This deserves awards for commentary.

This approach worked with a coworker years ago, too. However, both coworker then and husband now were well and truly being awful. If your partner isn’t being awful but just isn’t ready, full-frontal honesty may not work. However x2, this may be exactly the time for some full-frontal honesty with yourself about your…

You win for Best Added Context to a Comment via Username.

With tiger shoes!

Not so much of a brag as an “I screwed up and it worked out”: After years of trying to be kind and understanding with my man’s moodiness and unwillingness to solve his own problems, I lost it and just called him an asshole like 6 or 8 times in the space of a 5-minute conversation. It was very movie-scripty and not my…

Can you fucking believe that word choice?

I don’t know about Gawker’s state but I think some of the fewer articles thing is due to the holiday week.

I sat in a rocking chair and talked to my husband. *shudders*

Well done. A good stir with a soup spoon could make that paragraph into a direct quote.

Since he’s doing well ‘in his opinion,’ the reasons can be made up too.

This is weird—the headline says “having sex with” but the url says “raping.” When headlines are changed the url stays with the old one. Did somebody change the headline from “raping” to “having sex with”?

With an absolutely stellar choice of quote. The “pretty” line will have me smiling for years. Thanks.

same.

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I know someone who has done meth pretty much every day for 35+ years and she still has her teeth. I think the difference is that she does the 80s version of it, not the super potent Aughts version. Shocked the hell out of me to learn that, though. I’m not generally stupid about people, but when I met her I thought she…

I don’t understand the no pants thing but I’m absolutely going to give Amy Schumer a pass here. She’s done a good job talking about guns. And I like the orange thing—it was started by high school kids who started wearing orange to commemorate friends and loved ones killed in gun violence.

Bunch of profiles when he retired, a’la this one: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… ‘Rather than dining out for lunch, he usually has yogurt and an apple at his desk. “And he eats the apple the old-fashioned New England way: He eats it right through the core,” Rath said. “There is nothing left but the stem.”’

Don’t forget that he’d eat the entire apple: core, seeds, and all.

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