These guys who seek “mail order brides” do so for a reason and it has nothing to do with love or altruism. There’s no shortage of women in their countries who are their equals in age, beauty, intelligence. They want someone out of their league who they can control. So let’s not pretend these femme fatales are taking…

I’m not saying this was Melania’s case, but you don’t know the stories behind what makes women become “mail-order brides.” You don’t know their history, their material conditions, their desperation level, you don’t know a bunch of things. You also don’t mention the reason behind why some western men choose these…

Good on her. I don’t know why people have such a hard time admitting to their internalized -isms. I often admit to being sexist, racist and homophobic and people look at me like I’m insane, but the truth of the matter is that most of us are a little bit, and the best way to improve is to be honest with yourself. Being…

Katy. Katy, I admire your pettiness.

To be fair, that was pretty much rock bottom in terms of his character. The past few seasons have shown him growing up in a lot of ways.

Isn’t that third pic two guys or do I need better glasses?

But other religions have various subsects that take into account varying degrees of literalness and adherence to the original religion. Most Jews are not Hasids, as I assume most Muslims are fairly mainstream; there is a huge assortment of differing takes on Christianity. Scientology is a cult, and run by one living…

It is sort of weird to cast a Scientologist when Scientology has a lot of the same problems depicted in this story.

This trailer legitimately made me cry because it feels like it’s just so close to this side of possibility. I just finished re-reading the book in anticipation of this series and it was truly terrifying.

My reaction for that entire trailer:

But so the inverse of this is that "Amy" has no choice but to stay in this relationship and meet his needs while not having her own needs met. Following your perspective, she's there keeping his life from falling apart. If she can do that and find some way of dealing with her sexual needs that doesn't involve having…

She said at some point that her husband stopped wanting to have sex with her. It's not celar from the interview whether her husband cannot or does not want to have sex with her. Speaking from experience having a partner constantly sexually rejecting you, for years on, whatever the reason, is quite devastating. I…

I feel like the pain caused belongs squarely on the shoulders of the person who made a vow to be faithful and didn't get consent to be unfaithful.

I feel this really strongly as a woman who has been cheated on and harbors zero ill toward the 'other woman'. He was the dick, she owed me nothing.

I'm in the same boat. Recently diagnosed with a chronic illness and all of this is making me very sad and worried. Worried for my relationship, worried for me, worried for my partner. I know it's not about me but it's hitting a big fat nerve.

Yeah, basically every woman can legitimately be cheated on once she hits menopause? Umm...??? Also, how on earth do we know that any of these dudes are even telling the truth in any way? She meets them online and sees them once a month or less. They could be telling her anything.

I'm not judging her, but the fact that she didn't explicitly say that she slept with men who were also in open marriages makes me suspect she didn't bother checking beyond what the man told her / doesn't care about whether or not the wife knows.

I'm with you. Basically, what choice does her husband have?? I would assume it is a shot to his ego that he was once an active, vibrant man able to please his wife and she him. Now he can no longer please her sexually and must rely on her for his own well being. So that has to just be mentally and emotionally…

Oh, the joys of solitary smoking. I haven't had one in twenty years. I used to start the day by making a double espresso on the stove and smoking a cig. It was glorious. Smoking while driving alone, smoking while talking on the phone, smoking while playing guitar, smoking while sitting on your front steps and…

My first boyfriend (after I had been independent and single for years) told me while we were cuddling once, "See? Isn't this better than being independent?"