I had a previous marriage and one of the things I realized when we were trying to save our (already foundering, relatively short-lived) marriage was that I just did not respect my now-ex.

I did not mean it as a lesson but as an example of how you can love someone but not like them, in that specific moment. And I apologize if I didn't make that clear in the two paragraphs following that anecdote. Fortunately I'm not married to my mother.

I had a therapist once (and this is kind of a therapy trope, but whatever) that used a "savings account" analogy. Like, you may be very upset with your partner— or maybe you just aren't getting along great, IMO a highly underrated issue— but you can withdraw some from your relationship savings. You gotta put it back,…

Which can either be a great thing or a terrible thing, depending on how a couple deals with Serious Issues.

When I was a child and I would tearfully yell "YOU DON'T LOVE MEEEE!" at my mother, she often replied, "I love you very, very much and I don't like you AT ALL right now."

I definitely think that sex— or at least sexy feelings— ARE a super important part of a marriage. Ripa: "I fundamentally believe that the more you do it, the more you do it. The less you do it, the less you do it." Valid! The way I once put it is, "It fosters goodwill [in the relationship]."

You know, from a content standpoint, I think Kim's text was both coherent and a little witty.

Does not count. Usually it's YOUR dog and they are delighted to just be hanging out with you. (Though crowds and unfamiliar places and off-leash and blah blah, it's not always perfect or fun for a dog, which is worth considering.)

*veeeeerrrrrry quietly tries to usher the emus out of the church*

I MEAN. Let's be real. Big was horrible, but seriously she should not have married Aidan, either.

Yeah, that is BRUTAL. I had the luxury of deciding to leave that job, but...I legitimately don't think I could have lasted another fall/winter that way.

i used to live in NOLA & moved up north. Last winter I had a job that required me to leave the house at 5:45 am and leave work at 4:30 pm without leaving the building (in Chicago).

Exaaaaaaaactly.

What people don't get is that someone else gets to leak and rumor-monger, and then she gets all the plausible deniability and the pleasure of behaving exhausted and above-it-all while still keeping her name in the tabs.

Maybe I just know too much about PR, but I do too.

"I have your baby in me, giraffe!"

Well, the law is the current law whether I agree with it or not, but to address one aspect of that— I worked to pass Prop B in Missouri a few years ago (commonly known as the "Puppy Mill Bill") and I can say that one of the obstacles to changing the status of a personal pet would be the powerful ag lobby. It's not…

Weeeeeellll, there was the one holiday party where the coworker I was going "home" with ran up on a curb and everyone believed it was because I was blowing him at the time...

Fair enough!

I am soooooo glad I am not married to you. Actually I don't think we'd even get close.