My husband and I got married in 1996 in Austin, TX. At the time Southwest was doing one of those specials on airfare for a $35 round trip to certain locations, and being young and poor we picked Los Angeles CA so we could go to Disneyland and Universal Studios for our honeymoon.…
I got 3 thrifted (used, not nice) dinner spoons from my stepmother. There are 4 of us in my family. Another year I got a travel book to Banff. I have never expressed any desire to go to Banff. Sigh
Mine is telephony. I pronounced it "tele phony", You know like it is SPELLED! Or like the word telephone!
Apparently it is pronounced "tel - EF - any". WHY???
I got married relatively young at 23. I am not a 'girly' girl, and wanted the wedding stuff, but seriously was not interested in the process of it all. My step-mother and her sister planned the entire thing for me. I hated even going shopping for the flowers.
All i had to do…
My entire family KNEW what our mother was doing to me and my sister. Even my father (my sister is my 1/2 sister and her dad died when i was 14)! They KNEW she would scream, physically abuse me (at least), spend money on HER fancy clothes, while we wore whatever was donated.
Her…
#10, OMG this is me "I’m the spitting image of her; however, I see her every time I look in the mirror."!!! I am literally just a shorter version (mini me) of her. I even sound and laugh like her! Thankfully she died in 2017 but that abuse stays with you.
I know how bad it is…
I am 49 years old. When I visited my father and step-mother the last time, i tripped and fell and knocked over a china cabinet. I started crying hysterically, hitting my legs and chest and pulling at my hair due to being upset that I may have broken something.
They were shocked.…
I jump at any and all noises I am not expecting. Whether it is someone just coming into my office, dog barking, etc. I get exceptionally jumpy at loud noises. Door slamming (just because it is a heavy door), car doors, loud people, etc.
None of these noises have anything to…
The evening before my wedding, my mother decided to pick a fight with HER mother (who flew in from CA to attend my wedding) about my grandmother not supporting her to go to college in the 70s. I got married in 1996.
Then on the day of, my mother wore a very short skirt (she was…
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