and he’ll have to absorb it all quickly and competently. I don’t see that happening.

There were articles where he said as much, that he’d just outsource all the work

Me too. Not even trying to make this into some sort of sunshiney positivity thing.

Agreed, and the songs were boring at best.

Don’t you feel complete now? 🙂

I’m not sure how I feel about her saying it’s brave to not have children, but she has children, though I suppose many (maybe most?) parents have some regret, but most probably never say it out loud. I’m single, childless and 50 and only the former bothers me. Occasionally I think it might have been cool to have kids,…

43 people starred this? I just...can’t grasp it.

as a (very NON-Mormon) teetotaler, I would agree

I have two friends, young smart, sweet women who were until recently a couple. They’re also both Mormon. Of course their being together was fraught with all sorts of bullshit, including their parents denying them as a couple (until they kinda came around, because they love their kids and aren’t complete assholes).…

These are people who are used to tap dancing around logic and reason, so I could see it happening here.

I didn’t say - or think - “creepy hillbilly”. Rather it was his behavior. I’m also not comparing or contrasting him to Avery, who seems pretty awful.

Yeah and they still have a giant cross in their courtrooms and make decisions based on the afterlife, so not so progressive as all that.

That’s not true. They talked to her creepy brother multiple times and other members of her family.

Sadly, I’m there with ya

yes they are

She has a character called “Miranda Sings” on YouTube that is inexplicably popular and is also now a Netflix show (which starts sometime soon)

Yes and they do it way too early because it’s part of The Plan.

bingo

I know many younger women (20s-mid 30s) who have grown up in this odd Disney cloud, often obsessed with princesses and Disney (I’m serious here), such that it’s part of the fabric of their lives, and when it comes time for grownup decisions, like marriage, they’re still in that mindset. The wedding and fantasy take…

It’s Lewy Body Dementia, not “lew body”. I have a friend who recently died of this in his early 60s. Absolutely awful.