Fantastic comment. I am a divorce lawyer and have to explain to clients all the time that, although transmission of a sexually-transmitted infection in my state is grounds for recovery in a divorce, it’s basically impossible to prove transmission during the marriage (because no one gets the blood test beforehand if…

Odds are about 4 in 5 that you’ve been exposed and just never have had visible symptoms. Try again.

Maybe. You may have already been exposed prior to the relationship, and/or it’s possible that you transmitted it to her. Or you might be asymptomatic; a good portion of the population never has symptoms.

Correct, a test will only show whether you have been exposed to the virus, and not whether you are symptomatic/transmissable, and not where on your body you have the virus. The only way to know whether and what type of herpes virus you have is to have a lab test done on an active sore. It’s estimated that 80% of the…

This is unfortunately correct. The DA in most counties is going to align with law enforcement, but I don’t think that’s particularly applicable to this situation. The commenter who said “if the prosecutor is trying to indict” has it right.

We generally don’t use the term “consort” when we refer to a Queen, even though they’re a queen consort, technically.

Loved this article. Lawyer here, always shake hands and only give hugs to a select few (maybe 1-2) male attorneys who I’ve gotten comfortable with on a personal level. It has been my experience by and large that men, even ones that I’ve hugged before, are very good about asking, which I really appreciate. If someone…

Could this dude be any more “new money”? Of course he hates the White House. It doesn’t have Trump™ brand shampoo and towels and sheets and pillows and mattresses and couches and steaks and vodka, and not everything is plated in a very thin veneer of fake gold. 

How old is he again? Oh right, four? Then I think he’s allowed a little bit of latitude. I don’t know much about human development, but I’m pretty sure there’s a few phases in there before they become fully capable of cognitive analysis and function. (By the way, I’m not one to make this call but personally I think…

ALWAYS BE NICE TO EVERYONE especially people who handle your food. Don’t be an asshole unless someone is a gigantic unredeeming insufferable asshole for no reason and with no apology to you first.

I FEEL LIKE THIS WAS A DELIBERATE TROLL

But I thought Cedric Diggory died in the third movie! You know what this means: zombie wizard.

Disagree, I live in Texas. You have to know where to go. Start by dropping literally everything you are doing right now and going to the closest Rosa’s Cafe franchise... and ordering the beef fajitas because it’s Thursday

There is no reason that parents who suffer from mental illness can’t raise great kids. We don’t try to stop diabetic parents from raising kids, even though some of them will have to have the “rub honey on my gums if I pass out because of my blood sugar” talk with their kids. It’s the same with us. “Mommy is crying…

I know it will be weird, but maybe consider dating people outside of your “type.” I never expected to be married to a social worker with a kid from a prior relationship, and yet here I am. I always went after a certain kind of guy who was basically a clone of me with a Y chromosome. Now I’m married to a guy who loves…

Doesn’t make it right when he did it, but he didn’t like, rape someone, so I think as long as it appears that he’s seen the error of his ways, it’s not unreasonable for us to collectively “get over it.” Look hard enough and literally everyone on earth has done something stupid, awful, hateful, racist, sexist; doesn’t…

(Sorry for second comment.) Five years is getting there; wait til it’s been ten. It will be even better. And it’s OK to ask him to “gush” sometimes; try and remind him of how that makes you feel and how much you’d appreciate it when you’re needing a little reassurance. Relationships are about compromise and asking him…

The longer you’re together, the closer you’ll become. You’ll learn to enjoy his love language and he’ll learn to enjoy yours. Trust me on this. If you’re happy now, don’t start looking for reasons why you aren’t happy. It takes some time, but you’ll adjust to each other and you’ll wonder how you never saw it all along.

The awful, terrifying reality is that CPS can remove children from any household if they really want to - they can find a reason for removing children from literally anyone. Working in family law for six years has taught me that, if nothing else. All of us have something that would warrant them taking our kids away:…

If the study was done in the Netherlands, wouldn’t it be a Dutch study?