I don’t feel sorry because I think they are assholes. But, aside from personal ties, there can be legal ramifications from gaining citizenship. My spouse’s siblings have had PR for years but can’t apply for citizenship as their home country doesn’t allow dual citizenship or land ownership by foreign nationals. So they…

Damn! I love Anne Curry.

Mmmm, I’m guessing you don’t speak a foreign language. We live abroad and maintain our kids’ bilingual abilities by speaking our common language inside and outside the house. (Eff, I’ll even add it maintains MY English abilities as there are times I have to circumnavigate for words in English and can only think of…

I did the same.  My ballot was incredibly short anyhow. But at the end I thought I should have just chosen the straight democratic ticket ballot. 

Yes! I kept getting questions about when I would wean my youngest. It was so annoying because she literally only nursed before a nap at home and bedtime. It didn’t bother me at all to nurse her. The questions did bother me.

Hillsong Tokyo has weird, weird rules for its worship leaders (singers/band). A friend dated a girl that sang/went to Hillsong. They had to hid their relationship because he went to a different church. Not because he wasn’t Christian but because he regularly attended another church and refused to switch while they…

Oh no, no, no!  There would be a fee involved. The Osteens are making sure they get theirs.  

Yes, having an especially good friend who has worked at GS for over a decade, my first thought was no way in hell would GS hire her. They would take a meeting to see what she could offer but I doubt it went past one meeting. 

As a highly educated couple, my husband & I didn’t realize the NICU my kid went into after her birth was not cover by our insurance. Since the hospital was in our insurance’s preferred network and all my prenatal care and birth was covered, we never thought to question it. Until we got the $40,000 bill. This was…

Can you return his book....?

I agree but there are still institutional and cultural problems keeping the birth rate low. And a child benefit & low preschool (not daycare) tuition are just bandaids. 

We get a child benefit in Tokyo too. We registered as foreign residents as a family, and we were sent to sign up for the child benefit & mostly free health care until 13 (this depends on what ward of Tokyo, all do it just how long depends on where you live).

They have different last names now. I don’t think he’s smart enough to realize you can have different last names and still be related.

Yes. I was trying to remember a single instance where I commented on a coworker’s outfit and I can’t. I have commented on my husband’s clothes as he left for work but I can’t ever remember commenting on a coworkers. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Yes! My husband didn’t feed me but he would cut my food for me. Which was extremely helpful & endearing.

I live abroad and I went home for a couple of months for family matters this past year. We put my kid into public school during that stay. They didn’t require anything. I just filled out a form with my parent’s address & our “previous” address. And when they saw the previous address was in Asia I got a second…

WTF?! People are constantly asking if I highlighted my toddler’s hair but I didn’t know it was a thing people did!!! I just thought the people asking were dumbasses.

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤯🤯🤯🤯 I can’t articulate my thoughts coherently.

Lots of people are skipping over this. You don’t have to pay someone directly. You could provide them the ‘connections’ for investment & projects for your company.

I was wondering that too. But I think this is a key point to the cross examination: “Ryan also had Jackson point out that she had a launch party for her entertainment company a little more than a month after Wyatt publicly read her statement.”