LOL at “stupid sausage finger!” Us kids of BPD moms have all the best stories, don’t we? I can still remember the look on my mother-in-law’s face when I started answering her questions about what my mother is like - the look of disbelief and amazement on her face!

I know that my BPD mom came from an abusive home, and never got help for herself. Kids who grew up with alcoholic or narcissist parents experienced similar things, the behaviors tend to span several conditions. I’d like to think that with our society becoming more aware of and open to discussing things like mental…

You poor sweetie! Sounds like you got split black. My mom goes back and forth about who’s the “good one” and who’s the “bad one” among myself and my siblings. She’s done a lot of crazy sh*t like tell me she had cancer (she did not- I think she enjoyed listening to me cry?), tell me that she was no longer my mother and…

That’s sad :( I’m glad they didn’t cause any shenanigans at her wedding! My mother in law and sister in law felt very sorry for me. I’m not going to lie - there are moments when I see my friends become brides, and watch their mothers and sisters throw them showers and go dress shopping with them and I still get choked…

Best part of this whole article: “He is proving this by buttoning the bottom button of his suit jacket, even though no bottom button of a suit jacket should ever be buttoned. Money can’t buy you class, Ryan. Elegance is learned.” One thousand LOLs. You would like this book http://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-…

I was staying at a hostel in El Salvador with a handful of friends, we were all sleeping in one big room. I wake up in the middle of the night because there’s a strange tickling feeling on my abdomen. As it moves towards my chest it dawns on me that there is, indeed, a live and enormous roach that has made itself at…

Aww that’s nice! Send that lady a nice card this weekend! One of my living-in-denial aunts lamented to me once that my mom is mean to her sometimes - and I was like “I cannot even have this conversation with you.”

Well, I had a great therapist for several years and worked through a lot of that stuff. I also had so many disappointing family things happen that at one point I was just like “JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL.” Haha - I am not religious, but you get my meaning. I have a great husband, my dad is cool, I get a long with my…

I think all this action caused some website issues at West Elm, but I am soon to be the proud owner of a leather passport holder - “that girl” 4 EVA!

As someone who has a BPD mom and aunts/uncles who aren’t really hip to that knowledge and don’t know how abusive she is, I have made my peace with the fact that most of them will never really know me, they’ll have a distorted view from her, and there’s nothing I can do about it. I live a life that I’m proud of, I’m…

nice to meet you “fat whore,” my name is “stupid bitch.” NO ONE would believe me about my mother either.

UGH good luck - my BPD mom self-selected out of my wedding, or “pageant” as she liked to call it. It was her way of being the most hurtful to me, but it was also a blessing. Also - I will never, never understand how her brothers and sisters seem to be totally incapable of realizing that she’s an abusive person. They…

That’s so tough. I’ve gone back and forth with not having contact with my BPD mother. She’s sort of calmed down over the years, and I live far away, so we have limited contact that I feel ok with. But the bridge to other family is hard to walk away from. My sister is a bit cut from the same cloth as mommy dearest, so…

Excellent advice, will try...

I knew things were going to be bad when several months before my wedding, my BPD mother started telling people “I don’t know why VerucaExtraSalt has to have some pageant just because she’s getting married” (our wedding was a smallish, informal affair with 75 attendees, held at a restaurant). When she, my sister, and…

I love pizza and I don’t mind grease, but I’m also honest about my limitations when it comes to eating hand-held foods without making a complete mess of myself and looking like a toddler. If the grease isn’t mopped, it’s 100% going to be on my shirt and jeans within seconds.

I’m totally going to try that recipe this year - I don’t have a pumpkin pie recipe that I love... you have spread the evil!

I make a pumpkin spice cake in a bundt pan too - it’s like a cake shaped pumpkin bread. SO good. I highly recommend making some salty caramel sauce to drizzle on top as well...

Yes! Already planning out everything I will make this year... This recipe from the guys at Baked always goes over tremendously well (I don’t bother with the ice cream)! http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/v…

Man I wish I’d had this information a few years ago when I showed up to my friend’s cookout, which had simply been described to me as an engagement party, at the 7pm “start time” and was greeted by some extremely confused Jamaican people who were like “what the f*ck are you doing at my house this early.”