Hey. Love the recommendations. I’m on the lookout myself, although I’ve realised that I actually have a fairly even split atm on my bookshelves.

http://everydayfeminism.com/tag/parenting/

I concur, Cala Lilies were exactly what I first thought of too!

OK. Don’t blame me if you now can’t deal! :)

They involve a fair amount of penises and ‘nice guy’ behaviour. A LOT of sexual assault and harassment. But they are written well and the ordering skill of Pinkham is unsurpassed.

I’m assuming that you’re a father, because a mother would probably be less horrified.

Well, then I must say that your children must be less messy than me, because I can wreck a room in under 2 seconds.

I dunno, I’m from the UK and have to order special condoms to fit my gorgeous boyfriend, so we pay extra, so he doesn’t have to be strangled by condoms that have a piddly 55cm diameter. And I get my BC for free, so look into it?

Yep, yep, yep. My office has 8 women in it and 6 of them have been in a long term relationship for a good long while. Three of us have bought houses for chrissake! we’re only 23-26 in age. We’re probably bringing the average down.....

We have very different houses and orgasms, methinks...

I feel like this is a good criteria for weeding out guys you actually WANT to sleep with. I’ve only slept with one man (I’m 24) but we got together when I was 17 and it’s been 7 years. The thing that cemented that I wanted to sleep with him, was that I saw how he was with children. I knew if the worst happened, and…

You may be able to get your condoms for free, with a prescription now. Look into it! And bathe in the glory of ever-so-slightly socialised medicine :)

I’ll tell you how I got out of it, and hopefully it will make you laugh.

Massive sympathy. These are people who when I agreed by going ‘mm-hum’ very quietly to the statement ‘that since daughters are usually the ones to visit grandparents that she wouldn’t be getting any visits without me pressuring them, given that she only has two sons’. I got called unfeeling and rude. I knew it would…

I wasn’t as assertive as that, but she definitely got the message by the end of the appointment. There were other factors involved too (Money from parents to help pay for kitchen. If it had been just my money,, I’d have got up and walked off after the second comment.) Also my partners parents are funny people. They…

If you think it’s inappropriate for extended family, what about the Kitchen Planner we went to?

Can’t this be made into an economic argument. Americans spend almost twice as much of their GDP on healthcare as people in the UK do, and a LOT of our services are free, particularly birth control, anything for children or seniors and those who can afford it the least. Wouldn’t socialised medicine act as a cut in the…

This is so weird. in the UK, anything relating to the wedding gets paid for by the couple (except the hotel rooms for guests). All Wedding party stuff - EVERYTHING.

This is actually the perfect thing to do with silver service. Regular washing (by hand) negates the need for semi-regular polishing. (The more you know!)

The other major difference between Europe/UK and the US is that we have mandatory maximums for work (35 hours per week on the continent, 45 in the UK) and minimums for paid holidays (Europe varies, but the UK gets a minimum of 25 days a year, including three-day weekends).