We were together 8 years before we married and no, not much changed-we had already lived together for a while at that point, which I think it where you ideally figure out your deal-breakers and what you want and all that. We had to be married for me to legally stay in his country, and it's been fine and just as…

My MIL's variant is "aren't you cold"? She usually asks when there's a tiny bit of collarbone peeking out of a not-revealing-at-all, boxy t-shirt and it's 85 degrees out ...

I developed melasma from taking birth control pills, which left me with a faint moustache-looking stain above my upper lip. I had cash flow problems around the time it emerged, and tried to figure out a way to fix it without having to buy cosmetics. I found some advice online about how you could lighten your skin with…