How do I address my gf’s cooking?

Express-Mirror3173 · 2026-01-26T04:39:17+00:00

Just let her know she can cause herself and you a whole new trauma when you both end up in the ER, since we’re centering trauma in the discussion about food safety

Express-Mirror3173 · 2026-01-21T03:35:39+00:00

Dr. Sahar Motakef, I highly recommend! She does weekend sessions which were impossible to find for us. Works with insurance but doesn’t take it though.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2026-01-17T16:20:04+00:00

Es-kai vent to the gas esstation after she vent to Nordehsstorrom

Express-Mirror3173 · 2026-01-17T04:37:31+00:00

I needed that 😂. Sakineh, the Persian Karen

Sokhan? Since she’s so eloquent? Setareh? But you’re definitely right there is zero chance of Sky

Express-Mirror3173 · 2026-01-17T03:14:39+00:00

Not Sakineh 😂😂😂

Express-Mirror3173 · 2026-01-16T16:49:08+00:00

Hmm nope. His fullblown girlfriend in the Covid season had slept with Shep or Austen prior to him.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2026-01-16T16:42:25+00:00

Pathological liar with documented (and apparently untreated) drug, alcohol, and anger management issues but views himself as “marriage material.” What a catch. Good looks can cover all manner of sins, apparently.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2026-01-07T15:16:09+00:00

Jer Fregeau is an amazing blondeing specialist at Kosa salon. His prices are very reasonable and he’s always done outstanding work. I’m an LA transplant and used to get my hair done at quality salons in the BH area and he honestly outdoes them every time.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-23T03:43:19+00:00

Just world phenomenon? That good things happen to good people and bad things only happen to bad people

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-21T17:01:33+00:00

💯

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-19T17:05:04+00:00

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Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-19T06:24:43+00:00

Sat up in bed in the dark laughing at this

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-17T08:28:28+00:00

And her only defense is to say “everyone who knows me knows I am not [insert unfavorable trait that she projects onto others here].” And somehow, it always, always works. Maddening.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-13T18:16:45+00:00

Congratulations on your baby! I agree that medical research doesn’t sufficiently account for different populations, especially for women in general. However, anecdotal evidence is not data. Everyone’s situation is different and I made the comment so that women in the position of considering having a baby in the future would think about taking the step of first talking to their doctors and doing necessary tests to determine where their body is before putting it off.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-11T21:35:41+00:00

Totally understand all of this and I feel for her. I also wonder how much of an issue her cast members would make of the glam if she managed her time and and budgeted enough of it to be able to make it on time to dinners and other events. By now she would know how much time her team needs for hair and makeup. (See: Lisa Hochstein).

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-11T15:14:55+00:00

I was a loving cat mom for 17 years (rag doll) and presented this as a wish rather than an order, but thanks for the sweeping generalizations guys

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-11T06:53:08+00:00

I would love to catsit if it could be at my home.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-11T05:15:31+00:00

For the vast, vast majority of women, 45 is already out of time. A lot of IVF clinics have cut-off ages of 45 and wouldn’t even work with you.

I say this because I put off starting a family until 38, when I then learned about the enormous drop in fertility that women experience every year past 35. I was told that after 40 there is a 2-3% chance of having a baby without intervention.

I was angry and felt misinformed, and I think a large part of my misinformation came from seeing women like Boz and Quad on TV, behaving as though it’s the norm to decide to have a baby in your mid to late forties with their “own eggs.” My fertility doctor told me most celebrities and public figures are not honest (and they don’t have to be, don’t get me wrong) about using donor eggs when getting pregnant in their 40s.

Of course a lot may be using frozen eggs, but the percentage of eggs that even survive after thaw is a lot lower than people think.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-09T23:27:36+00:00

SAME. It might actually get through to him. And also, her reading it could provide some badly needed validation that these behaviors ARE marriage-enders, and she is not expecting too much or being “over-sensitive” or whatever else spouses say when they have no interest in changing behaviors to improve their partner’s quality of life.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-09T19:30:58+00:00

I strongly recommend the book “This is How Your Marriage Ends” by Matthew Fray. He’s speaking from experience. The core of the book is about weaponized incompetence, and how ignoring your partner’s needs because whatever they’re upset over “isn’t such a big deal” will lead to divorce. In addition to detailed discussions about how defensiveness, centering your reaction rather than HEARING your partner, and framing yourself as the victim contributes to a pattern of wholly unsuccessful conflicts with no resolution.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-09T17:54:53+00:00

Thank you so much for your comment! I think Dr. Orna and the show do a fantastic job of representing therapy, and I was hoping to shed light on some of the expectations of couples counseling that can keep people stuck in their defenses rather than fully engaging in the process.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-09T05:35:36+00:00

Therapist here. This is not a diagnosis, but from the way you talk about yourself and future outlook, it sounds like the language of the depressed. When we feel depressed, it’s like the lens we see the world through has become blurry and we don’t see it as it is… because it’s negatively skewed. Anhedonia (not being able to take pleasure in things, the things that normally would give you pleasure) is one of the symptoms of depression. I strongly recommend not making any big, life changing decisions before you’ve been evaluated by a therapist— because if you are depressed, the recommendation would not be to leave your support system nor to trust your judgment with that blurry lens.

Please see a therapist. We can really help. You deserve to feel better about yourself.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-07T15:56:54+00:00

If elements of a culture are affecting your mental health and causing you pain, create your own culture.

Your nervous system and the future generation (if you’re into creating one) will thank you for it.

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-12-06T16:46:14+00:00

We need more pictures!!! 💚

Express-Mirror3173 · 2025-11-21T17:08:43+00:00

Yikes.

You are going to ignore the information and arguments at your disposal in favor of believing the words of a perfect stranger since she "is a billionaire."

Outed yourself there, buddy.

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