Experiences that have made me question my own judgment and ability to set good boundaries. My friends and therapist all pointed out the red flags, but I was apparently blind to them. Basically, my walls have gone up. But I love being in a relationship and I want to be in one again. What things should I be mindful of as I venture back into that world? What should I be asking myself as I begin to form new attachments, especially after showing such bad judgment in the recent past? A shitty person is often the common denominator in a string of shitty relationships, but sometimes shitty relationships happen to good people—and sometimes they happen with good people, i. There are also shitty patterns. And the single most important change you can make—the thing you can do differently as you head back into the dating world—seems obvious to me, my readers, your friends, and your therapist: listen to your friends and your therapist! He prefers sex at night, but I am generally exhausted and disinterested by that point. However, in the mornings I am often horny. Problem is my husband has a medical condition that makes morning sex uncomfortable for him. Do you have any suggestions for how I can teach myself to be horny at the end of the day?
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Over the years I have participated in a few threesomes with a friend. We're not really attracted to each other, so we have mostly focused on our guest stars. Here's the dispute: I say we've had sex and I am justified in adding him to my Body Count; he says just being naked in the same room doesn't count. What do you think? Threesomes are sex, MATH, and if you and your friend have had threesomes together, then you and your friend have had sex with each other. We are monogamous but I have a hard time being faithful. But sometimes I feel this hunger inside of me. I desire other men. I cheated on my boyfriend once when we were on holiday together. I did it in a clumsy, selfish, and inconsiderate way, and my boyfriend saw me.I felt bad about it and apologized. I want our relationship to work because I love him, and we are such a good team. Please give me some advice on how to control myself, because right now I feel it is almost inevitable that I am going to cheat again and wind up losing the man I love over nothing. If your boyfriend can forgive you and you can learn to lust after other men without touching them, INLOVE, you can make this monogamy thing work. Be monogamous, yes, but go ahead and flirt with other guys, check hot guys out together, watch and share porn that turns you both on, and then plow all that sexual energy back into your relationship and into each other. You can still love each other, but as exes and friends, not boyfriends. Can you recommend a good lube, Dan? Thank you in advance. Dan offers advice to a woman who always ends up alone due to her discerning tastes in men. A woman asks Dan for advice on encouraging her husband to have an anonymous encounter with another woman. Dan offers advice to a woman who's furious at what her lover was really up to in the bedroom. A guy in his mid 50s has been married for 30 years, but he began having dalliances because his sex live at home was so lacklustre. A professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine says that almost all of the cases this year have been among men who have sex with men. It must be nice to just sign-up for that I wish I didn't try. I have the slightest bit You were warm Living Topics.
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They are leading with their best. And then eventually you're farting in front of each other. Eventually you get to see the person who is behind that facade of their best. And they get to see the person behind your facade. You know, your lie self. And what's beautiful about a long-term relationship, and what can be transformative about it, is I pretend every day that my boyfriend is the lie that I met when I first met him. And he does the same favor to me. And we then are obligated to live up to the lies we told each other about who we are. We are then forced to be better people than we actually are, because it's expected of us by each other. And that's the only way you become 'the one. Their 'one. This may come off a lot more grating than it actually is, but Savage's delivery makes a big difference. Here's a video of the full response:.Sixty-one years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to make it into space and probably the first to experience what scientists now call the "overview effect. In a compelling interview with Big Think , astronaut, author and humanitarian Ron Garan explains how if more of us developed this planetary perspective we could fix much of what ails humanity and the planet. Garan has spent days in space and traveled more than 71 million miles in 2, orbits. From high above, he realized that the planet is a lot more fragile than he thought. And I saw the unbelievable thinness of our planet's atmosphere. But since our human-made systems treat everything, including the very life-support systems of our planet, as the wholly owned subsidiary of the global economy, it's obvious from the vantage point of space that we're living a lie. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna … things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. However dire the situation looks from the surface of Earth, the astronaut has hope that we can collectively evolve in consciousness and wake up and embrace a larger reality. That's our true calling. Peak adulthood is being envious of rich people's closets. There's usually some sort of full length couch in them or a luxurious chaise lounge, a wall of shoes and some sort of automated rack that spins to help you pick out a tie. They are amazing and the non-rich people typically have some wire racks in a small walk-in with no where to put shoes, bags or anything else that doesn't hang. But people have been finding a way to revamp their normal closets to look like they were custom built and it's for a price tag that will make your budget happy. The Target bookshelf hack has been going viral on TikTok for several months as new people discover the trend and post their own before and after videos. Yes, people are using bookshelves to make custom closets and the results are beyond what the average person expects from a DIY project. The best thing about this trend is that just about anyone with walk-in closet space can do it. You don't have to be a homeowner or even live in a house to have a custom closet because the units are just bookshelves that can be easily moved. In one video, the couple had wire racks that were installed when they built their home. The racks seemed to be unable to hold their clothes as they would come crashing down unexpectedly.
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On video shows a young single mom redoing the closet in her apartment to make it more functional. Each video uploaded shows a new configuration. Who knew you could do so much with some bookshelves from Target. Following the hashtag bookshelfcloset on TikTok will have you feeling like you could host your own HGTV renovation series. Remind yourself, they're just bookshelves. You're not really Joana Gaines. Tik tok made me do it! Ran to target after seeing honestlydejaa closet video. Thanks for the inspo! One year later, one thousand trucks poured into the national park, offloading over 12, metric tons of sticky, mealy, orange compost onto the worn-out plot. The site was left untouched and largely unexamined for over a decade. A sign was placed to ensure future researchers could locate and study it. We should have been able to see it," Treuer says. After wandering around for half an hour with no luck, he consulted Janzen, who gave him more detailed instructions on how to find the plot. When he returned a week later and confirmed he was in the right place, Treuer was floored. Compared to the adjacent barren former pastureland, the site of the food waste deposit was "like night and day. Photo by Leland Werden. They look like completely different ecosystems," he explains. The results, published in the journal "Restoration Ecology ," highlight just how completely the discarded fruit parts assisted the area's turnaround.
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The ecologists measured various qualities of the site against an area of former pastureland immediately across the access road used to dump the orange peels two decades prior. Compared to the adjacent plot, which was dominated by a single species of tree, the site of the orange peel deposit featured two dozen species of vegetation, most thriving. Photo by Tim Treuer. In addition to greater biodiversity, richer soil, and a better-developed canopy, researchers discovered a tayra a dog-sized weasel and a giant fig tree three feet in diameter, on the plot. In a study published in Nature, researchers found that such forests absorb and store atmospheric carbon at roughly 11 times the rate of old-growth forests. In many parts of the world, rates of deforestation are increasing dramatically , sapping local soil of much-needed nutrients and, with them, the ability of ecosystems to restore themselves. Meanwhile, much of the world is awash in nutrient-rich food waste. In the United States, up to half of all produce in the United States is discarded. Most currently ends up in landfills. The next step, he believes, is to examine whether other ecosystems — dry forests, cloud forests, tropical savannas — react the same way to similar deposits. Since his first scouting mission in , Treuer had visited the plot more than 15 times.
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Choi had visited more than Neither had spotted the original sign. In , when Treuer, with the help of the paper's senior author, David Wilcove, and Princeton Professor Rob Pringle, finally found it under a thicket of vines, the scope of the area's transformation became truly clear. At the ripe old age of fifteen, Auldin Maxwell is already breaking world records and inspiring Hallmark movies. Maxwell landed his first spot in the Guinness World Records in November , when he successfully balanced Jenga blocks all on top of one vertical facing Jenga block. Only four months later, he broke his own record by stacking 1, Jenga blocks onto one vertical block, more than doubling the original amount. And now, 15, Maxwell has re-broken both of his previous records—with a tower of Jenga GIANT blocks, and a staggering pile of 1, regular Jenga blocks. He even watched videos of different Jenga block records, and when he realized he had enough pieces to attempt breaking the most Jenga blocks on a vertical Jenga block, he became determined to do so. Though it involved a lot of trial and error, eventually Maxwell had a system in place—starting each attempt with another enjoyable activity like riding his unicycle or playing basketball, listening to music while working and taking a half hour break when he felt the structure might collapse to allow for a fresh perspective. The story centers around a neurodivergent boy named Charlie who, like Maxwell, is set on earning a title for Guinness World Records by stacking 1, Jenga blocks on top of one single vertical Jenga block. Charlie gets the opportunity to fulfill this dream on Christmas Eve, which becomes a community event that raises money for children with autism. You can watch Maxwell in action below, courtesy of Guinness World Records. But then again anxiety is all part of what makes Jenga fun. By now everyone's familiar with the term quiet quitting. Doing the bare minimum of your job requirements to not get fired but don't really go above an beyond to secure promotions or pay increases.The term has been applied to areas outside of the workplace as well, specifically dating relationships but in a recent Newsweek article, it's expanded to marriage. Except, Newsweek's article and accompanying video are implying that the quiet quitting of a marriage is more prevalent for the woman in marriages. In the case of quiet quitting marriage, the wife often continues to do the daily responsibilities of a partner and continue having a sexual relationship while planning their exit. But are women actually quiet quitting because women have other opinions on the matter. A TikTok creator that goes by Indie Jones shared her thoughts on quiet quitting marriage as someone who is twice divorced. You see, I was too busy working, taking care of the children, doing all of the house work, doing the yard work, doing minor repairs around the house," Jones says. Trying to find people to fix things that go wrong in the house. Literally doing everything because my partner expected to be able to work and come home and do nothing. Her comment section was filled with similar disputes of the term "quiet quitting" being applied to women planning to leave their husbands. I emotionally disconnected years earlier after decades of telling him ad nauseam that I existed in this marriage too. If he was surprised it's because he was too self absorbed to hear or consider me and my needs. Just listen already dudes," another woman explains. So it doesn't seem that women aren't being vocal about being unhappy, needing help or wanting things to change. The revelations under Jones' video makes the notion of quiet quitting marriage seem more like one partner ignoring the issue until it's too late because it works for them. According to a recent Pew Research Center report , even when women make just as much as their husbands or are the primary breadwinner, they still do the bulk of the housekeeping and childrearing. In the same report, it reveals that women in these relationships also spend less time on leisure activities than their husbands. Women pick up a heavier load when it comes to household chores and caregiving responsibilities, while men spend more time on work and leisure. From the sound of things, women are still bearing the brunt of the household and childrearing responsibilities and being pretty vocal about the imbalance. If there's vocalization of displeasure for months, sometimes years, then are women really "quiet quitting" or are they advocating for a balanced relationship but being ignored? It seems that more research may need to go into this "quiet quitting" marriage phenomenon to get to the bottom of what's happening.
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