Lots and lots of people experiment with drugs; most people dabble in alcohol. To ever try either is a decision, true. However, once you try - and most people do - becoming addicted is NOT a decision, it's a roll of the dice. You're lucky or you're not. The system could help by recognizing that addiction is not…

I think a lot of the reason you got insensitive comments is because often people want to write solely about their experience, without posing questions and without discussion. So many comments simply say "My experience with addiction was...", ending in a period, focusing only on being affected by drugs or alcohol in…

Look, I'm all for calling people out for making shit about them, but how is it possible that Aaron Sorkin gets let off the list?!

Actually, I'ma let you finish.

Good essay.

So, you must beware about your looks if you want to thrive. A guy like WANTS your couple extra pounds, so awesome, but obese people and other extremes are likely to be hurting their lives.

I'm pretty sure this person is a known troll.

With all your expertise and education, how can you not know that your individual preferences in cuddling partners are completely irrelevant to how teen girls feel about their bodies and talk within their peer groups? "Oh, gee — some total stranger with rock-hard abs says it's good to be as soft as a roll of Charmin! I…

Stop the presses! We have an expert here gals!

This is the greatest! And, btw, their dislike for Mallory made me dislike Mallory until I realized that she was awesome (at least no worse then the rest of them) and that the BC had to get over themselves. This realization was major in my preteen life.

LW#3: My soon-to-be-ex-husband actually left me in October for one of his coworkers, who was also one of my closest friends. Another friend & I still miss her. We were talking about how for my birthday dinner in January, it felt like someone was missing. I know it seems silly in the face of everything going on, but…

For the question #2: I think you should send her a card every now and then. It's really nice and not obstrusive. A little note that you are thinking about them. And mail that isn't bills is really fun to get.

Your deranged accusations about whatever I did or did not do with the toilet paper clearly spring from a place of hurt and jealousy. The sheer illogic seems dispositive to me.

Things I would dismiss without a second thought:

I can't believe he would even use the possibility that Mia was unfaithful to question her integrity when HE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH HER DAUGHTER

I found his statement about Ronan truly bizarre:

His response sounds palpably bitchy to me.

I'm so sick of dudes——-usually dudes——-talking about how Farrow (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) started this in the middle of a custody duspute.

Your username is perfect for this thread.

By judging some of these maps it would appear that the Mormons are right and Jesus is quite an avid marathoner.

Mpls Chain of Lakes - it's fucking beautiful when it is not frozen. So August. In August it's amazing.