I’m in the same boat. I have been cheated on. I have been the other woman (did not know he was married) but I have never cheated. Because you don’t do that to someone else. I hate the story about how an affair made he relationship better. No. It made your life better but the relationship now has this gap where instead…

short term disability is usually an insurance plan that you purchase, and like many insurance products it won’t cover pre-existing problems. (Health insurance is different because of the ACA, but short term disability isn’t health insurance). So if you buy STD while pregnant they won’t cover pregnancy related leave.…

I have no idea what the motivation would be. I would take my dog to eat at restaurants in downtown St. Petersburg (Florida) where they had outdoor dining and dogs were welcome. But there were other dog friendly stuff to do also (including a dog treat shop and a waterfront park). I travel a lot with my cat now and I…

I had a man threaten to kill me because I wouldn’t let her return a sweater.

My cat (who I found in a garbage can 3 years ago) loves his walks. It keeps him from trying to dart out the door. He will bring my his leash every few days and we just go.

This has zero to do with the kids and everything to do with her being angry that the kids did not “respect her authority” (/cartman voice) in court. I’ve seen a judge send an honor roll student to a secure detention facility because the girl rolled her eyes in court for a school fight.

I don’t even argue against the idea that life begins at conception. So what. It is not about life. It’s about someone being forced to use their body (their blood, organs, their energy and oxygen) to support someone else. And that is not something we do. We don’t force people to donate a kidney to their dying child. We…

I have terrible social anxiety, so I’ve volunteered to come up with activities for the kids to do when they have been invited to weddings I’m attending. We had a separate activity area away from the banquet hall where we had games, books, and (my best idea) a coloring station where the kids were encouraged to draw…

I wished my cheating ex-well when he married the chick he was cheating on me with for two years. I honestly hope they are together forever and have a bunch of kids and an epic relationship. Because if I had to get my heart crushed, I want to think that something great came out of it. If they burn out then it all just…

Dating advice tends to be useless because people are all different. Women are not The Borg, and so there is no singular answer on what to do when a woman is doing X. Similarly, “what can I do to get a particular man to be interested in me” is also probably not going to actually teach you anything. I know that isn’t…

Early Simpsons episodes (especially under James L. Brooks as producer) were much more warm and kind.

Penn has a history of abusing women and Charlize Theron grew up in an abusive home. She saw her mom kill her dad in self-defense. I have to think on some level she was doing that thing that a lot of trauma survivors (including myself) do where we subconsciously choose partners that will allow us to relive the trauma…

That is generally what happens in these cases, but a court still needs to hear them to determine what is going on. The “one party says no” rule is a good one generally, but what if there was detrimental reliance? Let’s say I’m going to have cancer treatment that will destroy my eggs. You and I agree to fertilize these…

You guys HAVE to read the actual decision because the details are even better than the headline.

Not to mention that adoption is not without ethical concerns, especially the private adoption industry. I worked a total of one day at a private adoption agency before I quit because of what was going on. So many of the women were told that open adoptions would mean that they would be able to visit their child an play…

Because white families should totally adopt children of a different race without taking into consideration the impact of that decision? I am always very amused when people act as if trans-racial adoption is a good practice in all cases when, in fact, when you adopt a child of another race it is important to do so with…

My cat desperately wants a kitten. He met one over Christmas when we were staying with my Dad. And my Fred just adored it. He bathed the kitten. Went in the liter box with the kitten to properly cover his business. Just was a perfect Daddy. I Promised him that once I have a full time job we will get him his own baby.

how would you feel if I forced you to accept me as a trans person even though I am not a trans person?

Fellow law school grad here, and I was also 100% against trigger warnings until the movie Saving Mister Banks. Because that movie fucked me up. I am not joking, I had a full blown breakdown in that theater. When it was over I had to call my Mom because I had entered this type of detached state and couldn’t remember…

A few times people would try that “nothing tastes as good” line on my fatass.