I didn't date for, like, 7 years and then when I was 32 I was like "eff it, I'm giving online dating a try."

Yeah, but a Honda or a Jag?

Well, or if we look at it the other way, we're saved. I mean, we won't even need a Voight-Kampff machine to figure out which politicians are replicants.

I don't think it lost him any votes either. The people who were going to vote for him think this same way, especially the follow up part where he added that "It allows for her to be home by 5:30 to cook dinner".

And he may be right. Women tend to be a lot less likely to support Republican presidential candidates in the first place, and I suspect those women who actually paid attention to and objected to that comment were already inclined to vote for Obama or perhaps a third party candidate.

Seriously? You think leaving an abusive relationship and getting a divorce is "the easy way out"? You are a) an asshole and b) not helping.

LW may not want to pursue a divorce and that's OK. At the very least I'd STRONGLY suggest a trial separation. LW, you've tried to take care of her and so far have experienced…

Ditched friends, conflict with family members, career disruption it's all so familiar. She'll start smacking him around next. I put up with that shit for an absurdly long time too and then one day I took out a PFA, kicked her out of the house and divorced her ass. I don't know if she ever got the help she needed

Let's not dog on someone for dating someone abusive. Abusers are usually very good about hiding their true nature until it's too late.

the letter writer needs to look out for himself, because his wife obviously isn't. what they have isn't a marriage, it's a hostage situation. no need to drag evil into it!

It seems pretty blatant that he's in an abusive relationship. Is it really selfish for not wanting to put up with further abuse? Doesn't the victim here deserve some consideration?

The problem comes with how easily TSO succumbs to guilt; if he suggests getting help and she lays it on him that she's "not good enough" or that he thinks she's "crazy" and all that - which in my experience is entirely possible - then there is no helping her at all. And if she plays that card once and he caves, then…

There's also a guy who has squeezed my but and my boobs in a "joking" way...

Yes! I'm ridiculously ambivalent. I could imagine if my birth control fails, I would go ahead and be an awesome co-parent with my husband, but I also know that I have detested children ever since I was one. My worst case scenario would be single motherhood; I can probably handle being half the parents with a lot of…

I just can't imagine waking up and deciding on my own that I need a baby in my life. But who knows? LIFE IS A MYSTERY

If I had a child I would prefer my partner be the stay-at-home one. I think I have more earning potential. Shrug. Stay at home dads are pretty rare, though.

Weird. Every guy I have dated wanted kids. I met most of my exes in school. Most of them were either Math or Econ majors or at least minors, one lawyer. Maybe that's where they are hiding, in the math and econ classes ;).

I was once with two of my girlfriends who are the same age as me, in our mid 20s. And one of them said "It's like my body just NEEDS to be pregnant." And the other one readily agreed.

Homeboy wants kids but is not willing to make the sacrifices? Thats Grade-A bullshit right there.

At this point I have pregnancy ambivalence. I think I really could go either way. On one hand, I'd like a family. I think being a mother could be a good choice for me. On the other, I generally detest children and really like having enough money to pay rent AND eat food.

At one point, she asked if he would consider quitting his job to be a stay-at-home father given how much he wanted a baby. "That just wasn't the plan he had in mind," she said.