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I was wondering the same.

Either that, or he might be having emotional flashbacks from some sort of dating anxiety and trauma of his own.

Nah, I think he's just trolling. Occam's Razor.

Yes. You're right. It happened during the previous generation's lifetime, not during the current generation's lifetime, but the current generation seems to have inherited the effects of the collective trauma.



Occam's Razor is nonsense. Mona Pereth guessed correctly.

I blabbed this dark secret of yours all around town already, but I presumed you'd be OK with me blabbing it around, because you posted it publicly

I’ll keep that in mind.

I’ve not bought any in awhile actually. I preordered Zelda and Pikmin months ago but nothing recently.

My most recent Switch game purchase was Everybody 1-2 Switch

Yeah, I'd say that is normal. Even when I was dating a person and I'd go to their house, then I'd drive back home, I'd always texted them that I arrived safely.

Given how much these effects seem to bother you, is there any possibility that you could move to some place that was less affected by the last war?

Well there's good news.
My daughter saw her friend again last night.
Apparently, this time they asked her to message when she got home.

I feel better now.

Although it might not seem like it, because I don't talk a lot about my own problems, I actually suffer many of the same problems that typical WrongPlanet members suffer. Therefore, just like other WrongPlanet members, there are various things that I wish I could do, but cannot, or not yet.

I would appreciate being told that. It would show she's at least interested in texting with me a tad more. As for as anxiety disorders go, anxiety contributed to me screwing up my 1st two relationships because I was very needy & clingy. I had reason to worry about my 1st gf because she had problems with alcohol & drugs but my anxiety caused me to act out & to not be entirely sure what was really going on or not at times, I didn't know what to trust. My 2nd gf wanted more independence & freedom & I felt pushed away & I become more needy & clingy. So I get why being in a relationship with someone who has bad anxiety could be very problematic for people who like having more space & independence which the majority of those on the spectrum probably want & need, we're stereotyped to be extreme loners after all. My current gf has anxiety & other various issues & is needy & clingy at times & that helps me feel more secure with our relationship. It also majorly helps that I'm on a med for anxiety & another med for OCD.

Yes you're right and that's a good example, but here the people with anxiety disorders are much worse than your example. Sometimes their anxiety drives them to harass and terrorize people every day for months without end. When told to stop, they continue and say, "But it's for your own safety", or "But I was only trying to help you". Sometimes they are utterly convinced that you or your child needs to be rescued, despite the fact that no rescue is needed.

Sometimes they accidentally poison children by giving the child an overdosage of a medication, because their anxiety drives them to be convinced that the child is sick and needs more and more and more medication. Things like that. Much worse than your example, but your example was also valid.

If the ONLY anxious thing that the person does is "Text me so I know you got home safely", and if that's the end of it, then it's OK, but with the kind of people who live here, that's likely to be only the tip of the iceberg of anxiety.

That happened to me too one time. Except in my case, I survived on baby food in tiny glass jars instead of eggs. Isn't baby food more expensive than eggs, you ask? Yes, but the baby's food was the only edible substance remaining in the pantry. It was either him or me. Without hesitation, I chose myself to be the sole survivor.

Now don't rush to judge me. Before you say I'm monster, let me explain that he wasn't my baby. I would let myself starve before I would let my own children go one night without food.

A beautiful woman showed up unexpectedly on my doorstep, and dumped a baby on me, and said, "Take care of your damn son for once!", then she ran away and left me with the baby before I could say a word. I took the baby to my lab at work and did a DNA paternity test. He was not my son. Then I did another test to check if he was related to me in any way other than directly being my child. For example, if he was my father's child. Nope, no match.

So I put him in a box and posted him back to his mother. Again, before you say I'm a monster, let my clarify that his body was still warm when I posted him. Warm meaning he was alive, not a cold dead body. I even phoned his mother and said, "Text me and let me know if he gets home safely". I don't believe it's necessary to check up on the safe arrival of adults, but I do check for children. See, I'm a good guy. A great guy.

Later, she confirmed that he arrived home safely, but on the phone, she didn't sound the least bit grateful, so I don't know why I bothered to make the effort. I felt so unappreciated. I feel like, next time a woman dumps her own baby on me, I might not bother to pay the extra fee for express one-hour delivery with a courier and a dedicated van. She didn't appreciate how much I paid for that courier, so why bother doing it again? Maybe I'll only pay for a bicycle courier next time.

I have decided that the trade off of decent food for a date is just not worth it. Well, probably not the majority of the time. He wanted to reschedule the second date because he didn’t want to drive in the rain. Seriously.

I drove far for the first one AND I had no money left for food for the rest of the week. JFC.

There will be no second date.

Oh damn, why didn't I think of that? (sorry for commenting in women only thread)