It can also motivate others to do it, but I get the point.

Anyone that enters into a relationship and starts setting the terms and conditions of their new partners interactions is definitely not a healthy person to be with!

It's sad times when people are apologizing for not responding within a minute to a text. I have to tell friends to chill out. A text is not going to disappear. We all have other priorities and no one should expect anyone to stop their lives all of a sudden to engage in a conversation out of the blue.

Yep, definitely this. I just can't fathom why anyone would give a sh*t about what dress a celeb is wearing, who they're currently dating, etc. Whatever part of the brain that finds that stuff interesting I must just be missing.

My workplace has been under staffed for over a year. I refuse to work extra hours and when im sick Im staying in bed. Whats the point if you burn out and have no energy to do the things you actually like?

This!!! Being related to someone does not grant them permanent space in your life. If they are not good people, you DON'T owe them your time, your forgiveness or your love.

Honestly, it depends. We have organized beggar clans, which get driven into the country in spring and back home in autumn. They refuse any and all help, they even refuse to use the toilets specifically installed for them only they have a key for, and instead s**t on sidewalks and p**s in parks and bike parking spaces instead. I get persecution.

I like living in my own skin!

Nobody understood why I wouldn’t have a big wedding. Between the costs and my MIL thinking it was her special day I talked my husband into a destination wedding with just us. When we got back my MIL had a fancy cocktail party. That was enough.

Good choice!

I’m sorry to break this to you, but you’re hanging out with the wrong people. Unless everyone is drunk, being with drunk people is really boring!

I refuse to go to bars or restaurants where the music is too loud to talk to each other without screaming. I just don't get the point.

This. Companies think they're the most important s**t on the planet over humans. Idc if it's business or what. They're run by humans who've forgotten where they came from and the meaning of what's important. We're not slaves to corporations. We're brainwashed into believing we need them.

Being able to opt in or opt out of hanging out with munchkins is great! I love being Aunt Mary Rose and not Mommy!

I may be weird, but I love ironing. The best part is when you watch the transformation of a shirt, from a wrinkled to a smooth one. I love it!

I get really annoyed when people don't understand "I don't care it is boring to me" as an excuse to explain it to me in minute detail, as I just don't understand it. My usual response is to start explaining software development to them. Strangely they aren't interested and don't want to talk about it.. and yet don't get the link.

same here. I just don't give a s**t

I'm a smoker (down from 30/day to 10/day and on my way to quitting completely), and I always ensure I'm well away from everyone when I light up. No one wants to breathe my smoke or even get it on their clothes. It absolutely is a disgusting habit, and I wish my parents hadn't smoked, because I probably would never have started.

Here in Finland that's considered VERY rude and it makes sense to take the shoes off.

Agreed!

If it's on social media people have the choice to just scroll past it.

Sadly some do care or it wouldn’t be a thing

I'll text my man to update him on if I plan on being home soon, as a courtesy, but otherwise my phone is out of sight. Texting around others is rude.

This is such a personal choice .........

Which begins to depreciate the minute you drive it out of the lot. I've always bought used cars, and I've never regretted it.

For ladies. when they do it's like people want us to be little girls and that's. creepy [I'm not explaining this well.].

My grandmother made most of my clothes for me when I was a child, and she had an old treadle machine that she eventually replaced with something more in keeping with the times. After my poor grandfather died after living on without my grandmother for 11 years, my aunt had all of the grandchildren—who were all adults—had each of us walk through my grandparents’ home of 60+ year (a home my grandfather built) and put a Post-It with our name on anything we wanted to take home with us. I chose a small number of things, all of which were made by one or the other of my grandparents, and I took home everything I asked for.

Treat it as a nice holiday, but seriously; I wouldn't go into debt to go to my own wedding much less anyone else. If I couldn't afford it I wouldn't go sister or no sister

Never with someone you want to have sex again with. But sometimes it can help to shorten an awkward hookup 🤷‍♀️

Who cares, unless, you need to bring evidence to a court of law?

I lived in San Francisco for most of my adult life (40 of my now 66 years), and my last apartment there was the best one I’d ever had, and I wanted to spend the rest of my life there. Alas, once I was no longer working, I had to move, and after a year (minus two days) of living with my favorite brother and his wife on their farm in rural Oregon, I ended up with a job in a small town on the Mendocino coast of Northern California. I have come to love small-town life in a way I would never have anticipated. I just wish I weren’t so far from my dearest friends, who all live in the Bay Area.

Sometimes that is the only way people can get to know new people. Haven't used one in a while, but i def would again if i needed to.

I was old school and met my wife on a dating website :)

If you're part of a minority that has difficulty finding each other it is really helpful. I'm on the spectrum and so grateful for Autistic dating apps or I'd never fit in naturally.

I refused to do this for years (still never have). I even looked down on friends that did - until I realized they were having more luck with the ladies than I ever did by being aloof and snobby. Do what works for you. Meeting people is a gamble no matter how you do it. Why take away options?

Met my wife through a dating app. As a 42-year-old introvert, there really wasn’t any other way I going to meet anybody. And thoroughly filling out the profile weeded out the partiers, smokers, politically conservative and religious. I’ve been happily married to my amazing, animal-loving, utterly hilarious and lovely wife for just over eight years now. 💗

I have never either, I don't think my wife would appreciate it if I did.

The horrors my friends have shared (men and women) keep me far from these apps. Ironically it keeps the people who tell me the stories balls deep in it still 🤣🤣

For me with social anxiety it was pretty much the only way to find someone. We are now married for 6 years

I have three friends who have found their actual partners on dating apps. When your social life lack places to meet new people, I find this apps useful.

There's a lot to not like about dating apps but for people who don't like going out to bars and stuff dating apps are so much easier to deal with. If you're talking to someone who is annoying you you can just stop talking to them or block them if needed. Harder to do in real life. Met my husband on Match. Been together for almost 5 years, married for 1.

Glad you're in a position where you don't need to. Once again, you are you, you are not everyone else.

I was on IMVU but that was just a hangout site mostly (that people were using for other reasons I found out). I met my boyfriend on there from random chat and while I'm happy with him, I can understand why people are wanting to avoid dating Apps.

I felt the same but it's become required as I can't find any single women out in the wild.

Me neither... but I don't think my wife would appreciate it very much if I did

but it's the only way to get constantly ghosted

The internet is scary for sure. I met my husband on Farmers Only and we have been together 14 years and married almost 11. I think most dating apps now are used for hookups unfortunately.

Personal choice.

Dating apps are the commodification of relationships. They are apps made by people whose only care is figuring out how best to profit off of your love life. They also very rarely work because they aren't designed to actually work. If we think about dating apps from a capitalist perspective, there is very little financial incentive to make a dating app that actually works and sets people up with successful relationships. Because the second that happens, that is 2 users who are no longer using the app and therefore no longer crearing profits for the company. So they don't focus on making the app actually effective. They focus on monetization. Making it addictive. Sure there will be a lucky few who do manage to find good partners.... but those are a minority of users and the developers are aware of that. This is a great video diving deeper into this analysis of dating apps if anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/_iLnZ4HCrfo

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Oh please. It's not a desert. How thirsty are you?

Awkward

I don't like the idea of having that thing between my toes.

Big chested girls like me, need support though

And I refuse to eat when my mouth feels and smells like old shoes :)

Do you never have guests over? I also have a dumber reason for it - so I can use my dishwasher. I wouldn't run it for just two or three plates (it's wasting water and energy) and I hate washing dishes, so I have enough to use until the dishwasher is full.