Men were generally worse husbands and were more likely to abuse their wives when divorce was difficult to get.

The legal/financial stuff is about more than just the tax credit, though. (And that credit often becomes a penalty for couples who make similar salaries.) For me, it would be important to me that my husband, rather than my parents, would be the one to make decisions about my healthcare if I were incapacitated.

Um, they’re still in prison, friendo. They’re still serving their sentence. What people are pushing back against is being given *extra* punishment by virtue of being a trans person in prison. Unless the judge is giving them a shorter sentence to account for it, which I somewhat doubt.

I wanted a courthouse ceremony and a barbecue. My husband, because he had family coming from out of town, insisted on the whole shebang, to the tune of $24,000.

I wanted to ask my now-husband to marry me, and he implied, in no uncertain terms, that he wanted to be the one to ask. I also did not want a diamond wedding ring, and told him as much, and he got me one anyway.

I have never been on the receiving end because I don’t fucking harass people and people don’t make stories like that up out of thin air. If the accusations are baseless, they will collapse under a modicum of scrutiny. Hell, even if I DO go around harassing people, there’s little to no chance I’d ever see consequences.…

To be fair, a teacher who enjoys bringing science to young kids is the scariest thing Betsy could imagine.

A “pro gamer” has maturity and professionalism issues? Say it aint’ so.

“unprofessional and immature behavior”

The lawyers point to a “provocative selfie” posted by the 18-year-old,

I was genuinely not sure what to make of this when I saw it. I felt like I thought it was going one way, which is to say that it was going to make fun of #notallmen, but then women ended up being the target instead? I wasn’t offended by it or anything, I just felt a little confused, and thought maybe it could have…

My body healed. My mind has not. My inability to feel safe should not be seen as tantamount to physical injury? Perhaps you are unaware there are physical repercussions from stress, both chronic and situational, and they impact quality of life as well as life expectancy?

“merely emotional damage”

when she was 14-years-old

I’m an adult now with a good life, but I was a child with a mother like the women in these stories. She was stripped of her parental rights by a Midwestern state in the early 90s. I don’t know how much you all know about the Midwest, but for my home state to decide that a woman was not fit to parent, her behavior had…

I feel so old. Raise your hand if you were watching season 3 when Keith was kicked off for pattern books!

I had an experience that I’m not sure counts as harassment. Back when I was in college, I got a summer job as a cashier at the local casino, and one of my coworkers, who got married days before I started!, was constantly flirting with me. He never touched me, but the flirting and staring at me was pretty constant, and…

I’m wondering how many among us have been the victim of sexual harassment in the workplace? It has happened to me and I didn’t speak up about it which I regret.

I’m someone who likes rough stuff and went to therapy in part because I felt like a freak because some men I was with told me I was broken/gross/not a real feminist. I struggled for years to deny the things I wanted, even though it comes from a place of fun and adventure, and I’ve had some very healthy, positive…

I disagree in part to the answer to Knuckles Deep: If she’s enjoying herself, then yeah, marriage might not be the endgame. But if that’s where she would like to be headed, and he won’t acknowledge that and affirm it, he’s not really “all in” on their relationship. He’s not saying, “I see your point but I don’t really…