You don't have to get anything expensive for the other person. In my opinion the gift should either be something they are going to find useful like a somewhat nice pen or it should have a personal touch. For example if they like a certain tv series you could get them something related to that. Or if you're not so sure about what they would like you could always get them some snacks.

Absolutely not, can you help me get some more culture?

>: while we're on the topic, how expensive/luxurious should I go with the gifts?

Usually discuss together as a group to pick a range of price to avoid confusion and people getting upset/embarrassed. I'd really recommend bringing it up asap if it wasn't discussed. Really depends on income of everyone and should be favorable to the person with the lowest income to avoid really fucking that person over.

20-30 price range is safe and 50-60 is what I do with my family.

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What parents should have done:

"Hey son, can you please turn off your porn. You're not in trouble but we still need to discuss this later, but for now, turn it off and get some sleep."

Regroup and have the conversation about the content the next day. Also about porn consumption in general.

To answer you question from the edit, your office should have a suggested range. I would ask the manager or someone.

Usually there’s a spending limit on the gifts. I wonder if op knows about the white elephant game! Lol.

The made me laugh until I had tears in my eyes. Sitting here alone my doggo thinks I’ve lost it.

Is Adobe Cloud actually a backup? Because any cloud storage that live updates is not a backup, not when used that way.

Lesson learned here: back up everything yourself. If you want to be as fireproof (literally) as possible, have two separate backup drives and ensure that all three copies are never all in the same building at the same time.

Sure. Whatever you say. They "tripped balls." As one does when unknowingly consuming large quantities of cannabis. So funny. To "trip balls" on cannabis.

So not only are you ignorant of the concept of informed consent, but you have no understanding of the appropriate lexicon.

You're really neat-o, daddy-o.

You're ridiculous.

Ya man... I have a good memory but when i got a little too involved with it in high school. My memory was shot for a bit. On top of that weight gain and overall laziness.

Weed has plenty of side effects just none that has been critically health related.

Should someone tell him he logged out of his burner a d responded on his normal account? Or should be just let it go?

Hahaha that would be funny! The one time I just wet my fingertips and flicked toward his face so it was pretty minimal, another time I put a cold rag on him, but there was a time where things were more dire and I was starting to get pissed (he was moving and speaking but not really conscious) so I did actually kinda throw water from a distance and move away. He has a very aggressive face when he first wakes up just normally (baby sis stays with us sometimes and calls it his Murder Face) but he was definitely more angry than normal those times!

I got my own name like 3 times in a row and they had to ban my name for my own turn lmao

Bro I am from Greece and I never knew the secret Santa thing until I moved to the UK. Don't feel ''stupid'', I was as confused as you the first time.

I look forward to your explanation of the vastly stupider "white elephant" game.

Honestly, no matter how you spin it, you don’t trust him. My bf leaves his phone around me and I know the code. But I have never gone through it because I trust his loyalty to me. My bf and I have the understanding that if we ever feel like we need to snoop then trust is gone and if we don’t have trust there is no point staying together. I’ve been in your position with past relationships, it’s never worth it. Communicate your fears, and move on from the relationship you obviously can’t bet on. It’s hard, it sucks, and it will hurt. It’s also obviously very unhealthy, and you both deserve more.

Good lord way to show you don't deserve the trust he is giving you. I hope he figures out how scummy you are and takes his laptop and run.

It doesn’t have to be an “adulting” activity, it’s more healthy for teens to be involved in structured hobbies or activities like sports, music, art, or hobbies of some kind. That would still technically take away from free time but be immensely more productive and formative than smoking weed every day. Everyone I knew in high school only had a couple hours of free time everyday because after school we all went to practice or rehearsals of some kind. @JrthrFool If you could find something you like doing, and can invest your time and money into getting better at that, I’d imagine you could replace therapy with that and your parents would likely endorse you doing so.

Also, depending on the reason for therapy, I recommend investing more effort into it. Most people could benefit from therapy of some kind, whether they realize it or not. It’s an opportunity that many people need and most people don’t get. Take advantage of it.

All in all, set healthy habits now so that you can use these formative years of brain development to build a strong foundation for the rest of your life

are you going to tell them?

I guess what I meant is was he visibly mentally ill? Sometimes you can tell by either behavior or physical deformities.

She can speak whatever the fuck she wants mate, you don't "playfully" slap a child for speaking the language that they were born and raised to speak

I’ve tried. Every therapist has turned me down after one session because A) I can’t be seen when talking. Or else I break down and just cry. So they have to face the wall B) the trauma was so prolonged and ingrained that trying to find healthy coping mechanisms is hindered by the fact that my brain literally rewired itself to handle the trauma the best way it could and it cannot be changed

Edit: a word

valid point. I'm pretty sure that even myself visiting with a dire warning from the future could knock any sense onto my 16 y/o brain.