I'm a cis female in a relationship with a cis man. I'm mostly straight and 99% monogamous, though if Mr. Brotherjo were open to inviting a Very Special Guest Star to come over every once in a great while I would not be upset. I know he's not into the idea, and I would rather be with him for the vague indefinite future…

I don't have insurance and I can't get insurance because I'm too poor and my state won't expand Medicaid. Lucky me!

My birth control currently costs $4/month because I'm enrolled in an indigent care program through my local university (which I also attend and work for). HOWEVER, I have two refills left and I have been…

There's a movement here to allow open-carrying on my large, urban campus set inside one of the poorest neighborhoods in the metro area. Muggings of the primarily white, mostly upper-middle-class students by the primarily black, mostly low-income locals are rampant, and tensions between the two communities are always…

We keep each other happy. We negotiate and compromise and look at each other sideways and sometimes tell each other to shut up but ultimately, we keep each other happy. It's a nice change.

So far, everything does just work. Every decision we make together from small (getting pizza tonight) to large (yes, we should live together) has been *so easy*. Like we talked about shacking up casually for a couple months, but then when we decided to go for it, it took 3 minutes while he was shaving and I was…

You really need to stop telling complete strangers to "get over it" based on 0 information, context, or background.

I decided on my second date with my feller that we would get married. We haven't talked about it yet, mostly because he is still technically married to someone else (divorce takes forever when one party is a complete flake with no sense of personal responsibility!), but we did just move in together and there is a…

A friend of mine from college turned down a proposal because she didn't like the ring. She stuck with the guy and they did ultimately get married 5ish years later.

You may be surprised to learn I don't owe you anything, up to and including an in-depth discussion of an event that happened 10 years ago that is still deeply painful.

...Naw.

There's a whole lot more, but that was when I realized we were never going to be friends, even in adulthood. She has banned me from her home (and I have done the same to her, in response). The only time I've been allowed back since then was when she was forced to invite me to her baby shower because our mother refused…

No I'm pretty sure when one has two siblings, and one is involved in the wedding and the other is pointedly left out in order to include an acquaintance from law school, that's a major faux pas. I mean, she was really, really clear about why she wouldn't put me in her wedding. And it was definitely a move intended to…

I dearly want to send something like this to the sister I'm estranged from when I get married. I mean, she's 99% of the reason I want a courthouse wedding with no bridal party. (Short version: our other sister was her matron of honor, I was cut out of her bridal party completely.) I guess she can come to the reception…

This is a very timely post for me. My partner of 7 months and I just decided to move in together (we are 30 and 33; partner is divorced, I've never been married). We had been talking about it very casually for a couple months, and meanwhile I was staying at his place for longer and longer stretches (one night, then…

Baby names I have heard recently (three from family members, sigh):

-Stormy Joy
-Jane Meadow
-Haley Summer
-Sunny Wolfe [Wolfe being a family name, slightly misspelled to maintain privacy]

In the unlikely event I spawn, they're going to have names like Evan and Rachel.

I believe the fork story, or at least I believe something like that is possible. I used to volunteer at a free clinic and one of the patients wasn't really into the whole bathing and clothes-washing thing. They smelled so bad I had to fight the urge to vomit every time I took their blood pressure, and they had to…

Counting backwards from current: 7 months, 3 months, 2 months, 1 month, 10 months, 3 months, 4 months*, 21 months, 1 month, 12 months**, 3 months, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months.

Me, to Mr. Brotherjo: Suge Knight killed a guy.
Him: He killed a bunch of guys.
Me: No, I mean today.
Him: Oh.

The last time I was a bridesmaid, our only directions for dresses were "purple, knee-length, not too slutty." We all ended up with dresses that were different shades of purple, with different necks and hemlines, and they all looked fab. I was skeptical at first but it worked out great.

If there is any kind of merciful higher power in this universe I will stay with Mr. Brotherjo (who got my attention with a single sentence that referenced my three favorite things [The Simpsons, Doctor Who, and tacos]) forever and ever and I will never have to date ever again.