I am sleeping really badly. Having terrible dreams. Waking up in a cold sweat. Partly due to my son having his car confirmed as a “total loss” and I keep thinking about how lucky they all were and how I hope he appreciates how lucky they all were.
Also, I appear to have pre-wedding jitters which is quite funny given I’m not the one getting married….understandable I suppose, given the fact that my husband of 15 years is getting remarried next Saturday. I wish they wouldn’t keep rubbing it all in my face. Obviously it’s unavoidable coming from the children – chat about what they’re wearing, who is going and so on BUT I’ve got lots of Wedding Readings and notes strewn around the kitchen that they have given the children to learn, which I think was a little insensitive.
The dream I had last night was the worst. I was delivering eggs to a huge house in manner of servant girl. Nearly new wife was directing loads of people about the mansion, but it wasn’t even the fact that I was delivering eggs (who bloody delivers eggs these days?) that was the problem, but the fact that my much loved Grandmother who I haven’t talked to for a few years now, (mainly because she’s dead), was sitting in a chair in the sitting room with champagne looking gorgeous and chatting away and was a little disappointed to find that I wasn’t going to see her at the wedding tomorrow. I left and went back home to my parents and Builder Bloke who ALL then announced that they had been invited and that they hoped I wouldn’t mind if I went. No matter how much wailing I did, they ignored my pleas and went anyway….
Because the Wedding Readings are strewn about my kitchen, I cannot help but read them. I think they are having one of the ones we had at our wedding, but OMG they are also having:-
“Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Saviour. Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? WTF??
Maybe hereth our problemeth lie… because I even refused to have “obey” in our vows and that was 20 years ago now and would no way in a million years have agreed to be a “subject” to my husband because he is the “head” of me.
Aren’t we all meant to be equals these days?
Anna
June 27, 2010You are not kidding about the reading about the wives? I must be having a bad dream.
Two hours till England game starts.
Family Affairs
June 27, 2010NO NOT KIDDING!!! Lx
Lynda
June 27, 2010I had a vision of you with ears and a fluffy tail (as in one of the Bridget Jones movies) and a basket of eggs and couldn’t stop laughing. “WTF” indeed – how archaic is that? She is prepared to compromise a lot for money – well that is my interpretation. It could just be that she is an idiot!
QldDeb
June 28, 2010Hmmm. I really don’t know what to say to that.
I didn’t think that sort of thing existed today.
Did he expect you to say “obey”?
Sounds to me like he’s well and truly being played by a professional.
Karma wins out.
Jon Storey
June 28, 2010So people STILL avow to that crap at weddings? How sad……