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Please tell me why my husband likes to come up to me, often in front of people, and hump me or grope me, often while making gross noises. Just thinking about it makes me never want to have sex with him again. I’ve repeatedly told him I hate this, but he is undeterred. He claims that he’s showing interest, and I should be glad he still finds me attractive—but then, often in the same breath, he’ll say it’s a joke and I’m humorless.

I once went out with a woman three times in a couple of weeks. Even though I was a customer care representative at JDate making $30K and she was a psychologist, I paid for everything, as men do. The first date was $60. The second was $90. The third was brunch the morning after the second date. She’d ordered a d… ncG1vNJzZmidppa7rq3RnKKarKpjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqGxXZm8brnEp2SsrJmhuW68wLJkn6eiYq6tuIydmK2dow%3D%3D

Quality growth companies are in fact long-term value stocks. They've outpaced our expectations, allowing us to earn returns way above our hurdle rate. The trick is to keep compounding your cash flow, NOPAT... through good times and bad. Steadiness over volatility. Financial prudence over irresponsible leverage. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Become a premium member Why do quality stocks outperform over the long run? The below graph is pretty clear, although recent years could question the conclusions drawn from it: does high-quality always outperform lower-quality?

This video, which is a few years old now, shows my gelding (the buckskin) displaying clear stallion-like behaviour towards another gelding (the palomino). The context is the following (because context is everything when interpreting behaviour): the palomino is a client horse that has just arrived. My two horses, who have lived alone in a stable social group for over a year at this stage, are in their usual field, while the new horse is in a smaller, adjacent field.

Okay, so just to make things clear, I am a naturally sad person. Dispositionally, I seem to have come out that way — labeled before I could speak as sensitive. Apparently, babies with cholic are labeled this and you can find correlations to later dispositional traits. I am also a jealous person. I have tried to tease that out of my personality for as long as I can remember, and yet, it always comes up.

I’ve been in Japan for the past two weeks relaxing, eating, walking and — yes — playing. I haven’t worried about work or the kids or my life back in the states. So it was apropos when I stumbled across this Picasso quote at a museum in Hakone: “It took me … a lifetime to paint like a child.” Picasso spent his life *working* to become more playful. Yet so many adults — including myself — do the opposite.

If it feels like every family you know has been battling strep throat this year, you could be right.  We’ve seen a record number of kids coming to our office for strep throat – often more than once. Adding to the chaos, kids have been experiencing uncommon symptoms of this bacterial infection, and it has been difficult to treat. These unique differences have led to delayed diagnoses, recurring infections, and toooooo many missed school days.

When Lucy first enters Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, how does Tumnus cap off the dreadful state of their world? The White Witch has made it “always winter and never Christmas.” As a child, or even as an adult, we can imagine the … ncG1vNJzZmivkaexs7vBnpuop6JjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqGxXZm8pr%2BMp5irppmWeqmt1Z5knKCinsC1ucCs

I feel the same way about the arcade racer Daytona USA that a lot of people feel about Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It’s the peak sentimental game of my youth; everything in video games that I personally value, it does perfectly. So as a lover of 90s Sega in general, I’ve always been proud that Daytona USA has always been popular. People really like it: not just obsessive Sega nerds like me, just average folks in arcades and bars and every other public place the game appears.