These parents are in for a rude awakening. My siblings and I were raised that way--no vaccines, alternative treatments for ear infections and other ailments, essential oils, raw milk, etc. Guess what? When my siblings and I grew up, we got ourselves vaccinated to the hilt. Our kids are all up to date on vaccines. You…

People think Vermont and Massachusetts are so liberal, but outside of the cities, it’s SUUUUPER white and SUUUUUUUUPER racist. Actually, within the cities it’s pretty white and racist, but at least they know how to put fig leaves over it. Outside the cities they don’t give a fuck.

Okay, that’s true.

True, but these were people uninvolved in the couple. So, the people saying, “Eh, premarital sex is NBD if you’ve already been married” weren’t actually the ones fucking. And these same people very happily talked shit about people who had not been married before and yet were having sex. Hypocrisy is one thing--that I…

It wasn’t even hypocrisy, really, because the people justifying it weren’t part of the couple. (I think I might not have been totally clear about that in my original comment). It was one friend saying, “Well, X and Y are basically living together now,” and another friend saying, “Well, who cares. Once you’ve been…

I’m not suggesting that Christians are perfect. I’m saying that a bunch of uninvolved observers basically shrugged at premarital sex because the two people involved had been married to other people before. I should have been more clear that these same uninvolved observers had LOTS to say about couples who had never…

It’s all so weird to me. And having seen several marriages of people I grew up with implode because of sexual incompatibility, I really feel like they’re all doing themselves a disservice. 

The Bible allows for people to get divorced in cases of adultery and most Christians seem to accept that when one person leaves another and will not reconcile there are limited things that you can do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Okay, this always confused me back when I was still identifying as an Evangelical Christian: lots and lots of Christians apparently have no problem with premarital sex when it comes to a second marriage. Someone I knew when I was at an Evangelical college was getting remarried to someone else who was divorced (their…

I would guess that, as it turns out, people who have been out there abusing other people in the name of getting their rocks off aren’t the best clients for a PR firm and frequently ignore or actively resist advice. 

Ugh, no thanks. I don’t even really want to read that. That’s just what I figured he’d do based on who I thought he was. I was evidently wrong.

Another article I read about this set mentions that in the audio you can hear someone nearby in the audience laughing like a hyena, slapping the table, and shouting out punchlines. So, yeah, some people thought it was pretty funny.

When the whole thing went down and his misconduct emerged, I thought, Oh, I see how this is going to go. I figured he’d go away for a while and then in a year or two he’d come back with a novel. I figured that the novel would reflect someone who had spent a lot of time in therapy and would center on a CK-esque figure…

Yeah, I’m finding these responses to be really surprising. I guess it seems like moving in together suggests that everything in the relationship is working pretty well and mostly will continue the way it has been and that any changes you make will have to be specifically stated. I’m not sure how someone waiting until…

But she has to pay attention to him, and that’s what this really is about. Oh, you aren’t going to be in a relationship with me anymore? Fine. But you don’t get to forget about me. Sure thing, move on, get married again, whatever. But I say when you’re done paying attention to me. Not you, me.

I made it about 50% of the way through before I’d had enough. It has moments that are wonderful but they’re buried under a crap ton of boring and rambling and eventually it’s just not worth it.

My husband had it done on a Friday and then took the following Monday off. He said that he probably could have gone back to work on Monday with no problem. It really was a fast recovery. I tell all my friends that when their husbands are getting squirrly about having it done.

It would be really nice as a back up for a lot of people, I think. Also, I’ve known a few women who didn’t respond well to hormonal birth control and also have a latex allergy, so contraception got really tricky. If the dude could take over, that would be really helpful (all three of the women I’ve known in those…

My husband got a vasectomy four weeks after our youngest was born. It is basically my favorite thing he has ever done for me. And it really wasn’t terribly invasive. I think in guys’ heads, it’s a lot more invasive than it actually is.

My mom had four kids in six years and basically had to go to her gynecologist sobbing that she really, really, really didn’t want to have any more babies before he would agree to a tubal ligation. Like, just saying, “Hey, I’ve got enough kids and I don’t want any more” wasn’t enough. She had to cry to make it clear.