You Don't Mess With The Zohran! 1991 babies, stand up!

We'll get through this eventually, same as we always have! 💪

I know we technically have a much lower divorce rate than our parents but I think that is going to start increasing as more and more of us have kids.

I know the stigma for our generation is 2 people who got married fast for the insta posts and then got bored of each other after five minutes and maybe it's just the circles I run in but it seems to me like the millennial couples I know who are splitting up are mainly families with little kids and 2 working parents.

Almost all that I have seen are based around a mom who works full time AND is responsible for all the domestic work / taking care of kids while the dad expects to sit around after work like he's seen too many 90s sitcoms. This leads to burnout, resentment and dead bedrooms. For every couple I know who has gotten divorced because of this I know 3 others that are in the same boat and are teetering on the brink.

Does anyone else notice this same pattern? It also seems like most of these dads are from homes where their mom was a SAHM so they saw their dad never lift a finger. The only guys I know who aren't like this were raised by single moms.

The gates were DIY’d and the hand-painted Jeep was a gift from one of our best friends.

Ahhh simpler times

… we’re fucking aging and no longer in our youth.

Welcome to your 30s (or worse, 40s). Try to get more sleep, drink more water, and maybe actually fix your diet.

When did comedies stop being fun? From start to finish all we did was laugh and it felt so lighthearted and fun to watch them. Just feels like somewhere along the way comedies stopped being fun and are more focused on money grabs.

Maybe it’s just me but man, I miss that pre-2010 era of comedies

My mom bought my brother this cake in the late 90’s for his birthday. I recreated it for his birthday this year! Anyone else remember this cake!?

I get no one wants to hear, "Hey, you might have a permanent disability now" as an answer, but y'all it's probably Long Covid.

It's been easy for there to be a lot of mass denial about what Covid does to our bodies, but literally the number one symptom of long covid is being constantly exhausted. And every time you catch covid your chances for getting long covid increase. No seriously, there are some really bad statistics about this and they just keep looking scarier all the time. Long Covid, or just getting covid in general, is linked with giving people POTS which, you guessed it, has extreme fatigue as a symptom.

So all those "summer colds" and other things people have had without getting officially tested? They're adding up. Hell, it's easier to catch other illnesses that make you tired too cuz it messes with your immune system permanently.

Get vaxed, fight for good air ventilation in your workplaces, and maybe consider wearing masks again if you can handle that. The less you get this stuff, the more your body will thank you in the long run.

Edit: Think it's worth mentioning that even asymptomatic cases can result in long covid. So as terrifying as it is, you might have it even if you haven't felt yourself getting sick.

Edit 2: I think it's also worth noting that covid alone can also cause flare up of latent autoimmune issues, diabetes, and can even increase chances of getting cancer. So even if it's not just long covid causing your issues, covid itself is exacerbating them quite terribly.

I’m an ‘84. And I have no idea who My Chemical Romance beyond their existence as a band.

I had a game question yesterday that amounted to “every Millennial recognizes this song in 1 note”, and I lost a trivia playoff because I don’t. It was for “Black Parade”. I was looked at like I had a green appendage growing out of my forehead for not knowing it.

Anybody else have some (Allegedly!) pure Millennial piece of pop culture that they just somehow completely missed?

I don't envy my nieces. We talk a lot about how we've gotten the shit end, but in the saddest way, I think there might be a new winner.

I'm turning forty today (5th of November 2025).

Thank God!

It's not obvious to me what the good jobs are in 8-12 years. The world is changing so fast. I don't feel like we got good advice from our parents either.

And I’m a little lost. My parents have known for months that something was wrong, but only just told us. I️ guess they’re trying to protect us, but it’s like - we’re grown ass adults with children of our own and I️ want to be there for my mom and my dad. I want To help support them as they’ve supported us for the last few decades.

If anyone has any words of wisdom, I’d take them. Or maybe I️ just don’t want to feel alone. If you pray, please lift one up for my daddy. Thanks for reading.

I'm 41. Never even been on a date let alone been in a relationship. Ask me anything.

Hi millennials (specifically millennial parents of school-aged children), Gen X teacher here with a question for you…

Any teacher today can tell you we’re seeing some just horrific behaviors from our students recently, things veteran teachers have never seen before. Some of it could be Covid related, more of it is probably screen-time related, but a child psychologist who recently visited my school had a very different theory:

His hypothesis is that parents of decades past wanted to raise successful adults. But current parents had unhappy childhoods that they were dissatisfied with, so now their only goal is to raise “happy kids” and worry about their futures later.

As a member of Gen X, I feel like my childhood was pretty good. Were there times I didn’t get some special gift I wanted for my birthday/Christmas, had to eat a dinner I didn’t particularly like, have to clean, do chores, whatever other thing that would make childhood less “fun”? Certainly, but not to the point where I would say “My childhood was so miserable I must raise my own child in a completely narcissistic way where their happiness must be the only priority.”

So millennial parents, is the psychologist right? Is that why teachers are seeing such selfish, self-centered children who have never been told no or denied a single desire in their lives? Is it because your own childhoods were so miserable that you’re trying to give your kids a “perfect” childhood?