When my grandma was widowed, she literally had to beat the men away with a stick, and not because she was Aphrodite Incarnate (although she of course was). It was because they were widowers and since their spouses had died, they had NO IDEA how to handle any part of their lives, from chores to budgeting to social…

I worked with a woman who had another good solution to the "I'm hungry! I haven't eaten all day!" complaint from her newly retired husband. She said, "I'll make you something," which turned out to be a map to the kitchen.

Whenever I encounter people say things like Grandma is there, I say really flatly (like, totally emotionless, totally unaffected): "Wow, that's really racist."

Take a page out of my sister's playbook. She assigns an even number of cooking days, and if her husband flakes, she gets take out for herself and herself only.

That's great it's not been your experience. I'm 39. It's been my experience for most of my dating life. It's the experience of many of my female friends.

If my mother didn't have an abortion, I wouldn't exist.

Benevolent sexism is the more accurate term. It's so fucking patronizing to women. It's one of those 'jokes' that are supposed to make us feel better about being women staying within their small gender box like saying that "hey, you don't have as much institutional power as men but you have your feminine wiles which…

I am trying to make all my kids have that internal shame (I do come from a military family and I have allergies, so I am at just below OCD levels), but somehow it is only taking in my son. My daughters are gross and proud of it. They will throw their used socks in with their shoes. They will put worn clothes back in…

I am not in the USA. I am from Brazil. Here, minors are NOT tried as adults.

I honestly think it's mostly that men aren't raised to have an internal, never-ending shame if their house isn't Martha Stewart levels of clean and perfect like women are. It's not that they can't, or won't clean - it's that they honestly don't have that same societal pressure there driving them to do it.*

Me when I left my ex husband: I can't do this anymore.

Yeah, I was actually going to say something like that in my comment, that I'm not usually for capital punishment, torture or vigilante justice, but damn if I would have lifted a finger to stop any of those in this guy's case. And now you tell me he was actually killed and my reaction is along the lines of that Grumpy…

"It appears that no one in the family would have expected him to do something like this "

Eww. You are way too nice. I would have kicked him with confidently.

My worst breakup was my most recent one. I wish this were a funny story, but it's not. It was one of those long, drawn out, ambiguous breakups that happen when long term live-in relationships have become so dysfunctional you can't discern what's reasonable and what's unreasonable. Actually, come to think of it, many…

I am in a serious but long-distance relationship. It's been a year with this guy and already I'm been planning my wedding vows and my dress and how I'll communicate with this mom, who has a thick foreign accent, for the rest of my life.

Exboyfriend pulled my favorite book of love poems (E.E. Cummings ftw) off my bookshelf and asked me to show him the ones I liked the most. He interrupted a minute or so into flipping through them together to say we couldn't be together anymore. He explained that a breakup discussion was related to romance so he…

So I'm the dumper in this story - but if ever there was justification for a bad dumping it was this;

In 8th grade I had a boyfriend, Scott, for three weeks. It didn't go well because he was a big Rush Limbaugh fan (at age 14) and said things that make me think he was probably the worst person in the world. Also, just to speak to his character, his best friend's name was Chad, so...

After an emotionally—and, rarely, physically—abusive relationship in a foreign country of four long years, my foreign partner convinced me to lie about a family illness to take an unpaid leave of absence from a job I was just about to get promoted at and go home to visit my family for the first time in two years (I…