i want to know this backstory

So this Enterprise employee is just cleaning the car, finds a piece of gum and shell casing...and just throws them out? Like, as if both are common occurrences?

I was a single parent when I met my husband and he’s amazing with children. He’s the baby/child whisperer. All children are drawn to him and he has so much love and patience and I’m the weird lady who has no idea how to play with kids or do kid things so I have adult-like conversations with my 4 year old.

Nothing has made me hate fireworks more than having them wake up my finally sleeping baby. Fuck fireworks. I hate them. I also hate motorcycles with modded exhausts and assholes who rev them.

Ours was very easy as well. He just started sleeping 8 hours at night at 8 weeks. As parents, we simply tried to replicate what we did that one night so that we could get the same result. He’s 4.5 months now and doing about a 10 hour stretch at night with a twilight feeding at 10-ish. Selfishly, my husband and I don't…

This is another thing that I can put in the pile of “I don’t have to have a well thought out, coherent opinion because I’m never going to be a parent”, along with vaccination and circumcision. (I do have opinions on these things, but my opinion doesn’t matter much because I will never have to make these hard…

Biggest point of contention: babies are not all the same. They have different needs.

Not bad but the original Seven Nation Army had two cute puppies on the drums.

I laughed really hard at the dog licking the bongoes before playing them for some reason

..what am I looking at?

My cat loves all food. He's also a horrible mooch and just generally a butt who refuses to learn good manners. He will climb ALL OVER YOU if you have food, just trying to get at that food. And then he tries to grab the plate. Or will smack your fork as you bring it to your mouth. And if you try to spray him with water…

Have you considered an IUD? The mirena iud generally makes your periods lighter and sometimes stops them completely. I know some doctors are prescribing it off label to help with endo.

I didn't have anyone to ask either. Perimenopause started in my early/mid 40s, which was basically more irregular periods and wild mood swings that made me feel like I was a teenager again. This coincided with finally becoming a mom, so I had the high stress of young children plus messed up hormones. I thought it was…

Did you read the NYT article in full, or just these small pieces from it? You might find it takes on a different tone if you read it all. It's a lot more clear that this isn't a "me me me" thing in the slightest, or at least that's my opinion. I'm very much behind evidence-based medicine too but I'm very impressed…

Did you miss this part?: "After Jolie's last op-ed, there was a rash of conversation over whether mastectomies for women who carry the BRCA1 gene were really the best way to go; some women said Jolie inspired them to get tested and have the same surgery she had, and at least one study showed that Jolie had been the imp…

Have I mentioned how much I love strong women? And this one in particular? They may not be the right choices for everybody, but they're right for her. Now get rid of that Pitt guy and marry me!

I'm from the midwest and I think it's just a place where people are more mellow about what you/they look like. It's not a hub of fitness, there are no beaches, there a lot of different people race-wise, ethnically, etc and many of them have old school families who passed down their version of what a woman should look…

Re: "Your not ethnic enough", I'm ambiguously ethnic and it bothers the hell out of people that they can't place me right away. I always want to ask "why, so you know how to treat me based on my ethnicity?"

I completely agree. I understand why people believe cheating is wrong, but I don't understand why they get so incredibly upset and judgmental about it. Very rarely are people cheating just because they want to fuck around, it's usually an incredibly complex issue. I wish people would show a bit more empathy when…