My parents were both educated professionals (my dad was a public defender and my mom was a social worker for the county) and when I was young we lived next door to my maternal grandmother. Not only did she take care of me while my parents were working, she put all the money they paid her for childcare into a college…

Oh my god, me too.

Oh Christ. I remember watching his show once in a dentist’s waiting room in Georgia. It was awful. There was a mother and an adult daughter, and the daughter had been molested by her father as a child, and was angry at the mother for not getting her out of the situation. The mother was talking about how the father was…

There aren’t enough hours in the day to work your way through school anymore. Tuition costs have risen enormously, and wages have not.

When I was 4, I bit a boy named Chad on the head because he was sitting at the top of the slide, refusing to slide down so no one behind him could have a turn. I also punched a boy in the stomach in 5th grade because he made fun of me for being a Girl Scout.

My bean loves the Jumperoo, and since I’m a single parent and the dog is terrible at childcare, it’s the only way I can get anything done around the house. Jumparoo to the rescue!

BIGLY! BIGLY amounts of amphetamines!

I’m a single mom and my ex has never even met his daughter. It’s kind of a shitty situation...but I’ll take this situation over LIVING WITH SOMEONE who refuses to help. .

The original Ghostbusters certainly wasn’t a cinematic masterpiece. Don’t get me wrong, it was funny and fun and I love it, but...that’s the kind of movie it was. Funny and fun and enjoyable. And it sounds like that’s what the reboot is like, too, so...mission accomplished!

Ugh. I fled Georgia when I was 14 weeks pregnant. I would have DIED being in that heat in my third trimester. I moved back home to northern MN, and gave birth in April. Not bad.

I probably wouldn’t be able to spell it correctly without looking it up. And I have an MA in Literature and am a really good speller. And I’m 32 years old.

All I can say about that is FUCKKKKK.

I was bulimic for 12 years. Puking food out my nose happened more than a few times. And motherFUCK, it HURT.

Thank you. Truly. I’m due in less than 3 weeks and I make a point of seeking out information like this because I want to be prepared.

When I was about 7-8ish months pregnant, in the dry freezing cold of a Northern MN winter, I started getting these horrible violent spurting arterial nosebleeds. They were awful, but that’s not the worst part of it. I would pack my nose with toilet paper to avoid looking like a horror movie extra and go about my…

It can be. My dude has PTSD related to combat (Iraq) and he can get pretty belligerent/combative when he’s having a rough time. I can see something like this happening with him, especially if a bunch of people he didn’t know were trying to touch him. That tends to make things a lot worse if he’s already triggered.

I’m having a baby in less than a month, and I still don’t know what I’m going to do about her last name. My middle name is my mom’s maiden name, and my last name is my dad’s last name, and I’d like my daughter to have both those names, but I want to give her a “regular” middle name too, and I don’t want her full name…

My high school history teacher had a second job as a bartender on the weekends. He probably made more money doing that than he did teaching, although I have no way to know for sure.

Thank you!

This is much more on the “mentally unhealthy” side of the coin than the “scumbag racist” side, but I tried to enlist in 2007, when they really just needed warm bodies to churn through. At the time, I was a high-functioning but seriously addicted alcoholic with severe depression. I was really good at faking “being…