I think the saddest part is how the "church" brainwashed their kids against Nicole. That's just downright evil.

This thread is basically going to be a panty pile.

I wanted to love these books, but I just couldn't get into the series when I read it a few (six?) years back. I think I liked the first one and then got crazy bored with the second and third. Is the show fun even if I felt that way about the source material?

this is perhaps the best summary of the books I have read yet.

I don't know where it was so advertised, but the books are what they are. You're free to tell Diana G that you've a problem with her fixation on rapes of all kinds (it may end after the first two books for a while, but it comes back in later volumes; best to presume pretty much everyone gets raped or almost and…

For a show advertised as the "feminist Game of Thrones" it sure was rapey. For an otherwise fantastic show, that disappointed me.

Both of my pregnancies were very rough. I never had thoughts of harming my children...I had horrible paranoid delusions that someone else was going to. I cannot put into words the horrific nightmares and thoughts that I suffered from. I'm certain a lot of this came from my living three blocks from Andrea Yates' house…

Thanks for sharing. I wish and hope that more women will. My dear friend killed herself while in the grip of post-partum psychosis, even though she was on the verge of getting help (had an appointment the next day). I was really proud of her husband for never sugar-coating what happened to her: she had a disease and…

They should have told me I was going to get postpartum depression. They should have told me I would be hospitalized for it and suicidal thoughts. They should have told me I would need to leave my career so I could continue an intensive outpatient program. They should has told me I would spend months trying to find a…

And she must tweet with the hashtag #soblessed a lot. I want to punch her in the face.

I think people who haven't done anything else think this way. It IS a fulfilling relationship. It's not the ONLY fulfilling thing one can do and it for sure isn't the be all and end all of existence. It doesn't make or break your life.

Folks with kids aren't all insufferable. Most of us respect whatever path people choose to take. The ones that don't (moms or childfree or otherwise) can fucking suck it.

hahaha I love how fucking practical you are. YOU should write a "no one warned me about the laundry" essay that we can all share on Facebook with the caption "so many tears!" and "so true!" and "she gets it!"

I had bad PPD when I had my second son. I use to fantasize about pushing his stroller into the traffic and then running in front of a bus. Women like her made me feel worse about myself.

Right, bc no one tells you how much you're going to love your baby. Oh wait, every freaking person tells you that from the time you are four about how awesome being a mommy is. Not exactly a newsflash.

You know, I try really hard to avoid getting offended by others writing about their experience. But FFS, women are already given way too much shit for admitting that they are not perfect moms all of the time. With both my children, I struggled through difficult pregnancies, fell instantly in love when I met them (and…

It's ok, In 2 years, she'll have a Mommy blog about her snowflake child who can't process the complex sugars in refined carbohydrates and is allergic to the colour red.

I'll tell you what nobody warned me about: All the goddamned laundry. We went from doing laundry maybe twice a week to doing it three or four times A DAY. (Granted, we had twins, but still.) Even having lived through it, I still do not understand how they generate so much laundry.

This woman is the type of mother that makes me hate mothers.