I just want one normal day

My wife needs a better class of friends. By class I don't mean money or status. I mean people who aren't doing anything obviously and stupidly self- and other-sabotaging.

Too many of them abuse or are "quitting" (also still using) alcohol and drugs. This is everything from nicotine to much more hazardous shit. If I hear one more addict in my living room explaining they don't need AA because they're not an alcoholic, or they're just on methodone to *prevent* a problem, I will absolutely have a stroke. My wife doesn't do any of this shit (yes I'm sure, she won't even take aspirin without doctor's orders, and even then she isn't happy about it) so how she even got mixed up with these people is beyond me.

Perhaps not coincidentally, they are all perpetually broke and have nothing. I finally told her, I've got no problem having people over for dinner socially and if someone's car isn't working I can give them a lift, but we cannot afford to privately fund our own personal soup kitchen, and I am not going to spend my time and money endlessly ferrying people around with whom I am not comfortable.

Personally I think we need to join the nearest chapter of the ACLU or volunteer at an animal shelter or something and meet people whose lives are going somewhere other than down.

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anonymous Home January 02, 2026 at 6:19 pm 0 0