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Yeah. My house is a little crazy right now. So, my older brother has been dating this girl Mary for about 8 months now, and she lived with us for 5 months. She's nice, but a little...I don't know. Weird. I feel like she lies about so many things, and that she's hiding things from us. There's just something I don't like about her. I feel so bad about saying all this, so God forgive me. I feel like I should like her because my brother likes her so much. Well, ANYWAYS. She moved out a month ago. She lives in Seattle, Washington. And my brother has decided he's going to move down there with her to live with her family and work for her father...on a fairie...making 50,000 a year. It just sounds like such a scam to me. Well, I heard he and Mary talking on the phone the other night [no I wasn't evesdropping, my brother screams when he talks to anyone] and I could tell Mary was trying to convince him to propose to her. I kind of looked past it, but then the next day, [yesterday] he comes home with a ring. He's going to ask her to marry him. And he told us that Mary's dad told her that if John's going to move over there, he better be proposing to her sometime soon.
This is all so complicated. Ok. My family [extended] is very old fashioned. They have an idea of what they want for our family in their life. You graduate from high school, go to college, graduate from college, get a succesful job, get married LATER in life. It's a lot of pressure, so I know how my brother feels. You can tell he's afraid of what the family will think. I mean, when I started dating Mike, I was scared of what my family would think of me bringing him home. When my brother said to my grandma a year ago "Katie's boyfriend has tattoos, gauges, piercings and wants to be a tattoo artist," my grandma said flat out to me "That doesn't sound like a good thing to me." They do like him now, but my family does put a lot of pressure on us to live a "successful" life. But this whole marriage thing for him, I just don't feel it's right. Not right now anyways. After living with us for 5 months, we realized how what Mary wants is to have kids. She wants babies. Now. My brother even asked my mom what she would think if they got married in Vegas. But I just don't think John is ready to be a dad. I don't think he knows what he's getting into. This is so crazy to me. He's only 21. There's no need to rush into getting married. Especially with someone you've only dated for 8 months. And I feel this is all out of pressure from her dad and her, and I just don't think that's the way to make a decision like that.
Wow. LOL. I feel like this is the biggest waste of a day. I've spent all day sitting around, watching Top Chef. I feel so lazy. I hate it. Please tell me that some of you have lazy days every once in a while so I don't feel so lazy.
This is all so complicated. Ok. My family [extended] is very old fashioned. They have an idea of what they want for our family in their life. You graduate from high school, go to college, graduate from college, get a succesful job, get married LATER in life. It's a lot of pressure, so I know how my brother feels. You can tell he's afraid of what the family will think. I mean, when I started dating Mike, I was scared of what my family would think of me bringing him home. When my brother said to my grandma a year ago "Katie's boyfriend has tattoos, gauges, piercings and wants to be a tattoo artist," my grandma said flat out to me "That doesn't sound like a good thing to me." They do like him now, but my family does put a lot of pressure on us to live a "successful" life. But this whole marriage thing for him, I just don't feel it's right. Not right now anyways. After living with us for 5 months, we realized how what Mary wants is to have kids. She wants babies. Now. My brother even asked my mom what she would think if they got married in Vegas. But I just don't think John is ready to be a dad. I don't think he knows what he's getting into. This is so crazy to me. He's only 21. There's no need to rush into getting married. Especially with someone you've only dated for 8 months. And I feel this is all out of pressure from her dad and her, and I just don't think that's the way to make a decision like that.
Wow. LOL. I feel like this is the biggest waste of a day. I've spent all day sitting around, watching Top Chef. I feel so lazy. I hate it. Please tell me that some of you have lazy days every once in a while so I don't feel so lazy.