No, there's a definite difference between "trying to conceive" and "not trying but not preventing either". I've done both. The first is an active endeavor and involves temperature-taking, peeing on an ovulation predictor kit, charting, timing sex for certain days, etc. etc. The other is totally passive and doesn't…

Yep, diaphragm + Ortho Evra patch and I had *THOUGHT* I was using both correctly. I've used each of them individually and didn't get pregnant, even though that would've been far more statistically likely. But the one time when we really didn't want a baby right then because my husband was about to start grad school?…

So if a couple uses barrier methods with an ~85% effective rate, they're "trying to prevent pregnancy" but if the couple uses withdrawal with an ~80% effectiveness rate they're not???? What about couples who use spermicides alone (~75%) or the ones who used the sponge before it went off the market (~70%)?

I've been married 15 years and have gone through cycles of "heck no, definitely do NOT want to get pregnant now" and "not trying but not preventing" and everything in between. Ironically the one unplanned pregnancy I've experienced was a double contraceptive failure. Oops.

Probably depended on where you grew up, but these styles definitely hit close to home for me. All that's missing is somebody in one of those hideous Laura Ashley floral dresses!

Must be a regional thing because I grew up in an affluent New England suburb and this definitely hits close to home. Only thing missing is somebody in one of those hideous Laura Ashley floral dresses.

The sweater/skirt/tights/Keds thing was sadly real and I could probably dig up a bunch of pictures at my parents' house to prove it (SHUDDER)

Is Gwen Stefani actually pregnant or just tabloid pregnant like Jennifer Aniston?

Wow, is she gorgeous. Only in the fashion industry would some idiot think that her appearance needs to be changed to fit some narrow definition of beauty.

South Asians apparently want lighter skin, while white girls & women here in the U.S. are giving themselves melanoma in the pursuit of darker skin. I never did tanning beds, thank goodness, but I used to lay out all summer when I was a teen & I've already had to have one mole biopsied (fortunately it was benign).

Seriously! 99.999+% of women out there would love to look like her. What does it say about the fashion industry that they feel the need to Photoshop such a gorgeous woman?

Are there any hetero guys out there who actually enjoy eating at salad places?

This poor girl is being victimized twice. The first time when she was taken advantage of by the creep football players. The second time when she was forced to go public with an incident that she clearly wanted to just forget about. She should've been the one to decide whether or not to pursue legal action against the…

One reason why so many women come out of their 20's with massive credit card debt...

Up until 2007 that used to be true, but since the crash the bonuses have come way, way down. Bonuses used to routinely be 2x base or more but now a lot of people aren't getting any bonuses whatsoever, and those who do, are getting 0.25x base or less.

Yep, I grew up around trust fund babies (definitely wasn't one of them, LOL!) and a lot of the girls went into the fashion industry. Family money supported them until they became trophy wives.

I think he got cut from whatever LA team he played for last year (Clippers, perhaps?)

She is 69 so it's plausible. I know a lady who got pregnant with her youngest child at 46, and it was totally natural (big shock in fact).

Tris is actually described as NOT pretty in the "Divergent" books. Striking looking eyes and being in awesome shape after going through the Dauntless training, but not pretty. Hollywood, however, cannot wrap its head around casting a lead heroine who isn't the typical starlet.

Katniss and the rest of District 12 have more in common with the factionless in "Divergent" in that they know they're being oppressed by a corrupt government. The corruption of the faction system is more hidden and it's strongly implied that the factionless are seen by those in the factions as having experienced…