Oh I don’t believe those people, either. If someone asks how my marriage is, I tell them I’m happy and I love him and he’s my favorite person to hang out with. I don’t gush, but I don’t qualify it endlessly, either. Both feel a little “(s)he doth protest too much.”

Very grim, but I’m glad he was found and it wasn’t a scenario where, as some people postulated, it could have been another resident, a guest, or some larger scheme for an internet weirdo to indulge a fetish. I hope the state doesn’t have any bullshit “rapist has parental rights” laws.

It’s possible because they feel a huge pressure to be 1000% in love and floating around on pink clouds all day. Sometimes you DO have to convince yourself that things are fine and you’re normal. 

I came into this wanting to hate on them but honestly? I think this is a pretty healthy way to exist in a marriage. It’s certainly an incredibly mature way to look at it from two young people that I wouldn’t expect as much from. 

Based on the caption, it doesn’t look like Jennifer Garner owns that statue. It does look like she’s staying in a hotel that has that statue while her kids are not with her, and she’s so used to Mom Gear that she hauled the statue in the shower and cleaned it, which makes me kind of sad. Live for yourself! That’s a…

Yeah, I don’t get why this being presented as OMG DANGER DANGER. I got married in my thirties. My husband and I dated for 4 years before getting engaged, and had a 2 year engagement. We absolutely knew each other and felt ready, but man, living together for the first time was so challenging and we did premarital…

I’m always a little suspicious of relationships when discussions of them involve repeatedly stating that not everything is perfect and sometimes you don’t like the person, etc. When you feel the need to say things like that over and over, often unprompted (which may or may not have happened in this interview, I…

I don’t think seeing a marriage counselor is a poor decision. They are both young and seem to want to learn good habits and unlearn bad habits w/r/t relationships. I think the evangelical Christian thing is far weirder than seeing a marriage counselor, but I’m firmly agnostic, so...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not sure about the level of snark dedicated to the part about the struggles of a newer marriage and being newlyweds. If you didn’t live with your spouse before getting married, the first year is a legit shitshow of “why do you wash your dishes likes this” and “if you breathe this loud one more time while watching True…

I’m not sure if it’s the styling (her sophisticated outfit paired with his shirtlessness and tattoos) but that photo looks like a nephew being cradled weirdly by his more adult aunt.

It’s def a huge social taboo and societal misogyny. 

I remember reading an opinion piece from a mom who decided to give full custody of her kids to her ex and her thought process behind it. It was a really long time ago, and I remember feeling like it made a lot of sense and came from a good place, something like she felt like her job was too chaotic and she just knew…

“The Ukraine” is pretty offensive.  It’s “Ukraine”.

It’s a little like death, though, isn’t it? My grandfather passed recently, and my mother (who has been his primary caretaker for the last decade - and it was a huge drain on emotional resources for the last two) was sad until the funeral, but has rebounded and is enjoying her life anew.

His son, who rarely visited and…

I’ve definitely heard a lot of theories that consider the amount of time you were in that relationship, but I think it should depend on the toxicity of the relationship you just left and your well-being when you get out of it. I agree that outsiders don’t always know what’s going on, but I’m pretty suspicious of…

I was in a 5.5 year relationship. I ended it and metand started dating my current SO just 3 weeks later and we are going on 3 years. I don’t think there’s any right amount of time to wait.  Not waiting worked for me but it might not for someone else. 

I don’t think there should ever be a definitive answer to that; no hard number. Everyone will have their own opinion about it. And that opinion will likely change if they were ever in that situation.

Sometimes I wonder... when is too quickly to move on after a relationship? Makes me feel weird when other people comment “they moved on quickly.” Well, after a 9 year relationship in their case, is a month too long? 2 years? Half that time? Point is, outsiders never know what is happening. Either party could have…