I used to live in her hometown, and knew people that interacted with her, served her, and never heard anything bad about her. Ever. The worst I ever heard was she was awkward and kinda snobby (the area she lived in was VERY snobby, so it’s to be expected)

Right? His tweet backs up her version, and he’s not aware of it. Even if Kim was negotiating, all parties didn’t come to an agreement so the answer is still no. She could have still not wanted to do it but still wanted to see what they’d offer just to see how far they’d go. WTF difference does it make at this point?

sick fucks!!!

If you ask someone “do you have kids?” and they answer “no”, then drop the issue.

I have been open and honest about it when friends and family asked about a second baby. I said no, because I have Graves disease (hyperthyroid), and my thyroid instability post partum, and later the radiation treatment, meant that baby #2 was an unlikely possibility (I was very healthy and had a very easy conception…

Related to your comment about watching birth on tv: I really wish there could be more tv couples who are happily married without kids. Especially those ensemble dramas. Every married couple of child-bearing age either has kids, is in the midst of pregnancy, or in rare cases trying to adopt or struggling with…

That’s literally the WORST thing! What a load of bullshit. It’s just a way of making themselves superior to others. Depending on how much of a continued relationship you’ve got to keep with the person, I usually either just stare blankly or I say something like, “Well you don’t have a choice really. Most sane people…

Yeah, I’m completely okay with not having kids, but it grinds my teeth when people say things like “You don’t know the meaning of love until you’ve had a child.” How insulting and presumptuous.

I mean, we get it and all. A good 99.999% of all your energy is to keeping this little person hell bent on hurting themselves from doing just that. And then your boss wants 85% of your waking energy too, which means you have negative energy left over to do much of anything else. I don’t even have issue with my friends…

Apologies on behalf of the kids people. It seems like the center of my universe because I don’t have psychological, emotional, physical, or financial energy for anything else. At this point yeah I’d rather make small talk with other people who have kids because it’s EASY and anything I’d have to say would be so boring…

It’s kinda weird how we divide ourselves into “kids”/”no kids” groups. I think when people have kids they get some epiphany about life. Like all epiphanies, people tend to make that the center of their universe, sometimes for a significant period of time. Everything becomes referenced to that point, like those who are…

On a related note, invasive questions about people’s family planning can be hurtful on many, many levels. I have one precious and glorious daughter, and recently at a play place, a woman asked me several rude questions about my pregnancy until I said, “Little Miss Pinwheel was born via surrogate,” and the woman said,…

We found it’s hard to discuss because we value our privacy. As i said elsewhere, my SO wasn’t into the group therapy suggested so I went. I believe it helped me and my ability to help my wife deal with the losses. The feeling of being a father to a very active toddler reminds me everyday how lucky we are. Finally…

100% agree with you. I think too many women might also feel like they are broken, that their body failed them (this is especially true when we’re bombarded all day every day about being little more than incubators and vessels). Platitudes seem to always fall short.

One of my favorite things to say to people when they ask if I’m pregnant because I’m not drinking booze is to respond, “no, I’m actually an alcoholic and I’ve been sober x amount of years.” It is true and it feels like a slap in the face to people being intrusive because they got way more info than they were hoping…

There was a period of time it was too painful for us to even watch a birth on a fictitious TV show. They just acted as a reminder of our loss. It wasn’t forever after each occurrence but each one seemed to take longer to get over. The feeling of failure mounted.

I think that’s the toughest part. The part of pregnancy that people share is the happy one, when everything works out, so it makes it kind of seem like it’s pretty much rainbows and unicorns for everyone else. On one hand, I totally get why people may not want to talk about it, but on the other hand, the lack of…

Went through three miscarriages as well, but gave up without success. Thankfully now I’m past the age anyone asks such invasive questions but damn that sucked for years.

Talking about infertility and miscarriages is so important. I was really open with mine and it kind of shocked people for a second because so many women would come whisper to me about theirs after they found out and I just wish it was more openly discussed.

I have a 17 month old and I will loudly and at length talk about my shitty pregnancy, fucked up 40 hour labor traumatizing birth, and 15 months of breastfeeding to anyone who makes the mistake of asking me anything about my kid. People do not talk about any of this shit nearly enough so I may as well do it.