All I want to talk about now is the evil stepbitchmonster my dad married.

My mom liked to pull the "do you know who my husband is" crap all the time, so I've always been super averse to benefiting off of another's position/accomplishments. Especially since most people have no clue what my dad does, even though it is pretty impressive if you know what it is.

I'm a mom and I love my kids very, very much.

I love my MIL. She's normally quite good at gifting, too, so I was pretty shocked when I received the ugliest damn purse I'd ever seen from her. I mean... just nothing about it is appealing to me.

Aeropostale used to sell a pair of undies for girls (pre-and teen) with a cartoon crab on the front and the back said "Don't pinch me, I'm crabby!"

I once told my husband about how much I loved that game - Lion King for Sega Genesis. He found me one - the game - and gave it to me, even though we don't have the console. I thought it was super sweet and thoughtful... and that reminds me that I really ought to try and track down an old Genesis...

Stepmom here, too. I hope that one day my stepkid thinks of me the way you thought of yours (before the addiction), and I'm very sorry for what happened to your family.

FWIW, my mother was also desperately abusive and controlling of me. She was never properly diagnosed, but I have a family member that was a well-respected medical professional and his opinion was that she was a "social psychopath."

Thedas is my happy place. I've played DAO & DA2 several times and I waited with very little patience for Inquisition.

This. If they're capable of all the planning it took to get to the point where they nearly killed a peer - including the time spent fooling the girl into thinking they were friends - you've got kids that are manipulative enough to play sick/crazy.

I don't have a college degree. I totally respect the amount of work and time it takes to get one, but it wasn't the right path for me for many reasons and this post will turn into a novella if I start talking about Why I Didn't Finish College.

I've watched a few episodes of the Dr. Oz show because it was on and I was home and it's not Jerry Springer, at least.

I've found that the best thing to do is think about your priorities and spend according to them. My dress was $30, my flowers $120, my daughter's dress was like $20, my husband wore a suit he already owned that we really like on him... my friends took tons of pictures, some of them with pro-quality cameras. My in-laws…

My flowers (bouquet, boutonierre, corsage) cost $120. I got married outside.

People have it tough everywhere, but that doesn't make it any less sad. I especially feel for kids because they often just can't understand why they can't have things. And no child should go hungry - that really breaks my heart. Even though we're more or less broke, I always try to donate food or change to reliable…

Good for you! Seriously. I follow a person on Twitter who lives in Russia (she tweets often about a mutual interest) and her recent tweets about the economic status in Russia just breaks my heart. Lots of talk about people contemplating suicide and needing to stock up on food, and bemoaning the fact that her paycheck…

That's exactly how I feel. I wouldn't dare to tell another person what to do with their body. I think abortion is morally wrong (except in most of those grey-area cases). To me, my womb is a place for life and I can't invite death there. But I know people who have had abortions and I couldn't care less. It doesn't…

I'm not a fan of abortion, personally. I don't think my personal choices are the One Right Way, so I support choice.

Someone once threatened to kidnap my child. All I could do was file a police report and be paranoid forever now.

You know, it's funny. I start to understand why men should have the right to consent to their partner's abortions...