When I was in seventh grade, I got cut from the girls basketball team. My Dad screamed and screamed at me, signed me up for a co-ed team, and then I made the team in the eighth grade. I played eighth and ninth grade, and then I quit basketball for years. I’m finally playing on a community girls team.

Much like the cake, #ThePieIsALie

About 5 years ago, NPR did a little piece on how if you are not coupled in Chicago by November 1st, you aren’t likely to be until after winter. The term ‘cuffing’ was not used, but the basic notion that people don’t want to wade through waist deep snow to have a crummy first date holds true.

I for one would be proud to know I had such a statistically literate audience!

*Hugs*

How are there any Jewish GOP supporters? Aren’t they Christ-killers-who-hate-Christmas?

Yeah, should. I felt really strongly about this until I started working in clinics and with lots of actual people and then I realized that life is hard and sometimes people fuck up. And sometimes people make these non-choices because the choices are really really hard and their reality doesn’t include the support and…

These discussions are always so focused on ourselves. Pregnancy by definition involves multiple people (a partner in reproduction who also consents to becoming a parent, a future child). Creating a whole new human being shouldn’t be a matter of “whoops”, and there’s no reason to be nostalgic about a time when it more…

Truthfully, no lives matter. We did nothing after Sandyhook. Kinda shows that we don’t care who dies, even little kids. Once you’re okay with that, the discussion ends.

This totally. I was actually both feeling bummed and rolling my eyes (sorry!) at the amount of justification that had to occur in this comment before she could get the point that she enjoys wine. And then the SHAME as she sat there with her glass of wine (just one, you guys!!) while her kid cried. I would’ve chugged…

I am cheering during the bit where confidence is mentioned. The so-called mommy wars would not exist if we all had a little more self confidence and confidence in our choices.

I lived in rural Missourah and graduated high school in 2003. I had married classmates.

He and I didn’t know each others’ family too well, and with how painful this divorce is, I wouldn’t want to be contacted or get a Christmas card from his parents. Maybe someday... but not today.

I’m pre-programmed to LOVE human connection, so I get super bummed out when relationships crash and burn for no apparent reason. It makes me almost terrified to connect with people because what is a casual friend drift-off to most people is SO PAINFUL to me. I’m seriously happiest alone anymore because there’s no…

“Some of that might mean nights on my porch crying, drinking whiskey, and going, ‘Man, this sucks right now.’

“if I ever marry into another family (or someone marries into mine), it’s a conditional relationship”

Let’s get this straight: a married guy with small kids spends Thanksgiving sneaking off to send texts to his girlfriend...

Well I hope this goes well for everyone involved but honestly and I’m sorry but this does not sound like a good situation in any way - not because of anything YOU did but just the happy family facade and the kids and the Mormons and the wife WOW best of luck is I can wish for you

Pretty much every teenager that has a relationship with an older person thinks they were “more mature” and “so smart!” and “really on their level” and “not like most teenagers!” which should be the red flag for all of us. That is an average teenager’s logic. Middle school and high school aren’t filled with unicorn…

What 26-year-old man other than a sexual abuser and/or rapist would be even remotely interested in a 14-year-old child? That’s something I will never understand.