August 2012 Weddings

Negative Nancies (or Negative Nathans or something LOL)

Have any of you had to deal with bitter divorcees? I have 2 coworkers, one being a close friend, who have had failed marriages and every chance they get they talk sh!t about marriage and how it's terrible and don't waste your time / money / etc. and "live in sin" talk. omg. It's like dude, you KNOW I'm getting married - stfu about it just because YOU chose the wrong person!!

The issue so many fail to realize is that generally if you've gotten divorced, there were issues that were around well before the wedding and instead of handling that BEFORE getting married - you got married assuming things would get resolved. Marriage does NOT cure ANYTHING. Marriage merely magnifies the issues at hand and then causes those in the marriage to get panicked and feel trapped in the marriage and then they start to resent each other. 

Both of these people had glaringly obvious issues in their relationships prior to getting married and then when these issues erupted and turned into a divorce they're all bitter. So obnoxious. FI and I have had our issues - but we've dealt with them and now they're a non-issue. You have to know what you can and cannot handle for the rest of your life and either accept the other person's flaws or just call it off before it gets bad. 

Makes me absolutely bat-sh!t insane. lol
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Re: Negative Nancies (or Negative Nathans or something LOL)

  • Yeah I def. have som negative nancies and FI has some guys giving him crap at the same time. I just try to shrug it off, but I have said "can you keep your negativity away while I'm present, I am getting married in 2 weeks. (or whatever the situation was at the time).
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  • Over the past few weeks people have told FI you have X number of days to run... Seriously/ He asked me to marry him. I think he wants to get married!
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  • Doesn't weddings bring out the best in people?

    FI's dad keeps giving us "advice" constantly, and it's making us go crazy. FI's parents had a bitter divorce after they each began to cheat on each other, and FFIL re-married to the woman he cheated on FMIL with.  So he thinks his marriage is perfect, even though he talks horribly about his current wife, and never says a good thing about her. Hello, we're getting married in 5 days, and we don't need your marriage advice.

    Then you have his mothers' comments about marriage in general. (she did not re-marry, and does not want to).

    I really wish I could tell them they are the reason FI took over 7 years to propose to me. Because he watched their bitter divorce, and the way they were with each other, and wanted to make sure that we would never do anything like that to each other. So keep your opinions to yourself, please.
  • Yeah I just wanna tell people to STFU. lol
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  • Can't we just say it's the "bridezilla" coming out, and tell them to STFU?
  • Hahahahaha I guess we could. I said at one point today "You're saying this about marriage when I'm FOUR DAYS from my wedding?!?!" everyone laughed even tho I was fairly serious...
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