GuitarSlayer member

Totally decline. It's rude to take presents from people you have no intent of inviting to your wedding. It's like making them pay for Metallica tickets, but then refuse them entry to the concert. Not… (View Post)

Basically, his mother has spent all of his father's life savings on buying estate sale stuff and wants FI to get a job to 'save' the family house. Also, academia/being educated at a PhD level is maki… (View Post)

I totally agree with the "not slamming the parents" element. That's hard, especially when FI (who is a teddy bear if there ever was one) is practically self-immolating from the inside out; … (View Post)

Uhm. Yeah. That happened because the parents don't approve of the bride -- I'm supposedly not (fundy) Christian enough (they don't think Catholics or Anglican/Episcopalians are Christians), too indep… (View Post)

Thanks everyone. Things have quieted down, the disowning was taken back (not all of the other stuff was), but I'm starting to suspect that FMIL has a rapid cycling bipolar condition. I compared notes… (View Post)