I keep reminding myself of that, but it’s hard to imagine. Supposedly, it has been occurring more and more as of late. At my sister’s events—the baby shower, a birthday party. She sulked. But I also realized that she has rarely attended any of our own events. She doesn’t know, right?
Whatever the case, this whole wedding thing…I think the least stressful part is everything that I planned. Everything else? Well, I should have known by having it in my parents’ backyard. She threw a fit about cleanliness, but there was not a peep until recently.
Here are some of the absurd complaints:
– She said that I told her to do a speech. I was under the impression that she was upset that she wasn’t asked to do one at Man’s wedding, so she wanted to do one here. But then was it about just being asked? She complained that she didn’t want to, but now she has to follow orders. “You don’t have to do a speech,” I said and she said…but I have to! Maybe I’ll follow up and see.
– Something about not having energy to clean the shower. Now it takes multiple days. Okay, so why not hire help? It doesn’t make sense. Why force yourself to do something that you feel uncomfortable doing?
– And something about the decks. I told them that I’ll pay for it, but apparently they did a lot of work. They could have hired someone, but they didn’t. What if I just wrote them a $10,000 check.
– Something about how I only sent the invitations and did nothing else. She knows that I did more or doesn’t want to acknowledge it. She hasn’t thought through everything.
I am going to gripe about this for a long time, so ugh.