Actually, if we're posting actors young Stalin looked like, take a gander at this guy:

RIGHT? I was just going to comment on that.

I also wonder if being/not being the child's primary caregiver is a factor. I don't know whether this guy was his son's primary caregiver, but I suspect it would be more difficult to forget a child if they're part of your routine every day, instead of just on some days.

That's what I expected, too.

I'm guessing it's the one about anal prolapse being a "thing" in the porn community.

I'm willing to bet the same people who are sympathetic here would be/were also sympathetic to that woman. I certainly am. I don't think she should have gotten in trouble for that.

That's my thought on it, too. It seems clear it was an accident—why murder and not involuntary manslaughter?

I see what you did there. And laughed really hard at it.

Right? They've aged, like, ten years in the last twenty.

LALALALA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU

Nope. A lot of people behave completely differently when they're first dating than they do after they've been together for a while, and some traits don't show themselves until you're living under the same roof.

I came here to make this EXACT comment!

To me, "timely" is, say, within a day. If you read some of my other responses, you'll see that I also assume a person is busy if they don't respond immediately. I just don't think questions should be ignored entirely, since they are generally asked for a reason.

She's done it...sort of:

THANK YOU for this comment. Your first paragraph, especially, is what I was thinking of while reading this.

This.

I think that's fair.

Thanks—so do I! It seems like common courtesy, really.

I generally assume the same, and whether or not a long silence annoys me depends on the person and his or her usual texting habits (my boyfriend, for instance, will take a pretty long time to get back to me sometimes, but he's a chemist who oversees a university lab and does time-sensitive side-projects in his own lab…

I agree with you on that—there's a reasonable limit.