I’m running a little late today (okay, a lot late) because I took yesterday off to go snowboarding with my husband and son. It was a nice day — it was a great day — but I could barely get out of bed this morning. Pro tip for anyone else who 1. is over forty and 2. goes snowboarding once a year: stretch before and after you go.
Okay, let’s struggle…
The gang covered everything I wanted to say to Ken K — the commenter who argued it was never okay to tell a lie to a partner (not even the kind of face-saving, ego-sparing lie discussed in my response to FAKER) — and I don’t want to rehash everyone’s excellent arguments here. But I do wanna share this question Pentatonic put to the group after we moved on to other comment threads…
Take this scenario: You’ve been married for ten years. Twelve years ago, during a low...