“Just try not to seem too scared” is the entirety of my parenting strategy

a hundred percent. you bring someone home i don’t like, i will fuck with you in passive aggressive but not scary ways, and then i will let your mama set me straight. #ghostgoals

as soon as i read that sentence my entire reproductive system got up and ran out the front door

okay, you brought receipts, but DAMN GIRL GET RID OF THOSE FUCKING PHOTOS WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU

It’s been increasingly clear to me that my oldest child, a daughter, has these “sensitivities.”  I’m realizing now that I’m going to have to be the mom who warns her kids about never knowing who you’re inviting in.  Jesus H Hoppin Christmas.

You’ve hit on something really core. When you damage people, you are left with damaged people. This woman has been chronically abused by her most formative intimates since childhood.  We can’t expect her now to operate in rational, presentable, functional ways. Trauma doesn’t work like that.

it’s not just you.  this guy’s a blackout, violent drunk.  bet his wife knows.  

Okay yes, but COUNTERPOINT: This woman has, consistently, for the past howevermany years, looked in mirrors and said, while on national television, “godDAMN I’m good looking.” Which is a radical act.

I was born in 1979, and my face has never for one second been as tight as hers.  God bless. 

I can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to find this gif.

“i hope you’re okay now.”

came here to say exactly this.

Truly. I can’t even really see him or his hand when I watch. All I see - ALL I see - is this young woman in a slow burn panic.

well load me into a rocket cannon and shoot me into the sun

Astrology. Vitamin supplements. His favorite music.

Are you me? This is exactly the deal we had when we were getting ready for our son, our second kid. C section = tubes tied, vaginal birth = vasectomy. We even had all the medical forms pre-signed and everything.

RELATABLE.

I think it’s time to implement the Amanda Bynes protocol here, and just stop reporting on her entirely. Either out of kindness for a person who is clearly in crisis, or because screaming eternally into an unhearing void is what she deserves.

This is INCREDIBLE advice. I feel like so much “self care” advice already demands that you are in an unachievable state of chill.

Oh my god preach. The minute my youngest outgrew our front carrier I gave it away. Even seeing pictures of it now makes my lower back howl like a wounded animal.