Confessions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a best friend & thought maybe I was gay because I liked her so much. We started a relationship & I realized I wasn't gay....Now, 10 years later we have a three year old child (IVF) & I am pregnant again (IVF). I told her years ago I am not gay...We decided to stay together anyway. Now I have made a nice, but difficult, family for my children (we're great co-parents), but i feel like I'm living a lie & i'll never have sex again until I die.

This could have happened to me...scary.

[Anonymous]

I converted to a religion just to get a guy.

[Anonymous]

I confess I hate the faux feminists on this board. I don't need a push present, never wanted an engagement ring, can't imagine savings for my daughter's wedding. It's all so sexist! I think actually they are just trying to find something about which to feel smug because they actually had no real choice in these matters. I'll bet they have never even heard of Betty Friedan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I confess that I told a couple non-parent friends about DCUMs swapping sexual services. It will probably become a new conversational meme.

How did that go, by the way?

LOL! So did I - I thought it was great conversation!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I confess I hate the faux feminists on this board. I don't need a push present, never wanted an engagement ring, can't imagine savings for my daughter's wedding. It's all so sexist! I think actually they are just trying to find something about which to feel smug because they actually had no real choice in these matters. I'll bet they have never even heard of Betty Friedan.

Well I read The Feminine Mystique cover to cover and still have my meaningfully marked up copy from undergrad! I am a WM and since having a baby have read a lot more books in support of WMs - so have probably read more feminist lit than many. But I wear my engagement ring and wedding ring (it's the only jewelry I wear I fact, I hate "accessorizing"), and my parents paid for my wedding.

The push present is a little much. I would never ask for one, but my husband had heard the term and paid for me to get a massage! I thought it was sweet.

To each her own I guess....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:[quote

.I can and do "do it all". Work as a successful professional, keep a nice house, cook meals, have a happy family, have well behaved children. If I can do it, I expect others to be able to do it.

Why? I bet Enjoli is your fragrance of choice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, this is so bad and i dont admit this out loud. BUT I think I lose a bit of respect for people if they are super Christian. Like if they really believe Jesus walked on water and really belive he is the son of God. For some reason my prejudice doesn't extend to Jews, who I sort of put on a pedestal because the Jews I know are generally funnier and smarter than the average person! Also, I look down on people who believe in superstitions and New Ageisms like astrology, crystals, etc.
I know these thoughts and beliefs are totally UNFAIR and I have to try to get to the bottom of why I feel these ways.
But these are supposed to be confessions so I guess I am supposed to be conflicted about what I admit!!

Mazel Tov!

[Anonymous]

You want a confession-here's a confession. I'm a nanny and the family I work for are wonderful, generous and very Republican. I considered it very nice of them to tell me I could take their 2 year old daughter with me to vote in the past November elections. I live far from them and they knew I would have to travel (15 miles) in order to show up at my designated polling place. Well, I took them up on their offer and headed off to the elementary school where I was supposed to vote. When I saw the huge line, I went up to almost the front of the line and explained to the person in line that I had "my" two year old with me, that there was no way she could possibly tolerate the amount of time it would have taken me to vote if I had gone back to the end of the line, and could I step in front of them in order to vote and appease my charge at the same time. They kindly said yes and I only waited ten minutes to cast my vote-for Barack Obama! True story!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, this is so bad and i dont admit this out loud. BUT I think I lose a bit of respect for people if they are super Christian. Like if they really believe Jesus walked on water and really belive he is the son of God. For some reason my prejudice doesn't extend to Jews, who I sort of put on a pedestal because the Jews I know are generally funnier and smarter than the average person! Also, I look down on people who believe in superstitions and New Ageisms like astrology, crystals, etc.
I know these thoughts and beliefs are totally UNFAIR and I have to try to get to the bottom of why I feel these ways.
But these are supposed to be confessions so I guess I am supposed to be conflicted about what I admit!!

Mazel Tov!

I lose respect for Christians who put their strict beliefs over basic human goodness. Like the blatant hatred for gays, etc.

Obviously all or even most Christians aren't like that but I think some people get so caught up in the details they miss the big picture.

Also, I admire Christians who can be Christian without putting a bumper sticker about Jesus on their car. If someone is not into Jesus, they probably won't change their mind from sitting behind you in traffic.

[Anonymous]

I spend a huge amount of time at work doing personal stuff. Paying bills, planning vacations, ordering groceries, ordering kids clothes, you name it. I think if anyone found out I would be fired right away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I spend a huge amount of time at work doing personal stuff. Paying bills, planning vacations, ordering groceries, ordering kids clothes, you name it. I think if anyone found out I would be fired right away.[/quo

dont the tech people know? at my old firm web traffic was logged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm addicted to chocolate. No, I don't mean I really like it, I mean last time I tried not to eat it for a week, I had major chills, headache and irritability by day 3. I don't know what to do and I'm too embarrassed to tell anyone else. (No one will believe me.)

I believe you.

I get seriously cranky without it and get headaches if I go without, too. Never gotten chills though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm addicted to chocolate. No, I don't mean I really like it, I mean last time I tried not to eat it for a week, I had major chills, headache and irritability by day 3. I don't know what to do and I'm too embarrassed to tell anyone else. (No one will believe me.)

I believe you.

I get seriously cranky without it and get headaches if I go without, too. Never gotten chills though.

I am addicted, too. I keep the Dove squares in my pantry. I eat 1-3 every day...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I confess that this site makes me absolutely paranoid whenever I go out where moms congregate. I confess that even though this site causes said paranoia, I cannot stop reading everything I can.quote]

Completely agree with this. I feel as though I am genuinely distrustful of other moms and am very hesitant to make new mom friends outside of the circle I had before my child came along. Don't know how to get over it. I can't decide if moms around here are truly unhappy and despiteful people, but put on their happy, perfect faces when out and about, or if they are genuinely kind people but come here to blow of (mean) steam annonymously.

[Anonymous]

I think there are a handful of very angry, very unhappy, very mean women here, but everyone else is probably nice and fairly normal. Most moms in this area are like everywhere else -- you can spot the mean ones easily here or on the streets. Like the angry nanny poster? There's no way she's hiding that crazy in real life. And the poster(s) who pipe in at every opportunity about how boring and dull and parasitic SAHMs are? Her "friends" all hate her, make no mistake. And the SAHMs who bite back that all working moms are fat and old? You'd know that immaturity from a mile away if you met them on the playground.

At least, I hope so.