It sounds like she is totally fine with that and there’s no reason to assume he isn’t either. It’s a “request”, clearly rooted in some desire to still be responsible co-parents who are dedicated to their children even though their marriage has ended.

Don’t look for drama, life is hard enough as is.

This is the way.

I like pop tarts way more if they aren’t toasted

I certainly wouldn’t be voting for Trump since i have the rare human ability of noticing when someone has lied to my face thousands of times in the most absurd, lazy, and inconsistent manner possible.

My dad was a Republican and a military man who i respected immensely, so I could’ve seen myself going that route, but that route in my mind was “fiscally conservative” and not “socially conservative”, but I haven’t seen any fiscal responsibility from that party outside of implementing cuts to offset massive tax break handouts for billionaires, and there’s instead an extremely unhealthy emphasis on the latter.

Come to think of it i don’t think i even came across politics much during my childhood years with Internet, it was still web forums mainly and political web forums sounds as boring now as it did then. (though It’s kinda weird that i feel that way and still spend most of my time on lemmy discussing politics rather than any other topics)

Fair point. Maybe it doesn’t work out so well for that guy, but for the 999/1000 people who don’t want to be murdered/tortured, “do unto others” probably ends up being a net positive versus “do whatever the fuck you want as long as you can get away with it”, which seems to be the direction a lot of “leaders” are going and dragging humanity into Hell alongside them

“Do unto others…”

Even those who supposedly devote their lives to such teachings don’t seem to know wtf that means

Surprisingly relatable… I’d always selfishly assumed things like enshittification and the dead Internet mainly affected old fogeys like myself and that Gen Z was already used to everything sucking.

Earning back trust takes time and openness. Be patient and attentive to her lingering fears/doubts/pain and just do your best… what that involves is for you to figure out, you know your wife better than anyone… but there’s certainly hope you can fix things if you are truly done with being “a piece of shit”

No but i had a habit of cleaning the lint and gunk off the rollers of every mouse i touched

Be respectful of your daughter’s wishes and let her be.

Meanwhile, inform ICE that her boyfriends are critical of the genocide in Gaza and with any luck their citizenship will get revoked and they’ll be deported to Venezuela.