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people of nostr, i need some personal advice please. throwaway npub.

i’m a 43 yo male. i’ve wanted to start a family since i was 25, but haven’t found someone i wanted to take that leap with… until my last girlfriend. we were together for 18 months, a long distance relationship but we saw each pretty much other every 2 to 3 weeks. it was incredible. and we both felt that way. i told her i wanted to marry her after 3 months (maybe a mistake to say? but she says she loved hearing it), and we were on the same page about having 4-5 kids. so what happened?

a couple months after i suggested we move in together when her lease ended, which required me moving 3 hours away and uprooting my whole life — but i was eager to do it for her, she broke up with me. then she asked to get back together after 3 days. then we broke up for a month. then back together for a month. etc etc. so it was on-again-off-again for the last 5 months. we ended things officially a few weeks ago. i still love her and she tells me she will always love me, but that she won’t be ready for a family for several years (she’s only 27) and that’s unfair to me when she knows how much i want that now. i offered to wait it out but that, i guess, doesn’t work.

so i am in the process of getting over her. i’m doing the things i need to do: i built a gym in my basement and have been throwing around heavy things, i’ve been taking care of myself and doing things that i like doing. i feel great physically and mostly great mentally. (i get sad thinking about losing her still) i have been going on dates (like i did every time we were separated). i know time will heal this very deep wound. but i still want to fulfill my life goals of building a family with someone amazing. it’s just… where the heck am i supposed to meet her?

i’m not a religious person, so going to church would be phony for me. i am an avid runner and meet girls at running clubs … but they seem to be her age or younger and i don’t think that age/lifestage is going to work anymore for me. the dating apps are horrendous, full of cliches (i setup dates semi-easily on them but they whole process is frustrating and zaps my will to keep looking on them). i’m in the process of setting up a 4 month trip overseas for this winter to escape my daily routine. to reset my psyche. and to get out of my own head. but the fear of aging myself out of this lifegoal is very real and very sad to me.

my buddy asked me before this last girlfriend, “was there ‘one that got away’ from the past girls you dated?” and after much reflection, i really don’t think so. i learned from those relationships what i value most. but i didn’t see any of them as the mother of my children. (is that weird to say?) if the bar is this past girlfriend and how she made me feel, everyone else was so far below it.

i just feel lost. any advice would greatly be appreciated. not sure this note will get any traction posting it anon. thanks nostr!

Watching the movie Deliverance for the first time, what the actual fuck

Are we hatching Brazilian Nostriches? 🇧🇷

I'm not sure what to do with the sats I received from people on Nostr. I’ve zapped some folks but if there’s a way to send these sats to charity, that would be great. Let me know if that’s possible! Also, please don’t zap me again. I’m here to build meaningful connections with this wonderful community, not to collect sats. Pura vida 🤙

So what’s being built this weekend to help Brazil?

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What’s the best way to say thank you for a #zap ? Every time I get one, I just want to zap it back #asknostr #grownostr

🌍The worlds largest US treasury holders are dumping those pieces of paper like they're a hot steaming pile of trash.

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One of the big macro questions is when will the US banking system run into the liquidity floor, requiring the Fed to end quantitative tightening? Due to current regulations and the "ample reserve" regime, banks generally have liquidity requirements relative to their overall size, and their overall size keeps growing nominally.

-Big banks ran into the liquidity floor in September 2019 at $1.5 trillion with the repo spike, and the Fed had to end quantitative tightening and resume mild quantitative easing (which was then overshadowed by the giga-liquidity-bazooka in 2020/2021).

-Smaller banks ran into the liquidity floor in March 2023 at $3.0 trillion (the new floor) with the regional bank crisis. Both the Fed and the Treasury provided liquidity in response, although the Fed has maintained quantitative tightening. Liquidity has been maintained above that level without being greatly elevated, which is probably what would have happened post-2019 if not for the pandemic/lockdown stuff thereafter.

The New York Fed thinks the liquidity floor will be reached sometime in 2025, and that they'll go back to gradual balance sheet expansion then. Andy Constan, formerly of Bridgewater, thinks it'll be late 2025. I debate him a bit on this since both of us cover this closely, and I generally think it'll be mid 2025, although there are enough moving variables that neither early 2025 or late 2025 would surprise me, so conservatively I say "by the end of 2025."

I was talking to a large institutional investor today, and he said that his contact who is a major repo operator at an investment bank, thinks the current floor is now $3.3 trillion, which is roughly where it is currently. That basically means any further quantitative tightening has to be offset by reverse repo drainage, or they'll have a repo issue and the Fed will need to end QT. My estimate is somewhere in the $3.1-$3.2 trillion range for the liquidity floor, meaning I think there's a bit more room than that repo operator. But either way it's pretty tight.

This is all kind of rambling but generally when that liquidity floor is reached and is responded to, it tends to be good for a lot of liquidity-driven assets, including bitcoin. And it'll probably be with a whimper more than a bang, kind of like the September 2019 repo crisis that nobody other than macro nerds remember.

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Strongly anti (traditional) social media and never traded cryptocurrency, so not sure how I found myself here? Something feels different I guess.

So here’s to my first post on social media ever, if we exclude a brief spell on myspace aged 14.

#introductions #plebchain

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