Is ted cruz's daughter a lesbian

So my husband and I are good friends with another couple (Dan & Shannon), and have been for about 15 years. A few years ago they moved across the state, away from all their friends and family. They also have three children. Basically they don't get out much. But when Dan comes to town he always crashes with us, and when they both are in town we usually go out for dinner or drinks. We all get along really well and always have.
Shannon's birthday is the day before mine, so most years we end up celebrating together. This year we decided to go to Vegas- something we have been trying to do for years. After we all made that decision, I started looking up flights and hotels (I'm a planner) and relaying them to Shannon.
Now, two years ago Shannon was in a terrible car accident that left one of her legs immobilized. After I sent her a quote for a flight she said she would have difficulty flying because of her leg. Completely valid. Instead she wanted to drive.
Here's where I'm running into an issue. When it's all four of us driving together, her and I always sit in the back. Shannon is the sweetest, kindest, nicest person you could ever imagine. I love her to bits. Except she NEVER shuts up. I mean you never see her take a breath. Possibly the bigger issue here is that her conversation points are really....dull. During our last outing I spent 45 minutes listening about her periods and the new jackets she got her daughters. Really riveting stuff. She never asks me about myself or what's going on in my life. I get that she is at home with little kids all day and doesn't get a lot of adult attention, but sometimes it's a lot.
The ride between here and Vegas is about 18 hours. And sitting in the back of a small car listening to her talk about kids clothes sounds like torture.
I suggested maybe her and Dan drive and me and my husband can fly down. But her and Dan are pushing really hard to have us all drive down together. My husband said I might be over reacting and be the AH. So, reddit, AITA?
Tl;dr Planning long distance vacation with friends, don't want to ride down with them and fly down instead.

I've been trying to find this book series for 3 hours now, and I've had enough of searching by myself. The plot starts with the main character being taught by an old magician of sorts (wizard? mage? I can't even remember that much) He has to learn one spell at a time until he perfects it. An important detail is that he has to form mana into strings. One day he finds a tower left behind generations prior, by the wizard (female) who conquered the entire continent. The spirit of this wizardess is inside some sort of pocket dimension, and she can be seen in a mirror in said tower. She wishes to make mc her disciple, to which he agrees. She then gives him an old spellbook to study from, and teaches him to use more than one "string" of mana. (this is forbidden by law to make wizards less powerful, etc. explained in later books.)
He comes back home, shows off to his master, who immediately panics, and tells him never to use more than one, or he could be killed. Mc doesn't listen, classic. Anyway:Mc has extremely abusive family (excluding the mother, another clichè), mc gets married off to the richest merchants daughter, becomes very powerful, makes friends with the kingdoms prince, war starts, shittō happens, mc becomes the (2nd) most powerful magic user alive, starts building an army of (I really don't remember the word the author used for them) mages (?) for the war effort, etc.
This should be enough to ring a few bells, if anyone's read/listened to it.
If anyone replies with suggestions, know that I'm very grateful. Thank you, and have an awesome day! 😁

For context, I am 16 (17 in a few weeks) so I still rely on my parents a lot. However, my dad has recently informed me that he is going to get a divorce with my mom. I am genuinely happy to hear that the will happen, they were not meant to be and it has caused so much pain to me and my brother to the point where I have attempted once.
Most of my friends have divorced parents and they just alternate houses with their siblings so it's pretty easy for them. I'm not worried about anything like that, I have always planned everything in advance to make sure nothing will be out of place, I made every last detail about my dream job perfect when I was 13 and I've been thinking about my parents being divorced since I was about 9. I am fully prepared to alternate houses and help with anything they need.
My parents rarely spend the together so it's normally me, my brother, and my dad, or me, my brother, and my mom. I always have fun with either group, but for a while I've had trouble with my mom, I know daughters never get along well with their mom when the teenage years roll around (from what I've heard) so I'm not surprised we always act harshly with each other.
My only concern, is how bad it's getting, I have heard people saying "oh my mom comments on what I wear" or "oh my mom hates my boyfriend" but for me it's a little bit different. My mom grew up in a pretty toxic household and she was the punching bag in her family. So, what happened to her obviously affected the way she parents, she comments on my weight, my confidence, my friends, my goals for the future, my anxiety, anything she can find that I will be upset by. A lot of the time it feels like I have become a punching bag for her. For example, she once screamed at me, calling me a bitch in the middle of a busy airport because she was stressed.
I really love my mom but I just don't know what to do, she hurts me so much almost every day and she refuses to pay for a counsellor for me. I'm really considering just living with my dad from now on and talking to her every now and then.
(I was just about to post this, but another example of what she does almost always, is call me manipulative, toxic, she tells me I'm getting mad at her when in reality I'm just going quiet because she called me a bitch or told me to 'shut up with my craziness', the only reason I go quiet is because she has taught me not to open up because any time I do I become a drama queen and make everything about me)
And before you ask, no, she does not treat my brother the same way.

So I'm relatively new to Legends of Runeterra and Path of Champions, but I've really been enjoying it. I got a ?diamond chest with 40 shards for Leblanc in it, rocketing her up to 3 stars. This was great and helped a ton to clear content early on, however I don't even have shards on any other 2 star champs (the 3 or 4 I have), and I have unlocked 16 total champions.
I have been given 40 shard chests for Leblanc TWO more times since she has been a 3 star. Not once have I received a 40 shard chest for another champ before or after 3 starring her. And I have 16 shitty little wild shards to show for this.
Is this a sick joke? I assume it's a 1/38 chance that I get shards for a champ, but EVEN if it prefers owned champs, it should still be 1/16 correct? This RNG feels so ridiculous and bad I feel like I should open a ticket to make sure I'm not bugged somehow.
... at least it's not happening for something like Ornn? Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Overall had fun with the series - I understand some of the criticisms especially with the latter books, but still enjoyed the full read and appreciate the way a lot of things came together. This post is mainly to organize the thoughts I'm left with at the very end of it all, and see if other people agree or have totally different ideas.

TOTAL SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES (THROUGH TO THE END OF 'RISE') BELOW:

The romance:
Certain... questionable aspects of the Raul/Aenea relationship aside, I like how it concluded. We suspend disbelief or give benefit of the doubt to a lot in fiction. So I'm willing to roll with her being a half non-human entity that literally does not perceive spacetime as we do and has since before birth been communicating with godlike intelligences, so it's fine that she comes on to Raul, whatevs.
Instantly after she confessed to having a kid halfway through Rise, I knew what would happen and who was (would be?) the father. Despite the prediction, I don't need my expectations to be subverted, I still narratively enjoyed getting to the end of Rise and reading it all play out. Raul is a dummy for sure, and it was a bit annoying having him get angsty over... himself, but still it was pleasant to know it would be wrapped up nicely.
Time travel is always handwavy nonsense in any fiction, so I'm fine turning off my brain for it. I like to think there's some background Void-related reason, with how the Shrike can navigate time, that Aenea only has exactly 1 year, 11 months, 1 week, 6 hours, to spend on Earth. That's the amount of time that she would age (read: time she as a conscious being has for experiencing existence) between her post-Earth adventures spreading communion, and when she would prepare to meet Raul again on Tien Shan, at the critical period for toppling the Pax before too much genocide and war led to humanity's implosion.
It doesn't need to have a "hard sci-fi" explanation behind it to be profound. What matters is the deeply somber, ruminative state I'm left with when thinking about how each of them has a different final goodbye. It hits hard trying to wrap my brain around them perceiving their relationship in different orders (as paralleled with Kassad and Moneta).
The ninja blender 9000:
What was your impression of the final and "complete" backstory of the Shrike? I felt that in the first two books, Kassad's story seemed a little unimportant/disconnected. He vanquishes the thing in the far future only with the help and combat tech of far future humans - as far as the current story is concerned why do we care?
However, books 3 and 4 give us more to chew on. I don't remember how much is explicitly stated, but in my headcanon at least, his victory is part of taming it - wrestling full control of it away from the more hostile Core elements or the future machine UI. This goes hand in hand with a brief hint from Aenea's father - he states that he plans to leave the Consul and go forward a few hundred years to disrupt the Core and help his daughter. Surely he played a major part in turning the Shrike from a villain into a guardian?
To me this connection of pilgrims fits nicely - Kassad the warrior subdued the Shrike (and was a seed for its creation), while in the time of books 3 and 4, the Keats cybrid was directing it to be an infallible escort to Aenea. Without their roles, then of course with Nemes-level tech the Core would easily stamp out Aenea's quest. This fits with the Shrike being apparently curious about everyone's safe arrival on the uncharted forest planet despite having no reason to be there.
Blue man group:
Admittedly I feel as dumb as Raul for being blind to Bettik's identity until the last few pages. Now it all makes sense. It's pretty great that he was written to be an observer character from the beginning and always in proximity to such pivotal events in history. Plus his reveal at the end gives a morsel of substance to the mostly mythical big kitties and bears of the void. In hindsight there is now more justification to him sticking with Aenea through it all, even during times when Raul was sent off.
Everything else:
I loved the world-building for the most part. It suffered a bit in book 4 when things were mostly established, and more time was spent instead on metaphysics mumbo jumbo. But I'm probably not alone in saying the cruciform was fascinating from the very beginning of Hyperion. It continued to be interesting with Endymion and how it related to the Pax: the ship drive that required resurrection, the way it continued to be a parasite, how it functioned as the most viscerally agonizing shock collar possible on every single Christian, etc.
The fall of the farcasters was neat. It was definitely a good hook to have the ominous message go out at the end of Fall of Hyperion. And then, the use of farcasters for Aenea to escape insurmountable odds was pretty fun too. The River Tethys journey ... loosely makes sense. The uncharted forest planet was needed to hide the ship safely. Perhaps they were then directed to the non-Christian planets to see and understand the horrors of what was going on, and as Raul mentions to learn their "music" for future visits. Plus this twice allowed Raul to get medical attention without getting immediately shut down by Pax.
I suppose there are some loose ends left still with things like the continued presence of the Core and the small fraction of remaining Pax loyalists. We know that this is only one chapter in a war that will continue for eons. If Lourdusamy is still with the Pax and not the new "woke" humanity, is it only for personal greed and power rather than loyalty to the Pax-Core alliance? After all he did seem to take a calculated move against the Core by quickly burning Aenea, preventing them from having Nemes chew her little by little until she couldn't help but freecast, thus he prevented them from gaining information from her ability.
Any elaborations, rebuttals, or totally different points of discussion from y'all?

Just thought about this and signed up to post.
I’m someone who wished to have fun watching a comedy series and caught offguard by the feelings and want to protect my heart a little bit. So this will be a pretty big stretch.
In my headcanon we have: -Some parts of the plot are (2030?) Ted’s fantasy sequence. -But most events in the series happened. -Ted married Tracy and the marriage is great. -Robin and Barney…maybe they are back together, maybe not.
Remember that Marshall fantasised about Lily dying from some unknown illness, so that he might make a move on the delivery girl (after an appropriate number of years)?
People already picked up that this is related to the original ending, but what if it influenced in universe Ted too?
Maybe Ted picked up Marshall’s fantasy habit, and had this fantasy scenario of Tracy dying, then he would ask Robin out after an appropriate number of years (to be even more “appropriate”, he asked for the children’s explicit permission by telling them a story ).
The “how I met your motheaunt Robin story” is probably something Ted rehearsed in his mind a few times for this elaborate fantasy sequence, it had the foreshadows of Tracy’s death because he “planned” to tell the story that way.
Then maybe, one day Tracy was away, maybe they had a difficult moment, then Ted decided to act out his fantasy scenario of telling the story to the kids.
And as Ted was telling the story, he again lived through falling in love with Tracy, and we had the alternative ending.
TLDR: The original ending a fantasy like Marshall’s of Lily dying. Ted’s story had foreshadows of Tracy dying because “telling this story” is part of that fantasy.

Tateo Sone runs a pharmacy in Odawara and leads an ordinary but happy life with his beautiful wife and daughter-in-law. One day, however, when his wife tells him she is pregnant, he is shocked. It's because he has a secret: he has never had a functioning lower half of his body. His wife's child is not his own...Tateo despairs at the thought. At that time, a man named Sumaoka happens to give him a ... Read Jumbo Max - Chapter 11 - MangaPuma. Read more at https://mangapuma.com/jumbo-max/chapter-11

I tried posting in relationship advice but it said my account was too new so this is why I’m here, and I’m honestly desperate for third party advice from anyone who isn’t emotionally attached to my marriage or me. I’ll try to not make this lengthy. My husband and I decided to live separately over a month ago to work on ourselves for our marriage, with the goal being that in doing so we can come back together (at least that’s what was said at the time). I’ve been living at my moms with my 2 year old daughter, and am currently pregnant due next month. We’ve had a very traumatic year & a half, which has led what was once we would both call a beautiful marriage with everything you could hope for to the point we’re at now. We’ve both made a lot of mistakes, and now what once was love has turned to resentment, losing trust, bad communication, anything that makes a healthy relationship and here we are now, living apart. In this last month I’ve been able to work on my mental well-being, and can say I’ve been able to think more clearly/rationally and feel much less depressed & anxious. With that being said, I don’t feel like my husband and I have put in the steps needed to start rebuilding our relationship. So tonight I told him what I need that I feel like would help us start moving in the right direction. First, I said I want us to start communicating with each other more often and more openly to start fixing our issues and help rebuild emotional intimacy. Second, I suggested we take the time once a month to have time with ourselves, even going on a walk for an hour just us, to also help build our relationship back. We’ve already had nights together as a family, and said if we start seeing improvement to continue increasing that. This is what I said I needed from him for us to start taking steps to rebuild our relationship if that’s what we truly want. His response was that he doesn’t believe I’m thinking more clearly after a month of time apart and that he doesn’t think I’m being sincere. He also said he thinks we need less communication about our issues or anything that deep because we still aren’t communicating correctly. Then that we need to just time with the kids, when I brought up having alone time once a month. He said he wants to be in a relationship with me, but doesn’t know if we’re right for each other anymore and only time can reach him to that decision. I made it clear that we won’t know unless we take the steps to figure that out to come to a conclusion, and that if we don’t take these steps right now then we truly need to start the conversation of what we want for our lives apart because this is not something that can wait for me. Especially with the new baby on the way next month, and I’m already feeling like a single mother. I just need to know now if this is what he wants because if not I need to start planning for the alternate future. Am I going about this the right way? If not, any advice on how I should? Sorry for the length, but I’m so lost at this point. I’m just trying to plan the future for my children and I.

My father was always emotionally abusive to me and unable to give me any affection or positive comments.
My mother passed away a couple months ago and since her passing I have ‘woken up’ to the abuse of my father. For the first time in my life I finally opened up about my father during grief counselling. It was very healing to have someone listen to what I’ve been through.
My father always took out his anger on me, made me feel very unsafe and I was always walking around on eggshells. We never had a relationship even though I wanted one.
He would always scream, yell, break things and threaten to hit me. He would often threaten me by holding up bottles and threatening to punch me. He constantly would try to humiliate me, swear at me and the list goes on and on. I was his scapegoat and he never said anything positive about me.
He has said things like “you’re worthless”, “I don’t care about you” “you deserve to be punched in the face” over and over again.
There was a period of time when I couldn’t talk to him because he would either scream “fuck off” or “go away”.
Every time we were in a room or car together, he would always start a fight with me out of nowhere. My mother’s solution was to ignore him and that’s what I did for many years. Many times my mother would come between us because he would chase me down and threaten to beat me up.
I knew this was not normal behaviour but was very confused why it was happening to me. Family friends would take his side and gaslight me to believe that I was too sensitive. In therapy, I learned that I was making excuses for him.
When my mother passed away, he took out his anger on me. He broke a coffee machine, would scream and have rage attacks. I felt scared that something would happen to me. I isolated myself in a cabin.
One of the most unforgivable things he did was we got into an argument when I was 21 (can’t remember about what) but he chased me outside and started beating/punching me over and over again to my head. I can’t remember where my mother was. I lost all respect for him and can never forgive him for this. I don’t believe human beings should ever hurt/hit other human beings. A man hitting a woman fucked me up psychologically. I was his daughter. I got my first panic attack after he broke something.
He always loved to bring me down it seems like. He would always try to convince me that nobody likes me and that I would be alone forever.
He also had a major problem with alcohol and was always drinking. He also loved throwing out items me and my mom owned no matter how many times we told him not to touch our things.
I grew up with anxiety/depression and suffered from a lot of dissociation. I always assumed this was from past traumas but never because of my father. I also grew up with a lot of low self-esteem.
I’ve developed PTSD as well. I’m finally going to therapy to help me heal.
It took me 31 years to get out of the denial. Now his manipulation and abusive tactics don’t work on me anymore.
What’s interesting is my past therapist would always bring up my father and I would shut down. I rather talk about other traumas. I am not sure why it’s so hard to talk about.
How do you accept having a narcissistic father? It’s still hard to accept that I had an emotionally abusive father and even harder to accept he was an alcoholic.
What helps you cope?

So I’m 24 M my girlfriend is 22. I live with her and her family.. oldest sister is 25 (same dad) younger brother is 19 (different dad) and they have a 3 year old brother (different dad as well) The mom is 47.. long story short the 3 year olds dad left them and he was the financial support for all of them (about a year ago). I happened to be moving out of my roommates house when this happened and I ended up renting a house with all of them to make it easier on them and for me to Not have to move out alone and pay more somewhere else… (we all have separate rooms)… anyway, the mom doesn’t work, the 3 year olds dad doesn’t give child support, so she doesn’t pay any bills… she started on and off dating a guy she met online (less than 6 months ago) her son and daughters don’t seem to like him since they have sort of a toxic relationship and what not (I don’t like him either), the mom brings this guy to the house and gets angry that her kids don’t like him, He started spending the night and I asked my girlfriend if she was okay with it because I know they don’t really like him and the mom isn’t paying any bills.. it’s a weird situation because we all pay equal parts on rent and bills, except the mom so her kids basically support her now (going on a year and a half)…. So I asked my girlfriend if she was okay with it because I found it disrespectful for her to have the guy sleep over and my girlfriend got Defensive (she does this a lot when it comes to her mom) and said that she finds it disrespectful from the guy to stay over but she doesn’t seem to be putting any blame on the mom. I personally find it disrespectful towards her kids that are now supporting her, for her to bring a guy to sleep over in her room with the 3 year old and I feel that the kids want to turn a blind eye and not accept that the mom is wrong because they don’t like this guy and she’s not paying any bills.
Am I exaggerating or in the wrong for trying to make my girlfriend realize that they need to put their foot down since they are the ones paying bills? Including myself
Or is it okay for the mom to do this since she’s still their mom?

So I’m 24 M my girlfriend is 22. I live with her and her family.. oldest sister is 25 (same dad) younger brother is 19 (different dad) and they have a 3 year old brother (different dad as well) The mom is 47.. long story short the 3 year olds dad left them and he was the financial support for all of them (about a year ago). I happened to be moving out of my roommates house when this happened and I ended up renting a house with all of them to make it easier on them and for me to Not have to move out alone and pay more somewhere else… (we all have separate rooms)… anyway, the mom doesn’t work, the 3 year olds dad doesn’t give child support, so she doesn’t pay any bills… she started on and off dating a guy she met online (less than 6 months ago) her son and daughters don’t seem to like him since they have sort of a toxic relationship and what not (I don’t like him either), the mom brings this guy to the house and gets angry that her kids don’t like him, He started spending the night and I asked my girlfriend if she was okay with it because I know they don’t really like him and the mom isn’t paying any bills.. it’s a weird situation because we all pay equal parts on rent and bills, except the mom so her kids basically support her now (going on a year and a half)…. So I asked my girlfriend if she was okay with it because I found it disrespectful for her to have the guy sleep over and my girlfriend got Defensive (she does this a lot when it comes to her mom) and said that she finds it disrespectful from the guy to stay over but she doesn’t seem to be putting any blame on the mom. I personally find it disrespectful towards her kids that are now supporting her, for her to bring a guy to sleep over in her room with the 3 year old and I feel that the kids want to turn a blind eye and not accept that the mom is wrong because they don’t like this guy and she’s not paying any bills.
Am I exaggerating or in the wrong for trying to make my girlfriend realize that they need to put their foot down since they are the ones paying bills? Including myself
Or is it okay for the mom to do this since she’s still their mom?

So I’m 24 M my girlfriend is 22. I live with her and her family.. oldest sister is 25 (same dad) younger brother is 19 (different dad) and they have a 3 year old brother (different dad as well) The mom is 47.. long story short the 3 year olds dad left them and he was the financial support for all of them (about a year ago). I happened to be moving out of my roommates house when this happened and I ended up renting a house with all of them to make it easier on them and for me to Not have to move out alone and pay more somewhere else… (we all have separate rooms)… anyway, the mom doesn’t work, the 3 year olds dad doesn’t give child support, so she doesn’t pay any bills… she started on and off dating a guy she met online (less than 6 months ago) her son and daughters don’t seem to like him since they have sort of a toxic relationship and what not (I don’t like him either), the mom brings this guy to the house and gets angry that her kids don’t like him, He started spending the night and I asked my girlfriend if she was okay with it because I know they don’t really like him and the mom isn’t paying any bills.. it’s a weird situation because we all pay equal parts on rent and bills, except the mom so her kids basically support her now (going on a year and a half)…. So I asked my girlfriend if she was okay with it because I found it disrespectful for her to have the guy sleep over and my girlfriend got Defensive (she does this a lot when it comes to her mom) and said that she finds it disrespectful from the guy to stay over but she doesn’t seem to be putting any blame on the mom. I personally find it disrespectful towards her kids that are now supporting her, for her to bring a guy to sleep over in her room with the 3 year old and I feel that the kids want to turn a blind eye and not accept that the mom is wrong because they don’t like this guy and she’s not paying any bills.
Am I exaggerating or in the wrong for trying to make my girlfriend realize that they need to put their foot down since they are the ones paying bills? Including myself
Or is it okay for the mom to do this since she’s still their mom?

Hi! I've been working in this family restaurant for years. I am not a part of the family directly but have become friends over working many years with the two owners and have a lot to say about them. I worked my way for 7 years from dishwashing to bussing to serving and I'm proud of my achievement. My two bosses is a giant, big built gentleman,(6 foot 4 at east 230 lbs) and a short pretty woman, both of whom have no prior management experience, or any training (at least would be suggested to me by their actions and mannerisms) in how to operate with employees.
The Male Owner exerts unbelievable amounts of ferocity and aggression when talking to his employees. he claims he's managing "18" (really 12 per shift, and 6 of which are managed by head cook in the back, so really only 3 because he doesn't tell servers what to do) people per shift and it is stressful and that's the reason for his aggression, and he states "I'm only human" as some sort of excuse for being rude. His sisters work as waitresses, and he lets them have it when they make mistakes. "Are you kidding me??? you can't fucking count? I'm losing money because you can't fucking count????!! I lost money there are you stupid?" he says the other night to his youngest sister who mistakenly didn't charge for an extra dish (13.95$). This happens quite often at little mistakes, he openly berates the servers and bussing staff to the point that reviews on the restaurant started to appear not only because of mistakes, but just in general working. one reads as such:
" I recently had a disappointing experience at a local restaurant. Although the food was decent and our server was excellent, we were extremely disheartened by the behavior of one of the owners, a tall, older man who made disrespectful comments to our server as we were packing up our food. His wife, another owner, also spoke poorly of our daughter, who used to be friends with her own daughter. It was evident that these owners have some serious issues. While we love to support small, local businesses, we cannot recommend this particular establishment due to the disrespectful behavior of the owners. " (I reworded this with ChatGPT so it can't be traceable) on this post the owner GAVE CONDESCENDING REMARKS AND OBVIOUS SARCASM to the woman posting.
There is a remarkable amount of reviews to this length on the website. Today they tried charging me 27$ for missed food on a tag that I had served that evening, which is illegal in the state of California, which I had brought up and challenged them on because I find the notion RIDICULOUS. I have never challenged their authority one time in the restaurant and have taken everything with grace even when I can see they are completely wrong. Boss proceeded to say "okay, sure you want to go the legal route *slams papers onto a table gets up and darts over to lady boss*" says to lady boss "write him up warning number one, you get three, three and you're gone. You want it like this go ahead" and he storms into his back office where he sits regularly and drinks nightly.
We then talked after and I stated "I can work the next two weeks so lady boss can take her vacation I am working for her, or I can go now" to which he kicked a chair hardly and said "sit down" and we had a conversation. The conversation basically went, "I'm not going to fire you, I care about you, I'm human, I don't want your money, I don't owe anyone anything, we've been kind to you, if you want to leave its up to you." He really just didn't want his authority challenged, and when I said I'm not going to fucking pay for a mistake, it is not on me legally, I have protections from this. The conversation basically says to me that the ball is in my court. I can stay or leave, They need me to stay because I am a valuable asset, but I am not wanting this treatment. It has happened and continued for years. I feel like I am being manipulated, I have a strong family bond and emotions with these people, that is constantly tested by large boss's angry nature, and woman bosses cattiness. Normally we would talk it out but I am tired of the back and fourth. It feels like things are great one second and ferocious the next, almost like an abusive relationship. It is also annoying of their lack of accepting any wrong-doing.
With context above, would you leave my serving job for a new one, or would you work it through. I'm unsure what to do as I have so much personal investment into clientele (I am very beloved in the restaurant and have 13 good reviews with my name attached) and the innerworkings of the restaurant. I'm certain I could make the same at other restaurants in my area, but I'm not sure if the grass is always greener... maybe someone who has served a long time in a multitude of restaurants can give me an opinion as I have only ever worked in this one, I'm unsure how common this scheme is among bosses, or managers, or whatever other places have as superiors.

My daughter is a few months past her 2nd birthday and lately she's been having a hard time coping with being told something she doesn't want to do, or being told no, etc. When it was just me and her (I'm a sahm), it was easier because I would just sit next to her with a neutral face and let her ride it out. Knowing I won't budge, she'll calm down soon enough (~5 min?) and move on. Now with a newborn in the picture, dad on parental leave and grandma staying with us to help with the baby, she now has 2 more adults she can try her limits on. Now her tantrums have gotten longer, and she seems to have a harder time winding down. It almost seems like her own crying is making her even more upset and it gets worse.
I feel like this is a pretty normal behavior for a 2yo and was planning on doing the same thing to let her calm down on her own unless she asks for support (I'd offer a hug when she seems a little calmer). Once she is calm, I'll talk with her about her feelings, like how it could be upsetting to have screen taken away (yes we do screen time), for example, it can be difficult to regulate, and I would tell her 'good job' for being able to calm herself down. But my mom thinks it might be helpful to "nudge her in the right direction", like tell her it's not time to keep crying, or she should stop crying, because she is not at an age where she can regulate her own feelings. While I agree with the age thing, I feel like telling her to stop crying might come off as invalidating her emotions.
Do you think I should continue to do what I've been doing, or is there something I should be doing differently? Obviously, I don't enjoy watching my daughter having such a hard time, so anything I can do to help her get through it more quickly or cope with things better, I'm all ears.
Thanks in advance!

Muslims think they’re following Islam when the only thing they do is pray (not knowing what they’re saying), fast (no idea why), perform Hajj (like its some sort of ritual bc lets face it, it has turned into one), sacrifice animals on Eid (without even trying to study why), read the Quran (without knowing what it means without even trying to research the language).
It is exactly because of this that Islam is dying.
First thing’s first.
It is literally written in the Quran:

1. The story of Adam is a metaphor IT DIDNT ACTUALLY HAPPEN. its a metaphor for mankind
   
2. The story of Lut? THEY WERE NOT GAY. THEY NEGLECTED AND OPPRESSED THEIR WOMEN, much like in south asian countries. Society can properly function if both sexes equally contribute to it. If you lock up women at home what do you think is going to happen?! Quran does not say anything about homosexuality, if it did why would it only be mentioned in one chapter. Which again IT ISN’T.
   
3. Mary wasn’t a virgin SHE HAD A HUSBAND
   
4. Salah does NOT mean prayer. IT MEANS ESTABLISHING GOD’S SYSTEM.
   
5. ALCOHOL IS NOT HARAM. it is simply recommended that you don’t indulge in intoxication when establishing god’s system (salah). Cuz dude, it really is bad for you.
   
6. THERE IS A LITERAL LIST IN THE QURAN OF WHAT IS HARAM and alcohol is not part of it. Neither is silk, or showing your head or whatever you’ve been taught.
   
7. HEAVEN AND HELL ARE NOT PLACES they are states of mind.
   
8. Angels are not CREATURES WITH WINGS. They are forces of nature; gravity etc.
   
9. The devil does NOT HAVE HORNS. That is your baser human desire; your id. ITS A PART OF HUMANS.
   
10. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO MAKE WILLS but in case you die intestate only in that case your daughter will get half of your son’s because she gets half of her husband.
    
11. YOU CAN BE KILLED FOR SIMPLY HARASSING A FEMALE
    
12. SOLOMON DID NOT COMMAND JINNS FFS. He had a very efficient battalion.
    
13. MEN ARE NOT ALLOWED FOUR WIVES
    
14. THERE IS NO CONCEPT OF MUFTI’S AND/OR ISLAMIC TEACHERS. The only teacher you’re supposed to follow is the Prophet. And since people get the hadith wrong you’re supposed to study it yourself figure out which ones are right ON YOUR OWN. You can’t believe everything idk Bukhari says.
    
15. THERE IS NO CONCEPT OF HIJAB WOMEN CAN WEAR WHATEVER THEY WANT.
    
16. you CAN date, you just cant fuck.
    

It's been about 9 years since I've heard this story and I am in not a very skilled story writer so bear with me. I also may not get all of the details exactly right.
I honestly don't even know if this story actually existed and was just made up by the kids I went to school with, but a lot of my classmates used to recite this story an awful lot so I figure it may have come from the internet. All I know is that it used to creep me out. Keep in mind there were a few alternate versions of this story but I'm going to stick to the one I heard the most.
So anyway, it went something along the lines of this:
There is this family of three, a mother, father and daughter. The daughters name was Sally and I don't think the parents were named originally but for the sake of this retelling I will call them Mary and John. I cannot for the life of me remember accurately the reason why, but there comes a point where Mary and John decide to get rid of their daughter. I may be wrong, but I believe it could have been because of her bad behavioral issues and the fact that she was just a really horrible kid. So anyway, by get rid of I mean they literally take sally to a random location in the middle of nowhere and just leave her there. Again, I'm a little foggy on the details but I'm pretty sure the parents decide to murder her and dump the body somewhere that it won't be found. a bit extreme but to each their own I suppose. So once the body is delt with John and Mary return home and go to bed.
fast forward about a couple of weeks and the parents are in bed trying to sleep when John is awoken by the faint sound of a voice. Concerned and scared, he gets up to go and check it out. He searches the house but finds nothing and assumes it was just a dream. The following night the same thing occurs but this time the voice is heard by both parents. John explains his experience from the night prior and both him and his wife become increasingly worried that someone may be in their house. Both sit quietly for a moment until they hear the voice again. They begin to realize that the voice is repeating itself every few seconds, though they can't seem to make out what it is saying as it is too quiet. Suddenly the voice stops. John hesitantly scouts the house once again but finds nothing.
The next night Mary is unable to sleep due to her paranoia about what had happened previously. In an attempt to ease her mind, she checks that all the doors and windows in the house are locked. After getting back into bed and hoping to fall asleep she suddenly hears the voice again. terrified, she quickly wakes her husband. Like before, the voice seems to repeat itself with an interval of a few seconds, though this time it's different. This time the voice has become slightly louder and clearer. John and Mary are petrified when they recognize the voice as none other than Sally's. They sit in fear as Sally's voice softly and repeatedly chants the words "Sally is 70 miles away". After speaking these lines for several minutes, the voice stops once again. John and Mary consider calling the police but ultimately come to the conclusion that this would be a risk as it could get them caught.
From that night onward John and Mary would try their best to ignore the horrifying voice of what seemed to be their own daughter chanting each night. Since the police were not an option, there was really nothing they could do but hope that it was some kind of prank or something. They really didn't know what to believe, there was no way that this could be possible, hearing their own deceased daughter's voice. They had noticed that a family with seemingly troublesome children had moved in next door not long after Sally's death. Mary had witnessed these kids messing around with other people's property before, like damaging mailbox's and such. With this in mind Mary and John hoped that they were just being messed with; however, as time went by and the chanting continued, things only got more unsettling. Each night the voice would get louder and seem closer and would say the same thing but with one small difference every time; it would claim to be closer each night. When the voice first became audible to John and Mary it spoke the words "Sally is 70 miles away" and the night after that "Sally is 60 miles away", and then 50, 40, 30 and so on. By this point both parents would refuse to sleep, staying up all night scared and disturbed as to what they were hearing until one night, it stopped.
Finally, after a week of listening in horror and being deprived of sleep, Mary and John were able to get some sleep. Things returned to normal and though their experience had left them terrified, the couple tried their best to forget both what had happened and what they had done to their daughter. They had moved on and were living their lives normally.
This was until one night, after several weeks, they heard the voice again. This time it was the loudest and closest it had ever been. John and Mary were in complete disbelief as to what they were hearing. Mary on the verge of tears, yelling out for the voice to stop while John sat silent, too scared to talk. Again, the voice would say it's chant but this time it was different, this time it began with "Sally is at your front door". A few moments later the voice would speak again and say, "Sally is in the kitchen". By this time John and Mary were the most scared they had ever been in their lives, with the covers pulled up to their mouths they sat unable to move looking straight ahead waiting and hoping it would go away. After almost a minute of waiting, the voice spoke again, "Sally is at your bedroom door".
A few weeks later the parents were found dead in their bed covered in blood.
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well, that was longer than I thought it was going to be. As I said at the beginning there were a few different versions of this story going around and this one might be pretty modified from the original, but this is the one I was told. Whether this is the actual story or not, it followed the basic premise of this.

Name: Aleena Angelos
Age: 16
Appearance: Long black hair, dark green eyes, lithe figure, tanned skin.
Clothing: Tight black jeans, purple tank top, black leather jacket, black heeled boots, dragon necklace around her neck.
Personality: Sweet, friendly, tactical, intelligent, caring, girly, hyper at times, and always willing to do the right thing.
Quirk: Shining Light. Aleena has the ability to absorb any form of light and store it in her body which she can then release whenever she chooses. She can release the light in blasts of energy, create shining wings from her back, release explosive bursts, summon barriers of light, and even transform her body into a solid light entity that increases her over abilities.
Quirk Drawbacks: Alena's Quirk is all about his much light she absorbs. Typically she does this by absorbing sunlight but if she can't get access to sunlight, she uses alternate sources such as lamps and street lights. Moonlight helps but it isn't as effective which makes her much less effective at night. And when she transforms into her light entity form, she can only stay like that for a few moments before it completely drains her stamina and leaves her weakened.
Quirk Supermoves:
Bright Bullet: A condensed burst of light energy Aleena fires from her hand.
Angel Ray: Aleena summons a set of vibrant shining wings that she can use to fly but can also heal her allies and civilians.
Astraea Shelter: Summons a barrier of light energy to keep herself and those around her safe.
Shining Soul: Aleena summons all the light energy in her body and transforms into a solid light being. This form offers her enhanced speed, strength, agility, and the ability to fly.
Hero Name: The Starlight Hero: Astraea
Hero Costume: Purple and blue bodysuit with a star pattern running along the edges of it. A silver belt with a star-shaped buckle, black boots with blue lining, and blue gloves on her hands. A matching protective chest guard is over her chest with a star symbol on the front in silver, and hanging from her shoulders is a short blue and silver cape. Over her eyes is an eyemask with retractable lenses over her eyes to protect her in case her Quirk gets too bright. On her thighs is a set of escrima sticks that she can channel her Quirk into and her belt carries small rounds that can act as flashbangs.
Background: Aleena is Italian, Pakistani, and Greek. Her father was a missionary in Pakistan where he met Aleena's mother and the two instantly fell in love. Her father did a lot of charity work around the world and brought peace to so many families while her mother was a loyal wife that stood by her husband's side and supported him in whatever way she could. After many years of traveling around the world for so many years, the couple settled down in Japan where Aleena was born. Aleena's mother was an incredibly beautiful woman that you didn't always see in Japan which made it easy for her to become a model. As she quickly rose in popularity, Aleena's mother wanted her daughter to be a part of it and even follow in her footsteps but once the young girl saw her first hero in action, she was hooked.
Amazed that so many female heroes could not only use their skills to help people but also their beauty, Aleena thought that she finally found a way to use the looks her mother blessed her with to do some good in Japan just like her father. Now, this is her time to show the world what she can do with her shining light.

This question is complex. Because! I’m turning 26 in June. I had my first daughter in July 2016. Shes turning 7. My second beauty is 2 and she was born 01/21, inauguration day lol. Anyways, when my first is 14, I will be 33, thats pretty young still I know, But I want future advise, how do you handle these transitions? Do you feel the same as 25 or do you think 33 I will handle things differently. Its a new generation so I don’t know expect anything particular but I just want you’re experiences.

So, I have an 11 year old rescue kitty. She found us when she was about three months old (friends had just purchased kittens at three months old kittens and she was developmentally and size-wise the same). Something had broken her nose and left scars when it healed, and chomped her tail (an inch ended up falling off when she was about five months old but healed beautifully). She has been our darling girl and sweet love for the last 11 years. Her vet of five years diagnosed her with fear based anxiety and aggression, and we give her gabapentin every day which allows her to relax and be comfortable.
It took her 10 years to let my parents be in the same room without running away, although when she broke the ice, she broke it. She ate treats out of my dad’s hand and scent marked my mom like the sweetie she is. When I was pregnant with our daughter she snuggled on my bump, and now she acts like she has silk mittens on and is extraordinarily sweet to our 16 month old. (To clarify, we know to still be cautious with her and our LO, we very tragically have to re-home our 6.5 yo neurotic and also medicated pup to a loving home because she displayed active aggression to our LO this week, and my husband and I both work in fields where we have seen the damage animal attacks can have on children).
So, her vet made it known to us that after reaching 10, kitty needs annual blood work for her prescription. Okay, fine. Super expensive, but whatever kitty needs. However, they had us give her 3x her dose of meds so they could do the blood draw. It didn’t work. She screamed from the back room for well over an hour before they told my husband she needed to be anesthetized. Our kitty weighs only 8 Lbs (just under), her growth was stunted as a little one and she remained small. As always, her blood work was perfect… however… they gave her too much ketamine for one thing. It took her about 12 hours to rest with her mouth closed after arriving home. She couldn’t blink correctly. And, worst of all, she urinated and defecated on herself when they anesthetized her, and they did the freaking blood draws on the same freaking side and hip where she sat in her mess.
When my husband picked her up from the vet 2.5 hours later they simply mentioned that she had peed while with them. I smelled/saw/felt her fur the second she got home, but it was too painful to clean for over 24 hours. She was depressed and despondent at her smell. We are moving for my husbands work for a one-year timespan and need them to write her note for her future vet in about 1.5 months time from now so that she does not require further blood work and trauma in her new city to get her medication, but I am freaking PO’d and want to report them the second I can. I have no reason to believe they didn’t abuse he further and handle her roughly. know she gave them a very hard time and can lash out, but THEY diagnosed her with fear based aggression and violence, they should KNOW this.
Who leaves an animal, a fastidious cat no less, in their own filth for hours and then sends them home that way. Wth. We bathed her tonight and expected the worst, but she responded with being wildly uncomfortable and trying to get out of the tub of course, but mostly love and affection as we cooed at her and cleaned her. She knew we were taking care of her. We cleaned all her pillows and dens, and her collar, but omg the color of the water that came out of her fur… no. I don’t know how to move forward but I cannot in good conscience just leave this be. They abused my cat. What do we do? I apologize for any formatting or grammar errors, this is a very stressful time and I’m on my phone typing this. Also, her spunk is now rapidly returning, because she’s an absolute champ of a survivor.
If this is the wrong thread to post this, please direct me in the right way. Kitty says thank you, and so do I!! Long live the catnip farmers!!