is able to express emotions and needs. And that she's u…
I feel like garbage after seeing my best friend......... — Im a 46 year old man. I'm married with 2 kids. Im fat, bald and 5 foot 5. Im a piece of shit and cant take it anymore. My best friend is actually a girl who i have always been in love with. Shes marri…
I (18M) caught my Mom (44F) Cheating on my Dad (46M) and I don't know what to do — General Idea of our Family - My dad goes to work 5 days a week and comes back to visit us on wednesday evening and weekends. My mom is a teacher and goes to school in evening shift from 1 to 6 pm ever…
How to get over the fear of entities ? — So I’ve been getting pretty deep into AP lately, and I had an experience a while back that I didn’t fully understand at the time, but now it makes a lot more sense. I didn’t put a ton of effort into …
need help from an educated birth chart reader to interpret my chart — I have A LOT of aspects to explore. The overall theme of my life feels like ongoing depression when dealing with family & friends. Both of my parents have mental issues and divorced after 34 years of …
I feel like I have no personality but I don't know how to fix it. — To preface this, I'm very online. I know it. But I tried a "digital detox", stayed off my phone for two months, and it didn't change anything. All it did was made me bored. I don't really have any ho…
Parents failed to realize I had ADHD — Part of me doesn’t fully blame them because I realize it was out of pure ignorance. Part of me does blame them cuz why couldn’t you have been a little more observant and educated?! I started strugglin…
Alienation? — I made a lot of mistakes during the divorce over 6 months ago. No charges or anything like that. I was just blind sided and un educated. She took everything, including custody of my child and when I …
This might sound stupid! — Hey all! This really might sound stupid or uneducated, since I don’t really know what classifies as OB but I have been doing the following as a child and what to know if this might be something like a…
POC solidarity as an Asian — Firstly I would not like for this post to derail into other non-Asian POC hate, and I know this is not ALL non-Asian POCs being this way. I know this bc my own non-Asian POC (Black, Indigenous Blak, P…
Met this guy last weekend and he thinks I was being immature 23F 28M — So I met this guy last weekend he’s 28M and I’m 23F. I want to mention I did feel like he was a bit uncomfortable with the age gap but he still pursued. Fast forward to Tuesday night we were on FT. Wh…
Trouble with AP/OBE, need insight — This may be a longer post so bare with me. <3 I have had a really hard time astral projecting / having an OBE. I thought it would come easily for me because i have always been “aware” or more in tune…
Help — I’m 32. I lived in an abusive family until I was 25, when I got married and moved out of my parents’ house. Both of my parents physically abused me since I was about 4 years old. They sent me to a pr…
Family doesn’t approve of relationship — I feel like this happens more often than not, but i still need advice, also apologies if this is in the wrong subreddit. Context: Me and my boyfriend have been dating for almost a year now (he’s mixe…
Listening to memoirs to heal — Hello folks. I have been listening to audio book memoirs on and off for the past 7 years. I started with Marina Abramovic's Walk Through Walls, which I loved so much. I listened to it 3 times while w…
Are my parents the nparents or am I just the shitty kid? — Hello everyone, I'm Subha. I'll get straight to the point because this will be LONG. I've always wondered if whether my parents are narcissistic or not. And I needed your help to make me realise …
I hate you — I went to go see you back in July of last year cause I live in a different state. I loved you. Wanted you to be in my life as much as possible. You were talking to another woman but I thought only as …
Was anyone else "homeschooled" by their parent/parents? — It's only recently occurred to me how incredibly neglected I was as a kid when it came to education. Especially as the eldest child. Handing a handful of questionable and not at all up to date "textbo…
Should I accept my narcissistic parents’ job offer as a scaffold out of financial dependence? — TLDR; My wealthy parents have a sordid and calculated history of financial abuse, but are offering me to pay me to help manage their investments. I am disabled, possibly for life, and don’t know if I …
My bf (42M) says I(32F) ruined our relationship by bringing up a small issue. — Hi all! Can you help me out with where this conversation went wrong? I’m hoping I could get some outside perspective on what happened this past evening because it truly left me feeling confused. TL;…
Stuck on Abusive relationship — Hello there. Firstly, let me start with this: I know I acted terribly and was not a good person in this situation. This is genuinely the worst thing I've ever done, and I suffer for it every day. I do…
Toxic relationship — Hello there. Firstly, let me start with this: I know I acted terribly and was not a good person in this situation. This is genuinely the worst thing I've ever done, and I suffer for it every day. I do…
BF (22M) fell for a phone scam. I (22F) don’t know how to feel about it, as well as my response. What would you guys do? — My BF fell for a scam that seemed obvious to me. He got a call from a guy who claimed he was from a police department. He said there’s a pending felony charge against my boyfriend after not showing up…
How do I (24F) get back the romance with my boyfriend (21M)? — My boyfriend (21M) and I (24F) met working on an island where we are currently living now and hit it off from the first day he got here; we’ve now been together almost 6 months. I like him a lot but a…
It doesn’t get better with time or therapy for me... — ​ Because no matter how talented I am, I will always carry this rage because my brain's on fire. Like why would anyone want someone to suffer through this? Every person that gets close to me..…
The beginning stages of Ego Death … please help me understand 🙏 — **4/8/26 @ 11:00pm** **My personal paranormal experiences tonight & entity sighting…** \- I see lines going across my vision \- I feel a ringing-like buzz in my ear and I feel tingling and buzzin…
My BF (M28) and me (F23), I feel guilty for feeling this way, any advice will help — I’ve been with my current bf for almost 4 years and I’m honestly really scared to admit that this guy isn’t someone I want to spend the rest of my life with. He’s very smart, well educated, has a grea…
28F, feeling pressured into marriage and confused about my decision — I’m 28 years old and I’ve already had two broken engagements in the past. Financially, my family is not very strong but we are managing. I’m educated and working in a company. My father is unwell and …
Need help, multiple therapists have said they don’t know how to help me I don’t know what to do — Hey guys, I’m a 25 year old man and have some serious problems that stop me from living a normal life: 1. Extreme debilitating anxiety. I can’t talk to people on the phone and even asking for help at…
How do I know if I was a victim — My Earliest memories consist of me having really really graphic sexual fantasies like being tied up , kidnapped and taken advantage of. Like id see normal stories abt love and stuff (animated ones on …
U/Cluster B Mom Could Be a Damn SNL SKIT — It’s funny but also super triggering for me. This is the woman who raised me, this was one of her public and sometimes private versions where she bragged about her looks, intelligence, status, the env…
Did you overcome the manipulation and move on? — Say for example, you had to be the perfect child (grades, interests only nmom approved and you had to choose your nmothers career (which she never chose, her mom chose her career for her)) and you wer…
Astral Projection: Quick Start Guide — This post contains guides, FAQs and the fundamentals that are suitable for both beginners and experienced members. Explore the links, videos, Astral Projection stories from experienced community membe…
Introduction, Valuable Healing and Attachment resources — # Hi, and welcome! It is a pleasure to have you with us. Please come as you are, we encourage you to share openly and vulnerably. If you do not wish to share and just browse, you are welcomed here to…
More pseudoscience from you (the first being that gravity is attractive- gravity is a warp in the space time continuum as it responds to mass, and only appears to be attractive to the uneducated). No…
I am new to this. I often can control my dreams. It’s so strange- I dream within a dream or two and within that dream I have to check myself that I am not in reality by floating. I am well educated, m…
a) law of assumption, not law of belief. And where did you get the other descriptions from? I've been on Neville sub for a while, literally noone describes the law in those words or speak in a spiritu…
Just because its on [thesaurus.com](http://thesaurus.com) and just because uneducated englishmen have been using it wrongly over the years, doesn't mean it is correct. A little critical thinking would…
i am a 51yo married man and educated with a professional degree but stuck in middle management which is fine. I have become more or less an alcoholic in some respects because i love sleeping and my…
\>Daydreams and dreams serve a similar function. Neither involve looping a specific scene. Both involve a sort of mind wandering. Except one you are unconscious and the other you are awake. So I disag…
So $800 is ten days of revenue. I don't know your financial situation, but I'd go for that as long as it wasn't my last $800. I'm not a gamer but my son is and it seems like (to my uneducated self) th…
I (30m) hit the dating pretty hard over the last six months or so. I live in a major American metro. I have gone on 15 or so first dates in this period (and some seconds or thirds). It’s always bee…
Was talking to a guy from out of town. It was fun for a while and if he tried a little harder he would have been very interesting and could have gone somewhere. He was highly educated but wasn't passi…
I 28m have my life together, with my own home, highly educated with a masters degree in IT and I am making a 6 figure income however now I want to settle down, so I was thinking about settling down wi…
I know lots of single folks who are not on apps. Myself included. Broad strokes is that we didn’t get the engagement we wanted on apps. And often we were what I would call the wrong type for where w…
I’m in my late 30s and I’m just struggling with dating. Granted I do have the ‘tsim, but, it’s level one and people wouldn’t even know if I didn’t tell them, yay masking lol. About 6 months ago I deci…
Relocating for a better social scene I'm a 34 year old man living in middle of nowhere Pennsylvania. I've had several long term relationships but ultimately they did not work out due to cultural and …
Heey :). Earned secure, formerly FA here. \- sorry, this got very long :P <3 I relate to this behaviour so much. I can really understand how difficult saying no, setting boundaries and advocate fo…
Meditation does something, it expands you, awareness. You begin to see clearly, and see what is going on. Like the conditioning and reactions and thought patterns you were not aware of, and how they…
What I noticed that I get a few matches with Ivy League Educated XFs. You know why they are into AMs more?
> I don’t even want him to stay single; I just want him to be happy ☹️ So I was your husband and I was told similar things by my now ex. The divorce crushed me and the idea of being with anyone el…
For myself: there was no sexual abuse and no physical abuse, which were the only types of abuse my child / teen mind would have recognized. There was emotional abuse, but I was never educated on what …
Interesting. I will start by where I do agree with u. Being Manchurian will not be an advantage when it comes to racism in the US as most people won’t know (or care) the difference between different…
It would deserve a safety net and time and space for us to heal and rest. But society doesn't provide that. I think ppl who love us see that we would need more but don't know what they can do. So the…
Why are you having unprotected sex with random people and not even bothering to test in between partners? You and your boyfriend are almost 30, you are entirely too old to be acting like uneducated, h…
It's not inferior to any other hobby but i have found gamers to be several undesirable things: bad at convo, avoidant, bad at hygiene, not great at holding down a job, not tidy, not educated, not heal…
It was like having another child and I was exhausted. 20 yrs together. I had to teach him to clean, cook. We’d get to a bday party and a kid would be shoeless. He buckled the kid in the car but I …
No. Most are highly educated and informed on culture, arts, and world events
When I went back in the stone age there was the Chinatown crowd that was poorer, mostly Cantonese speaker (That right there is a clue, there was one Chinatown). There were richer Taiwanese kids who li…
Alright. I’m trolling cause I’m saying it’s good to be an educated voter. You be fr.
Probably that it showed she wasn't very educated but put on airs as if she were very worldly and sophisticated.
No, well the chances are never zero but it's so unlikely. Lucid dreaming might be the most variable thing to ever exist. Some take months (me), some take days. same with techniques, supplements, drea…
Educated XFs are more likely to be well traveled, exposed to different cultures, open minded. More likely to be nerds = weeaboo / koreaboo
What cluster B traits? In the autism subs I've seen a number of women mention they were misdiagnosed with BPD. And then when you have that diagnosis no one believes anything you say. > he asked if I…
I remembered hearing someone tell me that at 45, once me turn 18, they are competing with every man under 60 for the same 18-25 year olds. Honestly, I've had several long term relationships, (7 years)…
Hi... Your chart shows Rahu ,moon and Mars in lagna which create intense emotional attachment too quickly to others...which is you need to control. Yeah there is attraction towards foreign spouse or…
“The only antidote to shame is humility.” -Uncle Iroh. When I was younger, I’d gone through my first serious break up. My ex and I both severely mistreated each other, and the break up was messy (to…
Ex declared as he was discarding me that I wouldn’t have fulfilled my ‘dreams and goals’ without him. This was about a week after he’d proudly told me when I asked that he “doesnt have any life goals.…
You actually have an almost dangerously low body fat %. A healthy range for women is 20-30%. In the high teens / low 20s is where high performance athletes usually sit (depending on sport, genetics, …
I'll use myself as an example. I voted for DJT in 16, 20, and 24. Because to me he was a better choice than Hillary, Biden, or Kamala. I believe in the concept of "Making America Great Again"…
Your boyfriend is an uneducated cunt You’re better off without someone who tries to convince you that you’re going to end up with a chronic condition for absolutely no reason
My dad seemed kind most of the time and when mom would go off he would tell her to knock it off. He died when I was 13. Mom only had use for me when she could simper and preen over my accomplishments.…
Why are you with this uneducated loser? You gotta respect yourself and set boundaries. He's not your future.
>I am a straight, white, Christian, college educated, Conservative Male who believes that we SHOULD be doing what we can to Make OUR America Great Again. https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30…
Omgoshhh. First of all, he doesn’t like you and is treating you badly and making you unhappy. You deserve better. Absolutely dump him please Secondly, he’s uneducated and making himself look stupid.…
I finally did it, I dumped the guy who gave me a god awful rare STD. He brought over my stuff from his place yesterday. I called him tonight to end it. He was gracious and understood. He didn’t give m…
I don't diisagree. But i've had 500$ dollar VALUE epifany style sessions. Is disabled my life for the better, in a way tobsay i was not going to exist anymore, and it's been almost 9 years consecutive…
Just stopped in to point out the abuse as well, and it has been going on for years. The guy is uneducated about the causes of diabetes from the sounds of it, but he is using that as a weapon to abus…
Actually this is not even about the second hand clothes at all. This is about her rage and control issues. The fact that you bought something of your own choice, angered her. It made her realise that …
It is interesting to me to see how older men seem to care MORE about women being thin than the younger ones do. At least the guys in my dating preference/demographic (white, educated, successful). Ju…
No - never. I was born here and raised here. I was educated in the public school system all the way through college. I've been working for over 30 years. I pay a heck of lot more taxes than the averag…
12th house Saturn (R) 29.54 Cap + Jupiter (R) 6 Aqu oppose Mars 4 Leo 6th house. Physically- hypertension, mentally- ADHD (really bad), chronic depression. I can get pretty irritable and impulsive whe…
I’m SUPER proud of you, I think your ability to advocate for yourself and leave when your safety felt threatened is absolutely amazing. I had a therapist for almost 4 years who said she was trauma a…
I am one of the twins...our D9 chart the lagna are different. She was 19 mins ahead of me. The patterns and tendencies are same, but outcomes are different. We are girls and 50 Years old. Our birth c…