Yes also don’t forget that you don’t need her cooperation or enjoyment to enforce your boundary. This is something I had to learn over time - we want to set a boundary and hope it will be well-received by the other person. When it’s not well received, we may backtrack or tack it back or dilute it. But if you go into…

Totally agree about Thomas’s new girl. She approached him, and I just don’t see her having any reason to be genuinely attracted to him. I also hated the endless bickering with Craig and Naomie (although it looks like it will continue this season, as they’re thrown together during social mixers.) But I like both of…

Each of us has a different way our friend(s) are being crappy, but the bottom line is they’re being crappy. Ghosting is weird EVEN IF you’re not “technically” ghosting because you pop back up again. Like you said, you’ll see he read your texts, and then nothing. I mean, come on. This is basic human decency. It’s…

It might be your progesterone and estrogen levels dropping. Lowered progesterone causes anxiety and ruins your sleep and causes heart palpitations, and lower estrogen makes you hotter (and also both make you more sensitive to temperature and hot/cold.) Yes, you can actually have external things that make you anxioius…

My advice is that since this is your first relationship like this, you’ll know how you really feel about these types of relationships only by being in it. What I mean is, prior to now, you’ve only been imagining what benefits you’d be getting in this type of scenario. It was never put into practice. Now it is. You…

What an excellent week, and congrats on the news segment (and unintentional but cool hair flip!) Good luck on the second date. Now that you’re dimishing your family’s involvement in your life, my true feeling is that you have received some of your energy back to allow for new, better people into your world. Like, the…

First off, I love the many responses you’ve already received, and I second a lot of the wording other people have used here (i.e. “I don’t want to dilute my brand, and as a business owner, I would hope you understand that.”) I’d also add that “you’re asking for a huge commitment on my end, and while I want you to…

I really really really like this response. I second this wording and don’t find it the least bit bitchy.

This is really small, but it’s been one of the best little things I’ve done that has improved my comfort level. That is: when my mom passed away a few years ago, I was obviously crying quite regularly. And I was always without enough kleenex handy (or I’d have two tissues when I could have used 9 or 11 tissues.) So I…

Just here to offer solidarity. The market is insane right now. And we were ready to finally buy in 2016, and it was insane (apparently that’s the year that the previously sluggish housing market really came back with a BANG across most of america. I kept reading article after article about low inventory, in all…

My bff is in this same boat and it’s a shit show trying to guess the motivations of the men on these different sites. And my experience at guessing our way through the various bazillion men we’ve encountered is that it’s a total crapshoot. He could easily be occupied for legitimate reasons, and hence, not in touch for…

I had a friend like this too - I dropped that friend. Eventually had to tell her “it’s too difficult to make plans that stick. If you’d like to do things in the future, I’d prefer spontaneous plans only. So, if you’re free and find yourself wanting to do something, reach out to me, and if I’m free at that moment, and…

Ugh on “she was legit fired because she wasn’t attractive enough” - can’t stand this. Know it’s true, but hate that it happens.

“I don’t read reviews of movies before they come out; only after I’ve seen them.” This is great. That’s what I do now, i.e. I make a choice based on the trailer. Afterwards, I’ll look up the reviews and I’m always surprised when I see the critical darlings and the critically panned choices. My opinions will often…

Yep, this happened to a company I used to work for. They ended up laying off many many people when they tanked the really healthy and profitable company (with the best benefits!!) Argh.

Agreed! Laws make it HARDER for criminals to do stuff - if people want to break laws, at least we’re making it much harder for them to do so. Plus to all those pro-gun people who talk about “why have laws if criminals will break them anyway? Why try to keep guns out of the hands of responsible people, the criminals…

The perfect casting for MTM is Sutton Foster. She could almost be her daughter, appearance-wise!

I’m happy for Errin. This new show looks so cute, it’s definitely great for kids and tweens, and the trailer looked charming! I haven’t seen any of it beyond the trailer, but good for Erinn for landing in a great place.

It’s true, and yet it’s also true in all other industries. In order to get great references for their next job, people have to pretend to get along with powerful people in their current/former company who may have even abused them. New jobs always want references from people in power at your last company, and the…

Melissa was brilliant in Samantha Who - that’s where I really got the vibe that she was a comedic genius. Her genius was so subtle because her character was a bit timid, and she played it like a true Oscar nominee. I remember when Melissa Leo (yes, I mean Melissa Leo in The Fighter and not Melissa McCarthy in this…