hi fellow nebraskan, hope you’re doing well

a kindred spirit! i took my abusive father off of life support when his liver suddenly failed. no regrets.

my dad was a sociopath who terrorized his four children and my mom’s children after he married her, as well as abused her until she divorced him fifteen years later. i won’t go into details about the abuse but last june he got very sick, very rapidly from alcohol-induced liver failure and i made the decision to take…

hey, i have been in a similar situation and wanted you to know you’re not alone. it might help you to explore the motivation behind your parents’ behavior. for me, i found out that my mom grew up with similarly cold/detached parents (they were ultra religious and nurturing wasn’t their thing) and that my dad’s dad was…

IT’S. PERFECT.

what i find the most problematic about the squirting phenomena is that when people chalk it up as “just urine,” it automatically lumps it in the same category as waste fluid and it makes me feel gross for doing it. but here’s what i do know, and it’s similar to your experience: i can pee before sex, then squirt this…

i think it might be a reference to the quarter nudie-video machines that became popular around the time the book was written

while working in d.c., i watched a guy get fully nude and don a new outfit while commuting on the train. the thing is, he walked onto the train looking decent (aka sound of mind, wearing a business suit) and he walked off looking like he was headed to a tapas happy hour with the marketing director of j. crew. it…

you are brilliant

addendum: when you’re making all of these repairs because you’ve waited for the “man” in your life to do it since he promised he’d do it weeks ago [side-eyes asshole i broke up with but still cohabitate with out of necessity]

this was exactly our poor family, too. we got fruit and new toothbrushes in our stockings. the year we got the glow in the dark reach toothbrushes, we felt like we had seriously hit the jackpot as kids 

liederkranz in grand island, nebraska?!! because...YES

denouement was A+++++++++++++

i could not stop smiling after reading this story. it literally warmed my cold, dead heart. i felt it!!

my dad passed away a couple of weeks ago and i’ve had a really hard time processing his death, mostly because for the last few years of his life he’s been living a life completely opposite of who he was when i was growing up (growing up he was super abusive to my mom and siblings, very misogynistic/racist/bigoted and…

story aside (it was scary af), you are an incredible writer!

wow. i’m speechless. thank you for taking the time to write this all out because all i could do was burn internally. you are an amazing, amazing train wreck

hi internet stranger. you’ve got this. finish that damn research proposal. you’re amazing

i wish this were my tinder tag line, it would have probably eliminated most of the headaches of app dating

woman, 33 (and back on the scene after a ten year relationship) watch his/her body language during the date. is their body and their feet turned toward you? usually a sign they’re into you. if you’re not sure, a gentle “you are so beautiful in this light/you look so handsome right now, would you mind if i kissed you?”…