Today, my twice-divorced boomer mother made another passive-aggressive remark about my partner and I not being married, despite our 13-year relationship. What is this, 1950? We don't care about marriage, deal with it. FML
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Today, my mother refuses to acknowledge that I’m married because instead of a church, we got married outdoors in a lovely pagan ceremony (with a real marriage licence from the city council, obviously) and she keeps trying to introduce me to nice, single men from church. FML
Today, my mom told me my relationship is a joke, because teenagers don't understand the meaning of relationships and commitment. I couldn't help but remind her how she's divorced three separate men to date. She hit me over the head so hard that snot flew out of my nose. FML
Today, I overheard my mother telling my sister that she expects my marriage to fall apart any day now. Apparently, I have no concept of what "marriage" really means. My husband and I just celebrated our 7th anniversary, while my mother is planning her 5th wedding. FML
Today, my baby-crazy mother expressed her concerns that I haven't conceived after a whole two months of marriage. Her advice amounted to "get divorced while you're still hot, sleep around until you get pregnant, then marry the winner." When I complained to my father, he supported her. FML
Today, my mother started arguing with me once again about how my life revolves around my girlfriend and how it's unhealthy to spend so much time with her. We live together and are engaged to be married. FML
Today, my mother keeps nagging me to find a wife, settle down, and have kids, even though I have zero interest in any of those things. She refuses to understand that I’m perfectly content being completely on my own. She even signed me up to Tinder without my knowledge. FML
Today, my mom has been aggressively trying to get me to marry one of her coworkers, who is around my age. Apparently she loves her like the daughter she always wanted, and since it would be silly to adopt her; she is determined she will be her daughter-in-law instead, whether I like it or not. FML
Today, my older brother and I were teasing our mom about her age. When we jokingly told her it was hard for us to watch our parents get old, she responded by saying, "Yeah, well, it's hard for me to watch my kids grow up and not have anyone who wants to marry them." FML
Today, I had a double wedding with my sister. My mother, being as encouraging as she always is, told us that statistics say one of our marriages will end in divorce. She then explained she thinks it'll be mine because I'm "a self-absorbed bitch." FML
Today, my mom once again told me that I'm too young and immature to get married, and that I don't know what love is. I'm 29, have a successful career, own my own home, and am financially stable. FML
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BMXDude22 12
Reminds me of the Doug Stanhope bit "If marriage didn't exist, would you invent it? Would you go "Baby, this shit we got together? It's so good we gotta get the government in on this shit. We can't just share this commitment between us. We need judges and lawyers involved in this shit, baby. It's hot!""
samomaha 17
Good for you! Live your own truth.
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samomaha 17
Good for you! Live your own truth.
tounces7 28
It's the year 2021, where tax breaks and major medical decisions are still a pretty good reason to be married to someone you plan to stay with, unless you'd prefer your passive-aggressive mother to be making all those decisions, since right now they're going to ignore your partner and ask her or your father, as they are the only ones with any legal ties to you. Heck, they won't even allow your partner stay in the room with you, as they are no relation to you whatsoever at this point.
BMXDude22 12
Wow, tax breaks. How romantic.
Jon Tessler 14
actually OP can designate his partner as the one to make any and all medical decisions, and cut mommy and daddy right out.
Vesi 30
Wills, Palimony agreement, living will, all these can set their life partner as their caretaker should anything happen to them. Marriage is antiquated and not needed to give all rights to your medicals and financials to a partner. My partner and I have this set up so we know it's doable. =)
ajoyh11 6
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
peterblack67 9
I'm curious as to why after 13 years you're still letting her get to you about it.
BMXDude22 12
Reminds me of the Doug Stanhope bit "If marriage didn't exist, would you invent it? Would you go "Baby, this shit we got together? It's so good we gotta get the government in on this shit. We can't just share this commitment between us. We need judges and lawyers involved in this shit, baby. It's hot!""
phybreawptic 13
I could hear the finger snaps reading this.
giraffe_poop 8
I heard them too
Levi2411 41
I mean, if she wants to be petty, you can always gently tell her that maybe if she could keep a marriage, you'd be more keen on it. 🥰 For real though, do whatever you feel is best. No one can tell you how to be happy except for YOU.