I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you're set. But this isn't always - or even usually - the case.

If the grocery store you go shopping at suddenly has a number of different wholesalers for produce, then with the competition between the wholesalers you may end up with cheaper produce. But the individual shopper doesn't see the wholesaler.

I was embarrassed. I was humiliated. I would do my grocery shopping at 3 in the morning. I would not go out during the daylight because I felt people were laughing at me, staring at me.