I'm kind of on the other end of this problem- I'm happily married, about to have my second child, and most of my friends are still single, still looking for meaningful work, still living pretty much the same lifestyle that we all had in our 20s. Which is fine, if it makes you happy.

I do not understand why drinking milk from my own body or someone else's body is taboo. There's absolutely nothing gross about it.

This, exactly. My dad watches a shitload of TV. He totally talks about something he saw on Oprah or heard on NPR all the time.

if it goes down your throat you aren't angling your head correctly. It takes a while to get the angle right. Try dipping the top of your head down more. It definitely becomes less annoying when you get that part sorted out.

My dad is the worst. He literally can't listen to me share ANY detail about my life without interrupting to say, "you know what you should do..." or, "You know, that reminds me of the time blah blah blah.." where he tells some long-ass story about himself that I've probably heard 700 times.

there's a disease in my family that forces all of us to say, "You know what you should do..." If anyone dares to utter this phrase at a family gathering they are immediately shouted down.

I hate it, but do it. It does get easier, but yeah... It's not fun. It's very effective.

my son has one of these wheely-bug things. He likes to ram into the walls with it. Now it's an "outside toy".

My mom did this for years. It drove me insane, and humoring her just made things worse. She developed a sense that she was somehow entitled to these updates and that her paranoia was reasonable. The straw that broke the camel's back was this: she saw an accident on the I-84 and called me sixty times to make sure I was…

ugh. I can't believe I opened this page and your question is right at the top.

I ditched my jr. prom after about ten minutes to do E at a rave, too!

"It's tough for me to believe that a team full of men operating at the very peak of their physical level, who have trained hours a day for years to achieve their desired ends, are still somehow abjectly unable to control their emotions in the presence of a woman who won't listen to them."

ugh. I'm rolling my eyes at that MIL comment so hard.

This is totally true. Obviously there is some amount of privilege involved in being able to carry on a life outside parenting- you have to have a partner or someone in your life who supports you or you need to be able to afford childcare.

fuck that.

I have a friend who is the offspring of a beautiful Vietnamese woman and beautiful Italian man.

Me too!

I would really, really like to not be disappointed by this collection, but I'm afraid to get my hopes up.

I love Martha. She reminds me of my favorite aunt, except Martha seems much warmer and friendlier.

I'm familiar with the name from having been a ballet dancer in my youth. I like old names that have animal references in them.