always good advice.

With the fervor of a thousand overwrought facepalms

I lived in North Dakota for a few years (grew up in the FM area) and got out of there about 5 years ago. My now ex-husband has moved back to Fargo. He is currently living with a girl who dates an oil field worker. While her boyfriend (who foots nearly all the bills for her) is away working for roughly two weeks at…

Yeah that's how my marriage ended. And he's still surrounded by enabling friends who never call him out on anything, and continue to play down his disease. I called his mom when it was over to tell her about the severity of it, and she basically just said, "They have to want to get better." No one did anything except…

Awesome, I have bob w/ bangs, I wear glasses, and I'm in that 'horrible' range of height (5'4") because I usually wear flats to work. I'm losing weight by getting fit, and I was feeling pretty good about it. I also have big boobs that I hide under baggy shirts because I have a complex about it. I must be invisible!

Yep.

We're here! Well, I am anyway. That makes two of us?

My ex was so addicted to porn that I sometimes considered submitting my own pictures I'd sent to him just so I'd pop up one day when he was going through the motions.

Both of my sisters that passed away are buried in Bemidji. Every time I visit their graves I pick up flowers from Leuken's. I'm so damn happy to read this.

I've shopped at JCPenney for years. They have really cute stuff sometimes, and I'm not ashamed that pretty much half my wardrobe is from there!

I know some people can do it just fine, but I can't drive while high. I don't smoke often, so maybe that has something to do with how hard it hits me. I dunno.

Same. But you know what? It's more writing for the joy of writing. You can take your red editor's pen to your manuscript when you're finished. In fact, you'll probably be prouder that you succeeded, rather than whether you've written something that's groundbreaking. I hope you go through with it this year! I know I'm…

She's amazing. I love her writing and her advocacy, and when I said so on twitter, she responded to me personally to ask me to keep speaking out against the laws that restrict a woman's right to her physical autonomy. Glad to see this posted here!

I was commissioned yesterday to write 3 creepy stories before Halloween, and I must say: Thanks all, for the great inspiration. :)

Damn! :(

I don't mind looking at them, but like any other flying bug-creature, if they touch me I get really grossed out and want them off immediately.

I have also struggled with depression, and it's gone mostly untreated. I'm in therapy now and that's helping me. I've also tried BC and Yaz was the only thing that worked for me. Then it was discontinued, and I've tried some others since then... but they just seem to exacerbate the issue. So I had a laparoscopy and…

I just wrote about my endo above and wanted to say, although I hate that you have to suffer, it's sadly comforting to know I'm not alone. I'm not on antidepressants. But maybe I should be. Because the way I feel once a month, it's like I'm some weird sort of impostor inside of my own body. (Not to mention the pain.)

I have endometriosis and I struggle with depression. Those two things combined make me so horrible right before I get my period. I mean, I go from being able to think clearly and being a generally cheerful and funny person, to completely being blinded by rage. Like, I will want to choke someone RAGE. I know this…

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