"Learns to love herself"

Learn to love yourself and you'll realize how wrong this is and how it is actually holding back your happiness by settling.

You're making a "One Day Wager" on him. Even if you tell us you know he'll never give you what you want - you actually are desperately hoping he does - one day.

I just wish someone could have told her this sooner.

Fabian, nobody needs to tell her MLY, it seems like you're having a bad week. I hope you find something you can do to lift your spirits a bit before things have a chance to escalate.

Thanks Gregorio. We have baseball 3 days this week, so hopefully I'll be too preoccupied to slip any further.
It's best when I don't think about anything in the future and just get through day to day.

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Come on, this isn't true either. You really need to learn that there's a healthy middle ground between living in a fantasy world where everything's always great and giving up because everything's hopeless. I think part of you would rather believe either of those extremes though, because either one gives you a convenient excuse to be lazy and accept the status quo instead putting the work in to improve your situation. You really do have the power to make some obvious changes that could make your life a lot better though if you were willing to. Seeing a good therapist while keeping an open mind would be a good start.

She is 6. It's still boys and girls until 7 years old. It's coach pitch and I softball pitch to all the kids. Three other parents will stand on the field for each team and direct the kids on what to do.
I fast pitch to my daughter and a couple other girls that are good to get them ready for next year. My daughter is just so dang good and hits so well. I'll probably put her on a select team next year or the year after and not play city league.

It’s 2018, women are now allowed to do many of the same things men do

I steered my daughter towards basketball for this reason, and then she naturally really digs volleyball. I discouraged her from cheerleading, she thanks me for this now (going into 9th grade).

I don't like the youth soccer setup at all, she'll probably kill naturally doing that in high school.

Be careful with this, one trimester the only 'sport' available to my daughter was cheer. Was either 6th or 7th grade, I forget; basketball season coincided for the boys. I think it was 6th and she's had track the subsequent two years.

Right, my ex had my oldest playing flag-football and wrestling during her middle-school years.

Thankfully, she's a debate whiz.

She will go straight to softball.

Around here softball isn't offered until high school, it's a summertime thing otherwise. How was it for you growing up? I know you played.

Oh god...I will not be able to avoid cheerleading SMH. She loves it and loves to dance more than anything else. We dance some nights and she comes up with these different routines where I lift her and she does a backflip or we spin while she does the splits and stuff.
She hated basketball and seems to like baseball a lot, but dance/cheering/gymnastics is her thing. I need to get her in dance soon.
I haven't gotten any child support money yet, but I plan on letting her go to a couple dance camps, gymnastics camp and a theater camp she has been begging to do this summer when I start getting payments.

It's pretty big here. There is select ball where you try out for teams and travel to play. I played tournaments with some select teams growing up as a pickup player if they were playing in town, but I was a poor and couldn't afford to play on the teams. It's a big time investment though. They travel every weekend and play tournaments throughout the year. I .ight wait till my daughter is 9 before we do it and just have her play summer ball.
Everyone at work with a daughter has them playing softball.

We didn't have an official basketball league, but a church in town would host it during the summer and kids would show up and get to play for free.

I haven't seen any baseball/softball for girls here. My daughter is 8, she does gymnastics/ballet/latin dancing and soccer.

"I think you should try to be more empathetic toward other people."

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MLYLT, are scheming bitches Lapka, Rexx, and El oh El all banned from this place?

If you do this be prepared for it to become your life during the season. No trips to the casino. No trips to Dallas (unless that's where she's playing). Your new identity will be Softball Mom.

She'll be the mom that goes to weekday games.

She'd def have the opportunity to make friends. I could even envision her finding a partner-in-crime to swap off duties, I know it sounds crazy.

You'd def make friends with some of the sports moms in my world. All the colors of the rainbow are there (I mean personality-wise).

Watching your kid play sports is amazeballs. Seeing my daughter get dirty on the boards, for the first time, is one of the highlights of my life.

She's such a natural baller on the court. *swoon*

Aaah, that sucks. Where is here?

If you took her to the park with you and shot around, she might follow suit. That's what got my daughter into it.

I still remember that photo of you shooting. Looked like the shot was short but your release looked great.

The bar is much lower against girls. I'm a baller and her mom is a female 'baller' w/ a 6 pack (we started dating based on playing ball together, sorta). She's also not 6.

My son is into track and the flute. It's all good.

About $75/month for one class a week.

Haha thanks.

I've shot around with her several times. I think she got frustrated because it was too confusing for her. I'll wait till she is older, close to junior high age, and try again.