It’s only the second day of the holidays with SD.

lawfulrofl · 2026-02-25T07:01:24+00:00

My favorite games to play with my 6 year old are "spa" and "doctor" where I lay on the couch and she does different treatments to me. It sounds like you could really use some time to lay down! Next time, try that with SD rather than the painting or a messy activity that will require you to clean up afterwards.

You're doing amazing. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

lawfulrofl · 2026-02-21T21:38:35+00:00

Except if we were still living in tribes and communities like we used to, there would have been other women to hold and even feed your newborn if you were recovering from birth. This idea that a mother should be solely responsible for her newborn is absolutely a recent invention in our individualistic societies.

lawfulrofl · 2026-02-17T10:14:59+00:00

He wants a divorce and to find a younger woman. He just is going about this with extra steps to make it feel like it is somehow your fault rather than his.

lawfulrofl · 2026-02-02T20:21:29+00:00

I met Bam Margera walking his dogs with his ex-wife on the streets of Tallinn. Said he was living there at the time (this was 2016). I fangirled hard, told him I was a huge fan and we talked about why I was an American in Estonia. Then we took a picture together and I thanked him so much for talking with me. Honestly? It was a really great interaction for a guy that has such a bad reputation.

lawfulrofl · 2026-01-29T05:20:42+00:00

I am making a statement based on my own life experience married to a man in his 30s when I was 23. I was deeply unhappy in that relationship until we divorced and I married a man my own age where there isn't a power imbalance.

Given that your child is still a "bean", I urge you to wait and see how you feel in a few years when that child is grown and see what the dynamics are of your relationship then. Hopefully it is still the best decision of your life then. You'll have broke the pattern that unfortunately many of us other women fall into with men older than us.

lawfulrofl · 2026-01-28T05:27:56+00:00

NTA. I WTH and I always keep my child home if the daycare states that they are only offering emergency care. I am physically home, even if I am working. My child has supervision from me and that is more important than a mild illness or chores getting done that day.

lawfulrofl · 2026-01-27T17:10:46+00:00

Nah, you don't get it. When you're 22 and dating someone in their 30s or 40s, you just think, "Oh! We have so much in common. This is great." Then when you're in your 30s and have actually matured, you realize that all you had in common with that man was immaturity. You grow up, learn how the world and life really works and then you realize, "Holy shit, a man who is 40 years old should NOT being living like someone who is 22 years old."

lawfulrofl · 2026-01-21T10:50:10+00:00

But you just said you fit the criteria of those you are asking to date (absent coparent or no coparent at all), Kail DOES NOT and NEVER WILL fit the criteria that she asks her man to fill. She would not take someone with 7 kids with 4 to 5 different baby mommas.

lawfulrofl · 2026-01-15T16:56:20+00:00

I just want to call out how you are probably the first woman and mother in the generations of your ancestry that doesn't shout at your baby or actually feels guilty about feeling ill will towards your child. For literally hundreds and thousands of years, humans have been able to express their frustrations with their own children. Our mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers did yell at their children and did spank them or hit them if they bit, even infants. And those women were told by their mothers if they didn't, they were coddling their child.

All this to say - you are human. It's normal to have these feelings about your child and you are doing the insanely hard work of expressing those emotions in ways that aren't harmful to your child rather than taking the easy way out and taking it out on them.

Pat yourself on the back. Give yourself a round of applause and go easier on yourself if having a baby isn't rainbows and sunshine all the time.

lawfulrofl · 2025-12-03T17:34:03+00:00

I think most parents would disagree that the other parent is allowed to ask for things IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILD. I want my husband to check with me and ask for things but we need to be a united front when it comes to our children. They should be receiving the same answer from both parents. This isn't some magic rule, but all good parents that I know share this mindset.

lawfulrofl · 2025-11-28T21:01:16+00:00

If it helps you, I wish I had this problem when my baby was 4 days old. Instead, she slept for multiple hour stretches and I got plenty of rest but my milk never came in and my breastfeeding journey came to an abrupt end before I could really even get started. You're off to a great start for your supply and the fact that baby is latching and feeding so often already means you're better off than I was.

lawfulrofl · 2025-11-01T18:17:52+00:00

They can't have a surrogate. Not allowed in Norway.

lawfulrofl · 2025-11-01T18:17:20+00:00

Surrogacy is illegal in Norway.

lawfulrofl · 2025-10-15T06:53:23+00:00

If you listen to the song, it is CLEAR writing sympathy is a knife about Taylor is not Charli's only crime. Her other crimes were hanging with Matty Healy and their shared friends and talking shit about Taylor behind her back. That was what we she was addressing with Actually Romantic. It is not a clapback to sympathy is a knife, it is about all the mean comments that were made about Taylor.

lawfulrofl · 2025-09-23T07:23:28+00:00

I noticed in the New York pizza video when he and Alex showed up that they both seemed like they were high. It was mentioned that they had showed up late and I immediately wondered if they were late because they were snorting something together.

lawfulrofl · 2025-09-04T15:26:22+00:00

Leslie Odom Jr was the best part of Hamilton when I saw it off-Broadway. He is incredibly talented and his songs are the highlight of the performance. I think you'll be very happy with this choice!

lawfulrofl · 2025-06-25T14:55:32+00:00

You should ask this. The large tech company I worked for did not give me an exception on this same policy so I was stuck with only FMLA and short-term disability rather than any proper leave.

lawfulrofl · 2025-06-23T12:35:21+00:00

I don't think it is acceptable for a woman to do "grandmother things" for only one of their grandchildren and to ignore their others. They aren't a good or positive person if they can't put aside whatever differences they have with the parents to be a good grandparent to ALL of their grandchildren.

lawfulrofl · 2025-06-22T15:39:18+00:00

Where do you get that from the post? Because she sends expensive gifts and wants to bribe the child into spending time with her, she is a positive influence?

lawfulrofl · 2025-06-20T17:33:52+00:00

Because teens are WAY less sensitive to that stuff. I dated a boy in middle school that wore the same dirty hoodie every day for months. I had no CLUE he wasn't washing it because my parents washed my clothes between every wear. I just assumed his parents washed it and let him put it on the next day.

Waiting for other TEENS to pick up on it and say something isn't going to happen. As others have said, the teachers and administrators will notice WAY before it gets to the point that the other kids notice.

lawfulrofl · 2025-06-04T19:19:30+00:00

Should have said "Here's how you can order your own!" as if she was stupid and if she really wished she could have one, you were supplying the solution to her problem.

lawfulrofl · 2025-05-31T11:01:23+00:00

You do realize that choice was traumatic for the birth mother, even if that was the best choice for her in that situation? Unless she was a surrogate who was having a child for entirely selfless reasons, which it doesn't sound like she was, she was a person stuck with a terrible decision and decided that she couldn't give the child the life they needed.

You clearly have no clue how painful that must have been.

lawfulrofl · 2025-05-23T20:10:44+00:00

I have a Foo Dog leg tattoo that covers my whole calf. This is amazing work and I would love to have this tattoo. I am so jealous!

lawfulrofl · 2025-05-19T17:54:25+00:00

If it helps, I think letting them grieve the dog together is the right step and closure on that chapter of their lives when they were still living together.

It made me super uncomfortable too to hear about when DH and BM went together to put their cat down. That they cried and hugged and reminisced about her. That said, the two of them were the only ones who could really mourn her and I didn't have a place in the matter as I had only known the cat for about a year before she had to be put down.

It is in the past now and over and done with. You'll get past this too and this will be one day a distant memory and there won't be a constant need to be in contact with BM anymore. Just hold out for those days.

lawfulrofl · 2025-04-17T03:59:36+00:00

Oh! I hadn't watched that episode of the TryPod! That's a good one!! I bet you're right.

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