I’m very sorry to hear all that; it’s quite horrible. But of course you wrote about none of it originally. All I did was respond, entirely reasonably, to what you actually wrote. I couldn’t read your mind or know what you left unsaid. I think your concluding sentence is completely unjustified. This isn’t about me,…

Perhaps unfortunately, that’s not something she can decide unilaterally to do without a court order.

OK. I accept that you meant well, too, and that your purpose was to show compassion and empathy. Even though I still believe that what you said could, in fact, be reasonably read as implying that the two kinds of “kinks” were comparable, and fell in the same category, in terms of being inherently harmful without a…

I’m really sorry that you have to deal with all this.

You have a right to end a relationship for any reason, and to feel repelled by anything, but I’m not sure that a man wearing women’s underwear (regardless of what kind!) exactly falls in the same category as the violation that’s being talked about.

I loved the Sopranos, but never watched the last season. Is what you’re referring to the episode where basically the only truly likable character gets executed after they find out she was working undercover (even though the FBI had forced her to do so)? Her character dying still upsets me when I think about it.

When I was quite young, writing scripts (and sometimes rehearsing them) was just about the only way I could manage making telephone calls to people I didn’t know, even for the simplest things.

How old is your child? Have you noticed anything problematic in the way he acts towards the child?

I always thought it was dump that motherfucker’s ass. But you could be right.

I’m about the same age as your mother, and she’s right: not only am I way “too old” for men my age; there are a lot of 70-80 year olds who would think I’m too old for them! It’s a good thing I have no particular interest in men. (Not that it’s so easy when you’re interested in women, even if I were trying!)

Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb? Good book. Great movie, too, with Lillian Gish and the shotgun.

How did she manage that? Did she go in the voting booth with him?

I wish I could, but the things people said to encourage me, like “don’t give up; it only takes one offer no matter how many rejections you get!,” and “there are millions of people — millions! — with jobs out there who aren’t as qualified and capable as you are, so there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to get one,”…

Thanks. I actually feel like I’m doing something worthwhile, too.

Finally got a job after 3+ years of unemployment, and having reached the point of being pretty sure that nobody would ever hire me.

Thank you! (I work there now.) We’ll do our best.

Thank you! I’ve only been working there since September, but I’m doing my best.

Not forever.

More likely, “calls an escort service.”

I hope so too. And I’ll do my best to see that she does, even against a giant company like Wal-Mart. I wish I could talk more about the case, but I don’t think it would be a good idea!