Jerk. Serious question about being in Maryland though. Is it legal for the resident of a state where assisted suicide is illegal to go to a place where it is legal and die with dignity? Or do you have to be a resident of that state first? What about going to another country?

Yikes. I understand excluding abusive parents from your life and also not inviting them to your wedding. I even understand that perhaps there is some need to announce the wedding to them and make sure they understand that they are clearly not invited to have anything to do with your new life. But this sort of…

Look, you write something amusing about something that frustrates you, and you get across a general point. It's not a scientific essay. It is true that people are annoying with their gadgets sometimes. It is not a rule that every single person who ever uses them will behave in the same way. But I have to agree…

Of course not, but she isn't saying they do or should. She is saying that buying the gadget is not going to solve whatever problem it is that is keeping you from reaching your goal.

Yup totally agree. And this is good advice about just about any hobby. You probably don't need the gadgets. Start out by making do with what you got, and then when it becomes a habit, you'll see what things you might want to buy to make your pursuit better. Doing it the other way around- buying the thing to make…

BTW, I only have one husband. I don't know why I accidentally typed it as plural. Though I'm sure there are many women who are also happily married to more than one husband, in my own case it's just been the one.

Thanks for responding. I'm sorry that I'm going to have to let it go. Not because I don't think you are saying interesting things but because we are talking past one another and I can't see how to resolve it, and I know that feeling of "that's not what I meant, I meant this" and then it just falls apart into really…

This seems like very reasonable advice that is impossible to disagree with, and it is the advice I'd give too if someone asked. However, in reality, when I look around at my own marriage, marriages in our families, in my friends' marriages, in my neighbors' marriages, in my coworkers' marriages, etc- reality seems to…

If I sounded like I was focusing on vaginal intercourse, then it was unintended. My point is that any sort of sexual activity at all is unpleasant if you have painful, messy periods. You are talking about period-friendly kinds of sex, and I'm saying that for many women, there is not such a thing as period-friendly…

I think you are being defensive about something legit that the person you are talking to did not state. Cindy Crawford is NOT one of the women in the industry who do not get plastic surgery. She is a woman in the industry who DOES get plastic surgery. Her face obviously does not need work either, but she had work…

I just want to say that she's really hot. Her stomach isn't a washboard. She's also nearly 50 and has two kids. I'm not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, she's a model and so it makes sense that most of her photos will be touched up. On the other hand, it makes me angry that we have impossible standards…

Ah, AMEN TO THAT! I'm not rich enough for two houses, but my husband travels a lot. It's the secret to a really happy marriage for us. Away enough that we get an abundance of "own time" for our own pursuits, together enough to stay really connected. I've often told him that if he ever changes jobs and stays in…

I wonder if age / assets have a lot to do with this? When I was young and poor and could move all my junk in two or three pickup trucks, I moved around ALL THE TIME. I had a ton of different roommates and apartments and didn't think twice about letting a boyfriend move in, etc.

These days, now that I own a house,…

Yeah I was going to say something similar. It is really refreshing to read all these happy couple posts, and none of them followed the "right" advice. Sometimes I think people just make things more complicated than it all need be. I remember about three months into my relationship with my husband (then boyfriend),…

Yeah, my story is almost exactly the same. We were living together by 6 mos though really we'd been at each others' places the entire time. Going on our second decade married now. Like most things, there is no one answer.

I suppose the youngsters who said they should wait until marriage just haven't had much experience with paying double rent, double bills, etc. Moving in together is often just practical logistically. Like, wow- we could have half the bills and someone to help do laundry and I wouldn't have to worry about waking up…

Me too! Then I looked at the comments just to see if I was the only one!

I've always wondered why there aren't more periods in books. Seems like it happens pretty frequently in novels that a woman gets it on with someone- sometimes after some persuasion or sometimes spontaneously - and it never happens that she also happens to be on her period. Even when the author is a female, this…

Wrong. Just because you do not have volume or chunks does not mean that this is not what loads of women spend a quarter of their fertile life dealing with. I have volume and I have chunks, and at time, I can actually FEEL THE CHUNKS PASS. Oooh, sexy.

Nothing is intrinsically disgusting. Unless you mean in terms of hygiene and sanitation. Yes, you can drink a glass of urine and unless you have an infection, it should not make you sick. Urine is intrinsically sterile and by this definition, it is intrinsically not disgusting. It is only considered disgusting (if…