Discussions from Family and Relationships

When you began dating your SO, were their parents too attached to them? Did you get the (almost often very truthful but passive aggressive) comment about your SO "leaving the nest too soon"? How was...

I am having a hard time dealing with my fiancé’s family. He and I have have been together 2.5 years and everything has been great with his family up until April of this year. My fiancé and his family...

With the holidays right around the corner, I am a total nervous wreck right now. Because of politics, my fiancé believes one side and my family believes the opposite side. Every time I have dinner...

I’ve been with my husband for 9 years and we have been married almost a month now! I am not sure if anything has really changed but I do feel so happy to be married to him, to call him my husband, I...

Do you and your significant other have the same love language or are they different? Does it ever cause any problems between you too? My love language is Words of Affirmation followed by Quality time...

Hi y’all- What to do about a super high anxiety sister-in-law (to be) who is pressuring my fiancé every single day to cancel our wedding? To be clear, we cancelled our “big” 150-person wedding and are...

My fiancé and I have been doing blending of our families over the years, but more recently since our engagement. We are of different races and cultures. He speaks English and Spanish and myself just...

I need some honest advice. One of my close friends asked me to be a bridesmaid in her upcoming wedding. I am so happy for her and honored that she’s asked me to join her side on her big day. However,...

I have been engaged for a little over a year we wanted to give ourselves plenty of time to plan. I picked my MOH very quickly which is my fiancé’s soon to be step mom. We had a good connection and she...

Let's hear about the moment when you knew your significant other was The One! Was it a specific event or moment? Or did you just wake up and realize it one day? Did your significant other know first,...

I am not sure how to put this so here it goes. My FH and I got engaged in January and have set a date for next December (2021). My FH younger brother( who is the best man at our wedding) started...

I have a very complex relationship with my dad. He was amazing from birth to 18 and raised me but when he divorced my mom when I was at ubiversity he checked out mentally and emotionally from me....

We got engaged about a month ago and quickly decided to have a micro-wedding in Greece of October 2021. We socialized the idea with the family and then sent a google form out to help us nail down some...

I am so sorry everyone, but I just need to vent. I originally planned a very low-key wedding with just a handful of guests, not so much as a result of Covid but more of the fact that both my fiancé...

My wedding was supposed to be in May, and my dad strong armed me into inviting his best friend to the wedding, even though my fiance and I are paying for the wedding, not him. His best friend is...

I’m not really looking for advice or anything, i guess i just need an outlet to just say it. My FH and I are eloping next month, around Christmas. Originally, my parents and my brother were supposed...

How much socializing is important to you and your (future) spouse? How much time do you two want to spend with each of your friends and family? I've noticed that some of my friends no longer make time...

Hello, So yesterday was my birthday and It was wonderful but after the day was done I was a bit hurt by one thing. My husbands family makes a big deal out of birthdays, especially my father in law....

Anyone else struggling with merging two families together? My fiancé’s mom and sister like to do holidays at their house and my family is really big which definitely can’t fit in their house. (My...

****: I started going to a new church and one of the ladies in my small group was already engaged when I first met, but we slowly became friends and she last-minute decided to ask me to be a...