Roll Call Thread......

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Roll Call Thread......
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Thu, 04-02-2009 - 4:49pm

There are a lot of new posters out there and some old faces, lets all introduce ourselves again...


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Wed, 04-15-2009 - 10:46pm
Ahhh.
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Wed, 04-15-2009 - 10:50pm
Your response has nothing to do with what I posted.
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Wed, 04-15-2009 - 10:52pm
So, how often do you consider what your MIL thinks you should do?
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Wed, 04-15-2009 - 10:54pm
I'm totally different.
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Wed, 04-15-2009 - 11:11pm
So, basically, you would resort to emotional blackmail to get your way, and you're advocating that as a POSITIVE?
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Wed, 04-15-2009 - 11:14pm
Because the LI princess is an expert on what most people do, right?
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Wed, 04-15-2009 - 11:31pm
Yet again, I find myself thanking the merciful God that arranged for me to give birth on a different continent than the one inhabited by the grandparents--kinda nipped the whole "who gets to be there" issues right in the bud.

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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 4:55am

The opposite, it is frightening and extremely gross to watch (to some people anyway). Back in 4th/5th grade, we were shown a bad color movie of a home birth, with close-ups of the baby crowning and being pushed out. Several kids went green, and until I was about 26 or so, I was adamant that I would never have children, based solely on the experience of watching that film.

So, I would imagine that watching mom give birth could do a number on a kid. Associating that part of the female anatomy with pleasure henceforth, for example, might prove tricky.

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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 5:02am

It was not sad at all, just practical. I know very well that my father finds weddings stupid and a waste of time. So he certainly was not sad for being let off the hook and I had no particular desire to see him at my wedding anyway. He spent my brother's wedding (and he was seated at the altar, so it was obvious to everyone) staring at his new DIL's ass with a lecherous grin on his face.

It was important to me to have my grandpa there and he could only make it if my mother came with him.

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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 5:07am
Conversely I can't imagine involving my parents in graduation ceremonies. My parents were not at my HS graduation (nor is that common where I come from) and for graduations beyond that point you are an adult, thus from my POV free-standing. However, next time I graduate (if I manage to graduate) I may go because it is a historic university and one to which I am attached, and I am also thinking that I may invite dd.

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