Oh man, Christmas my fifth grade year was the worst. Single mom strapped for cash and I driving to the grocery store about a week before Christmas and I'm just chattering away about how excited I am about Christmas, being off school etc. She just started bawling, pulled over and said,"Can we just not do Christmas this…

My mom's Australian boyfriend in the early 1980s gave me the exact same bear in an attempt to garner the goodwill of a skeptical 8 year old! Even at the time I recall feeling conflicted about it; so soft and exotic from Australia, but also weirdly like taxidermy made from the wrong animal. Those hard glass eyeballs…

Oh no, I think you just made me ashamed of my enjoyment of a word that I learned to love due to it's extensive use in terrible ads of the 80s-90s for furniture stores on Western Ave.

Oh yeah, standing on the side of the interstate at night with a mag light in my face recounting a very traumatic experience to a highway patrolman was delightful. I think he was disappointed that I had a squeaky clean background and wanted a pretext to search me(he did have me open my passenger window so he could get…

Oh my lord, is there anyway that you could repost this on Yelp or Amzon? The public needs to know about this at least for safety's sake.

It was such an ordeal to get my protective order. I had to sit on the stand with my abuser 10 feet away while his very well-paid lawyer cross-examined me in front of a full court room. I was the one that was on trial even though his charge was a FELONY. I'm convinced that the laws and their implementation are…

So right about the visible/manly tasks. Yeah, thoseare pretty much hobbies at my house. He's been into gardening since he quit working 8 months ago. He picks the chores as he likes and then when I call him on the house being a mess, the baby hasn't had a bath since Sunday when I bathed him, dishes piled in the sink…

Thanks for giving me hope!! I've got a two year old and have seriously been considering divorce. All I hear are, "sons need their dads, you really owe it to your child to work it out", "being a single mom is sooooo hard, how are you going to pay the bills?", "dating is soooo hard as a single mom, men don't want the…

I'm very much with you on this. The friends I've had and the people I dated that had some kind of constant financial support from their family way into their 30s have all had problems that I associate with teenagers/college kids ie multiple dui's, substance abuse issues, general life management problems that I don't…