Please Discuss.
I’ve been wondering lately (and asking in some of our long chatty comment discussions) if it’s possible that this idea of ‘one perfect day,’ ‘your big day,’ you should look like a princess,’ blah blah blah are maybe all tied up with our concepts of being a wife. Because the stuff about being a wife that gets drilled into our heads through our cultural noise (hello Oprah) is about how once you become a wife (and mother, since, well, obviously that’s next) ‘you let yourself go’ and ‘you put yourself last’ and ‘after you have kids it’s not about your dreams anymore, you won’t even care about your dreams!’* And if, at least partially, you believe all that…
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Please Discuss.
