I’m a university student in second year and it’s been impossible to find something nearby that’s part time with the job market being bad and competitive, but I got a part time sales associate position :)) it’s not an internship or something fancy but a job is a job! I’m so happy ☺️

Being estranged from your family isn't typically "good news", but for me it is! My family was very abusive to me growing up, and were a suffocating presence for me as an adult. I felt like I had to be there for my abusers (mother and sister(who yes, was both a victim AND abuser)), because they didn't really have anyone else to act as a support for them in their lives. They don't even get along with each other. Over the years I've notice myself spiraling into deeper and deeper depressions from being around them, simply because I felt tethered to people I had no real trust in.

It took a few months of planning and timing things right, but I did it. Just a week ago I sent them both a loooooooong text outlining that I will no longer be in contact. There was no anger behind it, no malice, just a matter of fact kind of thing. I haven't felt this consistently good in my life. I feel like my old life is over and I finally get to be the person I was meant to be, without all the negative self talk that was built up after years of the abuse I suffered. I can start fresh, I can do something new. Nothing can keep be latched to my past anymore. I'm free you guys! I'M FREE!!!!!!

We're about to meet our daughter y'all!!

We were just hanging around the house yesterday when my husband gets a text from his daughter. She got a text message asking about her father. Come to find out it’s a grown man who found his long lost father!! My husband had no idea that he had another son. To say that his emotions are all over the place right now is an understatement. Come to find out he had been adopted at birth and this birth mother never told him who his father was. So of course we had to cyber stalk the poor kid and he is definitely his son, he looks just like him! He’s incredibly happy, excited but also pissed! He’s mad that he never knew he existed and that he’s lost 20+ years with his son. He never would have given him up had he had known about him. But everything happened the way it should have. He had a great life growing up with his adopted family and probably saved him a lot of heartache. He didn’t have to grow up with two parents fighting over him. We are eternally grateful to his adopted parents for the great life they provided him! So thank you _____ and _____! We are so excited to met him will hopefully get to meet him within the next few months.

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.abf1798?utm_source=chatgpt.com

I've been wanting to talk about this all day since I got the news but I received an email from my boss shortly after lunch today letting me know I was getting a bonus on my next check- effectively doubling what my check normally is. I'm still reeling a little. I've been at this job for almost 2 years. I got my first ever raise last year. It's genuinely the best work environment I've gotten to be in since college, so hearing this today really made this week better. This is on top of my partner finally getting a new job after 4 months of unemployment, which means we'll finally have wiggle room financially.

I'm planning to save most of that bonus, but just knowing it's there is surreal.

This is a little personal victory so apologies if this doesn’t belong in this subreddit, but my wife and I have run a YouTube channel together since October, and we’re so happy to announce we’ve hit our first 100 subscribers! We’re so excited, we never expected this amount of support!