If you are avoiding abuse or intense manipulation, that is of course a different story. What most people are talking about is relatively normal relationships in which one person decides they want out but are too lazy or cowardly to let the other person know.

There are good people there now, but if you had to choose your major local problem being 1. a crack epidemic, 2. rampant crime and poverty, or 3. long lines at the Ample Hills Creamery, which is it going to be?

I mean, wear what you want in London, definitely! There will be people of all styles there, and I was much happier once I was wearing my teal sundresses and shit. For me, it was that I was, like, on the Tube in the mornings and stuff like that where I really wanted to blend in. When you’re walking around having a nice…

I mean...Dear Coquette has a pretty large and devoted following. You can not be known to every single person on the Internet and still have a beloved blog.

He’s even been in “highbrow” movies that it’s OK to admit to watching! I mean, let’s be real, my uncle totally knows him as “that guy in Titanic” because that is still how everyone thinks of DiCaprio, but even if you don’t want to admit that, say you know him from Gangs of New York or Wolf of Wall Street.

She looks really comfortable too. I agree with the OP that these outfit choices make sense for someone whose professional attire is very rigid and tight.

Awww I love that story! My ring is also not a diamond - it’s a green tourmaline, which is a stone I had never heard of before the ring-buying process. So far no one has side-eyed it to my face, but also it looks like it could probably do magic, so they might be hedging their bets!

Like VodkaRocks&aPieceofToast, I brought up the idea of marriage and asked my boyfriend if he wanted to marry me, but I also respected the fact that he wanted to actually “propose,” with a ring and stuff. However, because of Equality, I also got him an engagement pocketwatch and my original plan was to respond to his…

I feel like “planning romantic activities” and “making an effort in your relationship” are not the same thing, though. Like, a partner who doesn’t take you ice skating but does always do the dishes is still a great partner who is putting in effort, even if you might want a romantic gesture every now and then. I put…

I thought they said that was the original deal, but now they have changed it. Previously you could claim something would happen as long a a tangible object was included. Now

Hahaha, I don’t own a television, and every time it comes up (usually when people are in our house and are like, “Wait, where is your television?”) I am so quick to explain that it’s because we watch stuff on our laptops. It’s still an obnoxious distancing from “those sorts” of people, but I am so anxious that someone…

My uncle interrupted a story we were telling him about Leonardo Dicaprio to tell us that he doesn’t know who that is.

They could kiss quickly, I guess - like a peck on the lips goodbye or something. That would keep the “couple at home immersed in nonsexual daily tasks” aesthetic while making it clear that they are a couple.

Well I basically had to buy a new wardrobe anyway, because my New Orleans wardrobe blew away in the face of London’s winter. That actually did lead to me being quirky; I couldn’t afford a whole fall/winter wardrobe right away, so I did a lot of weird layering of sundresses over long-sleeved shirts or under jumpers.

Especially because the focus already is sex for same-sex couples, in the eyes of those who dislike them. No one is saying, “I hate the idea of two men sitting down to breakfast together,” or “Two women should not laugh while cooking a shared dinner!” It’s having sex (and raising children) that they object to. So it’d…

Do you think so? I am having a hard time imagining a yogurt commercial with a hetero couple naked in bed. A beer commercial maybe, but yogurt tends toward clean-cut images. I would think a hetero couple in a yogurt ad would be on the couch or at the breakfast table, fully clothed.

Oh yeah, I absolutely agree with that. I just think that the problems with teaching ESL are even more pervasive because a lot of the people who take temporary positions lack not only the knowledge of pedagogy and classroom practice, but also the knowledge of how the language actually works.

I mean, there are plenty of non-celebrity people who aren’t particularly likable. Some of them are even good, kind people; they just aren’t great at being likable.

To quote Channing Tatum:

Yeah, the weird thing about these “tests” (besides all the other weird things) is that they really have very little to do with body fat. I am definitely not super skinny, and I can do it...because I do yoga a lot. The fact that my waist is wider than it would be if I had less fat doesn’t change the fact that I am…