I suppose I started dating my wife soon after I met her. I followed her from that house party to another one. Didn’t exchange contact info, but I sent her an email because the college emails were all first initial last name @college.com. Got intimate within the first week or two and then moved in together once we had both graduated
I have a metal ring of some sort but I almost never wear it. I usually don't wear one at all, though I do put one on when we go out for date nights, usually a silicone one
The first memory I have of auditory processing disorder was my fourth grade teacher asking me to go to the library to retrieve some cassette tapes, and then the rest of the request just sounded like gibberish, after asking for a repeat I just nodded and when the librarian asked what kind I needed I ended up just getting several
Had to take my toddler to the ER last Sunday to rule out a TBI (stumbled into the wall, was fine but then vomited later; no TBI, but did have several days of a stomach bug!), and there are signs up in the hospital to watch for symptoms of measles. Both of my kids are on schedule with all vaccines, all the same I was wondering if we really needed to be there 😬
I think it sets that up with the first sentence, that this isn’t every household. This doesn’t describe my childhood, but it does describe my wife’s, where the abusers’ moods were a matter of safety. She still struggles with people pleasing, which served her then, but doesn’t so much anymore
Could even make some pithy quip about the iron dome rusting or something