Or even more 'fun' is having a family member tell you that you must be lying, because she is far more attractive than you and it never happened to her.
Yes, rationalizing it away in some weird, sick, competitive way.

Only a moron would consider threatening someone with a deadly allergy with exposure to it a joke. My sympathies.
Faced with a similar situation towards a loved one, I informed the powers that be that a good lawyer would have no problem convincing a judge that it was tantamount to pointing a loaded gun at someone and…

The power of denial in the face of cognitive dissonance is amazing. Only bad people do X, I know I'm not a bad person, therefore I didn't do X.

Sadly, he will also probably manage to convince his next wife of the same. The pattern is pretty standard: 1) convince next girlfriend that he might've had *some* anger issues, but they were the result of years of abuse heaped on him by Nigella, 2) tell her that he is "a different man when he is with her" because she…

Dammit. I usually hate Hoffman. But the fact that he suddenly understood how many interesting, intelligent, witty women he missed out on meeting because their outsides didn't match conventional beauty standards? Well, at least he's not to shallow to get it.

This! What's with the sudden inability on Jez to understand the difference between relative numbers and hard numbers?

It took me years to find a doctor who understood my weird laundry-list of issues was real, not either a) hypochondria or b) drug-seeking behavior. She trusts me because she's written me "10 day scrips" that last me anywhere from 10 days to 6 months, depending on what is flaring. That and the fact that I keep trying…