Yeah I think I have a normal appetite, my kids will laugh at me when I say I’m not hungry because I ate a big meal, they say “that was hours ago” but I stay full, or not hungry, my body wants to weigh more than I personally want it to (have BMI of 22) but doesn’t want to weigh more than it does now I guess.

So I understand when people say they used to be hungry and the drugs made them normal, it’s not a willpower thing, I don’t have to use willpower, just am not that hungry, naturally.

I work with a guy who went through something similar. He is ok now, very out and happy with his orientation but still will talk about it, and when he goes home for holidays they still are unaccepting. He’s 40 something and they still have not come to terms with his gayness.

My daughter’s girlfriend literally started crying one day “you guys are so accepting of me” she practically lives here because her parents are not. WTF, parents? I don’t get this. I live my straight lady life, their lives are theirs, their sexual orientation has no effect on me, unless they like assholes, which they do not, all have great boy-or-girlfriends.

Well Emmylou wrote the lyrics to it. And OMG it is a tearjerker so full of emotion.

I personally wouldn’t argue the main point (men are way more into the trappings of “romance” than women are) because that’s been my experience too. But there have been historical barriers to entry for women in the arts.

Kacey Muskgraves writes some sweet love songs (also more country like the other 2) .

Maybe cultural too, Spanish chanteuses sing a lot about love, more than I hear in other American pop music.

Jonie Mitchell Case of You

Emmylou Harris Boulder to Birmingham

ETA holy crap how did I forget Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac? She wrote a lot of their more poignant love songs.