Common law is only recognized in a handful of states. It's not the norm that partnerships turn into legal relationships that no one signed onto.

You can become a family with a lot of people for a lot of other reasons and in a lot of other ways than marrying them. I’m much mor a family with my partner and his son than 70% of the people I know who get married. Yeah. There’s the legal part. But marriage doesn’t “make” a family. That's just not the case for so…

I know from seeing it that there are still SO MANY PEOPLE who see engagement / marriage as either a relationship goal or a bellweather. It is reversible. It is not the end-goal you think it is.

I love when you mention your busia and your Polishness. I’m 41, so my mom’s busia (who was still busia to us) was our first-wave, between WWI and WWII. We called my grandparents grandma and grandpa because despite that they spoke Polish as well as English, they /had/ to be American. They refused to teach polish to my…

I think that, too, but they actually stayed together. It takes a lot more than a determination to be a husband stealer to go to this extent. They were all young and famous and no one ever told any of them ‘no’. Maybe they all grew up and have their own, actual happy lives now. 😀

Katie’s dad is a lawyer and they VERY deftly handled a situation where they extracted her and their daughter from a dangerous cult that few people, if anyone, have been able to navigate around successfully. That Katie made the careful apology to Leah Remini (and ABC said Holmes reached out to them), I think they have…

See also: Springfield.

In my 2 years of working in restaurants directly (work in outside support now), EVERY SINGLE dine-and-dash was a white table (in a diverse area with a very diverse clientele).

Just took a listen to the songs you recommended. Last Goodbye is still a bit too dance-beat-y for me, but While You Were Sleeping is flat out beautiful. Thank you so much for the suggestion. I’ll definitely seek out more.

I'll have to find them and give them a listen. Thanks for the tip. I had no idea. I so vehemently loathe her singles and so rarely listen to pop music that I assumed that's all there was. Glad I was wrong.

Comcast.

Right now, he’s trolling republicans more than he’s trolling democrats.

Took me three calls, and finally reporting them to my credit card company, to get those charges to stop.

You shouldn’t need a third-party auditor to say “stop your deceptive business practices and put an unsubscribe button on your damned website.”

Agreed. I can’t listen to her music for more than 2 seconds without becoming stabby. I once got out in the middle of a shower to switch the station when she came on.

How about, instead of implying “I got attacked by the ladies” you actually realized what you said, how dumb it was, and say, “you know what, most people notice things about other humans and the reality we live in that makes us all human. However, kindness and empathy makes us usually not mention it. And it was VERY…

Congrats that you notice! You’ve found us out! We have periods!!! Do you also have an extra-special visual sense that lets you know when the sun is going to come up? When that routine part of nature happens, do you also feel awkward about those work interactions? Sensory awareness of natural things that happen in…

Some of us can smell when the gents are sweaty, horny, or otherwise, you know, being male. If you feel the need to have awkward work conversations because you can detect a woman is, gasp, menstruating, that's your issue. Not ours.

Uh, have you ever heard of Chicago?

I usually love it... Tangible puzzle yay! But the problems come up when 1) instructions don’t match pieces, 2) pieces are missing, 3) pieces are cut just off and don’t match up.