I use this gif a lot, but this was my reaction to that part:

Thanks, Erin. I tried and failed. You suffered for all of us and I am so grateful. No seriously, props.

"BANANA!" is where I almost wet my pants laughing. God, how horrifying.

"Perhaps most unrealistically, its male protagonist is a 27-year-old man living in Seattle who wears ironed shirts, cleans his room, and has his shit together."

"I think she likes sex already."

An actual quote from my best friend warning me not to read the last 2 books in the trilogy: "Don't bother, it ends with them having a fucking picnic with their kid. I've got kids, I don't need this shit. Maybe I should start reading real porn?"

Back in the day ( I can say that now since my 38th birthday is in 8 days), I snobbily refused to read the Harry Potter books because they were so "mainstream and corporate." ( I was a pretentious douchebag.) Finally, at the urging of a fellow teacher I began the first one and within a month had read the first four…

i think we need to give Erin some booze as a gift for that sacrifice

You have saved many of us who were curious as to how bad it was without being able to stomach an actual read.

"I think she likes sex already."

No, but I'm gonna leave it.

I'm only halfway done reading this, but I need you to know that you are an American hero.

Reply to Fire In The Hole. This reply to you disappeared. Kinja must have dismissed it?

"Oh, that reminds me, we're out of hot dogs."

This is me. He thinks I fantasize about other men; I really don't. I fantasize about other scenarios and things. It drifts until it finds something sexy. I honest to god don't think about other men but I sure as hell think about other things(even sexy things)

Because I love my husband but thinking about naked ladies is nice, sometimes. It doesn't mean I don't think about him and us and how good it feels. I just also sometimes think about boobs. If my husband did not understand my love of boobs he probably wouldn't watch female positive lesbian porn with me.

Em...what's the longest relationship you've ever been in? And was it monogamous?

I think the author misses the point; it's not really about lying. It's about knowing the difference between when your partner is asking for honesty and when s/he is asking for validation. A wife asking if she looks fat is not looking for the truth or a white lie- she wants to know her husband is still attracted to…

I have full confidence that my boyfriend would tell me I look fat if I asked him such a question. #notallmen

Oh I was HOPING for a post on this. Because really, isn't it just beautiful that a philanderer who views lying to your partner as an essential and caring way to express love in a relationship completely fails to connect that to the fact that he has been married THREE TIMES?