Yes. This. I 100% wish we hadn’t invited my father to our wedding; any drama before or after would have been far preferable to all the BS we had to deal with that day. For my own health and the sake of our relationship I’ve cut him out of my life, going on 8 months now, and we are far better off for it.

Exactly. I don’t understand why guests feel the need to demand that their kids come to weddings—our wedding reception was in an adult-only venue, which was clearly outlined in our invitations and website, and we still had people ask us if they could bring their kids!

Very thankful my MIL didn’t give my husband that speech...I’m the one with the shit family who caused all sorts of wedding drama!

I should add, a lot of Formosan dog owners say they are very cat-like in that they can be very independent and will cuddle only on their terms. Sita (our brindle) will begrudgingly come if I call her for a cuddle, but she will lay next to me for about 2 minutes before getting up to go back to her dog bed. If she wants…

Oh my gosh, she is beautiful! She does look a lot like our Sita. I am in love with that dark brindle coat. Sita has topped out at 47lbs but she is agile like a mountain goat; I think her larger size may be due to being found and rescued from the recycling plant she was living in at a young age (maybe 2-3weeks old, she…

We have 2 FMD mixes and both are pretty indifferent towards cats. They only really see our neighbour’s cats outside on our lawn but one just ignores them, and the other will approach with caution but doesn’t seem too interested. A lot of the rescue agencies will have a pretty comprehensive analysis of the dog’s…

They really are the smartest dogs! The problem-solving skills of our younger Formosan mix amazes me. Her latest bit is putting her paw on the button in the car to roll the window down—if we’re stopped at a light and there’s someone/something she wants to bark or growl at, she just puts the window down. She constantly…

No way! My husband and I have two Formosan mixes—one is FMD/Shiba Inu mix and the other is FMD-anyone’s guess, maybe Dutch Shepherd but I’m waiting until the doggy DNA has a Taiwan dog sample to test her against. They are the smartest, most interesting dogs I have ever had!

Thank you. I’m sorry that you also have to deal with this type of family member. You are absolutely correct; there is no reasoning with them and they are not capable of having the relationship you need. I hope your sister can recognize this as well—it takes up so much energy attempting to have these relationships.

Your mom sounds so much like my mom. I bumped into her the other day and she reached in the window to pet one of my dogs, who started growling. She said “Well, I guess she’s forgotten who I am because you never come visit anymore!” *eye roll*

This really hit home for me. My step-dad has been really shitty to me for the entire time he’s been in my life (since I was 7), and just recently I’ve come to the decision that I can’t have an active relationship with him. I had hoped that by attempting conversations with him about his behaviour, and then finally a…

Yes, exactly this. My bio dad hasn’t been in my life for almost 30 years (besides the occasional random phone call up until about 10 years ago and more recently a Facebook message) and my step-dad and half-brother used to really trash him. Yeah, he’s a POS, but biologically I’m half of that POS.

This is late but my Saturday nightshift got too busy to SNS: My husband and I took my nephew, age 5, for an afternoon of picnic and historical park fun as part of his birthday present from us, as is becoming our tradition. We ate, played on big guns and ran around the old fort until it was time to get him back home.…

Talk about division of chores early on so it doesn’t become a problem. Make your expectations clear and listen to his expectations. My husband is generally very tidy but every now and then I need to get on him and try not to nag...

If it helps, I had a root canal recently and after the initial swelling went down the toothache was completely gone and it was such relief! I ended up with major bruising on my jaw when they did the permanent crown, but I have had previous temporal-mandibular joint surgery so everything in my jaw is pretty sensitive.

Yes! If you can find that extroverted person to be a good friend, latch onto them and you will meet so many people through them. 7 years ago I moved to a new city, lived on my own, and really didn’t enjoy hanging out with people from work. I randomly met (the gf of a guy who lived in my apartment building who I had…

I have a co-worker like this too. Usually it’s about crazy road-rage stories (“This morning a guy cut me off so I caught up to him at the next light and kicked the mirror off his car!!”), which I don’t understand why you would want to even make stories like that up. His latest one, in front of about 10 of our…

Have you tried an elimination diet to see if that is the trigger? I had chronic sinusitis and migraines, and always just felt unwell. After seeing several specialists (including having an allergy test done that didn’t show me as being allergic to dairy), and even having my jaw surgically broken and reset to try to…

Totally came here to say this. What is the origin of “Gleb?” Like did they hear the sound of that final bit of shampoo being squeezed out of the bottle and decided to name their kid that?

Yes, exactly! I poked around his Instagram a little and all of the #ThickThighs type comments are recent—earlier it was just him hustling his business and how much he loved his beautiful wife. His bio even says “Husband to a curvy goddess.” Why not just “Husband,” or “Husband to a goddess?” Why is marrying a woman who…