Thank you for your perspective. Having a child with this level of mental disability is extremely difficult. No one wants to read about it though. They want all of us mothers to say that it's a gift and every child teaches us something! When the truth is, sure, that's true, but those are small moments in a day…

Autism isn't a "different way of thinking". Don't whitewash it based on media portrayals of kid with Asperger's or something. My son is moderately autistic (severe?) and it's a whole different ball of wax. Don't bandy around the word "challenges" as if you actually know how "challenging" it is to raise a child…

Spend some time with a low-functioning autistic child and you won't think it's a great thing, I guarantee. It's not just a matter of being "very different than most people", like he has different colored eyes or something.

She was talking about low-functioning autism. My child is moderate, and he can't say much of anything, let alone "witty" things. He's not gifted or intellectually challenging. Perspective indeed. Your perspective is from someone who deals with children who are on the "spectrum", but often to me seem like they…

This is a really, really judgemental post. From one sentence out of Toni Braxton's mouth, how on earth do you know her entire moment-by-moment mothering style? Maybe in her darkest moments her pain at the loss her child has suffered makes her realize that there is an element of punishment or pain.

As a mother to a child that will face tremendous difficulties in life, and as someone who will have to not only pay for beyond expensive therapies because the government and the state has forced parents to bear the full burden, and try to fight bureaucracy that insists on NOT helping your child, why would you think…

Because you just don't walk out of your house, grab a passing attractive person, bring them upstairs, sleep with them, and then show them the door.

It's easy to keep the sex life interesting for both partners. Openness, communication, and telling your partner about your new "fetishes and kinks".

Maybe your problem is that you saw your woman as a piece of "pussy" to be "conquered". Perhaps you stopped seeing her as an actual person with whom you could be close friends with, and simply boiled her down to her genital parts and called it a day.

What's high on the list of reasons? I would imagine it's money. Most of the couples I know who got divorced are very quiet about their reasons why they chose it, vocal about how asshole-ish their ex-spouses are after divorce.

Cheating is a symptom of selfishness and putting your own wants over your partners. It has nothing to do with the idea that monogamy itself is some kind of anathema.

If your relationship can only survive if you can sleep with strangers, I think your relationship isn't as strong as you might think. You're roommates, essentially. You've made a business contract with a partner, and you're running a not-for-profit. Hardly the idealized marriage anyone is searching for.

Name me one person who got a "memorial" tattoo of a holocaust number.

This cracks me up.

This person is probably calculating based on (1) AFTER taxes (2) AFTER all the benefits have been deducted from the paycheck, including a 401K and retirement and health and dental.

I can't seem to separate the TV and book Shae. The book Shae impinges on my ability to read into TV Shae's actions.

Less Groundhog Day and more Sliding Doors.

Not just how pointless her existence is, but it felt like a reiteration of previous books before it that imply that fate will try to assert itself no matter how you try to overcome it. As a frivolous example, like in the Final Destination movies, but also in books by Dean Koontz and some other authors I'm blanking on…

I read this a while ago, so I forgot the ways in which Maurice is awful. But I remember the rape being central to the character and how cemented it was in her pain. What bothered me, ultimately, about this book is that the Choose Your Own Adventure quality of it meant that nothing ever felt important, as it were. …

You can't just. . . walk into Winterfell (sorry, LOTR moment) and kill Ned. The way he worked it out, someone else did the dirty work and killed Ned, and he got to reap the potential rewards. Worse comes to worse and Cat wouldn't be available, he'd still be Lord of the Vale.