Yesterday my boyfriend and I spent the day together and he cooked for me. Wouldn’t let me help. What did I do to deserve this man?
Discussion Thread 🍎 Saturday 4 April 2026
Submitted 5 weeks ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
he cooked for me
In the biz this is what we call a green flag.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Absolutely
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
You being you is reason enough. 🥰
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
🥹🥹🥹
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
TW suicide
So apparently this is complicated grief. Currently receiving extra support because of the strong urge to surrender the visitor cat and end my life. And the contamination ocd is going crazy. Seeking help, waiting on grief counseling, considering a dose of antidepressants that would aid mood, yada yada. This sucks.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Honestly: Thankyou for helping yourself. You’ve given so much help to others and I’m not really sure what to say but I love your presence here and would hate to lose it. Socially awkward of me and I’m not a real huggy person, but I’d offer you one of my awkward A-frame hugs if I was there.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Thanks 🫂
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’m sorry you’re feeling this way honey.
I know I probably I couldn’t say or do something to help much, but just know that selfishly, I think you are an incredible person and would hate to lose you on here. You deserve a life as wonderful as you are. Hope things start looking up soon. Glad you’re taking some steps that can help <3
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Thanks Low 🫂
I’ll do my best
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
so many hugs
Is there anything we could do? Would you like a visit?
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
🫂
Thanks, I’m hoping I’ll be ok.
AceSLive@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My daughter, almost 2, has thrown up a couple of times in the last 2 hours. Gonna be a rsstless night. Hope shes ok.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
hugs
do not hesitate to visit emergency if you need to
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
City adventure today, just cause. Such a stunning day!!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I think Good Friday is the worst of the christian public holidays. Everything is closed like Christmas but there’s nothing to do. And the thing all non practicing people do is not eat red meat. At least you get to give gifts to people on Christmas.
The best parts of easter are on the other days too, but Good Friday is meant to be the big one
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Personally I find it a bit of a sad intitement of our society that we equate shops/services being closed with ‘nothing to do’. Are we really that unable to entertain ourselves?
I’ve always thought public holidays are a great thing because it gives us time to do things together - get together for a bbq or a picnic, play board games, have a movie night, whatever you like. Don’t just feed the consumerist machine.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I even mean with events and hanging out with family. It feels like there is more emphasis on family lunch at Christmas even if there’s nothing else to do. Whereas there’s just nothing on good friday
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
it’s a nice quiet day
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I like good friday for those exact reasons. It’s like the only public holiday left that’s actually a day off for the majority of workers.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Lets not forget why JC had to die. So you can feast on chocolate and hot cross buns all weekend.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Today was a good day.
Waiting for my home made parma to cool down, maybe play a game for a bit and chill.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I managed to get through my to-do list. It was a bit of an overloaded day, but I did a big batch of cauliflower soup (15 serves!) a batch of yoghurt, a sandwich loaf and a cheese and herb plait, chopped veggies for snacking on, prepped all meals for the next two days, mowed the front lawn, folded the washing, assembled a small cupboard and did my exercises.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
My man has been outside all day fixing his whipper snipper. There’s nothing YouTube can’t teach you.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
cool 👍
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
You know you are housesitting in the burbs when the actual ice-cream van comes past…
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
We have one of these here lol
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I am out near your neck of the woods I think - probably the same guy! I’m having a little bush retreat housesitting in the western 'burbs but it beats paying for a big road trip!
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Darwin award day… hot water up a ladder into downpipes.
Good thing I got an email this morning from Ambulance Vic… final notice to renew… good timing.
When I was about 7 or 8yo broke my leg at a park down here at a family thing, didn’t have coverage… and that was an expensive activity.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
awww yeah I’m a goddamn genius.
bilge pump + car battery + panel and controller = downspout that goes nowhere now goes into a tub and spits out into the lemon tree instead of eroding my goddamn foundations. And it didn’t cost me a penny.
although I am now looking at UV stabilised tubs for shits and hydro.
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
The local community FB group at my old place was fantastic, people giving away quality stuff like the cat autofeeder my feet give thanks for every morning. The group here has people trying to $ell partially used bottles of nail varnish 😹
WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Perhaps it’s an indicator of local financial stress? I used to find thrown out working or near working printers in my area, not any more.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I thought easter eggs would be near sold out at the local supermarket. Nope, they are desperately try to sell.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
we’ve been getting an influx of "Out on nature strip " and it’s like go fuck yourself, I’m not taking your hard rubbish for you.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
in some suburbs it really is rubbish, others it’s good stuff
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Beach time.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
it’s a lovely day for it 😊
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Found cheap SD cards at Jaycar so I’ll stick one in and try out these knockoff little cameras tonight. They can maybe be a present the kids can keep this easter, they were interested in the DSLR cameras at JB today so good timing
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Thinking about how to get these ringworm tablets down the black cat when and if I can get them. If I can’t sneak them down in food it may not be safe to forcibly pill him.
Thinking about whether that toxic carpet foam affected him and if the carpet washer will get it out. Whether he’ll use the shelter in winter, and as it gets colder if there’s an eskie with the right dimensions to become an insulated shelter-bed. If he doesn’t I may be forced to let him in again 😔
spoiler
Lying in bed completely physically exhausted, struggling to stay hydrated and seeing memories of Melbcat come up on my phone. I really care about this cat, feel guilty, and haven’t lined anything up… but I’m truly not coping and feel slight relief that there might be a safe option for someone else to take him and ensure he’s cared for. If there’s a foster place and they would accept him. I’m feeling it out and sitting with the idea that I may not be able to keep him.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’d be putting liquid antifungal in the cat food
and painting any ringworm I had with daktarin tincture , the tincture is super strong and works very well
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I killed my ringworm with a Thrush pill. Didn’t have a reinfection source around though.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
That’s the issue. Constant reinfection will happen unless I quarantine him and do the whole treatment and cleaning for weeks to months
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
in Melbourne we don’t get cold enough for an insulated shelter required for survival. I get for comfort, but we’re temperate enough he will be ok even in winter
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Shopping done.
Haircut next.
Then the usual suspects: cat, music, reading.
Tomorrow night, bar crawl lol
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
What are you reading?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I picked up a book called The Pearl by Steinbeck. I’ve read it before but I revisit it every few years.
It’s short, but probably the most powerful allegory on capitalism I’ve ever read.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Lovely looking day out there again today. I plan to mow the front yard (back was done yesterday), make some cauliflower soup, sort out meals for the next few days at work, and lift some heavy things.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
lift some heavy things
From the kneeeez
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
beach 😊
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Lawn is mown. Soup is simmering. Yoghurt is straining. Bread is baking. Washing is folded and put away. Vegetables chopped into snackable sticks. Why do I still have lots left to do today?
bacon@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Beep Beep 🚚
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Red chicken curry I think
bacon@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
🍅🍷🌶️🐥🥘
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Some family stole my fave table spot (fair enough can’t buy a view even with potato cakes)…
So potat cakes were had a few metres away.
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They re-did the foreshore / playground / bbq area at point lonsdale a few years ago and it’s quite nice to see the place used so frequently now.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
It’s a beautiful place.