- he got engaged 6 months after I moved out)

I was the girl in that situation. I was devastated to hear he had held off on breaking up with me until it was so bad he couldn't bear it any more. Yeah, I was vulnerable, but I was still competent, I could have handled it if we had broken up earlier. His "consideration" felt like a betrayal. It may not be like that…

drunk on beers instead!

Oh dear, I also got the "I want to break up and btw I haven't been happy in our relationship for YEARS" speech. I'm so sorry that you also had that experience. We interpreted "I'm not ready" as unsureness, when actually it was sureness of not wanting to commit. To quote Ani DiFranco, "the path of least resistance is…

You're free and single now, and you have plenty of time to heal in a familiar environment. I don't mean to be all "count your blessings, it could be worse", I know you're suffering right now. I just mean this is the best time to find out he's not the right one for you.

I did the moving to Germany and then breaking up thing. You dodged a bullet. I hope your family are supportive to you in this dark time, and we're here anyway:)

So, um, I'm drunk on multiple bottles of wine right now BASED ON THE ABOVE SITUATION. HIGH FIVE! Someone? Anyone?

I had a semi-recent breakup that left me homeless in a foreign country, I can relate to the having to reassess your whole life. On the positive side, it means you're not sleepwalking through life based on what you think you want, you are being conscious and mindful! On the negative side, it's fucking hard when you're…

Exactly, I do the same. Though sometimes it has the opposite effect, and people are all "Friday, you'd be so cute if you lose the glasses and cardigan and put on some makeup", and I'm like "NO I WOULD LOOK JUST LIKE I DO NOW ONLY WITH MAKEUP AND WITHOUT MY GLASSES AND CARDIGAN."

It's not even a law that "still" exists, it was brought in less than 10 years ago when John O'Donoghue was Minister for Justice. It's never used though.

The article said

In Ireland legally you can take time off for medical appointments, that's really not the issue. If the author was saying that Ireland's draconian abortion laws discriminate against low income and migrant women who cannot afford to go to the UK/Netherlands for an abortion that would be true, but the statement in the…

Absolutely. As they fear, we're trying to open the floodgates and sneak abortion in through the back door :)

Let's hope that this serves as a wake-up call to the governments of Ireland and Chile

And the UN saying there should be exceptions in cases of rape and incest essentially supports this view, as it's saying "abortion is okay where it's not the woman's fault".

I'm pretty sure its citizens identify as being Irish on at least some level

It's really weird to hear a Belfast accent described as an Irish accent. I know it could technically be true (depending on whether he identifies as British or Irish), but it's still strange.

Didn't Beyonce have a song about a hundred years ago called "check up on it" which included the words "twerk it"? Not only has the concept been around for ages before Miley did it, Beyonce brought it to white audiences a long long time ago. But it's only noteworthy/a term worth remembering when a young white chick…

Except people are not french fries...

Second last paragraph: http://jezebel.com/the-crappy-thi…