Yes! I often have my partner just place his hand on my lower stomach if we are watching TV and I have cramps - it never works when I do it to myself so I suppose it has something to do with the comfort of another person's touch but it really helps with some of the duller, long-lasting pain. I remember my mum used to…

ooohhh so good. When I was in high school I went through a horrible time when I was sorting of getting back with an ex-boyfriend. I was hesitant at first but he kept telling me how much he regretted breaking up with me and wanted to me back, but turns out he was sleeping with one of my best friends the entire time we…

Oh, I think the way I wrote it might have made it seem like that, but I don't think so. I think it was just because it had become a very emotionally charged conversation - I brought it up when we had both had a little to drink in reaction to something else he had said and perhaps he didn't think it was the right time…

Agreed. So many friends joked to him about hurrying up and proposing, or telling me they would 'have a word with him' which I kept getting so annoyed by - I did not want to feel in anyway that he had been convinced to ask me.

I had a similar thing where we had been together a long time and it didn't seem like it was coming any time soon and I started to freak out that we were on different pages when it came to our relationship - I asked him if we had got this far and he still didn't want to was he ever going to want to? He just looked at…

We had discussed it for ages because we have been together for a really long time. I basically made it clear I was ready about a year before he proposed and he made it clear he wanted to some day but wasn't yet ready because there were a number of life circumstances that he felt needed to sort themselves out first…

was eating potato salad when I read "jizz stain". Did not finish potato salad.

maintenance man had to come and fix something in my apartment today and was one of the sweetest people I've ever met. He noticed all my wedding bits and pieces lying around and we started talking about weddings. He said he has been married 25 years and is still very happy. He said the secret is 'listen to your…

That's a clever way around it.

I thought about keeping mine for a future daughter too, but aside from the fact that she may not actually like it ,I really enjoyed looking for my dress and I wouldn't want to take that experience away from her or make her feel pressure to accept mine. I think I might make a pillow out of it or something.

That's extremely delicate! I have a situation where my bridesmaids ex was on the original guest list as he's my friend anyway, but they broke up and he treated her badly when he broke up with her. So he was not given an invitation in the end - she's my bridesmaid and I don't want her to be uncomfortable on the day. I…

Reminds me of a conversation I had with my mum the other day. She has way more anxiety about the wedding than me and just constantly manages to set me off. She was asking me how many people had RSVPed and at that point only about a third of the guests had. So she started to worry and the conversation went something…

It would be nice to invite both parties in a couple but we had the problem that we have a lot of friends from uni that we do often see anymore. We all moved to different areas of the country so really only get to see each other when there are big reunions or something. Several of them had established partners but we…

arghhh yes, we have so many guests that have not RSVPed because the assumed we would know they were coming. And not like the bridal party, who I have assumed are coming, but people who don't even live the same city as either of us - why would we assume they are coming?

Right? My fiance's stepmother is attempting a similar trick at the moment and I don't get. Does she think she is saving me from my own bad taste? Or does she think I just need a chance to see it and then I will like it?

Not a disaster by any means, but an invitation mix-up of sorts. One every bodies invites is a code to enter our wedding website (which contains much more info than the invitation itself). They need to use this code and their name to enter the site, and the site already has a list of guest names so knows who to let in.…

I was in the wrong and having reread my original post I can see how unreasonable I was being. Thanks to some helpful words from another commenter I was able to see that I have been feeling this way because of some misplaced emotions as a result of a difficult time that I have been going through recently. I have a lot…

We are having problems with my future SIL at the moment. She wants a plus-one to the wedding and we said no because she doesn't currently have a partner so we don't want her to just bring any random along with her (She would most likely just bring a friend and get drunk with them and generally not be a part of the…

Such an interesting discussion, particularly the part about now being comfortable to talk about your previous poor status. I came from a family who was struggling financially during my childhood and were, at least for a time, staving off bankruptcy. I have fortunately been successful in my career, and while I am far…

I hate the 'it's weird' thing! Sometimes I get 'the colour is weird'. So I say, 'you don't like it?' and he says 'I don't know it's...weird', and then that's the best I get.