Generally, if someone doesn't work then they should take care of the house more, especially during the hours when the kid is at school. But there's 2 things you said that raise red flags: 1. You sounded really glib about the whole "keeping the kid alive" thing (although that might be internet tone or your sense of…

The Ex Mr. Bluesbelle wouldn't do ANY housework (not even wash a spoon). When I asked, he would say okay and then not do it. When I would mention that the toilet he said he'd scrub two weeks ago was still dirty, he would again say he'd do it and STILL not do it.. He was NOT making up for this lack of cleaning with…

One of the main reasons I dumped my ex is that I couldn't get him to clean up after himself. It didn't matter how important it was to me that I didn't want to do 90% of the household work; he couldn't make himself do it. If I asked him to clean up the disgusting mess he'd made of the bathroom/toilet, he'd say "I'll do…

I seriously cannot believe we are having this conversation in 2013. Every time I read one of these articles I a.) find myself eternally grateful for my neat freak husband, who does the dishes way more than I do and was chopping up veggies for a crockpot dinner as I left for work this morning and then b.) feel sad and…

Try that I don't clean shit in the Marines, myth BUSTED…...

This allows for a particularly nasty game of chicken, where a lazy person sits back and waits for their partner to give in and do all the cleaning. Sorry. Nope. Not a way that people who are worth staying in a relationship with behave. Pick your own chores that you'll actually do and make sure they're a fair share.

As a UConn alum I'm pissed about this, but am not surprised that rape still happens on campus. It's rural, spread out, and is scary at night. When I was a student there I heard things about rapes on campus and to be careful and mind my surroundings. I certainly won't be paying for the alumni network now that this…

I am a fairly recent UConn alum, and I, personally, never felt unsafe anywhere at night - and I used to walk solo all over campus at ridiculous hours. That said, UConn does have a strip of sidewalk through some woods known as the "rape trail", which is hugely dismissive and treated like a joke... I'm awfully…

One of these days, a major educational institution is going to actually create and implement a zero tolerance policy for sexual assault. It will not only thoroughly investigate every accusation, it will expel anyone found to be a perpetrator. It will then use this information as a recruiting tool, and the best and…

Trust me, parents won't pay tuition for a school that was so unsafe the federal government, for the first time ever, imposed a huge fine. They will not want their daughters on that campus. They certainly wouldn't pay increased fees. Talk about a PR nightmare. It makes me happy just thinking about it.

If the government is smart, they'll make them take it out of their endowments. That will really hurt.

Exactly. Hit them in the wallet, which they've shown they care more about than people. Get rid of any administrators who covered up sexual assault cases too, whether it was their idea or they went along with it. Job pressure is not an excuse. There is no excuse.

I know that it's rape culture and all, but it just blows my mind that stuff like this isn't taken seriously in this day and age. I really don't have much to add except: WHERE IS YOUR COMPASSION AND SENSITIVITY?

Hallelujah. I'm waiting for the first school to be hit with massive fines. That is when change will occur in terms of how colleges and universities respond to the rapes of their students.

You know what you could definitely do to convince everyone that you care about these 'all-important issues' and that you are not 'indifferent to or dismissive of ANY report of sexual assault'? Not let a rapist, that was expelled, re-enroll in classes again two weeks later.

I had three mice that were awesome. They would run over my shoulder and then hide in my shirt pocket and poke their little noses out. I really gained a respect for them when one of them became very ill. He went blind and then could only walk in circles. The other two would actually come over to him and sandwich…

Yes. They spend all day riding their unicorns around.

I could not agree with you more about the " it shouldnt be that hard" part. Yes. I feel the same way when I hear people talk about how marriage is "hard work" and you have to keep working at it. I tend to think that if your marriage ( or relationship) is "hard work" then you are probably not with the right person in…

God, once again, totally putting a bag over the head of young women and spinning them around so they can't see what stupid shit men are doing.

This is your Middle-Aged Mother Lady speaking: You wanna see needy? LOOK AT MEN. That's needy. These are people who need other people to make a place "homey" for them. To build…

This was the lesson I had to learn before I could fallen love for real. I tried so hard not to be needy that I was cold and dead. When I gave up on all of that BS advice and I feel in love and it's been really wonderful. In fact, I found a rather needy guy— we are needy together. It's nice.

So I'm more than a little…