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Right?? Some dudes want to be sugar daddies, some ladies want them. If the terms of this arrangement are not suitable for you, move the fuck on! You're not doing yourself or her any favors.

I hear you. I've hunted, shot, field dressed, carried, butchered, and eaten (part of) a deer within a span of a few hours. The act of killing and cutting apart another living creature in order to consume it is very intense, and rather emotional for me, actually.

"Beautiful young women only interested in rich guy's money?"

...because your employer doesn't get billed for medical services. That's not how insurance works. The benefit package from the employer is INSURANCE to help pay for medical services, not the medical services themselves.

How does this not somehow violate HIPAA?

Yes - great point! Mommy and Daddy seem like they really know how to communicate with their kids. They seem to have well established trust.

Yeah, I think she's trying to encourage her daughter to be honest. I like it. As in "why did you tell me a story?"

"What am I looking at?" (Mom implies that she is looking at the donut evidence)

Part of a 3 year-old's developmental process is learning to lie, so it's not actually very avoidable. They're just acquiring the skills to construct alternate realities, but can't completely grasp the concept that their "alternative" explanation to the current situation is less real/valid than what actually happened.…

Yes - she is right at the age where most children begin to lie. It's very common and does not come from a place of deception, because she is still learning the implications of it. It is a step in their development to learn how to conceive of an alternate reality and the details that would make that reality feasible. 3…

I thought the same thing. The hand-on-chest makes the embrace look too welcomed/romantic for the intent of the poster.

I'd bet this is a pretty common reaction for dads of queer youth. There's a lot of cultural baggage that comes along with our understanding of sexuality that already varies greatly between genders, so it would be fairly understandable, depending on the background of the father in question. For one, a guy's perceived…

Totally. I am perfectly capable of doing my own perfectly nice manicure, but if all the girls are participating in the nail salon ritual together, I'm the curmudgeon who would rather save $15 or whatever than have a nice time with my friends.

The tricky part for me is when it's somewhere the bride has "always wanted to go" and I can technically afford it...I don't want to miss out on a once-in-a-blue-moon chance to spend time with close friends I hardly ever see, but I don't always want to spend my limited travel time/money on someone ELSE'S dream…

QUESTION FOR THE HIVEMIND! I am the only bridesmaid without a significant other. My invitation said, "and guest." I don't have anyone to be my date, especially for a wedding that requires flying back to my hometown. Is it weird if I ignore the "and guest" part and show up solo?

I see a lot of simplification of the problem in the comments. It's not that it's literally impossible to say, "sorry, can't afford it" to the peer pressure and cultural expectations...but that peer pressure and cultural expectations ARE VERY POWERFUL. To go agains them, you essentially have to reject the symbolic…

I still think her English music has a lot of awkward sounding metaphores and rhymes. They're subtle, though, I can't always put my finger on why some of the lyrics sound a bit goofy. It's improved since her debut, I think, but Spanish still sounds much more natural to me (though I am a non native speaker, FWIW).

Yes - completely. It's so tragic. My point was just that vulnerable people like that are more likely to take criticism (especially from strangers) as a personal attack and anoher reason to distrust the advice giver, no matter how rational. (As in, someone suffering from an ED like anorexia very likely uses food…

Oh, absolutely! I would love to say that to a lot of them, but people who don't like you because they think you are very different than them and dont understand them are not always the best recipients of advice. If someone I hated was like, "the reasons that you hate me are illogical and therefore you need you need…