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[quote]SteelyD wrote:

[quote]Rodimus Black wrote:

[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:

[quote]countingbeans wrote:

[quote]Heracles_rocks wrote:

[quote]countingbeans wrote:
http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/bigfoot_love/go

12% chance… Not sure if I’m okay with that or not.[/quote]

Haha, well my chances of survival was 27%.

I wonder on the sex with someone over 200lbs if self love counts. trollface.jpeg[/quote]

Part of me feels like I would want to die in that situation, ya know what I mean?[/quote]

lol I win 30% chance of survival. :-D[/quote]

While they say 38%, I imagine within the next few weeks, I’d end up making Bigfoot my bitch. Surgery was a success. The difficult part is convincing (forcing) the significant other to sit her ass down and recover properly.

Oh, and here is a copy of our wedding invitation. It’s in Deutsch, as 95% of our guests are natives. Her guest list made mine laughable. [/quote]

Congrats!!!
[/quote]

Many thanks, all. It’d be pretty damn epic if I had all of you show up to the wedding. T-Nation: Making these natives feel small and inferior the only way we know how…by showing up.

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Pretty, Rod!

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[quote]Rodimus Black wrote:

[quote]SteelyD wrote:

[quote]Rodimus Black wrote:

[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:

[quote]countingbeans wrote:

[quote]Heracles_rocks wrote:

[quote]countingbeans wrote:
http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/bigfoot_love/go

12% chance… Not sure if I’m okay with that or not.[/quote]

Haha, well my chances of survival was 27%.

I wonder on the sex with someone over 200lbs if self love counts. trollface.jpeg[/quote]

Part of me feels like I would want to die in that situation, ya know what I mean?[/quote]

lol I win 30% chance of survival. :-D[/quote]

While they say 38%, I imagine within the next few weeks, I’d end up making Bigfoot my bitch. Surgery was a success. The difficult part is convincing (forcing) the significant other to sit her ass down and recover properly.

Oh, and here is a copy of our wedding invitation. It’s in Deutsch, as 95% of our guests are natives. Her guest list made mine laughable. [/quote]

Congrats!!!
[/quote]

Many thanks, all. It’d be pretty damn epic if I had all of you show up to the wedding. T-Nation: Making these natives feel small and inferior the only way we know how…by showing up.[/quote]

Did Cephalic_Carnage and FattyFat attend? They probably would have wiped out the buffet and demanded extra weiner schnitzel.

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[quote]Rodimus Black wrote:
Oh, and here is a copy of our wedding invitation. It’s in Deutsch, as 95% of our guests are natives. Her guest list made mine laughable. [/quote]

Congratulations, RD!

You two are a great looking couple!

Wishing her a speedy recovery from surgery.

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RB- happy news on all accounts!!!

Another poopy nights sleep for me :yawn: I came down to the couch at 2am, only to toss and turn and jump at every noise because it was really windy. I made it back to bed but the Man was tossing and turning so bad, sleep was not had. :irked:

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[quote]SteelyD wrote:

[quote]Rodimus Black wrote:

[quote]SteelyD wrote:

[quote]Rodimus Black wrote:

[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:

[quote]countingbeans wrote:

[quote]Heracles_rocks wrote:

[quote]countingbeans wrote:
http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/bigfoot_love/go

12% chance… Not sure if I’m okay with that or not.[/quote]

Haha, well my chances of survival was 27%.

I wonder on the sex with someone over 200lbs if self love counts. trollface.jpeg[/quote]

Part of me feels like I would want to die in that situation, ya know what I mean?[/quote]

lol I win 30% chance of survival. :-D[/quote]

While they say 38%, I imagine within the next few weeks, I’d end up making Bigfoot my bitch. Surgery was a success. The difficult part is convincing (forcing) the significant other to sit her ass down and recover properly.

Oh, and here is a copy of our wedding invitation. It’s in Deutsch, as 95% of our guests are natives. Her guest list made mine laughable. [/quote]

Congrats!!!
[/quote]

Many thanks, all. It’d be pretty damn epic if I had all of you show up to the wedding. T-Nation: Making these natives feel small and inferior the only way we know how…by showing up.[/quote]

Did Cephalic_Carnage and FattyFat attend? They probably would have wiped out the buffet and demanded extra weiner schnitzel.[/quote]

Wedding isn’t until the end of November. And no buffet. Dinner is by menu. And I’m going with chicken. lol.

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[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
RB- happy news on all accounts!!!

Another poopy nights sleep for me :yawn: I came down to the couch at 2am, only to toss and turn and jump at every noise because it was really windy. I made it back to bed but the Man was tossing and turning so bad, sleep was not had. :irked: [/quote]

Sleep was nonexistant for me, as well. Been up for 12 hours already. Looking forward to crashing tonight.

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Your sleeplessness spread westward, MiM.

My eyes shut down, but my mind wouldn’t relax to drift off.

I had a lot of muscle spasms across my abs all night, still having them this morning.

I think today just became a rest day.

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Morning all… grats Rod if I haven’t said it.

So yesterday, I went to Baltimore for the Texans-Ravens game with my roommate who had an extra ticket. We went with his dad and a family friend.

Problem: His dad treats him like shit, and I had a hard time not saying anything but I don’t think it’s my place. Basically his dad acts like he’s 18 - drank all day, made fun of my roomie in a “just barely joking enough that we can pretend it’s not serious” sorta way even though it was over the top. Brought an open container of wine in the car, got a phone number from a woman at the bar (he’s married), kept ordering drinks despite knowing me and my roomie had to drive back to DC and had work Monday (the one time I did say something)… I was in shock pretty much the whole night.

Amazing he would do this around his son’s friend who he JUST MET. Definitely explains why my roommate is 33 and still lives in a group house, “isn’t ready to settle down in a relationship” yet, and is somewhat socially awkward.

Bottom line, what can I do for the guy?

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[quote]scj119 wrote:
Morning all… grats Rod if I haven’t said it.

So yesterday, I went to Baltimore for the Texans-Ravens game with my roommate who had an extra ticket. We went with his dad and a family friend.

Problem: His dad treats him like shit, and I had a hard time not saying anything but I don’t think it’s my place. Basically his dad acts like he’s 18 - drank all day, made fun of my roomie in a “just barely joking enough that we can pretend it’s not serious” sorta way even though it was over the top. Brought an open container of wine in the car, got a phone number from a woman at the bar (he’s married), kept ordering drinks despite knowing me and my roomie had to drive back to DC and had work Monday (the one time I did say something)… I was in shock pretty much the whole night. Amazing he would do this around his son’s friend who he JUST MET. Definitely explains why my roommate is 33 and still lives in a group house, “isn’t ready to settle down in a relationship” yet, and is somewhat socially awkward.

Bottom line, what can I do for the guy?[/quote]

I think you can’t do anything unless he asks you for a suggestion.
Father-Son stuff, looooong history there.
Sounded uncomfortable. :-/

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[quote]scj119 wrote:

Bottom line, what can I do for the guy?[/quote]

Be his friend. Be there for him when he needs it, and let him live his life how he pleases.

Continue to do this for the next 40 years.

It’s all you can do, and the best thing for him. Just be his buddy man. Friends are few and far between in this world after college, so…

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[quote]scj119 wrote:
Morning all… grats Rod if I haven’t said it.

So yesterday, I went to Baltimore for the Texans-Ravens game with my roommate who had an extra ticket. We went with his dad and a family friend.

Problem: His dad treats him like shit, and I had a hard time not saying anything but I don’t think it’s my place. Basically his dad acts like he’s 18 - drank all day, made fun of my roomie in a “just barely joking enough that we can pretend it’s not serious” sorta way even though it was over the top. Brought an open container of wine in the car, got a phone number from a woman at the bar (he’s married), kept ordering drinks despite knowing me and my roomie had to drive back to DC and had work Monday (the one time I did say something)… I was in shock pretty much the whole night. Amazing he would do this around his son’s friend who he JUST MET. Definitely explains why my roommate is 33 and still lives in a group house, “isn’t ready to settle down in a relationship” yet, and is somewhat socially awkward.

Bottom line, what can I do for the guy?[/quote]

Be a positive role model.

Encourage him to think differently.

Sometimes all a person needs is the realization that there is something better available.

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[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:

[quote]scj119 wrote:
Morning all… grats Rod if I haven’t said it.

So yesterday, I went to Baltimore for the Texans-Ravens game with my roommate who had an extra ticket. We went with his dad and a family friend.

Problem: His dad treats him like shit, and I had a hard time not saying anything but I don’t think it’s my place. Basically his dad acts like he’s 18 - drank all day, made fun of my roomie in a “just barely joking enough that we can pretend it’s not serious” sorta way even though it was over the top. Brought an open container of wine in the car, got a phone number from a woman at the bar (he’s married), kept ordering drinks despite knowing me and my roomie had to drive back to DC and had work Monday (the one time I did say something)… I was in shock pretty much the whole night. Amazing he would do this around his son’s friend who he JUST MET. Definitely explains why my roommate is 33 and still lives in a group house, “isn’t ready to settle down in a relationship” yet, and is somewhat socially awkward.

Bottom line, what can I do for the guy?[/quote]

I think you can’t do anything unless he asks you for a suggestion.
Father-Son stuff, looooong history there.
Sounded uncomfortable. :-/

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At one point we hit a bump in the road on the ride to their house, and his dad got mad at him for making him spill his wine. That was the one time my roomie said “we’re driving on a road with bumps and you’re drinking illegally in the back seat, whose fault is that?” I laughed. His dad persisted.

SO awkward.

One funny part was the woman who gave his dad her number was with her niece, an early 20s cute blonde girl, and the dad’s friend (a loud, small, greasy 50yr old dude) is like “yeah I could’ve gotten her number too but I didn’t want to.” I almost choked on myself laughing.

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When I mean encourage, it’s presenting options in decisions.

People tend to look at issues from inside their own box of experience.

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Thanks guys. I try to do that but it’s hard. Problem is he basically holes up in his room whenever he’s home so it’s hard to interact with him much.

He gets out of the house a decent amount and is fairly active so I don’t think it’s depression.

Anyway, thanks for the advice. Back to happy things…

edit - I should probably look at it less like someone trying to diagnose him/figure out what’s wrong, and instead focus on my own actions and just see what I can do that can help him improve his self-image. Doesn’t matter WHY he acts like that, only matters what I can do to help.

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[quote]scj119 wrote:
One funny part was the woman who gave his dad her number was with her niece, an early 20s cute blonde girl, and the dad’s friend (a loud, small, greasy 50yr old dude) is like “yeah I could’ve gotten her number too but I didn’t want to.” I almost choked on myself laughing.
[/quote]

See, you didn’t crush that guy’s dreams! LOL

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[quote]countingbeans wrote:

[quote]scj119 wrote:

Bottom line, what can I do for the guy?[/quote]

Be his friend. Be there for him when he needs it, and let him live his life how he pleases.

Continue to do this for the next 40 years.

It’s all you can do, and the best thing for him. Just be his buddy man. Friends are few and far between in this world after college, so…[/quote]

Solid advice

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[quote]countingbeans wrote:
It’s all you can do, and the best thing for him. Just be his buddy man. Friends are few and far between in this world after college, so…[/quote]

That’s the sad truth.

I have no friends to hang with here (in Omaha).

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[quote]2busy wrote:

[quote]countingbeans wrote:
It’s all you can do, and the best thing for him. Just be his buddy man. Friends are few and far between in this world after college, so…[/quote]

That’s the sad truth.

I have no friends to hang with here (in Omaha).[/quote]

I can give you a crash course in man-dating. I moved to DC not knowing anyone and had to make guy friends.

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[quote]scj119 wrote:
edit - I should probably look at it less like someone trying to diagnose him/figure out what’s wrong, and instead focus on my own actions and just see what I can do that can help him improve his self-image. Doesn’t matter WHY he acts like that, only matters what I can do to help.[/quote]

That’s a great plan, scj.

I had a somewhat similar issue with my biological father.

I could never do anything better then he could (well in his mind).

Even to this day.

A supportive friend would have benn a great help earlier on.