Your last saved meme is now your moral philosophy.

That doesn't mean accepting unacceptable behavior. It's necessary to have good boundaries. Consequences are important.

Once we deny someone's humanity, we fling open the door to torture, internment, genocide. The one who denies the humanity of others debases and demeans themselves.

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My Swedish former husband didn't even want to try for a license in the US because of anxiety about how difficult it is in Sweden. Even though everyone he knew told him how absurdly easy it is here.

I would like some happy medium, please.

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Driver's Ed used to be mandatory. I guess it's not anymore?

The poor kid, she's gotta be traumatized.

I have a friend who did go to Driver's Ed, but even so, her first week on the road, an elderly pedestrian stepped out between two cars and she struck them. She never recovered from that.

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Huge thanks for this. When I was in crisis over a two-year loss of photos (recovered, whew) I couldn't find the sort of backup solution I was looking for and went with photobucket just to hurry up and backup. This looks much better and am getting set up now.

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For a lot of my life, I treated my feelings by extremes. Either they were facts, or pointless.

Either my feelings of jealousy mean you are definitely cheating on me, or that's just an insecure feeling and nothing is wrong.

Recovery showed me that my feelings are valid dashboard lights. They can't tell me exactly what's going on, but they do tell me there is something important I need to look into.

Reacting or stuffing my feelings leads me to harm. I need to use them well.

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Whenever I get to that point, I then get frustrated because there's no consistency in sizing and half the stuff I order doesn't fit.

Sometimes I get relief by making clothes. There are some tutorials that are easy enough for me for things like big flowy skirts and salwar pants. Tunic tops.

Never have had much success making clothes from patterns. Dunno why. I follow the instructions but they never fit right.

Right now I'm on a men's cargo pants kick, so it's been a few years.

@nprofile1q... That's exactly what I hate about Big Bang Theory. There is plenty of hilarious material in the gulf between nerds and those who are not, but they bypassed all of that to just punch the nerds.

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You read it in text, right? The audiobook is astonishing. The redacted bits are annoying, but they do season the story well.