Ouch! In my case:  

I TOTALLY agree and really wanted to take our pictures before the ceremony to get them out of the way.

I know, right?! Your bridesmaids love you and care so much about making you happy - but then they have all these questions about details!

Yes - I have struggled with depression and anxiety and been a fuck-up at points in my life. So my feeling on reading this was “Well of course your wife doesn’t want to go to counseling with you, her level of resentment at this point must be unbelievable. But dude - regardless of whether you can save the marriage or…

Yeah, I’m in a DC suburb and before I met my husband, I was seriously looking at small lots and considering building a tiny home. As a middle-class person on nonprofit wages, it seemed like one of the only ways I could make the jump from renting to owning in this region (the other option - to buy a small foreclosed…

Why did she sleep in the living room? (asks the child of a hoarder who slept in the living room because she used her bed to pile stuff on)

I have lived with and without basements, all in houses about 1,000 - 1,200 sf big. Having a basement is nice, but here in the humid mid-Atlantic, it can’t really count as living space. Even with a good dehumidifier, it’s still going to have bugs and occasional floods. It’s really only good for storage and laundry,…

I grew up next to a trailer park and later lived in a singlewide myself. With trailers, you almost always have the entrance into the living room/kitchen, then you go down a hallway. First is a small bedroom or two for the kids, then a bathroom, then the master. So they are almost always designed with a bathroom in…

In my teens, I lived with my mom and sister in a singlewide trailer home, about 800sf with three tiny bedrooms. It wasn’t child abuse. We did spend a lot of time outside, and we had to be very choosy about furniture, but it was a good design (each bedroom had a full-size closet, and the bathroom somehow had enough…

I wasn’t really trying to spew statistics - I didn’t say “50% of all women have a miscarriage.” I said “Half of the moms I know...” as I related my experience. And whether my risk of miscarriage is exactly 19.2% or 53.35% doesn’t really change how much it would suck to have my whole office know that I am grieving.

Well, I’m in my late 30's, and for over a decade I have worked in a poor neighborhood at a nonprofit. So most of the moms I know are either nonprofit workers who couldn’t afford to start trying for kids until they hit their late 30's, or local residents who have physically strenuous jobs and suffer from a lot of…

You do realize that many, many pregnancies end in miscarriage? Half of the moms I know had a miscarriage at some point. Sorry, I am not telling my boss until after the first few months, because I do NOT want to have to notify them about any miscarriages. First because my boss is a blabbermouth, and second because I…

What about UniverSoul Circus?

Was your kid on the floor or on a table? If you had the baby on the floor, I wouldn’t really judge you - you weren’t causing an unsanitary situation, there was no smell since no poop, and the baby was hidden from view. If you had your baby on a seat, it’s not great (I mean, you wouldn’t really want to sit on a seat…

I’ve been drinking and eating more junk too. But I am trying to channel my sadness into something good! When I see something in the news that makes me feel helpless and awful, I give money to a cause I believe in. It has cut down on my disposable income to waste on shoes and clothes, so my husband is happier about…

Sure, some women. But I’ve been working for 20 years, and have only experienced one female boss like that (and she was fired after 6 months). All the other female managers who have been my boss or colleague have been quite supportive of other women and try to be mentors. So at least in my experience that Queen Bee…

Exactly. I thought schools nowadays were all about zero tolerance?

Exactly. I thought schools nowadays were all about zero tolerance?

Maybe beating up another kids works for boys that are being bullied, but I haven’t seen it work real well for girls. Here is what I saw during my school years:

I went to a middle school that tried to handle bullying - we had some caring teachers (certainly not all), and some class time dedicated to character education. I also had a teacher who clearly looked the other way when I finally fought back against a boy who was bullying me. But at an educational summer camp I went…