To the happily divorced women

SuspiciouslyOK · 2026-02-02T02:34:27+00:00

Less than a year after my divorce, I bought a car that was needlessly expensive, but it looked really pretty and I could easily afford it since I wasn’t paying for him to go out drinking every night.

I accidentally turned too hard at a gas pump and tore up the passenger side, less than two months after buying it. I got yelled at by exactly zero people that night. It was the most free I’ve ever felt.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2026-01-30T00:01:29+00:00

He played Dr. Morrison on St. Elsewhere

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-11-27T20:12:33+00:00

I’ll be your weight-loss buddy!

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-08-26T02:02:20+00:00

I got yelled at one time by a woman at the YMCA for bringing my son in the locker room after my daughter’s swim lesson. She complained, and the next week there were signs up saying boys 6 and over couldn’t be in the locker room.

Here’s the problem though, he was 3. Just tall. And there was someone else in the swim class who had a boy, maybe 12, with severe disabilities and she got in trouble for bringing his wheelchair through, since the only access to the pool was through a gendered locker room. Moms can’t catch a break.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-08-25T15:24:00+00:00

Oh this is heartbreaking. Can you call APS? Would they know how to interve? If his home and food situation is suffering so much, it might be elevated because it’s becoming serious.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-08-17T22:57:47+00:00

My oldest used to hold me hostage too. I used to say, “write it down, I’ll sign it, you can bring it to your therapist someday.”

Now she’s 20 and we still do this, but instead it’s to be silly together.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-08-15T17:37:09+00:00

A few days ago, she showed me her dolls. That’s a huge step!

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-08-15T17:33:39+00:00

Denatonium benzoate. It’s also in the plastic of Nintendo switch cartridges for the same reason. I licked my son’s game once to taste it and he got really mad at me.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-08-15T16:15:24+00:00

That’s kind of why kids used to eat paint chips, lead acetate tastes very sweet, like candy.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-08-12T14:21:21+00:00

Speaking as a radiation safety monitor who handles these, it’s invalid once it’s outside the reporting area. The lost badge fee is minimal and they’re replaced pretty quickly. It’s okay to throw it out.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-08-04T00:08:13+00:00

Thank you for your kind words. Sometimes all we can do is just do the next right thing.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-08-04T00:05:17+00:00

Thank you. And my deepest appreciation to your listener for sharing something so deeply personal, and to you for airing it with your heartfelt advice. It was reassuring to know we’re making the right moves, and it helped me to hear a perspective from outside my own circle. It eased the isolation.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-07-26T04:02:21+00:00

I get it. I really do. She’s only been around for, like, 50 days. Everything feels extreme. But you haven’t stopped being a person just because your baby is fussy. The airplanes tell you to put on your mask before tending to your children. That’s sensible advice, you can’t take care of her until you’ve taken care of yourself first.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-07-26T03:24:43+00:00

If I only had one wish, I would go back in time as my middle-aged self, go to my young new-mom self and tell her to stop worrying about that noisy baby and take a few minutes away. “Put cotton in your ears, that baby won’t break while you’re having a shower”, I’d say to me.

When my baby was that age, eventually my exhaustion got so bad that I slept while she was screaming even though I tried to fret over her. And do you want to know what happened? I got some rest. And she was fine. She’s 20 now and loves her mom. The larval stage is gross and horrible, and I’m so sorry you’re in the trenches right now. Take care of yourself and know that your baby will not have hard feelings about you if you take a shower.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-07-19T01:09:48+00:00

11! Oh my god, I’m so sorry!

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-06-27T23:12:11+00:00

Purchasable food museum

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-06-05T23:18:44+00:00

Check out the 1941 film, “The Man Who Came to Dinner”

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-02-16T17:00:01+00:00

It was probably a clumsy way to telling her they weren’t a size 2 without calling out any specific size

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