Christina Sobel

@MargaretVBreal @BongiWaAtchar That’s fair! It’s pretty hot where we live, and I can’t sleep if my legs stick together. I at least need shorts! Haha

@tunatweets @BongiWaAtchar Can’t stand anything touching my belly has to be a smock for me LOL x

I think a lot of women struggle mentally when they live with a man because home stops feeling like a place to relax. Instead of being a space where you can fully be yourself, it becomes another place where you still have to “perform” and be put together all the time. There’s no break, no space to just be messy, tired, or off.

@5ducks5 I play games on PlayStation or Nintendo, drink British gin, and my avocados come from Mexico. It is the state I was born in, but I no longer recognize it, which is such a shame.

カリフォルニア産ワインを飲み、カリフォルニア産の野菜やフルーツを食べて、シリコンバレーの技術でゲームを楽しんで、iPhoneでTikTok見て、ハリウッド映画を観て、アボカドトースト食べながら『あの州は嫌い』とか言ってる🇺🇸人って本当にいるの？イジってるだけで本当に嫌ってるわけじゃないよね。

I’m gonna try so hard not to be an oppressively-involved mom, but man is it such a bummer when my daughter isn’t actively moving in a spot where I can feel her. I’m obsessed. I can’t wait until she’s here and I can cuddle her!

@growing_daniel Nah, homemade oatmeal raisin cookies are BOMB. Chewy, not overly sweet… The first recipe I memorized as a teenager. They never made it off the cooling rack into the cookie jar! 😂 But I also love dried fruit in general. I’ll mindlessly eat from a tub of raisins until I’m sick

what kind of poverty do you have to be raised in to want an oatmeal raisin cookie. A treat for 19th century english orphans

I’ve just realized that my only visit to the hospital as a patient since I was born was when I needed a couple stitches when I was about 6. I’ve never had to stay in one. That’s gonna be SO weird! Gonna have to ask my midwife a zillion questions about how THAT works!

@corinnec The only thing about my mom that has been even mildly frustrating is that she can’t walk me through what to expect during the L&D experience, since both my brother and I were c-sections. We have similar pain tolerances, so that would have been so helpful! She’s been lovely! 🥰

I lost my mom when I was 38 weeks pregnant with my second baby. I can’t even explain how insane it feels to read mom groups, mom Reddit threads, and mommy Twitter rants right now. Women complaining about their mothers for - calling “too much” - kissing or hugging their toddlers - wanting to see the kids - moving closer just to be around them - buying non-aesthetic toys (seriously?) It is so unbelievably ungrateful. What makes it worse is seeing this come from conservative spaces that constantly preach about how motherhood is everything. The same women posting “nothing replaces you as a mom” are turning around and threatening to cut off their own mothers… over Paw Patrol t-shirts??? So what is your mom now, then? Suddenly not a mom anymore? Not allowed to love you, to show up, to be involved, just because you have your own kids now? Now she better not have any attachment to the most fulfilling part of her life? Is that really how YOU want YOUR children to treat you one day? Some people will not realize what they have until it’s gone. These delusional women want to throw whole relationships away over things that will not matter at all, looking back. The level of entitlement and lack of perspective is unreal. And there are too many posts to comment on the all individually, so here’s my generalized response. Get a grip, moms.

@TheCriticalDri2 Can’t wrap my head around it. One of my favorite things about the house we bought last year is that it’s dark enough to stargaze in the backyard. I love being out there so much!

Some people genuinely think like this and believe that's a good thing.

@SkyNews @NathanOgunniyi @skygillian Lowkey can we gulag all the people who think like this? Looking up at space with a dreamer’s eye has been a cornerstone of humanity since we crawled out of the muck. If you can’t relate to that at all, you’re not fit for society.

"We're wasting all this energy, time, technology and thought going somewhere where there's nothing alive." Guardian columnist Zoe Williams criticises the Artemis II moon mission in a discussion w/ @NathanOgunniyi and @SkyGillian on The Wrap. trib.al/Rx0iR33 📺 Sky 501

@MamaGaia_ @CatholicCharm This!

@CatholicCharm Probably have an honest conversation with my kids about it loud enough for the parents to hear. My kids know that anything you bring to the park is fair game for sharing, and I'd tell them that not all families operate that way.

At a public playground right now and there’s about 8 different families here- one set of parents have put about 200 Easter eggs all over the playground that are only for their kids and expect all the other parents to be constantly fending their kids away. How would you handle this as a parent?

@NewEnglandLass @CatholicCharm Same. 😂 I have ZERO problem with confrontation or calling people out.

@CatholicCharm I’d make comments loud enough for the other parents to hear 😂 “no honey, they only brought those for their kids” …

@CatholicCharm I’d try my best to explain to my children, loudly enough for that family to hear, that sometimes people are rude and will go out of their way to exclude others, but we don’t let it bother us, because it says more about them. Then take them somewhere cool like the zoo.

@meatypepper We’re having our first. My husband has been so confident and reassuring in my ability to go through L&D. I’ve made it through life so far with no major injuries or even a broken bone; what if I can’t do it? But he says “Of course you can” and I start to believe it, too!

cannot stress how wonderful it is that my husband has been incredibly calm and supportive this entire pregnancy abt my ability to give birth. having him there to be like "yeah. you'll do it and you'll do just fine bc your body knows exactly what to do" has been so freeing compared to how scared I felt everytime i talked to the OB my last pregnancy.

@BlueEightySix @eigenrobot And if that behavior is being exhibited, the man should not be in a relationship.

@tunatweets @eigenrobot I'm talking about more primal instincts, this is something that has been written about. Poor treatment or a hot temper can obviously slowly erode the feeling of safety.

this is an interesting idea because i've had conversations with women who explained, unsolicited, that they _dont_ feel like they can relax living alone and having a man around is a necessity for peace of mind make of all this what you will

@Ruesavatar I disagree on cherries, but feel this way about roses, my favorite flower. Anything rose scented or rose flavored is absolutely disgusting. But real, fresh roses I could huff all day and be happy.

I have another controversial cherry take- cherry pie is disgusting. So is cherry ice cream and absolutely anything cherry flavored other than fresh cherries, which are my favorite food.

@BlueEightySix @eigenrobot If you can’t starkly tell the difference between that potential and his treatment of you, he’s probably not treating you great. I have never feared violence from my husband, who has never lost a fight and is a former Marine.

@eigenrobot Needing a man capable of protecting one from violence means also living with a man capable of violence. It's a paradox.

@eigenrobot Can’t relate. My husband is the only person not in my immediate family who makes me feel confident to be “off” and 100% myself. I even worry less about being weird or dorky in public if he’s with me.

@Rical49349801 @BongiWaAtchar If you pick well, you can do all of this with a husband who won’t care if you do any of this.

@BongiWaAtchar As a woman living alone I love being able to eat popcorn at 2am, burp/fart freely, not having to always worry about shaving my legs all for the sake of a man's validation!

@MargaretVBreal @BongiWaAtchar I like pants & shirt for sleeping, but yep. If I stay in my day’s outfit after being home too long, my husband asks why I’m not in my comfy clothes. 😂

@BongiWaAtchar I thought every women was like me and put’s their nightie on the second they get in the house. If I’m at home, I’m in bed wear, face washed and slippers, man or not I’m wearing my nightie. Outside is the only place I am dressed.

@HanOoi09193564 @BongiWaAtchar Exactly. Coming home to each other should be like unbuttoning your pants after a large meal.

@BongiWaAtchar Sounds like those women lied their way into a relationship. They had to pretend to be someone they weren't in order to get married. A good relationship is where a couple can be their true authentic selves and still enjoy each other's company.

@BongiWaAtchar In the kindest way possible, who are you marrying that you feel this way? I wouldn’t be in a marriage if I felt like this. My husband is the one person I don’t have to be “on” around. He is my safe space.

Patriarchy doesn’t stop at the front door. It follows women home into how they look, speak and move, how they keep the house, and show up emotionally. There’s still an expectation to be pleasant, attractive, accommodating, and “on,” even in your own space. And that’s the difference. A lot of men get to come home and just exist. Women are still expected to be something.