Any one out there with experience in how to handle a marriage that is slipping fast, lost communication, husband is having mid-life crisis type situation? Love is still there, and we have two children, but we have tangled finances in which neither of us could live alone and support two kids... and he won’t go to…

Read the Four Agreements (for your own self-care), get a therapist if you have insurance/can afford it, and, this may not be relevant but it was for me and I wish I’d done things differently, keep your child and his needs front and center at all times through the transition, while still attending to yourself. It…

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I have some excellent advice then: NEVER RENOVATE. Ever. Just let shit get old and out of style, it’ll come back in someday and you can call it vintage/retro/antique and make huge dollars.

Prepare yourself. Sarcasm detectors have been very faulty lately.

I just read the Times follow up response from international parents. I guess I was an instinctual free range parent who tries to always be close and honest to my kids, but also give them the confidence to take risks and be independent, but jeez, American parenting!

I have a boy and a girl, at 7 and 4 already my partners in life. My deepest instinct now is to teach them everything, have conversations, expose them to it all. The latest Mom and Dad are Fighting podcast (highly recommend) is on fear culture in America, featuring author Kim Brooks of Small Animals, and raising…

I think that was probably her real goal, to make him sweat and position it as a feminist stance.

This was probably deliberately higher than comfortable, to get Cuomo sweating (also perhaps a satirical stab at another Nixon who was prone to sweating). Nixon probably knew she could handle the heat, with her experience in show business. It’s a power move which also serves as a feminist stance, so I’m fine with it.

Same. I’ve lived this exact scene many times since the election. I also live in a very blue state. Sorry for your experience.

Even the game itself (played non-professionally) is a series of “let me do that over” and I’m not just talking about the Mulligan rule. It’s really just “what rules?”

Yeah, when you add up the items on a visual list of valid issues with trump and his admin, it seems it would be hard not to take a minute and figure out how to solve these issues, rather than cover their asses. Their asses have already been shown, I don’t get how they keep doubling down and hiding.

Considering they compiled a list and can see how long and valid it is, wouldn’t you think the GOP would pause at this very visual indication of their own complicity? At the very least, consider that maybe it’s time to have a trump-exit plan?

They did save Glen.

With his ties to Russia, I’m assuming he’s getting his directives from more powerful people and would rather die in prison than from a fatal chemical attack. If they wanted him to plea, he’d plea. Sounds to me like this choice isn’t up to him.

Great podcast. Also, according to the tapes and what he did to several so-called enemies, Nixon has no moral authority over trump.

It’s hard for me to imagine that he is so charismatic in person (according to some reports) that the people around him don’t literally keel over from horror on the daily. What kind of desperation does it take to work for a person like him, I wonder?

I know men like this who actively wanted to have kids with their wives and then were shocked at the amount of work it takes to raise a kid, even when the wife does the majority of the parenting and work. My BIL is one of them, and they tried for years, suffered miscarriages, then had two healthy kids and he’s all “man…

I knew I couldn’t be the only one to LOATH that feature. It’s a sure way to get me to not watch the show.

My first thought.