Biden said, “No, I will not stop all deportations, I will prioritize deportations [for] people who have committed a felony or serious crime.”

Ending all deportation is unreasonable and not the same thing as suspending deportation. Biden should have used the opportunity to expand on his actual plans but it was a direct, reasonable answer to an unreasonable question. 

I’m going through something similar. I have been widowed for awhile and met a friend who just reached her one year mark. Right now, she wants to unload all of her grievances on me because I understand. I get it and wished I had someone to talk to when I was just lost my husband. However, I’m going through some health…

Yeah. I also feel that unloading via text is also not even that productive or cathartic for me? I often will send a text about something that is saying “can you talk?” without actually saying “can you talk?” and the person on the receiving end usually picks up the phone. And vice versa. A few months ago I was having a…

Oh totes. He should absolutely retire on that.

You have to remember that people still aren’t paying particularly close attention to the primary race. Joe Biden is Joe Biden. For most of the Democratic electorate, he is the name you know. Gaffes don’t matter that much, at least not at this stage, because gaffes are baked into the cake of Biden’s public persona.

I think there have been several polls that have showed that Biden cleans up among less engaged (and therefore less likely to be watching the debates) voters, so I don’t think it’s surprising that his standing hasn’t been that shaken by his debate performances. 

The very instant he uttered those words...my girlfriend and I bowed our heads in utter disbelief.  

I honestly don’t get how 5 debates in of these kind of performances, and a plurality of Dem voters (nationally) still think he’d be the strongest candidate to run against Trump. Trump would tear his ass apart if these debates have shown nothing else. The narrative is how “mean” the other candidates have been to him,…

“No person has a right to raise a hand to a person in anger, other than in self-defense.”

Yes, the texting is a really important facet of this and a lot of people don’t put a lot of thought into the context they’re sending their distress into. I’ve gotten texts about how someone feels suicidal right before I go into a job interview. I’ve talked friends through rape trauma while I’m supposed to be on a…

I think a lot of the disconnect here is between people who are the friend that often gets unloaded on, and people who are not. I am the type of person that people trust with their problems. I feel honoured by that and I want to always live up to that trust — but sometimes I can’t. If I’ve got 5 people telling me all…

Good goddess everything about this sucks except that you have a healthy marriage and each other. I ache for your wife and wish for a big pot of gold for you two at some point in the not too distant future. 

I think a lot of this comes down to how we are taught to manage and cope with what we get from our friends.
For example, what you are posting here, for support, sounds like the kind of thing that if you received in a text message from a friend, would be hard to deal with right now. But here in this forum, it doesn’t…

I am so sorry. I hope she (and you) are in a better place soon.

I get the impression that she’s young, and this is an area where having only young writers really hurts a perspective. I, too, believed that establishing boundaries and coming up with scripts made me a “bad friend” or “bad girlfriend” when I was younger. Took a few years of being taken advantage of to finally knock…

I think it’s also important to remember that 10-12 years ago, no one was available for constant texting, Facebook messaging, or video chatting. We’re now all suddenly supposed to be expected to drop everything for anyone the moment they reach out through any channel (and there are many!).

Hazel - seriously? Just because you can be there for your friend at ANY moment, doesn’t mean that everyone’s relationships are the same way and that all friends require the same attention. The original Twitter stream was about a specific person who always is in NEED. The idea that a person asked to vent suggests that…

Relationships ARE work and require open communication and boundaries.  There is nothing wrong with using dialogue to respect boundaries.  And the meaning of the phrase has evolved as society has.  Not sure why that is an issue.  This whole post is bizarre and doesn’t seem in line with the article.

This article makes me feel like Hazel Cills is young/not in a living together relationship/not a parent.