Emily

Good.

My name's Emily.

I am 28 years old, and my wedding is this weekend, and I'm wondering how to handle my parents mean-girling my very soon-to-be husband.

Well, it's not...

necessarily direct conflict but um just passing remarks and just like an overall lack of interest in getting to know him um it's been a couple years that we've been dating and they're still at the stage of like he seems like a nice guy and I feel like we should be beyond that point um now so um

I'm just wondering, I don't think the wedding will be a problem.

I'm sure everything will go fine.

But I'm wondering what this looks like as we get into marriage.

Right.

So me and my soon-to-be husband, my fiance, we really connected on the fact that we are both like

very family oriented people.

When we first started dating, it was my family does everything together and he was the same way.

And we were really excited to like, you know, participate that in that together.

And then as things progressed, his family was the way that he had painted the picture of like being super family oriented, doing everything together.

And my parents like really took a back seat.

I felt like we were,

used to do everything together but now that he's in the picture things have gotten kind of awkward and like touch and go and i'm just really trying to like grapple with the fact that like maybe my family isn't as close as i thought we originally were

Maybe it looks different.

There's just been some like passing remarks that I wonder if it's sitting on their minds as well.

Like, for example, when we talked about