I would compromise some things for a lot of money...but others will always be off the table.

It’s funny. I was having a talk the other night with a friend about how I wouldn’t compromise my integrity for any amount of money (in this case, that meant working for a health insurance company). My friend said, “you wouldn’t? Not for ten million dollars after taxes?”

It seems everyone is dogging parents in this thread - and yes parents should be watching what their kids are doing...

Of course when I broke the surface I was relieved that I was not dead, but I can’t say I was troubled by the thought.

Whatever, as long as the stress kills him, I don’t care how it happens.

On occasions my parents were effortlessly good role models: if they seemed at ease with one another? I felt safer and less anxious. But more often, they (at best) appeared awkward.

Oof that is painful to see. This new USA sucks so much.

I think she is making a fist and he is holding that. Probably because trump has clammy, sweaty hands the feel like your holding a dead fish, so she doesnt want her palms touching his.

My heart aches for Meredith’s family who will never know what really happened. And of course for Amanda Knox whose life was turned upside down by a superstitious and inept police dept + a misogynistic press using femme fatale to sell a story.

But what is the “better” perspective? Accepting that long-term singleness is likely, especially for an educated, feminist woman (which is just a truth if you are hetero) while still being sad occasionally about that truth seems like a pretty rational, healthy perspective.

It is possible to be both content single and wish to have a partner. And it would be a lot easier to do that if people didn’t get all in their feelings about other people’s singleness.

Yes! I had some loneliness but for the most part loved my solitude, my pet time and not having to check in. My bf is cool, fun and very considerate but it’s not like life transforming. More like, hey someone new spend time time with.

Shit happens to everyone that doesn’t make us happy and that we don’t want to deal with. And yes, its nice when friends try to make it better by giving a person hope it will soon end. But for some people, it won’t. Continuing to tell them that they just have to be patient and try harder is exasperating and…

Well, the author does go a little back on forth on how much of a choice being alone is for her. I take more of an issue with why can’t one person just agree with another that “sometimes life doesn’t work out the way you thought it would, but it sure sounds like you’re making the best of what you do have” instead of…

These are the same people who end up staying in shitty marriages for the sake of saying they’re in a couple.

Just... how can people do that to their pets?! Pets are members of your family! They’re not decorations! And if you don’t feel that way about them, then you should not be a pet owner. Just ugh. And that last part, that’s just fucking sick. I hope I never catch someone in the act of releasing their pet by the highway,…

Um, I think you probably have nice parents and a good family. But it usually not at all obvious, even to the scapegoat. Until everyone is grown and nobody can figure out why one kid hates their family, or has a million issues, or cuts off everyone. And from the outside, as long as the scapegoat has food and clothing,…

It makes sense that fear and pain would impress your herd of hippocampus seahorses deeply, because remembering moments of fear and pain can save your life later.

We both know you should have left that cat at the old house.

Psychoanalysts don’t agree about the significance of early memories.