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Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Is It Wrong To Go To The Other Parent When One Won’t Do The Right Thing?

Relationships are tricky, and when one or both parties has children, the stakes – and the disagreements – get higher and more frequent. Even when people grew up in the same family with the same parents they may choose to raise their kids in completely different ways, which can cause additional friction. These two sisters...

This Woman A Jerk For Refusing To Be Present At Her Sister’s Birth?

I think it’s a good rule of thumb to always beware when someone tells you they’re planning the “perfect” event of any kind. It’s a red flag to truly believe that anything a human being is putting together is going to come off “perfectly,” and I would say that goes at least double for an...

14 Horrible Work Accidents People Will Never Be Able To Forget

In certain lines of work, we accept that there are risks associated with clocking in every day. There are safety meetings, protocols, and any violations are taken seriously – but accidents still can happen. Even if you work a rather innocuous job, there’s always the chance that something bad could happen…and for these 14 people,...

Should This Girl Not Have “Shocked” Her Teacher With Her Face?

In my personal experience, a majority of people who go into the teaching profession do so because they love kids and are passionate about education. I’m not sure why the rest of them do it, but we’ve all had teachers in our day that definitely don’t belong in the profession, and dealing with it is...

Was This Woman Petty For Tricking Her In-Laws Into Trying Her Baking?

No matter how good your relationship is with your spouse and their family, everyone struggles sometimes fitting into to a group that was established before you came along. Your ways are not their ways, of course, but in the best of cases, everyone is kind and inclusive and finds ways to get along. In not the...

12 Men Reveal Their Secret Thoughts On Their Wives Taking Their Last Name

It has been a tradition in Western culture for some time for a woman to take the last name of her husband when they get married. Not everyone does it, and there are plenty of different reasons why people choose not to. If you’re a woman, you might never have stopped to think about what...

16 Total Hoaxes That People Will Still Tell You Are True

There’s something about believing a fact for a long time – or being told something is the god’s honest truth by someone you trust – that makes it hard to un-learn, even if you hear more than once that it’s been proven a hoax. It’s just the way the mind works, and if you think...

14 People Share The Most Comforting Facts They Know

One of the coolest things about facts (at least as far as I’m concerned) is that there are facts for absolutely every occasion. You can impress your friends, you can learn new things, you can follow them down rabbit holes, you can horrify yourself – or yes, you can find comfort in the small truths...

18 People Muse On Some Terrible Things To Say On A First Date

Dating is hard work, and if we’re being honest with ourselves, we’ve all made a gaff or three in our time that probably cost us a second date. Being a human is hard, and sometimes our mouths get going without checking first with our brains. If you’re wondering what some of the worst things people...

17 People Share What They Learned From Having A Roommate

At some point in most of our lives, we will live with another human being. While co-habitating with a romantic partner offers life lessons of its own, there is also plenty that can be learned from just having to share space platonically with another human being. Some of these are funny while others are more...

19 People Suggest Some Terrible Things To Say On A First Date

No one who has been a part of the dating pool thinks that the process is easy – or if even enjoyable most of the time. That said, we forge ahead. Why? It’s probably different for everyone, but I would guess the bottom line for most of us is that we don’t want to go...

How Fans Think C-3PO and R2-D2 Ended Up In “Indiana Jones”

If you’re someone who enjoys deep dives into places on the internet like Reddit, then you probably know that there are fan theories for just about every movie, television show, book, and mashup opportunity out there. Even though Star Wars takes place in a galaxy far, far away and Indiana Jones is set in the 1930s (and...

17 Weird Smells That Some People Secretly Like

There’s no accounting for taste, and also, what’s weird to one person might be normal or even favorable to someone else – but when it comes to certain smells, most of us can agree that we’d rather avoid them if we can. But hey, to each their own, and as long as you’re not hurting...

15 People Recall Life Lessons They Learned From Having Roommates

There are lessons to be learned from every experience in life. You have to be open to learning them, of course, and hopefully not repeating the ones that turn out to be huge mistakes. These 15 people definitely learned some interesting things living with others – some that will last a lifetime and others that...

16 Facts People Claim Always Bring Them Comfort

There are all kinds of facts in this world, and here at this website, we’ve read and shared more than our fair share of them. There are certain facts that work best on certain days, though, and sometimes what we need most is a little comfort. When the world gets a little crazy, here are...