I dunno, dude. I’m pretty sure a grown man on a skateboard ranks pretty high on the list of “unfuckables” for many women. Nothing wrong with the skateboard itself but I haven’t yet found one that doesn’t also come with a roommate, a dirty bathroom, and wants me to come see his band play a show this weekend.

I want to give her the benefit of the doubt here: I think she’s not a dick, just a total fucking coward.

I just have to believe that Nick is one of those awful guys who has some unexplainable physical magnetism in person? Like every part of you knows that he’s terrible but for some reason, you still want to fuck him. Who hasn’t been there at least once?

You don’t have to tell your mom! The most that she might find out is that you’re being treated for pain but that doesn’t mean that you have to tell her that it’s sex-related.

In my opinion, sex (in all it’s forms) is really important in a romantic partnership. If he needs penetrative sex and you aren’t comfortable with that, it’s a fundamental incompatibility.

My mom was pregnant with me at 19 and her parents told her that if she decided to go forward with having the baby, she would be on her own financially. And that’s what she (and we did). It was incredibly difficult and when I found this out (from my grandmother), a lot of my mom’s issues made sense to me. Would you…

I learned early that sometimes the people who are supposed to take care of you will leave you. That’s not a complex, that’s a fact.

This drives me crazy - people ‘stating the obvious’ as if we aren’t bombarded with this messaging nearly every moment of life. Do you really think that telling me that I should be skinner or show more cleavage or wear sexier shoes is news? “Wait, what? You’re telling me that big boobs and perfect grooming are…

(Upon reflection though, I should have seen it when I went to Chicago to meet his family. I told him the only thing I wanted to do while I was there was eat deep dish pizza. He took me to A MALL to eat pizza in a FOOD COURT. You gotta be aggressively lazy to fuck up pizza. This is, by far, his worst offense.)

I don’t know anything about you or your partner (obviously) but I realized that my man just wasn’t just not compatible with me but that he’s probably not suited to be in a relationship with anyone. At least, not until he figures this stuff out. But that fucker is 40 and still refuses to send his mom a mothers’ day…

My last relationship ended because my partner couldn’t do any of these things - and they’re important to me. But I never doubted that he loved me, just that he had a lot of issues with intimacy and was overall pretty immature. And it ultimately wasn’t enough for me. But it’s so much more complex than “he’s taking…

I dunno, I just don’t think things are so black-and-white. People do all kinds of selfish and lazy things - even when people tell them that it’s hurtful - because they’re selfish and lazy. Not because they don’t care about people.

I’m saying that some people never do this stuff. Plenty of people are just lazy. They don’t buy baseball tickets for their friends. They don’t send flowers to their moms. They don’t offer to pick up coffee for their busy coworker. It’s shitty and will have bad consequences for the relationship - but that doesn’t mean…

Brutal, dude. You think maybe you’re projecting a little?

It’s not my taste either, but they’re not hacks. They’re decent musicians who write their own songs. I don’t use my own preferences as a measure of whether or not someone is talented.

The call is coming from inside the house!

Man, these guys are living the dream. They make objectively pretty good music and by lots of luck and good timing, they aligned perfectly with so many other cultural quirks - now those fuckers are millionaires! You can’t plan this stuff.

I think these sorts of criticisms have their analysis exactly backwards. It’s much less about what we might genuinely believe is appropriate for school and the misalignment with what’s available to buy in stores. I think the force of this criticism ought to be directed towards clothing retailers who are selling…

He really didn’t move on. Not in any kind of healthy or sustainable way. Don’t try to force yourself to rush this, it can’t be done.

Have a friend stop by with a milkshake halfway through!