3. Gotta love when your uber Catholic mom says she "sticks by what she said" (to me...

Gotta love when your uber Catholic mom says she "sticks by what she said" (to me) in that she doesn't believe people should fundraise to be able to adopt. Bullshit!

Some "highlights" of the things my mom & dad did/said:

-their response when we announced our engagement- "That's the stupidest thing we ever heard."

-"You just want to have sex." (Ewe, Mom!)

-Offered us a honeymoon and reneged the offer.

-met with my in-laws for the first time BEHIND OUR BACKS to see if they could break up our wedding.

-tried to sell my car (which was the only car we would have as a young married couple) 10 days before our wedding! She figured that if she could cut off transportation we'd call off the wedding. It freaked my hubby out and he almost fell for it. But we said we were still getting married. Thank goodness we were moving right off campus.

-last words to me the night before I got married were, "You're getting married in the Devil's house, don't forget to leave your key." (As I was throwing the rest of my room contents in the car and going to my BFFS house to spend the night. Why, WHT would I want to spend my last night there?)

-My brothers didn't go to wedding venue, only showed up to 30 min of pre-reception pictures.

-MADE ME RETURN ALL the wedding platters, kitchen stuff (we held our reception in a hall), decor, that she bought TWO DAYS before we got married!

-I didn't have a wedding dress until 2 days before we got married! My friend bought me one that couldn't be taken away!

-she switched up supporting me for a few days and then acted vehemently against my marriage. Thank God my engagement was only 2 months!

-bagged on my hubby to my face (my bros did too) and said he was going to fail out of school because of me. (NOPE! We did BS, MS, PhD! 3.9 undergrad, 3.8 grad)

-told the family that they were not supporting our marriage and that the family should not come, nor bring gifts. (Only like 10 family members came- both sides included. Out of a bazillion in the area who were invited!)

They didn't say "Congrats" until our 1 year wedding anniversary.

*Mind you I was always uber religious, Good-loving, academic, moral, straightedge kid. I was marrying a man with great potential who would do anything for me, and who loved God fiercely. We were two sweet uber faithful kids when we got married. BUT, apparently we weren't good enough because we weren't Catholic or getting married in the Church.

/r/excatholic Thread Parent
Previous
Next

Recently removed from /r/excatholic

Also, if YouTube could stop putting Mormon ads on videos for agnostic YouTubers, that'd be great Catholic priests looked at me in a sexual way Blinkered Extremism in this Sub A teen was accused of abuse inside Vatican City. Powerful church figures helped him become a priest. [vent] My Catholic parents live in their own little world. so! my parents put more money towards paying for years of catholic school tuition and donations to the church than they put toward me or my four siblings' college fund Was anyone forced to use Covenant Eyes/did it impact your relationship with your parents? Merry PAY DAY to all the PRIESTS that RECEIVE EVERY DIME contributed on Christmas Eve and Christmas, by people thinking they are giving their money to sustain the church! My (PRIEST) brother is so happy to celebrate mass for "you" today! #Don'tFeedTheBeast This is why I call Catholicism a cult. This guy has lost his mind and has had his identity completely overwritten by the church. Does anyone else feel like the Church is weirdly obsessed with dying young? Everytime I look at the comments in catholic subreddits. What do you think is the real reason why fewer men are becoming priests? Work with me. I was married outside the RCC. The RCC sees me as an adulterer and my child as a bastard. Had I been married IN the RCC and cheated on my hubby THAT would been better than me being happily married outside the RCC. One was temp, the latter constant. Have you guys seen how r/Catholicism is freaking out about the gay marriage referendum in Ireland?

More Random Comments

trying to get better, but hitting a wall TIL In 1900, a German mathematician outlined a list of 23 unsolved problems in mathematics that he hoped would be solved in the 20th century. As of 2015, only 10 have been answered. [PSA] For those who have recently ordered from SleepForever [WP] A woman slips into a coma during the birth of her first son, never meeting the child, who dies within hours. The father adopts a child to cope with his pain: you. Your adopted father later dies. You must now break the news to your mother that you’re adopted. [MISC] friendly reminder that DeeJ is a person as not some words on a computer screen. [WP] Your wife's murderer is the police sketch artist. Hey all, quick hello and some questions Craziest thing you've had to handle when high. What do you think of Israel and the way it is currently run? Bs At School We did it reddit! I am looking for [PAID] concept artists to draw some more illustrations for me. TIL In Old English, 'man' was a gender neutral term. Males were known as 'wermen' and females were known as 'wifmen'. What is the creepiest experience that has ever happened to you or somebody else? [serious] [NSFW] Delay in a nested 'for' loop.