Thanks so much for the insight. My pregnancy was a pretty stressful time for both my husband and I, but we were both just so overjoyed I think we didn’t linger on the stress much. It’s hard to imagine what it must be like in abusive/controlling relationships.

That makes total sense. Thanks for your thoughtful reply! 

Does anyone know why pregnancy is a particularly vulnerable time for victims of DV? I’ve heard that stat several times before and I can’t quite wrap my head around why it would be such a dangerous time. Just as a comparison, it makes a certain kind of troubling sense to me why an abuser would become more violent if…

I definitely saw it. But I chalked it up to my genuine obsession with her and Matthew Rhys. Glad to know I’m not alone!

Also, how is this felony vandalism? I thought you had to attack a church or it had to be a hate crime for vandalism to be a felony?

Also, isn’t the name Trip like a nickname for so-and-so the third? Like Gregory Allen Smith III would be called Trip (as in triple, I believe). Tripppp is just just something you do over a rug that’s not laying flat. So weird to me. 

I disagree with “a white noise machine on a low setting.” Crank that bitch ALL. THE. WAY. UP! Seriously a life saver in this household.

My freshman year of college, a friend of mine went home over winter break and came back with what was clearly supposed to be an engagement ring. Her parents bought her a diamond ring for Christmas. We were teasing her at lunch in the dining hall when a friend of ours who didn’t know her so well came up. We told him…

“Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster.”

I’ve worked for 10 years at a children’s bookstore. We have costumed characters in all the time and especially young kids are ALWAYS terrified of them. We warn parents, we make very clear that it’s one thing to love Gerald from the Elephant and Piggy books, it’s another to see him as big as a full grown man.

Every time I see a picture of Daniel Day-Lewis I think, “THAT’S Daniel Day-Lewis?!?!” That’s all.

Now that I’ve mentioned it, you’ll see it all the time. I never saw it before someone pointed it out.

Oh, creepy Chip and his gun on a construction site. He won’t be missed. Fuck shiplap.

Is that what it is?!?!?! I really just thought she decided to be crazy private after Tom jumped on Oprah’s couch and proposed to her in Paris with a camera crew to prove he’s SUPER STRAIGHT guys!

Watched as I’m hooked up to a spectra s2. Weirdly I was just jealous of how much milk she apparently pumped . . .

Yeah, I’m two months postpartum and this picture makes me feel so bad about myself. I guess it’s being young (no shade)? My 32 year old body just isn’t going to bounce back like that.

I’m so so sorry. I know how stressful it is to want to get pregnant and it not happen right away. I mean, when you think about it, you’ve got like 3 days once a month that it can happen. It’s not as easy as people make it out to be. Sending you lots of positive vibes.

Thank goodness! When my brother was a toddler, he escaped his pack and play which was in our backyard while my mom was gardening, he crawled out to our front yard and our neighbor found him immediately. But I’ll never forget the way that man looked at/spoke to my mom. It could happen to any of us and I’m just so glad…

“Men may also be less likely to care for themselves while sick.”

I am in total agreement with your post. Pence is just as fucking implicated as the Current Occupant of the White House (he was the LEADER of the transition team, ultimately this is all on his head). But R’s DO NOT CARE. We won’t see an impeachment/resignation no matter how bad it is. We have to win in 2018, and then…