Seconded.

It’s the RPCV in you. One thing we learn in PC is that US standards for food prep and storage are way, way too serious. I ended up in the hospital, inches from death with E.Coli. Didn’t stop me from brushing my teeth with bird shit water because convenience.

His kids are 12, 14, and 16, and he’s an amazing father.

My husband is 44, has three kids with his ex-wife, but we would like one of our own. I keep worrying that it will be hard for him, but I guess at 35 I should wonder if it will be hard for me.

Yeah, now, they’re not my biological kids, so I think that’s marginally easier for me to say and do, but for example, when I caught my stepson getting into the alcohol because he thought I wasn’t home, then discovered on his phone that he’s into drugs and having sex with his girlfriend, I wasn’t even mad. I was like,…

Haha she is pretty much hateful af all the time, but her brother (16) and sister (12) are are a delight. Every time she’s come to visit for about the last year and a half she’s run away (because rules), and her mom has come to get her, won’t tell us where she is, we call the cops, and so on, she’s made three…

I think when you acknowledge that teens don’t have their whole brains yet, and will make all decisions based on this fraction of a brain, understanding all of their dumbass shit gets a whole lot easier and less stressful.

Thank you. This is my life. If our three teens made the decision of who to live with, it would be based purely on what they can get away with at each house.

Being a stepparent to three kids is hard. I can not imagine what having 8 is like for her, especially when one day there will be four 14-year-olds, three 13-year-olds, plus her biological children.

Came here to say the same thing.

Who is Andy Cohen?

For me, it was Austin. I imagined it to be a liberal mecca when I moved there for school, but found it so in love with itself that I felt more at home out in the sticks.

Haha thank you for the support. I love the Skywalker idea, but I’m not sure if he’s there yet (ok, I know he’s not) to even admitting he has a problem. But I love the, “I’m sorry, you must have me confused with someone else.” I’m going to try it tonight and see if it works.

Oh, yeah, I read that book like a month after I met him! :) But now that you’re mentioning it, I might read it again over break. That, and “I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me.” He met her when he was like 19 and got married soon thereafter, so I sometimes forget that he’s been conditioned to this for almost 30 years. Thank…

Borderline Personality Disorder.

Thank you for [I think] the first time I’ve laughed today.

It was amazingly hard to find in my area of the US for a while, but now it’s everywhere.

I like to add a shot of vanilla vodka. Yummy.

My husband was married to someone with BPD for 18 years. We knew each other for four years before getting married last summer, and aside from the enormous mountain of crap that trying to parent with that kind of an ex placed upon our relationship, he was pretty ok.

Not Your Father’s Hard Root Beer for me! And also towards the end of my semester so no true celebrating yet!