Oh, age matters quite a lot to men. As in, after 30 they won’t date anyone their own age.

Oh darling I’m so sorry that happened to you. It’s not fair.

I can’t get enough hot apple cider spiked with salted caramel vodka. Mmm mmm good.

*hug*

This is not a thing in pop culture.

Hmph, I wonder what it is that separates us mere mortals from the "good women" who are able to effortlessly reform selfish, fixer-upper men?

Aunt Ivy sounds like my kinda broad.

See, I thought you were pregnant but didn’t want to say anything because ... you just never know how what someone’s going through/been through since you last saw them post on Facebook. ;) Congratulations; I hope you are feeling well.

Scandalous! Hehe this is such an old timey dad joke.

I’m sorry you had to deal with it as well. I had told myself that the next time it happens I’m going to play along and ask for directions to the closest abortion clinic but in the moment that retort escaped me. Next time!

Thanks, Stacy, you’re the sweetest. I know I do look pregnant (I think I was probably slimmer when I met you wayyyyy back when!) but damn, I wish people would stop pointing it out! Hope you guys are having a splendidly spooky Halloween. :)

It’s the worst, isn’t it.

Wow that is horrific. That person needs to be put on blast on Yelp! That must have been so uncomfortable especially when he’s right up in your face like that. :(

I know she did because she looked mortified as she apologized but fuck I’m sick of being a learning experience for clueless people.

The receptionist at my doctor’s office congratulated me today. “For what?” I asked. After a pause, she replied, “ ... you’re expecting?” “No, just fat,” I said, as I hurried out the door. Thanks, universe, for the reminder that my body is wrong. This has been happening for a decade, at least. I already felt too…

Yes, social capital does decrease with age for women and it decreases especially fast if she’s not married.

Exactly. It is very painful to realize that the second half of your (10 year. TEN YEAR! How humiliating.) relationship was just inertia, that you threw away the prettiest years of your life on someone who didn’t give enough fucks to actually take charge of his own life/story and would have begrudgingly married you if…

This is a big part of it for me, too. The man in question agreed to get married (very unenthusiastically, mind you) and I started researching venues and told my parents and had to beg him to tell his as well. I waited, and waited for him to give me the family ring he had. It never happened. I fell apart, realizing…

I went through all of this (except the cancer; please accept my warmest wishes for a healthy future. But I did go through another health issue.). Changed my mind about marriage as I got older, could feel my social standing eroding, everyone else was married, “why doesn’t anyone want to marry me?,” etc. Sadly I’m…

I could not disagree more. When a man *knows* that his girlfriend wants to get married, and does not propose, it is because *he does not want to get married* to her. Maybe “not yet,” maybe not ever. But “just propose to HIM!” totally misses the point.