Firstly, love your kinja name. I was just at the Bronte parsonage last week being a fan girl about the Bells!

RESPECT. I didn’t have twins, just two very large babies one after the other, and my stomach is a MESS. I get pretty fucking envious of these celebs showing off their Beach Body TM right away after having babies. Due to having no money and an extremely squeamish nature there’s no way I’d ever have surgery to fix my…

You shared your story so generously and said such beautiful words. It sounds like it was an awful time for you, but you also sound like you have a lot of strength. I don’t mean to sound patronising or weird, but I want to say: well done. What a horrible thing to happen and you have not only survived, but you are…

I’m so sorry for your loss.

I decided to kill myself once, years ago. I googled something lame about what technique to use and found this friendly little webpage that was obviously put there for people googling suicide techniques. It had some good natured funny little dad jokes, and a message saying something along the lines of ‘don’t kill…

I love this comment so much I might marry it.

The story was covered pretty extensively in Australia too. I remember seeing magazine racks *everywhere* full of magazines with all different JonBenet pictures on them. One of the things that fascinated us was her name too, iirc. This tiny pretty girl dressed up like a woman, with an exotic name, it was a huge story.

This is good kinja.

No you weren’t being rude! I see it a lot though, people just rubbish the idea that someone would spend years or thousands of dollars of fertility treatments rather than adopt. AFAIK in some places there actually aren’t even many children available to adopt anyway. I was lucky, after a long long time of trying we had…

Was that just so the people wouldn’t panic?

Stuff privacy, I want to know because I am nosy and love a good story!

Lots of people seem to think that adoption is an automatic plan b. It takes different drive and skills to adopt, plus years of assessments and meetings with social workers, the added likely complication of a child with medical issues and perhaps some trauma. That’s a huge thing to take on and it’s a fair call if…

Good GOD how did he nail that accent so perfectly??? That’s some kind of sorcery right there.

That is REVOLTING.

Perfect rebuttal!

When my baby was born (not IVF, conceived spontaneously, although after 2 years of TTC “spontaneously” can bite my ass), he was a perfect little mini-me of my husb, and husb went around for WEEKS saying happily “It’s obvious who’s the father!” until I had to gently remind him that there shouldn’t actually be any doubt…

I want to learn to stop always noticing the negative aspects of everything, and bring a positive focus to conversations. I notice myself always bringing up negative stories and memories, sure I make them sarcastic and amusing for people, but I think it’s really impacting my psyche and it’s got to be holding me back in…

“Your adjectives are extraneous and provide no additional benefit!”

This is damn good kinja.

I live kind of near Haworth and the first time I walked on the Moor at the back of the Parsonage where the Brontes lived, I understood a lot of the tone of Wuthering Heights. It’s wild and bare and windswept and mournful. It was fascinating to walk in the footsteps of the Brontes.