Emmys: the broadcast was often cringeworthy, but I was so so happy with most of the winners.

Gud, what everyone else has said. Definitely not your fault, and there is no reason why your kids shouldn't be helping with errands.

Well, she also took over taking of dishes when I started working on them since I had done a fair amount of carpet cleaning during the day. And she apologized for yelling at me over messing something up that it turned out I hadn't actually messed up. All of that was after I posted. I ordered up some touch-up paint pins so I can probably fix the car thing. I've been able to fix much bigger scraps in the past.

Still, wished I hadn't made so many mistakes though. It doesn't help that finances aren't going well right now. Just got a huge bill for some medical stuff for my son which is going to hurt. I, mean, we still have it a lot better than a lot of people and we own our house outright, but I feel like if I were earning more it would be a lot better. But between medical expenses and negative income from my wife's business it's a squeeze. I really hope the latter turns around, the financial aspect would be nice, but I really want to see her have that personal sense of success. I feel like I should probably do more about that too, but I'm not sure exactly what would actually help.

Gud: What everyone else said. Your son had the car accident, not you. And if you were working on something important, like a cabinet FOR YOUR WIFE'S BUSINESS, then your wife doesn't have a whole lot of room to complain when you delegate other chores and errands to other people so you can work on something that YOUR WIFE NEEDS FOR HER BUSINESS.

Suggestion: As long as your son caused the damage to your daughter's car, maybe he could try using the paint pen to fix it?

But between medical expenses and negative income from my wife's business it's a squeeze.

So you're also paying for her expensive hobby as well as providing free labor for it. I can tell you right now she's not going to become successful as a counselor. I can't think of anybody I'd less want to take counsel from than your wife.

After going through a bitter divorce, my abusive father tried to set up a side gig as a divorce mediator. I guess he had this overwhelming need to see himself as a reasonable person.

I have gone to more than one therapist who needed therapy badly.

I have gone to more than one therapist who needed therapy badly.

My brother sees his therapist twice a week. I really really admire the hard work he puts into his own recovery so that he can work with his own clients.

I'm not saying that anyone with their own mental health problems, but I have had therapists trying to put their own issues on mine and also being disorganized to the point of constantly double booking clients.

Be kind to yourself, Gud. One person is not meant to bear the entire load of everything going on in the whole family on a permanent basis.

Sj, my last therapist was quite good in actual sessions, but every time one was approaching I'd brace myself for the last-minute rescheduling or unannounced 30+ minute delay. I even had to find out I was being dropped from her practice by the new therapist I was being switched to. She was like Schrödinger's therapist—existed as a fuzzy cloud of possibilities until I'd open the waiting room door and find out if we'd actually have a session or not.

The Emmy production was maddening. Announcer was awful, music was awful and repetitive. Doing tributes to shows that ended was odd and shows got left out, no way to do that well. Again audience mics were left on during In Memoriam which is awful.

I am super happy for Billy Porter. I thought the speeches from Michelle Williams and Patricia Arquette were great and what ally ship should be. The back room diversity issue is still really apparent.

And Jharrel Jerome!! The best moment of the show for me.

I was not aware of inclusion issues and transphobia associated with RuPaul but read a lot of that last night and am reading more.