My husband and I are int he process of trying. I was talking to a guy at a show this weekend (because we are still childless, we just picked up and walked into this show at a local bar and happened to run into an acquaintance). This guy didn’t know if we had kids and my husband said we were working on it. This guy…

the only thing I think I could have handled better as a 20 something is the lack of sleep the first month...at 37 it is not as easy. Good thing is that period is pretty short.

“Having kids is such a commitment!” Yeah no shit...I don’t get why every parent seems to think they were the first ones to realize that.

This. I’m due next week and we’re 37. If I hear “your whole world is going to change!!!” one more time, I will scream. I KNOW THIS. Why do you think I waited until I wanted one?

I had mine in my mid-early 30’s. It’s hard no matter what. If you want a kid - have it. If you don’t want a kid don’t. I can’t imagine one age being better than another age to have a child. It’s just a hard job. So have a kid when you want. Or don’t.

My mom threw a baby shower for me in her home state. Her exact words (and I quote cuz she doesn’t swear) was “I’ve attended enough of those bitches showers. They are going to gift my daughter now.”

Good point. I BEGGED my best friend/MOH/HBIC not to throw me a bridal shower. She asked what my specific reservations were (mostly I think it’s a tacky gift grab and I don’t like to inconvenience people) and listened sympathetically. She then told me that while she respected my reasoning, she was planning one anyway…

Agree with you. I’m 29, but my husband is 33. We’ve been married for a year and up until very recently, I outearned my husband by double. Now we’re more or less even, before my bonus. We live in a super-expensive part of the US, so we’re basically grabbing whatever we can get on either side to make our aggregate…

I also think there might be some structural differences at work. Given that we’re talking about very young people, I suspect the sample might include more military couples, more couples where one person is a student, and more couples where one person has found a career and the other is struggling to find work or…

Agree 100%. When I first met my wife, she out-earned me and I felt insecure. I surpassed her salary for a while, but she eventually far surpassed me and years later I couldn’t care less. We’re in our 40’s and know that we both contribute in our own ways. Age and maturity both play a MAJOR factor here.

The answer is none. You should order an iced americano with an extra shot of espresso.

Oh Frank... Not again

I’m really looking forward to my boyfriend forwarding this article to me with the headline “Just sayin’...”

“MY OWN WEDDING is the only one I have ever attended where I didn’t cry.”

During the ceremony? No. Neither of us cried. (For the record - MY OWN WEDDING is the only one I have ever attended where I didn’t cry.) I did inform my dad several times before we walked down the aisle that if he cried, it would make me cry, and it would mess up my makeup, and I would never forgive him, so he held…

Even more unpopular opinion: he’s never been that funny.

The scene of Sansa being raped was brutal, but I’m not mad that they showed it precisely because I think a lot of people don’t yet understand that rape is brutal. Also, I didn’t interpret the scene as a glorification of rape, but rather an indictment of it, seeing as it was designed to be gut-wrenching to watch.

This information always makes me so fucking infuriated. You know what’s medically dangerous? PREGNANCY. With an abortion, you get some anesthesia and zip bop bippity pop, it’s done. With my C-section, they gutted me open, put my uterus and intestine on my belly, and then sewed it all back into place. I couldn’t walk…

Sorry.