i just told a friend tonight that we’re gonna have to start branching out and trying things like classes to get out of our little neighborhood comfort zone

that is a fucking good story. congrats!

I love this. It’s a frequent topic of discussion with my therapist as well.

I’m not a church-goer, christian, pagan, or otherwise, but that’s awesome!

I paid off my second credit card in two months, and paid the last one down to $1000. I have a goal of paying that one off by the end of the year.

What about Mexican? I grew up in the Houston suburbs, and every time I go home to visit, my absolute must-visit restaurant is the original Ninfa’s on navigation. Legend has it, Mama Ninfa is the one who made fajitas a thing. Not sure if it’s true, but their food is delicious. I could shamelessly eat dozens of their…

So, for all of you fine people that are happily in a relationship...where did you meet the other person? Everything in my life is going pretty well. My job is fucking awesome, I’m finally making some decent money and am able to pay down some debt and set aside some savings, and I have a very small but very tight-knit…

Thanks so much. The good is good, the bad is complicated. We’ve gone through a few long stretches of not communicating. We inevitably get back in touch and it all starts over. But we did talk the other day and we’re going to do the “space” thing and each have our separate lives for a bit, him dealing with his health,…

it used to be something i felt like i definitely wanted, and then i decided i definitely did not want it, and now i feel pretty whatever about both sides. i think i could be happy whichever way it turns out, and a lot would have to do with my future partner. if i met someone that absolutely 100% wanted kids, i could…

I’m a very, very, very infrequent poster, and anything I do post typically hides in the grays, but life has been a roller coaster lately and I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to vent.

hey there, i have no good answers for the depression part, other than just keep being as supportive as possible. but job wise: i don’t know where you live or what the freelance job market might be, but i have no bookkeeping degree and i have a really good part time contract bookkeeping position with a local small…

i think that all gun owners should pay monthly insurance for having the guns, and if you have kids, those monthly premiums skyrocket. and if that insurance is cost prohibitive for most gun enthusiasts, then so be it.

a former male coworker of mine was married to his wife (obvi). her last name was her parents’ hyphenated names, so something like Johnson-Smith. she kept this last name and he had his, something like Jones. but when they had kids, they took the hyphen out of her name, pushed the two names together, and hyphenated it…

thanks, right back at ya

Sometimes I tell myself that I really need to get out of my comfort zone and just go on the dates that I don’t want to go on. But most of the time, I ignore myself and stay home. I can tell pretty quickly if a guy has sparked my interest. And if I’m feeling any hesitation at all, I trust my gut and don’t do it. I…

Chemistry is so big for me. And I wish I could get past not having it with some guys. I currently am doing the on again-off again dance with the guy I’m madly in love with and we have SO much chemistry. We also, unfortunately, both have emotional baggage from our pasts and varying degrees of depression. Then there’s…

33 years old, not in a relationship, it’s been about six months. It’s frequently on my mind, but I’m 50% down on men in general because of my ex, and 50% not interested in any men because I miss my ex. So I just don’t do it, which is real dumb.

ooh, the upside down cake sounds amazing. i don’t typically get into grapefruit or orange as much, but lemon curd and lemon icebox pie are in heavy rotation every spring for me. my contribution to Easter dinner is usually lemon pie.

Starring for your relationship to your great uncle. My great aunt and uncle were the grandparent figures in my life, even though I still have my grandmother around. My great uncle was not related to any of us by blood, but he was the single most influential person in my life and treated us all like his grandkids. He…

I should be embarrassed by the list of movies I’ve never seen, but I’m at the point now where I just shrug. Up until the end of December, I’d never seen a Star Wars movie. And even now, the only one I’ve seen is The Last Jedi, at my 10 year old nephew’s insistence. I’ve never seen any of The Lord of the Rings, or The…