Getting into marriage in this context seems like a recipe for creating financial and legal stresses for a future you if a divorce happens. The rules of engagement, so to speak, change once you get married and it can create a lot of misery that just co-habitating or co-parenting avoid. Divorce is a whole other level than breaking up.

Also just because her parents are rich, doesn’t mean they’ll share it with you - or not use it as a way to control you

I’m gonna start referring to them as that, moving forward

Hey man, don’t harsh my brain’s knee jerk attempts at coping

Dammit. It’s not an Onion post

Useful clarification, thank you. I’m not sure where my vision is at. I definitely do the thing of taking my glasses off and back on depending on what I am doing. But even with them off I’m starting to find some print hard to read — mainly the small print on products. I’ll have to see. I’m overdue for a new prescription. Also getting intermittent splotches of white in my periphery so that’s a new fun thing to worry about.

Reminders of aging bodies + of capitalism’s negative impact on us: this post has not cheered me up today lol

I appreciate the clarifications, thanks! Yeah, I agree on that slow creep of vision loss. I’ve been nearsighted a long time and am now losing my reading distance vision. But I can still read without glasses, and so I do. But it’s probably not as sharp, and I suspect that might lead me to read less than I otherwise would

I don’t understand this statement, tbh. Or the odd antagonism of it. Are you saying all people above the age of 42 need to be wearing progressive glasses?

Exactly

Apologies, I thought adjustment just related to the frames. Would they be swapping lenses, in this case?

Sounds costly. And, at what point do you know they are properly aligned or not?

I mean, given all this, how tf is a layperson supposed to get the right product?

Nice, thank you. I just have a Lodge. Haven’t had any gripes about it, but curious what difference would come from leveling up

What is above Victoria?

My first slam of the day! I feel safer

I’m on mbin, after kbin. It’s clunky but passable. I wish they’d get rid of some of the aternative jargon (thread vs post vs magazine) among other changes

There’s that echo chamber at play

Yes it is. Because immediately you are faced with having to pick a server. And then grasp and navigate the fediverse, which depending on the use case is not as straightforward. There’s generally more hoops to make things happen. Depending on the server you pick, the UI is not all that intuitive. And then you have things like mbin forks which swap terminology.

More broadly, any therapist who does parts work, which is not limited to IFS

Apparently it got bought by Proton, but Standard Notes has been my brain dump forum for years now. I love it

Thank you. I disabled the google app (which I tbh low key don’t know what it even does)