My dad retired at 59
I will not
He had a pension. I have a 401k I can barely fund.
He bought his house at 28.
I can't touch a down payment at 30.
He paid $90 a month for health insurance. I pay $430.
At dinner he told me I need to be smarter with money.
I nodded.
Didn't tell him his entire life was built on an economy that no longer exists.
Didn't tell him my generation is paying for his Social Security while ours gets gutted.
Didn't tell him the ladder he climbed got pulled up right after him.
Just passed the potatoes.
Make it make sense
My partner of two years decided to end things right before the holidays because he felt he needed to "explore the world as an unattached individual" and discover who he was without a safety net.
The twist? We had planned a trip months prior, and I had used 150,000 of my personal, hard-earned airline miles to book his first-class ticket.
A week after the breakup, he texts me: "Hey, just checking into my flight app and I don't see my boarding pass. Did the airline glitch?"
I had called the airline the day after the breakup, canceled his ticket, and deposited the miles back into my account.
I texted him back: "No glitch! I just realized that flying first class on my airline miles is the ultimate safety net. If you're going to truly explore the world as an unattached individual, you've got to start from the ground up. Literally. Hope standby treats you well!"
My husband cheated on me ONCE. One time in seven years together, and suddenly I was expected to “hear him out” and “work through it” because “people make mistakes.” But when I packed my things and left, I became the villain for not forgiving him fast enough.
A year later, he still tells people I “threw away” our marriage over one mistake, like seven years of loyalty from me meant nothing the moment he decided to betray it.
Funny how betrayal is called a mistake when men do it, but a woman is branded a monster forever.
If i find out my husband had a DNA test done after i just pushed a baby out, immediately i leave the hospital i'm leaving with my child and serving divorce papers.
Abortion is not only for women who got accidental pregnancy from consensual sex. It is also for...
- Ciswomen
- Transmen
- Intersex people
- Teenage girls
- Non-binary people
- People who face financial difficulties
- SA victims
- Incest victims
- Pregnancy complications
- Contraceptive failure
ANY REASON YOU THINK OF IS VALID.
Your body, your choice.
No one can take that away,
In college, I checked out 10+ library books for a research project.
Then I forgot to return them.
A month later, I got a bill for hundreds in late fees.
I was broke.
And the university wouldn’t release my grades until I paid.
So I did something ridiculous.
I stuffed all the books into my backpack.
Walked into the library.
And quietly put every book back in its exact place on the shelves.
The next day, I called the library.
“I received a notice saying my books are overdue, but I’m pretty sure I returned them.”
The librarian put me on hold.
A few minutes later, she came back.
“Oh… you’re right. All of the books are here. We’re so sorry.”
Every late fee was erased.
My transcript was released.
And I graduated thanks to the fact that I technically returned my own books.