I once tried to text “Bah humbug” to a friend of mine who was being overly chipper during the holiday season. My phone autocorrected to “Vag humdinger”. And now that is what I say all the time.

My father was indeed a cult leader, and I spent the first seven or so years of my life in a cult. It was smallish (~20-25 people, at various times), and we never made the papers or anything, but I had a very strange childhood, for sure, and I’m still fucked up in a lot of ways because of it.

love this color on her.

My mom does this too, and it’s bullshit. Yes, the way the telephone works goes both ways, but parent-child relationships do not. And definitely not when a parent is bullshit for a person’s entire life as a minor. You can’t just put your kid on ice until they turn 18 and say “well, you’re an adult now, act like one…

My dad’s been like “well YOU didn’t call either”. What the everloving fuck. You’re the parent and you went away.

It’s not the children’s job to make things right after a divorce. If he and Goldie had issues, it is their job to overcome them if he wanted to be a father to them.

Here’s the thing about being the child of a parent who abandons you, and then subsequently the child of a loving stepparent: IT’S NOT THE KID’S FAULT THAT YOU LEFT AND SOMEONE ELSE WANTED TO LOVE THEM. My own mother is super bitter about the acknowledgment my stepmother gets on Mother’s Day, but you know what? If you…

I’ve played out the scenarios in my head—kind of a like a twisted ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’—but I can’t ever seem to get to the ‘good’ endings. I think you’re right, and that they would probably be accepting eventually, but it’s everything leading up to that point that terrifies me. Anyway, thanks for your reply and…

Yeah, that’s my fear. We’ve kept in occasional email contact over the years (out of a sense of guilty obligation on my part) but I’ve staunchly refused to meet up with her because she makes me so upset and confused and frightened. Talking to her on the phone was a big and difficult step for me and I don’t want her to…

This isn’t funny at all. You don’t do this shit.

She obviously didn’t know him THAT well.

She has not realized how horrible a person he is yet, and when she does, she will realize how much he used her emotionally for HOW LONG? Lied to her for how long? Could have set her free for how long? Lied to another woman for how long? Cheated on two women for how long? Let’s not forget - are there OTHER women?

I think he’s also probably been gaslighting her for so long, she isn’t capable of having the right reaction - which would be wanting to chop his dick off.

When I confronted him today, he admitted that he’s engaged.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. My heart is just BREAKING at the determined obliviousness. She made him promise to be faithful to his fiancee wife??

Oh, you poor dear thing. That man could promise not to shit his pants, and I wouldn’t trust it.

also, HE IS CLEARLY MARRIED and she STILL doesn’t get that at the end, which is mind-blowing. like, thats not an engagement party, sweetie.

Pants and polo tops work for pretty much everyone. It’s not always flattering, but it works.

Right? Maybe I am an Old but I’m on the school’s side on this one. A sliver of midriff is one thing but asking students of both genders to wear shirts is hardly a draconian rule.

Yeah, I think there is nothing incompatable about wanting the spotlight and having a legitimate story to tell.

Who the hell eats an everything bagel with blueberry cream cheese? Freaks, that's who.