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I'm a 24 year old lady with failed relationship woes. Help me stop feeling so crummy about myself and give me day-to-day ways to feel more centered, happy, and not-desperate.
I ended my longest relationship (3+ years) a year ago, because it was bad for me and I was being bled dry by its emotionally abusive aspects. I'm proud that I did that, but things have been hard since then.
I had a follow up relationship with someone I met online dating that crashed and burned spectacularly after about five months due to his "lack of attraction." That was a low blow and it hurt a lot.
Since then, I've hopped into bed with two different old friends (not at the same time, haha!) who also became single in the past year. The first was honest from the get-go that he wasn't ready to dive into something new yet and we parted ways fairly nicely. The second made a lot of mushy comments about how long he had had a crush on me but has been squirrelly and non communicative since, even after a fun and non-awkward "next morning." While both experiences were fun at the time and had no serious repercussions, I am finding that it's only fueling my insecure lizard brain later when it becomes obvious that they aren't really interested in pursuing me in earnest and things fizzle out.
I feel like relationships are my kryptonite. I feel sad, anxious, and lonely during them and after them and in between them. I can handle deadlines, pressure at school and work, family chaos--whatever happens--but this one area of my life makes me feel unhinged. I know in my logical mind that I am a beautiful, successful, smart, fun, caring, kind, and loving person. I have the most amazing family and friends who offer me so much support and love. I'm emotionally intense and I wouldn't change that about myself, but there has to be some way to cope with these feelings without so much angst, right? What is my problem?! Why can't I turn off the voice that tells me I'm nothing because nobody loves me in a romantic way? Why can't I be satisfied with the love my family and friends give me instead of feeling left out because they mostly are in serious partnerships and I'm not?
I am in graduate school and I work 4 different jobs at the same time to make ends meet. I'm great at all the things I do, but I think I'm making impulsive choices to break up the rigid discipline of my life, except it's making me feel worse instead of carefree.
I've had therapy before, following a sexual assault in college years ago, and it was helpful, but I'm not confident I can find time and a weekly $30 copay to do it again. My school has counseling services but I opted not to pay the fee that would cover them (which I now regret, but oh well). If you think it is the only thing that would help, maybe some suggestions for the type of mental health care provider to look for would be useful. My GP has me on an anxiety med and it helps a LOT, but I know some of the work I need to do is beyond that.
However, mostly I just think I need your own lost-in-your-twenties anecdotes, advice, and maybe some books to read? I need to learn to cope with the ugly feelings that come up and repair my self esteem. How can I talk myself out of being crazy with neediness and loneliness when I'm single or in the beginnings of a relationship? I don't tend to act really crazy in terms of calling a lot or being outwardly needy, but my emotions drive me nuts. Sometimes I post angsty social media updates that I later regret and delete (and then feel sheepish,
like I'm Miley Cyrus
or something). How can I get better coping skills for dealing with these nasty, panicky feelings? How can I stop letting my entire emotional world depend on whether whats-his-face texts me back? I'm a little disgusted with myself and I need your advice for how to get a grip.
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I am similarly anxious and "needy" in relationships, and one book that really helped me to recognize my feelings and triggers was
Attached:The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love
, that I previously saw here on the green. The book talks about 3 different attachment styles: Anxious, Avoidant, and Secure. After reading it I realized that I am of the anxious type, that all of my bad relationships had been with incredibly avoidant types, and that if I was going to preserve my sanity and optimism for love, I had to start adopting more secure behaviors. I've had this in mind for at least 6 months now and it's still really hard to change that mindset that you're not worth anything and no one will ever love you. The book is good, but I probably would not have been able to listen to its message as well if I was not co-currently in therapy, and could talk to my therapist about my feelings. She has been really great at pointing out when I get unrealistic/in a rut about this issue.
Another thing that can be helpful is mindfulness meditation. When I get anxious relationship wise, I find myself running a horrible futile cycle in my head: "nobody will ever love me I'm going to become a crazy cat lady and die alone and this is the worst thing ever." Trying to meditate a little bit 3-4 times a week gives me the mental space to take a step back when that happens and say: "No, that's not true. I'm going to be fine." So, if you really can't afford therapy, I think trying to establish a little meditation practice for yourself can help with the anxiety, since you seem to have a pretty good sense that you have panicky/anxious feelings, that they upset you, and that you'd like to change them. You can find free guided meditations on the internet, like from UCSD's website
. That one is very clinical, but there are more "woo" versions out there if you'd be interested in that.
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I am 28. After an 8 year relationship with my wife we decided to split. Fortunately, it was about as amicable as anyone could hope. I moved back to Portland from San Diego immediately and continued my life alone.
For a long time I felt incredibly lonely, and hurt because I had failed so hard at something about which I had been so proud. It was supposed to be true love, but it didn't work out. My self-esteem tanked.
I wouldn't say I hit rock-bottom, as I didn't get into doing anything crazy, but I certainly partied too hard and reaped the repercussions of that behavior. I dated a bit here and there but it didn't go anywhere. I began to feel that I was hopeless, that there wouldn't be another person I could feel so strongly for.
At some point I decided to focus not on relationships, but myself. The issues I had from childhood lingered, and I knew I needed to grow up. So began much inward focus and soul-searching. What did I want out of life? Who do I want to be? The twisted knot of self-loathing was beginning to loosen.
Then my sister had her baby. As cliche as it might seem, it was a wake-up call. I don't live near my family, but suddenly, holding this tiny new family member, I had an irresistible urge to protect her from harm and to provide for her every need. Something clicked. I decided that I wanted to move back home to be near family.
Whatever clicked did it hard and fast. I felt renewed, revived. (Life's a bummer when you're a hummer, life's a drag). Currently I'm looking for new employment area. I have a new sense of purpose and it's entirely centered around me, who I hope to become.
On a whim, I messaged an acquaintance on Facebook that I would be in Seattle that weekend. Honestly I didn't expect anything of it, I just wanted to make (re-make) friends in the area.
When we met up, I felt something I hadn't felt in a long time: a strong desire to be with her. Not in a lustful manner, but the way one looks at someone they admire, the way that you'd want love to be.
I don't know that it's love and I don't know that it will work out in the long run, but I'm okay with that. I just know that I have a new opportunity, a new chance at loving a person as I want to be loved.
And I am happy.
tl;dr: Work on yourself, don't focus on relationships. You define your relationships, not the other way around.
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Through your mid 20's, it feels like everyone is coupled, and being coupled is the thing that will make you A Real Girl. In your late 20's, it's getting married. In your early 30's, it's having a baby. In your mid 30's, it's buying a house. In your late 30's and early 40's, it's landing a key career bump.
I promise you, you are already very much A Real Girl.
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You sound so much like me a couple of years ago that it hurts. Right down to the post-breakup flings, the knowing logically that you're lovable but not feeling it, etc. For me, my relative success at everything else in my life made my lack of positive dating experience sting more, because I felt that by this point, as an Achiever, I SHOULD have more experience- does that resonate with you?
A combination of a few things helped me- I did therapy, group therapy, read Feeling Good, but I also made an effort to spend time with my friends more and to at least TRY to meet new friends, I forced myself to do online dating even though I had major anxiety around it, and I immersed myself in creative activities that made me feel like a useful person (because, for me, 'useful' and 'desirable' are kind of conflated). I made this a serious project, and in addition to taming my anxiety, I also emerged as a much more easygoing and approachable person. So, not only was I more able to ask guys out, they were more likely to ask ME out.
Have you asked if you might retroactively pay the mental health services fee, or perhaps begin paying when next semester begins?
One thing you might look into is group therapy, which can be really cheap- I did it at my college for free, and I've found some local non-school-affiliated groups as well.
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My mid-twenties were not a lot of fun, emotionally. They weren't quite as bad as, say, adolescence, but my self-esteem really took a beating in early adulthood, for no rational reason. And to be honest, 10 years later, I still experience some of the nutty emotional stuff you're talking about at the start of a relationship, so it's not necessarily that the emotions get better, but boy has my ability to a) cope with them and b) cut myself a break for being a little unhinged about a new relationship gotten better.
What works for me may not work for you, but I've been pretty successful, when the emotions get all snarly and unpleasant, with taking a moment to recognize what I'm feeling. If I have time to sit with it and think or write and try to figure out what I'm reacting to, I do. But sometimes I just have to say, basically: "This is what I'm feeling, and it sucks, but I have [x] thing to do, so I'm going to do that." Sometimes I have to adjust [x] down from something important to something easier if I'm rattled enough, but the trick for me, sometimes, is to do something to shift my focus when the negative feelings kick in, even if all I can manage is to take a walk.
What is my problem?! Why can't I turn off the voice that tells me I'm nothing because nobody loves me in a romantic way?
There is a whole lot of cultural conditioning underpinning this, and it's pretty relentless. It eased up some when I cut myself off from TV and women's magazines, but this is a major cultural narrative in the US, and even when you know intellectually that it's nonsense, it can be hard to dislodge. showbiz_liz has some good thoughts about things you can do to build counter messages for yourself.
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1. Single is the default.
2. Lost in my twenties anecdote:
I was just like you in my mid-twenties. And my late twenties. And at 30.
I stayed in a terrible relationship for years, then proceeded to have a string of mediocre relationships with people I honestly didn't even like, just because they were there and I wasn't alone.
I wasn't alone but I was so lonely, and loneliness fed the anxiety, until the anxiety became this huge, all consuming thing that made me unable to function in any relationship, not just romantic ones. My actions and emotions were out of control. I'd supress, supress, supress all the worries about my relationship, then act out, feel ashamed and start suppressing again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Here's what happened to break the cycle: I got dumped. One of those mediocre, lonely relationships ended and I... did some really regretable things with rebounding, trying to get back together with an ex, not with the guy who had dumped me, but the guy I had the really terrible relationship with. That would be the third time since we broke up that we attempted to get back together.
My best friend in the world wrote me a letter that said something to the effect of, "I love you. All of your other friends love you so much. Why don't you love yourself? Why do you put yourself through so much pain when single is the default?"
It made me realize it wasn't other people making me anxious, sad, miserable. My choices were what was breaking my heart. I was so fixated on a relationship that the rest of my life was passing me by. I couldn't spend another day unhappy. So I embraced the default.
Of course, it wasn't just that easy. There was therapy, and meditation, and so much introspection you would vomit, and still going on dates with boozers, users and losers. But knowing I was OK alone, whole even if the only person who EVER loved me was myself, has helped me a lot with anxiety and obsessing about relationships.
I know all about being a broke grad student, but those $30 co-pays are so worth it. If you really can't swing it, consider yoga, mindfulness and meditation.
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Seconding Attached. Lots of good advice here but I - not a self-help book fan whatsoever - loved Attached and found it to resonate quite well. Worth a read even if it's not as resonant with you.
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I think you sound remarkably aware of what you want. Sometimes the best you can do is just tell your lizard brain to stfu and thank the sweet lord jesus that no one else can hear your internal monologue. I am currently surviving my late twenties with the following rules:
1. Fake it till you make it.
Spend real, actual time defining what type of person you want to project via social media, in relationships, etc. Does this person post angsty things ever? How often? Does this person spend days or weeks being angsty over boys or not?
Define discrete and measurable limits to your behavior and then follow these rules. Get
. Eventually your brain will maybe follow suit and feel feelings that sync up with these behaviors, but only you will know if there is any gap.
2. Forgive yourself for your cultural wiring
Girls are taught from the time they are tiny, tiny babies that the thing they need to feel whole is the love and validation of a significant other. This kind of external anchor is something you've been taught at the lizard brain level, so it's difficult to change. I think just recognizing it helps.
When the lizard brain starts pumping out the you are alone and lonely anxiety noise try to do something that makes you feel productive, or just do ANYTHING that distracts your not lizard brain. It is faulty wiring, so the feeling is valid and real and all that, but it is something that you can try to tune out.
3. Avoid Drama Town
Draw a line between talking about things to get through them and talking about things because you are fixated. It was life changing for me to realize that all the anxiety noise got much quieter when I just stopped giving that part of my scumbag brain a microphone.
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During the past few months a growing number of campaigners have urged countries to boycott both events in protest at Russia's anti-gay laws.
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Winter Olympics boycott: the background
In June 2013 the Russian lower house of parliament passed a law banning "homosexual propaganda", and introduced fines for anyone organising gay pride events or giving information about LGBT issues to those under 18.
The European parliament passed a resolution condemning the law. Michael Cashman, the British Labour MEP said: "Hate speech from Putin and others had resulted in the barbaric killing of gay men. This is unacceptable and uncivilised." Homophobic attacks in Russia have risen in recent months, with some being linked to neo-Nazi groups.
Meanwhile Russian president Vladimir Putin has said he would back a ban on foreign same-sex couples adopting Russian children, while a Russian MP has reportedly called for the marines to have the right to whip gay people in public.
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In early August the actor and writer Stephen Fry published an open letter to the International Olympic Committee and UK prime minister David Cameron, calling for an "absolute ban" on the Winter Games and comparing them to the 1936 Berlin Olympics staged by the Nazi party.
Stephen Fry (centre) and Peter Tatchell (left) speak to demonstrators on Whitehall, London, during a protest against Russia's anti-gay laws. Image: Anthony Devlin, PA Wire
Fry accused Vladimir Putin of "making scapegoats of gay people, just as Hitler did Jews. He cannot be allowed to get away with it."
David Cameron replied on Twitter, saying: "I share your deep concern about the abuse of gay people in Russia. However, I believe we can better challenge prejudice as we attend, rather than boycotting the Winter Olympics."
BNP leader Nick Griffin also tweeted Stephen Fry, saying: "Some people and nations just favour traditional values – get over it!"
An e-petition on the UK government website calling for a boycott has attracted over 12,000 signatures, while a growing number of bar chains in the UK and the US have stopped selling Russian vodka.
At a recent demonstration outside parliament in central London, organiser Eddie Jardine said the prime minister did not seem to understand what gay people are saying. He added: "Unless Cameron has a plan on how he will lobby on the inside, this could just give credence to other countries with poor human rights for gay people."
"If all GB athletes wore rainbow flags and Cameron turned up to the Kremlin with a rainbow tie, then that would be great," said demonstrator Anna Grigoryeva, a Cambridge student from Moscow. "But they're not going to."
The US president Barack Obama has also spoken out – though stopped short of supporting a boycott. "I think they [Putin and Russia] understand that for most of the countries that participate in the Olympics, we wouldn't tolerate gays and lesbians being treated differently," he told Jay Leno on NBC's The Tonight Show.
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The Russian LGBT Network has said that a boycott would "risk transform[ing] the powerful potential of the Games in a less powerful gesture that would prevent the rest of the world from joining LGBT people, their families and allies in Russia in solidarity and taking a firm stance against the disgraceful human rights record in this country.
"Participation and attendance of the Games in Sochi will not indicate endorsement of injustice and discrimination; they will only if they are silent.
"We hope to join forces and succeed in raising everyone's voices for LGBT equality in Russia and elsewhere."
The Russian LGBT Network statement ended with the message: "Do not boycott the Olympics – boycott homophobia! Stand in solidarity with people in Russia."
In addition, there does not appear to be widespread support for a boycott among the sporting community.
British athletes hoping to participate in the Games will also be doing so having put in years of training, many at great personal expense due to the relative lack of funding for certain winter sports
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The gay former Olympic diver Greg Louganis has said a boycott would be counter-productive, while gay US ice-skater Johnny Weir told the BBC's Today programme that he was looking forward to competing in the Games.
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The sports presenter Clare Balding will present up to 100 hours of programming from Russia during the Winter Olympics. She said she would not be boycotting because "the best way of enlightening societies that are not as open-minded as our own is not to be cowed into submission. I intend to stand proud, do my homework and do my job as well as I possibly can – as I would for any other sporting event."
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The International Olympic Committee has said it is waiting for more clarification from the Russian government on how the anti-gay law would affect the Sochi Games. "The Olympic charter is clear," IOC president Jacques Rogge said. "A sport is a human right and it should be available to all, regardless of race, sex or sexual orientation."
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko insisted that athletes would "have to respect the laws of the country" during the Games. But he added that, beyond the law, Russia has "a constitution that guarantees to all citizens rights for the private life and privacy."
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The vigil, organized by Sheri Osier, will be held Tuesday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in Bicentennial Park.
Osier said the vigil is designed to honor the memory of Shannon James, who died in a crash along with Michaella "Mika" Lopes, and to highlight the dangers of driving while intoxicated.
Essex County District Attorney Julie Garcia and Ticonderoga Supervisor Bob Dedrick will participate, Osier said.
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Dustin St. Andrews, 16, of Putnam was driving a car in April 2008 that crashed in Putnam, killing James of Ticonderoga and Lopes of Enosburg, Vt. Two other passengers were injured.
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The girls were passengers in a Cadillac sedan St. Andrews was driving at nearly 130 mph on Route 22 in Putnam when the vehicle careened off the highway. Both girls were thrown from the vehicle. Lopes was pronounced dead at the scene, while James died the next day.
St. Andrews and two young men survived with minor injuries.
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Philip Schwadel, a sociologist at the University of Nebraska, has done a careful and rigorous analysis of data from the 1998 General Social Survey in the USA. He looked at the link between education and a variety of religious beliefs.
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What this tells is is that educated Americans are more liberal and open-minded in their religious beliefs, but more dutiful and community oriented. That's pretty much what you would expect.
But what about the nub of the matter - actual belief in God? Well, here's where it gets a little bit more complicated - and where I start to disagree with Schwadel's conclusions.
To understand why, you need to understand the difference between the size of an effect (so-called 'effect-size') and it its statistical significance. The bottom line is that if you look at very large samples of people, you can pick out even tiny effects (in this case, the amount of change in religion associated with an increase in education). Even though the effect is tiny, it could still be statistically significant.
On the other hand, if you have a small sample of people, then you might miss even quite large effects. It's not that they're not there, it's just that there's not enough data points in your sample to smooth out the background noise and let them shine through.
Take, for example, the question of whether people believe in God. According to Schwadel, educated people still believe, it's just that they say they believe in a 'higher power' rather than in a personal god. That's because his data shows that this link is statistically significant. But when you look at the effect size - i.e. the correlation between education and belief, well then the link is just as strong between education and 'Don't believe'.
In other words, we can't really be sure that educated people aren't less likely to believe. It may simply be that the sample of non-believers was not big enough for us to tell.
Now, this doesn't mean that education is linked to disbelief, but it does suggest that any link is complicated. That's not too surprising because there's an awful lot of variability in what you get when you sign up for 'education', after all.
Some colleges are overtly religious, of course. But more important than the nature of the college is the nature of the subject and the nature of the experiences. Other studies have shown that the studying humanities is particularly likely to lead to loss of belief.
It ain't that education leads to loss of belief. It's more opening your mind to other perspectives that does it!
Philip Schwadel (2011). The Effects of Education on Americans' Religious Practices, Beliefs, and Affiliations Rev Relig Res : 10.1007/s13644-011-0007-4
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To say that the higher educated, through their education come to the conclusion, with facts, that God doesn't exist, is to say the unlearned are stupid. But the well educated and the unlearned, the rich and the poor, all have the same evidence as to the existence of God. James tells us in chapter 3 that there are two kinds of wisdom: earthly, and that which comes down from heaven. True wisdom comes from the fear or reverence of the Lord. Since God does exist, and the proof is there, then any argument against His existence is a lie. http://atheistlegitimacy.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
"They're more likely to go to Church and do voluntary religious work, and less likely to say that religious leaders should stay out of politics."ReplyDelete
Not *more* likely to say that religious leaders should stay out of politics?
Typo, or genuine surprise to me?
Anyway downtown dave, I woldn't say that the uneducated are stupid, just uneducated. At least, up to a point. There is a time when someone is *choosing* to keep themselves from seeing evidence. When a person makes effort to keep themselves from gaining actual knowledge.
I'm not sure if I'd view that as stupid exactly, or perhaps something along the lines of immoral, but it's certainly 'icky'
Anyway, the Book of Gnarl says that only true wisdom comes from the words of Gnarl, and that false reasoning that denies Gnarl's Greatness and Goodness is abhorrent.
kassul, I was also surprised when I saw the direction of the relationship, but it's correct. If you think about it, it makes sense. Educated peope are more liberal, so more open to letting everyone have their say - regardless of whether they like their views. Also, I would guess that the educated religious are more interested in proselytization.ReplyDelete
A "higher power" is what you believe in when you are no longer ignorant enough to believe in a god, but (for emotional or social reasons) you still want to believe.ReplyDelete
What do we mean with 'educated' and 'religious'?ReplyDelete
Perhaps good to define these terms.
Is 'educated' a university education? Or is it self-taught education?
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EAST LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan State women's soccer team looks to take flight in a pair of games over the weekend against the Falcons of Bowling Green and the Eagles of Eastern Michigan. With the Spartan offense still looking to find their wings, MSU hopes continued strength from the back line will support the squad.
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Courtney Clem returns in goal for 2013. Clem has already accumulated 23 saves and one shutout on the season, owning a .87 GAA and .821 Sv%. Gabrielle Gauruder stepped up in the net last weekend to finish a shutout over New Mexico. She totaled five saves in 64 minutes with no goals allowed. Lone senior Kelsey Mullen heads up the defense with Nicole Caruso and Mary Kathryn Fiebernitz. Both Caruso and Fiebernitz have already recorded an assist. The back line looks to remain organized in play and has held their opponents to only five goals in six games.
Sophomore Allyson Krause heads up the offense as she the team's leading scorer. She leads the team with five points from two goals and one assist. Jessica White is the team's only other multiple goal scorer with two and is tied with Rachel Van Poppelen for points with four. Van Poppelen earned a goal and two assists in the game against Milwaukee. Four members of the squad total one goal and one assist each.
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Brazilian Blowout -- the company behind the hair procedure Octomom dropped hundreds of dollars on while on welfare -- is MORTIFIED by Octo's reckless spending ... and now, it's hatched a plan to make things right with taxpayers.
BB CEO Mike Brady tells TMZ, "We want to make sure that California taxpayers' money is not going to anything other than taking care of [Nadya Suleman's] children. We don't want to see those kids miss out on anything at the cost of a Brazilian Blowout."
So, a rep for the company tells us, BB is offering to reimburse Octomom the entire cost of her recent Brazilian Blowouts -- plus other hair treatments -- totaling $520.
But that's not it -- BB also wants to give Octomom free blowouts in the future at the company's salon in West Hollywood ... so she's not squandering her limited cash supply on luxury goods. BB will even cover the cost of a sitter while the mother of 14 is getting primped.
To top it all off, BB is offering to pay to fix Octo's toilet -- which might finally allow her kids to poop inside. One can only dream.
Yes because giving her more free **** will make her responsible. Take her kids. Separate them in the system and give them a chance at life. And send her on a tropical getaway with Joran Van Der Sloot
does any of this seem wrong? Why are they fixing her toilet? She didn't fix it because she didn't have the money...she didn't fix it cause she didn't want to!!! And why does she need her hair done? She isn't going out applying for work! Glad I don't live in CA!
yes, let's give her more free stuff. that'll make taxpayers (working hard for their money to feed everyone else's children) feel so much better!!
More free **** for this bitch, are you serious ? What kind of message are we sending people, especially young girls ? Act irresponsibly with your children and we will give you free stuff all over the place ? And it is obvious by the way she treats her home and her kids she does not appreciate it !!
Stop give this whore free stuff and take those kids away into proper homes, wake the hell up CA before one of those kids ends up DEAD !!
What is wrong with BB enabling her. Why give her freebies when there are so many poor and disabled women who could use a free haircut and products. What is BB doing for them? Nothing.
This is a shameless attempt on the part of BB to pat themselves on the back.....and enable Nadia. The state should sue that moron doctor for everything he has and set up a trust fund for those babies. It is physically impossible to care for 14 children alone. She obviously has psychiatric issues that need to be addressed before she will ever be able to function and care for them. My heart breaks for these children.
"To top it all off, BB is offering to pay to fix Octo's toilet -- which might finally allow her kids to poop inside. One can only dream."
Nice TMZ... Nice.
Heres the Facebook for Brazilian Blowout company
Apparently people are already goiNg over there bitching about it!
Maybe TMZ should leave her alone and stop taking pictures of her and then she won't feel compelled to have to to have her hair done. Leave the woman alone. I don't agree with what she did but enough already. You are going to get her killed by some crazy nut.
this is RIDICULOUS!!! She shouldn't be getting MORE handouts because she's irresponsible!
wth is wrong with this people they are enablers . The lady should have just left and not down the blowout if she was that concerned but she wanted that cash. NOw they are going to offer a chikd abuser free stuff fudge that
I get Brazilian Blowouts 3 times a year. NEVER again. I refuse to support a company that enables this idiot. Back to the iron!
Where is mine at? This is actually kind of sickening. I have a son who has severe disabilities. My husband has a fairly good job. I have a full time job out of my house, work a part time job in another town and also do a side business on the weekends. Our house and cars are not extravagant. We pay our taxes and don't complain about it. All or our bills are paid and I am not in foreclosure. We will have to take care of our son for the rest of his or our lives. Still, I get my hair done every 3 months (not a blow out) and I pay for it myself! So why does this company feel they need to help her when she is blowing money for hair care and not paying her house payments? And why is Dr. Phil helping her out with house cleaning and free babysitting? I think someone other then Octomom needs to have their heads examined.
So Dr. Phil could put his money to a better cause by continuing to pay the sitter but in the mean time get this woman trained to work a job so that she can contribute some of the money back to the community in tax dollars instead of her doing nothing to help herself other then stripping her clothes off again. And Brazillian Blowout could find a better cause to promote their product through.
yes, please keep rewarding this woman. What about normal parents like myself who only have the kids we can afford to have and don't splurge on those kind of luxuries because we know better. No one standing around looking to hand us free stuff!!!!
She needs a conservator to oversee her spending. She is irresponsible! She also needs to get a job as these kids should be in school, if not all now, then soon.


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Thank heavens for BBTF/Primer.
My baseball blog has a comments section and always has. When it was small it was really great, but as it has gotten more popular and well-trafficked It's become about 80-90% garbage. This used to bother me, but I've come to accept that, with comments, ######## are a feature, not a bug. A pretty important feature, actually.
I like having a comments section. For all the jerks, there are still people who will point out my errors in respectful fashion and challenge me to rethink things on a regular basis. That, in my view, is the whole purpose and promise of the Internet in general and blogging specifically. My blog is called HardballTalk, not HardballListenToMeDictateToYou.
The antiquated and obsolete quarters of the baseball writing community got that way because they were ensconced in cushy columnist gigs, mostly immune from criticism and interaction with readers. They became ossified in their thinking because they were never challenged. They have reacted sharply and negatively to criticism because, well, how dare one criticize?
Comments sections (and social media) are not polite or comfortable places at times. But interaction with readers is essential if you want to learn anything as a writer. Unlike the way it was 20 years ago, readers — even the dickheads — have access to a lot of information. En masse, they have more than you do. It helps to listen to them, even if they're rude about telling you when you're wrong. It helps to be challenged from time to time rather than assume that, because you got the job, you are an unquestioned authority.
Get your hands dirty. Argue what you believe. But don't be afraid to defend your positions or to change your mind if you can't. And don't expect that the strongest challenges you'll get are from your fan club or from polite people.
In other words, suck it up, read your comments, interact with people on Twitter and quit being so damned sensitive.
Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.1. GGC don't think it can get longer than a novella posted on April 14, 2014 at 02:58 PM #
*Raises hand sheepishly.*
Any other deadbloggers here?
So this thread is done.
...For a few weeks after that, I heard "daddy dropped the dang milk" from my oldest. It was the best example of "watch your mouth" that I have ever had. My boys have rarely heard a swear word out of my mouth FWIW after that incident.
There's one website (itself unchanged since 2006) that has a dead link to my blog from the 90s. I would have kept up with it if I knew what a blog was.
Someone who once blogged but now doesn't, I'm assuming.
There used to be a blogroll here at BTF back in the day. I wonder how many of those links would still be live. Folks migrated from place to place over the years. I remember when Cardboard Gods used to be with Baseball Toaster. I liked that little family of blogs. IIRC, Dodger Thoughts was there along with a few others
What's the term for someone who used to blog and who gave up his blog, but the blog got a new owner and is now far more popular than it was under the original owner? Because that's me.
Did Baseball Analysts wither away? It looks like their last post was from 2012.
The purpose of the nanny is to keep BTF pages from showing up in search results for the very words that are censored. It's not for us so much as to keep the riff-raff from finding our quiet little fishing hole. SHHHHHH!
This also affects which context-sensitive ads are seen by those of you without ad blockers.
also "I loves me some..."
One enormous problem with comment sections/discussion boards is that they become communities. The existence of those communities then greatly affects how people conduct their discussions. People become inflexible in their arguments because they don't want to "lose face" in the community. Or they don't bother to make an attempt to understand someone else's argument, because they do want the other person to lose face in the community. Or they just generally "act out" in order to get some sort of a reaction from the community. etc.
I'm on the completely opposite end of the spectrum from Sugar Bear Blanks, Sam, Andy, Publius, et al.
But we all know you're really interested in WWII minutiae.
I can find no recent news about the whereabouts of Rich Lederer, although AFAICT he'd heavily ramped down his writing before the blog just stopped having new posts.
P.S. I actually do remember you as someone I wish still posted here more. Were you the one who once created that all-time shootout among the greatest teams of all time?
I do recall arguing with Bradbury at some point eons ago, but don't recall any tiffs with Morong.
No, the thread I'm thinking about wasn't posted by a Yankees fan. The main thing I remember about it was that it assigned very little relative value to postseason results, and that it overrated the 1954 Indians to the point of absurdity, in large part because it added wildly disproportionate value to a pair of mediocre Cleveland benchwarmers.
Given that it seemed like Lederer's main reason for having the site was to bring attention to Bert Blyleven's campaign for the HOF, maybe he feels like his work is done now.
Any other deadbloggers here? IIRC, Zeth was one. I was disappointed with the lack of feedback, but what really killed DS was lack of time as my life got busier.
Just like the old spam solution: Charge people $1 to comment on your site. Every comment they make, you deduct 2 cents. Pass the comments to an anonymous reviewing system. If it get three strikes, we keep your 2 cents. Otherwise you get it back.
I no longer invest sufficient time in following baseball to have anything worthwhile to say about it in long form. I've become a casual. (Would God that most casuals would realize they have nothing worthwhile to say about sports on the internet.)
lot of us are refugees from rec.sport.baseball (or usenet team groups) and the most prolific troll ( RLM ) would not have been intimidated by the stats. He lived to troll statheads.
I remember writing in around 2008 that at 32 Paul Konerko was unlikely to be a viable major league starter anymore.
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Apple's Decline and the Opportunity it Provides
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Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) share price has recently taken a tumble. But with the kind of available cash that they have, entering into a whole new market seems likely, and with it the rebirth of their stock.
A Lot of Time on A Few Great Things
Apple's latest commercial is less about advertising a product than it is advertising the company. It's not a commercial for the latest iPhone, iPad, or Macbook Pro--it's a commercial for Apple as a whole. A company that "spends a lot of time on a few great things" (quote from commercial), and it's so true. The commercial is almost a tearjerker. With soft piano background music going, it highlights the most joyful parts of life; looking at a child's face light up, a couples' love, and grandparents looking back on the incredible life they've had. If you haven't had the chance to see it, I suggest you do:
Recently Apple's share price has steadily gone downhill, from a high of around $700 to $400 today. This is not because the company is dying, It is because Apple has done such amazing things that everyone expects it to continue to outperform in incredible ways. Profits have stopped their upward climb, and are expected to be about the same as they were last year. This is not something that should be taken lightly. It's never a good sign when a company's profit growth stalls. This is the company's lowest rate of profit growth in decades.
Even though this is the case, I'd pay 10x earnings forever, even if they do stay flat. And if Apple hits the next big thing, which they've been known to do, I'll be sitting pretty. With downside protection and upside exposure, what's not to like? Profit margins have only slightly decreased, while still easily above 20%, compared to Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) profit margin of around 29%, up from 21% the year earlier. So is it fair to count Apple out of the race?
Competition is the Best Motivation
The P/E of Apple is 10.08, while Microsoft's is 17.56. Microsoft provides the competition in computers, and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) provides competition in operating systems, and if anything, this is a great thing. Apple has always been ready to take on anyone, fighting for a chance ever since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the company. If you're wondering which of these investments to make, let's look at their market caps, P/E's, and historical share prices. Then we'll look towards the future.
Microsoft's market cap is far smaller than Apple's, at $284 billion compared to Apple's $395 billion, while Apple's P/E is also lower, as previously mentioned. Google has a P/E of 26 and a market cap of $293 billion. With better price to earnings ratios and a larger market cap than both its competitors, Apple is cheap.
This isn't even taking into consideration the products. iOS has been hailed as perfection, while Windows 8 has received more complaints than any of the previous Windows operating systems. Apple sold 34 million iPhones in the last quarter, while Google Android accounted for 156 million phones. Apple increased its market share of phones by 1.4%, to 39.2% in the time between January and April.
The reason Google Android has such a large market share (45.9%) is because they provide operating systems to LG, Motorola, HTC, and Samsung. Apple, however, makes more money per phone. Apple has a 70% profit margin per iPhone, and sells around 48 million iPhones. At an average price of $300 per iPhone, Apple takes away $210 per iPhone. $210 times the 48 million iPhones sold is 10 billion dollars from phone sales alone.
Android may have a large share of the market, but this isn't to say we should count Apple out for future products. The way Apple is run has always been "different," and they have a track record of coming out with products that revolutionize markets. They aim for the emotions, and their most recent commercials exemplify that. "The experience of a product, how it'll make someone feel. Will it make life better, does it deserve to exist?" (quote from commercial). I can't imagine comparing Apple products to those from Microsoft and Google after that commercial. Apple is saying that Google's Android may have a larger variety of products, but Apple makes products that "deserve to exist." That's bold.
Anything's Possible With an Imagination (And 130 Billion Dollars)
Google has begun developing self-driving car, so will Apple jump in on the high tech automotive industry as well? With almost $130 billion in free cash, Apple has the power to launch into any market it wants to. With such potential comes great responsibility, but we all know that, "Until everything we touch, enhances each life it touches. Only then do we sign our work" (quote from commercial). Apple has been very expensive for a long time, which means that this dip could be the time to buy. A quick look at Apple and its competitor's SEC filings shows that Apple is cheap. Get on board this train while you can.
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