I’m a mother in my early 30's & I have a best friend who I’ve been close with since high school. About a year ago we had a rare chance to spend some time alone together in NY (where I currently live). We are both ridiculous people (functional) but ridiculous. So we spent the weekend overly indulging in everything from…

Our pet dog passed away unexpectedly late last year. We grieved and were despondent for months. It literally felt like there was a gray pall over us.

Love these and just want to say, the Spooked podcast is a great supplemental al la the vibe of these scary stories, if you haven’t listened to them all already. I saved some from last season just for October listening.

My childhood trick-or-treating neighborhood was fantastic. Safe, very few cars, generous neighbors, and lots of spooky darkness with houses set way back on half-acre lots with long driveways. On Halloween 1989, I looked forward to our standard costumed candy collection foray. I set forth with a pillowcase, my sister,…

Thrift Store Murder She Wrote seemed fake as hell to me. Like an author insert fanfiction.

This happened to me a few years ago, and I still get chills every time I think about it.

This happened on Halloween night 6 years ago. I had been out partying with my friends for hours, so needless to say I was very drunk, and very tired of being in my makeup and heels. I was a student back then, and had no money to take a cab, so I left the bar and ran to catch the last subway (just before 2am). There…

AAAAA I *live* for these every year, even though oftentimes they creep me all the way out. Can’t wait to see this years’ submissions (except the inevitable dullards who think it’s witty to post some half-assed thing about Trump).

OMG Finally, I’ve been reading old posts to GET HYPE!!

2 words to consider: Republican fuckery.

Narrator: The election will not be in serious dispute come January 6, 2021.

This is a Penthouse Forum letter without the sex.

Got it, so this is just a “SHE’S A SLUT!!!!!!!!” axe you’re grinding.

bad feminist Roxane Gay appeared in a video for Reuters

My first thought when I read this was - the only reason he did these things was because he had a guilty conscience. I highly doubt he did laundry of his own free will or made her breakfast just because, considering he was dicking down some other woman during the time he was doing these “loving” things for his wife.

Yep. That she thinks of “what a rational adult does as a matter of course” as “pampering” says a lot. It’s not pampering to do your fair share of household chores.

I find it telling that the LW’s last paragraph is all about her fears that if she doesn’t continue her relationship with her dad he’ll start drinking or self-harming. That says volumes about what she was raised to believe was her responsibility. 

But in a way I feel especially bad for those who still hold on to an idealized version of their parents well into adulthood

One of the hardest things to realize as an adult is that you don’t know your parents the way they know each other.

“Doing the laundry” is not “pampering” ffs. It’s doing the basics as a partner in a marriage.