Yeah, that's a great idea for an "alternative wedding." I think the other benefit would be that my girlfriend is manic depressive and though she's generally very stable with her meds/psychotherapy combo, I get the sense that some really big, elaborately planned wedding would overwhelm her. Having all kinds of things…
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"You want to break your mother's heart for your wedding?"
Yeah, the ridiculous expense of weddings is one of the reasons I've been hesitant to get married; one thing that helps is that my younger brother had a big conventional wedding a few years ago and so my mother (who really cares about those things) got to have that experience of one of her sons getting married. It was…
Yeah, I think that is really the takeaway from all this. Of course, banks and lenders are complete soulless shitheels, but that's not really a remarkable statement in this day and age. The underlying problem is far worse, which is that it's pretty much impossible for anyone without independent wealth to make a…
Exactly. And I also don't understand the conflation of "being unmarried" with "being alone." I mean, you'd think that the state would come haul you off to prison if you co-habitate with a significant other without getting a marriage license.
Yeah, I get a similar thing not even specifically with kids, but rather with the fact that I haven't married my girlfriend of seven years yet. It's amazing how much I seemingly have to justify our mutual decision to people I don't even know that well. It's almost gotten to the point where I feel like just going to…
I agree. I gave the author the benefit of the doubt because I'm confident that she didn't mean it that way, but precise language is important, and that sentence is way too easy to read the "wrong way."
Yeah, that's always the inconvenient fact that conservative narratives about abortion leave out. It's simply mind-boggling how they can persist in this "women just don't know what they're DOOOOOING" horseshit when such a huge percentage of abortion patients ALREADY HAVE KIDS. It's almost as though maybe the fact that…
My argument is not that winning the Heisman makes you a first round pick by default. My argument is that winning or losing a single national championship game is not going to change an NFL team's opinion of a QB (especially after another year has passed before he is eligible) in any significant way, certainly not…
Auburn may have easily had three losses, but they were also extremely close to burying Florida State in the first half. Were it not for multiple extremely poor lapses (the inexcusable failure to defend an obvious fake punt, the drop on the first possession that would have been an easy TD, allowing a kickoff return for…
My point about the Heisman wasn't that it was going to guarantee any success in the NFL; but the chances of a Heisman-winning QB not being drafted in the first round (probably high) are slim, and that's all that matters here. Simply winning a national championship means little to a player's NFL prospects: as just one…
Of course Pat Carroll is going to downplay the possibility of a civil suit BEFORE the decision not to prosecute was made. Why would any lawyer worth her salt poison an already viciously poisoned well by feeding ammunition to rape apologists ("She's just a gold-digger lying for the big bucks!") It would make the case…
Thanks so much for the information! I wasn't aware that the Nuvaring could be used in various ways; I think my girlfriend takes it out after 3 weeks, goes a week without, and then puts a new one in, and I had no idea there were other ways that could have effects on the cycle.
I agree. I'm not really sure what the general buzz on the show is, but my girlfriend is a huge Mindy fan and we started watching it last year and I've really enjoyed it as much as she has. The characters really do seem like real people, and it's startling to me how many other shows fail in that basic regard.
Wait a minute...I'm really confused here. My girlfriend switched to the NuvaRing a couple years ago because she can't really use a lot of the more typical methods because of her other medications, but she still has her period every month. Is the NuvaRing supposed to stop your period? If it doesn't, does that mean it's…
Well, I'm glad to hear you stopped seeing him. Hopefully nobody else subjected themselves to that crap either.
Guys actually made comments like that to you? Jesus Christ, what assholes.
There is definitely a lot of potential crap to wade through in the online dating world, but it's really no different than the "conventional" dating world except that it's more concentrated. That concentration is a double-edged sword in that you probably will encounter more creeps and losers, but you'll also have more…
It really is just a numbers game; I know I felt extremely frustrated for quite a while with online dating (I'm a guy who definitely didn't traffic in any of that silly horseshit you have had the misfortune of enduring.) I was getting close to quitting on it, but then I met the woman I've spent the last seven happy…
I have no reason to doubt his talent...it's just that from what I remember of his older brother (Andrew) from when he'd occasionally be in our carpool is that he was almost painfully shy. Before we picked him up, we sometimes would make a joking over/under bet on how many words he'd utter in the half-hour trip, and…