You know in my day we didn't have fancy nap pods or chill out rooms. We got our sleep where we were supposed to, in class.

"I know Barry at Burger King. Always makes it my way. I'm big time stuff there!"

I know a guy who prides himself on the fact that he will walk into any nice restaurant and demand to speak to the head chef immediately. Then he says "I don't want anything on the menu, I want you to make me your personal best/favorite dish." He is convinced every chef loves him for this. I am convinced otherwise.

I used to have a sign in front of my house that read, "Martha Stewart doesn't live here". I could never make it at Pinterest.

Exactly. It's cute that they think the flame will stay at the cap and not just burn down the rope.

I'm going to say this: If a guy I married hit on or engaged in consensual sexytimes with someone else, I'd dump his ass because he would be cheating on me. If a guy I married assaulted a woman (which is what groping and trying to force her to drink basically is), I'd tie him up, roll him in honey, and leave him near a…

There should be a 48-hour grace period after you say "I do" during which you can change your mind and be all "NOPE. I ACTUALLY DO NOT" with minimal paperwork. This would be a good thing for a situation like this.

Thanks for this! That makes total sense, that mental preparation is key. I'm going to work on that a bit over the next month and a half.

Sometimes, they are completely benign and easy. My mother who is a small woman, gave birth at home to 10lb babies on three separate occasions with a midwife and claimed it wasn't that bad.

C-sections are no picnic. I would have definitely rather given birth the old fashioned way than have to recover from major abdominal surgery at the same time as learning to care for a newborn. Not intended to frighten anyone, (I made it through and so can you!) but it's pretty irritating to have it assumed that…

it's hard. very hard. but it's all worth it in the end. every thing i went through labor wise was forgotten as soon as i saw my little boy. you'll be okay :) just focus, center yourself and everything will happen on its own. congratulations! :)

I had my children by caesarian section. There is a very large overhead light they use in the operating theatre and it reflects everything back at you while you lie there. It's like a 2 feet wide mirror above your face. Did I see you can see everything?

Anywhoo, let me tell you I had no idea I had that many internal…

That kind of condescension makes me want to flip tables.

I went to an all boys prep school. When we were 11 we were shown a birth video in like our third sex ed class. One kid passed out. Protection suddenly got serious that day.

The guy who said "It was mostly gross, but also kind of beautiful" summed the whole thing up perfectly.

I was on a date during which I informed him that I never wanted to go through childbirth (these are the kinds of things I say on 7th dates I guess) and he said "You don't really mean that." HA. You want to bet? A gutsy thing for a person who isn't going through it in their lifetime to say.

My baby's birth (she's 10 weeks old) was 23 hours and 100% natural. My husband and I had taken Bradley method classes to prepare, which is very focused on husband-coached labor. During labor I vomited twice, pooped all over the place, and had a mirror to see my vagina in all its glory during the pushing phase, yet…

Any decent partner* is going to be there for the birth of their kid and do you really want the first time you see that to be in 3D?

FTFY

9th grade biology. I crossed my legs so hard it hurt.