“I felt safe dating you because I knew I was in no danger of falling in love with you.” That one still rattles around in the back of my head 15 years later.

“Your past has made you a beautiful but damaged person, and your sadness is too much for me to handle.” - by my former partner of 3 years, 6 weeks after I quit my grad school and job so we could move 2,500 miles for her job.
Followed a week later by, “I’m sorry if you’re hurting, but I’ve moved on, and it feels good.”

One time I got in a fight with a boyfriend while he was inside of me. That’s when I knew it was really over. I was like I need you to get out of my vagina and my apartment.

I was dumped 3 wks ago tmrw in a 10 minute, drunk telephone convo by my ex... who I thought was my soulmate. Not only did he manage to tear down my physical appearance in the process, but he also indicated that he had other “options” and his parting words: “keep your chin up”

Ooof. I’ve gotten some doozies:

I left this in a new thread, but it really belongs here:

“See, the thing is that if we stay together I have a feeling that it’ll end with me saying ‘I do’...when they swear me in to testify about your missing body.”

Like, “Just saw a ghost and none of my six daughters are married yet” level.

7. You’re definitely talking about wanting the right to vote, but not actually doing anything about it.

“Would you give this century-old vibrator a shot?”

Your blood volume increases and your blood also has to start circulating through the placenta, as well as all kinds of hormone level shifts, up and down, and it really can be a rollercoaster.

Ha!

She is exactly that girl. She’s an actress on NCIS.

If we rejected or accepted studies based on how they were reported in the popular media, no scientific progress would be made. Ever.

holy moses my dad was talking about this just a week ago. he was basically all but shaming my mom for having me via c-section and thus robbing me of those potent microbiomes that have left me an emotionally bereft glutten-eating heathen of schlubbiness.

Nicely done. I was in the bulkhead seating with myself to the right and a man to the left (two empty seat between us). And some very large man ran up and pounced on the sear immediately to my left. His legs were splayed and completely got in the way of a comfortable flight for me.

My wife and I were cozied up next to each other on our flight back from our honeymoon, sitting in isle and middle of a 3 seat section.

Polite, shy teenage girl sitting in the 3rd (window) seat, laptop and earbuds etc. keeping to herself contently.

The Helicopter-poster parent, overprotective mother a few rows up asks…

In my experience this is something some men do (either purposely or obliviously) to exert power over women. Like you’re on a half-empty bus and a skeevy dude insists you move your grocery bags so he can sit next to you when empty rows abound. Men: DON’T DO THIS.

Yuck!! That’s like those dudes who sit right next to you on the metro when there are plenty of empty rows. I always just get up and move, not speaking a word (other than “excuse me” when they’ve already spread their knees open) and move to one of those empty rows. A lot of times, they’ll say something like “I’m just…

I had a woman do this! On my way to Dubai (then onwards to Baghdad) from DC (looooooong flight), evening flight, mostly empty. I had the most blessed thing occur - I wound up with the middle row all to myself! I developed immediate plans to drink several vodkas and pass out, for once, comfortably. I stayed in my end…