“He raps” is doing me in. There is so much truth and poetry in such a small sentence.

Holy fuck, I am seriously dying. That is amazing. I hope whoever did that gets a raise.

My mother, who was fiercely intelligent, spent nearly a decade of her life in a religious cult, something that affected her until the day she died. The thing that broke her to the point that she was receptive to my father, who led said cult? Her husband having an affair with and then abandoning her for her best…

I have a friend who posted something of this nature on Father’s Day, and I found it to be refreshing actually. It’s a bad comparison, but think of it like the single person on Valentine’s Day seeing all these cute couples. I’d say it’s worse in this case, though. If you don’t have a good relationship with a partner,…

A-fucking-men! It was 100% his responsibility to make sure that he had a relationship with his own children. Even if Goldie did try to prevent him from seeing them, he should have gone to court to at least get visitation. He didn’t because he didn’t care, but now it is convenient to play the victim.

Thank you for the last few sentences. My father has guilt tripped me for the past four years (basically since I was 16) about not calling him because “I’m an adult now too” but he never makes the attempt either. This kind of bullshit is super manipulative behaviour because they don’t want to make the effort to see…

My mom does this too, and it’s bullshit. Yes, the way the telephone works goes both ways, but parent-child relationships do not. And definitely not when a parent is bullshit for a person’s entire life as a minor. You can’t just put your kid on ice until they turn 18 and say “well, you’re an adult now, act like one…

My dad’s been like “well YOU didn’t call either”. What the everloving fuck. You’re the parent and you went away.

I’m basing my support for them on the fact that he says they could have called him. Therein lies the hallmark of every narcissist father. If you’re the parent, you’re the one who picks up the phone, you’re the one who visits, you’re the one who is there.

But it’s their name. Nothing wrong with changing it, but they’re his children not his ex-wife. The name is just as much theirs as his.

Here’s the thing about being the child of a parent who abandons you, and then subsequently the child of a loving stepparent: IT’S NOT THE KID’S FAULT THAT YOU LEFT AND SOMEONE ELSE WANTED TO LOVE THEM. My own mother is super bitter about the acknowledgment my stepmother gets on Mother’s Day, but you know what? If you…

“Cover” is being extremely generous.

Not going to directly respond to the OP in this thread, but religion should ideally be a matter of empowering people through faith, not about oppressing its followers and casting judgment on those that don’t espouse the same beliefs. To compare the Duggars church to Emmanuel AME is fallacious bullshit.

well, the quiverfull thing is white supremacist doctrine hiding behind religion’s skirts.

I don’t know anything about anorexia, eating disorders, or the like... but I hear you completely. I also hated pregnancy’s physical manifestations (and bodily betrayals) for all the exact same reasons you list. It wasn’t dysmorphia, or even vanity, it just felt... othering, to no longer be alone in your own physical…

I hate being pregnant. First I had hyperemesis and was in and out of the hospital for months, and then once I could eat again, the nausea remained and with it came heartburn and constipation and all kinds of things they never tell you until you’re actually pregnant and then they’re like “oh yeah, that happens.”

I believe the proper name for a group of teenage girls is a gossip.

He deserves to be punched in the face with a Kia.

It takes a special kind of idiot to elevate an artificial caramel based beverage into an aggravated assault case.

I want to kill the family that harassed the host. Hosts are meant to be the punching bags of the servers, not the customers.