When I watch TV in the evening with my H, I tell him, "Let's watch anything but the news a lot."

During college and after graduation prior to getting married, there were some uncomfortable situations that I handled badly and kept it all to myself. I would feel sympathetic towards the person who violated my space! If this conversation had been happening back then, I might have turned them in (not to the police--they were not crimes) to someone in the workplace. But maybe that would have been worse on me. For these women to have to endure so much media scrutiny must be torturous.

I do wish I had talked to a friend about it. One of the best things about getting married was that it felt like men were no longer testing me to see if I was easy (this did not happen often but it did happen).

I find that the news is making me revisit memories that are more than 30 years old and say to myself, "I wish I would have handled some of it differently." The underlying problem was that I would be surprised by some of it, not know how to react (other than run or freeze) and then be to shy and embarrassed to talk about it.