Thank you so much for your kindness. I sat here and cried when I read all of your responses.

Yes, indeed you should :)

Occasionally - very occasionally - I am very pleased to be 39 and married for more than a decade.

I'm hoping you have an alternate wedding album, one that you almost never show guests, but have around to look at when you need a smile or want to relive what sounds like an awesome memory.

Oh, yeah, this is a great question. I absolutely do not scale up chivalry in any restaurant. If your husband is courteous, considerate, polite, and otherwise good company, he should feel absolutely secure continuing to ditch the antiquated chivalric nonsense and leaving it to the well-trained staff.

What to do if, in a fine-dining restaurant, you are surprised by the amuse-bouche and it's something you cannot eat? Happened to me, it was a lovely tiny bay scallop, raw, in the shell on a bed of ice and rock salt. I am not allergic, but the only other time I ate scallops, also at a fine-dining establishment, I was…

When someone wears one of my headlines on an airplane and gets kicked off for the words "grotesque anal sex trend" or "wish feet had vaginas for banging?" emblazoned on their chest, I will absolutely refer to it as vulgar. I know what I'm about, son.

I hate being pedantic*, but the cashier isn't the barista, the barista is the one making the custom coffee drinks (as opposed to just pouring hot coffee), although sometimes they will switch roles.

Sorry to be 'that med student' but this article mentions that she had an oophorectomy . While this is technically true (because she did have her ovaries removed), she also had her fallopian tubes removed, so the more accurate term for the procedure would be a salpingo-oophorectomy.

With a toddler at home and my own hereditary concerns predisposing me to breast cancer I can absolutely identify with looking at it from your children's point of view. The last thing I want is to be sick and or die during their childhood. My mother was diagnosed at 32 and died at 48, and I was worried about her from…

I used to work the fry section for Wagamama in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. In those days, both of the most popular menu items (ie. the most Western-friendly) were from the fry section. Wagamama didn't take reservations, it was all walk-ins. One Wednesday night, four school groups walked in at the same time. On…

Like, are you for real? You just discounted the experience of a woman ON AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES AND OPINIONS AND EMOTIONS OF WOMEN BEING DISMISSED. Seriously?

in a relationship it's hard to weed out what is due to sexism and what is due to the never-ending-back-and-forth-undermining-battle-royale-for-supremacy that is love

I've taken to looking at my husband like a madman and telling him he needs to calm down so we can discuss things rationally whenever he starts getting upset or frustrated. The look I get in response is PRICELESS.

I think you're completely right. I've been the friend, and I've been the insecure gf. Not proud of my tendency toward jealousy, and work to be rational and fair about it, making sure that I bring it up in a calm way when I first feel it and in a way that makes it clear that I know it's my own problem but that I need…

Ah, thank you so much for your long and thoughtful post. We sound like we have the exact same processes, and our husbands also have the same processes. >.>

My third was and still is a Damien-ette! She did blow a lot of our happy little family dreams apart- but only temporarily, we have never regretted her. :)

I'm totally with you — pregnant with #2 (July) and happy about it, but sometimes I have second thoughts about whether the second could ruin our happy family. And in my case, I was pushing for #2 and my husband was more reluctant. My worries this pregnancy are more focused around my existing child than the new baby…

I flat out lied to my in-laws (and extended in-laws, like aunts and second cousins and shit) when they ask about "more kids" (we have three! That should be enough!!!) I told them all that I can't due "medical complications" and pretend to cry. No one asks anymore.