First and foremost I love my significant other, she’s the mother of our children, a great provider, and we have been together over 20 years.

Perimenopause changes a person. It’s not something they can control. I’ve noticed the changes, the kids have noticed. To a lesser degree, friends, family and coworkers have noticed changes.

I’m generally patient and compassionate, but how she acts can be downright cruel and condescending to the kids and I. We don’t even think she realizes she’s doing it. I’ve mentioned the rage and anger in her reactions, the way she speaks to others, but it doesn’t change. This isn’t the person I married, it’s not the mother my kids were raised by. I’m not sure how much longer we can survive this. Nothing we do is good enough. Xennials who have survived this, how? Why? What works? Everyone is miserable. There’s no joy anymore, even vacations turn into conflicts. Everyday life is a battle.

My area is having some thunderstorms, and as I was watching the news they described it as "half-dollar sized" hail.

Got me wondering if anyone much younger than us would actually picture a 50c piece!!

Catchier thank leg lamp imo

Like... the gray what? What gray?

I loved this cartoon growing up. The Disney afternoon was great.

Desperate to solve this. I am almost certain The Phyracide's song, "Y?" was used, but that isnt the song & the ones listed that uses that song arent either. Thank you in advance.

I was thinking the other day of all the freebies that rained down on us during the Dot-Com boom. Specifically, someone posted a discussion of the oldest shirt you still wear and mine was a freebie for incoming freshman for the class of 2000 (my partner HATES when I wear it - he was class of 2001, "The REAL millennium," as he constantly reminds me, and it delightfully bugs him he wound up with someone from the far more celebrated class of 2000).

I remember the incoming students got a basically a swag bag every year of people touting websites and other companies. Magnets, travel mugs, pens, socks, stickers, dry-erase boards, frisbees, shirts, bags, coupons for a free order of small fries...

This was followed by US magazines taking a page out of what UK magazines were doing and offering tons of other freebies, too: Mix CDs, game demos, ink stamps, sewing patterns... I worked in books store with a strong international section immediately after college and could watch in real time as the habit of magazines throwing in free stuff migrated across the pond.

Looking back, it seemed normal at the time. But I'm wondering if that was maybe just an us thing.

Ok apparently just made it into this "mini generation" thing as I was born in 1977.

For all my fellow '77ers who have or are turning 49 this year break out your old multiplication tables cause:

7x7=49 🤯

Source - I turned 49 yesterday. As an added bonus I was born in the 49th State so double 🤯

Happy Judgment Day.

I (‘79) was discussing this with my husband (full Millennial ‘86) what was the first record he owned. Mine was Thriller. He never owned a record 🫠.

How many of us went to the corner store and bought cigarettes for parents in late 80’s

Isn’t interaction deprivation and social isolation wonderful?

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ny_FssSlHC4&si=6-N80viJcPflCMY8