Emily yay for the early SNL! How was everyone’s holidays? I got a ton of gifts and gave some really great gifts (the better part IMO) and got through two days with my family of narcissists and flying monkeys! My best gift given to me: a gift card for cryotherapy, where you get in the tank that’s about three hundred…

This year, I’m giving up my uterus!! And at least one of my ov’s!!

Thank you.  This year was much better but I still want to host!

I gotta say, I’m a little disappointed because I was totally expecting you to end up with the hot, competent older brother after all that haha.

OMG! OMG! OMG! I was first! I’d like to thank the Jezcademey! And the turkey grease! And oh they’re playing me off....

I think I will use that test now too.

If you can’t sell it on ebay, put it in a bag and take a hammer to it. The bag would protect you from stray shards hitting your face or cleanup later. It could let out a lot of rage.

I need to check that out. It always bugs me when people post things about how life is too short to hold grudges, so be nice to family or be kind to your parents because they will always be here. So many people do get how damaging these parents can be.

Sounds like my mom. She always liked to get my sister and I the same thing so we wouldn’t “fight” over our toys. I usually got what my sister requested for Christmas and was ungrateful if I mentioned it wasn’t on my list. The list she insisted we create every year. This started when I was 7. When I was around 10, I…

Does the carpool duty fall on you now?

It was horrifying when I watched my family’s behavior at my grandfather’s and great-grandmother’s funerals ten years ago. The deaths happened very close to one another in time and both deaths had been drawn out for awhile, leaving the whole family just emotionally wrecked. But at the funeral, everyone ran around…

Ski lessons as a gift for someone who just broke his leg.  It's a shame the gift-giving pissing contest from last week is over.

This is awesome advice. I am looking for ways to sound nice and upbeat while also asking her to bugger off and this is the perfect way to do so. 

EW at least my in laws care nothing about politics and never speak of it. Small blessings!

Why are people like this? They sure seem to notice “rudeness and imposition” when it happens at THEIR house. I’m straight up putting my foot down when they decide to “come help” by sitting in their phones and silently judging my parenting while they barely interact with the people they came to “visit” - and all of…

Ugh. I feel you.

It truly is the thought that counts - and in this case the thought was all manipulative bullshit.

Good for you for standing your ground. It’s crazy how much ‘how will it look???’ overturns any common sense at weddings. I had the opposite problem (my stepdad raised me, but my mom thought not having my dad walk me down the aisle would be weird). Ended up with my mom and future MIL walking me down, and my husband…

She was a nasty and abusive person! I used to never share stories like this because I was taught that to do so was a betrayal to my fam (“her intentions were good!”). The reality is that the best gift is what the other person wants, not what you think they should want. I realize now that shit like this really groomed…

She really felt people should get something they want, not something they need. Don’t think my siblings were happy either...