I still prefer Chandler's method to breaking up with a clinger. These days, I probably wouldn't pick Yemen though.

No...NO, Jez. I refuse to put any blame on this woman. Sure, she could have been honest, but how well does that work for women? Like honestly? No matter how *nice* she was, all it would have taken is for this dude to go on reddit/4chan/whatthefuckever and post her personal info with a sob story about 'uppity bitches,'…

I think you have to stop looking at it from that perspective, and define justice more broadly than just "making someone pay". Especially when it comes to crimes that were committed in the past. Justice comes from bringing these stories to light, uncovering the truth and giving the dead names.

Show of hands: who else Googled Mitchum-Humpsterfumper Disease?

That was my first thought when I read that, but then I thought about it a little more. It's entirely possible that he couldn't think properly between the exhaustion and the malnutrition. Add to that the heapings of verbal/psychological abuse he was getting from everyone around him, I'm not entirely sure he could…

This literally sounds like my ex husband. A diagnosed narcissist. "Conversations" are not possible at times. Learning that I was not at fault in this crazy cycle of communication made me feel more FREE and happy than I can possibly describe.

Yes, yes, and yes. Cutting family members out of your life is not a decision one takes lightly. I didn't understand it before. Now I do. I will have only limited contact with my siblings. I will not be alone with them. That's just the way it is. Anyone who wants to put the blame on me for that will be shut down…

"A common story among parents who have estranged adult children is how much they had focused on their children, how much they did to make sure their children had all the best advantages, made them the center of the family universe — and often how they treated them more like an equal or an adult than a child.
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My mother has a lot of mental health issues (bipolar depression and borderline personality disorder) and she doesn't process guilt at all well. So she denies things so aggressively and persistently that you start to wonder if they ever really happened. I am (mostly) estranged from her because she was emotionally…

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

Her entire argument is totally meaningless without the other side of the story. I seriously doubt her children just woke up one morning and decided to cut her out of their lives. Unless she explains why they cut her off it's all just a lot of mindless jabbering.

Culture of fear, eh? When I was 6 (in the 80s), I was allowed to walk home in the company of other children (no adults), more than a mile. When I was 7, I was allowed to go to the shops on my own, in a sketchy neighbourhood, in the morning before my folks woke up. At 12, I sorted out my own way home from school and…

Are parents with full-time job really not allowed to let their children go to the park alone? Or walk to the store? or go to the library? I am deeply uncomfortable with this. As an ex-latch-key this is offensive. Jesus let kids eat some dirt.

what be.... whiskey dick?

I'm sorry, did you mean to submit to a "Hero Stories" contest?

Was it the iron-worker who was a secret libertarian

Plz try

Yup, if any 30-year old man started talking to a girl when she was 15, and then slept with her at 17, and married her at 18, I'd call it grooming.

I'd really like to hear how anyone thinks this is okay ESPECIALLY the dad. Like, his confused teenage daughter is weirdly attracted to him... okay... now is the part where you shut that shit down, not where you hook up with her.

This is NOT ok.