Same here, and glad that I have for a whole new reason.

Exactly. My dog's bark is completely at odds with her looks, as she's cute but sounds scary. A repairman came over once to fix our water meter or cable box on the outside of the house. He could hear the dog barking her head off inside. He commented on her loud bark and asked if she was a German shepherd. No,…

I'm married, but my husband travels a lot for up to three weeks at a time. When he's gone, I am so thankful for our dog. She's 12 years old, not at all scary looking and loves people, but despite that she has a very loud and threatening bark. She also seems to be much more watchful of my our son and I when my…

I really liked this article. I had an emergency c-section after laboring for sixteen fruitless hours, but I had a healthy baby and a very speedy recovery. I wouldn't change anything about my son's birth. But I have had to do a lot of reassuring ("Really, it wasn't that bad. And he had a 14 ½ head that I'm glad I…

I had two friends who had a pretty amicable divorce. He didn't really want to split up, but once he accepted that it was over they were able to move things along pretty well and with very little fighting. They didn't have any kids or much in the way of assets, which I'm sure made it easier.

Aren't those Spanx?

My ring was originally $1500, but my husband got it on sale for $1000! He offered to upgrade the ring early on, but I genuinely like it. I also think it's a symbol of how far we've come in 17 years.

I love you for this. :)

Mine too. And the fact that all of the guys I hung out with at that time eventually came out of the closet. I was kind of barking up the wrong tree there.

I just had a new one put in today! It didn't go that well, but at least it's over.

I'm wondering if those studies were from the 1970s, when the Dalkon Shield IUD did cause infertility and a couple of deaths. The Dalkon Shield has long since been taken off the market, and no other IUDs have ever caused these problems in the US.

Friday's episode is very exciting, very action packed. There's a scene at the beginning that really grossed me out and a couple after that made me cringe a bit, but there are some *very* interesting developments by the end.

Who else is completely and totally engrossed with The Knick? I love the bejeezus out of this show and because it's on Cinemax it feels seems like no one is watching!

I did. I stayed on Zoloft during my pregnancy. As my doctor explained to me, the most common complication arising from a mother taking Zoloft during her pregnancy was low birth weight. On the flip side of that, there was a nearly equal chance of a depressed mother giving birth to a baby with low birth weight. I…

I used to belong to a message board for those social anxiety, and this was the viewpoint I read about constantly. No matter how many times women in similar circumstances explained that they had just as much trouble finding sex as the men, the male incels steadfastly insisted that women controlled all physically…

And the involuntary celibate wing of the MRAs goes wild!

I'm hoping there was at least one playing of Belly's "Feed the Tree."

I was thinking about this very thing earlier this week. I, too, am fairly good at plenty of things. I accepted long ago that I'll never be a genius violinist or an Olympic skier, and I'm cool with that. I'm no devastating beauty, and that's just fine. But I have kind of always wanted to have some talent that just…

Same here. I can understand why both pregnant women and doctors would rather try for vaginal births but I wish c-sections weren't so demonized. They don't *always* involve horrifically painful recoveries. A friend of mine gave birth vaginally a few months after I had a c-section. I had a recovery very similar to…