Also Dianne Feinstein is basically the devil incarnate because of something something salmon fishing.

What, no more Menstral Hut?

‘I have to work twice as hard to be taken half as seriously as men.’ Anita Hill

i feel my downstairs area is so horrible and unattractive and now i’m worried a guy will just see it and never want to have sex with me

This might be of help.

She barely responds, she’s let me talk for a bit, and then be like, well, I gotta go . . .

You sound like that woman who wrote an article calling all of her children narcissists because they cut her out of their lives.

Wow. That sounds pretty harsh of you.

Mine’s Betty Draper around the time she started taking Sally to Dr. Edna.

forgiveness does not equal reconciliation, so I wish him the best but I choose not to be a part of it.

we have been conditioned to feel like shit in any attempt to be a whole or real person

the eggshells things man. I think that turned into me either holding back in personal conflict or going for broke. If I am going to get attacked I may as well get it all out.

trying to “lean in” to the painful process of changing my thoughts and habits

I’m sure the guilt will come hot and heavy this weekend

There’s no Cincinnati based support group for children of narcissists. :-(

People who haven’t been in such a situation can’t really understand.

Expecting their children them to sacrifice themselves is one of the hallmarks of not being a good parent, it is called “projection” and it’s a major violence against a person’s identity and emotional stability.

my paternal grandmother who was one of the best women in my life

there needs to be better support groups for the adult children of assholes but the subject is so taboo, that some parents just are not capable of loving their children

A few years ago, I went to a screening of The Birds and a Q & A with Tippi Hedren following. Movie great. Q & A great, but the one thing that stood out is Tippi talking about Vietnamese refugees that were landing in Southern California after the end of the Vietnam War. She befriended this female refugee and taught her…