Happens all the time. All the time. It’s why I didn’t file, though I’m not sorry he did. But for many years I said goodbye to my daughter at visitation time not really certain I’d see her again.

Very, very common.

My ex lied like a madman the first year or so we were together, and the lies started unraveling after that. He’s got his first serious girlfriend since the divorce now, has moved into her place (just like he moved into mine) and is trying to hustle her towards family and marriage as fast as he can.…

No. Just all the no in the world to pancaked sunless youth in doing Matrixy-nihilistic voyeurism as though they’ve only just learned the word “frottage”. To Elvis. No.

Yes, it’s absolutely a necessary thing if she’s going to retain custody. Odds are though that he hasn’t been a SAHD and there’s been a nanny the whole time.

He’s going to be very surprised, and also not care, when it turns out that he has to have supervised visitation with his son. And that’s going to be the end of his relationship with his son until he decides he needs a son-prop.

Tbh, Huma also sounds awful, and I figure the kid doesn’t have a chance.

You sound like you’re twelve.

You sound like a seriously condescending prick.

You know, I’ve never been involved with an emotionally healthy porn-minded guy. It was always the guys with real problems one way or another. I mean I get a few years of teen obsession with the stuff, but then this growing-up thing seems to happen, and the guys recognize that yeah, it’s horribly exploitative and…

Nope. Nope nope nope.

Unfortunately, it appears to be necessary momsplaining. Caring for children, working with kids, and raising children from babies: not the same things. Sorry. The moms are bothering to explain things to you in hopes that the learning thing happens in your head. Let it grow.

Oh god, it’s you again. Look. Infants eat pretty much all the time. That’s how they do the growing thing. Eat, poop, sleep, wake up, look around, repeat. Sometimes they grow faster and the cycle goes faster. Sometimes all they fucking do is eat. The main job of the mom, in those days, is to keep the kid fed, dry, and…

Don’t worry about what people call you or whether some douchebag thinks you’re hysterical. Just stand up for your rights, and, once in a while, for someone else’s. And give some careful thought to what’s actually important in an argument. In this case we have:

1. Dippy VS clerk
2. Hungry baby

Baby wins. Sorry, dippy VS…

Um....

Look, I know that having really just yourself to pay attention to and take care of can make you a little me-centric, there. But think of it this way. You can go through all kinds of horrible things for ten minutes and still live. Nobody humane would put you through that, though. You can hungry for ten minutes…

I think the take of childless reporters here is a little all-or-nothing.

I don’t know any parents who expect their parents to do fulltime or even part-time regular childcare as a steady thing. It’s a tremendous amount of work, and it’s taxing.

What millennial and genX parents are seeing, though, is that their Boomer…

Please do not do these things to your house if you have children. No more children should be forced to grow up like this. I spent part of yesterday practically barking at a kinda-aggressive Design Within Reach salesdude who kept trying to sell me on a tweedy Aunt Sally blue, which isn’t very far away from that…

No, no they don’t. Because end of the day, they still want to grab you by the arms and make sure you stay put, missy, till that babby’s grown and borned.

Yeah, maybe she’s not such an historic first:

Trump has always been this way. He gave the graduation speech at my university the year I graduated, back in the 80s, and the whole thing was essentially terror of immigrants and gay zombies trying to give you HIV. And he’s always been beloved of people impressed by gold electroplating, abusive ranting, and…

This guy sound like a genuinely hideous person. This is the kind of guy I usually have thrown out when he’s hollering in a room because his voice is obvs the most important thing there.

Okay, so I’m not a fan of the manbun, but I think that future generations are going to wonder why the middle-aged TV ladies all had to have the muscly/ropy arms, and why they weren’t allowed to have normal middle-aged-lady arms, with or without sleeves.