It’s so hard. I am in a pretty dark place right now with the whole thing, so it’s good to hear that someone understands. I’m quite young to have an almost-18, 16, and 14-year-old, and have lived alone my entire adult life, so even though I “knew” what I was getting myself into, you can never really know.

I have tried. Oh, how I have tried. I gave them books every year for a while for Christmas and they always ended up in the Goodwill pile. I’m fighting two very difficult parenting philosophies in their mom and my husband. Education is not on mom’s radar, and dad seems to think education is something that happens at…

They aren’t readers (they don’t own books or like to read; have never been to the library) so I think Teen Vogue would be a great start to maybe get them reading in shorter doses.

Ordering for teen stepdaughters stat.

I would not consider myself a regular commenter.

So this is slightly off-topic, but today I had two friends, one a liberal and one an anarchist, tell me that it is body-shaming to call Trump any version of “Orange.” My preferred favorite would be Cheeto Mussolini.

No, no, I believe she was raped.

Because he would have an actual coparent who knows what they are doing to some degree and is mentally healthy. In his defense, parenting with someone like his ex is a nightmare; she subverts everything he tries to do, pits the kids against him, and he’s constantly walking a line between trying to make the kids happy…

I’m not dismissing her claims. I believe her 100%.

Because of the drama?

Oh, she is in inpatient now and we are talking about how to get full custody of at least her. I’m just mad it had to come to this to get her help. We still don’t know who the rapist is but sense it’s a boy from school. We live way on the other side of town from mom, so in this scenario there would be no risk of seeing…

Thank you for the internet sympathy as I obvs can’t disclose this to actual flesh people!

This week was horrible, let alone this year. We found out that my stepdaughter was raped a month ago, and that she’s an alcoholic. She’s 15. She disclosed that she’s been drinking since she was 9. Her mom caught her drinking when she was 12 and my husband did nothing to get her help, nor did he get help for her when…

Um, yeah, I guess I’m one of the mayonnaise-stuffed country music fans who react to non-white non-christians the way you’d react to an Ebola patient covered in open sores.

I am 100% with you on this. I do not actually think he will be president. But I would prefer that he is, because that fucker Pence will be harder to beat.

I will vote for anyone in 2020 who can unseat Cheeto Mussolini. I do not care how old. I do not care what color skin. I do not care if they have been in the Senate for eleventy billion years. I do not care if they have been in the Senate for one year.

I can practice my entire jazz dance in the open space.

“Open floor plan, granite countertops, stainless appliances; its all got to go.”: Every home improvement show in 2035.

Amen! When we moved into our late-mid-century monstrosity of wall-to-wall blue carpet, I lamented the fact that we were not throwing the walls out with the carpet (and the oak trim, and the blue bathtub) in favor of an “open floor plan.” But I was JUST telling my husband yesterday how glad I am that we kept the walls…

I totally read this as “mathematically smug.” Which would also be true in the cases of Nates.