BackfromtheStorm ( member #86900) posted at 3:27 PM on Friday, October 9th, 2026
Sure she can say "I won’t listen to this music, or read these kinds of books" but she is doing it to placate you rather than showing empathy. That’s not a changed person, thats someone trying to stay out of trouble. Thats a parent/child dynamic rather than a husband wife dynamic.
This is possibly the single most important thing when you are evaluating the safety of your wayward.
You always feel it.
Here it is named.
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CantBeMeEither (original poster member #83223) posted at 12:31 AM on Saturday, October 10th, 2026
Yes, HikingOut again displays her hard-earned wisdom. I think she articulated it perfectly.
Last night I gingerly brought up the subject, because I wanted to ask the question GTM posed: "why consume this?" and before I even got there, she started talking about how much it bothers her that I don't believe her (I tell her that I believe her about 85% of the time) that neither of the two nights spent with the realtor were penetratively consummated. When she starts thinking about my disbelief, she is thrown into a spiral and reaches for the escapism of her dark romance AI movies.
So I guess that answers that.
