Maybe it’s just my area, but there are several very expensive sewing camps for kids. I’m charging less than most of the camps so I can do it from home (renting space was insanely expensive) and my class size will be smaller. My only start up costs are buying a few basic Singer machines and paying $30 for a business…

I’m about to start teaching home ec out of my house to earn some money while I am in the middle of my divorce. My mom homeschooled me for several years and didn’t teach me science or math, but taught me to cook, clean, sew, etc. I am an excellent housewife with shitty basic math skills.

This essay is very timely for me, as I (don’t really) cope with my husband leaving me on Saturday. On our daughter’s birthday. I’ve been thinking about how much of myself I gave for him to stay, and how I haven’t got much back for the investment.

I accept!

See my post above. Apparently we are trapped in the same storm. I am so fucking sorry that you have to deal with this, and I hope you get your cat back asap.

Oh god, I am having the hardest week and it’s my birthday and this is the first thing that has made me laugh in awhile.

I want to hang out with those defense lawyers and become best buds.

He has a formal diagnosis and so does my brother in law and son. The autism force is strong in those ones. The difference between my husband and my brother in law is that when they were diagnosed, my husband took it as an explanation for all of his actions and asked everyone around him to adjust to his neurotype. I…

It never ceases to amaze me how people I only know by screennames have given me so much support, and how much it means to me. Thank you all so much. When it all went down I remember thinking, how many days until Saturday? You’re a lifeline.

I think as soon as he moves in and we drive away from him he’s going to get hysterical and his gaming will not be the salve for loneliness that he thinks it is. WOW never did his laundry, and he can’t have sex with it.

Did you feel totally destroyed, while also wanting the divorce? I feel like none of my feelings make any sense.

Thank you so much. I got sick almost immediately after Christmas. My daughter called a friend of mine to ask her to take me to the hospital. My daughter is 9. My friend took me, picked me up, and when I called my husband to say I was getting discharged he said he was planning on car shopping so could someone else stay…

In some ways, I can’t hold him entirely responsible because he’s autistic and his need to spend a lot of time on his preferred interest is something he struggles to control and needs to be happy. I love him very much, and he is my best friend, but he cannot be responsible for a family. It’s just way too much for him.…

I’ve been waiting all week to talk to you guys. I need you. Over holiday break I got super sick, followed by lithium poisoning, and it was a solid week in bed feeling like I was dying and dealing with crippling depression. My husband, who I’ve mentioned before plays WOW like it’s his job, couldn’t take care of me and…

She needs to kick that fucker out like yesterday.

Triple aluminum foil made me snort. It’s the joy of my morning now, thank you Kara.

Hale, you are handling this like a graceful champion. I’d like to dick punch the lot of them on your behalf. It turns out you are funny, but not for the reasons those sad MRA thinness enforcers vomited onto the internet. I look forward to reading a lot more from you.

I could watch this forever. I’m going to show my kids, too, because I swear every time we’re standing on the platform I’m physically holding them back out of irrational fear that they will do as this fellow has done.

When I was 20, I was in a really fucked up and emotionally abusive relationship with this asshole I met at a rave. He was hot, and we were both drug addicts, and I rationalized all kinds of terrible behavior from him.

I have my own family. I love them and whatever, but I would not say I know a truer happiness than say, when I got my first vibrator or tasted bone marrow for the first time. Your mom can fuck right off with that nonsense.