I’ve had several friends, where them and their spouse both wanted a divorce but were too poor to get one.  My husband helped one friend pay for his divorce.  Divorce isn’t something most couples take lightly.  

Married people get STD’s all the time.  Happened to a family friend.  Her spouse was an alcoholic and a drunk.  Gave his wife an STD while she was pregnant with his child.  Fuck these horrible people.

I think some of this is due to his grandparent’s influence on his life. They had a very abusive marriage - grandpa was a drunk, grandma tried to light him on fire, and JD Vance’s mom had to witness all of that (which probably contributed to his mom having all sorts of issues). Grandma probably couldn’t leave her drunk…

I got married in 2007, in a small Midwest city, so having anything super fancy wasn’t a thing. My parents did spend a bit of money - but they were also insistent on an open bar, with top shelf booze. Most of the guests were my family, and my parent’s employees / friends. My husband only had 9 guests - his family is…

Yup. As much as I’d love to see Kamala as POTUS, I don’t see her winning against Trump or DeSantis. I think Sec. Pete Buttigieg would have a good chance of winning - he’s white, male, and Midwest enough.

Biden won in 2020, because he wasn’t Trump, and he was old / white / male / moderate enough to get just enough Independent and never-Trump voters, to vote for him. He wasn’t my first or even 5th choice in the primaries, but hell of a lot better than 4 more years of Trump. I don’t think Biden has been awful, but he…

My awesome OB/GYN in Georgia left to practice in New York after Trump won.  She saw the writing on the wall for many states in the South.  It sucks, because I have yet to find an OB/GYN that specializes in my particular issue.  There are plenty of other OB/GYN’s in metro Atlanta where I reside, but in rural Georgia,…

They already have!  I had a great OB-GYN, who specialized in my unique vagina problems, in metro Atlanta.  I’d drive over an hour, in Atlanta traffic, just to go to her practice.  She couldn’t deal with Georgia’s laws, or the writing on the wall as she saw it, and moved to New York a few years ago.  I’ve been on the…

I was never a fan of the cropped versions, especially when worn with boots.  However, I still own a few pairs of full length gaucho, stretch pants from the mid 2000s.  I loved them, mostly for comfort reasons, and they looked a bit dressier compared to yoga pants.

Yup. Sadly, these hearings won’t change the minds of people who really should be watching them. They’re not watching, and if they do, they’ll find the mental gymnastics to say it’s a deep fake, or some other conspiracy. The Daily Show recently sent Jordan Klepper to a Trump rally in Mississippi and showed Trump…

Georgia was definitely a pretty red state when I moved there in 2008. Like many young professionals, I was seeking work in the blue dot known as Atlanta. Even some of the metro Atlanta suburbs have changed from red to purple to now blue, since I’ve been here. I don’t see myself moving anytime soon, although I do have…

I can see why flight attendants would be overjoyed about this. The abuse many have had to endure by enforcing mask wearing, is so awful. I’m certain PPE Nazi wasn’t in the job description initially. Given the nature of my job - medical device manufacturing - I’ve pretty much been going into work, wearing masks, for…

Sort of. There was an opponent in the primary. He was a doctor, definitely Republican and a Trump supporter, but sadly, not crazy enough to beat MTG in the primary. At least he seemed sane, compared to MTG. For the November election, she was unopposed. But a Democrat has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning in that…

I started to notice the perversion of patriotism by the Right, after 9/11. I had never thought THAT much about patriotism until I started seeing the Right decked out in American flag garb and ‘Support Our Troops’ bumper stickers. It seemed like a weird way to be “patriotic” by sending Americans off to a feckless war…

Growing up in northern Indiana, DST wasn’t observed.  I had no idea about it until I left the state, and my employer wondered why I can in an hour early for my shift that Fall.  Eventually, Indiana did change over to DST as it was confusing being the one state in the area that didn’t observe it.  Being close to the…

Exactly.  There are already studies out there showing how damaging porn can be, since most of it isn’t how sex really is.  I remember feeling broken because I couldn’t orgasm from penetration alone, and getting cum on your face isn’t pleasurable. 

Exactly! I wish I could find the article - but I think it was one published by USA Today last year. It was very informative. In reality there are very few transgender high school athlete. There is one example of a transgender track runner in Connecticut, who did beat a few girls but still ultimately ended up losing at…

I’ve been waiting a decade for this.  I’m now 40.  If anything does happen, I’ll then be post-menopause.  Unfortunately for me, hormonal birth control has caused some unwanted side effects that may be long lasting.  And because of this side effect, I can’t get the copper IUD.  Well, I could, but I’d need to be put…

I don’t like the idea of disabled people losing their bodily autonomy but there are many flavors and varieties of being disabled. In the link below, NPR had a great story about the sexual assault and abuse many disabled people encounter. It’s worse for people with intellectual disabilities who may not have the…

And it’s not like that shit didn’t happen all of the time in marriages, that women were forced to stay in, due to laws and not having the means to support themselves.  Men have been cheating on their wives forever.