Wow, the comments here are so bad. Where do guys get the idea that 1. marriage proposal will win an ex back and 2. that would in any way make the proposer's life better?

Oh, I can participate in this one..

@Joile- for some reason I decided that getting a traditional Indian arranged marriage was a good idea. So after meeting the guy once- our families got together and his parents proposed to mine. They accepted. (yes- that's exactly how it went down)

We dated over a span of seven years with a couple of breakups and makeups in between, but it had been a number of years since we'd dated, let alone hung out. When my big 30th birthday blowout bash rolled around, I invited him along with a few hundred of my other closest friends. His rsvp was a surprise. I hadn't…

(hug)

Except so much of the abuse endured from a narcissist is that your voice is stomped out. You are silenced repeatedly, because their word is always the most important. It is healing and therapeutic to reclaim your voice, and at first, it can be raw and abrasive. Because of course it is— they haven't had the privilege…

UGH the blowjob week idea is beyond annoying to me. Like, let me get this straight—you recognize that my body is doing some funky gross shit that is terribly unpleasant, yet you think that I'm in the mood to selflessly stick your dick in my mouth all week with no expectation of any sort of mutuality? NOOOOOPE.

Yeah, by all accounts, that relationship was super stable and everyone involved was super satisfied.

Enormous penis, huh?

So proud that we have someone who is both a doctor and a judge on staff.

No, but I'm gonna leave it.

Anastasia astutely notes that Edward looks like a model

I have curly wispy hair and at age 14 I attempted to give myself the Farrah Fawcett feathered back look so common in the late 70s. I cut my bang hair into a triangle leaving a little tuft about a quarter inch long in the middle of my forehead. My friend, who at the time was sporting a bad tight perm and looked like…

I have dark black hair. Long dark black hair. But when I was a teenager I was not happy having long dark black hair. However It's hard to lighten black hair when you don't know what you are doing and silly me I thought you could bleach your hair with actual bleach. So I went to the cupboard and got the javex and…

Probably not, but we can revel in being at the bottom of the tongue lottery together!

Stop it. Set boundaries. You do NOT have to accept it because you are the oldest, most settled, or any other bullshit. When he turns up, tell him firmly he cant't stay, you are sorry. Then stick to it.

This. So. Much. I cut off my parents at 26 after continuous emotional abuse (neglected childhood, parentification, religious extremism, non-schooling, isolation in the woods). My parents were codependent, gaslighting narcissists.

I asked for an apology for my and my sister's abuse too. She denied she ever did anything besides spank me twice which sent flames shooting out of my eyes. What's funny is that she LOVES to trot out all the abuse from her own parents and first husband. she is only the victim, never the perpetrator.

Or my personal favorite: