They are, I like them. We also benefit from marrying really late (if we do), commonly 35-40, which takes a hell of a lot of pressure off. This does mean long, spaced-out generations which probably does something interesting regarding affluence and disposable income within the family.
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Your family sounds amazing.
Get off social media. Do it now, it’s poison. Social media has given people the power to send their annual cloying “family update Christmas letter!” in pieces three times a week, with exactly the same amount of subliminal airbrushing.
The biggest gift my family ever gave me was that fully 50% of each generation don’t get married and become kickass uncles and aunts, for something like four generations now. So I was raised in an environment where being an old single was never “the wrong path” or some sort of lingering doom.
I am 60 years old. In case it helps, I’m going to tell you what I know.
Can I pipe in from the opposite angle? ‘Cause I’m old.
Back in the olden days before cell phones and interwebs you could go out with someone, even more than once, and because things were slower, communication less instant and constant, getting ghosted was less painful. Answering machines were wonky, roommates flaky with messages, numbers juxtaposed, rejection was just…
It must be nice to not get shot after kicking a cop.
Just a heads up, this shit does NOT end just because you get married. I’ve been married for 5 years, and we’re still guilted into making the pilgrimage to both houses (they’re only about an hour apart, but 3 hours from us) each Christmas and Thanksgiving. I think you gotta add a kid to the equation to get out of it.
The past few seasons have been played out and boring. The plot lines are terrible and seemingly never die. There was that whole fixation on Munchausen, which was beyond played out, the magazine debacle about Mauricio cheating, which also refused to die, etc. The only reason I tune in is because I am still awestruck at…
Who the fuck says “my wife is an accountant in porn!!! What do I do?!?!?!”
Um......no. Just no to all of it. My wife does cam work; meaning she actually gets naked for men and puts on a show for them, and they pay her for her time. The very first question she asked me when she started to consider this job was “are you ok with this?”. Which I am because I know for a fact if I said no, she…
This is probably the best response to this I have seen. A member in the relationship made a large decision without consulting the other and appears to have actively gone against their wishes with potentially enormous impact.
When it comes to marriage, the time for compromise is before decisions are made and actions are taken. This occurred because one or the other (or both) refused to compromise, so at issue is their ability to resolve problems, which is sure to come up again. At this point, the compromise will either be “I’ll have to…
Dump her as quickly as possible. “Prejudice against sex work”...LOL, she married the guy, she made a vow and part of that vow is “I won’t fuck anyone else anymore”. Who wants to be married to someone who’s degraded and exploited on camera for a living? If she wants to become a porn star fine, but have the decency to…
Don’t listen to Patrick. Tell her your relationship is at an end if she doesn’t quit. If she refuses to quit, respect her decision and move on. As hard as that may be, you’ll be happier in the long run and the children will be happier as well.
“Is she cheating on you or working?”
He was not wrong. The dialogue for the second half of the movie looks a lot like: