• animist@lemmy.one
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      If the ex somehow comes up in conversation, just say “we just weren’t compatible and broke things off amicably, and are both better people now” and leave it at that

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      I made this mistake (had a relationship for 8 years that started when I was 16) at the time, so I had zero dating experience. The girl I had a date with thought: “ok, then this’ll just be a one night stand, he’s not bad looking.”

      More than 6 years later we’re married with a daughter, dog and cat.

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        Idk what you mean by “poop post”, but you reminded me of a story my grandma told me about when she was a little girl. She’s from Cuba, and her parents would sometimes take her to visit some distant relatives which were basically mountain people. Like, straight up neanderthal living-in-the-wilderness type stuff.

        She said that they had a “poop stick”, which was like a tree branch they would use to wipe their ass after shitting. It was a community thing too, like a public toilet. Everyone in the village would share it, just rub their shitty ass on it after crapping into (I assume) a hole in the ground.

        My grandma also likes to make things up to be funny, so idk how true that is.

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      What if it’s a really nice sturdy table and you don’t want your date taking it home with them?..

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    Well, I (unintentionally) called someone ugly after she removed her mask, there was no second date

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      How do you do that unintentionally?? Did you just blurt it out? Did she remove the mask and you couldn’t hold in an “eugh”? I must know!

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        It went something like:

        - You had never seen me without it, right?

        - No, you look older

        (Brief awkward silence)

        - I feared you would say that

        - (freezes)

        Then she told me she is insecure about that, I think she is actually like 3 years older than most of her classmates and some mock her because of that.

        I didn’t think she was ugly, to me I was just pointing something out, and only realized I probably insulted her until days later. And I’m pretty sure I said more stupid things, if you want i‘ll try to remember.

        Also, if something reads weird, my native language is not english.

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    Complain about things.

    Unless it’s something you can keep lighthearted, and maybe make a point with in a funny way. But just bitterly bitching about something in your life is probably the worst (normal) thing you can do. That or treat service staff badly.