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ruth2018 November 7, 2025

It’s sad that a 14 year old girl is talking about her career. Childhood is getting shorter and shorter. Kids have all their lives to build careers. 

ruth2018 November 7, 2025

I’m so glad none of this existed when I was a kid. I spent my childhood calling for friends and playing out, making up games. We didn’t have half the issues kids now seem to have. I suspect sadly the genie can’t be put back in the bottle. 

ruth2018 October 18, 2025

Your parenting experience doesn’t sound different to anyone else’s. It’s normal for kids to think everything is about them. 

ruth2018 October 5, 2025

Hmm, a very highly emotively written account. I’m not sure I agree your friends are all the bad guys trying to kill your joy. When someone’s life becomes at a totally different stage to the rest of the group, the others can’t relate and can come across uninterested. Accept and move on. Find friends who are far more likely to get it because they’ve been there. 

ruth2018 September 22, 2025

I wouldn’t want a cent of her money if I had to do what she does to earn it. I don’t see empowerment or anything positive here, I just see a sad lonely woman who sleeps around. That’s it. 

ruth2018 September 12, 2025

RIP Charlie Kirk. I thought he was a great man and loved the way he encouraged debate and discussion in a world where, increasing, to disagree is to ‘hate’ and many people want opposing views silenced not discussed. People online making fun of this are suggesting that it’s ok to murder others if they have different views. That’s not a world I want to live in. 

ruth2018 September 9, 2025

Hard to believe this question is still being asked in 2025. I can think of a whole host of reasons to only have 1 child. My siblings and I fought like cat and dog when we were kids, made my parent’s lives miserable. Even as adults, we don’t get on. This assumption that kids are always going to be better off with a sibling is a fairytale. 

ruth2018 September 8, 2025

Writing someone off after only 5 minutes (unless they’ve clearly lied about something) is a disgrace. Not everything goes perfectly smoothly from the get go. You’ll be alone forever if this is your standard dating approach. 

ruth2018 August 25, 2025

A shocking situation and I feel for her, I just question why you would add someone’s name to your mortgage without knowing their financial situation. Seems very risky. 

ruth2018 August 24, 2025

Most of the reasons for poor behaviour given in this article are external factors. In my experience as a teacher of 10 years, the issue is respect is gone. Discipline has become a dirty word. We can’t say ‘consequence’ as it’s negative. The students can ‘choose’ to follow the instruction when they’re ‘ready’. It’s all so soft and there’s always an excuse for poor behaviour.

 When I was in primary school in the 90s, nobody would’ve dreamed of swearing at a teacher. Or running off. Or causing an evacuation. At most schools, this is now totally normal. 

ruth2018 August 24, 2025

I’m not sure how paying a stranger for a hour can be any kind of genuine intimacy and connection. Perhaps married women using these services might want to try communicating with their life partner about marital issues before cheating on them. 

ruth2018 August 23, 2025

It’s so strange how some women think a cheating husband is going to ‘change.’ If he’s been getting away with it Scott free, why on earth would he? You set the bar for how you want to be treated. 

ruth2018 August 23, 2025

Very strange to want a baby at 21 because that’s what your mum did. We live in a totally different world to our parents when they were the same age. 

ruth2018 July 30, 2025

Sounds really silly to me. I can’t imagine anyone shaking hands at the end of an interview and then turning to pick up a cup and moving to put it back in the kitchen, assuming it was close by or they somehow remembered where it was. 

ruth2018 July 26, 2025

Had they not reacted the way they did, nobody would be any the wiser. It’s sad they both lost their jobs over this. People have affairs. Doesn’t mean their lives should be splashed all over the media. 

ruth2018 June 20, 2025

Please explain how sleeping around with loads of men is ‘a challenge’. 

I wish we’d give this kind of airtime to the women who really have achieved things. 

ruth2018 June 18, 2025

I can’t imagine a more colossal waste of money 😱

ruth2018 May 3, 2025

If her family was suspicious that it wasn’t her, why didn’t they ask her questions only she could answer? A missing persons report could’ve been filed so much sooner. 

ruth2018 April 18, 2025

@imho She hadn’t started the maternity leave yet, she was using other leave. They were taking back the approved maternity leave because it was no longer required, compassionate leave was required which was shorter. Grief affects people differently but it would take a very understanding employer to give somebody 90 days off for the death of a loved one. 

ruth2018 April 18, 2025

Interesting. I don’t think this lady is a pedophile but I’m not sure why she thought that kind of content would make a good romance story or who on earth would want to read it.