It drives me crazy how many legal "experts" in the commentariat here are going for the 'this plea deal/avoiding a trial/avoiding the death penalty isn't just good for society it's good for the victims too! They'll be retraumatized!!' I heard that shit all the time in law school too and silently seethed. Sure, maybe…

Same here... Tried it saying I saw mom 0 times a year and the fucking thing told me to go visit her more often. I was like, forget that noise if I ever see her again it'll be at her/her 3rd husband's trial. Then found out I'd probably only see my dad 30 more times. Totally cried.

My mom did that with my graduation from law school. Only instead of flat out refusing to come then re-inviting herself, she would fabricate some reason that I didn't want her to come and then would make me sit there and validate her for 20 minutes each time. After 26 years of way, way worse abuse for some reason…

Not proud to be an Italian American or a White American today. Fuck All Y'all.

Though this has really been a serious setback on our country's slow road towards racial parity, it warms my heart to know that people cared enough to go out and say something. In an age of inaction and rage filtered through the anonymity of the Internet it's really something to see people united publicly against a…

Me too! I feel like I've changed a lot over the past 8 or so years since I first took it but perhaps not as much as I thought I had?

Thank you! I was just about to say something about this.

"Harold and Maude: the Reboot"

I am so sorry. So sorry. Hugs.

I agree, closure is overrated! I'm a survivor too and I too was pressured to not go to the authorities by a mom that sounds very similar to yours. It took me nine years after moving out of her house to do it but I did finally call the cops on her and the stepdad. The case is dragging and I wonder often if I've put…

This is so normal! I'm a survivor of this too and I have to say that I wonder if situations this deep can ever be resolved. Meeting and 'meeting' fellow survivors has been a huge help! It reminds you that you're not the biggest freak on the planet and that this happens to other people. The closest to 'closure' I…

Me too (But in Colorado)!!! Wash your stupid, dirty, snow covered hummers, range rovers, and beemers or feel my sophomoric wrath!

I LOVE MAYMO! Like when he gets 200 plastic bottles for christmas or freaks the hell out over a kibble near his bowl? Classic!

Dad?

Clinton Davis 2016!!!!!

"Hey, do you love eating Technicolor garbage food that somehow manages to be both bland and cloying!?" HOW DID YOU KNOW!?!?!?! I'm a 80s/90's kid. Gushers, fruit stripe gum, neon yellow lunchables cheese... BRING IT.