Living in sin on January 28, 1998…
Dear Breakup Girl,
My boyfriend and I are engaged to be married this fall. We recently decided to move in together to help cut down on the costs of living separately. We both looked forward to the idea of saving money until we approached his parents with the idea. Needless to say, we took them by surprise. His parents are very much against the idea of us moving in together before we are married. They have said that if we do go through with moving in together, we need to get married first. My boyfriend and I are really unsure as to how to handle his parents’ actions. There is no way for us to get married before our set date in the fall; my boyfriend is finishing up college and I still need to save up a little more money for our wedding. What is the polite way to tell my boyfriend’s parents to leave us alone, and that we plan to move in together with or without their blessing? And should we just tell them to butt out since they aren’t helping to pay for any of the wedding? This conflict with his parents is taking its toll on my boyfriend and me.
— Unsure in Missouri
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Telling it like it should be on January 26, 1998…
Dear Breakup Girl,
I am a married woman in love with a married man. Do you think married people have the right to be in love with someone else? I never want to cheat on my husband, but I am very in love with the other man. Please help.
–Nano
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Dear Nano,
Do married people have the right to be in love with someone else? Yeah. And the KKK has the right to march, and Hanson has the right to sing. These “rights” are principles; they don’t mean that nobody gets hurt. You’re doing your best to be noble, but clearly something is amiss. The question you really should be asking is: “Where did I write the number of that marriage counselor?”
Love,
Breakup Girl
From the real-life superhero files, a superhero so super-secret even his pseudonym has a pseudonym.
From a super-secret interview on Alibi.com:
Q: Will you ever stop? What would make you consider leaving the hero role?
A. It would take a crippling injury or maybe getting married.
Bonus:
He says his [real] moniker is a literary allusion — let the guessing commence!
“Beware the incredible RYE CATCHER!”
“Halt or feel the verbal might of THE MOCKING BIRDKILLER!
“You’ve just been pressed by THE GRAPE WRAITH!”
Got any more?
LiLo and SaRo to get engaged in Paris?
Felicitacions!
Then, we imagine, it’s off to Le Connecticut?
Per Andrew Sullivan: activist Amy Balliet.
“In marriage, God and family keep us accountable. But government is supposed to provide the rights to help us stay accountable. If we are outside of Washington state, for example, and one of us goes into the hospital, the absence of those rights makes it impossible to be able to take care of each other and to live up to the commitments we have made to one another,†she says.
Respek.
Amazingly, these researchers aren’t quoting Breakup Girl when they say, “serial cohabiters are less likely than single-instance cohabiting unions to result in marriage.”
The results are in: No, they can’t.
Another quality No on Prop. 8 ad, brought to you by the people who make better inspired-by-the-Mac-vs.-PC ads than those other people.
(We’re having trouble with video embeds, so click here to watch it at YouTube.)
UPDATE: Ellen to the rescue!Â
In this ad, Mom’s not worried ’cause her kid aspires to marry a “princess” and not “the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics.” She’s worried ’cause her kid is a girl. That, according to supporters of California’s Prop. 8 is what will happen if the anti-gay-marriage measure fails. Homos getting married! Your children going gay! Cats and dogs living together! Total chaos! (Nothing about what kids learn from growing up in a state where discrimination is written into the law.)
Palate-cleanser:Â NoOnProp8.com.
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