Questions

The reason/s could be you just don't like how their name sounds, or they have the same name as a family member of yours, or they have the same name as a bad ex of yours, or they have the same name as you yourself, etc.

I was surprised to find out this is a problem for the vast majority of people.

Maybe it's because my way of thinking is too literal but a name is literally just a word to me and nothing more?

And if I really had a problem with my perfect romantic partner's name, which I doubt because I have never encountered a name I hated that much, then I could just call them by a nickname or something.

Seems like an odd reason to reject an entire complex human being.

Nobody gets to choose their name either unless they decide to change it later in life.

But these are just my views. Maybe I'm the weird one.

Fuel prices here are hovering close to $4 a gallon here when regular unleaded gasoline was at $2.70/gal over a year ago. Shopping at the Food City grocery store, most items range between $4 to $5 each. For example, a frozen pizza from the freezer aisle ranges typically from $5-$7 now when I can go to Little Ceasars and get a "hot and ready" for that price.

Interest rates on homes have climbed to nearly 8%. Inflation is killing the average, everyday American Joe and Mary, and now inflation is outpacing wages. The Americam Dream is getting more and more out of reach. According to sources, the US Dollar has devalued over 80% since 1988.

Just when we thought prices and the cost of living is bad, now we are on edge with anxiety about our careers and livelihoods, whether our career will be automated by AI in both the short term and long term. Will we have to change careers entirely again? Will we need to return to some education program when we are already above our heads in student debt? What will be safe?

It feels like our efforts are never enough and, sometimes, in vain.

Oh my God, I hope Bolsanaro Jr wins and pardons his father and lifts visas for Americans again.

I don't like that Brazilian dual citizens who've never lived in Brazil have to go to the embassy to vote.

Entry level relationships are the relationships you might have when you first start dating, or when a long relationship has just ended.

They are the casual relationships before meet your perfect partner that ticks all your boxes, a partner you want to share the rest of your life with.

Did you or do you have entry level relationships, or does your date need to tick all the right boxes from the start before you'll date them?

What is your opinion?