The start of that horror movie where everyone is murdered by a set of knitting needles?

Have you seen buses lately? Airplanes are still luxurious compared to buses.

This is a kid who has been burned before.

This is the kid I relate to.

“I hope you’re not joking” “Is it really in there?” “Why did you make it?”. I appreciate this kid’s healthy cynicism and wish to subscribe to his newsletter.

I think only the woman was ever expected to be sexually pure... Most of those Bible dudes had more than one wife anyway

I’ve been to christian boot camp before and I’m still a gay. I honestly feel sorry for both of them.

I agree with you completely. I will say that it does sound like her brother is prepared to give her whatever help he can if she leaves Josh, but I agree. I have more sympathy for Anna than I do for (as an example) Michelle Duggar, because Anna has been indoctrinated into this cult since her birth, and Michelle chose…

Especially if the porn star’s account is true. If he likes sex as rough and degrading as she says, and Anna has never had any other sexual experiences before, no discussion, no other personal or secondhand account to go off of, and she is also just expected to submit, I can see all of that going very south very fast.…

No, you aren’t rusty. That is the appropriate response.

This is such a tragic situation for her. It’s so easy, from an outsiders perspective, to say “just leave” or “get away as fast as you can,” but even if she wanted to leave (and I have no trouble believing that the religious indoctrination Anna has received since birth will prevent her from doing so) being a single mom…

I wish I could say this was uncommon. But growing up in fundamentalism, we were taught that the only acceptable emotion was happy and blessed. You weren’t allowed to be angry or sad or disappointed. I wasn’t in a cult like this (Thank the Lord,) but what I was taught wasn’t so different. I actually had to learn how to…

I think no snark is the appropriate response. This shit is so sad. And it has to be looked at through the lens of the cult. She was raised in a cult, she has lived in one her whole life. She is quite literally brain washed. It breaks my heart. It is so difficult to get away from any cult, much less one that you've…

I read somewhere else that she doesn’t have access to media/internet to shelter her. It’s very sad. Her parents are pushing her to stay married to that douchebag. 2 of her siblings are supportive of her divorcing so I hope she has contact with them and is able to come up with a game plan to leave josh.

It’s sad that your comment makes me realize at least she’ll get a six month break from pregnancy to heal both emotionally and physically.

I think he definitely needs treatment! But it needs to be cognitive behavioral therapy so that he can learn to actually empathize with others and take responsibility for his own actions. “Sin” and “temptation” are not to blame for him molesting those little girls or for his extramarital affairs: only he is to blame…

*sigh* is it bad that when I read about the Ashley Madison account, all I could imagine was Michelle blaming Anna for not submitting to her husband for sex whenever he wants and if she had only done that this wouldn’t have happened?

“They always got 15-minute, one-on-one sessions with their mom every week. That was the time to share their feelings, but other than that they had to keep their feelings to themselves.”

Someone asked me if I thought he really had a sex addiction, and I said, “no...I think he’s a human.”

I feel horrible for Anna. She is in a tough situation, and one where I don’t think she knows how to deal with properly. She needs to start having conversations with a therapist who will listen for more than 15 minutes a week.