I fell into that trap when my therapist taught me about trauma and triggers. I cringe thinking about all the times I explained away my wife’s trauma response as just being the “stories in her head from childhood trauma” which to her felt an awful lot like I was gaslighting her that what she was experiencing at the…

I feel you. My wife grew up in a house where her mother did everything for her and her siblings. All she had to do is just point out that something needed to get done and her mom would do it. I grew up in a house where my parents didn’t do anything so if I wanted to clean house I had to clean the house. We would end…

The quarantine experience was definitely a red pill moment for a lot of couples. 

If you’re keeping score and continually fighting over who is more miserable you probably both need individual and couples therapy, asap.

Score keeping is the bedrock of a successful partnership. /s

In my experience it’s a two way street. It’s very easy to blame your spouse for “taking advantage” of behavior that you’ve internalized while growing up. That’s for you to fix. If you can get the point where you own your emotions and are able to set boundaries, and your partner still doesn’t get it, then it’s time to…

The more I see the guy the more he looks like Slappy from Goosebumps.

Quarantine, and my wife’s attempts to homeschool, actually got her motivated to stop being a stay at home mom and focus on starting a career. Both of us spending a year in individual therapy, followed by six months of couples therapy, also helped. And, yes, we almost got divorced at one point. 

This. Maybe a Chrome plugin that erases Pinterest entirely.

Search for boobies and you will magically see naked boobies. So I’m told...

Esports, yo. The only thing more fragile than the egos are your joints and ligaments. 

I rocked the Wendy’s value menu in college myself - fries for lunch and the burger for dinner for $2 and change. I don’t eat much fast food outside of tacos and was blown away recently when I broke down and got a burger meal at Jack in the Box. It literally cost as much as if I would’ve gone to a sit down fast casual…

Do you have to get the “I’m a fighter!” Simple Jack haircut to use this?

Play Misty for Me, definitely. Not your typical Eastwood film (it was his first directing) but beautifully shot.

That FBI agent looking for a job with the IOC, while “investigating” them, was only doing what basically every member of congress does on a regular.

I remember when Taco Bell tacos were like $0.89. A taco like that should never cost more than a dollar. Period. I either get my fast food taco fix at Jack in the Box (2 for $1) or Del Taco on Tuesdays/Thursdays. There is no reason why the entry level menu item needs to cost so much.

Makes you wonder who was slow walking the investigation leading up to the insurrection and why.

He was preceded by his career, which officially died in 1997. Cause of death: suicide.

To be fair to the FBI, there were people selling t-shirts advertising the 1/6 insurrection, with date and place, well before it happened and they still were caught off guard. It’s almost as if you do the work for law enforcement and they still don’t want to do their jobs.

Definitely do not turn everything into a power struggle, even though it’s a super easy trap to fall in to. You’re just training your child on how to push your buttons to get attention.