"Motherly duties." Are we in the 1950s?

"I’m just not sure if this is something I’m willing to put up with long-term."

"Am I obligated to keep making an effort for someone who just can't or won't reciprocate?"

"I’m tired of it. I feel like I’m enabling him to live irresponsibly, and it's starting to feel more like I'm being taken advantage of than helping family."

"She starts going off about how perfect it would be to have a ‘big moment’ where everyone finds out the gender during my reception, and how I should ‘totally do a balloon release or confetti pop for her.’"

Sometimes people think the wedding is all about them.

Offensiveness took the cultural route this time.

Cute kids have one job -- to be in wedding photos!

Imagine seeing your son's girlfriend in lingerie...the first time you see her

Fun fact: My father refuses to buy my mother jewelry. The last time he set foot in a jewelry store was over thirty years ago when he proposed. He continues to argue that he would never be able to afford her upscale taste and bling. The story below is of a loyal girlfriend who has spent four long years with a man who refuses to spoil her with gifts. After four years of dating, OP continues to ask her partner for the same straightforward present every year: a piece of jewelry she will never take…