If you just relax your eyes, you can see a sailboat.

Yes a pregnant woman with mental health issues deserves help. Not mockery.

Well, there was deciding to risk it a second time in order to have another child...

I had to quit all the mommy sites because I did it wrong.

Beastly? Child, please. You need to move that over to your "negotiable" column. Ferberized both of mine, and they're perfectly awesome kids that sleep 10 hours in their own beds.

any future offspring may well get my last name to prove I can.

Yes! This one pisses me off no end. I was born with my surname; so was my father. So how come it's his name for him, but for me it's somehow still 'his' name?

Ultimately, the act of naming a child after yourself as a woman is an act of preserving your own name. But that name is probably your father's name.

Or she's decided to not have sex and post this online because he's the kind of asshat to passive aggressively make a list of her excuses & email it to her as she's leaving for a trip.

Or maybe his approach is all wrong. How many times do you have to hear "I'm sweaty and feel gross" to realize after gym sex is not her thing?

The idea that she would need to apologize for not wanting to have sex is flooring me.

I know from the sound of this guy I wouldn't want to fuck him either.

Or, as she says in the post, she's working a lot and very tired. And "I'm exhausted," "You're too drunk", and "I'm a little tender from yesterday" are damn valid excuses. The type of person who passive-aggressively makes excel charts and flings it in someone's face before they go on a business trip is probably not the…

Or maybe her husband is a jerk and she doesn't want to have sex with him when he's acting like an asshole.

Semi-related: I describe my kid as "like the raptors in Jurassic Park" — he's studying and finding weaknesses to exploit. He could open child-proof bottles before he was one. Those plastic covers for plugs? He just pulls them out. We have these chord loop doohickeys that wrap around two knobs and you tighten it down…

I KNOOOOOOOW. I have such a love-hate relationship with spiders in my house. There is now basically a gentleman's agreement that as long as they stay up in the corners we have a live and let live situation. Once they start moving down below the Mason-Dixon line I feel like that is an act of Aggression, and any…

I did read the original story. I also never said that she was abandoned. Yes, she may have been "welcome" to sit at a table in McDonalds, but I've got to imagine that there are certain things that you can do at home (take a nap, sing at the top of your lungs, run around) that her mom's boss wouldn't have been happy…

And there's so much flexibility in parenting styles and different boundaries that what works, works as long as they're consistent, and the kids'll turn out to be decent, polite human beings. What works for my kid might not work for yours and vice versa, but that's okay.

Thanks for including the map. For me it really helps put it in perspective. Yesterday, I was reading 1.5 miles and pictured the little girl having to walk that far along busy streets to get to her mom if need be. This map shows that it was not that situation at all.

Oh dear. A book on child development might be good reading for you, because this comment demonstrates that you have no idea what you're talking about.