You sound like you know way more about this than I do, so tell me your thoughts on this: I know some places in Western Europe, Italy comes to mind, that are incentivizing people to have more children bc their populations are decreasing and the average population age is increasing, etc. What is the actual issue here?…

Rabble rabble. How Dare you say that you are loved!!

We invited~60 of my in-laws friends that I literally met on the day of my wedding. Sure, it would have been cheaper not to invite them. Sure, I didn’t personally care to have them all there, but I DO care an insane amount about my in-laws and it was really important to them. My wedding was far from only the things…

But But But you could have spent that money on *insert something WAY more IMPORTANT than a wedding*

You’re lovely. Don’t ever change.

I concur.

...I thought they already had.

What in the fresh hell is wrong with people?

Yeah... I was about to give the benefit of the doubt... blood sugar issues, they were scared, it was new... they asked to talk to the manager and were denied. But then they said that they don’t like tipping and in an ideal world she would have been fired. Fuck them. Jesus Christ.

Ugh. I wish that you had been serving us. We had a meal a while back that took over an hour to come. We did not complain, but I was really really tired, so I think the server knew I wasn’t super happy. The manager came over, profusely apologized and comped like 80% of our meal. We tipped 30% of what our full bill…

Are you fucking kidding me?!? I can't even.

Oh yeah. I haven’t hear either.

Anna said that she knew, but I bet that she didn’t. If it was truly in the past and all had been forgiven and he was reformed, then why would the fam bring it up?

It doesn’t need to be a long term solution. If she can stay with her brother and get help with living costs and child care, she would be able to get some post-secondary education. Not sure if she was also into midwifery like the sisters, but she could pursue community college or certificate program. She has 4 kids,…

It makes me incredibly curious about what other skeletons this fam has in their closet.

Yes! I was afraid that bc of her family and upbringing she was going to stay with him bc she would be abandoned by her family. Sounds like her parents are going the way I suspected, but at least her bro has her back if she wants to leave.

We used fuck buddy for that. This fuckboy thing is something I am not familiar with- do not listen to Cam’ron, and my circles don’t use it, but it seems like it originated in a completely different way. Fuck and boy are both really common words, so I'm not terribly surprised.

DO IT! Your kid will have so much fun!

I’m also married, and also think the amount of money, time, effort, and energy that goes into them is crazy, BUT why people gotta shit on their friends with this passive (and not so passive) aggressive commentary? Be nice to the people you care about. It’s not so hard.

I am Jewish, so my wedding band is just solid metal as is tradition. When we got married, we had a plan for me to get an eternity band or whatever they’re called at some point when we weren’t poor anymore. So we’re not poor anymore and decided to go get it designed. The jeweler showed us all these rings really similar…