I’m 53 and pretty sure boys break my heart cause they’re mean and stupid. Also white knight still totally possible. So. Not just young girls eat it up.

This guys sounds like a condescending douche bag. Poor Calvin, having forced himself to date Taylor Swift until he just couldn’t carry on.

So can she date Harry Stiles again please?

Yep I would buy an 8 track player for this.

Thank you. He's a grandstanding narcissist. He's the Ted Cruz of the Democratic Party.

Ugh he sucks. Glad you're out!

You’ve been accused of that too? Yep it’s crazy making when someone just makes shit up about you. I have genuine human flaws, why not run with those? It's confusing, hurtful and scary because it shook my understanding of who I am. It's impossible, even knowing it's nuts, not to wonder if maybe it's true? Because why…

That’s true, and thank you. I think my point vis a vis the gossip at hand was just that ich bin ein either one of these people, or maybe they both suck.

Pretty elaborate. My ex made me out to be some kind of dangerous predator psychopath, but also maintained I wasn’t intelligent (the “hypnotoad hypothesis”). To this day I think he believed himself. He was a “family values republican” who needed a good rationale for leaving me.

Well she’s also claiming that she only gradually and recently realized he has a substance abuse problem. I strongly believe that claim at least is bullshit.

I’ve been physically abused (beaten, choked) in my life by a partner and that’s bad. But I’ve also had a partner (more than once) fabricate terrible things about me out of whole cloth, and that was also bad. It wasn’t going to kill me but it was intended to take my children from me and I would rather die than lose my…

Ummmmm Jim Morrison was a terrible person... sorry... but at least Bowie was good

My kids are both in happy marriages, both relationships of 10 years plus. I’ve asked them how on earth they learned to have such successful romantic relationships, because that is a thing I suck at and wasn’t able to teach them. Both of them said I taught them to respect and love others and to expect to be treated…

I’m happy for you and everyone who has close, warm relationships with their families. I didn’t with my own parents but am very close with my own kids, so I’ve seen both sides. Happy, mutually respectful and loving is by far the way to go! :)

I love the guy liner but he looks smelly.

Ok final point (maybe) and I’ll shut up (possibly). I know a shocking number of very smart medical and neuroscience researchers who left academia because of the research funding cuts of the Bush era. The situation in academia changed so that instead of being paid salaries, they had to cover their own salaries with…

Not to mention plumbers, welders and carpenters who start their own businesses. Yes they have to be intelligent and good managers, but that’s true for anyone, in any career. My carpenter *also* makes more than most professional (BA or BS) employees around here. He’s good and like most skilled tradesmen around here who…

I have a degree in physics so I’m very well aware of the advantages it’s given me. And I went on and got a masters and PhD too. But I’ve got $200k in student debt (thanks to compounded 7.5% interest on balances that therefore increase every year) that I will never pay off. AND at the latter part of my career, as a…

You’re a breath of fresh air in this discussion and you sound like a wonderful person. Speaking as a mother of wonderful people, I’m quite sure your parents love having you home.

But not all degrees return the same outcomes. The best financial returns come from applied degrees like engineering and computer science. Graphic design returns better than fine art. Meanwhile new welders from a strong program make more than I did with a BS in physics.