I think it is important to dispell the belief that intimacy fades with time. There are circumstances that no one can control like I experienced, but for the most part there is no reason other than choice for intimacy to go away over the years.

I didn’t down vote you, and I wouldn’t take it personally.

I was just offering the typical anecdotal experience challenging misconception. This is probably worth less than good research.

This is bullshit honestly. I have been married for almost 30 years. For 27 years we had sex pretty much everyday. Then my wife had to get her ladybits rearranged by a doctor due to a bladder prolapse and went through early menopause.

We still have regular sex, but not everyday anymore.

Why do we allow companies to waste our lives with so many ads in the US? I refuse to watch them. I grew up watching TV and constant commercials every fifteen minutes. It was and is ridiculous.

They definitely use your data to market to you on their platform. They might not be selling your data outside their network, but does that suddenly make it okay? They are still using your data to their enrich themselves.

My marriage is approaching 30 years now.

A lot of this goes without saying or as some would say common sense. Only there is no common sense as it is too subjective of a term. Look at me, I am already digressing and I haven’t even started.

Everything you know about life and love will change in your lifetime. Everything you have learned is a half truth. You sometimes find happiness when you can find the whole truth for yourself. This often means you may end up in conflict with culture, society, or even family. This is normal.

If you love and care about yourself, you can truly love and care about someone else. Although there may be sacrifice in relationships, the factor that makes them work is how you build each other up. A marriage or any partnership should always be about helping each other achieve more.

Be grateful for your life and everything you have and everyone you know everyday. Say it out loud, tell it to the people in your family, in your friendships, in your workplace, and most importantly in your close relationships.

Not only is it important to say it, it is important to show it through your actions. A common trope is actions are louder than words. Both are actually important, although I do have a preference for people showing it because it validates what they say.

Treat people how they want to be treated. This blows the golden rule out of the water. Don’t know how they want to be treated? This is normal. You ask them. Asking someone how they want to be treated and treating them that way is the surest way to gain respect.

Unless you save you are not paying yourself anything. If you spend everything you make you are literally stealing from your future. Always save everything you can and invest it if you want it to grow. Think twice about purchases, especially if they are major. Being a little thrifty in life is way better than living paycheck to paycheck.

Usually a couple hundred. This year maybe $40-60. Budget is beyond tight.

Sue them out of existence. They are not going to stop.

This did not make it better.

Let’s try this again.

Wait, what is this about who beat the fascists?

Answer: No one, they are the dominate form of government in the world.

Swimming rama for sure.

You can instantly stop yourself from hiccuping.

Pretty sure fascist already broke off the UK. While I will agree the US is ahead, it is everywhere already.

This is a worldwide problem unfortunately.

Corporations can and do fight for their users. Proton is not one of these companies. I think that says all we need to know about their commitments to their users. You are welcome to continue leading people to a business that have shown that they are not willing to do what is right because profit is their primary motivation.

Proton claimed there was no way to appeal, but Swiss law is not bound by Interpol. I think what it really amounts to is they are not going to protect their users. This is why you don’t pay for let alone use a corporation’s services unless you willing to give up your privacy.

Proton is not your friend, they have and will continue to betray their users. Do not trust them or any corporation that is not willing to fight for their users.

If you have conservative reps you could try calling and writing their office and demand they compromise on health care. With enough pressure they will cave.

If you have progressive reps call and congratulate them and tell them not to stop until the conservatives start participating in governance

Many of your later questions would rely on too much conjecture to answer. The simple truth is this unprecedented and we don’t know what is going to happen.

I share many of your concerns as many people here do.

For sure, Hitler admired how we committed genocide against the Native Americans and modeled the final solution after it.

The fantasy of destroying fascism is just that, a fantasy. The reality was by the time World War II hit the US was already a fascist state itself. I would definitely argue that even our founding fathers were proto-fascists as well.

Employers won’t hire her!

That is the propaganda. The truth is it is about control. Whoever gets on top of this will literally be able to rewrite our society.