shellybean
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@rednrowdy: I agree. I think that the love I have with my fiance is a lot more "rational" than the love I felt for my ex- and sometimes I feel bad about that- that it doesn't feel exactly the same. He had a way of making everything seem like it was us against the universe and I was really swept up into the drama of

"I don't go, because marriage is sacred and I threw my own marriage away. I can't shake off that shame.

@LoSpaz: You don't. You committed to marry a man who loved and cherished you. This man doesn't. The best thing you can do is refuse to blame yourself, but be sure to learn the lessons this is meant to teach you. Then move on and live a good happy life. Stop talking to him, stop caring about what he thinks, and just

@shellybean: Which is something I'll be doing in April 2011. :) Congrats on your wonderful second marriage!

@NefariousNewt: You do have to be true to each other. But I think you can never *really* know what is going on in someone's head/heart. You think you know, and you can read a thousand little signs in the things they do and say, but it's never 100%. That's why I think getting married for a second time is so poignant.

@DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wow. That's exactly the opposite of how I feel about getting married in your early 20's. I did. And now I tell my unmarried friends who lament the time spent single in their 20's that at least they didn't have to go through a divorce. I wouldn't wish that process on my worst enemy.

@NefariousNewt: Speaking as a divorcee, the love I felt on my first wedding was "deep, true, soul-wrenching, heart-filling love." I think a lot of failed marriages start out with that sort of love. I was, unfortunately, so in love, and so true to my ex-husband that I was blind, for far to long, to the fact that he

@skahammer: I like to think that people getting married a second time do.

I have, in the past few years, come to feel like an adult.

Is the guy with the cigar wearing vibrams on the red carpet or am I seeing things?

Seriously, in order to model how to be respectful to other people to a child who isn't developmentally able to grasp that concept- you have to *control them* so that you are at least consistent in what you require of them. When they're a little bit older, you can explain why- empathy and personal space and respect,

@cate3710: Of course. I just don't think she should feel pressured by nosy people.

@shellybean: I mean "right" as opposed to "write."

@Vivi21: Unfortunately, it happens a lot.

On the other hand, she also has a write to tell her well meaning friends that while the divorce isn't "her fault," she doesn't want to discuss the reasons behind it because it's a private matter between her, her ex-husband, and her children.

Are bra sizes the same in the UK as in the US? Because I've been a 36C before and my boobs were not as big as hers. (At 34 D, they're still not that big.)

@pear.shaped.Sara: This is why I kept a trashcan in my car in college (I was the good Samaritan friend)

I think it depends on my life circumstances- I currently love nothing more than wearing hideous clothes when I am by myself. But I get to wear cute clothes to the office every day. However, when I was in grad school and I wore a T-shirt and jeans every day, I longed for a reason to dress up. A more drastic example is