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Partial breakdown last night (long)

I felt myself falling apart last night. I did hold in my tears though. At random times I felt tears trying to come on, but I fought them well. There is a mix of things going on right now.

1. I have to pack up and freaking move in 5 months. I have been living in this house and in this bedroom since I was 7 years old. Over the years there has been times when I have cleaned things out and such, but never this much. I have only not lived in this house for a year when I moved off to college and for the 4 months I stayed in Belgium with my FI. I really don't know what to do with myself. I have to start seriously gettng rid of things in here because I can't just pack it in my car and drive to Europe. I need only what I can fit into a few large suitcases and a few boxes to ship. I have to keep in mind that the apartment in Belgium isn't the biggest and to store things there is horrible since they don't build apartments with closets there.
I'm just overall nervous about this move and not having my family. I won't see my mom from July until Christmas, my FI has promised to fly her out for Christmas. This right now is the biggest issue and I think I need to make an appointment to see a psychologist just to talk about my fears.

2. This one bridesmaid has yet to seriously get back to me. The dresses of all the other girls have been started by the seamstress, but she has yet to seriously call me about getting her measurements and starting the payment plan for her dress. She has been in my area for nearly 5 days now and I have had contact with her once when she wrote to be on fb that she was going to San Francisco. I live righty by San Francisco (on the way to Sf coming from her way) I live less than 1 minute off the freeway and the measurements seriously only take 1 minute. She has said nothing about coming by or anything. She was the one who was all excited about the wedding and wanting to do stuff and excited to get the dresses, its time for stuff and she is no where to be found besides her random fb updates. At first I gave her slack because she and her bf were having issues and then they broke up. I was being really gentle and stuff because of that and now she is acting like it was nothing.
She even flaked on my FI, She was supposed to be going to Europe for a few weeks and she wanted to go to Belgium for a couple days. She asked my FI if she and a friend of hers can stay at his place. My FI said yes and he is really picky and weird about ANYBODY staying at his place so it was REALLY huge of him to say it was okay. Days before she was set to come she sends me an fb message saying to tell my FI thanks, but she won't be going to Europe afterall. I firstly found it odd that she told me to tell him because when she originally asked she went straight to him which I wasn't to happy about because where I come from if you are going to ask the boyfriend or husband of anybody for anything and you are mostly friends with the girl you ask her always because its rude to go straight to him.
I seriously don't know what is up with her. My FI said to just kick her out the wedding, but I don't want to be rude and just do that. I am giving her a week to get in contact with me. I will email her one more time to ask for the measurements or for her to go come here to get them done, if I get no response I will have to ask her to step down, I need to get this information to the seamstress. It's not my time she is wasting, but the woman making the dresses.
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Re: Partial breakdown last night (long)

  • M1ssJM1ssJ member
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    edited December 2011

    Your fears about moving are completely justified. The idea of something and the reality of it are very dfferent. Pray and cry if you need to, its certainly justifiable.

    I would do what you said email her and then keep it moving. It sounds like some other stuff may be going on with her but either way dont stress over it.

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  • edited December 2011
    I think Miss J gave you great advice so I'll ditto her. Hope you feel better about all of this soon. Teach  your mom to Skype before you go if she doesn't already know how.
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  • edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/cultural-wedding-boards_african-american-weddings_partial-breakdown-last-night-long?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Cultural Wedding BoardsForum:400Discussion:2cbaafce-7404-4165-9b1d-20dce6ce5da2Post:de4fe44a-5fe9-420a-b2f1-e25e3c8a4e3e">Re: Partial breakdown last night (long)</a>:
    [QUOTE]I think Miss J gave you great advice so I'll ditto her. Hope you feel better about all of this soon. Teach  your mom to Skype before you go if she doesn't already know how.
    Posted by eagles347[/QUOTE]

    I taught my mom to skype the last time I was in Belgium, its quite useful, but not the same. My mom and I are really close and we enjoy going out to lunch and going shopping. Since we live in the same house I will go hop on her bed and we will talk and watch tv. It's going to be very new not having her and not having any family since I am not on close terms with my in-laws.
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  • desi2002desi2002 member
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    you are justified in everything that you are feeling. I know that once you get adjusted, everything will be great. keep your head up and embrace this new season in your life!
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    Aww...you need a hug! I understand 100% about the moving situation and being away from your mom. I just moved back home (my own place though) and I am now 15 mins away from my mom. We are VERY close since I'm an only child & living just 2 hours away from her for 5 years was hard. When she would visit for the weekend, I held back tears when Sunday came & I had to watch her leave. And I'm a grown woman! I adjusted over time, but it was difficult in the beginning. Like Eagles said, count on Skype. Ya'll can even set mom & daughter skype meetings, especially during fav shows and watch them together with some popcorn...lol. In due time, you will adjust fine.

    For the difficult BM, I would contact her one last time via FB, text, email, etc. Be specific with her & give her a deadline to contact you. Let her know if you do not hear from her by then, you will just assume she is out of the wedding.
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  • edited December 2011
    ****hugs*****

    Your fears are justified, so go ahead and face them head on!  It's one thing to move to another state like I did, but moving to Europe is a much more challenging thing so hence my hugs to you.  I will continue to pray that God remove those fears and that you and your FI will enjoy your marriage and your Mom can view her visits to you as "vacation" (that's how my twin and I dealt with being separated for the first time in our lives at 28 years old!) - somehow it makes the distance just a little easier to handle.

    As for the BM, I agree with your FI - give her one more chance to cooperate.  If she doesn't move on - you have enough to be stressed about!

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  • edited December 2011
    Thanks ladies! It means a lot.

    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/cultural-wedding-boards_african-american-weddings_partial-breakdown-last-night-long?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Cultural Wedding BoardsForum:400Discussion:2cbaafce-7404-4165-9b1d-20dce6ce5da2Post:860ea9c7-2b9f-4587-b789-f84946085291">Re: Partial breakdown last night (long)</a>:
    [QUOTE]Aww...you need a hug! I understand 100% about the moving situation and being away from your mom. I just moved back home (my own place though) and I am now 15 mins away from my mom. <strong>We are VERY close since I'm an only child</strong> & living just 2 hours away from her for 5 years was hard. When she would visit for the weekend, I held back tears when Sunday came & I had to watch her leave. And I'm a grown woman! I adjusted over time, but it was difficult in the beginning. Like Eagles said, count on Skype. Ya'll can even set mom & daughter skype meetings, especially during fav shows and watch them together with some popcorn...lol. In due time, you will adjust fine. For the difficult BM, I would contact her one last time via FB, text, email, etc. Be specific with her & give her a deadline to contact you. Let her know if you do not hear from her by then, you will just assume she is out of the wedding.
    Posted by lil01[/QUOTE]

    Same here I am her one and only child. My mom isn't married or in a relationship so its just her. My little cousin stays here everyday, but he is going through his teenage phase and its a lot on her. My mom is ill and has been since I was 15, we went through a lot with her sickness which was caused by the surguren making a slight mistake during a normal surgery. That small mistake caused a world of problems and even though she has been stable for years I am afraid while I am away she might get sicker. I'd rather my FI be able to live here. My mom always says it better for me to go because my FI's parents are A LOT older than her and they would "most likely" die sooner, but with her being ill you never know what can happen and i would always rather be in the US.
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