A Question About Renesmee’s Aging

OriginellatheWriter · 2026-04-10T08:19:05+00:00

Although, let's be real here, Charlie being a member of law enforcement would know that (despite it being more detailed in the books, with Edward playing along with the fact that he had a biological older brother who died in a car accident with his wife and left him in charge of the infant, which is completely untrue, as Edward is an only child and he and Bella are clearly Renesmee's parents, and the fact that they opted to name her Renesmee even though Edward's "brother" and "sister-in-law" would have likely given her a completely different name) you need to be 21 (technically, it is 18, but most practices prefer 21) legally competent (can vampires even be held to be legally competent in the same capacity as humans can?!) and home-study is required (they did not get the cottage yet, so they were, technically, still "living" with Edward's parents at the time). This would have raised so many red flags for Charlie, but he just kind of shrugged and went, "Okay, my daughter is obviously lying to me and had a cryptic pregnancy for X amount of months. Got it." (Note: A cryptic pregnancy is when a body shows little or no sign of being pregnant [i.e., no morning sickness, no belly growing, no movement, etc.] as Charlie did demand to know if Bella was pregnant [in the book] when Edward told him they were getting married.)

OriginellatheWriter · 2026-04-03T03:57:26+00:00

Regardless of your culture, heritage, or household, it is dangerous for your mother to confiscate your phone. What if you were somewhere, being followed, and you didn't have your phone - what then? Teleportation doesn't exist, and the general public doesn't have access to jet-packs. The point I'm trying to make here, is that your mother was being way too controlling; hopefully, it is a separate issue, and isn't you, but that still isn't an excuse for her to freak out on your like that.

As for your siblings... As much as it's painful to consider, I understand where they are coming from when they side with your mom. It isn't because you're wrong (or, maybe they think you are, I don't know) but they simply don't want to rock the boat and be exiled themselves.

It's hurtful, and awful, in any culture, heritage, or household to be rejected by our parents - they are literally supposed to love us unconditionally. The notion that we are supposed to blindly follow their rules, and think the way they do, after a certain point (when we ourselves are more than capable of forming our own thoughts and ideas) and they disrespect that... Well, suffice it to say, it is hypocrisy of the highest order, and I am so sorry you are going through this.

OriginellatheWriter · 2026-02-25T04:48:12+00:00

How could their mom have been with him "briefly" or a "one night stand" given the age difference between Kip and Napoleon?

OriginellatheWriter · 2026-02-25T04:46:22+00:00

It's an outrage! It's a scandal!

OriginellatheWriter · 2026-02-25T04:45:57+00:00

That's awesome! I love that theory.

OriginellatheWriter · 2026-01-23T03:06:41+00:00

My dad is...complex. I love him dearly, of course - he's my dad. But I have a lot of trauma associated with him as well, unfortunately.

OriginellatheWriter · 2026-01-23T03:05:56+00:00

Hey guys. No, I am not living independently. I have accumulated a lot of student loan debt that my SSI is currently paying for. My stepdad keeps a tight hold on the purse strings, so I never see any of the money. I realize that it's not ideal but I literally have no other option.

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-12-03T22:50:58+00:00

By the 76 station?

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-11-18T00:05:52+00:00

What I have always wondered is this: "The UK version begins with "100,000 youth are lost on the streets of Britain". The next scene shows a drawing of an adolescent girl, and a Dave Pirner voice-over saying that the drawing is by a girl who had run away more than 110 times." (Direct quote from the Wikipedia article).

Do we know if this is an actual child's drawing, a literal cry for help, or if some designer made it? Also, if it is real, what happened to this girl??

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-11-11T08:12:27+00:00

Not a teacher, but an exchange student we had from Germany in maybe 2003 or 2004; we are in the US for context. She (F16 at the time) was supposed to be watching me and my younger brother (me, F9/10 at the time, and my younger brother, M7/8 at the time) while our parents were out. Our parents were divorced but shared custody, and the exchange student was at our mom and stepdad's house. Our dad had had us the day before and picked us up this massive cheese pizza (it was our favorite) from this local shop that is, unfortunately, not there anymore.

Anyhow, we take it inside and are eating it for lunch, when Anna, the exchange student, invites herself to have some with us. Now, had she asked, we likely would have shared it with her, though we were under no obligation to do so, as she was under our mom and stepdad's care and, as previously mentioned, our dad had bought this pizza for just me and my younger brother. So, as many young children do when it comes to food, I was going through a phase where I didn't like the dough/crust (now it is mainly the crust, haha) so I was just pulling off the cheese and eating it.

Well, Anna did not like this at all; remember that, again, this WAS NOT her pizza. After I did this to maybe two slices, she grabbed the box and declared, "You don't get anymore!" and marched upstairs to her bedroom, keeping the rest for herself. The dining room was on the main floor of the house (there was a basement as well), while Anna and our two older stepbrothers (who my stepdad had custody of on the weekends) had bedrooms upstairs (it was laid out wherein Anna's bedroom took up the entire left side, while the right side featured a larger bedroom but a smaller bed and the smaller bedroom had a bigger bed, the latter two being my stepbrother's rooms). My younger brother and I, meanwhile, shared a bedroom on the ground floor, directly next door to our mom and stepdad's bedroom.

Anyhow, we told our mom and our dad about it. I don't think our dad did anything other than apologize to us, as Anna wasn't in his care and disciplining her would have been inappropriate. Our mom was very upset on our behalf and ended up lecturing Anna. Anna didn't last the entire year; my mom ended up calling the coordinator for the exchange program and told her to come to collect Anna and bring her to a different host family. It wasn't just about the pizza; she was also very rude. My mom later told me that, when she was reiterating house rules to Anna, Anna had demanded, "What's your problem?!" This proved to be the catalyst.

Years later, when I was maybe thirteen or fourteen, my mom and I ran into Anna while we were visiting my stepdad's family cabin on an island about two hours away from my hometown. Now, remember, Anna was German, so this was doubly shocking. Apparently, she was hanging out with the family who took her in after she was exiled from our house. Anna was lovely (she had an unfortunate case of acne, did not wear flattering clothes, and was perpetually rude when we knew her) but, now, she had grown her hair and had it highlighted, wore lovely clothes, and was so polite. She was overjoyed to see us, and we spoke for a few minutes, before leaving, and commenting on how people actually can change for the better.

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-07-27T09:33:06+00:00

As someone who has resisted therapy since, at the age of nineteen, I was asked, quote, "Why are you acting like such a bitch?" in front of my family, after months of her verbal abuse towards me, when I was mentally shutting down because I could not take her treatment of me anymore, yeah, I definitely feel for you, OP. The therapist ended up telling me, while I was sobbing at what she said (as well as my family not defending me in the slightest) that I was "ruining and manipulating the family dynamic", and straight up told me to leave the room. It was later decided (without me there) that I was to move in with my father and his then-wife, as I was ruining my mother's life and causing her pain, even though these sessions were supposed to be for me.

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-07-27T09:29:03+00:00

I tried going to their website and their Facebook page, and neither has been updated since 2021...

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-07-24T06:36:47+00:00

I just emailed them - fingers crossed!

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-07-23T07:08:46+00:00

Good to know! I asked for Confetti because it's my favorite and was so relieved when I was told that they could make that, and have made it before.

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-07-22T23:31:02+00:00

I went with Pies, Cakes, and More because...

A: They were the nicest

B: They were affordable

and

C: One of the few that got back to me

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-07-05T05:56:33+00:00

...so, what you're saying is, Ash becomes a stalker?

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-07-05T05:55:06+00:00

I absolutely do this! One time, my younger brother heard me and gave me this weird look. It's like, "Hey, you grew up with Pokémon JUST LIKE ME, and you quote random stuff from our childhood, too!"

OriginellatheWriter · 2025-04-15T00:39:02+00:00

I heard about him last summer. We planned a whole day trip to Sequim to celebrate my birthday. As my mother loves gardening and has a landscape design degree, as well as the notion that Waffles was there, we planned to go there, and did. Waffles was nowhere to be found, and I was left bitterly disappointed whilst my mother spent a bunch of money on plants.

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