I was a rotten kid who got into a lot of awful fights with my mom (and I was SO RUDE to her). Now I've got a fancy graduate degree and a great job and really good relationship with her. It's hard now, but life is long.

He might come around, but that has nothing to do with what you do now. The water only runs in one direction. If he comes back later and if he's in the right condition and if he wants it, then you can decide if you let him back in. YOU DO NOT NEED TO WAIT FOR HIM. That will not speed his recovery or force him to…

Yeah, as someone who's been that person for people in my life I can tell you that it really hurts to then get pushed out of their lives because you're a reminder of that hard time. Whoever that was, s/he did it out of love and now it's your turn to be generous by keeping them in your life and working (maybe with…

The RH down booties are great but DO NOT put them in the washing machine (no matter what the label says) - they'll just be fuzzy lumps after that.

My (now-ex, obv.) boyfriend arrived at my house one day after I'd just gotten my hair cut. He said "you look so good, I thought maybe I'd walked in to the wrong house!"

This was the end of my last relationship. His only motivating force was "want" and it was ultimately our undoing. Any time I expressed a need that clashed with something he wanted in the moment, it was an outsized conflict - and in the end, I rarely got what I needed anyway.

Totally agree. The first time was hard but I felt like it was ok - that's something that you should be allowed to ask for in a relationship and it should be honored. You don't get to keep doing it.

And we already did this once - six months ago. He said he needed a week so I gave it to him. But I'm not signing up for a lifetime of this, the ending never changes.

This was pretty much the end of my most recent relationship. I spent about 9 months saying "here is a thing I need" and he would first get really angry - and then say "yes, I understand your need and I want to be able to meet that need" and then nothing would change. Last week he finally broke down and said that he…

My relationship ended a little more than a week ago. It's for the best but it's still so sad.

Dry cleaning of uniforms is a specific class of tax deductible business expense. Meaning that as far as the IRS goes, the expectation is that if you pay for it - you can write it off (presuming that this happens a lot). Most police officers and fire fighters do this.

We still tell the story of my mouse's $100 vet bill.

Shave ice. Not "shaved" ice.

As I am currently mid-marathon, I feel compelled to point out that their home (where that, and most of their scenes, take place) is not in Stars Hollow, it's in Hartford.

Accept it and be supportive. If it's just curiosity, that will be satisfied. If it's a phase, it will pass. If it's attention-seeking, you'll meet that need. If it's genuine, there's no risk. There is no danger to offering your unrestrained support.

Yeah, I guess my point is that still seems to be true (in my experience) and I was wondering what the author bases her conclusions on.

But the article doesn't address this at all. That's my original point. We seem to agree that there's an inverse correlation between age (which is linked to earning capacity) and number of available people in the marriage pool. Where those two lines intersect is beside the point. The author never addresses this…

As I made clear in my original post, I am just referencing my own experience in one major city while working in a high-status, high-income industry. Nearly all of my age-cohort coworkers were already married by the time we started making anything that would be described as "high" incomes ($150K+).

I've got replies from someone else saying exactly the opposite (high earners wait longer to pair up)!

I guess I wasn't really thinking of someone who's only been making that salary for a year or two. And is likely also still paying off significant debt.