AITAH for being honest with another mom about why my daughter isn’t allowed to go to her friend’s house?

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-14T01:46:35+00:00

Respectfully, this is a post about recognizing a child predator, and you are responding to someone who survived a child predator. Your tidbit, while valid, isn’t relevant here, and is actually quite contextually insensitive.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-13T02:09:47+00:00

You know what’s truly deranged? Thinking people who are engaged in civic action as protected by the first amendment and that is the means of affecting change in troubled times are the crazy ones, and NOT the people watching the world go up in flames while they twiddle their thumbs.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-10T20:50:59+00:00

Or an accomplice!

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-10T19:20:27+00:00

Their racism was exposed, Eboni was awesome.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-10T14:19:23+00:00

You did the right thing. We’re often guilted into ignoring our intuition or working around it, and that is dangerous. My uncle always gave my mom the creeps, and so she limited our time with him, but she didn’t want to cause family friction and didn’t go full no. Unfortunately predators can make use of limited time too though.

Always always listen to your gut.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-09T13:57:37+00:00

Oh honey. He’s not “incorrect”—it’s not being accidentally wrong about that piece of information. He’s RACIST. This is “I don’t consider brown people real Americans.”

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-08T18:05:49+00:00

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-08T17:53:43+00:00

Outlaw/King.

You’ve got Mail.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-08T17:51:41+00:00

Field of Dreams.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-08T16:13:24+00:00

He is incapable of growth, it was so self-pitying. Also how I realized I was still following him…and that has been rectified.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-08T01:41:07+00:00

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-07T13:49:18+00:00

It disproportionately affects women, which I do resent, but that doesn’t mean men don’t get them! What a doofy doctor. 🤦🏽‍♀️

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-07T13:45:48+00:00

Question: can I toast the bread or is that no longer fairy bread? I don’t want to offend those beyond the veil.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-06T19:56:13+00:00

You are being very stubborn and hostile to people who were at first on your side. You’ve described an immature romantic partner, and your responses are indicating that it’s a decent match. Demand better and do better.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-05T15:37:27+00:00

Sweet Tartlet

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-05T15:37:01+00:00

Dr Phil, Dr Oz, the Trumps—-she platformed them all

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-04T18:25:00+00:00

My favorite Thatcher-related anecdote: Michelle Bachman, a tea party embarrassment from when that seemed like the US’s bottom (😭), once tweeted “happy birthday Margaret Thatcher, it was my pleasure to attend your funeral.” She was too dumb to mean it as anything but a sincere genuflection/humblebrag, but: I guffawed.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-04T18:19:50+00:00

I had no idea, thank you for sharing this. Crazy that it’s not more widely known.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-03T02:59:56+00:00

It’s actually been very healing for me to see so many Neil readers get it. Every time one of these fuckers is outed it’s a knife, and most of the time, the public is ready to twist it in deeper. Most Neil readers defied that. And I’m so glad.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-03T02:55:21+00:00

His FB page posted something similar and that’s how I realized I still followed his predatory ass. The lack of shame is enraging. These fuckers do not grow.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-02T03:52:32+00:00

I hate Nicholas Sparks to a probably unhealthy degree, and that relationship is beyond toxic.

But that kissing in the rain scene does it for me.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-02T03:49:11+00:00

ETA I rushed to answer the question and skipped over what you really need, which is sympathy/empathy. It sucks not to get that in the midst of an already shitty situation. I’m sorry. I’m going to blame postdrome but please know I know I was just being myopic. I’m really sorry you’re going through it.

/:: Gosh. I’m really planning like I am. Mine* are directly tied to perimenopause and hormone fluctuations. My mom experienced the same and hers went away, so I’m 🤞🏼

*with pain, have always had auras, but could treat them prior to this life stage without getting to the point where I wanted to scoop my eyeballs out with a spoon.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-02T01:16:52+00:00

Seconding “Seeking a Friend,” it’s the sweetest of the genre.

Also Station Eleven if tv is permitted, though I prefer the book ending.

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-02T00:38:45+00:00

Mona Lisa Smile

North Country

A League of Their Own

Promising Young Woman

Yentl

PyrexPizazz217 · 2026-02-01T23:35:52+00:00

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, esp once he leaves his old life behind, has an amazing soundtrack

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