Yeah, I’m surprised and somewhat horrified how the consensus amongst most Jezebel commenters seems to be: “Family always comes first.” If a member of my family was accused of raping a child the same age as my niece I would most definitely let them stay in jail until they have been cleared so that no other child can…

On the one hand, I’m super sympathetic because it’s obvious she’s in tremendous pain and needs help. But on the other hand, I have a super toxic mom and for my own sanity have to keep her away from me and this is precisely the shit she’s pull to try and get attention from me. (She let my abusive ex husband move in…

You aren’t tired of your mother’s bullshit yet. Hang in there.

Yeah, it’s something I’ve slowly been trying. I live in another city away from her, even when I worked in the city she lived in, and I usually don’t see her often. Once every few months I’ll go do something simple with her, like shopping or a movie, otherwise all our contact is via phone.

That’s her to a T. Lol. Yeah, I’ve actually told her no more, since school starts back and I watch my best friend’s daughter in the mornings and take her to school on days her mom works.

Your mother is sounds like the kind who will suck your blood and complain about the taste. I hope your can continue to resist her guilt trips! Time to stop driving her, methinks.

Stop being “nice.” She doesn’t appreciate it, and as long as you are, she’ll never stop being so demanding.

You need to learn to say ‘no’. She’ll suck your blood dry if you don’t.

Mine worst Thanksgiving is happening right now. Woken up in the middle of the night by my wife who heard “scurrying.” It’s a Brooklyn brownstone, probably a mouse in the wall, I said and fell back to sleep. Woken up at 5am by the scurrying itself. Definitely in the bedroom, not the wall. I’m too annoyed to fall back…

Growing up, my family had a tradition for every holiday gathering. People would arrive at our house, we would eat, pour the homemade wine grandpa brought into the plants, then have to sit around the table to talk for about another hour (because that’s how grandpa’s family would do it when he grew up) then a board game…

Oh boy, i’ve got a doozy.

I was 19 and just found out that I was pregnant, this was my very first holiday away from home and it was also the first time I met my husband’s extended family. My husband was in Germany about to deploy to Iraq, so I stayed in the states and lived with his mom. I didn’t have a good relationship with my mom so this…

Thanksgiving dinner three years ago. I sat next to Buckley Carlson, brother of Tucker. Yes. I feel like this is horror story enough.

TCM has hipped me to SO MANY killer old flicks.

Fun fact: Airplane! is an almost scene-for-scene, line-for-line remake of a drama film called Zero Hour! . They only had to tweak the visuals and dialog slightly to make it a comedy. The line “Surely you can’t be serious” is in Zero Hour!; they just added “And don’t call me Shirley” to make it a classic line.

Awesome, great advice, thanks!

Weirdly, I happen to have very recently gone down an internet rabbit hole regarding them both — I was watching a ‘70s sit-com and heard that unmistakable Linus voice coming from some kid. He turned out great — happy hippie type. But he died in his 50s.

I haven’t gone back through the AMA thread but were there any comments about working in the corporate office? I live about 10 minutes away and getting a job there would mean a dream commute but I wouldn’t want to work in an environment like the retail stores.

*sighs*

It was a common saying at the time; it means something like “I don’t usually act like this/it’s not socially acceptable to act this way, so let’s just blame it on the booze”. If you watch movies from the time period you’ll probably hear it there too.