Is he always the traitor? I mean, like mother like son, right?

I think we should give it a try tomorrow night. It supports up to ten players.

On a related note, I saw this posted regarding social deduction boardgames, and also found it relevant:

https://youtu.be/quDGBjHlDyY

Every time I think about the word "Yeet" in mafia, I always append it to "Yeetable." That then makes me think about a YTP that I love where they make a woman in a tampon commercial say "It's beatable fun." There's more to the joke that makes it funny for me, but it's kinda of not a clean joke.

We should find a way to bond over/suggest YTP's. This is the last place I expected to see someone else with that type of dumb sense of humor.

I won YouTube mafia as Brentalfloss by pretending to be Noisepuppet.

You should check it out. By all means, I should have been eliminated on Day 1.

Also, you can send me YTPs you like on Discord, and I can share some of mine there.

The wife says that when she hears me and the kid playing videogames together it sounds a lot like we are brothers instead of father and son.

I really don’t want to face today.

I know we don’t discuss the personal matters on here as much as we used to do and it’s largely a different group and the games have altered so much how we see each other but I need somewhere to talk and I’m hoping you’ll all indulge me a bit. I don’t have anywhere else to discuss this. Certainly not on FB where this would more likely be seen by the opposing side and reported to the court; heck, I’m fairly certain my lawyers would flip out and the court greatly frown on me even posting here but I’m hoping my “geek home” is off the radar enough and, as I say, I’m going nuts staring at walls tonite.

As I’ve rambled plenty, I’m in “the divorce that never ends”. I filed years ago and she has fought finalization every step of the way: contesting the prenup, getting fired or firing multiple legal teams which starts the discovery phases over, refusing to get herself legal counsel for almost a year which meant she was practically protected by my attorneys so the court wouldn’t say she was taken advantage of during that period, etc (I did lay off, for a couple reasons, when she had to fight lymphoma)... Just yesterday she informed me the way she would be handling all counter-offers on settlement negotiations would be to make the slightest change in their original one and send it back in response to anything we try to offer in negotiation; this enables her to say she’s still trying to mediate and settle which delays the ability to ask the judge to make decisions (not forever but..well, she can figure out what I want is to be free and start trying to rebuild my world and that’s like letting a used car salesman know too much of your interest in a vehicle when you step on a lot - it gives power. The longer she can delay that for me, the “happier” she is in getting to punish me for filing for divorce).

Before people say it’s sweet she’s fighting to keep me, I just ask you to believe me when I say it’s more she wants ongoing financial security. I’ve even gone so far as to offer her over $500K even though the prenup entitles neither of us to anything like that (ie: were this reversed you can be certain she would be insisting the prenup be upheld). She turned it down because she wanted a monthly stipend of $2500, money deposited monthly into a retirement account for her, for me to take over monthly money she already receives when the company doing so eventually stops, etc. So, yeah, I think the dollar amounts matter especially as she has said she doesn’t plan on us being amiable exes when I bring up that would make life easier on the kid.

So what does any of this have to do with today? She has informed me she’s going to put down my cat unless I return back to the house. I had been living there on a different floor prior to leaving a couple years ago - hoping to make transitions easier on people - but I had just bought a new puppy thinking he would be good to have around for the young one as the divorce got tougher plus it was just time for one I felt; she initially was the one who even showed me the dog that some people we knew had put up for sale yet once the puppy was there she wanted it gone. It got bad enough over just a few days she threatened to kill it if I took the kiddo to the annual parade of lights and left the pup there where his barking might disrupt her naps.
So in a parody of a Country Western song...I moved out and the Cold War of divorce became much more heated. I couldn’t take my cat with me as well but he was my best buddy for years.

And now she’s going to kill him.
I know it must seem heartless of me that I’m not going to give in and move back and back-burner the divorce even though I love Jakie immensely, but doing so will not better anything and only open up some possible bad doorways. Plus, I need to stay the path. I truly do. I screwed up a truly amazing chance to better my world and life in the past by “wanting to make sure I did the divorce properly” (I have people beyond myself affected by this, such as employees) and I’ve never forgiven myself for that...I can’t let that all be in vain.

But it’s messing with me knowing she’s putting down my long time fuzzy friend; the excuse being she doesn’t feel she can take care of him as he ages (and I’m not in a situation I can take him even if she would allow it).

Again, I’m sorry for this but the Family here used to be a place of shelter and support to each other in the past and I pray you all allow me this lapse. The fact I’m even risking saying something public considering the court view on it hopefully lets you know I don’t do this as frivolous whining. This just was the place I felt “safest” for years and I guess tonite I wanted to be back to that for even just a few minutes of fooling myself that we are still that place.

For what it’s worth, it’s been nice being back around so many of you again and even though some things have changed, I’ve missed you.

Dude, that sucks. If you need someone, I'm sure that there is a lot of people on the discord who would be glad to talk with you. I wouldn't think that discord has voice logs of everything that could be made available if that was a route that you wanted to go down. I'm always around super late if you ever wanted to hit me up.

That's... not at all what I was thinking. Sometimes love means needing to realize it may be better to go your separate ways. Or at least find a compromise that means you don't need to separate. It doesn't sound like there's any interest in a compromise here.

Now, let me keep reading...
...Oh.
You can learn a lot about a person by how they treat the helpless. Children, animals, or just generally those below them in station. It definitely sounds like you were lucky to get away from her, and it would be an extremely bad idea to let her have her way. I have no suggestions on how to stop her from going full Fatal Attraction though.

That is awful. That is a very messed up ultimatum for her to give you.

Wow man, that's tough. I know we don't know each other very well, but I agree that this place is like family. I'm glad you felt like you could come here for something like this. You're not the only one looking for that safe space.