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July 21, 2023

Sessions

by David M Willis on May 27, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – Of Mike And Men

└ Tags: jennifer, ruth

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  1. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    May 27, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Ruth knew the truth as soon as she woke up staring at Billie’s rear end.

    Billie can fib all she wants, but those hips don’t lie.

    • Lilyliv
      Lilyliv
      May 27, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      We need a like button and this is why.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        May 27, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

        Was that rhyme accidental, or on the sly?

        • Screwball
          Screwball
          May 27, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

          Don’t know, butt it was so beautiful I might cry…

          • Tan
            Tan
            May 27, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

            How long will this thread get by?

            • spam
              spam
              May 27, 2018 at 12:37 am | #

              i always knew, she wasn’t into guys

              • Marsh Maryrose
                Marsh Maryrose
                May 27, 2018 at 12:39 am | #

                Without your femurs, there’s not much left of your thighs.

                • Frost Magi
                  Frost Magi
                  May 27, 2018 at 1:42 am | #

                  I just really hope that the end of this thread isn’t nigh

                • chris2315
                  chris2315
                  May 27, 2018 at 2:56 am | #

                  We can keep it going, we just need to try.

                • adjudicus
                  adjudicus
                  May 27, 2018 at 6:22 am | #

                  This thread is so amazing, I think I might cry

                • Rorror
                  Rorror
                  May 27, 2018 at 6:40 am | #

                  We need a downvote button and this is why

                  This kind of repetition just should not fly

                • Crusading Barista
                  Crusading Barista
                  May 27, 2018 at 7:36 am | #

                  You are all hilarious, I might die.

                • Tan
                  Tan
                  May 27, 2018 at 12:03 pm | #

                  Hi.

                • Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  May 27, 2018 at 5:46 pm | #

                  These lines are so funny, I laugh and then happily sigh…

              • Jim
                Jim
                May 27, 2018 at 9:11 am | #

                The Ruth and Billie relationship, oh my oh my…

                • El Chupacabre
                  El Chupacabre
                  May 27, 2018 at 9:49 am | #

                  Their current curcumstances make me just want to sigh

                • truk2
                  truk2
                  May 27, 2018 at 1:34 pm | #

                  O god the humor… Are you all high?

                • Nomothehomo
                  Nomothehomo
                  May 27, 2018 at 1:49 pm | #

                  you would not believe your eyes

                • Jesse Wan
                  Jesse Wan
                  May 27, 2018 at 1:52 pm | #

                  If ten thousand fireflies… 😉

                • JustcallmeSoul
                  JustcallmeSoul
                  May 28, 2018 at 9:40 pm | #

                  Who added the s? Come on guys.

                • Roborat
                  Roborat
                  May 29, 2018 at 3:00 pm | #

                  This thread is so cute, I can’t take it. Bye.

    • Tweezus
      Tweezus
      May 27, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      Big mood

    • Jack Spade
      Jack Spade
      May 27, 2018 at 1:52 pm | #

      I sense an emotional conversation is nigh

  2. BBCC
    BBCC
    May 27, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Oh, Billie. Not again.

    • Mr D
      Mr D
      May 27, 2018 at 1:39 am | #

      Again? Shiyet, this is ALL Billie’s done.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        May 27, 2018 at 1:47 am | #

        I’m also thinking of the time she lied to Ruth about quitting drinking. She didn’t lie this time, but I’m worried about her again just like I was then.

        • Emily
          Emily
          May 27, 2018 at 5:07 am | #

          The only reason she didn’t lie is because Ruth preempted it.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            May 28, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

            Yes, this is also true, but it’s also not the reason I’m worried.

  3. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    May 27, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    The tagline of this whole comic should be “No, I don’t need professional help”

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      May 27, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

      Tried to make me to therapy, I said no, no no…
      https://youtu.be/KUmZp8pR1uc

      Wait, that didn’t go so well for her, did it? Am I sensing….similarities…?

  4. Nono
    Nono
    May 27, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    She hasn’t gone, but has she come?

    • Nomothehomo
      Nomothehomo
      May 27, 2018 at 1:49 pm | #

      has she left?

  5. tyranidswarm
    tyranidswarm
    May 27, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Of course it was silly that Billie thought she could fool Ruth by propping up a mop with a picture of her face on it during group therapy.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 27, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

      That mop had a breakthrough and cried about its mother for 20 minutes.

  6. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    May 27, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    aaand right in the feels.

    billie. ;-;

  7. butts
    butts
    May 27, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    billie

    please

    ;-;

  8. Fart Captor
    Fart Captor
    May 27, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    I’m really glad that while Billie isn’t exactly being forthcoming or even completely honest here, she’s at least giving Ruth enough that she can tell that something is up

  9. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    May 27, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    eeeeeeeh.

  10. Yumi
    Yumi
    May 27, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    I want Billie to go to therapy, but also, boy, can therapy at college counseling centers suck. Not always! I’m just glad I’m past that point of things, as far as therapy goes.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      May 27, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      If her’s is anything like Ruth’s (not a guarantee) they might be decent.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        May 27, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

        It’s a gamble. In my experience, it can also be hard to switch who you’re seeing. “Oh, you don’t want to talk to this guy who asked if you were ‘over’ being sexually assaulted? Then you must not really need help!”

        Of course, she hasn’t even gone yet, so the particular person isn’t the issue for her.

        • Pat
          Pat
          May 27, 2018 at 12:44 am | #

          When I first went, the woman who interviewed me asked if I had a preference for a male or female therapist.
          No, I said, but there was one person there I knew personally, so of course I didn’t want him to be assigned to me.
          …

    • miis
      miis
      May 27, 2018 at 9:19 am | #

      I had a disappointing experience when I went to mine. I loved my college, too, and I expected better. I went in to talk about my eating disorder that I’d hidden from everyone for about 10 years, so obviously revealing that to a real person was a huge step for me. The therapist was just like “ok” and had me do a breathing exercise. I’m not really sure if she didn’t believe me, or didn’t know what to do about it, or didn’t understand how deeply it affected me. And I appreciate a good breathing exercise, but she didn’t address the HUGE MAJOR SERIOUS issue I came in about. When I re-prompted, she told me to come back another time. I left more upset and confused than when I went in.

  11. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    May 27, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    Billie’s got a habit of not wanting to sleep alone when she’s upset.
    and I mean, in general, but I mean non-sexually (probably??) since she climbed into Walky’s bed, too, when she was upset enough. kept her pants on, though, I think.

  12. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    May 27, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

    *waits for the hacked muzak to play Paul Simon’s “Tenderness.”*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      May 27, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

      You beat me to the draw this time.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        May 27, 2018 at 12:24 am | #

        But I failed to include reference to a song where the official video features a trio of serpent players, for which failure I can only hang my head in shame.

  13. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    May 27, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    *plays The Avalanches’ “Frontier Psychiatrist” on the hacked Muzak*

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      May 27, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

      That girl needs therapy, psychosomatic,
      That girl needs therapy, purely psychosomatic
      That girl needs therapy
      Lie down on the couch! What does that mean?
      You’re a nut! You’re crazy in the coconut!
      What does that mean? That girl needs therapy
      I’m gonna thrill you, that girl needs therapy
      Play the kazoo, let’s have it tune
      On the count of three
      That, that, that, that, that girl.. girl needs therapy
      She was white as a sheet
      And she also made false teeth

      https://youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE

  14. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    May 27, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

    Billie also goes to therapy? Must have forgotten that.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      May 27, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

      Well, as we see here, Billie doesn’t actually GO to therapy, but she is supposed to:
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/04-it-all-returns/stock/

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        May 27, 2018 at 12:40 am | #

        Right, right. She never went, like Ruth said.

      • Van Jealous
        Van Jealous
        May 27, 2018 at 5:09 pm | #

        There’s a ‘Goofus and Gallant’ cartoon parody in this, somewhere!

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      May 27, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

      When she and Ruth went to the hospital, Billie was ordered to come in for therapy

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/04-it-all-returns/stock/

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        May 27, 2018 at 12:41 am | #

        Gotcha, thanks.

  15. Keulen
    Keulen
    May 27, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

    Damn it Billie, go to therapy already!

  16. Screwball
    Screwball
    May 27, 2018 at 12:59 am | #

    Am…I the only 1 thinking Billie is still ass up, rump pointing at the roof? She doesn’t seem to have moved at all, other than her head. I’m thinking she’s going to be a bit stiff. Maybe THAT’S why she hasn’t moved…

  17. Bagge
    Bagge
    May 27, 2018 at 1:13 am | #

    “…you know.”
    “yeah, I know.”

  18. Pablo360
    Pablo360
    May 27, 2018 at 1:15 am | #

    It’s like a less betrayal-filled “You taste like alcohol.”

  19. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    May 27, 2018 at 2:02 am | #

    They aren’t sunny, they are just normal people not infected by the hatred of society… until some asshole does thinking they are doing them a “favor” (thanks fricking Rick Sanchez). Ruth and Billie both suffer the same problem, and they have to acknowledge that being codependent is going to hurt them more than stepping on a Lego brick. Depression isn’t some glorified magical feeling like Lars Von Trier (I hate him) wants to show off, it is a disease that spreads and hurts everyone around. Also, by sunny people do Billie refer to the students in the building, or the therapists?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      May 27, 2018 at 2:40 am | #

      Yes.[/Kosh]

      • paleotectonics
        paleotectonics
        May 27, 2018 at 7:10 am | #

        Marry me.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      May 27, 2018 at 12:23 pm | #

      You don’t have to be a cynic or a bitter pill to think they’re pretty sunny. It’s not a bad thing, they’re just very very cheerful and friendly (and sometimes struggle with boundaries). I’d say both Joyce and Becky are sunny too, but I wouldn’t say it about, for example, Dorothy or Danny or Ethan.

  20. Ryan
    Ryan
    May 27, 2018 at 2:37 am | #

    Good grief, these two are perfect for each other, and yet they also both deserve way better than each other.

  21. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    May 27, 2018 at 2:39 am | #

    I feel like despite having more serious issues, Ruth is dealing with things in a healthier way than Billie, who feels she hasn’t reached low enough to accept help.

    • autogatos
      autogatos
      May 27, 2018 at 3:10 am | #

      I agree that this is it exactly. Ruth hit rock bottom, Billie hasn’t.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      May 27, 2018 at 7:54 am | #

      Exactly. Ruth saw herself as completely worthless dead weight the world would be better off without.

      Billie still sees herself as a temporarily embarrassed cheerleader. Fawning from her new group of hangers-on in Forest Quad has treated the symptoms (just look at her reaction to Joyce’s visit), but she still has plenty of real problems to sort out.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        May 27, 2018 at 10:00 am | #

        Maybe. She’s definitely using the Forest Quad group to prop herself up, but she’s been down at the “I’m poison. I ruin everything I touch” level.

        But yeah, Ruth has a better handle on the whole thing. Billie, for example, has never even tried to stop drinking as far as I can tell.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      May 27, 2018 at 9:47 am | #

      Agreed. Somewhere I’d forgot that Billie had been signed to do this, and now it’s troubling she hasn’t.

      (And that’s not just because Spousal Ms ValdVin is an LCSW.)

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        May 27, 2018 at 12:28 pm | #

        Did I enter my email address wrong? Where’d my custom grav go to?

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      May 27, 2018 at 12:24 pm | #

      Billie hasn’t accepted she has a problem yet. She’s acknowledged it occasionally when she’s in a low mood, but she’s not quite accepted the gravity of it.

  22. miados
    miados
    May 27, 2018 at 2:41 am | #

    therapy is hard to start when nobody is forcing you to……

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      May 27, 2018 at 10:01 am | #

      And yet, when you’re being forced it’s often far less effective.

  23. BenRG
    BenRG
    May 27, 2018 at 3:09 am | #

    Billie probably doesn’t realise it at this point but she’s fantastically lucky to have a girlfriend who’s so dedicated to her health and healing. The fact that this is a reversal of roles on how things were originally is ironic but not really unprecedented in a lot of ways.

  24. stoodmuffin
    stoodmuffin
    May 27, 2018 at 3:22 am | #

    I LOVE YOU TERRIBLE FUCKING GAYS.

    Man, I just wish it was easier for you two. And most gays.

    (and me, sometimes. This gay, also as well, also)

  25. Callid13
    Callid13
    May 27, 2018 at 5:34 am | #

    Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like there’s a strip missing or something – Ruth is suddenly talking about being invited to something, even though the discussion so far has been about waking up in other people’s bed. It seems a bit of a non-sequitur.

    • Zaxares
      Zaxares
      May 27, 2018 at 6:41 am | #

      Based on what Billie said in the previous strip, Ruth correctly deduced that Billie’s been slipping back into her old cheerleader mold, going to parties and whatnot. That’s why she said she’d be fine with being invited. I wonder if Ruth is secretly upset that Billie DIDN’T invite her; as a fellow introvert, I know that Ruth’s response would likely be “HELL NO. But you go and have fun.” We still appreciate being asked, even if our answer is always “no”. XD

      • Sam
        Sam
        May 27, 2018 at 9:09 am | #

        Yes exactly. I think Ruth would just like the reminder that Billie thought of her before doing stuff without her instead of just doing stuff without her.

      • Callid13
        Callid13
        May 27, 2018 at 11:21 am | #

        Ah, alright, that makes sense. I guess I just didn’t make that mental leap 😛

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        May 27, 2018 at 12:41 pm | #

        I just thought she meant being invited to Billie’s dorm occasionally.

      • PB
        PB
        May 27, 2018 at 8:19 pm | #

        As an introvert: yes. And for people with depression or anxiety, they want to keep being asked so that they remember that one day, they’ll be well enough to say yes.

  26. Jago
    Jago
    May 27, 2018 at 6:04 am | #

    Billie, you better woman up and be good to your girlfriend. And also go to your therapy sessions, which is good for you and her.

  27. Mouse
    Mouse
    May 27, 2018 at 1:40 pm | #

    It has been 2 comics and she has not been angry. What kind of drugs do they even have her on???

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      May 27, 2018 at 3:11 pm | #

      Butterscotch pudding. It’s that good.

  28. PB
    PB
    May 27, 2018 at 8:18 pm | #

    Saw this coming. Dangit, Billie. -_-

  29. your pal sunny
    your pal sunny
    May 30, 2018 at 11:24 pm | #

    ;_;

  30. truk2
    truk2
    June 2, 2018 at 1:24 pm | #

    that concept of ‘ getting ready’ to deal with therapy is important y’all

  31. your pal sunny
    your pal sunny
    June 6, 2018 at 12:57 am | #

    oh jeez sunny is my name guys

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