I want to thank you for sharing your story. I haven't married the one who like you was the only one who 'got' that something I 'need' in more than just the sexual definition... and people don't even understand how much strength it takes to peel yourself away and undo your entire being to be healthier.

I am so glad you…

Oh gosh. :(

That poor woman. Sincerely, to have taken on the emotional and eventual physical abuse from a man who had somehow convinced her she was deserving of his insanity. To ensure she never spoke of him, giving him a wide berth of safety to operate in and none be the wiser. :(

There are times when I read something like the line about Persian honeyed pinky kisses where I almost want the ritual of a wedding. But that is for those people. It is what their heart most desires; it is not what my heart most desires.

The athletes I know from the era who did trials with him or had him on the sidelines during later pre-quals all say he was nothing but sportsmanlike, helpful, and a great guy. So if the asshole athletes I know respected him, then the dude's cool no matter what gender or lack thereof he wishes to exist as. And I wish…

I'd be glad they recognize me by my hero skill.

SuperBitch gets shit done! 39 technicians to fix her cable issues. She's not the bad guy here, the fact Comcast hired such inept technicians and field supervisors in the first place is the bad guy here.

I like the way you think, CodcoFan. Oooooh, Gere. <3

I'm in that serial monogamous camp. A few long term boyfriends of varying severity, emotions on my end wane at the 3 year mark but I hang in there because of That Family Of Origin Shit I Pay My Therapist To Listen To. Longest relationship was 7 years and should have ended at the first year but this gal stuck it out…

This lady sounds like my mother. I haven't quite cut her out of my life (yet) but her emotional abuse, manipulation, and outright hostility with a backhanded charm-them-all-except-when-we're-alone demeanor has left enormous wounds on our family. All of our family. Including her own parents, our distant relatives, and…

They'd think he deserved the break. I wish I was kidding about that. If my brother and I lost our jobs at the same time, my parents would say to me "When are you going to look for another job" and they would say to him "You deserve a break, you've been working pretty hard." Similar words have been spoken before during…

magicmuffins, on behalf of a fellow do-it-all, I cheer you on for being awesome. You do what needs to be done. You take care of business. You're amazing. Never forget that.

Drop the counselor, serve him divorce papers, boot him out to live with anyone else but you and then hire a maid because then shit'll get done on contract. Well worth that money.

(I know it's not that simple, but damn I want to kick your husband's ass. :/)

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I FEEL YOU, Von Clyderdale! GAH!

When I was unemployed for an extended amount of time, I was a caregiver for free to a terminally ill relative. I was also the maid for my parents, the errand-runner for my sibling, and did lawns for housebound people in the neighborhood. During my evenings, I could relax a little more but I felt guilty "wasting" my…

Similar story here. I was 25 weeks and it was 15 years ago. I was working minimum wage, without insurance or much savings, and I wasn't aware I was pregnant until roughly 20 weeks due to body issues. Go to Planned Parenthood who comped my exam and found out I had a baby that might be lucky to make it a few days after…

He doesn't want a narcissist because that would be competition in his eyes. I mean, he's launched three ex-GFs careers. His first name's probably Prophet. *side eye* I would want to have a sister meeting with his exes to figure out why such a fellow was thrown back from the cold single waters from whence he came.

Now…

You have the odds in your favor you'd get a response because you're coherent and intelligent unlike the sorts of people who send creeper messages. Like, I actually imagine you to be polite and engaging in conversation with a woman, according to your presence here. You'd get responded to.

I can understand why a guy…

My ex-boyfriend and I are both on OKC. I joined way back in it's infancy to do quizzes for lolz and he joined this year to start looking for dates. I've been showing him the sorts of messages I get and at first he was all "At least you get visitors to your profile" and then it became "You get 64 visitors a day to your…

I'm amazed he didn't find a way to land that talented women for life. That's such a particular fetish, you'd imagine he'd try to lock that down. :P

I think he left out a step. Even a contortionist is going to have trouble siphoning that out of there.

I don't know you, you don't know me but coming from a similar relationship - *high five* I'm so proud of you! And this is all our theme songs when we have relationships like that:

What Planned Parenthood did for me as a teenager was provide a safe place to non-judgmentally receive sex education and much-needed birth control. I wasn't sexually active but a disorder I dealt with had a neat symptom called mania which might propel me into promiscuously-dangerous-for-me behavior. Birth control also…