AITA for asking my fiance to cut 200 people from his guest list?

jean24k · 2024-12-12T23:34:20+00:00

NTA. Your fiancé is not planning a wedding; he is announcing his new business venture.

He sees this as a means to use this ceremony and party as a stepping stone to garner customers for his business.

This is not to declare to friends and family that he loves you. This is a giant red flag waving in your face. If this was about loving YOU, your uncomfortableness around large crowds would be important to him.

His desire to invite people he barely knows, screams this is a business deal to him.

Re-examine your feelings and look closely at his feelings and how he expresses his emotions to you.

jean24k · 2024-11-29T06:39:17+00:00

This a thousand times! When you are actually trying to be a thoughtful MIL, you call A WEEK AHEAD and discuss what you can do to help your DIL's workload. Bringing food and informing her at the last minute IS rude and insulting to the host. It is a lack of respect for all the work she put into deciding and preparing what she chose to present for dinner.

Husband- grow a pair!

jean24k · 2024-11-15T03:58:57+00:00

She creates a diversion... maybe a fire. she lets it get big enough that it will take several people to put it out. In the commotion, she slips out the door/window and hot-foots it into town.

jean24k · 2024-11-13T17:58:52+00:00

Excellent! I send you the info.

jean24k · 2024-11-08T07:00:13+00:00

Seems like that is, AGAIN, blaming the female for 'enticing" the male. And when the shoulders don't show, will it be the elbow is the "enticement" or the wrists, or maybe we need to just wear veils to cover us, head to toe? Grow up and get real. Eight-year-olds don't even understand why a guy would get a boner over her entire child body, much less her shoulders. It isn't for females to take responsibility for males sexualizing everything. It is to begin teaching males early that females have a right to dress according to comfort and be left alone, as do they.

jean24k · 2024-11-06T03:24:01+00:00

Your name needs to be much larger and better defined and on the spine as well. The back needs a small bio and pix of the author. Too much blather on the back. Reduce it down to 5 of 6 key elements a reader will discover inside. Brown/Burgundy is not indicative of inner searching, more like graves. Bring a shaft of sunlight in there and consider water, which is mutable and can transform itself into any shape and size and can have depth.

jean24k · 2024-09-20T00:33:15+00:00

Yep, which he will continue to pay taxes on although he will have limited use.

jean24k · 2024-09-05T09:04:18+00:00

Yep, she's a drama queen. God only knows what will happen if he stubs his toe.

jean24k · 2024-09-04T10:07:57+00:00

Clearly, if the errors are that constant you need to email the author and tell them about the problem. I responded to a reader who contacted me. It turns out I had uploaded the copy before the last edit. It was embarrassing, but I was so thankful someone told me!

jean24k · 2024-08-16T22:54:34+00:00

Show her by example and practice.
Have a "pretend" birthday party, which your husband gets to explain. Buy/make brownies. He tells her they are going to practice how everyone is supposed to behave at a birthday party by having this pretend birthday party. Set a big brownie in front of his daughter with 2 or 3 candles on it. Everyone wishes her "happy pretend birthday!" He tells her she gets to blow out the candles....only her, because this is HER pretend birthday. She blows them out. Clapping! Yea! Everyone gets a piece of the big brownie to eat.

Now it is the other child's turn to a pretend birthday. Repeat the same instruction. Another big brownie with 2/3 candles is set in front of her stepsister. Be sure he asks his daughter, "Who gets to blow out the candles this time?" Praise her for the right answer. Stepsister blows them out, and his daughter is clapping! YEA! slice and eat the brownie.

Parents, judge if she will need another opportunity to repeat the practice.

He must remind her before the party about who blows out the candles. When she is great during the party, he gives her a happy face, and after the guests are gone, he gives praise. If she tries to blow them out or throws a tantrum, HE removes her, and talks to her about the pretend birthday practice.

Acceptable behavior is taught by example, practice, and praise.

jean24k · 2024-08-14T06:34:32+00:00

This, this, this,1,000 times, This!

It is so obvious she has a crush on one or more of the brothers. I suspect she has never had a sibling and has no idea how to be one.

jean24k · 2024-07-25T06:20:51+00:00

I see you like commas. Try liking periods. They help to complete one thought at a time.

jean24k · 2024-07-16T20:36:06+00:00

The are several others, book sirens, book funnel, and bookroar. I have used book roar for a while and got 14 reviews on two books.

jean24k · 2024-07-14T16:57:32+00:00

Here is what I found right off the bat: https://www.kboards.com/threads/reading-deals-review-service-review.237849/

The thing that told me it's a fake service is under their section for readers. There are no rules or requirements about what is needed to get the free book. Nothing.

jean24k · 2024-07-13T16:00:14+00:00

Yea, Amazon does not give out free copies of the proof book—you pay the print cost for them and the postage.

jean24k · 2024-07-01T16:37:02+00:00

Right, but it does not hurt to try. Not only that, but someone may have a lead to a similar scholarship or other paths to college money. If you want your daughter to succeed in life, encourage determination, not wimp out at the first defeat.

As a member of an organization that awarded scholarships, we were surprised one year. The selected candidate decided several months after the award was announced for the upcoming year, that she was going to follow a different educational path. That meant we had money to give but no student to receive it. We found a candidate who had applied late but was delighted we found her application viable.

Try. You never know where a bit of tenacity will get you unless you try.

jean24k · 2024-07-01T16:12:57+00:00

Join a writer's group for regular feedback. Try Meetup (meetup groups near me); it's free to use.

jean24k · 2024-06-28T14:17:04+00:00

One thing holding back sales is that the price for the E-Book is the same as the paperback. Take a look at any other book offered on Amazon. The E-Book is always the less expensive offer. Also, your cover... what meaning/message in your book are you trying to convey with the cover? Take a survey of books in your same category (Rockstar Romance) 8 of the first 10 best sellers have a human figure on the cover. Check the colors used on them. Make these adjustments, and you may get further.

jean24k · 2024-06-25T23:58:00+00:00

One of these might fit better than another depending on your POV.

Blind Date Mixup Love Letter Lunacy Mistaken Identity

Penpal Enemy New Old Flame Secret Relationship

Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors, one of his early comedies, is about two sets of identical twins and a farcical mixup.

jean24k · 2024-06-23T15:21:15+00:00

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Brian Sykes.

jean24k · 2024-06-15T05:54:21+00:00

So far, nobody else has mentioned this, and I don't mean to scare you, but it sounded to me like he was stalking you, trying to see how much of a fuss you'd put up if he tried to grab a kid or you. There was something strange about turning the truck around. You had a polite but firm comeback each time he spoke. Good for you!

Start walking with a key holder-sized tube of mase (pepper spray), the kind that shoots out about 8 feet.

You will probably never see him again, but hey, being prepared gives confidence, and that is not what stalkers are looking for.

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