Yes, my takeaway here is that people who marry younger maybe feel like they have more sunk opportunity costs, so they stay with the shitty they know. People who were older when first marrying may have more confidence they can survive on their own.

Regretsy!!!! Those were good times in the land of internet!

This is only a new thing in the sense that the original calling of shithead is actually being heeded.

I remember back when Reagan was president, my mom’s employer-provided health insurance covered abortion. I remember this because she was reading her policy and said “Oh look, I can get an abortion!” and I said “Mommy, what’s an abortion?”

“You’re the only one of the group who looks like you work in IT”

That was my first thought too “If your criticism makes them cry, maybe you are doing it wrong and that’s on you, not them.”

How about we pay taxes to fund education? And keep future generations from being crippled by student loan debt in the way we were. Basically we all gave to give up the “I got mine, Jack!” attitude and be willing to help others. Let politicians know that investing in our country’s infrastructure is important.

I hope that declaring your actual weight becomes the norm for women. I find it refreshing. I realize the best way to make this the norm is for me to start doing it, and yet I’m still socialized to feel like either I’d be humblebragging or be judged.

The fact that she sites the Talmud in her answer is enough right there to disregard.

I don’t even understand how they are supposed to stay on your feet. It made me ask “are these photographs or drawings???”

Is that the reason I found the Johnny Utah guy more believable as a emphysema patient than an extreme athlete?

Ha! Yeah, bring pictures of your happy day if you want to be seen in the dress, but don’t wear it again!!!! It amazes me what people deem acceptable behavior. Hopefully the great great grandchild got more attention!

Much, much bigger accomplishment that warranted a distinct celebration! And then having to spend the next 20 years celebrating every anniversary with the people who crashed your milestone party!!! “Happy 60th (and our 10th!)“ And seriously, I don’t think my mom paid any more than her sibling share for the 50th party…

My mother did a reverse limelight steal. She planned her wedding on my grandparents 50th anniversary. And then used their party as her reception. Her excuse was that it was the only time the whole family was going to be down. (This was her third wedding. Her second wedding, she sent me to Florida on spring break and…

In most neighborhoods with an HOA, you can’t even have more than 4 dogs. I am against animal laws that prohibit the number and type of animals that can be owned because I think many of them are created by grassroots organizing by PETA and anti-ownership AR types. There are plenty of legitimate reasons for owning more…

Seriously. There is a difference between asking forgiveness and receiving it. And, as a victim, you can intellectually forgive someone but at the emotional level still want them to die in a fire. Because healing doesn’t follow some kind of calendar. Whether you like it or not, something like molestation takes years to…

That string of lights makes me sad.

Men are always obsessing over what goes into a woman’s vagina and always amazed and squeamish by what comes out.

My mother got duped once but luckily she had no money anyway, so didn’t lose anything but her dignity. The second time someone tried (she’s a widow so in the demographic, apparently), he said that he needed money or his mother in England would die and she answered “Sometimes you just have to accept it’s a person’s…

As a person who grew up in the 80’s, the idea of not keeping an updated list (just in case the health department needed to know) strikes fear into my heart. Like seriously, I’m surprised my list doesn’t include last known address and next of kin. Have I ever needed to provide this information to any medical entity?…