Same - 14 with an 18 year old boyfriend. It devolved into more obvious sexual assault, but initially? I still grapple with what that was...

I’m still waiting for the CDC to issue warnings to all men over 40 who are sexually active on the dangers of producing a child with autism or other health problems.

At this stage of my life, it’s all the hope I have.

Just stay away from the East & West coasts. $1-2 million doesn’t buy much there :-(

Same, but I live in a super expensive area so I’d need a bit more. It’s depressing, but in order to feel secure enough to leave my condo (which is a part of an equitable housing program) I’d need like 5 million.

When I got divorced for the 2nd time about 7 years ago was when I really started unpacking my past baggage. Being newly separated from an abuser, I wanted to make sure I didn’t fall into that trap again.

Jane Doe is fighting the good fight. Because I also want to remain anonymous if I win hundreds of millions of dollars.

I’ve never understood the argument for identifying state lottery winners.

Daddy sure didn’t appear to be so benevolently allowing the Eagles to win but keep telling the kids he’s Superman and that no one else’s achievements mean much because they only come at his leisure.

Look, I’m sure I’m just wrong about this because I don’t “get” the sport fandom, but why the fuck are your kids so broken up about the loss? It’s a game, there will be a winner and a loser, and it doesn’t have to be a big dramatic deal, and you shouldn’t have to hold your family’s dignity together with the patronizing…

Giselle, that is so dumb logic to use with a kid. Why wouldn’t she have said, ‘daddy played hard but sometimes another team plays a little harder’? Also why is this information public? How does what you say to a kid become public info?

You have to let someone else win sometimes. Sometimes you have to let other people win.

Dag, yer missing out. There is a legal weed called Girl Scout Cookies.

Its so annoying to see the moms doing all the work. 10 years ago I was a dancing thin mint. Do your time girls lol

Girl scouts park in front of all the local grocery stores around here. Usually without any girls in sight. Not to mention the cubicle sales without any girls present. Just give her her dues. She actually did something rather than the super moms that usually do it for the kid.

Yep, to some extent that movie endorsed/normalized those type of sexual experiences.

. . . how normalized these teen girl/grown man relationships were in the 80s. I’m thinking of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”

Like you, I’ve never had the desire to have children (I’m 41 and married). When nosey people (unfortunately it’s usually women, usually mothers) ask about our lack of children, I am honest. None of this “ooohhh the world is s scary place, how could I bring a baby into this world!” BS. I tell them I have never had the…

I’m in my mid-30s and my biological clock is out of batteries, it seems. I’ve never had the itching desire to have children, and I’m of the opinion that if you aren’t passionate about having them you probably shouldn’t.

Childfree is the term most people use, but it’s still vaguely clunky and smacks of angsty rebellion a bit much for my taste.