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Weddings are truly joyous occasions, but they are also notorious for being drama-prone events. Of course, everyone wants their wedding to go smoothly, without a hitch, and to be a day they remember for all the right reasons. But when emotions, budgets, and alcohol consumption is high, bridezillas and groomzillas (is that a thing?) come out to play. When that happens, you can almost guarantee there will be drama and tears, leaving the guests remembering the wedding for all the wrong reasons. Redditors revealed the cringiest things they ever saw a bride and groom do for their wedding, and by the sounds of it, the divorce bells will be ringing louder than the wedding ones.

It just feels fitting that during International Women's Month we honor the women who have had to sit through cringy mansplaining experiences. I don't know how they do it. Oh, wait, just kidding I do, because I'm a woman too, and I'm well aware that we get mansplained to nearly every day of our lives. One way to get through it (besides reminding yourself that mansplainers are trash), is to share the experience on Twitter. A safe space, where women can roast men free-ly, and then they get butt-hurt, and we literally couldn't care less.

I wonder who started high school reunions. Is the purpose of them just so people can show off how successful they are? Is it a chance for the kids to show that they've glowed up? What happens if you didn't? It could be really fun I suppose. I bet there are a lot of throwback songs and reignited love triangles. Who doesn't love a little drama in a school gym?

Rejection in life is unavoidable. Unfortunately, one cannot simply reject rejection, though wouldn't that be nice? Rejection builds character. It teaches you about yourself, as well as the people around you, and it pushes you to fight harder for the things you want. See? It isn't all bad. But it sure can be humiliating. Sometimes unbearable... but like I said, totally normal!

What would life be like if our family didn't occasionally put us down. Checking in on someones weight, especially when they don't ask, is a part of showing you love someone right? Eh... I could live without it personally. But at least a have nosy family member is something most of us can relate to. If you can't think of someone, I'm sorry to say it's probably you. 

Dating is a huge risk. Especially with all of these dating apps, you never know who you're about to share a meal with. They could be rude with the waiter, or even worse, flirt with them. Sometimes the date ends up being more than just awkward, and you realize its not going anywhere good. In such cases you're left with very few choices, and staying there is just not in the cards.

As a waiter, you get an intimate view of a lot of different relationships. You might witness a proposal, a birthday, a big new job announcement, the options are limitless. It's a beautiful thing, to be able to partake in so many joyful occasions. However, waiters don't get to pick and choose, they're there for the good stuff as well as everything else. At least they get paid.

Whether you like it or not, there is proper texting etiquette. You don't need to use periods or capital letters, nothing fancy like that. But you shouldn't send 8 messages in a row, especially unsolicited. No need for incessant amounts of emojis or lol's. The more succinct the better. It might seem complicated, but to every art, there is a technique. Lol. But seriously, not everyone understands how to text like a regular person and it really shows.

With everyone's information all over the web, it almost feels way too easy to unintentionally slip into stalking someone. First, you see them on someone else's Instagram post, then you look up their own page, but, oh no, they're private. So it's time to go on Facebook, let's see, maybe their mom's profile is public.

See how quick that was? Being a stalker can easily be a part of someone's everyday routine!

Believe it or not, not all sex ed's are created equal. Some school districts have their teachers skim over all the juicy stuff and preach abstinence, while others will force their poor teachers to get into all the nitty-gritty details and answer each and every question. I remain slightly scarred from my sex-ed course since we were forced to watch a 35-minute slide show of every kind of STI, on every kind of genital, oh and right after our lunch period.

A child's job is basically to just make a mistake, then learn a lesson, then make a different mistake, and learn a different lesson. They are adorable little sponges that absorb everything around them and eventually gain enough confidence to make their own decisions. So sweet isn't it? Well, spoiler alert, the mistakes never really stop, it's kind of a central part of being a human. But if we're lucky they might be a little less silly than the ones we made we were itty bitty.

We all know the ick. It's an uncontrollable feeling that immediately, well, drys everything up. It's different for each person, and I'm sorry to say that the consequences are sometimes irreversible. Are we really surprised though, there are about a million unexplainable things that humans experience every day, the ick is just one more. My advice? Don't worry about what you do and whether it gives people the ick, because when its the right person they will look at you and think, "Yum!"

Ever found yourself with a full bladder and a difficult decision to make? Let me set the scene better. You're at a place where only guys live, maybe it's a frat house, your boyfriend's apartment that he shares with four roommates, it doesn't really matter. You gotta go, but you have no idea what the situation is in their bathroom. There could be pee all over the seat, no toilet paper, detergent in the place of hand soap — the options are limitless. It's like a game.

Okay, we are all awkward at times. We all have questionable judgement when we're not paying attention, or reading the room quite right. It happens, it's life. You may want to crawl in a hole, but eventually, after you have some time to distance yourself from the event you may realize what you said was f*cking hilarious. Hopefully whoever witnessed the moment with you is able to laugh at it too and not hold it against you. 

It takes some serious guts to go up and approach a woman in public, but unfortunately, it doesn't always pan out. It may be that the club is too loud, she's might be hard of hearing, or maybe... you were just too dang awkward — which we are all guilty of being from time to time. It's natural, she's beautiful, you're nervous, you think you planned everything out, but y'all make eye contact, and BOOM! Nothing but nonsense begins to spew out your mouth. Sound a little too familiar? Well, if you made it in this list that means you definitely made an impression.

Whenever a girl is on a date she is very observant. She notices the way you talk to the waitress, the way you tucked in your shirt, and the way you talk about other girls. All of these things tell her a lot about you and allow her to make real informed decisions regarding the possibility of a second date. If the two of you part your ways after the first date and never speak again, there is always a reason, it may not be a significant one, but rest assured something happened that made her say, "This ain't it."