QuoteEgo-syntonicism is a mental state wherein a person's behaviors, thoughts, and attitudes are consistent solely with their sense of self or ego. They experience and act out only in ways they perceive are best for them. What they want for themselves. What brings them pleasure. And they make their self serving decisions regardless of the effect on others. Even if help is available they will deny the help if it conflicts with their goal of self satisfaction. In highfalutin terms it is extreme solipsism. In simple English it is extreme selfishness.

https://www.literotica.com/s/03-a-btb-the-best-btb

QuoteA 'sadistic' wife forced her husband to live in squalor with sixty chihuahuas, making him clean up their faeces barefoot and locking him in their kennel during a year-long campaign of torture, a Belgian court has heard.

The court was shown shocking images documenting what the prosecutor described as the husband's descent from 'a healthy partner at the beginning of the relationship to a burned skeleton'.

The abuse only ended on March 18, when the victim managed to flee the home and desperately banged on neighbours' doors for help.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15349029/Sadistic-wife-tortured-husband-year-forcing-clean-SIXTY-Chihuahuas-round-clock-locking-kennel.html

QuoteWalshe, 50, viewed on his laptop a video about a "cheating wife" on Dec. 27, Massachusetts State Police Trooper Nicholas Guarino testified Tuesday, according to a report by CNN.

The explicit clip was allegedly viewed three days before Ana, Walshe's wife and the mother of their three boys, disappeared forever around New Year's Day 2023.

https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/us-news/brian-walshe-allegedly-watched-kinky-cuckold-porn-days-before-suspected-cheating-wifes-death-jury-hears/

QuoteIn ancient Athens, the agora was a public forum where citizens could gather to deliberate, disagree and decide together. It was governed by deep-rooted social principles that ensured lively, inclusive, healthy debate.

In Athens, isegoria referred to the right to speak, but it did not stop at mere entitlement or access. It signaled a shared responsibility, a commitment to fairness, and the idea that public life should not be governed by the powerful alone.

The term parrhesia can be defined as boldness or freedom in speaking. Again, there is nuance; parrhesia is not reckless candor, but ethical courage. It referred to the duty to speak truthfully, even when that truth provoked discomfort or danger.

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ancient-athens-debate-dissent-social.html

QuoteSome relationships end loudly, most end quietly. There is no dramatic fight or sudden revelation. Instead, partners gradually stop showing up for each other in small, everyday ways.

The legal divorce, if it comes at all, is simply the final step in a separation that happened long before. "Quiet divorcing," the term given to this slow, mostly invisible retreat from a long-term relationship, has recently gone viral.

Borrowing from the term "quiet quitting," it has caught fire because it names an experience many people recognize but rarely articulate.

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-quiet-divorcing-problem-erosion-intimacy.html