Try central/northern California. It’s a mini Texas shit storm in some towns.

Or maybe he’s a big old creeper and wanted to see their home addresses for more nefarious purposes? Like the anti trans bathroom bills, gross dudes can now confront women and demand to see identification of sex, age, name, address....

It never even occurred to me to consult my husband on genetic tests. At my first appointment to verify pregnancy I said ‘test me for everything and anything’. I guess he might have feelings about it, but it didn’t even cross my mind to see what they were before asking for them. Of course I’d get tested for any…

The two people I know who had gastric bypass both had issues. Not from surgery, but from the type of disordered eating they had. One never lost the amount of weight she was projected (she had a serious medical issue that required her to shed a certain amount just to become mobile again) and another lost almost half…

Not excusing him or any person who hurts or kills in a ‘crime of passion’ scenario. At all.

I think I’ve shared this story before, but I worked with a couple who had been in CoS for about 10 years and seemed like normal (if a bit intense) nerdy middle aged people...UNTIL there was some seminar they both HAD to attend. I swear to god, they were fundraising like they owed money to the mob. There was genuine…

I saw a clip from a party wherein I appear ‘tipsy’ but coherent yet I remember none of that event at all. I will concede that there are times a stranger may not be able to tell if a person is ‘fun drunk’ or ‘bad drunk’...but that’s why snoring and urinating are excellent clues that the person is not having a ‘good’…

I don’t think so...more of a diagonal satin sash crowd.

Except he wasn’t was your EX and NOT a fictional character gaslighted into situations and completely helpless to the whims of someone else’s script and direction?

When I was younger (and very very dumb) I repeated a slut shaming rumor about a girl a grade older than me. It didn’t occur to me how awful what I had heard (and then said) was to the extent that I even mentioned it in passing in front of my dad. The first thing he said was to never ever ‘repeat something like that,…

My friend found his father after a shotgun blast to the face...he was never ever okay again.

I used to kind of hate oral, but then I had great oral and now it’s my favorite thing.

A woman on the outskirts of my friend group told me the ‘inspiring’ story of her mother refusing medical treatment and instead relying on ‘prayer and positive activity’ as a way of bonding when my own mother died after a vicious battle with cancer.

I had to reread this twice because I could not understand ‘10'.

It’s too hard for me, I’m not as forgiving as I thought I would be.

But HOW do you love her, though?

People asked me this as a kid (growing up liberal and non religious in an area full of fundamental Christians and Catholics) and I got so confused. I replied that I wouldn’t have known or cared if I wasn’t born because I wouldn’t have existed anyway...so, how do they think that question is supposed to work? Even as an…

Agree on anti-choice moniker but if no option other than pro-life or pro-birth is offered I prefer pro-birth. Because we all know ‘life’ isn’t sacred once it’s born and might require medical care or food aid. Then it’s not a ‘baby’ or ‘a valued life’ it’s a drain on society looking for a ‘hand out’.

Black Honey was the first lip color I ever bought (not from lip smackers or wet n wild’ and 12 year old me looked fantastic. I love that shade, even though I’m no longer a lip color kind of gal.

I briefly* ran a parenting group for people who had their children removed from the home. Many of them were ‘decent’ people with substance abuse or mental health issues (who) were willing to change and learn positive parenting and discipline techniques; often having learned violence or hurtful behavior from their own…