My husband is a great guy, and we have a wonderful marriage. I had a miscarriage at three months in June, and it didn’t happen naturally, so I needed surgery, which was awful (I have terrible reactions to sedation and then I developed an infection, plus the emotional trauma). The doctor said no sex for three weeks,…

Oh my God, are you me? I’ve never come across another 80s baby who was 3 months early! I had a brain bleeding as well - my head was black and blue.

My husband legit looks 10 years younger when he shaves. I allow the beard in the winter, as he works on a construction site and claims he needs it for warmth, but come April, it needs to go!

Mortal is potentially one of the least emphatic commentators on Jez. Completely agree with your point, but you’re wasting your time on him.!

Rubbing a random oil (lavender scented, as I recall) on your baby’s forehead seems unlikely to solve the issue though, right?

A woman I went to high school with and am now FB friends with is shilling “essential oils” HARD. She’s obviously involved in one of those awful pyramid schemes, which normally I feel a little bad about for a minute, as they definitely pray on people that might be a little more vulnerable than average, before moving…

Absolutely, no question about that.

Oh my God. These poor people. I’d heard about the craziness of the alleged sex cult/satanic crimes of the 80s that swept up a lot of people, but I had no idea anyone was still doing time as recently as 2015.

I look so good in green eyeshadow!

True story: while my assault was happening, there were several other people (granted, not friends, but I knew there was at least one other woman) asleep in the small apartment - I didn’t scream initially because I didn’t want to make a scene. When I finally whispered the threat of screaming, I was told (with an arm…

*whispers* I....I still have a thing for a good lace trimmed camisole underneath a flowy kimono type situation.

Yeah, I work for a charity that’s almost entirely staffed by women, and I wear makeup every day. My husband doesn’t notice either way, and I’m not looking to attract anyone else. I just like the routine in the morning.

Non-existent cheek bone holders unite!

That song has been in my head all day and I’d just gotten rid of it, damn you!

Broke two ribs in a mosh, got kicked in the head at least once, and, most horrifyingly of all, had a crowd surfer land on the back of my neck, sending us both to the concrete. I seriously thought my neck was broken for a minute - thank God the crowd surfer who landed on me was also a teenage girl and roughly my size.…

Oh my God, that is awful. I’m so sorry for you and your brother - but thankfully you got him treatment before it went too far. Hard to believe that the introduction of a new technology could so fundamentally change things in just a decade.

Ha! I thought I hated most vegetables until I grew up and learned to cook, for that precise reason. Oh, boiled carrots...!

I refuse to respond to Mortal above because he likes to comment and then lean in hard to mansplaining literally everything to any response he gets. BUT yes, Sebastian Gorka is what British military call a “Walter Mitty,” from the short story about an older man imagining an extraordinary life while leading a pretty…

My grandmother had severe IBD - her favourite foods were chocolate vanilla truffles, pecan sandy cookies, and, above all, cheesecake. She wasn’t a fan of basically anything else, and after having eight children (and losing two of them) and my grandfather walking out on her, I think she felt she deserved to eat…

It’s weird, isn’t it? My step kids are teens (I’m 31, but my husband is several years older), and I do worry about them. On the bright side, I have noticed as they’ve gotten a bit older, they do seem less attached to their phones and more able to make adult conversation. They both went through two-ish years where The…