Karl Rove should be tried at the Hague.

I know I speak for the entire AV Club when I say we are all SO sorry that you had to find out this way, seeing how close you were. Condolences.

I had a ‘friend’ who was also a coworker who LOVED being manipulative in making me question my passion for my career/job. She was OBSESSED with ‘making it’ in our field and would say shit like, “You don’t sound like you made the right choice since this doesn’t seem to be your passion.” after I told her stuff I liked…

I just wanted to point out the plus side, which is - you seem to recognize you learned some things from this woman about business and work life. In a way, by taking some of her time, you benefitted, even though it was not meant to be a long term friendship. I have a lot of people I think may go on to be good friends,…

I don’t have the words to tell you how very sorry I am about your ‘friend’. May karma truly bitchslap her very soon.

I'm so very sorry.

All the admiration, none of the work, I’m guessing.

I got diagnose with terminal cancer. My best friend of 20+ years dropped me after a year. Said she didn’t have time to be my friend any more. Said she would still call me to check in occasionally. That was 6 months ago and I haven’t heard from her. All I expected from her was 1-2 phone calls a month and maybe 1-2…

Oh those can be the worst. But if you feel a whole lot better after, then it had to happen.
When I was much younger, I labored under the misapprehension that if someone wanted to be my friend, I had to say yes, because god forbid I should disappoint anyone.
This garnered me two people I should never have let into my…

A therapist once explained it to me like this. Whatever you were giving him was enough to make him not want to risk telling you or anyone else about his long-term relationship. He clearly got something out of your relationship he couldn’t get anywhere else in his life.

Dear white people, you have to help POC, especially black men, in such situations. They may literally get murdered and people will assume they are guilty. Stay, record, be prepared to be a witness and if you can, intervene, but do not call the cops. And same goes for kids. Never ever watch a kid get beaten or…

I think there may be a part of this missing? Who is Woody?

I DO NOT GET THIS. What kind of compartmentalizing asshole just “forgets” a long term serious relationship? And he wasn’t down for physical adultery, he clearly simply enjoyed having you on the string! ASSHOLE!

Those “one sided homo erotic best friend senerios” are a drag. So cowardly, so dishonest.  

Guy I was friends with for years after meeting him while working at Blockbuster went down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole. I suspect it might have had something to do with his new wife. He went all in on UFOs, Bilderbergers, chemtrails, 9/11 truther BS, etc. I was able to just smile and nod for a while until he went…

I moved into an apartment with a friend I’d known online and met irl for a few different weekends back when I used to play yugioh. He’d masturbate on the couch in broad daylight, even if I was in the apartment but not in the living room, never shared in the cleaning of the apartment, and expected me to cook for him if…

“Sleep with who you want. You only get so much time. Don’t worry about your body, it’s good no matter what. Just don’t stop having fun. And if you find someone, make sure they’re worth your time.”

-My great grandmother at age 99 before I left the country to study abroad. She also told me to drink a high ball on the…

Your mom clearly senses aliens.

My mom died a week ago tonight.  She was full of wisdom and sage advice that was stolen from her as she died slowly from cancer.  The path forward is uncertain and unfathomable, but I hope I can remember all she taught me and pass on all the advice and truths she bestowed upon my sisters and me to our kids.  

I grew up on a small hobby farm, and my Dad liked to get up early on weekends to go to swap meets and buy pigeons for his increasingly-worrisome pigeon collection One day, my little sister Zoe tagged along with him, and when she came back, she had a baby turkey she declared was going to eventually be our Thanksgiving…