Thank you for this. Broke up with my NPD mother many years ago, and probably would not be alive today if I hadn’t. Still didn’t fully understand the situation until a few years later when I learned more about NPD/kids of NPD and realized why I kept magnetizing men (and women) who were just like her. I hated mother’s…

And it is “harder” in theory rather than reality as most research shows that mothers (who work outside the house) still do more of the household and parenting work and have less leisure time than their husbands.

It is “harder” in a sense that men of your fathers generation were only expected to work and that’s it. Now they are expected to work and parent. The thing is, women were expected to work and parent which is what they have always done. The difference in the last 40 years is that now they get paid for one of those…

People seem to like me, wish I could see myself in a more positive way. I actually present as confident and fun, but that is mostly down to psychiatric meds and a background in the theatre.

It took a while to accept that I didn't fail my son - maybe a year. I felt a pang of guilt each time I gave him formula (which is odd because I was formula-fed and super-healthy as a wee babe). It also didn't help matters that a dear friend of mine had a child around the same time I did and she was able to have the…

There's nothing like assuming you'll be able to feed your baby and be leaking breastmilk everywhere and Instead trying to pump and only getting a half ounce out of both breasts. Been there. I feel your pain. Now I have a gassy, constipated formula fed baby. But apparently my sister was only breastfed and had the same…

Yes! I had an unplanned and unwanted C-section too. I then suffered from a post-partum hemorrhage and a raging infection to boot. My milk didn't come in for 10 days and when it finally did it was literally droplets. It took several weeks of research and emotionally beating myself up to learn that a post-partum…

I hate it when people behave as though giving birth isn't one of the most dangerous things a woman does. For millennia, lots of women died giving childbirth, and it was only recently, with the development of modern medicine, that we've significantly reduced that number. It's still dangerous; women still die. If…

I bought into that whole "trust your body to fulfill its primal biological destiny" thing and ended up having a failed natural home birth after three days of back labor that ended in a hospital transfer and unwanted cesarean. Yeah, most pregnancies can end in an unmedicated vaginal birth if that's what mom wants but…

Mornin'!

You are more talented than my cats, who prefer to just show me their buttholes.

"Oh, my life as a jet-setting 18 year old model is so tough. I must relax at a spa in Paris and use a heavy filter on my face."

To be fair, I think he was just transcribing his tear-off calendar.

Her voice is still so flawless. She didn't need 400 half naked musclemen wearing bejeweled masks and live autotuning to be utterly riveting.

I believe this man must hate women, because I cannot believe that someone as educated as he is actually believes what he is saying.

It's stupid that anytime woman violence or abuse is mentioned in Middle East or Africa that it's Islam fault when it gives woman purposely the highest position in society. The mother is placed on a pedestal above a father and the teaching it gives on respecting women.

I'm a muslim woman and I can attest that the pedestal thing is a load of crap. You get some respect in a muslim society as a woman only if you conform to a certain standard. Step out of it and you have a bullseye on your head.

I'm lampooning the far left's blind faith to total tolerance. They are so insulated in their privileged cosy Western life, they don't think that other cultures might have barbaric practices which are totally normal. My point is that we should be tolerant to a degree, but highly skeptical of other less evolved…