I have been pregnant and given birth and at no time have I ever given a fraction of a fuck about anyone's birth story. They are incredibly fucking tedious.

Amen.

This is the nuance that is often missing in discussions of this topic. Well put.

Yeah, I don't know. "Unyielding cantankerousness personified" doesn't sound pleasant to me. I've always ended up in the good graces of women like this because I'm smart and competent, and I've enjoyed their company in limited doses, but as far as being that or getting emotionally close with someone like that, living…

Hope she's okay.

Lay it out for him. "Friend, we love you and love spending time with you but lately we have a lot going on and are booked out weeks in advance. When we tell you we can't hang out and you make plans for us anyway, I feel like you're not listening to us and our needs." Schedule a thing with him a few weeks out, and…

Is it like this all the time, or when he has the kids with him? Parenting for me leads to much different texting behavior than used to be my normal. Hard to tell what kind of non-response is really bothering you from the examples you give but it sounds like he doesn't totally leave you hanging (answers questions),…

This x 1,000,000.

That could create some, uh, peculiar swipe-right scenarios.

What the hell did I just (kind of) read?

Fuck RDJ.

Agreed. I found the whole thing confusing.

If you don't see it that way, fair enough. To me it's not so 'creepy' from the outside, with no connection to him, but if I had a coworker who I found out had gone through with this, I would be really unsettled. This is not a white lie. Giving yourself permission to go to this much effort to deceive your employer and…

Imagine working with a guy who made up an entire family and tell me that's not creepy.

The Giving Tree is like an ode to codependency. Get thee to a therapist, tree, stat.

I'm guessing "A Body for Every Body That Looks Like One of The Bodies Picture Here" didn't fit.

THANK YOU for this. Never Forget.

Go on...

and National Review intern

Whooooaaah, comment section. Telling on yourselves.