Before my boyfriend and I were together, we ran into each other a few times and by crazy happenstance we were hired at the same building. Shortly after we started dating. He was in I.T. and I was in sales so we never had favoritism issues and we kept it well hidden.

Ugh...gross...I know the feeling though. I keep a box of chocolate covered espresso beans by my desk as an afternoon pick me up. And my GM walked by as I was eating 3 beans and pointed at my hips and said, “watch out.” This was last month.

I don’t know if this counts as “mean” but my dad had this brilliant parent tactic of always putting my looks down, in the most ridiculous ways in order to kind of build up thick skin...??? So it was always, “hey, does Seaworld know Shamu is out?” or, if I was sitting on a couch, “can someone please call the acme crane…

In high school, I was a super stressed out 16 year old dealing with a lot of anxiety (I know that I probably needed anti-depressants, because I’m on them now and fucking love them). Anyway, my friend came to pick me up so we could go to school. I got in, we drove for ten minutes, and I started shout/bawling because I…