Why do you find it so hard to press another button on your screen when you know it would make her feel good? Seems like an easy decision to me.

Good for her. As a receptionist in a family law office, I can tell you that the moment someone decides to file and get out if a crappy relationship is damn near magical. I see people come out of their inital consult breathing deeply and with a smile that may be a little shaky, but with decent people to guide them and…

They could’ve shot her in the fracas of detaining her, nowadays.

So sorry.

And getting a big bag of sample flags.

They also turn the tables and make it seems as though they are the actual victim so that the person they’re manipulating is constantly in debt to them for the “wrongs” they’ve perpetrated. Very basically something like this - “You’ve hurt my feelings with some abstract and perceived slight, so I’m right to not trust…

I’m sorry. It’s painful to watch a loved one be abused when they won’t/can’t help themselves and there’s nothing you can do. Feelings get complicated when you also love the person who’s abusing them. Your mom is very brave for taking the steps to leave him after so many years.

We can judge him, though, right? Because I am judging him. She has made at least 2 poor choices and maybe could use some help at life skills, but he's dangerous.

Yeah, she seems to currently have a roomate. I’m not saying that her situation is a good one or well advised; but as an immigrant woman in NYC she may not have the ability to just pack up and leave this chuckle-head, damn.

well i’m happy for her and hope everything turns out for the best! :)

It’s NYC though, and she’s from Guyana. She probably can’t afford to get her own apartment and may be stuck with him. (I am just guessing, but often in these situations someone is fiancially dependant.)

This. I mean, did people just not read “Othello” in high school? Jealousy kills. Actually forget Othello, just read a news site metro section.

so? maybe she does. maybe she doesn’t. maybe this type of relationship behavior seems normal to her. who the fuck are we to judge her

My favorite thing about being single is being able to do whatever the hell I want whenever the hell I want without having to check in with anyone, explain myself/my choices to anyone, or mesh my schedule with someone else’s. However, there are the occasions where I think, “Damn, am I glad no jealous nutjob is going to…

Sometimes I am sad I am single. Then there are other times where I realize I can go on vacation and nobody will call in bomb scares about me out of jealousy, and I feel free as a bird and it's glorious.

This is excellent. I kind of want to do something similar to this- a “birth” announcement upon completion/acceptance of my thesis. It’s my baby, dammit. I’ll obnoxiously post photos of me cradling and staring down at the hardcover bound book, listing all the details like, “she’s a solid 1.5 lbs, 8.5 x 11 inches, with…

This is truly delightful. I love the amount of effort she put into everything (the coffee mug, for example).

I’m not really Tina Belcher, either.

I walked around an exhibition with my mother, it was modernist oil paintings, lots of layers and texture and there was a 13 year old boy with his mother and he whispered “I just really want to touch it, I won’t but I really want to”, I just thought “I feel ya bro”. Hands in pockets at all times.

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