Antonio1981

Addiction is awful. My first hire turned into a sugar baby situation. We got insanely close through his year in recovery. At his year sober he snorted some cocaine laced with fetanyl and was left to die alone in a hotel room. What’s worse, he had told me he was struggling and asked to spend more time together that weekend but I couldn’t give it to him as I had prior engagements. I blamed myself for a long time and threw myself into the foundation his mother started in his honor hellbent on helping addicts. Being in that world, and recognizing the fragility of sobriety proved too much for me and I had to find other causes to support.
 
My brother is an addict and we haven’t had a relationship for 16 years because of it. I miss him. 

After all these years around drag queens, I wonder why  @foxy was now motivated to complain about them. What happened?
Myself, I have no attraction to the scene, but I do remember back at Stonewall it was the drag queens who were the most vocal while us undrags kept quiet.

I agree - but actually I think I do understand.

I don't understand why the post I objected to is still alive. It should have been deleted.

Yep, the religious content up the thread is still posted. Are the rules flexible, or selective?

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I guess these rules are flexible... good to know

I have two nephews. One is a sixty-year-old who is a devout card-carrying evangelical Christian while I on the other hand am a devout card-carrying atheist. We are actually quite fond of each other. Over the years we have learned to avoid discussing social issues about which we are in total disagreement. There are a multitude of other things which we can discuss openly and freely. We have great fun discussing his grandchildren, our various vacations, our gardening and what we are currently reading to name just a few topics. I also have a niece-in-law who is a political progressive while I am a political conservative. At family gathers we fight like cats and dogs, loving every minute of it while driving the rest of the family crazy. We absolutely adore each other and do NOT allow our political differences to get in the way of our love of each other. As a family we all get along well because we have, over the years, learned to be tolerant and accept each other as we are. My only sibling, an adored sister, who passed away two years ago was an absolute matriarch/monarch who would NOT tolerate family discord thus all fifty plus of us enjoy getting together as a family.

I am sorry to hear that you had to experience this behavior. People will say hurtful things to their closest family, things they won’t say to absolute strangers. That has always surprised me. 
 
My family hasn’t been this bad. I could claim that it is because I am so fabulous (of course I am!), but it is mainly because they believe I am rich and they hope to inherit when my wicked ways finally do me in.   If only they knew I plan to spend it all before I go, on boys and booze!! 😆

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I recently had a blow up with my sister over her stirring up s**t in the family & feeling disrespected by her. She also is very opinionated & purposely disagreeable with me on any number of things. I said some horrible things to her & I apologized to her for saying those things even though she triggers me so much. I promised myself that I won't allow her or anyone else to trigger me to say or behave in a way that is unacceptable to me. I still love her, but I recognize she has issues & stuck in her ways. I found it healthy to create some distance between us by not speaking as much & not expecting much more from her.
It always been difficult for me to handle family members who are disrespectful. My family is overall well meaning & loving, but I feel they regularly stress me out if I allow them to.  Aging parents has made the situation a bit worse 

i can send a good text message in 30 seconds and i expect a reply within 3 minutes.
i don't like talking on the phone but texting/sexting can be fun -- i hate waiting for a reply though - i want instant gratification always, haha
 

And here I am hoping that the step mother she-bitch mouthed off and got her ass dumped on the side of the road. 
grin 

I hope that @Lazarus and @glutesare busy finding this guy's nude pics.

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That 👆 is not helpful to a newbie investor.  
 
And this, my dear @keroscenefire is why you should avoid advisors and brokers (and your broke cousin with an expert opinion) - they expect to be paid even when they don’t provide value. 

He’d have my ass in a pew every Sunday.  Then he can have it anywhere else he’d like all the other days of the week.  

I don’t know if he was born there, but the State of Jalisco in Mexico is known for having a good percentage  of very good looking men and women.

I just came across this story of this Mexican priest who is becoming popular among youth by spreading God’s word via TikTok and other social media, and has over a million followers.  I’m like, “that’s probably the most handsome, youngest priest I’ve ever seen!”  Padre Heriberto Garcia Arias is 33 years old, has been a priest for five years, and is based out of Catedral Basílica de San Juan de Los Lagos in Jalisco, Mexico.  He speaks very eloquently, and when I saw the shirtless picture of him at the beach, I thought “I wonder if that church has any openings for alter boys?”  LOL
I’m not Catholic, but all kidding aside, don’t Catholic priests have to remain abstinent for their life?  If that’s true, this guy must have a lot of temptation come his way, whether he’s straight or gay. 

Riiigggghhhtt??  
Let me look at flights….😏😜

I have a confession that he definitely does NOT want to hear.  😍

I would volunteer to be a mentor to this priest.  I am sure he needs someone to minister to him!

Fuck that.  Don’t do it.  You’re being taken advantage of.  I’ve done plenty of overnights and weekends over the past 17 years, and only one asked for me to get him a hotel room for “after the overnight”.  When I asked him “after the overnight?", he replied so he has somewhere to go and unwind after the overnight.  I told him, “the overnight is until morning, and then you go.  The only ‘after the overnight’ is when you leave in the morning, and that is no longer my responsibility.”  I never hired him.  There are plenty of others who will stay with you the entire time you hire them.  Move on from this guy.

"How generous can you be?" = next!!!!

I think I will be moving on. It sure can be easy to get taken advantage of if you’re not careful and have your mind set from the beginning!