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Your mom sounds nuts, BlackFlyme.

Is. Not sounds. Is. Fairly sure I've noted that a couple times in the past.

BF, you can be pretty much assured: Your mother is flat out batshit insane. If even half of what you've shared is accurate, there is no questioning that. It's important to be aware of this, and be aware of what her insanity-driven actions have done to you over the years, so that you can acknowledge and learn to either work with or around those behaviors, until you can stomp them out entirely, if desirable (which, yes, will almost certainly take years, possibly decades.).

It's good you're recognizing there's issues, and what they are, and to a degree how to deal with them -- you're on the right path to fixing what someone else's actions have done to you. It's going to be a long road, but... that you realize it at all is a good sign. Just... keep at it. Learned behaviors can be unlearned or adjusted, given time and effort. So there's hope and all that.

There we go -- thanks, palsch. I actually either wasn't aware or had forgotten there was an employer mandate side to the ACA.

Still... the answer I'm seeing, is they actually do (did, whatever) have the option to negotiate for a non-contraceptive insurance plan, it would just mean an extra cost (the ACA related fine) on top of it.* Or dropping health insurance entirely, which plenty of employers do nowadays (if they still felt they had a moral obligation to provide for health coverage, I'm fairly sure they could pay a secondary organization to provide it gratis, or whathaveyou -- be roughly the same as just providing a non-qualifying insurance plan, but eh.). And decided to raise a stink, instead.

*Which, I'd honestly say was fair -- you want to circumvent the law, you can pay for it. Adjust the fine in relation to the degree of non-compliance and you'd be in fairly good shape, imo.

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I'm...pretty much sure that whatever worries that exist are less...um, less extreme in my side of the globe (if and unless unexpected happenings occur, which won't happen with me anyways :v)

...Courts? o_o

At least in the states, marriage constitutes a pretty extreme legal entanglement between the individuals in question, with all sorts of boilerplate and automatic legal consequences involving all sorts of things -- from wills, to taxes, to insurance, to property ownership, and more. And all that something that a great number of people getting married pay absolutely no attention to and subsequently get bit in the hindquarters to varying, but often extreme, degrees.

I've seen a fair number of relationships and people honestly kinda' ruined because they walked through a major legal decision without really knowing what they were doing. S'one of the reasons that, at least for state-side folks, I would absolute and emphatically recommend never even considering marriage without a serious and in-depth conversation with a lawyer, if ever. Public ceremony or whatnot is fine (public declaration of commitment, whatever), long term relationship is grand and joyful and etc. -- the legal side of things is something entirely different and is a commitment that is pretty tremendously huge and often both unnecessary and outright detrimental for the relationship in question. Avoid like the legal plague it is.

S'reaching the point I'm kinda' leaning toward just starting to drag insurance and medical providers out into the streets and shooting them until pricing and whatnot becomes sane, personally. Their bullshit is getting people killed and causing tremendous amounts of suffering in the nation. Might be getting near the point of some quid pro quo, y'know? Can throw business owners into the pile, too, sure. And politicians. Whole lot of the bastards, really.

Though... can someone remind me what was stopping these people from just buying an insurance plan that doesn't cover contraception? I vaguely remember the last round of BS related to this was twits refusing to do that and screaming about religious persecution.

Bacon

The most amazing thing about this was that, when I played the video, it froze right at the moment the dude took the first bite. Flash refused to go any further. Existence paused and refused to display more. A bacon monument so glorious even reality enters into denial.

I have never experienced even the singlemost ounce of guilt after eating bacon. Also no cancer, yet! It does not work for bacon.

First one I could pry out of the hands of the internet spiders, actually. It's probably... gooey. And old. Still a cookie, though.