Well, I'm sure week-long benders would make anyone exhausted and dehydrated, so the headlines weren't complete lies

Sure, but “exhaustion and dehydration” has always been code for O.D. or mental breakdown. Everyone knows that, it’s like when someone says they’re going to powder their nose when they’re really have to pee. It’s a way to inform people what’s going on without being too blunt

Can someone tell John Cusack to gtfo of Johnny Depp’s head?

Yeah, I did that too before I had a kid. But it did nothing to prepare me for the change in personality, or reveal of latent personality traits that came with becoming a parent. And the T.I. situation is waaaaay down the line, a lifetime away. Yesterday, my friend told me about a disagreement with her husband because…

That’s Molly Osberg’s spin, but she doesn’t want children and didn't talk to anyone who has frozen their eggs. I've done ivf. You don't do the hormone treatments and egg retrieval for funsies

I’m single, but the things my friends fight about the most are: 1. Level of tidiness at home: what should be cleaned and how often. 2. Different parenting styles. But since you have no idea what your parenting style will be before you have kids, you’ll just have to hope for the best. Parenthood brings out previously…

We broke up three years ago, I still have conversations with him in my head. 

Find your inner zen and don’t say anything even remotely political. If others want to engage, whatever, but just ignore the trumpians. Otherwise you’ll just get angry and frustrated and continue the argument in your head afterwards. They’ll probably find it very provoking that you're not taking their bait, let them…

Don’t give other people’s kids noisy toys. Ever. Unless you hate their parents and/or want them to hate you

Unlikable to men

The only person I know who froze her eggs did it because she was mid-thirties and absolutely panicking that she wouldn’t find “the right one” in time to have a baby. This article frames it as some kind of indulgence along the lines of a spa day, but if you’re single, want kids and worry it might not happen because…

I think the problem here is not the data, but Huang’s interpretation of the reasons. As someone who desperately wanted children and for a long time thought it would never happen, I had a hard time seeing babies and pregnant women, even pictures of them. Fertility clinics in my experience avoid pictures of pregnant…

I thought it was super uncomfortable too when I first tried it, but the cup softened a bit after a few uses, I figured out how to put it in correctly and I cut off half the stem, and now I love it. Can't feel it when it's there and the removal is far easier than a tampon

I thought it was super uncomfortable too when I first tried it, but the cup softened a bit after a few uses, I…

She sounds awesome! The 50ies was super oppressive for women, we were certainly not supposed to do challenging sports feats. Or tell others how to do sports. Congratulations to Dame Fenton, well-deserved recognition 

I’ve done ivf. While I was going through that, I followed a bunch of ivf hashtags on instagram. There are a LOT of people who want a child more than anything in the world. The intensity of their desire, desperation, pain, hope, panic, grief, happiness was shocking sometimes. I've gone through many of those emotions…

We can get my female, australian, rugby-playing friend to ask him

40 years? Unless he started med school when he was a tween, it’s high time he should retire.

Does his wife still support him too? I would love to know what’s going on inside her head. She would still get money if they divorced, they’ve been married forever and I doubt there’s a prenup. So she’d get half his assets and when he dies the kids get the rest. That's a pretty good deal, and she wouldn't have to be…

You read “ok” as passive-agressive, I read overuse of exclamation marks as an indication that the person is too enthusiastic and excitable, over-eager and possibly a bit feeble. Now what?

I buy rectangular plastic containers like the one below from my neighbourhood thai place, or keep the containers when I get take-our. They have two sizes, square containers use space more effectively than round ones and these can also be washed and reused. I’m sure the thai place charge me 10x more for the containers…