Marriage and the Power of Divorce

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Heylel

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Couple of friends who have been together for 12 years and just married in April are looking like they might end up divorced after just 7 months.

Bummer.
 

Heylel

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Not even sure yet. They've always been a bickering couple but the guy seems to be going through a really rough patch. He's not happy at work, at home, etc. Last month admitted he was self-medicating with prescription opiates or by making poppy tea (apparently this is a thing?).

It's just a really rapid shift. They've been a couple as long as anyone I know. Since our early 20s.
 

iannis

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That's a kinda nice way to say he's addicted to painkillers.

If he can dry out, relationship probably back to not-divorce-land. Or maybe they still get divorced. Who knows. The important thing is to dry out.
 

Tenks

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Sounds like the relationship and the guy were already in a shitty spot prior to the marriage and they probably tried to fix it by getting married
 

Heylel

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I think it had to do with a lot of us in his circle getting married. The expectation was there for a long time. He joked last year that he had go propose to his wife before I did mine or he'd be in all kinds of trouble.

He's been in counseling for the pills, and I don't think he's an addict. An abuser sure, but it's always been more of a "get fucked up and play xbox" thing for him. Any substance pretty much fit that category.

Personally I think it has more to do with being 33, having a terrible job that should have turned into a career years ago but didn't, and seeing everyone else start to make a genuine life for themselves while he's been stuck in neutral. He makes like $14/hr part time while his wife brings home all the money.
 

Khane

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I got fucking bamboozled bros. It's been a while so I had forgotten that it's even a possibility. Guess it's a good thing to keep me honest. Hot and heavy all night and I got the "No I don't want to do this yet, we barely know each other, let's wait it'll make it better".

After she told me about the the last few guys who had huge dicks she hooked up with because it meant nothing but I'm important. (Seriously, that really happened during our conversation). Tough pill to swallow realizing I forgot that women do shit like this to test men. I've hit too many homeruns, I forgot what it felt like to strike out. Feels bad bros. Feels bad.
 

Cad

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I got fucking bamboozled bros. It's been a while so I had forgotten that it's even a possibility. Guess it's a good thing to keep me honest. Hot and heavy all night and I got the "No I don't want to do this yet, we barely know each other, let's wait it'll make it better".

After she told me about the the last few guys who had huge dicks she hooked up with because it meant nothing but I'm important. (Seriously, that really happened during our conversation). Tough pill to swallow realizing I forgot that women do shit like this to test men. I've hit too many homeruns, I forgot what it felt like to strike out. Feels bad bros. Feels bad.
Why would a chick even tell a guy that another guy had a huge dick? Like what is there to gain by saying that.
 

Khane

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Making a man feel inferior to gain an advantage and gain the upper hand. It's a game. The kind of thing I have no patience for.
 

Cad

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Making a man feel inferior to gain an advantage and gain the upper hand. It's a game. The kind of thing I have no patience for.
So they play these games, do they expect you to be playing games back and it's just a big dance? Or do they just see how badly they can get away with treating you?
 

Khane

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So they play these games, do they expect you to be playing games back and it's just a big dance? Or do they just see how badly they can get away with treating you?
You've answered your own question.
 

Cad

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Need to ask Kurin if gay dudes play relationship games with each other like you guys describe or if it's like hangin out with the bros except also buttsex. Haha.
 

Tenks

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If she's a size queen that's fine at least she's up front with it. For whatever reason my wife and her friends talk about dick size more often than I'd expect and I don't think I've ever once heard one of them say a big dick didn't feel better. Only complaint I've heard is they can be too big and start assaulting the cervix but I think that is more of a take the good with the bad type deal.
 

Khane

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If she's a size queen that's fine at least she's up front with it. For whatever reason my wife and her friends talk about dick size more often than I'd expect and I don't think I've ever once heard one of them say a big dick didn't feel better. Only complaint I've heard is they can be too big and start assaulting the cervix but I think that is more of a take the good with the bad type deal.
She's not a size queen, she was shit testing me. The entirety of our interaction last night was an insincere game she was playing. "I'm a tiny person it was too big for me. Too big for my mouth, too big for my hands, and well...". She also said "Oh and he, oh wait, no I can't tell you that about him" I said Uh Ok and she said "Well let's just say his name was Aghorumu" or something like that. So he was black and she thought I would flip out over that fact, and she approached the entire situation in exactly that way.

I mean, I guess I don't have much of a leg to stand on here since I was only interested in fucking her anyway and wasn't exactly being forthcoming about my intentions. You get what you give right?
 

Tenks

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Or she's just a weirdo. I guess its been a while now since I've been out of dating but I don't think every interaction has to be a game with a motive.
 

Chysamere

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Time to cut contact. She'll either come crawling back and you can use her for sex, or you've come out ahead and saved a lot of time.

You don't work with her or anything, do you?