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1.  First and foremost is the distortion issue, and accompanying lack of apologies ( Read more... )

Consider my reality:  tried other steps. Desperate. No validation. No repair feelings not only don't matter, don't exist. Damage "did not occur". No acknowledgement. Every major fight had this at core. Why?  Past events keeps shifting ( Read more... )

I love it when a politican can speak without bullshit. Reagan was great at it, and they hated him for it. Remember the "Evil Empire" speech? No one disputed that the Soviet Union was an empire. And no one with any credibility disputed that its actions were evil. But it just wasn't nice to speak like that!So now we have George calling it like ( Read more... )

( Suit: NBA Player Watching Porn, Drunk Before Crash )

I posted this in a friend's journal in response to a question about disciplining children. Maybe it'll do some good for someone else:

Spanking is the nuclear weapon of parenting. Using it really doesn't do anyone much good, but if they know that the threat is real, it gets their attention ( Read more... )

"I was raped once. By a doctor. Which is sort of a bittersweet experience for a Jewish girl."

She's so fucking funny.

Wow, two of my friends are pregnant at the same time! I have 4 very close female friends, all of whom I adore. All are married to great guys, and they're eerily similar in some ways: brown hair, brown eyes, dark/olive complections, thin and very pretty, and all similar personality types. (Confident, intelligent, warm, outgoing...type A's). ( Read more... )

Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me -- it can only be one word long. Then copy and paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you.

So I just got back from D.C., work has piled up, and I have a cold. I feel like shit and it makes it concentrate on the backlog of work. So of course it feels like I have not time for anything. And I have to leave midday Friday again to go bicoastal or bipolar or whatever (my son's college graduation). Not looking forward to the flying. Or the ( Read more... )