You said you weren’t interested in tough love or pep talks so I’m using this as a call to action.

Most of us crave community and don’t know where to start. Beyond more fun options like trying to see if there are local gaming groups near you there are also mutual aid networks (one of my favorites is called Mutual Aid Disaster Relief). If you have a skill or interest to offer you will find more people in these kinds of groups to collaborate with. You might not find best friends right away but you will find neighbors.

They have their own ads that you are forced to see, but if you don’t mind the routine of exiting out or buying the subscription it’s fine. We put a generic baby name, a fake birthday, used a spam email etc. and we never bought any of the stuff they were trying to sell. I recommend trying it because it was pretty user friendly and you could modify the tasks very easily.

I would also check out contraction timers or something for you to track them. It was super nice to have when riding to the hospital and before getting hooked up to all the monitors.

And hey! Congrats to the future parents!

I could be wrong, but I believe most AI isn’t really AI as we imagine it. It’s a LLM (language learning model). The more you interact with it the better it gets

100% trust your gut. It’s not a good idea.

Even if everything he says is true he needs to learn to treat people better and not at the expense of your time and feelings. Leave him behind, work on yourself however feels right to you and you will very likely barely remember his name a decade from now. Don’t EVER settle for that sort of treatment.

If you haven’t read up on setting boundaries now is a good time. Practice setting them and remember that people will not like it sometimes, but that’s okay. Change is hard sometimes, but it sounds like you’re ready for one. Best of luck to you!