Cause kids never lie about their age. Or go to someone for a tattoo that overlooks that whole parental consent thing.

Yeah, and?

Im sorry you’re going thru this, butbetter now than in another couple years. My advice to young women (making an assumption here) is to hold off on the i love yous to men until one is offered to you. Even if you’re really, really feeling it. Be cautious with your heart. It seems like a lot of guys really freak out…

As a teen I knew kids who stole cars, dealt drugs, broke in to homes and stole shit. Most of them became productive members of society. You can argue severity all you like, but it’s a dumb argument. Dumb teen shit is dumb teen shit. It has the potential to escalate to severe dumb teen shit. That’s why programs for at…

Sure, but not following the rules, rebellion, and making bad choices are a hallmark of being a teen. So, let’s not get it twisted. Breaking the rules, rebellion, and bad choices don’t mean that a teen doing those sorts of thing will grow up to be a waste of resources for society. Plenty of folks do stupid, illegal…

I certainly did some stuff that could have landed me in jail. As did some of my friends. The thing about at risk teens doing rebellious stuff is that their brains not being fully formed and teens propensity for not thinking shit through makes it pretty easy to go from typical rebellion to doing dangerous and/or…

Him saying that kind of stuff, I can’t promise anything; I don’t know how I’ll feel, is a reason to end it. It’s not that he’s wrong. He can’t make a promise he’ll love you. He doesn’t know how he’ll feel. It’s that he lacks sense and emotional maturity. If he’s significantly older than you, I’m imagining late 20s to…

What you describe was my last three relationships - spread over a number of years - prior to meeting my SO. And what you are going through BLOWS! Don’t be hard on yourself. What you are feeling is normal. Wallow in it for a bit. It’s okay! If you’re still obsessing in six months, that might be a problem. But at this…

How long have you been dating?

ah! Thank you.

Here’s my input. I think it’s important to realize that people don’t always arrive at the same place emotionally at the same time. And if you arrive there first, that doesn’t mean you’ve been rejected.

I’d play it cool. Hang out when you want to hang out, but make sure you aren’t always available. And then, really…

Speaking as the tidier part of the couple, there’s an emotional component to it. At one point after we’d had the argument a couple of times, my SO asked me how often I thought the apartment we share needed to be cleaned. I nearly lost it, because that’s information we had gone over before. And it began to feel like my…

Curious, what happens if you leave water in kettle? Do you mean an electric kettle?

A teen, not following rules? You don’t say!

We have family photos of us kids on a leash with some kind of harness. My in laws say my SO was on a leash at times as a toddler too. It was a thing in the U.S. in the 70s. In the 90s and 00s when our generation started having kids and I watched cousins running after their toddlers all day long at family barbecues, I…

No, they don’t. The FLDS is one of many fundamentalist Mormon sects. So, FLDS is a fundamentalist Mormon sect, but not all fundamentalist Mormon sects are FLDS. You can look this up on Wikipedia. I believe the Browns are part of the Apostolic United Brethren group, but I’m not certain. They have been very clear that…

well, except the juicier narrative for which we have no evidence for and is contrary to what the actual people involved say feeds in to a negative perception that says that all fundamentalist Mormon sects engage in highly questionable marriage practices. Just look at how people in these threads have stated that they…

Throughout the run of the show the only kid who said they wanted a polygamous marriage was the eldest daughter. All the other kids that said anything were either, heck no, or I’m not even thinking about marriage yet so I haven’t made up my mind on way or the other.

I imagine part of his inability to meet the wive’s emotional needs is simply because of the family structure they’ve chosen. He might be different in a monogamous relationship. Maybe better, maybe worse. But, this is the model they’ve all chosen. But, even in happy, monogamous relationships are definitely times each…

I wondered about that myself when all the wives were working to qualify for a mortgage. I haven’t been clear what their working situation was for the most part, and banks are usually a tougher with people running their own businesses (well, now anyway).