First of all, a nice reminder that this is not your mother and therefore not your problem to deal with.

One more vote for setting boundaries. My mother went through a monstrous period after she and my father divorced. I had to set hard limits with her or have panic attacks every time she called. I told her that I was/am not an unpaid therapist, and TBH, I endured an entire childhood of bickering and blaming. I’m sure as…

Holidays this year are...tense. my dad has always had on and off problems with drinking. Apparently sometime during the winter last year, he started again. And it took my mom almost a year to figure it out. In the meantime he took money from people for jobs(he is self employed), and only did some of the work, using…

Mother-in-law vent! About two years ago, my MIL threw my husband and I out of her house during some family gathering. During the fight, she admitted to feeling inadequate compared to my family, who all have master’s or more advanced degrees. She’s an admin assistant for a sheriff’s office in a county that is larger…

I’m not having the best time mentally - the holidays always bring it about, combined this time around with Mr. Duck being between jobs for the second time this year - and I’m resisting making Major Life Decisions until I’m a little healthier in the brain. (For instance, I am both seriously considering working on…

So, thanksgiving with my conservative relatives (lol). I identify as liberal and some truly frightening things were mentioned. (TW)

Check out Tom Cotton’s tweet: “I applaud the administration’s efforts to fix our broken asylum system. Individuals with valid asylum claims should apply in their home countries or a safe third country, not by showing up at our border.”

Remember when Jada Pinkett Smith put on 40 lbs because of Vicki Gunvalson

Has anything happened in this woman’s life that she doesn’t have a highly dramatic story about?

I am really not sensitive to paranormal stuff (thankfully), but one of the very few times I’ve experienced something odd was, uh, seeing someone shapeshift into a bush.

Right? I mean, at least ask for infinite wealth. Might as well do it right.

My first job out of college, I was the receptionist. They had to fire someone who particularly hated me (she saw me as taking her job, although I’d had nothing to do with her losing hers). She had a son who was unstable and on drugs and my boss was nervous enough about the threat of violence that he started keeping…

This is kind of scary, but the scariest part of this story is how awful my taste in men was/is.

I’ve taken pizza orders for nearly two decades now. I work for a terrific company that gives health bennies for part timers (since the majority of the employees are working while going to school or this is a side job) and has 401K matching and accrued PTO that you can roll over. Between me and my husband we make…

Hopefully, this attempted shaming backfires and gets him allll the acting gigs. I’ve been looking for work for 18 months and I’d be thrilled with a job at Trader Joes.

You forgot to also include the judge’s reason for his ruling.

His on-camera pleas were cold and stilted, the kind of performance that screamed amateur hour in a world where true crime has convinced all of us that we’re professional body language experts.

The other murder that’s taking over the headlines this week is Mollie Tibbetts. In Mollie’s case, politicians are coming out of the woodwork to decry illegal border crossings and sign on to new legislation supposedly designed to protect women from violence. I have yet to see any politician come out with a strong…

Shanann Watts’ body was found on the property of Anadarko Petroleum, authorities said. And the girls’ bodies were in an “oil well filled with crude oil for several days,” Chris Watts’ attorneys indicated in a court filing.

Lazy. The rules of probate are pretty set in stone. The thing to do is have several wills all with the same date but leaving stuff to different people in the differing wills. They’ll fight that shit for years.