That’s some shit. I work at a restaurant that regularly does buyouts, and we ALWAYS distribute the whole gratuity to the staff.

They were irresponsible - they chose to have children before they were filthy fucking rich. I’m not having my first child until I can afford a full-time nanny who is also an RN.

i’ve been drunk enough to voluntarily eat Arbys, but never drunk enough to become racist.

“What’s so frustrating to him is that people leave and he’s stuck there.”

I saw her in person a couple months ago on the UES and while we were wearing basically the same outfit (black tee and black jeans w/flats) of course she managed to look 1000x chicer than me.

Possibly slightly OT plus-size clothing complaint: I JUST WANT WORK/CASUAL BASICS. I don’t care about looking “hot”. I don’t need skintight shit that looks like I should be at the club. I love my bodacious ta-tas but am not interested in displaying them at the office. I just want regular, grown-up, non-adolescent,…

Given he had three children by a very feminist wife by the time he wrote It, I think he had an idea of how women work. I think he was trying for something and missed the target.

Thank you! I’m glad you have some real world advice to shut down these “Jane what the F is this advice”. I have several friends right now in the throws of infant-care and boy boy boy the relationships are suffering, but without someone else they’d be lost and in a bad spot. I think it’s quite a rational suggestion…

Tragically, that part does make some sense, in that children who have been molested often see and use sexual behavior in horrible, inappropriate ways because of what they’ve been “taught” by their abusers. Somehow King managed through his layers of denial and coke frenzy to tap into something genuinely hideous and…

And she got the idea because her abusive dad tried to molest her to see if she’d been having sex with the boys. That scene is so intense and horrible and THAT’S where Bev gets her big idea? That’s the part that bothers me the most, in a way.

It’s not terrible for writers to write about terrible things. But it is terrible when it comes out of nowhere and doesn’t seem at all believable. Readers got to know Bev in hundreds of pages before this jarring scene. This did not ring true to Bev at all. Extremely disappointing for many, many reasons.

I am a HUGE Stephen King fan, and I agree with all of this.

The very best advice. I was kind of in the same situation as LW1, complete with not only hormones but preeclampsia. Jane and I assume LW1 has half a brain since she and her husband are seeking counseling. It’s tempting to flounce, but not in anyone’s best interest. Have bebe, get counseling, find a good lawyer. Better…

I found out my ex was cheating when I was 8 months pregnant. I locked down emotionally and decided I could stick it out for two years, instead of taking my toddler and soon-to-be-newborn and trying to manage on my own. I was a SAHM so I frankly needed that financial security.

Yeah, that was my suspicion as well. Not too many guys are willing to jerk off long-distance for five years without ever trying to meet in person. It may not have actually happened, but I 100% guarantee he tried to make it happen.

Or, as Stephen Colbert dubbed them, Filliam H. Muffman. I don’t know why that portmanteau never caught on...

LW3: whatever it is you may be getting out of this arrangement, it’s not a real, healthy relationship if you have to walk on eggshells with her the whole damn time. Set yourself free and find someone who loves you and doesn’t act like a caged animal.

i went to a halloween party at their house once...if you ever get a chance to go to a party in the hollywood hills, do it..it was crazy!