@#TBL Tatted Biker Lady I'm also grateful to my parents for having consistently demonstrated a healthy heterosexual relationship is possible. It's only later that I realized how rare it was.

@#TBL Tatted Biker Lady It's all good!

@#TBL Tatted Biker Lady Yeah, my partner was pretty incensed by the whole situation. And unfortunately for heterosexual women, this is what they have to contend with or their relationship and family prospects (which they are urged about by society in general) become extremely limited.

There is also this latent (and unfortunately misplaced) expectation that with a child, men's behavior can somewhat improve or change. Behaviors that were bearable without a child can become straight child endangerment.

@#TBL Tatted Biker Lady I agree, but you said "friends" and I said "strangers", there's a world of difference!

@#TBL Tatted Biker Lady No, my partner actually tried to offer alternatives, and basically either she would have made her life even more difficult if she involved anyone else in the situation or she was risking her kid’s life by trying to force him to care. She was definitely stuck between a rock and a hard place, one of which being the well-being of her kid that her husband is using as leverage to get what he wants.

@#TBL Tatted Biker Lady I believe it’s an overall API rate limit, but maybe it’s intentional for deletion, because tweets are integral to Twitter’s business model.

@#TBL Tatted Biker Lady I’m mostly done trying to engage with strangers who don’t have the same basic values as mine. It wastes everybody’s time while not meaningfully changing anything.