Fibromyalgia is very definitely a physical disease.

I would imagine the only question most rational people would like to know from Janay is “why on Earth are you still with him?” and, until she answers that honestly, and away from P.R. handlers and agents, she’ll be treated as the second-class citizen in that relationship.

I think had she said at the time of that…

Terminally single - addicted to Married at First Sight. GO DOUG AND JAMIE!

I guess my issue is that I am picturing the wife as someone incapable of saying no, just lying there, acting like a child and her husband still feeling he had a right to her body...YET it seems that there was a time where she showed up at the State house with some pretty sexy items on under her coat and her daughter…

I’m curious about these programs. I don’t have kids of my own, but when I was growing up, I was in a lot of programs that taught how to manage emotions, but those were only available in “special education.” For some reason, learning how to properly handle your emotions was seen as something only dysfunctional people…

Yeah, I honestly don’t know....my aunt died of early onset dementia and one of the early signs was that she started acting out sexually. I have no idea (not do I want to know) whether she and my uncle had sex towards the end. But honestly, if they did, I wouldn’t care. They loved each other. Physical contact can give…

I have some really difficult and conflicting feelings about this.

Can we also have a category for couples who will die together in 100 years as the sweetest old couple, but simply either don't believe in marriage or don't feel like tossing thousands of dollars towards a stressful party?
I've been with my handsome man for almost 10 years, living together for 7 or so years, we met in…

My MIL kept pestering me with rice cereal when my sons were newborns. When I would patiently explain to her that solids are not suggested before 6 months she acted like I was some sort of hippy. I actually AM a bit of a hippy but the no solids thing is pretty widely accepted.

Absolutely. I co-slept with mine and after the first kid, I said “fuck sleep training.” I’m not hung up on sleeping. People get really narked about it. I had people tell me to stop breastfeeding so the baby would sleep more. Well, no. I never complained about their sleeping, and you don’t have to be with them.

I think asking an anxious new parent if they “have the guts” to take on a challenging parenting technique is, by definition, being an asshole. The only adequate response to any pediatrician who asks such a thing is, “No. I’m a pussy. Now show me some empirical evidence of what is best for my child.”

Anyone who can stand hearing their kid cry for any extended period of time is made of much sterner stuff than me.

My mother had 3 kids before mommy blogs were a thing, and practiced what we now call co-sleeping and extended nursing bc it just made sense at the time. She got more sleep that way for her full time job she had to go to 2 weeks after giving birth, and was too poor for formula so she used a donated pump and fed us for…

Why is it that people get so obsessed with how much your child is sleeping? Kiddo would fall asleep around 8-9pm and sleep until midnight- nurse, sleep again until 4- nurse, and then wake around 7 until he was at least a year. People get offended that you haven’t “trained” your kid or don’t shove tons of cereal in…

Babies are really basic though. They don’t do manipulation until they are much older. They don’t have a sense of you as a separate person to manipulate until they are 9 months or more (which is when separation anxiety kicks in, and they realise you leave sometimes). They just want milk/reassurance/to get back to sleep…

This. The greatest parenting lesson I have learned so far is to roll with the punches. My baby isn’t perfect and neither am I, sometimes I sacrifice my well being for him and other times I sacrifice his getting attention for my own sanity’s sake.

Biggest point of contention: babies are not all the same. They have different needs.

It sounds pretty sadistic, yup, especially since even new parents don’t need 12 hours of sleep a night. So why leave the baby alone for 12 hours?

Here we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Selma, where John Lewis was beaten half to death for demanding civil rights, and I wonder how this time will be remembered in 50 years.