Didn't wine for this episode but feel now that I should have. It's getting so awful, it's becoming a hatewatch for me. And almost solely because of Fitz (and "Olitz"). I know a lot of people like them together, but I personally HATE it, and I hate him as a character, he has no redeeming qualities what so ever.... An…

Yeah it's the 12th amendment

Wow I'm really sorry to hear about that. I think it's much worse when it's a close family member. This is one of the reasons why I hate facebook so much, when ever there's an "event" like Sandy Hook, or even the stupid Duck Dynasty thing, a lot of people reveal themselves to have these opinions and you can't go back…

The answer to your question is one I do not want to know.

:) Oh no the problem (if there is one?) is that I don't want to risk the friendship, plus it'd be weird to even imagine "taking the next step". There is also the issue of this most likely being an entirely unrequited thing (this is probably the main thing, but I mentioned it last because the very idea makes me feel…

Absolutely! I am in this situation now. Or not quite the same, but the same feeling. I study in Australia, but my family lives in Europe, and while I want to move back and be close to them after I finish there, it seems very unlikely that I could even move back to my home country. I have enjoyed being back home over…

Love the eloped story. All my exes' mothers have been terrible control freak type A people, and I always felt like I dodged an extra bullet when things ended with them, because of their mothers. The very idea of planning a wedding with any of them on my back is enough to make me break out in hives as well.

Ugh I'm sorry to hear that. It's worse when it's your dad I think. This is my mother's relative, who I don't see very often, but every Christmas and some other "family occasions". I had no idea this is how they felt though, and I'm disappointed, but I know a lot of people, especially older people I guess, feel that…

That's great, you don't want to be a fall-back chick and you know that. That means dealing with anything he might throw your way a lot easier. I don't know what his intentions are obviously, but in my very similar case from the past, it was probably more than friends. Maybe he (my guy) had struck out with someone else…

I hate that lame-o victimization. The sharia thing is NOT HAPPENING. It's not even being proposed. Same with being happy there were black extras in a movie, that is not hurting anyone, and yet it's woooooeeeee meeee.

Margarine bag?? That's pretty embarrassing too. My ex's mother always brought coffee with her everywhere. Just in a thermos, and that included restaurants. She never pretended to hide it either. It's not as bad, but it was always annoying to me, and seemed a bit disrespectful towards the restaurants/staff.

I do! They are the calculator types, which makes me and my dad want to roll our eyes into the back of our heads. It's "oh you had this and I had that so that means you have to pay an extra $0.50" or what ever. Just split it in the amount of people we are!! It's not like anyone ever orders something truly extravagant…

Are you still interested? I think that's more important than what his motivations are, because if he wants to be all flirty and meet and be friends or even more, that affects you how?My advice to you would depend on how you feel, because if you're over it, being friends could be nice? If not, it's probably not a good…

Congrats!!

Seconded. The holidays are over now and getting back into routines usually helps me.

Also discovered over Christmas that one relative is a raging racist. She is scared of sharia law (which UGH, at least be scared of an actual thing) and hopes "to god she is dead so she won't have to experience it". The absolute worst part was that they brought it up in the context of us having a normal not…

I suspect that I'm in love with my best friend, which is such a stupid and lame cliche that I don't want it to be true in part for that reason. We've been best friends since high school, meaning a decade, and now that we're adults (sort of anyway, pretending at least) I am finding that we fit into each other's lives…

How? How are they exactly like the GOP? I clearly haven't seen it, so explain. I'm not a fan anyway, so would love to hear that they are even worse than I thought. Makes for even easier arguments in Australia (where I live but do not come from).

I agree (including in hatred), I think they're actually way to the left of the US Republicans, probably lots of conservative Dems too. In terms of extremism, they have got nothing on the Tea Party Caucus. It's a sad day, when I "defend" the Liberal Party.

Definitely agreed. This is the only reason Ben Affleck got his career back on track. It all happened after he married Jen Garner, who admits to doing it all so he can succeed in his career.