moderncutthroat

I get like that with my Dad sometimes, except rather than feeling like crying I want to scream in his fucking face. We're too alike in certain parts of our personalities.

Yeah, that's the only "legit" fear I can think of, and if that's not a concern it's really an issue of whether he's "over" the threesome phase or not. If he is over that phase, then he probably is ready to commit (you know, once you've been together a while).

I know you're ready to settle down, but I would hope you wouldn't just hop into a relationship with the assumption that if he doesn't talk about forever all the time he's a time-waster or something. You're still young. I'm guessing your issue is more that you want someone who is mature and READY to settle down in the future, with the right person, and hopefully that right person is you.

Yeah, it's all about open communication.

Wait, I thought you were IN Philadelphia. Where are you now?

Also, tell them you can always go back to that perfectly fine college and finish up that degree with your perfectly fine GPA if you so choose.

Reminds me of a super ignorant convo I had with my brother and father, where they thought it was perfectly reasonable to charge more for healthcare for fat people because "they have an unhealthy lifestyle". I finally convinced my brother that he was a prime example of a super unhealthy eater who is also thin because we have thin genes. I pointed out that if you want to punish unhealthy habits you tax the habit (food/alcohol/smokes) not the body that happens to show signs of unhealthiness at the time. Well, that and the fact that some people are only healthy if they're a bit chubby. People have healthy weights and they're not always in the thin realm.

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