I totally agree. My CrossFit gym is all-inclusive and we're almost like family. Really accepting, really supportive (well, then I guess we're not like my family at all...) But we're also a boxing gym, and not exclusively CrossFit, so there's a lot of diversity - in people and in workouts.

Early 40s here, breast fed 3 babies. My boobs used to be spectacular. They're now 2 heavy, wet socks. They mock me every day.

You have no idea how much this Blackhawks comment thread warms my heart. Go Hawks!

Lawyer here. In this case, there are compensatory and punitive damages. She doesn't have any compensatory because she wasn't damaged in the sense that she can prove an actual monetary loss. Punitive is like you wrote - intended to punish for the wrongful act. I get what she's doing. There's no way she's going to…

Total mistype

So I just had a 7 mm sized kidney stone surgically removed on Tuesday. Never knew I had a problem but when I went into the ER last week in crippling pain and unable to walk, think, talk and breathe, all with profuse sweat pouring from me, and vomiting on the side, they quickly diagnosed a kidney stone-confirmed with…

I was on the BCP for 22 years (started when I was 16). When I was 38, I inexplicably had 2 pulmonary emboli and was in the ICU for 10 days. They immediately yank the BCP when your a woman and you develop a clot or embolism for no reason (didn't just get off of a 14 hour flight; didn't injure your leg recently;…

I met someone online and during the week-long constant email correspondence, I fell hard for the guy, so when we met at the end of the week, he could have had 6 eyeballs and it would have had zero effect on how I felt about him. Head over heels. And it was mutual. Turns out, the 6 eyeballs he ended up revealing to…

I breastfed all 3 of mine. At first it seemed like I was losing weight but then I would hit a plateau and my body would cling desperately to the last 5-10 lbs. I bet if I would have had 500 calories a day my body still would have hung on to the weight. Then as soon as I stopped, I started to slowly lose weight…

Agreed. It's on par with jilling off. Both make my skin crawl.

Almost 44 here and I must say that every year I get older, the better I feel - emotionally and physically. Every inch I get away from giving a shit about what others may think of me is another inch closer I am towards happiness and I'm guessing that when I hit 50, the last crumb of self-loathing will blow away with…

I do it every time. The minute I use a guy's real name to my friends, I feel like I just announced, "I really believe this is going somewhere and I really like him." If I use his real name, I'm now suddenly 10x more vulnerable than I"m comfortable being.

I just did my first pull up two weeks ago. One. I was THRILLED. I was a college swimmer and during that time I wasn't able to do one. Years later I'm still built like a linebacker, good at push ups, work out all the time, etc. and I did one - but that is after at least 1 solid year of attempting it. I'm pretty sure…

Bingo. Thanks for the benefit of the doubt. Real=not airbrushed, perfectly groomed, any image of a woman that is ubiquitous in most porn these days. I wasn't shaming anyone or anything. (God. This is why I hesitate for 3 hours before writing a simple paragraph on here. It's like I'm playing chess.)

40-something woman here who *thought* she knew what good sex was in her 20s but didn't realize how clueless she really was until she hit 40. While I'm aware my evidence is purely anecdotal—and personal—I would say that it wasn't until I hit an age where I gave less of a shit about what people think about me, coupled…

I'm thinking this year's is the worst because I'm "stuck on stupid" and can't seem to get over being heartlessly dumped 6 weeks ago. I have to be the only person on earth over 30 who actually started smoking cigarettes in the year 2013.

You took the words right out of my mouth. I'm smack in the middle of this right now and I feel like I can't really talk about it with anyone anymore because I'm going to hear "God, you're still hung up on him?" I am mourning the loss of *us* more, and the fantasy of him, than I think I'm mourning the loss of who the…

That's quite a leap to make. Two-parent households can also equal twice as much fucked up dysfunctional chaos, and twice as much debt and financial stress, than one-parent households. Depends on each situation.

So now I guess there is yet another social construct I don't fit into. I can't tell you how much I hate this "lady porn" crap. I haven't asked around but I'm pretty confident that what turns me on is entirely different than what turns on each of my female friends. I've never read that Fifty Shades business and I…

What's with the incessant amount of articles about dating in these publications? The day I allow a WSJ or NYT reporter give me instructions on "what it's like out there" is the day I've decided to allow people I would never be friends with, and people who would never understand me and my likes/dislikes, to tell me…