Yeah. Personal preference is fine. I get that you wouldn't date a dog hater. No duh. I didn't date people with dogs for the same reason. But you basically said that people who don't like dogs probably have psychopathic tendencies and are incapable of relating to other human beings. To take it a step further (which you…

A-fucking-men! I am a picky eater/texture eater/super eater and although it is gotten much better over the years, the list of foods that I will not eat is amazingly long. Most of the time I can hide this from new friends and acquaintances. Every restaurant has at least one thing I will like. But let's be frank here. I…

I have a husband who hates anything with too much "drama" in it. If there is even a semblance of emotional depth he declares his hatred for it. It isn't a dealbreaker because we share a mutual love of sci-fi, fantasy, and comics (which are a bigger deal to me), but sometimes I just have to roll my eyes when he…

Since no one else is discussing it, perhaps the guy just didn't like dogs? I am a cat person. Period. I don't like dogs. At all. My parents owned a Sheltie for ten years growing up and I never petted it because I hate the way my hands smelled afterward. In fact, I find very few redeeming qualities in dogs. It annoys…

I have three. None of which I knew were deal breakers (or hadn't even thought about) until they happened:

It's the only time I would probably ever wear a bikini. Then everyone knows why my stomach is not flat. (For the record, the main reason I do not wear bikinis because it feels like I am just wearing panties and a bra. In public.)

Well, damned if you do and damned if you don't. White writer creates a good book with a person of color and it is disappointing and sad with the added assumption that the only reason the book is famous is because the author is white. White writer whitewashes all their characters and they are condemned for not being…

They exist. They are also beginning to crop up more and more. I believe the #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement is really going to be a catalyst for this change.

My solution: Go to the bridal store (without my overly emotional mother) and try on different silhouettes to see which one looks best on my body. Turns out, the ball gown was the best. Who knew? Take two friends who are logical and honest. Do not tell the sales lady that you have absolutely no intention of buying the…

One of my friends met his now wife after she passed out in his driveway. He didn't know where she lived and she didn't have ID so he carried her inside and laid her on the couch until she woke up. She was completely shocked when she woke to find that he hadn't tried to take advantage of her, because (according to her)…

But the problem is this kind of attitude. The "I-would-parent-like-this-so-you-should-too". (or my parents parented like this and so should you) My youngest brother is autistic. He threw tantrums up until he was almost twelve, sometimes when we were in the middle of the grocery store or out and about. She had to make…

My feelings exactly. It didn't even occur to me to go on a diet. Mostly because I refuse to diet. It's not healthy physically or mentally. Be the healthiest you you can be and screw this idea that on your "perfect day" you have to be a skinnier version of yourself.

Sounds like she uses food and diet as a form of control and possibly to make herself feel good about her "efforts". My mother has been diet obsessed for as long as I can remember. All the diets worked, until she stopped being on them. None of them are sustainable. But it is a way of feeling in control over something,…

I didn't go to a funeral once because I knew my ex would be there and he was better friends with the person. Luckily, most of my exes all live in other towns & states so running into them doesn't happen very often.

I feel the same way, which is why I finish all my Christmas shopping before Halloween so that I can just spend the Holidays doing all the things I love and not the things I hate.

As a book blogger myself, this is why I never review books that I feel don't have any redeeming qualities. If it is a 1 or 2 star for me then I just leave it alone. Mostly because I understand how much it would suck for someone to say how awful your book is, but also because I don't want those authors emailing me all…

I have done that so many times with various people. I'll glance at their check, see they left like 5% or maybe 10% if they felt generous and them I make sure to give a bigger tip on mine to make up for it. Some people.

I have had the same experience. We have been married not quite two years now, and I keep wondering when we are going to get to this fables "hard" part. Perhaps it was because we were a little older when we got married? (31 & 35) Is it because he has been married before, even if it was for less than a year? Maybe it…

I am not a mom and am not surrounded by people in the mommy circles, so I am always a little miffed and confused by these various "mommy wars". I say to myself, really? This is a thing?

I was a virgin bride on my wedding night and everyone kept telling me all these horror stories, as if my virginity was 1) something to be ashamed of, 2) something that would be just terrible on my wedding night and 3) stupid. And my response now is... jeez, it wasn't that bad. At all. I had quite a nice honeymoon and…