I'm not sure if it's maybe a midwest thing, too. My ring is very unique, not at all cookie cutter. I think part of the "Oh" that I hear from these women could be trying to place me within these narratives of affluence that I just don't fit into. And never will. I don't care about climbing the social or economic…

RIGHT???!!! Bitchy suburban mommy bloggers, that's who. Damn mloggers. And what's worse, I'm sure my ring was STILL in the range that correlates with higher divorce rates. It's just not, like, the biggest ring EVER. It's NORMAL. Which also makes me think: my fiancé is a 1%-er (half of it goes to his ex-wife, so we…

My fiancé and I have been having a BIG conversation over the past few days about my engagement ring. I didn't want one in the first place; I'm an athlete and couldn't see myself wearing one, but he didn't want people to think he is cheap. So, whatever; I'll wear the ring. I love it because it's from him. And when…

YES. I don't know why we're all assuming that Sam called Frank. It was implied, not explicit. I think the phone call could have been completely unrelated, although I'm loving the Bonnie theory.

I'm not convinced Sam ordered Frank to kill Lila . . . we see him pick up a phone and say "you owe me," but we never see who's on the other end or what that person owes him for. It could be a completely unrelated conversation and Frank is doing it for Annalise.

Thanks! I wanted deep in the front and deep in the back and that's what I got!

I am loving Jane the Virgin for that reason. I blew through GG and PLL. I tried the OC. It was meh. Did the Kardashian thing until they ran out. It's harder to get wrapped up in their stuff, though.

I found my wedding dress today.

Good luck on your quals. As I sit here reading about the debate over Confirmatory Factor Analysis vs. Exploratory Factor Analysis. And eigenvalues. And . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

You win the internet today.

I can't get into that show.

Add to that the fact that women are generally expected to have more of a role in child-rearing, and you get a weird situation in which she is changing the expectations around the house a bunch by laying down new rules, etc.

Hey, thanks.

And my guess is that this is not due to stepmothers being inherently evil and stepfathers being inherently kind-hearted, but that stepmothers are often seen as bringing negative change to the household, controlling, and taking over, while stepfathers are seen as bringing stability (financial, disciplinary) to the…

That is exactly what is happening. All of those things.

My sister didn't invite kids to her reception, and my cousin was pissed, so she brought her 6-year-old daughter to the ceremony dressed in a long white flower girl dress. She's standing right smack in the middle of all the wedding pictures at the church as IF she was the flower girl.

Thank you for this. This has been going around the interwebs all day and it makes me feel really sad and a little bit jealous. We are fighting right now just to get one of my fiancé's kids to the wedding (she wants nothing to do with us), let alone have her be a bridesmaid or be able to even mention being a "family."…

That's interesting, because I would like nothing more than my fiancé's kids to be part of our family, and they want little to do with me. Not all stepmoms fit the trope of the stepmonster.

Yes, but not all kids want their parent's new partner in their lives. I would love to say something like this at our wedding, but I really think they (all three teenagers) would be more resentful or disgusted if I did because they have a mom (who barely parents them) but who is their mom nonetheless. I would argue…