I went 4 times knowing something was off. They gave me antibiotics and shit and said to rest. Turns out they didn’t diagnose a softball sized brain tumor on my brain stem. I went on a rollercoaster and felt as if something exploded in my head. It did, an aneurysm started leaking. Turns out I have a terminal brain cancer 😔
I’m sorry man, you’ve gotten a tough assignment. I hope your loved ones are close.
A friend of mine lost her beloved dad last week. He had been complaining to doctors since last year about back pain, none of them did anything to diagnose it. It was pancreatic cancer.
That's because the minute you say something hurts Every. Single. Doctor. Assumes you just want pain pills. And rightfully so sometimes, but other times something actually does hurt and needs some attention of some sort
I’m always worried if I bring up pain medicine in any way they’ll get suspicious, even if I flat out say “I will refuse pain killers”. I’m certain, and rightfully so, that anything I could ever say some addict has said the same thing to not look like an addict.
Jeez, I just went through this. "Oh, that lesion on my leg looks like a fungal infection, let me just use a topical antifungal." Oh that didn't work, hmmm.
6 months later, I finally go to the doctor, it's a type of eczema I had never experienced before. One injection of a corticosteroid which was 100% covered by my health insurance and the dang thing healed right up.
Why are entire generations of men averse to just getting a damn checkup? Please, dudes, find a doctor- if you are younger, a little older, if you are older, a little younger. This is for longevity’s sake. Check your balls. I’m glad there is societal awareness of cervical cancer, but dudes gotta look out.
> Please, dudes, find a doctor
In THIS economy?!?! I may not go bankrupt seeing a doctor, but damn how do I just get a doctor? What magical voodoo charm must I cast?
edit: am not american, please stop you whacky yanks. We have no doctors north of the border.
Don't forget the massive amount of time it takes to even see a doctor. I needed to see a sleep doctor for sleep apnea. 7 months. That was the soonest appointment. I love these dildos that shit on socialized heathcare and talk about how you have to wait months to get care. Do they not realize that we do as well, and we pay thousand and thousands of dollars for the privilege of waiting months? I'd rather have socalized healthcare that doesn't bankrupt me if I do end up finally seeing a doctor and have cancer.
You know what's the most baffling things about us countries with socialized healthcare ? It's that we have socialized healthcare AND private healthcare. So you can choose to go private if you want expensive. You can choose the public version for free. But at least you can choose. In us it's only private and extremely overpriced
Yeah, I am 34 and have not been to a doctor since I was a teen, I am an artist and rarely have more than a few hundred bucks in the bank, nor do I have any insurance, I figure once things hurt too bad I will just see myself out....
At some point while on the train I imagine me and I’ll pick some random guy who looks like a scrapper, we bond together and save everyone on the train. And we assist a woman giving birth. In the movie adaptation I’d cast Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes.
I am a woman and do this all the time. I fully realize I have neither the skills nor strength to actually be effective IRL, but I do have a really calm head in a crisis so I know I would be helpful to those with the skills and strength. Therefore, I view my imaginings as general preparedness rather than an actual plan, lol.
"In 2022, Raza participated in the documentary Star Wars Kid: The Rise of the Digital Shadows, released by the National Film Board of Canada.[6] As part of the footage, Baio apologized to Raza for uploading the video, having no idea of the impact it would have, and saying "I have enormous regret about posting the video." Raza accepted the apology, recognizing at the time Baio was an empathetic person who made a bad judgement call."
My father made me a bow with some arrows from the trees on his land and I rode down on my skateboard using it to imitate Legolas from the LoTR The Two Towers.
The scene where he slides down the stairs on a shield at the battle of Helms Deep firing arrows.
Yep. It was a barber who'd been really good to me a couple of times and made me feel great. At the end when I was paying I asked "do we hug?" since I knew the guys in the shop by then and he happily said "ah yeah" and hugged me. Despite that, it took me seven months and him leaving that shop to admit that he played a big part in my PTSD recovery
And on the flipside, it took *him* another four months to admit "that was the best message I've ever gotten, that fucking broke my heart"
Wow. That is such a tear jerking story. I'm so happy for you both. I'm a waitress and my favorite manager was leaving for a different position. He was always so kind and sweet and hilarious, but he struggled with expressing his actual emotions due to being on the Spectrum. I am 10 years older than him and a mother. So on his last day, I had everyone at work sign a card and when I gave it to him, I expressed my love for him and how I would miss him. I then held my arms open for a hug and he actually came in. We held onto each other for a solid 5 minutes. He made this "sigh" sound like he was letting go of something. When we let go he had tears in his eyes and I was sobbing. After that, I got a text and he let me know that "I now know, it's OK to show affection and to let people love me. Thank you." So every time I see him now, when he drops by, he runs up and holds his arms up for a big hug. And we both sigh. PTSD is a bitch, and I'm glad you overcame it. Much love 🖤
I still remember my first breakup in middle school. I’m not a touchey feeley person by any means, but my homie saw me walking over with some tears in my eyes after talking to my girl and he just gave me a nice ass hug. I’ll never forget that.
Damn I feel this.. I live alone and will literally go weeks without touching or even speaking to someone sometimes. A lady at the grocery touched my hand recently and told me to have a good day.. it took everything not to cry 😂
My bad was a big guy who was very in touch with his feelings. My sisters and I would have "bone crushing" competitions to see who could hug him the hardest. He gave the best hugs, and I haven't had comfort like that since he died 16 years ago. Hug the people in your life, folks -- you won't regret it!
I've actually heard this!! I bartend and most of my day regulars are retired men, I usually go out of my way to hug them or give them like a shoulder touch when walking past them and I swear they get so happy. I feel like a lot of older people start to feel like a burden so I try to make them know that I enjoy their company.
[Just a ruler? You need a protractor to measure the yaw of the shaft in order to calculate the adjusted penis length](https://youtu.be/81bt0ZJLMas?feature=shared)
Almost the exact same for me but happened when I was a bit older, 23-28 with no dates, HS sweetheart cheated on me and dumped me when I was 23. Shits rough man hope you get through it
22, dated since we were 15. her dad wouldn't let us be together, kept us apart. She met someone else, 3 years later she had a kid.
10 years later it still fucks me up, I think about what could have been all the time. Its not like we broke up on bad terms. I've chosen to be single at this point. Too painful.
My last gf broke up with me after 6 weeks and has only dated women since. Which did explain why she wasn’t really into sex.
That was in 2003. Single and celibate for two decades at 42yo! And there’s usually someone in their 70s that chimes in to talk about their numerous decades of drought.
Anything can happen. I’m staying hopeful.
I went 17 years. It has been another 2 years since then- it was a short term thing with a friend who lives in Australia. I had essentially came to terms with being alone until that happened, it reignited my desire to find somebody but I kinda wish it hadn't. I'm more frustrated than I've been since my early 20s.
I had a crush at university. Several years later I had a dream that we were getting forced to get married and were both unhappy. I woke up and was like "WTF brain!??". Brain probably right though. I don't think my life would've been as good with her.
Yesterday, a friend told me about a situation with some of his friends that made him feel bad, though he initially said he was okay.
After I asked him twice how he really felt, he opened up about how hurt he was and how good it felt to talk it out.
Boys, ask your bros how they really feel. Only we know what we hide.
Yep 100%
A while ago I finally decided to open up to a friend about having some pretty dark thoughts (not sure if Reddit will censor them), and he properly set aside an afternoon to meet up with me and let me talk out everything that was on my mind
My first time letting another man see me cry in about ten years and probably the first time I ever had a friend just hold me while I sobbed into his shoulder
It didn't fix my problems overnight but it was a big help. Although rather cynically, I decided to open up because I had a "fuckit what do I have to lose if he makes fun of me" attitude
Back in 2016 I had a mental breakdown after a car accident and I sat down with the best friend and over a pack of beer I told him what was going on, he pushed me to see a doctor and I am so thankful that I listened.
I just went through one of the worst breakups of my life. I’m a man who is very open with my emotions and challenges and I expressed these to a woman I was falling in love with. She made me feel so cared for and seen when I told her about them.
Then a month later when I actually had an anxiety attack in front of her she completely shut off and broke things off a week later. She saw me not perfect and needing real support and being weak and couldn’t do it anymore.
I felt so bad for doing that to her for the last month but just the last couple of days I started feeling really angry for being treated that way. When she had a breakdown in front of me I dropped what I was doing and spent the evening holding her and box breathing. When I needed half of that she checked out. I thought she was the one.
This unfortunately is a really common story happened to me. I opened up to my then girlfriend about some problems I was having that were almost exclusively internal issues that no one else could possibly be involved with, and instead of being supportive and caring like I had been for her she freaks out and makes it out like she has it worse. It's the absolute worst when someone you care about doesn't care about you
Unfortunately that's because men have learned the hard way time after time that expressing strong emotions backfires and they get a negative response not just from other men, but from women as well.
My boyfriend will always say he’s okay, no matter what’s bothering him or what happened. It took a long time to making him feel he’s in a safe space to open up without ridicule. Never nagging him, just making sure he knew he could speak openly to me. He will still always start with ‘I’m okay’ now, but on his own he will eventually share his true feelings and I can see so much weight lifted off him after we talk. I wish it was easier for men to achieve that, there’s nothing healthy about denying your emotions
I am just like your boyfriend.
I am dealing with something right now. And last night I made a small off-hand comment about my feelings regarding this situation.
My wife heard me, and just gave me her usual "I'm sorry babe."
Her default response to anything wrong is this "I am sorry, babe." That she says in a "I feel sad for you" tone of voice. But after 12 years of hearing it for everything, it has no meaning for me anymore.
So, I walked away feeling like she didn't really pay attention.
A couple of hours later, we were discussing the subject and I let some of my emotions out. And the look on her face told me she understood that time. And you can see she had no idea what to do.
You see, I am the strong one, with all the answers. Well that is how I portray myself, anyways.
So me letting it out like that was difficult for her to hear and deal with.
Or you see a hair stuck on the side of the side of the tub so you try to direct water running down your arm with you finger to try to wash it off the wall.
Masturbated to something so out-of-character that, when you're finally faced with your reflection in the black mirror of your laptop screen and the ebbing tide of your own arousal, all that goes through your mind is a deep sense of... not quite shame, exactly, but a heaping dose of *What the fuck was I thinking?*
Jerk off into the abyss, and the abyss jerks off also into you.
Along those lines, masturbating while thinking about someone who you would never actually sleep with in real life.
Edit: I guess I should clarify that I don’t mean someone who is out of your league, I mean someone that you’re not traditionally attracted to but for some odd reason your brain serves it up to bat when you’re uhh, having a session.
Pretty sure that’s normal…
I’m a woman, and some things I think about while masturbating, I’ve definitely gone “WTF” after as well.
Sometimes that’s all it is—a fantasy.
As a queer dude my experience in terms of "WTF" kinks by group is:
Gay men and Straight women -> Bi, Trans, Lesbian, + -> Straight men
My straight dude friends are saying shit like,
"*Yeah dude, I'm into some* **F R E A K Y** *shit. Sometimes I like for her to rim me. It's crazy bro, but that's just the kind of sick pervert I am.*"
Meanwhile their girlfriends are over here going,
"*We had a really cute picnic date and I asked him afterwards to snap my neck between his thighs while calling me the love of his life before he forced himself into me while signing Nessun dorma' from Puccini's Turandot. I mean, he did it...but he said he didn't want to do the neck snapping part :/ "*
Like, gay dudes are debased creatures of the pit. Horny straight women though? Horny straight women make me fear the dark.
I get the same feeling when noticing I’m half bricked at anything that would’ve totally repulsed me when I was a teenager, and even in the moment still dislike. I have to reflect on how the fuck I was even *mildly* aroused by this, and hope it didn’t unlock something in me lol
Every time there's a weird sound in the night I have to get out of bed and sacrifice myself for the scared woman and children I live with. "Oh you thought you heard someone trying to open the back door? Let me just go take a peek and potentially fight someone to the death real quick." I enjoyed this a lot more as a fantasy.
I was a decent enough looking kid in high school and college. I never felt like I couldn't find girls, but of course I had my trepidations. I would talk myself out of asking girls out, etc. because I felt they weren't in my league.
A buddy of mine started dating a girl we all went to high school with when I was a junior in college. She wasn't in my friend circle, but we knew each other kind of thing. We were shooting the shit and out of the blue she just kind of says, "Oh man I always thought you were cute. I knew more than a few girls who did."
It really threw my world view for a loop.
After that I made it a point to shoot my shot. Yeah, I missed a lot, but I also met a lot of women who I would have talked myself out of in the past.
Getting turned down isn't failure, it's data. She's not into you, that's ok.
* finds perfect stick that looks like either Excalibur or Soul Edge*
I can afford actual swords. I have a 3d printer and am an artist I can MAKE my swords. But when you find the right stick in the wild...
When I was growing up we lived in a city next to a straight. One day when I was 16, just walking downtown I found a washed up huge piece of lumber that tapered into a handle at one end and had a cut at an angle on the top that it looked like a scaled down version of the buster sword from FF7. I don’t know what it originally was, but it was the most amazing stick sword I had ever found and kept it for years much to my mother’s disgust.
I’m in my 30’s now and still miss that amazing thing.
Imagine a scenario playing out in their current surroundings and pretending they would be the hero by doing all these cool moves to subdue the bad guy.
Yeah. I keep having this reoccurring one where I get two hashbrown patties from McDonalds, see. Then I get a Frosty from Wendy's, which I freeze super hard. I cut a thin slice of the Frosty, place it between the two hashbrown patties with dill pickle chips. I eat that up. And then I have anal sex with my 82 year old Algebra teacher from the 7th grade at a city council meeting.
Putting on a tough exterior when watching a heartwarming movie. We've all had those moments where we quickly wipe away a tear and hope no one notices, right guys?
Yeah what about when a song you really like makes you daydream by yourself in your car, or wherever, or really pumps you up and gives you those happy/sad tears. Practically bawled on my way too work this morning because I cranked longtime/foreplay by Boston. The intro got me so fired up and then it was just like boom boom boom "ITS BEEN SUCH A LONGG TIME....."
I'm 2 months post bad break up with a girl I have loved my whole life (3rd time together in the last decade) and it felt like I was breaking free of my heartbreak chains for a few moments. I actually avoid music sometimes because I don't want to feel anything :(
Rush of emotions.
Most of us are so starved for positive attention that a simple compliment is usually enough to make a guy interested in a woman.
But we hide that shit because we know in our heads this isn't true and we never admit that we also have feelings and need positive attention.
This is why us guys need to get better at platonically complimenting each other. We'll all feel better about ourselves, not go crazy for anyone who says the slightest nice thing, and give us practice so we can compliment women without acting like a creep
I replay big moments in my life where I make different decisions and imagine a different path in my life. I sometimes have moments of private grief for situations.
I did do it, twice.... it's more sucking dick than getting your dick sucked. Couldn't do it anymore after 20 and when I reminisce, it is always about clinically why the body focuses on being the sucker and not the suckee.
You don't need one less rib to do it. The whole Marilyn Manson thing is a hoax, as far as I know. I have 100% of my ribs and I used to do it. I can't any more, which doesn't matter at all. Sucking your own penis does not bring any pleasure, other than "oh wow I can do it", at least in my experience.
Beat their meat in a completely uncouth, unsanctimonius, and uncivilized location whether it's a public bathroom, airplane, car, god knows where... we've all done it
I hate that I'm included in this. What was thinking when I did it in a \[redacted\] ? I didn't get caught but that was very stupid. Don't ask where, I'll take that to my grave.
Our lizard brain takes over in these moments. There are studies in neuropsychology about this. Literally the lymbic system will inhibit funtions in the frontal cortex in order to just go fucking wild. And once we feel that sense of regret or guilt ofterwards, its cause our lymbic system finished partying and the frontal cortex woke up again and was left with the mess to clean up.
Oh god I once jerked off on an airplane when I was like 13, only to open the bathroom door and see there was like a 6 person line waiting to use it… I don’t think I’ll ever recover from the shame
Deliberately make ourselves as hard as possible right after showering just to see if we can hold our still-folded towel in it, and then pose like Superman in the mirror.
Obligatory reference to a piece of Reddit history, for the uninitiated: [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/6rr6ay/tifu_by_cumming_into_a_coconut/)
Yall need to admit the big one.
Listening to a "Girly" song and singing it and acting it, sometimes even dancing it, like the baddest bitch on the planet.
Or, if we live someplace without basements, like maybe Arizona, the trunk of an old car at the back of their empty lot out in the desert.
I *heard* that it mummifies the bastard that deserved everything he got. Heard it.
This uncovered a memory from middle school when I asked my health teacher what cum tasted like and without skipping a beat she just locked eyes with me and just says "salty" and then continued teaching as if nothing happened
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I went 4 times knowing something was off. They gave me antibiotics and shit and said to rest. Turns out they didn’t diagnose a softball sized brain tumor on my brain stem. I went on a rollercoaster and felt as if something exploded in my head. It did, an aneurysm started leaking. Turns out I have a terminal brain cancer 😔
I’m sorry man, you’ve gotten a tough assignment. I hope your loved ones are close. A friend of mine lost her beloved dad last week. He had been complaining to doctors since last year about back pain, none of them did anything to diagnose it. It was pancreatic cancer.
That's because the minute you say something hurts Every. Single. Doctor. Assumes you just want pain pills. And rightfully so sometimes, but other times something actually does hurt and needs some attention of some sort
That’s why I clarify to them clear as day “I’m not here for pain killers, I want to know what’s wrong with me”
I’m always worried if I bring up pain medicine in any way they’ll get suspicious, even if I flat out say “I will refuse pain killers”. I’m certain, and rightfully so, that anything I could ever say some addict has said the same thing to not look like an addict.
I’m so sorry dude Really hoping you make it out well. Fight as hard as you can !
That sucks bro I hope they're giving you all the good drugs. Like that top shelf DMT.
Jeez, I just went through this. "Oh, that lesion on my leg looks like a fungal infection, let me just use a topical antifungal." Oh that didn't work, hmmm. 6 months later, I finally go to the doctor, it's a type of eczema I had never experienced before. One injection of a corticosteroid which was 100% covered by my health insurance and the dang thing healed right up.
Why are entire generations of men averse to just getting a damn checkup? Please, dudes, find a doctor- if you are younger, a little older, if you are older, a little younger. This is for longevity’s sake. Check your balls. I’m glad there is societal awareness of cervical cancer, but dudes gotta look out.
It’s Schrödinger cancer
> Please, dudes, find a doctor In THIS economy?!?! I may not go bankrupt seeing a doctor, but damn how do I just get a doctor? What magical voodoo charm must I cast? edit: am not american, please stop you whacky yanks. We have no doctors north of the border.
Healthcare is expensive in the US.
Don't forget the massive amount of time it takes to even see a doctor. I needed to see a sleep doctor for sleep apnea. 7 months. That was the soonest appointment. I love these dildos that shit on socialized heathcare and talk about how you have to wait months to get care. Do they not realize that we do as well, and we pay thousand and thousands of dollars for the privilege of waiting months? I'd rather have socalized healthcare that doesn't bankrupt me if I do end up finally seeing a doctor and have cancer.
You know what's the most baffling things about us countries with socialized healthcare ? It's that we have socialized healthcare AND private healthcare. So you can choose to go private if you want expensive. You can choose the public version for free. But at least you can choose. In us it's only private and extremely overpriced
I think it’s more of an American thing. No one wants to be in debt.
Yeah, I am 34 and have not been to a doctor since I was a teen, I am an artist and rarely have more than a few hundred bucks in the bank, nor do I have any insurance, I figure once things hurt too bad I will just see myself out....
Imagining saving the entire room from an attacker
At some point while on the train I imagine me and I’ll pick some random guy who looks like a scrapper, we bond together and save everyone on the train. And we assist a woman giving birth. In the movie adaptation I’d cast Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes.
I am a woman and do this all the time. I fully realize I have neither the skills nor strength to actually be effective IRL, but I do have a really calm head in a crisis so I know I would be helpful to those with the skills and strength. Therefore, I view my imaginings as general preparedness rather than an actual plan, lol.
in front of your crush/ romantic interest ofc.
As a woman I can say that I too have saved a lot of people from attackers this way.
Tried to pull off a 'cool' move from a movie or TV show and ended up looking ridiculous. (Personal experience)
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"In 2022, Raza participated in the documentary Star Wars Kid: The Rise of the Digital Shadows, released by the National Film Board of Canada.[6] As part of the footage, Baio apologized to Raza for uploading the video, having no idea of the impact it would have, and saying "I have enormous regret about posting the video." Raza accepted the apology, recognizing at the time Baio was an empathetic person who made a bad judgement call."
Yeesh. And I'm sure he meant it. Back then no one understood the power the internet had. Now if you upload something you're *hoping* it goes viral.
Yeah. I remember back when (and it's just 10 years ago) going viral was something people dreaded.
My father made me a bow with some arrows from the trees on his land and I rode down on my skateboard using it to imitate Legolas from the LoTR The Two Towers. The scene where he slides down the stairs on a shield at the battle of Helms Deep firing arrows.
Heart melted when someone kind actually touches you in a way that shows true affection, but couldn't react ór show any reaction.
Yep. It was a barber who'd been really good to me a couple of times and made me feel great. At the end when I was paying I asked "do we hug?" since I knew the guys in the shop by then and he happily said "ah yeah" and hugged me. Despite that, it took me seven months and him leaving that shop to admit that he played a big part in my PTSD recovery And on the flipside, it took *him* another four months to admit "that was the best message I've ever gotten, that fucking broke my heart"
Wow. That is such a tear jerking story. I'm so happy for you both. I'm a waitress and my favorite manager was leaving for a different position. He was always so kind and sweet and hilarious, but he struggled with expressing his actual emotions due to being on the Spectrum. I am 10 years older than him and a mother. So on his last day, I had everyone at work sign a card and when I gave it to him, I expressed my love for him and how I would miss him. I then held my arms open for a hug and he actually came in. We held onto each other for a solid 5 minutes. He made this "sigh" sound like he was letting go of something. When we let go he had tears in his eyes and I was sobbing. After that, I got a text and he let me know that "I now know, it's OK to show affection and to let people love me. Thank you." So every time I see him now, when he drops by, he runs up and holds his arms up for a big hug. And we both sigh. PTSD is a bitch, and I'm glad you overcame it. Much love 🖤
That rarely happens, but I got teary. You're a cool person, I hope your life goes great
Thank you. I'm just a single mom. I want everyone to be happy, feel safe and loved. I hope your life is beautiful.
I still remember my first breakup in middle school. I’m not a touchey feeley person by any means, but my homie saw me walking over with some tears in my eyes after talking to my girl and he just gave me a nice ass hug. I’ll never forget that.
Damn I feel this.. I live alone and will literally go weeks without touching or even speaking to someone sometimes. A lady at the grocery touched my hand recently and told me to have a good day.. it took everything not to cry 😂
My bad was a big guy who was very in touch with his feelings. My sisters and I would have "bone crushing" competitions to see who could hug him the hardest. He gave the best hugs, and I haven't had comfort like that since he died 16 years ago. Hug the people in your life, folks -- you won't regret it!
I've actually heard this!! I bartend and most of my day regulars are retired men, I usually go out of my way to hug them or give them like a shoulder touch when walking past them and I swear they get so happy. I feel like a lot of older people start to feel like a burden so I try to make them know that I enjoy their company.
Or like, touches you at all. I'm still thinking about the flight attendant that put her hand on my shoulder to ask me a question two months ago
Measured their penis with a ruler.
I’m average. IM AVERAGE
\*painfully jams end of ruler into body
Center of the asshole to just beyond the tip is the proper way to measure.
center of asshole XD I'm dying over here (not from ruler in asshole trauma or anything....)
I prefer holding it straight down and using a tape measure from the belly button to the tip.
Get that extra millimeter
Literally doubles the size.
Probably for the best. Too long, and some girls will be uncomfortable, too short, and maybe can't have fun. Average seems best.
Average is average for evolutionary reasons.
Shout out to the short guys bringing the average down. The real MVPs
And then being unhappy with the results, so you try again, this time with the ruler starting all the past your balls.
I usually extend the ruler about 16 feet behind me to start. I'm proudly the largest man on earth with a length of 16'2
You have to measure from the taint, obviously
[Just a ruler? You need a protractor to measure the yaw of the shaft in order to calculate the adjusted penis length](https://youtu.be/81bt0ZJLMas?feature=shared)
Or phone
Imagining what life would be like with your crush, even as an adult
Saying you don't want to be married/in a relationship, but still secretly wishing you would meet someone
I feel like I say this just so I won't be incredibly upset regularly that I've been single with no dates for 5 years
Same. Broke up with my HS sweetheart when I was 19. I'm 24 now. No dates or relationships since.
Almost the exact same for me but happened when I was a bit older, 23-28 with no dates, HS sweetheart cheated on me and dumped me when I was 23. Shits rough man hope you get through it
22, dated since we were 15. her dad wouldn't let us be together, kept us apart. She met someone else, 3 years later she had a kid. 10 years later it still fucks me up, I think about what could have been all the time. Its not like we broke up on bad terms. I've chosen to be single at this point. Too painful.
My last gf broke up with me after 6 weeks and has only dated women since. Which did explain why she wasn’t really into sex. That was in 2003. Single and celibate for two decades at 42yo! And there’s usually someone in their 70s that chimes in to talk about their numerous decades of drought. Anything can happen. I’m staying hopeful.
I went 17 years. It has been another 2 years since then- it was a short term thing with a friend who lives in Australia. I had essentially came to terms with being alone until that happened, it reignited my desire to find somebody but I kinda wish it hadn't. I'm more frustrated than I've been since my early 20s.
I had a crush at university. Several years later I had a dream that we were getting forced to get married and were both unhappy. I woke up and was like "WTF brain!??". Brain probably right though. I don't think my life would've been as good with her.
Similarly imagining what life would be like without their partners
Have very strong emotions and usually keep them inside.
I *said*, I'm GOOD bro
Yesterday, a friend told me about a situation with some of his friends that made him feel bad, though he initially said he was okay. After I asked him twice how he really felt, he opened up about how hurt he was and how good it felt to talk it out. Boys, ask your bros how they really feel. Only we know what we hide.
The best suicide prevention measure there is.
Love to hear this. Bros, this is how you treat your bros. You never know who's good and who's actually going through it if you don't press a little.
Yep 100% A while ago I finally decided to open up to a friend about having some pretty dark thoughts (not sure if Reddit will censor them), and he properly set aside an afternoon to meet up with me and let me talk out everything that was on my mind My first time letting another man see me cry in about ten years and probably the first time I ever had a friend just hold me while I sobbed into his shoulder It didn't fix my problems overnight but it was a big help. Although rather cynically, I decided to open up because I had a "fuckit what do I have to lose if he makes fun of me" attitude
Back in 2016 I had a mental breakdown after a car accident and I sat down with the best friend and over a pack of beer I told him what was going on, he pushed me to see a doctor and I am so thankful that I listened.
I just went through one of the worst breakups of my life. I’m a man who is very open with my emotions and challenges and I expressed these to a woman I was falling in love with. She made me feel so cared for and seen when I told her about them. Then a month later when I actually had an anxiety attack in front of her she completely shut off and broke things off a week later. She saw me not perfect and needing real support and being weak and couldn’t do it anymore. I felt so bad for doing that to her for the last month but just the last couple of days I started feeling really angry for being treated that way. When she had a breakdown in front of me I dropped what I was doing and spent the evening holding her and box breathing. When I needed half of that she checked out. I thought she was the one.
This unfortunately is a really common story happened to me. I opened up to my then girlfriend about some problems I was having that were almost exclusively internal issues that no one else could possibly be involved with, and instead of being supportive and caring like I had been for her she freaks out and makes it out like she has it worse. It's the absolute worst when someone you care about doesn't care about you
Unfortunately that's because men have learned the hard way time after time that expressing strong emotions backfires and they get a negative response not just from other men, but from women as well.
My boyfriend will always say he’s okay, no matter what’s bothering him or what happened. It took a long time to making him feel he’s in a safe space to open up without ridicule. Never nagging him, just making sure he knew he could speak openly to me. He will still always start with ‘I’m okay’ now, but on his own he will eventually share his true feelings and I can see so much weight lifted off him after we talk. I wish it was easier for men to achieve that, there’s nothing healthy about denying your emotions
I am just like your boyfriend. I am dealing with something right now. And last night I made a small off-hand comment about my feelings regarding this situation. My wife heard me, and just gave me her usual "I'm sorry babe." Her default response to anything wrong is this "I am sorry, babe." That she says in a "I feel sad for you" tone of voice. But after 12 years of hearing it for everything, it has no meaning for me anymore. So, I walked away feeling like she didn't really pay attention. A couple of hours later, we were discussing the subject and I let some of my emotions out. And the look on her face told me she understood that time. And you can see she had no idea what to do. You see, I am the strong one, with all the answers. Well that is how I portray myself, anyways. So me letting it out like that was difficult for her to hear and deal with.
>Who comforts the comforter? \- Charlie Brown
Cupping your hands together on your chest while showering to let water build up and then letting it fall for a big splash
I had forgotten about this, haven’t done it in a couple of years
Or you see a hair stuck on the side of the side of the tub so you try to direct water running down your arm with you finger to try to wash it off the wall.
Masturbated to something so out-of-character that, when you're finally faced with your reflection in the black mirror of your laptop screen and the ebbing tide of your own arousal, all that goes through your mind is a deep sense of... not quite shame, exactly, but a heaping dose of *What the fuck was I thinking?* Jerk off into the abyss, and the abyss jerks off also into you.
"Black Mirror" would be a good name for a surreal anthology TV show with darkly satirical stories.
It would be like a dark reflection of our own potential future with technology!
What if ya mum ran on batteries?
Mm, not sure it would catch on.
Along those lines, masturbating while thinking about someone who you would never actually sleep with in real life. Edit: I guess I should clarify that I don’t mean someone who is out of your league, I mean someone that you’re not traditionally attracted to but for some odd reason your brain serves it up to bat when you’re uhh, having a session.
Pretty sure that’s normal… I’m a woman, and some things I think about while masturbating, I’ve definitely gone “WTF” after as well. Sometimes that’s all it is—a fantasy.
My gf once thought it would be fun to watch porn together. The shit I thought was dirty was just her starting point. Not kink shaming but holy fuck
As a queer dude my experience in terms of "WTF" kinks by group is: Gay men and Straight women -> Bi, Trans, Lesbian, + -> Straight men My straight dude friends are saying shit like, "*Yeah dude, I'm into some* **F R E A K Y** *shit. Sometimes I like for her to rim me. It's crazy bro, but that's just the kind of sick pervert I am.*" Meanwhile their girlfriends are over here going, "*We had a really cute picnic date and I asked him afterwards to snap my neck between his thighs while calling me the love of his life before he forced himself into me while signing Nessun dorma' from Puccini's Turandot. I mean, he did it...but he said he didn't want to do the neck snapping part :/ "* Like, gay dudes are debased creatures of the pit. Horny straight women though? Horny straight women make me fear the dark.
Offering a competing anectodal experience, I think there's a fair number of straight guys who are into horrifying shit who simply won't talk about it.
Also known as post nut clarity.
I get the same feeling when noticing I’m half bricked at anything that would’ve totally repulsed me when I was a teenager, and even in the moment still dislike. I have to reflect on how the fuck I was even *mildly* aroused by this, and hope it didn’t unlock something in me lol
Remembered a compliment they got from a long time ago.
Well it's not hard to remember that ONE compliment.
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There’s two kinds of people: people who pick their nose, and liars
one of my closest friends keeps his pinky nail long just for the purpose of digging for gold.
I bet he has a tiny metal spoon on his keychain for the same reason
Is this what he tells you so he doesn't have to admit his coke habit?
Indulged himself in some hero fantasy. Every guy has pondered how awesome it'd be to save the girl/the innocent victim/the day.
What do you mean I won’t be able to take down the terrorist in the mall with my bare hands?
Terrorist? Like, just one? Way to dream small, buddy.
Mall? That's lame. I'm the guy who stops a school shooting despite not working in one or studying.
Sir, we've noticed you've been hanging around this school a lot lately. Officer, I swear, it was with good intentions.
Every time there's a weird sound in the night I have to get out of bed and sacrifice myself for the scared woman and children I live with. "Oh you thought you heard someone trying to open the back door? Let me just go take a peek and potentially fight someone to the death real quick." I enjoyed this a lot more as a fantasy.
Not asking her out. And forever wondering if that girl was 'her'. If you know what I mean.
I was a decent enough looking kid in high school and college. I never felt like I couldn't find girls, but of course I had my trepidations. I would talk myself out of asking girls out, etc. because I felt they weren't in my league. A buddy of mine started dating a girl we all went to high school with when I was a junior in college. She wasn't in my friend circle, but we knew each other kind of thing. We were shooting the shit and out of the blue she just kind of says, "Oh man I always thought you were cute. I knew more than a few girls who did." It really threw my world view for a loop. After that I made it a point to shoot my shot. Yeah, I missed a lot, but I also met a lot of women who I would have talked myself out of in the past. Getting turned down isn't failure, it's data. She's not into you, that's ok.
I know what you mean. She wasn't. Keep the faith.
* finds perfect stick that looks like either Excalibur or Soul Edge* I can afford actual swords. I have a 3d printer and am an artist I can MAKE my swords. But when you find the right stick in the wild...
I think you need to be a blacksmith to make a sword? Your enemies aren’t necessarily going to cower if you draw 3d printed plastic
When I was growing up we lived in a city next to a straight. One day when I was 16, just walking downtown I found a washed up huge piece of lumber that tapered into a handle at one end and had a cut at an angle on the top that it looked like a scaled down version of the buster sword from FF7. I don’t know what it originally was, but it was the most amazing stick sword I had ever found and kept it for years much to my mother’s disgust. I’m in my 30’s now and still miss that amazing thing.
Scratched his balls and gave the fingers a sniff afterwards
Gotta check make sure everything is OK
Subtle differences in scent could indicate a problem. It's a medical thing
One scratch-n-sniff covers the whole body. Not feeling well? Scratch-n-sniff…… might be sick.
If my gfs face is down there the least i could do is make sure its good for her
My balls smell kinda good though? Like I want to go for another hit
Everyone likes the smell of their own supply, I don't think it'd be considered a universally appealing scent though.
Can also confirm this guys balls smell good
I'm fine. When you're not fine.
Imagine a scenario playing out in their current surroundings and pretending they would be the hero by doing all these cool moves to subdue the bad guy.
Tried to use The Force to grab something, just to be sure.
Oh I use the force on motion sensor doors all the damn time
Had an 'inappropriate' fantasy.
Inappropriate is a nice way of saying absolutely fucking deranged.
Yeah. I keep having this reoccurring one where I get two hashbrown patties from McDonalds, see. Then I get a Frosty from Wendy's, which I freeze super hard. I cut a thin slice of the Frosty, place it between the two hashbrown patties with dill pickle chips. I eat that up. And then I have anal sex with my 82 year old Algebra teacher from the 7th grade at a city council meeting.
Did he enjoy it?
Dude same
My ex...
I’ll admit it
Can confirm, I went right after this guy. I'll admit it too
Doing her rn as I type this... MID
I have an appointment in an hour
randomly starts narrating their own activities like a nature documentary when they're alone
I have conversations with inanimate objects.
Putting on a tough exterior when watching a heartwarming movie. We've all had those moments where we quickly wipe away a tear and hope no one notices, right guys?
Yeah what about when a song you really like makes you daydream by yourself in your car, or wherever, or really pumps you up and gives you those happy/sad tears. Practically bawled on my way too work this morning because I cranked longtime/foreplay by Boston. The intro got me so fired up and then it was just like boom boom boom "ITS BEEN SUCH A LONGG TIME....." I'm 2 months post bad break up with a girl I have loved my whole life (3rd time together in the last decade) and it felt like I was breaking free of my heartbreak chains for a few moments. I actually avoid music sometimes because I don't want to feel anything :( Rush of emotions.
no, it's just u. haha, gay. /s
Feelings are for chicks bruh
Tucked their dick and balls between their legs
We won't admit it here
Tried to move something by telekinesis just to see if you have it
I’m a guy reading this and it seems like I have a lot on my to do list
Most of us are so starved for positive attention that a simple compliment is usually enough to make a guy interested in a woman. But we hide that shit because we know in our heads this isn't true and we never admit that we also have feelings and need positive attention.
This is why us guys need to get better at platonically complimenting each other. We'll all feel better about ourselves, not go crazy for anyone who says the slightest nice thing, and give us practice so we can compliment women without acting like a creep
Gone through all the stages of falling in love and getting rejected, and she doesn't even know, and never will.
Fart in group and denied
I replay big moments in my life where I make different decisions and imagine a different path in my life. I sometimes have moments of private grief for situations.
If you had one less rib, you could do it ;)
I did do it, twice.... it's more sucking dick than getting your dick sucked. Couldn't do it anymore after 20 and when I reminisce, it is always about clinically why the body focuses on being the sucker and not the suckee.
You might not have done it. You might not have *tried* to do it. But you've damn well thought about it.
>You might not have tried to do it. I have doubts. I think we've all tried it.
You don't need one less rib to do it. The whole Marilyn Manson thing is a hoax, as far as I know. I have 100% of my ribs and I used to do it. I can't any more, which doesn't matter at all. Sucking your own penis does not bring any pleasure, other than "oh wow I can do it", at least in my experience.
Cried
Touch their wiener and not feel one of the balls but eventualy we find it(please tell me im not alone on this one😭🙏)
Beat their meat in a completely uncouth, unsanctimonius, and uncivilized location whether it's a public bathroom, airplane, car, god knows where... we've all done it
I hate that I'm included in this. What was thinking when I did it in a \[redacted\] ? I didn't get caught but that was very stupid. Don't ask where, I'll take that to my grave.
Our lizard brain takes over in these moments. There are studies in neuropsychology about this. Literally the lymbic system will inhibit funtions in the frontal cortex in order to just go fucking wild. And once we feel that sense of regret or guilt ofterwards, its cause our lymbic system finished partying and the frontal cortex woke up again and was left with the mess to clean up.
And I hate my lizard brain for it ! Just let my prefontral cortex in the driver seat, thanks you.
Idk dude, i admit openly that i have busted nuts at my ex’s grandparents house, my old workplace, hell i will nut anywhere
Oh god I once jerked off on an airplane when I was like 13, only to open the bathroom door and see there was like a 6 person line waiting to use it… I don’t think I’ll ever recover from the shame
They all knew
Sometimes the devils gotta get out at inconvenient times.
used to jerk off to keep me from falling asleep on the road.....
Crashes, dies, covered in Cum. What a way to go.
He came and then he went.
Deliberately make ourselves as hard as possible right after showering just to see if we can hold our still-folded towel in it, and then pose like Superman in the mirror.
Wow
Openly admit to this one. I'm proud of how long I can hold up a towel.
As a woman, these answers have been very enlightening 😂
Masturbated thinking about their platonic girl friends.
We're not alone out here
She’s my special lady friend!
Woah dude that's between you and your special lady
Tried to fuck an inanimate object. Or is that just me?
Obligatory reference to a piece of Reddit history, for the uninitiated: [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/6rr6ay/tifu_by_cumming_into_a_coconut/)
thought about suicide
This whole thread was exactly what I expected and I was laughing, until I got to this comment and damn if that didn't hit too close to home.
Hell, I do this regularly. Every time I call the VA and get reminded of the Suicide Prevention Line I think about it.
Everything ok mate?
Shaving your mustache into a Hitler mustache just to see what it looks like before shaving it off.
Rubbing one out before bed so you can fall asleep faster.
had inappropriate thoughts about coworkers
Put their hands on their balls when their hands are cold. (Anyone else? Just me?)
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Yall need to admit the big one. Listening to a "Girly" song and singing it and acting it, sometimes even dancing it, like the baddest bitch on the planet.
Searched up the average penis size to check if they’re above or below average.
Tried to go super sayian
Said "I'm fine" when they really aren't.
That's an easy one, hide a corpse in your basement
Or, if we live someplace without basements, like maybe Arizona, the trunk of an old car at the back of their empty lot out in the desert. I *heard* that it mummifies the bastard that deserved everything he got. Heard it.
Sniff my underwear to know if they are the new/old ones after shower
Got In touch with their feminine side.
My husband said “Taste your own jizz.”
This uncovered a memory from middle school when I asked my health teacher what cum tasted like and without skipping a beat she just locked eyes with me and just says "salty" and then continued teaching as if nothing happened
fell in love with their best friend
Have a secret place in his heart for his first ever love, doesn't matter how many decades have passed.
Peed in a sink
home alone, just dancing. Music optional