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Maureen
Devoted November 2021

Venting or being a burden?

Maureen, on September 28, 2020 at 7:31 PM Posted in Community Conversations 1 10
How is everyone dealing with their emotions and expressing feelings about changed wedding plans? At the very peak of us changing our wedding and reevaluating our contracts back in early July to change our October wedding to next year, I was a pure emotional basket case for good reason and needed a good cry with my friend.


And I’m the type of person to let it out, so of course I expressed my sadness to a best friend and haven’t really talked about it since to her, I was about to explode and needed to grieve. She proceeded to tell my fiancé last week that I have been “unloading and quite frankly, it’s a lot”. I haven’t vented to her in two months! She really made me feel like a burden.
She doesn’t know I know what she said. My fiancé was really not happy with her either. Express my feelings or led it slide?

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Latest activity by Olusola, on September 29, 2020 at 2:30 PM
  • Rachel
    Devoted February 2022
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    Ughh im a hot mess too!! My venue is still not open i wont know until November 15 & my wedding is February 21,2021. I got this news on Friday after i had already ordered my invitations and stuff a week before .. My MOH who i tell everything to has been acting super funny with me and bothered anytime i try to bring anything up even if its not about the wedding. Its like she is very dismissive towards me. Like if u dont want to be bothered just say so. So lately i do not call her or bother her n she doesn’t contact me either.
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  • Maureen
    Devoted November 2021
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    PS, I should mention she is also engaged, so I thought she was the perfect person to vent to with the connection we have.
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  • Jai
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    Mhm, I learned amongst the whole pandemic and wedding planning process is to be careful who I vent to. I only vent to my husband about things. Others can be opinionated
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  • Maureen
    Devoted November 2021
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    Very very true.
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  • Molly
    Expert August 2021
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    I'm so sorry that you're dealing with both the postponement and your friend. You should be allowed to express your feelings! You are not a burden. Everyone needs to be able to vent once in a while, especially with the stressful situation of Covid.

    I would ask her if she feels like you are being too much. If she says no, then I would distance myself since she's talking behind your back and lying to your face. If she says yes then it's time to sit down and talk about both of your feelings. Good luck!

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  • Suzie
    Super October 2021
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    Agreed. I vent mostly to my FH, and lately it’s been a LOT lol. We’re just under two weeks out, and things are really getting to me. I feel awkward venting to some people, bc I feel like in the grand scheme of the world, no one really cares or thinks it’s a “real” problem. No one truly understands the pressure of wedding planning until they are in it - now lets throw in a pandemic, and make a stressful situation 100 times worse! I will vent to my sister (my MOH) as well - in fact I had a long convo with her today! Sigh... I keep trying to focus on the positive, which is that I get to marry my love, but some days it’s hard to see that silver lining lol. As far as your friend goes, I would just leave it be, but don’t reach out to her about things anymore. That’s really crappy of her to say that behind your back, and to your fiancé of all people. Like your fiancé isn’t going to tell you? Ugh... Perhaps she just didn’t want to add to your stress by letting you know it’s too much, but she def didn’t handle that well. She’ll understand soon enough when she’s dealing with issues as well, and then you can snub her when she comes to you crying. LOL just kidding 😂

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  • RaylaSan
    Expert February 2021
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    My god if my friend told me that I'd be throwing hands, but no seriously, I think that was really disrespectful of her to go tell your fiancee about that. I honestly think of it as a breach of trust. You're not a burden, and you have every right to feel devastated!

    As for me, a lot of my friends and sometimes my fiancee don't really care to much about the wedding in general, so I've always kept my wedding frustrations to myself. Thankfully, one of my bridesmaids have stepped up and is honestly seriously looking forward to the wedding, since it's her first time being a bridesmaid, so she's stoked. She's even went above and beyond and planned the bachelor and bachelorette party. So I appreciate having her around to just talk to. I'll be honest, when the wedding was a year away she didn't care for it at all, but since we're literally five months out she's taking it a lot more seriously.

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  • CountryBride
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    I am a hot mess and for some reason my fiance is still wanting to marry me. lol If my friend to my fiance that I would confront her about it who does that ? I would remind her that planning a wedding is stressful and you needed to vent, take care prayers

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  • Theadra
    Devoted June 2021
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    I'm sorry that you're dealing with this. You should prob let it slide since nothing good could really come from it. She prob won't be your go to anymore. I feel very hopeful that things will be fine come next summer. I'm more at ease too because we're basically done planning , we just need to have our wedding.

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  • Olusola
    Dedicated November 2020
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    That's real, and I'm sorry you went through that. I have definitely been feeling like a burden lately. Like others mentioned, I do my very best not to talk about it to others from now on. I only discuss it with God, my FH and my wedding wire girls lol. Everyone else is seemingly irritated.

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