I’m sorry you went through that and are still struggling. I had a lot of resistance from my family when I started taking medication back in 2001. They told me that I only need to pray more and eat more fruit, and of course the ol’ “fake it till you make it” “just act happy and you’ll be happy” advice.

I actually had a reiki healing treatment session in Sedona a couple of years ago. I went into it completely side eyeing the whole thing, fairly skeptical, but it was an incredible release. I just felt lighter. I cried and shook and felt a huge weight off my shoulders (she promised me I’d lose twenty pounds but that…

I apologize for how my comment sounded. I certainly have nothing against medication, as I’ve been on several antidepressants for more than fifteen years. But I have also seen first hand how children can be changed completely by medications - bright, vivacious, creative children turned into half asleep drones in the…

This is breaking my heart right now. I have an eleven year old daughter who has started experiencing debilitating panic attacks. She goes completely frozen, pale, eyes glazed over and starts crying. She says she feels a black shadowy presence covering her, threatening to hurt her or her friends. Sometimes she says she…

Man! I wish they could cram in a few more ads on that site.

Well, I’m not necessarily ashamed of my kinks or fantasies. I’ve had them for decades. And like i’ve said below, I’m also a survivor of someone who took advantage of those kinks to abuse me. I still am able to see the difference between the two. Books are the safest way to engage in the darkest fantasies I have and I…

All of the non-con/dark romance I’ve ever read has had a page at the very beginning explaining the basics of the genre, that it may contain violence and non-consensual bondage, abduction...etc...a warning that the story is not an example of a healthy relationship and I think that’s all that’s needed.

I’m a woman and I thought that excerpt was ridiculous. “I’ll take a thousand steps back to keep that sweet face smiling” Puke. That sounds like some thing you’d say to a little kid that you want to placate. I just don’t like the tentative, eggshell.... “I’m going to walk over to you now ok? I’m going to touch your…

Thank you for saying this. As someone who is working very hard towards publishing a “dark romance” genre novel I’m sort of tired of being made to feel that my fantasies are wrong.

I’m with you. I’ve also tried to write pieces that show a clear division between the two. I am also a survivor of assault who had non-con/dub-con fantasies long before and after I was attacked. I am able to distinguish the two in my head quite clearly. And I also know it isn’t for everyone. But a sappy, ‘gosh I love…

THANK YOU.

I think that consent is super important in real life and fantasy and I know that I’m in the “wrong” for having a darker, more violent fantasy life and enjoying the dark romance genre but come on:

preach it. My little fella has a ridiculous lipoma on his back leg that, while not cancerous, is a hideously huge tumor and without fail at least three times a week it interferes with the poop falling straight to the ground from the butt, so i have to maneuver little turds from the shelf of the tumor down to the…

Or its a way that people drum up sympathy where none is needed (I’m not accusing you of that, i’m saying weiss did) “I received death threats in my private messages” is the new “girlfriend in Canada”.

I wonder. I wonder who actually told her she deserved to die (no, I didn’t read all the responses to her tweet). The victimhood is thick and juicy with that one.

JESUS CHRIST AT THE ALDI are you kidding me with this shit? I hate QT so I made a point of never seeing Django but I mean, why was she not suing everyone under the sun for such an egregious act?

When I was thinner I was super into yoga, like eight hours a week, super flexible. i went back to it after I’d put on weight and it really depressed me how I couldn’t bend and move and do the advanced poses like I used to. I was literally in tears, comparing myself to the little teeny twenty year olds bent up into…

I had a sleeve gastrectomy (gastric sleeve). I was up to around the same weight at only 5'5" and i was having a lot of side effects: snoring, high blood pressure, back pain, low energy. It was just all bad. My daughter, who is eleven, asked me when I was going to be able to do stuff with her without getting tired and…

Boy, I feel bad that i never got a chance to come back to this thread yesterday! Thank you so much for all of the recommendations! I’m definitely going to file some of these away. I’ve always wanted to go to Minneapolis, so that’s definitely an option :) God bless all of my girlfriends, but I’m actually something of…

Apropos of nothing, but sort of in a similar vein, if anyone has an recommendations for somewhere that a gal like myself (someone who is into spa treatments, laying around, eating and getting some writing done without someone screaming “WHAT’S FOR SNACK” in my face) could go for a “Mom’s Weekened Vacation” by myself,…