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when my now-husband and I were dating in college, he lived in a house with a few other guys. He had the unfinished basement room with literal nails sticking out of the concrete walls. the only piece of furniture was a bare mattress on the ground, and all of his clothes were in a massive… Read More

A girl who matched my description was kidnapped a few doors down from where I lived as a kid. I remember our neighbor frantically knocking on our door in the morning to see if I was still at home because she thought I had been the girl who was kidnapped. Later on, when I was in… Read More

For Valentine’s Day during our third year of dating, my now-husband took me to a ritzy Thai restaurant and we had plans to see a movie afterwards. We were two broke college kids and he had saved up for a while to be able to take me on this date. We had a wonderful time at the restaurant,… Read More

There were an astonishing amount of scandals at the rural public school I went to! I’ll pick this one: the woman who taught history and geography for three years at our school lied about her education and her teaching credentials. As a freshman, I took her intro geography class, which… Read More

If, rather than apologizing for making a major mistake/seriously hurting you, he buys you a gift instead. The “gift” is really more of a transaction with strings attached. He may assume he can continue to behave this way and then placate you with a gift afterwards rather than changing… Read More

The first and last time I ever used AirBnB was when my husband and I were road-tripping together a few years ago. We were stopping basically in the middle of nowhere and there weren’t any hotels for another hour or so on the road, so we got a cheap “private room” on AirBnB. The listing… Read More