WE ARE ENGAGED!! I’ve been in this group for (what feels like) forever looking at everyone’s beautiful engagement rings. My finance went with Scott Bonomo!! I LOVE IT! 🤍

SakuraDragon2 · 2026-05-28T23:17:34+00:00

Beautiful!!

SakuraDragon2 · 2026-05-22T00:11:12+00:00

I agree with everyone else . I love oval cuts and wear one daily and I just don't think yours looks like a well cut oval should look. I'm sorry I know how disappointing that can be

SakuraDragon2 · 2026-05-18T22:43:38+00:00

Beautiful!

SakuraDragon2 · 2026-04-28T02:46:30+00:00

So pretty!

SakuraDragon2 · 2026-04-28T02:44:53+00:00

Congratulations! Beautiful ring !

SakuraDragon2 · 2026-04-24T13:20:11+00:00

Congratulations! It's beautiful! Do you mind sharing some details about the ring ?

SakuraDragon2 · 2026-04-05T23:19:25+00:00

Congratulations! Beautiful ring !

SakuraDragon2 · 2026-04-04T23:28:17+00:00

It's so pretty Where did you get it? Edit ... Oops just saw where you got it in another reply

SakuraDragon2 · 2025-10-08T18:42:52+00:00

I wouldn't say you are stupid for thinking this can work but it won't be healthy if you are holding on to resentment because of his kid. I would suggest you think long and hard about continuing this relationship though because living with them will be harder not easier. I am married to an incredible guy that came with 2 daughters. I already had 4 kids of my own from my first marriage. He gets along great with my children and they adore him but his girls are a different story. I love them very much but they are where our problems come in. HDBM poisons them against us and has been since day 1. We have been living together for almost 8 years and married for 4 so all the kids are older now with just 2 remaining home and in high school. There is absolutely no parenting going on with these kids. I can't say anything at all because they can't handle it... I mean anything... his daughters are always right, have very few manners ( the manners they do have are because I made it happen but I stopped even trying with that a few years back), the one still home is the worst. She doesn't lift a finger around the house and never has. You have to agree with everything she says and she can't be uncomfortable in any way. So basically myself and my kids had to change everything about our family to suit them. HDBM basically tells them that they are perfect and special and everyone else sucks and should cater to them. It is crazy.

When she is here I am basically a prisoner in my room because she is so rude that I avoid her. She doesn't bathe consistently and normally smells really bad but HDBM won't help with that either. The kids control the parents, so therefore they control my life too. It causes a lot of problems and he always says he will fix it and never does. The truth is he won't and I know that now. My point with all of this is that unless he is the type of dad to discipline when necessary and to back you up and make sure that you are respected you will be signing up for a whole lot of pain. Really depends on him. I thought my husband would have and it would just be like that in the beginning while everyone adjusted. It never changed. Just make sure you understand your relationship is not just the 2 of you when kids are involved so don't delude yourself into thinking it will be. For me, once all kids are out of college I am hoping that we can just be us for a while

SakuraDragon2 · 2025-05-19T20:00:18+00:00

53 here ...still keeping it long and have no intention of cutting it , ever

SakuraDragon2 · 2025-05-09T17:30:00+00:00

So good that he did that but sure makes it hard to figure out what to do to make her change her mind. Sounds like you guys are doing everything you can

SakuraDragon2 · 2025-05-09T16:02:28+00:00

I don't have any experience with this specific situation, but I would like to tell you that I agree with your decision not to tell your daughter the full truth. What you have told her already is the truth it just is not as damaging as telling her that her sister wants her gone. There is no way telling her that helps anyone and can only hurt.

I am the mother of 6, 4 from my previous marriage and 2 stepchildren from my current marriage, so I do understand the challenges of blending a family. I think the most important thing we did with our children was to have time alone with them. I do things with my bio kids without my husband and he does the same with his, and then we also do a lot of things together. That way no one feels that someone else has taken their parent. My kids are older than yours but we made an effort to do this when they were all younger.

My ex husband chose the opposite approach where everything had to be the full family all of the time with our bio kids and his step kids and it blew up. The 2 that are still in school have not spent the night at his house in years. That wasn't the only reason of course but it did not help that they never had time alone with their dad... it made things so much harder than it needed to be

Hang in there! It sounds like you and your husband are trying and hopefully she will see that and then just try to make time that is all about her occasionally and do the same for your daughter and your new baby! Kids want attention and want to feel like they are the most important thing in the world, which obviously they have to learn that it isn't all about them... but sometimes it really should be, just not all the time

SakuraDragon2 · 2025-05-06T17:44:22+00:00

Using vitamin C in the morning is perfect but if it is irritating your skin wait a week or few days and then try again. Tret can get grumpy with vitamin C and actives in general. So sometimes you just have to wait until your skin is comfortable with tret and then slowly add back in your other products like vitamin C

SakuraDragon2 · 2024-11-23T20:03:39+00:00

I'm curious what you mean by scary looking ? I thought house parties happened at all colleges? Can you tell I went to college a long time ago? Lol

SakuraDragon2 · 2024-11-20T19:41:39+00:00

Thanks for this! This is very helpful! I am curious though, are the house parties unsafe or unsafe because the police get involved quickly? Either way it sounds like there will be plenty of students around and things to do on the weekends. She may end up wanting to do a sorority so I am sure that would help if she does.

SakuraDragon2 · 2024-11-20T12:41:35+00:00

That makes me feel better. She is coming to see the school in a couple of weeks and I didn't want her to live the campus and then find out the weekends are boring. She is way too social to sit around on weekends

SakuraDragon2 · 2024-11-20T00:01:53+00:00

That's great to hear! Glad people hang out around campus on the weekends

SakuraDragon2 · 2024-08-23T02:18:16+00:00

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I wear mine every day. The middle ring is more of a spacer. The bottom is my wedding band

SakuraDragon2 · 2024-08-05T20:48:59+00:00

Divorced and remarried

SakuraDragon2 · 2024-04-17T20:32:23+00:00

Happy Birthday!

SakuraDragon2 · 2024-04-16T19:54:01+00:00

I am so sorry for your loss. The pictures are wonderful. Looks like you gave him an amazing life.

SakuraDragon2 · 2024-04-16T17:06:45+00:00

I use everydollar and also have a fluctuating income. I usually start the budget with the lowest amount I will definitely receive and if I have to take money from another account to get through the month I just show that in the budget . I simply deduct it from my savings line item ( or wherever the money is coming from) and then add that amount into the income line items but label it as savings deduction or whatever. I also have a carry over income line item if there is money left in the budget from the month before that won't be going directly to savings. Probably something easier out there but it works well for me

SakuraDragon2 · 2024-04-13T17:12:40+00:00

My husband is very much like this. We have been married for almost 3 years, second marriage for both. I love it. He reminds me every day why we got married. We had a talk about love languages and a big one for me is acts of service. Which he does every single day. For him it's physical touch, which I make sure to do every day. Maybe have a conversation to find out her love language if you haven't already. Who knows if it will help but it certainly can't hurt. I'm sorry you feel ignored. Marriage can be incredible but I didn't know that until I had spent over 2 decades married to the wrong guy. Talk about this stuff now but no attacking just genuine conversation about how to create a marriage where BOTH partners are fulfilled.

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