Can I vent for a second? Topic: Pride month 🌈

I’m a lesbian parent and struggling with Pride content. Let me be clear, I love Pride. I am a proud lesbian and I celebrate every year with my friends and family. It’s part of who I am and it brings me so much comfort and joy. But every year I am bombarded with comments and content and “can you believe Sesame Street posted this?!” It’s so disheartening. It’s so hard to read over and over and over again that me and my family are seen as sinful. Unworthy of representation. Something to be hidden. Gross. So this June I hope some of you are more mindful of who is reading those comments. And for those of you who can relate, I see you and I love you. This is why we celebrate 🌈💖

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I’m an ally for sure but don’t love seeing brands ride pride month as a money making tactic, everything gets rainbow washed as soon as June 1st hits and its so cringe when you know these companies don’t actually give a shit.

What the actual? We all have a responsibility to stand up to bigots.

I feel exactly as you do. My queer family, our love and our existence, is not something that is up for debate or that is somehow offensive, nor does Sesame Street celebrating pride hurt anyone. I’m not a fan of corporations co-opting pride to make money, but when the climate is so hostile to queer folks, any support is welcome, even if it’s got profit making at heart.

Urmmm majority vote for "I don't like pride" 👀. Good to know when you're not welcome! *leaves the app*

Well as a fellow 2 mum, I send you lots of love this month 🏳️‍🌈

Yes! Totally done with the “Christ is King ✝️” and “why don’t veterans get a whole month” and “you just lost a follower” and “you have time to delete this” comments. The posts just become an invitation for thousands to comment how disgusting we are 😢

People like that are straight up drama queens, need a life and need to touch grass. But maybe that’s just me 🤷🏼‍♀️

I just have to say I accidentally hit the wrong button in your poll so you can know the disheartening results are at least a little bit skewed because that is not what is really in my heart 😅

My state governor just declared June to be nuclear family month 😭😭😭

Happy pride!!!

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Can I vent for a second? Topic: Pride month 🌈

My mom lied she promised she’d helped before I moved in so I moved in

Idk what to do anymore my mom is ZERO help.. I caught my bd cheating so I moved back to TX bc she said she’ll help me with my son especially while I work .. she doesn’t help so I can eat or shower she’ll literally say no when I ask and flex’s to my family that I don’t have help I can’t eat or shower bc she doesn’t help
she says she’ll watch my son (3M) while I work and is unreliable
I let her know when I need to do things ahead of time
I had an interview for Sunday and had to reschedule she said she’d watch him so I could go to it she didn’t
Monday I was supposed to work from 12pm-4pm which again she knew ahead of time but didn’t show so I had to cancel
Yesterday I was supposed to be there at 330pm (it’s a 30 minute drive) she said she’d be home by noon.. didn’t get here until 320 I didn’t get there until 4!!

Now she’s telling me not to go back bc it’s 30mins away?! What sense does that make when I need to make money I’m a single mom providing for my son 100% without help from his father.

It’s pathetic I changed him and fed him before I left she didn’t have to do anything and he went to sleep at 5… she asked me where i was at 6pm when I’m done working at 630pm??? He was sleeping most of the time she had him.

I just don’t understand she doesn’t have a job she said she’d help me with him and isn’t. She cant even watch him while he’s sleeping.
She said she had somewhere to be so I rushed home.. it was a lie she went to bed as soon as I walked through the door she woke my son up and gave him to me then went to bed

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Anyone had sex yet ? I’m really scared too but want to so bad

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I was just offered an interview for a remote job, I am extremely excited about this because I have been dying to work for a long time and remote is even better right now.
The problem is that my boyfriend works 11 hour days Mon-Fri. 3p-2a.
The proposed schedule for my job is 10a-4p, 3 days a week. (Weekends as well but thats not an issue yet I guess)
My son will wake at 8am to start preparing for school & go down at 10pm so I said I could do 8a-10a with him (im pregnant so the baby too eventually) and my son can have maybe an hour downtime "alone" (naptime for baby) while i begin my shift and my boyfriend can wake at 11am and do lunch/hang out until he has to get ready and leave for work & then my son can have more "alone" time for about an hour until i finish my shift.
Like I said this would only be for 3 days a week where my boyfriend has to work & do childcare (I do 100% of childcare right now)
He is freaking out saying that his days are too long to help watch the kids for that time which I can understand but we had discussed me working multiple times and I told him he would need to pick up childcare for the fact that I cannot work & watch them (unfair to them) and if I am bringing in a paycheck it would make sense that he does atleast a few hours?
This just feels like he wants me to somehow do it all while he just works. He even said I should've just gone for a job at like 3am so I could be available for the full childcare day but then I would lose sleep, be contributing financially, 100% of childcare, 100% housecare. I don't know how to get through to him that he's acting selfish and lazy and really limiting our families potential because he can't handle extra work.

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Imagine being a week away from having your baby and he says in a n argument that’s why I cheat on you? No one will treat you better than me. You’re going to lose a good man? I literally can’t breathe. In shock. It just proves the more you forgive, the worse they do you. The longer you stay loyal the less loyal they give you . I don’t even want him there for my delivery anymore.

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I’m struggling with what to get my soon to be 1 year old for her main/big present. There’s only 2 years between her and her sister so we’ve already got most things I would think of for a 1 year old. What’s everyone getting their babies for their first birthday?

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