True, that isn’t the same thing. However, it does indicate that opinions on it vary along a spectrum, instead of what we’ve been taught our whole lives about “traditional” marriage - that cheating is the Worst Thing Ever and it will destroy your marriage and your life forever. As far as I’m concerned, that idea is an…

Yeah, have to agree with that. A dalliance is one thing, but that guy led a whole double life for years. Regardless of whatever understanding he mayor may not have with his wife, he treated the LW like garbage. People should just be honest with each about what they want, it would save so much harm in the long run.

The subject hasn’t really come up, but I doubt it. Well, hm, maybe. At least two or three of the couples from my extended group of friends have come out as poly in the last decade, and at least one (that I know of) started off as a “traditional” couple.

My wife has told me, on multiple occasions, both drunk and sober, that if I ever were to stray she wouldn’t want to know about it (I have not, btw. I know some guys would take this as “permission” to run out and fuck some 19-year-old ASAP, but that’s not me. Still happy to be with her - just celebrated our 10 year…

Bye!

It was difficult transitioning from having two kids to three kids, mostly because of the ratio of adults to children on an outing. One to one is fine, then everybody has a kid they are mostly “keeping an eye on”. But with three - if they take off in three different directions, there is literally no way to chase them…

I am a (mostly) stay-at-home dad, and it is not at all uncommon for random people to give me props when I’m out with all three of my girls. But the thing is, as far as I’m concerned, they’re pretty easy to take care of since they’re kind of an indivisible unit. The oldest are twins and the youngest in only about 15…

If only it were that easy...

You are pretty much spot on with Valerian. The visuals were... beyond gorgeous, just indescribable in some parts. The plot was loopy, but I expected that going in to a Luc Besson film. However... the actors were just plain terrible. No chemistry between the romantic leads at all, they didn’t convince me of their…

I’ve been lucky, and never had a bad experience in quite that way (other than overhearing and misunderstanding my friends, thinking they were discussing embarrassing stories about me when in fact they were talking about someone else entirely). However, an old friend of mine had an exceedingly bad reaction once, and…

“In PORTRAIT mode?!?! You get the tar and feathers, I’ll get the torches! Wait, no, not the tiki torches, this ain’t that kinda party... You know what, just hold on a minute, people will probably get the wrong idea and think we’re protesting a Confederate statue or something. Wait, what? Anti-protesting a Confederate…

A friend of mine was going through a messy divorce (still going through, actually, but that’s neither here nor there) and she felt like venting about all of her shitty husband’s antics. One of the little gems that came out of that conversation was the screwed-up family situation he came from. (I’ll make up some names…

Damned if you aren’t correct on that one! It never even occurred to me.

One DM and 2 PCs is totally fine. That’s the way I started, in fact, way back in the day (late 80s/early 90s) with my brother and the kid who lived across the street. I gave them two characters each, and it was such a success they each added another before long. That went fine too, so they each added another, and then…

“Dude, I shkrellied so much last night that I, like, burned off a bunch of layers of skin in my throat. This morning for breakfast I drank a big glass of lemonade before I could think about it, and I almost passed out from the pain.”

Add to the pile of weird Kinja shit: every time I star a post I like, the number goes down by one! It’s like Kinja is calling me a loser and I’m sucking the fun out of the party just by showing interest in it. Is it just me?

If you have some time to kill, I’d highly recommend driving along Hwy 20 in the eastern part of OR. It’s all winding mountain passes and no cities at all for hours. It would be treacherous as fuck if there was snow and ice on those roads, but during nice weather it is stunningly beautiful.