It’s been said that “Minnesota Nice” is really “Minnesota Passive-Aggressive.”

Great. My eight-month-old puppy is a lab/beagle mix. Who loves food. Now I know what I have to look forward to...

I got my first job when I was seventeen and my mother said “OK, now you can pay rent since you’re working. $15.00 per week.” She raised the rent accordingly depending on how much money I made until I moved out. My friends were shocked - “Your MOM makes you pay rent?!?” But I thought it was completely fair and a really…

My cousin and I spent most of my grandmother’s wake drinking margaritas in the Mexican restaurant next to the funeral home. My aunt was really mad, but I’m pretty sure my grandmother would have approved.

I pawned mine for a whopping $100.00. Yippee.

My pets are all the children I may ever have after nearly eight years of struggling with infertility. They’re all I’ve got. In a world full of parents happily enjoying what I may never have, they’re all I’ve got. And yet you remind me - “It’s not the same thing.” No, really? Believe me, I know it. I deal with it every…

Only child here. Went on many vacations just me and my parents. I always had a great time. So no, it doesn’t fucking suck.

I changed my name 15 years ago when I got married, and changing it back after the divorce has been a pain in the you-know-where that I’m almost sorry I didn’t just keep his name. (But I didn’t like it, and there were no kids involved, so I didn’t have a reason to keep it other than to avoid paperwork) If I get married…

Also, take into account the fact that life often does not happen the way you plan! I wanted to have my first kid before I turned thirty and my second shortly after, so after much discussion, planning, and saving, my husband and I decided to start trying to conceive when I was twenty-eight years and seven months old.…

My boy cat was very responsive if he ever heard me get upset, he would run right to me, climb on my lap and stick his nose in my face as if to say “what’s wrong, human? Can I help? What can I do?” He wasn’t very brave, but I think that was his way of being protective, because he never responded that way to anyone…

(They won’t let me star this comment more than once, dammit.)

Try telling that to anyone who’s gone through a failed adoption. It isn’t 100%.

My cat wakes me up in the middle of the night meow-crying-yowling - when she was younger it was only occasionally, now that she’s older it’s at least once a week. The vet thinks she has some vision issues that cause her to get disoriented in the dark, so she gets confused and cries. Usually I just call to her and she…

It’s definitely an American big city thing. My father is of primarily Irish descent but no one in the family has actually lived in Ireland since my great-great grandmother left in 1890. My mother is of Swedish and Italian descent, her mother (my grandma) was born (in the US) to Italian immigrants and didn’t even speak…

I am so sorry. Last year I lost two of mine within two months of each other - my big boy went and then his best friend (who was also the youngest kitty I had) just fell apart, and suddenly she was gone. As I type I’m holding my oldest kitty (she’s 16) and the vet just gave me the news this week that she will be…

This is why I’m #TeamDog AND #TeamCat. Because they’re both cute and awesome and adorable.

Infertility does suck. So do those dang ultrasounds.

When I went in for a fertility consult my reproductive endocrinologist kept telling me how young I was - I was thirty-one, almost 32 at the time. I’d been hearing about how fertility takes a nosedive at 30, so I thought he was nuts at first, but he said fertility doesn’t really start to decline until you’re 35 - and…

My Grandmother grew up only a block or so over from where Michelle grew up, about forty years earlier, give or take.

FWIW, I agree with you. I’ll also add that my female family doctor/gyno diagnosed me with vaginismus after one exam, before I had any idea what it was. But from this thread and from stories I’ve heard from other women, I think my doc may just be unusually awesome... Finding the right one *for you* (regardless of male…