Help Me!!
I have the unfortunate duty of attending a family gathering on Saturday where, I am sure, that I will again be accosted from every corner on my marriage and baby free state. I am dreading it, oh how I am dreading it!
I think this time I am just going to say that I can see myself licking the boil on a hunchback's butt before I do either one. Do you think that is gross enough to get my point across?!!
Happy Wednesday!
posted by Crazy Me @ 6:38 PM
16 Comments:
OMG I so know these kinda 'Family' gatherings! They freak me out..rather bore me to death. All my aunts keep asking when Im getting married etc. Now I dun go to family gatherings...if I do, I give them a stare even b4 they ask that qn again..now they dun ask.
Keshi.
Wish I could help you out there, but I can't.
I think I would just tell people I was happy with how my life was going. Thank you very much!
Fall down in the floor and start bawling and screaming.. Say things like "I'm so lonely" and "I'm barren!!!" Then take a picture of the looks on their faces.
I think that is an excellent plan. :-)
LOL @burg's comment!
Keshi.
I think its a wonderful reason to give
You tell them that I said being a wife and mother isn't always the nicest thing in the world
Not getting married til I was 39 left me in the throes of those questions all the time..I used to say I was sparing some poor man of the misery of trying to spend the rest of his life with me...
I used to hate it when I told people I had NEVER been married and they asked what was WRONG with ME?!?!?!? Like I was the one with the problem or something.
Tell 'em you're gay. That'll keep the talk off of marriage and babies for a while.
Until they start asking when you and your partner are planning to have kids and which one of you will carry the tyke.
Didn't say it was a perfect plan...but it might buy ya some time.
I'd sigh and throw in there that you just learned you only have one month to live, not long enough for gestation, I'm afraid.
When they ask, just say "I'm fine, thanks. How are you?" Pretend it was a different question and play dumb. That's what I do all day at work and it amazes me how many times people will just walk away without pushing the issue.
Clever reply, though I have an urge to gargle with listerine right now.
Pobble summarizes these situations nicely:
http://bostonpobble.blogspot.com/2007/07/theres-difference.html
Marriage is so, like 1950s. Tell them to bugger off because you like your sex with no strings attached. That should do it.
Ewwww.... such bad visual.... I'm certain it will get the point across!
Well, good luck to all of the above advice, as each has it's own advantage... and I'll be praying for ya!
Well, I sympathize. You know, at 50 years old, after the loss of my husband 3 years ago, EVERYBODY is asking me when my sweetie and I will be married... GIVE IT A BREAK! I'm tired of explaining that it just isn't our plan at the moment. We are partners for life... is there something to this statement you don't understand? Gee whiz. Hang in there, and know that we are all in this together :-D
It is surely wrong for family to pressure. No one should have to put up with family and/or friends poking their noses into things that are so personal. If and when you're ready to tell them something, you will. Right?
In the meantime, if you're looking, I know a hunchback who lives just down the street. I'm sure he'd be interested in corresponding.
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