That’s insane to me. I used to be a lifeguard (in Canada) and a huge part of that training is to get a detailed history when tending to a victim for a water incident/first aid including last eaten/drank to know their stomach contents and potential allergic reactions. How can doctors not be asking this!?

This is a minority in my anecdotal friends data, but I have a pescetarian friend who dislikes meat, and tolerates fish mainly because she stopped eating meat as a child and her mother requested she keep fish to help her keep family meals less complicated.

My fiance is taking over the music side of things, because he honestly cares way more about that adn knows a lot more about the technical side of speakers. I just want music, in some form. I found the venues, and photographers, but he was involved in the final ‘yes’ and our bid spreading. Granted we are both project…

Yup. My fiance’s best man’s wife is from the lake Baikal area of Russia. She’s definitely Russian, but doesn’t look it to anyone who doesn’t realize Russia is a massive country that encompasses much more than Slavic Europe. 

Not zero risk, incredibly low risk. I saw an article where there were only 6 people that were infected when their partner was ‘undetectable’ because it happened to be a very rare, very potent strain. So it’s still incredibly unlikely, but there is a small, small chance, at least with the current medication.

I’ll be getting a ring and proposal because it’s actually important to my SO. Once we decided we were done looking and this was it, I asked him if he really wanted to do that whole thing, because I was fine skipping it. His parents are still together, as is his sister and her husband, and as were his grandparents, so…

I also loved reading this. Overall, Goop is a disaster and she’s self-absorbed, but it was refreshing to hear someone think back at consciously/actively/whatever trying to do what’s best for the kids and also best for their new version of what their family is. 

I’m just Canadian, and I like sports. This space will be for me and us, not anyone else. 

I am SO EXCITED for when my boyfriend and I have a house (currently in a condo), we can have a basement area/space for SPOOOOOORTS! I’m a woman, but I love love love hockey, and enjoy watching most sports. I’m the one leading the charge on hockey themed TV area, for the most part our friends are pretty damn…

Ugh, same here. We’re both professionals, and both our job includes travel for construction/industrial site visits. I travel more than he does, and get asked that often. Newsflash sexist bros, we respect each other’s careers, they’re both equally important, he will never expect me to stay at home popping out babies.…

I loved that they showcased that, since I knew nothing about his personal relationships, and was quite surprised to learn that he had a significant relationship with a woman, and that she stayed a big part of his life through to the end. 

Yep, had a border collie growing up, and we had to restrict his food since otherwise he’d severely overeat and gain weight. If he gained weight we risked hip problems, which he eventually had anyways with age. We worked him as much as we could, but the rest we had to handle with portion control. 

Best trick I’ve ever seen for giving your pup insane exercise while being nice to yourself (dog I saw was a border collie, so insane energy levels) is to stand at the top of a hill, and throw their ball down to the bottom, so they have to run back up to you. Repeat. Great exercise, the dog(s) I’ve seen have seemed to…

Is that maybe the brother’s kid? Is she old enough to be that child?

Yeah, I’m using partner and boyfriend pretty interchangeably as of late. Not a big fan of fiance so I can see partner still happening then.

I asked him a few months ago if he wanted to do the whole proposal thing or if he wanted to bypass it. He legit really wants to pick out the ring/do the whole proposal. I can tell he’s getting pretty excited about that whole aspect, so while I whole heartedly support women proposing he cares about it a hell of a lot…

I’m in the weird phase where I’m super ready to be engaged to my boyfriend, and dislike using the word boyfriend because it doesn’t seem quite right anymore. But life partner just seems like a strange word to me.

Well done. You didn’t waste your time, you had a relationship that I’m sure had good points, but ultimately wasn’t what you wanted or deserved. You now are 100% certain you can make difficult decisions that are overall better instead of settling in to the status quo because it’s alright and it’s easier.

I was stating my experiences, lots of anecdotal stuff. Not discussing data here.

Female engineer in my late 20s. Up until this year (mainly because I’m regularly with the same people now) I frequently was assumed to be the office coordinator, an admin, document control, anyone but the engineer.