Not to be melodramatic, but...

[oceanhawk]

There's nothing like finding out that your mom, who you thought you had managed to repair your relationship with, actually thinks that you're basically a mess, who doesn't have your life on the right track and is wasting everything and not making the most of your opportunities. Nothing like finding this out from your younger brother, to whom your

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[emo_voltaire]

I'm marrying a 31 year old mother of two and I couldn't be happier.

Needless to say, my mother plays passive aggressive both with my fiancee and I constantly. Doesn't want to hear our plans, and even when she does, they aren't any good. I've been cut out of dinners, family functions, even birthdays and then she calls up the next day like it never even happened.

I guess what I want to say is I know how you feel, and in my opinion at least, if you know who you are, and Jack knows who you are, then you're set.

*holds up fist in solidarity*

[oceanhawk]

Ugh, I'm sorry that you have to deal with that crap, Ian, you don't deserve it. I hope your mom gets over it eventually. Let's take a stand against passive aggressivity! (I swear "aggressivity" is a word)

[leentigress]

I have been rather frustrated, not by my parents in the relationship department, but the boy's parents. When we had already been together for long enough that it was clear that we were going to be together for awhile (probably somewhere between three and six months), they told him that he should play the field, and not just date me. They're fine with me now, it seems, but his mom still wasn't really cool when he announced to her that, all things being equal, he'd like to live with me after college. Sigh.

Also, my mother was furious for me for almost a year for one mistake I made my freshman year.

[oceanhawk]

I guess parents are just going to be like that, no matter what you do? I guess. Sigh. (But yay for you and Dan living together after college!)

[dee_i_am]

Dani. First, I love you. <3

[oceanhawk]

You are, obviously, correct, and I know that everyone has family issues. I'm glad to see that you're using that degree in philosophy for the betterment of our world!

Also, that video totally wins! You are the best, that was an amazing end to a comment.

[iscrescentmoon]

You are the same person that you've always been, just older and more capable, and having to deal with real-life issues. I don't think you're a mess, or anything like it, if that helps at all.

Good luck with everything.

[oceanhawk]

It does help, especially since you're one of the most qualified people to chart my progress. Also, my mom ran into Michaela on Sunday at a party she was doing in Reinbeck. How weird is that?

[chewy01234]

oh boy everyone is so polite here apologizing all over the place! lol.

Now that I think about it all my greek uncles asked me "so do you have a new girlfriend yet?" after I told them you went to Argentina. I'm not comparing the situations, I just think it's funny that my uncles are such douches lol.

Oh baby girl, everything is gonna be alright.