A) the alpha/beta divide doesn’t actually exist in nature, only in captivity; in the wild, animal groups are almost entirely familial.
B) The exception being lions, which doesn’t really square up in any case since humans aren’t felines.
C) the only primate species with an dominant male/harem social structure are…
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For any healthy mature relationship, waiting longer to get married won’t hurt in the long run... however, rushing it can. There’s only positives to be had from taking your time and doing things like co-habitating, meeting family, spending time in each other’s social circles, meeting extended family, etc. ... that all…
How painful that you couldn’t be there at the end. But your writing is wonderful. Give yourself some downtime; it takes the pain a long time to lose its sharp edge, but it really never goes away.
Referring to women as “females” definitely helps your credibility here...
No just no. She is manipulative and that is very much abuse. HE just needs to get out no one deserves that shit. If the genders were reversed everyone would be up in arms about it.
...you realize saying it was statistically insignificant works against the point you’re trying to make, right?
Nobody deserves to be abused.
Are you suggesting that those are significantly different circumstances or the same? “Engaged after a few months” vs “married after I think a year”
“No one reputable chastised them for it.”
what if...I was realized that and I was talking to other commenters to facilitate discussion in what is always an echo chamber anyway? And what if I said outright I wasn’t referring to Stassa or criticizing her at all?
If you believe human life begins at conception, you also believe that women don’t really have rights.
Good thing, then, that the author is not behaving as if it’s simple: “I never once took that choice lightly. No regrets is not the same thing as no questions, or no struggles, or no mute minutes lost in thought . . .”
That’s fine. My neighbor genuinely believes it is the killing of human life, abhors it and she makes no concessions for how that fetus was conceived. I can respect that, even though I don’t agree with her.
Amen. As a non-uterus haver, I’ve been pro-choice, but watching my wife go through pregnancy with twins and then with another, there is no way to justify forcing someone to go through that process against their will.
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
This is brilliant, thank you for writing it. And just to help you contextualize your experience a little, the second-largest group of women needing abortion in the U.S., (though not Canada) is women between 40 and 45 who are mothers. It’s not you, though your copper IUD failure is a spectacular one!
So you’re saying you made a well thought out, reasonable decision about your health and your body; the people responsible for it did not judge or subject you to their personal bias; and your supportive partner was there for you and cared for you before, during and after.
God forbid the kids see some titties in between people being impaled in the chest with samurai swords. That’d really mess the kids up.