What I like about letting him get a bad grade at a good time is that it ties the consequence DIRECTLY to the action. This is so much better that capricious punishments completely unrelated to the behavior in question.

Totally doesn't work for you. Your compulsion to cluck like a chicken every time you hear the word "Zanzibar" is a complete coincidence ;-)

I think the prices or location dependent. Most photographers where I got married started somewhere between $2 - 3,000. I got mine for a lot less than that because she was new to the area, and she did so well that the following season her starting price went from $800 to $2,200.

Evolutionary psychology is one big hypothesis without any empirical evidence to back it up. It's a thought experiment, not a hard science. There is no way to prove through experiment or data analysisthat the cause of a particular observed behavior is rooted in evolutionary needs. For one thing, very very very few…

May I share your comment to backtalk?

You know, I can buy that he was completely hoodwinked. It still turns my stomach that he's more worried about the effect on him than he is about the effect on these girls.

Agreed. The pure acrimony when it comes to contentious divorces is just ... staggering. I'd be willing to wager that couples who DON'T set out to hurt their former partner are less likely to get divorced in the first place.

Agreed, it may not apply to this situation. I was referring to the "I would never..." But, actually, she could have lost MILLIONS by leaving the workforce when she did, and fifty percent of all earnings/assets during their marriage belong to her, regardless of who earned them.

Where I work, putting in lots and lots and lots of hours, working from home, on holidays, etc., is required to reach high earning levels. That's true in most professional settings. Some families opt to hire extensive child care, others opt for a stay-at-home parent, but most families opt for a combination: One…

What if you left the job market for several years in order to raise her children and manage her household full time? Lets say that in the course of doing that, you enabled her to increase her earning by 40% over what she would otherwise have earned without your home support, and that you lost about 45% of your…

It's a complicated issue, but it's generally a given that spouses are entitled to half of whatever assets were gained during the course of a marriage because marriage is a 50/50 partnership FULL STOP.

They do (I think), apparently the groom neglected to explicitly ask that he stand up at the wedding. Also, all of the communication was over FB group messaging, so.

To be clear, I didn't mean it was tacky to have that on the invitation, just tacky to ask for/demand that.

That's really tacky. Like, if my son was getting married and I was paying for the whole thing AND the couple wanted both sets of parents up top, fine. But if the parents of the bride or the couple paid for it/did the work, I would be embarrassed by that phrasing, versus the first. Even if I paid for the whole thing…

What? I would add an addendum that says, "I will not sue for malpractice unless someone commits malpractice." WTF?

A friend of mine married a man from Europe, and one of his groomsman told us that he didn't realize he was in the wedding until the wedding — he just thought it was an American custom to tell your guests exactly what color suit, shoes and shirt to wear.

What did they change it to?

Don't worry. I recently received an invitation where, instead of stamps, the couple put stickers on the return envelopes that said, "SAVE $$$ - RSVP Online!" Mind you, I didn't include RSVP cards, and asked people to RSVP online because I hate the fussiness of envelopes inside of envelopes inside of envelopes, and…

I used postcards for my save the dates, self designed and printed through an online company. They looked fantastic! Unfortunately, I didn't take into account all the blocks and blurs and prints that the post office makes, so some words were covered up.

That is a tough one about your moms' names — and totally adorable! You can always fall back on the "Bride & Groom, along with their parents, invite you..." or 'the parents of Bride & Groom invite you"