I am really, really happy to hear this is being addressed in any shape or form. These people are heroes. On another note, though, this is symbolic of a massive failure. There are 7.5 million girls in Zambia, and this is 75 kits. The rest continue with a lifestyle that we shouldn’t see anywhere. Something big needs to…

I think perhaps you think you need to be a “finished product” as a person before you feel up to trying out relationships as whole-heartedly you? Like for whatever reason, you need to be in a place where you can have confidence in everything you put out there in order to be worth knowing (in your own estimation)?

Does she know right now that that’s what you’re hoping for? Make sure she does.

Do not worry. The age they first had them or how many dates they had, it doesn’t seem to help everyone equally, and so you are guaranteed (I promise) to be no better or worse at this date than anyone. Enjoy the fuck out of it, you got it for a reason.

My answer has a part 1 and a part 2 because I’m a miserable romantic. This is all hypothetical musings. Part 1: Do you think you’ll run into him again, by chance? So you can be your normal, non-drunk self he liked in the first place? I’ve seen people recover from incidents like these, but it took incredible poise and…

You have fantastic taste in books.

Hey, this is going to sound like super weird advice, but if you can help it, try not to compensate for this with household work, like chores or errands etc unconsciously. This has been studied in contemporary relationships (even with same-sex couples) to pieces, but I find no one really knows it. Couples that feel…

I was reading a book one time that was talking about how we are continually stressed against the measure of where we should be and at which time in our lives. While there are things that contribute to this on a practical basis, when we stop stressing and examine the reasons having it together by 30 is important, a lot…

I don’t know if mulling over something a long time is necessarily the making of a sound decision just by itself. If it’s meaningful, in a spot you’ve given thought before, then on a trip might be the best time.

If you change “police” to “king’s guards”, and remove mention of phones or Mexico, you can’t tell this story isn’t from 980 AD.

That story made my blood pressure escalate. Tell me the story ends with someone being sucked into the escalator.

I know, this is horrendously out of place, and I don’t want to detract from the discussion I was enjoying, but OMG gifs as tattoos is the coolest idea that has happened. The next dark dystopian sci-fi movie has to have this.

WHEN THE DINGS HAPPEN FOR NO APPARENT REASON. See, if even before the flight, or in the booklet on the back of the seat, or somewhere, anywhere, explained some of the sounds, it would stop me from a cardiac event. Like, if someone said “the motor you’ve been listening to with obsessive concentration will get louder…

We all have to be powerful somewhere. I’m glad you found a little comment thread.

I know right. When I look around, like, all I see is teens, holding off on sex, waiting til they have a stable job with benefits so they can go buy the birth control offering highest level of preventative protection, explaining to each other how the government should be paying for it and the wine too, and generally…

I’m revoking their Women-Cards, they can be Factionless. I can’t even with this.

goes to show you how crazy people are crazy!

Seeing that picture today was the moment I realized indefinitely that I have no career ahead of me in shock rock.