Awww you’re so nice to hold her hand. I’ll bet she remembers you for a long time.

I do tend to misjudge my appearance some, but usually in that I’m more charitable to myself than I should be, eg “nobody will be able to see that leg hair, I don’t need to get up early to shave,” and “as long as I pluck my eyebrows I don’t need to bother with makeup this week, it evens out.”

I commented on this already about being the less attractive lady partner a more attractive man, and something I said is kind of implicit in your comment: a woman’s attractiveness on a conventional scale is more variable by the amount of effort, and a man’s is less so, typically.

I don’t think it’s just you at all, because that’s usually what I see, too. However, I can promise you the inverse exists because I’m the lady part of a hetero “mismatched hotness” couple, and I’m the less hot one. If you’re going by a conventional standard I’m not the least attractive person on the block but I’m…

I have a family member who walks with a cane and have seen her through the same thing. It’s astounding people aren’t more thoughtful.

People can be total buttheads about disabilities. And babies. I hope you have plenty of good people around you to balance it out.

I don’t disagree that parents have obligations relative to their children’s behavior, but how you react to the presence of children is pretty subjective, and children and families have as much a right to inhabit public spaces as you. Would you say that your presence in public spaces as a childless adult is inherently…

Yes, sanity! There is a happy place between ignoring the problem and screaming at a toddler! Many of us call it “being an adult” and “professionalism.”

I agree with the general point that parents have a responsibility to corral their children into either behaving in a courteous way in public spaces or remove them from public spaces if they can’t behave reasonably well at the moment.

Aww I married a bearded chef. Pretty much the best kind of dude.

You’re right, and I don’t mean to pathologize your relationship/you/him/anything. I’m sorry I didn’t comment more thoughtfully. If your relationship works for you in all that it is or isn’t, your decision to stay in it is valid and I would never suggest you make a different decision. Just because I would find it…

He will never be in love with you? Does your actual husband tell you that? You (I know I don’t know you but this is true of nearly everyone) deserve better. I hope he has a therapist who is working on this with him.

Same here. Recognizing and owning my jealous tendencies has improved my life and my relationships so much. Now I recognize when my jealousy is either completely irrational and fueled only by my own insecurities (which is usually the case). I’m at the point now where I just tell my partner I’m feeling jealous in…

oooh champagne-blood orange sherbert. Sherbet? I don’t know.

I don’t really know about her but I saw him some on the voice and he seemed like a total lech with the young women contestants.

Also lots of categories of litigants are excluded, and many types of claims, especially civil ones, aren’t litigated by many of these orgs. Throw in that many resources are even more inaccessible to rural victims and you start to see how big a problem it can be.

not in a civil case.

Yeah my point is that it isn’t clear cut bad judgment. Either option could have been “bad judgment” for them, depending entirely on luck. They were in a really heightened, unpredictable circumstance without the supervision or guidance of anyone with medical expertise. If something had gone wrong and they stopped to…

At that point they’e weighing a couple different urgent needs, the need to get baby and mom checked out by medical professionals may feel/be as urgent as the danger of briefly riding seat belt-less in the car. I’m sure they aren’t cavalier about seat belts and car seats, they’re just in a rare and extenuating…

I’ve never done it or seen it in person, but it is truly incredible. Well done, you!