They all but shit bricks when she suggested healthy eating and exercise to reduce childhood obesity. The people who want to tell women what to do with their bodies were screaming, “How dare you tell us/our kids what to do?”

Yeah, remember when eating healthy was politicized too. Michelle Obamma tried to encourage kids and family to eat healthily and GOP all came out and opposed her.

This is the exact same shit Republicans do with gun control.

The “funny” thing is climate change doesn’t give one single shit if you believe in it or not. It’s happening. Try not believing in gravity and jump off a building. Gravity and climate change gives zero fucks.

“Mr Pruitt, the ice caps are melting at a rate where most of the Arctic animal population could be extinct in the next 25 years”

Yup. “Staying together/forgiving your partner’s crimes for the kids” is just a recipe for kids who grow up weird because they were born in soil poisoned with the tension and anger that you totally were putting out there even though you swear you totally weren’t.

I agree. Getting out at 7 months pregnant seems like an impossibly difficult task, but imagine how much harder it will be with a newborn...who then turns into an infant...and then a toddler...and then a preschooler...a kid has pressing needs at every age, and with a kid, getting out of a shitty marriage is going to…

He’s been doing this for half a decade. And mind you, this was before they got engaged, during their engagement, during the honeymoon phase, and everything after. Their relationship has been a lie for the most part and nothing can salvage it. Nothing.

Seriously. It takes a special kind of scumbucket to marry and have kids with someone while keeping options open with a side piece for five entire years. There’s a time and place for breezy cool girl advice - this isn’t it. This shit rips people’s lives apart. The emotional pain is often physical as well. Every day…

Yeah, that was my suspicion as well. Not too many guys are willing to jerk off long-distance for five years without ever trying to meet in person. It may not have actually happened, but I 100% guarantee he tried to make it happen.

See, this is what we call “actionable advice”. She’s looking for specific things she can DO, and if she’s resigned herself to the fact that they’re going coparent, she should get her financial and custodial houses in order BEFORE she’s stuck with a newborn that there’s no guarantee he’ll help with.

LW 1: GET OUT. Do not listen to this advice here and get out now. It’s not going to get better.

You should write this column.

I know we will have to co-parent, regardless of the outcome, so we are both seeking counseling in order to work through issues to be better parents. I just don’t know what is right, or at least, what other people would do in a situation like this.

Or maybe . . . she’s exaggerating a tiny bit.

She credits her “comfort level” in the GOP, which led to her rise to the position of, as she puts it, “the highest ranking non-relative female in his White House,” right next to her main man, to her ability “to think like a man and to behave like a lady.”

Seriously - most Republican men will intently (try to) listen to any woman with straight blonde hair, no matter what the rest of her looks like.

“to think like a man and to behave like a lady.”

Super glad I’m not the only one whose mind went to the wrong diaphragm.