Not that I’m defending the 30 showers comment, which was disgusting, but you’ve got your timeline wrong.

Berating Mothers is a subset of Woman Can’t Ever Get It Right. It’s America’s national pastime.

In the 70’s my cousin and I played outside while our parents smoked big fat joints and laughed, ate and took naps and had no clue what the fuck we were doing.

Yeah, you don't need to watch practice. My mom used to bring a book when sh had to be there for dance practice. She would look up sometimes to get the gist or if it was interesting.

HA! I didn’t see that! What do people think you’re supposed to do for the often several hours a day you have a kid latched to your breast....think loving thoughts while staring deeply into your child’s eyes? Oy.

I’ve seen plenty of videos on youtube with cats and dogs doing a great job babysitting. Your niece will be fine! If not, you tried.

And when did “watching practice” become a parents job. My kid does her extra curriculars because she likes them, not for me. I’m all for watching games and performances but it’s absurd to think that a parent should spend hours watching from the sidelines a week.

The worst was that article the other day condemning women for texting while breastfeeding (and yes, they really did call it “brexting”). These people need to find something else to do besides finding things to berate mothers about.

I am with my kids all day, every day from 7am to 7pm. I am not worried about “missing out” because I'm texting my brother while they play. I'm so sick of this crap. My mother wasn't staring at me the whole time I was growing up, and thank goodness for that. Who wants to sit and watch fucking soccer practice? We always…

They can be boring at any age. Infants are SUPER boring, when they’re not trying to tear your boobs off with their teeth. And while nine year olds can be more interesting to talk to than, say, a three year old, there’s still a limit to how much attention you can give them without some part of your brain rebelling (no,…

Yeah, not every single moment is a “quality time” moment.

You sooooo don’t have a 5-year-old.

I love my daughter to bits, but five-year-olds can be incredibly boring. There’s only so many times in a row I can take listening to her sing the same verse of a song she only knows those words to and not very accurately before I need something else to pay attention to or I’d fall asleep.

Absolutely agree. Before I got married and really knew what was involved in keeping a very long term relationship going, I would have said cheating = divorce. Now that I’m 16 years in I can say without a doubt that I wouldn’t get divorced over infidelity. A long term affair would probably put me there but random…

The most upsetting part is that $4,000 for a dress is considered “lower-end” by many.

The show isn’t normalizing affairs. The show is highlighting that affairs are already normal. It’s not OK on the show, it shows how messy it is.

You must live in a very black and white and simple and manageable world. I hope it stays that way for you.

I also liked how individual narratives stressed that person’s relative lack of agency: when he tells the story, she is much more forward than he is, and he is almost seduced. When she tells the story, it’s the reverse — it makes it seem like he wanted it more than her. I like this emphasis on the self-serving function…

“People these days” live on average several decades more than people of the past. It’s one thing to be 100% monogamous when your spouse croaks at 35, it’s another when they’re gone at 95. Not to mention that affairs have always been a thing.

The affair is both their responsibility. How he wrecks his family is his responsibility.