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Can This Marriage Be Saved?

in which each half of a couple in a troubled marriage explains the problem, and a marriage counselor explains the solutions offered in counseling and the outcome
A long-running Ladies' Home Journal column that started in 1953, called "Can This Marriage Be Saved?," features real-life couples and the
by SPrice1980 April 22, 2023
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Empathy for one. In the absence of empathy, if the amount of energy takes for you to get me to do a thing supersedes the amount of energy required for the thing to be done then it wouldn't be practical for you to make me do the thing. Additionally, my awareness of my own mortality makes it impossible for me to be perpetually made to do thing because I can always just kill myself. It incentivizes harming you and the things you care about. It gives your enemies a de-facto ally. But it's intriguing that you think that there is only one reason...
JeerpJoop "If I can make you do what I want and get away with it, why should I not?"

Hym "Well, for starters, there's more than one reason. Secondly, you literally can't. You can only leverage (either) my desire to live against performing the act OR the hope that I may not have to continue doing it indefinitely. Which is how you get people to stay in your suffering cult. You leverage their desire to live and their hope that their suffering will end to get them to do what you want or behave how you want to behave. It's actually kind of illuminating to because if you're God rewards screwing people over then is it not evil? Sounds evil. It ties back into you not actually believing in God but rather believing that God is on your side and that it will forgive you if you do the opposite of what it said."
by Hym Iam November 8, 2023
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If you’re bored you can come to my room

Jimin’s way of asking for a juicy night with his boyfriend Jungkook.
Jimin: (gives Jungkook the “Jungkook-ssi~~~ I’m needyyy for the jungcock” look)

Jungkook: “We aren’t sharing a room, Jimin-ssi”

Jimin: “If you’re bored you can come to my room.”
by ausgotnojams August 14, 2018
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fucking trash can

Oscar lives in a fucking trash can!
by Dave's Not Here, Man July 29, 2022
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by Adujasty343 June 4, 2025
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trash can

my trash can has been fucking up shit lately.
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Can Pepinning

Make a joke that nobody gets except you and your close friend, then start laughing uncontrollably at how stupid or meaningless it sounds.
Hey, Olga! Are you can pepinning right now?

Let’s can pepin together.

Stay winning, stay can pepinning!
by Malurka February 25, 2024
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