I had an ex who just could not wrap his head around the fact that I would occasionally wear clothes he didn't like. He wasn't angry or controlling about it- he just assumed that if I knew he thought a certain look was unflattering, I'd stop wearing it. Of course I tried to choose clothes we both liked for dates, but…

I'm not following. Are you arguing that obesity can't be at all genetic because it's not present in babies? Or that anything you aren't born with can be reversed? There are all kinds of permanent conditions that first manifest in adults. And it's not like every single gene you have is active from your first moment of…

It matched me with my best friend! Somehow, I find that way more exciting than if it had matched me with someone I actually had a crush on. Not sure what that says about me...

Ikes. It's definitely not normal to test your partner like that, and I think she did you a favor by ending the relationship. Major red flag.

In my state, daycare regulations require one adult per three infants. So if you have a baby in daycare, you're essentially paying 1/3 of the carer's hourly wage, plus overhead for the building and administration and other supplies. So it gets expensive really fast.

Raffgrrl asked if it was crazy, not if it was likely. It's less common, but it still happens. In a show that depicts many different relationships and couples (disclaimer: I don't actually watch Girls) you shouldn't be surprised if one of the pairings they show is less probable.

My old roommate got back together with her cheating scumbag of boyfriend because he bought her one of those. It turned out to be a poor decision. She caught him cheating again within a week and dumped him for good. But over the next couple months he would occasionally show up in the middle of the night, drunk and…

It seems to depend largely on how much space is in each physical building and/or which building is cheapest to maintain or expand. When my town's elementary school was too crowded, they built an expansion on the middle school and moved the 5th and 6th graders there. They couldn't expand the elementary school because…

The article says she's in 9th grade, which is normal for a 15 year old. Most school systems put 9th graders in the high school, but in some districts high school starts at 10th grade instead.

So he doesn't wake her up? My boyfriend is a very light sleeper, so if I come home late I'll sleep on the couch rather than disturb him. I can sleep just fine on the couch, it's not a punishment or anything.

The problem is that in practice, tips end up being the server's wages, not a thank-you. I don't like the system, but that's how it works out in the US.

Ugh, I have a friend who does this. Not to flirt- she's just talkative and bad at reading social cues. When we go shopping together I always have to rescue visibly bored retail workers from long conversations about Ancient Greek philosophy or music theory or whatever subject she's fascinated with at the moment.

You can be confident without being creepy. "Creepy" comes from ignoring the other person's boundaries, not from being too confident. The key is to be confident when you're saying hello and for as long as the other person seems interested, but to politely back off if they're not interested.

I think they've lost some market share to shapewear. Most stores around me have plenty of 'slimming slips', but it's hard to find the non-slimming kind.

One of my close friends went through a PUA stage. I think for him it mostly about dealing with his fear of rejection. It seems to have worked pretty well for him- he used to be totally crushed anytime a woman he liked wasn't interested, and now he's learned not to take it personally. But I think he would have gotten…

The parents are responsible for raising their children, but if they fail to meet the child's needs, the state has every right to step in. The question is whether keeping a child ignorant about sex constitutes such a failure.

You can't break the laws of thermodynamics, but they're not the only thing that affects weight loss. Human metabolism is a hell of a lot more complicated than a furnace.

I've had the same problem with wrapping dishes and delicate things before a move.

The only thing that could make him not a rapist is a time machine. Even if his victim forgives him, that doesn't change the fact that he raped her, and a person who has committed rape is, by definition, a rapist.

The Catholic church is against anything that prevents pregnancy, including condoms, sterilizations, and emergency contraception.