Being an adult sucks

Nuttin_sl

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I have to say, Smartphones are a fucking cancer on society. And it's not just kids, I have friends in their 30s who can't put down their phone for more than 5 minutes.
Yeah, the few times a year I go out with friends to eat and drink a shitload of booze, discussing mostly the shit we did when we where younger (and when we get drunk, look at retarded young girls) we have a standing rule, the 1st one who starts fiddeling with their smartphone, pays the the bar bill or whatever it is called.

It is kinda ridiculuos that we have that rule, I mean we (+40) grew up when a portable phones were in the size of a suitcase and somehow managed without facebook, twitter, instagram and all other need-to-have stuff, still though, there has been some really cheap nights lately.
 

TJT

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For me it isn't the responsibilities or anything. I like the freedom, yeah. I'm only 28 but I'd let other people influence my life more than I should have. So I am correcting that viciously.

Most annoying part overall is that I feel that I have less money even though I make considerably more money than when I was younger. Maybe I just aspire to do too much though. Work life balance man. Shit takes some work.
 

iannis

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The chicken came before the egg. And the dog before the chicken. When did we stop caring about the big questions?
All I care about is that I come before her.

She will LEARN to respect the patriarchy.
 

iannis

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I'm a divorced (black) father. I've worked my ass off my whole life to get to where I am and picked a wife who was a "good girl" within a few years of me and even came from good long-marriage Christian parents and she graduated from college. Now my ex is sleeping around with 3 guys that I know of, smoking drugs, partying and getting drunk when she doesn't have her custody week. She refused to work the job for which she got her degree in because "she doesn't like it" and instead works PART TIME at fucking Walmart and collects the child support I pay. She then goes back to her family and plays innocent and says I don't take care of, provide for or spend any time with my kids.

Because I choose to grow up I keep my mouth shut so long as the kids aren't seeing or experiencing any of this. They need as stable a home and positive upbringing as possible and a responsible working parent to teach them. I need as little drama as possible to secure their future as best I can and not have them turn into the stereotypical waste-of-space black kids. (Not all blacks are bad but blah blah blah you get the idea) We spend 3 days of the week outdoors or at the YMCA at a minimum. We garden every week I have them. All vacations outside of Indiana come from me. I'm at every parent-teacher conference and I have custodianship of where they go to school because I actually did the homework and picked the better school system when I bought my house here. I discipline them, read to them every night and have working name relationships with all of their teachers. Oh and I cook healthy meals and teach them how to do it. #Dadsthatcook.

So I am a fucking adult. I work hard to secure my career and financial future of myself and my children so I can continue to invest in their education and eventually worldly wisdom with exposure to all faucets of life outside of fucking Indiana. No partying. No damn way I have time to date and no fucking way am I introducing different women to my children. And very little time to form a solid friendship base outside of work for support (Manager can't be friends with my employees and all that).

I spend my free time improving my home and gardening because when my kids come home they love the garden and that teaches them all sorts of good values. 33 years old. Two great girls. Awesome fucking career. Dead as a cemetery house every other week.
Holy fucking shit, that woman went insane on your ass. I mean I know that black girls will go nuts on white guys. I never actually stopped to think they'd do it to not-white guys too. I thought it was just like some weird underlying racial tension thing and they snap.

Who'da thunk it.

That is some terrible, terrible luck.
 

j00t

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I'm a divorced (black) father. I've worked my ass off my whole life to get to where I am and picked a wife who was a "good girl" within a few years of me and even came from good long-marriage Christian parents and she graduated from college. Now my ex is sleeping around with 3 guys that I know of, smoking drugs, partying and getting drunk when she doesn't have her custody week. She refused to work the job for which she got her degree in because "she doesn't like it" and instead works PART TIME at fucking Walmart and collects the child support I pay. She then goes back to her family and plays innocent and says I don't take care of, provide for or spend any time with my kids.

Because I choose to grow up I keep my mouth shut so long as the kids aren't seeing or experiencing any of this. They need as stable a home and positive upbringing as possible and a responsible working parent to teach them. I need as little drama as possible to secure their future as best I can and not have them turn into the stereotypical waste-of-space black kids. (Not all blacks are bad but blah blah blah you get the idea) We spend 3 days of the week outdoors or at the YMCA at a minimum. We garden every week I have them. All vacations outside of Indiana come from me. I'm at every parent-teacher conference and I have custodianship of where they go to school because I actually did the homework and picked the better school system when I bought my house here. I discipline them, read to them every night and have working name relationships with all of their teachers. Oh and I cook healthy meals and teach them how to do it. #Dadsthatcook.

So I am a fucking adult. I work hard to secure my career and financial future of myself and my children so I can continue to invest in their education and eventually worldly wisdom with exposure to all faucets of life outside of fucking Indiana. No partying. No damn way I have time to date and no fucking way am I introducing different women to my children. And very little time to form a solid friendship base outside of work for support (Manager can't be friends with my employees and all that).

I spend my free time improving my home and gardening because when my kids come home they love the garden and that teaches them all sorts of good values. 33 years old. Two great girls. Awesome fucking career. Dead as a cemetery house every other week.
I married my wife who, at the time, had a son from a previous marriage. I did everything I could to not be the guy who took my kids real father away from him. Then one day it occurred to me. *I* am his real father. His bio dad is a deadbeat Disney dad who shows up once a year. Other than that he had child support auto taken out of his check. The amount was the amount set 8 years ago from when he was hardly working. He got himself fired so that the court wouldn't take out too much. We never went back to court to reassess that because we just wanted to play nice. Our entire MO was just to be as accomdating as possible.

We realized that that is stupid. We don't want to pick a fight his his bio dad because its not worth it the argument. But in reality, MY son is with anything. If I have to beat some fool down, verbally, physically or legally in order to get my son what he DESERVES, then I'm gonna do it. Point is, don't play nice with your ex for your kids' sake. You're doing them now harm then good
 

moonarchia

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Selix, if you know she's doing drugs just narc her out so she gets it on her record and go to court for full custody. Your kids deserve better than being around a toxic person half their lives.
 

j00t

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Selix, if you know she's doing drugs just narc her out so she gets it on her record and go to court for full custody. Your kids deserve better than being around a toxic person half their lives.
This. Like I said earlier, you try to play nice so you don't call CPS or whatever. Except your ex and her family arent playing by the same rules. You want to be the nice guy but you'll just give her more power over you and your kids
 
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i realize not everyone here is a parent but i'm surprised nobody has mentioned 'making decisions for your children'. whatever your views on the topics are; deciding on healthcare, education, influencing the social interactions, etc; have all been very difficult for me. feels like 1000x the weight of any decision i ever made for myself.
 

j00t

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Yeah. Maybe it's because it's automatic so I don't think about it. But things that I couldn't care less about become life altering decisions because of my family
 

Vegetoee_sl

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I'm 41 now but my head still thinks I'm 25. The bad news is my body is getting worn out and I can feel it more each year that passes. The good news is I have figured out what makes me happy and I know how to get it. That, and I finally understand women/relationships etc now. I thought I did when I was 35 but damn what a difference 6 years makes. Bitches be cray at 35-40
Bitches be cray at 18+... I have yet to meet a not cray bitch, thus is why my ass is not married. Rather gouge my eyes out then deal with baby rabies and irrational emotions for the rest of my life.
 

Lejina

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Growing older isn't too bad. I can do whatever I want, people listen when I have something to say, I make so much more money than in the past, I can actually read cues from women and know how to act it on. To top it off, I have all that know how and with past experiences, I know I can do pretty much anything on my own if I want to. Yeah yeah, my joints aren't as good as they used to be and I have a lot more metal holding my bones together than I'd like to, but on the other hand I have the discipline to keep myself in shape and as a result my overall fitness is pretty much the same over the years. I manage stress a lot better too, really takes a lot nowadays to even register of my stress-meter.
 

j00t

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I manage stress a lot better too, really takes a lot nowadays to even register of my stress-meter.
This... Times a million. You forget how terrible you are at handling things until you work full time with middle schoolers. Some kid is in his own world looking off in the distance thinking about how he has to fart. Some other kid thinks he's making that face at him. He literally does not have the coping skills to handle the situation and starts world war 3.

The stuff I deal with every 15 minutes would've given me an aneurism at that age
 

Echuta

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The thing I miss the most (and maybe just is my fucked up self) is getting really fucking excited about things. As I got older and could do whatever the fuck I wanted (drink on a Tuesday, eat shit for dinner, watch porn all night, etc.) that stuff stopped being very appealing. If I want something, most stuff I can go out and get but of course now I don't really want anything.
I remember getting amped about the weekend and finding any reason to party with friends. Got a chicks number? Party! Broke up with a chick? Party! Just got paid? Make it rain party! Now I just get excited when my credit score starts to flirt with 800.
 

Warrian

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I'm a divorced (black) father. I've worked my ass off my whole life to get to where I am and picked a wife who was a "good girl" within a few years of me and even came from good long-marriage Christian parents and she graduated from college. Now my ex is sleeping around with 3 guys that I know of, smoking drugs, partying and getting drunk when she doesn't have her custody week. She refused to work the job for which she got her degree in because "she doesn't like it" and instead works PART TIME at fucking Walmart and collects the child support I pay. She then goes back to her family and plays innocent and says I don't take care of, provide for or spend any time with my kids.

Because I choose to grow up I keep my mouth shut so long as the kids aren't seeing or experiencing any of this. They need as stable a home and positive upbringing as possible and a responsible working parent to teach them. I need as little drama as possible to secure their future as best I can and not have them turn into the stereotypical waste-of-space black kids. (Not all blacks are bad but blah blah blah you get the idea) We spend 3 days of the week outdoors or at the YMCA at a minimum. We garden every week I have them. All vacations outside of Indiana come from me. I'm at every parent-teacher conference and I have custodianship of where they go to school because I actually did the homework and picked the better school system when I bought my house here. I discipline them, read to them every night and have working name relationships with all of their teachers. Oh and I cook healthy meals and teach them how to do it. #Dadsthatcook.

So I am a fucking adult. I work hard to secure my career and financial future of myself and my children so I can continue to invest in their education and eventually worldly wisdom with exposure to all faucets of life outside of fucking Indiana. No partying. No damn way I have time to date and no fucking way am I introducing different women to my children. And very little time to form a solid friendship base outside of work for support (Manager can't be friends with my employees and all that).

I spend my free time improving my home and gardening because when my kids come home they love the garden and that teaches them all sorts of good values. 33 years old. Two great girls. Awesome fucking career. Dead as a cemetery house every other week.
Respect.
 

Pasteton

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It's interesting, because of a fairly common origin with old mmo's / Everquest, we are relatively 'elderly' when it comes to all things Internet and as a group contain a majority of people who are just old enough that they are net savvy - but not so old that they are not. It would be an interesting sociological study, analyzing how a forums interests and priorities morph as they collectively age (more posts in finance threads, more health threads, less about anime and porn). I look forward to seeing what will be the hot topics when a large number of us are 60+