I have loved Aziz Ansari for years. I’m on the all the dates episode right now of season 2, and I am SO glad I am married.

The comments I was referring to were ungreyed after I made my remark.

Is that really so different than telling a distraught person you’ll pray for them? Tarot cards are just as useless, but if it makes the other person feel better, is it bad?

Thank you for the ROI characterization of this. I don’t think I’m at the tipping point yet, but have started thinking about how much of my time is spent “working hard” on my marriage (and how little of my partner’s is), and feel similarly about “marriage is hard work” comments. Your phrasing is an incredibly useful…

She never claims she’s an expert on love. If you read the article, she actually clearly states she’s kind of a fuck-up and thought it would be helpful to share these stories with others, as they have really resonated with a lot of the ways she has felt like she failed in life.

I think it’s important to distinguish the…

Looks like were just on different sides of the same coin. Personally, I’m glad I’ve grown up in a generation that’s always had divorce as an option. I think it makes us more cautious about commitment to begin with while also not being parallelized because what if it’s a big mistake!  

TFW you have the most international goals of anyone to ever live and people judge you and your wife because they don’t like her blog. If I’m her, I’m like, I can’t hear you over the sound this World Cup trophy makes when I whistle across the rim.

No one knows what goes on in a marriage except for the 2 who are in it. For all they know the well-meaning busy body could be telling a DV victim to stay with her abuser. It’s fucking hard enough to get someone to leave an abusive spouse without some judgy idiot spouting off mid-century platitudes about marriage. Even…

I thought most people agreed that incompatible sexual orientation was a solid dealbreaker, unless both partners are completely on board with having a sexless, companion marriage.  

She is also in recovery (as am I and she is big in my women-in-recovery circles) and spirituality is a large part of her recovery.

Good thing Craig asked her if it was okay before he cheated on her repeatedly and then lied about it... OH. WAIT.

Yeah, forgive me if I don’t have a lot of sympathy for her douchebag ex-husband who couldn’t even tell that she wasn’t enjoying herself when they were having sex. *shrug*

Except, as you’ll find if you read the article, she writes in her book that she never enjoyed sex with her husband, even when they were still in love. And that her husband clearly suspected she might be gay. So... um... I’d give her a bit of a break for finally wanting to enjoy sex and be in love with someone who will…

-Woman launches blog which becomes popular because of her honesty about mental illness and motherhood.

It’s clear that I’m in the minority here, but I love her. Is her writing style a little squicky and over-the-top? Sure. Is she a little too rah-rah for lots of people? Absolutely. But she has common cause with many many people on this blog. She’s determined and passionate and has used her influence for good,…

It is possible she changed.

Glennon was an addict to drugs — and is now an addict to being in codependent relationships with broken people. Her ex-husband, who has his sex addict issues, and now Abby (who has her own problems). Nothing shocking, to be honest.

I have been following Glennon a long time and her work was really helpful when my kids were younger--few people were so frank about the parenting experience. That said, as soon as I read Love Warrior, I told my friends that Glennon’s next step was to come out. I mean, come on, why with all her work on her self did she…

If I had a dollar for every DV victim who came in talking about how their “christian” “therapist” told them that ‘strong’ women fight for their marriages, I would be wealthier than Richard Branson. Fuck this nonsense.

She’s not my cup of tea, but I do think her piece on the days being long and the years being short helped lots of people reconcile the grind of small children with loving those children.

“Sometimes you have to be a warrior to stay.”