Relationships

Committed partnership: marriage, long-term relationships, conflict and repair, monogamy and polyamory

A topic in the tpot Community Archive, drawn from 16,630 posts.

Trusted voices in Relationships

Ordered by the trust Relationships's own network concentrates on each poster, most first.

  1. visakanv — trusted by 202 posters here
  2. goblinodds — trusted by 179 posters here
  3. vividvoid — trusted by 182 posters here
  4. AskYatharth — trusted by 171 posters here
  5. RichDecibels — trusted by 175 posters here
  6. eigenrobot — trusted by 172 posters here
  7. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 169 posters here
  8. nosilverv — trusted by 170 posters here
  9. tasshinfogleman — trusted by 146 posters here
  10. myhandle — trusted by 154 posters here
  11. TylerAlterman — trusted by 160 posters here
  12. christineist — trusted by 153 posters here

Top posts in Relationships

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  1. I trade up for a 10% better wife every year, she just happens to be the same human I started dating 20 years ago Meanwhile I keep hearing from people people who underestimated the switching costs… (visakanv) — 49 likes
  2. was walking around a shopping mall when my wife casually dropped a “I’m so excited to have your baby” and every other compliment I‘ve ever received in my life just got demoted to a lower category (visakanv) — 48 likes
  3. i'm happily married 10+ years with a wife and son who love me and i have none of that shit together lol. this is the "shiny lure" class of advice i was talking about. ime the only thing you actually… (visakanv) — 47 likes
  4. me: I love you wife: how much me: why this obsession with quantification wife: what gets measured gets managed (visakanv) — 44 likes
  5. witnessing my wife go through pregnancy and birth and then nursing our son with her body makes me love and admire her even more than I already did. she is a warrior and a saint. It also makes me… (visakanv) — 43 likes
  6. Wife and I were laughing about this last night: the thing nobody quite tells you about marriage is: you’re choosing the person in life who’s going to upset, disappoint annoy and frustrate you more… (visakanv) — 40 likes
  7. I made a dumb joke and she laughed like this spilling all that beauty into the room like copper coins dropped from a pocket and for the thousandth time I thought let's never stop doing this… (RichDecibels) — 40 likes
  8. Married @utotranslucence this week in the presence of a hundred people we love ❤️‍🔥 to have and to hold from this day forward, in gain and in loss, in fame and in insignificance, when blamed and… (Malcolm_Ocean) — 40 likes
  9. just had the happiest moment of my life: giving my son a bath while my wife plays peekaboo with him from behind my back. he giggles with the purest joy I have ever witnessed. nothing else comes close (visakanv) — 40 likes
  10. if you, a girl, live in a house with a boy and you want him to tidy up more: don’t teach him how to build a boat, teach him a love of the sea. he lacks your aesthetic sensitivity, and you can patch… (RichDecibels) — 38 likes
  11. > You’re born alone and you die alone You’re born into the arms of people who love you with the intensity of a thousand suns and you die enmeshed in a lifetime’s worth of intimacy and connection… (mbateman) — 37 likes
  12. not thrilled that I’m becoming this guy, but: Love is literally a field we’re all embedded in, and it’s a very learnable skill to open up to it, channel it, transform it, and be transformed by it (the_wilderless) — 36 likes
  13. I promise you don't want personal sovereignty you want to be inextricably entangled in a mesh of mutual obligations (RichDecibels) — 35 likes
  14. she “let” me hit it bc she assumes constant pressurized desire from my end, as a man, and she simply controls a valve that allows me to rush in to flood her like a hot bath. she’s right but i resent… (bashu_thanks) — 35 likes
  15. ah shit the key to happiness really is just food, water, exercise, sun, security, relationships, gratitude, and purpose (cxgonzalez) — 34 likes
  16. gf just said she doesn’t like the term fuck-you-money and prefers “no thank you money” (exgenesis) — 34 likes
  17. just a PSA; did you know: you can discuss your relationship issues with your partner before doing anything drastic like breaking up suddenly with no context? I’ve been hearing from multiple people… (visakanv) — 33 likes
  18. gm https://t.co/g2adKjsds2 (vividvoid) — 33 likes
  19. normally I try to keep deep personal stuff off the internetbut this was such a big blindspot that I want to share in case it helps anyone else🩷🩷🩷for the last year and a half, I have been asking… (metaLulie) — 32 likes
  20. sometimes i spend all morning just lying in bed with my wife and son and im brimmimg with so much happiness its almost unbearable (visakanv) — 32 likes
  21. This is a lot of text - but you should care for the vibe. Look into the eyes. Her eyes, looking at him. Men feel like they’ve lost something — and they have. Met a girl (recently (in SF(!!!!!)))… (nosilverv) — 32 likes
  22. I'm doing this DM with things that piss you off about me, let's have a bottle of wine and fight in front of all our friends https://t.co/RKAijxK7of (vividvoid) — 31 likes
  23. I would totally be bored of sleeping with the same damn person for 10+ years the solution in my case is that neither me nor my wife are the same damn persons we were last year tho this solution… (visakanv) — 31 likes
  24. The true (IMO) names for the four attachment styles are: • Good • Clingy • Cold • Torn (I tongue-in-cheek want to name the last one "F*cked" but I think "Torn" is way clearer.) (Morphenius) — 31 likes
  25. one of the hottest, richest girls i was ever with kind of broke my brain in how she related to privilege to her, it wasn't something to be ashamed about, or performatively guilty for. it was a gift… (AskYatharth) — 31 likes
  26. fwiw: if your gf of 2.5 years says you’re marriage material but not hookup material, all you gotta do typically is hit the gym hard for 3-6 months and maybe accumulate some skill/status in some… (visakanv) — 31 likes
  27. Good morning, I turn 39 today. Grateful for this hard, lovely year, and stoked for the next. Going to the Japanese Gardens, then a little forest where I grew up, then my favorite restaurant, all in… (vividvoid) — 30 likes
  28. lifehack: marry a beautiful wife https://t.co/BMTdZYlQrf (RichDecibels) — 30 likes
  29. i don’t remember the details but it was something along the lines of he paid her way through school and then she cheated on him this kind of shit is happening all the time. people get mad about… (QiaochuYuan) — 29 likes
  30. thread to keep track of my somewhat magical thinking about interpersonal vibes/subtle energies (RichDecibels) — 28 likes
  31. Whatever your spiritual practice is, if it's not making you more honest in your relationships, it's not working (vividvoid) — 28 likes
  32. I can't stress this enough If your spiritual practice is not deepening your honesty, making you braver in relationship, bringing you closer to the beautiful mess of real human connection, it's not… (vividvoid) — 28 likes
  33. my whole shtick: your behaviour is constrained to a surprising degree by the people around you so if you wanna change you mostly have to change who you're spending time with (or how) (RichDecibels) — 28 likes
  34. Many different lines of enquiry have led me to this same conviction: The best guiding question in life is, “Who do you want to share this life with?” *Everything else* can be determined from this… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  35. i was once at a workshop with a guy who started the workshop by cynically bringing up a bunch of PUA talking points about hypergamy etc. and ended it sobbing inconsolably on the floor about an… (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  36. people treat pets with the love they’d like to give other people if they weren’t afraid of getting hurt (visakanv) — 27 likes
  37. - how did you meet your most recent partner? - what got you from point A (meeting them) to point B (relationship)? (feels like everyone i know is discouraged about dating, maybe it would help to see… (goblinodds) — 27 likes
  38. Guys, big life update! 🥰 Got married to the love of my life @evolvingwaterbb ♥️ A large part of the love we share has emerged from the love we have received from y'all, directly and indirectly.… (nowtheo) — 27 likes
  39. i once met this girl who followed her heart so strongly i was smitten i didn’t want to be with her. i wanted to be her it was like she had access to the keys that said “you are real, your emotions… (AskYatharth) — 27 likes
  40. ok high agency friend has convinced bf which sort of tipped me over the edge into wanting to make another run at solving all my physical problems lol (goblinodds) — 27 likes
  41. imho this is the million dollar question for satisfying relationships & collaborations I make a wee thread... https://t.co/EIy3pnEYKr (RichDecibels) — 27 likes
  42. did a handfasting ceremony with @innerpathing today, so we're married for a year and a day, and we both blogged about it (links in bios) https://t.co/e9hl89qo2s (yoltartar) — 27 likes
  43. our visa application for spain was denied. i'm feeling centered with a strong feeling of okayness that my partner and i are ultimately going to be alright... but a part of me is bracing for some… (_brentbaum) — 27 likes
  44. if this is you: find someone who gets it that you can talk to. companship is the most reliable way out. talk to me if you need to, or find someone who's been thru something similar (RichDecibels) — 27 likes
  45. there’s this woman awhile ago who tweeted something like “i was mentally ill until i fell in love with someone i had to have my shit together to be with, so i decided to stop being mentally ill and… (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  46. I unfollowed about 200 "spiritual" accounts and started following a bunch of regular moms and dads just posting about their families, and my timeline is probably 3x wiser and more loving now (vividvoid) — 27 likes
  47. I lose myself in relationships, interaction. I solve this by leaving. Instead I’d like to solve this by…not losing myself. I.e., Being Myself. 🤯So today I start a ⚔️20-day quest⚔️ to learn how to… (TylerAlterman) — 26 likes
  48. the problem with identifying as an "Altruist" is that it trains you to think of yourself as someone who unilaterally helps others instead of being rooted in relationships of mutual care (RichDecibels) — 26 likes
  49. wife: wait so you're just gonna buy the $99 headphones without doing any research? me: yea wife: what if there's a better one at the same price or cheaper? me: i don't care, i'm happy with what I… (visakanv) — 26 likes
  50. Just (and hilarious) punishment. I will also say this: when I moved to the US to work at the company @michaelcurzi also worked at it was really rough for me. I was dealing with that, in part, by… (nosilverv) — 26 likes

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