i don’t think she’s angling for a “poor me” here. sounds like she’s just stating a fact of the matter which is that we don’t have the full story. not that it makes what she said any better. but maybe it didn’t come from nowhere as the author makes it seem.

it was belittling for sure, but posting a one-sided smear campaign against someone who doesn’t likely have access to the same forum (ie....a major website) is hardly being the bigger person.

yeah. and that the author tries to make it seem like what she’s doing is harmless by throwing in something that she’s clearly comfortable sharing about herself. it’s not her place to tell the world about this friend’s mental illness/addiction, no matter how hard she was on the husband. and if mrs. bolen truly believes…

a great partner who took something that was painful and plastered it on a widely read website. under her real name so that all of his friends can question him in addition to this former “friend”...

i don’t see the misogyny. the author seems to be trying to slant it in the light of this is about him being a stay at home dad, but nothing about the text implies that at all.

but what did the husband say!? the friend seems to be making it very clear that she is ending that relationship with no going back. i don’t think this was just a spur of the moment decision to be a jerk. it sounds like there’s a lot more to the story that we’re not hearing. and why did the author bring the…

“Of course, if I’m PMSing and feeling particularly blue, I may feel compelled to flip her off...” why is it ok for the author to be an asshole with a change of hormones, yet the ex-friend is a “cuntface” for her reaction, which, based on the text (your opinion of me means nothing) was spurred by something the husband…