Damnit Kinja, I said CANCEL. Sorry.

Adding a third party to a marriage creates potential legal issues with respect to the division of the estate on one person's incapacitation or death, the custody of any children, and who has the power to make decisions for an incapacitated spouse. Of course, all (or most) these things could theoretically be dealt…

Exactly how my conversations have gone. Them: "of course not!!! It's symbolic." Me: "Oh, so I guess you're a Protestant then?" (Nb: I realize this is a vast oversimplification of Protestantism v Catholicism, it's just too fun to be snarky).

Yes, atheist here who minored in religion in college. I have two practicing Catholic friends to whom I had to explain the transubstantiation. They were shocked.

Agreed! Studies show that, academically, kids who are NOT red-shirted actually do better in the long run. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opi…

You are NOT ALONE!!! I really liked the ending. I thought the book was only OK (loved "Dark Places," which I read first, and was expecting more from "Gone Girl") but I actually thought the ending was perfect.

Dark Places was so good, and I liked Sharp Objects, too, though not as much as DP. I thought Gone Girl was ok, but I was a little disappointed that GG was the one of her books that got so popular since I think it's the weakest of the three. Are they making a movie of Dark Places?

But maybe he had talked about it before, and she assumed he was talking about it because he was afraid it would happen by accident — and then something just clicked and she realized why he had been talking about it? I don't know, I know it's unlikely but I just can't bring myself to stop trying to come up with…

I had an idea for a business that would essentially be a firm of experienced professional financial managers for physician's offices. Instead of having a financial/business manager on staff, doctors would hire the firm, like one would hire an attorney, and the firm would assign a person/ team (maybe one experienced…

Here's the discussion from the article — it's not very thorough but gives an idea:

From the article: "And the vaccine charges have grown to $725, for which insurers like Blue Cross/Blue Shield reimburse $613.79."

my kid'a school has this. It's stupid, and I have never once attended, but unlike Nooyi, I don't have a speck of guilt about that fact, because when there's something at my kid'a school that actually *requires my personal attention*, I am there, or his father is, or both of us if warranted. It kind of annoyed me that…

Yeah, I totally get what you are saying. I think using the word "selfish" triggered a lot of knee-jerk reactions, and you've been really patient to respond to all of them so nicely. I don't think people who choose not to have kids *are* selfish, and I think having a child can be just as "selfish" a choice as not —…

I have two kids, and while I love them dearly and don't wish them away, it doesn't mean that I am not still —sometimes fiercely —envious of my childless/ child free friends. I sometimes wonder whether the people who pressure their friends/ acquaintances to have kids are doing it in some way because of that envy.

That's a fair point, but I just don't think the savings a company would recover from refusing to cover contraceptives would really be worth going through the rigamarole of claiming a religious exemption. Insurers want people to take birth control so I doubt they offer a huge discount for plans that exclude it. …

It won't save them any dollars, though, because it's way more expensive to cover pregnancy and birth than to cover contraception.

Exactly. I'm a white woman attorney, and it takes me exactly 4 minutes to get my hair into work-appropriate condition.

Probably not very good ones. I just spent a lot of time on the couch in front of the a/c. :) The mall thing at Columbus Circle is maybe big enough to wander around for a bit? AMNH and the Met, too but there's the little issue of the entry fee.

Ditto. But in fairness to you and me, all women experience pregnancy differently, and also, pregnancies are different. I was WAY less sick and uncomfortable and had way less pain with my first pregnancy than my second.

They totally do! http://www.bellysling.com/