Discussions from Family and Relationships

My fiancé and I recently got engaged and we are planning a relatively short engagement and intend to get married at the end of August. We decided on a small, low-key destination wedding with family...

So if you can see my post you’ll see I have a toxic mother in law well now the father has joined in on it. They’ve known we’ve been engaged for a month now not one congrats nothing they don’t support...

Hi all, I'm going to begin with backstory/context: My "best friend" and I are childhood friends for over 15 years. We both grew up in unstable households, and we relied on each other for emotional...

Hey guys. With the help of my last discussion me and my fiancé decided to go ahead with Pre-Marital counseling and it was great. However it also pushed us to want to be more open about things that...

There’s a rocky relationship (to put it lightly) with my family and my fiancé and because of that, his parents hate my parents. Is it even worth it to have a wedding when based on family, it feels...

So my fiance and I just got engaged a month ago and we are trying to hurry up and book our venue for fall 2023 before the good ones all get booked up!! So far, my mom has tried to twist my arm at...

Hi everyone! I’m a first time bride and I have 2 MOHs who are my best friends of 13 years. My wedding is in 7 months but I’m starting to get concerned about one of my MOHs. The 3 of us plus my HTB and...

CW: Suicide Hi ladies, I'm not too sure what's needed right now. Maybe a venting session. I got engaged in November. I'm in my late 30s and my fiancé is in his mid-40s. We've been together nearly 3...

Hi everyone! I have been having a really tough week. My fiancé and I got into an argument over something small that had just blown up so much bigger. He started bringing up ther things that we have...

The other day, my fiancé was texting his sister and she said something about her BF of about a year & a half will “be a flower boy in your wedding or the officiant” (we aren’t doing flower girls;...

Hi everyone I'm trying to keep my kool because my FH doesn't understand that this is a wedding. Not a club and just inviting people he runs into and think that all these ppl cares. They see a place to...

My fiance has a...um...strained relationship with his father. His father has an issue with alcohol among other things. It was my fiance's decision to not invite him. My BIL, who is slated to be the...

Most women have to deal with their MIL. I'm lucky I don't have that but I do have that in a future SIL. FH is 2 years younger than I am and his older sister is 1 year older than him. I'm older than...

My fiancé and I getting married this year and we trimmed our guests from 200 to 100. We did our homework who to invite, asked advise to married couples and so on. We are strong believers and we stand...

Needing Maid of honor and general advice. My best friend and maid of honor and I have been best friends since kindergarten (roughly like 16-17 years) she’s always been very loud and opinionated...

So I have a monster in law. We finally told her after keeping our engagement a secrete from his family last week after four long months mainly because we knew my FH mom Wouldn’t support us. Yesterday...

I'm sorry to say this isn't entirely wedding related, but just something that's been bugging me more and more lately. I grew up with a hyper critical parent, so I've done some really work to unlearn...

My parents are paying for my entire wedding, and there was no question that they would. In our culture, the father pays for the wedding. Period. So I just kind of went along with it. Well now...

I recently had my bridal shower. Only the female family and friends were invited aside from my fiance, father, grandfather, and ring bearer accompanied by his father because he's 9 and came with my...

Hi ladies! We are in the midst of finalizing our guest list. We want a wedding on the smaller side so we found a beautiful venue with a strict cap of 150 so that we definitely can’t go over it. I have...