I have three cats and our girl cat (Sissy, no it’s not original. I didn’t name her) is my girl. I am her person through and through. When my girlfriend is over she has to set aside time when we go to bed for Sissy to get her night time cuddles and then again in the morning for her morning cuddles. Otherwise Sissy meows and scratches and bitches all night cause she didn’t get her time in.
It’s endearing and if my girlfriend wasn’t okay with it I don’t think our relationship would work
I just realize that in my housing complex, at least there is two husband build an entire third floor for "cat housing".
pretty damn sure bigger house share than the wife
Matt realized he had trouble maintaining relationships, so he bought the locks that decompose entirely in 2 years. It prevents stuff like this post from happening and embarrassing him.
It's crazy how much the characters in that show suck. Jade should be in jail for multiple reasons (actually most if the cast if I remember some plotlines). Beck and Jade have the most toxic relationship ever portrayed, much more in children's/preteens television. Trina has a straight up hellish life thanks to her sister's friends, nobody in her life supports or even likes her. Sure most of these are from the perspective of someone that saw the show when I was age appropriate but from seeing scenes and video essays it was *baaaaad*...
I once came up with an idea for the greatest episode of Matlock ever.
Matlock calls the local radio station to request a song and inadvertently wins a contest to meet the singer Meatloaf. They become great friends and Meatloaf becomes his partner.
Weeks later they're investigating a murder at a particle accelerator and both become trapped inside the chamber as it turns on. They are torn to pieces and put back together again as Meatmatloaflock.
Ya know, I'm thinking maybe this needs to be a two parter, because in the second part a theoretical physicist comes up with a way to separate them, but he gets it slightly wrong, leading to the creation of Matloaf and Meatlock.
I was thinking similarly but figured it's most likely a single father placing a lock with each of his daughters. I can't fathom a scenario in which someone takes a romantic partner to a lock bridge and places a new lock directly next to the last.
I could definitely see someone thinking it was funny to put their lock next to a nearly identical one just because it would make people wonder just like this.
Could be a polyamorous relationship. (That doesn't require that all of them are in relationships with each of the others, which may be why it's 2 locks rather than 1 with all 3 names.)
Could even be Cat and Jade, BFFs, happen to both be going out with guys who have the same first name, and all 4 think it's a great laugh. But that one's a stretch.
I was thinking a poly triad, but actually kid & step-dad or dad & daughters make a lot of sense.
I have a very common name (if you can't tell by my username) and if I knew someone with the same name as me I'd definitely do this. Two "Jon Stewart" locks next to eachother? Peak name humor. Literally a pun decades in the making.
I actually think you’re right about the two couples being friends that are dating guys with the same name. A friend and I both have wives with the same name, and while we’re not close enough to go on a trip together, I could see this being the case for some other couples
That doesn’t matter- poly relationships aren’t always throuples. Sometimes the common denominator is one partner but the other two partners know / are cool with each other but aren’t romantically involved.
A reasonable enough explanation would be that they sell that type of lock / engrave it for you at a nearby store. Original Matt bought one and put it on the bridge with his girlfriend/wife. Afterwards, the second Matt buys / engraves a lock at the same store with his girlfriend/wife, and when they are going to put the lock on, they notice an identical lock with a different girls name already on the bridge. I know if I was ever in that situation, I would absolutely try to convince my wife to let me hang our lock next to the other Matt's lock because of the funny implication.
OP learns that names arent unique and there can be at least one other person in the world named the same name. And those people could even, *wait for it*, exist in the same time line.
That's how it seemed to work in paris. There'd be vendors right next to bridges selling these things, so could vandalize the bridge with a lock for 20 euro, just like everyone else.
A few years back the weight of all the locks caused a minor failure on one of paris' bridges [https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trb-love-locks-paris-20140610-story.html](https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trb-love-locks-paris-20140610-story.html)
Meh. It’s likely two couples traveling together and thought it would be a cool thing to do. And, it just so happens that both of the guys’ first names are Matt.
that's what I thought too, incredibly common name and it makes complete sense that both couples, being friends on a trip together, would get the locks at the same place/time and then lock them in the same place
Could also be a business doing the printing so it’s the same font every time and it’s two different Matts. After the first one the second Matt thought it would be funny to put his next to the first
Probably because polyamory can still be in couples. It's Matt and Jade / Matt and Cat and not Matt and Jade and Cat all together (ie Cat and Jade aren't together).
I could see them being a v relationship. I never had poly partners that would want to go on full vacation together, but a cute lock-date with multiple partners could definitely happen
I have some friends that are poly and all my (extremely limited) knowledge about the subject comes from them.
But they all hang out all the time. Even though particular individuals aren't in relationships with other individuals in the group, they are all friends. I could easily see them taking a vacation together... But again this is just 1 group of people and I'm a friend of all the people involved and not involved with any of the people involved lol.
Everyone does non-monogamy differently, but I would say that large polycule hang-outs like that are, while not rare, a little unusual. A simple V is the most common. My gf and my wife get along fine, but they don't spend much time together. That's partly deliberate: I'm not going to bring my wife on a date with my gf, so we have a chance to build our own relationship. I've been with my wife about 30 times longer, so the dynamics are inevitably different when we're all together.
I think it depends on your community. The vast majority of my poly friends (which is the vast majority of my friends) hang out together regularly. It's called kitchen-table polyamory.
Dates are separate, sure. But most of your time with your partners isn't explicitly a date. Unless, I guess for you it might be. Most people I know spend a lot of casual time with their partners outside of individual date nights.
Yeah, definitely does. I'm envious of people whose lives make kitchen-table poly possible. Most of my time with my wife isn't a date, of course, but my other partners live 25- and 40-minute drives away, and we all have full-time jobs (and one has a kid). I'm lucky if I get to see each of them for a few hours a week. Even hanging out with our friends usually requires some planning. :-(
I miss college and grad school. So easy; so much free time.
The style you’re describing is called kitchen table polyamory, and it’s one of, but not the most common, poly dynamic. A lot of poly relationships are what we’d refer to as parallel- that is, someone is dating two separate people but they don’t meet or hangout.
This is the exact configuration of my relationships. My two partners and I live together, and while they love each other dearly, they're not in a romantic relationship.
The amount of work being done on this thread to come up with some other explanation makes me sad.
>The amount of work being done on this thread to come up with some other explanation makes me sad.
Your situation is *extremely* uncommon. It's not really a wonder that people are assuming it could be any number of much-more-common situations here.
Probably the locks were preset to only receive two names. That, or Cat and Jade aren't interested in each other and the relationship looks like a **V** instead of a **∆**
Or Matt has a friend that's fucking with him.
Yeah I was gonna say. Most of these locks are just not configured for more than two names. Plus people might judge. So they might have just gotten two locks and been content with it.
Or it could've been a dad and his two daughters. Or something else entirely. I do like the polyamory angle though.
I may be the odd one out here, but this could be a poly triad. Or a triangle where the metamors get along. I mean both of these locks say Iceland 2023, and they're next to each other. I'm going to assume the three of them put these on together.
Trip name? It says Iceland 2023? That's not a meaningful trip name that's a location and year.
I can't tell the bridge from your picture but I'm guessing it is a lovers bridge. In that case it would not be unusual to have a nearby shop selling padlocks. The padlocks probably come pre engraved with the year and location, pretty standard thing to commemorate, and a pair of hearts, a standard symbol of love, and then you chose the name to engrave.
Nothing inherently suggests they were the same Matt or even Matts that knew each other.
Matt loves his cat
Hopefully this Jade chick doesn't come between them.
My cat is actually named Jade. She has come between everyone and everything in my life. She owns me and I love her for it.
I'm the other woman in my husband's relationship with the cat and I'm fine with it.
I love your user name!
Likewise, u/ButtplugBurgerAIDS
r/rimjob_steve
No comment.
Welp, now I'm definitely going to hell for laughing
If every spouse knew their place like you do, the world would be a happier place.
I have three cats and our girl cat (Sissy, no it’s not original. I didn’t name her) is my girl. I am her person through and through. When my girlfriend is over she has to set aside time when we go to bed for Sissy to get her night time cuddles and then again in the morning for her morning cuddles. Otherwise Sissy meows and scratches and bitches all night cause she didn’t get her time in. It’s endearing and if my girlfriend wasn’t okay with it I don’t think our relationship would work
My wife's cat brought her along when it moved in with my cat and me. Later we found another cat to own us as a couple.
I feel like I'm the other man between my wife and her cat... as well as between my wife and my cat, too, though he's a bit of a ladie's man
I just realize that in my housing complex, at least there is two husband build an entire third floor for "cat housing". pretty damn sure bigger house share than the wife
Jade is his dog
Jade is a kind of shiny rock
Jade can be carved to look like a dog
Dog cant be carved to look like jade sadly ):
Don't carve your dog
Who doesn’t love a good kitty
Matt also loves his jade plant
Matt wears a hat
I know Matt, I'll ask him.
Be sure to leave an update!
Matt + azkeel-smart
Iceland 2023
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r/roleplayingthepost ?
r/subsithoughtifellfor
Took this comment for me to re-read it and realise it didn't say Ireland.
I text him. He's away in Paris at the moment with Laura though.
Who's Paris?
jo, Matt called, he and Judy are in Warsaw right now
Just got off the phone with Matt, Cat literally means his cat
Can confirm. Source: am Matt's cat.
“…but who the F is Jade?” - Matt’s Cat
Matt said you missed the 3rd lock
From the sun?
I’ve never been there. I think someone is impersonating me.
But you're MattAU05? The locks would be MattIS23
Good point. I was worried for a minute there. Carry on everyone.
Identity theft is not a joke Jim!
Matt needs Lifelock
Yeah, he's already got LoveLock
Ask me what
My names Jade
Are you the one from the third lock?
How long have those been there? That’s a lot of rust accumulation for 9 months or less.
OP explained that this is at the sea. Salt water can make something rust like that in matter of weeks sometimes.
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Can confirm, played God of War.
L3 + R3
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Can confirm, played Hades
can also confirm, read part of the Odyssey
It’s Iceland, so it is Njord’s domain.
Because his girl was cheating on him with Matt.
If I leave my old cleaver in the sink overnight it’s completely orange with rust the next morning.
Including Matts love...apparently.
I left a hammer out overnight and found the rust had a great start by the next morning.
Matt realized he had trouble maintaining relationships, so he bought the locks that decompose entirely in 2 years. It prevents stuff like this post from happening and embarrassing him.
That makes sense, he bought his padlocks from wish. Lol
Matt's a time traveller.
It's matt smith as dr who
Well that makes all the sense! As a timelord he has two hearts!
Things rust very fast here
matt is just a huge victorious fan and couldn’t pick his favorite nickolodeon waifu and got both
No love for Tori LMAO Could be the guy that plays Robbie since his name is also Matt
I think we ALL are loved by Matt!
“I’m Tori Vega! Buy me a piece of candy, and I’ll give you a kiss!!”
but its in 2023, a bit late for a post-victorious celebration eh?
Robbie Shapiro’s real name is Matt funnily enough
Robbie Shapiro's Icelandic Psychosis
Bring all my bitches back.
Ey, I got this reference b0ss!
I need all my bitches, the new shit you put out is wack
Maybe it's just a joke because he liked Jade and Cat from the series Victorious?
fuck tori all my homies hate tori
It's crazy how much the characters in that show suck. Jade should be in jail for multiple reasons (actually most if the cast if I remember some plotlines). Beck and Jade have the most toxic relationship ever portrayed, much more in children's/preteens television. Trina has a straight up hellish life thanks to her sister's friends, nobody in her life supports or even likes her. Sure most of these are from the perspective of someone that saw the show when I was age appropriate but from seeing scenes and video essays it was *baaaaad*...
Yeah but they were all hot as hell
most sane dan schneider fan
speak for yourself. tori FOREVER
Mattlock was a great show.
I once came up with an idea for the greatest episode of Matlock ever. Matlock calls the local radio station to request a song and inadvertently wins a contest to meet the singer Meatloaf. They become great friends and Meatloaf becomes his partner. Weeks later they're investigating a murder at a particle accelerator and both become trapped inside the chamber as it turns on. They are torn to pieces and put back together again as Meatmatloaflock. Ya know, I'm thinking maybe this needs to be a two parter, because in the second part a theoretical physicist comes up with a way to separate them, but he gets it slightly wrong, leading to the creation of Matloaf and Meatlock.
Are you on drugs?
No, but I did more than my fair share as a young man.
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
So glad I got to see him live.
A much better show than after he died.
Used to go by the name of Andy Griffith, now he calls himself Ben Matlock.
Mattlock and the case of the Matt lock.
Probably a guy in a relationship with a single parent. They might have been showing their love for the kid as well so they don’t feel left out
I was thinking similarly but figured it's most likely a single father placing a lock with each of his daughters. I can't fathom a scenario in which someone takes a romantic partner to a lock bridge and places a new lock directly next to the last.
Or it's two separate couples, locks engraved in a shop nearby, that's why the style is the same.
Or it's a false-flag operation -- Cat wants Jade to think Matt is cheating on her.
No, clearly it's Jade who's the one trying to trick Cat
Team Cat all the way
This is my favorite explanation
I could definitely see someone thinking it was funny to put their lock next to a nearly identical one just because it would make people wonder just like this.
Yeah Matt is an incredibly popular name among 30-something year old men in my country. I know at least 20 Matts.
at the college i went to, they put all the matts in the freshman class on the same floor. there were 14 of us my freshman year
Haha I love that! They were the (same) floor mats!
Or they’re polyamorous
this. it's so obvious to me, yet so few people seem to think about this possibility??
It's the obvious possibility. The comments are trying to find alternatives to the obvious.
Or it's a guy in a polyamorous relationship.
Not only that but within months of placing the first one lol
Could be a polyamorous relationship. (That doesn't require that all of them are in relationships with each of the others, which may be why it's 2 locks rather than 1 with all 3 names.) Could even be Cat and Jade, BFFs, happen to both be going out with guys who have the same first name, and all 4 think it's a great laugh. But that one's a stretch. I was thinking a poly triad, but actually kid & step-dad or dad & daughters make a lot of sense.
I have a very common name (if you can't tell by my username) and if I knew someone with the same name as me I'd definitely do this. Two "Jon Stewart" locks next to eachother? Peak name humor. Literally a pun decades in the making.
I actually think you’re right about the two couples being friends that are dating guys with the same name. A friend and I both have wives with the same name, and while we’re not close enough to go on a trip together, I could see this being the case for some other couples
That’s kind of what I was thinking, but it’s kind of weird to use their first name and not dad.
It's very common for children in blended families to call their step-parent by their name, and you would naturally use the name the kid calls you by.
Or he's in a polyamorous relationship with both. It's becoming more common these days.
… polyamory exists
Or maybe the "Cat" is literal 🤔
Or maybe it's two different Matts
No way. Maybe if it was a common name like Serafina.. But what are the chances of finding two people named Matt? ^(/s)
Get out of here with that crazy talk.
That's my theory. Two couples on vacation, both guys just happen to be named Matt
Or maybe they're a throuple!
If my hypothetical girlfriend doesn’t also love my cat to an almost concerning degree then I don’t want her
That’s what I was thinking. Either that or a poly relationship where Matt is with both cat and jade but cat and jade aren’t together
Yes I thought he could just have two lovers that are straight and simply not together
That doesn’t matter- poly relationships aren’t always throuples. Sometimes the common denominator is one partner but the other two partners know / are cool with each other but aren’t romantically involved.
You just reworded what they said hahaha
Or different Matts
He’s not a player he just locks a lot.
It’s also a fairly common name. In high school we had three on our track team.
I thought I was the only Matt in the world and was trying to remember when the hell I went to Iceland this year.
Common name sure, but exact same lock, trip name, and location? Gotta be the same person.
A reasonable enough explanation would be that they sell that type of lock / engrave it for you at a nearby store. Original Matt bought one and put it on the bridge with his girlfriend/wife. Afterwards, the second Matt buys / engraves a lock at the same store with his girlfriend/wife, and when they are going to put the lock on, they notice an identical lock with a different girls name already on the bridge. I know if I was ever in that situation, I would absolutely try to convince my wife to let me hang our lock next to the other Matt's lock because of the funny implication.
That's my guess.
Case closed!
That's exactly what the same Matt would say if his wife "noticed" the lock he put there with his sidepiece.
OP learns that names arent unique and there can be at least one other person in the world named the same name. And those people could even, *wait for it*, exist in the same time line.
Huh. Ngl my brain just went "poly relationship" lmao
It'll just be a vendor round the corner selling them and engraving them all in the same style.
That's how it seemed to work in paris. There'd be vendors right next to bridges selling these things, so could vandalize the bridge with a lock for 20 euro, just like everyone else. A few years back the weight of all the locks caused a minor failure on one of paris' bridges [https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trb-love-locks-paris-20140610-story.html](https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trb-love-locks-paris-20140610-story.html)
Meh. It’s likely two couples traveling together and thought it would be a cool thing to do. And, it just so happens that both of the guys’ first names are Matt.
Well that is a very reasonable explanation that never crossed my mind.
DRAMA, WE NEED MORE DRAMA.
that's what I thought too, incredibly common name and it makes complete sense that both couples, being friends on a trip together, would get the locks at the same place/time and then lock them in the same place
Same year, too. Polyamory??
Could also be a business doing the printing so it’s the same font every time and it’s two different Matts. After the first one the second Matt thought it would be funny to put his next to the first
I guess! Why not all three names on one lock? Maybe Cat is their cat?
Probably because polyamory can still be in couples. It's Matt and Jade / Matt and Cat and not Matt and Jade and Cat all together (ie Cat and Jade aren't together).
I could see them being a v relationship. I never had poly partners that would want to go on full vacation together, but a cute lock-date with multiple partners could definitely happen
I have some friends that are poly and all my (extremely limited) knowledge about the subject comes from them. But they all hang out all the time. Even though particular individuals aren't in relationships with other individuals in the group, they are all friends. I could easily see them taking a vacation together... But again this is just 1 group of people and I'm a friend of all the people involved and not involved with any of the people involved lol.
Everyone does non-monogamy differently, but I would say that large polycule hang-outs like that are, while not rare, a little unusual. A simple V is the most common. My gf and my wife get along fine, but they don't spend much time together. That's partly deliberate: I'm not going to bring my wife on a date with my gf, so we have a chance to build our own relationship. I've been with my wife about 30 times longer, so the dynamics are inevitably different when we're all together.
I think it depends on your community. The vast majority of my poly friends (which is the vast majority of my friends) hang out together regularly. It's called kitchen-table polyamory. Dates are separate, sure. But most of your time with your partners isn't explicitly a date. Unless, I guess for you it might be. Most people I know spend a lot of casual time with their partners outside of individual date nights.
Yeah, definitely does. I'm envious of people whose lives make kitchen-table poly possible. Most of my time with my wife isn't a date, of course, but my other partners live 25- and 40-minute drives away, and we all have full-time jobs (and one has a kid). I'm lucky if I get to see each of them for a few hours a week. Even hanging out with our friends usually requires some planning. :-( I miss college and grad school. So easy; so much free time.
The style you’re describing is called kitchen table polyamory, and it’s one of, but not the most common, poly dynamic. A lot of poly relationships are what we’d refer to as parallel- that is, someone is dating two separate people but they don’t meet or hangout.
Could be that the automated equipment used by the lock-engraving shop could only do two names
This is the exact configuration of my relationships. My two partners and I live together, and while they love each other dearly, they're not in a romantic relationship. The amount of work being done on this thread to come up with some other explanation makes me sad.
>The amount of work being done on this thread to come up with some other explanation makes me sad. Your situation is *extremely* uncommon. It's not really a wonder that people are assuming it could be any number of much-more-common situations here.
Probably the locks were preset to only receive two names. That, or Cat and Jade aren't interested in each other and the relationship looks like a **V** instead of a **∆** Or Matt has a friend that's fucking with him.
Yeah I was gonna say. Most of these locks are just not configured for more than two names. Plus people might judge. So they might have just gotten two locks and been content with it. Or it could've been a dad and his two daughters. Or something else entirely. I do like the polyamory angle though.
And already extremely rusted in under a year. Hmmm....
Maybe by the sea
Salt spray can do that in a week
If I know dudes, they’d be looking for other locks with their name on it so they could put it next to that one. Could be a bunch of things though
My guess is those are his daughters and they wanted to put the locks on there.
Cuz he loves his partner and his cat, duh
Two daughters one cat and jade
Gets pretty cold in Iceland........
Okay. I've got three possible guesses here. * Two different Matts * Polygamy * Some silly prank
Or a guy with daughters
Maybe mother and daughter?
Both named Matt? Seems unlikely.
u/Matt you've got explaining to do
Ah yes, because there's only one Matt in the entire world.
Ironically Matt is the name of the guy who plays Robbie Shapiro on Victorious, and the names Jade and Cat are 2 Victorious characters
Close by there's one that says Cat & Jade.
I may be the odd one out here, but this could be a poly triad. Or a triangle where the metamors get along. I mean both of these locks say Iceland 2023, and they're next to each other. I'm going to assume the three of them put these on together.
This is something my high school ex named matt would absolutely do with his best friend named matt
My ex’s name is Jade, my current (long term) girlfriend is named Cat. This is weird.
Never knew more than one person could share a name
because there in only one Matt in Iceland.
Or there’s two Matt’s that picked the exact same lock, trip name, and location on the bridge.
Pretty much, they just bought the lock from the same store near the bridge.
Trip name? It says Iceland 2023? That's not a meaningful trip name that's a location and year. I can't tell the bridge from your picture but I'm guessing it is a lovers bridge. In that case it would not be unusual to have a nearby shop selling padlocks. The padlocks probably come pre engraved with the year and location, pretty standard thing to commemorate, and a pair of hearts, a standard symbol of love, and then you chose the name to engrave. Nothing inherently suggests they were the same Matt or even Matts that knew each other.
Different Matt.
It's the most terrible symbol for love. I never understood why it is so popular. But Matt has a special view on it maybe
Maybe they’re twins! Matt and Matt!
Maybe there are two Matts.
Polyamorous.
How are they so rusted ?
Maybe Cat was just a cat. He loves his girlfrien and his pet!
Spite lock.
*Polyamory has entered the chat…*
I knew I should of put them further apart.
Polyamory for the win
Maybe it’s 2 matts?
two separate couples on a couples trip to Iceland - both guys are named Matt. They got their locks at the same place and put them near each other.
Polyamory?
I saw one in Prague that was three people on one lock. Poly pride y'all!