I have fond memories of being small enough to fit under my bed, and falling asleep there.

Yep. The best I can come up with is the woman was blinded by a toxic love. I have some sympathy for that, but girl, go to therapy and apologize for how bad you treated your friends and let your boyfriend treat your friends and family!

I have never once taken that to mean she literally wanted casseroles. She means she was expecting her friends to rally around her, care for her, help her out during a rough time. The kind of stuff you do for a friend when they or a loved one is sick - pick up their dry cleaning for them, if they have kids take the…

If you find it so tedious, you could always stop responding? Or is someone holding a gum against your head and forcing you to respond? If so, write something in code so I know to contact authorities.

I see that it isn’t a problem for you. Perhaps if you were less judgmental and more empathetic in this matter, it would be.

Yes, and that’s sort of the problem. You feel comfortable passing judgment on other’s relationships. That may be your opinion, and you’re certainly free to have an opinion. But other people are free to criticize you for feeling free to offer your opinion and judgement of other’s relationship circumstances. You’d do…

Maybe you should go back and reread your initial comment in this thread. You were definitely not expressing an opinion that only applied to you and your relationship. And if you think you did, your communication skills aren’t nearly as great as you seem to think they are.

You’re the one using words like pathetic to describe the particulars of others relationships that aren’t like yours, so maybe give that detail about yourself some thought.

That’s how *you* see it. Others don’t see the same way you do. Once you get that, other’s people choices and living their lives differently than you will make a bit more sense.

Personalities definitely play a part. I’m aware of one straight couple where the now wife said after a couple years of dating they were either advancing the relationship to marriage, or she was out. Some people are just scared of commitment, and he was the type who had to decided what was scarier - making a legal…

I think that’s more about the ultimatum being the end of a relatiorelationship no where, and that is often the point. It’s basically telling someone “here is where we need to go in order for me to stay in this relationship.” not surprisingly, many who hear that decide the person isn’t who they want to commit a…

I know at least one happy couple with kids that ended up in marriage via an ultimatum from the now wife.

I agree with you. If a woman wants to get married and have kids, she can’t waste time with someone who isn’t on board with doing that with her. The particulars make a difference. If it’s a year and a half of dating at 27 it’s a perfectly reasonable reasonable thing to do. For yourself and the other person.

I was equally as confused as you, 8 years earlier. I guess the publisher took a long, long time to update the text. No one ever mentioned a belt to us - not my mother, not the school nurse who came in to talk to the girls one day during health class some time around the 5th grade. I never asked my mom about it. I just…

You’re just looking for any excuse to justify your disrespect and pretend you have the moral high ground here. You were an asshole. Someone told you to stop being as asshole. It’s that simple.

Seriously, what is the matter with you? It’s clear you lack the emotional intelligence and self reflection to take in criticisms about yourself and how you treat others. But there’s something else at play here. I’ve clearly been taunting you for days and days. And quite successfully. You demonstrate over and over and…

You think you schooled me, he he he.

Nonsense. I corrected your insulting conflation of atheism and those who reject a text. You stupidly didn’t understand what an atheist is, and doubled down.

Im intolerant of assholes, that’s true. My telling you stop acting like an asshole hasn’t stopped you from acting like one, nor will it stop you from spewing hate at others whose relationship to their religion you disapprove of, so I’m not seeing how youre coming out for the worse here, other than wasting loads of…

You don’t get to have it both ways. Either religions are based on text, and cannot exist in the absence of a text, or they can exist prior to a text and therefore are based on something else.