Have a very happy birthday and very happy 30s!

I don’t agree that it’s unfair to determine someone is maybe too young (or perhaps haven’t been in a life-altering love affair, in this case) based on the judgments they spell out in an article. When I used to teach philosophy, and the topic involved something that many people have to deliberate about in real life-…

Yeah, but I interpreted the original commenter to be making a larger point than just “young people can’t contextualize cheesiness.” I mean, in the first paragraph of the article, the author sets up the rest of the piece like this: “But The Bridges of Madison County, the fantastically successful 1992 novel about a…

Well, for one thing, the person who wrote this article kinda glossed over why the actual plot/ story appeals to so many people simply in order to focus on the more cringeworthy aspects of the novel (ew! Kinkaid quotes Rilke?! oh no. . .a wanna-be Hemingway! Gross, he’s aligning with old-school notions of masculinity?!…

Have no fear: that’s when all the fun started for me! I was with my ex-husband from 19 y.o. to 31 y.o. (The ex is a wonderful person. He did nothing wrong and I think he’s awesome. I just realized early on marriage wasn’t for me and, to be fair to him, we had to end it.) And since the day we decided to divorce, I have…

I disagree. My friends and I love books/ movies like The Bridges of Madison County because it’s genuinely pleasurable to fantasize about meeting a random stranger and being swept off your feet by them, but then after a short time your life can go back to normal and you don’t have to really sacrifice anything, given…

I came here to say the same. I don’t understand the shade of this article. I am only 37 but have experienced a very brief affair during a 3-day trip to Berlin that changed my life and changed me as a person. I described that man in terms similar to those used in the book, not because I literally worshipped him or…

That wasn’t my point. My point was sex work is not “just work.” 

“Montgomery was reportedly raped by her stepfather and his friends repeatedly, on some days for hours at a time, beginning when she was 13, and was eventually forced into sex work by her own mother.”

Sure, of course. I was just pointing out that the whole reason the girlfriend received a psych evaluation (and that the police were involved in the first place) had nothing to do with the bomber boyfriend. I highly doubt the police follow up on everything a person in that state says, unless it has to do with that…

Your article is misleading. The girlfriend’s lawyer (Throckmorton) was concerned about her safety and called the police because she told him she was going to commit suicide. That’s why there was concern about her sitting with Warner’s guns and why she didn’t want to be around them. And that’s why she had to undergo a…

NOPE. Get your facts straight. I have worked in a law firm for the past four years. I am currently applying to law school. Here’s what I’ve learned from the lawyers in my firm and chatting with judges: SEXISM is the reason women were deemed “better” at caring for children after parents split. About zero fathers felt…

I’ve been dating a guy for about a year and a half. Before that I was in a lesbian relationship for around five years and the only reason it ended was because she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, refused medication, started going off the deep end, I couldn’t help her, and she had to return to her home country in…

In addition to some of the complications other comments have noted, Ginsburg famously did not approve of Roe v. Wade (not because she is against abortion, but she though the argument was the wrong one and would come to bite our asses in the future). I think she is right, btw. Here’s a brief summary: https://www.nytimes…

This is the best comment ever. Mad respect from a fellow synth-head.

This is me. I won’t use hormonal birth control because of all the health issues it encouraged. I went to Planned Parenthood to get an IUD. Lo and behold, they did not inform me that IUDs are not ideal for a uterus that is severely tilted. So, it did not implant correctly, actually fell out of place and I had no idea,…

I disagree with their reasoning but I agree with their conclusion that we should not rely on birth control as the preferred means for contraception. The idea that hormonal intervention such as birth control is simply a way to “control” our reproduction is a gross compartmentalization of how the body actually works, as…

I agree that LW’s actions/ intentions aren’t quite as malicious as Brady makes them out to be given most people return to certain relationships not necessarily out of love or because they see a future with that person, but for security, comfort, a sense of normalcy, to avoid loneliness, regular sex, or just guaranteed…

This just happened to my best friend! Some guy she dated on and off for a while and then gave up on sent her a very long, dramatic text about how sorry he is about how he treated her and that he knows he must have hurt her because her social media presence has been ‘scant’ since they officially ended things. Truth:…

Okay, when I read this letter, my first reaction was: wow, this person is making several bad (unjustified) inferences. The relationship he describes reminds me of one I was in and, similarly, if you ask my ex his side of the story, he too would be taking lots of credit for why my life is the way it is. In reality, I…