My dog once fought off a wolf to protect me and chased down a mountain lion before. I think she’d have my back. I think she’ll always have my back.

Baby shark.

Financial abuse is very hard to escape once it starts. Wanting/pushing to “take care of her” is a bad sign.

NTA

I have a military partner too and you handled this situation a thousand times better than I would have. I’m really sorry this happened but good for you for telling her off. People like your cousin have no place at celebrations for other people honestly.

Manic by Coleman Hell

For a while there I think Pale Mamba was selling signed hammers, maybe you could look into that! Lol

I honestly couldn’t tell you! All I know for sure is that they’re very entertaining lol

I imagine it’s because they aspire to “get paper”

Billy almost always starts the videos, I believe he’s their leader and he really likes to jump off of things before he starts his rap. You will often find him waddling like a penguin and he usually ends up shirtless.

Chief East comes in second, out of nowhere usually. I once saw a video of him busting out from under a house for his rap time. Sometimes he pops out of boxes or walls, it’s pretty funny.

Then Pale Mamba “the toughest in the group” comes in to finish and starts his part by saying “it’s hammer time baby, let’s get to spittin” and usually has a hammer or two, or three, or ten.

They all like to destroy things during their “performances”, whether by sheer strength and bare fists (note Chief East with the stick) or using sledge hammers and such.

They almost always have at least 2 extra dudes who either stand there or throw weird poses and gang signs and grunt their support/approval. Back up hype kings as opposed to back up dancers I guess.

They’re all very hands on with each other, grabbing, shoving, pinching and smacking. It’s an interesting dynamic.

One of my favourite things about them though is that they grunt and moan and pant so much that if you close your eyes, it almost sounds like an amateur gay porn video with really bad music.

This is probably my favourite video of theirs

This video in particular is nearly a year old. Billy is bald because they went on a live stream and provided their venmo saying if they received X amount of money they’d shave Billy’s head and eyebrows.

They achieved it, Billy was less than impressed, especially because he was due to appear in court within the next week or so.

They also have music on Spotify and merch lol

Funny enough, personal hygiene is probably the only thing that I am able to manage consistently, even when I’m in my low lows

Their rap group is actually called “Waraq” and I’m not kidding lmao

No… they’re a rap group called “Waraq” and they’re mildly popular on Facebook lol

Tall guy with the long hair goes by “Chief East”, bald dude is “Billy” and guy with the hammers is “Pale Mamba aka The Hammer”

Wow… an interesting and very extreme take on this situation.

This is accurate at times

This man is incapable of apologizing for anything and is so manipulative that he’s somehow always the victim by the end of a conversation.

Medium/maintained contact. I only used the abbreviations in my post because of the character count.

No contact, medium/maintained contact, low contact. I only used them because I cut it close with character count. I’d rather type the whole thing but it is what it is.

I promise Kyle is a fake name lol

I tell her every day, I like to buy her flowers at random too because they always make her smile.

His example wouldn’t have mattered anyway because I’ve only known him for 3ish years

I struggle with Calvin honestly. I’m considering cutting him off now. He can’t apologize for anything ever and he’s so manipulative that he somehow is always the victim by the end of the conversation. It’s exhausting.

Medium contact. We send each other funny things a lot, have a phone call every couple weeks typically and then every few months we’ll hangout for a bit.

What an unfortunate comment. Black hair and all of its textures (although high maintenance) is beautiful and there’s a lot of history within the kinks and curls.

A couple people have linked that story, I had never read it before now. I have a couple other posts that go into more detail about what my relationship and history with my bio dad is like if you’re at all interested.