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From what I understand, it is your reticence here that is the problem, yes?
It's the root of most of my problems, yes.
I have a feeling I'd be much better off if I hadn't stopped speaking when I was four.
Why did I wait so long to play this game?
Well, I don't exactly know how to offer you any advice other than 'Maybe you should just try talking to him', then.
Sorry, I am not exactly on the best of terms with my own father, and he has even less in common with me. He has more in common with my brother, and he is not even his son.
No worries. I wouldn't exactly say we're on bad terms or anything. We just don't really match up, and I find it difficult spending more than a couple minutes with him at a time. 'S the same with a lot of people, for me, really.
Maybe you could try telling him this, then. Otherwise he might be wondering why you seem to avoid talking to him.
Or maybe I should shut up.
I don't think that would help things.
EDIT: And suddenly I'm remembering something a friend told me, and I'm more pissed off about it now than I was when he told me. One time we started discussing /adv/, and we both agreed that it's a shithole, but then he said that he occasionally signs on to tell people to kill themselves ("it's 4chan"). Because telling lonely, depressed neckbeards to kill themselves is a great way to spend your time!
You would know him better than I would.
Parent/teenagers are really complicated relationships. I mean, I identify with a lot of what Everest just said, and I feel incredibly distant from my father. I wish this wasn't so, but it is. I've come to terms with it, though.
I have a pretty similar relationship with my father, so I can sympathize. Even though he had been physically abusive towards me for a very long time, I could swallow all of that. But I couldn't swallow his utter lack of respect for my independence and privacy, and that's what finally caused me to distance myself from him. I'm planning on trying to warm up my ties with him once I finish high school in 2-3 months, now that he's got less to pester me about and I'm bigger and stronger. I definitely wouldn't call him a good man, but I love him, and I'm certain that he loves me in some kind of his own warped way.
That sounds significantly worse than my situation, actually. My dad would get pissed off when I cried over trivial shit like a kid would, but I'd hardly call him abusive.
Oooh, abusive family story time. Can I join?
The more, the merrier!
Everest: Mine was the type of father you'd espect to see in the 19th century, i.e. "Do what I say, respect the shit out of me and blindly follow every single meaningless familial norm or you're in for a world of hurt!" His own father had the same approach, and was a literal sociopath, which helps me empathize with him.
My father's not abusive, but...well, the way he treats me is kind of emotionally humilliating.
Everyone should already know 'bout my mother by now, and if not, good, and I'd rather not go into it again.
I know I do. I was a little confused as to your last post; I don't think it would be enjoyable talking about stuff like that, especially for the umpteenth time.
I wasn't being serious, it was intended to more note that we were headed in that sort of direction.
In any case, I was confused. But I don't really have much place in such a discussion anyway.
Well, you still got all of my sympathy and all of my admiration for pulling out of that.
/me pats your head in order to still make you feel small and so you don't get too cocky.
For which you should feel very grateful.
fuck
more short jokes
I really don't know about your troubles (if you were speaking about them on the Insecurities thread at ol' Tropes, I didn't really follow that thread), and I'm not going to ask you about them if you don't want to talk. My sympathies are with you, anyway.
Definitely. The only thing I can think of that's a downside to that is that I have little real justification for being the mumbling sadsack that I am in real life. I don't have any issues that you'd think would lead to depression, but at this point I probably meet that qualification, and it makes me feel more pathetic.
Dammit, I was supposed to see about getting therapy.
Eh. For today, I'll probably just do some Sudoku and then binge on /adv/.
Finding your problems not worthy is also a sign of depression, knowing that feels are irrational does little to make said feels go away, and while venting doesn't get you any closer to a solution it still prevents you from bottling that sort of venom up.
I didn't realize Nova had family problems
emphasis on had. She is living on her own with her brother.
And my grandmother, don't forget.
-holds up chain-
SHIT!
^^ I do want to know the story, but I won't pry if you don't want to tell me it
So yeah archery is pretty fun. Also fun that people get out of your way when you walk down the street with a bow. Also British pubs are great, but the one close to my house is really nerdy. Like in the multitude of kitschy restaurant picture frames there was a map of the Shire, Harry Potter playing Quidditch and the TARDIS TARDISing.