I have a feeling that it was some sort of paternalistic policy for the “welfare” of the children. They probably assumed she couldn’t take care of the baby or even that the low birth weight was the mother’s fault. It’s amazing what people will blame on and do to women, just because they can make babies with their…

I kinda can’t help but wonder if it was a “well, foster care is better than having a young poor black mother” busybody asshole. Like someone made a judgement that “this woman won’t be a good mother” and passed a kid on to foster care.

Fuck that shit. They should sue. Because you know if it was some white women, not only would they receive payouts in the millions, there would be at 3 mother fucking congressional hearing on the matter.

That is nuuuuuuuuuts. I would also describe myself for better or for worse as having a strong sense of propriety (my desire to do the right thing can shade into judgement of others) but it would never, ever occur to me to tell an ex who he can and can’t date. ESPECIALLY if I was the one doing the dumping.

Apparently he had a strong sense of “propriety” that he did not want me to offend. I heard it more as “property” and reacted accordingly.

I’ve always been of the school of thought that “drink in face” = insult, “bottle” = hate crime. Ya can’t just hit folks with Coke bottles. It can cause brain damage and shit.

What kind of gall does it take to ask the person you’re breaking up with to not date specific people? I would have had a gang bang with all three of them. I like your plan too, though.

“My family has expectations for my wife” sounds like the shit Warner said to Elle in Legally Blonde. Please tell me this guy was as stupid too.

I love this whole story, but also:

Why would he think you would listen to him after the breakup about not dating those guys? You were throwing pickles at his head.

I bounced a bowl of fancy little French pickles off his forehead, one by one, and the waiter brought me a fresh bowl.

My ex thought it was a good idea to move to another state and hide from child support. Since he had such a consistent history of cheating I thought it would be easy to track him down on Craigslist’s Missed Connections. Someone had to know him because he had penis and it did wander. A lot. He also loved to make sure…

My favorite one so far has been the voodoo hex. Look into that one.

I got him banned from his mother’s house, moved in with her myself, and she bought me a puppy.

NOT OKAY. Just. No. This is a waste of American resources.

Honestly the craziest thing I ever did was nothing.

I have a huge scary temper and about 5 years ago I caught my live-in boyfriend cheating. Like, affair cheating. And I did... nothing.

My only serious college boyfriend and I were both huge stoners and our relationship mostly revolved around smoking out of his giant, beloved two-foot decorative purple bong named “The Mystery Machine,” having sex and playing Super Smash Bros. Melee. He was in the Army ROTC had to enter the service after college. Since…

When I found out my long term boyfriend had a new girlfriend, while we were still living together, I walked to the nearest travel agent and booked a flight to Europe, got an express passport and then quit my job. I was outta there in under two weeks.

My (then) boyfriend’s best friend, who thought I wouldn’t recognize his voice on the phone, called me to let me know his asshat friend was two-timing me with another chick at a bar near my house. I went there, spotted them, approached the table, grabbed a glass bottle of Coke off a waiter’s tray and hit him over the…

That was an absolutely terrible thing to do.