I hate myself for knowing that that’s properly called a “midi” ring. It’s a new place to put jewelry, which I DO LOVE.

Pete and Ariana seem like nice kids so I hope if (when) shit goes south it isn’t too rough for them.

The real question: who is taking the picture of the Rock feeding his wife feeding their baby?

I have to admit, I’m a little jealous of people who can move this fast. I usually need at least 3-5 business days before I’m comfortable enough with my own life choices, let alone someone else’s.

My parents knew each other for two weeks before they got married. They were married for 66 years.

Well let’s hope the divorce isn’t a spectacular mess...

“They’re just two people who found love quickly and make each other happy all the time.”

I think that character has been written a few times. That person is the “career gal” in the rom com who is about to meet-cute a rough around the edges guy who gets her to let her hair down.

If she’s happy the way she is and gets to stay that way, now THAT would be a twist.

Between your description of yourself and your handle I think we’d get along quite well.

You just described my life lol...mid-30s, happily married but still enjoy my freedom, health conscious but not uptight about fitness, financially stable working homeowner but still like to smoke a joint or drink wine on the porch with friends & family on the weekend. I’d really hate to be the “aging rager” OR the…

Yeah, I find the glorification of the “aging party girl” lifestyle here troubling given recent statistics around increased alcoholism and substance abuse (along with depression, anxiety and other lifestyle-related diseases) among middle class women. I kind of hate that women’s media only gives us two aspirational…

Yes yes yes! That is such a brilliant assessment! It’s so true. She’s actively off-putting to people to push them away because they aren’t into her narrowly define definition of cool and fun. I’m sure I enjoyed her character the first time I watched the series, and now I’m amused with her, but she isn’t an emblem of…

Yes! Also, I always thought that the Lexi Featherstone storyline (short as it was) was more about having something in your life other than the party scene. In that episode, she is not surrounded by a group of supportive friends, she is alone. Not “without a man” alone, but all alone, having failed to form ANY type of…

Jeez thank you! I always feel like I’m a weirdo in that I don’t think drinking and using drugs and partying is fun at all. I did that stuff when I was younger and I just didn’t care for it.

^^^yesss. This is my problem with how being single is treated in pop culture.

I think there is a bigger conversation here worthy of being had on why fun is singularly equated with drinking and partying. I’m just starting to question all the things we label as “cool” considering so many of them are masculine. Binge drinking was once the domain of men, now women have “caught up.” Woo hoo? I think…

True, but I’d say exactly that about being in a relationship too - nothing makes you perfectly happy 100% of the time - but in pop culture, only being single is treated as a problem that needs to be fixed.

I just expressed this sentiment to my 40-something colleagues when they responded to my comment about middle age with, “but we’re middle aged now.” I said, “now that we’re in our 40s, middle age is 50s.”

Well life expectancy is around 80 in the western hemisphere. At 40, you’re in the middle of your life span.