I have a very intelligent friend who shares articles from very intelligent sources on Facebook that discuss and analyze why Trump isn't going to win. At first, I envied his optimism, but I don't think even he is optimistic anymore. I think he's just begging for our lives at this point.

I’m 48 and I’ve never heard the term cuffin either. I assume it’s something the horny kids are doing while my ovaries prune.

Fuck yes! I just adopted a pup in September, and it was the best decision ever. I’m also going through a weird breakup (it happened the same dumb way it did when I dated the idiot two years ago, shoulda learned my lesson) and I swear having the dog has helped take the sting away. So glad my awesome landlord allowed…

i want to get so rich that i don’t care about writing $1000 to ideologically opposed candidates smdh

The problem with those lovely cream colored chunky blankets is that if I got one, it would never be washed and therefore would get Dog hair and cat hair and pizza sauce and cat pee and Chinese food sauce, and pot sticker sauce, and tikka masala sauce and white wine and red wine and vomit and period blood all over it…

Thank you. It’s just part of the aging process for all of us and the natural spread of where we are in the country. I get the point of the original post was about an 18 year old who is newly away from their parents, but I think the older ages should be able to have this conversation too.

This letter writer is giving me strong flavors of my mom. The martyrdom, using money/gifts as control. The question of “should a young adult text their mom back” isn’t really my takeaway here, it’s that a well - adjusted person would not have written this letter.

The best thing I ever did with my mom (who has narcissistic tendencies) was to call her emotional bluffs. Like, when she would hang up on me in a huff and try to give me the silent treatment - I just let her. I didn’t try to grovel my way back to her good graces. First time it took FOUR MONTHS for her to get back in…

I think a once-a-week check in is reasonable, but be careful about the situation right now. I was similar to your son in my final year of high school (lots of extracurriculars, job, homework), my mom clearly wasn’t ready either, and took it out on me in a few nasty ways. I don’t know you! and I’m sure you’re lovely!…

Absolutely it is not crazy to think check-ins are expected. In fact, they are important in that first year of college. I would set up a day and time once a week or so that he agrees to. That way, you can settle into a routine that works for you both.

I disagree. As an adult, a child should have the maturity to acknowledge when things are being done for you and, at a minimum, talk to your parents every now and then and respond to a text when they check in. It’s part of growing up. I look back on the times I ignored both parents when they just wanted a hello in…

I think a once a week check in is absolutely reasonable. A trick I (a long out off college/my parent’s house old) use to let them know I’m alive without having to talk every day is play Words with Friends with them. If we play a word every day or two, they don’t worry about my being alive. And it’s handy for messaging…

I went back to school as an adult, and would make a point of telling my mother when my classes were, so she wouldn’t call me during them and then get mad when I didn’t answer. One semester, I had a late registration time and was only able to get one class that met one day a week. Guess which day she would always try…

But look, paying for college doesn’t mean your kid has to talk to you in a meaningful way.

Not gonna lie, this is one of my fears as my only child, my son, is leaving for college this summer. I’ve been a SAHM, a decision my husband and I made before the kid was born, and I have zero regrets, but I’ve seen many changes just the past few months, as he has a full school schedule, plays in the jazz band so he…

When my kids were babies I worried when took a shower that they might need me. I would even feel a bit guilty. Because they were babies. Your mom is a big girl now and has to learn to handle her own life.

You need to do what’s best for you. If you can’t deal with it right now, then tough titties for her. You can’t be her emotional support for everything.

I agree - this post is way over the top. Barring some dysfunctional family backstory, the adult child owes the parents polite behavior (returning calls, being nice) just as much as the parents owe the adult child polite behavior. Unless the adult child wants to break away from her parents entirely - including…

I always liked Louis CK’s “I dunno they’re your dumb kids tell them what you want.”

Ugh millennials think they invented everything.