Reason #56: My Fat Ass
I suppose I cannot blame my whole fat ass on the sex abuse. I mean, I am Jewish and come from a family of Jews. We Jews are not exactly known for our restraint with the food. Plus, my whole family is a...
View ArticleReason #57: How Many People Does It Take to Fix a Butterfly?
The other night I woke up at around 4:30AM. I just lay there in the bed wide awake. And it hit me – I hate our fucking therapist. As you readers suspected, she just wasn’t right for me. We went in for...
View ArticleReason #119: I bet this is what it was like for you
The other night, my husband and I were over at his parents’ house. We all had dinner outside, and then his dad lit some sparklers. The baby absolutely loved them. He was clapping and enjoying and...
View ArticleReason #128: Survivor: Samoa
Is anyone watching this season of Survivor? There’s this total shithead on there, Russell, who is a lying sack of shit. From the moment I saw his eyes, I knew what he was, in terms of the kind of...
View ArticleReason #129: Incest Jokes
When I was in therapy (at 19 years old, for wanting to kill myself), I told my therapist that I didn’t like it when people made incest jokes. She had no idea what I was talking about. She said “Who...
View ArticleReason #174: Rape Dreams on Mother’s Day
Saturday night into Sunday, I dreamed that I was in my home and couldn’t figure out how to get the dogs in or out. I knew I was in danger, but couldn’t figure out how. A woman appeared with a...
View ArticleReason #181: Ancient Greece
You remember that colleague who argued with me about how some kids get fucked and are okay (when really none of us are okay)? In that same argument, she also said: “It’s been happening all throughout...
View ArticleReason #185: That fucking ant
We’re sitting in our marital therapy session, and I spent the majority of the session crying. What’s funny is that with my other two therapists, I cried maybe twice in their offices. With this new...
View ArticleReason #320: The sexual abuse defines me
My therapist once told my Mom, about me: “The sexual abuse doesn’t define her.” My therapist has been right about a great many things in my life so far, but she was way off on this one. I think the...
View ArticleReason #324: The Fosters
Last night I was watching that show “The Fosters” on ABC Family. It’s a really great show about a lesbian couple raising four foster children (most of whom they have adopted), and one bio kid. Anyway,...
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