I just got engaged to a really gentle, kind person. I wanted to turn to this community for some reason in hopes I could hear more positive things (hopefully) happening with everyone. I can’t share this with people I know just yet due to none of my closest friends are doing well and I’m not trying to tell my bff while she’s grieving today. So for now I just wanted to be among everyone here 🙂 thanks everyone for making this a community I could turn to when I have good and bad in my life ❤️
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Ayyyyyy, congrats!
I made some really damn good potatoes tonight. Not quite as cool but still good :]
Congratulations on your engagement! 🥳
Positive news from me: I’ve just started a new job and I’m loving it so far.
Just discovered the giant tree with 1000s of berries in our yard are edible and my 7 year old is foraging them every day! Lilly Pillies are divine !!!
Congrats! Love reading other people’s good news. I just bought my first horse 🐴
I met someone new around a month ago, who really challenges all my negative beliefs about myself. Every time I think “this is it, again I have failed” he just stays. He just is so different from everyone. My success is not bothering him at all. He still is standing strong and leading this.
We even got in a stupid “fight” due to texting and miscommunication and he just didn’t even flinch. He doesn’t leave. I’m impressed. Typically I scare men away pretty early.
That’s really positive news. I begin to think, maybe I have finally found my match. He’s just so unbothered by my dominance.
Awww congrats—that’s wonderful news!!
My positive news: I’m getting a Lab puppy in October! I’m really excited (and nervous). Pretty sure I just signed myself up for chaos, but at least it’ll be cute chaos!
Congratulations!!! “Gentle” and “kind” are two of the most important qualities to have in a life partner, in my humble opinion. ☺️ I wish you both a lifetime of happiness!
My good news is not nearly as consequential, BUT: my husband bought me my dream couch last week!! (I feel like “dream couch” is a concept befitting a subreddit where specifically women over 30 leave comments lol.) He purchased it in cash with an entire sales bonus that he worked so hard to earn. And he let me completely dictate the color, fabric type, shape… he basically manifested my Pinterest dreams. 🥲
2023 was the worst year of my life due to issues related to my ex. We were engaged and I knew we had to break up for my future sanity and happiness, but the thought of breaking up filled me with so much fear and dread. Broke up in Dec.
2024 was messy and healing. Ex moved on at the speed of light and got married within the year; it was more amusing than anything else because she is the complete opposite of me in every single way and I guess that’s what he wanted.
Was dating to find my person and met someone at the end of the year who made me believe in love — not again, but for the very first time.
2025: doing life with my bf who is aligned with me in the ways that matter, count, and are important. We went to look at rings together recently and he bought the one I liked. Not engaged yet, but am in the sweet, butterfly fluttery throes of anticipation now.
Congratulations on your engagement! This year, I have been trying to make more time for reading, which I used to do a lot more. Since June 1st, I have read for at least 20 minutes every day! It’s been a lot of fun and I’m proud of myself for keeping the habit.
Oh honey, my heart just did a little cartwheel! Two weeks ago my little rescue mutt finally let my four-year-old nap beside her—first time ever. Tiny victories, big warmth. Your engagement is pure light; I’m holding that joy right next to you until you can shout it from the rooftops.
Congrats on your engagement, you sound like you have really gotten yourself a good partner, I wish you all the best…
Positive news on my part: I have a good job offer and a very loving boyfriend.
Yaaay congrats! That’s magical.
I’m not good at keeping my house clean, but today I got my floors mopped and my bathroom clean and all my dishes done. Towels are in the dryer and I’ve got candles lit on every surface. There are dusty clutter corners that I don’t know when I’ll get to but it still feels good.
Congrats on the engagement!
My good news is that I got a job offer last week after 5 months of unemployment with 20% pay rise compared to the previous one and it has great benefits AND I still have 3 weeks off till my start date!
Congratulations on your engagement!!
My 7mo daughter slept 6hr straight last night! First time in Months this has happened and goodness it was wonderful. Also, I just finished a book and am starting a new one today-always exciting for me! And my crochet project is almost complete-I need to buckle down and finish it this week!
Congrats on your engagement!!
My baby nephew arrives today. I’ll be fostering him indefinitely. Very excited!
Congrats!
I’m also recently engaged, and holding off on telling local friends because I am not ready for any wedding questions. They’ll be thrilled of course, but I’m not in the mood for the spotlight yet.
Do you have a wedding plan? We’re choosing between small outdoor destination wedding and full elopement. I know for sure I don’t want the big traditional church affair.
I just saw orcas in the wild for the first time, one of my lifelong bucket list items. 🥰
Congrats on your engagement!
Congratulations on your engagement!
I don’t have much positive going on right now but I try to find something every day. Today I’m happy that the first hint of fall is in the air.
Congratulations!!
Mines not big, but I signed up for the gym the other day after not having one for 3 years. I was active in other ways, but need that extra effort for my mental health now, so looking forward to spending lots of time there over this holiday weekend (UK).
Positive news: I reconnected with the only person I consider my “grandma,” and she is just as wonderful and caring as I remembered her being in my childhood. She loves photography, and she has album after album full of pictures of my brother and me from our early years. My husband had never seen so many pictures of me, it was so fun to see those.
But the greatest gift of all was seeing my grandma.
Congratulations on ur engagement! For some reason today is also a great day for me: new opportunities r coming to life, one project with friends seems to be taking shape, and i feel… i dunno, happy? such a weird feeling, i’m totally not used to this, especially this year. So good job coming here!
I just got my dream job last month and moved in with my partner 2 weeks ago. We’re both over the moon. He’s the best partner and roommate ever!! He had some vacation time the first week. He took it upon himself to take over all housework because he had the time. Every night when I came home from work, he’d have dinner ready, cleaned the house and told me how proud he is of me. I feel like I’m living the dream life of a man in the 50’s.
I love his family as well, they’re all so kind. All my friends are enthusiastic about him and my mom is super enamoured by him as well haha. Pretty sure I got the perfect guy. I could go on about him for hours.
My cat was extra happy this morning and was a purr machine. That’s it, that’s all I got 😂😺
I have hand foot mouth disease (cocksackie virus) and both my baby and I are starting to improve. He stopped waking up 5x in the middle of the night! I got at 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night. This is more minor good news, but very happy for me.
Congratulations!
My good news is that my 15 year old cat is on the mend. She hadn’t been eating and lost weight, I was fearing the worst. After an exam and blood work, the vet said she was dehydrated and had a fever. She’s got her antibiotics and some other meds and today she started eating!