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My ex and I broke up around 6 months ago after being in a relationship for little over a year. The last 7 months we were in a long-distance relationship due to a variety of reasons. The break up was amicable but did leave somewhat of a bitter, resentful taste in my mouth.
He was drowning in work responsibilities and couldn’t keep up with other aspects of his life, including our relationship. He was clearly in a bad headspace so I tried my best to support him, but received no support back. I couldn’t even share my happy moments with him, let alone burden him with my troubles. I send him multiple cards and letters in the 7 months we were long distance but only ever received empty promises of him sending something back. In the end I addressed the issues we were having and we both decided to call it quits while still being long distance.
I am doing really well now and have moved on. I found a new job, travelled and dated some other people. I look back on our relationship with a positive view and wish him nothing but the best. However, sometimes I am just still so… incredibly salty about everything.
Recently his work load lessened and he has had more time to go back to his hobbies and pick up more fun activities. Every time I see him out there having fun I just spend the next 2 to 3 hours absolutely MARINATING in salt and bitterness. I resent him for not supporting me at all in a difficult time but leaning on me for support at the same time. He literally isn’t even aware of some of the shit I went through as I couldn’t share it with him, and it stings that when I asked for the bare minimum we had to come to the conclusion that it was better to end our relationship. It feels unfair and not okay.
For obvious reasons I will be temporarily muting his social media accounts. I am taking the steps I need to get over this, but I’m still just very frustrated with myself that I still feel this way. Does anyone experience something similar?

Husband was recently laid off from a data analyst job at a FAANG. He doesn't have a bachelor's but did a coding boot camp (and is a bit rusty, as he's been doing this for 5 years). He kind of fell into his prior role and would have preferred to do web/software development instead of fixing broken dashboards.
Given tech is in an iffy spot at the moment and limited experience outside of DA, does anyone have any suggestions making the transition? Any companies that are more willing to take a chance on someone, maybe for veterans? He's currently talking to a temp agency, but I feel like he can get something direct hire. We're on the East Coast, not really near much tech (but near some bank HQs). Thanks on any tips!

Last week I wrapped up my second interview with two directors for a BDR role that I very much want, and it went great. They indicated that it was the best interview they had so far in this hiring cycle. I took a behavioral assessment test prior and they said my personality traits matched what they are looking for in a person in that role. The hiring manager followed up and said they had a really good impression and that he feels “confident moving forward” with me in this role. The only thing I had to do is to take the companies cognitive assessment test. In all of my practice tests I did really well in. Correctly answering 14-15 questions out of 20 in 5 minutes. When it came down to take the actual test I did not feel nearly as confident coming out of it. So my question is, if the interview went great, the qualifications matched well, but the cognitive assessment did not, will the hiring manager take that into account?

Okay, I promised myself years ago I would never come for advice again on this Reddit but I’m lay awake really struggling so here goes…
Me and my girlfriend have been together for two years now. I can’t tell you how great it was at first, constant intimacy, a lot of partying and great support brackets for each other as we navigated life. We moved in together about a year ago. She’s now training to be a teacher and I’m nearly qualified as an accountant. Sex was unreal, we seemed to just connect as two entities in this little bubble we’d create, it was amazing.
Anyway, as it became apparent we were partying wayyy to much last year and it was taking its toll on us, we both had to cut back on it massively. It was affecting me moving forward and hampering our mental health. Ever since then though, it’s felt like a steady drive off a cliff.
Sex has gone from everyday to once every 2 weeks if that, and neither of us really initiate. My attraction has completely dropped now, and it’s just become platonic. I’m finding my eyes wondering constantly and becoming resentful. I don’t believe she even masturbates either. I do ask, I almost want her to be doing it. So it seems like her sex drive has faded, but this isn’t really communicated with me.
One thing I’m really struggling with is being aligned on hobbies. Prior to meeting, I’ve always been into my fitness and keeping myself in great shape. This dropped off during Covid for myself when we met, but I’ve been taking it serious again for the past 6 months. Everybody needs “something”right? Well she has no hobbies whatsoever. I like to go hiking, play a bit of guitar when I get chance and fitness. If I go the gym for a couple hours after work, I come back to find her watching reality tv waiting for me to make tea for us both. I feel myself getting annoyed because I want her to be interested in looking after herself, but she isn’t. I want her to take initiative in cooking tea, but I’d have to ask for it. And then it’s a game of “oh I did it yesterday”. She came for a short period with me to the gym but stopped after a month for not really any apparently reason. It’s just an awkward topic when I bring it up so I don’t dare. I would also like to add, she is NOT putting on weight so this is not a vanity thing, but it’s kind of unattractive when somebody doesn’t look after themselves when you do right? She’s not interested in hiking with me either, but we do have a great time on trips away with each other. I’m a great advocate for each having our separate paths where we support each other on our journeys, but you need something you can work on together too?
There’s so much here so I’m kind of struggling to write this all down whilst I’m having a bit of a melt down, but the reason I’m worried about this is because I need to make a decision really fucking soon.
She finishes her degree come June, with the original plan to go into a teaching job. Next year, I would like to go travelling as I’ll be qualified/almost qualified with experience under my belt. We’ve talked quite a bit about doing a TEFL abroad January 2024 which we’re both up for. However, when I communicate the above things with her they’re never brought up again and we just go on as normal. If for example, we split up come June, that would really be unfair her as if she wants a teaching job in the UK, she would need to apply now and it would leave her in a shitty position. I am the one pushing for the travelling, and I sometimes doubt if she even wants to. I think fundamentally we have some real communication issues, and she avoids any problems in life that she has including this one.
This is a lot, and I’m getting kind of upset writing it so I apologise if it doesn’t make much sense. Please feel free to ask questions.
I don’t think it’s unrepairable and I would stay if we can make it work.
Thanks guys

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Unfortunately some of this is learned behavior Danny's mother has been scamming people her entire life! She has a grandson that lived a normal life until she received custody of him at the age of 14. After Danny's mother gained custody she convinced him he was mentally ill so she could steal his SSI and get paid by the state for caring for him.
There is so much twisted shit this family has done I'm not sure I could even recall half of it! Let me rephrase that. Danny's twin sister has learning disabilities and cares for herself to the fullest ( With a job). Danny ( Danny's father) is a decent person also. The mother, older sister and Danny have spent their lives lying, cheating, and stealing from anyone they encounter.
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I live near Penn/Drexel and work near Temple, and lately I’ve been going crazy seeing the cute college women. It’s been a while since I’ve hooked up with someone younger than me and I’d love to change that. I miss the energy, enthusiasm, and tight bodies if a younger woman. Anyone into slightly older guys?
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Hi everyone.
I'm going to be fostering an African Grey, as his owner is severely sick and might pass away. This might lead to adoption, depending on how happy the bird is and how we can provide for him.
I'm mainly worried about leaving the bird alone for an extended period of time. I work and am a student, but its online and I'll be graduating in 2 months. Eventually I'll be getting a full time job after my studies. My mum doesn't work and she's at home 24/7 so the bird will have company. But there will be times where he might be left alone for a whole day at maximum. We are also planning to go overseas for 2 months next year, and im happy to have him stay at a bird hotel type thing where he will be well taken care of because of high maintainable these birds are.
The bird is very friendly, loves to sit on people's shoulders while you work and is adventurous.
This is basically what I'm most concerned about. And please don't give me the "he needs attention 24/7, don't take him" because he was no where else to go, and im sure as hell most African grey owners aren't at home 24/7, and actually have jobs and a social life. I will literally make the earth move if I have to, to keep this bird happy.

When I was 12 I would do gross stuff on Minecraft. For some stupid reason I used my brother's account instead of mine a few times (Extra stupid bc his username is just his unique name so it's pretty easy to identify). Now I'm really nervous a future job will find the chat logs from some source and not hire him because of it. Is this a possibility? Should I tell him or his job it was me if that is the case?

Basically I've lived the last 25 years or so by deprioritizing things like social connection, hobbies, mental health in general in favor of education and work.
I guess the idea was that once I have that settled, all problems are solved.
Despite restricting my energy in this way, I always felt overwhelmed and never really succeeded in the traditional sense. I just found workarounds.
Recently my work has caused my anxiety/depression/burnout to flare up, which forced me to think about what I'd do if I lost this job. I started thinking about therapy and disability insurance again.
What I seem to be noticing now is that I'm getting worse. Suddenly I doubt I can do this job at all anymore, I feel like I'm spiraling into complete helplessness and confusion.
This is terrifying because I don't have good alternatives to this job. In all likelihood I will never have this kind of opportunity again. I need to keep this at least a few months longer. I would like to keep it even longer if part time were an option, although I'm no longer sure if part time would actually make a difference.
So now I'm wondering if I should just shut the door again. Stop thinking about mental health problems, stop thinking about disability. Stop thinking about not having hobbies and friends. Ignore the frustration and dissatisfaction for a little while longer.
Go back to just pushing through with will power. It won't be nice, but I think I could do my job if I really try. Then in a few months, evaluate again. This will give me a lot of financial buffer due to the unique situation I'm in.
I guess my question is.. should I? I don't feel like I know what's right anymore, and the more I think about it, the more confused I seem to become.

I've been on ritalin since I was diagnosed almost 2 years ago, but I've recently gotten horrible anxiety. By recently I mean the last couple months and it hasn't gone away so I told my psych. He prescribed me with Guanfacine 1mg for two weeks, then I'll take 2mg for two weeks and check in with him. I took a week off work because it brings me so much anxiety and I thought the week off would help but I'm right back to bawling my eyes out on the floor in a fetal position. I was scared of taking guanfacine as I did my research and saw the side effects but I couldn't bare it this morning and impulsively decided to take my guanfacine for the first time since I was prescribed it 3 days ago. Will my anxiety clear up before I have to go to work? I don't know if I can keep living like this with this anxiety and I can't find another job easily either. I can't take feeling like this much longer, has anyone had any instant mood changes on the first day of guanfacine? I know I need to give it a few weeks for it to properly kick in but I can't stop crying and screaming, even as I write this. My anxiety is just that bad and I need it fixed NOW. I can't take anymore time off of work. And how will it make me feel with my ritalin? Will I still feel motivated? Will I feel MORE motivated? Will I feel calm in 4 hours? I'm sorry this is so jumbled to read but any help is appreciated.
TLDR: I have crippling anxiety, I take ritalin and I just took my first dose of guanfacine today after massive panic/anxiety attack. Can I expect my anxiety to calm down before work in 4 hours?

As true end requires, I need to input my player name.
The thing is, I just ran with the storyteller changing my name and I completely forgot it.
It's not in any of the in-game files, as far as I can tell, and the events where the storyteller says it are near the very start.
Can anyone help me out of this?

I’m not sure exactly what’s the issue with me. I have absolutely no motivation to better myself when I have a wonderful job, supportive spouse, friends, etc. even simple hygiene like showering and brushing my teeth seems to be a huge task. I reschedule my clients at work all the time because I just want to be at home. I’ve tried countless amounts of medication along with dosage adjustments and nothing seems to help me. I sleep for 12+ hours sometimes and still am exhausted. I have been in the gym recently and try to up my water intake as that was a bit of an issue in the past. Now my hair is also falling out in clumps whenever I shower. I’m also on 25mg of metoprolol once daily as I have a bit of unexplained tachycardia along with palpitations. I have anxiety, mainly surrounding my health. I don’t think I am depressed because I’m not really sad, but who knows! Please help me out!

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I'm not sure where to put this, or if anyone will even see it, but I guess I might feel a little better about writing this all out. I'm just a lost teenager looking for a little hope.
I feel frustrated and confused every day. I don't know what I'm doing with my life.
For a bit of background, I'm a first-year student studying CS in college. I have a great internship, an amazing girlfriend, and a pretty privileged life overall. I feel like I shouldn't be complaining, as I've been incredibly lucky in life in many ways that I don't think I deserve.
Right now, though, I feel like my life might fall apart at any moment.
First, in terms of my academics, I'm not sure what's gone on recently. I really just don't feel smart anymore. I'm a CS major so being good at coding is a necessity, and while I think I was that way in high school, I just don't feel I'm at that level anymore with the coursework I'm taking. I took college-level classes in high school which transferred over and gave me credit to skip to higher-level classes in college, but I'm finding myself increasingly lost now. I'm also not super hardworking, and I feel like I just keep spiraling down and becoming lazier as I'm unable to cope with the difficulty of classes, which leads me to get lots of help and not learn things properly, which makes my understanding of new content weaker, and keeps this cycle going and pushing me down. I've had to copy code from friends for some assignments that I definitely should be thorough with, and although I was doing well in exams earlier, I've been screwing up a lot lately. I'm really scared something may come back to bite me anytime and fundamentally mess my entire life up.
If this continues going downward and I start failing exams... I feel like I might just have to drop out of college. Which would kill me. I've worked really hard to get to this point, and I don't want to lose everything I've spent my life doing. I don't even have a close friend circle to support me and basically spent all my time focusing on academics hoping that I'd stand out. Right now though, I'm not even doing that properly and I feel utterly useless as a person.
I don't like CS much anyways. I think I'm fairly good at it and have done well so far, but my interests are way more in the humanities and arts. I love art, music and literature, and studying the classics would have probably been my chosen pursuit. However, those fields are looked down upon socially, especially in my immigrant community, and I'd also want to have a stable and well-paying job so I guess I'm alright with doing CS even if it's not my favourite thing out there.
In terms of my future, I have huge aspirations. I want to work in quantitative research (basically a combination of tech and finance) which is super difficult to get into. I'm currently studying at a university in the US that's ranked pretty well, but it's been a dream of mine to do a postgraduate degree at Cambridge since high school. I'm also itching to settle permanently to the UK as soon as I can; I've wanted to live in London all my life, and I personally have a huge interest in British culture. I feel like these dreams are far-fetched, especially when I don't even have a hold on what I'm doing in my life right now. I have a weird mentality that I can't come out 'average' like everyone else out there... I need to be outstanding in some way and I really want my life to go the way I want it to. It feels like I'm just living my life right now to get to that moment when this all comes true. I fear that if it all doesn't... I'd just feel like a massive failure. I already feel like one and I'm just hoping this all comes around to take me out of it.
As for my personal life, I've been in a long-distance relationship for a year or so now. I love my girlfriend, but having a relationship while trying to get my life sorted out feels super stressful sometimes. We're completely secret too (our parents don't approve of dating... and it feels like we're basically just in it for marriage), and there's a constant fear of being found out. She's the best support I've ever had in my life, but being in a long-distance relationship also has made me lose most of my genuine connection with friends. Since last year, I've basically stopped talking to anyone else regularly over text or phone, and since starting college I've basically spent my free evenings talking to her instead of going to parties or socialising with other people. I don't want to lose how close I am with her, but I sometimes feel frustrated with how much time I give the relationship. She's also super understanding and really wants me to go out and socialise more, but I can't do that without spending much less time with her, and I can't get myself to do that either. It also eats out of my academic life sometimes; I had to drop a class last semester because I failed an exam, and when looking back, I basically skipped all the morning lectures for that class because I was talking to her basically every day. I feel horrible about it because she'd understand this completely and do whatever she could to support me, but I've not been responsible enough to take that class seriously. Initially, my academic aspirations were cutting me off from friends, and most 'friends' I did make in high school were pricks that I put up with only because they were the only ones who shared my aspirations.
I guess at a certain level, I'm asking for advice. I've been messing up over and over again. I'm behind academically when that's really been the only thing I've put effort to in my life so far. I'm lost socially since I have no support circle. I feel like a horrible boyfriend for not being able to deal with my relationship and getting frustrated with someone who is actually amazing in every way. My life isn't bad at all compared to what most people have to deal with. I just feel like a piece of shit for not knowing how to deal with all this, and I just can't help but contemplating suicide frequently even if I know it's wrong. I wake up every morning feeling frustrated with myself, and sometimes... I wish I'd just get a heart attack and die already.
This post is a total mess, and I'm not sure half of what I've written out even makes sense, but I'm just wondering if I can find some sort of hope to feel confident in myself and move along somehow.

I feel like I’ve ruined my life. I (27F) married my husband (48M) 2 years ago and I am currently 36 weeks pregnant. My husband has a 12 year old son from his ex wife who I met when he was 6. His son is a very troubled and difficult kid. He now lives with us full time. I do not enjoy being a step mother to this kid as he is such an angry and moody kid. He’s always miserable and unhappy from the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to bed. He screams so loud and has these uncontrollable rages and the neighbors have called the police on multiple occasions. He’s rude and disrespectful to his father, constantly calling him a “cnt, faggt, btch, fat” he also regularly tells his father “stfu, Suck my dck.” Over the last 12 months he has become physically aggressive where he now pushes and throws things at his father. Before he would just destroy the house (break things) he has broken 3 very expensive gaming computers out of anger and his dad just keeps buying him more. This is unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my life and over the years his behavior has gotten worse. My husband does nothing to discipline him and has instead spoiled him rotten to the point of no return. He is very angry that I am having a baby and has made very disturbing comments like “If it cries I’ll strangle it”, “It can sleep in the garage not inside the house” My husband finds these comments funny because he is a clown and I am starting to totally resent him. He thinks he will be fine once the baby is here but I am very uncomfortable allowing this disturbed child anywhere near the baby. My husband has spent the last 10 years of his life trying to get full custody of his son, his mother is a terrible person and he mirrors her personality to a T. His behavior and the stuff that comes out of his mouth is just like his mother. The abuse I have received over the last 6 years from my husbands ex wife is so exhausting that I don’t even want to get into it. She is constantly making racist comments about me, calls me a whre and a slt and my husband never defends me. She also said she hopes that my baby dies. He pays her a ton in alimony and child support and pays her rent, even though the son lives with us full time and I am the one who has to deal with his disgusting behavior everyday. My husband is pathetic and is constantly bending over backwards to accommodate his ex wife who does nothing but verbally abuse him and constantly make threats. She is the most horrible woman I’ve ever come across in my entire life. She doesn’t care about seeing her son as they verbally and physically abuse each other whenever they are together, so she has basically agreed that he can just have him as long as he continues to pay her. The only time the house is quiet is when his son is at school. He is lazy and a slob and I am constantly cleaning up after him. My husband has no authority and I have lost respect for him. My pregnancy has been very difficult as it is but I also have had no support as I have no family here, I have moved to the US from the UK because of my husband. I am ashamed to have my family visit and see the zoo like environment I live in, and the behavior and screaming and shouting I deal with on a daily basis. I feel like I have ruined my life by marrying this guy and now having his baby. I wish I could go back in time and change things. I feel like I’ve made a huge mistake. On the other hand I do love my husband, and aside from his son and ex wife we have no other issues in our relationship. But it’s just not worth it to me anymore and I wish I had seen that sooner. I ignored the red flags and I have no one to blame but myself. I feel trapped and confused and have no idea what I should do.

I've been working with a guy I met in university for foufive years now running a production company. I think he hangs onto the idea that we're close but in reality we're really quite different, but the business is going really well.
We were on a job the other day and had wrapped so he got a little drunk.
Him and some other friends/colleagues on the job were playing this play-fight game called Ninja throughout the night and I repeatedly said I didn't want to play after they asked me to.
At one point I was pretend boxing with a friend that I feel much more close with (not really touching each other). I've only ever been to one boxing class when I was 15 but like watching the sport.
He's been doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for the past year.
He came up to me and who I think would win out of 'our two styles' and got into a jui-jitsu stance.
I was dubiously pretending saying I'd probably do this (again not really touching him) and then he kinda got closer to the point I could tell he was about to do something and then he did; putting me into a chokehold on the floor.
He was behind me squeezing my neck to the point that my neck, jaw and chin still hurt today (three days later at the moment) - and was doing it to the point that I was a few seconds away from passing out, but was letting me breathe incrementally. Breathing in short bursts for probably sixty seconds. My jaw popped at one point but he carried on.
I didn't tap in the moment because it was quite an embarrassing experience and my other friends/colleagues were watching - I looked over to them and they were kinda making 'is this too far' faces in my opinion. In the end I kind of managed to roll him over and he eventually stopped when he realised I was about to faint.
He's very competitive so it felt to me like there was an undercurrent of him having fantasised about a situation like that arising. Bearing in mind that he's been doing this for a year, knew that I wouldn't know to defend myself.
The way I've been thinking about it is that if I took it to the extent that he did within 'my style' (that my knowledge of stretches to watching illegal streams when Tyson Fury fights) then I would've full-force right hooked him to the head. I think that would quite obviously be taking it too far and crossing a line.
We have pretty bad communication issues - it always feels as if we're walking on eggshells when confronting any issues - so I don't know how to confront this without it permanently tarnishing the business, because I really don't want the business to go away.
This was on Friday and I've been thinking about it every waking hour - I just want to know if people think I'm overreacting and also how to address this without it ruining the relationship.
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TL;DR: My business partner choked me out and I don't really feel comfortable with it - am I overreacting?

Hi. This will be quite a long post. No TL;DR. I am totally ok if you don't read my post :)
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I am 23, and will be 24 later that year. I have mental health issues since summer 2021, right after I got my Bachelor of Science. The following year, I thought it was a burnout issue (the previous uni year was exhausting due to lockdowns and all) and low self-confidence about a very demanding competitive exam I am kind of obliged to attend if I want to get the job of my dreams, notably because there are OBJECTIVELY a consequent amount of participants performing better than me academically. I quickly told some of my family members about my issues. They advised me to see a therapist, and it is what I am doing since then. They all think I am going a lot better for a whole year.
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But in reality, it only got worse over time until just 3 weeks ago. My therapist told me I have symptoms of depressions, but he does not diagnose me with depression because my mood does not stay low long enough. Basically my mood level has become a huge mess: most of the time my mood is lower than neutral but not low bottom, however I have periods of very low mood every 2/3 days that last only few hours, and I have also periods of high mood once a week that also last few hours.
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Maybe you are telling yourself "you are quite lucky that your very low mood periods last only few hours", and you are right if I compare myself to a lot of people struggling with depression, but I feel that these few hours are still too much for me. During these hours, I just feel that I am worthless, broken, weak, and that I will no longer achieve anything at life. Until few weeks ago, mad thoughts were even growing inside my brain when I was alone (more precisely, thoughts of screaming and harming people, accompagnied with a sort of feeling of pleasure by thinking about it).
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When I am at my periods of high mood, I have an outburst of self-confidence, I feel like I can lift up mountains and achieve everything, and I am always fooled with the thought that everything is finally solved. Of course, these good moments always end in a matter of hours.
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At least, thanks to my last therapy sessions and some self-reflection, I realized that:

• The job I am aiming at for more than 5 years is still and really the job that makes the most sense to me,
• Even before these mental health issues started to appear, I had a wrong perception of many basic things, and these wrong perceptions were catalyzing the decaying my mental health. For instance, because I started to study seriously at the late age of 16, I thought since then that work was always supposed to be extremely exhausting, hence I thought I was nothing but lazy during days when I did not feel unexhausted (even if I study more than 10 hours almost every day out of vacation since I am 16), and it became a real problem because like every work, I am less and less exhausted by it as I am more and more used to it.
• In order to get better, I really need to move from mother's home and have the job I want for so long (fortunately, this will happen in 4/5 months if everything goes alright in the meantime).

Also, I am still able to think about it in my periods of very low mood.
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About the last point. I still live in my mother's house because I do not have enough money to live on my own. Why not having a temporary job right now? Because I still need to get my Master of Science and this task requires too much time to even keep a part time job. So I have no choice but staying at mom's house until I get my MSc and (then) my job contract next summer. Why is it a problem for my mental health that I still stay at mom's house? Because her overprotective nature prevents me from building basic aspects of life at my age. She always wants to know and control everything about my life at the point it is a struggle to perform most activities (e.g outdoor hobbies, hanging out with people, or even BASIC HOUSEHOLD TASKS) that even a teenager could do if they were living with normal parents. And do not count on anyone to convince my mother to become less intrusive in my life: she is the Queen of Stubornness. Fortunately, I have a some sense of resourcefulness when it comes to independancy: I have been able to keep an household clean by myself for 6 months without struggle. So I think the day I will finally move out won't be a problem in the absolute. But OF COURSE I think the exact opposite during my periods of very low mood. I really hate my brain during these moments.
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Nobody but my therapist know almost everything I wrote above. Especially, I do not want my mom to know it because she went through a 5-year severe depression when I was a kid, after a terrible event that happened to her (however her overprotective habit is not linked to this event and roots actually from the way her parents educated her). I also do not want for people from my university to know my about my internal struggles because I am scared that it could threaten my future job contract (and thus ruin my last years of hard studying in order to achieve my professional goal).
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But I still needed to share my situation and struggles, so I am here. And thank you for reaching the end of my post.
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EDIT: Added few words in the middle of the post.

I've been working with a guy I met in university for foufive years now running a production company. I think he hangs onto the idea that we're close but in reality we're really quite different, but the business is going really well.
We were on a job the other day and had wrapped so he got a little drunk.
Him and some other friends/colleagues on the job were playing this play-fight game called Ninja throughout the night and I repeatedly said I didn't want to play after they asked me to.
At one point I was pretend boxing with a friend that I feel much more close with (not really touching each other). I've only ever been to one boxing class when I was 15 but like watching the sport.
He's been doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for the past year.
He came up to me and who I think would win out of 'our two styles' and got into a jui-jitsu stance.
I was dubiously pretending saying I'd probably do this (again not really touching him) and then he kinda got closer to the point I could tell he was about to do something and then he did; putting me into a chokehold on the floor.
He was behind me squeezing my neck to the point that my neck, jaw and chin still hurt today (three days later at the moment) - and was doing it to the point that I was a few seconds away from passing out, but was letting me breathe incrementally. Breathing in short bursts for probably sixty seconds. My jaw popped at one point but he carried on.
I didn't tap in the moment because it was quite an embarrassing experience and my other friends/colleagues were watching - I looked over to them and they were kinda making 'is this too far' faces in my opinion. In the end I kind of managed to roll him over and he eventually stopped when he realised I was about to faint.
He's very competitive so it felt to me like there was an undercurrent of him having fantasised about a situation like that arising. Bearing in mind that he's been doing this for a year, knew that I wouldn't know to defend myself.
The way I've been thinking about it is that if I took it to the extent that he did within 'my style' (that my knowledge of stretches to watching illegal streams when Tyson Fury fights) then I would've full-force right hooked him to the head. I think that would quite obviously be taking it too far and crossing a line.
We have pretty bad communication issues - it always feels as if we're walking on eggshells when confronting any issues - so I don't know how to confront this without it permanently tarnishing the business, because I really don't want the business to go away.
This was on Friday and I've been thinking about it every waking hour - I just want to know if people think I'm overreacting and also how to address this without it ruining the relationship.
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TL;DR: My business partner choked me out and I don't really feel comfortable with it - am I overreacting?

Step 1: Discover an old anime that you’ve never heard of before but was apparently popular in its heyday Step 2: Get hooked by the pilot episode. Realize that the premise is really freaking good. Step 3: Watch the show Step 4: fail step three Step 5: realize that the show itself is terrible Step 6: look around the internet a few days later for some fanworks because there were still parts of the show you liked and your bored Step 7: realize the fans did a better job. Like, way, way better. Step 8: start thinking about how you would write it Step 9: abandon all current writing projects for the time being in favor of staring at a nearly empty google doc that just says ‘I took canon out back and shot it’ for half an hour

Edit: forgot to mention, cats are unfortunately not an option as our dogs are cat aggressive. The dogs also could not care less about the mice and are no deterrent 🙄
Tldr: tried everything to combat the mice but my old house may need a lot more than what I know how to do. What to look foexpect in a good exterminator?
I know this is long, but I am exhausted and desperately need some advice on where to go from here. Some background of my situation: I (26) recently moved back home to my 120 year old childhood home. It’s just been my dad and our two dogs here for roughly the last 7 years. Since moving back home, I’ve been doing a lot of work on the house as my dad has let it fall into terrible disrepair. Biggest among those being the mouse infestation. Before I moved in, when I would visit I would notice mouse poop absolutely littering every inch of the house, dead mice in traps that haven’t been checked in days, weeks, months, mice that would just run past your feet and on the countertops, and spots around the house that they clearly use to get in/out and nest around.
I’ve made a lot of progress on cleaning up and doing what I can think of for prevention. I’ve cleaned all of the existing mouse poop that I could find, laid dozens of traps that are constantly checked and replaced, placed those frequency plug ins around, used peppermint and other types of deterrents, laid out poison pellets, emptied and cleaned out some neglected spaces they may hide in, stuffed gaps with steel wool and foam insulation, replaced baseboard moulding, etc. everything I could think of doing myself.
Now, I know I need to call an exterminator. I’ve been busy and hoped my efforts would at least bring the issue down from infestation to manageable (especially given that we live next to a golf course and have always had some level of issue with them). Luckily it has, I almost never encounter them anymore and only ever catch one every few weeks. Unfortunately though, I’m still finding evidence of them around the house pretty regularly. I have absolutely no idea how to properly handle this though. I don’t know what to expect from an exterminator and how to know if they’re the right one for the job or not.
It’s an old house that hasn’t been very well updated or taken care of for years. It’s built on a stone foundation that has been crumbly my entire life, an unfinished concrete basement that gives me the heebie jeebies still, and an attic with two storage eves that are rarely ever touched. Not to mention the kitchen cabinets that the mice will not stop literally chewing through every time I fill a hole in them.
I’m overwhelmed that the problem is way more massive that I can handle. My dad agreed to pay for whatever needs to be done as long as I can be there to set things up and manage it (he’s constantly busy with work), but I’m really afraid this is going to be insanely expensive and require extensive foundational and in depth work on the house outside of just an exterminator. Neither of us have a lot of money, nor do I really want to be responsible for massive home reconstruction for a house I’m only staying in until I can afford my own place.
I just want the mice to stop. Nowhere feels safe, nowhere feels clean, and no one can seem to give me real guidance on this.

I am trying to plan a trip to Chicago in middle of May. Getting there Wednesday and flying home Saturday afternoon. So trying to game plan a bit. Staying first night at Hotel Lincoln “Old Town Triangle” area, then staying at Holiday Inn Wolf “River North” area.
My issue isn’t finding places to try as there is tons of information on here and online. The issue I am trying to manage is trying to focus my spots closer to where we are staying. Can’t be taking taxis across town 30+ minutes for each meal. So if anyone can help focus me a bit I would appreciate it.
Wednesday - arrive (need light late lunch/snack in Lincoln Park area. Wednesday night - Pequod pizza. Thursday - breakfast near Lincoln hotel. I was going to do Ann Sathers but maybe I am making mistake. Thursday lunch - Al’s beef (close to hotel) Thursday dinner - ? Friday - only have Girl and The goat for dinner. Saturday - need early lunch/brunch before we head out.
We aren’t looking for any tasting menu places. Love bakery’s and sweets. I was thinking sweet Mandy B as a stop. Looking for places or things more Chicago focused that you can’t get elsewhere.
Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Sorry if this is too vague. If I need to focus it better I will do so. Thanks..