I couldn't help myself....

It's hard but all you can do is be the best stepdaughter you're capable of being. I'm just realizing this year that I still have a lot of unresolved anger about how I was guilted into being totally okay with my dad remarrying a few years after my mom died, and how he still emails me urging me to call her on Mother's…

I'm not saying this to try to trivialize or blame or anything your experience at all, but I recently ended a relationship with my possible-soul-mate after realizing that his daughter would probably never love me as a step mom. I read this book, Stepmonster, that was really interesting and helpful in talking about the…

*personal baggage alert*

I agree with your husband that backing out at thus point would do more harm than good. I also agree with you that it's weird she asked you to be in the wedding in the first place, but what's done is done. You two might never be really close and that's fine. All you can do is be polite and not take what she does too…

Didn't see that last week, but if someone suggested Neutrogena I'd second that - not the pricey kind, the SPF 15 of this http://www.amazon.com/Neutrogena-Oil…. (They also make it in SPF 35, but I haven't tried that - this has always been my default go-to daily, and I put a stronger sunscreen on as well if I know I'll…

Thanks crappy. I too have been experiencing skin product woes. Anything from Neutrogena is usually pretty good, and a bit less expensive too.

This reminds me of the time when two American exchange students made fun of me for saying 'holiday'. 'Oh, you hear that, she says ho-li-day. She means vacation, haha lolz.' This is when we were all studying at an English college, in England, where the proper English word is holiday.
We also had a 'film society' on…

"Do people really talk/write like this?"

Yes, people really do use the word "film." In America too!

I'm from New Zealand and I go to the cinema to watch a film... I didn't know it was weird. :/

I'm going to gather you have spent a good part of the afternoon sending out resumes? :)

People really talk about film stars. They see them at the cinema. Britons; they're (English speaking) people too!

Mocking the English for the way they use English seems like kind of a low-probability affair, doesn't it?

It's the 'do it right' comment that irks me.

I think it's difficult for most people to admit their ignorance the way that Kim Kardashian has with regard to racism. I don't understand the instinct to mock someone for this. Thinking that these issues are everyone else's problem is not actually that uncommon, especially for this generation. So good for her for…

The boy from Florida? Does she mean Treyvon Martin? Could she not even google him?

I see that you took the message she was conveying about being proud of our bodies and not being judgmental and just shat all over it. Nice. "To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on." If you are Emma Stone's doctor, I apologize for assuming that you're just an asshole.

I would argue that his "real mother" is the one who's been taking care of him for the last 11 years and not th one who didn't have custody before she was kidnapped.

It's amazing that anyone would want to be photographed with Lavigne. Granted, I've never been to Brazil, but I assumed they had a 6 hour time difference. I didn't realize it was 2002 down there.