I don’t love fall, at all. I live in Wyoming and fall can be cold a.f. it’s already snowed her multiple times.

but it’s not like he’s there for the homophobia

What about exploiting her? Encouraging her to perform and record when she was not at her best?

The episode with Reese Witherspoon about sent me over the edge. It was so fake and gross and a closet with her Legally Blonde costumes and memorabilia just made me gag. As a side note, isn’t Reese one of the people behind the whole show? I can’t ignore the blind items and outright facts about what a shitty human being…

I got about halfway into the first episode, then rolled my eyes at the fact that anyone would give a bajillionaire celebrity the same boring clear-acrylic containers that I can pick up at Container Store. And the celeb fetish was off-putting if entirely expected.

I was hoping to see lots of before and after photos.

Well if we are talking about news bloopers we cant forget the OG queen. Grape Lady.

Your children are better off having 100% of you 50% of the time. Leave that guy if he won’t help himself. In fact, if he won’t help himself, you will end up having them >50% of the time anyway. I should know - my wife is an alcoholic borderline with a nasty mean streak and she cannot keep her stuff together.

My mom stayed with my bipolar, alcoholic, cheating dad for 17 years, “for the kids.” I wish she had left when we were little. Instead I grew up watching a woman constantly sublimate her own needs and desires for the sake of a failing relationship. I learned to do the same in my own life by watching her.

My partner and I are quarreling right now, so that guy getting it in the nuts was honestly kind of awesome for me. Also, I’m going to make a huge generalization here and say that he deserved it, based on the fact that the first thing he did was blame someone else for giving it to him upside down.

ooof! So no one in this story wanted a child, you all wanted a very specific kind of kid (eg. cis gender boy/cis gender girl, I’m going to have to assume).  Just imagine, like several couples I know, that you couldn’t have kids.  Would you really care about their penis or vagina, as long as you could have a child to…

YES. I wonder how often this person’s father asked them to act in such a codependent and inappropriate manner? How often did this person’s mom do the same to her kid? Fuck parents who sit and “vent” about their own relationship problems to the children they both chose to make.

This is the perspective that’s so often missing from discussions like this. You’ve articulated it perfectly. This letter writer should never have been in the position they were in. Our parent’s marriages are not our responsibility and, to a much greater extent than many people are capable of recognizing, they’re often…

I don't get all the hate on the daughters. Maybe they were complicit? When I was a teen I have NO idea if my (not rich) parents lied to get me into school. In fact I kinda hope they did out of love for me and hatred for the system.

It's roughly the size of a liquified child. 

But honey is mostly sugar, and agave nectar is just sugar.

It’s that same vibe of the dude who hurts you, and then immediately turns it around about how sorry he is and what an awful person he is, so that you’re supposed to end up comforting him instead.

There’s something about this letter that comes off as almost....proud(?) of how much influence they think they have over their ex. Couching it in self flagellation is adding victimhood to narcissism.

LW, you know you’re still using your ex, right?

I was really hoping Brad Pitt would go the Keanu route with his next girlfriend. Dating someone decades younger in Hollywood is banal.