Like my sister in law who married her cheating boyfriend, then 2 kids later was completely surprised when he was still shagging around. She knew what she was getting into, and how she and the kids have treated him since has been disgusting.I’m also a step parent and what I hate most about the step parent board is the total lack of inner reflection the parents are willing to do on why their relationship failed and they had to split in the first place.
Yes sometimes there is abuse or an affair and in those situations, splitting up is the safest or best option.
But when I see ‘you knew what you were getting into’ trotted out time and again on there, I feel like saying yeah? Did you know you were having a child with a man you didn’t love enough to stay with long term then? Because that’s nice for the kids isn’t it?
Now, if we’ve going to add barbecue beans to a KFC family bucket and call it a bean and chicken salad, then I’m right there with you in that I enjoy a massive bean and chicken salad too.Or those huge bean salads with chicken, honey and mustard.
No petit pois - bloody heretic!My money is on pie, chips, gravy followed by Viennetta every night for dinner.
I know zero about horses, they have never interested me. My cousin, however, was horse-crazy since a tot. I enjoy spending time with most of her eclectic range of friends.Horse people are absolutely fucking bonkers. I grew up quite horsey and occasionally think about getting back into it. Having to use a yard and talk to horsey people (apart from the astronomical expense) is largely what puts me off!
I hope this is not too off topic but it reminds me:Oh, is it another "nobody who is truly in love spends more than £2.50 on their wedding, I got married in a car park wearing a carrier bag" race to the bottom?
I find that phenomenon so odd. They're obsessed with class, they'll have flame wars about supposed class signifiers and who is highest up the social system, yet the subject turns to weddings and suddenly you can't be cheap and crap enough. Nothing at all wrong with a low key wedding, of course, but that's all it is: a low key wedding, not proof of the quality of the marriage. Why is that? Is it because weddings are thought to be a true class signifier and they're pissed off because they couldn't afford St Paul's Cathedral and a £50k dress of fairy wings and unicorn tails?
I’m on the periphery of a horsey set by accident (one of my good friends married in). The U.K. set are insufferable snobs. The ones from a different European country are down to earth and lovely.I know zero about horses, they have never interested me. My cousin, however, was horse-crazy since a tot. I enjoy spending time with most of her eclectic range of friends.
The only exception is her 'horsey' set of friends.
IMO, they are so far up their own arses they are seeing daylight.
For me, that demographic explains a great deal of why the MN membership is as it is.
PS I'll be frank, attempting to rein in (pun intended!) my sarcasm in their company was a sadly futile exercise. I'm no longer invited to their 'occasions'. Three (extremely loud, obnoxious, intrusive) cheers for me!! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
*Even when the free education system leveled out people's prospects, a middle class person's grandparents were working class,.....I hope this is not too off topic but it reminds me:
The class system is a staple of and deeply embedded in British culture and history even when the education system a middle class person's grandparents were working class, people prefer to be thought of as 'better than other groups of people in society.
Fortunately when I met my partner, his children were already young adults and he'd been long-divorced.My partner has two adult children in their twenties. They're lovely and I get on really well with them and with their Mum too. She and my partner had an amicable divorce. She's in a relationship too and we're all good, but I know I wouldn't fancy being stepmother (of sorts) to small kids in a fit.
Very much this. I was in an abusive marriage when I was very young and the one thing it taught me was that I would never rely financially on a man again. We never had children thankfully. It worries me how many women are prepared to give up their financial independence in order to have children.considering something like 50% or marriages fail, I do think too many women happily pack in their careers with no thought to when they end up a single parent.
I accidentally clicked on it. I think my bingo card was full after about 3 posts.Not sure I can even bring myself to click on the ‘why are there so many autistic kids now’ thread to play ableist bingo
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