Staying in bad relationships

July 12, 2016 9:34 AM

A few months ago, there was a post on the blue, linking to a question on captainawkward.com. It was about young women who stay in bad relationships. I can't find it.

I remember a pretty big response; a lot of women relating similar stories about not listening to their gut, staying with the wrong guy because they are socialized to "placate" their crappy boyfriends and "justify" their crappy behaviour. Can anyone help me find this thread?

posted by yawper to MetaFilter-Related at 9:34 AM (12 comments total)

Update! I have found the captainawkward post but I still can't find the discussion on metafilter, which is what I'm really interested in. Maybe the link will ring a bell though?
posted by yawper at 9:41 AM on July 12, 2016

Not the precise thread you want, but sort of related. "Are you married to someone AskMefi told you to dump?"
posted by puddledork at 9:56 AM on July 12, 2016

I found it. And sorry for the confusion - it was NOT linking to that captainawkward post. It's this. Mods, perhaps you can delete this thread?
posted by yawper at 10:14 AM on July 12, 2016

Mods don't typically delete a three. Sometimes they close it, but even that's not common.
posted by cjorgensen at 10:30 AM on July 12, 2016

If they delete this one, in a couple of months, there'll be another MeTa post asking if anyone remembers that one post about someone trying to find a question on colonelgawky.com.
posted by zamboni at 11:12 AM on July 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

Was it this one?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:16 AM on July 12, 2016

Yay, glad you found it! And yeah, no worries, we don't need to nix this thread or anything. Asked and self-answered is an okay outcome for a MetaTalk, happens now and then.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:35 AM on July 12, 2016

Mods don't typically delete a three.

A four or five, perhaps?
posted by Melismata at 11:49 AM on July 12, 2016 [6 favorites]

Yeah, they gave up deleting three after the huge failure of their effort to redefine π as 0.1415926558979. To say everything went pear shaped is putting a very positive spin on it.
posted by ambrosen at 2:55 PM on July 12, 2016 [7 favorites]

Not to mention that time they divided by zero! *shudder*
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:11 PM on July 12, 2016 [2 favorites]

+1 to ambrosen for removing the three from the billionths place.
posted by Night_owl at 5:41 PM on July 12, 2016 [4 favorites]

Night_owl, I have to confess, I copy and pasted from the first 100 digits of pi, removed the 3s, then decided that was far too silly of a joke to make.
posted by ambrosen at 12:32 PM on July 15, 2016