Yeah, way to protect and serve the community.

It’s an important role for sure. And to be fair, their mom is amazing and has done a great job with very little help from her ex. He had 50/50 custody but didn’t provide much in the way of guidance - just food and shelter while they were with him, then spent a lot of time patting himself on the back for being Father…

Thanks! I swear I am a Fun Aunt, too, but sometimes I see their mom just standing by saying nothing like this is all completely out of her control and I have to be the voice of reason.

IF ONLY I were joking. She’s in college now so she hasn’t posted anything but during peak formal season I’d see all kinds of ridiculousness and die inside.

I think a combo of her strict bed rest and him possibly being on a ventilator in the NICU so he was not able to be moved around. An acquaintance of mine had her son at 23 weeks I believe (he survived and is doing GREAT) and she wasn’t able to actually hold him either for awhile so I don’t know that she would have been…

Apparently he was on meth so probably not? The rich part I mean. But I shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

Uh, because their show is absolutely scripted, which means they just have to act out little scenarios vs a talk show where you kind of need a personality of some sort to be able to carry it?

This is my hope, too! I don’t want her to be heartbroken, but I also don’t want her to look back with regrets!

Oh, and he was on meth so he was booked into custody. I can’t wait until these two breed. Jesus H.

Ha, not the worst but definitely the meanest OMG. Ha!

OK, cool, just making sure :)

At least she recognizes options!

If my niece is any indication of the average American teen then yes this is A Thing and you do not fuck with it or question it. When I even asked why her boyfriend of two years had to go through this (wouldn’t it be assumed they’d go together? or couldn’t he just have a normal chat with her?) she looked at me like I…

Oh yeah. She also has a wedding board, a engagement photo board... I feel like I failed as an aunt but I also didn’t show up until she was in junior high so I think some of the indoctrination set in before I could intervene. She’s 18, btw.

BTW: this is what I was referencing:

Unless you climb up a rock while on meth it doesn’t count!

If I found out my child did this I’d disown him/her (girls are encouraged to do similar crap, I found out through my niece who had a whole fucking promposal Pinterest board ugghhhh).

That was my first thought. She needs to run far and fast and never look back (or she may trip) because this guy doesn’t seem to be able to tell the difference between “cool idea” and “able to reasonably make cool idea a reality.”

Did she have a brother named Pterodactyl?

Yeah, I’m SUPER curious about how her relationship plays out with each of them. I feel like they each appealed to different sides of her so it’ll be interesting to see where they are now.