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Originally Posted by Rissask
grandparents  .....my great grandma once said something similar to me, I was around 19 and had gained the 'freshman 15' my first year away at uni, I guess she felt it her 'duty' to point that out. Thanks granny, I never noticed. 
I think older people sometimes forget how to be tactful, or they think they have lived long enough to not have to have any. 
another one that still stings is my husband's sister and I were talking about our upcoming wedding; I said we were just having an evening wedding in a hotel ballroom, no church, just a JP. She looked like she had just smelled something bad....so I asked her what the problem was....she tells me that she doesn't think it is a 'real' marriage unless you are married by a priest...oh, okay....I explained my position and she kind of 'harumphed' and then changed the subject. Whatever.
I DID think it mildly ironic when a few years later her daughter, who HAD had a 'real marriage' only had it for a year before they separated and then got an anullment.  |
Jeremy's grandmother doesn't recognize his cousin's wedding (or subsequent child
) because he wasn't married in a church.
And they were married in Mexico- horrors! The funny thing is we were married outside by a friend of ours (not a minister...), but he wore a black turtleneck and kinda looked minister'y- we figured her eyesight was just bad so she didn't notice all his facial piercings......
(my cousin actually asked me if he was a priest, so I guess that was a common mistake
)
My grandfather always pointed out larger woman and said things like "she used to be so trim- poor guy" Not like the husband was a perfect specimen....
Grandparents....sigh....(I do miss all of my grandparents terribly, though....)