I thought maybe it was in case you lost your plus one at the last minute or just wanted a plus one...apparently it's nothing that fun.

I thought an escort card was something handed out by escort services. I did not know this was a thing that people had at weddings.

I didn't hate it. The belt really needed work/better placement and I would like a different white, but I like the style.

I am enjoying that the one dude appears to be made of sea life because his shirt was the wrong color.

My mother in law loves anything with a bird on it, which indicates it is for olds now and is no longer hip (Hip isn't a thing anymore, either, is it?)

Was this run through an online translator? Or maybe I had a stroke before reading this? Because 85% of those word combinations sound like gibberish. Origami gemstones? Pink sea salt flowers? Prada shoes come with a video? What is any of this?

I might be in the minority here, but I love a hairy man. This may explain why I find Mr. Lewis hot but Nick Jonas does nothing for me.

That seems like a reasonable explanation. But I doubt the required nudity is a secret at any point. People have probably heard about it before they even enroll in the class. Possibly there’s someone out there that didn’t hear about it before taking the course, but it sounds like students are informed in plenty of time…

My first thought was, “that’s what she told her mom when her mom found out”

It also reads like there is a fully clothed option that most people choose not to do because I would rather tap dance naked than be emotionally vulnerable - which seems significant and maybe part of the point?

I give up on at home dye. It usually ends up orange or black because I have really dark hair and am terrible at picking colors. Like, I love auburn, but every time I've tried...orange hair. I also hate that flat all one color thing and I am too lazy and cheap to deal with letting my stylist dye it (she also generally…

i am weirdly both happy and sorry to hear so many stories about similar parents. Happy not to be alone and to get confirmation I'm not crazy, but sorry that so many of us are struggling with this. And just completely sorry to read the stories about the flat out abusive parents.

It has been really comforting to see that my mother is not unusual (also incredibly sad).

I Usually only do one or the other. Either visit once overnight or a couple of day visits. Generally one or the other feels like a sustainable amount to me (probably because of how much more she wants it to be). Sometimes once a month gets difficult.

It sucks. The mental illness is what makes it so hard to just walk away and not look back. There have been a lot of times that were truly good, and she can't help some of the bad stuff. But it gets all mixed up with bad stuff that I think she can help, and I can't tell which is which.

Married 10 years no kids. We are trying to adopt (she wants a grandkids, supposedly, until it cuts into “her” time). Which makes it all more difficult. She apparently believed she would always come first and refuses to believe (after 10 YEARS) that he should be more important to me than her. Because according to her I…

It totally does. I have spent so many years afraid to say or do things because I'm afraid of causing the next breakdown. I panic and overreact when she gets especially smothering because I'm still half convinced she can make her delusions my reality. And I know it's ridiculous, but I don't really know how to stop…

I am not, but have been considering it. I am also having trouble with feeling guilty because it's difficult, but it's not abusive in the sense I generally think of abuse, so I wonder if I really have the right to complain. Like maybe I'm expecting perfection and am being unreasonable. I think a neutral 3rd party with…

I’ve only been to one, but I think they are confusing it with Coyote Ugly.

It's hard for sure. My mom has a tendency to say very hurtful things that she never acknowledges, but if I try to point out that she does it I'm attacking her and she has even told me she has the right to do that and I don't. Because I am still a child. At 33.