Meteor, I think you are onto something. To celebrate Jezebel’s birthday (as used to be the tradition in Queendoms of yore), how about a mass ungreying?

The Buzzfeed article proposes (though not explicitly it seems) that perhaps NDAs for this type of behavior should simply be unenforceable as against public policy (just as NDAs for certain other offenses and illegalities are void per public policy).

It always reminds me of this C.S. Lewis quote:

Agreed.

I initially read “caffeine runs” as meaning “diarrhea from too much coffee”, and became a little concerned....

Yeah, it matters a lot where you want to live and where you can work. This sounds like a deal-breaker to me. Waiting until you get engaged won’t make the issue go away. The pain of breaking up only gets worse. Also, this woman is in her 30s, but she’s supposed to wait around for years (because, heck, she could die…

Yeah, we can call her out for being shitty and immature, but I guess for me personally, her relative shittiness is playground pettiness compared to some other celebrities who I think have been super shitty but are held in higher esteem.

Gee whiz, have you even listened to 1989? I get why you’d find some of it annoying, particularly in the context of her public persona, but some of it is just really good, solid pop music about feelings and relationships. It’s one thing to write off superfans, but just people who like her songs? Ugh, I don’t trust or…

As opposed to whom? Adele, and her constant sappy stream of “why did you reject me I’m miserable” songs?

This Comedy Central ad is AWFUL please stop running it it’s so obnoxious/disruptive - it won’t let you scroll past.

I wouldn’t.

Starred for everything but “reasonable strategic decision.”

 should’ve also fired the guy who gave the order, not just the guy who followed it.

This happened to my aunt!

He could have been working the lie with Mom too. “Oh, Mom, Susie left me, here’s Beverly to soothe my broken heart.”

Yes! I am still stuck on that. When did the LW meet the mother? What did the boyfriend introduce the LW as? So many questions. If she met the mother while he was married and he introduced the LW as his girlfriend and the mother said nothing, I think we would then know where he got his assholishness from.

Yeah, I want to hear more about that too. Did he lie to his mother about who she was? Was it a planned meeting or a coincidence? Does the mom know her son is cheating? Is the mom enabling him? I hope LW3 comes into the comments.

You are right!!! We have to assume the mom knows her son is married and has her freaking grandchild.... Hmmm.... This is intriguing. Unless she was introduced as a “friend” somehow. Or this guy is a lying nut job playing every person in his life for some sick reason. I was married to someone like that, so it’s…

I get it. It’s a “good” problem to have, and feels like sour grapes, but dreading how you spend more than half your waking hours is a shitty way to go through life.

If I were mrs hole I would want to know. Better to know before having more kids/spending more time with him.