As others have said communication. There are going to be some uncomfortable conversations, they aren’t going to get more comfortable by avoiding them. And the more important conversations you have the better you make the foundation for long-term success. Revisit these conversation at least once a year.

Sex (and what “type” each of you like or want to try), kids, household chore division, finances, etc. The types of affection that you like to give and receive. Make each other feel valued and loved.

You’re Indian and in an arranged marriage there are family/cultural expectations such as having kids until at least 1 boy, wife doing all chores and childcare. Deferment to your parents etc. These are all in fact unimportant in actually having a successful and (hopefully) happy marriage. Always be on each other’s side more than anyone else’s.

If she wants you to take the lead, do so but keep it open for her to say no and listen if she does.

Libraries are generally pretty good for books and audiobooks. Get stuff through libby or hoopla.

Well that’s an interesting Google to find out that Hitler had a nephew who fought with the US navy against the axis.

I guess it depends on the strictness of a dress code but theres usually ways to express and explore even with a set clothing expectation.

It’s a common thing in employment contracts, its where 2wk notice comes from, but more valued positions can have longer notices. It usually works both ways except in certain circumstances. It may or may not actually be legal but if legal could supersede “at will” depending on the specifics.

I think ddg and Google are performing worse because of AI. Pushing their AI services and the tsunami of AI slop make a search harder than SEO did and deprioritizes fixing it.

OP refers to “her” and “she” in other comments. Whatever gender the SO is the overall advice still stands. If your partner says they’re not willing for sex but are ok with oral or a handy then you have to trust that they know themselves. You also have to communicate that you want more sexual release than you’re getting and figure out how that works in.

Y’all been together 10y. Uncomfortable conversations are necessary sometimes. I think you’re going to have to crack some of these eggshells. How you crack them is another thing. I think you gotta start with cracking your own shell about asking. Simply stating you’re horny for example. Whether at that point she’s down for sex, a bj, hj or you have to jerk it in the shower are all valid results of that statement that she has control over. If she says no piv sex but she’ll give you a bj you kinda gotta take her word for it.

My now wife once said she’d give me a bj or sex anytime I asked and I said she underestimated how horny I was. I was right but it was a good week and now she’ll say no if she’s not feeling up to it. A short bit of discomfort, no harm done, longterm benefit where i can ask without coercion worries (usually) and she can respond without being afraid of hurting my feelings or giving me blue balls.

I mean that’s a giant leap for any new friend. Lsd isnt so common that the average person has experience with it. So how to have a good trip and trip safely is a necessary starting point. It’s also a multi hour to days long thing. Thats a heck of a lot of time for most People to spend not working, no family obligations, and no other needs/wants. Basically its a rare population who’s willing to trip and of those willing it’d probably be a once a year thing at best. That said of people willing to trip I would think the music and videos would be about par.

Yo a fellow minivan fan. I wish there were ev versions already. It should be one of the main vehicles for that where it’s just running errands and kids but suvs have seemingly chomped that part of the market up.

Ah the spherical cow problem. Idealized math isn’t always relevant to real world.

That said without doing anything special to earth the atmosphere is (theoretically) responsive. Gravity is a planets way of keeping atmospheric gases, as such it does at least partially confine them. The problem with trying to treat atmosphere as a confined gas is the scale of it which is why you have so many extra considerations mentioned. Even all the co2 we’ve released is only 0.0427% (427ppm) of atmospheric gases. If it didn’t cause a greenhouse effect we probably wouldn’t care.

As people have said you need to change from a negative reason of self-loathing to the positives. Performing better in bed, sleeping better, just generally being less depressed, removing unrealistic expectations in bed, not contributing to exploitation are just some of the benefits.

Just set it as a challenge to yourself to go a month without (how nnn started) and set your own punishment and reward (not porn or sex related) for success or failure. On success (or failure), try again.

Big difference between what should be and what is across a broad spectrum of things right now.

There aren’t any real standards right now obviously. I just personally think the ethical bar for impeachment shouldn’t be in hell though.

SCOTUS can be impeached. Unclear who would run the trial if you’re impeaching Roberts though.

Thomas, Alito, Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett all need to be though.

You and I know thats true and piracy in some cases is shown to increase sales because people decide its worth money and/or talk about it more. Heck some people pirate things they already own just because they’re too lazy to find the copy they own.

Their (incorrect) logic is that if you were pirating you weren’t purchasing their content anyway.

I wouldn’t trust Trump to pour water out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel.

I don’t trust anyone wealthy/powerful enough to be above the law with my family, community, or country. That includes Trump and his entire Cabinet.

So what do people run on their fairphone? Graphene has been the only non mainstream commercial mobile os I’ve heard of even on lemmy.

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