Various websites give her height as anywhere between 5'8" and 6" (doubt the latter), and her weight as 130 lbs (but she really looks more like 140-150 lbs).

Chris Brown is 6'1" or so and 150-160 lbs.

She is NOT a delicate shrinking violet.

I do not know the details of the case, but please do not make this seem as if it is David vs Goliath.

I do know women who crave attention, positive or negative, and view their mate's physical abuse as a sign that he really cares. They have usually grown up in a family where that is what they have seen and what they expect in a relationship. A gentle and/or soft-spoken man, or a man who does not lay hands on them when angry is considered wimpy and unmanly and not respected.

Many of these women actually provoke their boyfriends/husbands verbally and physically if they are feeling neglected. It ain't politically correct to say, but that is the reality.

After reading the letter, then the replies, I re-read the letter.

This woman goes to a wedding that she possibly can't afford to go to, is pissed that she paid more than some other couples (who possibly got good deals because they made advance and not last-minute reservations), then gets mad at the groom who throws an off-hand remark out about her husband not being there.

The remark really does seem innocuous, something someone who is not good at making small talk might say. What I see then is the LW then making this all about her, and leaving the affair rudely with a chip on her shoulder and hurt feelings.

She is then pissed again when the bride is not sympathetic to LW's perceived insult.

LW seems immature and self-centered, and unable to accept that the wedding was not about her. If it was too expensive she shouldn't have gone.

The fact that the bride sent back the letter means to me that this was the bride's last straw with LW's histrionics, not that it was a supersensitive and self-involved bride.

I really liked the American version of Life on Mars (of course I'm partial to Jason O'Mara), and I saw the British version long before this one.

It's not supposed to be exactly the same, people. New York isn't England.

I actually like the American version of Kath and Kim, too, although it is definitely not the same as the Australian version, and I don't keep comparing them.

I think if the American Life on Mars had been exactly like the BBC series, these same people would be complaining that it lacked any originality.

with the normal ups and downs of real life. So many writers here said they stopped watching years ago, so how do they know the writing was bad?

Having worked in places like this for many years, I liked the fact that there was an almost complete turnover of physicians, for that is the reality of the workplace.

I also have noticed that the older people get, or the more familiar they get with certain situations or institutions, the more jaded they become, and nothing is ever as good as it was in THEIR day.

ER was good to the end, and if storylines seemed to repeat except with different characters, THAT'S CALLED LIFE, people.

I will say that it always annoyed me that the REAL backbone of the hospital, the staff nurses, never got the cast credits they were due, just like in real life hospitals. These cast members were there for the entire 15 year run of the show

(Haleh, Chuny, Malik and more).

And only one medical show in recent memory (City of Angels) ever showed Phillipina nurses.

Boyfriend is finally getting his financial act together which involves a career change and an intense course of study, which he embarks on at about the same time LW's father falls ill.

She goes to be with father (totally understandable) and boyfriend immerses himself in new career/studies.

LW returns and has no job, grieving, too much time on her hands, and petulantly declares boyfriend has no time for her. Of course he doesn't! She just spelled out why, yet she is jealous of his time spent away from her.

I understand that her father died, but life goes on, and BF has specific deadline driven goals.

Now, according to LW, he suddenly changes, but maybe he didn't. He MIGHT be very stressed, but she is very emotional and needy, with no comprehension of the difference between BF's former laid back lifestyle and the new one, and this is the last straw for him.

We are really not getting the full story from LW. They have a history, and she is leaving out big parts of it and projecting her feelings onto his actions. He seems to me to have found a focus very different from what LW and BF had in the past, and she is unwilling to accept that.

There is no black and white here, just gray.