Yeah, that’s probably true. What was so weird to me was I had no inkling of that. So it was totally out of the blue. Ah well....say lay veeee.....

bizarre

You dodged a bullet. This was a person so completely and willingly controlled by her family that she would never have made any of her own independent decisions in life. Better to have the relationship go sideways early on.

Please tell me you learned how to say GO FUCK YOURSELF in that other language.

OMG.

I had been dating a woman for about a year. I was pretty smitten with her and she seemed to feel the same. She asked me to meet her parents and I was up for that. They lived the next state over so we decided to do a long weekend visit. So we get there, there’s handshakes and hugs, everyone is getting along. Weekend…

I am the heart breaker! In kindergarten my "crush" and I got in trouble for hogging the easels. He drew a big heart and gave it to me. I responded with one of the only words I could write at 5...NO. He transferred to another school and it was totally about our failed love and not because Catholic school is both…

I was working for a non-profit that depended on grants from the state. One of the grants was discontinued and they couldn’t afford to pay me. They had to choose between me and a coworker who was bilingual. They chose the bilingual person. No argument there.

Back in the ‘90s I spent what I thought was an incredible weekend with a guy I liked a lot. A day or so later he called me to let me know that thanks to the time he’d spent with me, he’d decided to ask his ex-girlfriend to marry him.

One of my very first crushes was on a kid named Michael Gregory (yeah, I’m using real names). This was I believe 1st grade. It was Valentine’s Day. I handed him a card and some of those heart shaped message candies and told him that I liked him.

After the 2000 election, I was interviewing at a nonprofit. Everyone was looking for work. It was rough, and I’d been rejected so much.

~13 years ago...

I think both of you are really being unfair in this situation. FKA Twigs starred with Shia in the movie about this abusive childhood and alcoholism. She probably thought he has overcome his demons and was involved in this very intense movie. I’m sure they bonded very quickly and deeply than normal while making the film…

Yelling unnecessarily is an affliction as old as the telephone.  I do not get it.

It drives me absolutely crazy when my husband yells on Zoom or FT. He just doesn’t get that he can talk at a normal level. It’s like people who raise their voice when talking to someone who speaks a different language, thinking if you speak louder somehow they’ll understand you. Anyway, we had a very nice virtual…

Michael B. Jordan’s a better choice, Obama. Dude hasn’t been creeping on teenagers.

My mom once made gingerbread cookies so toxic even the squirrels wouldn't eat them in the middle of a terrible midwestern winter.

Last year’s Thanksgiving was a failure on so many levels.

One year when I was a teenager, my family decided to try and deep fry a turkey. They let the enormous vat of oil heat up on our porch for HOURS, convinced that it wasn’t hot enough because it wasn’t boiling. (You have to put something in hot oil to see the bubbles!) Finally they fried the thing, it was delicious, but…