Thanks.

Thanks. She has 2 kids with him and is stuck. They also have custody of his other two, who would go back to their incredibly unfit mother (like, knew her nephew was sexually abusing her daughter and didn’t do anything about it level of unfit) if she left. He threatens her with that any time she gets fed up. My heart…

“Well I remember it all very clear, looking back/ it was the summer I turned 18/ We lived in a little run-down shack/ on the outskirts of New Orleans...”

He is hated by every single member of our family except his wife because he is just a douchebag in general. They started dating when she was 17 and he was 26 and tried to lie to our parents about his age and later about the fact that he had a daughter from a previous relationship (his ex was 17 when he got her…

I am the oldest of three girls. Both of my sisters married their high school sweethearts (and literally the only men they ever even went on a single date with). I, on the other hand, have more than made up for their lack of sexual experience...guess which of us ended up with HPV? Not the “promiscuous” one who (almost)…

This is a huge issue for me as a survivor of sexual assault, and suffers from PTSD as a result. For some reason, I can handle most sex (and even rape, if it’s not too graphic) scenes if they actually advance the plot and aren’t shot from a super voyeuristic/porno view. But frequently , the scene is unnecessary and…

It is nice to know their political affiliations are sane...Chip and Joanna creep me out so much.

I come from a large, loud, family. My boyfriend comes from a small, considerably quiet family. He is frequently embarrassed by my natural volume when we are in public. It drives me crazy; it’s not like I’m trying to be obnoxious. And when I get self-conscious and try to speak more quietly, I basically…

I was in a 7-year-long relationship that was abusive in every way but physical, and during most of that time, I was working with victims of DV. Part of me recognized abusive behaviors and felt like shit for being such a hypocrite; another part used cases I worked with to minimize what was happening to me. It seems…

I posted this above, but I’m in the greys, so I’ll post again:

I feel like their faces were created from magazine cutouts of Disney Princes, which is why their individual features are attractive, but their faces as a whole are “off” (to me, anyway).

The book is phenomenal, and definitely sounds like what you are experiencing. I hope you can find a way out; I work with victims of abuse, and I know how difficult it can be (emotionally, logistically, etc.) to leave. I’m so glad you are able to post here, and we are always here for moral support. **hugs** (if you…

I’m so sorry; your situation sounds horrible. I hope you can find a way out.

The book made it seem (to me, at least) like he kept track of her spending and made sure she knew it, while also encouraging her to spend. I know there was an instance in which he had mentioned that she should go shopping (or otherwise spend money), and later brought up in public that Celeste spent a bunch of “his”…

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”— Leo Tolstoy

Yeah, “I can’t watch this because my partner wouldn’t like it” is ridiculous...one of the things me and my boyfriend like to do is pick a series and binge it together. Sometimes it is a series one of us has seen and thinks the other would like; other times, it’s something new to both of us. There is an unspoken…

I have the hugest crush on him. He’s smart, funny, and would be down for all of the kinky shit you could ever want.

I think most women who have been sexually active with men have “consented” physically/verbally without actually wanting the sexual act(s) being performed. It is often a form of self-protection and taking agency of a situation that you may not actually have control over.

Having read the book and not seen the series, I though of their post-violence sex as a kind of normalizing on her part. Like, “we must love each other; how else would we have such good sex?” I imagine there is an element of adrenaline, as well; one thing the book emphasized was how complicit Celeste felt because she…

I haven’t watched the series, but I read the book. It did a great job of portraying the violence in Celeste and Perry’s relationship in a manner than showed both how dangerous Perry was and why Celeste continued to stay. There was never any question that Perry was a monster; it was an issue of Celeste reaching a point…