Status Updates From Rules to Live By (The Lodge...

“Don’t apologize to me, Slade. You’re the only person you’re letting down when you don’t pick up after yourself,”

Oh fuck off

"...You're not nearly as grumpy as you used to be, and you have more color today.”

"Funny how not starving yourself changed things."

Is it considered starving yourself if you can't afford groceries?

"I am not a fan of feeling like a kept boy. This isn’t Pretty Woman, and I’m not going to let you throw money at my problems to make them go away.”

Let it be known that I am totally fine being a kept boy/woman and that I will absolutely let anyone throw money at me to make my problems go away.

There was nothing to be done, no reassurances that could give either of us confidence that we wouldn’t have a catastrophic ending. The only thing I could do was center myself in the here and now.

"Sometimes, I wish I could go out and have sex just for the sake of getting off. It would definitely make life easier.”

Sure would but here we are the non-vanilla people with /needs/

"This was a boy who was completely starved for affection and affirmation. There were red flags flying all over the place."

The author is clearly writing about me

He sounded so shattered. It was as if he honestly didn't believe my concern was genuine. I wanted to find whoever had made him feel so poorly about himself and strangle them. There was a shine to him somewhere, but someone along the way had made him feel useless. Worthless.

We had the same parents lol

But when you allowed other people to help you, they either expected something in return, or they would cut you off the second you didn’t toe the line they had drawn.

"I was down to eating one meal most days. Some days, I couldn't be bothered to eat at all."

Eating!? In this economy?

I got bored... might try it again later

Meh. A lot of dialogue for a lacklustre sex scene.

Oh goody... broke ex band member brat. I doubt there will be knives but I’ll hold judgement for now.

Oh goody... broke ex band member brat. I doubt there will be knives but I’ll hold judgement for now.