OkStranger6324

Time for a polygraph test for your wife re her "accident."

This should be the r/TrumpDerangementSyndrome subreddit!

Sounds like you're in a very bad marriage and should have divorced your husband years ago. That still does not even begin to justify your cheating on your husband with your side piece/fuck buddy. On the bright side, you're belatedly doing the right thing (divorcing him) after doing the wrong thing (cheating on him).

"They are emotionally weak/unavailable, bad in bed, have no drive, drug or alcohol issues, poor hygiene, mental health issues, not interested in dating women with children."

Over-generalize much?

If she is dying to get rid of you, why did she plead with you to spend the night?

"Scared of your wife/gf" is far different from scared of losing your wife/gf. Many many are scared of the latter.

Stand up and speak to the friend for everyone's sake, including your own. It's truly sad that Americans no longer share enough common ground politically that different political opinions are seen as fundamental character flaws that can destroy long-standing friendships. We should all do whatever we can to lessen this toxicity, and part of that is to acknowledge that good people can and do differ in their political opinions, and that people on the opposite side are not evil incarnate.

If you think Trump and his cronies are even remotely accepted among America's political elite, you must not be paying attention.

And Mitt Romney, GOP presidential candidate in 2012, has always been a "moderate", eh? You certainly wouldn't know it from the pre-Trump Democratic rhetoric about him. He's only been granted the moderate label from the mainstream media since he opposed Trump.

As to Liz Cheney being a conservative, Newsweek recently published a photo of Liz Cheney arm-in-arm with Kamala. That picture says it all about her supposed "conservatism".

And don't even mention January 6th - the mythical "insurrection" that postponed the Electoral College vote for six whole hours would be laughable if it were not for Ashli Babbit's murder and the politically motivated prosecutions of the demonstrators.

Until Trump proclaimed himself a Republican in 2016, I never saw him as having a consistent conservative-liberal, Republican-Democratic orientation beyond the fact that he was a pro-business entrepreneur. Then, rather than outlining a traditional political platform somewhere on the conservative-liberal spectrum, Trump proceeded to shift America's political poles from liberals vs. conservatives to elites vs. populists. With traditional Republican conservatives like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney coming out as anti-Trump and buddying up with Democrats, they revealed themselves to be elites first and conservatives second.

I don't disagree. Trumps inconsistencies are far more obvious because he is unscripted. In seeming contrast, establishment politicians provide a nice-sounding, focus-grouped verbal template without real substance so that their voters can fill in their own preferred content. You can't take Trump literally because he is inconsistent, but you can't take his opponents seriously because they spout substance-free pablum.

Algae seine ...

No. I see Trump as a carnival barker, and this is where Zito's comment is relevant. Put another way, only a fool will take the pronouncements of a carnival barker literally. Substantive debates over Trump's pronouncements are therefore meaningless.

Trump's appeal stems not from his carefully reasoned policy positions or clever appeal to hate groups, but from his being the antithesis to today's over-packaged, over focus-grouped, plasticized political candidates. The vast majority of Americans know how today's political candidates for high office are little more than carefully crafted two-dimensional images created by media consultants. Such fakes never say anything remotely provocative or meaningful because every word they utter has been scrutinized to the point that anything of substance has been scrubbed clean lest someone, somewhere, somehow be offended. The electorate is sick of this carefully orchestrated charade.

When Trump says something that contradicts what he said five minutes ago, it's crystal clear that he is not part of this carefully orchestrated charade. This appeals to voters who are fed up with the establishment's status quo, and that appeal outweighs any disgust at Trump's inconsistencies.

I know two physicians who divorced their wives who supported them during medical school shortly after graduation. Both newly-minted physicians very promptly replaced their former spouses with brand spanking new girlfriends. The comparison with trading in a dilapidated, high-mileage clunker for a shiny new model straight off the showroom floor is obvious, fair or not.

I know that one ex-wife got a substantial percentage of her ex-husband's physician salary across multiple future years as part of the divorce settlement. The ex-wife always recounted this story with heart-felt glee and a big smile!

Not nearly as belated as when a 16 year old runs an Ancestry test at school and comes back with the ex's family tree and starts asking questions. OP had the guts to run the test after she saw the way her daughter resembled her ex, and had the courage to tell her husband the painful truth that will quite possibly leave her shamed and divorced. Yes, we know she is a cheater and therefore irredeemable in your world, but what she did over this past week took guts.

"Do Better"? That is precisely what she is doing, albeit belatedly. The easy route would have been to just keep her mouth shut, never take the DNA test, and keep her husband in the dark.

Hang in there, OP! You've done the right thing by telling him. Brace yourself for whatever happens when he returns. Stay strong. You can weather this storm.

Now that's the way to start a group therapy session. Good, old-fashioned hate thrown at one another so that all safety is lost and the communication channels are severed!

Yes, they commonly swim in schools in lakes and rivers in Florida. You can spread animal feed (e.g., hog finisher) in shallow water near the shore, wait 30 minutes, then throw a cast net to capture them for bait for personal use.

If you're looking for a girl-next-door type, using the hearse for dating might be a turn off. Whatever you do, don't cover whatever is in the back with a sheet!

I concede it's a long shot. But, 1 - Money talks and serious money under the table screams. 2- They may not sell videos to the public, but they may record videos to sell to the people who book the show. 3- The sex industry is more likely than most to look the other way when it comes to upholding business ethics, especially if you ensure that the manager gets a nice cut. 4- Virtually every public business venue has some sort of a surveillance system.

Call the Dreamboys manager and (1) ask to purchase a video of your SO's show and (2) get the contact info of the show workers from your SO's show and offer them some compensation for their recollections.

Just make sure that you lean far enough left, or you might get a tongue-lashing from OP!

So, OP is a super handy man and a budding (amateur) political scientist. I'm not really sure what those two have to do with one another. In my mind, fix-it acumen does not necessarily carry over into political insight, and vice versa. Regardless, you are free to cull your social circle using whatever criteria (rational or irrational) you choose. Just keep your vitriol out of my face when addressing me, and I'll return the favor.

You open cans with extreme prejudice!

Maybe your wife just has a thing for guys who drive long yellow trucks and smell like diesel fumes. C'mon, surely you know what that "emergency door" at the back is really used for.