<p>OMom - By mid-July you will be so bored by your empty nest that you will be haunting the online pix of Jake as he does thousand of situps, shorn like a sheep! Remember those breathing exercises when you were in labor with the babies? Utilize now and call it meditation…</p>
<p>I know what you mean weski!. I made the mistake of having my daughter on my cell plan. She will continue to call me for the rest of my days. Fortunately,unfortunately, I am her bestest friend! God help me…</p>
<p>I actually beginning to think that things might go really well for this wedding. I will still be fat and look yuck in a dress though since she is giving substantially less time and more to stress and eat over.</p>
<p>I will have the youngest one…for the longest 3 years ever!!Jake has kept him leashed. With Jake going away, I’m afraid!</p>
<p>Very afraid!</p>
<p>Loads of problems… the wedding is off. The boy told my daughter that he never really loved her. He said that he had to work “too hard to love her”. It boiled over when he told my daughter that 911 was a conspiracy by some secret powerful person that controls our government(both democrat and republican) and that the terrorists really didn’t do it. It was done to have the patriot act enabled and control the country. Oh my god! My daughter’s jaw dropped and asked him if he was kidding. Apparently not. …Later to find out he was just marrying her to get "being married " over with. Obviously, she is ground down to nothing especially during her finals. She was beyond in love with him.Jake scooped her up and brought her home and there she sits with her 2 brothers. They have spent the afternoon printing up targets of his face in the backyard to shoot and making some small explosive devices with his pictures on them to blow up. Not a good day. But still a blessing to know now not later!</p>
<p>OM- My sinsere condolences for your daughter’s trials and tribulations and the heart ache it causes you and yours. Sounds like a blessing for sure in the long run. Best wishes for a quick and painless recovery to normal.</p>
<p>I have just started reading a book that perhaps may have application: “Honeymoon with my Brother”</p>
<p>Boy finally decides to ask the girl he has been dating for nine years to marry him. BIG S. Cal. wedding planned. All arrangements made. She calls off wedding five days before the date. Since all arrangements had been made, he has the party anyway. Honemoon paid for; he asks his brother to go to Costa Rica with him. Brothers, despite not being close for a number of years, find they like traveling together. After a job demotion, Boy and Brother decide to sell everything and travel around the world for two years. Of course, so far, works out to be the best thing for him.</p>
<p>good story so far. I plan to give the book to Son [USNA] so he can appreicate his brother more.</p>
<p>Acccckkk! OM, I am so very sorry! May need to break out the bubble wrap to protect the broken heart for a while. After knowing what you now know, are you kind of saying to yourself, ‘Whew! I could have ended up with that slug as a son-in-law?’ Let Grandma at that guy. He won’t have a head left when she’s finished with him! LOL Truly, I just feel awful for you. Has to feel like the heavens just fell at the moment. Yuck. I’m afraid that chocolate won’t help this one… :(</p>
<p>Hey Bill, I saw those two crazy guys on some news program a few days ago. I had to grin about the story. Brothers can be the saving grace in a bad situation.</p>
<p>Oh, OM, I know you are broken-hearted having your daughter go through this. I really had to appreciate the brothers’ response. Very helpful! Good luck and good wishes.</p>
<p>OM, that is bruttle. I am so sorry. Let me know where this guy lives and me and Zaphod will pay him a visit.</p>
<p>OMG OM! It’s amazing what can happen in only a couple days away!We are so sorry for your daughter & her broken heart. Your son had the absolutely best response! Gather her up, bring her home, come up with good revenge outlet (without actually hurting him). Of course, a little pain might have been appropriate…but better now than later. </p>
<p>9/11 a conspiracy? Add that to the holocaust never happened and we shouldn’t have to pay income taxes…off with their heads – said the Queen of Hearts!</p>
<p>OM- my heart goes out to you and your daughter-
and while this must be a shocking hurt and dissapointment beyond words, I hope she can come to accept that it is better now than later- and that time really does heal all- and she will be better off for it, for if he is this disingenuious now, just imagine what life might have been like when the true trials of marriage hit…</p>
<p>and she knew it…all those wedding dresses…none just right…an omen telling her something…</p>
<p>Coming from an Irish-Catholic, this may sound odd, but there is an old Jewish saying…that she has not found her “beshert”… it means it was “meant to be” , “fate,” because she has not found her true “beshert”…her “soulmate”…and I really do believe there is a soulmate out there for everyone…</p>
<p>I hope she is able to greive quickly and then put this chapter behind her, so that she can get back on her journey to find her true “beshert”… </p>
<p>and I hope they absolutely shredded that picture out in the yard!!!</p>
<p>Oregon Mom…wow, what a shocker! Funny, that I wrote to you about how things have a way of working out…</p>
<p>Yea, I like LFWB’s idea about bringing along Zaphod…and JM’s about grandma LOL…</p>
<p>This has been one heck of a weekend. I drove with one of my boys up to Seattle to get all of her things back. We had his stuff to give to him. Needless to say, my boys were not to terribly careful with his things. (a slight understatement)The boy should consider himself lucky that he is alive. All this and its finals week for my daughter. The upshot is that we think he might actually be a homosexual. As all of the debriefing is coming out, it was a truly wierd situation for my little girl and I am grateful that she ejected from it. I think someone was really watching out for her. Now we’ll bring her along to the Parent Visitation Weekend.If we can just get her through this week…</p>
<p>Does someone - anyone - have a happy recent wedding story? Our niece got married in October (the new June) - so pretty. The groom even dyed his hair a “natural” color for the event (tho didn’t comb it) while wearing a genuine suit! For a pair of artists, it was quite lovely and not the statement we expected - it must be true love. Even the divorced parents were civilized, the rain stopped for the appropriate hours and brother actually showed up. It was as good as this family gets!</p>
<p>well, hardly a happy wedding story, but the Torpedo’s new girlfriend just asked me to go shopping with her for a prom dress! how exciting! And she is coming down to LI to go dress hunting! I feel like one of the girls, instead of just one of the moms!! So I asked her: poof or no poof?.. and she said, “definately no poof- I don’t want to look like a cupcake!” How cute is this? but with all the sexual harrassment posts, will do my best to try and talk her into something that covers every inch of her- top to bottom- modest, modest, modest- and no doubt it will be the last time she asks me to go shopping! :(</p>
<p>OM- gay- what is with all this gay stuff? my daughter tells me half the guys at her universtity are gay- and her best friend since grammer school just came out of the closet- it’s like the “in thing” these days- what gives??? The world has gone absolutely crazy!!!</p>
<p>OM, you could make some good money writing a book! Amazing! BTW, I love your sons. You’ve raised them right. LOL Hope they broke some stuff. Accidently of course.</p>
<p>I took pictures of the boys having a ceremonial burning! The creep has the nerve to e-mail me to request the ring back even though he owes her money. Is he just waiting for the boys to be activated or what? They would like to give him a good “curb stomping.”</p>
<p>Girls beware, there are some wierdos out there. Thankfully not my boys. I worry so much about these young women like my daughter. She is an extremely high achiever who has not given herself too much of a personal life .I think that she was just craving attention/affection because she was lonely. Look where it gets you!! He made her feel like dirt (untalented and unattractive) Fortunately, we can salvage things for her, I pray. We just have to get through her finals today.</p>
<p>Tell him your neighbor’s dog ate the ring and to come over & get it. Someday soon, she’ll meet another high achiever to truly equal her status & really respect her. She needs a nice academy boy. LOL Without the risk of letting her know that we talk about her on here, tell her good luck on her finals. And a big “Bless your pea-pickin’ heart”.</p>
<p>OM- tell her to sell the ring on e-bay, mark his loan “paid in full,” and use the proceeds to R&R in some nice sunny island in the Bahamas where she can sip Mai-tais and meet someone really nice!!! or just stick with more Mai-tais!!! Come to think of it, just skip the former and stick to the latter! She will come home nice and mellow and relaxed and tan and hair streaked- and she can send him a postcard saying “I am SO OVER you!” ;)</p>
<p>Wait! Hold it! </p>
<p>OM, if I may ask some questions…</p>
<p>1) How old is your daughter?
2) Who was going to USNA, her or her ex?</p>
<p>Tell your little girl to get over the creep, and FAST. Yes, it hurts like a kick to the nuts (just take my word on that, OK?), but that’s NOTHING to the pain a divorce brings, and the headaches (trust me on THAT one, too!).</p>
<p>I’m at Condition III and ready to roll with the arsenal should the call come down! ;)</p>
<p>Sounds like she hit the lottery, actually…</p>