It’s totally subjective, because that’s the way most Swiss want it. When we apply for citizenship, as we plan to do, we’ll have to meet with a community government committee. They can ask us pretty much anything they want, and decide however they want. It’s more like trying to join a club that anything else. Either…

There’s an ad out in the canton of Bern right now that uses that same woman in a niqab on it. This one is telling people to vote against easier naturalisation.

The Swiss naturalisation process varies by community and canton. If you piss off the local community, you’re not going to have an easy time of it. Some communities do let their citizens vote, as they appear to have done here. (Some have a small committee that decides, instead of letting all locals vote.) Since their…

The difference is, people with kids do actually know what it’s like to live without kids, because we all did that before. It’s not a if we’ve forgotten that part of life or even how we judged parents ourselves at one time.

That’s what I thought, too. I would have been much more curious and nosey about that than “kiss-kissy time.” Kissy-kissy time would have sounded boring or gross or both to me & my siblings. Christmas talk was the good stuff that we all wanted to know about.

You definitely need to say *something* to prepare a kid. My parents just disappeared one day when I was about four. Their door was locked, and when I knocked, they didn’t answer (that part was especially worrying, and not their smartest move.) I was deeply concerned and went and got the neighbour, as I had been told…

Exactly. Thanks for your kind words. I am still in the middle of divorcing him, or towards the end, with any luck. He keeps finding ways to make it all drag on. It’s been three years now, but my lawyer feels pretty confident it will have to end some time in the first half of this year, no matter what. He said he’s…

I was surprised by that, too. She didn’t seem all that much younger than her mother in this clip.

Thank you for making this point. My ex was someone I thought of as a really sweet guy who just had some issues with anger, until I got pregnant. Even as he got angrier, I thought he was just not dealing with impending fatherhood so well. I just could not see that this was who he was, and it was never going to get…

That’s all very kind of you to say. Sometimes I feel strong, but sometimes I feel shattered. It’s a long recovery. I can’t even imagine what this poor woman went through for all those years.

“Plenty of women are willing to escape with nothing and start over from scratch”

Jersey Boy is a hybrid tomato, and the question was ridiculous, so you’re probably right.

It’s a good idea, it’s just too expensive for most people. Obviously, these two could afford it, though.

I find it odd that anything negative said against Brad from an anonymous source is assumed to be someone lying on Angelina’s behalf. Anything negative said against her as taken as irrefutable proof of how horrible she is.

The police and state prosecutor will be giving a press conference this afternoon, but they did already report that the dead guy found by the river a few hundred meters away was the shooter.

There are other differences, not just the Zurich story “not fitting the narrative.” For one thing, the shooter In Zurich is still unknown, and the connection between that shooting with the dead body down the street is also still unknown, or the Zurich police are at least not giving any information if they do…

My boyfriend’s stepfather grabbed my ass bold as anything, as the whole family was leaving the dining room after a meal. He didn’t look at me, just grabbed my ass, squeezed it, and kept walking. I was so shocked, I didn’t know what to say. I said nothing, because I knew he would pretend he’s just accidentally brushed…

Thanks. She’s doing a lot better all these years later, but she was never the same after that happened. It makes me sick reading the way some people still believe that women are to blame for being attacked. It’s just insane.

And it also lets you off the hook when you don’t support your own family members when you let them down so badly after their own rapes, because you are the one who can’t actually cope. After my mother was raped, her mother and aunt asked her what she had done to deserve it.

My mother was in her own home, in a quilted robe when she was raped. Obviously asking for it.