I´m guessing that lunchcoma is referring to the kind of people who meet exclusively online and remain that way for the entirety of their relationship, claiming to 'have a boyfriend/girlfriend' that they´ve never set eyes on. Your situation is decidedly different in that you knew your lady quite well before making the…

I have honestly considered some form of sex work from time to time - particularly when I´ve had a bit of bad luck in the funds and my student loan payments come speeding toward me. Le double sigh.

Oh. Hmm. I guess I have that wrong. I thought that viral infections stayed within the cells of your body and thus couldn´t be eliminated by the immune system´s usual work, but I did a little research and apparently that is a special kind of virus (retroviruses), which we know by big scary names like HIV or HSV-1 and…

YES, to everything you said. I also struggle with the fact that I second-guess myself when people act like douchebags or treat me badly. It also takes time for me to process when someone has said/done something that is truly hurtful, so I end up venting to my husband instead of addressing the situation with the person…

Omgiod, I did not know this existed. I LOVE her. She´s hilarious and a classically trained soprano. Awesome. Thanks for sharing!

I actually liked it. I assume that she did the accent for storytelling purposes: her 'character ' was a British girl who comes to the US and is only here for the summer, but meets a guy, etc. Summer Fling. I didn´t think it was done in an obnoxious or silly way, e.g. Madonna´s strange inflections over the years. I…

Wow. Big words with no provocation. Yes, he is a firefighter, and yes, he could at some point risk his life to save others. But he might live in a rural community which doesn´t see many fires or accidents per annum, in which case being a firefighter would be a generally boring, routine sort of job. Compared to what…

So you´re being misleading when you say all you care about is the guy having a house, a job and a car. This actually reflects badly on you to say this when what you mean is that you want a man of quality (compatible in whatever way you like) who ALSO has a car, house and job. To say only the first part is to imply…

That was my situation as well - 9 years together, met another man within a year, married 6 months later. I know it seems odd, but I happened to have several things to help me through the transition. First, as someone else said, it was a bad relationship at the end, prolonged because I was young and had put so much…

I still own books because the ebook format is far from perfect or even good. Many of my favorites aren´t available on the Kindle, and the few occassions when I´ve had to repurchase a book I already own in e-format because I want to read it again, the thing was full of typos and other mistakes (missing words). I…

Because Outback refers to the Australian Outback. They´re supposed to be Australian, but it´s an American restaurant chain, so they can´t change the word ´yams´ or some people might not know what they´re talking about.

Well, technically you will have it forever and ever. It is a virus, not a bacterium, and so it stays in the body long past its virulent stage. But only 1 in 10 women develops problems with HPV - that´s the part that no one would tell me when I was diagnosed. I had a shitty doctor who wouldn´t even tell me the level of…