What is that a reference to? I totally know it and cannot think of it for the life of me, which is driving me insane.

I love this so much!

Happy birthday !

Nope. Not in the US.

Oh that’s so sad - I’m sorry for your loss.

I would be fine with living far from my family and I have no bf/husband/kids, but my thoughts on the question of selfishness is that if you think in the big picture that your kid will benefit from you being able to go back to work/school (sounds like yes), and having family take care of him instead of daycare (also…

Totally natural! If it was me, I’d try to focus on picking a neighborhood and getting familiar with it - basically like a mind game, where I’m not thinking about NYC on a grand scale. Good luck and congrats on school!

That is all incredibly helpful; I can’t thank you enough. I feel like I can relate very much to everything you’ve written on this aside from the fact that I haven’t actually had sex yet. Thank you!

“Pick someone that you feel comfortable enough to be awkward with” sounds like stellar advice for pretty much everything in life, tbh. Thank you!

As I’ve gotten older (I am 33), I’ve had a much easier time both 1) distancing myself from self-destructive people and 2) not judging them quite as much for the mistakes they are making, since those mistakes are just lessons in disguise that they need to learn from. I think you have done a good job of being an honest…

Congrats!!

That all sounds super horrible and I am so sorry for you. Personally I know some men who are inclined to want to fix things for me when I want them to listen and validate, and sometimes I get what I need from them and other times I just make peace with the fact that their efforts to fix are just misguided attempts to…

I think getting outside for walks/running (if you’re into that) is good advice. I personally am a little new-agey so I also found yoga and especially meditation helped me a lot when I was starting to feel too lost and scattered with respect to which big thing to change first, and a fun psychic night at a local…

Love Spell has been my favorite for about 13 years now.

I am much older than the OP, and am the same as you and her and the others who also posted about being late bloomers. Your writing indicates it was a past-tense struggle, so can I ask, as someone who is old and has yet to bloom, how did it all work out when you did want and get the experience? I worry about that part…

I have no advice; I am only writing to tell you that I am older than you and have had the same experiences, anxiety and stress over it (so basically you are not alone but I am still not helpful, sorry).

I like what others wrote but I am also going to share my thoughts/what I did. I’ve always been a picky eater and people expect girls to know how to cook... I started with simple things that didn’t have a lot of ingredients, like pasta and mashed potatoes, and baked dishes (casseroles, a pie recipe that was basically…

Chiming in with all the others - it sounds perfect to me. Very respectful, no pressure, no obligation, just sincere and genuine. Good luck; I hope it works out for you!

I’m a liberal non-vet so my opinion probably isn’t that helpful, but I’d like to think you’ll be fine considering you’re already coming from a place of respect for the soldiers and recognition that they didn’t send themselves off to a war. Also what Mitch Connor says in this thread makes tons of sense to me. You are…

I love Coach. I have several bags that I bought with coupons on sale at an outlet maybe 6 years ago, and they basically still look and function like new (and my taste doesn’t really change so it works for me). I have liked and owned plenty of bags from Target and other places not as fancy as Coach, but they haven’t…