Here (and in my profile pic) is Rumplestiltskin. All I know about him is that he was picked up as a stray in northwestern Minnesota when he was about 1.5 yrs old.

Reminds me of a quote I read in college that I've never forgotten: "It is perhaps a choice each of us makes over and over, even many times throughout one day, whether to use knowledge as power or intimacy." - Susan Griffith, A Chorus of Stones

Therapist shopping is its own circle of hell, 100%!!

Ugh that sounds awful! A therapist of mine once told me that the research shows that the most important predictor of success in therapy is the quality of the relationship between therapist and patient. So it's legit to just change therapists!

That's as close as I can get to a comforting thought, too. It leaves rather a lot to be desired.

If you like In the Mood, check out Sing, Sing, Sing! (Good dancing here too, tho no one does as many aerials in real life as they do in the movies.)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TOPS...

I strongly believe in doing things because they are fun and not giving two shits whether you do them "well." Good for you!!

My boy's cardiologist told me they don't groom if they aren't feeling well. Having gone through one cat with a heart defect and one with FIP, baths still make me tear up sometimes.

Even better - learn how to do it yourself! Plenty of us still do swing dancing - it's great!

That's what I said, too!

I don't disagree... well, except that many of us in the opposition have never bought in to the American exceptionalism crap.

I promise you, many many of us are trying and are just as appalled as you. Unfortunately we haven't had any effective leaders emerge, and you can't organize without leadership. So we're trying in like 72 different ways, which clearly aren't working, but it doesn't mean we aren't trying!