No! My fiancé and I have 2 beautiful parrots! If I knew how to post pics to Kinja from my phone, I would.

ARE YOU ME???

Me too, though mine stems from a history of multiple cysts. I get so stressed out about it, then clench up during intercourse. That of course causes it to hurt worse, and then I am CONVINCED I have another cyst. And there goes the never ending cycle.

Yeah, the lease had actually already been up for a year, but it was only the last 4-6 months that it got really bad. It was initially difficult to convince the bf to move because of the added rent cost. However, he now says full-heartedly that the added rent cost is more than worth the price for the added peace of…

I'm well aware. That's why I said it MAY be the child. I've seen both.

Nope. I actually moved out of the house and in with some other friends for a month. My boyfriend realized that he had a choice between our roommate's lifestyle or a life with me, and he chose me. We got a place that we can afford just by ourselves. The excessive drinking and cocaine use of my boyfriend has stopped,…

There's a HUGE difference between just a single child and multiple (or all) children cutting off a parent. If it's a single child, yes, it may be just the child. If it's more than one child, the parent definitely had a lot (or all) to do with it.

Sounds like my mother's family as well. She was deeply emotionally abusive to us and everyone around her, but when my sister and I decided that we had enough, they all treated us like terrible people for being "so mean to our mother." Sadly, my sister has turned around and turned into the exact person my mother was/is.

That sounds so familiar.

I wish I could star this more.

Did we have the same mom?

Hmmm.....Sounds so familiar. Was once my mother (and still is at times though we typically just agree to not discuss our problems), but is now my sister.

ALMOST sounds like the roommate I just got rid of. Just swap leaving things strewn across the house for EVERYTHING being sticky because somehow he spilled every single drink he ever had and refused to ever clean it up (which resulted in cockroaches). I also had to hear constant racist jokes. And as an alcoholic, he…

Mine: decided to climb a tree in the rain. Ended up with a broken nose and 2 black eyes.

My 2 favorite quitting stories (both from restaurants):

We were lied to as workers then by our supervisors.

Actually, the best way to file stuff is in descending order: YYYY/MM/DD (and I say that as an American). That keeps everything perfectly organized on my computer.

Depends on your state. I worked in restaurants in Nebraska for over 5 years and not a single one would let anyone bring in outside food and drink because it would have gotten us shut down by the State Board of Health. The exception was UNOPENED bottles of wine (for a corking fee).

Similar to me, but the guy I lost my virginity to developed a cocaine addiction instead and became my stalker until I moved 2-3 times, changed my phone number, and blocked him on Facebook (also twice).

Tried. GYN said no can do on ANY IUD because they do not prevent ovulation. (I need ovulation blocked for an ovarian cyst problem, somehow I even developed one the size of a tennis ball while taking Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo, which should block ovulation)