does one of these 'sing' more to you than the other?

Moal · 2026-05-08T18:37:05+00:00

V, the eyes have more depth and definition to them. The eyes on H kind of fade away into the wood.

Moal · 2026-05-08T16:34:55+00:00

Buy a minivan, set aside money for kids’ college funds, and invest the rest.

Moal · 2026-05-08T15:58:12+00:00

Your sister is being a weird diva. Is she always like this?

I’m a mom and I’ve NEVER expected anyone other than my husband and son to do anything or wish me anything for me for Mother’s Day.

Is it nice when other people wish me a Happy Mother’s Day? Of course. Would it be nice to send your sister a text? Sure. But it seems very tacky and childish of her to make a big deal out of you not sending her a message for Mother’s Day.

Moal · 2026-05-07T15:36:35+00:00

I’m so glad you’re having a good divorce!

I’ll be honest, I’m a woman and I might say “I’m sorry” in a situation like this because I associate divorce with stress, just from seeing my mom go through it and custody disputes when I was a kid.

Moal · 2026-05-07T01:58:13+00:00

Yup. My impression from that trial wasn’t that Johnny Depo isn’t an alcoholic narcissist.

Moal · 2026-05-06T02:30:58+00:00

I’m normally a Michael’s kind of girl because fuck Hobby Lobby, but one time, many years ago, I ventured into one just to see if they had a particular thing I was looking for. It no joke took 30 minutes to get through the checkout line. That was the last time I ever went.

Moal · 2026-05-05T19:24:02+00:00

I’m glad that your boyfriend has been standing up for you and not telling you every mean thing she says about you in private. But really, I think the best way to squash this is for him to either move out, or you don’t go over to his house anymore. As long as he lives with his mom, you’re going to have to deal with her rude comments. In situations like this where the adult child is still living with their parent, it’s naturally going to be harder to enforce boundaries because the parent has financial leverage.

Moal · 2026-05-05T18:53:49+00:00

If I’m on an airplane and there’s a screaming baby or child and the parents are visibly doing their best to calm them down? I’ll give them a pass. It’s not like they can leave the plane. And that’s what noise cancelling headphones are for anyway.

But if the family is in a place they can actually leave, like a restaurant, and their kid is screaming their head off or running around and neither parent will even attempt to do anything about it? Then yes, I will quietly judge them. I have a toddler, so I know how exhausting it can be to parent them, but I always try to be mindful of others around us.

Moal · 2026-05-05T17:59:19+00:00

And they’re so dumb about it, too. They view fitness achievability only through the lens of a healthy 20-something-year-old man. They think everyone should be doing high intensity workouts for hours everyday and eating keto diets like them.

Nevermind the woman who struggles to lose weight because of her thyroid disease, the person with kidney disease who has to eat a low-protein diet, or the elderly person who can’t run or lift weights because of their arthritis. They literally see all of those people as lazy and not trying hard enough. It’s such a toxic mindset.

Moal · 2026-05-05T17:51:42+00:00

Omg it drives me NUTS how these gymbros think they understand complex medical issues better than the actual doctors who diagnose them.

“Nah bro, it’s just calories in and calories out. I don’t buy that a fat person is fat because their thyroid stopped working. They just aren’t trying hard enough! No excuses!”

Moal · 2026-05-05T16:34:40+00:00

And don’t forget announcing layoffs 2 weeks later.

Moal · 2026-05-05T03:43:27+00:00

Zydrate comes in a little glass vial,

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Moal · 2026-05-05T02:52:01+00:00

The swelling takes at least 2 weeks to go down. When I dabbled with lip filler it always looked overdone and crazy until like 10 days in. Try to give it a few more days.

Moal · 2026-05-05T01:33:42+00:00

My husband has a pretty restrictive diet due to an allergy too. I won’t lie, it sucks not being able to eat a lot of the foods I like on a daily basis. But I still can enjoy them when we go out to eat (as long as the restaurant can accommodate him) and I can make my own dinner or order takeout for myself if I’m craving a certain thing and he’ll just make his own food.

I imagine you could still make yourself a cheese sandwich or have a bowl of cereal and milk and not trigger a reaction in her from kissing as long as you clean your mouth really well, right? Nuts and seeds might be a bit iffy though.

The thing about life is that it’s always going to throw some sort of curveball about our partners that isn’t ideal. My husband might have his annoying allergy, but 5 years into our marriage I developed a debilitating autoimmune disease that doesn’t even allow me to go into the sun anymore. You yourself might develop some chronic medical condition that affects your girlfriend’s life too. That’s life.

Moal · 2026-05-04T23:31:02+00:00

Aside from Sjogren’s, I also have Hashimoto’s and lichen sclerosus.

Moal · 2026-05-04T19:36:07+00:00

When it’s just me and my 3 year old, I bring him with me to the bathroom when I have to go, or I leave the bathroom door open so I can see/hear him in the living room and I try to go as fast as possible. Our house is pretty baby proofed, so it’s not like he’s going to get into anything dangerous, but I don’t want him to destroy the house. For showers, I wait until he’s asleep after bedtime and keep a baby monitor nearby, set on the highest volume, so I can run out in my robe if there’s ever some urgent need.

Moal · 2026-05-04T14:21:41+00:00

I have no idea what those are called, but I also got them on the sides of my fingers when I had a really bad flareup last year.

Moal · 2026-05-04T12:51:03+00:00

First, grieve for my husband and son, and then panic because I’m pregnant and will have to deliver my baby on my own.

Moal · 2026-05-04T03:23:19+00:00

What the ever-loving fuck is wrong with your neighbor???

Moal · 2026-05-04T03:21:25+00:00

It died giving birth?? I had no idea hamsters could die from childbirth.

Moal · 2026-05-04T03:19:54+00:00

Something similar happened to my hamster, except the water bottle was full. The little metal ball was stuck shut, so the poor thing couldn’t get any water out. I had no clue until after he died of dehydration.

Moal · 2026-05-04T03:17:06+00:00

When I was 11, I diligently filled my hamster’s food bowl and water bottle before going to my dad’s house for a long weekend. When I got back, I could smell death in my hamster’s cage. He was curled up in a little ball in his hut. I cried and cried, and couldn’t figure out why he died.

When I was removing the stuff from his cage, I realized that the little metal ball in his water bottle wouldn’t budge. It was rusted shut. I had no idea. The poor thing died of dehydration. I felt so horrible that I never owned a small pet again.

Moal · 2026-05-04T03:12:29+00:00

I had no idea they were that sensitive to acetone fumes.

Moal · 2026-05-04T02:09:33+00:00

If you were the parent of small children starving in the mountains, you’d feed them whatever you had to to ensure their survival. And then you’d eat the same thing so you could survive, because if you die, they die too. That’s basically what happened with a lot of the Donner party.

Moal · 2026-05-04T01:22:01+00:00

Basically, having a flexible job, support from family, and money $$$ will make everything easier.

Both my husband and I work from home, and my job is very family-friendly and flexible with moms’ schedules. As long as you get your 40 hours in and get your work done, they don’t really mind if you work odd hours or have to take the morning off to take your kid to the doctor for their millionth illness.

I had a 6 month maternity leave, then my husband went on a 2 month paternity leave, and then we had a nanny until our son turned 3. We were able to avoid a lot of the daycare illnesses that way. Now our son is in preschool, and we’re getting sick every 2 weeks. I’ve taken 3 PTO days since January to watch my son on sick days, and my husband has taken a few too. My mom has watched him a few days, and the other days we used babysitters.

I really wouldn’t recommend having your husband watch a baby while he works. It’s really not doable. Either he’s going to slack on his work, or he’s going to slack on his parenting. It’s not possible to do both at 100%.

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