Story time: When I was 11 yrs old my mother was pregnant with my youngest sibling. She was so mean, so unpredictable, so just downright EVIL those months that I started having nightmares about her and literally Praying to God that she would have my little brother so she would just stop being so scary. I even forged my…

That letter doesn't imply that the wife's temper is a temporary side effect of her pregnancy. There's nothing about, "She used to be calmer" or, "She's only been acting this way lately." It implies that that's how she is in general. If I were married to someone like that I'd ask for advice too!

I disagree. I'm black, and I've lived in France, and while the racism there is more pernicious the idea that in modern day France or England you'd find the amount of minority incarceration, and police violence against minority populations is inconceivable. I'm not painting any country as a utopia, but the physical…

Proud to say I have whittled out all of the mediocre-t0-shitty "friends" over the last 2 years. I also dumped shitty abusive relatives. Very very very hard work. Painful, seriously, but so worth it. My self-esteem, self-awareness, and boundaries are at an all time high and I have almost no fear of anything.

Thank you! There are a lot of answers online but a lot of bullshit too! That added a lot to my stress, Googling everything I felt. In my case, I thought I wasn't far enough along to get a positive test. It's terrible to not be taken seriously. I'm glad there was a resolution for you too.

How'd you overcome it?

When I was younger, I once had a dog that had a false pregnancy. Her milk came in and she had this little plush frog that she thought was her baby. She would hide in closets with it to protect it and try and nurse it. If you took it away, she became extremely agitated and upset. The vet was extremely sympathetic and…

You get it. I had a boyfriend many years ago, who farted around me. He was sent packing long ago. That alone made him so much less attractive to me. An old person may not be able to help it. A young person doing it on purpose is basically saying, "Here, smell my asshole". Fucking nasty.

Well, there you go. You have manners.

Whoops. Too late to edit, but I hope RUBY gets the help she needs.

This is just my opinion but I find the publication of this essay to be a bit premature. You really ought to have waited until she had passed 10 months or even a year, and continued to speak with her and present the way she dealt with the eventual non-birth of the non-baby. The way it's written, this essay seems…

I've heard of what you're talking about, but W. Goldberg does this all the time (my mom watches the show), & it's in purpose. You're old & decrepit? Shit your pants all you want, you can't help it. My ire is directed at people who've done this shit their whole lives, and think it's funny. It's not. It's repulsive.

I feel for Ruby. Something similar to this happened to me earlier this year, not to this extent but I had so many symptoms, I was SURE I was pregnant. When I described how I felt to my OB, even she was like, yeah sounds like you're pregnant. But tests were done and I went to 3 more doctors and we found out that I just…

The problem is that the way in which she "gets really, really into her research" is apparently to stick to the dark corners of the internet full of hypochondriacs who don't trust mainstream medical science. It's an echo chamber where otherwise normal people can end up anti-GMO, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists.

She DOES fart willy nilly on the air, and I give zero fucks about natural. It's natural for everyone to fart, piss & shit. You don't have to do it around other people. It's natural for humans to piss & shit themselves, too- but, we train babies not to do that. The proper place is the toilet, not the living room floor.…

I hate people that do this kind of thing. If I was at that table, I'd want to immediately locate her purse, & take a hot, wet shit in it. I always think that people who think this is okay are also probably hygiene- challenged in other ways, as in they'll totally make you a sandwich without washing their hands, cuz…

Your Nobel Prize comes with a custom watercolor?

Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if teens idolized girls like her instead of Miley Cyrus or Kylie Jenner?

I was young and in a lot of pain, and I worked hard to overcome it, and I didn't beat anyone along the way.