I have a defaulted student loan. My parents did all my financial stuff when I went to college, and my mother said since that loan was so small ($1500) they'd pay it off. They didn't. Now it's up to $2500. It is such a small amount, in the grand scheme of things, but when you don't even have FOOD in your house, it's astronomical. I can't get financial aid because of this, and because of the type of loan it is the Department of Education won't work with me. All I want is to go to school. I'm wasting my life away desperately trying to pay it off. At this rate, I won't bother with school.

We are by no means close to the 1% but we have several businesses family owned and operated, and we are a wealthy family. We have worked incredibly hard to be where we are at today and I do not want to be taxed higher to pay for people's welfare because they chose to live in poverty by not furthering their education. We donate thousands to charity every year.

I'm so sick of the women in my family excluding me from things just because I'm not a mother. My mom is the ringleader of their little "mom" clique. I am the only woman in my immediate family who works, has a college education, and had the balls to file for divorce from my asshole ex. I see all of the above as good things but they are passive aggressive about things I have done. I am just so freakin' over it and ready to move across the country. They can have each other.

I'm secretly resentful of my dh for making 2/3rds less than me. He's 2 yrs older, we both have the same education level (did not finish college) but I am motivated to keep bettering myself and moving up. He has been at his retail job for years making less than $9.50/ hr.

He's away this week and things would be so much happier and easier and nicer if he just didn't come back. I've felt this way for a long time about my abusive H and pray for divine intervention to make him GO AWAY. p.s. He doesn't think that yelling at me, calling me names, not giving me money, and firing guns in the air to scare me is abuse. More education is needed about the true face of abuse, I beg you who can educate men & women what abuse is, pls do it.

Pleases stop labeling people homophobes simply because they don't believe in gay marriage or being gay. It doesn't mean that they hate them or are afraid of them., but it does mean that you are ignorant. Please get some education and learn what words mean before you throw them around so quickly.

So if I mention that a Chinese person has squinty eyes that makes one a racist? if I say the Irishman has red hair that's racist too. When did we stop being allowed to describe someone? things are what they are and people that throw that word around carelessly, are the very ones that have no idea what it even means. Please get an education before you use such grownup words.

When child free people look at me they probably see me as evidence that having a child stops you from living your life. What they don't realize is that THAT WAS THE PLAN. I waited until I was 37 to adopt DS. Before that I had a career, got my education, traveled the world, road tripped with DH etc. But I knew that after adopting, I wanted to stop all those things and focus on more home making and community based things. Adopting DS didn’t shrink my life, I adopted when I was ready to shrink my life and I love the way things are!

I think people who berate full-time students for needing to get a "real job" are either jealous or ignorant. Certainly tradesmen are necessary in our society as well, but your, say, technology and medical care? Products of higher education.

I am not a college grad but my earnings have paid for almost every bit of 4 college educations for other people. Most people don't know I quit school myself to put someone else through college.