Lol, nah. They didn’t...well, they did but my outbursts forced the issue. They tried that, “stop crying” mess but I was just too emotional to care about what they thought. I remember blurting out, “I’M SAD SO I’M GOING TO CRY.” My dad was like, “well...that is the appropriate response so...” and they continued to ease…

I know you didn’t ask me but I can answer this. A lot of times when you leave the organized faith, that’s when you really start your spiritual walk/journey as it was meant to be (individual, personal, etc). So, you can acknowledge and, most importantly, separate religion from spirituality and thereby retain a…

I have a feeling her siblings are gonna come for her in one way or another. Mostly because they seem to have gotten away and I think they are really concerned for her future and the future of those kids too.

Yeah. I just...yeah. I’m so glad I was born to the parents I had who let me rage out when I needed, cry when necessary, be happy for joyous events and grow up learning how to manage the range of emotions that happen in this here life thing.

I think he could want to be married though. But, when you grow up in an emotionally abusive household and told EVERYTHING you think, desire, and feel are wrong, well...you don’t know how to express yourself or go about getting what you need. How could you when everything is considered bad and sinful. You can’t even…

Folks stay ready to drag the shit out of folks without proper vetting. I’m not saying he did it or not. I’m saying can we get more before we bring out the pitch-forks? And no, this doesn’t mean I’m doubting her either. What it does mean is can we get some more info before we cast doubt on EITHER party? Right now, I’m…

You said society isn’t pressuring anyone to make people be in relationships. And while true, if and when someone wants to be in a relationship the only ones that are accepted widely are monogamous ones. Soooo EYE mentioned polygamy and other types of relationships to back up my claim that other types of relationships…

From what I gathered, she wasn’t saying people need to be accepting of cheating. She was saying people need to be more accepting of different types of relationships so they option to cheat was taken away. Also, she was saying in that instance those who don’t want monogamy could choose a different path, like polyamory…

Right. I feel like some people are being willfully obtuse on this one.

That is really disingenuous. Just as there is unwritten pressure to be Christian, love football and other things that are “all American” there is certainly unwritten pressure to be in a committed relationship with ONE person. Polygamy is outlawed and frown upon (for some valid reasons, I might add), polyamory is seen…

I think that’s what she’s saying though. If people realized they didn’t have to be monogamous and find people with whom they could be in open or poly relationships with, they would be happier and it would lead to less betrayal because folks were being true to themselves and honest with others. Monogamy isn’t a bad…

Snooki is ridiculous for that. Like, your man had an account too. Had she have commented on the situation from a personal perspective, like “hey, I’m right there too and his ass is out the door Anna...you can do this,” then okay. But to just talk about it like she’s not dealing with the exact same shit, and worse -…

I’m not a religion basher seeing as I understand why people believe. So that’s not what “regular” means to me. Regular as in “we know all this might not be true so we will use the Bible as a guide and not literal interpretation” regular.

Unitarian, AME, Non Denominational, some Baptist churches that are southern Baptist, Lutheran, and a lot more. Those are just the ones I have experience with.

Not Christianity in general. Most of the denominations outside of the extra fundie and fringe kind do not think divorce is a sin. They do encourage it NOT to be the first option. But, many Christians get divorced and no one bats in eye in many regular, not crazy churches.

Um....GTFOHWTBS.

Definitely. I can’t understand why they defended him in the first place but I’m not crazy so I guess that’s why.

Yeah man. At the very least, she should get away just to have time to sort out how SHE feels on all this. Because fuck what Josh feels.

I’m gonna lean toward him actually saying something privately to his sister about his feelings on the molestation. From what’s posted above, he doesn’t seem like the type to bite his tongue. So for all we know, he has been telling her the same thing from jump but with this latest scandal, he decided to go public when…

I think their responses were indicative of the type of relationship they had with him. Of course Miche’le would not be cool with that style of apology because they had a relationship and share a son. I’m sure it’s been years and years of him treating her like crap, even after the breakup, so this public stuff doesn’t…