• NotNotMike@programming.dev
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    “Do you think fighting can be part of a healthy relationship?”

    My wife and I rarely fight, we’ve maybe had two or three in our entire relationship, and they weren’t yelling matches We just got upset and patched things up relatively quickly. I don’t think I could be with someone who thinks raising their voice at another person is okay, and surely not if they think it can be healthy. And hard “hell no” to any violence.

    So, this is a weedout question

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      I watched my sister and her fiance call each other stupid and mentally deficient, purely as jokes, and it made me feel bad for them… even though they have a great relationship and say shit like that to each other as a joke.

      I think people just have different sensitivies

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        But that’s not fighting and some people have that sense of humor. Feel bad for them if they are unhappy, but if they are happy, why not be happy for them?

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          I am, it just feels like to me that, on some level, they are truly saying what they think in the same way that jokes have a small nugget of truth to them. Again, perhaps I’m being too sensitive.

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      This is the same with my wife and I. Nothing is worth telling at each other over.

      If there’s a disagreement, we just talk about it and it’s resolved within an hour.

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    If you won the lottery, what’s the first irresponsible thing you’d do with the money?

    No paying off student loans, no buying your parents a house. It has to be irresponsible but not necessarily indefensible. Great icebreaker question.

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      I’d buy vast swathes of land in the countryside, and just make it a homeless refuge. They can erect a tent town if they want, host festivals, do farm work for money. Whatever, they’re protected from the police.

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        I’ve had similar thoughts, but also then I was worried about legal liability if there’s drugs, violence, arson (not saying homeless are bad - these things happen even amongst middle aged middle class people)

        I prefer to become a big benefactor of a charity that does good work and attend the board meetings.

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          Oh they might definitely do these things, but mainly they will drive the local rent and house prices down, so it’s still a win-maybewin

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      Invite a bunch of people i think ill want to stay my life out for pizza. It will be hawaiian pizza. In hawaii.

      Ill send drivers, they will only need to grab travel documents.

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      Rebuild my favorite car. A charcoal grey 1986 SAAb 900 SPG, that I heavily modified the engine, drivetrain, suspension, and wheels.

      Fat fingered and replied to the wrong comment.

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      Rebuild my favorite car. A charcoal grey 1986 SAAb 900 SPG, that I heavily modified the engine, drivetrain, suspension, and wheels

      Edit: nope it’s just replying to you even though I see the comment I want to reply to in my browser.

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    Can I have me time without you taking issue?

    Will you ask me to explain myself instead of making assumptions about what I mean when you aren’t sure what I mean?

    You know I’m kinda nuts, and it’s not really getting better. you sure about this? ;)

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    do you enjoy firing off hypothetical answers into the curious void of psuedoanonymous obscure social media platforms? (if so we probably have something in common, call me ayyyye)

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    What are your finances like? I don’t mean you need to be rich, I mean you need to be responsible. I tied my finances to a crazy person and I’ll never get free and that’s my biggest regret.

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    *Does 5 minute long surrealist interpretive dance wile forcing and maintaining direct eye contact*

    Me: And your answer is?

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      “Do you think your opinion about pineapple on pizza is a personality trait? 'Cause I sure don’t”

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        Besides missing the extremely obvious joke, the question wasn’t even about personality traits, it was about compatibility.

        Maybe we can make an extension that puts “/s” after everything for you

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    What’s a topic you could talk for hours about, and are you capable of summarizing it for a lay person?

    (it shows that they’re interesting, so when the looks fade with time you still have something to talk about, and it shows they’re capable of not just parroting what they hear but internalizing it, and more importantly: coming down to meet you half way, the epitome of compromise through mutual dialogue)

  • u/lukmly013 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I am totally fucked up, so here’s one:

    “Are you interested in any mutual sexual activities (not limited to regular sex)?”

    The problem is that I am hoping for a “no”…

    Not quite something I’d want. Quite the opposite I’d say. As I said, I am fucked up. But nope, nope… I don’t like that idea.
    I don’t know what to do about it.

    Either way, valid for all questions by me, I’d like to include a note that not all (if any) questions need an answer. I am terrible at wording stuff, and something cannot be easily answered either.
    (I am assuming this is done on paper or electronically. Otherwise it’s most likely I’d just chicken out right away.)

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      you may be on the asexuality spectrum and that is legitimate, normal, and ok.

      i hope you find what you’re looking for, friend. you deserve happiness.

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      I was once in an open relationship. It was worst experience of my life. She’d mention her old boyfriend like he was still current, we had weird codewords if one of us was interested in someone else, and any talk of future plans was just this large void. Never again.