For me it’s communication, honesty, openness, willingness to listen, and acceptance of where the person is coming from in their reactions and emotions. This is a result of childhood trauma and any long-term traumatic experience. CPTSD (complex PTSD), if you’d like to read about it. This kind of thing is learned below a conscious level so you can’t just logic yourself out of the reaction, it’s almost hard coded. Working together helps both of you figure out how to handle it, unfortunately there is no trick. It takes time and work and patience and love.

I’ve had this one for years

Yep! If you were to send pics, another possibility is an angry mother or father who will threaten you with police unless you pay them. It’s horrible what they’re doing. <3

It’s very common that scammers request pictures you’re uncomfortable with so that they can threaten to send them to everyone they can connect to you unless you give them money. They string you along trying to get you to become attached enough to give them the pictures, then they demand money or they’ll send them to everyone you know. This scam has ended in at least one teen taking his own life that I’ve heard of, and very probably more.

There is no friend who is a 15 yo sophomore, and the person you’ve been communicating with is very likely one or more people working in shifts and also could be men or women. This is their job, or they are being forced to do this, and they are very good at it. They are working on many people at a time so don’t feel bad blocking them. It’s all part of the job for them.

You can do this :)

Section 508 cancellation when?

TIL, thanks.

You named my brand :)

I’ve seen both pink or yellow. No clue what the difference is.

I’ve been hearing that phrase my entire life :)

I see, thanks for the clarification. I didn’t want to assume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noose?wprov=sfti1#Use_in_intimidation_and_hate-based_racial_politics

You may not be familiar if you’re not American.

Tress of the Emerald Sea goes to RandLand to help the Dragon Reborn save the world?

“Never try to outstubborn a cat “

Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

My wallet’s fat

I’m gonna have to try it again. I couldn’t continue once he got into 12 step programs and religion, but most of what he wrote made sense to me and what I experienced. It could be that I just didn’t pick up on the wording and concepts that the article talks about, but that’s probably because I’m older and still trying to recognize those things when I see them.

I much prefer Pete Walker’s books.

I have missed you!

My partner and I got together in April of last year. I was 57 and he was 58. He is the love of my life. That person can come into your life at any time, don’t close the door on that opportunity for love. You ARE still young and have tons of life and love to share. It’s amazing the depth of emotion and connection you can share with the right person, I had no idea that older people had so much going on in their relationships.

People change, and when they change to the point that they are no longer the person you married, and you can’t work out how to stay that makes you both happy, it’s time to move on. No matter the age. There is no age limit on happiness and you only get this one life to experience it. I wish you the best.

I got one of those too, on an account I had only ever used for testing some Automoderator code years ago. Very suspicious.

East NC barbecue 😋