I don't really get this argument. You're getting married, whether you're combing bank accounts or not, your money is basically shared, especially in the eyes of the government. When you go to buy a house, are you going to make sure you split the down payment down the middle? Or are you going to put in as much as you…

The wedding ring you mean? Most women wear their engagement rings every day in addition to the wedding band.

Yep. I have a ring, we're planning a big wedding, and those two combined still aren't what we're putting down on the townhouse we're trying to buy. It really wasn't an either/or for us. We're putting 10% down, but even if we didn't spend the money on the ring/wedding, we still wouldn't have 20%.

I think it's kind of tacky to register for, to be honest. If you didn't have a registry, I'd ask what you wanted, and then you could say "we're saving for a house!" and then I'd give you a check.

My fiance and I are in the process of buying a townhouse right now. In some ways, that seems more real than all of the wedding planning we've been doing.

That was one of the other theories I saw on reddit, but The Mother's comment was specifically about a mother not wanting to miss her daughter's wedding, so I don't know if that's the case.

I went to UMass Amherst. I applied as a safety school, for the same reason, because my parents told me to. When the financial aid packages came in, it became apparent that I wasn't going to be graduating with less than $80K debt after my parent's paid what they could at any of them. I ended up graduating with about…

Yeah, I don't think I would ever do it for that reason. I don't have a problem with birthing centers attached to hospitals, and I think we should definitely re-evaluate how we deliver babies in hospitals, but I would never be willing to take that risk.

There's a twist this season that halfway through the season they'll switch partners and it will be up to the viewers to decide who gets partnered with whom (or something like that).

True. I wasn't given any financial aid at any of the schools I looked at because, just like your wife's family, the calculators all said that my parents didn't need any help. Which is silly, my parents had twins and a third 11 months younger - that's 1 year of two tuitions, 3 years of 3 tuitions, and 1 year of one…

Yeah, my state school (which is, to be fair, the most expensive one in my state) was just under $20K/year for room and board when I graduated 5 years ago. It's more than that now. So it's still not cheap, and you could definitely hit the $100K mark in loans, but it's still cheaper than $40K+ that all of the private…

What commentators were baffled? I watched it live and Johnny Weir and Tara Lapinski raved about V/M but said that they thought White and Davis had done well enough to pull off the gold.

Their swan lake was beautiful. I was enthralled!

Yeah, if your periods are already painful it's probably not worth it. My periods were always very easy, with just a dull ache of cramps. So there's room for them to get worse without being awful haha. The doctor said it usually levels off after 6 months or so.

Ha. I got one after my last cycle lasted 36 days. I went a whole week terrified I was pregnant. I almost miss knowing exactly when my period will be when I was on the pill (not really, I prefer my IUD).

My periods aren't that bad with the copper IUD. They're worse than my periods used to be, and much heavier, but after the first one (which was brutal, I'll admit), they've calmed down. I maybe take some advil once during the whole thing (compared to 800mg every 8 hours when I got my first period after the IUD).

Yikes. My first period after getting Paraguard I thought I was expelling my IUD. I had cramps for days before my period, called the on call doctor on a Saturday thinking I was puncturing my uterus or something, and spent the whole weekend in bed. Went in to the doctor the following Monday, and she was like "yea,…

I met my fiancé at a halloween party. We had a class together, but never spoke. I was at the party longing over a guy I used to date, and he was there because he was dating one of the girls who lived there. We spent the whole night chatting, and I had no idea he was dating one of the girls that lived there. I moved my…

It has a 99% on rotten tomatoes. That's insane.

But the internet's comments about how skeletal or anorexic she looks aren't relevant. If internet commenters were talking about how fat or gross the other contestants were, they would be shamed.