A couple of months ago I was going through a hard time - I was finally accepting that I needed to quit grad school and I just wasn't making it in my program, and I was overwhelmed and extra emotional because I was scheduled to get my depo shot soon and that always fucks with my mood. So what did I do? I spent *hours*…

I usually keep all my emotions in check (to my detriment, probably), so when it comes out IT COMES OUT

I bet he doesn't even know that 40 is as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

she held a conference with all the older relatives 3 days before the marriage, shared her findings & they voted on whether the marriage should take place

Yeah! Also I'm impressed at how many people can't math!

this is one of the times when i feel an almost overwhelming love for my country

"There's no such thing as closure" is...oddly helpful.

My first visit with my therapist, I barely said anything because I couldn't stop bawling. I managed to tell her how embarrassed I was about it, and she said "Why do you think there's that giant box of tissues next to your chair? You're hardly the first person to spend their entire first session in tears. You can…

I got over my ex by telling my story at The Moth in New York. It was the only kind of catharsis I could afford: telling a roomful of strangers.

Save yourself the therapy and just watch "He's just not that into you". If a dude likes you, he won't be able to get enough of you for a good long time. Obviously the honeymoon phase wears off eventually, but not in a course of weeks.

If he seems hot and then cold like an apartment building shower, you need to run and…

I would love to have a therapist just for somebody to talk to. You can't talk to your spouse about everything because you don't want to have one of those big discussions that hangs in the air and you still have to get errands run and dinner cooked today. Same thing with friends—stuff you can't bring up because you…

Therapy helps after a breakup 1000%. My therapist, along with antidepressants, helped me relearn how to eat, dress, shower, basically how to function. Because post-breakup, I couldn't.

That whole back and forth only to marry someone else is humiliating as hell. I know someone in the same situation. The guy keeps leading her on, only to shut her out for months. This has been going on for years. It's emotionally abusive and cruel to make someone feel special and then disappear like that.

if by "therapy" you mean "still chainsmoking and annoying the shit out of all of my friends everytime I get drunk 6 months later", I'm doing great at "therapy"!

I'm glad I made the choice to seek therapy after my ex and I split in 2013. I was really devastated and most of the people in my life wanted to act like there was really no reason to be (there totally fucking was). It took me spending three solid weekends in a row in bed, just staring at my window all day to make the…

Yea...but it's expensive so I'll just keep repressing my heartbreak over my 6 year on-off torrid romance that ended with a bang.

While dancing at the wedding reception for my older brother, my aunt's husband had a heart attack and died just as the reception was winding down. His heart attack struck as he was dancing with my mom. My parents had been divorced for two years but my mom is an angry, bitter harpy and, despite her own boyfriend…

I'm anticipating some kind of scuffle at our wedding, for we are inviting a real live MRA (close family friend on fiance's side, there is no getting out of it). I want to seat him at a table with some of my friends and a centerpiece of knives.

Dammit! I missed this one!

Oh! I have a small one of these! At my cousin's wedding, my mum stabbed someone who was badmouthing my deceased stepfather. My step-brothers then dragged the guy out and beat him up.