Thank you. I’m fortunate in that I have family very close by, I have a job I love that helps when I need adult-time. I also have a wonderful therapist and the finances to be able to see her weekly. I'm lucky to have all of that.

It’s hard. Really fucking hard. I had PPD with my oldest and there’s so much shame associated. Now I have two kids and its fucking draining and exhausting. All give, all the time. And confessing that you’re not enjoying it or that you desperately need help is often met with extreme judgement or trite comments like…

I think it’s the “Important to note” statement that got me. Is it important? Is it? I believe it is.

I thought Alexander Skarsgard was gay. I mean, I guess that means he could still marry Alexa Chung if he wanted to . . . eh, who cares. Mazel tov to everyone.

Those are kind of terrifying.

You should be fine if you know that they’re OK with alcohol. I was just annoyed because one girl knew I was trying to not drink and she got me the flask. Another girl and I had gotten into a fight previously when I tried to drive drunk and she didn’t think I should - she got me the personalized wine glass and bottle…

I think in some ways it comes down to the need. Previously I would drink a glass of wine every night. Just one glass. I never felt drunk but I started to just NEED the wine. I’d look forward to the wine earlier and earlier. I only went through one bottle a week. Most people would say that it wasn’t a problem but to me…

This may seem like a stupid place to put this but maybe not - please everyone, stop giving alcohol related gifts. In January I had a really scary moment where I decided I needed to stop drinking. My birthday was one month later. I received: a personalized wine glass, a flask, a bottle of champagne, & a coffee tumbler…

Yep. I am hoping that she’s doing the age old trick of using your kids as an excuse to get out of doing something you don’t want to do. “Oh I’m sorry I can’t go to your My Thirty-One/Pampered Chef party . . . I need to be at home with the kids that night.”

Not sure about the UK but here in the US there are a number of designer overstock sites. RueLaLa is one, Zulily is another. They have certain items available for a limited time as overstock from a store. I shop at those a lot. You have to figure out your measurements and pay attention to size descriptions. Otherwise,…

How you look (age wise) is a big factor. Thank you for bringing that up. I used to look very young. People assumed I was an intern. Dressing up in a jacket or a dress with heels helped make me appear as more of a grown-up and less of a child. Now that I’ve had children and passed my 40th birthday, my face has caught…

I work on the same floor as the President of the company so I tend to dress up a bit more because she’s always walking about and there are always guests and big meetings. But honestly I kind of like having “work clothes” and “fun clothes” - putting on a more professional outfit and heels helps me feel more capable and…

Yes, I have to open a capsule into apple sauce every morning for my son who is 8. This would be a nice alternative.

It had such a good flow. It captured the “Yeah! This is fun! Let’s have sex” to the “Ha, ha. It’s adorable how you have your clothes on the floor” to “No but seriously, your clothes?” and then “I will kill you in your sleep if I have to step over your fucking clothes one more time.” transition.

I’ll add it to my reading list. That sounds really interesting.

Good to know! I love Master of None and I love Casual - I need to watch Transparent.

It was the episode about the parents that really hooked me. It was just really smart and different and funny.

I am not a huge Aziz Ansari fan - I have tried to watch his stand-up before and it did nothing for me. I started watching the show though and although I wasn’t a huge fan of the first episode with the kids but by the end of the first season I was hooked. This is a damn good show. The episode with the dads and the…

That’s the only way you can deal with that. Just at a certain point be like “I apologized and your reaction to me says more about you than it does about me.” and then let it go. It’s easier said than done. But at least we all know not to write terrible xojane columns on it.

Oh my sister is annoying. I moved to a new city and joined a book club and she told me over the phone “A book club? Only nerds are in book clubs. You’re never going to meet anyone cool that way.” and she was well past 30 when she said that because reading = nerds.