Suck it up, as the girl is apparently sick, and this is a minor inconvenience.

Sometimes you have to suck it up and do the right, yet pain-in-the-butt thing. This is one of thoes times. As another poster said, you might even try to be a cheerful presence in their rough time.

of a little ole lady? Good god. LW agreed to a subletter. If he didn't want a stranger in the apartment, he should not have agreed to a subletter. The conspiracy theories here are outlandish! It's an awkward situation. Get over it, put up with it and go on with life. It's not the takeover of an alien species! An emergency temporary situation necisitates an awkward situation for a few weeks. Bad news, but the sky is NOT falling! This is life, folks. Situations come up, we deal with them. Sometimes, we're even understnading and helpful. God have mercy on the Gen xers and yers, you're the most selfish cohort I've ever observed. Thank god I don't have to depend on any of you for understanding or help.

but we already DO have our grandmother's genetic material in us, duh, Genetics 101.

I've heard of men who freeze their seman before they go through chemo. It's very similar and not a big deal or super statment on women's destiny or whatever.

oh really? Just check under the hood, like I do with cats.

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might be a suicide watch

sure, sure. The point I was making is that LW agreed to a sublet, so LW must go along. Said subletter is in a bad place (sick, needs help from mom for a few weeks). DEAL. Fact of life: we're not gonna be BFFs with most of our roommates and a lot of them are gonna creep us out, have guests, boyfriends, pets. So there is little foundation for calling the subletter a scam artist just cuz she's weird. My suggestion to help was A comment on everyone's jump to assume they're scam artist when truth is, they'll people in a bad way would need a little understanding.

lets get rid of the gender politics and say that parenting is fulfilling. Mothering, fathering, uncling, aunting, grandmothering, grandfathering, mentoring, being a role model, watching a young person grow.

Also, other fulfulling activities are: learning a language, feeding the poor, drinking wine.

There, it's all good and no one says you have to have babies except on the radical polygamy compounds.

nope, they aren't happy with the arrangement, but most who are unhappy come to the US. In Japan, even if you have a masters in engineering, you can only pour coffee for the men at work if you're a woman. That's why so many professionally educated japanese women come to the US. YEs, they work, but it's demoralizing servant's work regardless of education.

Of course it is NOT harmless. Most cities and urbanized suburbs are not appropriate places for farming and even modest husbandry of chickens, goats, and bees is illegal for many good reasons.

Among them: Noxious odors, overcrowding, life-threatening bee allergies. There are reason bee-keeping is suitable for rural environements and keeping dangerous bees a long distance from high-density populations is among them. If you see someone keeping bees in a urban or suburban setting, call your zoning compliance officer, police officer, permit inspector. It is wrong even if the current fad is to wrap it up in the American flag. There are appropriate places for farming and there are inappropriate places, that's the whole reason for zoning, land uses laws, zoning laws, to protect the health, welfare, and quality of life for residents in case your neighbor doesn't respect you.

because the magazien was bought by a larger conglomerate that was more profit-driven. The new parent company wanted to do more fluffy stories and Jane Pratt wanted to keep her quality, so they replaced her. Ends up that was the beginning of the end.

The original Jane was good because it was different. It was about intelligence and self awareness instead of following the sheep like all the other women's magazines. It was also the only women's mag to try to be relevant to hetero and gay women.

Sorry it's gone, but in the last stages under the corporate management, it was very bad.

I think you sorta answered your own question here. As mixed up as she may be, you can't be "poly/BDSM" and talk about it at work, and get mad when your husband gets attention from a sex freak. It's sorta the nature of your chosen lifestyle. I think it's horribly hypocritical to claim some superiority to this girl when you're all over the place with few sexual boundaries and telling your private business to coworkers and then wondering why they come onto your husband.

Examine your life, your lifestyle choices and your broadcasting them to coworkers and then ask if your complaints are reasonable. Something doesn't jibe and I suspect YOU don't want this poly/BDSM lifestyle, you're just going along cuz your husband wants it. Stop. Be true to yourself. He wants it all plus you in the pocket and you're giving it to him, but you're clearly unhappy about that. THAT"S the real problem here, not the girl.

if either of you get mixed up with her further, you ARE going to mess her up way worse than she is now. For life.

You will mess up her ability to have an equal relationship with a partner for the rest of her life.

If you engage with her at this critical stage of her sexual awakening, you'll doom her to a life of "daddy issues," relationships with controlling older men, LOW self-esteem, self-abuse.