I quit my six-year cubicle job last November and it was one of the best things I've ever done! I'm middle-aged, live alone and FAR from well-off, so I wasn't supposed to leave my job without another one lined up, but I didn't care. I spent two months doing nothing, then started figuring out what I wanted to do next.…

Thank you! I have hope!

I just put all my personal information on my blog so everyone knows everything I could possibly tell them and I don't have to worry about keeping anything private (google "Chicana on the edge").

There are many men who love their mentally ill wives and stick by them no matter what (hospitalizations, suicide attempts, etc.). I just didn't marry one. I have hope that I'll find someone who's (much) stronger than my ex and won't cut out when I need him. Good luck to us both! It sounds like you're learning how to…

My (now ex-) husband's major surgery didn't sink us, but my emotional disorder did. The complications from his surgery became long-term (still going on), but he's the one who ended our marriage becuase he said he couldn't handle my moodiness and episodes of depression. Yeah.

"I didn't intend to hurt anybody, but I've learned it is not my intent that matters, it is the result." Best apology I've ever heard!! Everyone always says the offensive act wasn't intended to offend, as if that makes it okay. Rancic (or whoever wrote this apology) GETS IT. Fucking impressive.

There's so much more to nutrition than goddamn calorie counts and fat grams.

Yes!

My ex needed a hip replaced at age 47. It happens.

No one should be having kids. Let the human race die out.

Lawyers were arguing for a baby to be gestated inside of a corpse?? Gross.

Yes. You are.

And yet, many many people DO need white stories to drive home the message of black pain. It totally sucks, but that's reality.

Many are acting as if #crimingwhilewhite is white people drowning out the voices of people of color. It's not. It's a response to the voices of people of color. It shows that white people are finally thinking about THEIR role in a racist society. That has to happen if anything's going to change. So many white say,…

#CrimingWhileWhite isn't for people of color to listen to white people yet again. It's for white people to talk to other white people because yes, infuriatingly, most white people STILL don't believe racial profiling exists. It's not fair and it's not right that whites don't listen to POC talk about racism, but they…

This "mom" title was even foisted on me when I got a dog. I couldn't believe that a childless woman with a dog suddenly counted as a "mom" (of sorts), although it was only white, middle class, college-educated people who did it (I'm Mexican American). It fuckin pissed me off.

I live alone and instead of getting a gun, I learned self defense: hands-on, fighting dirty self-defense, so the man is NOT going to get back up. It's better than a gun because I'll never be without my hands and knees, plus the assailant can't grab my hands and knees and use them against me

Being safe has nothing to do with what size or gender you are and everything to do with having the confidence and training to take an assailant DOWN so he can't get back up. Learn it with self-defense organizations like IMPACTselfdefense.org. I live alone (and I'm 5'2") and I sleep just fine every night with my…

Maybe some men propose publicly when they want the extra pressure to guarantee a "yes" because they imagine a woman can be pressured into a lifelong decision like marrying someone she doesn't really want to marry.

I guess I won't do the countdown I was planning.