Haven't had enough women being unreasonable after the election season/holidays? r/GenxWomen has all the salty tears and menopausal anger you could ever want!!

I'd been denied for the ketamine therapy program

my 96-year-old mom who is loving but old-fashioned, and who for 40+ years has told me stuff like "well go get busy," or "be happy for what you have" or even "go have an Apple"

Why bother with worthless, old-fashioned concepts like "being active" and "eating healthy" when you can have a nervous breakdown because doctors refused to give you horse tranquilizers? Also, I love that "Apple" is capitalized because it means she uses the word to refer to the company so much more often than the fruit that not only does her autocorrect default to that, she doesn't even notice it's happening.

!besties, check out her follow-up comment. It paints a bleak picture for her husband, but he clearly deserves it.

Eh, no, but he is generally AMAZING. Does all the laundry, all the dishes, much of the yardwork, plus will go grocery shopping if Ive had too many "dissociative" grocery shopping experiences (to get to the employee-owned and much less expensive store, you have to ride through a gauntlet of American post-2020 horror), also cleans the bathroom…and aside from that practical stuff, he is a calm foil to my moodiness, and hasn't given up on my like my Beta husband did when I've done a couple really stupid things; he loves me unconditionally and is smart, kind, funny, and hates most of the same things/people I do.

She doesn't work, doesn't clean, doesn't run errands (because driving a car is too stressful?), and complains about having to cook. This woman makes Peg Bundy look industrious. And despite having the easiest life possible, she spends all day, every day bitching to her husband about everything and nothing. Aside from his utility, her primary reason for "loving" him is that he tolerates her bitching, unlike her... ex? I assume that's what she meant by "Beta husband", but good God, is that a hilarious choice of phrasing.

But it's funny. On one of our very earliest dates, there was a massive snowstorm that shut the city down for a full week. It was fun, bc no one could work (we don't get much snow here, and have one or two plows for a city of like 750,000, and we'd gotten 14+" of snow), so we spent like 10 days mostly together and just walking all over in the middle of the busiest streets bc they were just packed snow for days. But we went with another friend in my car (bc I had chains) downtown and parked in a parking garage. For whatever reason, I had taken the chains off—maybe be the garage was obviously bare pavement. Anyway, we got back to the car after cavorting in the snow downtown, and I went to put the chains back on.

Well he and my friend—another male—literally stood there and watched me put the chains on. Which I could technically manage to do, but it's hard! Neither offered to help at all. To me, one of the most attractive and best traits a person could have is to see a need and fill it if you can, even if it's not your problem, even if you don't have to. It's like the Mr Rogers thing: look for the helpers. And one of the things I really hate is when people see a need, one they could easily fill or help with, and they just…don't.

Where does she live that snow is so rare the city doesn't bother with plows, but still common enough that she has snow chains? And more importantly, why would she take them off just to park for a couple hours?

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bc I've been unemployed forever and it's beyond stressful

Can stop reading there

Reddit is such a toxic place for people like this. If you vent about this stuff on reddit, you're not going to get any meaningful feedback or support. Your "support" is a bunch of people who want you to be as miserable as they are. You're walking into the crab bucket.

It's hard to make a case for wife-beating but she's very convincing