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This is for anyone who may have had the same thing happen...
I'm taking an Analytical Chemistry course in university right now.
Yesterday in my lab, I was working with 99.99% pure Ni. I handled it with my bare hands. After that, I was pouring nitric acid into a graduated cylinder, and I think there was some on the bottle. My thumb started to burn, so I rinsed it off right away.
Then, to my horror, I realized that I had a large yellow spot on my thumb.
Any idea what it is, or how to get rid of it?
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Ask your professor or your T.A.
I’m sure as a chemistry student you know that nitric acid is very corrosive and can burn skin. hopefully that is all that happened and the spot will heal with time...
But not many people here will know for sure what happened, but people who have worked for years in a lab will probably have some idea of what happened and what needs to be done.
You have a bunch of professionals right there at your school! They probably have the information you need. Don’t be embarrassed, everyone makes mistakes from time to time. Ask for help.
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When my fiancee and I have unprotected sex, it doesn't hurt right afterwards. It hurts the next time I go to the bathroom. We use lubricant and we have both been tested for STD's and are clean. Why is it doing that and what can I do to prevent it?
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If the pain is really infrequent and only happens after sex you could be allergic to the lubricant or spermicide in it that you are using. Change your brand and see what happens.
Pain with urination after sex can also happen if you had a full balder while having sex, so don’t have sex if you need to go pee. Ruin the moment, tell him to cool it, and that you’ll be back in a minute. It’s worth it.
If neither of those things reduce the pain you should probably see a doctor and make sure you don’t have a UTI (urinary tract infection) or even an STI they missed before.
The tiniest little bit of discomfort urinating after sex isn’t unusual. It’s recommended that you go pee shortly after sex to clean out any unwelcome bacteria that might have slipped into your urinary tract. If you were in a state of arousal for a very long time, it could also cause everything down there to be a little tense, or even more simply, a little raw. HOWEVER, if the pain is a regular occurrence, please follow my advice and change your lubricant, make sure your bladder is empty, and failing that, see a doctor.
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do they ask you if you masturbate at the gynocologist?
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No. They don't care.
The only reason it would ever come up is if you are damaging yourself. So as long you aren't causing yourself pain, you'll be fine.
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when i was young i used to masterbate really bad and now my inner lip is stretched and kinda purple lookin is this bad or normal?
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Its normal, and likely has nothing to do with your masturbation habits.
Some girls just have longer, or uneven labia. Unless you are in pain, don't worry about it.
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what is the penalty you would get for driving friends under 21 with just a permit and no parents in the car in massachusetts?
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Death in a car accident caused by your dumb friends as they distract you and horse around in the car?
Actaully you'd would be looking at a 60 to 180 day licence suspension for driving with passangers and unsupervised and a fine ranging from between $200 and $1000 dollars.
It would probably be cheeper to take a cab.
http://www.mass.gov/rmv/blog_jol_chart.htm
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Okay, so when writing a paper for english class, how do we know when to use just one of these ' rather than two of them ("). Like when you write something you would use air quotes around while speaking it, do you just use one mark (the apostrophe mark) or two (the quotation mark) around the term. Such as in The Taming Of The Shrew they talk about taming someone. Since you technically can't tame somebody, would you write tame like 'tame' or like "tame"?
Do you catch my drift?
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You use a double quotation mark " not a ' UNLESS tame is contained inside of a direct quote from somewhere else.
Single quotation marks are for a quotation enclosed inside another quotation like so...
"When I talked to Razhie last week, she said 'Purple is the best colour ever.'"
So in the text of your essay you should use double quotation marks as air quotes to indicated words used ironically.
But honestly, I wouldn’t use this device in your essay. It’s very, very easy to use it incorrectly, and although the word tame might be used in an ironic sense throughout the play, that doesn’t mean you’ll manage to phrase your thoughts in such a way that keep it’s ironic meaning and validate your choice of punctuation. You’d be better to italicize the word for emphasis and then explain the word’s ironic usage in your essay, unless you are absolutely certain that you have used the word an ironic way.
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Hi
Im a 15 year old Male from the UK
I found out my dad watches porn when i was about 12. I found this out because i was just looking through some videos to put on and found a tape with porn on it. The really bad thing is.. my friends were also there :(. 2 of them to be precise. We watched some of it.. to.. you know.. and they asked me. "where the hell did that come from?", i said, "it must be my Dads". The reason i said that was because i had'nt watched porn, my mum doesnt watch porn. So it must have been my Dad. Now at school my 'friends' all pick on me and say my Dad watches porn etc. and it really hurts my feelings because i just wish i could turn back time and have said it was mine or something. My confidence on finding a girlfriend in school has dropped because my 'friends' might tell them my dad watches porn and then they will call me and my Dad a perve. . If i could get some advice on what to do with this, that would be nice.
Thanks
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Chill out and tell you friends to fig off.
Most people don't want to believe it, but the simple truth is that the majority of adult males enjoy some form of pornography. Tens of millions of Americans consume porn. That's more people than watch CSI or own an iPod. When you walk down your street every fourth house you pass has someone in it that enjoyed porn in the last month.
Your friends are juvenile assholes who likely consume more porn in a week then your father has in the last five years. They are hypocritical, shit disturbers who would let this rather embarrassing subject drop just as soon as it stops obviously bothering you.
Sure, it’s uncomfortable to know such things about our parents and even worse to have others know but it was three damn years ago! It’s not funny anymore it’s just plain stupid. Tell your friends as much and then drop the subject.
If the girls around you aren’t mature enough to just shrug off pornography as one of those harmless things some people do, they aren’t mature enough to be dating anyone with any seriousness anyways, but you’ll never know anything about their maturity level unless you get over your shyness long enough to speak to them.
Your friends might be behaving like little boys, but you are refusing to rise above it. Confidence is your core problem, not the porn.
Take a deep breath, role your eyes at lame jokes and let this silly incident slide into the past. If anyone brings it up agian, say this "Yeah we found a video in my house years ago. Never knew exactly whoes it was. Wierd eh?"
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Hi, ive had my retainer off braces off for about 3 years and have been wearing a retainer since. like 2 years ago my orthodontist told me i could wear my retainer at night only and have been doing so. one time during the 3 years of wearing my retainer i forgot my retainer at home for a week when i went on vacation, nothing happened when i put it back on. now, i forgot it again when going on vacation for a week, but for some reason im seeing a slight gap ~.5mm wide forming in between my two front teeth...how much are my teeth going to move, should i be concerned, if i put my retainer back on when i get back will it be ok?
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It should be just fine. If your teeth have shifted at all, your retainer will just be a tad tight and uncomfortable at first. After a night or two, you'll be back to normal.
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I've heard a lot about dental dams when giving a girl oral sex. If all you are doing is sucking on the clitoris is it alright NOT to use a dental dam? I'm the only guy that my girlfriend has ever been with and she's the only girl that I've ever been with and we've been together for over 4 years. Thank you.
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It doesn't matter what you are doing down there, if you want to be protected from STDs you should be using a dental dam.
HOWEVER, if you've been with someone exclusivly for that long, you are probably safe not to use it. But before you discard it, it might not hurt you both to have an STD test, then you know that you are both clean, and as long as neither of cheat, you'll likely stay that way.
Dental Dams exsits to stop the transmission of STD's. They don't really have any other purpose. So if you know you are clean and trust your partner, then a bit of oral sex without one is probably an acceptable risk.
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my "best friend" is going after a guy I like. I introduced them and I told her I liked him before she even met him, but now she's going after him behind my back and aparently he likes her.. am i the one being messed up or is she?
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Honestly, I find the whole idea that a guy is off limits because your friend has a crush on him to be quite high-schoolish. I would never in a million years mess around with a friend's boyfriend, but crushes have to go two-ways for anything to come of them. So if they like each other, that is great. That means the two of them can move past the 'crush' phase into something more. If nothing more was happening between you and him, I think the mature thing to do would be shrug your shoulders and be happy for her.
She shouldn't be going behind your back though. It's much healthier for people to be upfront about these things. Talk to her calmly about it and get the real story. She is your friend after all. You might be a bit hurt, but she hasn't betrayed you in any way.
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To start i am almost 18 and my bf is 18. My bf and i have a 13 month history (we took a couple month break..but now i would say we have a solid relationship)
Today we went to a WWE wrestling thing and he was fascinated by the divas (they were just wearing lil mini skirts with the thong showing..ugh)..annddd today he was determined to get his S.I swimsuit edition..he likes that kind of stuff and claims its normal. it just pisses me off..and noww after this wrestling show he asked me how i would feel if he goes to a strip club..what do you guys think about this?? i hate how he drools over them ..and likes his stupid magazines..and his lil porno videos he burns off the internet.
any input..is this normal? do i let him have his fun at the strip club?..
The Answer
Seems like its normal for him.
The simple secret of the universe is that if men have eyes they will look. Frankly, women tend just to be more discrete about it.
You can hate him for his desire to look at bare flesh, you can yell at him and argue and cry and maybe he’ll stop doing it. But he won’t stop wanting too.
Men are going to get turned on by other women, especially teenage males. I’ve hear jokes about them getting turned on by loaves of bread or fast cars. They wake up turned on. It's a physical trigger that is not completely under their control. You might as well make him feel bad about farting. Everyone does it, we can’t always control it.
Not letting him to go is unrealistic. You don’t 'let' your boy have his fun. He is going to do what he wants too.
Certainly talk to him about your feelings. Telling him specifically what your fears are. Figure out what it is that bothers you exactly. That might help the two of you come to some compromises will let you feel secure with his decisions.
You are in control of your own feelings and reactions. You don’t have to be miserable about this. If this is something that is really hurting your relationship, then it’s not really about the models at all. It’s about the way the two of you are dealing with each other.
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i am a 15 year old guy. i have always like girls and i mean ALWAYS. never ever felt even the slightest love directed at a guy. 4 months ago i asked a girl out. after that, i had a crush on another girl a little less than 2 months ago.
I am really confused because about 3 weeks ago i started wondering i may be gay after i saw some line reading a soccer review where the player said "its a man's game". i have no clue why but that set of a chain reaction in me. after this i can count about 3 instances where i haven't been aroused that much by porn. i have never watched gay porn but for some reason it seems more exciting but not so arousing. i think it might be the hero worship happening now. i am sexually attracted to women ONLY and masturbate thinking about them only and do not fantasize about men.
my relationship with my dad is good but i don't see him so much because he is busy and my brother left for college last year. have not been able to meet my friends so much cos i have study leave for exams.
please help. i really need it
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Chill. You are fifteen. You are not required to figure out your sexuality tomorrow.
If you are still attracted to women, then you why would you think you are gay? Gay men tend not to be sexually attracted to women.
Curiosity, even about gay sex, is perfectly normal. This also may be something a bit more and you might have simply stumbled over a new aspect of your sexuality.
The bottom line is it doesn't really matter. Your sexuality doesn't define who you are and there is no reason to flip out over it. Keep your eyes open. Pay attention to yourself and what you want, but donâ??t expect to understand everything about your sexuality tomorrow. Iâ??ve been sexual active for years and Iâ??m still learning new things about myself.
Talk to your friends or father if you think that will help, but if you can relax and accept simple things without getting worked up over it, you could just keep considering the details calmly, without letting pointless worry run your life.
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Why is it that when i do something bad my mother goes and tells everyone in the family? Is it because family has to know?...or is she just trying to make me look bad? I just gots to know..cause my mom is always doing that to me and she even do it to my friend...he does something bad and she tells my family that my best friend did this or that..and it makes me look bad...my aunts are always like you should get new friends...but whatever happened to the good things me and my best friend do?...so I'm juss sayin is why do parents do this to us kids
-vianey 13/f
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Because your life is important to them and like it or not, YOU are the main thing they think about and the main thing they want to talk about. You are your mother’s main worry, her main pride, her main concern and likely the main purpose of her life. So she talks about you. Of course she talks about you. What else would she talk about? The weather?
Yes it’s a little insensitive and unfair of her to be telling your extended family everything, but your aunts are concerned with you as well! If they want to hear about your so badly, maybe you should tell them about the good things. They might be delighted to get some information straight from the source.
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I'm ovulating now. And my bf and I just had sex twice. There is no way for me to get any help mecically cause I'm at boarding school. But, I don't think he had anything on his hands...but he did touch me. And I touched him and had some pre-cum/left over cum from th previous time a coulple hours ago and then without thinking put my finger in me to make sure I wasn't bleeding. What is the liklihood that I got pregnant? We used condoms both times and neithre broke. I'm just worried that he or I had something on our hands and then touched me and it is going to get me pregnant. He did put his penis back in his pants and he did pull it out again and may have brushed against it, in this process could he have gotten enough sperm on his hands to get me pregnant??
I know this makes no sense but I'm worried right now and can't make sense at all.
And in the shower I took the shower head and flushed myself out so to speak, was that ok?
The Answer
The likelihood of you getting pregnant from a bit of semen on your or his hands is ridiculously, ludicrously, absurdly, infinitesimally, small. Especailly if it were several hours old. Sperm cannot last that long outside a human body.
Flushing yourself out with a showerhead is not a terribly effective way to deal with sperm. Of course it's a good idea to clean up after sex, but a good scrub isn't going to do too much about your chances of pregnancy. Which in this case, are next to nothing anyways.
Relax. Just relax.
Sex is risky. Sex will ALWAYS be risky. Even if you use a condom, and birth control and Plan B and a sacred Mongolian anti-fertility voodoo doll, sex will still be risky. If you canâ??t maturely and calmly accept that having sex, presents the risk, even a ridiculously slim one, of getting pregnant or getting an STD, and go about your day with confidence and comfort, then you are not ready to be having sex.
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my dog is thorwing up bright red blood what is the problem
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I would bet he is sick.
Go see a vet. Quickly.
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I'm 17/F and a junior in highschool. Our teacher quit so we have a permenant substitute for now. Our Sub is a guy, and he told us he was 23 and right out of NYU. Pretty hot too. Anyways, ever since this guy started taking over our classes he's been kind of flirting with me. Don't tell me i'm imagining it because my friends notice too. He always comes to my desk to ask how I'm doing, putting his hand on my back. He asks me to stay after class a lot to compliment me on all my work. He asked me if I needed a tutor in any subject and that he'd be happy to do it, and one day my friend couldn't drive me home so he offered to take me. It's kind of starting to freak me out. He's good looking and all but he's 6 years older than me and my tacher. I told my parents and the school counselor and they think I'm crazy for even saying something like that. My friends are the only ones who believe me. What should I do? He's not stopping. Maybe I am crazy, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.
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Do you have a good relationship with anyother teacher at your school? Asking another teacher you have a solid relationship with for advice on this is probably a really good bet. They will understand how these things are dealt with and might have some insight into the problem for you.
It's okay to feel uncomfortable, and they aren't going to fire him just because you are a bit confused by his behavoir. But I do think it is a really good idea to air your worries and have them taken seriously. This guy is new to teaching and he might just be unsure of the bounderies and comfort level for his students. I would hope his fellow teachers or the principal could gently but firmly set him straight.
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I’m 14 and I’m really pissed because I have next to no decent clothes. I’m not exactly wealthy, but my family’s *far* from being poor. Okay, I have about 8 blouses that I’ve collected through the years, two skirts and two pairs of jeans that fit, and that’s it. My mom grew up in a really poor part of Asia and immigrated here about 15 years ago, but even still, she has no idea what teenage girls are like. I asked her to let me get a nice pair of shorts from American Eagle (which was $40) and she got really mad and gave me this lecture about how I should be thankful that I have any clothes at all because when she grew up, she only had, like, two pairs of cotton pants throughout most of her childhood, and how she breaks her back trying to support our family and I’m just being a greedy spoiled brat. She refuses to buy me any article of clothing over $30. What makes me even more mad is that she still buys $50 worth of earrings for herself (she gets loads of really cheap jewelry on those TV jewelry channels) when she doesn’t NEED any new jewelry, yet she won’t let me buy a $40 pair of shorts.
The worst part about all this is the other kids at school. I go to one of those expensive private schools and all of the other girls at my school who have entire wardrobes filled with those fancy designer clothes from stores like Abercrombie, Hollister, American Eagle, etc. I feel really ashamed next to everyone else because I don’t have many nice clothes at all. While all of these girls make monthly shopping sprees, I’m allowed two shopping trips a year. But even during these shopping trips, I can hardly find anything under $30 because nothing ever fits. Seriously, I’m way too skinny….my waistline is like, 22 inches and my hips are 27 inches. No, I’m not anorexic, it’s just the way I am. I don’t need any eating advice or anything, because there’s no way I’m going to diet and put on weight just to wear clothes. My pants size is 00 and my shirt size is XXS, and the only stores that carry anything flattering for really skinny people in those sizes are the expensive places, like Abercrombie. I would’ve ordered things online, but my mom doesn’t believe in shopping online-----she’s afraid someone will steal her credit card number.
I know this question might make me seem whiny and ungrateful and vain and spoiled because there are people dying in Darfur and I’m concerned about a pair of shorts, but still, it really makes me feel bad that I’m the only person in
What should I do about this? I tried talking to my dad, but he won’t make her understand. She’s got a one-track mind.
The Answer
You are right dearie, your question does seem whiny and ungrateful, but that doesn't make you a bad person. What it means is that you are a person who is sitting around stewing instead of working to solve her problem.
You need to talk to your mother, but I would suggest, rather then rehashing the same old argument over and over again about value of clothing and your desires, you ask for something different. Ask for a clothing allowance.
Ask your mother and father (it might be good if you get them both together, they will probably help each other stay calm and paying attention) for a set amount of money each month to put towards clothing that you yourself can choose and control. Maybe $40 dollars is a good place to start. That way, you can pick your own clothing, and save for a month or two if there is something special you want. If you do it this way you'll be spending your own money, rather then being dependant on making your mother agree with each purchase. Just make sure you make the deal clear and write down whether your clothing allowance has to include shoes, underwear or winter jackets. If it does include those things, ask for more money.
If this doesn’t work, you can either go back to the same old routine of bugging your mom and fighting with her and bitching OR you can find ways to make your own money to buy clothes. Those are really your only options. If you can't make your own money and you can't convince your mother, well you are just sort of stuck. Sometimes parents just suck like that, and they are allowed to suck and do stupid things. Teenagers just have to suck it up and deal sometimes (God knows I had too).
Find a job, baby-sit, take care of pet or a neighbor’s lawn and use your own money to for clothing. You aren’t a child anymore. Your parent’s aint going to solve all your problems. These days, they will probably cause more problems then they will solve. Learn to work around it.
(This is just a note, because this is one of my pet peeves but Abercrombie, Hollister, American Eagle are not designer clothes. They are off-the-rack mass market clothing. Don't let people look down on you because they buy some off the rack stuff from those places. Fendi, Mendocino, Vera Wang... those are designer clothing lines. It really bothers me when vicious little girls call mass market stores like those ones 'designer' just to make other girls feel bad. They aren't designer. They never were, they never will be. They are just 'popular'. If you like them, that's fine, but please don't buy the bullshit those girls are trying to sell you. They are just trying to make you feel bad. Jerks.)
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okay so in december me and this kid went out for a very short period of time..(i was rebound) and his last gf just broke up with him saturday and asked me out last night but i said no we can just talk for a little while and well today he came over and we fooled around went to like 2 or 3 base-ish and now i feel terrible (right after i was told my bff got outta jail but one of his best friends died so now hes gotta go to a funeral which also upset me) i guess my question is
1 why do i feel bad
2 how do i trust this kid that i fooled around with
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Bad things happened in life today, so you feel bad. You did something you aren't sure was right, so you feel bad. That's okay. Feeling a bit bad when people you care about are in pain, and feeling a bit bad when you think you made a mistake are both, good, human responses. Just ride it out. You'll feel better in a little while.
How do you trust this boy? Well, you don't. Not yet anyways. You have no reason to trust him right now. If you are interested in him, go back to your orginal plan of just talking to him for a bit, and seeing if something more, like trust, developes.
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15/F
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There was this guy who liked me I guess, so I walk the same way home as him, and he starts walking with me. I didn't mind it that much, and then he started with the hand around the shoulder, still didn't mind it. Then he started pretty much hugging me really tight, while I'm trying to walk home. When I got home, after him pretty much not letting me move in anyway, or being able to kick/punch him. He asked me out, I said I liked someone else, and he basically got really bitter and started to ignore me. He never said anything about how he feels yet he does that[recap]
Now, a few days ago again, he walked with me. Did the hand on shoulder thing, hugging etc. Then when we got to my house, he pretty much started to put his hands up my sweater and tickling me. That crossed the line, I do not understand why he would do so because he knows I don't like him. I told him to stop but you know... weird guys + hormones. It was scary IMO. Then he kept asking me what I was doing over the weekend, and asked me if I still liked that person, and then he started to ask like 50 questions.
What do I do about this person :|
The Answer
Don't walk with him anymore. Don't talk to him anymore. Don't waste your time on someone who you don't like and who makes you uncomfortable.
He's creepy and he's not taking the hint. So make it a bit stronger then a hint. Don't tell him you are interested in someone else, that gives the stupid boy hope. Tell him you are simply and completely not interested in him!
It's great to spare a person's feelings, but when someone makes you uncomfortable it's time to just shoot them down, quickly and brutally.
If he still doesn't back down, tell your parents or a teacher. His behavoir is way out of line.
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How does one get closure? In other words, something happens they get reassured by the person who made the comment and/or someone like you how would the person it happened to put what happened to them behind them and move on.
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There are a million ways to work towards closure and most people try and find one that works for them. They may simply ignore the issue until time dulls its memory. They may scream and cry it out. They may end relationships, avoid conversations, avoid certain places or music. Most of those are just symbols of closure though and ways to make it easier, because in the end a person gets over something because they suck it up and just do.
Please remember you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.
You can tell a person the rational, complete truth a million times, but until they accept it there is absolutely nothing you can do or help with. No one can give anyone else closure. In my experience, most of the time when people try to it only reopens wounds and causes more grief. Acceptance and the choice to move on is just that, a choice. Until a person finds something inside and makes the choice to let it go, nothing you do will have any effect at all. Even after the choice is made, the issue might linger, but it's on it's way out.
Some people, for some reason, just like to obsess. Or else, don’t know how to do anything else. You might as well howl at the moon for all the good reassuring them does.
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