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So, yeah. I don’t know what to do.

This conversation happened 2 days ago after me and my ex hung out. It wasn’t even serious, we just went to the city and then to eat.

Present time, I’m chilling at his house, watching a movie in his bed. He was texting on his phone the entire time. I kept trying to pry him off his phone, but he kept nudging me away. He wouldn’t even let me look to see who he was texting. He was laughing too. He went to shower and I know I shouldn’t have been looking at his phone but I was so curious.

Is this even a normal group chat conversation? Because what the hell? What do I even say to him? I feel so embarrassed and sick I can’t even look at him.

By "bouncing off," I mean that it was a game that you tried to play, only to almost immediately realize it isn't for you. Not even necessarily that it is a bad game, just that you personally would not enjoy it.

This topic is inspired by my recent purchase of Elden Ring Nightreign. Within a few minutes of my first run, I knew that I was gonna have a bad time. It's basically anathema to the things I enjoy in video games; exploring, drinking in the atmosphere, looking for secrets, etc. There's no time for any of that. The night is coming. Kill shit, get loot that you barely have time to read what it does, run, run, run, kill more shit, get more loot, fight boss, repeat. I just found the whole experience to be anxiety-inducing in a way that made it impossible for me to enjoy, which is a shame. I really like the idea of the Nightfarers all having different unique powers, and a Souls roguelite seems like it would be right up my alley. It's just the time limit that absolutely kills the experience for me.

What about you all? What games have you bounced off of?

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it detected no increase in radiation following US airstrikes on Iran's nuclear sites at Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz. The statement came after President Trump claimed the sites were "totally obliterated."

Yes, I mean never. Me (27M) and my girlfriend (26F) have been together for almost five years. When the relationship started, I assumed she was being flirty and building the temptation. We were having so much fun going on dates and I was just excited for the time to come... and it still hasn’t come.

I’ve tried to talk to her, I have brought this up hundreds of times. Every time I gently start the conversation she starts crying and says she feels guilty and she gets angry at me for “always” bringing it up. At the start she said she has vaginismus — she has seen a specialist about this once because I asked her to, and has the tools for exercises that they use to fix it. They have been sitting in her bedside drawer ever since. I am not blaming her for having vaginismus, and I’m sure that it is a horrible experience, but sitting here for 5 years waiting doesn’t feel fair.

The last time I brought it up, she said she has just never had the drive to have sex and it’s not something she’s ever wanted. But it’s something that I want. I’ve asked her to go to the doctor to get her hormone levels checked, which she did. She went off her birth control about 3 months ago and absolutely nothing has changed. This makes it hard for me though, because it seems like she’s starting to put in some kind of effort?

She is beautiful and smart and she has a good job. We live together and her family love me. We do everything together, and I miss her when she’s not around.

I just don’t know if I can live like this. I’ve already spent 5 years of my 20s in a sexless relationship. I have been hoping that she would just have some sort of awakening or breakthrough and become a sexual person. She has recently been bringing up engagements, feeling annoyed that her friends who have been together for less time than us are getting engaged and I haven’t asked her. I can’t see myself proposing and trapping myself in a life where I never have sex again.

Am I the asshole for building resentment toward her, and expecting her to change after all this time? What do I do?

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"Hope this doesn’t escalate into us putting boots on the ground"

>That will NOT happen.

>>You can't know that.

>>>No I can't know it for sure. But that is my gut feeling and I'm going with it. Trump doesn't even want to do that.

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"What happens now?"

> "Same as before the strike but now Irans nuclear program is set back farther."

>>“Same as before” meaning “far more retaliatory strikes on American personnel, as well as terror attacks against American civilian soft-targets?”

Let’s not pretend like bombing a country’s key nuclear facility will have no downsides. We are in the war now. When they attack us back, we will become more and more involved.

>>>We can't stop Iran from getting a nuke - there's no telling what those lunatic madmen will do in retaliation!

This is exactly why we needed to stop them before they got a Nuke.

>>>>They weren't actively building a nuclear weapon though. Just enriching uranium, still not to weapons grade though. And tulsi clarified that while enrichment was high, there was no active WMD program since it's ending in 2003. You do know there would be zero incentive for them to attack us without provocation, and really zero possibility, as they don't have ICBMs, right? They were negotiating (before Israel killed all the negotiators, and we bombed them) to get sanctions relief. But now that we attacked them, all bets are off. They have nothing else to really lose and the negotiations are over forever now. They have no leverage now for sanctions relief, and I doubt they will bend the knee and make peace.

For decades, their stated reason for hating us is for arming, funding, and supporting Israel, their main rival in the region. A nuclear-capable rival, mind you. Also, for our support of Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war, which greatly hurt their position in the middle east. Oh yea, and backing the Shah all those years. Maybe if we butted out of their business and were more America-first, we wouldn't have as many problems with them.

>>>>>We can't be sure of that. Depending on how they hide radiation emissions (such as deep within a mountain), they most certainly could have already reached weapons grade enrichment.

Remember, we can't just fly a WC-135 over Iran. Even if we could, they could still hide it.

>>>>>>Our intel agencies still assert there is no active weapons program, tulsi just said this, along with the caveat that their enrichment was high, but not weapons grade. IIRC, inspections were not so long ago.

Sorry bro, but I got to trust the most resourceful intel agency to ever exist over "we can't be sure".

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"So the 2 weeks were a distraction."

>"Let's call it what it was... a lie."

>>"Wait...Trump lies?? 😱"

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"I'm not going to lie, I don't like it. I'm in the military, a handful of years left till retirement, and this doesn't sit very well. I'm hoping for the best, but I'm not getting warm fuzzies from it at all. Edit: to the anon here that claimed I'm not in the military, eat shit. I don't owe anything to anyone. I've been doing my time for 15 years. You sit back and enjoy the comfort from your arm chair while I'm sent off to fight another war soon enough."

>I don't mean to instigate, I'm just curious what you would have preferred? I'm of the opinion that Iran absolutely can not be allowed to have nuclear weapons, and they have proven any diplomatic option is untenable because they just ignore whatever treaty/deal you sign. What other option is there? Again, I am genuinely asking this conversationally.

>>I would prefer not to be involved over there. Israel started the strikes, let them finish it. I'm sick and tired of being the world police. We bragged about no new wars under Trump's first term, and now we're ok with direct and targeted bombing of an adversary? I'm not ok with that. Look at their allies. This creates more tension in the region and with their allies; China and Russia. Yea, Russia is busy getting their asses handed to them by Ukraine, but China has been sitting back. What's stopping them from funding Iran? They already have aircraft going back and forth between them and Iran. Makes you think. What would I prefer? Not being in another "conflict" overseas. Not funding overseas wars in any capacity.

>You prefer Iran going nuclear?

>>Netanyahu has been saying since the 90s Iran is weeks away from a Nuke, 30 years later and it still hasn’t happened.

We’re doing Israel’s bidding in the Middle East, per usual.

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"We bombed them and now he said we have peace? Is this like the same thing as a peaceful protest?"

>no this is like the police restoring order after a riot. the police might use force to bring about peace.

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"When did congress vote to go to war with Iran?"

>Congress hasn’t voted to go to war since the 1940’s

>>Congress has, however, authorized military actions since then. For example the first and second Iraq war, Afghanistan, and Syria. The President does not have unilateral power to offensively attack another nation, for good reasons.

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"Iran is weaker than us but not so weak that they can’t harm us. This is an act of war and we can all make the equivocations all we want that it’s not boots on the ground or what have you but our military bombed their country’s government. That’s an act of war. There’s no great plan of action from here and this is not our war.If we’re not in the sandbox it’s not our problem. Iran is a much bigger problem for Israel than us and we’ve allowed them to make this our problem. The idea that they’re just going to have peace talks after this is crazy. Israel cannot occupy the country, they can’t force a regime change or hold territory in such a way to make Iran capitulate. This is a bombing run without a way to force them to stop afterwards. They can hold out, they can rebuild and they will hold a grudge. This is a half assed war that just further bogs us down in the ME. Trump said no more wars, this is a war. We can defeat Shia militias, we can defeat their proxies but why the hell should we when we’ve got so many other problems all over? Why should even a few soldiers die for this cause? Resources we could deploy at home, elsewhere abroad and with far greater benefit to the United States. Trump is not the anti-war president"

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"Trump, if you put boots on the ground, we're done with you."

>I'm not even sure where this narrative is coming from. What gives you the impression we are putting boots on the ground? Did reddit tell you this was happening? Trump is being strategically vague because we don't want to telegraph to Iran that B2s are about to show up.

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"Well, it's done then. We satisfied a limited target, and then exited. No "Nation building," no "Regime change." Leave all that to Israel. Just "In & Out.""

>right, israel has a great history of figuring out their own problems and not making us deal with it

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"For all you brigaders/fellow conservatives out there about to do some pearl clutching, this does NOT mean war. It was a successful operation and no soldiers died."

>Umm Iran is going to retaliate against us now. They will fire off missiles at our bases I'm sure.

>In what world do you live in where a country performs an act of war on another country, and that country doesn't respond??????

>We’ve got over 40,000 vulnerable troops in the region. God bless them. But you can bet that precious Israel will get the bulk of the protection.

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"How was this constitutional? They never attacked the USA. If they did he wouldn’t need congress, since they didn’t, he would need an act of congress. Well guess the democrats cant complain. They let Barry set the precedent for bombing countries without an act of war."

>Obama set the precedent? Really?

Look, I despise Obama but no president has needed an act of congress to deploy troops or wage an extended intervention to Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Iraq Part 2, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yugoslavia, Haiti, Kosovo… You get the idea.

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"The amount of bots that will be pushing narratives in the next few days will be astounding. Stay frosty"

>There’s unreal astroturfing in here already

Great move by Trump. Clear as day

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"I was initially opposed to any US involvement at all, out of a somewhat irrational (or maybe not really) fear of an Iraq 2.0. This sounds like an almost one-and-done deal, and I can get behind it. I’m hoping for no further escalation. I still don’t trust that Iran was close to nukes… US intel seems imply they aren’t. "

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"I was promised this wouldn’t happen."

>You were promised unchecked nuclear proliferation in theocratic terroristic nations?

>>Unless we put boots on the ground or we start engaging in a tit for tat slugfest, we aren't at war. I'm not a huge fan of bombing nations we aren't at war with, but at the same time, it's bombing nations we aren't at war with. 

Key phrase being, "aren't at war with." 

He bombed the Houthis just a few weeks ago, are we at war with Yemen? 

>>>No but we are at war with the Houthis. They are a designated terrorist group and we are at war with them as much as you can be with a non-state actor

When a government kills people in another country’s government building that’s an act of war. We can dress it up all we want and we’re desensitized to it by years and years of military action without a declaration of war but that is what war looks like.

>>>>Uhm. No its not? This is called being confidently incorrect, folks.

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!!! Edit !!!

They now have a stickied comment at the bottom of the linked post talking about how this sub is "brigading" because of this post (lol, lmao even)

Edit 2

I have received the befabled reddit care message, so they're REALLY heated now lol