My five year old son once informed my husband and I that he hears us cuddle through his bedroom wall. When I asked what he meant, he became extremely embarrassed and changed the subject. Having our own horrific memories of parental sexy time, we knew changing the subject would not erase the memory burned into our…

As many times as I read it, the statement still says "Those niggers don't have any money. We do, and we won't spend it on you anymore."

Some people are just not emotionally mature enough to deal with hard life-changes. They see something as momentous as a birth as a huge shift in their existence, and they reach out in extraordinarily stupid ways.

I had a HUGE smile on my face the entire way through this video. How wonderful that they have so many friends and family members that are so so happy for them :) This is ADORABLE.

I also love how people just repeat "KATS PREGNANT!" without even thinking about it first.

This made me warm and fuzzy.

This couple has a ton of friends! And now I am sad.

Not using it with your pals and using it to be honest with yourself are two diff things. I literally gave my therapist the same excuse and he told me this metaphor, which is useful, and also just proves that I have the right therapist:

I agree 100% with all of what you said and I'm so sad there are so many of us sisters in this thread. Re: abuse/not abuse....I just have a hard time characterizing my mom's behavior that way just because two dear friends have mothers who are so much worse. I know bad behaviour doesn't need to meet an objective…

A therapist would help you. Probably, your mother would get pissed about any changes you might want to make, but this is about YOU. If you ever want to have a better relationships, or come to terms with what you have, I'd say seeing a therapist isn't a bad idea. It's not just "annoying." It's a big part of how you…

The bad news: I just spent the last 6 hours reviewing literature for my thesis.

So. I am here to give an update about what happened last week when I fled from my emotionally abusive boyfriend. I've been posting about trying to get out of this relationship for a while but had been very very stuck do to being very very poor and very alone in a new city and not being able to afford a place of my own…

Reminds me of the book "Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch. On his website, in words written for children to understand, he explains where it came from:

Hands up: who skipped the video and went right to the comments?

Moreover, Conflict Kitchen's (largely conservative) pro-Israel critics are still propagating the frankly insane notion that the restaurant has some responsibility to include the perspective of both sides of the conflict.

I should also point out something I meant to mention, but neglected to do so, in my first responses to you and others. My brother was elected 'president' of his recovery house within less than two months of being out/moving in. He's now at risk of going back to prison because of lapsed child support payments (a…

Many prisons are for-profit companies. They make more money by having more people in them. While we have allot of violent crime it's not enough to fill all the prisons and as such make a bunch of rich prison owners more rich. You need to think of the prison owner who would be less rich if we keep not putting…

Thanks for calling back to my post. Just reiterating (and maybe this would be better replaying to someone else, who knows how people deal with Kinja) - I'd love to see something that isn't prison that works, but I don't know what that would be. We could start with something less rigid and then, I'm certain, it would…

This is gonna be long, so leaves me gray if you'd like … and I almost don't want to bring this up because I know it's anecdotal, but my brother did a total of about 18 months for nonviolent offenses that were related to drugs. When he got out the first time he relapsed quickly and was picked back up for a theft charge…

Erm, lots of people have commented on how the focus should be on keeping non-violent people out of prison and giving them the community service option. But I want to point out that non-violent offenders (especially those who commit property crimes or are repeat offenders) cause a lot of damage to society. It's not all…

Halloween, senior year of college. My friends and I went as a merry band of troubadours or something like that and won Best Group Costume (my other friend, in spectacular full drag as Mae West, won Best Costume). For some reason, I was semi-sober when I got home, was still dressed in my room when two carloads of…

Oh god