Well, the Duchess of Cambridge is 35. Which is how Trump SEES himself when he looks in the mirror. Even if he’s twice that age, in poor shape, and eats a diet of mostly fast food and Lay’s potato chips.

It makes me snicker that 20-somethings at their first or second Olympics are coming out of this better than a supposedly mature 32-year-old “elder statesman” at his fourth Olympics. Also, I just laughed out loud at “mature” and “elder statesman” applied to Ryan Lochte.

This. It’s appalling to me how ingrained it is that we (social we) still associate working women’s money with “paying for lifestyles” rather than essentials. Guilty myself too.

Hee hee. I’ve told my immediate family many times if I get married, I won’t have attendants. My mother responded by ordering me to have them. Good luck with that one, Mom, I’ll be at least 40-something if it ever happens, fer Chrissakes. Way too old to pretend I’m some kind of ingenue.

Riiight. Hey, giving up a baby is almost the same thing as losing your favorite sweater! Or your iPod! /sarcasm

Yeah. Emphasis on the “young.” Like probably not above the age of consent. Which is as creepy as hymen inspections and “purity” in relationships.

My mom started getting that way in her mid-60s - she’s now mid-70s. In retrospect, I wouldn’t say it was a “change” in her political views so much as they hardened and calcified. She’s mostly liberal with a few areas of extreme conservatism, but I think I realized that her views have more to do with her feeling…

I....can only imagine this, because I’ve never exactly experienced requited attraction, which, at almost 40 years old, makes me broken in a different way. I mean, I can easily have sex if I put aside my lack of attraction. But I don’t understand what makes sex with someone else pleasurable instead of clinical, because…

Yeah, I think Book Atticus had some informed saintliness going on, if I remember correctly. Like, Miss Maudie presents him as some kind of savior when talking about the Tom Robinson case to Jem and Scout, which might not have been so true if we’d gotten outside Scout’s perspective.

This is weird...but I’m kind of jealous. Something similar to your story was a Penthouse-style letter that I read way back in my youth - in this case the bride swore she “didn’t know” she was fucking the best man instead of her new husband (evidently marriage made his dick grow 3 sizes). I’ve only been to really dull…

I have such a boring life. I’ve only ever been to one college party where the cops even showed.

Vodka is terrible for me. Actually, any hard liquor is getting tougher for me to handle - I just don’t like the bad effects. I stick to craft beer and some kinds of wine because I pay less of a price. I think longingly of when I could easily handle a night out at 21 with several helpings of Malibu rum and Sprite, but…

Ha! What a happy picture.

I’m so sorry. Thinking of you today.

Congratulations on your adjustable ankles, Barbie.

Yeah, I don’t think demanding climax is going to cut it, as much as I’m all about female masturbation and pleasure. Pressure to get off, though? That can work the opposite way.

Seconding that. I’ve found, in my experience anyway, that it can be tougher to find low key one-night stands on OkCupid than ongoing fwbs. The sample of men in my particular area seem turned off by only getting one-time sex and want it to be ongoing as long as there’s no relationship investment.

So would a man in your position be “retired” while a woman is a “homemaker?”

I have an acquaintance who’s functionally in your position. She worked for even fewer years than you in a very demanding corporate job that burned her out, but allowed her to retire with financial security for the rest of her life around age 40. Granted, she’s very unusual and very privileged to be able to do that,…

My aunt won’t watch it either; too close to home, from the workplace sexism to the philandering non-present husband. She has no desire to relive that time in her life.