"So she threw a rehearsal dinner bigger and fancier than our wedding at a wedding venue."

Welcome, tea-spillers of the internet. Thanks to the influence of early 2000s rom-coms, Disney movies, and fairy tale books, most little girls dream of having a big, luxurious wedding when they grow up. They envision inviting hundreds of adoring people, wearing a big, poofy princess gown, and dancing in an impossibly large, baroque-style ballroom. Unfortunately, every little girl must eventually wake up to the reality that this sort of wedding would be totally over-budget, a nightmare to organi…

Some moms are blessed with great mothers-in-law. Others, not so much...

MIL didn't realize she wasn't the one getting married!

I'm grateful for supportive partners when it comes to setting boundaries with crazy in-laws.

Talk about entitled...

Maybe she should start giving her MIL some unwanted names, too.

This has to be a trick.

She did not sign up for this!

Yikes!

To host, not to host?

He really thought he was going to walk her down the aisle after all of that?

"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."

When trick-or-treating becomes a chore...

You ought not to demonstrate prejudice in your role as a parent. Having said that, how would you react if your partner openly expressed his preference for your son over your daughter? Would you strive to make up for your husband's lack of affection, or would you just put up with it and treat your children the same way? The story below is of a defensive mother. The original poster (OP) shares two children with her husband. Although OP has always loved her two children equally, it is clear that h…

Why should she help?