Does motherhood remove a woman’s personality? I ask only because I have been unable to have a conversation with any of my female friends who have children about anything, and I do mean literally anything, without it somehow circling back to what is going on with their children. I understand that they love their kids…

Greetings from Paris! I still haven’t adjusted to the time change which has made things interesting. Everyone made it here in one piece & Mr C was blown away by our surprise We are having some great adventures. Happy Saturday night.

Ruby is here, and introductions with the cats are going well. I was concerned initially but talked to the head of the greyhound rescue she came from, and he says he feels like things sound really good to him.

This week’s been NUTS. But in a weirdly good way.

Celebrating 420 as I type! Hi everyone! Does anyone else have holiday dread this weekend? You know, either seeing people you don’t want to, missing people, hating holidays, depression, the usual suspects. Me, 10/10 with this family I have of narcissists, enablers, and emotional vampires. At least we’re having dinner…

Well it looks like I’m off on my second secondment in a year, as a clinical practice educator this time. It sounds like the people I spoke to earlier this week were told I’d already said yes to the post, as evidenced by someone asking when I was joining the team (3 hours before the meeting!). 

If you don’t feel comfortable just asking, do you have a skill or service you could trade for donations? I’ve seen that a lot when folks are asking for help. Whether its a personalized poem, doing makeup, a tarot reading, could be anything. Good luck! 

So it took me quite some time but finally called it quits with my partner of almost 13 years. I knew it was the right thing to do but I’m still incredible sad and though it was definitely my choice I feel like bursting into tears at any moment.

Hi Jezzies I need your advice please. My friends here know I was offered a house but after I found out the last owner hung themselves there I finally decided I couldn’t take it because of my mental health, I’ve been offered another property but even though I’m on housing benefit I need to pay the first months rent to…

Yeah, I used to work for a company that gave very generous PTO and some people would be like “I can’t afford to use all this time!” And I would say “Afford?” and they would say “I can’t possibly take four vacations a year!” And I would say, “Who says you have to go somewhere? You could just be home, not working.” And…

I have . . . genuinely never had a bad time on vacation. Other than occasional small logistical problems, nothing bad has ever happened to me, and I’ve never been “disappointed.” And I have traveled a lot! 

“Annnnd they’re off. Into the first turn is Mama’s Boy followed by Really, Him? and If Flour Was A Person. Now If Flour Was A Person is making their move, If Flour Was A Person is coming to the inside followed by No One Wants to Sleep with You and Another Privileged White Boy. It’s still If Flour was a Person, If…

Tayshia responded by taking care of him, highlighting the emotional labor expected from women on the show.

So tonight we’re rooting for a crying, entitled man-baby to browbeat a woman who’s expressed clear disinterest in him into half-heartedly entering a doomed relationship with him under duress so she won’t be framed as the asshole who broke the Bachelor’s heart on national TV?

The text of that tweet squicks me out. “The chase for Cassie is on.” Gross. She’s a person, not one of those mechanical rabbits that greyhounds chase around a track. I’m so over the narrative that if men simply push harder and don’t take no for an answer they’ll get the girl, like women are prizes to be won in the…

I got a new job and my last day at my old one was Friday. I got everything wrapped up and documented and feel like I left with professionalism and integrity. And my colleagues were really kind and sort of blew me away with some little gifts and incredibly thoughtful words and gestures and I was able to say thank you…

What’s everyone reading? I started reading Circe by Madeline Miller, and I am completely sucked into the story. It’s a story about the life of the sorceress Circe in the Odyssey. I highly recommend it even though I’m only about half way through. 

Hi guys. 10 days ago, I had to put my dear kitty down. He had a brain tumour. I miss him so much. Not sure why the photo is upside down, but here he is in happier times. 

Hello, everyone! Weekly Achievement Thread time. Share with us your accomplishments this week so we can be inspired and cheer alongside you.

Hi Jezzies, a few of you will remember that I was homeless and then finally got rehoused by the council into a flat last year. The block the flat is in is awful and full of drug dealers and that I am the only female in the block. I posted last year that my doctor had written to the council to say that I needed to be…