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I misread it as “less than 10 couples” in the whole country, and was mightily surprised
I was married in the church. I was the oldest and young. It was to make my mom happy. Then, I quickly made everyone unhappy/concerned by refusing to get my baby baptised. Nor did I raise my kids in the faith.
I suspect none of my siblings will ever marry in the church.
Three of my four kids (all in happy relationships) may not marry at all. The oldest daughter got married very young and his family are very traditional. Neither of two grandchildren are christened. We’ve lost the “life events” stuff haven’t we? Except death of course.
The life events can change or evolve.
I married someone who came from the church of England so everyone was bound to be unhappy. I feel different rituals can be invented.
unhappiness is a proud English tradition
Unhappiness and being terrified of what neighbours think of you
Proof I am not English. I honestly don't care what the neighbours think of me. I doubt they consider me. If they do, I hope I make them nervous.
That’s a great ambition! “Her next door, she’s a strange one…”
It is my whole energy.
This may be why I am not quite in rhthym. I am creating my own pleasure.
That's why I was happy living there.
Other rituals are available, ofc, but having spent time as an altar boy (frock an'all), I'd honestly rather get by without them.
Rituals don't have to be religious
I know. But it's hard to think of a snappy comeback when the word 'ritual' implies 'something along those lines'.
I have the same issue with Humanist 'celebrations'. It's hard to get around the loading.
Okay.
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It may sound horrible but my father died of a sudden heart attack right in front of me when I was very young, and I was the baby of the family. I have never felt more lucky in my life since that moment, as I was felt I escaped the worst of it. Later, my siblings said I was "targeted" to be next.
My parents’ church, the church I was married in, has gone GMC. It breaks my heart. 🩷 to you and yours.
I am the oldest of my parent’s biological kids. But mom’s side, not the step kids.
Moving in with my dad helped cause then I was the oldest with my own room.
I was thinking about which relatives I am closest to in personality. I think it is my maternal aunt who was the oldest daughter and also my maternal grandma (her mom) who was an oldest daughter.
I am also an oldest daughter.
Being the oldest daughter of a youngest daughter is challenging, tbh.
My dad's entire family - including all of my uncles, aunts, and cousins - ghosted us the day he died. I was 11 & the oldest of 4 kids, but bc my mom was his 2nd wife we were "the other family" and no longer included in anything.
Did your uncles get in trouble for doing uncle things with you or did your aunts not suck?
Having a flashback day and remembering when I took my nephew for a zip in my 300hp vw gti and his mom banned me from doing stuff with the kids
One of my oldest and dearest friends was the culprit. I am very lucky in my people.
I was the third one in my family of four kids to live with my then fiance, now wife. I was the first one to tell my parents about it.
Honestly, I probably only got the gig because my mom was county chapter president at the time and I was the oldest of all of us girls from the families so it was really just my turn.
Where in Iowa are you from?
I was married in an episcopal church by a very nice lesbian and I'm almost certain my mom doesn't think it counts.
We had five kids in my family, and the "restaurant with tablecloths" thing was a very rare occurrence. I think we went to the nice Italian restaurant the next town over once when I was a kid, and I don't think it was even all of us kids. Maybe jut my mom and two or three of us.
The vaping trend is deeply concerning.
Even in Northern CA it was huge at my oldest son’s university and I consider most of the students in his graduating class to be very smart kids.
I’ve presented it to my kids twice and the only comment was “it gets a little boring at the end” and the only question was “ma’am, are you married?” (My kids hate that Eric and I are not married)
My oldest son and his spouse hosted both families for the holiday cookout. Really, because of the rain and wind, it was a cook-in. I had a great time. I like my daughter-in-law's family a lot, and I love her to bits. The food was excellent and a good time was had by all.
I graduated HS when SWK was still president. It wasn’t until my own kids were in seminary that I realized the church had subtly changed things in the curriculum and the church they grew up in was different than the church I grew up in.
We use little cups at my church (and grape juice) and the other week I dipped my finger in the cup and stuck it in Amelia's mouth and she was so happy and I kind of felt like I was committing a church crime.
that's true, I'd just really like to take family to Sydney. It was one of my favorites and I was there at approximately the age my kids will be in 2028 (young adults still in college).
hope everyone in the eclipse zone enjoys it
there was one here in 1999 but i was very young and i probably won't get to see another in my lifetime!
The oldest nude in my archive. I was a bit leaner and less hairy then.
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I told my boss that I was open to working Sundays every week, and it made my mother livid at the time.
"WHAT ABOUT CHURCH?!" she'd exclaim.
That was my "Get out of church forever!" card, and my boss was more than happy to accommodate my request.
Having married into such a family (at way too young, don’t do that, kids!), it was a continual dose of horrors each time I interacted with my ex’s family. Left all of them for my sanity & the safety of my small children. I would have thought it all unbelievable before I was immersed in it.
I spent some time around frothing Southern evangelicals when I was a kid, and I fully agree with that many Americans who *haven’t* been around these people don’t grasp how completely, horrifyingly deranged they are - and how Mike Johnson fully embodies their worldview.
It was fun when I was very young, especially when we were in the same campground as my best friend, who I rarely got to see during the non-summer months. As I got older, I enjoyed it less, and by the time it was just me and my sister at home, we stopped entirely.
Jealousssss. I had to bed my mom to take me after church way back in the day (it was closer to the church than our house, and the church was technically in a different city)
⚓️ Yesterday I took my kids to a summer camp reunion that was being held at “The Falls Church” in Falls Church, Virginia. While waiting for my kids, I wandered through the cemetery and peeked through the windows of the church.
From their website I learned that this church was… 1/
I lived in the '70s too and was raised by a Single Mother in a three bedroom home with all the food I could eat and a childhood that was full of Hope and Wonder. My Mom was a cook in the School Cafeteria. It was much better to be young in the 1970s' than it is now.
