It CAN be used to pull off scams, but my therapist wasn't trying to pull one over on him. She's a well respected professional and I was doing phone sessions with her because I was too anxious/depressed to eat/get out of bed and see her in an office. I was fainting a lot if I went out, so phone sessions were considered…

The worst customers I ever dealt with was when I worked at Blockbuster Video as a teenager.

The worst of the worst was when a man called in and asked if he could get his money back. I wasn't allowed to give refunds on my own, the snotty, lazy Manager On Duty working at the time had to decide whether or not it was…

My parents will only pay with checks and they will wait until the last moment to fill them out at the grocery store. I fucking hate it and I'm not even waiting behind them on line.
When I was a teenager, I had a therapist who said she would stop seeing me unless my dad stopped paying with checks because it was a huge…

This one is not a success story, but it was indeed the greatest pick up move I've ever attempted. Key word: attempted.

I went to a small alternative school during High School. There were maybe 50 kids in total and I only found one of them attractive. I was well into my second year at the school and was still just…

For real, though, it's just white and gold. What's happening? I'm trying so, so hard to see how any one could possibly see this as black and blue. Is this like one of those magic eye things where, yet again, I'm the only person who just. doesn't. see. it?

The shadow is causing the white to appear a blue-ish tint. As…

Oh, okay, I get it...Selena Gomez was like "To show the world how grown up I am, I'm gonna channel me some Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby!" and all the pedophiles nodded vigorously while fumbling with something in their pants.

Honestly, when I first saw her picture, I immediately couldn't help picture that young woman terrified and crying. I felt sick. Just imagining her abject fear over losing her own life and the lives of her loved ones made me shudder. I don't know this girl. Miss J did. Even if it was from brief challenges and from…

It feels like one of those obligatory condolence letters. When I read it, it almost comes across as "One of our models was killed blah blah blah, watch #ANTM, RIP, we all miss you, stuff and things like that. The end". Which is disturbing. I get that it's 140 characters, sometimes it's challenging to pack something…

I also have BPD. I worked hard in therapy with a wonderfully kind and gentle woman. Later on I had a therapist who was amazingly talented and it was if I had an epiphany each session. With their help and my own hard work, I went from being a complete and utter train wreck who was hell bent on destroying myself by any…

I'm excited to see that...but there's this part of me that's sort of cringing. Every synopsis for this movie that I've read pointedly says the character has Borderline Personality Disorder. How does her behavior say BPD? She seems very strange, delusional, 'out there', but none of her behavior really says "Oh, hey,…

Back when I was working at the desk at a library, we'd see parents running after hyperactive, screaming children, pleading with them to calm down and be quiet all the time. I remember two little boys losing their shit by the DVDs, their mother had to keep leaving the line to beg them to be quiet and still for just a…

I have ADHD that went undiagnosed until I was 17, so as a child I was constantly pumped full of seemingly endless and "unexplainable" crazy energy. My mother used to take me out to let me run up and down hills until I'd pass out from exhaustion, that was the only solution she could think of. I think I may have been…

Somebody else asked if there were loopholes and I wrote a reply to clarify. Also, this is just from a moral standpoint, specifically, my moral standpoint. I think in the basic "#1 partner buys ring, #1 partner proposes to #2 partner, #2 partner accepts proposal and ring, then #2 partner decides they do not actually…

He said something along the lines of "Oh look, kids, Eddie Murphy, a falling star! Make a wish!"

Wow. Thank you for sharing. You handled the situation so well. Most people would have pursued the person who made their insides turn to jelly without addressing the issues at home and/or abruptly broken off the engagement, but you went the mature route. You couldn't help your feelings however; you couldn't help not…

Oh, then, fuck yeah, you keep the ring if you want to in that case. Of course there are loopholes, I'm just addressing the basic "Person gives other person ring when they propose, person accepts ring and then changes mind, engagement is broken off" scenario.
If the person who has proposed to you is a dickbag cheater,…

YES, ABSOLUTELY.

Well, we do...it's 'they/them'...I guess, for you, when you read a story told in gender neutral pronouns (they/them), it sounds like it's referring to people in the plural, but in all honestly, the majority of transpeople, gender queer people, etc. are perfectly happy with 'they/them'. There are some transpeople or…

Oh, no...no...I don't know her, but it mostly likely will seem so, so out of left field for her and you will be shot down. You've dated in the past, yes, you're close friends now, yes...but I know if somebody I USED to date and was very close to as a friend proposed to me, I would be like "Where the fuck did that even…

Good you gave the ring back. You never get to keep the ring.

Okay? Just saying, everybody:

IF YOU ACCEPT AN ENGAGEMENT RING, BUT BREAK THE RELATIONSHIP OFF, YOU HAVE TO GIVE THE RING BACK.

They gave you this ring, basically, as a gift that was a symbol of their love and commitment to you. By you accepting it, it's…