This is despicable. I’m a PreK teacher and as such, I’m usually the first experience children have with a formal school setting. It is PARAMOUNT that that experience is one filled with a sense of security, belonging, trust, and love. In addition, punishment for “bad” behavior DOES NOT WORK with children that young. It…

Can we do a thing where people who hate their jobs go find different jobs?

I found a new boyfriend soon after leaving my husband. He was about 8 years younger than me. We were all activists, and as is typical in the activist world, there were a lot of internecine power struggles over who was the most committed to liberation, and who was doing activism right. A lot of oneupmanship. My…

Does it count if it didn’t last forever?

I met my husband at a birthday party for his best friend who happened to be my upstairs neighbor. I had been drinking lemon drops all night (please don’t judge, I had just turned 21 and didn’t know any better) and was feeling fairly confident in my abilities to pick up the hottest guy at the party. He was so gorgeous, …

Blind Dates run in my family.

In the 1970s a university graduate hitchhiked from Glasgow to Tehran to start his new job. On the way he met a very posh man who was going to stay at his father’s house whilst it was empty. They exchanged info, and the hitchhiker was invited to a party at the British ambassador’s house. A ballet dancer who was friends…

As I’ve mentioned previously here, I met my now husband while dating someone else, but I was at a house party in high school at the end of senior year and everyone was drinking but me, so I felt hella awkward. I was sitting on a bed, and he flopped his tall ass down next to me, “why are you not drinking?” So I told…

I went on a vacation to Cuba for 2 weeks when I was in between jobs. My now husband was my Airbnb host at the second place I stopped. I’m bilingual (from college) and he speaks little English. I’m an Ivy League-educated East Coast, middle class girl, and he studied theater and grew up picking tobacco and taking care…

Sorry for the long story.

Not mine, my parents. Dad home on leave, nobody around to drink with but a neighborhood guy he’s known forever. All night, dude talks about being in love with this girl (who’s engaged), drags dad to girls house in another town. Shitfaced childhood friend introduces them, and immediately pukes near the front door. Hot…

Not mine, but my parents’ friends. They met about forty years ago when she was a bridesmaid at his wedding. They hit it off, But he had literally just gotten married that day so they both shrugged it off. A year goes by, first marriage goes to shit and they run into each other in the street.

My mom’s office had a UPS driver who was a sarcastic pain in the ass. One day she couldn’t find a seat at a popular fried chicken restaurant during a busy lunch hour. The UPS driver was there and offered to let her sit at his table with him, promising not to talk to her. Luckily they did talk, and they’ve been married…

Not mine, and it’s super simple, but also incredibly sweet .

My fiance and I met over Tinder - I’m a Tinderella - and I 100% tried to ghost him after we slept together on the night we met after messaging back-and-forth for a few weeks. He caught me trying to leave in the very early morning and convinced me to stay with arguments that began with “it’s still dark out” and ended…

Someone suggested my brother-in-law date a certain girl at the college he attended. He did not know her but knew her roommate. He calls roommate for an introduction, but roommate is out. Third roommate answers the phone. Somehow, despite any conceivable reason for doing so, they get to talking.

Not my story, buy my brother’s:

I have had to relive my trauma in front of the entire world, and have seen my life picked apart by people on television, in the media, and in this body who have never met me or spoken with me.

It’s been pretty off the rails- he’s been really angry in this one. There’s occasional gibberish, more anger, some stuff that sounds like facts, more anger, he struggles with words and tries to fill in stuff, more anger, ANGER ANGER ANGER. And now he just said that people at the U.N. weren’t laughing at him, they were…

David Corn had some good live tweeting of whatever that was that just happened: