I knew a guy like that. I eventually said to him "Matt, it's friends or nothing". He replied "ok, I'll take nothing". I secretly rejoiced.

I love your response! Dignified perfection.
And I wish I had some cheesecake right now.

That doesn't sound like a minor thing. It sounds like a terrifying and terrible thing. I hope you are feeling ok. I would be more than a little shaken. The fact that he thinks he merely "made you uncomfortable" - like he had - I don't know - farted extravagantly or something - rather than made you scared, traumatised…

OMG MyPrettyFloralBonnet replied to me!

Ugh, those days in high school where I was hyper-aware of my own popularity, or lack thereof were just awful, and social media could only have made that worse. But for some reason, despite me being very secure in myself in the real world, on Jezebel I feel like I am in high school again.

"the country's precarious earthquake-prone ecology that engenders feelings of futility"

Oh dear, I can't imagine how painful that must be. Sisters are so special. Though with family members with mental illness I do know the mix of compassion and frustration you presumably feel for your sister - feeling like - I know it's not your fault - but for the love of god trust me when I say that you need help! I…

I've written a children's play. I had my local non-professional theatre group produce the play and then I entered it in a competition and was short listed - I suppose technically my play has been published, in that it is out there for other theatre groups to perform now (paying me a royalty - hasn't happened yet, but…

I get what you are saying. Ideally you would be able to have a bottle for emergencies. But the fact is, it doesn't work that way for some people. I remember when my first baby was tiny, I was reading all these books and trying to be perfect and your idea was one of the many things I was trying to do perfectly. I…

Being around my favourite women - my sister, my mum, my book group - they think I am wonderful (the feeling is oh so mutual) and we remind each other if any of us are in danger of forgetting.

The Drugs Don't Work - the Verve. I can't hear it without remembering visiting my friend in a hospice when she was 19-years old and dying of cancer. I'm crying now actually.

Ahh! It's just like something out of a romantic comedy...... "You are the one thing.... [stifled sob]..... I never knew..... I always wanted"

I'm really pleased that you were able to find a way to combine breastfeeding and bottle feeding. I wasn't able to do that. I breast-fed my second child til she was 2 years, 3 months old - not because I was ideologically committed to it, but because we found it really hard to stop. It took me about a year of trying…

Marian Keyes describes it as the honeymoon period when instead of taking your makeup off at night you pile a whole lot more on.
Gross.

I usually don't wear makeup, but there was definitely a brief honeymoon period with my lover where he didn't know that my bra is off by 6pm most nights and that the 3 pairs of my knickers he had seen were the only ones without holes in them.

I once burnt my lip on some boiling fudge (because who can wait for it to cool, really?) and it formed a blister. I had to stop myself from telling anyone I met (and passing strangers) that it wasn't herpes. I just wonder whether this dude has a crush on the letter recipient and this is his weird way of saying "I…

"Most of my friends have vaginas and they are important to them, so they are important to me"
A+ adorable

Oh Dennis, you silver-tongued devil

I was deeply conflicted about this decision and I eventually decided to change my name. Ironically, the fact that my husband was very clear that he couldn't care less which name I went with made it easier for me to change my name (did he really not care, or was he just being very clever?!). For me it came down to…

My book group read the first one. There are 6 of us - very (very) well educated women - two of us went on to read all three, two liked the first but had had enough and two disliked it. From my point of view, books and tv etc, fill different roles; sometimes you want art and sometimes you just want entertaining…