Great screen name, by the way.

You have no reason to feel bad or make excuses about your choice. It's your life to live, not anyone else's.

If you don't mind some advice: don't take any more abuse from your nasty sister-in-law. She obviously has no problem hurting you. The next time she nags you, let loose on her. Based on what you wrote, she is a bully and does not expect you to fight back (verbally). Let her have it. She deserves it and you'll feel better. I can tell you this: she already doesn't like you, or respect you, so don't worry about hurting her feelings and making her mad at you; she already is.

Good luck.

My wife had the job from Hell for several years. Unlike you, she looked for a different job whenever she had free time and wasn't too exhausted to do so. I helped with that whenever I could, and did the bulk of the household chores. She finally got a new job with normal hours, at the same pay, and is much happier, and so am I, but she still hasn't fully recovered from the old one. It's not unlike PTSD.

Maybe you can afford to quit like Cary says. My wife couldn't afford to quit. We had bills to pay that required her salary. If you can quit, great. If you can't, especially in the screwed up economy, then ignore Cary's idealistic advice. Homelessness is far worse than a bad job.

So I recommend the following: your health really is the most important thing in the world, and don't let your work ruin it. Ratchet things down as much as you can. Then, look for another job, and consider anything that pays the minimum amount you need to get by. Get the hell out of this job ASAP. And good luck. I really mean it. I know what it's like for you two.

As the happily child-free caretakers of a house full of adopted and rescued cats, I can assure you of two things: 1) my wife and I never considered caring for our cats equivalent to caring for children (it's far better), and 2) we ain't missing a damn thing as far as we're concerned.

What we are doing is taking care, in our own small way, of the problem cause by irresponsible and abusive people who have allowed their pets to breed willy-nilly and then dumped the kittens in shelters, or who took in cats and then dumped then on the streets, or who, worst of all, run kitten mills and dump countless thousands of kittens into a society that already have thousands upon thousands of kittens and cats languishing, and dying, in our streets or animal shelters. My wife and I are doing what we can to alleviate the suffering endured by homeless and abandoned domesticated animals, and far from missing something, the rewards are plentiful.

That's just us. Other people who choose not to have children have their own good reasons, and thank goodness for them, because in case you haven't read the news lately, this planet's human population has been too large for decades and shows no sign of diminishing. The planet is running out of potable water. Think about that, and what it means to the citizens of poor, overpopulated nations who are already enduring severe drought and food shortages caused by, among other things, global climate change that also are only getting worse, not better. Concurrent with this is the growing number of nonhuman animals, and plants, going extinct. And oh yes, the global economic meltdown that is only just beginning. And then there will be the military and social strife that all of that creates. O Joy!

We're doing our part for the whole world by not adding to the human population, and frankly, when I think of my young nieces and nephews and worry about their future in a world on the brink of multiple catastrophes -- and that is not hyperbole -- I am glad that we don't have children.

We don't have kids, but we do have cats, and I'm always sorry for those poor couples who don't have any cats at all. If they only knew what they were missing. One day they'll look back on their lives and wish they had done things differently.

Rachel Ray annoys me and her recipes are foul, but she did move up a notch in my book with her handling of that obnoxious question.

It's hard to root for either of these reprehensible villains -- kind of like Freddy v. Jason. I do hope that this is just the latest of the death throes for the mutated modern Republican Party. Let the GOP either cast out the neanderthals who have taken over in the last 15 years, or go extinct.

"And they seemed so normal" said Mars, a neighbor.

I understand and share your outrage at Malkin's disgusting comments, but I question whether writing about her is helpful. As the saying goes, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

The pig odor emanates from factory farms. Factory farms entail horrendous animal suffering and as the article notes, massive amounts of air and water pollution.

These facilities would be illegal in a sane society. Until then, if people stopped eating pigs and other animals, the factory farms would disappear.

Just as Joe McCarthy doomed himself by attacking the U.S. military, I think that this time Rush Limbaugh has also bitten off more than even he can chew.

Our country is in crisis and people are suffering, and Limbaugh publicly hopes that President Obama will fail to rescue the nation? Only a wealthy social darwinist thinks like this.

Limbaugh is a combination of Father Coughlin and Joe McCarthy, and I will celebrate his downfall.