Awww, try not to get down on yourself. What you did was not dumb, you were trusting and played by the rules. I think a support group is really your best first step. Once you meet others who are or were in the position you are in now, you’ll realize you’re not alone. So many of us have been through this and as…

According to the news reports, she had been to the doctor, even took a pregnancy test, the test came out negative and the doctor didn’t clue in to her being pregnant.

So it all started with a little daily pill that was supposed to control my bloodbath periods... I was taking a pill that ensured that I only had very light periods every three months because my periods where straight up awful. I was on said BC for about 5 years until something went wrong, unbeknownst to me. Around the…

fuck you boobs it’s always murrica.

BECAUSE POTATO SALAD GUY WAS AN ENTREPRENEUR LIVING THE DREAM BUT THIS MOOCHING BABY SHOULD PULL ITSELF UP BY ITS UMBILICAL CORD BOOTSTRAPS

If a dude can somehow get 55k to make potato salad... I don’t see why a woman shouldn’t get the same amount for having a baby.

You are not an idiot, but he is taking advantage of you if you guys are still sleeping together and you are still doing things for him and this is not a mutual divorce. You need to step back completely, it’s so hard if you don’t want to have this go through but if he isn’t even considering getting back together you…

So to everyone here, I had a talk with him this morning about the fact it hurts me so much to continue being accepted/ expected to keep being wifely. He was actually very understanding about it and said he just accepted it because i’ve been a homemaker (and student) for most of our marriage. He understood that caring…

I’m so glad you have all that support!! I’m so sorry you’re going through all of this, but one day you’ll be out on the other side. *virtual internet hugs*

You’re not an idiot. That sounds heart breaking and I’m so sorry you’re going through it. Feel free to disregard my advice completely but FWIW you might feel happier in the future (when you look back on now) if you didn’t let him have all the pet name/sex/wife-stuff that he obviously doesn’t value enough to try to…

Do you know when my hair decides to behave and look good? When I’m about to get it cut.

It’s not corny at all! I really appreciate it. I’m an intelligent, independent minded person but when faced with losing my partner, the only parents I’ve ever known and the in laws I love, well, it doesn’t always lead to rational decision making.

what thats terrible! even IF you did believe divorce was wrong, what are you going to do, just not sign the papers, how would that even work. Sorry your family is being so horrible, sounds like you need all the support you can get. Like other posters have said, you are not an idiot but reallly shoud cut it off, if he…

A couple of weeks ago I came here to talk about my cat who was dying of cancer. He died in my arms this morning at the vet. My heart is broken. Here is his picture, I hope. I’ve never tried to upload a picture. Anyway, his name was Fresca, he was almost 16, and I loved him so much.

YUP, that’s him. 100 Years of Solitude wasn’t too good for Oprah’s Book Club, but Mr. Jonathan “The Hot, Hungry Microcosm of Patty’s Cunt” Franzen was. I know there are some people here saying, “Sure, he’s a dick, but you have to separate the artist from the art,” but doesn’t it make it a million times easier to hate…

Google proves you are correct. Which means I am free to name the male lead in my great American opus Walter Berglubdm.

Uggghhhhh. How does anyone comparing Franzen to Tolstoy sleep at night?

Yes! I posted this elsewhere (I’m not good at commenting on these things), but these guys do such a good satire of American literary criticism and gender bias:

While Freedom was appropriately nominated for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for 2010, it was somehow beaten out by The End of Sleep, which included this gem:

Holy shit... that's some bad writing. Ladies, do you have discerning clitorises....or is the plural 'clitori'.