Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

It goes without saying that in most workplaces, coffee is life and the office could not function without it. The person who took the office’s only coffee pot would be subject to serious punishment in most cases, but what if the person who took it also paid for it? And what if that person is...

The title to this AITA feels like it could go either way, but if you’ve spent any time on this forum (or reading the news in real life) then you know there are some folks out there who gave birth but have no actual business being parents. This OP is 25 years old, and when...

I think that most of us would agree that when you’re in charge of someone else’s kids during limited periods of time, you follow their rules. It’s generally not our place to question how other people raise their kids, right? What if those kids are family, though? And what if you believe, after spending a...

One of the best tools for understanding people and relationships that don’t look like our own is being able to ask honest questions and keep our non-judgmental ears open when they’re answered. If you’re a man or a woman who identifies as straight, you might be curious what women-seeking-women look for in each other or...

It may seem as if most couples you know met online these days, these truth is that people still do meet in all kinds of ways – and whether things end up lasting or not, you’ll never forget the first time something clicked (in a good way). These 16 people met in unconventional ways, and...

I honestly hate that this topic of conversation is so necessary – and that there are so many different answers – because a simple “I’m not interested” should certainly suffice. We still live in a world where it often isn’t, though I hope everyone raising boys today is teaching them that no means no and...

Online harassment is all too common these days, and even though it can happen to anyone, women often find themselves dealing with the brunt of this unwanted attention. We all have our ways of dealing with messages and pictures that cross too many lines to count, but what if the “accepted” routes of reporting, blocking,...

There’s no doubt that relationships are hard, but if you read enough posts on Reddit’s Am I The A$$hole thread, you’ll also realize how many women don’t actually realize when they’re in relationships with terrible men. There’s a learning curve when it comes to dating, apparently, and way too many of us spent way too...

I’m pretty sure that every single job on the planet has its secrets. The things only the people who do them day in and day out really understand, and in most cases, even if the rest of us might find it interesting, it doesn’t affect us so much. Not so with the medical industry, as...

As a child with a fairly average life and better-than-average parents, I have to admit I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about death or what would happen to me if my parents passed away unexpectedly. Now that I am a parent, I spend way too much time worrying about what would happen to my kids...

Thankfully, being orphaned as a child isn’t something that a large number of us will experience in our lives. Losing our parents (if they’re good ones, and sometimes even if they’re not) as adults is hard enough, but going through that trauma as a kid can definitely be devastating. These 11 people came out on...

If there’s one thing that unites people around the world, it’s that we love a good brain teaser. Remember the blue (or maybe gold) dress? Those shoes that were green or maybe pink? Trying to figure out which is correct, if there is a right answer, and then argue with our friends and family really...

I’m a parent, and I’ve been a parent to young kids during a pandemic, so listen – if the headline of this article or the subject of this study immediately raises your hackles, I get it. We’ve all done what we had to do in order to get through it. Now that we’re starting to...

I think that, past a certain age, most of us run out of f**ks to give when it comes to spending time with people we genuinely don’t like. We don’t have the energy anymore to pretend they feel differently, and also, we kind of start to realize there’s not much of a point. That said,...

If there’s one thing that GenX and Millennial parents have gotten right, it’s that when they see something they say something – and in general, they are pretty hip to all of the things they wish had been done differently when they were growing up. In particular, we’ve come an awfully long way when it...