I think this is absolutely true. I think more than trying to convince other people their life is great, they are trying to convince themselves. I spent lots of time rationalizing my husband’s behavior and trying to point out his good points before I filed for divorce. But I did it in my head, not on Facebook.

My husband knows a guy who is a college president and he met Bill Clinton once briefly at a function related to his college (it’s a small, private school). Then some time later he was at a conference and was walking down a corridor and noticed Bill Clinton, who was walking down the corridor toward him. Bill Clinton…

Actually we do have a pretty good idea what causes a lot of SIDS, most are the result of unsafe sleeping practices. One thing that was noted was that the baby was put to sleep on his side which is not recommended as a safe alternative to placing a child on his back to sleep.

20/20 did a segment on it too and essentially showed under the pressure people aren’t able to act clearly or quickly enough. The law enforcement professionals they interviewed said it’s even hard if you are highly trained.

Overheating is a risk factor for SIDS so especially with younger babies parents are advised not to keep the room too warm or have too many layers on babies. We keep our kids’ rooms (including baby) at 68.

My husband left during my 24 hour induced labor to go to the gym and get something to eat. And after I had an emergency c-section and was loopy from pain meds and weepy because my mom was 1,000 miles away, he didn’t sleep on the pull out couch in the room, he went home so he could get a good night’s sleep. I divorced…

I work for a bank, don’t ever revolve a balance on a credit card unless you are getting a promotional offer with no interest. My husband and I have 3 credit cards and we’ve never carried a balance and never had one canceled. Get a credit card from the bank where you have your checking/savings accounts, they look at…

Anecdotally, yes. I struggled with infertility in my mid 30’s, did IVF several times and finally with an egg donor and had a baby at 38. Then found myself knocked up the old fashioned way at 45. I have a normal, healthy 18 month old but since I had a c-section I went ahead and had them tie my tubes - one statistically…

Me too. I’ve got an 18 month old and when I’m rocking her at night cuddled up in blankets I can’t help but think of the pictures of the refugee kids and where they sleep, it’s heartbreaking. I admit that I hadn’t really paid that much attention to what was going on in Syria from a humanitarian standpoint until the…

It makes me think of something I read recently about Madeleine Albright where she said women need to interrupt but make sure you know what you are talking about. And she had this quote:

I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer but I live in TX and our elected officials are fucking morons. Our US Senators are Ted Cruz and John Cornyn (the guy who famously said if we allowed gays to marry then people would want to marry a box turtle). I’ve written to them and my representative several times - ACA was huge…

To be fair I live in Texas andd I’ve been to many a kid’s birthday party that included a pony in the backyard.

There’s a soup kitchen (they call themselves a community kitchen though I don’t know if that’s the more generic PC term to replace soup kitchen) near the corporate office of my company. Our team at work has volunteered there a few times and they have worked with local restaurants and grocery stores to get the food…

A friend of mine once came to work after going to the gym that morning and said he was in the locker room getting dressed when a guy stood near him, put one leg up on the locker room bench, and then proceeded to eat a banana. And my friend said to me “do you think he was coming on to me?”

I started trying to conceive my first child at 35. After a year we saw the Reproductive Endocrinologist and I was diagnosed with unexplained infertility and did 3 rounds of medicated insemination and then moved on to IVF. After my first round of IVF my embryo quality wasn’t great and the doctor said my eggs were crap,…

My kids have the children’s book version of this - The Man Who Walked Between the Towers- which is great by the way, but I feel like after reading that, I’m good. I don’t need to watch 2 hours of it.

So are you trying to tell me that in addition to actively doing something about gun violence, Australia seeks to protect women’s access to legal healthcare, AND resists the fundies? I wonder if I could get a visa?

I’m pretty sure the scholarly consensus is that she was 12-14, as it was the custom in that time, fixed marriage age set around 12 for girls.

When I was married to my first husband, we started trying to conceive when I was 35. We did IVF and I had 2 miscarriages and the specialist said the issue was my “old” eggs. So we ended up using donor eggs and I gave birth a week before my 39th birthday. A few years later, I am divorced and remarried and - surprise!…

I think your analogy fails since seat belts and smoke detectors do not require you to make a split second decision to act or they will inflict bodily harm if you fail. The fact is, and studies back this up, owning and using a firearm increases the risk that you will be shot.