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Dad criticizes his 26-year-old son’s summer wedding date because his 6, 7, and 9-year-old stepchildren stay with their dad during the summer: ‘There were tears when they found out they wouldn’t be able to come’ #Fun

unitedyam March 23, 2025

I hate when people think they have a say in the location or time of someone else’s wedding. Now, if you’re footing the bill, you should probably have some kind of a say in whether a destination wedding in Mexico for 200 guests is within your budget. But if you’re just a random friend or family member, you can either show up and enjoy the big day or decline the invitation if a wedding detail makes you so irate. It’s difficult enough to find a weekend that will work for the bride, groom, their bridesmaids, groomsmen, the venue, and the couple’s parents. If you’re not one of those people, you are probably not important enough to schedule the wedding around. If you have a conflict that is more important to you than the wedding, it’s your choice to make unless uncontrollable forces are preventing you from going, which happens but is rare.

Woman spends entire bachelorette trip crocheting instead of joining bridal activities, demands apology from bride for asking her to limit crochet time: ‘We gave her the option to stay home’ #Fun

unitedyam March 4, 2025

Some of us (I would actually venture most of us) have limited social batteries. We can’t go all day talking with people, especially people we don’t know that well, and come home and do some more talking. Most of us need some amount of alone time so we can recharge, regroup, and feel like ourselves again. If this sounds like you, odds are you’ve had some practice setting boundaries in this way. If we’re on a big trip with a bunch of people, we might say “I’m taking a recharge walk by myself, see y’all in a couple hours.” And if you’re clear and respectful about communicating your boundaries, then your friends have no choice but to respect them.

The woman in this story, though, had a weird way of going about boundary setting. Instead of trying her best to participate in group activities when she could, she neglected all of them in favor of her crafting activity.

‘She exploded and called me a bridezilla’: Woman who constantly plays humiliating pranks on her sister lashes out when she un-invites her to her wedding #Fun

unitedyam January 1, 2025

A little prank is good fun every now and again. Not enough people do them in my life. Things are usually so boring and monotonous, that sometimes we need pranks to throw us out of our rhythms and make us feel the zest of life again. The perfect pranks, though, are ultimately harmless. Like putting a Whoopi Cushion under your significant other as they sit down on the couch to watch Better Call Saul. Temporarily humiliating? Yes. Damaging in the long run? Absolutely not. If anything, it will strengthen your relationship, giving you a happy memory to look back on if you ever hit a rough patch.

On the other hand, some pranks can easily get out of hand. They go too far and end up damaging your relationships. Pranks should never cross the line of damaging someone’s physical property, their physical person, or their mental well-being. This shouldn’t be too hard to accomplish. Certain social media personalities challenge this notion, but as regular people, it’s important we keep strong and only do pranks in good faith. But that’s not what happened in this story when a woman’s sister took pranks a little too far and then suffered the consequences afterward.

unitedyam November 15, 2024

Saint Gertrude, a Benedictine nun, was one of the great mystics of the 13th century. Her form of spirituality was a blend of liturgical and personal prayer rooted in the Scriptures.

Mother-in-law forces bride to take wedding pictures against her will, groom sides with his mother: ‘He said let him down by making such a fuss over a normal part of weddings’ #Fun

unitedyam October 7, 2024

We’ve all heard of bridezillas, and some of us have encountered them in real life. It’s easy to think of a bridezilla as an unrepentant and unreasonable monster who wants it her way or the highway, no matter how unreasonable her way is. While those brides do exist, it’s much more likely for a bride to be unreasonable for a reason that’s sympathetic if you know the context. Maybe a million family members are whispering in her ear, telling her that her wedding has to be perfect, or else. She might’ve spent her life’s savings on this one day, and anything short of exactly what she wants would feel like an absurd waste of money. Or perhaps she’s feeling bad about her self-image and doesn’t want there to be photos of her big day because of how insecure she’s feeling. As unusual as it sounds, the latter scenario is what happened to this bride.