That was my favorite. Extremely creepy. 

I have been reading Jezebel since I was in high school, so over 10 years now. I read all these stories when I lived at home with parents and through college. I had to stop reading them when I lived alone for a few years in my mid-20s. I now live with my partner so I am back to voraciously reading all of these.

This is my second comment but I’m so thunderstruck by this that I am flustered. I wanted to say that I have read this book, and one of the points in it is that her white fling ends up having struggles just like she does. So the message is really not “all white people are doing great.” I feel like some of these people…

This is wild. I read this book and I am also from Miami. I can’t believe this...

Isn’t it weird? I grew up with almost non-drinking parents. They weren’t alcoholics, my dad has always just been a contrarian and never drank (I have never seen him have a drink), and my mom would have a glass of wine after dinner every other day. I didn’t really drink much in college and still don’t. I remember going…

I felt myself slipping into some obsessive patterns over the last few years regarding food, and what has helped are people saying “look, eat the piece of cake, it’s not a big deal.” I cook generally healthy food and make sure I get my greens, but I also love to partake in a cheeseburger here and then. I’m happy.

I LOVE Bleached! Definitely watching this the second I get home. I just saw them for the third time, they’re so incredible. 

I was trying to articulate this in another comment but you did so better than I could. The coffee example is making people mad because so many of us who are struggling already DON’T buy coffee everyday. We already have cut back on extras. So this catch all “don’t buy Starbucks everyday and all your money troubles are…

The coffee example annoys people (especially millennials) because it has morphed into this weird catch-all for why millennials are broke. Telling someone to “just stop buying coffee” everyday is not going to make them a millionaire, not to mention that many people DON’T buy coffee every day. I make my own coffee at…

I guess this is an example of different perspectives, because if this happened to me and my boyfriend I would have just been happy to get on a flight and not have cared who sat where. 

Whenever I order food I keep my phone with me on loud for precisely this reason. 

I just don’t get people like this. I don’t like being bothered and inconvenienced when I’m out and about, thus, I don’t bother or inconvenience other people when we are all out and about. I have seriously seen so many couples move mountains just to sit next to one another on a two hour flight. It bothered me when I…

Just chiming in to say that my bf and I do not talk on flights. He immediately puts on headphones and closes his eyes, and I do the same or just read. We could easily not talk to each other during a flight. 

My boyfriend and I barely interact when we fly. He puts on headphones and tunes out, and I read. We’d probably do the same if someone were between us. 

I was on a flight once with three seats on each side. Across the aisle from me were two twin girls, looked about 10 years old, and a young professional male in the aisle seat. The twins’ mother was in the middle seat in the row in front of them. She asked the guy if they could swap, but he told her no, he specifically…

I was seated on my flight once and people were filing in and getting to their seats. There was a couple behind me. A young woman walked up, told the man that he was in her seat, and he said “I’d like to sit next to my girlfriend, my seat is 5B in front, you can take that one.” And the young woman replied, “well, I…

Yeah, and usually when kids are involved the gate agents will switch seats ASAP to get families or at least one parent together. 

While I hate switching seats, if there is a child/parent situation I will switch. Begrudgingly maybe, but I’ll switch. But that is pretty much the only situation in which I will switch. I’m not switching for a couple and I’m not switching so someone has more legroom.

I’m thrilled the article specified that you don’t have to move for a couple to sit together. I hate flying and when I fly I like to get there and do what I have to do and then get off the plane. I’m not switching my seat. I am especially not switching my seat so that a co-dependent couple can be together for 2 hours.…

Thank you thank you thank you thank youThank you thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU for saying you don’t need to switch seats for someone to sit next to their partner.