I go into this in more detail over at the Root’s post on it, but although minor-seeming, it is plagiarism. At best, as you pointed out, he failed to meet academic standards for source citation. Shit shoulda been thrown out and rewritten if someone had picked up on it at the time. If his thesis is defective, probably…

This just makes him a more attractive appointment to this administration.

Gorsuch is a hack. The Supreme Court had to UNANIMOUSLY overturn one of his decisions.

So on his resume, I suppose this asshole’s three major accomplishments are now:

Well, isn’t plagiarism actually one of the qualifications the Trump administration is looking for in candidates? From his wife Melania, to Monica Crowley, to... hell, I’m not even gonna bother citing all the examples. This should do:

Looking at the comments Im surprised to see that no one else seems to take any issue with / notice how extremely stereotypical all these accounts by married couples ‘all over the world’ are? The indians in a village say ‘find peace’ and the Americans in a big city say ‘take it in your own hands,’ the French say ‘keep…

So beautifully written that I should just let it stand on its own. Two things occur, though.

Omg I could have written this myself. I also prefer monogamous - or at least monoamorous - relationships and they for sure seem to be dying out in favor of poly or friends with benefits or casual (with no intention of ever being *not* casual). If one more person tells me how unrealistic/unevolved wanting that is and…

Yessss. Yes. Yes. Yes.

I think economics is probably the biggest factor. Women entering the workplace means you can be financially stable outside of marriage and you can leave when things go bad. My grandfather was a wife beating alcoholic, but my grandmother was only able to leave him when she started receiving benefits.

Yeah; I know at least two relationships (though not marriages) which ended because the person found that their partner had reactivated profiles on a dating site. I hope you find the relationship of your dreams but being single is nothing to fear, either. Life can be amazingly satisfying in either case.💖

This is exactly what I fear the most about getting married. I prefer monogamous relationships, and though they still seem to be the norm, they also seem to be dying out in favor of polyamory and casual relationships. I’ve had many friends and relatives whose marriages have failed because one, or both of them, have…

I got so lucky in this regard. My folks don’t even care that I’m mid twenties and never dated. They know I plan to adopt kids one day even if I never meet anyone so grandbabies are assured, and until then they have my dog to coo over (I’ve joked that when I temporarily move in with them while job hunting in DC they’ll…

I think one reason my parents go so well together is they flat out admit there is shit they cannnot do together. Stuff they simply do not like or cannot do. Like mom really dislikes animated movies while dad likes them almost as much as me. He know she does not want to go to see it and simply goes alone or if I’m…

When my ex and I were engaged, everything was hunky dory until he was expected to do something during the wedding planning. Then Everything came out: he was terrified of getting married, his divorced parents allegedly hated each other, he proposed because he thought he’d lose me (spoiler alert: he did but that’s not…

This is so well described! Thank you.

I don’t disagree with this, necessarily, in terms of the actual reasons people break up — but for pervasive feelings of insecurity, I think, yes, absolutely.

I’m coming up on my 1st wedding anniversary, and while there have been struggles, this has hands down been the best year of my life. I keep wondering if that conventional wisdom that the 1st year is the hardest is just total bullshit, or if I got super lucky. Or, was it only the hardest because in the past couples…

Communication - THIS. SO MUCH THIS. We’ve been married 31 years now, and most of our (infrequent) arguments were resolved when we figured out what each of us was trying to get across to the other.

Biggest mistakes you can make in marriage as far as my six years and counting experience tell me: