Glad to be helpful.

Your pain is understandable.

Agree about all of it. Especially the needing care part.

Snerk. <ggg> Sorry. But I have known people like that. And I have a cat like that. Plays it cool, but is always in the same room as I am.

That is wonderful.

Nope. That is controlling. BTDT with insane ex, who put his fist through a door when I said I needed a couple of hours to decompress from work before fulling engaging with him. He was certain, he explained later, that my needing to have some down time really meant I was throwing him out for good. Someone who is…

Or, as the nice doctor suggests, you could discuss this and come to an understanding that being away from him/her is not about him/her, but about your needs. One could compromise and just touch base on the evenings you spend alone. There are lots of ways of reassuring folk who are nervous about abandonment or betrayal…

Someone who is larger than you or richer than you, in the public square, has power over you.

You have your work cut out. My son (adult, white, not neurotypical) called Middle School where everyone learns to be an asshole. And he went to one of the good ones.

It was terrible. Just embarrassingly terrible. It was like they filmed the first run-throughs or dress rehearsals and tossed whatever sucked least. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was off key and the blocking was haphazard. There seemed to have been some sort of joke going on about Miss Piggy and Kermit's voices not matching the…

No ointment or butter or other oily airblocking things on burns. That just holds the heat in and makes the burn worse.

Yes, this. I was thanked by a female officer during a traffic stop (and avoided the ticket) when I told her I was waiting til she got to my window to reach for my license and registration because I understood that everyone she stops is a potential threat. She visibly relaxed, thanked me, and gave me a warning about…

There are lots of reasons to "need" an abortion, including financial, health-related, personal safety (the largest number of women killed in domestic violence incidents are pregnant). So, need/want, whichever.

Bletchly Circle first three scared me so much I had to wait a week to watch the last episode. Brilliant. Made me sad for the characters, too.

Peet's Pumpkin Latte tastes just like Starbucks Gingerbread Latte. Likely just about the same mix of artificial flavors. And, yeah, I do not so much like the artificial flavors or things referred to as "natural flavors" as an ingredient as I have food allergies and like to chose whether to get sick from something. <g>

It could also be that the woman is speaking a normal amount and the man hears it as too much. Research has been done that shows that, in group situations in particular, men tend to vastly overrate the amount of time women speak and similarly underrate the amount of time men speak. Most of the research was done…

Yes. to prevent spread of disease. You are crawling with bacteria right now. The vast majority (more in weight and number than the cells otherwise identifiable as you) are beneficial when they are on your skin or in your gut.

You think that would not be the first question in the deposition for the second lawsuit?

Not only do I have smaller hands, but I have (like so many who have spent too many years on too many crap keyboards) nerve damage that makes my fingers weak. The only smartphones that are usable are also crap. People look at the one android phone that is usable for me and wince.

There are lots of Germantowns all over the east coast in particular. There were lots of German immigrants in the 18th Century.