You’re a college girl right? You sound like one! WHERE DO YOU LIVE

The narrative could be pretty different. My mom had a way she presented the family, and it was nothing like how she actually ran the family. And she blamed all our rebellious behavior on mental illness to cover for it. Keep that in mind.

This is a crazy thread that’s for sure. Did you know that I also have aged really well? You’re welcome.

People of all ages are skeeved at the thought of being sexually assaulted, by anyone, including Bill Cosby. I’m guessing you brought up your age to draw a comparison between how this woman looks and how you look? Why don’t you post a picture, pretty lady?

Not to mention it’s totally beside the point

Team server forever but I have to say a couple of the writers this week talk like assholes. Did anyone else feel the same or are my brain chemicals off? Specifically Annie and Jackson.

I hear you, you’re basically where I’m at. However, I’ve got things in perspective, and a lot of people don’t, since it’s so hard when it comes to moms and dads. For those people a blow up like that could have been exquisitely painful and ruined their whole wedding day. They should just uninvite, and they should feel…

What’d she do? My sis and I already have our mom at arm’s length but my sister’s wedding is coming up and mom is coming and I’m so worried...

I am at the end of this road. If they don’t get it, they gotta go, it’s a losing battle and you’re just gonna get hurt. My sister and I gave up having real relationships with anyone, family or non-family, with whom our mother has her own relationship. If she senses you developing a genuine bond or any kind of alliance…

Every mother I’ve ever known including myself independently refers to their newborns as vampires this is just so true.

Bob. BOB! She knew they were meat, she knew they were meat, she knew they were meat. Nothing in the vegetarian diet tastes or feels like meat. NOTHING. It is an alien sensation that makes your brain go “MEAT!!” or in her case “???? the fuck is this” leading to an investigation, which would lead to her examining the…

I mean it says she was in london for a couple years but it also says she completed 2 grad degrees in the UK, which I assume takes longer than 2 years? But whatevs, it also says she asks if bread and fruit salad has meat in it. My response is that she is one of those vegetarians that employs willful disbelief in order…

I don’t know this person is supposedly well off, well traveled and highly educated. You are making a point rather valiantly but I’m not sure it applies to this particular woman. But ok, let’s say she really is inexplicably sheltered in one small area of life and yet smart enough to police what her friends and…

and certainly torture.

No that guys the asshole. Even if he’d gotten free drinks the last 8 times he was in there he doesn’t get to demand them and he knows that.

No, it’s still really inexplicable. Vegetarians still exist in a world filled with meat. They are exposed to it every day and even have to handle it at times. A cheeseburger is identical to a hamburger as you know. There is no good reason for this person to have assumed it was some magical substance she had literally…

You are gleaning a lot more from the info than I did, also we have a very different take on the use of that phrase. It’s almost always been playfully condescending in my experience. In fact not almost, it has always been. If the boss said it deliberately in a manner for her to overhear it then I agree she was being a…

It’s past time to start our own police force and EMT services. I say that but I have no idea how to make it happen.

It really is time to look at it that way. I won’t call the cops until I NEED deadly force on my side. It’s like letting a wild dog off the leash.

Exactly. Like yes, we all have a responsibility to our families to be there for them... that’s why most of us don’t pursue dangerous careers. Many foreign aid workers and conflict journalists retire from that sort of work once they have kids. But you can’t sign up for a job which a) requires you to place yourself in…