I just left an abusive relationship. I don't make a ton of money, have no family in the area and a child. We are sleeping on an air mattress in a room I rent because I don't have money to buy a bed. And I have literally ZERO regrets. To be honest living in a cardboard box would be better than living another day with…

Wow so glad you are a perfect human who has never done anything wrong and thus can cast judgement upon others with impunity.

omg. I wanted to have my own TV show so I would walk to the end of our long rural driveway and perform my own song and dance routines by the mailbox. I was sure that if I did it enough eventually a talent scout would drive by and see me and give me my own show.

an anti vaxxer posted a "research article" on my fb page exposing the truth that it's actually VACCINATED children spreading measles. This person also was like "look there are references", and indeed there were links to peer reviewed studies at the bottom of the article. The problem was that all of them 100%…

you are a shitty human being and I pray you don't have daughters/never have daughters

dude those Peruvian cow heart kebabs are one of my greatest food memories ever. So. Damn. Good

I think speaking up just to make sure anyone on the fence is aware that most reasonable people think anti vaxxer are nuts is super important. One of my proudest accomplishments was persuading a friend to vaccinate her baby. Now she has done it and there were no bad effects hopefully she won't join the echo chamber of…

Probably not been as self-righteous as you

emotional abuse is so hard because it's so insidious and so easy to think that maybe it's all in your head or you are imagining it. My husband escalated to physical abuse which is why I fled, and honestly a part of me is glad it happened like that because I think it would have taken longer for me to leave had it…

being alone and happy seems so much better than being with someone who makes you feel so awful! I'm looking forward to focusing on my career and my kiddo this year! Glad to hear there is good stuff waiting for me out there!

It's true, no one wants to believe the person they married is a monster and also even terrible relationships have moments of happiness and enjoyment. Also I think people underestimate the power and control that someone can slowly and gradually impose over you, until one day you wake up and you realize just how much…

a million times better to be single and fabulous and live your own life than to be with someone who diminishes you. If someone doesn't enrich your life or make it better than don't do it! This is what I need to keep repeating to myself so I never end up in a situation like that again!!! Hopefully you can find someone…

Thanks! I feel proud of me too! My awesome friend hooked me up with a domestic violence resource center and the social worker helped me get a restraining order and temporary custody of our kid! (We have a kid together which obviously complicates things). I'm also hoping they can help me find a good therapist/counselor…

Today was my first normal Saturday after leaving my abusive and controlling husband. It's been a little over a week since I left....and I feel absolutely amazing. I have no regrets and this feeling of freedom is incredible! I'm free! I'm free! I can do what I want without feeling like I am walking on eggshells…

I would be hopeful that this marks the Democratic Party noticing that their strategy of being the republican-lite party is not working, but I'm totally disillusioned at this point. I bet all those missing millennials would have been more likely to vote if the democrats actually had a platform that took us in a…

I got a little overly passionate there. Sorry. My ire was directed at the commentor you responded to, not to you! It was just such a ridiculous statement to me. And now I want tamales made by someone's grandma

that is a statement full of wrongness and incorrectness. Plus they don't even really eat burritos in most of Mexico, it's a very Mexican American thing. Mexico has some of the most complex and varied cuisine based on regions using different local ingredients. To suggest that the many taquerias in Cali serving…

wut. Wut. Wut. Dude no. I have lived in Cali and eaten a TON of Mexican food, and traveled around Mexico and was able to sample a ton of yumminess. You are incorrect. It's hard to find food that isn't excessively greasy, smothered in cheese, ect in the US. Just no. Much nope.

yes yes yes. Breastfeeding is so much more work for moms than formula feeding, which in theory could be split 50/50 with a supportive partner. I think it's great to promote breastfeeding but there is entirely too much pressure on women to do something that is physically exhausting and essentially restricts their…

all my craziest/most self righteous fb friends constantly post links to collective-evolution. It's amusing until you realize they are serious