Wow. Can you please take over the advice column. Your answer to her letter was a 1000 times better. I hope the letter writer reads it!

That’s a pretty good point. There was a time when the only non-competitive reality shows with any buzz were The Obournes and The Anna Nicole Show (the Osbournes were in on the joke; Anna, not so much). Perhaps Sharon resents that the Kardashians were able to make an empire.

Shit is serious when you’re putting a pox on entire houses.

I can’t help but wonder if it’s about jealously more than anything else. Because KUWTK took the basic formula that the The Osbournes pioneered (AFAICT), ran with it, and made orders of magnitude more money than they ever did. And there were rumors a couple of years ago that Sharon wanted to try and revive the show.

What’s that expression about having your cake and eating it too? That’s what she wants.

I dunno. I wonder about that a lot. I think some of it might be that women think a lot about parenthood, men don’t until they are in it. So I bet a lot of men sort of stumble into it- like they think they want to be dads but haven’t actually thought about it until it’s happening and then they want to run away because…

And YES! When it happened to me I could not wrap my head around it, and thought it was this super unusual thing, until every single person I met told me their mother/sister/friend/aunt/cousin had it happen to them also.

Were you the one who let Overconfident Mediocre White Man out of the greys?

Yeah, everything you need to do right now sucks, but you have two months to get it done before the hardest work of your life kicks in. It won’t be hard forever — in fact, it’ll get easier every single day — but taking care of a newborn is no small feat and you deserve people on Team You that you can count on.

The last time Jane gave this sort of shitty advice to some poor woman stuck in a relationship with a lying/abusive asshole, one of the comments was really insightful and stuck with me: “people write to advice columns to be told what they already know but wish they didn’t.”

Honestly think it’s because they have a longer reproductive cycle than we do. Most men who are shitty to their partners during their younger years can turn their life around at 50, reproduce with a 20 year old, and everyone around them will be like, “John’s really turned his life around. Look at what a great dad he…

YES. My husband of 7 years left when I got pregnant (we were trying to get pregnant) and I thank god every damn day he left and it was a clean break before the baby came. If I had had the stress of HIM on top of learning how to breastfeed and be a mom it would have been horrendous. Get out, girl! It’s not as hard to…

with a kid, getting out of a shitty marriage is going to feel like the Worst Possible Timing no matter the time.

Hopefully they read the comments where the real advice is.

I agree. Getting out at 7 months pregnant seems like an impossibly difficult task, but imagine how much harder it will be with a newborn...who then turns into an infant...and then a toddler...and then a preschooler...a kid has pressing needs at every age, and with a kid, getting out of a shitty marriage is going to…

Jane is terrible at this. And when I read that bit about foisting child rearing on him to punish him for cheating, my jaw dropped. Cause that’s really the relationship you want to foster between your child and its father.

I mentioned this below, but he’s been doing this for the entirety of their relationship. Their courtship, engagement, marriage, honeymoon phase, and ultimately their child are conceived of a lie. “He’s a douche” is such an awful way to simplify the magnitude of his sin, and “you have him by the strings” is laughable.…

He’s been doing this for half a decade. And mind you, this was before they got engaged, during their engagement, during the honeymoon phase, and everything after. Their relationship has been a lie for the most part and nothing can salvage it. Nothing.

Seriously. It takes a special kind of scumbucket to marry and have kids with someone while keeping options open with a side piece for five entire years. There’s a time and place for breezy cool girl advice - this isn’t it. This shit rips people’s lives apart. The emotional pain is often physical as well. Every day…

You deceive me for five years, your wants no longer matter.