You are touching on a subject that I feel is not discussed enough. As a society we are putting emphasis on dissolving gender roles, this is one area where there is still a lot of progress that needs to be made. I would find it incredibly attractive if a woman were to ask me out on a date first, I can't see any good…

I should click on that link and learn something but I just don't feel like it.

YOU COULD HAVE HAD A TITLE

I'm 50, and I'm with you. Abusers love it when people keep their secrets. The best way to combat it is to put it on blast.

may i suggest monogrammed thermoses? i know someone who knows someone.

You, me and Tay 4eva

I feel the complete opposite, though it might be because I'm 28. But, I feel like the more stories are out there, the more people that are affected by them can seek help and comfort, they see they aren't alone in the world. This is similar to the woman that experiences a miscarriage. If she thinks she is the only one,…

This probably does not count, but when I was 19, my mother rejected a marriage proposal on my behalf.

I said no like any passive-aggressive coward two months pregnant. We took the paperwork to the Reverend and the Notary. It was my job to file it, plan everything, etc. It was a small event, just a few people, about two months later. You see, as soon as I got pregnant, he'd gotten weird mean. Punching holes in walls,…

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…

Ugh. What's up with your sister?

We had an horrid relationship, the last 2 years where whiteout sex We had already broken up, I came to my apartment to find him inside it, lucky me the guy I was having sex with was waiting for me at a part several blocks away, Called my best friend because I wasn't going to be alone with my psycho ex...

I was…

Oh man, I don't have a story, but I've been waiting for this all morning!

I can imagine this: people who fall in love often speak of instant recognition that they have with their potential partner. With a genetic family member, I imagine that there is a similar instant recognition that the author describes. We have no model for this in a platonic fashion and so, perhaps, the circuits get…

This is some brave shit.

I have relatives who are like her parents and they're still savoring what an awful person I am based on things I did as a small child. You can't win, you can just cut them off in the way that's truest for you. This was awesome.

There is more than one reason I am a ... bit of a Marvel fangirl. Lots of the reasons have a tendency to have names like Fassbender, McAvoy, Jackman, Kim, et al.

was never really a fan, but Penny Dreadful changed my mind. Penny Dreadful is the shit.

*that escalated quickly dot gif*