It always reminds me of this:

I think they're often also narcissists. I have a (possibly former) friend who is VERY introverted* and a SAHM** and has never really interacted with the outside world much*** (her husband, who is an academic**** and fairly out of touch with reality himself, does most of the practical things, including earning a…

This was exactly my experience, sadly. When I was 20, I started realizing that other people often get treatment for their migraines (I'd had mine since I was seven and they were getting worse due to stress). I was in college and completely dependent on my abusive wackjob mother for access to our family health care…

I've only had three kind of irregular Shark Weeks since giving birth over a year ago, and unlike the crimson horror that they used to be, with cramps, muscle aches, painful sinuses (WTF), multiple migraines, torrential flow, etc., they've been these very light, decorous affairs with hardly any cramping. My MIL swore…

Oh! This happens to me! Hard liquor is fine (I may have just consumed half of a margarita) for me in small quantities, but beer has always made me bloated and sick-feeling (it's undrinkable for me now, even though I tested negative for celiac), and wine makes my fricking fingers and toes swell and feel terribly hot…

This reminds me of the ex that I dated and then lived with when I was an undergraduate and for a few (too many) years after. He was an undiagnosed Narcissist, ten years older than I am, and very controlling. He professed to like "ethnic" food, but he pretty much lived on jumbo cinnamon rolls (he would eat at least six…

Congratulations! When I was pregnant, I dutifully bought (expensive) maternity underwear because everything I read was all, "trust me, you'll need this, and you don't want to ruin your favorite pairs." But I started to notice after a while that the way I was carrying (sort of low and pointy if such a thing is…

Yes! Mr. Chortcake gets really pissed off if people tell him he's "mixed" or that he must have one Asian and one European parent. He's like, "I'm 100% Kazakh, thanks!" It's usually East Asian people who tell him too. I guess it's a problem of the Cold War legacy or something that so few people in general (who are not…

Oh, as someone "of color" who does not look it, I was just about to say this! Also, what if someone wanted a child who looks like one's late spouse of a different race? Would they deny them then? This is weird.

I just had a Deep Thought that may have been covered already in the comments (sorry!), but:

You can probably tell by my incessant starring, but I love your (and FinchHaus10's) comments! They're such a relief to read. I mean, I'm Israeli-American but studied something Islam-related and am married to a (mildly pro-Israel, non-Arab) Muslim and am part of a bunch of predominantly Muslim communities, and am…

That was "$25 each for them plus spouse and then extra for drinks at the holiday party." Oops....

So true! Mr. Chortcake and I are in our mid-30s. He's underemployed and works in a bank (we're immigrants in a country with a shitty job market). He no longer has to work with customers, but when he did, he was frequently reprimanded for not getting enough sales. He refused to sell mortgages to people who really…

That's gloriously evil, and I think I love you.

My MIL puts pressure on me to change my surname to Mr. Chortcake's every once in a while. Her reasons: "it's better for everybody to have the same surname." "It's our tradition." Both of which are BS, because three, maximum four generations ago, nobody of their nationality in their area even had a surname. Also, for…

As a fellow DDD-er, I hear you! Have you seen the Land's End bathing suits? I always want to order specialty Bravissimo ones from England, but they're much more expensive. Land's End DDD cup tankinis aren't perfect, but they're fairly good, relatively inexpensive, and come in cute prints. They're the closest thing…

I was a somewhat narrow-torsoed F cup pre-pregnancy and spent a couple of months reading obsessively about the rib-expansion thing because I was afraid of being unimaginably wide in the torso+ boob area if my ribs expanded and stayed that way. But my son was low and in front (and I have a fibroid) so I showed…

Oh no, I didn't mean that white people can't be lactose intolerant (heck no!), just that the closer one's ancestry is to (and the more one's ancestry is in) northwest Europe, the more likely they may be to be lactose tolerant (rather than intolerant). It certainly doesn't mean that everyone from that area can all…

I was looking for a soy milk alternative (I know, soy milk IS an alternative, and I'm lactose intolerant) because I noticed that soy gives me headaches, and my raw vegan chef friend suggested almond milk. I was sure almond milk was a silly hippie food fad invention until I read some history on it, and it turns out…

I'm of half Catholic Eastern European descent, and (maybe it's the Turkic genes?) half of my family members on that side have trouble with dairy, and the other half have none at all. I wouldn't be surprised if Eastern Europe is some kind of lactose-tolerance shatterbelt.