Definitely. We had significant assests and a young kid - it was not "hard" at all for him to leave at all.

All the more reason for daily (almost) kitchen dancing to silly pop songs with Little High Heel, age 7 (almost)

Me too! I like people, but not too much, I'm a tiny bit judgy, but very sensitive at the same time. It's a fun one.

I'm so stealing this for my 6 year old when she asks this...OK?

Thanks! I'm in a very good relationship right now (though early days) and am hopeful I might have made some progress in finding a good one.

Yep. Dad ignoring me and outright not speaking to me for a year in my teens (because I'd become a sluty-slut by being responsible and going on bc while in my long term, monogomous, relationship with my boyfriend) - REJECT! 25 years and endless therapy sessions, a failed marriage and several other relationships. …

I'll read more about this as I head off to my local airport. Yes, that would be Ronald Reagan National Airport. However, I will still call it only "National Airport" as long as I live and breathe.

I was the same way and had the same fears when I had a child. A girl, natch. The pros are that I am super-sensitive to any negative impacts on her self esteem - other kids, shows, portrayals of women in books and tv/movies, etc. And I take the time to counter them - something which my mother never did. I talk to…

You asked and shall receive...

And Fairfax County (where I live and moved for little High Heel's education) is one of the top in the nation and home of what is often considered the top high school in the country

Aww! He looks just like my Max. His favorite time to hug is...uh...a little awkward. He jumps up on the closed toilet and hugs me as I'm getting undressed and getting in the shower. Please don't report me.

As a VA resident, I'm actually afraid of bodily harm if I put up an Obama sign in my yard this year. Luckily, on my street in 2008 Obama signs outnumbered McCain signs by 5 to 1...but what if some looney comes after my cat, or my kid???

Dads, too. My dad's "thunder thighs" comments still rings in my head most of the time I look in a full length mirror

Thanks! She's 6 now and happy, secure, confident and attached to me in a very good way. Even through a divorce. I still have to constantly remind myself that getting a babysitter or making her play on her own while I cook (or read, even!) is not bad, she's getting a good model of me being my own person in addition…

When my daughter was 4 months old, I felt like the worst mother on earth and broke down crying in the daycare parking lot because other mothers were commenting that my kid was crying from hunger because I didn't supply enough breastmilk. This is after pumping three times a day at work until my nipples were literally…

As a fellow Virginian, I wholeheartedly support this sentiment. And love the nickname

Well, my only glimmer of hope in the mortification was that he's married and "tied down" while I was having the hot sexy times with a new man... Didn't quite fit in with the messages about pick up times and missing ballet shoes for the little one.

Ah, yup done that. Not just anyone. My ex-husband. Not awkward at all.

She is just plain awesome in every sense of the word. The poster of her and the Lady Vols is staying up in my daughter's room for a very long time. I want my daughter to know what she did for women when I was barely old enough to bounce a basketball, and ever since.

Yes, I've seen it on the buses in D.C, a few years ago actually. It actually took me a minute to process it it the first time. Then it made me ragey for the next couple of months when I kept seeing it