Did you find many people couldn't/wouldn't come? And were they the sort of guests that you invited out of obligation (if any of your invitees were)?
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Along the self-selecting guests theme, we are having a Thursday wedding in the hopes it will have a similar effect. 95% of the guests we really want and we are hoping they can make it, but there is the odd weird uncle/family friend that we are hoping will not consider themselves close enough to us that they are…
I'm not sure one incident will traumatize her forever, but if this is typical of a parents punishment technique then I think it will lead to general distrust in the parent and I think that growing up it is harmful.
A child should always feel that even when they are being punished their parent has the child best…
He clearly is a man who loves his daughter very much but I'm not sure this punishment is helpful. Using 'dressing as a 10 year old' as a punishment for dressing as a teenager surely sends the message that dressing as a 10 year old is embarrassing and not something you would usually want to do. I think the humiliation…
This has reminded me of something! I grew up in an old house in England and when my sister was a baby and old enough to not be in my parents room her crib was put in my room. I'm only a couple of years older than my sister so I would have been around three years old. My mum says she can't remember why but I had been…
I actually have incredibly lucid dreams sometimes,and a lot of the time when I have sleep paralysis, I am aware that I am dreaming and that I am having a normal sleep paralysis incident, but I still feel like I need to wake up desperately when this happens. So I still get the very unpleasant pain and sense of panic as…
I know that it is very common for people to see demons or hags when they have sleep paralysis, and there are many cultures around the world that believe this is because you are being visited/haunted by this evil (or sometimes not evil) spirit. Having looked at various illustrations of what people have said they see it…
I don't really have any proper ghost stories but I get sleep paralysis quite often, and when it happens I am always dreaming that I am in my room, in my bed. Everything looks exactly as it does in real life and I really am in the place that I am dreaming I am in. And then something happens in my dream that would be…
Well now I know a farting aardvark exists I'm not sure I can wait until my wedding to possess one.
It's true. Fortunately (???) a number of the guests were present for the confession-vomming incident so I don't really need to explain our story to them.
Oh God, I have decided to leave this off my site as I can't find a fairytale way of saying
A really interesting article with a lot to think about.
This exact thing happened to me, and after getting off the subway and following me, he opened the conversation, while grinning at me, with 'you don't like being stared at, do you?'. He understood entirely that I was uncomfortable and still considered it worth a shot to follow me down the street repeatedly asking for…
I am a complete germaphobe and especially cannot handle other people's blood for just that reason. If ever I see any unidentifiable red/brown looking stain ANYWHERE I immediately assume it must be someone's blood and have to cover any part of my body that may have touched it in alcohol gel. I am filled will equal…
don't-regret-it-but-still-have-twinges-of-missing-the-old-life, which I believe is simply called Being a Parent
I was walking back from the subway to my apartment by myself a few nights ago at around 1am and could see a man walking towards me from around a block away, and he was staring at me the whole time. As he got closer, he was walking so that we would clearly walk into one another if I didn't move to the side. I made a…
This guy was not the worst person I have ever lived with, but he was definitely very odd and by the time he moved out I was pretty uncomfortable whenever I was on my own with him.
I was at an international conference in the US (I'm British) and met an Australian guy who seemed to kind of zone in on me immediately. Everywhere I went during that conference I seemed to bump into him. He was actually pretty hot, and he knew it, but the chat-up lines were incredibly awkward.