My PTSD came from childhood abuse- there was sexual abuse, but also a lot of violence. My reactions aren’t always related to the sexual abuse part, sometimes it is just feeling a temporary lack of control. I would avoid orgasm for a long time because I feared the loss of control, that vulnerability. You won’t have…

I’m in therapy for my PTSD and my super awesome therapist recommends doing strictly cuddling, basically any non-sexual touch until that feels natural and nice. Then move the goalpost a bit and see how that goes. There were some times that we tried to go a bit further and I would freeze up and freak out, but that was…

Sewing is great! I’m pretty proficient, but I normally use those skills for alterations and mending. There’s a nice button down shirt pattern by Collette I’m slowly working on for my husband: https://www.colettepatterns.com/sewing/mens

I have pretty much the same story. In my early 20’s I took a Krav Maga class in secret and the next time my dad went to beat on my mom, I broke his nose. His face at that moment is the face I remember him for now. My mom never left him. He still beats her and she keeps praying that if she’s a good enough wife jesus…

My 4 year old son will take 5.

:( This is why I mostly buy from Goodwill. So fucking sad and awful.

I know those feels.

We went back to strictly making out for awhile. When you know sex is coming, inevitable, because you’re married it can feel totally unsexy and anxiety-producing.

I have recently been there. We also have small kids. It’s so stressful. There’s no romance at all. It feels like work and poop and exhaustion all the time. I asked for a divorce, he agreed, and we planned our kindest possible exits. Then we didn’t divorce.

I wish there was a way to reverse this and send all the shitty bras I bought from them over the years back to them and get every penny I spent.

It was the best meal of my life, I inhaled it. I think it helped that I still had had that post-birth euphoria going on, too. High on hormones and animal style double doubles.

After my unmedicated, uncomplicated vaginal birth I went home after 8 hours. Well, not quite home. I went to In N Out first. Labor makes you HUNGRY.

I was 6 months pregnant with this dude’s child. Let’s start there.

It’s probably hiding in my vagina. I’ll have to investigate more thoroughly.

I think I might be luckiest girl to ever get knocked up in college- I married one of my customers (I worked at Starbucks) and we had another baby, then he got a sweet tech job, and now we’re comfortable and living in the Bay Area. I have a fairy godmother somewhere.

... their belly button lint.

I work with elementary schoolers, and they are awesome. 8 year olds debate gay marriage in the lunchroom. My 8 and 9 year olds raised money to fund clean water for our neighbors in the East Bay and to support the Malala Fund. The kids I work with give me hope- they are more progressive and less racist than even their…

I love the movies, but the books made it much more clear that this was America, this was the South, this was about US.

Gave me goosebumps, made me cry.

Basically the same thing happened to me. Pregnant at 21, totally fucked up family, knew I wanted to raise the baby. I went to the CPC hoping for referrals to services and maybe some diapers or something. Once they knew I wasn’t planning on an abortion they sent me on my way with a pamphlet on how birth control will…