I feel bad for you. I have lived in countries in which literacy was the exception and not the rule, and more wonderful people I have yet to meet. Adults with learning disabilities or who have been deprived the means of a good education are not lesser.

I’ll never understand how some people can be so selfish and mean. I treat my cat better than these people treat their kids, and the cat bites me and refuses to get a job!

I am a therapist who works with young children on the autism spectrum. My mother will EXPLAIN AUTISM TO ME.

It is me! Thanks for the apology!

It takes a long time to realize that people who withhold affection to try and control you will NEVER give you the love and acceptance you need. Ever. Short of a major Ebeneezer Scrooge-type personality change. You have to accept that and then make up your mind how much love and acceptance they deserve from you.

The best part is you say that and then leave. Now the asshole parent has to sit and think about what you just said. :D

That was an amazing description and I feel like we grew up in similar households.

That’s surprising! It’s just the way she communicates, then, which is fine.

All cats can be categorized into one of these feline personality buckets, with varying degrees of intensity.

We took the poopy cat to the dr many many times, tried many medicines. She had cancer. We couldn’t help her not poop everywhere. I realize that wasn’t clear from my letter. We tried to help her, but couldn’t, so we cleaned up her explosive diarrhea poo until she was sick enough to be put down.

Lw #1 - Please purchase The Boundaries Book. Ignore the Jesus-y parts, and learn about boundaries. They will set you free from your shitty abusive parents. My therapist strongly suggested the book and it was like a lightbulb. Do some boundaries work. You’ll be a happier, more independent person.

Depends on how much you expect to inherit...

Based on Jane’s reasoning, many of the writers for this site (and other GM sites) are children.

I’d almost call this a situation problem rather than an owner problem. My guess is that these are very young cats who are playful and high energy. They’re probably showing normal play behaviors, which are hard for a household that’s used to older, sedate animals to adjust to and are hard to manage in a situation with…

100%! Plus I immediately thought where LW lives could play a factor. I live in rural Pennsylvania where by 25 most people are married with a couple kids. Depending on her surrounding culture maybe boyfriend thinks that’s what’s supposed to happen. Or maybe he’s just really excited and doesn’t want her to slip away.…

This week’s column actually solves itself.

naw naw naw. i sit in an office all day long and have to be perfectly professional in emails throughout the day. no typos or mistakes to clients. when i come here its freedom of having to hit the caps lock. i am not a child but 33 years old and also and an english major. tired of it. let me live dammit!

Agreed. Sometimes rehoming pets is the right thing to do. It’s obviously important to rehome them responsibly in order to minimize your pet’s distress as much as possible, but the attitude that rehoming in general is evil and selfish is crazy.

Hypothetical:

Based on people’s reactions to celebrities who re-home a pet (i.e. Pratt, Dunham, Markle) I suspect there will be a lot of comments unhappy with that advice to LW3, but it’s right and good. That family deserves better than to live with animals that attack them, and those cats deserve to have a home where they don’t…