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We are nearly six years no contact with my MIL and we always talk about what will happen when she invariably gets sickly. 

I only did no-contact once, for a short period of time (a month or so) but now we’re on a contact of only once a month or so for a few hours, by mutual decision.

As the fellow child of a narcissist, sometimes you have to go no-contact to maintain your sanity.

Right, but the whole point of the article is that they did not leave their children to die in a hot car because they were “busy at work.” I’m surprised that’s all you got out of Gene Weingarten’s work on this subject.

This is why I wear a pillow over my head when I drive.

There’s been a lot of talk about extra “context” and with this documentary people making Michelle Carter, the woman who got all of 15 months for this... to be the victim. Here’s why I don’t care to watch this documentary and have zero sympathy for her. I’ll let Michelle Carter’s actual words to a suicidal person do

She's offering the exact moderate Democratic political profile Kyrsten Sinema just ran on in crimson red Arizona. And won.

For real. The things that Ms. McGrath is apparently unacceptably opposed to wouldn’t even have been on the table the last time McConnell was up for re-election. While I’m fortunate to live in an area that would gladly elect the reanimated corpse of Eugene V Debs, that’s a luxury that a lot of people don’t have. Like

Mitch McConnell does not “kind of suck”. Mitch McConnell is the architect of the end of the United States and does what he does solely out of spite. He is the embodiment of hatred and corruption.

...but McGrath is a self-described moderate who believes the Democrats currently running for president are veering too far to the left. She doesn’t support eliminating private insurance under a Medicare-for-all plan, nor does she support subsidizing healthcare for undocumented immigrants. She also describes herself as

I don’t need her to be a leftist dream, I need her to be better than Mitch. It’s a pretty low bar. Campaigning in a way that talks to voters she needs to win over, conservatives who have probably voted red their whole lives (or voted southern democrat when that was still a thing) is smart. 

God, yes. Puck being such an asshole doesn’t make Judd any less a weenie. Remember when he dressed up in a tux and did This Is Your Life for Pam? He was kind of a proto-Nice Guy. 

I am always very impressed by Pam. I wish Judd didn’t rub me the wrong way so much, but here he is doing it. There is no reason. He doesn’t say or do anything bad. In fact, he seems to be a good person, all around. And I detest Puck and always have. Why is it I can’t warm up to Judd? Part of it I think is that he

Except for the part where he’s a violent homophobe, apparently.

Cool, so the takeaway here is “Don’t fuck with Mike Tyson,” not something like, “Mike Tyson had a really shitty homophobic reaction and, frankly, it’s fucking embarrassing.”  Got it.

Ugh, I tried so hard to go unmedicated, but after 20 hours of back labor, I tapped the fuck out. I’ll never know if the epidural contributed to my tearing, but I pushed for 3 hours and my kid has a huge head. I had a 4th degree tear. When the lactation consultant explained to me what that exactly meant, 2 days later,

I’ve given birth both ways (one vaginal delivery and one cesarean) and I can tell you that there’s no “good way” to give birth... ;)

Just read it at your suggestion and it was fantastic. Overnight train travel really sounds like a suspension of reality!

But OP said nothing about Kim. How are they shitting on her?