But that’s IF the person isn’t fighting you. If they choose to fight it tooth and nail just to screw you over, it can be a hellscape.

While I LOVE the idea of subverting and weaponizing crummy institutions like employer-employee healthcare and marriage (you make good points!), you are assuming that you don’t have assets to split — which is unlikely, given the assumption of “good insurance” — and that the other party doesn’t lawyer up. The first time…

Counterpoint - divorce is super expensive and complicated, plus your spouse has rights to all sorts of stuff beyond just your citizenship. If you wouldn’t want someone making difficult medical decisions for you, don’t marry them.

One of the most exhausting and frustrating things in the whole entire world is a privileged white person with oppressive political views getting bent out of shape because someone reasonably makes the logical connection from those political views to personal beliefs and calls her out on it.

Dude I read the quiz and was like I would have stood up and walked out at the second question and just never looked back. 😂😂

I will watch anything with Joaquin Phoenix, even alone (sometimes it’s best alone ;) ) but I definitely cover my eyes when that fucking alien is on the screen.

Option one, least radical change in all of the options. You’ll be able to get the house, help your dad, and look for another job without entirely dismantling your current life. Deep breath. Option one buys you time.

Ok, I was the perpetrator here, but in my defense I was like 9 yrs old so didn’t realize how shitty it was at the time. My mom was working and going to college for a great portion of my childhood. She had to leave in the mornings about an hour before my younger sister and I had to wake up for school. So she would…

Here to win guys.

It was the first the first sign of many that I shouldn’t be married to the person. He was clueless as to why I was so, so, so pissed off about it.

I have an uncle who was born just before midnight, March 31. My grandma swears she told the doctor if he was born on April 1 she wouldn’t pay him.

About 5 years ago, a co-worker thought that it would be hilarious to encase my $500 keyboard in jello (it had been a gift). Needless to say, the keyboard was wrecked. I had to fight to get him reprimanded and for the company to pay to replace the keyboard.

I called my mom from a friend’s house post-sleepover (pre-cellphones). She asked where I was and I said, “um well I’m in jail, we got arrested last night.” I waited a few beats for her to scoff and say, no really, where are you? But the joke was on me because she just sighed and said, “Oh molarplexus, what is it you…

My family’s dog died when I was around 8 or 9 years old. I had been begging for a dog for over a year when April Fools’ Day rolled around. My father informed me that, after we finished eating lunch (it was a Saturday), my parents were going to take me to the animal shelter and let me pick out any dog that I wanted. I…

The fuck is wrong with people? Why would you ever “””joke””” about someone’s loved one being hurt? Who finds this shit funny?!

My then husband had been in a severe industrial accident where both of his hands were crushed, one thumb was severed and he had several surgical pims and a plate put in. Needless to say he couldn’t care for himself for months and due to some worker comp schenangans he had no income either. It was an extremely…

I hate April Fools Day, and I have a daughter whose birthday is tomorrow. She was two weeks late being born—she was originally due March 15, so by the time April rolled around, we were expecting her any moment. However, I was DETERMINED that she would not have to suffer with having an April Fools Day birthday, and I…

I was 13 my mum came into my room and very casually told me she was reading the news and saw that Gerard Way came out. I said I was happy for him to save face but I was very sullen during breakfast.