there are no queer women or woc

That said, I can't (off the top of my head) think of a single winning role that was defined by her widowhood. Motherhood, absolutely. But, widow?

Fun fact: the US and South Sudan are the only 2 UN members who have failed to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty with the sole purpose of protecting the rights and well being of children (Somolia, another hold out, finally caved). One of the things it prohibits is subjecting children (whose…

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Snorted when I read "I had never professed a love for dolphins or the sea!" hahahahahahahaha

My sister-in-law's boyfriend spilled red wine all over my dress. I saw him coming at me with an overfull glass of wine, already tipsy as shit, told him to stay well away because he was already spilling on the floor, and he managed to get it all over my dress.

a fucking dolphin ring?! you buried the lede in that one. you didn't even NEED the rest of the story. just the picture!

My wife and I got married in a private ceremony because we didn't have money and didn't want her cartoonishly villainous mom dictating a thing about our wedding as she had been trying to break us up for several years. We've talked about some day doing a renewal of our vows so we could have more of a "wedding" wedding,…

My husband died. I moved on eventually. Some British nobleman tried wooing me. I fell for him. We boned in a Liverpool hotel. He asked me to marry him. I said no, and then cut my hair short.

I created an account JUST to reply to this.

I need help reacting to this.

"he had "received revelation" that we were to be married"

I don't know why, but I love stories where people say yes later.

We had been on a date and a half (the half date was he had asked for a ride home from something else, and then asked if we could just go to my place to watch a movie. I was too spineless to say no). He left shortly after to go to school out of state, and called me to tell me he had "received revelation" that we were…

Broccoli is delicious. Congratulations!

Just keep telling yourself that there is a difference between a wedding and a marriage. It sounds like you are dreading the former not the latter.

Did any of you happily say yes ... and then tailspin into a period of panic during which you considered calling the whole thing off?

...what about a discussion about the point in a relationship where it's either take the next step, or go separate ways? every relationship gets there eventually, but there's not a whole lot of guidance to navigating the "we've been together six years, so are we gonna Do This or should we just split?" waters.…

Yeah Ariana Grande, get back to me when you can sing a fucking chord (which Lalah Hathaway starts doing below at 6:00):