I did deploy a lot, but I recall one of my first cultural lessons and they only mentioned the three.🤷🏾

I really appreciate you taking the time to share some of your knowledge.

Thank you!

Huh,

I lived there for three years and only learned about, Kanji, Katakana and Romanji.

Is Hiragana a more classic version of the language or is it an evolution of Katakana, that it looks similar to?

Same story, different healthcare provider. U.S. VA system for me.

At this point, I don’t think they can think past, “Hur, dur, immigrants bad.”

They are still arresting people who are married to American citizens and going through the normal green card process.

The wife of a fucking active duty national guardsman, in Texas, with an active green card application (filed in 2022), and no criminal record.

They arrested her at her work and deported her to the Honduras. Oh and she had an infant son as well.

There are so many examples in your post where you place her above you and she is not equal in that return.

It is challenging, especially when you think of things like, “Love means sacrifice, or hard work.” And those statements are not wrong, but they are also easy mechanisms your brain uses to justify why you let someone shit on you.

I am coming from a marriage of 20 years and after getting therapy, finally realizing just how I much I enabled the treatment I received.

Sex is such a strong urge too, ESPECIALLY at 20. That and fear of loneliness.

I’ve got something that is worse though. 20 years I will never get back because I convinced myself if I just kept loving her, she would eventually love me back the same. That I just need to be strong and the sacrifice is worth it. Now I don’t even really know who I am anymore.

You got this in a short dating period.

I am not red pilling or any of that other chauvinistic bullshit because this applies to both partners.

Almost every single example you presented was reason enough, on its own, to leave her.

But you twisted yourself into thinking there’s no way this is what it is. You must not be seeing it right, there must be some justification for her behavior. It must not be a big deal, or you are “over reacting”.

That can be anywhere from poor self esteem to just putting your partner on a pedestal.

If your partner does something that makes you think, “I could/would never consider doing that.”, in a bad way, it is most likely not an equal or healthy relationship. (This mostly applies to how they interact with you and others.)

You are NTA, you just need to respect your own boundaries, even when it hurts.

Holy shit. Neither of you are ready for a real relationship.

She is a toxic dirtbag and you need to learn to love yourself more than the person with whom you are in a relationship.

Totally agree. Going from Joel Kinnaman to Anthony Mackie was a huge let down.

My HVAC system has an inside and outside air source.

And the stock market is just another way for the top percent to continue to siphon wealth.

And this article is 10 years old. It has gotten so much worse.

Beth makes the best stories.

It blows me away how fucking easily my fellow countrymen are led by their god damned nose.

Closet fucking fascists, all of them, and too stupid to recognize simple fucking fallacies.

My life sucks, ooh it must be because an illegal committed a crime. Even though immigrants have a lower crime rate than our ever present white trash.

Appreciating Space X accomplishments does not make you an Elon boi.

Half his gig is space and is he supposed to leave Space X out of his articles?

He talked about the Longmarch as well. I guess that makes him a terrible Chinese apologist.

She’s awesome. I love Eric Berger’s contributions too.

No way they would have forgotten me.

Moved on, well, that’s life sometimes, but I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t try to find my way back. I’m gonna see my little girls grow up if I have to divide by zero to make it happen.

Yeah, I’d be spending my life trying to find a way back to my kids.

I do like the premise of your question though. If I didn’t have this family, it is a fun thought experiment.

Just your pussy?

You missed the the bit about dumbest tourists.

I get it that it is hip to hate on Americans right now, but your post is so unnecessarily self-righteous.

You can train your subconscious! Well, at least influence it’s decisions. Videogames are a great example. Trained reaction/response. Repeated response to similar stimulus can create a trained subconscious response.

However, I have difficulty, especially now that I’m older, where subconscious and conscious will compete and I will lose acuity of what I actually did.

That and my memory is getting worse. :/