Amen. Because letting him treat you this way? Won’t make him love you.

What he’s doing is cruel and unkind. He’s showing you who he is.

It is immensely unkind to say “we can be together now but at x point we’ll go completely dark and never speak again.” That sounds like a cruel and selfish move.

I’ll give you my not-mature 2 cents. Completely disappearing is the only power you have in this situation, and I would do it immediately. Warn him, don’t warn him, who cares. But if you do this on his timeline according to his wishes based on his life choices, then it’s all about him, and you will still pine. I’m…

Yoooo do not need this. For real. Don’t even waste your time wondering what could explain it, because the answer is still “nothing you need in your life”. I hope you got yourself some cute jewelry and nice chocolate.

Ugh. If it were me - which it isn’t!!! - I would seriously reconsider the relationship.

I can see panicking because you didn’t get the other person anything and then acting like it’s no big deal ... IF YOU ARE A CHILD. Because that would be a CHILDISH thing to do. But I’m guessing he’s at least mid-20s, and that’s damn well sufficiently old and experienced to be able to forestall one’s panic long enough…

Direct action gets the attention of the entire community, which is what gets politicians to care. And more than that, it tells the kids who are traumatized and need protection right now that 1) they have agency and 2) people care about them. Actions like this promote community and prevent PTSD.

It pains me to put a sympathetic gloss on anything around Tom Brady, however, I get it from the kids’ perspective. Dad is a workaholic. He travels a lot. He spends his free time reviewing game tape. He’s got a weird diet and exercises designed to keep him good at his job. They have to believe that his work is really…

There’s a part of the facebook documentary released the other week where their five year old daughter tells Tom that she’d like it if the Dolphins got to win sometimes. I think the kid is fine and Gisele was just put on the spot by a reporter to answer a question?

I’m so glad you wrote this. I wish more politicians could be forced to read stories like yours so that they understand what the difference is like between having good insurance, and shitty insurance or no insurance. Republicans will still claim, “Oh, nobody dies in this country because they don’t have insurance.”

She already made a point of that in her very first announcement that she had cancer:

Hi, dear. I actually redacted my comment since DG’s response was far superior in terms of advancing us to an inspirational future.

We never deserved them.

She’s just trollin’ us at this point, right?

Exactly. In the French case in particular, it also swung back during the first and second Restorations. The tricolor was out of fashion; the Bourbon white was back. Even Marie Therese was chastised because she wore the toques of the English and was not, at least in fashion sense, celebratory of the restoration of the…

Jesus, listening to these people (Wyatt, Ivanka) hold court about “hard work,” “work ethic,” “perseverance,” and the like is fucking nauseating. Like, you assholes do realize that you “starting a business” is less fucking work than say, my figuring out how to get to work each morning. They haven’t struggled for shit,…

The issue that democrats need to understand though - if they changed their platform and became the party of 100% prohibition no abortions for anyone - the republican purse strings would simply move the goalpost.

Ugh, that season was so bad they couldn’t even do a three-part reunion. I barely watched most of that season. I only tuned in for Iceland hoping for some scenery. I was disappointed. As far as I am concerned, they could scrap that whole cast. I could begrudgingly let Tamra stay. I like Megan, but I think I am the only…

I hesitate to be too quick to agree with you, because I don’t know if I do or if I’m just happy to hear someone defending him articulately. As a liberal, it’s nice to hear a good argument for our side.