As a small business owner, I know how hard it is to run a business. But the only way you can is to self-care as you go — and also make sure your workers self-care, too (have the time and money to do so).

After years of struggling with bathing suits, I turned 40 and went for “what would serve me best on waterslides (which is also a passion that I have denied myself far too long! LOL). The answer, it turns out, is board shorts and a tankini top with a little bra in it for some support.

Yeah. And they call liberals “crybaby snowflakes.”

Not to mention things like conversion therapy, the suicide rates of LGBTQ+ youth, and so on and so forth.

I felt like nursing was more important than my body fat %. Even if my family disagreed with me.

I like clarity of a conversation. Ghosting to me is just very painful. Everyone is different, though.

there is that, too.

I hope that you either A. win out or B. if he breaks with you, it’s in an awesome way like over coffee with words and kindness.

Well, if he doesn’t want “bodies changing” then he doesn’t want his wife to have his kids, either — cuz that changes the body pretty radically, even if you do get back to a “pre pregnancy” weight and shape and such.

I explain to men all the time that it’s like this.

I keep telling these guys (since they are my age) that they are petulant, obnoxious, and entitled, but they never see it. I also toss in ‘really fucking misogynistic’ but they do not hear that, either.

You keep up the good job, too. Keep indoctrinating those liberal values. :D

The funny thing is that little white boys — like my son — are psyched to see such diversity.

I agree. I don’t get why this would be a problem, since it’s reversible anyway.

Yeah. I can’t tell you how badly it hurt first to be fired for doing the right/ethical thing, and then secondarily, for how I ws treated by my whole professional community for it. In part, I was even “shunned” — my friends said that the boss said that they “weren’t allowed to even talk to me, or they’d be fired, too.”…

Yes. It’s called “grooming.” Pedophiles and abusers (or even just con men/women) will groom people so that they have access to what they want. You can look it up and read all about what was like going on.

Don’t worry about it too much.

I make sure to get a walk outside (in as natural an area as possible) for at least 30 minutes a day.

Getting massages was my first idea — I highly recommend it for a variety of reasons. I don’t know what you’d be intimidated about — so if you could explain that, I could help put your mind at ease. There are even clothed massages (shiatsu and thai massage), so you could ease your way in that way if clothing is an…

I like DonaJo — which are running leggings but they work nicely (and aren’t compression) which is headquartered in Pittsburgh (or was last I knew), and ships all over the US — and also Courage My Love (which is a NZ company). Australia’s Dharma Bums are pretty good, too — a lot of my coworkers wear them.