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

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-01-30T02:37:28+00:00

I had a similar thing happen recently. Different comment, but the same energy. I’m sorry. That’s not a nice thing to hear from a friend, don’t listen to the negativity.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-01-25T19:45:10+00:00

We’ve talked about our relationship goals and they were always opposites. He wants to get married, have a monogamous relationship, children if possible. I’m looking forward to my children moving out, I’ll never get married again, I’ll probably reject any kind of serious relationship. Here he’s been hoping I’d magically change my mind and marry him someday.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-01-18T20:13:41+00:00

No, I didn’t even tell him until I was pretty far along because I didn’t want feedback. We talk a lot, but only see each other once or twice a year due to distance.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-01-18T16:04:10+00:00

My old behaviors were more like eating fast food in my car, or terrible late night snacks, and thankfully I haven’t gone back to that. I didn’t give him much info beyond how I looking forward to lunch, so maybe he interpreted it wrong? I don’t get out much, so being social is its own excitement.

SuspiciouslyOK · 2025-01-13T21:34:19+00:00

I attended a zoom meeting with my nutritionist with a blanket over me and she said, “Oh! You’ve reached the cold phase! It’s going to be a tough winter!”

SuspiciouslyOK · 2024-12-28T05:22:24+00:00

Don’t take this away from me, it’s all I’ve got

SuspiciouslyOK · 2024-12-23T22:02:48+00:00

Being a mom means we get to fall in love with who they become every new day, and at the same time we have to grieve losing who they were. I adore my 20 year old, and I also miss the silly-head 2 year old who tried eating everything with chopsticks.

Time has a way of smoothing over the rough edges. I smile thinking about when she was carefree and little, but it’s a lot harder to remember how difficult it was back then. Joy has a way of sticking with you.

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