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    It only matters if people are educated enough to understand why it’s important.

    There are widely available options as it is. The majority of people don’t care at best. And get offended at the notion of using them at worst.

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    And still people seems to not care the slightest about protection (messaging, sharing, …) 🤷🏼‍♀️

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      People change, sometimes drastically. But also people can pretend to be someone they are not. I know a few people who had to experience this kind of thing. Really fucks up your trust in people and your own judgement.

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        My ex. Jesus Christ man.

        She moved in and adopted my whole personality. Naturally, her own personality was fighting to surface and a person can’t bury who they are forever.

        After more than a decade, she just lost it. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever experienced, and you’re spot on about it fucking up trust in other people. It doesn’t have to, but it does take work.

        In the middle of the chaos that was the collapse of my entire life, I remember one line from a letter she wrote me. “I feel more like myself than I have in a very long time. I know that’s probably hard for you to read.”

        She had BPD too, so for three years, one moment I was god, the next she was sitting up in the bed at the end of an overall great day and saying, “I’m sorry. I just don’t love you anymore.”

        She wanted nothing to do with me until I found someone else. She lost her damn mind, tried to kill herself, ended up hospitalized for mental health. That got her family involved and we had to fight them for our kid in court. It’s crazy how easy it is for a family member to kidnap your child. They told the magistrate that I held my family hostage with a knife, got a restraining order, and I just had to wait until court knowing that our daughter was scared to death and living through a nightmare on top of a nightmare.

        Somehow, the woman I’m with survived all of that chaos with me. I figured she’d get tired of me driving out in the middle of the night over and over again to make sure my ex didn’t actually hurt herself.

        Once she got to be herself though, she was alright. She met someone more like her. She went from laying in bed all the time hating herself and her life to taking care of things that she couldn’t before. She never got a drivers license and she was finally able to do that. She never cleaned and when I worked a lot our place was trashed, but her last place was immaculate. Poor girl died of breast cancer 4 years after we split. I wish she had left me years before honestly, so she’d have had a chance to really live.

        Life is a mess. Some people do make it hard to trust other people, but we have to carry on and do our best. We’ve gotta work so that problem isn’t everyone else’s problem.

        I have done my best to keep from carrying all that baggage into the relationship I’m in. I do my best to encourage her to just be herself. We get one short life, and I don’t want to have a hand in ruining it for anyone. Go see your friends, go be with your family. Don’t sit here alone because I do. Keep building your life outside of me. Maintain something of the world you lived in before you moved to ours.

        Sorry for the book. I guess I needed to spit it out of my head again. I could write on this topic for several years straight and I still wouldn’t run out of shit to say about it. :p

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          BPD took a decade from me too. Been healing for a few years. Was able to protect my kid. Lmk if you need an ear from someone who understands. I’m the guy who all my mom friends introduce to their other dad friends who are going through breakups with mental illness. It’s a thing 🤷 You’re not alone.

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          You should write a book about it. You have a good, simple style thats easy to read, easy to understand. It would likely be cathartic to write and could help others.

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          That was a fascinating read and thank you for sharing. If it is any good, I’ll be thinking about this for a long time.

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        People can also marry someone for reasons that they think are positive, but end up being a horrible negative. Sometimes people marry someone because the other person is stable and takes care of things but then it turns out that they are extremely controlling too but it wasn’t obvious until later on.

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      “Spinster” is still a thing in a lot of places. A woman who can’t find a husband is looked down on. Also, those are the places where men who are ‘weak’ are looked down on. Community is a powerful thing, which is why so many LGBTQ kids flee their home towns as soon as they can.

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    The top autocomplete for “can my wife” is “can my wife carry my gun” in case you were interested.

    “Can my husband” is, in fact, the voting question.

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      Google searches are highly customized to your profile. Either you, OP, or both are logged into your accounts.

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        Not me, I am using a clean session in Firefox Focus on a VPN specifically to avoid results tailored to me. I’m very careful about what I search for on Google while logged in.

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        I’m on my phone, but this is what I got on a fresh Firefox Focus session (all history and cookies cleared) and startpage (proxied google search results). I’m assuming the query is coming from Ireland or something given the result at the bottom

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          The Irish bias might be coming from the fact that that’s the easiest (western?)European country to immigrate to if you have some Irish ancestry.

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      People being too stupid to understand that you can’t just break encryption for moral uses while keeping it intact against immoral ones?

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          That really just seems like the special case of the general issue that too many people are in toxic relationships.

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            Wait till the Church starts pushing back because of “the sanctity of marriage,” and other outdated drivel used to compel obedience.

            Tax and audit every church that has an opinion on voting and/or politics. Tax the fuck outta them.