The other crazy thing is that he’s already killed a lion. My dad is a hunter, but he only hunts birds (pheasants and ducks). A friend of his enjoys big game hunting and has travelled to Africa to hunt (I can’t remember what he hunted there exactly - some type of deer, so nothing like a rhino or lion). I’m not…

Yep. My dad is a life long hunter (birds, not big game) and he thinks this guy is disgusting.

Yeah, Barbara Bush sure is a loser.

I’m trying to wrap my head around not liking corn on the cob. It’s so much better that way!

Yes, but this is curved to fit the cob. I know it sounds crazy but it really works much better. Better enough to justify having it in addition to a knife.

Don’t laugh. I have the corn cobber (the one on the right) and it’s awesome. Nobody wants to eat leftover corn on the cob, but leftover corn off the cob is delicious and this removes it easily.

Oh man. My dad was just diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I honestly haven’t even thought about it taking a toll on my marriage. Great. Another thing to worry about.

“Marriage is as much about “I’ll take the dog to the vet/kid to the doctor; can you run to the supermarket?”

Back when I was single (though half my 20s and all of my 30s), a friend of mine insisted to me multiple times that it was much harder being single than being married. Over and over again she told me how hard marriage was and how much work it was. It turned out she was married to an alcoholic with bipolar disorder and…

I’m pretty sure that Partners in Health is a great organization too, with similar goals. I’ve been a fan of it after reading Mountains Beyond Mountains, about Dr. Paul Farmer, one of the organization’s co-founders.

This is from the original article:

This is the quote from his article, which makes it sound as if they never went out together as a couple, and that’s how it morphed into an open marriage:

It sounds like it’s the case here. This guy took 6 months and a lot of red wine to come to terms with it and his whole essay reads like someone who doth protest too much. I don’t buy that he’s happy with the arrangement.

My point was that they should hire a babysitter to go on a date with each other, not to hook up with other people. I agree that it’s not fair to a babysitter to expect them to stay until 8 am unless you are paying them for an overnight job, but if they were actually going on a date with each other, I assume they would…

We’re not shaming her for having an open relationship. We’re shaming her for changing the rules of her marriage well into the marriage and then blaming it on feminism.

Yep. I posted something similar in response to someone else. Not going out together as a couple is a bad idea. My mom told me after my kids were born that I needed to make it a priority to go out on a date with my husband at least once a month and it’s great advice that has served us well. Babysitters aren’t cheap but…

I wasn’t responding to the idea of them going out separately. Rather, their excuse for not going out together seems to be that babysitters expect them home before midnight, so they go out separately instead. My point is that they could go out together if they just told their babysitters they’d be home later or got a…

Immediately after I received them, I would have added Swarovski crystal wine glasses to this list. However, once I discovered how much they cost and was able to resell them on eBay, I appreciated them more.

I just feel sorry for their kids. This is not going to end well.

If their babysitters are giving them a curfew, they need better babysitters.