I read it as her not really being heard. I won’t speak for her, but being in a similar situation, I know that the habit of being hopeful to the person who has expressed their sadness tends to ignore the reality of someone’s feelings and situation. It starts to feel like you are being invalidated or erased.

Hi Aimée, I am in the same boat as you, though I think I am older than you. (I will be 38 in January) I too have no word to describe that dull ache after a few years of semi-voluntary celibacy. I don’t have any great advice for you, so all can say is that I’m here, and I hear and understand. Our situations may have…

I may only say this because I have a bias towards it, but there are large and small consulting companies that might want to bring you on for your accounting background, and may pay better. You would just need to show them that you have other soft skills to go along with it.

Deerlady83 and ShezzalovesWatson, I’m so sorry for your losses. My heart is with you, sending you some positive energy.

I personally love my sugar burnt on my creme brûlée.

Geez, that sucks. I’m sorry.

Yes, yes, yes!!!! My favorite Christmas movie, and dare I say it, better than A Christmas Story? Yes, I do say it.

I am the same way — a heathen (who grew up with church) whose favorite part was always the Silent Night with the candles. I had forgotten about that part until you mentioned it here. We had a fairly small church, so it felt really beautiful and intimate when we did it. Geez, I miss that now.

Whoa.

Awww, I miss him so much and he’s the first one I think about, then Morgan Freeman, then Alanis Morissett...

Ah, a fellow Dorothy Hamill hair victim!!! I was also probably 4 when my mom took me in. We have pictures — I am a very smiley, happy, pony-tailed girl in the first picture, but in the last one, I’m just sitting there with one hand on each arm rest, staring into space with the Dorothy Hamill cut. It’s still…

I don’t use a specific blanket, but more like several quilts and blankets on my bed that seems to subtly help me get comfortable faster. In fact, I think I have at least 4 right now, but I’ve been known to have at least that many plus a comforter.

I don’t use a specific blanket, but more like several quilts and blankets on my bed that seems to subtly help me get comfortable faster. In fact, I think I have at least 4 right now, but I’ve been known to have at least that many plus a comforter.

Oh, how I wish I had kept my plastic Princess Leia mask from the ‘80s!

I just want to say how weird and satisfying it is to be reading this article on on-traditional sex, gender and love while watching Only You with Marisa Tomei from 1994. I’m at the part where she’s in Venice searching for her soulmate...

OMG, KATE MCKINNON! She sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and played the piano in the cold open! She was magnificent!

Actually, I did get my period on election day. I wasn’t sure if it was a sign of the apocalypse or an affirmation of the triumph of women. So, now that we are in the zombie apocalypse....?

I haven’t felt this shitty since 9/11 and last year when within a span of six weeks, starting in May, I had to put my 12-year old cat to sleep because she succumbed to cancer (most likely due to the tuna I gave her everyday because I didn’t research what tuna everyday could do to cats); my mom fell and broke her hip…

Maybe we should also all watch Cocoon or The Abyss? They feel somehow apropos, but I don’t know why.

Ditto, and last night I finally broke down and went back to one of my good ol’ stand-by movies: Princess Bride.