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I don't have a broad Australian accent if that helps. Think Cate Blanchett or Margot Robbie, not Steve Irwin.

Tiny woman here with big hulking male partner.

I love his stereotypical masculinity and physical strength. I like him to take charge in the bedroom as well.

But I'm more forthright with my views, with articulating a position, and with taking a conviction through to an outcome. He tends to equivocate or back down or second guess himself in moments of conflict or hardship.

I've stood up for him countless times, or helped him navigate through emotional complexity or points of conflict. I've held him when he's cried through loss. He's come to me in situations not knowing what to do, feeling small and broken.

We have pet names for each other and mine for him are not exactly butch, and he doesn't mind.

I'm no princess and don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I'll take on any physical challenge my little body will allow. But our strengths in our household and our relationship goes beyond our body size and gender.

We enjoy the stereotypical feminine and masculine traits about each other. But our closeness relies on the ability to find the strengths in each other that aren't assigned to our genders by society.

What I'd warn you against in your excitement over this realisation is that there are few women out there who will just want/need those softer attributes from you. To be a well rounded person, let alone an equal partner in a relationship, you need many different qualities. I'm not saying 'hit the gym', I'm saying strength is needed from both sides when things get hard. Strength comes in many forms - don't expect her to be the only one with it.

People usually assume I'm a bloke based on the way I write, but I'm just Australian.

YKK zips. On anything I've ever owned, they don't break. And I find that more durable clothing brands will use YKK zips.

Overworked janitor who wanted to reduce the number of bathrooms they had to clean

I would ask my mum what a word meant and she'd ask me the context I'd read/heard it in, and then ask me what I thought it meant. She taught me to break the word up into syllables to see if there were other words I did know the definition of that shared those syllables and whether I could work it out from there.

If I couldn't then I had to look it up in the dictionary - we had a big, heavy Collins one from memory. Big blue hardback.

I remember being annoyed and just whining that she should just tell me the definition. But it was clearly better for me to learn that way.

Edit: I just re read and you said bad words. Mum would usually give me a clipped, child friendly definition and advice not to repeat it in polite company.

Yeah they're ridiculous. Half of this seems imagined or shower thoughts she's had.

In Australia it was normal to sit up front with the cabbie and talk shit with them. Uber and Covid introduced the back seat thing here

When the videos you rented were always fuzzy at the sex and nudity scenes

Was it diagonal though??????

We had arkanoid on our first PC and none of my peers remember it. I know it was an arcade game first (and a derivative of pong/ space invaders) but I recall booting it in DOS.

We were one of the only families I know who had a PC though, back in ~1993